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And, hail pounds the bay area while a fastmoving storm barrels through. The 10 00 news on ktvu fox 2 starts now. Good evening. Those fastmoving thunderstorms rolled through the bay area today. Dumping hail in some areas. It looks like it is snowing. Reporter that womans car was covered in hail in morgan hill. A backyard and an entire street turns down in napa. Some of the reports we received today including here, the Swimming Pool filling up with hail like a drink filling up with ice. In lafayette, hail falling so fast it looked as though it was snowing. A viewer sent United States these viewers to give us an idea of the wild weather. Lets go to mark now not only did we see the hail but a dusting of snow on bay area peaks . Reporter that is right. We saw everything, sunshine, gusty winds, heavy rainfall and thunderstorms with hail and of course the hail really capturing the headlines this afternoon with the thunderstorms erupting. This is a picture coming in from cynthia sending us this tweet. You see the hail showing up there. Also, this is in antioch and all of the hail hitting the hood of the car with the thunderstorms. It is rapidly developing by midafternoon moving to the south. It talked about the snow. Here is a picture looking out pleasanton and in terms of rainfall the amounts are not high. Good downpours in one spot. Morgan hilltopped out with. 35, brentwood. 31. Now the main energy all day was down to the south towards southern california. Here is the radar loop. We are taking a look. Not a lot of the coverage to show you. Take a look at this. Going back in time this afternoon from 2 00 p. M. Until 6 00 p. M. You see the thunderstorms developing up in parts of the north bay and moving to the south. Now, as a result you saw the nighttime videos, the dark time the dark sky video from morgan hill earlier today. You can see that activity approaching parts of the bay. Now, right now, not much in the way of shower activity. Gusty winds to talk about. The wind advisory here is the live camera looking out toward oakland. We will talk about that coming up in just a few minutes. Now, enough to bring down the trees in the bay area and cause power outages, we are live on Treasure Island with some of the damage left behind. Deb . Reporter it is still windy out here, ken. And crossing our bay area bridges you could really feel the wind. Especially high profile vehicle like a news van. After a month of blustery weather january goes out with a roar. Reporter as San Franciscos edge waves turn and the beach was beyond windswept. More like wind battered. As daylight faded the gusts sent most visitors fleeing leaving the most intrepid. It was windy and i saw the sun out today i wanted to check it out. The weather is great. Reporter the owner of this treecrunched car is likely not finding a weather great. Fortunately the monster was parked with no one inside when the wind brought the tree down. The windstorm left a trail of topelled trees across the bay area. These fell at the Springtown Golf Course in livermore just before 5 00. About like it felt like my car was going right and left, yes. For this driver it was a close call that ended well. She and her teenage son turned on the boulevard in the city when a huge tree uprooted in their path. We saw it come down. We literally saw and for my son and i oh my god. But, there was no way we could have avoided it. Reporter she saw it lift the concrete. Driving in the center lane, her car was submerged in branches. Dented and she and her son okay. We are thankful that i was not driving here. Can you imagine the trunk could of fell on my car. Reporter 100,000 street trees in the city only 11 arborrest. No one was hurt today. Reporter they have been trying to get the city to check these trees for months. They took out one tree and left branches dangling from another. That is just one tree. There is is a whole median that runs down between the busy boulevard and the frontage road that really it is no mans land. Reporter rain, lightning, hail or wind, do not spin your wheels fighting the wild weather. Better to embrace it. Even the blowing sand and its fight. It hurts. It is very painful. It is beautiful. [ laughter ] reporter now we are more than 5,000 utility customers without power. The largest number was in montera. They had a lot of lines down there. Theu still have about 500 households knocked out they still is have about 500 households knocked out. I did not even try to on brush my hair. What would be the point, right . Exactly. Thank you. Now, now to super bowl 50, the Denver Broncos and the panthers touched down. One week now to prepare for the game on sunday. Tomorrow night the coaches and players will be in the spotlight for super bowl media day. It seems no one can resist the super bowl hype. Noelle walker was the at the super bowl city in San Francisco where the allure of footballs biggest game certainly is a draw for fans. Reporter even as workers put the finishing touches on the entry gates. Please open them before getting to the metal detectors, thank you. Reporter fans lined up. Exciting. I had a couple of drinks. We wish we already had. [ laughter ] reporter early afternoon this super bowl city within the city was packed with football fans. The broncos. Reporter this family is a transplant from denver. Not giving it up. He is from san jose and three guesses what her team is, here is a hint, they are not playing next sunday. Even though it is not my team i support the sport and i love football. Reporter and that is what it is tphaoepbt do. Get fans together, cheering the game, the players, their teams, no matter what jersey they wear. It is a big party theme. Everyone gets together, people route for other teams that are not their own teams. Reporter most people at super bowl city are not going to the super bowl. This is as close as they can get to that experience. Waiting in line to buy super bowl gear. Why not. When is the next time it will come to the city . So, might as well get a souvenir for it. Reporter the best souvenirs are the memories. They are free and the cost here is, too. [music] reporter for many football fans super bowl week is a religious experience. Reporter the best thing the admission to super bowl city is free. One word of advice the area gets shaded quickly and it can get cool here in San Francisco. If you are coming down, wear layers. In San Francisco, noelle walker, back to you. With the super bowl days away, the Law Enforcement around the area is cracking down on Human Trafficking. Our cameras were there as they conducted a twoday operation at a hotel where they made 12 arrests. We have an inside look. Reporter this is no ordinary phone call. Men responding to an ad online for a hot and sexy brew net, agreed to meet in a hotel for sex. What the men dont realize the woman is an undercover San Jose Police officer. Hands behind your back, man. Hands behind your back. Reporter this is video from a camera inside of the hotel room. In another room, a dozen officers from a Human Trafficking task force comprised of san skwroes and and other police involving the f. B. I. This case the man tries to broker a deal for her friend saying the asking price is too low with the super bowl around the corner. Reporter in the two hours our cameras were there, the police got four men, all san jose residents. This man was willing to exchange 35 and marijuana. Just lonely and, you know, again i just wanted to have a womans touch. Reporter he claims this is his first time. I asked him how long it took to find a date online . 10 or 20 minutes. When people go on there you are able to search and scroll. Reporter the task force tries to get johns off of the street their main purpose is to find minors trying to have sex. They do the not arrest them they offer help. It is a shock. A absoluteee it is absolutely a shock. The number absolutely, it absolutely a shock. The rise in numbers. The youngest, 12 years old. The hope all of this will send a strong message to visitors making their way to the bay area for super bowl 50. If you believe you are gog to come to san jose and exploit a young lady or male you are completely wrong. Focus on the super bowl because i am focused on you. In san jose, ktvu news. A man celebrating his birthday today was shot to Death Outside of his home. The shooting took place at 1 00 this afternoon at walnut woods drive in the southeast part of the city. The 20yearold victim lived at the home with his girlfriend and a young daughter. The paper says a relative identified him as himi martinez. Another woman was injured but her wound was minor. The police have not offered details on a possible shooter. Santa clara police are thanking the public helping catch a woman who is accused of robbery and attempted homicide. The woman was arrested after someone recognized her riding a bus in santa clara. She ran off of the bus and the police pound her a short time later. Wanted in contphebgz to two cases. One per beating a man with a baseball bat and robbing him of his walet and cell wallet and cell phone. The police are searching for a woman accused of stealing a Police Vehicle and injuring an officer. Early yesterday morning the 26 yearold was with two men in a stolen car when she rammed a patrol cruiser. The two male suspects got out and ran and the officers followed. That is when the Authorities Say she hopped in an empty police car and took off. The officer tried to stop her and they say she dragged him with that car. The Police Vehicle was later found abandoned. The authorities arrested one of the men but two are still on the run. The officer was treated at the hospital and is recovering at home tonight. A hover board is likely to blame per a for a house fire. The fire was burning on the first floor. They have not determined the exact cause but a melted hover board was found near the point of origin and the homeowner said it was charging. Many of the top Law Enforcement agencies in the country arrived here in the bay area all for the super bowl 50. Still to come, a look at the hightech tools being used to keep the event safe. The spotlight is on iowa. Hours away from the start of the caucuses. Candidates are making their final push to voters in the hawkeye state. A tracting Younger Voters they are trying to attract Younger Voters. People are seeing candidates coming to the campus. They will want to show up. One problem, though for voters a tending college, a rule they can only caucus where they are registered to vote. It is not their campus address they will have to be home tomorrow to cast their vote. Candidates spent the final day caucus campaigning. The last two days of the Iowa Campaign are about building up your organization this year is a bit different. Reporter the loudest sound in iowa is the ticking of the clock. Time is running out for the campaigns, the candidates and the undecided. Reporter donald trump is on Cruise Control in an attempt to slow down the biggest rival in iowa. He wants to pretend he is robin hood. He will protect french wall street. He forget to he will protect wall street. He forget to say he borrowed money from citibank. Reporter cruz kicked him in the billfold. If you look at his financial he owes 480 million right now. Could be billions. When heidi and i take loans we pay them back. He has declared bankruptcy four times. Reporter polling 3rd, he remains hopeful. We have everyone at the calk caucus sites we have great people working there. We feel good about that. Monday night could be a historic night for this country. We can make history. What we need is a plan and a commitment and me. Yes. Thank you. While we dont know who will win monday night it is certain the field will shrink before the primary on february 9th. On the banks of the river, joe walden, fox news. Well most, not all are in what well most but not all are in iowa. The New Hampshire primary is not until later coming up on february 9th. Kasich feels his time is better spent there and he has held more town halls there than any other candidate. I have not had that many town hauls yet. This is only my 85th town hauls yet. This is only my 85th. That is pretty good. 85. And, and we are loving it. We are loving being out here. His goal is to hold more than 100 town halls in New Hampshire. The other candidates scheduled 35 events in iowa. They are expected on tuesday. Be sure to keep it right here on air and online. We near iowa to cover the caucuses. You can follow him on twitter as well. The weather today, one of those days where we have a bit of everything. Forecast today that included it. Forecast, gusty winds, it would have been nicely. That is what happened today. Last day of the month. Elements out there. The thunderstorms, really erupting by middle to Late Afternoon in the north bay and to the south. Winds picked up as well. Take a look. The peak gusts throughout the day. Ocean beach, 54 miles an hour. Sfo, 46, richmond, 40, santa rosa at the airport, 33 miles an hour. Here is the live camera looking out. Now, wind advisory in place through the overnight hours. Here you can not see the circulation heading towards the south, clouds across the bay area. The radar not too much to report at last check. Partly cloudy skies, a few mostly cloudy observations as well. The wind speed, you can see the sustained winds and some of the reported wind gusts towards oakland. The airport, wind gust to 31. Fairpaoeld winds gusting to 32. They are, right now fairfield winds gusting to 32. They are right now, gusting to 31 miles an hour. Here is the camera looking towards the bay bridge and towards San Francisco. Wind advisory in place until 4 00 a. M. On monday. Here is the forecast model. Winds will tpwuft into monday morning gust in the afternoon. Winds tomorrow, 10 to 20 miles an hour at 4 00 in the afternoon. Off to a cold start tomorrow morning. Take a look at the lows, take a look at the 30s and the 40s to start out your monday morning, partly cloudy skies, patchy frost. It will be dry. Coming up at 10 35 we will look at your fiveday forecast and let you know if we have more rain chancees to talk about. Coming up, we speak with the head of the super bowl planning committee. We hear about what he has to say about San Francisco footing the bill for the expenses tied to the big event. A blow out in the big apple. Joe fonzi joins us next with highlights from the warriors knicks game increase speed, full throttle over intercom ann, are you coming in . Negative stay on target. What are you guys doing . R2, thrusters theyre closing in ill guard the base. For every family that lives star wars, this is the place where star wars lives. Where a galaxy far, far away. Is closer than ever before. Move along. Come join us. As star wars awakens. And right now you can save on premium rooms at the disneyland resort. Hoping they left 4th quarter funk behind in philadelphia. Playing at Madison Square garden. The warriors played their 3rd straight sloppy quarter. The convincing jam. Newyork, at 2. Now, the warriors found the offensive rhythm. Thompson behind them. Now, green, finding shawn for it. Off of the bench for 11 points. Now, green was a big reason why the wariors got it going. He got it going the length of the court. Jamming two warriors got it going. He got it going the length of the court. Jamming two. Now, thompson, a drive to the hoop. Finishes with two of the 34 points. Thompson, an example of why this team is tough to defend. He was 14 of 18 from the field. 3 5 of 6 from 3 point range. The knicks held 16 in the 3rd quarter. Now, curry, missing this one. Green there, with the put back. 20 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists for the first time all star. The warriors win 11695 through 48 games there. 44 still tied. Through 38. Anticipation was high for the Basketball Team when the season began. Trying to win on the road for the second time all season. They are up in the 2nd half. Adadding to the lead. Scott, the baseline, the move, leading to colorado with 18 adding to the lead. Scott, the baseline, the move, adding to the lead. Now, sloppy with the ball here. It is xavier here. To cullier. They got within 4 late. Lost 7062. Lost 148 over all. 55 in the pac12. History held true to form djokovic was perfect in five previous finals, murray would not stand in his way for a 6th. Djokovic in the near court, hitting it, on his way to a 6th straight set win. He rolled in the first set, murray, more competitive in sets 2 and 3 but djokovic wrapped today it up. He is perfect in australian finals, tying emerson with 6 titles, murray has been runner up for 5 times with 11 grand slam titles djokovic moved within 6 of federers alltime record. The pro sports allstar games were held this weekend. Two of them. Ing both of them interesting exhibitions. Woodson took a moment to think about his final day in a footballune form. This is football uniform. Now, taylor, the pass here. Now, picked off by the 49ers, bowman. This version he could be on the winning side. 4927 while his San Francisco teammate was on the losing side. And the sharks, now, taking the ice tonight at nashville. The very unconventional nhl all star. This was a 3 on 3 tournament. Shot on goal. Doing an incredible job there. Hard to believe, the 3 on 3 game. 10. Now, anaheims player, for the goal for the division. John scott, the player voted in by the fans as a write in candidate was named the weekends most valuable player. Talking about all things raider and oakland sports in general. A lot of questions there. Yes. And the passes are tricky. [ laughter ] they are. Den depends. A bit of a tongue twister. Tonight, opening the doors to the Federal Reserve in san fran and show you the unusual currency in there. Our cosmetics line was a hit. The orders were rushing in. I could feel our deadlines racing towards us. We didnt need a loan. We needed shortterm funding fast. Building 18 homes in 4 ½ months . That was a leap. But i knew i could rely on American Express to help me buy those building materials. Amex helped me buy the inventory i needed. Our amex helped us fill the orders. Just like that. Another step on the journey. Will you be ready when growth presents itself . Realize your buying power at open. Com testing the experience at the nfl experience. The festivities ahead of this weekends big game are certainly in full swing. Needless to say there is a lot going on this weekend around the bay area leading up to sunday. We sat down with the ceo of the super bowl host commit tow get the latest on how things are going. It feels great. This is 21 2 year journey since being awarded super bowl 50. We are here on the doorstep of hosting super bowl 50. The teams are in town, they are more their hotels now. We know what is going on there and you know it feels great. Opened up super bowl city yesterday. Nfl experience opened up yesterday and 9 days of celebration are under way. There are a lot of people and if you read the news and you know it is the bay area there will be critics for anything that happens in the bay area, traffic, parking all of that. Santa clara got a deal with the super bowl they get all of their costs for that reimbursed by the n it fl. Sanfrancisco did not have that deal, why not . It goes back to the bid. When the bid was put together over three years ago each city including stadium and the 49ers which was not built at the time. There were commitments made by santa clara and the 49ers and the stadium and San Francisco with the mayors to put together a bid for super bowl 50. With the bid comes certain commitments and obligations. With so many people in town you would think that San Francisco will reap the benefits in the long run. That is the key. There is a reason cities clammer to host it. It makes money. Does well economically. So, the city of San Francisco will earn a lot of money and a lot of revenue that will outweigh the cost. For sure. That is why there is that set up you that makes sense. Santa clara is hoping they shine on the world stage to get it back in 5 or 6 years. In total Economic Forecast that we will working on this spring, you know, we will measure the entirety of the bay area and what was the benefit for the region because people are staying in more than San Francisco hotels, they are saying in santa clara, oakland, a lot of activity happening in all four cities for 9 days. We will measure the benefits of the region not just any one city. Okay. And, as if you need another reason to head to San Francisco, tomorrow, folks, fan appreciation day. Fans wearing 49ers or raiders gear will get 5 off. Stay connected all super bowl weeklong with our app. We will have a list of events leading up to the big game and find out the weather and we will tell you about traffic back ups. Again all right there on the ktvu news app. We will broadcast our news cast leading up to the super bowl from the Federal Reserve building on Market Street in super bowl city. When you think of the Federal Reserve your eyes might glaze over with thoughts of Monetary Policy and politics but if you have a chance to visit the reserve bank you will find a collection of money and a fascinating look. Reporter a dollar by dollar evolution of money. You can see how warn they are. People had that money in their pockets 300 years ago. Reporter back then, no bank, european money issued with each of the original 13 colonies. We have fascinating notes from the Continental Congress that were issued in an effort to try to finance the revolutionary war. Reporter after the war the new nation had a hodgepodge money supply money was created and traded. Its value heufrpbling on hinging on the issuer. Anyone could of created money. Private banks and county, state, local communities were all making their own money to facilitate trade and transaction. Reporter some designs were simple. Others works of art during the gold rush bay area banks issued gold certificates. But with gold flooding the market values changed. That created a lot of ups and downs in the economy. Not just here in the west but throughout the country. Reporter before the civil war there were 8,000 banks issuing their own currence owes, thousands of currencies trading currencies thousands of currency trading hands. Congress saw the problem and how it was restraining the economy and making it difficult for people. Reporter during the Civil War Congress started consolidating currency, issuing the first green backs, which one was winning that war. Confederate soldiers would not take payment in confederate currency. They wanted union dollars. Reporter in 1913, the reserve was created to standardized americas money. During world war ii there was concern that japanese would invade hawaii so a special printing stamping hawaii on notes there to make sure those dollars would be worthless if the japanese took over. They can use that currency to fund their own war efforts and the United States did not want that to happen. Reporter for a time there were 500,000 or even 100,000 notes issued. They were never intended for public circulation. Reporter those were issued for bank to Bank Transactions before electric banking existed. The rarest note is the so called watermelon bill. Named for the watermelon shaped answers. It was sold in auction. I think it was in 2013 for just over 3 million. And we have two of them. Reporter with concerns over counterfeitinged todays 100 counterfeiting, todays 100 bills are hightech. To see the display for yourself, call the Federal Reserve to book a tour. Tune in leading up to the super bowl. The 9, noon and 4 00 p. M. Will broadcast live there. All right, covering bay area sports for more than three decades now. They witnessed several super bowls, over the week we are going to be bringing you some of their favorite super bowl memories and you will love tonights. We have one of the memories from mark he tells us how he got star struck with a super model back in 1989 at the super bowl in miami. Reporter the next time i went to a supper bowl in miami the 49erss were playing the bengals. It would wind up being one of those great comeback victories, montana led them down the fold for like 92 yards but i have to say in all honesty it did not exceed the thrill of the pregame. Hi mom, hi, dad, hello, San Francisco, welcome to south florida. I need a ticket. Reporter we were looking for stories to add color to all of our packages sending back to the bay area. Billy joel was going to be singing the national anthem. So, i spotted billy and of course at that time he was dating the beautiful super model christie brinkley. We went over there and i asked christie for a little interview and billy joel. Here is what happened. Christie brinkley starts doing the interview with me. She was extremely friendly and very nice. I noticed there was a big piece of green letis on her front tooth. I look at my cameraman and i go stop, cresty, i know you do not know me very christie, i know you dont know me very well but you have a piece of salad on your front tooth. Turned beat read, turned to me and gave me a big hug and could not be more thankful. I have to say, 49ers victory, high, hug prosecute christie brinkley, super high. That is all i remember. Hug from christie brinkley, super high. That is all i remember from that super bowl. [ laughter ] snow on the bay area peaks, a crazy day, mark . One of the days i talked about earlier. Last night as i was forecasting sun, snow, rain, hail, wind, perfect forecast for it. We had it all for today. Right now we are paeuzing out phasing out on the showers. The gusty wind in place until 4 00 a. M. On monday. Breezy on monday but the strongest winds up until the sunrise. Right now, if you can see it on Storm Tracker 2. Lingering clouds, not much in the way of shower activity. For the most part, cooler temperatures moving in as well. Be prepared first thing in the morning, bundle up. As far as the wind speeds, the big number, that is sustained wind, that is wind gust. Fairfield, winds gusting at 32 miles an hour. Oakland winds, gusting to 31. Sfo, winds out of the west, 21, now, san skwroes a a san jose. The numbers, chilly, showing you 40. These areas in the 40s right now. A few spots back down to the 30s. As we talked about earlier to start out your day from santa rosa, napa, haywood, 49, and redwood city in the upper 40s as well. A live camera. In the short term, extra careful driving the bridges with the strong winds in place. The winds easily topping 30, could approach 40 miles aphour in the short term. We are clearing things out as we look a 40 miles an hour. In the short term. We are clearing things out as we look out. 56, 8 00 p. M. , back down to the upper 40s with a sun cloud mix throughout the day. More sunshine by the afternoon hours. Here is todays system. Really targeting southern california. Of course, wraparound showers. Pops up in the thunderstorm of the thunderstorms as well. Tracking another system on tuesday. That could generate rain showers locally here in the bay area. Talking about the gusty winds for tonight. Tomorrow will be dry. Still a bit of a breeze out there. Patchy morning frost. This frontal system approaches the coastline on tuesday. As a result we bring in more rain chances. No major storms this week. The Tuesday Morning commute could be a wet one. Here we go, tomorrow afternoon, papartly to mostly sunny skies, then, Tuesday Morning, first thing Tuesday Morning, could track rain showers out there. The first half of tuesday, it will scale back for the chances later on tuesday. Another front moving in. Clouds for us. It looks like we could be talking about showers as well into your wednesday forecast. The temperatures for tomorrow, after that chilly start, still only in the 50s for afternoon highs, but, the temperatures will trend up later in the week. San jose, 57, here is a look ahead. Showers likely into tuesday, a chance into wednesday, it looks like a few clouds for thursday and friday and the up coming week tend it should be dry and warmer as well. Weekend it should be dry and warmer as well. Super bowl we did not commit to a forecast. Thankfully, it has been changing. Right now dry with the temperatures in the middle 60s. In fact, it could be breezy on sunday as well. We will see if it effects the field goal kicking for the super bowl. Yes. All right, thank you. Looks like good football weather. Securing the super bowl, the hightech saols being used to ensure fans are safe hightech tools being used to ensure fans are safe. Security for the super bowl will be tight with low flying planes, bombsniffing dogs and robots. We will see some of things that the fans will see. Check out these robots. They belong to the the fbi and they will be on hand if Law Enforcement keeps a careful watch at levi stadium and super bowl city in San Francisco during the big game on february 7th. They can detect ask disarm anything from a suspicious backpack to a radioactive device all by remote control. This one, irobot has a thermal imager that can detect heat. This one has sensors to analyze weapons of mass destruction. We will have really inter agency teams looking at some of the Hazardous Material threats we may run into. Some of them may be real, some may be a backpack left in a particular venue. Reporter today, we got a close look at the robot, a tour of the joint Operation Center several miles from the stadium. The bureau did not want the exact location made public. From this command center, fbi personal andal fabet soup of other agencies and local police dont and alphabet soup of other agencies and local police will watch over the super bowl. Everything related to the super bowl and the event. Sitting here with us will be all of our local, state and federal partners. Reporter a truck bomb, hazmat situation, a lone wolf tearist, a threatening tweet. The paoeub says it is ready for any situation. Even if they say there is nothing to worry about. At this point there are no credible terrorist threats tied to the super bowl or any of the super bowlrelated events in San Francisco or the bay area. What are we ready for . We are ready for bombs and explosives, we will monitor all vehicular traffic going into the stadium starting a week before the game to screen them for explosives. So, that truck load full of fertilizer bomb will not get into the stadium. Reporter how about threats from the air . Like the drone or a rogue airplane pilot . The faa will issue a temporary flight restriction, tfr around the stadium on game day. And the faa and military assets and state assets chp will enforce that temporary fly restriction zone. Reporter this joint Operation Center will be staffed 24 hours a day by Law Enforcement representatives across the bay area. Lasting low the super bowl and a day afterwards. Henly lee, ktvu pox 2 news. California is giving people extra time to sign up for Health Insurance but time is running out. If you start an application by midnight tonight, less than two hours, or make an appointment with a qualified representative you will have until midnight on saturday to finish. Next saturday. The States Health Care Exchange says tens of thousands of people rushed to enrole this week and insurance counselors have been busy. The penalty not having insurance is 2. 5 of Household Income or 700 each for an adult. Residents working to rebuild in middletown after the devastating valley fire. The progress that is being made. Hear from the first family to have their home rebuilt after it was burned to the ground in that devastating fire. The rebuilding process has started for some people who lost homes to the valley fire last september. The fire burned more than 76,000 acres in lake county and along with that 1300 homes and 700 other buildings. Tonight we hear from a family on cobb mountain. The first in their neighborhood to rebuild. Seeing a brandnew house built like this one is routine for a lot of communities. Here in middletown and cobb areas devastated by the valley fire back in september physical signs like this we are rebuilding, offering more than a sign of construction. It is a sign of hope. In many ways the story of ron and catherine is the story of middletown and cobb. It is one of love, hardship and new bebeginnings. We knew our place was gone. But beginnings. We knew our place was gone but it was hard to see it in real life. Reporter their home was brought down by the valley fire. Many left town and their devastated houses. They went to work on a new one. Theirs will be the first rebuilt. They are already turning it into a home. This is the living room. There will be a woodstove over in this corner. Open into the kitchen. The recovery is actually amazing. Reporter lake county supervisor says phase one of Fire Recovery is complete. Areas with high erosion risks have been addressed. It has been cleared. Some areas a block away from this devastation here you drive through town and you would not know there was a fire here. Reporter all over say feeling of redeposition, signs of hope cover what was peoples lives turned into heils of rubble. As this time arises from the fire a spirit of new beginnings has caught on. These two ran with it. We gotten gauged in front of that window on christmas eve. It was amazing. Unexpected and, totally unexpected. It was it meant a lot. Reporter their new beginning inspires others that may of lost a house to realize they have not lost their home. It is it is a lot of hope. You know, we can not wait to get home. Reporter they are planning on moving in a matter of weeks. They hope it does not take longer for neighbors to follow suit. Back to you. Certainly glad, good to see progress being made there. Working to keep the raiders in oakland. The mayor is a special guest on sports wrap, she will talk with joe fonzi about the steps taken to get a team to get the team a stadium and discuss oaklands role in super bowl events. Stick around for sports wrap coming up right after this news cast. We will check in one last time with mark. The wind going to continue into tomorrow . It continues into the morning and backs off. Not shut off completely. The strongest winds tonight. All right,. So get ready. Thank you, mark and thank you for joining us. Tune in tomorrow at 4 00 for the morning news. The morning news. Shining, shimmering, splendid tell me, princess, now when did you last let your heart decide a whole new world welcome to aulani its hawaii with a touch of disney magic. For special offers visit disneyaulani. Com or call your travel agent the warriors try to continue their incredible run on the big stage in front of one number of their old timers. Its underway, the Carolina Panthers and broncos are in town. Let the hype for super bowl l begin. In the midst of the football talk, the question remains where will the raiders be playing in the coming season . Oakland mayor libby schaaf discusses things from her perspective on the day the Charles Wilson says his official goodbye. Are you dressed for the occasion . Sports wrap is next. Fox two nissan sports wrap starts now. Hello

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