This winter. These, in essence, help to prevent the contamination or water that they use to wet down the contaminated ash as they excavate. It helps to contain that material within the property so it doesnt come out. Reporter those also surround the burned out firestation 5 in the Fountain Grove community. The material you see here is also an absorbent helping to keep contaminants from washing into storm drains. The storm is also filling up the local creeks and rivers. Its one of the reasons Sonoma County issued a Flash Flood Watch for areas devastated by the fire three months ago today. Were always concerned. Im a contractor. Ive been watching the fire stuff. A lot of my friends lost their homes. Everybody is very nervous right now. Reporter federal and local cleanup crews continue to work through the rain, careful not to tear off any part of the mountainside that might trigger a slide down below. And heres an example of that. Some of these walls and foundations are still up. The army
Around 8 in the morning on tuesday, the San Rafael Fire Department responded here to Mountain View avenue on reports of a tree that was about to fall. Upon arrival they discovered that a mudslide had completely destroyed this home. The slide apparently happened slowly over several hours and the family that lives in the house was able to get out safely. Neighbors passing by through out the day were stunned. Sot its unbelievable. It humbles yah. Sotits devastatingsot houses can be rebuilt. There just glass and wood and stuff. Sotim just glad everyone is ok. In addition to destroying this home, the mudslide also continues to threaten the homes on either side. Both have been red tagged by the city and are considered uninhabitable. One home has already suffered some damage and the other has several feet of mud in the back yard. Tonight three out of four lanes of highway 17 are closed. After a massive land slide came screaming down the mountiain. Flipping one mans pickup truck. Grant lodes i
Consider the latter. President trump tweeted, see you in court. The security of our nation is at stake. And Lisa Amin Gulezian has reaction to the ruling. Reporter dan, there were a few people out in front of the federal courthouse behind me. They had signs that they were very happy with the judges decision but they went inside because of the rain. I want to tell you a woman i met from syria. She happened to be walking by. She received her visa back in december and had planned to come to the u. S. In march after getting things settled back at home and so forth. Because of all of this back and forth and uncertainty of it all, she rushed to get a ticket and arrived two days ago. When they moved the ban and said its tempb rarely moved, i had to move my job and take my son out of school. Reporter she does have a 7 1 2yearold son who she pulled out of school. She planned to come here in march. She wanted to get him settled in school but right now she has her son and shes trying to start her
The water has eroded a several feet of canyon road. Bob steele has lived in the area for more than 50 yearssot Bob Steele Fairfax resident 106114 and along porteous avenue, residents are still cleaning up mud that filled the street tuesdaysot Dylan Eastman fairfa x resident 120125while the mud seems to have disapated the water from the nearby hillside continues to pour through the streets. 133 the streets also happening now in the north bay crews are working to remove standing water on highway 37 in novato. This has been an issue every time weve seen big storms this winter. Caltrans has been out all day. Trying to pump the water off the highway. All lanes are closed in the westbound direction from atherton avenue to highway 101. One of two eastound lanes is open in that area. Caltrans is working to prevent futher flooding on that stretch of roadway. No word yet on when highway 37 will reopen. And likely not soon. With tomorrows heavy rain in the forecast. aaaaaa also on the storm watch
Please be careful in this location. Were also tracking the Anderson Reservoir which is spilling over pushing water into coyote creek. Anyone around coyote creek needs to be on high alert until thursday at 6 30. Were tracking the storm and the rainfall associated with it. Ill have more coming up at 6 10 tonight. That coyote creek stretches several miles in the south bay. Its a tense night for the people at the south bay mobile home park. Roughly 8 inches of water in the back of this park. San jose firefighters are trying to pump the water out. But they say if it keeps rising we could see evacuations. Late today the city of san jose did open two evacuation centers, one at the Roosevelt Community center. Well drifrs are having trouble on 280 in san jose. Theres just a backup because more than a foot of standing water is just puddled there near the winchester exit. Thats really slowing things down. Just one of the problems. Nbc bay areas maryanne favro has been tracking all day on the sout