Millions in California are facing severe weather on Tuesday as a strong atmospheric river pummels the state days before Christmas.

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.

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

Officials warned that driving would remain hazardous across much of the state, with heavy rain still to fall in some places that broke records on Christmas Eve.

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 Other old banquet halls like Empress of China, Four Seas and Gold Mountain have been replaced by trendier Chinese restaurants that are making their own mark on the dining scene, but their capacities are smaller.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 California storm on Christmas Eve caused flooding and mudslides, and prompted evacuations, power outages, and travel warnings as heavy rains hit the region.

Nearly 20,000 immigrant truckers at risk of having their commercial driver's licenses revoked by California spark a class-action lawsuit.