Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20180126

A little register of fog in the north bay and thats been basically the case for the last dumb of weeks. The bay bridge toll plaza we do have the backup forming for cash lanes. We will see how things shake out over the next ten minutes as all cash lanes should open. Breaking now, another crime spree involving young people overnight in the bay areas largest city. Its another snapshot of a larger problem plaguing san jose over the past month. Kris sanchez is live nearest ridge mall with a look at the new video coming in. I know youve been covering some of the previous crime stories involving youth as well. Reporter right. The scene is clear here now because the four juveniles who were arrested here, their parents picked them up. They didnt go to juvenile hall, thats not how it works. Lets show you the video of where the scene was active this morning. This is where police tell us that those four minors were in the stolen pickup truck, it looks like an suv because it has a camper shell. They hit the curb, blew out a tire and officers then took them into custody. They were waiting for their parents to show up. The teens will be cited and released. There has been a rash of crimes committed by minors and the San Jose Police chief concedes that part of the problem is that juveniles face limited consequences for crimes like these. Just last night in a story you only saw on nbc bay area, we were on scene in san joses evergreen neighborhood where sters busted a group of suspected car thieves, some of whom were too young to drive. Officers went door to door with long rifles and k9s, the four suspects were taken into custody, they were all between 16 and 14. We had a rash a few summers ago, i was out here two summers ago, and we took care of it and when a crew gets arrested the next one moves in. Reporter now, evergreen has seen a dramatic increase in burglaries recently, but as you can see from this crime reports map it is not the only neighborhood. The icons on your screen represent violent crimes, property crime and auto thefts reported in san jose to San Jose Police in just the last three days. Im going to link you to that map on my Facebook Page because you can search by zip code, you can search by street name, you can see whats happening where you live. In san jose, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Thank you, kris. Also breaking, a crash in san jose involving a young person and there are reports this morning this may have stemmed from a police chase. This is a look at that scene off of highway 680 at alum rock. You can see that white car over there to the left of your screen right there. Police arrested a young woman. Our newsroom is actively reaching out to police to find out more about the circumstances that led up to this crash. Now to a developing story this morning, a live look at davos, switzerland, where President Trump is about to take the podium there to give a keynote address at the World Economic forum happening there. This comes as nbc news has confirmed the president ordered that special Counsel Robert Mueller to be fired. The story first reported by the New York Times. The order reportedly came last june but the president backed off. This morning President Trump is denying the report. Today in the bays Edward Lawrence joins us live in washington, hes monitoring all the overnight developments for us. Edward, the president calling this fake news. Reporter yeah, hes using that familiar term, laura, that he has used over and over and over again, calling this a fake New York Times story. Now, its interesting that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, would have known actually that President Trump wanted to fire him through conversations that his investigators had with the white House Counsel. President trump ordered Robert Mueller fired last june when he learned the russia investigation widened to obstruction of justice. But later packed off when his white House Counsel threatened to resign rather than carry out the order. The president responding to a report by the New York Times, later confirmed by nbc news. Mr. President , did you seek to fire Robert Mueller . Fake news, folks. Fake news. Typical New York Times fake stories. Reporter the president s lawyer responded, stating, we decline to comment out of respect for the office of the special counsel and its process. I would do it under oath. Reporter this comes on the heels of the president saying publicly he would go under oath and answer the special counsels questions. The white house also lays out the most detailed plan to give 1. 8 million undocumented immigrants who came to this country as children citizenship over 10 to 12 years. In a cnbc interview this morning President Trump appeared confident that his new immigration plan will work. Look, were going to try to make a deal on daca. We have a good chance of making t what we need is we need the wall, with he need security. It was certainly helpful that he said that he thought there should be a path for d. R. E. A. M. Ers. Reporter in exchange for the concession to democrats the president said he would get 25 billion for a border wall and allow only spouses and children in through chain migration as well as end the visa lottery program. Edward lawrence, nbc news, washington. And protests outside of the immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco are expected to continue today. The group blocked the exit at the building last night. Protesters say that they are fed up with i. C. E. Raids, detentions and deportations of undocumented immigrants. The plan to interfere with those plans, here are a couple of those demonstrators. And the actions that are being taken here, specifically the i. C. E. Raids, are really unacceptable. Theyre unamerican. We believe that people should be in the streets and that they should stop physically these raids. Now, the protests ended peacefully when a car used a different exit. Activists say that religious leaders are expected to gather there later today. Reports that new Affordable Housing may be coming to san jose. The mercury reports today potential mixed use developments may come to three plots of land currently owned by vta. Right now the sites are all parking lots, one near vta station, one near a stop. Vta officials consider these properties underutilized and want to revitalize transit Friendly Communities with Affordable Housing options. A bay area firefighter and formerly cal and oakland raider player is talking about his brush with death in oakland this week. At least 18 bullets struck his car and he survived without a scratch. This happened wednesday night shortly after he left his girlfriends house on 102nd avenue. Joseph echema says that he took the wrong turn, pulled over to take a phone call and the next thing he knew bullets were flying. In the line of work that i do you see people passed away, you see people in car accidents, you see some pretty bad stuff, but ive never been in a situation where i thought my life was in danger. Police say that shooter fired up to 50 rounds. Reload, echema says that he just tried to duck out of the way of all those bullets. So far police have no suspects or motive. It is 5 07 right now. An update now on congestion in livermore and plans to stop commuters from using one particular road. The problem is tesla road east of greenville road most mornings and afternoons drivers from the Central Valley jam that rural road. Last night 150 residents met with the Alameda County supervisor to come up with a solution. According to his office they all seem to agree on longer speed bumps. Theres also talk of adding a stoplight at tesla and greenville roads. Proposals are being taken for the change to renovate a historic piece of land in San Francisco. The Presidio Trust is taking proposals to renovate ft. Scott, the last available parcel of land in the area. All together we are talking 30 acres of land with 20 buildings with picturesque views of the golden gate bridge. There is a catch, however. ;njf1o in buying must focus on working to advance social an environmental change in society. Here is the ceo of Presidio Trust explaining why. The reasons were focused on organizations tackling the social and Environmental Issues of our day is because its in line with what the Presidio Trust a focused on. Making sure this is a park for everyone, regardless of their background and also making sure we contribute to the Environmental Health of the planet. It will not be a cheap renovation for those interested as the costs could range in the ballpark of 200 million. Applications are being taken until june of this year with a final decision possibly coming in the fall. And were starting to see some fog rolling in, especially for areas in the north bay. Right now were seeing some limited visibility in santa rosa, along the napa area and also concord. If you are driving through remember to turn on the low beams and if you have fog lights that would be your best option. We are noticing a nice little 24hour temperature change for napa, 3 degrees colder. Weve been waking up to chilly temperatures. Today really is no different, were seeing 30s and 40s and that temperature trend in santa clara within the next couple hours does eventually show a climb into the 40s but one thing you are going to notice, not a cloud in sight into the afternoon. By 12 00 we will be at about 54 degrees, plenty of sunshine, topping out into the upper 50s for santa clara, possibly even 60 degrees in san jose. It really will give a chance for those roads to dry out. We could use that chance. The roadways starting to clear up a little bit in the cash lanes. Yes, as all cash lanes open just after 5 00, the cash backup starting to clear, but we are starting to see more volume, so this is when we determine whether or not the metering lights will be an issue. Well track it. So farther not on. Back to the maps, theres fog registers on our road weather index in the north bay. Vianey talked about damp roads and also slowing highway 4 heading towards coupling sky way westbound, a traffic break because they are trying to move the disabled vehicle to the shoulder. Its 5 11. Coming up next on today in the bay, a story all new this morning. No tears allowed, the brandnew research out of california, can crying kill a womans career . And the president sits down with one of our colleagues for a one on one interview, we will bring part of that to you when today in the bay continues. At Stanford Health care, we can now repair complex aortic aneurysms without invasive surgery. If we can do that, imagine what we can do for varicose veins. And if we can precisely treat eye cancer with minimal damage to the rest of the eye, imagine what we can do for glaucoma, even cataracts. If we can use dna to diagnose the rarest of diseases, imagine what we can do for the conditions that affect us all. Imagine what we can do for you. When things go wrong here, you remember. Quilted northern is designed to work so well, you can forget your bathroom trips. But sir froggy can never forget. I used to be a prince. But no princess would kiss me now. Sailing the seas day and night. They knew where they were going, by watching the clouds move in the sky or the way their boats rocked. Thats how the waves and stars would speak to them. Guide them. Sometimes, you can find your way in the world, by getting lost in it. Let your legend begin at aulani, a oneofakind Disney Resort in hawaii good morning, it is 5 13. As youre getting ready to start your day please bundle up. It is so cold outside. Especially in the north bay. 39 degrees in santa rosa, 34 for napa, also seeing some fog out there, so be careful on the roads. 40s across the board, but how hot or should i say how cool will we be on this friday afternoon . I will have all the details coming up in just a bit. Did you say fog . We found some over in our dublin camera. Cloud cover drifting through. We will show you how things are shaping up and maybe give you some alternates. Sounds good. Thank you. It is 5 14 right now. New research at uc toews taking a closer look at an issue not normally talked about. Women crying at work. The Research Shows it happens a lot with women in executive level positions to administrative assistants. Personal issues such as divorce and stress and things like heated meetings or getting negative feedback are some of the main reasons why women try at work. Researchers, professor kimberly elzak says there are right ways to cry at work. Telling people that youre trying to stop crying and youre not doing it on purpose, so im really sorry, this is very stressful time for me or this is a stressful project and if you just if we can just take a little break i should be able to continue in a minute. Those kinds of things really help a lot. The professor says men are raised not to cry while growing up while women are, but she says men take out their frustrations with anger and that can oftentimes be seen as strength and in some occasions rewarded. Continuing coverage of the flu epidemic. Some schools in florida are shutting down today to try to stop the spread. That move follows news that another child in florida has died. The 12yearolds family says theyre still struggling to understand. This temperature was 981aqt degrees and then within just a couple of hours theyve found him. He had already passed. Thats why we dont you cant understand how that happened. Now, the latest tragedy is raising questions, a question that many parents are asking, who you do you tell the difference between a cold and the potentially deadly flu . We mentioned that some schools are closing in florida today. At 7 00 a. M. The today show will be live outside of one of those schools. We will also hear advice about how to tell the difference between the cold and the flu. President trump is in davos, switzerland, praising the american economy. Scott mcgrew joins us now, he sat down with one of our colleagues. Cnbc ran that interview a short time ago. It was a discussion mostly about the economy and joe concern nan of cnbc gave what i have to say was a pretty friendly interview in which the president praised lawmakers for passing tax reform, pointing out no one expected so Many Companies to use tax savings to give employees bonuses. At t started, but they immediately followed, hundreds of companies are giving thousands and thousands of dollars to their workers and now you have almost 3 million workers that are receiving thousands of dollars, nobody ever thought that was not like in the plan. Even starbucks. Starbucks. Yesterday disney and others. Even starbucks. Now, two things to know, that interview took place before the blockbuster New York Times article that said trump tried to fire the special counsel and you know were going to talk more about that later. We should mention President Trump is speaking right now in davos to the public. We will bring you excerpts from that as well. Thats, again, coming up in a bit. Do watch shares of starbucks today, the company says sales are slowing and it thinks because people are shopping less. Also tesla, another problem for tesla, more delays on its model 3. I want you to meet somebody, this is a young immigrant out of colombia who along with his Fraternity Brother at cal berkeley created a Natural Foods company, here they are growing mushrooms in their fraternity house, they call it back to the roots, this he essentially make gardening kits and theyre getting super rich doing it. Got us to grow one bucket literally out of my fraternity kitchen, walked it into our local berkeley whole foods and the first produce guy we saw, 5 gallon bucket with a mushroom crop. Luckily they listened he just walked into whole foods. They picked it up right then. Yes, amazing. He now deals with the new York City School system and their breakfast. Really . Its just mushrooms . They make kits for mushrooms and tomatoes, particularly millennials that live in small apartments, cans that you open and water. You can buy them at home depot. I have seen them before but they took it a step forward . This fellow on press here. A couple fraternities just striking it rich. You guys look a little stuffy in all your suits. Get you a sideways baseball cap, mcgrew. So ready, set, hike, as in lets let the hype begin in minneapolis which is hosting the first super bowl in 26 years. Events get yund under way with a tenday festival along with the popular stretch downtown. The festival includes nightly concerts, exhibits including Ice Sculptures and snowmobile stunts. You can watch the super bowl right here on nbc bay area, thats february 4th. The game is supposed to kick off a little after 3 00 p. M. This may look a little like recess somewhere, but these are actually some of footballs top line players turning a kids game into a machines sport. During the nfl skills challenge in orlando, florida, players squared off yesterday in dodgeball. It was a classic. It all came down to Jarvis Landry you can see in red against kicker graham gano in blue. Catch by landry, gave him the win. They were excited. He is a wide receiver, so, you know, he probably should have gotten it. We should have some dodgeball games here. Oh, my goodness. I remember those games on the playground. Stopped being a kids game once that one kid was able to throw really hard at your face. No face. No face. Take the offense to the defense. Good day to be outside if you want to play dodgeball, soccer, football, any type of sports. The weather will be fantastic. Not too hot, not too cold. The peninsula, look at some of that fog, 44 degrees. Its getting a little foggy out there so slow down as usual. Trivalley 39 degrees. Its old in the north bay at 39 degrees right now. Look at San Francisco, we are seeing some low lying clouds out there with a nice little comparison of the skyline, 45 degrees. 41 in the east bay right now. So whats going on with that storm . We saw that storm system move in and thats what brought some torrential rain, hail, and, yes, scattered showers into the overnight hours and into the Early Morning hours which is why some of those roads are still pretty wet out there. Now we have that system trekking out to the east and then just behind this weve got this system of High Pressure thats going to dry us out and warm us up into the weekend. First we have to deal with older temperatures and cooler afternoon highs in the 50s. San francisco a high of 51 degrees, palo alto 55, san jose 58, oakland 53. If you are heading out to any of the hiking trails once you get over the cold morning keep on bundling up because by 10 00 a. M. We will still be at 48 degrees, by 1 00 we will see more sunshine coming in and we will top out into the upper 50s at about 60 degrees for san jose. Over the next seven days we do start a bit of a drying trend in the forecast. If you check out sunday, thats when we start to see a warm up in there, 59 degrees in San Francisco and some 60s in inland areas. Lets check in with mike, a closure. We have a closure, we just learned about this. Overall the Speed Sensors are good but hayward a street is closed just off of 880. Sounds like there was a pursuit involving chp. They will give us more information a little later on, but a street is currently closed at 880 itself. You can access the southbound side of the freeway through the area, but northbound right now limit limited. You might want to head over toward industrial. Westbound highway 4 the earlier traffic break i told you about, they are laying flares out now. Fog drifted through the area, its tough to see if you are traveling over towards cummings sky way off of 6el e680 you wile that flare pattern. More fog in the north bay. The bay bridge toll plaza does have that backup, its Still Holding steady about the same as it was ten minutes ago so we will track it. So far no metering lights. Coming up next on today in the bay, fighting for an education. New this morning the Bay Area College ranked as one of the toughest to get into. But first, a dire warning from alameda police. Be ware of a cookie cart. Mike posted this on facebook. Its a tongue in cheek post from police about a girl scout cookie its about girl scout cookie season. Like his page and join the conversation. It turns out allowo drink alcohol well, 5 26 right now. New this morning it turns out allowing teens to drink alcohol with parental supervision doesnt prevent them from drinking elsewhere. Thats according to a new study out of australia. Researchers say teens whose parents allowed them to drink are also more likely to get alcohol from other sources and those who got alcohol from their parents are also likely to binge drink and abuse alcohol by the age of 18. All new this morning, a Bay Area College one of the toughest to get into in the entire country. We looked through the brandnew rankings overnight. Niche ranking stanford for the second hardest college to get into. The site says that rankings are based on acceptance rates, sat and act scores. Harvard is ranked number one, cal tech in pasadena also made the list ranking fifth. Coming up next on today in the bay, alarming new information on an epidemic thats sweeping San Francisco. The stunning amount of reports filed and how many suspects have been arrested. Well break it all down coming up in a live report. Plus an explosion of snow in the sierra, what you need to know before heading out there this weekend. Vianey arana also has your weekend forecast coming up. A very good friday morning to you. Lets take a peek outside this morning. Taking a live look at the golden gate bridge. Not the slick roads that we saw yesterday. Hopefully that will help in the morning commute a little bit, but it is a cold start so bundle up before you head out the door. 5 30. Good morning. Thanks for joining us, im will go. And im marcus washington. Right now we want to head over to vianey arana looking at the forecast today. You say were going to dry out. Yeah, were going to dry out and the roads are drying out as well but now commuters will have to deal with a little fog especially in the north bay. In terms of the visibility santa rosa down to half a mile, napa down to one mile and novato really limited visibility out there, so please be careful, slow it down, both hands on the wheel, turn on the fog lights if you do, if not low beams it is. Oakland pretty good, San Francisco also looking pretty good. As far as your temperature trend we still have a couple low clouds in the forecast and we are still in the 30s and 40s, but over the next couple of hours San Francisco climbing out of those 40s, but its going to take a while, slow to warm today. So by about 10 00 a. M. 49 degrees and then San Francisco will be topping out into those 50s. Not really expecting those warm temperatures. Definitely very winterlike around here thanks to that cold front that swept in bringing tons of rain in the paris. I will talk about the snow totals in just a bit. We have this crash weve been tracking in hayward, thats one of the only incidents. That was the closure for a street. As we look at the Speed Sensors everything looks great now. The latest update is that they did reopen a street. Getting more detail into the newsroom. They will have that just after my report. A street has reopened. Getting over toward the bay bridge it is a nice easy drive down the east shore freeway or coming up from that hayward area. The bay bridge toll plaza does show, though, that they turned on the metering lights and they have the backup, but its a little bit lighter as is traditional on a friday. Back to you, laura. Thank you very much. Just like mike mentioned, with err following that breaking news in the east bay this morning where a chp cruiser crashed into another vehicle during a chase. This is a video just into our newsroom. Happened an hour ago at a street near interstate 880. We learned five minutes ago that the street has now reopened. A street has. As you can see from this video that crash was head on with impacts relative relatively low chp are saying, the injured suffered both by the driver and chp officer considered minor. Chp also saying the car officers were chasing exited from 880 and the driver got away. Now to a development of another crash involving a chp officer in hayward. Today the man charged with driving drunk and high killing chp officer Andrew Camilleri is expected to enter a plea. Mohammed alis arraignment is set for 8 30 this morning in dublin. The 22yearold from hayward is facing Second Degree murder charges. Witnesses say that he was driving at high speeds when he slammed into a parked chp suv that officer a. M. Larry was inside. This happened on Christmas Eve on highway 880 in hayward. New this morning, an alarming new report published in the San Francisco chronicle this morning. It says despite there being more than 81,000 online reports of car breakins in San Francisco there have only been 13 arrests in the past seven years. Today in the bays pete suratos is live in San Francisco with a closer look at this report. Good morning, pete. Reporter good morning to you, marcus and laura. Yeah, we took a look at that report this morning, a very small percentage to say the least. I want to point out these are based off of online claims over a sevenyear period, but those online claims make up a good majority of the claims when it comes to those car breakins, roughly about 60 . I was going to talk about those numbers, you mentioned one of them, 13 arrests out of the more than 81,000 online claims regarding car breakins over a sevenyear period. Thats according to data from the das office that was presented in the paper, San Francisco chronicle, this morning. Now, in 2017 there were more than 30,000 reported car breakins, to car that to the number in 2011, there were fewer than 11,000 car breakins that year. As of right now San Francisco is seeing an average of 85 car breakins per day. I will show you guys a heat map showing you some of the areas where we see a majority of those breakins. You see them mostly in the downtown San Francisco area near city hall, as well as through the mission district. Now, some have pointed to the issue of prop 47 which raised the threshold for felony theft up to 950 but a recent study by the californians for safety and justice claim there has been little change in crime since that prop passed a few years ago. A bill is being considered by the state senate to close a loophole that would allow prosecutors prove the defendant committed the break in by showing they broke a car window to get into the car. That state senate bill has the endorsement of the San Francisco District Attorney who spoke about it early this week. Tod to believe that i believe that this legislation would be a Silver Bullet that somehow is going to end car burglaries in the city, but its simply a tool that will give us the ability to do work this cases that we havent been able to. Reporter San Francisco pd told the paper that nearly 500 auto burglary arrests were made last year in San Francisco in 2017 but the paper says only one of those arrests were linked to the online claims. As we reported in the past San Francisco police has tried to address this issue, increasing foot patrols in some of those problem areas, but it clearly continues to be a problem for the city. Live in San Francisco, pete suratos for today in the bay. Interesting report. Thank you, pete. Tomorrow a couple of fundraisers being held for the family of two young antioch sisters who were killed after a suspect crashed a stolen truck into their familys car. Fouryearold lenexy and twoyearold Camila Cardoza died shortly after the crash on highway 4 last week. The girls mother who was driving was also injured but she survived. Tomorrow there is a fundraiser in union city at noop, its happening at Charles Kennedy park and they will have a celebration of their lives happening in bay point from 1 00 to 8 00 tomorrow night. Police in pacifica are investigating a violent Home Invasion robbery, it happened yesterday on fire crest avenue. Bliss say three men entered the home, used a gun to pistol whip the homeowner, he was not seriously injured. Continuing coverage of the bay area housing crisis. One city is making an effort to help teachers find affordable places to live. The Santa Clara County supervisor wants to develop a plot of land to build homes specifically for teachers in palo alto. Now, the idea is to make it affordable for people to live in the city where they teach. If we want to attract and retain top flight talent then we have to find a way to give them a place to live. I would love to live where i teach and be able to stay longer, to be able to offer my kids more support or be around a little bit more and right now thats just not feasible. That was a palo alto middle schoolteacher. The property in question is a block and a half from the california avenue cal trains station, thats near local shops and supermarkets. The supervisor says it could hold 60 to 100 homes for teachers. More details now, lets give you some perspective on just how expensive it is to live in palo alto. We researched housing and apartment prices overnight. Zillow puts the average cost of a home at more than 3 million. The average price to rent a home is nearly 5500 a month. Rent cafe puts the average rent for an apartment at 3,000 a month. If you have any money left over maybe you can head to the sierra this weekend. Be prepared, however, for snow and ice on the roads. This is a live look from interstate 80 right at king vale. Right now there are chain controls as expected on 80. Caltrans telling everyone to take your time on the slippery roads. Crews are expected to work 12hour shifts and stay until all the highways are clear and safe for drivers. Got to get used to it. Hopefully, right, mike . Hopefully you are used to it, if not or even if you are youre prepared as well. Again, chain control for highway 50 and i80 heading through the sierra. Over here much calmer, much easier conditions south bay all the way up the peninsula and throughout the east bay. Maybe some damp roadways until that sun comes out, maybe some fog and mist but this will complicate things for highway 4 we are hearing about the third round of traffic breaks west on highway 4 towards cummings sky way. An earlier disabled vehicle in the center divide. They want to make sure traffic slows through the area because its foggy there, as well as where you see the orange up in the north bay. Seen nay was talking about that. Its impeding the view for some drivers but not our view of san rafael from our camera. It certainly wont stop us from seeing the weekend. Or celebrating it. Officially friday. Talking about it all week. Finally, right . We are expecting much better conditions, guys, so no fear in terms of the rain, not really a big threat this weekend because that system finally made its exit off to the east. Were really tracking cooler temperatures today, but eventually we will actually start to warm up as we head in especially towards sunday and inland areas will start to see finally some 60s out there. Coast 56 degrees expected for saturday, bay 59. Check out inland, 61 degrees. If you notice in the icons, well, partly clear skies, but, yes, we will have another cold start tomorrow morning. Just keep that in mind if you have plans to be out bright and early. We are expecting similar conditions on sunday. The reason for that is because that High Pressure is going to start us off on a bit of drying trend. This will be the weekend that will kick start dry conditions for the bay area. Looks like we will finish off january with a dry workweek ahead. Inland 53 degrees, look at all that sunshine, 62 for the bay, coast 58 degrees. Lake tahoe we are still tracking more snowshowers as we head into tomorrow, so you may want to check the Road Conditions as always before you head up anywhere near the mountains. I will have a closer look at as far as snow totals, how much snow there is currently at the base. You will be quite impressed with how much snow they got with this last winter storm. They need it, too. Coming up next on today in the bay, the wild ride cause on camera, chilling new video this morning shows the moments the deadly mudslides started in Santa Barbara county. And in washington the biggest news yet to come out of the mueller investigation, well fill you in when today in the bay continues. Good morning, it is 5 43 and i hope a hot breakfast will warm you up more than the temperatures are currently right now because the temperatures in the 30s and the 40s and judging by this temperature trend its going to be a very cool afternoon, but if you notice not a lot of rain in sight. We are talking about that exit of that storm system. I will talk about the weekend as well coming up in just a bit. And were looking over here toward that traffic break coming in towards cummings sky way. A lot of slowing cutting you off from i80. Right now looking at the traffic flow through the area. Across the san mateo bridge havent even started that commute yet. Thank you very much. Its almost a quarter to 6 00 right now. Some pretty chilling new video to show you of the deadly mudslides first started in Santa Barbara county. This is video from a chp officers dash cam. It happened on january 10th. As the officers were driving, do you see it there, they ran into all that thick mud that was just barreling towards them on highway 101. Kind of tough to see but there were charge links of debris quickly filling the streets. 21 people were killed in those mudslides. New details keep emerging about the 13 Southern California children who were shackled and imprisoned for years by their parents. The stories are bizarre and heart breaking. Reports say the oldest son was a star student at his Community College and was on the honor roll for two semesters. Son andxy in his 20s now atten the school for several years. His mother would bring him to class and wait outside. The parents are facing nearly 40 charges and are not allowed to contact their children. The white house is taking a stand dense uc berkeley in a suit accusing the school of violating free speech. Conservative students at cal filed the suit in april. It access cal of creating a double standard for campus kz iewpoints. Cal is asking the federal judge to dismiss the suit but the department of justice argued those allegations would violate the First Amendment if proven to be true. They are asking a judge to reject cals request. The New York Times says President Trump tried to fire the special counsel. Crisis. Just like saturday night massacre, right, during the nixon years. Now, understand, this news is brandnew, New York Times just reporting it, but the attempt to fire Robert Mueller actually came last summer. Now, that doesnt change the gravity of the situation, but its important to understand the timeline. Four different sources tell the New York Times trump backed off when his own white House Counsel threatened to quit. Trump has the power to fire the man investigating him, he also has the power to pardon the people around him, but that would leave the government in a major crisis. You do have to ask yourself why is this news coming out now . They hid it for months. One theory is trump is once again thinking about firing mueller and the people around him leaking the story are trying to stop it. The president is in davos switzerland at the gathering of the super rich at the World Economic forum. The president is the first one to attend the forum since bill clinton. He addressed the sem blee just a short time ago. Im here to deliver a simple message. There has never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest and to grow in the united states. America is open for business and we are competitive once again. Now, back in washington the white house says its willing to give d. R. E. A. M. Ers citizenship, in fact, its willing to expand people who didnt even apply if democrats agree to the end of family migration, what republicans call chain migration and if they agree to fund the wall. Its unlikely democrats will agree. But the news here is the Trump Administration has opened up an path togr citizenship, somethin conservatives dismiss as amnesty. So there is a lot going on for a friday and were covering it all on twitter and at nbcbayarea. Com. You can find me on twitter scottmcgrew. 5 47 right now. Well, we now know the future of an injured Mountain Lion cub, we also have new video of the animals treatment. The can you be is coming to a Sonoma County Wildlife Center permanently. The animal was hurt in the Southern California wildfires. Experts say the months old cub is just too inexperienced to survive in the wild without his mother so theyre going to take good care of him. They needed to do special surger surgery. Every life matters no matter how big or how small. Its true. It was breaking my heart seeing all those animals, they lost their homes, too, you know. Its tough. If you are going to be out with your furry friend this weekend, whether its a bird, a cat, a dog, you will have a chance to enjoy the outdoors with them. Especially if you had plans to head out tonight or maybe saturday or sunday. As you head outside its cold out there. 44 degrees. Dont say i didnt tell you. Another thing, we are starting to see the fog rolling in. Look at the peninsula right now, thats a live camera. You can see the fog rolling through. 39 in the north bay, also seeing some patchy fog out there. Look at that gorgeous skyline over San Francisco. The radar was showing a couple of showers just offshore in through monterey, but right now that storm system officially moving east and out of the bay area. Right behind it, though, we do have this ridge of High Pressure thats going to sit right over the bay area, not only is it going to dry us out but it is going to warm us up quite nisly. First we have to get through the cooler temperatures for today. Overall todays highs will be in the 50s, 51 degrees for San Francisco, 54 for santa rosa, 53 for oakland, livermore at 55 and san jose at 58 degrees. Now, look at this gorgeous shot of squaw creek, lake tahoe. They are at 10 degrees right now and believe it or not they got an impressive over a foot of snow in some of those areas. Lets check out some of the sierra snow totals. Squaw valley right now at 54 inches at the base, heavenly 42 inches at the base, kirkwood 59 inches at the base and, yes, we are still expecting the possibility of seeing a couple of more snowshowers tomorrow, so if you had plans to drive up there, check for the conditions because tonight into tomorrow it to still be a little slick but sunday its going to be absolutely gorgeous in terms of the heavy snowfall. We are expecting a bit of a warming trend so unfortunately after this chance of snow doesnt look like we have much snow in the forecast, at least not through the last week of january. We start to see a bit of a warming trend in the 60s for inland areas as we head into saturday and sunday. If you notice that trend sticks around through thursday for now. Lets get a check of the roads with mike. Despite the fog in theho2p h bay which registers on our road weather index as orange we don; north bay commute. An easy drive as far as the speeds are concerned. We are looking over here[eo whe there was fog reported by chp. They said it was foggy as they were laying out the flares heading up toward mccloughan. Theyve done a series of three different traffic breaks. Westbound heads over towards i80, eastbound comes off of that area. Now a distraction for both directions. One of your westbound lanes is closed. That is the big slowing other than the bay bridge toll plaza where the metering lights are on. No major issues show up on this map but i do want to show you the travel times through the area, trivalley starting to slow down a little bit and showing you a live camera from dublin, you will want to slow down because the low clouds and fog are drifting through our dublin camera as we travel westbound with the head lights on the live shot. Sometimes those camera conk out during the time in the morning. Here we are looking at a smooth drive but we can more clearly make out the sheen on the parking lot. 580 does move smoothly. Good spacing, guys. Coming up next on today in the bay, have you seen any of the movies up for best picture this year . New this morning the theater making it easy for you to see all of the nominated films. But first happening now, Harvey Weinsteins former personal assistant is sue him and his former company. She worked for him for two years saying that she was charged with serving his every need along with cleaning up after his sexual encounters. Plus three School Workers in sacramento accused of stealing cafeteria food. The food came from a federal Lunch Program for two elementary campuses. Both schools were in neighborhoods with high poverty levels. 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 snow in the sierra this morning. 5 54 for you right now. Weve been talking about the snow in the sierra this morning. On facebook right now mike is sharing a schoolers aqj r 73 of High Schoolers dont get the recommended amount of sleep. A research has shown that sleep deprivation can im vees the risk for obesity, diabetes, Mental Illness and attention problems for kids and teens. uy x experts say School Start Times should be delayed to kids can get more sleep. An east bay town wants to make sure playgrounds are safe and inclusive for everyone. The town of moraga dedicating an all access playground in the park. They have equipment designed to make sure all kids including those with disabilities with able to play. The rotary club spearheaded a donation drive to raise the 325,000 needed for that playground. A Ribbon Cutting ceremony will be held sunday at 2 00. Starting a launching same day delivery in select markets on february 1st for an assortment of groceries, houseware, electronics and other pro ukts target plans to offer the service at nearly half of its stores by march and the rest by 2018 holiday season. Its 5 57 right now. This morning on rossen reports a look at new technology that could ease your Winter Travel woes. You can start to see heated runways and tarmacs at airports that can melt snow on contact and keep the planes moving. Jeff rossen gets an inside look at how it works. Grab some snow. Are you ready . Im going to throw it down. Here we go. All right. So here it is. Right on impact you can already see it melting. Yep. Its bubbling. Do you see that. Its melting right away, its a very powerful system. Wow. You can catch the full story coming up next on the today show. Its in about an hour at 7 00 right after today in the bay. 5 57 right now. Happening today, its the start of cenimarks oscar program. They will present all nine of the oscar nominated best picture films. They are air all nominated best live action and animated shorts. You can buy a Festival Pass for 35 to watch all of the films next week or also enjoy the nominees on a single film bases at regular admission price. Well, we are now also less than two weeks away from the Pyeongchang Olympics 2018 version and the Olympic Village ready to welcome the athletes. The athlete village in the coastal town of gangneung will stage events. It can accommodate 2400 people. Organizers say more than 90 countries will send 3,000 athletes to the olympics. You can catch all of the action, where, right here on nbc bay area starting on february 8th. Look who we are sending, Garvin Thomas will be in pyeongchang to give you live coverage of the bay area athletes hopping to bring home a medal. He has all his olympics gear already. Coming up right now at 6 00, breaking news out of the south bay, a major east bay road shut down this morning after a crash involving a chp cruiser. Were live with what we know about the victims condition. Plus did you want to fire Robert Mueller . Fake news. Typical New York Times fake stories. New this morning President Trump responds to reports that he ordered the firing of special counsel overseeing the russia investigation before backing off. ;np] the major developments overnight. Plus renovations for a historic part of the city by the bay, the potential changes coming near the golden gate bridge. Today in the bay continues right now. Good morning, and thanks for joining us on this friday morning. Im marcus washington. What was that . Friday morning. There you go. Im laura garcia. Yeah, were excited its friday around here. The rain has moved out and now pretty clear day. I was just saying that the morning has gone by so fast. Its fun, isnt it . Super fun. I love joining us guys. Im happy to be here. Yes, the storm system cleared on out, right now the temperatures are in the 30s and the 40s, sanity rosa 39 degrees, hayward 41 and San Francisco 43 and here is something mike will probably also be talking to you about is that visibility when we are talking about traffic this could cause issues on the roadway. Thats right, or some issues seeing the roadway, i guess. The north bay as you are talking about, also we can clearly see this, this is well lit, the bay bridge, we do have the metering lights on, but the fast track lanes are visibly moving. That usually is at a standstill, so thats good news. The orange, the north b