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Students deserve and our families expect, we must have fewer schools than we do now. By having fewer schools, we can concentrate our resources and enhance program, teacher support, and student services. Superintendent is expected to make recommendations this fall on which schools to close, to merge, or to what they call, colocate. The full changes are slated to be in full effect in the 2025 school year. Earlier this week, San Franciscos Teachers Union released a report blaming most of the Financial Issues on years of district mismanagement. The report says the district spends nearly twice the state average per student on administrative costs. The union said management should examine Office Spending before making painful cuts to school sites. Making the financial situation worse, the School District is giving up on a faulty payroll system after spending more than 30 million trying to fix it. And just yesterday, the district agreed to pay 4. 5 million to settle a sexual abuse lawsuit against a former Athletic Director at George Washington high school. Might remember across the bay oakland unified is facing a 20 million deficit of its own. They did close parker elementary back in 022, which has since reopened to adult education. The district backed off its plans to close six other schools after they got a lot of protests. Well, while we have been getting rained on in the bay area, the sierras been getting absolutely buried by snow. Check out the scenes in lake tahoe. The whole area has been dealing with blizzard warnings and major highways like i80 being shut down. Nevertheless, kelsi thorud has been up in the mountains getting snowed in herself. Shes live now from truckee. Reporter hey, brian, were in the parking lot of our hotel because we were nervous about getting out today because the snow has been coming down. And ill tell you exactly why we were worried about leaving. This is the entrance to our hotel. There are two cars stuck trying to get back in. So that just tells you the amount of snow thats been falling here all day. This big kind of pile of snow here, this is all the snow that the snow plows have just been pushing off the road constantly throughout the day, and we just continue to see more and more snow coming down. Now, this is the day that weve been talking about for the past couple of day, when all this snow starts to come. This is the day that people have been told to stay in. Thankfully, for the most part people are staying in their homes. We caught up with a few people earlier today that were really just doing their best to shovel their front doors and cars to make it easier when this whole thing ends. Thousands of people in the sierra woke up saturday morning to find their front doors and cars buried under feet of snow. I had to get my shovel out of the car, which was interesting because its up to your waist. And i had to dig out my my door to even get the shovel out. Look at my car. Oh my god. Reporter Cody Richardson didnt even attempt to shovel out his car. Hes only in town visiting and wasnt expecting this. Whapg right now . I dont know. Reporter the storm dumped snow overnight and continued to pummel the area throughout the day, forcing people to do all they would just to keep up. Yeah, this is once in a lifetime for us to be in this blizzard. Its kind of crazy. Reporter Spencer Payne spent the morning shovelling out his car but in the end the snow was just too much. Were pretty bummed because our friends, we were supposed to go to their wedding today. And were snowed in. Reporter the people that were able to get out didnt even attempt to drive. Max marlowe strapped on his skis to get to his job at a local brewery. My cars got really low clearance, so i probably would get stuck on the way back. So i just figured skiing in might be the easiest way to do it. Reporter for the most part, people just stayed home. Clearing off their drives every wince in a while to make getting around a little easier but then going back inside to wait out this storm from the comfort and safety of their homes. Theres no reason to go anywhere until this storm is over. You know, hopefully you knew it was coming and you prepared, but its this is just the middle of it. Reporter and hes right, this really is just the middle of it. You know, were expecting snow into the night here, and you can see these are some of the cars that those folks were shovelling out this afternoon, and theres already a ton of snow on top of them. Im just going to walk back here to show you how much snow. So this is an area where someone was parked. Theyre no longer here. This is how high the snow is. Im 58, so thats about five feet of snow right there, brian. This is an intense storm, and its not over. Were still expecting a lot more snow going into the night and into tomorrow. Well, all right there, you are. Darkness is gathering, snow is coming down, youre trapped in the parking lot. As a practical matter, what are you and jim going to do for dinner tonight . Reporter well, you know, truckee is, you know, no stranger to snow, so actually a lot of the restaurants downtown are still open, its just figuring out how to get the food from the restaurants downtown to our hotel here. We were talking to the hotel staff, and they were saying that theres actually a taxi service around here thats running, so we may try and get them to deliver maybe a pizza to us later. Well see, i dont know. I wish you luck. Reporter its definitely rough out here. If you need something air dropped, let us know. Kelsi, thanks so much. Kelsi and her photographer jim will not be heading back any time soon, as you just heard. I80 is shut down. Chains are required on highway 50. Here at home the roads are drivable but theres rain to deal with. And find out the latest on that, heres darren peck. Video from our photographer alex out in that about a half hour ago and said it was an absolute downpour in downtown San Francisco. And thats how this is going to go for pretty much about like the next six hours or so. Were still very much in this here at home in terms of this storms ability to produce brief downpours that come through, maybe the occasional thunder, and if you get one of those right over you, as you no doubt remember from yesterday, the winds really pick up when each one of those little cells come through. Were watching live first alert doppler here. Stop it in here now, and the north bays quiet now. Just down south of santa clara valley, theres a very good complex of thunderstorms there. Lets put it into futurecast to show you how this plays out over the rest of tonight. There isnt a whole lot of a prolonged break in this. I mean, these keep coming. Past midnight things will start to behave differently. On sunday youre going to see more blue sky. The storms will become a little less intense, although you still, even tomorrow throughout the entirety of the day, we cant rule out the possibility for another isolated thunderstorm to come through with this. Just to show you how much there is still out here. Theres a ways to go before this storm finishes with us. Lot of details to go over. Ill see you in the complete forecast in a few minutes. High above santa clara county, the bay areas tallest peak get to a light dusting. John ramos took us the 365 twists and turns on the road up to Lick Observatory to file this story. Reporter there was snow in the bay area, but in order to find it, you had to be either dedicated to your job or dedicated to a sense of adventure. San jose spent the late morning under cloudy skies and a bit of rain, but farther up on mount hamilton, the temperature began dropping, and things got a lot more interesting. A light layer of snow covered the landscape, making the narrow road with its sheer dropoff a journey not for the faint of heart. But it was there that we found michael poland a geophysicist with the u. S. Geological survey. And im out here doing a Geophysical Survey today. Seem like a good day to do that . You know, no time like the present, i guess. You know, i figured well just see what its like when we got up here. This morning it wasnt bad. Late they are morning it got a little worse. One of my colleagues once told me, youre not made of sugar, so i try not to complain when i get wet. Reporter the snow wasnt enough to dampen polands work ethic as he set out to calibrate a piece of equipment that measures minute changes in gravity. It turns out that during wet winter, the water that seeps into the ground can actually increase gravity in the area. The pull of gravity changes depending on whats beneath your feet. Then we can see the change in gravity from all of that change in mass underneath the surface. So its pretty useful technique for kind of knowing whats beneath your feet and how thats changing. Reporter with the science lesson over, our journey continued up the mountain as the snow increased and the road was all but empty. But at the top of the mountain is the Lick Observatory, normally open to the public but not on this day. With tiny snow drifts in the windowsill, it too was deserted, except for ralph and his two daughters. He brought them up to see something they almost never see at their home in san jose. Yeah, i think its a treat. Its always nice to see the snow in the mountains, like this time of year. And then always want to go up and touch it. Today was the day. City slicker, arent we . City slicker. I want to go touch snow. I need to touch it. Whose idea was this today . My dads. It was his idea . Yes. Do you think it was a good idea . Yes. Yeah. Yeah, because we dont usually go to snow a lot. But our drive up here made me really anxious because of all those edges and turns. Its pretty scary, isnt it . Yes. We just came up here, like, just to explore and just, like, to see some snow. What does it feel like the you as somebody whos not used to it . It feels like a lot of fun and like an opportunity to me. Just like to have fun and just, like, its just a lot of fun. Its a privilege. Reporter seeing the snow was an opportunity and a privilege for those with a thirst for adventure, but it didnt last long. By about 1 00 the air began to warm and the snow to melt, sending water down the mountain to help make san jose more attractive, at least from a gravitational standpoint. And still ahead at 6 00, its not snow, but the weather could be to blame after a north Bay Post Office went up in flames overnight. And you could soon be seeing Driverless Cars on the peninsula. The approved plans for waymos when Peter Dickson led my platoon into combat in afghanistan, he cared about two things completing the mission, and making sure his marines came home. And we all did. Petes always fought for what he believes in, and i know hell do the same in congress for affordable housing, the rights of women, and the democracy he swore to protect. Because helping people who need it has always been petes mission. And i know hell get it done. Next Generation Veteran Fund is responsible for the content of this ad. Lift the clouds off of. Virtual weather, only on kpix and pix . Way up in northern mendocino county, the post office destroyed by a fire tonight. One person reported the fire caused by lightning. Havent been able to confirm that, but you can see that large tree next to the post Office Appears to have split. No injuries reported, at least not as far as we know. Mail services have been diverted to the garberville post office. State regulators just gave waymo the green light to start operating on the peninsula, but some local leaders respect exactly thrilled. Max darrow has that story. Reporter with the decision, waymos driverless taxis, seen frequently in San Francisco, will be able to hit the roads and highways on the peninsula, but the move and the timing of it are getting pushback from state and local officials. With approval from both the California Public Utilities Commission and the dmv, waymos selfdriving taxis now have the green light to operate on the peninsula, but the county supervisor is not on board. Looks like were bringing the San Francisco circus to town, right . So at higher speeds. Reporter he says hes not against the technology but thinks its rolling out too quickly. My greatest worry is you take highway 101 and you use it as your science project, youre taking it to San Francisco where its 15 to 35 miles an hour, now youre taking that to a speed that kill, frankly. Reporter the cpucs decision came as somewhat of a surprise. In midfebruary, the Agency Issued a 120day suspension of waymos expansion request not as a pun ty measure but so the commission would have ample time to review it. Local concerns have not been addressed. We believe we will have the ability to appeal this administrative ruling. Reporter hes not alone with his concerns. State senate store dave is pushing a bill, sb 915, that seeks to give local communities more control over Autonomous Vehicle rollout and oversight. He supports the idea. This is the prime example of why government is so important in making sure that we regulate this technology so that we make it as safe as we can for people to travel. Reporter after the decision, waymo posted on x, formerly known as twitter, were grateful to the california puc for this vote of confidence in our operations. I dont think its there just yet. Reporter although waymo has received the green light to operate on the peninsula, the company has not publicly announced plans for when and or how theyll roll out service on the peninsula. All righty, max, we did ask waymo about safety concern, and they sent us some selfreported data comparing their robotaxis to human drivers. They say that their Research Found that after more than 7 million miles of fully autonomous driving tests that waymo cars got in 85 fewer crashes leading to injuries and overall 57 fewer crashes. And on the subject of weather, while the blizzard in the sierra is hammering the mountain, back in the bay area, that video is out of emeryville, where the area was hit with heavy wind and hail early this morning. See just how intense that rain was. And its not over yet. Its not. Yeah. But we need a breather. Is that what were going to get . For a second. You like cats . Sure. I got one for you. This from a researcher out of the university of nevada reno who lives in truckee. One of the foremost experts on fire firenados. Look what he shared this morning. This is a picture from his front door when you open the front door, and thats his cat. He put a whole series of these out. Ill spare you the whole series, but the cats great for scale. But its not enough. See where the cats head is . See that dark line there . That is where the level of the snow was before this storm started yesterday. So everything from that line up is the snow he had this morning. Hes got more now, but he measured that this morning and it was three feet. So kelsis up there and shes giving us wonderful live looks of where the snow is now as the sun goes down, but thats an upclose personal from a resident there of where things were this morning with three feet of snow. A little bit of perspective on the situation in the sierra. When we look at the messaging on this storm, the Storm Prediction Center has put out an image that helps drive the point home in terms of the snow. And it shows theyre extreme risk level, still, all the way through today this. One might tell that story just as well. This is how much snow is still to go, on top of what theyve already gotten. Neils got more at his house since this morning. This is starting from right now and Going Forward until we get through about the next 24, 36 hours. The real timeframe still to go is between now and 10 00 tomorrow morning. So thats why the blizzard warning goes until 10 00 a. M. And remember the blizzard warning is primarily trying to communicate the risk of reduced visibility because of the wind. The blizzard warning isnt really telling you about snow totals. Blizzard warnings and the definition of the word blizzard is defined to describe the conditions you are stuck in while that snow is falling because the visibility goes to nothing. Because the wind is so strong you cant see in front of you. Thats still a concern until 10 00 tomorrow morning. Heres the snow side of it in detail. Just to look at it with the specifics, snow level getting down to 2,500 feet. It still has more to go to get down the mountain, and theres a closer view up near the sierra crest where were still looking at more accumulations. By the way, see that line of purple there . There have been measured wind gusts on some of the higher peaks of the resorts along the ridgeline nearing 190 miles an hour. That was a very rare, isolated event. Nevertheless, it seems to be a legitimate reading. However, when you get off the peak the gusts have been around 60 or 70. That sounds good, but its intense. Look how the sierra is lined up here. The winds are a lot stronger up there at ,000 feet. The sierra is up to 10,000, 12,000, 13,000 feet high. So that wind rushing across the pacific races over us at 8,000 feet. We dont feel it. But the sierra sticks up right into it. And thats why the wind is so much more intense in the mountains and why the wind has been such a big factor there. In terms of the snow here at home. We saw johns package, just because that little layer of snow melted from johns visit, theres more coming. Well get more light snow through the overnight hours into tomorrow morning. So if you think you missed your chance today, you may still have one tomorrow. This is a bigger deal in the north bay. Mount saint helena will get several inch, but look north of there. Now were talking about the communities through mendocino and lake county. Clear lake, ukiah, you guys stand to see a couple of inches of snow fall. And these are communities that dont often get that or have to deal with it. So from a snow standpoint locally, that might be one of the bigger issues. We talked about the wind, and ill go into more detail later. I want to leave you with a final look at where we are in terms of what this storm is going to throw us from a rainfall standpoint and to review what i showed you at the top of the newscast, its going to stay like this tonight through about midnight. And then as we get into tomorrow, this will turn into some sm what more isolated on again, off again showers with the occasional thunderstorm. We cant rule out a chance for a thunderstorm tomorrow either. But there will be less of them tomorrow. And then by monday were done. Well get a nice break. And then theres another system out here for tuesday and wednesday. It doesnt look big, but there is still more light rain coming our way for the middle of the week. Brian, back to you. Coming up in sport, 49ers are turning the chanter to the next season, and big changes Just Announced for the coaching staff. And the nations Top High School Girls Basketball team ready to make another deep run in the playoffs. And vern glenn, who i wish was here now, has that story. Thats next. Temperatures cooling down as we head into the weekend and stronger onshore. Ah, i stepped off the coast again. The winds are really picking up. Fog spreading farther inland. And in the north bay, youre gonna get soaked. water splashing [narrator] presenting the bay areas only virtual weather studio. Next level weather. As i lift this, you can actually see. [narrator] on kpix and pix . wind blowing its that real. water splashing lets move on to the sevenday now. Overflowing with ideas and energy. Thats the San Francisco chronicle endorsing democrat katie porter for senate over all other options. Porter is easily the most impressive candidate. Known for her grilling of corporate executives. With deep policy knowledge. Katie porters housing plan has bipartisanfriendly ideas to bring homebuilding costs down. And the chronicle praises her ideas to end soft corruption in politics. Lets shake up the senate. With democrat katie porter. Im katie porter and i approve this message. What do i see in peter dixon . With democrat katie porter. I see my husband. The father of our girls. I see a public servant. A man who served under secretary clinton in the state department. Where he took on the epidemic of violence against women in the congo. I see a fighter, a tenacious problemsolver. Who will go to congress and protect abortion rights and our democracy. Because he sees a Better Future for all of us. Im peter dixon and i approved this message. Welcome to sports. The 49ers took their time naming a replacement for former defensive coordinator steve wilks, but after a long search, they finally have got their guy. And as reported by espns adam schefter, the niners are promoting from within. Defensive assistant Nick Sorensen will take over as coordinator, and thats not the only coaching news. Team also expected to bring in former chargers head coach Brandon Staley as assistant head coach. Staley spent three years in l. A. Before he was let go at the end of last season. He went 2424 with the chargers, who i cant stop thinking should be in san diego. Staley was defensive coordinator for the rams before taking the head coaching job. All about the money. Pivot to basketball. One of the best High School Girls basketball programs in the country is right here in the bay area. The archbishop mitty girls look to remain undefeated tonight when they take on folsom in the Regional Semifinals and finally here is vern glenn. The arch bishop mitty girls unbeaten, the Number One Team in the nation. These practices are crisp, efficient, no nonsense, and physical. It reflects their head coach, hall of famer sue phillips, who did it here many years ago as a student athlete and has been delivering at the highest level as head coach for 30 years. Bring energy with your voice, with your work rate, and your relentless motor. Its like a college program. Right. We are very time management. Were always being pushed. Id say during practice is very intense. Were going, going, going. What is the single thing that you need to look for that tells you in your mind that girl can play for me . Well, i can tell you that the price of admission at the door is tremendous work ethic and a great attitude. So without those two thing, its nonnegotiable. Practice is made perfect because mitty has aced every test this season. The beauty of this team, it isnt about the score. They are truly about striving for excellence. So far, so good. They won their four ccs games by an average of 41 points. You are playing the game, boom, whats the killer mindset . I mean, for me i get really nervous before games. Thats good. Yeah. I get nervous, and then once im going to do the jump ball, like as soon as i jump, it just all goads away. And then i like just forget where im at. Im just playing. Sophomore mckenna dropped 30 points last friday to help mitty earn another section title. Now they are locked in trying to bring home a state title for the First Time Since 2015. Can you let yourself even visualize or even dream about having a banner up there with cif on it . Can definitely dream about it. Its obviously definitely a hope. It will be a great opportunity if we get to get a state banner. That would be awesome. Theres a reason why the state banners are bigger. Theyre a little bit harder to get. And yes been a little while, right . Yes, an open Division Championship is not here, but that doesnt define our success. And itll happen. I dont know when. Mark on three, one, two, three. Mark. 280, when that comes out of my mouth, how do you respond . 280. I smile. Thats how i respond. Who wouldnt . Coming up in our next half hour, all the rain weve gotten lately had backed up drains and flooded roads, so what do you do with that storm water . The new projects i launched our campaign at this union hall. Lets go win this thing then we hit the road and never stopped. You shared with me your frustration at working harder to barely get by and afford a place to live. Your fears for our democracy and freedoms and your dreams for yourself, your family, and the future. It is not too late to realize those dreams. Im adam schiff, and i approve this message because together we can still get big things done. From cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. Now at 6 30 a new deal for a temporary ceasefire between israel and hamas in the works that could come in the time for ramadan. As Cristian Benavides reports, its happening as the u. S. Is conducting air drops of humanitarian aid into gaza. Reporter on saturday a senior u. S. Official said israel had essentially agreed to a framework of a deal which would see some israeli hostages held by hamas freed in exchange for a sixweek pause to the fighting. Its something the Biden Administration has been pushing for im hoping so, were still working real hard at it. Reporter it comes as new images show some of the first air drops of humanitarian assistance into gaza by the u. S. 66 bundles of food and water, meant to provide 38,000 meals, a small bed for residents in the territory where half a Million People are facing acute starvation, according to the u. N. The truth is, aid flowing to gaza is nowhere nearly enough now, its nowhere nearly enough innocent lives are on the line and childrens lives are on the line. Reporter the u. S. Has joined jordan, the country already air dropped supplies to the territory. Air drops could come with more risk than results, some warn. A very risky undertaking. Its also not going to be anywhere sufficient to meet the needs of the people in gaza. And more to the point, its frustrating in the sense that the israelis arent opening more crossings to would allow for greater throughput. Reporter President Biden says the u. S. Would put pressure on israel to facilitate more truck deliveries of assistance. If news of a potential deal comes after thursdays incident in gaza, where more than 100 palestinians were killed, many by israeli gunfire near a convoy of humanitarian aid. Vice president Kamala Harris will meet on monday with members of the israeli war cabinet. Is it justified. When people are occupied. Thousands mobilized in San Francisco today despite the wet forecast. They were there for a rally as part of an International Day of action to call for a ceasefire and to condemn what they call israels act of genocide against palestinians. So far more than 30,000 palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed since the beginning of the war. In other news tonight, wildfires in texas have grown to the largest in their state history. Governor greg abbott estimated several hundred buildings have already been burned. Its happening in the panhandle region. Two people have died. More than a million acres have burned. The largest of the fires is only at 15 containment. And the weathers not helping. When you add high winds and low humidity to high fuel load levels, thats when you get the conditions that are ripe for large, fast spreading wildfires. Hundreds of personnel have been fighting the wildfires since they broke out on monday. For us, a live look at San Francisco, where weve seen a tiny bit of sun. Just a little bit peeking through the clouds. Mostly, though, uss rain. On average, the city gets more than 18 billion gallons of rainfall every year. 18 billion. One effect of Climate Change is well see more rain. And you wind up with conditions like we had a couple weeks ago. A lot of streets flooded and drains backed up. In todays project earth, anne makovec reports on a creative solution aiming to manage storm water while benefiting kids, their families, and their neighborhoods. Reporter from up high two pink steeples mark the spot. South of Golden Gate Park youll find saint anne of the sunset. Neighborhood children have attended its private school for more than a century. So many individuals in the community and in the neighborhood experience saint annes personally or know one who goes there. Reporter including this family. Parents jennifer and miles, 9yearold ella do you want yogurt instead . Reporter and 6yearold hugh. They belong to the first generation at saint anne that will benefit from a bold new project. Yeah, i think its really important and wonderful to see the school kind of leading the way. Reporter the plan . To transform saint annes concrete campus into a storm water school yard. All thanks to a grant from the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Were excited for you guys to see it when its built. Reporter a senior watershed plan we are the puc, so far awarding 20 grants to schools, art groups, and parks. The main goal is to divert storm water. Climate change is here. Were going to see more and more intense storms. We can expect that. And Green Infrastructure is one of the many tools in our toolbox that we have to manage storm water, especially during these larger storms. Reporter last summer, heavy equipment broke ground and construction began. Big storms can overwhelm the citys antiquated sewer system, backing up drains and flooding streets. One way to manage the runoff is to build special gardens, where the rain soaks into the earth or is captured for reuse. At saint annes, workers created and then planted several gardens. The students helped select native plants which will be grown in special soil. Theyll be bringing in specially engineered soil a mixture of different types of compost materials and sand that allow the storm water to flow through it really, really quickly. Reporter the rain that falls on the school yard and roof will now flow into the gardens. We take that down spout and disconnect it. Can then well feed that water straight into the rain garden. So with the addition of the water coming from the yard and the roof, these rain gardens are doing a lot of heavy work when it rains. Reporter workers also installed a special permeable pavement. Pour water on the pavement, itll soak into the ground. Reporter as for all the water it goes straight into the ground water. Reporter underneath saint annes is the largest underground water basin in San Francisco. Its called the west side basin. It stretches 40 square miles from Golden Gate Park to burlingame in san mateo county. After months of ripping up concrete, installing pipe, pavement, and parklanding new gardens, the big storms are here. So far so good. Weve had lots of rain and the gardens have absorbed all the moisture thats come in and all the downpour from the roofs. Reporter ella and hugh put on their rain boots and grabbed umbrellas to check out how the new gardens work. It gets pushed in over here. Water is dripg from here. You can see that little water here. Theyre beautiful and i can see that theyre taking a lot of water so they can grow. Its been a really wonderful project for the kids to get more engaged and become more aware. Reporter aware that when we put our heads together, we have a better chance of weathering whatever the future brings. Yeah. The puc is accepting new applications for grants and even exploring a pie lat program for homes. And if you want more information on that, why, you can just head to kpix. Com. And still ahead here at 6 00, santa claras police chief could become the last elected police chief in the state of california. A fight over a measure what do i see in peter dixon . I see my husband. The father of our girls. I see a public servant. A man who served under secretary clinton in the state department. Where he took on the epidemic of violence against women in the congo. I see a fighter, a tenacious problemsolver. Who will go to congress and protect abortion rights and our democracy. Because he sees a Better Future for all of us. Im peter dixon and i approved this message. Overflowing with ideas and energy. Thats the San Francisco chronicle endorsing democrat katie porter for senate over all other options. Porter is easily the most impressive candidate. Known for her grilling of corporate executives. With deep policy knowledge. Katie porters housing plan has bipartisanfriendly ideas to bring homebuilding costs down. And the chronicle praises her ideas to end soft corruption in politics. Lets shake up the senate. With democrat katie porter. Im katie porter and i approve this message. Is it possible to count on my internet with democrat katie porter. Like my Customers Count on me . It is with comcast business. Keeping you up and running with our 99. 9 network reliability. And security that helps outsmart threats to your data. Moaire dida twoo . Your data, too. Theres even roundtheclock customer support. So you can be there for your customers. With comcast business, reliability isnt just possible. Its happening. Get started for 49 a month. Plus, ask how to get up to a 800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet package. Dont wait, call and switch today well, californias primary election is this tuesday, and in santa clara, voters get to decide if they want to give up their right to choose the citys top cop. Measure b could make santa clara like every other city in the state after going against the grain for years. Ryan yamamoto introduces us to one Business Owner who was a victim of a crime and is especially interested in the outcome. Move it over 25 years. Reporter for a quarter century almost 26 years. Reporter hes surrounded himself with diamonds, gold, and all things precious. I love the jewelry business. Reporter but almost two years ago, that love was put to the test. As soon as they walked in, they bear sprayed me in the face and then one held the door open, another eight, ten guys came and start breaking my cases. Reporter his santa clara store was hit by an organized smashandgrab. He lost thousands of dollars in merchandise. You know, life has to go on. Reporter with the fate of Law Enforcement on the ballot in santa clara, hes closely watching measure b, because as a victim of crime, safety is a top priority. If my customers dont feel comfortable coming inside the store to shop, if theyre afraid that inside the store somebodys going to attack them or Something Like that is going to happen, of course, its going to reflect on our business. Reporter measure b will decide how the city will choose its next police chief. Currently the city elects its top cop, but councilmembers want to change the city charter to fall in line with every other city in the state of california. We currently are the last city in the state of california with an elected chief of police. Reporter currently, only a santa clara resident can run for police chief, and they say that limits the pool of qualified candidates. The pool that we have for the elected chief of police is only ten officers that are from santa clara pd that live in the city out of 153 sworn officers. Reporter yes on measure b would change that. I think we all think that its time for us to evolve and adopt a procedure that seems to work for over 470 other cities in the state. And were the only ones that are hanging on to this old archaic system. Reporter lisa gilmore, who has been mayor of santa clara since 2016, opposes measure b and says she takes pride in getting elected by residents in 2022. It was a Pretty Amazing experience to be chosen by the residents of our community to represent them and to have the trust of the community. Reporter and she believes the chief of police should have the same accountability to the voters. The chief lives here. The chief works here. The chief engages with the community on a regular basis. Reporter and along with the mayor, the police union also opposes measure b and put up a giant billboard along El Camino Real for all residents to see. Im really proud of that. Im proud of the fact were the only city that elects our police chief. You know, we have 55,000 residents that vote for a police chief. Santa claras never been a city that follows what others are doing. We are an independent community. We have done a lot of things that other cities dont do. Reporter for him, whose business sits in santa clara but lives in gilroy, while he cannot vote on the measure, hes invested in the outcome of measure b after being a victim himself. I just want somebody that is going to care so this thing doesnt happen to another family or another Business Owner. I just hope whoever the chief is going to be that theyre going to make some changes for the future. By the way, the current chief also opposes measure b, and if it passes, hell be the last elected police chief in the city of santa clara. But youre wondering why are we looking at a tornado . Because they are cleaning up in one california town after that tornado. And minutes ago, a Tornado Warning issued in a part of the south bay. Well tell you about that whe democrats agree. 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Oh my gosh, look at that. Open the door, a wall of snow. But we are more interested in the fact that minutes ago a Tornado Warning was posted, darren, was it down in San Bernardino county . It was, just before 6 30 this evening. I know peoples ears stand up when they hear that. These can happen here, and we typically, when we do see them, theyre on the very low end. These are typically ef0s or ef1s, the kinds of things which should be taken seriously but not the kinds of things that come in and demolish towns or destroy homes. However, look at the red box on there, so this goes until 7 00 and its likely that the National Weather service will probably watch this and perhaps extend it as this line continues to move from the northwest to the southeast. But the red box right there shows you where the National Weather service has their area of concern because of radardetected rotation on this. When you look at these things on radar, you can see subtle signatures. We dont have reports of damage, at least none that have come into the newsroom here of any confirmation of damage from this. If you look at this line and what ive done is slow it down over the last 45 minutes. You can see a lot of lightning in there. And if were going to see any of these low end of the scale tornados, ef0s or ef1s, theyre going to be aligned and embedded in intense thunderstorms like this. But oftentimes they dont come in on lines like that. If were going to get them, usually, its an individual cell out on its own. This is unique. Ive looked at the feature we have in house to see if i can pick out a rotation from our radar, and it doesnt show up. But the National Weather service has their reasons for concern on this, and theyve certainly got more tools at their disposal and that is something to be taken very seriously. Holster is lister is on the upwind side of that. The concern is the down wind through San Bernardino county. What theyll do with these is theyll pinpoint the area of concern. Youre within that box, and then theyll draw that box farther downstream for where we know the relative storm motion is. So just because that box extends to the southeast, if we look at the live, this is the most recent radar at this point. And you certainly get a lot more reflectivity showing up through hollister. But again, a lot of times there are clear signaturious see. Things called hook echoes, things called gate to gate shear, where you can really see wind moving in opposite directions right next to one another. So i dont see that on this. It doesnt mean that theres still not reason to be concerned and that there isnt authentic verification there from the National Weather service. So well keep a close eye on that. Goes until 7 00. Well have updates over the course of the next 45 minutes for you. Right now its just a severe thunderstorm that weve got confirmation on in terms of whats hitting the ground. Okay, heres what we have tomorrow for the rest of the day. You remember i was saying youre going to get more blue sky tomorrow than anything else . Heres why i would say that. This was the High Resolution satellite before the sun went down. Thats tomorrow. Theres a lot of blue sky mixed in there. Its actually going to be a real pretty day. Were not out of the woods by any means because there are still isolated thunderstorms in there. Theyre not going to be as intense as today for tomorrow, but they are still going to come through from time to time, brief little downpours that will add to the rainfall totals we just saw there. Weve got an about 1. 5 inches of out this. Best thing to do is take it from where it is now on first alert doppler, put it into the futurecast, and watch the High Resolution model shows us for the rest of tonight. For the rest of tonight we keep going like this, isolated showers. Some could turn into a thunderstorm. Thats been my theme all night long. I dont anticipate any to pick up the kind of intensity where wed be looking at the concerns San Bernardino county has right now. Its extremely rare to have that happen. Having said that, its so difficult to have the ingredients come together right for even the weakest of tornados here youll virtually never get a forecast an hour or two before one pops up. Its usually when radar detects something. So with that in mind, if youre concerned at all from having seen the report from San Bernardino county, were going to keep a close eye on it, and should anything pop up, we will let you know about it immediately. Here, the website, streaming services, social throughout the rest of the evening. All right, in terms of the forecast for rain, its sticking around. So thats really the overwhelming majority of how were all going to experience this over the next, really, 36 hours. It does look a little bit quieter on sunday. See, theres your breaks of blue sky. And we also dont see the intensity of the rain. And then on monday, monday the next system comes in. But monday, that system is nowhere near the intensity of this one. It wont have the same rain. It wont have the same wind either. Before we get there, there will be some light snow. We talked about this in the last visit. Since i clued you in to that winter storm warning for locations in mendocino and lake county, ive got to cover a few other things i havent discussed yet tonight. Cold tomorrow morning. There is a frost advisory for the north bay valleys because temperatures are in the mid30s. So from like 2 00 a. M. Until 9 00 a. M. The frost advisory stays in place for the north bay valleys. Theres a chance we could see a little more light rain coming our way on monday. Ill show that to you in the sevenday forecast, but i wanted to go back to that imagery one more time while i have a little bit of time left with you. San bernardino county, that red box there has been outlined as a Tornado Warning for locations from hollister to the southeast. We dont have any reports of anything at this point, but the National Weather service felt confident enough to start raising awareness for people in that red square. So if you do live in that location, its a good idea as best as you can to seek shelter of some kind at [narrator] at kpix, were taking weather to the next level. We can show not just whats happening at ground level, but we can show whats happening in the upper levels of the atmosphere. Lets lift the clouds off of ground level and talk. It really spotlights how unique the geography is here. Its dynamic. Its different. As i lift this, you can actually see it in realtime. This is shaking it up for me as an meteorologist. [narrator] the bay areas only virtual weather studio. Next level weather. Only on kpix and pix . Back now to the powerful snowstorm in the sierra. Interstates are closed, thousands without power, and because of the snowstorm, a veteran snow plow driver in truckee said that several parts of his rig broke down while clearing the snow. Hectic. If the snow is wet underneath and theres not a coat of fresh snow in truckee here, and its been hectic. Ive broken a lot of parts. Well, about 20 minutes ago i got a text from my dad in hollister saying my phone just said theres a Tornado Warning, should i take this seriously . Darren says yes. Your dads probably well, hes probably watching on the stream because his boy is on the newscast, but if anybody down from the problem is they dont get us. If youre on the stream, we wanted to highlight the concern here. And of course, this is so close to us so. Many of us know this part of Central California and likely have friends and family there. Again, the takeaway on this is when we get these theyre almost always the lowest grade, ef0s or ef1s. This is the kind of thing that rips shingles off roofs at its worst, and maybe some unsecured object, unsecured trailers could be affected by this. It goes until 7 00. The National Weather service issued this based on information they have that that storm did have some rotation in it that could potentially drop a funnel cloud. And thats the primary concern in that situation. It goes until 7 00. Well keep an eye on it. I didnt have time to get to the sevenday forecast in the last visit because of our coverage on that. So not to be left out, weve got first alert status today and tomorrow. Our primary focus is the fact that from now through midnight were going to see some of the more widespread, steadier, heavy downpours. And then itll turn to lighter scattered showers for much of sunday. Thank, darren. See you at 11 00. Lift the clouds off of. Virtual weather, only on kpix and pix . Announcer its time to play family feud. Give it up for Steve Harvey Steve welcome to the show. Welcome. 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