ktvu's john fowler is in san francisco and tells us how there are new tools helping officials manage water. john? >> reporter: that's right. as bill said we are getting rain. that is good the good. water managers said we need a series of storms like we are in now each month through june to get to average. >> reporter: san francisco to the south and east bay a good bit of rain today. then sunshine and optimism. >> we could get a lot more rain. sometimes it will -- we will get a late rain. >> reporter: that did happen in the 1977 drought but don't bet on it now. san francisco hecht hetchy water shed today just 40% of average precipitation. new aerial censors began measuring snow pack and melt. >> we could better project what it will be during the snow melt period. >> reporter: crucial it determine how much conversation will be needed. new censors on pacifica hills for the first time today can detect water in real time seeping into the soil. this graph shows an uptick from today's rain. >> our censors are now just beginning to show increases in soil moisture. >> reporter: usgs said the s

reporting live at oyster point marina john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> choppy waters on the bay this morning forced a company to cancel ferries around 11:00 a.m. this morning. 1500 people were already on the island. they had to be ferried back. everyone scheduled today was offered a refund or a chance to rebook. officials expect the boats to run their regular schedule tomorrow. >>> our chief meteorologist bill martin has been tracking the windy conditions. how drawn were the winds -- strong were the winds today? >> the strongest winds were last night when the wide advisory was in place -- wind advisory was in place. this morning 36 miles per hour in richmond. the direction out of the north and the east. which is prily windy -- pretty windy. that accelerates the wind. there is less friction. you can see a live camera. smoothing out. the winds died down. the wind advisory has been dropped. winds down a 5, 8 miles per hour right now. right now fairfield 26 miles per hour. which is -- for that area, not out of control. 12 miles per hour at san francisco airport. winds dying down. th

john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >> a letter informed parents of the situation. police are interviews 12 boys and the sexing involves students at four middle schools. the students all range from 12 to 14. >> i think as adults we all have a responsibility to remind children that they are online -- their online interactions have consequences. >> police and administrators are encouraging parents to discuss the dangers of sharing. www.ktvu.com has information to help parents talk to their children about sexing and internet safety. click on web links on links on the home page. >>> a driver caused a mess at the dmv office in san jose. a woman was waiting to take a test when she hit the wrong pedal. ktvu's robert handa is live and spoke with a motorcyclist who was hit. >> reporter: he was one of many people who were upset and disappointed they couldn't conduct their business here and didn't help when they found out why. >> the dmv office shut down today after a car crashed into the building and caused a gas leak. we saw people redirected to other offices. most said they

ktvu's john fowler shows us how abofficer volunteered to get the -- an officer volunteered to get the ball rolling. >> reporter: a on campus shooter, a first responder arrives with a computer screen. >> you can immediately pull up all the information for that particular building. so you could see if anyone were hiding in that particular room. >> game changing. >> it opens up a new window we didn't have yesterday. we are able to get a bird's eye view. >> reporter: prompted by the columbine massacre. he took 4500 photos of everything exterior and interior part of every school and created a computerized point of view program. >> using the information that anyone in the building would see. even more. you wouldn't know where all the cubbyholes are. >> reporter: valued atticist thousand dollars. the program was -- at $70,000, the program was provided free. >> they know where to go to. they can pinpoint a room and know what is in the room, hiding places. anywhere anybody could be to protect the students. >> reporter: the next step, with a mobile phone, the program could guide officers throug

ktvu's john fowler investigated and joins us now live after questions the city on whether they plan to do anything about that street. >> reporter: this is the road. the woman died right here. but i want to show you something. these are the accidents that the police department showed me. there have been 11 accidents in 13 years. look at how the traffic comes right at you and the sidewalk is right here. many say the area is unsafe, the city says it plans to take no additional safety action. >> reporter: a mother of four had been living on the streets, sometimes with friends. onces say she was on this sidewalk where -- witnesses say she was on this sidewalk where family gathered. >> have closure and just wanted to see it. it is hard. >> we obtained surveillance video showing her with her cart moments before the hit-and-run crash. police are looking for an older chevy pick up white with tan or blue, driver white male, late 40s. investigators say the truck hit her, smashing the sign and knocking her 50 feet. >> i didn't hear breaks. >> reporter: she lives a couple doors down. she knew her a

john fowler tells us what to look out. >> reporter: the earth here has been moving about 50 years or more. it's moved this sidewalk about 4 feet. and turned this street, this is anson way into a wandering roller coaster. nearly every home here has had damage. experts say there's good news and bad news. geo technical specialists tell me that many steep slopes are at risk especially during and after storms. >> you need to have a slope. you need to have poor quality geology, you need to have water to have a natural landslide. >> reporter: this decades old berkeley hill so called blake mud slide rippled jensen court like a rug. 200 homes here steadily inching down the hill. the slide is a half mile long and unstoppable. slow motion version of this shallow. >> imagine what the water pressure in the soil is. >> reporter: that soil water pressure monitored by usgs computers. this is today's reading. you can see how it spiked then dried out after the last rains. the drought made soil so dry the major landslides may be the lowest in century. >> deeper, bigger slides. it's been so dry, we're f

john fowler with more on how customers are reactioning. john? ?reporter: in 1 hour, the contra costa board will meet to consider this conservation plan, a plan some people say is unfair. >> reporter: about half a million people get contra costa water. staff recommends a 15% cut. >> i would say they'ring asking quite a bit. people here have been conserving. >> reporter: sanchez shows his family of 4 uses 163 glops a day. that's less than half the district average. the reduction is based on so- called historical use. >> we are in an ex-- we are in an extreme family. >> reporter: how fair would a 15% be for this ultra- conservative family of 4? they use 143 a day. for years, they've recycled drinking and bath water nape don't flush as often as many families miepght. >> if it's yellow, it's mel employee. >> reporter: they catch rain water in barrels. they don't water their lawn at all. but because they've been doing this for so long, their remarkably low 126 gallons a day today is too high under a 15 prkt cut. they'd have to reduce even more. >> we ca

john fowler, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> high clouds seeming in this afternoon.ll see more clouds as we head through the day tomorrow. those clouds will trim temperatures down a couple of degrees. the forecast model, more high clouds overhead. that's 8:00 a.m. more high clouds, not a lot. partly sunny, mostly sunny. then daytime highs end up back into the upper 60s, low and mid- 70s. slightly cooler than it was today because of the cloud cover. when i come back, we're going to talk about a warm up, heading into the bay area weekend, i'll show you how warm it could get in your neighborhood, back at 10:45. >>> microsoft workers in silicon valley are going bald to help fight childhood cancer. this week, more than 40 employees will go from hair to bare. shaving their heads to raise money for st. baldricks foundation. last year, microsoft employees in mountain view, sunnyvale, and skype headquarters raised more than $15,000. organizers hope to surpass that mark this year. >>> he stabbed a teenager to death just two days ago. now he's been released from jail. what he t

ktvu's john fowler tells us, scientists say it is possible the earthquake was a pre-cursor to a bigger earthquake that is now due. >> reporter: hundreds of bay area people reported feeling last night's quake. most were on the san francisco peninsula. >> waiting to see if it was going to get worse. get worse. and it was just a gentle roller. >> reporter: the epicenter was 55 miles off the coast where three plates of the earth crust collide. the triple junction. >> if you count big earthquakes only it is the most active place in california. >> reporter: she says four years ago a 6.5 earthquake hit the same area doing extensive damage but earthquakes are unpredictable. >> this was probably an earthquake that ruptured a way from had coast. the waves towards the coast are longer periods. >> reporter: means more rolling, less damaging. the region has mega quakes and tsunamis every three hundred years ago. last was 314 years ago. >> could be now. could be not for a while. the earthquakes like last night will continue happening. >> reporter: another fact, three years ago in a similar zone in j

john fowler, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> high clouds seeming in this afternoon. we'll see more clouds as we head through the day tomorrow. those clouds will trim temperatures down a couple of degrees. the forecast model, more high clouds overhead. that's 8:00 a.m. more high clouds, not a lot. partly sunny, mostly sunny. then daytime highs end up back into the upper 60s, low and mid- 70s. slightly cooler than it was today because of the cloud cover. when i come back, we're going to talk about a warm up, heading into the bay area weekend, i'll show you how warm it could get in your neighborhood, back at 10:45. >>> microsoft workers in silicon valley are going bald to help fight childhood cancer. this week, more than 40 employees will go from hair to bare. shaving their heads to raise money for st. baldricks foundation. last year, microsoft employees in mountain view, sunnyvale, and skype headquarters raised more than $15,000. organizers hope to surpass that mark this year. >>> he stabbed a teenager to death just two days ago. now he's been released from jail. what

ktvu's john fowler found out wine makers and police are surprised at the boltness. hn -- boldness. john? >> the crooks were not so clever. 4200 bottles disappeared sometimes after february 15. neighbors said he was giving away free wine. police say he was caught with 73,000 in cash. they found 55 cases but almost 300 more are missing. some was found as far away as washington state and southern california. >> they travel very fast and very far. >> reporter: the police chief said the unidentified wineries that made the wine will not resell recovered bottles. >> they won't want to sell that and risk selling poor wine. >> reporter: wine is regulated and taxed. investigators were on the case, what napa wine makers call a first of its kind. >> surprised. >> they had an inside line and knew thew get the wine -- how to get the wine out. >> reporter: investigators say they have only accounted for a fraction of the stolen wine so beware. >> when you get something that is offered up at a reduced price, it truly is -- if it is too good to be true it probably is. >> reporter: pol

ktvu's john fowler went to menlow park today to meet a young man who said it is important to rememberhe children are more than just numbers. >> reporter: he and his mom came back to the class. he graduated four years ago and had something to say. >> when you have autism you interpret the world literary because of this we missed out on the spoken information. >> reporter: diagnosed at three. >> now that i am older, because i don't have as much as my language, it might seem like i am more aspergers. >> reporter: autism rates are sky rocketing. double in 10 years. he said he thought about that. >> more people are more aware of it. and more people are diagnosed. >> she says the new numbers suggest something other than just awareness. >> there is probably environmental changes that have shifting because -- it is a steep growth. >> stunning how dramatic the rate increases. >> reporter: she hopes it will mean increased services. >> every person with autism is different and supports and services that work for one individual are not going to work for another. >> reporter: his old teacher says

john fowler has more on this report. >> oil spread on gusty winds across 100 square miles of once pristine, press williams sound. by days end, exxon crews had scooped up less than 1%, equipment failure and 70-mile an hour winds grounded planed and boats. the alaska governor blasted exxon that excuses don't happen. >> we made a bed of the largest oil slick in the history of this country for them to spawn into. >> investigators have not yet released crew drug or alcohol tests, but the captain who was below deck has a history of drinking problems. he pled guilty to drunk driving years ago. a 3rd inmate had no certificate to pilot the hundred $25 million ship in these waters. >> new position feels much more stable. >> containment booms, and still more oil spilled out. fumes from the crude made volunteer crews nausi eighted. eated. >> instead of it being allowed to e vap wait into the air -- crews were nauseated. >> instead, it evaporated into the air effecting the crew and animals. >> 16 months after the spill, millions of gallons of oil into alaska's prince williams sound, the ntstsb kacht 18

john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a court refused to block new meat labeling rules. tried to block the new labels arguing they go beyond what congress intended and say the labels violate freedom of speech right. >>> new evidence suggest children have high cholesterol and may be headed for heart disease. they tracked 13,000 children, 9- 11. and found 1-3 had high cholesterol. high cholesterol could lead it strokes or heart attacks later on. the study supports calls for cholesterol screening for all children. >>> crucial measurement of the water situation is coming up on tuesday with the final snow pack survey of the season. the recent rain and snow isn't likely to have much of an effect. measures are far below normal. the last survey, february 27 showed the northern sierra 15% of normal. central 32% of normal normal and the southern stood at 24%. 80% of california's waters comes from run off from melting snow. >>> tomorrow isn't going to look very good. >> tomorrow is mark burkes and max storm system number two -- tomorrow is storm system number two. it is helping to

our chief meteorologist bill martin will -- [no audio] >> john fowler and a look at the damage at the shoreline. >> reporter: we are at oyster point marina inside san francisco bay. sailors never seen winds like these or damage like this that it caused. >> reporter: this is all that is left of the fishing boat. one of three small boats smashed now on south san francisco oyster point marina shoreline. these pictures from news chopper 2. sailors never seen this kind of damage here, it is scary. >> seeing the sail boat hits us. to think we could crash like that. upsetting. >> they were aboard their boat inside the marina this morning. it was undamaged but there was a powerful east wind storm. >> blowing pretty good. 40 nots this morning. enough to break loose their anchor and toss them. >> reporter: it was not only the wind but the high tide. you could see water here on the shore, all that action drifted the boats on to the rocks. >> water 4, 6 feet average. that is why you never see boats out here anchored. >> reporter: it is a total loss tonight. we learned both the other boats were li

. >>> we go to ktvu's john fowler, john is in san francisco with what all this rain meant for reservoirs and conversation. john? >> reporter: we are in a beautiful, delightful break between storms. not raining here now but as bill said all around the bay today felt less and less like we were -- less and less like we were in a drought. people in san francisco ducked through the rain. umbrellas out. traffic slow. clouds began to part. >> i am not a rain lover. i know the area needs it. >> reporter: in contra costa county rain fell hard at times. snarling this highway 24 morning commute. by this afternoon sunshine in pacifica. it let her empty her rain buckets. >> look how quickly. this is what today's rainfall -- what we had. >> reporter: it is how she waters her plants. >> aplaysing how much you can -- amazing how much you can collect. for more than 30 -- >> reporter: for more than 30 years she has been collecting and using roof run off. >> sometimes you can collect water on a foggy day. >> reporter: residents asked to conserve 10%. she got a rebate. she among the people in the bay area u

as john fowler found out many parents are eke tore get their children en-- eager to get their childrenspite the steep tuition. >> reporter: this former ibm being renovated for the new private school opening in fall. we found parents clamoring to get their public school kids into basis. a high tech entrepreneur. >> passion is what is missing in the public school system, the kids are not able to get the fundamentals right. >> reporter: the school says it is accredited but it doesn't have to teach what it calls the dumbed down core curriculum of california public schools. >> a lot of students are under prepared in terms of their science, english, humanities and every kind of academic background. >> reporter: she says students at other schools across the nation rank in the top 1% of students worldwide. 3 to 4 years ahead of u.s. public school students. job placement agents say they have many well paying, high tech job openings. >> our biggest challenge is finding qualified candidates. both that are born and educated here and from other places as well. >> reporter: basis is just the latest

as john fowler found out many parents are eke tore get their children en-- eager to get their childrenspite the steep tuition. >> reporter: this former ibm being renovated for the new private school opening in fall. we found parents clamoring to get their public school kids into basis. a high tech entrepreneur. >> passion is what is missing in the public school system, the kids are not able to get the fundamentals right. >> reporter: the school says it is accredited but it doesn't have to teach what it calls the dumbed down core curriculum of california public schools. >> a lot of students are under prepared in terms of their science, english, humanities and every kind of academic background. >> reporter: she says students at other schools across the nation rank in the top 1% of students worldwide. 3 to 4 years ahead of u.s. public school students. job placement agents say they have many well paying, high tech job openings. >> our biggest challenge is finding qualified candidates. both that are born and educated here and from other places as well. >> reporter: basis is just the latest

ktvu's john fowler spoke with a young bay area man who says it's important to remember that these children are more than just numbers. and he speaks from personal experience. >> 23-year-old nathaniel major and his mom lisa came back to mr. amarosos class. nathaniel graduated two years ago and had something to say. >> when you have autism, you interpret the world very literally because of this, you miss out on much of the unspoken information that gives it much meaning. now that i've gotten older. even though i still have autism, the language is not much of a challenge for me, although it may seem like i'm more aspbergers. people have become more aware of it and more people have become diagnosed. >> there's probably some environmental changes that are shifting. because it's a really steep growth. >> reporter: nathaniel's mom says it will increase services. >> every person with autism is different. and the courts and services that work for one individual are not necessarily going to work for another. >> reporter: nathaniel's old teacher, baseball coach and mentor says he's learned a lot from

john fowler, ktvu news. >>> a study found 11% of the long term unemployed found work a year later.obs and also discrimination by employers against the long term unemployed. the princeton team sate without more jobs unemployment will continue to hold the economy back. >>> u.s. stock markets closed higher. the dow rose 108 points, the nasdaq rose 11. >>> a personal finance company says californians paid yearly to live here in the united states. the company is called wallet hub and says californians paid the second highest taxes. only new yorkers paid more. on average californians pay $9,500 a year in state and local prices. compare that to new yorkers who pay $9,700. and now compare that to the lowest taxes. people in wyoming pay only an average of $2,300. >>> google says its made its e- mail service more secure. the walnut hill company says it has improved incryption. google didn't mention nsa snooping specifically but did say the change is quote a top priority after last summer's revelation. >>> mk noble's time on american idol came to an end today. after she didn't get enough vote

reporting live, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> new information now in the death of a woman and the search for the suspect in her killing. we just received this photo of the victim. yunyi vhang. she was found shot to death by her daughter inside their home. police issued an arrest warrant for her husband, feng mi. investigators say feng mi is driving a 2013 silver toyota rav 4 with paper license plates. he should be considered armed and dangerous. >>> we are hearing from the family of a teen after being stabbed. it happened at john morgannen park. a homeless man -- morgan park. a homeless man is now in custody. ktvu's jaw nene v -- jeannine v- d -- janine de la vega has more. the loss of the 16-year-old, ivan diaz, he was at a barbecue last night. >> happy. humble. then we get a knock on the door. >> reporter: he came to the park, police say he and friends were hanging out near the baseball field. they got into an argument with a homeless man, 24-year-old todd tharp. it turned physical. todd tharp was beaten up and ivan diaz was stabbed. >> all homicides are difficult. we do a t

ktvu's john fowler spoke with a young bay area man who says it's important to remember that these childrene than just numbers. and he speaks from personal experience. >> 23-year-old nathaniel major and his mom lisa came back to mr. amarosos class. nathaniel graduated two years ago and had something to say. >> when you have autism, you interpret the world very literally because of this, you miss out on much of the unspoken information that gives it much meaning. now that i've gotten older. even though i still have autism, the language is not much of a challenge for me, although it may seem like i'm more aspbergers. people have become more aware of it and more people have become diagnosed. >> there's probably some environmental changes that are shifting. because it's a really steep growth. >> reporter: nathaniel's mom says it will increase services. >> every person with autism is different. and the courts and services that work for one individual are not necessarily going to work for another. >> reporter: nathaniel's old teacher, baseball coach and mentor says he's learned a lot from this yo

in walnut creek, john fowler, ktvu news. >>> three sisters from the east bay say they want some answers about why their mother has been locked up more than 8,000 miles away for almost two years. >> it was just roadblock after roadblock. nobody knew anything. no one would tell us anything. even to this day we still don't know where she's being held at. what her charges are. >> the family of long time oakland resident segui says they've been told only that she was detained by the government in the east african nation of aritrea. tomorrow at 5:00, two investigates after segia's daughter reached out for help. that's tomorrow night at 5:00. >>> the obama administration announced tonight it has extended monday's deadline to sign up for health insurance. people can qualify for an extension by indicating they tried to enrole before the deadline but were unable to do so because of technical difficulties. the rule applies to the three dozen states that used the federal exchange. here in california, the deadline of march 31st still remaybes. >>> an oakland community health center is getting a gran

in walnut creek, john fowler, ktvu news. >>> three sisters from the east bay say they want some answers about why their mother has been locked up more than 8,000 miles away for almost two years. >> it was just roadblock after roadblock. nobody knew anything. no one would tell us anything. even to this day we still don't know where she's being held at. what her charges are. >> the family of long time oakland resident segui says they've been told only that she was detained by the government in the east african nation of aritrea. tomorrow at 5:00, two investigates after segia's daughter reached out for help. that's tomorrow night at 5:00. >>> the obama administration announced tonight it has extended monday's deadline to sign up for health insurance. people can qualify for an extension by indicating they tried to enrole before the deadline but were unable to do so because of technical difficulties. the rule applies to the three dozen states that used the federal exchange. here in california, the deadline of march 31st still remaybes. >>> an oakland community health center is getting a gran

ktvu's john fowler spoke with police and administrators today about coping with the phenomenon of growing up too fast with social media. >> reporter: this is what can happen when

john fowler, ktvu news. >>> a study found 11% of the long term unemployed found work a year later. jobs and also discrimination by employers against the long term unemployed. the princeton team sate without more jobs unemployment will continue to hold the economy back. >>> u.s. stock markets closed higher. the dow rose 108 points, the nasdaq rose 11. >>> a personal finance company says californians paid yearly to live here in the united states. the company is called wallet hub and says californians paid the second highest taxes. only new yorkers paid more. on average californians pay $9,500 a year in state and local prices. compare that to new yorkers who pay $9,700. and now compare that to the lowest taxes. people in wyoming pay only an average of $2,300. >>> google says its made its e- mail service more secure. the walnut hill company says it has improved incryption. google didn't mention nsa snooping specifically but did say the change is quote a top priority after last summer's revelation. >>> mk noble's time on american idol came to an end today. after she didn't get enough vo

reporting live in oakland, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> this woman says she got into trouble at the gym for being too fit. >> she says you know excuse me, we've had some complaints. you're intimidating people with your toned body. >> reporter: the controversial policy she calls hypocritical. we get to the end of the day dinner'and i am toast. suit. in fact, we've had toast for dinner. but tonight i nailed it. kfc family feast. 9 pieces any recipe, 3 large sides, 6 biscuits, $19.99. do not give up on dinner. ♪ >>> $19 million, that's what the city of san francisco says it's spending every year to get rid of graffiti. and david stevenson looks at how they're getting that money back, sometimes from the vandals themselves. >> reporter: the city is hoping an overhall will scare away taggers. san francisco abation workers scrubbed and repainted graffiti. it costs taxpayers $19 million each year. >> they tag it, we abate. it's like a game of cat and mouse. >> reporter: supervisor announced a new plan to fix the problem. banning the tools of the trade on munni buses and city parks. >

as ktvu's john fowler reports now from san jose, it's also a big opportunity. >> reporter: at the cornerkmore in san jose, this former ibm building is being renovated for the new basis independent silicon valley private school opening in the fall. we found parents today clamoring to get their public school kids into basis. hi-tech entrepreneur robbie puvala educated in india. >> passion is what is missing in the public school system, that the kids are not able to get the fundamentals right. >> reporter: the school says it is accredited but independent which means it doesn't have to teach what it calls the dumbed down core curriculum of california public schools. >> unfortunately a lot of students are underprepared in terms of their science, their english, their humanities and every kind of academic background. >> reporter: patty ruggles heads the school and says students in other basis schools across the nation rank in the top 1% of students worldwide three to four years ahead of u.s. public school students. at job spring silicon valley job placement agents say they have many well paying