Cozy with one another. Well have state senator jerry hill. The california puc is in charge of regulating these Companies Making sure they dont kill us. Unfortunately they have been getting criticism about not doing their job. In Santa Clara County they want to reduce water usage by 20 and voted to use a half Million Dollars on a new tool to help them do that. Lots coming up. First, water falling from the sky today. Scattered showers. Taking a live look at the golden gate bridge. There are a lot of people running the San Francisco marathon this morning, some ambitious folks. Temperatures are mild all around the bay area. 70 degrees in livermore, 58 in santa rosa. In oakland it is 63. Look at our highdef doppler, showers around the bay area. More hit than miss but well see the possibility throughout the rest of the day. More on your extended forecast. Here is mark with a quick check on headlines. Today in the mideast hamas agreed to observe a 24hour humanitarian truce. Hamas the truce would go into effect at 2 00 p. M. Local time. That is three and a half hours ago. Shortly after that, three rockets landed in southern israel. An Israeli Army Spokesman said whether it will hold its fire. More than 1,000 palestinians have died and 43 Israeli Soldiers have been killed. Israel said even with the ceasefire theyre still searching for tunnel. 31 have been found. They are part of an elaborate underground infrastructure designed to enable largescale attacks by hamas. Two families out of the home in richmond because of this. Their apartment up in flames. Heavy smoke pouring out of a secondstory window. It happened on mcbride avenue early this morning. Two people were taken to the hospital suffering burns. One burned over 40 of their body. The red cross is helping the families displaced. No word on what caused that fire. A carport in mountainview turns into a raging inferno. 12 cars were burned and one person hospitalized when the fire went to two alarms. Seven vehicles were completely gutted. Everything was on fire and then after five minutes later cars started blowing up one by one and then last my motorcycle blew up. Hoping they will figure out exactly how this happened. Fire investigators would like to speak to anyone who may have seen suspicious activity in that carport. In am ma door and el dorado, firefighters are struggling to gain control of the sand fire, on highway 49. 700 homes have been evacuated. 4,000 acres of extremely dry brush has burned so far. It has destroyed five homes, seven outbuildings in over 24 hours. 500 structures are threatened. This massive plume of smoke in yosemite, zero containment for this fire. 2,000 acres are burned, dozens of homes and cabins are threatened. Evacuations are ordered for foresta in mar rip pose is a county. The Prime Minister of malaysia said Police Officers from his country will go to the crash site in Eastern Ukraine this week. It is part of a deployment that includes netherlands and australia. A meeting by dutch police was cancelled over security concern. Data from the flight recorders is consistent with a missile strike and the first crash victim has been identified by Forensic Experts in the netherlands. Shocking revelations, that is what sam bruno officials promise at a press conference tomorrow. It is from the gas pipeline four years ago. Sam brunos emails show a high ranking aid to the state Public Utilities giving pg e advice. The puc is supposed to oversee, regulate and possibly even punish Companies Like pg e when things go wrong. But this shows a cozy relationship, that they obtained as a settlement by the puc and now going public. Well sit down with state senator jerry hill who has been close to this investigation. Well talk about those emails and the cozy relationship. He was a vocal opponent to the pg e. There are whisperings behind the scene. These emails appear to give level of proof on that. Not just questions about this particular relationship, there is questions about other fines and oversights the puc has done. They made a quiet move behind the scenes to reduce the fine it leveed against the company that owned that limousine. It erupted into flames on the san mateo bridge killing a bride and four of her girlfriends. So the p. U. C. Was fined 20,000 for it. Then the p. U. C. Reduced that fine to 5,000. Another subject well talk about with senator jerry. Expanding chevrons oil refinery could get the green light as early as tuesday. That is when the city council is set to take a vote. A meeting got meted last week. Many were concerned about Public Safety and toxic emissions. Chevron made changes to the original plan for the modernization, agreeing to cap greenhouse gassy mixes and given richmond 60 million but some say it is not enough. It is less bad than the project they first proposed on the longterm. On the short term it is the same project. Richmonds planning commissioners want chevron to outfit the entire refinery with new piping to reduce explosions like this in 2012. Chevron will not budge on that. The 60 million will certainly talk. It will be an interesting talk. Brown is the new green when it comes to our lawn. What is what the water saving mantra is in the south bay now. Water officials hope that catches on. If it doesnt, there will be somebody there to remind you. Well explain. Reporter judging by the patchy front lawn hannah paul has been saving water but she feels her neighbors might not be doing the same. Some neighbors water more than others . Everybody waters daily. And they shouldnt . No, no. Reporter soon the Water District will be on the case. All for the motion say aye. No . Passes unanimously. The board approved spending 10 million to educate people about wasted water. Theyll talk to the home owner and business and let them know what violations what restrictions are in place in their service area. Talk to them about the drought. To be clear they are not handing out fines but will work with local water providers who have the authority to give citations of up to 500. If you saw somebody wasting water, would that give you motivation to call it on in . I would not. I would knock on my neighbors daughters and say dont you know your sprinklers are hitting the gutters. Right now the county has only cut back 12 . I spoke with one woman who lived through the drought in the 70 s. s and her lawn is brown. It almost seems like it will be uncool to have a green lawn. Youll look like a jerk. That is the point. That is what theyre trying to do. They dont have the mechanism or the backup to get out there and enforce it, send out the water cops just yet, bo so maybe shame you into doing it. Two days to weigh in on the plans to build two tunnels. It is the delta Water Project and it means two massive tunnels could be built to take the water from the sacramento to aqua ducts down south. The governor is behind this project and the Public Comment period has been open since december but it was extended through this tuesday. Funding for the plan may come from higher property taxes on assessed homeowners without a vote of the public. The drought, when it comes to this, put a certain urgency on building the tunnels but it also brought controversy because people want to keep their own water. Not happy about the possible environmental impacts on the delta. There is the cost and the question about whether or not it is really going to be a solution. This will be a hot topic. It will be out there for a while. Speaking up there is a new proposal to help fish in the russian river. The wildlife officials want to close the river to fishing when the water gets too low. There will be a Public Meeting on the plan in santa rosa on wednesday. Flames shooting into the air. A devastating scene four years ago in san bruno. We told you about those emails. State senator jerry hill will be in the studio to tell us more about it. ,,,,,,, than regulating. The allegation new allegations surfaced that the p. U. C. Is aiding corporate interests rather than regulating. It relates to the p. U. C. s action after the pipeline explosion in san bruno. They showed a high ranking aid to the puc gave advice to the pg e how to deal with accusations from that explosion. We want to get a Lawmakers Point of view on these allegations. Here is the public utility commissions which is set up to protect us, get too cozy with utilities. You have long been a critic of the public utilitys commission handling of this and other cases. What is your chief concern . The relationship between the regulator which is the public roou utilitys commission and the industry. The 7,000 emails, it took over a year for the city of san bruno to obtain and they resisted all along. The fact they got them is critical. What it shows to me is that in three and a half years after the explosion and fire that cozy relationship that should be arms length relationship, because you have a judge and a defendant. And the judge is giving advice to the defendant. That is not appropriate. Pg e says that the emails that youre talking about or the discussions were about Public Relations and light advice. This was not something heavy about heres how to get around the law or defend against the laws. If theyre given advice and the advice is asking and the assistant to the president is asking a judge, one of the Administrative Law judges for information and then passing that information on to pg e, regardless of whether it is immaterial or major, if thats the indication and if that is the process that theyre following, it is wrong. And it is not just pg e. What we have here is a commission that is set up to regulate utilities, protect the public, and there are questions about whether over the years they have become too close to the utilities. How has that relationship changed over years . Well, the relationship has changed because pg e, for one, has invested million johns yons of doctors, going on jung kets, utility funded, nonprofit jung kets around the world. Michael peevey hes the head of the puc. 200 days he was out of the country on these trips. Lubrication of a revolving door. Getting people jobs in the industry. Pg e is trying to cash in on that and take advantage of that. Is it pg e or all the utilities . I think it is all the utilities, theyre all funding all these trips. As part of the puc we fund the public advocacy groups to keep an eye on the puc. Are they doing their job . No, theyre doing their job because theyre fighting hard. The problem last year, the division of rate payer advocates wanted to meet with michael peevey, the president. She could not get a an appointment with him at all. He doesnt have a problem calling the pg e or utilities if he wants to talk to them going in the other direction and that is not right. We had a tragic fire on the bridge involving a limo. There were questions about the safety of the limousine and the puc just voted quietly, i guess or did they even vote to reduce the fine . The fine was 20,000 originally. And then they made it 5,000. It is another thing of puc cozying up. We wont have safety or the culture we want or be protected. Thank you, state senator, jerry hill, for coming in today. Let us look at our sunday morning forecast. Here is the bay bridge. Some sun peeking through there, but mostly a cloudy start in the bay area with areas of sprinkle. You see them on our highdef doppler. Well see these hit and miss showers throughout the day today. Morning clouds and some of those sprinkles around. Afternoon sun and clouds, and its going to still stay warm inland today. Humid, not quite as warm as yesterday, but still warm enough. 85 in redwood city. 74 in oakland, 83 in vallejo, and 85 in santa rosa. It will be partly cloudy today and tomorrow. A slight shower chance, of course, throughout the bay area today. General cooling trend. High 90s as we head into the workweek. Well, some have a fear of lowIncome Housing in their neighborhood. The county no exception. Coming up, future of housing in the north bay. Well be right back. birds chirping softly in background. loud engine sounds what hows it going . Heard you need a ride to school. Oh, thats pretty cool big day at school . I know just the thing to help you get going. Power up with new cheerios protein. Hearings on low income and al let the fighting begin. Tomorrow marin county will hold the first of three Public Meetings on lowIncome Housing. Already homeowners are crying not in my back yard. Looks like the county has a bit of an uphill climb. It has to convince homeowners low Income Housing is a good thing. Marin sits off highway 101. It is a quiet corner of marin county and a possible site for lowIncome Housing. Three things about the poe l. Proposal bother me. Reporter he is a home owner. He worries building housing of any kind will mean more people, overcrowded schools and more traffic. On saturday it is stop and go and that is not contributing to anything to air quality or quality of life. Traffic is a concern in marin, in general, across the whole bay area we have traffic issues for the numbers that were talking about now are minimal. Reporter her team designated 87 out of 185 parse sells for lowIncome Housing. She hopes to calm fears about the housing fears. All 87 parcels, she says, wont get developed overnight. What were doing, here are some parse sells, here is some land that has a development potential, that is zoned, that could accommodate additional housing. Reporter but he says dont accommodate additional housing, legalize inlaw or second units. If there is a government mandated number of lowIncome Housing that is necessary, we already got that, it is just underground. If they would fast track the legalization of the second units we would have the numbers that are necessary. Mondays meeting is the countys chance to weigh in. Folks can take a tour of existing Housing Developments and theyll see that it does fit in and most people dont know that it is there in their communities. Thomas also points out that lowIncome Housing doesnt hurt the communitys character. To be clear this does not affect all of marin county. She wanted to make that very cleared. It is only the unincorporated areas of marin county. So lets say you live in san rafael, this does not apply to you. President obama and possible president ial candidate Hillary Clinton were in the bay area. One got rave reviews and the other not so much. Sit down and talk about the style and reviews of these two possible visits. Here we go. Barack obama and Hillary Clinton have been here to the bay area but this time barack obama was on auto pilot and clinton was fired up. She was meeting with executive women, childrens events, doing facebook, google and twitter. Obama flew in and flew out for fast cash and grab, and that was it. What were your observations . I think i share her view except i know theyre booked by the same person. Okay. But it is an interesting is it the publics reaction to this or is it how they are both feeling. Shes fired up to go to run for president and hes feeling im getting hammered left and right. Hes desperately trying to find his groove. At the moment there is absolutely no reason why anybody would want to interact with president barack obama. He was pillared and hammered by the republicans like never before. Theyre talking about impeachment. Hes looking for a friendly place to land. It would help if he didnt shut the media out everywhere he went. We get to hear the old, tired stump speech and get ushered out. Heres a guy desperately trying to find a life safer and youre worried about whether hes talking to the present. He needs to be transparent. At the moment there is nothing to see. Let us go back to ms. Clinton in her run. A little while ago you were talking about her being overexposed, coming around too many times, taking big corporate money for big speeches. The danger if she keeps coming back, but the fact is so far the hunger for Hillary Clinton has not abided in the bay area. I talked with women, they loved her and it was a hit. Hillary clinton is doing what you need to do so you dont suffer from exposure, overexposure and fatigue. That is, every time it is a brand new audience. It is a brand new subject matter. And it is not like Everybody Knows shes here. Only the people she wants to talk to knows shes here. Speaking of who she wants to talk to was there anything to read in the fact they were both here at the same time and they didnt meet . Not even coffee, nothing. I dont think they have each others cell number. Thats the problem. The mayor made an interesting point, when Hillary Clinton come here, she makes a point of mixing with people and changing the setting and environment. When president obama comes in, it is the same thing. Off the plane n the limo, at a highpriced dinner at people you dont get to see and then out of here. She seems to be campaigning. Were not interacting with the public. As we tried to stalk him at the 4 seasons, media trying to get the money out and i figure there has to be some underground tunnel here. You think they would set it up to get you a shot and show human side of the guy walking. Believe me, politics is perception and this is one bit of perception we will battle over. There is another one coming up in San Francisco. Politics. This yellow line in limbo, why leaders of planned parenthood say they need this and want local politicians to step in and help them. Reaping the benefits of the fans. Not the one excited by levi stadium. How businesses around the 49ers new digs are also cashing in. Well be right back. ,,,,,,,, live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. Good morning, you are taking a live look right now at the golden gate bridge. On the right side of your screen you see ambitious folks running the San Francisco