Crust filed a lawsuit against the catholic archdiocese of San Francisco. Abc 7 News Reporter vick lestory only on abc 7 new news. Matthews a single mother in her 30s with twoyearold child. She worked in the Administration Office of the church of st. Francis. Matthew says a Church Trustee since fired became her supervisor. Her lawsuit charges that he forced her to have sex and spanked her with his wooden paddle. Many sex acts and spankings occurred inside the shrine and sack wrist ty there. The paddle was given by close friend james taryn teen o. Hes charged in the la you suit with covering up the alleged wrongdoing. Inscription bn o boy night out from bill to father t from the sexual act that Bill Mclaughlin was basically threatening my client to engage in otherwise she would lose her job. Lawyer Sandra Rivera says after almost a year oven touring the abuse, her client told mclaughlin no more. The powers of be at the church and retaliated against her by terminating her. The church respondd with a statement saying in part the lawsuit is full of lurid accusations but devoid of the truth. Miss matthews let two for financial impropriety. The subject of Ongoing Police investigation. Matthews attorney responded this way. Anything that she has done has been at the direction of Bill Mclaughlin as her supervisor. She never stolen money there. Not that im aware of. Reporter now attorney rivera says that they have explicit photographs which her client supervisor sent by email and text message. She also says the shrine has security camera. Which should be an important bit of evidence. Our calls to the archdiocese were not returned and the attorney for mclaughlin declined to comment. Vick lee, 7 news. Richmond man will spend the next 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to holding a relative at the sex slave. 5 52yearold raul pleaded got one count of forced lewd act with a child and 2 counts of forcible rape. Prosecutors say repeatedly ripped a relative then 12 years old in apply wood shed he built on the back yard of the home. This ordeal went on for 15 years. Until siblings con inconvenienced the girl to escape in 2012. Se will be formally sentenced february 11. Well it has been a long time since we have seen this. Bay area finally getting rape for the first time in weeks. Better than nothing but it will do very little to ease the drought. Thinks unprecedented. We have never seen conditions like this up in northern california. In the shortterm we shall we are work to go get funding from the president. Governor brown says drastic time call for drastic measures and today he asked californians to cut back on World Trade Center use. Also working on plan to move water supply from his Southern California to areas like napa and sonoma which could run out of water. Abc 7 News Reporter wayne went to Sonoma County today where ranchers farmers are getting desperate. If you still wonder how december president california rankers have become for water in the dry perched winter landscape. See the green spot . Above the fence there. Reporter take a ride in southern Sonoma County here. He represented a backhoe and started digging today based on hunch that green grass on the ground might indicate a spring below. Im not the type of person to sit around and complain. Ill figure something out. Reporter this is a drought in which the if bit of water has gone from the bad to the worst that they have seen in 50 years of marriage. Hes a nervous wreck. Reporter they raise kalts and also get to from which they make gourmet cheese. 3 kids were born this morning. She spent hours nurseest the weakest one no give up in her either. I keep my fingers crossed i can keep her aleif. Reporter they are not alone in the striling. Just up the road in southern marin he described conditions dryer than 5 general rigs of his family have seen since 1865. This is going to be a long long summer. Reporter hes already decided to not wait for the county or state. Neal found source of water and will begin truck it in this weekend. This is beyond dry. We have no pasture. In the 70s we had pasture. Now. Go down. Reporter by this afternoon don had tapped enough spring to maybe yield 100 gallons of water a day. Its one small victory and in the living room by a fire heres another. The they will take the victory at they come. From Sonoma County, wayne, abc 7 news. Well so how much rain did we get and much more on the way. Spencer here with a first look at the weather. Not exactly a drought because tivrment you are right. Not a drought buster but we will get some moisture tonight. In fact some moisture arrived already you can see right here. Bulk offshore at the moment and no doubt there are so many damp spotsal the coast line but no one is recording actual measurable rainfall yet in our official reporting station so loop radar you can see this mass of moisture is moving eastward toward the central part of the by area and likely some showers sprinkle or light written during the date night overnight hours. But the rainfall total last couple days pit fun. Few hundredths inch here and there. Up to a tenth in the inland location east and south by not nearly enough to have any kind of bring any kind of relief to the drought situation. Heres how dry we are rain fall deficit shows that San Francisco need nearly 11 and a half inches to get up to the normal level to this point in the season. Santa rosa need nearly 11 inches. Nearly 10 inches at sfo. All around the bay area many, many inches up to a foot below the normal rainfall level for this point in the season. Doesnt lack like anything come our which soon that erase the deficit. See you shortly. Storm brought muchneeded snow to the sierra. Active 24 hours there look at the difference at heavenly from yesterday on the left. To today. Finally a bit more like winter up there. Heres a look tonight at conditions near tahoe. See theres finally some snow on the ground but no snow falling right now. Now debts pay the the snow that has come dont bring out the skis just yet. Today the department of World Trade Center resources had its second snow survey of the winter and result not encouraging. State wide snow pack water content is just 12 percent of ample. For this time of year. Back in 1991 the lowest snow pack water cop tent reading for this time of year was 21 percent. So thats how bad it is this year. Well today snow is good news for business in the sierra though especially the ski resovrments heres Laura Anthony with that part of the story. You. First time since they had the groomer out to maximize the 8 inches of new snow closed resort received overnight jean jeans. The reaction is fantastic. Looks like day for the first time all season. So what is uruguay doing. Hes track packing and preparing the snow. Hopefully get another foot, foot and half. That will fill in. So to did some grooming. What is not on the hill already they push over to it and though nice to see, the new pwoypt is still a bit short of what they will need the reopen. Across the road at sugar bowl new snow a welcome addition. Opportunity to open at least a few more runs and what otherwise been a disappointing season. It has been a challenging season but we always do the best we can and we always have fun out there when we two skiing and snowboarding. For sugar bowl and sierra resorts the long awaited natural snow fall only supplement what they continue to make. For students who live up here also provided a rare snow day. If it wasnt a snow day i would be at school being bored so. Reporter this beats school. Yes. A lot more, way more. Hope is to get a few more inches out of the tail end of the system but washington they really need up here is a few more feet near donner pass, abc 7 news. Investigators say san jose mobile home fire injured a woman, firefighters and dog was accidental. Sky 7 hd shot the video above the home on the avenue here the woman carried to an ambulance there. Firefighters also rescued a do dog. Fire Department Photographer craig rose provided these photo to abc 7 news. Started performing cpr for the dog. Got a pulse and pulse become but the dog had real shallow rapid breath. Firefighters were able to resuscitate the dog. Dog is all right but the woman injured is in critical condition. Well still to come here tonight. Political royalty in the bay area. First lady San Francisco visit and how long she will stay. Plus bay area dog lovers sound off tonight about controversial park service proposal. Speak now or forever hold your leash. By product of Winter Weather in the sierra. Is there a bear hib natureing in your basement. Hib natureing in your basement. Story lucky charms [ birds chirping, twinkling noises ] youre always after me lucky charms theyre magically delicious can help your kids school get extra stuff. Theyre the only cereals with box tops for education. You can raise money for your kids school. Look for this logo. Only on big g cereals. You can make a difference. Every cereal box counts. Heated debate under way in the bay area over new leash law in the National Park service land. Today congresswoman spear jumped right into the middle of the controversy. Abc 7 News Reporter cornell has the story. She says letting the dog off leash at this field is a morning ritual. I have run her 3 to 5 miles every day and she has to be off leash. She needs to do 10 plus miles or she doesnt get enough exercise. Restricting that access would be a deal breaker for he her. Devastating for us. I think we would move. Go up to saint helena. Where dog roam on and off leash in the goalen Gate NationalRecreation Area debated for more than a decade. To dog restriction released by the National Park service in 2011 cause such uproar among dialing owners it caused congresswoman spear to get involved calling this public hearing in San Francisco looking for a solution. Dog owners nondog owners, bird watchers, bicyclist everyone interest has to be accommodated. But how to do that. Sally stevens says responsible dog owners should be given an all access pass to parks. So basically what is happening the federal are coming in and telling the local people that they cant do the things that they have been doing on their land for 50, 60, 70 years. Dog dig hole. Going for gore. Chase bird. Run over flora and fawn 8. Park Officials Say hopefully room for everyone to enjoy our amazing golden Gate NationalRecreation Area. Everybody wants to enjoy the same area. Whether you want to do it with a dog or rather would not have dogs at all. Controversial dog Management Plan received more than 4000 Public Comments so far. The park service will keep that Comment Period open until february 18 before making a decision. They say speak now or forever hold your leash. In San Francisco, cornell bernard abc 7 news. Nice turn of phrase. Of the poodle rescued prosecute Conveyor Belt at San Francisco recycling center went home with her new owner today. Patricia works at ecology as Community Relations manager and among those who helped rescue the little guy gem. Badly injured dog someone ended up somehow ended up in the trash last year but water plucked out just in time. She condition not believe gem survived. I think anyone like everyone else my reaction i saw pictures of her and it was just such a miracle to see that she made it through. Just made it alive. Reporter more than 250 animal recovers asked to adopt gem. But animal care control officials said the dog deserved to go a home with someone with ties to the he colonel jichlt sweet gem is. Now to arizona where cat is making big news. Big news. This 36 pound cat was turned in this week to the Maricopa County animal control and care. Look at the size of this thin thing. Meat ball is so big you cant even stay in one of the kennel. Sleeping in nearby office. Not largest cat. That honor goes to 46 pounder from queens land. Holy. Get meat bull off meat ball. Thats a large cat. Spencer here with the weather foyvrnlt i we shall i had better news but a little bit of rain we get is still just a little bit of rain. Heres live doppler 7hd we have moisture. Rightal the coast line and moving in our direction but not going to bring much more than light showers to the the bay area we certainly need more than. That meanwhile over in the sierra snowing painly light snow but accumulating. An also an avalanche warning by the way for the central sierra to 7 00 oclock tomorrow morning. Back country areas though and there is a Winter Weather advisory in effect until 10 00 oclock tomorrow morning. Snowing there now. Expect to it continue snowing overnight. Several inches of accumulation across the region. Few cloud in the sky over the downtown financial district of San Francisco. Look tling from our exploring camera. Temperature readings in the low mid 50s. San Francisco Oakland redwood city and Half Moon Bay 49 at los gatos and now look along the bay bridge from the south beach camera downtown San Francisco. 53 degrees santa rosa. 49 in napa. Then low 50s at petaluma. Fairfield. Concord livermore. Live view for you lacking at few cloud over sfo. These are our forecast feature scattered showers not only possible but likely tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow and slight chance of light rain again on sunday. Now satellite image shows the frontal system swept through last night well to our south now. South of los angeles. We have this little disturbance offshore. Pushing some moisture in our direction writ now. So again chance of some showers tonight. Late tonight and during the overnight hours in early tomorrow morning. Probably be all over our next chance of rain looks leak coming to us over the wean. Start forecast animation saturday at 5 00 p. M. At which point we are dry but this next approaching system is going to slade down along the coast line and could produce some light rain for us sunday and into the afternoon evening hours on sunday so maybe a little bit of wet weather mainly near the coast on sunday but once again this doesnt look like significant rainfall system. Over nature tonight partly to mostly cloudy sky was more clearing toward the morning. Low pressure will range from upper 30s in the north by cell to low mid 40s elsewhere then tomorrow after possibility of some Early Morning showers its mainly Sunny Afternoon and relatively mild with High Pressure ranging from mid 50s at the coast to upper 50s low 60s inland and near the basement heres accuweather 7 day forecast so the little chance of rainy mention on sunday. Clear out on monday and tuesday wednesday thursday back to old familiar pattern. Sunny skies. High pressure in the mid 60s well above seasonal averages and no hint of a significant rain maker coming our way in the next 7 days. What a winter this has been. One for the record book. Really its. Thanks spencer very much. Still to kilometer on 7 news at 9 obey area toy start up that encourage girls to be engineers and its about to get some big Time National exposure. Its a big break for goldie block. 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