i'm bigad shaban.ins me now with a look at the forecast and wet weather coming up. >> seeing mostly cloudy skies over san jose now and san francisco similar view. a few patches of low clouds to start the morning. 56 degrees. dublin, 51 right now. watching high clouds moving in and into san jose you saw earlier, 54 degrees. mostly cloudy, and with those clouds we're going to see temperatures still mild. just not at warm as the last few days. downtown san jose close to 70 later this afternoon. upper 60s, and hour-by-hour, 9:00 to noon and 1:00 slight chance of scattered showers out there with mostly cloudy skies, and then some clearing as we head into the evening. so a few showers possible this weekend. extra cloud cover monday. better bet of rain moving through the bay area. tuesday showers and thursday into friday, stay tuned. could see a couple of inches of rain for coastal mountains late next week. >> tucked away the umbrella, good time to see it. >> the next seven days. >> rob, thanks. [ gunfire ] >

i'm bigad shaban. coming up, why plans to protect this community stalled and could still be years away. >>> welcome back. it's just shy of 7:48 on your saturday morning. you can see the sun shining down over the bay bridge as we look towards san francisco from emeryville. you can even see the transamerica pyramid right there. meteorologist rob mayeda tells us to enjoy a drier day today before a storm comes in tomorrow afternoon. but good news -- spring weather is on the way later this week. >>> it has been one month since the san jose floods. many of those same communities flooded 20 years ago, but plans to better protect the area went nowhere. investigative reporter bigad shaban has been digging in to why. >> reporter: we discovered millions of your tax dollars were spent on designing projects to prevent this very kind of flooding, but those multimillion dollar plans were never used. we investigate why better protection for the area is still years away. eureka is 77 years old. she's lived most of her

here's investigative reporter bigad shaban. >> well, guys, it isn't cheap. we've learned oakland signed a pricey contract with a media relations firm. the deal is valued at up to $90,000 and many of you at home are paying for it. >> in the time of a crisis, why would you have done that? >> reporter: oakland city council man walked with us around the now shuttered ghost ship warehouse. he lives nearby and represents the district, but says he was shocked to learn that oakland hired a private p.r. firm to handle press following the fire. he said he didn't even know the deal existed until we told him. >> i think that was a misappropriation and a misuse of public funds. >> reporter: the city hired the press shop, a media consulting firm based in san francisco. the cost, up to $90,000 for six months of p.r. that bought the city a three-person media team including one executive who gets paid $500 an hour. that's in addition to oakland's full-time media relations staff who are already earning six-figure salaries. should the city be paying someone $500 an hour to man

i'm bigad shaban. coming up we having why plans to protect this community stalled and could still be years away. aicrl >>> microclimate weather alert continues as the bay area gets a soaking today. spring storm hitting the morning commute making for treacherous and probably a long commute as well. >> right. good thing it was generally friday and light this morning. some drivers dealing with adverse conditions here as we take a live look outside now. you see that big circle of yellow and orange right at the bottom of your screen there. we are getting heavier patches of rain. that radar is being aided by the nbc bay area storm ranger. it's parked right now in san jose, it's giving us an exclusive look at the storm. let's turn it over to meteorologist kari hall tracking the radar as well. what are you seeing, kari? >> we're talking about people in the bay area dealing with all of this rain. even just trying to get out of town it is going to be really hard because this is pretty widespread. and even going

investigate ichb reporter bigad shaban finds out why. >> reporter: projects to present this very kindf flooding. but those multimillion dollar plans were never used. now we investigate why better protection for the area is still years away. eureka is 77 years old. and has lived most of her life in this home. you don't recognize it anymore. >> no, absolutely not. i come here just to see that everything is ruined, everything i have to throw into the garbage. suddenly i wonder what i end up homeless. it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: eureka was living in the small home with ten of her relatives, mostly children, when the water came rushing in. >> it was like a river inside. >> reporter: a river? >> yes. >> reporter: eureka is now trying to salvage what is left. >> so gross. >> reporter: while her daughter surveys the family van. >> stinks. >> reporter: that still hasn't dried out. >> i came to see what i was going to take out, but not much really because even the car seats and everything have started growing mold. oh, see, water still dripping out. >> reporter: the floodwaters last month

here's investigative reporter bigad shaban. >> guys, it isn't cheap. we learned oakland signed a pricey contract with a media relation iz firm. the deal is valued at up to $90,000. and many of you at home are paying for it. >> in the time of a crisis, why would you have done that? >> reporter: oakland's city council man walked with us along the now guttered ghost ship warehouse. he lives nearby and represents the district but says he was shocked to learn oakland hired a private p.r. firm to handle press following the fire. he said he didn't even know the deal existed until we told him. >> i think that was a misappropriation and a misuse of public funds. >> reporter: the city hired the press shop, a media consulting firm based in san francisco. the cost, up to $90,000 for six months of p.r. that bought the city a three-person media team, including one executive who gets paid $500 an hour. that's in addition to oakland's full-time media relations staff who are already earning six-figure salaries. >> should the city be paying someone $500 an hour to manag

. >> bigad shaban for us. if you have a comment, call us or send an e-mail. >>> 7:54 now.weeks before a peninsula ice rink set to close, a major coup for those fighting to keep it open. members of the community spent four years rallying for the shopping center in san mateo to reopen its popular ice rink. the owners wanted to use the space for new development and offering the city millions to let them tear it down but suddenly reversed course and announced they're reopening the rink after all. >> it's tremendous. >> incredible. >> this is huge. people coming to me this morning at the gym saying, they can't believe it's going to reopen, and we're just -- i mean, we're ecstatic. you know? looking forward to that day that the rink is finally reopened. >> reporter: the next step, a developer to step forward covering the cost of the reopening of the rink. the hope, skating by the end of the year. >>> coming up, the anticipation is over. "hamilton" is here and we'll tell you the ways people are getting their hands on the hottest ticket in town at the very last minute. sleep is su

on bigad shaban along with rob mayeda. keira and vianey enjoying well-deserved time off this morning and rob, we could have rain pretty soon. >> a nice week of weather we had. temperatures in 70s and 80s. not as warm starting the weekend, but, yes, a chance of seeing a few showers. how about that view? clouds on the increase. 52 now. clo mostly cloudy from the south bay into the north bay. and lunchtime, temperatures upper 60s to near 70 going through the afternoon. but the clouds eventually here on your forecast may bring a chance of isolated showers. especially around the middle part of the day and clearing around 7:00 tonight. the radar, the scans going again this morning. a few returns offshore. a lot of clouds, but not necessarily a lot of rain just yet. the weekend has a couple of these weaker systems coming through followed up by a bigger punch as we get into monday and a stronger storm approaching the second half of next week. the timing and how much rain wee expe we're expecting and the storms coming up in about 1

tonight at 11:00 investigative reporter bigad shaban talks with one law maker who calls the contract a waste of your tax dollars. >> you feel like that taxpayer money could have been better spent is this >> absolutely. there is no way to get around or explain it or justify it. >> oakland says that p.r. firm is helping the city reduce its risk of getting sued, but we discovered it just -- isn't just taxpayers in oakland who are stuck with the bill. we'll explain and tell you why there are parts of the contract that the city just doesn't want you to see. watch our full investigation tonight at 11:00. >>> if you have a tip for our investigative unit give us a call at 888-996-tips or send us an e-mail to the unit at nbcbayarea.com. >> a bridge in big sur is slowly but surely coming down. storms cracked two of the three support beams holding up the fifer canyon bridge but knocking it down is going to take some time because the wrecking ball just seems too small. >> i'm really surprised that it's actually with stood the beating it took this afternoon. but we'll keep beating on it until it'

as we said investigative reporter bigad shaban will have answers. you can watch the full investigation tonight at lefrm. if you have a tip give us a call at 888-996-tips or an e-mail to the unit at nbcbayarea.com. to from tip to tip off now. >> yeah, let's look at the shark tank. in a couple hours it's going to be rocking. the sweet 16 from the ncaa starts today. gonzaga takes on west virginia followed by arizona and xavier. >> you were outside this morning at the s.a.p. center. >> i was. >> inside it is a little more expensive. we were here yesterday as each of the four teams got a one hour practice in. that was open to the public. sam got to watch xavier, gonzaga, play on the hardwood. it was laid over ice that is typically there for the sharks. as we said, that part was free. but tickets to the regional semi final games today and the regional final on saturday are pricey. i checked a little while ago and it was a couple hundred dollars. what did you find? >> earlier this morning there were tickets available. you can see in the nose bleed sections