Hurricane hunters fly into storms headed to Sacramento region
While you hunker down and do everything you can to dodge the storm, a team of hurricane hunters heads right into it.
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While you hunker down and do everything you can to dodge the storm, a team of hurricane hunters heads right into it.
Another round of Northern California's winter storm could hit landfall just days from now and some of the hardest hit areas are battening down the hatches, preparing for the worst, while other continue to recover from what's already been damaged.
On Bradley Ranch Road, there are tire tracks in the mud signaling the number of trucks that went in and out Friday hauling rip-rap. They move down a dirt road paved with some gravel to make it stable for the size and weight of the equipment required to haul the materials to armor the inside of the levee. This is the process that's played out for nearly a week along the Cosumnes River as Reclamation District 800 works to fix breaches, breaks, soft spots and boils to maintain the levee.
Residents of Point Pleasant, a community evacuated during the recent storms, are no longer under an evacuation order.
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Reclamation District officials say they've reached their goal of 10-feet of protection in their levee repair work after the New Year's storm.
Atmospheric river storm updates continue to roll in and Sacramento County driving conditions have been negatively impacted by the storm.
A teenager has been arrested in connection to a deadly New Year's Day shooting that happened at an apartment complex in Carmichael, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.
Sacramento County wants to make sure your four-legged friends stay safe as the storm blows through.
A 4-year-old boy who was missing for more than two hours after walking away from an Antelope school was found safely by a gas station attendant, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office confirmed Wednesday afternoon.
Two bodies have been found of people who were caught in the flooding near Dillard Road at Highway 99. Authorities are now looking for a third person.
Two men with gang affiliations were arrested in the shooting death of 24-year-old Hector Velazquez in North Highlands, authorities said Wednesday.
Tracy Humphrey has the latest update on the powerful storm headed our way.
Crews are working long hours to repair levees that broke during the New Year's Eve storm, including one on Bradley Ranch Road. The break, now known as the Bradley Break, flooded a nearby farm. Fortunately, the weather is cooperating now, allowing crews to fill a 2,000-foot break up to the 10-foot-high mark.
Crews are now scrambling to finish repair work along the levees as rain starts to fall.
Day three of trying to get answers for CBS Sacramento viewers continued Tuesday, with more questions left unanswered about levee breaks and two holes on land owned by private farmers along the Cosumnes River.
Hit hard by New Year's day storms, Sacramento County is bracing for Mother Nature to put a target on its back once again. Parts of the county are still flooded as Wednesday's storm brews, predicted to be stronger than the first round.
Dillard Road continues to be a problem.
The hole was at least 10-feet deep and four-feet wide.
No government agency is taking the lead to repair two breaks along the Cosumnes River that flooded Highway 99 and Dillard Road over the weekend in the Wilton area, CBS13 learned Monday.
Rescues continued early Monday morning as waters receded in rain-soaked areas across the region.
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