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Following breaking news right now in Mountain View. Theres a Police Search going on in a neighborhood. Ktvus janine de la vega will have a live report in just a few minutes. It is friday february 7th. Im tori campbell. Good morning to you. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steve said you asked for it, youre getting it. Not yet but its on its way. Maybe too much. 10 inches of rain towards the Russian River north between now and sunday night. There could be a little mist, drizzle, its beginning to show up off the marin coast. And i know its raining on parts of the mendocino coast. Its on its way. This is a very warm moist system, and it extends to the hawaiian islands. It holds a lot of moisture, and a series of systems, one today, and another saturday, looks like an all day rainer. The projections are just crazy. Some of these projections, santa rose. 6 inches of rain. Kentfield, ross will get more than that. Sanford down toward boulder creek, Santa Cruz Mountains. Oakland 2. 60. I have seen 2. 25 between now and sunday at sfo. 40s and 50s. This is a mild system. A southeast wind, so snow levels going to go up over the weekend though a winter storm warning starts tonight and takes us into saturday. All this cloud cover is heading our way, and the enhancement is blowing up with the rain. Its on its way. Evening commute looks like a mess. Morning commute should be fine. Rain picks up laters. 50s to 60s. Heres sal. I want to mention that a good area to stay away from in Mountain View would be the area just south of highway 101 near shoreline boulevard. Janine de la vega is going to explain more about a Police Search thats going underway right now. Were going to go to her in minutes, and they are likely to be closing streets in the area. Well have a live report from the scene, in fact about a minute away here. Lets go and take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. The traffic is backed up for a 5 minute delay and 10 minutes onto the bridge itself. Its not that bad getting into San Francisco. We are also looking at interstate 880 and the traffic here is going to be moderate. A little bit of slowing getting up the high street. Big problem, 580 as you come up near the isabel exit, this crash is there, and traffic has been very slow coming in on the alta month as. 7 03. Altamont pass. A huge Police Search is underway in Mountain View for a stone car suspect. Janine de la vega just arrived on the scene. Good morning. Reporter yes, good morning, so far what we know is that no streets are closed off yet, and they dont think that there is any immediate danger to the public but there is a k9 search going on. Theyre doing a yard to yard search. Just north here of of montecedo aver. They told us to stay away from the area because the exhaust fumes were messing with the scent that the k9 was picking up. Heres what we know. For the last hour there has been an active search going on. Earlier this morning, officers spotted a stolen vehicle. Three people were inside. They were able to catch up with two of them. Theyre now in custody, but one of those people, a man ran away, and that is what theyre doing now. Trying to find where he is, and now that its daylight thats surfacing, they do believe that they will catch him within their finger. No immediate danger for within their perimeter. No immediate danger. If you can stay inside your homes, please do. No indication that the person is armed. They want to take all precautions as they can. Well update you as soon as we get new information. Reporting live from Mountain View, janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 news. 7 04, the bay area is bracing for the next round of storms. While the water is definitely needed, some places are concerned now about the possibility of flooding. Ktvus alex savage is live in san rafael, with the precautions before the weekend rain hit. Reporter things have been dry in san rafael throughout the morning, but things are about to change in a big way. Were going to get a whole lot of rain, and its going to come all at once basically this weekend, and thats why here at san rafael fire station number two, they have sand, and they have sandbags and they have the shovel. All ready to go for people to come down here and get sandbags to put near their home, if theyre worried about flooding. The battalion chief here at the station told me a short time ago, this pile was much bigger earlier on this week. Clearly a lot of homeowners have trying to be ready for the downpour thats expected this weekend. We have a little preview of whats to come as a storm blew through during yesterday mornings commute. Most areas picked up less than an inch of rain yesterday. Later today, though, things get worse. The forecast calls for several inches of rain to fall in most areas. Some areas will get more rain in 2 days than they did during all of last year, and with so much rain falling after such a long dry spell, firefighters here in marin say they are worried about the possibility of mud slides. It will be interesting to see what happens with the long spell of dry and then getting a large dump of rain to see how that affects us, but anywhere usually backyards, clogged drains, what we have is if anybody sees any leaves or anything in a drain or anything like that, let us know or the department of public works, if we can get ahead of the clogs, that will be ourest issue. Across the bay area, crews are clearing out drains and making preparations to avoid flooding with the huge storm. The santa clara Water District is working to clear debris to make sure the rain can flow freely once it arrives this weekend. As we come back out here leave, this is the picture in san rafael at fire station number two. Firefighters offering up sand and sandbags and they know this sand will be in high demand later on today. Likely this will be a busy fire station. Theyll have the sandbags available here at station number two and also station number five and the battalion chief tells me with the storm set to arrive later this afternoon, theyll be getting another shipment of sand coming in at some point today. Live in san rafael. Alex savage ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you alex. Ktvu will have complete coverage as the storm moves in. You can get weather updates on the go, on our ktvu app, and ktvu. Com. Time now 7 07. The opening ceremonies for the winter Olympic Games in sochi russia start in an hour from now. U. S. Athletes have been arriving there all week. The most expensive Olympic Games ever are getting underway surrounded by security and terrorism concerns. Coming up for you at 7 30. Well bring you a live report from sochi, well hear what u. S. Olympic athletes are saying about the security preparations. Uc president janet nay poll tan napolitano will lead the u. S. , where either the president , Vice President or the first lady has not represented the u. S. Janet will attend several competitions including the u. S. Womens ice hockey game against finland, ice dancing, the figure skating and the mens speed skating and snowboarding events. By the way, several uc alumni are competing in the Olympic Games. Its 7 08. New this morning, a man is fighting for his life after being stabbed in san jose overnight. It happened shortly before 3 00 this morning on south market street. When officers arrived, they say they found the man with at least one stab wound. He was taken to a hospital locally with a life threatening injuries. No arrests have been made, but police say the suspect and victim knew each other. The napa county coroner has released the body of 3yearold homicide victim caylee slusher to her fathers family. The little girls family is an inmate at san quenton prison. The childs mother and her boyfriend beat the child to death and hid her body in a freezer for three days. Their next Court Appearance is set for february 25th. Your time 7 09. A special web site has been set up to help a marin family dealing with a terrible situation. The web site is raising money for the powell family. 4yearold esquel powell has a rare form of cancer. It has spread to his spine and lungs. They came home from the hospital last friday, then on sunday, his 43yearold father died from whats believed to have been a heart attack. The family and friends have organized several fundraisers to help pay for the little boys chemotherapy. Just a short time from now, on the ktvu web site, were going to set up a news link so you can find out how you can help them. Happening today, a very limited beer will be made available in just a couple of hours. Russian River Brewing company will release pliny the younger. Brian flores is live where the beer loves have been lined up already waiting to get a taste, arent they. They sure are. And expert, what do you mean by that. I grew up in san diego. I know a little bit about craft beer. Big opening at Russian River Brewing Company. These guys have been in line since 11 last night. You can see all these people waiting in line. Many waiting for the big opening. Im here r with vinny, owner of the Russian River Brewing Company. How are you this morning. Im doing good. This blows me away every year. Tell me about pliney the younger. Its a triple ipa, if you will, which means we added more malt, more hop. The younger comes in at 10 1 4 percent alcohol, but ultimately all these folks here are here for the hops and the hops are the shining ingredient in this beer. Talk about this line. This line is going on for at least this block, and its probably going to get bugger as the day goes on. Our experience last year tells us it could be as long as 8 hours, 8 hour wait to get into the pub. As everyone knows we need the rain. Well take the rain. I know its limited amounts available. Limited availability. Why is that . Why not make it available to the whole country . You know, mainly because we cant make it. We cant make that much of it. It takes twice as long to make as a regular batch of beer. This is a six week beer. It takes twice as long. The ingredients, hoards of ingredients. Im not sure theres enough hops to go around. It makes it special for the time that we have it. Right. And were just flattered r and humbled that all these people would show up and wait for our beer. Its more than just a beer. You have all these people, but its a sense of Economic Development for the county and the city as well. Right. Yeah, last year the Sonoma County Economic Development agency did an Economic Impact study on the younger release and it came in at 2. 36 million of economic stimulus for the county so its really great for the county. I know all of our neighboring restaurant friends, these are their biggest two weeks coming up. Its not just our pub thats busy, but everyone in the area, hotels, its really great for the county. Thats great. Thank you for joining us. Will we be able to get a free sample, maybe for sal or dave. Absolutely. Come on down. Lots of people already in line here, thank you vinny, again for pliny the younger, thats available later this morning the and available for a limited release for the next two weeks as well. Live in s l rose, brian flores ktvu channel 2 news. Theres some dedicated beer fans there, waiting for hours. Really. It is 7 13. Demanding answers, what is expected from a special task force Just Launched to investigate an alleged hate crime at san jose state. I think im stubborn enough to say i just wont giver in. Why a Central Valley woman is determined to run for Congress Despite getting serious death threats. Told ya you could do it. dad vo i want her to be safe. So, i taught her what i could and got her a subaru. girl piece of cake. announcer love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Welcome back. This is a live look. Day two of a bond hearing for retired tampa Police Captain accused of shooting a man in a Movie Theater after an arrangement of texting. The camera is panning around at a lot of different things, while in there live in the courtroom. The captain, the former retired captain, has pled not guilty to the killing of chad olson. Police say olson was texting in the Movie Theater during the previews and thats when the argument started and then escalated. If hes convicted, the retired captain could get a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison. Time 7 16. The fbi now joining the search for a missing 5 day old baby in southern wisconsin. Investigators say the babys 18 yearold mother called 911 early yesterday, said her son was missing from his bassinet. That phone call triggered a massive search. Dozens of Police Officers and federal agents are now searching the entire state looking for a baby named caden. Investigators continue to evaluate the information being compiled. At this time no suspects have been identified and no arrests have been made. Police say the babys young mother and father, theyre cooperating with investigators. Theyre also now questioning other family members as they continue to search for leads. Time is 7 17. Prosecutors in the south bay hope an unusual piece of evidence will help solve a cold case murder. Theyre trying to find out who killed kathy zimmer in 1989. She was found strangled in the backseat of her car in a short term parking lot at the san jose airport. Whats unusual in this case is the quilt that was covered her body. Investigators hope that someone will recognize this quilt or even some of the material used to make it. They say this is not reached out to the public before about the quilt because detectives at the time wanted to hold back some information that only the kill rer would know. A woman who says she was severely attacked 20 years ago because she stood up for her principles is running for congress in stockton. 65yearold Karen Matthew davis is the former clerk for stanislaus county. Challenging jerry mcdermy. She survived an assault by a group of tax protesters and now she has received a letter threatening her life. She doesnt know if its the same group. She insists it will not scare her from dropping out of the race. I think im stubborn enough to say i just wont give in. I just wont do t. If i give in, whos the next person thats going to be threatened out of running for office. Threats are not anything new to her. During a tax protest, someone put a fake bomb under her car. From hawaii, someone decided to extend the spirit of aloha to two crosswalks. White paint was added to the word aloha was repeated, several times at two major intersections, it goes on and on and on. Some tourists are stopping to get their pictures taken in the crosswalks. Hawaiian officials are not laughing. They call this an act of terrorism, the changed crosswalks dont meet National Safety standards and could be dangerous for pedestrians. Someone keeps saying aloha in my ear. I think someone wants to go to hawaii. He wants to go back there. I know he does. 7 19. Lets check in with sal. Im sure a lot of people driving who wouldnt mind going to hawaii soon. That would be nice, wouldnt it. The bay area is pretty nice, but driving later today, guys, steve has been talking about it, ill remind you as well, if its going to be raining and steve says it is, driving may not be the greatst, coming home on a friday greatest, coming home on a friday evening when its pouring may not be the best thing. The bay bridge traffic is moderate. Total time of about 15 minutes crossing into San Francisco right now. That is your drive time. Also looking at the san mateo bridge. That looks good heading to the highrise. Its dry there as well. At least relatively dry as you head to the peninsula where there are no major problems. 580 at isabel has been the thorn in the livermore valleys side. Taking a while to clear it. Making progress, but traffic backed up into the altamont pass. Rain is on the way and its joining to just go nuts to the north, very mild air mass over us. Thats for sure. The evening commute looks awful. Lets just get that out there right now. Light green isnt anything. The darker is a sign of things to come. Sonoma county down to marin, things are beginning to show right in the last few frames. Right there. Here it comes. I thought we would get through most of the morning without rain, but things could pick up in an hour or so. Its moving fast and this is going to pick up the rain. Look where it goes, all the way down to the hawaiian islands, for crying out loudment it has a lot of moisture, and that moisture is going to continue to pile up and a couple series of systems, well have one friday. Heavy rain on saturday. Again, sunday morning, tapering off by sunday night. Light rain, heaviest to the north. And there will undoubt apply be urban undoubtedly. And the snow level is going to be high. This is a warm series of systems here. Look at the rainfall projections from today all the way into sunday. S l rose over 6. I have santa rosa over 6. 3 plus san rafael. Kentfield will get more than that. Ross will get more than that. 3 to 5 probably in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Oakland 2 3 4. I have seen 2 1 4 for sfo. Cloud and rain forecast shows some of the rain beginning to move to the north, and by 11, by noon, its starting to move in and this afternoon and this evening, it begins to pick up. This will be a steady rain, the heavier rain comes in tomorrow. Saturday morning, things will just get, you know, that book you have been wanting to read, this will be a good weekend to do that, or books i should say, a lot of rain. 40s and 50s. Again, were getting a southeast breeze, not too bad. I expect that to pick up. Radar has been quiet, and now its starting to light up as like i would say a christmas tree. Not yet, but its on its way ask there is a lot of moisture streaming in here. For all of you doing the rain dance, i think we all did too much. Were going to see a lot of rain over the weekend. 33 in tahoe, the snow levels going up, up, up. It might be rain at lake level by sunday. A winter storm warning at 10 00 a. M. Goes to 4 00. The wind could be howling over the passes, so keep that in mind. What snow does fall will be a wet snow. Cloudy, rain, the rains going to pick up here starting in the afternoon. Things will crank up and overnight into tomorrow, it looks wet. Light rain at clear lake, i know that. Santa rosa, ukiah has light rain. 50s on the temps. Then you get mid to upper 50s to low 60s. Especially in the Santa Clara Valley, and redwood city 57 and Mountain View at 57. Cloudy with rain. All the way into sunday. Maybe sunday night things calm down. Monday morning should be on the back of side of this. A lot of cloud and mild temps. Im going to be tweeting out for book recommendations. Thats a good idea. Exactly. 7 23, a police chase, through the city of oakland. The Reason Police were chasing a group of teenagers and how that case ended. Time 7 25. A deadly crash last night in the sierras killed a woman from the san jose area. Shes an unidentified woman. She was a passenger in a car that slid off the road on interstate 80 near sota springs. She was standing outside the car with a driver as a Good Samaritan tried to pull back onto the road. Thats when the driver of another car lost control and hit that woman. An investigation continues. An unusual snowstorm really slammed down portland oregon, and theres more snow on the way. 10 inches of snow fell in western oregon. Roads, schools, offices, closed. This big storm, the next one, is coming this afternoon. The National Weather service says the last time two big back to back storms hit oregon was five years ago. Now, that same storm caused a 27 vehicle accident further north on interstate 5. One person was killed. The freeway was closed for more than an hour at Battle Ground washington. That led to a back up of ten miles. Emergency crews brought in buses, so the people who were stuck in the jam would at least have a place to stay warm until the road was cleared. Coming up on 7 27. We have details about a new Football League launches next year, the a11 professional Football League was announced in San Francisco yesterday morning. There will be 8 teams, including the bay area sea lions, possible home venues for that team include levi stadium in santa clara. Stanford stadium. The league will have different rules than the nfl. Among the new rules, every offensive player will be eligible to receive the ball. Oakland as fans will pack the coliseum tomorrow for fan fest, about 20,000 people are expected to attend the sold out event. Several coaches and players including yoenis and cocoa crisp p will be there. We are just about a half hour away from the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in sochi russia. We will have a live report from sochi where well hear what u. S. Athletes competing in the games think about all the security concerns. Putting a kill switch on arkansas cell phone. Well tell you what that is, and why one state senator is pushing for it in San Francisco this morning. Good morning, the commute today better than yesterday, but still some problems out there and some drive times are inflated. Well tell you where they are and whats going on. Cloudy now, but rain and radar beginning to pick up. Especially off the north coast, from marin county north and its going to be a very rainy weekend. Well have some impressive projected totals coming up. Good morning, the Winter Olympics are finally here. Youre looking at a live picture of the stadium where the opening ceremonies will get underway in just about 30 minutes. Still a lot of concern about security, and were going to find out what the athletes think about that in a live report from sochi coming up in just a few minutes. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. And good morning. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. So much to tell you steve. That is true. Dave. Theres a lot going on. A lot of cloud cover over us. Rain, its probably pretty light anything thats falling right now. I dont think the heavy stuff is showing up for a while. But it is on its way and its going to be very very heavy up to the north bay. I tell you, the source goes all the way down to the hawaiian islands. It has a lot of moisture. Kevin tweeted me and said steve, you look excited about this. I am, im also very concerned. If you get a foot of rain, thats too much, and thats the possibility of the Russian Rivers north as we go into the weekend. Later today into tonight, might want to leave early, and i think the evening commute will be awful. Over the weekend, steady to heavy rain. Undoubtedly small stream river advisories. Heres sal. We are looking at traffic that is some of the drive times are getting a little bit inflated as i mentioned last time on highway 24, seeing more people on the road here. You can see a crowd approaching the lafayette b. A. R. T. Station. The drive time between walnut creek and oakland is about 15 minutes now. Nothing too crazy, but it is a little bit more than it was just a while ago. This is a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, the drive time across the bridge and at the toll plaza is 15 minutes which is a little less than it normally is by about 10 minutes. Getting a little bit of a break. 580, we had an earlier accident at isabel, took them a while to clear it. Traffic is a little bit slow. The good news is 880 southbound heading from hayward to fremont, not all that bad. Catching a break there. 7 33 lets go back to the desk. We have an update on breaking news from the south bay. Dozens of Mountain View Police Officers searching right now for a car theft suspect. The search is focused on shore loin boulevard. Two other suspects have been captured. Janine de la vega is out there. Shes talking to police. Shell bring a live update coming up at 8 00. New this morning, police say drugs, alcohol or possibly both may have caused a deadly crash this walnut creek. Around 11 30 last night. A pickup truck went eastbound in the westbound lanes between civic drive and walnut boulevard. The female driver eventually slammed into a tree. She was taken to john mere Medical Center where she died from her injuries. Investigators believe she may have been under the influence at the time of the crash. A malfunctioning sign may be to blame for an overnight fire in san rafael. The fire started just after midnight at an empty two Story Office Building on bell ham boulevard. Firefighters say they had a tough time flighting the flames since it was burning in a remote area at the top of the structure. Thats when they found an illuminating store sign had some kind of electrical problems. No one was hurt. Your time now, 7 34. Happening today, an announcement in San Francisco later this morning about new legislation to mandate kill switches on your cell phone. Ktvus Tara Moriarty live in San Francisco now to explain why theres such a big push for the new technology, tara. Well, if youve ever had your cell phone stolen and tried to use a tracking device in order to find it, its very hard to find. Even if you track it down, police have so many cases of stolen cell phones, they simply dont have the time to track down every single one. Thats why state senator mark leno is pushing for the new legislation that would put a stop to that. It would require all smart phones sold in california or shipped to this state to have a Kill Switch Technology installed. That would allow people to remotely lock their phone or erase information rendering it inoperable. One smart phone user we talked to said he loved the idea. You can just kill it and youre done. Its easy. Reporter in the long run it might send a message to the criminal, right. Absolutely. If they cant use it, they cant use t they wont steal it. Reporter the Wireless Association says a permanent kill switch does have serious risks, including vulnerability to hackers who could disable devices and lock out not only your phone but phones used by the government. In 2012 it cost consumers 30 billion to replace lost or stolen phones. Senator leno, and District Attorney George Gascon and Law Enforcement officials will be talking about the bill at 10 00 this morning at the state building and the bill will be entered officially in the spring. Tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 news. President obama today will announce a new effort to help American Farmers sell more of their products overseas. The president will fly to Michigan State University Later today, and while hes there, hell sign the farm bill that congress recently passed. Hell also unveil details of the new made in Rural America initiative. Its designed to connect farmers and Rural Businesses with federal help to sell their products and services over seas. It is 7 36. And the competition is already underway, but the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in sochi russia will get just way in just about 30 minutes. Reporter, ian lee is live in sochi security is on everyones minds. Ian. Reporter thats exactly right. Tori. This olympics has one of the bigst Security Operations we have seen. The russians are very keen on keeping it that way. Theyre making the final preparations for the Opening Ceremony. You can see behind me the olympic park is all lit up, getting ready for that, and earlier this week, there was a lot of hick ups with unfinished hotels, unfinished venues and some sketchy water another there, but out there, but they say everything is ready for tonights Opening Ceremony. Expect it to be a big one. This is the most expensive olympics ever and that includes the summer olympics, now, i talked to some of team usa yesterday, theyre excited to be here. Obviously theyre ready for that fence, despite some security concerns, though. Team usa arrives for the Winter Olympics, tired, but excited. They now enter fortress sochi and inside what is being described as a ring of steel. A russian warship looms on the black sea. Military helicopters patrol the sky, all part of the 37,000 Strong Security force. Last december, two decide bombings killed dozens in the russian city of volgagrad. They insist its safe. When you talk to the various teams arriving here in sochi about security, they say they arent worried and just folking o on their events. When we were here in november, and even before then, theres always guards everywhere, so im sure this place will be secure. Before we got to munich, it kind of maybe was a concern, now that were here and everyone is wearing all their team usa stuff, i dont think its going to be a problem. I just watched captain phillips on the plane on the way over, and you know, if a terrorist takes me, i have tidium with our armed forces. Reporter the games are estimated to cost russia an a whopping 151 billion the president is placing the countrys reputation on the line, and the last thing he wants is another munich. Were about 20 minutes away from the opening of the olympics and from what were hearing, theres still plenty of tickets available, so if you are interested, you can still get a seat to the show tori. Im not sure well be able to make it in time. I know theres a 12 hour time difference and a bit of a time delay on this report, but still, i just want to find out, what can we expect from the opening ceremonies . Reporter well, the one thing thawer expecting is a lot of that were expecting is a lot of fireworks, a lot of performances, although the russians have kept it quite tight lopped. The broadway producer was brought in for the Opening Ceremony and looks like its going to be quite a show. This is estimated about 5 51 billion and probably going to be a very big show at that price. Yeah, absolutely. Ian lee, joining us live from sochi russia. Thank you so much. Its 7 40 in the morning here. 7 40 00 p. M. Over there. Google is using the home page to speak out against russias law restricting gay rights activities. On its opening page is the rainbow colored backdrop featuring art work of Winter Olympics sports and beneath it is the section of the olympic charter that says the practice of sport is a human right. Usually the Google Doodle changes attained night eastern time, but it keeps it up longer so it appears during the winter opening ceremonies. Time 7 40. Back here at home, Funeral Services will be held in oakland for 17yearold justice toliver, the oakland teenager who was shot and killed by her younger brother in the familys china town district apartment last month a juvenile judge will allow the 14yearold boy to leave his jail cell to be at his sisters funeral. A probation officer will be with him at all times. The funeral this morning is open to the public. However, the family does not want the news media to be there. Last night, Oakland Police arrested 3 juveniles, suspected of a carjacking that happened earlier in the day. Several hours later, Police Spotted the stolen lexus. The Police Chased it, the pursuit ended at mcarthur boulevard when the car crashed into another vehicle. Three suspects were taken to Childrens Hospital for observation, they were detained after wards. The invest has started now at san jose State University by a special task force into an alleged hate crime. The panel met last night for the first time in front of a large crowd demanding answers about the racially charged bullying case. Police say four white students have been tormenting an African American roommate for weeks. The students allegedly put a bike lock around the African Americans students neck and hung a Confederate Flag from their dorm room window. That flag is used as a symbol of intimidation. Its used to threaten people, and staff. Nobody said, hey, wait a second, we need to look at everything thats going on now. We need to stop. The task force is investigating ways to improve Race Relations at san jose state, now ktvus janine de la vega will have more on this in our next half hour. It is 7 42. Its a Music Festival that brought big names to napa, but now organizers are facing a major lawsuit. Well tell you what that means for this years bottle rock festival. And googles free ferry rides for employees and today. Why the program is so short leved and will it float again. Well, right now, the traffic is not doing all that badly. But, there is a warning that goes along with this moderate traffic as we look at highway 24. Steve and i will tell you why you still may not want to drive this morning. For those of you who have been doing a rain dance stop it. The message has been sent to the universe and were going to see a lot of rain. Thats an angry sky moving in. [ female announcer ] today is the day that Business Travel works for you. Today youll breeze through security. And board early. And earn Double Points on your flight. Todays the day that we make your business our business. Southwest business select fares. If it matters to you, it matters to us. Stocks are actually higher today, thanks to some earnings from several companies, including expedia. Yesterday, by the way was the best day of 2014 so far for the stock market. Taking a live look at the big board. The dow is up 12. The nasdaq is up 31. And s p up 11. Meanwhile, there is disappointing news from the Labor Department this morning. The government reports 113,000 new jobs were added to the work force in january. But that is lower than economists had forecasted. The Unemployment Rate dropped a tenth to 6. 6 . And thats because people who arent actively working for work arent added to the work force and arent including in the jobless rate. Now to a 2 investigates special report. Its a scam and this could cost you thousands of dollars. Pam cook is in the studio to tell us how it works. And what did you found out about this scam. The california dmv is cautioning car buyers about odometers being rolled back. Now, cars have actually switched from old odometers like this to new technology of digital ones. However, investigators say the new ones are actually easier to roll back, making it easier to trick people into buying an old car. The first thing that goes through your mind is im in the middle of the highway, and my trucks not running. Now, a month after keith of livermore bought his truck, his engine went out. A car facts Vehicle History Report revealed that the odometer had been rolled back, and thats apparently happening more frequently in california than anywhere else. Thieves are getting the help of a little device that plugs in under the Steering Wheel. Odometer fraud is a forgotten fraud. People think that it cant happen so theyre not looking for it. Now, the dmv looked into these devices and helped recently to arrest three men on charges of selling more than 200 cars with rolled back odometers. Investigators say they constantly scam craigslist looking for fraud, and there are plenty of examples on youtube about how to roll baubling the odometer. On roll back the odometer. On our web site, we have posted resources on avoiding odometer fraud. Look at the hot topics section. It is 7 4, the principal of an all Girls Catholic High School in the east bay is apologizing r for a lunch menu thats created a nationwide uproar. The menu in concord was supposedly intended to celebrate black history month. It included fried chicken, corn bread and water melon. The principal says black Student Union club members at neighboring delasal helped plan the menu without staff approval or permission. The student sent a letter that said at no time do we wish to perpetuate stereo types. There will be a School Assembly to discuss the scandal. Time 7 48. Lets get everybody out the door. Sal, youre watching the roads and bridges and everything else. Just to give you a little bit of experience, mistakes i have made for being a bay area driver for too long than i care to comment on. Lets go to the pictures. Good on highway 46. Im going to roll with this. This afternoon youre going to be in a rainy friday afternoon traffic. If that matters to you, plan ahead, and plan on being in rainy traffic later tonight r or this afternoon. If it doesnt matter to you, then by all means, have at it. Highway 4 looks good coming up to the concord area. Highway 24 looks not that bad. Lets go to the bay bridge toll plaza, i want to check something out here. The traffic is moving along welcoming up to the bay bridge toll plaza. Its not all that bad. This is about maybe a 5 minute delay before you make it onto the bridge if that. If youre driving on the peninsula, the traffic has been good on 880th its been better than usual heading down to the south bay. Lets go to steve. Thank you sal. A good morning. Before i get started here, michael who keeps meticulous records in San Francisco, he is spot on, and we exchange e mails constantly, your emails are coming through. My responses are not going out to you. I can ping you from this end. In this case i cannot. He sent out good email information. San francisco yesterday had. 79 yesterday. That was the most rain since december 25th, 26th, 2012. Not 2013, 2012. Yesterdays rain was the most we have had in 13 months. Thats a long time, and theres going to be a lot of rain coming in. Its moving in right there, along the north coast, i had a tweet from somebody. How much rain do you think were going to get in ukiah. 6 to 1 2 inches. One projection. One has 10 inches between now and sunday. Were going to get too much too soon here. Just so you know, getting a heads up. Extending down to the Santa Cruz Mountains. Even monterey, heading down there. Today is probably the best day to go down to monterey. Some of these projections, theres your time line through sunday, 1 00, 4 1 2 napa. San rafael. Mill valley, kentfield, ross will get more than that. 2 1 4 for sfo. 2 3 4 for oakland. Inch and a half to an inch. Santa cruz mountains, 3 plus. This might be on conservative side, just so you know, the cloud and rain forecast starts to pick things up here by about noon and the evening commute looks wet, very wet, if you can leave early, work for home. Here comes the band, at 5 00 a. M. , this is when things begin to pick up and it keeps going and going and going. Saturday it looks like a rain day. It may not be too bad the further south you go. And then by sunday, at least saturday night boo sunday, all this dips south. Keep that if mind, and it goes into sunday night, and look at this, even by early monday morning, there will be some holding on. After that, things look like they will calm down a little bit. Thats a river of air coming in. 50s on the temps. Very mild, were getting a southeast wind. The wind is picking up, especially in the higher elevations, look for the rain to move in and get heavier and heavier, as we get into the weekend,s moisture sources go back to the hawaiian islands. Highs for us, 50s, 60s. Rain heavy at times, all the way back to sunday and monday. Its 8 minutes before 8 00. Homeless people who live in their cars may now have a safe place to park in one bay area county. Why not everyone is happy with the program. Also, restaurant worker lucky to be back on dry ground. Look at what happened . The reason that student will be out of business for a couple of days. Time now 7 54. A water front restaurant broke away from the dock for the second time in three years. Jeff rubys restaurant drifted downstream before stopping under a bridge. Two employees were actually leaving the restaurant when it started floating away. One of them jumped ashore, but the other one was stuck as the restaurant floated way. That guy was stranded in the freezing water for about an hour until he was rescued. Family members and friends of famed actor Philip Seymour hoffman will gather today to say their final goodbyes. A private funeral will be held at the church of st. Ignatius, the same church where funerals for jacqueline kennedy, and aaliyah were held. He died apparently from a heroin overdose. A Larger Service is planned for later this month. Its 7 55. Today is the last day of googles experiment to bring employees to work by ferry. Google has been using boats like these to take workers from harbor bay in alameda, and San Franciscos Ferry Building down to redwood city and he has done it for free. Next thursday, know, googles board will discuss continuing the program. Google says it is constantly looking for ways to help the employees get to the Mountain View campus without inconveniencing other bay area residents. A credit card company, a credit card offer, rather to a bay area woman is generating a lot of heat on social media. Lisa mcintyre says the letter was addressed to, were quoting here, lisa is a mcintyre. She earned a special card offer through her membership, and the golden key society. She is not speaking publicly but is tweeting what happened. She tweeted b of a, and golden key offered apologies and apparently the offensive language was added to her name in a data base sometime in 2004 and 2008. Time now 7 56. Today is the 50s anniversary of a musical event that changed popular music in america. The beatles arrived in new york city february 7th, 1964. The first visit to the u. S. They got a wild reception with their song, theres ed sullivan, i want to hold your hand at the top of the charts. The beatles historic appearance comes two days later. 73million americans watched john, paul, ringo, and george. Were you one of them,. I was there too. It is 7 57. Breaking news from the south bay, a live update on the huge search thats been going on in Mountain View for the past two hours. Where theyre live and there has been a major new development. And preparing for a huge downpour this weekend here in the bay area, well tell you how much rain is expected to fall and what people are doing to try and prevent flooding. And now traffic on the bridge getting into San Francisco is not all that bad. Find out how long its going to take you to get there, and what the conditions are like elsewhere in the east bay. Cloudy skies, rain on the north coast starting and its really getting close here locally, too. So i think anytime soon, rain starts. But the amounts projected for the weekend are staggering. Worst morning ever. [ angelic music plays ] toaster strudel best morning ever [ hans ] warm, flaky, gooey. Toaster strudel [ female announcer ] try new pillsbury heatngo mini pancakes. [ male announcer ] dont wait for awesome. Totinos pizza rolls gets you there in just 60 seconds. Good morning, just about to turn 8 00. These are live pictures in Mountain View. The Police Search we have been telling you about, it was just called off. They were looking for someone who police say stole a car. Now, that search started there almost two hours ago. Police were all over the place, setting up a perimeter. We do know the two suspects are in custody now. We have a reporter there. Shell bring us all the details of whats happening in Mountain View in just a couple of minutes. Friday morning, february 7th, im dave dave. Im dave clark. And good morning, im tori campbell. Almost too much at once. Thats correct. 13 months without hardly any rain and then all of a sudden you see forecasts of ten plus. Once the ground sucks it up, everything will race off. We have observers, ron in crescent city. Rain is there. Off our coast, here it comes. Things are beginning to pick up. This is very light. The atmosphere is so juiced up, ready to go. Its not going to take much, and once you get a little dynamics, i mean, a sea gull flapping its wings would probably be enough to get rain going. Its that quick. Moisture in the air is incredible. Rainfall projections, this is just one forecast model but i tend to agree with it, is going to be good to really good to too much. I mean, you see 6 plus in santa rosa between now and sunday at 1 00, which tells you you know in the coastal hills and also in the Russian River theres going to be more than that, and also in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Marin county will get slammed as well. 40s and 50s on the temps. Very mild. This is a warm system. The snow level is going to be up, up, up. In fact it may be rain by lake level, and windy up there. A report from kelly in bridgeport. She said its crazy windy there. No snow. Saturday looks like a big rain day, and sunday as well. The picks up later. This afternoon, this evening, looks awful. Cloudy with rain, 50s to low 60s. A mile system. Heres sal. Steve, we are still looking at conditions on the roads. Arent that bald, but remember, later its going to be raining hard. Plan accordingly if youre going to be doing stuff. Do it in the morning, if its not raining. Sometimes other people make those for you. Westbound bay bridge, backed up for a 5 minute delay once you get onto the span, it does look okay. We have a look at 880 north and southbound. Northbound is a little bit slow as you pass the coliseum. Another crash for livermore, not causing a huge back up. Its reported westbound 580. Livermore has been hammered this morning with crashes. 8 02, lets go back to the desk. Thank you. We have a new development involving a huge Police Search this morning for a stolen car suspect in mountain valley. Ktvus janine de la vega is joining us live. You have been out there for a while, so what happened just moments ago . Reporter yeah, in the last 15 minutes, the search was called off. The third suspect was never found. They dont believe hes a threat to the community. Police are patrol cars lined on montacedo avenue, and just as i mentioned a short time ago, they broke down the perimeter, police say at 4 this morning, they spotted a stolen car traveling with three people inside. Officers followed that car. After a few minutes, it stopped and the people got out and ran. Police chased them, and caught and arrested two of them. They did a yard to yard search looking for that third suspect using k9s. He was spotted several times but police were unable to catch him, and they decided to call off this search shortly after 7 30 00 a. M. There was no weapons involved with them. They were not in possession of any stolen property or anything, and there were no narcotics so we dont have any reason to believe that the outstanding suspect is any danger to the community at this point. Reporter now, there is a nearby elementary school, in this area but it was never put on lock down. The information and a description for that outstanding third suspect is here. He is a white male adultings believed to be in his 20s. He has brown shoulder length hair and was wearing black clothing and was carrying a black backpack. If you have any information, youre asked to call mown view police department. Theyre hoping after interviewing the other two suspects, that are in custody, which those two people are from san jose and campbell, theyre hoping to glean information off them that may lead them to the outstanding man thats apt wanted. Reporting live, Jana Katsuyama ktvu channel 2 news. Janine de la vega, ktvu. A man is fighting for his life after being stabbed in san jose. It happened shortly before 3 00 this morning on south market street. When officers arrived, they say they found the man with at least one stab wound. He was taken to a local hospital with life threatening injuries. No arrests have been made, but police say the suspect and victim knew each other. The bay area is bracing for the next round of storms as steve has been telling us. Ask while the water is definitely needed, some places in fact are concerned about the possibility of flooding. Ktvus alex savage is live in san rafael where the precautions are getting underway before the weekend rain hut. Theres big concern about flooding in marin county and across the bay for that matter. And people are getting gored up. This is the scene at san half fire station number two where we have a pile of sand and bags all ready to go, and clearly a lot of people are looking to be prepared for the possibility of flooding because the battalion chief told me this pile of sand was a whole lot bigger earlier this week. Now, yesterday we of course got a preview of whats to come as the storm blew through the morning commute that caused problems on the roadways. Most areas picked up less an than inch of rain, and it returns later today and the forecast calls for several inches to fall in most areas. Some areas will get more rain in just a couple of days than they did during all of last year. And with so much rain falling after such a long period, a long drive period, firefighters here in san rafael are very worried ant the possibility of mud slides. Sometimes the biggest slides are after a long period of wet, so well see what happens. But were prepared and were ready to do whatever we can to help people out. And all across the bay area, crews are clearing out drains and making preparations to avoid any sort of flooding with this huge storm system. Obviously they wont be able to avoid it all together. Down in the south bay, the Santa Clara Valley Water District is working to clear debris from the water ways in that area to make sure all the rain can hopefully flow frequently as it begins to fall this weekend. As we come back out here live in san rafael this morning. Firefighters know that a lot of people will be looking for sandbags at some point later today. Theyre expecting another shipment of sand to make sure theres enough for everybody here to protect their homes. Not raining here. Where we are, this morning, a bit of light drizzle this morning, but it is expected to pick up later on today. And then of course getting heavier and heavier throughout the weekend. Live this morning in san rafael. Alex savage ktvu channel 2 news. All right. Thank you alex. Its 8 07. And remember you can get weather update on the go wherever you are. Well with boasting the latest storm watch updates on our ktvu app and our ktvu mobile web sites. Time now is 8 07. The napa county coroner released the body of 3yearold homicide victim caylee slusher to her fathers family. Her father is an inmate at san quentin. Its believed that caylees paternal grandparents were called to claim the body. The childs mother and her boyfriend beat the child to death and hid her body in a freezer for three days. Their next Court Appearance is set for february 25th. Its 8 07. A special web site has been set up to help a marin county family dealing with a terrible situation. The site is raising money for the powells. 4yearold ezequiel suffers from a rare form of cancer that has spread to his spine, and lungs. He went home from the hospital last friday. Then on sunday, his 43yearold father, raniel powell died from what is believed to have been a heart attack. Friends have organized several fund raiders to help pay for the boys chemotherapy. A short time from now, on the ktvu web site we will set up a link for how you can help. Time is 8 08. Homeless people who have been sleeping in their cars have a safe place to park in Sonoma County. This is a story we told you about earlier this week. People living in their cars can park in a coned off lot on the southern tip of the Sonoma County fairgrounds. They can also get food, have access to showers and bathrooms. However, not everybodys happy about this. Some of the people who live near the parking areas say they were blind sided by the county. You dont know. I woke up monday morning and they got tractor work going on over there. I apologized four times last night that we did not have the time to reach out to them. This parking area cost Sonoma County about 170,000. Its being run by catholic charities. County supervisors say it was set up as a response to the recent cold weather weve had. Uc president Janet Napolitano will lead the u. S. Nomination at the Winter Olympics in sochi russia. This will with the first olympic ceremony since the summer olympics in Sydney Australia where the president , Vice President or first lady has not represented the u. S. Napolitano will attend several competitions, including the u. S. Womens ice hockey game against finland, ice dancing, figure skating and speed skating and snowboarding events. Several uc alumni are competing in the games. Those opening ceremonies will get underway in just a few minutes. U. S. Athletes have been arriving all week. S most expensive Olympic Games ever are getting underway surrounded by security and terrorism concerns. The president of the International Olympic Committee Says though, many other olympics have faced similar issues. We had threats on athens, we had threats on sydney, maybe you remember the situation in salt lake city. There were many, so you cannot sing loud to those games in this way. The competitions got underway in fact, the americans did not do as well as expected in the new Team Figure Skating event. They are now in 7th place out of 10. But theres still plenty of time for them to improve their team score. Were still hearing complaints about the accommodations in sochi. One photo posted by a journalist shows litter in the lobby of the apartment where he is staying, and heres another photo of a toilet with a seat installed back wards. Wow. Time now is 8 11. Back here at home, the organizers for last years bottle rock festival in napa, they filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Court documents say br festivals 4 million short of paying its bills from last years concert. The 5 day event took in about 11 million. But bankruptcy documents suggest the festival paid the performers too much. Another Production Company reportedly has purchased the rights to the festival. And they will stay stage another one in may. Well, today is National Wear red day, designed to raise awareness about Heart Disease in women. The movement, now in its 10th 10th year is an attempt to get the message out that Heart Disease kills more women than the top four cancers combined. Former San Francisco mayor willie brown will kick off a fashion show today at noon in union square featuring women who have survived Heart Disease as models. And we know willie brown quite well here at ktvu. Im sure he will be very dapper. And you and i. And pams got red on. And sal were doing it too. Camping out overnight to get ate as of a very rare to get a taste of a very rare beer. Hundreds of people, look at them, lined up. The reason the county and other local businesses are also toasting this. What critics call the worlds best beer. Plus the clue police want you to look at to help them solve a cold murder case in the bay area. Right now, we still have some slow traffic in some spots, but its improving quite a bit on this friday. Well tell you more about the morning commute across bay area bridges. Cloudy skies and rain is inching closer. Should be. If its not in the north bay, it will be in the next hour to two and things will pick up. Impressive rain totes forecasted for the next couple of days. [ male announcer ] fact the 100 electric nissan leaf. Is more fun than ever. Sees better than ever. Charges faster. And will charge. Cool. And heat. From your phone. Fact leaf never needs gas. Ever. Good for the world. Built in america. Now, leafs an easier choice than ever. Shop at choosenissan. Com. It is 8 15. The fbi has joined the search for a missing five day old infant in southern wisconsin. Investigators say the babys 18 yearold mother called 911 early yesterday to report her son was missing from his bassinet. That phone call set off a massive search. Dozens of Police Officers and federal agents are now searching the entire state for the baby named den. Police say the infants young mother and father are cooperating with investigators. They are questioning other family members as they search for leads. Time now 8 16 prosecutors hope a very unusual piece of evidence will help solve a cold case murder. Theyre trying to find the kill of kathy zimmer in 1989. They found her strangled in the backseat of her car in the shortterm parking lot at the san jose airport. Whats unusual is this quilt. It was covered her body. Investigators hope someone will see the quilt or recognize some of the material used to make the quilt. They say they didnt reach out to the public before about the quilt because detectives at the time wanted to hold back some of the information that only the killer would know. The family of an east bay man who was shot and killed by Concord Police is now suing the city. Last may, under cover narcotics officers served an arrest warrant for 21yearold Charles Burns in antioch. Police shot and killed him after a car chase. The lawsuit claims officers intentionally and maliciously killed burns who was not armed. The city of concord will not comment on the pending litigation. Time is now 8 17. A woman who says she was severely attacked 20 years ago because she stood up for her principals principals is now running for congress in stockton. Shes 65yearold Karen Matthews davis. The former clerk recorder for stanislaus county. Shes a republican, and shes challenging democratic incumbent, jerry mcnurney. She survived an assault sat her home in modesto by a group of tax protesters. Now shes received a letter thats threatening her life. She doesnt know if its the same group. She insists it wont care her into dropping out of this scare her into dropping out of this race. I think im stubborn enough to say i just wont give in. I just wont do it. If i give in, whos the next person thats going to be threatened out of running for office. She says threats are not new to her. During the tax protests, someone put a fake bomb under her car and sent a bullet to her in the mail. It is 8 18. California could face more flex alerts in the future. They issued a statewide alert yesterday due to a shortage of natural gas. The alert was prompted by freezing weather back east in and in canada. Call iso which manages the power grid urged people to conserve on electricity and gas turning off lights and heaters and delaying the use of large appliances. Time now 8 18. Hey, sal, everybody behaving for you. Well, sort of, yeah. I think that this mornings commute looks pretty good, especially compared to yesterday. Steve has been saying its going to rain later, and it might be raining hard so may want to take that into consideration can. Lets take a look now at 580. It finally has cleared out a little bit. An accident westbound 580 near airway, and an accident on the altamont pass, as you look at 880 south. That traffic is moderately heavy, and we had slow traffic in the Santa Cruz Mountains because of earlier troubles. Lets go to the live pictures. 92 to san mateo bridge doesnt look too bad heading to the highrise, cloudy on the peninsula. Still dry. Sort of anyway, dryer than it was yesterday. Bay bridge toll plaza is only backed up for about a 5 to 10 minute delay. Plan accordingly. The wet weather moving through. Steve, brad gilbert, the ten us star, watches mornings on 2. You know how i know. He tweeted you. He tweeted about what you said about san rafael. You know what, i have much respect for him, because as you know, im a tennis fan and he is really really good good guy. Yeah, hes very good and he was tenacious to play again. Huge shout out. Everything is set for a rainy weekend. For those of you with plans tomorrow, i would watch tonight, watch tomorrow morning. See how things are taking shape here because it sure looks like a lot of rain, especially marin county north. I wouldnt be surprised 5 to 10 inches of rainfall over the weekend. Beginning on the north coast, and starting to pickup a little bit. And off the sonoma and marin coast. And i think a 1 3 of an inch, a get a lot of emails and tweets and facebook stuff. I do my best. A lot of moisture streaming up in themy yan island from hawaiian islands. Its warm, moist, these are coming up right from hawaii. Warm systems hold more moisture. All you need is a little bit of dynamic. Cloudy, light rain. Urban and small stream flood advisories and the wind will pick up. Already seeing that in the Sierra Nevada. Winter storm warnings. Here are some of the rainfall projections. Cranks up tomorrow. Santa rosa, looking over 6 plus. I have seen 10 around the Russian River. Wouldnt surprise me if 112 falls. Santa cruz mountains. Im thinking 3 to 5. But from marin county north, 4 to 10 would not be out of the realm of possibility. 40s, 50s. 54 halfmoon bay. A south wind. A much higher snow level, today, things around 5000 feet. It will probably go up to 6000 saturday and maybe above 7000 by sunday. 51, though, down on the wharf and monterey, thanks to pablo for sending that, and if you are also going down there, it looks like today is your best bet. Saturday looks like rain. Winter storm warning. What does fall will be a wet snow and theyll measure it in feet. They had freezing rain at blue canyon about an hour ago. Cloudy, rain, rain pixes up later. By the afternoon and evening. Mild temps, 50s to 60s. Clear lake, san rafael, nevada, kentfield, a lot of rain in kentfield and mill valley. Thats for sure. And sonoma will be in there as well. Livermore, and now some low 60s with that south wind. That warms up the Santa Clara Valley and the santa cruz and 50s on the coast. Maybe upper 50s. 57 for Mountain View. Rain is on its way. Take us into sunday. 8 22. Big news for a giant investment company, the reason 1000 San Francisco jobs could be headed out of state. Plus, how facebook is helping groving parents after their son died. The fathers Youtube Video and what was just released on facebooks 10th anniversary that may help other grieving families. Good is in every blue diamond a good that comes in 25 flavors. From whole natural to wasabi and soy sauce. 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Light snow is forecast in some parts of the country, the big problem this morning is the power outages, an ice storm the past two days knocked out electricity to half a million homes and businesses in pennsylvania and maryland. This winter storm caused more outages in pennsylvania than superstorm sandy. Utility companies hope to restore power to most customers by the end of today, but electricity in some homes wont return until next week. Theres no television. Theres no radio. You know, were charging our phones in our car, and put the generator out. A section of the pennsylvania turnpike was shut down for hours after a deadly weather related crash near the state capital. Some schools until the northeast are closed for another day today because of the dangerous conditions. Facebook is promising to help a family of a Young Musician in missouri who died unexpectedly. My son passed away january 28 january 28th. 2012. And we cant access his facebook account. Now, john and lisa berlins 21yearold son jesse died in his sleep more than a year ago. The family wanted to see the new facebook look back feature video associated with jesses account. They couldnt get an answer from facebook until john made a video, posted it on youtube, and then a new york tv station told facebook about it. We just want a little piece of everything, when he accessed his account, the most popular posts. Just Little Things like that would just mean a lot to us. Facebook introduced the 62 second look back videos this week. Celebrating its 10th 10th anniversary. Facebook is making jesses available to his family. His parents plan to use it to help memorialize him. Facebook expects to get similar requests even more, and theyre looking into that possibility. Time is 8 27. A new development to that alleged hate crime at san jose State University. The action the university took for the first time last night, and how the community reacted. Stolen cell phones is a huge problem, especially in San Francisco. Well tell you what one state senator planed plans to do about it this morning. We are looking at major commute hubs and things are looking good for the most part, but theres always one freeway thats slower than usual. Well tell you where that is. Just heard from john, vain started in sonoma valley, and he said its not a light rain. Its beginning to pick up. Things are moving in the Rain Department already and theres a lot for the weekend. Well show you some totals. Phone your account is already paid in full. Oh, well in that case, back to vacation mode. Boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants and boots and pants. Voiceenabled bill pay. Just a tap away on the geico app. Huh, 15 minutes could save you 15 or more on car insurance. Yup, Everybody Knows that. Well, did you know that some owls arent that wise. Dont forget about im having brunch with meagan tomorrow. Who . Seriously, you met her like three times. Who . Geico. It is 8 30. Good morning to you, welcome back. Look at this crowd in santa rosa. All the way down the street. Theyre all lined up because of a very limited beer thats going to be made available in just a couple of hours. Look at their faces. Russian River Brewing company is about to release pliny the younger beer at is 1 00 this morning. We sent brian flores out there, a tough assignment. Hes going to be there in the crowd, sampling im sure. Well have a live report coming up in a couple minutes. Welcome back. Friday, february 7th. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steve you never exaggerate. Youre saying this storm is a bad boy. Dave, i have told you a million times, i do not exaggerate. This one is on its way, already rain up in parts of lake county. Clear lakes had some light rain. Getting reports along the coast, point arena, up north, eureka and crescent city. Sonoma valley, and raymond, said its picking up now. Theres nothing too heavy yet. Youre seeing the moisture sort of stream in, and im pretty sure theres some light rain in marin county as well. Theres a lot of cloud cover that has to move through. It stretches all the way down to the hawaiian islands, a series of systems coming in, and some of the rainfall projections, again, to the north are just a lot here. In fact, too much here. Like the space this out little bit. I have seen 6. 50 for santa rosa. That tells you forestville or anybody in the Russian River would not be surprised. 10 to 11inches of rain. Santa cruz mountains, 3 to 5. From marin county north, napa. All get heavy rain, though, 40s and 0s on the temps, mild pattern with a southeast wind. The wind is cranking up and the Sierra Nevada had reports it was windy. Wind advisories start later on. It is beginning to move in. The evening commute looks awful. Cloudy rain, rain picking up later. If its later, it might be sooner for some to the north. 50 to see low 60s. Heres sal steve right now, is not too bad. Trouble on 580. Lets go ahead and take a look at 880. A little bit slow past the coliseum. Definitely use 580 as an alternate, through this little section. If it does start to ranges though, you can look for collisions to increase as chp always says. Get your business done, before it starts to rain. Bay bridge, about a 15 to 20 minute delay. An up take in the drive time into San Francisco. Along the nimitz freeway heading south, a little bit of slow traffic in fremont, not bad through hayward. 8 33. Lets go back to the desk. State senator mark leno will introduce a new bill to mandate kill switches being placed on cell phones. Tara moriarty is in San Francisco to explain to us why theres such a push for the new technology, tara. Reporter well, we reached out to len know, about a couple leno a couple minutes ago, and hes not available for another hour. You can put a wipe on it but there is the chance that it will be sold on the black market and theres virtually nothing you can do about it. State senator mark leno has proposed the legislation to help put a stop to that. It would require all smart phones sold in california or shipped to the state to have Kill Switch Technology installed, and that kill switch would allow people to remotely lock their phone or erase information rendering it inoperable. In the long run, i think it would be a good thing to have. You know, and that way thieves know, you know, once its, you know, gone, or once they have it, its like its use less. Reporter the ctia, the Wireless Association says a permanent kill switch has serious risks, including vulnerability to hackers who could disable mobile devices and lock out not only your phones but phones used by the government. They estimate in 2012 it cost consumers 30 billion to replace lost or stolen phones. Senator leno and the District Attorney who has been a huge proponent of this, and several Law Enforcement officials will be talking about the state building about this particular bill at 10 00 this morning. And it is believed to be the first of its kind legislation in the country. Live from San Francisco. Im Tara Moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Time now 8 35. The investigation has started now at san jose State University by a special task force into an alleged hate crime. The panel met last night for the first time in front of a crowd that demanded answers about the rationally charged bully case. Police say four white students have been tormenting an African American roommate for weeks. Investigators say the students put a bike lock around the africanamerican students neck and hung a Confederate Flag out their dorm room window. That flag is used as a symbol of intimidation. Its used to threaten people and nobody said, hey, wait a second, we need to look at everything thats going on now, we need to stop. That task force is investigating ways to improve the Race Relations at san jose state. Time is 8 36. Funeral services will be held in oakland this morning for 17 yearold justice toliver. Shes the oakland teenager who police say was shot and killed by her younger brother at the familys china town district apartment last month. A Juvenile Court judge is allowing the 14yearold boy to leave his jail cell to attend his sisters funeral today. But a probation officer must be at his side at all times. Todays funeral is open to the public. However the family has asked the news media not to attend. Oakland Police Arrested three juveniles last night suspected of a carjacking that happened earlier in the day. Several hours after the carjacking, officers spotted the stolen lexus. Police chased it, and a pursuit ended at mcarthur boulevard and warner avenue when the lexus crashed into another vehicle. Three suspects were taken to Childrens Hospital for observation and were detained after wards. Time now 8 37. Uc Berkeley Police investigating a report that a male graduate student instructor sexually assaulted a 22yearold female student. Now, according to a crime alert released by campus police, the family student says she was sexually assaulted by the student instructor in his apartment at University Village in albany. Police say no arrests have been made because this case is still under investigation. The residents of berkeley are taking to the streets showing theyre fed up with violence and crime. Now, last night was the third time this church based group organized a march. They passed out safety leaflets and urged people to get involved. The walk through the uc Berkeley Campus area. Many of them recent crime victims have been students. I wish they would just build this up a little more. I didnt see a sign for anything like this in this area. I think they would come out. The crime at berkeley had been declining until 2012. The crime rate is up now. Especially strong armed robberies for cell phones and laptops. An Oakland Police officer may possibly lose his job after a bizarre incident that happened at a San Francisco restaurant. It happened early sunday morning at this ihop restaurant in the Marina School district ktvu has been told that kevin deli was off duty when he allegedly pulled out a gun inside a restaurant to impress a waitress. My understanding from the victim is that the firearm was brandished at her and towards the sky, towards the ceiling of the restaurant. Police say kelly admitted hed been drinking hours before that restaurant incident. Both oakland and San Francisco police are promising a full investigation. The time is 8 39 in the morning. And people are in a long line in santa rosa for beer. Ktvus brian flores is live at Russian River Brewing Company in santa rosa to explain all the excitement over this beer. Whats it called, pliny the younger. Reporter y take a look at this line. Its absolutely insane. People have been here since 11 last night. The line goes on and on and from previous years and it is raining, we should add, and from previous years, people could be standing in line for 8 hours. Its all because of a beer called pliny the younger. It is a super r super choppy, beer. It has been made for quite a few years, but because of the amount of social media accolades and awards, the lines grew these past four years. Words spread, and people who love choppy beers wait in line for hours and hours. Theyre only selling it in glasses and three tail and for those in line, those who flew from places like montana, the wait is worth it. Hops, lots of them. Russian river makes the finest ipas. If youre a hop head, at least in my mind, this is the holy grail. This is it. We actually got an event permit from the city. The city asked us to do that. What that means is the city gives us more help. A little more parole, trash, portapotties, that sort of thing. The owner talking about how big this line and event has grown. Only a few locations and restaurants has it available as well here in santa rosa or other parts of california, oregon, colorado and philadelphia, and as we take it back out here live, what makes it more interesting and positive, the economic event generates 2. 5 million in revenue, and we understand some hotels are giving discounts for people in line to try pliny the younger. Live in santa rosa, brian flores ktvu channel 2 news. On the spot. Okay. Time now is 8 41. If youre buying the wear, especially if youre buying a car in california. Plug it in down here underneath the Steering Wheel. The scam of rolling back the odometer. And the rain beginning to fall in san rafael and a lot more is on the away for the weekend. Well tell you how much rain is expected to come down across the bay area, and how people are preparing for the possibility of flooding. And that rain is going to mean a change in traffic conditions. Well tell you where its already beginning to affect traffic. Rain has begun light for most, healdsburg and sonoma, and its on its way and going to increase in intensity, and some totals could be over 8 inches by the time we meet again. A day after wall streets best day of the year, stocks start climbing, despite mixed news. 113,000 jobs were added, less than expected, but unemployment edged down to 6. 6 , the lowest rate since october 2008. Taking a live look at the big board, the dow currently up 72. The nasdaq is up 42, and the s p up 11. The Charles Schwab corporation plans to move about a thousand jobs out of San Francisco, in the next five years. The banking and Brokerage Company has 2700 people in the bay area. It will be sending jobs out of state because of the high cost of living here which makes recruiting new workers difficult. Indiana, florida, texas, colorado, and arizona are all considered possibilities for where those jobs will go. Time is now 8 45. Lets bring you up to date on other top stories were following for you right now. Police in Mountain View have called off a search for a car theft suspect. The search started a couple of hours ago, near shoreline boulevard. The search ended about 8 00 this morning. Two other suspects were already in custody. Big storm you have been hearing, its about to hit the bay area today. In some areas its starting to rain as im speaking to you now. Steve says lots of rain is coming this weekend. Its going to be pretty soggy. We know we need the rain, but ktvus alex savage, youre live in san rafael right now. That community out there, and i see youre getting wet as were talking to you now. Theyre concerned about flooding out there. Reporter yeah, theres a big concern about that. Were getting light rain in san rafael this morning. But this is really just a preview of whats to come. Its going to get heavier as we mover throughout the weekend. This will be a popular place for people to stop by today. This is san rafael fire station number two, where they have sand, they have bags they have a shovel all ready to go for anyone who wanteds to protect their homes with flooding from the sandbags. Apparently a lot of people have come by to get them this week. The battalion chief told me the pile was bigger a couple days ago. We did get a preview of whats to come. Most areas picked up less than an inch of rain yesterday, more coming this weekend. The forecast is for several inches of rain to come down in most areas. Some areas will get more rain. In just a couple of days than they did during all of last year with so much rain falling in such a short period of time, san rafael firefighters tell me they are gearing up for the possibility of flooding and mud slides. Anytime we have with mud voids, we want to make sure that pumping stations, telephone buildings, all those kinds of things are well maintained because thats kind of the heart of the city. Reporter and across the bay area crews are trying to clear out the storm drains and making preparations to avoid flooding with the storm. Down in the south bay, the santa clara Water District spent the day yesterday working to clear debris from water ways to make sure that all that rain has somewhere to go. As we bring you back out here live in san rafael this morning, this is fire station number two. Sand bags available for anybody who wants them free of charge. Theyll have them here at station two and also down the role at station number five, and obviously this pile needs a little bit more sand and im told by the battalion chief, they will be replenishing the i supply at some point later today so there are plenty of sandbags for anyone who wants them. A lot of rain in the area through the the weekend. Its already beginning to fall and more is on the way. Live in san rafael, alex savage ktvu channel 2 news. Honk alex. 8 48. 2 investigators an old crime with new twist. A look at how thieves are keeping up with new technology. Good morning pam. Good morning, this fraud is happening more often in california, and it starts here on the dash board. Now, even though cars have switched from these old odometers to new digital technology, investigators say thieves are actually finding it easier to roll them back and deceive car buyers. The first thing that goes through your find is im in the middle of the highway and my trucks not running. Commander tom wilson is in the Investigations Department of the dmv. He says that little device plugged in under the Steering Wheel makes rolling back odometers even new digital ones easy, and its apparently happening more frequently here in california than anywhere else. In previous years we would get just a few cases trickling in and now it seems like the flood gates are open. Recent car facts study found that nearly 300,000 rolled back vehicles were on the road in california last year. Thats the highest number of any state. Now, the dmv says they helped arrest three men caught selling cars with rolled back odometers. Most of their business was done on craigslist. Now, on our web site, ktvu. Com, we have posted resources for avoiding odometer fraud. You can look for the hot topics section right in the middle of the front page. One thing the dmv recommends is research the cars vehicle id Number Online before you buy. Thank you, time is 8 49. Lets go to sal. The toll plaza, sal how is it doing. Its been up and down. People are trying to get into the city. We have been warning people about tonights drive or later today drive, with the rain coming in. Steve will elaborate on that. Lets lock at the toll plaza, thats a 10 to 15 minute wait and on the bridge its another 5 minutes. So were looking at about 20 minutes into San Francisco. Also looking at the 880 freeway northbound, getting slow as you pass the coliseum and get to downtown oakland. We are also looking at slow traffic on southbound 880. Its not all that bad. 8 50. Lets go to steve. Rain has begun, springs have turned to rain. Nicole cook in dunn calls mills, shout out. Said rain steady, not heavy yet, but its picking up. Have reports, healdsburg as well. Rain is starting and up in clear lake, nothing too heavy yet. This is light but a sign of things to come to the north, and now things are already beginning to pick up right here as well. Start to see the dark green. Thats rein. San francisco, marin county, looks like that will start to enhance over napa county. San pablo bay as well. The moisture source is a warm one. All the way down to the hawaiian islands, a series of systems coming in. Saturday looks to be the heavy specification sunday morning. Some of the totals, anywhere from 5 to 10 inches plus. Especially part res of the Russian River and points north. When you have moisture coming from the hawaiian islands, cloudy light rain and a warm system and possibility of flood watches or at least urban and small stream flood advisories over the weekend, good folks at National Weather service in monterey are standing by. Rainfall again, i have seen over 6 1 2 for santa rosa, through monday morning. That tells you to the west there will be more than that. Especially even west santa rosa, rain is falling there. Nap pa 4 1 2, 3 to probably in marin county easily. 3 to 5 in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The heaviest will be the usual suspects. Havent seen a pattern like this in a while. 40s and 50s. The lows have been stuck all morning long, a southeast wind. A mild system. Look how this is starting to pick up. Snow for a while in the sierra. That snow level will keep going up, up, up, might be rain by the passes on sunday. Things are really starting to show. Cloudy, rain developing. Its picking up for everyone later. Even though its starting in the north bay. Mild temps as we talked about. A lot of 50s here. Too much is trapped to the north. Low 50s there, but san jose, Santa Clara Valley. Low 60s almost tropical like and its coming up from hawaii, a lot of moisture in the air, and getting ready for rain. And that will take us into sunday. Looks like a break monday morning. Thank you steve. Minutes before 9 00. The opening ceremonies to the Winter Olympics happening right now. Coming up, the first pictures of the celebration. Good is in every blue diamond a good that comes in 25 flavors. From whole natural to wasabi and soy sauce. And once good gets going, theres no stopping it. Get your good going. Blue diamond. Snack nut of the u. S. Ski team. Its 8 55. Friends and family are gather to say their final good byes to Philip Seymour hoffman. The private ceremony at the church of st. Ignatius in manhattan. This is video of people arriving at the church this morning. He died sunday from an apparent heroin overdose. A larger Memorial Service is planned for later this month. Time is 8 55. Apple has removed a popular app from the itunes store. Its the blocked chain app. The most popular way for people and companies to transfer bit coins to each other. Its been downloaded 120,000 times over the last two years. Apple doesnt say why it removed blocked chain but its available in the google play store. Today is the 50s anniversary of the historic event that changed popular music in america forever. The beatles arrived in new york city on february 7th, 1964, for their first visit to the united states. They got a wild reception with their song i want to hold your hand at the top of the u. S. Charts. The beatles historic appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show was on two days later. 73million americans watched that show. Time now 8 56. New this morning, we have the first pictures from the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics in sochi russia. The associated press, now thats beautiful. Snapped a photo showing the celebration. This is fished stadium in the olympic park. Look at the color fireworks, over the complex. We wanted to take you there quickly to see more of the opening ceremonies go to our channel two web site, ktvu. Com click on the images section at the top of the screen, and make sure you keep checking our ktvu web site for news reports, photos and especially the count of the medals. All important medal count. Thats right. We want to check with sal one more time, before he checks his weekend, and see what traffic is like. Still looking at 880 and the toll plaza. 880 and east shore freeway, pardon me, its a little bit slow. Wet weather moving through. Bay bridge toll plaza is about to get heavier as wet weather moves through. Allow extra time. Lets go to steve. Cloudy, mild rain, a lot of rain, especially in the north bay, marin county north, Santa Cruz Mountains by saturday. Rain days break on monday. A lot of rain. A lot of rain. Thats it. Thats our report for this morning. Thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. And and watch at noon for more on the rep preparations for the stormy weekend in the bay area. Thanks for joining us. Hi, everybody, im beth troutman. If you want great videos from the web, weve got them, right this minute. Weve seen daring adventures before but this is a whole new brand of crazy right here. Why skylining between hot air balloons didnt work the first time. 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