The wind damage that occurred today. Its blowing around and starting to rain. Reporter rain totals that you were talking about are going up. Im going to hop out of the way and show you the storms just over my shoulder. Wet weather and windy weather, not a good combo for the bay area today. Todays string of storms wreaked havoc across the bay area even though the rain is welcome. Im happy because we need it but were not used to it. Its like summer all the time. More rain than sunshine for sure. Reporter a water main near the dogpatch in San Francisco burst. Trees fell all over the city in soggy saturated soil. This one crushed up to three cars next to Lafayette Park in pacific heights. A lot of trees fell. Some close calls. Reporter pooling water on freeways and windy conditions slowed down everyones commute. Chp post the warning signs hoping people would slow down. Not everyone did. A lot of people are driving erratically and theyre almost rearending people and a lot of accidents and Highway Patrol is everywhere. Reporter for those who stayed home, some were without power. More than 3,000 people were in the dark this morning as weatherrelated issues like downed power lines got repaired. Pg e has had crews on standby all day. For those who had power plenty say they plan to stay in and enjoy it. Staying at home. Its going to get a hot dog and sit on the couch. Reporter folks traveling by road werent the only ones to see delays. Airfare excuse me, the airways were also backed up with 80 cancellations at sfo. A lot of delays some up to hours. Now that the rain has moved in, who knows what that looks like now. Emily turner, kpix 5. You might have seen the hi def doppler picking up snow falling on mount hamilton. We sent chopper 5 to check it out. Couldnt get a clear look at the peak because the mountain was socked in. Plenty of snow in the Sierra Nevada by tonight up to 14 of new snow. Caltrans has been keeping the roads plowed. Drives are being reminded to take it slowly. Some had to avoid black ice along interstate 80 this morning. The same storm system is hitting our neighbors to the south. Intersections flooded in sun valley prompting a number of rescues there. One guy has to climb out of the car through the window jump on the hood of the car and then run through the water to get away from the flooding. Much more on our weather coming up so keep it right here including an extended forecast that calls for more rain. Thats right its coming up in 13 minutes. New at 5 00, disturbing video an east bay school for students with special needs showing a teachers aide slapping and trying to restrain a young boy. It all happened inside a classroom in antiochs tobin world campus. Kpix 5s joe vazquez is there and tells us police and the school have now launched an investigation. Joe. Reporter liz, as you can imagine, there have been a lot of upset parents coming in and out of this school here today. A lot of them trying to find out more information. We just found some information out from the Antioch Police moments ago just a few minutes before we went on the air. We have learned that the boy in the video youre about to see is a 9yearold from oakland and that the teachers aide has been arrested. The video posted on facebook shows several clips of a student in a striped sweater and two teachers aides trying to wrestle the child down. [ yelling ] reporter at one point the aide smacks the child hard in the face. It happened yesterday morning at tobin world a school for special ed. Children in antioch. Police have opened up an investigation as has the school district. My opinion . The principal, sarah, she needs to resign immediately. Reporter he says before he placed his own special needs child here, he made sure the staff was trained in cpi, crisis prevention and intervention. Training them that in a sizes deescalation and special holds instead of violence. They didnt do any of that. Im a former instructor of cpi and what they did, thats something that happens out on the streets when you get jumped. So those aides need to be terminated and go to jail [ yelling ] reporter tobin world says the two teachers aides have been suspended and wont be allowed back. Thats not enough for me. I trust these people with my kid. And if they are not going to protect them, who is . Reporter Antioch Police tell us that he rested that teachers aide identified as 26 yearold kamal [ nonenglish language ] they arrested her at home. She is charged with felony child abuse. Reporting live in antioch, im joe vazquez, kpix 5. New at 5 00 firefighters are battling a blaze that the hour in san jose. Flames broke out at the old Orchard Supply store this afternoon. Chopper 5 has been over the scene on san carlos avenue. This was one of the first Orchard Supply stores in the say the. The building is vacant since the Company Built a new store down the block. Its one of the first Orchard Supply stores in the state. San jose found a body at a recycling center. This was discovered in a container at the newby Island Resource Recovery park on Dixon Landing road. Now, investigators would not specify which kind of container or whether it was a dumpster, garbage can, what it was. The identity of the victim has also not been released. And its not clear if a garbage truck somehow picked up the body. Police say right now, the case is not being investigated as a homicide. The nfl meeting tonight behind closed doors. How it could impact where the raiders will play next season coming up. Down today pres San Franciscos largest taxi fleet has filed for bankruptcy. City riders are app happy but that might not be the reason y im Mike Sugerman. The story is coming up. But first, stocks closing down sharply again today pressured by continued concerns about Global Economic growth, low oil price and political tensions. ,,,, francisco. Yellow cab is planning to file for bankru. Kpix 5s Mike Sugerman found out not b it could be the end of the road for yellow cab filing for bankruptcy. Mike sugerman found out not being able to keep up with the times could be pushing yellow to the curb. Mike. Reporter nice to see you again, liz. Its called yellow cab but its bleeding red ink. The latest chapter in its long history could be chapter 11 but maybe not for the reasons you think. Thats the sound of transit 2016. The business is imploding. Reporter yellow cab the largest fleet is expected to file for bankruptcy this month. Is this a surprise to you . No. Reporter but you might be surprised that the competition from ride hailing apps isnt the only cause of this financial hail mary. Last year a yellow cab driver slammed into stopped traffic with a passenger inside. That passenger sued for 8 million and won. Massive lawsuits and your regulations requirements are so high, and sheriffs costs is so high, they have to retool their operations. Reporter john lazar is Third Generation cabbie. He is now general manager of luxor cab company. Yellow cab didnt return our calls. He is not surprised an accident is at the root of its problems. This is an accident involved with a lyft driver. Reporter who is playing . The drivers personal insurance policy. Reporter lyft doesnt cover . No. Reporter there was no passenger in the car. Rules are still being worked out for the hail App Companies but we couldnt find out the story. This cabbie isnt sure of the future but he is not optimistic. I was in 37 years and i loved every minute of it. Now its gone. Reporter maybe not gone. But likely driving towards sunset. So what will happen to that 8 million settlement . That passenger was severely brain injured. That will be up to a bankruptcy judge. In San Francisco, Mike Sugerman, kpix 5. More bad news for chipotle tonight. Coming up, why the fast food chain is being investigated for what they are accused of doing here in california. Im allen martin and with days until a possible vote on whether the raiders will move to los angeles, how the National Football league is trying to come up with a plan ahead of the vote. Its next on kpix 5 news at 5 00. Im len ramirez in the santa cruz mountains. Tonight at 6 00, some signs our reservoirs are finally starting to benefit from all this rain plus why water officials are really looking toward the sierra when it comes to drought solutions. 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Reporter the powerful Los Angeles Relocation Committee along with the leagues Stadium Committee and the finance committee they are all meeting today and tomorrow in new york. Its ahead of next weeks owners meeting. On mornings the raiders, San Diego Chargers and st. Louis rams on monday submitted their relocation applications to the league. As it stands, there are two stadium proposals for teams in l. A. The rams have a plan for an almost 2 billion entertainment retail and housing complex in inning the wood. The chargers and raiders have a plan for a project that would cost almost as much in the city of carson south of l. A. Near long beach. The rams have their complex at inglewood. Last week the three cities responded to the nfl with what was supposed to be their best and final stadium solution to keep their respective teams. None seemed to please the league or the owners. One of the team owners on the league Stadium Committee is 49ers ceo jed york. He said he hasnt made up his mind on which if any team should be moving to l. A. I think its vitally important that the National Football league that we do everything we can to stay in markets that were in and if its proven that we cant stay there and markets arent viable or theres a reason to leave, we need to make sure that if we go back into a market such as los angeles, the second largest market in the country, we do it the right way. York says that the league cant afford to repeat what happened in 1994, when the raiders and rams both left l. A. Leaving that market without a franchise and the money. The 32 owners meet in houston, they have a special meeting next week in order for one of the projects to move forward, threefourths of the owners have to vote for it. Only one stadium will be approved. Each owner has 9 votes to block the other one. The owners dont want to let the market and this money sit idle. A lot of money and three stadium proposals and three teams. There are so many moving parts. Theres only going to be one winner. 55 vote. More now on our latest el nino storm and this just in. Firefighters had to rescue a woman who was trapped in rising water in the north bay of sharon chin is in the newsroom with that dramatic video. Sharon. Reporter the scene played out in wilmar a community a few miles west of petaluma where the driver of a pickup truck drove into standing water on valley ford road. Take a look at the scene. The truck flipped on its side. The driver was able to get out. But the passenger, his girlfriend, was trapped inside as the pickup was wedged against a telephone pole. She was partially submerged in the water for about an hour. Crews had a complicated rescue working at times below the water line. She was taken out of the truck and to a hospital for evaluation. She is said to be in good condition. Now, the warning is always, never try and drive across a flooded road. It doesnt take much water to get stuck like in this case or be swept away. Live in the newsroom, sharon chin, kpix 5. So many close calls out there. People really need as the chp has been telling us, slow it down and go easy. If you see standing water, dont go. The Weather Service has a great phrase they like to emphasize this year anytime flooding happens, turn around, dont drown. Its only a foot of water. Six inches of moving water can transport a car. Thats going to happen more in the coming months. This is the winter we have been asking for. Flooding is one of the problems coming with it. The heaviest rain i can find on hidef Doppler Radar is just exiting morgan hill and gilroy right now. 20 minutes ago it was pouring. Its heading into mountains just to east in the southern extent of the diablo range. Heavy showers exiting san leandro, hopping across the hills to san ramon and dublin. Hercules, vallejo, novato getting heavy showers and San Francisco another round of rain for you. How much rain have you received . In the past two days, its the bottom number, a little more than two inches of rainfall. If you were add up all of january 2013, all of january 2014, and all of last january, you would have received half of an inch of rainfall. In the past two days we have received four times as much rain as we have in the past three januarys. Thats just crazy how dry we have been and how not dry we are right now. Still snowing in the sierra, totals in the peaks the highest peaks, will be upwards of 12 to 14 at the highway pass 5 to 10. A winter storm warning continues until 10 p. M. Great shot from the Oakland Airport looking back at the silhouette of the San Francisco financial district, where its 54 in the city right now. Santa rosa steady rain 47. Oakland 56. Livermore 51. So we have this parade of storms, one after the other after the other. The storm track is not moving for the next week, so the question is when is the next storm going to arrive . We have one passing by just to our west right now. Rain all the way into old mexico. San diego, los angeles, heavy rainfall today. This active pattern continues because right behind this low is another low, the fourth of the week, thats going to give us another round of rainfall tomorrow. But the next storm will be markedly weaker. This evening, scattered showers continue. Overnight, scattered showers continue. And with this next front tomorrow, only scattered showers. Were talking on average a tenth to quarter inch of rainfall. So much less rain tomorrow compared to the past couple of days. Friday i think we squeeze out a dry day. It will be cloudy. Thats the gray you see on your Television Screen but no rainfall but the fifth storm of the week gets here friday night and Early Saturday Morning 1 00 in the morning, steady rainfall again. And they are just lining up. Storm number 3 over us right now. Storm number 4 on thursday. Storm number 5 is saturday. And i got step out the door because now we have number 6, and thats going to give us some more rainfall for the top of next week. This storm tomorrow futurecast isnt very impressed from a tenth to quarter inch of rainfall. Thats it. Today we got four times that amount so tomorrow will be drier. Showers tonight that weaker storm moves through tomorrow but after that dry break on friday, here comes another round of steady rainfall coming up on saturday. Highs tomorrow a little bit drier a little bit milder. Concord 54. San jose 57. Napa 53 degrees. Extended forecast, well settle into a pattern with rain every other day. Were dry friday but wet saturday. Were dry sunday but wet monday. [ laughter ] were dry tuesday, but west wednesday. So. Nice to catch our breath a little bit. Thats good because we want that break, let the rainfall, run off, soak in, get some more. Is there a satellite bag there around the corner that back there around the corner that says storm number 28, 29, 30, 32 . If you were looking at the long range models out 16 days we are in the double digits so we are going to count them here on kpix 5 for the end tower month. Well likely get up to at least 15. We are going to count them here on kpix 5 for the entire month. Its going to be a wet month. The familiar sound of San Franciscos cable car bells can be heard around the city once again. Heavy rain earlier today actually prompted the sfmta to suspect the service and replace them with buses. The cable cars started again at 2 30 p. M. Nuclear experts are investigating north koreas assertion that it has successfully tested a Hydrogen Bomb. The white house says theres no reason to support the claim based on data from its monitoring stations in asia. Whatever north korea did triggered seismic activity equivalent to a magnitude 5. 1 earthquake. It will take several days to determine what kind of device was detonated. 4k and hd so 2015. Well take you inside the 2016 Consumer Electronics show in las vegas to show you the screens of the future. Hdr television. Next on kpix 5 news at 5 00. , grow old with me let us share what we see just you and i grow old with me let us share what we see and oh the best it could be just you and i the bu r. The tv screens of the future are on display at the Consumer Electronics show show in las vegas. The buzz this year is over hdr, that stands for high dynamic range. It means not only more pixels but better pixels giving you better color and more depth. Theres also new buzz over virtual reality.