weather will come in the bay. >> good morning. >> definitely confirmed this morning, rain, snow and mayhem in the works for the weeks moving forward. kari hall is moving with your forecast. not mayhem, but more rain. >> we need the rain and the snow the next several days and continues for a span of the weekend into next week. now, temperatures in the low to mid 50s as you head out. as that clears out today we will have a mix of sun and clouds and evening showers for the north bay and possibly san francisco. i will talk more about that. i can see the fog is getting thicker in the north bay. how are the roads looking? >> we use these visual cues to see how things are changing.

this is san rafael and may develop into an issue in the next half hour or so. look at the speed sensors, fine coming to mill valley as well. a smooth drive for most of the bay, your typical overnight construction crews. there is a possibility at the dumbarton. >> two candidates leading the pack, as expected, going into super tuesday, hillary clinton and donald trump both feeling victorious after a successful super tuesday. despite the turnout and numbers, still anybody's race. >> there still is a lot of concern. >> kris has the numbers. what do you have? >> the two leading candidates enjoying a resounding victory. the candidates that came in third, fourth and fifth promi

promising it's not over. hillary clinton won 7 of 11 states in purple. she has 979 delegates, 41% of the number she needs to clench that nomination. bernie sanders not doing too po poorly. on the republican side more col colorful. donald trump did pick up more states, ted cruz picked up these states. marco rubio won minnesota. and john kasich and ben carson didn't win any states. donald trump is saying he will be a unifier and defeat clinton in the general election. clinton also has her sighting on

november and donald trump. >> instead of building walls we will break down barriers. >> once we get this finished, i will go after one person, hillary clinton. >> ted cruz did use his speech last night in his home state of texas did say the only way to defeat donald trump is for all the other candidates to drop out of the race. that does not seem to be happening at this point because john kasich still has his own home state coming up and marco rubio still with his own home state and we have a more interesting race ahead of us. voters seem to be energized by this action and wildness in the primary. there was turnout in all but one state that held the contest. don't forget our primary is this summer. >> feels like an eternity, doesn't it? >> it's kind of exciting, fun to watch and so much participation. >> love the fact that the voters are energized but everyone is sho

shouting. they can talk in normal voices. now that we know the results, let's turn live in our san francisco newsroom with some reaction. >> good morning. you heard in kris's report and hillary and donald. they're talking about each other. what's clear, there focusing more on each other than talking about their inparty rivals. some confidence. they both spoke from florida. trump is confident he's securing groups from different backgrounds, varying degrees of education. he's also winning the evangelical vote and that was big in alabama. trump won heavily there, a setback for the texas senator who has been counting on the evangelical vote. clinton also scored her best victory of the night in alabama, she got 79% to sanders 19%. what's telling here is the black vote. that makes up 59% of the

democratic electorate. 93% of black voters backed clinton. overall super tuesday the res t results to cement her as the clear party candidate, results on june 7th, could play a bigger role than it has in the past. >> california, that late primary with all of its delegates could go rushing in and make the difference. this may be -- we don't know yet. this may be one of those times california is not just an atm but actually a source of votes as well. >> the next three big dates are march 5th, march 8th and march 15th, and five more including florida. that is a winner take all state. lots coming up here. big question for the gop is should we be backing donald trump? is it a done deal? more from the experts coming up in the next half hour.

today in the bay. >> thank you very much. a tantalizeding process, california might actually matter. stay tuned on-air and online. see our free nbc bay area app for a complete list of results. a hand full of people have norovirus and dozens of others starting to show symptoms. bob has a warning going out. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the university's health services is asking any who is sick to stay home in case they are ca y carrying the highly contagious norovirus. they released this flyer noti notifying staff and students doctors have confirms three people at the school have norovirus. 29 more have noro-like symptoms. health services found no link

between the cases in terms of being in one dorm, eating area or event or connect k those f l fallen ill. if you're not familiar with the symptoms, vomiting and diarrhea. it only takes a few droplets to become sick. they're asking if you're sick, stay home and do not prepare food and just wash your hands before eating. today in the bay. >> thank you very much. also happening, the san francisco police commission will meet tonight to discuss reforms. mayor ed lee putting forth the use of force draft policy. continuing to be under the mike following the death of mario woods the stabbing suspect shot and killed in december after refusing to drop his knife.

the community has expressed frustration with his suggestion to arm his officers with stun g guns. rallying outside the courthouse in san francisco on the first day of a controversial wrongful death trial of four san francisco police officers. >> a crowd of 400 were there on behalf of the family of the 28-year-old city college student police shot and killed two years ago. his parents are suing them for firing at their son and hitting him 14 times. they're calling it a victory celebration. >> this is a victory because we have gotten to this trial stage. usually our voice are not even heard. >> the officers say he pointed a weapon at them and they fired in self-defense during a confrontation. the weapon turned out to be a stun gun he carried for his job as a security guard. the family's attorney expects

the four officers to take the stand today. that trial is expected to concludes a week from friday. happening today, the man charged with shooting and killing an east bay police officer is back in court. he is accused of killing him in a domestic dispute at his home last month. vega, the suspect had a son with officer vegas' daughter, a 15 year veteran of the police force. good morning, kari. >> good morning. we will have a dry day today. some showere es that move in wi be late this evening and clouds well ahead of that system. the rain develops tonight and the haveneaviest rain over the h bay. the rain lingers and the next storm system arrives as we go

into friday. this weekend also looks very wet. i'll detail that. more of that coming up in less than 10 minutes. let's get an update on what's happening with bay area bridges with mike. >> the dumbarton bridges and the nimitz moving well. at the dumbarton, you cannot access easily without a reroute heading towards newark. pa sail padre is what you have to use because it moves westbound. it's an easy alternative. the rest of the bay at the toll plaza and we see the cloud hovering around the bay bridge. a pivotal case the justices will take on for the first time since justise antonin scalia's

death. and the tune changing in washington. astronaut kelly back on solid ground this morning after a record number of days in space.

(singing) i just can't wait to meet you, sweet child you're on the way, i'm filled with expectation, and you're growing everyday... (instrumental)

===a train carrng hazardoumater. a developing story. a train carrying hazardous materials derailed. more than a dozen cars derailed in new york. one was carrying ethanol. homeowners within 1,000 feet of the derailment are given vehicles orders and others to shelter in place. one of the most significant abortion cases in years. it has anti-abortion leaders in washington. they're challenging a law that restricts abortion in the name of women's healthcare, strict new rules that might cause them to shut down. more important, this is the

first high profile issue to be decided by the supreme court without judge antonin scalia. san francisco leaders have signed off on a new plan that allows buses to continue sharing muni stops at 25 locations around the city. the next year, various departments will study the pilot program and determine long range impa impacts. there have been several prote protests. >> not all techies take the bus. some get shuttled around, scott mcgrew. >> isn't that nice? back in the news this morning. >> awaiting his next court appearance on domestic violence, now we hear he has to pay a choreographer becau chauffeur because he hasn't been paying him. the court ordered him to pay nearly half a million dollars in back wages to his driver. he will be back in april for a

probation hearing related to his past conviction of domestic violen violence. apple filed its official appeal of a court order it open an iphone 5 for one of the san bernardino shooters. tuesday, both apple and the fbi testified before congress explaining their side of the story. you see fbi director, james comey testifying here. two new bits of information came out during his testimony. one, he said there were other iphones the fbi wants to open if they make a tool. it is counter to what they said that they wanted it to open this iphone and will destroy it afterwards. they said they made a mistake when they reset the i cloud. if they had not they might have been able to use the automatic backup feature to see what's inside. let's go to landon to cnbc

headquarters. good morning, landon. >> trying to extend their winning ways, stocks roared in like a lion and posting the best results in months on economic news and rising oil prices. and insinasdaq up 214. the inside up 132 to 4690. its best day since last august. >> good to hear. there's a new happy meal prize. >> remove the lens and unfold the box completely. >> this is only in sweden, you can make a virtual reality viewer out of your mcdonald's box and slip your iphone inside. let me point out how complicated this is, that thing has to go in

that thing. these are the people that brought us ikea and the novikian table and -- eventually you can make it something like you have in the "new york times," a cardboard vr viewer. adults that subscribe to the "new york times" got this pretty much the way it is right now. this is all we can handle. swedish kids, like, oh, yeah. >> although to be honest i have to buy a "new york times" subscription to get one or happy meal. >> i would get two because you will mess it up the first time. >> there you go. >> thank you. they say absence makes the heart grow fonder we know is true. >> yes. >> no one could have any more fondness for planet earth than astronaut scott kelly? >> can you imagine being gone so long in space, he and two russian cosmonauts landed.

it marks his longest mission in space ever for an american astronaut, 240 days. congress compares the effects with his identical twin brother, mark, who retired five years ago. >> they will see what the genetic effects are living in space that long. no one has ever done it before. >> interesting. >> i imagine he can't walk when he comes back. it takes a long time. >> you have proble-- >> no. i think it's like on a cruise and you have sea legs. imagine being in space. >> a space body. >> new term? space body. >> official. >> we are seeing a lot of water these days. i just spilled a bunch behind the desk. >> it is. >> you have no idea what happens during the commercial break. >> i don't want to talk about it. why did i bring it up? >> this is what the ground will look like eventually.

>> we are getting ready for rain. it has been so dry in the month of february and we need this before the dry summer months. we are starting out with mostly clear skies and a nice start to the day. temperatures about average in low 50s in many spots. san jose, 52 degrees and 52 in concord. a look at all the microclimates. highs today reaching low 70s in saratoga and in the financial district, 60 degrees. bottom of the screen, you see rain pretty much everyday after today. we will knock those temperatures back down from the 70s. tracking our next round of rain and the system is well to the west of us. it will start in the north bay later on this evening. most of the day will be dry with increasing cloud cover and gusty winds. by 11:00 tonight, we see the rain moving into santa rosa and

during the morning, heavy downpours for most of the bay area. heading to the weekend we will have more storm systems and scattered showers late friday flig night and then again on saturday the haven't storms moving through. i'll be detailing this with heavy gusts and rain. now to mike on the commute. >> we start with a clear view of a very clear drive for dublin and elchara for the eastbound direction. look over here out of altamont, typical build and see it slowing down at greenville. 84, a little build. cutting down towards 680 without major problems. show you the greater bay area. the south bay peninsula heading to san francisco. a look at the golden gate

bridge. an easy view as far as lights go on the span itself. around the north tower there is low fog in patches. back to you. >> thanks. coming up next. >> how would you describe your experience there? >> dreadful. a lot of things going on behind closed doors. >> we ask the state how it plans to protect the most vulnerable children.

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==sam/anim== now to vestigave unit exclusive: breaking news overseas a quake just struck indonesia. you can see the red spot in the middle of the indian ocean. no reports of damage just yet and we are still waiting to hear if there are any tsunami concerns. >> in 2004, there was a 9.1 off the coast of sumatra there. that lead obviously to thousands and thousands of casualties. we will be keeping a close eye. >> children suffering from physical abuse, sexual abuse and even lack of food. >> the irony, these children were already victims of abuse and neglect and when they were

relocated, they were victimized all over again. >> spending the past three months uncovering this story. >> good morning. it's happening at group homes. these are modern day orphanages funded by the government to care for kids and teens pulled from their families because of abuse and neglect. we found occasions of children being beaten and truck -- dr drugged in the form of discipline. they can have anywhere from 4 to over 100 children. there have been 815 violations at bay area group homes that pose an immediate risk to children according to data we obtained from the california department of social services. that agency is in charge of licensing and inspecting group homes. while they can act immediately when children are in danger, the process to shut down a poorly performing group home can take a

while and means kids and teens can live there in a home that was cited as risk to children. it means individual counties have to recruit a lot more foster families, willing to take in the children and do a better job finding relatives of those kids who might be willing to open up their homes. back to you. >> thank you. if you have a tip, give us a call. a he care at a bay area university.. after several unts come dowith coming up next, health scare at a bay area university after several students showing signs and confirmation of the norovirus. warning going out to students and staff. joining us.

i'm samrock. =laura/2shot= and i'm laura garn boxes boxes d good morning. thank you for joining us on what has become a very business wednesday morning. >> we are reporting a 7.9 earthquake but no reports of injuries and possible tsunami threat. >> we do. we will keep you updated on information out of that part of the country. a quick break of weather loc locally. changes in the works. >> yes. we will have major changes through the day. getting closer to the rain as we get closer to the weekend. in the north bay and san francisco and along the immediate coast. temperatures today reaching 67

degrees. increase in cloud cover but overall a nice dry day until the rain arrives later on this evening for the north bay. details on what to expect as we see the showers moving in and soggy weekend ahead. here's mike. >> we wanted to show you that shot. blowing it up at the tops of the tower can't be seen because of low clouds hovering just above the decks of the towers. be wear, this may be an issue later on in the morning. the san mateo bridge, no problem. you can see the high-rise here and over to the peninsula no del delays. we'll see both those maps on our maps and speed sensors, dakota road cuts you off website to the 880. back to you. >> thanks a lot. people racing around with two candidates leading the pack. hillary clinton and donald trump

snagged the most on this super tuesday. >> hard to believe it's not even close to over if you talk to the candidates, a record breaking night filled with twists and terms. chris, so many records broken. what do you have? >> hillary clinton and donald trump, the front-runners pulled ahead. that's not much of a surprise. would you believe there was record turnout in all but one contest. people are energized by the drama. >> hillary clinton took seven states and bernie sanders took four. she has 40% of the number she needs to clench the nomination. bernie sanders not going anywhere just yet. >> republican picking up 7 of 11 states and ted cruz promising to

continue. marco rubio only won minnesota. you might notice you won't see any turquoise or orange on this map because ben kcarson and joh kasich could not claim victory. donald trump visited his florida home and which is marco rubio's home state and promising to be a uni unifier. hillary clinton has her sights set on november and donald trump. >> instead of building walls, we will break down barriers. >> once we get all this finished, i will go after one person, hillary clinton. >> donald trump talking about hillary clinton. last night, ted cruz implored the other republican candidates to drop out all together saying it is the only way to defeat donald trump. rubio says, no way, john kasich s says, no way, his home of ohio

is still coming up and even ben carson saying, not a chance. perhaps we will see record turno turnouts. >> i would imagine, people seem very interested. >> you can't turn your head away. thank you. appreciate it. >> now that we know the results, we go live for reaction. good morning. >> you heard what kris had to say there, you have clinton and trump front runners and not enough to kick their rivals out. not going anywhere. trump is emerging as a candidate bringing out voters in a higher level and different backgrounds and ages and levels. he scored a chunk in the south of evangelical voters and won moderate states, talking vermont and massachusetts as part of that. that's what he spoke of at his victory rally in florida prai praising himself as a unifier.

the question is, will the gop unify behind trump? >> is somehow kasich gets ohio, if rubio gets florida, you're talking about a convention. the republicans don't want this. trump would like to sew it up. it's not sewn yet. >> for democrats, clinton riding a big wave of support in the south with african-american suppo supporters. in alabama she got 79% to sanders 19%. the difference by the black vote that makes up 59% of the democratic electorate. 93% of black voters backed clinton. she lost massachusetts she had hoped to win but not by much. we're talking hundreds of votes and the campaign says it is focused on the next wave, michigan. don't forget sanders raised $42 million alone in february. he certainly has the cash to condition. our analyst says the primary of

june 7th for california, very late, and might make a difference and something we haven't had in decades. >> thank you so much. stay with us for continuing coverage of the race to the white house on air and online. you can head to nbcbayarea.com for the app and super tuesday resu results. following a pretty massive earthquake in sumatra, indonesia. a 7.9 earthquake. hit just before 5:00 our time this morning. the epicenter in the screen in the red is off the coast of indonesia. new information that a tsunami warning has been issued for christmas island. you see it there to the right of your screen. a tsunami watch has been issued for western australia. >> it's been about a decade since that part of the world has

seen an earthquake of that size. obviously a very serious situation we will continue to monitor. locally now, a bay area campus is on high alert this morning after 29 people started showing symptoms of the norovirus. joining us live from uc berkeley. there are already three confi confirmed cases of people who have that virus. >> that, sam, is why the university health services is issuing this warning, advisory, if you are sick and go to cal, they're asking you to stay home in case you're carrying the norovirus which is highly contagious. within the last 24 hours, they released this flyer for staff and students and notifying the doctors have confirmed three people at the school have norovirus and 29 more have noro-like symptoms. health services found no link between the cases in terms of coming from one dorm, eating

area and event connecting all those fallen ill. if you're not familiar with the symptoms, vomiting and diarrhea in a few days, toes catch and only takes a few droplets to become sick. that's why the campus is asking you, if you are sick, stay home, do not prepare food and for everyone, wash your hands before you eat. reporting live at the cal campus. >> a simple step you can do. thank you. three correctional deputies accused of the beating death in san rafael. back in court today. during yesterday's session an inmate took the stand, his cell near the one holding michael tyree who died last summer. that inmate testified to seeing the defendant enter tyree's cell and then heard screaming before it went silent. >> his sister described him as a kind man who suffered from

mental illness. >> michael tire re, he was loved and he mattered. it doesn't matter what these y guys did to him, nothing changes that. >> another inmate is expected to testify today about being beaten by the same three guards also on the night tyree died. if convicted they could face life in prison. >> follow-up, san francisco supervisors giving thumbs down to proposed new dog regulations. the national park service is trying to limit on and off dog access including ocean beach, chrissy field, land's end and one other. the new rules would cut out about 75% of the space where dogs are now allowed. supervisors announce their opposition to that plan in part because it would force more dog owners to use city parks. the open commentary will end in

may. >> we won't have a lot of beach day today. >> we are getting ready for very wet weather in the next couple days. today is the last day to take in the mix of sun and clouds and mild weather as the air stays fairly dry today. rain tonight heaviest in the north bay later on this evening and lingers today and tomorrow. the next storm arriving friday and saturday into sunday. we're about to enter into a very active weather pattern. i'll talk more about all of that. for the weekend plans, that will give you an idea what you should be doing. >> a couple spots from the south, watching the build. this might be alarming for folks but as it hits 101. look at your map that show s up on the sensors like this and will calm down in the next few minutes. just got word of a crash blocking two or three of your right lanes with debris in the

roadway with possibly a car fire there. we will track that. chp has not yet gone on the scene. we will look at low clouds, a factor later on in the commute. coming up next, the massive train derailment in new york and hazardous material sparking the investigation of an entire neighborhood. >> sparking an inscription and did kanye reveal too much?

materials derails in a smallupse developing story, train carrying hazardous materials in a small new york town in ripley, new york, an hour south of buffalo. more than a dozen cars derailed. one car still leaking ethanol. hazmat teams on the scene. homeowners living within 1,000 feet are given vehiclevacuations and others told to shelter in place. a source close to construction tells nbc bay area news crews put in the wrong materials underground.

crews had to stop work for 70 days. records show the original plans called for the installation of pvc piping in the underground sewage system. instead a contractor installed 1400 feet of cast iron pipe. >> it says clearly any sealer pipe underground should be a pvc pipe and mentioned the specific name of that pipe. >> is this pipe as good as originally called for? >> yes. in this particular it is as good. >> no concerns about corrosion? >> no. >> tonight at 11:00, we investigate the potential problem of this piping in the event of an earthquake and why they say they're confident there is no need for a fix. give us a call or e-mail at nbcbayarea.com. you want to connect with police, how about touch of a

button. now, there's an app for that. you can send in crime and traffic alerts and in the event of an emergency, old-fashioned rules apply. i do 911. emojis range from options to a happy face. how about your own face. >> it could soon become a reality. emoji specialist from apple and google. imagine that on your business card submitti inting recommendio taka gys as editable. you can make them look like what you want them to look like. a united kingdom newspaper actually reports proposed changes would allow to customize face emojis to reflect their own appearance using hair color, gender and other changes.

>> and the song "you're so vein" i wanted a mogymogy -- emoji th just looks like my face. later on, apple responding to the court order that it should open a phone of one of the shooters. >> the answer was no. >> apple is sticking to its relatively, laura, probably all the way to the supreme court if congress doesn't step in and change the law first. apple's attorney testified before a congressional subcommittee tuesday. you're seeing bruce sewell from apple here. it was relatively fireworks free although one person said talking about uncrackable i phones, will we have evidence-free zones in our society? a good reminder the fbi is trying to get into an iphone and apple has the technology to help and doesn't want to. iphone 6s are totally different.

even apple can't get into them and new iphones to come perhaps as early as next month that may have features even more powerful as far as encryption. speaking of encryption, one of the early pioneers, martin helman just won the turing prize back in the 1970s. he shares that prize with his co-creator diffie. these guys could very well win the nobel as well. a facebook executive has been jailed in brazil. brazil wants him to show them the content of a what's that message from a drug dealer. facebook owns it but impossible to open it in part due to encryption. you may know the singer kanye west is part of a download company. and he tweets what he's li

listening to with a screen shot from time-to-time. listening to something from youtube all fine, but if you take a closer look at his opening tabs, he's also visiting pirate bay, and the left tab shows transfer, consistent with a download in progress. we're not accusing him of downloading anything legal but de deadmouth, the dj is, on twitter making fun of kanye this morning. maybe we should start some sort of crowd funding to help him pay for his software and song. >> really interesting. >> nightmare pr campaign for kanye west just continuing. >> a day without kanye, i could do quite well. breaking news happening this morning. a powerful earthquake struck indonesia, a 7.9 magnitude

quake. >> 5 miles west on the coast of sumatra. it was downgraded to a 7.9. there is a tsunami warning in check for christmas island, you see to the right, the earthquake centered by the cocos islands, above that. >> you mentioned cocos island, christmas island, watch for the western coast of australia. you mentioned earlier, at this point, no reports of injuries or tha thankfully casualties or anything of that nature but obviously a very serious situation. >> we'll keep watching this and hopefully get more information coming in. in the meantime, weather and traffic today. today this is last dry day before the storm? >> yes. it looks like the storm door is ability to open. we will have very wet weather tonight and the weekend.

the bay bridge, you can barely see the top of it as the fog shrouds the top. we have more fog moving in. just high enough for everyone to make it out okay without seeing visibility. in san francisco, 56 degrees and 54 degrees in san carlos. we are tracking this next system still well out in the pacific. over the next couple of days, as that advances closer, scattered showers moving in late tonight. the 7-day forecast comes up, you will see how wet it will be the next seven days. it won't be until 11:00 we start to see the rain moving to the north bay and progresses to san francisco early tomorrow morning and south bay in time for the morning commute. today, we're looking at temperatures a few degrees lower. we'll bring it back to the mid-60s for pacifica, as well as san francisco and 70s in a few spots has temperatures trending

closer to average for the beginning of march. into the weekend, we have several more systems moving in. the scattered showers tonight and tomorrow, won't be much of that but potentially heavy rain with gusts up to 50 miles an hour and could cause power outages and heavy rain and damage saturday night and sunday. updates right here. between now and the next seven days, a possibility of maybe 3, 3 1/2 inches of rain for parts of the south bay all across the bay area. i'll have more updates coming up but mike is tracking a problem in the south bay. >> that's right. everybody else moving well right now. sounds dramatic, a crash, south 280 just past lawrence expressway has traffic blocked and debris and overturned cars. aone point they said we have

minor injuries and all lanes blocked but will get there quickly. south 280 from lawrence expressway, hearing about a traffic break but not reflecting on our sensors there. we'll track that for the south bay. the rest of the day moves well. the toll plaza and the city and metro lines reporting some mechanical problems. we do have that fog. back to you. >> it returns. coming up next, saving charlie, the local sheriff's department to help save this south bay up. hit by a train. we learned about a major earthquake off the coast of western indonesia and to the coast of australia. look for updates on our twitter page. yesterday, everyone talking about yesterday's primary results. if you're looking for a break down, check out the super

tuesday on our home page.

new this morning in orange county, a kidnapping suspect was arrested after a day long manhunt. a face-off afterwards. very interesting to see, the suspect was taken into custody

on suspicion of kidnapping a woman and two young boys and taking police on a huge pursuit through orange county. this wasthy result. eventually he pulled over and negotiated with police and then took off again and taken into custody. >> a wild chase there. >> children suffering from physical and sexual abuse and even lack of food. >> these children were already victims of abuse and neglect and when they were pulled from their families and relocated to government facilities for their protection, they were victimized all over again. spending the past three months uncovering this story. >> reporter: good morning. it's happening at group homes, modern day orphanages funded by the government to care for their kids and teens pulled from their family because of abuse or neglect. we got reports of children being beaten and drugged as a form of discipline. there are 166 group homes across

the bay area that can have anywhere from 4 to 100 children. we discovered over the past five years, there have been 815 violations at group homes that pose an immediate risk to children according to information we received from the california department of social services. the agency said they can act immediately to force change at a group home when children are in danger, the process to shut down a poorly performing group home can take a while which means kids and teens can continue to live in a facility cited for posing an immediate risk to children. a new law ends to eliminate group homes in this state by 2021. that means individual counties have to recruit a lot more foster families willing to take in the children as well as doing a better job to find relatives of those kids who might be willing to open up their homes. back to you. >> thank you. if you have a tip, give us a

call. four-legged friend in need... == his name s chaie and >> check this out. sheriff's deputies on a mission to help out a four-legged friend who is in need. >> his name is charlie, a little puppy. monday, he was struck by a light rail train along with his owner, a south bay homeless man who walked into the path of the train. the owner is okay but charlie had a number of injuries to help recover vet bills doctrine- >> we all have dogs and that relationship can be tight and bonding and we said, what if we were homeless and want somebody to help us out. >> you can do it. the department set up a go fund me page. as of late last night they gave 8,0 $8,000. >> how could you say no? a powerful earthquake struck in

indonesia about an hour ago, christmas islands, cocos islands and a watch on the western part of australia. an update in less than two minutes. super tuesday brought one super result, not the front runners. we'll tell you what the big surprise was. >> reporter: i'm bob redell live at berkeley at cal campus asking some students and staff to stay home after an outbreak of the norovirus. coming up. major changes coming our way, talking several inches of rain and snow in the sierra, all happening in the next few days. we break it down with kari in today in the bay. >> a good wednesday morning to you. thank you for joining us. >> let's get right to that forecast. if march does come in like a lion, it's about to roar. >> it looks like it. as we go to the weekend we have winds and heavy rain across the bay area. as wta