cruises, to blue and gold, to red and white, or you can take one of the commuter ferries to vallejo or oakland. and on their way, they go to pier 39 and the other concessionaires and the other businesses around pier 39 and the north beach area, and continue to fund businesses -- small businesses, large businesses, jobs. and it's a -- so having that one point where the park service concessionaire will be essentially doing jobs of other local legacy businesses would actually lead to a, frankly, less income for the other businesses in the tourist industry in the fisherman's wharf area. now, it would -- in her initial presentation, director forbes mentioned restaring maritime jobs in the area as one of the goals of the commission in this project, and the increases in water transport. having these jobs, particularly as a deck hand at prevailing wages would provide a labor base for that -- for that increased ferry service, which is also important for possible emergencies and would provide a broad array of public use for the entire wharf area. thank you. >> thank you. tom escher. >> good evening. my

or snowfall percentage. oakland currently51, san jose 53, overnight 46 in vallejo, 50 for san francisco, 47 in redwood city. the front this morning, steady rainfall. the front moves out, the rain's done, right? a couple hours it was. the huge low that came down from the gulf of alaska we talked about last week is not going anywhere for about three days. it will continue to feed in unstable air up and down the west coast. we will be in the rain chance and unstable air until saturday morning. scattered downpours evernight tonight, scattered downpours tomorrow morning, not -- overnight tonight, scattered down pours tomorrow morning, not everywhere at once. the dryest part of the week will be wednesday evening through thursday morning. the scattered downpours last through friday likely into saturday morning. snow for the sierra? a bull's eye for precipitation. 3 inches of rain equivalent means 3 or more feet of snow in the sierra, wonderful news there. highs tomorrow are chilly, 58 in milpitas, mountain view, 56 san ramon, 57 in pittsburg, berkeley 56, novato 57, santa rosa 56 and late pork 52 degrees. extended

or a little bit above normal for this time of year. in the north bay, santa rosa, 68, vallejo, napa, a little more cloud cover there in the east bay. 64 in oakland, 69 freemont. head inland and definitely signs of springs, with upper 60s in concord, antioch and brentwood. tomorrow night around 5:00 p.m., the rain begins to approach. so your morning and your afternoon commutes are fine. for the evening hours by 7:00, you start to see the rain in the north bay, and really by account 9:00 p.m., we hours of thursday morning, the showers will spread across the rest of the region, and this will continue into friday morning's commute. it's going to be hit or miss showers right through 8:00 a.m., and then another batch coming through friday morning, this one will bring us more light rain during the morning commute, between 5:00 and 8:00 a.m. rainfall totals, this is taking you through from wednesday night to thursday morning, some of you will see nothing measurable, up to a third of an inch in santa rosa. you can download the accuweather app. the 7-day forecast, thursday morning, everyone has a shot at seeing a few showers, morning showers for friday, l