We feel proud that now were being recognized as athletes. Reporter but the new state designation actually threatens the traditional cheer program in the Liberty Union high school district. The girls are athletes so for that to be possibly taken away from us, we were devastated. Reporter as districts grapple with the costs of implementing cheer as a sport, luhsd superintendent proposed cutting traditional cheer and implementing stunt cheer. It alarmed School Board Member ray valverde. Dont cut Something Else that has been successful in that district for years. Reporter traditional sideline cheer is more inclusive because more students can participate. Stunt teams are smaller. Stunt teams are very small. They allow up to 30 girls but usually theyre not that big at all. Theyre usually around 20 so less girls would be able to be on the team. Reporter more colleges recognize traditional cheer for scholarships. This cell phone video shows heritage high taking 10th place at the National Competition in florida. Their coach says stunt cheer is not as established. Its not only same level so we dont feel like its an appropriate replacement. Reporter the issue goes before the school board at next weeks meeting. The superintendent did not return requests for comment. In the east bay, katie utehs, abc7 news. Smoke inhalation caused the deaths of all 36 victims in the ghost ship fire. The Alameda County million examiner says burns our other injuries did not play a role in their deaths last year. The victims were unable to get out of the warehouse. There was a party in several illegal Living Spaces inside. Investigators have not announced what caused the december 2 fire or any potential criminal charges. Two santa clara correctional deputies are on administrative leave. The Sheriffs Office says Deputy Leonel Groba hit an inmate in the face. His airz came on february 17. The mercury news reports Sergeant Robert little secretly recorded his supervisors last year in an attempt to get some leverage on them. The arrests come as the sheriff is working on reforms because of numerous allegations of jail misconduct including the beating death of an inmate. Reuters reports the department of Homeland Security is considering a move to separate mothers and children who cross the border into the u. S. Illegally. Its that kind of idea that instills fear in the households of many immigrant families, but now in San Francisco, there is help coming with a new hotline and Legal Assistance. Abc7 News Reporter lonni rivera has the story. Reporter an unexpected visit by i. C. E. Agents to a Community Center in the Mission District caused fear and panic in the neighborhood in january. Community activist says calls have come through a new hotline about similar situations. Weve received over 450 calls since february 10 and really the community being afraid. Reporter the San Francisco immigrant legal and Education Network set up the hotline for residents to report i. C. E. Actions and to inform undocumented immigrants about their legal rights. We dont recommend you say anything. If you are arrested, just say your name and ask for an attorney. Reporter the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco launched a Legal Assistance center. The San Francisco office has joined 50 mexican canconsulates calm fears and offer legal advice to mexican nationals. We want them to know their rights and we want them to have information from reliable sources. Reporter consulate workers are visiting communities many attorneys are working pro bono. T its their way of staying ahead of the trump administrations promise to stiffen immigration enforcement. In San Francisco, lonni rivera, abc7 news. Violent robbery attempt in San Francisco was caught on surveillance camera. Take a look. Watch as a man with a gun and a hammer knocked over a woman who works at this Jewelry Store on grant avenue. It happened last month but police shared this sflt sflt with us yesterday. The man waved his gun around and smashed the display cases but didnt take anything. Heres what he looks like without a mask. No one was hurt in the incident. A special needs child was left on a Novato School bus for three hours. The 4yearold student boarded the bus at the Nova Education center 3 30 on monday. The driver parked near his own home with what he thought was an empty bus. After he received a phone call from the dispatcher, the driver found the child sleeping underneath a seat. Police will not pursue any charges. City of san jose has Just Announced the hiring of of a new director of energy services. Ray riordan has 25 Years Experience in Emergency Management in the bay area. A city spokesman tells abc7 news his hire after last weeks flooding is coincidental. The citys last Emergency Services director left his post last november and theres been a National Search underway. Assistant city manager dave sykes serve as Emergency Services director during the flooding. Happening today, san jose mayor sam liccardo will be back out in neighborhoods affected by last weeks flooding to help clean up. He will join volunteers in kelly park. Members from Orchard Supply hardware will help repair damaged areas with 30,000 worth of donated items and materials. The cleanup is from 9 00 this morning until 2 00 this afternoon. Recent rains have caused scary situation in a south bay neighborhood. A gas leak forced people to leave their homes near suncrest avenue just north of alum rock park. Abc7 News ReporterKatie Marzullo tells us it took pg e crews 10 hours to repair the work. Reporter it was well after dark when pg e crews finished repairing a gas leak on suncrest avenue in san jose. Diane was home when the leak happened. It was around 11 00 a. M. Her landscaper started frantically ringing her doorbell. He saw the some the earth come up like it like it was blowing. Like kind of like a volcano would erupt. Reporter diane called 911there was a very strong gas smell. Reporter the Fire Department evacuated some homes and had other residents shelter in place while pg e shut off the gas. Despite several days of sunshine, pg e says the cause of the leak was rain. Because the soil is still saturated in some locations you can get incidents like this where underground facilities are compromise ld and they can result in a gas leak. Reporter in this case, a 4inch steel pipeline came apart where it was welded together. 20 customers were without gas for most of the day and night. Diane wasnt especially inconvenienced by that but she is worried about longterm pipeline safety. Certainly theres a concern with what happened with san bruno and we live in an area where the earth moves and so that would be my main concern. Reporter this neighborhood had a similar gas leak about a year ago. In san jose, Katie Marzullo, abc7 news. Just when we thought it was okay to put the umbrella away, not so much. Did you . I did. I cant find it. Well, its time for a new one. Its not over. Were not going to see a huge system and we have fog this morning in the north bay around sonoma. Santa rosa airport, mild visibility but it is warmer, especially in our inland east bay. From san rafael today, temperatures in the upper 40s to lower 50s. Rain is arriving in the north bay throughout the afternoon and were going to time it out for the rest of you and talk about a cold end to the weekend. Thats all Just Moments Away with my accuweather 7 day forecast. Also next, organizers prepare on a march for trump. And a bay area city thats known for just the opposite. And finding stephs shoes, at ikea, we believe that everything you need should be within reach. That anything that matches your taste can match your budget. That green living doesnt have to cost much green. We believe that you should always have room for the little things. And that your dream kitchen should work as hard as you do. Save up to 20 at the ikea kitchen event. Hey, good morning, we have a beautiful shot of San Francisco skyline from the abc7 exploratorium camera at pier 15. At the risk of being super cliche, yeah, it is the calm before the storm, because more rain is heading into the bay area, making a comeback this weekend. Lisa argens going to be along in a few minutes to tell us all about that. A somber farewell was held for an Alameda County sheriffs deputy killed on the job last week. An overflow crowd packed Concord Pavilion yesterday to say goodbye to deputy mike folly. He was killed a week ago wednesday when he was hit by a prison bus on a dark rainy morning. Deputy foley was remembered for his love of the outdoors and his dedication to his job and family. I dont think my dad ever realized how many lives he touched and how many people he how many people he helped feel safe. In addition to his son michael, deputy foley leaves behind his wife tammy and daughter tonya. He was 60 years old. Hang todappening today, a m scheduled in berkeley in support for President Trump. The march for President Trump rally is planned at Martin Luther king j Civic Center Park at 2 00 p. M. Abc7 News ReporterJonathan Bloom has a preview. Regardless of where youre living, if you want to defend your liberty and rights, march with us on berkeley. Reporter a video and a Facebook Event page announced the protest organized by this man. Hes listed as the bay area contact on the National Website of the march for trump. But he says he didnt plan it that way. Funny enough, im not actually a trump supporter. Reporter what he says he does support is free speech, a right he believes was violated when a lecture by former breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled amid protests and vandalism. After the milo event and seeing some people i know get attacked and having their rights shut down, i knew something had to happen. Reporter the Berkeley College republicans brought yiannopoulos to campus but they say theyre not affiliated with this event. Were actually advising members not to go because its right get dangerous. Sort of like what happened on the milo night. Reporter people who work downtown remember it well. They tore down these fences over here for the construction, busted up all the atms, i think they messed up starbucks too. Reporter but the man we spoke to insibss it wont happen this time. Weve been working closely with berkeley pd for the last three weeks and i think theyre going to do a great job tomorrow. Reporter except the city spokesman told us police have not received an application for a demonstration and havent issued any permits. He refused our repeated requests to speak about it on camera. The group by any means necessary is planning a counterprotest. Stand up to trumps hate and to make sure that berkeley lives up to its promise of being a sanctuary city. Reporter in berkeley, Jonathan Bloom, abc7 news. Groups have also planned a counterprotest to the proPresident Trump rally. That demonstration starts at noon at Martin Luther king jr. Civic center park in berkeley. Matt barnes back on the Golden State Warriors team had his Court Date Pushed back until the end of june. His lawyers told a judge yesterday he had reason to believe barnes will be playing in the nba finals. Barnes is facing Assault Charges after an alleged incident while he was playing for the sacramento kings. Police say he was involved at an altercation at a bar in manhattan back in december. His court date is set for june 27. Barnes was signed by the warriors on thursday. Pretty cool opportunity today for fans of steph curry, the reigning twotime nba mvp sent out this tweet saying under armour will drop 30 signed pairs of his limited new gold high tops at the foot locker store in manhattan. Curry is under armours top client. His contract with the company through 2024 estimated at 4 million a year. The deal also includes an equity stake in the company. The warriors will take on the knicks tomorrow in new york. You can catch all the action right here on abc7. Coverage begins at noon. Part of the east side walk on the Golden Gate Bridge will be closed from 5 00 until 10 00 this morning and tomorrow. You can walk on to the sidewalk from either end of the bridge but only go about halfway across. The closure will allow crews to replace lights on the roadway. The west side walk will remain open for bicycles only. The work will be rescheduled if it rains. Well, a storm of biblical proportions is looming in californias future. The last 200year storm hit 43 days between 1861 and 1862 creating a huge lake where the Central Valley had been. State emergency experts are working on a longterm catastrophe plan. They got some practice recently with last months flood threat at the oroville dam, which forced thousands of people to evacuate. A longterm plan would help californians deal with Widespread Evacuations and other needs in the event of a megastorm. Experts say the state has a system in place that can be applied to all disasters, including a major earthquake. We really look at it as what wo do we need to be able to do and sometimes that doesnt have to be looked at differently for different scenarios. For example, being able to take care of or help communities take care of a lot of people in a shelter environment or what we call mass care. We may have to do that for an earthquake or a flood. An earthquake catastrophe plan is already in place for the bay area. Drivers throughout the state are filing damage claims against caltrans thanks to potholes. The agency is responsible for fixing those potholes. The recent winter storms causing the damage on state highways. Last january, caltrans says it fixed 24,000 potholes in the state. This january, it says they were 35,000 that needed filling. In 2015, caltrans says it paid out nearly 370,000 to fill more than 4,000 damage claims. This year, its expected to cost a lot more. Good saturday morning to you. Some scattered showers before the main event later on this afternoon. And heres live doppler 7 where were not picking up anything yet, but we could see a few showers right on through noontime. The rainfall, though, with the 3 00 or 4 00 in the afternoon, the steady rain. Here it is. Coming down from the north, it has a lot of cold air associated with it and as a result, the National Weather service has issued a winter storm warning already tomorrow afternoon through monday, looking at 3 feet above the passes, some very gusty winds, 1 to 2 feet above 4,000 feet and were looking at lake level, a decent amount, about 1 foot. So, if you want to head to the resorts, a good idea to really get there now and wait to come home until monday. Looking at 15 inches, tahoe city, 19 inches southlake and kirkwood. This is through 4 00 on monday. So we are bringing in our storm impact scale. Well get to that in just a moment, but right now as you take a look at santa cruz with 68 yesterday, 43 right now and a high of 58 so 10 degrees cooler. Not as cold as it will be tomorrow after the passage of the cold front. 43 in gilroy, 53 in oakland and San Francisco 52 from the exploratorium camera, we do have mostly cloudy skies with low 40s for santa rosa, fog up in Sonoma County, 47 by the delta but look at concord. 52 and even livermore in the upper 40s so our inland valleys 10 to 11 degrees from where we were yesterday, up, so we are milder with the cloud cover. Southwest winds will gust with the passage of the cold front so well look for another wintery scenario as we go through the second half of the weekend with a cold storm looking at low snow levels down to around 2,000 feet. Lake county, around mt. Haimt, storms are possible tomorrow. Upper 50s to low 60s, cooler than yesterday but warmer than tomorrow, its a 1 on our storm impact scale today, tomorrow and into monday with cold showers and possibility of some hail and looking at it the snow levels around 2,000 feet with accumulating snow so as we go through the rest of the morning hours, scattered light showers so even by 9 00, around the bay, very light, passing through but getting more organized in the north bay. Snow levels will be coming down. Look at clear lake. This is 5 00 and heres the line, the front associated with the gusty winds and it pushes through the south bay by about 9 00. Overnight hours, more showers into su