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And pick them. David seven son stevenson. Mark is here with to look at how we got to this point. Weve been locked in the static weather pattern, storms in the pacific but the track is way north. Look at the storm falling apart and a good portion of the west coast dry and clear and warm. We know december was very dry. One day of significant rainfall, that was december 6, in january a weak system last weekend, produce a few showers, you can see what happened a dry weather forecast, the forecast is not optimistic. These numbers are very low, look at of averages percent of averages, you can see the total toward eureka, under 6 inches. San diego over 2 inches. That coupled with a low snow back, the numbers for the sierra, around eight to 22 , that was the camera looking toward royal gorge, the dry weather pattern not changing much. We have a few changes for the overnight. Areas of low 30s and the coolest weekend day. Were supposed to conserve. A new program to help people save water and tom got a chance to see how it worked. Dave joined the first wave of homeowners to use the smart water meter. We noticed our bill was skyrockets and we couldnt track down the usage. The smart meter reports the families hourly water use to the computer. He found broken irrigation lines and leaky toilet. Were using 1400 gallons a day which was astronomical to me. Now were five or 600. Chris found a broken sprinkler head. I was able to close that off, saved a hundred gallons a day from that fix. Downing is monitoring his dish and cloths waters. They are teaching conservation. It helps them appreciate whats on with the water opposed to its okay dad. If you dont have access to hightech, a measuring bag will do fine. But the bag under the showerhead or faucet for five seconds. One, two, three, four, five. You can see from this measurement this is an efficient showerhead. The only way to save more money to take a shorter shower. The smart Reader Program is in the initial testing phase but a possible wave of the future. Still to come, were learning tonight what this drought declaration will mean for the sierra and foothills where things would be covered in snow right now. California farms and workers will feel the pinch and were with an expert looking at the details of this drought declaration and what it means and tells us about the months ahead. Firefighters are putting out hot spots after a sixalarm fire in read wood. It redwood on douglas avenue. It spread quickly reaching a neighborhood Apartment Building forcing crews to evacuate. 100 firefighters from seven departments fought the fire. Rob roth is there spoking to investigators, well have a live report about what made this firefighter unique. A man made a anticipated Court Appearance today. Robert was live to show us the alleged serial arsonist. Court procedurings got off to a fast start, we got our first look at the suspect as he found out he could end up in prison for the rest of his life. Patrick brennan came into the courtroom and showed little emotion, paused to look at the judge and stood next to a Court Appointed attorney. He was booked on trough two arsons. Today that changed. Hes now charged with 10 counts of arson and three counts of attempted arson. Hes a 3 strikes candidate, so no bale. I think one way we prevent him from committing arson in the future is by sending him to prison for the rest of his life. The d. A. s office wouldnt say what evidence was found, but his alleged actions were seen in the Surveillance Video including the video shown by ktvu. He would gather bustable materials and use an open flame device and light materials on fire. The prosecutor showed little interest in motive. People want to know what makes people tick, the bottom line is prosecution has to prove the fires were set and mr. Brennan celt them. Set them. The public defender said he was just assigned to the case and had no comment at the time. What brennan has said in his defense in the past and how that may be treated this time around. Lets talk football. The 49ers headed up to seattle for that big championship game against the seahawks. The team buses left the practice facility a few minutes ago. Headed to the airport where they will take a plane to seattle. Julie, we heard you went to a seahawks pep rally today. Bet that was interesting. We had to check it out. It is really starting to feel there will be a Football Game here after all. Yesterday, got into town early afternoon, and a few 49er fans straggling around town and a lot of seahawks fans. Today everybody out in full force, particularly the seahawks fans. It was a sea of blue and green. They did have a rally on. They were dressed head to toe. Blue and green. Well show you later what we saw. Just to set the scene, were near elliott bay, the great wheel beyond us, and century link century link field. Its a good place to be. We caught up with bay area fans who made the trip to seattle. Feel the love baby, go hawks. Go niners. Let it go. 12th man pride greeted this couple after they became the first 49er fans to check into the grand hyatt hotel. The same hotel the 49ers will check into. They say this is a trip they couldnt afford the miss. During that last game sunday, we were on our computer getting tickets and we were ready. They are not making this trip alone, their great friends are joining them. And we went along with the couple as they ventured outside sporting their 49er gear in enemy territory. Go hawks. It didnt take long the draw attention. Hawk fans were allaround. It will be a good game. It will. It will be a good game. One for the record books. Either way. This is good. Lets go hawks. The bay area couples wandered into the blue friday rally at Westlake Center where seahawks fans were cheering on their team. Mixed in the crowd they found 49er faithful. It was a time for pictures, a time to celebrate, a time to be proud of their team. All these people the rivalry is great. It awesome. It will be a awesome weekend. The niners will win. I wouldnt want to be anywhere else. A once in a lifetime thing probably. Share it would good friends. On the way to the super bowl. You can feel the excitement with so much fun. A lot of seahawks fans, you can feel the 49er and see the 49er fight full. Were lucky the skies clearing. Its clear but cool, no rain right now in the forecast. Good natured stuff. A local rock station found a 49er fan and prank called her and said the ticket was going to be resixed unless resindhed unless she threw away her gear. Stuff like that is happening. Were getting a lot of good stories. Things are getting dirty. Back with more at the top of the hour. Were going to bring them back for you during the next hour, be stay with us for 49er coverage. Were going to hear from julie and mark again for our road trip to a championship special. New at 5 30, she was crossing the street when she was hit. The second crash involving a ride sharing car. The president announces changing to the domestic surveillance plan. Hes creating a buffer. The bay area death toll from the flu, what we know about the recent vehicles and the debate over whether to get a flu shot. Good. Good answer. Check it out. Learnings fun now. Yeah, back in our day, we didnt have uverse high Speed Internet to play and learn online. All we had was that franklin fuzzypants. Ah, the educational toy bear. Remember when the battery went out . [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abcs. All i learned was a new definition of fear. I need some pudding. Yeah, theres one left. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high Speed Internet. Rethink possible. Continuing coverage as the bay area death toll continues. Two new cases in santa cleara county. Two women 62 and 52yearold. This bridges our total to 22 debts this season. John went to santa clara county. The hardest hit if bay area to get a sense how serious things are. Well have that story for you in a minute. These are the latest developments in a number of flu related illnesses and deaths. 45 people in all have died this through season. Those numbers are expected to rise from where they are. State leaders are having 50 deaths that may be flu related. Were staying on top of the story and will have more information throughout the evening. Three people are recovering tonight after suffering from smoke inhalation during a house fire in the bay view district. It started after 3 00 on a home on apollo street. Four people were in the home when the fire started and they had to jump out of their windows to escape. Investigators are sure if the house had working smoke detectors. A gust of wind turned their campfire into a raging wildfire. Thats what three men say caused the fire that burned Southern California homes. The men are under arrest held on 25,000 bond. The fire started yesterday in the Angeles International forest. To burn through 1700 acres. 3500 were evacuated from their homes in glendora and ajusta. The u. S. Azusa. The fire is 35 contained. The smoke and ash is blanketing a wide area. You can see the plume stretches beyond los angeles and over into the pacific ocean. Back now to the flu, how theres two more debts, two more flu related debts as a result. 15 people have ended up in the icu and six have died. Both died of the h1n1 virus. I think whats unusual about this season is really the severity of illness. The number of reports and whos getting sick. We tallied the numbers and theres 22 deaths in the past few weeks and dozens in the ics. The debate over flu shots rages on. We stopped at a cvs offering the vaccine. A lot of people are sick. No, i got it one time when i was playing volleyball at ucla and the whole team got sick. Its a vaccine thats given annually to so many people around the country, i think its a vaccine we feel comfortable with. Many will be getting together to watch the 49er game which experts say should beton consciously. Make sure everyone washes their hands and the weather is beautiful. Throw open the window and get fresh air. Its too early to determine if this flu eason is season is really bad or just peaking early. Live to a picture we would like to share with you. The grand San Francisco San Francisco 49ers airplane. The team is on the plane. This is in the bay area, as our mark and julie showed us, theres a lot of fans up in seattle waiting for the big game. You see the buses there. We brought you the story of the buses taking the players to the airport. Right now all hopes on the team getting to seattle happily and safely. We have extensive coverage of this exciting weekend. Less than 48 hours. If the 49ers win, it on to the super bowl. A woodburning ban for tomorrow night. Live look at the skyline. There we go. Tomorrow will be the 28th, you know that will happen, as you say the San Francisco skyline, there it is its the 28thspare the air alert of the season. Burning wood is illegal unless your fireplace is your only source for heat. Mark has a look at the and cans. Today another day of record warmth. The big story the drought declaration across the state. Theres no rainfall in the forecast. Heres our camera from earlier today looking toward the records. Oakland 74, breaking the record of 71, gilroy topped out at 80. Today cooler than yesterday, but very warm showing 60s in San Francisco, santa rosa 71. Livermore 69. You can see a system in the pacific, all the energy is well offshore, no threat of rain. We would welcome the rainfall but thats not in the forecast. This weekend mostly sunny skies, cooler out there the, we started to cool off today and that trend continues saturday and sunday. Holding on to to try weather pattern. No shift for next week. All we can do is show you a few high clouds and thats about it. The forecast remains unchanged with minor tweaks over the weekend. As far as current numbers. Santa rosa 66. Oakland 70 and san jose haze out there but a temperature of 67. Forecast for tomorrow in the 40s, on track to reach the upper 60s by 2 00 tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow cooler than today in most of the bay area. Overnight lows, santa rosa, napa, fairfield subfreezing. San jose 41. Heres the overall weather set up. The High Pressure all week long weve been talking about this guy, strong High Pressure in place, into the weekend, a weak weather system for saturday and sunday. The mostly sunny skies remain in play, no rain threat. Tracking the wetter in seattle. You can see into the weekend. Increasing clouds, into the weekend the forecast, a few clouds with mostly cloudy skies for sunday afternoon, mostly cloudy skies, temperature in the 40s. Back here in the bay area for tomorrow, starting out clear and cool. 30s to 40s. By lunchtime 60 to 65 degrees, afternoon high on track to reach the mid60s to 70s. San francisco 67. San jose at 70 degrees. Heres the fiveday forcast. Were looking for the rain clouds, nothing showing up. A few clouds by tuesday and wednesday. The long range forecast beyond the next five days. If theres a chance of rain drops in the bay area. President obama announces new limits to nsa surveillance program. The new way citizen private information will be protected. A gold rush at sfo. Niner fans are bringing the excitement. A declaration of drought today. Whats next for the bay area. These and more coming up new at 6 00. The Great American novel. So you can happily let life get in the way, while planning for tomorrow. So you can finish the Great American novel banking for the life you have investing for the life you want chase. So you can no. Tonight, i got the favorites bucket. Shhhhh, theyre eating. Kfc favorites bucket. 10 pieces, any recipe you want, 12. 99. I even get my favorite. Extra crispy boneless. Thank you. An investigation is underway why a light rail 49 hit a bike rider in san jose. It hit add stokes street. You can see the dbacked bike damaged bike. The victim was taken to the hospital but the extent of her injuries have not been released. There were 40 passengers on the train. An oakland teen pleaded guilty to firing the shots that took the life of a little boy. Coleman was charged as an adult in the killing of hiram lawrence. The toddler was shot in west oakland. The boy will be sentenced to life in prison. The Supreme Court agreed to decide if police need a warrant when searching cell phones of people in custody. That issue is a High Court Ruling that allows searches of items people are carrying when they are arrested. The justices will hear appeals of two cases where people were arrested in part by searches of cell phones. Firefighters rush to the fifth major fire in months. A sixalarm fire. Hear from the man who banged on walls to around residents to get out of the apartment. A driver hits an elderly woman in the crosswalk. Ill tell you about whats being down to prevent these type of collisions. They waited all day the wish their team well on on the road to the championship. The fans that got to the practice facility before the players. A ball of fire erupts from a machine shop to peninsula and the flames spread to homes. Todays sixalarm fire is the third indust reale industrial fire in a few months. In november a fire started at the Sims Recycling fire and sent smoke in the air. You did see the charred wreckage in this mostly industry area. What caused this is an open question. The fire broke out before 6 00 this morning burning fast and furiously. Firefighters say it started in the fmw machine shop be grew. The business had no sprinkler system. A Metal Fabrication business, you are looking at machinery, metal parts, some coating operations. The fire spread to three other buildings including a four unit apartment, one neighbor saw the smoke and began warning the residents. Started pounding on the wall, a gentleman finally understand. All got out safely, including eight children. Somebody called fire, fire from the street. This man lost everything but his wife and children are safe. My family is sad, were fine, were alive. This is the fitz major fire fifth major fire in the last few months. We have house fires, we have car fires but not buildings and rose of buildings and apartment units. Its scary. Theres nothing to lead us to believe theres a connection. Were back live, firefighters say they will be here throughout the night guarding against flare outs. Investigators have not had a chance to go inside. The red cross is putting up the residents in hotels for the shortterm. They wont be able to return here anytime soon. Prosecutor reached a plea deal in the gang rape of a 16 yearold girl in 2009. 26yearold elvis pleaded guilty to one count of sexual preparation of a intoxicated person. The San Francisco Sheriff Department issued a warning about a phone scam. Someone pretenting to be with the Sheriff Department is calling people and using a ploy to steal the money. He said hes captain andy gore, lieutenent gore or lieutenent snow. Then says a Family Member has an outstanding arrest warrant and demands immediate payment. He gets the pin number and steals the money. Sheriff Officials Say the calls are fake and not the ever comply with those type of requests. Another pedestrian is hit by a redshare driver. This was a selder elderly woman. This is the second such stent involving a redshare driver since new years eve eve. This victim has a lower leg injury. This is the intersection where it happened. It is a busy intersection. The driver was turning left from jackson street to larkin street and hit the elderly woman in the crosswalk. You can see the damage to the front of this ride lift vehicle. Police say the driver stayed on scene to help the woman after hitting her. Everything will be forwarded down to the hall of justice. The collision comes on the heels of a new years eve crash between a driver and young family and continuous ride share clashes with the cab industry. The driver hid the family crossing at poke and ellis street killing a sixyearold and injuring her brother. That driver was taken into custody. We spoke with the lift driver this afternoon who didnt want his face shown because of the tension surrounding ride share companies. Accidents happen, but im not sure what will be done. To combat the problems of collisions between vehicles and pedestrians the mayor announced a plan that would up Police Patrols and announced a Public Safety Awareness Campaign that is sleeted to be launched in february. San Francisco Mayor made Affordable Housing the center of the state of the city address. He made his speech this morning where crews are building 247 townhouses. He wants to see 30,000 new or rehabilitated homes in the city in the next six years. Unemployment in San Francisco is also now down to just over 5 . The 49ers road trip to a championship. It goes through seattle and the team is headed north. The big game less than 48 hours away. The fans that gave the team a proper send out. Who may be behind the target breach and who the hackers are targeting next. [uncle]this is hopscotch,okay . Uncle go one,two,one,two,one two,one. [niece]okay [uncle]okay . [niece]one,two three,four,five,six,seven,eight [uncle laughing] okay,we go the other way,okay . [niece]one,two,three,four,five, six,seven [uncle laughs]theres ten spaces,you want to try again . [uncle]yeah . Were learning did you details about the data breach that compromised the information of 100 million customers at target stores. At least six other u. S. Businesses have had their credit card Processing Systems infected with the same software used at target. Officials say the code for the malware was written in russian and based on another program developed by a russian cybercrime master. President obama announced major limits on the nsa phone collection. I believe we need a new approach. With those words president obama announced changes to the way the government can spy on citizen at home and abroad. This should give the American People greater amount confidence that their rights are protected. Better controls need to be in place for how the government collects information on phone records of the u. S. Sentence. Find a third party to keep track of the information and get approval before gathering the phone records. Lets chart a way forward to preserve the liberties of our nation. Protesters gathered outside the justice tempt. Critics say the reforms dont go far enough. Big brother connection will be there. A group of former analyst turned whistle plowers say even with the reforms the nsa will be collecting unnecessary phone data on independence americans. You can successfully process and prosecute bad people in big data without disturbing the data of innocent people. Day an feinstein is said today she agrees with the president s reforms but remains committed to the collection of telephone data by the nsa. The 49ers are on the road and in less than 48 hours a do or die game to get them to the super bowl and a lot of fans showed up to send them off. Some got there as early as 7 00. Well hear from them in a moment. Another day of record warmed. The one direction the temperature will tread and more rain clouds. A live look at the seattle waterfront, a beautiful and chilly night, somewhere had the distance is cenurylink field where it will be happening when the 49ers battle the seahawks on fox, our team of julie and mark are in seattle kicking off the road trip to the championship coverage tonight. First, a couple minutes ago, we showed you the 49ers getting on the plane. Kristina is live with the big send off from the 49er faithful. Some showed up early this morning. Very early. Even though this parking lot is empty you can feel the excitement in the air. Our cameras were rolling this afternoon when the coaches and players started loading the buses and in minutes they were off. They drove through the fan filled streets. Some of the people had been up early for the proper 49er send off. Theres no time for sleep in the 49er empire. Some of the loyal fans had been up since 7 00 in the morning. Cheering the team off to seattle. So proud of the team. Rand a yaeger is in game mode with his eyes on game number 6. We want to win the super bowl. I have mr. Harbaugh. He collected the autograph of almost every player on the helmet. Hes waiting for smith and Justin Smiths signature. I built a niner room for my niner stuff. Were going to barbecue. All my neighbors know when theres a touchdown. My house erupts. Drew is living for seattle tonight. He bought tickets on the secondary market. Noting can stop niner fight full. No way. They can do all the blocking policies they want. It wont stop us. Our boys got this. We got this. And we are the nfc champs. Number 149ers. Yaeger will be watching from home, he will still be seconding his love from the bay area to the players and of course coach harbaugh. Thank you mr. Harbaugh for a great season. You made this happen. You made this happen. Mr. Harbaugh, love you man. Who got it better than us . Nobody and part of the reason this parking lot cleared out so fast, some of the fans are on the way to the airport headed for seattle. The others will be at the game in spirit. 49er fans send us their photos and we have some you dont see every day. Jerry took this photo from the top of a cargo crane at the San Francisco bay. Look at the 49er flag. Jefferson high School Getting in the 49er spirit. Students and staff posed for this photograph. This is the only picture weve received from a local school. Thats a challenge. Teachers, students. Send us your pictures. Share your team spirit with this facebook page. 49er faithful searching for tickets for the game, and the tickets have been hard to come by since the seahawks blocked instruct ticket direct ticket sales to california. Theres only 1700 tickets left. Starting at 400 for upper level seats. Some asking 450 for sanding room only. 50yard line seats for 7,000 each. We have a half hour special at after the news at 6 00. Here at home the 49er nag is flying over the San Francisco. Taking a live look, theres a light breeze to bay. Mark joins us live with the forecast for the weekend and that big game in seattle. Just a flew clouds in sootel seattle. The temperature in the 40s. For us not much of a change, we want that change, weve been locked in a static weather pattern. Heres thelete, we are in the clear, theres a system in the pacific, we have tracked the distance over 300 miles offshore. Some of the energy approaching in the form of high clouds and cooler temperature. Current temperature fairfield 64, shows in the upper 60s, 65. Novato at 59. We have this clear and cool, this weekend minor cooling, well look at the 49er fan in San Francisco, did you see tomorrow morning in San Francisco, upper 40s, by 12 00 64, by 3 00 67. The drought declaration in california. The next week the dry weather pattern persists. Heres what we have been talking about all week long, day five of record warmth. For today sunny and warm, temperature near 70 tress, in the weekend this system moves in, a cloud producer in seattle. Mostly sunny skies, a little bit of a drop off. Were looking for the rainfall, heres the updates. Here we are this afternoon. Well cycle this. The bay area a few clouds, all the rain threats remain in the pacific, way offshore to the west, unfortunately the dry weather pattern will continue possibly through the end of january. Forecast highs lots of 60s, as ive mentioned most areas coming down a little bit but above the average. Oakland 79. San jose 70, morgan hill and gilroy in the low 70s and San Francisco 67, pacifica 65 and palo alto at 70. The fiveday forcast with your weekend in view. Temperature these are minor changes from saturday and sunday. Well cool things off and partly sunny next week tuesday and wednesday. Wed like to bring rain clouds closer the bay area. We cant control that. But we can conserve the water. Firefighters say the drought Emergency Declaration is important. Cal fire has battled 150 wildfires since the first of the year. Thats six times the normal number. It will allow the agency to access the Emergency Fund and add firefighters. Our budget for fire season in Northern California is may through november, this is an extraordinary year. This frees up the funding. The population in the nine sierra counties is 2 1 2 times since the drought of 76 and 77. They are not sure the extra firefighters will be enough if things stay this dry. Make sure you are following us on twitter and facebook to get breaking news 24 hours a day. President obama signs a 1 trillion spending plan. What it includes. Representing the 49ers in seattle. I have my gold pants, my 49ers shirt. How the excitement is taking over the airport as the 49er faithful prepare to take flight. Water experts say the governors declaration may be just the beginning, policy, politics and drought may play out for you. Those and more coming up at 6 00. Good. Good answer. Check it out. Learnings fun now. Yeah, back in our day, we didnt have uverse high Speed Internet to play and learn online. All we had was that franklin fuzzypants. Ah, the educational toy bear. Remember when the battery went out . [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abcs. All i learned was a new definition of fear. I need some pudding. Yeah, theres one left. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high Speed Internet. Rethink possible. Michelle obama turned 50 today and has her aarp card to prove it. Excited to join barack and the 50 plus club today. Shes having a dance party. Refers to the party as snacks and sips and dancing and dessert. The president signed a 1 trillion spending bill. Congress passed it last night and parts are considered to be controversial. Funding sub die subsidies for flights to tiny airport. The Group Citizen against government waste says theres money in the spending plan for lawmakers pet projects. The issue is how did it get in there, which members asked for it and how are they benefitting. The chairman of the Appropriation Committee despite less liked things in the bill it was signed in compromise. It provides 90 million for grants to improve school safety. A 1 pay raise for the military. 12 1 2 billion dollars for the faa. It provides 6 billion for fema disaster relief. 5. 5billion for the Forest Service with added funds to fight wildfire and 71 million for the Postal Service despited it does not cut saturday mail serves. A report of a suspicious package in oakland. Someone discovered outside the entrance of the county courthouse. The bomb squad found it was a box that contained a back pock, a game and stuffed animal and pingpong paddled. It was harmless. Do you hate getting parking tickets but dont have time to find them. A entrepreneur came up with an app for your smart phone to do. Take a picture of the ticket and the place you got the ticket and send it to get fixed. The app will tell you the chances of beating the citation and send a letter to the court for you. If you win you pay them a quarter of the fine you would have paid the city, if you lose you play the pay the city and dont day them anything. Dah can in a state of emergency, what does that mean. Well break down the drought declaration and why were only beginning to address the problem. Go niners. The 49er faithful heading to seattle. We catch up with fans making their way too the pacific northwest. A special ceremony for east Bay Police Officer how they were honored today. Flap. Facing perhaps the worse drought that california has ever seen. It is official, negotiate brown issued a drought emergency after months of little rain. Good evening. Governor brown made that drought declaration this morning asking people to reduce their water use by 20 . For now they are voluntary but the governor will consider hander to mandatory restrictions if the conditions dont improve. Specifically agricultural businesses and officials are rooking to the past to plan for a drought worse case scenario. Have a great day. For californians to count on a steady water supply to grow food the call for conservation is a sign of the times. Its a good idea. The governor signed off on a drought emergency encouraging people to cut water usage by 20 . As the weeks go by, well recalibrate and were holding out the possibility of mandatory conservation. The states largest reservoirs are at record lows. The declaration aims to sell Water Supplies to those in need. Particularly in the central valley. May see less vegetables planted