on paper, humboldt county is one of the poorest counties in california, with a poverty rate well abovee's a possibility that marijuana may one day help this region turn a corner, but that hasn't happened yet. i left fortuna, and headed to a city that's opened its doors to the pot business. eureka wants its share of the $7 million in marijuana tax money the county expects to take in each year. but even here, not everyone's on board. hi there. -how's it going? -i'm marcus. -i'm adam. nice to meet you. -adam, how are you? i met adam dick. he's the cofounder of a craft chocolate company. it's one of the holdouts against the marijuana movement. that's amazing. -thank you. have people approached you about make cannabis edibles? yeah, we've been approached about that. that's just not kind of our scene. i think that, to a certain degree, it would cheapen our brand. adam's not in the marijuana industry, but he's definitely feeling its effects. with all the pot businesses moving onto his block, rents are climbing. why are rents so high? because of the zoning for cannabis in this particular area.

the mother load in sierra and another one here in humboldt county that will probably help fire up morehunderstorms again. it was about mendocino county, lake county, northern sacramento valley, chico and also the sierra. probably today a little more focus might be toward the santa clara valley or the diablo range. it looks to be north and south. look at this. this is a lot of thunderstorm activity. low clouds are in place. 50s, low and mid, a few upper 40s. most locations are in the 50s here. bodega bay is cold, 47 with the water temperature at 50. cloverdale is 50. napa looking at low 50s. 56 ukiah to 58 in redding, 36 this truckee and reno is 45. big time cells, though, right about geyserville and cloverdale. they kind of fell apart but some of the cloud cover drifted in late. the sunset kind of takes the energy away. they will fire up later today. watch out. not a lot of rain. hit and miss with a lot of this. a brief downpour and then a mile or two away you get nothing. look at redding, pretty good thunder showers up there. in the valley, fresno. if you are traveling up to the mount

we show you where most of the rainfall is, up towards humboldt county, points north will work their wayouth as the day progresses. the radar beginning to fill in, we will see showers and san francisco in the next couple hours. 50 outside right now, 56 in san francisco, 57 in concord. with the cloud cover, another mild life from afternoons have been brisk. but the nights of the mile because we have been cloudy. redwood city and san jose 52, lafayette the forecast stop, it will be wet tomorrow, chilly tomorrow, tell me something you don't know already. scattered showers, tiny chance of thunderstorm, better chance of the central valley, only 61 degrees. rain is gone wednesday, 71, but closer to your normal, normal and lafayette is 75 this time of year. why not so much rent on this one? the past two storms except us with downpours coming in from the north on the gulf of alaska so it is cooler but also much more dry. we are less wet, so the system coming in from the north we will get rain but it won't be the downpours that we had over the past 48 to 72 hours. that said, tomorrow morning, 7 a

this is where the rain is though hanging out just off the north coast off of mendocino and humboldt counties in northern california. we are going to look at this activity scooting it's where direction but not today it will be early tomorrow that we even see our first signs of rainfall that around 04:00am in the form of just a few very brief and light showers most likely for the east and after that we stay for the most part dry throughout the early part of tomorrow showers will arrive on into your evening commute tomorrow and the heaviest of them just after evening commute look at that yellow and eventually some orange that's the heavy rainfall it's going to push in the bay tomorrow night results in a few rounds of thunder possible as well as some heavy isolated downpours so tomorrow tonight to be out and about too terribly much showers continue off and on through your thursday after which point and we're talking a lot of rain here your average rainfall for this time of year usually around half an inch for the entire month of may just to get in the next couple of days, we're looking at over a

one in the sacramento foothills and another one is moving into humboldt county that will rotate around and that will generate a little convergence. >>> and we are having a friday light morning kind of on the freeways. ' is the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze pretty good, 20 minutes. when you get to the bay bridge there is a back up of 10 to 15 minutes before you make it onto the span. that is not too bad. i can tell what kind of day it will be by looking at that ramp right there. not a lot of slow traffic here. so far so good when it comes to today. i-880 southbound between oakland and hayward looks all right. a little slowing. san mateyo and dumbarton bridge pretty good. the san jose commutes off to a good start. >>> the democratic convention starts this weekend in san francisco. many of the presidential candidates will fly into the bay area today. we are live at the moscone center with christien kafton where there are major changes this year. >> reporter: we are expecting major players from california's democratic party to be on hand here today as well as 14 of the democratic

the fbi and the humboldt county d.a. are investigating a possible bob durst connection, too.is not the only person of interest. there are five others. so for now, the chief advises caution. >> the evidence, the circumstantial evidence, is just not there at this point. >> reporter: that old composite sketch, for example, could this be robert durst? the chief isn't quite sure it's particularly accurate. >> looks very similar. >> were you impressed by the similarities? >> i'm impressed by the similarities, but my questions are being able to recognize somebody in a very small space and window, and then being able to recount that in a description that's -- that's pretty precise. >> reporter: that sketch? ridiculous, said durst's attorney, dick deguerin. >> i know bob pretty well. that doesn't look anything like him. it looks like mr. potato head. >> reporter: so who was that witness of 18 years ago? would he still remember? the cops hadn't spoken to him recently, so we found him riding his tractor in the green hills above eureka. his name is randy gomes, an army vet and a local ca

east rainfall is still well to our west and you see it sitting off the coast of mendocino and humboldt county off the north coast. this is going to steer its where direction and future cast as the breakdown of when it's coming our way there's your overcast conditions this afternoon don't expect a whole lot of sunshine today. there's tomorrow morning that are you just referenced just those light showers as you're heading into work, nothing that should be slowing you down too terribly much but give yourself that extra time driving to work tomorrow morning. it's your evening commute that's going to come along with the heaviest of rainfall. rainfall will be seen on off off and on through the day but moderate to heavy showers will arrive after 04:00pm tomorrow, pushing through your evening commute, yellow and orange show you that heavy rainfall that will hang out all through your afternoon on into your evening tomorrow off and on showers continue into thursday before we do eventually see some drying conditions into the start of the weekend on friday, how much rain are we looking here over an inch

problem is in a recent decision, fhwa began denying a series of extension requests including one in humboldt county in my district. my amendmt would pause fhwa's ability to deny extensions moving forward. i hope this amendment gives fhwa the opportunity to correct course and to get back to working with communityings who are trying to rebuild as quickly as they can. communities across the country, especially those in california, recovering from flood and fire, are now facing the possibility of paying back million os dollars they desperately need, adding insult to injury. how widespread is this problem? statewide in california, fhwa denied 66 out of 73 projects requesting an extension. we need some help. we need this amendment. it will not -- this amendment will not address all problems caused by fhwa's extension denil bus it gives them an opportunity to reconsider their decisions and make things right. as a member of the trngs and train structure committee i am commited to working with my colleagues to establish clear guidelines on how the fhwa should manage emergency relief funds going forward. but