excuse me. they were there with the nanny. hotel officials wouldn't allow our cameras inside. but these are pictures of the lobby taken from the hotel website. police tell us tapes shows the boy squirming away from his mother and disappearing. the mother we are told cries out for help, and 10 minutes later we are told a worker found the boy in the fountain hidden behind a waterfall. the child was not breathing. he was rushed to st. francis medical center where he was revived but is in serious condition. he has now been moved to another hospital. police explained to us why it took as long as 15 minutes to find the boy. >> a wall that's probably 2 feet tall with an endless fountain going behind it, and if a small child were to lean in there and fall in, they would be behind the endless fountain, so you wouldn't see them behind the wall of water.

that's why it took so long to find him. >> reporter: now, hyatt spokesman this afternoon released this statement saying we are deeply concerned about the accident that occurred at the hotel this afternoon. the safety and security of our guests, visitors, and associates is a top priority, and the hotel is working with the san francisco police department in their investigation of this matter. hyatt officials tell us there has not been a problem of this kind with the fountain since it opened in 1973. for now, that fountain remains roped off behind police yellow tape, and will remain closed as the police continue to investigate this matter. david stephenson, ktvu channel 2 news. and we are on storm watch tonight. it has bns raining all day -- been raining all day, and it's continuing right through the evening commute. the rain had people trying to stay dry and work crews working to keep those roadways from flooding all day long. we have live team coverage for

you. bill martin is in the weather center, but we begin with patty lee live in san rafael. >> reporter: i'm standing next to a catch basin where crews were working to ensure water flows freely to a pump station. this is a key area in the city to keep clear because it is below sea level and prone to flooding. in san rafael, eight crews combed nearly every street in the city with rakes to prevent flooding. >> we have been busy all day. >> reporter: bob price says he has been at this for days, trying to get rid of a glut of leaves ahead of today's and future rain. >> this whole valley backs up, all the homes and the woodland area, and the dealerships would flood. >> reporter: in san francisco, water poses a different kind of threat. >> i have seen this parking lot slowly disappear every year i come. >> reporter: a section of the

great highway is still at risk, even after more than $2 and a half million of erosion abatement projects. some wonder if it's worth the effort. >> it will never work. the sea will always take more land. that's just the way it is. >> reporter: with the winter storm season upon us, san francisco's public woks manager told us -- works manager told us he's watching the tide and the surges and he is ready to call for emergency road closures, but that probably won't be necessary today. there is a sheer sense of frustration among workers charged with managing the effects of mother nature. >> dowk this today, and come back tomorrow and it will be the same. >> reporter: they say the effort is worth it in the end, and one of the only ways to help prevent bigger problems from forming down the line. preventive efforts has been going on all day, and they seem to be working so far, but conditions are getting worse. in mill valley, foul weather

brought down a free, and in napa, crews are on standby in case the conditions get worse. and here in san rafael, traffic is flowing. there's minimal flooding on the street, and crews will be back out here looking for leaves again tomorrow morning. patty lee, ktvu channel 2 news. >> this rain is making for a wet commute. let's take a look at what's happening on bay area freeways. in emoriville, traffic is slow as it usually is. and also there on the side access road to the freeway, it is slow. this is a peek at interstate 680. traffic here slow as well, but not quite as slow as we saw on interstate 80. steady rain has been coming down all day long, and more is expected. but will we get a break in between in bill martin joins us now, and he has been tracking the storm. >> we're going to get a little break. we don't have much more rain to go. the showers this morning, we

forecast that yesterday. the afternoon commute is wet, and we told you that would happen again today. and showers will begin to shift south this evening. you can see the rainfalling now. heaviest rainfall today was up in this area, up in the coastal hills, maybe an inch of rain, maybe a little bit more. the rest of us, anywhere from a quarter do a half-inch. it's coming a little bit closer here. we have cells that are a little bit more powerful than we have seen like right here out stooreds pacifica and south san francisco. that's a more moderate rainfall. your wipers are on full. you have more ran falling out here on the corridor, and that's the story. this afternoon commute is wet. this is not a big storm. it's not a huge deal. but it's falling in the heart of the afternoon, and it hit the morning commute as well. showers continue to fall. the commute is going to continue to be messed up. i will track the weather system as it moves out of the area tonight. i'll give you an update on that and look at the computer model.

there is a slighted chance for more showers tonight and tomorrow morning. cattle ranchers said they are happy to see the rain today. by next month, they should be able to stop bringing in feed and let the cattle graze. reservoirs are still at 10% above normal. coming up tonight, we will tell you why the current rain will let water managers do something they have been waiting to do. the storm front that's working its way through the bay area has made its way up to the sierra where it is not as cold as some ski resorts would like it to be. it has been rain there off and on, and the forecast calls for a 40% chance of rain tomorrow, and you can check the weather conditions here or in the sierra any time by logging on to our website at ktvu.com. and clicking on that weather tab. a baby boy taken away from his mother at birth died three months later while in foster care. one man is in custody, but the

child's family is asking tough questions of county officials. kristin is live tonight in fairfield with the story. >> reporter: we were in court today with the suspect when he had his first day in court here. now that suspect is back here behind bars at the county jail. this is his home for now after investigators say he took a child into his home and shook that child to death. today the suspect pleaded not guilty. instead of play dates, the family of three-month-old christian are planning a funeral. family members say child welfare services took the boy shortly after he was born when he tested positive for drugs. christina his mother says she was trying to work out her problems and trusted the county to look after christian. >> i'm more hurt than angry because i thought i could depend on the county to help me, and they just let me down. >> reporter: the child wound up in the care of a man who

allegedly shook the child on november 29th. the man's attorney says this was all just a tragedy, and that her client will be exonerated. >> this is a terrible troj, and my client is -- tragedy, and my client is innocent, and follow along you will see it in the court proceedings. >> reporter: now the family is asking tough questions. the child's uncle and aunt were willing to take him in, and were in the process of getting approved by the county to take custody. but, they say, the social worker in charge of their case went on vacation, and the file was put on the backburner until it was too late. >> we wanted christian out of foster care and with family. >> reporter: the county agrees this was a tragedy and says all foster parents undergo a rigorous background check. >> there are state requirements on how to do that. we meet and exceed every piece of those requirements to make sure the kids are into a loving family home. >> reporter: the 3-month-old baby will be buried on saturday. the man accused of shaking him

to death will be back in court next week. we're live in fairfield, ktvu channel 2 news. governor schwarzenegger is offering a $50,000 reward to help solve the rape and murder of a green bay nanny two years ago. the partially clothed body was found in a parking on december 16 2008. the 33 year old was the mother of a then 8-year-old girl. at this point, no arrests have been made despite a reward offered by local police. the governor's reward is part of a program that began back in 1967 to help find those responsible for unsolved violent crimes. the california state budget deficit will get worse over the next 18 months, that according to governor elect jerry brown who today hosted a town hall forum. brown said he wasn't necessarily looking for answers immediately, but looking for lawmakers to get on the same page. jim varga is live tonight with the story. >> reporter: mike, there was outreach, and there were charts and more bad news as you say as

governor elect jerry brown tried to break down what he calls idealogical barriers up here so everybody can great on what the budgetroblems are. jerry brown says the state is now projected to have a $28 billion budget deficit over the next year and a half. about 600 government officials from the political right and left showed up to hear governor elect brown try to bring some basic understanding about the state's financial mess. >> it's very hard to come to any agreement if there is no consensus on what the underlying facts are. >> reporter: some facts, the state is borrowed out. tax revenues have fallen more than 25% in the last three years. and budget shortfalls in the $20 billion range are expected every year for the next five years. although possibly solutions weren't supposed to be brought up with support for schools alone falling by $10 billion in just the last few years, and more cuts likely soon, assemblymen said enough. >> we have to have a discussion

about the question of revenue to help us define what california is going to be about as a state. >> reporter: there was only one republican elected official on the dais today, and she wasn't sure much was accomplished. >> if we keep the facts on the table and keep productive dialogue, there may be a glimmer of hope at this point. >> reporter: a glimmer? >> i'm starting small. i'm starting with a glimmer, we will wait for the glow. >> reporter: what these people are dealing with is the reality that californians don't want to pay more taxes and don't want services cut either. jerry brown may have been reaching out beyond the government officials today and talking directly to californians. >> we can't go on the way we have, it's getting worse, so people will have to overcome their idealogical preed lickses. >> reporter: so the facts now are on the table, but ideologies are difficult to put aside.

ktvu channel 2 news. stocks rose slightly today as wall street balanced factors ranges from treasury rates to the commodities market. investors also paid close attention to democratic reaction on the president's deal to extend the so-called bush era tax cuts. the dow rose 13 points. the nasdaq rose 10 points. we're just learning of systemwide delays on qual train as it veghtseds a -- cal train as it investigates a death on its tracks. it happened around 3:15 today. a northbound train hit someone on the tracks. the train is now stopped there at the scene. at this point, no information about the victim has been released. transit officials say that passengers can use their cal trains ticket to ride buses while the tracks are closed. cal train is running single track service around the scene of that accident.

i'm paul chambers live in berkeley where city leaders have a tough decision. should they make this army private a hero? a swim coach is going for cold where no woman coach has ever gone before.

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packers rushed to the defense of wiki leaks today. hackers launched attacks against mastercard and visa after both credit card companies stopped payments from donors who tried to contribute to the website. the cyber attacks caused service disruptions for both companies' website. visa launched a review and mastercard has halted all payments until the court battle is resolved. meanwhile, berkeley city council is trying to decide

whether to approve a resolution to name the army private who leaked the documents a hero. paul has more. >> reporter: bradley manning, this goi right here, has been a household name since july, and some people believe he is being silenced since he put his information on the website. now the city is trying to decide should he be freed and considered a hero? >> i don't support making a hero out of bradley manning. >> reporter: bradley manning is the army private who may be responsible for leaking tens of thousand u.s. government secret military reports to wiki leaks including this 2007 army helicopter strike in baghdad. >> to some people, he's a hero, and other people he's a villain. >> whoever did this did an act of conscious and should be thanked for it. >> reporter: bob mueller is the man who orveed the resolution to

support and free bradley manning and proclaimed whoever leaked the information a hero. >> if the united states corrects mistakes when it becomes aware of them rather than look to hide them, which is what the department of defense did. >> i don't feel that i sitting in berkeley know who is harmed by these wiki links >> reporter: come next week, the decision will belong to the city leaders in berkeley, because the peace and justice commission passed a resolution, however berkeley's mayor says he's on the fence about the issue. >> i wonder whether it's appropriate for berkeley to be the judge of this issue. i think it's way premature. >> reporter: now you're looking at a site for bradley manning. he has been in jail for 196 days, and it says he will turn 23 behind bars. if he's convicted, he will be in jail for about 52 years. now, as for the resolution, the city council will vote on that next tuesday. it will find out if that decision to make him a hero and

say if he's freed in berkeley will come true. paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 news. the woman's swim coach at cal today became the first female to be named head of the u.s. olympic swim team. terie mckeever has been aappointed to lead the u.s. women's swim team in 2012. she is best known for her work with olympic star natalie coglan. we weren't quite swimming in rain today, but people were getting wet out there. bill martin joins us now with the forecast. >> mike, this is what you expect this time in the bay area. it's almost winter, but this is not a powerful storm. it's exactly what we need, and what we're getting. a quarter inch in most places, a half-inch in others, and up to an inch in the heaviest locations. not a lot of wind, and this guy is winding down. as you go to storm tracker 2, you can see it working its way south. we have here you can see the

moisture streaming in, starting to work its way just a little bit south. so you see it clearing up here in the north. so the showers are going to gradually work their way out of the neighborhoods in the next, well, probably in the next two hours, by 8:00 or so. by the 10:00 news tonight, i hope you come back, i think we will have widely scattered showers. it's going to look more like this at the 10:00 news wheres up in santa rosea. right know, we have rain in -- right now, we have rain in san jose. it's not the heavy rainfall, but what we're looking at is this thing is right in the heart of the afternoon commute. there are a lot of people moving around, and the south bay freeways right now, you have some standing water. i talked to julie haener in the news room a few minutes ago. she saw like three spinouts coming in where she lives. it's wet out there, take it slow. tomorrow morning, there might be a few light showers in the

morning, so that would create a slower commute. i'm not expecting a lot of rain. tomorrow, we will put a few scattered showers in the forecast, but shouldn't be that big a deal. today is the main event. and it is winding down. we come back, i have the new computer model ready to go, and we will have the five-day forecast. and i'll see you back here in just a bit. the first ever commercial spaceship to orbit the earth blasted off this morning. >> 3, 2, 1. 0. >> the falcon 9 rocket carried a space capsule into orbit where it circled the globe twice. the company space ex hopes to use the rocket to carry cargo and eventually astronauts to the international space station. reent claims by nasa aims researchers that they have created a bacteria never before seen on earth are being

challenged by other scientists. nasa biologists claimed to have taken a bacteria from mono lake and replaced its dna with arsenic. now critics are claiming the results are flawed. scientific observers say the only way to prove the claim is for other labs to duplicate the experiment. scientists say they have discovered how we are able to tune somebody out. in studying how we hear ourselves talking, scientists found our brains act like the volume control on a remote. they say activity on the hearing part of the brain goes down as activity on the speech centers goes up. some people may not have this volume control making it impossible for them to distinguish their own internal voices from the voices of others. new disturbing information tonight about the cash that's in your wallet. what the dollar bills could be doing to your health.

and also, one party says no more niceties. what that means next. and a big name hollywood screenwriter gets personal towards sarah palin. what was said about palin's recent hiking trip and what she fired back.

hollywood screenwriter aaron sorka is calling former alaska governor sarah palin a bully. that comes after an episode of

her reality show showing palin shooting and killing a caribou. palin has not responded directly to sore kin, but on her facebook page says that people should not condemn the episode if they have ever eaten meat. as republicans prepare to take over the house of representatives, gop members are moving quickly to get rid of the so-called feel good bills. >> those are all very nice things, but i say there's a difference between being nice and necessary. >> republicans are moving to get rid of the votes on symbolic resolutions. if they are successful, it would stop the house from honoring organizations such as sport teams or colleges and individuals. republicans say the bills waste time when lawmakers could be debating more important issues. >> i think it allows us to really get focused and do the real work that we have to do with the american people that makes a difference on the

strategic priorities like jobs. >> the gop says it will adopt its new set of rules next wednesday and post them online, something neither party has ever done. it now appears florida's clemency board has enough to pardon jim morrison for a 1970 indecent exposure conviction that resulted from a miami concert a year earlier. people who attended the con grert disagree whether morrison actually exposed himself, but all agree he acted as if he were going to. in september of 1970, a jury convicted morrison and he was sentenced to six months in jail. he was appealing the conviction at the time of his death in paris in 1971. governor charlie crist and at least two other members of the board must okay any pardon. a chemical found in some plastic products may also be found in your wallet. traces of bpa were found on 21

of 22 dollar bills tested. the chemical may have been transferred from heat activated receipts from cash registers and atms. bpa has been shown to affect hormone levels and has been lynched to early puberty. researchers say traces of bpa on dollar bills indicate that the chemical is widespread in the environment. more rain, more good news for south bay cattle ranchers. how this is helping their bottom line. the kids' health is involved. >> it got the three rs covered, but now parents are concerned because there's something major missing from dozens of oakland schools.

complete bay area news coverage continues.

this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. we're glad to see the rain. it's coming right on schedule. >> tonight a bay area rancher and other businesses ecstatic about the drenching that they are receiving. it has rained steadily across much of the nine-county bay area today. it's not even winter, and the reservoirs are already starting to fill up. bill martin is standing by in the weather center, and we begin with mar reason live tonight. >> reporter: mike, the rain has picked up in the last hour or so. this year the rain has been slow and steady, and that is good news. opening the gate to this 2800 acre cattle ranch in morgan hill reveals an encouraging sight. green grass starting to grow on the valleys and hillsides. >> i think with the rain we have had, i think we will be good. you know, the grass is here. and it's green. as long as we get a week of

sunshine and then more rain, we will be good. so it's a good start to it. >> reporter: the ranchers will continue to feed the cows hay until more grass grows, and say last year's significant rain brought relief. >> everybody's cattle were much bigger going into the sale. we had a couple of hundred pounds some of them were heavier than the ones we sold the year before at the same time. and that was just the green grass. you had heavier cattle and calves. >> reporter: the rain is also helping the bay area's water supply. reservoirs are 10% above average thanks to last year's healthy rain totals, and after several storms saturated the storm this year, the district can now help capturing run off. >> in the mountains, it has been about average, so we're starting to see run off into the reservoirs. >> reporter: gray skies hung around today. reservoirs are typically at their lowest levels during november and december following

the dry season and are kept low to hold the incoming rain. this hiker says his family lives along a river where flooding hasn't been a threat this year. >> the river is hardly changing color and staying lois okay because we're still absorbing and filling springs, that means when the big storm comes, we're not hurting. there's still room to absorb before it starts raising real quick. >> reporter: here's another live look at the rain which has become more steady in the last hour or so. the most significant rain comes between january and march, and while officials have dropped their mandatory water conservation, they still encourage people to do so. this rain is still certainly slowing the evening commute as bill said it would. bill, what's ahead for tonight? >> we have more showers out there right now. maureen was mentioning it's picking up, but it has been

light out there. now the showers are drifting south, and i'll put it in motion. see it slowly, slowly moving down. that's how it's going to go the next few hours. we have rain now on all the major highways south of san francisco and oakland. and of course, you know what that does to traffic. if you go by the san francisco airport, you have stop and go traffic out by the airport, and also over in oakland right now. so the roadways are wet, and there's a little bit of standing water. it's not flooding, but it's raining like you would expect in the winter, and it's right on the afternoon commute. things are slow out from. there's more rain in the forecast. i have a computer model to show you that continues some of this rain. and of course, we will look at the weekend in the five-day forecast. okay, thank you, bill. keep in mind you can check the weather conditions in your city any time and take a live look at storm tracker 2 by going to our website, ktvu.com, and clicking on the weather tab. pg&e denies any spontaneous for an explosion at a home in east oakland on monday night that burned the man who lived there. fire investigators believe a gas

leak caused the blast. 61-year-old leon spencer suffered burns on 80% of his body. a spokeswoman for the utility says it immediately dispatched a crew to check the lines and found no lakes. neighbors say spencer was having the second floor renovated at the time and investigators say he might have triggered the blast by flicking on a light switch. oakland schools are still dealing with the heating problems, specifically a lack of heat. for more than a week now, many students and teachers have been forced to bundle up due to chilly classrooms, and the school district says it doesn't want to make any promises about when the heat will be turned back on. jade hernandez has the story. >> reporter: fifth grade teacher steve is frustrated with the school district. teachers here don't know how long they or their students will have to go without heat in their classrooms. >> this has been going on here for several weeks since the cold snap earlier in november. and there's at the height there was over 60 schools in the district that didn't have heat. they thought the heat was on,

even though we had reported it as off every day last week. there's evidently a central monitoring station which told them that our boiler is on, which it is on, but no heat is going through the classrooms. and we have reported that problem every day. >> reporter: 21 schools within the district are still without heat after the district turned it off during the thanksgiving holiday break to save money. the cost saving measure began last year and was supposed to save hundreds of thousands of dollars, but this year, heating technicians couldn't turn the heat back on at two thirds of the schools for various reasons. scattered throughout the district, students, teachers, and faculty are without heat. parents are upset. >> there's not enough money in the school district. they are cutting back on everything. this is a ridiculous thing to cut back on. they have to get in here and fix this right away when the kids' health is involved. >> last week, it was warmer outside than it was in the classrooms in the school. it was too cold. >> reporter: here at district

headquarters, the district oble has five -- only has five heating technicians, half the number last year, working on nearly obsolete equipment. >> this is a cost-saving measure which made sense on paper, but it's actually a flawed plan in the context of our current facilities situation. >> reporter: steve tells us it's growingly increasingly difficult in the district battling problems. >> more money is spent on outside projects. we don't need two math problems, and we don't need people checking off checklists and telling people how to teach. we need basic things like heat. >> reporter: jade hernandez, ktvu channel 2 news. one high school appears to be bucking the trend of budget cutbacks and declining enrollment. oakland tech is up 200 students this year compared to last year. school enrollment has topped 1900. parents and teachers say the surge in enrollment may have to do with some popular programs the school has now offered

including an engineering and health academies, a revitalized drama program, and a humanities program. now the debate is over to bring an -- the debate over bringing opera to north beach hit a sour note today. the remark one supervisor made aboutcy sillians and what another is asking for. today, the world is remembering john lennon. hear from the music legend himself in an interview done just days before he died.

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a san francisco planning commission has sounded a sour note over the issue of an opera singer at a north beach italian restaurant. during a hearing on a permit to allow the singer, one commissioner made a joke about sicilians making bribes and not receiving his yet. a resolution was introduced condemning the remarks. president obama today ramped up his sales pitch for the tax cut compromise he crafted with republican leaders during an event with the

president of poland, the president said many economists believe the deal will help boost the economy, and president obama said the compromise is gaining support among those within his own party. >> i think democrats are looking at this bill, and you have already had a whole bunch of them who have said this makes sense, and i think the more they look at it, the more of them are going to say this makes sense. >> there are some congressional democrats who were furious the plan extends tax cuts for all americans. harry reid said today he will work on changes to the bill. newspapers say advertizing revenues are improving after sharp declines over the past four years. two companies say advertizing in the last few months improved in part due to political campaign advertizing. one company's stock rose 3%, and another climbed 14%. kaiser has applied to the city of san rafael for permission to extend its medical

center. the parking garage will be expanded and the building of a new emergency room. the emergency room would be targeted for completion in the year 2013. a new blood test could determine if a person has undetected heart problems years before heart disease actually develops. university of texas researchers found that people with a tell tale protein were nearly seven times as likely to die of heart disease within six years as people without the blood marker. the test is not foolproof, but researchers say it could be used to -- by doctors to determine if a patient should be aggressively treated. researchers investigating sudden infant death syndrome say they may have discovered the cause. levels of serotonin were 26% lower than average than babies

who died of sids. babies may not be able to wake themselves up when they can't breathe. and the next step is to identify the babies who suffer from a lack of the hormone. we will tell you all about the major ordeal this teenager survived, and you will find out how hundreds of needy people received free exams and haircuts today. we are tracking significant rab to the south, and traffic is a mess right now. we will talk about the five-day forecast here in a minute. lightning fast. lightning strong.

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a san francisco community based organization that provides services to the homeless soon will have a home of its own. project homeless connect will move into a new office early next year. today city workers and volunteers celebrated that news by reaching out to hundreds of people in need. hundreds of people lined up in the rain outside bill graham auditorium today for a chance to get in off the streets and receive some much needed services. >> is that a little bit better? >> no. >> this one is better? >> this was the 37th project homeless connect event where the needily meet up with volunteers willing to provide services. there were flu shots, drop in medical clinics, and dental services. >> i haven't been to a dennist in over 12 years, and it's important to see a dentist once or twice a year is what i'm finding out. >> the project began in 2004

when city employees hit the streets of downtown san francisco to survey the homeless. now it's mostly powered by volunteers, individuals and businesses step forward to provide services to those living on the streets. >> and people came every year, say, wait, we would love to participate. i do wheelchair repair. i would love to offer that. lens crafters, that became a big phenomenon here. we realized people didn't have eye glasses and didn't get eye exams, and they helped. >> now twice a month an event is held where people can seek out help from everything from a food donations to hiv testing to job counselling and placement. today, both volunteers and people in need had nothing but praise for the program. >> i think it's great for everyone in the downtown area, and everyone that's participating in it. we appreciate it. >> i've only recently learned to cut hair, and i'm thrilled to

be here. everybody needs a haircut. >> project homeless connect moves into a new office on golden gate avenue early next yeesh, but the mayor says this effort does not stop at the san francisco city limits. 226 cities in three countries around the world have republicanly indicated the homeless connect model to reach out to those in need in their own communities. the animal rescue foundation is looking for help finding a person who abandoned and possibly tortured a kitten found yesterday at the concord bart station. employees have named her valentine. a passerby found the cat inside a box at the bart station. they are ears are damaged possibly by someone pouring a chemical on them. the ears may have to be removed, but workers say her hearing is good and she is very loving. valentine is headed to a foster home to get ready for adoption. tonight we're following a developing sfoir in san francisco where an 18-month-old boy fell into a hotel fountain and almost drowned. we're going to have the latest

on his condition coming up next at 6:00, and julie haener is live with some of the other stories we're working on. a community meeting is get to underway as city lead ners antioch try to put the brakes on a surge in violation. there have been two murders there in the past two days, and also a school project goes wrong. how a classroom volunteer ended up with serious burns to her face, torso, and legs. plus, a last-ditch effort to save an elementary school from the chopping block. what concerned parents and teachers are doing right now to try to keep it from closing. we will see you at 6:00. back now to bill martin. and bill what we're seeing outside is right for this time of year. >> you want this. if we didn't have it, we would be doing the news story, where is the rain? we're getting what we need, snow in the mountains. we were looking at ktvu.com. we have a traffic page there. and we were looking at the traffic in the santa clara valley. it's bad. it's raining. you're going to see the rain

line right, it's basically now south of san francisco. and it's raining. this bhol area is moving -- whole area is moving through. i will put it in motion again. this isn't a major rain event, but any time you get some rain in the heart of the afternoon commute, you're going to have bad traffic. we have very slow traffic all the way from san francisco to san jose as you move down the peninsula. and just be prepared for that. north bay not as bad because it's nots raining right now. overnight, mor scattered showers in the forecast. overnight low is mild because it's raining. i mentioned this the other day. when it rains, when things condense, it warms the atmosphere. latent heat is released, so the moisture in the air tonight will keep quhures in the upper -- temperatures in the upper 40s. the forecast then will be this shower activity moving through. here we are now. this area has to move through right here, but what it's going to do is it's going to sit south

a little bit. it looks like widely scattered showers tonight after the main event passes through. that's probably in the next two hours. today we had the rain, and we get into the weekend. here's the upshot. a warm and dry weekend. i mean warm, maybe mid-70s, dare i say that? the thing we will see will be some valley fog, and you know that's coming just because of the fim of the year -- the time of the and year the wet ground. we move through time, and his it -- and it's the xurted model. you see the south bay starting to wind down, and at 10:00, this is how it will look. most of the showers will be helged out towards every green, morgan hill and gilroy, and into the morning commute, the roads will be wet and a little bit of fog. and then we're into thursday. really what's happening now is the event we talked about. that's as we forecast. the daytime highs tomorrow, it's kind of warm. we had 60s today in some places, and tomorrow we will have some 60s as well. in the five-day forecast, it

breaks out like this. we have had showers. got a little snow in the mountains. they did have a weather advisory up around lake tahoe, and they dropped that. snow at about 6,000 feet, maybe 5 or of inches of snow up there overnight. 30 years after john lennon's death, tonight something most people have never heard. ♪ imagine all the people ♪ >> you know his music, but now the man behind the music talks about the future in tapes of an interview that was just recently discovered.

in liverpool, england, today, fans visited a memorial to john lonon to mark the 30th anniversary of the leneled's death. in new york, fans left flowers and notes, john lennon was gunned down on december 8th, 1980, in front of his new york city apartment building by mark david chapman. in a statement today, lennon's widow says the world was lucky to have known. >> the bay area is remembering john lennon tonight. an interview recorded hours just

before lennon was shot and killed was played. >> we spent approximately three and a half hours with john and yoko in an interview, and came back to san francisco the same night, and landed and found out that he was shot and killed. >> he said lennon told him he and yoko wanted to put together a band and go out on a concert tour. he gave the last print media interview to rolling stone magazine three days before he died. this week the magazine is released the full transcript as well as audio clips from the interview. when asked if he could see himself in a 9 to 5 john, lennon said it would be painful. >> people do spend a lot of time trying to be somebody else all the time. and i think it leads to terrible diseases and things like that. >> a writer for rolling stone magazine stumbled across the recording earlier this year. it had been gathering dust for the past three decades, and you

can hear excerpts of the interview with john and yoko tonight at 9:00 on f.m. 103.7 the band. and visit ktvu.com and click on the right now section for more. the ktvu news at 6:00 is next.

it is a slick drive home tonight. the neighborhoods getting hit by the rain right now. in a split second he was gone. the bystanders who rushed to help a 18-month-old boy. it's like ripping the heart out of a community. >> parents and teachers are fighting tonight to keep an elementary school open. just how much is needed to save the campus. complete bay area news coverage starts right now. this is channel 2 news at 6:00. good evening. >> frank is off tonight. a toddler is in serious condition at this hour after falling into a fountain at an upscale san francisco hotel. it happened in an instant as the child apparently wandered away from his mother and nanny triggering panic and a desperate search. david stephenson joins u