Rivers swell as storm moves through N. Calif.

NEW YORK — Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity is vowing to continue his attacks on ABC late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel until Kimmel apologizes for a segment in which he joked about first lady Melania Trump’s accent.

The dispute between the television personalities is unusually vitriolic, with Hannity calling Kimmel a “sick, twisted, creepy, perverted weirdo” during his Fox show on Friday. Kimmel, who had no show of his own on Friday, re- turned fire via Twitter.

ABC officials had no immediate response on Saturday.

The root of the flare-up was a Kimmel segment on his Monday show in which he played a film clip of Melania Trump, who was born in Slovenia, reading to children at a White House Easter celebration and mocked her accent. along the swollen Truckee River near Lake Tahoe. SAN FRANCISCO — Up Parts of Yosemite National to 6 inches of rain fell over Park remained closed as two days as a drenching the Merced River peaked “Pineapple Express” storm several feet above flood swelled rivers and flooded stage through the Yosemite roads in Northern California, Valley. forecasters said Saturday. No major problems were reported, but runoff from

The heaviest rain was in melting snow could add to the northern Sierra and in the chance of rapidly rising coastal counties from San streams and rivers, forecasters Francisco north to Mendocino warned. during a 48-hour period The wet weather resulted beginning Thursday afternoon, from a strong “atmospheric the National Weather river” of subtropical moisture Service said. Downtown San from Hawaii. Francisco saw nearly 2 inches (5 centimeters) on Friday, making for the fourth-wettest April day on record.

The storm tapered off by late Saturday morning but minor flooding continued

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