Im diane dwyedwyer. Russian troops seized control of the cry men peninsula. Reporter russian soldiers on the march in ukraine. This unit is taking up positions outside a ukrainen base. The times and loyalties have changed. The russians have come prepared for a fiechlt behind the gate, the troops are dressed for combat but look bewildered. And no wonder. Their homeland has been invaded. Their homeland, crimea taken over. Theyve been ordered to lay down their weapons or thered be trouble. Minutes later, the ukrainian m armor was gone. The ukrainian base is now surrounded. Theres no word on whether the garrison has been ordered to feet or surrender. Russia has taken crimea without firing a shot. Its taken just three days. Russian troops occupying a region thats pulling away from ukraine fast, with the full support of most of its people. Pro russian militias have formed. These men making sure no one pulls down the statue of lenin. The navy chief defected to russia today, and his orders may now come from moscow. The russian takeover amounts to a declaration awar. Ukraines army in crimea is pinned down and humiliated. And the rest of ukraine, its army has been put on combat alert. Its Prime Minister says we are on the brengs of disaster, but there is no sign ukraine is going to fight Russian Troops for this place. Bill nealy, nbc news, crimea. A man from san jose was in the ukraine. He just returned home tonight. Nbc bay areas Kimberly Terry is at the airport with his story. Reporter joseph says he didnt get much notice that they would be leaving. In fact, the peace corps gave them 48 hours to get their stuff and get out of the country. He says this has been one of the most ebs haxhausting weeks of h life. Be being ripped away from the country and the people that you love the most. And this has geoffen me a chance to reflect at how resilient and amazing the yew crane yan people are. And how you know, we should never take for granted our freedom and what we have here. Reporter he and hundreds of other peace corps individuals were evacuated to their hometowns. With all these things happening in crimea, i can understand why were here now. But still, i would like to be there, more so than home. I have a girlfriend back there. Its difficult to leave there. Reporter he says while the images coming out of kiev have been hard to look at, the cause is an important one. Now the world more than ever needs to look at ukraine and see how beautiful they are and how their ideals arent too much different than american ideals. Reporter he says this is the Pivotal Point to the country and has a message to his friends who are part of the revolution. Glory to ukraine and glory to the heroes. Reporter he was in ukraine for almost two years. Working as an english teacher. He says he will go back as soon as it is safe. Live in san jose, nbc bay area news. Kem kimberly. Thanks very much. Victor key, a native of ukraine performed in san jose, and now hes on a two week break from the show. He plans to drive his porsche across the country. Hes worried about his family and friends who still live in ukraine. Im thankful for this home of 20 years now. And ive made my career here. And id love my people toe have the same opportunity. And im heartbroken to see whats going to happen. Hes heading out from so tomorrow, and then las vegas and across the united states. Coming up later, what u. S. Leaders have to say about the crisis in ukraine. Watch for the latest developments on today in the bay. From 4 30 to 7 00. The recent round of storms are not done yet. Heres a live look at the bay bridge in downtown san francisco, it is clear right now. But that is going to change. Meteorologist rob mayeda joins us. Were seeing break in between wer werth systems. Its a short break were seeing now. You see the clouds approaching the coast. And that will be the next batch of moisture that will bring us rain. We do think in time for the morning commute, you can see that right around 7 30 in the morning, you start to see the light rain come through. Not so much in the south bay. Just some lighter rain. As you go through the afternoon youll see heavier showers push through. You can see most of the accumulations will be up in the north bay, but not a lot at that. Thats noon. And. 02 of an inch of rain might make the ground a little wet, but not much of a yes, maam pant. As we approach the evening commute, still relatively dry. And the big totals will come after 6 00 tomorrow. The main effect of this storm coming in for tomorrow night. And well show you the complete rain totals, and the second storm system coming in on wednesday. A sinkhole opened up because of the storms. Traffic was partially closed on west cliff drive. Chp Officials Say they reopened the road to traffic today. The sinkhole is about the size of a large car. It reaches to the ocean below. People say its not new, either. It opened up about ten years ago and was filled in. Waves broke through the windows of this Santa Barbara restaurant yesterday. But today, the moby dick restaurant was back open. They hope to have it back open tomorrow. The waves broke on through. A messy cleanup is under way in parts of los angeles after five inches drefrnsed the region. The problem . Mud and lots of it. The foothills charred by last years wildfires caused the most trouble sending mud into homes. Reporter despite the inconvenience, carla says it helped this time. The rain was the largest since 2010. Evacuation orders have been lifted tonight and homeowners are crediting miles of sandbags and roadblocks from preventing more damage. Investigators are looking into a train accident that killed a girl. The Freight Train killed the girl. When Police Arrived on scene they found the girl near the tracks and was reported dead at the time. She was possibly trying to grab her cell phone that was on the tracks when she was hit. Police are still on the scene investigating. And a firefighter sp recovering tonight after he fell through the floor while battling a house fire. Crews responded to this vacant home. Its the second time its burned in the last four month. They say squatters may have started this fire. According to investigators, the first fire happened when gas from a leaking pipe came in contact with lamps used to grow marijuana. The governor made his stance clear on legalizing marijuana. Monte francis is live in san francisco. This is a very memorable moment for the governor. Reporter to legally smoeb pot in california, you have to come to a medical marijuana des pencery like this one behind me. And it appears the governor wants it to stay that way. The problem with anything. A certain amount is okay. But there is a tendency to go to extremes. All of a sudden if theres advertising and legitimacy, how many people can get stoned and still have a great state or great nation. Reporter Governor Brown kale on meet the press to discuss a host of issues. But when Host David Gregory asked if california should follow in the footsteps of colorado and washington which have both legalized recreational pot, brown did not mince words. Worlds very dangerous, pretty competitive. I think we need to stay alert, if not 24 hours a day, more than some of the potheads put together. Reporter although california only allows the use of pot for medical reasons, it is widely available. And because of that, the governor said that what we have in california is in his words very close to what exists in colorado and washington. A recent poll found that 58 of americans support legalizing the Recreational Use of marijuana. Jerry smoked a few, im pretty sure, back in his day. Reporter pot advocates are confident it will be legal in california regardless of what the governor says. I think hes being the Political Animal he is, i think its expedient to him to kind of to try to slow things down even though the ball is already rolling. Reporter and there are voter initiatives in the works in at least three other states aimed at legalizing recreational pot. California is not one of those states. Monte francis, nbc bay area news. Thank you. Dents on the peninsula are looking into whether a man arrested for exposing himself is linked to any other crimes. Erik edwards went into a womans car. His pants were down and he was touching himself. The woman was able to call 911. Within minutes, officers were on the scene to arrest him. They investigating whether he is linked to any other incidents near by. A proposal would outlaw the sale of bottled drinsing water on City Property for indoor events and in 2016 for outdoor events. It calls for more drinking fountains and water bottle refilling stations. Before the vote, a rally is set to be held on the steps of city hall, including a blind taste test of san franciscos tap water versus bottled water brands. Should be an interesting test there. Facebook sathe east coast m another blast of winter. A look at a snow emergency. And californias home to another multimillion dollar power ball winner. Well show you where the tickets were sold. Students at Santa Clara University are on alert after two robberies. It happened after 1 00 this morning. Two students were robbed at gun point. And the robberies have frightened some students. Its just, its scarey to know that theres people out there that will do that. There were some events last summer. After the robberies occurred, University Police sent out a student alert to all students, urging them to travel in groups at night and be aware of their surroundings. Facebook says its willing to peck up the tab for security at its menlo park headquarters. They are looking for a mess officer to work out of the bell haven station. They are going to consider the offer on tuesday. Last sum are city leaders approved a threeyear lease for the new sub station. Facebook agreed to pay the rent of that entire lease and offered another 200,000 bucks to overhaul the building. California is becoming a hotbed for lottery winners. A power ball ticket was sold in sacramento county, that ticket sold at a gas station matched all six numbers. The owners will receive 300,000 for selling that ticket. Here we go again. Big winter storm, again, slamming parts of the midwest and south today. The same weather system thats brought torrential rain to california is now pushing east with millions of people now bracing for more snow and ice. Plummeting temperatures and icy conditions have closed bridges and roadways. And thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed. Officials in d. C. And virginia have declared a snowy emergency. People looking to stock up on road salt found nothing but empty shelves. They cant get it anywhere. Got in three pounds of ice melt, it was gone. We havent been able to get it at will. Heres something to take your mind off of that. A Record Number of people splashed into leak michigan for the polar plunge to money for special lem februarys. There he is. Jimmy fallon. He looks a little cold. He did it all to get the mayor of chicago on his show. So it was worth it. And raised a ton of money for the special olympics. Here where its at least 20 degrees warmer than that. As we go through tonight were going to continue to see the clouds roll in from the west, which will lead to a chance of a slight chance of rein by morning. We ten to see this southerly flow of the atmosphere. Its brought up the moisture from the coast. The winds still out of south will keep our temperatures up overnight, mainly in the 50s and eventually spill in enough moisture to give us a little rein tomorrow. A few showers way off to the north of sonoma county. Now by the time we weake up tomorrow morning all these cirrus clouds should be on top of the bay. The overview is, you can see how the heavy rain makes the bulls eye for sonoma county. For the most part it looks like tomorrow night will be the best chance for seeing those accumulations adding up in the south bay. Heres a closer view for your morning commute. Marine county, chances are you will have a little bit of rain, a little less so down for the south bay. Mainly light to moderate rain. No yellow or red showing up in the future cast. And as we go through the afternoon, light rain at times. You see that quickmoving line as we go through the overnight hours. And then the skys turning partly cloudy on tuesday and the wednesday system now really doesnt look like much. So the main event will be what comes in tomorrow night and tuesday. By 6 00, not a lot of accumulations out there to cause problems, but its after 6 00 now. Now youre seeing the totals add up in the south bay. From roughly 7 00 tomorrow night to tuesday morning, thats where most of the rainfall will fall. And very likely in the santa cruz mountains, theyll pick up about 2 inches of rain. In the sierra, well add another inch or two. Perhaps as much as 3 to 4 inches above 4,000 feet. The computer model trend has been to take this system and weaken it by the time it hits the bay area. Pretty good area of rain for the north bay that weakens as it slides south of the bay area. Then as we pass thursday and friday well see the opposite of tropical pressure build in. So well get 70s in the bay area. And were starting to see rain on the coast. That will move south by next sunday. We could see a few showers as we wrap up next weekend. Light rain. Near 61 in san jose, upper 50s to near 60 in san francisco. North bay seeing the most of the rain between now and wednesday. As skies clear, you notice on the seven day forecast, skies clear out. Friday and saturday climbing into the low 70s as we kick off next weekend. . That is one wild forecast. The eye did rod sled race began. And between the mushers and the finishers are about 1,000 miles of alaskan terrain. And the yukon river and the wind whipped seacoast. The race normally takes about ten very cold days. Sort of like the Lake Michigan thing at a different level. They dress better than jimmy fallon did. What did you have for us . I tell you, we got something cooking for you that baseball fans are going to love. Highlights for the giants and as, plus the sharks. They took care of the devils. But what about steph curry. Can he carry the ws in toronto . Highlights after this. Welcome back to nbc bay area. The guys on the farm made a trip to the cactus state to slow down a former star from mitty. Sanford basketball is where well pick it up. First half, wildcats up 56789 but a guy named aaron gordon, with a jam. Thats not his real head. It could be big, because hes a superstar. Nice little scoop shop there. Arizona up 13 at the brake of the then gordon, leading the break, lands it in. He had 15 rebounds. Arizona wins, 7966. What about the ws. Steph curry wearing gold shoes for oscar night. Would he be the leading male on the court . Curry knocked down the three. The end of the third, go ahead and drive, young man. Left handed gets it to go. He had 34 points. Onepoint game, Patrick Patterson from the baseline. A minute later, patterson. I said patterson nothing but net. Thats annoying when your team loses, warriors lose 10498. Yeah. Disappointing loss. I thought we played very well. Eight minute change. Coming out of the timeout they go 110 run. We dont take care of the basketball down the stretch. Little things like that going to cost you. And they certainly cost us tonight. Sharks wrapping up a threegame road trip. Sharks on a twoonone. Ralphy torres, go ahead and bang that baby home. Two devils in alone. But alex makes the save. 40 seconds later, sharks break in on a threeontwo. A score on the onetimer. His seventh of the year. Slashes win, 42. Played an excellent game. He seized the opportunity, played really well. He was very good on the line, o goal. In his case it wasnt so much sending a message. It was getting some other people into the game that had to play. And it was nice to see that he handled it properly. I hope youre ready for some spring training baseball. Tim hudson on the mound. Mcgill, montero hits into a double play that ends the inning. Hudson looked tough. Two scoreless innings in his day butte giants. Bottom of the fifth fbbases loaded. The gmen win. 53 is your total. Chavez making the start. Mike trout. Chavez, two ks. A shot to left field, stays in the park. However, lowry and donaldson will come in. As win. 32 is your final. Before we get out of here. The womens championship in singapore, paula cramer against munoz, 75foot putt, and it was an eagle putt for the win. No way she gets it, right . Wrong she is happy, doing her high step. Shes like oh, my goodness. Hey, talent is talent. Congratulations to her. The most surprised person on the golf course was her. It was. Her eyes were closed. But she made the putt. Thats what counts. Coming up next, its hollywoods biggest night. The academy awards. Well show you how tonights host, Ellen Degeneres did something that has never been done before. Plus a look at fashion. This is what you call an epic selfie, tweeted by Ellen Degeneres tonight, earned more than a million retweets in less than an hour. She added if only bradleys arm was longer, best photo ever. Hollywood royalty crowding around, including Jennifer Lawrence and brad pitt. Ellen degeneres hosting the awards tonight. The Rainy Weather wrapped up just in time. Degeneres mingled with the crowd, using many of the crowd for her jokes. She set up a pizza delivery. Best actress award went to Kate Blanchette fpla cate blanchette. Sit down, youre too old to be standing. Sandra, i could watch that performance till the end of time, and i sort of felt like i had. Julia, suckit. You know what i mean . The only explanation is what she gave at a bar. 12 years a slave won the oscar for best picture. Do you think she was trying to slam Sandra Bullock . It started out by saying sit down, youre too old. That didnt went a lot of warmth. Switching gears a bit. President obama and other World Leaders are trying to figure out their options as the crisis unfolds in the ukraine. And a first for college players. Theyre pushing to unionize. Were going to show you what they want. Might be surprised. There was plenty of tough talk in washington today about the situation in ukraine, but so far its only talk. As we reported earlier, secretary of state john kerry plans to travel to the capital later this week. And we have more from the white house on this developing story. This is an act of aggression that is completely trumpedup. Its really 19th century behavior in the 21st century. Reporter with russia ignoring u. S. Warning, secretary of state kari said the country will quote, pay a price if president putin doesnt withdraw his forces from ukraine, but how steep will that price be . Hes not going to have a sochi g 8. He may not even remain in the g8 if this continues. He may find himself with asset freezes. American business may pull back. There may be a further tumble of the ruble. Reporter ker last thing anybody wants is a military option in this situation. Reporter the u. S. And several of its g8 partners have said they wont attend et planning meetings for the g8 economic summit which will be held in sochi russia, the same place as the liolympics. A former Obama NationalSecurity Council spokesman saying the u. S. Has few options. You can take away visas for certain members of parliaments. Can you do things that hurt the prestige of russia on the international stage. Reporter but Vladimir Putin has heard it all before. Former president george w. Bush had a weak hand to play. Putin feels hes in a similar position of strength now. He does not care. And in many ways this action is directly for that purpose, to show swagger in the word. Reporter and america is tired of war, which gives putin even more lief ran. Thats american weakness to be taken advantage of. Putin knows where we are psychologically. And he certainly understands where barack obama is. And thats in a mode of withdrawing from wars. So far russian president putin has given no indication that hell heed International Warnings to stop his military advance in ukraine. A Navy Fighter Jet that crashed during a Training Exercise in nevada is now being called a total loss. The pilot whose name is not yet being released, was killed in the crash about 3 00 yesterday in nevada. It took rescue crews several hours to reach the wreckage because of the mountain oustous an. North korea is stirring up trouble again. They fired missiles off the eastern coast of the korean peninsula. Its believed they flew about 300 miles. North korea launched similar missiles last month in an attempt to protest ongoing u. S. south korea military exercises. He says the exercises are a rehearsal for an invasion into the north. For the First Time EverFootball Players at Northwestern University are trying to form a labor union. The players argue theyre fulltime employee, paid with scholarships and should have a say in ncaa rules. Among their demands, sideline concussion experts. Lifetime coverage for sports injuries and limits for withdrawing scholarships. Its almost like a dictatorship. We want a seat at the table. The ncaa is fighting the proposal saying it undermines the purpose of college and education. 7 billion a year is generated for schools with college sports. We have a box office trend. The christian theme movie son of god had a huge opening, leading some to believe that 2014 will be the year of the bible. We have word on what will soon be in theaters. Reporter breaking through the top spot with nearly 10 million, the son of god movie starring the portugalborn actor. It was a huge release. 3100 screens nationwide. This is a passion project for us. The most important thing is its a movie, gets seen and used. Reporter it certainly helped that the film makers spent months preaching to the converted. With megachurches worldwide spreading the message. Dont forget on this friday night, the son of god movie is coming out that were all supporting. Reporter and the crowds who came out got what they came for. We need more of this in the world. You dont think you can really go wrong with it. Reporter how do you fill these seats . A distributor once said you hunt with a duck sonar. The upcoming noah with Russell Crowe and exodus with christian bale. It can be tricky. Thats why paramount says it is inspired by the story of noah, with some Artistic License taken. A decade ago, passion of the christ brought in nearly 400 billion. A bay area boy is making all of us bay area proud. What he asked for instead of presents. Of all the lessons parents have to pass on to their kids, helping others and reaching hard to meet your goals are two worth mentioning. There is a boy in the north bay who can teach all of us a lesson. Reporter this ninie ieyear is never happier than with a soccer ball at his feet and friends. Memphis chose to put effort into a different kind of goal. An ambitious one he remarkably has set for himself. I love it. Reporter they say this all began a few years ago when they gave memphis a choice. For his birthday he could get presents or ask for donations for a worthy cause. Every year he had the choice, and every year memphis has chosen to give rather than receive. Because i want to take my time to help the people. Reporter when he was 4 years old, he helped raise 9 hundred dollars to save a parade. When he was 5, he turned hess attention to the redwood empire food bank. Every year since, memphis has is goals of how many meals he wants to donate and every year memphis has surpassed it. Ive broken them by either 1,000 or one, 3,000. Reporter the goal this time, 9,999 meals for the food bank. He got started early before his birthday set up in front of a santa rosa grocery store. The night before his birthday party, he still gets one of those, by the way. Memphis reached his goal. All the beans rice and mac and cheese his guests brought with them that day, that was just gravy. Memphis says hes pretty sure hell be at it again next year. Although hes not sure what goal hes going to set for himself. No matter what he chooses, hes already set a good one for himself. I hope i inspire other people. Reporter garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. I think he did just inspire a bunch of other people. Im feeling not very productive. Compared to him . How many of us are . Rob mayeda here next. The clouds are still lurking offshore, at least the type that will bring us rain. Well wake up to mostly cloudy skies tomorrow. And your commute, likely dealing with a little bit of light rain which will spread across the east bay approaching lunch time, but the more moderate rain for the south bay likely holding off till the evening. Notice as we go through the day tuesday into wednesday, things looking drier now at least for the first part of wednesday. Through 6 00 tomorrow evening, you can see how most of the accumulations here should be in the north bay. And then after 6 00 and before 6 00 tuesday morning, this is when this first system comes through. Maybe gets half of an inch for the south bay, nearly an inch for the north bay in santa rosa. Dropping out of the north as we go into wednesday evening, another impact for the north bay, but the system weakens as it slides south of the bay area. Gone already on thursday. So the systems moving quickly. Not expected to bring us as much rain as friday. We see sunday showers coming in this time next weekend. Well see 70s in the forecast. You see it at the bottom of the screen. Your forecast for friday and saturday, we should see 70s inland. So tomorrow, probably one of the more wet days that well have around the bay area, especially as we head into the evening. And overnight tomorrow. Upper 50s for san mateo. And near 60 in the north bay. Tri valley, low 60s tomorrow. And well see these temperatures hold, maybe a bit warmer for tuesday. And toward the end of the week well see the temperatures climbing with 70s on the board for saturday. More rain coming in by next sunday. Thanks very much. Well be right back. Three, two, one the rain didnt stop thousands of people from running through the streets of san jose today. It was the third annual race benefitting the pat tillman foundation. He was killed in afghanistan. A nearly 5 mile run walk started in downtown san jose, finished at santana row. Several of our nbc bay area coworkers participated. Garvin thomas. We just heard from him. Phillip suke. And the last three, without them this show doesnt happen, they were up at 8 00 running, and theyre here tonight making sure this happens. And they did a pretty good job tonight given the fact theyve been up since 8 00 this morning. Its almost tomorrow. Thanks for watching bay area news. Goodnight. Now his former students return the favor. Its unbelievable to look up and see them all. She lost so much in the vietnam war. It seems like but after years of searching, she found the man responsible for giving her a new life in the u. S. My dream came true after all these years