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The third hour of today in the bay continues right now. Good friday morning to you. Im kris sanchez here for Marcus Washington. Boy, wasnt it nice to see his smile . Oh, yes. Were going to have him a little later in this hour as well. Im laura garcia. Before we get to weather right now i want to tell you about a small earthquake that hit the north bay this morning. A 3. 3 magnitude quake hit about 5 00 a. M. It was about 13 miles north of healdsburg. No reports of injuries or damage so far. But what a way to wake up at least for those folks. And yesterday we were waking up to pounding rain across the bay area. Kari has a look at our forecast right now. That rain is getting lighter. This storm system is moving out but it was impressive. Now as we take a look at storm ranger, we are catching a break for much of the bay area. Still some lingering showers down around gilroy as well as around the napa area over toward Solano County. Weve seen some of the showers that are now starting to move off toward the south and east. But as it does so, were still left with the cloudy skies today and a chance for all of that rain to soak in. But there will still be some showers in the forecast for tomorrow as well as sunday for the north bay while the rest of the bay area catches a break. By monday, there is more rain in the forecast so just get ready. Well talk more about that in the forecast coming up. Whats going on right now for the commute . Kari, i just spotted this stretch of highway 87 right behind me. Lets show you the map full screen and it is the red strip traveling north. Things are bogged down heading into downtown san jose. Now, there is a crash and maybe with crews in the middle lane right now, no major injuries but that is a major problem getting into downtown on 87 from slowing and we have the rest of the bay with just damp roadways. That is better news right now but you have big stuff overnight. Thats right. Breaking news overnight. A pg e truck caught in a landslide south of the bay area. We have new video to show you this morning from the scene. The truck slid about 150 feet down a hill. It happened overnight in aptos when a road was washed away. The road between Valencia School road and Valencia Road is completely washed out. Pg e says a worker was inside the truck when it happened but luckily was not hurt. In the meantime, weather related evacuations have been lifted in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Some home owners in Boulder Creek say theyve been dealing with minor flooding from the runoff. But theyre breathing a lot easier amid so much concern about mud slides in that wildfire burn scar area. Lets take a peek outside this morning to San Francisco. Restaurants across the city and across the bay finally resuming Outdoor Dining after the storm. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson live in San Francisco. A lot of challenges for Business Owners especially with this weather weve been having. Reporter yes, good morning. A lot of challenges and also a lot of Business Owners waking up a little relieved this morning after having served their first guests after not having any Outdoor Dining guests for a number of weeks. As you mentioned they did have to contend with that element of mother nature. We captured some of the diners bundled up with the heat lamps turned up as they enjoyed eating outside in San Francisco. Many Restaurant Owners we spoke with say they needed the Outdoor Dining options to make up for a lot of the lost revenue. Some decided to even take a little extra time to get things just right before reopening. I was taking advantage to do a little painting and clean up so tomorrow friday i will open with the sunshine. Were hoping the sunshine does appear. Reporter that Business Owner wasnt the only one waiting for a break in the weather to reopen. That mass vaccination site at city college in San Francisco also resuming services today. The site was closed for two days until the storms rolled through the area. More than 250 of those vaccination shots were rescheduled for a later date. And there is some good news in the fight against covid19. It appears cases in some cities are appearing to be falling. The mercury news is reporting that wednesday the states daily average of new cases dropped to about 23,000 per day over the last week. That is a whopping 47 from two weeks ago. So it is still crucial to remain vigilant as were out here. I know there is the Outdoor Dining but still do what you can, wear your mask, and be sure to practice social distancing as some of the restrictions are lifted, guys. Before you go, mayor london breed held her state of the city address yesterday. What was her message . Reporter she actually did it virtually and that is where that second mask vaccination site is going to be. She has been speaking for weeks now wanting to vaccinate all of the san francisans by june 30th and that deadline was going to be hard to achieve if they didnt get more shots in the arms. Now well have a second vaccination site in the city. Details about when it is opening and the specifics of how you go about navigating that have not been released yet. But as soon as we get the details well be sure to bring you the details both on air and online. A new site is coming to the city. Some good news there. No kidding. Well take it where we can get it. Cierra johnson live from San Francisco, thanks. In the wake of the capitol chaos new backlash on capitol hill tied to an ultra conservative lawmaker. The gop assigned representative Marjorie Taylor greene to the house Education Committee. Greene is considered a Conspiracy Theory pro he motor and in the past has reportedly liked social media posts calling for violence against democrats. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among those questioning this assignment. Assigning her to the Education Committee and she has mocked the killing of little children attending elementary school. She has mocked the killing of teenagers in high school at the marjorie Stoneham Douglass high school. What could they be thinking . Pelosi referred to greene as the enemy within along with lawmakers seeking to arm themselves on the floor of congress. Some lawmakers are asking for their option to tap their own allowances to boost personal security in the wake of the capitol siege. In just a few hours a bay area President Trump supporter facing criminal charges will appear in a court for a bail hearing. The fbi says this man ian rogers from napa built five pipe bombs and planned to attack democrats and twitters building. The agents raided his home and allegedly also found incriminating Text Messages on his phone. President biden rounds out his first full week in office today and it comes as the fight to approve new economic stimulus and get money in the pockets of most americans is hitting some bumps in the road. As tracie potts reports from washington, democrats are now pledging to go it alone if they cant get republicans onboard. We continue to battle covid19. Reporter President Biden in a hurry to get 1400 payments to americans. The first thing i got to do is get this covid package passed. Reporter his 1. 9 trillion stimulus includes money to distribute vaccines in los angeles people are camping out hoping to get a shot. If there is any chance i can get it, it is totally worth staying in line for all day. Reporter republicans say bidens plan costs too much. They want to break it up. The white house says no but hell negotiate. Well keep trying till the end but there is an urgency here. Reporter with extra unemployment running out in just over a month, democrats want to vote next week with or without republicans. It would be very disappointing, madame president , if democrats decided to shove a partisan bill through Congress Without even attempting to work with republicans. Reporter the White House Covid Response Team briefs again today now faced with the new south african version of coronavirus showing up in two South Carolina patients who have not traveled. We know these two people did not know one another and that they did not travel to south africa. So the presumption is at this point there has been Community Spread of this strain and so, yes. That is among the concerns. Reporter it is unclear how well the current vaccines can fight the new version of the virus. New overnight the White House Press secretary confirms that President Bidens immigration orders are coming out next week in part because the incoming Homeland Security secretary will be leading the effort to reunite families separated at the border. He is not expected to be confirmed until monday. Tracie potts, nbc news. Thanks so much, tracie. It is 6 09 right now. Breaking vaccine news. Johnson johnson says its covid19 vaccine is 66 effective in a global trial but 85 effective against severe disease. It is only one shot and it doesnt require extreme cold conditions during the transportation. Meantime maryland based Biotech Company novavax says its vaccine is nearly 90 effective. Trials are now being conducted in the united states. Novavax says the vaccine is about 80 effective against the uk variant of covid and 60 effective against the south african variant. Lets take a break right now. 6 10. Get some fresh air heading outside. We have had some spin outs yesterday. The rain was wreaking some havoc. Coming down pretty hard. So we get a break now, kari, a little one . Yeah. Were getting a little break. For much of the bay area there is still spotty rain so you may have to turn on the wipers whether the rain is falling from the sky or the cars in front of you are kicking up water. Well have that as the storm system pushes off toward the south and east and were still going to be tracking those rain chances going into the weekend. As we check out san jose, as we await the suns arrival we are getting some breaks in the clouds. Well talk more about what is ahead this weekend coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the commute . Kari, im also going to start with san jose as you ended with the same city. We are looking at northbound 87 on our map. Still slow but a little bit better. Focused slowing as you pass by the crash just shy of alma on the northbound side. Heading into downtown. Still have some activity in the middle lanes. I think they need another tow truck to pull one of the veelkts. Were looking at the rest of the bay with slicker conditions. Recovery from oakland eastbound 580 still slow. I think pg e crews finally cleared the area. We have a b. A. R. T. Delay out of antioch as well. Back to you. All right. Thanks so much, kari and mike. Whats the beef with subway tuna . One of my favorite subway sandwiches. Coming up a new lawsuit filed here in the bay area accusing one of the worlds biggest restaurant chains of misleading customers. Well have subways response, too. Plus a lot of stock app users are accusing robin hood of messing with their stock trades. Well take a closer look at that. Lets take you out to the futures. They are down. We were just talking with cnbc analysts who say Johnson Johnsons vaccine not as promising as they had hoped. Theyre blaming Johnson Johnson for pulling the dow lower. Youre watching today in the bay. Want to o save hundrdreds on your wiwireless bilill . 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Ill show you the toll plaza coming up. Good morning. Very happy friday to you. There is more fallout from the whole gamestop issue. Robin hood the stock tracking app actually barred its users from buying gamestop shares yesterday. That engaged users who quite understandably wondered how can they do that . And because they couldnt buy gamestop shares that price fell hard. That left some momandpop users in the red. It pleased the hedge funds, which were betting against the stock. And it seemed to many that the menlo park based robin hood was stealing from the poor to pay the rich. Heres the companys ceo on cnbc. Were really in unprecedented times and in order to protect the firm and protect our customers we had to limit buying in these stocks. Reporter of course robin hood users didnt want to be protected. They wanted to buy. Video here of a small protest outside the companys peninsula headquarters. Robin hood, hard for them to reach. Apparently the company has disconnected its support lines as well. Shares are back in the premarket this morning ready to double again. Now, you may not own this stock. You may never have been to a gamestop store. Very few people have lately. If that is the case, here is why you care about this. It is a story of regular people teaming up against a power they feel is being unfair. Some are piling into the stock to make a point. Some are piling in to make a profit. Laura, you asked me yesterday if any of this could be regulated. I said none of it was illegal. To follow up for that for you, ive spoken with a fintech expert. You know, is reddit manipulating the market . Not really. It is a combination of open source discussions around stocks and around investing. And the market itself. Reporter those are the reddit users he is talking about. The short sellers we said they werent breaking any rules, no obvious rules anyway but robin hood the stock tracking and trading app even u. S. Senators are accusing robin hood of breaking the rules. Well probably be seeing that ceo from robin hood in front of congress at some point. Bitcoin is another trendy investment that wall street tends to cast a wary eye at wondering if bitcoin supporters have rational reasons for bidding bitcoin up. It is up 14 in value today after elon musk put the word bitcoin on his twitter bio. He typed bitcoin. One of the worlds greatest and biggers supporters of bitcoin is tim draper. He has a school for entrepreneurs in san mateo he calls draper university. He is threatening to move that school to texas or maybe redwood city after the San Mateo Planning Commission stalled on approving his plans to add an elevator to the Historic Building it is housed in, the old ben franklin hotel. Draper is one of many venture capitalists ive interviewed on our podcast sand hill road. We get into a friendly argument in that episode. Tim is one of those people it is fun to argue with. That one with tim draper is an old episode. Find it in the library. This week i talk about, to a venture capitalist about media. The future of tv, future of radio. We talk about tiktok. I make an admission about tiktok that is personally embarrassing and my children were just like, oh, dad. Oh, no. So im not telling you what it is. You got to down load the podcast, subscribe to the podcast. Yeah. Well watch that one on repeat. Thank you, scott. Yeah, but you dont get the video with a podcast. We want to see what youre doing. Hey, trending this morning the weeknd spending big bucks to make sure his super bowl halftime performance is epic. According to billboard he is shelling out 7 million of his own money to help give him the production value an added boost. The nfl does not pay super bowl performers for their shows. The weeknd is releasing a new greatest hits album next week ahead of the big game. I cant wait to see that performance. Hey, the first saturday night live of the new year premise tomorrow. Im excited because it airs early. The cast and musical guest Machine Gun Kelly are not necessarily taking it easy on the guest host actor. Big week. Huge week. No pressure though. No. Im saying there is tons of pressure. I mean its the first show back, the first show of 2021. I get it. No, shes right. You better be funny. Tune in to see if he can live up to all that pressure. A lot of it. When snls First Episode of 2021 airs tomorrow live at 8 30 p. M. Right here on nbc bay area. Laura, early enough for us to watch. There you go. Exactly. Although i start to nod off about 9 00. Have you heard this story . Subway is facing a new lawsuit this morning claiming its Tuna Sandwich isnt fishy enough. Two Alameda County residents are behind the lawsuit and allege the meat in the sandwich is neither tuna or fish. They claim an independent testing of ingredients confirmed the products are made from anything but tuna. In response, subway insists it delivers 100 cooked tuna to its restaurants adding its wild, caught from the ocean. The Company Calls the lawsuit baseless. That is one of my favorite subway sandwiches and my kids are like, yeah. That is plenty fishy. I mean, if its not fishy i dont know what. Maybe its beyond tuna. Oh, great. Now we have that. You certainly could use some fresh air these days being cooped up at home. I just took an umbrella out yesterday and went for a walk despite the fact it was really coming down. Did you see her social media post . The dog was like no way. I didnt see that. You know what . I was looking at the video earlier with the dog jumping in the snow. I was wondering what would pit do in snow this deep . He would be buried. He likes the indoors. This rain is still lingering this morning. As we check out storm ranger were seeing some of those showers still with us this morning but lets take a look at how much we measured over 10 inches of rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This was huge but with the Atmospheric River a lot of times it hits the coastal mountains and gets the brunt of the storm. But we did also have some significant rainfall in morgan hill measuring over 6 inches. Now, from fremont to San Francisco to redwood city there is over 2 inches of rain. We saw mostly 2 to 3 inches of rain elsewhere across the bay area with clearlake measuring 2. 6. Sonoma 2. 24 and san anselmo measuring over 3 inches of rain. We need more to catch up. There will still be showers in parts of the north bay into the weekend but the rest of the bay area will have a chance to dry out before more rain comes in on monday. So we are not done with the wet weather just yet. In fact, with the next storm system coming in some models are showing we could see anywhere from about 0. 75 inch of rain in san jose to over an inch for some other spots especially in parts of the north bay where there may be some higher rainfall totals. Well be watching out for that. Of course, the sierra snow pack has been a huge story and its nice that theyre also getting a boost right now. Still at 62 of normal but that is up from 40 just a couple weeks ago. As we head over to you, mike, its been all about the commute as well. Yes, things are calming down now, knock on wood over here. There we go. Were looking at the bay bridge toll plaza where it is very smooth but still slick roadways out there in many parts of the bay. Keep that in mind. Its not done as kari said. Were looking at a smooth drive on the map but we have a little slowing for east 580. The earlier crews i believe cleared from the area. 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Today kelly clarkson, the show, is honoring one bay area based chef who like so many other Restaurant Owners had to pivot during the pandemic. This is what he created. This is meals on wheels he calls it stella. It is a fully mobile restaurant. Today kelly sampled some of the menu and has a big surprise for the restaurant owner. Thats at 3 00 this afternoon here on nbc bay area. Up next facing the facts. Governor newsom with a sobering assessment on the chances schools will ever reopen this year. His latest shot across the bow in an ongoing battle with teachers. Plus the l. A. Mayor Eric Garcetti promised to wait his turn for the Covid Vaccine but that suddenly changed. Next why he feels he had to jump to the front of the line. Youre watching today in the bay. A very good friday morning to you. 6 30 right now. Youre watching today in the bay opening bell just rang right now and this is a look at the markets as theyre off. Dowjones industrial average starting down hovering around 188. Down about 200 the highest so far. This morning we are really watching it because all eyes are on gamestop shares. Which you might say game a game changer. Scott mcgrew is tracking the wild swings of the stock and the recent announcement by the sec. Reporter yes, the sec says it is going to look into volatility. This is very serious. That statement just coming across. Up until a short time ago this gamestop stock was a stock trading around 2 a share. It has since gone up Something Like 1700 . Yesterday we were talking about whats happening. Internet users banding together to bid gamestop stock up in order to financially stress those who had bet against it. They didnt break any rules by doing that but Big Questions whether the stock buying app robin hood may be breaking rules. It prohibited users from buying gamestop yesterday and the Stock Plunged that day. Many investors surprised robin hood could even do that. Robin hood said it needed to to protect itself from users even though the users never asked for that. Theyre called robin hood, right . So its kind of ironic that theyre helping the big guys. Reporter that investor pointing out the pause in buying yesterday helped the short sellers, fat cats on wall street who had been shorted or bet against gamestop. One analyst i spoke with laura said if you are going to use an app that doesnt charge you money to make a stock trade youll probably get what you pay for. Now that we can buy or they can buy gamestop stock, that is up again today. Almost doubling. Wow. Its been fascinating to see. I think a really good lesson for people to understand how things work as well. Reporter that is exactly right. Going back to what we were talking about yesterday the people buying the stock, shorting the stock are not breaking any rules here. Theyre playing the game the way it is done. The game, itself, might need to be changed but the question is how does robin hood fit into all of this . The app that everyone is using . They are getting involved in affecting the trades themselves. I just saw something that you make donald trump jr. Mad and alexandria ocasiocortez mad youre doing something at the same time. Youve done something. Thank you, scott. You bet. It is 6 33 right now. Lets check in with kari because weve had the series of storms. A little break here . A little breathing room . Yeah. We are getting a chance to give all of that water a chance to soak into the ground. Now that storm ranger is tracking some lighter showers left behind as this Atmospheric River starts to exit stage right across the bay area. And so were going to see it moving out for the weekend. Well be tracking what else is coming our way that is in the forecast with mike hopefully not as busy on the roads as yesterday. It was pretty busy, kari, but things have calmed down. We still have slick roads. Lets take a look from the fremont camera. 880 southbound with the headlights coming past us. A little glow mist as water kicks up off the roadway. You have good tire treads. Over here just south of the camera the map shows you the crash with your two left lanes blocked. This just happened as you approach 237. There is sudden slowing there. Do be advised if you are heading down out of fremont in toward milpitas the rest of the bay, just warned about the slippery conditions out there. Be careful. Back to you. All right. Thank you very much. Breaking news were covering, all the rain from the recent storms weve had still causing new problems this morning. An overnight landslide in Santa Cruz County caused pretty scary moments for a pg e crew. We have more new video just coming in. Sharon katsuda . Reporter thats right. It is dry right now but was pouring on my way to work. This storm has caused a lot of damage already. Take a look at this video shot this morning of a pg e truck wiped out by the mud slide on Valencia School road in aptos. Pg e just released a statement this morning saying the employee is okay. The roadway gave way when the unit was out there trying to keep the Community Safe with power during the storms. Take a look. Theres new video from highway 1. You can see there is a road closure there. The road washed away. Crews will be out there today to assess when to reopen that part of highway 1. For now, if you are planning on heading south, do not take highway 1 because it will be closed at big sur. Santa cruz county residents who had to evacuate earlier this week due to concern over mud slides, are happy to be back in their homes seeing minor damage so far. One thing i took with me to the hotel was a pound of ground beef and i brought that back with me last night. Which is perfect for this. So the meal im having is shepherds pie. Reporter crews are out there clearing trees to make it safer in the burn areas and all of those residents just right now trying to regroup and get ready for next weeks storms. Reporting live at highway 17 im Sharon Katsuda today in the bay. We have a series coming our way. Thanks, sharon. Here is a great, helpful app. Nbc bay area. You can install it. It is free. It gives you up to the minute breaking news and also a look at our storm ranger radar. So you can find out when the rain is coming where you live. All right. 6 36 now. We are learning painful new details about the state being scammed for billions of dollars. Its just part of the big news coming out of the state capitol. Help may be on the way. Not for renters exclusively struggling across Southern California but also for the landlords they now owe money to. Today in the bays bob redell here tracking all of this for you. That news out of the edd not what we wanted to hear, bob. Reporter no. It is frightening. Well get to that in a moment with regards to landlords and renters. There could be 2. 6 billion on the way in terms of relief. Yesterday the state assembly and Senate Passed legislation that would use 2. 6 billion in federal stimulus money. Governor newsom expected to quickly sign that bill. The way it works is that the 2. 6 billion would pay up to 80 of some tenants unpaid rent. That only applies if the landlords agree to forgive the rest of the tenants debt. It is not clear if the 2. 6 billion is enough to cover all unpaid rent nor how many landlords would accept this deal. Also out of sacramento the state auditor calculates unemployment fraud to total at least 10. 4 billion. The auditor identified 26,000 street addresses where fraud was suspected and yet the department, the unemployment department, edd, only stopped sending money to 10,000 of those addresses. The auditor wrote the edd has relied on uninformed and disjointed techniques to prevent imposter fraud. More than 1 million accounts still have not been verified. We cant estimate exactly how much it will end up being. But were pretty confident it is going to be in the billions. Probably 10 billions of dollars. Reporter that money could be impossible to get back because as nbc bay area responds reports our contacts in Law Enforcement and banking believe most of that stolen money went overseas. The auditor has laid out seven recommendations to stop the fraud. The new edd director has already agreed to implement all seven of those recommendations. Reporting live, bob redell, today in the bay. Thank you, bob. Governor newsom also not quite seeing eye to eye with teachers in the backtoschool debate. The state Teachers Association this week sent this letter to the governor demanding an aggressive vaccine plan before schools reopen. The letter also calls for higher priority for educators in terms of vaccination. Politico reports newsom met online with state School Administrators yesterday and told them that they need to be up front with parents if there is really no intention to reopen schools this year. The governor also argued that no return is possible if the only solution is a perfect solution. Video of the meeting was originally posted on youtube but then quickly pulled. Along the same lines the governors 2 billion safe schools proposal also apparently on thin ice in sacramento. The chronicle reports there is no real timeline on when the money might become available. In h part because School Districts are uncertain about the application process and lawmakers dont know how theyll distribute the money. L. A. Mayor garcetti is responding to critics some of whom accuse him of jumping in front of the line to be vaccinated. He received his first shot last week during several days assisting vaccine workers at dodger stadium. Garcettis daughter has already had the virus. Answering reporters questions yesterday he said medical experts on site strongly recommended he not wait especially because he interacts with so many people. I think it is really important when people do get that medical advice to say yes and be an example not because you are an elected official but when that comes we need people to know you should say yes and you should feel good about this vaccine being safe and i wanted to make sure we did that as well. Garcetti is 15 years under the state 65 and older threshold. Critics also point out last month he went on the record saying he would wait his turn. All right. We finally get to a question weve been getting from so many viewers. Where is Marcus Washington . Ah, he is right here this morning. Well chat with marcus coming up next. On why he has been missing action for weeks now. We missed you. Looking forward to it and i love the beard as well. Democrats are telling republicans well do this without you. 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Its still snowing right now and the roads are treacherous. But you may have a break tomorrow and sunday as we are also watching out for the limited operations there at squaw valley and alpine meadows. But some beautiful powder that we have seen on a lot of our cameras. Well talk about what were seeing in the bay area in a few minutes. Thats right. You cant take i80 over the Sierra Summit because it is closed right now. Too am spin outs. Over here in palo alto there may be spin outs because the roadways are still wet and slick but you see the traffic flows very smoothly along this portion of 101. Thank you mike. 6 44 now. Democrats are ready to pass sweeping Coronavirus Relief but President Biden is still hoping for something more bipartisan. Scott mcgrew joins us now. Democrats in congress telling republicans with or without you. Reporter thats exactly right. Good morning to you. Democrats have the votes to pass a big relief bill. That would include a much bigger check for American Families and more funding for small businesses. And they could do it without the other party. Leaders in congress saying they may need to move forward without the gop. The white house is a lot less eager. Youll hear from the Senate Majority leader, then the biden white house. But if our republican colleagues decide to oppose this urgent and necessary legislation, we will have to move forward without them. If we got to that place where only democrats had voted for it, is he okay with that . Well have a conversation at that point. Were not there yet. Reporter biden will meet with treasury secretary yellen today. She is coordinating with congress. Both democrats and republicans have legitimate points in this argument. Republicans say we have a 27 trillion debt. Much of that run up in the two years before the pandemic. And we cant afford more debt. Democrats say, yes. We have almost maxed out our credit cards but we need to buy a fire extinguisher because there is a fire. Republicans themselves split on a number of issues. This is matt gaetz of florida campaigning in wyoming trying to convince folks in wyoming to vote out their representative fellow republican liz cheney. Cheney says trump had responsibility for the attacks on the capitol and thats angered many in her party. Kevin mccarthy the republican leader in the house went to florida to patch up things with President Trump. Earlier mccarthy had also said the president bore some responsibility for the attack on the capitol where Police Officers were beaten with hockey sticks and in one case an american flag. One officer was killed on site and another died later. This was just earlier this month. So here is what mccarthy is apologizing for. That doesnt mean the president is free from fault. The president bears responsibility for wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. Reporter it appears georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene has scrubbed some of her social media. She has in the past made wild claims many originating with qanon. One claims that californias governor started our wildfires using space lasers. Setting fires in butte county to pave the way she says for high speed rail from San Francisco to los angeles. And you could ask yourself, hold on, butte county is not between San Francisco and los angeles. It is north of San Francisco. That is certainly one of the questions you could ask. Space lasers . Is another. Greene has also claimed the murder of 20 first graders and six teachers at sandy hook elementary was fake. She has just been assigned to the house Education Committee. Were watching that. And a lot of other things happening in washington. Follow me on twitter where were discussing it. Im scottmcgrew. Thanks so much, scott. Well, covid19 really hitting home for us here at today in the bay. You may have noticed. My coanchor Marcus Washington has been away from the desk for a few weeks now. Thats because he was diagnosed with covid. He joins us now live from home with more on how he is doing and what the experience was like. Ive missed you, marcus. Ive missed you all so much. But i can tell you that i am doing great. You know, it was i guess many would consider a mild case of covid but i had chills, i had a fever for maybe two weeks. My fever got up to 102. I had body aches. That lasted for maybe about five days. And i was just tired. You know . It was, for me, tough because the last time i was sick, believe it or not the last time i was truly sick like that was in 1997. I was still in high school. And i had the flu. Yeah. So for me, its been a long time. I realize i am a big baby when im sick and i get irritated easily. But i was alone the whole time. Good thing. But i managed through it all. I was telling you last hour the thing that helped me get through of course i was taking a lot of vitamins to make sure my system was able to fight this virus. My multi vitamins i would take anyway. But really the thing that helped me were the phone calls, the Text Messages, and, you know, the messages that i got from a lot of the viewers so thank you to all of them who just were concerned like hey, are you okay . I havent seen you in a while. That meant a lot to me. Laura, you and i talk all the time anyway. Laura kicked into mama bear mode. She called and texted and she was like what do you need . Do you need to go to the hospital . Lay on your stomach. They say that is the best. I think i even told you and you were like i dont want to call you or text you too much but you know that i want to tell people if you know someone who is battling coronavirus, the best thing to do is really check on them. Just a text message will do. It means a lot because you are alone. I mean, i grew up as an only child so i was cool being by myself but when you cant get out and cant go for the amount of time i had to quarantine here at home by myself, i ordered groceries online. That was the first time id ever done that. And, you know, i had friends who one friend i called and said hey i just need gatorade. I looked outside my door and i had four bags of groceries. You know . I mean, and so many people offered our news director offered to make me chicken soup. It was great just to have that kind of love during that tough time. Exactly. Well, now is the toughest thing about it because obviously youve got to quarantine and, you know, we all want to help you. You know, help you go through this. But youre really on your own. Then it is heart breaking to think of the people that, you know, are even worse. Theyre hospitalized. Their families cant see them at all. So it is a really tough thing to go through. Exactly. That was one of the things i did fear, that what if i have to go to the hospital . I mean, im in great shape. I had no reason to think i wouldnt. But you hear of situations where people, you know, my temperature got to 102 and then i was looking online and it says if it gets to 104 you might need to go to the doctor or hospital. That scared me a little bit. But i made it through and everything is im feeling good. You know, i take small walks like around the block or Something Like that. But, you know, its really been great and thank you for all the emails, the calls, the texts for those out there, some of the nbc bay area family, thank you, thank you, thank you. Well, on behalf of the crew i know they made sure to tell me they miss you as well. We really all do. Thanks for putting up with all my texts. I did go into little mama bear mode. I was bombarding him. But i was worried. I loved it. We are a family here. Lauras texted me every night also and says make sure you have a glass of water by your bed. Im like, laura. My wife is [ laughter ] whatever. Look, ill start texting you too, mike. Hey, you know that i dont drink coffee or anything like that. Well, i still dont drink coffee but you know what . I am now a tea drinker. I drink tea every morning. Hey. I have 13 boxes of tea because i have Three Friends who send me boxes of tea. So im going to be drinking tea for a long time. Nice. Okay. Everybody else send marcus tea now, too. Exactly. Tea time all the time. Hey, really good to see you. Were glad to hear youre doing better. You want to toss it over to kari for old times sake . All right, kari, i was happy with the rain yesterday. Are we going to see it continue today . Yes. And it is so blessed, i am so happy to see you this morning. This is a great way to start out our friday morning. And you have the view of this sunrise. It is a gorgeous start to our morning now that were getting a chance to dry out. And we are going to also see that storm rolling out of here still leaving behind a few clouds here and there. And some of us are still seeing some light spotty sprinkles. Storm ranger gives us exactly where that rain is falling and were seeing it mostly over the hills and also farther to the north. But lets do a wrap and talk about how much rain we had with this Atmospheric River. This is so typical where once it hits up against our coastal mountains it really brings out a lot of that moisture. Thats what we saw in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Nearly 11 inches of rain. But usually as it moves into the valleys, it just kind of gets rain shadowed and a lot of the moisture is gone but that was not the case for morgan hill where we had over 6 inches of rain there. Most of us anywhere from fremont to san jose to San Francisco as well as sonoma. We had 2 to 3 inches of rain. So this feels the decent one helping to get us caught up with our rainfall deficit. Were going to see more rain in the forecast going into the weekend only for the north bay. The rest of us will be missing out on that rain up until monday when our next storm system comes in. So of course keep checking back in for updates. Mike, what is the update now on the morning commute . I feel great because we got to see and talk to marcus. But we dont feel great because we see this. This is a bay bridge toll plaza and the backup has formed as metering lights were turned on just as i heard about that disabled vehicle mid span so did the folks at the controls there. They turned them on. Backup here. But look. The map shows you no backup on the span. Its only that section between the berkeley curve and the toll plaza itself. The rest of the bay shows slicker roadways. Do be careful. Greater recovery as the crash in fremont cleared from 880 at 237. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Breaking and happening now Johnson Johnson says the covid19 vaccine is 66 effective in global trials but 85 effective against severe disease. Which is a big difference between vaccines already being administered, which are 95 effective. But the Johnson Johnson vaccine is only one shot, one dose, and does not require that extreme cold during transportation. So an option. The company says it is working to file for emergency use authorization with the fda inside a week. Coming up next ill have a quick look at our top stories including all of the rain this week. And all the problems its caused. An overnight landslide in Santa Cruz County washes out a road and causes a huge scare for a utility crew as well. Well have a live report on how theyre doing and whether we should brace for another wet weekend ahead. Its 6 55. Youre watching today in the bay. Top stories now on today in the bay breaking news overnight a pg e truck caught in landslide south of the bay area. Video from the scene is showing the truck about 150 feet down a washed out road. Overnight in aptos. The road got washed away there. It is between Valencia School road and Valencia Road. Pg e says one worker was inside the truck when it happened and was not hurt. Meanwhile weatherrelated evacuations are lifted in the Santa Cruz Mountains but some homeowners in Boulder Creek say theyve been dealing with minor flooding. They are breathing easier amid so much concern about mud slides in the wildfire burn scar areas. Lets take you to San Francisco where restaurants are finally getting back on track with Outdoor Dining. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson live this morning to tell us about it. Reporter good morning. The Business Owners waking up with a bit of a smile because they served their first outdoor customers but it wasnt without some rocky weather. We have video of some folks eating pretty bundled up with the heat lamps open. Something else that started again because of the weather was the mass vaccinations. The site at city college of San Francisco closed for two days. They are resuming their service today. They had to reschedule 250 shots. A little good news about covid the cases appear to be falling in some cities. On wednesday the state reporting 23,000 new cases, down a whopping 47 from just two weeks before. Back to you guys in the studio. All right. Thank you very much. Thats going to do it for us this friday morning. We hope you have a great weekend. Today show starts right now. Good morning. Breaking news. Johnson johnson reveals results for the single dose vaccine. It helps you get a milder version if you get covid. The first known cases of a highly contagious covid strain from south africa found in the u. S. Adding more urgency as states race to open Mass Vaccination Centers including bostons famed fenway park, the very latest on all of it. Power struggle. Former President Trump boasts of