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KTVU KTVU FOX 2 News At Noon February 16, 2017

Take a look at the numbers with ben lomin picking up over an inch of rain. One inch as well. More spot its for you with santa rosa. 84. Napa. 83. San francisco. 36. San jose a few hundred diagnostics of an inch. 08. At least moderate to heavy rain across portions of the bay area. On the radar we have some rain move across the area earler today. That was this morning. Just this time for the morning drive. Things have changed. We had scattered rain out there from this morning and then still a few pop up showers right now. There we go if the live doppler sweep. Some rainfall as you can see. Just to the south outside of sonoma. Moving the maps closer to san jose, morgan hill and santa cruz. You can still see coverage and looks like around the millpedas area. You can see whats developing out here in the pacific. There is circulation out here to the west. That is going be a stronger storm just in time for your friday morning drive. Really targeting Southern California. A lot of the Southern California people have been prepping for the storm. Going to be a big deal. Itll be a good sized deal for us as well and then beyond that we are talking about more storms, strong storms out of the pack. Today as i said a warm upsies tell. Stronger storms. Itll cause interest a big cause for concern over as we head in to the weekend and beyond. For the rest of the movement. Possibly there. Will be some brakes. We will talk more about those. They are so important. Work right now underway to stabilize equipment on a construction highrise in San Francisco. Last night there was concern that heavy equipment on top of that building could fall. We spoke to one of the developers about march plans for the day. She is live in the area with what she learned. Reporter yes. Building we are talking about we can see it from mission street. Its in the south of market neighborhood. Condo highrise under construction. The general contractor in charge of the construction flew out a team of engineers last night to help them figure out how to stabilize some of that equipment they are concerned about after concerns that some of that equipment on the top floor could fall to the ground below. A representative for one of the developers of this project explained this morning what exactly happened here yesterday. The part of the building is called a concrete form. Its a frame that wraps around the building. The form is used to build each floor of a highrise. Concrete is put around it and then the form is lifted and uses again to build the next floor. It takes eight jacks to lift that form. Yesterday one of the jacks failed. The form tilted. You can see how slanted it looks on the right of this picture. Because the form is connected to Big Equipment including this boom the concern was that the equipment could come down if the form tilted to much. Thats why the San Francisco Fire Department evacuated several buildings in the area and closed off city streets as a precaution. And we will show you a live picture of the building from a rooftop camera. Several hours after the evacuation the equipment now this morning has been stabilized. The fear of anything falling has passed and most of the evacuations lifted. The only Office Building people still have limited access too is the one nearby. It that building has an entrance at 543 howard street. Crews right now are working on dismantling that construction boom. That center piece in the middle of the picture we showed you. They are dismantling it. Taking apart. That was the piece they were worried about possibly falling over. In the meantime i just got the update from the developer they say regular construction has resumed now that they have stabilized that equipment. Back to you. Thank you. In the Santa Cruz Mountains chp said itll be at least well into next week before traffic patterns resume on highway 17. Today crew was assessing the area affected by last weeks slide. With the rain in the forecast crews spent most of yesterday preparing the hillside for todays storm. Crews removed trees and dirt from land to prevent it from falling down the hillside. There is an expert on the way up here to take a look and try to determine the safety of continuing to dig while we have the rain and to see what the status is. For now traffic is still down to one lane in both directions of 17. Only in the southbound lane. Cal trans crews are working to protect highway 37 from more flooding. They are biling a steel and concrete barrier to keep water from going across 37. This fix wont completely stop the flooding but its designed to lessen the severity. This section remains closed and is not expected to reopen until next weekend. One area of most concern is at the orrville dam. Right now state water officials updating the situation at the reservoir and its spill way. We are monitoring what they have to say and will bring you the latest at 12 30. You can always take up with you in the the form of the free ktvu weather app. You will get the latest. Also the weather team is always posting updates to facebook, and twitter. The president a founded alex acosta to head the department of labor. This after his first choice withdrew. If confirmed i would be the first latino in the trump cabinet. He served as assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division under president george w bush. He was also a member of the National Labor relations board. He has a law degree from harvard. Great student. Former clerk for Justice Samuel alito and he has had a great career. The original nominee withdrew from consideration yesterday. He is the head of a restaurant group. He faced a lot of criticism from democrats and other liberal groups for his opposition to raising the minimum wage. His support among republicans started to erode after he admitted employing a house caponier the United States illegally and that he failed to pay payroll taxes for her. The president continues to rail about a steady team of leaks coming out of the white house. Already one Administration Official has stepped down because of information leaked to the immediatey. Now the president is promising to plug the holes as republicans are falling in line to help. Reporter the president saying he will hunt down and stop the leaks coming out of the white house. This morning saying the low life leaker also be caught. We will find them. They will pay a big price for it. Reporter House Republicans sending a letter to the Inspector General on wednesday demanding an investigation. You cannot have classified information going out into a nonclassified setting. Reporter democrats arguing that the problem isnt the leaks president its the information on the administrations ties to the russians being turned up. Its already claimed the job of Michael Flynn after it was found out he discussed sanctions with the russians in december. The gravity and seriousness of this issue cannot be over stated. Our security is at risk. Our system of checks and balances and rule of law is at risk. Reporter while another report suggesting the rift between the president and Intelligence Community has reached a boiling report. The report claim that officials are keeping information from the president out of concern that the white house is the source of the leaks. The office of the director of National Intelligence pushing back in a statement. Any suggestion that the Intelligence Community is with Holding Information and not providing the best possible intelligence to the president and his National Security team is not true. The secretary of state meeting the russians for his first foreign trip say thats correct United States will consider working with them when there is common ground. In washington. Lawyer inblanchard. An hour california senator set to give her First Official speech on the senate floor. She is expected to discuss immigrant communities and their help to society and will discuss the president s orders that target immigrants and refugees. We will have it for you on the four. This as the boycott called a day without immigrants gets started. Protesters say they will stay home from work in opposition to the president s policies. They say that its designed to show how important immigrants to the United States and how the American Economy would suffer without them. They are being asked not to go to work, buy anything in a store or online and not to eat the ate restaurant and for students to not go to school. A number of bay area restaurants and markets closed today in support. 1600 people are in detention through the San Francisco Immigration Court and only 15 of them have attorneys to fight for them. Thats according to supervisor sandra who held a rally on the front steps of city hall today along with immigration activistss. Should is he pushing for immediate funding for immigrant Legal Defense through the public defenders office. Officials say that just this week ice did six raids in city across the country and there is a rumored executive order targeting illegal immigrant who have children who are american citizens. One says he is illegal and served for the United States in iraq and yet he still lives in the shadows. A day without immigrants in the United States of america is a day without the United States. I believe and i i believe that its untollerrable and wouldnt work. The United States foundation was founded by immigrants. The legislation goes before the budget and finance Committee Later this afternoonf. It passes satisfy would be follow in the footsteps of new york city as well as alameda county. In the south bay San Jose Police served an Early Morning search warrant at a home near capitol expressway not far from east ridge mall. In a story we saw live several police units including at least one merge unit were involved. A helicopter was circling the home as officers used loud speakers to tell anyone in the home to tim out with their hands up. So far police havent released details on any arrests made or what the case was related too. The Santa Cruz Police department will hold a News Conference to discuss innerve involved shooting that happened in october. Police say they received reports of a man banging on a door at a home on chase street and screaming he wanted to kill the people inside. Officers say when they arrived the 32yearold came at officers with a five foot long rake and refused commands to put it down. Officers used a taser three times. That didnt work and police say they opened fire. His family said he has Mental Health issues. A morgan hill restaurant is fined for swapping out expensive fish for a less expensive kind. After a break the fish customers thought they were eating how the restaurant is trying to make up. Its been more than a week since a north bay familys home was destroyed by a landslide. Still ahead i go back and speak to the family about the terrifying moments about life now and where they go from here. The man who bought two rifles used in the terror attack 234 california plead guilty this morning to federal terrorism charges. The 25yearold pleaded guilty to providing Material Support to terrorists. Prosecutors say that he admits to buying the high powered rifles used in the attack that was carried out by his neighbors. Both died in a gun fight with police. There is no evidence that he knew about the planned attack that left 14 people dead and 22 injured. He could be sentenced to 25 years in prison. Police have arrested the man who they say they believe shot and wounded a passenger on a San Francisco train last week. The suspect the is a 29year old anthony ray. Police say that the shooting happened after a fight broke out on the train and one man was found with a gun shot wound to the head. The victim is recoving at a hospital. Police used video on train and the gun left at the sign to make the arrest. In nevado police are searching for two men who assaulted a woman near a Downtown Park saturday night or early sunday. Police released two photographs of one of the suspects taken by a camera at a nearby lucky supermarket. Both men are described as about 55, clean shave then their 40s. Suspect in a photograph was wearing a super bowl l Carolina Panthers sweatshirt and had a gray nike drawstring backpack. The woman said she met and spent time with them before they attacked her near lee garner parkf. You have any information call the police. The first time in a long time im seeing a little bit of sun and clouds along the open estuary. Nice to have a bit of a break in the rainfall. We have a lot more rain clouds in store over the next few days. Start out the morning with good rain as well as you can see right now our live our camera looking toward san jose where we have some clouds in place and with this grass early their morning rain showers. We had some rain pushing in to portions of the bay area. Mainly the south bay. Midmorning by late this evening but lingering clouds and right now we have some more breaks in the overcast. Lets take a live look. The oak lapped esta, y there is San Francisco in the distance and some clouds still floating through in the short term. There is still the chance of a few pop up showers. The main organized front has moved out to the south. As you can sea there we go with the rain approaching bakersfield. Approaching Southern California and a lot of people in Southern California gearing up for a good event. Major event heading in to friday with the stronger storm coming on board. Even for us as well. Temperatures right now in the upper 50s to the 60s. Its mild out there. When you get a mild weather pattern we are talking about rainfall. Talking about an active weather pattern. You have subtropical moisture working back in to the area. Right now bit of a breeze out toward fairfield. Winds out of the west at 20 miles an hour. Thats a gust. More wind reports for you with san jose checking in. Eight miles an hour. Sfo at last check about around eight or nine miles an hour. As we expand the view in the pacific this is what we are watching for tomorrow. Just by itself Current Location and you kind of get the idea of where its heading president main impacts will be down toward Southern California. Definitely the impact for us for the rest of the state as wellw. Rewatching the orrvillel tam. The inflow and the out flow. The inflow is backed off a little bit. Actually really backed off. The out flow is backed off as well. Still pushing a lot of water out of the damw. That the water levels have been coming down slowly. Taking a look over the past few hours and a slow decrease that. Will happen throughout the day today and then in to the early portion of friday as well. Then we are talking about this the next system coming on board. Rainfall about a quarter inch much to an inch and a half. Winds gusting to 50 miles an hour. Heaviest rain will be for friday morning for the morning drive. Here we are this afternoon. 5 00 p. M. Clouds out there. A possibility of a shower and then look what happens in to friday. This is 7 00 a. M. That moisture working its way in from the south. This is 7 00 a. M. And then so 10 00 a. M. As well. Moderate to heavy rainfall covering a good portion of the bay area. One still a factor and then we will scale back on the intensity and Coverage Later in the day and maybe a few showers to start out your day saturday and then decreasing chances by saturday afternoon. This will set the stage for the important break as we head into a portion of the weekend. Temperatures for today in the upper 50s to low 60s. Pretty mild out there but here is that fiveday forecast. Rain and wind for your friday as i said we could have winds gusting to 40 to 50 miles an hour. Saturday for the most part looks okay. A chance of a shower for the morning hours. A few pop up shower into sunday but as you have been hearing from steve the next major event that will be moving in to the area. That could be sunday night and into monday. Thats what we are worried about with persistent continuous heavy rainfall that. Could trigger more mudslided. Adding on top to the water we have out there cause for concern. The sun now means i get the baseball practice in later today. There you go. Make the most of those breaks. Coming up the state senator looking for bars to be able to seven alcohol until 4 00 a. M. Apple said itll hold its 28th Worldwide Developers conference in san jose this year. Held in San Francisco since 2003 the conference hosts thousands of developers to learn about apples technologies. More than one thousand apple engineers expected to be there to meet and hold lab sessions with the attendees. The conference will happen at the San Jose Conference Center june 5th through the 9th. Apple stock right now slightly down this afternoon. As we take a look at the big board the major stock indexes pulling back from their all time highs. Energiy companies are declining while tech stocks gaining. The nasdaq is also down ten points. The top south bay restaurant has b

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