Mmm that is tasty. Is it real . Of course. Are you . Nope animated you know im always looking for real honey for honey nut cheerios well youve come to the right place. Great, mind if i have another taste . Not at all mmm youre all right bud . Never better i dont know if he likes that. Yeah part of the complete breakfast nbc bay area news starts now. Good evening to you. Thanks for joining us. Im peggy bunker. Im terry mcsweeney. History in the making. President obama arrives in cuba. Its the first time an american president has visited that island nation in almost 90 years. We have Team Coverage of the president s historic visit and what this means for both the United States and cuba. It is a big day. We begin with nbc bay areas Christy Smith tonight with reaction from the local cuban community. This has been a long time in the making. Reporter thats right. We just spoke with a documentary film maker in the north bay who is cubanamerican. She has been watching president obamas visit to cuba very closely. She has been watching every step of the way online and on television. She sees hope in the historic visit but realizes that even people in the cubanamerican community can see it differently. Suzy martin lynch was born and raised in new jersey but her family is from cuba. I thought it was very exciting and i think it symbolizes hope. Now, i know its within the cubanamerican community its a bit controversial, but i try to keep politics aside and i want to take it as a sign of hope for change, positive change in the future. Reporter her documentary film craving cuba plays at the tib uron International Film festival april 13th. Reporting live in marin county, christie smith. Nbc bay area news. The president will meet with cuban president raul castro and also address the nation in the coming days. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro joining us in the newsroom with more on the impact of the historic visit and what it will do in the United States and cuba. Reporter president obama is playing tourist right now, taking in some historic sites. But tomorrow as you mentioned his agenda will be much more political with a facetoface meeting with raul castro. The president landed this afternoon joined by First Lady Michelle Obama and their two daughters. The first family was greeted at the airport by cubas foreign minister and other cuban officials. As well as at the top. The u. S. Diplomat in cuba. The president toured old havana and the cathedral and greeted staff from the newly reopened embassy. Hes trying to put decades of hostilities into the past while attempting to establish a new relationship with cuba. For the president , the historic visit is part of a fulfillment of his pledge to engage directly with longtime american enemies but Many Americans are criticizing the president ss trip. Including president ial candidate ted cruz. You know who he is not going to meet . Hes not going to meet the dissidents who are being tortured right now by raul and fidel castro, who are being silenced for daring to stand up. He wont meet the ladies in white. Reporter persistent differences remain including frustration with the embargo and condemnation of the human rights record. Ladies in white were yelling freedom today while a thousand demonstrators linked arms to try to block a street. Some progovernment demonstrators yelled fidel. Obama is scheduled to address the cuban people in a speech tomorrow and attend a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban National team. Hell also attend a state dinner tomorrow with raul castro and hold a joint News Conference to discuss trade. Marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Thank you so much. For continuing coverage of the president s visit to cuba head to our website, nbcbayarea. Com. Well be posting the latest developments on this trip throughout the night. In the east bay, Contra Costa County sheriffs deputies say a body found in a car outside a fire station was not linked to foul play. It was discovered in oakley about 7 30 this morning blocking the driveway of the fire station at ohara avenue. Investigators determined the man died after suffering complication from a preexisting medical condition. Crews in the north bay scrambled to fix a water main break today just north of the downtown area. Crews were able to shut off the water quickly. The line is now repaired. Drivers were diverted around the area all morning but, again, its been reopened. Switching to weather now. If you have been outside today, you know that many people in the bay area are dealing with rain. Lets take a look here at the san mateo bridge. The long stretch here moving nicely on both sides. But how will have look with tomorrows commute . Anthony is joining us now tracking conditions for tonight and also the allimportant monday morning commute. Were talking about onandoff rain tomorrow. We want to recap. Highest amounts across the north bay. Close to. 5 inches. 101 dealing with maybe. 25 to more than. 5 inches. Santa rosa. You head into San Francisco in the east bay valleys, rainfall amounts fell off. Less than. 05 inches. Same deal for the peninsula and south bay, goose egg. Nothing in the rain gauge at san jose mineta international. Were still tracking some showers across parts of the extreme southern county. There, some more showers across redwood city, Santa Cruz Mountains and parts of the trivalley. Well see showers tonight and tomorrow morning. Timing coming up in a bit. A great way to stay ahead of the rain is with our free nbc bay area app. Click on the weather tab for the live doppler forecast. A family that lost everything in the valley fire last fall has a new place to call home thanks to donations and volunteers. The Hope Crisis Response Network is teaming up with Lake County Service providers and the middletown rancher ia for the construction of nearly 150 new homes. Justin and courtney van luven along with their daughter are all set to move in. This is the easiest move well ever have. Our daughter can grow up here. Shell never know of moving around from house to house. The valley fire destroyed 1200 homes. About six months ago. During the next couple of weeks construction on five more homes will be under way. B. A. R. T. Riders will likely face another tough commute tomorrow. B. A. R. T. Is expected to continue operating a bus bridge between the pittsburgh, bay point and North Concord station. Crews are testing the tracks today. Power surges knocked out about 50 train cars last week leading to delays across the entire b. A. R. T. System. Still ahead what will apple do next . We talked to Steve Wozniak about tomorrows big product launch. Its no secret. Rent sky high in the bay area. A new plan at stanford could drive down prices for People Living on the peninsula and in the south bay. Trt 0 peggcontvo skyhigh icea the median rental income in palo alto is 5,600 per month. The university would like to build more beds on campus. It could have a ripple across. Nbc bay areas Jessica Aguirre has the story. Reporter for some students it can take months to find a place on campus. It took me almost one year. Statistics ph. D. Student had no choice but to move from his offcampus studio after his landlord raised rent 400 a month. Berents on campus apparently eat up 70 of monthly income. Theyd like to move. I dont get very far. Reporter stanford is responding, applying to build four oncampus housing complexes with 2400 beds. That is enough to house about half the grad students currently living offcampus. And moving them oncampus could impact all renters in the area. Which could create a Ripple Effect throughout the peninsula and the county. Reporter rental prices could relax for a year or two. It could be an apartment, a house, but the median rent in palo alto is 5,600 a month over the last 30 days. Reporter but only if the school finishes the new ubnits all at once. If housing opens up slowly there may be no impact. Stanford has to do something for oncampus housing or theyll end up having trouble getting ph. D. Students. That was Jessica Aguirre reporting. There are still a lot of questions about what the new units would do for traffic in the area. The university will present these findings to the county for approval tomorrow. Coming up, comiccon wraps up with serious star power. Back in a moment with a comic book legend who turned plenty of heads today. After we exposed Security Guards committing crimes instead of protecting teens, a peninsula city promised changes. Wednesday at 11 00 the Investigative Unit goes under cover. You wont believe what one Security Guard was doing. These are our tax dollars. There are better ways to use our money than to pay some guy to sit in a car and do that. Wednesday on nbc bay area. We investigate. Tens of thousands of comic fans turned out for the final day of comiccon. The big headliner comic book legend right there, stan lee. I bet you know who spiderman is, xmen and the hulk. He created all of them. Wow. People packed a Conference Room for a q a session with lee. Steve wozniak last night had his own wax figure. The real version and the wax version. He is telling himself what to do. Apples Marketing Team is working feverishly to prepare for tomorrows product launch. The company is not releasing details about what will happen tomorrow. However, analysts and tech bloggers anticipate a fourinch iphone, a smaller ipad pro and new bands for the apple watch. The same analysts predict that investors will be, quote, underwhelmed by the launch. Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says its a matter of time before the Company Comes out with yet another spectacular product. Were talking about selfdriving cars, electric cars. Apple is such a huge company that theyve got to deal with very large markets. And cars is a very large market. So i hope that something we dont even think of right now would come out of apple. Apple is good at that. Something you cant even imagine. I like the way he said it too. Tomorrows event starts at 10 00 in the morning taking place at apple cupertino headquarters. Well have full coverage on the air and online. Getting rain in the bay area right now. A live look from the to your camera in oakland. Yes, that is oakland. Tough to see. The clouds are low. Antho anthony slaughter joining us to explain. The showers have been on and off all day long. Not much across the south bay. That will change through tomorrow. More rain in the forecast across the entire bay area. Whats happening right now. You can see were tracking showers still across the peninsula and across the east bay valleys. Its all very light but it is reducing visibility as you saw from the camera in oakland. Visibility down to about five miles in some locations across the bay area. The futurecast here. Showing what were expecting tonight and tomorrow. This is 5 00 tomorrow morning. Not a whole lot of rain. Spotty. Maybe a brief, quick shower moving through the east bay. Same deal for San Francisco towards the north bay. Towards the peninsula, south bay, not expecting a lot for the morning commute, but again, keep in mind the ground will be slick. Tomorrow afternoon a round of showers rolls back in. The south bay could get a better chance of seeing rain, even the east bay as well. Then it will die down for the evening commute. Tuesday morning we start to dry out about after 7 00. Skies will part and well wake up to sunshine on tuesday. Gray skies across the entire bay area right now from south bay into the north bay. See folks coming home from wine country this evening. Looking at gray skies and cloudy conditions to continue overnight. Tomorrow morning, wake up to 40s. It will be chilly out there. Tomorrow afternoon we rebound back into 50s. 62 for the north bay. 61 for San Francisco. 63 for the peninsula and 66 for the south bay. The cold front will kick up the winds tonight into tomorrow bringing in chilly conditions especially for the first full weekend of spring, which the first full day of spring was today, by the way, if you didnt know that. Tomorrow as we move towards the first second, i should say, full day of spring, well continue to see cloudy skies and even more showers in the forecast for tomorrow. This is the futurecast as we move towards 1 00 as i mentioned. The east bay and south bay will see a better chance of rain this afternoon of the the rain totals will be pretty light. Less than. 25 inches across most of the bay area. Higher amounts maybe up to the north bay, maybe. 5 inches continuing through tuesday morning. Showers winding down by tuesday afternoon. The winds will continue to kick up. This evening theyre pretty gusty. The east bay is seeing gusty winds. 20 to 30 miles an hour. Tonight theyll kind of die down. Tomorrow morning when you wake up around 7 00 or 8 00 theyll pick up again from 15 miles an hour for the south bay up towards about 30 miles an hour at the coastline. By tomorrow evening, the north bay will still be seeing gusty winds but after about 10 00 theyll die down. Winter winds for the sierra. A lake wind advisory. If youre traveling. 4 to 8 inches of snow expected about 4500 feet and gusty winds along with that anywhere from 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour wind gusts. Up about 7,000 feet you can see another foot of snow for places like twin bridges. If youre traveling today or tomorrow, a heads up. After today and tomorrow the showers will wind down and the el nino pattern will be a thing of the past because between tuesday and sunday, a week from today, were going to be dry and temperatures start to soar back into the 70s. You see it at the bottom of your screen. No rain after the next couple of days, at least in the short term. Peggy and terry, looks like well dry out towards april. Keep your fingers crossed. Its been a dicey year especially with the el nino pattern. Great rain to start out the month but now things will dry out. Im really enjoying the green. Its so nice. The green on the hillsides. So lush. Come back, el nino. For a few weeks. About four and a half months from the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in rio. Coming up well talk to a bay area athlete who has already qualified for the games and says he has some Unfinished Business down there. Were about four and a half months away from the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in rio. Most of the qualifying competitions have yet to occur but some athletes have already booked their flights. One of them, the youngest member of team usa in london four years ago. As nbc bay areas colin rush explains, he has some Unfinished Business. Reporter half a mile from the Pacific Ocean in San Franciscos outer sun set district is the fencing center. Its where world number one foil fencer alex macialos trains for rio. If i was able to bring back one or even two golds from the olympics back to my city, that would be an amazing feeling. Reporter he is putting his heart and soul into making that happen. He postponed his senior year at stanford for one reason only, to win gold this summer. In 2012 he placed 13th as an 18yearold with unlimited potential. Now, at 21, he is the star on the best fencing team the United States has ever produced. Alexs father would know. He is a threetime olympian himself and the coach for team usa. Were at the golden age right now. I am proud of my students, number one in the world rngs number three in the world. In some ways the most feared team out there. But we still have to prove it. Reporter as a team, they placed four. Now as the Top Ranked Team in the world with the top player weve proven we can fence with the best of them. Going into rio people are afraid of us too. As far as the individual goes, i wouldnt want anything less than gold, you know. Thats always been the dream ever since i was a kid. So thats the one medal i want. Any given day, anything can happen. But if all goes well, he can definitely make it happen. Reporter in San Francisco, colin rush, nbc bay area. We have complete olympics coverage across our digital platforms. Download our free app or check us out on twitter or facebook. The olympics will be seen right here on nbc. Its amazing to watch the local athletes headed to rio. He said people will be afraid of us in rio. Im afraid of anyone Walking Around with those things. A storm moving through the bay area. Jo anthony is back with a final look at the forecast coming up. Faceboofounderark zucrbergheld during his tp to cha. Vo yesrday heet wih facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg held a rare meeting during his trip to china. Yesterday he met with chinas propaganda chief in beijing. The meeting comes as china is increasingly cracking down on internet use. Facebook and other social media sites are banned in china. Chinas propaganda chief said he hopes facebook and Chinese Tech Companies can Work Together to Share Technology to improve the internet. Interesting. Pope francis said palm sunday mass in st. Peters square. It began with a procession through the crowd. Cardinals, priests and rank and file catholics walked in remembrance of jesus in jerusalem. In his homily, the pope lamented what he called the indifference of those avoiding the reality of the refugee crisis in europe. A live look outside on this sunday evening. A storm moving into the bay area. Meteorologist anthony slaughter is here now. I see a little bit of wind but not much and a whole lot of clouds. Yeah, lots of clouds. Well continue to see showers moving through the overnight hours. The rain will be with us moving towards tomorrow as well. Temperatures staying cool. Into the mid 60s. The showers the heaviest tomorrow afternoon and then will move out by the evening commute. Tuesday, back to some sunshine. It will start off gray, though, and temperatures rebound really nicely towards wednesday, thursday and friday. Next weekend looks dry. Widespread 70s. Well get rid of the rain and well see springlike weather moving towards wednesday, thursday and friday. If you have weekend plans for next weekend, easter is sunday. Good to go. No rain in the forecast. Nowhere in sight across the west coast. If youre traveling up towards oreg oregon, washington, alaska. It will be dry. Good news for easter egg hunts. As you look at april. There is always the possibility. Especially when youre dealing with an el nino year because its so unlikely. Lets hope the rain is not done yet. We had a wild card in march. Hopefully another one in april. Nbc nightly news. Our nightly news at 6 00. See you then. On this sunday night, an historic visit. President obama in havana symbolically opening a new era in u. S. Relations with cuba as some carry on the fight against a still repressive regime. Trail of violence. The new confrontations at Donald Trumps campaign events. We speak to a protester who found himself being punched and kicked. Distracted driving. It may have been what caused a crash that toppled a school bus carrying a High School Basketball team. Remarkably everyone survived. And, dear mr. President one womans letter from havana gets a response from president obama. Now, she hopes he will stop by for a thank you and a coffee. Nightly news begins right now