good morning, the increasingly desperate effort to prevent a meltdown at an earthquake damaged nuclear power plant in japan. we have a live report from japan next. pretty good rain yesterday afternoon evening especially in the north bay.

are we about done with this system now? what we can expect in the next couple of days. a majority university is telling its exchange students to get out of japan. it's all ahead on the ktvu morning news. good morning, thank you for joining us it's wednesday march 16th i'm pam cook. >> and i'm dave clark. let's check your weather and traffic. here is steve. >> thank you very much. about an inch to two inches plus in the north bay yesterday. what is left now is a lot of cloud cover. highs today will be cooler. we have upper 50s and low 60s. about another half hour we will have cloudy skies. expect cooler temperatures today and we will talk about the upcoming weekend. here is sal. steve, on the roads it's a little bit wet. as you mixed the south -- as you mentioned the south bay is

not getting much rain. it is pretty quiet there. on the sunol grade we have people that is slowing down. let's go back to the desk. thank you. in japan there is an increasingly desperate effort to prevent a meltdown at a power plant. helicopters are flying in. they are dumping water on the nuclear reactors to cool them down. up to 70% of the plants fuel rods may have been damaged. special testing centers are now set up near the plant. they are testing people for possible radiation exposure. we do have a crew in japan. ktvu jana katsuyama joins us on the phone from tokyo with more on how people there are coping. tokyo is such a global business leader effects a lot of things we have been talking about product shortages, plants closing. what is going on in tokyo today? >> reporter: pam, we have moved a little bit south of tokyo to

honada airport where we have talked to some people that said they are just leaving. you mentioned earlier before you came to me about the nuclear power plant and the situation there. definitely a place for concern and there are people who are leaving the country foreigners who are leaving the country and you know part of it is that it's something you can't see, smell, or detect the radiation. certainly a lot of people do have confidence in the japanese government they will be able to contain the radiation and situation. but then some of this is just unknown territory. there are people that evacuating the city evacuating from the country. mostly foreigners. to your point about the business it has taken its toll with rolling blackouts a lot of companies have stopped their production because they can't continue. and even here at the airport

there are signs about elevators they don't have running because of the power conservation efforts. >> how about the people that are in those areas that are really devastated by the earthquake and mostly the tsunami. are they able? how are the roads, the gas, the shelters? i know it's very cold temperatures there now in japan. are they able to get more of these people out of the towns and into safer places? >> you know, pam, i did mention the cold earlier in the newscast. the one thing i just saw a short while ago on one of the foreign reports there was some countries that were sending buses in to get people out of sendai. so you know it's a concern. they are i understand opening up some roads reopening roads for the first time later today and into tomorrow. it is about 10:04 on wednesday evening. tomorrow morning you know that could be a good sign for some

people to get back and through on some of the smaller roads. some of the major ones they do have reopened. >> we talked a lot about some of the california students imparticular collecting or actually leaving the country. we see students collecting donations. what do you see about that story? >> this is video that we took just hours ago when we were going through the train station. it's in central tokyo. we saw these people with these boxes handmade signs and boxes they had made. we talked to one young man who was a high school student who said he was so moved by the pictures we have been seeing that he felt he had to do something. and so he went with his friends to the station they are collecting for the japanese red cross and they said their hearts are just going out to all of the people that are suffering so much.

>> it's nice. yeah. we can't even imagine it here really. we are looking at the pictures. i'm sure being there and seeing all of that it's just incredible. we will continue to update that story. jana katsuyama live near tokyo there. thank you for that update. our time now 6:05 and search and rescue crews are still out there combing throughout rebel of japanese cities and towns. the number of dead and missing more than 11,000. nearly 3700 are confirmed dead. up to 450,000 people live in temporary shelters. the crisis in japan is having a direct impact on many california college students studying overseas. ktvu kraig debro tells us about the urgent memo going out to csu students today. >> reporter: it was issued late last night. the chancellor of the california state university

says he wants all students in the system to come back to america and for the system not to send anymore students to japan. the number one school in the system for placing students in study abroad programs. the office of international programs is located near campus dorms. international students are ahoused up aboard. the chancellor says he wants students home from japan. reid says extra people can have problems for water shortage. unlike the damage done by the earthquake and tsunami waters, radio active gas isn't limited to the area of release. san francisco state has 175 students in foreign programs. sonoma state comes in second with 80 students studying

aboard. right now, officials at the school are coordinating their return back to america. we are trying to reach some of those officials this morning. reporting live from sf state kraig debro. bay area scientists are also closely watching the ridduation levels in jay -- radiation levels in japan. the national atmospheric release advisory center is based at the lawrence advisory board. they can't to check wind changes and rain patterns to see if that changes. stay with us on the continuing coverage of the crisis in japan. we will bring you the latest. pg&e says it can't find some key safety documents. later today state regulators could decide to whether to

impose a fine in the facility. they handed over 150 pages of records on its natural gas pipelines to the state public utilities commission. but pg&e's president says 8% of those records are missing. state regulators say that lack of information could lead to several scenarios. >> if those records don't exist we will order further testing. we will order taking pipelines out of service and pipeline replacement. pg&e's president says the utility will voluntarily perform field tests on the lines without records. also replace 150 miles of pipes that are similar in age to the pipe that blew up in san bruno. regulators ordered them to produce those records after discovering problems with their paper work. time now is 6:09. we want to go back over to sal. the good news is people try top gauge whether what the weather will be like later. whether they try to take public transportation. they say it will not be too

bad. right now the traffic sected by the wet weather. if you don't like driving this morning in the wet weather you might want to consider using public transportation. we have a new crash in the livermore valley it's westbound 580 at greenville road. it's near vasoco road as well. the traffic is slow coming in on the altamont pass. one car went down the embankment in that crash. another car is up against the center divide. you can see the red sensors a lot of stop and go traffic coming in from the altamont pass. if you are driving in dublin however westbound 580 looks good. this morning let's take a lock at the bay bridge toll plaza. that traffic is okay coming up to the pay gates. if you are driving to the oakland airport on interstate 880 so far so good from hayward and also downtown oakland. let's go to steve. sal, thank you sir. cool air is beginning to move in. ukiah is 49. maybe a little snow mix there.

maybe up near the geysers and cob. very light showers happening there. nothing now in the north bay. 51 santa rosa. what about the east bay? yeah a little bit. a couple little guys hanging on. this system is falling aparking lot rapidly. finally a few light scattered showers toward lost los gatos. skyline 280 and half-moon bay. this system is pretty much done. we are waiting for the next one which will be here on friday. that doesn't mean we are completely done. with cool air coming in that will fire up showers. clouds, sun breezy today. cooler a little cooler today. partly cloudy. lingering showers tomorrow. this cold air is starting to work its way in. friday and saturday much colder. moderate rain friday into

saturday. there is not much left of the system. some of the colder air is starting to filter in. we will get partly cloudy eyes and breaks. 24 hour rain totals. that wasn't too bad. santa rosa almost an inch and a half. san francisco .43. not a lot. and then also stretching right there temperatures 51 to 54 and 55. it's pretty close. in the next couple of hours the cool air will work its way down. as the jet stream drops south it will send this plume south. fog out there too. light morning rain. cooler still scattered showers are possible and then that system drops in on friday. that will give us a rainy and colder weekend. some morning showers. and giving way to partly cloudy skies. still the breeze though. upper 50s now and low 60s. not the 70-degree temperatures

with cloudy skies. thursday partly cloudy. cooler again. friday here comes the system that brings more rain in. we will carry that into your week. time now 6:12. concerns about nuclear energy are really intensifying in this country and in just an hour from now, lawmakers in washington say they will do something about it. we have a story you have to see. a dog that survived theet quake and tsunami stayed by the side of his injured friend.

>> good morning, to you. welcome back. our time is 6:15. as japanese officials work desperately to try to prevent a nuclear meltdown. regulators in washington are facing tough questions about safety reactors here in the u.s.. alison burns reports about a hearing that about to start in about 15 minutes. alison. >> reporter: dave, some members of congress say the nuclear crisis in japan is a wakeup call for the potential of a similar disaster here. energy secretary steven chew and the head of the regulatory commission will be testifying about it tomorrow. he told lawmakers yesterday the 104 reactors in the u.s. are protected. he said the u.s. is committed to nuclear power and will learn from the disaster in japan.

>> are there going to be lessons learned? i'm sure there will be. we look back at our reactors and we up our game. every time we do this, we march on to ever increasing safety. >> reporter: some members of congress are not satisfied with his assurances. they point to maps like this that show nuclear reactors in the area. yellow dots indicate seismic activity here. eight of the reactors are on the west coast. they are worried they do not have the appropriate protections especially if they lose power for long periods of time. reporting live from washington, d.c. alison burns ktvu channel 2 news. european energy ministers have agreed to conduct stress tests on 143 nuclear plants following the crisis in japan. at the meeting they are saying the stress tests will determine whether the nuclear plants could with stand earthquakes and other emergencies. this is a story you just have to see.

a japanese television news crew has captured another heartwarming scene from the disaster zone. take a look at this video. it is incredible. it shows this brave and loyal dog survived the earthquake and tsunami now standing by the side of an injured pet. take a look the dog is sitting up. it appears the dog is trying to get the television crew to come help his injured friend. both dogs are okay. the japanese television station not surprisingly flooded with calls from people wanting to adopt those dogs. now remember you can always go to the channel 2 website ktvu.com for the very latest on the crisis in japan and how it's effecting us here in the bay area. time now 6:18 the u.s. senate will have to vote on a second stopgap spending bill before friday to prevent a

shutdown. they decided to fund the government for three more weeks. it's the sixth since the fiscal year began october 1st it's the second one this month. the california state senate and the u.s. assembly both have votes scheduled today on governor brown's budget and tax extension plan. the government needs to support two republicans from each chamber to reach the two-thirds he needs to approve a special election in june. but so far, there is no indications how this vote will go. >> the question is will the republicans vote to give the people the right to vote or will they thumb their nose at the voters of california. >> the five year proposed extension of taxes would help fund schools. yesterday layoff notices went out to 19,000 school employees including hundreds of right here in the bay area. there is also a new field poll that shows the majority of california voters supporting the budget plan if it does get

on the ballot. they find that 58% would vote for it. 39% say they would vote no. 3% say they have no opinion at all. 6:19 is the time. sal always has opinions. doesn't always get to share them. how is traffic? >> if you're in the newsroom sometimes you might hear them. traffic is not all bad. there is slow traffic on highway 4. you will see a little bit of slow traffic on 680 as well already forming. but still not a huge commute as you drive in contra costa county. but it's getting there. this is the time it begins to change and you see more people hitting the roads. also the westbound bay bridge same thing goes here. they switched on the metering lights. before long we will see a little bit of a backup here. it's not raining right now but steve has been mentioning the rain has been moving through most of the bay area with the exception of the south bay.

you will see a lot of wet roads and a shower or two for the morning commute. let's move along and take a look at northbound 101. you can tell it's a little windy. we backed our camera off a little bit. it's on top of a tall building in san francisco and a little shaky up there as you can tell. let's go to steve. i taught you too well. most of the shower activity is winding down. the system is about ready to fall apart and say goodbye. the wind has picked up the higher elevations on the coast. the system is plowing through it. it went by late last night and early this morning. it looks good. it doesn't look like much now. there is a band stretching from about the foster city redwood shore side on san mateo bridge back over to the peninsula. after that there is not a lot left. look for a decrease in the shower activity. the cool air will work its way in. 40s as you move farther north. clouds a few showers.

cooler windy in the hills. as this jet stream drops south it will take this moisture over us. upper 50s and 60s. we are not done with the rain. you can get a few showers in the next day or two. a stronger system drops in on friday. that will continue a rainy pattern through the weekend. pam and dave. in the last half hour the federal government released two reports that are now having an effect on the stock markets this morning. new construction of homes and apartments fell to the second lowest level on record. indications are there won't be a quick rebound since building permits are down more than 8% to their lowest level ever. also in this morning wholesale prices jumped 1.6% last month. mostly due to higher food and fuel costs. food prices rose 3.9%. that is the biggest gain in 36

years. most of that because of nearly 50% increases for the prices of vegetables although meat and dairy prices up. of course the higher gas is also driving food prices up once again. and now looking at wall street opening in 8 minutes lower opening because of those reports. time now 6:22. because of japan's quake and tsunami some manufactures will close their factories for another week. that effects shoppers thousandsover miles away include -- thousands of miles away including us.

good morning, right now bay area bridges a little bit wet on the san mateo bridge. you can see it there. it's wet on all the bridges. steve says the wet weather is moving through. you may want to allow yourself extra time crossing bridges and bay area causeways. thank you. time now 6:26. seven east bay sewage districts are about to receive an upgrade. the federal court okayed a settlement between the epa and seven districts. they were accused of violating

the clean water act. sewage districts in oakland, berkeley, and five other communities will have to upgrade key facilities that spewed millions of gallons of sewage into san francisco bay. the effects of the japanese earthquake in tsunami are being felt in u.s. stores and car dealerships. japanese production lines that closed on monday mean that people waiting for electronics may not be getting them on time and auto makers in asia, north america are scaling back because they cannot get the parts they need to build cars and trucks. >> because of the demand on subaru we are running less than a 30-day supply. >> there are some models of cars that shoppers shouldn't expect to see anymore of right away. they include most lexus models

and toyota scion. time now 6:27 a new look at how the bay area was impacted by that tsunami. check out the dramatic video of the very moment it was racing across the bay in marin county.

welcome back to the morning news. there is the opening bell live. it looks like it would be a pretty decent day following a bit of a rise in jay opinion but we -- japan but we got disappointing news of home sale prices. we will keep watching. >> we will say good morning, any way. we thank you for joining us here on the ktvu morning news. it's the middle of the week wednesday, march 16th i'm dave clark. >> and i'm pam cook. time now is 6:30. in japan there is a change

in the weather and it's making life more difficult for survivors. it's now snowing in the northeast part of the country. at this point, nearly 450,000 people are living in temporary shelters. time now 6:30. the california state university system is closing up shop in japan. kraig debro is telling us about an urgent memo sent to csu students studying in japan. >> reporter: good morning, dave. the california state university chancellor is ordering all students studying in japan to come back to america. we suspect most of the students will get this order this morning. some have already gotten it. san francisco state is the number one school for placing students in studying abroad programs. the order went out yesterday. charles reid issued the order. he wants students to come back

because safety is the number one concern. the international students are housed at a dormitory near the center of campus. charles reid is telling campuses to stop sending students to japan. reid says even though some students are not in the area directly effected by the earthquake or tsunami, he believes their presence will be an additional burden on infrastructure. he also says the university will help fa till tear the -- facilitate a return. we spoke to someone a few moments ago. she has a friend in japan and when she received word she was not happy about it. was she cries because she didn't want to come back or the situation over there? >> i'm pretty sure it was both of those. >> reporter: reid also says radio active releases are another reason. and the u.s. state department travel alert for japan makes a

similar point and urges citizens not to travel to japan unless necessary. we will continue to talk to officials out here. we are learning here in the bay area that one of the bay area's best known geographical landmarks would help protect most sea level communities from a tsunami. the golden gate straight would manage the amount of water that pours into the bay area. a new report shows low lying communities along the bay might billion flooded. the force of a tsunami would dispate as it crosses the shallow waters of the bay. new video this morning. speaking of the bay of a tsunami serge that rolled across the bay in marin county. someone posted this video of

richardson bay. it was taken around 9:45 friday morning. no damage was reported in marin county but you can see the large wave rippling across the water surface. the tsunami of course was unleashed by the devastating 9.0 earthquake in japan. to prepare for any major disaster, santa clara county is launching a new alert system. people can sign up for regional mass notification system by sending a text to the number 32075. now you have to include the word alert sc along with your street name and zip code. you can also sign up for that service online and we have posted that link on our website ktvu.com. time now 6:34. at this hour a richmond church is staging a sit in. they are fighting what they call a fraudulent eviction. tara moriarty is live in richmond right now where we understand sheriffs deputies are expected to arrive at any

time. good morning, tara. >> reporter: good morning we are here at bible ridge. this could be a very violent neighborhood. if we step inside we can see there is 20 parishioners here right now. they are having a pow wow. to evict these people and church leaders say they are willing to be arrested in order to defend what is theirs. joining me live is pastor sydney keys. tell me why you are being kicked out. >> we have been forcely pulled out because of a predatory loan. what is sad it's not just happening in the community to residential homeowners but you can see now it's happening also to the churches. and we're going to stand for what we have been teaching and talking about. we will stand for the children and teen moms today.

we all let them know that we mean to stand for all what we have taught for and our slogan is life which is love, involvement, family, and education. >> thank you for joining me this morning. i know you have a lot of things to discuss. if you can come back here with me. i will show you what is at stake here. this back here is actually a nursery. this is for teen moms and their children. they offer a lot of services here at the church. church leaders saithes is what is at stake. there is a lot more to the facility. it's not just a church. there are some educational facilities right here that they say are used for people teen moms and children that have been abused. this provides a great service to the community. church officials they tried to work out the faulty loan with

the bank. we will talk with the bank later this morning to get its side of the story. for now they are braces themselves for potential arrests. we are live here in richmond i'm tara moriarty. we just checked this morning and there is no information available on the condition of a little boy hit by a car outside a school in antioch. witnesses say the car hit the boy outside of marsh elementary school yesterday afternoon. the child's name has not been released. heavy rain at the time of the accident forced the medical hill top tore to fly -- helicopter to fly that boy to the hospital. a high school student that survived a leap from the golden gate bridge is still recovering at a golden gate hospital. he faces jail time now and a big fine for last weeks stunt. investigators say the teenager

jumped from the bridge during a school field trip just for the thrill of it. prosecutors are still trying to decide whether to follow the chp recommendation and charge hip. the roads are wet. sal is checking on our commute. >> dave and pam i have a little bit of good news. the last time i spoke to you we had a problem on 580 at vasco road. they have cleared the accident. last time we had really slow traffic coming in off the altamont pass. chp got that crash out of the way. they lifted the alert that special traffic alert that was there. traffic is improving coming into livermore. that is great news. a little slowing on 580. if you are driving between hayward and union city the traffic is moderate. of course it's a little wet out there. let's go to one of our live cameras. i want to show you how wet the san mateo bridge is. some of the rain we talked about is beginning to move through the bay area.

aswe mentioned it's mostly north of the san mateo bridge. i will explain that. looking at the bay bridge though, it doesn't seem like it's raining there now. certainly it will be wet for your commute. one of the things steve did say, steve you said this afternoons commute might be better off? >> it does look better. there could be scattered showers. what is going on right now, we are on the last stages of this. i will show you a computer generated model. clouds, sun, breezy showers today cooler. not as warm. especially toward santa clara valley. 70 balmy degrees. very strong cold low moves right off the coast and maybe even over northern california. and parks it there for probably most of the weekend. so turning colder with moderate rain. system that is going by right now though there is not much left of it. we had this moisture over us yesterday. the front really stalled out in

the north bay. but it is now as it drops south the cold air will move in. you can see the back edge to it. doesn't mean we are completely done with the rain. there is light rain. see how it falls apart. still from mount dyeable and back -- diablo and down to san mateo bridge. and stretching over toward the dumbarton and back over toward the peninsula you can see a little band right there. we are done. after that it's done. it's very light. the rainfall is really food parts of the knot bay. st. helena 1.68. santa rosa 1.41. san francisco .44. san jose only picked up .13. but cazadero 2.60. oakland .50. and sfo had .26.

low 50s and mid 50s. the cool air is working its way in. this system will slide south. it will give a hit and miss pattern the next day and a half. some clouds and some showers. but most of the system is out here. i want to draw your tension to is after the afternoon. that is 4:00 and 6:00. we are done. that doesn't mean there could be a rogue shower or two. watch what happens tomorrow. now we are okay in the morning but then by thursday evening here comes a little ban inned a a -- in advance of the system. that will give us a wet and colder friday. snow up in the mountains and lowering snow levels. clouds and showers. mainly kind of windy and cooler for many today. temperatures in the upper 50s now or low to mid 60s at best. temperatures are coming down and they will continue that theme over the next couple of days. semi break wednesday and thursday.

cold and showery on the weekend. all right thank you. 6:41 is the time. racing for their lives with tsunami at their heels. new terrifying video shows just how close some people in japan came to getting washed away. the california public utilities commission says pg&e came up short. what that means and why the utility faces a hefty fine today. if you are driving in marin county, so far so good. there are other areas not doing quite as well.

good morning, to you. welcome back. in japan a desperate effort continues to find some way to cool down nuclear reactors. you can see helicopters are dropping waters on the reactors. sea water is also being pumped in. the chancellor is telling csu students that are studying in japan come on home. the same urgent memo urged them to stop sending students to japan. both the state assembly and state senate will be voting on governor brown's budget and tax

extension plan. pg&e says some of the key documents they were ordered to hand over are missing. ktvu jade hernandez tells us the utility now faces even more scrutiny from state regulators. jade. >> reporter: good morning, already this morning we spoke to one man that lives in this neighborhood and says pg&e should be held accountable for their pipeline testing. what he's referring to the utility filed this 154 page record. record that was supposed to show it -- what we have learned now is that despite pouring over more than a million documents pg&e still came up short. they ordered pg&e to come up with the documents. pg&e came up 8% short than what

was required. they will decide whether today to slap pg&e with a fine. the utility president has since said it will voluntarily field the test lines without record and replace pipe similar in age that erupted last year. they could still force pg&e to cut pressure in its pipes by 20% if they feel it's not operating safely. the company's president did not answer any questions yesterday. he did release a statement that said while we make good progress we still need more. >> the community of san bruno is always in our thoughts. it is important that we prove through our actions that we are worthy of the trust and confidence of our 15 million customers. >> reporter: they have avoided running water tests on pipelines because of the cost.

the company has not said how much the announce test line piping will run. it has argued the companies customers may have to pay for some of it. coming up what we expect from the head of the public utilities commission today. time now 6:47. we have new video to show you this morning of people scrambling to get away from that tsunami in japan. watch this. people in miagie the city closest to the quake's epicenter look at the bottom of the screen. people are running, looking for a place to hide as that water filled with debris heads their way. now roughly about 8,000 people are still reported missing. we are also hearing that same tsunami caused an estimated $4 million damage to fort bragg. northern california city was pounded with waves up to six feet. it wiped out docks and damaged boats. today, pieces of the broken

piers are about to removed. divers will be called in to evaluate the damage done to the harbor. some big names in hollywood are calling on president obama to take a stand on same sex marriage. talk show host ellen degeneres are a few that signed an opener letter to the president. first the letter thanks the obama administration for deciding to no longer defend the sex of marriage act. it goes on to ask the president to take the next step and legalize same sex marriage. the letter is sponsored by the advocacy group freedom to marry. in utah the governor has signed new immigration legislation that has drawn protest from people on both sides of the immigration debate. one of the bills requires police to check the immigration status of anyone stopped for a felony or serious demeanor. another bill creates a guest worker program for undocumented immigrants in the state. other provisions allow

businesses to recruit mexican workers and u.s. citizens to sponsor foreign residents who want to work or study in utah. time now 6:49. in the delta there is a new attempt to control an evasive weed there. it's called a jerry denza. it's a real problem in discovery bay and near bethel island. it's almost impossible to get rid of. the department of boating and water ways will apply a pesticide to slow down its growth. it's harmless to people an animals. residents should avoid using delta water for this landscaping during this water treatment. a new mexico woman is suing the restaurant chain chilis. she allegedly found a two inch needle in her food last july. she claims she is more upset because she says the restaurant chain took more than 50 days to

have the needle test the. by the way there is no official comment yet from the chilis restaurant chain about that lawsuit. right now we want to go back over to sal to check in on the roads as the commute gets busier. >> all right as we starts in contra costa county i want to thank one of my tweeters that says commuters taking nasha valley road to concord the signal is out. there is a backup this morning. that can be a tough road if something goes wrong for the people that like to stay off this highway. highway 4 or 680. there is a lot of things. your normal morning commute may be kind of screwed up by that signal light that is out. as we pan over to the right you can see highway 4 bay point getting into concord. we are seeing slow traffic heading out to highway 242.

let's move out to highway 4. there is a crash. the crash is going to be effecting traffic. it's actually now reported just east of camino pablo. traffic will be slowing down. if you take 24 all of a sudden we have a problem on the way to oakland. this morning speaking of oakland westbound bay bridge toll plaza backed up. let's go to steve. thank you. north bay it looks like things are calming down. there is still light rain east bay back toward the peninsula. cloudy, mostly cloudy skies. the cool air is working its way in. now we are waiting for the next system. there will be off and on showers. as we get this cooler air coming in. it wouldn't take much. so we do have an active pattern. we talked about that. it will only get a little bit more stronger as we head toward the weekend. as a very cold system moves in. morning rain light rain.

tomorrow partly cloudy. maybe some more rain coming in. the main system is due on friday and it will carry into the weekend colder kind of a rainy pattern as we go into the weekend. the system that is going over us now is on its last. it's rounding third and heading home. there is dry air that is sliding its way in. now from the east bay about from antioch and clayton and concord back over toward san ma roan a little line forming right there. back over to fremont. just went over to the dumbarton bridge. but there is not a lot left of this system. what is there is light. cazadero 2.60. petaluma over an inch of rain. vallejo picked up three quarters of an inch. sfo redwood city quarter of an

inch. 51-55. everyone is lumped into the same ballpark. the moisture loom -- the moisture plume is heading south. cloudy fog and light rain will give way to possibility of showers. we will carry that into thursday and we await that pattern on friday. today combination of light rain in the morning. 50s and low 60s on the temperatures. and the five-day no real break here. more rain moves in thursday evening. it goes right into the weekend. time now 6:54. we know hawaii suffered a lot of damage from the japanese tsunami. some of the damage you can see like right there. why officials say they are not close to knowing the full extent of the damage.

welcome back to the morning news. prices of food and gas of course going up. latest report out this morning confirms that's taking stocks down this morning. live look at the big board. the dow is off about 54 points to 11, 801. all right time now 6:57. let's touch base with sal and see what is happening in the commute. >> we will do a little preview of what's coming up. highway 24 is a trouble spot.

24 there is a crash. look at how bad it's getting. a quick forecast now from steve. sal, thank you. light drizzle and light rain. stretching from the east bay and the southern end of the peninsula. there is not a lot to this system but still some drizzle. we will hold on to that. we'll have more coming up. thank you, steve. also coming up here orange mornings on 2 the crisis in japan is having a direct impact on many college students here in california. the emperor speaks out. this is a rare interview.