Gotten started because the womens figure skating has not begun, but that drought ends in prime time tonight with fremonts karen chen finally taking to the ice. We talked to karen overnight, we will have that for you and let you know what she said and how shes feeling on the eve of her big event auto. For now back to you. We will look forward to that because she performs tonight at 5 00, you can watch it right here on nbc bay area. It will be fun. Its cold enough to ice skate outside. We could keep an ice rank out there going on this morning. Its really cold as you get ready to step out the door. Weve been saying that, but once you actually feel it, youll know. Look at that, 24 degrees now in napa, it continues to drop and will do so as we head through at least the next hour. Sunrise is the coldest time of the day and were still well below freezing for much of the inland valleys, halfmoon bay at 30 degrees. As the sunrises taking a live look in san jose and we are going to willow glen. At 10 00 we will still be very cold at 44 degrees, today highs in the mid 50s. Well cooler than normal for this time of year. We are talking about the cold and rain in the forecast. Mike, you were saying there is a new crash in walnut creek. I am. Yesterday we had an easy drive, this morning were seeing a pretty typical pattern where were seeing the slower drives. Extra slow through walnut creek coming out of concord, 680 southbound there is a crash at north main. There may be two separate crashes there, but both sound like they are off to the shoulder, a distraction. Four vehicles reported there. A smooth drive once you get to the walnut creek interchange and a smoother drive for 24 until you meet with 580 and then youre jammed up toward the bay bridge where the toll plaza shows more traffic than yesterday. The metering lights were turned on at the typical time and look at that coming off the 880 overcrossing and berkeley curve its jammed up right here. Pack to you. 6 02. Back to that microclimate Weather Alert Team coverage. Were tracking the freezing temperatures across the bay area right now. For some of us that means bringing your pets inside. Bundling up before you head out the door. Today in the bays kris sanchez is live for us now with a push to reach out to people who are cold in these life and death situations. You have to check on your neighbors even. Reporter right. The folks who need to take cover the most in a cold snap like this one may not have anywhere to go. Thats why agencies like the bill Wilson Center are opening up more beds. Homeless advocates were doing their outreach over the last couple days reaching out to folks in the streets, dropping off blankets at a homeless encampment off highway 101 in san jose. There are now emergency warming shelters at the tully road library and at the South Side Community Center on rottel road just to name a few. If you know someone in need they can call 211 for health and human services. They can also text homeless to 888777 for resources or find Santa Clara County shelter information at the address there on your screen. People get caught off guard because it was so warm a few weeks ago, we were bringing water out here. Reporter in berkeley there was a dusting of snow even some hail and now theres an emergency winter shelter open at ninth street and university avenue. This was the first freeze in a while so some folks also keeping an eye on their pets and plants, bringing them in for the night. When i reported from homeless encampments around the bay area i have noticed that quite a few people have cell phones as their only contact to the outside world so i am posting all of this resource information on my Facebook Page and in my twitter feed in case you know somebody who needs to have that information ready to go. In santa clara kris sanchez, today in the bay. And of course make sure you download our nbc bay area mobile app, you can also track the cold temperatures in your neighborhood. You will have access to our current forecast and the radar thats happening in your neighborhood as well. Warning for your neighborhood of whats going on. It is 6 05 right now. A spring of four small earthquakes rattle the bay area. Each quake had a magnitude 2. 6 and 3. 0. All struck this morning outside of danville in the area around Monte Vista High School. One quake happened at 1 30, the other three minutes within a one minute span at about 4 25. This is close to where two small quakes struck a half mile apart yesterday morning. Our newsroom checked with usgs. In the past week there have been ate weeks over a 2. 5 in that danville area, six since yesterday. Nbc bay area pete suratos taking a closer look at the fault line where this swarm is happening and why its so different. He will bring you a live report at 6 30. Teachers and students who survived the rampage at Parkland High School in florida are speaking out exclusively to nbc. Dara who is was the first classroom targeted by that class gunman, three of her students were killed. Make like no one is there so they will leave us alone and when i turned i saw my student, i saw him and he was he was bleeding. Into so another teacher is talking about breaking the Cardinal Rule during a shooting, she opened her locked door for students trapped in the hallway. Watch Kerry Sanders entire story during the first segment of the aj8 show at 7 00 this morning right after today in the bay. Now to developing story where we are still waiting to hear why hall of fame baseball player Orlando Cepeda was rushed to the hospital last night. Qxn÷ were also waiting for word on his condition. The 80yearold lives in fairfield. He is a giants legend. He still works for the team and was the inspiration behind the famous chacha bowl of at t park. Raj mathai interviewed him two weeks ago. The baby bull was a 1958 rookie of the year which was the giants first season in San Francisco. We hope he is okay this morning. Continuing coverage now the 2018 winter games, it has already been a busy morning. Joanne reid finished in the biathlon mixed relay at 5 00 a. M. She didnt shoot very well putting the americans at a deficit the team couldnt overcome. Around 4 00 a. M. Elena Meyers Taylor set a track record in her first bobsled run. Todays olympic action not over. Fremont skater takes the ice tonight, our Garvin Thomas is live with what karen chen is saying ahead of her big moment. Big time for her and for us as well. Reporter it certainly is, marcus. Ive had the pleasure of interviewing karen chen half a dozen times over the past year. I think im in a pretty good place to know what shes feeling right now and im guessing nervous is near the top of that list. Karen has told me in the past she has had problems with nerves leading up to big events but recently said shes made a big step in conquering that. What shes learned how to do is accept those nerves as a normal part of the process and not try and fight them. Of course, the olympic schedule isnt helping karen at all, we are almost two weeks in and she is yet to compete. She has had to sit on the sidelines and watch others do their i think this. She wasnt part of the figure skating team event. Karen has been training a couple hours from pyeongchang. She says it has cut down on distractions. Its been a few weeks, but in a way didnt feel like it was that long and im really and i feel like it was a great opportunity for me to kind of get used to the environment here and for jet lag to be gone and so i think its great and im really ready to go. Now, karen would love to be feeling what the shibutanis are feeling right now, maya and alex added another bronze medal to the one they won in the team skate earlier this week. D uajuj to overtake hubble and donohue and the National Champs who were third after the short program. Prime time tonight not just karen chen, but maya nagasu and bradie tennell. Who knows what their chances are, we just know a lot of people are excited to see them skating. No doubt. And to see the shib sibs as well. I tweeted out a picture of them when they were little kids starting out this morning. Yeah, its cool to see. Thanks a lot, garvin. If you want to hear more about those shib sibs thats coming up at 7 00 that duo joining the today show for a live interview right after today in the bay with their bronze medal. Cold on the ice, cold waking up in the bay area this morning. Taking a look at the Current Conditions across the bay area right now. Freeze warning will remain in effect for three more hours until 9 00 this morning. Meteorologist kari hall is tracking it all. I covered my plants, my citrus last night. You were good for doing that. Look at how cold, we compare what its like at the olympics at pyeongchang to squaw valley right now. It was coldest 3 degrees earlier this morning, right now its 6 degrees and they are late on tuesday night there. Look at San Francisco, its only 36 degrees right now with some mostly clear skies as we get a look at our freeze warning, we talked about this, it continues until 9 00 in the morning and those wind sheltered valleys will dip down into the mid 20s, we are already seeing that right now. All of these areas included in the purple where we do have that freeze warning that will be in effect. As we check out our High Temperatures for today reaching into the mid 50s, we are still going to see some more 50s in the forecast over the next few days and im also tracking some rain, more on that coming up in just a few minutes. Mike has a look at that morning commute as you head out. Its pretty calm but it is much heavier than yesterday when we saw green sensors all around the bay. Definitely through hayward for the nimitz and 680 through the trivalley coming out of the central valley. A smoother drive with the north bay sees more traffic and a couple crashes. One over here weve been talking about, walnut creek south 680 around north main on the shoulder and highway 4 over here around railroad there is a motorcycle thats up there center divide. No injuries reported, in fact, it might not even be a crash but it is a distraction. Theres the bay bridge with the backup coming off of 580 and off the berkeley curve and the san mateo bridge over the last few minutes shows a big burst of volume westbound toward foster city out of hayward. Coming up next on today in the bay, a woman not all olympians can relate to. Having the difficulty for the archls on this run. A little small and not grabbing tricks. She finished dead last but she is from here. She is an olympian, the steps this bay area woman took just to qualify for the Olympic Games. Its a great story. Plus there is a russian hacker and he is in San Francisco court today. What did he do . We will tell you when today in the bay continues. vo you can pass down a Subaru Forester. But you get to keep the memories. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. avo get 0 apr financing on all new 2018 Subaru Forester models. Now through february 28th. At 6 15 we have an all clear start, very cold temperatures this morning. In fact, the coldest air we have had in over a year across the bay area. As we take a live look outside in fremont, traffic really rolling and everyone is having to crank up the heater. We are still going to be in the upper 40s at 10 00 this morning, highs today in the mid 50s no change as we look at our temperatures, but there will be a change in our rain chances. Thats coming up in five minutes. And definitely cold in the north bay as well, but were huddling together for highway 37, that jam out of val low and manufactu mare island. Gp for the dublin interchange. The stock market gets back to work this morning after a facebook and amazon are both in the news this morning, amazon says if you use their prime rewards card8unja whole foods y get 5 cash back. Albert sons just bought rite aid in an attempt to save off that attempt. Weve seen a sudden rise in bots in social media stirring up emotions after the Florida School shootings thats the latestl kproblem. Fridays indictment of 13 russians names facebook as the primary route for russian propaganda. To be clear, russia or facebook, rather, was not accused inform i crime, russia definitely was. Facebook executive rob goldman jumped on twitter to defend his company. And criticize parts of the special counsels indictment. Facebook has now clarified goldmans statement saying nothing we found contradicts the special counsels indictment. Any suggestion otherwise is wrong. Now, speaking of russians, a man accused of being a russian agent and hacking yahoo will be in San Francisco court in afternoon to find out how long hes going to be in prison. Kareem baratov pleaded guilty to hacking yahoo back in 2014. That was one of the biggest hacks in history. Now, baratov is from canada, he was born in kazakhstan, but says he was working for the russian fsb. He admitted it and thats the modern equivalent of the kgb. He will be in San Francisco court in afternoon at 3 00. We presume he will then get his sentence. Really one of the very first Russian Hackers weve seen to go all the way through the court system. To actually make it through. Exactly. Thank you very much. People often joke that the Olympic Games should include an average person for perspective on just how amazing these real athletes are. Well, an oakland woman is trending this morning for doing just that. Elizabeth swainy lives and works in the bay area. At the halfpipe on monday she didnt do any tricks but she skied back and forth. 33 krerld cal berkeley grad is american but she represents hungary which shes allowed to do because her grandparents are from there. They didnt have enough other skiers so she made the team. She did meet the initial eligibility requirement which is to place in the top 30 of the world cup event. She chose one with less than 30 competitors. At mondays competition she finished dead last but i still think thats an amazing story of drive. How cool. She gets to be an olympian. Lets look at her record and lets look at my record. Ours. She has been in the olympics more times. A lot more. Weve just kind of thought about the black diamond. The good news is that there is some snow, we can practice. We havent had a lot this season, we are only running 15 of normal which is not good but it is good that we do see some snow in the forecast as we get into the next week or so and some bay area rain. Here is a look at storm ranger, this will be tracking those storms as they move in, its giving us a clean sweep right now, its our mobile doppler radar, we can move it around as those storms do start to roll into the bay area. You can see that at the bottom of the screen, we do have some rain chances as we go through the next seven days. Looking live right now at our temperatures and our cameras, it is so cold this morning, right now in the trivalley we are only at 28 degrees. It is freezing out there. 27 now in the north bay. Ive even seen some readings in the lower 20s in some of the valleys. You do need so wear lots of layers as you head out and you will be peeling them off as the day goes along but we will still be chilly, reaching 57 degrees in cupertino today, east bay looking at 55 in walnut creek, oakland 54, halfmoon bay 50 and daly city 51. The marina at 52 degrees, 54 today in santa rosa. Now, i will be tracking some rain tomorrow, so make sure you check back in, we will start to see some clouds moving in tonight, we could start to see some of those showers moving into the Santa Cruz Mountains between late tonight and early tomorrow morning and then we could still see a little bit of spotty light rain in parts of the bay area through wednesday night into thursday as that will bring you some rain, not the kind of rain that will be a soaker but we will have a chance of getting a soaker early next week. On monday we will have a more significant storm system moving in. Meantime off and on showers, chilly temperatures and very frigid this morning. Mike, youre saying some of your commute is back. Some. Not all of it. I will explain why in a second. We are looking over here, look, this quadrant right here the north bay, the east bay all showing the typical patterns but the south bay and the peninsula are showing a light, still all green right now, and that may tend to be a little lighter this morning because i know friends in san carlos have the week off and so do some friends in South Bay School district as well. You might see fewer parents driving to work as well. I know some friends took off on a ski week. In the east bay and trivalley we do see 680 the mr. For pleasanton 880 through hayward and fremont there is the build, a little lighter but still there for this tuesday, slower pushing across the san mateo and dumbarton bridges. Toward the bay bridge you are at about a half hour. Thats good coming down through emeryville, but let me show you the live shot. This is through berkeley past university and all these folks slowing in through berkeley trying to get over toward the bay bridge. Back to you. Coming up next on today in the bay, drone crack down, the bay area tightening restrictions on Technology Amid a surge of complaints about the unmanned flying. They canceled her trip so she gets her money back right away, right . Wrong. Im consumer investigator chris chmura. Nbc bay area responds next. Games. Starting at 5pm tune in to watch the women s Alpine Skiing and remember we are your home for the 2018 winter olympic winter games. Starting at 5 00 today tune in to watch the womens Alpine Skiing downhill gold medal final, also the Ladies Short Program in figure skating and womens bobsled competition. They all feature local athletes. The time now 6 22. Fremont woman who spent nearly a year trying to get a 6 24. Nbc bay area responds to a fremont woman who spent nearly a year trying to get back a simple refund. Once consumer investigator chris chmura picked up the phone he got immediate results. Good morning. Most people call us or send us an email but gail harrell wrote me this letter and sent it in the u. S. Mail. Gail told me she booked a family trip on the reno fun train last tickets, but right before departuov6ud the organizer canceled. Now, gail expected a full refund, but that didnt happen. She said she called and she emailed for more than 11 months, with no success. Thats when gail wrote me this letter. I contacted the organizer key holidays in walnut creek. A representative there called me back and told me that somehow gails refund had fallen through the cracks and was incorrectly flagged as a gift certificate. Key holida jn then agreed to refund gails 1,938 the next day. When i called gail with the good news she was overjoyed and relieved, its been a year after all. I think gail let this one linger just a little bit too long. I would have disputed the charge with my Credit Card Company and i would have done it quickly since i only get 60 days to challenge charges. Know your rights. Call your bank and ask how long your dispute window stays open. Call us with your consumer complaints or you can write us, but the number is 888996tips, online at nbcbayarea. Com responds. Thank you very much. 6 26 right now. Sausalito the latest bay area city to get tough on drone enthusiasts. According to the marin ij Council Members last week approved new restrictions citing a spike in complaints. Drones will be allowed to fly a maximum of 400 feet high and no faster than 20 Miles Per Hour. Users can be cited for using drones to annoy, disturb or harass. Violators can be fined or have the drones confiscated. Coming up next the steps state leaders will take to create permanent water restrictions across california. One Person Injured an an Early Morning house fire. And the bitterly cold weather in the bay area could impact the Wine Industry but not in the way you may think. The reason it might be a good thing that were seeing freezing temperatures. The time now 6 27. Youre watching today in the bay. Show me the olympic winter games like ive never seen before. Xfinity x1, yeah, i always know the scor. Triple corks in 4k. Lookin so sick. Stream live on every screen, every win, every trick. 2000 hours of coverage, get your mind blown. 50 olympic channels, yup, youre in the zone. And if theres something that you want to see, pick up that voice remote and just say show me. Experience nbcuniversals coverage of the olympic winter games like never before with xfinity. Proud partner of team usa. Alert this morning as right now at 6 30 we are in that microclimate weather alert this morning as freezing temperatures grip the bay area. On your left a live look from san bruno this morning where its 37 degreesout side right now. On the right a look at the current temperatures across the bay area. That freeze warning will remain in effect for another two and a half hours. Waiting for the suns arrival but its always coldest before that sun comes up. Good morning, thanks for joining us, im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. We want to go to meteorologist kari hall tracking these cold temperatures. Pull out the coats, the gloves, the hats, you will need it all today. Everything, yes. This is the coldest morning we have had since the beginning of last year. So its been over a year since weve had temperatures dipping into the mid 20s and thats what it is right now in napa, 24 degrees. It is 28 in livermore and morgan hill, san jose at 36 and still frosty, make sure you allow time to scrape frost off of the windshield. We have a hard freeze warning in effect for solano county, all the areas in purple inland are where we do have the freeze warning and a light blue shade indicates where you have frosty conditions as you get ready to head out. A look at our High Temperatures today reaching into the low to mid 50s, we will be a little milder today and im tracking some rain so more on all of that coming up in a few minutes. Mike gets you out the door with a few issues we have had. A motorcycle crash . The latest is a motorcycle crash. Weve been tracking that on highway 4, it wasnt a big deal and then i saw sudden slowing. We will visit over here. Westbound coming out of antioch and in towards pittsburg. We had a couple lanes blocked for a couple minutes. They may have cleared one more of those lanes. We have more slowing past concord and 680 recovering from an earlier crash at north main. Another crash west 80 at cutting. The upper east shore freeway. Continued build, we are 35 minutes now from highway 4 down to the bay bridge with the backup of course thats back yesterday was clear, today not. Back to you. Thank you very much. Were following that breaking news out of the east bay this morning, an earthquake in the danville areaover night a day after two other small earthquakes were reported there. Today in the bays pete suratos is live near the epicenter in Monte Vista High School in morning to explain why that fault line in that area typically creates smaller quakes. Reporter good morning, marcus and laura. It all comes back to the mt. Diablo thrust fault. Its a little known fault. We always hear about the san andreas and hayward fault but whats causing some small earth cakes in this danville area. We will show you the area we saw the smaller earthquakes. They are relatively small earthquakes in this area in danville right between stone valley and diablo valley road. As far as the times when it happened it was a span between a few hours that first one at 1 30 registering at a 2. 8, then between 4 25 to 4 26 we saw three more earthquakes between 2. 6 to 2. 9. Back to this mt. Diablo thrust fault, its deep in the earths crash, it pushes mt. Diablo higher. The chances of this fault actually causing a big earthquake above 6. 7, it would be a 3 chance so its a very small percentage. We will continue to monitor things and provide updates throughout the morning on my social media accounts as they come in. Live in danville, pete suratos for today in the bay. There are new concerns as well in morning about money for an earthquake Early Warning system. The trump administrations Budget Proposal cuts 13 million to the usgss earthquake hazards program, it would also cut staffing for that program, the funding cut would start on october 1st. U. S. Department of the interior says its budget justification was proposed to address higher priorities. Were following breaking news out of walnut creek, thats where four people safely escaped an Early Morning fire that heavily damaged a home. You can see this video from within the last few minutes into our newsroom of firefighters when they first arrived to that scene. Were cold that that fire started in a carport at about 4 00 this morning. That home is located on spring brook road right here the 680 24 sler change. Neighbors tell us the response caused commotion and in some cases fears that fire would spread. Well, i just heard the emergency vehicles and then i saw someone at my back door and i got it and he said, you need to leave or does anybody else live here and i said, no i just have a dog and a cat, he said you probably should come outside in case you have to leave. Firefighters say one person who escaped that fire did suffer minor smoke inhalation. Investigators are trying to figure out how the fire started. Back to our microclimate weather alert this morning. Wine growers across the bay area monitoring their grapes this morning as temperatures continue to plummet. Its cold out there. New this morning today in the bays bob redell joins us live in livermore with the impact that this freeze could have on some of the vines out there. You found out, bob, that it could be a good thing. Reporter yes, good morning. One wine maker out here in livermore tells us they are concerned that this season has been on track for an early bud break, thats when the buds break open and start to flower sooner than usual. Which could spell a possible repeat of 2015 when vines like these bloomed too early, the rains came and in some instances washed away the pollen, which meant no grapes. This vineyard told us their vines only produce 50 of the normal load of fruit that year. That i remember wine maker hopes that this mornings freeze that i can feel right now, they hope that this will slow down this years possible early bud break. Its going to slow it down, it will delay t which is good because right now its still too early. If we have stuff pushing too soon then we risk damage to the flowers when it rains because we usually get some rain in march. Youre happy with this potential freeze . Yeah, its fine. Hopefully this is the last one. We dont want those going into march, then, yes, we will have problems, but at this time of the year were okay, but were getting to the end where we would like you know, we want it to stop. Reporter theres also a risk this morning that any vines here in the Livermore Valley that have already begun to flower could suffer frost damage but that would just be a handful since most of the vines have yet to bloom. There is really nothing that wine makers would be able to do about it, they dont are watering systems in place because the freezes are so rare, but there you can see the frost starting to form on the ground outside these vines and i can tell you right now just feeling [ no audio ] we lost his microphone there. Im sure he was telling us how cold he is with the frost on the ground. All right. Thank you very much, bob. A lot of people this week they are experiencing ski week. A lot of folks in the bay area always head up to tahoe. Yeah, that is lake tahoe, believe it or not. The winds have been hitting the lake there, the speeds between 30 and 40 Miles Per Hour this weekend. Really tossing the waves up there. 6 37. This week marks one year since these devastating floodwaters really ravaged a lot of homes, sweeping those homes right here in san jose. Take a look at all of this right here. This is when the coyote creek overflowed its banks after relentless rainfall. This year were dealing with a different story, almost no rain at all across the bay area. Right here you can see across the state even. It looks like the latest Drought Monitor we are not in danger just yet but the state leaders are preparing. Californias water Board Members today will debate making permanent a series of previously temporary restrictions. That boosts the Water Conservation even when there is no immediate drought threat. One rule would be would ban using hoses to wash down those sidewalks, another would require automatic shut off nozzles for the hoses when you wash cars. Those new rules would take effect in april. At 6 38 on your Tuesday Morning we have a developing story in the south bay. Scary moments for a San Jose Police officer. Someone slammed into his patrol car and then they just drove off. This morning the search continues for the driver. Police say the officer was looking for a stolen Chevy Silverado near tea tree and authorize ton way, thats when a white tahoe barrelled into the Police Patrol car. Police believe the driver of that tahoe is somehow connected with the stolen chevy the officer was looking for. The officer was not hurt. Were looking over here the rest of your commute moves well, looking at the south bay with a build now, thats kicked in over the last 20 minutes. A build for hayward for the nimitz, standard over there. A concern right here, we just heard about a crash just behind the shield south 101 just past that Robin Williams tunnel coming down in towards San Francisco. We have two of your four lanes blocked. Lanes over to the right side are open. Watching for more slowing kicking in over the next probably 20 minutes. We will track that and a slow drive toward the bay bridge. The sensors show that slowing there as we come back to the desk a reminder that the mass transit [ inaudible ]. A lot of people have a fourday weekend which makes you think whats going on for the next weekend. Right. Especially when its this cold out there, you are like i cannot deal with this, i am ready for my weekend right now. Lets talk about how cold it is because you do have to get through today. It has dropped down to 24 degrees now in napa, its 28 in livermore and morgan hill, 27 this morning in santa rosa. Lets talk about saturday now. It will still be chilly during those morning hours, but during the afternoon were going to reach into the mid 50s. A lot of sunshine and that will be the key because on sunday more clouds will move in and we will still have those same temperatures up to about 60 degrees inland, it will be a chilly one. If its going to be this cold you might as well be in the sierra, right . Kirkwood is going to be only up to 20 degrees, yes, thats the High Temperature on friday. Still no snow for the weekend, but there will be a chance early next week. I will talk about that. Also well bring you back to todays forecast coming up in three minutes. 6 40 right now. Coming up next on today in the bay, going green. What leaders in the south bay are doing later today to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. Plus the president seems to be trying to rewrite history but we will correct him. And after being closed for president s day yesterday the wall street back open right now, you can see the stocks right now, the dow is down 89 points, actually it opened more than 100 points lower as those rates rise. Because everyone likes easy. Sure do. Because everyone is on the go. Because we all like to save energy, but sometimes we slip up. Reaching up. Ssssh because sometimes we want it cool at night, then toasty in the mornings. Introducing the easy to use, energy saving, adjustable from everywhere, easy on the wallet and the eyes, nest thermostat e. E is for everyone. Right now its 6 43 it is the coldest morning we have had in a very long time and we are starting to get to sunrise which is the coldest time of the day. Looking at san jose now normally we are up to 63 degrees for a high, but we do not make it there today, but we do have sunshine and there is some rain in the forecast. I will talk about that coming up in about five minutes. And a Traffic Alert for the north bay. Southbound 101 we have two of your four lanes blocked just outside of the Robin Williams tunnel. The right lanes are open. I see the slowing stacking up right now. It is 6 44. Today San Jose City leaders will meet with the community to discuss whats next for the citys climate plan. Just last week the city unveiled its new Climate Change agenda which includes becoming one of the first in the u. S. To reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions to meet the levels outlined in the ambitious paris agreement. They want the communitys input on how to get it done. Tonights town hall is at 7 00 at city hall. President trumps border wall prototypes are already costing the city of san diego thousands of dollars. L. A. Times is reporting san diego spent 50,000 on supplies for the area where the prototypes are located. Thats because the city was warned by the department of Homeland Security to expect major demonstrations which have never materialized. The Sheriffs Department actually spent more than 700,000 in overtime pay for border wall related work. The federal government is not expected to reimburse any of that money. President trump has tweeted a lot in the past 24 hours. Scott mcgrew, youre trying to keep up. Indeed i am. Sometimes i have to check my phone. I will be honest with you, i like to cover whats going on in washington, each morning we sit in the newsroom, we type up a report on whats going on in washington and it often goes out the window when the president tweets, particularly when its something inaccurate. Hes tweeted a lot lately. This one was particularly noteworthy. Obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 eye election so why didnt he do something about russian meddling. Of course, obama did do something about it, he briefed trump and the Republican Leadership on all the steps he took. Not only did obama confront putin about the Election Hacking he leveled sanctions on russia in december of 2016 and kicked 35 russians out of the country as well. Donald trump not only knew that, he reacted to it at the time it happened. Trumpg b praised putin for not reacting to y those sanctions. December 30th, 2016, great move on delay by v. Putin. I always knew he was very smart. Now, that attempt to change history to convince you that the thing that happened was different than the thing you remember is called gas lighting. Other news, trump has changed his mind about mitt romney endorsement. Romney is running for senator from utah and almost certainly will win. Romney is a republican of course but a long time critic of the president calling trump a charlatan and danger to democracy. So why did trump endorse him . This may be a case where the politically smart thing to do is endorse the guy who is going to win the election even if he did call you names. Another republican bob corker the guy who said the white house was a day care and questioned whether trump should be allowed to have the Nuclear Codes says he might not retire from the senate after all. He says he will have a decision on friday. We examine the president s tweets and executive orders every morning on today in the bay. I often invite you to join knee on twitter, you know, i just turned 50 so i think its time i joined facebook as well. Scott mcgrew tv on facebook. Did you really turn 50 without us knowing . I did indeed. Happy belated. Its 6 47. Back to our microclimate weather alert. His birthday is in the fall. I knew that. Live look from i80 in kingvale this morning. Theres that live look there, a lot of people make that pass up to 80. This looks like cal trains cleared the roads up there, a lot clearer than it was this weekend. A lot of people got snowed in, in fact. We have fresh video to show you from kirkwood resort taken late yesterday. Speeding it up here, a lot of folks managed to get up here for the long Holiday Weekend to enjoy the snow. Ski week for a lot of folks in the bay area and tahoe is one of the favorite getaways of many. So theyre hitting the slopes. Its really good news for the revenue up there for the Small Businesses, too. Fastest gondolas around. Weve been talking about the fact that we need so much snow there and there will be some snow in the forecast and it stays cold. It wont be one of those warm storms. So thats good news there. As we get a look at our storm ranger thats our mobile doppler radar, you can see the red beam scanning around the bay area and it could be tracking some rain as early as tomorrow for the peninsula. I will be talking about that. Right now lets get to these temperatures because it is so cold this morning. Freezing in the trivalley, 28 degrees and 27 now in the north bay. Even in San Francisco, 39 degrees there, the sevenday forecast is up at the bottom of the screen, shows that chance of rain for tomorrow and thursday as well. Spotty showers. As we go through today its going to be all clear, sunshine, highs in the low to mid 50s, getting dress this had morning, boy, is that very important because you do need lots of layers. You need to start out with a sweater or a hat and also a good idea to make sure you have some gloves, something to keep your hands warm, especially if you will be outside for quite a while. Good idea to have the pants as well. Maybe some extra layers as you start out this morning. Then as we look at the forecast we will be tracking some spotty rain tomorrow, we will have several disturbances moving in and this shows that we do have a change in the pattern thats kept us so warm and dry. We will start to see some spotty rain moving into the Santa Cruz Mountains late tonight and early tomorrow morning. We could see some of that rain passing through parts of the bay area, but everyone ma i not see it and you will want to make sure you keep checking in for updates. Its also going to be windy and cold, our highs reaching into the mid 50s, morning temperatures in the 30s. As we go into the weekend more of the same although we will wipe out the rain chances and have a more significant storm system moving in on monday. Mike, youre tracking a crash heading into San Francisco. I am. This is highway 101 coming down through sues leto, marin county north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Looks fine but you see the accident icon, thats what hides the slower sensor reads right here. Coming down through the Robin Williams tunnel is a problem right now, there is a crash outside of it on the south side as youre coming down toward the Golden Gate Bridge blocking two of your four lanes and chp still not there. Been about 15, 20 minutes since that crash happened. We have the build. Some folks will want to head over to the richmondsan rafael bridge but then theyre getting stuck in berkeley and the berkeley curve traffic in the east bay. The rest of the bay shows more traffic than yesterday but not an unusual pattern. Hayward, pleasanton and now Silicon Valley shows you northbound push. A quick look at palo alto shows you the build on the peninsula is there, standard, back to you. Coming up a quick look at the top stories here on today in the bay including continuing Team Coverage of our microclimate weather alert this morning. 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City of san jose and county of santa clara are urging people to get out of the cold and stay in some of their emergency Warming Centers. We have seen low level snow in week as well as hail. Weve posted a full list of the Warming Centers that are now open this week. You can find it on nbcbayarea. Com. I will make a note to try to tweet that out as well. A live look from livermore this morning where were getting an idea of just how those freezing temperatures could impact the wine harvest. The wine growers are monitoring their grapes, but say that the cold temperatures could actually be a good thing. Today in the bay spoke with one wine maker who says that part of the valley they have been on track for early bud break. That happened back in 2015. The vines bloomed too early and then it rained which washed away the pollen and stopped grapes from growing. The wine maker says that the cold weather could slow down the bud break. The mobile app is a great tool to use during those temperatures. You can track the current temperatures and you will get to push the notifications. He will get those when Severe Weather is in your location. A live look at danville where a new series of small earthquakes shaking things up this morning. Usgs says there were four earthquakes with magnitudes between 2. 6 and 3. 0 over a threehour period. All were centered around Monte Vista High School. One quake happened at 10 00, the other three within a oneminute span at 4 25. This is close to where two small quakes struck a half mile away in the last week. We continue to monitor breaking news out of the east bay this morning. Firefighters in walnut creek are investigating an Early Morning fire. We do know that one person was treated for smoke inhalation. It started just before 4 00 this morning on a home on spring brook road. This is near 680 24 sler change. Back to our coverage of the 2018 olympic ims with a. Two athletes with ties from Northern California tweeted and tonight karen chen makes her olympic debut. But its not all about the athletes. Garvin thomas talked about fans from the bay area who are in south korea. Definitely a long trip for them. Im sure theyre having a great time like you. Reporter they certainly are. These folks arent only traveling to south korea, Mark Reynolds has a goal to travel to every Winter Olympics for the rest of his life. We met up with mark and his group at the biathlon venue, he said he has never seen this sport at the other games he had been to, the other other olympics he had been to so he wanted to see t he says this all started in Salt Lake City olympics when he went there for the first time and just fell in love with what the olympics were all about. The environment, its like all these countries around the world despite all the political differences come together and just bond and its the most amazing experience. Reporter marcus and laura, after being at my first olympics i certainly get what hes going at, what hes going for there. There is a certain feeling, camaraderie with the people all around from all over the world. Im not quite committing to going to every Winter Olympics for the rest of my life, but you might convince me to go to another one. There will be one in california eventually, so that will be a lot closer to home. Thanks, garvin. Olympic coverage continues at 7 00, carmels Brita Sigourney will be on the today show fresh off her bronze medal win in the freestyle ski halfpipe. Starting at 5 00 tonight right here on nbc bay area tune in to watch the womens Alpine Skiing downhill gold medal final, also the Ladies Short Program in figure skating and the womens bobsled competition. They feature local athletes. Here is a quick look at those medals in the race, norway continues to no, maam date with 29 total medals, germany and canada round out the top three, team u. S. A. Is currently in sixth place with 12 medals. Want to get a look at weather and traffic together. Weve been mentioning what a cold morning it is in the bay area. Can you guess how cold it is, the coldest temperature i have seen around the bay area . 27 . 19 . 10. You got it. I just tweeted it out. South of san jose on Bennett Valley road. It is frigid this morning. High temperatures inland 54 degrees. I will be tracking rain tomorrow morning so make sure you check back in, we could see spotty hours over the next couple of days. What a change. I was in flipflops this week. Yesterday very different for traffic flow. Today we have less people on vacation and a problem in the north bay, southbound 101 two of your four lanes are blocked coming through the Robin Williams tunnel, we have your right lanes open, left lanes blocked, youre backed up but you can take bridge way and alexander to get around that if you know sausalito that is an option for you. Chp is having a tough time getting this this morning. The rest of the bay its a standard pattern. We will be back with a local news update at 7 25 and every half hour after that. And take a look right here live from pyeongchang as we round out our morning here, tuesday on today in the bay. Thank you so much for joining us. Coming up next, the today show. Good morning. Not one more. Powerful, new gun control demonstrations from florida to california to the white house. Shame on you. Shame on you. President trump now signaling potential support for stricter laws. But can they get through congress . Killer in court. The confessed Florida Shooter before a judge, as new stories of heroism of students and teachers on that fateful day. I figured if im going to go, im going to hug any students closer. What they are revealing for the first time. Wild weather