in petaluma, john ramos, kpix 5. >>> it's meant to be. awesome. >> valentine's day was three days ago. >> get the ring, brian. [ laughter ] >> still ahead, new details on the flooded oroville dam. officials releasing a new report about the damage. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, in the south bay-- there's the threat of flooding.. if the anderson reservoir spills over. >>> the storms are back and they could cause a lot of problems in the south bay, the threat of flooding at the anderson reservoir if it spills over. it's friday, february 17. i'm michelle griego. >> i'm kenny choi. >>> we are on storm watch. maria medina is at anderson creek. good morning. we do have storm watch conditions because we currently do have the rain falling here in the bay area. sandra osborne is right in the thick of things along the immediate seashore where the winds are the strongest. but right now let's go ahead and take a look at where the wind is falling the hardest. it's our live hi-def doppler radar picking up heavy precipitation in the north bay. we do have a bit of a bre

kpix 5's john ramos explains why. >> reporter: with the new smart rail line it will only go as far as san rafael even though voters approved it to take commuters all the way. >> you should be able to travel. right? if they pay for it. >> reporter: last year smart secured funding to construct new tracks and they say service to there could begin next year. but recently the city of san rafael sent smart a letter. >> requesting that the extension be held. >> the mayor says smart plans to extend the two tracks through the current bus transit center. he says they will take up so much space that larger buses won't fit into the facility anymore. >> they will have to occupy the city streets. you can imagine what the consequence of that will be. >> new transit center will have to be built and that will take 5 years. he is asking smart to postpone the plans till then knowing outsiders may no longer care about san rafael's traffic problems once the line is completed. >> we are concerned without a permanent solution and the funding that will become the norm and 10 years from now we will have the s

i think it'll be very good. >> john ramos, kpix5. >> you see the set there and all the lights. the tournament took five months to complete. aáepb for their win the cal team will split, next time your kid plays video games, $42,000 in prize money -- and for their win. >>> here outside today enjoying the sunshine. do i have good news for you. the weekend forecast just got better. the amount of rain just went down and find out how long we stay dry. coming up. plane: they had to passen >> coming up all new at6:00 tonight. before they could leave the plane they have to show i.d.s. passengers demanding answers after an unusual customs screening on a domestic flight from sfo. a woman tells us about her unnerving experience. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, it looks a little like halloween... a c1 >>> good thursday evening to you. a few showers a little father to the south. hidden valley lake and one over san helena. we have some unstable air banking up against the north bay mountains. aside from that we're dry and get used to that term. more dry in the extended forecast than we have seen all year

in alameda, john ramos, kpix 5. >> one word, tag along, yes! rain today, scattered showers continues. how long will the rain last? find out which part of the weekend does look like it will be dry so you can get outside. we'll talk about it next. ,, >>> lost in all the talk about the cloud cover and the rain, it's a mild day today. some of you hit the mid-60s. it was humid, as well. still in the 60s in livermore. 62 degrees there currently. 60 in concord, san jose 62. santa rosa checking in at 57. upper 50s oakland and san francisco. a couple of showers in the south bay just leaving san jose. couple of drips around sunnyvale, some steadier rainfall along 680 through milpitas and a few showers up toward the lexington reservoir coming off the santa cruz mountains. aside from that, it's really not that wet outside. it looks like it's going to pour. but i'm here to tell you it won't, just widely scattered showers. mild night. concord only to 54. san jose 54. santa rosa 52. pacifica 52. so we still have this low off to the west. we had a front move t

now, as kpix 5s jon john ramos shows us, there is a push to cut the route short in san rafael. >> reporter: when the new smart rail line begins operating this year, it will go as far as san rafael, even though voters approved it to take north bay commuters all the way to the larks spur ferry. >> you should be able to travel to larkspur, right? why every they pay for it being we should go for it. >> reporter: just last year, smart finally secured funding to construct new tracks to larkspur and they say that service to there could begin as early as next year. recently, the city of san rafael sent smart a letter. >> requesting that the extension to larko spur beeled hill. >> reporter: the mayor gary phillips said smart plans to extended the two tracks trite through -- right through the current bus transit center. he said they will take up so much space, that larger buses won't fit into the facility anymore. >> and those buses will have to occupy our streets. our city streets. and so you can imagine what the consequences of that will be. >> reporter: the mayor said a new transit center will ha

kpix 5's john ramos explains how it wound up flying high... above a local hi >>> this make america great again flag is stirring up controversy in concord. kpix 5's john ramos reports. >> reporter: early sunday morning terry was in her backyard in concord when she noticed something hanging from a tower across the street. >> after looking a little bit realized it was a trump flag and thought, okay, that's a weird senior prank. and they have obviously changed a little bit since i was in school. >> reporter: the tower is actually a 100-foot-tall transmitter for an on campus radio station at the charter high school. the flag features president trump's name and campaign slogan, make america great again! the district says surveillance video shows a group of young people in front of the school in the predawn hours of sunday morning. >> i know for a fact that someone had a couple of his friends climb up there and they put the flag up. >> reporter: it was it a political statement or to be goofing off? >> probably both. >> reporter: the executive directo

john ramos, kpix 5. >> the smart rail was supposed to get workers to their jobs via the ferry. >>> the search is on tonight for the hit-and-run driver who left a man badly hurt on the side of the san jose freeway. north bound 280 after 4:00 a.m. in the morning. chp says the victim stopped because he had to change a flat tire when a driver slammed into him. police found the suspect's red bumper and fender at the scene. probably from a toast corolla. -- toyota cerola. >>> police -- corolla. >>> police arrested a arsonist after they found a car on fire. officers tracked down the suspect with help from witnesses. unclear why he set the fire. he is facing multiple charges tonight. >>> still to come, the rin comes down and -- rain comes down and calls for roof repairs are going up. >> and raider nation extends an olive branch to owner mark davis. they are new plan to try keep the team in town. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, but be careful when you' . >>> with all the rain a lot of people are noticing they need roof repairs but be careful when picking a contractor. >> reporter: for a los angeles couple it

citizens, kpix 5's john ramos tells us many fear a repeat of a painful history. >> reporter: people ofll nationalities gathered in san francisco, not to celebrate but to remember the 75th anniversary of the japanese internment during world war ii. films made it seem like they were happy to go. >> they felt this was a sacrifice they could make. >> reporter: he was 11 at the time and remembers it differently. >> we were in a state of getting on the bus, following their instructions. we have no idea what is happening to us. >> reporter: a lot of people feel the same way today. executive orders singling out people are often justified as a martyr of national security. just like 75 years ago -- matter of national security, just like 75 years ago. >> people may have loyalties to an enemy nation. >> reporter: he helped over turn had 40-year-old conviction for him. he says what's happening today mirrors the treatment of the japanese americans. >> they assumed they were doing wrong doing which they were not and it was a huge hole that was drilled through constitution. today we are in danger of d

in downtown martinez, john ramos, kpix 5. >>> more flooding to tell you about.inage canals are filled to the brim in concord and walnut creek. contra costa county fire is warning people in the area, stay away. also in walnut creek, this is storm runoff. >>> this is the uplands near claremont in berkeley. the downed tree ripped up sidewalk. the green bin won't be enough for the clean-up. >>> the creek through downtown mill valley looked like a river. i got a look at the the wares crept close to some backyards. i'm at the creek that runs through downtown mill valley. this water is coming off the mount tam watershed running through mill valley running parallel to miller avenue right behind the safeway near the high school here but let me get out of the way so you can see how fast this creek is running here and then i'm going to turn and show you it runs right behind these houses and then goes on down in the distance. you're going to see there the bridge, that is where it goes underneath camino alto and on out into richardson bay but this creek is high coming up clo

in petaluma, john ramos, kpix 5. >> where was that story on valentine's day? >> i don't know. i suggest they have separate litter boxes. keep it clean. >>> let's check the results of our snapshot poll p f people-- about 70 percent saying it's not a good strategy. thanks for weighing in n watch the entire press conference on our kpix 5 facebook page and on cbs sf dot com. toss to meteorologist paul deanno (((weather))) (((weather))) (((weather))) you can see the entire press conference on our facebook page and cbssf.com. >>> paul has the latest. more rain moving in tomorrow. >> widespread flooding not expected but the morning commute will be slow and there may be enough rain to mess up the evening commute, as well. a getaway day tomorrow. we are coming up on a holiday weekend lots of folks heading to the sierra which will receive new snowfall tomorrow. man, is it going to be a great day to go skiing on saturday, sunday. monday on the travel day home, it will be a little soggy. radar clear tonight. rain moves back in after midnight. temperatures outside upper 50s. san jose 59. c

treat me now at vie ron could dlcruz. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, kpix 5's john ramos shows us.. >>> new at:00 nasa is looking for help on a special space mission. >> indeed. kpix 5's john ramos shows us they are calling on citizen scientists to scour the universe. >> reporter: in the 1950s most people's understanding of space came from campy movies like "plan 9 from outer space." but then nasa began building instruments like its infrared telescope providing amazing wide-angle views. >> what's great is it's already mapped the entire sky several times over which means it's really great for looking for moving objects. >> reporter: objects that are moving are closer to us, but researcher dr. aaron meisner says there are so many things in the sky they need help examining them. so they have teamed up for a crowd source project in which individuals are sent still pictures from a different tiny piece of the galaxy to examine for any signs of movement. >> people are really good at finding motion in crowded scenes. >> reporter: better than computers? >> definitely. >> it's sort of an outer space ver

kpix 5's john ramos tells us what makes these planets so captivating. >> reporter: at its press conference today, nasa rocked a lot of people's worlds. useding the spitzer space telescope, astronomers have identified seven earth sized planets orbiting a star called trappist 1. three of the planets have conditions that would allow liquid water to exist. >> it gives us a hint that finding a second earth is not just a matter of if but when. >> reporter: trappist 1 is considered a red dwarf star, one-twelfth the size of the sun and much cooler. dr. paul calas of uc berkeley says the planets' orbits take just 24 hours. >> for the innermost planet, by the time you wake up tomorrow, it's already gone around its star and finished its year. >> reporter: and at a distance of only 39 light years from earth, the trappist system is considered in our solar system's backyard. that's good news to the scientists at cal's research center. their breakthrough listen project is using radio telescopes to search for transmissions from other intelligent life forms. >> are there other beings like us that think abo

john ramos reports the expert who signed off on the building foundation told the board it wasn't his job to say if it would actually work. >> it just kind of makes a mockery out of what peer review is supposed to be which is -- >> reporter: uc-berkeley engineering professor jack moehle was a paid consultant for the millennium tower developers when he signed a letter okaying the building's design but now at tower continues to sink, moehle says he was only verifying that the building itself met structural codes and was not referring to the foundation or the ground beneath it. >> i'm not saying the foundation design is has been reviewed by me and that i have determined that the foundation is going to work and et cetera. it doesn't say that. i'm not qualified to do that. >> reporter: the tower has what's called a prescriptive design which means it strictly follows current building codes without actually determining whether those will work. as a result, no study of the soil under the site was required but supervisor peskin says the city relied on the professor's verification, especially s

kpix 5's john ramos on why the creator of dilbert is now cutting ties with cal. >> reporter: last week a protest at uc berkeley descended into violence to keep an unpopular right-wing columnist from speaking. it seems things have changed at the birthplace of the free speech movement. >> did it bother you at all? >> i'm bothered by the fact he came to our campus. >> reporter: but it did bother some. >> some chilling video from berkley. >> reporter: scott adams is creator of the comic strip dilbert. the cartoon satirizes modern office politics but adams also gets political in his personal video blog post. lately he's been seen on national tv praising president trump's powers of persuasion. so after last week's protest, adams is convinced he would not be welcome at his old alma mater. >> at this point it's pretty clear that berkley doesn't like me. they haven't said that about the fact i write about trump, certainly means they hate me. >> reporter: he has donated his time and money to innovation startup community but says he's now done with that. and will not be visiting the campus again.

kpix 5's john ramos was there for today's hearing and has their side of the story. >> reporter: hazmatms can be needed at any given moment so contra costa county keeps six members on call around the clock. but today, 11 retired hazmat workers were on the hot seat accused of using on-call hours to boost their pensions right before retiring. at a meeting of the retirement board, trustees were shown charts with dramatic spikes in on-call hours worked in the final year of employment. >> it's a question on an individual basis as to why that has occurred. >> reporter: employees are prohibited by law from taking action to improperly inflate their salaries for pension purposes. but the workers said they simply volunteered for hours that were offered and were even advised by pension counselors and payroll managers to do so to maximize their retirement benefits. >> i did not hide, falsify anything or do anything that in any way looked improper. >> i'm sick and tired of being accused of doing something wrong when all i did was follow county procedures. >> reporter: the salary spikes from 11 retir

as kpix 5 reporter john ramos explains, there is a big new flavor. >> the cookies are here! >> reporter: each year americans withstand a marketing blitz like no other. ♪[ music ] >> cookies are here! ♪[ music ] >> yes! so it's cookie time. girl scouts in northern california are selling cookies this year from february 1 to march 5. >> reporter: the 100th anniversary of the girl scout cookie drive. sales support activities for local troops but back in 1917 there weren't a lot of options for a woman to earn money. >> so record in to get the cash resources -- so in order to get the cash resources, they had to figure out a valuable thing to sell that people would want to buy. >> reporter: down through the years, sales techniques got sharper and today youtube is full of videos offering advice for setting up the perfect cookie booth. one helpful video shows examples of what not to do. [ inaudible ] >> are you buying or what? >> reporter: and actually warns against being kidnapped. >> ah!! >> reporter: but despite that dubious help, this pop-up industry has blossomed nicely into the

john ramos shows us what this means for those who call their rvs home. >> where woodlawn avenue and auburn meet is marin county. some are commercial trucks and trailers but it's the rvs that have really drawn the attention and criticism of neighbors. because of the homeless living in most of them. >> overnight multiple days, people setting up bar-be- queing, basically camping out on the side of the road. >> reporter: so they approved a ban of overnight parking. not city wide but just on those roads. >> i think we're trying to actually use the lightest touch here to address a problem when it comes up. >> no matter where we go we're going to be a problem. we're going to be a a problem. >> reporter: harry shiro and his wife joyce have lived in this rv for two months now. ever since they were evicted from his apartment. he's proud that he was able to get it running even though the radiator is shot. he says that he is not proud that he has ended up here. >> where do you think they want you to go? >> sam quintin, in jail, isn't the bay, in the ocean. i don't know where we'll two. >> reporter: sa

in marin county, john ramos, kpix5. >> bikes are allowed on fire trails. but cyclists say they're only allowed on 9% of county lands although they're 40% of open space visitors. >>> saving lives with the of a finger. the new tests california doctors are developing to diagnose nose brain disease in athletes before they even know they're sick! >> and a cruiser is hit with an officer inside. >> and if it's broke, why not fix it? for free? the new service keeping household junk out of bay area landfills one repair at a time. >> and one big blow stirring up in the area. the winds are picking up. the rain will be coming down, but not much. we'll have the forecast coming up after the break. >>> the crisis at oroville dam. we'll explain it's just one sign of california's aging water infrastructure. >> we have levy risks, flood risks. the delta is a problem. >> the smallest crack, the smallest mistake can lead to tremendous problems. >> folsom dam's new spillway will move record amounts of water quickly. >> increasingly we'll want to step back and think, let's reth

i talked to jorge ramos. johne clear there will be no mass deportations and they will be focussing in on what he called the criminal element in the united states. do you believe him? >> of obviously, we have to believe him. this contradicts the deportation will be a military operation. maybe he misspoke but if general kelly is telling the truth and that will be no mass deportations and no military force will be used, then how do you explain the memos. how do you explain 15,000 new ice i geagents to do what? watch movies? no. there is fear. >> he meant military as an adjective and kelly says no military personnel but as you and i have talked about before, you know, there are many who believe that the definition of criminality is now under these new orders is so broad that it really can affect just about anybody and there is huge discretion on the part of law enforcement more than there was before about who they want to deport. >> i agree with you and that's precisely the problem. their new definition of criminal is