live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news . now at noon, house giving way to rain in parts of the bay area and our latest spring storm. that afternoon, everyone. i am michelle gray ago. let's take a look outside right now.

the rain coming down over the san mateo bridge making for a slick drive. stop this was on 280. the windshield wipers look like they are having a hard time keeping up. check out the view in south san francisco. rain and clouds and the flags flying. a little bit of everything outside fire station 61. of course, meteorologist mary lee is tracking our rain. this is all because of a cold front pushing across the bay area, bringing the rain and bringing the wind. a wet, live camera out there and here is high-def doppler. moderate to heavy rainfall pushghover walnut creek down through san leandro and it is went from oakland as well as alameda. emont, ycan see the ye and orange covers. pushing across the peninsula from san mateo and down into the south bay.

right over san jose. we are going to timeout the rest of the rain on futurecast taking you hour by hour, walking you through the next 24 hours. it is still going to be wet and we will let you know exactly what to expect. disturbing threats and hate crimes shutting down a fairfield high school. and now the naacp is calling for immediate action. two weeks ago, swastikas and comments were reportedly bound on the walls of the baseball field. the threats have reportedly worsened this week. it's back yesterday at approximately 11:00, our staff was made aware of a threat of violence towards school. out of an abundance of caution, we decided to cancel school and all school activities today. the naacp responding saying the staff did not act quickly enough after the first round of hate crimes earlier

this month. back they should've business but 2 1/2 to 3 weeks, did absolutely nothing. and the administration, unfortunately, has given cover and protection for the guilty students and mind you, the students are 18 years old. >> it is not clear if band in high school will reopen tomorrow. the unified school district is working with police as the investigation continues. a commercial truck struck and nearly killed a pedestrian in san francisco today. the crash happened at the intersection of second and bryant around 7:00 this morning. police say the driver of the truck stayed on the scene and is cooperating.vein some parts of oakland, your phone was supposed to rattle with an earthquake warning some time this morning. but it was only a test. edd you gethe

go ouves newstrack and we have by bones between my photographer and the security guard and only two out of 5 show the alert . they were both samsung, the apple iphones did not show this alert. this is what it looks like in the two phones that actually did get the alert. shake alert, designed to let people know there will be an earthquake seconds before it happens and you are supposed to get the alert the same way you get an amber alert or a severe weather warning. the goal is to go out to about 40,000 people in downtown oakland today. >> this is the first test of its kind to get this message out over this particular system, something called cell broadcast . >> reporter: today's experiment was designed to test how quickly a morning could transmit to cell phones

factoring in a wireless carrier and if a device is on wi-fi or 4g. the alert zone, a 60 block section of downtown oakland westlake and merritt, in a real earthquake, the alert would come after earthquake sensors like these were triggered to give people seconds or even tens of seconds to brace themselves but before the shaking begins. >> it all depends e theauake st you are from the center. >> reporter: and those seconds can be crucial not only to take cover but for automated response . >> for slowing down trains, opening fire house doors, precious seconds. anything helps . >> reporter: all right and this test was supposed to take place between 11:00 and noon and we are now several minutes afternoon. again, three out of

5 of our phones did not ring. of those that did, one was on sprint and one was on verizon and all of the samsung variety. they are asking everyone who did get the alert to fill out a survey online to help them with that. live in oakland, >> dan: olympic, to kpix 5. this large tree toppled her toppled over earlier this morning. you can see some cars were not quite as lucky. crews hauled the tree away just before 6:30. crews are trying to figure out what started a buyer and a concorde home while people were sleeping. the bar reportedly started in the garage around to deck 40 this morning. firefighters were able to knock down flames and less than an hour. one woman was taken to the hospital with minor burn injuries. a surprising shakeup right in the middle of a labor dispute. the is superintendent is out immediately. the school board says it is a

mutually agreed separation without elaborating. the teachers union is currently in mediation trying to hammer out a new contract that new str talks break down. 50 women are choosing the south san francisco bay software company of allowing sex trafficking, providing a customized database for backpage.com. the women claimed they were sexually appointed exported through the website. a statement saying we are deeply committed to the ethical use of our products and take these allegations seriously. however, we do not comment on pending litigation. facebook says it has taken a major step to ban white nationalism on its platform and program. they have long removed post with hate speech and racism.

fos linked with white supremacy will be connected to a support group. the new policy begins next week. theresa may says she will resign after the brexit deal is done. she would step down before the next phase of the negotiations but she did not set a date. today, the mayor of chicago accused jussie smollett of abusing the city and said nothing here and. yesterday, prosecutors suddenly dropped all charges against jussie smollett. the prosecutor believes he did lie to them about being the target of a hate crime but did just two days of community service and pay $10,000. >> so you believe he is guilty? >> yes. >> so what did you drop the charges? >> our priorities are violent crimes and driving violence and

jussie smollett meets none of those. >> now the police union is calling for a federal investigation. filion, powerball beaver heating up.

powerball hopefuls are taking a crack at today's jackpot. the prize, a whopping $750 million. lottery players are following the hype and crossing their fingers. >> reporter: it is already the fourth highest it has ever been in history and is expected to grow even more before tonight's drawing. it was here at ernie's liquors where just last july, a lucky patron one a $502 million jackpot. >> there is something they are doing right, here. [ laughter ] i got the music going on and a nice store that is picking this up and the weather is nice so everything looks good! let us hope for the best! >> reporter: he got $1 million for selling the nn

>> people are really excited. >> he says his store has been getting busier as the stakes have been getting higher. >> you see more people from distance, also. some people come here to just visit the store. >> reporter: the chances of winning this time are more than one in 292 million. the last time there was a powerball winner, it was last december. the powerball drawing happens at 7:59 tonight and we will see if the bay area is look continues. and san leandro matched 5 of six recently. the prize, $994,000 . let's see how wall street is doing right now. the dow jones is down by 56 points. verizon is set to offer its wireless customers freeze bomb spam blocking tools. the goal is to stop rubble

callers. an estimated 47.8 billion robo calls and 2018, more than 46% of those were from scammers. verizon's move is part of a national push to meet fcc protocols and allow carriers to verify calls with a digital fingerprint and weed out potential spoofed phone numbers. at&t and comcast successfully conducted color verification test using fcc guidelines. while the gender pay gap has been decreasing over the past three years, it could take up to 50 years to raise the difference in salaries between men and women. when adjusting for age, industry and other variables, the app is 4.9% but it can be higher than 20% for pilots, chefs and executive management. mary lee works hard for her money expects!

we are tracking the rain on high definition doppler. let's show you video of the wipers going on full speed because of the rain. we are tracking moderate to heavy rainfall with this cold front so you can see the slick roadways out there and we are looking at more rain on the way. here is high-def doppler and for the east bay, the moderate to heavy rainfall with the cold front pushing through. i want to focus on concorde, walnut creek and right along 680. you can see those orange and yellow colors indicating heavy rain. pushing across the south bay into san jose right now and also looking at santa clara at the wet conditions out there. our salesforce tower camera and you can see the load visibility because of the rain, cloudy skies and temperatures are running on the .

50s and even in livermore, 63. that cold front is kicking up the wind for us. 13 mile an hour winds. 21 mile an hour out of the southwest of downtown cyprus and sacramento. we will see the winds ease and calm down as we go through the day. but here is that storm system that we are tracking and that is dropping the cold front our way and this low pressure system is going to stick around until tomorrow and that is why we have shower chances even for your thursday. we are tommy get out. we are looking at a few showers and we could see a few isolated thunderstorms but we could see some sun breaks, as well. we will see decreasing showers. showers to start off the day tomorrow. scattered for tomorrow morning and scattered showers for your thursday afternoon, as well. thanks to the rain, the pollen count is down. that's a good for allergy sufferers. as we head into the

end of the week because we are going to see more sunshine. for the sierra snowpack, 450% average looking good for the snow up in the sierra. a winter storm warning until 11:00 p.m.. 24 inches of snow, 7:27 and our sunrise at 7:01 tomorrow morning so here are our temperatures looking at the low to mid 60s. there is the 7-day forecast and showers for thursday. drier and sunnier by friday. transportation regulators are being grilled on capitol hill about the troubled boeing 737 max airplanes. the transportation secretary based tough questions about the grounded fleet from members of a senate aviation subcommittee and says we should have

absolute confidence that regulators at the faa are certifying claims properly but the agency does divert to manufacturers. today's hearing comes after two 737 max planes crashed in recent months. janet is live at boeing headquarters in seattle, right now, where company officials are meeting with pilots from around the world. janet? >> reporter: yes, it is interesting that both of these events are on the same day. besides briefing the media, as you mentioned, there were about 200 pilots, regulators and industry to tell us about the changes they are working on for the 737 max airplane. those are really broken down into two areas. they are software related with the stabilization of the mcas system that is believed to have caused problems in both of the crashes within the past six months and the other part falls to pilot training but facing an uphill battle, they have a skeptical aviation industry. what you see behind me are planes, 7:37 planes that have

been ordered, built and waiting to be delivered but of course, the planes are now grounded in the united states, china and europe. they are hoping to get these delivered and to get others back in the air as soon as possible. >> janet, thank you. southwest is cutting its sales outlook due to the says lost $150 million in revenue due to the grounding and other issues. still ahead, the debate.

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the taste of the day, white mushrooms. still the most popular of all mushrooms sold in markets. you have so many different varieties but the white mushrooms are still the most popular. why? they are very versatile, flavorful, delicious and one of the less expensive which is also great. but this is very, very important. when you buy them, you want to make sure they are the closest to white that you can possibly think of. if they have a little bit of brown color, don't buy them. they have been around for too long. you see that, that is a fresh white mushroom and the stem is still nice and soft and that will brown. when you bring them home, you want to store them in ketoore them iown bags they can breathe a

little better. white mushrooms, sliced up anyway we want to put them, they are great. always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy, this is a really nice tray of mushrooms, isn't it? i like it. >> yeah, they looked really good. >> salt, pepper. >> so hungry! well, have a great day, everybody. >> the rain is coming to simone, i leave the van gogh.

to harrison, the wine collection. to craig, this rock. the redwoods to the redheads. the rainbows to the proud. l 39, on one condition. that you do everything in your power to preserve and protect them. with love, california.

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