They are talking about the healthy 20, 30yearolds who feel invincible and dont think they need the flu shot or say they got it once and it made him immune or got sick from the flu shot so they dont take it again. Reporter are they more dangerous or atrisk people . Yes. Because they are the ones with a lot of interactions with other people. They are probably not using proper hygiene and are spreading the virus. Reporter this is the same strain of swine flu from 2009. It hit china so hard the governments used thermal scans in the airport to screen people in the country an quarantined anyone with elevated temperatures. San Mateo County Health officers say this year the flu is hitting early. They are seeing a 200 jump in cases. A woman in her 40s has already died from h1n1. We also have had six flu related cases that are hospitalized in the intensive care unit. Reporter this late word tonight from sonoma county. A 23yearold which who had no underlying medical conditions was also infected and was killed by the h1n1 flu virus. That is the swine flu virus. And once again, they cannot emphasize enough that everyone over the age of six months should get a flu shot now. Thank you. The peak flu season is between january and march. Health Officials Say there is no shortage of the vaccine if you want it this year. It may sound incredible but we can almost guarantee that californias budget will be passed on time this year. It will also be in the black. But theres something even more remarkable happening in sacramento. Kpix 5s phil matier on a day that would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. The red ink is far more predominant than the black ink. Reporter the governor launched his presentation with a quick review of how california came from a 26 billion budget deficit to a 3 billion surplus. And when a reporter described that surplus as large in retrospect was prop 30 wait [overlapping speakers] look how little that is. [ laughter ] compared to that that says it all. Reporter and that vintage jerry brown moment complete with a sign held above his head pretty much sums up the governors budget strategy. The centerpiece of that strategy is tackling californias debt which now stands at 25 billion. The governors plan, cut that in nearly in half with 11 billion in debt payments. Some people would say that we should go on a spending binge. I dont agree with that. Reporter by some people, the governor is referring to fellow democratic legislators who want to see more of the surplus spent the oldfashioned way on social programs. Because of the very deep cuts we have made in recent years, theres a lot of need out there right now. Reporter but even among those democrats the words of the day were restraint and frugal ity. There is not a suggestion of profligate democratic spending not at all. I appreciate what he is trying to do, the attention to debt, the savings, trying to prepare for the future. When Governor Brown is one of the more conservative democrats in the building, i applaud him on that. Reporter that was the other big lesson at the state capital today, what seems like an era of good feelings after years of bitter political fighting. I like to tease him and call him jerry brown 2. 0. He is not the governor he was the first time around. Reporter a second time around, now featuring a small surplus and handfuls of frugality. By no means are we out of the wilderness. Reporter other highlights include 10 billion in new funding for california schools and enough money to prevent u c and csu from hiking tuitions this year. Liz . Sounds good. A pretty rosy picture today. I dont mean to sound like a downer but what are the potential pitfalls ahead . Reporter lets take a look. Outside the capital, of course, we have the federal judges who are looking at californias prison system. So he may be facing the idea of putting up a lot more money for prisons or releasing prisoners. Theres also questions about the future of highspeed rail in the state. Will washington give us the funding we need . And, of course, just take a look outside the window. We have a drought in california. Could that impact spending . Well see. All right, phil. Thanks. You heard phil mention right there Governor Brown also weighing an official drought declaration. We are taking it very carefully but dont think that a paper from the Governors Office is going to affect the rain. Cbs reporter ian schwartz shows us how the dramatic drop in water levels is actually exposing old settlements hidden in some cases for centuries. Reporter during this drought, we are seeing folsom lake at historic lows. Where im standing should be covered in water actually 20 feet or more above my head. But with the drought, we are getting an interesting glimpse into the areas past. Some sort of old pistol bullet. Reporter its been spend just a few minutes at the bottom of folsom lake on the who knows what you will find. A nail, quite big. A spike. Reporter with water levels dropping, people are getting to the lake in ways they never did before. And many are seeing pieces of history they have never seen before. Some dating back to the late 1800s. Its weird because im trying to figure out where i used to like come and swim here, now im walking on it. Reporter she grew up here and decided to bring her friends to see what used to be red bank a mine, winery and later a dairy. These women explore the spot where cows used to stand not far from browns ravine a spot submerged in water for nearly 20 years. Chain him up here, a canal here. Reporter the new attraction is very popular. With a steady stream of people showing up each day theres a lot of history at folsom lake. Reporter its so popular, park officers are now on hand to make sure people leave the history untouched. Sergeant smith says no metal detectors are allowed and people shouldnt take anything they find on the site. Were aactually saving this stuff for generations to come, so say in 10 years if this stuff pops up again, then we are able to come out and see the same thing were seeing here today. Reporter ian schwartz, kpix 5. The Parks Department actually has an archeologist who has been documenting the newly exposed ruins to try an piece together the past. Paul deanno shows us just how low the water levels have dropped. Paul. Reporter it is pretty crazy the lack of rainfall we have had around here. I show you numbers almost every night as to how big the deficit is. Out live tonight, this is the average rainfall since the beginning of last year in the bay area. 5 of rainfall, not enough. This is the average rainfall for San Francisco in that syme time period since the beginning of last year. We should have received 25 inches of rainfall. We have had 5. In the north bay its worse because you have only had 5 of rainfall. But your average is 35 inches of rainfall. We have had 5 over the past year and one half a month. So this is a big problem. Had a couple of drops of rainfall this morning. The most rain we have seen was Half Moon Bay at. 03 of rainfall. San francisco only. 02 rainfall. Some of you like in santa rosa didnt see a drop. Coming up in weather well talking about the one day where we do look like well have a chance of rain and then well talk about record highs once again. Find out when well hit 70 coming up in 10 minutes. See you then. Thanks. Google has ruffled some feathers by operating a private ferry boat service, good luck getting anyone to admit it. Kpix 5s allen martin broke the story this week and he is here with an update. Reporter it was interesting, when our story ran on tuesday, we had heard unions including the inland boatmans union and the International Organization of masters, mates and pilots were among those who felt google and the company it hired or created Multinational Logistics hadnt told the full story about whats going on here. Only the ports of San Francisco and redwood city had the full picture. Reporter as kpix 5 first reported, only a handful of google employees seemed to be taking advantage of their companys experimental free Ferry Service in its first week. We earn some money, the facilities get to be used and hopefully traffic is reduced. Reporter hard to know whether those workers would have otherwise been in their cars or on board one of the controversial google buses but the port of San Francisco likes this experiment. It charges about 50 each time the google ferry pulls up to the dock at gates b or e. Redwood city gets about half that. Twice a day, twice they leave from San Francisco down to redwood city and in the afternoon they bring their employees back to San Francisco. Reporter since the story ran on tuesday, agencies, union and google employees have refused to talk about the 30 day trial run. Much like the super secret barge thats under construction at Treasure Island. Google finally released a statement about the barge and now its only statement about the Ferry Service is the rather obvious, its trying alternative ways to get googlers to work. As for redwood city, the Silicon Valley recipient of googles commute experiment, this is an artists conception of what a new Ferry Terminal might look like. While the executive director of the port says hes envisioned a Ferry Terminal in redwood city for more than a decade, the concept is still being studied. And funding for a building as well as the ferry boats themselves is a long way off. The masters mates and pilots union told me in a phone call today that it has a meeting this evening in fact with google to discuss operations issues. Its official stance is its delighted with the opportunities a new Ferry Service might bring to San Francisco bay. Many expressed that opinion. Interesting. How many jobs are we talking about . Right now again this is according to the union were talking two crews, 10 jobs, of course they hope the experiment goes very well and more ferry boats are added so more jobs. Now, as for the boat the triumphant coming from long beach, the union said that we just dont have spare boats up here so its not unusual to find a boat in Southern California and bring it up. It happened during the loma prieta earthquake. Very impressive. All right, allen, thanks. The u. S. Customs intercepted a creature at sfo that they consider a significant agricultural threat. Take a look at this. Officials say they found five of these insects in a shipment of basil from mexico on new years eve. Its a type of stink bug and its only been found once before in the united states. It can do major damage to crops. The entire shipment had to be refused entry into the u. S. And ordered back to mexico. San Francisco Police busted a muni passenger who tried to impersonate a Law Enforcement officer to avoid paying a fare. Police were doing fare inspections on a bus tuesday near the silver and san bruno avenues. They asked the guy to show his receipt. Instead, he showed them a department of corrections badge but no other identification. Police detained him. He later admitted to buying the badge off the street and used it to avoid paying for fares. We really dont know how true a lot of this information is. The warnings have gone viral but tonight we ask if its really dangerous to eat fish from the Pacific Ocean in the wake. Fukushima disaster. 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And you really dont know how true a lot of this information is. Reporter the Information Available about the dangers of eating pacificcaught fish is definitely confusing. One online report circulating this week says, radiation levels in the pacific were off the charts. And your days of eating Pacific Ocean fish are over. Very small amounts of radiation in fish can be detected. We can even tell whether the low levels are likely to have come from fukushima or not. Reporter this professor of preventative medicine studied the effects of radiation from hiroshima and nagasaki and says the Data Collected so far on fukushima doesnt show a health risk to those eating pacific fish. In a word, the answer is theres no danger from fukushima with the fish that we eat. Reporter kagawa tells us while all fish cant be tested for radiation, the fda conducts spot checks on all fish brought into the united states. Juan also reminds us about the mercury scare in swordfish a few years back. That went away. Health experts say eating fish once or twice a week is good for you. Checking your weather every day is excellent medicine for you. Paul deanno is out there tonight with the latest. Reporter im told vitamin d is good for you. You get it from sunlight. Were flush with vitamin d. We had a lot of afternoon sunshine after lots of Morning Cloud cover. A weak system passed by but this evening its all about a gorgeous sunset. We take the mobile weather lab out to Treasure Island. Look at the gorgeous view, fog free, of San Francisco from Treasure Island. Right now its a gorgeous evening to be outside. Because the increased humidity we are not going to cool off as quickly this evening and overnight tonight. Its not as chilly as it has been. Lets review our day which started off drizzly but finished sunny. Your highs today in the low 60s. Oakland 63. Concord 63. San jose you were one degree shy of hitting 60 and San Francisco officially in the financial district hitting a high of 56 degrees. Heres kpix 5 hidef doppler radar. Had a few sprinkles on this morning when lawrence gave you the forecast. But not now. We are clearing out and tomorrow, well be completely dry in the skies and also on your radar. 9ers forecast, carolina charlotte, north carolina, great warmer than green bay official forecast at 10 a. M. Sunday morning our time upper 50s in charlotte. Go, 9ers. Great afternoon for football. Maybe next well be talking about a forecast for seattle. We had drizzle and clouds thats about it earlier. We have a stronger system on saturday. That huge ridge of High Pressure even a stronger weather system will only give us a slight chance of showers. Thats all we get and that will be coming up for you on saturday. For tomorrow, friday, its a sunny day. These are your highs tomorrow. Still a couple of degrees above average. Livermore 65. 60 in San Francisco. San rafael hits 62. Vallejo 62. And fremont 61 degrees. Lets look at that extended sevenday forecast. Chance of showers coming up on saturday. And then on sunday, were sunny as we celebrate that 9ers victory. Look at the highs on monday. Upper 60s. Look at the highs on tuesday, 70 degrees and well stay in the 70s coming up weapons and thursday. Lets look at the forecast through the lens of maybe a child. They are going to love the fact that its january and we are talking about highs in the 70s. Back to you. Thank you. Still ahead, the bay area inferno and explosion that closed schools forced evacuations and knocked out power to thousands of customers. And we take whats billed as the worlds most advanced smart car for a test drive. H the old and in with the new during mattress discounters year end Clearance Sale puppy look, i found a red tag bulldog that means folks can save up to 40 on clearance mattresses. Puppy oh, heres another. Bulldog that means up to 300 off serta, posturepedic, even tempurpedic. Puppy i found another red tag bulldog what where . Puppy right here, silly. 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