You can see the perspective looking at the river and looking up stream and a lot of current out there with the water level rising and the water level rising cresting to 27 feet in the shortterm. Back out here live the Flood Warning has expired but bill we were talking yesterday and you were talking about how impressive the water level is, draining water and an area of 1500 square miles. Looking at the river and there is so Much Movement on this river, we see big trees every now and then swooping by me and it gives you an idea it is happening in front of our eyes the drainage basin and happening in this very narrow area. Of course the flood and concern out there but thankfully with the river levels and the rainfall rates backed off a bit. The forecast center back on the forecast for the river level here at russian level at gurnville. We know the Russian River is not that wide and built with flood planes on either side. You are in a flood plane. Look at how it flairs out. That shows you that river is used to handling a lot. The flood planes is bill from past floods essentially, correct . Correct. I will say if it reaches flood stage that is a minor event. Residents have their own markings of when the river can go up to 35 feet, 40 feet and thats when you get serious concerns. Today they have noticed a big change in the river. But it is not reaching that alert stage, that severe stage. By the way we are talking yesterday. Last week at this time the river stage was about 6 feet. In seven days it has gone up 20 feet. I got to ask where you got the weighters. I asked you, did you buy some . Yes. It is funny. I know dared me. There is a Sporting Good store in kings fishing. A fishing store and they loaned me these so i have to go and take them off and the weighters are working great. I thought you sprung for them. Nice touch. I know you will be covering the continuing storms. Amazing how fast water goes up. I was going to say the same thing. Julia at 6 feet and now 25 and 26 feet. Amazing and it is so much water. Bill, thank you. The Russian River was not the only area to dodge a weather bullet. A break in the rain allowed waters to recede. The temporary stay may be just a delay to the inef visible and as ktvu jesse gary reports, the fear of rising water has some people ready to act. Reporter yes. When winter comes and it starts raining for a while, we know to take our cars to the top and load a bag because we will be out for at least a night. Reporter susan and lonnie revis High School Sweethearts going strong 50 years after they said i do but the solid love stands on shaky ground under their feet. Heavy rains have swollen the creek behind their trailer home. The creek bank has erroded and another sustained downpour could send water over the retaining wall swamping their home. It tears everything up deciding on the house and everything goes. Because there is no way of preventing it. We toured more rin and so knowmo where water is rushing next to and in some cases across area streets. But we found evidence of a break in the rain is allowing floodwaters to recede. The pause has some people preparing for what comes next. The sand bag and exit strategy. As soon as another, say another three feet high and it keeps raining from the levels it is now. Then we start saying pack it up. We checked with the ch p and officers said there is road closures and a minor mudslide on ox a dental road. The worry, once the rain returns so will the problems as the water rises. The revises say this is a tradition that they pack up every winter and lonnie and susan stan ready to let Mother Nature win the watery skirmish. News fuse fox 2 now. We are following developing news in pacifica. Just in the last few minutes. Sky fox over a neighborhood where a large tree up rooted this and toppled over. Take a look. It hit one house on delmar avenue. Our crew on the scene says they expect that home to be either yellow or red tagged. A large tree out there. We are working now to learn more details for tonights 10 00 news. The rain created problems in the east bay. The ktvu crew came across this bolder that came to a rest east of the driveway park. Drivers navigated around the slide on the narrow road. And look at morgan hill, you can see it is full and according to the santa county Water District the Water Reservoir is at capacity compared to last month 59 percent of capacity. You can download the free ktvu weather app for the latest, it has live radar and extended forecast. You can get the latest updates on facebook, twitter and instagram. San Francisco State university issued an alert about a Sexual Assault on campus that happened at one this morning. A female student says she had been sexually assaulted bay male acquaintance. It happened in a restaurant by the tennis court. The student described her attacker 20 years old and 57 and dark hair. Anyone with information call campus police. San Francisco Police are searching for the driver of a white van believed to be involved in a deadly accident this morning. Officers were call to broadway and powell before 6 arm. Witnesses say an asian man was lying in the street and pronounced dead. A witness told police he saw a white van leaving the area. He saw a white van on prowl street making a turn on to westbound broadway striking the pedestrian and fled the scene westbound on broadway. The victims name is not released. Officers are looking for a white van that may have front end damage and looking for anyone that may have Surveillance Video from the area. Human remains along bucks canyon road near the lake county line. Found on wednesday. Investigators searched a wider area and found human bones from two individuals. Its not known how long they were there. The Sheriffs Department says there are no missing persons report in that part of northern napa county. Today people across japan paused to mark five years since the massive earthquake and tsunami killed 18,000 people. Moments of silence and Memorial Services held across the country to remember the victims. Survivors say that the road to recovery has been slow. They say more than 16,000 people are still living in temporary housing. Today protestors gathered at parliament to show their frustration. We spend life away from our homes. Families are divided and scattered as our experiences continue into another year we wonder when will we be able to return to our homes. Japans emperor is helping those that have been displaced but for now his heart aches for them. New at six. Ktvu john sasaki joins us from San Francisco japan town to show us the local support for the victims in japan. John. This event is getting started. And the message is simply never forget. People here say some victims worry thats already happened. It was a quiet day at the japanese cultural center. People were organizing a vigil for what happened five years ago. It was horrific. A wall of water hundreds of miles wide slammed in the coast wiping out entire cities. Nearly 16,000 people were killed and another 2500 remain missing. Nothing can prepare you for it. Nothing. 6 months later paul sackki visited the region where hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes. That image will live with you forever it was foundations up to the scene and went miles back and you knew they used to be someones homes. After raising 4 Million Dollars for the Recovery Efforts the center hoss the vigil with an eye for the future. If you are not living it every day sometimes it can get pushed to the back of your mind and for us i think it is important to bring awareness to everybody and let them know there is still people there because although it has been five years there is still a lot of people that need help. The small paper ma chet cows were painted by seniors and children here. Ocean beach is one place where any tsunami here would strike hard. We have to be ready. Mayor lee says the city has been taking important steps investigating an early earthquake system. Having that on your phone saves a few seconds. We will be utilizing that and have that Training System and the sirens that work. Organizers here say people in the affected areas no longer ask for money or supplies, they just say dont forget us. I remember we were doing the 10 00 news and doing the set and we saw the pictures and came on the set and on for an hourandahalf just incredible. You saw those cars and the homes just being tossed around. The power. The power of that. Something. Incredible. All of that devastation as well. All of those people killed. A deputy public defender arrested after questioning police photographerring her client. After a newly released finding says about her arrest. Snow falling in the sierra. We will show you the conditions if you are headed to the snow. Tracking lower snow elevations and rain for your bay area weekend. Hundreds gathered in Southern California today to say goodbye to nancy reagan. Families and friends and political figures and hollywood elite gathered at the library for the first ladys funeral. Remembered for her fierce devotion and love for her late husband. Eulogized by her son and daughter. They were coequals and complimented one another. Individually they may have gone far but together they could and did go anywhere. A long bagpiper, the same one that honored president reagan 12 years ago played at the funeral today. The former first lady was laid to rest right next to her husband at the reagan library. San franciscos office of citizen complaints has determined that a deputy public defender was wrongly arrested and detained last year. That Public Defenders Office released the findings today. You may remember this video from january of 2015 when deputy public defender jamie tillason was arrested at the hall of justice for allegedly obstructing police when she questioned officers who were photographing her client. The oc c determined that she was arrested without cause. A new list is out of the top fifty safest cities. Hillsborough tops the list. The rankings are based on f. B. I. Statistics. Cal fire is alerting certain residents that lost their homes in last years fire that they are exempt from paying the Fire Protection fee. That fee of 150 a year helps to cover the costs of fighting fires where the state was responsible and not local fire departments. Some homes are covered by the fee and those homes and others wont have to pay that fee this year. Heavy snow started to falling in the sierra. A delight for skiers and snow borders who are ready to spend the wake on the slope. We have a look at the latest conditions from borealis ski resort. Snow moved across the sierra landscape by gusts of wind. It fell almost constantly at highest elevations at soda springs. 7200 feet at the base of the mountain at borealis ski resort and impacted visibility and not enough to deter anyone from skiing. This is this mans first time snowboarding. It wasnt too bad. I thought it would be more fog but it has been good. There is another ten inches expected for tomorrow and a foot for sunday. Winter is not over. Make sure you get up here and enjoy the snow. Slippery roads and todays story no real traffic. Traversing the sierra was as easy as it gets and people were grateful to see snow. For one we need it as much as we can. And with more snow coming the Road Conditions could change. Joe happens to be a professional driver was driving from reno to modesto. This type of weather slow down. No hurry. Just slow down. All right. We want to get another check of the weather. Heavy snow is late this afternoon in the sierra and supposed to snow more tonight and weekend. Good news. The last few storms that went in snow and rain. The water runs to the yuba and sacramento and runs to the bay. You want snow. The next two systems saturday and sunday will bring a cooler regime which sets us up with lower snow levels and more snow. It is snowing up there as julie points out. It will be a fun day if you like powder and snowboard or skier. Usually the rainfall accumulations from today. Less than anticipated in the Russian River drainage hence dropping the Flood Warning. Stays in effect through sunday. I am surprised we did have a story about this free down in pacifica. Im surprised we did not see more trees down. There may be more that we havent picked up. Rain showers curing. I got a message from palo alta. We are getting hammered says one lady. Seeing breaks but cloudy and foggy. Mission peak getting rain and san jose significant rain. And back out and up in the mountains, you can bet you are chained up on 50 and snow levels dropping down to 5400 feet tonight easily and it will snow. It will snow throughout the night and easily see a foot of snow certainly by midmorning tomorrow. 7 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. The system number two, three, four. I lost count but the next system. Cold one. Not here yet. There it is. Thats the front. 1 00 on saturday. It starts to get close. This is where the thunderstorms would be and they would be if they stay in tack. See how narrow the band is. They dont deliver a lot of rain but can deliver a lot of punch because of the dynamics in close proximity. The pressure gradients type and so you get this line of showers like a squall line that may go through. Mark will be in here and rosemary tomorrow. Saturday at lunchtime you get your break and sunday you get another morning system and then more scattered showers sunday afternoon. What did i get . The weekend is a lot better than the last two days and sun will come out and period of heavy rain and there will be opportunities to get out and do stuff. Not prolonged and wont go to an outdoor concert but the opportunity to get out and enjoy at least sunshine and maybe go for a quick run and maybe go ride and do what you do. It should be a good weekend. Bill, thank you. Some devastating news for oakland a fans. One of the starting pitchers have suffered another setback. And the warriors six losses and one to the trailblazers. Jason applebaum coming up next with sports. And keba has a look for fox 2 news at 7. We continue to follow breaking news from the political rally in chicago. Coming up at 7 as things get out of hand for that donald trump rally forcing the front runner to cancel his appearance. The dog whisperer is best investigated for possible animal cruelty. These stories coming up at 7. Some big names are teaming up for a star studded concert at at t park. Tickets go on sale in a few days. Stood San Francisco native Carlos Santana announced the september event called San Francisco fest 2016. Santana will be joined by journey and the Steve Miller Band and the doby brothers. Tickets go on sale this monday march 14th at 10 00 a. M. Like the old day on the green. Jason is here with sports. The warriors will keep that streak alive. The warriors will go for the win at oracle when they host portland an hour from now and seth curry and the team went through the paces in the morning practice. 57 and 6. Pretty hard to find flaws. But the warriors cut down on turnovers. Dont play down to your competition. Those are the two big things. Now the last time the warriors met the blazers, they got blown out giving up a season high of 42 points. 137 for the day. Quite possibly the warriors worse game of the year. I wouldnt necessarily say the loss stuck in our mind. It is how we lost. Double digits turnovers in the 3rd quarter. And once that happened. Everybody is bringing their a game. We have to be ready for the challenge. No matter who we play. As pitcher Jarrett Parker trying to make a comeback after fracturing his pitching elbow. He is excited about coming back to the mound. Baseball has been taken away of couple of times and to come in the spring and as much as we dont like the shagging you do enjoy it. It wont happen this year for parker. Yesterday he left the mound in pain. An mri revealed he refractured his elbow. Johnny manziel cut by the browns. Kyle kaepernick still available. He says he wants to play in cleveland for new head coach hugh jackson. The 9ers are not concerned where cap wants to play but who is offering the highest compensation. The tournament in orlando. Uconn cincinnati. Kevin johnson. While the celebration is going on. This one is good to go. Seth curry there. Jaylen adams, 60 feet out and sent it to a 4th overtime and uconn went on to win. Incredible. Thank you, jason and thank you for joining us. See you later. Good night. In the battle of burgers. Jack made a declaration of delicious with the double jack combo. He formed a Perfect Union between 100 beef, cheese, and mouth. He took a stand for hot and salty fries. And the freedom to choose from hundreds of freestyle drinks all for 4. 99. And america ate it up. True story. Get the new double jack combo for just 4. 99 cause on march 30th, this deal is history. Sehold. It certainly is. So exciting. Nothing like starting a new job. Or finally coming into your own at a job you already have. Yeah. The promise of something new. 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