joining us to discuss his findings is that a reporter noah boston. thanks for joining us.ine of the article is the city's 911 system buckled as the storms wreaked havoc. what happened tuesday? >> as the storm city, there were so many impacts. there was a 400% increase in number of 911 calls that were coming into the dispatch center. we even saw the director of the department of emergency management send out a tweet saying, please only call 911 in a life-threatening situation. because we are seeing really long wait times to get through the dispatchers. kristen: do you know how long the wait times were and how that compares to normal? >> i asked the d to give us that data. they have not shared it. kristen: but is longer than they want -- it's longer than they want. you have data about how it's been more than their standards would dictate. >> unfortunately for months not, the department has really struggled to meet its standard for answering mineral one calls. -- answering 911 calls. they want to answer 95% of calls within 15 seconds. that has not happened in years, actually.

i asked noah boston from the san francisco standard about what happened and he says that staffing iserious problem right now. that it takes 10 months from the moment someone applies until they can actually get hired, because it is this whole process to get someone hired into a city job. then another 10 months to get them trained up, so they can answer calls on their own. we could be looking at years before the department is back to full staffing levels. kristen: he says the call center was fully staffed on tuesday. julian: the state is stepping up efforts to increase the number of california children who can read by the time they reached the third grade. today the superintendent of public schools, discussing a number of changes being implement it. they include millions of dollars in grants to expand literacy programs and improvements on how teachers were taught. >> our commission, which i have been on and serving has announced new standards for how teachers in teacher credential programs, teachers and training should be learning -- in training should be learning what they should be d

noah releasedq its spring outlook. moderate flooding likely from yosemite all the way down to bakersfield. we will be watching that. kansas -z you don't need ai to tell youe1 that's warm. boston84. 13e1 degreese1 above average. temperatures, though, are citying mild. look at this.fá 58 in new york. and cincinnati, cleveland, you >>> and you can still see the system spinning, you can see it right over the bay area, and we've got some lightning through southern california. zooming this in, we are expecting to see some rain continue with heavier pockets, right now coming down in santa cruz. a lot of the rain will focus south of the golden gate bridge. there will be a flood advisory until 11:45. expect to see the possibility for more flooding and creeks, streams and rivers are running high and very fast. >>> and that is your l latest moorning. >> we'rre goingg to lauaugh t t mororning. ddo you knknow e1who's here?sv4 keegan michael ñrkeene. >>> but first, featured an unforgotable birthday surprise that wwill certtainly mamake yo smile.e. the adadventurerss and ththe doers. the adadventurerss to everyonone that wororks hd and plays s hard. whetheher it's youour fit silverado o or