we are joined now live by former congress woman jackie speier who herself has experience with trauma, this extreme violence. she's a survivor of the jones town massacre. thank you so much for joining us. i have to ask you when you are looking at the images out of maine, does it take you back to the horrible day in jones town? >> every mass shooting is a reminder for me and every other survivor of gun violence that we haven't fixed the problem. and your former representative that you had on was somehow suggesting it's all about the person. well, it's not just all about the person. i mean, these are weapons of war. there are 18 people dead today because he was able to slaughter them because he had a large magazine and because he was using an assault weapon. as a victim of gun violence and one who suffered five bullets, two of which i still carry, and a body that was riddled with damage, assault weapons have no place in society. they are weapons of war and should only be used in a war time environment. now, certainly, this particular individual had some psychological issues. but again be

jackie speier: they had identified people they wanted to kill.

two jackie speier was also a longtime friend and colleague of senator feinstein . she simply had this to say about the senator's legacy. >> the legacy she leaves behind is one that will be unmatched. certainly for my lifetime. >>> in other news, and it is news. rain across parts of the bay area. we have been tracking this little system that came down was this a bit of a surprise? >> we were talking about this at least 48 hours ago. the details of the system more difficult to pin down because it developed rapidly. we had a chance for rain as early as wednesday of this week for the north bay through the timing and location for these actually did work out identical to where the models two days ago had it. afternoon, were rotating through the north. watch what happens. it may be a few showers we dropped over the city. this has been confined, almost exclusively up here. and primarily for sonoma county. just outside of the town of sonoma, 210 of an inch. if you look at where this is falling, this is the mountains above napa. you will watch this on the high resolution for

it pains me, that the death of your daughter -- >>reporter: california congresswoman jackie speier chairubcommittee on personnel has been trying to highlight these cases for a decade. >> the army would come and say we have zero tolerance for sexual assault and sexual harassment, and they were given a pass. not anymore. >>reporter: she says in a 2019 survey, 120,000 service members that they had been sexually harassed. but less than 1% filed a complaint. when it comes to sexual assault of the 20 plus thousand cases, only about 1% resulted in convictions. >> we are introducing the i am vanessa guillen legislation today. >> she's introduced legislation with strong bipartisan support, the vanessa guillen act, that requires that sexual harassment and sexual harassment assault complaints be investigated by an independent panel. >> why will things be different this time around? >> this legislation creates accountability. there will be independent investigations taking place. and i'm going to guarantee that that kind of investigation in action is taken by the military, and making sure this gets

that program was started by former congresswoman jackie speier, who is now running for county supervisor this county is the richest county in california, the fourth richest in the country. >> and we have 30,000 kids living in poverty. that's not repugnant to me. and i think to most people, one big recommendation in the creation of a new county department to oversee all of this, san mateo county does not currently have one. >> many believe that has hindered progress on fighting many of these challenges. a big step today toward making san francisco's main library more earthquake safe. today, the city announced the library was awarded a $6.3 million grant to fund critical repairs and upgrades. these include work to bring the roof and what's known as the building seismic mode up to modern standards. the seismic mode allows the building to move side to side and protect it, protects it from the full force and jolt of an earthquake like interesting technology. >> we don't need a moat right now, although a lot of the winter forecast predictions suggest that it's going to be really raining quite