Live team coverage of this potentially historic storm continues.
Tonight we have reporters spread out across the viewing area.
Let's begin with Kai Goldberg,
who's tracking the latest conditions.
Kai Hello, Corinne. Hello, Rick.
Well, 2 words that we're going to hear quite often
over the next 48 hours,
continuous and consistent. That's what we're dealing with,
with this atmospheric river event moving through Southern California at
this hour and will once again continue to move through
Southern California until at least Tuesday night and early Wednesday
morning. Downtown Los Angeles, up on the board for you,
a live look at a very stormy LA basin and
we are looking at the target zone being Los Angeles,
Ventura, Santa Barbara County. That's where we're really seeing most
of the heavier rainfall,
especially through the Santa Monica mountain range.
It will make our way through those particular counties.
And here's the Santa Monica Mountains and you can see
Calabasas picking up some heavier rainfall,
which continues all the way up the 118 just to
the north of the Simi Valley,
the Santa Clarita Valley. We'll make our way to the
West side between Brentwood,
all the way up in towards Westwood to Beverly Hills
as well.
And once again, those are the hot spots this evening
where we're looking at a flash flood warning.
It's going to hold steady until we get to midnight
tonight.
The surrounding communities, all of Southern California under a flood
watch,
which is going to take us until at least Tuesday
afternoon and Tuesday evening.
We'll make our way east and we'll travel primarily along
the 210 as we head out towards Rancho Cucamonga,
The Fontana areas, these communities,
as you can see their Foothill communities and that's where
we really see that strong and at times very heavy
rainfall.
And we'll take a closer look into the Orange County
area and you can see they're looking at showery conditions,
but all of Orange County,
for the time being, inundated with rainfall.
There's just not an area in the OC that is
not seeing rain.
And we're looking at this energy continuing to make its
way in an easterly direction.
Here's a good look at Lake Elsinore.
We'll make our way a little bit further to the
northeast and look at Paris.
They're just about to get hit with a a very
strong cell right there along the 2:15 as we travel
a little bit further inland,
will go up towards Beaumont.
And they're just not seeing that heavier rainfall yet.
And that includes the Moreno Valley,
where we're still seeing some showery conditions,
but the heavier rainfall begins to pick up,
once again, making our way into San Bernardino.
We'll travel a little bit further to the West as
we head through the Rancho Cucamonga communities.
There's a look at San Dimas Glendora.
We'll make our way further W where we'll see showery
conditions throughout the Duarte area.
Here's a look at Pasadena and then up to the
mountains we go the Angeles Crest Highway as we take
a look up towards about that
3500 to 4000 foot level Cedar Springs.
It's a little bit of a rain snow mix,
but as we climb a little bit higher near the
right wood area,
well that's where we're looking at the snow levels that
we're picking up measurable snowfall anywhere between about
6500 to 7000 feet. Again,
we're looking forward to more snow as we continue to
make our way through the remainder of the evening and
of course over the next couple of days,
we could see up to 4 feet of snow in
our local mountains.
And for the time being,
since 4:00 this afternoon, take a look at these storm
totals,
these snow totals. They are quite impressive.
Snow Summit at about 7200 feet,
9 inches already. Snow valley also
7200 feet. They've picked up 9 inches running springs at
6200 feet at 3 inches of snowfall thus far.
And we'll go to Wrightwood at
5900 feet, two inches. And we certainly,
once again have a lot more snow to fall here
in Southern California and a great deal of rainfall that
will continue to make things very dangerous for much of
Southern California. Headed to work getting the kids to school
tomorrow,
Treacherous conditions. We'll get into that.
We'll talk about Tuesday, another very dangerous day.
And finally, once we head into the end of the
upcoming week,
we'll start to see things drying out for Southern California.
But it's going to take a long time.
Rick Kareem, back to you.
Yeah, Kite's just beginning with the heavy rain.
Flash flooding caught several motorists off guard as their cars
became submerged tonight,
trapping them in their vehicles.
Now let's go right to John Fenellio.
He's live in Tarzana. He's got the latest on some
of those rescue efforts over there.
John.
Yeah. Karine. Rick, The rain is still coming down here
in the San Fernando Valley.
Starting to pick up right now as we speak.
It has been a wild ride.
All day long. We have seen and experienced treacherous conditions.
We've seen widespread flooding, toppled trees,
and major crashes along our freeways.
And we're not out of the woods just yet.
As more rain is on the way,
first responders have their hands full as an intense and
slow moving storm wrecks havoc across Southern California.
Oh,
a heart stopping scene as an SUV hydroplanes flips and
crashes on Interstate 5 near 7th St.
in Los Angeles. Just one of many chaotic moments across
LA County following hours of rain.
The saturated soil simply couldn't hold this tree in Valley
Glen,
sending it smashing into a parked car.
Fortunately, no one was hurt.
I just heard a lot,
a really loud boom sound.
And then I came out and I saw this tree.
Yeah, I usually park there,
so it's really scary in Tarzana.
Too much water to drive through,
but some tried and stalled out.
A similar scene in Westwood where drivers took a chance
on Mother Nature only to become submerged
the LA River, usually a Placid trickle,
transformed into a roaring body of water.
The National Weather Service issuing a flash flood warning for
most of LA County lasting until midnight Sunday.
As much as 4 to 8 inches of rain expected
through Tuesday.
Much more in the mountains and foothills as one of
the largest storms in years churns over the Southland.
Earlier today, Governor Newsom issuing an emergency declaration for 8
counties across
California, including Los Angeles, Ventura,
Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
We're going to have more coming up tonight at 11.
For now, I'm sending it back to you guys in
Hollywood.
All right, John, we'll look forward to a thank
The steady rain has brought down a retaining wall in
La Habra crushing 3 parked cars nearby.
This happened about 6:45 this evening in the neighborhood over
near Lambert Rd.
And Idaho St. Initial reports say that officials now have
been red tagging apartments that face the street That's right
where the wall collapsed.
Thankfully though, no, nobody got hurt.
And this just in all Canyon roads leading to and
from Malibu are experiencing rock and mud slides.
Malibu Canyon Rd. Is closed between Malibu Crest and Mulholland
Hwy.
Earlier today, an evacuation order was issued for the area
along Santa Maria Rd.
That's north of Topanga Canyon Blvd.
That evacuation is in effect now through Tuesday evening,
and there are new evacuation warnings tonight,
this time in Orange County.
Silverado Canyon, Williams Canyon and Trabuco Canyon are all under
voluntary evacuation warnings because of the heavy rain.
Officials say that residents are encouraged to prepare and should
voluntarily evacuate,
especially those with disabilities and those with large animals.
Anyone who needs help evacuating can call the Orange County
Sheriff's Department.
And in Ventura County, mandatory evacuation orders are in effect
for some areas there.
They include the RV Resort in the city of Ventura
and an unincorporated Ojai.
Officials are warning the public tonight about some dangerous flooding
and debris flows that are expected to block roads in
that region.
Our Rachel Manitov is live in Ventura with the latest
on the watches and those warnings.
Hi, Rachel.
Hi, Corrine. Hi, Rick. Good evening to you both.
We're in the Camp Chafee area,
which is under an evacuation warning.
This is a low lying part of town.
We're right next to Coyote Creek,
which tends to overflow anytime we get continuous rain like
this.
And that's exactly what happened over here.
This is Camp Chafee Rd.
You can see it's closed and it's completely flooded.
One person told us that right in the center over
here there's about 9 feet of water.
Anyone though, who wanted to evacuate was able to do
so safely.
And then there are some people,
people who say they're used to this kind of weather.
They're going to stay put and just wait the storm
out
heavy downpours, leaving behind anywhere from three to six inches
of rain
and bringing with it the risk of flooding and mud
slides,
like this one on State Route 33 between Mattilaha Hot
Springs Road and Lockwood Valley.
A number of communities in Ventura County are on high
alert given this strong storm,
have a backpack. Evacuating is something that's kind of become
normal these days.
Deanna Romero lives in Casita Springs,
up against a mountain that's prone to slides.
When I drove by it earlier,
there were a ton of rocks already on the road,
so it's already starting to come down,
so I am concerned about the mountain coming down.
While this isn't recommended, surfers tried their luck cruising the
waves of flooded streets,
and kayakers paddled their way through a makeshift river in
a neighborhood not far from the coastline.
It doesn't always get like this,
so it's always fun to see it when
it
gets.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for
parts of Ventura County,
including Ojai, Oxnard and the city of Ventura where this
RV park was ordered to evacuate.
So flash floods are always a concern because they can
be dangerous for our roadways and communities and our hillsides,
but just general safety for everyone,
so if you don't have to be out,
stay home. That keeps everybody safe.
Residents in an unincorporated area of Ojai were also encouraged
to leave for higher ground,
whereas Foster Park, Camp Chaff Fee and buildings on Grata
and Trueno avenues in Camarillo were under warnings,
Scott Garvey's main concern is water breaching his front door.
He's planning to hunker down inside and doesn't think it'll
be necessary to vacate.
Been through half a dozen of the storms like this
and
going to all that trouble and then having,
you know, nothing really happened.
I'm not. I guess maybe
just taking a little chance perhaps.
Keep in mind there is an emergency shelter open now
at Ventura College on Telegraph Rd.
The Office of Emergency Services is asking people to monitor
these changing conditions and prepare to evacuate,
especially if you live in a flood prone area like
this one.
We're live in Ventura County tonight.
I'm Rachel Menitov. I'll send it back inside to both
of you.
Rachel, thank you so much for that.
It may be a bit of a surprise,
but the storm is not going to stop school tomorrow.
The Superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, says that the
LAUSD will keep all schools open as usual,
except Vinedale Elementary School. That's over in Sun Valley.
But as we all know,
that could change. If the heavy rain and the flooding
make it hard for the students and the teachers to
get the class
now, officials plan to keep a close eye on the
storm.
They say they're going to update the public on school
closures over the next few days.
Meanwhile, classes at Cal State Fullerton,
Cal State Northridge and Cal State Los Angeles will be
only remote tomorrow.
Employees at those universities are being encouraged now to work
from home.