neck says amy, not as investigators first reported. some procedures might be in store after the escape. robert thank you. gender discrimination sexual harassment and big money. this is the biggest day so far. high profile trial that captivated the silicon valley. ellen powell took the stand. powell claims she was fired from the legendary venture capital film after she claimed to be sexually harassed by a partner. she admitted to having an affair with that partner. mark joins us from san francisco. mark? reporter: the past couple of weeks we ve been hearing from other witnesses saying that ellen powell was a quiet woman that could not hold a room. today she spoke up a nearly packed courtroom listening to every turn in her story. the ivy league educated ellen powell with a law degree mba from harvard and electrical engineering degree from princeton, talked about the loosey-goosey way cliner perkins handled her reports of sexual harassment. on the stand, powell testified tha
so from 3:30 to 4:00 we saw that total come down almost half an inch. you can see this is the most rain we ve had since april 8. about half an inch of rain. you have to go back to february 6 to see some heavy downpours on the order. you can see all of the lightning and thunder. lightning strikes. trivalley the hardest hit early. right now, we have a last little line moving through the bay area right now into fremont. still some downpours right now for your evening commute. 61 degrees right there. you can see the showers lifting from south to north. not quite done with the system yet. still a few more showers in the forecast and a lot of snow out of the system for the sierras. a full look at that in the forecast in a few minutes. thanks. half of the bay area are wondering what s the big deal but the other half this is what it looked like. it s national bike to work day. our colleague biking on the nbc studios. this is along central expressway in santa clara. riding through
well, it s a 12-hour hike up and back for these young men and a lot of things changed during the course of those 12 hours. the mensah the fire jump into the valley, then it was suddenly burning east of half dome. then something happened they ll never forget. at one point we saw two swedish women like sprinting and frantic. and they stopped and talked to us for a second and asked why we weren t running down the mountain. in all of our perspective we kind of thought it wasn t a serious thing. just the position of the fire and where we, were we thought we would be okay. reporter: turned out they were okay. the men shot these pictures for us. it was when they were well along the trail coming down off of half dome they saw the sky blacken and the wind was blowing the fire towards them. they saw the helicopters going to the top of half dome but they didn t know about the evacuations via helicopter until they were done with the hike. these guys are truly adventurers. i said, at
back to you. all right, thank you. if you have a tip for janna or anyone else in our investigative unit, we urge you to give us a call at 888-969-tips, or send us an e-mail directly to theunit@nbcbayarea.com. new at 6:00, isis hits close to home. it appears twitter employees in san francisco are getting death threats from the terror group. the threats reportedly showed up on a twitter account with ties to isis. that s the islamic rebel group that has murdered hundreds of people in iraq and syria, including two american journalists. nbc bay area s mark matthews is live outside twitter headquarters in san francisco with the tweets and reaction. mark? reporter: roughly 800 people that work for twitter in san francisco. the company occupies three floors of this 11-story building that you see behind me. and the folks that work here are being singled out in death threats. excuse me, sir? twitter employees are not eager to talk about it publicly. i have nothing to say. rep