To nothing throughout palo alto. Montara picks up. 69. The loser is south bay. Trace amounts to. 01 inches. In terms of the next storm, this has a better shot of rain for those down in the south bay. Were tracking this storm system. Well have the fulltime line coming up. Take a look what the storm did in walnut creek. A tencar pileup. One of the cars flipped on its side. This happened on northbound 680 around 3 00 this afternoon. Paramedics rushed five people to the hospital. In terms of the backup in traffic, it went back for miles. From the east bay to the north bay, marin county got hit hard. Jody hernandez is there with more. Reporter marin county got quite a nice soaking today. In fact, it is still a little bit drizzly outside. It has been raining here for most of the day. In fact, it is causing a bit of a slowdown right now for the evening commute. Youre looking at highway 101. The roads are still quite slick. For most, most are grateful for the wet weather. I love it, its finally raining. Reporter thats how most are feeling tonight on the arrival of the first in a series of storms to hit the droughtstricken bay area. I went river rafting this summer. And the rivers were just empty. It was it was so sad. So im imagining those rivers right now slowly rising up. They said we might not even need our wipe others full speed on the news last night. And boy oh boy, im thrilled. Reporter the downpour brought in a flood of business to goodmans building supply. Folks scooped up rain gear. While the change in weather sent others like Christina Batoni out shopping for comfort items. I put on a pot of soup this morning. And i came to bed, bath beyond to buy flannel sheets and a comforter. And, you know, get ready for the cold weather. Reporter the storm did bring its share of headaches. Especially for drivers who didnt take it slow enough and for others who, as a result, took it too slow. Sarah thomas tried to stay out of the fray. Trying to avoid highways, take secondary roads. Trying not to go out a lot today. Reporter for the most part, people are welcoming the raindrops. And looking forward to more. I hope this does this for three months straight. And then maybe we might break even where we need to be. Reporter you are looking at the aftermath of the first storm of the week. Weve seen puddles like this all over the county. Again, two more storms are expected later this week. Folks here say keep it coming. Dont get caught offguard, dont just rely on your iphone. Click on our weather tab at nbcbayarea. Com for our interactive radar. Track the rain as it rolls into your specific neighborhood. The white house is preparing for battle on the issue of undocumented immigrants. Tomorrow the president is expected to announce his plan for an executive action on Immigration Reform. A move thats drawn criticism and threats from congressional republicans. Mr. Obama may face opposition from voters too. 48 of americans disapprove of any executive action on immigration. Damian trujillo shows us how imgragts groups in the the bay area are awaiting the president s announcement and preparing for a barrage of questions and calls for assistance. Agencies across the country like the Asian Law Alliance in san jose are gearing up for a flood of phone calls, people asking what it means to them. Hi, everybody. Tomorrow night im going to be announcing, here from the white house, some steps that i can take to start fixing our grown immigration assess tell. Reporter it was that announcement by the president on facebook this morning that sent san joses Asian Law Alliance into action. It will probably be chaotic. Reporter richard conda called a meeting of county immigration leaders and together they have decided they will hold several informational forums next week to go over the executive order. This is a meeting just to allow people to understand the basic outlines of what it means and then to begin gathering different documents that they may need. Reporter the announcement was great news for cesar juarez, a student teacher right now thanks to the governments deferred action process for children who arrived in this country without agreen card. A president ial executive order could be a dream come true, he says, for the rest of his family. Hopefully my mom will be included in that announcement, that change. For me personally, my familys going to benefit, my mom. Reporter the threats and dissension are getting louder. Republican congressional leaders are already warning they would respond to an executive order by blocking all but the most critical president ial appointments and may slow budget talks to a crawl. Ive made clear to the president that if he acts unilaterally on his own, outside of his authority, he will poison the well and there will be no chance for Immigration Reform moving in this congress. Reporter while they battled it out in washington, an anxious Santa Clara County prepares for a flood of questions. In fact, immigration lawyers from around the state say their phones are already lighting up with people hoping the president will offer amnesty to millions of undocumented immigrants. Not so, says the Asian Law Alliance. Its not amnesty. All it does is we are assuming its going to give people relief from deportation. The ability to get work authorization. Reporter the informational forums on monday and tuesday are a collaboration of several agencies here in Santa Clara County. Well be airing the president s speech tomorrow here on nbc bay area and online at nbcbayarea. Com. Thats at 5 00 right from the white house. Were expecting new details this evening regarding a santa cruz situation. School police administrators, police and parents are gathering in less than an hour. Officials are trying to reassure families after santa cruise high school was abruptly shut down today because of a threatening email. Robert handa joins us from santa cruz. What exactly was the threat there . Do we know . Reporter it was a pretty direct threatening message. And the person who wrote it seems to have covered their tracks pretty well, which probably means police and School Officials will be fielding a lot of questions about that when they meet here tonight at Kaiser Permanente arena at 7 00. But providing answers could be difficult. Especially with an intense investigation already under way. Santa cruz high was deserted shortly after classes were supposed to begin today. Last night the principal got an email threatening an attack on the school. Police and district officials decided not to gamble with students safety. I really like to know whats happening and feel like i have a good grip on stuff. To not know anything is scary. It had very specific threats in terms of time, place and manner. Reporter deputy chief clark emphasized the threat did not contain specific names but was heavily encrypted. The fbi is assisting police to find the suspect or suspects. Is it one person acting alone or acting on behalf of a group . We dont know and wont know until we get more of this forensic analysis completed. Does that mean its someone who goes to the school . Or whos involved with the school . I couldnt imagine it being like in santa cruz. Reporter students and their families will get a chance to convey their feelings here at the meeting tonight. Also, School Officials say they wont make a decision whether to reopen School Tomorrow until after the meeting and say they could wait until 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow to decide. Distressing for sure, thank you. Ashton kutcher defended unioner and slammed on the brakes and did an aboutface. He tweeted originally, what is so wrong about digging up dirt on shady journalists . The question after an uber executive suggests spending 1 million to discredit reporters who bring negative press to the company. In the past kutcher has been critical of the media. But shortly after that first tweet, which caused a stir on twitter, he sent out this one saying, you are all right and im on the wrong side of this ultimately. I just wish journalists were held to the same standards as public figures. Stocks closed lower for the first time this week, the marks down after setting an alltime high yesterday. The dow jones lost 2 points to close at 17,685. Many bay area tech stocks gave back some of their recent gains. A possible arsonist in San Francisco. People woke up to the smell of smoke and the sound of fire engines. The arson squad said someone intentionally lit three vehicles on fire. It happened here early this morning on noe street between 18th and 19th streets near the castro. Nbc bay areas christie submit is in the city with the details. Reporter one of those cars was here, the other a little bit farther down the block. But both of them caught fire. We spoke with neighbors who say theyre puzzled and frustrated by whats going on. So this was quite a shock. Reporter neighbors along noe street were rattled and surprised by the fire damage. It was like fog rolling by the window. I knew that it wouldnt have the same effect as fog, it was smoke. When i looked outside, it was cars that were on fire. Reporter a neighbor surveillance camera along the street shows a patrol car. San Francisco Police say the officers spotted one of the burning cars. Firefighters arrived quickly. It appears that two were involved in separate fires. All on the same block. All at the same time. Reporter three cars damaged. Captain john dermanned walked the neighborhood today. We always check the area for Surveillance Video. Sometimes thats very helpful. Witnesses that either saw something, heard something, or might have some information on some previous history that was not reported. What were doing, construction on the property, a number of neighbors are also doing the same thing. Reporter mark culver said there have been issues lately. Well come out and find cans littering the area, somebodys keeped the car, acid thrown on the back of the car. Which is really frustrating. We always tell our residents in San Francisco, if they notice suspicious activity, whether a person or a vehicle, someone they havent seen in the neighborhood thats possibly breaking into cars, it doesnt hurt to give us a call. Reporter police say potential evidence was collected from near the cars this morning. As for the neighbors, a lot of them that we spoke with said that in light of what theyve seen, theyre more interested in getting those security cameras themselves. Still ahead, knock to the ground. The trouble the south bay couple says they encountered during a walk in an upscale neighborhood and the change theyre demanding because of it. New clues in the deadly hit and run in wine country. You may already invest in stocks, even startups. But legal cases . Why your future investment dollars may go to courts. Wanted by danville police. Take a look at this man caught on camera breaking into los pancho restaurant nearly two weeks ago are. You can see him searching for valuables. Another piece of Surveillance Video shows him using a pry bar to open one of the cash registers. If he looks familiar call danville police. Details about a hitandrun victim in napa county. Deputies identified here as maria bejar of rower in the park. A couple found her off a rural part of highway 29 early sunday morning. She died on the way to the hospital. They say she had injuries caused by bluntforce trauma, consistent with being hit by a vehicle. Theyre waiting on toxicology before releasing cause of death. Deputies have not found a vehicle connected to this crash. They may be treating her death as a potential homicide. A videotaped assault is adding to complaints from people who live near san joses communications hill. Complaints of young people gathering there at night and doing drugs has the city eyeing a curfew for the area. One couple is demanding police patrols. Police are confirming theyre investigation whats seen in this video. Don and his wife say last week they warned some teenagers theyd be ticketed if they parked on the street. They say moments later, they were apparently as you see knocked to the ground. They started hitting me from my neck and head and other punching to my right eye. And at that point i lost balance. And my wife and i fell. He claims another video camera also recorded the assault but that his attorney is advising him not to release it. San jose police say they are confirming that theyre investigating and looking into this but so far no arrests. Its crowd funding with a twist. You can invest in legal cases. If that case wins in court you get some of the money. Our business and tech reporter scott budman is here. How legal is this . Is it catching on . At least one Company Hopes it catches on. Saying it has a new way to bridge the gap between Small Companies without much money and Big Companies that can afford expensive legal representation by attracting investors. You can invest in a smartwatch. You can invest in a hoverboard. All through crowd funding. Its how companies or individuals reach out to investors to help them raise money. Heck, they even raised money to send a Jamaican Bobsled Team to the olympics through a crowd funding site called indiegogo. Now lex shares want to help raise money for legal cases. These are solving the problem of unequal access to justice. Reporter lex shares, launching in new york, wants to bring investors together to help Small Businesses raise money to file lawsuits. So this gives investors the opportunity to actually buy equity in that lawsuit. And should the plaintiff prevail, either by settlement or court judgment, the investors receive a return on their investment for investing in the case. Reporter the thought being the case will more likely be decided by merit instead of who has the most money. This creates all kinds of ethical problems for both the lawyer, the client, and the investor. Reporter but as legal analyst steven clark points out, what works in the tech sector doesnt necessarily work in the legal sector. Under california law, a lawyer is not allowed to split fees with a nonlawyer. So crowd funding in and of itself is fraught with problems under california state bar rules. Reporter there are still details to be worked out. But maybe someday local investors will put money into court cases. Another question that came up we asked lex shares, more access to money might lead to more frivolous lawsuits. He said no, that such lawsuits would fail to pass the companys vetting process and typically dont make much money so they wouldnt be attractive to investors. Well continue to follow the idea of crowd funding lawsuits. Lets turn things over to meteorologist jeff ranieri. One down and two more to go . Thats exactly right. Storm systems continuing to line up. The remnants of that first system still around right now. If youre traveling the next three hours and youre going to find spotty areas of showers, youll see across the south bay not a whole lot. Again hit and misactivity. Were finding the most consistent shower activity throughout the east bay at the moment, from concord, walnut creek, pleasanton, also for dublin as well. So be aware of that. Otherwise well get you outside of the sky camera network. Its the coldest in the north bay, temperatures low 50s. Thats where that storm arrived first for tonight. The cold air going to have a big impact on you as you head into tomorrow morning. Temperatures here in the low 60s. For the most part you need the jacket tonight. Tomorrows forecast, all areas expecting a return to rain. What weve done is highlighted the areas and what time we think that rainfall is going to arrive. It will hit the north bay first. Were thinking around 10 00 in the morning with a possibility of thunderstorms. San francisco second by 11 00 a. M. The trivalley at the noon hour. For the peninsula and south bay, 1 00 to 3 00 tomorrow afternoon for rainfall to move in. Your weather trend with show dry wither in the south bay by fridays forecast. For saturday were looking at that wet weather returning. Well see sunnier weather on sunday. Well repeat that performance here for the peninsula as well. Wet weather also on saturdays trast. And dry weather for sunday. San francisco low 60s. North bay, east shore, trivalley looking at rain on thursday, dry for friday. And that wet weather coming back on saturdays forecast. If you have any plans to head to the stanford game this weekend, take the poncho with you. Im not sure about the umbrella thing there. But if youre headed to the 49ers game saturday, weve got dry weather coming your way. Coming up, profits before passengers . The latest airline to cut down on inflight amenities. The issue that made a lot of students angry in San Francisco. A herd of starving horses rescued in gilroy. Im Michelle Robertson. Hear from neighbor hot say that rescue came too late. The latest airline to cut down using crowd funding to cut down on gun violence in the south bay. San jose Police Foundation is holding a fundraiser at rosie mccanns restaurant on santana row. The money raised will go to pay to purchase guns at a buyback saturday, december 13th. Officers are also teaming up with the website gunbygun. Org which raises cash for gun buybacks through crowd funding. Horses in the center of a local animal cruelty case. Heres one of the animals. Neighbors say an entire herd has been abused for years. Nbc bay areas Michelle Roberts joins from us gilroy this evening. These horses have been rescued. We should say that. They now need homes. Any progress here . Reporter some progress. There were a couple of adoptions by rescue groups. 38 animals are alive and doing okay. Some better than others. This is not the first offense for the man who owns the property behind me. Back in september, he sold a horse to a rescue organization. A day later that horse died from complications with parasites. Now dozens more horses with health issues. The injuries are evident. Scars covering this horses coat, marks that may have come as the emaciated mare fought for food with dozens of other starving horses. Mostly when they approach for food reporter lisa jenkins, Santa Clara CountyAnimal Shelter says this horse will have surgery tomorrow to treat an injured leg. When we took her from the pasture, it was actively bleeding all the way down her leg and onto her hoof. Reporter shes one of 38 horses in need of a new home. Today volunteers with pregnant meares cue tried to harness a few. Their previous owner humberto aribe accused of starving horses in gilroy and morgan hill. We were see that 48 hours at a time, he would not feed the animals interior trina lives across the street. She took these pictures of emaciated animals to try and convince animal control to get involved. I dont think one of them has ever had any hoof care or teeth care or any of these basics. Reporter shes reported the problem to Santa Clara County animal control for two years. But claims no action was taken until a d. A. Investigator took over the case. Somehow or other, animal control needs to also be held accountable. Reporter we did reach out to animal control and these accusations that they didnt act quickly enough. My calls were not returned today. If you would like to help or get more information weve posted a link on nbcbayarea. Com. Still ahead, a new scare near the white house. The arrest thats renewing security concerns at the gate. Also, still digging out. The historymaking snow storm that brought more snow in one day than they usually see an spire year. Entire year. It was a wild day at the uc regents meeting as protesters protested against proposed tuition hikes. Right now at 6 30, a tense showdown in San Francisco. Take a look, flaring tempers and broken glass, its all about the cost of education rising tuition. This was the highprofile showdown involving students, the governor, and uc president Janet Napolitano. Mark matthews was inside where the tempers flared, also where the governor was. Reporter the governor is willing to fund ucs system to the tune of about 4 increase over the next couple of years. Thats 4 per year. But thats if tuition stays flat. Uc president napolitano says its not enough and she is proposing tuition hikes of as much as 25 over the next five years. Uc regents were met with a blockade of protesters as tempers flared. Police say 21yearold jeff melvin of berkeley used a barricade to shatter a glass door. He was hustled away in handcuffs. Inside, dozens more protesters shouted for uc president Janet Napolitano to go. But nepapolitano says without me money from the state the 5 per year tuition hikes would go forward. The plain fact is that tuition must now be on the table. Reporter Governor Brown attempted to sidetrack the increases by asking the regents to spend more time studying the proposals. So this looks toward a joint effort, a collaborative effort. Reporter napolitano shot it down. We dont have time to wait for another commission. Reporter an estimated 80 students were allowed one minute apiece to voice their opposition. I really want to challenge the notion that this plan is stable and predictable. Its neither. Now our tuition is over 12,000. And is this if this fee is placed upon us, it will increase to over 15,000. On behalf of the undergrads, do not support this plan. Reporter in the end, a majority of regents voted for the tuition hikes, 5 per year, to for the next five years. We didnt have a dialogue about this. This thing was thrust upon us. Reporter Lieutenant Governor newsom said the fix was in napolitano had the votes before she called the meeting. Did you expect it . I expected it to a certain degree. But i was hoping that they would maybe show me something different. That they would surprise me. Reporter uc students are promising to continue protests. They are calling for a day of action next monday. They know who he is but hes nowhere to be found. San jose police are looking for a man spotted with a gun across from Oak Grove High School last night. By the Time Police Officers arrived he was gone. They went to his house. They surrounded it and tried to smoke him out but he wasnt there. Police found two adults and seven children inside. But no one is talking. Security at the white house is taking center stage yet again. Today a man was arrested after a rifle and ammo was found inside of his car. The secret service says the suspect, r. J. Caphyme, told an officer someone in iowa told me to drive to the white house. Agents searched his car, parked about a block away from the white house, and found the weapons inside of his trunk. The acting head of the secret service was grilled on capitol hill today. Theres been a couple of highprofile Security Breaches as you heard recently. Several fencejumpers have gotten close to the white house. One manma made it inside. The head of the agency says they need to do a better job. Although i firmly believe the secret service is better than this incident, i openly acknowledge a failure of this magnitude, especially in light of other recent incidents, requires immediate action and longerterm reform. He went on to say the agency needs an open and honest communication and the agency needs to recruit more highly qualified agents. There is talk about increasing the height of the fence to prevent future jumpers. Happening now, a massive winter storm pair lazing western new york, dumping an astounding amount of snow in a 24hour period. More than 65 inches. The snow is being blamed for at least six deaths and round two is around the corner. What officials are calling a snow emergency, and thats an understatement. New yorks governor says this is the biggest deployment of personnel and equipment in snow emergency history. Cities received more snow this week than they were expecting for the entire season. An avalanche of snow burying the city of buffalo. These large mounds have cars underneath. Residents and city crews are digging out. Slow going in south buffalo. We are making progress but theres a long way to go. Reporter this is time lapse video of the system as it moved over lake erie. The narrow but powerful band dumped nearly six feet of snow over parts of buffalo. But just a few miles away, neighborhoods only received six inches. Residents say it was too much, too fast. Some who grew up here say theyve never seen so much snow in their lives. Ive never seen anything like this. Im 36, been in buffalo for pretty good storms, this is by far the worst. Reporter the weight of the snow proved too much for some structures, collapsing rooftops. Mother nature is snowing us whos boss once again. Reporter the National Guard has been called in to help. Guns of vehicles were stranded overnight, including a bus carrying niagara universitys Womens Basketball team. They were rescued after more than 24 hours stuck on an interstate. As it started to get dark you could tell there was a little bit of tension. Reporter while the cleanup continues, the city is preparing for more. The official start of winter is still more than a month away. The jets bills game this sunday is up in the air because of this. The team is asking for volunteers to help shovel out snow for 10 an hour and free game tickets. But the roads to get to the stadium may not be cleared in time. City leaders say they have bigger priorities and if they have to cancel the game, they will cancel the game. The brutal snow storm on the east coast plus Rainy Weather in the bay area here caused delays at sfo. The airport manager reports some flights were late by up to two hours, and also cancelations. Now there are no delays at san jose and Oakland Airport so far. Speaking of flights, tighter seats and no more checked baggage, at least for free. Big changes coming to jet blue. Beginning next year youll have a choice between three different fare options. The cheapest option, no free checked bags and leg room will be smaller and tighter. Customers will also say goodbye to free inflight wifi. Jet blue hopes the changes will generate more than 400 million in income. A beauty queen murder mystery unraveled. The details on the suspect and the tragic killing of a pageant contest and her sister. Its not sa safe place to live. From criminal to cultured. Meet the man trying to change the tenderloins troubled image by putting its history on display. Heads up for texters. What all those words could be doing to your spine. A beauty queen days away from competing in the miss world contest in london has been found dead, her body buried in a riverbank. Her home country of honduras is mourning her dead. 19yearold Maria Jose Alvarado and her sister disappeared six daze ago after a party. Police say the sisters boyfriend confessed to shooting the two. An accomplice says that boyfriend shot his girlfriend during a fight about her dancing with another man. He then allegedly turned the gun on miss honduras, shooting her in the back as she tried to escape. Precious family jewels were swiped from a saratoga home in the middle of the day. The thieves as you can see here were caught on camera. The Home Security system recorded these faces of the men when they broke in yesterday afternoon. The jewelry they stole belonged to the victims late mother. If you recognize these guys call the Santa Clara County sheriffs department. Headsup. Your smartphone could be creating Serious Problems for your neck and spine. Studies show the average person spents two or four hours a day bent over their phone. Especially teens and younger adults. Spinal models show as your head tilts, added pressure is put on the muscles of the neck leading to poor posture and cause early wear and tear on the spine. Researchers say if youre not willing to reduce your texting time, then stand up straight or cut back on being hunched over. Keep your spine straight. Go like this. Formal texting. I think im sitting up straight. Check it in the camera. All right. Take us outside. Well, gladly. San francisco, you can see a few clouds rolling in. Also a little bit of shower activity. Were tracking another storm system for thursday in south bay. This is a better chance, a better shot of some measurable rain for you. Big game drama. Some people showing up late, others not at all at the annual big game luncheon today in San Francisco. What got cal riled up as they try to take back the act from stanford this weekend. New at 6 00, the tenderloin has a nasty reputation for crime, drugs and violence. Decades of neglect may be the very thing that resurrects this rundown neighborhood. Heres joe rosato jr. Reporter San Franciscos tenderloin is described in many ways. The grittiness i think is part of it. Not a safe place to live. Reporter generally those descriptions dont include cultural destination. People who have never been to the tenderloin have a negative perception of it. Reporter randy shaw understands why visitors to this rough neighborhood walk or rather run away with bad perceptions. Still, he doesnt think the rawness is necessarily a character flaw. I think we have an authenticity that a lot of people come here and they dont find many places. The front part of the space bordering eddy will be a cafe reporter shaw is leading an effort to not just change perception but celebrate it. What better way than a museum. This is the future home of the Tenderloin Museum. Reporter at the corner of eddy and leavenworth in a corner of the Cadillac Hotel, work began this week to transform this forlorn storefront into a museum devoted to tender history. Starting 1907 when the tenderloin was rebuilt. Were going to have a wall, a portion of the wall cut out in the shape of the tenderloin. Reporter the maw seem will tell the story of the neighborhood that emerged from the 1906 earthquake and didnt change all that much. When you go to what used to be the barbary coast, you see plaques. You come to the tenderloin, the same way as it was in the 1900s. Reporter development passed over leaving a neighborhood of largely untouched architecture like its own museum. We have a history of writers, artists, musicians, madams, brothels. It needs to be told. It needs to be seen. A lot of people dont know what went on here. The start of the Game Movement in San Francisco began with gay bars in the tenderloin. From 1969 to 73, the top rock n roll hits if america were recorded in the tenderloin. Reporter despite its reputation, the neighborhood is attracting some new business. It was one of the only places in the city where the rent was still reasonable. Reporter Jessica Silverman opened a gallery near the Cadillac Hotel to showcase modern art. The grit is important, the maintain. Were not looking to wipe away history. I cant stop talking about it. The Tenderloin Museum is going to be here reporter the museum, scheduled to open in april, will be filled with interactive exhibits as well as a cafe. We think its going to bring positive street life and foot traffic into the neighborhood. Reporter at night shaw hopes to hold jazz concerts and events to bring the corner a different sort of life. One some might even consider a destination. Be interesting to see that change in the tenderloin. Lets turn things over to jeff. Hes giving us our microclimate forecast and its been a lot of water. We have these areas of showers that are continuing across the east bay. Very spotty in nature. Thats what were going to find tonight. Driving in the car, its dry, then all of a sudden you hit a little bit of a shower activity. Its a lingering effect from the storm system thats just continuing to hold on. We think thats going to push out over the next three hours. So as we take you outside to the sky camera network, roadways are wet. Temperatures drops into the 50s for most of the bay area. We have low 60s. 61 in San Francisco as well. Lets go ahead and take you into the forecast. Well detail that next storm system that is lining up. What youre going to see is for the Early Morning commute. It looks dry. Well have areas of clouds, a few spotty areas of drizzle. As far as the heaviest rainfall goes, thats going to be holding off way to the north. We do expect this to begin to move into the northern counties. Marin, napa, also sonoma, by 10 00 in the morning. Eventually to San Francisco by the 1 00 hour. And then to the south bay. San jose, a much better shot of getting the rainfall by 2 30 tomorrow afternoon down here across the santa clara valley. We clear out eventually by the evening hours. And then, yes, there is that third and final storm system of the week. Thats going to be moving in as we head throughout saturdays forecast. It looks like starting at 6 00 a. M. , likely areas of rain continuing into the afternoon. Now in terms of overall rainfall totals, this is our best estimate right now. For thursdays storm,. 1 to. 5 inches. Keep in mind the higher totals with both storms coming our way will be up into the north bay. For saturdays storm, anywhere from. 25 to 1 inches. Overall max rainfall totals along the coastline and for the north bay. Higher elevations well likely see 1 to 2 inches of rainfall. Muchneeded rainfall on the way. Just remember to take it slow on roadways. Well get you the microclimate forecast for thursday. The other thing you want to notice is a slight risk of thunderstorms. Well see the highest risk for tomorrow across portions of the peninsula, also for San Francisco. Temperatures all across the board. Upper 50s to about 60 degrees. No matter where you go, youre going to need that jacket for tomorrow. Well take you to the north bay, east bay, and also for San Francisco. Also a greater shot of getting some thunderstorms with our storm as it rolls in in the north bay. Napa 59. Back towards sausalito, upper 50s. Trivalley, 59 expected in danville. As we get a look at the weather trend, again that rainfall throughout tomorrows forecast will be dry on friday. Then as we hit saturday, weve got that next storm system coming in. Then eventually by sunday, we have some sunnier skies. I want to finish, weve been hearing about lakeeffect snow. The two key ingredients that you need to make this happen, frigid air moving in across the lakes and as it hits it with the winds moving just the right way, it hits those lakes with some warmer moist air and creates that lakeeffect snow band. Its a microclimate event. Check out that wall of snow on this photo we got from an airplane flying above. The reason the wall of snow and it just stops about five miles after the lakes, theres no lake supplying the moisture to provide snowfall. So it eventually runs out of gas. Thank you for the lesson, jeff. Back in a moment with what exactly is happening with pablo sandoval. Geraud moncure, one report says hes going, the other report says hes staying with the giants. A lot of giants and as news tonight. We do know the as have made an acquisition. The butler officially coming to town. Billy beane hopes hes prepared to clean up the bases after oakland runners get aboard. Free agent billy butler agreeing to a threeyear, 30 billion deal with the i dont know and gold. The 28yearold whos played his career in the Royals Organization says hes watched the as from afar and admired their string of consecutive postseason betters. Berths. From their experience and the success that theyve had the last four, five years, four straight playoffs, it shows a lot. Shows the type of talent, type of team that they have built. Im happy to be a part of that. Hopefully i can contribute to that and maybe take it to the next level and we can go deeper. Conflicting stories surfacing on the pursuit of pablo. First, kpix today reporting the fiveyear deal the giants are offering sandoval now is what pablo asked for before the season and hes now upped his demand to seven years. The report also says hes 90 likely to sign with boston, 10 with the toronto blue jays. Sean mac adam of Comcast Sports net new england had a different take. He tweeted, i was just told emphatically by a major League Source that the s. F. Report of the giants being out on sandoval is not accurate. Today 49ers linebacker ahmad brooks setting the record straight. Brooks claimed some harsh words with defensive line coach jim tomsula led to his benching and he did not remove himself from the game as reported. The veteran apologized and wants to move forward. I dont want to focus on disthraxes. Weve had several distractions this year, know what i mean . I cant are a distraction especially by me being a veteran. I trust ahmad brooks. Believe in ahmad brooks. Know hes going to make a vital contribution to our team as he always has. The cold, hard facts are the last 58 games, he started the last 58 games. Nobody has answered the bell more than ahmad brooks has. On the college grid, the 65th annual big game luncheon took place in San Francisco. The event put ongy the guardsmen raises money for Underprivileged Youth and starts the hype for saturdays bay area showdown. 72 hours before opening kick, cal play by play man joe starkey landed the first blow of the 117th big game. If youre a stanford alum and youre involved in the guardsmen and you know what this means to this community and how much its worth to kids and people that need help so badly, i think its time to send a message back to your university and say, where the hell are you . Thank you very much. Reporter representatives of the cardinal showed up late due to traffic. With head coach david shaw sending a video in his place. But the last four years theyve been more than on time at kickoff. The whole mindset is bring that ax home, we want that ax. Thats our goal. Every year we want to win that ax. Were trying to make another historic streak of five games in a row. To the end zone, touchdown golden bears reporter this is a bears team averaging over 40 points per game. The most formidable offense stanford has faced in the series easily since 2009 when cal won 3428. Weve got the effort, we have the wantto. If we can get the details right we can hang with anybody in the country. We cant worry about the past. They got our number these last four years. Were a new time, a better team, more focused. Playing memorial stadium, a great home field for us, Home Field Advantage will be there. Once the game starts, throw all that stuff out. A win for either team makes them bowl eligible. But for sunny dykes that would come one year after a 111 season. It would break the fourgame hold the cardinal have had on the ax. Cal players have a chance to do something about stanford not being there on time today saturday, 1 00, memorial stadium. The cal coach went, the stan for the record coach did not, oh, bad blood brewing. For a full 30 minutes of local sports coverage, watch sports net central on Comcast Sports net bay area tonight at 10 30. 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