Another atmospheric river
moves through San Diego,
bringing rain and high winds.
Today, crews worked to remove a
fallen tree on the 163 S and pa.
This happened at 4:30 this morn.
Cars were directed around it.
Remember Dr. carefully.
If you are on the roads today
and you feel for those crews
who've been having to work in
these conditions, it is now 11 .
So glad you're with us here on .
I'm not ironport.
I'm Eric Conrad. It has been a busy day
and right now we're tracking the storm
that is happening across San Diego. Connie,
we have team coverage on this s.
You see CBS 8 Sean Stiles in Min
Valley showing us the floodwates
that are really rising right no.
Meteorologist Evan Iranian studo
also with your full forecast.
First, let's go to Kelly Hesjedal showing
us the damage from today's storm. Kelly.
That's right, you know,
and we're in La Jolla off of Merlins.
And you can see right over here this giant
tree came crashing down this mog
at the roots over here are pretty big.
Crews got to work very quickly, though.
They were able to clear the roas
so that traffic could get by.
Now, I talked to the homeowner and she said
she was surprised it didn't wake her up.
With nobody in the neighborhood hearing
a thing that we can find,
our beautiful diodore cedar
collapsed into the Maryland dri.
And so here is what it looked
like out here around 8:00 AM.
The tree was blocking the road
of the homeowner, Anne Marshall.
A serious sweet, she says she'st
so grateful no one was hurt andt
there was no property damage at.
Now, Marshall, as you heard her,
she didn't hear it fall.
Her husband didn't, her neighbors didn't.
She's thinking because it fell on the bushes,
that maybe, maybe why it wasn't louder.
As she said, it had been leaning kind of.
And they were trying to get a
tree trimmer out here months ag,
but he just kept kind of putting him off.
And so then this happened.
The ground so wet, the rain.
I can tell you has been coming n
all morning out here in La Joll.
It's coming down pretty hard right now.
We ran into heavy fog on our way up here
and further north in Lacosta on Lacosta Ave.
the street was closed due to
flooding and then in Sorrento Vy
there's flooding there as well.
This is under the eight O 5 split vehicles
were driving through some of the water,
which is something that authoris
always tell people not to do bee
you never know how deep the water is.
It's dangerous and it can also
really damage your vehicle.
So back out here, live this tree again.
Was cleared out of the roadway
here at Merlins in La Jolla.
Again,
the homeowner really said
she didn't hear a thing.
I'm sure that crews are going
to be very busy today.
The rain coming down kind of an on and
off thing where it's hard one second and
then it kind of lets up a little bit.
It is a little bit windy out here as well,
but if you are planning on traveling today,
you definitely want to take it
careful and easy out on the roads and
certainly be patient and plan a,
Kelly has said all CBS 8.
Ohh, you can hear that rain the.
It's weighing down on those tre.
The soil, of course,
is very muddy right now.
Rainwater flooding Mission
Valley right now as well.
So this spot, we know it usually
floods during heavy rain in San Diego,
was moving pretty quickly here this morning.
CBS's Sean Stiles live in Missin
Valley, showing us the growing
floodwaters there right now. Se.
Eric, I gotta tell you,
the rain has picked up here in e
past few minutes and where we're
standing right now is on the Soh
side here of the Fashion Valley.
And you can see the San Diego Rr
flowing quite heavily across it.
We were here earlier this mornig
before this tape was put up and
photographer Julio Vasquez was
able to drive across the road h.
Police came in this morning and put that
tape up where the tape is located right now,
the roadway was dry, now the ri.
Is rising as we speak and at 9:15 it was
at 8 1/2 feet high in the Santee area,
much higher here in the Fashion Valley area.
We shot some video from this mog
as the river continued to rise as the
rains continue to fall and the snowpack
continues to melt in the East county.
Now the river is expected to pek
at 2:00 PM at 10.9 foot level.
It's flowing currently at 2069
feet per cubic feet per second.
And the flood stage as is at 11.3 feet.
So it will remain below flood s,
meaning breaching its banks.
However, I have to tell you,
I was on the north side about 1/2 hour ago
and it has now started to breach the banks.
They're flowing into obviously the garages
in the Fashion Valley parking structure.
If you've ever been around ther,
you know those flood often,
but I have to tell you this
time they are completely full.
As we come back to you live her,
you can see.
The water continues to rise ande
police officer that we were talg
to here earlier from San Diego D
was telling us that he's going o
have to move his car again or SV
because the water keeps rising.
And now part of his rear vehiclr
rear wheels are actually in the water.
So it continues to rain here and
flooding in the Fashion Valley,
Mission Valley area.
Let's check in with our meteorologist
in House, Evan, how does the ra?
Look there.
So still very active, Sean.
We are starting to see some of the coastal
showers and inland valley showers taper off,
just very mellow fashion.
However, there's still quite a d
amount of activity that is popping up.
So let's First off get to that
satellite radar imagery showing how the
last six hours have appeared fo.
They have been constant in terms of the rain.
From about midnight all the way through
about 9:00 AM we had decent moderate to
heavy bands of showers coming on shore.
Little bit of a closer look shows you.
How things have started to now taper off,
mainly across the mountains and deserts.
We're still picking up on some
light accumulations up toward
Fallbrook and Escondido as well,
but nothing in comparison to where we were,
say at 5:00 AM,
where things were coming down countrywide.
We're starting to get a little
bit of a break on hand.
Take a look, though,
at what those rain totals brought us.
These are your rain totals
as of this morning.
2 1/2 inches in Oceanside,
2.84 inches in Fallbrook,
over an inch down in San Diego.
1.1 inches in national city.
These are incredible numbers to,
especially when you move all
the way up to San Onofre.
They take the cake at 3.09 inchs
that came down in Santa Nofret.
So this is a storm that is still
starting to taper off as we spe.
It's not as widespread.
We're going to see less accumulations
come through as we head through
the next several hours,
and that's where we'll start to
see drier conditions prevail.
Coming up,
we'll talk about our next opportunity
for rain in the forecast.
This dry spell doesn't seem to
last for too long. Back to you.
Well, Evan, yeah,
that's a lot of rain there.
And a sinkhole is forming in Scs
Ranch because of this weather.
It's on the north side of Jarabeck Park,
right near the steps that lead o
the park from Summerwood court.
The city has not said how long
repairs for that will take,
but they are asking you
please avoid that area.