Quakes. Its not a matter of if, its when. Reporter some federal officials believe thats jumping the gun. This is my. 38 smith and w wesson. A fire like this so big and so hot, it seals the earth. Reporter fema spokesperson said the agency is consider concerned about tloflooding in n area and check your insurance policy immediately. It doesnt work that way. Reporter those policies take 30 days to kick in. On this day the assistance policy from the federal government taking center stage. Homeland security secretary rolling into town. It was very important for me to come out myself and see the damage and have the opportunity to learn from folks here what their needs are. Reporter she was asked if the Trump Administration has been an effective job of that. Her response at 6 00. The rain is a welcome sight. The forecast is gloomy in the sierra. Thats todays unofficial description of the snow pack. You can see why. Todays measurement in the usual spot, the snow was patchy instead of several feet deep. Its quarter of what it should be for january. On the bright side of things, californias reservoirs are still full from last winters heavy rain. You can track any new twomts on our phone. Download our app for access to our live radars and ai tailored for your specific climate. President trump continues to storm into the new year on twitter. Today he blasted his former chief strategist saying hes losing his mind after steve bannon revealed private white house moments in an upcoming book. Reporter you can tell President Trump was upset by this. This was based on accounts from more than 200 people but it was really the words of one of the closest, steve bannon that drew the true anger from President Trump today. Its all out war between trump and steve bannon. Furious, disgusted would fit when you make such outrageous claims and false claims against the president. Reporter the white house trying to discredit an explosive new book in which bannon rip sboos the president s son and Jared Kushner calling their meeting with the russian attorney treason u. S. And unpatriotic telling the author they should have called the fbi immediately but saying Robert Mueller may not be pursuing collusion charges. He thinks mueller will go after trump on the issue of money laundering. Reporter President Trump hitting back hard. A clearly angry statement reading in part when steve bannon was Fire Department he lost not only his job, he lost his mind. If anybody has been inconsistent it hasnt been the president or this administration. Saying that the president son theyre going to crack don junior like an egg on national tv. I think the degree of risk that trump is at for mueller is so much greater that flynn has flip and bannon has said certain thing ons the record. Reporter the book paints an unflattering picture of a candidate on Election Night who did not want to win and was shocked when he did. The white house also wasnt after the books author saying he had no access and calling the book itself trashy tabloid fiction. Jessica. Thank you. Paul manafort, hes now suing the man who indicted him back in october. He filed suit against Robert Mueller and the justice department. He claims the prosecutors overstepped when they charged him with actions that predated his work with the trump campaign. He claims they are not relate into the russian investigation. Manafort has plead not guilty to charges related to his lobbying work. Our coverage of President Trump continues. You remember the tweet we told you about yesterday taunting north korea leader, nightly news look sbos into the impact it co have on already strained relationships with north korea. Lester holt will have more than on that in about 20 minutes. Bad santa in San Francisco. San Francisco Police releasing this video from christmas day. It shows that man right there wearing a santa hat wearing down eddie street. He pulls out a handgun and fires shots into a car. That car sped away. Police say they dont know what led to the shooting. Not only that, no one from the car called to report the shooting. Nc a lot of kmconcern at a wel known school. Its a report we reported last night. He confronted a teacher alone in a classroom and sexually assaulted her. Robert handa joins us from the campus with a lot is happening. Reporter todays rain was not the only different sight on the Parker School campus. There was a noticeable Police Presence all around. The school said it has beefed up security. The investigation has become even more intense. Reporter students all conducted Business Today under the watchful eye of campus officials and police. Parents we talk ud to are relieved. Its fine. We feel that were doing everything we can. Reporter Police Released this video of man who investigators believe sexually assaulted and robbed a teacher who was in her classroom early Tuesday Morning preparing for the first day of school. Police described him as 59, heavy set, dark blue jeans with a distinctive walk. We have a lot of detectives assigned to this investigation. Theres a lot of behind the scenes follow up thats occurring as we speak. Reporter neighbors near the school are also concerned that assaults took place. Its scary to see that Somebody Just barged in and assaulted a woman. We see so many people walking out on the street. You dont think that the or we dont think to it will happen. Maybe the suspect decides i got away with this one, maybe i can do it again. Reporter they say the increase security in and around the campus will be maintained indefinitely. Thank you. The chp is trying to figure out what caused this deadly crash along the northbound 680 this morning. It happened after 10 00 on the onramp. Officers say a gray toyota sedan crashed into a guardrail killing the driver. Passenger was taken to the hospital with major injuries. No other cars were involved. Theres still no power in san jose state. A major outage on campus and its not the rain. In fact, you can blame a squirrel. Several buildings on campus went dark this morning including the library, the Student Union and Campus Housing buildings. The University Says they traced the problem to a squirrel crewing some wires. Classes were cancelled because of this outage. Crews are still working to get all the power back online. Still the come, a panic button in every hotel room. Lawmakers came up with to protect maids from being attacked on the job. Also, before south korea, the olympics next month, you got to go through san jose. Were live at the s. A. P. Center. The shark tank with the look at the local figure skaters hoping for a spot on team usa. Thunderstorms developing near the bay area. Were going to be tracking this and when the strongest storms since last winter could arrive. Details at 5 19 tonight. Some call it a silent crisis. But not anymore. A bay area congressman says it s time we do more to should there be a panic button . Bay area congressman said its time we do more to protect Hotel Employees from Sexual Harassment and assault. Reporter everyone we talked to said it sounds like a great idea especially to keep the female, Hotel Workers safe. Many Hotel Workers in major u. S. Cities are already wearing panic button. Almost 50 reported some kind of Sexual Harassment or assault by guests including men answering the door naked or assaulting female workers in the hotel room. We still think a lot of women are finding their voice. We see that definitely in the hotel industries. Reporter Assembly Member hayward cosponsored this bill thats said to be introduced tomorrow. California hotels, motels and bed and breakfast would be required to provide this panic button for the workers. Thank you. President trumps tax overhaul has a component thats especially painful for californians. Democrats in sacramento are attempting to fight back. Federal law has allowed people to deduct state and local taxes from the federal tax bills. President trumps tax plan caps the deduction at 10,000. More than a third of california tax players claim a deduction nearly twice that month. Democrats want to allow californ californians to make a donation to announce over that 10,000 limit. Hes running for u. S. Senate. One critic called the donation clever but wasnt sure it would fly with the irs. Mthe World Surf League took over this world famous contest and running things a bit differently. Women will compete for the first time. Like usual competitors are given a few days notice to get to halfmoon bay. The window is open till the end of february. The eyes of the figure skating world are firmly fixed on the bay area tonight. St most especially on san jose. Officials started the 2018 figure skating championship is less than two hours away. Skaters have been on the ice all day warming up. So cool just to see them warm up. A spot on the u. S. Olympics team. That means they head to south korea next month. The only local reporter inside the shark tank joins us with the latest. Reporter we get the Opening Ceremony for the u. S. National championship happening at 6 00. Less than an hour they will have the Opening Ceremony less than half an hour after that. 6 30 is when the ladies short pro ram begins. While theres some randomness, the very first skater up tonight, right at 6 30 is one of two squkaters who are skating i frochb front of a home crowd town. Reporter at just 15 years old she surprised the skating world by finishing second at the National Championships and earning a spot on the olympic squad for sochi. Her nineth place finish had everyone predicting big things for 2018. Because i was so young but still able to do so well, i just had so much more potential and i could doll so much in the next four years leading up to the next olympics. I felt like it was going to be my time in way. Reporter life doesnt always follow the script you write for yourself. Polina struggled on and off with injuries until finally having to drop out of last years championship and take much of year off from skating. The timing coincided with her freshman year at santa clara university. He said the time refreshed and refocussed her, but its left her with mere months to get ready for this years championship. I dont think its a question of whether or not i can do it. I think its a question of whether i have enough time to do it. Its definitely, for me, a race against time. Reporter we are the only broadcast station, local broadcast station inside s. A. P. Center for these championships. A beautiful set up here. We have a special section set up where you can take pictures. You can take pictures with cut outs of some of your favorite skaters. Well have a preview of what her season has been like coming up at 6 00. Thats so exciting. I want to go do my picture with the polina cut out. Well see you later. Thanks. Gar vvin is headed to south korea for us. You can follow his reports daily. Lets get back to our weather. Just a little rain here. Tell that to everyone in the east coast. They would laugh at us with all thats going on. Some serious weather. The south is in a dope freeze. Were talking tallahassee, florida. People playing the first snowfall there in nearly 30 years. A lot of serious conditions there on the east coast. Its going get colder by friday too. The rain is here. Roadways are slick tonight. We are following a brand new problem. Thats isolated thunderstorms developing back behind some of the rain we had today. Really the first wave of wet weather move through from 1 to about 4 00. Thats pushing the central valley. Here you can see some of the isolated thunderstorms right now in the pacific. Thats my main concern now. A few lightning strikes in the bay area. Its always a big headline. Just remember if you hear that thunder, you are close enough to be struck by the lightning and youll want to head indoors. We could see some of this hold up for us. We put a track on this. You can see it will likely move into santa cruz and hold up till about 6 08 tonight. We have a really cool zoomable rad radar. That shows lightning strikes. In terms of tonight, hold onto this chance. By tomorrow its more of a spotty rainfall situation with primarily low to mid50s from the south bay to the peninsula. Well also start with low 50s in San Francisco and the north bay and maybe again just a hit and miss shower for the morning commute. In terms of temperatures tomorrow, we will see numbers stay relatively similar. 65 in antioch. 60 in San Francisco and 65 in san jose. You need a jacket and keep that umbrella handy. While we have the system, we have now, well see another storm system approach by thursday night out here near the coastline. Likely to bring some heavier rainfall as we head through friday from 4 00 a. M. Into about 1 00 p. M. On friday. Thats going to help rainfall totals to be a bit higher with this thursday into friday tomorrow. You can see for the north bay with that, we may get close to one inch. Your half inch in San Francisco and a bit higher and a quarter inch down here for the south bay. On the extended forecast well get a break this weekend with dry weather saturday and sunday. Keep your eyes open for this next storm next week. Tuesday and wednesday we could see three quarters of an inwidespreinwidch widespread throughout the day. Thats what were watching out for possibly one of the strongest storms we have seen since last winter. Well have another full wrap up of this coming up at 6 00. Well be back with more news after the break. We want to folsom breaking news in oakland. A Police Shooting outside of the west oakland bart station. A shooting outside the west oakland bart station. This is at 7th street and chester street. It appears two people were shot. Thats not clear who was shot. The initial report suggests two suspects were shot by bart police officers. Were still now getting crews arriving on the scene. Theres a heavy Police Presence in this area. More details, next. Plap President Trump abruptly announced he s shutting down his voter fraud commission. Last may he formed the commission, after claiming. President trump abruptly announce hes shutting down his voter fraud commission. Last may he formed that commission after claiming millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election. His full statement we posted on our twitter feed. The raiders are one step closer for buying land new las vegas. Our homepage has the details. Police say they found a stolen car abandoned on a steep hillside off grizzly peak boulevard. Police say they found a stolen car abandoned on a steep hillside. This is video from the Oakland Hills staken from sky ranger. The car reported stolen out of richmo richmond. Major security flaw for intel. Its fixing security vulnerability in some of its products. A British Technology website was the first to report the news that caused intel stock to fall. Intel says the average computer user wont experience significant slowdown. The problem does not have any potential to corrupt, modify or delete data. Well have an update on the breaking news in a moment. Woman so, greg, its a lot to take in. Woman 2 and i know thats hard to hear, but the doctors caught it early. Hi, blake my dad has cancer. Woman and i know how hard that is to hear. But youre in the right place. Man and dr. Pascal and her team, they know what to do. They know what to do. The doctors know what to do. So heres the plan. First off, were going to give you all. voice fading away first off, were going to give you all. A Police Shooting outside the west oakland bart want to give you a brief update of this breaking news weve been following out of oakland. A Police Shooting. Were not sure if that involves bart police or oakland pd. This happened outside the west bart oakland station at 7th and chester. Police tell us it appears two people were shot. Its not clear how or who. Heavy Police Presence in that area. Youre looking at nbc bay area sky ranger that just arrived at the scene. Well have a full complete update coming up at 6 00. Thats going to do it here. Up next with lester holt with nightly news. See you at 6 00. Tonight, an ugly war of words explodes between President Trump and former top aide steve bannon. Bannon calling donald trump jr. s meeting with russians treasonous, one of several startling new accusations. Did the president s son, donald trump jr. , commit treason . I think thats a ridiculous accusation. President trump blasting back saying bannon has lost his mind. Also tonight, fear and fallout from the president taunting kim jongun on twitter boasting that his Nuclear Button is bigger. Bracing for impact from the socalled bomb cyclone bearing down on the eastern seaboard with hurricaneforce winds. Blizzard warnings in effect. A billiondollar battle over the way millions listen to music