portions of the state. just minutes ago we were seeing this video of a levy that failed overnight in monterey county. that has forced evacuations, washed out roads and bridges. this week s atmospheric river, the tenth to hit the state dropped more than a foot of rain in some areas. at least two people have died in the most recent storm and more rain is on the way for some hard-hit areas. several feet of snow is blanketing the sierra, nevada mountains. they worry melting snow could cause more flooding. california national guard in high water vehicles are staged throughout the state. mike lareo is in vallaero. reporter: we re in the heart of the flood zone and we have all of this flooding in the downtown area because from that video you just saw, the levy is about 3 miles behind us and as soon as that levy had a breach around midnight local time, jim, all of that water had nowhere to go but here except for low lying areas. you can see there s a little bit of a dry spot in our
severe road damage as well. the california national guard is now on the scene in santa cruz to support emergency services. for some residents, the rising water is simply too much. we can t live like this. how do you live like this? how do i have my kids here? how do i have my elderly mother live here where i carry her out of the house? cnn s mike valerio and cnn meteorologist brit rits are tracking the latest. reporter: this is the heart of the flood rescue response effort. if you look around us, the area is inundated. as you mentioned at the top of the show, it is flooded because we have this levy upstream that failed around midnight local time, so as the front quickly comes through, that water is dumped around us. what we ve been seeing since we moved positions from the berry farm we talked to you last time until now, national guard troops have been coming up and down the central drag for several hours now rescuing people. you can just see the extent of the water. and
expected to take action on a major domestic problem, the southern border paid mr. biden reportedly plans to sign executive order bite tuesday. were told to shut down a silent request deny entry into migrants once a new daily threshold is reached. it calms former president trump s campaign ramps up its attack on the immigration system. welcome back to a brand-new hour of fox news live i am arthel neville, high bill pickwick great to be with again i am trying to invert sean on the sunday. this is trump a box in front exclusive. he slams biden s handling of the southern border. cliques of biden, by the way does not need any legislation but he could say the word close the board about what i said. it was so bad it took a little while. but now the border is 100 times worse than it was in 2016. works with only five months until election date. as immigration remains a top concern for voters. some top republicans say those voters know who to blame on the ongoing migrant crisis that
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all of that water had nowhere to go but here except for low lying areas. you can see there s a little bit of a dry spot in our background. but this, jim, this flood zone goes a half mile behind us. we were able to interview within the past few hours a couple and their dog zeus rescued by the national guard. they live two blocks behind us. they woke up at 8 a.m., looked at all the flood water around them. they couldn t open their front door and they couldn t get out. they called 911 and the national guard showed up in minutes. we interviewed one of the spokespeople from cal fire who is coordinating the rescue operations which are still ongoing now. take a listen when they realized this levy breached and how many rescues they ve accomplished. we were notified of the levy breach at midnight last night so we deployed down here. 3 a.m. this morning we did have the high water team with us