Yay hes with us live. And ladies night, the glamour event of the game. Figure skaters from the u. S. And around the world begin their quest to become queen of the olympic ice today, wednesday, february 19th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition today at the olympic winter games with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from olympic park in sochi, russia. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning here in sochis olympic park. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie along with al roker and Natalie Morales. Now ted shred ligety with a great historymaking performance. Thats right. A lot of expectations on him coming into these games he might leave with a gold medal. Check that box. Its happened first time an american male has won the giant slalom. Congratulations to him. We have a lot to celebrate. A lot of Medal Winners live here this morning. Well get to all the action here in sochi in a moment. But we want to start with our top story. The deteriorating situ
Day is in store for the afternoon. The highs for granted to the lows 60s to the upper 60s inland. Clear skies in the 50s by 8 00 p. M. I will have a full detail what to expect coming up. There is good new is because were not tracking any hot spots. The ride on highway 4, concord out of antioch you are looking at about 27 men spirit it looks a slow but a typical drive time for this hour is about 41 minutes for a little ahead of schedule. We are looking at is slow ride on 680 into 42. Still tracking delays for the south bay on 1 01 northbound because we have had two separate accident but the drive time is starting to look much like a normal drive. New clashes today between police and protesters in the ukraine, the just declared a truce has been broken. Were just getting word there protesters have captured 67 Police Officers and the death toll now stands at 67 protesters overnight, with three Police Officers being killed. You can see the heavy smoke that is coming from this burning barric
Procedures. Maureen kelly kron4 news. Pam the suspect was expected to be arraigned today on two counts of assault and one count of inflicting injury on an elderly person. Hes being held on 250 thousand dollars bail. Pam this is not the first time there has been a serious lapse in security at sf general. Pam back in october, patient Lynn Spalding went missing from her hospital room. Faugh pam she was found more than two weeks later. Dead in a locked hospital stairwell. Pam a review of procedures found. Among other problems, that sheriffs deputies who provide security for the hospital, never checked all of the stairwells during the search for spalding. Pam tonight. An update on jahi mcmath. The 13 year old oakland girl who was declared brain dead by childrens hosptial oakland. While her family fought to keep her on a ventilator. Pam a letter from mcmaths mother was posted today on social media. Pam she praised quote good hearted professionals for keeping her daughter alive. She wrote. Pa
Attack. Reporting live in San Francisco, David Stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. Governor jerry brown issues a call to action to help california get through drought crisis. Ktvus julie haener is in the news room with more. Reporter governor jerry brown and democrats offered a plan that will not raise taxes or fees but will often immediate relief. Providing money for Drinking Water, for housing, for food and water conserving technologies. Reporter in all the governor prosed spending 687 million on projects to hit hard hit communities, which could run out of Drinking Water in 100 days. We worked through a grant to put a pipeline in place to deliver water from where it was located to where it was needed and we will do that throughout the state as the Community Comes up. Reporter 549 million will come from bonds. 25million from the general fund for food aid to struggling communities. Other examples the money could be used for, recycled water and storm water capture projects. More technologic
Currently in the forties. Clear skies as we take this live look from our mount tam cam. It look at temperatures. Santa rosa and 45 degrees. For these out the door in concord. And to the afternoon and lot of those 60s will start to fill land. Were talking upper 60s in livermore and pleasanton, 69 year high in fairfield. Well 60s along the coastline. Partly caught conditions. High pressure back in place. What that means is in the storm in the rain is going to stick to the north and we will continue with a warmup gear and the bay area. Heres than 7 day around the bay forecast like i mentioned warmer weather on the way. Your mother is a warming trend tearing us into the weekend. Saturday shipping of to be the warmest day of the week. Sunshine will continue as we wrap up the weekend. Some clouds as we start the next door quick. And it looks like wet weather returns to the bay area as we head into the middle of next week. That is something we will continue to monitor. As for traffic around t