Officials in Los Angeles and surrounding counties warned that the giant holiday storm could trigger "widespread flash flooding."

With a wind speed of up to 80 mph, a brief tornado traveled for about one-third of a mile in Boyle Heights, a neighborhood on L.A.'s Eastside, just after 10 a.m.

Sunny days are ahead after an unusually wet Christmas in Los Angeles that saw three inches of rain in Downtown.

Damage includes shattered windows at a restaurant in a strip mall and also at a nearby house, according to videos from the area

Another wave of rain was hitting the Los Angeles area on Friday, adding to the record-setting precipitation over Christmas.

California Highway Patrol officers are in pursuit of a speeding driver in Los Angeles. The chase began in Hacienda Heights, officers said, when they witnessed the suspect, who was allegedly weaving in the road. When they tried to pull the driver over, they instead sped away.

There were more than two dozen outages as of the morning of Dec. 24. An outage map shows restorations are expected to occur throughout the day.

Torrential rains drenched Southern California on Wednesday, unleashing widespread flash flooding as authorities urged motorists to stay off roads and residents living downslope of wildfire-scarred foothills and canyons to evacuate.