7 00. Something we havent seen in a while. While its not much, there is a little rain this morning. You see a little slit of sunshine in those dark clouds. Team coverage this morning. Cal watching the wet roads. Alex savidge watching Power Outages. Steve tracking the system. We will check in with all of them in a minute. I am tori campbell. I am dave clark. Lets go right to steve paulsen. Reporter well, you know, i have to put on my traveling shoes. That, too. Hello everyone. Santa cruz mountains stead rain up there. After that it tails off. At least we are getting some rain. And i mean the real rain. Legit rain. Even San Francisco has a. 01. Santa rosa. 09. Petaluma. 04. Gilroy. 04. Napa has had some rain. Castro valley, san lorenzo, petaluma, san rafael. The radar is really light stuff. So it doesnt always pick it up. But fairfield back towards vallejo and napa, that seems to be an area where they are getting stead rain as well. My goodness, its warm out. Why is that . The lows never got below 70 for many. A south wind and this cloud cover in advance of this system. 71 at hayward. Sfo below 70. Livermore 70 degrees. A lot of upper 60s. Some of the rain on the north coast was okay. For us well see some stead rain in areas that we are used to. That is Russian River and towards Santa Cruz Mountains. Everywhere else very light. The highs will come down inland. 80s, 70s for some. Alex savidge is talking about the rain and the Power Outages there. Reporter yeah shall the wet weather caused yeah, the wet weather caused Power Outages overnight. Pg e is very busy. 3600 homes are in the dark at this time. The problems started 12 30 this morning and thats when the outages were first reported. Close to 12,000 were without power at the peak. Light rain fell overnight and that caused dozens of power poles to catch fire. This is a phenomenon known as tracking. Pg e says when we go a long time without rain dust build up on the power lines. That mixes with moisture, causes arcs, and a leads to fire. Pg e had to shut off the power to those areas. Again, crews have been working hard. The power coming back online here in the east buy and pg e expects to have the power back on no everyone in the area later on this morning sometime between 10 00 a. M. And noon. And again we had a little light drizzle, light rain overnight here. Let check in with sal here and see if any of this wet weather is causing problems on the roads. Good morning, alex. I might say it is. There are more crashes, although not too many more. But still slow traffic on some of these commutes. Lets go right to 280 where it seems to be drying out. It was a little bit slower now and the traffic is a little better as you drive through the area. We dont see any major crashes along 280 in san jose or 101 but definitely a little bit wet out there. When you go in in the nimentz freeway, a lot of slow traffic. Bay bridge, toll plaza right now westbound is backed up for a 25minute drive. It looks relatively drive here. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you, sal. New information now about the wildfire burning out of control mere Pollock Pines. Giant plumes of smoke can be seen on interstate 80 in vacaville and just a few minutes ago cal fire announced that for the second day in a row the king fire more than doubled in size from tuesday to wednesday. It went from 13,000 to 28,000 acres. Now this morning the fire has grown to 71,000 acres. Reporter adam housely is live in the community of fresh pond off highway 50 in El Dorado County and he joins us now live. And, adam, if you are still there, how bad is that situation . Reporter yeah, you know, tori, as of this hour highway 50 is shut down at Pollock Pines in both directions. I know it was open for a bit last night but they have shut it down again, cal fire and chp. If you are trying to come up towards tahoe dont try it now. We are up by the helipad above highway 50. You can see this stuff is still on fire. You move across the hillside you see where the fire moved through. Some of it is backfire. Some is the edge of the fire. As it doubled in size up to 71,000 acres the good news is its burning into more rural areas. According to cal fire, there are 20,000 homes threatened. Again, its moved towards wild areas rather than towards homes. More towards the north rather than more towards the south which is all good news. We know how dry it is out here. You can see how it moved through here. One of the issues they are dealing with is the high heat up. We heard from your forecast we know its going to be a bit cooler. Its smoky in the mountains which also causes problems. Also worries about possibly the embers, the fire retardant and ash getting into the watershed. Something else the locals are thinking about and worried about a bit as they move to fight and battle this fire. One of 11 major fires burning across california. They are telling us that they expect this fire to continue to grow pretty good. If you look back over here you see the wind is stoking these flames a little bit at least on this stump. But thats still a good sign because its not as much wind as with what could be expected up here. 10 to 15 sustained, as much as 20 today. They are trying to get a handle on this. As the sun comes up and as smoak as it is they will get a better idea attack this morning. We will have a better idea in the next hour or two where that attack is going to go as we watch the flames move throughout the area, tori. You mentioned, adam, its moving away from homes. Thats good news. Are there still evacuations for this fire . Reporter absolutely. There is still mandatory evacuations throughout this area. Even towards georgetown. If you know the 49 highway that connects auburn down to placerville, really to the east of that is where were talking about. Between 80 and 50. Thats where this fire is right now. Those areas, those smaller towns, a lot of campgrounds, in fact, a campground that my photographer and his friends go to every year, that has been totally burned out. They have lost some popular nature areas, places people go for camping, they havent yet lost the homes like we saw up in weed. Right now they are cautiously optimistic. This a massive fire. You can see the smoke blowing around me right now. Let me move a little bit. See if i can see it. You see the fire going up some of the trees. When the winds pick up, if a fire goes up a tree it jumps from tree top to tree top. Thats what potentially moves it it quicker towards homes. Right now again cautiously optimistic as this morning as the sun comes up. They are hoping it continues to burn to the north and away from areas like georgetown. All right. Adam housely right there on the fire lines for us in El Dorado County. Thank you very much for that live report. A story we will follow throughout the day. 7 08. Starting today plastic bags are banned in walnut creek. When you go out shopping you are encouraged bring your own Reusable Bags and if you dont you will be charged 10 cents for each paper bag you need. There are expectations for restaurants. Walnut creek is joining many other bay area cities that have already banned plastic bags. Most restaurants try hard to get the best reviews they can on yelp. A restaurant in richmond is trying something totally different. Brian flores to tell us why the owners why the want to be the worst rated restaurant. Reporter they actually get really good reviews on other websites, but on yelp its owners are encouraging customers to give it a one star rating. The worst rating. And on the front door, in fact, is a note that encourages customers to give them a terrible review on yelp and then they will receive a 25 discount for a pizza order. Now, the owners of boto bistro say the owners of bad advertisers get better business. They are tired of getting calls to buy ads on yelp. The owners tell usa today they want the restaurant taken off the list. When they bought ads on yelp their reviews were more positive. As soon as the ads stop, all these negative reviews started popping up. They have nothing really against yelp but they question the whole ratings process. We spoke with a cafe owner two doors down from bott obeys row and he believes. They have to try the food themselves and judge whether its good or bad. One customer said if you dont do this to me i will tell ten friends not to come here. Thats the kind of harassment. Using the media for their own purpose. Reporter a lot of people seem to be willing to help the cause. Some are posting one star reviews and tongueincheek complaints about food arriving too quickly, pizza tasting too authentic. One person wrote how dare this restaurant sabotage my diet by offering delicious pizza and pasta. Worth a drive from anywhere here in the bay area. Out here live, ironically the owners tell the chronicle that business has increased since they launched their campaign against yelp. We are working to get a comment from yelp this morning as well. Brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. 7 11. Today barry bonds lawyers head back to federal court in San Francisco. They will go before a Judicial Panel this afternoon to appeal bonds conviction for obstruction of justice. Todays hearing comes 11 years after bonds testified before a grand jury investigating baseballs steroid scandal. He was later convicted of giving evasive answers when asked about his use of performance enhancing drugs. Still not clear whether bonds himself will appear in court today. Time now 7 11. A peninsula city taking a homeless woman to court. Coming up at 7 30 the controversial signs that are at the center of this case. Yet another pro Football Player arrested on Domestic Violence charges. Coming up, the long history of similar cases in the nfl and the punishment players did not receive. Good morning. Right now we are looking at a commute where traffic on 280 in san jose is a little bit slow approaching highway 17. We will tell you more about the morning commute straight ahead. Our little system is moving lieu. Not much to it, about you some rain out towards the Russian River and Santa Cruz Mountains. Already some breaks in the clouds. A cool shots for those of you listening and not watching. Coming up we will talk about why its so darn warm this morning. I thought itd be bigger. dad theres nothing i cant reach in my subaru. vo introducing the allnew subaru outback. Love. Its what makes a subaru,a subaru. Welcome back to mornings on two. Two people arrested in los angeles after this Wild Police Chase even ended up on a sidewalk. The chp says a stolen van hit several patrol cars that kept driving even after three tires blew out. At one point the driver even ran over a dog that was badly hurt. It may have to have its leg amputated. Police finally managed to end the chase. They cornered the man, took a man and woman into custody. Just an hour ago Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer was released from jail in phoenix after post ago 25 posting a 25,000 bail. He is the latest pro Football Player to face Domestic Violence charges. This is new video taken at the Phoenix Police headquarters late yesterday. It shows the 25yearold running back in handcuffs shortly after his arrest. Now, the cardinals took action immediately. The Team Announced dwyer will be benched when arizona plays the 49ers on sunday. Phoenix police say dwyer attacked his 18monthold son and the mother of his child in two separate incidents in july. On the first occurrence when we were called to that residence on the 21st officersmet at the door by the victim who denied that there was anyone else in the home with them and had indicated that she was in a verbal argument on the phone only at that point and those officers ultimately left the home after a short discussion with the victim. Now, Police Reportedly believed dwyer broke the womans nose during one of those alleged attacks. Now, his arrest is a latest in a string of Domestic Violence cases that have ignited a major scandal in the National Football league. However, this is not a new problem. We conducted some research and found out that there have been 84 Domestic Violence arrests involving pro Football Players between the year 2000 and last year. No nfl player received more than a game suspension. Suspensions for Domestic Violence incidents are also rare in pro baseball, pro basketball, and pro hockey. Californias drought is changing what we eat and how much it costs. The heart of the city Farmers Market in San Francisco had been open three days a week. Now vendors have cut back to just two days. Some farmers say they dont have as much to sell because they planted smaller crops and others are changing what they plant to cope with water shortages. There is some produce that we usually grow other years, and this year were not going to grow them because there is not enough water. That includes popular produce like lettuce and corn, which require a lot of water. And when those are not available, chefs and cooks have to find other foods so the prices of those alternative vegetables and fruits are also going up. President obama has announced a plan to help put veterans to work with green jobs training. The white house says the u. S. Will train at least 50,000 veterans to install solar panels over the next six years. Its one of several initiatives the white house says could put Carbon Monoxide emissions that could cut Carbon Monoxide emissions by 300 million tons to 2030. Its also expected to save homeowners and business billions of dollars in energy bills. The program is expected to launch this fall at some military bases. Sounds like a good idea. Time now 7 18. Lets check in with sal. See whats happening out there. How is the peninsula . We are starting there. We do have a crash reported westbound 92 near highway 101. It was there for a bit in the lane. It looks like they have moved it off to the side now. Just waiting for chp. Near 101, five vehicles, three are now on the righthand side. They are moving the other ones there. If you drive on 92 westbound towards san mateo you will see slow traffic in both directions really on 92 year 101 in the middle of samsung. On the peninsula 101 traffic is a little bit slow but not all that bad. I think san mateo is the worst. 280 looks good if you want to take 280 instead down the peninsula. When you get to the east bay southbound 880 slow from 238 past fremont. We had some earlier problems there. And Contra Costa County most of highway 4 is slow and a lot of 680 is slow after 242 to walnut creek and into alamo. Bay bridge, toll plaza a live look now. It is backed up for a 25 to 30minute delay into San Francisco. Speaking of, northbound 101 San Francisco and southbound a little bit of rain there, as you can see from the live picture. Traffic is okay though. 05 in San Francisco. Thank you, michael polanski. He is the man for Weather Information in the city. Rain where you are. We have had a lot of reports. Not a lot. Unfortunately, the National WeatherService Radar is down. Maybe i will be able to show you more. Our first rain of the season. It usually shows up around the 21st. Hey, here it is. Some of the heavier amounts towards Russian River. Most has been relatively light. Penta loom a, sant petaluma. 04. Mount diablo. 15. A couple 100ths around. Now that its fixed you can see that light rain. Santa cruz mountains has taken the bulk of this. Not a lot to the system. Lets give it credit. It held together. Everybody seems happy about it. Its also very warm. The south wind out ahead of the system, the cloud cover is in place. Some of the lows dip below 70. We will get sun breaks later on and that low is going to dive towards Southern California. Today could get a few little popup showers. I dont think thundershowers. But if it does, sonoma, napa county, farther east. The dynamics arent in place for that. 71 hayward. Livermore 70. Water temps are just crazy warm. They are about 64 to 65 for monterey to Half Moon Bay. 65 ukiah. Almost 70 in monterey which is the same as sacramento. Just incredible. About a third of an inch. I know shelter cove had about a third of an inch as well. Thats not bad for some up in mendocino county. I think i saw yorkville, boonville. 01 to a quarter. A little bit. There is some of that rain showing up now that the radar has been fixed. A lot of this is lowlevel stuff. Drizzle, light rain, cloudy, warm to mostly cloudy. 80s for some. These are way above. San francisco, oakland. Now we may set our high temps before noon and once this system goes through then the cooler air will begin to move in and temperatures will take a little dip. These are above average. Some off and on light rain. It looks like its going through right now. Partly sunny. Heaviest rain Santa Cruz Mountains, Russian River. Slight warm up through the weekend. A Volunteer Fire Department in San Diego County is under new management after firefighters reportedly were caught stealing water from a nearby town. Take a look at the photo that started all this. It reportedly shows san pasquale volunteer firefighters using a fir