into monterey region, dry conditions and mild, highs near bait into mid to upper 60s. 70 degrees in hollister, here is the accu-weather forecast. there is going to be a week of changing conditions. there is a slight chance of rain tomorrow afternoon or evening. mainly nornl bay that. chance could expend tend into overnight hours. mild tomorrow, highs into mid to upper 60s, then, wednesday, it will be dry. and looking at thursday a breezy and cool almost winter like day. highs into 50s thursday. and it gets mild over the weekend. sunny, mid, highs into low 70s and mid-70s inland and around the bay monday. so looks like i nice, mild pattern shaiching up. and spring arrived. >> still ahead a ruling a judge made in favor of ross mirkarimi today. >> new at 4:00 the number that can dictate whether you can buy a car and house and an effort to let you know what that number is. we'll be right back here -dad, why e you getting that? -that's my cereal. is there a prize in there? oh, there's prize, all right. is it a robot? no. is it a jet plane? nope. is it a dinosaur? [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] insi

there are light showers and there is east bay, peninsula, there is some steady rain across the region. montereyay, heavier rain developed and this is in salinas now. rainfall indicated between watsonville heading towards salinas. if you're head add cross this area you're going to run into rain at this point that could be briefly heavy. there is 24 hour totals 8-10ths of an inch.

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monterey, the east bay. we allç are part of this together. there was a vision we needed to do better regionalas a region. all of our communities coming together on different projects like the interoperable radio project funded through rf funding. we're getting to know each other as people and in the roles we have a today so that when the big emergency hits, we will be able to pick up the phone and say, i need this or that. working with our partners in fema, nancy and i have had a number of conversations about how we can work together to pull together resources. it is not enough for the federal government to give us the framework or for the state to give us a framework or for the local communities. we need to all be doing it together. one thing that is really exciting to me is i was admitted to the national preparedness leadership institute at harvard. i am part of " for -- i am part of cohort number 8. my project at harvard was working with folks around the country and people at fema as well. we're trying to put together a template for local communities to respond that will hopefully be compl