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KTVU KTVU FOX 2 News At Noon January 5, 2017

Reopen tomorrow and thats if they can get the repairs done today. All morning we have seen a procession of workmen and women can coming into make the repairs. The county building has two wings. An east and a west wing. They handle everything from legal documents to records to birth certificates. Needed a birth certificate to go out of the country for traveling. Im hoping to get it online. That is is the idea. I im gliadine have the online service. It would have been nice to get it today. Reporter the outage is also impocketing the sheriffs headquarters but the is she have said that they have functioning emergency generator that can keep them going for days. Right now deputies are providing security for this building. We are look agent getting the building locked down and there are no county services today. Reporter officials with the county say that all Critical Services are being met at this hour. Thats including the da, the police and the court officials. If you see people going behind me and walking in to the building they are either doing repairs or with the court to file documents. We are trying to find out more about these repairs to the three bus boards that feed into an electrical switch that have failed which caused the blackout. We will update you later this afternoon. Four, fib and six. Live outside the Main Government Center here in santa clara. Ktvu fox 2news. Thank you. Its shaping up to be a dray day around bay ware. Start with a look at the golden gate bridge. This is a break between storms. The storm that brought rain here earlier this week delivered several feet of new snow in the the sierra. Right now chains required on sections of 80 near lake tahoe. The roadway is back open after it was closed for much the day. Brian is in the sierra and shows us the conditions. Reporter here, photograph sick moving again after interstate 80 was shut down for much of 80 and well overnight as they got it hope. The 145 this morning to start allowing the passenger cars and big rigs make their way back over donner summit. To dig out the freeway. The road was shut down as it looked more like a zoo run than a freeway. Use the overnight hours to use the storm drains and up higher. Got the snow plougs to clear it out. Things looking better. Snow totals overnight resorts reporting a foot and a half of snow in the last 12 hours. More than two feet of snow in the last 24. If you go back seven days the sierra resorts reporting more than seven feet of snow with another major storm getting ready to bear down on the sierra. A little break in the action and a reminder for drivers coming in to the the sierra to make sure you have four wheel drive or make sure you are chains that fit your vehicle to get over the pass. Especially into saturday and sunday where we expect a lot more snow. Mark is here with morion the conditions. A lot of people making trek up to get the good snow. The bases were just the max bases under three feet. Just the past few days they are topping or approaching six, seven feet. The numbers going up. As far as the conditions not to bad. You can see the snow pack going up from 48 insl kirkwood so squaw. 84inches. As you heard that report there is more snow on the way. We have this. A winter storm watch that will be converted to a winter storm warning. This starts friday evening. The key headline. We see the snow fall ten to 20 inches. Warmer air moves in. Snow levels starting out at 4500 feet. Up to 5500 feet on saturday. By saturday night a lot of the sierra could be picking up rainfall as the snow level goes up above 8,000 feet. You can see the showers diminishing across central and southern california. There is that big view out here in the park. Continuous stream of moisture setting up. Thats the river we have been talking about all week long. You can see today we have the break and its here friday and then saturday first thing saturday morning rainfall rate also pick up. Intense town power also move into to early sunday morning. A lot to talk about with potential for flooding and also gusty winds. This will be a prolonged event. Saturday, sunday, could ring america to monas well. We will talk about that in the full forecast. Havent seen rain like this before in a while. The rain we are expecting could lead to the closing of yosemite. Heavy rain is expected in the park which could push the merced river above flood stagef. That happens yosemite could close through the weekend. Partial officials monitoring the weather and will make the decision on whether or not to close the park today or tomorrow based on the forecast. The last the time it flooded was back in the 7. There was damage to park roaded, campgrounds, lodging and utilitiest. Was closed for two month because of the damage. Here marin one area that will likely be hit especially hard by the storms and homeowners and Business Owners preparing for the possibility of flooding. Alex savage live to show us how people are getting ready fort rain. Reporter yeah. And good afternoon to you. A nice beautiful Sunny Afternoon here in marin. This break between the storm systems a perfect time to prepare and that is what we are seeing in this area. We are in downtown this is an area thats prone to flooding the creek not faraway and you can see that some businesses they have the stabbed bags all ready to go for this weekend. People are clearly taking the warning seriously. Bracing for some intense rain this weekend. Sandbags sit outside many store fronts along the avenue. At wink optics the flood gates for the front and back door are ready to go to hopefully prevent any damage to the business. Its been a busy morning at this sandbag station on sunny hills drive in a lot of anxious homeowners hoping they can keep the water out. The water comes rushing down there when we get a lot of rainfall. Reporter ellie said is he worried about the creek that runs near his house. Especially with so much rain expected this weekend. I have read just sort of scared me. Not sort of. It scared me. Reporter some people are using these upcoming storms to make some extra cash. 16yearold aidan said he posted an offer on social media to fill sandbags for people. He has had quite a few takers. I will deliver ten sandbags for 20 to people and so far i have gotten a lot of response. Mainly from the elderly and from businesses. So, im Getting Started on that. Reporter and emergency workers here in marin are preparing for all sorts of problems flooding to down downed trees to widespread Power Outages. Pg e will be doubling the number of crews on hand for this weekend to respond quickly to those outages and marin officials getting ready to open up their Emergency Command Center to be able to manage all the storm related issues as they pop up. The county also will be carefully monitoring several creeks in this area. The one that are most worried about. Fairfax, Sleepy Hollow and county Officials Say that if any of those crooks over run their banks and they start to see flooding is the possibility that evacuation orders could be issued. Back to you for now. Okay. Thank you. You can keep track of the incoming storm either here on ktvu fox 2 or take the weather app with you. Its available right knew. One person is being treated after being hurt in a fire in the Forest Knolls neighborhood. They 2broke out inside a three story condo when firefighter as ride flame was coming from second floor back window. Firefighters say they rescued one person inside that condo. She wasp conscious and suffering smoke inhalation. She was transported to the hospital in critical condition. The flames also damaged a condo next door. We are able to stop it from spreading. These buildings are connected. It could get from one building to another. Thats why we called a second alarm. We saw smoke out of this second building off the rooftop. As we fought the fire we determined it did spread to the second unit. It took about 30 minutes to put that fire out. The cause is under investigation. Happening now Top Police Officials across california are in San Francisco disus discussing the hot button issue of use of force. We are live this afternoon and officers say that they know how important this issue is. Reporter hey. That is exactly right. Organizers say over the last two years the issues of use of force and responsibility have become Critical Issues for police agencies. The communities they are charged with protecting. Reporter more than 200 officers around the state gathered at the university of San Francisco. The aim to discuss the use of force. Obviously a hot button issue nationwide. We are taking a long look at it. What we can do better and how we can increase our partnership with the community. Reporter key note speaker, jim mcdonald said police is a difficult job. Thats why they need to come together to share best practices. He can a the lot of our people but at the same time what they do in the field so critically important to all of us in society. We have to hold our people to a very high standard. Reporter acting San Francisco police chief said that responsibility is a priority for his department and thats why they have taken steps to monitor interactions between officers and the public. As of last month we have deployed approximately 1500 body cameras for our members to provide greater responsibility and a fuller picture of what happens in those encounters. Reporter officers attending say they are hoping to take what they learn here and apply it on the job. Being able to come together and in a meeting like this and share ideas and is share what people are doing in different departments. Its helpful. Helps us learn best practices and grow as a Law Enforcement community. Reporter that runs through this afternoon and tomorrow. Thank you. Hate crime and battery charges have been filed against four people accused of beating a special needs man and streaming it live on facebook. Chicago police say the four suspects, two men and two women are all African American and have did notbeen detained. They can be heard yelling about trump and white people. Throughout the video police say the victim is beaten and cut with a knife. All while he is tied up. Its quite a possibility that its a kidnapping. That is one of the charges we will seek if it turns out to be that. He is traumatized by the incident and its tough to talk to him right now. The victim knew at least one of them from school. Facebook has removed the video. Ahead a popular comedian wants to help save the 49ers. Property posal he is putting together to make changes from the top down and what he is asking of fans. And did russia tamper with the election . Thats the question congress is working to answer beginning the series of Senate Committee hearings underway today. Details arch the break. Officials in turkey are investigating another terror attack. One that happened near a courthouse. At least three people were wounded when a car bomb exploded. The explosion reportedly happened near a courthouse entrance. Nobody has claimed responsibility. The this after a nightclub attack where 39 people were killed during a celebration. Isis claimed responsibility for that. Two Senate Committees hearing testimony from several of the nations top intelligence officials about cyber security. Much the focus is on russias involvement or lack in the hacking of the dnc during the president ial election. Reporter our nation has no policy and no strategy for cyber deterrants. Reporter a chilling assessment which is investigating the weakness of both public and private entiti, s inside the United States to Cyber Attacks directed by foreign actors. Todays hearing said to be the first of many just one week after the president ordered the expelling of 35 Russian Diplomats based on ill against take he that were behind a hacking operation. These Cyber Attacks should be judged in the larger context of russias rejection of the post Cold War International order and aggressive actions against its neighbors. Reporter several nations hostile to the United States have been behind massive United States data breaches. In 2014 china compromised the files of some 20 million government employees. Iran is behind Cyber Attacks between military members and north korea is hacked sony in 2014 coinciding the release of an anti north korean movie. They are pushing the envelope. Since this is a tool that doesnt cost much and sometimes is hard to attr ib utte. Reporter trump voicing skepticism about russias involvement along with reports that the new administration is looking to restructure parts of the intelligence community. In washington. In just the past few minutes the Associated Press reports that the president elect is expected to select former indiana senator dan coates as director of national intelligence. Many say their first order of business, after the inauguration, to repeal the Affordable Care act. Here in california the program operates under the name covered california. Officials say that this are going ahead as normal for now. Berkeley researcher ken jacobs said 22 Million People including 3. 7 million here in california would loose coverage if the act is repealed. Many have those people have insurance because of expanded medicaid to help pay their premiums. It allows children to stay on their parents insurance until 26 and covers people with preexisting conditions and requires most employers and individuals to have insurance or pay a fine. If we get rid of the individual mandate and healthier people drop out of the pool and sicker people stay in and buy Coverage Health care costs will go up. If Health Care Costs go up more Healthy People will drop out of the pool. He says that could put the Insurance Markets into chaos. If republicans take away funding for the Health Care Law with no replacement plan and that could destabilize the market for individual insurance. The president is expected to issue more pardons before he leaves office. Some high profile people who have asked for compassion or Chelsea Manning who leaked classified documents and the Army Sergeant who left his post in afghanistan and was held by the taliban. The white house said that the last group of pardons will likely be similar to others the president has issued. Mark we go and a quick look at that thursday forecast and beyond. This weekend we are getting ready for that big storm. The series of storms approaching the bay area. The key head live. You want to prep for today and tomorrow. Be ready for the Power Outages and the possibility for flooding as well. A live camera looking toward the golden gate bridge. Pedialyte was 45 miles an hour. On this weekend. We could have wind gusting to right around 50 miles an hour. Strong wind expected. Before then you probably noticed a bit of a chill in the air. We have this. A freeze warning. This issued by the National Weather service overnight. Essentially for the north bay. Inland val square. East bay and the san jose. Toward morgan hill and goal re. This starts 3 00 a. M. Until nine friday. Overnight lows could be back down in to the the 20s to the lower 30s. A bigger perspective out here in the pacific and you can see the jet stream winds transport that moisture closer to the west coast and the bay area. Itll be target zone for significant rainfall this weekend. Not for today. In fact you can see clear to partly cloudy skies out there for the satellite. For thursday afternoon. We will check in on some of the current numbers. We have a chilly start this morning and still cool right now. Santa rosa 47. Oakland 51 and San Francisco in the upper 40s. 47 degrees. Here we go at that storm system developing off shore. Rainfall in general be right around two to four inches. Could be more in the north bay. Coastal hills eight to ten inches. Then winds up to 50 miles an hour with the combination of all the elements. You could have a sharp rise on the creeks and the rivers. Watch the napa river. Flood warnings kick in. Power outages and just the a lot of flooding just on the freeways as that rain continues to get stronger first thing. Heaviest rain will be first thing. Here is that river developing in the pacific and this will be directed right on toward Central California and the bay area. Rainfall develops first thing saturday morning. Heavy rain. The most intense rainfall will be sunday but even saturday we will have good downpours out there. Here we are today. We have the break then into friday we will have increasing crowd clouds, friday night we bring in the chance of rain and here we go saturday morning. The rainfall rates picking up saturday. We may have some breaks in the action later in the day saturday. We are hoping that happens because look what happens by saturday night and into sunday morning. I think this will be the most intense rainfall 4 00 a. M. Sunday. Urban and small stream flood advisory and is still rain for the rest of the day on sunday. Temperatures for today. Enjoy the sun. We will have a lot of 50s. San jose 53. Santa rosa 52 and pacifica 51. Look ahead. Your fiveday forecast. There is that freeze warning for portions of the bay area. Friday, next door moves in first thing saturday. Heavy rainfall all weekend long. The most intense rainfall as we showed you will be sunday morning and then walking about the atmosphere rivers, we had one move in early their week. Another one moving in into the weekend. Possibly another one or even two as we head into next week. That could cause problems here in the bay area. Concerns for us as we look out for that next week. They are li

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