Person right now, police not releasing what exactly happened here. But you see the crime scene tape is up, blocking a couple of homes on oak gateway. I was told something happened, if you can pan over to the left. Something happened at this home. Theyre not exactly saying what happened here. Again, one person transported to the hospital, actively searching for another person. If we get more information, well bring it back to you. George kiriyama, nbc bay area news. Thank you, george. From critical and dire, our drought situation gets worse. The state Water Project of california says there isnt enough water in the system and as a result for the first time in its history, it will not provide a single drop of water to farmers or residents this season. People in the south bay, in the east bay will feel the biggest impact. The trivalley receives 80 of its water each year from the state Water Project. Considering we are 2 3 through the wet season, the state would have to experience heavy rainfall and snowfall every other day through may in order to just get us back to average precipitation levels. Even then we would still face drought conditions. Todays announcement impacts a million acres of farmland. Chief meteorologist jeff ranieri joins us now. Jeff, it has been a dry january. It is coming into play, with the last day of january in the books. All of 2013, the driest calendar year ever on calendar, breaking 50 to 1000yearold records. January goes down as the driest ever in San Francisco. For San Francisco, just 0. 06 of an inch of rainfall. Lets take a look at the hardest hit location. That has been san jose since july 1 for the very important water here, 1. 68 inch of rainfall. In the past, weve had 24hour rainfall better than that. 99 of the bay area now in extreme drought, and there is a small zone that is in the worst category, which is exceptional. That includes south gilroy, watsonville and fresno. It has never been declared before in the history of the Drought Monitor in california. We should say the Drought Monitor started in 2000. With that staid, extremely bone dry conditions here. The other thing we like to look at is the snow pack, right now just 18 normal. So even with two feet of snow this past week, thats going to do little to help. As we wrap things up for right now, were tracking a storm system out here for the wmd. This is raising some concern in the south bay. A hospital thats critical to a local community is for sale. The Catholic Group that runs the hospital in gilroy announced its selling its entire health system. George kiriyama is at the hospital is what this means for gilroy. Im definitely concerned. I definitely want it to be here like a community hospital. Reporter eddie ruiz just moved to gilroy and this is the hospital he goes to for his medical needs. But this hospital and two other bay area hospitals are up for sale. Ruiz worries that it could shut them down if they dont make money. Its very important, because i have children. I just bought a home here. Its definitely going to be a big, huge inconvenience to drive to san jose to get energy care, pediatrics or anything like that. Reporter but the mayor says its a crucial part of the community, and doesnt see the hospital shutting down, even with new owners. He says saint luis shutting down would not makeceps. If theres any kind of an emergency, if you have to travel 30 minutes to an hour to get to a hospital, you know, its not going to work. Reporter the daughters of charity it put the hospitals on the market because financially it was becoming difficult to exist in the current modern health care system. In that statement they say theyre doing the right thing, because theyre starting ahead of time so that they dont end up out of money before theyve done a transaction so the hospitals wont shut down. Reporter the mayor says the quality of care will be maintained no matter who runs the hospital. So the quality is there. I dont think the hospitals will go downhill. Theres too many standards out there to do that. Reporter george kiriyama, nbc bay area news. Its not just in gilroy. Two other bay area hospitals are on the market. Oconnor hospital in san jose and Seton Medical Center in daley city. New video of a house fire thats being investigated as an arson case. The fire started overnight. Police arrested a woman who also turned out to be a victim of the fire. Shes the only member of the family injured in the blaze. B. A. R. T. Inspection crews are gearing up for another look at the transbay tube after a ship dropped its anchor above it. No one inside the b. A. R. T. Trains heard anything and there were no alarms, but the trains were stopped for about 20 minutes while the tubes and the tracks were inspected. The San Francisco b. A. R. T. Pilot at the helm says the anchor was dropped several hundred yards from the tube. One step closer to legalizing pot. Advocates want to get the issue on the ballot this year. The effort failed four years ago. Does it have a chance to win now . Jean elle joins us from San Francisco. Whats the strategy this time around . Reporter well, authors of this Ballot Initiative say thousands of marijuana activists weighed in on this proposal, so theres widespread support in the industry. They believe this year voters are on their side. They will legalize for the recreational user and protect the medical cannabis providers. Reporter voters may get another chance to decide if marijuana will be legal. The secretary of state gave legalization advocates permission today to collect signatures to put the marijuana Legal Initiative on the ballot, an idea voters rejected in 2010. Grassroots, we all wrote this together. Reporter she says unlike prop 19, this initiative has widespread support in the industry. And as voters watch a booming industry in colorado generate millions in tax revenue, views are changing. We are now calling it 51 . We have states, even in the southern states, getting ready, like florida and tennessee. Reporter california says legalization will save 100 million annually in Law Enforcement costs and generate a few hundred million in tax revenue. But theres still the question of federal law. The Drug Enforcement agency says marijuana is illegal. Going down the path to legalization in this country is reckless and irresponsible. Reporter some voters say while they support the idea, theyre concerned ant the risk. I think ultimately federally it should be legalized but its a very difficult thing to do state by state. Reporter supporters have until june to collect more than 500,000 signatures to qualify for the november ballot. Reporting live in San Francisco, jean elle, nbc bay area news. Thank you, jean. Covered california, the Agency Responsible for handling obamacare, hired convicted felons. The information released by covered california shows 31 people with criminal back grounds were hired as counselors. They say the employees pose no threat despite being able to access personal information like Social Security numbers. The flu season continues to hit the bay area hard. Two more people have died. That raises the number of deaths in the bay area to 34 now. Statewide the situation is much more serious. So far 147 people have died from the virus. Four of them children. The number expected to climb with 42 deaths still being investigated. Put that in perspective. Last year, 106 people died during the entire flu season. Experts are urging you to go ahead, still get your flu shot, because its still the best way to protect yourself. The cdc reports flu activity is expected to continue for a few more weeks. Still ahead, its happened again. Another major credit card security breach. This one is affecting travelers. The Investigative Unit exposed major food safety laws. Tonight, what the fda is proposing to protect you and your family. When is the last time you printed one of those photos youve taken on your phone . A new app makes it free and easy with just one catch. One week away from the Opening Ceremony. Janell wang is there to give us a look at the last him nut preparations. Last year we exposed some major flaws in food safety, the way food is distributed to our local Grocery Stores and restaurants. Tonight, the fda has new rules. Its cracking down on the companies that handle what we eat. Vicky nguyen has been on the story and joins us with more. Reporter you may be surprised to learn that until now, theres been very little federal oversight of how our food makes it from farm to table. The fda is now taking steps to regulate how human and animal food is transported. It will create uniform standards instead of the patch work of state laws. Under the new rules companies have to make sure they use proper vehicles to keep from becoming spoiled. That means refrigeration for meat and eggs and separation of food and nonfood items. Companies would be required to train employees in sanitary practices and keep records of cleaning, cargo, and temperature controls. The fda says its goal is to prevent risky practices that jeopardize food safety. Its a problem we up covered last summer when our cameras captured Cisco Company storing raw foods that sat for hours before it was delivered. Cisco has since stopped that practice and is under investigation by the state health depth and the usdc. The fda says more thanle 83,000 businesses will be affected and lit cost 2,000 for each business to implement. But critics say it will be more expensive. Well let you know when the rules take effect. Vicky nguyen, nbc bay area news. Thank you. If you have a tip for our Investigative Unit, give us a call or send an email. A scare at the super bowl and the fbi is on the case. Someone mailed packages containing a sus hipihiss suspicious white powder. The mailings went to at least five hotels in new jersey. The fbi says the substances were tested and deemed not hazardous. From the super bowl to the olympics, the Opening Ceremony one week from tonight. And the push is on to make sure that everything is ready. The athletes are starting to arrive in sochi and so are the journalists. Theres one journalists were keeping our eye on. Its janell wang. Reporter hi, im here in sochi, russia. Its saturday morning here. Were exactly 12 hours ahead of you for those of you in the bay area. Behind me here is the International Broadcast center. This is where thousands of journalists from all over the world are home based. Athletes started to arrive. Families will be coming over. We are ready for the winter games, which begin on thursday. Lit be one of the biggest and most expensive ever. We are heading to the mountain cluster now, so well check back in with you later this week. Reporting from sochi, back to you. Good to hear from janell. So glad. Shes also tweeting about the sights and sounds of sochi. Today she posted this photo of herself. She added, good thing its not lit, because she didnt want to burn her finger. Is she really in russia right now . Shes there. Theres excitement in san jose. Two olympic legends came to greet the bay areas newest olympian. A spirited rally for paulina edmonds. Just 15 years old, shes the youngest member of the u. S. Figure skating team. Two graduates came back to campus for a surprise appearance, Kerry Walsh Jennings and soccer car brandy chastain on hand to wish her well. She says shes inspired by all the support. Its just so cool to have everyone be so excited for me. She probably just had midterms. Its crazy to think shes pursue thing dream and shes made a huge dream come true in making the olympics. She did have midterms. Kerry Walsh Jennings and chastain said, stay focused, breathe, relax and kick butt. Direct from their mouths. A week from tonight, the Opening Ceremony. We have in depth coverage of the Olympic Games at nbcbayarea. Com. Back here, several inches of new snow on the ground. Fresh powder bringing skiers and snowboarders to the resorts. Northstar says conditions are great and pretty, too. The trees are just covered with beautiful snow, and it looks just like a Winter Wonderland at the resort. Snow brings more people, which is great for us and everyone lets us know, and kind of get out of the city and escape the mountains for a good time. Folks at squaw and truckee say more lifts are open, giving your more options for runs. Im going to leave right after this news cast. That looked great. Lets bring in jeff ranieri. A lot of snow out there across the sierra. It is going to be melting, without any major storms on the horizon. Live radar is dry right now, but there is at least a smaller system we are tracking for this weekend. Thats out there. Well have details on that, plus details on super bowl sunday. And that Weather Forecast back here for the east coast, what you can expect across the bay area. We did manage a ton of blue sky for today. Temperatures dropping off with clear skies. Right now 40s in the north bay. We did have some wind across San Francisco. Its still a little bit windy down here throughout the south bay, coming out of the north and the west at 17 miles per hour, gusting in the low 20s. We do think as we head throughout tomorrow, winds will calm down as we see brief break in that forecast. But lets get right to that weekend system. Which oov got the storm system thats going to ride down the jet stream. As it gets close to the bay area, we think its going to ride down the coastline. Without the center of the storm moving across the bay, we eastern not going to see heavy rainfall totals. We will think at this point get something. So that area of low pressure winds up at saturday 11 00 p. M. , sunday morning, 8 00, 9 00, 10 00 and 11 00, well see potentially rainfall in napa, San Francisco, also santa cruz. This is a storm system that well track hour by hour. Because of the center of the storm, it moves closer to the bay and well get higher totals. If it stays offshore, we could have a completely dry forecast. All in all, looks like the slight chance of showers will remain in the forecast throughout 6 00 p. M. Then lifting out by the evening hours. Of course, no amount of rainfall is going to make up for january. January in San Francisco, just 0. 06 of an inch, the driest january on record ever in San Francisco. If we cant get the rainfall, well enjoy some of this sunny weather throughout saturday. 62 in san jose. Redwood city, 63. San francisco, a few clouds, upper 50s and low 60s. North bay, east bay and for the try valley, looking pretty good for tomorrow. Low 30s in the morning hours, jumping up to 64 by the afternoon. Oakland, 57. So sunny on saturday. By sunday, that slight chance of hoarse, temperatures in the mid to also upper 50s. Lake tahoe, looking at 38 degrees. Maybe a stray snow shower. The super bowl, cold out there in new jersey. Temperatures right near 40 with some clouds. Across san jose, temperatures in the upper 50s. And the coldest super bowl ever was 39 degrees set back in 1972. So well be close to that. Well see if we beat it or tie it. Well have to wait and find out. Well be on the couch watching the game. Happy new year. A loud way to start off the new year, lion dancers, drummers and dragons celebrating the year of the horse. This was in chinatown this afternoon. The city will host a number of events, from the miss chinatown pageant to the Lunar New Year parade. A Million People expected to attend that parade saturday, february 15. Coming up, credit card breach affecting some hotels now. Back in a moment. Another credit card breach to tell you about, this one involving hotel chains. Marriott, hilton and Starwood Hotels says its learned about the potential breach from the same security blogger who first reported that breach at target. So far it appears hundreds of credit and debit cards used between march of last year through december were hacked. Its not clear how many hotels have been affected and whether other chains may be involved in the security breach. Lets face it, most of the pictures we take never make it to a printer. But a new app could change that. The app is called flag. Every month, the Online Service will print 20 photos off of your phone and mail them to you. The place tag, free. But of course, heres the catch. It will print an ad on the back of each photo. Its on kickstart right now. Flag calls itself a Photo Finishing system from the 21st century. So far its raised more than 60,000. You put it in a frame you dont see the ad. The giants have a new uniform. Thats next. Brody brazil joins us. A rare night for the warriors, right . Rare in terms of their packtoback wins, on the road in utah. Things had not always gone well for golden state in salt lake city. But they were coming off that big win against the clippers. Going up against the 1629 jazz. Jerry sloan honored there tonight. Green, the vicious dunk. Boys and girls, the poster of that will be coming out soon. Curry will nail the floater. He had a season high 44 points. Golden state wins by five. I trust him. Ive watched that guy make those shots for a long time now, and hes in the discussion with anybody thats ever played the game. I believe the variety of which he shoots these shots, hes the best shooter this league has ever seep. Orange friday at the ballpark will have a brand new look this season. Brandon crawford with the picture here. You can see how its different for the giants. The front very much retro, like the old ones they used to wear from 77 to 82 as modeled there by willie mccovey. San francisco players are excited to get back to work. Been here and doing fan fest, i think its as much for us as it is for the fans, because we get geared up with them. All the hard work pays off when it comes season time. So getting back to do the things we love, doing it together, its exciting. You cant have a super bowl and the big name is around the corner, unless you have puppies. This thanks to our late night colleague jimmy fallon. They went with the denver broncos. The super bowl is this sunday. By the way, monday right here on nbc bay area, we have a surprise for you. Cant tell you who or what it is. Youll have to wait and watch. More news right after this. Finally tonight, a special honor for one of the best reporters in the bay area. She also happens to be our friend and colleague. Honoring nbc bay areas cheryl hurd in oakland this evening. The sorority wanted to honor strong africanamerican women who are journalists. So we want to congratulate cheryl. She is our champion. Have a great weekend. Byebye. Or how to find big savingsdeals on the things you need. Just make a Straight Line to safeway. Youll find huge club card deals perfect for the big game. Pizzas a football favorite. Digiorno pizza is 3. 99. Get your snack on. 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