Transcript for Mandatory evacuations orders as flash flood warnings take effect
Back home out west to mandatory evacuations triggered by a massive mudslide along the Russian river in sonoma county, California. Matt Gutman has the latest. Reporter: That flooding triggering widespread rescues in northern California as record rain fell across the region. The vehicle in the water out there is started in the middle of the road and as you can see out there it’s moved off to the side. Reporter: He says his team needed to borrow a boat from a neighboring town because there were so many calls. In nearby gruten the rescues piling up on each other. While we were in the process of pulling him out, three teenagers drove in from the west side and got stuck. Reporter: Unleashing multiple mudslides with saturated soil sliping away from rockbed. One couple rescued after becoming trapped by falling redwoods and say it happened so fast. Crack, crack, crack, we heard the trees, we saw giant — like these huge redwoods coming down. Reporter: They expect the Russian river to rise to 46 feet by tonight, 14 feet above flood stage. Thousands here under mandatory evacuation orders, officials declaring an extraordinary threat to life or property. That unceasing deluge also causing a massive mudslide that buckled highway 101. Parts of the slide actually lifted up the freeway along southwestern Oregon’s coastline and still moving beneath the severed asphalt. I want to give you a sense of how quickly it is rising. Incredible one foot per hour. Now, it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better and the rain will start up again and that building is going to be submerged because the water here is expected to rise to 46 feet. That’s seven feet higher than it is right now. Cecilia. An incredible scene, Matt, thank you. To ginger. Not only seeing flooding and mudslides but areas are getting record-setting snow. The numbers are astounding. Look at this image behind me from squaw valley, California. A street sign nearly covered. Their snowiest record on record. Highway 20 in Idaho, a dozen semi struck drivers stranded. They have been since Monday night because of 6 to ten-foot drifts and interstate 80. You can barely see. Because of this atmospheric river you still have a couple more inches of rain possible and high wind alert, big mess for San Francisco bay area. 40 to 70-mile-per-hour gusts on top of all that rain that will take down trees, robin.
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