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To exist is just devastating. Reporter America Navarro received this email from School Officials on friday. Saying after 108 years of education, the Nonprofit School is closing its doors due to financial troubles. Obviously it comes down to money and no money. Reporter School Leaders say the aging building needs to be remodeled. They cant compete with rising teacher salaries and donations are down leaving them with no choice but to close. This truly is like a home away from home. Reporter and a new home is what this property may turn into. St. Elizabeths is surrounded by developments and new apartment complexes going in just a few blocks down. And city Officials Say the school has already applied for a zoning change that would allow for a multiunit condo complex. Leaving navarro wishing the school did more to save her daughters school. Condos over education . I mean where is this heading . School officials didnt want to speak on camera today, but they do say the school will close in june. As for the zoning the city council will vote on those changes next month. Reporting live in san jose michelle roberts, nbc bay area news. We want to bring you a developing story in the south bay. Traffic jammed up. Its been like this for much of the day. This is a live picture of the 280 680101 interchange. That is 280 southbound backed up for miles. Backed up since 1 00 this afternoon because a Highway Patrol shut down the interchange. A man is threatening to jump from the tallest part of that interchange. This has been going on since 1 00 this afternoon. Heres a live look at our traffic map. You can see right there in the center, the interchange is closed. Freeways 101, 680, and 280, all backed up at this hour. During the evening commute. This is one of the biggest interchanges in the san jose area. Where 101, 280, and 680 converge. You cant really get through this interchange at all right now, especially 280. But it looks like theyre letting some cars pass through on 101 southbound. Of course, well keep an eye on the situation and keep you posted throughout this newscast. Live without a doubt, a perfect day for baseball to kick off in San Francisco. The World Series Champions started things off with all the pageantry you would come to expect from a team thats won three World Championships in five years. Madison bum gartner delivering the champion flag to his teammates on horseback. But the game left fans with a little less to cheer about. We have live Team Coverage. We begin with Mark Matthews live at at t park. Sad ending to the game but fans certainly got a treat before the game. Opening day is so much more than just a ball game. For many is it the symbolic start of summer filled with a season of great games. Hundreds of bay area fans could not wait for it to start. They lined up hours before the gates opened. Rhonda bergman of Mountain View was the first. Yeah im a little crazy. Reporter inside lucille was driving around on a championship trophy segueway. Like gunslingers, the whole team strolled in from center field. The place erupted. As each player was introduced fans cheered. And then a tribute to longtime sports broadcasters, lon simmons. His daughters threw out the ceremonial first pitches and it was the tribute that most touched barry bonds mom. You liked that tribute . I really do. So did Jeff Lockwood of mill valley. Im at the age where thats important. Reporter but for most folks, the highlight was on a horse. Madison bumgartner rode in the championship barn on the back of a horse. The banner going up as streamers came down. That was a moment. Oh, madison on the horse. That was awesome. Absolutely by far, riding the banner in on a horse. The flag. That was awesome it was perfect. Reporter you can take the 10 sandwiches, the 11 beers and the 8. 50 garlic fries and settle in for a season of ups and downs and torture that is giants baseball. Its true the giants lost today, but still, it was a day to remember. Hey, we got the whole season in front of us. Reporting from at t park Mark Matthews. Lets turn things over to gerard. What happened on the field once that game god going . Reporter jessica, for the first time in seven years, the giants arent able to win the home opener something they had done you know six years straight coming in. They had the rookie on the mound to try to get the job done. Lets show you exactly what happened in this one. There you see Madison Bumgartner on horseback with that championship banner as we just saw. Top of the fourth scoreless. One on for troy, he singles to left. Charlie black one will come in and score, 10 rockies. Bottom of the fourth giants try to answer back. He grounds into the 463 double play end to the inning. That was the theme of the afternoon for the giants. Top of the seventh, runners on the corners. Gets away from buster posy. We got a play at the plate. Nick humly initially called out. Got the tag down in time but couldnt hang on to the ball. The run scores 20 rockies, and that would end up being the final score in this one. The giants had 12 runners on base and were 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position and thats spelled the their doom today. I mean a big day with ceremonies and we did what we were hoping to do and thats put some pressure on them and have some bases loaded. The story of the game is we couldnt get a timely hit. All right, coming up later in sports well have more from this one, and well show you what the as did today as well. There was a somber moment today at the ballpark. The giants held a moment of silence for a woman who was killed in a hitandrun in San Francisco. Police say that bridgette celeker was in the crosswalk when she was hit by a driver and that driver kept going. Bridgette was an avid giants fan who had planned to attend todays game. At this time everyone would you please rise and remove your caps and join us in a moment of remembrance, as we honor bridgette and the many other members of the giants baseball family that we lost over the past year. Now, police were in pursuit of a car at the time. They say the man inside the car had robbed some peep at gunpoint. Those people have yet to be caught. Our coverage of the giants home opener continues on our website. All you have to do is click on the story box on the front page to find all those stories for you. Again, if you want to check it out, its nbcbayarea. Com. A bay area commuter has quite a tale to tell after an unusual kind of car theft. As you can see, thieves didnt take his car, they took all four wheels. It turns out that its a crime that becoming more common across the country. Jodi hernandez is live at the mill valley park n ride where it all happened to explain why the thieves were so focused on these wheels. Reporter janelle police in other parts of the country do have a theory but this wasnt on anybodys radar here in the bay area. That commuters car was parked right alongside all the other cars here at this mill valley park n ride last friday when something pretty unbelievable happened. I left my car at the Commuter Parking lot and when i got off the bus and came home i saw my car was lower than id left it. Reporter this is how ian found his honda fit when he returned from work friday night. Someone stole all four wheels as the car sat in the mill valley park n ride. I walked around and saw that all four wheels were gone and the car was sitting flat on the ground. Turns out similar crimes have been happening across the country for years. Thieves have been targeting honda fits. Police say their 15 wheels are ideal for fitting lowriding imports for street racing. As with any crimes we dont want to see this become a trend. Reporter a california Highway Patrol says so far wheel theft isnt common in the bay area but they say the recent case is a big reminder vehicles are always at risk at park n rides. These vehicles are park there had for a long period of time. They are targets. Reporter the chp recommends taking precautions. Never leave valuables visible and if youre worried about your wheels installing locking lug nuts could help keep them safe. Stoba now has a set on his spare car as he waits for his honda to get repaired. Recovering from the theft has been tough. It took a full 24 hours just to get it towed. It turns out that a tow truck requires you to have wheels on your car to get it towed away. Getting a car with no wheels is really no longer a car. Its a heavy, immobile object. Now, the cost to replace the wheels were told about 3,500. That doesnt include the cost to repair the damage caused when that car was dropped down to the ground. Again, the chp says this is not common here in the bay area. Still, they say they are going to be stepping up their patrols of Bay Area Park n rides. Reporting live in mill valley im jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Something else to be weary of. Thank you, jodi. Well a drug bust lands a Bay Area Police officer in handcuffs. And tonight that officer is facing drug and weapons charges. Last week San Francisco Police Arrested this man. Hes an officer with the San Pablo Police department. His name is kenneth white. He was arrested during an alleged drug sale. Tonight, were learning more about the dual investigations underway against this officer. San pablo Police Department is having the internal affairs administeri investigation and San Francisco is handling the criminal investigations. Turns out white was already on administrative leave when he was arrested. Police also found a 2yearold in the front seat of his car, leading to additional charges of child neglect. Hell be tried as a spy. Thats what were hearing about a marin born journalist in prison in iran right now. Jason hersion works for the Washington Post. He, his wife and two photojournalists were arrested last july nor tehran. Hersion is the only one who hasnt been released. Iran claims he committed espionage, selling iranian Economic Data to americans. The Washington Post calls the espionage charges absurd. The pain never stops. Still ahead, he says he feared for his life as police kicked and punched him. For the first time tonight, we hear from the man who led a pursuit on horseback, but was finally caught. Commuter traffic expected to roll through one part of the south bay a lot faster now that a new flyover ramp is open. Im robert honda live in san jose. Coming up, some of the changes that have many drivers happy and a little concerned. Good evening. Im meteorologist jeff ranieri. Were tracking windy weather across the bay area also a few showers off to the north. Well let you know if youll get any of this activity moving your way in just a few minutes. Not going very fast and in some cases not at all. We continue to follow a very challenging evening commute in the smb. A major freeway interchange has been shut down for five hours because of police activity. Youre looking at a live picture over the 101 180, 680 interchange where they all converge. Traffic backed up for miles upon miles for miles, because someone is sitting on one of the overramps and had been there since 1 00 in the afternoon. Its causing major traffic headaches. Police have the area blocked off and theyre dealing with it but traffic is a mess. Were going to continue to cover this. Stay with us. You can also check it out online at nbcbayarea. Com. A 63 million makeover opened up today at one of the bay areas most congested traffic interchanges. A new traffic flyover is designed to clear up the jams in san jose where interchanges. 280 and 880 used to share lanes of people heading to Shopping Centers on Stevens Creek boulevard. Nbc bay areas robert honda joins us near the flyover to show us how drivers are dealing with the changes. Looks pretty good behind you, robert. Thats right. The northbound commute on 280 is usually a lot lighter than it is in the morning, and that gives you a clearer view of the flyover ramp right behind me. As you can see, the two ramps are on the far right side of the road, which actually wasnt the case before and it is just one of the many changes that will require some driver adjustments. The old interchange was around for about 50 years, so its not too surprising the changes, even improvements, will take some getting used to. The longawaiting flyover ramp opened at 5 00 a. M. This morning and now northbound 280 commuters can get on to northbound 880 without sharing a ramp and lanes with drivers headed to Stevens Creek boulevard and presumably west field valley fair and santana row Shopping Centers. I think it would ease the congestion. But i still dont like it. I dont feel comfortable with many of the changes that are happening. Reporter in fact we saw a few people who seemed to be having trouble adjusting. According to the motorcycle officer, this driver made an illegal turn at the intersection and some drivers merging on to 280 norbertth will still encounter people trying to get on to the new ramp. Theres definitely plenty of signage that needs to be reviewed and looked at when youre going through this area. Please be cautious. People will have to get used to the area. Reporter but most drivers we talk to say its still better than sharing lanes. I think its pretty dangerous. Theres a lot of traffic and a lot of commotion. Reporter pretty happy about this then . Yeah pretty excited. Reporter well it will get more exciting for those excited by the change. Now, theres still some work to be done including some widening of Stevens Creek boulevard, but it is all expected to be done in about a month, with a big public celebration planned for that time. Live in san jose robert honda, nbc bay area news. Thank you robert. Students and parents at a millbrae middle school are on edge tonight after someone reportedly took photographs of a student in the school bathroom. It happened on friday. Deputies say a 14yearold at Taylor Middle School was using a urinal when another teen walked in and snapped photos. The man ran away. Police say hes described at white, between 14 and 17 years old, about 58 tall. He had blond air andhair and a heavy build. It could just be another student who doesnt realize the seriousness of what they were doing and was trying to play a practical joke that we obviously dont think is very funny. It could be that all the way to somebody that indeed is doing this or has done this and thats why we are conducting this investigation. Now, the boy at the urinal told police he did not recognize that other teenager. We are learning more about that deadly abalone diving accident north of mendocino. Three men drowned yesterday after going into choppy waters of casper cove to dive for abalone. The men were all in their late 40s or early 50s. One of them was from dublin another from the state of georgia and another from new jersey. Two other divers who were part of that group survived. These are pictures from their rescue in rocks in that cove. The deaths are the first of this abalone season can began two weeks ago. Tens of thousands of water customers in the east bay are bracing for those new water restrictions. Two east bay water districts will consider mandatory reductions and drought surcharges at a meeting tomorrow. Customers would be told they need to cut usage will be told they immediate to cut usage to 20 below what they used in 2013. Right now, customers are only being asked to voluntarily reduce by some 15 . And an east bay mud customer is considering a drought surcharge as well. It would average around 11 a month for average water yurs. And one bay area farmer says no one was buying what he was growing. What hes doing now to keep his livelihood alive. Lets get a check of our forecast. Some gusty winds today. Here is jeff ranieri with our microclimate forecast. And you can see that wind is still with us at the immediate coastline. Our buoy is now reading winds out of the northwest at 27 Miles Per Hour. Its helping to whip up these waves to 8 feet. So dangerous if youre thinking of heading out to the coastline, you may want to think twice. Otherwise, sustained winds here for the interior valleys. Anywhere from 20 in San Francisco to 16 in san jose. Now, as that wind swept across the bay Area Temperatures dropped today from those hotter temperatures this weekend down to 18 degrees cooler in livermore and 11 degrees cooler in san jose. Now, were getting this wind and also the cooler air flow from a cold front off to the north. Now, unfortunately, the substantial rainfall will remain up into washington also for oregon. As that moves to the south tonight, there will be the possibility of a few spotty showers in napa maybe near point reyes, also santa rosa possibly close to San Francisco. Were only talking about trace amounts, maybe 500th of an inch. You can see down towards the south bay, this is really little to nothing, but you may need the windshield wipers if youre out anytime from 11 00 p. M. Tonight until act 1 00 a. M. In the morning. Not expecting any wet weather for tuesday. Well have a lot of sunshine but that wind is going to stay. Heres a look at your averages for those temperatures on tuesday. Well be right around 70 in the south bay. So slightly warmer. Also, 70 in the trivalley and 68 in the north bay. San francisco, well stay cool and windy with 66. Youll need to take your jacket if youre heading anywhere near sf. We are in store for some hotter weather this week. You can see this. By thursday and friday, mid80s return back to the south bay. A 15degree jump in temperatures from today. Peninsula also getting in on the 80s here for thursday and friday. And well see the same thing in San Francisco. A warmup into the end of the workweek. Not quite 80s, but 70s expected. More on that full forecast coming up in about 25 minutes. See you soon. Thanks, jeff. Still ahead, carrying more than luggage in the cargo hold. The mistake an Airline Employee made that forced a flight to make an Emergency Landing. Plus cuffed and beaten, the man at terrifycenter of a controversial arrest says his beating by sheriffs deputies was worse than the video shown. An Alaska Airlines plane made an Emergency Landing after the pilot started hearing banging from the cargo hold. Alaska airlines said the flight had just taken off and headed to l. A. When that flight started. Crews found a ramp workers worker inside the cargo hold. The worker said he fell asleep. Hes fine. The area was pressurized. But an investigation is now underway. The plane made it to l. A. After an hour and a half delay. In the east bay in antioch, the search for a motorcyclist is now a recovery effort. The motorcycle crashed into a car on the antioch bridge yesterday afternoon. He flew over the river and fell into the san joaquin river. A search of the river has only brought up a motorcycle helmet. Today, Sacramento County deputies who have special sonar equipment joined the effort to find the body. Theyre expected to look for the man until it gets dark tonight. Its not yet clear what led up to that crash. New details tonight. Were hearing for the first time from the man who led Southern California deputiesy sies on a pursuit, first by car and then by stolen horse. It ended when he fell off that horse and deputies converged. Nbcs geti schwartz from our sister station in los angeles spoke exclusively with that man. I just felt hits everywhere all over my whole body and they werent stopping. I was wondering, when is this going to stop . Reporter in an interview youll only see here for the first time francis reacts to the video. You say what he cant see is his struggle to breathe. They were pushing the sand into my face pushing the sand into my face i had to find Little Pockets of air underneath my chin in the sand to be able to breathe. Reporter or what he says was the threat made by one out of the deputies who pummeled him into the ground. One of the deputies walked up to my left ear and whispered, this isnt over. Reporter he tells us both his hands and ing anankles were cuffed for most of the beating and felt tasers several times. The next tasering i was handcuffed around my ankles and my hands. For the first time today, we are getting a detailed look at his injuries from the batons the tasers the fists, kicks and knees. The pain never stopped. The beating might have stopped, but the pain never stopped. I still feel the pain. Reporter originally the Sheriffs Department says he was caught while they served a warrant for identity theft, but his Attorney Says he had nothing to do with that investigation and he was never the target. Now his family is filing a lawsuit and he says he just wants to feel safe. I dont want a nickel from it. I just want peace from it. I want to be left alone. I want to go about my my life. My life. Our life. Im a family man, thats all. Now, his next Court Appearance is in june. Prosecutors say they havent decided whether the file formal charges against him. Coming up a deputy on the wrong side of the law. The officer caught on camera shooting a suspect. How hes defending himself tonight. Also the kind of tech tools that we have available for advertising any product these days are especially appealing to politicians. Technology and the presidency. Im scott budman. Coming up, why social media is so important to the candidates. Plus its got the Wine Industry worried. The troubling discovery rattling the bay areas wine country. Now to decision 2016. The field gets a little more crowded as former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and firstterm senator marco rubio joined the race for the white house. Hillary clinton kept her announcement lowkey and hit the campaign trail immediately. Grounded by the lessons of our history, but inspired by the promise of our future i announce my candidacy for president of the united states. We have Team Coverage of the race to the white house. Scott budman takes a look at the Critical Role technology is now playing in the race but we begin with nbcs jay grey. Hes in des moines iowa where Hillary Clinton started off her campaign. Reporter while her candidacy was never really much of a secret. Im running for president. Reporter the first few days of Hillary Clintons campaign sort of are. Im hitting the road. Reporter on the road in a van with a handful of dwirdsadvisers driving overnight to her home in new york. Iowas a huge swing state. We have a lot of pull when it comes to who gets elected. Reporter clinton has stops scheduled in the small towns of monticello and norwalk. Oneonone meetings with voters along the way. We have to run a statebystate campaign and it has to be in living rooms and dining halls all across the country. Reporter unlike 2008 when she was criticized for running a coronation instead of campaign. A concern that for some still lingers. I dont think shes a shooin. And i think theres overconfidence and i would really like to see a more vigorous challenger. Reporter the challenge has already been mounted by key republicans. Marco rubio entering the race today. Rand paul and ted cruz already on the campaign trail. And while jeb bush hasnt made it official that didnt stop him from taking an early jab at the former secretary of state. We must do better than the Obama Clinton Foreign Policy that has damaged relationships with our allies and emboldened our enemies. Reporter the race for the white house already picking up speed, and were still more than 570 days from the finish line. Jay gray, nbc news, des moines. Well lets talk about that race for your candidates focused on the ground game knocking on voters doors. But these days the question is hows your web game. Our business and tech reporter, scott budman, is here to talk about why the internet has become so critical in this race for the white house. Janelle, social media and technology as a whole is something voters especially the growing demographic of young voters, are looking for. Which means candidates have to sell themselves on the web, as part of the campaign. Reporter Hillary Clinton with 3. 3 million twitter followers, declared her candidacy over social media. Marco rubio, with more than 700,000 of his own twitter followers, did the same. Social media it seems, is now a big part of any Major Political campaign. The kind of tech tools that we have available for advertising any product these days are especially appealing to politicians. Reporter its true. Twitter and facebook are quick, cheap, and effective. We know clinton can use them. Rubio, too, is hip to the net. Theres a phrase that we hear used around our newsroom. And around this panel. And that is fluent in the web, and he might be the candidate who is most fluent in the web. Reporter here in the bay area this has been built in for a while. Kamala harris hanging out at Facebook Gavin newsom spending time at san joses recent tech manity conference. And they can use big data to their advantage. They can see what people are clicking on what people are sharing, what people are retweeting and that gives them more information about how their messages are getting out. Reporter its not just tv ads anymore. This time around your candidates will try to reach you online. Reporter neither candidate is immune to the rougher side of technology. Clinton widely criticized for the recent email server scandal, rubio, you may remember a social media miehm after reaching for that bottle of water. But afterward he jumped on twitter to poke fun at himself. Russia surprised the white house today by announcing that it is willing to sell missiles to iran. This comes as Congress Continues to debate a controversial deal to limit Irans Nuclear ambitions. Russian president Vladimir Putin announced hes Going Forward with plans to send defensive missiles to iran. U. S. Diplomats quickly objected while the white house insisted russias move will not impact ongoing talks with iran. Russian leaders insist the missiles are strictly definitive weapons. Caught on camera again. A reserve sheriffs deputy is being charged with manslaughter, after shooting a suspect in the back. A shooting he says happened by accident. It happened in tulsa, oklahoma. Reserve Deputy Sheriff robert gates says he mistook his gun for his taser when he shot and killed eric harris earlier this month. The entire video was captured on body cam video, and in the unedited tape the deputy is heard apologizing right after the gun goes off. Bates is now charged with seconddegree manslaughter. Hes a civilian volunteer with the tesla county Sheriffs Office and was part of an undercover gun buy operation. A Mobile Home Park fight rages nonpalo alto. Today and tomorrow Council Members are hearing from people trying to save their homes. The buena vista Mobile Home Park owners are trying to argue that the amount of money being offered to people to move out is fair. But the 400 People Living there dont think so. The Mobile Home Park serves mostly lowincome families. The city and Santa Clara County are trying to pull together enough money to buy the property to buy affordable housing. Local lawmakers have asked state and federal agencies for funding. Still ahead, growers on alert. The new problem pest in wine country. And then extreme measures. How farmers in the south bay are making a change to work around the drought. Plus on a roll a new look at just how many watches apple sold. More than 200 passengers aboard two san diegobound cruise ships were sickened. The ship named celebrity infinity docked in san diego today with 112 passengers and crew made sick by the norovirus. Shipworkers immediately began cleaning and disinfecting the ship. Federal Health Inspectors will board the ship to investigate how the outbreak happened. The Royal Caribbean ship lekd of the sea, will arrive tomorrow. The cdc says 116 passengers and crew on that ship became sick although they havent determined exactly what the cause of that infection is. Another threat to bay area crops. Snoem county agriculture inspectors say they found evidence of the glassy winged sharpshooter. It happened in a routine check back in february. The sharpshooter can transmit a bacteria that kills crops. Investigators say one glassy winged sharpshooter can drain 200 to 300 times its body weight in water from fruits every single day. The pest is particularly dangerous to grapevines in wine country. Looming storm clouds stalled a grocery ship to the International Space station today. Cape canaveral space stations california scrapped the spacex launch two minutes before liftoff. The shipment included 4,000 pounds of food and a specially designed espresso maker the from italy to its italian astronauts. Another attempt tomorrow. Scientists are hopeful for a successful landing on earth. The apple watch appears to be a booming success. A data Company Estimates nearly 1 million have been sold in the u. S. Alone. Slight intelligence tracks ereceipts, the company says about 900,000 people preordered an apple watch when they went on sale last week and a lot of people bought more than one. The average order was for 1. 3 watches and the average amount spent was just over 500. That means the most popular model is the apple watch sport, which goes for about 350. The winds of change are among us. I know. Just like every day, weve got Something Else happening. Unfortunately, its not a big storm system so were not going to see a whole lot of rain out of this but we are going to continue to see that wind increase. Well talk more about how long this annoying wind i know its been like that for a lot of you in San Francisco, will last, in just a few minutes. Now to a developing story, and we should say, an ongoing story, in the south bay. Still jammed up. Its been like this for much of the day. Youre looking right now at the freeway, 101 280 680 interchange. The key interchange shut down has been since 1 00 in the afternoon. The Highway Patrol shut down that interchange, because a man is sitting on the tops of one of those ramps, threatening to jump from the tallest interchange ramp. Traffic has just been a disaster all afternoon long and hes been up there since 1 00. And at this point, theres no word on when hell come down how hell come down and when traffic will start flowing again. Well in the travel industry, Airline Profits are up but so are passenger complaints. But who did the best . Burlingame based Virgin America was a Top Rated Airline for the Third Straight year in this annual survey. Second was hawaiian followed by delta and jetblue. The july survey by universities of kansas and florida found the industrys ontime arrival rate fell to 76 last year from 78 and the rate of bags which were lost stolen or delayed jumped 13 and now averages more than 3. 5 bags per thousand passengers. Also more complaints were filed by passengers. 74 were for flight problems such as delays. Were going in the wrong direction. The consumers are actually telling us that were going in the wrong direction. The researchers concluded that Airline Mergers and consolidations have led to poor service instead of the Better Service that was promised. A different kind of road rage as various cities get their annual scores on road quality. The survey shows that brentwood and dublin have streets in the best conditions with scores of 86 out of 100 points. San francisco roads got a score of 66 which is considered fair. Oakland got a 59 putting its roads in the atrisk category. 40 was the lowest score for any bay area city and that designation goes to the marin county city of lexburg. During a time when every drop of water counts, south bay farmers are rethinking what they grow and even pulling up crops. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro says what one grass hill is doing to survive. Reporter because of the drought, fewer people are buying grass, which is why this farmer in morgan hill is pulling up some of his grass to plant bell peppers. For more than 45 years, grass farm garden accents in morgan hill has been growinged so from everyone from Stanford University to pebble beach golf course. But after four years of drought, fewer people want to install lush lawns. And business is starting to dry up. The market place has definitely been impacted by the drought itself. But were producing a product, the bell peppers, that people want to go ahead and buy. Reporter their product is bell peppers. Aaron gill ripped up 30 of theed so on his 110acre farm and replaced it with the vegetables that need less water to grow than grass. Were about 3 acre per feet on growing turf grass, and it should be about 2, 2 1 2 acres per feet on the bell peppers. Reporter but there are more regulations and restrictions involved in growing food thanned so. The Santa Clara County Farm Bureau Says farmers are also dealing with another drought challenge. There is a threeyear wait for farms to get a permit to dig a new well and storage tanks are on backorder through the state, so south bay farmers hoping to retain every drop have nowhere to put extra water. Aaron gills bell peppers will allow on ground water, and when he harvests the in august he hopes the grass will be a little greener with a new watersaving crop. In morgan hill Marianne Favro, nbc bay area news. Looks like we have a disturbance north of us but its not going to bring us much rain or any at all. Lets check with jeff ranieri in our microclimate forecast. Another disappointing storm system off to the north. All were getting are some of these residual side effects from the cold front. Thats mainly the wind. Weve had the colder temperatures today. Were going to zoom in on the doppler radar. Eventually we do anticipate the possibility of a few showers. You can see right now, its dry from santa rosa down to San Francisco, also for san jose. Well have the timing on that in just a few minutes. Well take you outside to the sky camera network. With that westerly wind temperatures are down in the 60s here. Right now, already at 62 in the south bay. East bay 61. 59 in San Francisco. We keep showing you this camera but this is a real incredible indicator of what a lot of people at the coastline have been dealing with. Our cameras shaking around a little bit. Its been gusting as high as 30 Miles Per Hour today. We keep the wind for tonight and keep the wind for tomorrow morning. Just know that for tomorrow morning, it will still be blustery out there and well not start off totally sunny, but not going to be a completely cloudy start. It will be colder, though down to 46 in the south bay. 44 in the east bay, and also expecting 40s for your average in the north bay. Need that light jacket to start, and i do not think youll need the umbrella. Heres why. Youll see on the futurecast, heaviest rainfall remains way off to the north. Sure, later on today, we may get a little bit dropping from the sky up into santa rosa near point rays also napa maybe down to santa cruz at 11 00 p. M. In the overnight hours, well likely see some of that transition closer to san jose but its really going to be all about things moving on out pretty rapidly. Vim by tomorrow morning, well see some clearing conditions. I think the biggest impacts in the forecast for tuesday will again be the wind. 5 30 in the morning, well see winds out of the north. Also slightly out of the east. 25 Miles Per Hour in santa rosa. 29 in orinda. Also 19 in san jose. It will stay breezy to gusty here through about 9 00 in the morning. And by the afternoon, it will still be breezy but those winds will begin to calm down here only about 15 in napa and 16 in San Francisco. So besides, you know, some of that blustery conditions in the afternoon, it will be a beautiful day. Sunny skies in the south bay. San jose expecting 70 degrees for the peninsula. We hold on to a little bit of cloud cover at the host and 63. Palo alto, close to 70. Although San Francisco will stay in the 60s, you head to the marina possibly some of that fog fingering right across the golden gate bridge. Lets take you to the north bay, east bay, and trivalley nothing but sunshine on all of these microclimates tomorrow. 69 expected in napa oakland, 67 and potentially 70 here for livermore. Its going to get hotter yet again this week. We might as well just get used to it. Our chances of any kind of significant rainfall from this point on have really diminished. Look at how much hotter here by thursday, friday, and saturday. Mid80s for san jose 70s coming on back to San Francisco. Its going to be the reality of the next couple of months. As we just heard in that piece before the Weather Report we need to get used to this drought, at least at this point right now. Ladies . Thank you very much. Well, a giants celebration in San Francisco as the men in orange raise the championship pennant today. Up next, the highs and the lows as the giants began their first home stand of the season. A lot of people took the day off work or maybe played some hooky, because its the giants home opener. Heres heres heresger raud. The giants hadnt lost a home opener since 2008. Thats six in a row prior to today. A strong debut against the dbacks last week. Madison bumgartner on hotterback. Mad bum taking the prize. He raised it up the. Charlie blackman coming around to score and colorado strikes first with the 10 lead. Bottom fourth giants trying to answer back. Two on for angel, but he grounds into inningending 463 double play. Giants left 12 runners on base. Top of the schbt, runners on the corners. Gets away from buster posey. Initially called out, then safe. Check it again. Got the tag down in time but couldnt hang on to the ball. The giants go 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position. We all want to play better. 33 35 is not where we want to be. But we cant worry about the past. We have to look forward. This club take each day at a time and keep grinding and know good things will come. Today Hunter Pences 32nd birthday. He celebrated by getting in light throwing before game time. Pence did see a doctor. He has yet to be cleared to swing a bat. Hes expected back at least early may, he could rejoin the team as soon as late april. Also before the game today giants fans getting a taste of what game days will look like at the yard. Not at t talking about the yard at mission rock. The new addition to the china Basin Community this season. Created out of repurposed shipping containers where fans can eat, drink, and even shop. It looks like it could be a happening spot for every home game. The neighborhood loves it. Like, people who are coming by here are people who are coming by from straight off of work or from their Apartment Building and they can hang out. Its one of the few great places in the city to have a drink outside. This is prototyping commerce in this area and getting people excited about the development and whats happening next and this is just a great way to move forward in that direction. We live the setup. Bringing good food good wine a different atmosphere from tailgating and getting all that prep done and its lovely. I hope its very successful. As and astros opening up a road game in houston. Mark kana at it again. Thats a liner to left. Just fair. Scores 10, as. Very next hitter a shot to right. Thats down. In the next inning 30 oakland. This is one reason billy bean brought in from toronto. His first jack with oakland and right now the as pouring it on 81 in the top of the sixth. Finally, confirmed through multiple sources that free agent wide receiver Michael Crabtree is set to sign across the bay with the oakland raiders. Crabtree the 49ers first round draft pick of 2009. Hes 27 years old. A total of 26 touchdowns in 6 seasons with the red and gold. Now, he joins rod streeter james jones, and andray holmes on the raiders receiving depth chart. Easy move for crabtree. Well see if he can produce with derek karr in that raiders offense. Well have to see. Thanks so much. For a full half hour of bay area Sports Coverage you can watch sports. Net central. That is going to do it for us. We hope to see you here tonight at 11 00. Bye, folks. 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