Flash flooding in California leaves homes evacuated and highway shut down

The Christmas rain storm expected to washout California over the next few days is already rearing it’s ugly head — as a debris flow ripped through the mountain town of Wrightwood in San Bernardino County early Wednesday. The atmospheric river turned the area into a danger zone overnight, forcing evacuations and shutting down Highway 2, a dramatic snapshot of a Christmas-week storm now battering California from peaks to pavement.