This was the most important night of the president ial race so far. A good sampling of policy, vision, and bad blood. And the timing critical with the california primary happening in less than two weeks. So who was tonights big winner . A lot of buzz about Elizabeth Warren. Nbc bay areas ian cull joins us now with the pivotal moments. And there were a lot of them, ian. Reporter there certainly were, raj. Health care, the economy, Climate Change all big issues, but most of it seemed to be the candidates attacking each others experience and character as were now less than two weeks away from super tuesday where california will join 13 other states in voting for one of these candidates. Tonights debate more like fight night in vegas. Senator Elizabeth Warren starting off. A billionaire who calls women fat broads and horsefaced lesbians. And no, im not talking about donald trump. Im talking about mayor bloomberg. Democrats reporter pressing Mike Bloomberg to address his history of treatment of women and his nondisclosure agreement. We have a very few nondisclosure agreements how many let me finish. How many is this . None of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didnt like a joke i told. And let me reporter candidates then sparring over electability. Nbc did a poll yesterday. Says joe biden is best equipped to beat donald trump. Thats what your poll says. I know how to take on an arrogant con man like donald trump that comes from new york. Im actually so proud of the work ive done on immigration reform. And you know what . You have not been in the arena doing that work. Youve memorized a bunch of talking points. Im used to senators telling mayors that senators are more important than mayors. But this is the arena too. You dont have to be in washington to matter. Reporter and speaking nearly 30 minutes on health care. Im the only one on this stage that actually got anything done on health care. When you give people money because they dont pay any premiums out of pocket, copayments or deductible i think well be much better off. Sanders and bloomberg even facing off over wealth. The bestknown socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What did i miss here . Well, you missed that i work in washington thats the first problem. Live in burlington. House two. Thats good. And like thousands of other vermonters i do have a summer camp. Forgive me for that. Where is your home . Which tax haven new york city, thank you very much. And i pay all my taxes. Reporter the debate more pointed and intense than any of the previous eight as nevada votes this saturday, california on march 3rd. Ian cull, nbc bay area news. Among the Big Questions now, can warren and sanders capitalize and can bloomberg recover. Lets bring in nbc bay areas terry mcsweeney, who joins us in San Francisco. Terry. Reporter yeah, raj, a lot of people saying Elizabeth Warren did very well tonight. But we checked out a couple of watch parties. One Michael Bloomberg over in walnut creek and over here in San Francisco. Bernie sanders. Two very different candidates with wildly different supporters. Yeah reporter the sanders watch party overflowed the bindery bookstore on haitd streght stre. The crowd passionate, showing no mercy on those who attacked their man. Many sanders supporters more like devotees. I would literally fly across the country and serve bernie. And you plan to do that . Yes. To have him as president i think would be like a miracle because then i would know that my mother, who is an immigrant, would have health care. Reporter but they also saw an explosive debate that could blow up the unity democrats will need in november. And i feel like we could come up with a middle ground that the majority of the party agrees with. Do you think thats going to happen . No. Reporter at the fuego tequila grill in walnut creek Michael Bloomberg fans watched their man come under withering attack for among other things his tough on crime policies while mayor of new york. The tough on crime bill. Bernie voted for it. That had an impact on hes got a huge target on his back. Hed being attacked by lots of folks. And thats what were seeing. In San Francisco terry mcsweeney, nbc bay area news. While the democrats were on stage in las vegas, President Trump was campaigning in phoenix. Thousands of supporters filling that arena there. Standing room only. Earlier in the day the president was in california near palm springs for an exclusive fundraiser at the golf resort owned by oracle founder larry ellison. Now, many oracle employees are planning to walk out of work tomorrow, unhappy that ellison hosted the president. Also today President Trump was in bakersfield where he seemed to think california is still rationing water. Now that theyre rationing water for people, theyre saying youre going to get very shortly i heard the governor saying you get 50 gallons 50 gallons sounds okay. Reporter House Minority leader you see him there, kevin mccarthy, looked a bit confused by those comments. Moments later he appeared to whisper a correction in the president s ear. We mentioned our primary, super tuesday, is less than two weeks away, march 3rd. Are you still undecided . Well, visit nbcbayarea. Com and click on the link in the upper righthand corner, bay area election guide. This might be a first. A brazen assault right in the middle of a zumba class. This is the man accused of walking up to a woman at an east bay gym and attacking her. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana joins us at the 24hour fitness in fremont with the details. Sergio . Reporter yeah, tonight that man is in custody. And police issuing a special thank you to the victims gymmate, who helped her out, and to gym employees who held him until officers arrived and placed him under arrest. Stunned and scared. Mondays attack inside a crowded 24hour fitness is all anyone is talking about tonight. I heard like that someone got sexually assaulted here, and its like, wow. Its just terrible. In public, you know, around people during a zumba class. I could imagine maybe being before classes not so many people. Reporter police say 33yearold Jonathan Anderson made his way into the gym and walked over to a woman who was in the middle of a zumba class. Fremont detectives say he pushed her, held her down, then tried to sexually assault her. Thats when another person in the class jumped in. Anderson tried leaving, but gym workers detained him till police arrived. The gym manager wouldnt talk about the incident. Gym members heard about the attack from other members. One woman told us she would have liked to have heard something from management. Im not really that afraid to come back because i like have to work n not have to but i like to work out. But at the same time i think they should put out a notice. Reporter police say they have video of the attack from the gym and they want to know if there are any more victims out there. Jonathan andersons first appearance before a judge is tomorrow. Hes facing Sexual Assault and probation violation charges. In fremont Sergio Quintana, nbc bay area news. In the south bay now a break in the case. Police say this man, 25yearold ryoichi fuseya, turned himself in today for killing a woman in a san jose airbnb rental home. Sheriffs investigators combed the area today searching for clues in the home on Mountain View avenue. They wont say how that woman was killed, only that her body was found yesterday. Its not clear if the home was being rented at the time of the killing. The death toll from the coronavirus is rising. Two passengers in their 80s who were on the virusstricken diamond princess cruise ship docked in japan, have died. All this as 53 people are set to be released from quarantine at Travis Air Force base tomorrow morning. And one person who just tested positive for the virus has been moved to a hospital in San Francisco. Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd joins us at the air force base in fairfield with the very latest. Cheryl. Reporter raj, as you just said, 53 people are waiting to be released here from Travis Air Force base. The others are waiting to be retested. Reaction tonight from the two people who died on that ship, and one man got . Very disturbing news today. After being quarantined for two weeks off the coast of japan, busloads of passengers left the ship heading for a flight to hong kong. Japanese Health Ministry reporting tonight that two cruise passengers in their 80s have died from the coronavirus. Sarah orona is in quarantine at Travis Air Force base and was on board that ship. Im honestly expecting to hear more of this. I think that probably more people will pass away. From the virus. But i cant say that im surprised to hear it. Reporter not surprised but obviously concerned about what her fellow passengers are going through. Its hard to say if we were exposed on the buses or the plane or if we would have could have been exposed on the ship and now theyre testing positive. So it is frustrating. Reporter japanese authorities announcing 79 new cases discovered on board. Frightening numbers for rick wright. He was under quarantine at travis and just tonight was moved to a hospital in San Francisco. I was tested three days ago. They swabbed my throat as i was leaving the ship. And they came to me about an hour ago to say that i was testing positive for the virus. Reporter now, according to the cdc, 12 people are being monitored for the coronavirus here. Of those 12 five tested positive in japan. They are being retested here in the u. S. Reporting live in fairfield, im cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. Cheryl, thank you. Up next here at 11 00, a pair aglider dangling from power lines. We have new video of this complicated rescue. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. A system moves close over the next couple of days. Its going to change up our weather. Not only clouds but a shower chance. Well detail that in seven minutes. And theyre calling it a looming crisis. A warning from our nations airports about those real i. D. S. Stay with us. Its time for the ultimate sleep number event on the sleep number 360 smart bed. Can it help keep me asleep . Absolutely, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. Its the final days to save 50 on the sleep number 360 limited Edition Smart bed. Plus 0 interest for 24 months. Ends sunday. Take a look at this. Thats a paraglider tangled up in power lines. Thankfully, he was safely rescued tonight. This happened in olivehurst, which is about 40 miles north of sacramento. You can see the paraglider dangling from the lines. It took rescuers more than three hours to safely untangle him. More than 2,000 people in that area lost power during this rescue. New at 11 00, another claim of corruption in San Francisco. This time at the department of building inspection. A planning commissioner who raised concerns about questionable work says inspectors tried to silence him. Nbc bay areas jean elle joins us in the city with the details. Jean. Reporter raj, that planning commissioner asked a lot of questions about Building Permit violations during Public Meetings here at San Franciscos city hall, and tonight his Attorney Says the department of Building Inspections reaction is harassment. Youre going to trace this permit back to all the contaminated permits where there were lies. Reporter while a sitting San Francisco planning commissioner Dennis Richard called out questionable work at the department of building inspection, repeatedly asking how a contractor managed to build a project on 18th street well beyond the scope of permits while under the watchful eye of inspectors i really think the City Attorney should do an investigation. Regardless of what we do. Here the conduct was so outrageous. Reporter tonight his Attorney Says raising concerns made richards a target. Unprecedented retaliation. Reporter richbards and his Business Partner just filed a lawsuit against the department of building inspection and the city of San Francisco claiming dbi inspectors tried to derail a project richards was involved in on 22nd street to send him a message. Then you have an anonymous complaint made, and within hours of the anonymous complaint you have a senior building inspector rushing down to try to find something wrong with this building. A building that had been inspected nine to twelve times before with no problems . Reporter attorney scott emblage says an inspector even tried to interfere with the sale of the property. Building inspectors showed up at the brokers open, loudly saying speaking about alleged violations and reporter emblage says the retaliation led richards to take leave from a planning commission. We asked for reaction to the lawsuit from the City Attorneys office. Tonight it says it hasnt seen that lawsuit and has no comment at this point. Reporting live in San Francisco, jean elle, nbc bay area news. Jean, thank you. Tonight a federal judge is demanding answers on how pg es inspectors missed wear and tear on electrical towers close to one that start the deadly butte county fire in 2018. We have photos of a power line next to the one that started the fire. Hooks holding up the power line are wearing away, which is whats being blamed for the deadly fire. Outside federal court today an attorney representing fire victims said she wanted the judge to see for himself what pg e inspectors have been missing for years. The concern is that pg e might be missing Critical Issues that affect the safety of the community that they serve. The judge gave the utility two weeks to explain how it missed that wear and tear. So what now for former 49ers owner Eddie Debartolo . Hes been pardoned by President Trump and theres a lot of speculation that he might return to the nfl or perhaps another sports league. Thats not going to happen. As we reported yesterday, eddie d along with family and hall of fame players met with the president in the oval office. He was pardoned for committing a felony in the late 90s linked to a bribery scheme. Today debartolos closest advisers told me he will not pursue any Ownership Opportunities in any sport. He has zero stake in the 49ers after transferring control of the team to his sister 20 years ago. Now, the 73yearold debartolo will continue to run his real estate business based in tampa and will work with the golden heart fund, which supports 49ers alumni. Making it in the bay. Our series about our housing crisis. Too little housing and too much homelessness. That was the message in todays state of the state address. Governor newsom calling the crisis a disgrace and proposed access to a new housing fund to invest in fixing this problem. Get financing for Innovative Housing models like hotelmotel conversion and securing vacant units wherever we can find them. Stabilizing and expanding board and care homes, and preventing homelessness in the first place through rent subsidies and rapid rehousing to help people one job loss, one illness away from homelessness. As for the lack of Affordable House the governor said he is committed to cutting red tape for new buildings, especially along transit corridors. Jeff ranieri is with us now. We talk about maybe some changes in the weather coming this weekend. Possibility of a few showers in the next two days. Thatll be great. I know. Its been far and few between over the past two months. In fact, this month no rainfall recorded. We again are likely going on track with one of the driest februarys on record. Could of course rank in the top ten. Theres been some other februarys that have been this dry, but all in all it is unusual. Well get to those shower chances here coming up. But i do want to make sure youre ready to go for tomorrow morning. So well start off with that morning forecast. We get a mix of sun and clouds for the trivalley peninsula and the south bay with temperatures here in the 40s. Notice my forecast here for the east bay, San Francisco and the north bay, has a little bit more cloud cover for the morning than weve been used to. Now, its not going to be fog but rather some high clouds starting to stream across. Youll start here with 47 in San Francisco and the north bay at 43. So it might feel a little bit strange tomorrow because not only will we have high clouds streaming across but temperatures are warming up two to about five degrees. That tha will put us back into the low 70s for the south bay. Theres the strange part. We definitely should not be this warm this time of the year. 71 in antioch, 7 0 in livermore, 72 danville. Over to oakland 69. I also have you at 70 here in palo alto. San francisco getting close here in the mission at 67 and lets bring you up to wine country. 70 in santa rose arks 71 napa, also 70 right here in novato. Things start to change up a little bit for tomorrow. But i really think youre going to go outside and notice it quite a bit more once we hit fridays forecast. Lets show you why. And its all about even more cloud cover moving in by friday morning. It will be more of an overcast afternoon once we hit friday as well. You can see by 3 00 p. M. Not much sunshine. That will be a big switch from all of the blue sky weve been dealing with lately. Again, as we hit fridays forecast. That is all due to a system were following out here in the pacific. Weve seen some subtle changes in this. Its moved a little bit more of to the north in its trajectory and that basically means we have a better chance of a few spotty showers. By 9 30 on friday we get a little thats possible here in the south bay but you can really see the bulk of it down near fresno. Also southern california. And well keep that slight possibility. Had to extend it right here into saturday morning. 7 30 we could see a little bit spin up as well. The south bay with this would have the best chance of getting some showers. Heres what weve done. Spotty chance here on friday. Also into saturday morning. But really for most of your weekend it looks really good here. San francisco highs in the 60s and morning lows in the 40s. Inland valleys not one, not two, but three days in the 70s. Down to 69 on sunday. And back up to more 70s as we head into next week. Big problem with all this besides the fact that we havent had any rain is your allergies. Look at this. Juniper, cypress, cedar, also pine all in the high category. Raj, as you mentioned, a lot of these have these in their own yard. I have three of those. Oh, man. Ive got two of the four. And every time i walk outside you want to enjoy the sun and youre like im sneezing looking at that graphic. I know. Hopefully get that rain in here. Weve got to push it to march and april. I cant think of a february where weve been so dry. This is amazing. Its happened in the past. Well break down those numbers. Thanks, jeff. Up next theyre calling it a looming crisis over those real i. D. S. Why airports are asking the government for a delay. And we have jimmy. Hey, guys. Jennifer lopez is my guest tonight plus we have lil rel howry, thank you notes. The tonight show starts in just a few minutes. And happening now, a man opened fire outside of a hooka lounge, actually multiple lounges in germany, killing eight people. It happened just outside of frankfu frankfurt. The suspect was found dead later at his home. Its still unclear how the shooter died. The motive has not been identified. Were back in a moment. Huge tax breaks for the rich, while the middleclass continues to struggle. Thats what happens when billionaires are able to control the political system. Our campaign is funded by the working people of this country, and those are the people that i will represent. No more tax breaks for billionaires. We are going to guarantee health care to all people and create up to 20 million good paying jobs to save this planet. Im Bernie Sanders and i approve this message because we need an economy that works for all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors. New photos show a dive team as well as a canine team looking for that missing couple from palo alto. Carol kaparski and ian irwin disappeared last friday while on a hiking trip in marin county. Today crews searched the waters surrounding shell beach and tamales bay. Theyll be back at it tomorrow. If you havent gotten your real i. D. Yet the deadline is fast approaching and airports are urging the white house to extend the deadline to avoid chaos. Everyone is supposed to get their real i. D. By october 1st but the tsa is already anticipating a meltdown, saying flights will be delayed and travelers will be stranded because so far only a third of us have gotten those real i. D. S. Even if everyone started making an effort to get one, states wouldnt be able to keep up. If we worked 24 7, wed have to do seven a minute to get the number of licenses out by october. Now, theres no indication that the deadline will be extended. Now, heres the deal. If its not extended, you can still use other forms of i. D. To board an airplane like a passport or a federal i. D. Okay. Up next steph curry back to work. We have an important update and some amazing video to show you. Stay with us. Okay. Guess who we saw at work today, and he looks ready to go. Steph curry. Its been what, four months since he broke his wrist . And there he is. Look at this. Shooters shoot. We got this video today of curry making 12 threepointers in a row. 12 in a row. Hes been practicing regularly since tuesday. Just this week. But has yet to be cleared for contact. Coach kerr did say that curry would return this season, perhaps in marchx he looks great. [ cheers and applause ] and how about this shot . High school hoops on the peninsula during last weeks game between hillsdale and aragon. Hillsdale senior matt frankel made the shot of his life. He drained a threepointer at the start of the game, which led to this massive amount of cheers and celebration from the players, from the fans, from everyone. Matt has downs syndrome. He serves as the student manager. And they let him shoot and he drained that three. What great sportsmanship from everyone involved. We are back in a minute way look at the forecast, which includes a chance of rain. Stay with us. Tv just keeps getting better. How you watch it does too. This is xfinity x1. Featuring the Emmy Awardwinning voice remote. Streaming Services Without changing passwords and input. Live sports with realtime stats and scores. Access to the most 4k content. And your movies and shows to go. The best tv experience is the best tv value. Xfinity x1. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Xfinity. The future of awesome. [car[clicking of ignition]rt] uh wha woof eeh woof wuh [silence] [engine roars to life] [dog howls] dramatic opera music swells from radio [howling continues] this is a stodream. 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Im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. Okay. Where were you 40 years ago . Were you even alive . This saturday marks the 40th anniversary of one of the biggest and most emotional moments in modern sports, the miracle on ice. In 1980 the u. S. Hockey team stunned the soviet union at the Winter Olympics en route to the gold medal. Tonight in chicago team member Jack Ocallahan dropped the ceremonial puck before the blackhawks hosted the rangers. Jack callahan had a little fun dropping the puck underneath the chicago player, the guy in the red, whos american. The rangers player is russian. Everyone had a good laugh. You can see it there. 40 years ago. We dont remember that at all. You were too young. You too. Its not possible. I just moved here from india. All right. Lets p date us anymore. All right. Take it away. Lets look at that forecast. Slight chance of a spotty shower friday into saturday morning. Its mild, low 70s next couple of days. Dry over the next seven days as well. If we get any showers from that, that will take us out of the category of this dry february. At least the driest. The only other time weve had no rainfall in San Francisco in a february was back in 1864. Do you remember that . Yeah. Sure. All that good vitamins im taking. Were going down here with some dry weather but march and april definitely should have some rain hoped for. Theres going to be some payback for us. Yes. Thanks for joining us. Have a great day tomorrow. [ cheers and applause steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon