are expected to continue. it's a wet one over san francisco. you can see stretching through daly staid city and if i head to the hills we still have low snowfalling over the sierra where snow levels have been reported down to about 3,000 feet. and the sierra have picked up snows to 3,000 feet. we're going to back up and show you the systems responsible for this. it continues to track back to the bay area. this is where the coldest unstable air lies and that explains why we've been so active this afternoon. it's going to move through by late tonight. this is going to finally wind down and will be out of here by tomorrow. i'll be tracking it for you between now and then. we'll show you how much rain is falling between now and then and we'll have what you can expect for your wednesday. never good when it's raining on your evening commute. this is 880 in oakland. the lanes on the right are headed toward downtown oakland and the lanes on the left headed to the oakland coliseum and it is packed.

the commute direction coming into the east bay, those are the lanes on the left. you can see it's really slow going. heading over to the peninsula doesn't look that bad at least at this hour. >> we've been getting reports of heavy rain, lightning and thunder from many people in marin county coming into our newsroom today. so of course we sent out our own noelle walker to san rafael. you're still getting soaked. >> we had these cells where it was dumping on us, and now we're in a steady rain for the last couple of minutes. we've seen sun, clouds, rain. we've heard reports of thunder and lightning like you mentioned. we even saw a little bit of hail. what you saw depending on what you say and where you were. it was almost like someone had a faucet up there and they were turning it on and off throughout the day.

we even had a brief hailstorm that we did experience. that came with a noticeable temperature drop. but that pea sized hail it just melted as soon as it hit the pavement. we talked to a couple of people with differing opinions about our spring showers. >> yeah, the rain is great. i'm waiting for more thunder. >> we don't get it too much. >> mother earth needs a shower too you know. >> i'm tired of it already. >> we haven't had that much. >> i know but when you had to drive to santa rosa it's not a good idea. it stayed dry all day and i get on the freeway and it's going to pour. >> right now you're looking at the san rafael bridge as people go to san rafael county. it is a soggy commute. so if you're about to jump in the car to head home or go out for the evening be careful out there on the roads. lots of spray and give yourself extra lee time. if you have your windshield wipers on you're supposed to

have your head lights on as well. there's a brief break in the clouds, and it has a green ting to it. we'll explain that to you at 6:00. noelle walker. the weather also brought hail in the sierra. some people said some of the hail was bigger, close to the size of a golf ball. here's another picture showing how the hail accumulated on the ground. it covered lawns, rooftops and cars but thankfully no damage was reported. people rushing to clean up from last night's storm had to do more of it today as more rain came down. in berkeley a large sicoy was struck sending a big chunk of it over a home. tonight a crane was brought in to remove that mess. john fowler live in san

francisco with the wet clean up today, john. >> reporter: that's right, this was an exciting day actually. we had lots of rain, lots of lightning and thunder. i want to show you the snarl this has caused for the commute. this is -- this is the embarcadero. that's howward street, one way to get to the bay bridge and you can see, the streets here are clogged. everyone though the rain has eased off just a bit now. all around the bay where we were. the storm hit occasionally with very surprising strength. heavy rain and briefly pea sized hail. cell this afternoon along ocean beach. big waves pounded the sand here. and in pacifica where for a

time radar showed tornadic spinning offshore. no funnel cloud formed. and crews were removing what was left of an exploded redwood tree in berkeley. lightning blew apart the 80- foot tree severely damaging this home. we canvassed the street and residents reported few problems today. if you're expecting any commuters from downtown san francisco, you can expect some delays for all of them. we talked to several people today who said that although there was some inconvenience, this rain was needed for the drought. >> and we will continue to track this storm as it develops and changes throughout the

hour. we will bring you any reports of damage or traffic back ups as we get them. and now to the latest on the arrest of senator yee. >> reporter: the fbi has made it clear this is an ongoing investigation and today it became apparent they're still looking at possible evidence. nearly a week after it rained at leland yee's capital office, fbi agents raided another office associated with the suspended state senator who's charged with wire fraud and arms trafficking. >> we told the fbi, we let them know that we found this office and we thought that we wanted to make sure they had all the information that they needed. >> reporter: a yee assistant shares the office with other

senate staff that are not part of the investigation. the fbi was focused on paper work and a computer used by yee's assistant. >> we spent a couple of hours looking through the office, looking through the computer. >> reporter: today appeared in federal court in san francisco on a $250,000 bond hearing. he is considered a central character in the case. his charges range from drugs and arms trafficking to a murder for hire. >> there is no murder, there is no crime, it's all in the mind of an fbi agents. >> they went to keith and kept up that pretense to get him in. >> reporter: they repeated the theme raised yesterday by yee's attorney. that the fbi investigation

which netted two dozen suspects was a waste of taxpayers money. >> it succeeded to some attempt in creating i want to call it a sort of hysteria about what is this all about. >> reporter: leland yee's attorney declined comment about this latest raid. he is due back in court next tuesday presumably to answer a not guilty plea. live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. a runner who went missing along a trail in placer county is thanking his rescuers. they found robert rogue this afternoon in the michigan bluff trail area. that's near the small community of forest hill. he was brought back into a base camp talking and smiling and was then loaded into an ambulance. the search began sunday after he got separated from a running group. he spent two nights in the wilderness. a snowstorm also hit the area yesterday. officials say he complained about cold hands but other than that he appeared to be in good

shape. ♪ >> continuing coverage now of the missing malaysian plane. family members of the jet passengers gathered to hear news. new today malaysian officials are now saying they got the communication from the cockpit of flight 370 wrong and they're now not everyone sure who was talking. >> a copy of the transcript from flight 370 confirms no one in the cockpit ever said all right good night. instead the final voice transmission sent at 1:19 it was good night malaysian 370. for weeks, malayisan said all right good night was the final

thing said by the pilot. >> we got the last completion from the cockpit. >> reporter: someone saying good day, good morning. then during the flight's take off at 12:42 a.m. someone said departure malaysian 370. another voice transmission, malaysian 370 maintaining flight level. then the final words were recorded good night malaysian 370. they're treating the plane's sharp left turn as a criminal act carried out by one of the pilots or someone else on board. despite that assertion that a skilled aviator diverted the plane, officials have found no motive. a bay area woman claims she

was struck by lightning and escaped unscathed. what she secrets for protecting her and the surprising family history she learned later. this s.w.a.t. team sting may not be real but the stakes of this operation are still high. how it could shape the future of a struggling police force. >> and i'm using storm tracker 2 to determine how long this storm will last.

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the search for a missing snow boarder is growing more urgent as time passes. 25-year-old abraham figelstein is from the bay area. he was last seen yesterday afternoon in the castle peak area across interstate 80 near boreal mountain resort. the sheriff deputy says the missing man was hiking with his dad. he told his father he was going to snow board to the bottom but never made it off the mountain.

his dad said his son is physically fit and was carrying the necessary equipment to hopefully survive the cold. another search this one for a missing 93-year-old man has now come to an end. his car was found today down an embankment down the north bay. he was last seen february 26th after being seen with his daughter. he drove off headed for his home in san rafael. today after more than a month his car was found off highway 1 just north of molinas which is nowhere near where he lived. ktvu's tom vacar near the scene now. tom who found the car? >> reporter: it was an inspector doing the most simple of inspections. what he did was simply look down. and this is the situation that developed. at mid-morning a caltrans road condition inspector walking on the shoulder of highway 1 discovered a car down a steep hill 100 to 200 feet down the southbound lane.

initial reports indicate the air bags had been deployed and the car was open with no one inside. the inspector called the chp with the car's information and was soon matched up with the san rafael missing person's report of 93-year-old robert davis who had been missing since the ends of february. responders then found a body which was brought up the road and transferred to the coroner's van. >> they were successful in finding remains. they will work on identify which we do not have at this time. >> reporter: now that probably means the victim was able to get out of the car. at least was out of the car at the time and may have indeed died of exposure. that will certainly be discovered during the autopsy. everyone as we speak right now. a huge wrecker is trying to pull the car up, up the side of the road. that will probably take place in the next few hours. tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news.

tonight a second student in pleasant hill says she was groped on her way to school. and police say today's case is nearly identical to the one we told you about yesterday. john sasaki reports and show us a photo the student took before the suspect took off. >> reporter: a quiet spot, but what happened here at 7:30 this morning has shaken the community. >> it's very concerning. i certainly hope the district is taking it seriously. it would be nice to see police presence in the morning and in the evening when students get out. >> reporter: a girl walking to school was groped by someone. the girl was walking along harriett drive. she turned around and he was running away. but she was quick enough to take out her cell phone and take a picture of him. you can see the man is wearing a bright blue jacket. >> i can't tell you whether it's one person or not. he said two because this is the

second such incident this week as we reported last night. the same thing happened yesterday morning in this east bay mud trail near pleasant hill middle school. >> it's scary. very scary. that's the reason why i pick up my daughter. i don't let anyone else pick up my daughter. >> reporter: the message said in part please use this as an opportunity to speak to your child about being safe to and from school. it went on to say kids should walk in groups and report any incident to the school. >> you're grateful the child got away safely. you're grateful that's all that it was. >> john sasaki reporting there. the descriptions were slightly different in the two incidents. one was a white male. the other was described as hispanic. police want to hear from anyone with information about the incident or the attackers. a plan to create a registry

of private surveillance cameras is moving forward. council member sam lacardo proposeed the idea after home surveillance videos helped lead to the arrest of a suspected serial arsonist. the data base would be voluntary and backers say it will save police valuable time because they will already know who has a surveillance camera and in the event of a crime they won't have to go door to door asking people. the city council's rules committee will take up the idea tomorrow afternoon. >> we've been showing you rain, hail and right now our meteorologist rosemary orozco is tracking lightning strikes happening over the area. >> that will be the case as we move through the evening hours slowly tapering off. by tomorrow the system will finally by out of way. you can see it is very widespread out there at this hour: and it's going to continue as we move through the evening hours. i want to shift in a little closer. along highway 4 as well.

so between areas like pittsburg and bay point. we have good rainfalling at this hour. rainfall rates about .4 of an inch per hour. so very dicey along this roadway. and highway i should say at this hour. but it is very widespread. moderate to even heavy rain reported over the parts of the east bay. along 580, 680, 24, 880 you call it. we have rain everywhere at this hour. shifting into the south bay we have some light rain over san jose. a moderate rain campbell, sunny vale shifting off along the peninsula. along the coast as well as the peninsula just very widespread. highway101 as well as 280. a very messy commute to san francisco. our bridges are wet, into the north bay looks like just a few pockets here of dry weather. but most of us wet over the north bay as well. i'm going to turn off the radar and show you the center of circulation. there it is. right there. and you can see, the counter clock wise motion continuing to send those bands our way. that's why it's been on and off

again and very active at times. so this system is going to continue to work its way toward the bay area. it will be shifting to the south overnight. and by tomorrow it's out of here. rainfall totals from yesterday, more than an inch in many places. and we could see 2-inches before it's all said and done. so that is actually some good news. let's time this out. here we are with the steady rain. by 7:00 it begins to wind down just a little bit. as we get into the evening hours we will remain with the possibility of scattered showers and embedded thunderstorms by tomorrow morning. it's finally shifting out of here. maybe a few scattered showers especially in the southern edge of the bay area. tomorrow morning when we get out the door it's going to be chilly. upper 30s in areas like santa rosa, napa, 40s around the bay. 42 especially in morgan hill. your extended forecast here. so we'll leave in just a possibility, maybe a few showers tomorrow morning. that will be it. we're going to dry out. it'll be a cool day but we'll be dry wednesday as well as thursday. we get another chance of rain

on friday. but if you're looking for the weekend, we're mostly mild. >> it's strange how february felt like april and april now is feeling a lot like february. >> yes. breaking news now as expected. federal charges have just been filed against pacific gas and electric over the deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno in september of 2010. you will remember that explosion killed eight people, injured dozens of others and leveled the crest more neighborhood in san bruno. we've been reported on these charges saying that they were expected within the last five days or so. we got a statement from pg & e and i will read part of it for you. pg & e says it pledges to stay focused on building the safest system in the country. and they will demonstrate the

criminal charges are unfounded. general motors under fire. families say the company didn't fix a problem soon enough. >> i closed my eyes, and think about how he died and it's not fair. >> reporter: the documents unveiled today that show the that the cost of the part to fix the problem would be less than a cup of coffee. >> and now to our julie haener. >> a twitter feed spreading hurtful gossip to 200 followers. the cyber bullying so serious that police went into bay area schools to find the students responsible. >> plus -- >> rainy conditions in the santa cruz mountains the on highway 17 caused a scary accident. >> and this isn't the only weather related problem our team storm coverage continues. these stories and more coming up new at 6:00. tillamook sharp cheddar is naturally-aged for nine months

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in washington, d.c. today the relatives of people killed in car accidents accuse general motors of valuing profits over human lives. the company ceo met with those family members before testifying before congress today. 14 deaths right now are linked to ignition switch defects going back more than a decade. gm now says the switch failure cut power to air bags so they

won't deploy during crashings. at today's hearings, documents showed that the piece needed to the fix that switch problem would have cost just 57-cents. sherry sharkey's son michael was killed while he was driving a chevy cobalt. >> i will never forget that 4:30 in the morning knock from two troopers. i just, i want justice. he died at the scene, they will never be able to give me my son back. >> reporter: gm is now recalled 2.6 million cars but a recall of older model cars was only ordered last week. the ceo of general motors who took the job in january apologized today and promised to deliver answers. >> sitting here today i cannot tell you why it took so long for the defect to be announced for this program. but i can tell you we will find out. >> gm is protected from liability under the terms of its bankruptcy back in 2009. but the company says it has now hired the same attorney who

handled the 9/11 victims fund to look at ways to compensate the families. minute by minute changes in the forecast today. from sunny to stormy, rain to hail. we continue to follow the storm and update you on who will be hit the hardest. a woman in berkeley says she was hit by lightning. >> i felt what felt like a lightbulb went off. >> what she says in the moments before that lightning and what she says saved her life. now n i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing really good around ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪ ♪ of living off the taste of the air ♪ ♪ turn around, barry ♪ finally, i have a manly chocolatey snack ♪ ♪ and fiber so my wife won't give me any more flack ♪ ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ ♪

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tonight we're tracking a storm that is not letting up. strong bands are swinging into the parts of the bay area bringing in heavy rain and in some cases thunder. and in san francisco today, people tried to stay dry as the rain was pouring down. we want to bring in rosemary now. rosemary you were saying earlier we haven't gotten to the center of the storm, that's still offshore. >> that's right. that's where the most unstable air. the coldest air lies and that's why we're seeing such active air. it will finally taper off. and i do see an end in sight. it's not going to come this afternoon. giving you a look at the widespread rain and as gasia

mentioned embedded thunderstorms. we do have moderate rain and lightning popping up along highway 4 right over the bay area. you have good rainfalling over you. if i shift a little bit in areas around cordelia. 680 that stretch between benetia and cordelia. we have wet roads over the central bay and into the south bay. our bridges are wet picking up moderate rain over areas along the south bay. we shift in along the palo alto area. you can see moderate rainfalling there. so sliding back showing you the rain continues over the bay area. this is going to move through. once the steady band moves through we will be left with scattered showers and the possibility of thunderstorms for your evening hours before we finally begin to dry out. i'll show you the futurecast model, show you when i expect to see that drier weather.

the final snow pack survey of the season shows our rain only amounted to a drop in the bucket. the totals are one of the lowest recorded since officials began collecting the data more than 70 years ago. >> we had a depth of snow of 23.7. water con -- content of 8.1. surveyors from the department of water resours says the snow pack is far below normal as the spring melt approaches. today's measurement was critical, the measurement confirmed the grim drought diagnosis for the coming months. >> we're obviously not looking all that promising for our spring and summer certainly in terms of recovering on the reservoir storage. which is around 3/4 average. >> the snow pack has been called california's frozen

reservoir. the run off feeds help quench the water needs of farms and cities. it also helps to determine how much water we'll have for the rest of the spring and the summer. we have breaking news now. a powerful earthquake has just hit the pacific ocean off of the northern region of chile. authorities have ordered an evacuation of coastal areas in case of a tsunami. right now there are no immediate reports of injuries or damage. the u.s. geological survey says the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 8.0. it was so strong it can also be felt in the neighboring countries of bolivia and peru. we're working to get more information as we get it we will bring it to you. the man who bought the one winning lottery ticket worth $425 million has finally come forward. he did so today. he bought the ticket at a gas station in milpitas this past february. allie rasmus spoke with the man's spokesperson about what he's going to do with all that men and why it took him so long to can come forward. >> reporter: we know the

winners name is raymond buckston. we know he lives some where in northern california, we don't know his exact age but he considers himself to be a senior citizen. this photo says it all. the power ball winner wants to keep a low profile. he's using the check to cover up his face and has a t-shirt that says left of the jedi. he realized he had the winning ticket he immediately resigned from his job. he plans to travel, spend time with his family and use the bulk of his winnings to start a charitable foundation focused on child hunger and education. buckston waited a month and half to claim his prize because he wanted to be prepared. this man really did his home work. one of the first things he did was go online to the california lottery website to get a winners handbook online. it comes in five different

languages. it suggests that winners interview five different attorneys before hiring one. the same process for cpa and it also suggests that winners change their cell phone numbers and change their personal voice mails before they claim their prize. because obviously their phones would be ringing off the hook. we don't know if buckston changed his number. we know he has an attorney and he plans on enjoying his winnings. allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. now to our continuing drought coverage. all the rain we're getting is not enough to stop water restrictions from beginning in some bay area communities. this is the first day of water rationing in fremont, newark. there's a ban on refilling swimming pools and using spray heads without an automatic shut off. customers with multiple violations could have their water shut off. we're finding out more today about a deadly shooting

in the small east bay community of tar hills. the shooting happened just before 3:00 p.m. yesterday at a home on cornelious drive in unincorporated contra costa county. officials found the suspect in the garage and they say he died at the scene. detectives have been trying to identify a suspect and a motive today. ktvu's patti lee will have an update in about 30 minutes. today opening statements got in the way on the latest patent fight between apple and samsung. patents were part of the android software package developed by google engineers. evidence will show -- apple says evidence will show that samsung copied the software. deputies are turning to public and asking for their

help. take a look at these two photos of a man who robbed a bank yesterday afternoon. the san mateo county sheriff's office says he told the teller he had a gun and demanded money. he got away with several hundred dollars. the chances of it happening to you are just one in 700,000. >> it sounded like a bomb exploding next to me. >> reporter: a berkeley woman says she was hit by lightning. the unusual side effect she says she tasted. >> and the new tool to recruit talent. >> and a popular service that rents housing has announced it's changing its policies. why it will cost you more to use air bnb.

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the death toll has risen once again following that deadly mud slide in washington state. authorities now say the count has gone from 24 to 27 with 19 of those victims positively identified. almost two dozen others are still missing. workers say dry weather has helped them in their muddy search for human remains but they say every step they take is dangerous because the soil is contaminated. they are also carefully collecting any personal item s that they can find. like an american flag that may have once flown on a front

porch. the apparent gas explosion leveled three buildings in harlem. today authorities with the transportation board finally left the explosion scene. investigators now plan to further examine sections of the cracked pipe but they say it's still unclear if the broken pipe contributed to the explosion or was caused by it. people who rent space through air bnb will soon pay the city's 18% sales tax. they agreed to collect the tax as an extra charge on bill. last week air bnb told portland oregon it plans to do the same. it could help air bnb avoid any conflicts with regulators if it decide to go public. the new san francisco tax will begin in the summer. police are getting creative you can say to recruit any

talent. but it costs thousands of dollars, who's flipping the bill. and imagine driving with a blindfold on. we took the test to see just how dangerous distracted driving can be. and thunderstorms sweeping over the bay area this afternoon. coming up. we're taking a look at the radar. how much longer it will last and what you can expect in the extended forecast.

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looking live at storm tracker 2 right now lit up in green as these bands of rain move in. we'll get an update from our meteorologist rosemary orozco on the changing situation outside. and ktvu's allie rasmus got an inside look on the production, how it's paid for and what it means for a department that has certainly seen its fair of challenges in the last years. >> reporter: s.w.a.t. teams swarm an empty house with their armed drawn. they weren't responding to a crime. this is a film shoot for the vallejo police department recruitment video. >> we want to be able to reach out to those who are willing to come to valero and make valero police department a destination. >> reporter: the video is scheduled to be finished by the end of april and could hit tv,

radio and even internet. the department is expanding again. and they have to replace the dozens of officers who have retired or left in the past year. >> we have faced some challenges this past year. which is why we felt the need to have a recruiting team. and have an aggressive recruiting campaign. >> since the city of vallejo declared bankruptcy in 2008 it lost almost half of its police force. the department decided to cut pay and reduce officers health care benefits. >> did it effect retirement. somehow it did. although a lot of people who were retired were ready to retire. >> reporter: the starting salary for vallejo police officers between 70 and $90,000 is competitive with other bay area agencies and that this town has other things to offer recruits. >> you're going to experience the whole gammot of police work. this is anything but a sleepy

city. i think that appeals to a lot of candidates. >> reporter: we reached out to the vallejo police officers association but didn't hear back from them. the spot costs $60,000 to make and would be paid for with money from a state grant. allie rasmus, ktvu news. president obama is calling the obama care roll out a success. according to new white house figures more than 7 million people have signed up for coverage. president obama spoke from the rose garden to announce that numbers beat the original projections. the numbers though don't include thousands that have signed up on state exchanges in the final day before the deadline. the white house says the age break down includes enough young healthy people to keep premiums under control. >> i will always work with anyone who's willing to make this law work even better. but the debate over repealing this law is over. the affordable care act is here

to stay. >> republicans still want specifics on just how many young healthy people have signed up. while the white house says it is enough to keep costs under control it has not released any actual numbers to back up that claim. continuing our storm watch coverage now. we're taking a look at what's happening in the coliseum. things are actually looking a little bit better than one would expect. they are definitely moving in both directions. >> now let's move over to the san mateo bridge. you can see that's the commute direction there on the left hand side heading into the east bay. pretty crowded at this hour. you can see the rain there. it's coming down all over the bay area. >> the east bay, south bay, or the peninsula let's go to our meteorologist rosemary orozco. pretty much everybody is getting it. >> everywhere i look it is covered in green and even embedded thunderstorms. continuing to push to the east

as i speak. looking at just the western edge of the valley begining to see that rain. you can see here an overview of what's happening. wet everywhere. the northern edge of sonoma counties. looks like we have a break on the backside here. so we are beginning to see at least a break from this steady rain that will continue to push to the east. move through the central valley and then up the hill to the sierra where it will bring us more snow. giving you a look here, areas like antioch, oakley, brentwood, lightning firing over this area. and the rainfall rates pretty moderate to heavy at times. looks like .3 of an inch an hour has moved through the area. highway4 a messy commute to this afternoon. it doesn't matter what highway you're on. it is likely to be wet. we can take a look over the north bay where the rain is generally light but still coming down. our bridges are wet, from the richmond san rafael, the golden gate, the dumbarton. it's just very widespread. the rain continuing to fall at this hour.

i'm seeing a little bit of rain. right along that area. along that stretch of 580, 880 seeing moderate rain at this time. backing up just a bit. this will move through and we will be left with scattered showers for the evening hours. right now the snow continuing to fall over the sierra. this morning we woke up with snow levels down to about 3,000 feet but it looks lightning right now snow levels hovering around 1,000 feet. so if i show you what's going on offshore, this is the storm we've been tracking. it's been out here for quite some time. but it is slowly working its way closer to the bay area. notice the counter clock wise circulation. you can see how it continues to send the bands our way. everyone behind the steady rain we still have the possibility of showers in our evening forecast as well as the possibility of thunderstorms. by 7:00, 8:00 we're tapering off to scattered showers.

possibility of lightning or thunder in there. takes us all the way into the overnight hours before it finally pushes south. we wake up tomorrow morning with partly cloudy skies and perhaps a few lingering showers over the south bay. it's a chilly day out there. 46 in santa rosa. 48 in walnut creek. 52sfo as we get into the evening hours and overnight we start off tomorrow morning, 38 in santa rosa. so it's going to be a cold one. everyone though we'll be drying out. it's going to be quite chilly out there. 40s around the bay. afternoon highs upper 50s to low 60s. a cool day but a dry day. more sunshine. that will feel good. as we get into the extended forecast. we're dry afternoon wednesday, through afternoon thursday increasing clouds. slight chance of scattered showers coming on friday. but it won't be anything like we've seen over the last couple of days and the weekend looks good. mostly cloudy skies, 60s and 70s. >> just in time. >> you got it. a berkeley woman says she was struck by lightning. >> i couldn't believe it that i

got away with this little bit of shakiness and that's about it. >> the every day object she was holding that she thinks saved her life. >> and what we're working on for 6:00. >> bullied in front of hundreds of students. the twitter account that has spread throughout three districts. and our coverage continues from the north bay to the south bay, and we'll show you the latest spots. that's coming up at 6:00.

would you drive on any bay area roadway blindfolded for five seconds? >> you actually only made it two seconds before you hit anything. >> and people who took the test find out what happened when you text and drive. this is all part of april's national distracted driving awareness month. >> distracted driving affects the lives of drivers, passengers and innocent bystanders. remember, it only takes one text or one phone call to end it all. >> reporter: the average time it takes to read or type a text message is 4.6 seconds. just three seconds of texting while driving at 65 miles per hour is the equivalent of driving the length of a

football field blindfolded. >> first time offenders can face fines of up to 200 to $250 just for one cell phone ticket. that's even, that's only if you're stopped without causing injury or death to someone else. more than 300,000 people were killed in distracted driving related crashes in 2012. oakland police are looking for a man who lured a 6-year- old away from her elementary school and then sexually assaulted her. it happened on friday around 3:15 in the afternoon on east 28th street near bella vista elementary. fortunately the girl was able to get back to the school and tell an adult about the incident. parents say they are surprised to hear about the assault. they also say that the school typically has a good security system. >> they don't really let people in that they don't know. it's a new lock down procedure. i don't know how he was able to either come in on the school or around here. >> the man described as latino between 20 and 25 years old.

he's between 5'6" to 5'10" with an average build and black hair. this is important, he may have a tattoo of a horse face on his left calf. a woman in berkeley claims that she was struck by lightning. ktvu's tom vacar has her story and how it figures into her or your odds of being struck. >> it sounded like a bomb exploding right next to me. >> ellie davis is pretty sure she got hit by lightning yesterday in berkeley. >> i had this unusual metallic taste in my mouth. and i felt like a flashbulb go off. then this orb of light go down my umbrella handle. then i heard a clap of thunder that was the loudest clap of thunder i've ever heard. >> reporter: she says there was some immediate but not long lasting effects on her. >> my umbrella had a plastic handle, my hand started shaking violently. just like this. i didn't have any burns, i

didn't feel anything. like electric jolt or anything like that. >> that could indicate she was in the lightning's considerable electric field without suffering a direct hit. >> i still have that metallic taste in my mouth and it's been 24 hours. >> reporter: in the u.s., your odds of being struck are one in 700,000. about 100 people a year, about 10% of those struck are killed. medical statistics show that 70% suffer serious long term effects including severe burns. permanent brain damage, personality change, or memory loss. >> i couldn't believe it. that i got away with just a little bit of shakiness and that's about it. >> davis says her family told her that her great great great great grandfather was killed by lightning while riding a horse. tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. now at 6:00, a twitter page

dedicated to talking trash about high school students. the nasty rumors that are being spread and who school officials started calling after we showed them the site. >> mother nature is not joking on this april fool's day. the pounding rain, hail and serious impacts of today's storm. >> and a man found dead inside a home in the east bay. the link investigators may have found between the victim and the suspected shooter. heavy rain even hail passes over the bay area today with sunshine breaking through the clouds at times. >> here's a live look at storm tracker 2. another band of rain and possible lightning sweeping through the bay area. rosemary orozco will join us in two minutes with the latest on the changing conditions. good evening i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank somerville.

but first new at 6:00, police and school officials are still trying to figure out who's behind a twitter page filled with gossip from students from several bay area districts. it was inappropriate and graphic and some say the gossip boarded on bullying. and claudine wong tells us what she found out when she started asking questions. >> reporter: we pulled it up and started making some calls. just within the last couple of hours that twitter page was actually taken down after police and school officials got involved. most of what's on this twitter page is inappropriate. with references to sex and rape. the page named ghetto gossip g. those followers appear to be students from high schools in benecia, vallejo and american