Three or four hours. Well talk more about the rest of this storm and storm 2 because that one is coming later this week, thats coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. Despite this wet weather, it is only temporary. Stricter water cutbacks are in the works for folks in the south bay and other places, as well. Kpix 5s len ramirez with a look at whats in store there. Len. Reporter Santa Clara County residents are going to have to get used to using less water. Theres just no other way around it. Mandatory restrictions will be coming to this area soon despite todays refreshing downpour. Thats the sound of rain running off into the storm drain in case you forgot it. And in Santa Clara County, it has been a distant memory until this afternoon. We needed rain so happy about it. Dont mind being wet. Reporter three to five inches of rain could hit the san jose area over the next few days making a dent in the drought but not a knockout blow. I think this is good. Certainly id like to see more raindrops. Reporter thats why the Santa Clara ValleyWater District issued mandatory guidelines for people to cut their water use by 20 . But it will be up to the water retailers like the San Jose Water Company which sells to a million customers in Santa Clara County to come up with actual restrictions that could take effect in 90 days after a Regulatory Agency reviews them. The impact is not going to be as great as people think it is going to be. A lot of things are more common sense. Reporter such as no more lawn watering in the daytime or watering only on certainly days. The Water Company will be mailing out notices soon with other suggestions like running the dishwasher full. Switching to high efficiency appliances and toilets. Shorter showers or showering with a bucket to catch the runoff. We dont have the rules yet in place obviously. So well be working through the Public Utilities commission to do that. Reporter so as people cover up from the rain they will soon have to think about saving up for the summer. Its a good idea. Reporter 20 is doable for you . Yeah, for me. Im retired. My wife and i. So we dont waste a lot of water. Reporter there will be no one size fits all for water restrictions. There are several water agencies throughout Santa Clara County. Some very large, some very small. And people will have to cut their water based on what their local Water Company says. Live in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. An suv went down an embankment on the side of highway 4 in martinez in the last hour. You can see it landed on its roof at the base of some trees. Chp says its a toyota 4 runner. No word on injuries. Over in los altos, crews had to tape off this intersection because a 30foot evergreen fell and snapped nearby power lines at el monte and higgins avenues about 7 30 this morning. Utility workers used chainsaws to cut it up so they could haul it off. In mill valley, businesses are bracing for some flooding. They used sandbags. 126 flights were canceled at sfo today because of bad weather. They are limiting the number of flights that can take off and land at the same time because of the storm. Track the storm with our live hidef Doppler Radar on our website, kpix. Com. We have exclusive new information tonight on where the mysterious google barge is headed and when its going to get there. Kpix 5s allen martin has just confirmed details that its on the move. Reporter we got it. Its moving. I have confirmation tonight the barge is going to leave San Francisco bay entirely. Yesterday i told you there was word the barge would be leaving the dock at Treasure Island and be towed up the river to stockton. Tonight that plan is confirmed and the barge will head out next week. The barge has been under construction at Treasure Island for months without the proper permits from the bay conservation and development commission. A month ago bcdc sent letters to Treasure Island and google explaining they would either need the proper permits or it had to go. Late today the Treasure IslandDevelopment Authority confirmed for me that the barge, weather permitting, will leave San Francisco bay and be towed to stockton before any penalties for operating without those proper permits can be applied. Yesterday, the director of bcdc told me the agency would have liked to have seen the barge project stay in the bay. There are organizations and individuals from the east bay and from the north bay who are very interested in providing the work for google to complete the barge. Theres no shortage of qualified permitted organizations to do the work. Richmond, vallejo, oakland would have all liked to have had it but apparently google is choosing to move the project outside the jurisdiction of bcdc by going to stockton. Fines in the tens of thousands of dollars would have started accumulating for google. It still has to pay for the lease at Treasure Island through july and that cost will be more than a quarter of a million dollars. Wow. So they drag it up to stockton. Is that going to get rid of the permit scuffle do you think . Reporter for now but not entirely because the way it, would, any future projects that Treasure Island will need permits and if google wants to bring the barge back to San Francisco bay once its ready to be showcased as that marketing party barge, its going to need separate permits for that and a separate permit for each place that it stops around the bay. Meanwhile construction folks in stockton will make out. They are going to love it. Talked to the director of the port of stockton and he said, bring it up here. Good. All right, allen, thank you. New tonight, tesla checking out four possible sites for a massive new battery factory and california is not one of them. Instead, the plant and its 6500 new jobs will go to either nevada, arizona, new mexico or texas. Bay areabased electric carmaker plans to Start Construction this year. The factory will supply battery packs to Teslas Fremont assembly plant. Bart trains are running again through San Franciscos Mission District. Service in both directions was stopped at around 4 30 as Police Chased a robbery suspect. They believe the man ducked into the tunnels between the 16th and 24th street stations. He was not found. Service has resumed but there are residual delays. That means extra crowded cars. Its one of barts biggest problems. In fact, bart just made an entire video to help riders cope with the daily crush. Phil matier is on bart right now to show us the dos and donts. Phil. Reporter you know, its interesting, bart is experiencing a real boom in its passengers and we are here at mission station and people are already lining up for the trains but those cars are getting more crowded and people are getting tense. Never get a seat. Terrible. Reporter do you hear reports of fights or anything . Yes. Thats part of the reason we wanted to do an etiquette campaign to remind people how to be polite and how to share your ride. Reporter thats just what bart did this week with a video that some might find informative and others dumb. Well let you decide. Lets roll the highlights. With hundreds of thousands of people riding bart each day, we know the trains can get a little crowded. Fill empty spaces toward the middle of the car. [ music ] if you are standing and carrying a large backpack, place it on the floor. Finally, dont ever hold the door open. Jamming the door can take an entire train out of service. Together, these small acts of courtesy go a long way. May seem obvious to some people but others its a remainder of how to be polite. Reporter and that train ride is it going to get even more crowded. During a typical commute a bart car holds about 110 people with almost half of them standing. Relief wont be on the way until the new train cars arrive in 2017. Reporter now, the interesting thing is when the new cars do show up, they are going to have fewer seats than the ones they have now in order to make more room for bicycles and baggage for people going to the airport. Thats not good news for these people trying to get home. By the way, as for that video . It didnt cost any extra money for bart because they had staff do it. As far as how many people are watching it . So far 12,000 hits. Phil matier, live down in the bowels of bart station in mission, kpix 5. Back to you. Thank you. New twist in the mystery of the buried treasure. Kpix 5 has learned of a connection to another gold discovery that turn out to be a big embarrassment. Casting doubt on claims of being the greenest recycler in the country, wait until you see a whistleblowers Surveillance Video that exposes alleged fraud right here in the bay area. And we still have these major bart delays residual delays after some earlier Police Activity for a while shut down the tracks in San Francisco. Plus obviously the roads are very slick. We have some big backups because of it. Full look at your kcbs traffic after the break. ,,,,,,,, Health Department is reportg another bay area death relad to the flu. It was n Contra Costa CountyHealth Department is reporting another bay area death related to the flu. This one announced today that a woman in her 40s died last month from complications related to the virus. There have been at least 55 flu related deaths in the bay area this winter. A woman who says she was attacked at a haight street bar for wearing google glass posted a new video saying it shows footage of the man who grabbed it off her face last saturday. She put the new video online last night. Sarah slocom insulted her. Its the biggest buried treasure find in u. S. History a stash of gold coins unearthed in gold country but as john ramos the company to first see those coins has made headlines before during another discovery turned embarrassment. Reporter the story instantly became front page news. Gold discovered in california. Don kagan a gold and coin dealer in tiburon made the announcement. He says his unnamed client dug up cans of mint condition coins on their property worth about 10 million. As a buried treasure something that anyone can aspire to find, this is the best. Reporter but after that story was told, people began to remember another story. A little similar involving kagan, inc. In may of 2011 kpix 5 covered the story of a california map who claimed to find a huge gold nugget on his property. It became known as the washington nugget. Kagans company, which handled the find, proclaimed it to be the largest remaining nugget from the California Gold rush. The 8pound specimen eventually sold for 460,000 at auction. And the finder reportedly had his property assessed for sale as good prospecting land. But that man also wanted to remain anonymous. And for good reason because the whole story was a hoax. The nugget was actually unearthed by two men in australia in 1987 who originally sold it for 50,000. Kagan said he had been duped. Now, nope one is saying this latest story isnt legitimate and we have no reason to think anyone is being untruthful. But i did spoke to another coin dealer today who told me that coins can sell for more if theres an interesting story attached to them. And this story just gets more interesting every day. We tried to speak with don kagan today but he was out of town preparing to show the treasure at a Large National coin show in atlanta this weekend. In tiburon, john ramos, kpix 5. The coins will be on display at that coin show beginning tomorrow morning. Most of the buried treasure will end up being sold on amazon. Back to the weather heres a live look at the south bay right now our mobile weather lab is driving northbound along highway 101 moving well considering this wet weather. Elizabeth wenger joins us with the traffic report. Reporter thanks. A lot of people actually decided to take mass transit to avoid headaches on the road and then it turned out bart was an issue earlier on in the morning commute and still having some trouble still dealing with residual delays into and out of San Francisco. It all started right around 5 00 after the search for a robbery suspect shut down bart service. It was right around the 24th Street Mission station. Once again, all trains are now moving. But slowly. Also moving slowly the cars look at this. This is countercommute at this hour. This is traffic trying to get into San Francisco. Its backed up clear into the macarthur maze. So youre looking at least 25 minutes to get you into San Francisco and, of course, thats not counting all the traffic trying to get become home back out to the east bay. Heres a live look speaking of the east bay this is oakland southbound traffic on 880 jammed solid. We are seeing a lot of red sensors which means speeds below 25 Miles Per Hour from 980 past the coliseum to downtown hayward exits. North bay pounded with rain earlier, live look at the Golden Gate Bridge where it seems like things are moving okay across the span but wait until you hit san rafael. San rafael to novato, traffic is pretty slow going once again those speeds below 20 Miles Per Hour in some spots. Well take a full look at all of your travel times as you try to get home this evening. In the meantime, back to you guys. Thank you. All right. We saw a lot of headlights on there because its getting dark now but i noticed today and i tweeted about this and i got lots of people coming back at me with there are people driving around without their headlights on in the lane. Its been the law in california since 2005. And its so that people can see you. Its for your own safety. And if you dont just do it because you should, the new sheriff in town will get you. The name is sheriff bastida, he will get you the rain is out there and we need it and we are getting it. Rough commute home. Heres the reason why people will be late. We have a smattering of very heavy rainfall all throughout the bay area. Well zoom in tighter and show you whats going on. 680 the heaviest rain is now leaving san ramon and dublin but pouring toward livermore. Heavy showers also for la miranda and concord and Pleasant Hill and farther north, theres i80. Basically from vallejo to davis, we are seeing heavy rainfall and heavy rain moving through the napa valley and highway 29. Live picture we want to show you lucky drive, highway 101, we have ourselves a lot of rain, we have ourselves a lot of traffic issues. Actually traffic really given the circumstances not moving along that poorly right there, elizabeth will be back with more traffic coming up. How much rain so far . Petaluma coming up on one inch. San jose, muchneeded rain for you, half inch already and its raining right now. Milpitas, concord, San Francisco about a third of an inch. And we are looking at more rainfall coming up tonight. Also the chance of thunderstorms. Now, other parts of the country big deal. Thunderstorms, orlando gets 87 days with thunderstorms a year. Houston, texas gets 65 days with thunderstorms a year. We are the wimpiest thunderstorm city in the country. We average 2, 2 thunderstorm days a year for the entire year and one of those nights may be tonight because we have very unstable air moving in with the front. Thats storm number 1. That gives us the rainfall this evening. After a break on thursday, here comes storm number 2. This storm is actually stronger but will move south so the heaviest rain and gusty winds and best chance of a thunderstorm tonight with this front moving through this evening. So well get a brief break once that front moves through. Well have rain and wind this evening. Well get a bit of a break on thursday. Then on friday, here comes storm number 2. Another round of rain and another round of wind. So pretty active weather pattern especially considering most of the winter the only activity has been are you going to get a tan or not . Tomorrow scattered showers low 60s. Friday were wet and windy again. Saturday morning a few leftover showers and then dry for much of the weekend saturday afternoon all of sunday were dry. Monday and tuesday we are dry before showers on wednesday. The bulls eye for steadiest rain and strongest winds now to 10 00 tonight. Thank you. Well, accused of turning your trash into their treasure. Coming up next, you recall see what a fired supervisor says is proof of fraud at the bay areas biggest recycling center. And surviving a plunge down the bay area cliff. Kpix 5 has exclusive video of dramatic rescues. ,,,,,,,, casts doubt on recologys cs to be the greenest recycling company in the country. A former supervisor has givens so tonight, we have exclusive information about a lawsuit that casts some doubt on recologys claims to be the greenest recycling company in the country. A former supervisor there has given us some Surveillance Video that is quite an eye opener. I do believe in the green environmentallyfriendly sound policies. Reporter Brian Mcveigh was once proud of his job, a supervisor at recology where a Curbside Recycling Program and two Buyback Centers have helped San Francisco reach an 80 recycling rate the highest in the nation. But at this Buyback Center on tunnel road, brian says there were problems. So he installed surveillance cameras to keep an eye on things. Theres the attendant. And he is going to weigh the material. Reporter he estimates that was about 2 pounds of plastic and 3 pounds of aluminum. But the report for that transaction shows something completely different. 68 pounds of plastic and 47 pounds of aluminum. Then off the customer goes to get his cash to later split with his buddy the employee. And this is just an example what would go on all day. Reporter in rate year 2008, for example, Company Records show 4. 1 Million Pounds of bottles and cans taken in for recycling at tunnel road. But only 2. 5 Million Pounds leaves tunnel road for processing. Armed with the evidence, brian took his findings to management but says he was told to back off even threatened. I was told that people in the company wanted me as the quote was in the pit. I took it as a death threat. Reporter in 2008, brian was terminated in the company. In a lawsuit he says recology was covering up the fraud because he says they were profiting from it. They have scammed the city and the ratepayors when it comes to diversion. Reporter his Attorney Says based on the inflated weight, recology received bonuses for diverting more waste from the landfill. The company went to the city and said, you should pay us a bonus if we help get diverse. Reporter thats not all. Mcveighs lawsuit claims recology was defrauding the state of california, as well. Why is it such a big deal . Ill show you. When you bring these plastic bottles in to recology, the buy back centers, they have to pay you a dollar six a pound. Thats money they have to recoup from the state of california. If you just throw it in the bin, they only get 51 cents a pound from this stuff, the same bottle. Now, mcveigh says the recology was reporting many more of these valuable bottles coming in when in reality, they were filling in the numbers with these cheap ones. Every time a vehicle or a person comes in with material, it comes across the scale. Reporter recologys robert reed claims theres no way the two kinds of recycling material could get mixed up but what he failed to explain is what we noticed. Park over here and meet our employee. Reporter when he took us on a tour inside recologys Processing Center at pier 96. The curbside material is actually a mountain of bottles and cans and paper and even garbage. Once its sorted and bailed, the bales are not labeled as coming from curbside. Bales of buy back material shipped from tunnel road are not there. There is no way to tell which is which when they leave. Couldnt you take from the curbside and mix it with the buyback . We are doing everything humanly possible to make sure that these programs run correctly. Reporter the company says if there ever was any cheating, San Francisco ratepayers were not affected. As for those Company Records that show millions of buyback pounds missing, that amounted to more than just a little loss. We are talking about millions of dollars. Those allegations are false. We are limited what we can say because of pending litigation. Reporter the company says it changed protocols in the buy back centers. After mcveigh left the scales were connected directly to the computers making the counts more accurate. Im ryan takeo live in walnut creek where its raining again. The hoods run, the umbrellas are out. Well have a live look at the roads coming up. It communicates the idea that we have really low expectations of young people. The backlash over a new School Policy that makes it harder to suspend disruptive students. 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Its been a long wet commute for drivers on lucky drive but do we ever need the rain we have Team Coverage starting with paul deanno in the weather center. Going on right now a lot of rainfall behind me right there. Kpix 5 hidef doppler showing you that heavy rainfall now moving back into the city of San Francisco. Back into marin and back into san mateo county. South bay you are up next. Wheres the heavy rain falling in the east bay . Thats antioch and brentwood, rainfall rates in excess of one inch per hour thats heavy rain right over top of brentwood currently and well zoom back out to show you that theres plenty more rain moving in from the south and west. Everything is moving in from southwest to northeast. Even though its raining heavily in many spots right now we still have two or three more hours of that steady rainfall before we can wrap up the worst of the storm. Soaking rains continue on and off. Wind gusts about 30 to 40 miles everywhere. Give it 20 or 30 but theres a chance of a thunderstorm more coming up in 10 minutes. We have people out there too. Ryan takeo is live in walnut creek. Ed to to goology temperature. Reporter 30 minutes ago it was raining pretty good. We had this out just to show you about how soaked this was use this try to use that as a cover. That didnt work so well. Heres video we took in the last 30 minutes. People were surprised and didnt think we were going to get the rain. Take a listen. So wheres your umbrella . Unfortunately, i forget the umbrella. So well see. I like the rain. Its been dry lately. So im glad its raining. Reporter here in walnut creek the rain has gone down from when we took that video just within the last 20 minutes. Every once in a while it gets heavier off and on. Ryan takeo, kpix 5. We are loving that. Got to have more rain. Elizabeth wenger has a look at the traffic situation. Its not so good. I know it could always be worse. Overall the commute is slower than normal. Elizabeth wenger has more. It looks like our mobile weather spotted something in a backup right now in redwood city traveling northbound 101. Sensors are slow going from redwood city near whipple past the sfo exit. So checking some other drive times in other areas, this is a live look. That was a live look in the north bay we are going to show you a look at larkspur near lucky drive where it puddles when it rains so be careful. There may be some flooding northbound. Heres a live look. Raindrops in the camera lens this morning or this afternoon. Right now stacked up to the macarthur maze. Lets go back out to that bay bridge toll plaza shot where it is backed up for about 25 minutes. Westbound 580 slow to 680 and the Altamont Pass and the nimitz heavy from the maze to 238 and that eastshore freeway commute right now bottlenecking between berkeley and richmond. Bart experiencing major delays. In the 5 00 hour they had to shut down service in the Mission District while they searched for a robbery suspect. Never found the suspects no one taken into custody but they still have residual delays even though bart trains are moving. Thats your latest kcbs traffic. Back to you guys. Here since 4 a. M. Still going strong. Thanks, elizabeth. Track the storms anytime with our live hidef Doppler Radar on kpix. Com. We have exclusive video of a dramatic rescue down a cliff in San Francisco. A woman was walking along an off limits area near the cliff house and tumbled nearly 20 feet down the rocks. Rescue crews were on the scene after one passerby who happened to pull over to enjoy the view heard her screams for help. So i assured her i would be right back. She wanted me to help her but i decided there was no way i could get down to where she had fallen so i ran up to the cliff house, they led me, uhm they let me in and they called 911. Firefighters worked quickly. Several ropes were intricately set up so she could be hoisted to safety. Human bones found at the new transbay terminal construction site are those of an early native american. The discovery made about 60 feet below ground. An archeologist says the native American Heritage foundation has been notified. Representative will decide how the remains will be handled. Work on the site continues away from the area where those remains were found. There was an embarrassing situation this afternoon on the redwood city shoreline involving a small boat. It ran aground and got stuck in the mud. Redwood city and menlo park firefighters used their own boats to rescue three people. The stuck boat is still there and will be moved when a higher tide comes in. Rain or shine San Francisco protestors were determined to let themselves be heard. This is marched in the Mission District to stop landlords from evicting low and middle income renters through the ellis act. Some landlords are buying up properties to evict rent controlled tenants to make more money, they say. Backlash over a plan to curb the number of suspensions. Why critics say it paves the way for troubled students to skate by school. They can do anything that they set their minds to. How these bay area girls are learning about the possibilities in life thanks to robots and fried food. ,,,,,,, the San Francisco school bod voted last night to suspend students only as a last res and da lin reports tonight, another big Bay Area School district is poised to San Francisco school board voted last night to suspend students only as a last resort and da lin reports tonight another big Bay Area School district is poised to do the same thing. Reporter while its the last resort some teachers argue suspending a student is sometimes unavoidable. This teacher says she had to suspend a student last year in oakland after the teen verbally abused her and disrupted the class. I think being a teacher in general is tough and in an urban school its disproportionately. Less resources, more need. Reporter many oakland educators understand the logic behind San Franciscos latest suspension policy. Its a stopgap measure on a bleeder thats not really addressing the real cause of the problem. As oakland unified looks at making it harder for teachers to use the reasonable willful defiance, many students say they have to complement the policy by offering more counseling and support for the students. So one, it doesnt happen again and, two, they can continue to teach other students in the class. Havent the support around the teacher is critical because a teacher cant do it alone. And the resources and the training that are going to allow us to meet that act have not been forthcoming and ultimately thats the conundrum that we have to unlock. Reporter some believe if San Francisco doesnt implement its policy correctly, students wont learn the importance of accountability. It communicates the idea that we have low expectations of young people. To say that you can act in this way and nothing is going to happen. Reporter in oakland, im da lin, kpix 5. Currently oakland unified has a voluntary resolution policy. That means the teachers are encouraged to suspend students only in the most extreme cases. Robots, microscopes and french fries. How one woman uses them to help girls open their eyes to new possibilities. Our stormy evening continues right now in palo alto. A 30mileperhour wind gust heavy rainfall for you redwood city los altos, los altos hills, its rocking and rolling out there. Well talk about how long this round of heavy rain will stick around and storm number 2 because we have another to talk about. Thats next. And im dennis odonnell. 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Developed an innovative pro s being duplicat how do you get more girls interested in science and math . A peninsula woman has developed a program that is being duplicated nationwide. Sharon chin has been profiling jefferson Award Winners since 2008 and has tonights recipient. Reporter Marie Wolbach had to talk her way into a High School Physics class for boys and got turned down for a training as a physicians assistants because she is a woman. Those experiences inspired her to make a difference. Girls explore the outdoors. All part of the food chain. Reporter Program Robots they build. And analyze fat in french fries. Its a tiny taste of tech trek over the years a weeklong summer camp for underservedth grade girls founded by Marie Wolbach of palo alto. I dont know what you did this week but i left a girl and i just picked up a young woman. I work at pixar. Im doing my math at public health. Reporter since it started about 11,000 girls have learned about science and math careers while living on a college campus. Marie founded the Educational Program as part of the American Association of university women. Stanford junior lauren decided to study premed after her 2006 camp experience. That was the first time i realized hair was different under a microscope. It was cool. Reporter she started the first camp here in 1998. Today there are camps on 7 other California College campuses and in 7 other states. I want them to come away with a selfconfidence that they can do anything that they set their mind to and with a love of science even if they dont all become scientists. Reporter this stanford graduate who works at the startup says tech trek empowered her to major in chemical engineering. It was so incredible to see like role models and feel so much warmth from people believing in me and not making me feel weird for liking this so much. Its too much for one or two people. Reporter a teacher credits maries leadership for the camps success. She knew what do do. She knew how to get organized. She knew how to phone, what had to be done in what order. Reporter surveys show graduates are breaking barriers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. 96 were in college and 54 of them were stem majors. Reporter so for opening girls eyes to science and math careers this weeks jefferson award in the bay area goes to Marie Wolbach. Teachers nominate girls for the program and they get scholarships to attend. Now, afterwards, some girls say that they do go from sitting in the back of math and science classes to sitting in the front. It makes a difference. Fabulous program. Now, why does it specifically target middle school girls, the 13 and 14yearolds . Reporter marie says thats when they tend to lose interest in math and science because of societal pressure and so thats when marie tries to capture their attention. And i say she does that well. Absolutely. Some of the experiments they were doing looked like so much fun and interesting. Reporter something i wish i could have done. Absolutely. Sharon, thank you. Nominate your local hero for a jefferson award online at kpix. Com hero. We are nominating this guy as a hero because he predicted rain and it was a long shot but he managed to drag it in. And it paid off. Sometimes it pans out. It got here earlier than we got. The bull, of the rainfall is during the rush hour. Its been on and o the heaviest stuff falls for the evening commute. 580 san rafael across the bridge to richmond all around San Pablo Bay we are seeing heavier showers also berkeley, oakland, walnut creek and concord and Pleasant Hill. This is the actual front right here. This is it because the winds ahead of it have been gusting to 30 or 35 Miles Per Hour. Its raining now in los altos and mountain view. This is a heads up for you in fremont, milpitas, san jose, saratoga and campbell. Its not raining very heavily right now. If you go out in 15 or 20 minutes its going to be pouring because all of that is heading in your direction and pouring up and down the Santa Cruz Mountains which is excellent for folks in Monterey County and santa cruz county. They rely on the rain all year long and we are getting beneficial rainfall right now. Totals just today excellent news. It is going to be windy. There is a wind advisory in effect along the coastline from sonoma all the way down to monterey. We will see sustained winds 25 Miles Per Hour. Its already doing that. Some wind gusts may exseem 50 miles an hour. And that may bring down some small trees or definitely some branches. And in the mountains theres more. We have a Winter Weather advisory in effect. Lake level right around tahoe 3 to 7 new inches of snow above 7,000 feet we can double that number almost up to a foot and a half of new snow. Big change from earlier this week when we hit 80 degrees, right . This is storm number 1 moving through with a front right now. After that front clears things calm down overnight tonight and tomorrow just a few showers. Thats the first storm. We have another one behind me there. Storm number 2, this is the front that will give us the rain this evening. We get that break tomorrow. As that front clears. The second storm moves in. This one will be bigger. This one will be stronger. But this one is not going to make a direct hit. Its going to dive down into southern california. They are going to have some wind and thunderstorms and rain, perhaps mud slides. For us we are looking at a glancing blow but more rainfall coming up on friday. Rain totals an inch or two in total by friday night for the east and south bays. Even more for the north bay and San Francisco you may end up with upwards of 2. 5 of much needed rainfall. Wet and windy this evening. Theres a slight chance of a thunderstorm but its diminishing. Friday, well also be wet and windy so this is a stormy pattern right after the end of the workweek. So a break tomorrow. Friday wet again. Saturday morning a few showers. You want to get outside over the weekend saturday afternoon is dry, sunday will be dry. And next monday and next tuesday also trending dry. But wet if you are heading out this evening. We have sports for you. Spring training baseball time talk about that next. , heights. Litterally. Yusmiero use mereo pat petit, almost th spring training starting off with a bang . Josh reddick took it to new heights he almost threw a perfect game last year not today. Then again, not much help from friends. The ball gets past hunter pence rolls to the wall. Oakland scored four runs in the 1st inning. Josh reddick didnt weight around to make the catch of the reach. Michael morris deep, deep, deep, josh reddick, that is a catch of the year. He took a home run away halfway up the 10foot wall. Closers usually struggle in spring training. This is the debut for sergio romo. And not the one he was hoping for. Steven vogt to run triple. Romo roughed up for six runs in one inning deja vu. Bombbottom of the 4th, reddick with two huge plays against the same man. Morris and the as beat the giants, 10 to 5. That was a double play. Reddick may have robbed morris of a home run or two but he was in a giving mood and offered to take the giants new left fielder to dinner and pick up the tab. Hello, diamond charlies jed rowley the as starting shortstop and he will be joined by fellow alum Michael Taylor and sam will likely compete for one of the final spots on the roster but right now its Trees Company in phoenix. We got three guys, yeah. Somebody made a mistake somewhere. Yeah, its i played with jed for one year. Never got a chance to play with sam but we have run across each other with pro ball but theres three of us so were taking on all intellectual property, anyone who wants to challenge us in anything thats what we are looking at. Reporter make mark marcus proud. Probably working but im sure he is smiling for a second or two. Ken, youre always complaining about not enough promotion. Of course. The rangers you know where they are doing the new promotion . When are they going to win a world series . They are doing their Promotional Campaign in the bathroom because its cheap, they dont have it go very far. Good acoustics. It might be an idea for kpix 5. [ laughter ] never know. Well, if you find a great coach find a way to keep him. Jerry jones once lost Jimmie Johnson beginning a downward spiral in dallas. Could that happen with the 49ers . Today on kcbs radio john madden suggested the coach and general manager have to be on the same page or else. Eventually, they have to come to a decision together. And it cant be a power play. It cant be where, you know, one wants one player and one wants the other and then they have to have a power play over it. Thats the thing. And then if they do, i think the coach has to have it. If it disconnects in the front office, let me tell you this, its a lot easier to get a suit than it is to get a coat. Wow. You can hear that whole interview with john madden on kpix. Com. Knicks point guard Raymond Felton returned to practice one day after being arrested for illegal possession of a firearm and he will play tomorrow night. This is not a distraction to this team. You know, im focusing on finishing out this season. Not a distraction . check out todays back page of the new york post. Felton under contract with the knicks for two more seasons is due back in court on june 2 and he could face 23 years in jail. Its already been quite a season for steph curry. 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