lake sonoma the primary water source for many, less than 2/3 full and dropping. some rain is on the way. >> i'm hoping for a phenomenal february and miracle mar. if we don't get that this is the water supply needed for future years. >> customers from marin north to willits. they are told to conserve. >> i don't bath as often, we buy bottled water. >> people are using 13% less water, because cost remain constant, conservation means a rate hike. kathleen calls it more than ironic. now to be punished by having our rates raised is odd. >> this is lake sonoma. >> grant davis said the district will take $6 million in reserve and . this should not be a situation folks are saying they are using less water and paying more. we've managed to stabilize the rate. >> we're getting first word of a new superaccurate storm pro director. it's aimed at protecting the water resources, i'll have more on that at 6:00. >>> continuing coverage of the drought, the federal government is pledging $14 million to help california, the help was announced today. the money will go to improve wat

heaviest activity is towards portions of sonoma and lake counties. hidden valley lake. san francisco and oakland not as much coverage on to show you. the activity changes a bit for tonight into tomorrow. a lot more on that forecast. break down the timing of significant rainfall in the bay area weather patterns. >>> a flash flood warning is still in effect there. katie? >> ken, this is honestly the lightest rain we've been in all day but it has been coming down. you can see how swollen the creek is with the fresh rain. we are on the park way which is closed because of flooding on the roadway earlier today. almost everyone is dealing with bad driving conditions we spoke with a business owner who is dealing with water gushing into her building. we helped handyman collin fill sand bags because he was in a hurry. >> it's a mess. they have an inch of water in the back room. >> his friend jim on fourth street flooded over night. >> you can learn to do when your business is going under water. >> here's why. >> i think they did some hillside retaining stuff and in doing that it

still far lower than this time of year, with today's rain, water officials say lake sonoma is at 67%, and lake mendicino is at 40%. >> and we'll have more on the weather app for download on android and apple devices. >>> following developing news out of the south bay a car crashed into a home on campbell. the driver did it on purpose, police say. the driver had a woman and two concern with him in the silver acura when he drove into the home. they say he hit it going 60 mileance hour. you see the damage -- miles an hour. you see the damage to the vehicle. he was under the influence of drugs. he was seriously injured and so were the passengers. they are expected to survive. the house has damage, as well, but no one inside was hurt. >> arizona governor jan brewer made her decision late today and vetoed legislation that denied service to gays and lesbians. >> i believe senate bill 1062 has the potential to create more problems then it purports to solve. >> crowds in phoenix cheered her decision, it would have sanctioned discrimination by allowing businesses to denier is have yous based on

and santa rosa press democrat reports that lake sonoma is at about 65%. and there is more rain headed our way. abc7 sandhya patel is live with the roof on the detail. >> more rain coming into the area. right now, it's dry but comfortable in terms of temperatures. our radar will be tracking two storms this week. and let me show you first system. tomorrow afternoon, at 3:00 p.m we see drops in north bay around santa rosa. it will be about 5:00 a system moves in behind that storm looks like a wet pattern is developing. i'll be back with a look at all of the details including rainfall coming up. >> san bruno suing the state public utilities commission over documents and e mails related to the deadly pipeline explosion that killed eight people in 2010. officials want documents they say can show state regulators improved in the process. this after conditions saying pg&e and but that caused an uproar and regulators recommended pg&e pay a fine for the blast >> fire department took a big financial hit today because it's not getting to medical emergencies fast enou

. >>> divers returned to lake sonoma today. remains were discovered in december. at that time divers tried to recover the remains from the murky water. today deputies located the body. it is unclear how long the remains have been in the lake. >>> a juvenile court judge ordered child protective services to withhold information about the 3-year- old girl killed by her mother and the mothers boyfriend. cps was allowed to release only a single page. when kaylee slusher died. officials would not say if caseworkers visited the home. an attorney who helped write the law that requires disclosing the information is questioning the decision. the law requires that only one factor can determine whether the court withholds information or not. that's the interest of another child. grimm says there's no indication of a sibling to be protected. napa county officials say they did not make errors in the case. they say they are reviewing their procedures. >>> the highway patrol broke up a chop shop in oakland and made more than a dozen arrests. 40 officers served a warrant at 39th a

. >> officials say lake sonoma is 67%. >> more details on conversation efforts around the bay area. we checked in with water agencies that asked customers to cut back water use. the san francisco public utilities commission asked asked for a 10% reduction. marine asked for 25% reduction and water use is down 17% compared to february last year. east bay mud asked for a 10% reduction. yesterday they told us conversation efforts have already reached 4.3%. the severity of the drought is captured in pictures at lake fulsome. look at these pictures. on the left side a full lake in 2011 when it was at 97% capacity. the picture on the right shows the lake last month at 17% capacity. today nasa scientists and water officials discussed satellite monitoring of drought conditions. they will use maps to identify and respond to trouble spots. >> couple of ways we want to use this data and trade into the future is monitor the areas in case there is too much pumping. if the ground subsides too much you collapse. >> there is a plan to fly censors to monitor the snow pack at higher elevations. offici

belong to a person who's car was found parked on the bridge with its engine running 21 years ago at lake sonoma. >>> a casterville man was killed when a piece of heavy equipment fell on him. the vehicle was a mechanic at voel voe -- volvo construction equipment when it slipped off its safety stand. we're told he died instantly. it took fire crews sometime to stabilize the seven-ton piece of equipment to reach him. safety cal osha inspectors are investigating into what happened. >>> and crews are fixing a busted sewage line, and it's flowing into the russian river. the district says drinking water has not been effected, but people are being asked to minimize use. repair should be complete late tonight or tomorrow. >> a major court ruling today overturned a key provision of the state's gun laws. a three judge panel, the federal appeals court in san francisco truck down california concealed weapons rule. and as ktvu stevenson says this violated the right to bear arms. >> reporter: a 9th circuit court of appeals today ruled california must allow law abiding citizens to carry firearms in public. the

belong to a person who's car was found parked on the bridge with its engine running 21 years ago at lake sonoma. >>> a casterville man was killed when a piece of heavy equipment fell on him. the vehicle was a mechanic at voel voe -- volvo construction equipment when it slipped off its safety stand. we're told he died instantly. it took fire crews sometime to stabilize the seven-ton piece of equipment to reach him. safety cal osha inspectors are investigating into what happened. >>> and crews are fixing a busted sewage line, and it's flowing into the russian river. the district says drinking water has not been effected, but people are being asked to minimize use. repair should be complete late tonight or tomorrow. >> a major court ruling today overturned a key provision of the state's gun laws. a three judge panel, the federal appeals court in san francisco truck down california concealed weapons rule. and as ktvu stevenson says this violated the right to bear arms. >> reporter: a 9th circuit court of appeals today ruled california must allow law abiding citizens to carry firearms in public. the

. >>> divers returned to lake sonoma to recover some skeletal remains from the water.t spotted by a recreational diver in december. but poor visibility hampered their redrival. today they got help from the technical dive team. >>> a man who wants the governor's job says he has already raised $1 million for his campaign. he is a republican, he announced his bid to be governor two weeks ago, the million dollars suggests he is able to raise more money. but he is facing an uphill battle against jerry brown. >>> two plane tickets to washington, d.c., a hotel room, and no purchase required. that's what two winners will get in a sweepstakes that is offering an unusual prize. a meeting with president obama. new at 10:00, ktvu's jana katsuyama is live to explain some of the fine print of this deal that she first noticed on twitter. >> reporter: frank, we got some interesting reactions to this here in san francisco. i saw this pop up on twitter about 2:45 this afternoon. the big question is, is this a very deft political play, or an act of desperation? the tweet came from the gr

. >>> divers returned to lake sonoma to recover some skeletal remains from the water.d by a recreational diver in december. but poor visibility hampered their redrival. today they got help from the technical dive team. >>> a man who wants the governor's job says he has already raised $1 million for his campaign. he is a republican, he announced his bid to be governor two weeks ago, the million dollars suggests he is able to raise more money. but he is facing an uphill battle against jerry brown. >>> two plane tickets to washington, d.c., a hotel room, and no purchase required. that's what two winners will get in a sweepstakes that is offering an unusual prize. a meeting with president obama. new at 10:00, ktvu's jana katsuyama is live to explain some of the fine print of this deal that she first noticed on twitter. >> reporter: frank, we got some interesting reactions to this here in san francisco. i saw this pop up on twitter about 2:45 this afternoon. the big question is, is this a very deft political play, or an act of desperation? the tweet came from the group orga

this creek in lake sonoma is overflowing. the photographer said it went from ankle deep to completely washed out in four hours. >> i want to show you another picture. a spa owner sent us this picture, trying to protect building from rising waters. the last picture comes to us from our social media director, michelle, showing us this flooding. one of many, many in the north bay. >> >> we would like to see your weather photos -- . >>> our storm watch coverage continues throughout the hour, we'll check back in with our meteorologist, mark, coming up at 5:20, 5:30 and 5:45. coming up in a few minutes at 5:15, allie has shown how rain has exposed a new problem on the new bay bridge. we'll get another look at the live conditions coming up in the next half hour. >> >> a major change in the way the government recognizes same sex marriage is getting major criticism >>> >> another example of the obama's administration imposing their will on the state. >> >> a federal announcement expected tomorrow could mean for same sex couples across

lake county, maybe northern sonoma could get light rain. we need a break, we need a break. some of the rain totals as we said would approach about a foot, and that did. kentfield did, i have better ones in a second. napa almost seven and three quarters, santa rosa six and a third. i think we had 6.50, that's pretty good. san francisco over three, again, the line was north, i tell you, you go north bay, rain, south, and all the sudden, light rain or cloudy or drizzly, whatever. morgan hills .78. the leader of the back, if it is mount tan with seven inches. these are four day totals. the russian river, almost 12 and a half. mill valley about a foot. the pattern sets up right, they can get as much as the north bay, it just wasn't favorable for them. how do we stack up? 10% of average four or five days ago. now things look better. still nine inches of rain, 40% for where we should be. sanchos only 28. normal year, this would be bad, we got much needed rain, some too much too soon. lost a the lot of fog, things are winding down. a lot of green here, not much wider snow. these ar

those of you in mendocino county, lake county and northern sonoma county may get a shower or two tomorrow, cloudy, humid, mild night. vallejo wakes up to 51 tomorrow, freemont 49, san jose 50 degrees, sunrise 7:02. that ridge of high pressure is back. we call this a dirty ridge because it's strong enough to send the rainfall away from us but not strong enough to keep the clouds away, lots of cloud cover today just like yesterday. we'll have more cloud cover tomorrow. so it's close but not as close as when we were sunny and 75 every day. tomorrow that rain, no rain line dips a little bit closer to us. the far north bay you in a see showers tomorrow, but we're mostly staying dry, dry friday as well. saturday is the day we have a front moving along that storm track that will take the rainfall and push it down to the bay area. you'll get some rain saturday night. that may impact your valentine's day plans because you night go out saturday. saturday night it will be wet. bring the umbrella. slight chance of a shower tomorrow in the north bay. most of us stay dry. we'll all be dry friday, but s

it will take a little dip tomorrow but we stay dry and mild with the exception of northern sonoma county, lake county mendocino county. you have a chance of a few showers tomorrow. the rest of us will have a day similar today which is mild, muggy, cloudy, but rain-free. so a slight shower chance for the north bay far north bay tomorrow. valentine's day i know a lot of you have dinner reservations with your significant other. you will be dry on valentine's day. showers do move in though on saturday especially the second half of the day. that's a shower chance for all of us. so rain chance saturday night early sunday morning. highs tomorrow low 60s in san francisco. mid-60s for you in concord and oakland. 64 for napa. san jose one of the warm spots at 68. here's your extended forecast. we have that slight chance of a shower in the north bay tomorrow. otherwise dry. friday valentine's day we're dry mid- to upper 60s both inland and near the bay. late saturday that's your rain chance. it will clear out by early sunday morning, sunday will be the drier choice over the weekend. and then after a dry

had the flexibility to still look outside, that water would be in the lake and we'd have twice the supply today. >> reporter: the sonomanty water agency partnered with noaa to come up with a better way forecasting when storms are coming and maybe more importantly when they aren't. the corps of engineers' response so far, they'll look into it. >> whatever happened to raising the height of the dam? >> that was part of the original design. it called for another 32 feet on top of the dam back in the '80s. they were going to do that, never done because of money. the army corps said the original dam cost $8 million to build 60 years ago. a phase two addition now would cost $250 million, couldn't do it. >> thank you. >>> check out mount diablo. that is snow. you can barely see it, but it got a light dusting yesterday all the way down to 2,000 feet. i saw it from my house. i tweeted you a photo of it. >> yes. >> we were both like dancing out in the yard after that. >> the rain is here. >> great news. it was cold, wet. some spots got 1/2 to 3/4-inch of rainfall and that's just the beginning. we have a little pattern change here

but because the lake is in a critical stage, the sonoma county water agency can reduce russian river flow in order to preserve water storage in lake mendocino. few vineyard on river road in forestville were also plunged under water. something few remember seeing in a long time. >> it's like a gold color sandy home. >>reporter: different story on west side road in healdsburg. soil is sandy. perfect for growing grapes. wine maker rick says they will need more rain in the next few weeks. >> when the soil just suck up the water and then it drains right through so when these vine wake up and start pushing bud and the bud bud break you need moisture in the soil. >>reporter: in the mean time sonoma county is reminding everyone to conserve. >> irrigation off. shorter showers. full load of laundry. full loads of dishwashing. everything you can possibly think of. >> if things don't improve mandatory water conservation plan may have to be imposed. in santa rosa, abc 7 news. >> in east bay arborist still busy removing big tree that fell on an office complex around noon. this is on camino pablo so

play through tonight and tomorrow you see some green mainly north of santa rosa, lake county, mendocino county, northern sonomat much rainfall around the greater bay area. it will be cloudy. but it will be rain-free once again kind of like what we had today. slight shower chance far north bay tomorrow. what to expect for valentine's day? if you are heading out it's going to be dry. we'll be mainly cloudy with highs in the mid- to upper 60s but rain does come in if you have that dinner reservation on saturday. rain moving in saturday night out by sunday morning but a nice widespread rain chance. we'll get some rain saturday night. fremont 66. san mateo 66 degrees. pleasanton the tri-valley upper 60s for you. antioch 68. benicia 65. kentfield hitting 62 tomorrow. cooler because you will be cloudier in the north. lakeport showers on thursday high for you 64 degrees. your extended forecast put a heart on the seven-day because valentine's day is friday. if you love dry weather, there you go mid- to upper 60s partly sunny skies. rain moving in saturday night. i think most of sunday will be dry. the rain will be out

lake county. by 3:00 marin and sonoma should be dry but we still have wet weather over into the east bay and the south. even the heavier rain will be in the south bay, the santa cruz mountains. but 8:00 tonight we have partly cloudy skies. it's going to be a chilly evening. not much snow for the sierra nevada but we are looking at the totals from a ten together inch in the green shaded area. not bad. in fact, we will see the temperatures today much, much cooler. in fact below normal. how about 56 for san mateo if we get there? we will probably still see numbers in the upper 40s around clear lake and cloverdale and the accuweather seven-day forecast, showers with a chance of thunderstorms. 40s and 50s today. sunny tomorrow and tuesday. but don't despair. we are clouding up and looking at more rain by thursday, maybe a few drops on friday and by next weekend we have got, it looks like, a more significant system headed our way. still looking good with that one. abc7 news has another great weather resource for you to follow. following live doppler 7hd on twitter or the bay area weather conditions, rain or

get four to eight inches of rain between friday night and sunday, you know and i know, sonoma, napa, mendincino lakea problem. we'll keep this updated, but that's the projection so far. this has been a pretty good rain. this is a good old-fashioned -- not great, but not bad at all considering what we've had lately, it's really good. larksburg 1.23. thanks to kevin for that. salsilito had the least. vallejo.75, oakmont, kenwood, highway 12.71, blossom hill.63 and palo alto.51. more than that at sfo. that's a pretty good rain. other totals, again, around about a half inch to an inch covers it. you can take your pick south bay, east bay, concord point,.65, san francisco.70, so not too bad here. so this system is still working its way through, 1/4 to 1 1/4 inches. heaviest should be winding down around 10:00 a.m. it is definitely opening the door for a much warmer and wetter system. january, 18 days of either tying or setting record highs. my how things have changed now. we have this system and then the one for the weekend. there'll be a series of them beginning to move in, and i mean, some of the proje

lake. it's a road in sonoma county that's blocked due to flooding and kron4's mike pelton has been reportingit looks worse than it has in the two hours that you've been there. >> reporter: yeah, marty, that's what i was going to tell you is this has gotten much worse over the past hour or so, this is all water that's running out of the sonoma creek and ponding near the intersection of state route 121 and state route 12. you can see at this point looks more like a mini river as water just rushing down the street here. now, certainly you cannot drive through this area. caltrans crews are here specifically blocking off this intersection, however, they have also put in hard closures and a lot of access points and closed a portion of state route 121. here's some of the video from earlier this morning. you can see a lot of drivers there coming off of state route 116 trying to get onto state route 121 to get up and over to napa. that's not the case this morning. you can see the road there is closed. a lot of drivers have had month tull over -- had to pull over, try and find an alternate route. calt

lake county. we set record highs so a rainy pattern has returned and morning rain is here for us. especially up towards northern sonoma napa. 40s on the temperatures and they are right about a 50, i don't expect them to change too much. even though they are not done yet, that system is going throughout to the east bay mt. diablo and clayton. highway 4 and then back over to the peninsular things have been active here as well. around palo alto, and we get a break later today and the next system is rolling it will that it is going to set the stable and snow level is around 44 5,000 feet. then snow starts and sunday might be rain and it will be that warm of a system. it will go like that really fast, just so you know. high ares are in the 50s. and we are in february and it has been a cool pattern and it is going to stay cloudy and rainy, especially for everybody, saturday lingering into monday. >> we want your weather photos and if you need some really good rain, send us a picture, you can e-mail us or just up low to your account. and they are limiting jobs in the process. they will spinoff into a separate company by july

clear lake, san rafael, nevada, kentfield, a lot of rain in kentfield and mill valley. that's for sure. and sonomaivermore, and now some low 60s with that south wind. that warms up the santa clara valley and the santa cruz and 50s on the coast. maybe upper 50s. 57 for mountain view. rain is on its way. take us into sunday. >>> 8:22. big news for a giant investment company, the reason 1000 san francisco jobs could be headed out of state. >>> plus, how facebook is helping groving parents after their son died. the father's youtube video and what was just released on facebook's 10th anniversary that may help other grieving families. good is in every blue diamond a good that comes in 25 flavors. from whole natural to wasabi and soy sauce. and once good gets going, there's no stopping it. get your good going. blue diamond. snack nut of u.s. snowboarding. hales corners, wisconsin. nice pass by alyson dudek. can she hang on to that spot? and she does! [ male announcer ] with the u-verse wireless receiver, your tv goes where you take it, allowing inspiration to follow. ♪ [ dad ] looks pretty good, right? [

sonoma county. there is go news from the sierra, a small weekend storm brought a little snow to ski resorts. this is video from the ski resort in south lake that got 9" between saturday and sunday. >> another snowstorm is moving through the midwest and in the northeast tonight. some areas could get up to .5' of snow, this morning, 11 states from the dakotas to ohio are under winter weather advisory. >> the northeast cannot catch a break: another monster storm ravaged new england coast and brought some areas a foot of snow and white out conditions from 50 miles per hour winds. 14,000 homes and businesses lost power, and residents are screaming "enough." >> this is not the negativing in of my childhood, a cold, harsh awfulness. cleaning up the snow is backbreaking and the plows cannot move fast enough. >> i started an sure ago and i have another two hours ahead of me. >> communes are running out of snow removal money. one city spent 80 percent of their storm budget. >> we remove snow from the downtown and when we do that, it is $30,000. >> in milwaukee crews are using sand on side streets to conserve what little salt they have left. >> if t

heavy rain sonoma county airport from marin towards petaluma and closer around santa rosa and these shows the increase of the rainfall rates and gulf park gulf course drive and hidden valley lake activity for the north bay. moving the maps around daily dash daley city across the bay and rainfall rates with this one cell stay around daley city coming up for you. about .32 inches an hour. so a third of an inch an hour for this part of the bay area pod rit -- pod mit -- moderate steady down pours. moving to the south san jose towards saratoga and mountainview activity is ramping up for this part of the region and the trend turns look what'sdeveloping more energy approaching from the south and west and that will increase the heavier rainfall and a possibility of some more thunderstorms. we will have another update in one hour and complete storm wrap coverage coming up on the ktvu channel 2 news at 5. she walks back in. that officer got a little bit concerned because he was unable to reach the dispatcher decided to check up on said dispatcher, that's him pulling up in this patrol car and watch this moment as he's walking in, he stops, turns back around, and realizes, hmm, something

sonoma county and marin. but north in the mendocino county/lake county, it's been quiet so far. 50s on the temperatures. 55 halfbay. 56 sfo, 56 mountain view. rainfall will be pretty good here. it will favor areas to the south as we head towards friday and saturday. friday's system looks like a very strong wind producer. we'll get rain out of it, too. generally around 1 to 3, 4 inches. possibility of isolated areas of 5, towards monterey. what i like is back here. there's strong development here. i think that could lead to severe weather later today. this is a wind forecast. i know it's very pretty. very colorful. carrie will like this. she's into colors. what you need to know, once you see the orange osh red -- or red, that will be strong gusts. watch what happens on friday. that's pretty strong. there will be a surface low coming in. that's really going to ramp up the breeze. friday's system looks good but the core, the low will dive towards southern california. by friday night/saturday things will calm down here. rain and wind. light to moderate. picking up in intensity. mild temperatures, that's later on. r

sonoma county water agency. >> the drought still on. we need six storms to be close to where we normally be at this time of the year. >> the russian river is fed by lakeendocino. it's waters are lower than they've been. and this lake is at 40% when should be 98%. and means water agency is allowing to rereduce russian river flows now, telting me places like here where i am, santa rosa needs six inches of rain rain to match 1977 which saw, perhaps worst drought in california. now, the director of the water agency told me we need a fabulous february and marvelous, miraculous march and awesome april to get us out of this mess. >> and marvelous may. >> that works. let's get a number on how rain totals are looking. >> yes. spencer christian joins with us a break between storms now. and what is coming up ahead? >> we'd like to see more storms coming our way. [ loss of audio ] >> foremost of the day it's been sort of a cloudy, dreary looking day. no rainfall occurring right now. looking at rainfall totals from weekend, and last five days. quite a nice dose of rainfall. nearly eight inches in santa rosa. and almost ten inch but look at the small totals, weak t

sonoma border, 10.03. cazadero had almost 15. kentfield, they got a foot. could be cobb mountain, 11. napa, one report of 9 inches. really good up in med county,lake saw 5, 7, 8. where do we stack up? san francisco over 6 inches. that's only 40%. oakland is only 33. san jose didn't have much rain. a lot of clouds. a lot of wind. 50s on the temperatures. one upper 40. that would be novato at 49. if you get a break or two, your temperature might dip. it looks like things are dipping. this is all heading north. one more system but fog, sun, very mild. still some drizzle in the morning. it will be back tonight and tomorrow. temperatures starting off mild. they will end up mild with a lot of 60s. antioch 64. concord is in there. morgan hill, santa rosa, san rafael close. redwood city, 64. 10 normal is 59 to 63. mostly cloudy, tuesday. one more system. cazadero, st. helena north, early wednesday. then it's out. nearly 70 on friday. increasing clouds by the weekend. >> okay >>> er. >>> over the -- over the last four days, a foot of rain. this is what the russian river looked like. what it looks like now. >>> and how the new smart cards work and why they