Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20180116

Gunman was shot and taken into custody. So far theres no update on the condition of the officers. Also breaking overnight, another mistaken missile warning. This time in japan. A broadcaster there is apologizing after a news alert went out on its website and app saying north korea appears to have filed a missile. The correction was issued five minutes after the initial report. It comes just days after a false alarm in hawaii sent people into a panic over the weekend, that correction took nearly 40 minutes to make. It is a big day on capitol hill. The white house insider who ruffled feathers in a new tell all book will tell his story to congress. Steve bannon will be interviewed by lawmakers. Today in the bays tracie potts is live in washington and, tracie, what could we learn during todays hearing . Reporter well, we could learn whatever he o may or may not know about corrections between the trump campaign, the Trump White House and russia. Thats the focus of this investigation. Russia is back on the radar today as President Trumps former chief strategist, steve bannon, testifies before the house intelligence committee. He could be asked about his comments in the new tell all book fire and fury. What in the book rattled trump the most, who knows, but i think it could well have been bannon saying for sure donald junior walked the russias up to his fathers office. Reporter former chair Paul Manafort and rick gates pleaded not guilty to Money Laundering and other charges in the russia investigation. All this with a possible Government Shutdown looming friday. There shouldnt be because if there is our military gets hurt very badly. We cannot let our military be hurt. Reporter negotiations have stalled over protection for undocumented immigrants brought to the u. S. As children. The daca program that President Trump plans to end in march. Mr. President , close the deal. 80 of americans want to give the daca kids a better life. Its difficult. The president s position changes by the day. Im going to seize any moment that looks positive and promising. Reporter right now its looking bleak that lawmakers will come up with a budget and a daca deal that the president is willing to sign in three days. Now, that means we could be looking at another bandaid situation. Weve seen this situation many times before. This week the house of representatives may be looking at yet another budget extension. Back to you. Tracie, thank you for that one. It is 5 03. Now to a developing story here at home, a california Highway Patrol officer is recovering this morning after being seriously injured in a Chain Reaction crash in the east bay. Today in the bays pete suratos is live in martinez with what happened. Pete, this happened while that officer was writing a ticket. Reporter yeah, good morning. Yes, that chp officer was simply doing his job last night when it took place and the last time we checked in with chp we know that he was in recovery at a local hospital and when you hear the details of this incident, you realize hes lucky to be alive. Lets show you the scene from highway 4 overnight after this all took place. According to chp theyre saying the officer was parked on the side of the highway writing up an accident report involving an suv which was parked on the side of that highway. While this is taking place chp says another driver hits that parked suv, that suv flips over and eventually rolls on to the officer. Now, this collision pushed the officers parked motorcycle into traffic lanes causing a Chain Reaction involving eight cars, shutting down the highway. Our crews did speak with a driver in one of those eight cars who helped get the suv off of that officer. And then the motorcycle with the officer was spinning right in front of me, i swerved to get out of his way to the far right lane and thats where i got hit by this white truck thats up there and they went to the hospital. When i pulled over here i heard him screaming. Now, that officer may have suffered a broken leg, but he is expected to survive. Three more people were taken to a local hospital for injuries as well. Chp is trying to determine what caused the driver to slam into the suv but they do not think drugs or alcohol were a factor. Were live in martinez, pete suratos for today in the bay. Thank you for the update, pete. It is 5 05 right now. Happening today the man accused of killing a chp officer on Christmas Eve will be formally charged. 22yearold mohammed ali was allegedly speeding while drunk and on drugs when he slammed into the back of a patrol vehicle on 880 in hayward. He will be arraigned today. Chp officer Andrew Camilleri died in the crash. He was a married father of three. Happening today, possible changes coming to San Jose Police department. Today the city council will study a possible expansion of civilian oversight. Today in the bays kras sanchez is live at city hall. What would happen today possibly . Reporter we expect that theres going to be a very lively debate this evening, marcus, as the Police Officers association and the Police Department itself push back against some of these additional oversights that a lot of Community Groups want. Now, the San Jose Police department is already subject to the review of an independent Police Auditor, this is an office that was created way back in 1993, but its long been the complaint that the auditor has no teeth and can only make suggestions about change, but not demand them. The former independent Police Auditor, former judge cordell once told me that her power really rested in her relationship with the chief at the time, which was a good relationship, however, she recognized that, you know, there was no formal power there. So here is how that could change now. Today the council is going to consider expanding the independent Police Auditors oversight giving the auditor power to hold the department accountable rather than just make suggestions. Also open up for review complaints filed by officer and staff, these are Department Initiated Investigations which had been off unavailable to the Police Auditor. Right now they only conduct jefr sight over civilian filed complaints. Also granting the independent Police Auditor access to Body Worn Camera video. A lot of these details were gathered by the mercury news. I did reach out to the San Jose Police department and the San Jose Police officers association. Thats the union. When i hear back from them i will let you know. The debate is happening tonight at 6 00, we expect a lot of folks will show up to listen to what is going on. When we find out what happens there we will also let you know. In san jose, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Happening today four people are filing a claim against cal and the city of berkeley arguing police did not adequately protect them when tensions boiled over during a protest last year. That protest in february was sparked by the appearance of conservative blobber milo yiannopoulos. The plaintiffs claim they were physically attacked and injured by mass protesters and police did not move quickly enough to stop it. Their attorneys plan to talk about the lawsuit at a News Conference on campus later this morning. The school has not issued a comment. Students and staff at san joses Archbishop Mitty High School are grieving after an apparent skydiving death of their tennis coach in new zealand. Tyler nii is presumed dead. Authorities say that there was some type of airborne accident and the pair landed in a lake. The instructor survived but nii has not been found. A stood al straighter says players on the tennis team are shocked. At first it was just stunned silence, we were trying to process the information. Nii has been the coach for the boys and girls seem since 2013. He was just 27 years old. His parents are now on their way to new zealand to try to get more answers. The Palo Alto Unified School board is set to discuss ways to help students meet state standards, californias ag requirements are a set of cou e courses designed to make admission into the university of california or California State University systems easier. According to a new district report in palo alto, 94 of asian students met the requirements, so did 90 of white students. Only 67 of black students did and only 65 of hispanic students did. The report also shows that 68 of low income students met the requirements. 41 of special needs students did as well. Also happening today, big changes if you plan to visit muir woods. A new reservation system begins today. Parking and shuttle reservations will be required, the parking fee is 8 and it will go up every two years, the shuttle fee will be 3. Park Officials Say large crowds and traffic could be investigation led to the move. You will be able to make the reservations online. Still a good idea to go. Its still going to be wet out there today after a quick round of light showers during the Early Morning hours, but this rain is quickly rolling out of the bay area, but we do have some patchy dense fog left behind and in parts of the bay area some wet roads as you get ready to head out the door. We are going to have a lot more rain on the way as we get a look at the wider view and all of those clouds stretching into the pacific. We will get some waves of rain over the next couple of days, but as you head out right now in willow glen its going to be in the low 50s and reaching into the low 60s by this afternoon. Mike, you were saying there is a crash blamed on the fog. Thats what the driver of the vehicle told chp, she said the fog was so thick out in the altamonte pass area she didnt see the curve and went off the roadway. Over here we are looking at a smooth dry for most of the bay on this shot. Out to the trivalley, damp roads registering and off the altamonte at dire thats where the crash is. 580 is clear and that crash at dire should be cleared very quickly. A clear view farther over in dublin. You do see the fog not affecting the bulk of our community livermore into the dublin interchange. Coming up on today in the bay, the clock is ticking, the deadline impacting a tech giant based in San Francisco and the chance you need to look at to look out for when renting a room. Plus more than 40 million americans have little help at home in the form of alexa and others. We will take a look when today in the bay continues. Bay, the clock is ticking, the in the bay continues. The bathroom. When things go wrong here, you remember. Quilted northern is designed to work so well, you can forget your bathroom trips. But little miss puffytail can never forget. The only thing worse than having such large ears, is having such large eyes. Right now at 5 14 we have a clear view right now in palo alto and thats not the case all around the bay area. No rain, either, so the roads are still dry as you go up 101. Adds we get a look at our temperature trends around the day we will be at 54 degrees, a lot of clouds, only a few peeks of sunshine later this afternoon, but it is going to be a mild one reaching into the low 60s. We will take a look ahead to more widespread rain in the forecast, thats coming up at about 5 19. And then a crossover to the east bay, look at fremont also clear, also smooth dry. The earlier pieces of pipe have been cleared. We will show you whats going on farther out for drivers just getting started. New details on a story weve been following for years, a plan to add housing in downtown san jose is moving forward. The mercury news reports developers are planning to build a seven story residential complex near julian and stockton street. Thats near the proposed google village where the tech giant wants to build offices and right by the diridon station. They would have 250 units that would be retail space. Officials say that they recently approved a permit to develop on the site. The countdown is on, this morning thousands of people in San Francisco are scrambling to get their Vacation Rentals registered with the city. The paper says only a fraction of online renters have registered with the city. We should note hosts can still apply after today but any bookings will be canceled until they are registered. Those renters on airbnb now have a new way to pay. Scott mcgrew joins us now. No longer do you have to pay up front. You can put down a deposit and then pay the rest when you arrive. This will make it easier for longer stays when you might be paying 1,000 for a stay in the summer. You dont have to pay it all now. Airbnb rolled out the new Payment System worldwide this morning. The Company Thinks people will rent more expensive homes because of it. The stock market gets back to work today, the figures you are seeing on the right side there are fridays close. We are going to start at new record openings. Looks like a good day for trading. Bitcoin and transcript toe currencies continue to slide. Bitcoin down 38 over the last month. Weve talked in the past about thinking twice before making an investment in bitcoin. A new survey shows one in every six americans has a Voice Assistant like alexa and its the Fastest Growing market for tech gadgets. Amazon echo also leads the pack on that. The White House Press secretary not a fan. She says her son was able to order something through the familys amazon echo. She tweeted, alexa, we have a problem if my twoyearold can order a batman toy by yelling batman over and over again into the echo. If you are ever ordered anything on your amazon echo it doesnt work that way. I challenge you, show me a video of yelling batman over and over into alexa and somehow a batman toy shows up. An 80 toyota. It doesnt work that way. Maybe it was on an ipad or Something Like that. Now, beetlejuice take a look at this video right here, a baby bear in tennessee apparently did not have hyper nation on its mind when it got stuck inside a car. This is outside of a cabin. Take a look there, hes ready to go. That car owner thinks it was a combination of those dog streets and the unlocked doors that got that bear to actually get inside. Open well, okay. Okay. Take two. And open. Oh, wow. Look at the damage. Yeah, big time. And i dont know if you saw mama bear up there in the hills just waiting and watching. They said that blaring horn got their attention and the mama bear is looking on. Eventually the bear pushed open the door and took off to mama after causing some damage. Take a look at this Daring Rescue in the north bay, firefighters jump in to save a calf that fell into a well. The mama cow watched as firefighters made a harness and hoisted that 300 pound baby out. After the successful rescue both the mother and the calf went on their merry way. A lot of animal rescues there. Funny to hear 300 pound baby. No, its painful to hear 300 pound baby, marcus. Its all about perspective. Getting hot thinking about it. But its cold outside this morning, you might want to step outside the door. Its also starting out with some wet weather in parts of the bay area with some patchy fog. Weve been watching this first wave of rain moving in and a round of three and series of three storms that will be moving in. This first one will not cause a lot of impact here across the bay area. We are going to see the scattered light showers moving through within the next hour or two. If you dont see any rain, we are not going to see any more for the rest of the day. Weve seen most of the showers moving across the north and east bay and becoming more scattered. A spotty light shower or two expected over the last couple of hours. We have dense fog in parts of the bay area this morning. Looking at halfmoon bay where the visibility has dropped down to a half of a mile. We are seeing dense fog across parts of the Sacramento Valley and also patchy fog across the north bay. We will be watching out for that and then we will get partly to mostly cloudy skies today, a little warmer in the south bay compared to the rest of the bay area, low to mid 60s, 65 in pleasanton and 59 degrees in san mateo today. 57 degrees on the embarcadero and 60 degrees today in santa rosa. If you are traveling on know someone who will be traveling there may be problems boston down to dallas. Theres snow and ice and some really cold temperatures as we bring you back home we are going to have these storms rolling in over the next few days and then our next round of rain moves in by thursday with some scattered showers and heavy sierra snow. We may have wind gusts in the sierra over 100 Miles Per Hour and a lot of snow dumping in the sierra. So i will have more on that coming up. Mike gets us out on the roadways with some of that fog that may be affecting some of the drivers. May be an issue for the north bay, youve been showing folks and warnings folks. We see that, just the tip top of the screen through san rafael and further north. Over here close to the bay the roadways are great, look at these speed sensors. Over in the outer east bay area and trivalley, thats where we may have some mist and drizzle still having damp roadways coming out of the altamonte pass where there is fog that is starting to move farther east for most of our viewers it wont be a problem. Concord and benicia bridge and carquinez bridge moving smoothly. The richmondsan rafael bridge we will look over here and we see mist over the course of the morning, still some sheen on the roadway, there is a little puddle and that will be the conditions around many spots throughout this east bay and north bay. Some fog through san rafael and the bay bridge toll plaza it looks like they just turned the metering lights on a few minutes ago we see the build starting to form. Mist in the air air but not a major problem. Coming up next on today in the bay, terrifying moments on the tarmac. The investigation under way this morning after a plane collided with a deicing truck and how everyone managed to get out safely. And he has got the moves. Little boy who stole the show during last nights warriors game. Scary moments for an oregon bound plane on monday. The Alaska Airlines plane crashed inta developing this morning, scary moments for an oregon bound plane on monday. The Alaska Airlines plane crashed into a deicing truck on the taxiway at bostons logan airport. No one was in the truck at the time. The aircraft has minor daniel to the left wing. All passengers were given new flights to the west coast. At 5 25 this morning, Serena Williams is opening up about complications she had following childbirth. In an interview with vogue magazine the tennis superstar revealed she dealt with a medical scare after giving birth to her daughter. She said she had trouble breathing which she knew was a sign of blood clots. She had them before. So she says she guided her doctors on how to save her own life. Doctors say serenas story is a cautionary tale, saying we all need to advocate for ourselves in the healthcare system. These days when the warriors and cleveland mix it up, any number of guys can steal the show, steph, k. D. , lebron. But then last night it was fiveyearold dance phenomenon Tavaris Jones busting serious moves. If he looks familiar he has appeared on nbcs ellen before and last night the warriors made sure this was the highlight for cavs fans. The dubs won it going away 118108. I think he won last night. Hes serious. Look how serious he is. Of course. Making it rain. Thats awesome. Now to you. I can watch that all day. Coming up next on today in the bay, back to back storms, meteorologist kari hall tracking the first to hit the bay area this week. Plus its actually heart breaking for the staff and its unbelievable what you see. Yeah, chilling story. More than a dozen children allegedly shackled by their own parents. A live report with a disturbing new information were learning about the suspects this morning. Mateo bridge to you. Lets take a peek outside this morning. This is a look at the san mateo bridge all lit up. Folks already out the door this morning. Where are you headed . Good morning, thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. That was a clearer picture than what weve been seeing this morning. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking it all. We have the rain and fog this morning for a lot of people. Its been patchy. Weve seen some clear visibility in parts of the bay area, other areas can barely see anything at all. We have had this weak weather system pushing through that brought in some rain for the north bay and parts of the east bay, but skipping the south bay. As we get a closer look its still mostly cloudy and a little bit of light rain here and there, but nothing major at this point. We are also seeing some fairly clear visibility right now taking a live look outside in San Francisco. This round of rain moves out and then we move to thursday with our next round of rain moving in. Looks to be a more potent system with some widespread downpours and some sierra snow that will be quite heavy. We will have two more systems moving in after this first one passes so i will have the details on all of that and also a look ahead to the weekend in about seven minutes. Mike, youre starting out with those metering lights. Thats right, the metering lights which result in all these head lights. This tuesday build is a little more gradual than we sometimes see. Now, also some fog in the area. We will talk about the map and you see that highlighted for the yellow area north of san rafael. Thats resulting in fog lights as well coming down through novato and dixon for i80 westbound, your commute direction down towards the carquinez bridge. No major problems. We do see damp roadways over in the trivalley, just be careful through livermore off of 580. Back to you. New this morning, a tragic story out of pleasant hill. A College Park High School Wrestler is reportedly paralyzed from the neck down after he suffered an injury during a Junior Varsity match. Today in the bays bob redell live at the school with the efforts under way this morning to just help out his family. Bob . Reporter good morning. Yes, last wednesday ryan joseph, he is a 16yearold sophomore here at College Park High in pleasant hill, was competing in that wrestling match when something happened. He suffered a very serious spinal cord injury and right now is paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe on his own. According to a go fund me page set up by someone who appears to be ryans friend, ryan is currently receiving care in the trauma icu at john mere in walnut creek, which is the next town over. The go fund me page is trying to raise half a Million Dollars for ryans medical expenses, so far the page i just checked has raised just over 20,000. Its about an increase of 1,000 over the past hour or so. According to the page ryan is unable to receive visitors right now but cards are welcome. The page talks about ryan and his family. Ryan is well known by friends, teachers and coaches for his charm, exceptional wit and humor, im quoting from the page. His parents are kristen and tom. Ryans father tom was inducted this past september in a de la sal High School Hall of fame for wrestling and football. If you want to help out the Joseph Family go to our website nbcbayarea. Com weve put that go fund me page link. Nbcbayarea. Com. Reporting live in pleasant hill, bob redell, today in the bay. 5 32 right now. This morning were learning about the people who have died from the flu in california. That includes a san jose mother, Katie Oxley Thomas died just two days after being diagnosed. She was a 40yearold mother of three. She started feeling sick around new years day. On january 2nd she went to an urgent care, then to the hospital. Her boyfriend said she continued to get worse. From the time i took her to the hospital to the time she passed was about 18 hours. Its scary how fast it happens. And it doesnt matter how old you are. She was very healthy. And health Officials Say the flu season is on track of being the worst in decades. They urge anyone who has not gotten a flu vaccine to get one as soon as possible. Authorities in the north bay are investigating a shooting. It happened a little before 8 00 last night near cooks school park south of highway 12 in santa rosa. A 17yearold was shot but managed to drive to a nearby Medical Center for treatment. Her injuries not considered lifethreatening and Police Providing no other details. This morning officers across the bay area are on the lookout for a man at the center of a wild chase that ended in the south bay. That pursuit began in San Francisco and ended right by a sunnyvale golf course yesterday. Officers say the suspect was in a stolen truck then crashed. Before officers began their pursuit the owner of that truck says he was chasing the driver first. He spotted his truck on 101 and then called 911 while his friend was recording this video youre watching right here. When the chp tried to stop the suspect they say he drove on to 237 the wrong way and crashed that truck near the golf course. Officers never got him and he took off and is still on the loose. Now to a horrifying story out of Southern California. Today we could learn new information about a disturbing investigation involving 13 children. Allegedly being held captive by their parents. Many questions remain unanswered right now. It all happened in the city of perris about 20 miles south of riverside. You see it where it is here. One of the daughters escaped and called for help. Christine kim from our sister station knbc is live with more on how this all unfolded. Reporter good morning, laura. This is really a shocking story. Not only for those living in this neighborhood, but it has gotten nationwide attention and it is especially disturbing for those who know the parents and the 13 children. Now, we spoke to a wedding officiant who married david and Louise Turpin in las vegas in 2011 and said he has seen the family several times since then, telling us he would see the children smile, they were quiet but there were no warning signs he saw that would indicate what sheriffs deputies say they found on sunday. Several of the 13 children shackled to their beds with chains and locks and held in dark smelly conditions in their perris home. Neighbors thought the family was odd but say they never suspected that the house was an alleged torture chamber. They looked very unnutritioned, we white like they never got sun at all. Very sad. They would never come out. When you would see them out they would always stand there watching them. One day when i was driving in, 10 30, 11 00 at night they were out cleaning the front yard and they were like you could tell that they were cautious, that they didnt want to look at people. 57yearold David Allen Turpin and his wife Louise Anna Turpin were arrested sunday after the couples 17yearold daughter called the police saying she had escaped from her home, claiming her 12 brothers and sisters were being held captive by their parents. Some children were malnourished and thought to be younger, but several are 18 to 29 years old. All the children are at hospitals being treated. The parents are being held on 9 million bail each. Reporting live from perris, california, im christine kim. Back to you. We are going to continue to follow the latest developments on this story throughout the morning. The today show will also have full coverage coming up right after today in the bay at 7 00. Happening today, two communities will discuss a continued ban on legal use of marijuana. State law allows local governments to authorize recreational use, but they dont have to. Tonight City Councils in Mountain View and milpitas will ask to extend temporary moratoriums prohibiting pot sales. If you want to go to those meetings, the Mountain View one is starting at 6 30. The milpitas meeting starts at 7 00. Transportation leaders in San Francisco will vote on a new Pilot Program to limit parking permits. If approved it would cover a small section of Bernal Heights where a majority of residents agreed to be part of the trial run. Visitors there will have to pay to park. Each household will be limited to two permits with a maximum of one per person. The city allows up to four permits per household currently. You had a big event yesterday. I did. Celebrated Martin Luther king jr. Holiday. I was allowed to emcee an event. Allowed . They welcome me and it was a big honor. Martin luther king 38th annual Martin Luther king jr. Luncheon. It was a fun event. Dr. Emmett carson was the keynote speaker there and there were so many people. It was a great event to get out and a lot of people there were just amazing and so many stories and just kind of just really getting out in the community. I had a really good time. Thank you again for everyone for allowing me to be a part of that event. Kari, you did that last year and you know how great it is so it was truly an honor. So thank you. Good to have you. Good to have you back. Up earlier this morning look who else is back, mike inouye. Im noticing people were paying attention to marcus when i emcee lunches a lot of times they are just like this. A lot of silverware clanging. Not so well done right now, this is your commute oakland in towards San Francisco. Right around this bend things are jamming up at the top of the incline over toward the Treasure Island tunnel, thats westbound 80. Now, the map shows closlowing across the bay bridge as well. A disabled vehicle has been reported mid span getting towards the Treasure Island tunnel. The rest of the bay shows a pretty clear drive aside from the fog, the roadways are clear in the north bay and down to the south bay, a light flow again, were watching the bay bridge, it looks like a stall mid span. Kari was telling us about impending storms, what about next weekend . Its going to be hit or miss. I think saturday is the day all across the paris where we will have some sunshine and thats your day to get out. Looking at saturdays forecast its going to be cool, much cooler than evidence recently with low 50s along the coast and mid 50s for the inland areas. On sunday thats when the rain returns and our temperatures stay chilly only reaching into the low 50s. It will be a good day to watch up on the movies and shows youve dvrd. As we look at Russian River valley on sunday once again thats our day, 54 degrees for the high on friday as well as sunday, we will at times have showers moving in and the rain kind of misses out on l. A. So we will see some mostly sunny skies throughout the weekend there and highs in the low 60s and for santa cruz once again saturday is your day. We will talk about todays temperature trend for san jose, thats coming up in about three minutes. Thanks, kari. Coming up on today in the bay, new this morning, the hot new product that has people in San Francisco, right there, sleeping outside waiting in line for days. Right now at 5 43 in the south bay no issues as you get ready to head out on the roads, even though we have seen some light rain and some patchy fog across parts of the bay area. As we go through the neighborhood of santa teresa, south san jose, in the upper 50s by 10 00 or 11 00 this morning, low 60s today, not so bad. We will have a dry day. Also dry tomorrow before that rain returns, we will talk about it coming up at about 5 49. And this shot of the curve westbound 80 slow getting into San Francisco, but chp just gave us the update, theyre trying to clear that vehicle over at the harrison street off ramp. We will watch the progress. I will move the camera, see how things are moving closer to San Francisco. Its quarter to 6 00 right now. If you are not already waiting in that line in San Francisco, you may be too late. This video was shot about an hour ago where more than 100 people are lined up outside the levi store at San Franciscos westfield mall. Some have been there since sunday. They are waiting for the chance to purchase a special limited Edition Air Jordan shoe. Sewn together in part with device denim. Many we spoke to say they have no plans to wear the shoes themselves. Some plan to resell them for a handsome profit. They go for about 1,000 at some points, theyre worth Bottom Dollar 700, but here if you are waiting in line they are only 200. Those air jordan levi 4s going on sale tomorrow. They will only be sold at about 70 stores nationwide. Each store will only have about 150 pairs of shoes. If thats what you want i guess so. This morning were seeing the moments that led up to a car going airborne and crashing into the second floor of a Southern California dental office. You are looking at the after matt of that crash. Take a look at this new dash cam video that we have, its from the Transit Authority vehicle. Right there. That is when that car plows into the second floor of that dental office there. Now, settingers say that car was going too fast when it hit a raised median and flew into the air. That car caught fire after it crashed into the building. That driver admitted to using narcotics and was taken to the hospital along with a passenger for just minor injuries here. In politics this morning the president s doctor will brief the nation today about the president s health. Scott mcgrew joins us. There was supposed to be a routine event. President s go in, get a checkup, the doctor cold bill clinton he needed to lose some weight. We would expect about the same today except recent developments have led people to question the president s mental abilities. Here we see a meeting with his doctor. We will get some of the answers today as the doctor briefs reporters. We expect him to say mental acuity was not part of the exam, but you no doubt know they are going to ask. No doubt the president is wondering what his former chief political strategist steve bannon is going to say. Bannon will testify behind closed doors to the house intelligent committee, that Committee Investigating the russian involvement in our president ial elections. Corey lewandowski the president s former Campaign Manager has told the press he has also been asked to testify. He also volunteered he has not been interviewed yet by special counsel robert mueller. It will be a tough week for the president. Tomorrow we expect republican senator jeff blake to make a speech on the floor of the senate in which he compares President Trumps cabinet and other close supporters to Joseph Stalins supporters. Stalin, as in the megillah maniacs leader of the soviet uni union. The government shuts down in three days unless democrats and republicans can come to an agreement on the budget. Democrats wont budge without a move on daca, the president says he wont budge unless congress pays for his wall. You can always tell me what you think, im on twitter, im scottmcgrew. New this morning, palo alto is one of the best places to live in 2018. Thats according to a brandnew ranking by live ability. Com. The city ranked sixth on the list, its Central Location to Major Tech Companies is the main reason for the high ranking. It also cites palo altos great weather, thriving economy and proximity to San Francisco. Santa cruz ranked eighth on the list, berkeley is 13, san rafael 26, and matteo 29. Ann arbor, michigan, home of the university of michigan, took the top spot. Sierra businesses starting to feel the pinch from what so far has been a less than stellar season snowwise. Fresh snowfall is expected later this week but ski resorts so far are relying on a lot of snow making equipment. Over the Holiday Weekend slopes were less crowded with only about half of the runs open at Boreal Mountain resort. A report a resort Spokesman Says theres still time for a turn around. We have had the opportunity to groom every inch of the snow we have out here right and with that snow coming in we will continue to drop roads and expand terrain. About 80 inches of snow is at squaw valley. Last year in comparison squaw had 281 inches. Some hotels say bookings are down more than 50 so we really need a good few storms to kind of build up that snow pack. So we can drop those ropes. Yeah. Lets do it. And we do have a big snowstorm on the way, i mean, laura, you were telling me while you were there a couple weeks ago you really didnt have that much snow. I was going to put the triplets up on the slopes but we just hit the ice skating instead. We have snow in the forecast over the next several days and some rain for the bay area. Weve got it all in this forecast over the next few days. Now, this first wave of rain coming through, mostly brought some showers to the north bay and the east bay, become a lot more scattered before it moved into the south bay. So if you are not seeing the rain now, you probably wont see any as this system continues to move out, but we are still left with the cloudy skies and patchy fog, as we take a live look outside at those wet roads in san rafael and Poor Visibility due to the fog. Its still raining right now, light showers moving into richmond across richmondsan rafael bridge. So just allow extra time to get to where youre going. All clear and dry as we take a live look outside in san jose and youre getting dressed this morning you do need still a nice warm jacket and maybe a hood in case it starts drizzling or you get caught in one of those spotty light showers. It will stay mostly cloudy and cool today so long sleeves definitely a good organization. We are seeing the storms lining up in the pacific. You see this long stretch of clouds extending well off towards the west. We will see more rounds of rain moving in. Our next system will be moving in on thursday and that will bring in some scattered showers and heavy sierra snow. All of these areas where you see the blue, thats heavy snow coming down and another storm system right behind that from sunday into monday will bring in some more rain and sierra snow. We talked about how low that snow is, right now for the central sierra around lake tahoe its only at about 29 of normal, but let me show you whats in the forecast here, we will have the potential of getting 51 inches of snow in twin bridges over the next seven days. Lots of snow and several feet possible with 100 mile per hour gusts in the ridges. We will be tracking that over the next few days. Mike, now you have some better news for the bay bridge . I do. We had that disabled vehicle mid span, thats always a red flag for the morning commute. The bay shows a great drive, pretty much everywhere you look, the bay bridge is the slowest spot. Westbound 80 improving because they cleared that vehicle over towards the harrison street off ramp. Chp was able to get the lanes clear and now we have recovery. The north bay has that fog, the north bay as well as the richmondsan rafael bridge with misty slippery conditions, just note that. Also on the east bay and expected by that stall on the bay bridge is the toll plaza and the span. We give you the hook from emeryville, the incline moves smoothly, smoothly getting in towards San Francisco. A little slowing near the tunnel and the bay bridge toll plaza is backed up a little bit. Youre backed up off the 880 overcrossing. Its 5 52. Coming up next on today in the bay, Worldwide Bank paying more. What city group is doing to close the gender pay gap. But first happening now breaking news in the philippines, two more cities are being evacuated as a volcano continues to erupt. The lava is spewing from that that volcano more than 12,000 people are already been evacuated. Plus google plans to build three new underwater cables to expand the cloud business. The first will go from los angeles to chile, the second will connect the u. S. To denmark and ireland, and the third will be from hong to think to guam. Were back with more news after the break. Be sure to join our conversation every morning on social media. 5 55 right now. Hey, be sure to join our conversation every morning. We are up and on social media. We have a real human in studio running one of our cameras. The robotic cameras broke, but i love it because we get nate out there. Good to have nate in the studio this morning. Happening today, religious leaders in the east bay will gather ahead of a meeting on oaklands sanctuary city policy. Today the Oakland City Council will vote on changes to the sanctuary policy which would limit all collaboration between the oakland Police Department and i. C. E. This comes after Oakland Police were accused of helping an i. C. E. House raid back in august. Religious groups and Community Leaders will perform an inner faith prayer calling for passage of a proposed amendment. Its happening at 5 00 p. M. On the steps of city hall. New this morning, police in Northern California are searching for a murderer after a missing mother was found dead. Karen garcia was last seen alive on saturday night at a friends house. Two days later her family reported her missing. On sunday night she was found dead inside her car which was parked at a Shopping Center in wood land. Police are looking for garcias exboyfriend, 21yearold Salvador Garcia jr. They say they found evidence of a murder inside karens apartment. It is the second tragedy to hit the womans family recently. A week ago karens younger sister and four others were killed by a wrong way driver on i5 in yolo county. Two daughters are together in heaven, you know, and thats the only thing that i can say, they probably can help ease the pain in a sense for karen and her sister, they are all together in heaven. Such loss for this family. Investigators say the suspect and karen had a twoyearold daughter together who is now staying with karens mother. Happening today putting a stop to Human Trafficking in the south bay. The Santa Clara County board of supervisors will meet today to issue a Human Trafficking awareness proclamation. They will also talk about launching a new ad campaign focused on Human Trafficking in the restaurant, hotel and cleaning service industries. Just last week we told you about california having the highest number of Human Trafficking cases in the country. This is a map from a nonprofit showing the bay area, los angeles and san diego are among the major hot spots for Human Trafficking. The number of cases in california has been on the rise. In 2012 there were nearly 500 cases reported, last year there were 1,300 cases. The wintery weather sweeping the northeast and midwest creating thick chunks of ice that are jamming major rivers, flooding roadways and homes. This is the scene in kent, connecticut, west of hartford, authorities saying there is a mile long ice jack in the river on the area and officials have declared a state of emergency. The ice jam is about 12 feet deep. At least three homes have been evacuated and a major road a closed. Massive ice jam prompted a Flood Warning in new jersey and pennsylvania. City group will increase pay for women and minorities to bridge the pay gap in the u. S. , uk and germany. The company is the first major u. S. Bank to respond to a push by shareholders to disclose its gender pay gap. Citi conducted a survey in the three countries and found women and minorities are paid 99 of what men of nonminorities make, a smaller gap than in the overall workforce. Citi hasnt provided figures on average salaries. Right now at 6 00, tracking the first of three storms to hit the bay area. Our radar showing the scattered showers moving out, but leaving some wet roads behind. What you need to know as you get ready to head out the door. Plus the russia investigation is back in the headlines this morning, the information were hoping to learn from steve bannon as he testifies for the first time. And a chp officer recovering this morning after a wild crash in the east bay. New information were learning about the accident this morning and why a driver is now behind bars. Good morning and thanks for joining us. I m laura garcia. And a very good Tuesday Morning to you, thanks for joining us, im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. As we get on our way meteorologist kari hall, youre tracking whats going on weatherwise, weve seen some fog and you said spots of rain. Not everyone has seen the rain this morning. For the south bay were pretty much missing out on this first round of rain, but we will have some more on the way if we are hoping to get some water on your plants this morning. As we get a look at the radar we can see that that round of showers quickly moved through the east bay and north bay and has now pushed off to the east with some spotty light showers and a lot of patchy fog all around the bay area. Here is a live look outside in san jose where we didnt get any rain, its mostly cloudy. We will see the clouds linger throughout the day with highs in the low 60s. We will talk about when we will get some showers in the forecast, thats coming up in just a few minutes. Mike is tracking the changes at the bay bridge. Usually changes are a bad thing but its good because we had early slowing becaucaused b disabled vehicle. Its backed up across the 880 overcrossing and folks coming off the berkeley curve. Thats the worst, the berkeley curve down out of emeryville for 880. Starting to show orange, we do see slower driving off of 580 and 24. Thats the build straight in toward the toll plaza itself. The earlier disabled vehicle was cleared quickly from the span, they slowed metering lights until that could happen. We are looking at the reof