H. D. While i still have a smile on my face. Light to moderate rain falling across virtually all the bay area now. Steadiest rainfall at the moment is up in the north bay. The pocket of light to moderate rain is beginning to push onshore now. This is the movement of the system, and you see the back edge . It looks like its about to taper off in the north bay once the current wave pushes through. Well have rain, at least light rain, overnight into the Early Morning commute. 24hour rainfall totals looking impressive. In the north bay,. 75 at mt. St. Helena. Ill give you a look later at how much we can expect out of the system and what the morning commute will look look. Smiling and forecasting the rain. Nice. Thank you very much. Multitasking. Spencer mentioned tonights storm is not looking like a big rainmaker. The last two that came in were stronger and wetter. How much did our weekend weather help with the drought situation in california . Abc 7 News ReporterWayne Freedman has a look at that. Reporter take it when you can get it. For boris, that means a run around phoenix lake reservoir. And for marin residents, the rainwater that has recently returned to it. Would you have believed it a month ago . No. Reporter one month ago, no doubt you grew weary of video showing a bonedry north bay pondering a prospective mandatory rationing until fab plus february. Reporter thats what libby of the marin municipal Water District calls it. Not exactly a miracle march, but 20 inches of rain in february which is twice the normal average. Last month ranchers worried about an absence of grass, now some is below the water line on the reservoir. Mandatory rationing in marin county is unlikely now. We still have the 25 vary rationing in place. Its not likely that well need to go to mandatory rationing this spring, so thats good news. And we may consider adjusting the vary cutback. Reporter translated, the southern marin reservoirs are roughly 74 capacity, well below average for this time of year. But much improved. And marin residents like Mary Ann Jacobson are relieved but cautious. A good start. Reporter a good start. And with more rain on the way, reason to hope for a decent finish. From marin county, Wayne Freedman, abc 7 news. Americans use twice as much water as we think we do. Thats according to a new study. And toilet flushing uses up about 28 of all the water consumed by the average household. An Indiana University professor also discovered that americans underestimate how much water is used to grow the food they eat or it water their garden. The Online Survey polled people in several droughtstricken areas including here in california. Water officials in concord say a stretch of san miguel road closed by a broken water main should fully reopen in about an hour. It was around lunchtime when the threefoot main boufrt tyoga road next to the concord barnyard. Its next to a transmission line built in the 1960s. One lane of the twolane san miguel road reopened at 6 00 tonight. The whole thick should be back around ten 00 is what we are told. In headquarter less tonight, Police Investigating a violent assault against a transgender student. The 15yearold tells police he was leaving the boys bathroom at school when three older boys shoved him into a stall, then physically and sexually assaulted him. The student was taken to a hospital. Police investigating this attack as a hate crime. One School Board Member was called called for an emergency meeting to hold the superintendent accountable for this. A man faces several charges tonight in connection with a wild attempt to evade the chp. Sky 7 h. D. Captured the truck pursuit as it crossed the bay bridge, forcing the chp to stop traffic during morning rush hour. Officers blew out the trucks tires using spike strips. The driver kept going. He finally got out as you see and tried to make a run for it across 10 in San Francisco but was tackled and hauled away here. This started as a chase around 8 30 this morning in fairfield when castle trucking reported a stolen truck. It was parked at the time when we approached the party, he tried to flee in the vehicle. Not exactly the best getaway vehicle. A former employee of castle trucking, hector fuentes, is in jail, accused of stealing the truck and leading officers on the chase. Grief counselors were called in to console classmates of 14yearold jenna betty who died in a train accident over the weekend. Jenna was an eighth grader at Martinez Junior High School. Abc 7 nudes reporter nick smith looks at the impact jenna had on so many others. She was wonderful. Shes happy. Shes happy girl. Thats all. Reporter shes talking about 14yearoldena betty. The jenna betty. The popular student was killed by a Freight Train when she ran back to pick up the cell phone she dropped on the tracks. Today friends and family returned to the scene of the accident to leave flowers and to say goodbye. Im here to support the family. Meant a lot to be able to come out and pay our respect of sorts. Reporter news of jennas death spread quickly. A friend shared photos and this note with abc 7 news via twitter jenna was my best friend. She was a great person. She was nice to everyone and had an outgoing personality. I will always miss her. Officers with the Martinez Police department were back on the tracks today, as were friends of jennas who wanted to visit the place she died and leave flowers at a growing memorial. Her classmates at Martinez Junior High School wore pink to school today, her favorite color. Every class she was in, there was a box that you could write letters and notes her. And it was sitting at her desk. Reporter grief counselors were made available to students to share feelings and work through the pain of losing a classmate. In martinez, nick smith, abc 7 news. New at 11 00, oakland city administrator Deanna Santana has resigned. Santana was seen as a toughminded public official who stepped in and ended the occupy oakland encampment in front of city hall. She repeatedly clashed with the city council and mayor over her efforts to make the city financially sound. Santana has been looking for a new job. Sources tell the oakland tribun tribune,s undercut her position at city hall. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 9 00, how the u. S. Has responded to russias increased muscle in the fight for ukraine. Plus, an alternative to fighting in tahoe. How people are working to balance the environment and economy. From water to wine. An entrepreneur says hes done the miraculous. A look at his device that could help you whip up a pinot in just three days. Stay with us. Hey, buddy . Oh, hey, flo. 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A big construction project went bankrupt and sat unfinished for six years. Plans to redevelop aging hotels and casinos struggled to get financing. Schools closed. We lost populations. Now, there is cautious optimism in the Business Community that the worst may be over. Our feeling is that things are definitely on the way back. That abandoned construction project is underway again. And two large developments may be going up soon. One will turn the Homewood Ski Area into a highend village and resort. The other is at edgewood golf course, about to break ground on a new hotel and 40 homes. The deal requires edgewood to open some of its spectacular beach to the public. Basically where youre looking at that pier area all the way to one more, this is where the public beach will be. Many tahoe Business Owners are excited about the flurry of activity. The sierra club and coalition of environmental groups are worried and are suing to stop a new regional plan that streamlines regulation for feature development. This regional plan was aimed totals at Economic Conditions and ignored the environmental conditions. The sierra club believes the new plan allows too much Dense Development and hurts the environment. They have not addressed the Water Quality properly. They have not addressed air quality properly. Planning Officials Say all building projects must include major environmental benefits, and they will actually improve lake tahoe. We have one of the most unique Growth Management systems in the united states. We cap development. We cap the number of homes. We cap the number of hotel units. Build something at tahoe, you have to demolish Something Else and restore the environment. Thats whats happening at this spot where an old motel of torn down. In return, the edgewood project gets to build new units at the new location. They were also required to make other environmental improvements. We were doing our part to make these improvements. And at the end of the day, its going to protect the lake. Were going to have an opportunity to run what we hope is a successful business and that everybody wins. Reporter planning officials believe the new rules keep a good balance between business and the environment. The sierra club says the scale is tipping too far. They would like to see people commit to protecting the lake, able to set aside their driving economic forces and live with what we have. Reporter the case goes to court march 26th. We have links to both sites at abc7news. Com. People in the bay area is joined the fight against the controversial keystone x. L. Pipeline project. It would carry crude oil from canada to the gulf coast. Students and organizers rallied today in San Francisco in the hope of getting president obama to reject the project. They argued the oil could contaminate land and water along its routes and release Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere. Lets go back and get more on the weather that we start ted top of the broadcast. Spencer christian has more from the roof of the broadcast center. How much longer, and how much more . Its going to continue overnight. Mainly light rain with intervals here and there. It will end sooner than we originally thought. Well give you a look now. Widespread light to moderate rainfall across the area now. Its been steady for the last few hours. Virtually all parts of the bay area getting wet weather now. And heres a closeup view of the north bay which is getting some of the heavier, steadier rain at the moment. Notice the end of the line, you might say, is winding down north of hillsburg. Not for good perhaps, a break coming as you see the end of the mass of moisture moving toward santa rosa now. So it will wind down sooner than we thought. It will produce wet spots for the morning commute. That is for sure. Heres a live view from emeryville now. It is wet. Current temperature readings are right in the mid 50s. 55, 56 degrees at every location. San francisco, redwood city, san jose, los gatos, half moon bay. From the rooftop camera, looking at the embarcadero, readings in a uniform range. 53 to 56 degrees at santa rose anapa, san rafael, concord, and livermore. One more beautiful view from the exploretorium camera. A few clouds and spots of moisture on the camera lens. Forecast features periods of rain overnight. Light rain or drizzle for the morning commute. And then a break tomorrow midday, into wednesday, before the next wave of rain comings. Hares what were looking at out to sea. A long trail of pacific moisture reaching well beyond hawaii actually. Its mainly light rain traveling along the stream of moisture. So we dont expect anything more than periods of light rain from this Current System and perhaps on thursday. Lets start the forecast animation tonight at 11 00. Notice how overnight most of it winds down. 5 00 tomorrow morning, beginning the rush hour, there will be pockets of light rain. It wont be very widespread. Maybe a few sprinkles and spritzes during the day. It will be pretty much over by tomorrow at 4 clock. By that time, rainfall totals between now and then of only maybe up to a quarter inch in parts of the north bay, central bay, less than. 1 inch in the south bay. Overnight, drizzle and light rain, clouds, it will be mild with low temperatures mainly in the mid 50s. Then tomorrow, afternoon some Early Morning light rain, maybe a few sprinkles in the daytime. Mainly cloudy skies. Mild tomorrow, though. High temperatures ranging from about 60 on the coast to upper 60s inland and around the bay. Heres the sevenday forecast. Mostly cloudy but dry on wednesday. More rain and showers on thursday. Friday and saturday, sunny and mailed to warm with highs climbing into the low 70s inland and mid 60s around the bay. It cools down a little on sunday. And by the way, sunday marshes the beginning of Daylight Saving time. 2 00 a. M. Sunday. Dont forget to set your clax forward one Hour Saturday night or sunday morning or whenever you choose actually. I set a couple of mine already. Monday its going to be a dry day. All in all, its a week of active weather leading up to friday. We dont expect heavy rain with this system coming on thursday. Will be much like the rain were getting right now. But any rain at all, of course, is beneficial. Dan . I know were still well behind, but are we at least starting to catch up a little bit . Well, report are that the reservoir levels are climbing. Theyre looking pretty good. In terms. Average rainfall, the normal levels for this time of year, were way behind. Some locations need more than ten inch of rain to catch up to the normal level for this point in the season. So its a severe rainfall deficit still. Again, these steady and frequent rains are helping. All right. The drought is not over. No. Far from over. Okay. Thanks, very much. Still to come on abc 7 nudes at 9 00, an initial sight for skiers today. The Details Behind the slopeside rescue of a small bear cub. And a look behind the iconic work of a rock and roll photographer. What he says is the secret behind his legendary shots. Attention monster taco fans get ready for a night of monster taco madness when two new monster taco flavors from jack in the box face off. Introducing the bacon ranch monster taco, crushin it with strips of bacon and creamy ranch versus the nacho monster taco, comin hard with nacho cheese and jalapenos monster, monster, monster tacos too much . Needs an explosion. [boy] mom ughs] [mom] yes . [boy] whoa,whoa,whoa. [mom and dad] [laughing] [boy] whoa,whoa,whoa. [mom] youve got two left feet,boo. The fortunate ones among white house find their bliss and turn it into jobs really have figured it out. Tonight abc 7 reporter Wayne Freedman has the story of one such bay area man who found his bliss in the history, the evolution, and the performances of rock and roll. Reporter in the world of concert rock and roll, nothing trumps access. If you have it, you dont stand in line. You dont even need a ticket. You dont buy dinner, you eat with the band. Trust is a big part of this whole thing. Reporter ask Jay Blakesburg about access. Feeling the energy that comes from the stage with these guys, these musicians is a rush. Reporter in his case, renewable. Hes on a firstname basis with the band and earned it with a special talent. Do you play guitar. I do not. Reporter drums . I do not play drums. Reporter what do you play . The camera. Reporter does he ever. Chances are you dont know Jay Blakesburgs name, but his work, iconic. Part of an evergrowing archive. I think of it as digital anthropology. Reporter this night a packed audience for fans of the allman brothers band. Jay has been sticking cameras in faces since the early 1980s. Wonderful photos. Royal until this moment, warren had not seen the latest pictures in jays eights and newest book called jam an insiders often backstage look at rock and roll concerts as performance art. Im capturing energy, and im capturing music in a fraction of a second. Reporter pictures like these from even this concert do not happen by accident. Jay may shoot 2,000 frames in one evening alone and end one 100 after,idating. Often youll glimpse him after editing. Often youll glimpse him on stage. Yes, he gets that access. How many guys are there like him . Will. A handful. Reporter jay began doing this at 16 years old. Just a kid with his dads camera at a grateful dead concert who ultimately made friends with the bad and years later earned enough trouft shoot thust to sh portrait of jerry garcia. I shot this at the concert in 1991. They gave me 90 seconds to do this portrait. Reporter in truth, no picture happens easily. Jay had a special one in mind for the fox theater that night. Im going to shoot about ten pictures if i can. If theyll sit that left wing. Reporter you see the guitarist sharing the stage . Hes robber krieger of the doors. This, a onetime meeting between 1960s rock royalty and new millennial southern comfort. If only jay could get all of them together in one room for a shot. Come and sit there. You can sit there reporter for 90 seconds, this man who makes an art of blending in the backgro