Coastal communities in Southern California braced for more rain and flash floods even as a powerful Christmas storm began to ease on Thursday evening, with a state of emergency still in place for Los Angeles and neighboring counties.

After a stormy Christmas, California gets one more rainy day Friday before a sunny, mild weekend brings relief statewide.

More severe holiday weather is forecast for an already soaked California bracing for possible additional mudslides and debris flows.

More than 41 million Americans across California, Nevada and Arizona are under flood watches on Wednesday amid a rare, high risk for excessive rainfall and flooding.

Here's what Californians need to know about whether grocery stores will be open or closed on Thursday, Dec. 25 this year.

This leaves Far East Cafe as the last big banquet hall in Chinatown, with 680 seats across two floors and 15,000 square feet. Other old banquet halls like Empress of China, Four Seas and Gold Mountain have been replaced by trendier Chinese restaurants that are making their own mark on the dining scene, but their capacities are smaller.

A powerful Southern California farm owner and energy mogul is accused of killing his estranged wife in their northern Arizona home.