Up a few showers for places like San Francisco in daly city. The rain will return over the next couple of hours so we will see dry breaks for the morning commute. Here is a look at the north bay you can see highway 1 01 is still light rain. It intensifies as you cross the Richmond San Rafael bridge. Right around the twin peaks of the entire ride over the bay bridge. This rain is moving to the east so we are seeing light rain for interstate 58880 corridor. We are dealing with the very light rain right now if youre heading out the door. Here is a look at arrest of the day. A few showers expected by 8 00 a. M. By noon, we will see light rain for the north. By 3 00 p. M. The rain will intensify and that will carry us into the evening. Here is a look at future cast 4 by noon, light rain along the coastline for places like free my. Take a look at what happens later on in the day by 3 00 p. M. Intense rain for napa and petaluma. We will catch a dry break in the rain will pick up by 7 00 p. M. Were looking at the possibility of Severe Weather. We may see thunderstorms along the coastline and a dan local flooding is a possibility. As you wake up on thursday we will continue with scattered showers before the most part rain will taper off but as we head into the afternoon plenty of low 60s. Hayward will have a high of 61 and your 7 day around the bay shows unsettled weather for the weekend. Stormed no. 2 will arrive on friday with gust of wind. Light rain for early saturday morning. We may see a dry day on sunday. Just a slight chance for the next work week. More details on your forecast coming up. We have a few minor accidents but nothing to slow you down. Here is a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, we have construction that is underway. The san mateo bridge is problem free in both directions of highway 92. Incident free of the Golden Gate Bridge and your drive time is at 23 minutes into the city. The Richmond San Rafael bridge is just a couple of cars into marin county. Hthe Santa Clara ValleyWater District is now asking residents to cut their water usage by 20 percent. Up from ten percent. Kron4s jeff bush attended last nights meeting. Where that decision was made. He learned. The action could become mandatory. If things get worse. It was unanimous. The Santa Clara ValleyWater District voted to reduce the amount of water usage by 20 . Marty grimes over the next few weeks you will see that Utility Companies will be implementing measures that are mandatory. Which is a goal that can be obtained easily if people simply cut down on watering nmarty grimes Santa Clara ValleyWater District about half our water is used outsideso, if you were to reduce your water useage by about half outside this year, starting now, then you would reduce your overall water usage by 25 . So, that is just an example of something that people can do and is probably doable for a lot of people. The problem is that the district gets water from several different sources and those sources are not producing as much water as they do in normal years. So, the district passed the water reduction measure and it will be up to individual Water Companies to tell their customers to cut down water consumption. The district says there are several incentives available for people who change to a less water dependent yard or change out old, water guzzling devices, like their toilet. Im jeff bush at the Santa Clara ValleyWater District headquarter, kron four news. The arrival of the rain is good news for californias ongoing drought emergency. But will it be enough to end the dry conditions . Kron4s Charles Clifford has some answers. Lime this this will take a and another storm for us to get this and tmay be another storm r this to end the drought. In the central part of the state they would have to have released 50 to 20 in. Of moisture. Along the coastline between San Francisco bay and the Mexican Border that would it to have 20 in. To end the drought in just 30 days. Currently the level is as 61 . The snow pack is only about 19 . Californias rainy season does not peak until april 1st so we still have several weeks for big storms to come through. Charles clifford kron 4 news. Coming up on kron 4 news. An Oakland Elementary School is fighting back against the in confrontations like this one at this Elementary School. We now know about a prison fight that involved former nfl player karen hernandeAaron Hernandez. In marin county, a couple out on a walk discovers on goldegold. More all what they found coming up. Welcome back. Big trouble for several Central CaliforniaPolice Officials this morning, at least five of them have been arrested. Accused of impounding cars from poor hispanic owners. And then selling them if the owners couldnt pay the fees. The officials include the acting police chief, former police chief, a sergeant and two officers with king city. The District Attorney calls the case an organized scheme. With the sergeant as the ringleader. Impounding dozens of cars and then taking them to a tow yard owned by the acting Police Chiefs brother. Some of the officials would also keep a few vehicles for themselves. The da says those arrested dishonored their badge. School adminitrators in oakland. Have responded to a set of videos. Showing students fighting at fruitvale Elementary School. Kron4s Haaziq Madyun spoke to a School Official as well as a parent volunteer and they say, these videos do not adequately show what the school is all about. This video ,this cellphone video recently made available to the media that shows students fighting at fruitvale Elementary School in oaklandas difficult as it is to watch is not a common occurrence according to the School Director of instruction Monica Thomas are fights frequent on this campus . No in fact the video was recorded back in december of 2013 that is not a recent incident that happened here at allit was taken care of and that is why the president of the Parent TeacherOrganization Shani brown says the video is an unfair representation of school on no i am here everyday for 5 or more hours a day spending time with the kids on the yard, in the classroom, helping teachers with homework preparation, helping out with substitutes. I pretty much know the ends and outs of what is going on here. Just because one incident was spotlighted it doesnt mean that this is a negative school and that bad things happen here everyday she says the public should know some pretty good things are happening here at fruitvale elementary we had a 5th grader that just won the district spelling bee and she is going on to the National Spelling bee just the same the recent Media Attention gives School Administrators a chance to go over their efforts to keep students safe regardless of what happened or what didnt happen it is always a Good Opportunity to look at School Culture and School Safety in oakland Haaziq Madyun kron4news live in the Weather CenterStorm Tracker 4 is lit up because we are seeing light to moderate rain. If we have heavy rain that is moving across the Richmond San Rafael bridge. For more details on how long this wet weather is expected to last when kron 4 news continues. H,z a line welcome back. You would nature umbrellas because the first of two storms are coming. You can see on Storm Tracker 4 we are starting to see light rain not only in the north bay but crossing the san mateo bridge. We are picking up light rain for that interior valid. You can see the areas of yellow, pockets of heavy rain and just north of petaluma. You can see that heavier rain is crossing the san rafael bridge. As we zoom in here all is contending with light rain that is crossing the bay. Light rain is also for the dublin interchange in pleasanton as far east as brent what. This is just the first wave of rain that we are dealing with. We cut actually catch a break but more rain is on the way for your evening commute. Future cast 4 shows that by noon and mostly just light rain and the mid peninsula. As we put the clock and the motion, by 3 00 p. M. The rain will intensify. By 7 00 p. M. We are dealing with the possibility of Severe Weather and we may see a line of thunderstorms. All of the ingredients are in place but you will notice the rain will start to taper off and become scattered as we wake up early thursday morning. Thursday morning, we will be dealing with wet roads but we wis will see dry rose a letter on the day. There is a Winter Weather advisory letter on this afternoon and the snow levels are expected at 7,008 ft. If we may see 3 to 6 in. Above 7,000 ft. More impressive amounts about 18 in. Of snow. You should breyer chains if youre born in that direction. The 7 day around the bay shows storm number two for friday morning and that will carry us into the weekend. Mostly cloudy conditions up to 40 mi. Per hour and partly cloudy conditions and just a slight chance for the next work week. More details on this. If your head into the bay bridge, off we have overbite construction in effect until 6 30 a. M. There will be lane closures. Were not seeing any delays or backups. If you are making your way via the san mateo bridge so far, the Golden Gate Bridge currently is problem free however you may need to use your windshield wipers. As we take a live look at the Richmond Center fell bridge and there are no cars as you work your way into marin. Nearly two dozen former new York City Police officers and firefighters face charges in a disability fraud investigation. Theyre accused of claiming Social Security payments while they were still able to work. Prosecutors said they faked Mental Health issues like depression in order to collect disability on top of their regular pension. Some of them claimed trauma from the 9 11 attacks. This is the second roundup of people accused of being involved in the decadeslong scheme. Convicted killer Michael Taylor was executed early this morning in missouri. The Missouri Corrections Department confirms taylor was executed at the eastern reception, diagnostic and Correctional Center in bonne terre. Taylor was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1989 abduction, rape and murder of a 15yearold girl in kansas city. The execution came after the Us Supreme Court denied a stay of execution and missouri governor jay nixon denied a petition for clemency. Former nfl star Aaron Hernandez has been involved in a prison altercation. The Bristol CountySheriff Department says that the former new England Patriots tight end is being kept away from the general prison population, in a segregated housing unit. Not much details are being released on the altercation. The 24yearold has pleade in napa, a mother and her boyfriend each entered a tearful not guilty plea in connection with the death of her threeyearold daughter. Kayleigh slusher was found at the home shared with her mother sara krueger, and her mothers boyfriend, scott warner. Prosecutors say, kayleigh died of blunt force trauma. And said, the child was previously hospitalized at two different hospitals in the area. Kron4 was at the hearing, where kruegers family had an angry response to questions about the charges. Line krueger and warner will remain in jail. Theyll both be back in court in april for a preliminary hearing. President barack obama is ordering the pentagon to accelerate planning for a full u. S. Troop withdrawal from afghanistan by the end of this year. The white house has become increasingly frustrated with afghan President Hamid karzais refusal to sign a security pact that is crucial to keeping a u. S. Troop presence in afghanistan past the end of this year. Mr. Obama spoke directly to karzai yesterday for the First Time Since june. A canadian doctor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for assaulting sedated women during surgeries. The judge said 65yearold anesthesiologist George Doodnaught exploited the trust the patients placed in him and his conduct. Many of doodnaughts victims were in Court Ontario superior court for the sentencing. It appears Joaquin El Chapo guzman will remain in mexicos highestsecurity prison for the foreseeable future. Two federal judges ruled that the alleged drug kingpin will have to stand trial on separate Drug Trafficking and organized crime charges in mexico, putting off extradition to the u. S. Mexican government says guzman will not have a repeat of his 2001 prison escape that allowed him to continue his drug deals. Fewer air marshals are flying the friendly skies. The department of Homeland Security has cut the number of federal air marshals on commercial flights over the past three years. 150million in budget cuts are the main reason for the reduction. The agency is reducing the staff through attrition but declined to say how many positions have been eliminated. There s gold in the hills at least for one california couple. They stumbled upon a treasure literally buried in their own back yard kron 4s scott rates shows us the coins, and how much the find is worth youre looking at 28,000 in legal tender however its true value is significantly higher. Sot keeping there Identity Private the lucky couple that stumbled upon these cans in californias sirrera foothills is sitting pretty. They found the gold while walking their dog in their yard, thats when they noticed a can sticking up out of the ground, so naturally they dug it up sot they it looked down and they could see acorn sticking out through dirt. Coin sticking out through the dirt. Quickly the couple went back to the site where they found the can and they dug more. Sot 8 cans. Packed with 1400 20 gold coin pieces, dating back to 1892 a collection that today is worth 10 million the couple took their treasure to kagin inc. A firm in tiburon that deals with rare coins David Mccarthy is the senior numismatist for the company. He has spent the past few months restoring the loot. Sot sot sot if you found a secure spot. You can take them, buried them in the ground. The lucky couple in there mid 40s says they to donate some of the proceeds to the homeless in their area, most of the coins will be put up some sale on amazon in june also plan on keeping a few of the coins coming up on the kron 4 news. The oakland as and the giants face off in the Cactus League today. The giants or rebuild some opening date details. Retail somy details. Welcome back. A former boxing champion from Pittsburg James page is now a two time convicted felon. After pleading guilty to a series of Bank Robberies throughout the east bay last year. Page was called the button down bandit by the fbi. For the types of shirts he wore during the robberies. The agency was able to connect him with eight bank heists in the east bay. From march of last year through june. Page became the wba welterweight champion back in 1998, and seemed on a path to stardom, when he failed to show up for a fight in 2000. He later robbed a bank in atlanta. And spent 11 years in federal prison. Giants kick off their spring training schedule against the as this afternoon in scottsdale. In regular season news. Madison bumgarner has ben named the giants opening day starter. He takes the torch from matt cain who started the opener last season tim lincecum was the year before. Bumgarner was the giants best pitcher last season earning his first allstar appearance he will be the teams number two starter likely followed by tim hudson, lincecum and Ryan Vogelsong the giants open the season march 31st at the Arizona Diamondbacks. When the 49ers new home opens later this year, it is thought at least one in five people heading for a game, concert or other event. Will be taking Public Transportation. Beginning tomorrow, vtas