How needy families in the south bay are getting a helping hand. Its part of an annual holiday project. Alex will tell you about that live. And the storm cleanup goes on of a recordbreaking rain. How the Stormy Weather is bringing communities together. Mornings on 2 begins right now. Good morning. Were live in walnut creek this morning covering the story everyone is talking about. Sony pictures canceling the release of the movie the interview due to threats of Violent Attacks and theaters. Coming up, Tara Moriarty will tell us what people are saying about sonys decision. A lot of interesting feedback on this. Good morning. Well come to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Good morning. Good morning. Im dave clark. Lets talk more about your weather and traffic. Steve paulson has your forecast for this thursday morning. We did not text each other and say you are wearing gray. Were all wearing gray today. A little bit of drizzle. There are a few breaks in the clouds. We have another system tha
Agreements that are being worked out with some of the cemetery and those are taking longer than anticipated. We have a forecast of 22 months beyond the approved schedule and has an additional cost of 10. 4 million. The team is looking for ways to pull that back through looking for additional, to remove access constraints during construction, but that is the current forecast and we are looking into how to mitigate that further. Moving to the calaveras stem in the project. Of course you have the existing dam on the foreground and the hill and the current conditions. You may recall that we had landslide a in the upper portion of the slope. That has been largely removed and that slope has been excavated about 500 feet down. There is a remnant of that slide left in place. At the time of discovery of that slide, there was this area b that we also knew could be a slide but it wasnt certain at that time. Now that we have excavated down at the full excavation at the slide, we know thats a slide
Local with 16 projects worth nearly 2. 7 billion in construction actively. We completed construction on 62 of 82 projects. We only have a few projects left of the ground water restoring recovery and the pipeline which will be going in in the spring. We have a number of accomplishments to report this last quarter. As has been reported in the last quarter we passed the instruction of the program. You can clearly see in august 2012, we had a much higher rate of work hours than we do in december 13th. We do anticipate that rate to come back up in the spring and summer months this year as construction gets more active in the summer months, but we are clearly passed the peak of construction but we have a long ways to go. 20 percent of a lot of program is still a lot to complete. We did obtain certification of the Environmental Impact report. We have received 5 bids and awarded that contract to a ranger pipeline. We will award it to a ranger pipeline and will inspected to begin in spring of t
Current forecast and we are looking into how to mitigate that further. Moving to the calaveras stem in the project. Of course you have the existing dam on the foreground and the hill and the current conditions. You may recall that we had landslide a in the upper portion of the slope. That has been largely removed and that slope has been excavated about 500 feet down. There is a remnant of that slide left in place. At the time of discovery of that slide, there was this area b that we also knew could be a slide but it wasnt certain at that time. Now that we have excavated down at the full excavation at the slide, we know thats a slide and weve done 32 additional exploratoria to find the extent of that slide. Its going to be about six 600,000 cubic yards. The slope has to be reached to come down and the rocks will need to be replaced with concrete. We feel like we have good definition of this feature at this time with this additional exploratoriaary work. The scope has been given to the c
Briefly and it took nearly 200 firefighters from cal fire, solano, yolo, contra costa and napa counties to fight these flames. The good news is that no injuries were reported. However, this morning, at least 6 families still will not have a home to return to. Reporting live in fairfield, back to you in the studio. Cate, do they have any idea how it was all caused . Reporter where a fire starts near the interstate one of the first culprit is cigarette buts but firefighters also say its possible that a car fire could have started all of this. Thank you, cate caugiran live for us in fairfield. And developing as you wake up, the forecast is favorable for firefighters in the sierra nevada. Cooler temperatures and higher humidity are expected at the rim fire today. The fire is still only 20 contained this morning. 5500 buildings are threatened and most of them are homes. Crews are working to keep the flames from burning into three mountain towns along highway 108. 4500 people in tuolumne cit