Teenager and then sharing the sickening assault on social media. Kpix 5s veronica de la cruz is here with the disturbing video. Reporter allen, the suspects are accused of relentlessly torturing and taunting the victim and broadcasting the entire thing live on facebook. [ screaming and cursing ] reporter the 18yearold victim was tortured for a full 30 minutes. The actions on that video are reprehensible. Reporter police say the four suspects all black held the white victim for up to 48 hours beating him live on facebook on the second day while hurling racial slurs. [ censored ] donald trump [ censored ] white people Reporter Police say one of the suspects 18yearold jordan hill was a former classmate of the victim and may have lured him into the attack. When he was dropped off it was under the premise that he would be spending the night with his friends so his parents naturally didnt look for him until the next day. Reporter the victim eventually got away. Police later found him disoriented and wandering in the street. It took most of the night for him to calm down enough to be able to talk to us. The disability and racial comments played a role to charge the suspects with hate crime. They are due in court tomorrow. Thank you. Investigators say two bay area lawyers smuggled contraband into the courtroom either accidentally or intentionally. The San Francisco examiner obtained these photos of the alleged drugs. Deputies say marijuana, meth and other ems were hidden inside a shoe box. One attorney said an unknown woman asked him to give the shoes to his client who was a defendant in county jail. The Sheriffs Office says this case is under investigation and no arrests have been made. On storm watch, a monster rain and snowmaker zeroing in on Northern California this weekend. The sierra is going to pick up at least 10 feet of snow but only at the highest elevations, the biggest rain event for years sending torrential flooding into the Central Valley potentially. A lot of that could end up in Yosemite National park where the merced river is expected to surge close to recordbreaking crests from 20 years ago. The 1997 flood caused so much damage to the park property, roads and utilities, it didnt reopen for two months. Plenty of rain will be soaking the bay area, as well. Some spots could get several innings. Kpix 5s emily turner in san rafael where people have been using the dry day to prepare. Reporter this has been a very popular spot. In fact this pile of sand, it was a pile of sand about four feet high and its almost down to the ground. But let me tell you, this isnt easy as any of these folks here will attest. Make sure you bring plenty of lep. One more. Reporter free labor for storm prep. Christopher dixon and company were filling up their sandbags today in san rafael under sunny skies. Rainy ones havent been very nice to them. Last rain we had flooded our whole backyard so we had to dick a trench out and i just cant do another trench again. Im done. Reporter so he put his crew to work. And they had plenty of folks to keep them company. Thank you for your help. Reporter pleasantries aside sandbagging is Serious Business and firefighters say one that should be done ahead of time. One more. You dont want to wait until the storm is hitting to come out and do this in the rain. Really its coming out in advance and preparing knowing how many bags youre going to need. Reporter theres an art to filling them up too and thats not filling them up. You just want to fill the bag halfway to threequarters of the way full. You want to leave some room so you can tie it off and you also want to keep it easy to work with so the more sand, the heavier it is. Reporter for serious flooding or stronger flowing water, a pyramid stacking system works best, or theres the basic single stack method like christopher is doing to stave off standing water in the coming weekends washout. Were having some flooding issues, so we wanted to be clear with this new rain coming in on saturday. Reporter if you need more information on how to pack or place them, you can go to the army corps of engineers website. Live in san rafael, emily turner, kpix 5. So when exactly should we expect all this rain . Let get right over to kpix 5 chief meteorologist paul deanno. As soon as the weekend begins the rain begins. Theres going to be a lot of water this weekend. Tonight kpix 5 hidef doppler thankfully we are getting a dry break which will stretch into most of friday. Nothing on the radar anywhere in Northern California. But the first watch was just issued from the weekend storm. It is a winter storm watch from moderate to heavy snow beginning as soon as friday evening in the sierra. The highest peaks of the sierra will get two feet of snow by saturday morning. The snow level is going to be super high with this storm all the way up to 8,000 feet up to 10,000 feet by sunday afternoon. Heres futurecast. Lets go hour by hour. Lunchtime tomorrow no storm, no clouds. We are sunny. Here comes the cloud cover. And then right around 11 00 tomorrow night and midnight saturday morning, thats when the leading edge of the rain arrives and were talking about as much rain as we get in all of january we could see in a few spots near in the bay area just this weekend. Well talk specifics and when it moves out coming up. Pg e trying to keep up with all the calls from customers who are just now realizing their heaters arent working. Kpix 5s Susie Steimle tells us how these heater housecalls can be prevented. The thermostat didnt even work. Reporter the past two nights for Alberta Montero have been cold. Very cold. Reporter her thermostat disconnected from her pilot light leaving her in the cold for roughly 36 hours. Pg e anticipates it will receive 100,000 calls like this one during the come months. Really, when the first cold spell hits that we see our huge uptick in jobs. Reporter Matthew Ramirez says these calls can easily be prevented. If you can give us a call august, september, we can set you up right away and its a lot easier for us and you never have to worley about something not working in that first cold spell. Reporter routine inspections are not required. In fact, pg e doesnt regularly inspect peoples homes without the customer requesting they do so. Its on the customer. When we turn on gas service or start new service, we do all of our inspections. Once someone moved in there, its up to them to give us a call if they feel like something is not right. Reporter additionally, most customers underestimate the threat gas Heating Systems can pose which is why if something goes wrong you shouldnt try to fix it yourself. A lot of people dont think of gas appliances as hazardous objects. And they put all of their cleaning, all their storage right around it. Reporter for alberta, the problem was diagnosed in a matter of minutes. Fortunately, thats the case most of the time, especially as temperatures will continue to drop causing call volume to go up this winter season. In San Francisco, Susie Steimle, kpix 5. In the south bay thousands of county workers got to stay home today after a power outage shut down the entire building. Sources say the problems actually started yesterday afternoon at the Government Center in san jose including things such as work supervisors, building permits, board of supervisors, marriage licenses and birth certificates. A lot of people showed up this morning to do business but had to be turned away. My wife and i came from lost banos to come and get a birth certificate to prove i was born and looks like its closed due to a power outage so its kind of a bummer. Came about two hours from out of town. Santa clara county sheriff says there is no timetable for when the power will come back on. But normal operations will continue tomorrow. Toyota is the latest automaker on president elect Donald Trumps radar. He tweeted today the Company Plans to build a new plant in baja, mexico. But comments, no way build plant in the u. S. Or pay big border tax. Within five minutes of that tweet, toyota stock dipped with its market cap dropping more than 1. 2 billion but it made up some of the losses. By the way, toyotas announcement actually came back in april of 2015 that it would build a factory not in baja but in central mexico. Also today, president elect trump completed a deposition over his legal battle against a celebrity chef. He sued a man for breach of contract after the chef backed out of a plan for a restaurant in trumps new luxury washington, dc hotel. Andres claims he canceled plans for the project after trump made disparaging remarks about mexican immigrants during his president ial campaign. And top u. S. Intelligence Officials Say there is no question that russia interfered with the u. S. Election thats despite president elect trumps doubts about the hacking. Kpix 5s melissa caen reports they believe it may have been part of an even bigger operation melissa. Reporter yeah. Today, the National Intelligence director testified before a senate panel. He says foreign Cyber Threats are very real and should not be taken lightly. National intelligence director James Clapper told a Senate Committee that russias interference in the 2016 president ial election was a multifaceted campaign. The hacking was only one part of it that also entailed, um, you know, classical propaganda, disinformation, fake news. Reporter clapper says russias involvement is a major threat to the u. S. Government and military whether or not that constitutes, um, an act of war, i think, is a very heavy policy call. Reporter president elect trump has been dismissive of the intelligence communitys conclusion that russia tried to influence the election. This week he appeared to embrace the claims from wikileaks founder Julian Assange that leaked emails were not from russia. This morning mr. Trump tweeted the Dishonest Media likes saying that im in agreement with Julian Assange. Wrong. I simply state what he states, it is for the people to make up their own minds as to the truth. Lawmakers say the government is not prepared to respond to Cyber Attacks and the new Administration Needs to develop a strategy. We have an attack and we do not have sufficient defenses. Reporter this afternoon, mr. Trumps Team Announced that dan coats a former indiana senator will replace clapper as the director of National Intelligence. The heads of the cia, fbi nsa and National Intelligence agency will give president elect donald trump a finalized rereport on the alleged russian hacking tomorrow in new york. Cbs news has learned that mr. Trump is also considering restructuring some u. S. Intelligence agencies. Live in the newsroom, melissa caen, kpix 5. The republican push to repeal and replace obamacare is in full swing. Today House Speaker paul ryan said that lawmakers will not only dismantle the Affordable Care act this year, they will also replace it with a republican alternative. Its unclear what that will be. Ryan assured millions of americans who depend on the current Healthcare System that the transition will be careful and deliberate. What you thought you knew about peanut allergies and kids may be wrong. Coming up, what medical experts are now telling parents to do at a young age. Plus, a flight crew forces two sisters to miss their final moments with their dying father. How the airline is now responding. And a close call at buckingham palace. Why the queen of england was almost gunned down by one of her own security guards in the middle of the night. ,,,,, were told to live large, but with Princess Cruises your most extraordinary moments happen when you feel small. When youre completely outnumbered, overshadowed, and outshined. So what if you dared to explore this great big beautiful pond. What if you dared to feel small. Celebrate our princess anniversary sale with Award Winning itineraries. 7 day fares from 799. Visit your travel agent or princess. Com. Princess cruises. Come back new. Americans have Food Allergies. And the number of children suffering from deadly peanut rgies continues to millions of americans have Food Allergies and the number of children suffering from deadly peanut allergies continues to grow. But now experts are telling parents to feed peanuts to babies gradually. Kpix 5s maria medina spoke with one dad we know about the new guidelines just issued. Reporter you may know him as kpix 5 reporter kiet do. But he is also a husband and dad. So these are the epipens. Reporter a dad to a little bit allergic to peanuts. His throat will start tightening up. His body will start developing rashes and hives. Reporter kiet and his wife discovered lucas allergy at a year old after he ate a Peanut Butter sandwich. Doctors told them then, keep him far away from peanuts. The worstcase scenario is when their throat tightens up and they cant breathe and that is just scary. Reporter but now new guidelines are telling parents to do the total opposite, introduce high risk babies to foods containing peanuts. According to the National Institutes of allergy and infectious diseases. We are saying not only its okay, were saying go do it in these high risk children. We need to get peanut into their diet early to try to prevent peanut allergy. It is a little scary to to think that heres this thing, this peanut that they are telling to us avoid like the plague but to say, give it to your kid early. Reporter lucas has been rushed to the er about a half dozen types and his parents now carry around an epipen wherever they go. This would essentially save his life. Reporter but kiets advice for other parent out there, give the new guidelines a shot. If this is what doctors are recommending, this could save you a lifetime of fear and anxiety. Reporter kiet and his wife actually introduced peanuts to lucas when he was just six months old but maybe not enough. According to the new guidelines, not only do you have to give peanuts to babies regularly but you have to give it to them in the first four to six months. In san jose, maria medina, kpix 5. Samsung is virtually killing its fireprone galaxy note 7 smartphone. Today carriers are rolling out a Software Update that prevents the phone from recharging or even connecting to the network. The phone is under a worldwide recall after several of them overheated and caught fire. Samsung says that most of the phones have been returned. But more than 100,000 of them are still out there. A lot of us feel that there were not enough incidences out of how many phones were actually out there for it to be a serious problem. Its less than 1 chance. Samsung says that anyone with the note 7 can exchange it for another phone or get a full refund. Two sisters are kicked off a flight while trying to make it home to see their dying father. Now they have they are demanding the airline fire the flight crew. Tricia baker and Debbie Hartman were headed to North Carolina from orlando to see their ailing father. The sisters say as the flight was preparing to take off, debbie started to have a panic attack. So tricia went to console her. Sources say the situation escalated when tricia confronted the Flight Attendant for not being sympathetic to their situation. She said, youre being very rude. My father is dying. And im comforting her. And they said, she needed to keep her personal problems off the plane. The sisters tried to catch another flight the next day but their father died before they could arrive. Allegiant air says they are investigating the incident and released a statement saying, quote, we rely on our crew members to provide and oversee a safe environment for every passenger. We expect that authority to be exercised both judiciously and consistently with empathy and with good judgment. Teslas plant outside of reno is now up and running. The giga factory as they call it which is east of reno rolled out its first battery cells. Those will power teslas Energy Storage products and eventually the model 3 electric car. Right now, nearly 3,000 people are working at that plant, 4,000 more expected to be hired this year. By next year, tesla expects to double the worlds Production Capacity for lithium ion batteries. Engineers say they know what caused the falcon 9 rocket to explode last september, most likely triggered by the failure of a High Pressure helium tank spacex resuming orbit flights on monday. In the middle of the night walk, the Queen Elizabeth was nearly shot. In a recent interview a now former palace guard says that one night about 3 a. M. , insomnia got her out of bed walking through the palace grounds. The guard saw her shadow and thought she might be an intruder. He held his fire. Her majesty told the guard, quote, next time ill ring through beforehand so you dont have to shoot me. Our weather, we got some rain coming a lot of rain. Especially in a few hot spots in northern and Central California which maze the biggest flooding they have seen which may see the biggest flooding they have seen in 20 years. What a fantastic sunset now but boy are things going to change. Your stormy forecast next. And coming up all new at 6 00 tonight, california drivers have been warned if theres a phone in your hand, you could get a ticket. Officers now cracking down on the states tough new hands free law. We ride along to see if the drivers are getting the message. But first, the markets closed mixed today. Heres the closing numbers from wall street. , a little bit of sunshine and the dryout. Much appreciated. Its a break. It is a break and Santa Cruz Mountains drying out just a little bit. 48 hours, its not going to be completely dry when the rain picks up again but it will help because we do have some pretty significant flooding concerns. Not for the bay areaproper. South and east of here, absolutely. Take a look at the radar tonight. It is dry. It is going to be dry until 10 p. M. Tomorrow night and the rain moves in and its with us all weekend long. Often i tell you what part of the weekend is going to be wet . This weekend its all weekend. Concord 49 clear and chilly. Before the flood watches get issued, we have a freeze warning for tonight. All inland valleys thats north bay east bay and parts of the Santa Clara Valley anywhere between 25 and 32 degrees. Its going to be very cold tonight even fremont dropping to 32. San rafael 30. And santa rosa 25 degrees. Thats the cold tonight. We are dry tomorrow. And then here comes the storm. This is hawaii down here. San francisco and california up here. The jet stream is aimed directly between the two coming from the south and west so its a juicy jet stream and theres the storm getting closer wrapping around this area of low pressure. That is whats going to cause all the problems in northern and Central California this weekend. A significant storm coming with a lot of rainfall. So lets break did down for you. Futurecast now goes all the way through the weekend. Saturday morning its already pouring in parts of the bay area. Saturday afternoon, it is still raining. Saturday night is likely when the heaviest rain will fall especially in santa cruz county, santa clara county, and san mateo county. Still raining sunday overnight, still raining sunday morning and afternoon, likely not ending until sunrise monday. 48 to 60 hours of moderate to heavy rainfall in the bay area. Adding up to some impressive rainfall totals up to 3 inches of rain in the south bay, 4 for the east basis, up to half a foot for the north bay and 4 for the peninsula and city and 4 for the east bay. Santa cruz mountains likely doubledigit rainfall in a few spots. Soaking rain and wind is likely for the majority of the weekend. Now, for the bay area, our big cities, just heavy rainfall. Widespread flooding problems not likely small stream flooding yes, street flooding yes, but river flooding no. Significant Flooding Risk is in the mountains and valleys where we could see the biggest flooding in ten to twenty years. Your extended forecast, we are wet and windy both weekend days and were not getting a break. Monday night the next storm rolls in and well have rain tuesday through thursday. Thats your soggy forecast. Well be right back. ,,,,,,,,, and were already seeing some of this yea countrys biggest Tech Convention under way in las vegas and were already seeing cool gadgets. A Silicon Valley company is catering to new mothers to make pumping breast milk easier. Willow is a first smart wearable breast pump. The device fits in a womans bra pumps silently and dishwashersafe. It launches in the spring for 430. And then theres the worlds biggest flash drive. The data traveler ultimate gt can store up to two terabytes of data or more than 160hd movies. The body less than 3 inches long, the price tag still under wraps. And soul cycle for kids. Oh, gosh. Fisherprice is showing off its smart cycle. An exercise bike with a tablet holder that will go on sale this fall for about 150 bucks. You need that when its going to rain this weekend. Yes. They can still play the game but they are getting all their energy out. Genius. Brilliant. Dad on the treadmill. Captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com captioning sponsored by cbs captioning sponsored by cbs io ss elliott he has no doubt russia did it. We stand, actually more resolutely on the strength of soat statement. At elliott americas top spy says russia hacked the d. N. C. And fires back at the president elect. Theres a difference between skepticism and disparagement. Elliott also tonight, four African Americans are charged with racially motivated hate crimes in the torture of a disabled white man. They were beating him, kicking him. Elliott doctors do an aboutface on how best to prevent kids from getting potentially deadly peanut allergies. And, well show you how pella the dog helps young witnesses tell their stories. Good girl