the bay area has been getting another dose of late

season rain overnight and more wet weather is on the way. we have details on what to expect in the coming hours. the rain did stay away long enough to squeeze in oakland's first friday event. for the first time in months. while vendors are profiting, the organization that puts it on took another hit. and outrage over a plea deal for a dui suspect that killed a champion cyclist in san francisco. the concern about what it could mean for future cases. >> it's a dangerous precedent that someone can drive dangerously, recklessly drunk and kill someone and not face much consequence at all. >> good morning. it's saturday, april 13th. i'm kelsi thorud. the weekend is off to a soggy start around the bay area. let's get an initial check of the weather with first alert meteorologist darren peck. okay. it's a first alert morning out there. widespread

showers are working their way across the bay area. we will keep this phase of the system going for the next hour or so before it starts to wind down. then once we hit like the late morning, we will be in a break. look at the timestamp. 10:00 a.m., not a whole lot falling from the sky at that point rain-wise but more is coming. in the full forecast, i will show you why the afternoon and evening we will have isolated scattered showers and maybe an occasional thunderstorm. it will be cooler today. daytime highs are in the mid-50s. nobody is warming up past that. i will see you with the full forecast in a few minutes. the people who run first friday's in oakland are pleased that the rain held off for a while last night. the monthly event is back after a three-month fund-raising hiatus. the street fair is about community and culture. but it means so much more for businesses struggling to survive. >> it's not just the financial

struggles putting a strain on this event. organizers had to push back first fridays to the second friday this month because of the weather. there were fewer vendors and fewer people than usual. but those that are here are grateful that the event is back. donna was thrilled to set up shop at first friday's in oakland. >> this is the most successful first friday we have done anywhere before. yes, we do a lot of events. this one for the short amount of time that it is on a monthly basis, it brings in a huge revenue for us. >> that revenue is critical for small businesses. several years ago, he took over the tamale business. he works from 4:00 in the morning until 10:00 at night preparing the tamales and selling them at events like first friday. >> every week it changes. am i

cooking myself? how do i feel that week? what looks good. what kind of vegetable i can find. i cook that up. . >> reporter: he isn't a trained chef. his story began on the streets of afghanistan. >> i left home, afghanistan when i was like 11 years old. so, i had to go to different countries on my own without no parents, no families. so, i had no option but to learn to cook to survive. >> reporter: the story of survival is one that many oaklanders can relate with. bob says this street fair brings in new customers. >> we keep trying. you can't stop. we are invested in this. all these people are invested in this. you can't turn back. we have to make it better. >> reporter: first fried's organizers say they are continually fund-raising to keep the event going but the plan is first fridays will be held throughout the rest of the year. >> a lot of people were having doubts that we weren't coming back but we knew we were, stronger than ever.

>> reporter: the resilience of the community can be found on every block. his secret ingredient is to never give up on his dreams. >> i told my wife, my business partner, we just got to stick together and work hard. don't worry about anything else. keep pushing it, pushing it. it will happen. as long as we serve our customer quality products and keep the customers happy, they will come back. they will come back. it's working now. >> first fridays suffered another financial blow earlier this week. the nonprofit that runs it says someone broke in to the office and stole some of their equipment. organizers say the event costs 35 to $45,000 to put on each month. vendor fees cover less than half of that. they are asking for donations and volunteers to keep first fridays going through the end of this year. now, across the bay in san

francisco, china town merchants were doing their own booming business at the night market. organizers hope that the showcase of chinatown culture and cuisine will remind people how much local shops have to offer. >> a lot of the low income and senior --we don't have enough young people who --they want to spend money. so, we like people to come in and spend money. >> the event has been such a hit it will now be held on the second friday of every month. a bike crash killed a champion bicyclist. the man that hit him driving drunk in will be charged with only misdemeanors. >> that's just unacceptable. this is people's safety. >> reporter: luke is one of san

francisco's most outspoken advocates for bicycle safety. when he heard about the plea deal reached between federal prosecutors and the man accused of hitting and killing champion cyclist ethan boyd in a drunk driving crash last year, luke was shocked. >> it sets a dangerous precedent that someone can drive dangerously, recklessly drink and kill someone and not face much consequence at all. >> reporter: according to court documents, the suspect in the case, arnold low pled guilty to vehicular manslaughter and dui, charges that carry a maximum punishment of one year in jail. former federal prosecutor tony brass told me he never has seen a case like this charged as a misdemeanor. >> dui by definition is almost a felony. i have not seen a manslaughter involving driving

under the influence and charged with a misdemeanor i don't think ever. it's most unusual plea. >> reporter: court documents show that the family asked the judge to shop lenience to mr. low writing in the letter to the quote it is our sincerest belief that ethan would in no way want to see mr. low incar senior rated or wanted our family or mr. low and his family to endure the lengthy and painful process that a criminal trial will have entail. brass told me a letter like that can influence how a prosecutor chooses to charge a suspect but the prosecutor has to be aware how the decision could impact future cases. >> now, are all du iman slaughters on federal land going to be misdemeanors? how do we make the distinction? what distinguishes this case? what are the facts.

>> reporter: luke said he has the same questions. he worries that not only are cyclists in danger on roads like the one boyd was killed on which didn't have protected bike lanes but they have to worry about drivers not being held accountable for their actions. >> we are talking about two, three, sometimes four ton vehicles that can very easily kill or injure people. it's critical that people understand there are consequences if they hurt someone with their car. >> in the plea deal, low admitted he was drunk when he struck boyd and consumed wine two hours before the crash. coming up, an update on the search for two teens that went missing in the russian river. the discovery that crews are reporting.

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mugs. an update to a story we have been tracking. searchers believe they recovered the body of a missing teen swept way in the russian river. a marine unit with an underwater camera recovered the body in the late morning on friday. no word on the age or identity a second teen that briefly went missing in the water was able to get out on their own. we have a first alert day because of an impressive storm giving us widespread rain this morning starting around midnight. we come to the end of

this first phase. in the last morning hours the back edge will clear. a little snow on mount hamilton. i will show you that in a second. we looked at this at the top of the newscast. that won't be the way the rest of the day goes. let me bring in the next batch of showers. isolated on again off again showers, a few more here. look at the timestamp from 6:00 in the evening. that will take us through 10:00, 11:00 at night. a little bit of an uptick in the number of thunderstorms that could be potential for this. most places won't see that. that's not the way it usually goes. each time we had this forecast over the past several weeks we got a thunderstorm for some localized areas. that's why we make a big deal about pointing them out. if you get one, quite a show, brief downpours, small hail.

most of us won't see that. a possibility for a small part of the bay that could you see one saturday evening. as far as rainfall goes for sunday, there is not much on here. a few showers that came through in the late afternoon and early evening. short lived. they wouldn't amount to much. most of the energy is out of the atmosphere by that point. not like sunday is a risk for thunderstorms. most of sunday it won't rain even. but you will still have to consider the fact as you make your sunday plans you could get a light short shower. if we look at the rainfall totals for this system as a whole and what we look at is the cumulative. i'm taking the whole system as a whole on here, we pick up about an inch of rain in places. look at the number in san francisco. an inch and a quarter. an inch and a quarter for santa rosa. .7 in livermore. that is total for the whole two-day period. most of that will fall really now through the morning hours. this band of rain that has been moving over us since midnight is the bigger rain producer of the whole two days unless you get one of those isolated

thunderstorms over you. then you get a brief downpour. here is that outlook. from the storm prediction center, saturday, they have shaded us in green again showing their degree of confidence from the storm prediction center in norman, oklahoma. they are the national entity charged with looking out across the whole country and spotlighting areas where there could be severe weather. we are not at that risk. we are on the lowest rated possibility for an occasional thunderstorm from them. it will be cool today. not getting out of the mid- to upper-50s for daytime highs. here is a look at the storm. you can see why it lined up. the widespread steady rain, a break then we get into the center of the system back here. this is where the thunderstorms are and why it will be fairly active for us. particularly saturday through sunday then sunday there is the leftover stragglers that get pulled down. not a lot to those. a

little review on how the storm is put together. the bulk of the rain is going to the south. look at big sur. all the pictures we have been showing of the washout on highway one on the northern edge of big sur. they are about to get significant rain from the storm. that will slow that down. big sur is no stranger to that. snow in the sierra, there will be some. we are talking about 6 inches of snow in donner pass. there is mount hamilton possibility, an inch or two. most of that, we are entering that period where this would be the most likely time if you see light snow on mount hamilton, between now and 10:00 in the morning when we get the clearing. same story in the north bay. a few light flurries for the north bay mountains but it doesn't appear as though it would be a lot and fairly quiet. after this we are done. look at the long-range forecast. no storms coming our

way. no chance for rain really from now through april 22nd. so, going out about 10 days is as long as we would want to go with this and show you what the rainfall accumulation is like. we are not included. we are in the big blank area. seven-day forecast, first alert status today. maybe a stray shower on sunday. not much. look at the warm up. san francisco, 73 by wednesday. oakland goes to 70. then when we round out the other microclimates north and south bay, 82 coming to san jose on wednesday. 81 by thursday. shohei ohtani reaches an impressive number for career home runs. he continues his first season with the l.a. dodgers. later on in sports, well, the golden state warriors, well, we know where they stand after last night and guess what bay area big league team has a better record than the giants.

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the eve of the last regular season game for your golden state warriors. last night they outscored new orleans in the first, third and fourth quarter. new orleans caught fire in the second quarter. cj mccullen walked in a three. one of 10 triples in the quarter. the pelicans led by 14 at the half. move to the fourth, dubs down five. here is steph curry in one of his seven giveaways. pelicans by seven. over five minutes left. a minute left they had curry's offense. he didn't score 33. cut the deficit to three points. 20 seconds left. zion williamson missed a fade away. curry came down with it. down three, needed a three, needed a tre.

two to finish. no, no, no. and new orleans hung on and won the game 114-109. damaging loss for golden state in that play. to reset this morning, warriors drop to 10th in the west, tied with sacramento. one game behind the lakers. the dubs could move up in the standings but it sounds like golden state could be resting players in the regular season finale tomorrow against utah. pivot to baseball. blake snell welcomed by his former fan base in tampa. tied at one in the third. rays double into the gap. ramirez scored from first and tampa went ahead 2-1. jump to the ninth. same score. san francisco has a runner at third and one out but could not get him in. that is the ball game. tampa won the series

opener 2-1. giants record of 5-9 were 0-10 with runners in scoring position. a's at home last night. i lake paul blackburn. he is a brentwood kid. six and a third innings against washington. hasn't had a run in three starts this season. last night's game went to extra. tied at 1. lawrence butler, dangerous with a bat in his hands. matt schuman came down and dove for the winning run. the a's walked it off 2-1. they have a record of 6-8. they won five of the last six. golf, second round of the masters. dechambeau, was he carrying the leaderboard? you will see tiger woods play. he made the cut for a master's record 24th straight time. he was alongside max homa. look at him figure out the line at the fourth green. one of three cal alums in the top 10. six under

tied for the lead with dechambeau and scottie scheffler at agusta national. we will see you after the third round on the par five show. shohei ohtani hit his 175th home run in the major league tying the records for the most homer by a japanese born player. it was his fourth home run of the season. it came in the bottom of the first inning. he is tied with matsui for the record. after the game, he said he is honored to be a part of history but despite that achievement, the dodgers could not get a win. they dropped this one 8-7. coming up, a plan is in the works to try to save a migrating whale. it involves help from the whale itself. we will explain.

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time is running out for a whale. it passed pacifica but researchers haven't seen it since. they say it's only getting skinnier. >> the whale with the even

tanglement can't dive to forage for food. small crustations are in there. they can't feed with that even tanglement. >> the marine mammal center says it has a plan of attack for the next time they see the whale. >> we will motor up to where the whale is and grab a hold of those buoys that are coming off the whale. we lift the engine off the water. at this point, the whale will be pulling the boat with several people on board. they are small inflatable boats. and we walk hand offhand on that line to get as close to the whale as possible. then we have special tools that we use to reach out by hand or poles that we connect together to reach where it the even tanglement is and cut at it.

>> you can help with this effort. if you happen to spot the whale, call 877-sos-whale. a mom's instincts kicked in when she saw a baby otter in the middle of a sacramento road. it was near the san juan reservoir park. when she saw it, she knew she had to do something. animal control can only take cats and dogs. she turned to the next door app that connected her with a wildlife rescue organization. >> i just saw something very, very small in in the middle of the road. there was blood on the floor. i was like, okay. but it started crying and moving. >> she had a very small superficial wound on the tip of her tail. we cleaned it right away. the baby otter is safe

and sound. it is believed that the mother accidentally left it behind while crossing the roadway. thank you all so much and thank you for watching kpix 5

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