Wet weather is returning to the bay area, i will show you when i expect it to arrive coming up. Live in hayward, it was the latest city to put the breaks on red light cameras. We will explain. Some surprising poll numbers for president barack obama just days after the budget cuts took affect, it is all ahead on the ktvu channel 2 morning news. Complete morning coverage start right now this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. Well, good morning to you, welcome to a brandnew day, it is march 5th, i am dave clark. Rosemary orozco woke up with us today as well in for steve paulson. And the best news, the rain will not hit us in time for the evening commute and we have the last completely dry day so if you have errands to run, that is your warning. Midtoupper 30s over the north bay and we are chilly this morning and in the north that is where the rain is beginning to move into and still it is 160 miles out and i will have a look at your extended forecast coming up. Sal . Traffic is moving well coming up to the bay bridge and traffic is moving nicely all the way into San Francisco. Also the morning commute on 237 west is off to a good start, 5 00 lets go back to the desk. There are new developments in the case of a stolen boat found stranded in passive can. Right now the multimillion dollar yacht is being towed to richmond and alex savage is there where the boat will undergo repairs. That luxury sailboat is expected to arrive in about 15 minutes or so and they are expected to arrive from passive can all across the bay and its going to be brought here to bay marine boatworks in richmond where it will be hoisted out of the water and the captain of the ship will get a closer look at the damage. The owner of the Salvage Company told me they do have a bent rutter and a burned up engine and a tugboat freed them just before 1 00 a. M. This morning. It ran aground yesterday in about four feet of water in pacifica. Police arrested four people on board who stole the 82foot boat from a marina. The coast guard was suspicious because the people on board refused help after getting stuck and then the Rightful Owner saw his boat on the news and called police. The accused thieves got the boat wedged into the sand and it was not easy to get free. Well, there is quite a bit of work and a lot of it hand labor and we had a heavy piece of rope we had to pull from the beach by hand up on to the boat. These accused boat thieves ran before running aground. They found beer found beer cans and pizza boxes. They are being told by the Salvage Company they should be here with in the next 15 minutes so they will keep an eye out for it and keep you posted once they get them. This is alex savage ktvu channel 2 morning news. Police have arrested a man who broke into a home. Scary story, police say a woman was asleep in her home when she saw a man standing over her bed. She was able to call police who found the man about a block away and the man is a registered sex offender who was wearing a tracking device when he was arrested and we will have a live report coming up on that story. There is now a memorial in San Francisco where a 17year old girl was hit by a car and later died. She was closing the boulevard saturday night when she was hit. Her family said she had just celebrated her birthday with friends. She was on the track team at the high school and her teammates will wear ribbons later this week. Cameron brewer is being investigated for possible drunk driving. Some residents say a traffic light is needed there. Last night in campbell more than 100 people attended a vigil for 18yearold richard vega, a College Student shot and killed. He graduated last year from high school and they are not sure if the shooting was targeted or random. Some are saying he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He never did harm to anybody, you could not picture him having any problems with anybody in life. So far no arrests have been made and if you have any information call police. They are expected to pass a groundbreaking proposal to have a huge impact on gun owners. It involves the sale of military style ammunition. It will stop people from buying hollow point bullets. And it will notify police if anybody buys more than 500 ammunition at a time. They are trying to pull the plug on the red light traffic cameras. Tara moriarty is ahead to tell us more on what is ahead for Tonights City Council meeting, tara . Reporter we are where the city is thinking about putting the breaks on red light cameras like this one. Police are recommending that self be saved over the next few years and thats because they were implemented to curb the number of accidents. Three intersections actually saw a spike in accidents two years after the cameras were installed. Here is a look where it was installed in 2008, hunt wood, second street, west a and southwest at whipple, mission boulevard and santa clara avenue and jackson and west a and interstate 880. Now red light cameras cost the city 800,000 a year and many cities are lucky if they break even so tonight it goes before the city council. Tonight we will tell you which crashes we saw more of because of cameras were installed in the first place. Happening now, cardinals from around the world are meeting at the vatican. It is their second day of meetings to discuss candidates for the next pope. The most prominent is on the short list on the Roman Catholic church. We have the ash bishop from archbishop from man nasa. It seemed like the time had arrived right in that moment. The cardinals are expected to select the pope sometime next week and that will allow the Catholic Leader to preside over holy week, which begins with palm sunday and ends with easter. Ratings for president barack obama tumbled as a result of that sequester taking affect. It dropped after congress and the president did not work out a deal on reducing the deficit and it triggered 85 billion in spending cuts. We will found out more about how we will be affected and we will have more on the cuts backs cutbacks yosemite has to make. Good morning we are doing nicely around the bay area and we want to show you what we have on 08 westbound which looks nice heading out to the mcarthur maze with no major problems and it is a very nice drive by the way if you are driving to the bay bridge toll plaza so you may have time before you get up and go out the door and its a good call, northbound 280 getting to highway 17 that traffic is moving along nicely and of course if something happens we will let you know and right now we are off to a doesnt start. Decent start. It is going to rain, right rosemary . Yes, we have a few high clouds passing through this morning and we cleared out pretty well in the overnight hours and because of that we are a lot chillier and here is that rain sal mentioned, we have some snow in the sierra as well and we all know we can use it. It is going to eventually slide into the bay area and i dont think it will be here in time for the afternoon drive. Let me show you what happens if we pick it up this morning, there is that line of rain sliding into the bay area and it will be the clouds first. Mostly cloudy for the second half of the day and sunset is 6 35 so it is already nighttime when this system moves into the north bay and this is slower. Models had it faster along the peninsular and into the east bay as well as the south bay and while we sleep it continues to fall. Scattered showers into the forecast and thursday morning drive looks good but we are not done just yet. Scattered showers are really not tapering off until thursday night. Right now 35 in napa, and we have a chilly start for you 46 in oakland and mountain view, upper 60s for the afternoon today and again the rain is not coming in until this evening and it will be with us thursday and we are driving out in time for thursday, there it is in view for you and meanwhile, temperatures will fall back to the midtoupper 50s for the afternoon. Back to you. Time now 510. How google may be playing a part by lighting the flame by practices on its website. New details about a kidnapping and a fatal officer involved shooting, what was found in an officers car and what new information the autopsy revealed. We will tell you more about the morning commute and the bay area weather, the morning commute is looking good. Well, well, well. Growing up, we didnt have uverse. We couldnt record four shows at the same time. In my day, you were lucky if you could record two shows. 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The Senate Committee is due to talk about gun control tomorrow today the Senate Intelligence committee is voting on president Barack Obamas nomination for cia director. The big issue is the use of drones on suspected terrorists. Senate republicans want answers about last years terrorist attack in benghazi that killed an ambassador. And ktvu channel 2 morning news jacqueline is in our washington d. C. Newsroom to explain how they could be affected by furloughs, jacqueline . , pam, we have learned by congressional staffers that they are facing furloughs, forced time off without pay. A house memo sent by administrators say they are possible for Senate Staffers as their budgets are cut back. Yesterday while sitting with cabinet members he said he will try to minimize the impact of sequesters and at that time they softened the blow to the defense department. It will give the military the ability to move money around while dealing with forced cuts. And they will fund the government through the end of september and avoid a shut down march 27th when a temporary spending resolution expires. So i am hopeful the house and senate will be able to work through this. Now coming up, another impact of the cuts, what travelers should know before heading to the airport. Jacqueline, ktvu channel 2 morning news. News on how the sequester could affect national parks. Yosemite and grand canyon will see a layoff and close our of sites and trails as parks gear up for the tourist season. Budget cuts could delay the opening and it affects businesses depending on tourists. One is fueling the demand for ivory. They claim google and japan promote the sale of ivory and they claim they have 10,000 ads which are small wooden stamps to put signature seals on official documents. They ban the promotion of ivory sales on its shopping sites. San francisco is pushing to prepare for a big earthquake. Supervisors are advancing required buildings from small earthquakes to be upgraded to withstand bigger ones. It will be up to many to see which will approve that legislation next week. New sinkholes have opened up after last weeks watermain break and now three homes have been red tagged. Coming up, why most of the city we are told may also be in danger. 5 18 lets check in with sal, what are you looking at, sal . My goodness, i am falling down on the job but really there is nothing to do right now, having coffee, watching us, preparing for the rain as rosemary has said and its not going to be a factor for the commute today. But today, this morning for sure, we will not see any wet weather in the bay area so traffic is moving well and it will be better now that we dont have any wet weather for the San Francisco commute coming up to the 880 split, if you are driving in union city and hayward, we will be okay and rosemary, you say cans not going to be a factor for the afternoon commute, right . We are looking good and the storm appears to have slowed down just a bit and yesterday we expected it by about 5 00 and it looks closer to 7 00 and most of us will be home before the rain begins to fall and the steady rain will hold off and here is the storm all over the pacific and its going to bring us rain and wind as well. It is going to take a couple of days for the center of the storm to actually pull out of here and that is what will continue to fall, the possibility of scattered showers. Boy is it going to be a great weekend because the storm will have passed by then and we have sunny skies, above 4,000 feet, a winter storm warning for today and it looks for a Winter Weather advisory starting later today and a half a foot of fresh snow is expected with this system and will last into thursday. And we have a quarter inch to three quarters, snow levels are dropping and perhaps our local mountains are picking up an inch or two thursday. Mainly later today, increasing clouds and temperatures today, 50s to lower 60s and there is your extended forecast. Cool thursday, a few lingering showers and we will warm up with midtoupper of 0s 60s in the forecast and remember we spring forward early sunday morning. I will have a widespread look at your morning temperatures coming up. Many more than 1 after the United Kingdom expanded for the second month in a row. Many finished with gains overnight and china was up more than 2 as the country opened its annual session of taiwan and they posted pretty strong gains. Checking in on our futures, it looked like a slightly higher opening across the board for the nasdaq and s p 500 and they all posted a little bit of a gain. Keeping an eye on the apple stock, it is a 5 two week low 52 week low and opens at 420 a share and thats a 40 drop from an alltime high when it was introducing the iphone 5. Why this later effort does not involved the police with a woman crossing the street. She is now oneyearolder and what she says is the secret to her longevity. Welcome back beware, San Francisco guardians are out on the streets and 18 are helping to stop at least two crimes in the past weeks. The Guardian Angels promote a safer, cleaner environment and they make citizens arrests but they are mostly out to stop criminals just by being there to stand in front of them. They are testing the soil after new sinkholes opened up in a San Francisco neighborhood. We showed you tens of thousands which flooded and sinkholes ended up in the street and backyard of one home. Since then, at least three more sinkholes have appeared and geologists say it is built on sand. Unless we avoid under the street it will be hard to go and conduct a survey for the entire city. Engineers say groundwater and or rain can cause sinkholes to open unexpectedly and three homes have been red tagged as a result of those new sinkholes. You have to see her, the worlds oldest woman is celebrating and she is 115 years old today. The guinness book of World Records honored her and she received a certificate on wednesday. She got married in 1919 and has four grandchildren and six great grandchildren and they asked her about the secret of her long life and she said look out for your health. Happy birthday. Lets check in with sal and get you to where you need to go. Dave, you and i dont feel so old now . No. This year they are cooperating and northbound 880 that looks nice and no major problems in the Santa Cruz Mountains and the mountains coming up the bottom of the hill and traffic is moving along well, lets go to rosemary. We have one final dry day and by the evening hours, though, things will begin to change. For your tuesday partly cloudy skies, low 50s to lower 60s by this evening, rain pulls in and its sliding south over the course of the evening and it will hang around over the next few days and i will pinpoint the system coming up. New details about that stolen Assault Rifle in San Francisco, why the police say there is no longer a threat to the public. Frightening moments for a woman who was surprised by an intruder who got into her home, police are on the scene and they will tell you how they caught up with the suspect and what they are learning about his past. Plus live pictures from richmond, take a look at this after a yacht was stolen, at this very moment, it is being towed to richmond, the work that is being done, we will have more on that and the fate of the three people found on board. 3 sixinch select. Its available all month long as one of our march featured values, the newest way to enjoy subway every day subway. Eat fresh. Cuz all month long were serving up the buffalo chicken 6 footlong special big, bold buffalo footlong flavor for just 6 its one of our march featured values the newest way to enjoy subway every day subway. Eat fresh. Time now 5 30 lets check in with steve today. A little rain but not until later today. At least find it, do you even know where your umbrella is, keep it handy. Chances are the rain is coming but its going to take all day. Partly to mostly cloudy skies, mid30s to mid40s inland and around the bay, a little bit of patchy fog not too bad but the rain is beginning to move in to the northwest conner of corner of california, i will show you what you can expect at least, coming up. Right now traffic is looking good on the Golden Gate Bridge heading down to the toll plaza from marin to San Francisco. Also this morning we are looking at the san mateo bridge heading out to the highrise, lets go back to the desk. Happening right now a stolen yacht found in passive can just arrived pacifica just arrived at the richmond harbor and we will show you pictures of the boat called darling and as we zoom in, you cant really see the damage but apparently it is quite damaged and it was found stuck in Shallow Water and we found it in pacifica and it was finally freed just after midnight. Three people on board w