Strong Weather Hits Southern California
PAUL: It's 24 minutes past the hour. And two people have died after severe storms hit southern California. In that area some dicey weather to contend with still.</s>BLACKWELL: Yes, this morning roads are flooded with water, filled with water, running like rivers there. Flights cancelled, and there's a risk for landslides. CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar live in the Severe Weather Center for us. As if this community, this part of the state did not get enough over the last 24 hours, their potentially is more on the way?</s>ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: That's right, a lot more in fact. We will get a brief reprieve later on today. That will allow for at least a temporary cleanup for some of these areas, but it's going to be short-lived because more heavy rain, especially for northern California, is on the way. So they're not in the clear just yet.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's falling right now. Move the car.</s>CHINCHAR: A giant sinkhole swallows a car. Stunning pictures out of southern California after a monster storm brings heavy rain and powerful wind to the region leaving at least two people dead. In San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, rescue officials found one victim inside a submerged car and a downed power line is being blamed for an electro death in Sherman Oaks.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The LAPD says the unidentified man was walking by and somehow came in contact with either the electrified lines or charged water.</s>CHINCHAR: And in one Santa Barbara neighborhood, two giant trees came down smashing into cars and a home, one woman narrowly escaped.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm just thankful I'm alive. Super scary. I'm still pretty shaken up about it.</s>CHINCHAR: Flash flood warnings were issued in several counties, the rain so furious that a parking garage was turned into a waterfall.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That is crazy.</s>CHINCHAR: The nasty weather has closed dozens of roads in the area and more than 100,000 people have lost power.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There goes the tree.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The whole bottom is sliding.</s>CHINCHAR: And check out this awesome display of nature's power, a landslide of size of three football fields comes crashing down in a San Bernardino mountain, taking with it trees and boulders into the valley below.</s>CHINCHAR: And we're talking about a lot of extra rain in addition to what we've already had. Widespread we're looking at an additional two to four inches in many spots, but look at some of these orange and red areas. You're talking six it ten inches, and a lot of it is going to come down very quickly. That causes concerns for a lot of drivers out there on the roads. I cannot begin to emphasize enough to slow down and give yourself time. The average braking distance at 70 miles per hour in dry conditions is about 315 feet. You have a little bit of time to make that decision. But when the roads are wet, you need 560 feet. You don't have as much time to make that quick decision as to whether you need to hit your brakes meaning you don't have as much time and you're more likely to hydroplane if you have to do it faster. And vehicles can hydroplane at speeds as low as 35 miles per hour. Victor, Christi, one of the other things is when those really heavy downpours come down, and we fully expect to have those, especially in northern California, that can reduce your visibility to near zero. And one other thing to point out, guys, too, Lake Oroville that we've been keeping a close eye on, remember they are concerned about dam overflow of that water and a dam failure, they are still under an evacuation emergency there, meaning those people need to be prepared at a moment's notice from here on out to evacuate if they deem it worthy.</s>PAUL: Allison Chinchar, thank you so much. You know, when we have stories like this, there's always that one guy.</s>BLACKWELL: There's always at least one.</s>PAUL: That's true. Could be more. Who decide, you know what, I'm going to take advantage of it. Take a look at this. Attempting his own version of surfing through the streets. I don't know what he's yelling. He made it down most of this road. This is near Los Angeles. Look, not the safest decision. We don't really need to be the ones to say that.</s>PAUL: But cars were even waiting to turn onto the road to let him pass.</s>BLACKWELL: We follow-up the video saying -- Allison's report saying don't drive through standing water with this guy driving a truck through standing water with somebody on a surf board behind him. Don't do this, folks. Vice President Mike Pence taking on a new role in the administration, calming overseas fears about President Trump. But will Europe be reassured after the president spent months criticizing NATO on the campaign trail?