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And nothing to do with it when its not. We will showers and gusty winds to go along with that. Lets see whats happening now. Temperatures in the upper 40s, low 50s as you step out the door. For the kids heading out to the bus stop this morning, you dont need the umbrella until later today. We will start to see spotty showers. It is all about the cool weather and the patchy fog. Cloudy skies. Only a few peeks of sun. It is coming up in a few minutes. Has the crash cleared from the peninsula . Highway 101 cleared over in belmont. Easy drive. As the commute starts to build heading across the san mateo bridge. Heres the south bay. Move over here. East bay travel times. 680 down to pleasanton. This should be yellow. The color went away. South through hayward. 238 to highway 92. A look at the south bay. Thats your typical pattern. Wednesday, a lighter flow of traffic. Were right time. Thats the activity by east ridge. Thats right. A developing story were following out of the south bay. Several roads back open at this hour, as you well know, mike, after police spent several hours investigating a deadly shooting. This is a live look at the scene. It happened just before 10 00 last night on near quimby. Police have not said what a possible motive is. This marks the fourth homicide of the year in san jose. Today in the bay kris sanchez at the scene monitoring the situation for us. We will check in with her for updates at 6 30. Laura, it could be the end of an era. The world famous mavericks is surf competition is in serious jeopardy after the organizers filed for bankruptcy. Nbc bay area was the first to break the news last night. This morning pete suratos joining us from Half Moon Bay to tell us what it means for the future. It looks like the contest may be in jeopardy. Just moments ago we talked the a manager. She tells us blindsided by all of this. This is only with the organizers. They filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy just yesterday. A lawsuit filed by former sponsor in red bull. The harbor commissioner is saying this event will be canceled. This would have been the first time that a womens heat would be feature. We reached out. We havent heard back. The manager we spoke to will be back later this morning. And hopefully at that time they will give us more information. Pete suratos, today in the bay. Happening today, lawyers for the widow of the orlando nightclub shooter were urplg a judge to release her from jail pending a i trial on charges that she supporters her husbands terroristic plans. She was married to omar mateen who killed 49 people, including himself, back at the orlando nightclub in june. Lawyers will argue she is not at risk of fleeing. The fbi arrested salman in rodeo earlier this month. Also happening today, the suspected bank robber who led police on a chase and man hunt in the Santa Cruz Mountains will be in court. 21yearold cruz vargas is accused of robbing a bank in Scotts Valley he was eventually caught the next day in san jose. Saw San Francisco do this. Santa clara as well. Taking the Trump Administration to Court Challenging the executive order on immigration. The county gets close to a billion dollars every year in federal funding. That could be in jeopardy. County supervisors voted unanimously to go ahead with a lawsuit last night. California is a sank swear county. The executive order compliance with i. C. E. To get federal money. About the county could lose much more than that. The matching money that we gain we could lose up to a billion dollars. Thats onefifth our budget. Officials say there will be cuts to Emergency Rooms and Mental Health clinics. 6 06 right now. The search continues for anim i mate who escaped with his handcuffs on. He jumped out of a car on 880 in hayward and escaped. Deputy say the inmate was being transported in a rental car with no child safety locks. They didnt put leg shackles because they were facing flight pack to kentucky. Keep your doors locked i guess, right . He was wanted in kentucky for violating probation on a credit card face. He was arrested in hayward on a dui charge. Agreeing to pay more than 1 million for a rape claim by a fellow student. Criminal charges were never filed. But in a statement the school says the faculty member was placed on leave after the incident and has since resigned. Happening today, can cal state students from across the bay area organizing a protest in hayward. They are discussing a 5 hike in student fees. If the tuition hike comes to pass, it would be the first in five years. It is 6 07 on this wednesday morning. Watching the rain closer to the coast. This will start out with light showers as we go into today. Mainly this afternoon you will see sprinkles moving in. Light rain. Mark skies in the afternoon. Once again still seeing sprinkles and cloudy skies. Seeing some of the heavier rain tonight. At 11 00, we start to see yellows and red which indicates heavy rain. It really begins to pour early tomorrow morning. We will have gusty winds and rain at times that will be quite he heavy. As we go through the rest of the forecast, seeing that rain more widespread. Another look at the timeline and a look at the valley and Alpine Meadows report at 6 13. Things slowing in the trivalley. We still have time to get to work. Light, light build for the commute. 6830 southbound through pleasanton. Right around mission north. Well check and see what they say. Back in antioch, no slowing there. East of walnut creek. Highway 4, the upper east shore freeway. 24 minutes. Clear toward the bay bridge toll plaza where metering lights are on. Thank you very much, mike. A new twist in the battle over the Dakota Access pipeline. Plus, electric vehicles is are in popularity. How how do they perform when it comes to safety. New information on the economy doing very well. Plus, who is going to take credit for it. Thats coming up in business and tech. I can show you the world shining, shimmering, splendid tell me, princess, now when did you last let your heart decide a whole new world welcome to aulani its hawaii with a touch of disney magic. For special offers visit disneyaulani. Com or call your travel agent it is 6 12. And if youre heading to the sierra this weekend at squaw valley and Alpine Meadows, rain is and snow returns later tonight. And temperatures reaching into the upper 30s. Heres 160 inches of snow at the base of the mountain. And there will be some more snow moving in the next three days. Looking at the possibility of about anywhere from four to possibly a foot or more of snow. Details on that and how much rain were expecting in the bay area coming up at 6 18. Just see on northbound 238. The dakota pipeline to be going forward. This is the latest twist in the monthlong legal battle. The army corps of engineers previously denied the last permit needed to finish the pipeline. President trump said all reviews and approvals need to be expedited. The pipeline is nearly complete except for a section under the missouri river. We can expect more protests under the new education secretary betsy devos. She cleared a party line by 1211 yesterday. Teachers and parents rallied in opposition to her confirm canation and hundreds of bears were lined up and the many puns that came with it that symbolized one of her most controversial statements. You may remember during her confirmation hearings she said protecting students from bears in rural areas could be a justification for allowing guns in schools. Tesla is making changes to its s sedan seat belts to get a higher rating. Bmwi series rated acceptable. Toyota prius prime earned the top safety pick plus award. A plusplus report here. Brandnew into our newsroom. The latest jobs number showing the economy continuing to expand. Big numbers come out on friday. Friday get the Labor Department measurement on how many jobs were created in january. Private payrolls showing far more were added. Experts were looking for 165,000. What they know . The actual number 246,000. Going to be interesting to watch how donald trump handles this one on twitter. These numbers will probably be spectacular. They measure a month when president he bama was ready for 20 and onehalf days. And President Trump was president 11 of the month. Who gets more credit . Apple turned business around with a Record Number of iphones sold. More than 78 million. That ends threequarters of declining sales. The dow fell 107 points after its worst day of the year on monday. Invest continue to think about the past executive order on immigrants. And future orders on h1b. Operation crew north moving to Silicon Valley. And neil gorsuch being moved to the Supreme Court. He leads libertarians in the Silicon Valley. He has been a supporter of the fourth amendment. Looking back at past opinions, he said new technologies bring with them not only new opportunities for Law Enforcement to catch criminals but new risks for abuse and new ways to invade constitutional rights. Were talking about can the government look at emails. Right. Gorsuch is going to, based on past decisions, be a critic of only of those ideas. Thank you very much, scott mcgrew. Protecting the air as well. Another on spare the air alert is being issued today. A live look outside from our San Francisco camera overlooking the bay bridge in the distance. You cannot burn wood or any other solid fuels indoors or out. The cold weather keeps it close to the ground. It is expected to get better towards the end of the week. . We have seen a few spare the air alerts here. We will be flushing a lot of that out as the water comes on through here. Another storm system rolling in. The first of two systems set to arrive the next few days. With it some rain and wind. Well talk about the timeline. A live look outside at san jose where the weather starts out dry. Already rain moving in. Heres a look at the. You see the green starting to stretch closer to the coast. This will start out with light rain. Later on this afternoon. And starting out in the north bay, sprinkles rolling through first. And this will still be light rain, and drizzle. And. Mark skies. More green here on the map. It will once again start out with light rain. Some of the heavier rain moving in later this evening and early tomorrow morning with the possibility of gusty winds. And before we start our morning show tomorrow, right at about that the time, heavy rain moving through. Still scattered showers with us throughout tomorrow morning and early afternoon before we start to catch a little bit of a break. During this time frame, were looking at the possibility of half an inch of rain. Some spots like hayward, up to threequarters of an inch. Higher amounts for the north bay. We could have over two inches of rain on an already wet ground. This is the first system that will be moving in you can see clouds. That will take a couple days to work its way through another one well out into the pacific here towards then of the weekend. Ill keep you up to date on everything thats going on. Follow me on facebook and twitter. Send me anything happening in your area. What you see happening weather wise. Temperatures reaching into the mid to upper 50s. Scattered showers off and on. We may take a little bit of a break on saturday. That will probably be your only time to get out and enjoy the weather. Then we see the rain returning early on sunday. That can be used off and on early next week. Ill have more on this coming up. Now as we head over to mike, tracking a crash on fremont. We have that for 680. Around the bay, nothing unusual about this paper for a wednesday. We have pretty predictable slowing through pleasanton, pinol he. 680, mission boulevard, chp has reports of that. We may have an issue in the lanes there the next the couple of seconds so they can clear that. We will continue to track that as the build happens of pinole and pleasanton. And into 880 into hayward. Traffic starts to build westbound. It built up the past five minutes. No problems for 101 or 280. The metering lights are on. We have over half an hour from highway 4 all the way down towards the curve and the bay bridge. Building. Nothing dramatic over there. A smooth ride for the mass transit systems as well. Thanks so much, mike. 6 20. Coming up next, a fall hazard leads to a massive swivel chair recall. What you need to be on the lookout for. 25 viewers received a complaint from a south bay company, notices they were had he not supposed to receive. Dozens of people complaining they are sent to collections before receiving a bill. Im consumer investigator chris chmura. Nbc bay area responds next. Its okay to cry, right . No more we dont want anymore [crying] ahhhhhhhhhh everyday price and no extra monthly fees, unlike cable. Speeds up to 45 megs, for 30 a month. Can bak while you sittinin the. Vo rail the recall involves hampton bay anselmo, calabria, and dana poin about 2 million swivel chairs are being recalled because they can break while youre sitting in them. Hampton bay, martha stewart, sold at home depot and online. The chairs were sold if you have one, stop using it and contact the manufacturer to get a free repair kit is and do it yourself. All right. Nbc bay area responds 25 south bay viewers were sent the same complaint to us. A debt collector was sent after them before they even received a bill. Consumer investigator chris chmura took their calls. The dollar amounts varied from 1,000 to 3,000 each. But the story was the same. In all 25 case, people told us they had required an ambulance a little more than two years ago. In the middle of 2016, they got an unexpected notice from a debt collector. I was shocked, because i never had any news from rural metro about a bill or anything. Rural metro is the name of the company that operates ambulances for santa clara can county. In a statement, they acknowledged it sent an unknown number of accounts to collections in error. They said the billing issue resulted from a processing change when rural metro came out of bankruptcy. We forwarded the 25 complaints we received to rural metro, it erased almost 35,000 in debt. But theres more. Tonight at 11 00, well explain what the debt collector did when it discovered the error and what to do if you are in the same predicament. He call us at 888996tips. Or visit us at nbcbayarea. Com responds. Ill see you tonight at 11 00. Sounds good. 6 26. Coming up next on today in the bay, getting you ready for the next round of rain expected to move through the bay area. Gusty winds. Well talk about the timeline and what to expect the next several days as you try to make weekend plans coming up. A white supreme sift supposed to be speaking tonight. Why the administration refuses to cancel his appearance. A man is shot dead and left on the street here in east san jose. What we know about the search for the killer 10 hours later. A live look outside right now. Plenty of friends out there trying to cross the bay bridge at the toll plaza. Maybe say hello. Its a wednesday. You nephew know. Much more news, weather, and traffic right after this. Taking a live look at radar this morning. Were getting ready for the first of two storms to move welcome back on your weapons. A live look at radar. You will not be seeing rain this morning. Soon after that the first of two storms are moving into the bay area. Thanks for joining us this morning. Im sam brock. Outside of the city of boston no less, it is green out here too. A lot of green starting to show up already as the storm system approaches the coastline. We will start to see more rain moving in today. Lets get a look at what youre seeing as you look at the cameras around the bay area. 47 degrees in the peninsula. 46 in the south baugh. 40 degrees in the north bay. Patchy fog and there. Mark skies in spots. We will get peeks of sun today. It will be a mild one with highs in the 50s to 60s. And the rain gets heavier as we go through the day. We will talk about that timeline and that to expect as the rain arrives. Heading over to mike now. More slowing for hey. A little more slowing as you would expect. 580, trivalley, hayward. Well talk about the san mateo bridge and west 92. That is just starting to build on the peninsula. 680 south. 21 minutes from 580. And it was reported the crash at mission. I do want to show you the build kicked in. Heres 85. A lot of slowing past winchester boulevard. 101 slow past actually. For more, back to laura. We have been following all morning long. San jose Police Investigating the citys fourth homicide of the juror after a man was shot and killed on actually road near the eastridge mall. Kris sanchez live at the scene. Shes been gathering information for us. Details on what happened. And the latest on the search for the shooter. Good morning, chris. Good morning to you, laura. The crime scene along actually has been cleared in the last hour. We know the Homicide Investigation continues as San Jose Police look for the killer, the motive and the coroner working to identify and notify the family. Officers looking for clues where that man was found shot dead. Crime scene around the strip mall including a for gold shop, Vision Center and several other businesses. Whether they have anything to do with this crime is unat this point. We are a block from eastridge one direction on actually. And then the on other direction a neighbor park. All of this is now open to the traffic and the public again. San jose polices fourth homicide of this year. Were a month in. Last year was a recordbreaking year. Kris sanchez, today in the bay.  6 32. Lets get to politics right now. Well be talking a lot about that in the first 100 days. Another one on capitol hill. Were on day 13 of trumps presidency. Theres still a lot on the agenda . Today, expect more Senate Confirmation hearings. Jeff sessions is expected to be approved by a panel today. Also today, President Trumps pick to lead the veterans affairs. Shulkin, if approved, would be the first nonveteran to lead the agency. And launching a major outreach to get the Supreme Court nominee confirmed. They will try to block the nomination in retaliation for republicans refusing to consider president obamas choice for the seat. . Protesters break out on the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus. The protesters remain. Not the case earlier this month where a man was shot outside the university of washington. Reporter some have made their feelings known in chalk here in front of the Student Union where he is scheduled to speak. They are putting up barricades to secure the protest. It does raise the question when does free speech cross the line and become hate speech. A number of students are planning to protest. It could be similar to last night when he spoke at cal poly. About 100 protested. They believe his views are racist, misogynistimisogynistic. Im talking about in january. The protests were so rowdy, his appearance had to be canceled at the last minute. While they have asked to cancel tonights appearance, the administration has defended his right to free speech and the campuss right to invite him. The campus says security will be high tonight. In the past, he denied that he is racist or white supreme sift he points out his boyfriend is africanamerican and says people are too politically correct. Incidentally, within the past 2 hours, he announced the privilege to provide College Money exclusively for white men. Reporting live in berkeley, bob redell the, today in the bay. Thank you very much. 6 36. A live at the hall of justice where we are expecting more explosive testimony during day three of the high profile trial for the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. Aloe told jurors sheriffs deputies did not follow proper protocol. He he hinted that investigators may have tainted the he evidence. No visible hair found on a rope discovered in the trunk of the suspects car. That contradicts what prosecutors said days earlier. Lamars body had never been found. Dna evidence will be critical. If they suggest the dna is not properly analyzed, collected. If its not reliable, it undermines a case where there is no body. Prosecutors called their first witness yesterday. They responded to the first call when see ra disappeared. More than 100 witnesses are scheduled to testify. They have modified an element of the citys rent control program. Council members yesterday eliminated a plan allowing landlords to effectively bank the unused portions of rent hikes. The current policy allows rent hikes up to 5 per year. San jose is implementing its new rent controlled program. A lot is happening right now with the raiders. That would be an understatement. A live look at their current stomping grounds, oakland coliseum. The road to las vegas just got a whole lot bumpier. Sheldon adelson has pulled out of the las vegas project. We knew that yesterday. Taking 650 Million Investment with him. The adelson family releasing a statement theyre upset because they felt left out of negotiations by the team. Goldman sachs says it is also pulling out of the vegas deal. However, it remains a possibility for the raiders for now. It comes back to the original point which everybody looks at what percentage is mark davis willing to give up to have a partner with billions of dollars to help him build. In the meantime, halloffamer ronnie lott has been trying to put together a deal says hes willing to work with the city to keep the team here. Good wednesday morning. It is 6 38. As you get ready to head out the door, 46 in san jose. 48 in napa. 40, santa rosa. Oakland and San Francisco, 49 degrees. For the kids on the bus stop, make sure they are wearing a nice, warm jacket. Watch out for the patchy fog we have seen in spots. By the time they head out for recess, cloudy, peeks of sunshine. A few spotty showers start to move in. Make sure they have the umbrella later on outside. Right now on the roads, mike is tracking whats happening in the south bay. We have more traffic but no crashes reported for the south bay. So thats good news. Coming through san jose, pushing towards the rest of Silicon Valley. Peninsula, a nice easy drive there. We continue to have that build. An earlier crash reported right around mission north. Chp arrives on scene. No lanes reported blocked. We may see flashing lights for the next few. Hayward as well, san mateo bridge. We have the build west at 92. Dumbarton showing a build. The biggest backup toll plaza itself. Traffic starting to slow down. A good flow just i few minutes ago. Sorry. You missed your break. Ill try not to miss this deadline. Extending the deadline for health care. There is a catch here. What you should have done in order to qualify for the extension. Plus, the mustsee video of the day. Boats on fire in santa cruz. What witnesses say they heard and saw right before the fire started. Silicon valley billionaire has a backup plan. And the market is doing much better today the. The dow industrial is up 99, almost 100 points. Well look at the numbers coming up. Increase speed, full throttle over intercom ann, are you coming in . Negative stay on target. What are you guys doing . Artoo, thrusters theyre closing in ill guard the base. For every family that lives star wars, this is the place where star wars lives. Where a galaxy far, far away. Is closer than ever before. Move along. Come join us. During season of the force. Now at the Disneyland Resort. And right now you can save on premium rooms at a Disneyland Resort hotel. Full san mateo bridge sam rail n this mning the fbi offering a 2 thound dollar rewarto help the fbi this morning offering to pay for information 20,000 of rewards to help capture the Northern California Bank Robber Known simply as the khaki bandit. Here is surveillance from the banks he he targeted. Unfortunately you will not be able to see his khakis in any of these pictures. He has robbed nine banks at gunpoint the last four years. They are in napa and sacramento and chico area. Boats on fire in the harbor. It burned three 30footsailboats. No word what might have started the explosion. 6 44. People signing up for Health Insurance have a little extra time to finish the applications. The new deadline is saturday. But there is a catch. You must have started the application before midnight, about seven hours ago. The Trump Administration extending the deadline on the federal exchange created by the Affordable Care act. State health regulators holding a meeting on Rising Health care costs at 3 00 on the milton auditorium. The mayor will sign legislation that will convert Public Housing into mixed income communities in the sunnyvale neighborhood. And informing immigrants of their at 6 00 tonight. It is lefty odouls last day. The classic in union square planning a big Farewell Party tonight. Leftys owners refurbishing the current location. The operators say they plan on moving in. Dunkin donuts expanding in the bay area opening a new location on airport boulevard, south San Francisco. We are on our way as soon as show is over. Shops are already open in Half Moon Bay and walnut creek. Twinkie cupcakes and sno balls flavored ice cream hostess and nestle teamed up. They are said to be on sale now. Im all about the twinkies. Twinkies ice cream. Im going to have to try those out. They last forever. The cow may be able to snap a twogame losing streak. We are seeing signs that stocks are up. We dont expect feds to raise in rates. Still g. M. Cars doing very poorly. This is one of the stocks were watching this morning. We were expecting a rise in sales. We got a big crater in sayles. Dow industrial is up about 89 points. Nasdaq up 39. A Canadian School bus maker lion announced plans to build a school bus factory in california. It was in palo alto showing off its new electric school bus. It will start transporting kids in the Sacramento School district. I asked if he was worried about approximate nafta. Canadian products would become more expensive. The ceo said, no, he wasnt worried about that. California is a big enough market it made sense to build school buses here. American companies are worried about nafta and trumps immigration policies. Some Tech Companies are planning to move it of california into canada. Skilled engineers from india or china are calling it operation true north. We already knew peter thiel, who is anim grant from germany, has been granted full citizenship in new zealand he said he is living in america but files his citizenship because no other country aligns with my view of the future than new zealand. Not only that but he made it when applying for citizenship years before the Gop Convention and supporting donald trump. There is nothing illegal about any of this. You have to wonder what the patriotic crowd would have thought if they knew that man was working on citizenship in an entirely different country. It is is popular with tech leaders. Wozniak has residency in new zealand but not citizenship. All americans buying land in new zealand in light of recent events. Why not stay right here in Silicon Valley. Great events happening like this one today. It is is the watermark conference for women. It begins 8 30 this morning at the San Jose Convention center. A lot of big numbers including facebooks cheryl sandberg, madeline albright, Condoleezza Rice and viola davis. Here the event is sold out. Larra garciacannon and jessica. Laura will kick things off this morning you have to tell us more about that. Its a great event. There are literally hundreds of enthusiastic women that come to this event. It is a piece of history youll be getting a front row seat to as well. It is an honor they asked you. Im honored. Youre right. Im humbled. We are getting ready for another round of rain. This will be the first of two storm systems is set to move into the bay area as we go into the next several days looking at changes once again. A live look at san jose. Poor air quality until the rain arrives. Until then, looking at the potential of gusty winds and rain again. Ill be tracking all of this as we go into the forecast. But also going to see the winds increasing, the rain, and the timeline of this will be later on this evening. Looking now at those temperatures in the upper 40s. A little bit of light in the sky. Getting ready for the sunrise. 50 degrees in San Francisco the current temperature. Heres that rain starting to reach into the north bay. Very light sprinkles starting out. We wont see the heavier rain until later tonight. Dont be surprised if you get brief light downpours. We have a wind advisory that will be in effect for the coast and the hills. All of these areas shaded in brown. Gusting to 50 miles per hour. Especially later on dont. Out in advance of this, the storms from the south pick up 25 miles per hour. Then the strongest winds late tonight with rain moving in. It will be very hit or miss. Then we will start to see pretty wide coverage tonight into the evening commute with light rain. Then the heavier rain moving in overnight most likely while youre sleeping with the winds picking up. Then scattered showers throughout tomorrow morning and early afternoon before we see this storm system wrapping up. The first on the satellite imagery. The second will be here later on this weekend well be tracking all of this heading through the forecast. Highs into the upper 50s for San Francisco. Off and on rain throughout the weekend. But saturday may be our only chance in seeing a break. Ill have more on this coming up. Mike, how is it looking on the roaded ways . Could be bad look. Showing up right here 280, 880. A little extra burst shows up. Well track that. Heres the bad luck potential. A ladder in the roadway off 880. South 238. It is laying on the roadway. Northbound we see is a lighter flow of traffic. 580, that is a bonus. We dont get a break once we slow down. Northbound 101 to San Francisco. 36 minutes from highway 4 over to the bay bridge itself. No delays for mass transit. You can take the rails. Back to you. Thank you, mike. All right. Coming up right now, getting to your top headlines including breaking news were following out of the south bay. Right now police are investigating a Fatal Shooting overnight. Today in the bay kris sanchez has been following that story for us since we came on air at 5 30. What were learning next. 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Before you head out the door, the top stories were following on today in the bay. We start with a developing story in san jose where police are investigating a deadly shooting. Heres a live look where it happened. A lot of Police Activity has cleared out. This is a strip mall on quimby road not far from the mall. Officers discovered a victim near a local business. That man has not yet been identified. At this point police are not releasing a suspect description or possible motive. A prominent member of the altright movement is expected to speak at uc berkeley today. They are inviting Breitbart News editor to speak on campus. It is is sparking protests. This is video last night at san luis owe pweus bow when he spoke at cal poly. Hall of justice. We are expecting explosive testimony day three for the man accused of killing air ra lamar. Prosecutors called their first witness yesterday. News from our coastline. It is going to be disappointed news for many people. The mavericks surf competition at Half Moon Bay is in serious trouble. Organizers filed for bankruptcy yesterday. It is not clear if the contest is actually going to happen. We are expecting to hear more information later in the take. Now to washington, d. C. Where President Trumps u. S. Supreme Court Nominee neil gorsuch heads to capitol hill. They will begin meeting with lawmakers, including members of the Senate Judiciary committee. E planning a major outreach to get the president s pick confirmed. Our politics coverage next on the today show, including an indepth look at the president s pick for the Supreme Court. Lets head outside at the bay bridge. Mixing things up a little bit. Things are dry right now. That is all about to change. Thats right. Keep those umbrellas handy. That rain is going to move in tonight. Kari hall back with a look at the forecast. Heavier rain tonight. We may have spotty light showers ahead of that. In the upper 40s. 41 in the trivalley. North bay also 41 degrees. Ill keep you upto date on that rain. A look at the san mateo bridge camera. You see the tail lights. Very slow now. All the folks headed towards 101. Low clouds hovering around. We dont see any major problems for the freeway. All right. Sounds good. A local news update in a half an hour and every half hour after that. And news at 11 00. Hope you have a great wednesday. Well see you soon. Good. Good morning. Supreme showdown. President trump nominates federal judge neil gorsuch for the Supreme Court. Outstanding legal skills. Republicans hailing that pick. Democrats vowing to fight it. This is a seat that was stolen from the former president. Gorsuch heading to capitol hill today to win over his skeptics. Breaking overnight new violence evupts between Government Forces in ukraine and russian backed rebels. Could the fighting there hit President Trump against Vladimir Putin in trumps first Foreign Policy test . And up in the aia