Weather related disasters like droughts, wildfires, storms, floods are potentially going to be costlier and harsher. Droughts have been a part of life out here in the west since before any of us were around. Water politics in california have always been complicated. The evidence shows a change in climate will make them more intense. Were listening to president obama to reporters and farmers in the central valley. Just to surprise what hes saying, he will authorize 183 million age paid package and it effects californians here. President obama in the central valley. Hell be leaving fresno within the hour to head to palm springs. We want to sbribring in jody hernandez. Theres a direct impact for everyone in the bay area. Reporter ranchers and farmers have faced with the same thing. They are trying to survive through this drought. The president s visit is bringing hope. Week after week hes been forced to buy hay. If you can find it, and its really difficult to find any hay in california. You have to go out of state. Reporter some relief may be on the way. While the president cant make it rain, he came to california to announce millions of dollars in federal aid is on the way. I understand he is announcing today over 200 million worth of drought relief. That will go to livestock producers. It will go to food banks to feed farmers who have lost their jobs. Reporter the bay area is in big need from vineyards to cattle operations. Even state parks are feeling the impact. Mt. Diablo had to turn off the water. Were asking the public to bring their own water. They have to bring their own water too. Reporter the folks on mt. Diablo help federal aid can help them develop springs for park users and cattle operations. He needs all the help he can get. If the president is looking out for us, thats pretty good. Well appreciate any help we can get. Reporter now its unclear how much of the help that the president announced will be coming to the bay area, but you can bet theres a lot of folks crossing their fingers a big chunk will be coming here. Nbc bay area news. Thank you. Lets turn to chief meteorologist high pressu meteorologist. He continues our drought coverage. Some rain in the forecast. Well be tracking that storm and get you an update on the overall drought for california. The whole state has been gripping with these horrible conditions, but theres is small shred of good news. This past weekend we had 8 to 20 inches of rainfall. We went down to the severe category. Slight improvement. Its not nearly enough to get us out of drought. We have had some wet weather the past 24 hours, namely drizzle in San Francisco. Anywhere from 400 to 800. Now were continuing to track this subtropical moisture tapped well out into the pacific. That will combine with our next storm system offshore. Were still looking at rainfall as we head throughout the weekend. By tomorrow Morning Cloud cover increases. It begins to push here across the north bay. Well track this storm through its entirety. Well see you soon. We have new details on the arrest of a san jose firefighter. We want to show you a picture of mario who has been with the department for 20 years. Hes trained to rescue people but now hes accused of selling drugs to High School Students and sexually abuses a 17yearold boy. Reporter he was arrested yesterday here at the Fire Department administration building. Investigators even went inside and seized the hard drive from his work computer. A veteran of the san jose Fire Department, 53yearold mario has recently become to Departments Community outreach director working with schools and church groups. Now hes behind bars without bail charged with selling met amphetamine to minors and sexually assaulting a 17yearold boy. He was arrested here at the Fire Administration headquarters where investigators confiscated his computer hard drive. By the nature of the charges sounds like there may have been victims. I think every firefighter is feeling for any victim and their families for what is alleged. Its not in the character of firefighters. Were here to help people, not hurt people. Reporter he worked for the Fire Department since 1994. Most recently at fire station number one in downtown san jose. We do not tolerate any behavior thats outside the law. This is very unacceptable. Reporter in a statement the Roman Catholic diocese confirms mario cuestas worked three hours per week in the ministry of music. He began work in 2012 and submitted fingerprints which cleared the fbi and the department of justice. It had not received any reports of any illegal activity involving cuestas. The Fire Department says it plans to conduct its own investigation. Department of justice investigators tell me it is possible there may be even more victims. Coming up at 6 00, ill tell you where else investigators found evidence. Reporting live in san jose, nbc bay area news. Who does the expensive flashy car belong to . Thats what police want to know afterthey crashed into a persons home and ditched the high priced car. It happened on maywood avenue. We spoke with the homeowner and neighbors who were stunned when they walked out their front door. Reporter they were still cleaning up a day after neighbors say the driver of this car was on a joyride on their street. Our house actually shook, physically shook. You thought there was an earthquake. Reporter the skid marks are visible. A chain link fence has seen its better days. Surprised. Ive only owned my home for about six months. This is welcome the homeownership. Reporter neighbors say it was careening down maywood avenue. He hit this dip in the road and spun out of control and hit the car parked by the red vehicle. Thats where he took out the fence and the car. It came up here and plow into the back of the car that was here and pushed it all the way to where that red car is parked now. Reporter the driver and passenger fled. Here is the mystery. It was not reported stolen. The registered owner is not a suspect and when we asked if they knew who they were looking for, the chp would only say all aspects of the collision are under investigation. Weird. A little bit scary because i dont know where to go from here. Do i park my car inside the garage. Reporter its a mystery on maywood avenue. Baseball season is right around the corner and the giants announced all fans entering at t park will go through metal detecters. That move complies with a man date. Last season fans were screened with metal detecting wands. Once they get used to it, the process of getting into the park should get faster. I think it will be not entirely dissimilar to going to the airport minus taking off your shoes and belt. Theyre buying 40 metal detod detecters to cover all entrances. They should be installed by late march. Still to come just in time for the holiday weekend. Thats fresh powder in the sierra. It comes with warning. What you need know. We go live to sochi for todays headlines which include a surprise visit for team usa. Does a common safety maneuver hit at a safety problem . We investigate the number of go arounds at fso and talk to the experts about what those numbers might mean. Then at 6 00, his face a mystery, his palette powerful. You can put a chef in a restaurant out of business. We take you inside the world of chronicle food critic michael power. Thats new at 6 00. [ sports announcer ] heres another one, alyson dudek. Hales corners, wisconsin. Nice pass by alyson dudek. Can she hang on to that spot . And she does [ male announcer ] with the uverse wireless receiver, your tv goes where you take it, allowing inspiration to follow. [ dad ] looks pretty good, right . [ girl ] yeah. [ male announcer ] switch to uverse and add a wireless receiver today. Love is in the air around the world. That includes sochi. Several heart shaped decorations adorning the olympic park on this day. Team usa got a surprise visit from a world leader. Lets go to jack in russia for us tonight. Hi, jack. Reporter theres no love lost when youre in the heat of competition with a gold medal on the line. Every once in a while competition takes a backseat to the olympic spirit. That was the case here in sochi on valentines day. Its valentines day here in sochi but there was no love for team usa at the ski center. Four american men started can 15 kilometers cross classic and nonfinished higher than first. A couple of hours later the women ran. One olympian who has found pupally love is gus. Hes seeking to adopt stray puppies he discovered near the athletes village. I fell in love with them and felt if i could do anything to help them, i really wanted to try and told myself i was going to do whatever i could to bring one or all of them home. Reporter putin may have delivered a political vile tine to the united states. The russian president dropped by team usa house for a tour and a meeting with usoc officials today. He could have been trying to psych out the u. S. Mens hockey team which faces off against russia tomorrow. Its going to be a lot of fun. Its exciting. You come to these tournaments. You can play in games like that. Reporter thats going to be one of the hottest tickets here in sochi tomorrow. I got to say they missed an opportunity here. Usa russia hockey would have been perfect for valentines day. If you like some blood on the ice, yes. Thank you very much. Dominant, thats one of the many words that describe team usa in the olympics newest sport. The americans swept in slope style skiing last night. Its crazy. Yesterday was one of the best days for all of us. We show the world what we love to do and how much fun were having. It was also a very emotional time for christianson. Youll hear why coming up at 6 00. The olympic torch is in sochi but its not the only olympic flame burning tonight. Lake tahoe hosted the olympic games. Other cities burn their torches while the current winter games are under way. You see sochi and lake tahoe on the right side. The usoc might be making a bid to bring the winter games to the lake tahoe reno area in 2026. Just in time for the president s day weekend, we have fresh powder. Until last week snow making machines were paving the runs with manmade snow. We really have our mountain back. Five and a half feet allowed us to open so much more terrain. People are really waiting to see them. Heres the deal. High wind advisories are in effect beginning tomorrow. If youre heading up to the mountains, be careful. Our chief meteorologist jeff has more on that high wind advisory and our microclimate forecast in the bay area. We sure do. Anyone heading that way expect the highest ridge tops winds that could top 80 miles per hour. Well deal with winds out of the southwest 20 to 35 miles per hour. Lets go ahead and get you out here to our activity but get us some rainfall. We still have this subtropical moisture. Its been with us for two weeks. It will stay with us throughout tomorrow and it will help to amplify this rather weak system sitting offshore. Components will be on the weaker side. I think it will add up on those rainfall totals for us. Well have more on that coming up in just about one minute. I want to take you outside to that sky camera right now. What youll be able to see here is up across the Higher Elevations were currently seeing temperatures running in the upper 50s also low 60s. Areas of drizzle right now in San Francisco but mixed in a little bit of blue sky for tonight. Some high level clouds but you get that marine layer at the lower levels producing a few levels of drizzle. Lets take you into the storm track were following. It will be advancing conditions deteriorating through the bay area. We have that cloud cover with us. Its going to be clouded in. Locked with the low clouds from santa rosa. We wont see the rain stepping down with the cold front until about 4 00, 5 00 and 6 00. Mainly the north bay through the early evening hours. Throughout the lay evening hours 9 00, 10 00 and 11 00 moving down toward san jose and the peninsula back here through the east bay. Overall tote it wills still do not look impressive with this storm system at this point. Were only talking about. 50 of an inch. A tenth of an inch in napa and likely. 12 up over towards san jose. Snowfall totals will be up here but nowhere compared to that five feet of snow we saw last week. It will range anywhere from two to six inches up across the Higher Elevations. Kingville may squeeze out six inches. Near tahoe about two to four impls. Lets take you to that micro climate forecast as we head throughout saturday. Cloudy skies. Dont expect major sunshine for tomorrow. 65 in san jose. Cloudy and 62 throughout the pen n peninsula. Well see the best chance of showers with 60. Well see the best chance of early on showers yet again in the north bay including napa, santa rosa and throughout the trivalley temperatures holding in the mid60s. Pleasantton at 65. We have the rain coming back with us as we head throughout saturdays forecast. Then throughout sunday just a lingering chance of maybe an isolated shower in the Early Morning hours. Then the sun comes back out an note the temperatures will be cooler with upper 50s and also low 60s. One kind of gloomy day and well get the sun back for sunday. Thank you very much. Cupids been very busy. What will make this valentines day extra special. A lot of travel trouble. The problem plaguing airports across the country in record numbers. Stay with us. If youve ever been on plane when it happens it can be frighten. Your flight comes in for landing and jerks back up to go around for landing again. Believe it or not, its done in the name of safety. Too many of these maneuvers may signal trouble. Reporter theyre called go arounds. Theyre a regular occurrence at San Francisco international airport. They are a safety tool used by pilots to make sure everything goes well during a landing. Experts tell us too many go arounds can be a safety concern. Nbc bay area Investigative Unit analyzed more than four years of faa data of reported go arounds at fso. The go arounds date back to 2009. The unit analysis of the numbers uncovered several trends that experts say lead to questions about what can be done to improve safety there. By looking at the data there seems to be an inordinate number of go arounds on particular run way at an airport. That might be something that the airport Traffic Control folks might want to look at. Reporter we break down the numbers and talk to experts about what they mean for your safety. Well take you inside several flight similar laulators to sho how a go around works for a pilots point of view. Thats after the olympics. See you then. If you have a tip for stephen or anyone in our Investigative Unit you can call us or email us. How bad has this winter been in terms of flight delays and cancellations . Historically bad. Here is a live look at Oakland International airport. Everywhere else including fso its a different story. Nationwide some staggering numbers. More than 75,000 domestic flights have been cancelled since december 1st. 14,000 flights were cancelled this week alone because of the snow and ice storms back east and in the south. The number of cancelled flights is the most since the winter of 1987 and 1988. Same sex couples have used valentines day to protest the fact they could not legally marry. Today they were walking down the aisle. Its pretty amazing. Looking sharp with the bow ties. They had to bring in extra staff. Here is what were working on for 6 00. One leader put a new plan to put police back on the street, but are taxpayers willing to foot the bill . Our sochi coverage continues at 8 00. Bob costas is still sidelined with an eye infection. Meredith will be breaking new ground. She will be the first woman to solo host prime time coverage of the olympics. You can hear her roar a little later tonight. You will see mens figure skating. Super combined alpine skiing. Its a womens show tonight. Speaking of another woman we love around here, our own janelle wang like weve never seen before. Im still not sure if this is her. Its her. She went above and beyond when some break dancer took a break. Im going to put down my mike. Theyre waiting for me. Here i go. Thats all i can do. Thats not here. Thats her. Yesterday she was doing cart wheels. How could you say thats not here . Next week shell be at pier 39 performing. She has such a great attitude. I think its because shes been working so many long hours. Shes loopy. No, shes just a lot of fun. When she comes back shell break down. Well see if she has an encore at 11 00. Thanks for joining us. You can find us online at nbcbayarea. Com. See you at 6 00. On our broadcast here tonight, drought emergency. A desperate situation with no end in sight. Its now getting scary and hitting a lot of Family Businesses hard. The president in california tonight, is promising help. Also, fast and furious. Controversy on the speed skating track here in sochi after a shutout thus far for the american team. Could their new uniforms possibly be to blame . And aiming for history tonight. Tom brokaw with the most decorated skier of all time, bode miller, who may also be the most changed man at these games. And defying gravity. Our conversation with sandra bullock, again an oscar nominee, this time for a herculean feat of moviein