Defends against infection. Following the Healthy Habits are no guarantee youll avoid the flu but dr. Martin says they may help your body fight the virus more effectively. To give you an idea just how bad our flu season is, this time last year, california reported only nine flurelated deaths. Now were at nearly 100. Reporting live in san jose. Marianne favreau, nbc bay area news. And our coverage of californias flu season continues online at nbcbayarea. Com. At the top of the main page youll find a section dedicated to the outbreak, including the latest numbers and prevention tips. A developing story out of the east bay where a 14yearold boy has been on the run for more than 24 hours. Hes accused of shooting and killing his own 17yearold sister. Heres a look at that suspect Mario Tolliver. This is a photo off his Facebook Page. As long as he is on the street, neighbors are nervous. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez is live. There are reports this may have started between a fight between the two siblings over a fight over laundry. Reporter a cous sin adamant the fighting was not over laundry. The Oakland Police very much want the boy to turn himself in. Hes considered armed and dangerous. And tonight his family is pleading with him to surrender. That i love him. I want him to come home, turn himself in. Im not pointing the fingers at nobody. Were not blaming him. You know, we still love him. We got his back. Reporter thats the plea from the family of a 14yearold who police say shot and killed his 17yearold sister in their oakland apartment yesterday afternoon. 14yearold Mario Tolliver seen here in a picture from his Facebook Page has been on the run since the deadly shooting. Hes 14 years old. We are treating him as armed and dangerous. We have not recovered the gun that was used in the homicide. Its unclear what led to the shooting that left justice, who has a 2yearold daughter, dead. Their cousin says 14yearold mario has a baby, too. And both siblings had plenty of challenges. But, he says, they loved each other. Only mario knows. Thats why we hope he comes home. And hopes he turns himself in so we can get the full story from him. Because only he actually knows what happened. But what i know is that it wasnt over laundry. Reporter a very difficult situation for this family who has lost one Family Member and fears that they may lose another. Again, as of now, the 14yearold remains on the loose tonight. Oakland police are asking anyone with information to contact them right away. Reporting live in oakland, Jodi Hernandez, nbc bay area news. And this just in. San francisco General Hospital just released a list of new security and safety improvements. The changes are in response to the death of lynn spalding, a patient who disappeared from her hospital room and was found dead in a rarely used stairwell weeks later. The new changes include improving door alarms and emergency stairwells. They now need to be deactivated with a key. Two sheriffs deputies will now be on site at the hospital every day. Theres also a new patient tracking system. Several agencies have signed off on these changes. Cal osha has been called to investigate a construction next the twin peaks neighborhood. Three workers seriously injured. The men were working on a home around 9 30 in the morning when the scaffolding attached to the house fell, causing them to hit the pavement 25 feet below. They were taken to the hospital. Two are said to have potentially lifethreatening injuries. The third is listed in serious condition. They were hired to do roofing work, however a building inspector tells us they didnt have the appropriate permits to be working on that house. Predictions of big waves along the San Mateo County coastline lived up to the height. Nearly 50foot swells created excitement and danger at the mavericks big wave surfing competition. Three bay area surfers were among the final six. Chase kane is live where a winner has been announced. Who is it, chase . Reporter well, unfortunately, it was a south african. Grant twiggy baker who won his second mavericks championship. But there were three bay area surfers who made it to the final six. All three of them from santa cruz. Anthony hashnick and tyler fox represented the bay area well. For the biggest story of the day, despite a few close calls there were no serious injuries despite some very dangerous waves. Big waves are the whole reason for mavericks. And, as predicted, some of the biggest swells today reached 40 feet high. Keeping the crowd on edge. One of the things weve talked about on though way down is that we hoped nobody would get injured because its so dangerous out there. Joyce and rich drove four hours to be here because they knew this years waves would be among the biggest ever. Mavericks is a one of a kind way that you have to prepare for for your life and for years. So its not something to take lightly. I really respect these guys. Even in the days very first heat, some of these professionals had quite a scare. Three guys that got caught inside. You can see all their boards going over the falls. And they all got swept into the rocks. The jet skis were swirling around trying to find him. But they are okay . They got pulled out. Which is part of the danger but, yeah, that just shows you like they were caught off guard first thing. First thing from a sponsor boat where they, too, are being watched by First Responders patrolling pillar point. Just to make sure that people stay behind that. And the bigger the waves, the more bragging rights for the champion. And that champion also gets a 12,000 prize. Tonight well show you the trophy presentation and hear from the winner himself. This was the second biggest mavericks right behind 2010 in terms of turnout and the height of the waves. Live in half moon bay, chase cain, nbc bay area news. Most people never get to see this view of the competition. This is video from a gopro camera attached to the end of the surf boards today. Whoa. Watch that wipeout. If youd like to see more raw video and pictures of the contest go to our website, nbcbayarea. Com and search mavericks. Followup on the daytime Home Invasion robbery in palo alto. Today Police Released this sketch of one of the suspects they are looking for. Investigators say three men forced their way into the home on palo altos neighborhood just before 11 00 a. M. Yesterday. Officers say one of the men had a gun. The homeowners were forced to the floor while the crooks ransacked their home for valuables. If you have any information or saw anything, you are asked to call the Palo Alto Police department. Marin county sheriffs are on the hunt for a rapist. Started in marin around 8 00 p. M. Last night. A man was grabbed by the suspect and ordered to drive to a neighborhood in tam valley where the victim says he was sexually assaulted at gunpoint. Ultimately police say the man managed to run away and call for help. Deputies say at this point the suspect description is vague. A dark skinned man about 62, around 250 pounds. It appears investigators will not have a critical piece of evidence as they try to determine what led one b. A. R. T. Police officer to accidentally shoot and kill another. The San Francisco chronicle reports that body cameras worn by two uniformed officers at the scene were not turned on at the time of the shooting. Officer michael maze shot and killed Sergeant Tom Smith tuesday during a probation search in dublin. Today masons Attorney Says his client is cooperating fully with investigators. Its deep, deep, sad tragedy is something that happens and is a risk and peril that Law Enforcement officers are subjected to in the course of their duties in protecting the public and serving the public. B. A. R. T. Says it cant confirm reports that no video exists but a spokesperson tells nbc bay area that policy requires all uniformed officers to wear body cameras and record all interactions and searches. However, it is unclear if the uniformed officers were actively involved in the at the time of that shooting. A plan to help an oakland mom who lost two sons in separate shootings has raised more than 30,000. Danelle lost both her children less than three weeks apart. 13yearold Lee Weathersby was walking home when he was shot and killed new years eve. Days after his funeral, his brother lamar was found shot to death in a car. Friends started a fund for the boys mother on go fund me. Their initial goal was to raise 10,000 for funeral and hardship expenses. Still to come, investigating the mistakes. What officials now say led caltrans to install faulty parts on the new span of the bay bridge. Plus up in the smoke. This troubling discovery firefighters made after a massive fire gutted a home in the east bay today. Also im scott budman. A hightech icon turns 30 today. Coming up, why the history of the mac is the history of Silicon Valley. And good evening. Im jeff ranieri. Were tracking cloud cover moving in across the bay. Well have details in the next possibility of much needed rain coming up in about seven minutes. And then at 6 00, its the last thing youd expect to hear from a politician running for reelection. The extra tax he wants you to pay to put more officers on the street. This is about doing the right thing. Yes, i would gladly pay for that. Thats new at 6 00. Nbc universals coverage of the 2012 london games was the most watched televisi event ever. So, whats next . The upcoming winter games from sochi. Where every second of nbc universals coverage will be available on every device. On tv, online or streaming on the nbc sports live extra app. Beginning february 6th, experience the winter games everywhere. Welcome to whats next. Comcast nbcuniversal a massive Early Morning house fire in pittsburg today. The wiring was used to power an illegal marijuana grow inside that house. The fire started around 1 00 in the morning on tampico drive near california delta highway. The home was new, built just a year ago. The Fire Department says its a total loss. Police say they dont have any record of a homeowner for that house. New questions in sacramento tonight over the longterm reliability of the new 6 billion eastern span of the bay bridge. After numerous delays and cost overruns, engineers told a state Senate Committee that deadline pressure led crews to install bridge pieces with potentially falty wells and steels that never should have been used. One said he was punished for trying to address the problem. Well be excused by the public for being late if we demand quality. We deliver a bridge thats full of defects, well never be forgiven. And you think thats the case . Well, i dont know. I was removed from the project in november 2009. Despite the problems, even critics admit the new bridge is safer than the old one but warn the bridge will likely need expensive retrofits in the comes years. A rough way to end the week for investors. The dow dropping 318 points today. The techheavy nasdaq tumbled 90 points. Its the second straight day of big losses spurred by an economic slowdown in china. Now overall, this is the dows worst week since may of 2012. Google among the companies that saw big losses today. And to add insult to injury, the company also faced a huge outage. For about an hour, gmail was down along with google plus and google docs stifling productivity. Google has not offered an explanation for why the outage happened. Gmail is the webs most popular email service. It wasnt the most popular computer of its time but 30 years ago today, the Apple Macintosh offered the world a new way to see and use technology. Scott budman is here with a look at a very influential little machine. Scott . Reporter the macintosh first came to our attention through a now famous super bowl ad. It brought us regular people into the world of Technology Like nothing wed seen before. And the macintosh was cool. Reporter a tour of high school students, not even close to being born, when this machine was introduced. With this ad. And that was the announcement of the macintosh. Reporter the apple mac is now 30 years old. The creation of wozniack and jobs that brought computing to the masses. Basically almost anyone, 5yearolds could sit in front of a mac and do Something Interesting with it. Thats unheard of for any previous computer. Reporter it followed the apple one, the apple ii and briefly the lisa, changing the game and Silicon Valley along with it. Turning technology into not only something easy to use but something nice to look at. That ease of use and simplicity, i think, is in apples dna. And that has carried forward for the last 30 years. Its mainly from steve jobs, i think, who has a sense for what is beautiful and what is simple at the same time. Reporter so the next time you see one of these, just remember, its roots are in one of these. The macintosh originally sold for about 2500. You can still find them for sale on places like ebay for less money than that. The mac line still around. Apple recently introducing its latest mac pro desktop computer. Jessica . It is fun to see them. Thanks, scott. San franciscos fire chief made a special visit to the north bay to celebrate the birthday of one of the two known survivors of the 1906 earthquake. Bill dell monty turned 108 years old this week. He was just 3 months old when the earthquake and ensuing fire basically leveled San Francisco. He now lives in a retirement home in greenbrae where the fire chief met him for lunch. A steak and a glass of scotch. He recalled the moment after the quake when he was just an infant. My mother, the kitchen, she put the tablecloth, wrapped it around me and a bundle and put it on a cart. We went down broadway street to the ferry. Wow. There was fire on both sides of the street. He says hes not planning to attend the upcoming ceremony to mark the 108th anniversary of the earthquake. So the chief and dell monty recorded a video message that will be shown at the ceremony at the fountain on Market Street this april. The only other survivor of the quake is 112 years old. Rose newman. She also said shed be unable to attend this year but bill looks fantastic. I know. And big happy birthday to him. Thats great. Lets get a check of the forecast. Microclimate forecast. Were so used to the warm weather. It felt a little chilly today. 60s and i felt like i needed that jacket throughout a good part of today. I snapped this picture in san jose. These cumulus clouds, a big source of why we were cooler. After 11 days of recordsetting heat, our trend is finally broken. At least for right now. Lets take you outside of that sky camera network. What youll find for tonight is we still have the cloud cover. Its beginning to break up for the most part and also temperatures mainly remaining in the upper 50s to low 60s. Into San Francisco right now and a beautiful cloud deck as that sun starts to set. Relatively light winds. Set about 3 miles per hour. Also in the south bay we managed some blue sky in between some of these clouds. But what youll notice as we head throughout tomorrow, well start off with clear skies and 44. Not nearly as cloudy as it is right now. 65 degrees expected by 1 00 p. M. Lets take you into the weekend forecast. We do have some erratic changes coming in that forecast. As we head throughout saturday, this area of High Pressure will still bring us warming winds out of the southwest. But as we head throughout sundays forecast, its going to give us more of an onshore flow and cool us down. Take a look at this trend as we head throughout next week. This is the hard one to put together after all our recordsetting heat. Looks like next tuesday and wednesday, some of the early projections are showing possibly temperatures in the trivalley that could go close to 80 degrees by next wednesday. So while were going to be going a little bit up and then down again this weekend, its going to get a lot hotter for next week and then something i know a lot of you want as we push ahead towards that forecast. Our next possible chance of rain, we cant go through this forecast and not highlight this. By monday, we get some storm systems like out here in the pacific. By all indications, most of them misses through next week. Tuesday and wednesday. But by thursday, well see an area of rain beginning to drop down. Its too early to tell if we will get rain on thursday but its going to get very close. Theres about a 30 to 40 chance of rain on thursday and also on friday. So we definitely hope that possibility continues to go up. Its going to be good news no matter what. Something to get that ground wet. Lets get to your microclimate forecast for saturday. Sunny skies. Temperatures going a little warmer. San jose, 71. Palo alto, 71. Embarcadero in San Francisco at 69. Well take you to the north bairx east bay and trivalley. The warmest temperatures no doubt right up in the north bay. Napa 73. Also, santa rosa at 73. For the trisale, 73 in pleasanton. Danville at 71. Then as we head throughout sunday, well quickly title that. Temperatures cooler as youve been mentioning with plenty of upper 60s. An erratic pattern the next seven days. Something for everyone, you can say. Something to look forward to for everyone. Just ahead she, leaned in. Now shes cashing in. The latest business deal for facebooks cheryl sandberg. Plus, be careful what you wear. The troubling new warning for team usa headed to the winter games. Two weeks from tonight the Opening Ceremony will mark the official start of the Winter Olympics in sochi, russia. And this is the uniform you will see team usa wearing during that Opening Ceremony. But that will probably be the only time. Because of security concerns, u. S. Officials are warning athletes to only wear red, white and blue at their events. The u. S. Olympic committee sent a memo saying in part that wearing usa clothing may put your personal safety at greater risk. Despite the warning, american superstar shaun white says he is not worried. I definitely have been through some experiences at the olympics, and i felt extremely safe. Im very confident russia will uphold that same standard. Hes going for his third gold. Olympians that competed four years ago say they are there was not a similar warning during the vancouver games. It appears facebooks founder, one of the early people, could soon be the subject of another hollywood movie. Sony pictures entertainment announced it acquired the film rights to the book lean in written by the c. O. O. Sheryl sandberg. Sony pictures last movie about facebook, the social network. A special shoutout for san jose. The today show called it the nations smartest city. They call it the capital of Silicon Valley. San jose sits squarely in a region home to some of the biggest names in tech. Its so smart because more than half the residents are college grads. Also getting a big mention, the kids and the hightech Bulldog Academy at lleva middle school. The potentially lifechanging gift to a family. A san jose family got quite the gift from their Childrens School today. Pioneer high school held its makeawish assembly where they try to make dreams come true. One of the students wished for help because her family car was so unreliable that it regularly made her late to school. The family was initially brought up on stage and given coupons for free auto repair and oil changes. Then someone else showed up with something more. On behalf of our castle honda and automotive group. We are here to present you with a car. Oh, the car isnt that sweet . Such a great story. The car wasnt the only wish that came true. They also gave another students mother a trip to monterey. The total of 17 wishes were granted today. This is the second year Pioneer High School has done its makeawish assembly. That is nice. The nightly news is next. Well be back in half an hour. Heres what were working on. One of the most iconic Tourist Attractions in california feeling the impact of the drought. How our dry conditions are force something unprecedented changes. And, brr, a little chilly today. I know. 60s. Upper 70s later this week. It did feel cooler. Magnificent view outside of the San Francisco sky camera. Cloud deck beginning to break up. Thats going to signal warmer weather for your saturday forecast and the potential of maybe rain next week. More on that coming up. Thanks, jeff. Find us at nbcbayarea. Com. See you at 6 00. On our broadcast tonight, no end in sight, a relentless surge, parts of all 50 states again below freezing. And tonight, concerns over the skyrocketing price of natural gas used to heat about half of all american homes. Danger zone tonight. Richard engel with rare access inside the place that is called one of the most dangerous places on our planet, the center of all of those threats to the olympic gas. Romney revealed. A fascinating look behind the scenes like weve never seen him before. All the private highs and lows, including the moment they learned it was all over. And trading places. Tonight at home with my own inlaws. How they decided thanks to a local program and with the help of volunteers that the best retirement home is their own. Nightly news begins now
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