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For a chopper flight ot dry, dusty ag field ner the Merced County town. There he toured a farm and met with agriculture leaders and farm worker representatives. He also met with Governor Brown at california senators Diane Feistein and Barbara Boxer who have drought legislation move through congress. The aid package the president announced includes 150 this will for livestock rajers, 5 million for water conservation, 60 million for food bangs. Farm workers will have less work with fallow field and 3 million for Emergency Water assistance where Drought Conditions have harmed water supplies. California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest Agricultural Producer so what happens here matters to every working american. One benefit of this aid is not just the money but how soon that money will be available. 100 million will be expedited according to the white house. Ranchers, for example, will be able to seek emergency livestock aid this april rather than the typical year that process would take. Now, the president left fresno about 45 minutes ago bound for palm springs and a meeting with king of jordan. In the news room, ktvu channel 2 news. The governors Drought Task Force said despite the recent rains, the states water supply remains critically low. Its just one of those problem zefrgs parts of the solution. People conserving, trying to do what minimal transfers you can do, max niezing what limited other water sources there are. At a meeting in sacramento today, officials said the current drought is shaping up to be worse than the severe drought of 1977. Reservoirs are still near record lows for this time of year. State Officials Say theyre working with water agencies to speed up projects that recycle water. And the drought is prompting some bay area residents to look for twice recycle their own water. A growing number of homeowners installed gray Water Systems that use water from the laundry to irrigate their landscape. As long as people use biodegradable soap, the water is perfectly safe to use on their plants. Go to ktvu. Com for more drought coverage including a map that shows water levels of california reservoirs. More rain is on its way this weekend. Meteorologist mark is tracking when its going to arrive. Mark. Gasia, we can definitely use the rain fall. Take a look at the rain fall statistics. The rain fall season, look at the numbers. Very low. As you can see up in the north bay well show you right now. Santa rosa over 9 inches of rain. Those numbers really taper off. Those are the seasonal totals and san jose taking up 2. 60 inches. Thats only 27 of average. We do have changes developing up to our north. The storm track beginning to move to the south. As a result lots of cloud cover right now and rain showers closer right around eureka and this energy will be approaching the bay area as we do head into part of your weekend. In fact hers the forecast model in the short terms overnight tonight into tomorrow at the 1 00. Still the rain fall to the north but that will be sliding to the south impacting the bay area forecast. More on that and the timing and how much rain drops you can expect in your neighborhood. Happening now, its a San Francisco tradition. The annual valentines day pillow fight. Hundreds of people ready with pillows got the chance to do battle with perfect strangers. Heres another look from news chopper 2 taken just about 30 minutes ago. This has been going on every year for eight years now. The department of public works says itll cost upwards of 4,000 to clean up all the mess but a spokeswoman calls it a fun event and it certainly seems to be turning into a holidayly chul. The evening commute on bart is getting back to normal after a tree felon the tracks in the east bay. Bart says a train that it tree about two hours ago near the Pleasant Hill station. No one was hurt but that train was taken out of service. Trains had to single track through the areas which caused about a 20minute delay. By 6 00 the tracks were clear and bart was back on schedule. The arrest of san jose firefighter on drugs and sex crime charges is generating strong feelings tonight. As ktvu robert honda reports, fellow firefighters say they are shock and had disappointed. During a 20 years on the san jose Fire Department, mario was a good image for firefighters, supervising many drills including some covered by ktvu. It helped him land a job as a community out reach officer after an Injury Limited his field activities so colleagues are in a daze today after he was arrested last night and his Fire Department office for possession and sale of drugs, sex crimes including chiel molestation and oral copulation of a 17yearold. The charges as we understand them indicate that there would have been victims to these crimes and i think everyone feels very heavy heart right now for anybody that might have been hurt in the situation. He listed Church Activities ib colluding involvement with the local diocese and as Community Outreach officer he was also part of many activities that involved children. A department of justice spokeswoman says seized his computer and other belongings at his office and home. Well be going through the hard drives that we see and any other evidence trying to determine if there are any other charges. One person who worked with him on some community drills including these say questes was more of an oversere. He would stand in the back and oversee everything. He never really interacted with the community. The behaef yors weve heard described have nothing to do with that, are not excusable and dont alie with what were here for. It is not finished reviewing the case but say he could be in court as soon as tuesday after the holiday. Ktvu channel 2 news. We have new developments in a case involving twins arrested in a deadly stabbing in san jose. 18yearold appeared in court this morning. Hes expected to enter a plea on the murder charge ten days from now. Prosecutors initially charged his twin brother, doug, in the killing. He was in court last week. He now faces a charge of accessory. Prosecutors plan to try the brothers together. The fraternal twins were arrested in the stabbing death of 22yearold san jose state student richard fan at a Birthday Party january 26th. The elementary schoolteacher charged with serving marijuanalaced food at an offcampus pot luck appeared in court today. 47yearold theresa badger pleaded not guilty to one misdemeanor count of furnishing marijuana and one count of poise song. At least eight people say they became sick. Badger is free on 15,000 bails and on administrative leave. She was ordered to return to court in april. Participants parents and teachers are on edge tonight after a series of car break ins led to something even worse. See the thieves at the parking lot of brookfield elementary. Thats on jones avenue near intertate 880 and made off with vehicle registrations. As rob ross reports, for one victim, the next stop was her home. Angelica works at the main office at brookfield elementary school. Last week she was victimized not once but twice. It was very emotional. It was very frightening. Last monday when she walked to her shshgsuv in a School Parking lot, she noticed someone had pried open the lock. They inserted something here right below the key hole. You can see where its bent. The only thing they took was the registration and the insurance, which contained my address. Her nightmare had only begun. Three days later when she arrived at her home on Center Street in oakland, she says she found a huge hole in her front door. She says not only was jewelry missing but keys to her familys other cars. The first few days were very frightening for us to spend the night there, and we had to make special arrangements to sleep somewhere else. She believes the burglary is related to the car break in and the School Principal says since last week, two other School Employees and a parent have had their cars broken into and their registrations stolen, twice yesterday. The objective of educating our children is very important and requires our full attention and and all hands on deck, and issues like this can be very demoralizing. We tried to Contact Oakland police but did not hear back. Now, the principal says hes working on a schedule where someone can continuously watch the parking lot all day long, time that would be better spent he says on children. Rob rsz, ktvu channel 2 news. Construction is underway on a project to help football fans in santa clara get to and from events at the new levi stadium. Santa clara Valley Transportation Agency says its building a third light rail track between Patrick Henry and old iron side drive. Thats right across from the 49ers home. The Transit Agency says the pocket track will allow it to store train cars and get them into service quickly. Be reduce today one lane westbound during the construction. Work is expected to wrap up by august. A flash mob and a member of the black eyed peas took over these steps tonight. Well tell you what the message is hidden in these dancing moves. A major bust in San Francisco of an illegal delicacy. Why some say a ban on shark fin soup is lacking teeth. And floating on cloud 9. Lastminute preparations for one of the bay areas most popular events and the chance that it may rain on the parade. Anncr at jennieo we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride 10 miles for tacos. We thought wed show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco made with jennieo ground turkey cooked thoroughly to 165. I feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. I think they are light and they are just fresh tasting. Yeah. When i eat well, i feel well. Anncr its time for a better taco. The tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. Make the switch. Look for jennieo ground turkey in a store near you. This valentines day is a joyous one for couples at San Francisco city hal. Michael donovan and bill shafr came from dallas to tie the knot here. The City Clerks Office told us about half of todays weddings were between same sex couples enjoying the symbolism of getting married on the first valentines day since same sex marriage became legal in california. There was dancing in the streets of San Francisco this evening as hundreds of people joined a Global Movement called 1 billion rising. Ktvus patty lee is live at city hall where pattys dance party was designed to raise awareness about domestic violence, and it just wrapped up. The message still reverberates. Gasia, using dance to end global violence may not sound intuitive, but after hearing from the people and performers on these city hal steps, we start to get it. This may look like the dance party, complete with the black eyed peas performing on city hall steps, but its actually a protest, part of one billion rising, a Global Campaign to end violence by raising awareness through dance. I stand here as a woman in my strength and power saying its not okay anymore. We have got to stop this. Lets help them find our voice. Critics have questioned the effectiveness of a Global Dance Party to tackle problems ranging from rape to Human Trafficking, but folks here say the language of dance is something everyone can understand. It looks like all these women are having a great time and all these men and mothers and fathers, brothers, sisters so its, of course, dancing is very effective. Grammy awardwinning performer says he only recently learned about rampant abuse. It hit home for him when he learned about the extent of Human Trafficking in his home country, the philippines. We just need to be aware that thats going on, you know. Its actually a new thing for me to touch on, but, you know, to me its a very heavy subject. But, you know, im here to do what i can. There were more than 10,000 dance parties in 200 country tosd, most of them as you can see, chronicled on twitter. The founders today were asked if this now oneyear event is making a difference, and they have said that there are tangible results. You can see them in new laws overseas. Reporting live in San Francisco, patty lee, ktvu channel 2 news. Todays campaign also found its way into San Franciscos county jail. Female inmate danced to a song called break the chain to show their support for survivors of domestic violence. State Health Officials today confirmed 41 additional flurelated deaths in california. The department of Public Health says 243 people have died from flu this season. Thats more than double the number of deaths for last years entire flu season at 106. Four of this years victims were children. Here in the bay area, county Health Records showed at least 43 flurelated deaths, that includes one death in San Mateo County that was confirmed yesterday. By looking at our maps, Santa Clara County has the most deaths with 14. Now to mendocino downty where authorities made a glu some discovery, the body of a man being eaten by dogs. This happened in the city just north of ukiah. A passerby this morning reported a man being attacked by two rot wilers. Whaen deputy arrived, the dogs charged at him. The deputies shot and killed one dog. The other ran off. At this point its unclear if the man who was attacked was already dead, but officials tell us theyre still trying to figure out how it happened. We dont know when death occurred, if the dogs were involved in the death or if he was dead before. Officials say the area where they found his body is near a bus stop, but school was not in session today. The underground web site has reportedly been robbed of its bit coins. The fbi took that site down back in october saying it was a marketplace for drugs and other illegal items. Tech savvy outlaws revived it. Now, the anonymous administrator says hackers have stolen 2. 7 million in the cyber currency known as bit coins. The message on the board says buyers put the bit coins in escrow on the site so drug sellers could access the money to complete transactions. Theres a major shark fin bust to tell you about on the eve of this weekends Chinese New Year parade. Ajents inspecting emeryvilles last month say they found shark fins in the kitchen and on the menu going for as much as 48 a bowl. Investigators then went to one of the restaurants San Francisco distributors where they seized what they believed to be 2100 pounds of shark fins. The ban went into effect last july to help preserve shark populationings. The problem is people would catch sharks, cut the fins off the shark and just throw the whole shark back into the water keeping only the fins. The restaurants and the distributor received misdemeanor citations. State wildlife Officials Say penalties may need to be increased. The results of highlyanticipated independent investigation into the Miami Dolphins bullying scandal has been released. It calls for new rules of conduct in the nfl to ensure players respect each other as professionals and as people. The report found that lineman Richie Incognito and two other players viciously harassed teammate jonathan martin. The harassment included racial slurs homophobic name calling and improper physical touching. Martin left the team in october saying hed been repeatedly harassed. Incognito was suspended. An offensive line coach was also implicated. Start cashing in on Stock Options starting next week. Those shares can be sold after tomorrow. There are 545 million shares of twitter so it shouldnt have much of an impact on the stock price, but come may, more than 400 million shares can be sold, and twitter cease stock could take a hit then. Wall street ended its best week of the year so far. Dow industrial rose 126 points. Nasdaq gained three closing at its highest level since 2000. One analyst says the performance seems to indicate the markets have recovered from a january pull back. The annual Chinese New Year parade is set to kick off tomorrow in San Francisco. Organizers are spending the last remaining hours before the parade putting the finishing touches on 22 floats. Workers have spent the last six weeks without a day off putting these intricately design and had decorated floats together. The theme of this years celebration is year of the horse. And as always, you can watch the parade live on ktvu channel 2. Our joan julie haener hosts our coverage beginning at 6 00 tomorrow night. Also follow it on twitter. Well be using the hashtag cnyparade. And in weather, the parade will be happening 24 hours from now and 24 hours from now we could be tracking some rain showers at the same time. Right now, though, we have lots of clouds out there. The fog, also. Right now the main rain ban is still to our north. That will be drifting to the south as we head into saturday afternoon and into saturday night, but theres significant rain fall over the past few day, outs tots north right around cape mendocino. Fog, though, has been a big factor and right around the bay, even inland valleys. This was a scene looking out toward the Golden Gate Bridge this afternoon at 3 30. Watch out once again, low visibilities down to below a half mile possibly the overnight hours and drizzle as well. That will be at least concern, at least early tomorrow morning for your saturday. Overnight lows first thing under mostly cloudy skies will be in the low to mid 50s out there for santa rosa and san jose. Livermore 50. Fairfield 52 degrees. Heres the weather system we have been watching over the past few days. More clouds saturday and rain fall developing especially after 6 00. The chance we could have rain showers developing up in the north baby mid to Late Afternoon but the main action moves in saturday evening and rain fall forecast amounts could be just a few hundredths of an inch in the south bay but could be approaching half an inch in north bay. Heres the overall expectations with this system and moves in saturday night into early sunday morning. 90 of your weekend will be dry. Saturday 1 00 here we go with the rain clouds out there. 6 00 we do bring in rain chance ups in the north bay and then at 7 00, 8 00, 9 00, possibly rain showers in San Francisco for the Chinese New Year pea raid. Activity gradually moves to the south late saturday night. As you can see sunday, the bulk of the action moves out of town leaving with more shun shine but also breezy kvenlts fore choois for tomorrow mainly in the upper 50s to low to mid 60s for afternoon highs. San jose 63. San mateo 60 and halfmoon bay 59 degrees. Of course the Chinese New Year parade forecast in San Francisco, our thinking is this. Going to start off dry. Lots of cloud overout there, especially after 7 00 or 8 00. Rain chances could be on the increase and temperatures will be in the mid to upper 50s. Here is a look ahead. Fiveday forecast with weekend always in view. There you can pick out the evening rain ffr saturday. Breezy sunday. Slight chance of shower by tuesday of next week. Gasia. Mark, thank you. Brutal Winter Weather back east has been very tough on travelers. Data from flight aware shows airlines have cancelled more than 75 thousand domestic flights since december 1st of last year. Thats the highest number in more than 25 years. Analysts say new government regulations have made airlines quicker to cancel flights than in year past. Now, ktvu. Com, a San Francisco landmark gets a makeover. Were there as its restored. How a push from people brought it back. The sight observed in arizona today thats getting bay area baseball fans pumped. And you can always get ktvu news on the go. Download the ktvu pashgsp. Click the live icon, and you can watch all our news casts live on your mobile device. Have valentines day warning for people who buy those heliumfilled metallic balloons. They can cause Power Outages when they get caught in power lines. This is video of one such power outage in oakland two years ago. Pg e counted 163 power out ajs all last year and more than 125,000 people were affected. Now, turning to ktvu. Com. A quirk can i piece of San Francisco history is back overlooking float boulevard. One of the original doggy diner heads has been restored and reinstalled at its former sight near ocean beach. Mayor ed lee was among those who celebrated the return of 700pound fiberglass pup today. The hamburger chain went out of business back in the 80s. Fans kept the iconic heads from being destroyed. Raised more than 50,000 to give the a dog a facelift. You can see raw video on ktvu. Com. Just go under hot topics. Baseball season is a big step closer tonight for bay area fans. Oakland ooshgss and San Francisco giants pitcher catchers reported today. The First Official workout is tomorrow. As and giants meet in their first spring training game february 26th. Thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. Well see you the next time news breaks. Im gasia mikaelian. Tmz is up next here on tv 36. Have a great night. Anncr at jennieo we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride 10 miles for tacos. We thought wed show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco made with jennieo ground turkey cooked thoroughly to 165. I feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. I think they are light and they are just fresh tasting. Yeah. When i eat well, i feel well. Anncr its time for a better taco. The tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. Make the switch. Look for jennieo ground turkey in a store near you. Today on tmz so who wants to see what a 30yearold good looking guy looks like right after he loses his virginity . Sean lowe, the bachelor that just got married, he was the bachelor that touted he was a virgin until the day he got married. First time i get him out, huge, goofy ass grin on his face. The real issue is what . Is it a grin . Kendall jenner, the nipples made an appearance again last night. She was at the marc jacobs show, she was one of the models walking the runway. The opposite of kate upton. Instead of boingy boing ping. Ping, simon cowell is having his baby

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