Ktvus john sasaki. We begin with our meteorologist mark tamayo. Most of the bay area pick up no more than a few sprinkles excepts pars of the north bay, picking up clouds and light to moderate cells out there. As you can see some of the neighborhoods up towards bodega bay, windsor and sebastopol. Were talking about amounts over an inch or several inches, but not the case today. Just a fraction of that. On live stormtracker 2, that is coming up for you right now, you can see the coverage out. There the one change is developing is this southern portion of the system beginning to approach areas south of the golden gate bridge. You can see the greens and possibly some more heavier showerses approaching the coast. Closer inspection towards pillar point around half moon bay, highway 1, this will be increased in coverage in the shortterm, moving across the bay, just in the shortterm for late tonight into tomorrow morning. Coming up well continue track the rainshowerses and also a few more changes developing for the second half of the weekend. Our taken coverage tcp ips can john sasaki, who joins us from san rafael, where its been raining on and off throughout the evening. Reporter ken a wet night in marin is common during winter, but this winter is anything, but average. A light rain started falling in marin late this afternoon. And is expected to continue into the Early Morning hours. I think its great. Reporter but then this is the middle of winter, during one of the usually wettest months and tonights storm, if you can call it that, will not amount to much. I like it when its nice out, but at the same sense i like water, free fall. Reporter last weekend the downpour put a small in dent in the drought, but much morb rain is need. San need now with little to no rain there is no flooding in sight. Its scary in a different way, affect the agriculture in the area. Its water. I mean, its essential to life. Reporter ktvu meteorologist mark tamayo told me that we may get no significant rain for the rest of the month. We need the water for sure. For all kinds of reasons, but the farmers, the residents, Everybody Needs the water. Water. Were undergoing Climate Change and nobody is talking about it. This is what were dealing with. Reporter and that is what many people here in marin are saying that Climate Change is bringing on more extreme water. Yesterday in fresno, president obama had an ominous warning. The hard truth is even if we do take action on Climate Change, Carbon Pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades. Planet is slowly going to keep warming for a long time to come. So were going to have to stop looking at these disasters as something to wait for. Reporter everyone seems to be hoping for some consistent rain, but after february, there are only a couple months left in our rainy season. Live in san rafael, im john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. Also in marin county, along sir Francis Drake boulevard a pickup truck landed in a ditch. Amazingly november here amazingly nobody was hurt. Oil in the road comes up, the Highway Patrol has said a light rain can be just as dangerous as a heavy downpour. Can you follow mark and rest of our ktvu meteorologists online for the very latest on bay area weather conditions. They are posting updates to twitter and facebook even when we are not on the air. New at 10 00 a berkeley woman is hospitalized after police say she was shot in the back. It happened around 6 00 in oakland near the emeryville border around 57th and lowell streets. Initial reports indicate that the woman may have been shot by a boyfriend or exboyfriend. Police say that the gunman remains on the loose. Officer have not been available to offer any description of that shooter. Muni stations in downtown San Francisco have reopened after a deadly accident. The San FranciscoFire Department says a 45yearold man fell from the platform at the powell street station and was struck by a train and killed at about 4 40 this afternoon. Downtown stations were closed for nearly four hours during the investigation. The victim has not been identified the muni says it has conflicting reports from witnesses about whether the man jumped or was trying to get a dropped backpack. That train operator suffered minor injuries. Authorities are identified a motorcyclist killed hel falling from a freeway onramp in San Francisco today, 42yearold joshua epple was getting ready to enter the road when for some reason he was thrown from his bike. He plunged 30 from the onramp to a parking lot below. Ploy say its not clear if speed or alcohol ways factor. Happening now a live look at San Franciscos union square. You can see little raindrops on the camera lens out there. But for the most part all of the people are gone its hard to believe that two hours ago it was filled with thousands of people, all of them watching the Chinese New Year parade. The cleanup just wrapped up in San Francisco after tonights parade. This is the largest such parade outside of china and draws hundreds of thousands of people along the route through downtown and chinatown. Ktvus Debora Villalon joins us live with the highlights from the big parade. Reporter hi ken, people born in the year of the horse are said to be very animated, and energetic. And that perhaps describes the parade itself. The finale worth the twohour wait. The golden dragon, 200 long, carried by 100 martial artists, built in china and designed to amaze as it always does. But with more than 100 parade entries, there is something for everyone in an event that dates back to the goldrush era. There is a horse, a lot of potential. The mayor says that there is simply nothing like this anywhere. Its literally every language and every race and people come from far away places to enjoy this. Reporter fans come again and again for their favorites. The marching bands, the High School Marching bands. Reporter what did you like . The schools. Reporter its just amazing. We love it, rain or shine were here. Yes. A new years tradition, which is kind of cool. Reporter next among the flashy corporate floats, just enough local charm to kept a stampede unpredictable. Many performers devote hours to preparation and practice before stepping onto city streets and the big stage. And before falling into the procession, they had hours to assembly and wait and warm up. We definitely had to brush up on our parade marching skills. So we definitely had to put a lot of extra rehearsal time into it. Reporter all is worm it, hearing the spectators cheer. The parade caps the celebrate for the lunar new year. Its a blast. Tons of kids and families. Reporter the chief watched it growing up here and now he is even happier to walk it. Gung hay fat choy. Reporter is that all you know . That is it. [ laughter ]. Reporter best wishes and congratulations, have a prosperous and good new year. No rain on the parade, a few stray drops and then it was all shaked away. Debora villalon, ktvu. If you missed tonights broadcast of the Chinese New Year parade, dont worry well be airing it again tomorrow between 3 00 and 5 00 p. M. On ktvu. Our coverage continues online at ktvu. Com. On our homepage you will find videos and a slide show from tonights Chinese New Year parade. The family of a north california woman battling the deadly h1n1 flu virus is praying for a miracle. Bunking is one of hundreds who contracted the virus during a particularly difficult flu season. Back in january she was admitted to the hospital in roseville her husband and children said she never considered getting a flu shot before this. The kids got it. It old people got it, but not healthy people, who you know, it wasnt we werent at risk. I didnt think my parents were atrisk or i was or my sister. Bunnings family has become advocates for flu vaccinations and encouraging everyone to get a potentially lifesaving shot. More details now, state Health Officials announced yesterday that 41 new flu related deaths have been confirmed in california during the past week. In all that makes 243 flu related deaths this season more than double the 106 deaths during the entire flu season last year and another 41 deaths are still being investigated. Here in the bay area we have counted 43 flurelated deaths so far. That includes one new death in San Mateo County confirmed just this week. Santa clara county has the most deaths of the bay area counties with 14. An overnight winter storm is pounding the eastern seaboard tonight. Massachusetts is expected to get the worst of it with up to 15 of snow. The governor there says cape cod and other parts the coastline will experience hurricaneforce winds. Under these conditions , it really isnt possible for us to keep the roads clear and safe given the rate ofsnowfall. Its crazy. Airports back east are still trying to recover from a week of bad weather. Today a reported 800 flights were canceled, but it was much worse thursday when more than 6,000 flights were called off. Tonight sfo Officials Say flights are running on time with no weather delays from east coast, but you can anticipate problems tomorrow especially for flights out of boston and new york. As always you are told to check with your airline before heading out to the airport. This simple crime with not so simple consequences and the one item being sent to you that is making your mailbox a Treasure Chest for thieves. Steal a page from the 6 million man and how doctors can make you perform stronger and faster that doesnt involve bionics. All you have to say is i love you mommy. He is so cute. A special valentines day gift for that young boy and how it took an entire news station too pull off that holiday day surprise. ,. An uptick in mail theft in marin county is raising fears about Identity Theft and mail fraud. Its a trend that has been reported by communities all over the bay area. But as ktvus patti lee tells us mill valley residents are tackling that problem by going shopping. Reporter expecting a new credit card . Annie goldman found her mail halfopen, including her w it 2. It because perforated so somebody could have looked inside and seen any Social Security number. Reporter the visa, nowhere to be found. They said they sent it weeks ago and i never got it and at that point i thought i should file a fraud alert. She is one of dozens of mail theft victim, but the sheriffs Department Says unlike home burglaries mail theft is not a crime of opportunity and only way to protect yourself is with a locked mailbox. We went with goldman to goodmans hardware to look at her options. Peace of mind doesnt come cheap, but with the uptick in reports and heightened fears about neighborhood crime. Really crazy. So people are buying a lot. Reporter the manager says locking mailboxes have been the hottest item in the department for weeks. Daily we have been selling at least 10 or 12. Reporter many mill valley, patti lee, ktvu. More details now on how to keep your mail and Tax Information secret and safe as patti mentioned getting a locked mail post or renting a postoffice box can protect your mail. You can choose to have your documents sent electronically. If you think tax documents stolen. The irs says to contact them immediately along with the post office. A struggle ended when a suspect was shot dead with his own gun. It happened at a home in the 100 kennedy lane in healdsburg. Officials say the suspect was struggling with police officerses when his gun went off. No officers were injured in the confrontation. All four have been played placed on administrative leave while the accident is being investigated. We have new information on a gruesome discovery in mendicino county. Appears a man found to be mauled by dogs was already dead when when that attack happened. The victim was found in the town of calpella, north of ukiah yesterday morning. A deputy shot and killed one of the dogs when it charged him. Another dog, a pit bull ran off. The victim has not yet been identify. People living in california illegally could soon be allowed to buy Health Insurance through state if a newly introduced bill is signed into law. Under the Affordable Care act, only u. S. Citizens can buy policies through health exchanges, such as covered california. The new bill introduced by state Senate Ricardo Lara of Los Angeles County calls the exchange that would cater to undocumented immigrants. That exchange would be paid for with state money. President obama today called on congress to finish passing a bill that would raise the minimum wage to 10. 10 an hour. It would lift millions of americans out of poverty, and help millions more work their way out of poverty. Without requiring a single day in new taxes or spending. It will give more businesses more customers with more money to spend, and that means growing the economy for everyone. This week the president signed an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contractors. Californias minimum wage is set to rise to 10 an hour in 2016. Those who work for a living must be able to live off their work. An in effort to get the city of oakland to increase its minimum wage to the highest in the bay area, church groups, students and labor leaders all rallied today. The group lift up oakland gathered at fruit vale plaza. 35,000 signatures are needed to qualify for the november ballot. We dont want a handout and were not victims. We just want to provide for our family and we want to be better providers and parents. The groups Ballot Initiative would require businesses to give employees 5 9 days of sickleave. This year San Franciscos minimum wage went up to 10. 74 an hour in 2012 voters in san josi approved a minimum wage hike from 8 to 10 an hour. Oscar nominated actress ellen page has announced she is gay. I suffered for years and i am standing here today with all of you on the other side of that pain. The 26yearold juno star came out publicly at a human right conference in las vegas last night. A number of hollywood celebrities have taken to social media, including kevin bacon. A repaving project dubbed jamzilla across international interstate Southern California crews are still working on nearly 6 miles of the sepulveda pass that connects West Los Angeles and the san fernando valley. Two lanes remain open during the day, but all five lane will be closed at night. The plan is to finish this project by tuesday. A woman thrown in jail for failing to return a movie. How she plans to fight the ridiculous charges . Plus. We will continue to wait for justice. Mixed reaction to todays verdict in the case that raised questions about selfdefense and race and what a florida jury failed to do today. New at 10. A new take on staying healthy and how a Bay Area Company is improving parents hame by checking your dna. And in weather a bit more activity on live stormtracker 2 radar, coming up well track the showers as we head into sunday morning and i will let you know if we have any more significant rainfall showing up in the fiveday forecast in a case compared to the Trayvon Martin trial a florida jury failed to reach a verdict on the most serious count of firstdegree murder. Michael dunn was convicted of four counts including attempted seconddegree murder for shooting into an suv filled with teenagers after he asked them to turn down their music. 17 yearold jordan davis was killed. His mother praised the verdicts, but says she is not satisfied. Were so grateful for the truth. Were so grateful that the jurors were able to understand the commonsense of it all. And we will continue to stand and we will continue to await for justice for jordan. The state attorney announced she intends to reprosecutor dunn on first degree murder charge that could bring dunn a live sint with todays convictions he faces up to 60 years in prison. People in South Carolina will still talking about a rare 4. 1 earthquake. Quake hit after 10 20 last night. About serv miles from the town ofennialfield new york of augusta, georgia. Quake was felt as far away as 10 miles away. The u. S. Geological survey says it was a large quake for the area. State averages only 1520 quakes a year compared to thousands here in california. I thought a meteor or an airplane had flown in and crashed right here. You know, i was scared. People said the quake shook items off tables and shelves, but there are no reports of major damage. Openly gay tennis professional Billie Jean King is to be at the closing ceremonies at sochi olympics. The tenace great was chosen as a member of president obamas official delegation. Caitlin cahow two time olympic medalist and also openly gay is another member of delegation. King she is concerned about the treatment of the Lgbt Community in russia. Figure skater Polina Edmunds has finally arrived in sochay for the games and tweeted this photo heading to europe. Since then the 15yearold has been training in germany and austria. The sophomore from san josis Archbishop Mitty High School sat her first olympics. She will compete in the ladys figure skating starting wednesday. A South Carolina woman says she is livid after she was picked and jailed overnight, accused of failing to return a movie that she rented back in 2005 from a now closed video store. 27yearold Michelle Finley was picked up by police on an arrest warrant according to the warrant finley received several letters to return the movies and finley called the whole thing ridiculous. She is out on bail and says she intends on fighting all the charge. A great valentines day surprise for an 8yearold boy and all made possible thanks in part to the magic of television and to the people at one television station in san diego. Hi, i am sean green. That is sean green, who will one day take my place, reading from a fake news script as he sat in the anchor chair at kgtv and seans mom is currently stationed in afghanistan. Sean thought he was there to get a firsthand look at news put on everyday and turns out he was the newsmaker. Turn to your left and see who is over there. Mom well, i all i got to say is i love you, mom. I love you, too sean. Is he just the cutest. The little boy getting something much more precious than a stuffed animal or chocolates this valentines day. But a special conversation with mom, who is serving so far away. You dont see marines cry very often, even women marines, but that a case. A revolutionary way to make your body and mind perform at maximum ability and its not about steroids and what a Bay Area Company wants you to do to achieve your fullest potential. More than a dozen car windows are smashed along a busy street. The advice from police tonight to leave your glove compartment open. New at 10 00 a Silicon Valley company is trying to improve Patient Health by tackling an area that most doctors ignore. In fact, its something many patients never even think about. Maybe you have complained about it. You are conisnt itly tire or not feeling well and your Family Doctor cant quite pinpoint what is wrong with you. The problem might be linked to your dna. Tucked with a any this forest City Building is a start up Company Called genesolve, gene as in your genome, the hold of your dna. Doctors believe that your health should be measured at the molecular level. We cant change your genes, but we can change gene modifiers. Dr. Lee is not just a doctor competitive bicyclist and says lab tests dont always tell the whole story. You can be told that you are normal and, in fact, you are not, you are not optimal and we want to get you where you should be. Reporter 1970s tv show the 6 million doctor man told the story of technology helping an astronaut become superhuman, minus the bionics its an idea genesolve shares. Were doing it at a molecular level with your own physiology. Were just trying to its going to cost a whole lot less than 6 million. Genesolve doesnt expect to turn patients into superheroes, just take them to their own potential. Most people reasonable go and see a doctor when there is something work. We help people get optimized so those things dont goong in the first play. Suri serano is a tv host in los angeles and says the program helped her identify foods that she thought were healthy for had he, but till tully give her allergies, such as turkey and chicken. And . Tuna, which one is of my favorite things. Reporter how do you replace that . Other fish that i im not allergic to. Its how they manage their stress, their sleep and certain food intolerances that dont allow them to absorb nutrients. Dr. Joel beck is say surgeon and says many try to mapping their own body chemistry, but have no clue what they are doing. You go to the gym and people on humangrowth hormone, when they dont need it in the first place. Genesolve is expanding with another office in dallas. If the program proves success, look to see more offices and more patients taking a high tech look at their health. After president obamas visit to the droughtridden central valley, secretaryst state john kerry toured a manufacturing plant in beijing. The u. S. And china pledged to Work Together to limit Greenhouse Gas emissions. In order to meet the global and the economic challenge of Climate Change, undeniably, all of us are going to have to do more. Central Valley Farmers are grappling with the worst drought in decades. During his visit yesterday, president obama pledged 183 million in drought relief fun and says he will ask congress for a billion dollars to address Climate Change. Nearly 20 car windows smashed along San Franciscos Golden Gate Park and now police have planning to step up patrols. Those vehicles were all parked on fulton between 17th and 25th avenues. Kutvs Christien Kafton talked to police about their advice to avoid becoming a victim. Reporter this week neighbors woke up to pile after pile of broken glass on fulton smith. Ryan swindsen says they struck nearly 20 cars and his was one of them. I walked out in the morning and i kind of new something happened and i went over and sure enough, my window was broken into. Everything was pulled out of my glove compart thement. Reporter swindsen says his car has been targeted before and estimates he is out between 2,000 and 3,000 between stolen items and repeated window repairs. He suspects that the thieves live in Golden Gate Park and wants the police to clear out of the park. Reporter San Francisco police say they are stepping up patrols in the area around the park. Well, we have officers that are obviously aware of it and they are looking for suspicious behavior related to auto burglaries. And were doing everything that we can do to address the problem. Police officers say thieves are often looking for small, valuable item like phones, music players and gps units and say to clear valuables out of your car anytime you get out. Another ops may be leaving the glove compartment box open and in view, so possibly if someone is looking to break in to look into the glove box they can say its empty. Reporter police say often times cases like this are the work of one or two burglaries. In San Francisco, Christien Kafton, ktvu. An long time east firefighter struggled to hold back his tears of gratitude as dozens came out to support him as he faced the toughest fight of his life. Firefighter rich voisey was comforted by his son and daughter at a fundraiser to help pay for his cancer treatment. The 53yearold was recently diagnosed with stage iii brain cancer. Voisey was been with the Fire Department for three decades. The station was closed due to budget cuts, but voisey worked tirelessly to have it re opened. My dad, anyone who knows him he is most generous loving guy that would give to anyone and it was so nice to see how many people who know what kind of person he is and want to do the same for him. In all todays fundraiser raised 25,000. Voiseys family says they learned just yesterday that the city accepted his workers comp claim and that means threhave additional financial help to pay for specialized treatment. Standing in line all for one single slot machine. Why special will pem will wait for hours to play for a chance at this particular onearmed bandit. Scattered showers hit parts of the bay area tonight. Ktvu meteorologist mark tamayo can tell you if you can expect rain for the rest of your weekend . We have been tracking quite a few clouds owe there, really waiting for the rainfall. Its taking its time, but an increase in the radar loop over the past two hours in santa rosa, reporting light rain. Basically for the southern half of the bay area, this moisture is moving into the south and west. So with that, the rain showers, the coverage has been increasing. Here is a oasis closer inspection of the radar, closer to south San Francisco, san mateo, extending across the bay, towards Mountain View and sunnyvale. To increase the shower active, mostly light, but a few moderate cells out there as well. This will be the trend, the theme in the shortterm, basically over the next two to three hours with the rain showers increasing in coverage. It is just a shortterm deal because tomorrow most of your sunday in fact, will be dry. For tonight, mostly cloudy skies, some scattered showers as we already showed you out here. Our live camera looking out towards the bay bridge in San Francisco across the bay. Tor tomorrow, wind speeds do pick up, we think around 1020 Miles Per Hour and the extended, suncloud mix with a few extra clouds by late tuesday into wednesday morning. Overnight lows first thing tomorrow morning for your sunday it will be cooler than this morning. Cooler air behind the system. So were thinking lower 40s, napa, San Francisco 50 degrees and san josi in the upper 40s at 49. So here is the weather system moving into northern and Central California right now. This will be the source this as been the source of all the cloud cover for today and overnight the shower activity will gradually spread to the south. We scaled back on the forecast accumulations and this system is just basically falling apart over north california, but Strong Enough to generate the scattered showers. So were thinking about. 05 and verified in the north bay to over. 25 in the north bay coastal hills. The timing basically happening right no into early sunday morning. As far as our forecast model showing you that tomorrow morning this is early tomorrow morning, 3 00. Still showing you showers out there. Into tomorrow at 7 00, in the morning, just partly cloudy skies. You can see what happens. Into the afternoon hours we clear things out with past partly to mostly cloudy skies. This will be a snow producer in th sierras. Right now blue canyon reporting heavy rainfall, and snow levels will be coming down early sunday morning, around 5500 and potentially taking about 3 6. Forecast highs for tomorrow, for your sunday, with clearing skies the readings back up into the upper 50s and low 6060s los gatos 65 and a look ahead at your fiveday forecast. If you want significant rain, i have bad news for you, as you can see for monday, partly cloudy skies. Our next hope and its not much of significant rainfall maybe a slight chance of showers tuesday night into wednesday morning, highest chance would be up in the north bay. These systems alone really dont mean mig with our drought situation of you need more and more and more to stack up one after the other and dont see it right now. Tough winter, thank you, mark. In las vegas, people are standing in line to play a slot machine that has never paid out a jackpot. Its the lions somewhere machine at the mgm grand. It hasnt hit since the casino opened nearly 20 years ago. Some people wait for hours to play, since according to slot machine etiquette, a player can stay as long as they want. Recent news story about the stingy slot machine have brought even more attention. It has to pay out sometime. Coming up Pablo Sandoval debut his new look and hear from his teammates who say the panda is ready to play. The nba Takes Center Stage with allstar saturday night that include a wild dunk contest, see it next in sportswrap. Church of jesus christ of latterday saints. Good evening everyone and welcome to this saturday Night Edition of sportswrap. This is nba allstar weekend. There was once a great deal of anticipation about who would win the slamdunk contest on this saturday before the game . And recent years though the slamdunk has largeler evolved into contrived silliness, which it was again tonight. Warriors represented by Harrison Barnes who had a moment, but was largely ineffective in this new configuration that paired three members of western conference with three from the east. Award for theatrics, would have to go to sacramentos ben marcel mor, using Shaquille Oneal as a prop. In the end it was washingtons john wall with the big night, takion the ball from the wizards mascot and jammed down the win we are the help of social media, wall was named dunker of the night and east team won. That was the marquee event of the evening. The warriors steph curry considered one of the patients in the 3point context, curry had a moment in the first round, he got