police officer who kept it. >> it's been submitted to our lab. they are going to study it and examine it for all forensics, including serks rology and dna and hair samples. >> reporter: simpson was acquitted of the 1994 stabbing deaths of his ex-wife, nicole brown simpson, and her friend ron goldman. what became of the murder weapon has been a mystery for decades. >> i was involved way back then. more than a dozen knives that were found in the area, none of them matched up with o.j. and i think one has to be careful that this can just be another red herring. >> reporter: some is legal analysts are expressing doubts about this latest find, and they point out simpson cannot be tried again because of double jeopardy protections. >> i'm going to think at this point this knife finding is something that is just a hoax, in my opinion. i mean, why now? why this knife? >> legally it's insignificant because he cannot be retried. so it wouldn't be admissible in a court of law. >> reporter: police are looking into whether criminal charges could be filed against the ex officer who held on to the knife. but internal administrative charges are unlikely since the officer is now retired. in los angeles, jonathan hunt, fox news. and coming up tonight at 5:30 we will talk with oakland attorney john burris. he was the lady legal analyst during the o.j. simpson trial covering it extensively. now to the series of storms moving into the bay area. we experienced some heavy downpours in between showers. these are pictures from lake merritt in oakland during heavy rain. most people we sod umbrellas out, but there were a few trying to dodge the raindrops. this was just the first round of more wet weather to come. chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking it all. >> that's right, heather, it's rang out there. significant rainfall today on day when the models weren't really predicting a heck of a lot of rain. some areas got over half an inch of rain. what i'm getting at here, it's an extremely moist boundary layer where we're experiencing this. all the subtropical moisture bodes well for rainfall accumulations for saturday's weather system which could be the strongest storm we've seen all year, believe it or not. certainly in 2016, but i mean all season. the jet stream is set up in lower latitude position. we've got storms coming in all the way from past the date line still as thousands of miles of moisture stream on shore now. it all gets in here. the moisture is continuing to flow in. the main trigger gets here tomorrow late afternoon. the main trigger being an upper level low pressure system with a cold front. there will be dynamics. today there were very little light dynamics and we got real rain. tomorrow there's going to be significant dynamics and all that moisture in place. it is going to be a wet one tomorrow. urban and small stream flood advisories certainly a possibility. might even see a flood warning. this will be tomorrow night into sunday morning. raining in the livermore valley. rain showing up in san ramon. heavy rain at times, showers showing up as well. just a little bit forth, san ramon and black hawk and pleasanton. showers will begin to taper off. they already are for most of us. but then they get fired up again as we go into tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening which will be the main event. i will see you back here, and we will put together the forecast model so you can see how it times out for your day tomorrow. >> all right, thank you very much, bill. in san francisco a tree fell and hit a muni bus as well as two cars. it happened shortly after 9:00 this morning on sacramento street. the bus and cars as you can see here both damaged. it no one was hurt. the department of public works tells us its initial assessment points to root failure. it was a blackwood acacia tree that was planted in the early '70s. it. more cases of the zika virus are showing up here in the bay area. ktvu's john sasaki tells us two more counties are confirming cases of the zika virus. >> reporter: contra costa county has now added to the list of people who have contracted the mosquito-borne zika virus. >> we have two cases of zika in contra costa residents. >> reporter: there are five cases, two here, one in alameda county, one in san francisco, and one in napa county. >> only 20% of people who are infected with zika virus show symptoms. they're usually fairly mild. so fever, joint pain, sometimes a rash, sometimes red eyes. they're usually quite mild. they last from several days to a week. >> reporter: and the story is the same for all who have confirmed cases of sigh could. they -- >> traveled to zika-affected countries. >> reporter: was it central america? >> one traveled to central america, and one traveled to south america. >> reporter: people are saying little about the people would got zika. pregnant women are perhaps most concerned because it may cause a birth defect called microcephaly. senate's important for us to do surveillance to learn more. because most people recover, i think that's helpful. i think that there's still a lot unknown, and there's a lot of stuff coming out every week that's new about zika. >> reporter: perhaps most importantlily, all experts are family sizing the public is safe. >> there is no risk here in contra costa. if someone has zika. because we don't have the mosquitoes that transmit zika. >> reporter: there have been a few con formed cases of zika being transmitted through sexual contact, but health experts family size beyond that it is not spread person to person, not like the flu or the common cold. in martinez, john sasaki, ktvu fox 2 news. officials at an east bay community college are warning students about a sexual assault on campus. authorities say los medanos community college said the incident happened about 9:00 last night in a second-floor bathroom at the main college campus. now, the college president told us safety is the school's number one priority. >> it is a very, very safe campus. all of our statistics indicate that. so this is an anomaly. so people certainly need to be mindful that this sort of thing can happen. >> the attacker is described as a white man in his 30s, six feet tall with blue eyes and an average build. he was wearing a dark hoodie, and he also had a black bandanna over his mouth and nose. a woman from livermore accused of muscling the cries of a 13-month-old boy pleaded not guilty today to felony child abuse. her attorney said there's another side to this story. ktvu's crime reporter henry lee has more. >> reporter: frank, 20-year-old mariah gonzalez, the baby- sitter allegedly caught on camera abusing a child, let her attorney do the talking today. he told us livermore police have it all wrong, and that they've given special treatment to the boys' mothers. i have learned that both are police officers. the caretaker, mariah gonzalez seen here in the middle wearing gray said nothing as she walked to court with her attorney and her sister. gonzalez pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of child abuse and is free on bail. a judge ordered her to stay away from children. the charge stems from an incident captured on video by a nanny camera. her attorney said the boy wasn't injured, and that police have misinterpreted what's on the video. he said investigators have given too much weight to the boys' parents because of their ties to law enforcement. ktvu has learned that the boys' parents both work for the san mateo police department. one of them is a sergeant who has previously worked as a detective investigating sexual assault and crimes against children. >> but it would make sense how the livermore police became so enthusiastic instantaneously about this just handling of a child. >> reporter: court documents say on february 18th a nanny cam hidden in the room caught gonzalez putting her hands near his face as he was crying. pleats say the sounds went from clear and audible to a muscled cry, and that after a few seconds, the boy began to squirm and kick before he went limp. police interviewed gonzalez, and she provided a statement that authorities say was completely inconsistent with what was on the video. but gonzalez's attorney said she did nothing wrong and wasn't allowed to see the video to explain what may have happened. >> as a matter of fact, after this whole incident occurred, the people who saw the incident on the video, the parents, had her take the child to the park. that's how much they thought of a danger she was to the child. then they fared her the next day. >> reporter: gonzalez has never been the subject of previous complaints. >> it's not in her nature to harm a child. her nature is just the opposite of that. >> reporter: she advertised on the popular baby-sitting site care.com. in a statement, the company said she has been removed and banned from the site. care.com also said, we are deeply troubled by this incident, and our thoughts are with the family. the safety of our community is a paramount importance to us. >> care.com also says they contacted local law enforcement proactively and are helping with the investigation. frank. >> so henry, what happens next here? >> reporter: she will appear in court at a later date, continue the criminal proceedings. she is free on bail in the interim. >> henry lee in our newsroom, thank you. former pro athletes and medical experts converged on the bay area hoping to educate students about the dangers of concussions. >> i have been involved for 30 years and i have never seen it as bad. >> asking the federal government for millions of dollars in emergency relief after we missed out on the entire crab season. and an issue with the transbay tube and major crowding. officials say they are sear rogue in on the cause. in the battle of burgers... ...jack made a declaration of delicious with the double jack combo. he formed a perfect union between 100% beef, cheese, and mouth. he took a stand for hot and salty fries. and the freedom to choose from hundreds of freestyle drinks all for $4.99. and america ate it up. true story. get the new double jack combo for just $4.99 'cause on march 30th, this deal is history. the loss of the california crab season has led to the loss of more than $100 million, driving many fishermen to the brink of financial ruin. now three bay area members of congress are pushing for emergency relief. tom vacar with today's request to help the crab industry. >> reporter: peninsula congresswoman jackie spear and north bay's jared huff man announced they have proposed that congress pass the crab disaster emergency assistance act. it's a direct response to the massive losses suffered by california crabbers and their crews due to toxic algae that killed their season. >> this bill would provide $138 million to crab fishermen along our coast to help them through this horrific season. >> our fishing families can't catch break this year. they have just come off a terrible salmon year. then to experience a complete loss with dungeness crab, which has always been the staple, that lucrative fish they could count on. >> without that fleet there, we don't access this ocean full of food. and we have to keep this fleet going so that we have access to the best food on the planet. >> reporter: besides this legislation, two other important things are needed. first, the obama administration has to formally declare what's happened a disaster. >> i have been fishing 30 years, and i have never seen it as bad as this. >> reporter: second, the u.s. congress has to pass the spear- huff man bill and a sister bill in the senate authored by senator barbara boxer. representative spear warns that much of the congress is hostile to california, the bluest of blue states. >> california has a reputation in washington. it's called abc. "anywhere but california." because there's great resentment for the fact that we have the population, we have the economic growth. >> reporter: nonetheless, the catastrophe to fishermen is very real. 25 years ago there were more than 5,000 licensed commercial salmon and crab california fishermen. today there's barely more than 400. tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. >> wow, from 5,000, down to 400. >> unbelievable. let's talk about our weather because we have some real weather to talk about. >> finally. >> rain and a lot more on the way. >> there's a lot more on the way. the satellite shows it. moisture streaming in off the pacific is significant. there's a lot that will be here tomorrow. i was looking at that time latest model runs and they really jack up the rain totals as we head into saturday evening, sunday morning early. just a lot of moisture. we had good rain today, up to a half inch, even a little more in the north bay. you're seeing not necessarily strong dynamics but moisture being pumped like a hose of water, and the coastal hills grab it and squeeze out a lot of the moisture. that's where the heaviest rains have been, in "the hills." but saturday, the jet stream is going to get more involved, and it will trigger lift. that lift will generate winds up to 50 miles per hour saturday night. also rainfall rates of over an inch an hour in some places. that will cause us issues in terms of drainage. sour going to see some urban and small stream flood advisories probably pop up throughout the bay area. usually i would say north bay, but south of there into san francisco county, san jose, i think you could see urban and small stream flood advisories. there's the rain. this is just really moist invection. as we head into tomorrow, that's the main event. maybe a flood warning in the burned areas. gusts to 50. we're looking at heavy rain. this again will be the strongest storm of 2016. snow levels start off a bit high but they will come down. a winter storm warning in the mountains. they could easily see at the higher elevations one to three feet of snow. then those snow levels will drop into sunday night. here's the model. this will lay it out for you. so tomorrow morning, so that's like this morning. it will be wet around. just kind of drizzly. then we'll go to lunchtime and it starts to light up. game on, starting to rain. watch this. this is where it gets interesting. the dynamics are still not here. this is the moisture in front of the front that's really just priming this pump. watch what happens, how explosive it is. boom. when the dynamics get involved, now it's taking all that moisture. we didn't even have dynamics today and we have significant amounts of rain for a non event. this is not a non event and the fuel is there. what you are seeing here at 6:00 tomorrow night is most likely urban and small stream flood advisory, basically all nine bay area counties, 6:00, if the all traps spires. also in "the hills" lucy flood watches and flood warnings. so this is what el niño does. it takes a storm that's a good symptoms, and it just injects it with steroids. that's what this moisture is available to the next couple of systems. sunday's system, i'll talk about that. it's going to have some game as well. it the beauty part of this, monday, tuesday, and wednesday we get the break. >> we need that. >> if you had a two more days of rain in this five-day, we've got big issues. so i can look at this, and we could take eight inches of rain in some places, maybe more. russian river can handle it. napa river. but you get those breaks, and those breaks are there. >> we talked about this at 4, but just my luck, we're helping some people move tomorrow. >> oh, you are? >> the moving is still on? >> yeah, it is. >> do you have a truck? >> yeah, but forget it. >> and a parka? >> of all the days. >> all right, bill, thanks. the field is dwindling. candidates for president hitting the campaign trail as one of the republicans officially called it quits today. >> coming up a little bit later, new at 6:00, a couple attacked on the streets of san francisco. tonight one of those victims is speaking out about a violent confrontation with four men. >> i said, please leave us alone, my mother just died. please let us go. and that's when he punched me. we need to be ready for my name's scott strenfel and r i'm a meteorologist at pg&e. we make sure that our crews as well as our customers are prepared to how weather may impact their energy. so every single day we're monitoring the weather, and when storm events arise our forecast get crews out ahead of the storm to minimize any outages. during storm season we want our customers to be ready and stay safe. learn how you can be prepared at pge.com/beprepared. together, we're building a better california. there is now one less republican in the race for president. as expected today ben carson officially ended his bid for the white house. the remaining candidates, both democrats and republicans, spent today preparing for another round of primaries this weekend. joel waldman tells us there is also a lot of talk still about last night's debate which was one of the most fiery debates so far. >> reporter: at last night's fox news debate the four remaining gop candidates hurling rapid fire insults at each other in between covering some policy proposals from immigration to isis. >> i just thought the republican party, especially in that first hour, did not come across as a healthy, functional party that is able to convey a vision to the american people. >> reporter: gop front runner donald trump the target of a majority of the attacks. today ted cruz campaigning in maine kept the stinging rhetoric rolling. >> donald trump embodies that washington corruption that we are angry about. the answer to that corruption is not to go with someone who has been funding liberal democrats for four decades. >> reporter: marco rubio with only minnesota under his belt so far finds himself in a must- win scenario in his home state of florida march 15th where he's trailing donald trump. >> the conservative movement is not built on anger, it's built on ideas and principles. that's why i'm asking to you caucus for me. >> reporter: despite some ray soar thin margins on the democratic side, bernie sanders is more than 600 delegates behind. >> anyone running for president owes it to you to come up with real ideas. not an ideology, not an old set of talking points, but a credible strategy designed for the world we live in now. >> reporter: meanwhile back on the gop side donald trump not just drawing the ire of gop candidates. conservatives are also upset the front run hear canceled an appearance tomorrow at the conservative political action conference. an egyptian man said he would be willing to serve a life sentence for killing donald trump has agreed to leave the united states. he was studying to be a pilot in southern california when he made the comment on a facebook post. the owner of the flight school tipped off authorities who arrested him last month. in a court appear apps today his attorney argued the post was protected under the first amendment. the judge disagreed. he agreed to a voluntary deportation and remains in custody. he has not been charged with a crime. the government is looking into failing brakes on one of the most popular trucks in the country. the probe covers about 420,000 ford f-150s from the 2013 and 2014 model years. some drivers reported that the brake pedals can go all the way to the floor causing a complete loss of braking. the government says it has received 33 complaints about the problem. four drivers reported that the problem caused crashes but no one was hurt. a sad development in the case of a 97-year-old woman facing eviction. the tenant's attorneys talk about the case that they say led to the woman's death. >> reporter: a mysterious problem is knocking out certain bart cars. continuing coverage on the twists in the double murder trial involving o.j. simpson. up next we will talk with john burris. he followed the trial very closely and also worked as a legal analyst at the time. continuing coverage on the new twist in the o.j. simpson case after lapd said they are analyze ago knife reportedly found on the estate years ago and handed over to a police officer who simply kept it. a construction worker apparently found the knife, possibly when simpson's house was torn down back in 1998. according to police, the worker gave the knife to an off-duty officer work at a movie shoot nearby. tmz's harvey levin who broke the story says police became aware of the knife after the officer recently decided to frame it. >> he wanted to get the dr number, the number for the murder file for nicole brown simpson and ron goldman, so he called a friend of his at robbery-homicide and said, hey, can i get this number, because i've got this knife. and the guy said, are you kidding me? >> police are looking into the authenticity of this story since o.j. simpson wasn't aquit he of course cannot be prosecuted again. no murder weapon was ever found in that double homicide. the case was referred to as the trial of the century with media coverage second to none. >> at the time we used attorney john burris extensively for legal analysis of the trial. he joins us now from the newsroom. o.j. simpson got off because his defense team painted a picture of tainted evidence, lying police officers, and lack of a murder weapon. now comes this development. what due make of it, and do you think it's legit? >> well, it's pretty shocking. it reminds me of deja vu all over again to see that this matter has surfaced and o.j. simpson has come back in a very real way. from my way of thinking, though, it is entirely possible that this is a knife that may have some dna on it that might tie it together. on the other hand, i would be a little suspicious of it as a defense lawyer. i would be concerned, you know, about the chain of custody of this, where was this found. and you've got to remember, as you do recall back in those days, there were a lot of concerns about lapd and tampering with evidence, basically turning the case into where it was about lapd and the quality of their investigation or the propriety of it, and less than about what was going on with o.j. simpson. so this may be another example of that. i will tell you, though, for an officer to gather this kind of information and have it for many years really is the height of stupidity, because you've got to believe that someone turns a knife in from o.j. simpson's property that it might have some real value. even though the case is over, it's clear he cannot be charged, but at the same time a police officer should know just because a person is found not guilty doesn't then mean that that person was, in fact, the perpetrator or, in fact, you might be able to tie him into it and resolve it in everybody's mind. this is a case where everybody wants closure. it just wasn't closure at the end of the case the way it went down. and so the question, does this knife present an opportunity for closure. only if, only if there is dna on it, on that knife, whether it's blood, whether it's hair, something from nicole simpson that would, in fact, have some reliability to it. if not then it's just a hoax. the knife was found. just because a knife was found on the property doesn't necessarily mean it has anything to do with the killing itself. there's a lot of work to be done. i don't think we ought to be jumping to the conclusion about this because we don't have enough evidence to tie it in. >> john, you mentioned how this might be able to close this case. but, i mean, if it was buried for several years, how likely is it that that dna evidence is there and in good condition? >> not likely, because if it's buried, that means -- in dirt, that means rain and all kinds of suit and everything else was on it, and the question, where was it buried? was it in the backyard, under a tree, or was it under the house? where was it? you don't have any information about that. none of it is really important if, in fact, you can examine it and you, in fact, find something on it that is reliable. but way think that it's not very likely that that could happen, but at the end of the day this is a case that caused so much emotional and sociological turmoil, and really was a case on the surface that really opened up a lot of racial discussions and racial divides, and it was a gut wrenching case for the nation as a whole. and so i'm certain there are still people around who profoundly believe in his guilt, profoundly believe in his innocence, and to some extent if a knife with some evidence on it can help resolve that, i think everyone would be happy. on the other hand, if it's not, then it's a hoax and we've all gotten our hopes up. so i think we should all be suspicious and wait to see. >> i hate to be a cynic, but it is interesting that this comes at the same time as this whole documentary that is airing about the o.j. simpson trial. then of course you think, does publicity lake this make the knife more valuable? would someone want to try and sell, make some money off it? i'm just not someone who believes in coincidences, and this sure seems like an interesting coincidence. >> i think you're right about that. there's a lot of money to be made, so is i think it's suspicious, but i would not be jumping to conclusions. i think we ought to hold our breath and not go down this path, because i think there will be a lot of disappointments for those who want to tie this into the murder weapon. >> john burris, thanks for sharing your legal expertise. that knife currently being analyzed by lapd. switching gears now to athletes and concussions. today some former nfl players and bay area congressman went to antioch high with a message about brain health. nearly 100 student athletes heard from a congressman and former nfl players as well as a doctor. they talked about how fragile the brain is and why it has to be protected. national statistics show some 140,000 high school athletes suffer concussions every single year. the coning man touted his legislation called the protecting student athletes from concussions act which creates nationwide standards on concussion safety. >> it concerns me particularly for younger people that we don't respond proportionately to the risk. and that's what the point of today. that's what the point of the bill is. >> we had i think maybe one concussion all year long. by cutting back in practice and taking care of the kids throughout the games and having them be able to verbalize to that you say there's an issue, we've been able to cut back. >> antioch high football and softball coach sudden years past he's seen where there have been five or six concussions and kids have missed seasons. but he says it's better now with protocols in place. the wrestling championships started today even though a student athlete raised concerns about a contagious virus. 17-year-old blake flovin told us ebels he contracted the virus known as mat herpes during the championships and that other wrestlers may have been exposed. the association released a statement saying it is taking precautions. it continues tomorrow. a stolen car crashed in the posey tube this afternoon causing a major traffic jam for people in alameda. it was traveling from alameda to oakland in the tube. at least two other vehicles were damaged. police say the driver of the stolen car ran off, and that meated even more difficult to clear the scene quickly. the posey tube was closed for more than an hour, causing major backups in alameda. bart is rung short of trains after dozens of cars sustained damage caused by some sort of electrical issue. the agency is still trying to figure out why the cars are getting damaged but has found a temporary solution. ktvu's cristina rendon live at the west oakland bart station to explain. cristina. >> reporter: well, heather, bart says they have reconfigured the power supply so cars are no longer getting damaged. they have to shut off the power supply here in west oakland, and it seems to have solved the problem at least for now. 80 bart cars are out of service and under repair. a spike in voltage near the east end of the trance bay tube appears to have burned out propulsion equipment on certain cars, knocking them out of service over the past few weeks. as a temporary fix, bart shut down the power to a substation near west oakland. >> we can thou put our efforts into fixing up those damaged cars and getting the car count back up towards normal, so that monday people aren't feeling any impacts. >> reporter: today 17 trains are running one car short, adding to an already crowded commute. >> i did see this morning that there was a seven-car train. i've never seen a seven-car train before. >> made a u-turn and went straight back to the casual carpool and found a ride fairly quickly. >> reporter: bart says the problem is affecting cars built in the 1980s. the system was recently replaced in october leaving bart trying to figure out how the problem started in the first place. >> we did track inspections. nothing seemed abnormal. no smoking gun. we've really got to do more investigating through the weekend to get to the bottom of this. >> all of these systems in the major cities of the united states, they wear out. they get old. it's time for us as a population to start to plan for the future. >> reporter: bart is waiting on a new fleet of cars to start adding to the rotation. that begins as early as 2017. meanwhile the damaged cars are still under repair. bart hopes to have 75% of them repaired and back in the rotation by monday morning's commute. heather. >> boy, a lot of frustration for those bart riders. the san jose sharks foundation teamed one the tech association to bring science to children. it was a chance for hands-on experience in stem education. that's science, technology, engineering, and math. the kids got to play with many exhibits that can also teach them concepts. the sharks foundation along with corporate partner sap are starting a four-year program to give low-income students field trips. watching everyone's faces as they pick pretty prom dresses makes me very happy. >> this student's sweet idea that turned into a major project. the 97-year-old woman who was being evicted from her home has died. but her attorneys say that even though she spent her final days under attack and lied to, the fight isn't over. and fear of lead contamination. the steps being taken at a second bay area school due to concerns about the safety of the drinking water. there is late word that country singer joey feek died today at the aim of 40. she was part of the award winning duo with her husband joey. in spite of treatment, cancer spread. last fall rory feek wrote that his wife had decided to end treatment. she died at her home in indiana. a turn of events where organizers of the iditarod dog sled race need to ship snow to alaska. organizers are bringing in snow by train and then storing it outside of anchorage. there's enough snow for the remaining 1,000 miles of the competition, but the snowpack is still below average. because of the warm winter, officials are shortening the ceremonial start from 11 miles to just three. >> we didn't want to shorten the race. but the option -- our only other option left was to take it away from the city of anchorage, and that's not what we wanted. we wanted the spectacle here for our fans here. >> 85 dog sled teams are expected to take part in the race which is set to begin tomorrow. restaurant chain chick-fil- a is asking customers to put down their cell phones while eating. the operator of a georgia chick- fil-a actually came up with the idea. this is called the cell phone coop challenge. that's because diners place their cell phones in a coop on the table while they eat. if they succeed, they get a free ice cream cone. >> it's too late for us to put our phone in a bask, because i'm glued to mine 24 hours a day. >> studies have shown people spend four and a half hours a day on their cell phones. more than 150 restaurants are participating in this challenge. a bay area student giving back to her classmates. why she thinks that helping others find a pretty dress for prom night is about way more than just looking good. marie hatch died of broken heart from a broken home. >> an elderly woman facing eviction from her bay area home of 66 years has passed away amidst her fight to stay put. get the umbrellas ready. get ready to hunker down this weekend. it's going to be a gulley washer in many parts of the bay area. i'll have the timing. so it's prom season right now. and a bay area high school senior is getting ready for the launch of their first ever prom project. 1-year-old sierra williamson thought it would be a small project to help kids at her school. >> as ktvu's claudine wong reports it quick got much bigger. forts it is not unusual to find 18-year-old sierra williamson unloading dress after dress from the trunk of her car. >> i've been doing lots of pickups. my mom helps schedule them, then she will send me a list of addresses, and i'll spend my saturdays pick up dresses and jewelry. after school she will be like, i have a dress pickup, can you stop by here? >> reporter: even though the dresses fill this room -- >> back behind it are all of our short ones. we have lots of short ones. >> reporter: it seems the phone just keeps ringing. >> they're still coming in? >> they're still coming in. i picked up two before i came here today. >> reporter: this is prom season and this is the prom project. it's a first for the high school, but when william sornings senior, heard about the idea, she ran with it. >> it kind of started from scratch. we kind of just -- someone told me they had some dresses, and i said, that sounds like fun. i'll see if anyone else has any. we got a huge calling from the community. >> reporter: they now have upwards of 80 dresses plus shoes and jewelry, and anyone with a student id can come shopping. >> really expensive dresses that people willingly gave to us. >> reporter: while it's not just the dress -- >> on top of that are tickets and buses, limos, however you want to get there, shoes, makeup, hair, stuff like that. >> reporter: there is something about that dress. >> how important is the dress? >> i feel like it's very important. girls really love to look very pretty on the day of prom. it's like the dress is kind of what makes you feel your prettiest. >> reporter: williamson says she already has hers but can't wait to watch others get a chance to find theirs. >> watching everyone's faces as they pick pretty prom dresses makes me happy. >> boy, i just love that. i've been to one of those give- aways, and it's something else to see those young girls come in and have their choice. >> also when you think about it, the prom dresses can be so expensive. how many times do you use them? once? >> that's right. >> they're still in perfect condition. if someone else can use them, it's perfect. just a win-win. always win these days, mr. chief meteorologist bill martin, the weather. >> it's nice. you don't after prom-age child yet, do you? >> not yet. don't scare me, bill. >> it is so expensive, heather compared to how it was when frank and i went to prom. >> i borrowed all mine. >> my daughter just bought her dress and my wife wouldn't tell me how much it was. did get it on sale. >> rain is a good thing, heather points out. rain is going to come in big time starting tomorrow afternoon into sunday morning. just a big swath of moisture. that is impressive. that's el niño 101. i mean, what is that, 1,000 miles? no, more than that. i'm looking at the longitude on this. from portland all the way south to los angeles, that swath of moisture is just streaming in. that's over 1,000 miles easy of moisture just spewing out, on the vertical. past the date line, we're talk three, four thousand miles. not only will it give us rain big-time, but it is a regroups and moves across the country you will be reading about it in the next three or four days as it drops serious rain, creates severe weather, and there will be snow in the north from them. san ray mope has showers. livermore some scattered showers. the heavier stuff has died down. the yellows, those would be the yellows. this is the current radar imagery. here goes a pack vet imagery or an impulse. it's not the storm, it's just the sort of moisture in front of the storm. it's a weak warm front. all that subtropical moisture triggering on the coastal hills, with no dynamics. the low gints here tomorrow afternoon. that's the upper level. the low is going to be up here. that's going to provide lift. when you get lift with this much moisture, boom, explosive. helps, the widespread concerns for flooding. urban and small stream throeding. major river flooding not a problem. the rivers are going to get up but they're not going to have enough time. the russian river drainage basin covers 70 square miles. or more now. maybe 150 square miles, the drainage basin of the russian river. so in this area it will get a lot of rain and bring those rivers up. but we've got a couple of break days coming as we head into monday, tuesday, and wednesday. here it is, 6:00 on saturday. explosive. 8:00 on saturday, it's taken two hours to get out of the north bay. that could be three or four inches of rain. 8:00 saturday, it's progressing. we don't want this thing to stall. 9:00 saturday. then scattered showers sunday morning. a little break. then right around dinnertime, boom, another one hits. not as powerful as the one we saw on -- the one we're going to see tomorrow night. i'll show you the braings the five-day forecast. some rainfall estimates are huge. it's a big event. try to get off the roads if you can. i would just hunker down a little bit. you are going to be here this weekend, heather. >> yes. >> mark, you'll be here. it will be one of those deals where you will have a flood advisory, wind advisory, and it will have all that. the story of a 97-year-old woman being evicted from her home in burlingame for 66 years has unfortunately come to a sad end. last week she told us she was scared to death. salad she just passed away. her attorney told us she died from a broken heart. tonight a victim speaks out about a violent confrontation with four men. i can't believe that this happened. i couldn't believe when it was happening. it's really hard to even believe it now. the 97-year-old woman from burlingame who was facing eviction has sadly died. her fight to stay in her home drew national attention. rob roth talked to her last week and now reports on her death. >> reporter: marie hatch fought to the end to stay here in this home on california drive where she lived for 66 years. hatch died after a brief illness, but those who knew her, including her attorney, said that's not what killed her. >> marie hatch died of a broken heart from a broken promise. >> it's a comfortable old home. >> reporter: we spoke with her last week after she received an eviction notice. >> i'm scared to death inside. i try not to think about it because i'm libel to have a nervous breakdown. >> reporter: this woman has been renting a room from hatch for more than 30 years and saw hatch yesterday on her deathbed. >> when i lifted the bed spread and looked at her the last time, i said, it's okay, old girl, you won't be afraid any more. >> reporter: hatch claimed her landlady, six decades ago, told her she could live here the rest of her life, but the landlady has since died, and so has the lady antebellum's daughter and granddaughter. the attorney for the current lapped lord said the house zane trust that must be sold, and the current landlord sun aware of any verbal agreements. altima rei hatch is gone, her lawyers say her legal battle livers object. >> it's not just marie hatch's problem. the bigger issue here is a crisis of competence or maybe it's a crisis of moral compassion. >> reporter: marie hatch did get her wish. she died in her home. but those who knew her said she did not go peacefully. in burlingame, rob roth, ktvu, fox 2 news. a handyman from pinole pleaded not guilty to two counts of felony animal cruelty in a case involving a horse. jonathan garcia faces up to three years in prison if convicted on the charges. these are pictures of the horse. look at that. it was found last july on old lakeshore highway. you can see the ribs showing through there. the horse also had a nail in its shoe that caused an infection. the horse has since been nursed back to health by an organization called the sonoma county change program. garcia wasn't comment outside of court. the judge said a preliminary hearing next month. the bay area's wet weekend has begun as the first of a series of el niño storms delivers downpours across the region. check out the conditions just this afternoon at san mateo where it appears the rain kept most people indoors and off the streets. >> it was a different store in downtown walnut creek where folks had their jackets on and their umbrellas out. >> and all that rain, of course, causing problems in the south bay. our crews spotted this flooding in san jose's willow glenn neighborhood. you can see it is slowing down traffic in that area. good evening. i'm heather holmes in for julie. >> i'm frank somerville. we want to go straight to meteorologist bill martin. this is just the beginning. >> yeah, and we're fortunate it's been so dry up until now, because what hits with this heavy rain that's coming, that came today that will come tomorrow night, when it hits, it's going to get absorbed. if we had a normal february with a lot of rain, this would be sort of the nail in the coffin in terms of some flooding issues. but since we didn't and we were so dry, this much moisture that we are going to see, nearly a foot in some places over the next few days, will be able to be act com dairktsd even in the major rivers i. we'll see some urban and small stream flood advisories tomorrow night. i would be off the road tomorrow night if you can. the winds are going to be up. it's going to be a full-fledged store. we've got rain that is impacting the commute. the heaviest rains moved through at times today. significant rain for a non event. this isn't really the storm. this is the beginning. this is sort of what's in front of the storm, the moisture. pleasanton, some showers. showers heading south towards san jose. as you pull out wide, it's going off in the mountains with high snow levels. as with you push forward into tomorrow that's the story. heavy rain develops overnight. pardon me, tomorrow afternoon. i will have the model to show that you soon enough. then we'll certainly see