Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20180222

Reporter we just completed the busiest day. Ten medal events including three in which Northern California athletes took home hardware. Well tell you everything you need to know ahead. First back to you. Sounds good. And were sending it right over to kari because spotty showers early this morning. Very early. A lot of that has cleared out. Well see another round of rain moving in. Its still well to the north of us. I wanted to show you storl ranger and what were tracking. We do have some rain and some snow well to the north of the north bay. As we go throughout the rest of the day into late morning well start to see some showers popping up and very hit or miss. We get under one of those downpour that is will produce brief heavy rain and the potential of small hail. Ill be monitoring that as we go into the afternoon. More on that in just a few minutes. Mike, a new crash in the south bay. Slowing because of a crash took a while to clear that and the debris. We still see slowing in the area because coming up this time shy of the first crash we have another crash which is just cleared from lanes in the last few minutes so slowing here, the airport for San Jose International airport thats where the slowing starts again. Over here slowing through the trivalley. Hayward as well, the nimitz and the san mateo bridge. A slower drive, about a half hour right now. Back to you. Thank you very much, mike. We are following some breaking news this morning out of the east bay. Emergency crews at the scene of a fire at a Shopping Center in dublin. Today in the bays bob redell arrived at the scene. This could be moving close to homes. What have you been able to find out . Reporter well, good morning to you, marcus and laura. The fire is out. Youre looking at the back side of custom fireplace pat yio in dublin. Next door to the rei. This is what was on fire. You see how high, at least a story high. And these caught fire within the past hour. The Fire Department was able to put them out. Perhaps trying to find out what the cause is. Right now they dont know what causes fire if it was electrical, someone out here who started it intentionally or for some other cause. The battalion chief tells us it took about 15 minutes to put the fire out and another 15 minutes to have full knockdown. Youll notice that the back side of the business is open. The only thing that happened on the inside was smoke. No flame, which is a good thing. The Fire Department had to break into the retail part of the storm so they could make sure there was no extension. The fire is out. The fireplace store is minimal and there are no injuries. You can see there was quite a response here when you have this much wood out here there is a lot of concern it spreads. The Fire Department was able to do their job and that wall is also probably fairly fire retardant. Looks like the city of dublin as well. Reporting live, bob redell, today in the bay. Good to see the quick response. 6 04. Lawmakers in washington and florida facing what seems more and more like a Pivotal Moment for the future of gun control. Angry students fed up with the lack of regulations are leading the cause for change. Student protests in florida and washington yesterday set the tone for emotional meetings tied to last weeks High School Student rampage n. Florida a town hall meeting last night. Angry students confronted marco rubio who accepts money from the nra. Rubio says he would consider raising the minimum age to purchase rifles to 21. I absolutely believe in this country if you are 18 years of age you should not be able to buy a rifle. Meanwhile at the white house President Trump met with shooting survivors. During his campaign the president vowed to oppose gun control. He now agrees something needs to be done. Lets never let this happen again. Please, please. Were going to get it done. Its not going to be talk like in the past. The president is considering numerous suggestions even including a plan to arm teachers. Other ideas include stronger background checks and banning bump stocks. Sunnyvale police say a sex offender is behind bars once again after exposing himself to young children. He apparently watched them at gymnastics practice. Police credit aware parents for helping catch the 26yearold in the act at the Community Center on tuesday night. They immediately called 911. He has prior arrests for similar acts within Santa Clara County. He was placed on probation and is required to register as a sex offender. A historic but controversial statue has been given the boot. They have voted to remove the statue from the civic center. That name is early days. It shows a native american seated on the ground there with a spanish cowboy and a missionary standing over him. Critics say that statue represents oppression of native americans. She dekes and scores she is stopped. The United States in pyeongchang. Isnt that great to see . People are calling team usas late night hockey win another miracle on the ice. The women beat canada in a dramatic shootout. They got their medals overnight including peninsula native hilary knight. Its crazy and i didnt think we were ever going to lose. To be in this position now is surreal but a dream come true. My hope all of us can continue to inspire the next generation. Hilary is one of many to win medals in the past few hours alone. Garvin thomas, nothing more exciting than watching your country clinch a gold medal. You were able to witness that firsthand. Reporter we were standing at the bottom of the half pipe as david wise won a gold medal. Now even though david was the defending Gold Medalist in ski half pipe what he did today was no easy feat. Wise fell on his first two runs during the finals. He later told us because his bindings malfunctioned. He had his techs tighten them as far as they would go so they couldnt fall off. If he fell on his third run he risked serious injury. If he didnt it could mean a medal. He didnt fall and the medal was gold. An emotional moment for wise and his father watching. I wanted to be in the olympi olympics. To help him and watch him has been a fulfillment of dreams. Reporter another Northern California athlete who won a medal, South Lake Tahoe Jamie Anderson won silver. To add to the gold, she had already won earlier in these games in snowboard slope style. The womens figure skate and, of course, we in the bay area have a rooting interest in this one. Chen sits in tenth place and will take to the ice along with teammates bradie tannell. A clean skate for chen will certainly have her leaving the olympics on an upbeat note. Probably looking ahead to the next olympic games. Most definitely theres a lot of talent in that girl and a lot of our olympic athletes. And garvin just reported on our local athletes. You can hear from david wise. Jamie anderson is stopping by for a brandnew interview. A lot to stick around for. Norway leads with 35, germany and canada rounding out the top three. Team usa in fourth place this morning with 21 medals. Looking good, kari. Grab the umbrella. Looking at the cloudy start, weve had light rain moving through in santa teresa a mostly clear start. Well start to see a chance of rain moving in by early afternoon. Temperatures in the mid50s. That morning drive through the peninsula will start out also mostly dry but some spotty showers popping up as we go through the day. Details on that coming up in a few minutes. Mike, youre saying the south bay is recovering from those crashes. There are a couple of crashes for highway 101. The bay shore freeway. Those cleared and now speeds recovering a bit and only highway 101 itself up past montague expressway. Thats about it. The Silicon Valley right now. Things should calm down and start to build once again there. Right now slowing through berkeley to the backup. About a half hour theres some slowing in hercules. San mateo bridge, this is westbound with the taillights. Over to foster city. Thanks so much, mike. Coming up keeping the bay area beautiful. A new Program Designed to clean up our coast, also creating jobs. And twitter cracking down on people who are frankly attacking those students in florida when today in the bay continues. I am extremely proud of jackie, gaby and stephanie. We worked with pg e to save energy because we wanted to help the school. They would put these signs on the door to let the teacher know you didnt cut off the light. The teachers, they would call us the energy patrol. So they would be like, here they come, turn off your lights those three young ladies were teaching the whole school about energy efficiency. We actually saved 50,000. And thats just one school, two semesters, three girls. Together, were building a better california. Right now at 6 14. We are tracking a little bit of some light snow for the sierra while the bay area gets a clean sweep on storm ranger this morning but you do not want to walk out the door without the umbrella. Although were seeing the clouds now we will have a chance of rain in campbell starting out around noon and continuing off and on throughout the day. More on this and also a look at the sierra and squaw valley report coming up in about five minutes. And the travel time shows the trivalley is building for the volume of traffic not too bad. Traffic across the bridge is the worst. The bay bridge right now just getting. And a very happy thursday to you. Now im guessing you didnt read the fed minutes but i did and a lot of investors. What the fed had to say is pushing the stock markets lower. Heres the deal. The fed says the economy is very strong and will likely hike interest rates. This may surprise you that news and a Strong Economy will push stocks lower but its important to understand the economy and the stock market are not the same thing. Twitter is back in the news cracking down on fake accounts and rushing to give students from parkland, florida, the blue verified check marks. Conservatives have accused hog of being an actor not a student from Stoneman Douglas high school. He is a student. And twitter wants to make sure that you know that. Its cheaper than just regular where you ride with other passengers. With express pool you have to walk to a pickup spot so you start here, youll walk to pick up your ride and they take you and then you have to get dropped off not at your destination. This whole thing saves you money. Some uber drivers say theyre concerned the dropoff spots can be on very busy roads. Thinking of cars there could be driverless selfdriving cars on california roads as soon as april. Were talking nobody in the car. The San Francisco Business Times reports the department of Motor Vehicles will decide monday whether to change the rules and allow cars on the road all by themselves. This is video of engineers that i shot myself driving. You can see theres still a driver behind the wheel ready to take over. Were talking about with the new rules no driver whatsoever as soon as april. Pretty amazing. What else is amazing, happening right now spacex launching the falc falcon ix rocket. Spacex launching that falconix. The mission had been delayed. Were telling you about it three times when the ceo elon musk called off that launch because of high winds there. The rocket poised to carry nearly three ton earth imaging satellites for a madridbased operator. And highspeed internet. Thats right, we have nets. Well watch for that. Very, very cool. Just made the launch. It is 6 18 right now. Well continue to watch whats happening there. In the meantime Half Moon Bay leaders think they have a winwin solution to the growing problem of litter left on beaches. According to the san mateo daily journal, a Coastal Cleanup Pilot Program in april. The Program Includes a partnership with local homeless nonprofit groups. Workers will empty trash cans to remove graffiti and clean up horse manure whenever necessary. Definitely not a day to get out there and have fun. Today is not the best beach day. Windy and cold at times. Some rain moving through. Make sure youre prepared for all of that before you head out the door not only for the coast but all of the bay area. I wanted to show your hour by hour outlook as we get a look at what we could start to see as we head throughout the day. Seeing some of the spotty showers rolling through. The sevenday forecast is up at the bottom of the screen and shows we will have some Cool Temperatures over the next couple of days. Now we are going to also be tracking some of that rain moving through not only here but some snow showers happening now in the sierra and if youre going to the sierra over the next couple of days there will be some new snow falling for today, the High Temperature only 20 degrees. And we still have about 58 inches of snow at the base but there could be up to a foot of snow this weekend between today as well as saturday and sunday. Could be some more rounds of snow moving in so really good news. We start out with temperatures in the upper 30s in the morning and the north bay. San jose 41 degrees. We are back to the hour by hour outlook because i wanted to show you the timing of when the rain will start to move in, santa rosa, some brief heavy downpours and some hit or miss showers for much of the bay area today but not everyone will see the rain. You do want to make sure you are prepared for that and then another round of rain moving in early next week. This one looks light but more significant and a stronger storm system will be lining up out there in the pacific on wednesday and moving into the bay area next week so it does look good in terms of rain in our forecast, a dry weekend ahead. Cool and windy, highs only reaching the 50s to low 60s inland. Mike, you were saying were back in a smoother commute. Things are busy early on, Early Morning when we had the rain showers for the south bay, they have all calmed down. No may injure problems for the freeways now. A smooth drive pushing across the san mateo bridge, the 92. The dumbarton bridge picks up a little slowing to the toll plaza. There you go pushing over to the peninsula. Things are light for 101 and 280. For the east bay, a smooth drive. Highway 4 slow through concord. 680 down to the dublin interchange, no problems there and were looking at the east shore freeway. The bay bridge itself a live look shows you the backup formed early this morning and hit hard and then held steady off the berkeley curve. Things are moving smoothly. Back to you. Thank you very much, mike. Up next on today in the bay, a new tool in the fight against the flu. Should i get a second flu shot . In certain cases you might. The reason some patients might want to go back to their doctor and get vaccinated for a second time this flu season. She is well within a stores return policy but shes refused at the Customer Service desk. We want to know why. Im consumer investigator chris chmura, nbc bay area responds. A brutal flu season. At 6 24 new for you this morning a new strategy to fight the brutal flu season. Doctors are now giving a second flu shot to some patients. Children between the ages of 6 months and 8 years old who are vaccinated for the first time this season should get a second flu shot. The seam goes for anyone over the age of 65. Will a second flu shot hurt me in any way . It wouldnt be a bad idea and is unlikely to cause any harm. If its a case where somebody is in a situation where they got an early season vaccination and we had a long flu season it might be a good idea for those patients to get a second flu immunization. For the most part doctors say healthy adults should be fine. Here in california so far this year there have been 185 deaths this flu season. 37 of those right here in the bay area. We expect to get another update from the California Department of Public Health tomorrow. Nbc bay area responds to a san jose mom who says the big retailer wouldnt honor its return policy. Our team stepped in and found a bit of a glitch. Good morning. Julie woodall bought two pairs of shoes in the macys finish line store for her son. Eight months later he still hadnt worn one pair so julie tried to return them and get her 87 back. Eight months is a long time to get a refund. She says macys website said she had a full year. The store said, no, she only had 45 days to do that. Julie escalated her complaint unsuccessfully. I did a simple internet search and found two macys pages. One said it accepts the finish line returns for one year. The other said 45 days. Macys gave julie her refund and said that they have apologized for the inconvenience. But what about those conflicting return policies. They say the one year was archived. The store thanked us and then removed that page from its website. By state law youre only entitled to a sevenday window to bring stuff back to the store. Most stores are more generous. Still, if youre not head over heels in love with whatever it is youre buying its best to check that return policy before you check out. Please call us if you have a complaint. And at 6 27 coming up well have team news. Two people dead after a crash in the east bay. Plus a low speed chase in the bay area. Tipping them off that something was wrong with the driver and how it all came to an end. The phone call tipping them off something was wrong with the driver. Despite the president withdrawing his invitation for the team to visit the white house. 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. The Energy Conscious whopeople among usle . Say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. A little thing here. A little thing there. Starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. Who are all these caretakers, advocates too . Turns out, its californians its me and its you. Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. Join Energy Upgrade california and do your thing. Right now at 6 30 were tracking a chance for rain but not until probably 10 00 this morning. Kari has been watching our radar. I think its cleared up. We did get a little bit of precipitation this morning in the east and the south bay. Isnt that a lovely sight. A nice start to your day. Good morning, im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. We will see the weather change throughout the morning and throughout the day. We are using storm rangetory track all of this as our next disturbance starts to move in. That will dip in later on this morning. Its 42 in livermore. You can see those clouds over the south bay right now. Its snowing on mt. Hamilton and we will get some clearing for the next few hours. It will be chilly only in the upper 40s to low 50s through noon and then the rain rolls into the south bay. Ill be tracking that and what to expect as that rain moves in and, mike, youre looking for a second wave of the commute. The first wave of reports came in as the rain was falling Early Morning and we have that scattered throughout the south bay and fremont and some snow in mt. Hamilton. Not a commute issue. We see the slowing here for pleasanton and hayward, union city. Theres a new incident around the toll plaza. Doublecheck once they give us more information. To the bay bridge and then 580 will give you a live look at the Richmond San Rafael bridge. We have that Traffic Building over into the north bay. Laura, over to you. Breaking news out of the east bay where two people were killed after a horrible crash in Contra Costa County just outside a home just off port chicago highway. And thats where we find today in the bays pete suratos live this morning with some of the reaction from the people whose home i guess the car almost barreled into them. That had to be quite a surprise for them. Reporter good morning to you, laura, a close call when you have the car crash ending up on the front law of this home. I want to show you the area you could see the tree is knocked down as a result of that crash earlier this morning. Well show you the video of the damage involving those two cars. Chp says it happened just before 1 00 a. M. You see the camaro collided in a damage pickup truck. Now as you saw this was literally right on the front lawn of the home. We did get a chance to speak to that homeowner who told us about the impact he heard this morning. It sounded like a bomb went off, to be honest. It was one of the loudest, shook the whole husband and i thought it was almost a dream until i heard a man screaming. When i heard the man screaming, i ran over to the window, opened up my window and there were two cars there, one completely smashed. It looked like the camaro just wiped him out. Reporter quite a crash. You can see the damage between the two cars and that video, that scene all cleared up when we showed up. Now were being told by chp there were four people altogether that were affected by this. Two people dead as a result. Two people getting treatment for their injuries. Exactly what caused those two cars to crash into this area is still under investigation. Live at bay point, pete suratos for today in the bay. Thank you, pete. A suspected dui driver is in custody, this after a lengthy but low speed chase in the south bay overnight. Today in the bays kris sanchez is live near 680 and hofstetter. Kris, it was other drims who helped chp catch the suspect. Reporter perhaps youve been on the freeway at some point and youve seen a driver looking rather erratic. Well, thats what happened this morning or last night. Several drivers saw the woman going from lane to lane erratically, called 911 saying we think we see a drunk driver. This is how what happened next. Several drivers called 911 about that driver. Drivers from redwood city tracked the driver of the honda to southbound 101 and palo alto. Officers tried to stop the woman behind the wheel, she took off. Officers continued to follow her from southbound 101. Highway 85 to i had been 280 before she made it on northbound 680 where officers had that spike strip waiting for her. The car stopped but chp tells us the woman still would not get out of the car. Officers had to break the windows in order to get her out and put her into cuffs. Chp tells us once they had the woman in custody they said they saw signs of impairment so that woman will be booked into the Santa Clara County jail. At this point on charges likely to be driving under the influence. In san jose, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Kris, thank you for the update. New for you that morning the warriors appear to be ready to put down their own stamp on a longtime sports tradition that has been at the white house. President trump last fall disinvited the warriors after several players said that they would not visit the white house. Next tuesday the ws make their one and only trip to washington and according to the chronicle the team has come up with another plan involving the tour and also includes d. C. Area hospitals well, d. C. Area children. This will not involve politics. A story youll only see on today in the bay this morning, our camera crews got an exclusive sneak peek at a new hospital under construction that will provide more options for people in the area. Better Health Campus will replace the current hospital serving people in the Mission District known as the st. Luke campus. The new facility on valencia will have 120 private rooms as well as dozens of acute care rooms. An emergency room four times the size of the current one at st. Lukes. We spoke with the director of nursing who said the hospital will be ready to address the needs of a growing community. We want to fill this hospital up. As site administrator my goal is to open in august and be flooded with new patients and excited neighbors. The goal is to have the hospital up and running by august. A lot of folks already have been running around the bay. The commute is looking good right now. Early rain eased off to dry out roads but still some snow in mt. Hamilton. Dont go up there if its snowing because its tough to get traction. A little more slowing for westbound 237 coming up to 101 where there is a report of a crash. It does involve a car carrier. I dont know if that was full or empty. Whatever the case it will be a distraction and will add to the build. Mt. View started right now. Crews show more slowing, 101 around capital expressway, again around 680 and focusing where there may be another crash, the third for the morning in the area. No details but sounds like its moving off to the shoulder quickly and the bay bridge, the travel times and looking at 36 minutes now from highway 4 to the backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. No need to wait for the weekend. Always be prepared. But you do have to wait for the weekend. Today is thursday but were always excited about whats ahead as we go into the next couple of days especially when it looks fairly nice. Its still going to be cool during the Morning Hours and a lot of sunshine will make it into close to 60 degrees for the inland areas and for the bay. Sunday more clouds moving in and well see those highs remain about the same. Very chilly morning ahead. Your weekend is looking dry. If you are making plans to get out there, how about the Lunar New Year celebration on saturday. It will be cool to start. Make sure youre wearing lots of layers. We only make it up to 53 degrees there during the event. And this weekend Treasure Island flea market will be featuring mardi gras themed stuff with food and some of the sales and also the music. It will be a nice and chilly event to check out. It will only be in the upper 40s throughout the morning and those gusty winds will make it feel a lot cooler. If youre going to be hitting the road, maybe going to lake sh shasta, upper 40s throughout much of the weekend on saturday and sunday and for Russian River valley up to 58 degrees with sunshine on sunday and those morning temperatures may still be freezing into the next several days. And for your travel plans heading to the beach, may not be the best weekend but looking at santa cruz, up to 58 degrees, still nice to soak up some sunshine and hear the waves crashing on the beach. You may get a personalized forecast. Im at kari hall weather on twitter, facebook and on instagram. Ill have a look at todays temperature trend coming up in three minutes. Well look forward to it. Thanks, kari. 6 40 on today in the bay. A tiny solution to a massive problem. The big reason some people arent willing to ease our housing crisis. President trump with very mixed messages this morning. And taking a look at wall street as you can see right now. The dow is up 215 points sitting there and just above 25,000. The dow actually about 150 points this morning. The time now is 6 40. Even if no one in your home smokes, Secondhand Smoke can be closer than you think. Secondhand smoke from a neighbors apartment can enter your home through air vents, through light fixtures and even through cracks in the walls and the floors. Secondhand smoke is toxic. Especially to children. Protect your family. Visit tobaccofreeca. Com. Right now its 6 43. We have some breezy winds and a chilly start. Lets take a live look outside in fremont, and before you head out the door dont forget the umbrella even though its dry now well start to see rain moving back in as we head through noon. Scattered showers possible but it wont be raining all day. The chance of rain where you live and a new update on the Drought Monitor. Its coming up in five minutes. And highway 37 at the bottom of the screen. A little build out of vallejo. We just saw it go from 9 to 10 and getting there may be an issue coming up. This is new video of a ferry exploding near a mexican resort. Take a look at the tourists there making their way on to that ferry. About two dozen people were injured but remarkably all are expected to survive. No word yet on what caused that explosion. Happening today san jose residents have a first chance to chime in on a plan to use tiny homes to house the homeless. City leaders are considering three locations as possible sites where tiny homes could be used. The final decision on the plan may be made by this summer. Feedback sessions are scheduled. The first meeting is taking place tonight at 6 00 at the Community Center. Thats in kelly park just off center road. The president said this morning a gunfree throw school is a magnet. Arming teachers and coaches. Good morning to you. But he qualifies that. He says he wants teachers and coaches with military experience or special training to carry the weapons. The president estimates that would be about 20 of all of our nations teachers. Heres the tweet. Its a big one. Im not going to read the entire thing to you. He does say teachers would be able to fire back if a savage sicko came to school with bad intentions and says Arming Teachers is cheaper than hiring guards. Now mr. Trump bounces back and forth about how he feels about teachers with guns. Earlier just this morning he tweeted i never said give teachers guns. That was at 4 20 this morning. He blamed fake news for saying he did. That comes in at 4 20 and then the one i just read you in which he calls for teachers to be armed. During the president ial campaign he said he was against Arming Teachers. 2016 during the campaign, crooked hillary said that i want guns brought into the classroom. Thats wrong. President trump will meet again with teachers affected by school shoot egs today. Yesterday he met with students and parents in what he called a listening session asking how he could help. The annual gathering of conservatives called cpac is under way. Steve bannon and priebus were there last year. As we debate the future of guns here in america it has gotten ugly on social media. This morning i want to bring up one particular claim on the internet that President Trump cleared the way for some mentally ill people, that is trou, President Trump did that. The facts are very complicated. I dont have time to go through them right now but there is a video where many peep, even liberals, think mr. Trump made the right decision. Ill walk you through it in that video. Ive provided a link both on twitter and on facebook as well. All right, scott, thank you so much for that. At 6 47 right now, the annual watermark conference for women is about to get under way starting tomorrow in san jose. Laura, you have a big part in it. Once again i get to partake in it. Thousands are expected to attend including the chief innovation officer serving as a panelist on using technology to improve lives. I got to sit down with her earlier this week to talk about why its important for women to ger togeth gather together and help each other and future leaders as well. I think its important for young girls to feel they can do anything, that they can be anything like everyone else. Thats something that is about an attitude that you face early. I was lucky enough to have a mother who was a working mom and she pulled herself up by her boot straps, came from a working class family and became a doctor in a very unlikely situation. My mother inspired me and i hope i can inspire other young girls. The watermark Event Features actors Reese Witherspoon and human rights lawyer amall clooney. Laura garcia and Jessica Aguirre will emcee the events. Its a phenomenal day. In the newsroom all the time. Sorry about that. All right, thats a cooley vent and im excited for you. We are also excited at the chance well have some rain moving into the bay area. Though storm ranger right now is the beam coming out of san jose is our mobile Doppler Radar all clear this morning but still some activity to the north of us. Even some snow right now happening on mt. Hamilton with our temperatures in the south bay. 41 degrees in the upper 30s for the north bay, a cold start to the morning with our temperatures reaching into the low 50s. It will be just a little bit cooler than it was yesterday. Some mid50s inland and the winds will be kicking up as well. If youre getting dressed this morning, you see the clouds, you do want to make sure youre wearing a coat and have the umbrella handy because we will start to see some spotty showers moving into today. It will be very chilly even throughout the afternoon. Getting dressed this morning, i want to show you whats happening with our hour by hour outlook. Well see rain moving into santa rosa and some spotty showers rolling through parts of the bay area, a few may contain thunderstorms and small hail going throughout the forecast well see more rounds of rain which is great news because i wanted to show you the update on the Drought Monitor this morning and we have more of Southern California included in a severe drought. All of these areas in orange. We also are now most of the bay area abnormally dry which is an upgrade from what we had last week. We are now seeing a lot of yellow here indicating we are approaching at least a moderate drought and well continue to talk about that. I also have more on that on facebook. We are going to have good news, though, as we head through next week. There is more rain on the way. Mike, youre still watching that crash that happened in fremont. Thats right, kari. Over by the dumbarton bridge, on maps, we have a pretty typical pattern which is kicking in now. Were seeing volume starts to build, more slowing here to the dumbarton bridge west 84 showing more recovery. Thats good news heading west across 84 and over to the peninsula, the flow of traffic. Down to the south bay but the build for 101 and 280 right there near highway 17. Were going to move over to the travel times on the rails and no delays for b. A. R. T. And muni. Muni in chinatown closed because of all the chinatown activity and one look at the travel times, about 39 minutes. Almost 40 minutes from highway 4 to the backup at the bay bridge. Thank you, mike. Coming up next, a quick look at the top stories on today in the bay including breaking news from overnight. At least two people are dead after an Early Morning crash in the east bay. That close call for a family whose home was nearly hit during the accident. But first happening now, an l. A. County deputy finds himself on the wrong side of the law accused of sexually assaulting six female inmates. The victims say it happened while they were in custody. Plus a bad flight. Southwest investigating after an emotional support dog allegedly bit a dog. It happened on a flight from phoenix to portland overnight. The dogs teeth scraped the childs forehead as the child approached causing minor injury. [vo]it doesnt matter if youre from a small town. [mom] its time to go watch the race, ok . [vo]a big town. [broadcaster] welcome back to the Winter Olympics. [vo]a nowhere town. [tv broadcaster] this is Jessie Diggins on the right [loud cheering] [vo]we all call the same place home. I love you, afton [vo]comcast is proud to bring the olympic winter games 2018 home to afton and every other hometown in america. A live look in dublin welcome back. Here are the top stories were covering. A loov loive look in dublin. Police are on the scene of a strip mall happening in the back portion of a fireplace and barbecue store near 580 680 interchange. Were following breaking news out of Contra Costa County. A live point where they hit a home early this morning. Happened just before 1 00. The homeowner whose house was nearly hit because it sounded like a bomb went out. Four people were involved in the crash, two were killed. Two others were hospitalized. And it appears the latest spacex launch is another success. The falcon rocket took off on Central Coast just about 30 minutes ago. We showed that you live here on today in the bay. That rocket is carrying an earth imaging satellite. You could see the falcon 9 light up in the sky in the bay area. We managed to look up and catch it while covering the fire in dublin. Were warriors. This is what we do. That was tahoes david wise after his second straight olympic gold medal in the half pipe. Gavin, you snapped some pretty Cool Pictures of how he celebrated. Reporter an area near the finish line called the mix zone where athletes immediately after their competition come to talk to member of the media. Now once theyre done with us, they generally head and meet with their families. Our photographer was with david wise today right after he won his gold medal, saw hem meet his family, his father who once again won 50 years ago, had Olympic Dreams himself. Most importantly for david, his two children were there, one didnt go to sochi when david won his first and malachi wasnt even born. It is very special for david to have his wife and two kids here to celebrate with them. That was on the good side. Weve seen some tears during the olympics. I nomeknow Maddie Bowman in the womens ski half pipe left her interview heading straight to her mom and broke down in tears. This is the olympics. The incredible highs and the incredible lows and so often the families, the athletes want to find their families and either celebrate or commiserate with them. Exactly. All the trips theyve take tone practice back and forth looking for their family in the stands never ends. Thanks a lot, garvin. The today show will feature several local athletes. David wise is one of them. Jamie anderson stops by for a brandnew interview. The story everyone is talking about. Hillary knit aary knight and th hockey team will be on the show. And tonight in prime time tune in to see who wins the ladies figure skating competition. Fremonts karen chen currently in tenth place. Coverage of chen and the other figure skaters starts at 5 00 right here on nbc bay area. Tonight well show the downhill and the womens snowboarding big air final. Plus the gold medal finals for short track. A last look at the weather. And i know a lot of people are about to get the kids up and out the door or heading to work and give you some time to get settled. A Facebook Chat at 9 00 a. M. Talking about the drought status update, rain and more. Thats at kari hall weather on facebook. Mike, whats going on in the south bay . A few crashes. Theyre all out of the roadway. Theres just the general pattern for the build. 101 more slowing up near the top of the screen. There is activity on the shoulder there as well as by the airport. Nothing major, though. Its a smooth drive. Thats whats happening today in the bay. Were back at 7 25 with a live local news update. And a live look at pyeongchang as we continue to follow the Winter Olympics live. Up next the today show live from pyeongchang. Thank you for making your morning with us. Good morning. Breaking overnight, heartstopper. She stopped the United States wins gold in pyeongchang in a thrilling overtime shootout, the u. S. Womens hockey team beats longtime rival canada, their first gold in two decades, setting off a huge celebration on the ice. And theyre bringing those gold medals live to our plaza this morning. Fix it students, teachers, and parents demand action from lawmakers in the wake of the Florida School shooting. Your comments this week and those of our president have been pathetically weak. After hearing emotional pleas from survivors i dont understand why i can still go in a store and buy a