Use. The people who rely on hetch hetchy for their water supply havent done enough. Well put everybody on notice that its belt tightening time again. Reporter those include wholesalers in counties like san mateo, northern santa clara and southern alameda. In San FranciscoLyanne Melendez abc 7 news. A selfimposed mandatory water restriction kicked in today in benicia. Homeowners can only water three days a week. There is no watering from 8 00 in the morning until 7 00 at night. They get most of their water from Lake Oroville which is only 65 full and that means the city is only getting 25 of what it would normally get from the lake this year. Carolyn tyler is in benicia and shes going to show us how folks there have already met the governors conservation goal already. Some simple changes at home can help you save gallons of water every single day. We have a link to those details at abc7news. Com. With this news of a record low snowpack up in the sierra, there is a bit of good news. Rain and snow is on the way. Sandhya patel is outside with a look ahead. Yeah dan there are two systems that are on the way and those systems could bring us rain and snow. Lets take a look at live doppler 7 hd right now. Up to our north we are tracking some showers mixed precipitation over the mountains. We will be seeing our share, it looks like. As you take a look at this computer animation starting this weekend. Now saturday it is just cooler. Sunday scattered light showers for easter. Then as we head into early next week we have more showers for your monday night going into tuesday. Ill be back with a look at some shortterm changes that are coming before those showers arrive in a few minutes. Sandhya thanks very much. Crews arent taking any chances in this warm weather. A grass fire was quickly put out by crews on interstate 580 near eden canyon road just outsideedde castro valley. Fire crews arrived on scene just before 2 00 and crews were able to keep the fire from spreading. Crews are on the scene of a hazmat spill in dublin. Crews piled dirt at a bottom of a Drainage Pipe to stop the flow of an unknown white substance. Around 1 00 this afternoon someone noticed this white substance flowing out of a pipe and into alamo creek near sierra court along the alamo canal trail. Again in dublin. We dont know yet what was leaking or from where it came. A scary moment for a cab driver in San Francisco. A Youtube Video shows a man attacking the driver with a padlock. You can see what happened. This is the dash cam recording that moments before and during that horrible attack. Abc 7 News Reporter vic lee joins us with more. Reporter cheryl, it was scary. As youll see totally unprovoked. In fact, the cab driver was nice to the passenger even telling him he would save money by going a shorter route. As you said, the weapon the assailant chose to use strange. A padlock. It happened yesterday morning just after midnight. The entire ride was recorded on the cabs camera in the front. The passenger hailed a cab driven by ben valice at 7th and townsend. He told the driver to go to the b. A. R. T. Station and fifth and market. Heres what happened next. If youre just going to b. A. R. T. , theres a station even closer straight ahead. Which one . City center. For real . Yeah. Thank you. That will save you a couple bucks. Reporter when they reached their destination 7th and market the passenger began pummelling valice with a padlock and tried to rob him. The passenger was trying to take the drivers electronics and other type of devices that were in the front. Reporter but he got nothing and ran into the b. A. R. T. Station and disappeared. This is the second assault on a San Francisco cab driver in over a month. This yellow cab driver suffered serious facial injuries from a brutal beating after his assailant refused to pay the fare to san bruno. The cab camera again recorded the merciless attack. You can see the man on top of the driver repeatedly beating him until he loses consciousness. The city of San Francisco mandated cameras in taxicabs years ago. Among the reasons to protect drivers. Since then robberies have declined. You have a very good view if the camera is operating properly of the back seat of the passengers in the back seat as well. Reporter obviously these predators need reminding of that. Vic lee, abc 7 news. Incredible. Well there are new developments in the case of two homeless men who got into a fight with two berkeley ambassadors. This is video of the march incident. Maybe youve seen it. It shows the Berkeley Community ambassadors telling two homeless men to leave an alleyway. One of them starts punching the homeless man repeatedly. There is goes. The homeless men were arrested after the ambassadors claimed they were attacked. After reviewing video of the fight, the Alameda County d. A. Dropped all the charges today against the homeless men. One of the Community Ambassadors has been fired. The other has been suspended. Abc 7 news has learned the cause of two destructive fires in San Francisco. Both were accidental. A fire in january killed one person at this Mission StreetApartment Building and displaced 40 others. Investigators say the fire began in a wall but dont know what ignited the flames. Investigators say a fire that burned two homes in potrero hill last christmas was electrical. It caused 6 million in damage. A palo alto teacher has been hospitalized after being burned during a science experiment. This happened today at palo alto high school. The teacher who has not been identified suffered first and seconddegree burns to 18 of the body. Nobody else was injured and the school has not said what the experiment was that caused those burns. Good news for b. A. R. T. Customers in the east bay. A track improvement means more trains, less crowding and shorter delays. B. A. R. T. Opened a second crossover track between the Pleasant Hill and walnut creek station today. It means highspeed trains can switch to the opposite track if there is another train stuck or if theres a problem on the tracks of some kind. Trains can also turn around there and go back to San Francisco, allowing more trains to run. Right now if theres a disabled train the whole system suffers because we cant go around it we have to pull it out. So it cascades all the way back through the system. But with a crossover, we can cross over around it. We can just go around it and keep on our schedule. B. A. R. T. Says another crossover near wall net creek reduced delays from 40 minutes to just five. A bridge increase funded this project. Major questions about the fifth lapse in security in less than a year at Mineta San Jose International airport. This time it was a 20yearold who jumped the fence last night. Last year it was a teenage stowaway. David louie joins us why the airport is not stopping intruders. Reporter heres whats troubling about security here. Were told there are cameras trained on that fence line. Yet the previous time there was an intrusion that happened at nighttime, the video was so dark it was hard to see the intruder at all. Last night deanna predel was captured but only after she was over the fence. She recently moved back into the sunnyvale house where she learned for ten years after breaking up with a boyfriend in San Francisco. Her uncle, who doesnt want to be identified by name or face shares the house with her father and grandmother. Just a dumb action on her part. I dont know why she did it. Reporter is she impulsive . She can be stubborn. I guess she may be a little bit impulsive, yeah. Reporter again, no knowledge of drug or Mental Health issues . No no, no. Reporter her uncle says shes quite an artist. These samples are on a public website deviant art. Mineta airport is seeking funds to raise the height of six miles of fences that ring the facility. What we have done certainly is increased the patrols along our fence line over the past years, and that has been a real deterrent. Reporter Security Experts say San Francisco and oakland airports have an advantage with the bay, making access more difficult, but not impossible. Mineta san jose says its layers of security are working because predel was caught, but a nationally known safety expert says san jose may need a system that uses thermal cameras and analytics already tested by tsa at buffalos airport. We tried over 900 approaches to the airport and every single one was accurately detected. Thats outside the fence line. So that means if we can detect people reliably outside the fence line then theyre just not going to get in. Reporter such a system could cost millions to install but a councilmember who heads the Transportation Committee says cost is not an issue. In san jose david louie, abc 7 news. Coming up next appealing for health. Todays rally in san jose brought a lot of people far from home. And some alarming news tonight about whales and polar bears. The details next. And to the rescue. How california lawmakers Barbara Boxer and nancy pelosi saved another congressperson from an embarrassing situation. Plus so maybe this will become the new thing in sports. Show and tell day at at t park. Giants fans, find out how your gameday experience is about to chan around here, were all about fast. Thats why xfinity is perfect for me. With millions of wifi hotspots all over the place including one right here at the shop now we can stream all things fast and furious. Youve done it again, carlos with the fastest inhome wifi and millions of hotspots xfinity is perfect for people who love fast. Dont miss furious 7 in theaters april 3rd. Tomorrow hundreds of people will gather for a Memorial Service for San Jose Police officer michael johnson, who was killed in the line of duty last week. There are several road closures along the procession route. Officer johnsons body will leave the funeral home in los gatos at 10 00 a. M. The procession will head up winchester and turn on Stevens Creek boulevard before ending at the s. A. P. Center for a public memorial at 11 00. Well have live coverage of the Memorial Service as soon as the procession begins. Well also stream it for you online at abc7news. Com. The trial hasnt started yet but already attorneys are battling over a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Saratoga High School student audrey pott. Lawyers for two teenagers who sexually assaulted pott and shared photos of her want the trial moved out of san jose. Her parents blame that attack for her suicide a short time later. Defense attorneys are also asking that the courtroom be closed to the public. The judge did not rule on todays requests. The trial is set to begin on monday. Meantime new details in what led up to the murdersuicide at a palo alto Senior Living facility earlier this month. Police believe a resident 69yearold mark miller shot and killed the complex manager, 70yearold Vincent Collins because miller thought collin was stealing from him. Miller then killed himself. Six weeks earlier police say miller called them because he thought collins was taking things from his apartment when he wasnt home. An officer determined that was not the case. A fourth man charged in the shooting death of an oakland mother admits to giving an Assault Rifle to one of the gunmen. 21yearold michael stills was in court today. He was arrested last week on murder charges in the death of shameel pierce. Pierce was caught in the crossfire of a west oakland shootout march 9th. She was trying to shield her children after several men got into a fight. A caravan made up of several parents of 43 mexican students who disappeared last september. The parents are traveling across the United States to talk about in injustices in mexico. They held up banners of the 43 students. They disappeared following a protest in the state of guerrero. There are accusations their mass killing was ordered by local politicians and police. We have to do something, and im afraid that weve got a revolution. The parents caravan will be in uc berkeley tomorrow and in San Francisco saturday. A victory for environmental groups that say the navy underestimates the threat sonar training poses to marine life off the Southern California coast. A federal judge ruled a federal agency which approved the navys testing permit acted illegally in allowing the testing. The court found the testing would harm more than 16 kinds of marine life. The navy can appeal. Climate change can lead to the extinction of polar bears. They face starvation as melting sea ice forces the animals onto land and away from the main food source of seals. A team of scientists led that study. Some biologists disagree with the findings saying polar bears can adapt to a new diet. Weeks after walmart announced pay raises for its workers mcdonalds is stepping up as well. 7 on your sides Michael Finney is here with that story. This is really becoming a trending. Walmart t. J. Maxx in many states is raising minimum wage. Now mcdonalds is jumping in saying it will increase hour lie pay. They will earn at least a dollar above the local minimum wage. However, it will only apply to companyowned stores not franchises, which make up 90 of the restaurants. However all mcdonalds employees will get new perks no matter the location. It will include paid time off and tuition aid. The makers of a luxury Cadillac Sedan have a new way to catch burglars with cameras. The new ct6 has security cameras that snap pictures of everything around the car if the alarm goes off. Theyre the same cameras that help with parking. Sensors will trigger the alarm if glass is broken or the car is moved. The sedan will go into production later this year. You think traffic is horrendous in the bay area, right . Well it may be a small comfort to know other cities are far worse. San francisco ranked number 26 among cities with the heaviest rush hour traffic. The survey was done all over the world by gps maker tomtom. It it measured how long a 30minute commute really takes. Where is traffic the worse . Tomtom says in is stan bull. Commuters there get stuck in traffic on average 29 minutes a day. Second worst is mexico city, then rio de janeiro. Los angeles came in number ten. Commuters there sit in traffic 25 minutes a day on average. In San Francisco not a whole bunch better. Were stuck on average 23 minutes a day. It just seems like a lot more than that. At least we have pretty views. We do have nice views. Michael thank you. Well an artist is bringing his take on patriotism to the bay area. Scott levado began work at the antioch vfw. You can see the firstar coming into view on the side of the building. The artist is on a sixmonth tour across the United States where he will paint flags at veterans post buildings in all 50 states. He expects to finish this flag by saturday. This is the only site hes working on in california. If you want to check it out, its at the vfw post on 6th street in antioch. Former Florida Governor jeb bush is in the middle of a twoday fundraising visit to the bay area. The republican is Holding Private meetandgreets in palo alto and San Francisco to raise money for his right to rise super pac as he gets ready for a run at the white house next year. Former congressman barney frank says he has two bay area lawmakers to thank for his fancy footwork. The massachusetts democrat said he and his partner were too shy to dance at the White House Christmas party back in 1987 so in stepped Barbara Boxer. Senator boxer and congresswoman nancy pelosi seen here dancing at franks wedding in 2012. The two women danced with the two men and discreetly stepped away. Frank wasnt trying to make a statement, he just wanted to dance. Well, lets talk about the weather forecast. A little bit of rain were tracking. Were hoping, sand iahya. Yes. We actually have a couple of opportunities for rain here in the bay area. This afternoon blue skies behind me still on the breezy side which is typical for spring. Let me show you live doppler 7 hd and well talk about whats ahead and when youll need those umbrellas. A few high clouds have been passing through the bay area theyre harmless. Winds gusting to 32 at sfo not quite as windy as yesterday, but still on the breezy side. And here is a view of the blue skies youre looking at from our exploratorium camera. Temperatures are on the cool side. 58 in San Francisco it is 66 in oakland 62 san jose. Half moon bay in the mid50s. A live picture from lake tahoe showing you quite a bit of cloud cover. There is a slight chance of snow showers saturday night. Better opportunity between sunday and tuesday when we have our chance of showers here in the bay area. Now numbers right now from santa rosa to livermore all in the 60s. Heres a view from our Golden Gate Bridge camera and it is a bright view. Sunny and milder for your thursday and friday, turning cooler this weekend and we have our first opportunity for showers on Easter Sunday. So take a look at the satellite and the radar here. High pressure is coming in a little closer to us and that means were in for sunny days and mild afternoons at least through the end of the workweek. Cooler air, showers arrive on sunday