Pam kron 4s jeff bush is live in San Francisco tonight reporter we are here along the embarcadero on howard st. And the rain is coming down. About one minute of goal, taking a look at the video. You can see the dark ominous cloud off to the north of us. Right now, we are experiencing a lighter most miss dieter type of rain shower. People have outjust umbrellas with them. We will stay here on this story in the evening, and moderates in all of the rainfall. I am just push, reporting live from San Francisco kron4 news. Pam this mornings wind. Made it difficult for people trying to fly in and out of San Franciscos international airport. Pam dozens of flights were either delayed or canceled. Due to the high winds. Around 10 this morning. Airport officials were reporting delays anywhere between 30 minutes. Up to three hours. Pam but the cancellations were the more significant problem. Nearly 70flights were canceled today. Pam airport officials are reminding people flying. To check their flight status. Pam and a reminder. For upto the minute pam weather alerts and forecasts in your neighborhood. App. Your number one source for news and weather in the bay area. Pam trapped in a burning car. A man is dead tonight after a crash in alameda county. Grant lodes is here to explain what happened. Pam grant . Grant heres an aerial view of the crash scene on stanley boulevard between valley and isabel avenues near pleasanton. The driver of this honda died. Grant you can see how the guardrail is busted. And beyond that. This silver jetta was also involved. Investigators say the honda made an illegal u turn. Hitting the jetta. Grant the honda burst into flames. The driver of that honda. Who has not been identified. Couldnt get out of the car. And died at the scene. Grant the guy driving the jetta was not hurt. All lanes are back open tonight. Pam a 12 year old boy was riding his bike outside dublin high school. When he was hit by a car. The incident happened around 8 this morning. In the 8 thousand block of village parkway. Pam police say, the Wells Middle School student. Was riding his bike on the sidewalk, and the driver was pulling out of a parking lot. When the collision happened. Pam police say, the driver, a 72year old man, was looking left to check traffic, and did not see the boy when he pulled out. Pam the child was then pinned underneath the car. There were some witnesses bear and students, and adults. Did not realize that he had a child underneath the carpet with the the bill all of the child. The child was responding to the first emergency responders. Pam the boy suffered a broken arm and was taken to the hospital. Charges. Pam Berkeley Police are on heightened alert. After two young women were sexually assaulted just days apart. Kron 4s Maureen Kelly reports. The two cases have not officially been linked by investigators, although there are several disturbing similarities to the cases. Reporter the most recent Sexual Assault happened here just after 11 30 tuesday night, on the 2500 block of benvenue street. And like thursdays attack,,it happened just steps away from peoples park. Reporter that first incident happened just after 9pm near the telegraph. Which borders the park. Reporter in both cases, the victims. Young women in their 20s. At least one a student at ucberkeley. Reporter police are very out few details in order to protect their investigation. But say there are also similarities attacked. In both instances the women behind. Thats why we are saying stay off your cell phones. Avoid wearing earbuds so you can be aware of your surroundings. Reporter female students who live in the area say the news of a second similar assault so close in time and proximity to the first is disturbing. Reporter it makes me sick. I am very scared. One of the things that to worry about. And, i thought this area was safe, it is right next to the dorms. I think, because its berkeley that if they say neighborhood. Reporter nearby residents to try and avoid walking alone at night and stick to well lit areas. Reporter Maureen Kelly kron4 news. Pam police are looking for the gunman responsible for a triple shooting in the east bay. Reporter pam the shooting happened around 7 30 last night. Along parker street. Near san pablo avenue. When officers arrived, they found three men. Suffering from gunshot wounds. Pam the victims were identified as teens from berkeley. Two of the victims suffered serious injuries. And the other victims injuries are not life threatening. Pam anyone with information is asked to call police. Pam the man accused of killing Richmond Police officer gus vegas. Made his First Court Appearance at the Solano County hall of justice in fairfield today. Pam these are photographs taken inside the courtroom of 30 year old robert vega. Vega was arrested last thursday, after allegedly firing the gun that killed officer vegas in his vallejo home. Pam the shooting happened during a domestic confrontation between officer vegass daughter. And the suspect. Charged with murder and are attached to the murder charge, is an enhancement that involves the personal and an additional use of a fire on them resulted in a death. Traditionally, charged with kidnapping. Pam vega was represented by private counsel today. He is being held without bail. Pam at one point. He asked if he could speak. The judge told him no his arraignment was held over to march 2nd. Return to about the punishment for a San Francisco man. Just convicted of illegally possessing a biological toxin in his nob hill apartment. Pam in a plea agreement, Ryan Chamberlain pled guilty to the charges yesterday, which found in his home. Pam in exchange. It was revealed today. Federal prosecutors a half year sentence. The former political consultant was arrested after a short manhunt. And since. Pam if the judge agrees with the sentencing proposal. Chamberlain will get credit for time served. And could be out of prison by summer. Pam sentencing is scheduled for april. Pam next at five. Apple versus the federal government. The Tech Fighting a judges order to help the fbi. Pam coming up. What is at stake. And what apples customer think of the companys stand. Pam plus this soccer field was the center of controversy leading up to the super bowl. Pam coming up. The latest onthe state of the field. And what is happening with the lawsuit filed filed against the city. And as the wet weather pam returns to the bay area. The warning from the federal government tonight. About el nino. Brittany i am keeping a close eye on storm trecker corporate the see another batch is about to head for shore and i will let you know how long it was the clown. That is coming up in my forecast. 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And it needs the information that could be stored in the phone. Pam but apple says, that action t would set a dangerous precedent. Which would threaten the security and privacy of their customers phones. The company is appealing the judges ruling. Pam our tech trends reporter gabe slate joins us now what the f b i is asking of apple. Gabe so the fbi is not technically asking apple to unlock the phone the terrorists phone they have is locked with a pin code on the home screen. Gabe they cant get around that. There is a security setting in iphones when activated that do this. Gabe if you punch in the wrong pin code 10 times it automatically wipes the phone and all the data is gone. The fbi is asking apple to create software or firmware that will turn off that fbi can have unlimited guesses with the pin code. Gabe create it doesnt exist now. So they would be working for the fbi to creat this. Gabe there are over 10,000 possibilities the pin code could be so they are also asking apple to create software that would help them quickly go through all 10,000 posibilities so they can open the phone. Gabe heres more of apples response to this. Gabe gabe apples ceo tim cook wrote an open letter and published it on their website about this issue. In the letter he said gabe the Us Government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create, they have asked us to build a backdoor to the iphone. Gabe cook warned, once created, the technique could be used physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks gabe this is setting the stage for a highstakes legal fight between Silicon Valley and the federal government. This will bounce around appeal courts for now gabe and could potentially end up at the Supreme Court federal Law Enforcement and leading Technology Companies have long been at an impasse about how to balance Digital Privacy for consumers against the responsibility of federal agents and police to investigate crimes or terrorism. Gabe you and me. Regular iphone users gabe well. If apple loses this battle it could mean anyone with iphones could be at risk of Law Enforcement being able to unlock their phone. Gabe one other thing to mention here. The iphone in question belonged to the county. It was his work phone gabe the county gave it to the fbi and gave them permission to do whatever they wanted with it. If this was the terrorists even be talking about this today. Gabe i think thats worth pointing out. If you have a work phone. Your work could give it to the fbi to open it up. Reporter others are worried about the pandoras box that this will open. Reporter 07 when has a cell phone bridge and many support the refusal to help the government. This is unfortunate. But imax apple person provide a total and protection of the users rights. Should protect the consumers right in regard to opening up the phone. This to be something of a walk and we just checked into everyones home. So i am standing behind a couple in their decision. Reporter are lured about the president that this will set if they agree to the judges order prepared. , it will continue. Where does it stop . We needed for this situation. And we needed for that one. And where does the stock to have the government, and can access that information . If this is a matter of a death of hauling by all means, apple said kron4. Apple should come forward. Has to be exceptions made. There has to be ex eptceptions made reporter would give to you right now that is anyones guess of how this will turn out. Live kron 4 news, dan kerman. Pam federal regulators have figured out the calls for a Major Oil Spill occurred. Corot ocean outside of the oil pipeline link to the field. The all american deal, was greater than previously estimated. Bobby more than 140,000 gal. Of crude. Oil washed up on shore. 100 mi. Away on beaches in las angeles. Pam federal emergency officials have a one in four california getting complacent about our relatively calm weather. El nino is not gone. Catherine heenan is here with details on what they are saying. Catherine we have not seen the days of pounding rain in a while but scenes like this may be just all around the corner again. The mud and the National Weather service are doing a kind of traveling road show. Reminding people that el nino sees it is typically jaguar if the march, maybe even beyond. Many for an example theres more potential for flooding. Catherine the also gave an update on how the drought parched state is doing. Say most of several california is lagging behind the northern part of the stake in the mountains. Catherine been assessed that california seems to be more aware of the nl new potential for trouble. In december alone, 27,000 Flood Insurance policies were sold. Bottom line, despite some dry weather this month, have year ago new wave festival falls are expected into march. Catherine pam retina, this is not a big storm is it . Brittany brittany know this is not a big storm creek but we are still tracking this system. Just to the south of san mateo and san rafael, also dealing with even moderate downpours. The east bay is starting to see light showers developing here. As well into the rest of the night we will continue to see more of the rain fog developing. Brittany dan, and the system is just being warmed up. People are deathly chilling with what rose and you want to take your time as you are traveling over the next few hours. There is a heavy downpour that will taper overnight. And when the advisory is expected of to 50 mi. Per hour to read with breezy conditions into tomorrow and as you take a look at the sierra, we do have a web to storm advisory that will save for us until tomorrow noon. That will stay brittany as we go into the next few hours here, we will continue to see on and off rainshowers. Along with a system pushing into the beginning of thursday morning. And another system on friday. I will have more details and timing all out for you in the next forecast. Grant a hospital in l. A. Has paid hackers about 17,000 so that they can regain control over their computer system. Just like a hollywood. Computers inside the hospital have been dark for two weeks. The hospital ceos says that patient care was not affected and there is no evidence that the patient data was compromised. The fbi spokesperson is speaking up. Grant no other details were given other that it was called grant some of them. We will have more details for you. Pam stay tuned. Pam coming up at 6pm i have reaction from the tech sector here in Silicon Valley on all of this. Pam kron fours rob fladeboe brings you up to date. On whats happening with the controversy surrounding a youth soccer park nearby. Reporter the tents and trailers that served as a huge media village for the super bowl are gone now as crews were using fork lifts wednesday to take down whats left of the facility next door to levis stadium. A spokeswoman for the city of santa clara says Jennifer Yamaguma city of santa clara we feel that the project is moving along and we are hoping for a positive outcome. Reporter a judge in january refused to halt the nfls use of the soccer fields as part of a lawsuit brought by the santa clara youth Soccer League, which contends the media use permit. The league insists alternative practice and game fileds provided by the city were inadequate, that its fields were remains in play. But both sides are said to be in discussion spirit with a meeting today. To identify the current condition of the field and relation as to how they were originally before the national slowly came entered the next step is to replace it. Reporter while the city and the Soccer League hash out their differences in an effort to avoid futher litigation, the the fields are to remain in the cleanup is complete next month. In santa clara rob fladeboe kron 4 news return pam rain is moving through the bay area tonight. Making for a wet and slow commute. Brittney is tracking how long this storm will last. Pam next at 5 30. Pam plus, a historic moment along the us mexican border. Why pope francis visited. What has been called the earth. Return to index pam now at 5 30. We are watching the weather tonight. After a long stretch of hot and dry weather. The rain is returning. Pam kron 4 meterologist Brittney Shipp is tracking it all for us tonight. Brittney . Return brittany that is right as we go into the next several hours we will see the rain fall. Coming down. This is widespread feeling just outside of santa rosa stretching to fairfield and the south of san mateo and san jose, moving into parts of walnut creek. Within the last 10 to 15 minutes or so. As we go into the rest of the night, our with speed will stay strong. Brittany up to 21 in livermore. Though it will be a big change from what we saw yesterday. With all of this hearing fall as we go into the rest of tonight. Our heavy a plane full amount will be closer to livermore is stretching down to san jose. Another round of scattered showers in oakland and seven francisco overnight expected. Closer to seven a m. As you are doing up to go to work. Scattered showers. I will have your 7 day forecast when i see you again in another 15 minutes. Pam . Pam just three days until the next round of president ial primaries. Grant is here with the latest from the campaign trail. Grant this saturday, democrats will caucus in nevada. Republicans will vote in South Carolina. A week later, theyll reverse. Republicans making their choice in nevada and democrats in South Carolina. Grant South Carolina matters. In five of the last six elections the winner of the South Carolina primary went on to win the republican nomination. Each of the last three president s obama, bush and clinton all lost New Hampshire but won South Carolina in the year they were first elected. Grant South Carolinas governor nikki haley gave her endorsement today to florida senator marco rubio. Hes in third place in a new monmouth poll that gave donald trump a double digit lead over ted cruz. Cruz unleashed a new attack ad. Life, marriage, religious liberty, the second amendment. We are just one Supreme Court justice from losing them all. Look i am very pro choice. We cannot trust donald trump with these serious decisions. Senator cruz, hell say anything. Grant the ad prompted a cease and desist order from trumps lawyers. And this even in the of frivolous lawsuits, this takes the encourage you, if you want to file a lawsuit, challenging this ad, claiming defamation. File the lawsuit. Grant ben carson. Who has dropped 21 points in South Carolina, says he has the money and the will to keep going. I am not getting out. I am going on to nevada. There is no question about that. Grant on the democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are heading into this weekends nevada caucuses in a dead heat. Sanders hoping to build on his big win in New Hampshire. Everything in my political gut tells me we have the momentum here in this state. Grant clinton, losing her voice, but not her enthusiasm. We are going to go out and convince people to caucus on saturday. Then we are going on to South Carolina. Then we are going on to the march states, then we are going to wrap up the nomination and then we are going to win this election. Return to grant the six republicans are meeting in a town hall debate tonight. We will have the highlights on kron four news at eight. Pam guns will be allowed in classrooms at the university of texas at austin next school year. Under guidelines issued wednesday. School president Gregory Fenves reluctantly approved guidelines that comply with a state law. Pam the law allows concealed handgun license holders. To bring their weapons into classrooms. He says, he does not believe handguns belong on campus. But state law requires public universities to allow the handguns beginning august first. He called the decision the greatest challenge of his presidency to date. Return pam pope francis has wrapped up his 5day visit to mexico with a visit to juarez. It is an area that has been described as the most dangerous place on earth. Pam catherine is here with details on the popes day. Which included a stop at a notorious prison. Return to catherine it was also a day that included a lot of emotion. With the pope telling mexican prisoners to look to the future and believe their lives can change. Catherine he was talking to 700 inmates. Who seemed happy to see him. Later some were in tears as he told them not to dwell on the sorrow and sin that got them behind bars in the first place. But to write a new story and move forward. catherine but people are still talking about how the pope got pretty emotional himself in a different way. Catherine tuesday he started to fall over when someone pulled on his robes. Knocking him onto a child in a wheelchair. Catherine the pope got angry scolding and shouting telling some of the crowd not to be selfish its the first time anyone can remember him losing his cool in public. Catherine a public address announcer then began urging the crowd to stay calm. Return to pam it appears noone is immune to a laser attack. Even a plane carrying the pope. In a statement wednesday, the Italian Airline alitalia said, the crew on the plane flying pope francis to mexico city friday. Noticed a laser beam, as the pontiffs plane prepared to touch down. Pam Officials Say, the plane landed safely and no crew members or passengers were injured. The vatican said it did not know about lasers pointed at the aircraft. Until later. Pam the rain has returned to the bay area. And it is snowing in the sierra. Pam we will have the latest on the conditions getting up to the mountains. Ahead at 5 45. Pam and a woman pulls a gun on cut. A look at the before and after pictures. Next. Return pam a Southern California woman faces attempted murder charges. Pam after police say she tried to shoot her a barber because she was unhappy with her haircut. From our partners at cnn. Heres reporter misha drono. Reporter heres a look at the haircut in question. 29 year old adrian swain is facing attempted premeditated murder with a firearm after she allegedly tried to kill a barber reporter she was apparently unhappy with the cut. She walked in a said look what you did to my hair reporter it happened last wedenesday morning. Reporter swain got h er haircut at the 619 barbershop inheres what her hair looked like before. Reporter Manny Montero seen here gave her the cut and shaved design a style hes known for. According to the prosecution she spent a substantial mount of time i the shop. Reporter and seemed happy. But then returned 20 minutes later with a loaded gun. Its pretty bizarre case. Shes upset about the haircut and points a gun at the barber and pulls the trigger three times. The handgun was loaded. But didnt fire. Reporter the prosecutions best guess is she didnt wrack the she was really lucky she pulled the trigger three times she absolutely and the intent to hurt or kill this person that what could have happened so we are very lucky that gun didnt work. Reporter that was reporter misha dibono. Pam the defendant. Adrain swain remains in jail. On 750 thousand dollars bail. Whole foods may be adding tattoo parlors to its new whole foods plans to open its first 365 stores later this year. Pam the new brand of Grocery Stores will focus on millennials and include other shops to break up the Grocery Store experience. Pam its website suggests those stores which will be could include anything from parlors. The company says each different 365 store could have a different mix of announcer through sunday at sleep trains president s day sale, save up to 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic, get three years interestfree financing on tempurpedic, plus sameday delivery. Hurry sleep trains president s day sale ends sunday. Pam its a disorder the government estimates impacts three million americans. But when it comes to autism its a topic you rarely hear on the president ial campaign trail. Pam but as kron 4s National CorrespondentMark Meredith explains. Some autism advocates and experts say that needs to change now. Reporter when it comes to a president ial campaign theres no shortage of topics to talk about. But one issue you dont hear often about is one that millions of people like him. Its very easy to under estimate us when looking at autistic children, reporter living with autism john is standing up for the Autistic Community and encouraging candidates on both sides to reach out to a voting block unlike any other in the country. I think its the duty of the candidates, to seek us out, to suggest that we have to sell ourselves to the candidates, really i dont think that should be so reporter the cdc estimates one in sixty eight children are born with some form of autism a disorder which can leave people with social, communication, and behavioral challenges. Reporter but its because the disorder can impact people in very differnet ways authors john donvan and caren zucker say its hard to get candidates to talk about austism. I think we will, once the race gets tighter, when theres just two candidates because hillary has put it out there on the table reporter on Hillary Clintons Campaign Website the former secretary of state urges more studies, resources, and screening for autism. Reporter for some republicans though debate shifts to the causes of autism and whether certain vaccines play any role. Reporter as for voters like john its not ennough to have candidates just talk about autism. Instead its about keeping special needs people involved. Its a big deal for us, what are the candidates going to do to bring us into the conversation, and thats done by bringing in austic reporter its not just about autism of course disability and more candidates accountable to their issues because they do have such a large influence. Reporter for instance in South Carolina the next state to vote its estimated more than 600 thousand people live with some form of a disability. Reporter reporting in washignton, im Mark Meredith. Pam a ski week trip to tahoe tonight. Could be a long haul. Grant is here with a live report from chp truckee. Pam but first. What it looks like on the slopes. Grant fresh video of fresh powder. This is northstar. Return to index of stories. Grant what can you tell us about road conditions, officer mann. We have only seen one accident here. People are making sure that they slowed down because of the roadway condition. Grant we will see highway 503 rose to look slick but it looks like this note was not sticking to the roadways. And should they retreated in advance of this storm. Are you expecting things to get worse this evening and overnight . Yes, we absolutely are. At the lotus flower we are seeing two to 3 in. Per hour through which is an extreme slow go especially in the hours of midnight. We are expecting to see two to 3 in. Per hour grant this is a legitimate storm and i know that the wind has been a factor creek are you worried about what it out condition . Will people be able to drive safely unless it first with 5 mi. Per hour . Yes, when that is always a concern for us. What will happen is that the snowfall rates increases the flex your getting large. And then you throw and the wind factor and visibility. You have to have to hold the traffic deck president closed down. Hold traffic back the weekend was really busy with a three day weekend. And in a cramped up, a good plant at north star says he he traffic has been outstanding. Says the ski traffic has been outstanding. Grant argued that excited about telling people what is long on our behalf process . Grant are you excited is just a natural process is just the way i am. Pam pam brittany is here with an extended look a what is going on in the sierra. Brittany right now what lake tahoe temperatures are still too warm for the snow to stick. As we go into the rest of tonight it will increase and a lot more snow will take place three. Can see anywhere from wanted to the of snow. We are seeing more of a mix. And tomorrow morning. Brittany you receive a purple here which means close to 2 ft. Of snow. So the Higher Elevations are expecting one to 2 ft. Of snow. The former trucker for issuing a set play ball is coming down. Even moderate showers. That rain showers are coming down. And even moderate showers in certain locations. Brittany steady rain will come down between 7 00, it is a clock in 9 00. It looks like some of the rainfall will intensified when you see the yellow and orange which means more of a heavier rain shower. It livermore every month just outside of fairfield. Closer to 9 00 tonight. On route 11 00 it will move out of our wage to the east of livermore. By 7 00 a. M. , if you are closer to napa or santa rosa you are dealing with light showers. Things will start to clear a path for us through with mostly cloudy skies dry out a bit. Brittany you will see another weather disturbance moved in on friday and that is the next system that we will start to track. But between one to 4 00. That we are dealing with a that would change from what we have seen corporate no 70s are on the map. The warm temperatures are out of here and we are dealing with low 60s. Brittany 1 notified thursday, same thing. Partly sunny, cloudy conditions are expected on saturday and sunday and next week, we are back into the 70s. Brittany this is what to expect if you are expected to go up to the Higher Elevations. For today, squaw valley with a base of 111 in. Home would with a base of 101 in. Pam . Pam this years top dog has been crowded. Next we see what it takes to become westminsters best in show. Return to index of pam the top dog has been crowned. A big moment last night for california journey at the westminster in new york. Pam and what a ride for this 3 year old german shorthair pointer, who beat out about 3000 of his fellow dawgs. The insiders keltie was with the proud pooch today, and has more from the big apple. Death row pt 2ots reporter after being some rough competition. He was the no. 1 short here last year. Short hair reporter phil like some of these dogs bit better blow of beenouts the hollywood celebrities. Have to make them look gorgeous before they go and theyre prepared. Reporter is a proper way. To show dogs. I want to love all of the ducks. But there are some weird looking box. But no, they are all wonderful above and head and pet lovers. Reporter are going to have so much more tonight at the show looking at that sheet, c. J. Looking at that cutie, cj pam a startling look at safety on our highways. What is making the road more deadly . The news continues is making the road more deadly . The news continues in 70 seconds. Wake up those eggs with glorious spam see what spam can do. At spam. Com pam rain and strong winds moving through the area right now. This will affect your evening commute. More snow in the sierra with a winter storm warning until tomorrow pam wet, windy weather is starting to pick up in the east bay. That could lead to problems out there on the roads. Pam kron 4s Charles Clifford is live along i80 in berkeley. Pam even though the sun has been shining for most of the last couple of weeks. Brittany we noticed another batch is not too far behind this system. We are tracking the heaviest rain bill will be among the 8 00 and 9 00 hour. Stretching all the way to the south of south francisco and the north of our era. Producing, and have of an inch for some locations and to three fourths of an inch for others. Brittany same thing by 9 00 p. M. , and temperatures will drop to the mid 50s by 10 00 p. M. For it still, another round of filing false threat and windy conditions by 10 00 p. M. Some of the heaviest showers will come out and the east bay, had also livermore. I would rate down hour by hour coming up in just a few minutes. Pam . Pam kron4 Charles Clifford is live at interstate 580 m berkeley tonight. How is it looking out there charles . Reporter is breezy spirit out on the roadways things are the same through normal commute. But to receive the clouds moving interest the knicks looked up the video from earlier today. And Berkeley Hills 5 4 00 this up and of the Biggest Issue being the wind. Very gusty and very greasy creek the rain, did not move in and until about 5 00 this evening on the uc berkeley campus. People are breaking out with their umbrellas. Reporter traffic is bad as some of the normal size. 5580. It is slow going. But there have not been any heavier rain of this afternoon. For the moment, however, that will change. It seems like the showers are starting to pick up a little bit. And the east bay, a Charles Clifford kron 4 news. Pam fema and the National Weather service have a new warning for californians. Catherine heenan is here to explain. Catherine el nino made a big splash in the bay area and beyond. And then things eased off. But fema wants californians to remember that its not over. Catherine an el nino season typically runs from january through march if not beyond. Meaning we have the potential for more heavy rainfall for weeks to come. Catherine of course thats great news for a droughtparched state at least to a point. But fema wants people to have a plan in case of more californians should consider buying Flood Insurance. I think that is really important that there are no areas that are not noticed low risk 3 theyre either low risk, this list for high miss gast as high risk. Those are and lowest the good news is that the policy cant be as low as about 150 per year. So it does not mean that it will be this absorbentfee. Catherine people seem to be listening. Catherine the number of californians snapping up Flood Insurance is going way up. Since the end of august more than 55thousand new policies have been written. Catherine thats a 25 percent increase. Catherine for uptothe minute weather alerts and forecasts in your neighborhood. Download the kron 4 mobile app. Pam your number one source for news and weather in the bay area. Female berkeley residents are on edge tonight after two women were sexually assaulted just blocks apart. Pam both attacks happening in less than a week. And both just steps away from peoples park. Pam the first assault took place last thursday night on the 2500 block of haste. The second happened last night, on the 2500 block of benvenue street. Pam kron4s Maureen Kelly talked to students and police who are concerned about the similarities between the two incidents. Reporter police say both attacks involved women in their early 20s walking alone near peoples park. After dark. The first happening around 9pm. The second after 11 30p reporter the male assailant in both incidents, grabbed the victims from behind before sexually assaulting them. Reporter police are releasing few other details. And so far are not saying the two attacks are linked. But the Public Information officer says investigators are looking closely at both cases because they happened so near each other. In both time and proximity. Reporter at least one victim is a uc berkeley student. Other female students i talked to say they either already take precautions when out at night. Or are considering it. This can be concerning crude that there is someone targeting women. For this kind of accurate so we want to make sure that if that is appalling that we do have the right to affirmation. To put out to the community. We are taking time to review it and make sure that if we do find a connection that we will share that with the community. I try not to go outside when a hit 60 hampered we live in to other know, between france if we are going somewhere later in the Evening Creek i am thinking about getting some pepper spray, or a gun. Reporter police are also advising residents to avoid staring at their Smart Devices while walking at night. And keeping at least one ear free of headphones. So to be better Maureen Kelly kron4 news. Pam police this morning continue to investigate a shooting that sent three people to the hospital tuesday night in berkeley. Reporter officers responded at 7 35 p. M. To multiple 911 calls about a shooting that occurred in the 1100 block of parker street. Grant responding officers located three males suffering from gunshot wounds. The victims were identified as 16, 18 and 19yearolds from berkeley. Grant police said the 16 and 18yearolds suffered serious injuries, and the 19yearold suffered an injury that was not life threatening. All three suspects were transported to the hospital for treatment. I heard someone screaming outside industry. Really bad. Outside in the street pam new at six. Pam a man is recovering tonight after he was shot on highway 242 in concord. It happened around 730 last night. Police say a man showed up to the hospital with a gunshot wound. Pam cops believe the shooting happened on northbound 242. Pam his injuries are not expected to be life threatening. The suspects are still on the loose pam we will have a live report on this story tonight on kron 4 news at 11 00 pam the other big story today. Apple taking the fight to the feds. The cupertinobased Company Announced it will not help investigators break into the iphone of one of the San Bernardino killers. Pam yesterday. A california judged ordered apple to help the fbi get into syed farooks phone. The phone is in the custody of the feds. But its locked with a passcode they cant penetrate. Pam a letter signed by apple ceo tim cook warns that complying with the order would entail building a backdoor to the iphone, creating something we create. Pam tech experts we talked to applaud the move by apple, saying the judges ruling could have far reaching consequences beyond syed farooks phone. Our tech reporter gabe slate joins to explain why. Gabe . Gabe apple and Silicon Valley say this is about consumer privacey. The government and Law Enforcement say this is about National Security and public safety. Gabe for a highstakes legal fight between Silicon Valley and the federal government. Gabe i caught up with erica sandberg. She is plugged into the tech scene here. Gabe i asked her what has been the reaction today in the tech sector to all this. If they are forced to open upper it can make you feel very uneasy. And no one wants that. And certainly, apple was that and no one wants this. No one. So everyone is panicking to see what can we do to stop this process from going on. Gabe and today politicians are sounding off on this. This could become an issue in the ongoing president ial campaign. Ted cruz, marco rubio, and trump all went public today saying apple should unlock the phone for the fbi. Gabe and here is what the white house said and senator feinstein. This is a much more specific request to the department of justice. I believe as a government, we have ever responsibility and duty to see that apple provides that information. Gabe apple has clearly drawn a line in the sand when it comes to helping the government crack its code almost everyone has a cell phone, so todays news of the tech giant fighting back. Could impact you. Pam gabe thank you. Grandfather. Pam plus, a disturbing new figures showing how dangerous the worlds work and 2015. And, the super bowl is over, now approves are hard at work repairing a south bay soccer field and a are hard at work repairing a south bay soccer field and a he heeded. 00 president s day sale ends sunday. s pam the man accused of killing Richmond Police officer gus vegas made his First Court Appearance at the Solano Fairfield today. Its a story that weve been following since it broke on last thursday. Pam at least one Family Member for both sides attended the scheduled arraignment. Pam and so was kron 4s Haaziq Madyun. Video recording was not allowed but the judge did allow haaziq to take still photos. Reporter you are looking at photos of 30yearold robert vega taken inside a courtroom here at the Solano County court for an arraignment on charges connected to last thursdays shooting death of Richmond Police officer gus vegas, who was his sons grandfather. Reporter at one point robert vega turned around with an intense look on his face and scanned the courtroom. Not sure who he was looking for . In the audience was the daughter of the victim on one side of the court room. On the otherside was robert vegas sister. Both declined to speak to reporters. Reporter this is video of the victims daughter leaving the court house. Solano county deputy d. A. Eric charm breaks down charges against the accused cop killer he is charged with murder and attached to that murder charge is an enhancement and intentional use of a firearm, that resulted in a charge of kidnapping the suspect has been part of the family for quite a while reporter Richmond Police officer felix tan says that is why the vegas family does not the man who killed a husband and father of 10 children the vegas family, their heart is so big, theyre so loving, i dont think there is hate out there, there is just a lot of forgiveness so far, they are trying to process this whole situation, this whole tragic incident reporter vega was represented by away he asked the judge. Can i speak . The judge told him no his arraignment was held over to the first week of march. In fairfield Haaziq Madyun kron4news. Pam a 21yearold man has been charged with murder for the father Isaiah Bostic was arrested friday. After police found his father. Teman san leandro apartment. Pam teman was a pastor at a menlo park church. Pam Police Received a call around fivethirty friday morning. From a neighbor reporting sounds of a struggle. Pam Officials Say when officers arrived. Isaiah had blood on his hands and clothes. He was arraigned earlier this afternoon. And remains in jail. On no bail. Pam a 12yearold boy is recoving in the hospital tonight. After being hit by a car. The incident happened around 8this morning. Outside dublin high school. Located in the 8thousand block of village parkway. Grant the driver but cannot be identified cannot get out of the car. The driver of the other vehicle not heard. And tonight, the winds are bin. Are back open. Pam police say. The Wells Middle School student. Was riding his bike on the sidewalk. And the driver was pulling out of a parking lot. When the collsion happened. Pam when First Responders arrived they found the child. Trapped under the car. Pam the boy suffered a broken arm and was taken to the hospital. The driver will not face any charges. Pam new at six. The final numbers are still coming in but 2015 was a very bad year for traffic deaths in the u. S. Pam catherine is here with a report from the National Safety council. R catherine the numbers on road deaths and injures are way up. More than 38thousand people were killed on u. S. Roads last year. Catherine and more than 4million people seriously injured. Those are preliminary estimates but already that amounts to 2015 being the deadliest driving year since 2008. Catherine traffic deaths were up 8 percent the biggest yeartoyear percentage increasea half century. In a half century. Catherine the National Safety council says its probably because of lower gas prices, a better economy. And lower unemployment. With driving more affordable people on the road. Pam now to the weather. Wet roads in some parts of the bay area as rain returns to the region. Heres a live look at our embarcadero cam in San Francisco. Pam so. How long will this wet weather stick around . Brittney shipp is back with the forecast. Brittney . Brittany rain and strong winds moving through the area right now. This will affect your evening commute. More snow in the sierra with a winter storm warning until tomorrow at noon. Brittany only are we dealing with a little bit of rain fall closer to the north bay and santa rosa. In walnut creek we are dealing with moderate downpours spirit and sell leandro. For the rest of tonight we will continue to see heavier rainfall especially by nine or 2 00 tonight. We are dealing with heavier rainfall by Boulder Creek and part of the south bay. Brittany you can see rainfall or raindrops here on our lens. You can see, the latest batch pushing and by the last 20 to 30 minutes or sell, and two San Francisco. He will continue to see more through the rest of tonight. The overnight hours, it will taper off and we will get a break. Brittany 56 degrees, with a mix of planning and windy conditions by 7 00. Continuously through to 10 00 mainly, and the 50s. It was a lot cooler to theyve done what we saw yesterday and the day before with recordbreaking highs. Brittany is it when the advisory in effect until 7 00 p. M. , closer to 50 mi. Per hour. And not only for the bay hour. Not only for the bay area. Breezy conditions for tomorrow morning. And a fear of snow and went to form an advisory for new to marleau careeradvisory for noon tomorrow. Brittany the heaviest tonight, we are starting to see some of the rain switch over to all snow as temperatures began to drop. And low visibility. I will have more and the 7 day forecast at the end of the show. Pam okay, brittany. Pam the super bowl is over and back to normal, but there is more work to be done. This is the santa clara youth Soccer League park next door to the stadium, which was used by the n. F. L. For a media center. Crews are busy restoring the fields, which were damaged by the many tents and trailers. Pam a judge refused to stop the media center as part of a lawsuit brought by the Soccer League and now discussions areto avoid further litigation and restore the fields. The city provided alternative facilities for the youth Soccer League before and after the super bowl but it maintains they were inadequate. Despite assurances its fields will be restored, a spokesman tells kron 4 its lawsuit is still very much in play. The owner has 7 days to claim the animal. We are working on some leads, but nothing firm at this point. If the owner comes forward, they can relinquish ownership to the city and pay a fee or they can claim it and pay all of the medical expenses to date. Pam coming up next time is running out for valentines owner to come forth. Pam San Francisco state on students using hoverboards. The Housing Departments spring 2016 terms and conditions. Are banning any use of the self balancing devices. Pam due to recent safety concerns. The Housing Department will not allow them. In order to prevent potential fire risks. Pam the republican president ial candidates are set for one last chance pam baseball is back. Almost gary is next with sports these are the hands that build the machines, the machines that sort, stack and seal. These are the hands that keep private information private. These are the hands of pitney bowes, the craftsmen of commerce. These are the hands that dig for opportunity, identify patterns, and uncover risk. These are the hands of pitney bowes, the craftsmen of commerce. Reporter nbc debate has been a very windy day in a month oftouch on wednesday endeavor Berkeley Hills. It did not start planning and to about 5 00 in the evening. People had to bring out their umbrellas for the first time in weeks. Reporter the rainfall so far has not been a factor. As we head into the evening hours and could be a problem for a writ for the east bay reporter both victims are women and the early 20s who worked ruck from behind by the assailant. At least one victim is a ucberkeley student. They have not so far when these two crimes. Although they have seven blocks from another and must then a week apart. Marring kelly, kron 4 news. Reporter apple must help the government break into the cell phone of the terrorist tricks. There is a total invasion of privacy. If they start to do that what else would take x 4 . Ask for . I am surprised that the government does not have the capability to do that already . Reporter the agreement against the man accused of killing Richmond Police officer prepared was charged with murder and attest to the murder charge is the enhancement of involving personal and the intentional use of a fire arm that was resulted in death. Initially, charged with kidnapping. Haazig madyun kron 4 news. Reporter dispute over the soccer fields here at the same local stadium. The super bowl is still being torn down. Try to stop the media center, the league in assists the field are now damage from the super bowl activities spirit and the field is in adequate for use. Other litigation as the National Football league will contain control of the field until late march. Pam to make their cases to a tv audience before carolina primary. Pam Catherine Heenan is here with the latest on whats happening there tonight. Pam happening now the first of two town halls in South Carolina. Pam tonight features ben carson, ted cruz and marco rubio. Pam tomorrow night well hear from jeb bush, john kasich and donald trump. Catherine its happening as a new National Poll shows cruz ahead of trump for the first time. Although trump was Still Holding a big lead among likely South Carolina primary voters. Catherine the town hall set up which means the cabinet are getting their questions right now from the audience. One of the Big Questions is the privacy dispute between the fbi and apple. I think that apple and a lot of people do not necessarily trust the government these days. And, there is probably very good reason for people not to trust the government. But we are going to have to get over that because right now we are faced with tremendous threat and individuals of radical g hottest who want to destroy us. Has to be a way to deal with this situation and protect american spirit of provide Law Enforcement information they require. Catherine scarecrows is bearing down and talk to some hampered and this missing rubio ideals. Pam rain and strong winds moving through the area right now. This will affect your evening commute. More snow in the sierra with a winter storm warning until tomorrow brittany look at the side always wind. It is definitely a rough commute home for a lot of people. Throughout the bay with this wind and rain fall and continuing into the next couple of hours. Look at our store on trochophore to see how the plane fall looks like. Going into the rest of tonight. We will expect another few hours of flying showers. Few hours of rain showers. Brittany just outside of livermore and concord. This is what to expect we will tie it out over the next few hours as in sissified as it moved inland. Just outside of hayward and fairfield. By 11 00 we will see some shifting off to the east to read a little bit of a clearing and tapering. We are still dealing with a few on and off scattered showers. Also, as we go in to start another whether this server is pushing through between 1 and 4 00 p. M. We are also dealing with a strong wind speed and Half Moon Bay and south bay near san jose. For brittany to borrow to purchase will say in the 60s. And was to close the average temperatures. We will start to one back up next week. Not just for this week in heading into this weekjust enough for just this week and having to next week. But, january was the warmest month ever occurred and we had nine days of recordbreaking temperatures. Brittany napa, the last unusual warm temperatures on record as well. Pam residents of the last mission and we count course as they tell the Surgeon General of the poisoned water has affected them. This just in to the kron 4 newsroom. Grant about 27 people are without power. Supposedly, looking at the golden gate bridge, the camera is filled with rain. But the people try to get all round and the wind barack fastest the when divisor is still in effect until later tonight. Grant 20,000 people are without power. A 4200 in the south bay s c h p knapp but just to give that power lies far down in the deer park area. Silverado trail and Glass Mountain road are closed right now about 29 says please take 29 as the alternate route. The high wind is expected to continue overnight and into tomato. The wind advisory against at 7 00. Pam outrage. Illness. But no solution for to flintslead levels far above the the city. To listen to residents and work on a solution. Pam meantime. A new report reveals that flint paid top dollar for dirty water. As Kim Hutcherson reports. Now a state agency is being investigated. Reporter Flint Residents line up to how the citys poisoned has affected them. Ive lost two unborn babies. I was pregnant with twins and i lost them back in july of 2015 due to the lead. Reporter doctor vivek murthy has been investigating lead contamination in flints water supply. Weve got to do a lot more where the water is safe for everyone to drink from the faucets reporter hundreds of people showed up at a separate meeting about class action lawsuits so many that some were turned away. Reporter more Horror Stories were recounted there. Im looking for them to help me because i done broke out all of this, all over my chest, swole up, cant breath reporter Governor Rick Snyder admitted that michigans Health Department is under review. For failing to alert the public about a legionnaires outbreak. But snyder blamed at least part of the problem on the federal government they failed to do a lot of things in this process. Im not going to spend time on their issue. I think that will come out as time passes. butt to they still havent fully acknowledged all their issues. Reporter meanwhile, a National Study released tuesday found that even though Flint Residents were being supply. They still paid some of the highest water ratesim Kim Hutcherson reporting. Pam dealey has teamed reductions to all of these boards of phoenician point he is coming up male announcer its now time for gary radnich with sports gary football has come and gone. Now we look for to baseball season. Pitchers and catchers are rife in arizona today pericope that is Brandon Crawford with long hair and a new contract. Gary with a new 90 million contract, right behind Madison Bumgarner and the rotation prepared. It is goldstein. No rest until the and it is goal time there is a lot of excitement. With a shock of being a world champion. With a chance offering training spring training you want to have hope that you can do something exciting. Gary many many preseason polls the giants are the favorite to win. Gary car was on the radio this morning joking about the three point shooting contest. He was rooting against the current spiritsteph curry i was hoping for the execs opposite. And that is how it worked out. I like them to trade off from one year to the next appeared that is a pretty good sign. Gary in sacramento, the nba teams will play in a new facility. Kings gary the great tiffany will be there. And, young mc gary i will tell you, pam. Vanilla ice bring up a great memory gary vanilla ice was hung over. Up 20 stories over the railing by suge knight. Gary he provided the maters tothe masters to suge knight and lived. Gary Manny Pacquaio loses his nike endorsement due to his negative remarks towards the Lgbt Community. Gary pacquaio compared to the Lgbt Community to animals. Within hours of expressing his personal beliefs in a Filipino Television station earlier this week pacquaio apologized on social media via twitter. Gary according to nike the company had to drop him due to affecting a wide variety of nike consumers gary Dennis Whiteman 20 game held up today suspended by the leak occurred due to hitting the official last month. The referee was hit by a full beard and run by the brother of the player it hit him in the worst place to read again, but man is still feeling better at this hour. But again, the brother was ejected out of the game. From the arean gary from the arena four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth [train horn blares] to the continent. A new nation. Announcer president s day may be over, but the savings go on at sleep train. Through sunday at sleep trains president s day sale save up to 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic, get three years interestfree financing on tempurpedic, plus sameday delivery, and sleep trains love your mattress guarantee. Hurry sleep trains president s day sale ends sunday. Your ticket to a better nights sleep pam we are back deck, 4 news at 8 00 and there is blame to tell you about as we head into the evening hours. Plus, is wendy tonight as it has been for most of the day today. Brittany as we go into the rest of tonight we will have reconditions tomorrow morning sticking around for it. Down to santa rosa and san jose, and livermore. The least of around 9 00 or 10 00 tonight as it pushes off to the east of our area. The insider, counting down the biggest stories tracking today. Number one, is kanye cracking up . Reports of an snl tantrum. Bizarre twitter rant. Is this ego or signs of a breakdown . That perfect psychiatric storm. Then the shocking suicide of a bachelor contestant. Lex mcallisters former suitor mourns her loss. And number three, sir paul mcctnar gets denied at tygas grammy party. How vip do you have to get . Why one of the beatles wasnt allowed inside. And a story thats gone to the dogs. Inside the making of a champ. Back stage of the westminster dog show. Best in show. German short haired pointer. And we get pampered with the winner this is the best shoot of my life. Better than the oscars, right here. Now hollywood from the inside out. The insider together with yahoo . Ronda rousey Sports Illustrated cover model famous worldwide is confessing that losing her ufc championship in november brought her to the brink of suicide. We are going to go inside her darkest moments in just a few minutes. But were kicking things off with a number one story we are tracking today. Is kanye west cracking u his twitter rant, taylor attack and bizarre behavior fuelled gossip sites, latenight parodies. Now we are getting word snl melt down. And even more erratic outbursts. Is this a narcissistic call for attention or kanyes desperate cry for help