couple of minutes. mark sayre is in east palo alto where heavy rain has caused problems in the past in flooding. >> reporter: san fransesquito creek is a 14-mile creek that brings water from the mountains of san mateo and santa clara counties right down here in the bay but since the big floods here only a little bit of long- term improvement work has been completed. >> sandbags, up against the wall. >> reporter: mitch johnson looks over photos of his auto upholstery business from december of 2012 the last time san fransesquito creeks overflowed its banks causing thousands in damage and putting him out of business for a week. >> that was a bad one. we had probably about 8" of water throughout my whole shop. and it buckles the floors and anything cardboard boxes materials on the ground get ruined. >> reporter: it's not the first time. johnson was also hit hard during an even bigger flood in 1998. now all these years later, the problem is still not solved. why does it take so long to get anything done? >> the wheels of government turn slowly. >> reporter: the california conservation corps put in sandbags to help control water and over the past year the city of east palo alto has covered them over with concrete it make a more secure barrier but for the long term a group is working on a plan to allow the creek to handle a 100-year event. >> we are definitely not out of the woods. >> reporter: he oversees the effort but says the work is not fast due to engineering, financial and permitting challenges. >> we are trying to move as quickly as possible. as i said, we have challenges on getting approval on this project right now. >> reporter: this summer, caltrans will begin widening this drainage channel which passes under highway 101 and east bayshore road. there are now three tunnels and once the work is done, there will be four. none of this is fast enough for those who live near the creek. >> it's a problem. in '97 we had two feet of water in the shop. i had slept in cars down the street all night. >> reporter: the watershed that feeds this creek is so dry that folks that work around here are not too concerned that there's going to be a problem here this weekend but city officials are taking no chances. sandbags will be handed out for free here in east palo alto and the city says it will be closely monitoring the creek all weekend long. reporting leaving in east palo alto, i'm mark sayre, kpix 5. >> the north bay will bear the brunt of this storm. brian webb reports from there. it is cold, wet, windy, not a lot of fun to be outside where i am right now. this is 101 redwood highway at lucky drive a hotspot for flooding. let's see how traffic is moving. pretty much standing still or slow going not much -- a little better south but the night is still young. and there's more rain on the way. it hasn't rained so much in so long flood warnings appeared almost out of nowhere. and these showers took on and almost biblical tone. >> it is a blessing. i tell you, it is a great blessing. >> up the street a guy was gathering two of each animals. >> reporter: they aren't building arcs in marin county yet but these sandbags come in handy especially if you need to protect your property against a possible flash flood. >> too much too fast. but we still love the rain. we need the rain. >> reporter: along the rain soaked streets of san rafael umbrellas are out in full force, raincoats and warm coffee, normal northern california weather back, time to relearn how to take it in stride. >> it's great. i love it. i have been waiting for this weather for months. >> just regular california winter weather. >> reporter: san rafael public works crews will be getting an early wake-up call tomorrow out on the streets around 6 a.m. to look for clogged storm drains or other problems from tonight's storm. live in marin county, brian webb, kpix 5. >> brian earning it tonight. crews in berkeley spent the morning preparing for the approaching storm by cleaning out some storm drains. despite the expected weekend washout, people are still out having fun. >> i'm used to california weather. and, you know, leaving the gym it's not too bad just so easy to use it. so -- >> reporter: so flip-flops and shorts today. >> yes. the usual wardrobe. >> reporter: "singin' in the rain" here? we have our banjo or what? >> yeah. singing in the rain these two are. >> reporter: were you guys prepared for the rain? you're just out taking a nice little stroll. >> uhm, not really, no umbrella for me. [ laughter ] >> yeah. no fun and games on the roadways though. police are reminding drivers to be very careful on the slippery roads. live look at sfo where many flights are delayed for up to an hour. the airport canceled dozens of departures and arrivals today. you can check the weather conditions in your neighborhood anytime with our live hi-def doppler radar at kpix.com/weather. new information tonight on why google may be in more hot water over that barge. earlier this week, we reported that construction on the so- called google barge is not properly permitted and unless it is, the barge has to be moved. well, tonight allen martin reports google is also under fire for its plan to operate the vessel. >> reporter: or maybe a lack of a plan at least publicly anyway. this letter to google's attorney spells out a major flaw in the tech giant's idea to tow that barge to different locations around the bay and set up shop. tonight we know that google has been told, get the proper permits every time you move that floating marketing center. some people in the bay area feel the need for high-tech pushback as evidenced by recent demonstrations against google and other private commuter buses shuttling employees to and from silicon valley but lest anyone believe google with its unpermitted barge can bully its way around the waters of san francisco bay, one agency is ready to say not so fast. >> what we told google's attorney was if and when the google barge is completed, then what we'll need from google is their plan about where to actually moor in the bay and for how long. >> reporter: the bay conservation and development commission says at this point, google has provided no specific details of its plans for where it will locate the barge and for how long. according to a letter sent by bcdc, google is under the impression that if it doesn't leave the barge docked in any one location more than 30 days, it doesn't need a permit. bcbc says that is not the case. what's more if they want to press it in court -- >> they also told google that when you take a look at previous court decisions, we don't think that the courts would buy it, either. >> reporter: he says not only will the google barge need permits every time it ties up to a dock in san francisco bay, it will also need separate permits for the land next to the dock. >> if google were to park its vessel here, it's more than likely that more people will be going there. it will have an effect on the bay. >> reporter: google responded with the same statement it issued this week when i inquired about the lack of a construction permit for the barge. the company is reviewing the letter from bcdc. >> just wondering why, you know, does google believe that 30 days is the maximum that it can stay? where's that coming from? >> reporter: it has to do with the houseboats in sausalito. that rule goes back to 1984. but bcdc says that only applies in richardson bay and everywhere else it's a case-by- case basis and certainly the barge may be a boat but it is not a house. >> interesting story then. gets more fun every day. allen, thank you for that. we're following breaking news out of oakland where police are investigating a home invasion that ended in murder. it happened at a house on 34th avenue near fruitvale this afternoon. kpix 5's christin ayers is at the scene. what can you tell us? >> reporter: the latest information that we're hearing are some unconfirmed reports that the woman who died in this home invasion homicide may have possibly been bound and gagged when she was found. authority say this started as a welfare check just after 2 p.m. today. they got a call to come check on this woman who hadn't been seen in a while. when they arrived, they found two victims in the house. there were signs that someone had forced his way into the house. the woman was inside and was deceased at the time. a man 40 to 50 years old was also on scene. that man is working with them at this point. but they don't have a lot of information about how this woman died. there are homicide investigators on scene here today and again this is being considered a robbery home invasion homicide. many more questions than answers at this point. we will be speaking to neighbors later this evening. authorities not releasing a lot of information at this time. certainly this seems like something violent happened here from the information that we have at this time and to an elderly woman in her 70s. live in oakland, christin ayers, kpix 5. more tonight on what is a new clue in a decades old murder. a bay area woman is hoping a homemade quilt could solve the murder of her mom. juliette goodrich on her long search for justice. >> for so many years, we dealt with this on a daily basis. it hasn't gone away for us. >> reporter: it's been 25 years since debbie lawrence's mother was murdered. at the time debbie was jus 14. her mother never came home from university. two days later her body was found inside her car in the short-term parking lot at san jose international airport. covering her body in the back of the car was this quilt, a quilt investigators and debbie believe may hold the key to solving this case. >> unusual patterns. >> reporter: the quilt didn't belong to her mother or anyone in the family. >> it's very distinct. it's not something that you would find at a department store or -- again, this is 1989. so i think a lot more people were into making their own quilts. >> reporter: traditionally quilts are made by hand by one person or groups of friends. often times they tell a very personal story. investigators are hoping 25 years later, new clues will emerge out of the patchwork. debbie can only hope and pray and while it won't bring her mother cathy zimmer back, she says it will bring closure. >> closure will come when we can find an answer as to what happened, why it happened, and who did it. and hopefully bring the justice that is deserved. >> reporter: juliette goodrich, kpix 5. coming up, it was a routine morning workout. what happened right before a cal football player collapsed and died. >> the sierra gets a healthy dose of snow, maybe some winter driving lessons are in order. >> and why this is being called an important day for every cell phone user. save get a sealy queen set on befor just $399.osturepedic. even get 3 years interest-free financing on tempur-pedic. keep more presidents in your wallet. sleep train's presidents' day sale is on now. campus today, after a well-d football player suddenly di. as kpix-5's da lin reports: he collapsed after a team workout. shock and sadness on the cal campus today after a well liked football player died suddenly. kpix 5's da lin reports, he collapsed after the team workout. >> it was unbelievable career. >> reporter: defensive end ted agu talked about the excitement of getting a full scholarship in a cal tv interview last year. he came to berkeley as a walk- on. emily turner is the student interviewing ted. they were good friend. >> his smile is the first thing anyone notices, his infectious smile that just lit up every room he was in. he was like the most kind guy you will ever meet. >> reporter: the cal football team doctor says ted ran with his teammates this morning during a routine workout near memorial stadium. when medical staff noticed he couldn't finish his run, they carted him back to the medical facility at the stadium. >> the whole ride he was communicative and alert. >> reporter: they say he collapsed once in the stadium and died shortly after. the doctor says ted had never had any medical issues before. right now, no one knows the cause of death. close friends are in shock. >> it's pretty surreal. i want to say like when i first heard about it, i didn't believe it. it's just like such a devastating thing to happen to such an amazing person. >> reporter: the athletic director was choking up talking about the loss. >> the cal family is heartbroken. >> reporter: the head coach sonny dykes says he awarded the junior from bakersfield with a scholarship last season because of his hard work. >> he is just somebody that had a passion for life, loved to learn, loved to laugh, had a great sense of humor. >> he was a big teddy bear so loved on the team. >> reporter: teammates, friends and students are planning a candlelight vigil on campus tonight. at uc-berkeley, i'm da lin, kpix 5. >> the athletic director couldn't comment about whether agu had any pre-existing conditions. they say that it could take the coroner's office up to eight weeks to determine cause of death. two workers were crushed to death in an industrial accident in san francisco's bernal heights. it happened at around 10 a.m. this morning at the ggi granite company on courtlandt avenue. the two men were unloading 800- pound slabs of granite from a shipping container when they got caught underneath. a broken pulley may be to blame. one worker we spoke with says he was on the other side of the factory but when he heard screaming, he rushed over to help. >> it was bad. when you see something dead, it's not good. come to help this guy, but impossible, carry too much -- really heavy. >> when emergency crews arrived, they had to break several pieces of granite to remove the victims from underneath. according to the department of labor, the company has not had any workplace incidents like this. flu deaths in california have almost doubled since this time last year. so far, the flu has killed 202 people statewide. 56 people died last week alone. santa clara county has reported 14 deaths and that's the most of any county here in the bay area. but officials say the worst may be over. the rain here means plenty of new snow tonight in the sierra. but as derek shore shows us, the sudden blast of winter is making the trek to tahoe much more treacherous. >> a lot of snow. a lot. and i'm happy. >> reporter: happy to get where our going but getting there quickly became a huge problem on i-80 in the sierra. those who drove down describe it like this. >> very scary. >> reporter: very scary. snow continued to drop. the higher you climb. but it all starts with chain controls i drivers getting ready for the process. >> we are headed to reno for our ten-year anniversary. >> reporter: have you driven in conditions like this before. no, first time driving in snow. >> reporter: an undertaking not just for new snow drivers. >> inexperience, it's been a while. it's been a while. >> reporter: an important agency caltrans is keeping drivers safe beside chain controls we also saw plows and salters trying to keep them clear. but for this truck, it would be a lack of chains that would cause the problem. >> jackknifed ended up over in the trees and taking out a couple of trees. >> reporter: because he lost traction? >> yeah. lost traction going too fast. >> reporter: no traction going too fast, lucky that driver not too banged up. a busy day for nyack towing. you have seen a lot of these so far? >> yeah. it's been quite a few of these. >> when you change lanes to get out of somebody's way, that's when you have to be the most careful. >> reporter: with all this fresh powder, this apparently just the beginning. of course, we are expecting a very busy weekend up here in the sierra. near al that, derek shore, kpix 5. oh, yes. so the olympics going on in sochi and then there will be the roadway olympics that we'll see on the highways in the bay area this weekend. >> you were mentioning some of the inexperienced folks heading on highway 50, interstate 80. >> be careful. >> but we need it. this is exactly you would have said a month ago what do we need to put a dent in the drought? the answer is this what you're going to have over the next couple of days. the timing is good. i know the friday evening commute won't be pleasant now but live radar most of this will be happening over the weekend. we'll take the live picture first. this is kentfield showing you what's going on right now. highway 101 is slow because of all the rainfall that's falling outside. radar time. kpix 5 hi-def doppler showing you the rainfall out there. couple of hot spots as the rain lessens in intensity over the past 15 minutes. watch out in fremont and union city. some heavier showers pass by you. interstate 80 everywhere from american canyon to vallejo toward vacaville got pockets of heavy rainfall around fairfield and if you heading toward the nut tree, you will be getting wet. look at all this rain and mountain snowfall that's going on right now. it is going to be a wet evening. it gets more intense tonight and tomorrow when we'll see the heaviest rain and snowfall. how much snow? we have already had nearly a foot and a half of new snow at kirkwood many more feet to come, boreal 8", squaw valley 6." this is an atmosphere of river known as the pineapple express because it comes from hawaii. bottom line, jet stream is aimed here. it's an active jet stream. lots of water in the air that translates to rainfall in your backyard and this will be the wettest weekend since 2012. next week, high pressure tries to build back in. the storm track will be kicked up to the north so we need to squeeze out as much rainfall as we can this weekend because next week is not looking particularly wet. how much rain? north bay a lot. 3" to 6" of rainfall just between now and sunday evening. the east bay considerably less but still helps one to two you know, of rainfall, one to two inches for the south bay, two or three inches of rainfall. highs around 60, san rafael 59, rain tapering off by sunday evening. early next week dry, a shower or two or wednesday. really the meat and potatoes, what we need, is the rain this weekend. we don't know if something like this is going to come back again this winter so as much as we can get we'll take. >> thank you. despite all that, it is still our worst drought in decades. so why is a reservoir four times the size of hetch hetchy off limits to almost 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teens. the alameda county d.a. says there isn't enough evidence to bring charges. lamont's family says he is slowly improving. state lawmakers are considering athat could nip cell phone thefts in the bud. kpix 5 reporter anne makovec explains is has to do with technology that turns stolen phones into bricks. >> reporter: the problem of cell phone theft is rampant. many of the crimes caught on tape account for half of all robberies in san francisco and almost 80% in oakland when you factor in other smart devices. >> this is such a big deal that the crooks themselves call it apple picking. so this legislation makes the apples not worth picking. >> reporter: a parade of politicians and police came to unveil the details of the bill. it would require any smart device sold in california to include something that renders it inoperable when stolen. >> thieves do not want a device that doesn't work. >> reporter: the technological details would be left up to cell phone makers themselves. >> the bill does not dictate how that technology should be used. but all mobile devices would have in it as it's sold such a deterrent. >> reporter: those pushing the bill say they have gotten pushback from cell phone carriers who have registered concerns about hacking and privacy. new apple iphones have an optional kill switch feature which requires a password to reset a phone but users have to opt in. there is a database where you can register a stolen phone and basically have it blacklisted but that only extends to the u.s., a stolen phone can still be shipped overseas. in san francisco, anne makovec, kpix 5. >> if the bill is passed as is, it would kick in next january 1. coming up in our next half hour, this is just the start of our stormy weekend! we'll show you which areas are getting hit the hardest right now. >> the proverbial floodgates are going to open and we're going to see the damage that these guys have engineered. >> during our drought, why a massive source of water is off limits to almost everyone. >> and why you should think about getting rental car insurance even if you think your credit card has you covered. ,,,,,,,, ó÷?ké its move on the bay area. c meteorologist paul deanno h another now at:30 our second more powerful storm making its move on the bay area. now at 6:30, chief meteorologist paul deanno has a look at your live hi-def doppler radar. >> we keep getting new computer model information in saying it's going to be a wet weekend weather bull's eye at the north bay which is where we are seeing heavy rainfall this evening. hi-def doppler radar, a lot of you getting a break but we are not seeing a break cloverdale south on 101 to windsor clearlake lake county mendocino county and bull's eye right now the wettest road would be interstate 80 leaving richmond heading east all the way through vacaville and fairfield pretty much to sacramento. we are seeing some steady rainfall. let's take a look at what's going on with mobile5 out and about for the commute which we are told is horrible because of the rainfall. this is interstate 680 of course right there, it's running along smoothly despite the fact that we have the rainfall. i-80 and the bay bridge leaving san francisco is a big problem now because of all the rainfall. this is nothing compared to what we are going to have later on tonight and through the weekend tomorrow. rain totals that may exceed half foot. we'll talk about where and when coming up. >> thank you, paul. we'll take any rain we can get with this drought. and while this parade of storms is giving us a good soaking, we still have a long way to go. there are still restrictions on water usage and people are being asked to conserve. in sacramento the city stopped watering parks. the last few days of rain turned brown fields to green. >> it's premature to feel we're out of the woods by a long shot. i think people should be celebrating every drop of water we get, but we need to be saving every drop of water we can. >> the rain does help but more important is snow in the sierra. a healthy snowpack means a healthy water supply. we all know by now there is a water shortage but linda yee takes us to a place where there is a lot of water. it's just that most of us can't get our hands on it. >> reporter: california is bone dry. >> make no mistake, this is a megadrought. >> reporter: the worst drought on record has delivered virtually no snowpack, drained reservoirs, and turned once lush vineyards brown. mandatory rationing is in the works. but there's one place where there's no shortage of water. the bountiful pomegranate almond and pistachio fields of paramount farms are as green as ever. why? >> you wouldn't know it because you can't see it. >> reporter: there is a huge underground water reservoir right under my feet. it's four times as big as hetch hetchy. it's called the kern water bank and it's majority controlled by two of the state's biggest agribusinesses, paramount farms and tahan ranch. >> it is a big water bank. >> reporter: meant to store extra water for the state in times of drought but katie spanos with the department of water resources says the state turned it over to big agribusinesses in exchange for a cut back on their water allotment. >> the so no money was exchanged? >> no. there was a small amount but it didn't have to do with the value of the property. >> reporter: the state lost money because it had originally paid for the land that kern water bank sits on. >> i think it was maybe around $70 million. >> reporter: and that was just handed over? >> well, the cost of building a bank is significantly more than that. water managers feel that this is the kind of thing that makes good sense. >> reporter: but not everyone agrees. >> i don't think in this country we're prepared to allow freshwater to be a privately controlled resource. >> reporter: adam keith is with the center for biological diversity. his group, along with several delta water districts and ratepayers, are suing the state to get the water bank back. the suit claims the transfer of the kern water bank to controlling private interests amounts to an unlawful and unconstitutional gift of a critical state asset. >> this is as important as some of the largest dammed reservoirs in the state. we are saying you can't just rewrite the contracts on these things. >> reporter: he predicts the private ownership of that much water will lead to speculation and profit. >> the drought is a perfect opportunity for them to do so. i think they are trying to lay low until they feel they have a more solid grasp on this water and then the proverbial floodgates are going to open and we are going to see the damage that these guys engineered. >> we didn't see signs they were planning to sell water outside the service area and we still don't. >> reporter: do you have a say over what they do with it? >> we don't. >> people can't live without water. should we leave it to a couple of rich guys to decide how to distribute it, or should we let that be the democratic process and our governor and our elected officials if they really had our interests at heart would distribute fairly. >> reporter: linda yee, kpix 5. >> a judge heard the arguments in the lawsuit just last week. a decision is expected in a matter of weeks. weather may be to blame for some trouble on the tracks this evening. just getting word an ace train is being held at livermore station because of a possible sinkhole on the tracks. if that checks out, it could be a long wait for those folks. we are sending a crew to check it out. still ahead, if you crash your rental car, does your credit card really cover the insurance? coming up in the next consumerwatch, why you might not be covered after all. >> it's been five years since the british invasion hit the u.s. tune into kpix 5 sunday for a grammy salute to the beatles. the night that changed america. that airs at 8 p.m. ,,,, [ sports announcer ] here's another one, alyson dudek. 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[ male announcer ] switch to u-verse and add a wireless receiver today. ♪ student rising above: it is a rescue story.. abou uncl wendy tokuda joins us now in a couple of minutes with students rising above. it's a rescue story about an uncle and aunt who saved their nephew. stay tuned for that. let's talk about the weather. rain coming down and more on the way, huh? >> lots more coming the heaviest tomorrow morning but all weekend long pretty much a washout. we need every, single drop that we have been talking about the drought for so long, this is going to help out big time. it's not going to end it but it will help out. this is just the leading edge. the leading edge of the rain almost garnered an inch of rainfall in santa rosa. ben lomond three-quarters. san francisco one-third inch. we are just getting started. how is that evening commute? we have taken mobile5 out on the road up and down 680. traffic moving along well right there. i was just on kcbs radio and they are saying anybody leaving the city of san francisco will take twice as long to get home as normal but some of the other highways dancing around the bay area may not be as bad but it is raining along 680 currently. where else is it raining? kpix 5 high-def doppler radar focusing things on the north bay. plan on that for the next several hours. some hot spots there include marin county, across toward richmond toward point richmond heavier showers. san rafael, mill valley, san anselmo wet and one heavier shower leaving antioch moving east toward bethel island just missing you in brentwood and discovery bay. bottom line, raining now, a lot more rain on the way and a lot more snow in the sierra. that's wonderful news up and down the sierra. that purple color that you see is a winter storm warning. snow level now 5,000 feet going up a little bit but above 7,000 feet where we need the snow. 2 to 4 feet midday tomorrow another foot or two sunday. great news there. here's why we need it. i'm going to show you this tonight and then at the top of next week. our snowpack 18% of normal reservoirs 46% of normal and rainfall for the water year is only 17% of normal. it went up a little this week but we need a big change and the big change is coming. i'm calling it a drought denter because we are tapping into the tropics. the arrows are coming from hawaii and all that moisture from the tropics is rushing across the pacific ocean and ending up right here in the bay area. so what to expect over the next couple of days? tomorrow and sunday that pineapple express, the atmosphere river of moisture piling into northern california with the focus north of the golden gate. next week, not so much. there aren't that many storms. track lifts north. so we need to get as much as we can this weekend. how much rainfall? we get updated information in our computer every half hour. look at this! santa rosa our computer is predicting half a foot of rainfall. san francisco, more than two inches. hayward, concord, more than 2". napa, 5" of rainfall. and san jose the farther south the less we'll see. so what to expect? the heaviest rainfall is tomorrow morning but we'll be soggy through sunday with mainly urban and street flooding. amazingly all of this water will not lead to river flooding because the rivers are so low so we're wet tomorrow and sunday. monday is when the sunshine comes back when you head back to work and a slight chance of showers next wednesday but that's it. we need the rainfall this weekend and we are getting it. that's your kpix 5 forecast. >> thank you. any child who has been abused or been around abuse is going to need some kind of help to deal with the scars. as wendy tokuda tells us, you can never be sure where that help is going to come from. >> reporter: right. this story is a rescue story about an aunt and an uncle who stepped in to save their nephew. and they helped him grow into a rather extraordinary student rising above. dinnertime with nine people to feed including a new baby. living with his aunt and uncle here is exactly what tommy needed. >> they have given me hope. i think that's the most -- the biggest thing they could have given me. >> reporter: tommy is having fun here but he was a withdrawn little boy and ward of the court. it's a completely different tommy now at middle college high school in san pablo. an honor student who will get an associate's degree in math and science at the same time he graduates from high school. his relatives couldn't get an education in laos during the vietnam war or the refugee camp in thailand. but tommy school was not just a privilege, it was a safe place to get away from the fighting between his mother and her boyfriend. >> in the 8th grade i never wanted to go home. i would go home at 5:00. i would find every reason to stay at school. >> i remember when we would try to talk to him about his mom, once he said my mom, he just started crying. >> reporter: after tommy's dad left them in poverty, there was the boyfriend, drugs and fear. it kept building. then one day when tommy was 12, he saw it with his own eyes. >> his hands were on his throat and he was screaming at her. i remember a couple of days before he threatened to kill her if she ever called the police. >> reporter: tommy told his uncle. child protective services stepped in. the boyfriend went to jail on drug trafficking not domestic violence. >> seeing someone you love so much get hurt and not being able to do anything about it, that i guess is what hurts the most. >> reporter: there couldn't have been a more appropriate set of parents to become legal guardians for tommy and his sister. uncle kyle had watched his own mother abused by a boyfriend and valley grew up in foster care -- valerie grew up in foster care. >> no child should have to go through living and being in fear. >> being in foster home you don't know the word love. no one ever says it to you. >> reporter: in this home, all that is changing. >> every night when they say good night, good night, tommy, i love you. >> then we started doing this thing where we talk every week and it wasn't a one-on-one but we talked as a family. >> so what i got was production -- >> reporter: now tommy can focus on college. >> with education i can do anything and be anything i want. i believe that. it would be such an honor and we would be so proud for him to, you know, go to university. >> reporter: he wants to be a doctor. oh, did we tell you he is student body president? but tommy will not be able to go to college without help. go to kpix.com/sra, on your smartphone, and find out how you can pitch in. sra stands for students rising above. it will help 100 kids like tommy start college this year. >> a lot of times we take higher education, you know, for granted. >> absolutely. >> it's not a slam-dunk for a lot of people. >> no. >> for most people. >> it's not at all and it changes the whole family with one kid going. it will change it. >> you can see it in his uncle's eye, just the promise. >> oh. >> yeah. good stuff. thanks, wendy. >> donations to students rising above are tax-deductible, of course. and we'll be right back. good is in every blue diamond a good that comes in 25 flavors. from whole natural to wasabi and soy sauce. and once good gets going, there's no stopping it. get your good going. blue diamond. snack nut of the u.s. ski team. oakland a's...thats in a moment.. but we first go to pebble beach... ...where mo nature has been showing some attitude... dennis o'donnels there... huge move by the a's but first pebble beach where mother nature has been showing some attitude. dennis o'donnell is there. >> reporter: yes, thank you, vern. mother nature is beginning to spread her wings on the monterey peninsula and with an unpredictable weekend in store being anywhere close to the leaderboard was critical. the rain not much of a factor but the wind played havoc on everyone including condoleezza rice hang on to your hat. peyton manning surveying the scene on 8 with his approach. next to the cup but takes a sharp turn. he and partner scott langley shot 3-under. they are tied for 71st place in the pro-am. his rival tom brady fittingly on 12, golf godson his side as the ball hits the cup. brady and rookie barnes tied for 56th. alex smith not lucky with the short game on 12 misses the par putt settles for bogey. he and his partner tied for 100th not looking good. on the pro side, phil mickelson did not have a good round misses putt for birdie and settles for par. one over for the day five strokes back and in 17th place behind jordan spieth who sinks this birdie putt on 12. spieth is tied for the light with jimmy walker. walker won the frys.com open at san martin in october. walker almost gets this chip shot on 7 for a birdie but settled for par. so it's jimmy walker and jordan spieth sharing the lead at 9- under par. spieth tied walker with an unlikely birdie on his final hole. >> yeah, it was a heart and soul i played this year. it was 195 yards into -- well, you can hear it now. into the 30-mile-an-hour rain. it was hurting the rain. but i took like four extra clubs hit a -- punched a hybrid up there and, you know, if it was going to be anywhere on the green i was going to be happy and ended up 20, 25 feet away. just rolled the putt, gave it the right speed and wind kind of blew it in. it was one of those where if i played another 20 times it would be hard to make another birdie. >> is there something about this part of the tour that you like, san martin, and just half hour away? >> i -- i historically played pretty well in california. don't have a clue why. i'm from texas. not even the same kind of grass. but i like it out here. it's a cool place. >> reporter: so along with the wind, you better break out the umbrellas for round 3. cover begins on cbs at 12 noon followed by the par 5 post-game show and vern, come storm or not, we are going to be here. reporting from pebble beach, i'm dennis o'donnell. baseball, what do you get when you set career highs offensively as arguably the oakland a's best all around players? a two-year contract extension. used to have one of the best afros in the game. coco crisp. the a's centerfielder and leadoff man agreed to a near $23 million deal to keep them in an a's uniform and gives them $11 million for both years 2015 and 2016. crisp with a career-high 22 home runs has been the main gun in back-to-back division titles. he fueled their offense in the leadoff role. >> one fan asked me to ask you if your back was okay from carrying the team. >> oh, stop. stop. there's a lot of guys -- >> time and time again throughout last year, man. >> no chance. no chance. you know? with i think billy did a good job of putting together a team that can lean on each other. i mean, i played my part definitely jd had a phenomenal season. heard all those mvp chants at the end. he placed in the top 4. it's going to be an exciting year. i'm looking forward to it. and the competition in our division got better, too. all right. when the sharks hit the ice in a half hour against columbus, coach todd mcclellan will have officially coached more games than anybody in franchise history. tonight, number 435. he also has the most wins in franchise history, but still looking for that elusive stanley cup title. this will be the last game before the olympic break opening ceremonies tonight in russia. >> thank you. >> for news throughout the evening the latest news and weather are always on our website, kpix.com. 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