. it is raining and we will tell you what to do to compromise the commute. >> will we get more rain or upstream water from the snow. we will tell you why it is raising a lot of questions. the 14-year-old oakland boy accused of killing his older cisterns himself in and the critical decision is expected today. ktvu channel 2 morning news.

sal, you might want to give yourself some get from -- get some extra time, i am pam cook. >> thank you, we do have a little bit of rain here, winter storm warning at 7:00 and we could see more in higher elevations and we are getting a higher lift. milpitas, .08, mountain view .05 and san jose, so far, only

a 10 10th of an inch, napa .06 in san francisco and not much but at least there is a little bit there, and 40s and 50s, there is some cool air on the way. overall, cloudy mornings, cool and breezy pattern and we will take the light rain, whatever we can get and temperatures are getting there and way above and that's low 60s, here is sal. we have the wet roads. steve said, it is not a lot of rain but it is just enough to make the commute slower than you might like to see it and let's take it right there on the left on the screen, you can see it is blocked as you come out of the bay bridge and it looks like they are temporarily

closing the lanes to get these cars out of the way and these are the fender benders and it looks like they are pushing these cars out of way as we speak. let's move along and that's backed up for about a 5 minute delay for some not for fast trackers and some on the bridge itself. and we have a pesky accident, it is not causing a big backup, 101 is getting a backup in the same direction. let's go back to the desk. we are finally getting some rain in the bay area after two months of bone dry weather. be especially careful when heading off to work or school, tara moriarty is watching the rain in walnut strike, kara? room. >> there are a few sprinkles

and they are warning us to take it easy on the roadway especially since this is our first rain in weeks. >> always leave several seconds of space in front because i know there is a lot of grease on the roads that is lifting off the pavements so hopefully everybody can get to work safely. >> they are making sure they are getting to work depending on the conditions and give yourself plenty of time to get  where you need to go. and before you get on the freeway, if you have your windshield wipers on, all morning long, i have been monitoring and keeping you posted from walnut creek, tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 morning news. look at the sierra, it

looks like a winter wonderland and a couple of inches of snow could fall as much as 5,000 feet. there could be up to two feet of snow in higher elevations and we will show you blue canyon. >> i can't wait to see what it looks like in blue canyon. we will have any time of day you can follow steve from the weather team online, and they are focusing on updates and weather. and new information about the cause of a huge fire last month at a metal recycling plant in red wood city. joining us live, they don't think this was 'accident. they believe it was deliberately set although they are still investigating. they have put a number of

safety procedures in place because they don't want another fire happening. it is still early and they need to get his reaction. the fire broke out in a pile of recyclables at 1:00 a.m. and a security guard heard an explosion. it took them hours to get it under control. the techs and the fire department are looking at it from mullet tell cameras in the area. they have combed through evidence and they have not revealed whether there was any person that can help and there was a fire that broke out in november in a different area at the facility but they are notlying that fire to the one in december but because it happened within weeks of each other it raised concerns to

keep three qualified staff members on sight. again i have reached out and up -- reached out andster still waiting to hear -- and they are still waiting to hear. the girl was walking along monterey road. the man got out of his van and walked up to the girl and said, hey, beautiful. when the girl ran away, the suspect got back into his van and drove off. the suspect is indian decent, six feet tall, 180 pounds black hair and brown eyes. he was driving a black work haven't and in the east bay

center, she was half the seen and will gather for a vigil and walk in her memory. she is still missing. the ceremony begins at wells middle school on penn drive. police in dublin have received hundreds of tips since she vanished 25 years ago but there is still no lead in this -- leads in this mysterious case. they are looking being into whether they can set a march march 24's deadline. some say its central intelligence critical. and a sheriff's deputy goes to court today, the charges that officer is facing and it

involves methamphetamine. . is your prides! -- surprise! >> a surprise for a teen stricken with lymphoma and how it led to going to the super bowl. and they are beginning to slow down on the way to concord, we will give you some driving patterns coming up. and rain finally turned to snow, we have some light rain but can we get some more, we have not had much yet.

. house speaker house speaker john boehner will layout their principles for immigration reform. now they passed a sweeping reform last june, the one that would give them a pathway to citizenship and conservative republicans don't like that and in general they support a more step by step approach to immigration reform. meantime senator chuck hagel wants ahmed wali karzai to make a decision about whether u.s. troops can stay in the country after the combat missing ends. they would let them stay in the

past. it is anability to license in him and it is something ahmed wali karzai decided to do in a way he sees fit. >> marine one, president is taking off and this is day two of the post date of the union trip and in milwaukee, he will tour and talk about job training and later today, elvis internationalville tennessee before heading back to the white house. first lady traveling and the -- after the state of the dress at fso. now the first stop will be

a women's round table at 2:00 this afternoon. then a democratic fundraiser where she will be introduced by mayor ed lee and tomorrow, she is scheduled to join mayor pelosi and that is at the fairmont hotel starting at 11:30 in the morning. a bay area girl never got a heart transplant and ended up dying h she and others may not be getting fair consideration. >> they told me we are not going to give jasmine a heart nor can she have the device because of her intellectual disability. >> now jasmine smith had mental disabilities from the time she was a baby but is that why cass

-- jasmine did not get on the list and it's true some doctors have decided not to help certain patients with disabilities. a boy battling stable 4 cancer will be going to the super bowl that. to another man who is also fighting cancer -- thanks to another man who is also fighting cancer. the family bought the tickets when he was in chemo but a family teemed up and found somebody else to go in place. >> it is what they want to really live in the moment. after this weekend, super bowl game he says his family is

grateful for the kindness in sharing that give. >> and our coverage will be going all day long with a kickoff at 3:30. >> we want to go over to sal, it looks like slow moving traffic out there. and we know it is a little wet out there and we may want to add to your traffic times and right near there the east shore freeway, or at powell it was moved from the lanes and no longer causing a big traffic report jam. the metering lights are on and this is about a 20 minute delay in san francisco if you count

the delay on the bridge and southbound near lexington reservoir, there is a new crash. thank you sal, i just herd it rained and about two inches much snow so far, you can e- mail us, and you know it is whack i ier, brentwood .05, oakland as well, i i only saw a trace at fso, concord .07, napa .08 and san francisco .03 and that .03 now gives us .06 for the month and the dryest was 1921 and we need 2 / 10s of an

inch of rain. a clouds and a little bit of rain, not shall but there is cooler air coming in from the north and we are keeping it, also back towards parts of peninsular and santa cruz coastline and santa cruz mountains, east bay and not a lot. we are around 5,000 and blue can't crops it looks like we have a cloudy day, cool air is beginning to work its way in, very mild conditions and after today's system it looks like a cool breezy pattern and i want to fine tune that one. for the sierra, until 7:00

tonight. there could be higher amounts 8,000 feet. a little breezy out of the northwest once the system scoots through, and temperatures near 70s and upper 60s and 70s and we have been so far above on the temperatures and so it makes since we are cooling down and will stay find. it looks like concord and livermore, and getting back to dry. and winter storm warning getting up in the lake tahoe area. of course a ski resort, it is one of our favorites, live in blue canyon to show us all the snow out there, brian?

we have had it 4:00 this morning and about 7,000 feet, and this one is yesterday, hard to plea of the end of january and this is dirt and we finally got a little snow and we use the sign posts and you can see here it is just a few inches and we are pushing it off into the light, you can see just a light snow showers and we are with behalf is expected and we are expecting higher elevations and they are spenting as much as a foot and a half and certainly great news for the industry trying to make a season of it and now getting new snow on top of that.

you will need those chains on interstate 80 and they are changing you up on a the upper point and hopefully that will mean more snow, back to you guys. >> great to see snow there, i tell you. >> 6:21 is the time. a lot of 15 better pointing and it caused a snowstorm earlier this week. and an oscar and how the nomination is being taken back.

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as they were dissigning. and i think it was great that they could keep us calm. >> it happened in wilmington and is the best averagenal song is ending on a -- best original song is ending on a low note. >> they are taking back the oscar nominee and academy members say he used his position to pressure academy members to vote for his song. he won 10 emmy awards for the score to the film and no other song will be nominated in its

place. sheilasheila e.is nominated and she started a non-profit and funds music programs for disadvantaged and abused children. >> music helps us to be someone to do something, i was in gangs, i was not a good kid. >> now the fundraiser will be held next month at the fox theater and the benefits? there will be a red carpetee february and they are available through ticketmaster. they announced 34 8,000 americans, that is up 19,000 from the week before and the

highest level in about six weeks. they are up just a slight bump and along the east coast and they are making more plans the critical decision that could turn this case upside down. and because it is first rain in a long time, there's a little bit but can we get some more, there is a little in the sierra and we will update that.

. they have the seahawks and broncos and john elway, of course former stanford grad, nfl hall of famer, and on the nasdaq, the opening bell live, they are there ringing the bell because they are celebrating with nfl players as well and they have a partnership with rides via that option and we will talk more about business coming up in just a bit. >> we will smile and say good morning to you, thursday january 30th, i am dave clark. >> and i am pam cook, steve, how long will the rain be here?

>> i am wearing an umbrella tie. >> i have been waiting, i even dusted off this morning. >> wewe have a little bit of snow in this area, same for lake tahoe and north star and it long like it will trap and there is hardly any. .0 to milpitas, crocket .05, san jose has the most which is very rare. they have the most rain but they did this time, napa .06, san francisco .03 and that's it. some are trying to move through and we will try to have more for san francisco, right there, parts of the peninsular, dale

lay city, some breaks to the -- daily city, some breaks to the north, same with the east bay but not a lot of it, and they could get a foot, some 40s and 50s, it is posed to move on and a cooler breezy pattern on tap, light rain for this morning put it will not last long. the latest one is southbound on alpine and i will show you that in a moment, first let's look at these pictures, the bay bridge is backed up 20 minutes into the city and 10 minutes into city and another 10 on the span and no major problems if you are driving on the lower deck or

east span getting to the lower deck. we can see the high-rise and the roads are still a little bit slick. we mentioned all pipe road, there is a none injury there and we are not there and tara moriarty is on rain watch. >> that's right. the rain has let up and that was expected, on and off drizzle throughout the morning. >> reporter: you can see in the background, the traffic is getting becked up before north main -- backed up before north main. the rain soaked roads have chp reminding folks to drive slowly and water mixing with rain --

mixes with rain creating slippery conditions. what do you think about it in. >> well slow down give yourself plenty of time and check out the road conditions before you get onto the freeway and a reminder if you have your windshield wipers on, you must also have your head lights on. time now 6:34, they are banning fishing and fibbing is off limit all the way to big siren colluding the creek and the san lorenzo river in santa cruz county.

they are expected to decide today whether or not to charge a 14-year-old boy and they were in oakland last week. brian flores in oakland, with an exclusive interview with the young boy's attorney. yesterday afternoon the boy turned himself in to oakland police. his attorney tells us he continues to deal with many emotions and the charges he now charges he stands a accused and sense that time the boys have been in hiding. he turned himself in am and just hours after that, they spoke exclusively with the attorney on whether they were concerned about his wellbeing. >> they wanted to make sure

obviously they were concerned about his safety and we wanted to make sure he did the right thing and that he did what he wanted to go. he wanted to face him and they will dealing with the loss of and they remain very distraught over recent events and they have started online fundraising for the goal, it is about $10,000 last checked they have raised over $3,000. in oakland brian flores, ktvu channel 2 morning news. hundreds of -- hundreds of police officers came to remember a bart officer killed

in the line of duty. officers came from as far away as boston to attend a solemn procession and an emotion familiar funeral service, and a if i was diana wasserman-rubin doubled and officers say he was a hero. >> he took his job very seriously and that is what made him such a fine person. >> he leaves behind his wife and 6-year-old daughter. he is the first in bart's history to die in the area, said -- the police chief said they did not see the officer

who fired the fatal shot there at the funeral. and janine de la vega joins us live from redwood city, you were there during the fire coverage and there is more on what vexers are saying. they are saying this was or some and the past six years. the fire marshals along with them have been reviewing footage taken from multiple cameras in the area. while they are still investigating an exact cause, they say it is their life that the -- belief that the fire was deliberately set. they reported hearing an

explosion and the stroke traveled to a different area of the facility. because the fires happened within weeks of each other they asked them to keep three qualified staff members on-site 24 hours a day for a two month period. they did this because they didn't want another fire here happening. i have reached out to sims management as well as the fire department and we are wondering if any ever this will be updated, reporting live, ktvu channel 2 morning news. a santa clara officer is arrested for methamphetamine. jaun was arrested monday at his

home. the sheriff's department said he had been renting out rooms to people who partially paid their rent with drugs. they are facing drugs and weapons charges. a 5,000 dollar account and they are toll this happened and the they are ran away and the suspect is described as a tall man, with heavy build and a black mustache. justin bieber is at the police station again, the charges he is now facing in his native country and the growing

decision to kick him out of the u.s. people are excited about the wet weather, will it do anything to help california's drought and what forecasters are saying. right now we are looking at the rain. some areas mayp getting rain and we'll see if there is anymore rain coming in from the northwest. [ sports announcer ] here's another one, alyson dudek.

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. welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news, 6:43 is the time, growing concerns about the drought and many are aware of the rain and we are looking at how much rainfall we are really getting, alex? >> reporter: well not a lot in free month and -- fremont, and still a lot of people are excited to see wet streets and just a tiny bit of rain. for the first time since early december put forecasts says top expect it to make a whole lot

of dips. they are calling for californians to cut water use and there are a lot of water districts asking customers to conserve before mandatory raging takes place. and they are -- rationing takes place. and it may be too little too late. >> i think what we need is -- you know, building reservoirs because all that will do is get the ground wet and keep the grass from dying. >> and a handful of water agencies around the state are in danger of running out of water between the next few months. they are looking at moving pattern to drier areas and the

drought has become such a concern that president barack obama has called governor governor jerry brown -- governor jerry brown to call for federal assistance to support our state . be short lived and only lasting 24 hours but we are still glad to walk up and see a a little bit of drizzle. ktvu channel 2 morning news put you can not steve and we will have more coming up in the weather center. schools and government offices in atlanta georgia are staying closed again today and city leaders are deep offending -- defending their options and many say it was a bad decision

to close government offices and schools all at the same time when the snow started. the result, more than a million drives jammed and they were looking for places like home depot and taco bell. >> the crisis we are talking about is across the region. so if you look at any community across the entire region, there is nobody doing a better job that we are. >> and they are making things a bit uncomfortable, this tweet from the governor is showing a tweet at an award ceremony tuesday night right in the middle of the winter storm crisis. well they made an atlanta

woman. hit the car and a 911 operator found them stopped on the side of the road. >> i walked over to him, and i saw he was on the phone and he said no, actually we are having a baby. >> well, an ambulance came shortly after she gave birth and she is grateful she didn't have to spend the whole night out there on a high way. just looking at him surrendering, he is accused of hitting a limousine driver last month in the back of ahead and he picked up other people on the way to a nightclub when a fight broke out.

they are asking president barack obama to deport him back to his native canada and they are accusing him of reckless behavior and destructiontive behavior and they say he should be kicked out. food morning story, a man reportedly did and said to a 15- year-old girl walking home from school. if you own a tie toyota, you might want a stick around, the defect involving some fabric that could trigger a nationwide recall. and stories of survival, you will dash you probably heard it and those story and

more coming up. right now it is 6:49 let's get another look at traffic this morning. still wet roads? >> yes, right now traffic is moving along okay but you willed a little more time because of the wet weather. let's look at highway 24 westbound and westbound 24 taking 10 minutes between oakland and bay bridge toll plaza, a 10 to 15 minute wait, so we are looking at a little more than 12 minutes -- 20 minutes drive time. six 50, not a lot of rain, and chris richardson who is weather savvy said this stinks.

san jose has a 10th of an inch and this is a system which i was not too excited by. vallejo picked up .07. mountain view .05, and san jose you don't think this is very often, napa san francisco. we pulled them. speaking of being san francisco, triest total .02. and we need 2 / 10th to not have the dryest january ever. we have a little bit on shore and there is nothing impress search. and between bodega bay, maybe

petaluma, some light rain, and oakland back over to parts of south san francisco and a little more and on sky line and when you see this light green, east bay and there is much need 2 two four and i know there has been about 6 to 10 inches at ski resorts. cold air is on the way and it will be cool and breeze-year- old. and i see -- breezier. 32 up in lake tahoe and they picked up a third of an inch. the system is scooting through fast and a winter storm warning is coming down, again 2 to 8,

it should cover most locations and a and a i -- breeze city thing going on, oakland brentwood, oakland 58, all meet 58, -- all meet -- alameda 58, 50s and 60s for almost everybody here. at at as -- palo alto as well. could use some rain to parts of the coast and next week we are looking dry. investigators have a clue this may help that cyber attack may have led to another. what makes it so expense

self plus charges facing am some san jose workers.

. welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news, dow jones industrial average is up about 68 points, nasdaq and s&p 500 also okay, facebook stock is now doing well after reporting some pretty good numbers after the closing bell and stocks are up after it

dropped 15%. they will get $2.9 billion from china for a brand-name and the x phone. they paid more than 12 billion for that type of phone and both chinese and u.s. has to approved it. and discount retailers say hackers stole information from a vendor that had access to target's computer systems and finding out could help them present future cyber attacks. reportedly she hid it inside happy meals selling them for $82 instead of kids toys they were filled with heroin. they would stop in the order line, give a special code word

and letting her know they were looking for drugs. a person has died from the flu. there have been 32 flu related deaths and they are not saying the latest about the san francisco victim and is later than 65. they have yet to find out if that person died from the h1n1 flu. and rain finally arrived after two months of record- breaking dry weather and here are some live pictures and we will check in with live team coverage. it caused a major health alert on the peninsular and we are finding out disturbing information about it, stay right here with us.

>> reporter: we're live in walnut creek where the rain is letting up but the traffic isn't. we'll tell you about a reminder that the chp wants you to know about. some rain, not a lot. let's face it. but there's some snow in the sierra nevada. is it one and done or is there any more on the way? >> reporter: we are live in redwood city following up into the investigation into a big fire here at a recycling facility here. we'll teyo