This evening, 2 to 4 inches of additional snowfall, todays storm is the weaker of two this week. Details on the next one are coming up in a few minutes. The other big story, oakland mayor libby schaaf stands by her tweet. She warned the people of oakland about pending immigration sweeps. The question is was she within our rights or was it obstruction of justice . As kpix5s phil matier tells us, her critics found this reckless, right, phil . Thats right. This is a combination of politics and public safety. Those are two volatile issues that when they mix up, create controversy. Thats just what oakland mayor libby schaaf did when she warned about the i. C. E. Raids. The question is did she cross the legal line . Lets hear what she has to say. Everything ive done has been legal. So she has, but former federal prosecutor tony brass said putting out a public warning about a planned immigration sweep may have crossed the line. Shes on the threshold of obstruction of justice tore doing what she did. Reporter why for doing what she did. Reporter why . Because you put the agents and police and neighbors in danger. I was sharing in a information in a way that was legal. It was not obstructing justice and it was an opportunity to insure that people are aware of their rights. Reporter still there could be repercussions. Whats going to happen is that federal agents will stop talking to local Police Agencies and the reason that communication is so vital is for the safety of everybody. Reporter schaafs warning on the pending i. C. E. Raids is also slammed by critics of sanctuary cities. This seems to be mostly a political stunt. Its not going to stop i. C. E. From enforcing the law. Reporter while the mayor has local defenders like hastings Immigration Law professor Richard Boswell shes trying to keep some level of peace within the community. Reporter questions remain like will the mayor reveal who told her of the planned raids . No. Reporter why not . Again my information did not come through official channels. Virtually everyone who is likely to be caught up in one of these Enforcement Actions is someone who we call a criminal alien, that is, someone who is typically committed some other crime. That has been one of my concerns, that this has been used as a wedge issue and that this ugly myth that immigrants are criminals, this is a decision i made. I recognize that its controversial, but i believe it was the right thing to do. Reporter would you do it again . Based on the information that i had, yes. Reporter so it will remain to be seen where it goes from here. So far the raids havent materialized, but i. C. E. Has made it clear that they are targeting california and told california to get ready because things are going to get shaken up. Right. Oakland has some of the toughest sanctuary city laws in the country and i. C. E. Has said this is what were doing. Thats right. I. C. E. Made it clear they are planning to do these raids one way or the other. You want to call them raids or a sweep. They issued a statement that oakland is not immune from federal law and if they refuse to cooperate by handing over violators with criminal records, if something happens when they go into the streets or if something happens when they go into a house and find family members they werent looking for, but they wind up getting caught up in the raids as well. Thanks, phil. We learned this afternoon President Trump is planning a trip to california to see border wall prototypes up close. Eight times are on display in san diego. He will also visit los angeles to attend a Republican National committee fundraiser. The visit is scheduled for mid march. Meanwhile the Supreme Court declined the trump administrations request to fast track the dispute over daca. The judges were asked to step in right away and review a San Francisco judges ruling. So that means the cases will continue in the lower courts. Some bay area drivers could experience extra headaches for the next few weeks. Kpix5s melissa caen joins us now live from the Richmond San Rafael bridge to tell us why drivers there are being told to ignore the electronic signs am. Reporter we are on the san rafael side of the san rafael Richmond Bridge and you can maybe see behind me traffic from this side of the bridge is slowing to a crawl and it may be worse tomorrow. Starting at 10 a. M. Tomorrow drivers entering from this side getting into that lower level of the bridge are going to see overhead a series of signals, xs and arrows, pointing and opening various lanes. Its all part of a test. So drivers are going to be asked to ignore the signals and if they dont ignore the signals, the traffic could be that much worse. Nfigurations but these are just tests. [sotjohn ation officer this is a bit unusual and this is a sort of new ground, if you will, for us here in the bay area. Reporter for the next two to three weeks drivers entering the bridge from the san rafael side will see red xs and green arrows in various configurations, but those are just tests. [sotjohn goodwin, Public Information officer fo ity] what if the far right hand lane has a green arrow over it, please do not enter the far right lane. Reporter add to that the two left hand lanes will be open even if theres a red x above them. All this confusion is testing a new system that will allow that extra right hand lane to be open more often. This man says any improvement on the traffic is a good idea. Any third lane sounds like a good change to me. Reporter he also agrees that something should be done. Traffic sucks. Im getting tired of traffic. Reporter but he says that this temporary approach makes no sense. I think its stupid to have arrows and ignore them. Reporter john goodwin admits the Toll Authority isnt completely sure how this is all going to work. What i dont know is whether that lane will be coned off. I presume that at either end of the bridge it will be coned off, but i dont know whether there will be a continuous line of cones stretching 5 miles shore to shore. I done know how much chp presence will be there. Reporter this drivers plan is to take it in stride. Going to just be adaptable in driving and kind of play it the way i normally do. Just drive safe. Reporter now the new system is supposed to use cameras placed along the bridge to determine how much traffic there is and when there is traffic, a person sitting in a control room elsewhere will open up that third lane as necessary. At least thats the plan. In san rafael, melissa caen, kpix5. A controversial bill that will require College Campuses to offer students the Abortion Pill could soon become law in california. Kpix5s maria medina is live at san jose state with both sides of the debate. Maria . Reporter yeah, if a senator gets her way, the Abortion Pill would be on College Campuses in the next four years, but one Student Group is trying to stop that. 3 i just cant imagine it honestly 25 in a fight. I just cant imagine that honestly. Reporter Mariana Miranda is in a fight to keep the controversial Abortion Pill off her campus. If passed, the law would require the university and University Health centers to offer nonsurgical Abortion Services by 2022. Senator connie leva who introduced the bill said College Students should not have to delay medical care and travel many miles away from their work and responsibilities to access this constitutionally protected right. I feel horrible thinking that my students, my peers, would go through this in their dorms without maybe anyone there to support them. Reporter but pro life clubs across csu and uc campuses like the spartans for life here at sjsu disagree with the senator. We think its a recipe for disaster. Reporter the medication is given in two doses with the last pill taken at home. Some have even died as a result of taking the Abortion Pill. Now imagine a woman taking the pill at her dorm room. As a woman we should decide what we want to do with our body. Reporter but some students argue it is their right to choose whether off or on campus. Its our body. We should have complete like we should dictate what happens to us. Reporter the bill passes the senate a few weeks ago. It goes on to the assembly in the spring. In san jose, maria medina, kpix5. A new state report reveals Sonoma County use an outdated Emergency Alert system during last octobers wildfires. The office of Emergency Services says the procedure in place was more suited for slower moving disasters like flooding. It said Sonoma County used an uncoordinated approach and had an outdated understanding of technology. The states brace and bolt program is a huge success. A Record Number of people applied for free money to retrofit their homes. The California Earthquake Authority says more than 7,500 people put their names in for only 2,000 grants. The deadline was friday. Those selected at random will get 3,000 to retrofit their homes against earthquakes. The rest will be placed on a waiting list. Coming up a man lost in yosemite says hes lucky to be alive, how he says he managed to survive for days with little food or water. A horrific accident in the south bay, a landscaping project takes a deadly tour. And how volunteers managed to turn an ordinary rv into hope for a threatened species of ostriches. At at t, we believe in access. The opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. Connecting with the things that matter most. And because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet, weve created access from at t. California households with at least one resident who receives snap or ssi benefits may qualify for Home Internet at a discounted rate of 10 a month. No commitment, deposit, or installation fee. Visit att. Com accessnow to learn more. Firsthand how a bay area hiker survived for a week. Lost in the snow at yosemite, kpix fives Susie Steimle has his story. To we are hearing firsthand how a bay area hiker survived lost in the snow in yosemite. 36yearold alan chow came to yosemite well prepared for a solo hike over president s day weekend. That preparation saved his life. He spent six nights alone in freezing temperatures. Today he wrote about that experience on facebook. His post reads, i luckily only suffered a sprained ankle and slight malnutrition. Otherwise im fine physically and mentally. I simply followed the basic survival skills i learned, kept close to a water source, conserved my energy, rationed out food supplies, tried to keep warm and found a suitable location to set up camp so that i would be as visible from the air as possible. This is the first weve heard from alan since the search started for him last tuesday. The oakland hiker was spotted by a National ParkService Helicopter around noon friday above the wapama falls in the hetch hetchy area. His friends say theyre happy he always goes out prepared. He did have a sleeping bag and tent with him. Hes fully geared. We know that and we know hes bright enough to know, you know, how to navigate through these type of terrains. Those those National ParkOfficials Say roughly 60 people participated in the search effort. Alan tried his best to thank every single one of them including the dogs who were there on his facebook post. H bay neighborho he also said he is just ready for licontinue as normal. Susie steimle, kpix5. A south bay neighborhood is still without power after a deadly accident involving a tree trimmer. The man was electrocuted working at a home in the 5000 block of page mill road in san jose. Kpix5s len ramirez has details. Dead from. Friends reporter several homes were evacuated and the neighborhood was left without power for several hours following the accident which left a landscape worker dead from electrocution. Friends and coworkers were horrified at the scene. The mans lifeless body was still roped into the tree he was trimming above some high power lines. He may have cut a branch and when the branch fell, it may have come in contact with the power lines and knocked it free and either contacted him or a piece of equipment and it did rain today. The wood is wet. So thats going to have an effect, also. Reporter pg e cut power to the neighborhood to allow the Fire Department to safely bring the body down, but even with a large ladder truck fire crews still had trouble because the accident scene is about 20 feet up the tree and behind a row of twostory homes which left the mans body visible for hours. Neighbors say the house was recently put up for sale. Yesterday him and a couple other workers were working on a house because its going to be sold and he was here yesterday. Super sad. Reporter police kept children just out from a nearby school far back so they couldnt see the accident scene. Calosha is investigating. In san jose, len ramirez, kpix5. Ere shot to de other bay area headlines, the search is on for suspects in a double homicide. Two people were shot to death and a third injured last night in front of the hillside market in unincorporated san mateo county. All the victims are in their early 20s. Police believe they knew each other. A box truck blamed for this crash on southbound 680 this afternoon. The truck hit three cars as well as a Center Divide and injured several people and tied up traffic more than an hour. The Marin County Civic Center moving closer to getting a new roof. Next week scaffolding will go up and work will begin on the first phase. The library and Administration Wing should be complete in the fall. Then attention will turn to the buildings signature skylights. The landmark building became famous for its leaky roof. The renovation will cost nearly 18 million. A wild day of weather here in the bay area, rain, wind, even hail. Our crew in corte madera captured some small pellets. You can see it building up on this cars building. In lark spur a similar sight and sound. Listen to that, the little nuggets of hail bouncing off the trucks hood. You hear the rattle as his roof is pelted. We saw raindrops turning to ice from our camera atop mount vaca. A cool win blew through chilling the wind blew through chilling the rain into a slushy mix. Fog on top of Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara County this afternoon, elevation about 4,000 feet and our chief meteorologist paul deanno is keeping tabs on it. Got to show you something really cool we dont see that often, guys. See that pink color there, thats 24 right above the caldecott tunnel cold enough in the air above us that there may not a guarantee, no Ground Troops to it yet there may be some snowflakes mixing in with the rain in the highest portions of the east bay hills now. It is definitely snowing at the top of mount diablo. Its now snowing to the hills west of saratoga and south of sunnyvale and cupertino where the temperature is between 34 and 36 degrees. It may snow in a few spots in evening in the santa cruz mountains, so the atmosphere is cold enough to support high elevation snowfall. The system is working its way north to south. So those of you in san jose who have had sunshine, if you were to look north now, youd probably see some dark ominous clouds. That will yield rain and the chance of small hail in the next hour or so. We are clearing out in San Francisco, one more wave of light rain showers that may move through, highs today chilly, San Francisco 51, napa 57, Half Moon Bay 54. A pretty breezy night in the north bay hills, sustained winds 30 Miles Per Hour with higher gusts above 2,000 feet in the north bay. We had a front move through this morning. You got some rainfall. Then it cleared out. Then we had a low move through and the atmosphere was even more unstable with the heating of the day in the 50s and things blossomed over the Sacramento Valley and the bay area. In the north and east bay numerous reports of small hail today. What happens tonight . The rain will end this evening. It will be chilly with lows around freezing. Well clear rather rapidly, 33 for a low in livermore and santa rosa, 43 for San Francisco. Were dry tomorrow. Rain moves back in as soon as wednesday night and the beginning of march may turn out to be rather soggy. Thursday rain is likely. Showers to continue on friday. Showers to continue on saturday. We will not clear things out till saturday night. Sunshine will return on sunday, this on the first couple days of march, thursday, friday, saturday, may give us more than 1 inch of rain. Thank you, paul. Stale ahead a once in a lifetime encounter with whales could land some tourists in trouble. Almost everything you see in this video may be illegal. The sharks made a big move at the trade deadline. Will it translate into goals . And an update on the condition of giants hall of Famer Orlando cepeda next. Which may have lit a fire under general manager doug wilson to make a move before todays trade deadline the sharks dropped three straight games in their road trip which may have lit a fire under general manager doug wilson to make a move before todays trade deadline. Kane will be a free agent the end of the season. The 26yearold has plenty of talent, 177 career goals, but also plenty of baggage from his previous stops