What we have seen from Michael Peevey as president. Reporter the new conversation comes to light after investigators filed a search warrant and seized a list of items from his Southern California home including computers, a thumb drive, notes and six years worth of day planners. These back room deals dont allow public in. Theyre secret and they cost millions. Reporter mark says the latest conversation is another example of this agencys corruption. It shows a pattern of secret meetings between Utility Companies and commissioners that has to stop. Reporter just so its clear, having the conversation is not illegal. But not disclosing it is the problem here, veronica. So now this reform group is saying, they are going to ask the legislature to put restrictions on the conversation themselves. Despite all of this, were still hearing that state official actually plan to throw peevey a big tribute bash in San Francisco this week. Reporter yeah. Thursday night. We actually got a look at the invitation from state senator jerry hills office. There it is. Look at that 250 bucks per head a posh dinner. You know, jerry hill says it is, quote, shameless and he thinks about those eight people and their families down in san bruno who wont have the opportunity to have that kind of dinner. For that matter very upset to this day a lot of those folks down there with Michael Peevey and the new revelations that keep coming out. Joe, we do appreciate that. Joe vazquez live for us in San Francisco, thank you. Well, it is one of the largest Civil Penalties of its kind. Target has agreed to pay nearly 4 million to settle claims that its been overcharging customers. Kpix 5 consumerwatch reporter julie watts on some new rules that target is going to have to follow. Reporter yeah. You know, this one is not necessarily surprising. It comes out of the marin county d. A. s office, known for prosecuting large retailers. It alleges target violated false advertising and unfair competition laws. At issue the d. A. Alleges target was charging more at the register than the posted price on the shelf primarily day to expired shelf tags that hadnt been changed out. The retailer must designate one person to inspect all price tags in the store after they are swapped out. They found some products way less than indicated on the packaging. Third Party Auditors will have to inspect their products. Target will not be required to give customers the overcharged items for free. However, the d. A. s office explains that target already has a policy that gives the cashier the discretion to adjust a price on the spot if a customers believes they were charged the wrong price. Under the judgment whenever they do a price override from here on out, the store will have two hours to fix the price problem at the shelf or at the register. This is the second injunction for target thank you. They tried before and then they backed down. It looks like Contra Costa County supervisors are trying again to give themselves a pay raise. This time, they are talking about a 7 raise. That is much smaller than the 33 raise they originally agree on last year. That caused backlash from county workers and labor groups and was withdrawn. The new pay increase brings salaries to about 104,000 a year. The 17yearold accused of kidnapping and raping a pizza delivery woman will be tried as an ayou will did. Darian miles will be arraign tomorrow and tried as an adult. He attacked the woman as she arrived to deliver pizza in antioch, allegedly. County supervisors approved funding for the mcguire correctional facility. The upgrades include new security electronics, replacement detention doors and a new video visitation system. There could be traffic backups at the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza for a few months. Crews will be retrofitting a couple of the tollbooths. Work got started last night on booth 5. Crews are installing bracing for earthquakes. Tech transformation under way in another bay area city. Now people are talking about a new plan for downtown. New at 6 00 our Mike Sugerman is in south San Francisco, which is becoming a little less industrial like the sign on the hill says, mike. Reporter you know that, kenny. So south San Francisco is going through a economic renaissance. Thats the good news. But south San Francisco is also going through an economic renaissance and thats the bad news. It all depends on where you sit on the economic scale. South San Francisco is being stirred and shaken. Old stand byes are changing like the old standby. The bar has changed definitely. Reporter rosie will tell you it opened in the 20s mostly italian folks then workers renting single rooms. This is the industrial city. Then came hispanics and asians. Now the techies. Some of the old timers are used to having a bar that opens earlier in the morning but were more of a nighttime Late Afternoon happy hour weekend kind after nightclub for younger folks. Reporter the city seems to be moving that way, too. Ricardo likes it. This is his 25th anniversary on the main drag grand avenue. And he figures to sell more of his brazilian pizzas at dinapoli. Like everywhere else you have to reinvent yourself. You have to upgrade your business, you have to evolve, too,. Reporter this is whats causing the current discussion. A new downtown plan has been approved bringing with it among other things 1400 apartment and condos with only a fraction tagged below market for seniors and that controversial word gentrification is being bantied about again. Im not sure the larger cities have figured out how to deal with it, south San Francisco to a degree is at the mercy of whats happening generally in the bay area. Reporter like whats happening at the old standby. Use to be a blue collar bar a lot of fun, neighborhood. Reporter but katie doesnt like it anymore. New owner came into town and tried it get all the business and hightech companies in the area to come here and all blue collar out. Reporter rosie is sorry she feels that way. Maybe they will discuss it over a beer. Ipa is on special today. So parts of the plan will take 20 years to implement. But you should know this is a beautiful little small town. And right now you can buy a house in the 600,000. Its a secret in the bay area. Beautiful town if you dont mind strong winds. In south San Francisco, Mike Sugerman, kpix 5. Went to high school in south city. Knee it well, mike. Thanks. I know it well, mike. Thanks. Part of that includes an upgrade to the caltrans station to make the commute easier. Do you have a spare piece of property lying around . Why not turn it into a farm . New at 6 00, kpix 5s len ramirez on the proposal to cut landowners in one bay area county a big tax break. Reporter even in the middle of winter this urban farm in san jose produces enough food for tonights salad bowl and tomorrows breakfast platter. Chicken eggs. Reporter sunnyside up. We are literally in the shadow of the 101 overpass. Reporter its on land that sat vacant for decades between the freeways and a tow yard but it has the same stuff that once made the Santa Clara Valley world famous for agriculture, long before it was known as silicon valley. We have the best soil and the best climate in the world for growing stuff. Reporter and its the kind of place we might be seeing more of. I think it would be great for people to be driving by and sort of seeing these small farms sprouting up in areas where they wouldnt expect it. Reporter yeager proposes a tax break to encourage owners of vacant land to turn their overgrown and unused lots into small urban farms to produce more locally grown food. People can either lease that land or a Property Owner can do it themselves if this is undeveloped property and, um, be then assessed at a lower value. Reporter yeager says there are 91 lots that could qualify in santa clara county. If all buy in it could mean a 760,000 hit to the budget over five years. But it could also help build a healthier community. [ rooster crows ] reporter although this farm is only about 6 acres in size, las year it produced 48,000 pounds of food, 56,000 pounds the Previous Year and, yes, that is something to crow about. [ rooster crows ] really hard to find land for urban farming so this will make it possible for more people to join up. Reporter farming in silicon valley. It might not just be a part of the past. In san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. The proposal passed unanimously for further study. It will come up for a vote later this spring. Its not a new iphone or ipad. Apples new project relies on the sun. And its got a massive price tag. You want to know where your food comes from. Now Scientists Say it could be as easy as a little spray. Gorgeous, gorgeous sun outside this evening. Sunset as we had the cirrus cloud cover over top of San Francisco the past four hours of weather history. Wait until you see how warm we get. Were talking record warmth as we head toward president s day weekend. Coit t pg e, when is enough enough . They are asking state regulators for another rate increase to help electric Vehicle Owners keep their cars running. Utility wants to install 25,000 charging stations across its service area at a cost of more than 650 million. And if the puc approves the rate hike, the average customer will pay about 70 cents more a month starting in 2018. Some big news from apple today. The tech giant is about to convert to solar energy here in california. Kpix 5s Elizabeth Cook has a look at the plans for a solar farm in monterey county. These are getting popular. Reporter this one is going to be huge. Its going to cost the company 850 million to build this Massive Solar Energy project. But it will generate enough power for apples new corporate headquarters, 52 Retail Stores and all the other offices in the state. The ceo announced the project today saying apple is concerned with the threat of climate change. There are plans for the facility to sell Additional Energy from the farm to pg e. Apple has plenty of money for the new solar farm. At its close of trading today, the Cupertino Company was worth a record 710 billion. Thats a first for any u. S. Company. And thats almost twice the value of the next biggest company, oil giant exxonmobil, which is worth 385 billion. Wow. They will make their own energy, their own electricity and by the way anything extra well sell to you, pg e. They are making more than oil companies. Thats incredible. It is. Keep buying all these little gadgets. There you go. Thats why. It goes right in their pocket. Thanks, liz. Bay area scientists have invented a new method for tracking tainted produce right to the source. New at 6 00 kpix 5s cate caugiran gives us a look at the sprayon technology which could replace the bar code. Reporter you cant see it. You cant taste it. But its coming to a produce aisle near you. Its dna tracks microscopic sprayable dna sequences that read like a bar code sourced from plantbased materials such as seaweed mixed with sugar. Then applied to fruits and vegetables after theyre picked. It is very quick and its straightforward. Reporter Lawrence LivermoreLab Scientists spent five years developing the technology they say is so precise in less than an hour they can trace a piece of produce back to the grower, the field, even the specific row it came from. That time is rapidly getting shorter. New technology thats being developed is in 10 minutes or less. Reporter a big motivator, crop contamination from listeria and e. Coli. Bay area entrepreneur anthony zaga rpos amarking it to growers. Our product cost about 1 per 1,000 pounds of produce. Reporter cheaper than a nationwide produce recall. So the amount is insignificant compared to the liabilities in the event of an outbreak. Reporter a cantaloupe distributor in the Central Valley will never forget the listeria outbreak of 2011. Nearly three people died and many more got sick from contaminated cantaloupe grown in colorado. Tragedy we definitely dont want to live through again. Reporter his fruit wasnt contaminated not even close, but his company will participate in a dna tracks trial later this year. But he still has some Unanswered Questions about how technology will work during an actual outbreak. What happens in the event of a food safety outbreak when that melon no longer exists . What happens when suddenly i have, um, you know, people sick in three or four or five different geographic locations . How do i then ensure where that product came from . Reporter berkeleybased friends of the earth are questioning the safety of the dna spray although its already been approved by the fda. The group thinks more regulation is needed. Cate caugiran, kpix 5. Lick observatory is getting cash. Google is donating a million dollars. The money will go to pay for the daytoday operating expenses. Other donors have helped pay for highend astronomy instruments. Lick astronomers have discovered asteroids, moons and planets. Another example of high tech pushing out the smaller guys in San Francisco. A nonprofit Cancer Resource Center says its being forced to move. But as kpix 5s john ramos tells us, the tech firm may lend a helping hand. [ pause ] were going to get to johns piece in just a moment. First lets get a check of the weather. It is absolutely gorgeous outside. Stunning in fact. Its going to get warmer. It is. Its going to be if folks like this weather today, we have the morning cloud, afternoon sunshine, mid60s. If you like it warm i like it. All right. Hand raised if you like this weather. We got the balance. We have balance. We received the rainfall over the weekend. The rain moved out now we can enjoy some sunshine and we will over the next several days. This will be the chilliest day of the week and coolest day of the week is the mid60s. Sebastopol 66. Vallejo 66. Saratoga 67. Kensington high today 65. Dublin and morgan hill high 64. Temperatures cooler inland because he had fog this morning. Look at the gorgeous colors of the sky over the south bay specifically san jose. We talk a lot about the drought and then we talk about the rain. Maybe lost in the conversation is the fact that every single day this year, all 41 of them, have been warmer than average. We have not had one chilly day so far this year. Looking out over the next several days, the next 10 or 15 days will be near or above average. We are going to be really warm record highs because of this guy another ridge of High Pressure building in. We had the beautiful sunset today because were right on the northern periphery of the ridge. Cloud cover is working its way over the ridge and some of that has made it into the bay area. Tomorrow not the case. Once the morning fog is gone, well have full sunshine. The ridge will be getting stronger. Warm weather for all of california 70s widespread as soon as thursday. It wont stop until president s day five days of near record highs. Onshore flow will return. Next wednesday will be the earliest opportunity for rainfall. Plan on sunny and warm stuff for the next several days. Close to 70. I think well be a couple degrees shy tomorrow. Redwood city 68. Fremont 68. Livermore 6. San jose 69. Livermore 68. Napa and santa rosa in the mid 60s. Thursday, hello 70s even at the beach. Friday 70s. Saturday love day, valentines day, hope you love the sunshine. Sunday we are sunny and mild and president s day we put a heart of on there and we put a flag on for president ing day so all the holidays coming up this weekend banner weekend to get outside. Love is until air. Plenty of warmth and sunshine. There you go. Ill keep a sweater on and stay inside. Bah humbug. [ laughter ] still ahead, cracking down on socalled california stops. We found one red light camera in the bay area thats catching hundreds of drivers and raking in a top of money for the city. Your server always asks, care for dessert . Find out why restaurants really huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Everybody knows that. Well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker . I look around this room and i see nothing but untapped potential. You have potential. You have. Oh boy. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. We have the gremlins worked out of john ramoss piece talking about another example of hightech pushing out the smaller guys in San Francisco. A nonprofit Cancer Resource Center says its being forced to move but as john test us, the tech firm coming in may be lending a helping hand. Reporter [ nonenglish language] is an organization with a mission of helping poor latino families deal with the overwhelming problems with a cancer diagnosis. Its located on Mission Street in San Francisco presents a problem of its own. At the end of november i received an email from the Building Owner letting us know that she was not going to renew our lease. She said she had other plans for the space. Reporter it seems the company is next door to a tech startup called doubledutch thats already taken over much of the building and is looking to expand. Its growing sort of ridiculously fast. Reporter Lawrence Coburn is ceo of the company that creates phone apps for events and conferences. He says areas like the Mission District have become attractive to Tech Startups and workers. This is where a lot of the tech talent is. Reporter thats cau