portland, oregon, my second home, spent a lot of time there. record rainfall, 2 to 3 inches falling in some of 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 yesterday and the game went on. i think forest grove won -- anyway, just congratulations to both of them, all right. for getting through that torrential downpour. the reason it's raining so much, we've got an atmospheric river set up meaning across nearly the entire pacific. a 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 think this coming in later this afternoon will be damages, not with just rain but wind as well. cindy: good morning. i'm meteorologist cindy fitzgibbon. areas of frost out there this morning. 20's in a few spots. otherwise, lots of 30's. we are going to warm u

portland trees are down. 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 past seattle. western washington not as bad as western oregon but san francisco a number of fligts cancelled with winds to 40 miles an hour. that wind energy pouring down into southern california and in through another batch of rain. another half foot of rain expected across oregon and washington. and neal karlinsky with more on the storm. >> 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. blew. like flames flew four feet out of the air and it all fell down and the power went out. >> in portland the sight of a crane swaying in the wind. that crane held up but the biggest problem repeated again and again, t

anna schmidt hasn't been seen since last sunday reported missing wednesday after her mother flew in to portland to go on a hiking trip with her and realized no one had seen her. schmidt is the daughter of a member of the utah based group the piano guys. >>> ontario, california, in ontario, a massive fire at a recycling plant. large clouds of black smoke filled the sky as the fire spread across some nearby train hurt. and the cause of that is under investigation. >>> and finally, a surprise guest in the white house press room. >> mr. president -- >> i feel very confident that clayton kershaw is a great pitcher but 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 center tomorrow. >> the real president is a white sox fan, we should say. >> apparently wearing cubs gear yesterday which is kind of weird -- >> for chicago. >> that's odd. >> south side, north side. >> it's not odd says the yankee fan who could never find had his heart to cheer for the mets. >> how is the we

ticking away, drones, dogs and teams of searchers are scouring the treacherous terrain of this popular portland park looking for any sign of 21-year-old hiker annie schmidt. >> if she is injured and by a water source she could still be alive. >> reporter: a full week has of musician jon schmidt the leader of the piano guys disappeared near the columbia river gorge. her car discovered near the trail head days later. he phone and belongings still inside. >> i think she got out of her car and was going to go for a short hike. she was just by herself. >> reporter: but according to her roommate annie left her shoes, her backpack and regular hiking gear at home. search a storm. days of rain threatening to wipe out trails and leaving some fearing that annie fell deep into the gorge. >> she could literally have fallen off one of the 20, 30-footers that are all over the trails. >> reporter: her parents refusing to give up. schmidt asking his millions of fans on facebook to help find his daughter and join the search. >> there's so many people lendingov have fwait that we will find her. >> reporter: the f

we're in the rainy season for portland and seattle. they typically ease into it in october. they've been slammed in that area. 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, d 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 >>> all right let's take a look 94 for us today, rain c