good afternoon. i'm tori campbell. tense moments after the bomb squad was called ann joins us live from the scene where the bomb squad just identified a mystery substance found in a backpack. >> reporter: it all began with a traffic stop this morning of

a motorcycle near monterey and john wilson ray. hay quickly realized he had a warrant for his arrest. the search turned up a gun and this mystery substance. streets were quickly blocked off and students at oak wood school were told the shelter in place. they say they had to take every precaution. >> the community at large could be in danger from a small amount. we went into the protocol measures. >> reporter: the bomb squad was able to test and identify the welders putty pretty quickly. the roads have now been reopened, tori. >> all right. thank you. police at san francisco state looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman

early this morning. police say a man grabbed her just before 1:00 this morning. the man threatened her with a sharp object and groped her before running awyoming she described as a man in his 20s wearing a gray hoodie and blue jeans. after a long dry spell there is finally some rain ton way. mark is live here with what will be felt. >> yeah. the north bay will be picking up the rain. we are tracking multiple systems right on through the weekend. in fact storms out there, right now the main focus is up to the north up along the north coast. all of this activity will be spreading to the south. you can see here on the radar some of those showers approaching towards fort bragg. the rainfall rates will be picking up as we head into friday as that system spreads

from the north to the south. a flood watch posted. up in the north bay we have amounts ranging from 5 to 8 inches. winds will be an issue as well right around 50 miles per hour. already prepped is this, a flash flood watch beginning this evening right on through friday. that is extending towards the county as well. if you're not up in the north bay throughout the day on friday we'll have heavy rainfall spreading to the south. we'll track that rainfall and talk more about that second system that will impact part of your weekend. >> all right. thank you. with the rain on the way residents are already getting ready. tara will show us the rush for sandbags. >> reporter: jack is filling 18 sandbags. with up to 6 inches he want to make sure his offices don't flood. >> when the river overflows it

backs all of the storm drains up. >> reporter: they dumped 22-ton of and this morning. there are a couple of tip to filling sandbags. the first is to grab another person. my photographer will be assisting. first you take the sandbag and put it under the funnel. you get your shovel, sand, drop it through so there's absolutely no mess. in san francisco pg and e have been prepping for possible power outages. >> we had a big dose last month. we seem to have situations where we have really long dry spells and long downpours. >> reporter: while folks don't want the flooding we experienced in mid-december from hills burg to san mateo they are welcoming a healthy

dose of rain. >> i love the rain. issues of race and use of force by police. today attorney general erick holder was taking part on thousand announce situations. sal joins us from the news room to let us know how it felt. >> he is here to discuss how do we build trust between law enforcement and the community. mr. holder met with official ifs many different cities and agencies including barbara lee and alameda county attorney. the meeting at the federal building focused on thousand help rebuild trust between the police, prosecutors and disenfranchised members of the general public. >> our aim is to come up with ways to reduce crime, keep the

american people safe and do so in a way that is consistent with our nations of fairness, justice and equality. >> i think the attorney general here says a lot about the importance of what's happening in alameda and oakland and rich lapped but also bringing a frame work to move this discussion forward. >> reporter: accusations of police brutality and controversial police shootings has put protestors into the streets calling for reform. it has been open after grand jury decisions regarding those cases. the attorney general met with city and safe leaders, students and community members. the second half of the discussion was closed to the media. erick holder will be in san francisco this afternoon. holder announced he was stepping down as attorney

general last fall. that is expected to be replaced when the senate confirms his successor. back to you. >> thank you very much, sal. they found drugs and stolen mail inside a carpal tunnel they stopped benny hernandez last week for speeding. he is accused of being a pump. three women were in the vehicle with himment they searched the vehicle and found drug, stolen medication and stolen mail from addresses in sunnyvale and santa clara. they have arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a little girl inside a 99-cent store. they confirmed that he is the man seen in surveillance images frommic side the store when the attack happened. the girl's mother was in

another aisle at the time. they are expected to tell us more about the suspect later today. lock your car doors and hide your valuables. that's what san jose police are reminding people to do as they have smash and grab car burglars. they investigate that 53 vehicles have been broken into. the area is filled with hotels, gas stations and restaurants. thieves have taken personal belongings including electronics, purses, jewelry and cell phones. >> they are going into these parking lots, looking into the vehicles. if they notice personal property and computers, laptops, things like that, they are smashing the windows, taking the property and fleeing the scene immediately. >> they identified kevin jordan as a suspect. he is part of the organized theft crew. he was seen in the area

yesterday but took off running. san francisco's chinatown following the installation of a pedestrian safety program. the pedestrian enhancement program is an operation at sacramento and stockton streets. it is where scramble lights were activated last week. it's where an 87-year-old woman was killed by a driver as she crossed the street last september. the mayor says it will improve pedestrian safety as merchants prepare for chinese new year. >> everybody has come together for the safety of our residents and the visitors and the shoppers and to celebrate it that we have more of the ability of the small merchandise shop owners to be able to present their goods for the new years before the next new year chinese properly begins. >> it protects pedestrians for fast moving vehicles so they

can have their own green light. yesterday emergency medical technicians stocked them with supplies. joann says they are more efficient. she expects it to improve response times in the city. san francisco also plans to hire 40 more emt's before the end of march. the search is on for robbers who order people to the ground and ran off with jewelry at a local tiffany's store. after a series of devastating fires. deadly fire in the mission district now two san francisco supervise stores are calling for safety laws.

a pair of shootings left two young men dead. a 21-year-old man was shot and killed near glennwood streets about 1:40 p.m. yesterday. just after 10:30 they responded to their -- the names of the victims have not been released and no word on whether any

suspecteds in either shooting. san francisco police are hoping surveillance video will help them find three gunmen who rob add tiffany's jewelry store. police say the robbers wore masks and ordered everyone to get down on the store. one employee was forced to open several jewelry cases for the robbers. so far no word on how much jewelry was stolen but luckily no one was hurt. two supervisors are calling for new safety laws. supervisors david campos and jane kim plan to introduce to streamline the inspection process to make sure large buildings are up to code. this comes after three recent fires including one last week in a mission that left one person dead and more than 50 people homeless. the plan calls for more sprinklers and housing inspectors to be able to site

landlords. the supervisors also want to speed up reconstruction. >> as tragic as the fire is the tragedy is compounded by the fact that it's happening in a housing crisis. as we struggle to deal with finding housing in what is the most expensive real estate market in the country. >> they are offering incentives to property owners who offer reduced rent to those displaced families. they are planning to introduce fire safety in the next two weeks. mission fire fundraiser at 2323 mission street. 10% of the sales will be donated. already donations set up on a go fund me page has raised more

than $111,000. set to consider eliminating a controversial believe exemption that allows parents in california to refuse to vaccinate their children. the current measles outbreak, currently all students must be vaccinated but parents can claim a religious exemption if they don't want to vaccinate their children. it would leave only exemptions for medical reasons. >> i have personally witnessed children suffering lifelong injury or death from vaccine preventable infection. >> currently 13,000 california kindergarten students are not vaccinated with their parents claiming the personal belief exemption. the number has increased in recent years and studies show a related rise in infectious disease.

the director of food and drug administration is stepping down. she is expected to leave at the end of march. in an e-mail she said the decision was not easy and called her time at the agency rewarding. she has overseen health initiatives from tobacco to personalized medicine, disease control and drug approval it. the agency's chief scientist will fill her position until a new commissioner is named. the early earthquake warning system could receive $5 million if president obama's budget proposal is approved. it will let californians know when a quake is about to hit. it will alert them 5 to 60 seconds before shaking starts. it needs $16 million a year to get the system up and running by 2016.

now let's go to mark. >> yeah. multiple storms approaching the bay area. right now we have clouds in place. rain focused up to the north. outside walnut creek mostly cloudy skies. not much in the way of wind. you can see the right portion of your screen there not moving too much. it will be changing for tomorrow. as you can see there is that active flow developing from the pacific and right mow the bay area, the organized rainfall is up here up to our north. it is up towards fort bragg approaching that as well. the chance of a few showers will be today. as far as the wind speeds, winds will definitely pick up tomorrow. we are wind advisories in your friday forecast. winds around 5 to 8 miles per hour. you can't see a check. winds coming in around 5 miles

per hour. another fairly mild afternoon showing you to near 60 degrees for the 12:00 temperatures out there. more neighborhoods for livermore, hayward. i have been talking a lot about the change in the weather pattern. rain is on the way. two storms. first one set for tomorrow and second one will be on sunday. heavy rain and flash flood watch for the north bay. it could be extended based on the timing and how long intense downpours remain planted. a wind advisory for your friday. winds gusting to 50 and possibly 55 miles per hour. coastal hills will take up the most rainfall. you get winds coming in out of the south. it's all you can squeeze out more moisture. rainfall expect takes could be on the order of 8 to 10 inches. santa cruz mountains 7 to 9

inches. you'll see the focus north of the golden gate bridge. we could have amounts through sunday. the other extreme in the south bay rainfall amounts maybe 1 to 2 inches. so big range but the rainfall right on through the weekend. storm one you can see cueing up offshore. storm two will be on sunday. sunday we'll have off and on showers but we'll be between storms. mostly cloudy, the chance of rain and then for tomorrow that heavy rainfall developing first up in the north bay and gradually spreading to the south throughout the afternoon hours. tonight it is showing the chance of rain showers north of the golden gate bridge. look what happens for the friday morning commute. the rainfall increasing. the intense rainfall is scheduled to move in friday afternoon. 1:00 for the yellows and reds showing up. scattered pop up showers into saturday as the next storm

approaches. it will be moving into the region on sunday. forecast highs this afternoon mainly in the mid-to upper 60s approaching 70 degrees. a look ahead, the long awaited rainfall, this will be a heavy rain producer, a strong wind producer as well. off and on showers on saturday. that's probably the betters of the two -- better of the two days. so if you could be tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. if you could stay inside. >> all right. >> all right. thank you. starting today a company that calls itself the uber is expanding in the bay area. the company called ease says it delivers in 15 to 20 minutes. they started making deliveries about six months ago. today it says it is expanding to 34 more cities around the

region. another data breech, this time the largest health insurance company and the million of people who could be victims.

more people sought unemployment but they remain near historic lows. taking a live look. the dow up 183.

nasdaq is up 40 and s&p up 18. personal information of 80 million americans may be at risk of a cyber attack on anthem. it stored information like addresses, birth dates, social security numbers and salary of about 80 million customers and employees including anthem's ceo. it does not include credit card information or medical records. it is the largest private health insurance company in california. the head of sony pictures is stepping down. amy will step down as co- chairman and head of the film studio. hackers began releasing e-mails they linked to north korea for trying to keep them from releasing the interview. she will launch a new production venture. and the head of the federal communications commission says

it should be classified as a public utility. they say it would allow his agency to better regulate the internet. they want to block service providers from slowing down or speeding up web traffic based on what users say. they say it would mean everyone pays fees. they say the neutrality plan would block the rich from getting what they call an internet fast lane. they will vote on a proposal february 26th. starbucks says they want coconut milk. the company tested coconut milk last fall. they say it will start offering coconut milk on february 17th. it will cost you an extra 60- cent. some california farmers say crops have been destroyed because the state is not doing

enough to protect drinking water. they have had to rely more on under ground reservoirs. tonight, why they say what they are doing is perfectly legal and what the state is doing to help hose farmers now -- those farmers now. we are always here for you on ktvu.com. you can follow us on twitter and facebook. have a great day.

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