Stunt that the nieto carried a taser for his security. And wild day of weather and the north bay. Downpours throughout the afternoon. John, you dont have your good. A light rain or no right . Make it is raining. Look at the puddle of water. The rain is coming down slow but steady. Has been like that for much of the afternoon. Across the north bay it has been a damper since early this morning and this is just what we need. Some people may not feel the same way. Lets shave the earlier video print a couple was driving north of highway 1 and around 11 00 am they came to a flood and tried to drive through it. The car stalled but the couple was able to get to a dry stretch where they had to wait for rescue crews. Early in the morning the heavy rains caused an awning to collapse at the kmart. No one was hurt and the store opened as scheduled and Officials Say the awning was brought on by dry rocks. The vehicle went into a foot and half of water and stalled out. The database fire arrived. They rescued and assisted those votes from be aware of power lines and tries. This is not normal for a can happen. Something we want to make people aware of. There is a reason we tell people to clear gutters and get debris off your roof. This should be a wakeup call. Reporter coming up you will see some more subtle problems caused by the splendor. This weather. It wont stop until this weekend. A lot more problems including how it can wild animals in danger. Live in northern part. You have two different stories want to the north and the south expect it is hard to forecast for the bay area because of these changes dramatically from the north to the separate you can see the rainfall totals adding up towards Sonoma County. That is over the past 24 hours. Santa rosa to pick two 600 the right side not nearly as much San Francisco down towards the central portions the rainfall rates picking up in the past couple of hours. Talk about the big raids, dry conditions in the South Santa Rosa over 2 inches of rain and that will spread to the southward a live camera look at the Golden Gate Bridge. Be careful on the evening commutes. It will be challenging. Impressive downpours. The green area is a Flash Flood Watch in effect for the bay area the exception south bay and east bay, inland tuesday. That takes place through sunday 6 00 pm. The red areas are Flood Warnings and should expire in petaluma around 4 00 pm. And gergel the Russian River junctions beach but those are the two areas of concern. To the radar excessive moisture approaching the bay area. The coverage towards santa rosa, napa like to moderate cells in this region. Moving closer to San Francisco the rain line pushing into pacifica, san mateo, south San Francisco extending across the bay with more activity expanding across the bay area for this is the beginning of what will be a very active weather pattern for tomorrow and the weekend. More coming up. We have you covered with our free weather app. Down loaded for your forecast. Spring training underway and mesa arizona and teams shake off. To open a visit to the field and as mark ibanez shows us one coat is making a difference. Reporter if you think once you make it to the major leagues you dont need coaching, think again for the oakland eighth very fortunate to have Ron Washington and only coaching the thirdbase but look at the video, he is out here before light of day. He helped the young infield. All of this simulates last half, while put in place. No legs or nothing. Just hands. Glove side. Now we go into the things he has to do around second base. You aint seen about touch the ground yet. Good baseball player and Good Students and all of that comes into play. That is the difference. I dont see symptoms. A guy dropped the other you ask what happens and someone says he dropped the elbow. Something caused him to drop his elbow. Thats when look at. I see cause rightofway and fixed cost. Is anything you do in life youre only as good as the detroit. Let the oakland eighth with the worst Fielding Team in the major leagues last year. They hope with all of that extra work and Ron Washingtons expertise all that will change and some of the one 11 losses will turn to victories. The dodgers won that one. Eight, three. The giants three, one winners. Coming up if anyone is well informed about pregnancy it might be your doctors and nurses. The choices people in those fields make one coming to that lifechanging event. Struck the new documentary by Nurse Practitioner shares a story of hospital birth providers that used to give birth at home. It is called why not help . The surprising birth choices. Does some more, thank you for coming in. Lets talk about how the story was portrayed your personal and professional lives cross paths. I had my first son at home seven years ago and at that time i had been working as a Nurse Practitioner for 4 years. I met one other nurse that had her children at home and was curious about what that would look like. I did some research and decided for my low risk pregnancy that was what i wanted for my family. I thought that would be the best choice. A powerful enough experience that business practitioner wants to turn into a filmmaker and tell a story to thousands. I will point did you make that decision . It was after my sons birth, it wasnt until my daughter was born four years later that i decided that wasnt just a one a 100 my sons birth was a powerful and beautiful and doing it a second time at home with my daughter having that experience contrasted against the strong reactions that people have against home births, i felt like there was misinformation out there and fear that i wanted to address. I pulled of a statistic from the cdc after 40 years of decline the percentage of homebirth rose by 29 from 2004 to 2009. Why do 29 increase in your eyes . Four years of decline. Were families have access to information and realize the hospital is not always the safest place to give birth. There is a lot of unnecessary interventions that happened and a lot of risks that come by being in a hospital. That is Peterson Dana comes out with the doctors and nurses that i interviewed and following the film. The documentary exposes a secret without spewing the secret. What are you talking about their . The secret is that people who work inside the system and see birth every day in the hospital which used to go outside of that system for their own birth. Personal choice yes. It is not that many were able to talk about with their colleagues because of the judgments that they would face on their colleagues my question their judgment ever making. The people you talk to at any time while on the clock, were their experiences going to a child someone having a child same try this next time . It is not a conversation that hospital birth providers are having with them in. It doesnt instill confidence that someone is coming to you when pregnant and having the baby in hospital and you say maybe you should think about having a baby at home. I think the assumption is people are going to do the research and come to you for the care that they want. People should be able to have the baby in hospital and have a safe experience for what if a woman has high Blood Pressure or diabetic you tell those women to look at a homebirth or would you steer them to the hospital because of the medical issues . Sector is highrisk conditions that homebirth may not be safest preexisting medical conditions like diabetes and hypertension. Women who are carrying multiple babies, women who have a reached babies for those rates despite risks will be higher. But my children reported hospital i noticed the bill. The difference for homebirth is finances. 35,000 for insurance kicks in. It is expensive. It is. The typical thing that are cost to the consumer often doesnt feel that cost in the same way that you mention in charge your insurance probably paid for most of your parents were asked if you had chosen to have a homebirth your insurance likely would not have paid for it and so even though the cost to the system the overall cost the true cost of a homebirth is far less than the cost to the individual family or consumer can be considerably higher because of the way the healthcare is reimbursement jessica moore, director, why not help . Interesting topic. If interested in seeing the documentary there are some screens in San Francisco at the roxy theatre our march 26 and in petaluma april 19 at boulevard cinema. Thank you. And the Weather Center talking about the rain. It seems like we are ramping up. Exactly. One day at a time. Dont know what will happen for the rest of the month for april but this could potentially be the most significant weather event all winter long. And we arent there yet. Tomorrow we are adding more water and rainfall. Adding more water to each layer as we add more water some more problems. Live the Storm Tracker showing the constant stream of water into the bay area and the focus this morning was up to the north bay moderate to heavy rainfall and even the rain line heading towards San Francisco and guarantors parts of the central part of the paper towards part of petaluma still have this a flash Flood Warning. This has been extended by four hours and you can see to the north towards gergel your Russian River concerns for flooding into saturday. Talking about the Russian River flood stage in little bit as far as the radar here is the coverage, widespread. Santa rosa, napa, concorde towards antioch all of the yellows and oranges. Remove the maps closer to seven San Francisco. This is heavy rainfall in a short term effect on the afternoon and evening commute. Seven San Francisco approaching the bay bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge heard back the maps out more intense downpours first parts of the east bay. Out towards danville and lafayette. Ramrod up rainfall rates nearly 1 4 of an inch an hour. Closer to the peninsula san mateo and towards pacifica good rainfall rates not as much covered in the south if you showers approach that they had been relatively quiet all day long been the focus of to the north. This evening the Flash Flood Watch posted right into the weekend for a good portion of the area except the south bay in and went. Moderate to heavy rainfall and a chance for showers and a selfpaced Flood Warning for the Russian River closer to Johnson Beach to place friday night into saturday right now river levels 16. 7 feet the latest update from your forecast but as above flood stage saturday morning could be approaching 35 feet and flood desert flood stage is 32 feet. Napa river last check 9 feet that can be cresting above flood stage tomorrow afternoon. About 16 feet. We will keep an eye on that. Especially the Russian River backing of several feet above the storm series in the pacifica you can see first friday saturday and sunday for finding up in the pacific some rain tomorrow morning and embraced in the afternoon later in the day and possibly more rate later saturday and later sunday. Will go completely dry just yet. Tonight we have the rainfall coming on board and tomorrow morning a factor for friday morning commute into the early portion of the afternoon were breaks possible but for showers and to be developing and saturday once again more rainfall developing living in from the north. Temperatures for tomorrow lots of 60s for the afternoon high end morning rain and showers and we can go completely dry. Multiple rain clouds later in the day friday. Rainfall can redevelop and sunday and if you want a break possibly monday that a better bet is tuesday of next week. Hopefully the water would be the water but not too much. Johnston beach. Up there they had been getting so much rain for the past couple days and it is picking up. Choosing what your children can watch can be an issue. Coming up see how a website lends a hand. Struck the extract Common Sense Media says he is spending nine hours on average per day looking at a screen for teens, eight, 8 to 12yearold the average is six hours a day. Along with setting time limits Common Sense Media has online resource tool for parents to determine what their child is learning that the content on the screens in with us is Olivia MorganVice President of communications with Common Sense Media. Thank you for being with us. Thank you. The time is important. The content is right up there as well tell us about this topic how did it come about . You mentioned the commonsense showing how much time our kids are spending on screens and that is not including schoolwork. The reality of todays Digital World is that media is like another parents. The good news is media can reach kids in a way that parents and peers here. The key is to figure out the messages and content you want to get in front of them and what age. Lets talk about that. The messages and content and characteristics you might think of to describe that. We worked with experts and parents to figure out the 11 fundamental Character Strengths. Despite the we look for in our kids that embody personal virtues moral choices and some we distill that into 11 Character Strengths project looking at them on our screen. Gratitude empathy compassion courage and selfcontrol life skills moral choices. We cant leave these characteristics into what our kids are seeing . Yes. What our experts did was spent hours going through 600 videos, movies and tv shows and tagging them with those of strengths and appropriate ages. That is a lot of research. Lets put it to work. This is Common Sense Media. Org reviews. Lets say i have a sevenyear old. He made it so easy. I had seven and then lets scroll up and say we want to talk about gratitude. Erotic Character Strengths i click show more there is my gratitude and love the we have here. These are the types of shows think if we can keep scrolling you can find second is the holidays is thinking might get to focus on what they are going to get and would like them to spend more on what does on what other people have. You come up else i think this is a good holiday movie we can watch and i know thats what theyre our discussion guides. There are ways that i can engage your child in conversation about how we can be grateful for what we have. Lets do one last one for but that you want a 10yearold. There is my 10yearold and lets say what are we doing . Courage . Lets try teamwork. Some families sometimes kids can argue and you might want to hypothetically teaches them about teamwork. And my family we are all star wars all the time. My kids are bickering, hypothetically, i can say think about ray and said we have to Work Together to be the dark side. Lets say maybe your family is not a star wars family but you have other movies. Common sense media. Or reviews but reselling you can work this into their time limits . Lets say if you have two hours you want to watch one of these movies. You can have the time limits but it is about being aware of the media they are watching and involved in the content and messages and making it work for you, making media a tool for something positive. A way of positive child development. There are good things out there. Screen time is not all bad. It is here so we should make the most of the present Common Sense Media. Thank you so much. Coming up for the public and face off and a very big debate. The key questions i had. I had. Ahead how many economically distressed cities there are post recession. What will you do . Ctric nissan leaf. How far will you go . How much will you see . Electrify the world. Now with a classleading 107 miles on a charge, the nissan leaf is the best selling electric car in america. Struck the economy has grown every year since 2010 at a poll showed 54 of americans thought the economy was in a recession. Who exactly and how many people are benefiting . Data shows the winners and losers in the bay area as well as across the entire country. The Economic Innovation Group created that he showing distressed communities and read and those prospering and greed. If you look at the bay area you can see San Francisco, south bay are green and more east the orange and red communities where they pop up. San ramon was the top 10 most prosperous cities in the country. In the 4 x 4 taking a deeper look at this economy and joined by steve director of economic group. How region . Great. One thing that crossed my mind as i saw the map is you have one neighborhood, one city that is dark green and right next to it you have a change in color almost to the light orange. That is right. San francisco in our study is one of the best communities and the entire country. Just about everywhere in San Francisco is doing pretty good. If you cross into oakland you get one third of oakland living in a distressed community. One of the 20 of the most across the country. Especially true in a neighborhood with frontera. If you farther east to stockton california it comes as one of the top 10 most distressed. A big divergence from San Francisco to stockton. We hear that word, distressed city. Explain what qualifies that. But lets put up a slide in the 54,000,000 americans live in distressed zip codes. The bottom 20 that is the most distressed newly quarter of adults have no High School Degree over half are not working and the Median Income is only two thirds of the state level. Talking about millions of people. That is right. 50 Million People as you know in the distressed areas, what is scary for us if we will be acute in certain regions of the country. California does pretty well and when you go to the midwest to the west belt places like cleveland and detroit and milwaukee you see distressed throughout the entire city. That is true in the south and Rural Communities in the south. We see some of the most distressed places like mississippi were 40 of the residents of mississippi live in one of these most distressed areas where the numbers about a quarter of that in california. A huge difference when you look at concentrations across the country. A lot of the problems existed before the recession. Why is it so difficult for residents, and politicians to reverse the downward spiral . That is right. It does predict the recession it takes a long time for communities to read the transition to a comment trend we found is the cities that have done the most to adopt and take advantage of the information and knowledge of economies they are prosperous overall. That is why you see good numbers in places like San Francisco and san jose and austin and washington dc. The cities that have taken longer to transition from the old manufacturing economies their workforces have never recovered and as businesses have left still have the opportunities and make also lost me opportunities for new Investment Industries to come into the city for defined a big correlation between cities that have adopted the industries of the new economy and cities that have not and the transition can take a longterm project why are they not getting them back into why does it take so long . Those cities become less attractive. An example, when they lose the businesses that are creating new jobs people, those educated, skilled people in the communities leave and go to other parts of the country where there are better jobs. When you lose the talented workforce Must Companies want to come in the city loses its tax base and ability to invest in the infrastructure and aspects of the citys to make it competitive with our new forms of investment there is less opportunity for people at it is hard to reverse parts that you have a heat map that provides information, email americans are feeling left behind by the economic recovery. What do we do with the information . You identify the areas and cities, what to the residents and leaders do now . The most important thing we think that ties together all of the distressed areas is how you incentivize new forms of investment. That is how you bring in the new industries. A lot of times it will come from outside the community or state. In San Francisco you have one of the strongest investor communities in the country. Howd you incentivize the investors in San Francisco to invest in places like oakland, stockton or invest in cleveland and milwaukee and detroit . It really needs new forms of investment. That takes on a federal level to incentivize for a local level new ways to be competitive. What do you do to draw and the entrepreneurs and investors that are looking for places to put their money and spread that equally . Was scarcely is when you look at the heat map it is almost 2 separate countries. Especially in the south. It is mindboggling. That is right. There are two separate versions of what is happening in the economic recovery over the last several years. The cities that are the most distressed continue to do worse and worse and the cities that have done great continue to do better and better. When you Flash Forward to the president ial election is the two different evaluations on how well politicians have served them how well the this is clise has served and a lot of people in the country are looking for new solutions and leaders because they have lost faith in the system. The good news is there are far more people in the prosperous areas, 80 Million People than in the most distressed. The real problem is those people have a much harder chance to move up of the economic ladder. Celek we have to find a way to bridge the gap. Cofounder director of Economic Innovation Group thank you. And other gop debate will take place tonight. Why this debate can be a turning point in the race for president. Still on a storm watch. Our live look in San Francisco tracking heavy rain for thursday evening and more on the Short Term Forecast san mateo bridge heavy. Picking up in the east bounds. Struck the race for president coming down to the gop. Tonights debate of fostering to make their case. On democratic side Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders did you their seesaw battle. Ross has more ahead of tonights debate in miami florida. Reporter good evening from the university of miami the gop debate about to get underway and 90 minutes per this can change everything for the republicans. Especially for florida senator. Marco rubio. The latest poll shows trump with a 20 point ahead of him in florida. The debate is ruby is last chance to turn it around before tuesdays primary. Many speculate that rubio will drop out of the race if he loses his home state. Rubio strongly denies that. That is 100 false. I have never discussed dropping out with anyone on my team or anyone on the planet. Reporter or clinton and sanders debated in florida on the heels of sanders big win in michigan. The email came up again at the republicans have filed suit to get more emails. If you get indicted would you give up . Oh my goodness. It will not happen i will not answer that. Reporter the candidates sparred over immigration i said welcome those children into the country. Secretary. Clinton said send them back. He voted in the house with hardline republicans for an indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants. Reporter for republicans who spar debacle spar on immigration. Miamidade voters ares two thirds of them are hispanic. Rubio insists he will do well and win florida. We will see. Were see before he does best with his back up against the law. The debate begins in about 90 minutes and we will have full coverage all night long. What we can expect tonight and upcoming primaries on tuesday Johnny Fowler a lot of reports filtering and that ben carson will endorse donald trump. Does it mean anything . Against trump another news story. He is dominating every day news. That means john kasich and revealed and 10 crystal get a lot of attention. It seems like everything they throw at trump the train control. Trump has to win 60 of the remaining states and that is a tall order because almost no one has won more than 50 . Pretty standard for the democrat has to win 30 of the remaining votes. The 50 . Clinton will probably be the winner. But they want to deny trump the minority. Back you have been following this closely. The changes and pivots and name calling. What you expect tonight . We heard trump talking about a softer tone, him up. Were president ial. We are down to 4 and it should be 2 or 3. What you expect . Trump will get off that easy. The most dangerous it included animal you have three wounded republicans. , to her john kasich and marco rubio. He will come out hard. He will. Trump may want to be more president ial but i dont think the others ted cruz and rubio will let him. If rubio loses tuesday, does he get told by a surrogate person to stay in the race . Maybe. I dont know that. If there is a secret person that says stay in the race we need to make sure this go to the convention . Were looking at the election of three. We have three candidates credible, k6, trump and ted cruz and three republican parties john kasich. Evangelical, disinfectant Republican Party in the country club establishment. Will someone say to rubio stay in and lets put the convention and deny trump . Maybe. That thirdparty maybe the country club banker and they have an interest in keeping the parties divided. Before we run at a time you are still preserving she will be a not that is the nominee. Can guarantee it. A lot of people presume it. The numbers are the numbers. What parties interested in michigan is very important and critical. What if there are more michigan down the road . At the map change what would he have to do . And 60 of the vote in every single state that is left and that is almost impossible. It is probable. He only got 50 in michigan. The postdown 20 . Ohio around michigan that will be voting. The important thing that sanders is doing he is making a case for a Progressive Agenda on economics and campaign finance. That is a reason he will stay in even if he is not willing a lot more states for the second no present a candidate has ever won the nomination without losing a state except al gore in 2000. We can talk about this for hours. We have to go. We have a higher than 60 chance of rain fall. It is happening right now with multiple storms moving in especially this morning. Lots of clouds in place and the storm track aiming to northern and central california. Storm one for today another one set for tomorrow and more rain coming on board this weekend. As you can see rainfall totals focusing on the north bay over 3 inches, gergel to do half, hillsboro 2 inches and petaluma 1. 3. Napa 1. 11. The latest on the track that desecrate our expanding over the bay. Flash flood of her petaluma and 10 growth and to 8 00 pm. Up in the north bay for Sonoma County a Flood Warning beginning friday night for the Russian River run johnston speech can crest above flood stage johnston beach. Here is the coverage out there but santa rosa, nevada richmond is coming closer the heavier downpours out there. The yellows and oranges. Nevada around black points. All of this excessive rain towards concorde, san ramon, Oakland Hayward and San Francisco will coming closer and some of the rainfall rates associated with this one sell around south San Francisco a. 70 inches an hour. We had a pounding rain that will be a factor for the afternoon and evening commute. There is the coverage across the portion of the region. Not as much action that we have rainfall moving into parts of san jose the northern parts. Approaching sunnyvale and santa clara. Heavy rainfall in the forecast from San Francisco, so long a. M. Sky cash showing that the over three tonight and friday morning and into the afternoon midmorning rainfall and showers and breaks by mid afternoon trade the chance for a few showers by six about here. Storm series are in the pacific friday, saturday possibly sunday friday rainfall focused for the morning hours. Rainfall can we develop later in the day saturday and into sunday. Refile redeveloping. Our forecast model rainfall redeveloped. The wet friday morning commute. It oclock a. M. Heavy rain out there and downpours. 12 00 scatterbrained is a break in late in the afternoon some more rain showers on friday 5 00 pm. Saturday morning start out drive possibly another band of moisture moves and later in the day on saturday. Watch out for that for the weekend. Especially by sunday afternoon and evening. Temperatures for tomorrow upper 50s to 60s and here is a look at had five day forecast. We need the rainfall but it will come down heavy at times. Be careful out there. Such concerns as well into the weekend. Chance of a few showers on monday and a break for tuesday of next week. Seeing lots of reports on facebook thanks so many spin outs. The commute is dangerous right now. 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Batista became intimate sensation back in october when he flipped his past impact. Bat struck marvel fans want to talk about the newest movie trailer released captain. America silver war. The trailer shows of cities across the world devastated from the fighting between the superheroes and villains. The rift between captain. America and ironman get worse. The fighting seems to pick up in the trailers. Spiderman at the very end. If you are a fan you know, but if you dont know it will hit theaters on may 6. Coming up keeping zika content. By handing out certain special case. There are big concerns about the spread of the zika virus into the u. S. In fort worth officials are handing out special kits to help cut down on the risk. Texas says they have 21 confirmed cases as of yesterday. 20r people who traveled to places where there is a zika outbreak. One woman contracted the virus through sex. Two mosquitoes that could spread the virus were found in texas so officials there are handing out kits with insect repellent. Not just to prevent bites from infected mosquitoes but to also prevent infected people from passing the virus onto the mosquito population. It is very important for those persons who have active symptoms of zika to remain protected from mosquitoes. Because we dont want the local mosquitoes to become infected by biting a zikainfected person, then spreading it throughout the mosquito population in this area. The Houston HealthDepartment Also says hat developed a test to diagnose the zika virus quickly during the first week of symptoms. Trouble is only one in five people will experience those symptoms. May is considered prime mosquito breeding season which could increase the risk of contracting the virus while traveling to places like mexico and bringing it back right here to the u. S. Thats all for us. Over to julie and frank. It is raining out there. Just the beginning. It is coming down. A new storm mavs in with a vengeance drenching the bay area. The north bay is where weve seen the most rain. Rivers are rising. There are now Flash Flood Watches and warnings in effect. Good evening. Im julie haener. Im frank somerville. We want to go right to chief meteorologist bill martin tracking the storm and those flash Flood Warnings and watches. There is a lot going on. In the south bay, just getting rain now but it has been dry south of hayward most of the day. But it has been raining in the north bay all day, to the tune of three, threeandahalf inches. The Russian River has a Flood Warning and a flash Flood Warning out near pengrove on the creek out there. A Flash Flood Watch lasts through sunday. Theres the Flood Warning on the Russian River. It is not flooding now. It will get to just above flood stage as we head into saturday night. Hence the Flood Warning. A flash Flood Warning for the pengrove area. That creek goes up fast. At 9 00 they drop that warning. The big story would be the Russian River. The rain moved through very slowly. As the showers have progressed south weve bumped right into the afternoon commute. Heavy rain, nasty traffic out there. Lots of car wrecks, and rainfall rates right now in hayward,. 5 to. 7 an hour. The rain is coming down fast