You're watching CBS8 mornings at 6:00
this morning. It is clean up time now,
clean up underway after Hillary.
It was the first tropical storm to hit
Southern California in 84 years and it
brought rain flooding, high winds. Over
a dozen people were rescued from the San
Diego River last night, and several trees
fell across the county and University City.
A eucalyptus tree fell on 2
apartments in Lemon Grove.
A large tree fell onto a white Hummer.
Glad you're with us here.
6:00 AM on this Monday.
I'm Eric Connors, and I'm not
at your Rob Porter.
Thank you so much for joining u.
We do have team coverage for yo.
CBS8's Chris Grow and data Marie
Mcnicol showing us Hillary's aftermath.
We want to begin with
meteorologist Evan Ronnie,
though, to get a look at where Hillary
is now. And then some of the rain totals
that we got here in the county. Yeah.
Came in with pretty decent
strength across San Diego Count.
Forecast totals were exactly
in line with what we saw.
So take a look 2 to 3 inches alg
along the coastline as we were
saying for last four or five das
or so across our mountaintops.
Six to seven inches,
which is higher than the five
to seven originally estimated.
Palomar Mountain and Mount Lagua
were the two spots we were expecting,
upwards of five inches and boy
we got over 7 from Mount Laguna
6.7 for Palomar Mountain.
Julian stayed a little bit ligh,
3.4 inches in total but
even close to the coastline.
Carlsbad 2 1/2 inches.
National City two and a quarter
decent totals that we ran
into here tracking Hillary.
She is post tropical 35 mile per
hour winds across the now decayd
eye wall but we are seeing the m
slowly continue to break apart.
She will move farther N into
a portion of Oregon,
but with much weaker wind and r.
We have pretty much seen all
of our wet weather subside.
Just a couple clouds that we are
left with now as we head through
the morning hours 602 we're just
about to hit now. Eric, back to.
Evan, thank you so much for the latest there.
And now today thousands of San o
Unified students are staying ho.
This is a district of about 100,000 students.
The district is postponing the
first day of its school year.
The district will use today to k
any impact or damage the storms
may have had on the buildings.
As of right now. Classes will st
tomorrow for San Diego Unified.
We are also learning that schoos
in the Borrego Springs Unified
School District are also closed.
Meantime, Power Unified schools
will be open today as scheduled.
The Sweetwater Union High School
District will also remain open today.
Teachers and staff will be going
to San Diego Unified Schools.
I'll to assess some of the damae
possibly to their facilities.
Meantime, San Diego State
University is going virtual SDS.
You move their classes to remote work today.
Students have to log in today.
This is for both San Diego
and Imperial Valley campuses.
Libraries of both campuses will change hours.
Food service still available.
You can still go there for food.
Faculty has been asked to extend
consideration to students who
may not be able to attend class
because of weather related reas.
The university plans to return o
normal on campus classes for tomorrow.
As far as community colleges go,
the San Diego Community College
District is postponing the firsy
of its classes and campuses the.
That includes City College, Mesa Miramar
and Continuing Education colleg.
In the North County. All Palomar
College locations will be closed today.
And in the South Bay Southwesten
Colleges still scheduled to kicf
its fall semester here this mor.
Well, Hillary has certainly left
a big mess across the county.
An area of concern this weekend
has been the San Diego River. Y,
you see the rushing waters right there.
Crews had to rescue at least 13
people trapped in those high wa,
Quite a massive rescue effort.
CBS8's Chris Grow live in Mission Valley now.
You're right near the river. Ch,
what does it look like this morning? Yeah,
you look, if this, it gives us a
really good opportunity to kindf
show you guys again what's happg
behind the tree line right now, right?
Because this is a break in that tree line,
we see the San Diego River overflowing
on top of this road, which is an
thoroughfare here into Fashion Valley,
but also one of our flooding ro.
It's almost like clockwork.
When we get rain like this,
this is what we see happen. Now.
The bad part about this though s
that throughout the San Diego Rr
we have unfortunately a number f
encampments and the fear was wih
Hillary was would the word get t
quickly enough and would people
take warnings early enough to gt
and clear out those encampmentso
they would not need to be rescu?
Well unfortunately just yesterdy
we did see a situation,
a pretty scary situation in whih
13 people had to be rescued.
They were staying in an encampmt
there inside of the San Diego R.
This actually taking place near
Marina and Friars Rd.
just West of where we are right.
Now,
the initial call was sometime around eight,
9:00 at night, San Diego Fire Rescue,
their lifeguards,
Swift Water Rescue team showed .
They were able to rescue 13 peo.
Now the initial call was for 15 to 20,
but they did call off the search after
they got those 13 people to saf.
About two of them did say that they felt
like they had symptoms of hypothermia,
though it's not clear if anyone
suffered any serious injuries or
again something like hypothermi.
But we know that of course
it can be dangerous.
It can put a lot of people at r.
Take a listen to what lifeguardd
to say about yesterday's rescue.
We had initial call from them coming in
stating that they could not make it out
of the river due to the swift w.
As you can see behind us, has ridden,
risen exponentially in the last couple
hours here as we'd expected to,
coming down from the mountains
and filling up as it goes down
here through the San Diego Rive.
And so they called us stating
that they couldn't get out.
We've got 13 out so far.
We're searching the rest of the river
from here all the way to the other side.
And again, we we can't stress this enough.
Look, one of the main reasons wy
standing water is so dangerous s
because if you look at this right now,
you probably think it's about
to your foot or so forth.
But the real issue is that it
could be as deep as it goes to
your knees just above your thig.
You don't really know how deep
it is unless you're in that watr
that can catch you off guard.
You can fall,
and because that river is movin,
you could get swept, you know,
a couple feet or so before you'e
able to get your balance back,
unless something even more dangerous happens.
So again,
avoid any rushing or standing w.
You don't need to see how deep it is.
You don't need to take that pic.
You can do all of that from the
safety of high and dry ground.
Now of course, we know that wind a factor.
Yesterday, combined with that r,
we saw a lot of debris as well
as trees that had gone down.
We are going to turn things
now to Dana Marie Mcnichol,
who's live in University City wh
more on what you're seeing ther.
Dana Marie.
That's right. Good morning, Chr.
Thank you so much for
those reminders and tips.
As we move here to UTC, we see a
massive eucalyptus tree 40 to 50 feet.
It fell around 5:30 yesterday.
That's when we really felt those
significant winds kick up.
Now let's take a look at some of the video,
give you a better perspective and look
at what is dealing with right n.
Again, we are off La Jolla Colony, Dr.
an apartment complex where that
eucalyptus tree fell on two hom.
Thankfully we know no one was h,
but three adults are now displa,
not able to stay in their home after that
tree fell on it last yesterday evening.
Now we're learning that a strucl
engineer is planning on being here later
this morning to determine if the home
is safe for those people to return home.
But again, so much rain saturat,
especially this forum,
but all throughout the past
winter in February,
March and April and now with this wind,
it could have been the last thig
to just topple this tree over
onto those APT 2 apartments.
Yesterday.
Now we did speak to the fire department.
They say they were fully
prepared for something like thi,
but of course responding to a lot yesterday,
it's been a busy day.
We've got a lot of incidents that have
been related to this weather ev,
but we had fair warning it was coming and
we're prepared for it.
And I do want to give you an ida
of what we're feeling right now.
Wind is not really strong at al.
I don't even think there is
much even to report on just a
light mist here in the UDC area.
So just the small remnants of Tropical
Storm Hillary affecting us here.
Again, just the cleanup process
starting within the next couple
of hours as that structural
engineer makes his way down her.
Hopefully those people,
those three adults that were displays
can make their way back into their homes
and start that process of clean.
I'm Marie Mcnichol.
Send it back to you, Eric.
Annetta.
That's a giant trunk right
there behind their head. Yeah.
Wow. Alright, well, Hillary caug
flooding in the Tijuana River Valley.
This is video from our photograr
taken around 4:00 AM here this morning.
This is near Hollister and Monument Rd.
A little dark out there where
you can see that the pawning,
the pooling and quite a bit of water there.
Yeah, in the past that's where some vehicles
unfortunately have been stuck before.
So obviously if you see that sign that
says flooded, don't pass the si.
There will be a lot of that
throughout the day today.
But thankfully now hopefully
it'll all start to subside with
the rain that's now moved along.
Let's check in with Evan. Evan.
Impressive amount of rain though that came.
Very much so, especially if we k
off toward our mountains and deserts.
Mountains in particular.
710 inches is what we saw at Mount Laguna
6 and about 3/4 in Palomar Moun.
So let's take a look at satellite radar.
As it stands right now,
most of our wet weather has cleared out.
There's still some sprinkles tht
will contend with and cloud cov,
but for us in San Diego,
our wet weather is to the north of us.
Now LA has been working through
some remaining showers.
They of course are essentially 4
hours behind on the timing of ts
storm and now the remnants of Hillary
making its way into the Vegas a,
continuing N from there.
Remember,
Vegas has already seen plenty of
rain over the last 2448 hours,
so this is just more on hand for them.
For us in San Diego,
we still have a beach hazard statement
close to the coastline and then
across our mountains and desert.
We do still have a flood watch.
The emphasis on this flood watch
is that we do need to wait a lie
while to make sure that everythg
is dropping to its normal level.
Our rivers, our streams, our la.
We also need to make sure that anywhere
that did seem say 7 inches of rn
is able to deal with it accordiy
is able to see that drainage ocr
now north of us and to the eastf
us we've got a flood warning just one
step above the flood watch flas.
Flood warning remains for the area in red.
And that's just north of Palm Springs.
Palm Springs picked up in 24 hos
on nearly the amount they would
have seen in a full year.
They saw over 3 inches,
nearly 4 inches and just over
4.6 inches is what they would
normally expect in an entire ye,
their annual rainfall in about 24 hours.
So when we talk about the damage related
to this storm or how destructive it was,
how much we saw,
we saw quite a bit.
Just because maybe one town in
particular didn't see a ton doet
mean that the county or Southern
California didn't because this
was pretty decent storm for us.
Today's forecast shows we've
got sunshine on the way,
We've got a little bit of cloud
cover that we'll be working thr.
Temperatures are in the low
70s for the coastline,
much cooler compared to average for our
inland valleys and mountains and deserts,
really.
And then we'll start to get back to normal.
See those temperatures warm
up once again pretty soon.
60s as you walk out the door right now,
very, very mild.
And compared to 24 hours ago,
Hillary has cooled us down tremendously.
So let's take a look at the
five day forecast.
We'll get some rebounding
temperatures back to the 80s ase
head toward Tuesday and beyond,
so it'll start to get much warm.
From here. Let's take a look at traffic.
It is 611 on the clock right no,
and so far the main issue that we are running
into on our roads is flooding conditions.
So take a look when we zoom into each
of these hazards that are popping up.
Roadblock due to flooding,
Roadblock due to flooding.
That is all we're seeing here.
If we move over to East County,
same situation.
Roadblock with flooding.
So this is the emphasis this morning.
Drive safe this morning.
Slow your speeds down.
Remember, turn around, don't dr.
If you do see a pooling
or ponding on the roads.
As Chris mentioned,
you don't know how deep that water is,
so be safe out there.
Practice cautious and defensive
driving while you get out on the roads.
We also want to check in on border wait
times because we could see some impact
related to those border wait times right now.
Not much.
Sandy, siege report of entry, 65 minutes.
Oh, time.
A supportive entry,
60 minutes.
There are probably fewer people trying to
cross that border this morning than normal,
but we could see some extended t
times there along the border it.
It is 612 now that Eric,
back to you.
Evan, thank you very much for
all of that. Still ahead here.
Some people are still without p.
Yeah, hundreds across San Diego.
Plus Hillary also caused
flooding South of the border.
We're going to show that to you.
And what's open?
What's closed today in San
Diego after the storm?