live in martinez, thom jensen, "today in the bay." >> we know you will.hanks. >>> now to big questions from business owners at a high-end sonoma shopping district. dozens of merchants at the barlow are drying out after more than a day under water. this shopping area opened in 2013. businesses tell us the flooding could have been prevented and a city approved flooding plan was not properly carried out by the barlow's management. steel barriers meant to keep water out were not set up as they should have been. >> there was a plan, but you can only go so far with what is on paper. you need to employ a plan with time and resources. >> all of my equipment was five-feet deep in water. it was floating. my large fridge was on its side floating in the water. it was -- everything was under water. >> merchants say they poured their life savings into opening these shops and restaurants. many don't know how they'll recover now. >>> as we continue to follow these storms, this weekend and again on tuesday, a great resource is our nbc bay area aep. do app. download it. it

thom jensen saw a steady dose of rain and slick roadways. he had the hood on and off. clearly scattered right there. >>> a live look at the summit of the santa cruz mountains seeing the strong wind gusts. make sure that you keep both hands on the steering wheel if you're in that area. that commute -- look at the cars on the road there. also a problem for drivers limited visibility as you can see from our cameras. >>> to sfo where we kind of expected that this wet and windy weather would lead to some flight delays and indeed the faa recently issued an update. some arriving flights are experiencing delays of more than two hours. so far, no updates from oakland. if you're flying anywhere today, check your flight status ahead of time. >>> and a live look at some of our major bridges in the bay area. drivers are dealing with more than just the wet roadways. there's the gusting winds that we heard about at the top of the summit there on highway 17. >> all right. good thing we are seeing the rain moving out. >> it's going to start to taper off throughout the day and become mo

nbc bay area's thom jensen live at b.a.r.t civic center station in san francisco with the latest on what might have happened. >> reporter: janell, b.a.r.t says it is committed to make sure it doesn't happen again. it knows if it happened during a busy weekday, especially during the commuting hours when there's an estimated 500,000 riders it would be chaos. the system is running gen, but b.a.r.t remains baffled by what caused its computer software to crash saturday morning, bringing the entire system to a halt. >> we don't really know the root cause just yet. we know where it originated from. >> reporter: b.a.r.t's communication's manager says software failed at a critical location in the computer network early saturday morning, triggering a safety feature that automatically stopped all trains until they manually rebooted computers at more than 100 locations. now the company that developed the software that routes b.a.r.t's trains and controls its traction devices is looking for the culprit. >> we need to wait for that sisco forensic analysis to find out the root cause of the failure to f

we're live in sunnyvale, thom jensen, "today in the bay." >>> a college soccer coach tied to the fbi'sabruptly resigned. men's soccer coach who are say salceto stepped down. he was indicted as part of the fbi investigation. it surrounds parents shelling out money to get their children into top schools. he is accused of taking $200,000 in bribes. he coached at ucla for 15 years. >>> california u.s. senator and democratic presidential contender kamala harris will speak this weekend at landmark church in the south, in atlanta. atlanta's ebenezer baptist church mr. martin luther king, jr., once served as the pastor and also where his funeral was held. bernie sanders is scheduled to attend a rally sunday in ft. mason. sanders will also visit los angeles and san diego. >>> it's a move that would mean your children can't use their smartphones in class. a new bill making its way through sacramento. the legislation would basically restrict or ban smartphones in the classroom. teachers and staff would be able to grant permission in cases of emergency. the bill was sent to a committee for a secon

. >>> "today in the bay" thom jensen is live at the walnut creek near the b.a.r.t. station. looks like the rain slacked off a bit where you are. >> reporter: it has been off and on again this morning. we're in an off period right now, but it has been heavy at times and we are starting to see more people start to get around. more drivers get around this morning. we did have some heavier showers earlier i can tell you as i drove in from the sacramento area. pretty much from davis all the way in to walnut creek. it was pretty heavy, extremely heavy at times. there was a lot of puddling on the interstate and you can feel the car hydroplaning a couple of times even when you slowed down. so here we talked to drivers this morning about all of this rain that we have been experiencing so far this winter. what most concerns you when you see the big storms come through here? >> other drivers. just if they're paying attention or not. >> so you feel confident about you staying on top of it -- >> as much as i can. just pay attention. drive slower. >> reporter: always good tips. stay on to

for now we're live in richmond, thom jensen. >> hopefully, parents find out before they get to the getting teachers' strike. teachers will there is a strike. friday you may remember in san ramon overwhelmingly they voted to authorize a strike if the un cannot reach a deal with the district. that would impact more than 32,000 students. teachers are asking for more money and better benefit. >> new video of the man accused of recently punching a conservative activist on the cal campus, heading out of court today. zachary greenberg you see there, who pled not guilty to assault charges. cell phone video captured that confrontation back on february 19th. hayden williams, the man who was puvenlged, was representing a conservative group called turning point. in the video you only see him hit once. neither the victim nor the suspect are students at cal. over the weekend, williams appeared with president trump during his address to the actio conf i maryland. >>> san mateo county workers are still on strike, including 100 employees in different departments though we dontrik't last day of it. the coun

live in san francisco, thom jensen, nbc bay area news. >> all right. thank you, thom. >>> you know what? a live look outside at san rafael. the rain coming down this morning in the north bay but the storm is on the way out. the big question everyone is wondering this weekend, how will that weather play a factor into the weekend plans? meteorologist kari hall is tracking that for us. >> starting out the weekend, we see the rain moving in today and then moving out. here's stormranger, tracking the rain that's coming through in waves ever since this morning and now most of the rain is covering the north bay and another wave of some heavier rain moving in this afternoon. we have issued a microclimate weather alert for the north bay and rainfall totals higher an the rest of the bay area looking at lighter amounts of rain and we have a tenth of an inch of rain in san francisco. still seeing some light showers moving through. we are also continuing to see that rain moving through parts of contra costa county. mostly a light rain covering the radar. we are goi

. >> thom jensen is there with a look at the work being done. just arrived behind you. >> reporter: good morning, vta, the city of sunnyvale and cal tran are about ready to take shovels to this pile of dirt. an official ground-breaking on this project, vta crews are just showing up right now to get set up for this ground-breaking ceremony later on today. a complete makeover of this problem junction here, where state route 237, highway 101 and north mathilda avenue meet. this intersection gets its name from the fact traffic backs up here, could be some of the worst in the bay area during peek commuting hours especially. the idea of this project is to ease congestion by realigning the 237 and 101 interchanges and improving traffic flows in all directions. crews will also widen mathilda to three lanes in both directions, add bike lanes, extend sidewalks and construct a new pedestrian and bike trail along nearby moffett park drive. the project stretches several blocks and also includes on and off ramp improvements at the 237 mathilda avenue intercha