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Wife and children and aunts and uncles will be spared and fearing they will use them as human shields or worse, victims for i sis executions. We pray for mercy and intervention. They gathered this afternoon including one of Charlotte Davids cousins. We need protection. Definitely. There are 800 members of this club and 35,000 syrian americans in the county. Sam david is the clubs president and an advocate for international skber vengs. What were hoping is United Nations will send troops to respect them and provide an area of safe haven for them. And providing aid to syrian captives the only member of congress of syrian decent. Tomorrow night there will be a candle vij vigil at the church. They are not releasing the picturing of any of them being held captive. Reporting from modesto, mark mathews, nbc bay area news. Hes one of the most wanted men in the world. Still ahead, a main player in the drama has been unmasked. One of the i sis fighters wanted for beheading americans and what the unmasking could mean for the cause. Its happened again. Tonight bart is warning more than a thousand people they may have been exposeded to the measles during their commute. A person with the highly contagious virus road a train from milbray to San Franciscos Civic Center Last friday. Michelle roberts is at that station. What do we know . Reporter officials are not releasing many details about the patient, only saying he or she is doing very well tonight. Now theyre worried they may have been exposed. Bart officials estimate as many as 1,500 passengers may have been exposed to the measles on friday. Its a scary thought. This is a person with an active measles case. They used them to get to the civic center in San Francisco. He or she road the train around 4 30 last evening. This is the fourth confirmed measles case in San Mateo County since december. There have been 127 cases statewide beginning with dozens of cases linked to disney land. However, Health Officials say theres no evidence connecting this new case to the happiest place on earth. Their worry largely surrounds people who choose to get vaccinated. Theyre going to spread and people who you know who are not vaccinated are going to get it. Health officials are trying to track down everyone who may have come in contact with the measles patients. Youve got newborns that are not fully vaccinated yet. Its a bacteria right . And theyre warning everyone the risk of contracting measles have very low if youve been vaccinated. Symptoms for the measles including runny nose and a rash and fever. Health officials are urging people to get vaccinated. Reporting live in milbray, michelle roberts, nbc bay area news. Californians appear to be coming to terms with the state drought trouble. A new poll shows the majority of californians see the drought as a big problem and they favor mandatory rationing. They consider the water shortage serious. 68 find it extremely serious. But contrasting to the drought in 1977 just 51 saw the problem as being extremely serious. And believe it or not, its closing in on the bay area. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is tracking when we can first expect the first drops of rain. And all we had really today that was a signal of the storm system getting close with high clouds passing. The bulk of the rainfall still remains 500 miles to the north. The future cast will show us by tomorrow morning, drastically different conditions. Mainly in the fact well have live cloud cover. And when it comes to our forecast, were looking at the best chance of widespread wet weather on saturday. Along with wet weather well see temperatures dropping. Today is 79 in napa. By friday we had 64. And throughout saturdays forecast down to 60 degrees. So a 19 degree difference coming our way in two days. Along the cold air for the bay area, cold air for the sierra. Kwooel well have details on how much snow well pick up and let you know where the snow levels will be changing. If you want to track the rain download our nbc bay area app. There you can see the latest forecast and see whats happening in your neighborhood. There are new details for the sacramento area where searchers found the body of an infant in the marshy area. The baby was discovered yesterday. An autopsy on 20dayold justice rees found no obvious signs of trauma. It did not rule out drowning or hypothermia. Both he and his mother were reported missing on mondays. A loud explosion sent workers in the south bay manufacturing building running out of the building today. It happened in sunnyvale late this afternoon. We learned what likely triggered the explosion. Two employees were working with hydrogen when it reacted. At one point they had a contract with the defense department. They were able to determine signs of an explosion. But they did check the air. And the chemicals gone or nonexistent. So the air is safe. Several workers did go home after the allclear sign was given. Not your routine drug bust. This one happened on the freeway. On 101 and morgan hill near the dunn avenue exit. A driver reported a man with a gun on the shoulder of the freeway. Officers showed up to find two cars and an rv pulled over. They arrested three parolees after finding a gun and three grams of meth. Now students rush to the hospital for taking prescription pills at school are back home tonight. The school did issue a Statement Today urging all parents to talk to the children about the danger of tabing someone elses prescription medication. The the school did offer Students Counseling Services to talk today about what happened in school. A warning for uc Berkeley Students about a man who inappropriately touched a student on campus. The woman just passed barrows hall when a young man grabbed her breasts. The victim reported the attack right roadway but the search of the area turned up nothing. The suspect is described as college age. About 510 and hispanic. Spring training isnt just about the as or baseball. They turned to the clubhouse to address the issue of Domestic Violence. Players went through a 90minute Training Session for the futures without violence organization. Attendance was not optional. With all thats going on in sports, thats something that needs to be addressed. If we can school our guys on it and make it aware of it try to combat the problem. The as are the First Major League Baseball Team to take the training but they likely wont be the last. This comes after a string of Domestic Violence cases involving nfl players over the last few years. Straight ahead here collected at birth. What the states get from newborns that has one lawmaker calling for change. They say the dog died after eating purina brand dog food. Im Jodi Hernandez in danville. Ill show you how the family is firing back. And good evening. Im meteorologist jeff ranieri. High clouds moving in across downtown and those high clouds coming from the storm system off to the north. When it will arrive in a few minutes. Lowes presents how to put your foot in your mouth. Man. Wish my yard looked like yours. Hey, the grass is always greener on the other side of the. Sorry now get the black decker® 20volt trimmer for 79 at lowes. Prosecutors say there will be no charges for now for that truck driver involved in the commuter train crash northwest of los angeles. The driver was towing a trailer on tuesday when ended up driving on the tracks. He left the rig and triggered the crash that left dozens ourt. Police arrested the driver for leaving the scene of an accident. An east bay man says his pet food ended his dogs life. Now hes going after purina one of the biggest names in the pet food industry. Jodi hernandez is in danville in evening. And this could spiral here. He isnt the only one making this claim. Reporter thats right. The mans attorney is here in danville and San Francisco say theyve been bombarded with hundreds and hundreds of phone calls from other dog owners who say their dogs have also suffered after eating that particular dog food. Tonight purina faces a Class Action Lawsuit. My wife called and said were out of dog food and i grabbed a bag of dog food. And it was beneful. And that choice in dog food is one he will forever regret. Within weeks of eating this purina dog food his dogs became violently ill. Lethargic diarrhea. His playful english bulldog died. His familys other two pooches nela and rema are still hanging on. We have a dog still on the touch and go situation right now and a decision might have to be made. And im not sure right now. He has filed a Class Action Lawsuit against purina pet care company, claiming the food contains dangerous toxins. His Attorney Says hes gotten hundreds of calls from dog owners across the country who claim their pets have died too. Its like seeing a member of a family suffer and die. Based on a product that you fed them because you trusted the company that sold it to you. Reporter but purina stands by their product. In a written statement they said we intend to vigorously defend ourself and our brand. Beneful is backed by our strict Quality Controls and comprehensive food safety program. Bottom line consumers can continue to feed beneful with total confidence. I dont think they are, to be honest with you, worried about consumers. Its their bottom line theyre worried about. Now he says he misses his dog dozer terribly and doesnt want to see any other animals suffer. Im Jodi Hernandez, nbc bay area news. Thank you, jodi. New information tonight about a fight in a quiet east bay neighborhood that left one man dead. Police responded to a 911 call about two men fighting at a home in hercules yesterday. They found a trail of blood going from the driveway to the house. Inside they found a wounded woman and a dead mans body. Paramedics took the woman to the hospital. Shes in critical condition. Police arrested a suspect a few blocks away. At this point they say its too early to say what led to the fight or if it was a botcheded robbery. It sounds like science fiction. The the federal government has collected the dna of all babies born in the United States for years. California has been doing it for at least three decades. Ch its routine for doctors to screen newborns for diseases shortly after birth. Those tests used to be be destroyed. But now states are saving them and entering the information in a dna data base. One lawmaker is calling on california to notify new parents and get their permission to store that dna. In fact, nobody that we talked to is aware that the state of california actually takes their childs blood and stores it in a bank foreverment and that private companies can do tests on their blood. They can access their childrens dna. Although the data base is helpful for studying genetic disease. Some lawicers and aclu are concerned about privacy issues. A wod side woman got a very close look at an unwanted visitor. This is a Mountain Lion who was checking out her povrj the big cat stayed for 15 minutes before Sheriff Deputies arrived. They saw the Mountain Lion run into the hills. Now we dont know if thest the same one, and two cubs were also seen in the area on sunday. Thats really close to her. Very close. Take that picture. Jeff ranieri joins us with our micro climate forecast. Its wet at times and youll see the only indication of the storm system arriving any time soon is the fact that we have high clouds across the bay. But as you go through tomorrows forecast and throughout the afternoon, yes we have the possibility of showers. So its just a scattered chance of showers. The best chance would be in San Francisco and also for the peninsula. It looks cloudy with 60 degrees and for the south bay, 60 and a chance of showers. Thats the other thing. The temperatures. After a couple of days in the the mid to upper 70s in the bay area. Its going to feel cooler tomorrow as numbers go down to the 60s. Youll need the jacket and eventually the umbrella. We think the storm day is on saturday. Thats when we have the best chance of picking up isolated thunderstorms that will likest likely boost the totals to the highest levels over the twoday period. Our thinking has. 05 inches to 0. 1 inches. This is where we may get the most rainfall. Possibly a half inch in the the Santa Cruz Mountains and much more here. Yes, we are looking at snowfall anywhere from 7 to 14 inches for the south lake portion of tahoe. Maybe at kirkwood we could see an isolated amount of 20 inches. If youre heading up to lake tahoe, we know it can always be treacherous. On this graphic were going to make it easy for you. What you can expect into saturday in terms of the conditions. Will it be rain or will it be snow s you zoom up the sierra what you need is 2,500 feet thats where we expect the heaviest rainfall. Then of course just over 7,000 feet, were looking at heavy snowfall there. Obviously the more snowfall were going to see. Ful well have more in 25 minutes. Nice animation. Thank you, jeff. Also why this group wants apple to lead the way. The decision is in but the debate continues. Were talking Net Neutrality. What it means to you and your streaming media. Theres a new push to unionize bus drivers that serve several local hightech companies. They today rallied outside of apple headquarters and tomorrow dozens of drivers will vote on whether to join the union. This last week drivers for another transport company voted on facebook to unionize. Its for other companies to support the call. Its time for the Tech Industry to step up and do something for the people that support them in order to make billions and billions of dollars. The drivers in question dont work for the tech company. They provide service to several companies. Neither had any comment on todays protests. A National Decision today that impacts everyone who watches tv or surfs the internet. The net will remain neutral. There are winners, losers and likely lawsuits to todays decision. Scott budman is in los gatos. Whats the initial impact here. We know right now that netflix here is one of the big winners after a decision that came down this afternoon essentially saying that every person and corporation can watch, stream and surf as quickly as anybody else. Consider it an even Playing Field for your favorite streaming media. The fcc adopted Net Neutrality to regulate the internet. So customers and companies all get the same service and speed. Like cell service or water. For example when you have f a faucet and you turn it on it doesnt if you got it from whoever makes faucets, the water comes out the same. Now take that analogy and institute video. Cable Companies Like at t and comcast, owner of this tv station, wanted to be able to charge more money for faster speed. Netflix fought that, campaigning for Net Neutrality. If they are charnling netflix more money for good fast access netflix isnt joust going to eat that. Theyll turn around and charge more money to the customers. The rule also applies to surfing the net. Where speeds will also stay equal, no matter how large the dotcom companies. Think about facebook as an infant. Without Net Neutrality theres a possibility they couldnt afford to get the bandwidth needed to be successful so therefore, it would never become a company. The fcc says at least for now they want one internet, where everything streams on the same road. Now we were table to get some reaction to the decision. A Statement Released this afternoon from netflix calls todays decision a win for the consumer. The fight is not over, just moving from the fcc to the the court. Reporting live scott budman, nbc bay area news. A bay area congresswoman is into introducing legislation to protect children from being poisoned. She says theyre dangerous because kids may mistake them for colorful bitesized pods as candy. If the bill passes the package would have to be changed within 18 months. Still ahead, shes opening up. An exclusive interview with Robin Williams daughter for r the First Time Since the actors death. Plus hes highly educated. He comes from a welltodo family and hes the isis executioner. Today the identity of jihadi john revealed. Now information about the british man now fighting for isis. And tonight the San Francisco Public Defenders Office is calling for more Police Training after releasing a video they say shows an officer striking a homeless man with a baton. Im christie smith. Reaction from the police chief is coming up. New accusations of Excessive Force from a San Francisco policeman tonight. The officer was called to take a sleeping man off a muni bus. But prosecutors say instead the the officer hit the man with a baton, pepper sprayed him and ultimately handcuffed him. Christie smith talked with the chief of police today. The Public Defenders Office said it overreacted. But the police chief sees it much differently. He said he made it clear from his statements that he was doing harm. This is video by the San Francisco Public Defenders Office. They say it shows raymond chu going too far. The officer was trying to get a sleeping man off muni bus. That man told the officer not to touch him, and the situation escalated. [ bleep ]. He shoved him off the bus. He tells him keep walking. And mr. Warren walked away. Thats the point the incident should have ended. Instead the officer gets out his baton, whips it and pursues a slow walking mr. Warren. The video shows bernard leaving and appearing to circle back. Thats when the officer struck him with a baton. This is not a situation where this kind of force was necessary. The officer makes it sound like he was under attack in the Police Report. Its just the opposite. The Police Report says the man moved away from the offers baton, making the hit ineffective. Then the officer used pepper spray before the man was arrested. Police chief greg sur has seen the video but sees the encounter very differently. Im comfortable since its been held over for trial and viewed by the District Attorney that theyre not seeing anything as shocking as he would have anybody believe. The Public Defenders Office is calling for more Police Training. Theyre asking that the charges be dismissed. Reporting live in San Francisco christie smith, nbc bay area news. Christi, thank you. Also in the city mayor ed lee breaking ground for a new Health Care Center today. The building is at the intersection of mission and south vaness. They treat the homeless. That mayor explained why the center is a key part of combatting the problem. Then we have to take it further. Its basically used for Mental Health services. Construction begins in march. They have now spurred 150 vooirmtal group alenvironmental groups to halt fracking. The state allowed oil and Gas Companies to dump toxic waste water. The state admitted it was allowed in violation of epa rules. That prompted the coalition earth works and green feeds to call on the governor to halt the practice until more scientific studies can be completed. Gov nour Browns Office will review the petition, but also added that the practice of fracking is already undergoing strict and rigorous scientific analysis. The executioner unmasked. The isis militant behind many disturbing beheading videos has been publicly identified. Janelle wang is us with more on what we now. Until now hes been known as jihadi john. Mohammed emwazi. Hes a british man from a well educated family. Hes the man behind the horrific isis propaganda videos. Null thousand we only knew him as the man with the british accent. We knew this man couldnt hide behind the mask forever. Hes one of the most wanted men in the world. His real name, mohammed emwazi. U. S. And British Intelligence officials identified him months ago, but today the media confirmed it. Emwazi was born in kuwait but grew up and liveded in this west london home. He graduated from the university of westminster in london in 2009 with a Computer Science degree and then in 2012 disappeared to syria and joined the terror group isis. People who knew emwazi say they saw no signs of what he could become. The man that i knew was extremely kind. Extremely gentle. Extremely soft spoken. Was the most humble young person that i knew. British intelligence Officials Say while emwazi was in london they had been watching him. He was actually questioned and detained several times. Authorities believe he had contacts with extremists. His friends say he felt mistreated by Law Enforcement and that caused him to be radicalized. More details on the many acts that isis is bragging about. The terror group is claiming responsibility for this video, showing priceless works of art being smashed to pieces. It happened inside a museum in the iraqi city of mosul. Isis also destroyed a number of slimes and muslim holy sites. The militants have been known to save arti facts to sell them on the black market. For the first time Robin Williams daughter is publicly talking about how shes coping with her fathers death. Are the good days becoming more frequent than the bad days . Its never about frequency. The thing for me has been theres no predictability to anything. Literally life in general. But you can turn bad days around. So i focus on that. When i have a day im not feeling great, i try to do i something funny or fun or strange. You can watch if the full interview on the the today shows website. Up next hanging hate on his home. The decorations at one house that a state leader is demanding changes. I can imagine him fighting for his life. Find out what happened after we investigated. And a truly wild chase caught on camera. A Sacramento Man is getting heat for an offensive display at his home. At the t heart of the problem, swastikas over mock israeli flags. Neighbors and Community Leaders and lawmakers are calling for the homeowner to take it down. My message is take it down and take it down now. Its about white supremacy. Ugly things from the past. A lot of people who died. Its only 20 miles away. Instead of coming to work i would come here and show my support for americans and israel. County records show it belongs to douglas clark. Many in the Jewish Community are concerned. Just last month someone painted swastikas at the home of the jewish from tern the i. The social Media Company already has 58 options for gender and now its adding a 59th. They can now fill in the blank and create their own gender identity. Facebook Software Engineer who identified this was part of the trend that created the customized option. Did you see this . A pair of runaway llamas hijacked twitter today. I think Cable Networks broke into their coverage. One tweet quipped this is why twitter was invented. The llamas raced through a phoenix suburb. They managed to easily dodge police and cars. Oddly enough they are therapy animals and escaped in route to a nursing home. Provided humor therapy for all of us today. Need to bring puppies to the llamas to bring them. Llamas on the lam. Theyre fat little guys. Good news. We have rain coming our way but im not complaining. You can see dry conditions right now. And a big win for the giants. A critical change to the 911 policy at the Postal Service in the bay area. Its triggered by our investigation. Vicky nguyen first exposed the policy. But vicky, thats no longer the case now. Thats right. Here it is in black and white. The first step in the the policy now states in an emergency, anyone can call 911. Ch instead of instructing people to Call Security first. It sounds so simple and obvious, but employees tell us for years the old policy led to serious delays in medical treatment. He worked there for 28 years. Everybody loved him. In august coworkers found postal worker lying on his back with blood coming from his mouth and ears. Now from an apparent head injury. His wife marnie. Its so sad. I can imagine him fighting for his life. We have an employee bleeding from the mouth. No one saw what happened to sam. They saw him lying on the floor, bleeding and unconscious, some time between 3 00 and 3 30 a. M. T 911 dispatch didnt receive a call until 3 53. Thats an hour wasted. According to an internal Postal Service, employees first called their supervisors, who called additional manages. They eventually called the onsight Postal Police, who then called 911. Is why . Because they were following the policy. A policy that said only Postal Police are to initiate the 911 procedure. How long will it take to find out whether this policy will change . The Postal Service made good on its promise. We asked Augustine Ruiz why employees were instructed not to call 911. By december, postal leaders reissued the policy. They now read in an emergency, anyone should immediately call 911. And last month they formally adopted it. They declined our repeated request for an interview to discuss the new policy but told us the gravity of the concerns raised in our report prompted the change. Its heartbreaking. Because of it something good happened. Andrew sa Mail Processing clerk. Postal workers are dedicated people. They want to serve the public. So they will step up and do more. Sometimes its to the detriment of their own health. He believes the new policy will save lives, but believes postal leaders are slow in informing the 2,000 workers affected by it. Ive asked several people if they have gotten any information from the supervisor. Some have. Most have not. I would like to see every employee be given the information that the policy was updated. I would like to see actual real training dealing with potential scenarios that may happen on the workforce and how do we respond to those scenarios . Sadly the changes come too late for sam. His wife of 25 years is now a widow. All these coworkers say so. No one can say if sam would have lived had workers called 911 sooner. But he did not wake up from his coma. For his family comfort comes from knowing they fought and it made a difference. Hopefully it will never happen to anyone ever begin. He must be saying in heaven that youre doing the right thing. Hes proud. The national continues to decline our requesting for comments about changes at the national level. That instructs them to Call Health Services first. They say its to limit confusion and help direct paramedics. Guys, back to you. Thank you. Lets turn things to jeff. Jeff patiently awaiting for the rain drops to fall. It was a decent rain in early february. We need so much more. Typically we still averaged two to four inches of rain. Now the storm system is still way up to seattle. Also canada. Its widespread at time, but thats it for the moisture. Once it continues to move over land, its going to stay over land giving us a dry storm track. Right now mainly areas of high clouds setting in. I want to jump into the forecast tomorrow. We will have notable changes. Not as cold. Cloud cover in place. East bay at 47. South bay at 49. You also notice the possibility of showers. The best chance in San Francisco and the north bay. So lets bring you into the forecast. Continuing to spin away in the pacific northwest. Once its overland it stays across land picking up limited amounts of moisture from the pacific. Thats why totals will not range too high. Looks like the highest amounts at the Santa Cruz Mountains and the immediate coastline. Anything picked up will hit the coastline first. Also the possibility of thunderstorms mixed in as well. And you can see its not a major storm system. Also the northern coastline. As we continue throughout the day, its more of the same. Well have them staying with us and spotty showers picking up. Thats where the confidence is increasing. And by the afternoon hour thats the best chance on saturday to get that mashable rainfall for the bay area. Ch that as we head throughout your friday. And youll see temperatures going a lot cooler. We had mid 70s for the interior valleys. And palo alto 61. For San Francisco, anywhere from 59 in the marina to 60 in downtown. And for the east bay and tri valley after upper 70s in napa today. Lafayette 58. The one spot that doesnt have a chance for showers would be the trivalley. Were keeping it mainly cloudy with upper 50s to 60 degrees. Chance of showers on friday. And isolated thunderstorm. And possibly a shower activity here on monday as well. So saturday the day right now. If youre heading up to the sierra missed our report earlier. Four to eight inches expected at higher elevations. Right when jeff said that. This is the weekend to do it. This weekend is your weekend. Up next a big honor for Gerald Dempsey iii. And the season hasnt started. Whats that thing . I moved our old Security System out here to see if it could monitor the front yard. Why dont you switch to xfinity home . I get live video monitoring and 24 7 professional monitoring that i can arm and disarm from anywhere. Hear ye the awkward teenage one has arrived dont be old fashioned. Xfinity customers add xfinity home for 29. 95 a month for 12 months. Plus for a limited time, get a Free Security camera call 1800 xfinity or visit comcast. Com xfinityhome. Lowes presents how to use the greek gods to update your deck. Wow, i cant believe you did this deck yourself. Well me, lowes and zeus and apollo. Now get 10 off instock composite decking at lowes. Well what do you think . Dog lovers are being pulled over. The bulldog is gaining popularity. Lab dor is still top on the list. German shepherd golden retrievers and beagles round out the top fife. What happened to the terrier . No . I believe tim lincecum still has the bulldog. They snore. A lot of athletes have had the nickname bulldog. And were going to talk about the giants right now. Day nine came with a brief scare as the closer hit with a line drive off the bat of casey mcgee during a live batting practice session. Casilla rolled on the ground in pain, but xrays revealed it was a simple shin contusion. Later on he kidded that casilla didnt want to do conditioning today it certainly made for an entertaining moment after the brief scare. All right. We continue with the coverage in scottsdale. More on a spring victory for buster posey. Hello. Thats right. Thanks so much. Yeah buster posey is has been a lot of things so far. And a fairly short career including being an all star. A world series champ. A former mvp. Now you can add the face of major league baseball. Gerald buster posey edges out david wright in this face of mlb twitter contest. This coming off the heels of his third world series title. Buster is not taking anything for granted. I think its important to appreciate the championship. The competition is always cool to have. Any time youre recognized by a fan its fun. Madison bumgarner took the hill today. He faced Hector Sanchez and hunter pence. Needless to say bum was on top of his game. I didnt need any pitches to know he was ready to pitch. Were ready to go. Its a process. We have to see how ready he is. Were excited to say baseball. Madison bumgarner, no surprise here. He was great on the mound today. He looks like hes ready to go for opening day. Madison looks like hes ready for opening day. Amy gutierrez for nbc bay area. Thank you, great job. Levi stadium hosted earthquake soccer. Why not the College Football playoff game . The 49ers will bid to host any of the 2012 College Football championship game. And of course super bowl 50 next year. We have to figure out how to get out to the stadium. When i was there last week i saved that seat. Fantastic. Hope to see you at 11 00. The kardashian record smashing 1 hundred Million Dollars deal . This front page headline says it all. Now on extra. Dash rhymes with cash. Kim and her Famous Family lock in the deal of the accept tree to stay on tv. We work hard and we play hard. We mostly work hard. How much each of the girls will rocket. Bruce and robout cut out of the deal. Kim and kanye at the star packed britt awards asthma donna crash lands on stage. Imagines first words about her fall. Robin