Louise costillo noticed her roses blooming early. She uses this recycled dishwater on her beloved flowers to save water. She and 1 million other residents are being asked to continue reserving water by 30 after the city Council Voted to extend water restrictions that were set to expire tomorrow. They have now been extended until the end of june so leaders can hear what the state recommends. My friends know i conserve everything. There is no way i could do any more. We have to have all the Accurate Information before we change targets for last year next year. We are able to wait for the new goal to set new recommendations for the future. Reporter under the emergency declaration, residents are asked to water before 10 am and after 8 pm, to not wash their cars at home in less using rainwater and to have automatic shut off nozzles for their hoses. Im all about it and i would hope other people would consider but those are property proper and necessary motions of change. Reporter the city says residents have said they reach 28 conservation last year. They hope that will continue. The final snowpack survey was done today and what a difference a year makes. Lets go to bill in the Weather Center with your thoughts. My thoughts right off the bat are if january and february had performed, we would be above average. Where we would need to be. But february doesnt didnt happen for us. Things just bottomed out. With march firing off, it has basically saved this season. Last year on the left. We all remember the 20 foot pole on dirt. This year, almost 60 inches of snow. When they measured the snow, that poll is hollow. It grabs a core sample of snow and then they measure the water content. They are not necessarily measuring the depth. From the state of california from mount shasta to bakersfield, about 87 of the water content of where we should be. 97 on echo summit. Its not what we had hoped for. Its a heck of a lot better than what is on the left but not but we hope for. There still an opportunity for more snow in the forecast but we have done well considering february was an absolute must for rain and snow. Turning now to the race for the white house. Donald trumps common comments about punishing women who have abortions. Keba arnold joins us live with that story. Reporter within hours, donald trump backtracked and reversed his remarks about home should be punished and most proponents of abortion do not advocate punishment for women so he made the remarks in an interview with chris matthews. Here is a clip posted on the website where trump was asked if roe versus wade is overturned, should women be punished . There has to be some form of punishment. For the woman . Yes. 10 days or 10 years . I dont know. Why not . You take positions on everything else. I do take positions on everything else. Its a very complicated discussion. Reporter a few hours later, Trumps Campaign issued a statement saying it is the abortion providers who should be punished, which is more in line with many who oppose abortion and trump now counts himself in the antiabortion camp but he used to promote abortion rights. Ted cruz chimed in saying there shouldnt be any talk of punishing women and fellow candidate john kasich agreed. Hillary clinton tweeted her reaction saying just when you thought it couldnt get any worse, horrific and telling. All this comes less than a week before the wisconsin primary. Polls show ted cruz is ahead of trump and john kasich trails behind them. A nineyearold girl from the bay area remains in Critical Condition after a freak accident in a Swimming Pool that killed her father. James tramel, a tech executive was with his family in brings in palm springs when he noticed his daughter turning blue in a Swimming Pool. He jumped in the pool to save her and was electrocuted. The girl was revived and rushed to the hospital. The cause is under investigation but the pool had apparently been electrocuted by faulty watering. Such accidents our world are rare, we are told. Its not very common and its usually neglect from the homeowner or somebody working on it who shouldnt be. Reporter tramel was an executive at reverend jet in san carlos. At least one of others were in the pool at a time and were treated for minor injuries. The das office says steps are being taken to repair and strengthen the system designed to house blood vials used as evidence. Jesse gary live with more on the steps taken to safeguard the criminal investigative process. What are they doing . Reporter they are adding multiple layers of redundancy to a system that should not have failed. When it did, it should have sent out at least one email alert to someone at the crime lab but didnt. The warm system is basically an email system. Reporter jeff draper says the system failed due to a Software Glitch earlier in the month. More than 20,000 emails stuck waiting to send, including one notifying ada ask the das office that a refrigerator had failed, rising to 1070. The unit must have had either aged out or have been drawing too much power for a period of time and the condenser burnedout. Reporter the unit is being replaced along with two others. Officials say if one breaks, all three could be suspects. As for the email warning system, new software has been installed and an additional five people will be notified if the system fails. The belief is leaving it up to one person to receive the alert and take action courts danger. So i test is sent once a day to ensure the system is working and a halfdozen people with the lab and Facilities Management now received that email. There is always two or three things that could go wrong. We have a fairly redundant, robust system in place. We are sure the system is going to work epperly. Reporter data officials would not allow us to see the you of the new units or a test of the new units but they do say none of the files with dna samples were affected. Some criminal defense advocates arent sure and believe additional testing may be needed to allay fears. A legislative analysis says raising californias minimum wage could be costly to taxpayers. Governor brown and the state legislature have reached an agreement to raise the minimum wage to 15 per hour by 2022. An Analysis Shows that with cost to taxpayers that would cost taxpayers an additional billion dollars a year in taxes. The senate could begin work on raising the minimum wage as soon as tomorrow. Investigating the case of a stolen dog. Surveillance video shows a man pick up the dog and walked out of a San Francisco store. How you may be able to help police catch a dog thief extract bay area businesses fight against a law in North Carolina. They hope to repeal a law they say targets the transgender community. Plus, the line is growing outside this tesla store as the company gets ready to unveil its new model 3. Tracking moderate weather. What to expect for thursday. America is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The park in santa clara has gone over refinement in preparation. The park has added new attraction including a holographic experience called mass effect, new earth. Great america has also made it easier for guests to pay for transactions well inside the park. We introduced the cashless game system. Guests can carry a card that they can recharge and reuse on multiple visits. Everything down to increase of Guest Satisfaction and convenience. The other added attraction is winterfest. The park will be transformed into a Winter Wonderland complete with ice skating rink for the holidays the countdown is on for tesla to reveal its less expensive model three and people are already coming forward to put their names on a list for those models. The model three will be unveiled tomorrow night but they will not be delivered until late 2017. Cristina rendon at Broadway Plaza in walnut creek where one man is already in line. Reporter this tesla store has been busy all day. Take a look. First and in line right here. Over the past couple hours, he has had some friends join him. They all want to put down 1000 to get a new model 3 but in other parts of the world, orders are already pouring in. The first reservation for a tesla model 3 is already being made in australia. People are waiting outside tesla stores around the world and its no different here at home. I got here just before opening, about 24 hours ahead of time. s took sebastian is claiming the first line outside the walnut creek store. They represent independence from foreign oil, sustainability with transportation and they are all americanmade. Reporter no one knows what the model 3 looks like yet. It will be unveiled in southern california, working the companys first mainstream electric car starting at 35,000. My husband is really excited. He will be here in the morning to put in his reservation to buy a car that he hasnt seen yet. Reporter tesla is taking reservations two ways. In store thursday morning or online thursday night. They are asking for a deposit of 1000. They are the only 200 mile electric car on the road right now with this new car, its amazing how its going to be a game changer. We trust its going to look good and we can always bring it back if we dont like it. Reporter donald is so sure he will like it, he is willing to sleep outside to get one. I just have a sleeping bag and a pad. Im used to sleeping outside. As a mall doesnt get mad, i plan to sleep here. Reporter people are telling me they plan to go to other tesla stores tomorrow morning because those stores are not going to let them stay overnight. We have already seen elon musk tweeting about the positive response saying they may need to increase their production plans for the model 3. Do we know at all yet how long the battery life is or is that a detail that will come out tomorrow . Reporter people are saying this battery will take the car 200 miles. Thats all we have heard so far. Obviously, more will be revealed during the unveiling tomorrow night. A lot of people are waiting to see. In a new survey, nine of the 25 most expensive zip codes are in the bay area. They cascade from San Francisco to burlingame, los altos, and saratoga. A total of 17 of the 25 counties are right here on the west coast. New york has the top spot and new jersey has one. The final snow survey of the season. While much better than last year, todays measurements are still around the historic average depending on where the measurements are taken. Tom vacar was therefore todays final measurement. Reporter the snow is deep at phillips station on hwy 50 just below the sierra and tahoe ski resort. The surveyor took the final measurements here. Now is the traditional snowpack peak because as the snow moves more northerly now, snowmelt intensifies. 60 again. Reporter todays average snow depth is 58. 4 inches with a water content of 26 inches. Its about what it was one month ago but below the seasonal average. Nonetheless, its a far cry from when the governor visited this same spot a year ago to find zero snow as the overall state snowpack back then was just a paltry 5 of normal. Its better than we were. Lets put it that way. Et al. Thing that downward spiral that we were in for the past two years. Reporter but the all important entire state snowpack content is only 87 of normal. We are better in the north and then he declining percent of average as we move to the south. But it still below average. Reporter the fact is there is about as much snow and water content here as there was at the beginning of the month. That is not a good sign if you are looking for more rain and more snow to break the drought. We have given up on the season. The likelihood of major storm activity is virtually nonexistent. Reporter so while it will be good for the reservoirs and water flows, water delivery to farms and talents will still be curtailed and dark beetle infestation and other drought aggravated environmental conditions will remain problematic. The conservation measures will still be important because again, we dont know what next year is going to be. Reporter restrictions may be eased for some water agencies but expect restrictions nonetheless. Its good to see were doing better than we were last year. Bill martin is in our Weather Center. Do we have any idea how things are shaping up for next winter . Its a good question. We have this magnificent el nino this year that put us in a really good position for rainfall but what happens next year is you dont get two el nino patterns in a row. Would probably happens is a cool, up well will occur. We will get a la nina, which adds up to cooler than average temperatures and less rainfall. I think our chances of seeing an el nino again next year are slim to none. The chances of a la nina are pretty good. If you are traveling nationwide tomorrow, here is what youve got. Weve got tornado watches in these red boxes. Pardon me, these are tornado warnings. Tornado watches are in yellow. Significant weather in the south and southeast. Chicago, memphis, translating to boston, new york, atlanta. Tomorrow mornings flights could have some issues. This is very powerful weather. Its this time of year in the south and midwest. Its tornado season. The days get longer and you get these explosives storms explosive storms in the spring. Dallas was not good today. Check boston, new york and atlanta if thats where you are heading. High pressure sets over us. Thats how that coastal fog showed up again. We had coastal fog back at the beaches again. We will see fog the next couple days. Winds are relatively light, temperatures overnight with a little frost but not much. Temperatures 670 in fairfield, 650 livermore, and not above average in terms of temperatures. Most temperatures were about where they should be. Winds blowing a bit but not massively. Just a nice day. If you suffer tree pollen allergies, the wind is kicking that up. Tomorrow morning, the fog returns to the coast and right inside the bay, might get a little more from Livermore Valley keeping a lot of the frost away. The fog keeps things a little warmer around here. Heres the fog footprint for tomorrow morning. Those yellows are 70s. Its like today. Its nice, just not horribly warm. Baseball tonight with the as and giants at at t. Fog should come in and clouds will come in by the seventh or eighth inning. The five day forecast, toptier of numbers are you are low 70s through the five day period. Mark cody chance of showers on monday. Its a long shot but we are optimistic. Some of the models are backing out of it but there is a chance for a sprinkle or two. It wouldnt be enough to move the needle on the rain we need. Coming up, 61 people will soon be getting out of prison. The type of crimes they committed and why the president is having them released. And Bay Area High School students hitting ready for liftoff. Their second attempt at sending their experiments into space. Im excited. Hopefully it wont blow up this time. Two Minneapolis Police officers involved in the shooting of a 24yearold black man in november will not be charged with wrongdoing. The county attorney announced that after a review of the shooting, the officers did not have did have reason to believe they were in danger. To mark clark was shot in the head after two officers responded to an escalating Domestic Violence call. Protesters and witnesses have argued that clark was handcuffed and on the ground when he was shot. The mayor asked for calm in the wake of todays decision. Today is a hard day for everyone in the city of minneapolis. Many people are feeling hurt, anger, disappointment, frustration, mistrust in a system that has not worked for everyone. Reporter the investigation found clark was on the ground but not handcuffed and was actually reaching for one of the officers guns when he was shot. Police have arrested two people for an Armed Robbery at a drugstore. This is a picture of one of the robbers at a walgreens early tuesday. He jumps the pharmacy counter, shows the technician a knife and got away with it with about 3200 xanax and hydrocodone pills. President obama commuted the prison sentences of 61 drug offenders today. More than one third of those offenders are serving life sentences for nonviolent drug crimes. Most of the 61 inmates will be released by the end of july. The move brings the total number of inmates with shortened sentences to 68. President obama has been calling for an overhaul of the system arguing that some mandatory sentencing laws go too far. A dog picked up him stolen from a San Francisco store on video. The last picture of the dog and upper shows just what he was wearing and dog napper and what he was wearing at the time. Some local businesses start a letter hoping to repeal a line North Carolina. San Francisco Police are looking for a man who stole a dog from inside a walgreens. The event was captured on Surveillance Video. Henry lee is live in the newsroom with the story. Reporter it all happened very quickly. The dogs owner was inside the drugstore shopping. When he turned around, his pet was nowhere to be found. He didnt know what happened until he saw the video. Take a good look at this video that shows a red a man in a red shirt approaching a dog in a walgreens in San Francisco. He kneels down, pets it, and picks up the dog and walked out of the store. The owner was in the store and turned around and all of a sudden his dog was gone and he couldnt find his dog named catfish. Reporter this is catfish. He is five years old. Have to [laughter] and hospital half chihuahua and half poodle. They were able to pull some Surveillance Video and found a suspect had stolen the dog and walked out with him. Reporter here is a picture. He was wearing a red shirt and camouflage tight pants. He was last seen with the dog in his hands. Technically, the dog was not allowed in the store. Its unclear if catfish had tags or a microchip. The dog also wasnt on a leash expect the dog was Walking Around freely. Reporter i asked if it was possible that the man in the video simply thought catfish was a loose dog but they say he never approached the store clerks and no one has called in to report a stolen dog missing dog. For the owner, this is an emotional loss expect pets are often your best friend, companion. They keep you company when you are in need. This obviously hit the dog owner. If you recognize the man in the video, police would like to hear from you. A new state audit suggests that the university of california is viewing lower standards for outofstate applicants because they pay out ofstate tuition. The number of outofstate students accepted has jumped by 18,000 in the past five years, an increase of 82 . Outofstate students pay about three times more than those who live here in california. I know that they have a cap on outofstate students, how many they can accept and all the outofstate students i met, i feel like its harder for them to get him. The university responded to the auditors report by pointing out that the acceptance right of instate applicants is higher than those who apply from other states. Growing backlash against the state of North Carolina for its new antilgbt law. Some bigname Bay Area Companies have submitted a letter to the governor demanding that will be repealed. Tara moriarty tells us how the San Francisco mayor is trying to send a message. Reporter today, huber joined a growing list of companies signing over huber uber joined other giants and protesting a new law in North Carolina. They say the law will make it harder for businesses to recruit and maintain the best and brightest and will diminish the states draw as a destination for tourism and economic activity. North carolinas policy says the use of single sex use of bathrooms must be based on the biological sex on their birth certificate i think what North Carolina is doing is reprehensible. Reporter the National Center for lesbian rights what they are doing is making people less safe. Reporter San Francisco mayor ed lee issued a ban on official city travel to North Carolina. He wanted to send a message that we sand united stand united in condemnation of laws that restrict lgbt writes. Reporter mayor ed lee was the first to implement the travel ban. Others who have followed suit include new york, seattle, and portland oregon. Hopefully, they will start listening to the Broader Community and realize what they did is making a mistake. Reporter Tara Moriarty ktvu fox 2 news. Hockey is a sport you may not have considered locally. The local team on its way to nationals after another state title. Images found on the laptop of one of the belgian suicide bombers and who may have been a future target. New concerns for the belgian prime minister. Hundreds were injured and over 30 killed in the attack last week. Photos of the prime ministers home and office were found on one of the bombers laptops. There was also a suicide note linking him to the paris terror attacks. Belgium has asked the United States to help them in encrypted and analyze information on that laptop. In france, a suspected terrorist arrested last week has been charged with a string of crimes. They say reda kriket is in the advanced stages of a plot. He is charged with possessing and transporting arms and explosives and for having fake documents. At least three other people are in custody with connection to this case. The un is calling on the International Community to help syrian refugees. Un Officials Say 4. 8 million syrians have been forced to flee their homeland. The Turkish Coast guard says it rescued a group of migrants sunday and 70 syrians were among the group trying to reach greece. The rescue comes days before a decision between turkey and the European Union which requires refugees arriving to be sent back. The magnitude of this particular crisis shows us unmistakably that it cannot be business as usual, leaving the greatest burden to be carried by the countries closest to the conflict. John kerry announced an additional 20 million to help turkey deal with the crisis on top of 5 billion already pledged by the United States the u. S. Military is hoping to boost assistance to nato in europe. The plan to deploy american troops and equipment to Eastern Europe for the first time in 20 years. Reporter the u. S. Military is looking to ramp up its presence in Eastern Europe in an effort to support nato allies. The department of defense announced a plan for the full time deployment of tanks and troops to europes eastern border. It would mark the first time that has happened since the end of the cold war. The u. S. Plans to spend defend 250 tanks and other vehicles to the region as well as 1700 humvees, 4200 soldiers would be rotated in and out, 62,000 military personnel already permanently assigned to the continent. The move is widely seen as a response to russian hostility near the ukraine. Vladmir putin has proven he will do the unexpected. He will take advantage of opportunities. You dont know for sure what he will do next. Six nato countries in the region would receive the rotating u. S. Troops and new equipment is set to arrive next february. The move would cost 3. 4 billion but needs to be approved by congress. At the pentagon, jennifer griffin, fox news a move in California City passes an animal bill of rights. The new ordinance gives protection to animals and their owners. A hockey team made up from players as far as half moon bay, stockton and tahoe. How their success is spurring interest in the game right here in the bay area. When will be freezes returned to the bay area . More about the weekend and a chance for sprinkles. A confirmed case of the measles has put an entire region north of sacramento on high alert. A student at a Charter School in Nevada County contracted the disease putting other unvaccinated students at risk. More than half the students at that school or not vaccinated which led the school to cancel classes for a week. Measles is highly contagious and Nevada County has one of the highest rates of unvaccinated students in the state. Im scared. This is something we had 30 some years ago we were worried about and now its back . Last year, the state legislator mandated that all students have their vaccines, banning exemptions for religious or personal reasons. That law goes into effect on july 1. This is a big week week for the golden state elite. The team is the only team from Northern California to get to the nationals. Scott reiss explains why its success is bringing a bigger issue to light. Reporter players come from far and wide. I have a kid from south lake tahoe, half moon bay, kids from san jose, stockton. We pool our resources together, our ice resources and we put together a topperforming club. Reporter from different schools and in many cases, competing teams. Once the game is over, its a new start every time. I dont think theres any hatred toward anyone you see on the ice. Everyone is friends after the game. There is a process that goes on. Its really amazing to see it through the course of the year, how the team comes together more and more. Truck the results, a third state championship in four years. The success is emblematic of a region that is embracing the game like never before. We have seen in recent years, an explosion in ice hockey from high school we have gone from very few teams to now 10 high school teams. A few years ago, we had no girl teams. Now we are looking at four. Reporter with the economics are simply not keeping pace. The demand for facilities exponentially greater than the supply. We are out of ice. We need more ice and we hope cities will look at building ice projects for the girls program. We just need more ice to have more kids be able to play. Reporter National Title certainly wouldnt hurt the Public Relations calls. Just maybe a little added incentive this weekend in new york for a team trying to finish what it started. Marilou retton is in the area to unveil the only book trials. Known as americas sweetheart, she was the First American woman to win the olympic all around gold medal for olympics back in 1984. Since then, she has become a wife, mother and motivational speaker and spokeswoman for the olympics. She spoke with our morning crew while she celebrated the team trials in san jose. I love this sport. Its near and dear to my heart. It is woven in every fabric of my life. I have four daughters. Three our competitive gymnasts and one is a competitive cheerleader. She says people in the bay area have an Incredible Opportunity to watch world class gymnasts at the trials. Their scheduled for july 8 am to 10. Ticket prices start at 111. I saw her earlier say the United States has an amazing team this year. They could put together two or three teams that could i make the goldmedal. I remember watching her. Its fun to hear she has daughters in it. Really cool. Lets go to the Weather Center for a check on the forecast. Another beautiful day. You said maybe a chance of sprinkles . Reporter shooting for it on monday. I think its going to go away and just be cooler but its something on the five day that isnt Just Sunshine with a little fog. At toward memphis, st. Louis and chicago is getting hammered. Were talking about tornado warnings and watches in this area. Thats a big deal. This is the time of year when we start seeing these types of things, especially in the midwest. A tornado watch is in effect through tomorrow morning central time. That will be an into the dark type thing. I never lived in the south. I spent some time down there but its scary when you have tornado warnings overnight in the dark. Its something you cant see coming. Winds are blowing onshore, allowing the fog to push up to the coast. It feels like spring when the infection fog moves across the relatively cooler ocean. The fog and low clouds will be around tomorrow morning. A dose of it. Not only inland but from Livermore Valley. Exactly what you would expect. Temperatures currently about where they were last night. Temperatures about where they were yesterday. Maybe a degree warmer in a couple spots. A little breezy out there at sfo. Lets take a look at the big pattern. We have High Pressure set up and this is pretty much what i have been saying the last several days. We have been fortunate to have this high slip out and have the jet stream slip south. Not this week. High pressure will be here pretty strong for the first week in april. It just means the model suggests something might happen. Thursday and friday, something some nice temperatures, mid 70s in some of the nicest spots. A Little Valley fog showing up. Fog is easy to pick out because the way it contours to the coast and the lowlying valley area. Valley fog tomorrow morning and it burns off and goes away by the afternoon. Here comes friday now. Fog comes back. The coastal fog is back and we move into saturday. A little more fog saturday morning. No big changes. More of the same. Forecast highs tomorrow, 690 in san jose, 740 morgan hill. The air quality has been stunning. If you walk around the hills, the water is coming off the hills. There is still flowing water. Something we havent learned about four years. Wildflowers its been four years since we have seen Something Like this. Its beautiful and you get a look at those hillsides and you see poppies and beautiful flowers we didnt see the last few years. I have a quick question. You are talking earlier. He said we couldnt have back toback el nino years but there is a chance for a la nina. What is the difference between el nino and la nina . One is a warm water event that gets overheated like this year and then an upwelling of cool water wanting to push to the surface and thats la nina. Now you will have cooler water which does the opposite. It doesnt promote cloud moisture in the atmosphere. With a la nina, not significant rain. An average winter but not above average. Much drier and cooler. If that happens. They havent announced it officially. Coming up, an animal bill of rights and a northern California City says it gives animals and their owners more protections. What it means for medical care and shelters if your pet gets lost or runs away. Getting ready for liftoff. Introduce you to young bay area scientists and their second attempt to get their experiment in space. The Stockton City Council has unanimously passed an animal bill of rights. Supporters say this means more protection for pets and their owners. Owners get faster medical care and it changes restrictions dating from last october on Emergency Care for animals found on the street. Since that time, animals are only cared for if they are injured and a Police Officer or animal control officer has to bring that pet for care. A Good Samaritan cannot bring that pet. As a result, injured animals are waiting in the street for hours or longer. Now, if a Good Samaritan brings in an animal, it will get paid for Emergency Care. The bill of rights also states shelters have to wait 72 hours before transferring or adopting pets, which gives owners time to claim their pets if they get lost or loose from homes. A sacramento father of three is in a, after taking a pill laced with a powerful narcotic. At least 12 overdoses have been reported in Sacramento County the last few days. Family members who have lost loved ones are speaking out. Reporter its through their grief that these two men are united. I never expected anything like this to happen. These pills are killing people. Reporter they are sending out a warning to others who might be popping the street version of norco. Mostly angry that somebody will place a pill with Something Like that. Watch out. Know what they taking because stuff like this happens. Didnt think it could happen till it happens to someone close to you. Reporter the Sheriffs Department says they have seen the told the legal drug can take. The Sheriffs Department says they have had a number of overdoses in the emergency room since november. This month alone, theyve had 20. Anthony and angela lost their 20yearold cousin Benjamin Villanueva after he took a black market markoe pill. He was one of a kind. Reporter the police Department Says they wont know for weeks what killed him but angela says she is sure was a pill. David el faro was also lost. I feel like i will never see him again. Truck when he died, conway said a bag of pills made to look like marco were found. Friends came forward and told her he purchased the pills from the streets to deal with his ongoing leg pain. Its murder. Truck both families are finding it difficult to move on. Cant even begin to think about my life without dave. Reporter and angelo doesnt want to approve abuse prescription drugs anymore. What a difference a year makes. , left, lesters snow survey taken in a bear, brown field. On the right, a dramatically different scene just this morning as surveyors measured several inches of snow. Its a big improvement but Officials Say not enough to bring us out of the drought. Its a sign that california is slowly recovering after several years of drought. This mornings snow survey measured 58. 4 inches of snow was 26 inches of water content. Officials say the water content is only 87 of normal. Our cameras were there today as a state surveyor made those measurements at phillips station on hwy 50. Its just one of more than 300 survey locations throughout california. While the results were encouraging, it will take more snow to take california out of the drought. We are better in the north and then he declining percent of average as we move to the south. But it still below average. Bill martin now. Some promising new as compared to last year. You look at these pictures on the left and right. Dry conditions on the left. I remember when they walked into the meadow to get snow survey. The basilica much better we have done. Heres a picture of what happens on top of the entire sierra nevada. 87 of the content average. Is that unreal . No. Is it better than last year . Yes. In the southern sierra port tehachapi, 72 . An average of 87 statewide. The truth is its not even really average but its way better than we have been the last four years. Surface reservoirs have done well with these warmer el nino storms. We didnt see as much from the snowpack as we did the run off. All the reservoirs are over 100 of where they need to be. Snow is everything. The light is that those surface reservoirs have done well. We could still see some more snow in the mountains. Overall, good news considering february offered us nothing in the way of rain or snow
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