at sunset reservoir, we would have a pump section that connects with the north basin.and that contains 90 million gallons of water and can be isolated from the south basin. it went under seismic renovation and we spent about $40 million to seismicly update the north basin. and there is a main from the hatatchi water system. and we have a second location, lake merced. lake merced has about a billion dollars worth of water in it, and we would connect directly to lake merced, and there is a transmission main that is 60 inches big that we would connect to there. so, again, two sources at that one pump. two pump stations, each have toog sources of water having two sources of water. this is a conceptional alignment. you'll see the lake merced station in the southwest, and the pump station in the middle east of the sunset district, with a loop system of varying sizes, with the largest pipes being in the south and getting smaller as we move north. so with that, i am happy to answer any questions the commissioners may have. >> i have a question. i'm a little fussy on this. but

rain not just the north bay but all the way down to san francisco, down to san jose, make of the north basin area of all of us . but then close out for saturday, just in time for you to enjoy your weekend, so not too bad, but a little rain on the way. take the umbrella when you head out to more. class will be increasing tomorrow. temperatures will be relatively mild, 40 degrees in the overnight and san francisco . you can see low to mid 40s across the board. it will be similar to what we had yesterday. the rain if you're in the coastal health, you can see you and inch of rain, the most of our urgent urban areas are going to be 0.25 to 0.75 inches of rain. we will get in on it. it will keep temperatures down a bit. we're talking the 52 just about a 60 degree high. we'll talk a little bit more about the extent forecast. when i come back, we do have some rain coming next week as well. >>> march madness kicked off today, and san jose is getting ready for the tournament. scott reiss will show us the excitement surrounding the game. >>> coming up new on ktvu news at six, this time a sea lion caugh

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conditions as well but there has been a lot of lightning strikes moving in just to the north of tahoe around bernie basin. the system will slight through giving us off and on rain. 60s on the temps and this will carry us into tomorrow. some rain tomorrow and we'll gate a break, friday, are saturday, sunday, warmer if you are not looking, you are listening. 74 for the high for some son sunday there, frank. >> thank you, steve. banking services for cannabis businesses. what one state is doing to help legal businesses have access to federally regulated banks. >> and let's check in with claudine wong for a look at what's coming up next hour on mornings on 2. good morning. good morning, frank p.m. coming up in the next half hour, getting high-tech in city parking garages in san francisco. the city has some new equipment. new ticket machines, gate arms, payment machines all supposed to make parking easier and faster but having another pretty significant impact on car break-ins. more on new themes just released by the sfmta. >>> two years since the oroville dam failed. one of the most serious dam safety issues

the north where we're pushing up towards rio big down poles coming through here that eastern side of brazil right across the amazon basin up to the far north of the continent it just a little drive into places like atlanta sure enough pushing up towards the venezuela columbia sing a few showers panama also seeing if you show and what it says shadows to into the caribbean for the most part glorious sunshine temps getting up to around thirty sales assistant a lot of cloud and rain will sink a little further south of jamaica could see some rain southern parts of cuba say just as in the way down towards costa rica where much of the caribbean there was a set there is plenty of sunshine around some sunshine today now making its way back across the u.s. still some live longer spells of rain just around the eastern seaboard every down pulls a neocon just a celsius on thursday a friday but it comes yet wasna. the weather sponsored by countdown anyways. a chance for reunion after decades of separation caused by a war. one i want to use joins a mother's journey to break unite with the son she lost more than sixty years ago in the

you know we've been pursuing resourceso purchase in a major shell basin in north louisiana.s and low transportation costs. that will supply about 40% of all of the gas we need to buy. our next major piece will come from the permian. it does not necessarily change but it probably accelerates how we think and are trying to contract that gas. it puts more priority on the pipeline we have designed becomes the 600 miles to south louisiana. alix: that was meg gentle, tellurian ceo. interesting looking at the gas prices in the permian where you are paying to take it away. lisa: it is for a longer-term play given the increased demand. the question is can the increase production quickly enough to stave off the competition that is growing from china? alix: also want to recap the oil market. president trump tweets it is important opec increase the flow of oil and calls the oil market fragile. oil prices rolling over. i will be discussing the rhetoric coming out from opec and oil traders over the last week at 1:00 eastern time on bloomberg "commodities edge. edge."commodities this is bl

tidal basin, filling up st. park north of ticotion, walk through the mall. saturday expect traffic on anacostia river crossings. >>> the cherry blossoms they look stunning right now. andeak bloom is just days today the blooms entered phase 5. amelia draper is back at the tidal basin where it's a beautiful evening. wearing your cherry blossoms pink sweater. >> i had to pull it out. it is spectacular down here, so many people mling around enjoying the gorgeous whether on this friday night. this is a special time of year in the nation's capital. you can see the folks behind me -- well, they left, they were taking pictures. now they're continuing on their y. the cherry blossoms hit stage 5 out of 6 today, that's the puffy white stage. you can see some of tt here on this beautiful cherry tree. we're still expecting peak bloom happen monday. so coming down to the tidal basin this weekend is going to be perfect. and i think next weekend we'll see some of the blossoms out, but the petals will come down. sometimes if you wait it's almost as magical because then it's

friday evening or afternoon, rking around the tidal basin the next couple weeks is going to be virtually impossible. if you have to do that, park downtown north of constitution and walk through the mall. that's our advice to you. avoid metro computer crowds, get the tidal ottom and basin is less than a mile. >>> if you didn't catch hamiltoi the first ti came to d.c., you get another chance. the kennedy center released its lineup and the musical is going to have another run here next year. the show will run from june to september of 2020. last december you may lirecall, manual miranda and the other creators received a unique honor for creating hamilton. >>> the horrible evening of traffic on the beltway. >> the tanker truck is flicked over, and one le on >>> back now at 45 past the hour. the inner loop almost completely shut down because of this.ch per 4 over the scene of a fuel tanker tuck tha crashed on the american legion bridge that caused miles of delays that will probably go on for hours. we'll have a report from mark segraves coming upn news4 at 5:00. >>> a group of high school girls in montgomery county fighting back after finding out

north. they were thrust to the surface. made from the remains of tiny marine organisms. especially because no other sediments were dragged into this basinwith it. and there are those for the last one hundred fifty meters or truck sediment sitting here on the surface. and some of them are up to one hundred sixty meters above sea level but in religion and there's only one place in germany where they exist and that's here on the island of kruger does a sea of that is all you. can even has a museum devoted to chuck it's been mined here for almost two hundred years chalk is used as fertilizer in paint and in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. to process the chalk it's soaked in water separated from undesired components and dried what used to take eight weeks now takes about eight minutes. for medicinal chalk only especially fine material is used after it's been additionally cleaned what remains as the museum informs visitors are mainly residues a planktonic form enough era these single celled animals had skeletons made of small calcite platelets when the organisms died they sank to the seabed and formed the chalk sediment. physiothe

basin for the next couple weeks is going to bevirtually impossible. here's what you want to do if you have to do that, park downtown north of constitution and then walk through the mall that is our advice to you. as we zoomut here once more, we want to avoid metro commuter crowds. get off at foggy bottom and the tidal basin is less than a mile southere on 23rd street. >>> virginia tech will try to beat nber one seed duke tonight for a spot in the elite eight. the game tips off around 9:30. >>> and new overnight, "the wall street ournal" reporting officials are investigating this month's deadly 737 max 8 crash in ethiopia. they've now reached an early conclusion. the report cites people briefed on that matter. investigators use the black box to find a flight control feature automatical automatically. > vacation plans are now suddenly up in the air for thousands of travelers who bought theiricts on wow airlines. the carrier is based in iceland. >> they suddenly declared bankruptcy and ceased operations. tom costello reports. >> reporter: this morning thousands of wow air passengers are >> i didn't have any idea. not at all. no email. nothine we came h a

parts of the missouri and mississippi river basins and the threat is not over for millions of residents. >>> this week, a plan to annex unincorporated north richmond could be abandoned. tomorrow night the richmond city council will vote on ending a study on the issue. a recent city report found at nextation would the annexation be a money loser. >>> the super bloom under way in southern california. one place finding it to be a super, big problem. >> the city of lake elsignore posted it is struggling to cope with the massive amounts of visitors, even banned visitors in shuttles at a certain point claiming the crowds were too big for the crews to handle. look at the cars, there's an estimated 50,000 people flooding into the inland empire over the weekend just to see the bloom. it's beautiful, but yes, that's a lot of people out there. don't pick them. that's our california flower. >> i just had a friend who bought a house in lake elsignore and it's beautiful. >> tell your friend we're all coming to visit. >> yes, we are. a live look outside in san francisco this morning. we had some great weather over the weekend, and it continues today. we

principaltheprinciples of life r utah project which is a trans- basin diversion which conveys water to the edge front. the front area extends from roughly 70 miles north of salt lake city to roughly 70 miles out and this is where most of the state's population resides. since the project water is used for municipal and industrial purposes in this rapidly growing opposition center. in the future, we will rely on the colorado river even more heavily as to preserve water rights settlement with native american tribes have implemented from industry and agriculture expand and the states population growth likely continues. for 19 years, the river basin and the state of utah have been in a severe drought one of the worst in the past 1200 years although the leak appeared to be operating as designed for this dry period, both are at uncomfortably low levels. the unknown is whether it will continue in the long term and thereby impact the river as a reliable source of water supply. given the needs which will only increase over time, protection of the water supply for utah water users as well as for all water users in the basin is essential. the drought contingency

north, bring in more in the way of mild air. mostly cloudy, nice and warm, a bit breezy, temperatures 75 tomorrow. aood day to get down to the tidal basin. we'rlod you,okinineoehat p bpl eamelia, boating, jogging, one of your favorite times of years. s>> it's gorgeous down here at the tidal basin. people are getting outside celebrating the spring season out here. when we talk about the trees down here, they were first gifted to us fromap in 1912. you can see this tree behind me. denitely looks like an older tree. you can tell by the knottess t there. where were the original trees thplanted? e records weren't kept so we don't know. we think most likelyayhere m be some originals across the tidal basin and with that we are going to give you a beautiful vista of what youould see down here, what you will see down here if you head down this weekend. you can see the pink there alone th tidal basin. the cherry trees are determined to be in peak bloom when 70% of the blooms are teopen. eratures are going to be the biggest variable in getting those bssoms out. down here tomorrow as doug was saying nice and mild but breezy later in the day. fun fo

north and west of chicago. mike, has the levee system been the problem? >> well, the levee system has had a lot of problems. the army corps of engineers says the missouri river basinopped or breached by the swollen missouri river. in craig, missouri, residents got the order to get out overnight. icy water rising, they left. rock port, missouri, the water pushed three or four miles in. one man that fled watson, missouri wonders if he will have a home when the water goes down. >> i don't know if watson m -- anymore. >> here the river is down 18 inches from record levels. the chief is saying he wants to let people do back in their homes and businesses where the streets are now dry but he wants to bring out an engineer to see if the roads are undermined. the hard part is there's still a lot of snow north of here. the ground is saturated and soft. as the snow melts, it will flood more. >> shepard: thanks, mike. scientists say the historic flooding in the midwest continue could for months. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration released their spring report predicting floods true may. forecasters are expecting more rain this year than usual, this map, the on