Minutes. Reporter thats right we are expecting to hear from the San Francisco police chief outside the hospital in the next 15 minutes wp we saw Police Officers here at the hospital earlier today as the Police Department is sharing more about that 32yearold officer recognized were told for Outstanding Police work in the past. The one who was well sliekd, someone who volunteered. Elliott han gchlt kel. And family has come from out of town. The bicycle was run over yesterday. By an suspect fleeing an regulation in a suv. Of course that set off the manhunt. The suspect taken into custody a few hours later. The officer critically injured. He mafbl hit twice. The officer. Police say that he began working with sf pd in 2012 and asked to be assigned to the tender line zikt district one of the tougher areas. We did speak this afternoon with supervisor of the sf p. D. Saying its hitting the department and the city hard. I got an opportunity to see his colleagues and this morning to the tender line station. I know most officers were given time off to go to the hospital to spend time there together and also with his wife. And this is an incredibly difficult time. Reporter now, Court Documents do show the suspect who goes by Maurice Johnson or sometimes merely flanagan does have a history with the law including charges related to narcotics, theft and leaving the scene of an accident. Again at this point we are wait to here from thes San Francisco police chief and well let you know exactly what he had to say. Reporting live in San Francisco, kristy smith. Thank you kristy. Yes we will bring you the News Conference and details ee mernging from that. There is going to be a change in the weather tonight. We want to take you outside and show you the live camera in sand rafael where you can see the sky getting cloudier which means rain on the way that hopefully brings some relief for firefighters still battling wildfires in the bay area. Lets bring in jeff ranieri with the preview and what can we expect. I think overall about a quarter inch of rainfall for fire zones all eyes fixed on the cold front off to the north right now. 175 miles away. Closer view of this shows up near eureka producing. 09 inch per hour. The hour by hour keeps us in the scattered rainfall situation into 7 00 p. M. And then eventually accumulating rainfall dwechlg around 10 00 from middle town, calistoga to santa rosa through point reyes. Run it through the storm system coming up at 5 20 tonight. But i want to let you know that this current pattern we are in a sign of la nina developing. A classic la nina pattern with some of the heaviest rainfall into vancouver through portland and we are left with the tail end of this system. Again, a little bit of la nina, inspired in this storm right now. We will have full details on this system coming in and how long the rainfall lasts at 5 20. Well see you then thank you. Of course you can track exactly how much rain. Download the ach. Its free. We have the entire section devoted to the forecast. A rain a welcome site for crews battling the wildfires. Full containment expected tomorrow. More and more people are allowed to return homes as well. Dry creek road reopened in napa county. Only about 15,000 people remain evacuated, down from about 100,000 last saturday. But not all the homes will be liveable. Inspectors are going door to door retagging. All four of the major fires are over 70 contained. Authorities raised the numbers of homes and building destroyed to nearly 7,000. State insurance commissioner also announced damage would be the billions. As we mentioned thousands of people still out of homes. Authorities say they are the priority. Trying to get them become in as soon as possible. But for many they dont have homes to go back to. Nbc bay area sam brock spent the afternoon speaking with residents including at a townhall meeting. What did you find out . Reporter janelle, good evening process. As you mentioned we talked about a significant population here. Thousands of people still evacuated. Looking right now at the parking lot at the Veterans Memorial building in sonoma there is nobody out here now. Picture this a few hours ago every square foot of the parking lot was covered with cars. People all here who wanted to talk to fema, wanted to talk to county leaders, to emergency services. What we found out is that money is coming in right now to help them. But the solutions to sustain living for those people for long periods of time those arent coming in. Zbloots used to be right here in the coffey park subdivision. All vladimir afrlz can do to highlight his home is point on a map. It burned in a blaze that leveled coffey park. His family received 100,000 for Living Expenses but it needs to last two years in the bay area. We have this new place we are moving in tomorrow friday. Thats 380 oh dolla 0 a month. We have to make it we have to stretch it out. On thursday afrlzs fellow neighbors signed up for fema loans. The money will largely coincide with the value of the property. It is hards to what you are eligible for depends on the case, the property, Property Damage wp loss. Registers for fema was a real experience. But i felt compassion today. I felt that they are doing everything they can and they just cant do it as fast as we wish. While the feelings might be profound at the informational townhall where is the road map for putting people like vladimir m wife and two kids into adimir longterm housing. What do you tell this man and his family. Doing the best we can. We are do whatever we can to make sure they have a good roof over their home over their head. I dont know for sure. I dont know. Reporter you know id like to credit the assembly w for answering my question because i asked to female aire. They referred to oes. Eet oes referred me to the county. No one can answer the question. The assemblywoman said they have to think outside the box. As all the other trailers from the disasters throughout the country are being used. Reporting live in sonoma. Sam brock. Nbc bay area. Long hard road thank you sam. Santa cruz schools start reopening in phases. First phase next friday. 13 schools open. Concerned with not just safety at the building but staffing. There have to be enough teachers on hand. Cardinal neumann in high school in santa rosa heavily danld is expected to start class monday 37 School Leaders say they are making course treerl Available Online for students who cant attend class. Chief of staff john kelly defended President Trump today for the way he handled talking to the widow of a special forces solar. The solar was killed in an ambush earlier this month when the team was patrolling in maly the president called the widow and a florida congresswoman says mr. Trump was insensitive to her. Today john kelly said he handled the call as all other president s. He was where he wanted to be, exactly where he wanted to be with exactly with the people he was wanted to be with when his life was taken. That was the message. The pentagon hasnt released many details of the ambush. The Defense Department is investigating. Another threat from north korea today. This time the country warned american that is a strike could come at any time. The message came today on north korea state run media. The newest salvo between north korea and President Trump. The president has threatened north korea repeatedly on twitter and in speeches. Mr. Trump expected to visit the border next month. Frrm Vice President joe biden is specking in a college in cupertino. Part of the celeb Forum Speaker series. His speech starts at 8 00 at the flint center. Coming up evacuations lifted. Were there as residents of the Santa Cruz Mountains get to go back hell home after the wildfire that burned dangerously close. Deadline day. The city submitting last minute proposals to become the home of amazon Second Headquarters. Accumulating rain developing near cal stog o and santa rosa by 9 30 tonight. Well have the time line of the storm coming up at 5 20. A wildfire burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains. D well firefighters continue to make progress in the fight against the wildfire burning in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Today more evacuation orders listed. People living in the neighborhood on sky line boulevard were allowed to go home. Nbc bay area damian true owe is live in the Santa Cruz Mountains. And they have to be thrilled to go home so quickly. Reporter they absolutely were. The chp officer behind me is only allowing residents to drive through. Some areas remain under evacuation orders. But a few people up in the enabled got the green light today to come home. It was really eerie being up here hearing the sirens, the cops calling everybody to get out. Mike is happy to be back home. From his neighbors can deck he could see why he had to leave. It was bad. I woke up the family and said we got to pack be ready to go. About two hours later we got the notice. Its a private community tucked in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Evacuees say they were on opinions and needles praying homes would be spared. Today they returned and concede they got lucky. The firefighters did an amazing job and we are so excited to get back home. The mailman was busy today delivering days worth of mail same with the Package Delivery trucks. The locals say if the bear fire struck last week with the same strong winds that ravaged wine country they might not have homes to return to today. There were no helicopters making air drops today. None of that activity. We did hear some chain saws in the distance. Smoke but things slowly returning back to normal. Live in the Santa Cruz Mountains, nbc bay area news. Good to get good news thank you. Thank you. Damian has pictures from the Santa Cruz Mountains. Follow him on twitter by following us on twirt. A Sexual Assault at uc berkeley has searching for the attacker. The female victim met the male suspect at a fraternity party. Investigators say they havent identified the suspects. If you have any question base this incident, youre asked to call uc berkeley police. Well its last day for cities hoping to become the new amazon headquarters. At bay area made the pitch. Amazon opened up bidding for a Second Headquarters last month. Cities and states across the country went all out to lure the multibilliondollar giant in San FranciscoOakland Fremont and some other bay area cities. They all announced the proposals today. It includes near the oejd coliseum, fremonts warm springs and hunter point in San Francisco. The company says wherever it goes it will start by hiring some 50,000 people. You can let your dog runfree. The National Park service announced its dropping the decade long fight to require leashes for dogs about the bay area. This involves the 9e 5 4รท. g National Recreation argue. The park sfts argued it would protect wild life and public safety. Dog owners filed a lawsuit that park Service Members were conspiring with groups lobbyings to the rules. A unexpected prowler outside a business. A bear was spotted peering in the shop windows. Hey, big boy dont break into them businesses. Wrus just window shopping. And walking the street. They posted the video on fischer. He darted off into a park. The bears are currently preparing for hieber nation so looking for food to up the calorie intake. I do that too so i empathize with the bear. Gees. Before we have to interrupt you for a second. Weve been telling about you about the News Conference starting with reference to the San Francisco officer that was run over. This is chief bill scott. Reminder of the dangers that Law Enforcement officers face every day as we performed duties to protect the public that we serve. Our Police Family has responded admirably with strength and resolve to support the officer and his family. Currently ilia remains in intensive care. As hei] continues on the road t recovery its important and uplifting to remember that ilia is a fighter in every sense of the word. And this fight is not over. Id like to read a statement from his wife. If ilia was writing this he would want to say that he is like every other cop working in San Francisco. He goes to work every day to protect and serve his community. He does this with heart and passion. At the end of the day like any other officer he wants to come home to his family. Ilia is a symbol of strength. Its in his blood. This situation will be no different. This is not the end of his story. Please, please send him positive energy and love. He deserves it. And he will no doubt get through this. Ilias family and the men and women of the San FranciscoPolice Department want to thank the public. The hospital, city leaders and our Law Enforcement partners for the outpouring of support during this trying time. We ask you continue to support the officer and his family through thoughts and prayers for his recovery. Thank you. And before we go on id like to provide some details about the ongoing investigation. Our investigators yesterday afternoon took into custody 50yearold maurice a. Johnson. He has been charged for the following counts. Attempted murder. Use of a Deadly Weapon in a commission of a felony. Assault with a Deadly Weapon on a peace officer. Inflicting Great Bodily Injury on another in commission of a felony. Battery with serious injury. Serious bodily injury. Resisting arrest causing Great Bodily Injury. Possession of a stolen auto. Felony possession of stolen property. Felony evading causing serious bodily injury. Reckless driving causing injury, felony evading a peace officer. Unlicensed driver. And resisting or delaying a peace officer. These are the booking charges. At this time we are not releasing a booking photo due to pending identification issues. And ill take a few questions before we conclude. You have been listening to San Francisco chief bill scott discussing the case of one of his officers, a 4year veteran of the tender line district there. 32 years ilia who is critical in condition the police chief talking about the situation saying the fight isnt over for the young police officer, that the station and all of the officers in sf p. D. Are standing behind him. He went to read a letter from the officers wife saying he goes out every day to froet the people of San Francisco but that he is a symbol of strength and this is not the end of the story, asking everyone in the city of San Francisco and throughout the bay area to send thoughts of love and prayer to the officer. That officer was run over yesterday initially one time first we learned from the investigative unit. And then we learned the suspect may have backed up over him. Now he faces multiple charges including attempted murder. Switch gears and get check of the forecast. Jeff ranieri. And the cold front will help to produce the rainfall you guys is about 175 miles off to the north. Once we see the cold front move across the bay area thats when will when we see the chances of rainfall begin to pick up. Mainly light to moderate rain throughout eureka. Thats a sampling of what question will see happen tonight. Now 9 00 on the hour by hour future cast shows scattered rainfall through marin napa and sonoma. Then we see more widespread coverage of raufrl at 10 30 tonight. Some of the yfl indicating possibly heavier pockets. But notice down in the san jose even at 10 30 its still mainly dry. Its taking a while to get here to the south bay. We think maybe by 1 00 . In in the morning on friday. Then on 6 00 a. M. Friday rainfall moves out and we are left with cloud cover. Expected rain totals now starting to align on the different forecasts models about the. 05 inch closer to a quarter inch in the north by. Watch out head together sierra late tonight early tomorrow. At about. We are specking snow. Be prepared for winter conditions on interstate 80 and highway 50. Tomorrow morning as the rainfall moves out cloud cover linkers. Temperatures in the 50s throughout the bay from the south bay to trivalley. Includes the San Francisco area and north bay. Quick look in San Francisco warlg up to the 70 by next monday, tuesday and wednesday. And for the inland valleys warmer upper 80s by next tuesday. Full looks at this coming up at 6 00. Back to the break and more news after this. Minutes away from ocean beach, where crews are searching the water for a man d happening now nbc bay area sky ranger a few minutes away from ocean beach where crews search the waters for a man in distress. The fires department thought the man was a surfers. But other surfers saw he is fully clothed process crews have asking people to avoid the great highway. We are updating when sky ranger gets to the beach. And more news in a moment. The devastating Wildfires Oregon wineries are finding ways e hundreds of miles of north of the devastating Wildfires Oregon wineries are finding way to help friends here in the north by. Some wineries in oregon not only giving needed money and time but also offering jobs. The founder of one winery is offering jobs to ten worker displaced by the fires for three weeks. Le pay, house and feed them. One of the greatest gifts anyone can give is productive work. The goodness doesnt stop there other wineries are donating a percentage of the wine sales to relief efforts. And hosting and attending fund raisers as well. A little girl from santa rosa appeared on ellen today. The story heart breaking. We lold you did did lilly before she was important with a congenital defect and had to have legs amputated. They lofts everything in the fire including the prosthetic legs. Lilly and her mom jessica talked to ellen about the moment they realized they left the legs behind. Once i turned around and realized we were okay sitting in traffic. I was like lilly. She goes mom my legs my legs, wheelchair, shorty where are they. I cant the get back to the house. The legs cost tens of thousands of dollars thanks to the generousry of strangers they bought her a new pair of legs. The fire didnt take that away. So optimistic. Okay we are just hours away from seeing the first rain drops in the bay area. Seven to ten moves up to the north by. Eventually by 11 30 we have accumulating rainfall process Sonoma County to San Francisco takes a while getting to san jose. But by 1 00 there should be something left here for a little bit of activity. Closer to a quarter inch for the north bay. Clearing out for the morning commute around 6 00 a. M. Lets look at the extended forecast. Its cool tomorrow ab, even inland valleys 67 for a high. Find the jacket. Then as we head through sunday up to 79. Unfortunately more dry fire winds monday. 86 degrees, winds out of the northeast 5 to 10mileperhour and possibly up to 89 by next tuesday. Okay but the rainfall certainly will help the firefighters get containment. Definitely. Thanks, jeff. Thanks for judge joining us. Be back at 6 00. See you then. Byebye. Tonight, emotional defense. White house chief of staff john Kelly Holding back tears speaking about the death of his son. And pushing back on criticism of President Trumps condolence call to the widow of a fallen u. S. Soldier. Plus, inside the ambush. New details about what happened when u. S. Forces came under attack in niger. Bushs warning. A stunning rebuke of the current president from the last republican president without mentioning his name. Campus state of emergency. Protests and a massive brigade in the streets as police try to prevent another charlottesville. Inside nucleararmed north korea. Our team is there with rare access amid threats of war. Teaming