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coming to an end. the change at southwest airlines that has passengers heated. >sara>hi, i'm sara donchey. if you have been able to enjoy all of that beautiful weather that we saw over the last few days here in the bay area, then you are lucky because it's all about to change thanks to multiple storms that are going to be rolling in very soon. so we thought we would prepare you right off the top for what is going to come, i guess, in the next few hours, right? >paul>right. we're going to see the first showers starting to take shape over the next few hours. a lot of cloud cover out there right now, but the heaviest rain still about 12 hours away from moving in. so let's go to the floor map here and we'll show you what to expect as we head through tonight and into tomorrow. so this version of futurecast, we're going to go through the next 15 hours from right now through 2:00 on wednesday afternoon. and at first just a couple of showers after midnight. a few hit or miss showers for the morning commute. i don't think it's going to slow things down a lot, but allow a few extra

minutes on the way out the door. the heaviest and steadiest rain is going to hit the coast by late morning, and that's going to move across the bay area into early afternoon. this feature right here we see the brighter colors showing up in kind of a straight line. so we'll call it narrow cold frontal rain band. it's the cold air driving the system kind of piling up the air ahead of it, squeezing out the moisture and also resulting in some gusty winds. we're going to continue tracking that as we head through tonight and into tomorrow. now, in terms of any localized flooding, it's a marginal risk of excessive rainfall. that's the way the storm, the weather prediction center phrases it, which means that flash flooding or mainstem river flooding, unlikely urban and small stream flooding going to be a concern, especially in the afternoon tomorrow when the heaviest rain is coming down in southern california. that's a higher category because we're concerned about the potential for debris flows and mudslides around those burn scars. also the possibility of a few thunderstorms. this is the general thunderstorm outlook from the storm prediction center, which means non severe storms could get some small hail out of the strongest storms. and don't be alarmed if you hear a rumble of thunder. this is the first of three different system that's going

to be heading our way. it's the only one that's likely to rank as an atmospheric river, and just barely an r one on the 1 to 5 scale. another wave of rain thursday night into friday, and another one late sunday into monday, staying just below that threshold. but plenty of rain in the forecast over the next seven days. we will take a look at all of it coming up in the full forecast in just a few minutes. >sara>all right, paul, thank you so much. we will be watching and waiting for the rain to come in. well it was a rough one over in oakland. three different gas stations across the city were all targeted in smash and grabs. the stations that were hit overnight are in the montclair, redwood heights and lakeshore neighborhoods. they are all owned by the same company, and at each one, the suspects rammed a car right through the front of the building. this is surveillance video from the chevron on moraga avenue in montclair, the last of the three hit. just before 4 a.m.. we talked with one of the workers there who said, this has happened so many times that the the store took extra steps to add security, but ultimately that didn't make a difference.

>even with these bollards that are cemented into the ground, as you can see on this one, they just back backed it, bent it, got in at an angle. so we weren't impervious to this kind of a break in. but you know, we're going to make this look like an armory i suppose. >sara>rick thinks the suspects were after the safe, but they did not get it. oakland police tell us the other two stations were hit in the half hour before, and the suspects took off just as officers were pulling up. so far, no arrests made. those burglaries are the latest in a series of crimes that have been plaguing oakland, and certainly getting a lot of attention. crime is going to be a big issue for voters when they elect a new mayor. today, the top two candidates for the job made their case for why they should lead the city. are. kelsi thorud has more. >for more than 90 minutes, oakland's two top candidates for the open mayor seat, former

congresswoman barbara lee and former oakland city council member lauren taylor went head to head in a debate. >that this moment demands leadership, and it demands the ability to bring different sectors of our community together to get the job done. business as usual. politics will not work. it will continue to fail us. we have to do something different. we need a new approach and we need new leadership. >from public safety concerns to the city's budget deficit to the pending sale of the coliseum, the two candidates laid out their vision. lee, focusing on her ties to congress and established relationships with federal, state and local leaders, saying those connections will help bring more resources to oakland. >it's important that we know this administration. it's important that we sound the alarm and it's important that

we fight to get every dollar we can find here into oakland. and again, i'm proud of the support that i have from the chair of the appropriations committee in sacramento, buffy wicks. i mean, we need to have allies. you can pick up the phone and call and say, donald trump is doing this. we need to have the state step up. >lauren taylor, on the other hand, calling for a change of the guard, saying local boots on the ground leadership is necessary to pull the city out of its current state and into a brighter future. >we've got to step up as a city. we've got to operate more effectively and efficiently. that means we have to have someone who understands the details of how we work. we can't just come and be a delegator. we have to be able to roll up sleeves, go deep, understand what is what isn't happening, hold folks accountable. as i said earlier, make those hard and necessary choices.

>one of the more fiery exchanges coming. when the candidates were asked their opinion of former mayor shengtao and the successful recall effort against her. >oaklanders have to be centered. that's my commitment. that's why there's resistance against my campaign and why my opponent has been recruited by some of those same backers of shengtao to run. i just want to say this is a campaign that i am a i am proud of the support that i have from supporters of the recall of shengtao and opponents of the recall of shengtao. >sara>marin county is dealing with a unique housing crisis. it is already, as we know, a difficult place to find affordable housing. now they have declared a shelter crisis there to about 100 farm workers and tenants are about to be forced out of their homes. many of them have spent decades on ranches in point reyes national seashore. the national park

service reached an agreement in january to end commercial cattle operations on a dozen leased ranches along the seashore. environmental groups sued over the farm's ecological impact. and now the people who call those ranches home are trying to figure out where to go. john ramos has the story of what comes next. >all those in favor? aye, aye. and that urgency ordinance is adopted. thank you. >it's not every day that a change to the county building code draws this kind of reaction. but the housing situation in west marin is something that many residents simply haven't thought much about. >i am a landowner, and i have been an entitled, complacent resident of point reyes station. i'm ashamed. and appalled by the situation we're

in. >the situation is that hundreds of low wage earners have been living in what the county says is substandard conditions, because they simply can't afford what little housing there may be in the area. >people have been living in very poor conditions for decades. in some cases. >sarah jones is the director of the marin community development department. she says it feels like her hands have been tied. >my department can't issue a permit for something that's not a very expensive structure, very difficult to build, very difficult to get approved. that is on a permanent foundation. >as a result, the county, by its own rules, have not been able to build emergency housing like you may see in bigger cities. and supervisors heard from some who have kept quiet for a long time. gabriel romo is a restaurant worker who actually lives on one of the ranches that will be closed. >i have lived in point reyes my entire life. i know no other home. it is my

community. this displacement will be affecting many of the fine people that walked in with me, as well as. many, many. others. and we recognize the extent at which this will affect our community. >and though he doesn't speak english, the emotion in enrique hernandez's voice was understandable to all. esperando mismo. >we live under a tremendous amount of tension and pressure. i am a family man. i am the father of a son with an extreme disability. it's this life. what will happen to us and what will happen to the one that will. to the ones that will follow us? >in the end, the board recognized the problem by approving a three year urgency ordinance that will suspend or relax building and zoning codes to allow the construction of temporary emergency housing. >it takes away a lot of the the rules, the regulations that

we have that actually. prevent putting solutions into place. >as the ranches close in the next 12 months, the county figures it will need an immediate 100 units of affordable housing in an area where almost none is available. right now, >the >>county has no plan to build anything itself, but they figure it was time to get out of the way of those who might. >sara>in san francisco, some west side residents are trying one last attempt, a hail mary, to stop the great highway from becoming a permanent park. it is only days away from closing to cars for good. a lot of people are taking their final drives on the highway and enjoying the view. as our katie nielsen reports, they hope this new lawsuit can reverse decisions that are being made now. >i get. worried about safety. i mean, when the upper highway, great highway, is closed, traffic flows into the neighborhood.

matt marchetto's family has lived on the west side for five generations, and he's also a small business owner. >that's >>why he decided to get into the fight over the planned park, literally on the great highway. san francisco is one is the most democratic city in the united states. it used to be a city about people power. it used to be a city that had very, very inclusive processes. and this is the absolute opposite. matt is helping lead livable sf, the group that held a rally today to announce a lawsuit suing the city, saying passing prop k was not legal. the idea to close great highway was met with opposition since the start, with residents in the sunset neighborhood saying by closing the highway, there would be more traffic in the neighborhoods, making the streets less safe for families and making it harder for people to get to the commercial corridors, which would then hurt small businesses. but those in favor of the beachfront park say there are workarounds to those concerns. we have. extended multiple invites to the leaders of the no on k

folks to work together on neighborhood improvements, including addressing their concerns on traffic. their answer is filing lawsuits to try to undo the democratic will of san franciscans. as many have pointed out, the people most impacted on the west side of san francisco voted overwhelmingly against closing the great highway, whereas people living on the other side of the city generally voted for it. we all live in a city together, we all vote together, and we honor the democratic outcome. opponents like matt say they fought it before voters even approved the plan, and they'll continue to fight it now. i think there's kind of little we can do for the closure at this point, but i do think it is a very strong argument. and if we do win in the court of law, you know, the the ballot measure will be null and void. >sara>we reached out to mayor lurie's office for comment, but they have yet to respond. the san francisco city attorney's office says they will respond in court. people in one walnut creek neighborhood have had enough of the selfies.

problems, they say, are coming with big crowds hoping to get the perfect picture. and the fastest way to hide a bunch of shiny jewelry from the cops may not be the best way. just ask the guy who allegedly swallowed some tiffany earrings and southwest airlines made one change that seems to have a whole chunk of the internet upset. the big announcement that had big reaction. >tonight make america. affordable again or man. and soon. that is the.

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help avoid crowding. what would you do if you needed to quickly hide hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry? a question we all ask ourselves every single day. you could go and do what this guy did and swallow it. orlando police say jathan gilder allegedly robbed a tiffany jewelry store last month. he was pretending to rep an orlando magic basketball player in the store. gildon was taken to the store's vip room. that's where police say he grabbed two pairs of diamond earrings and a ring and took off. the ring alone was worth more than $587,000. officers tracked down his car. they found him, too, but they did not find the jewelry, just the tags. and that was because they say he swallowed it. police say he swallowed the earrings as they were arresting him. police claim they overheard gilder say i should have thrown them out the window. >first alert weather

powered. by kia. learn more at kia comm. kia movement. that inspires. >sara>and on that note, as we think about the consequences of his alleged activity. >paul>well, two seconds of thinking about that is more than he >sara>did. yeah, right. >paul>yeah, >>i could see the problems. just mathematically >paul>speaking. and physiologically as >sara>well. all right. let's >paul>focus on >sara>the weather. just >paul>a prettier >sara>picture, but maybe not so much because we are expecting kind of, you know, the clouds are rolling >paul>in. the >sara>rain is coming as >paul>well. i think the afternoon commute is going to be more problematic than the morning commute tomorrow. so let's get into the details here of this latest storm system headed our way. it is going to rank as an atmospheric river, but really towards the bottom of the scale, that plume of moisture extends out over the pacific. you can see all the cloud cover making its way towards the coast. this isn't as powerful as some of the previous atmospheric rivers that we have seen so far this winter. still technically winter for another ten days or so, both in terms of the amount of rain that's going to drop. but really, we measure these atmospheric rivers not by the amount of rain or the level of the wind

energy, but it's how much moisture gets transported through the atmosphere overhead. it's something that we call integrated vapor transport. so save that one for trivia night. but this one is going to be an ar one, the very bottom of the scale. but that can still bring in a couple of problems in terms of a little too much rain in a short amount of time. here's futurecast through 11:00 tomorrow morning, so a few showers for the morning commute, developing well after midnight and really closer to sunrise. those shouldn't result in any major problems for the early morning rush hour. we are going to see the more heavy and the steadier rain making its way towards the coast by late morning, so we'll freeze the map here at 11 a.m., and this is when things are going to start getting more intense for the north bay, and that intense rainfall is going to make its way across the bay area. as we head through the afternoon, that narrow, cold frontal rain band squeezing the atmosphere, resulting in some heavy downpours and some gusty winds as it moves through. but it's going to move through pretty quickly. so the fact that it's not going to stall in place will help to keep our flooding potential a little bit lower. we still have to watch for those urban and small stream flood advisories, but flash flooding is unlikely with

this system. and while the winds will get gusty, they're likely going to stay just below the wind advisory threshold. going to be a close call there tomorrow evening. the steady rain gives way to lingering off and on showers. these are going to be with us for the rest of wednesday evening, wednesday night into thursday morning, and the snow levels are going to be dropping down a little bit to about 2500ft. so a little frosting of snow on some of the peaks and the upper levels of the atmosphere will be cold enough wednesday night, and through at least the first half of the day thursday, that some of these lingering showers could develop into actual thunderstorms. do not be alarmed if you do hear a rumble of thunder, but by thursday afternoon, the showers become fewer and farther between, and then we're waiting for the next chance of rain, which is not going to take too long to arrive. let me bring the map up here. so we're not just looking at nothing. let's go over to the monitor and talk about how much rain we expect out of this system. and we are going to be seeing amounts mostly in the half inch to one inch range. some spots will overachieve in purple. that indicates some rainfall potential. along the coast of sonoma county, getting up to about an inch and a half of rain for the southern half of the bay area. same range. some of the rain shadowed

valleys picking up a little bit less. some spots, especially in the santa cruz mountains, closer to two inches of rain. but it's not the specific amounts, it's how much falls in a very short amount of time that will determine the flooding threat. and the wind damage potential is also going to be fairly brief, but some of the strongest gusts will exceed 40 miles an hour by tomorrow afternoon. most of the gusts in the 30 to 40 mile an hour range, so widespread power outage is not likely thursday, though even once the showers come to an end, it's still going to be a breezy day. and then there's more rain to come. another system headed our way by thursday night into friday, dry break on saturday and then another rainmaker heads our way. by late sunday and into monday. and these are all going to be snow makers in the sierra. we're talking about 2 or 3ft of snow with the first one, and then more on top of that for the end of the workweek, travel conditions are still going to be treacherous, if not impossible, as we head through the entire weekend. add up all the snow over the next seven days. we're talking about 4 to 7ft of snow total. that is a lot of snow late season skiing. everybody's going to be happy about that. here's the seven day forecast. temperatures are going to stay below average about 5 to 10

degrees below normal. the warmest days will be over the weekend in the low 60s on saturday with our one dry day there, but then more rain does move in later in the day on sunday, we'll keep you ahead of all of it with the three different rain chances head our way, the first one moving in over the next 12 hours or so for >vern>all. right, here we go. straight ahead in sports. another 40. niner gone. but what about a 40 niners hopeful. if you listen

college basketball up top. let's get it. the titans of the west coast conference basketball. gonzaga saint mary's history is the 15th time in the last 21 years that the gaels and zags have faced off for the conference title. randy bennett, here we go from vegas. his gaels swept the regular season series for mark few's bulldogs. gaels trailed by 13 early and grinded back, opening in the second half. jimmy mitchell saxen tied the game at 33. saxon had 20. later, brandon huff slicing, dicing, scored gonzaga by four. huff

scored 18. rough night for the gaels. never made a three pointer 18 turnovers. look how this ended. cliff battle put the game away. back up the bus. it is over. gonzaga won it 5851 to clinch an automatic bid to the ncaa tournament. saint mary's, 28 and five, will wait for an at large bid this march madness selection sunday. this is what stress can do to a coach. cal against virginia tech bears acc tournament debut. cal played four overtimes saturday. went to overtime again today. bears. reedus. petraeus tough bucket to tie the game at 65. this went to double overtime and cal finally pulled away. andre stojakovic laid in and kept up the lead to eight. she scored 29 and the bears won it 82 to 73. they advance to play rival stanford in the second round wednesday in charlotte. nfl

pass rusher joey bosa has signed with the bills, a reported one year deal worth over $12 billion, so joey will not be teaming up with his brother nick on the 40 niners defensive line. earlier today, the niners released pass rusher leonard floyd. he then turned around and signed a one year, $10 million deal with the falcons. floyd was second on the team with eight and a half sacks last season. one player, san francisco, did add wide receiver demarcus robinson to a two year deal worth 9 million. robinson had 31 catches and seven touchdowns with the rams last season. warriors announcer bob fitzgerald, colleen asabuki took in a sharks game on a night off, saw san jose rally against visiting nashville. they erased a two nothing deficit. colin grabbed tied it in the third. two goals in 14 seconds. less than three minutes later, the preds took it away. off the stick of kieffer bellows. that's your difference. nashville won it 3

to 2, their 13th straight win over sharky's machine. high school basketball. let's get it. de lasalle here at rearden open division norcal final tied at 22. final seconds of the first half. watch this. spartans alec blair buzzer beater to end the half. de la salle by two bit way. but the third quarter was all crusaders blocked at one end. and here came the crusaders. hillmon three of his 16 put rearden up by 16 and the crusaders won it 52 to 40. the won their first norcal title in 23 years, and sara at 29 and one. roosevelt from southern california, stands in the way of a state title this saturday in sacramento. >sara>very exciting. i know you'll keep us posted. >vern>why not? >sara>also, those kids look pretty tall. what are they eating? if you are feeling betrayed about the latest announcement from southwest

airlines, you're not alone. the reaction across the internet and at the airport.

there is a big shift coming to one airline, and people are not happy. southwest says the days of bags flying free are coming to an end, and it's happening right before the summer travel season starts. how could that be? starting may 28th, southwest rapid rewards, a-list preferred members and people with business select fares will be the only ones getting their two free checked bags. you can still get one checked bag for free if you are an a-list member, or if you have a southwest branded credit card. this sounds like a commercial, >paul>but >>for the first time in the airline's 54 year history, everybody else will have to pay up. >how do you feel about this change? i don't like that at all. it's the first i've heard of it. i fly southwest because of. that. i'm. i'm sad because it's always cheaper for me to fly southwest because of the luggage. i'm going to have to shop around now. >sara>some people said they would stick with southwest.

experts say adding the fee could lower airfare prices. >paul>it won't. >sara>yeah. one industry analyst says the change is how you destroy a brand. and people on tiktok seem to agree. >it's yours. if you have stuff you now owe us money for. that is it. filled with stuff that you bought and paid for. our executives want to make more money and you paying for your luggage is exactly how we're going to do that. no, you're going to have to pay us a lot of money for that now. >vern>so >>over on x, one person said southwest made choices. stupid choices, but choices nonetheless. >paul>been there. >sara>someone else shared their sympathy for the person running southwest social media >paul>feeds. >>southwest has not said how much you can expect to pay for your luggage now, which i don't know what they're going to have to announce for people to come down. other brands also got in on the dogpile. arizona iced tea assured people their drinks are still $0.99. while amtrak. >paul>reminded everyone >sara>they might be the last ones to offer free baggage >paul>trains. not a bad way to travel. >vern>yeah, >>to get a little time.

>sara>i don't. >paul>okay. >>i >>don't. and >vern>sarah's got to get there. >sara>i have no free checked bags. actually, i really hate checking bags. >paul>i'd prefer not >sara>to. yeah. >paul>i >>don't check bags. >sara>yeah. no. >paul>yeah. >>we just shove by hairclub. when it comes to fighting hair loss, one name stands above the rest, hairclub, the number-one trusted name in fighting hair loss. stay tuned to hear about film and tv star frankie muniz's personal hairclub experience, and other inspiring stories of the lives that have been changed by hairclub. including a few celebrity surprises. - there's nothing quite like driving with the top down. the feeling of the wind rushing through your hair is pretty exhilarating. and that's not something i could always say. hi, i'm frankie muniz. you may know me from film, tv, or even the racetrack, but what you might not know is that i faced my own battle with hair loss. i'd like to share with you my story of how i was losing my hair, and for years couldn't find the right solution until the day i found hairclub. it's a story that stars my favorite co-star ever.