bennett in the spotlight right now. we will go to pyeongchang with the big story line for the olympics, garvin. >> reporter: that's right, jessica, greetings from the alpine center. this is the home of the downhill and today, the alpine combined. that is one run down hill and one run of slalom. bright bennett just -- bryce bennett just finished. wind is a factor. and in the down hill, he said a gust of wind hit him and it was a head wind that slowed him down. that was enough to take you out of contention. so, he now is looking ahead to his next race, which is the down hill. now, let's talk about the next super star. or the current super star of the game. chloe kim, she killed it today. and not only did she have amazing runs. you will had hear her name a lot, she has a fantastic personality. she was up at the top of the mountain in the competition tweeting about how hungry she was and things that she wanted to eat. >> so, i had a good time, but man, can't wait to go back to the beach. >> reporter: okay, so, now let's talk to the northern california entrant in that competition, kelly clark. she just missed the podium with a fourth place finish. the announcers on the broadcast as well as many people on the twitter felt she was judged too harshly and was not scored high they have and cheated. this is had what she had to say. >> i don't know, i honestly have not seen everybody's runs. i have been focused on what i was doing. so, i just kind of did what i could, so, that's all i can look for on a day like today. >> and bryce bennett finished his run and he is talking with fans and friends and family members like i said, he is back at it for the down hill in just a couple of days. so, that wraps it up here from the alpine center. a lot of action today, it's, oh, my gosh, we have a week of it left to go, exciting stuff, raj and jeff. >> more than two weeks, garvin to go. thank you, garvin in pyeongchang with us. the ioc has announced the first doping case of the games. japanese short track skater has been diagnosed. >> here's a look at the updated medal count, norway leading the way with nine medals, germany and the netherlands rounding outline the top. the u.s. has six melgz smelgzs medals. this flight was evacuated because of smock in the cabin. you can see the smoke there in the video we obtained from one of the viewers, the flight was ready to take off when the fire broke out, the emergency chutes deployed as everyone slid to safety. pa passengers were booked to other flights. we will update your story on our morning newscast beginning at 4:30 a.m. in palo alto, a caltrain smashed to a car at 7:30. the car caught fire on impact. you can see, not recognizable. thank lifu lly -- thankfully the in the car got out. they know what it is. and then you hear the sirens, i texted my wife and it was like, you know, it happened again. it was another train wreck. >> 600 passengers were on the train. a similar crash happened in atherton on saturday night. the caltrain slammed in to the car that got stuck on the track. >> new video, where a house caught fire. you can hear the popping and you can see it, the firefighters had to work around them. this mapped around 7:00 this evening. several people have been displaced by the fire and at this point, we don't know what started it. tonight, we are learning more about the woman that was stabbed and left for dead. two 19-year-olds are under arrest for the killing. they are saying that she identified them with the last words she spoke. terry, such a brutal crime, do we have any idea what led to it? >> reporter: you are talking about motive? that is what the investigators are looking for when they questioned the suspects here tonight before taking them to jail in dublin. these two allegedly beat, stabbed and left the woman for dead. but she was not dead. this is the rural stretch of tesla road where the 19-year-old woman brutally stabbed and beat beat beaten, crawled to flag a car. >> it would be encouraging to the family to know she had the spirit to fight. >> the woman was a young whom who a few months ago moved from san jose to tracy where she lived with her parents and little sister. she lived life to the fullest and loved skateboarding. she identified her attackers by name. >> the last thing we believe she was able to do was point in the direction of the suspects. and that is remarkable. >> reporter: the 19-year-old suspects, a man and woman were arrested this afternoon at this how. a sheriff's department spokesman said the motives for the killing unknown. maybe a love triangle or revenge. it's hard to say. investigators are looking at more than just motive. they are wondering if somebody else was involved in the crime. terry mcsweeney. nbc bayi area news. >> two brothers accused of swindling landlords. when the landlords came to return bounced checks the brothers had moved out. they trashed the homes and took items with them. a counselor at a east bay school is under arrest under suspicion of child molestation. the investigators have identified at least one victim. we have a live look at the u.s. capitol after the senatity voted unanimously to start debating immigration at the center is to whether to protect young undocumented immigrants known as the dreamers. they are considering citizenship and asking for $25 million to pay for the border wall. justice delayed and justice denied. we have a new crisis, where victims can die waiting for justice and criminals can get off scott free. that story next. shoppers in the east bay take matters in to their own hands and what they caught the man doing in a fitting room. i will have detail on who will drop in the 30s tomorrow morning and the storm ranger mobile doppler radar, scanning, no showers right now, but i will tell you when the snow can return and that is in 8:00. even if no one in your home smokes, secondhand smoke can be closer than you think. secondhand smoke from a neighbor's apartment can enter your home through air vents, through light fixtures and even through cracks in the walls and the floors. secondhand smoke is toxic. especially to children. protect your family. visit tobaccofreeca.com. deep budget cuts to california s courts -- began a . cade ago -- and have created a it's a crisis ten years in the making, we have a serious back-log of court cases, and those delays impact taxpayers. stephen has been examining this for years and now, we are talking criminal kay -- talking criminal cases? >> reporter: yes, criminal cases just like civil cases have been delayed. that impacts witnesses, defendants and taxpayers too. we found here in santa clara county, it costs an additional millions tax dollars every year having all the defendants waiting a year or more to go the trial. >> and the details of the murder of michael ruffkchael russell, . >> reporter: a case that took seven years to wind through the courts and the case of cynthia munoz murdered in 1983, unsolved until 2007, a case that stayed in the courts until 2015 when a jury finally convicted the murderer. >> jeff has served as district attorney since 2011. >> we have a case where two men raped and murdered a woman and it's not been resolved yet. >> reporter: these are not isolated delays. according to disposition data, thousands of criminal felony cases, some dating back a decade or more have yet to be resolved. >> it's not just unacceptable. it's outrageous. >> reporter: the issue of delays caught the case of the civil grand jury which issued this report, that 70% of all felonies are disposed of in a year. even though almost 90% of the cases are settled without a trial. meaning a guilty or no contest plea or the charges are dropped. they blame under funded courts and a culture that tolerates delay. blaming prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges who allow it to happen. it's a culture that the d asaid his office is taking steps to fix. >> the courts are under funded, and that is true, but everyone in government, my office include, need to be more efficient with the taxpayer money that we receive. >> the data was incomplete and therefore, inaccurate. >> molly o'neal disputes the data that is coming from the court's own system. so we calculated the data with what she called more complete, and still, they only dispose of 85% of the cases in a year. >> there's always room for improvement and we are looking at ways to do that. because at the end of the day, even though faster is not better. it's not a good thing to have multiple delays and continuanc continuances. >> it's not just a delay in santa clara county. san jose disposes 68% of their felony cases in a year. they say there's simply not enough judges, and courts to handle the caseload. hundreds of millions dollars were taken out of the fund and not put back in and it's impacting justice today. >> we are often being pushed to settle a case, in order to clear the docket. >> i would agree with the chief justice that there's a crisis in the court that they don't have the funding that they have had five, ten years ago. >> reporter: but san francisco's public defender, said that the question is thousand court spends the limited -- is how the court spends the limited resources. >> we say, you cannot pros cute as many cases. there needs to be a balance between wanting to officihandle cases and making sure the parties are doing what they need to do in a case. >> reporter: wherever the blame falls, there's a troubling picture of them facing their own version of "sophie's choice". which cases live and which die? >> you prioritize, do i spend a week trying a low level residential burglary or a theft or fraud or am i going to clear the dockett on this thing so i can try the murder or the rape or the robbery or the armed robbery? that is a daily exercise for us. >> a daily exercise. after talking to santa clara county's presiding judge about the backlog in civil cases, we asked to talk to the judge about the criminal backlog and at first they agreed to an on camera interview and then suddenly decided to cancel, and said there would be no one available to ask us about the criminal case dlsituation going on. >> it's a complex web. >> it is. but we have found people dying, waiting on justice. >> thank you for that information. if you have a tip regarding this story or anyone else in our unit, give us a call. 1-888-996-tips or go to our website, nbc bay area.com/we investigate. >> new at 11:00. a school divided, symbolic of a community divided. they are deciding whether or not to play the national anthem at pep rallies. we have the debate. >> reporter: jessica, it's getting a lot of attention on campus and in the community. but a member of the leadership team, who decided to not play the national anthem tells me that they are certainly divided over this, and that they are the only school in the district who was playing the national anthem before the rally. ♪ o say can you see >> before the start of any professional american sporting event or even a high school game or rally. you will hear the national anthem. last month, a high school in san ramon decided to skip it in a winter rally. >> maybe they forgot it, i don't know how you forget the national anthem. >> turns out they didn't forget. >> all high schools should be singing the national anthem. >> california high school leadership group decided to not play the star spangled banner at the anthem. typically the third verse, it's considered "outdated and racially insensitive." >> we were trying to represent our student body and we wanted to make sure that the national anthem was not offensive to people. >> they say they can only exclude it from events it organizes. meaning the song can be played at games or other school events unless those organizers decide otherwise. >> if they had such a decision to make, i feel like they have gone to the student body to hear from the voices of the students. >> the student body elected represents to vote for them. >> with only one more rally to go this school year, the debate continues. nbc bayi area news. >> let's turn it over to jeff, we were talking about chloe kim. how fun was that to watch today? >> i know, californian doing good on the half pipe. so much action to come in the olympics. we will have a look at the seven-day forecast coming up if you are wond -- >> we will see the cooler air hanging out, no more 70s and 80s like we had last week with record setting heat. we have storm ranger scanning for rainfall and we know we are storm free in terms of any wet weather and that is the problem. right now, no rain fall in san jose for february. 17 days since the last rain. so, we are now on track for the dry estimate february ever. the old record was 1953 with .02 of an inch. and right now, we have not had anything this month. coming up in to the forecast. let's bring it in to tomorrow morning. you will need to have the jacket in the bay. we had mostly sunny skies and tri-valley at 37 and you guessed it here, right up in the north bay. you need the layers with 38 for the average and san francisco 45. we will see temperatures warming up for tomorrow. again, it will not be 70s, we will stay in the 60 and is napa getting up to 63 and san francisco 61, and palo alto 64 and downtown san jose 66, and in to concord, mid 60s under mostly sunny skies through the afternoon. and next change, increased cloud cover once we hit wednesday. we are dry through saturday and keep your eyes on sunday and monday, a slight chance of wet weather that could bring snow levels down to 1,000 feet. lowell vacation snow possible late in the week and early next week. for the inland valleys, again, we are looking at 60s here. back in south korea. we may get snow showers, it's not huge and temperatures in the 30s. snow there is good, but here in the bay area, we will be watching it closely. >> when is valentine's day? >> wednesday. >> thank you, jeff, thank you for the reminder. >> yes, i will have to keep reminding you too. >> do you like it? the history made by the artist who painted these portraits and his connection to the bay area. happening now, san francisco police are looking for a whan -- for a man who robbed a taxi driver. the man stole the driver's bag and took off t driver was not hurt. we are back in a moment with more news. so does a speed skate local ties. we )re live overnight in south korea with results. plus: a "shipping label" warning before your next online buy. that )s tomorrow - 4:30 to 7. it's time for the 'ultimate sleep number event' on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort your sleep number setting. and snoring? does your bed do that? right now during the ultimate sleep number event, our queen c2 mattress with adjustable comfort on both sides is only $699, save $200. ends soon. visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you. ♪ strummed guitar you can't experience the canadian rockies through a screen. you have to be here, with us. ♪ upbeat music travel through this natural wonder and get a glimpse of amazing, with a glass of wine in one hand, and a camera in the other, aboard rocky mountaineer. canada's rocky mountains await. call your travel agent or rocky mountaineer for special offers now. citizen )s arrest that helped pt a suspected peeper has been arrested in pleasant. it was a citizen that helped to arrest him. witnesses say they saw him come out of the fitting room with a hidden camera and it had footage of women trying to clothes. >> take a break, not a suggestion. it's a rule. uber announcing today the new rule to stop tired driving. the drivers have to take a six hour break even if they have driven for 12 hours straight. they will update the app, and that will log the driver out and not allow them to log back in until the six hours are up. update will roll out over the next two weeks. >> a presidential unveiling with bay area ties. the artist who created president obama's official portrait. therity it is right there. graduated from the san francisco art institute in 1999. l.a. native wiley is the first to paint a official presidential portrait. >> and the way he would take extraordinary care and precision and vision in recognizing the us into and the grace and the dignity of people who are so often invisible. >> they are compelling. first lady michelle obama's portrait painted by an african-american artist (vo) i was born during the winter of '77. i first met james in 5th grade. we got married after college. and had twin boys. but then one night, a truck didn't stop. but thanks to our forester, neither did our story. and that's why we'll always drive a subaru. ♪ team usa to south korea! we can't fly... ...but you know who can? ♪ helping superheroes fly. united. ♪ tonight... . okay, you may have been watching the olympics, the warriors getting heat for what they did tonight. hosting the suns at the oracle, steve kerr let the players run the time-out. they ran the pregame practice today as well. kerr said he needed to find a new way to motivate his team. the warriors, as for the game, win big on over the suns, 129-83. >> we showed it early yerks chloe kim, 17-year-old, shredding it on the mountain. won it in the half pyle piipe. she is so funny. and just a teenager. >> i think a star is born. we saw it in real time. let's bring in colin. tracking the action. that was fun to watch. >> it was, yeah, she is impressive, isn't she? clearly 17 is a dominant age in snowboarding these these days. kim has become the darling of the olympics, and first run, so good, that it was never better before her third and final run, she knew she had won gold. she could have just boarded to the bottom, but that is not her style. the move is the back-to-back 10-80 and she landed it near perfection on the score. 98.25. what a story, her parents say, they immigrated from south korea more than 20 years ago. kim joined on the podium by gold, gold gets bronze. now, not long after kim electrified the cloud in pyeongchang, four-time olympian shaun white did the same. he qualified with the top score. 98.50, at points he reached the heights of 40 feet. that is four scores. he failed in sochi to medal. he had a perfect 100 last month yeah, shaun white is back. he is threw qualifying and the finals -- he is through qualifying and finals are tomorrow. look at the medal count. norway leading the way with 9, and the united states with six total. we are back with more news after this. i was in my third tour in iraq when my vehicle was hit by an ied. i looked down and i knew i was out of the fight. but playing for team usa has been a second chance to represent my country. i get to show my children and the world that, yeah, i might have been knocked down, but i'm up, and i'm honored to be able to represent the flag. comcast is grateful to all who have served our country, and we're proud to bring the 2018 olympic and paralympic winter games home to everyone. a palo alto native takes the ice. so does a speed skater with local ties. we )re live overnight in south korea with results. plus: a "shipping label" warning before your next online buy. that )s tomorrow - 4:30 to 7. check out her tweets. chloe kim wasn )t just hungry fr gold... she was actually hungry. okay, we just showed you her win, check out her tweets. she was not just hungry for gold, she was hungry. in between the medal runs, she was talking about eating a breakfast sandwich. and now, she was tweetingabout ice cream. >> it's a constant theme, food for her. >> she likes to eat. so i sense a baskin robbins endurement going. >> she is very sweet. >> maybe her own restaurant. >> she could do that. >> she is going to be around for a long time. we have more olympic coverage coming up. that's the great thing about it. thank you for joining us. >> bye-bye, see you tomorrow. ♪ good morning from pyeonchang and welcome to tonight's prime time broadcast presented by toyota. a lot to get to. let's get you right there. live at phoenix park, the women's olympic halfpipe final about to get under way. four americans in the field. head lined by 17-year-old chloe kim. first up is aerial gold. here to call it is todd harris and todd richards. >> 12 women earned the right to drop into the massive halfpipe. arielle gold will have the first run. only the best run counts and interest dog see how s

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