Its hard to break that habit. And the water has to run off, then wait 3060 minutes saying that will promote deep root growth. Another restriction under consideration would ban watering within 48 hours of measurable rainfall. In the summer most water is used outdoors. Its really a way we can save water fairly easily. The restriction in an jose abc7 news. The 49ers defensive lineman is suing the woman who accused him of rape his lawyers filed that lawsuit today, telling investigators they hit hear head in his apartment and doesnt remember having sex with him. There is Surveillance Video to prove it. The lawsuit is a likelihood. Teams are waiting to make a decision. Its basically changed his marketability in the nfl. We tried to contact the woman but could not locate her. A Spokesman Says the lawsuit is an attempt to clear his name. You can bring a lawsuit to say we want to clear his name even at the end of the day he cannot win it. The 49ers released mcdonald saying he has a pattern of poor decision making. When asked for a response, the team said, quote sh he doesnt play for us anymore. An argument in napa county ended with two people dead. A Sheriffs Department calls it a murder suicide of two men in their 40s one shot in the head outside of a winery. A massive manhunt was launched for a suspect. People in the area were told to stay home and a nearby high school was placed under lock down. Murder charges will be filed against two suspects in last weeks murder of an oakland mother killed while protecting her kids a week ago, caught in the cross fire. Over the weekend, Police Arrested two people and a third person arrested as an accessory. A fourth suspect, a 19yearold has already been charged with the murder. A shameful scandal in the San FranciscoPolice Department tonight. Racist texts. The District Attorney wants to take a look at every person involved. The shocking test, controversy and consequences. At least one officer has been involved in a high profile case. Noel schwab a tap e showed him. The Text Messages are graphic. Example, do you celebrate kwanzaa at your school . Yes we burn the cross on the school then celebrate whitemas. The texts became public during a bail hearing. They were exchanged between four current officers, all veteran cops. Lawyer tony brass represents two officers and he says theyre remorseful and one is thinking about quitting the force. This is not a real whodunit type of case theyre not optimistic about their future in the department. The police chief did not mince words. If they made these statements that i will do everything i can to separate them from the Police Department. We do not want to have them among us. Its disgraceful for us this, is a noble profession. This was a verysmall faction of the department that got involved in this. The naacp disagrees. Racism homophobea. All of the phobias that cause pain for people because theyre different are in this Police Department. We need to look in a larger lens. The board of supervisors superintendent called for a broader investigation. These four got caught. And there could with other individuals. The black Officers Group released a written statement saying theyre outraged and disappointed and we have reason to believe there is information to support there are others involved possibly from high ranks. A san jose officer may face life in prison if a judge allows new charges to be filed. The 39yearold planned to plead no contest, two counts of domestic violence. He changed his plea today to not guilty. Sonoma county prosecutors dropped charges against two men accused of conspireing to kidnap and rape a woman in santa rosa. This is the property where the woman claimed she was held captive. Charges against a third man, a 34yearold are now under review. Investigators say the woman may have had an affair. The caldecott tunnel eastbound is open after a car crash and fire shut it down. There was heavy smoke that is raising questions about the ventilation system. Laura anthony joins us with the story. Laura . A lot of smoke pouring out of the tunnel. For those stuck behind a car in the caldecott tunnel, the smoke was almost more than they can bear. As soon as we seen a fire and it grow rapidly fast. We decided to go ahead to get out. Weve seen other people getting out. You know . We got scared and ran. As shown on this video flames engulfed a ford taurus seconds after it rear ended another car. And that is just before 7 00 this morning. I saw it going up, higher. Everybody is like get out get out. So we just rode with them. Its like one lady in front of us. We were the first three to run out. Smoke started to come down from the tunnel. And if you dont get out. Youre going to be in thick smoke. Caltrans says the exhaust system performed well. Were pleased to say our exhaust system and our other systems worked up to standards of that are in place. Fans are part of the system but nothing like these. The giant jet fans built into four number four and at this point, according to caltrans there are no plans to put them into the older tunnel. Witnesses say a truck driver lost breaks and died after smashing into a restaurant the driver hit three vehicles before slamming into the restaurant. Witnesses say the breaks failed and big rig gained speed, running red lets. It happened just before employees awived. My husband daughter and did he have yu and i witnesses say it appears the driver did everything he could to avoid hitting anyone. Were hearing from Sheriff Deputies who played a role of hero over the weekend saving teenagers from a burning bus. That bus caught fire saturday night. A deputy was driving to work and decided to ask once you saw teenagers inside. It helped a bus driver and teacher. It could have gone very bad. Especially had they not immediately started evacuating. He did it in a way that is swift. And he made decisive action. Ensuring everybody that it is safe. The deputy went into the bus after everybody got off to make sure nobody was still on board. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Great thinking. Our coverage of the California Drought continues tonight. Coming up next a tahoe ski resort closing up shop and without sugar coating the reasons for it. And who left behind all of the trash in the San Francisco park this weekend . A big crowd apparently with no business being there. Im michael finney. Image wrin getting notice your rent is going up more than 400 . It just happened in San Francisco. Is that legal . You may be surprised by what i found today. Im drew tuma. A gray monday. Showers diminishing and we have brighter days ahead de scal good day, mlady i am sircanalot, here to save you from another breakfast bore. 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They say this has been happening more and more the National Park service agrees we found unopened bottle of juice, opened bottles of liquor. It was mazing the level of garbage. In the last two years weve seen a large uptick of that. Its a recurring problem like at dolores park. The city spends 400,000 per year to clean up after weekend crowds there. No permits were issued this weekend we found posts for something called rolympics. We talked to the organizer. Not something i would ever want someone to associate with an event that one of our contestants held i dont think the was about his event but about behavior of everyone in the park that day. Residents say people need to learn to clean up after themselves. Its just civic pride. Come on. These are educated people. Brianna haying wants to organize a clean up to raise awareness of the problem across the city. Police charged a man accused of doing damage to dolores park. 100,000 work the park was tagged with graffiti undergoing 20 million renovation the north side supposed to reopen next month. The drought brought an early end to the ski season and decided it wasnt going to continue making snow. The story now from the sierra. The resorts have been fighting a lack of snow but this one, sierra at tahoe decided to surrender. With just a third of snowfall, the resort managed to stay open since december making snow and pushing it around. But the warm temperatures made it impractical to continue. Ive been in the business 37 years, never closed in march. The general manager posted a statement saying the resort exhausted all tools and announced suspension of operations with a heavy heart. He said, this is unusual to admit it that the product no longer met their standards. Keeping it real is the tag line. That is where we came from. The response has been positive. Its cool theyre doing what they can to make sure were only writing good quality snow. Theyve struggled money wise. Its probably a smart decision for them. So theyre collecting jackets as 200 people are being laid off. Sierra tahoe says the season is slipping away. That is a shame. Its one of 16 resorts that may be up for sale soon. The trust that owns them is considering getting out of the snow business. Not just because of the drought. Only three properties are in california if they get sold to a buyer it would be the biggest ski resort transaction in history. That is something else. Yes. We need hope. We do theyre running only 13 of normal. 13 . Oh. Yes. They can use snow. And right now there are isolated sprinkles. Over the past three hours, the sprinkles are really falling apart. So this is a look at kurt temperatures. 63 today. And napa, 61 degrees. Outside, folks heading to and from clouds clouds hanging with us for part of the night. So satellite and radar will show you a stream of clouds so that cold front bringing the bulk of the moisture north of the region. So future weather into forecast mode we go. Today, we have clouds. Tonight, perhaps a sprinkle. No soaking rains Tuesday Morning watch as we start to clear out cloud cover from north to south. By afternoon, its sunnier, more mild air is on the way. And taking a look at san jose. 67 degrees low 70s tomorrow. By thursday, temperatures nearing 80 degrees by thursday. So overnight lows tonight a mixture of stars and clouds 55 in San Francisco. Tuesday, lots of sunshine. 71 sunnyvale. And 67 downtown. 63 in daily city. North bay 71 in sonoma. East bay, lots of sunshine, 68 hayward. And 72 in pleasanton. Mid week, its sunny and mild in the 70s. 60s along the coast. Warmest day thursday, tapping into 80s. And weekend is looking gorgeous, sunshine clouds, and a chance of showers but mainly dry next seven days. Yes. Thank you. Is your 16yearold responsible must have to vote . Here is Jonathan Bloom on a pro possessal that could send some teenagers to the polls. In city hall, 16 and 17yearold chanted for what they call a basic right. Theyre proposing a ballot measure to lower the voting age to 16. They have grown ups supporting them. This is long overdue. The public defender and two members of the board of supervisors. Young people have a lot to contribute. I hope they could improve neighborhoods and schools he is quick to point out the teens are worried if their generation doesnt start voting early, it will never. They think about going to college, going to work. So its not a priority. San francisco would not be the first place to allow voting in maryland. Teams turns out to vote at four times the rate. 16yearold voted against scotlands independence referendum. What the Research Shows is that 16yearolds and 17yearolds do have the same political knowledge as 21yearold and closer so we think theyre ready. So we asked some voters do you know who the mayor is . Yes. Yes. Lee . The chinese guy. Who is the mayor of San Francisco . Ed lee. If they can vote education, it would be something that would apply to them and have to be taken care of. If you think politics are a mess some think teens would make thing s worse. We have immoral politicians turning the political system upside down. Younger teens cant get the right to vote without the votes from people that are older than they are. In San Francisco, abc7 news still head tonight, here on abc7 news off camera confession of a new york billionaire now facing a murder charge in the death of a former bay area journalist. A San Francisco tenant facing a 6700 per month rent increase. And investigations into robert durst a troubled millionaire agreed today to face trial for the murder of a former bay area journalist found dead Christmas Eve 15 years ago at her home in los angeles. She was a 1969 graduate of uc berkeley, went on to become a reporter and author of five books. Reporter Mariam Hernandez has the update on her accused killer. Hes an heir to n estimated 4 billion real estate fortune his missing wife was never found, his dead neighbor, now cold case bringing him to los angeles the execution style shooting of his one time friend, susan berman in her Benedict Canyon home. Durst was being interviewed by the hbo documentary, the jinx. Listen closely. He was miced. Kill them all he says, within hours of the jinx finale, he and his lawyers were there to waive his extradition from new orleans, where he was arrested. Hes ready to end speculation and have a trial. The producer says it was not timed for the sake of publicity. Weve been in contact with Law Enforcement two years we found that subsequent admission, what happens in the bathroom, we contacted him and said we have something more. Durst was tried for the hacking murder of his neighbor. Not guilty. He said he did it but claimed in selfdefense today, the judge in that case is speaking out. He know whats hes doing. Hes very intelligent. I think hes thrived on the Media Attention the alleged confession came after he was shown two letters one he said he wrote to berman and another mailed to Beverly Hills pd alerting them to a cadaver in bermans home. A man injured in a fire in San Franciscos mission district, sadly has died over the weekend. His 13yearold daughter remains in critical condition. Two others and the mother are recovering. The family apartment caught fire last wednesday the cause is still under investigation. Republicans in congress are getting ready to launch an investigation into Hillary Clintons e mails when she was secretary of state. John boehner will announce the congressional investigation this week. Last week, clinton admitted shed destroyed about 30,000 e mails in her own server. Clinton says the e mails were personal republicans want to make sure. There is no way to know whether we have communication thats rightfully belong to the american people. State department acknowledged they had little oversight sent from a private account. They did not have a system to automatically save e mails. Last week, the state department began upgrading systems to save e mails from private accounts. A San Francisco tenant is facing a 400 rent increase. Does she have rights . Or is this just a loophole in the law . Were looking for answers we heard about this. Her neighborhood is suddenly scheduled for a rent increase from her current rent of 2145 to 8900 per month. Tenant advocates say they cant remember an increase that high she began packing her belongings this weekend in preparation of moving out. The 400 percent rate hike is scheduled to go may 5th. I cant put my head around it. On top of that, her Security Deposit is schedule toind crease to 12,500 shechl put out a plea on facebook for a new place to live. And that is when i started to hear about it. She posted the notice from her landlords attorney about the increase. And it all went viral and shared on facebook, tweeted and discussed on reddit. Its outrageous i dont believe this is legal. She says until recently a tenant was living down stairs in an in law apartment. And the rent board heard about this on social media. The folks here told us if it is true, down stairs was renteded out, the home would fall under city rent control laws the board urged her to file a complaint with them and request a hearing. Im very very overwhelmed and so thankful for the community support. To see my reports go to abc7 news. Com and click on sections tab. Then, select 7 on your side. What a shock. Can you imagine a bill like that . Well find out what the deal is. Thank you. Still ahead a National Issue around here, were all about fast. Thats why xfinity is perfect for me. With millions of wifi hotspots all over the place including one right here at the shop now we can stream all things fast and furious. Youve done it again, carlos with the fastest inhome wifi and millions of hotspots xfinity is perfect for people who love fast. Dont miss furious 7 in theaters april 3rd. Rape investigations on hold across the country because of a backlog of untested evidence kits. Vice President Biden says the new federal budget has 41 million to clear the backlog. There are 400,000 untested kits in america. The abc7 news i team found thousands of kits on police shelves right here in the bay area. Today, he said fixing it is a priority. Brings closure for victims and rapists to justice because dna is the guilty persons worst enemy. And is the innocent persons greatest and best friend. Two School Officials were talking about how to improve inner city ed. The president said schools are improving but need more money to keep pace. This is a challenge is that this is a Monumental Task that requires resources. A member of the Oakland School board was also part of the meeting today. Just ahead here tonight filming of a key scene in the new steve jobs movie. How [ birds chirping ] [ inhales, exhales ] [ announcer ] cigarettes are not just dangerous when theyre smoked. [ rat squeaking ] theyre dangerous long after. Cigarette butts are toxic. They release chemicals that poison our water. And harm wildlife. And millions. Are polluting our environment. [ sniffing ] [ seagulls squawking ] the faa is getting tough on drone users especially if you use one to shoot video on you tube this, video was shot in berkeley over the weekend. The videos come with ads and it is considered a commercial use people are now getting warning letters from the faa tonight, a rebound on wall street. Dow jones rose as the dollar weakened. And just 23 points shy of growth. Technology stocks did well today. Is fleet week the water officials are flushing out waste you see if the dye if it happens that means you have a leak. A key scene of a steve jobs bioo pick was built there. The extras saw Silicon Valley history being immortalized on film. What were filming are roll out scenes steve jobs was famous for. There were worldchanging inventions and now spencer. Talking about not bad weather if you have to wait for the line. Sprinkles and wet weather coming to an end. Its 57 degrees now. Taking a look at updated numbers, statewide 13 of normal. A year ago 29 is where we were. Mid60s to lower 90s in palm springs here is the bay area forecast. Lots of sunshine and temperatures upper 60 s to 70s. A popular bay area native was born in san bruno they told abc7 news its a good omen that it airs on abc7. Kgo is where i met my husband. During an anniversary game there yes. Yes. That was my first job. And i got fired on the first day i kept looking at the wrong camera. But got the host. The new season begins tonight at 8 00 here on abc7. Our own sports guy, dancing with the sports. Well, hairy beal is our expert hes home, probably tuning up. That is what im hearing today well see him tomorrow. The second of six at home a preview and James Winston making news again. Who wants to try a new burger . Thats good its really good. Very juicy. Thats melted garlic herb butter. Its original. I like soft buns. I would buy this. This is amazing could this be from jack in the box . Definitely not jack in the box no. Im not a big fan of jack in the box burgers and. This is really good thanks. I guess. That is my new buttery jack with garlic herb butter melted right on. You can go classic or bacon swiss will they melt in your mouth . You butter believe it. Warriors enjoying home cooking tonight the new show time at the nba hosts once mustsee lakers. The hawks looming wednesday. A lead for the top spot in the west. And that begins tonight. This could be to play better each game and these guys have a sense of pride. Cardinals tip off against cal state northridge on saturday. And cal also a four c. Shocker shockers at 30. And this off season leaving a 30yearold as the principal receiver. I caught up with him in arizona. The 30yearold went from wanting to make the roster to being the main man. Its need to know that there is that trust i dont look at it differently im fighting and going to work hard every day to earn it. He had surgery in october and he says he feels great. Were comfortable with guys getting a second third first chance and all we want to do is play hard and win. He played in 84 games last year behind the plate. And he likes what the team has to offer. Looking at the team and were going to look at the stuff that is there competitiveness is there. Its going to be tough. He took on dodgers today and giants came up short against as. Baseball commissioner with a formal request from pete rose asking his ban be lifted the commission will consider the request on its merits. He amassed 4256 hits after refiring agreeing to be fanned from baseball. April 30th according to his dad, he wants to spend a day with friends and family in alabama, and his dad says this is not set in stone. This abc7 sports report is brought to you by bank of the west. To well see what happens. There are guys have done just as well. I understand but i think hes going to the hall of fame. Tonight were going to show you closest pictures from planet mercury and a surprise nasa spotted on its surface. And those stories and more. Tonights programming starts with the premier of the 10th anniversary of dancing with the stars followed by castle and abc7 news at 11 00. Comcast, dish and direct tv customers can get all programming on your computer. Go to abc7 news. Com and watch abcapp from your app store. 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Kristins husband was once a contestant on jeopardy and won six games. Shes already won three. Will she be able to match that six . Pauline and darren will have something to say about that. So, lets start finding out, shall we . We go into the jeopardy round. And today we have these categories. Well give you the name of one of the partners. You identify the other. Kristin, start us. How about getting hitched for 200 . Kristin. Who is Ronald Reagan . Correct. Getting hitched, 400. Kristin. Who is isabella . Yes. Getting hitched, 600. Kristin