5 rescued from swollen creek as storms pummel California

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fire crews rescued residents from a San Jose neighborhood inundated by water from an overflowing creek Tuesday after earlier saving five people who were stranded by flooding at a homeless encampment along a creek in the city.
The rescues came after a series of heavy storms drenched already soggy Northern California.
The rescued residents had to be taken to dry land and rinsed off to prevent them from being sickened by floodwaters that had traveled through garbage, debr