Really see the storm clouds looming over the bay area. All the way from San Francisco down to the peninsula and the south bay. Over the past few days, we have gotten this consistent amount of rain. Mother nature has really left her mark all over the bay area earlier today, we got a little bet of hail in downtown San Francisco near mission and 24th street. And were talking pretty tiny size but it came with a lot of rain. Here in berkeley, the umbrellas were not in short supply near the cal campus and they were held high as rain came and went and then came and came back again rather i just mean that is what weve been seeing here is rain coming and going in waves. Mother nature isnt done with the bay area just yet. Roberta in just a moment because were expected to get another big downpour in the nest few hours. Reporting live from the Berkeley Hills, cate caugurian, kpix 5. All right. Thank you. An east bay woman says she feels lucky to be alive after being struck by lightning. 31yearold emily davis heard a thunder clap yesterday around 1 00 and at that time she was standing on the median at stuart streets. Saw an orb of light travel down her umbrella and now luckily the handle of that was plastic. But her other arm still started shaking. I suddenly got in metallic this metallic taste in my mouth and right after that it was like a flashbulb like somebody took my picture. That taste persisted into the evening when her boyfriend who kissed her said she still tasted of metal. Davis says she called her father and learned that her great great great grandfather was killed by lightning sitting on a horse years ago. Were getting our first look from the air at the damage done after a tree was hit by lightning in berkeley. Chopper 5 was above the neighborhood a short time ago and you can see whats left of the nearly 100foot tall redwood. But more telling, you can also see blue tarps are covering damage done to the roofs when the lightning bolt sent shards of the tree flying. There are the blue tarps. Chunks of redwood blew out nearby windows and bits of the tree were found blocks away. One home has been red tagged. Lets check in with roberta now and find out how much and whens it all going to stop . I have to tell you frank and michelle. 20 years of forecasting weather here in the bay area and never before have i seen so many thunderstorms across a short period of time spread out across the bay area. Usually they kim in . A come in in a line. But not today. The very latest round of thunderstorm activity the lightning bolts right there. Off the halfmoon bay coastline there according to the live hi def Doppler Radar. And watch as we traverse out over sfo. More moderate to heavy rainfall as well. And then as we move across the bay, there you have the light to moderate rainfall now lifting up in a northeasterly direction heading out of the Berkeley Hills also towards lafayette and continue to monitor all this movement but i have to tell you, this is a lot more coming for the evening commute. Meanwhile, a lot of you out there. Weve been hearing from you and we have viewer photos uploaded to kpix. Com. This one is hail on someones porch in redwood shores. And look at the snowcovered trees and greater lake tahoe area. We invite all of you to go online to kpix. Com and click on share photos wed like to see your beautiful photographs. All right, robert that thank you. A live look now at San FranciscoInternational Airport. Todays weather is forcing dozens of cancellations and delays at sfo. So far, 24 and parting flights and departing flights and 26 arrivals have been scrapped and delays are in the range of 30 to 34 minutes. The calendar says april but its still winter in the sierra foothills. The snow plows have been busy today in El Dorado County and drivers are dealing with 3205 inches should have 3 to 5 inches of snow that fell since yesterday. A handful of schools there are closed due to the weather. Today the fbi conducted more searches conducted to the connected to the leland yee Corruption Case. Theres another place they should look. Its a small reception area in a legislative building across the street from the capitol. Steinbergs staff says agents were there for two hours this morning to examine computers and other equipment. At this hour, the man the fbi describes as a central figure in the political Corruption Case is back in court. The detention hearing for Keith Jackson is to determine if hell get bail. The former San FranciscoSchool Board President faces a list of charges involving guns, drugs and a murderforhire plot. An indictment describes jackson as the crucial link between raymond chow and state senator leland yee. Protestors supposed used an april fools day to play a little joke on google workers. Mark kelly live in San Francisco now to tell us people who were late for work did not find it very funny. Mark . Reporter things i guess got a little heated too right . Not too funny at tall frank. Absolutely. So ive been to the google bus blockades before. This one definitely got a little bit more intense. The protestors tried to frame it as an april fools joke but for the tech workers who were late for work this morning, due to the protests, they werent laughing. Decked out in colorful costumes, some protestors blocked a google bus from leaving. While others publicized a new bus pass called g muni which allows the public to Board Private tech shuttles free. And i am the president of a new subsidiary of google called g muni and ive been pushing through for the past couple of months. Reporter hold up. The truth is judith parks here is not a google employee. Not even wearing real google glasses. All a joke . Its april fools. Reporter this entire event is just a parody. Protestors put on to make their point that private buses should not be using publicly funded muni stops. And the Pilot Program to have tech buses pay 1 a stop in their words is not enough. If 1 a not fair. What the is not fair. What is . Something that actually is from muni and something that actually helps impact the displacement issue that were seeing. Reporter this afternoon, the board of supervisors will vote whether or not to move ahead on charging private shuttles. An appeal has the mtas program in jeopardy. Other Program Allows us to have more information to better enforce the private shuttles that are running throughout San Francisco with about 2500 bus stops that throughout the city. Reporter so protestors did this little parody today for two reasons. Theres two big votes going on here at city hall concerning muni. You can see a rally for one starting right now and thats whether we should allow the elderly and people with disabilities to ride muni for free. The second one of course mentioned in that piece, the big vote this afternoon from the board of supervisors on what to do, how to regulate these private tech shuttles. Were going to have to see how the votes go later on today. Live at the city hall, mark kelly, kpix 5. All right marx thanks. Police now have a sketch of a man suspected of robbing two women during a Home Invasion in pleasant hill. Hes a white man in his mid 30s, about 511 with an average build and a dark beard. Police say on sunday night, he forced his way into the home with a handgun. He took jewelry and electronics trend drove off in the victims car a silver vw passat. Its a 2013 Volkswagen Passat with california plates station as. Other news now, Service Started this morning at this new elevated caltrain station in san bruno. It took three years to build the station on part of the 155 million project. There are also 200 new Parking Spaces and a dropoff lot there. Elevator to the northbound platform will be added in the coming weeks. Richmond city council is expected to vote for a minimum wage hike today. It gave tentative approval two weeks ago. The plan is to increase the minimum wage to 12. 30 an hour by 2017. Its now 8 an hour. The first increase would be this spring to 9. Coming up after 13 deaths, ceo of General Motors is testifying up on capitol hill today. The tough questions coming her way. ,,,,,,,, malaysian officials have now released well, a story is changing. Malaysian officials have now released the different version of the last words that were heard from the cockpit of that missing plane. They were good night, malaysia 370. Weeks ago, though, malaysian authorities said the last message was all right, good night. Theres a forensic exam of those final recorded words and investigators would like to know who was speaking and whether there appeared to be any stress or tension in their voice. Meanwhile, nearly a dozen aircraft are flying over the search area in the indian ocean today. Australian officials have launched an air Traffic Controller no help prevent a possible midair collision. Ten planes, nine ships were back in the hunt today for that missing wreckage. The disappearance of flight mh 370 underlines the need now for security improvements and tracking abilities. The official this cant happen again by making sure the aircraft can be tracked in realtime. So that so that this cant happen again. This to me seems to be should be the priority objective. The International AirTransportation Association is creating a task force that will make recommendations by the enof the end of the career hon ow to year on how to better track airplanes. An additional number of dead from the mudslide in Washington State is now 27. So far. 19 victims have been positively identified. The latest is a 58yearold woman. Like the rest, she was killed by Blunt Force Injuries during the mudslide in the town of oso, ten days ago. The governor of washington says estimated financial losses have reached 10 million. All searchers, volunteers and search dogs who entered the mudslide area must be decontaminated when they leave because theres a risk of illness. It contains a household mix of chemicals, fuel oil and propane among other substances and each searcher is hosed off immediately after they leave the slide area. A search underway in the sere if aftera missing for a missing snowboarder from San Francisco. 25yearold abra him fink olestein got separated from his group yesterday. Reporter seen bennett has more sean bennett has more. Reporter the search continues with multiple agencies in the Nevada CountySheriffs Department has set up a mobile command unit right here in the parking lot at the Mountain Resort along with the Placer CountySheriffs Department. And we are talking brutal conditions. And this is the area that the Sheriffs Department is focusing their attention. You can see the sideways blowing snow. The Sheriffs Department confirm that is a 25yearold man got separated from his dad while back country skiing in the castle peak area across i 80 from borial. Back country seeing is quote skiing is quite an undertaking. It involves hiking up a mountain and then skiing down. The father told sheriffs deputies that a storm came in quickly yesterday afternoon and the two became separated. We can tell you the missing man is dressed for these conditions. Meanwhile, 20 volunteers who had been searching since last night are off the hill and a new set of volunteers are up the hill now looking for this missing 25yearold. Heres the latest information on how those volunteers are going to spend their day up near castle peak. Basically whatwell do is well take a look at the maps that we have. Some of the work that occurred throughout the night with some of the ski teams from tahoe in orderric and nordic and some of the snow shoers and things like that have gone in and trying to use any clues we have to direct our seven. Its bad and hopefully he gets back safe. Just goes to show you youve got to be really safe in the wilderness like that. Reporter the Sheriffs Department tells us the missing man has water on him but its unclear if he has any food with him. And at this point, he does have a cell phone. They have pinged it but its going right to the tower so theyre not sure if that cell phone is actually getting any service. Well send it back to you in the studio. Well check in with roberta on this. More snow in the area . Always said additional 3 inches. This is pretty much the thick of it but the backside of the front they have more snow on the beaked soft it. But that backside of it. But the Winter Weather advisory has allowed to expire in that particular area which is certainly good news in our area. We have thunderstorm activity and more to come. Lets call our live hidef Doppler Radar and this is actual activity as it is blossoming around the bay area. Weve had several lightning strikes in the past ten minutes. Just right there off the Half Moon Bay coast. Right now moving on shore. Halfmoon bay with moderate the heavy rainfall. We have more heavy rainfall now being noted in throughout the eastern portion of the bay area as well as the north bay. Napa and sonoma and american canyon, this right there is a thunderstorm that has just blossomed in that particular area. The south bay, you too are now getting into the thick of things with moderate to heavy rainfall and this is not even the frontal boundary. That is still coming. With rain drops on our camera lens in San Francisco, it is 55 degrees. Numbers not climbing much more after that. Today, the rain will continue to increase. We will see scattered thunderstorms containing hail and a snow level drops locally down to 3,000 feet. Impressive powerful area of low pressure. Taking a nosedive in a southerly direction. The boundary, the front, right here descending on the bay area. Just in time for the evening commute. Thats when youll see the heaviest precipitation. And more isolated thunderstorms. A lot of instability behind this system here and well keep working those showers and isolated thunderstorms all the way until midnight. Gradually drying out for your wednesday. Now until then, were talking about rainfall totals thats not even the story. The thunderstorms with the hail really is, but well still see up to half inch of rain in pleasanton. A half an inch in the Santa Clara Valley and over. 4 to the north in san rafael. Numbers. 50s to about 60 but thats about as good as it gets were primarily right now in the low 50s. Dry day wednesday and on thursday and right now, its looking like thursday night we will see more rain move into friday morning. Got a baseball game tonight. This we go. Yeah i would count on some rain delays but they are bounds and determined to play ball tonight and get the game in. Thanks roberta. Opening statements underway in a san jose courtroom today in the new fight between apple and samsung. Here we go again. The tech giants are accusing one another of patent infringements on smart phone features like the slide to unlock and voice command. Jury verdict could force changes to android phones whether or not they are made by samsung. Both companies are asking for damages. The ceo of General Motors is taking heat on capitol hill at this time. The Congress Wants to know why it took 13 years the recall cars with a to recall cars with ignition problems blamed for 13 deaths, Craig Boswell has the story of families impacted by the delay. Reporter family members of People Killed in defective gm cars are getting another apology from the nations largest car maker today but what they really want are answers. I dont want any more drivers to be mourned by family and friends because an automaker hit a deadly problem. It is clear that gm is only concerned with their bottom line cannot the safety of our and not the safety of our loved ones. Reporter for two days of hearings investigating why gm failed to recall several models of small cars including the cobalt. The company knew as early as 2001 were having ignition problems. 2. Thats how little this ignition switch could have cost to repair. Reporter at least 13 people were killed in accidents linked to the defects. Gms ceo mary bar ramet family members last night and apologized for failing to fix the ignition sooner. The governments top Highway Safety official is telling lawmakers gm withheld information that could have led to a timely recall. The head of the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration is testifying that gm had critical information that could have helped identify the defect. Gm has not yet said if it will compensate the vims families only that it victims families, only that it will do the right thing. Craig boswell for cbs news, washington. Up next, one sailor very lucky to be alive after being swept overboard in the high seas. He was lost for more than an hour. How crews finally got him back on that boat. ,,,,,,,,,, ent for a popular Home Rental Service on the internet has agreed to pay a hotel tax of 14 for rentals within San Francisco. Air bnb is based in the city and today the chronicle reports it will collect taxes directly from guests. The money will begin flowing to the city this summer and could amount to millions of dollars a year. Air bnb reportedly is hoping to avoid cop flick with regu