Get the word out as quickly as we could. Reporter you feel like that should have been a quicker response to the public . The nature of flaring event is we had to determine what was happening and make sure that we got Accurate Information out. One thing history has proven to us is that chevron cannot be trusted, that we need to have independent investigations, not investigations conducted by chevron to tell us what really happened, what was really emitted. Reporter now, the bay area air Quality Management group says they will be investigating. Veronica, one of the issues out here is that they have monitors to test how much pollutants got into the public. But not everyone in the community here believes those monitors are adequate enough. Lots of people nervous. Thank you. Memories still fresh of a Major Incident at the same chevron refinery in 2012. A major fire sent thick, black smoke into the air. 15,000 people went to the hospital with respiratory problems. Chevron was cited for several safety violations and paid nearly 2 million in fines. A scene in san jose disrupted the morning routine. Heavily armed s. W. A. T. Closed off a 2 block radius door to door in search of a gunman after a shooting at 5 a. M. On the 1700 block of southwest expressway. Three nearby schools blackford, valley christian elementary school, and Del Mar High School all had to be forced into lockdown. It happened at a chaotic time when parents were dropping off the kids in the morning. Some parents turned around and took their children home. They got it all blocked off everywhere. I just wanted to make sure my kids are safe. Ill feel more secure and take them home. After two hours the search was called off. School lockdowns were lifted. The shooter slipped away without a trace. Investigators say they are following up on some leads to track him down. In the middle of all that, an suv plowed into blackford elementary school. One of the schools that was locked down. The driver had a seizure while going through the dropoff. A child inside the car had minor injuries. The driver was taken to the hospital. Another bay area county declaring a state of emergency in the wake of our storms. Today San Mateo County estimated damage at more than 3 million. Earlier marin county reported damage estimates at a million dollars. Sonoma county has also declared an emergency with damage at 17 million. The declarations mean the counties can apply for state and federal aid to help with repairs. In the north bay the rain was too much for valley ford and bloomfield roads in sonoma county. Floodwaters stopped this white vw in its tracks. Four people were stuck inside. Cal fire called out a jet ski to rescue everyone inside. They had to climb out of a car window and carefully get on to the jet ski before making it back to dry land. I was waiting on other folks to come out and get me and it was really great to see how organized the operation was and i appreciate all these young gentlemen coming out to get me to safety. No one was hurt in the operation. Officials say the water was three feet deep and as a reminder right here, say dont drive through standing water. Kpix 5s ryan takeo joins us now live from the north bay where people are ready for a little change in the weather. Ryan . Reporter thats right, ken. Some are glad this is a last round of rain for some time because the past week and a half its left many here in the north bay sick of the rain. Another day, another soggy compute in the north bay. Roads looked more like rivers and drains tried to keep up. Yes, were still in a drought. But you wouldnt know it from our past 10 days. Kind of crazy how it doesnt rain around here for like three years and all of a sudden it wont stop raining this month. Reporter gary garnett has lost patience. Tired of it yet . I am tired of it, yeah. But i know we need it. So im okay with it. Reporter there are no complaints from Tree Service Companies where you can see the work all piled up. Marin county arborist is getting flooded with calls. They are saying twice as many calls as normal and most of this pile came in this week. Moreau and his cruise have their hands full. They are called to deal with everything from preventative tree trimming to trees on hopes and power lines. He has 20 Years Experience and warns more trees could topple like this one that fell on a car in San Franciscos marina district. They are going to be falling like dominos. I hope we dont have any wind. Reporter just before air, i asked paul for an impressive rainfall total and he told me, just this month alone, corte madera has seen 16. 6. Live in marin county, im ryan takeo, kpix 5. Thank you. Lets go to chief meteorologist paul deanno now tracking hidef doppler almost 17 paul. A lot of rainfall in the north bay and even san jose, the second wettest december ever. You received more rainfall today. Radar is deceiving right now because the steady rain is moving out. Its gone, butle still use your windshield wiperses tonight because the atmosphere is so full of moisture there is drizzle and mist and low cloud cover. You drive through it, its going to acalm late on your windshield so use the wipers even though the last batch of rainfall is leaving through milpitas and fremont toward newark and leaving san jose, as well. Exiting but in its wake, its still kind of messy. The roads are slow. San rafael 1. 5 of rainfall. Mount tam 4 more inches of rain. With 1. 24 inches of rain in San Francisco we are now the 7th wettest december in San Francisco history. If we make it to number 6, not only will we move up one spot, we would be in the middle of the wettest december in San Francisco since 1889. It has not been this wet in december in a very long time. And we still have 12 days to go. But you have been wondering about a drying trend. We have been talking about it for a while. Coming up well talk about how long it will stay dry once it gets dry. Thats coming up. New at 6 00, the Oakland Police department could use your help identifying several people responsible for vandalism and looting during those recent protests. Heres the surveillance photos they want you to look at. They were released today. They were taken on the night of november 24. Police say these suspects broke windows at the metro pcs store on broadway and then stole phones and other equipment. This is cell phone video someone took of the suspects inside the metro pcs store suspects got away on foot. If you have any information, who these people are, you can help police catch them. Just call the Oakland Police. A respected veteran officer accused of being called a dirty cop is now fired. New at 6 00 da lin with a fallout that could clog the Contra Costa County court system. Reporter the fbi started its corruption investigation into then Sergeant Michael wang two years ago. When she woke up reporter heres wang in 2011 when we interviewed him on a different story. Hes your friend . Reporter a known drug trafficker in this video told investigators wang arranged drug deals and took hundreds of thousands of dollars from him. 200,000 and 40,000 he told me that he got a friend in las vegas working the casino he said if you want to watch your money go do the thing. He is going to take it to vegas and launder it, wash it . Reporter the trafficker says wang tipped him off about Police Investigations and even outed an informant who was later shot. One bad cop being caught is now going to cause hundreds of convictions to be set aside. Reporter nearly a decade of wangs drug cases could now be called into question. Defense attorneys say many of those convictions could be dismissed. Daniel horowitz says one of his clients already has two charges dropped because of wang. All of these investigations involving millions upon millions of pounds of drugs and hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money are all at risk. Reporter in fact this attorney is going to ask a judge to toss out her clients attempted murder conviction. There is strong evidence that officer wang set my client up. The question is, will the streets be hit with people who should be in jail . The answer is yes. Reporter the Richmond Police chief thinks there will be far less of an impact on those closed cases that led to convictions. He says thats because wang was one of only several officers working on those investigations. Live at the Richmond Police department, im da lin, kpix 5. Because the fbi investigated this corruption case, its up to the u. S. Attorney to decide whether to charge michael wang. So far, no word on whether that will happen. Coming up, one of the bay areas biggest cities on the verge of new leadership and today, the man about to take over got a taste of what he is in for. Who is already calling him out. Up to two hours warning before it floods. The new system to give people in one area a heads up. We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the united states. And president obama against sonys decision to pull its movie after threats from hackers. But tonight, the studios ceo is defending that move. , theres a legacy at raleys about having the best meat and the best produce. Its my job to start a new legacy, the best wine beer and spirits. We travel all over california and the world to find all sorts of new craft spirits, craft beers, small production wines. Brews from mendocino, and the finest wines from around the world. At raleys, were really into craft, so we enjoy and are excited about carrying those products in the store. Share your ideas, tell us on facebook. The wake of a hack attack td to north korea. Cbs president obama says sony blew it. The president says the studio should not have pulled its movie in the wake of a hack attack traced to north korea. Randy paige with what sony is saying about that. Yes, i think they made a mistake. Reporter president obama went on to say why he believes sony should not have given in to the demands of the hackers who initiated a cyberattack now identified by the fbi as orchestrated by north korea. We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the united states. The headline i take away is president obama to studios, get a backbone. Reporter variety Senior Editor ted johnson says he was surprised by the president s harsh message for sony. Obama has quite a lot of ties to that studio. Remember he held a reelection fundraiser there. Michael linton the ceo of the studio is longtime friends with the obamas going very far back. But look at the bigger picture. Um, how, um, you know, if if the president were to say, i support sony in its decision, um, there would have been a lot of outrage as to how does the american media, how does the content community, respond when this happens again . Reporter Sony Entertainment ceo Michael Linton responded to the president s critical remarks. I would be fibbing to say i wasnt disappointed. The president and i havent spoken. I dont know exactly whether he understands the sequence of events that led up to the movies not being shown in the movie theaters. Um, and, um, therefore, i would disagree with the notion that it was a mistake. Reporter in los angeles, randy paige, kpix 5. The hackers sent a letter of praise to sony saying it was very wise to cancel the movie release and warned sony never to release it in any form. Our eye on the storm tonight People Living near San Francisquito creek cleaning in santa clara, san mateo counties, watching nervously every time it rains. That creek is notorious for flooding. But as kpix 5s don ford shows us, residents will now have advanced warning of up to two hours that flooding is about to happen. Reporter the San Francisquito creek creek divides palo alto and menlo park. Eventually, reaching east palo alto. It is one of the few remaining creeks on the peninsula that still floods from time to time. Its usually at night, right . The its rising. It comes up this high. And then it starts pouring over into here. Reporter he is referring to the flood of 2012 when the creek filled neighborhoods with several feet of water rushing up against the bridges. Now the San Francisquito creek joint Powers Authority is building a website to give an early flood warning. Give them now almost two hours of warning. Reporter by adding nearly a dozen new flow sensors, the creek can be measured precisely and predictions can be fine tuned. Helping homeowners and First Responders to prepare. But homeowners say they already use another website. For years now the city of palo alto has had realtime water levels on their site. You wonder whether or not we need Something Else to spend a bunch of money to make something happen. On the other hand, it could be useful information. Reporter useful if it were up and running which it is not. During last weeks rain, some of the sensors failed. The jpa says theres still kinks to work out. The San Francisquito creek joint Powers Authority says they hope to have the website up and running and live by the end of january. In menlo park, don ford, kpix 5. Five shopping days left before christmas. But with several inches of rain in the bay area this month, is it dampening the holiday spirit . Kpix 5s Juliette Goodrich is talking to soggy shoppers in walnut creek tonight. Juliette. Reporter hi, veronica. You know, when the clock is ticking, i think shoppers head out no matter what rain or shine. If you bundle up, i have to tell you its nice out here, were at the Broadway Plaza in walnut creek where you can see that shoppers are strolling along and actually the rain has stopped. And according to merchants the rain earlier today didnt stop the heavy rush of people doing their holiday shopping. With umbrellas in hand, they braved the chilly rainy weather. And, in fact, we caught up with some shoppers this evening some lastminute shoppers. I asked them, are you out here doing the lastminute shopping or are you really just getting out of the house because its finally not raining . Weather prevents from you coming out or not . No. Im normally very prepared but two children made it horrible this year so we are going last minute this year. Reporter they have the rain jackets on so they are good to go. Yup. Reporter all right. Merry christmas. Merry christmas. Reporter what do you want for christmas . Um, [ indiscernible ] reporter slippers. Its been real hectic. Reporter do the job with the smile . Every time. Reporter and theres the holiday tree here to get you in the spirit. Maybe this is the calm before the rush. Because it really has a nice peaceful feel out here. I have to tell you. Some stores are open until 11 00. Some even until midnight so maybe this is the calm before people decide to get their second wind and come back out and keep shopping again. In walnut creek Juliette Goodrich, kpix 5. How weird. I asked for slippers, too. [ laughter ] you know, santa is going to have to have a big sleigh this year to carry all those slippers to everybody. Its been chilly. Humid. It doesnt look too bad. You have to take care of dad. Yes, its foggy, its misting right now. Its drizzly. But the steady rainfall were done likely gone for at least the next week all the way through christmas. So yeah, not that bad if you head out this evening but a lot of other folks have plans to head out this evening so pack your patience. Highs low 60s. Upper 50s in san rafael and san jose. So wheres that rainfall . It is now way down in the south bay. Its cleared san jose. It has cleared milpitas. But were left with a pretty soggy atmosphere. And if you are driving at 60 miles an hour on a highway youre likely going to be using your windshield wipers because of all the water out there. Lets talk about the good side of the water. Just looking at one of our reservoirs, shasta lake, how much water has been added since monday . Four days, i checked the numbers, did the math, 37 billion more gallons of water are in lake shasta right now compared to monday. Thats how much water. A lot of rainfall falls into the reservoirs. We have caught 37 billion gallons of that in one of our reservoirs which amounts to 2 of total capacity. Its a big lake. Rain over the top of the ridge a building ridge of High Pressure is coming in but over top of the ridge we have a storm track that once again brought some steady rainfall into the bay area. That changes starting tomorrow. On top of the ridge we may still see a few showers out there in the far north bay but then that ridge builds closer to us. We are back to the kind of stuff we have had over the past three years so storm track, not over the bay area. Sunshine returns and well see temperatures pushing for some of you 70 degrees as we head toward Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. So much better shopping weather if you have been waiting for the lastminute, Mother Nature rewarding you this year. Oakland tomorrow kind of a cloudy day. Well be dry but not much sunshine. 62 for you. San jose 61. Napa 59. San rafael 60 degrees. Sunnier on sunday. Monday and tuesday the kids are off at school. Let them go out and play. They have been stuck in the house for the past couple of weeks. It will be close to 70. Christmas eve cloudier and Christmas Day well be fine. Need a break from the rainfall . Well timed. Good job, Mother Nature. We need a break before christmas. Excellent. All right. Paul, thank you. Still ahead, balancing bills with school work. This turning point for this teenager who is managing a fulltime job along with his classes. Closed captioning of this newscast is sponsored by covered california. ,,,,,