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• Vacaville Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Aiding In Mother’s Suicide

  12-01-2017 22:22
  
  VACAVILLE (CBS13) – A man has been arrested after he allegedly assisted in the suicide of his 69-year-old mother.
  Vacaville police say the body of Diane Capitanich was found at the Peabody Self Storage facility on Dec. 7. She had suffered a single gunshot wound to the head, police say.
  Detectives soon concluded that Diane had requested her son, 43-year-old Eric Capitanich, help her commit suicide.
  Eric, a Vacaville resident at the time of the incident and a Fairfield resident now, was arre
  
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• Cosumnes Fire Crews Rescue Woman From Flooding, Take Her To Father’s Funeral

  12-01-2017 21:44
  
  SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) – Fire crews made sure a woman they rescued from flood waters wouldn’t be late for her father’s funeral.
  The Cosumnes Fire Department has been dealing with multiple rescues in the Lambert Road area Thursday morning.
  A little before noon, crews were called to rescue a woman who got stranded in her car near Lambert and Point Pleasant roads. The woman had called family when her car stalled in moving, flooded waters; her family then called 911.
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• Point Pleasant Area Residents Urged To Move To Higher Ground

  12-01-2017 18:55
  
  SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) – The latest on flooding south of Elk Grove on Thursday:
  9:55 a.m.
  Residents in the Point Pleasant area are being advised to evacuate and move to higher ground.Residents in the Point Pleasant area of Elk Grove have been advised to consider evacuation and moving to higher ground.
  — Cosumnes Fire Dept. (@CosumnesFire) January 12, 2017
  A shelter is being opened at the Courtland Fire Station #92 at 1125 Hood Franklin Road for any Point Pleasant area residents lo
  
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• VIDEO: Big Rig Driver Slides Down Mountain After Brake Lines Lock Up

  12-01-2017 18:46
  
  TRUCKEE (CBS13) – As captured in a video by California Highway Patrol, one big rig driver got the ride of his life coming down the mountain.
  CHP-Truckee says they got a call about a jackknifed big rig around 7:30 a.m. Thursday. Apparently, something happened with the FedEx trailer and the brake lines got all locked up.
  Somehow, the driver was able to get the big rig and trailer down Interstate 80 to Floriston.Officers followed the truck close, but not too close, behind.
  The video posted to
  
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• Highway 49 South Of Grass Valley Blocked Due To Deadly Crash

  12-01-2017 18:09
  
  NEVADA COUNTY (CBS13) – A deadly crash has Highway 49 closed near Grass Valley Thursday morning.
  The scene is on Highway 49 near La Barr Meadows Road, a little over four miles south of Grass Valley#TrafficAlert: Hwy 49 in Grass Valley at LaBarr Meadows Rd closed due to horrific crash. Use alternate routes. No ETO.
  — Caltrans District 3 (@CaltransDist3) January 12, 2017
  According to California Highway Patrol, the crash happened a little before 8:30 a.m. It appears two vehicles were in
  
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• Video Shows Moments Before Dazion Flenaugh Shooting

  12-01-2017 16:54
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – New video shows the frantic moments leading up to the deadly officer-involved shooting of Dazion Flenaugh.
  The blurred police dash cam video shows Flenaugh speaking with officers outside a squad car, before another camera inside the car records their exchange as Flenaugh is asked to get in.
  “I’m just gonna take you home bud,” an officer tells Flenaugh. “That’s it. Going home and we’re leaving.”
  Flenaugh gets in the back of the
  
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• Officials: More Than 40 Percent Of California Out Of Drought

  12-01-2017 15:59
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – More than 40 percent of California has emerged from a punishing drought that covered the whole state a year ago, federal drought-watchers said Thursday, a stunning transformation caused by an unrelenting series of storms in the North that filled lakes, overflowed rivers and buried mountains in snow.
  The weekly drought report by government and academic water experts showed 42 percent of the state free from drought. This time last year, 97 percent of the state was in dro
  
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• Big Rig Accident Blocking NB I-5 Through Downtown Sacramento

  12-01-2017 15:47
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A big rig accident is slowing traffic on Interstate 5 through Downtown Sacramento.
  The accident happened a little before 6 a.m. near the J Street exit from northbound I-5.NB 5 at J – big rig accident. Look at cab damage. Diesel fuel in lanes. Heavy! use I-80! @GoodDaySac @GoodDayTraffic pic.twitter.com/mNoZWxkCyn
  — Tina Macuha (@TinaMacuha) January 12, 2017
  It appears the big rig jackknifed, with the resulting crash basically demolishing the cab of the truc
  
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• Woman Rescued After Driving Into Flooded Road South Of Elk Grove

  12-01-2017 15:36
  
  SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) – Police stepped in to rescue a driver trapped in flood waters early Thursday morning.
  Around 2:30 a.m., a woman driving on Lambert Road between Bruceville Road and Franklin Boulevard slid off the roadway. Water started filling her car.
  Crews managed to get the woman out safely.Several streets are closed in the Franklin area because of flooding #CAStorm #CAwx #CBS13 @gooddaysac @CBSSacramento pic.twitter.com/R87kyUVxGd
  — Wendy Aguilar (@WendyAguilarTV) Janua
  
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• Storm Knocks Out Power For More Than 12 Hours In Truckee

  12-01-2017 09:07
  
  TRUCKEE (CBS13) — The lights are back on in downtown Truckee. The entire town had been without power for more than 12 hours before most of it was restored by noon on Wednesday.
  “A solid dumping of snow,” said one man, describing the weather the last 48 hours.
  Buried under feet of snow, people in Truckee are digging out.
  “I’ve lived here in Truckee for eight years and I’ve never seen anything this bad,” said Matt Eastman.
  More than 6 feet of snow fell in
  
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• Yuba County Homeowners Forced To Travel By Boat In Floodwaters

  12-01-2017 09:04
  YUBA COUNTY (CBS13) – More than a dozen homes near Marysville were swallowed by flood waters forcing neighbors to travel by boat.
  “I mean look at it, this is an emergency,” said Leon Ford who lives on Hammonton Smartsville Road.
  In less than 48 hours, heavy rains turned this neighborhood into a lake.
  “It came within 4 inches of getting in the front door and we have sandbagged and pumped for two days, 24/7 for two days,” he said.
  Frustrated, soaked, and nervous of ju
  
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• Rio Linda Church Left Underwater By Storms

  12-01-2017 08:13
  
  RIO LINDA (CBS13) — Heavy rain brought flood waters to Rio Linda neighborhoods on Tuesday night, surprising many residents with closed roads on the drive home.
  “This all is from that rain storm last night!” said Tom Morris, who has lived in Rio Linda for 30 years. “It rained so hard that I had just cleaned all of my gutters and none of the gutters in my house could hold it.”
  Morris told CBS13 the water looked like it was receding Tuesday night, so seeing Dry Creek f
  
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• Watch Out For Unlicensed Contractors Pitching Storm Repair Jobs

  12-01-2017 06:45
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — There’s a lot to clean up after a week of storms, and unscrupulous unlicensed contractors are seeing dollar signs.
  We’ve seen some dirty tactics before to get your business after a disaster. If someone says, “Hey I’ve got a lot of people needing my services; if you can pay up front, I’ll take your job.”
  Don’t fall for it.
  Here are the rules: If the job is about $500, they need a contractor’s license, by law. Also, th
  
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• Heavy Flooding Hits Parts Of Sacramento County As Storm Passes By

  12-01-2017 03:57
  
  WILTON (CBS13) — The overnight storm wreaked havoc around parts of rural Sacramento County.
  Heavy flooding and road closures were some of the concerns in Thornton, as water levels began receding in the neighboring town of Wilton.
  “It looks bad, yeah it looks really bad,” said Maria Sanchez.
  Sanchez spent her morning soaking up the sight of the Mokelumne River and the flood. Sanchez grew up in Thornton and says the flooding along new hope road is pretty common during the wi
  
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• With Revenue Growing, Why Is California Warning About Deficits?

  12-01-2017 01:57
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California’s economy is expanding and voters just approved billions of dollars in tax increases, yet Gov. Jerry Brown this week projected a budget deficit for the first time in four years and called for spending cuts.
  So what’s going on?
  The paradoxical budget picture is a result of revenue growing more slowly than economists had predicted after years of rapid increases from a hard-charging economy. While Brown expects revenue to be up 3 percent next y
  
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• Gov. Jerry Brown, Legislature Differ Sharply On California Budget Spending

  12-01-2017 01:57
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown sees a budget deficit and an urgent need for spending cuts.
  Legislative leaders see a surplus with room to comfortably increase expenditures.
  Always at odds when it comes to the budget, the Democratic governor and the Democratic Legislature are particularly far apart this year as they embark on six months of spending negotiations amid uncertainty about federal funding under the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
  Brown staked
  
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• A Closer Look At California’s Proposed $122.5 Billion Budget

  12-01-2017 01:57
  
  Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a $122.5 billion general fund budget Tuesday and warned of a looming $1.6 billion budget deficit, absent spending cuts, because of slower than expected growth in tax revenues. The state also faces uncertainty about federal funding under the incoming Donald Trump administration. Here’s a look at how some state priorities would be affected by Brown’s proposals:
  EDUCATION
  School funding makes up more than half of the budget thanks to the school-funding guarante
  
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• PHOTOS: Lake Oroville Rises 14 Feet In A Day

  12-01-2017 00:55
  
  OROVILLE (CBS13) — California’s recent rains have been very good to the state’s reservoirs, and two pictures from the Lake Oroville Visitors Center show the dramatic rise.
  Between Saturday’s midnight reading, and midnight on Tuesday morning the lake’s level rose an astounding 45 feet after a weekend of storms.
  In a 24-hour period, the lake rose 14 feet, as shown in the photos below.
  Before (Credit: Lake Oroville Visitors Center)
  After (Credit: Lake Oroville Vis
  
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