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down the peninsula, we have pounding rain that continues to left up in a northerly direction. fog is now also a problem in throughout the santa cruz mountains and portions of the north bay right around the petaluma area. and this is not over. the weekend pinpoint forecast allen is still coming up. >> thank you. going to need that. an explosive revelation in court. a top narcotics officer and a private investigator charged with stealing confiscated drugs and reselling them appeared before the judge today. joe vazquez shows us one of the guys says he did it for his family, joe. >> re...

1.2 billion in 2010. >> at this point, this rate increase rate payers paying for this is what we call a trial balloon. this hasn't gone anywhere close to the puc yet, right. >> reporter: they are floating the idea to see where it lands. basically they have to go through the public utilities commission. there will be hearings on this. and as you heard, people are going to be fighting this. >> all right. len ramirez, thank you. well, he did it for his family. that's the excuse being offered for the drug cop arraigned today for stealing confiscated drugs and re-selling them. as joe va...

news was in the square, and suddenly found himself under attack by the police as his tape recorder rolled. >> journalist! >> reporter: by dawn the square was cleared, and the hospitals were full of wounded. >> reporter: violence also broke out again in yemen. pro and anti-government forces clashed in saleh, and in the southern city of hayden, officials say police opened fire killing at least three protesters. no matter what the price, says this man, we will stand until saleh goes. and in libya, anti-government protests spread through several cities as crowds threw rocks at police veh...

reports of a tree that is down along interstate 280. apparently, it's a 40-foot tree that fell across the on-ramp of the eastbound sneath lane on- ramp to southbound 280. chopper 5 on the way. we'll get more information to you as we get it. now, high winds already bringing down one tree in downtown berkeley, as well. crews there were quick to get that tree cut up so the traffic could be moving again. so we have winds, this is the leading edge of a storm, roberta tracking this second one. the rain is coming in, roberta. >> you nailed it talking about the winds. the prefrontal winds ah...

dana, why are they wasting time? >> mike sugerman in berkeley. a barge runs aground in san francisco just as this powerful storm is bearing down on the area. what the coastguard and crews plan to do now that the storm is about to hit. >> reporter: we are here on marina green right just east of the golden gate yacht club. this barge sprung a leak earlier utah and was grounded right here. in the end only a gallon of fuel seeped into the bay. still, the response shows what was learned from the debacle. >> reporter: at 7:30 the tug boat crew pushing this barge noticed it was sinking. t...