. >> in this small town of pescadero they have trying to track down answers. >> i've never done investigationwork. >> to find out whether his son's school would be safe in an earthquake. >> under a state law known as the field act all schools must be earthquake resistant. 70 schools in long beach earthquake, 120 people died. structural work at the high school had been done without the state's approval. >> that is when the light bulb went on and you begin to realize there are thousands of projects. >> and it turns out they are right. a yearlong investigation thousands of school construction projects completed statewide don't complete with the field act. california division of state architects, agency in charge of enforcing the law has never approved those projects as safe. >> there is upwards to 20,000 school projects that do not conform to these field standards. >> and not just in small districts like pescadero. los angeles unified school district finished this middle school six years ago and state windows that huge window walls may not be properly anchored and could pose a risk to students i

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looking at the wet weather, moss beach and finally down through pescadero and santa cruz, not much goingthere. it will take the bulk of the day the system that is well offshore to move onshore. gusty winds and most of it if not all of it happening late tonight and especially through the overnight hours. this is just the early stuff, the preliminary tenth or so. 45, 57 in san francisco. fog has been developing from santa rosa to novato. showers with increasing will be in the north bay. rest of the bay area will see spotty rain showers. it will be breezy and wind advisories slated to go later tonight. as soon as tomorrow, we're back into a dry weather pattern with sunshine. a little windy by sog through 6:00 this morning. wind advisory tomorrow morning and cold front actually pushes on through by about midnight until 2:00 a.m. so santa cruz and daiablo mountains, winds will pick up. and you'll notice from the early morning hours, until noontime we have the rain here. then game time 4:00 it's fairg the north bay. early evening hours, spotty showers but by 10:00 tonight you've got the heavie