Connected hoses one after the other headed toward a homeless encampment nearby, and thats not all. Lori says she also found an extra long extension cord, and she believes the thieves may have been planning to steal her electricity, too. Lori says when she posted about this issue on next door, several of her neighbors said they had had similar problems. In fact, we just spoke with another neighbor just a few minutes ago who told us that he had recently had his garden hose stolen. So now lori says shes going to invest in a Security Camera system. She may also buy locks for her hoses, and she said even though the police did come out here to investigate, they told her without any suspects identified, there really wasnt much they could do, and they didnt even take a report. Reporting live in san jose, nbc bay area news. Thank you. Continuing coverage now on the tensions surrounding the recent drone strike. President trumps decision to kill a top iranian general in iraq this week fueled protests across the country today. Hundreds gathered outside city hall in san jose to voice opposition to a potential war with iran. The rally drew several like minded antiwar groups like code pink, raging grannies and veterans for peace as well as folks who simply felt they had to do something. This was just one of dozens of protests nationwide calling for the removal of u. S. Troops in the middle east. While the largest bay area protest happened in San Francisco where concern is growing with every new development. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith joins us live from San Francisco to explain. Reporter terry, this started with a large group of demonstrators on market street, and it kept getting bigger as they started marching. Of course many of them carrying antiwar signs worried about the consequences of that air strike and where this is all headed. We say no more reporter in San Francisco demonstrators stood shoulder to shoulder. To protest this outrageous unilateral act of aggression by the President Trump and the pentagon. Reporter Gloria Lariva is with the answer coalition. After the u. S. Drone strike that killed irans Top CommanderQassem Soleimani and the decision to send more troops to the middle east. We do not want a war. We dont want a war in the middle east. And were saying that the u. S. Troops and the contractors be removed immediately. I really worry about the destabilization in the middle east. Reporter they marched in city streets carrying signs like no war on iran, but President Trump has said that action was taken to stop a war, not to start a war, but questions were raised about how it all unfolded. We dont mourn his being taken out, but the question i think is not whether this was justified but whether it was a wise move to take. Soleimani signed his own death warrant by continuing to come after americans. Reporter in San Francisco hasim joined demonstrators. He sees it this way. Theres so much uncertainty, so much to be worried about. Reporter his words there are something we heard over and over today, and at least one of the organizers i spoke with said that she has seen a significant rise now in people wanting to get involved. Reporting live in San Francisco, Christie Smith, nbc bay area news. Thank you very much. Stay with nbc bay area for the very latest on this story. Well continue to have updates on air and online at nbcbayarea. Com. Coming up in 12 minutes were going to have more on the situation in iraq today. A live look at sfo for you where a plane had to make an Emergency Landing just a few hours ago. Were told a china airplane took off from the airport around 1 30 this afternoon. It was heading for taiwan. Soon after takeoff, the plane needed to turn around. Apparently a bird hit the planes engine. Youre looking at video that shows the plane dumping fuel. You can see it right there in the center of your screen if you look closely. It was a cargo plane so there werent any passengers on board. The maintenance crews will need to look over the plane before its cleared to fly again. A violent and very strange morning in san jose as a bizarre situation at a gas station ends with police opening fire. Police say they responded to reports of a man trying to light a fire in the nozzle of a gas pump. This at the arco station. The man charged at them with a metal bar. Thats when they shot him. The man is in the hospital in stable condition. One officer was hurt in that confrontation. A followup to a deadly hit and run in fremont that happened this past summer. Prosecutors have charged the driver in the crash that killed a 28yearold tech worker who was riding his bike to work. The police say this man right here, Rosendo Cruz Vargas hit the victim around 5 00 in the morning on august 28th, and then they say he drove off. Eventually investigators say he returned to the scene and called 911. Vargas is now facing charges of felony vehicular manslaughter and hit and run. He is now out, though, on bail. In palo alto, the victim of a robbery met with a Police Artist today to come up with this sketch of her attacker. The victim says she was walking on University Avenue last month when a man on a bike came up to her from behind and grabbed her purse. She tried to hang onto it and then chased the suspect while screaming for help, but she says he got away. The suspect is described as a man in his mid40s, 61, thin with very short, curly black hair. San jose is considering easing the housing crisis with forgiveness. City council is set to vote on tuesday on an Amnesty Program for people who illegally built granny units or converted their garages into living spaces. Those homeowners would be able to come forward, make the off the book spaces legal without fear of any fines or penalties. The move would be just the latest in several tactics aimed at creating more housing in san jose. The number of permits granted for in law units have grown tenfold in the last four years. Up next, months after crews extinguish the kincaid fire, theres a new problem, the unforeseen Environmental Impact and how much it could cost people in santa rosa. A cyber attack on east bay libraries, the way its impacting what you can and cannot do at libraries this weekend. For now no need for the umbrella around the bay area. Just high clouds passing by, wibut we have one more weather system that could bring some showers. The timing of that when we come the timing of that when we come right back. Trp obamacare is ae and total disaster. Let obamacare implode. Nurse these wild attacks on healthcare hurt the patients i care for. Ive been a nurse in new york for thirty years. I know the difference leadership can make because i saw what Mike Bloomberg did as mayor. Vo mayor bloomberg helped lower the number of uninsured by 40 , covering 700,000 more new yorkers, Life Expectancy increased. He helped expand Health Coverage to 200,000 more kids and upgraded pediatric care infant mortality rates dropped to record lows. And as mayor, Mike Bloomberg always championed Reproductive Health for women. So when you hear Mike Bloomberg on health care. Mrb this is america. We can certainly afford to make sure that everybody that needs to see a doctor can see a doctor, everybody that needs medicines to stay healthy can get those medicines. Nurse you should know, he did it as mayor, hell get it done as president. Mrb im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. A wanted manation takes police on a high speed chase. Police say Joseph Willis stole a car in alameda county. On thursday officers spotted him on highway 24 in lafayette. Thats when the chase started. Contra costa Sheriffs Department followed the chase to 880 in san leandro. Willis then drove to the bay fair b. A. R. T. Station where he dic ditched the car and took off on foot. A short time later willis surrendered and officers arrested him. Tragedy in petaluma after part of a silo broke off and fell on a man. It happened yesterday afternoon. Were told the man was using a cutting torch to remove a metal box from on top of the silo. Firefighters freed the man. Paramedics flew him to the hospital where he died. Were told he was contracted to work on that silo which was out of commission. A company had bought the property and working to demolish the silo. Two months after the kincade fire, the north bay is still dealing with problems. While the fire burned back in october, a wastewater disposal pipeline in santa rosa was disabled. That caused a major backup in the sebastopol area. Were told that backup was about 400 million gallons of wastewater. Now city leaders say the storage ponds will reach capacity next month. Once that happens, the city will have to release the water into the nearby laguna de santa rosa. If they do that, the customers will have to cover around 400,000 in environmental costs. Contra costa Public Libraries are still dealing with the aftermath of a ransomware attack. Hackers got into the library system. They shut it down. The librarys working with the d. A. To figure out how they did it. So far the affected servers have been taken offline to prevent the virus from spreading. The libraries are open as regularly scheduled, and you can borrow and return books, but the one thing you cannot do right now is print at the libraries. Were told theres no evidence the hackers got ahold of any personal information. The new year means new privacy rights for californians and were already seeing the changes on our phones, tablets and computer screens. The California Consumer privacy act which took effect on wednesday. Under the new law people will be able to stop the collection and sale of personal information skprand if you ask for it, Companies Must also give you any data theyve gathered on you in the last 45 days. Companies are allowed to offer financial incentives to customers in exchange for sharing your personal data. Some critics of the law say it doesnt go far enough. Weve all seen these really long privacy policies, and nobody reads them, so simply giving people notice really doesnt affect the behavior of the companies that collect the information. California Attorney Generals Office says strict enforcement of the law may take several months while they work out the finer points. Weve got a beautiful shot behind us, a nice look at a fairly clear night around the bay area. Considering we had a little bit of light rain this morning, midmorning, and now weve got partly cloudy skies and kind of a chilly night before one more chance of some showers this weekend. This next chance will be mainly north of marin county. Lets show you how things look outside right now. San jose nice evening, 56 degrees, a little breezy. Into San Francisco also in the 50s, as we look at those temperatures, youll notice 55 degrees San Francisco, wind at 13 miles per hour. With those clearing skies overnight in the north bay valleys, we may see a few 30s by tomorrow morning. I think tomorrow night into monday morning holds a better opportunity for seeing a little bit of patchy frost. Well be watching that as we get back to the workweek. As you look at the forecast tomorrow, upper 50s to near 60 in san jose, and yes, north bay showers, and we mean north bay mainly areas around santa rosa up towards ukiah and lake port and clear lake will have the best chance for seeing showers. Now that were in january, its also interesting to point out this typically is the wettest time of year. That sevenday forecast youre seeing at the bottom of the screen should have rain chances about every other day, and we are going to have some rain chances this week. Its just the rain totals themselves arent going to be all that big as we see some colder systems dropping in from the north. In the meantime, the radar is pretty quiet. The next chance of seeing showers arrives late morning to midday tomorrow. Most of this moisture is going to head north of the bay area, Mendocino County seeing some rain, and down into sonoma county. By midafternoon well see the clouds thicken up. Youll notice here in the futurecast by late morning we begin to see a few showers right there west of santa rosa, maybe on the marin county coastline early afternoon, and then by 3 00 skies clear once again, which we think will set the stage for an even chillier night for tomorrow night. Well likely have mid30s to wake up to. Monday looks dry, tuesday afternoon into wednesday comes our next best chance of more widespread rain. Those totals at least by january standards doesnt look like much more than a quarter inch of rain even in the coastal mountains. While you see rain chances in the sevenday forecast, rain totals dont look that big. Well have another chance of a few more showers on thursday. As we head towards the big weekend, the divisional playoff game at levi stadium, santa clara saturday at 1 35 in the afternoon, youll be watching the game here on nbc bay area. Thats our best chance of rain coming in for friday night into saturday morning. So it also looks a little windy too. Were going to see highs in the low 50s. The timing riing right now look morning showers followed up by cool and breezy conditions headed into the afternoon. Overall temperature wise, sevenday forecast looking like january. Youve got highs in the low to mid50s around San Francisco, and if you look closely at those rain totals over a week we should get an inch or so of rain. If when you add you will all these storms, most of the bay area is looking at less than a half inch of rain. We want the timing to work out so those showers dont arrive next saturday. Right now it looks like friday night into saturday morning. Were going to be watching that closely all week with that big game coming up. Early afternoon start, too, next saturday. We need rain, we want rain, but not next saturday. Not at 1 35. Exactly. Rob, thanks. Coming up, as wildfires continue to rage across australia, reinforcements from the United States are headed to help, but theyre not the only ones offering support. Well explain it to you next. We return to our continuing coverage of the aftermath of the u. S. Drone strike that killed irans top general. An iraqi Shiite Militia leader was also killed in that attack. Thousands of mourners poured into the streets of baghdad this morning. They were chanting death to america. The iraqi Prime Minister came out in solidarity while other iraqi leaders are urging calm. Nearby the u. S. Embassy is on the highest possible state of alert and readiness. The state department has warned americans in iraq to get out. Back at home, democratic president ial hopefuls are questioning the president s claim that killing soleimani has made the region safer. We are now in a very dangerous period, more dangerous because of this president. In fact, the instability, the lack of safety in that region is getting worse. In a tweet late this afternoon, President Trump warned iran that the u. S. Has 52 iranian sites targeted for military action if iran retaliates. Meantime, thousands of soldiers are being deployed to the middle east. Some 3,000 troops are leaving from fort bragg in North Carolina over the next few days. Theyll join about 650 troops already in the region. The pentagon says some of the soldiers will go to iraq, others to kuwait, and are expected to stay there for about two months. Wildfires continue to ravage australia tonight, flames have scorched more than 12 million acres and destroyed some 1,500 homes, 23 people have died. Now a team of u. S. Firefighters from california and other western states are headed to australia. A group of about to firefighters are set to leave from sfo a little bit before 11 00 tonight. Another 81 firefighters leave from l. A. On monday. Theyre all bound for New South Wales for a 30day assignment. Singer song writer pink is stepping up to help with fire relief efforts in australia. She says shes making a 500,000 donation to local firefighters. Pink wrote in the post, my heart goes out to our friends and family in oz. The singer also shared a list of places people can donate to help fight the fires. Shes not the only celebrity using social media to encourage fans to make donations. Selena gomez took to twitter saying shes donating and she would the same. A lot of 49ers fans are thinking weve got to win that game next weekend but is it possible we could luose one of our more popular coaches. Robin sala has transformed the 49ers defense into one of the best in the nfl. Now hes being considered for the top job on the sideline. Which nfl team is interviewing him for their head coaching vacan vacancy. Stick around, sports is next. Trump obamacare is a complete and total disaster. Let obamacare implode. Nurse these wild attacks on healthcare hurt the patients i care for. Ive been a nurse in new york for thirty years. I know the difference leadership can make because i saw what Mike Bloomberg did as mayor. Vo mayor bloomberg helped lower the number of uninsured by 40 , covering 700,000 more new yorkers, Life Expectancy increased. He helped expand Health Coverage to 200,000 more kids and upgraded pediatric care infant mortality rates dropped to record lows. And as mayor, Mike Bloomberg always championed Reproductive Health for women. So when you hear Mike Bloomberg on health care. Mrb this is america. We can certainly afford to make sure that everybody that needs to see a doctor that everybody that needs to stay healthy can get those medicines. Nurse you should know, he did it as mayor, hell get it done as president. Mrb im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. The 49ers have a bye this weekend, but robert saleh is working hard on showcasing game plan for the future. The 49ers defensive coordinator is interviewing for a head coaching job. Today saleh is meeting with the cleveland browns. Now, the browns say saleh will be their fourth candidate to interview for the job, and hes the first defensive coach in the wave of interviews. The 9ers head coach Kyle Shanahan was once the offensive coordinator. This season hes guided San Francisco to the number two ranked defense in the National Football league. Remember, they dominated the browns in a 313 victory back in october. The 49ers had a light week of practice after claiming the top seed in the nfc and earning a first round bye. This week was more about fine tuning their game and getting healthy. Remember, their bye was all the way back in week four. That was more than three months ago. Like the rest of us, this weekend the 9ers are watching the wild card football playoffs, but are they scouting or just being football fans . Its hard to not watch football and scout guys. Honestly i usually just watch tight ends though. I like watching how guys work. Im really looking forward to watching those tight ends go at it. Definitely scouting, scouting the competition. On both conferences, you know, afc, nfc because you dont know who youre going to face in the long run. You know, just as a fan a little bit but also more as competition. All right, the 49ers will host either the vikings, seahawks, or eagles. We dont know who theyll play just yet, but we do know the game will be on nbc bay area. Kickoff is on saturday the 11th at 1 35 p. M. Well have pregame and postgame shows live from the field on january 11th. Nfl playoffs josh allen in buffalo, allens from fire ball about two hours away from san jose taking on houston. Tied at 19 in overtime, check out deshaun watson. How does head get out of there . Somehow he flip it is to taiwan jones. He rumbles 34 yards inside the 10yard line, and that would set up the game winning 28yard field goal. Watson rallies the tex saans fo 2219 win over the buffalo bills. The sharks had a morning skate in columbus hitting the ice in a game that started at 10 00 in the morning pacific time. The sharks taking on columbus in the first of two games theyll p a week. Second period tied at 1. San jose with a 3 on 2. E vander cane with the go ahead goal, 21 sharks. Joe thornton with a nice pass. Sharks making it look easy, they skate by the blue jackets 32 the final. Mens college hoops, santa clara taking on san diego. The broncos try to stay unbeaten at home. Fans fired up. Second half broncos up big, trey wurtz, why not . His name is trey, hit a tray. He hit a dozen. Too strong off the glass, no problem. D. J. Mitchell is there for the putback. Santa clara beat san diego 8063. The war yoriors are in action against the pistons. Ill have highlights tonight at 11 00. Thats a look at sports more news after the break. [ electrical buzzing ] [ dramatic music ] ahhhh ahhhh elliott. You came back finally tonight, if youre going to lace up your skates, lace them up thousand. The tmobile at civic center San Francisco closes tomorrow. Its an outdoor ice rink in front of city hall. Its been open since late november. If you didnt get there this winter, tomorrow is your last chance. Its different than your usual ice rink. What they really like about our ice rink is weve got a little track that goes around, so its not just a typical skate in a circle around the rink. Theres a couple trails they can go around, go through the trees. It is the second year they got the chance to skate around in front of city hall. Organizers say they plan to keep coming back. Penguin sleds for the kids. You got twins, you know about that kind of stuff. They love ice skating. Good weather if youre going to be outdoors for that. Temperatures are cool, but you dont have to worry about any rain. Sonoma county might see a few showers tomorrow. Well watch that during the day. Lets take a quick look at next friday night and saturdays forecast for anthony here. We got a little bit of rain early on saturday morning, but notice those numbers dont move much after the game starts at 1 30. I think thats good news. It looks like Early Morning showers, not a lot of rain, but cool and breezy. Pretty typical, actually, for january weather out at levi stadium. Thanks very much, and thanks for joining us. Were back tonight at 11 00. Have a great night. Well see you then. Mail fshe said they were holding a rally in t one where people would be doing kind things for each other. Sounded like a good story for our bay area proud series, so i showed up to cover it. It wasnt long after it started i realized i had stumbled across something pretty powerful. Ive been back every year since to cover the Branham High School winter wishes rally. The way the students, teachers, staff, the entire community here embraces the idea of being kind to each other is something worth sharing. Anwi shamisrha ill be checking in with each group, ill go over some stuff with you guys from last years debrief, and just how to move forward from now. So, well have like goals for you guys, and then just like a timeline of what you guys want to do. So, just be prepared for that. Theres a deadline on there, but just we want to do everything before the deadline so that were not behind on anything