before. it looks like a massive parking garage but in san francisco, the second larger reservoir and dry as a bone. and drained of 60 million gallons of water. we got an inclusive tour of the reservoir that delivers 25% of the city's water and hasn't been emptied in at least 60 years. >> we are fortunate, we have two basins, the south one is active and functional. >> reporter: university mound was built in 1865 and it survived the big earthquakes but officials say it is long overdue for an upgrade. >> we have done patching but the concrete was not in good shape. >> reporter: a nearly two year, $45 million seismic retrofit is coming to a close. engineers added these concrete pillars and these stainless steel supports. flexible joints mean the roofs should band without collapsing.

in a few weeks the equipment will be gone and these new 30- foot high columns will be under water for decades. >> when it is full of water it is different and calm and vereen. >> reporter: engineers are set to flood the facility in april and it will take a few month to test it. engineers use propane and food grade grease to keep toxic materials from the workplace. in egypt today officials say three people were kill in street battles between opposition protesters and supporters of president mubarak. 600 others have been injured. here is what it looked in cairo 30 minutes ago at four in the morning. there are plenty of people in the square waiting for the dawn of a new day.

earlier mubarak supporters were in the crowd on horses and camels using whips and the proteases say the attacks were orchestrated by the mubarak regime. technology from one bay area high tech company is helping egyptians get the message out and maureen has more about the phone service that gives egyptians a voice even if the government cuts off the internet. >> reporter: google acquired this company and used its technology to launch the service and it turns voice mails into voice messages, you call three numbers and including the 650 number and here is what you hear. the message in arabic say raise your voice egyptians and prompts how to record a twit. >> this is an e-mail from a friend of mine's. >> reporter: linna from palo

alto returned from egypt days ago. >> the internet is back on and i am receiving e-mails from my friends at the demonstration and they are scare the. >> reporter: the researcher studies political reform while attending a conference in cairo, the demonstration started. she uses the ap on her i phone as the live footage and says at one point last week she was getting more information and images off of twitter and facebook. >> i had this on and i was shocked that they were not reporting live from the protest so people went on line and ordered the images that the broadcasts were not having. >> i think they are watching this closely and silicon is neverrous about being painted as anti-government. >> google and twitter have

helped, tech analyst rob enderly says there are risks including egypt that may be considered as political. university of california officials say more than 30 members of the uc community have been safely evacuated from egypt to spain. expected back home in the next few days, it includes 19 students that were going to study at the american university in cairo. an 11 member archaeology team from ucla that was on a dig 200 miles south of cairo was also evacuated. an elementary school principal is being mourned after a shooting. the police chief says it is unclear whether there was a dispute between the janitor and the principal. no students were injured but

one may have witnessed the shooting. a spike strip stopped a chase in oakland that began on the bay bridge, a couple of hours ago, the chap says the driver may have been under the influence of drugs. it started at 12:30 when another driver said he was sideswiped by the suspect's car heading eastbound on the bay bridge. the people of that sideswiped car followed until the chase came to an end. >> i had my aunt call 911 and we were talking to the dispatcher and telling the dispatcher where he was going and what was happening. >> a spoke man could face charges of hit and run and driving under the influence. no one was hurt. the brother of san francisco giant's player nate sher hold pleaded not guilty --

guilty to charges of driving under the influence. a pedestrian was hit in danville last august in injuring four people. the businessman from fisherman's whar facing shooting charges is in the hospital tonight. 5 6-year-old waroo was supposed to be arraigned today but that was post posed because of observations takes place. a jury is now deliberating over molestation charges of napa state hospital, 63-year- old claude falk faces 35 counts of child molestation involving his stepson when the boy was 9 years old. he is denying any abuse.

the trial is in long beach where the abuse allegedly occurred. research shows the government is cracking down on illegal immigrants more than ever before but the step up in enforcement may not be deterring them. we have more from san jose with what this means from bay area communities. robert. >> reporter: well, julie waiting through the citizenship process is a goal of many people that come through immigration centers but the new studies indicate that many immigrants reject the service. the service group is planning a citizenship day in april just before the annual may 1st demonstration where thousands including undocumented immigrants march for immigration reform. the agency is encouraged from a new study from the hispanic center shows the illegal immigrant population holding study despite what are state and federal anti immigration policies.

>> 11.1 or 11.2 million population, this is show that immigrants are a part of the country and society and we need to recognize their contributions. >> reporter: santa clara like san francisco is a sanctuary for illegal immigrant. there is a study that indicates that immigrants are not being scared off. >> some of these regulations are striking fear and separating children from family and creating problems. >> reporter: but some anti illegal immigrants activist point out that a study by a syracuse group shows felony prosecutions rose 259% since december. >> it is not a matter of people coming here for the social system or for work or whatever but we have got some real security issues that are becoming more and more serious all of the time. >> reporter: one thing both sides seem to agree, political

gridlock as well as world events appear to be pushing reform down the government's priority list. live in san jose, robert handa. channel 2 news. the state department of education is praising the san jose school district for its efforts in bilingual education. the district received recognition for its part of a program called the seal of by literacy. it honors students and graduate high school in proficiency in english and one other language. last year the san jose school district graduated 77 students that met the requirements by studying spanish. employees at the shipyard will have to wait another day before their project starts. job seekers waited the arrival of the cargo ship solemn and turpin. it was postponed from the bay and the first ship dry docked

there to be scraped. >> there will be a lot of men and woman operating canadas. >> once everything gets going they will employ as many as 120 people, 3000 people have already applied. we have new details about california's timeline for moving from paper checks to debit cards for state benefits. we reported the state had begun sending out cards to disability and paid family leave. now starting in june the state will begin sending debit cards to the one million people receiving unemployment insurance. it hopes to finish the transition by the fall. if one bay area lawmaker gets his way some traffic tickets will go up to help fun research for spinal cord injuries. senator bob la kowki adding three dollars to each moving violation, it will go to a spinal cord research fund. 40% of all spinal cord injuries in the state occur during car

crashes. we have new in sight into where jobs are create the and lost in the bay area. a new report from the labor department shows that 86 positions were add in the san jose area and about 29 jobs were loss in the bay area. that is the second largest drop for a metro area in the country. on on wall street stocks were flat and finished just above 12,000 at 12,042. the nasdaq dropped about a point-and-a-half to 2049. a monster storm blocked travel across the nation. the options that travelers have tonight. a new security being tested by the tsa would turn the new pictures they take now into cartoons and will provide the same security.

that story is still ahead. when the verizon customers can get their hands on the apple iphone. we will tell what you cities will be the coolest coming up.

starting at midnight verizon users can place their orders for a new iphone, the first sales of the verizon compatible iphone 4. the sales will start on february 9th and the phones will be available in stores on february 10th. in the wake of widespread complaints, airport officials are trying to make the scenes less revealing.

tom vacar is live from okay land international airport where a lot of people like the idea of the scanners. >> reporter: indeed, far better to be a cartoon character than a playboy pinup. ever since the scanners went into service last fall, the ts ahas been under ridicule. simply put. >> it shows too much. i don't think that's cool at all. >> i'm not particularly concerned about it but a lot of people are and women and they are concerned about their privacy. >> reporter: the software contains a cartoon figure with yellow areas telling the screeners to check the places highlighted, if there is no threat a green appears and the test is under test in las vegas and to confirm that security is not being compromised and if it is worthy, upgrading airports would be a software change.

>> if it works, why not. >> and they can make it less revealing and still determine if you have a weapon let's go that way and even the way it is now i would rather have the security. >> it does look like the cartoon representation and would give them the information to diagnose if there is a threat or not. we should be able to go with that. >> it strikes the proper balance between safety and privacy. >> we are already being screened. i think it's nice to have a little less invasive screening. an expert says that the system can be switched back to the more revealing scan if whenever they find substantial suspicions and new threats an increased alerts. there was a standstill in

illinois, residents worked to dig out their cars. in chicago the storm was the 3rd biggest on record. at san francisco international every flight to chicago was canceled. the severe weather has interrupted travel throughout the nation. 13,000 flights have been canceled in the last two days. frustrating but there's nothing you can do about it. a spokesman says it will take several days to get things back to normal. and ktvu.com has up to the minute information, you will find the information on delays at major airports just click on airport weather under the weather tab. there's possible good news for the folks getting hammered by those winter storms in the midwest and northeast. at least one supposed weather expert says spring is going to come early, punxsutawney phil

made its entrance and did not see his shadow so that means an early spring. >> around here many places in the bay area, a lot of sunshine today and warm weather, it felt nice for a change. bill joins us with more on the forecast. bill. yes, temperatures above the average and the fog is not there and the wind has died down but it is kind of breezy and it will be chilly overnight. here are the temperatures. 59 in red wood city and we got winds like this, a northeast wind and that's dried out the atmosphere at the surface and that's why the fog is not an issue right now. and it's also allowed temperatures to warm up above the average near 70 degrees in sanna rossa and 65 in concord and the highs for thursday like this, a little bit warmer and warmer over the weekend. high pressure in charge, the high pressure giving us offshore winds, enough to keep us from having a spare the air

night and also enough to keep us from having the fog form in the valley. so breezy conditions like yesterday and they were going maybe 45 or 50. and today they were down to 30 miles per hour. overnight lows go to freezing in santa rossa and that's the cold spot in napa. 44 in fairfield and a cool night and another beautiful day. we need rain, we are still 100% of average in most places. i wish we were getting rain but we're not, so enjoy the current weather. it looks like right now we won't see rain until somewhere in that second week of february, february 14th or 15th. it looks dry for a while. the computer model keeps the clouds offshore. a little bit of fog tries to show up along the coast and friday point ray, not much of a big deal but saturday the warmest day on the weekend with

temperatures in the 70s. friday slightly warmer and saturday and sunday warmer as well. again this weekend lit feel like april. not going to feel like february. 66 tomorrow in san jose and 64 in morgan hill and forget the fog and forget the coastal fog and the valley fog and get used to cool overnight lows and daytime highs. there you have it, enjoy, because when the rain starts as you know in october and november and december it won't stop and right now we are dry for the next five days. >> that's just remarkable five days. democrats in sacramento introduced four pieces of legislation and stimulating california's green tech industry. supporters say it will speed up the production of renewable energy products. those opposed say restrictions should be lifted on all california businesses. >> why don't you stop the red tape on all jobs? why not just green jobs, i mean

the green jobs are being subsidized with higher energy costs so we are paying for it. >> the green tech bills would also fund high schools to teach students had to work in clean energy industries and require electric companies to get a third of the power from renewable resource. 200 san francisco property owners can convert their buildings into condos. the annual lottery was held this morning as residents raleighed outside to protest the 2 law that limits the properties selected. it hurts middle class homeowners especially in this tough economy. >> they are losing their homes because of inability to finance and the people are just hanging on. more than 2300 people entered the lottery. zero tolerance, that's the new rules that cyclists will face heading in to the tour of

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before the tour, all riders will be subject to urine, blood test or both. the tour of california will begin in south lake tahoe on may 15th. joe is filling in this evening, the giants getting experience. >> everybody is getting on board. the giants have an experienced mind to their decision makers, lou pinella has been hired as special assistant. he has a long time relationship with giant's general manager brian sabien, he will do most of his work from his home in florida. there was a national championship trophy presented in the bay area in addition to the giants trophy which has been making the rounds. the army national guard honored this high school for its perfect season championship and number one position in the final national rankings, the head coach and team captains received the awards. >> to be awarded number one

team in the country, that was a high honor. you don't get into that position often and it is difficult to get it and win. my hats off to these guys, they earned it and worked for it and beat a lot of good teams this year. they did it in style. it was a great year. this was also a national letter of in ten for high school players. kevin anderson and james videoders headed to stanford and cj anderson and quarterback kyle bam headed to cal. the at kin son twins are notre dame bound and marcus peters to washington and carlisle will attend usc and ricky lloyd to southern miss and dyland wind will attend oregon state. and that's it. a long list. that's true. that's part of it.

lots more. congratulations to them. very good. >> absolutely. thank you, jeff. good. crush time for uc berkeley with a decision expected on the fate of a handful of sports programs and coming up at 7 on tv 36, berkeley's bitter rival is stepping up to the plate now to help raise money. why stanford is helping cal in 30 minutes on tv 36 and that's our report for now. i'm frank summervil and i'm julie haener. have a great night.