this breeding farm was created at the behest of fidel castro in 1962.ere in total, separated by age and size. wow. check this out. obviously they can't bite now. but the colours and markings of the skin, are they distinctive? yes, one of the characteristics of the cuban crocodile. one of the things that make them different from the american. wow! one movement from me! when they get bigger, i'll be jumping! cross breeding with the thriving american crocodile is the biggest current threat to the cuban crocs' survival. we are prepared. and this is what makes the cuban crocodile so unique — they jump for their food. all of this is to protect the species of the cuban crocodile. yes. and to stop it being overrun by american crocodiles. do you think there's something symbolic here? i don't know. maybe! my time in cuba is about to end, but sunrise in the morning gives me one more special glimpse of the island's wildlife. this is the biggest swampland in the caribbean. it's also home to 33 kinds of aquatic birds, including one of the most glamorous — the pink fl

. >> he started in art school and served military before officer johnny castro filled join the pilllyhe job in the graphic arts department opened up. addressed many of his interests but also inspired him to honor his fallen fellow officers. >> the one year anniversary sergeant robert wilson was approaching back in march. and, um, he hadn't really had any photos of him because he got promoted to sergeant after he passed away. so i wanted to paint something of him in uniform as a sergeant. >> officer castro made the portrait of sergeant wilson. it was received well by the family and others and almost by accident he had a new mission. >> you make these roughly eight hours on each of them. give them away? >> yeah. i mean, it's something so the family has to remember them by. not even just their husband and wives but maybe their brothers, sisters, sons, daughters they can each have a copy and they can hang it in their own place. they can change the color up here. >> not just making a portrait. when he post the pictures on social media with personal description, officer castro's art is maki

we just talked to jessica castro. she said she was able to drive through on the northbound side so they did get the slide cleared. they are opening those lanes right now so that is getting better. we are still seeing some lingering delays on the northbound side and then north of there in the los gatos area, we're hearing about a jessica and her photographer are on the way to check those out. quick look at the bay bridge toll plaza. metering lights on at 5:47 this morning and it is a soggy and windy drive across the bay bridge. high wind advisory for both dumbarton and bay bridge this morning. drive times, look at this. westbound 24, walnut creek to highway 13 with that sig alert, 1 hour 32 minutes. half that if you're coming out of the central valley. >>> picking a college certainly a tough task for any kid, right? 7 on your side's michael finney is here to help. is here to help. >>> the 49ers take life... is unpredictable. life is deaths. and births. sickness and health. love and heartbreak. and covered california is

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raul castro is still a dictator. he has not been elected by a democracy.here is no political freedom. he arrested 10,000 people last year. he is doing all of the things -- there is nothing that has changed for the better since barack obama did what he did. now what he is saying, if you are trying to leave that dictatorship, there is no home in america. so he needs to work and come up with a much smarter policy. i believe donald trump is going to do it. i'm going to work with him. just sent a letter to raul castro the other day saying, you have a choice. you can continue the path you're going down where there is no freedom, there is no economy, or you can have the biggest economic growth in the world right now if you turn to a democracy. >> bret: have you talked to the president about this? do you think the policy will change? >> absolutely. going to do everything i can. donald trump has been a friend for a long time. going to do everything i can to help them come up with a policy in cuba that is good for cubans and good for other people from cuba that live

the two college students were on their way home to castro valley when the accident happened last week. kpi can x5 sat down with the survivor who is now trying to heal. -- kpix5 sat down with the survivor who is now trying to heal. >> reporter: she is still trying to recovery. >> it has stitches. it happened in the car. i remember getting in the tree and my foot covered in blood. all of the scratches. >> reporter: she survived the car crash that killed her best friend. it is hard to talk about it. her family recounted the story. >> she said i thought i was going to die. >> reporter: the two college students were driving home to castro valley after spending a couple days in humble county. jenna was driving. light rain, around 7:30 on wednesday night on highway 101 just north. the family said the car hydroplaned, flipped several times and landed in a flooded creek. they tried to kick open the front windshield but more water rushed in. they say natalie told jenna to follow her out of a back window. >> jump out of the back window that was blown out. as soon as she got out, washed up on the

this is alhambra valley road near castro ranch. the swollen pinole creek, which is what we're showing you, washed away this roadway in the middle of the night. fortunately, nobody was driving on this road when it

nats nats also on friday, a tree fell along crow canyon road in castro valley and landed on a car. at least one adult inside the vehicle was injured. as of friday evening, the identity or condition of the victim remains unkown. a scary scene out of san francisco. where strong gusts of wind caused a scaffolding to collapse. toppling onto a man and trapping him under the structure. the incident happened this evening on turk and market streets in san francisco. in this video, sent to us by a viewer. you can see the man being loaded into an ambulance. at this time. we believe he was the only person hurt in the incident. no word on his condition tonight. >> reporter: in the flooded area and then on the other side that close to look at some of the dramatic video version seekers evacuated people north of the the bridge and heart on 52. also from the charter is church of latter day. and one volunteer lucky all the strain the which was not coming down all once. this is probably the worst flooding they have seen in recent years. and let me talk about a foot we acetobacter on this road a few

standard build for the castro valley y. moving over toward highway 24, westbound, off the walnut creek interchange, a crash was there. looks like that has cleared from the traffic pattern. we're following that, but still slow. getting close, you're clear. 880 live shot shows you oakland coliseum is moving well, where the metering lights are on, the backup is still the toll plaza. >> thank you, mike, as you get out the door, a look at our top stories, including 101 just reopening after that heavy flooding over the weekend. and we'll have tall roadways for you that are shut down. >> that's down in the south bay. first, happening now, we're in the middle of a microclimate weather alert, as we've been mentioning. you can upload our nbc bay area app to get alerts right to your smartphone. >> and storm ranger, the bay area's only mobile radar giving us an unparalleled view of the storm. and if you have flooding in your neighborhood, we hope not, but if you do, we want to see it. send us your photos and videos and we'll put them o

. >> she was the 3rd homicide victim in castro valley in a 16 day period. although the cases are connect old neighbors are rattled. -- connected neighbors are rattled. >> it's like lightning striking twice. so not too concerned but still concerned. >> castro valley is a tiny community that everybody watches for everyone else. we wave as people go by. we don't expect this kind of element. >> she lived alone after her husband passed away last spring. despite her pain her family says she showed strength and grace. the couple of 40 years raised their daughters in this home. she was especially proud of being a grandmother. >> if you recognize the car or the man in the video you're asked to call the alameda county sheriff's office. >>> thousands and thousands of dollars have been raised to help the victims of the deadly ghost ship warehouse fire. we track down where all the money is and why survivors say they have not received it. >>> for the 1st time in several years students of the uc system up a more intuition. >> what happens is you are forced to go to food p

live in castro valley, spencer blake, kron four news. >> j.r.:six weeks after the ghost ship warehouse fire one survivor who barely made it out alive- is still recovering from his injuries at a burn center. kron 4's ella sogomonian met with the victim's parents who have been at their son's side ever since. she joins us live at the st. francis memorial hospital where sam maxwell is recovering. ella? >> reporter:it was supposed to be a three day stay here at st francis hospital for sam but in his parents words it's been a 6 week marathon from hell as they are still here waiting for him to be able to speak a full sentence again let alone walk. sam maxwell sent an unusually alarming text message to his mom on december second. wendi maxwell, sam's mother "it said, i'm alive i'm out. and i had no idea what he was talking about." the message was sent moments after he narrowly escaped the ghostship warehouse fire. she responded but he didn't reply. so she took to twitter for answers. "which had live footage of a warehouse with flames shooting up into th

so abc 7 jessica castro asked him a very good question. why not give up on tv romance and try a dating app like this. >> i would argue that being the bachelor is much better than being on tinder. so if compared to those two options, i would choose to be the bachelor. but in all seriousness, between my times on the show, i've always been out there, i've been dating. i think more than anything i've been open to meeting someone. >> he is open. >> that's accurate. >> he is open and he said lucky to have 30 women vying to be the love of his life. or the love for now. will he find true love? find out here on abc 7 news. week two begins tonight at 8:00. >>> we are sure that michael phelps has never tried this. coming up next, why swimmers hit the snow instead of the pool. >> their chilly stunt is now a huge splash on the internet. we'll explain. >>> coming up on abc 7 news at 4:00,s high cost of raising kids. you already know that it is generally expensive but do you know the actual price tag to raise your child. the surprising new numbers and we

. >> reporter: he started in art school and served in the military before off johnny castro joined thepd. after being on patrol the job in the graphic arts department opened up. >> quick finish one z i did. >> reporter: addressed many of his interests but inspired him to honor his fallen fellow officers. >> the one-year anniversary is sergeant robert wilson was approaching back in march. and, um, he hadn't really had any photos of him because he got promoted so heart after he passed away. so i wanted to paint something of him in uniform as a sergeant. >> reporter: adversary castro made the portrait of sergeant wilson. it was received well by the family and others and almost by accident he had a new mission. >> so you make these roughly eight hours, um, on each of them. you just give them away? >> yeah. i mean, it's something so the family these remember them by. not even just their husband and wives maybe their brothers, sisters, sons, daughters they can each have a copy and they can, you know, hank it in their own place. they can change the color up here. >> reporter: it's not just ma

. >>> a new clue in the murder of a castro valley mother whose house was set on fire. the surveillance image detectives want you to the see. you're of watching today in the bay. >>> good friday morning. it is 6:30. it is a cold start but a beautiful start to our morning overlooking the golden gate bridge in san francisco this morning. very nice start. good morning to you. thanks very much for joining us. >> i'm sam brock i can tell you are bubbling with energy this morning. >> really? >> you are ready to go. >> are you insinuating a love a friday? >> you're going to love this forecast. >> it will make you feel a lot better about getting out of bed this morning. we will see a lot of sun. warmer temperatures this weekend. even though you can't really tell right now, it is freezing in livermore. 32 in morgan hill, not doing much better, 34 degrees. 48 now. as you get the kids ready for the bus stop this morning, a heavier jacket needed with temperatures in the 30s and 40s. all clear skies. by the time they head out to recess, chilly temperatures. starting to warm at 1:00

. >> i'm reggie aqui alongside meteorologist mike nicco, jessica castro and alexis smith is back with us this morning. hey, everybody. okay, so, she says dark and early but it's going to be ind of dark for a lot of the bay, isn't it? not a lot of sunshiny, blue skies. >> rainbows and lollipops. >>> you guys expect a lot sometimes. we have increasing cloud cover today. you may need the sunglasses from time to time as the cloud cover will filter the sunshine. yes, but it won't be bright and blue like it was yesterday, plus we have hazy conditions this morning, the airport up in santa rosa, quarter mile visibility. you can see up towards windsor river boulevard towards airport boulevard towards 101, thick fog. it is a spare the air, wood burning illegal. temperatures today in the low to mid 50s even with the lack of sunshine compared to yesterday. that's your 12-hour day planner. how about planning for the commute, alexis? >>> i have good news. your plans are going to go a lot smoother if you travel highway 37 in novato. we have f we've had at least the westbound side for the better part

i'm jessica castro. natasha zouves is off. we have traffic reporter alexis smith and meteorologist mike nicco. is your watch set? >> yes. not really. >> it is not. he doesn't even have a battery in it. >> is that true? >> this was just for show. >> he's just wearing it. >> when i need it for timing, i wear the one you gave me for christmas. this one's at 6:00 all the time sorry i just called you out. >> that's why i like her. anyway, mike, about that weather. >> i like you too. you don't have to be mean to me. here's a look another what's going on. we've got a little bit of a downpour moving away from moraga and heading towards lafayette, walnut creek, light rain up a and down 680. you can see the drops on the creek from walnut creek as we look southbound toward that rain coming our way. 12 hour day planner waking up a little milder this morning, temperatures in the upper 40s, low to mid 50s with our best chance of showers through 1:00, lull through the evening commute and then our next storm starts to roll in at 7:00 with som

i'm jessica castro. we've been talking with dr. hilaria bauer, hector mujica, and deldelp medina for our special show. and i want to get back to this idea of incentivizing our latino community members to give back. and, deldelp, i'll start with you. >> yeah, no, i feel very lucky to be able to work with folks across the united states that are giving back to their communities and understand what is at stake. what is at stake is an economic imperative that we currently have to be able to make sure that we're filling in that gap. and innovation is the way to do it. if you've become a millionaire or a billionaire in the 21st century, it's because of technology. the only other way you could have done that is actual petroleum. and so, this is a way in which your intelligence, your hard work, your dedication allows you to do that. but on the flip side, we do need to create inclusive environments. the reality is, is that too often when i go to a tech conference -- and i've been going to them for 15, 20 years -- i would be the "only" in a r

castro was later killed in a shootout with police. and no one has heard from procure it right now, determined to keep the search for her going her supporters place candles at the same-debt at the scene of i 780 overpass where she was last seen. >>: we are keeping her name out there. >> steve: the solano county sheriff's office is there are no new leads. >> pam: and the rest has been made in a homicide case dating back to the early 19 '80s. it is a murder case that rocked the town of vacaville. >> steve: police say they never gave up and tonight the primary suspect in the case is now in custody. kron4 madden see how the man taught to the victims childhood best friend who says she has been waiting 34 years for this date to happen. >>: right in this area, this is not a subdivision so the train tracks are no longer here but this is where they founder. --found her >> reporter: >>: at the time the solano county coroner's office said that it was the most brutal thing they have ever seen. >> reporter: vacaville police are arrested 51 year-old

john and then torched her castro valley home to cover it up. her body was found in a garage after firefighters put out a fire early the morning of december 13th. authorities won't say how she was killed, and whether it was a targeted or random attack, but st. john, they say, was an unlike legal victim. >> she was by all accounts a model citizen, and she was a mother, a grandmother, a daughter, a sister, and as far as why this happened, a motive for this crime, we're still trying to piece that together. >> reporter: her cellphone and call car were not taken. no one has used her credit cards, but investigators have this surveillance video they shared with ktvu. it shows a man walking nearly the victim's home. he walks in one direction, only to walk back from where he came. >> someone may recognize not only maybe even the clothing, but the way in which this person walks. >> the man has been linked to a silver 2011 to 2013 toyota corolla like this one. >> as far as the car you've told me about, i don't recall seeing any car like that. >> reporter:

. >> jessica castro enjoying the day off. let's start with you, mike. >> okay. let's talk about fog, why don't we. yeah, it's out there and it's pretty thick and oh just bumped up from mile to 2 1/2 at our reporting station in petaluma which means quarter mile visibility is moving somewhere and the temperature right around freezing so we could have some black ice on some elevated surfaces and that's where the thickest fog is right now. keeping an eye on san jose because we do have fog developing around gilroy, not as widespread as it's going to be tomorrow. here's a look from sutro tower. we're going to wake up with a lot of sunshine, little bit hazy because of the moisture in the air. low 50s at noon, mid 50s at 4:00 but back in the 40s by 7:00. almost a typical day for january. we haven't had many of those, alexis. how about on the roads. >> well, yeah, i'd say we're looking pretty typical in that we've got a couple trouble spots, northbound 880 one of them. we have that seven-car crashes this is a sig alert, three left lanes are still blocked and a couple of

castro and che guevara will feel betrayed by the soviets. castro talks about how he would've had a nuclear war and the united states. students would die on the barricade. the chinese play this up around the world. the soviets are chicken, we are not. the chinese are beating the soviets over the head with this in the fall of 1962 and 1963. so castro makes up with the soviets but then relations of course in the 1960's, part of this was also che guevara who is going around trying to start a revolution in africa, latin america. latin american communist party's are set up because they are trying to follow parliamentary passion. and che guevara is trying to start guerrilla wars. certainly the soviet told the bolivian communist party not to help che guevara when he got to bolivia. it is hard to find real documentation but there is certain reason to believe and people speculate that soviets either had a hand in killing che guevara or were certainly happy he was gone. fidel castro had to disavow che guevara to allow them to do that. relations almost

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john and then torched her castro valley home to cover it up. her body was found in the garage after firefighters put out a fire early the morning of december 13. authorities won't say how she was killed and whether it was a targeted or random attack. and st. john was an unlikely victim. >> andrea by all accounts was a modeled citizen. she was a mother, a grandmother. a daughter, a sister. and as far as, you know, why this happened, this motive for the crime, we are still trying to piece that together. >> reporter: her cell phone and car were not taken. no one used her credit cards. >> it's confounding because it still doesn't sink in. i just look at these pictures and this beautiful woman. it doesn't connect with me that this would be how things happened. >> reporter: but investigators do have this surveillance video, which they share with ktvu. it shows a man walking near the victim's home on grove way. he walks in one direction, only to walk back from where he came. >> someone may recognize not only maybe even the clothing, but the way in whi

including the road where the runs over the creek during tuesday night's storm all large section and castro stopping by to see the damage to themselves. >>james: no one was hurt local league had an attempt last accountable looks like a creek to the sand washed car rolled we have to take a quick break up a break in the weather giving people a chance to check out some of the storm damage. over 1,000,000 californians have gotten something that's been out of reach for far too long: health insurance. how? they enrolled through covered california. it's the health insurance marketplace where you'll find a range of plans from leading health insurance companies that offer you the best combination of quality, rates, and benefits. and, through covered california, you may get financial help to pay for coverage. to get covered, you've got to get going. open enrollment ends january 31st. visit covereca.com today. çááávoáááÑ here's a live look at our kron 4 radar. we see rain throughout most of the bay area today. çááájamesáááÑ[take: on cam] çáááon camáááÑ toss to weather or traffic showers will move thro

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still, in the absence of castro the message remains the same.d by a communist leaders for decades. just under one year ago president barack obama made history in cuba. since then he described the floor as irreversible. some analysts agree that no matter what comes next, the point of no return between the old enemies has been reached. i think we have gone past the reversibility. you may stop it, you may make it slow work, it is already slow so it is difficult to make its lower, but it is difficult to break diplomatic relations with cuba. the obama administration has reached deals with cuba to protect a shared maritime resource and to protect the immigration rules. that policy granted cu ban protect the immigration rules. that policy granted cuban people residents in the united states without a visa. the early signs are that donald trump will have a very different kind of relationship with cuba. he has appointed a well—known supporter of the us economic embargo to his treasury team and in the hours after fidel castro's that he described him as a b

a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940. it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market. he installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really made it a place where chefs look forward to come. he created community through food. so, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food. and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those components who really support each other. and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> valley creamery was

jessica castro, abc 7 news. >> thank you. abc 7 news was along the embarcadero a few moments ago. king tide spilled over the sidewalk and on to the roadway. city crews closed one lane because of the backed up storm drains. drivers drove through massive puddles when the tides peaked after 9:00 this morning. >>> highway maintenance workers are starting to clean up this massive mudslide in big sur. cal trans tweeted out this picture. let's give you a closer look at what crews are up against. they stay it stayed active overnight. >> you can track today's storm with live doppler 7. you can get push alerts sent straight to your phone or tablet. >>> president obama's final farewell. we'll take you to chicago where the crowd is growing ahead of his final speech tonight. >>> angelina jolie ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> happying now. it's all about the confirmation hearings under way. one is happening for senator jeff sessions. this morning protesters wearing white klan style hoods disrupted the first hearing before it even got started. senator sessions for attorney general is one of president-elect's more con

and nearby in castro valley. a clogged storm drain sent mud and debris across palomares road closing it for several hours. despite the damage all the storms have brought, some people welcome the rain. and stick with kron 4. we have everything you need to know about the this storm on air and on kron4 dot com. we'll have live reports throughout the bay area. monitoring severe traffic traffic alerts. and the live radar showing exactly where the storm is. you can get updates sent right to your phone. just download the free kron 4 mobile app. he said it during the campaign, and he'll likely say it again, president donald trump says he will stick to his word. and make america great again. but, as president trump took the oath of office. protesters and police clashed just blocks away. in all, 217 people were arrested and charged with rioting in washington d-c. that's what one of the many protests in the d-c area sounded like as flashbangs were set off by police. crowds were also heard chanting "no trump, no k-k-k, no fa

the chp is investigating a shooting along i-580 in castro valley.he redwood road off-ramp is closed right now. we'll bring you updates as we get them. >>> and the city of oakland is introducing its newly named police chief this afternoon. >> the announcement is getting under way at city hall. let's listen in live. >> we listened to the community. we had more than 300 residents attend more than a dozen input sessions and more than 600 shared their views with us on an online survey. and what oaklanders had to say was very clear about what they wanted in their next police chief. oaklanders wanted a leader with integrity, able to change culture. someone who would deliver on fair and just policing, prevent violence, and increase accountability. and, of course, most importantly, build community trust. i want to thank these hundreds of community members who participated in this process. many who not only attended these meetings but also had individual input with our recruiter and then of course our three community members who gave considerable time to serv

the large you can lip tuesday tree smashed into the front window of the woman's suv in castro valley. right now, crews are working to clear that scene. new details now from abc 7 news reporter live at the scene. katie? >> reporter: dan, pg&e crews are working to untangle those downed power lines, you can see the tree behind me, still across the roadway tonight. those downed power lines created a dangerous situation earlier trapping a woman in her car for more than an hour. >> shane but unharmed is how the woman who survived this tree fall described herself. >> one of the you can lip to us trees on the east side of the roadway fell down. and landed on the vehicle. >> the driver travelled northbound just past cold water drive. around 6:00, the 100 foot tall you can lip to us tree fell bringing power lines with it. >> it was on the ground and the car was resting on the line. >> within an hour pg&e deenergized the lines. last friday on the same stretch of roadway, another tree fell and caused injuries. >> i think just because of all theain that we've been having, i think that the trees an

the large you can lip tuesday tree smashed into the front window of the woman's suv in castro valley. right now, crews are working to clear that scene. new details now from abc 7 news reporter live at the scene. katie? >> reporter: dan, pg&e crews are working to untangle those downed power lines, you can see the tree behind me, still across the roadway tonight. those downed power lines created a dangerous situation earlier trapping a woman in her car for more than an hour. >> shane but unharmed is how the woman who survived this tree fall described herself. >> one of the you can lip to us trees on the east side of the roadway fell down. and landed on the vehicle. >> the driver travelled northbound just past cold water drive. around 6:00, the 100 foot tall you can lip to us tree fell bringing power lines with it. >> it was on the ground and the car was resting on the line. >> within an hour pg&e deenergized the lines. last friday on the same stretch of roadway, another tree fell and caused injuries. >> i think just because of all the rain that we've been having, i think that the trees

a gunbattle on a highway off- ramp in castro valley this morning. =vo+rail= alameda county sff >>> a gun battle on a highway off-ramp in castro valley this morning. them the gunfire was reported at the redwood road eastbound 580. defts deputies found shell casings but did not locate any victims or suspects. it has been reopened. >>> talk about a getaway. a couple of thieves peopler sprayed a security guard as they got away with stolen goods. they walked into a macy's in daly city. shoplifted cosmetics and clothing. on the way out, the woman sprayed the guard. if you have any information, please call daly city pd. >> tesla production has gun in its factory outside of reno. the first i'm to roll out, production of the high performance lithium battery cell used in the tesla model three. this is a look at the tesla giga factory. it is still a work in progress. the company said once complete sometime next year, it will double the world's capacity for those lithium ion batteries. >>> we have the video of the day. have you seen this? the best basketball sh

no word on road closures there and castro. >> grant: you receive the 60 ft. trees toll-- 60ft tall tree at lombard. in san francisco. unfortunately no one was injured. no one was inside the cars. -- fortunately >> steve: all eyes are on the russian river tonight. 39.8ft >> steve: causing a lot of problems on the road as well. with the j.r. stone. >> reporter: you it is built the truck moving at all?-- you could feel >> yes. it was in my truck bed. the water did not look that deep at all. it was very deceiving. very deceiving. >> reporter:as the crew work to get to that location. pg &e worked at one entrance as a tree like the other entrants. >> it was wendy. and my dog was terrified. >> reporter: tuesday afternoon,kayaks were used to go through the floodwaters. >> reporter: others like danielle; where of said the bay of it to go through the flooding-- were upset that they decided to go through the flooding. >> reporter: for hours the water or rain has stopped. but now is continuing. this could be over 15 ft. over flood levels recorded. >> reporter:pam and ste

prosecutors say lutz stabbed castro multipl her body later discovered outside his apartment in silver spring. lutz was once a doctor. according to court documents, he'd been described as suffering from delusional disorder. he was deemed unfit to stand trial. he sat for years in a psychiatric facility until last month. >> after 14 years of legal wrangling, finally this has come to a head. and with justice being served, they felt a good sense of relief. >> last month's castro's family said they felt that justice finally had been served. >>> today there was the commemoration in d.c. to the longest continuous military campaign of world war ii. 75th anniversary of the battle of the atlantic was marked with a ker moceremony at the nationad war ii memorial. ♪ >>> does anybody remember the name william peter blatty? he's the author of the exorcist. >> his widow said the cause of death was multiple myeloma. he was a former jesuit school valedictorian who wrote a story of demonic possession. the oscar winning film made $400 million world wide. >>> inauguration weekend just a week away. we've go

le i'll ask former secretary julian castro whether he thinks he'll be taking a run at the white house in 2020, his answer may surprise you. >>> and full speed ahead. president ump making a pig push with top automakers this morningo ramp up production. will they follow his road map for job creation here at home? all those things straight ahead. first the microsoft pulse question, can environmentalists do anything to block the dakota access and keystone pipelines? that's the question. the pulse is live, u pulse.msnbc.com. t with passion.. but i keep it growing by making every dollar count. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on all of my purchasing. and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... which adds fuel to my bottom line. what's in your wallet? >>> live look here, 1600 pennsylvania avenue, we are expecting our second official, our second official white house briefing. it's supposed to start in ten minutes, but if yesterday was any indication, we expect that

congressman castro thank you for being here. i want to get your take -- >> thanks for having me. >> -- from this morning's briefing. there's been significant frustration, a lot of it directed at the intelligence community but specifically director comey and his handling in the waning months of the election of the email investigation. what can you tell us about what happened behind closed doors? >> obviously it was a very informative presentation. i think there is both republican and democratic concern about getting to the bottom of what happened with the russian hacking, making sure that we go back and figure out what went wrong. >> what specifically needs resolution would you say? >> well, i think a whole body of things. we need to figure out how it happened, why exactly it happened. there are of course things discussed there in a classified setting that i can't talk about, but also we need to go back and look at the fbi's response during the election period and whether that was appropriate. i see now that the ig decided to loo

chel castro had to disavow guevara to allow them to do that. relations almost came to a breaking point between cuba and the soviets until czechoslovakia and then that was sort of a defining moment for both havana and hanoi when they failed to condemn the invasion like the chinese wanted them to. they said this is as far as we go, we stay with the soviets on this one. they thought they would be the next czechoslovakia. that was kind of the nature of the soviet relations will stop we can back up towards the mid 70's but that is still a process. an intense debate over exactly what happened in angola. did the cubans my first? did the soviets move first? i don't necessarily -- i can't give you the answer on that one. into no, what happened in ethiopia. they worked better together after that. cubans were dependent on the more than the 70's the 1980's. it was difficult for a long time and i think that of course at the end, castro was one of the strongest independent opponents of gorbachev. mentioned angola. you don't deal with it a lot in the book and

that's where we have that major slide that's where jessica castro is. i'm starting to see a pretty significant back-up on the northbound side and again northbound side still fully blocked by that mudsle from yesterday. reports of a new mudslide as well, southbound highway 17 past the cats restaurant and that is blocking two left lanes right now. let's check in with mike nicco with a look at our weather. >>> you said a new mudslide? >> yeah. highway 17. >> all right. i'll show you live doppler 7 in a minute. some of the heaviest rain the moving through the santa cruz mountains. can't emphasize enough the storm is going to levels on the storm impact scale as far as rain and wind but the damage could be greater because of what happened sunday. let's take a look. there you go. you can see the yellows, the oerngz, and the reds from a boulder creek, and that area, so you got to be careful if you're traveling through there. and theoryhere's the brighter w tops. so here are my biggest concerns, stream and creek flooding. debris flows not as much as on the burn

whole team here, jessica castro, good morning. alexis smith, and mike nicco, we are on storm watch again. >> yes and the first push of wet weather is moving through right now and it has some yellows and oranges. hi, everybody. first challenge to the rest of the day, right there, you can see from 580 between dublin and hayward all the way up to napa, even the slight chance of a heavy, brief downpour there on 80 from about richmond all the way up towards vallejo. let's see which way this is moving. absolutely moving quickly. in fact, it will be out of here in about 30 minutes and then we'll transition over to just some scattered showers for the rest of the morning. you can see the rain picking up in right now. 43 to 50. moderate 50s. windy conditions, even a chance of a thunder storm this afternoon and evening. lest finds out if it's affecting the commute. >> not yet but it seems like we'll have something pop up here soon. no incidents on the board so far this morning, mass transit is looking goods so it is feeling a little too good