the bart station in fremont along the union pacific railroad of north san jose. christine conley, kron 4 news. >>jacqueline: were going to see plenty of rain, heavy rain tonight into tomorrow. will talk about a coming up in just a few minutes. >>jacqueline: cloudy skies, we've been seeing them through the day. the rain hasn't moved in but it is starting in the north bay. we see areas of more moderate rainfall near san rafael and santa rosa. the storm is finally starting to push down to the south. santa rosa, not seeing heavy rain in the city but just around. this will pale in comparison to what was the over night. on future cast, we are seeing the band of heavy rain pushing through the north bay. a p.m. widespread heavy rain to the north bay. noticed the red on your screen, thunderstorms in batted in this name band of rain as it pushes through and even after. 11:00 p.m. we see widespread heavy rain through san francisco, oakland and continuing through parts of the inland. midnight heavy rain near oakland and hayward. a possibility of thunderstorms as well. not on

we think rail is good, and recology negotiated a good price at the union pacific railroad, but the contract and facilitation agreement are separate and can be looked at separately, and we certainly will urge you to move forward with this agreement because we believe, as we propose, that our agreement provides the highest environmental benefits, the process was thrown -- five and a half years went to every meeting that ever transpired, listened to all the city's reasons for the overriding consideration development, through the process of getting qualified, to the rfp process of addressing that. one of our things was -- why not consider rail? we know it takes all those trucks off the road, saves 1 million gallons of fuel. it does not take a rocket scientist to know the savings. thank you for your time. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. i would like to take this opportunity to correct one important error in the budget analyst report regarding commercial rate in san francisco. the report states that conversion rates are higher in san francisco band in oakland, b

dixon landing road where it crosses with the union pacific railroad tracks. the vta will now work on to replace those freight track crossings. the closure will last until 10 p.m. tomorrow. drivers are being told to use the marked detours. >>> bay area gas prices continue to rise as prices going up several cents in just a day. triple-a now says price for a regular unleaded gas in san francisco is 3 mt. 76 a gallon. that's up from 3.71 yesterday. in oakland drivers drivers are paying slightly less. and in the south bay, 3.72 a gallon. that's up from 3.67 on friday. nationwide, consumers are seeing a 6-cent increase in a gallon of gas yesterday. that's the biggest one-day surge in two years. that spiked being driven by the price of oil, which soared to $103 a barrel earlier this week. it settled back down to $98 by the ends of trading yesterday. industry analysts are blaming the volatile price of oil on the turmoil in the middle east and north africa. >>> iraq's largest oil refinery was attacked this morning. gunmen broke into the refinery about 150 miles out si

the bart station in fremont along the union pacific railroad in north san jose. news. today the central subway issue came up before the transportation authority board. people on both sides spoke out. >> we feel that much of state and local money, which is already currently allocated locally can be better served to transform the system city-wide rather than 1.7 mi. of the system. >> 82 percent of households in chinatown don't own cars. the transit to get to their doctors appointments, work, see their family, do groceries. they need reliable on-time efficient transit. >>pam: the board approved the project which was one more fertile but it had to overcome. in another sign of the times. newsweek is out with a list of the top 10 u.s. cities that it says are dying cities. at the top of the list new arlen's which lost nearly 27 percent of the population after hurricane could trade up. it's followed by vallejo. rochester n.y. and cleveland ohio. and number 2 though, vallejo where one at of 113 homes was. jeff bush has a closer look at why vallejo is struggling. >>reporter: mor