Honolulu officials told residents at 5:35 a.m. Friday to leave the area downstream of Wahiawa dam, saying it was "at risk of imminent failure."
Heavy rains and strong winds from powerful winter storms this week brought the wettest Christmas season to Southern California in years, triggering widespread mudslides and debris flows and leaving homes halfway filled with mud.
Footage released by CHP shows crews using a ladder to carefully slide the baby in a carrier over the raging river. Nine people were rescued after the home they were in became surrounded by the raging South Yuba River.
Last month, 2-year-old Xavier Padilla-Aguilera, who had autism, was found dead after he was swept away by Southern California floodwaters while in the car with his 26-year-old father. Now the father has been arrested for the death.
Four people died after heavy rain caused flooding in Arizona, including three in a rural 19th-century mining town where floodwaters forced people to seek safety on rooftops.