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Surrounds the community of rock springs in san jose where to it the coyote creek overflowed in february sending floot waters into the streets. Also sent rescue crews into emergency mode plucking unsuspecting victims from homes. The flood is bad. We all my stuff is gone to the flood already. You lost everything. Umhum . 116 people remain in temporary housing as the repairs to apartments continue. Water district says it took a lot of red tape to work on the berm with the army corpse of engineers giving the final approval. We were getting the final permits to get the action in the cream. Its a band aid not a fix but enough to offer some insurance. The permanent fix requires more funding and more red tape. For now local leaders hope they put safeguards in place to minimize the impact of future floods. Navy created the color coded alert system to warn residents when the water levels rise. We learned today the seismic retrofit of the dam will not again until 2020. It was the release of water from that dam that caused the streets to flood. Live in san jose, Damian Trujillo nbc bay area news. Thanks damian. Well the same storm moving into the bay area is bringing snow in the seer aire. Look at the resort near lake tahoe. The snow is picking up. Thom jensen at the resort joins us in ten minutes. An invite to have coffee with anmentry School Principal is raising eyebrow. Because of how that coffee was planned, grated by race. The ininnovate went out to parents in the Pleasanton School district one parent says the move was divisive and offensive. Jody hernandez is in pleasanton this evening with the response from the parents and school officials. Jodi. Reporter raj the invitation to coffee with the principal not going down well with some parents at the elementary. Tonight the district says the principal only meant to encourage parent participation. I thought we were in 1954 for a second. This pleasanton mother who didnt want to show her face on camera is outraged over of an invitation to coffee with the principal. Last week the principal at vintage hills elementary invited parents to coffee but the meetings were scheduled by race. The principal said the purpose, to address the needs of english learn ebbers and marginalized populations. Its dividing our community amongst racial lines and assuming our needs and desires are inhirntly different. The intent of the meeting was to create spaces for parents that maybe had not engaged with the School Community before. The district spokesperson says the principal didnt mean to offend anybody. But the district is looking at ways to improve the approach in the future. An education professor at uc berkeley says while holding the race specific meetings is unusual it could be helpful, especially at a time some people feel targeted. To break them out in these specific groups is sometimes necessary so that people parents that is have the space to feel encouraged to speak their terms and their truths about the pressures they feel. But this parent says she and others would like an apology. She believes the school should be focused on uniting, not dividing. Theyre not just white concerns. Theyre black concerns, korean concerns. Concerns of our community. Reporter the district says the first coffee meeting with the Korean Community took place yesterday. They say it was highly successful and they actually heard from parents they had never heard from before. Reporting live in pleasanton, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Thank you, jodi. A young woman is admitting she called in the threat to blow up dublin high school. Taylor pearson told investigators he did it because she was upset about an assault on the a student at the school. The assault happened last month a boy punched a girl in what appeared to be a racially motivated attack. The parents of the girl are angry the boy wasnt expel. Pearson who is a former student said she was upset about how it was handled. She turned herself into policen is facing charges of making the threat. The threat forced the school to dismiss students for the day. A tragic story on the peninsula. Droems of being firefighters but now a Memorial Service is planned for three teenagers who died in a crash in san mateo county. Investigators say the car carrying the three young men crashed off skyline boulevard on tuesday night. Family members were the first to conceiver the wreckage on wednesday morning after an extend extensive search. Today was revealed that all three had been in the menlo park Fire District fire Explorers Program, 19yearold Andrew Gonzalez on the left was childhood friends with ricky torres on the right. Torress if a father is a menlo park firefighter. Their other close friend is 18yearold matthew cruz who graduated with them from menlo high school. The fire engineer who runs the Explorers Program said all tlie had bright futures. Yes they started off as explorers but thats the bottom running on the fire service. They are climbing up that ladder fast. And i im still in shock. And im hurt and devastated. Its tough for the entire community there. The families want to hold a joint Memorial Ceremony to honor all three of the close friends. Chp says its still investigating the cause of that crash. New evidence today of just how far Russian Internet trolls got in the effort to impact the 2016 election. In hearings earlier this week several members of the mouse and senate referred to bog us twitter accounts they say were created by russia to influence the election. Now melt water a Global Intelligence Media Company has gathered a database that referenced all the tweets thp this list includes more than 3,000 news outlets from across the globe. Among the news agencies, the washingtons pz, dale mail and huffing ton post and dozens of National Website abincluding nbcnews. Com. Speaking of twitter the San Francisco Bay Area Company announcing changes after an employee purposely took down President Trumps twitter account. It was down for 11 minutes yesterday. Twitter released this tweet today saying the company implemented new safeguards to prevent an employee from disabling an account as this investigation continues. Also today the president reacted on twitter of course saying my twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out and having an impact. The unnamed employee disabled the account on their last day and is get ago ton of support on twitter some calling him or her a national hero. But the employee could be facing legal troubles tonight at 6 00 our business and tech reporter skut budman speaks to Silicon Valley security seniorities experts say we should be worried about what happened yesterday. Within the past hour President Trump land pd in hawaii. He just tweeted this. He is looking foor forward to meeting military members at pearl harbor. This kicks off the 11dy trip to china, south korea and vietnam among other asian countries. Mr. Trump trying to shift the focus onto the democrats specifically claims by former party chair dona brazil she wrote in a soon to be released book that the Hillary Clinton campaign essentially took control of the exactic National Committee and the entire party undercutting bernie sanders. President trump wants attorney general Jeff Sessions looking looking into this. A lot of people are disappointed in the justice department, including me. Now its illegal for a president to have a former opponent investigated. Jeff sessions also faces new claims that he lied to congress when he denied knowing about any russian contacts. He is pictured here with the president and former advise George Papadopoulos who is cooperate wg the fbi. Papadopoulos says in this photograph he offered to set up a meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin which never happened. A controversial Law Enforcement tool up for discussion right now. Will San Francisco Police Officer be allowed to carry tasters . Past sp Police Chiefs have asked but been denied. So the department is trying again. Nbc bay area kristy smith is live outside city hafl where the meeting is under way. Reporter thats right this idea has been blocked before. But San Francisco Police Believe the timing is right. Now, opponents have been vocal and been very effective. In fact some just out here before heading up to the meeting. Its a national standard. Commander peter walsh says San Francisco and boston are among the last big cities in america where officers still are not authorized to carry the devices commonly called tasters. The police chief believes its time for that to change. We believe ceds are an effective use of force in situations that warrant intermediate force. It is not something that will stop all encounters. But its a viable option. Previous Police Chiefs have tried but faced overwhelming opposition. Police say they believe the devices could help end encount ert faster and more safely they point to the justice dp as an ally. When you tum with the d. O. J. Recommendation that is precisely say we basically strongly believe you should deploy it you know with community insput. The citys Human Rights Commission garthered input at meeting sfloos we heard pretty much first off the top that people have major concerns. Executive director cheryl davis says the commission has not formally taken a position but they say their research showed a vast majority of residents were opposed to tasters. This isnt about yes or no on tasters for me its not decision to make but ultimately im saying that now is maybe not the best time because there is still a little bit of a or quite a bit depending who you talk to lack of trust between community and police. Now im told right now that this meeting is already very crowded. And they are expecting a very long night. Reporting live in San Francisco, kristy smith nbc bay area news. Thank you. Up next here at 5 00 more legal trouble for movie producer Harvey Weinsteinen. Ac zakss of rain within the statute of limitations. Almost a foot of snow tonight and another foot tomorrow. A warning for drivers and the decision one ski resort made about the week ahead. The Doppler Radar shows this scattered rainfall with some of the wet weather across contra costa and alameda counties and how long the rain lasts in the weekend at 5 20 tonight. When you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. Visit kp. Org to learn more. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. The new York Police Department movie mogul Harvey Weinsteinen could be charged with raich. The new York Police Department says its working on a case against hip dozens of women have come forward accusing him of Sexual Harassment or sexual assault. Many accusations are from years ago. But today the ny p. D. Revealed a 2010 claim is within the statute of limitations. Actress. Paz did he la hurt aifr has gone public with claims that weinsteinen raped her twice in her apartment. We have an actual case here. So we are happy with where the investigation is right now. Mr. Weinstein is out of state. Woe need a a an arrest warrant to arrest him right now we are the gathering evidence. Weinstein is reportedly in arizona right now. Police saying in los angeles and london have also opened assault investigations against weinstein. Well it will take years to clean up and then rebuild the fire zones in the north bay. Kal fire is now posting video yut attention opinion the update today they are making progress. Still controlling erosion fix fences and prevent dirt and rocks from running into the water and harming wildlife. The big benefit concert is less than a week away. This is our exclusive live cam at at t park. You can see the stage set up for a lot of different events for dream force next weeks and the benefit concert on november 9th meltsica dave matthews, g easy and the grateful dead members. Tickets are available. Head to nbcbayarea. Com. We posted a direct link to get the tickets. Be sure to join us tomorrow night for the special. Calling wine country strong. Profiles heroic efforts of the volunteers, neighbors and first responders. And how our communities plan to reable. At 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow just before snl. Look at the new video. A cold autumn storm moving in mp nbc bay area thom jensen is live at boreal ski resort. Action looks like the snow stopped briefly. It did, janell. It was snowing most of the afternoon. Even though were at 7,200 feet you can see the snow is very slushy right now. And thats going to of course translates into ice on the highways on i80. There are warnings in place. But all of this is good news for the businesses up here. The view from boreal ski drone camera was all management needed to see before making a crucial decision. On wednesday we will open for the 201718 season as the first ski resort open in california. Reporter warnings on i80 for folks heading to the area for a white weekend. Chains are suggested and may be required over the passes. Winds could gust up to and above 40mileperhour and a foot of snow is expected. Nearly 2 feet through the weekend. As boreal theyre not leaving everything to mother nature. Snow making machines are placed below the chair thats scheduled to open on wednesday. Were going to try and hammer as much snow as possible to have the best product we can offer on wednesday for opening day. Reporter and those chairs are right up there. The snow making machines will start spitting out the snow later on tonight when it gets colder. Thats when a lot of the natural snow is also supposed to fall tonight. Maybe up to 10 inches or more. We should see the caltrans trucks roll be then trying to keep the snow off the highways. Its still slick and chains are suggested by caltrans. Life at boreal in sierra. Thank you. When we see the beanies and soon putting on gloves then he know were in business. We might have maybe resorts may open up for thanksgiving at this rate. We could get another storm next week which could be good news. Its dangerous, though for anyone headed up tonight into tomorrow. All day tomorrow expect that snow for the sierra. Ill have more details on that. But well get you a live low back at the Doppler Radar across the bay area and satellite combined. You can see the activity is hit and miss right now. The largest complex of any shower activity continues here right near san mateo over the bay to fremont and hayward, spotty showers. Also here from dublin into danville. Close to almow. And we had a lot absolute a little bit of activity in concord as with he will pl its staying similar to in in about 11 00 tonight. Then eventually things will start to pick up. Once we see the cold front, the part of the storm system with the heaviest rainfall drop atco 3 00 in the morning it will begin to approach near santa rosa, point reyes and San Francisco, even into 6 00 in the morning its mainly the north bay down to the sf. And thats really the biggest change in the forecast today. The storm is going to have a hard time pushing down towards san jose. So we have a little bit of rainfall in san jose today. But we are not expecting a lot more. You can see by 9 00 in the Morning Saturday most near the north bay and the coast. Lets take you through the morning forecast. Its starting off chilly. Temperatures in the 50s from the south way to the trivalley. San francisco wet roadways tomorrow morning and 54. Lets bring you back to the future cast. We can play the rain out on the saturday. You can see by 11 30 its still north bay chances down to the peninsula, also the east bay. Maybe activity in the south bay. Andp, then once we hit the afternoon hours we see it pushing towards the south and drying weather. Trace amounts to a quarter inch is what we expect for additional rainfall into early saturday morning. Again hard pressed to get big couple a las vegass across the south bay. He heard thoms report. Lets show you the particulars. We are looking at at least another foot through the next 24 hours. Snow level at 5,000 feet. At 7,000 feet one to two feet of snow. Gusts at the summit, 70mileperhour and higher. Snow winds down at sunday at 6 00 a. M. Please be careful if you are heading up. Tomorrows forecast forecast stays cool with 64 in ant okay, of o 61 in santa rosa. On the extended forecast not wet all we could. We dry out saturday evening. Dry for all of sunday. And just a slight chance of shower by 10 00 p. M. Sunday. Also looking dry on monday and tuesday. Possibly another storm wednesday, thursday and friday. Temperatures inland are similar with 50s and 60s as we head throughout the next seven days. So weekend looking good. Tomorrow morning its the biggest chance. A november spritz early on. I like thanks. Up next did you wait in line for the new iphone. Apple tim cook surprising shoppers in downtown palo alto. But there was also a problem. Well explain. Bmw recalled more than one million cars because of the risk of fires starting under happening now, bmw recalled more than one million cars because of the risk of fire undered who hooted. They recommend parking the cars outside until its repaired. We listed the recall on the website. A san jose man is accused of taking pictures of underage girls. He took the photos riding on vta. Back with more news in just about two minutes. Stronger. Ireland may be a small country but it has big ties to bay area. And those ties are about to get strong