The very latest information as it is developing this morning. Also here in the bay area, b. A. R. T. Is recovering after massive delays this morning. A stalled train at the west oakland station brings the whole system to a grinding halt. Sharon is live at the embarcadero station right now. Sharon, i understand you talked to some frustrated riders. Theyre finally getting to work . Reporter hey, laura, you know my audio is breaking up a little bit but just to let you know i got off the phone with a b. A. R. T. Spokesperson and he tells me there are still delays systemwide and were seeing a lot of commuters come off of b. A. R. T. Complaining about all the delays. Lets take a look at the newschopper video we got earlier today. The train stuck at the west oakland station. It was heading to the San Francisco International Airport. B. A. R. T. Reported the problem about 7 45 this morning. All trains were stopped in all directions while b. A. R. T. Tried to move that train. Commuters had to wait until 9 15 to catch b. A. R. T. Which it was back in full service or drive their own car and avoid the mess. People had to be patient with alternates and delays. I was just on amtrak and over the loud speaker they were like, oh, west oakland theres a big delay pabecause of a train, something shut down, so were going to take you to emeryville. They said its going to be an hour, so ill wait. Its kind of ajoying. I still have to catch the n line to go to work and muni also is delayed so it just made me think to get to work its like two hour hours. Reporter a late start to their work day. Its estimated 28,000 b. A. R. T. Riders go through the transbay tube during peak commute hours so you can imagine how many people were affected the train that caused the delays was sent over to the daly city maintenance yard and theyre still checking into what caused all the problems this morning. Sharon, thank you. As she mentioned, that caused trouble all over the system. Thats right. And it continues this morning. Lets check many in vianey. Hows that Transit System going now . Its still recovering. You can go to our website and track your exact route and location. Some areas seeing a 15, 20, up to 30minute delay out of some stations, not just in oakland but heading towards San Francisco. So if this is going to be your work commute, you may want to take extra time. Check in on our website. Once again, thats nbcbayarea. Com. We do have the link where you can check the exact routes and any delays heading in the direction of your traffic commute. Back to you. Thank you. People made their frustration known on twitter. We often tell people take alternate transportation, right, but somebody tweeted b. A. R. T. Is the alternative means of transportation. And somebody else, 2 hours and waiting, still shaking my head. Im going back home. A lot of frustration from people this morning. Our other top story, the storm that arrived over the weekend. Well take you outside to the Traffic Cameras on the Golden Gate Bridge and downtown san jose where things look fine right now but earlier this morning the story was frost and freeze. The video here, frosted cars in a parking lot in san jose. We have team coverage. First lets start with meteorologist kari hall thats tracking what is coming our way. We are expecting some clear skies for the near term. As we get ready for this next storm system to move in, that will bring heavy rain starting late tonight, so its time now to clear out the storm drains, move away those leaves and allow that water to run off somewhere that will help that water drain. We are expecting some flooding, so now its 45 degrees. After thafter chilly start, sti fairly cold. Were in the upper 30s for the north bay, 46 in morgan hill and in san jose 44 degrees. So weve powered up our storm ranger on a mountain in san bruno and this will be scanning around the bay area and giving us an hd view of whats going to move in as far as the radar imagery and the clouds that are starting to roll in as we go into tonight. Now, expecting some very heavy rain, some strong winds and it all gets going late tonight and into tomorrow morning so ill give you a better idea of the timeline and what you can expect coming up in the microclimate forecast. Thank you very much, kari. Everyone taking advantage of this clear day to get ready for the storm. Pete joins us live from san encelmo. Reporter yes, these businesses are anticipating the big storms weve been talking about all week long. Heres the sandbags. They have got these flood gates here that theyre going to prop up top prevent the flooding from getting in there. Its clear that a lot of these businesses arent taking any chances. Im very worried about it because we need to place to keep open and our customer, so its a little scary. Reporter thats alberto, a manager with the Coffee Roastery here. Hes going to pop up those flood gates tonight in anticipation for those storms. Theyre right next to the san anselmo creek. The way it works, theres going to be a flood horn that goes off if that creek level goes above 12 feet, which means you need to get to Higher Ground as soon as possible. Another concern theyre worried about are the trees. Theyre sitting on saturated ground following some of the rain we have had as of late. City officials worry what kind of damage could happen in the area as a result of the weekend storms. So one of the worries right now is that there are trees that are starting to fall over. Weve had a lot of downed trees in town in the last couple of weeks since the december 15th storm. Reporter definitely something theyll keep an eye on this weekend. As for those sandbags, they are provided for free by the town and its going to be near the red hill shopping center. Also public works officials will be working through the weekend so it looks like all hands will be on deck for the weekend storms, guys. Thank you, pete. One local rv park is already evacuating residents ahead of this weekends storm. The recent rain filling up recent reservoirs. For the ones that are already full like the one in morgan hill, the storms will create problems for the campers at the thousand trails rv park. They are evacuated amid warning of potential flooding. Most campers didnt waste any time taking action. Its better to be safe than sorry. Better to be safe than sorry. My bedroom slippers still. They told us last night to be ready to leave, so ive been packing up all day long. A good plan. The rv park will close tonight at 5 00. Right now it is the only area that has been forced to evacuate. They say everybody anywhere nearby still needs to be on alert. Towns and ski resorts throughout the sierra are bracing for snow by the foot from this next storm. Forecasters are predict the between 10 and 15 feet of snow by early next week. A lot of it is coming from the band of weather now moving towards the bay area. Parts of the sierra already received at least five feet of snow from the last storm. Our nbc bay area app is a really great way to track the incoming storm. You can access our Doppler Radar and get a detailed forecast for your very own community. New at 11 00, a family is sifting through damage after a fire broke out at their oakland home. This was some of the video we got this morning of firefighters on the roof battling the flames around 8 30 this morning on baker street. No word on the cause of the fire. A wall heater meantime lighting a blanket on fire is to blame for this Apartment Building fire in oakland. Thats what firefighters are telling us this morning. We brought you this as live breaking news all morning long on today in the bay. Two people were hospitalized after suffering smoke inhalation in the grand lake district. It started a little bit after 4 00. Kr crews had it under control in about an hour. San Francisco Police officers shot a man who apparently was violating a restraining order. That began at 5 00 this morning in the ocean view neighborhood. The suspect violated the restraining order filed by his neighbor. Officers tried to speak with the man but at some point someone was pepper sprayed. Its not clear who. That is also when one of the officers shot the suspect. The man then locked himself in his home. Eventually officers forced their way in. The suspect was taken to the hospital with nonli nonlifethreatening injuries. The search for a killer in san jose continues. Three men were shot inside a restaurant last night. Witnesses say a gunman walked into the restaurant and began shooting. Two men were killed, another hospitalized. Witnesses in nearby stores an businesses tell us they ran for their lives. A guy came in saying, oh, theyre shooting outside. He was holding his baby and he was just like panicking. So far police dont know a motive for that shooting. New at 11 00, the orca that killed a seaworld trainer and later became the focus of the documentary black fish has died. Seaworld officials confirmed this morning that the orca died but they didnt say how. He had been facing Serious Health issues over the past year, including an infection. He gained notoriety after he was profiled in that 2013 documentary black fish. The documentary highlighting the dangers of keeping killer whales in captivity. It eventually led to major changes at seaworld parks. He killed three people, including a Seaworld Orlando trainer back in 2010. Up next at 11 00, turning tragedy into policy. The new law one bay area lawmaker proposing after that devastating fire in oakland. If passed, it will have an impact throughout the state. Plus meet the car of the future and how its using Virtual Reality to guide its way. Its on display at the Consumer Electronics show in los angeles. Our scott budman is there too. His report from the Convention Floor is next. Before we go, well take you back to the airport in ft. Lauderdale. A deadly shooting. Several people are dead. Well have the very latest coming up. Over 1,000,000 californians have gotten something thats been out of reach for far too long Health Insurance. How . They enrolled through covered california. Its the Health Insurance marketplace where youll find a range of plans from leading Health Insurance companies that offer you the best combination of quality, rates, and benefits. And, through covered california, you may get financial help to pay for coverage. To get covered, youve got to get going. Open enrollment ends january 31st. Visit covereca. Com today. Lauderdale. Heres live pictures. Just confirmed 13 shot 4 dead. We continue to follow breaking news out of ft. Lauderdale, florida, live pictures from the airport there. We have just confirmed 13 people shot, four dead. Officials say the lone gunman is in custody. Still some chaos out there as people have left the terminal. The shooting happened at the terminal 2 baggage claim we now know. All the latest information coming in, well keep giving you updates as it becomes available to us. In the meantime, we continue to watch this and we watch your weather as a big storm system moves in. Kari. Yeah, we are tracking a major storm for the weekend. Expect it to bring in some heavy rain, also some strong winds. And now weve been telling you that its been so cold this morning, but at least we do have the dry weather. Here is a live look outside at san rafael as we get ready for some weekend heavy rain. You want to prepare today for that potential some of flooding. The scattered rain starts to move in late tonight and then it continues all throughout the day tomorrow and gets heavier on sunday. We could also have some strong winds, up to 40 to 50 miles per hour. Now we see that the clouds are starting to move into parts of the bay area, but once again still some dry weather continuing. And its moving a little bit closer, but we see that big cluster of those clouds tapping into some subtropical moisture. So far weve had quite a few watches, warnings, advisories issued by the National Weather service. As of right now, we do see there is a high wind watch in effect for all of these areas shaded in the orange and that will be in effect from tonight through sunday morning with winds coming in from the south. We could have the winds sustained at 20 to 35 miles an hour and some gusts at 50 to 60 miles an hour. For all of these areas shaded in green, a flash flood watch. That pretty much includes most of the bay area and we may see more of them issued as we go into the weekend. By early tomorrow morning we have a pretty good coverage of rain. Then we start to see the yellows and the reds here on the map that. Indicates some very heavy rain and that really gets going as we go into tomorrow night as well as sunday all throughout the day. Once again, thats when wee that heightened alertness for the potential of some flooding. It continues into monday and then another storm system that could impact the bay area between tuesday and wednesday. So looking at this first round of rain, we have the potential of getting about 5 inches or possibly close to 6 inches of rain for the Santa Cruz Mountains. All of us getting pretty heavy rainfall. So well be keeping an eye on area creeks and rivers. At the Russian River at guerneville, we could see it rising above flood stage. If you do live in that area, you want to make sure youre prepared to move to Higher Ground. At napa river, we will stay close to the monitor stage between sunday and monday, but once again it may rise fairly quickly. Its something that youll want to keep an eye on. Also the creek at Stanford University will stay below the monitor stage and also for the guadalupe river, once again staying below the monitor stage. Well talk once again about how much rain to expect, the wind and take a look at whats happening in the sierra coming up in a few minutes. Thank you very much. Today in San Francisco public works crews taking a proactive approach to the incoming storm. San franciscos Public Utilities commission is ordering the deep cleaning of many sewer catch basins. You can see crews around the city using highpowered vacuum trucks. Park officials in yosemite also keeping a close eye on the forecast to make sure they have enough time to evacuate people, if necessary. This is what the merced river did back in 1996 and 97, actually overflowing, covering the valley floor. Yosemite officials plan to announce by 1 00 p. M. If they will tell visitors to leave because of the flooding concerns there. Laura, we have gotten so close, so close to dow 20,000. We got as close to 19,999. Were about eight points lower than that. We will continue to watch and let you know when the dow crosses 20k. The economy, meanwhile, added 156,000 jobs in the month of december. The Unemployment Rate ticks up a tenth of a percent, 4. 7 . That brings us to 2. 2 million jobs added in 2016. Health care did the best. This marks actually 75 straight months of gains. That is the longest string of gains since 1939. Now, while there have been a few blockbuster months, most of the gains have been slow and steady, which means while its the longest streak since fdr was president , president s clinton and reagan actually added more jobs. President obama comes in third. Shares of facebook have hit alltime highs. Bloomberg did the calculations and the spike in the stock was enough to push Sheryl Sandbergs personal fortune above 1 billion, making her one of the youngest women billionaires in the world. Now, we talked about this before. If you can get ahead of Donald Trumps tweeting by buying or selling stock in a company before he attacks it, you can make money. Somebody has come close. Theres an iphone app called trigger that will monitor trumps tweets in realtime and will actually set off an alarm on your phone if he tweets about a company in your portfolio so you can make your stock move. Be careful, you can lose too. Thanks, scott. If the roads seem a little less crowded here in the bay area, its likely because so many tech workers have left for las vegas. The Consumer Electronics show is on. Skaud b scott budman is there checking out the gadgets of the future. Reporter welcome back to the Consumer Electronics show. The theme of the day, machines getting smarter. These augustmented reality goggles. This car can see whats in front of it. Thanks to a. R. , it can detect a bridge, bad weather, other people and other cars making your drive safer and actually a little more efficient. A. R. Goggles can also be worn by us in the workplace. Lets say you have a task to take care of. You put on the goggles, you can do it virtually and practice or go to a work site thats a little dangerous and take care of that in the space. So thanks to Companies Like microsoft and intel. In las vegas, im scott budman for today in the bay. Thank you very much, scott. Of course stay with nbc bay area and scott budman for continuing coverage from ces. You can watch all of his reports on nbcbayarea. Com. The tragic warehouse fire in oakland has inspired a state senator to propose new laws to make sure artists have a safe place to work. Nancy skinner says the goal is to assist local governments and help them bring spaces up to code. She said the law would help more than just the artistic community. It would affect everybody because as i mentioned this housing crisis, so you also have low income people independent of artists that are living in places that really are not up to code for habitation. State senator skinner says the goal is to make sure those building upgrades are affordable. Of course 36 people were killed in the ghost fire last month. The building had been illegally transformed into housing and art studio space. A Group Representing landlords is promising to file a lawsuit to block a rent control measure approved by voters in richmond. Voters approved measure l in november. It would establish greater protection for tenants facing eviction. An attorney plans to file a complaint this morning. He calls the measure unconstitutional. Coming up, a toddler shot in the east bay. What about a possible connection to a recent homicide. First happening now, the u. S. Army has updated its rules. Theyre making it easier for sikh and Muslim Americans to serve. You can get details on our twitter page. The bay area reached freezing temperatures last night. How cold was it where you live . You can sending us pictures by tagging us at nbc bay area on instagram. Well have more news coming up in a minute. Father was shot and killed. Yesterday a le welcome back, everyone, on this friday morning. You know, earlier this week a young father was shot and killed. And yesterday, a little girl was wounded. Her family is now at her bedside at childrens hospital. So she was shot yesterday afternoon in oakland near mills college. Jodi hernandez has more on what seems to be a link between the crimes. I think it was maybe four gunshots, four gunshots and a then a pause and then another three or four gunshots. Reporter thats what people in this east oakland neighborhood heard when police say somebody shot at a car occupied by a mom and a toddler, wounding the 22monthold little girl. The mother and the child were in a vehicle at the time of the shooting. And again, the child did sustain a gunshot wound. Its horrible. I mean its its awful. Its the most kind of awful you can imagine. Reporter now nbc bay area has Learned Police are looking at a possible connection to the citys first killing of the year. 21yearold demonte thomas, a father of an 8monthold baby boy, was gunned down in west oakland. I just dont understand. You know, i just dont know why. I still ask why. Why my soninlaw, why my grandsons dad. Reporter gregory nash is thomas fatherinlaw. Hes hurting, both for his family and for the little girl wounded. We need to stop killing our black peoples. This is crazy. Whats in the minds of the people doing this . Reporter the toddlers family is at her hospital bedside. They understand the cases arent related. Im asking for prayer, just prayer. Thats all we ask for is prayer. Nothing but prayer. Reporter jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. Batten down the hatches. A strong rainstorm heading to the bay area. Kari hall has a look at the timeli timeline. Some heavy rain and strong winds for the weekend. Ill give you an idea of the timeline and how much rain to expect. Also well check in on the sierra coming up. And well check in on our breaking news. Live look at an airport in ft. Lauderdale, the main airport there. A deadly shooting leaves four people dead. That number has increased. We have the latest coming up. With the xfinity tv app, anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels. Plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. Lauderdale. Heres live pictures. Breaking news were following out of ft. Lauderdale, florida. Live pictures of the airport, the International Airport there, where there has been a shooting. Five people killed, 13 shot. We have just confirmed those numbers right now. Officials do say a gunman is in custody. The shooting happened at the terminal 2 baggage claim. So many people were moved out of the airport itself, out onto the tarmac, you see them scrambling there. The atf is now investigating at the scene there. You are advised to check your flights ahead of time should you be flying out or into that area. Back here at home, theres a massive storm coming this weekend. Some places could see 6 inches of rain. And that could be a problem with flooding concerns. Kari hall has been busy all week long. Yeah, the ground is already wet. Weve had quite a bit of rain recently and this morning it was very cold. But now we get the sunshine and temperatures warming up as this will be our last day to prep for this incoming storm as we will have several days of some rain moving through the bay area. It is going to be cold today reaching 51 degrees on the peninsula and the trivalley, 55 degrees in the south bay and the east bay, up to 52 degrees. Well start to see this rain moving in late tonight and shortly after the evening commute, maybe by 10 00 or 11 00, well see some showers moving in and we will continue to see this rain off and on throughout the day tomorrow and even getting heavier as we go through the day. But we do expect the brunt of the storm to hit us on sunday with strong winds and very heavy rain. Well talk more about the timeline coming up in a few minutes. Of course as you were mentioning, every bay area county there are flood concerns about this storm. Contra costa and santa clara counties both offer at least a half a dozen sandbag locations. Marin more than a dozen. Some places will put a limit on the number of sandbags you can fill. General you you should contact the city or county before you go. Usually you have to bring your own shovel. A warning about avalanches in the sierra. Two skiers and two german shepherds were rescued from an avalanche near mt. Rose in nevada yesterday afternoon. A man and woman with their dogs in backcountry near the summit. That avalanche was triggered. Now, they were wearing beacons and proper avalanche equipment. They managed to hike to the mt. Rose highway and did not suffer any bad injury. The avalanche danger remains very high. So people should be very careful. Now, all this rain and snow is helping our drought. Take a look at the sidebyside maps from january of last year on the left and today on the right. The areas in white have no drought at all. The areas in yellow, also no drought, but theyre still considered dry. And the areas in dark red are still in an exceptional drought. Our nbc bay area app is a great way to track the incoming storm. You can access our Doppler Radar and get a detailed forecast for your community. New developments in the disturbing story of the kidnapping and tore tu of a boy in chicago that was live streamed on facebook. Four suspects make their First Court Appearance in chicago later today for a bond hearing. Nbcs blake mccoy reports they will face hate crime charges in the attack. Take it easy. They showed their faces on video, and today will show their faces in court. Two black women and two black men charged with kidnapping a white teenager with mental Health Issues in what authorities are calling a hate crime. The video shows the 18yearold victim tied up, slashed with a knife and forced to drink toilet water. The ordeal, according to police, wepgt went on for hours and it was posted on Facebook Live for all to see. The actions in that video are reprehensible. That along with racism have absolutely no place in the city of chicago. Anybody seeing it, is both sickening and sickened by it. Reporter this morning the victims grandmother tells nbc news she hasnt see it and wont. I dont think i could handle it. I dont want to watch him suffer. I know he did. Reporter investigators confirm the victim went to school with one of his alleged assailant assailants, jordan hill. He met up with hill at a mcdonalds on new years eve. Investigators say what started as a sleepover escalated over several days. Officers found the 18yearold wandering this street on chicagos west side disoriented tuesday afternoon. They then located the house they believe he was being tortured in about a block away. The racially charged attack has prompted condemnation from black leaders. Our community in fact is embarrassed by the actions of these young men. Their actions are very barbaric and we are outraged. Reporter as for the victim, his siblings say hes doing as well as can be expected. Were so grateful for all the prayers and efforts that led to the safe return of our brother. Tragic news there. The two men accused of killing a hayward man as he christmas shopped in a target store are due in court for a plea hearing today. Brothers jesse and Frankie Archuleta are accused of stabbing Tyrone Griffin as he shopped for a gift with his 4yearold son. It happened on Christmas Eve at a target. According to witnesses, griffin had asked the suspects to turn down the music they were playing. According to the police report, that led to griffin being stabbed. Some terrifying video out of berkeley this morning. Employees and customers at a wells fargo ordered to get down by a robber. It happened last month. The suspect reportedly passed a note to the teller demanding money. He then waved his gun and forced everyone to the ground. Wells fargo is offering a 5,000 reward. A sewage spill on tuesday at San Franciscos hall of justice is still impacting workers there. Sewer pipes ruptured sending foulsmelling water into rooms and offices across the second and third floors. Some 30 workers are evacuated, many are still in temporary spaces. The city is now contracting with an outside company that specializes in this sort of cleanup to make sure its done safely and properly. The power outage at the Santa Clara County building will last throughout the weekend. It first went off overnight wednesday, was never restored. County leaders say it was caused by failing switch gear and wont be fixed until monday. If you have business with the county, officials ask you go to the website. That still works. Inauguration is just two weeks away and some people are feeling a lot of uncertainty surrounding president elect donald trump. Last night people raised money to fight possible future legal battles. Some people partied for a purpose at a bar called the lookout. Since the election, many in the Lgbtq Community say they dont feel safe. It is acceptable in their minds to voice hatred. I personally have had multiple friends be on the receiving ending of it immediately after the election. Im really vulnerable. I live on social security. I depend on medicare and obamacare. Last nights event is just one of many events over the next couple of days. Later today San Francisco mayor ed lee is speaking at a gathering at the bill Graham Civic Center called how to be a good ally. Now to the current administration. Michelle obama giving her final official remarks this morning as first lady. She hosted 50 School Counselors at the white house for the 2017 counselor of the year ceremony. In a speech that became emotional, Michelle Obama thanked the counselors for all they do, saying she could think of no better way to end her time as first lady than celebrating for them. Thank you for everything you do for our kids and for our country. Being your first lady has been the greatest honor of my life and i hope ive made you proud. Understandably emotional there. The first lady also had a message for young people. She called on them to be fearless, focused, determined and hopeful. A great message really for all of us. Coming up, storms not hitting here but across the country. Well have a look at what everybody else is dealing with and nbc bay area responds. Several cases closed and 10,000 in savings for consumers like you. Nbc bay area responds, next. Toss to wx. Welcome back, everyone. Weve been talking about the storm that is coming. Now another doozy coming our way this weekend. And it looks like it will hang around for a while too. So getting the brunt of the storm on saturday and sunday and then well still have some rain in the forecast after that. So enjoy all of this sunshine. Just take it in. This will also be the time to get out there in the yard and prep for this storm that will be moving in. We could also have some strong winds, so you want to make sure you are moving around the Patio Furniture and doing things like that as we could have those winds knocking things over for saturday into sunday. Right now looking at a calm view of san jose with once again some sunshine and temperatures that are slowly warming up. It was so cold this morning. We dealt with some freezing temperatures and frosty conditions. Now it is 47 degrees in oakland, 43 in palo alto and San Francisco at 45 degrees, still in the upper 30s in santa rosa. The clouds are reaching a little closer to the bay area. Well start to see those showers moving in later on tonight and mostly cloudy skies throughout the evening before that rain moves in. It looks like once again that rain will stay with us. A high wind watch has been issued for most of the bay area, especially the hills. For all of these areas that were seeing shaded in the orange color, it looks like that has been extended to include more of our area. It starts out tonight and continues into sunday and we also have some flash flood watches in effect. The National Weather service continues to issue more watches, warnings and advisories for us. We could have up to 10 inches of rain, especially for the Santa Cruz Mountains. The incoming storm starts to move in late tonight. As we look at the timeline by tomorrow at 1 00 during the afternoon a pretty good coverage and then it gets heavier for tomorrow morning as well as sunday morning with some bright colors indicating some intense rainfall and some strong winds that will be with us throughout sunday into monday before it tapers off. Farther on down the line still some rain in the forecast or at least the middle of next week. Rainfall totals, and this is a look at a different computer model, shows us between now and monday when this wraps up we could have over six inches of rain for the Santa Cruz Mountains and much of the bay area getting at least 5 inches of rain. So the concern of some flooding on our creeks and rivers. Wind speeds will start to pick up as we go through sunday and the strongest winds will be during the afternoon on sunday before those winds start to relax on monday, but still quite breezy. Looking at olympic valley, already a lot of snow there in the sierra. This is the view from heavenly, still some fog all across the lake and the skiers really enjoying this day in truckee, its only zero right now and theres heavy snow on the ground. Also zero at north star as far as that current temperature with skiers outside. Unfortunately, as this storm moves in, temperatures warm up, so well get some snow initially. Then it changes over to rain and then back to snow. During that time frame we could be measuring snow in the feet for the sierra. For the bay area, once again a lot of heavy rain and the potential of most of us getting at least 5 inches of rain. It looks once again like it continues into next week. Temperatures staying mild. And for the inland areas, strong winds, especially on sunday, and the flood threat continues through monday. Of course well have more updates as we go into our later newscasts. All right, kari, thanks. Were getting new updates as it comes to the shooting at the ft. Lauderdale airport where we know at least 5 are dead, 13 shot. We want to dip right back into our Network Coverage with nbc news right now. Where im standing, its just littered with luggage. People just dropped it. Backpacks, bags of food, their boards, everything just littered there and they ran over to terminal 3 and thats where theyre being held right now. Its a little unclear what set this off but clearly there was some sort of perceived threat and thats why people took off as they did. As im looking back out at the runway, i can see the passengers are now crossing from the taxiway across the grass onto the runway so thats very clear evidence that this airport is shut down. Nobody will be in that area with planes coming and going. Stay close. Were looking at another picture. This seems a bit more orderly and directed. People being directed and sent across a railroad trarks apparently to exit the airport. You saw many with their hands up. Thats not atypical in situations like that. We saw it going back to columbine and mass shootings. Police dont know if another shooter may be hiding in the crowd so they want to make sure as they process them out that no one in there with a hostile intent is maybe hidden among passengers, so not uncommon to see that. But here is another shot of people coming across the taxiways and onto the runway. Lets go again to pete williams, our justice correspondent. Pete has been trying to gather information on the suspected shooter. Pete what, can you tell us . Well, you may have heard earlier bill nelson using a name on the air that we have heard from several federal authorities. A 26yearold man named staban santiago, born in new jersey. Apparently had lived in alaska for a while. March 16, 1990, is the day of birth. Beyond that and going that its a male in his 20s, beyond that we dont have any information about what the motive is. Do we know if he was among the shot . Yes, we do. We know from witnesses that he was not. Several witnesses have said when the authorities finally came after he fired an initial round of shots and then stopped to reload, they confronted him, ordered him down, he put the gun down and lay down on the ground and was arrested. So the best information we have from witnesses is that he was not shot. So obviously now theyre aggressively investigating and questioning him. All right. A view of the parking garage where police have drawn on a bit earlier. Weve seen them coming up and down the stairs with automatic weapons. Not clear what they were looking at there. In terms of the evacuation, this is beginning to look more like a total evacuation of the airport based on the pictures were seeing right now. Earlier people had fled the terminal at the height of the shooting. They were let back in about the same time we were told the situation was stabilized and the suspect was in custody. And then what we just saw a moment ago. I want to show you some earlier video that was taken inside the airport. This is obviously taken with a cell phone. This is in the baggage claim area. I havent seen it so well watch together and see what it shows. It looks like somebody may be being treated there. Kerry, you were in that baggage claim area. What was it like . I was upstairs on the departure level. The authorities have it closed off so i cant describe whats going on down there other than saying when i peer over the side, there are a lot of officers standing there, some with their weapons, others on their phones coordinating something. That video, you could see peep huddling around someone that appeared to need treatment. Theres the skyline and in the foreground people who seem to be directed across the runways to an exit to the airport. We saw some folks walking along a Railroad Track and there you see a lot of airport workers in their reflective vests as they make their way in the same direction so this seems to be an orderly evacuation were watching. You can see right there in the center it looks like an officer in tactical gear. It would not be out of the realm of possibility that they are searching for a vehicle associated with that suspect, esteban santiago. We can only see whats happening but no signs of anything there as they continue to patrol. Obviously have to worry about potential accomplices, anything that the shooter may have left behind. If his intentions were more casualties, an explosive. No indication that exists, i could point out, but that would be standard protocol in a situation like this. If youre just tuning into all this or just making your way in front of a tv, the latest weve is that 13 people were shot at the airport near the baggage claim area in ft. Lauderdale. 5 people have been killed. We dont have all the conditions on those that were injured, but this happening, a man, apparently a shooting and according to one witness even reloading at one point. This is more video that was taken with a cell phone. You can see the paramedics there. We believe this is at the gate yeah, that would be the gate leading to the air side. That is the air security side. On the other side of the fence would be an area that is not does not have immediate access without a gate pass. Keep in mind there would have been passengers making their way out, also the workers on the ramp that may not have realized what was happening as the doors opened and people began flooding toward them. John shlicter was an eyewitness and we have an interview with him. John, are you with us . Yes, i am. Im right here. Apologize for that. Can you tell us where you were in the airport and what you saw and encountered . We were in the baggage area right at the baggage claim area number 3. They still are holding us. Were at the other ending of that room, backaggage area numb 2. We were standing there. It was the flight that had come in from atlanta. The carousel had just started and about 10 pieces came out. Everyone from the plane was there waiting for their luggage, so i dont know, maybe 200 people. I pulled my first piece of luggage off. As i said, i heard the first pop. I wasnt sure what it was. The driveup area is just adjacent to the luggage area and i thought at first maybe it was a car back firing or something, but it was quite loud. Then a heard a couple of more pops and people on either side of where i was standing fell to the ground, they had been shot. As i turned, i looked and saw the shooter standing in the middle of the kind of a hallway that runs adjacent to all of the baggage claims and he was holding a gunfiring. And thats when i and my wife and my motherinlaw, we fell immediately to the ground and he continued firing. I know that at one point he stopped and reloaded and continued firing again. There were just horrific it was a horrific scene. The people that were killed were right next to where we were. One gentleman who was shot they were almost i think all of them were shot in the head. The one that was right next to me and my wife took my motherinlaws sweater and put direct pressure on his wound, he had been shot in the face. He told her at that time that he was on coumadin so he was bleeding a great deal, there was blood everywhere. That was after they told us we could stand up. We didnt get up until a policeman stood right next to us and said that we could get up off the floor. Let me ask you first, is your family okay . Were all really shaken up, i think collectively. Theyre Still Holding probably id guess at least a hundred of us. I think everybody is just in shock. Its just been a wretched experience. Im so sorry you had to go through that. Can you tell us, did the gunman say anything . He said nothing. He said nothing. He just started firing. Inskrdiscriminateindiscrimin . Was he targeting anyone or were these indiscriminate shots . He was definitely targeting people in their heads, totally random. He shot people from the far left. Im looking at that area right now. There were elderly people that were shot and killed. Its just its tragic. Its just unbelievable. They were all people i dont know all of them, but many of them were coming down to ft. Lauderdale to get on cruise ships and take cruises. Some were planning on going today and others in the coming days. It was just total just awful, awful scene. John, no one knows what they would do in a situation like that. You know, its so unimaginable. What could you do . When this is happening right around you. Other than protect my wife and my motherinlaw, my wife got on top of my motherinlaw and was covering her. The gunman who was probably when i heard the first shot and saw him, im guessing maybe 15 feet from where we were. He was very close. But he came over and was in our area, like within feet of where we were, and still shooting people. When i looked, i was laying on the ground and looked to the side and just saw people bleeding out all around me. It was just a surreal scene. Its just unbelievable. Did he have a handgun or a rifle . Oh, absolutely it was a handgun. I saw it very clearly as he was firing the shots. I looked right at him. It was a black handgun. I looked right at him. You know, you kind of try processing, no, this cant be happening, this isnt real. Then when you realize it is, it just is an unreal scene. Just a few minutes ago we had to get back down on the ground and take cover because Something Else happened outside. They finally did just let us up. They have searched all of us. Weve been watching the situation unfolding outside. Its unclear whats been happening out there. In terms of the we understand the suspect was taken into custody. Did you see that . Tell me about the Police Response and how this shooter was neutralized. Well, it seemed like it took forever for anyone to get here. When i got on the ground, i called 911 immediately. I had my cell phone right there so i took a i made that call the second it happened. But when they finally got him, he finished shooting. Someone i heard said there were three clips. I know there were at least two. He was walking away and thats when the police said get down, get down. And thats when he got down. But he didnt finish shooting and just drop to the ground, he was walking away and thats when they stopped him. So he essentially surrendered once he was confronted by police . Yes. You say youre being held now still in the baggage claim area. Is it clear why . Are they processing everyone there as, you know, questioning people . Whats going on . I think its a combination of both. I think that weve been part of a mass shooting and they want to get im guessing they probably want to question us. I dont know why theyre not letting us go, i guess. We cant get our luggage or anything. Its all still sitting down there on the turnstile. Did you see where the shooter came from . Did he come from the outside door into the baggage claim or was it clear what direction he had arrived there from . I dont know for sure. When i saw him, he was standing in the aisleway kind of in front of baggage area number 1. He was facing towards baggage area number 3 where we were. So my thought was he probably had come in the door. Theres an exterior door where you can come in and if he did, came in that door and made his day down that hallway, but i dont know that for sure. I dont know if there are security cameras in here or not. But you and your family and other passengers had come out of the secure area into the baggage claim and were at the carousel when all this occurred . Thats correct. Theres an escalator that comes down from where the planes arrive and the baggage area is in the lower level. Its where the delta flights all come in, yes. This was the delta terminal, terminal 2, correct . Right, right. And you had arrived on an atlanta flight . We flew in from atlanta, yes. John, i dont know what to say. As i said, no one expects to ever be in a situation like that. This is fresh. And this may seem like a really stupid question but i have to know, how are you doing . How are you handling all of this and your family . How are you handling all t and your family . You know, it truly is only by the around the carousel. I was there. There were two people to my right. And my wife and my motherinlaw. The two people to my right had been shot. The person to my left had been shot. It was just by the grace of god that we werent. I dont know. I cant explain it. Im just so thankful. And other passengers tried to administer Emergency Medical Care to the wounded passengers . As soon as we could, as soon as we could get out, yes. Yeah. You mentioned im sorry, go ahead. The one gentleman that was next to me, he was conscious, and he told my wife that he was on coumadin. He had been shot in the head. And she took my motherinlaws sweater and pressed it and applied direct pressure to him. When they took him away rls he was still living
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