Still potentially on the table . Reporter it is. Thats right. Thats next. If this doesnt work, that could be, as well. , thank you, phil matier in oakland. A recount in Alameda County is called off. This is a story we first told but yesterday. The Alameda CountyTransportation Commission says it will no longer challenge the results from measure b1. The measure which would have have meant billions for transportation projects lost by a razorthin margin. The commission wanted to spend nearly 5,000 per day for a hand recount. Elections officials said the measure probably wouldnt get enough votes. Pesky birds have been a thorn in the sign for barts new extension to silicon valley. And shooing them away has cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Cbs 5 reporter Ann Notarangelo explains saving birds turned out to be a projector much larger than expected. Reporter the bart board of directors is expected to approve the 5 million price tag for overtime and equipment. The cost of either shooing these birds away or protecting the ones that decided to stay. We had a sense of what we were going to get into, but we didnt really understand how the magnitude of it. Reporter who could have imagined that redtailed hawks, house finches and morning doves could be so stubborn. There are prime nesting acres along the pacific flyway and a favorite nesting spot for 500 protected species. During the peak of construction in 2011, it was just i thought we were at war with birds. It was like the movi birds. They were everywhere. Reporter bart is building the warm springs extension near Lake Elizabeth and something had to give, not the birds. One morning dove pair tried 11 times in one day to build its nest. If anybody had an idea we tried it. We tried sprinklers, reflective tape, ribbons, everywhere. We tried what we call air dancers that you see at used car lots and things like that, that are run on compressed air and wave around. Reporter but once a nest had eggs in it the work crews are stopped in their tracks. There was a case where a house finch pair decided to nest in a wheel well on a flatbed trailer loaded with reinforcing steel. That trailer couldnt be moved. Reporter these birds are the ultimate nimb yeah. It cost them 5 million about 17,000 a nest. Its way beyond what you would consider a practical use of, you know, protection and, you know, to the environment. Reporter bart says it would have cost them more if the project had been delayed or if they violated the Wildlife Protection laws and were fined. The bart extension is expected to be completed in 2015. Now, dana, if they continue to pose a problem bart will have to continue to figure out how to pay for the cost of accommodating these birds. When they want to mate and have babies, thats what they do. Theyre stubborn. Reporter very determined. Exactly. Ann notarangelo, thank you. Meanwhile, airport workers in san jose have been given the green light to shoot birds from the runway. The City Council Approved that plan last night. Officials say that birds sucked into airplane engines can cause engine problems and power outages. They hope shooting the birds with either blanks or live bullets will prevent some of those problems. While it was raining this morning, take a look at this. Huge tree came crashing down on a home in San Franciscos russian hill neighborhood. This is on lurmont terrace by lombard street. The 100foot cypress broke through the roof of the master bedroom, missed the homeowner by just a few feet. Four feet closer to my bed and i wouldnt be standing here talking to you right now. So im blessed. And get this. Just two days ago, he moved his bed from under the very spot where the tree crashed through. The tree also ripped down a power line. That wasnt only tree that toppled this morning. This came down on a parked car in San Franciscos richmond district. Fortunately, nobody hurt. But the super saturated ground gave way so easily, the sidewalk was pulled up. A parking lot in burlingame was flooded in rollins between inning gold and david. Flooding there reached the butchers of some of the cars. Taking a look now at our live highdef Doppler Radar just a few little tiny green spots out there not much, but wet weather has moved on. We can expect things to stay dry for the next week or so. The first big sign of the repair work is being seen at that sinkhole in lafayette. The giant boulders are being moved into place. The hole opened during sundays rainstorm on Mountain View drive. Cbs 5s ken bastida on the money being made available to speed up repairs. Hi, ken. Reporter hi, dana. Yeah, they didnt waste anytime out here. They had an Emergency City Council meeting last night and they appropriated a Million Dollars out of the general fund and they went to work on it right away today here on Mountain View drive. Take a look at some of the video we shot earlier, some of the huge rocks they were putting down try to stabilize the channel here. They were scouring out some of the debris and they were trying to just get it to where it wasnt going to get any worse. This giant sinkhole that gave way over the weekend. And they got a lot of that work done. Let me show you back here live what they pulled out of the channel. This is some of the steel that was inside there that they had to cut up. This was once a ninefoot diameter pipe. Its now just scrap. It got torn up in the deluge that came running through lafayette creek. Now, the city manager steven faulk told us this afternoon that that money that he has, he is going to spend on getting a new pipe and getting it fixed. So this morning my City Engineer and i are meeting with teams of local contractors to determine who if anybody has the type of drain pipe that would be appropriate for that creek. And specifically, were looking for sections of pipe that are ten feet in diameter and so its not something that you exactly go to home depot and buy off the shelf. Reporter he has a huge hole to fill here. 80 feet long, 40 feet wide. 15 feet deep. Its not going to happen overnight. The city council realizes that. But they dont like the predictions from some of the Engineering Companies that it could take months. They say step on the gas and get this filled. This Mountain View drive is used by a lot of residents that go up into the hills here around lafayette and they need this roadway back. How long its going to take, nobody can tell you that right now. But they are going to the state of california for disaster money as well to see if they can speed things along. In laugh yet, reporting live from mobile5, in lafayette, ken bastida. Back to you. Thank you. Doesnt really make any sense. Why would you shoot someone on a bike . A nursing home worker gunned down outside of a school. The search for clues in the killing of a cyclist in berkeley. Phones, watches, computers and kindles. The massive criminal operation busted in a bay area city. Over an inch of rain fell throughout the bay area today. Now the day the bay area will dry out as Eyewitness News continues with your pinpoint forecast right here on cbs 5. , sofa. Desk. You know what . Why dont you go get some frozen yogurt. I got this. Youre so sweet. You got this, right . I do got this. Let us get everything off the shelf, and to your home. Well, inside the brewer, theres a giant staircase. And the room is filled with all these different kinds of coffee. Actually, i just press this button. Sofa. Desk. You know what . Why dont you go get some frozen yogurt. I got this. Youre so sweet. You got this, right . I do got this. Let us get everything off the shelf, and to your home. Ring selling stolen computes and cell phones. San three people are in jail accused of being part of a massive crime ring selling stolen computers and cell phones. San Francisco Police say the three people were arrested at an apartment on jones street friday. Inside, a haul of stolen goods. Police say stolen electronics is big business. They are easily sold. They are removable commodities and very affordable. So guard your belongings. Police say the stolen items came from car breakins in oakland and San Francisco. There was even more stuff found in Storage Units and vehicles totaling half a Million Dollars. Detectives believe the three are part of a larger operation. Their investigation is still under way. The disgraced head of the Contra Costa County vice squad pleaded guilty today to five felonies two years after being caught on tape trying to sell stolen drug evidence. 51yearold Norman Wielsch broke down in tears and apologized to his father for bringing disgrace not family name. He was then taken into custody. He was arrested last year during a Justice Department sting along with then concord investigator christopher butler. Their arrests led to a Police Corruption probe in which two other officers were also arrested. Berkeley police are searching for whoever shot and killed a woman as she roder who bicycle home last night around 11 30 near Longfellow Middle School a block from her apartment. Cbs 5 reporter da lin reports. Reporter family and friends are gathering on sacramento street right now at the spot where 50yearold Pamela Mullins was shot and killed. They say she was pretty close to home. In fact, where she lived only about 50 feet away from where i stand right now. Two dozen homicide detectives returned to the crime scene this afternoon to look for more evidence in the killing of Pamela Mullins. They scoured the area around Longfellow Middle School. It happened right here in front of the school. No regard to what they do. Reporter neighbors say they heard people arguing and then one shot shortly before midnight. The first 911 caller didnt know about the shooting. Police say the caller saw mullins bleeding from the head and thought she had fallen off her bicycle. Police later determined she had been shot. It does appear she might have been on the bike, but we are still trying to confirm everything. I still cant believe it. I just cant because. She was really close to me, my girlfriend. Reporter family and friends say mullins was a sweet woman who had just started a new job at a nearby nursing home. She was really nice. She was of a comedian. I cant understand t it. She worked and talked to everybody. Reporter why would someone kill a popular woman in the neighborhood . Her relatives set up this memorial this evening near where police found the body. She had no enemies. She was nice. Everybody loved her. Reporter police dont have a motive in this killing and they dont know if she was targeted. This is berkeleys fourth homicide of the year. The last one in the city back in march. Live in berkeley, im da lin. Cbs 5. Thank you. Other bay area headlines, Oakland Police are trying to piece together what led to four people getting shot. Three people were hit by gunfire near lake merritt around 10 30 last night. Police say it happened after two groups of people got into an argument. An innocent bystander was shot as he walked to a nearby store. Well have to wait for pay plea from the two men accused in a san jose crime spree. A judge has moved the plea hearing for 15yearold Adonis Muldrow wearing green there and 26yearold Jonathan Wilbanks to january 16. They are charged with murder trying to kill a Police Officer and four armed robberies on november 16. Prosecutors want to try both suspects together. Prosecutors say a san jose Police Officer had the right it shoot and kill an armed man earlier this year. He shot at police in january while using his exgirlfriends 11yearold daughter as a human shield. The officer fired back and killed the man. The Santa Clara CountyDistrict Attorneys Office justified the use of deadly force in a 24 page report it just released. The nations busiest port is back in business. This is after an eightday strike. Thousands of workers in los angeles and long beach headed back to the docks this morning. Clerical workers walked off the job last week over outsourcing concerns. The union dock workers then refused to cross the picket lines. The strike ended last night with a tentative contract agreement. Were going to get service and cargo moved throughout this supply chain in the country and get everybody those christmas presents it is estimated the strike cost the u. S. Economy 1 billion a day. All right, roberta gonzales. In for paul deanno, good to see you. Always good to see you, dana and allen. [ laughter ] both of you. I think you guys just allowed me it come in to dry off for a couple of days here after a soaking week. Boy, today did we have plenty of precipitation around the bay area. Good evening, everyone. Lets go ahead to berkeley where today, nearly 9 10ths of an inch of rain fell just today alone so people were out and about with their umbrellas and everybody has been asking, what does this mean for the high sierra . This is our weather camera in the greater lake tahoe area. We did have two feet of snow above 7,000 feet but for the most part high temperatures there today was in the upper 40s. A very warm storm. But right now, its live, its highdef Doppler Radar. Its still picking up some very light precipitation. Primarily around highway 101 for the evening commute. Anywhere from morgan hill all the way into gilroy but thats it. The system is out of here after producing some Copious Amounts of rain today. A third of an inch in san jose. Half inch in sfo, a little more throughout the trivalley. Santa rosa approaching an inch and over an inch in San Francisco. There you have that stat in oakland, as well. Overnight tonight with the blanked of clouds numbers in the 40s and 50s. Well see pockets of fog, as well. Then well start to see the clouds gradually breaking up in the overnight hours leaving us with some areas of fog for tomorrow mornings commute. Otherwise, we will have partly sunny conditions. Wait until that you see seven day forecast. First things first. Pinpointing your neighborhood, 50s beaches. Tomorrow for your thursday, 60s around the peninsula. Jumping up to the low 60s as we swing around to the Santa Clara Valley including willow glen, alum rock and alviso. East of the bay especially well inland topping off at 63, 46 degrees for the warmest locations. Otherwise, 60 in walnut creek. This is similar to what we experienced today as far as our numbers are concerned, 60s in San Francisco and kentfield. The extended forecast, nothing but sunshine and seasonal temperatures each and every day allowing us all to dry out just a bit. And that is indeed is your pinpoint forecast. Thank you so much, roberta. The grocery chain has 19 stores in the bay area. The questionable future for fresh easy. And if you have a problem with your iphone, it might not be your phones fault. Coming up in tonights consumerwatch, the problems traced to one particular carrier. ,,, car horn paying with your smartphone instead of cash. phone rings thats a step forward. With chase quickpay, you can send money directly to anyones checking account. I guess hes a kicker. Again, again oh, no you dont take a step forward and chase what matters. Just two years after arrivin the bay area, the fresh andy Neighborhood Market chain cd be going away. Just two years after arriving in the bay area, the fresh easy market chains could be going away. They are convenient and featuring fresh foods but are losing money. The british owner says its reviewing the business including selling off the stores. There are 19 fresh easy markets in the bay area. Employing about 500 people. Citigroup plans to eliminate more than 11,000 jobs in an effort to cut costs and improve its efficiency. The cuts amount to a 4 cut of the workforce more than half from the Consumer Banking unit. It will also close Bank Branches in the u. S. And internationally. They expect to cut back to save more than 1 billion a year beginning in 2014. A lot of sprint customers are speaking out about a problem with their iphones. As cbs 5 consumerwatch reporter julie watts explains, theyre complaining theyre not getting the service theyre paying for. Reporter if you have sprint iphone 5 and cant access the internet, you have company. The bbb received hundreds of complaints since the iphone 5 was released. Hundreds of sprint iphone 5 users say they are having trouble uploading photos, accessing websites and pretty much using any 3g data. A viewer called the problem to our attention and replaced her iphone twice and when that didnt help she said sprint told her it was a known problem and about a dozen u. S. Cities, and even though she cant access the data she is paying for, sprint wont let her out of her contract. Lawyers say she can sue for breach of contract. Sprint says its investigating. And a warning tonight about a popular baby product. The nap nanny is being recalled following the death of a 4 month old baby. The Consumer Product safety Commission Says infants can fall out or get trapped against the side of the recliner and suffocate. Nap nannies were sold in the u. S. Between 2009 and 2010. And if you bought an early model flat screen tv or flat screen computer monitor you have some money coming