commute seemed to become a bit more challenging as the rain started to fall. no downpour, but enough to make the roads more dangerous than normal. it is hard to say how much rush hour was effected by weather but drivers we met at the flying a gas station who were commuting homing or heading somewhere else were well aware of how to handle themselves. >> it has been a little slick on the road today. i have to say, but it is okay. i'm a native so i'm used to the weather. >> a little slower. the roads are a little slicker. >> doesn't make it any betterment i'm listening to the radio and it is one crash after another. >> how was it getting here? >> slow, nervous. [ laughter ] >> reporter: we heard that a lot today. a lot of people feel others deport get -- forget how to drive in the rain. chp reminds everybody to slow down. live in oakland, i'm john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. >> and you can follow our chief meteorologist bill martin on twitter for the latest on where the rain is. you can also always tell us where you are seeing rain or if you see news happening involveing the weather. just tweet us @ktvu. there is new information in the death of a patient who went missing at the san francisco hospital. the witness they have been looking for has come forward. that witness reportedly saw lynn spaulding lying in a stairwell several days before her body was discovered october 8. the man is a researcher working at the hospital. he came forward last week after seeing fliers that were handed out in hopes of finding her. he has been interviewed by the police. new at 6:00, thieves steal a 150-pound safe from a boys and girls club, and it happened the morning after the most successful fundraiser of the year. the clubs leadsers cannot believe anyone would take money meant for children. as allie rasmus reports, it goes far beyond that cost. >> reporter: it's a place for kid to play and stay safe in west contra costa county. more than 100 children come to the boy and girl club everyday and the director wants to know what kind of person would steal from them. >> i can't imagine that they thought about that. that they had any kind of picture of a kid in their head in doing this. >> reporter: in the early morning hours of november 10, thieves busted the front door of the administrative office and through two locked interior doors to steal a safe hidden in a closet. >> we didn't know they would steal, let alone take the time and effort to carry a 150-pound safe out. >> reporter: the money was from this gala the club had held the night before. >> this was a great fundraiser. we were living so high and then i got that phone call on sunday. >> reporter: the costs go beyond the $6,000 in the safe. they now have to spend money to upgrade security at their 16,000 square foot facility and dyers says his staff has lost a sense of trust. >> we are looking at anything around us and trying to find the club leadingtous who it could be. but we don't know. >> reporter: the contra costa county sheriff's department is investigating. they have not made any arrest. in the meantime, the boys and girls club is offering a $1,000 award for information leading to the return of that safe. allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. the city attorney in san francisco says he will aggressively defend the city's new gun law against an nra lawsuit filed today. the national rifle association is suing the city over the banning of rounds that fire more rounds. they are entitle today enact reasonable gun regulations. san francisco has been one of the nra's top targets for years and i'm proud of the success we have made to protect our sensible gun safety laws. a controversial gun measure has gotten final approval in pleasant hill. the council voted 3/2 to pass new restrictions on gun dealers. new gun shops cannot be located within 150 feet of homes, within 500 feet of a park or adult entertainment site or 5,000 feet of a school or day care center. the rules go into effect in 30 days. dozens of people are demanding answers from san francisco police after a violent clash was caught on camera. they are holding a rally right now. david stevenson is live now on the scene. david? >> reporter: well julie, police are standing guard outside the mission police station, but this has remained a peaceful protest. they have been out here about 40 minutes and the rain has not dampened their energy or anger about what has happened in this neighborhood last friday. >> stop police brutality! stop police brutality! >> reporter: about 50 protests came angry. the clash at the housing complex about two blocks away. cell phone video captured confrontations. police say it began when a 20- year-old resident refused to stop for officers after being spotted illegally bicycling on a sidewalk. tonight some of the residents said they want justice. >> we have to stop what is going on with the police. what they are doing. and we are trying to get this under control with the law and everything. >> the public's trust is everything to us. and so we are going to have a fully transparent investigation. >> reporter: residents marched peacefully through the mission district. police chief did say to us the department has the right to use whatever force is reasonable to overcome resistance. the incident is being looked on internally. and in coming out live here just beyond this taxicab, you can see some of the protesters have taken over one lane of traffic. it has been very peaceful. they are conducting this protest we understand is suppose today go on until at least 7:00. recording live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. san jose and it's police department today approved a pay hike for officers under the deal, officers will get an immediate 4% increase, plus a 2% bonus. next july, officers will get another three and a third percent increase and the july after, another. the new deal restores the pay cut they took in 2010. >> while it is good to get the pay cut back over the next year- and-a-half, i realize that we are six and seven years behind all the other agency ins the bay area. >> wage and benefit issues have started a max exodus in the department. 300 officers have resigned. california's car tax could more than double to fix roads throughout the state. backers have filed a proposed ballot measure to do just that. it could increase the vehicle license fee by an additional 1% over four years. that would raise about $3 billion a year for street repairs and maintenance. backer haves to collect more than 800,000 signature to get it on the ballot,. food truck vendors are getting a break. they can include state taxes in the posted menu price. it doesn't mean the operators are off the hook in paying taxes but they don't have to calculate tax on each transaction which is a hassle for many small businesses. >> this is a way to provide some relief for them carrying out their business. >> the new rule takes effect next july. members of the bart board of directors today called the controversial family leave policy in the new contract a poison pill. ktvu spent today tracking down the board members to get their take on the policies. they are supposed to vote thursday, board members expect to reject the contract because of the family leave clause. the provision was never agreed upon, they say, but union leaders say it was no mistake. a judge has blocked dozens of university of california employees from striking tomorrow. more than 2100 members are set to walk off the job at a one- day strike including radiation therapists and mri technicians. this is video of their last walk out back in may. the state labor board received an injunction to exempt about 50 critical care workers from the strike. the university and the union are at odds over staffing, pay, and benefits. a california based nursing home company will pay $48 million in a settlement over medicare claims. the enson group operates nursing homes in several states. the federal settlement involves claims where they claim ensign turned in false medicare claims more than a decade. the company does not admit wrong doing. preventing another fire storm like this. the uncollected money that could reduce the risk and why people say the system is broken. >> it could lead to fueling the fire. what we saw in 91. a simple cell phone kill switch to protect your personal information is already dead in the water. we will tell you who stopped a major cell phone make fresh offering it. >> i showed you the rainfall at this hour. coming up, i'm using live storm tracker two to monitor how long it will stick around. [ male announcer ] you can change your tomorrow if you do something today. and there's never been a better time because this year, devry university has $45 million dollars in need and merit-based scholarships and grants available to those who qualify. and this degree can make a difference. in 2012, 90% of devry university grads actively seeking employment had careers in their field within 6 months. now is your time. apply by january 6th and find your career success in the bay area. visit devry.edu. >> we have new developments tonight in the kill switch for cell phone thefts. george gascon asked small companies to come up with a way to deactivate stolen phones. but they are refusing an offer by samsung to load the phones with antitheft software. it is concerned about storm tracker risk that hackers could disable someone's phone using that software. new at 6:00, a scathing report says fire safety infections in the oakland hills east bay hills are not being carried out as they should be. >> i have never seen anything like it! >> new rules requiring people to cut back on branches around their homes -- for clearing vegetation. a faulty data base for keeping track of violators and lots of inspectors were taken down the part time. why budget cuts are putting the city at risk of another fire storm. >> reporter: on a rainy gloomy day, wild fire is not on the mind, but ask long time oakland hill residents about 1991. that changes. >> we went to my grandmother's house because we were afraid our house might burn down. >> my god, i have never seen anything like it! >> reporter: she remembers the fire that burned down homes and camed 25 people. the city standard an inspection program to see if homes had defensible space. it continues today. >> if you are not in compliance, they leave you instructions on what you need to do. >> reporter: but oakland city auditor courtney ruby says it is flawed. homes identified by fire inspectors as been noncompliant fell through the cracks and nothing was done. what is more, when the city was forced to clean up a property because a homeowner refused, the city failed to bill that homeowner. >> in 2011, $40,000 of abatement work was done, it was never invoiced to the citizen. in 2012, $130,000 was done in abatement work. it was invoiced but only $7,800 was collected. >> reporter: there is a vicious circle. because money is not being collected from homeowners who have their properties cleared by city. there is not enough money to pay for the program to begin with. the issue of billing homeowners was shifted from one city agency to the fire department two years ago which was ill equipped for the job. oakland's fire chief says these issues are not new and being addressed. despite the report, the homeowners we talked to said they feel safe. >> i have always felt they were on top of things. >> reporter: but all sides agree that money is being lost in this effort to keep fire at bay. in oakland, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. more details on the fire storm. in october of 1991, it started as a grass fire that was not completely extinguished. it reignited the next day. 25 people were killed and more than 3,000 homes destroyed. the disaster brought improved fire systems. as wet weather moves in, crews are working to stabilize the huge rim fire burn site around yosemite national park. they moved loads of straw to act as mulch in areas most vulnerable to erosion and mud slides. most of the $9 million project has been completed. there is about a 10% chance of a winter storm strong enough to cause mud slide that's could potentially threaten bay area drinking supplies. >> an the rain is the big story of the day. >> take a look. this is what it looked like as news chopper 2 flew over the bay area. you can see the rain pelting the camera lens. >> and chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking the rain still. >> let's take a look at what we have. you can see the moisture plume is pretty wide from the north day all the way to the santa cruz mountains. heaviest showers have been showing up in the hills. we have been talking about that. scattered showers will remain in the forecast tonight. heaviest in the hills. indefinitely causing problems for the afternoon or evening commute as you know, even the morning commutes. now the winds have been very light with us. that that is because the dynamics are not there with this system. there is not a lot of upper air support with this so the rainfall accumulations are coming out mostly in the hills. here is the computer model. at 10:00, you see, showers in the south bay. and now we get going for the morning commute, maybe a few showers. and then more scattered showers, some sun comes out tomorrow for a brief time. then we start to clear out very rapidly as we head into our bay area thursday. so, the rain event really between tonight and tomorrow morning with scattered showers after that. forecast, one there. mid and upper 50s in low 60s tomorrow. that is because it is a warm air mass. the warm air holds a lot of water. as it hits the coastal hills we start to see the precipitation. the sun will come out a little bit tomorrow. temperatures will be on the mild side. warm air mass, as we go into the next couple of days so once this thing ends t high pressure kicks in. we will see breezy conditions and then a return to warm temperatures. back into the 60s and the 70s . so a big change from what we have been seeing. this commute a little wet in the north day. tomorrow mornings commute looks wet on the roadways and by tomorrow evening, more rain. there will be breaks in the action and the commute shouldn't be as bad. >> and drive carefully, you said you skidded a little. >> yes, very slick out there. >> thank you bill. well once again, the warriors will be without one of their star players when they hit the court tomorrow night. coach jackson tells us how they plan to battle memphis without steph curry. >> and what we are working on for bay areas news at 7:00. >> frank, the storm watch continues. what experts advise driver to look out for after such a long dry spell and what people who drive for a living want you to know. join us at 7:00 on tv36. >> a federal jury is in san jose is continuing the trial of apple and samsung. a patent infringement trial. apple wants $400 million from samsung, but they say they are inflating the value of their patent. apple attorneys says it is important to take the -- today is a big day. the twitter verse. the word selfie has been named the word of the year. >> all day, ktvu crews have been tweeting their selfies. >> there is ken wayne and bill ericson. you can check out a slide show we put together of all of the ktvu selfies. >> i need longer arms to take selfies. mark is here now. maybe steph curry can take selfies. >> it is just a reminder. we talk about the concussions in the nfl. it can happen in any sport including basketball. last night, a victory for the warriors up in utah, but it came at a price as you will watch steph curry take a nasty fall. and he landed on his head in the fourth quarter last night. his only symptom afterwards was a bad headache, but that has reportedly dispated. he is not going to play against memphis tomorrow night. a team that has beat tennessee warriors ten consecutive times. they are hoping to get andre iguodala to pick up some of the slack. >> one of the reasons we got him was his ability to make plays. his versatility. adds depth. makes guys around him better. so he is a tremendous luxury to have. >> absolutely. meantime, it is big game week here in the bay area. stanford and cal and the cardinal hosting the bears who would like nothing better than to pull off what would be the upset of all time if they can do it. the quarterback has been one of the bright spots. he is a true freshman. he grew up in marin. he is very familiar with what the big game festivities all mean. he wants nothing more than to have the bears pull off a huge stunner down at stanford this weekend. >> no one thinks we are a chance but that is not what we think inside of our team, our family. it is kind of cool, i guess you could say we have nothing the lose and we are going to go in there and fight our butt off. >> they haven't beaten stanford as a matter of fact since 2009 and cal would like to win also, because they have not won a pack 12 game as of yet this year. here is a little something that happened for fun. nuggets, thunder last night. cameron rodriguez made a half court shot between the first and the second quarters. what did it bring him? none other than $20,000! there you go. not bad for the kid. make it a half court shot. >> very cool. >> that is the sporting life. >> all right. thank you. >> one last look at the weather. >> yes, we are talking about the morning commute now. more showers on the morning commute and the afternoon commute as well. i'm back tonight at 10:00 and updateing the forecast. >> all right, and we are always here for you on ktvu.com, on facebook, and on twitter. thanks for joining us. >> be careful driving out there. goodnight. 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