access to abortion medication nationwide. we are live with when a decision could come down. good thursday morning to you. 5:00 right now. thanks for starting your morning with us. i am laura garcia. >> i am marcus washington. we want to get you started today with a look at the forecast. >> we are starting out with cool temperatures but not as cold. 42 degrees in oakland. 41 also in los gatos and in san rafael. let's get a live look outside as we see that it's a clear start to our day. we have a lot of sunshine coming our way, and our temperatures may drop another couple degrees over the next couple of hours, but no issues with scraping frost off the windshield. as we go into today, still jacket weather as we slowly warm up and head for the upper 50s and low 60s. the warming trend continues as we get a break from the rain, and we will talk about that in a few minutes. mike, you still have

closures out there. >> we do. there's a big section of closure for 84, and 152, and highway 1. we are looking at 680, and they resumed overnight construction as well. those are minor and you knew about those. the big issue ongoing since last night, folks, is over here across the bay bridge. you notice the section of red here, it's jammed solid across the span. we just learned they turned on the metering lights. we are looking at police activity on the san francisco side of treasure island. i have a view of it over here looking at the incline, and this is as folks are rounding the bend, and it's jammed solid across the san francisco side and past the treasure island tunnel. we are heading over to bob redell who is live at the bay bridge toll plaza. what are the changing happening

right now? >> reporter: you can see from the toll plaza, we are not seeing the backup yet but the metering lights were turned on and we could see a backup in the next half hour if the situation is resolved. a traffic accident caused traffic down to one lane, and it was because of an emergency situation chp has been dealing with since last night at 10:00. now lanes 3, 4 and 5 remain closed. earlier in the evening, part of the western span was shutdown because of a couple car crashes. around 11:15, a car and suv collided and then there was a second crash that happened several minutes later that involved a sedan that rearended a big rig, and the driver of the sedan was killed as well as

another second person, and several lanes were shutdown and called out the coroner. the chp cleared the scene of that fatal accident, and there's no issue on the western span as far as an accident but you still have the backup and the unrelated problem once you get past treasure island. chp shutdown part of the western direction of the span as chp is dealing with another emergency. again, as mike mentioned, bay bridge toll plaza, it's fine now but when you get past the plaza, you can see the backup on the incline of the western span and then once you get treasure island, you will have the number one and two lanes open, three, four and five shutdown on the eastern span, again, because of this emergency that chp is dealing with. reporting live here at the bay bridge toll plaza in oakland, bob redell. >> thanks for all the details,

bob. also this morning we have a live look at the pg&e outage map. as of 10:00 last night, 68,000 customers waking up without power. the majority are in the south bay, about 44,000 there. most of the other outages you see there are along the peninsula where 19,000 are without power. new recovery efforts are under way in pajaro. governor newsom now vowing to get help from federal funds for that area. the governor toured the damage on wednesday. the town flooded after a levee breach forcing many people to evacuate. the governor said that levee system is outdated. it was built back in 1949, and the governor also saying he will try and get federal funding from the government to find a solution here, but that could cost $400 million. the flood forced more than 1,700 people from their homes. meanwhile, there's good news to

tell you about this morning. many who left are now being reunited with their pets, thanks to the sbca in monterey county. it says it needs to help those pets because that was very urgent. >> these rescued pets have been through a lot. they are coming to us hungry, a little bit thin, and quite a lot of them are covered in very unpleasant water. we are trying to groom them and get them clean and get them fed. >> they are providing meals for more than 200 pets but it's running out of supplies quickly, and is asking the public for donations. 5:05 this morning. in texas it remains the center of the national debate over abortion rights. a federal judge in amarillo is weighing whether to ban a pill used to terminate a pregnancy. brie jackson joins us live in washington and has been following it all.

i believe yesterday was the first public hearing on the case, and understandably both sides of the opponents were vocal on their passionate please on both sides of the topic. >> that's right. at the center of the debate is the abortion bill, and it has been used for over two decades. a group of anti-abortion medical organizations and doctors known as the alliance for hip krau mattic medicine said the government did not adequately evaluate the safety of the drug. meanwhile, those who support a woman's right to choose, they tell me it's another attempt to hinder abortion access nationwide. >> we are asking them to follow the law by taking these dangerous drugs off the marketplace. >> we should all be incredibly

concerned about what is happening and how the opposition is using the court structure -- >> is there any indication how the judge might rule in his decision? >> well, laura, the u.s. district judge hearing the case could make a decision on the matter as soon as this week. he has a history of supporting abortion restrictions and was appointed by former president trump. there are no recordings of the hearing but those that were inside the courtroom say the judge did appear sympathetic to the plaintiffs, and the argument is there's no evidence supporting their claims. the agency says more than 5 million women have taken this. >> thank you for the very latest. we know you will continue to follow that. happening today, the man accused of attacking an elderly

teacher in san francisco will be back in court. 78-year-old yolanda millara was attacked last month. she says the 47-year-old pushed her to the ground before trying to take her wallet. if convicted, he faces up to 21 years in prison. also happening today, the man accused of the deadly shooting in daly city will also be in court. he is accused of shooting a mother of two last week. beginning in 2027, gas water heaters can no longer be sold and installed in the bay area. gas furnaces in homes will have to be replaced with zero emission systems starting in 2029. there are nearly 2 million gas

furnaces and water heaters across the bay area right now. the pollution rivals the emissions coming from car tail pipes in the area. >> it results in dusts and a wide range of health impacts, particularly in communities of color. >> many people are expressing concerns about the expense of replacing gas appliances with new electric ones, and the rules only apply to new appliances, not existing ones. as we look live at the san mateo bridge, it looks like it's smooth sailing right now. and we want to look at the forecast with kari hall. >> yeah, we are still in a break from all of the heavy rain and gusty winds we have had recently. as we take a live look outside in san josé, as we get started,

it's going to be a cool morning. the warm-up will happen slowly, but once we get to the afternoon it will be very pleasant, and also a light wind. martinez and oakland, 62. 66 in santa rosa. we are going to be slightly warmer today compared to yesterday. we will continue to see the warming trend over the next couple of days reaching more mid-60s tomorrow. once again, still nice and sunny. we will start to see clouds moving in on saturday but we are still headed for the upper 60s and even low 70s. i will be tracking more changes ahead in the forecast in a few minutes. mike, you have been tracking a big traffic issue. yeah, kari, it's still going on. police activity on the san francisco side of the upper deck of the bay bridge has traffic jammed all the way across the span, and it's up the incline and approaching the toll plaza. the metering lights were activated 45 minutes earlier

than they are typically on a thursday. on the san francisco approach just before you get to the decline, there are only two lanes open and there's police activity, a number of vehicles, a lot of spectator slowing as folks get in towards san francisco. this has been going on last night since 10:30, 11:00 last night. the backup has started to really build. the metering lights are on, and you will find slowing on the approach, and folks, you are advised the bay bridge is what you should avoid this morning. we have a bridge from richmond to san rafael and then take the golden gate bridge down. there are crews getting ready for traffic into san francisco, and that's one option for you. south of oakland, you will want to take the san mateo bridge instead of the bay bridge because it's clear right now. no delays reported for the bart system, and we won't have the slowing trains to increase the

efficiency of their braking. possibly avoid the bay bridge if this continues. no word from the chp and no word on when they will be able to clear that activity. back to you. coming up, working hard or hardly working? a lot of tech employees that got laid off said they didn't do very much at all. plus, message received. after the break we share a unique love story that all started after one woman texted the w

the time is 5:14 on your thursday morning. it's in the mid-40s right now in palo alto. it's all clear and we do have a lot of sunshine but the slow warm-up will make for a very chilly start to our day. as we go into the next several days, nice afternoons but we have more rain on the way. we'll have a look at that in the forecast coming up in a few minutes. the key word here is don't go here. this is the bay bridge. look, the metering lights are on and cycling slowly, but it doesn't make a difference because it's slower across the span in san francisco. police activity continues to block most of the lanes. only two are open and we don't know when this will clear. we will talk about alternates and the status of those routes across the bay. intel was going to sell a lot of real estate, and this is the santa clara campus, and that's going to stay, but the area around montague expressway in north san josé, it's huge, more than 20 anchors. intel going to a hybrid work space doesn't need that much office space. high-tech has too much real estate. and for a while, too many people. meta said they over hired during the boom times. one employee i talked to said she didn't have anything to do and felt like the company just hired her so other companies wouldn't. >> i had a feeling like, they were like pokemon, we were the

best of the best, some of the smartest people i know were being forced to not do anything. >> you would think that old cliché hardly working or working hard would be a fun thing to do. showing up to work with nothing to do is really stressful. >> because of the nature of what was happening with the talk of layoffs, we wanted to do something. i wanted to show what impact i was having, and to be given no goal or matrix, nothing to rate me off of, i felt like i was being set up for failure. >> so she got laid off, as you can imagine, and she is looking for work and would like a job where they make her do something. >> it would be fun for one day, and then stressful. how do you look busy? >> you're looking at me.

>> thank you for that. it's 5:17 right now. a rare sighting in outer space. these photos were taken tuesday from the jane's webb telescope showing a dying star 15,000 light-years from earth. believe it or not the star has released more than 10 suns worth of gas into space. the star is in its last phase before it eventually explodes into darkness. two strangers living hundreds of miles apart brought together by a technology mishap. >> her name is brenda rivera, and she lives in georgia and wanted to text a friend about a bible verse that was inspirational, and she sent the bible verse, but too the wrong man, instead to a man in ohio. the two had never met before but they became -- i guess you could say friends, texting each other,

and they eventually led to the phone call. >> he sounded genuine and cute, and i thought, you know, i will give him a call back and the rest is history. >> the two started dated and now have been married for 13 years. they have six kids together as well. >> wow. look at that. >> i want to know what that bible verse was. >> exactly. >> be fruitful and multiply. >> okay. we got it together. >> multiplying a lot of folks on the road this morning. >> you have to look at the screen. the traffic is basically stopped across the bay bridge, and functionally stopped where we are working at. this is an unusual angle. the camera is turned from the typical shot, and over here the

metering lights were activated just before 5:00. they will cycle green and red and that's what they are supposed to do allowing for traffic to flow smoothly across the span, so there's too much traffic and it's not having much impact. there's building over at the toll plaza side. there's police activity just before the san francisco decline, the two lanes are getting by and three lanes blocked. this started happening last night at about 11:00. that's a huge backup that is now building as the morning commute is funneling over. no slowing for 37 or highway 4, but all this traffic from the east bay funneled here on the bay bridge. if you are north of the bay bridge, go through richmond and take that bridge over towards san mateo and head down across the golden gate bridge.

we will see more traffic across 101. south of the bay bridge in the east bay and trying to cross over to the peninsula, you take the san mateo bridge that is still clear right now, and it will pick up more traffic, west 92 and then 91 into the city. that may ripple out to the other feeder roads, but there's no wet roads right now. yeah, but we have had a lot of rain recently, so let's talk about where we stand with our reservoirs across the state. we have been seeing them fill up quite a bit. right now at 60% of capacity in the largest reservoirs across california. oralville now at 62% capacity. some of them have been lowered for seismic safety, but still running higher than they would like for those numbers. we are still at a lot of water

around the bay area. the ground is saturated. let's talk about where we stand with our water year. santa rosa, 36 inches of rainfall, and we are eight inches above what is normal at this point. and then a big surplus for oakland as well as san francisco, and even livermore well above what we typically see. there's more on the way. usually when we hit the first day of spring we start to see the storms tapering off but not this spring. we are going into next week with the new storm system coming in on monday, and another one on tuesday into wednesday and possibly a wet next week. as we run the models out, it's showing we could see potentially another half quarter inch of rain and maybe three quarters inch of rainfall for parts of the east bay or higher. if you were hoping for a warm-up, concord, we have warm

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uncle sam declared a disaster back in january and then modified the declaration nine times, often adding additional eligible families who can get up to $41,000 for

repairs. if you looked previously and thought the feds left you out, look again. fema said if your home had storm-related damage and are uninsured or not insured, you could get assistant. the application is pretty straightforward. before you start it, fema recommends making a list of all your damage and snapping photos of it. after you submit your application, fema says an inspector could visit your home within ten days and then you will get information about a possible payment. you can appeal, and act fast because fema gives you 60 days to file an appeal and after that you should get a response within 90 days. >> good information. coming up next, breaking news. we are following a big backup on

the bay bridge, a crash killing two people. now police activity has lanes closed into the city. mike inouye joining us next with a look at your updated commute. pg&e working more than 100,000 power outages, and many of those

right now at 5:30, a traffic nightmare for anyone going into the city. a huge backup on the bay bridge. we are tracking the delays caused by a deadly crash and now police activity. lights out. more than two days after the storm tens of thousands still in the dark this morning. what pg&e crews are doing right now to get electricity back on. plus, it's a story that made national headlines. two bay area men convicted of killing a police officer in italy when they were teens. they will be back in court. ahead, the reason the defendants are getting new trials. this is "today in the bay," streaming live on roku and online. thank you for making us part of your morning. i am marcus washington. >> i am laura garcia. let's get to mike this morning. he's following news along the

bay bridge. look at that backup. >> yeah, this is not the usual shot and not the usual backup. the camera is turned towards the span, and the metering lights are trying to provide spacing that will ripple across the span, but right now this is the big problem. you can take a closer look at the backup. you see the metering lights on the right side, and they are metering slowly, and mostly stopped but the traffic is stopped already. the rest of the east bay may not be aware of this, but avoid the bay bridge because we are tracking police activity. there have been several other incidents, and bob redell will talk about that coming up later on in the show. right now the police activity has only two lanes opened towards san francisco. to the north you go across the richmond bridge and come down across the golden gate bridge. here's the bay bridge span itself, slow across the entire span. we talked about the richmond

bridge or the san mateo bridge, and right now we are looking at a typical build, and across the east bay they could use 92 to get across the peninsula. >> that's such a big mess. we are starting out with much drier and clearer weather, quiet conditions out there. we are going to see as you head out in the east bay, temperatures in the low 40s. martinez at 42 degrees. also we are going to continue with sunshine today, but our temperatures going up a couple degrees compared to yesterday reaching 62 in martinez and dublin as well as in hayward and in novato. san francisco, upper 50s. 66 today in san josé. we will talk about what is happening this weekend. that's coming up in a few minutes. >> we will check back. thank you. power outages continue across the bay area, and in the south bay a number of schools will welcome schools back while they don't have electricity. a lot of school leaders are

asking students to come back to class. >> kris sanchez joining us live from sunnyvale. one school is making that request, kris. >> reporter: yeah, this is one school making that question, and it's part of the cupertino union school district. the school leaders are saying we have assessed everything, come on in. let's show you a statement from the district. all campuses are safe and staff for students, therefore all cusd schools will be open. cupertino union has 16 middle schools without power, and asked parents to keep kids home. a fremont union high school district closed five campuses including three high schools but

should be back to normal today with power. the campbell union high school district says they will make a decision by 7:00 this morning. until then things are up in the air for prospect high school and westmont high school, which were out of session yesterday. we visited simonds, and the principal told us it's about learning and also supporting families, and if the near normal attendance shows anything, families are happy with that. >> we want to make sure our kids have a safe place to be. this is it. >> it's crazy, and imagine talking to a customer, mom, so-and-so hit me every few seconds, so i think it's

wonderful. >> so many homes are still in the dark as well, and in some areas like sunnyvale, that could be the story through friday. people are depending on neighbors that have solar panels, panels to keep their phones charges, and businesses brought in backup to get families food. we spoke to one of the folks here at the elementary school, and he says the estimates are really kind of vague for this school here, and the projection is power back by 10:00 tonight or the 26th, and that's a really wide range. folks are preparing to be without power for a while. we have seen the pg&e numbers change, but gradually because there are so many. in sunnyvale, kris sanchez -- >> when you said the 26th, i had to look at the calendar. >> that's ten days.

>> appears long time. >> it is. kris, thanks. happening today, former theranos executive, sunny balwani is set to report to his prison sentence in a matter of hours. last july jurors convicted him for defrauding investors, and a judge struck down his request to remain free while his appeal plays out. in the meantime, founder, elizabeth holmes is hoping to delay her prison sentence because she just gave birth to her second child. holmes is scheduled to report to prison next month for her 11-year-sentence. and then darren price plead not guilty. prosecutors say he operated a drug lab inside a home which exploded in early february killing his wife. nearby homes were damaged by

that blast that could be heard for blocks. new trials are set for two bay area men. they were convicted of killing a police officer in italy when they were teenage tourists. it's italy's highest court that order those two men to be retried for the 2019 murder. authorities say the teens killed that undercover officer in a botch attempt to buy drugs, and they were both sentenced to 20 years in prison, and no word on when new trials will start. looking a live at palisades, lake tahoe. tons of snow fell earlier in the week, and now chp is telling people today and tomorrow are the best days to travel to tahoe before another storm hits this weekend. everybody is looking for windows of opportunities if you can find them. there's so much snow over there, and more on the way. >> there's so much snow.

that has been the story. i know people want to get there and see it. we are right now more than double the normal amount of snow around that area and even higher for the southern sierra. as we go into the weekend, just a brief break from it for today and tomorrow and then the snow comes back on saturday and will continue into early next week. so some of you may want to stay closer to home and head to napa valley, and today it will be in the low 60s. we are looking at more peeks of sunshine. if you are going to southern california, you will see mid to upper 60s for the next several days. kind of cool there with jacket weather. if you are staying here at home, there's lots going on. in san francisco, there's going to be a public crawl happening tomorrow for st. patrick's day, and it's going to be chilly, temperatures in the mid-50s. we are staying dry, at least for the start of the weekend. we will talk more about the changes ahead in the forecast that's coming up in a few

minutes. mike, you have a big alert that you have been tracking all morning. >> yeah, and don't go to the bay bridge westbound in towards san francisco is backed up solid across the entire span. we hardly see this view. the camera has been turned from the toll plaza where the backup is in all lanes. police activity just past treasure island approaching the decline in san francisco restricts you down to just two lanes. less than half the bridge is available for traffic flow since last night. police activity continues over in the right lanes, and the two left lanes are the ones open towards san francisco. it's not a good avenue across the way in the westbound direction. the lower deck into oakland, that's fine. san francisco into oakland, that's fine. it's the direction in towards the city where you have a problem. we have a build for 37 and highway 4, so the commute is coming in now. we have folks that will probably take that richmond bridge as they want to avoid the trip

across west 80. you can take bart, and no delays reported for that. muni, they have an issue. starting tonight they will close the market street subway early at 9:30, and that will go on for weeks. that's a big note for you as well. again, we have the weekend construction and we have the closure from north 680 starting this weekend because the weather will be much better than in previous weekends. back to you. >> thank you. breaking right now, a 2.9 quake in livermore. this happened about 5:35 this morning. no other details at the moment. we will update you as soon as we learn of any issues that may have happened out there. we will have more of that here on "today in the bay." well, prioritizing mental health -- >> our younger employees are

overwhelmed, and they would love to take advantage of these benefits and they are important to them. >> coming up here on "today in the bay," the generational gap that employers are now seeing when it comes to meeting their employees' needs. brand-new video just released by the pentagon will show if it's the

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right now as we take a live look at the san mateo bridge, not as windy as it has been but still a couple breezes kicking up and now and then with a mostly cloudy morning. it will eventually turn sunny as we enjoy a break from the rain. we will continue on with more dry days for a few of them. we will talk about when the rain returns coming up in a few minutes. if you are traveling from the east bay, you might want to look at the san mateo bridge. here's the bay bridge, and you might be able to tell from this shot but it's bad across the entire span because of police activity on the san francisco side. from this view, now you can tell how bad it is from the plaza and through the treasure island tunnel and approaching the decline. bart is a good option for you. we will show you more, coming up. a new study is shining light on mental health in the workplace, and it found just how

different generations look at their well-being. younger generations like generalization z and millennials are more likely to appreciate mental health benefits provided by their employer, and less than half of the baby boomers have taken advantage of the same benefits. the study also found one-third of employers surveyed offered mental health benefits. 65% of those workers said their mental health would be extremely impacted if their financial health was not going well. experts say the way to keep employees is to make these benefits more available. >> employers providing a safe place for those to access the benefits and for those to understand what the benefits are and recruiting and retaining the younger employees, it's key now more than ever to make sure they have access to those, because those benefits and our younger

generation and new workers in the work face are expecting those things to be available. >> workers are burned out from the pandemic workload, and they say it's essential for employers to understand employee mental health needs and make those services available to employees no matter the generation. new this morning, the defense department is releasing brand-new video showing the collision between the u.s. drone and a russian fighter jet. >> let's get to scott. russians claim their jet never hit the drone. >> they must have known we would have a video. take a look for yourself. this is the point of view from the drone. one of the passes from the russian jet spraying fuel on the american reaper drone flying above the black sea. you can see the camera gets knocked off-line. later we can see the damage to

the drone's propeller, clearly the result of some sort of impact just as the u.s. said. russia says it will try and recover the drone even though it's our property. the pentagon said it sank in deep waters, but you can see how this might play out. if we go after the drone, we may have to send ships in the back sea as well. tiktok may not have a future much longer, and they are being pressured, and bytedance pointing out, the government is concerned about tiktok, there will be more about that on the "today" show.

>> desantis has been touring the u.s. showing up in some of the same places as trump, but desantis has not declared his candidacy. the great america great again super pac says it's unethical for desantis to campaign while it's still governor, and florida has a law that says you can't hold one office while running for another, and if desantis wants to be president, he needs to leave the governor's office, and desantis is not officially running for president. and then obama picked duke to win here, and his final four is houston, ucla, baylor and duke. somebody asked chat gpt for its opinion, they picked baylor. northwestern is winning in the end after a battle with northwestern. >> wow. you know how the brackets work?

okay. no offense to the former president or scott mcgrew for that matter, but st. mary's will be making it out of the first round. i think they will go really far this year. i went there. this is the team boarding the bus to head over to new york. they play friday at 11:00 a.m., and the head coach says the team is taking the tournament one game at a time. >> it's one game. we're approaching it as a four-team tournament, and see if you can win, you know, win this weekend. you go one at a time. it's all about us being ready to play against bcu, who has a very good program and a very good team and we're playing them on the east coast, and it's a tough challenge. >> we are rooting them on. go gayles.

>> they play friday. >> and then the tigers, go, tigers, go. just sayin'. >> didn't former president obama say something about ucla? >> that's right. kari, are you going to make a pick? >> i don't know who is playing. >> the gayles -- my gal is going with the gayles. >> i guess that's what we are going to be doing today. it will be hard to stay inside with the sunshine we will be able to enjoy for a short time. let's get a look outside in san francisco, and let's look at our water year update, and we measured 36 inches of rainfall in santa rosa since october 1st, and we are at a big surplus right now. over eight inches. we can see how much rain we have measured and how much that is above normal. we are running well above what we typically get. now they are at 60% of capacity,

the reservoirs. a lot of them were in the teens and 20s, so this is a huge change as we take a look at our four largest reservoirs across northern california. they do continue to go up and that's before the sierra snow-melt happens. we are looking at full reservoirs around the bay area, and many of them over 100% of capacity, so what has that done to our drought. i just got the update out a few minutes ago and it's huge. we are seeing a major improvement as expected, as we have seen for the past several weeks and we are no longer in a drought across the bay area. we have abnormally dry conditions for parts of the north bay as well as parts of the sacramento valley on northward, and they are still in a moderate drought. we will dive into this at the top of our 6:00 newscast, and take a look at the difference we have seen. we have more rain on the way for

the first day of spring. usually for spring we start to see the storm systems winding down, but not this year. we have more rain on the way. the possibility of getting another half inch of rainfall for the north bay, and it could be over an inch for parts of the south bay and the santa cruz mountains going into next week. our temperatures, unfortunately, are not going to be warming up. it has been so cold. we have a couple days of milder weather today, tomorrow and saturday. then those temperatures drop once again as that rain comes back on sunday. mike, you have been tracking a big backup for the bay area. >> huge backup. folks, here are the metering lights. you can barely tell a difference for those who have the gringo ahead. don't go here, folks. we see the build forming down the berkeley curve.

other activity that has been happening overnight, and it has been a tough night across the bay bridge. only two lanes open for the westbound direction. use the san mateo bridge or bart. the newly collected police chief is making history. ma she's a bay area native. she has been with the pleasanton police department rising to the rank of lieutenant, and she takes over as chief next month. rising sea levels can affect you even if you don't live on the coast. and we have more on a threat called saltwater intrusion after the break, and why you should care even if you are miles away from the beach. then at 6:00, a texas judge now weighing whether to ban a long-used abortion bill.

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you are watching "today in the bay." in today's climate in crisis, if you live five or even ten miles from the coast, you probably don't worry as much about sea level rise. i know sometimes i don't. there's growing concern about a consequence of rising sea that could threaten your community's infrastructure and home. >> it's hard because a lot of our important infrastructure is

under ground and it will ultimately wash away the sand and dirt under the roadways and make challenges there, and make septic tanks unusable. >> here's what he means. ground water is the oil, and there's a big gap between the pipes we use. and then as seawater rises, it brings the ground water already there closer to the surface, and then it starts to reach basement, pipes, cables, they start flooding and stay flooded even when there's no race. >> he goes on to show the threat here in the bay area as done by a uc berkeley study. we will post this story online and if you would like to see