During lunchtime in San Franciscos north beach. Other folks took cover under umbrellas as they went about their day. Lots of wipers and headlights turned on during the morning commute. The Highway Patrol tells us there has been a slight increase in the number of accidents along bay area freeways and heres a live look at our emeryville camera. Hopefully we can get that for you. Lets go outside to Spencer Christian with more on todays rain totals and whats to come. We still have some wet spots out there and slippery roadways. Exercise caution if youre driving. As you can see, we still have areas of light rain and showers. Heres live doppler 7 hd. The heaviest of the rain activity has ended pretty much and moved out of the bay area but we still have areas of light spotty shower activity and some light rainfall, mainly pushing through areas south of the golden gate right now into the peninsula and over to the east and south bay. But again, it is winding down. Rainfall totals, for most of the bay area, not much. Just trace amounts of it with san jose one hundredth of an inch but we got 13 100 in San Francisco, 12 100 in oakland. Nearly an inch and a half up in kentfield. You can see that generally the north bay was the wettest region. This is all we are going to get out of this storm but there is more to come. I will have that for you in a few minutes in the accuweather seven day forecast. Thank you, spencer. You can see whats showing up on live doppler 7 hd any time you want with the abc 7 news weather app. Its free on apples app store or google play. We also have more information at abc7news. Com apps. To help with californias draught, san diego gave the green light to spend more than 2 billion to turn waste water into drinking water. A purification plant in san jose is proving that concept works. Abc 7 News Reporter david louie is there to show us how its done. David . Reporter well, the valley Water District along with the cities of santa clara and san jose purify eight million gallons of water a day from this plant. Thats water that originated in your kitchen sink, in your washer and even your bathroom and you are going to see me drink it. This 72 million advance Water Purification plant went online eight months ago. It takes in waste water that has already gone through two steps of treatment at another facility. Here it goes through three more steps. Microfiltration that removes particles 1 300th the size of a strand of hair. It then undergoes reverse osmosis and the final step is exposure to ultraviolet light for disinfection. The water is already drinkable. However, there is no regulation to drink it right from the Treatment Plant here. Reporter this demonstration project like ones in san diego and Orange County hope to lead to widespread use of purified waste water some day for drinking. It takes getting over hurdles in your mind to feel comfortable that this water is pure or maybe purer than the water we drink from the tap today. Reporter customers confirm they are not ready to drink purified waste water. Yes, i have a problem with that. The lack of confidence on how pure it would be. Reporter it might be ten to 15 years before we see widespread purified waste water in the drinking supply system. The people in the plant are so confident about the progress they made, they say the water coming out today is drinkable. For now, the eight million gallons purchaified are pumped through separate pipes to irrigate turf at levis stadium and landscaping at office parks. The hope is that once state standards are set later this decade, purified waste water can help to make up for draught. Because its droughtproof it will be here for us in the driest periods. Other Water Supplies may be more expensive or not available in the drought years. Reporter david louie, abc 7 news. In upstate new york at least seven deaths are now being blamed on the major storm that is buried the city of buffalo and surrounding communities in more than six feet of snow. A state of emergency has been declared in buffalo and the governor of new york has deployed the National Guard to help residents who are threatened by all of this bad weather. Take a look at the video captured by a drone flying over a neighborhood in west seneca, new york, not far from niagara falls. Thats about the only way you want to go outside there right now. The homeowner flew the drone right down his street showing whiteout conditions. This is how heavy the snow can get. One homeowner sent this picture from new york of the snow burst the through the doors. The second round of snow is on the way. Marcy gonzalez has more from new york. Reporter buried under more than five feet of snow and it isnt over yet. Its going to get in some ways worse before it gets better. Reporter this recordbreaking winter storm is expected to bring as much as two more feet of snow to upstate new york over the next few days. Its pretty incredible. Reporter its already claimed six lives and caused scare after scare. In buffalo, this ambulance transporting a woman in labor was stuck in the snow. Ems workers had to carry her six blocks to the hospital just in time for her to give birth. The brutal storm leaving others stranded on streets and highways through the night. The Niagara UniversityWomens Basketball team on their way home from a game were stuck on their bus for 30 hours, surviving on granola bars and melted snow. Were trapped in the snow. Where are you . Im not quite sure. Reporter these guys in oregon were trapped in their suv when their gps got them lost in the storm. We basically just hunkered down because we figured sleep would be the best thing for us instead of being panicky. Reporter snow now covering more than half the country, causing power outages, closing schools and causing so many to put their shovels to use. Horrible. Backbreaking. Reporter so much earlier than they had hoped. So many places where it isnt snowing, it is still incredibly cold, with people from florida through new england dealing with record low temperatures. Marcy gonzalez, abc news, new york. Tensions running very high today as protesters gathered against a 5 tuition increase at university of california schools that was approved by a committee of uc regents. Students blocked the entrance to the regents meeting at Uc Mission Bay and actually shattered a glass door as well. Governor brown is on the committee and voted against the increase. I dont think you considered alternatives to the structure over time that can actually lower your cost while increasing access and improving quality. That proposal would raise tuition by 5 in each of the next five years. The full board is set to consider this proposal tomorrow. Uc president Janet Napolitano says the increases are needed to protect the quality of education in the face of insufficient state funding. There is still no word if Santa Cruz High School will reopen after a threatening email forced classes to be canceled today. Police want to find the person that emailed the principal detailing plans for a mass shooting. The email mentioned where and when the attack would take place. Santa cruz high will hold a parents meeting at Kaiser Permanente arena tonight beginning at 7 00. Sports news. Mild panic went through the bay area this morning with an online report indicating there was a 90 chance Pablo Sandoval would sign with the red sox. Hang on. Before you burn your panda hat, as of 1 30 pacific time, sandovals agent told me he had not yet received a formal offering from the red sox. However, an offer is expected later today or tomorrow. I also spoke with a highranking giants executive who said he remains optimistic but all of this is really up to pablo. The fear is that the red sox are going to come in with some blockbuster long term offer, something in excess of 100 million. The giants do not want to go that high but i have repeatedly asked pablos agent if the giants are still in the hunt and they insist they are. They will have the opportunity to match any offer that comes in. Stay tuned. Tomorrow could be a big day for the giants and the panda. President obama will speak to the nation in a prime time address tomorrow night to lay out longawaited plans for immigration reform. The president is expected to take executive action to provide legal status for up to five million undocumented immigrants. For many, the plan would remove the threat of deportation for parents of children who are citizens or are legal permanent residents of the united states. Republicans are already mounting a campaign to fight that order. From the oval office today, the president says he is acting because congress has failed to. Unfortunately, washington has allowed the problem to fester for too long, and so what im going to be laying out is the things that i can do with my Lawful Authority as president to make the system work better. The president s order would also provide new guidance for the nations Immigration Enforcement agencies but also revamp the h1b visa process to provide more opportunities for high tech workers from other countries, a move many in Silicon Valley are looking for. The president will travel to a Las Vegas High School on friday for a rally to promote this plan. Many in the bay area are watching all this very closely, from families caught up in the immigration process to the tech businesses we just mentioned. Abc 7 News Reporter vic lee joins us live with more reaction. Well, the reactions of course to what president obama is expected to say tomorrow depends on who you are talking with. Some are hoping that hes going to take a bold and inclusive step on immigration. Others believe its congress and not the president that ought to legislate immigration issues. But its safe to say all eyes are going to be on what hes going to do tomorrow. When president obama came to chinatown in may to talk about immigration reform, the unexpected happened. I need your help. Thats exactly what were talking about. Reporter he was heckled by an undocumented korean graduate student disappointed that mr. Obama did not talk about immigration reform. Hong is one of the socalled dreamers, young undocumented immigrants who are temporarily protected from deportation and can work illegally in the u. S. The president issued that directive two years ago. Hong is hoping that the president will take another bold step and extend the same protection to members of his family. My mom or my sister do not have any protection and i hope the Obama Administration will include my mom and older sister. Reporter leo is a veteran immigration consultant and also a proud republican who is active in his partys politics. He supports what the president is expected to do, protect millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation and provide work permits. I think he can expand those limits and bring more people into the umbrellas where they are temporarily protected until congress does its job, which is to finish immigration reform. He got his tail handed to him in the last election and he is acting like a spoiled brat. Reporter conservative republicans like steve kemp say mr. Obama is overstepping his boundaries. To say you are not going to deport anybody, they ought to be at the border and not letting them in to begin with. If they are here, they ought to be looking to get rid of them. Senate Republican Leaders are calling the president s action unconstitutional and illegal. The white house wont go into details, but mr. Obama is also expected to broaden the visa programs for highly skilled tech workers. Very important for this region and thats something of course Silicon Valley has been lobbying for. Vic lee, abc 7 news. Just ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, caught in the act. South bay police hope this Video Evidence leads them to a pair of home burglars. See why they thought they could get away with the crime. Plus security video of another burglary targeting a prestigious Music Program in the bay area, and why the school believes this was an inside job. New at 4 30, cosby fallout. What his attorney is saying after another woman has come forward claiming the comic raped her. 7 on your sides Michael Finney taking your questions on twitter and facebook. He will answer them here live in a few minutes. With the rain comes heavy, heavy traffic. This is a live look at 101 in san rafael. Jammed up in both directions. Oncoming traffic heading into san rafael. That is just a sea of headlights and going back the other way towards the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco, it is going to be a long, slow crawl for commuters. Lets get to spencer. While todays wave of rain is winding down we have two more storms coming our way. I will have a look at the accuweather wet sevenday forecast coming up in just a moment as abc 7 news at 4 00 continues. And youre eligible for san medicare, area Anthem Blue Cross can help you get a great plan at a great rate our new Medicare Advantage plans pay for many of the costs original medicare doesnt. So you can focus on other important decisions. Anthem plans help protect you from high medical costs. And, weve built stronger partnerships with trusted local doctors and hospitals, to bring you special benefits like. Dental and vision, Prescription Drug coverage, plus free memberships at participating gyms. 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So is abc 7 News ReporterWayne Freedman who joins us live. Wayne . Reporter home burglaries are down in palo alto this year but there have still been more than 100. The last was last night and police are asking for your help. It turns out the owner of that home had a Security Camera installed. They allowed the police to see pretty much everything, including a couple of house cats. This was the scene less than 24 hours ago in an apartment on tanland avenue in palo alto. Those are the sounds of two intruders taking a crowbar to the door of a home, one of two curious cats looks on. Then decides thats definitely not mom coming through the door, and disappears. Here is Palo Alto Police lieutenant zach parone. I think any time someone is victimized in their home, even if theyre not home, its a very distressing event. Reporter also quite rare when police have video to hear the intruders voices and see their faces. While one man goes upstairs, a second guards the door, unaware of the camera apparently until this moment. Thats when the video stops. Not only did the suspects cover the camera, they ripped it out of the wall and took it with them. But too late. Im sure that camera got thrown away somewhere but the good thing is that it transmitted the images before it was disabled. Reporter now police have put out the video hoping for clues to the identities of these two men who made off with jewelry and a computer. Take a good look. Call if you know anything. As for the cats, they returned later. I would not call the cat a hero. However, im not sure what word would best be used to describe either of the cats other than im glad theyre okay. Reporter still enjoying those nine lives, apparently. Unharmed and unchagrined. Wayne freedman, abc 7 news. Kitty lives. Take a good look at the man wearing the red snow cap in this security video. Police say he walked into the San Francisco conservetory of music and minutes later walked out with two of their most valuable guitars. They say the man knew how to get around that building. They came in at a time when they actually let the public into the upper floors. Its very rare that that happens. But there was a Library Event and they seemed to have taken a route that avoided Security Cameras. The conservatory of music has one of the top guitar programs in the world. The thief took a guitar worth 25,000 along with an eight string classic guitar worth 5,000. Time for a check on the weather. We know its raining but for how long . Spencer christian, well, the umbrella is gone. Not for much longer. Heres a look at live doppler 7 hd. You can see how scattered and widespread or i should say widely scattered the showers are at the moment. We are not getting a lot of rain right now. This system has pretty much played itself out. Heres how it looks at sfo. Lots of low clouds, some flight days. 60 degrees in San Francisco and oakland. 64, moffett field. San jose, 63. Upper 50s at morgan