the fulsome lake for example if you're looking at these reservoirs, fulsome lake is a good example. right now it is twice as full as it was this time in december of last year. in gold river, ken pritchett? >>> for the very latest, you can always log on to ktvu.com. and there's a list where you can pick up free sandbags. >>> dozens of hotel workers are raising their voices right now at san francisco's union square. >> they are protesting self- contract negotiations between their unions and the unions of hilton. the hotel tonight is telling a different story. >> they are paying their top officers bonuses of $3.5 million this year. and the expenses for our hotel are about 2.5 million to pay for everything that we need. >> there's an offer on the table right now but the unions walked away from it. it preserves pension, it preserves health care and it preserves wages. we would hope the unions would find that good in a bad economy. >> reporter: its workers have gone more than 16 months without a contract, it's calling for a boycott of the union hotel. >>> a forensic expert testified that

i am talking about the proposed park at 17th and fulsom. i represented the businesses around the park. we urge you to not move forward to acquire this until you get a little input from my very practical colleagues. our first concern is that if you look at the photos that we distributed earlier, we visualize all those cars moving on to the street and they would take up about a linear mile and a half of curved space and that is where our employees have the park for 10 hours every day. there are some second issues i gathered talking with the folks down there and they are issues that you might -- a lot of people get romantic when they think about the park, and i can relate because i have spent the last 62 years there and i love it. there are a hundred businesses within a one-block radius. it is like a little enclave, there is the coffee shop, comcast, and everything in between. one of the secondary concerns that we have is the opposite of pacific heights. outside that circle, sro's and a lot of people that come to get drunk, take drugs, or pros

it is normal to release water at the fulsome and nimbus dams. but such a large release this time of year is unusual. >> we want to make sure that we have rooms for the storms that are forecast to come into the area. >> it's been a few years, thises the second year where conditions have been improved where three, four years prior we were in drought situation. >> reporter: fulsome lake is twice as full as it was this time last year. ktvu chief meteorologist bill martin has been talking about this upcoming storm for days. bill, where's that storm front right now. >> there's a lot of storm fronts. we have multiple weather systems, this is the general pattern out in the pacific, this is going to bring us copious amounts of rainfall. in the next four, five, six, and maybe seven days. these storms are all lined up. you can see where they are focused. you see that low to the north. that's some cold air, the air to the south obviously a warmer moderate air. they are going to link up over the central california region over the next week. the first storm c

upstream at, fulsom, yesterday it was like ten billion dollars to build that reservoir and that's a great example for water managers to take what this means. it's clearly a mistakes to build something that water managers assume they can capture might literally be gone in several decades. >> on the point that we can't assume that the past is like the future, um... you mentioned hydraulic models. i'm wondering if there's any practical models and i'll make the point with insurance industries. when they set rates, they are required to use a message that factors the past and not the future. theres the new model that the insurance industry wants to use and they've all been modified since- katrina and they have three models but they have now revised their catastrophe model to incorporate climate science and of course, insurance companies want to be able to go by those models and i'm wondering if such practical tools are being developed for water management. >> well, the short answer is absolutely, yes. the longer answer is that from my perspective, many of the bigger models that drive our smalle

down near fulsom lake, they've been letting out water to try to make room. >>> what does living near a freeway have to do with autism? the revealing new findings from california researchers, ahead. >>> and shop till you drop. the big deal stores are offering to get your business and your money. >> this is real money that's going to make a real difference in people's lives. >>> and president obama signs a major tax bill into law. what this means for people's bank accounts and the deficit. >>> we're tracking that first storm moving in. good evening, i'm chief meteorologist jeff paniri. it's a cold evening in the west bay, temperatures dipping into the 40s tonight. the rain stays with us through tomorrow morning. we're tracking the storm and we'll have full details coming up. >>> your income tax rate will not go up next year, whether you make minimum wage or more than a million dollars. president obama today signed the tax bill passed last night by the house. it locks in current income tax rates for two years, establishes a payroll tax cut for one year, gives the ridge a big tax break a

. >> reporter: lewis moore with the federal bureau of reclamation says fulsome lake is -- this largef release in december is unusual. >> it's been a few years. this is the second year where conditions have been improved where three, four years prior we were in drought situation. >> reporter: releasing water now leaves room for the eventual run off. but the snow pack is not the immediate concern, it is the several inches of rain expected by this time next week. the reservoirs were so last week that releases of this type were not necessary ahead of a december storm. it's a sign the reservoirs are in better shape. >>> the suspect in a deadly shoot out at a shopping mall has been arrested. detectives have been following him. on tuesday, a mother was killed by a stray bullet as she was protecting her 2-year-old son during that shoot out. a man died in the hospital from his wounds. five other people were shot and they are expecting to survive. >>> new information is coming to light tonight about the extensive fire at the westfield galleria mall in roseville near sacramento it happened in o

. >> reporter: lewis moore with the federal bureau of reclamation says fulsome lake is -- this largef release in december is unusual. >> it's been a few years. this is the second year where conditions have been improved where three, four years prior we were in drought situation. >> reporter: releasing water now leaves room for the eventual run off. but the snow pack is not the immediate concern, it is the several inches of rain expected by this time next week. the reservoirs were so last week that releases of this type were not necessary ahead of a december storm. it's a sign the reservoirs are in better shape. >>> the suspect in a deadly shoot out at a shopping mall has been arrested. detectives have been following him. on tuesday, a mother was killed by a stray bullet as she was protecting her 2-year-old son during that shoot out. a man died in the hospital from his wounds. five other people were shot and they are expecting to survive. >>> new information is coming to light tonight about the extensive fire at the westfield galleria mall in roseville near sacramento it happened in o

. >> aclu said fulsome high has been charging $25 to $35 for art supplies. and a high school, charging up to $550 for athletics. >> the governor believes public education should be a free education. when we are charging it is not free public education. >> mr. nan 25 years since the california supreme court ruled that school fees are illegal. some parents hatch sued individually. most, however just paid up. >> now, as part of the settlement, the state will remind schools not to charge fees, check their books make sure they don't. and order reimbursements if they do. >> we don't know how the settlement may or may not affect our program. >> the settlement needs approval by a judge and legislation to set up the reimbursement system. not retroactive. any fees already paid are gone. >>> the social media site twitter is helping close the technology gap in the united states. a new survey by pew research shows that out of the 8% of american internet users who visit twitter, a majority of them are latinos and african-americans. the survey shows, 18% are hispanic users

the sorts of issues that should be the subject of much more balanced set of hearings and much more fulsomeebate in the senate and before there is a ratification vote. ve indeed saidave envi that they are happy to have nothing more than a very limited, quite modest, and largely irrelevant missile defense capability to the sorts of threats that are now beginning to develop. it is indeed iran and venezuela, have they put missiles capable of reaching the united states in venezuela, we do not have defenses against those in place at the moment. i think the russians would almost certainly regard putting that in place as evidence of the kind of quantitative or qualitative improvement they say will cause them to withdraw from the treaty. if they have grounds for doing that, we need to know that now. without negotiating record, we won't know that. while we focused on missile boat -- missile defense, there are a number of other problems that i would think the joint chiefs of staff would be concerned about. for example, there is a 10-1 advantage on the russian side right now in terms of what our tacti

police found 15-year-old joan berlinghoff near the sports basement store near fulsome and 15th's streets where the girl's cousin happened to be spotting. the girl's cousin spotted the girl with her uncle and another man walking past the store yesterday afternoon. >> also the subsequent records check revealed that subject, who is mr. charles berlinghoff, 44-year-old male, is wanted out of shasta county for child abduction warrant. >> this morning the uncle charles berlinghoff, who you're looking at on your screen, is behind bars, charged with kidnapping his niece from her home in redding more than a month ago. >>> another kidnapping case was cracked in san francisco this weekend as well and now investigators from virginia are trying to figure out why the child and her alleged abductor ended up in the city. 12-year-old brittany smith remains in protective custody in the bay area as officers from virginia wrap up their investigation. the girl was found alive thanks to an alert woman at a safeway store friday. the 32-year-old man suspected of kidnapping her is suspected of killing her mother

the sorts of issues that should be the subject of much more balanced set of hearings and much more fulsomeand before there is a ratification vote. ve indeed saidave envi that they are happy to have nothing more than a very limited, quite modest, and largely irrelevant missile defense capability to the sorts of threats that are now beginning to develop. it is indeed iran and venezuela, have they put missiles capable of reaching the united states in venezuela, we do not have defenses against those in place at the moment. i think the russians would almost certainly regard putting that in place as evidence of the kind of quantitative or qualitative improvement they say will cause them to withdraw from the treaty. if they have grounds for doing that, we need to know that now. without negotiating record, we won't know that. while we focused on missile boat -- missile defense, there are a number of other problems that i would think the joint chiefs of staff would be concerned about. for example, there is a 10-1 advantage on the russian side right now in terms of what our tactical nuclear weapons.

the sorts of issues that should be the subject of much more balanced set of hearings and much more fulsomeebate in the senate and before there is a ratification vote. ve indeed saidave envi that they are happy to have nothing more than a very limited, quite modest, and largely irrelevant missile defense capability to the sorts of threats that are now beginning to develop. it is indeed iran and venezuela, have they put missiles capable of reaching the united states in venezuela, we do not have defenses against those in place at the moment. i think the russians would almost certainly regard putting that in place as evidence of the kind of quantitative or qualitative improvement they say will cause them to withdraw from the treaty. if they have grounds for doing that, we need to know that now. without negotiating record, we won't know that. while we focused on missile boat -- missile defense, there are a number of other problems that i would think the joint chiefs of staff would be concerned about. for example, there is a 10-1 advantage on the russian side right now in terms of what our tacti