Campbell got more than they bargained for today. These are the conditions they and other drivers heading to the sierra are facing as the biggest storm of the season barrels through. Despite the forecast, they tracked up the mountain anyway hoping for a ski weekend at soda springs. We are taking my kids skiing. We promised and wanted to keep her promise. Reporter will not cancel your reservation . They would not. Reporter the exit to soda springs resort was snowed in this afternoon. At the resort, they joined other cr resorts closing today. It is beautiful, but sometimes is dangerous. It is not like the movies. Reporter pose a managers a restaurant that is usually slammed. The businesses are empty today. He says that is okay. We are calling with reservations and saying we want the business, but we recommend it is not the slightest thing to come up this weekend. Reporter with this much is 12 feet of snow expected this weekend, there will be plenty of time to enjoy it once the danger passes. Resorts will be closing today for the rest of the weekend. There is no point if you want to take pictures, come and take pictures after the storm monday, tuesday and wednesday and next weekend reporter we are back here live. You can see folks getting off the freeway and turning around. They are not letting people through at this point. This situation is getting more dangerous by the hour. If you had plans to come up here, you should change those plans. You will not be able to get through. The snow will be around for a long time. There is plenty of time to enjoy it. Reporting live on the 80 in the sierra, i am jodi hernandez. Will get warm and out of the cold conditions. In bay area it is about the rain. Lets bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. The storm system will sit and linger as we head through the weekend spiraling in the areas of rain for us. Snow through this era. Lets take you down and to stormranger doppler radar. It has been good in San Francisco. Heavy downpours from quarter to halfinch through the past three hours. We are seeing the rain left out of San Francisco and it will stay here through 6 45 tonight will continue to martinez 6 on 34th. In the south bay rain filling in across san jose. I do not see any changes in my forecast as we head through saturday and sunday. It is on again off again periods of rainfall the forecast. A chance of spotty thunderstorms and small hail. Wind gusting up to 50 at times. I do not see major flooding, but we could get isolated street flooding in the sierra snow. We are looking at totals over 7 feet when all is said and done. On the snow tonight and tomorrow, we see 34 inches. 39 in truckee. 35, kirkwood. Wind gusts up to 100 and snow as well as possible. I wanted to segment the snow out. As we head into sunday, we will get snow, but not as much in a 24 hour period. Anywhere from 6 to 8 inches. I will have more details on a winter storm warning here in lake county. Coming up in 15 minutes. To stay on top of the rain in the bay area and snow in this era, here is a great resource for you. Download our nbc bay area news app. You see the qr code on the left side of your screen. It will take you to our app. Point your phone camera at the qr code. San francisco says it is seeing a big drop in the number of tenths on city streets. And a drop in the number of People Living in their cars. There is a lot more happening. Here is nbcs christy smith. Reporter San Francisco says a recent count showed a drop in one of the most visible signs of the citys homelessness crisis. Fewer tents on city streets. A decline in People Living in tents or vehicles. Obviously, we would love to say no one living on the street or living rough in San Francisco. We know we are far from that right now. We are happy to see the resources that we have created and the efforts we are putting toward helping people are having an effect. Reporter maryellen carol is executive director of the department of Emergency Management shes as part of the drop is because of the increase in street outreach and increasing the availability of the services. Working to help people and help them Access Services in addition, the department of homelessness for housing has added over 300 shelter beds. They have added resources and processes to help people to bring down permanent vacancies reporter according to data released by the mayors office, last weeks count showed 380 5 10, which is 37 drop from last july. And 616 vehicles. A 42 decline from the same time last year. Not everyone is convinced. County tends does not indicate a reduction in homelessness. It is a poor measure of progress on the issue. That said, we have made a lot of progress on homelessness. Reporter jennifer, executive director of the coalition on homelessness sees it this way. We have been able to turn the tide on homelessness because of the policy funding. We are looking at the annual report for these funds. An additional 2000 households received housing. 13,000 individuals received homeless prevention support. To christy smith, nbc bay area news. Robotaxis may soon come to the peninsula. The pushback came from county leader state regulators and they suspended the request. Today they announced they had approved the expansion which means waymo can put robotaxis on local roads and freeways the decision has drawn criticism from the San Mateo County supervisor. In us statement they said their concerns were not addressed. The Oakland PolicePolice Commission has submitted a finalist for the next police chief to the mayor. Heres a look at the candidates. Lewis molina, currently assistant deputy mayor of Public Safety in new york city. Floyd mitchell, former police chief for lubbock, texas. Cincinnati assistant police chief lisa davis and former sam leondra chief abdel rigdon. The mayor can select from the list of candidates and go down the process from there until the Police Commission. She can also ask the Police Commission to supply a new list of candidates the mayor announced upgrades to the city not emergency calling line. The system helps prevent a backlog and oakland has a struggling 911 system. Bam adebayo talked about a new automated struggling service. She said the upgrades will make it easier for residents to get support around issues that are not necessarily emergencies, but require prompt response. This change comes four months after our own Investigative Unit first reported on serious issues with oakland nonemergency line. Investigative reporter Candice Nguyen what is an issue not with her daughters. That she cannot get through to 911 or the nonemergency line. When i looked in my Rearview Mirror there were two speeding cars. They boxed me in. Literally, the car behind me pulled up his gun and aimed it at the car in front of me. And i am in the middle. That is when i called 911. I cannot get through. It was a busy signal and hangs up. I was blocked out four times from the nonemergency line. In a separate incident when she wanted to report a person with a ski masks outside her home, she said she was on hold with the nonemergency line for an hour and a half candace has been reporting on oaklands failing 911 and nonemergency systems for months. It is not the first time her reporting has part change did you catch up on her report go to nbcbayarea. Com 911. A notable shakeup in the covid policy announced today by the cdc. You no longer need to isolate. The cdc says americans no longer need to isolate for five days after testing positive for covid. If youre sick, stay home. Once the symptoms subside or you are feverfree, you can go back to work or School Without the isolation period. Western states were ahead of the fence on this one. California as you may recall, drop isolation period in january. Oregon made this a move last may. Joining us now is ucsf Infectious Disease expert. Are we going in the right direction or is it to pass from the medical point of view . Isaac we are going in the right direction. A lot of population immunity and we have many options like vaccines and early therapy. We will be aligned not only with other countries. Not only with other respiratory viruses, but aligned of the country in the united states. I think we need to have everyone doing the same thing. It does come with responsibility. A shift toward treating covid like how we deal with the flu . Not exactly like the flu. We are still seeing too many deaths in the united states. We are saying we have shut down schools too long. We need to get vaccines and access to therapy. We have many options. Unlike many of the other respiratory viruses. What you see at usf ucsf . We saw the highest levels in midjanuary. We still see covid. The most important thing for people to understand is that if your loved one or relative has not gotten vaccines and their older than 65, particularly older than 75, please get it. Those of the people i see in the hospital. We appreciate your time and have a good weekend. Up next, one of the oldest jewish groups in the country taking aim at uc berkeley. Whether they are demanding after protesters on campus shut up controversial speaker this week. Stretching a pricey problem and oakland. Thieves are not just breaking into cars, they are drilling into gas tanks. We look into it. When it comes to wind and the forecast i am seeing ghosts of 20 to 50 Miles Per Hour out of the south and west. The wind should start to taper down more as we head into sunday. 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The protest happened monday at an event during a speaker featuring a speaker from israel. Student jewish groups organized it. Hundreds of propalestinian demonstrators arrived students say the protesters pounded on the windows and some of them were broken. As a result, the event was canceled. Everyone was told to leave. They were escorted out security. The agc is calling on the allegheny District Attorney and department of justice to investigate. The group sent a letter to both offices saying in part Political Violence should not be tolerated. This is no good. Drivers beware. Thieves are siphoning gas right from your tank in the east bay. Scott admin explains it leaves you with a problem that could take weeks to fix reporter auto shop owner wahid knows what to look for because you seen it a couple of times. People stealing gas by puncturing a hole in the cars gas tank and then draining it. Poking the gas tank is expected alvin, whose cells auto purchasing also. I sold one for 2016 nissan rogue. You can imagine if you poke an old guys gas tank and he cannot get one. Reporter there trying to get the word out because it is an extra costly way to lose your gas. Such it is expensive. Some cars go for 500. Some 1000. Some 2000. Sometimes 3000. Reporter potentially sidelining your car for two to three weeks because it can be tricky to find a new gas tank. A hole on the side of the gas tank. With a drill. The gas tank is empty. Destructive and draining. In oakland, scott budman. The county of san jose has been given an expensive ultimatum. The state water board is ordering san jose to clear out homeless mince along waterways are expected finds in total more than 100,000 per day. We are giving you the aerial view from sky ranger. It shows the issue with encampments polluting 140 miles of waterways that the city is responsible for. The state says unless those in canons of the pollution they cause is cleared by june of next year, finds will start. Today bam adebayo how. If we are out of compliance with her stormwater permit we could be subject to daily fines of up to 50,000 per pollutant. It is the pollutant that could justly define. A single pollutant can be anything from trash to bio waste, plastic or metal. The city council will begin options for rehousing those along the creek next week. The wet weather is forcing the closure of more parks across San Francisco. The reason is falling trees. San francisco closed several parks and golf courses amid rain and wind yesterday. A close the Japanese Tea Garden and botanical garden. The city is advising everyone to remain alert, adding strong winds can topple the healthy trees. Jeff is with us now to talk about a lot of byproducts of the weather. Remember last weekend, 70s and sunshine. A huge turn for us in the weather. The rain is coming down now. Went into tomorrows forecast and maybe up to 50. The wind will come down as well into sunday. We have been mentioning the sierra and blizzard conditions. There is a winter storm warning here north of wine country in lake county. Includes clear lake, lake ford and the upper lake we have the winter storm running in effect 10 00 p. M. Until 5 00 p. M. Sunday. It looks like snow levels in this location could be anywhere between 1000 to 2000 feet. Exciting on that front to get snowfall. We had some last year. It will make it icy and maybe even power outages. 1 to 3 inches. Near bypass levels, plus interest. We are tracking it through the weekend. Lets take you down to stormranger doppler radar. We have been 21 lightning strikes over the past half hour. Team will be out here with the next round of rain moving in. Pushing storm cells after north and east. Will keep some of the heavy rain through crockett into 7 08 tonight. Rain through the peninsula into the east bay for the next 45 minutes we have seen on again offagain rainfall in the south bay continues. The way i see it right now, as we roll through tonight we will see more rain redeveloping with heavy downpours at times. Doing anything this evening, make sure to have the umbrella with you. As we head through tomorrow morning, well break it down to spotty chances of rain, at least to start. Even sun mixing in. Low snow from mount hamilton. The next wave of rain starting to arrive by 3 00 pm. Consuming rainfall until 7 00, 8 00 and 9 00 in the evening. By sunday we see things taper off to spotty rain chances. Through tonight icy court or to have it to the forecast on the rain. As we head through tomorrow, another quarter to half inch from north bay to stop day. It looks like the cell he could get in on more halfinch totals. As we head through sunday, rainfall numbers with treasonous to quarter of an inch. Look at the chilly. Back down into the upper 30s and low 40s across the bay area. It will start cold. New affiliate is used about the door. We do not warm up a lot. Daytime highs and only 40s for marin county, napa and sonoma county. 49, napa. 47, santa rosa. Upper 40s to low 50s from livermore down to san jose. On the seven day forecast, 40 chance of showers on monday. A little bit more tuesday and wednesday. It does not look big right now. It out sunshine back with us thursday and also on friday. I can think of years in the past where we start in march with 70s and 80s. That is not the case. In the longrange forecast, we could see several more storms moving in over the next couple of weeks. Were not done yet. In march . Such a happy march 1st. Up next, bay area olympian officially announcing her come back. We will tell you how soon alysa liu willbe back democrats agree. Conservative republican steve garvey is the wrong choice for the senate. Our republican opponent here on this stage has voted for donald trump twice. Mr. Garvey, you voted for him twice. As your own man, what is your decision . Garvey is wrong for california. But garveys surging in the polls. Fox news says garvey would be a boost to republican control of the senate. Stop garvey. Adam schiff for senate. Im adam schiff, and i approve this message. Governor newsom is an environmental milestone for california. He says 100,000 and shared private electric vehicle charging stations have now been installed statewide. The milestone comes weeks after the call for an Energy Commission approved nearly 2 billion in funding to the most extensive electric charging network in the nation. The state is expected to reach its planned goal of 250,000 public chargers in the next few years. Start the push for panda. Local chineseamerican leader is working on getting pin those to the San Francisco zoo. Three months ago the mayor sent a letter to president shes the ping asking for a panda. The Chinese Ambassador to the u. S. Responded and said he appreciated the mayors, commitment. The plan to send plans to San Diego Zoo again. It left many wondering if San Francisco will get their own pandas. Yesterday, the mayor tried again with local leaders cosigning it. The city will need to build a habitat for the pandas. A former figure skating champion is heading back to the ice. Alysa liu with 13 she became the youngest woman to win a u. S. Championship title in 2019. She went on to compete in the 22 olympics in beijing. She announced her retirement from competitive skating a couple of months after the olympics. Now, the richmond native says she has a renewed jocus of skating and plans to return to competitive skating this year. Stretch of next month will catch up with the local veteran 2104. What he says keeps him going after all these years. Lets take a look inside 30 rock. Lester holt getting ready for nightly news. One of the top stories is college aid decisions delay. The Financial Aid glitch holding up College Applicants ahead of acceptance of the deadlines. Lester joins us in 3 1 2 minutes. 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That story more, at 7 00 news. Static on nightly news, a dramatic bridge rescue in kentucky. A truck driver rescued after a semitruck plunged through the railing leaving the driver over the water angling. We will show you how the rescue happened. Lester holt joins us next from new york. Tonight, the extreme weather, a lifethreatening blizzard slamming the west and a deadly wildfire still raging in texas first that powerful winter storm pounding the mountains of california and nevada. Dangerous whiteout conditions, up to 12 feet of snow. Yosemite and ski resorts in lake tahoe shut down. Were in the storm zone. Also, the death toll growing from the largest wildfire in texas history. Our images from the air as at least 400 buildings are destroyed, and more hot, dry conditions on the way. The truck crashing on a kentucky bridge the driver left dangling 70 feet over the water. What the hero firefighter who saved her life is saying. President biden announcing the u. S will air drop food into gaza after the deadly chaos surrounding aid trucks two pivotal hearings that could determine the future of former president trumps criminal cases in georgia and florida. D. A. Fani willis back in co