. >> willie wonga heads to washington and other films after this. eddo >>> i'm meteorologist rebecca stevenson. we've been watching rain fall in the west. and another series of systems comes through as it comes to the week ahead. as we look at california's report, you can see a significant change has happened. the highest amount of drought is exceptional. and that area has shrunk. still, 100% of the state of california has shrunk. looking at the major cities from san francisco south wards, we are all ahead for the month of december. with the water years starting anew on october 1st. these are amounts that we hope to maintain to break the drought as we get towards the outlook in february 2015. currently across the states we are monitoring a lot of weather. specifically the big storm coming in for the west. that is coming in on saturday and sunday. it will be an atmosphere included. looking at the statistics of what they bridge, note 40% of droughts in northern california are ended by atmospheric rivers. more details in what is going on in your weathe