we will get rain again this week. that is good news. early morning commute will get hit pretty good. it will be wet. san jose, south towards morgan hill. wet roads for the morning commute. here is how the system looks. you see where tom is in this area. clouds are producing drizzle, look up high, see the high clouds, that is where the green is. back in that area. the rain starts moving in in the next few hours. in the north bay, we could see a half inch of rain. here is the beauty, about the morning commute, it will be wet. as you start trying to drive to work thursday morning. the timing, i will see you back here. >> lain is heading our -- rain is heading our way. it will take more than a few drops. ktvu's tom vacar joins us with why we need more than just rain to get back on track. >> reporter: indeed we do. it is good we are having this

rain. every rain delay in this situation means the drought only gets worse. >> reporter: if the state received 150% of its normal percent of the rainfall the drought would be over but for the most important place in the state, the northern sierra where snow pack stores water for the summer run off that is a very tall order. >> we would be making up that deficit in that region so again we are looking at 150% of normal rainfall. 75 plus inches in the northern sierra. >> reporter: it must come steadily or flooding would cause most of it to run off into the ocean. he is skeptical of today's prediction that rain will be below normal till the end of the year for two reasons. one, most of our rain comes between january and april.

and two, long range forecasting is not reliable. >> last year was a flop in my eyes. they did not have the eastern united states with below normal temperatures. >> reporter: one more thing for, many years the central valley and southern underground aquifers have been over drawn causing the ground to sink. that is the same as all the water in the fulsome reservoir every year. recharging those would require a string of wet years. >> 2-5 years i would think for most areas to get them recharged and that would be 2-5 years of normal or above normal rainfall. >> reporter: such a string is unreliable. recharging could make decades. reporting live, tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >> and stay with us on www.ktvu.com, you can learn

more about the efforts to address the drought and make sure you download our news 2, news radio 94.3 and the american red ktvu channel 2 news weather app -- download our ktvu channel 2 news weather app. rescuers pulled two men out of ocean beach this afternoon. a father and his two sons were wading in the safe. the father and one of the sons were swept away. this happened at 3:45 p.m. this afternoon. rescuers were performing cpr on the victims. at this point we don't know what their conditions are. new at 6:00 p.m. they scored a victory in its battle over public access to a beach. the group has been fighting the owner of martin's beach, a billionaire, to let the public back in. today a judge said he must now get a permit for gates and signs he installed at the road leading to the sandy beach.

new scrutiny over a dangerous intersection in sacramento. two pedestrians have been hit in the past 5 days -- excuse me, in san francisco, stockton and sacramento streets. neighbors called the intersection unsafe for years and ktvu's david stevenson is here now with what is being done about it. >> reporter: advocates call this one of the two most dangerous places in china town and now there are plans to make it safer. >> reporter: teachers in san francisco kept a tight grip on children at the intersection. >> every year. >> reporter: it is considered one of the two most dangerous crossing in the neighborhood. >> stockton street accounts for 60% of injuries and fatalities. >> reporter: on saturday a 78- year-old was struck and killed here by a driver making a left

turn towards the tunnel. >> she was somebody who was vigilant about pedestrian safety. >> male pedestrian suffered non- life threatening injuries tuesday at another collision at the intersection. >> you are going up a steep hill on sacramento and making a left, you are making a blind left. >> the hope is to secure funds to create a so-called scramble intersection, similar to this one where all stops are in every direction. they say it is also looking at adding a left turn signal or bulb outs. >> something has to be done, physically, and timing wise to prevent these accidents from happening. >> reporter: san francisco

supervisors memorialized her. he is directing $20,000 in budget funds to study dangerous intersections to focus on this one. david s, ktvu channel 2 news -- david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. b.a.r.t. police released new surveillance video as they work to identify persons of interests in a shooting in june at the b.a.r.t. station. b.a.r.t. police say it was around 8:00 p.m. on june 17 and 15 minutes later shots were fired near the bus zone. no one was hurt. woman is facing felony charges after she drove off with a parking control officer clinging to her car. this is the picture on social media. police say the woman drove for a mile. we are learning new details. ktvu's john sasaki talked with the driver who claims she was scared and that is why she drove off.

>> reporter: this is where police stopped this ride and arrested that driver. no one was hurt and today the driver explained why it happened. >> reporter: she walked into court to face felony charges. it started thursday with a simple parking ticket. >> she was seen taking a ticket from the car parked in front of her. she took that, placed it on her windshield and the employee saw it and walked up to give her a ticket. >> reporter: investigators say she tried to drive away hilting the officer. she drove multiple blocks with the officer still on the car. she hit a motorcyclists and drove off. >> i couldn't believe what i was seeing. >> she took this shocking photo. >> that car went down and turned right from the far left

lane, crossed six lanes of traffic. >> reporter: she acknowledged with a surprising explanation for why. she told me the officer who was giving her a ticket she said he said give him her phone number and maybe the ticket would go away. she said she was scared and tried to get away. >> the woman was standing in the streets, screaming. >> reporter: a spokesman with money said the allegation is inconsistent with the officer's character. >> we take all these allegations seriously. knowing that some may be true and some may be false. >> reporter: she told me yesterday she lost a job as a stylists because of the notoriety of the case. live in san francisco, john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. more police officers will soon be patrolling the streets

in oakland thanks to a new federal grant. mayor jean quan announced the city will receive a $1.8 million grant. the money will pay for 15 new officers over the next three years. the grant comes weeks before a new class of recruits will graduate from the police academy. the addition will bring the police department above 700 officers. >> the police department growing and with that we anticipate we can have better results, reduce crime further, help our response times and make the city safer. >> federal grants were also awarded to san leando and alameda departments. the faa is investigating after a small experimental planes crashed this afternoon. two people on board the plane were hurt and taken to the hospital. one was airlifted. the crash happened at 2:15 p.m., 4 miles west of the napa

airport. pg&e is working to restore power to 45 customers in the area. demonstrators gathered in san francisco today to protest the u.s. bombings in syria. here is a look from news chopper 2 above market and powell streets. activists say the war is justified on the basis of misinformation and fear and they say isis wouldn't exist if the u.s. hadn't toppled the regime of sue domhusane. they are asking all law enforcement officers in the u.s. to be vigilant after the air strikes in syria. at oakland international airport sheriff's deputies are on patrol and travelers said they are saying alert. >> it is on my mind.

>> even though it issued the warning the government said there is no indication of terror plotting inside the united states. public art in private hands, what the city is doing about it coming up next. >> san francisco firefighters want their chief off the job. the meeting with the mayor and what came out of it coming up. female announcer: save up to 35% on a huge selection of clearance mattresses.

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a huge tree fell over this san francisco in the north beach area of san francisco. it hilt a car and a -- hit a scar and a -- car and a truck at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. it snapped off at the base. witnesses heard it crack and saw the tree fall. no one was hurt. mese are asking for the

public's help in -- police are asking for the public's help. they released this photo today. it shows the man standing outside the bank of america on main street. mese say the man force -- police say the man forced a woman to drive to the bank of america around noon yesterday and he demanded she withdrawal money. residents are dur turbed by -- disturbed by what happened. >> we hear of problems at midnight, 2:00 a.m. that sort of thing. >> very surprising that you would be out at your home in broad day light and you think you are most safe and for someone, you know, to hold you at gun point, it is very disturbing. >> police describe the man as white, in his 30s or 40s, 5'10", he was wearing a straw hat, sun glasses and a stocking covering his face. we have an update on a

meeting between san francisco firefighters and the mayor over the leadership that fire department. we are told the meeting just wrapped up. the firefighters union calls it a positive meeting and said the mayor understood their concerns and is taking the concerns into consideration. here is what the union and the fire chief had to say before the meeting. >> we just really have to turn the ship around and we need to find a better direction for the fire department. >> i am confident. and i am solution oriented. >> we just received a copy of a letter outlining the concerns. it urges a change in leadership and asks the mayor to immediately establish a management team comprised of three chief officers to transition from the current administration and over see the daily operations of operations of the fire department till a new chief of the department is appointed. new at 6:00 p.m.

it is art at the'em teem tell the -- at the embarcadero to tell the history of the water front but it has been disappearing for months. they were part of a project to revamp the streets and tonight we are asking where the plaques are going. ktvu's noelle walker is live now in san francisco with more on the thefts and what is being done to stop them. >> reporter: he had to replace dozens of stolen plaques. they are supposed to tell a story of san francisco's water front. if one of them is missing it is like a page ripped out of a book. >> reporter: san francisco's water front is a work out for the census. iconic sights dot the embarcadero. the works of art along the embarcadero aren't all for sale. some of them are missing. you might run past or walk

right on top of some of them without so much as a glance. >> so much going on. i could miss it. >> reporter: like the plaques along the water front or the metal alonglong beaches. now you see them. now you don't. >> so maybe this is metal thieves. >> reporter: just an empty space and cut bolts where a sea creature once lived. >> how do they pry them up from the ground? >> public property goes missing. that is stealing. >> reporter: he says they are aware there are missing pieces along the embarcadero project. some damaged. some stolen. >> some have a recycling value to some. >> reporter: a stolen plaque is worth about 12 bucks. the commission is taking inventory and thinking of new

ways to keep public art from getting into private hands. >> you got to think like a criminal. >> no, like a public space manager. >> reporter: they are learning from experience here along the embarcadero. the star fish are bolted to the ledge with bolts that are 12 feet long. reporting live in san francisco, noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. crews battling the fire that is burning in el dorado county are standing their ground as gusty winds continue to drive the flames. a red flag warning is in effect near pollock pines where the king fire is burning. it has destroyed 70 structures, including a dozen homes. 12,000 more homes are threatened and 2700 people are still under evacuation orders. it began on september 13. so far it burned 93,000 acres and as of tonight it is still

only 38% contained. rain on the way will help the king fire as it helped fires in northern california already. rain spreads south in the next few hours and showers should start to show umin the north bay -- up in the north bay by 10:00 p.m. tonight. i have reports of drizzle in mill valley, light showers in santa rosa. here is how it goes. thursday morning commute will be wet. heaviest rains in the north bay. this is good stuff. petaluma on the south end, half inch. that is good. 4/10 in santa rosa. heavy stuff is up north. 2 ins in eureka area. live camera. radar. coupled here. you can see the showers are still lingering. making their way towards -- this badge edge pushes across

the bay area sometime late, late tonight, early tomorrow morning. wet commute, you can count on that. especially in the north bay. as far south as san jose, morgan hill. this model will update, at 10:00 p.m. we will show you what it says then. wednesday, or tonight, 11:00 p.m., showers showing up. right? here comes the big hit. that is 4:00 a.m. now you have roadways wet. santa rosa is getting a break. half inch of rain at this point. fremont, san jose. 6:00 a.m. morning commute and gone. morning commute will be wet. it will be wet for everybody. it will be wet on the roadways. santa rosa and petaluma may have an easier go because the rain will have ended -- you

know, the heavier stuff. 77 pleasanton. 74 fremont. better air quality. smoke from the king fire that is going to be done away with and we will see a situation where we have great help in the fire zone up there. firefighters are excited about it. they have a red flag warning now but that will be dropped and the rain starts falling in the next four hours. great news for them. >> over the bay area, there was yellow, does that mean intense rain? >> especially the north bay, yeah. if we see a half inch of rain, areas north, the morning commute, 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., wet on the roadways. light. >> thank you. the dodgers try to wrap up the division title tonight in los angeles against the giants. >> while the a's and angels mixed it up this afternoon. mark is up next with sports.

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>> take a look at that. pet they were day at the hospital -- pet therapy day at the hospital. and there was a miniature horse, a fox and parrots. all right. mark is here now with sports. what is with the a's? >> the beat goes on and the angels assert their authority over the a's. big spread between them but the a's still looking like a playoff team although it is looking more and more like they are headed for kansas city. tight defense a necessity. he picks that ball 9-10 times but not today. two run double. gave up three in 7 innings. a's down 5-0. they mount a 4

run 7th 7th. two run double. and the a's fans out there feeling a come back. safe at the plate and they will continue to mount the come back. coco crisp a smack into left field. rbi single. 5-4 but that is as close as they get. john lester couldn't pull out a victory today and he talks about the intensity level he brings to the mound this time of the year. >> i am in there. however many games i get to participate in, the same grind, the same, you know, will to execute each pitch. try to take the same mentality into each and every game. >> a strange night for the giants. the dodgers, this would be bad, could clinch the western division right in front of the giants' face physical they don't beat of all people clayton kershaw.

[ talking at the same time ] [ laughter ] >> wow! >> they have their work cut out for them. highlights at 10:00 p.m. >> hopefully you will have good news. thank you. coming up on the 10:00 p.m. news, it might be raining but we are still in a serious drought and water cops are on patrol. we are riding along with officers as they hand out $500 fines to people who are waisting water. >> thank you for making ktvu channel 2 news your choice for news. we are always here for you on www.ktvu.com and you can follow us on twitter and facebook. >> thank you for joining us tonight. good night. >> night. it makes me happy to go on the computer.

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