More wet weather in the forecast, but we begin with Christie Smith live in San Francisco, where trees came crashing down, sending one man to the hospital. Christie . Reporter yeah, good evening. This is the tree that actually fell, and injured a man early this morning, one of several trees that fell overnight. Some of them trees. Some wonder if thats enough. After a section of tree came crashing down, the rest was cut down. Maggie says her husband was parked near the Mission District about to start work on a pipe project. His coworker just screamed to him, get out. And when he said that, my husband saw the tree fall. Reporter she said her husband got out. There was two other men trying to lift the tree and he was trying to lift the tree with them, but it was too heavy. And he was pinned underneath the branch. Reporter firefighters say a person was transported with life threatening injuries. After the rain overnight, public works says four or five trees fell in the city, most were large ficus trees. What happens oftentimes is water accumulates on a tree and if the trees vulnerable, the weight can bring it down. Sometimes we also see that the roots get a little bit loose. Reporter she says the trees were planted 40 to 50 years ago. They were no longer allowed to be planted as city trees in the 90s because they started to become problematic. Weve removed a number of ficus trees already in the city where we know it looks like they have the potential for failure. So weve been working on that. I think now were going to step it up a little more. Reporter back here live, supervisor scott weiner has been working on this issue of coming up with longterm Funding Solutions for tree care and maintenance in the city. Coming up in our next hour, well be talking about why some people really think that funding and maintenance is the real issue. Reporting live in San Francisco, Christie Smith, nbc bay area news. Okay, problematic trees, thank you, christie. Lets turn things over to jeff ranieri. Jeff, we needed this, quick punch of rain here. Yeah, the first widespread measurable rainfall of november arrived early this morning, with a most complex of wet weather right there across the peninsula and also the south bay. So for the south bay, something we have not seen a lot of over the past year, and that was widespread cloud cover here in our Weather Underground time lapse network throughout the Morning Hours and also rain that totalled over a half inch for a lot of the Higher Elevations in the south bay. So, how did we do on the rainfall totals . Well, probably rain from the top three storms of the past 12 months here for san jose, you can see for parts of the south bay we had. 15 downtown,. 24 iniesta and nearly a half inch. The peninsula also did really well when it came to those rainfall totals, pillar point,. 42,. 64 there across kings mountain. 43 in san carlos, and check it out, Redwood Shores also at. 33, as well. Now, we are not done with this rainfall just yet. Weve got a few areas of drizzle on the Doppler Radar right now. We are still tracking a second, a third, and possibly a fourth system as we head into next week. Ive got the timing on that coming up in about 15 minutes. Okay, thanks, jeff. New at 5 00, a south bay janitor arrested at work today, charged with possessing child porn. Investigators arrested arturo perez where he worked. They say he had more than 100 child porn videos on a laptop that he carried around with him. According to the mercury news, some of the victims were toddlers. He was booked into the Santa Clara County jail on 25,000 bail. The bay areas infamous bad elmo faced a judge today. When hes not in costume, he is a street performer known as daniel sandler, accused of attacking a shop owner last month. In court today, a judge reduced bail to 150,000. Sandler has had previous runins with the law for harassing pedestrians in San Francisco, as well as in new york. Well, more money, more problems. This time caltrans believes they found the solution. Repairing the upper deck of the bay bridge without those traffic delays we experienced for one day last month. Nbc bay areas Mark Matthews is on the embarcadero with this new game plan. Mark . Reporter raj, the works going to be done on the upper deck, as you say, at the very western edge of the bay bridge, from that support here that you see back about a quarter of a mile to those buildings. Now, they are going to be replacing six expansion joints, some have been in the bridge since it was built in 1936. This is what it looked like last month, the first time caltrans tried to repair the wornout joints, a backup slowing the morning commute to a crawl. I listened to the news and they said about an hour and a half to get over the bridge. Reporter yeah, hour or more to go eight miles. The backup was caused by drivers slowing down over temporary steel plates that were put in to cover the expansion joints. After a very frustrating friday, caltrans called it off. The people in charge decided lets go ahead and pull the plates off, lets regroup, and try to come up with some different ways of doing things. Reporter the new plan announced today will replace the wornout expansion joints, but instead of using plates to cover the newly laid concrete, caltrans is going to use rapid drying concrete, which will set up in as little as 90 minutes. Tomorrow night were going to be putting in a lane closure, lane number 5. Reporter the plan is to close a lane at a time, starting at 8 00 at night, and finishing no later than 5 00 in the morning on week days. Our crews will be done by 5 00 a. M. Monday through friday. Reporter and no steel plates, because this cement will be dry by the time the lanes open at 5 00. Now, it is going to raise the price about a Million Dollars more than planned. Its going to probably take about twice as long, and there are other problems for the People Living around the western end of this bay bridge, and well tell you about that. Its a story we are working on for 6 00. Reporting from the embarcadero, Mark Matthews, nbc bay area news. Thank you, mark. Trying to prevent another tragedy in the wake of that crash that killed a 15yearold boy. The city of cupertino is working to make the road safer. The citys Public Safety commission will be tackling the issue in about an hour. Last month High School Student ethan wong was riding his bike to class when he was hit and killed by a truck. The meeting starts at 6 30 at cupertino city hall. Farm to table, but farmers are having issues with the drought, so Governor Brown met with governors from other western states today to talk about ways to help growers survive with limited water supplies. According to a uc davis study, californias water shortage will add up to about a billion dollars in losses for farmers. And so i think the drought will test our imagination and our science, our technology, and our political capacity to collaborate. Last tuesday california voters approved a 7. 5 million water bond measure to expand storage of the states water supply. Its the shirt heard round the world. Im scott budman, up next how a scientist turned celebration into controversy. Also, spoetzed to be one of the happiest days of their lives. How investigators say this wedding planner ripped off soon to be newlyweds. Also i get goose bumps remembering that image, because doctor puts it up on the screen, says everywhere you see yellow, thats cancer. A grieving daughter channels her sorrow into a crusade that will make you bay area proud. Then at 6 00 its a disappointing thing to have to concede a race. Hold everything, supervisor dave cortese might have to rethink his concession. The dramatic twist in the san jose mayor race. Thats new at 6 00. Bride and grooms ripped off. Tonight a wedding planner is behind bars after failing to provide more than 60,000 in ceremony services. Stanley quan owned a planning business called to have and to hold. Investigators say he promised to provide services, police say he instead pocketed the money and couples didnt find out until just before their wedding day. The crimes happened back in 2005, but quan was only recently found and convicted. He is now serving four years. News out of facebook today. Facebook wants to be more clear. The social media site released a proposed new privacy policy. Its much shorter and simpler, addressing criticisms that it was previously too hard to understand. The final version isnt due for another week or so. Privacy advocates are already slamming this new version. They say clarifying the policy is fine, but the bigger issue is the amount of access advertisers have to users information. Well, that Historic Space Mission to the comet is now being overshadowed by a shirt here on earth. Space and sexism. Lets bring in our business and tech reporter scott budman. Scott, all of the hype and drama over the shirt. Ill tell you, raj, its almost hard to believe, even until you see the shirt and hear how it affected the scientific community, setting off a firestorm of protests on twitter from thousands of people who say an entire space agency has been insensitive to women. Its an exciting week for the space program. We not only landed on a comet, were now getting the first pictures back from the comet and they are spectacular. Sexiest mission theres ever been. Reporter but other pictures are also getting a lot of attention, pictures of scantily clad women on this shirt worn by scientist matt taylor of the European Space agency, stirring up so much backlash on social media, its being called the shirtstorm. I want to be the next mohawk guy and didnt think about the fact what he was doing was casually objectifying an entire class of people. Reporter then these comments from taylor about the comments. She is sexy, but i never said she was easy. Reporter sadly, according to one bay area scientist, all of this is just part of why its hard for women to get into and be taken seriously in scienceoriented careers. When you do all this work, you know that youre qualified and you know that you have the chops, the education, the presence to contribute in the big leagues and then to think that your colleagues dont think of you in a professional manner. And that can be extremely disheartening. Reporter taking a celebration and making it cringe worthy. Among the countless people who weighed in today about the shirt, a woman claimed to have made it and given it to matt taylor as a gift. We have not, however, heard from taylor himself, despite the many media outlets, including ours, who have reached out. Janelle . Scott, thanks so much. How do you put together 24 squares and come out with one big heart . A cupertino woman has figured out how and it started as a way to honor her mother. Her passion is also giving comfort to others battling cancer. Garvin thomas is here with tonights bay area proud. I think the squares into a heart riddle would appeal to nicole. She was an Award Winning High School Math teacher who loved geometry. She has moved on to a different mission now, but with no less passion. And so 59 years old, stage 4 is rather scary. Reporter over the past two years, nicole has had a lot of practice telling her mothers story. Though practice in this case doesnt make perfect. Try not to cry, because i still its very hard. Reporter nicole grew up in northeast pennsylvania. Her mom, maryann, a single mother raising two kids, working two jobs. The familys meager lifestyle, a source of embarrassment at the time for nicole. Very, very embarrassing. I wouldnt let anybody know. I would stay home a lot. Reporter but with age and perspective, embarrassment was transformed into admiration for a woman who had given everything for her kids. She was the one who cared and always listened. Reporter listening, though, is all nicole could do three years ago when a doctor gave maryann some bad news. The doctor puts it up on the screen, everywhere you see yellow, thats cancer, and it was from her head to her toes and looked like her body was on fire. Reporter maryann died in november of 2012. Okay, start. Reporter nicole, now a mom herself, fell into a depression. It was her husband who suggested taking a class to take her mind somewhere else. So nicole looked at an Adult Education catalog. When i saw that crochet class, i knew, i just knew that was my connection back to my mom, so i just finished a border on this blanket. Reporter crochet because it was something her mom used to do. Crochet, because it was something nicole thought she could do to help others going through what her mother just did. Nicole, by the way, never took that class. Instead, she opened a laptop and began teaching herself. Five hours later, she had a single square and a big idea. How about we get the world involved . Reporter project chemo crochet was born. Im comforting all of those people in the world that need comfort during this hard time. Reporter her husband created a website asking others to crochet squares that nicole and friends would sew together into blankets for people battling cancer. Within two weeks, the first squares started coming in and in less than two years, nicole and her team have stitched and shipped close to 700 blankets, all over the country, with no idea of slowing down now. I know people want to help, and im not asking for money. Im asking for your time. Im asking for a piece of you to be a part of something bigger. Nicole started all this when she was still living in pennsylvania, so shes transplanted now to the bay area and is looking to build up her team of stitchers. The squares come from all over the world now, because people do that. They need people locally to send them to her and stitch them into the blanket. People go to the website, tell the story of a friend or a loved one who has cancer and a blanket is on the way. Very helpful during chemo treatments and a lot of times when they want to hug something. Just that thought someone is doing that for you. Exactly. Physical reminder of the emotional support out there. Thats great, thanks, garvin. Well, we had some rain, you probably saw it. It was nice. Nice to feel it. Jeff ranieri is out here with our forecast. I was up late last night, early this morning, enjoying the sound of the rainfall, pretty spectacular. For a lot of the south bay, the wet weather that moved in early this morning when a lot of you were sleeping is going to go down as the top five strongest storm of the season when it comes to totals. Check this out, picking up nearly an inch of rain. That was an outlier here. Certainly, a rogue total, but really impressive. St. Helena. 45. Livermore,. 35. Substantial for you. Youve had such a hard time picking up rainfall and milpitas,. 24. As we take you to the radar, were done with the worst of the activity. Spotty showers across the trivalley, also most of the east bay. Thats what i think is going to happen for tonight. Patchy areas of drizzle, but heavy, widespread rainfall is not going to happen throughout tonight. Well get you outside to the Sky Camera Network right now, we have the cloud cover up above, temperatures in the upper 50s, also low 60s. Feels like fall outside this evening. You can see here across the south bay, nothing in the way of any kind of clear skies on our Weather Underground camera. Weve got the widespread cloud cover, so well go ahead and advance the forecast. I think the next issue for us after that rainfall, weve got some moisture in the lower levels of the atmosphere. Once temperatures cool off tonight, its going to get that air to a condensation point, and i do think were going to have issues possibly some dense areas of patchy fog. Youll see visibility not too bad right now, its at five miles and or better, but by tomorrow morning we could see a few isolated spots with visibility down to less than a quarter of a mile. As we take you into the future cast, we keep the cloud cover with us, green popping up on here as that possibility of drizzle in the forecast through about 7 00 in the morning. By the afternoon for tomorrow, we should manage some sunny skies for the north bay, also for parts of the south bay, and then by this weekend, weve been watching a storm system getting very close by, but by all indications right now, the rainfall should stay off to the north and miss the bay area. Youre seeing that scrolling sevenday forecast. We have a bit of a drying trend before we get more rainfall next week. For temperatures on your friday forecast, we have sun mixed into san jose, 68 degrees. We should have a period of at least sunny skies down in the extreme south bay through about 2 00 and 3 00. Expecting that in morgan hill with 67. Well hang on to clouds in palo alto and 67. Pacifica 63, and well also keep the low 60s right across San Francisco throughout the marina and also for downtown. Now in the north bay, east bay, and trivalley well be clearing out from that storm system first in the north bay and thats why napa and santa rosa both looking at sunny skies for tomorrow and well go with partly sunny skies for pleasanton and also for livermore. So as we mentioned in the next couple of days, were goirng to undergo this drying trend throughout saturday, sunday, monday, even next tuesday with temperatures in the upper 60s to about 70 for san jose, also for San Francisco. Its right about where we should be. But then after that, i know a lot of you are really anxious to find out are we still going to see more storm systems line up. The way it looks right now, todays storm, we could call that storm number one. We likely could have a second storm, a third storm, and a fourth storm. Confidence level is still at about 60 of this happening right now, just because forecast model and timing keeps changing, but our best guess right now is next tuesday and wednesday, another storm system by next friday, third system, and next sunday, a fourth storm. Overall looks good for storms across the next 11 days. Raj and janelle . Still ahead, it trailed them for nearly two miles and the kayakers say they know why. The cargo they were carrying the shark was after. Also, this happened in downtown walnut creek creating big headaches. The details next. Every day is a new opportunity to help make life better right here in San Francisco. Whether its helping local businesses like the fruitguys grow and prosper, supporting nonprofits like juma ventures as they fulfill their mission or helping neighborhoods like the tenderloin become vibrant communities. If theres a way to help the people of San Francisco thrive and succeed, well find it. Thats the power of local connections. Thats bank of america. siren wails pop music playing when youre ready ready, ready, ready come and get it get it, get it when youre ready, come and get it na na na na na na na na na na na when youre ready, come and get it na na na na. Female announcer its a great big world and it can all be yours. Here and only here. Come and get it. Take a look at this, gushing fountain in the middle of the street in downtown walnut creek. Thousands of gallons of water shot sky high when a cap blew off a water pipe last night. East bay mud crews finally fixed the problem. Two hours later, no businesses were damaged. Were getting answers tonight. The man shot dead by officers was a convicted felon out on probation. Thats the word from the Concord Police department. They were chasing jose avalos last night after spotting him in a stolen car. He suddenly jumped out and ran towards the willow shopping center, according to police. Thats where avalos tried to carjack two cars, but failed. He ended up carjacking a third car and then rammed it into a police cruiser. Officers opened fire, killing him. His record shows multiple crimes such as felony evasion and carjacking. A legal problem for star warz creator george lucas could be an opportunity for San Francisco. He chose chicago, this parking lot, over San Francisco to build his new museum. Lucas originally wanted the presidio but received too many roadblocks. Now a Chicago Group is suing to block his plans there. Opponents say the parking lot sits on reclaimed waterways and, therefore, must be for public use only and not handed over to a private entity. Well, this big fish story is all true. A pair of kayakers now sharing this video of their encounter with a hammerhead shark. They were paddling off the coast of palm beach, florida, last friday when they noticed 13foot shark trailing them. The shark even bumped into one of the kayaks. The kayakers think the shark was after a 16pound fish that they had caught. Thats a good guess. After two mile chase, the shark finally figured out the kayakers werent giving up their catch and it eventually swam away. That would be scary. The rokerthon well under way. Were going to show you how al is passing the time as he tries to set a new world record. Feels like 13 below in great falls. Hey john, check it out. Whoa yeah, i was testing to see if we really can turn any device in your house into a tv. And the tablet worked just fine. But i wanted to see if the phone would work as well. So i shrunk sharon. Every channel is live just like on tv. But its my phone. Its genius. Shh im watching tv. Tiny sharon is mean. Im right here. Watch any channel live on any device around your home. Download the xfinity tv app today. Heres what were working on for our 6 00 newscast, rolling back decades of discrimination. The change that could be coming for a federal ban concerning gay men. That story at 6 00. Happening right now, the 34hour rokerthon. Fresno, california, las vegas, nevada. Hes taking a break, it appears. Hes been very ras pi. We just listened to him about 30 seconds ago. Raspy and tired and hes been doing this for 22 hours so far. Oh, there he goes. Less than 12 hours to go. Definitely tired, and nbc news team have been checking in with him all day, Drinking Coffee right now. He even brought his dog to the set. Hes fading. He is fading. I just tweeted him some Weather Information from us trying to feed him some info. Tired. Watch him on our website, nbcbayarea. Com. Hes got to go until 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow. See you at 6 00. On the broadcast tonight, shocking lapse in security. Late word tonight about a series of blunders by the secret service that allowed an armed intruder to make it deep inside the white house. New threats from the leader of isis apparently still very much alive and lashing out at the west calling for volcanos of jihad. Thunder snow, whiteout conditions, treacherous snows and bitter cold now gripping twothirds of the country. And good job. Tonight what just might be the coolest place to work in america, beer on tap and unlimited vacation. Nightly news begins now
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