a serious dilemma for california farmers. we'll tell you why many are simply deciding to let their fields go empty. >>> faced with a puchbishing brought water agencies in southern california offering to buy water from farmers in the northern part of the state. >> that is presenting them with a unique dilemma, should they keep growing their crops or cash in? holly jackson explains. >> reporter: this dust will turn to mud in a couple of weeks when charlie matthews floods his rice foolds with millions of gallons of water. >> but some of his fellow farmers may stay dry. choosing instead to sell their water south, for more money than they'd make growing rice. doesn't this create an interesting dilemma for you? are you a water seller or are you a rice farmer? we primarily want to be a rice farmer but in order to be a rice farmer we have to have the water. >> reporter: matthews took us to the northern california district, which just decided to sell water to southern california. not an easy decision for him. >> if we don't find a way

glassy sharp shooter has tried to my great to northern california before and will try again. we are live in marin county with the details tonight. >> check it out. sharp shooter trap like this one now showing up in marin and sonoma couldn't where the pest has been found protecting vineyard from ruin is the goal here. >> put some kind of abate in there. to attract bug. >> may not be the center piece of the vineyard in healdsburg but the bug trap doing some serious work. saving his livelihood from ruin. >> if within a year or two years you will have a dead vine years you will have a dead vine. >> glassy wing sharp shooter is tiny. half inch. but can kill plants and vines by spreading pierce disease which cuts off a plant water supply. >> just think of it as mosquitos. exactly the same thing. >> we have a 600 million dollar wine grape industry to protect. >> assistant ago commissioner is wage is waging war against the pest preventing the spread from northern california. warm weather and early spring has increased the threat. the bright yellow sharp shooter trap a common sight. e

glassy sharp shooter has tried to my great to northern california before and will try again. we are live in marin county with the details tonight. >> check it out. sharp shooter trap like this one now showing up in marin and sonoma couldn't where the pest has been found protecting vineyard from ruin is the goal here. >> put some kind of abate in there. to attract bug. >> may not be the center piece of the vineyard in healdsburg but the bug trap doing some serious work. saving his livelihood from ruin. >> if within a year or two years you will have a dead vine years you will have a dead vine. >> glassy wing sharp shooter is tiny. half inch. but can kill plants and vines by spreading pierce disease which cuts off a plant water supply. >> just think of it as mosquitos. exactly the same thing. >> we have a 600 million dollar wine grape industry to protect. >> assistant ago commissioner is wage is waging war against the pest preventing the spread from northern california. warm weather and early spring has increased the threat. the bright yellow sharp shooter trap a common sight. e

california. >> that is water-rich territory. and here's the people-rich territory. and we're trying to match the two up. >> reporter: but some folks worry that's a short-sided solution that could eventually leave northern reservoirs high and even drier. >> we have drought conditions here as well. somehow there's this belief that they're not going to drain it. like there's so much water up here that they can't possibly destroy it. >> reporter: this year with the drought so bad northern california farmers may have to call off their deals any way if the low snow pack and recent heat waves mean they don't get the water they need for any of their crops. >> even a small amount of water may just evaporate. >> reporter: still, with no end in sight. >> there's 2,000 rice growers, there's 38 million other folks in california. we want to make sure we get along with the 38 million. >> reporter: water for sale, a strategy for survival. hallie jackson, nbc news, marysville, california. >>> fidel castro made a rare public appearance in cuba, h

glassy sharp shooter has tried to my great to northern california before and will try again. we are live in marin county with the details tonight. >> check it out. sharp shooter trap like this one now showing up in marin and sonoma couldn't where the pest has been found protecting vineyard from ruin is the goal here. >> put some kind of abate in there. to attract bug. >> may not be the center piece of the vineyard in healdsburg but the bug trap doing some serious work. saving his livelihood from ruin. >> if within a year or two years you will have a dead vine years you will have a dead vine. >> glassy wing sharp shooter is tiny. half inch. but can kill plants and vines by spreading pierce disease which cuts off a plant water supply. >> just think of it as mosquitos. exactly the same thing. >> we have a 600 million dollar wine grape industry to protect. >> assistant ago commissioner is wage is waging war against the pest preventing the spread from northern california. warm weather and early spring has increased the threat. the bright yellow sharp shooter trap a common sight. e

looks like it will be northern california, northern sierra, us, long way to. go only opportunity over next 5, 7 days. mostly cloudy, high clouds, warmer today. just near average this time of year, which is 60s and 70s. low mid-60s around the water's edge. upper 60s to near 70. sun far enough inland. slow recovery from what was a couple of days of below-normal temps. 60s on the coast, upper 60s to near 70 on the peninsula. except for a few high clouds, looks good going into the weekend. >> chilly, chilly, chilly. been pretty cold. >> we've been ridiculously spoiled. >> yes, we have. >> thank you, steve. >>> 4:52 is the time. thanks to social media, it is pretty hard to avoid spoilers of your favorite television shows. coming up, the system that could change that, be to reason it may never actually be produced. >> i'm not sure later on -- >> up next, a communications mixup that sent a strange man into a close-door meeting with the president. on his quest, jack ventured far and wide. through dust, fog and rain. until he smelled something legendary. garlic herb bu

california region. you can see the area of green over eureka and that is where you have heavy rain and snow accumulation. as we continue into the afternoon hours the rain will make its way into the bay area into the evening hours is when we will see the heavy rain. by midnight, that is when the rain starts to pour and it could affect our at&t viewing party for opening day or the coliseum when the as take on the rangers. you can see the increasing cloud cover which means decreasing sun. keeping our temperatures cool, san francisco is at 64 degrees and most of the bay area is mid-to-upper 50s and some 40 degree temperatures overnight. now in a few minutes all because of the area of low pressure coming in offer the pacific northwest and moving down over northern california and that is what will bring in the coolerth also, the gusty wind, september to see 3 miles per hour wind and up to 50 miles per hour in some areas and from the south so make sure you hold on to your hats today we have cooler temperatures

a northern california man's long battle to overturn hi high-profile terrorism conviction is heading to court. new lawyers will argue their client's previous attorney during his trial was incompetent and failed to find evidence they say proves hayat's innocence. they were arrested in 2005. and investigators say they were tied to a lodi mosque that served as a sleeper cell of sorts, but out of those arrested hayat was the only one convicted >>> ar meanancy gathered tonight to remember more than 1 million armenians killed 100 years ago. they were killed by on th ottom turks. so far the without is refusing to do so. >> they say the denial of genocide is like genocide recurring. so it's hurtful and painful to us. >>> armenian americans are also demanding leaders in turkey end the denial and apologize. >>> $8500 lost, the teen's prized cello was stolen. >> and it was call on camera. police are asking for your help. and the suspects are a man and a woman who either didn't realize they were being recorded or just didn't care, because here is a very clear image of them as they're getting ready

>> and some northern california farmers on the defensive. why they say they are being targeted because of the drought. >> of which by the way there is no end in sight. as you will see when we cover the forecast as we look live >>> an investigation into the problems at san francisco jail including an inmate fighted club. kpix 5's ryan takeo on the problems and how the scandal is related to city politics. >> this about as many people as we have seen in this particular office. >> reporter: san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi announced the fbi has agreed to look into the allegations deputies forced inmates into a fight club at the county jail. >> i'm not going to shy away and we're not going to retreat from the kind of actions and accountable -- >> reporter: he added he is trying to fire the deputy who failed to watch an inmate who escaped while taking out the crash recently the second escape just like it in eight months. >> if it appears that previously instituted security protocols were ignored and directly contributed to the escape. >> what

this northern california woman is under going chemotherapy and before boarding that flight she put on a surgical mask and mentioned to an airline employee she was feeling weak and she may need extra time getting on. not long after that she and her family were being pulled from the plane. >> my family is being forcibly removed from an airplane i have cancer, no surprise. >> reporter: that is the voice of elizabeth who posted this video on facebook. she suffers from multiple high low ma. a rare form of plasma cancer. she was flying home with her family after a vacation in hawaii. after everyone was seated an alaska airlines representative came on board and said she couldn't fly because she hadn't been cleared by a doctor. the airline was worried about her suffering a medical emergency. >> they are taking me off the airplane because i don't have a doctors note saying i can fly. all these people are waiting. and i'm being removed as if i'm a criminal or contagious. because i have cancer. >> she says the delay forced her to miss a therapy session and kids miss school. the airline has apolo

a lot of rainfall for western washington, even far northern california. that's where the rain stays. the strong april cold front will come through giving us just a few drops of rainfall tonight. tomorrow behind the front even windier than today and for many of us even colder. highs will only be in the mid 60s coming up tomorrow. forget about using the word cold for a while after that. starting wednesday here comes a ridge of high pressure. 80s by thursday. once you get there, you're going to stay there for a while. just a few showers tonight. a sunny but windy day tomorrow. warm stuff begins wednesday. mid to upper 60s. vallejo, 66. san francisco, 63 . look at wednesday. 10 degrees warmer. 80s in lnd -- inland starting thursday and it will be sunny warm, and dry all the way through the upcoming week. it's going to be warm. >>> a gallon here, a gallon there. but the state says you are still not saving enough water. coming up, how a major bay area water district plans to cut even more. >> plus how you could help preserve some of it took tennis legend serena

in lake county 11 northern california fire crews will be participating in preparedness exercises. the annual exercises the firefighters are evaluated on physical fitness, firefighter knowledge and safety and equipment. >>> caltrans is fighting a contractor over a problem with the new bay bridge tower. they agree that water is accumulating around the bolts that anchor the tower, but they are are at odds over why. caltrans engineer says it's due to water that the contractor used during construction, but the contractor says the water may be coming from openings in the bridge structure. >>> two european soccer powerhouses will square off at levi's stadium this summer. manchester united will play barcelona on july 25. it's one of the biggest soccer events of the summer. the exhibition is a part of the international champions cup. >>> from the deadly earthquake in nepal comes stories of survival. the amazing rescue of a man trapped in the rubble for days. >> from the kpix 5 weather center, good afternoon, everyone. the coast is clearing out. we have sunshine inland but this is nothing.

recently the dry dock no. 2 is considered to be the largest dry dock in northern california. it has the capacity of 54,000 tons, but currently our new dry dock in portland, oregon is pushing a challenge because that dry dock has the capacity of 80,000 tons. the tenant as i have indicated before is in good standing and providing very relevant services to the maritime industry in the field that it provides the pier, alteration, maintenance for those that come and to the bay waters. currently the tenant generated $54 million and provided employment for over 250 craft persons. i'm going to talk on some of the fishers -- fixtures of shipyard. in the picture in the front of the shipyard you have the crane, the heavy equipment, there are workers on the right i believe providing chips at the dry dock and the cruise ship. that is another picture of a cruise ship on dry dock no. 2. this is a picture of another dry dock. the shipyard currently is facing a number of challenges. we started the conversation about 2 years ago in the sense that on the current lease there is a provision that

. >>> organizers say 20,000 nepalese live in northern california. they gathered at a restaurant to hold a moment of silence and coordinate fundraising and relief efforts. >> whatever we can select to -- collect to send them. that's the reason why. >> it didn't hit me until i watched the news. all the places i grew up were in dust. we tried to contact our family. we couldn't get ahold of anyone. >> a separate vigil also was also by a nepal group of >> we have a list of some of the organizations working in the area along with links to help you donate. >>> stay with us for continuing coverage of the nepal earthquake on the air and on line at abc 7 news.com. get breaking news updates on twitter as well on nbc 7 news bay area. >>> again here in the bay area, one person died and another in the hospital after the car they were in was hit by an emeryville bound amtrak train. the collision happened last night in unincorporated solano county. one person was ejected from the car that was hit. that person died. another person was trapped inside the mangled car.

up here in northern california, a high wind advisory is in effect until 6:00 tonight. that's for the sacramento valley and delta. wind gusts are expected up to 40 miles per hour. let's check in with roberta gonzales for a forecast around here. >>> hi, everybody. it is much warmer today than yesterday just 24 hours ago so this is what we can expect for our afternoon heading into the evening hours. sunny skies and warm with near and record warmth anticipated thursday and friday. we do have a chance of rain returning next tuesday. that's much-needed rain. right now the coast is clear. we are under the influence of this huge dome of high pressure and each day through friday is going to continue to strengthen as it goes east. as the high builds in, we'll see the onshore flow not prevalent until about friday night. when that happens, we'll see some overcast conditions early over the weekend and cooler days hide. temperatures today: red flag warning and wind advisory in the greater lake tahoe area. the pollen is being ushered around. as you look ahead, we see even higher leve

. >>> a northern california woman battling cancer is calling for changes at alaska airlines after an employee kicked her off a flight from hawaii to the bay area. as alex savidge explains, the woman says she was told she needed a doctor's note to fly. >> my family is being forcibly removed from the airplane. >> reporter: a disturbing ordeal for elizabeth sedway who posted this video to facebook after she and her family were pulled off an alaska airlines flight monday. the placer county woman said it was all because of her illness. the wife and mother suffers from multiple myeloma, a rare form of plasma cancer. she's undergoing chemotherapy. before boarding, sedway said she put on a surgical mask and mentioned to an airline employee that she was feeling weak and may need extra time getting on the plane. sedway and her family took their seats but that's when an airline employee asked them to leave the flight. >> they are taking me off the airplane because i don't have a doctor's note saying i can fly. all of these people are waiting. i'm being removed as if i'm a criminal or contagious

tomorrow morning, clips northern california. coming down. for us we will remain dry and clear skies. with clear skies we will be chilly tomorrow morning. and we have scattered showers possible over the sierra tomorrow as well. the flag blowing here. the choppy water on the bay. small craft advisory till 9:00 p.m. this evening inside the bay and we will continue with this pattern for tomorrow. chillier start tomorrow morning, cool and breezy tomorrow afternoon, sunny skies. we have the possibility of scattered showers for easter sunday. temperatures right now 68 degrees in walnut creek. 63 redwood city. tomorrow morning low 40s out the door. 42 livermore. 48 oakland. 49 degrees for pacifica. afternoon highs like today. for your wednesday. breezy weather continuing. 66 sausalito. 69 castro valley. upper 60s to low 70s in the south bay. 69 redwood city. 69 san francisco. temperatures will climb thursday and friday, cool for your bay area weekend and the chance for scattered showers come easter sunday. >> nice. thank you. >>> we have an update o

. >>> a dublin man one of three men who drowned while diving for abalone in northern california. five men went in to the water in mendocino county. two survived. they were found clinging to a rock. they were not hurt. >>> a warning to san francisco dog walkers. watch out for coyotes. there were two attacks on dogs in presidio last week. it's coyote pupping season and the animals can become very territorial. keep dogs on a short leash and don't leave pet food outside. >>> a power outage in san francisco took tax season back in time today. this is the embarcadero office. the computer system did not bounce back when the lights came on. that meant postal workers had to crunch numbers on their cell phones and do pretty much everything else by hand. took a lot of hustle but they managed to keep the lines moving even without the computers. >>> lake tahoe could soon be home to one of the biggest ski resorts in the country. squaw valley announcing plans to connect that resort to nearby alpine meadows with a high speed gondola. linking the mountains would cut down on vehicle traffic, also

. >> a northern california woman and her family kicked off a flight bound for san jose. up next what she says led up to the situation that the airline is now apologizing for. >> we have a look at the north bay commute now and right now on the golden gate bridge traffic looks good heading south to the toll plaza. we'll tell you a little bit more about this morning's drive. >> still some rain holding on. and then mostly it's done. we'll see if this is it for awhile. >>> we are live in oakland where two purse snatchers brazenly attack an 82-year-old woman while her grandchild is nearby. find out how surveillance video could lead to the scene. >> a northern california woman with cancer kicked off a flight to san jose. the reason she claims she wasn't allowed to fly. it's all ahead on mornings on 2. >>> good morning. thank you for joining us wednesday morning april 8th i'm pam cook. >> good morning, i'm dave clark. weather, steve paulson is working on it. >> i'm working on a lot of it. still a little bit of rain around fremont and santa clara valley. most of it is heading sou

action item a requesting authorization to modify the grant with northern california presbyterian homes and services san francisco senior center for case management during the period of july 1, 2014 through june 30, 2017 in the additional amount of $114,450 for a revised total grant amount not to exceed $557,568. carrie wong will present but i see that shireen mcspadden here. >> yes. shireen mcspadden and i am here for carrie because she couldn't be here this morning. this is for the purchase of services for those returning from acute hospitals and those in the san francisco tr transitional care program and northern california presbyterian homes is the lead against for the transitional care program and intervention for people to kind of meet people's immediate need when is they come out of the hospital and it incorporates coaching and coordination for people coming out of the hospitals and one thing that we realized would be helpful for the transitional care specialists to have is a little bit of funds to provide services for people that they need, so just like with the regular communit

puddles in upstate new york and new england and northwest and northern california. snowed will make roads slippery in the northern rockies. three members in critical condition after being poisoned. they got deathly ill. >> the condo below where the family was staying had been sprayed with methyl bromide. that's something used to kill an indoor bug. it was banned by the epa for indoor use back in 1984. the family was flown back here to the states. hospitalized hospitalized. the justice department opened a criminal investigation. and terminix says it is cooperating. >> a wild scene at a car wash in atlanta. a group of alleged car jackers are in the minivan there. one of the suspects jumped into the white honda trying to drive off with the car's owner hanging on to the hood. a good samaritan pulled out his gun, opened fire and wounded the suspect in the shoulder ending his get-away attempt. >> he picked up speed and go across. and if that guy didn't shoot, she would have lost her life. >> something could have happened. >> the suspect who was shot was treated. then arre

it moves from northern california into the l.a. area also getting 6 inches of mountain snow even more in the higher elevations but it's just a drop in the buck. not enough to ease the drought or lift those historic new water restrictions of course drought been going on for four years. >>> days after becoming the world's oldest person. gertrude weaver has died in arkansas at the age of 116. her advice for a long taif she says use a lot of moisturizer, treat everyone nice love your neighbor and eat your own cooking. don't eat at fast food places. she is sur vied by her 94-year-old son, 115-year-old lady from michigan who now takes the title of world's oldest person. >> 94-year-old son. >> isn't that something? >> wow. >> survived by a 94-year-old but lived a long life. something worked. >> absolutely. >>> president obama, he had his hands full at the annual white house easter egg roll. not for the reasons you might hi. >> he spent part of the event reading "where the wild things are" but interrupted by a bunch of bees. he tried to ca

and some northern california farmers on the defensive. why they say they are being targeted because of the drought. that and more at 6:00. brian, see you then. >> thank you. >>> good night. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> h >> he's over! he's over! >> pelley: tornadoes tear intoest, the midwest, reducing a town to splinters. rescue teams search for the victims. also tonight, california deputies beat a suspect who tried to flee on a horse. now 10 are put on leave. a young american is accused of plotting a suicide bombing at a u.s. military base. and "on the road". >> today has been the best dayay i've ever had. >> pelley: steve hartmans remembers the bravery of lauren hill. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. tonight, rescue teams are wrapping up the search for surviv

lon simmons. >> cold weather brings rain and snow to northern california. what that means for the drought. >>> hey, we have snow in the local forecast. plus, we will track the rain together. >>> and this golden gate bridge camera shows the area. >>> good morning. it's monday, april 6. i am frank mallicoat. >> i am juliette goodrich. michelle has the day off. a delicate and dangerous clean-up continues in san francisco today. a mummified body was found over the weekend inside a home on 4th avenue in the richmond district. the home was also filled with piles of trash and vermon. kpix 5's ryan takeo at the home to explain how this discovery was made. >> reporter: it took days for crews to even find the body. that's because there was so much trash inside this house. police believe it was of a 90-year-old woman who owned the house. neighbors haven't seen the woman for seven or eight years, but they see her daughter, 65-year-old carolyn reagan, often walking a dog. police say a tax consultant called them after the daughter tried to get tax advice and revealed the

puddles in upstate new york and new england and northwest and northern california. snowed will make roads slippery in the northern rockies. three members in critical condition after being poisoned. they got deathly ill. >> the condo below where the family was staying had been sprayed with methyl bromide. that's something used to kill an indoor bug. it was banned by the epa for indoor use back in 1984. the family was flown back here to the states. hospitalized hospitalized. the justice department opened a criminal investigation. and terminix says it is cooperating. >> a wild scene at a car wash in atlanta. a group of alleged car jackers are in the minivan there. one of the suspects jumped into the white honda trying to drive off with the car's owner hanging on to suspect in the shoulder ending his get-away attempt. >> he picked up speed and go across. and if that guy didn't shoot, she would have lost her life. >> something could have happened. >> the suspect who was shot was treated. then arrested and charged with theft and assault. the search for the other suspect i

a truck carrying the packages crashed in the northern california city of orland. the chp says the driver fell asleep at the wheel and woke up right before he hit the overpass! books, clothes and gifts were scattered all over the road. many packages will be sent back to amazon. >>> a group of middle school students from berkeley are searching for their balloon. 8th grade science students at longfellow middle school launched this high altitude scientific balloon on tuesday. remember? we showed you. it soared up to about 100,000 feet recording the temperature, humidity and even the earth's magnetic field. here's the path that it took soaring all the way up to the suisun bay. at least that's what the balloon's tracker device is saying. the students and teachers haven't been able to find it. they have been handing out flyers in the area hoping someone has seen it. i wonder -- >> paul knows where it is. >> in the water. >> there's a weather element to this. to go up 20 miles and only blow about 20 or 30 miles says that atmosphere has to be so stable. other parts of the

providing loans and lines of credit to help northern california businesses grow. damian trujillo: hello, and welcome to comunidad del valle. i am damian trujillo and today on the show, moises "the hawk" benitez, a local boxer, is here, plus dr. francisco jimenez on your comunidad del valle. [music] male announcer: nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle" with damian trujillo. damian: we begin today with the monthly visit of the office of the mexican consulate in san jose. jorge agraz is the cónsul de asuntos economicos. jorge agraz: right. damian: y políticos at the mexican consulate office here in san jose. bienvnenido al programa otra vez. jorge: muchas gracias. damian: now, there are a lot of things that are happening at the consulate. you're kind of in charge of, one of the things you're in charge of is making sure that people who might want to start their own business kind of gets the help, and you get them started in that process, is that correct? jorge: yes, exactly, damian. right now we have a workshop for entrepreneurs, for hispanics and with low inc

we'll tell you what's happening in northern california this weekend, and take you down to the central coast in just moments. right now here's anthony slaughter and your morning drive. >> thanks, i want to get away, almost there. almost to the weekend. all right, let's talk about this drive, this is emeryville, you can see coming through 880 or excuse me, 80 westbound headed toward the bay bridge, things are starting to fill in here but we take you to the toll plaza itself, you can see things are moving pretty smoothly, starting to see backup here but the metering lights are not on just yet so chance to get on through there without any problems, that takes you back to the rest of the east bay on our maps you'll notice no big concerns here across most of the bay, we just have the sipical slowing through the altamont pass over towards pleasanton and dublin and typical slowing fremont and mission boulevard. no problems toward the east bay as with you get into san francisco this morning. still very early, we continue to track that drive for you. guys, back over to you. >>> 5:27 right now.

. >> pam: a northern california woman has died after a man she approached slashed her throat. officials said. 32-year-old nichole riolo. pulled over to help the man. as she returned back to her car.the man attacked her from behind. riolo.a sacramento resident.stumbled into a parking lot where she was later pronounced dead. the sacramento bee reports juan v. avalos of sacramento is suspected in the slashing and has been booked. >> pam: this 20 year old danville woman is behind bars for kidnapping, robbery and criminal threats. the santa clara county sheriff's department says katherine stump was contacted by a male victim thru an online advertisement april 5th. authorities say she threatened the victim with a knife, and the man with her pepper sprayed the man as they ransacked his home. they then forced the victim into their car - dropping him off about a mile away. >> gary: warriors game 7 >> pam: the problem is one of the proposals is calls for the elimination of the field. that could prevent a lot of children from playing baseball. >> reporter: president of san mateo little l

we've grown up in northern california. i don't know that we ever thought we would see one. to see three world series championships in five years, it's a a -- it's a wealth of riches. >> it is. our kids have no idea how long that their grandparents and great-grandparents and all of us have waited. we're really fortunate. >> i think we were talking about what it is about baseball that unlike maybe omother sports is the fab -- unlike maybe other sports is like the fabric of how we grew up and the giants are that for northern california people. >> we're 133 years old this season. we were talking about -- i feel so lucky that, you know, in my position, i get to work for an incredible franchise with a storied history and for a short period of time i'm here, i get to be the keeper and everything that i do to help to maintain just the tradition and the respect of the past, celebrating today, another opening day and then looking to the future. >> i think we talk about history and they ran a bumper, you didn't hear this, but they are running "bye-bye baby." it was a song that was wri

the 48th northern california place to be on sunday to immerse yourself in all things japanese. like this family did from marin. back in terms of cultural identity and pride makes it more than worth it. this girl says it makes her even prouder to be of japanese descent. >> : the food was amazing. with lines that seem to go on forever. but once they got a taste. it was more than worth the wait. celebrating the end of winter and the beginning of spring. the colors. the sounds. make up the pagaentry of one of san francisco's most popular parades. >> : with that we hope to get a lot of money and hope to sustain this traditionorganizers called this year's >> reporter: festival a success..even before the parade was over. as long as people keep showing up, having fun. and learning about their cultural. then the festival will keep coming back. in san francisco will tran kron 4 news >> reporter: fire officials say an unattended cooking fire sparked a wildfire that has burned more than one thousand acres. >> vicki: fire officials say an unattended cooking fire sparked a wildfire that has

she lands back home in northern california and talks about the situation. >> stay in the know we have traffic and weather together during the entire commercial break. around here, we're all about fast. that's why xfinity is perfect for me. with millions of wifi hotspots all over the place - including one right here at the shop - now we can stream all things fast and furious. you've done it again, carlos! ♪ with the fastest in-home wifi and millions of hotspots xfinity is perfect for people who love fast. don't miss furious 7 in theaters now. >>> covering novato. oakland. sunnyvale and all the bay area this is abc7 news. >>> a deadly shooting in san jose has police searching if a gunman this morning. our reporter joins us from the scene with more. >> the shooting happened in san jose outside of the 7-eleven at 10:00. a 33-year-old woman from the sacramento area was found suffering from a gunshot wound. she was treated on the scene. i was pronounced dead. she was shot inside a car. i spoke with a witness. the witness was in a white sedan. there were several people. the witness heard t

we have a comprehensive resource lift we work with the association of northern california they've surveyed their plea bargains 23s it is a nonprofit structural engineers and they provided a resource list we've put together a resource list of the engineers of san francisco unified school district they've used for the retroactive and evaluation between those sources there are several names that guess posted on the website other wwwsftv.org back slash e s i p stand for earth quaked just to make sure we get the audio please come up to the microphone. >> good afternoon paul with san francisco will the scope part be determined to decide whether or not we need the evaluation or are we to have the evaluation done that's one question and schools that have been had major seismic roller coasters will they can didn't want or have the evaluation done. >> that's an excellent question at a point of contact i've been working with the city for almost 3 years prior to that i was the building code consultant so i've had the privilege of working with the schools and many as they went through the renovation pr

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safeway still has 250 stores in northern california. >>> wall street ended the week on the upside. the dow gained 98 points to close above 18,000. nasdaq rose 21 and is shy of 5,000. and is s & p rose two points. this is the second week in a row that the markets have advanced. >>> people in the midwest spent the day cleaning up after dealing with that severe weather. in northern illinois two women who were neighbors and friends they both died when a tornado destroyed much of their town. mike chobin shows us the devastation left behind. >> reporter: from missouri to michigan people across the midwest are dealing with the aftermath of a major storm system. flooding, power outages and flooding reported in many areas if the storm continues to move east. but the damage was greatest in the suburbs. devastating two small towns. >> all i hear is rumbling and i didn't know what to think. then finally when it was okay, the house was gone. >> reporter: in rochelle illinois 30 homes damaged most beyond repair. the storm targeting both officials and civilians as it rolled through the middle of

she's a former executive director of the aclu of northern california and former dean of san jose's lincoln law school. >>> and here's something you don't see often. a tornado touching down in you gene oregon. amazingly, no one was seriously hurt. >>> our chief meteorologist, i believe spent time in oregon. not sure if you experienced that. >> not there. and it's still gusty at the oakland airport. gusts as high as 23 miles per hour. and helping to keep temperatures consistent across the bay. and low 50s for tonight. it's agd adding friction in the atmosphere. temperatures will be dropping into 40s for a few select locations. 42 in the north bay, 43 in the east bay. and a light jacket but then check this out. a 30 to nearly 40 jump in temperatures for particular locations here. and we're going to have full on sunshine from the interior valleys right to the coast line. and that's going to put us to 77 here in san jose. and it's not exactly efwoegoing to bow a warm day here. and the marina in san francisco, likely at 67 and we're going to see these winds shift more off shore and that's going

. >>> pelican bay state prison sits in near pristine wilderness on the coastline of northern california. >> we're located just miles from the oregon border just in from the coast. so we're fairly remote. we're not surrounded by nothing. >> it's no accident that pelican bay is isolated hundreds of miles from the state's major cities. >> we fight an unending battle to keep the communication from our security housing unit inmates, particularly our gangsters, from getting back out to the streets and out of our 1,100 inmates, over 800 have been validated as gang members or associates. >> pelican bay is the toughest prison in the california prison system. it's where the worst of the worst go to. the first time we sent a "lockup" crew was weeks after they suffered their worst gang riot in history. and there was still tension in the air as the crew walked through the gates. >> the riot fought primarily between black and hispanic inmates lasted a little over 30 minutes. one inmate was killed and dozens of others were stabbed or beaten. when we returned five years later, the tension was still pal

it will lead to a chance of rain northern california, maybe all the way down to sonoma county. on the other hand, maybe not. that's monday and tuesday. the rest of us looks like it's going to be sunny and dry through the period. futurecast shows that we have a mostly sunny friday on tap. there's sunrise. as time goes on, see a few high clouds again like today. temperatures will come up tomorrow as high pressure builds. so weekend warmup it won't be big time but a few degrees a day. that's all we ask. dry for most for a week. the for most means that the extent may be in sonoma on monday and it will cool off for everybody a little on monday. overnight lows 47 vallejo, 46 concord. 45 livermore. daytime highs tomorrow, a little bit warmer than they were today. 72 at livermore and 70 in san ramon. pleasanton lives up to its name. 69 for napa. and up in sonoma county, at santa row 67 degrees. in the extended forecast, it will look nice friday through the weekend. numbers will be in the mid-70s inland. near 70 at the bay. at the shoreline not a bad beach weekend. next week cooling dow

showers widespread across northern california. we are starting to see our first signatures on the doppler radar. light activity making its way through the santa cruz mountains. light activity today. nothing heavy. you can see from woodside. cloudy skies. in san jose, completely clear. just hang on. you can see the showery activity if you are making plans today. by 7:00, 8:00, we will see showers across the santa cruz mountains. a few echos across the north bay as we move towards 10:00. south bay, san francisco, and the east bay, that's where you will see the showers. by 2:00, we are actually all done with the rain. your easter forecast does include showers for the first half of the day. afternoon, sunshine. if you have trick or treaters today -- egg hunters. >> yes. >> wrong season. it will be raining for the first ha have of the day. light activity. you have to get the kids inside. have an extra towel handy. >> it is a little trick-or-treating. there is candy involved, kids and running around. easy to get them mixed up >>> vatica

we are at the northern california cherry blossom festival. its been going on for almost 50 years here in san francisco. as part of it they have dedicated a block of the festival to hello kitty and a part of that is this hello kitty cafe. the food truck in san francisco for the first time ever and apparently there are a lot of hello kitty fans here in the city. check out the line. it hasn't opened and there is well over a hundred people waiting in line to tryout some of the treats here that they have at the hello kitty cafe. looking up and down the line there are a few kids here. there are a lot of people in their 20s, 30s and 40s. maybe group up -- grown up kids who grew up with hello kitty. what brought you out here? you are 8:00 just to wait in line. >> and i'm not a morning person. i love hello kitty. i grew up with her. she is the best. she can do no wrong. >> reporter: now know you don't get to meet here. >> no. that's fine. >> reporter: it's just food. >> they look amazing. they are super cute and hopefully taste good too. >> reporter:

california. weather forecasters say the late precipitation might help delay this year's fire season. have a real effect on the state's drought conditions. >> reporter :some of the showers are having generally east or southeast. is the storm trackers it is dropping some moderate to heavy rain in some parts. most locations are looking for right--rain indicated by the green you've got some showers right now impacting this evening. it looks like we will cease-still- see a chance for scattered showers--showers we saw quite a few final crowns- clout-in the sand and cisco area--clouds in the san francisco area this is a picture of the rainbow that we saw across the bay area today. in marin county. we definitely saw our fair share of stormy weather a dry air more milder weather pattern comes this way breaking news. escaped from santa clara county if deputies has been arrested. he was caught by u.s. marshals in mississippi. kron four's dan rubin covered the escape right after it happened. he's joining us