Tunnel. A mini van spun out knocking down a light poll. The van on its side. No injuries reported. For many people, the roads have been a worry. The rain has been welcome for others. It feels good. It is going to make the fish happy, the birds happy. The animals happy, and me. Because i am a snow boarder i like it to rain so it snows . The sierra. Reporter drizzle most of the day didnt seem to interfere with most people. The first umbrellas of the season came out. Nowhere is it more appreciated than in marin county where it accounts for 75 of the drinking water. What it will do is saturate is ground so we get more rain and run off. Reporter that runoff is critical for marins reservoirs which are below average after a very dry here. Lets come back live now. Look at that eastbound 80 traffic. We have seen several close calls here. Many people going way too fast for the conditions we have seen. A couple of fender bender accidents in the westbound direction. But the chp is telling everyone to slow down. This first rain of the season has the roads very slick and dangerous. Reporting live in berkeley, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. This photo was posted on our facebook. You see the little dogs suited up for the wet weather. Up load your picks to our facebook page. Continuing footage of a fight. Some of the people involved are demanding answers and planning a march tonight accusing San Francisco police of brutality. Our David Stevenson is there and spoke with one of the people injured last week in the flight. David . Reporter well frank, the rally is set to arrive here at the Mission StreetPolice Station at 8 30. Eight officers are out front. There have been problems with protests here. The protesters are up the street about two blocks away. 17 of them so far. Police Officials Say they are taking steps to get answers about what happened last friday. The fallout from fridays melee at the San Francisco housing complex continued today. Watching that video is really depressing. Reporter resident Orlando Rodriguez showed us his scar. He says he is the man on the right in the gray shirt trying to pull a friend away from the police when undercover officer rushes forward and starts punching me. The cop took a few blows at me and took two to my face on the ground. Reporter police chief says the officers are justified in using reasonable force to overcome resistance, but he says cell phone video showing the clash between residents and plain clothed office has been sent to the office of complaints. The Publics Trust is everything to us. And so we are going to have a fully transparent investigation. Reporter police say the the incident happened because paris williams was illegally riding a bicycle on the sidewalk and refused to stop for the police. So you are thinking does this person have a gun, is if bicycle stolen . Something has to be done about this. I mouth is beat up on the inside. It was just unnecessary. I had to miss work a week or so. Reporter officers dropped the cases against paris williams and another man arrested that day. Now we are hearing about 30 protesters are on their way to the Police Station with a Police Escort and we will bring you a live picture of the rally outside this station coming up later on in this hour. For now, reporting live, David Stevenson, ktvu can l 2 news. A man accused of attacking a homeless woman in court today. New at 5 00, our rob roth was in court. What is the reason the suspect gave for attacking the woman . Reporter timothy chase is charged with two counts of federal assault. We learned what he said after the attack on the homeless woman. You may recall, ktvu aired surveillance videos showing a man stomping a homeless woman on her head as she slept on the sidewalk earlier this month. The prosecutors said in open court that chase said he thought he might have killed her and that he said the attack occurred because he was annoyed by the scent in the air. We spoked to the District Attorney about the video prior to the court hearing. This is a very disturbing video and i know that myself and the Police Department wanted to make sure that the individual here was arrested and he had been arrested and now we are going to prosecute him. Reporter the prosecutor shows the homeless woman being kicked seven different times. Chases public defender says the victim was not seriously injured. Marie refused medical attention and told police she could not remember what happened to her, but that her head hurt. She was having some problems memorizing what occurred. We have a video that clearly showed what occurred. But she actually can remember some of the things. It is possible that maybe, you know, she was hurt and she is having memory problems as a result of the assault. Reporter chase is in jail here at the hall of justice. Bail is set at 100,000. Prosecutors say chase has a criminal record including attempted robbery. He is due back in court in two weeks. Reporting live, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. A teenager was set on fire on a transit bus. Tonight, the council will approve a resolution of solidarity. Transgender Remembrance Day in oakland in honor of 18yearold fleishman who identifies as agender. A fire in downtown martinez displaced five people in a building where the mayor has his coffee every morning. He sent us a photo he took with his cell phone showing flames over an apartment in victorias cafe. The mayor bus drinking his coffee when the fire started. He said it smelled like a electrical fire at first. I thought somebody cease laptop had overheated and rose the waitress was investigating. Obviously there was something going on. Everybody got out safety and the fire was put out quickly. Two other pardon mes are uninhabitable. The red cross is helping the five people who cant go back to their homes. No word yet on what caused the fire. Patrick marlowe of the San Jose Sharks got into a bad accident but he was not hurt. He was driving a mercedes suv that suffered some front in damage. There were witness reports that the person in the other car was injured but there are no details as to the extent of those injuries. The city of san jose an the police union have reached a tentative agreement over wages. As we reported first on our morning newscast. The deal calls for a 10 pay increase. Robert handa joins us live to see if this deal will be enough to stop the mass departure of Police Officers. Robert . Reporter well, this is a very crucial time for police and the city hall as the Police Department makes a push to bolster their police unit. The san jose Police Department launched a series of recruiting videos today to bolster a force that has lost hundredsover officers from an ongoing fight on the city. The city and the police union signed off on an agreement. Sources say the City Council Approved the deal in a closed session but the Council Still has to finalize the deal in a Public Meeting if it is approved by rank and file Police Officers. As they see that, hopefully, that will slow down the people leaving. Reporter the agreement came after months of bitter talks. The three year deal calls for a 4 pay hike and then a 3. 33 jump in each of the next two pay periods. Also a one time 2 bonus. The president doesnt believe it will stop the resignations and requirements. What this will doe is by the middle of 2015, our officers will be making what they made in 2009. Reporter this leaves the department far behind other cities in wages and the department has a bad image in terms of morale and it will take more than this to change it. The approximately 1,000 eligible officers will vote on this one week from today. The city council is expected to take its final vote in mid december. Live in san jose, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. More on the labor dispute between bart and the union. What they call an error in the tentative deal. And later, a somber anniversary for an east bay mother. How she is marking 25 years since her daughter was last seen. Uncle sam is going to look into the safety of the tesla. But is he looking for something he is not going to find . And i just showed you live Storm Tracker, and where it is raining now and when i come back, we are going to talk about the forecast for your morning commute. It looks to be a wet one. New headlines on the tesla fires. The founder of tesla took to social media this morning to confront the criticism. He called the critiques unjust and said tesla are safer than other cars. A federal investigation has now gotten underway. Dale rand says he loves his tesla. I think it is an overaction to the fires that have occurred. Nobody was in any danger like normal car fires are. Reporter renown brand expert david acker. These fires got so much press. Reporter to counter the bad publicizing the traditional media. Tesla founder eli musk says what makes this incredibly unjust is that the model has the best Safety Record of any carton road. No injuries or deaths ever. Through social media, i think in some ways, he has terrific credibility that is kind of, you know, it competes with the credibility of the government in a way that no other ceo of a car Company Really can. They can carry the ball in the social media world. Reporter you can compare the tesla to the other cars and we crunched the numbers. More than a quarter billion Passenger Car ins the u. S. According to safety government agencies. 194,000 cars suffer roadway fires one in about every 1300 vehicles. Now there are 20,000 tesla s models on the road. The three tesla fires mean only one in 6600 has burned. The data shows that the tesla car is probably six or seven times more safe than a gasoline eninjure car. This car is far superior than any car i have driven. Reporter teslas greatest danger is more fires. Tesla motors rebounded tot almost four . Shares up 4. 51 to 126. Imvesters appeared reassured by the ceos defense. On the agenda for Tonights City Council meeting. The council will review a proposal increasing the hourly rate from one dollars to 2 an hour for meters. It would change enforcement times from 10 00 a. M. To 8 00 p. M. And make people pay for parking on sundays which right now is free. The goal is to reduce the occupancy rate so there is always spaces available. Just a few weeks ago, a neighborhood in san ramon hired a hunter to kill a dozen wild pigs. Now they are back. And the problem is they destroy all the manicured lawns looking for food and threaten family pets and kids. The city is offering to pay for the hunter and considering putting up a fence in the area although it is unclear who will pay for that fence. And we are on storm watch tonight. Lets look at what is happening on the bay bridge, you can see here traffic is slow in both directions coming in and out of the city. Lets go the chief meteorologist bill martin. He is talking about more rain to come. Bill, what we see today is more of the beginning. It is really light. We showed you the traffic right . The roads we saw, the east shore freeway, it is very slow. The roads are amazingly slippery. It has been dry around here as you know. Lots of fender benders out there. The amount of rainfall we are getting is relatively light around the bay. Two tenths of an inch at the heaviest. More rain is coming which is good news. Meaning we are a shot at more showers as we head into the evening hours and tomorrow. Here are the rainfall, nones are accumulations. Its a running total. These are moving. Guerneville one of the heaviest spots. For the San Francisco area, for the fremont area, quarter of an inch, half inch. Tonight, more clouds, more showers, tomorrow more showers but the sun will come out a little bit. Thursday, it starts to dry out a little bit. It is wet out there now and the wet will continue. The computer model, here we are at 9 00. Look at the shift in the rainfall. Right down to monterrey. So watch this. This is what will happen between now and 9 00, it will be focused. North bay, scattered showers. Now tomorrow morning, right . The roadways probably going to be wet for the morning commute and there could be a mist or a drizzle coming down. As we go into the afternoon hours, more showers moving in the santa cruz hours. More scattered showers for us and it moves out by the afternoon commute. I think tomorrow morning the commute will be wet on the roadways. Tomorrow afternoon, same deal. I think there is going to be a light glaze on the roadway which can be as devastateing in terms of the commute times. When you get more rain. It makes for some slick conditions. So the sun will pop out a little bit. Cloudy with showers. Thursday, things start to dry out a little bit and we warm up as we go toward the bay area weekend. There is your five day forecast. But you know, on a scale of one to 10, this is a 6. Not a big deal at all. But silt good to be getting it and it is definitely helping. Now this thing tonight, the santa cruz mountains, you will get an inch of rain, two inches of rain. Snow in the mountains. When when i come back, we will talk about lake tahoe and what they are getting. And the morning commute, it will probably be light rain. Well it is the latest trend in photography. The oxford dictionary calls the word selfie as the winner. It is when you take a picture of yourself and post it on social media. Oxford said the word first appeared back in 2002 on an australian online forum. And it showed up on flickr in 2004. And ktvu reporters got into the selfie spirit today. You can go to ktvu. Com and click on the images tab. A north bay woman raped by serving in the army. Now she is speaking out in washington. When i needed help, my chain of command failed me. Her push now to make sure the same thing doesnt happen to other soldiers. Now to julie haener in the news room. A serious issue in the east bay hills. A newly released audit shows missing money. Why that is creating a fire hazard in one of the most vulnerable areas. And making off with the cash meant for kids. You couldnt understand why anybody would want to come and do this to you. These stories an more coming up new at 6 00. [ male announcer ] you can change your tomorrow if you do something today. And theres never been a better time because this year, Devry University has 45 Million Dollars in need and meritbased scholarships and grants available to those who qualify. And this degree can make a difference. In 2012, 90 of Devry University grads actively seeking employment had careers in their field within 6 months. Now is your time. Apply by january 6th and find your career success in the bay area. Visit devry. Edu. An explosion near sacramento injured several employees. Aerojet provides defense related rocket and Missile Technology to the federal governmentful it is not known how the explosion happened but they do not believe it is was intentional. The fbi is participating in the investigation. Virginia authorities are investigating the stabbing of a state senator and the shooting death of his son as an attempted murder suicide. Senator kraig deeds was juried but walked away from his home and was picked up by a cousin. They found his 24yearold son gus dying of a gunshot wound. They believe gus stabbed his father and shot himself. There are reports gus underwent a mental evaluation just 24 hours earlier. The senator is now in fair condition. It is estimated there are more than 70 sexual assaults involving the military every single day. And now a bay area woman raped why serving in the army is calling on congress to do something about all the sexual assaults in the military. Kate weber was in washington dc pushing to change the system. The Current System is rotten. It is also unamerican. She says she was raped by a soldier 19 years ago in germany she reported it to her superiors but says they covered up the crime rather than investigate. She joined lawmaker whos want to make a change in how sexual assaults are handled. A bill would give trained military prosecute evers to decide if a crime should go to court. As it is now, it is military commanders who make that decision. When i needed help, my chain of command failed me. When i spoke up, i was called that girl who will ruin your career if you talk to her. It has been almost 17 years since my rape and retaliation and it has taken so long for me to live like a person begin. 26,000 men and women were sexually assaulted last year. That is 71 everyday. But only 3300 of those crimes were reported. The military justice improvement act has bipartisan support. The senate could vote on the bill by tend of the week. Up next, our storm watch continues. We will tell you about a safety concern you may not have thought about. And one east bay city combating crime with a new strategy, but we learned it may not be so new after all. Tonight, 2 investigates the past attempts that failed and why police say this time will be different. I love watching tv outside. And why can you move the tv out here . The wireless receiver. I got that when i switched to uverse. But why . Because its so much better than cable. Its got more hd channels, more dvr space. Yeah, but i mean, how did you know . I researched. No, ii told you. No. Yeah no. The important part is that youre happy now. And i got you this visor. You made a visor yes that ill never wear. Ohh. [ male announcer ] get uverse tv for just 19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. Complete bay area News Coverage continues. This is ktvu channel 2 news news at 5 00. It is a slow wet commute ktvu as the storm system brings us our first significant rain in the last two months. Want the bring in chief meteorologist bill martin. This one is over, but is another on the way . Yes, there are kind of two parts to this system. All this moisture streaming in off the pacific. It has not been that productive for rainfall totals in the south bay or in the peninsula area. But more moisture is yet to come tonight. As we move into the evening hours we are seeing heavier rain now