Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20180221

About how cold it is this morning and even a little bit of some rain moving through parts of the bay area and that is helping to keep us a little bit milder and just above freezing in many spots. As were seeing a lot of green here in San Francisco, down toward pacifica and also in burlingame, san mateo, sprinkles this morning, watch out for that as you head out for your drive. Temperatures now in the mid 40s. Its not only cold but it is getting soggy in parts of the bay area so i will be tracking that. Mike, you now have a Traffic Alert for a motorcycle crash. I do. We talked about the crash on the upper east shore freeway, i said i would give it a few minutes for chp to give us more detail. From san jose into San Francisco both sides of the bay look great. A slower lighter build on both sides of the bay but over here westbound your commute direction at pinole valley road reports of a motorcycle down and the rider may be still down in lanes. So this is a big concern. Only the fast lane is currently blocked, but more emergency crews arrive over the next few minutes and we see slowing coming into the area starting right about highway 4. Thats where we bring up our speed sensors, 22, almost 25 minutes getting from there over toward the bay bridge. It will build. We will track that, guys. For now back to you. It is 6 02. Its hard to believe but today marks exactly one year since the devastating coyote creek flooding that happened in the south bay. Do you remember all this . It was after the Anderson Reservoir filled up after all that relentless rainfall that we had. Quite the difference this year. But then the nearby quity creek overflowed its banks and flowed into this area. Today in the bays bob redell is live this morning at one of the hardest hit areas, the rock springs neighborhood to show us how far the city has come and people to move on from this event. Bob . Reporter good morning, laura. Yes, all that muck that was covering these streets is gone, the submerged cars towed away and those letter xs that the rescuers spray painted on the apartments and duplexes they for the most part have been painted over but the rock springs neighborhood is not what it used to be. A number of people who were here when this area flooded a year ago have not returned to their homes. Carmen is one person who did decide to stick around in spite of what she experienced when the Anderson Reservoir and coyote creek flooded her neighborhood on february 21st of last year the water moved so fast the Fire Department had to rescue had err in waters that was four feet deep in places. Her apartment still bears some of the water marks. She relied on sacred heart to replace her belongings with money from a 7 Million Victims Fund and insurance paid her back for her submerged car. Carmen, however, is worried about the next time we get a heavy rain season. I hope they get that creek cleared out so the water runs smoother, otherwise we are in trouble again. Reporter the Santa Clara Valley Water District which mansion Anderson Reservoir has installed new barriers where coyote creek borders the rock springs neighborhood. The district says that that metal structure would protect these people from a flood of the same size. Later this morning, 11 00, the district, the city, county, state and army corps of engineers will hold a News Conference to discuss what else is being done to prevent flooding. Reporting live here in the rock springs neighborhood of san jose, bob redell, today in the bay. It is 6 04. We are following breaking news into our newsroom. Social media absolutely lighting up on the word that reverend billy graham has died. In his home state of north carolina. The Evangelistic Association announced that death in the last hour. Graham was an ordained Southern Baptist minister who grew into perhaps the single most influential evangelist ever. He was also the voice and the ear for a long line of u. S. President s. President trump was even a special guest at grahams 95th birthday party. By the end of his life graham sets politics aside in favor of his devout faith. Billy graham was 99 years old. Live breaking news out of washington, d. C. The first pictures just coming into our newsroom of police activity, this is happening right outside of the white house. Nbc news is being told there is a suspicious vehicle in that area, the streets are shut down. Secret service and d. C. Police are on the scene to check things out. We can tell you the New Executive Office Building is under evacuation, it looks like people are being allowed to walk in that area right now. We will let you know when there are other developments as our camera swings around to give us an overview of the area. You see Additional Police arriving on the scene. Today marks one week since the Deadly Florida school shooting. 17 people were killed in that massacre. Happening today President Trump plans to hear firsthand from survivors of the shooting. He wants to hear what they believe can be done to make schools more safe. The president is actually calling this event a listening session, its making place at the white house today. It is expected to include students, parents and teachers from parkland. It comes on the heels of the president s new push to regulate bump stock devices like the one used in the las vegas massacre. To ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns. We must do more to protect our children. We have to do more to protect our children. The president also plans to hear from parents of students killed in the columbine and sandy hook shootings. Also today High School Students from parkland will descend on floridas State Capitol pushing for new gun control measures. At least 100 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School boarded buses yesterday for the sevenhour ride. They plan to meet in tallahassee with lawmakers including Florida Governor rick scott. The rally is also planned. Students are calling for a ban on militarystyle weapons. Yesterday florida lawmakers voted against debating a bill to ban assault weapons. Continuing coverage now, the 2018 olympic winter games, all new overnight the womens bobsled competition is over. Just ended minutes ago. Elena Meyers Taylor was the favorite going in. Our Garvin Thomas was watching that event. He was in the stands with her husband who is from hayward. And, garvin, tell us all about that. Reporter well, the event here just got over but i have to tell you about another event that just ended within the last hour, another medal for the u. S. A bronze in Womens Team Pursuit speed skating, the first speed skating medal for the women, team u. S. A. Women in the past 16 years. Back to the sliding center which in my opinion has the best finish line in all the Olympic Games. The fans, the athletes, the finish line all right on top of each other and when a competition finishes it is bedlam. And it was just a few minutes ago. Let me set the stage for you, going into the final heat elena Meyers Taylor was in second place in the womens two man bobsled just 0. 04 of a second out of first. She did a terrific run on her fourth heat, finished in first place, all she had to do was wait for the final sled, the germans, to see how they would do. Well, they did her one better. The germans ended up winning the gold in this event. Elena Meyers Taylor takes home the silver, it is her third olympic medal but none of them so far have been gold. Now, lets take time to look ahead to what we will be talking about in prime time and thats the chance for david wise to defend his gold medal in ski halfpipe. Wise lives in reno with his wife and two children and skis in tahoe. He qualified for the finals in his event with the eighth best run. Of course, that wont be good enough to make the podium but wise is a savvy competitor, he hasnt shown us everything he can do. Wise has been down this road before and he is enjoying the ride. Im really excited to just go out there and enjoy doing what i love to do and thats kind of my mentality for it. Im just going to go out there and try to do something on skis that i try to do my best version of skiing and gold medals or not im just going to enjoy it. Reporter one thing we have heard consistently from the halfpipe either snow board or skiing athletes is they love this halfpipe. They say it is long which lets them do more tricks, the conditions are perfect. Why they love this is obviously each one they want to win a medal but theyre interesting in showing off their sport in the best possible way and they say this halfpipe lets them do the best tricks and fans get the best show. Back to you. It really is a showcase when you see them coming down that mountain and the talent that they have. Always want to see a great show. We want to reinforce this for you, tahoes david wise goes for the gold tonight in freestyle skiing, also going for the gold, u. S. Hockey team featuring palo altos own Hillary Knight. Team u. S. A. Plays canada in prime time. You can watch that starting at 7 45 on Nbc Sports Network. Here is a quick look at the current medal count. Those numbers keep changing. Norway continues to lead with 33 total medals, jrm knee and canada rounding out the top three. The u. S. Is tied for fourth this morning moving up. Netherlands and america each team u. S. A. s latest gold came in a shocking win overnight. Its sweden and the United States. Stride for stride, push for push, who is it going to be . Coming down to the line and the United States has done it. Jessie diggins and Kikkan Randall the first u. S. Women to win a crosscountry medal and First American crosscountry skiers to take the gold. We have brandnew video overnight. Look at the excited reaction of the today show team as well watching in south korea. Savannah guthrie and al there, you saw hoda. Fun to see. Kids in the snow. Iti n 6 11. You may be kissing some rain as you see whats happening in n you get door. This could slow down your commute as well. Not only 280 but 101, very soggy in some spots with some light rain mostly. We are going to see also some chilly temperatures as weve started out with much of thezsmy area in the 30s and 40s, our highs this afternoon reach into the upper 50s for san jose and mid 50s for santa rosa, San Francisco 53 degrees. I will break down todays temperature trend in four minutes. Mike, you have two Traffic Alerts. Combined with the note that you just gave which is the conditions, maybe wet right along the peninsula and also showing up north of antioch in rio vista. Now, the Traffic Alerts, aside from them the rest of traffic moves lightly. Westbound 80 jams up through hercules approaching pinole valley road, you now have two lanes blocked, two left lanes blocked by a motorcycle crash. You are clear once you get toward richmond and toward the bay bridge. North 101 at whipple avenue that off ramp is still closed so chp has issued a Traffic Alert because the volume is building. No major slowing along the peninsula. Back to you. So whether its the one proposing or the one being proposed to the ring is a big part of it, so what if you lost it and then later found it . Thank you. My marriage is saved. Thats what you would say. Nbc bay area speaks exclusively with the bay area woman who was reunited with her wedding ring after losing it on a flight. Spacex does all kinds of crazy things, this time they will use a big net. I will tell you why 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. Its 6 15. Check out this beautiful sunrise happening over san jose right now. You can see the clouds and all of the colors and hues in the sky. A gorgeous start. Lets go to los gatos where our temperatures will be in the mid 40s at 10 00, today were heading into the mid 50s, still breezy and sometimes of sunshine. We will talk about some rain, when and where, thats coming up in five minutes. We are also talking about two Traffic Alerts, this for the upper east shore freeway, west 80 jams up towards pinole valley road, there is a motorcycle down in lanes there. There is a truck off the roadway trying to be removed from the whipple avenue off ramp from north 101. This is on the peninsula. No slowing but an alert for this one as well. And wall street looking for a slow start thisjyoaw morni stocks fell on tuesday. That snapped a sixday winning vehicle. The dow industrials fell 254 points and you can blame this stock right here, walmart. Walmart one of the dow 30, that company had its worst day on the stock market in 30 years. Apparently walmart not selling as much as it hoped it would over christmas. Vice president mike pence will be in florida today to announce the deregulation of space. Fewer rules about what private companies can do in order to encourage Companies Like spacex. Back here in california spacex has just delayed the launch of its rocket carrying, among other things, small satellites to provide high Speed Internet to people down on earth. Spacex eventually would like to launch thousands of those little satellites and deregulation would help clear the way for that. That launch was scheduled for just a few minutes from now, apparently high winds are an issue. When they do launch spacex will not try to recover the first stage as it usually does, but they will try to recover the nose cone and they will try to do that using a gigantic net. Somebody tweeting out this picture of the body. There is a boat under that net. The boat is called mr. Steven. I dont know why. Mike inouye said they should call it inter as in the internet. Elon musk describes it as like a giant bouncy castle. I appreciate any Rocket Scientist who can explain it to me in those sorts of terms. Does he have kids . He has lots of kids. Then he knows. They probably rent it. Yeah, they would probably own their home. 6 18. Follow up now, this morning we have more on a woman who lost her wedding ring on a commercial flight, then she got it back in an unusual way. Today in the bays Terry Mcsweeney spoke to her exclusively and has her unique story. Reporter San Francisco business entrepreneur brit morrin removed her wedding ring so it wouldnt be a distraction at an on camera shoot in new york. It was in her toiletries bag inside of her purse. Part of my toiletry bag was unzipped. When she landed in wyoming for a Family Reunion the ring is gone. The significance is my relationship, my children, my family, theyre soldered together my engagement and wedding ring, so it was the proposal. And it was made by a family jeweler. She told her husband that night. He sort of nodded at me and didnt talk and we went to bed. After three days i had started giving up hope. Turns out a united employee had found it on the jet way, it had been in a safe all along. I was elated i had my wedding ring back, my husband was not going to kill me anymore. To guarantee its return the captain on the flight it was lost delivered it to her at s if. O. Thank you. My marriage is saved. I bet you she will never take it off again. All is saved. Im always going to look down on the jet way now. A metal detector walking through. Were watching the flight status for everyone heading out and around the bay area and these chilly tours as you go or school this morning here is a look at the radar. Weve been seeing spotty light rain moving in, its right there around sfo this morning, light showers in south San Francisco, burlingame and san mateo, mostly some sprinkles near belmont and further south where its dry in redwood city, we could see some rain moving closer to palo alto within the next 30 to 40 minutes. As of now it is really cold and our temperatures are still in the 30s for the north bay, below freezing now in fairfield and at freezing as well in morgan hill. 36 in livermore, 39 as you head out in san jose with our High Temperatures today reaching into the upper 50s. Check out the sevenday forecast at the bottom of the screen. Some mid 50s all around from the peninsula to San Francisco to the north bay as well. Santa rosa today 55 and its going to be breezy. As you head out for the morning drive low 40s. Clouds still the potential of spotty light rain and highs today only in the low 50s for parts of the peninsula. Tomorrow we will have another chance of rain. Most of what we are seeing this morning will be quickly out of here. Heading through tomorrow morning in time for the morning commute for the north bay, scattered showers and that continues to move to the south. By early afternoon we could see some rain in the south bay as well as the east bay. Our temperatures stay in the 50s and another round of heavier rain possible earlier this next week. Make sure you keep checking back in. We have a jam, not the good kind of traffic jam with the music, we are talking about the jammed up traffic flow. Westbound heading from the peninsula to hayward. This is a service lane this is what they added years ago so that folks could still have emergency crews arrive to lend some help. There was a crash reported along the highrise, that reportedly cleared. There must be Something Else going on here. In addition to that lets look at your map. Kari is talking about rain on the peninsula side coming in, hitting san mateo. There may be more folks hitting their brakes coming off of the san mateo bridge. More congestion. This is a Traffic Alert here, the closure of whipple off of northbound 101 on the peninsula side, that is affecting only those folks. Use twin dolphin or holly street. The other Traffic Alert i still have two lanes blocked jamming up traffic westbound 80 right around pinole valley rote. There is a motorcycle crash, we are still tracking this. How do you find your bliss at work . All new this morning, a list of cities, the happiest cities to work is in out. We will tell you how the bay area fared. Here is whats happening tonight on nbc bay area. Watch the first run for mens Alpine Skiing live. Also live tahoes david wise going for the gold in the halfpipe. We will be showing the gold medal runs for womens bobsled and womens crosscountry. On Nbc Sports Network coverage of the womens hockey match starts at 7 45. Hillary knight and team u. S. A. Looking to beat rival canada. Right now youre watching today in the bay. Maybe you even have. Sorhimdighz for smart guns. Could be the best thing toq ftn owner. Te around for a couple yearsb5iz and the idea has never really gotten much traction with . E lawmakers. This in large partu. u because new this morning it9 8u turns o that the bay area is toppingupne . ] i like it. Yeah, i like9qwit. Ifrom over 20thousand employee from around the country. Topping the list is Mountain View which is home to Companies Like google and linkedin. Other cities outside the bay area on the list are detroit, michigan at number two. And boulder, colorado at number three. San jose is also on the list at number seven and santa clara is number eight. 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Its especially so when its a customer thats doing such good and important work for the environment. Together, were building a better california. In parts of the bay area and right now at 6 30 on your wednesday morning, we are tracking some light rain in parts of the bay area and because of the cold temperatures were even seeing some low level snow. This is a live look at our radar this morning showing you exactly where that rain is falling off the coast some of it right now. Taking a live look from waukegan this morning. Cant tell how cold it is out there, but it is beautiful. A nice start. Good morning and thanks for joining us, im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Lets head over to meteorologist kari hall to get a look at whats going on with those the wet weather coming into our area. There has been low elevation snow for parts of the north bay and hills above 2,000 feet. As we get a look at storm ranger, our mobile Doppler Radar, its that red scan that youre seeing going around the bay area. As we get a closer look at the peninsula and some rain that continues to fall around south city and pacifica, burlingame as well as san mateo and just to the east of belmont. We are seeing rain around redwood city and weve seen this, mainly light and this is what we will be tracking throughout much of the morning. Clearing out for the day. So more on this and also a look ahead to the weekend in a few minutes. Mike, youve been tracking a few of those problem spots out on the roads. Its a bad time to use the san mateo bridge because there were two issues going on here, westbound this is a live picture, yeah, there you go, flashing lights there, slowly moving westbound from hayward to foster city. Along that stretch there was a fenderbender a hit and run that cleared on the foer city side and then a stall at the highrise top of the screen, so a very tough drive. Lets look at your map, you see how tough it is. Thats in the middle of your screen. Overall the traffic flow is great on either side of that north or south. Slow across 92, use the dumbarton bridge between the two. Whipple closed from northbound 101. Youre jammed coming off the carquinez bridge and by the time you get to san pablo. Its a half hour from highway 4, should hold steady there. Back to you. Were following breaking news for you this morning. Reverend billy graham has died in his home state of north carolina. Graham was an ordained Southern Baptist minister who grew into perhaps the single most influence evangelist ever. Here in bay area graham was viewed as a listening rod for his stances on gay marriage and abortion. Happening today and only on today in the bay a south bay neighborhood is fighting for the removal of a grove of heritage red wood trees with where a developer wants to build new housing. This is happening on sierra avenue in Mountain View. The struggle for sustainable and responsible growth is happening in communities across the bay area. Today in the bays kris sanchez joins us live in Mountain View to explain how the city is trying to strike that balance there. Reporter its a conversation a lot of communities have having. In Mountain View the city will meet with the concerned citizens to figure out whats next. That drove of trees on sierra avenue in Mountain View the developer wants to remove that to make way for a Single Family home. One house. Neighbors are pushing back with lawn signs, a pay tigs and website. The Mountain View City Ordinance requires that two trees be replanted for every one Heritage Tree removed but opponents say you cant replace a mature tree overnight. One Single Family home should not clear cut an amazing grove of red wood trees that have a tremendous impact on the neighbors, community as a whole. There is a replacement for those trees, its generally a two to one replacement. Reporter now, i got these numbers from the city of Mountain View to see if its making good on its hoard nance. A lot of numbers on your screen but the bottom line is in the last three fiscal years the majority of mare taj trees removed for Small Development were replaced. The citys Development Department was closed on tuesdays so i could not get the numbers for the mare taj Tree Replacement for google, microsoft and el camino hospital. The city marks director will meet with the residents today and then with the developer one more time before deciding whether to permit that tree removal or to deny t i want to know whats happening in your community. What youre seeing in terms of Sustainable Growth and how your community is managing the bay area building boom. Join the conversation on twitter and facebook. In Mountain View, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Land is precious but so are those trees. Thank you, kris. Authorities have reportedly found no credible threat for students at bent woods mare Taj High School following a series of texts posted online. The east bay times reports two students with a dispute with each other sent each other threats that started escalating. Those threats somehow ended up on social media. The mother of one of those students told police her child happens to be going through a particularly rough patch. Authorities in Southern California are convinced they stopped a school shooting. The plot involved a 17yearold student in wittier. Police yesterday confronted him at the school but they didnt find a weapon. They later went to the students home and found what they describe as multiple guns and ammunition. Wittier police plan to talk more about that case later today. Happening today in San Francisco historic Reservation Commission will decide the fate of a controversial statue at civic center. Critics say the early day statue is a symbol of oppression and want it removed. Today in the bays pete suratos is live at the Pioneer Monument where that statue is located to explain to us how or what could happen at this point. Pete . Reporter yeah, good morning, marcus. The Commission Later this afternoon and they can decide if they want to remove this early day statue. You see it behind me here right outside of San Franciscos Main Public Library in the civic center area. It does have critics including San Francisco mayor mark farrell who sent a letter to that Commission Last week calling on the removal of this statue. So what is this statue . Well, it shows a native american seated on the ground with a mission padre and other man standing over here. San franciscos Art Commission which is leading the charge when it comes to the removal of that statue calls it a symbol of oppression and it represents californias history from a, quote, euro American Point of view. The vote comes a week after San Francisco officially renamed columbus day to Indigenous Peoples day and two weeks after san jose voted to remove a Christopher Columbus statue from its city hall. Back out here live you can see that statue. I want to point out san jose is still trying to figure out what to do or where to put that customer columbus statue. If this statue is removed San Francisco about put it in longterm storage but that commission will vote on the issue at 12 30. Were live in San Francisco, pete suratos for today in the bay. It is 6 37. Happening today also in San Francisco Public Meeting on the new transbay Transit Center, this comes after reports last week that construction was facing delays. The Transit Center has met Key Construction milestones, the opening has been delayed multiple times. It was slated to open may 1st but the examiner reports it could now be delayed until september. Its a beautiful animation you show and then we go to real life. All right. Looking over here we will be behind schedule as well if you come off the carquinez bridge and travel down via meshing lease. West 80 recovers from an earlier crash, that Traffic Alert has been cleared and we see from highway 4 down to the bay bridge and the backup there its about 25 minutes. So thats an improvement over the last few. Thats rare fort the morning commute but lighter around the bay. We typically see this because winter break for a few schools, South Bay School districts as well as san carlos and a couple other. Slow getting over to the peninsula. Highway 92 there was a crash, that cleared, then a stall still clearing from the highrise, thats why 92 is a tough drive. You can take 84 across. The dumbarton bridge, that means there will be ac transit delays traveling across 92. We are looking head to t a weekend. Warm temperatures . Sounds like youre begging. How about some sunshine . I will take that. We will take that. That will be something a little hard to come by over the next couple days. By saturday highs will reach into the upper 50s. Its not going to be that much warmer, but at least we do have that sun and that will make it feel great. Now, on sunday more clouds move in. We keep the same temperatures with upper 50s to low 60s across the bay area. If youre going to Russian River valley its going to be nice, highs into the mid 50s for friday and saturday. You need to wear extra layers. 58 degrees on sunday and Carmel Valley is going to be breezy as well. Mostly sunny, up to of a degrees on saturday and 58 degrees on sunday. If youre going to heavenly here is a live look and look at that, the High Temperature only 27 degrees so throw extra stuff in the suitcase. 40 degrees by sunday but at least it will stay all dry. Going hiking in muir woods this weekend in the mid to upper 50s. Let me know what youre doing this weekend im karihallweather on facebook, twitter and instagram. If i know about event going on you may see it featured right here tomorrow morning at 6 38. We will take a look at wednesday and our forecast for today we will get through this weekend. All right. Thank you very much, kari. Just into the newsroom we have a quick update to some breaking news that we brought you at the beginning of the show. The scene has now been cleared after suspicious vehicle was seen outside of the white house. Police say theres no threat. Also coming up next on today in the bay, not prepared . New report that claims emergency officials were not properly trained on how to warn people about the north bay wildfires. President trump this morning will meet with students who survived School Shootings, he calls it a listening session. Right now on the stock market you can see the dow is up just a little bit, something we dont see too often these days right now. Stocks open slightly higher ahead of the release of a meeting summary from the federal reserve. The time is 6 40. Youre watching today in the bay. 6 43 now. Beautiful sunrise as we take a live look outside over san jose. Mostly clear here. Lets go to campbell. Good morning, our temperatures will be in the upper 40s at 10 00, now, normally we are at 63 degrees but today we only get it into the mid 50s and we have some rain in the forecast. More on that coming up in five minutes. And better news, yeah, thats better news. The san mateo bridge just got reports lanes are clear. Its not moving, its stopped right now. We will check it coming up. Thanks so much, kari and mike. Its 6 43. Happening today its a deadline to enter the race to be the person to replace Santa Clara County judge aaron persky. Hes facing a recall in june. As we reported earlier this month county officials gave the recall measure a green light. Candidates have until 5 00 p. M. To turn in their applications complete with signatures. Efforts to recall judge persky began after he sentenced brock turner to six months in county jail for sexually assaulting a woman on the stanford campus. The recall Campaign Organizers say turners sentence was too lenient. New this morning new findings show some of own ma countys shortfalls on the night of the deadly north bay wildfire storm. According to the press cath the States Office of Emergency Services has released an independent review. It finds Sonoma County was not adequately prepared to alert residents about the fast moving fire. Emergency Staff Members were not up to speed on the most effective ways to notify people about the fire. The report cites a lack of coordination between local agencies. President trump says he will sit down with Students Affected by School Shootings today. Scott mcgrew, he calls it a limping session. Thats right. I have to just name the towns that the students are from, you know exactly what im talking about. Parkland, columbine, new town. The president will hear from students, parents and teachers as well from those schools and others affected by School Shootings. His press secretary says dont expect quick solutions. One of the things that the president wants to do is make sure that he sits down with a number of people from across all fronts. Unfortunately, when horrific tragedies like this happen everybody wants a quick and a simple answer, but there isnt one. Pictures this morning out of tallahassee, florida, thats the state capital. Some of these students arrived after an eight hour overnight bus ride to tallahassee. Theyre marching to the Capitol Building there to push the Florida Senate to ban assault rifles. Yesterday students watched as the Florida House decided not to consider that same bill. As you watch all of this unfold, particularly on social media, understand there is a lot of anger out there and there is a lot of fake news out there as well. You need to be on gourd. Here we see 15yearold rotc cadet peter wang laid to rest. Lots of far right accounts, even russian accounts, are saying some awful things. Claiming that the kids are actors or theyve been coached by antigun forces. Case in point this tweet which claims it has uncovered a conspiracy after it caught a florida student wearing an earpiece while he was interviewed on Live Television. He is he really is. Hes wearing an earpiece. Its entirely normal to wear an earpiece while appearing on Live Television, its how you hear what other people are saying. When the young man is interviewed he is in florida, the cnn anchor is in atlanta or new york. The crew gives him an earpiece so he can hear the questions. Earpieces are not conspiracies its just how Live Television works. We examine the president s tweets and executive orders and speeches every day on today in the bay. We have added facebook, a lot of you had asked for that. Contact me on twitter and also on facebook. 6 46. Take a look at this. Not just people watching the olympics, tlolook through that glass door, a moose watching the olympics through his window. His tweet said the olympics were attracting a diverse audience. The photo has been shared thousands of times. Where is rocky . I mean, you know, weve all been fluid to the tv watching the olympics. If you were following me and mike on instagram you saw us tweeting about skiing. Working it out. Youre fast. If you look closely i was going backwards. I have to check it out. Its a boom rang. Were starting out this morning with cold temperatures, told enough to snow in parts of the bay area this morning. Ive been tracking this weak weather system moving in this morning and looking at storm ranger, a lot of it has fallen apart. Youre seeing a lot of colors here, the red beam is the storm ranger our mobile Doppler Radar truck right now over pink which shows our wind farms over the delta and youre seeing green here, some spotty very light rain, mostly sprinkles, it just continues to fall apart. This should not have a major impact on your dachlt as you head out the door it may start to sprinkle and then it moves on. Its also very cold, our temperatures in the upper 30s in the south bay, gorgeous sunrise. 36 degrees and 35 in the north bay, 44 as you step out the door in San Francisco. The sevenday forecast is up at the bottom of the screen. We are going to be in the low to mid 50s today for the coast, upper 50s for the inland 0n ar up to 59 in concord and san jose 58 degrees. As you get dressed this morning you get a look out that window make sure youre wearing lots of layers. Also a nice warm coat. Now, as  the day goes along w will gradually start to warm up but i think at least for that morning drive or standing out there on the platform you need the gloves and the scarf as well. Saw a lot of people wearing scarves yesterday. As we go through the rest of the forecast we could be talking about rain in the bay area, not a whole lot today, in fact, our skies will be clearing out, by tomorrow another disturbance will be moving in and this could bring us a chance of some rain and even some sierra snow. Looking at some snow in our lower elevations in parts of the north bay and also on mt. Hamilton, we will see this very hit or miss, but at least we do have rain chances and some sierra snow chances in the forecast. I wanteds show you our sierra snow update. Statewide we are only at 20 of normal, around lake tahoe on24 . I will be tracking some snow over the next few days. Now, mike, you were saying overall this is a lighter commute. It is. With the number of problems ive been reporting that would be a question mark but overall look at the bay, a lighter flow. The south bay just kicking in. The trivalley not a problem and even over here we have had a couple issues across the san mateo bridge, the earlier crash cleared and now the disabled vehicle looks lick its cleared from the highrise. Yellow instead of red and creeping back toward the hayward side. Thats allowed to cover because of the volume lighter than what we often see. Also held up a little bit south 880 at winton, a new crash there, sounds like its in lane. I will track that. Coming off the Castro Valley y, pleasant, same thing hayward and union city. As we get toward the bay bridge, this number here the top we see improvement, it used to be up near a half hour, now its 23 minutes from highway 4 down to the bay bridge. The earlier crash cleared at pinole valley road, even the east shore freeway seeing some improvement. Look at the bay bridge toll plaza, we have this pattern which we often see on a friday, remember, this is only wednesday. Looking at the backup for the fast track lanes but the left approach is lighter, not even back to the parking lot. Back to you. Backing up. Thank you. Coming up next, a quick look at the top stories here on today in the bay including a major milestone in the south bay as we mark exactly one year since the start of the coyote creek flooding. Steps city leaders have taken in the wake of that disaster to make sure this does not happen again. First happening now the Dallas Mavericks hiring outside counsel to investigate allegations of Inappropriate Conduct by the former team president. A report by Sports Illustrated describes the hostile workplace for women where the former head made sexually suggestive remarks to several women. Plus getting bitcoin for free. 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Today marks exactly one year since that disaster. What a difference. The flooding started when the Anderson Reservoir filled up with rain water causing the nearby coyote kroo he can to overflow. Since then the Santa Clara County Water District has installed new barriers where the kite joe creek borders the rock springs neighborhood. The district says that would protect people from future flooding. Local officials will hold a News Conference later this morning to talk about what else is being done to prevent flooding. Mountain view this morning where neighbors are fighting the removal of heritage red wood trees. The developer wants to build a house on the land along sierra avenue. Today the city is hoping to meet with people who live in that area to talk about whats next. Mountain view has an ordinance protecting trees over a certain size requiring replacement when theyre removed. In this case two trees would have to be planted in place of each that are being removed. Now, this is a drove of about eight trees. Neighbors have posted signs and even started a petition and website trying to protect the trees. A live look from San Franciscos civic center this morning. At the Pioneer Monument. Today the San Francisco historic pReservation Commission will decide the fate of the controversial statue that is part of that monument. Critics say the early day statue is a symbol of oppression and theyre calling for it to be removed. They say the statue is offensive. It shows a native american seated on the ground with two men standing over here. Critics say its a symbol of oppression that represents california history from a euro American Point of view. The commission will vote on that issue at 12 30 this afternoon. Back now to the olympic coverage, weve told you about all the medals americans have been winning this morning. We also like to highlight some of the fans. Today in the bays Garvin Thomas found a man who has been enjoying the games with a special friend. Tell us more about it, garvin. Reporter laura and marcus, when i got here to the olympics i knew i would meet athletes and athletes families and people who come from around the world to watch the sport, even pin trader. Dave is an american who lives in australia and he brings a friend with him to the olympics, if you recognize it, yes, that is david hass hassle who have. He is had a fan of hasslehof and he travels the world, he goss to the olympics. This is his sixth Olympic Games bringing the figure with him. He loves to take pictures with it. I wish i could tell you a good reason why he does this. He says its fun, a great way to meet people, but some people just theres no figuring. Unique. Is he married . Reporter yeah. You know, marcus, that was one question i didnt get answered from him. But i have a guess. I have one as well. He said hes looking to meet some people so maybe he will meet a lucky someone. He deserves to meet david hasselhoff. Thanks a lot, garvin. Reporter wouldnt that be the best . That should happen. Thanks a lot. 6 58. Here is whats happening tonight on nbc bay area. The first run for mens Alpine Skiing live, also live tahoes david wise going for the gold in the halfpipe. Also the gold medal runs for womens bobsled and crosscountry. The today show has a full preview of tonights hockey game. Kate snow will be at the hockey venue in south korea talking with the team. It will be a fun time. Leslie jones, super fan, loves Hillary Knight and hillary said come to the game, leslie jones said, i cant, i have to fly back. That close. That close. All right. Were close to seeing some rain across the bay area or patchy . It has been pretty much drying up before it hits the ground. We will have a dry day, also chilly as you get ready to head out the door. San francisco 52 the high today and another chance of rain tomorrow if you missed out on this morning thats it for the day. More spotty showers moving in for tomorrow afternoon. Right now the san mateo bridge a tough drive. It was, a crash and disabled vehicle. Its recovering now, we will show you that 92 where the arrow is still tougher than 84, the dumbarton bridge thats a lighter flow of traffic, thats why were able to have recovery across that critical span. Also held up a little bit south 880 at winton that crash should be clearing from lanes as we speak. Look at that, guys, its actually very mild. A lot of green. We like to see a lot of green. We like to see a lot of green. Thats whats happening today in the bay. We are back at 7 25 with a live local news update. Thank you for making us a part of why you ever morning here on today in the bay. It is a wonderful wednesday as we take a live look at pyeongchang with the today show live from there. Good morning, breaking overnight, the reverend billy graham, one of the countrys most beloved and influential spiritual leaders has died. The iconic evangelist who counseled president s for seven decades, passing away at the age of 99. Well celebrate his remarkable life. Ce to face, President Trump set for an emotional meeting at the white house today with survivors of the Florida School shooting and other victims of gun violence. We have to do more to protect our children. But will congress do more . All that, plus banner day team usa wins medals in bobsled and speed skating overnight. As lindseyon