the snow again. reporting live ktvu channel 2news. >> all right. this was just the latest in a series of storms to hit the bay area. just how much rain has fallen this week? mark joins you now with some pretty impressive totaling. >> reporter: that's right. the numbers adding up since last month. the activity today has been decreasing over the past few hours, right now on the storm tracker you can pick out the coverage. this is the loop over the past two hours. you get the idea with pretty much the rain source moving out of town. we have a little bit of lingering activity and as you can see around the south bay for san jose. there is the airport right now and still a few lingering scattered showers in this area. out in the east bayh round livermore the area still a few pop up showers. the trend will continue to scale back on the coverage into the evening hours. its been a very wet week all the way since monday. rainfall totals, you can see santa rosa, five inches of rain since monday. san francisco and oakland nearly four inches and san jose around 2.43. a bit of a break for tomorrow but tracking another system in the pacific. i will let you know what this will impact the bay area in the full forecast. >> thank you. snow in the east bay hills caught people by surprise as jim vargas reports it was a chance to have winter fun while it lasts. >> ice cones. >> reporter: the snow was minimal but stayed on the ground all day in the east bay hills. these kids came from the central valley where it never snows. >> it's just like what we went from our one time, it was the same but kind of heavier. >> reporter: by late morning the snow had turned to ice. the weather closed some parks but this didn't stop home prosecute driving up or in one case pedaling to enjoy the snow. >> i should be home. i shouldn't be doing this. >> reporter: why? >> because it's cold. >> if are you looking for the snow it's about a mile walk. >> reporter: mount diablo stayed open for a mile from the snow line. some hiked the rest of the way. >> it's really coming down and everything is turning white. it's beautiful like a postcard. >> reporter: the rain, snow and cold didn't hurt down plans to camp out. > why camp in this weather? >> for the challenge. just to camp out. >> survival. >> reporter: driving on the small roads and curving can be a problem. there was a near head on collision this morning that injured one driver. >> have you to slow down. there is a lot of people that have been noticing this morning just stopping in the middle of the roadway, getting out of their carses, taking pictures and that's dangerous. people are come around turns. >> reporter: there may still be snow tomorrow but if you want to see it get here early. in berkeley. >> sierra has seen plenty of snow as well. it's probably just what the ski resorts wanted for the long holiday weekend. we will show you what the conditions are like in the mountains in about 25 minutes. bay area search and rescue teams helping in the search for a missing snow boarder on mount shasta. the man was last seen thursday. he called his family to say he was going to take one more run down the mountain. the sheriff said about 70 searchers are still on the mountain looking for him. the sheriff said about two feet of snow has fallen and it's still snow tonight. searchers are assisting searchers from northern california and oregon. >> despite the rain hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of san francisco for this year's chinese new year parade. the largest celebration of it's kind outside of asia. we were there to witness a few firsts in the long history. >> reporter: the streets sweepers have come through and traffic is flowing on market street as you can see. the rain actually let up during the parade and maybe had something to do with good luck or that rabbit. the year of the golden rabbit got off with a bang. >> it's great. >> reporter: nearly one million braved the drizzle and cold where boundless bunny ears, dancers, drummers, and floats swirled through city streets. >> i didn't like coming in the rain but it's worth it >> my children are from chain a. we kind of like to do this, you know, celebrate their culture. >> reporter: five thousand people took part in the festivals, 1500 of them children. some firsts this year, a giants appearance with the world series trophr and the first chinese mayor the grand marshall of the parade. >> it's like a breakthrough in america. >> i saw so many kids of different races speaking chinese to me and they are all interested in our relationship with china as well as just being san francisco residents. >> we will discharge 200,000 fire crackers er that's 360 every 20 feet for two miles of the golden dragon the crowd favorite. >> when we get to the edge you will see -- push the dragon and people can touch it and take the good luck with them throughout the year. >> reporter: the golden dragon stretches 250 feet and takes 100 martial artists to help snake it around. they run about five miles. exhausting they say but exciting. live in san francisco, ktvu channel 2news. >> and you will find more on this year's parade by going to our website ktvu.com. look for the line on the right hand side of the page. we have videos of some of the moments. downed wires forced muni to shut down a railway line tonight. they said it stopped service on its line shortly before 6:00 tonight when 150 feet of wire fell to the ground. nobody was hurt. they aren't saying what caused the wires to collapse. they have set up a bus bridge between judith and 22nd. we just checked the website about 20 minutes ago and service had still not been restored. >> passengers boarded bart trains for the first time today at the new west dublin pleasanton station located at interstate 580 and 680 in dublin. the first train pulled out of the station this morning and will serve riders. >> in the 90's we are building it, this was supposed to be a stop. we had no money for it. we put in all the plumbing, all the things in case the money came in. >> money came in and ground broke four years ago. it's the first to be built in between two existing stations. bart investigators haven't said how several pieces of metal ended up on tracks last flight prompting a shut down of membership of the system. it started after 6:00 last night when it was spotted on the tracks at the west oakland station. workers cut the power to four of five bart lines for about a half hour, snarling the evening commute. they say it was about 8:00o 30 before they got back to normal. >> pg&e said it wouldn't change how it monitored the pipeline that exploded in september. that's according to a report in the san jose mercury news. after that deadly explosion it was revealed that the pipeline had a welded seam. a fact pg&e didn't know. the company said the federal guidelines are the same for pipes with seams and those without. investigators have determined the blast started at a poorly installed weldon that seam. there is word that the refinery is set to restart operations. valero has almost finished the repairs it started last december that included installing anti pollution devices. officials say there could be loud noises and flairing which are normal during a refinery start up. bay area ware quality managers will monitor emissions from the plant. >> jail houses many drug crime suspects but wouldn't get any from the drug county task force for now. >> system down. the problem for oakland police as they responded to a violent party. >> and a dog problem tonight as a northern california dog turns up a long way from home. the news continues in 90 seconds. no the woman who drove her car in to a rite aid said it was in park the entire time. the lexus could have hit people inside the store if it wasn't for a support pole that stopped its progress. it happened in the laurel woodshopping center. nobody was hurt including the driver who was in her 30s. the store closed after the crash for employees to clean up. a contractor had to be called into stabilize the support pole. a narcotics team has stopped operations at least for now after the arrest of its lead officer. as john tells us other agencies are now fighting ways to move forward while one of their own is prosecuted. >> reporter: until wednesday the county narcotics enforcement team was run by norman welsh. now his admission to role in a drug theft and sell spree has stopped them in their tracks. >> for now their operations have stopped. >> reporter: they are the narcotics defail for smaller cities like walnut creek and pittsburgh. the da said they will be reviewed top to bottom. >> one person if they are motivated to do bad things are -- very difficult to stop. we can put some things in place to make it harder to do that. >> reporter: the oakland attorney has sued welsh on behalf of a familiar of a man who was killed by the unit. >> it sort of proved our sense that this was not a good operation. >> reporter: in downtown martinez the arrest has raised doubts. >> if you can't trust the police to clean up the drug problem who can you trust? >> reporter: police chief said there is much work to be done. >> no doubt we need their team together to deal with narcotics problems in the county but at what cost? we need a solid reputation, make sure solid proceed yous in place. >> reporter: the arrest could cause dozens of cases to be dismissed. the executive board meets on tuesday to figure out what to do neck. in martinez. >> oakland police say they don't know what led to a shoot that killed a couple sitting in a parked car. the 31-year-old redwood city man and his 27-year-old girlfriend from oakland from on their way to a party in east oakland last night. authorities say just before one two unidentitied people approached that car that was parked at 62nd avenue and hilton and opened fire. both died at the scene. not long after that shooting gun fire erupted at a party at a hotel. a familiar problem surfaced again for those officers responding. >> reporter: police investigators say a party in one of the third floor rooms at the inn got out of hand this morning. around 3:30 a confrontation broke out and someone fired several shots. >> the hall was full of people running screaming, crying. >> reporter: the bullets struck one man who was sent to the hospital, when police arrived they tried to sit up a perimeter. >> our radios weren't working in that area. >> reporter: they couldn't talk to each other or with dispatchers so they had to go back and use the equipment in the cars. >> the officers were forced to use the car radios which worked a little better and helped us talk to the dispatch that helped coordinate the scene. >> reporter: to do that you had to leave your post? >> some did. >> reporter: officers learns the radio system that usually cover east oakland was down. it's the latest a string of issues with their police radio system. last month they also lost contact. >> that poor mental bi --. >> reporter: crews were the city of oakland area wafer the problem this weekend and trying to fix it. >> the oakland city administrators office released a statement about the issues saying it radio techs believe they have isolated the problem to a specific antenna that appears to have failed as a result of bad weather and the age age of it. it was replaced this morning. tests indicates operations back to normal and the quality and stability of the radio system has been restored. >> oakland police hoping tonight's episode of america's most wanted will help them catch a homicide suspectt. featured a segment on sean michael sullivan. he killed a man in november. another man was wounded is paralyzed from the waist down. sullivan is on the united states marshalls 15 most wanted list. they are offering a 25,000- dollar reward for information leading to his arrest. a new website launched this week for south bay residents looking for information involving a controversial cement plant. two fact finding committees jointly created the south bay quarry libby. it went up late thursday with documents and data involving the lehigh plant. residents approached city officials last year with health concerns related to plant operations. the two committees were formed to determine if it meets emission standards. >> a faceoff in wisconsin was union protesters descended on the capitol to fight efforts to strip unions of their baring powers. the governor has proposed banning collective baring to a move to close the state's deficit. thousands protested the measure for a 5th day today. today tea party activists staged a counter protest urging the bill pass. >> if the -- specifically for this reason to back down our deficit that we have, $3.6 billion. >> i think he just wants to bust up the unions, so -- teachers unions, talk about making concession was them on finances and their benefits and stuff but still wants to bust up the unions. >> reporter: democratic lawmakers are boycott the measure. the state assembly is set tooting up the proposals. chipping reunited a man with his dog. brian drove all the way to tacoma today to pick up his dog named bear. he last saw bear tuesday in sacramento. two days later and more than 720 miles later a woman dropped the dog off at humane society. workers scanned the chip and then tracked down the owner. >> if bear could talk he would have a heck of a story. now buying a car in a county city this weekend. . >> how northern california sciencists and wine may help boost airport security. . >> the showers out and moving out of the bay area right now on the live storm tracker 2. not a lot to show you as far as the cold temperature. when the next chance of showers could move back into the area. . in the market for a new car in a school district wants to you buy now. ken pritchett exmaybes what's riding on car sales this president's day weekend. >> reporter: this the college park high school wrestling team just back from a winning tournament. >> champs. >> reporter: they are champs because of hard work and coaching. they have a sport because of the community. funding in the district was eliminated two years ago. a private foundation has kept the program alive. >> without community support, without parent donations, people stepping up, no athletics unfortunately. >> reporter: more support is on its way in the form of a president's day sale at concord car dealership. it's a fundraiser organized by the city of concord. >> gets people driven into the city of concord. >> reporter: a percent of every car sold will benefit foundations to keep music and athletic programs alive. the dealers have incentives for buyers. > >> the dealerships involved here in the city over a busy holiday weekend it should be several thousand dollars. >> reporter: the final tally will depend on sales, the rain may not helpt. takes more than a million dollars to keep the program running in the district. >> kids use all the help they can get. >> reporter: this one fundraiser is just a small part of what the united athletics foundation needs to raise this year. they say after all funding was lost money came in, in the second year fundraising is more difficult. in concord, ken pritchett. >> the school district has more problems than just funding programs, its facing an 11 million-dollar deficit next yearn. an effort to bridge the gap on tuesday the school board is scheduled to decide whether to close two more schools. silver wood and westwood elementary in concord. the superintendent said with fewer students and less money from the state it just makes sense to close schools. >> it appearance more layoffs and program cuts in sight for the napa valley kyle district. they voted to cut more than $6 million from its budget. the cuts which range from sports to vocal programs are the board's plans for a worst case situation budget. three more furlough day also be added up to 60 teachers and pop to receive pleiomery layoff notices. davis sciencists turning to wine to try to keep airports safe. sounds strange but researchers hope to use technology used to test wine as a way to find liquid explosives. they said passengers may be able to take bottles of water again through security. those items have been restricted since 2006. the department of homeland security is funding the research. sciencists hope to have a prototype by the end of the year. >> we have amazing naevoid yes to share with you of the sun. salar flares, this amaze video from nasa shows eruptions on valentine's day. they said this is the largest salar flair went since 2006. the energy has prodeuce fantastic northern lights. >> coming up we will take to you the sierra to see how much snow has fall ken why slick roads aren't the only problem. . and wine, flowing from a fountain. why this wild celebration -- where it happened and the reason behind it. . here say live look at traffic in the sierra nevada. traffic moving well on interstate 80 to tahoe city. there is very little snow on the roadway. we just checked with the highway patrol and chains not required on interstate 80 for on highway 50. snow in the sierra has created headaches in several counties. thousands are without power tonight and other roads are dangerous. as tom explains, some also are making an adventure out of the winter weather. >> reporter: utility crews working in the foothills. 4300 customers in el dorado without power and 20,000 in other counties. quiet tonight at 4,000 feet. pollic pines got a break after two feet of snow but the roads are icy. passing showers in parts of the valley led to this rainbow in the afternoon. run off from the storms caused deer creak to overflow, but it's back down tonight. along interstate 80 low snow lured families to stop. >> it's fun, cold though but we are excited. >> reporter: expecting traffic back ups many people left very early only to be surprised. >> it was fast up here. no problem. the road were clean. >> reporter: two cousins packed in to the family car at 5:00 a.m. so they were happy the road trip brought adventure. >> i enjoy snowballs. i like playing -- i like snowball fights. >> reporter: and a cold night ahead for parts of the central valley, freeze warnings for farmers. in sacramento. >> in the simplest of language a sciencist said there was a lot of oil stuck on the bottom of the gulf of mexico from the bill spill and it's destroying life on the sea floor. she said her team has surveyed about 2600 miles in the gulf and found that the spilled oil isn't degrading as fast as hoped. at a conference she showed pictures of dead bottom dwelling creatures including crab, brittle stars and tube worms. the chief of the national administration said that almost all of the oil from the spill is gone but she doesn't see it as a contradiction that spilled oil remains. >> immaterial tonight the wave of unrest in the middle east and north africa appears to be spreading. while there is calm in the streets of behrain in libyia it was a new round of violence. . >> reporter: thousands of demonstrators celebrating in the country's can't olar the military withdrew armed vehicles a main swear. earlier this week the government used force against demonstrators but now it appearance to be backing away from further confrontation. >> question are here because for the first time we feel free. we weren't -- we aren't into politics, we are just happy to have a voice finally. >> reporter: progovernment forts reportedly opened fire at people attending a mass funeral for protesters. at least 15 people were killed and many were injured in the attack. security forces have been cracking down on protesters since tuesday. a human rights group thinks more than 80 people have died. in yemen police reportedly shooting at thousands of protesters marching through the capitol. government supporters also attacking the demonstrators with clubs and knives. also in algeria the trying to block a rally. security forces breaking up the crowd into isolated groups to keep them from organizing. the country is riddled with corruption and has never successfully fought with it's soring jobless rate. > >> we are telling the truth. they didn't care for us. >> reporter: hundreds of stateless arabs demanding stein- and in moracco a nationwide protest is planned for tomorrow. in new york fox news. >> in iraq widows, children and orphans protested. they are demanding the government give them a monthly allowance. many in iraq are homeless and will easy targets for militants. today's protest was the latest a string of demonstration across iraq inspired by the up rising in africa and the middle east. gun fire broke the quiet of lawn of time in the eastern afghanistan city -- gun men and bombers stormed a busy bank killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 70. the taliban claimed responsibility saying the attack was aimed at afghanistan police officers and soldier who get their pay at this bank. authorities with the government said most of those killed were civilians. >> in other news of the world in germany violence broke out at a neonazi demonstration when fighting broke out with counter protesters. police had to use water cannons and tear gas to restore order. the size of the democrat traitor was at 600, the counter protesters were at 21,000. off the coast of somalia pirates have captured you an american couple selling the world . the attack comes days after pirate was sentenced to 33 years in prison by a new york court for a 2009 hijacking. pirates are holding about 60 ships and 300 crew members hostage. in venice the carnival festival got started. the wine flowed as dancers took over saint mark's square. as many as a million are expected in the historic city. the party will wind up march 8th. the day before the start of lent. they are still having fun. >> they are. >> the fans -- the warriors, seth currie getting to show off his skills so just how did he do? the answer coming up if sports wrap. >> can't wait and the rain is moving out but will we stay dry for the rest of the holiday weekend? mark is working on the compete bay area forecast. . that rain has moved out of the bay area but the cold air is still in place. you will feel it first thing into under morning. if you like the sun you would like the forecast more in to the second half of the weekend. right now on the maps i can show you on live storm tracker two a little bit of activity out of here. we will take a look here and zoom in closer to parts of the south bay. nothing to extreme but we could have wet roadways closer to san jose, willowglen and also loss gatos. also tracking the cold numbers and these are some of the current numbers. it's 36 degrees in santa rosa on track to reach around 30 degrees first thing tomorrow morning. in fact here say look at the overnight lows, projected low action santa rosa there is that 30, san francisco 39 degrees and livermore around 33. fairly good bet of patchy frost. for tonight decreasing showers, it has been the trend for tomorrow a chilly morning but a sun cloud mix and then the extended forecast we introduce shower chances and cold air could push in. here is the storm from today. you can see it finally scooting out to the south and the east. for sunday for the most part a dry weather pattern. the latest forecast models bringing in at least a few sprinkles. it's only a slight chance but tomorrow a much better day than today and into next week and into monday more clouds and there is a chance of a shower, the main rain band should stay in the pacific but it's close enough we have to bring in the rain chances as we head into monday but a cloud producer as we do head into the beginning of next week. here is the cloud and rainfall forecast model. not a lot to show you. slight chance of a sprinkle or two tomorrow afternoon. here is what happens in to monday as we put this into motion and that rain band, i will step out of the way here and it's off shore but something we will have to watch into monday. temperatures for tomorrow afternoon a little bit warmer than today. today we were in the 40s. tomorrow afternoon in the lower 50s. santa rosa around 51, haywood around 53. san jose 54 and gilroy topping out 52 degrees. it has been a very active weather weekend. at least a little bit of a break. there is that cloud once again into monday and that possibility of a shower right now the forecast models keeping the associated rainfall out in the pacific but close enough we watch that from monday. partly cloudy for tuesday and wednesday and looks like a fairly good bet of more showers for thursday and friday. heather and ken if you thought today was cold we could have colder air, colder air move in for friday and into next weekend. still a bit of disagreement with the models but something we will have to watch. >> this weather keeping you on your toes. >> yeah. we had a couple weeks we were just looking at the sky. the warm weather. busy now. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> american treasure came down this morning. high winds broke the national christmas tree in two. for more than 30 years it stood between the white house and the washington monument. it was more than 40 feet tall. in 1978 crews moved from a pennsylvania forest to the national mall. the park service though said it already has a tree picked out and will be ready for december's tree lighting. >> coming up next we have a complete run down in college basketball including saint mary's playing in a brackett buster. >> and some of the nba's brightest stars take to the air as the dunk competition takes center stage. . gang. welcome to sport wrap with the exseelings of the all-star game it's pretty been well established that the ones involving the other sports are just big exhibitions. the nba proved tonight its probably best at staging those. the doctor was in the house. one of the oranges when it comes to the dunk contest. it's getting tougher tougher to top previous attempts. mcgee got a perfect 50 and a spot in the finals for being the first to dunk two balls in two rims at the same time. griffin, he had the 360 behind the back effort but also got a spot in the finals. lot of seven footers, aren't as athletic to the ball, mcgee goes behind the back board for this one and has to keep from bumping us had head. then griffin, a choir came out to sing i believe i can fly, teammates lurked in the front seat of a car and throw up an asift through the sunroof. griffin jumped through the entire thing and threw down the winter. he wins . warriors don't have the all- star but were represented in two of the skills challenges. wright is the league leader in three point shooting. he totaled 11 points in the first round, ended up 4th but that wasn't good enough to move into the finals. paul pierce and and ray allen advanced but they were defeated by someone who was a long shot. miami's james jones. jones had 20 points in the final round beating pierce by two, allen by five, that was good enough to let him be the guy who hoisted the hardware. currie got a chance to show off. he was chosen by fan voting to be part of this. he missed only one bounced pass and went through the course in 28.2 seconds. that was i 16 seconds faster than the second place finisher westbrook. the win earned a young woman $30,000 in? a scholarship and no doubt a fan for life. when it comes to a team with tournament hopes it's all about getting hot at the right time. right now saint mary highway has to be worried. they hosted utah state. beating the shot clock with three of 16 points as part of a 20-2 run which built a 12 point