Todays rate, many with alleged ties to chinese organized crime. The charges against yee include wire fraud and weapons trafficking. Hes accused of soliciting favors in return for cash. Fbi agents raided a halfdozen homes and businesses across the bay area that included several homes in San Francisco, a house in san mateo and the Freemason Organization headquarters in San Franciscos chinatown. Federal agents arrested yee in his home early this morning and confiscated items from his house. Our crew got this video of the scene. Yee appeared in court in San Francisco just after 3 00 p. M. This afternoon. The federal complaint alleges that starting in 2012 yee illegally solicited thousands of dollars for his failed Mayoral Campaign ad is run for secretary of state. The indictment says of undercover adrian. Even before those details emerged San Francisco city officials, current and former express their dismay. What flashes in my mind is decades of public service, and i hate seeing that situation occur. It is a sad day i think for everyone, particularly those in a position of trust. Tonight 65yearold senator yee is free on bond. He is due in court on friday for a bond hearing. There are three main players in the fbis case state senator yee, he began his political career on the San Francisco school board served as city supervisor and state assembly. Also raymond chow, known as shrimp boy. He served more than two decades in prison and once ran at chinatown gang. Keith jackson is a former San Francisco school board member. We are in chinatown right now, this is the chinese freemason building and a big portion of that investigation happened here this morning. Fire investigators or investigators had to call in the Fire Department to open the safe and they left with garbage bags and boxes filled with evidence. San Francisco Police officers and federal agents searched the headquarters of the chinese freemason, an employee tells ktvu that ramen shrimp boy chow let the organization a one time. Investigators wanted paper work about his business dealings it may be stored here. The employee tells ktvu that investigators have it difficult time opening the antique safe inside. Shortly after, federal agents left the building carrying garbage bags and boxes of evidence. Chow was indicted in 1992 on racketeering charges and convicted on firearms charges. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison but was released in, 2003 and has since insisted he is straight. Even receiving civic awards and posing with political leaders. Hes accused of money laundering, receiving stolen property and contraband in stolen cigarettes. This morning investigators served another warrant on high street near broadway. I heard a loud thump early in the morning. Neighbor say investigators took the door off to gain access to the home, but wouldnt tell neighbors what they were looking for. The guy was there putting the door back up and i was like whats going on . And hes like well there was a search warrant so we came year knocked down the door this morning because they were here. Investigators still are not commenting on the boxes and bags of evidence of a seized, or explaining how it fits into the investigation. Keith jackson met with an undercover agent who was posing as a donor. The affidavit says they openly discussed how they would break up a large some of cash into legitimate Campaign Donations for yee secretary stay campaign. Agents alleged yee ordered jackson to take 11000 of cash from the agent during a Hotel Meeting recorded on video, presumably to bribe yee to push through new medical marijuana legislation. Yee his fellow lawmakers say they were blindsided by his arrest. Fbi agents hauled away boxes of potential evidence from yee his office in sacramento. Hes known for his work on gun control as well as antigun control efforts. Late this afternoon Dale Steinberg said, yee needs to step aside. Yee, please do not burden your colleagues and this Great Institution with your troubles. The California Senate has already been hardhit by scandals. Democratic senators ron calderon and rod rider are both on leave. Calderon is charged with bribery and corruption, right was convicted with election fraud. Go to ktvu. Com to read the indictment for yourself you also fight and i link to unedited video of the courthouse. Were on storm watch this evening we will start with a live look outside the skies over the bay area looking toward San Francisco. You can see a lot of clouds out there but right now the bay area is getting a bit of a break. It was a different story this morning as this video from san jose shows. It started off with a steady down pour. We picked up the heaviest rainfall this morning, but still some pretty powerful cells moving across parts of the bay area this afternoon. Its one of those deals where you have some clouds and breaks in the clouds and then shower. Rainfall totals in the past 24 hours, the numbers adding up over half an inch in San Francisco, not as much in the san jose area but we have been tracking some Severe Weather to our east, to the north and east of the bay area. The yellow and red is a Tornado Warning toward the auburn area until 7 45 p. M. There have been reports of a funnel cloud in this part of the state and concerned with the tornado for this part of the state as well. Back here in the bay area some scattered lingering showers in parts of the north bays you can see, approaching vallejo and as we move to the other portions of the bay a few scattered rain showers as well. With more storms to talk about in the fiveday forecast coming up in about ten minutes. When it comes to water and drought concerns todays rain brought some relief to the bay area. But it is still falling far short of what is needed. People in San Francisco. Dot through the rain, umbrellas out, traffic slowed on city streets. The clouds around noon began to part, and the sun shone. Im not a rain lover so i guess i was little disappointed but i know we need it. In Contra Costa County rain fell hard at times, snarling this highway 24 morning commute. By this afternoon, sunshine in pacifica let Joyce Roberson empty her rain bucket. This is just what we had for todays rainfall. It is how she waters her hothouse plants. Its amazing how much you can collect from the gutters and downspouts. For more than 30 years she has been collecting and using runoff. Sometimes you can collect water on a foggy day when we dont have any rainfall. Pacifica residents right now are asked to conserve 10 . She installed this low waterflood yard he got a rebate. Shes among the 2. 5 Million People in the bay area using San Franciscos hetch hetchy water. Sfpd showed me todays updated water supply graph. The hetch hetchy watershed right now, the red line only 40 of average precipitation, thats the black line. We probably need more than 15 inches of rain to get ourselves to average. She estimated that is another weeklong storm like the one we are having now, each month until june. San jose state police are investigating a deadly collision between a bicyclist and an elderly woman on her morning walk. 89yearold chang sung he was accidentally knocked down by woman bicyclist, the area is more hectic than normal because of ongoing construction and equipment has left little worm on the path for people to walk or bike. Everything is under investigation, and knowing exactly how the collision occurred, and that process is being vetted as we speak. So interviews are taking place, followup is being done. Police say the said a bicyclist state of the sena rendered first aid. He was taken to the hospital and put on life support and died on saturday. One San Francisco man is on a campaign to shame twits. He has put up billboards, 11 of them in San Francisco and the peninsula showing took pictures of people driving and texting and traffic. An attorney we talked to say that he is probably safe from lawsuits since drivers on a public highway should have no expectation of privacy. A widows emotional farewell to a fallen hero. Today somber tribute to a deputy killed last week in the line of duty. One of San Franciscos Oldest Company and sell hundreds of pink slips. The area that will be impacted most. Some serious star sightings at a first of its kind event at the oracle arena. Two Fire Fighters died today while fighting a nine alarm fire in boston. Not sure how the Fire Fighters died but Officials Say that one point a group of Fire Fighters were trapped in the basement. Eighteen other people were hospitalized. The fire broke out in the basement of a four story brownstone this afternoon. Flames were fanned by wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour. Enforcement officers from near and far gathered in fort bragg today for final farewell to follow Mendocino County sheriff step deputy ricky del fiorentino. He was shot and killed last wednesday during a pursue. The deputies grief stricken widow was among those who spoke. On this great drizzly morning, hundreds of Law Enforcement cars from throughout california and beyond pulled slowly through fort bragg. Have never seen so many police cars. It was a long sad procession honoring Mendocino County sheriffs deputy ricky del fiorentino, killed last week in the line of duty. People stood watch as cars pass by. Its devastating. All of my employees that are not working today i said if youre not working today go to the funeral. Many people attended the Memorial Service that to auditoriums were filled and overflowing. Del fiorentino had three children and a wife. Deputy del freer and tina was killed in a hail of gunfire last wednesday by a man on a violent rampage that began in organ and ended outside fort bragg. Del for him tina was 48 years old. In my heart of hearts i believe he saved the lives of many innocent people from a monster who was determined to do damage. Jason new del fiorentino who described him as a gentle giant who coached High School Wrestling and put on hunting and fishing clinics for young people people. People. The word hero has to be his legacy, for who ricky was. Del fiorentinos fellow deputies say he always made people laugh. Today, he made them cry. And now to search efforts in Washington State following this weakens deadly mudslide. A fire battalion chief said crews are finding bodies, but no new numbers have been offered. The official death toll stands at 15 with eight additional bodies found but not recover. One man described the warlike scene with body parts appearing in the muck. To chaplain stood near the rescue site ready to offer comfort to neighbors and rescuers. Snohomish county rescuers released this video taken on saturday shows for you objectives bill are being rescued spiller being rescued from the wreckage. His mother was at work at the time, his father and three siblings are still missing. Malaysian officials today said they have had the most credible leads so far in the search for the missing airliner with 239 people on board. A french satellite found a possible debris field with debris floating on top of the ocean. This was the first such discovery. Previously one satellite spotted two large objects and another found one although the same general area. But no ships have been able to find anything from the plane. The search areas about the size of alaska. We like strauss is downsizing, cutting 800 jobs. Most of them are management and management support around the world and at this had headquarters around the city. Levi says it is making the cut to save up to 200 million per year, levi strauss was founded 161 years ago to off a coal miners. Stock markets miners. Stock markets fell today giving up the gains made yesterday dow dropped 98 points, dow lost 60. Facebook was one of the biggest losers after an announcing the deal with oculus. The makers of candy crash open the bell on the new york stock exchange. King stocks close down more than 15 from the ipo price of 22. 50. That was one of the biggest drops for an ipo that we have seen in the past six months. Hollywood a listers help pitch in today for we day in oakland sponsored by ktvu and tv 36. The goal is to inspire thousands of students seeking to make the world a better place. They filed in by the hundreds, and thousands, and as each seat filled the excitement grew. Its a great way to inspire the kids to act and be agents for change. Californias first ever we day described by founders as the super bowl for community service. Each seat in here earned by the Service Efforts of california students. 15000 kids have earned the right to be here including these kids. This is californias first ever we day but the movement has already seen a lot of success throughout canada and seattle. Founded by two brothers craig and mark k burger who founded the group, feed the children when craig was just ten years old. It was a starstudded day with the red carpet filled with celebrities who also dedicated themselves to their own causes. My motherinlaw has alzheimers so we started a charity called hilarity for charity where we put on comedy shows. Theyre being rewarded with this remarkable experience, but that is just the beginning of the rewards that they will get in their life. You can make a difference in your Community Whether you are a celebrity or not. Its amazing to know that you can change the world the matter who you are. What a day to impress and to make an impression, a day to inspire and to be inspired. Today the lesson was that giving back is not only recognized, but also it is rewarded, in the hopes that todays just the beginning of a life of service. Were tracking a little bit of everything from the Weather Center and youre getting reports of something that could be serious. For the roseville area weve been hearing about the Tornado Warnings through that part of the state of the past couple of hours and word of a possible tornado touchdown in the western portion of roseville. As a result we have a Tornado Warning still for that part of the state. This is just outside of auburn in lake tahoe. Over the just the past hour youve seen that progressing closer to auburn and as a result the Tornado Warning is in place tonight until 7 45 p. M. Looks like it may have just been lifted because the color part of this map is cleared out, the red color that was in place is cleared out. We still of a strong thunderstorm for that part of the state, and a tornado touchdown in the western portions are possible the western portions of roseville. Back here we have lots of breaks in the crowd elma clouds we do still some rain showers as we come back into closer inspection for the vallejo area approaching parts of fairfield the yellow and red you will wake up with more moderate sales. Also up toward the richmond and son of elf bridge, some scattered showers across parts of the east bay. Not as much coverage, a few scattered showers out toward the Santa Cruz Mountains also just offshore as well. We will hold on for the chance of some showers in the forecast for tonight, and right on through with thursday, and possibly do friday as well. Heres her forecast for tonight, mostly cloudy skies, some scattered showers. A bit of a breeze out there with winds gusting to 20 or 30 miles an hour. A few showers possible for tomorrow, another storm scheduled to move into the region and that will be for this we can. Heres a weather pattern. The main storm track begins to lift to the north for tomorrow but still moisture headed our way. We will offer chance of the shower into saturday the system moves in from the north our next storm could produce heavy rain saturday morning in the north bay. This forecast model keeps a few scattered showers run for your thursday, and possibly into friday as well. The intensity and the activity is not as widespread, but still we will keep an eye on that for that timeframe. Here we go, the rainfall rates really picking up first thing saturday morning. Forecast ties for tomorrow, sun cloud makes a chance for shower, temperatures in the 60s for afternoon highs. 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