we're in the rainy season for portland and seattle. they typically ease into it in october. they've been slammed in that area. over five inches above average in that area, and more rain and a couple more storms coming into that area where they're searching for that hiker and getting into northern california, as well. so the next two days, we'll see a couple more inches. locally could see wind gusts at 50 miles per hour especially at the higher elevations of the coast range, and some of that getting all the way down into san francisco and moisture getting into southern california, as well. you've been hot. now you're closer to normal 79 degrees in los angeles and a stronger system coming to you later in the week. meanwhile, across the central u.s., it is going to be gorgeous. football games and motorsports including the formula 1 race in austin, 80 degrees, talladega and nascar in alabama, mostly 80 degrees, and most football games will be pretty good as well with the exception of the jets, meadowlands, i think it'll be a little breezy there. that's a quick check on what's go

she was reported missing wednesday after her mother flew into portland to go on a hiking trip with her and realized that no one had seen her. schmidt is the daughter of a member of the utah-based music group, the piano guys. >>> ontario, california, in ontario outside of l.a., a massive fire at a recycling plant. large clouds of black smoke filled the sky as the fire spread across some nearby train tracks. firefighters though were able to control the blaze, nobody was hurt. and the cause of that is under investigation. >>> and finally, a surprise guest at the podium in the white house press room. >> mr. president, do you think the cubs will win? >> i feel very confident that clayton kershaw is a great, great pitcher but they got too many sticks. they got too many sticks. >> no, that's not the president. it's actually actor bill murray rooting for the chicago cubs. he's at the white house to meet with the real president. murray is being honored at the kennedy center tomorrow. >> the real president is a white sox fan, we should say. >> but apparently he was wearing cubs gear yesterday, w

portland trees are down. all over the place, and this house, and outside the house and over 120,000 people without power at one point. winds gusting 60 miles an hour in the valley. 80 miles an hour on the coast and over 100 in the coast range. there it is speeding up a bit as it cruised past seattle. western washington not as bad as western oregon but san francisco see a number of flights canceled with winds gusting there up to 40 miles an hour. that wind energy pouring down into southern california and in through colorado and wyoming and another batch of rain. another half foot of rain expected across oregon and washington. >> we find our with more on the storm. good morning, neal. >> reporter: things were rocking and rolling for a time overnight bringing down lots of rain and trees, too. from portland to seattle a weekend of back to back rain and wind storms pummeled the pacific northwest. >> and my neighbor's tree, i heard it crack, and the transformer blew, like, flames flew four feet out of the air, and

we take you to portland, oregon, my second home, spent a lot of time there. yesterday had record rainfall. 2 to 3 inches of it falling in some of it, the small streams overflowing and, you know, the leaves getting in the storm drains and people got stranded because of it. also, high school football, corvallis, look at this coming down in sheets. forest grove playing crescent city yesterday and the game went on. i think forest grove won or crescent city? anyway, just congratulations to both of them, all right. for getting through that torrential downpour. all right. the reason it's raining so much, we've got an atmospheric river set up meaning across nearly the entire pacific. a very dense stream of moisture in some cases tapping some of the tropics, and we're going to see a lot more rain with this next system coming in. hopefully this is a case where the opening act is worse than the second act but right now we think that this storm coming in later on this afternoon is going to be >>> this weathercast brought to you by lowe's. this just in, crescent valley wo