How bizarre the landscape is. You needed to split your screen to take this all in last night. Most of the republican contenders on the debate stage in iowa while donald trump boycotted it. Trump had a presence at the debate. Let me say im a maniac. And everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. Ben, you are a terrible surgeon. Now that weve gotten the donald trump portion out of the way there is no debating that the debate took on a different tone without trump. There was a tank will between onetime friends, jeb bush and marco rubio of course thats the point where you changed your position on immigration. So did you. And Hillary Clinton took some jabs from the state. Debate from Hillary Clintons and public housings are over. And then there was trump, standing alongside two other republican candidates, Rick Santorum and mikehuckabee who appeared at the earlier undercard dewaits. You have to stick up for your rights when you are treated badly and trump argued he was treated badly. He said that he raised 6 million for veterans groups yesterday at that alternate events. Very interesting how this is shaping up. Doug, thank you very much. Hillary clinton took to social media to share her thoughts on last nights gop debate. The democratic candidate wrote a series of tweets ending with this one right there, including a quick video of herself looking bored and read, lots of bickering, no real plans to strengthen families are keep us safe. Stay with ktvu for the latest from iowa. Ross palumbo will be in des moines through monday nights caucuses. He is also posting updates on twitter as well. 4 02 is the time. Certainly interesting. Yes, the political landscape. Sound like weather is going to get a little interesting maybe today. Not much for us. Okay. It will be as light rain, this is persistent, nothing big. Did it move . Not as much. There is light rain out there. Okay. We do have a persistent little drizzle, light rain, heavier to the north and thats where the bulk is going to go. It will keep us cloudy, foggy, off and on rain. You can see humble down at this. Mendocino county, yes. In between little bands there. Lots of cloud cover. The radar is not working. Some of thinks missing. But suffice it to say that there is a lot of cloud cover, and very light rain. 50 on the tells. Mild because of the cloud cover over us. Going to be that kind of a day. Most of this moisture will push to the north and be with us saturday. Sunday, cold weather system will sweep through. Light rain, cloudy, heavier to the north, foggy at times, not much of a breeze, if at all. Temperatures will be stuck here. Happy friday, sal, at 4 04. Same to you, steve. Here we are on friday hopefully well have an easy commute. Hope so. Lets see what happens here. Starting off in the east bay this time around. 880 traffic looks good. If you are driving on interstate 880, continues to look very nice. There are no major problems here. You can see for yourself. At the san mateo bridge, that traffic is looking very good. The last few days, we have seen trends of people going to the city early to avoid whats been going on there. Traffic is also good on bay bridge. Look at san jose, northbound 280 traffic also off to a good start. 4 04. Back to the desk. Thank you, sal. We are following developing news out of walnut creek where a huge oak tree came crashing down on to a home overnight. This happened at 1 00 this morning near lancaster park. The homeowner discovered feeling an earthquake and discovered that a tree had fallen on to their homes. Crews have been called to the scene to clean up the damage. There was some structural damage to the home. Alex savidge will have more coming up at 4 30. Demolition crews are fast at work on a home. Sit ly inspectors worry that the house might slide down a hill and into another home. Public records show that the owners just bought that house three months ago. Reportedly for 2 million. Were told that they plan to remodel the house and move in next year but emergency demolition of the empty house started yesterday. There are five nearby houses that may be at risk. The city gave these Property Owners 48 hours to hire engineers and submit a report on the stability of their home. Apprehensive . Of course. You go to sleep one night, everything is good. Next morning, you wake up and theyre going to demolish the house next door. Inspectors do not know the exact cause of the Ground Movement but the recent rain certainly may be a factor. The owners of the red tagged house are not out the 2 million, actually. They can still build on the site but they have to hire engineers to make sure that the construction will be safe. There is a warning to anyone headed to the beach. The National Weather service predicts that a westerly swell could produce high surf as much as 15 feet. Swimmers and surfers should look out for river current while beachgoers need to be careful about the sneaker wave. The high surf could lead to beach erosion. And that could mean more problems for folks in pacifica. On monday, the city yellow tagged about 20 units and apartment complex. High waves are under cutting cliffs along the San Francisco coast line as well. There is a detour at the section of the great highway at the south of slope avenue because the road washed away. The cliff immediately in front of a nearby sewage plant is also washing away. With just 100 feet of cliff left in front of the sewage plant front door. Be sure to download our weather app. The body of a missing san jose man has been found. 28yearold kyle myrick had been missing since last friday. Investigators found his body in Santa Cruz County near jaimeson creek road. Last saturday, Police Arrested his coworker, 39yearold steve lebo on suspicion that he killed myrick. Lebo denied those charges, in a jailhouse interview with ktvu news earlier this week. Two people were killed in a plane crash right near Charles Schulze airport. A man and a woman were the only ones in the plane when it crashed in a field near their home. No one else was hurt. Three or four secs after hearing the noise of the airport planes engine, we heard the impact, which was a lot softer and quieter than i would have expected it to be. The plane was on its way from palm springs to santa rosa. The f. A. A. Says it was on its final approach to the airport when it crashed. The cause of the crash is still under investigation. Raiders owner mark davis is reportedly in las vegas talking about ming the team there. Billionaire casino owner Sheldon Addleson is planning on building a stadium on land owned by the university of nevada. The review journal, owned by addleson said that representatives of the Stadium Group arranged the meeting with davis. The latest move comes after the nfl rejected the raiders bid to move to los angeles. Now you can add a canine unit to the super bowl security units. The canines will be patrolling other venues. They will be joining other dog teams from around the country, some from as far away as virginia. The fbi says there is no credible super bowl threat. The agency gave us a first hand look at bombsniffing robots at the fbi joint operation sean center. The center will be staffed 24 hours a day and will last through the super bowl and the day after. Robots can detect and check anything from a suspicious back pack to radioactive. We will monitor anything starting a week before the game to screen them for explosives so that truck load full of Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer bomb is not getting into the stadium. The federal Aviation Administration is issuing a temporary flight restriction at levi stadium on game bay. And they will also monitor super bowl city in San Francisco the week before the super bowl. Passengers headed into the ferry should expect random security checks. Remember, for everything related to super bowl 50, you can always go to our website, ktvu. Com. Everything super bowl 50 . Everything. A lot there. 4 11. Backlash for a prestigious Catholic Prep School in San Francisco. Coming up in 20 minutes, the party with the controversial theme that got a group of bay area students suspended first, the zika virus continues to spark concerns here in the u. S. Up next, what you may not be able to do if you visited regions where the virus is most pre lent. Good morning, morning commute off to a nice start. So far so good here on the golden gate bridge. Its wet. Give yourself a few more minutes. Light rain out there. If you want to track that, you can always get our ktvu weather app. It will tell you anything that you need to know on the rain and temperatures. We recommend that and the weekend forecast as welcoming back. Back. Bed raul health regulators working to stop blood donations from travelers traveling to regions where the zika virus is widespread. The virus has been linked to babies born with abnormally small heads, small brains right now, there are 31 confirmed cases here in the United States. The World Health Organization says that the rapid spread of the virus is prompting them to hold an emergency meeting on monday. The possible links only recently suspected have rapidly changed the risk profile of zika from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions. World hit experts say as many as four million in the americas could be exposed to the virus in just the next 12 months. The f. D. A. Says it does plan to screen blood donor who is have traveled in an effort to protect the nations blood supply. Time now is 4 15. The fbi has released video of a deadly confrontation with a member of that armed group that occupied a National Wildlife refuge in oregon. You can see make a movement to the inside right of his jacket. Several other members of the Militia Group were arrested but there are still four people occupying the refuge. They are angry about what they consider government overreach when it comes to management of land. And a reporter from marin county is opening up about his experience as a prisoner in iran. He talked about the experience and thanked the paper and secretary john kerry for freeing him. Rezaian was freed of a being convicted of spying and spending 18 months in prison. For much of the 18 months i was in prison, my iranian interrogators told me that the Washington Post didnt exist, that no one knew of my plight and that the United States government would not lift a finger for my release. Four other americans were also released as part of that Prisoner Exchange that freed rezaian. 4 17, lets check in on highway traffic with sal. Probably our last day before once this weekend rolls in and super bowl city opens next week. We are already getting used to a lot of it because the closures are already in place. Right. Hopefully that wont be that much more traffic. But we are keeping our fingers crossed. A lot of people are flying in this weekend probably. We are ready for you. Well help you. Just as much as we can. This is a look at the commute now around the bay area. Looks pretty good. Getting into town, its not all that bad. Also, if you are looking at the san mateo bridge or getting down there on interstate 880. It has been very nice with no major issues. We continue to have a very nice looking commute. I can back up off the maps here and show you generally the bay area is not bad as you look on 880 down to the south bay. That means that traffic is at or near the speed limit. 418. Lets go to steve. Thank you very much, sal we have a system with heavier rain staying to the north. Farther to the north, you will find some rain and over us, we have some rain but its very light right now. We dont expect too much here from about San Francisco to oakland south. You can see the bulk of it. We get a lot of cloud cover, some fog. It is a weaker rain pattern, much weaker. It will turn over. After that, looks pretty quiet for a while. We have to take care of this system, mainly light rain to the north. Foggy and drizzly here. Sunday, the system looks like it wants to focus most of its energy south. It will be cooler. Really not a lot here. Some of it is below the radar beam. Heaviest amount, again, where it is, fort bragg north. Just light stuff here. It will be cloudy today. Look at the plume of moisture here. More show and go unless you are up north. There are some 53s to 58. Truckey, warm system. Incline, 39. Reno 34. Snow levels way, way up there, more rain than anything else and fog a bigger concern. The system will continue to plow in. There will be a low developing here. That will approach us and dive towards monterey more so than us on sun day. Light rain, cloudy, mild, heavier to the north. Foggy at times as well. Hardly any breeze whatsoever. So 60s on the temps. And i think upper 50s for a few. Tomorrow looks like cloudy. Light rain drizzle again. Another system on sunday but, again, thats more south than north. After that, breezy and cooler but looks dry for next week. Maybe for a while. Really . Yeah. So originally, you thought february we had two pretty active months and its not uncommon whatsoever to get two or three weeks of dry weather in the winter. This could be it. This could be it. All right. Well see. Get ready for more snow and strong winds. Up next, what you need to know if you plan to head to the sierra this weekend. Welcome back. Take a look. We are expecting to see more snow up in the sierras. Higher elevations could see up to two feet of fresh powder. Gusts up to 100 miles per hour. Sometimes, they do close the top of the mountains at the resorts. A winter storm watch is expected to go into effect this afternoon. Be careful if you are driving up there the storm is expected to last through monday morning. If you are driving, be prepared for dangerous rad conditions. Allow yourself extra time to get to your destination and have your fourwheel drive or your chains. The wet weather is also delaying the cleanup of areas burned. Debris is cleared from more than 400 homes but there are more than 30 sites to be cleaned up. Because of the weather, crews are unable to access those homes. The work will resume in march. Broncos or panthers, pam in. Broncos president obama was recently asked the same question about his super bowl pick. Here is what he had to say. You know what, i have to see a little more information. I think thats a great story for Peyton Manning to be, you know, towards the end of his career in a super bowl again. And the defense that the broncos have is unbelievable but carolina looks tough. Going to be a close one. A tough one. Spoken like a politician. I know. Very diplomatic answer by the president. He did not reveal who is rooting for, obviously. The president says he follows football closely. He is a big fan, by the way, of the chicago bears. The light show on the bay bridge will come back to life. This is pretty cool. The display will be turned back on tomorrow night during a pre ceremony at the embarcadero. This is all part of the super bowl celebrations. The lights were supposed to be temporary. They were supposed to be turned off. Facebook may be looking into taking on uber and lyft. According to a Patent Application released yesterday, the social media giant may get into the ride sharing business. The idea is an expansion of facebooks event feature. That feature would help users share vehicles or find a travel buddy to get to events. The news comes weeks after facebook announced a partnership with uber to allow users to book cars from facebooks messenger app. An interesting story on wall street today. Googles Parent Company alphabet could dethrone apple as the worlds most valuable company. The Silicon Valley rivals could trade places as early as today. After the end of the trading, apple was 520 billion. Alphabet at 518 billion. The competition was not even close a few months ago. Time is 4 26. More than a dozen students from a prestigious San Francisco high school suspended. Up next, the offensive party they were expected to take part in. And a huge oak tree comes crook down comes crashing down on to a home here in walnut creek. Well tell you what the People Living in this home heard when the tree toppled looking at the morning commute. Not bad anyway on 80 westbound. Lets see what it looks like in the next half hour when people get on the road. Not much rain yet although it picks up up north. For us, going to be a drizzly day here in the valley. Welcome back to mornings on 2. It is friday. It is . January 29th. Im excited. Im brian flores. And im doing great. You are doing awesome. Thank you for joining us. Coming up on 4 30. Lets check in with steve. Its friday. A lot of people are heading to the sierras. I was in the ski shop. A lot of people were renting equipment. Yes. Going to be a lot of rain. Even on the slopes . Well, in the foothills. No rain here at all. Throughout the day, not a lot of there is a pretty good slug of moisture. Going to be a cloudy day heavy amounts to the north. Most of the heavy rain will fall north. Be prepared for rain. About 1 10 or less in santa rosaa lot of moisture in place. Points north, russian river, eventually by sunday into the santa cruz mountains. A lot of cloud cover. Foggy morning, cloudy at tiles. Plenty here to have to plow through. Very mild systems, mid50s for many. A few upper 50s. Coldest air arrives