Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20180212

Commute. This is not a major freeway but a major part of some folks commute. The roadways are great as far as the Speed Sensors go. Out to the trivalley, this purple section between 580 and tesla road we have this closure of Corral Hollow and a short section of tesla as well. Important because a lot of folks use this to cut the corner and avoid the altamonte pass. If you are going out to the area thats also important but these folks will take eastbound 580, thats not the problem. Were seeing more traffic hitting over toward the march with 205 and coming through dublin and livermore. So far your travel times coming from grant line road over towards 680 seem to be about the same but we will see the slowing where Corral Hollow meets with 580 and folks are having to reroute. The Transit System looks great, the backup at the bay bridge toll plaza has started for the cash lanes and we will monitor that as well. Now to a developing story that were following this morning that has left the 49ers organization and a lot of fans in shock and disappointed. One of their rising stars Reuben Foster in trouble with the law once again. He has been arrested for the second time in a month. This time hes facing Domestic Violence charges. Today in the bays bob redell is live outside of levi stadium with whats next in this case. Certainly something fans dont want to hear when they wake up in the morning but this has become a reality right now. Reporter good morning. This case will now go to the Santa Clara County District Attorneys Office and there the prosecutors will decide which specific crimes if any to charge Reuben Foster with. Police arrested foster yesterday morning, we will talk about sunday morning, at a home on shannon road in los gatos after a call came in about some sort of disturbance. Foster who is 23 years old was booked and jailed on charges of Domestic Violence and possession of an assault weapon. Santa clara county jail records show he was released later yesterday on 75,000 bail. The 49ers have released a statement, they put this out yesterday, the San Francisco 49ers organization is aware of the report regarding Reuben Foster. We take matters of this nature seriously and are gathering all pertinent information. Foster was arrested last month in alabama for Second Degree Marijuana Possession which is a misdemeanor in that state. Foster, if you dont recall, did join the 49ers last year as a rookie linebacker. Now, unfortunately as marcus was alluding to, foster is not the first 49er to have had a run in with the law. A number of other players have been arrested over the years for various offenses. Included in that list aldon smith, ter main block, ray mcdonald. The 49ers released brock, miller and mcdonald after they were arrested. It is not clear what if anything the 49ers will do with Reuben Foster. Reporting live outside levi stadium in santa clara, bob redell, today in the bay. We will continue to follow this one. 5 03. New this morning violence near an east bay transit center, police are searching for the suspect after this morning. A man was shot near emeryville amtrak station. This happened at 59th street and horton. A 26yearold man is in critical condition. Police say that that suspect ran away and is still on the loose. Trying to make bart safer. Barts police chief is scheduled to talk about policies on gate jumpers and fare evasion. Bart recently promised more aggressive measures to prevent unpaid fares including going car by car on trains. The chief will speak with the Police Citizen review board at 4 00. Live look now at the crosses at lafayette. The future of that memorial right now very much up in the air. Thats because the family that owns the land wants to sell it. A potential sale is being held up by an appeal of a recent line revision of the property. Council members want more discussion on this before that lot line is changed. That is if this still is not clear the crosses will be allowed to remain. Tonights meeting starts at 7 00 at lafayette library. Now at 5 05 on to washington where the gate over immigration is heating up today. Hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance. Senate lawmakers will debate a proposal that would resolve the uncertain future for socalled dreamers. Republican senators released a new proposal yesterday calling for 25 billion in funding for president trumps proposed border wall, in exchange it would offer a pathway to citizenship for close to 2 million eligible immigrants. More than half of them are registered in the daca program. Gop lawmakers say the plan makes sense. If someone is pulled over for speeding the ticket goes to the driver not to the fouryearold sitting in the back seat. The new proposal echos a plan first put forth by the white house. It would also place new restrictions on familybased visas drastically cutting the number of eligible immigrants. We actually looked closer at how significant dreamer legislation would be for our state of california. There are currently cles to 700,000 immigrants enrolled in the daca program across the u. S. , nearly three of ten of them live in california. The l. A. Metropolitan area has 89,000 daca recipients, the most of any region in the united states. This morning Northern Californians can stand up and cheer as we continue our coverage of the 2018 olympic winter games. Northern california is already a gold medalist. All new this morning were seeing the moment that Jamie Anderson celebrated with her mom and dad. The star won the snow board slope style in her second straight games. Pretty exciting. Today in the bays Garvin Thomas talked with her after that big win. He joins us live from south korea and certainly an exciting time for the family as well as all of us here in Northern California. Reporter i know, our first Northern California gold of this winter olympics. Guys, just how good is Jamie Anderson . In this years slope style final each rider got two runs, she didnt even need the second one. Her first score was so good and so far of all of other riders she could just coast down the hill on her second run and into the embrace of her happy family. Within just moments of becoming the first woman ever to win two snowboarding gold medals, Jamie Anderson was in the arms of her mom and dad, she was overjoyed and probably a little relieved. I was super nervous, i was talking to my boyfriend, i was freaking out. He was like you know what you tell me, like one thing at a time. Reporter anderson conquered conditions that every rider said were less than ideal, even dangerous. Strong, gusty and unpredictable winds sent many athletes tumbling, but the South Lake Tahoe native at the end was standing tall. So you proved that the first time wasnt a fluke, huh . I guess so. Goodness. Reporter jamie is not done at these olympics, though. This year they added a new sport, snow board big air, and she will be competing in that. Jamie is not the only local athlete were watching today, two others Bryce Bennett and kelly clark compete tonight, you will hear from them coming up this morning at 6 00, for now marcus and laura, well send it back to you. Thank you, garvin. We have another big headline from the competition. America won bronze in the figure skating team event. A bit of controversy with this one as part of that event skater adam rippon had a year Perfect Performance but lost to the athlete from russia. Very shocked by that outcome. Lets take a look at the current medal count, norway has the most of any nation with eight medals, canada with six total medals, so does germany with the most gold medals. Team u. S. A. Has four total medals, two gold, one silver and one bronze. Right now were tracking weather here in the bay area, but also, kari, very cold there. As you see right there. Thats where garvin is and its late on monday night and its 12 degrees. Its actually a little bit better than it has been as we get a look at this forecast. Heading up to 40 for tomorrow and there will be a chance of snow, but this is going to be an improvement over the weather they have had there recently. As we bring it back home taking a live look outside in san jose, all clear skies and going throughout the afternoon highs reaching into the low 60s with more sunshine and some breezy winds. We will talk more about this coming up, but mike is now going to give us a look at whats happening in oakland. Ive still got my eyes on that closure, tesla road is cut off, not an option, you have to use 580 out of the altamonte pass coming into the bay area. Eastbound 5 away from the bay there is a crash overnight. There was a traffic break around harrison. There may be still crash activity around grand. Thats what chp report shows and so do our Speed Sensors past lake merritt. The bay bridge westbound 580 and the rest of the approaching look good but the bay bridge toll plaza never fully cleared from these cash lanes once they opened up at 5 00. We may see an early start to the backup here. We will fast track it. Back to you. You might be surprised by facing criticism, a child movie, the reason allergy advocates are boycotting the new peter rabbit movie. Wall street hoping for a fresh start. It is after all monday. When today in the bay continues. Mike traffic tease now time to get up and get moving with a chilly start this morning. Weve also had some breezy winds as we take a live look outside in san jose, another clear start to the morning. We will get a lot more sunshine today, but it wont be nearly as warm as it was last week. We are only going to see those highs today in evergreen up to 59 degrees. A little bit cooler than normal. Ahead asge we gradually warm up this week. Thats coming up in five minutes. Im tracking these travel times, the top number is my concern, more folks may be heading through the altamonte pass and past grant line road congesting livermore because of a closure which is one of your usually one of our popular alternates. And were looking for a better week on wall street. Week. Vn despite closing higher on friday worst week7t in two years week. Carolytics pulled off an ipo on friday. Wells fargo apologizing to all the customers it cheated, but they sent apology letters to people who didnt even have accounts. President trump will unveil his infrastructure plan today, 200 billion, 100 will be for matching funds if a state or county spends money to fix infrastructure the feds will match that spending. The only downside to that is it may boost the economy further making Interest Rates a real problem. Interest rate hikes is what has been quashing the stock market lately. Do you remember this video, its a Bay Area Company called kitty hawk that promises a flying car. Now, this is just an early prototype but the head of the company says the company will have a major announcement next month. Sebastian brought us googles maps. And uni lever says it will pull its ads from facebook and youtube unless they get a hald on racism and sexism. This may be what they really need to get it done. Because it comes down to the dollar. It comes down to dollars. And they own a lot of deliver things. Unilever does. Happening today bay area fast food workers plan to support protesters across the nation calling for a 15 an hour minimum wage. Todays protests are meant to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a sanitation strike that was led by dr. Martin luther king jr. In 196. Local rallies are planned outside Mcdonalds Restaurants in san jose and ocala nd. When you go to a child movie you expect to have a lot of laughs. Peter rabbit comes with that as those makers are in damage control. This is after backlash from a scene some are calling insensitive. Now, the scene centers around a character mr. Mcgregor who is allergic to blackberrys. At one point he is forced to use an epipen after the rabbits throw blackberrys from them. The filmmakers have an issue or now have issued a joint statement with sony pictures. We are calling good allergies a serious issue. Which Food Allergies are a very serious issue. I have a food allergy but i took the kids this weekend, i was expecting to see the scene, i almost think that it was purposely planted there because peter looks at the camera he is animated but he looks at it and he says no mayo please, almost inciting it a little bit. Its brought attention. We put out a poll as well on twitter this morning. What do you think about it . Wed love to hear from you. Little peter rabbit. Sparking the senate in the newsroom as well. So go ahead and reach out, im on twitter lauragarcianbc. 5 17. The family of late mother daughter star wars Debbie Reynolds and kari fisher gave fans a chance to own hollywood history. Hundreds of items from the stars collection were auctioned off in las vegas this weekend. Everything from a star wars figure u recent to fishers Princess Leia cookie jar, Marilyn Monroes gloves. Reynolds was the largest collector of movie memorabilia that there is hands down. Shes in the guinness book of world records. She has sold dresses of Marilyn Monroes in the Million Dollar ranges. Money made from the auction is set to go towards the Debbie Reynolds performing arts scholarship at the university of nevada, las vegas. I know a lot of fans would want to get on line and bid for that one. I guess the auction is now over, but i would imagine with so many items they might have another one. That would be cool. Using hollywoods past to help the future. Propel the future, youre right. Exactly. Someone who is always telling us the future weatherwise. We have amazing tools here here at nbc bay area. Of course, storm ranger. This morning it shows you that everything is looking good as you get ready to head out the door. That red beam that youre seeing from san jose, thats showing storm ranger. Its our mobile doppler radar. If there was a storm coming in we could move it around but here is a look at whats happening in the sierra. Light snow falling, really good to see that even though it does only bring a dusting im sure for everyone there, theyre cheering it on like, yay, we need more. Its going to be light for today and one more thing about storm ranger, it gives us some improved accuracy and we are so excited to have it here. It also defects the type of precipitation, fog and smoke. Looks like we might get some action as we go into next week. Here is a live look outside in San Francisco right now with our temperatures a cool start 49 degrees, 45 in san jose, our High Temperatures reaching into the upper 50s and low 60s today. Coming back down closer to normal with 58 degrees today in walnut creek and 59 in san mateo, 59 on the embarcadero and the north bay today up to 60 degrees in novato as we go throughout the day in oakland, starts out with some Cool Temperatures you need a nice warm sweater or jacket, 44 degrees and highs in the upper 50s later today. As we get ready to head over to mike, youre still tracking some of that Police Activity . Its Police Activity. You want to be very careful. We talk about what we know for sure. There is Police Activity and that closure for tesla road, Corral Hollow coming off of 580 and cutting through over in toward livermore. That popular cut through is closed this morning. We see some slowing right there as folks were making the decision, actually probably seeing the closure and they have to merge with 205 and 580 west. By the time you get to grant line road everything is back to speed and youre sorting yourself out. Not seeing any more problems for livermore or the trivalley. Getting away from the bay bridge we still have that slowing past the crash at grand for eastbound 580 getting away from the bay bridge, getting to the bay bridge, though, all your avenues toward that funnel there are moving smoothly. You see that sticking around with the backup. We never got a break from the early cash lanes backup, now its starting to blend with the morning commute. Backed up past west grand avenue. We should see the metering lights turning on right now. Coming up next on today in the bay, we investigate. If you dont like the rules, then change the rules. But dont leave them in place and ignore them. Small Business Owners accuse the city of San Francisco and the Golden State Warriors of unleveling the playing field. Well tell you why the warriors are on defense coming up. How much money do you think youll need in retirement . Then we found out how many years that money would last them. How long do you think well keep oooooohhh you stopped youre gonna leave me back here at year 9 . How did this happen . It turned out, a lot of people fell short, of even the average length of retirement. We have to think about not when we expect to live to, but when we could live to. Lets plan for income that lasts all our years in retirement. Prudential. Bring your challenges. The city of San Francisco and unilever. Welcome back everyone. Its 5 24 on your monday morning. Not playing by the rules, thats what the Golden State Warriors are being accused of when it comes to building their new arena in San Francisco. They are making a fullcourt press to move across the bay to oakland. Their new home should be ready in a year and a half but some are already creating foul. Bigad shaban has been digging into this story. The Golden State Warriors are on defense this morning and its minority and small Business Owners who are on the opposing side. Blaming the warriors for who theyre hiring and not hiring to build their billion dollar arena. Key Development Areas in San Francisco the city sets a goal to assign 50 of the work to Small Businesses. Construction firms are required to make a good faith effort to meet that mark, but with more than 80 of the Construction Projects already assigned for the warriors arena, weve learned over 18 of the work is actually going to Small Businesses. Remember the goal is 50 . Minorityowned businesses only scored 1. 4 of the work. The warriors declined to speak with us on camera but say not all Small Businesses are capable of working on such a large project. The team also told us its exceeded the citys requirements on making a good faith effort to meet those hiring goals. The city of San Francisco tells us it does monitor whether developers actually make a good faith effort to assign 50 of their work to Small Businesses. Companies that dont can face up to 50,000 in penalties. But weve learned, guys, not a Single Company has ever been fined. Thank you. Well, if you have a story for our Investigative Unit you can give us a call, that number is 8 8 8 88996tips or visit nbcbayarea. Com weinvestigate. Bay area residents strongly support the idea of new housing. We certainly need it. But the support is actually dwindling when commute concerns are factored in. A new poll conducted for the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Bay Area News Group finds more than six in ten people favor new housing in large numbers. Less than half of those supporters still favor new housing if it means they would have a worse commute. 46 of those polled support sacrificing open space for development. Coming up on today in the bay, a senseless killing. The investigation under way this morning after a dog is thrown off of a highrise parking garage in San Francisco. Plus this is being done across the country and its people have been really successful with it. New this morning a south bay nop profit offering 800 bucks for a room in your house. Why it could change the lives of lgbt youth. Francisco lets take a peek outside, get this day going. A gorgeous view outside of city by the bay, San Francisco, this morning, all lit up waiting for the suns arrival. Dont expect things to get too warm, though. We will check the full forecast with kari coming up in moments. Good morning and thanks for joining us, im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. To get a look at that forecast lets head over now to meteorologist kari hall. Good morning. Good morning. It starts out with a cool one, all clear skies, no worries about fog this morning. We have had enough winds to really mix things out. We will see the temperatures in the low 40s. As you get ready to head out the door in oakland, 40 in livermore, 45 in san jose and napa now 35 degrees. Our highs today will be reaching into the upper 50s and near 60 degrees. This is closer to normal for the middle of february and its still going to be breezy throughout the afternoon. I will talk about our changes ahead with some warmer temperatures and a slight chance of rain when that could arrive coming up in a few minutes. Mike, youre continuing to follow an important road closure. It is an important commute spot. Also we are talking about the san mateo bridge right here, kari has been talking about breezy conditions and chp said overnight there were gusts across the highrise. But the closure is over here, tesla road. Thats important because even though most folks we talk about driving on 580, the altamonte pass, there will be more folks heading over there because this portion of tesla and Corral Hollow has been closed overnight, some sort of investigation going on closer to tesla right around carnegie. Slowing for 580 as the pass by that transition and slowing toward the altamonte pass. The bay bridge no i think maar problems getting there, the toll plaza itself did tart start an early backup, those cash lanes never cleared from the overnight slowing. So we have this all the way back past west grant towards the maze. I really hate to start out your monday morning with such a disturbing investigation, but it is going on in San Francisco. This Morning Police are looking into the heartless killing, it really was, of this little dog. Dunky was thrown off a highrise garage this weekend. Today in the bays pete suratos live in San Francisco with what actually led up to this tragedy. Good morning, pete. Reporter good morning to you, laura. Horrible indeed when you think about what took place here over the weekend and a very busy part of San Francisco near that Union Square Area at the center stockton garage. A suspect has been arrested, 35yearold joaquin best of San Francisco is connected to allegedly throwing that fouryearold dog that we just showed our viewers, throwing that dog off of the seventh floor of the garage behind me here on stockton street. We will show you guys that picture of that dog we are talking about, a fouryearold black chihuahua who went by the name of dunky. According to San Francisco police theyre saying that sfers responded saturday to the 400 block of stockton for the report of a car burglary and dead dog. The victim returned to the location to find the dogs in the hands of another person, the victim thought the dog got out of the car and fell from the seventh floor of that garage, but police found a trail of evidence showing that the dog was thrown off the ledge by that suspect. Evidence that included video and audio from a nearby dash camera according to San Francisco police. They say the suspect was eventually located and arrested on sunday near polk and bush streets. Now, that suspect faces several charges including animal cruelty and burglary. Now, while an arrest has been made, they are still investigating this matter. So if you have any information to help out with this case, contact sfpd. Were live in San Francisco, pete suratos for today in the bay. Just tragic. Thank you, pete. A warning from Stanford University that has left a lot of people feeling violated right now. Palo alto online reports there has been a rash of thefts at buildings on the west side of campus, we are talking about expensive items stolen in places you wouldnt expect. Last week laptops, smart phones and other devices were taken from cubicles in study rooms and offices. A ford truck was also stolen but later found in pleasanton. Investigators are looking at Surveillance Footage to identify a possible suspect. Continuing coverage now, a man fighting for his life in San Francisco after gusty winds knocked a fence and construction items on to him and a woman. In this video you can see the man who was getting help earlier there from emergency crews. It happened yesterday afternoon in the mission. Neighbors who ran to help that pair say the man suffered a serious head injury. I mean, it wasnt that loud of a it was mainly i could just hear them screaming for help. The man hit his head on the back, so he was bleeding out the back of his head pretty pretty bad, actually. We are still waiting for word on the mans cannen this morning. Some neighbors tell us the Construction Company that had the fencing up had left the fence and other Construction Materials unsecured for days. A new story for you this morning. If you have a spare room in your home, you can rent it for 800 a month and perhaps make a change in a young lgbt persons life. Now, its not foster care, its the next best thing according to south bay social service agency. Today in the bays kris sanchez has more on this Home Host Program. Reporter you can think of this as sort of an Exchange Student program, except for this young person is formerly homeless. We are using video provided to us by the bill Wilson Center in order to respect the privacy of the young people in their shelter waiting for placement in this new Home Host Program. It is the new way that the south bay nonprofit is trying to get lgbt youth out of shelters and into temporary housing. The about Wilson Center sheltered 2r50 young men and women last year between the ages of 18 and 24. The ceo of the nonprofit says shelters are expensive to build and take a long time and that the young people would rather be someplace that feels more like home anyway. So the idea behind the Home Host Program is to run it like a shortterm rental site, like airbnb, with rooms that people are already renting. Agencies are in their tenth year of this model in minneapolis, they are also trying it in l. A. And new york, too. And this is being done across the country and its people have been really successful with it. So if you want to take a chance and instead of renting to a stranger, you can rent to a young person who really needs that help. Reporter the bill Wilson Center will screen the home host and young adults, they will provide supports and Life Skills Program and intervene if something isnt working, plus they will provide an 800 monthly spimonth monthly stipend. Center. Org. You young person and perhaps make a change. They hope to have their first placements in the next couple of weeks. In santa clara, kris sanchez, today in the bay. 5 36 right now. Nature lovers, here is one for you. Primary roads to point reyes and muir woods are among those reportedly in line for major renovations. According to the marin ij this morning nearly 40 million has been secured for improvements along 23 miles of road in west marin. Work on the first phase of the project may start as soon as next year for sir Francis Drake boulevard west of inverness. Anytime theyre doing road repair work were happy about that. The roads are doing well as far as the speeds go. Im tracking the slowing as youre coming down out of the merge with folks coming through livermore and dublin. The whole trivalley is my concern because we are looking at a shift thats possible. Looks like the Alameda County sheriffs still handling the investigation or whatever is going on here at tesla closing folks accessing from 580 over on Corral Hollow. The volume does look like its starting to slow early coming toward grant line road and clearing for 580. More slowing heading in toward livermore. Sweating closer to the bay bridge. We saw the metering lights turn on a little earlier and the backup bigger for the cash lanes. Unrelated to the investigation at tesla, but we still have slowing getting there. The east shore freeway just 17 minutes, though, not a big deal coming down from richmond. Coming up a great weekend. Maybe you didnt get to go to the beach this past weekend because it was so cool and windy, you are wondering about what its going to look like for this weekend coming up. Its still going to be fairly cool but very nice and i think those winds wont be as much of an issue as we get a look at saturdays forecast, mid 60s all across the board, more clouds moving in on sunday and thats ahead of some changes that will be here for next week that were excited about. We will talk more about that, but we are going to have a high along the coast at 63 degrees this sunday and 65 degrees by the bay. If youre going to Russian River valley this weekend its going to be nice, highs in the upper 60s for friday and saturday, a little cooler on sunday with a high of 61 degrees andr if you are going to the sierra here is a look now, light snow coming down squaw valley. You will have another chance of some snow coming in once again on sunday. So we will talk more about that and whats ahead for the bay area for today, thats coming up in three. Its 5 39. Coming up next on today in the bay, preventing future tragedy. Move the makers of oxycontin are doing to pry to prevent overdoses amid a nationwide opioid epidemic. Owning a piece of bay area history, how you can get your hands on the santa rosa home of Charles Shultz. And have republicans given up on fighting deficits . The latest numbers coming out of washington when today in the bay continues. Team usa to south korea we cant fly. But you know who can . Helping superheroes fly. United. Good monday morning. Right now at 5 42, as laura just said, take your lysol to work as everyone is getting sick. We will have clear temperatures as everyone is heading out the door. San joses temperature at 9 00 at 50 degrees and gradually warming up as we go through the day. High temperatures are usually at 62 degrees and thats6rd exactl in our changing forecastl five minutes. And over here the san mateo pr t hahp hc but overnight chp said they got a few gusts of wind. Be careful on the highrise. Well track that. No problems reported thus far. Thank you very much, mike. 5 42. ù[ crash just outside 0fmoscow. 4uujui4m say that plane went down just five minutes after taking off, it crashed into an empty field covered with snow. President Vladimir Putin post pond a planned trip to sochi so he could stay in the capital and monitor the investigation. Ntsb investigators will be arriving in the grand canyon today to start their investigation into a tour helicopter crash. It happened yesterday. Three tourists from the United Kingdom were killed, four others critically injured. A photographer shooting the wedding captured the moments after the crash. Emergency crews say poor weather conditions slowed down rescue efforts. Friends and loved ones today say goodbye to a pro Football Player killed by a suspected drunk driver. Indianapolis colts linebacker Edwin Jackson was killed eight days ago along with his uber drive. Thats when Authorities Say a drunk driver struck the car along an indiana highway. That suspect is an undocumented immigrant. Authorities say that he was convicted and then deported twice for driving drunk in the bay area. At 5 44 new this morning, San Francisco Police Reportedly one step closer to equipping their officers with tk[ ers. The examiner reports the Police Commission last week approved the money to cover costs for taser devices and training. The price tag 3. 5 million. Right now those tasers may roll out by the end of the year but thats pending potential future ballot measures. Happening today, smoking pot in the south bay is up for debate. Santa clara Police Department holding a Community Meeting on pot rules. The city still has not come up with rules to allow the sale of recreational marijuana. Other cities across california have already placed laws and now tonights meeting is at 6 00 at the city hall. There will be another Community Meeting this thursdayafter noon. There is a new push this morning to slow americas opioid epidemic. Starting today the company that makes oxycontin is halting all promotion of the drug to healthcare professionals. The announcement coincides with the local story the press democrat reports twice in the past two weeks rohnert park authorities helped save someone overdosing on drugs, the most recent case involves opioids. The first overdose involved heroin. In each case victims were revived with the help of the nasal spray narcan. Happening today a Pleasant Hill town hall canceled the first time due to federal shutdown is instead taking place tonight. The congressman is hosting that town hall. It was canceled in late january when the debate over spending triggered a government shutdown. Tonights town hall meeting starts at 6 30 on deeb brow valley college. More questions about who should have access to government secrets. Its supposed to be people with security clearances. Right. You get a job, marcus, in the white house, the fbi checks out, makes sure you are a loyal american, you get your access to secrets, but though we know one of the president s closest aides did not have a finalized security clearance because of concerns about spousal abuse. Rob porter only had interim security clearance which should have limited what he was allowed to see. Porter is now out of the white house. So porter very close to the president did not have full security clearance and neither does Jared Kushner on the right. He has been at the job for more than a year. The Washington Post quotes two white house officials as saying its unlikely kushner is going to have security clearance anytime soon. The question then becomes what is kushner allowed to see . Remember he has a full workload. He is in charge of bringing peace to the middle east. But so far is not allowed to see americas most secret information. President trump will reveal a massive infrastructure plan this morning. A short time ago he tweeted after wasting trillions of dollars in the middle east its time to start investing in our country. The plan would spend billions on bridges and airports and other infrastructure and offer matching funds to states that start their own projects. This is the first time we are looking at 1 trillion deficits. Mick mulvaney trumps budget director said Interest Rate hikes were a real significant danger. Fears of rate hikes have caused the stock market to have real trouble over the last couple weeks. And will Mitch Mcconnell keep his promise to allow discussion and debate on daca today. The deadline to get something done march 5th. You can find me on twitter, join me the debate, im scottmcgrew. Its 5 47 right now. Happening today we are going to get our first glimpse of the official portraits of former president barack obama and michelle obama. The pictures will be unveiled at the Smithsonians National portrait gallery today. The former first couple will attend the unveiling. The Museum Partners with the white house at the end of each presidency to commission the official portraits of the president and his staff. If you have a few Million Dollars on spare and you want to buy some property you can own a piece of bay area history. The santa rosa home of Charles Shultz the creator of peanuts comic strips is on the market for 3. 8 million. Its 8,100 square feet with five bedrooms, nine bathrooms. Shultz died in santa rosa in 2000, his comics first appeared in 1950 and continued to bring laughter to people around the world. We were just talking about that, when you look at how much space youre getting in this area, 3. 8 million doesnt sound too bad. You will have a little bit of a commute, my trend. Also the bedroom where big pen stayed has that dust cloud over it. Thats why you had to have nine bathrooms. This morning were starting out with Cool Temperatures, it was a windy weekend, but as we step out the door this morning it feels much cooler, probably breezy where you are, too. A live look in san jose with a mostly clear start and here is what to expect, 45 degrees today our High Temperature heading up to 62. We will see just a few passing clouds throughout the morning but today we are back to normal for our temperatures for this time of year. We will actually feel like its winter outside and tomorrow it will be a touch warmer. We will bring down those winds just a bit. Here is a look at our High Temperatures today all around the bay area, still going to be very cool in ukiah with 54 degrees, 63 in santa rosa, San Francisco at 59 degrees and 58 degrees today in livermore. So Getting Started this morning, you are looking out the window, getting dressed and you will need a nice warm coat and some light long sleeves for the afternoon. Plus we get those milder temperatures moving in, today might be the only day you can wear boots and get away with it because it will be the coolest day of the week. Of course you need the pants. As we go through the rest of our forecast we are going to have that cool start in the morning, driving through the peninsula, we will be in the upper 40s through about 8 00 and we will only make it into the mid 50s for parts of the peninsula. We are also seeing this area of low pressure thats bringing some light snowshowers to the sierra, dropping to the south, thats whats creating these gusty winds. We also have high pressure. When you have high pressure, low pressure close by we will get those winds live look outside moving. By early next week a change in the pattern, there could be a storm system moving in that could bring us light rain, but we will start to seat clouds increasing on sunday. We are all dry this week as our temperatures gradually warming up heading through the end of the workweek. Mike, you were checking back with the effects of one closure. One particular closure over at tesla road. All the bays communities across the bay look great. Its coming into the trivalley out of the Central Valley looking at that closure for tesla road. We havent seen any appreciable effects on the altamonte pass. That is good news. We will continue to follow the Police Activity and investigation going on at tesla road. 580 remains open, we see traffic floel smoothly through pleasanton. The Castro Valley y now slowing as well as hayward. Typical pattern toward the san mateo bridge and the dumbarton bridge. The bay bridge as well, we have that focus on the maze. I want to show you the live shot at the toll plaza itself. What ive notice it had over the last few minutes the left approach is looking great and the right approach congested off of 880 and off of the berkeley curve. We are getting a little bit of a break. There may be a crash on the backup on the track back toward the 580 approach to make sure nothing weird is going on. This next story could have you calling disneyland the priceiest place on earth. Ticket price increase you need to know about before you visit disneyland. New yorks attorney general files a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and his former company. The Film Producer is facing dozens of allegations of sexual abuse including rape but denies nonconsensual sex. The lawsuit alleges weinstein abused female employees and made verbal threats to kill staff members. Parts of puerto rico thrown back into darkness, an explosion and fire at a substation creating a huge setback for efforts to restore power five months after Hurricane Maria hit that island. Several areas are still without power including parts of the capital san juan. I was in my third tour in iraq when my vehicle was hit by an ied. I looked down and i knew i was out of the fight. But playing for team usa has been a Second Chance to represent my country. I get to show my children and the world that, yeah, i might have been knocked down, but im up, and im honored to be able to represent the flag. Comcast is grateful to all who have served our country, and were proud to bring the 2018 olympic and Paralympic Winter Games home to everyone. Is now delaying criminal cases around the bay area. A crisis a decade in the making is now delaying criminal cases around the bay area. Hundreds of victims and criminal defendants are waiting a year or longer to go to trial. Senior Investigative Reporter Stephen Stock joins us with the details. Reporter a decade ago during the economic downturn the governor and Legislature Took hundreds of millions of dollars from californias court budget. Replaced. Creating a backlog of thousands of criminal cases around the state and the bay area, but some courts such as Sacramento County have found a way to keep the system running efficiently. There became a culture here in the court in our county with our justice stakeholders of cooperativeness. Reporter the honorable david dealba is sri siding judge of sacramento courts where 97 of all criminal cases are disposed of within a year or less. Many of the criminal filings felony and misdemeanor cases are filed in what we call home courts and they stay in those courts unless they didnt be resolved and then theyre sent to a trial court. Reporter the state average for clearing criminal cases is 88 within a year but in some courts that do not use the system of home courts, including several here in the bay area, that percentage is much lower and many criminal cases planning wish for years before they go to trial. We think weve learned a lot and gained a lot of the efficiencies that youre probably concerned about because of that design. Reporter coming up tonight we will show you exactly which bay area criminal courts are lagging behind and well dig into why thats happening and find out what they plan to do about it. Thats tonight. Im Stephen Stock, nbc bay area news. And if you have a story for our Investigative Unit you can give us a call, that number 888996tips or you can visit our website thats nbcbayarea. Com weinvestigate. At 5 57, new this morning, School Officials in sacramento are investigating a racially insensitive science fair project. Superintendent of Sacramento City unified released a message to students and parents in response. Jose agholor says the project made suggestions about the intelligence of africanamerican, latino and Southeast Asian students. Agholor says he respects freedom of speech but does not condone intolerance. We have started investigating details around this matter. Specifically whether proper instructional protocols were followed. I want to make one point clear as we continue our investigation, the use of racially offensive language in our schools by anyone does not reflect our values as a School District and will not be tolerated. Agholor says the district will conduct an internal review of the specialty programs and look at the diversity of the pool of applicants and review the selection process. It will analyze the climate of acceptance. An oakland dmv office will stay closed through next monday after flooding. The Oakland Coliseum office flooded last wednesday. The office will still be open for scheduled drive tests. If you had an appointment you can go to another dmv office and then honor it there. Civic drive and carl back avenue and civic drive and the project is expected to last through march 30th. New this Morning Police say an explosion at a Northern California apartment complex was caused by a butane canister. They were being used to make honey oil for marijuana. The blast happened saturday night in an apartment complex in rockland just outside of sacramento. Residents were evacuated. One witness helped Police Locate some of the evidence that the suspect threw into a nearby field. I asked him if he was okay and he said, yeah, im fine, so he came to the back of the building, got on a bike and rode off this way. There is a reason why it is illegal and that is because it is inherently dangerous. Police have collected the butane canisters and will test for dna. Pull out your checkbooks because we have to balance things out for this next story. If you are planning a trip to disneyland you might want to start saving early. Ticket prices have gone up again. Starting yesterday the regular price of admission is now 117. Yeah, thats up 7. Single day ticket during peak periods is now 135. Thats up 11. Prices are also going up at disney parks in florida. Last year disneys 11 parks around the world brought in 45 billion. Look at the mad latter go there. 6 00 right now. At 6 00 were following breaking traffic news with some Police Activity along a busy road in the east bay. Plus more disappointment for 49er fans, the criminal charges one of the teams rising stars is facing this morning. Also the debate over immigration heating up today on capitol hill. The plan the senate will discuss today to protect dreamers. And were keeping a close eye on the forecast and whether we have any changes chances, rather, for rain as we head into the new workweek. 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