Are driving to the bay bridge toll plaza you can see the light. It continues to look good. If you are driving from San Francisco to oakland also looks very nice. If you are on 580 westbound, we have a little bit of crowded conditions but still traffic looks good to dub lib. 4 31 lets go back to the desk. Service, dedication, sacrifice, a public memorial will be held later this morning for a San Jose Police officer who died in the line of duty. Fox 2 news jeanean where thousands of people across the country will gather today. Reporter pam, the memorial begins here at the sap center at 11 00 a. M. , so you can expect congestion in this area. Its going to be an emotional day for officers who come here and listen to the chief and johnsons family speak about him during the ceremony, johnson was a 14 year veteran who was shot and killed while responding to a 911 call, he was a native of sack jose, he married his wife in 2013. The police chief, the attorney general, a fellow officer and johnsons sister will be speaking at this memorial celebrating his life, there will be a slide show, music shown in side, there is going to be a final lieutenant down outside the sap center. Now lets go to a map that shows the route of the procession which starts at 10 00 a. M. At a funeral home on north santa cruz avenue, the motorcade heads to winchester boulevard and off Stevens Creek ending at the sap center, there is a private funeral later today for the families, so when you are traveling this morning, take that into mind, there is going to be again congestion in those areas along the procession route and you can bet there will be people who are going to come outside of their businesses, schools along the procession route are also going to be standing outside, you know, bowing their heads in silence, sort of watching as the motorcade comes by there. Again, to honor and respect officer johnson. Pam. Yeah, most of us here in the business have done that before and its just an emotional, amazing thing to see when people line the freeways and roads to watch that in honor. 4 33 is the time, our coverage of officer johnsons memorial will start at 11 00 a. M. And we are also going to stream that live on our website, ktvu. Com. Time now is 4 33, for the first time in years, now the governor is calling for the state to reduce urban water use by another 25 . Ktvu tom has a breakdown on how bad the situation has come. Until today this was the worse ever. This was last year, a pretty bad year. This is the average depth around here at this time of year and way up there, the most that was ever recorded. That is incredible. Not a flake of snow as you see could be found yesterday at an elevation of 6800 feet. Bad news for the state which is now facing its fourth year of drought and with the obvious lack of snow governor jerry brown is issuing historic state wide cuts. I am initiating an executive order mandating substantial water reduction across our state. As californians we have to pull together and save water in every way we can. What does that mean . Well the executive order calls for replacing 50 million square feet of lawns across the state with drought tolerant landscaping, beens drinking water, and businesses not delivered by drip or microspray systems. It also replaces places restrictions rather at water at industrial sites, also a state Rebate Program to replace old water wasting appliances. The penalties and options will vary by water district. The new state mandate people are are looking for ways to cut back. Some people say they keep an extra pot in the sink when they do dishes that they use to water plants. Others say they plan on tyking shorter showers and run full loads in the dishwasher or washing machine. Following yesterdays announcement, bart detail the the efforts it has made to reduce water, it has changed the train car wash schedule from every 4 to 8 days which is a savings of 50 , looking to updatingity Irrigation Systems also. Bart is also recommending that its contractors who power wash the area around stations switch to recycled watt builder some people are on edge after three earthquakes hit the bay area in less than 24 hours, the most recent hit just after midnight at a 3. 7, felt all over the by area. 20 minutes before that a 2 point of quake hit. Those two quakes follow a 2. 6 quake, just after 7 00 a. M. , no damage or injuries reported for any of the quakes. New allegations of racial boy as in the San Francisco police department, Court Documents claimed Police Worked with the Drug Enforcement administration to crackdown on drugs in schools, 3700 people were arrested in stings, everyone arrested was african american, Police Allegations discovery the racist and homophobic texts. A new report shows wrote a letter last year urging fire chief to toughen Alcohol Testing rules for firefighters. The chronical reports a letter came after a firefighter was accused of driving a fire truck drink. Partly blaming the Fire Department for failing to maintain equipment that measures blood alcohol content. The Fire Department tells the con cell resisted the tougher rules because they would require negotiates with the union. Two homeless men were arrested. It was this video that led to the charges being dropped, it shows the male ambassador striking one of the homeless men, a female ambassador appears to give orders to a second man, etimen made threats and assaulted them, the male ambassador has been fired and the female suspended. An ac at that in College Emergency vehicles in the area of that college, ken jan Security Forces have reportedly cornered the gunmen in allege. One student who escaped said the attackers identified themselves from the terror Group Alshabab which is linked to alqaida. United states and other world pour hers are working toward an agreement. Progress is being made but a political understanding has not yet been reached. If they can grow on an outline of a deal they have until june 30th to work out the detail. Republican leaders will announce, preventing discrimination against bays and customers. Now earlier this week indiana governor mike pence, that was after a huge backlash by companies and organizations across the country condemning the measure, lawmakers in arkansas are making changes to a similar bill there. Hutchison was set to sign the bill until he was encouraged to veto it by walmart. There is clearly a generational gap on this issue. My son, seth, signed the petition asking me, dad, the governor to veto this bill. By area High Tech Companies including apple, sales for twitter and yelp came out against the freedom bills. It said it would not cater a same sex wedding after the religious freedom act was signed into law. We are not discriminating against any one. Its just that is our belief and everybody has their right to believe anything. The owners say they would not deny regular service to a couple only weddings that they would not cater. Reaction was swift, hundreds of people from all over the country posted negative comments. While a gofundme page has raised 53,000 so far. Time now is 440 and coming up hundreds of children with nowhere to go, the reason a preschool may be forced to shut its doors. The more of these that occur, the more comfortable he becomes. A serial robber on the loose, up next a business he is targeting and what police say he does when he approaches his victim. We are looking at the San Francisco commute on northbound 101 traffic looks good, well tell you more about that straight ahead. It looks like a beautiful day, skies are clear, a little breeze as well, we have baseball weather coming up, what . Tonight. At t park, bundle up, it will be clear but it will be chilly. Welcome back, time now is 4 44, police are trying to catch a man who has been linked to five recent robberies, police say the robber hit three businesses last week including a gas station and a pharmacy. Earlier this week he robbed two downtown 711 stores, police say the man covers his face and acts quickly, he walks into the store and says i have a gun, give me your money and then leaves. He hadnt outright displayed what is a weapon, if he is referring to having a weapon we are going to take him at his word, if there is something that doesnt go the way he plans then this situation could escalate. Now police also say surveillance cameras have not shown how he gets away, so they dont know if he is leaving on foot or by car. A bizarre and deadly gun battle involving a officer. He open fired and witnessed a car to car shooting. The drivers, a man and a woman were both killed. The womans son ran off but later found and taken to the hospital. Its not clear who fired the fatal gunshots or how the shooting started. The Los Angeles Coroners Office says it will perform an autopsy on andrew geddy, one the of the hers was found dead. The 47yearold died of natural causes. But in court togethers, seeking a restraining order last month against his ex girl, he mentioned he did suffer from a serious medical condition that puts him at risk of death. Now, police say that the ex girlfriend found his body but they do not believe at this point that she is responsible for his death. A new report shows more than 11 of people in the bay area are living in poverty. The report says more than 800,000 people live below the federal poverty line, annual income of less than 24,000 for a family of four. The joint venture Silicon Valley study shows San Francisco has the ratest rate at 14 . Historically 9 of bay area residents live in above ferry. Bay area walmart employees are asking for a pay raise, workers at three stores held rallies, they want to be paid 15 an hour and offer consistent full time schedules. Workers at Walmart Stores fought to get their pay increase to 12. 25 an hour but asking for more now saying that is not a living wage here in the bay area. 12. 25 is nice but its not enough. People are not making enough to survive. We are going to keep on fighting and pushing until people are making a living wage. The demonstrators also say they want shoppers to know that walmart did not volunteer to raise their pay, the change only came about because workers pushed for it. Mcdonalds has plans to raise hourly pays for restaurant workers, the pay hikes lift the hourly rate to 1 above the minimum wage starting july 1st. Mcdonalds will give vacation time, 10 of all mcdonalds restaurants, expecting average wages to be more than 10 an hour next year. Workers have been pushing for a pay rate of 15 an hour. Time now is 4 47, a big smile on my face because baseball makes its returns, the as and giants. Details in a few moments, it will be scott for the oakland as against jake peevey for San Francisco. Game at at t tomorrow night and third game in oakland on saturday afternoon. Both teams officially start the season on monday. Well yesterday we got a preview of what fans can expect this upcoming season, you saw the three world series trough pees, they always win there are new food choices, gluten free, giants will have special bobble head give aways featuring moments from game 7 world series win, the home opener as we mentioned monday, april 13th. They have all kinds of great food, new food things planned. Yeah. A little that is always exciting at at t park. Coliseum, too. Yes with the as, there is another man smiling, bible, seems like it just finished here we are again. Good, you know i have been a lifelong giants fan. I thought you were a dodgers fan. Dodgers. But i am not even going to address that. Remember the its only been since 2010, five years, before 2010 i was a long suffering giants fan, there you go. We are from san diego, we know about that. All right,. Good morning, everyone, the commute is doing very well, if you are driving around the bay area there have been no major problems so far, starting off by looking at the commute here on the bay bridge approach, it is a nice drive, westbound coming in to San Francisco, no problems into the city right now, if you want to take the bay bridge its a good time do do that. This is a lock at interstate 880 in oakland, by the way, one of these three games will be played at the coliseum, the giants and as before the regular season starts. And the morning commute on westbound 580, the commute is looking good. Already a little bit of slow traffic but for most part it looks good. Left go to steve in the weather center. It could be a cubs fan that is long suffering. That is right, if i wore if i were a cubs fan that is the way it would be. Have you to root for your team. One of our loyal watchers, in the richmond district, any way, she is a cubs fan. Look at the breeze, they call me the breeze, mr. Jj kale, it is going to be breezy tonight. If you are heading out northwest breeze or north wind there is a robust breeze for some on the coast and also out to the valley. Joe johnson, clear, chilly, northwest 15, maybe gusts 20 25, dress accordingly, it will drop fast. As you saw the snow pack, worse ever. Snow 5 above average, can it get any worse . 40s and 50s, if it wasnt for the breeze 29 gusts to fairfield about the same for 20 for nevado, until you get to the peninsula and south bay it is not as bad, sfo at 12. A little system, that is about it for right now. Clear up to the north and maybe just a few thousand dollars, 28 in truckee, 39 in arcade a, 30s or 20s up in the mountains, blue canyon and south lake tahoe, clear today, looks good until right there, that is Like Old School coming out of the gulf of alaska, still aways away, i am showing this because its off seattle and portland. That will be the change for the weekend, first system that comes through doesnt do a lot, the next couple days some patchy frost, nice but breezy to windy, increasing clouds on saturday and some rain returns on sunday, highs will be in the upper 50s to near 60, this is your futurecast. I dont always like to show this, in this case i agree with it, rain approaching for late saturday or likely it will sweep through overnight saturday into sunday, a better system is on tap for monday night and tuesday, i know what monday night is for the as. Sunny and nice, north wind to the east, Higher Elevations in the coast as well. 60s and 70s on the temperatures. I will tell you, you get that breeze in upper 30 or 40, cold tomorrow morning, sunny and increasing clouds saturday, sunday cloudy with some rain, better system will be late monday into tuesday. Boy, we are starting april with the way we should have been like you mentioned yesterday, right . Yes. Hey, brian,. How are you doing. Even some snow. What a prima donna he gets all the cool stuff. I am going to move on from here. Earlier this morning in San Francisco children on spring break will enjoy free holiday fun, 20th egg hunters paradise will take place at bay view play ground at third and armstrong streets arting at 91 00 this morning, hunting eggs and e bunny. Kids may swim for free, San Francisco firefighters will provide food for children and their families. It will be a little chilly. Too might be cold. But the Easter Egg Hunt sounds fun. 4 53, a texas state trooper is in the dog house. Coming up in 26 minutes, the simple action with rapper snoop dog that could affect the officers career. Americans and their smart phones after the break, new numbers showing how many people just cant live without their handheld devices. Talking to veterans about the real issues theyre dealing with can be awkward and uncomfortable. We think to ourselves, i never served. How could i understand . Theyll talk about it when theyre ready. And then we wonder why they dont want to talk. But when their behavior changes, when they withdraw to themselves, increase Substance Use or even talk about hurting themselves its time to act. Because if we dont, our families and relationships will suffer. Ask the hard questions. Listen to the veterans in your life and show you care. Make the call. It matters. When you recognize a veteran is in crisis call the Veterans Crisis line at 18002738255 and press 1. Its now 4 55, dozens of people in richmond say they are going 0 a rent strike tenants gathered outside their building, they are upset at the landlord. Rents for 2 bedroom parts average about 1,000 a month. Rent increases too much, maybe if i can pay the rent i am not going to have food for my kids, that is the reason why we are fighting. Now the residents say they plan to only pay what was charged to them before the increase. Time is 4 55, and a well known Italian Restaurant in San Franciscos north beach neighborhood will shut down after all. Cap as corner stood on the concerner of powell and groan for years. Owners had been trying to negotiate a new lease agreement, but the two sides did not come to a deal. According to the chronicle the owners met with the staff yesterday and decided to close down. Last day of business will be april 19th. Well starting today, american travelers can book home rentals in cuba through air b and b, we checked the website this morning showing nearly 600 rentals available in havana this month with tries starting at 30dollar as night. For the last 50 glories the trade embargo has blocked businesses, b and b has been talking with homeowners thereafter the last three months. Americans heading to cuba must still fill out paperwork and list the reason for their visit and tourism is not one of the approved category. Art has a new set of crossover tracks in the east bay that says it will help keep trains moving more efficiently. Another set opened this year, crossovers make it easier for trains to shift directions, they also make it easier for trains to go around a disabled train. Its no secret americans love their smart phones, especially pam over here. Now we have the numbers to prove it, according to a new study 46 of the americans say they just cant live without their smart phones. 54 said the gadgets arent always needed but do improve their lives. 70 of americans associate their smart phones with the word freedom, more than leash. I think it feels good when i have all my loved ones near me. So that my kids can get ahold of me. Coming up next in our 5 00 hour, a violent assault on a taxi driver. You know, this guy just starts hitting me from behind. Ktvu spoke with the victim, what he is revealing about the attack and the unusual weapon used by the suspect. And a dance group in San Francisco taking its show to new heights, where you can catch their vertical show and purpose behind it. Good morning, we are looking at a commute here on the san matt tse i dont bridge, if you are driving westbound heading out to the peninsula, well tell you more straight ahead. Skies are clear and not as cold, we have a decent breeze, its down right windy for a few, if you are heading to at t park tonight for baseball, well have that forecast and looking ahead to the weekend. We are live in san jose where preparations are under way for todays Memorial Service for fallen Police Officer michael johnson, well tell you what is planned at the ceremony and what you need to know about the procession