Transcripts For KTVU The Eleven OClock News On KTVU FOX 2 20

Transcripts For KTVU The Eleven OClock News On KTVU FOX 2 20170418

Could be all of us. Rain here adding inches to the sierra snow pack. More than 150 above average. So officials with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission say they are releasing water from happening now at the rate of 16,457 gallons per second that will make room for runoff from the snow to start melting. During the drought we have snow pack levels that are 50 normal and a snow pack level that 170 above normal, which will mean a longer period of time when we will be releasing water, generating Hydroelectric Energy when we release that water. Reporter Charles Shehan says whats happening right now will going into our customers and the form for drinking and bathing. Normally when they start off tapering in may, they might stretch into june. At some point they could be diverted into the area reservoirs such as Crystal Springs and san mateo county. Aside the above average rainfall benefits and relief, the energy was being generated. That power is all the citys municipal facilities, the muni buses. San Francisco International airport as well as certain businesses here in San Francisco. Reporter its a story thought unthinkable just 12 months ago when california was in the grips of historic drought. Its many like today that changed attitudes about rainy days. Its a bummer its so great, but it is good because it ends the drought. Everything is really green and looks beautiful. I just hope spring is around the corner. Reporter Officials Say fears the runoff could lead to flooding are unfounded since theres no Population Centers in the flows path. Additionally all that will go into the metro area. We are live this evening, Jesse Gary Fox 2 news. Julie, first live shot at the 11 00 news on ktvu. I think that will make it official, jesse, thank you. A wet 11 00 news. Our chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking tonights showers and also whether this is going to affect the morning commute. No, it wont affect the morning commute except maybe a little wet on the roadways. Here are the showers and the numbers weve had in the last 48 to 38 hours. Right now that yellow line represents where we are at with the index change we would use in Northern California representing just how wet it has been out there. Now its wet throughout the bay area. Showers will continue as long as this flows. Look at the jet stream. It will be very far south with scattered showers throughout the bay area. Scattered showers will be around overnight tonight. Morning hours should be mostly dry with a little bit wet on theroadways from this evenings rain. We will talk about that and for your tomorrow and then again for some wednesday rain. Well see you back here. A peninsula family is trying to come to terms with a heartbreaking loss. Their dog was snatched by a Mountain Lion earlier this morning as the family slept. The homeowner had left the open french doors to her home and the big cat apparently crept inside and snatched lenore. The familys 15yearold poutines dog. The 12yearold daughter was sleeping. She went into her snarling, you know, get out of here bark. Right . And then nothing, no sound. As it was walking away, i knew that was the lion and i knew it had to have gone her and that is why she stop had gotten her and that is why she stopped responding. Reporter they found paw prints at the scene consistent with those of a Mountain Lion. Police in berkeley released new information about the people arrested on saturday when a political rally turned into a brawl. 11 people were injured, seven had to be taken to the hospital. Most of those who were arrested are from the bay area. Three are from southern california. The charges they are facing include assault with a deadly weapon, battery, and committing a crime while wearing a task. You can find the names of the people arrested on our website ktvu. Com. Look for the story right there on the front page. Oaklands mayor libby schaaf is announcing hes running for a second term. Schaaf is getting a big jump on any potential competition with the elections still more than a year and a half away. Ktvus Monty Francis is live at city hall after asking mayor schaaf why shes jumping into the election so early. Monty . Reporter well julia at this point theres no other candidates in this case. And she just wants a chance to finish what she started. F ad there is still a few days until the election. But sharp a strong repoterrer of donald trump says the first week in action would push her to make up the mind. The election is so disconcerning to me and many oaklanders. I wanted to send a clear message that im in this, not just for the basic things oaklanders want done like getting the potholes filled, but also because i Will Champion our values. Reporter she has her supporters. I just think shes good. She will be good for oakland. Reporter and her detractors. No, i didnt vote for her last time and i wouldnt vote this time. Reporter many are still angry the raiders decided to leave town under her tenure. But he does not blame shatter for the reasons leaving. I dont see any determination. Ive been around for 12 years. Were not a progressive city. Supporters point to a drop in crime. Responding to an underage sex scandal involving members of the Oakland Police department and the appointment of Anne Kirkpatrick as the new police chief. Considering the fact she had no policing for a while. I see the neighborhoods in my local environment. And so im inclined to say again, she is doing a good job. Reporter schaaf says her two big priorities in Going Forward are dealing with the housing crisis and with the problem of homelessness. The most recent survey found the 66 of oakland residents have a favorable opinion of libby schaaf. Live in oakland ktvu fox 2 news. Senator Dianne Feinstein held her first town hall meeting since President Trump took office. Some in the crowd accused the senator for not doing enough to stand up to President Trump. Many people appear to support her. The wide range of questions from her position on muslim immigrants to President Trumps relationship with russia. There were loud boos from the audience when the senior senator didnt explicitly oppose the u. S. Missile strikes on syria. This new president has taken a step. That step was to fend off a number of tomahawk muscles into an airport where planes are left to drop gash. Reporter when asked about the president s potential conflict of interest, the senator said her office was investigating the business trips by the president s sons. And also taking a close locates the constitutional pro taking a closer look at the constitutional prohibits. A state Assembly Committee may vote tomorrow on legislation that could end the bailed system in california. The goal is to make the system fair for the poor who often cant afford to post bail. The bail would allow a judge to determine which individuals are potentially dangerous and denied them bail. Anyone with information would be niced it was implemented in the start of the year. It has sparked controversy because some of those reliefs committed similar crimes. New at 11 00, the department of california is reaching out to those who owe money and may not realize it. They have published a list of more than a thousand people. That money comes from a variety of sources including fines, penalty assessments, fees. Weve tried in every possible way to contact the people to whom the money is due, whether their businesses are individuals. In some cases they have not kept their Contact Information up to date, so we are not able to trace them. If you can go to ktvu. Com. The deadline is tomorrow three days later than the usual deadline of april 15. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama tonight on what to do if you still havent filed. Reporter its a task john ori can now check off his list. It is like a load off of my back. [ laughter ] yeah, it is good to get it done. Reporter his taxes are done, one day early. At this point, three post offices where many one antioch man was filling out his form at the post office. I dont have time tomorrow to do it. I figured i would get it in today. Reporter this year filers had three extra days because april 15 landed on a weekend, and monday was a holiday. Emancipation day in washington, d. C. Its a veteran tax preparer who says he does about 400 returns a year and the date change caught many people off guard. A lot of people will come in and they did not have appointments who realized, okay for many that need help, many businesses will be open until 11 59 p. M. On tuesday. Personal taxes are done, so im happy. Reporter the united way bay area provides free tax help for those with incomes below 54,000 a year if they call 211. We have 60 or 70 locations to help people prepare their taxes. We have volunteers who are trained and certified. Reporter if you are not ready, dont worry. File an extension, take off the pressure. Then you get until october 15 in order to file. Reporter but remember an extension to file doesnt mean an extension to pay and the form still needs to get in the mail on time. I filed an extension, which is stressful because that needs to be done or you get a penalty. Reporter post offices will close at their regular times. Two are open until sfo and san joses lundy avenue site. One is open in the 8 30 at San Franciscos evans avenue. Reporting from walnut creek Jana Katsuyama ktvu fox 2 news. Coming up, changes to an east bay bart station. The multimillion dollar makeover thats in the works. Growing frustrations with the bay areas newest rail line. Why they say they are out of control on test runs. I hear it early in the morning and during that evening. We have new video from a rollover accident that happened near mccarran their boulevard. Two cars were involved, one hitting a utility pole and the other rolled over. The city of concord and bart broke ground today on a new project to connect riders with the citys center. It is a new walk way that will run about half a mile along grant street between the concord bart station and total santos park. Plans call for a bike way and new lighting. City officials have been working on creating the path for years. Bart riders we spoke when mixed feelings about the 6. 5 million project. We were told to leave. I have five kids. They ride bart a lot. More money for the bart trains. Theyre in really bad shape a lot of them. Thats where the money should go. Officials say most of the money for the project is coming from the contra costa transportation authority. The walkway is set to be finished this summer or excuse me next summer. The new marin summer smart train has not carried their first passenger yet, but test runs have some residents sounding off. Theyve been waking up by loud horns late at night and then in the Early Morning hours with ktvus tom vacar reporting, relief might be on the way. Reporter the sonoma marin smart train should begin Passenger Service some time in june. For now, testing the trains and the support systems will continue as it has for many months now including each and every intersection. Its been very annoying. I live on the west side and i hear it early in the morning until the evening hours. It is very loud inside my home. I can hear it. And it is just, it is very loud. And i have heard a lot of residents complain about it in their homes. Reporter on wednesday the city of petaluma will impose a quiet zone weeks before all the final testing is done. Currently novato and san rafael plan to impose their joint quiet zone with an actual Passenger Service that will begin at the conclusion of the testing period. When they give us a more definitive date, which looks like it will be early summer. But that is when we would file our final paperwork. Reporter smart would be subject to all the quiet zones in all three cities with the exceptions of the emergency situations, no whistling where whistling would be permitted. If we were to implement the quiet zone that smart would respect the quiet zones through novato. Reporter some residence of novato want them to follow petalumas lead. So they are pressuring their city halls to impose quiet zones right now. Yet some petalumans would be willing to wait until the start of Passenger Service. Yes, im okay with it. Yeah. I know they are testing and i know they have to, you know, do it for safety. Reporter antiwhistle advocates in petaluma tell me a smart train keeps blowing its whistle after wednesday and then they will file a flurry of complaints with the federal Railroad Administration asking the smart train to be fined and a cease and desist from whistling. Tom vacar ktvu fox 2 news. There was a special gathering today on the eve of the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. City officials past and present were on hand for a luncheon at johns grill to mark the 111th anniversary of the quake that killed some 3,000 people. There are no quakesurvivors still alive, but some of their family members attended todays luncheon. Local history buffs for on hand wearing costumes from the early 1900s. The gathering comes on the annual wreath laying on Market Street early tomorrow morning. It is very important to know what the city was like and what it did, and how it rebuilt itself, and what can be done. And also to get them ready for the next one. A lot has happened. It was the meeting spot where quake survivors gathered after the fire was out to try to reunite with loved ones. So here we go into your bay area tuesday. Weve got some clouds to talk about. Maybe a few sprinkles as we head into tomorrow as well, but very light. Not a big deal. As a matter of fact right now were seeing the sprinkles around outside. The heavy flow off the pacific is going to continue for the next couple of days. That keeps us unstable really. That shouldnt be there. That should be a High Pressure and a low pressure. We are going to continue with this flow. It wont be as moist tomorrow. Tomorrow will be more sunshine, less clouds obviously. And then a chance youll see it in the model for a sprinkle or two with some sprinkles out there right now over the last couple of days. Overnight lows in terms of what has been misty and cool. Look outside right now over the bay bridge. At this time of the night you can see that model showing you tomorrows forecast. This is just the temperatures for you. The clouds will clear off. Theres your sunshine. Look upper 60s, low 70s. You have 70s tomorrow. Then as you look at the model, 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. See this is what were talking about. It is not a big deal. Watch how quickly it clears out. So by noontime youre looking at sunshine. But in the area we will still have a few scattered sprinkles. Its a nonevent essentially in terms of rain. But essentially the rain will happen tomorrow and wednesday to clear o. Until then here is your wednesday morning, here is wednesday afternoon, and here comes that next system. This is the last one. And it barely tweaks through the north bay about 9 00 tomorrow night or wednesday night, pardon me and then its gone. So theres your forecast highs tomorrow. Warmer than today. Even a shower and a sprinkle at best. Temperatures in the mid to upper 60s your fiveday forecast then. Just like that, slight chance for sprinkles tomorrow. Wednesday evening we will see a few rain showers. But thats it. After that it will be smooth sailing. Yeah. Its friday. Over the next couple of days. The next couple of days will not be as gloomy as today or yesterday. All right, good. Gloomy is a good work. Very gloomy. Thank you. Well some tech savvy music lovers at the Coachella Music Festival caught a thief with all the loot. Several people used the find my phone app to locate their devices after noticing their iphones had gone missing. The tracking feature led them to 36yearold renaldo de jesus of new york. Police say he was in possession of more than 100 stolen phones. He was arrested on suspicion of grand theft and possession of stolen property. Well mark is on deck with sports. The as are hoping to break the losing streak tonight against the rangers at the coliseum. Mark will show us how they made out when we come back. Have assembled. Spiderman. Black widow. Captain america. And eddie . So, whats the plan . Breaking out the guardians, pal. Come celebrate the allnew guardians of the galaxymission breakout during the summer of heroes, only at disneyland resort. Hero up im so glad the as took the tarp off the field, but it did not do a lot for them tonight. Its going to get a whole lot better than this right now, right . The as, they are on a little mini losing streak, injuries are starting to pop up. Both going on the disabled list. As for the fans, well you know it wasnt exactly a pleasant night. They take off the tarp, 8 15 bucs. First inning cotton finds trouble. Elvis andreuys gets him at first base. But you look at the replay here, larrys throw clearly beats the runner. But bob melvin says eh, why bother replaying it . Why have a replay . I mean the two man on changes the complexion of the entire inning as mazara lines up getting an rbi double changing everything. Use the replay. I dont like it, but if it is there, use it. Robbed by a shot. Pitching six innings, giving up one hit. And putting on the red up in the upper deck of that young man. They get only three hits and they lose it 70. The warriors are off until wednesday up one game to none on portland. And looking real strong as they open the playoff series just like the spurs. They will probably wind up again for the western conference finals. Popovich had his team up as many as 26. Memphis pulls within four late. But the spurs stabilize. Give that guy an open shot. Paul gaston knocks it down. Three for leonard who had himself a postseason career night. His best ever, 37. Get out of my way slam dunk. And look at it again there. He is something to be reckoned with. T

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