people are taking the back of their grosz and turning it into their room, or an attic. that is happening in lot. you have to be assessed for that. i think that is a very green thing to do because you do not have to add building. do you have anything to say about general improvement? >> it is a big additional we are talking about attic space. when you are retrofitting for earthquakes two stories up in an edwardian, the expense involved, i think, would be hard to justify in most neighborhoods. >> it is hard to get enough windows with dormers, etc. >> how about converting the attic into storage? >> you said you recently did that, alice. >> that is fairly simple. i would get a permit. and you are allowed a certain amount of space. you have to have ventilation. i do not remember all the rules. >> will the property tax increase? >> i do not think so. >> to convert an existing empty attic into a storage attic? that does not sound like you are converting it into the living area. the a sensible addition would be converting it into a living area. >> it is usually by a letter that

as we know, the flashover that happen in this grosz is what killed one firefighter and left the other fighting for is life in the hospital. jeff bush with kron4 news. >> stay with kron4 for continuing coverage of the fire department tragedy, you could head to the web site at leave your comments and well wishes that kron4.com. >> very unusual wasn't as we can lot of rain today, a record rainfall in some spots, a lot of locations picking up over an inch of rain like oakland, other locations between a half inch and an inch. we have some more showers on the way for tomorrow as well. things are winding down the main rain band is to the east, but another system is spinning off shore, it will push of the bay area for tomorrow bringing in a chance for showers. primarily into tomorrow afternoon, i will let you know more about it later on. >> definite storm damage in the north bay, and santa rosa de tree collapses on an suv. no one was hurt, they had to cut the tree to get off of the suv. strong winds actually knocked over the porta-potti that you see right here. it was being transported near h

or surveillance video from the grosz shows a wide as you the beating that area but they cannot say with certainty that michele lee was in fact the driver. her car was found several blocks away about one day as they had all investigators on the case, they called in the fbi. for 10 days and they have been searching and last night this case was changed from made missing persons case to a murder case. here is the captain of the police department to explain the change in classification. >> in the results of forensic investigation in a vehicle belonging to michele, information from multiple interviews including those of friends, family and persons of interest, an examination of evidence collected during the service of civil search warrants, the examination of the video evidence from the kaiser broad and other locations, or the examination of michelle's cell phone records before her phone went dead. >> per cell phone records they did not track until a day or so later, when they did triangulate the cellphone, there were messages to the, excuse me signals coming from fremont, union city, all ove

during the service of several search warrants, the examination of the video evidence from the kaiser groszcations. the examination of michelle's itself phone records before her phone when dead last saturday. >> speaking of her phone they were able to triangulate her phone for a day or so and find points in oakland, fremont and union city. either the battery died or someone turned off the phone. they told me that michele lee was not suicidal, she was in good spirits. they spoke with a lot of people including people classified as x friends that remain persons of interest. they have all of their investigators on the case. to the family of michele lee was heartbroken by this. they received news late last night that the case has turned into a murder investigation. we hope to hear from them sometime this morning as well as the hayward police department. hopefully the police will come out to give us more information. >> other stories we're following, a grieving mother is speaking out after a three month old baby was killed sunday morning in east palo alto. police have arrested a juvenile suspect