And point out that those who do meet the deadline will be eligible for future teacher assignments and a 2,500 annual housing stipend and serve on a committee to work to improve conditions for grad students. Were not sure if that is part of the process that Janet Napolitano is now calling for but it is a step in that direction. But as long as this midnight deadline remains, the clock is still ticking. Live at uc santa cruz, robert handa, nbc bay area news. We have developing news out of contra costa county. A brush fire on dear valley road west of brentwood. The fire grew to about 7 hours sorry 7 acres before firefighters were able to knock it down. It is now fully contained. No word on what started this fire. We are learning more tonight about the murder of a woman at at san jose airbnb. A suspect is accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death. Appeared before a judge and was charged with murder, the stabbing happened on Mountain View avenue. Sheriffs found the body on tuesday. But during a search of the home, deputies discovered that her car was missing because investigators say after the stabbing the suspect packed up his stuff and drove to his moms house. Deputies arrest ared him wednesday after he agreed to meet detectives for questioning at the Sheriffs Office. A lot of questions and shock in oakland after the sudden firing of the police chief. So what happened and what is going to take over for the first female chief in city history . One Council Member is getting pushback from the community questioning this firing. Melissa colorado is if oakland with this controversial move. Melissa . Reporter it is a controversial move. And i spoke to oakland city Council Member noel guyo who said this happened so quickly and he found out about the firing by watching the news and it was the elephant in the room at todays Police Academy graduation ceremony. This is the schedule that was handed out. You could see right there, the name of the now former police chief Anne Kirkpatrick. You join our department on an interesting day. A day we have changed leadership. Reporter as the Oakland Police department welcomed 28 men and women to the force with open arms. Leaders will come and go reporter there was no way avoiding the name of the woman the city kicks off the force less than 24 hours ago now former police chief Anne Kirkpatrick. My decision yesterday was extremely personally difficult for me. Were on our 11th police chief in the last ten years. Reporter guyo said people are already emailing and calling his office criticizing the sudden move. We went from city hall to being a silly hall. Reporter the Oakland PoliceCommission Voted last night to fire the police chief without cause. The mayor approved it. While tensions were rising between Anne Kirkpatrick and the commissioners over her handling of a controversial deadly officerinvolved shooting, guyo said firing Anne Kirkpatrick without cause is a costly mistake because now the city has to pay her one year salary as severance. Getting 300,000 plus where we could use that number to clean the neighborhood. Reporter and the interim police chief Darren Allison declined to talk to reporters at the graduation ceremony. Meanwhile there is new scrutiny over the Court Appointed federal monitor in charge of overseeing the opd police reforms. More on that next at 6 00. Im melissa colorado, nbc bay area news. This is business as usual for oakland. A resolving door of police chiefs. Prior to Anne Kirkpatrick there were several interim leaders one who served two days and sean went led the Police Department for three years, 2013 to 2016 and Howard Jordan 2011 to 2013 and following anthony bats and wayne tucker from 2004 until 2009. Air testing begins tomorrow in oakland to find out if vapors found a chemical solvent found on a campus has seeped into a school building. Tce was found to be in the ground water, not the drink water but the ground water. It is unclear where it came from but there is a handful of contaminated sites near the high school. This one at san pablo and 30th was the cite of an old Metal Plating shop. Neighbors showed us a letter they got two years ago warning the site tested positive for tce and worry they could still be at risk. There is kids. There is a french preschool today that is not open today but thriving and you hear the kids all day. So absolutely concerned about them. And what could happen. Well the testing is going on at mcclymonds they are looking at alternative sites to get the 350 students back into class by midweek. Wells fargo, the fourth largest bank has agreed to pay 3 billion over the fake account scandal. Bank employees opened millions of fake or bogus savings and checking accounts. In the names of actual customers without their knowledge or permission. Now the jifs Department Said the extreme was carried out by thousands of wells fargo employees under pressure to meet unrealistic sales quotas. A portion of that 3 billion will go to wells fargo investors. None of the money under the settlement will go to compensate the actual customers. If you have been to china in the past month, listen up. The California Department of health is asking you to self quarantine. It applies to people who returns to the u. S. On or after february 2nd. It is an effort to stop the spread of the virus. As Health Officials confirm two more cases in california. One in humboldt county and one in sacramento county. Now that brings the total number of cases in Northern California to 22. You could see where they are on this map. Now most of the cases, there are 16 near Travis Air Force base, they are being treated at facilities nearby. So far more than 76,000 cases worldwide and more than 2200 deaths. Now cruise ships are big business for cities but after hundreds of passengers were quarantined on a cruise ship in japan theyve received some negative attention. Now Cruise Companies are taking steps to reassure passengers they are safe. Christie smith spoke with passengers who just boarded a cruise ship. Christie . Reporter that is right. And that cruise ship just took off a few minutes ago. Dy have a chance to speak with some of the passengers. And they tell me they received several updads from Princess Cruises about steps being taken over concerns about the coronavirus. They say they certainly appreciate that and were mostly glad their destination was hawaii. I had concerned a little bit when it just kept escalating. Reporter dan welton came to San Francisco for a 15day cruise. In the days before boarding, the coronavirus outbreak on the diamond princess cruise ship in japan did cross his mind. I do have on board. Reporter but he was happy to know the grand princess is bound for hawaii and feels satisfied that Princess Cruises kept him updated with the precautions theyve taken. By putting out the disclaimer on everybody who bought tickets. All of our vessels service the west coast of the united states. Reporter randy is director of communications for the port of San Francisco and said risk here is low b and cruise lines have layers of restrictions in place. It is really china, hong kong and macau that the cruise lines are being careful about and denying boarding to anyone there in the last 14 days. Reporter Princess Cruises said theyre scanning passports and have enhanced screening, prevention and control. They want to be proactive about it but im not concerned about it at all. Several emails. Reporter Elizabeth Smith and jeff white received some of the email updates but theyre more focused on seeing the sights in hawaii and the quick stop in mexico. It is going to be wonderful. Reporter now most of the passengers that we spoke with today tell me that they take cruises regularly and will make sure that on this cruise to follow instructions to the letter. Live in San Francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. Thank you. Our coronavirus coverage continues in just a few minutes. Well introduce you to a wuhan native teaming up with local Tech Companies to get crucial suppose pli supplies to china. That story in less than five minutes. A story about russian interference in this years election. Russia denies allegations that it favors President Trump. Today Bernie Sanders responded to a report in the Washington Post that russia is trying to help his president ial campaign. And when i say to mr. Putin, if elected president , trust me, you are not going to be interfering in american elections. When with were you briefed on this . Im guessing about a month ago. Theyre trying to start a rumor, it is disinformation. That is the only thing theyre good at. Nbc news reports that President Trump was so angry that experts briefed the House Intelligence Committee on russia meddling that he fired his acting director of National IntelligentJoseph Maguire and the New York Times said he was furious the information was shared with adam schiff who spearheaded the recent impeachment drive. In contra costa county, deputies arrested this man who is connected to several wells fargo robberies including one in walnut creek this month. 11 days later another wells fargo was hit in orinda and just two days ago a robe happened at a wells fargo in lafayette. Detectives believe this man is responsible for all of the cases. An interesting request from napa police. They want to know if anyone has seen this man. Police believe he was last the last one to pick up a hitchhiker on december 11th or 12th. If you have any information, please call the napa county sheriffs department. No other details have been released. Up next, making it in the bay. New numbers show just how much money you feed to make a down payment on a Silicon Valley home. Also stop taking those selfies. The popular spot in the north bay that is attracting too much attention and why the Sheriffs Office is now getting involved. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Youre going to want to stick around for the forecast. Look what is on the radar. Rain to the south. Ill show you where this is headed and what it means for the weekend. That is in about six minutes. So what happens when we live in a world where any image, any video, any audio recording could be faked . Well then nothing is really real any more. Tonight at 11 00, we investigate a new wave of digital altered media called deep fakes. How they threaten your privacy and the dangers they pose to our elections. Tonight at 11 00 on nbc bay area. We investigate. Tonight the president tries to minimize new warnings from u. S. Intelligence that russia is meddling in this years campaign. And the new warning about the flu which is hitting children especially hard this season. It is all ahead on nightly news. Bernie sanders hes fighting to raise wages. And guarantee health care for all. Now, our country is at a turning point. Hard working people, betrayed by trump, struggling to survive. In this moment, we need a fighter. Bernie sanders. We know hell fight for us as president because he always has. Im Bernie Sanders and i approve this message. As coronavirus spreads in china, a Silicon Valley veteran from the wuhan era is getting supplies to china where theyre desperately needed. Scott budman has the story. Reporter youre looking at truck and plane loads of gear arrive. In china. Ive done business before in a Large Corporation so we want to figure out a way to help. Reporter tom gong is the man making it happen. A wuhan native turned Silicon Valley tech executive, he is using technology to more efficiently bring aid organizations together and after starting wuhan united in san jose, get the gear to people faster. I think one of the advantages of Silicon Valley is not only technology, we probably have the shortest path to reach anyone in the world. Reporter now more than a Million Masks and other items are on the way to hospitals affected by coronavirus in china. Gong has recruited dozens of bay area volunteers as well as Companies Like cisco and hp to help. The result, a faster link between the bay area and china. It is not a shortterm task. It takes a long commitment to fight coronavirus and also restore wuhan. Reporter if you would like to help the group is accepting donations at wuhan united. Org. Scott budman, nbc bay area news. Thank you, scott. Our mission star restaurant involved in a court battle, talking about angler restaurant on the embarcadero in San Francisco. A former culinary director said he complained to his boss that the Parent Company about Health Conditions in the basement. And then he said he was fired. Now hes filing a lawsuit. The suit claims the storage conditions in the basement were dusty and visited by rodents, city inspectors have given the restaurant a positive health rating. We reached out to Restaurant Owners for comment. But they have not returned our calls. Making it in the bay. Our series about the housing crisis. Tonight what does it take for millennials to buy a home. A new report by lending tree said san jose has one of the highest rates of millennial home buyers in the country. Millennials spend an average of 150,000 for a down payment. The average credit score among millennials home buyers is 720. Average age 32. The average amount requested for a loan just over 600,000. More than 50 of mortgage requests come from millennials in san jose. Now our commitment to making it in the bay continues online. We have an entire section on our website dedicated to the housing crisis. It is impact and solutions, just point your phone at the qr code on the bottom left hand corner of the screen and if you point your phone right to it it will take you to our report. Trying to snap that selfie. Make sure you are not trespassing on private property. Farmers are asking people to stop taking photographs on almond or charts and wandering through the grounds damages the plants and they are on private property so farmers have the right to tell people to stay off their property. Police are asking people to respect private property if they choose to take photos near those almond orchards. A 10 chance of rain means that the yosemite glowing firefall will happen. The setting sun will be at perfect angle to turn the horse tail water fall into a ribbon of falling lava. It just looks like that. The problem, there is no waterfall this year because yosemite has been dry. Like much of the Northern California. Photographers travel from around the world to get the perfect shot so unless things change, not going to happen until next year. Jeff ranieri is talking about what is on tap for us in the next 48 hours. It is too bad. It is beautiful. The sunset is beautiful tonight. At least we had the photos from last year to look at. Filed video. It is frustrating out there because we love to get some rainfall in here. It has been so dry this month. In fact, not a drop picked up as we have been talk about. But, hey, at least we got changes in her visually. San jose now looks like it is about to rain. We do have that overcast moving in across the south bay and into the east bay and the peninsula. So at least this changes it up a little bit for us. But as far as rainfall goes, the best chances remain to the south. You could see the storm system spinning, the counterclockwise spin and rainfall within a hu s hundred miles and less in the bay area and it is promising to see this moving in over monterey. The problem is the lower atmosphere is so dry. So weve had some verga out there and some rain in the midlevels over the south bay. But then it evaporates before it does hit the ground. So lets get you into a closer view and what were following closely over the next 12 hours is how this rainfall propagates from the south. So you could see it is moving if here from the south and a little bit from the east off towards the west. So we still have a slight chance. We might get a spotty shower toward san jose, morgan hill and also for gilroy. But it is all about the position of the storm. Again, the center is way too far off the south tonight to bring us any kind of big rainfall. As we head through tomorrow morning it continues to remain toward the south with snowfall over the sierra. Just a little dusting expected at this point. So for right now as move through tomorrow morning, well see high clouds to start and sun mixed in and through the day on saturday you keep the sunshine for the afternoon. So i dont see any big problems through tomorrow morning. Well have temperatures in the 40s here to start. 44 in the trivalley. Peninsula 49. And the south bay at 47. Also down to 46 here for the east bay. San francisco 48. And the north bay at 42. So overall, a really good start to that weekend forecast. And as that system pulls away to our south, temperatures will cool a couple of degrees, no, sir overly cold. Here at 67 in san jose. Upper 60s through the south bay. Lets get you into contra costa, Alameda County has isolated 70s for you. Back into antioch, pittsburg and concord and oakland cooler at 63. The peninsula, from 68 in palo alto, 56 here in half moon bay. Heading up to San Francisco, at 60 in the embarcadero and napa, sonoma or santa rosa, upper 60s to about 70. My extended forecast does have that slight chance of a spotty shower overnight. 1 00 to 6 00 a. M. And after that we dry through the next seven days in San Francisco with 60s for highs. The inland valley forecast. And we have 70 for the average tomorrow. 67 on sunday. Want more warm weather, here it comes. Next tuesday and wednesday, upper 70s. Return back into the mix. What about rainfall chances. We have been continuing to scour the long range forecast models. Ive been keeping up to date on that. Of course quite a bit. And 80 degrees almost. Almost 80 . And right now on the longterm range forecast we have about a 60 chance at home for maybe some rain the 4th through the 7th of march. It is around the corner at least. Weekend is almost here. We have barbecue weather. Yes. I like how you think. Thanks, jeff. Up next, the 1. 50 hot dogs at costco might be hard to get your hands on. The big change coming to the costco food court. Nbc bay area news presented making it in the bay. We break down the housing crisis and find real solutions. Making it in the bay, every day, every newscast on nbc bay area. [sfx doorbell] hello, i saw you move in, and i wanted to welcome you to the neighborhood with some homemade biscuits oh, thats so nice and a little tip, geico could help you save on homeowners insurance. Hmm cookies uhh, biscuits. Mmmm, is there a little nutmeg in there . Oh its my mums secret recipe. You can tell me. Its a secret. Is it cinnamon . Its my mums secret recipe. Call geico and see how easy saving on homeowners and condo insurance can be. Ill come back for the plate. Try to win by attacking, saving on homeowners and condo insurance can be. Now, we know the trump strategy distorting, dividing. Mr. President it. Wont. 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You may have seen some of the deep fakes online like when movie director jordan peele used it to produce a video that looks like one of president obamas weekly addressed but it wasnt or when actor steve beauch emmys face was masked over Jennifer Lawrence and the Technology Threatens more than our privacy, it is a danger to our democracy. Were seeing the injection of fake information used to disrupt elections and i think that we are probably still not have experienced the worst of that. Tonight at 11 00 see what we found of the growing threat of deep fakes an the new wave of disinformation. Back to you. Thanks, candice. A new costco rule could mean shorter lines at the food court. The food court is known for the quick and cheap meals, a hot dog and drink is just 1. 50 and you dont have to be a member to use it. I didnt know that. Wow but today costco said no more. 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Same with the keystone pipeline. When tom says we can save the world and do it together believe him. Im tom steyer and i approve this message. Tonight at 6 00, changing the way they fight fires. The big boost california crews are getting when the next big wildfire breaks out. That story and more coming up at 6 00. Up next, nightly news, the story of a good samaritan, what she did to save a driver after this truck explodes. You could see the flames there. Lester holt joins us in about a minute. A deal of the decade in San Francisco. Tickets to the popular musical hamilton will be sold for just 10. For one night only. All seats will be 10 at the orpheum theater, consider considering the tickets sell for a few hundred dollars apiece. There is a catch. You have to win the tickets through a lottery on the hamilton app or the website. The lottery started today and will run for a week. The show will be on march 3rd. Can i borrow your keyboard. Can we dial in . This is the perfect time to see hamilton. Lester holt is next from los angeles. Bye. Breaking news tonight, the bombshell new warning about russia and the 202 election bernie briefed his Campaign Russia is helping his campaign the goal sowing chaos in the democratic primaries. Just hours until the nevada caucuses. How sanders is responding it comes after President Trump ousted his own spy chief after intelligence officials told Congress Russia is working to reelect him. The president s new reaction tonight the dramatic turn in the Harvey Weinstein trial. The jury suggesting to the judge they are deadlocked on the two most serious charges what the judge has now ordered them to do. The blockbuster settlement for one of