Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20180221

Materials there it could be a hazmat situation if it got into the soil. There is slowing out of the altamonte pass and that is typical for 580. A smooth drive across the bay bridge. No issues. 5 01. Exactly one year ago this is what people woke up to one Early Morning in san jose. They woke up to these horrible images right here, flooding, waters rushing into their homes. This happened after the coyote creek overflowed its banks after relentless rainfall. Today in the bays bob redell live in one of those hardest hit neighborhoods, rock springs. Tell us how has the city come how far have they come really after this tragedy . Reporter good morning, marcus. You see that muck that was on the roads thats clearly been cleaned away, all those submerged cars have been towed and the letter xs that rescuers had spray painted on homes, most of those have been painted over, but the rock springs neighborhood that flooded last year is not what it used to be. A number of people who were here when this area flooded unexpectedly have not returned to their homes. Carmen is one person who did decide to stick around in spite of what she experienced. We caught up with her yesterday. When the Anderson Reservoir overflowed and flooded her neighborhood and her home february 21st of last year, the water moved so fast the Fire Department had to rescue her in waters that were four feet deep in places, her apartment still bears some of the water marks all this time later. She relied on sacred heart to replace all of her belongings with money used from a 7 Million Victims Fund and insurance paid her back for her submerged car. Carmen, however, is worried about the next time we get a big rainy season. I hope they get that creek cleared out so the water runs smooth you know, smoother. Otherwise we are in trouble again. Reporter the Santa Clara Valley Water District which mansion Anderson Reservoir has installed new barriers where coyote creek borders the rock springs neighborhood. They say that metal structure would protect these people from a flood of the same size. Later this morning the district, city, county, state and army corps of engineers will be holding a News Conference to discuss what else is being done to prevent flooding. Reporting live in the rock springs neighborhood of san jose, bob redell, today in the bay. Thanks for the latest from mr. There, bob. Happening today, President Trump plans to hear firsthand from survivors of the Florida School shooting. He wants to hear what they believe can be done to make schools safer. The president is actually calling the event a listening session. It is taking place at the white house. It is expected to include students, parents and teachers from parkland. It comes on the heels of the president s new push to regulate bump stock devices like the ones used in the las vegas massacre. To ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns. We must do more to protect our children. We have to do more to protect our children. The president also plans to hear from the parents of students killed in the columbine and sandy hook shootings. Also today, High School Students from parkland will descend on floridas State Capitol pushing for new gun control measures. At least 100 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School boarded buses yesterday for that sevenhour ride. They plan to meet in tallahassee with lawmakers including Florida Governor rick scott. A rally is also planned. Students are calling for a ban on militarystyle weapons. Yesterday florida lawmakers voted against debating a bill to ban assault weapons. A Palo Alto School districts push to address concerns about Sexual Violence reportedly includes two well known speakers hosting Upcoming Events for students and even apartments. Palo alto weekly reports the first speaker is a nationally known Sexual Health educator named anea bogue. She will speak this friday and sunday to High School Staff and students. In April Jackson katz will hold a series of talks april 11th and 12th and he will be back on april 30th and may 1st. San franciscos District Attorney is expected to give an updated rather, on whats being done to combat the massive amount of car breakins within the city. Last year there were more than 28,000 car breakins in San Francisco. Thats up 26 from 2016. Lawmakers say that they take action in 80 of the cases, but they want to increase that percentage. At 5 05, continuing coverage now of the 2018 olympic winter games. This morning fremonts karen chen sits at tenth place after her figure skating debut. She and other american competitors had a few stumbles. Garvin thomas joins us live in south korea. Garvin, you talked to karen chen overnight. First, though, a Different Group of american athletes made history less than three hours ago. Reporter thats right. Marcus, you know, there has been a lot of talk at these games about the lack of medals that team u. S. A. Has been winning. Well, we just pulled a gold out overnight from the most unexpected of places. How unexpected . Well, the United States had never won a gold medal in the sport of crosscountry. Well, that is until now. The Womens Team Sprint competition came down to the wire. Will m a photo finish with the u. S. Team of Jesse Diggins and keeken randall pulling it off. A medal might be out of reach for karen chen after the Short Program in the womens figure skating. The 18yearold is in tenth place. All three americans stumbled during their program, chen having trouble with her opening combination, one she said she nailed every single day of practice this week. To not be able to do that there and open my program with that, i was definitely a little disappointed and flustered, but kind of i was like, nope, i have to stay positive so i just like let that go and just pretended that i nailed it and then i just continued the rest of my program and made sure i attacked the double after the triple loop and sold my program the best i could. Reporter it wasnt the expected color but lindsey vonn won her first meddle of these games and third of her career, a bronze medal in the downhill. Vonn said sh he had no regrets, she skied the race she wanted to ski, its just she told me sometimes someone else skis faster. Overnight we talked to squaw valleys Julia Mancuso about what she thought of vonns race. For me i was just really nervous for her. I could feel how much she wanted it and, yeah, watching the race it looked hard, a lot of girls had a lot of problems and i felt like she could have pushed harder, but it was pretty heroic to come through the finish and get a medal. Reporter now, lets talk about what is going on here at the sliding center. As we speak the final heat of the twoman womens bobsled is taking place. Elena Meyers Taylor of team u. S. A. 0. 04 of a second out of first place. The finish of this race will happen within the hour and you can bet we will tell you who won coming up in morning at 6 00. Thanks, garvin. Also all new at 6 00 a. M. , garvin is going to talk to tahoes david wise who goes to gold tonight in freestyle skiing. Also going for gold couldnt, palo altos Hillary Knight and the u. S. Hockey team facing canada in prime time. Here is quick look at the current medal count. Norway continues to lead with 32 total medals, germany and canada rounding out the top three. Team u. S. A. Tied for fourth this morning. The netherlands, america and france have 14 medals right now. And right now at 5 08 it is cold in squaw valley, over 15 degrees, we compare that could mr. Garvin was just giving us that report from, 20 degrees there and its 10 08 at night. So we are looking at still here in the paris some really cold weather and still some freezing temperatures in some of the inland valleys. Also some clouds and some spotty light rain moving into parts of sonoma, marin county this morning. A lot of this has been very light and weve even seen some low elevation snow. I will be tracking that and a the sloppy conditions that may be developing on some of those bridges and roadways as you head out for that Early Morning drive. We are now at 37 degrees in santa rosa and napa. San jose 39 degrees and 45 now in San Francisco. More on this and the temperature trend throughout the day coming up. Mike, youve been tracking a crash on the peninsula. Its a new crash, but also those conditions up in the north bay, be careful up there, north bay drivers. Over here were watching the peninsula, watching all over the bay i should say. Easy sensor reads. 101 northbound you may find slowing around whipple avenue coming up past the woodside area because of a truck that is overturned on the side of the road. Doesnt sound like lanes are blocked and doesnt sound like theres anybody in the truck but we will track that update with chp. Toward the bay bridge easy breezy. Back to you. Coming up next here on today in the bay, lost and found. Thank you. My marriage is saved. We speak exclusively with the bay area woman who lost her wedding ring on a flight. The miraculous way she got it back. And spacex has done all kinds of amazing things. Today they will use a giant net. Good wednesday morning. Right now at 5 13 we start out with some chilly temperatures and mostly clear skies for the south bay. As we go throughout the day in evergreen its going to still be in the mid 40s by 9 00. Now, normally for this time of year we are at about 63 degrees for the high, but today we will struggle to make it out of the 50s. We will talk about the chance of rain and also whats going on with that wintry mix in the north bay. Thats coming up in five minutes. Getting through the trivalley is just fine. We do have one issue north of 580. We will talk about that coming up. And also the smooth drive across the bay for now. And happy wednesday. Wall street looking for a slow start this morning after stocks fell on tuesday. That snapped a sixday winning streak on the dow falling 254 points. You can blame this stock right here, walmart, one of the dow 30, that company had its worst day on the stock market in 30 years. Apparently wall smart is not selling as much as it hoped over christmas. Vice president mike pence will be in florida today to announce the deregulation of space. Fewer rules about what private companies can do in order to encourage Companies Like spacex. In california spacex will launch a rocket, falcon 9, carrying, among other things, small satellites to provide high Speed Internet to people down on earth. Spacex would eventually like to launch thousands of them and deregulation is going to help them clear the way for that. This launch is scheduled for 6 19 a. M. , we will show it to you when it happens. Now, they are not going to try to recover the first stage today like they usually do, but they are going to try to recover the faring, that is the nose cone up there, and they will try to get spacex. Someone tweeting out the pictures of the secret big net. And you remember this robot j, t i was telling you about from boston dynamics a couple weeks ago, he is the one that can open the door. Look what theyre doing to it now, they are discouraging him to open the door to see what he will do or she, i go he is it could be a she as well. I watch these and boston dynamics is famous for this, testing their robots in a way that kind of makes you feel a little uncomfortable, like theyre being mean to the robot in some way. Its fascinating to watch. Its a little creepy, too. I think your Human Emotion its just a machine, right . It is, exactly, but for some reason it does. I saw someone put together a video with Jurassic Park showing that as the dinosaurs instead. It was interesting. He got through the door eventually despite that guy. Thank you very much. We have breaking news this morning. We are just getting word that legendary billy graham has died. His evangelist i can association confirmed his death to nbc news just moments ago. Now, graham was an ordained Southern Baptist minister who grew into perhaps the most influential evangelist in the 21st century. He also served as the voice of conscience for a long line of u. S. President s. The reverend billy graham died in his home state of north carolina. He was 99 years old. Again, reverend billy graham has died. 5 16. San jose City Attorney down playing the news that nondisclosure agreements were signed in connection with googles plans to build a massive new downtown collection. Last week reports surfaced that some leaders, agencies and consultants signed agreements to avoid talk about the details in san joses plan to sell publicowned land to google. The deal is still being ironed out but Community Leaders say confidentiality agreements would undermine transparency. The City Attorney rick doyle claimed the ndss have not and will not impact the release of information. They are drawing up new rules for private service they believe competes too closely with muni. As soon as today the nta will prevent new rules preventing chariot from running lines following along already established muni routes. Most san franciscans have a favorable view of ride sharing companies. And a followup now for you this morning, we have more on the woman who lost her wedding ring on a commercial flight, then she got it back in a very unusual way. Today in the bays trey mcsweeney spoke to her exclusively and has her unique story. Reporter San Francisco business entrepreneur brit more rihn removed her wedding ring so it wouldnt be a distraction at an on camera shoot in new york. It was in her toiletries bag which was inside her purse. Part of my toilety bag was unzipped, i didnt clois it all the way. Reporter when she landed in wyoming for a Family Reunion the ring is gone. The significance is my relationship, my children, my family, they are sod ld together my engagement and wedding ring so it was the proposal. Reporter and it was made by a family jeweler. She told her husband that night. He sort of nodded at me and didnt talk and we went to bed. After three days i had started giving up hope. Reporter a united employee had found it on the jet way, it had been in a safe all along. Obviously i was elated, i had my wedding ring back, my husband was not going to kill me anymore. Reporter to guarantee its return the captain on the light where it was lost delivered it to morin at sfo. Thank you. My marriage is saved. Reporter terry mcsweeney, today in the bay. Beautiful ring. Another beautiful thing if you like snow . Some areas, were experiencing that. Yeah, for those elevations in the far north bay above about 1500 feet. We are watching those areas in the hills where there might be rain. It starts out very cold for all of the bay area this morning as we get a look at our radar, storm ranger showing that we do have quite a bit of green there in parts of marin and sonoma counties. As we get a closer look we can see that this may create some slippery roads as you get ready to head out and with temperatures just above freezing some of those elevated roads may be a little icy. Also watching this cluster here and some of the showers that have been moving through from north to south. Here is a look at san rafael and that live camera. Looks pretty soggy but everyone looks to make it okay, just make sure you allow extra time to get to where youre going this morning. It is going to be another cool day with some breezy winds, highs reaching into the upper 50s for the south bay. As we roll over towards the east bay, 58 degrees in danville, 52 today in daley i city. Halfmoon bay 53 degrees, San Francisco low 50s for the afternoon. Look at those winds, up to 26 Miles Per Hour and some upper 50s in parts of the north bay. Here is the way the rain pans out, mostly spotty showers along the coast and then it does clear out for the afternoon. By tomorrow especially during the morning we could have another wave of some wintry mix, some light rain and snow for parts of the north bay, even mt. Hamilton for the south bay. As we see this spotty rain moving through, so just make sure youre prepared for a little bit of anything. As we look at the sierra and the snow pack we are only at about 20 of normal statewide. Around lake tahoe about 24 of normal. Were still going to have dry weather heading into the weekend. Mike, youve been tracking the impact and a couple crashes on the road. I was also concerned about a spill over here in the trivalley area north of 580. The slowing on 580 pretty typical and the rest of the bay doesnt show any problems, nothing other than green on our speed sensors. There was a chlorine spill reported here, Mountain House at byron highway, but then it just completely got deleted from the chp report so were going to check around to make sure no else is an issue for folks coming through the area, Discovery Bay and the like. No problems for brentwood, either. 580 smooth and easier drive toward livermore and dublin. Theres the dublin interchange, Castro Valley y, landmark places at speed. Thats great stuff. Over on the peninsula were tracking northbound 101 at whipple avenue, reports that now theres flares being put out. At least the slow lane is blocked because of this car that went off the roadway, but no major injuries reported. Sounds like there might be minor injuries to somebody there. Getting over toward the bay bridge an easy drive and no problems for mass transit. Remember, a couple exits closed over at the Palace Station until 6 30. Theres the bay bridge and you have your backup. Coming up next on today in the bay, first, smart tvs, how about smart guns . The device that could solve the nations problem with gun violence. And here is whats happening today on nbc bay area. You can watch the first run of the mens Alpine Skiing live, also lake tahoes david wise goes for gold in the halfpipe and we will also be showing the gold medal runs for womens bobsled and womens crosscountry. Over on Nbc Sports Network, coverage of the gold medal womens hockey match starts at 7 45. Palo altos Hillary Knight and team u. S. A. Will try to beat their rivals, canada. Youre watching today in the bay. vo you can pass down a Subaru Forester. But you get to keep the memories. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. avo get 0 apr financing on all new 2018 Subaru Forester models. Now through february 28th. Welcome back, everybody, to today in the bay. It is 5 25 right now. So youve heard of smart tvs, maybe even have one. But now one entrepreneur believes the time is right for he says thatbc aog smart gun d could be the thing that6 7 save lives. This gun that works with Recognition Technology it senses what the designer calls a token or embedded chip that can only be worn by the gun owner. If there is no token present the gun cannot be fired. Our token is either going to be in a ring, a bracelet or quite possibly implanted right here between your thumb and forefinger. Believe it or not, Smart Gun Technology has actually been around for years, but the idea has never gotten much attention with lawmakers, thats because the gun industry opposes it. Some hope for anyone who has ever hated their drivers license photo. A new bill could give drivers in california the power to choose the photo they want. If it passes you will be allowed to make multiple pictures at the dmv and choose the final one, however, you would be charged for each additional picture. uej revenptuuetz into a new driver education and training fund. Can i bring my own lighting, too . Coming up, more on today in the bay. Preserve nature or make more room . Its a question so many bay area communities are asking. Only on today in the bay, one citys work with a group of angry neighbors. Plus calling for a removal, the reason a historic statue at San Franciscos civic center could soon be torn down. Show me the olympic winter games like ive never seen before. Xfinity x1, yeah, i always know the scor. Triple corks in 4k. Lookin so sick. Stream live on every screen, every win, every trick. 2000 hours of coverage, get your mind blown. 50 olympic channels, yup, youre in the zone. And if theres something that you want to see, pick up that voice remote and just say show me. Experience nbcuniversals coverage of the olympic winter games like never before with xfinity. Proud partner of team usa. Good wednesday morning to you. As we get started with our day just seconds away from 5 30. Take a look at this, if those cold temperatures outside are making you not want to go outside, look at this, they may make you want to venture out. A beautiful sight s . L there. Walnut creek. Thank you for joining us right here, im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. All right. Its been a little cold out thereae lately, lets check in with kari. I got the boots out yesterday. A little cold . Were like, oh, my goodness, whats going on out there . Its going to be another chilly one and we have a little bit of some rain happening in parts of the bay area, mostly in the north bay and watching that over parts of sonoma and marin county. Starting to see sprinkles approaching San Francisco as well along ocean beach so i will be keeping an eye on that. Our temperatures in some spots are very close to freezing if not below, like were seeing in morgan hill and in fairfield. Elsewhere we do have 30s and 40s as you get ready to step out. In san jose a mix of sun and clouds this afternoon and we start out in the 30s and 40s, but we do make it into the upper 50s again today, more clouds moving in tonight and there will be another chance of rain in the forecast. I will talk about that and we will just skip right on ahead to the weekend, why not, thats coming up in seven minutes. Mike, you were saying now you have an off ramp closed. You have to skip this off ramp as well. This is on the peninsula, been tracking this crash, sounds like an overturned pickup, maybe another vehicle, people were standing outside of the car, but that off ramp is closed at whipple avenue off northbound 101 at least until the tow trucks can pull that truck away. You will have to use holly or woodside. Just keep those in mind. Look how light the traffic s our palo alto camera shows you the peninsula, northbound 101 with these taillights, no problems right now. Back to you. We do have some breaking news to tell you about this morning. The reverend billy graham has died. His evangelist i can association confirmed his death to nbc news moments ago. Graham was an ordained Southern Baptist minister, he grew into perhaps the most influential evangelist in the 21st century. The reverend billy graham died at his home in north carolina, he was 99 years old. And happening today and only on today in the bay, a south bay neighborhood is fighting the removal of a grove of heritage red wood trees. The developer wants to building a new house there. This is happening on sierra avenue in Mountain View. The struggle for sustainable and responsible growth is happening in communities all across the bay area. Today in the bays kris sanchez joins us live in Mountain View this morning. Kris, how is the city trying to strike a balance with this. Reporter they will meet with the concerned citizens of sierra avenue around the noontime hour today but Mountain View like a lot of our communities around the bay area have ordinances protecting trees that are a certain circumference around trying to protect those old growth trees. Lets show you the trees that we are talking about this morning. This is a grove of about eight or so trees on sierra avenue that the developer is asking for the city for permission to remove so they can build a Single Family home. The neighbors are pushing back with lawn signs, a petition, a website trying to protect trees that are that large. Now, Mountain View city code defines Heritage Trees as anyw÷ tree 48 inches around or greater or any oak, red wood or cedar tree greater than 12 inches in circumference. The city requires a two to one replacement for any Heritage Tree that is removed. It is a one to one replacement for all other trees. But the opponents on sierra avenue say you cant replant a mature tree overnight. We respect the right of the developer to develop this property, we understand that. We understand there is a housing shortage in the area, however, what were saying is one Single Family home should not clear cut an amazing grove of red wood trees like this that have a tremendous impact on the neighbors, community as a whole. In the short term you are probably seeing a loss of canopy. When trees are removed because of that there is a replacement for those trees thats generally a two to one replacement. Reporter okay. So i worked to get a boarder picture of Heritage Trees removed in Mountain View. There are a lot of numbers on your screen. In the fiscal year of 201415, 246 Heritage Trees were removed. 216 were replanted. The next year 327 trees removed, 296 replanted and in the last fiscal year, that is the last one, 279 Heritage Trees were removed and 264 were replanted. So the city trying to keep up with that ordinance. Now, those numbers dont count the 160 redwoods google got permission to remove to make way for the 600 squak foot campus on East Charleston road. At the time the city planner said that the replacement landscaping far exceeded the trees that were taken out. Microsoft, semantec also requested permission to remove 200 trees around the same time. The city parks director will meet with the residents today and then he plans to meet with the developer one more time to see if they can sketch something out. At that point he will make his recommendation on whether or not he will permit or deny that tree removal. We will continue to follow this one because its happening on one street in one city but it could be happening where you live as well. In Mountain View, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Very much so with so much development. Authorities have reportedly found no credible threat for students at brentwoods Heritage High School following a series of texts posted online. The east bay times report two students in a dispute with each other sent each other threats that started escalating. Those threats somehow ended up on social media. The mother of one of the students told police her child happens to be going through a particularly rough patch. Authorities in Southern California are convinced they stopped a school shooting, that plot involved a 17yearold student in wittier. Police yesterday confirmed that at his school, but did not find a weapon. They later went to the students home where they found what they described as multiple guns and ammunition. Wittier police plan to talk more about this case later today. At 5 36 right now, you know, for several weeks weve been exposing the Sexual Misconduct allegations at san joses presentation high school. Our Investigative Unit was the first to uncover years of complaints that went ignored by the all girls school, but now presentation is responding to our reporting and to the community. The school is announcing the creation of an independent council to prevent they will create an independent office for students who want to report a complaint of misconduct or bullying. Here is sam singer who is working with the school. The school continues to change and grow and evolve and it does everything it can to prevent harassment. Now and will do so in the future. These two initiatives the committee as well as the office thats going to be independent to protect students are new initiatives that will be helpful. Since we broke the story late last year multiple students and teachers have spoken out about what they call a culture of protecting the school over the students. Late last night a spokesman for the alleged victims released a statement saying in part, quote, they went out and hired the very best to spin and contort the true facts in an attempt to cast a more favorable glare on its misconduct. Part and parcel to a strategy implemented decades ago. Give the Investigative Unit a call 888996tips or nbcbayarea. Com weinvestigate. Happening today, the San Francisco Historic Preservation commission will decide the fate of a controversial statue at civic center. Critics say the early day statue is a sim boling of oppression and are calling for the removal. Pete suratos is live in San Francisco with a decision that could be made today. This is really an iconic statue were talking about. Reporter good morning, marcus. Well, theres some in the native American Community as well as their advocates who wouldnt call it iconic, they would call it offensive. We are talking about that early day statue, there it is right behind us, maybe you saw it when you were walking out of the main San Francisco library here in the civic center, but that is whats up for debate today. In fact, you have San Francisco mayor mark farrell who recently sent a letter to that commission in charge to remove the statue. Exactly what is the statue, what is it depicting . It shows a native american seated on the ground with men standing over here. San franciscos Art Commission is leading the charge when it comes to the removal of this statue calling it, quote, a symbol of oppression that represents californias list friday from what they consider a euro American Point of view. This vote comes just a week after San Francisco officially renamed columbus day to Indigenous Peoples day and two weeks after san jose voted to remove a Christopher Columbus statue from its city hall. Lets take you guys back out here live, you can taking a look at that early day statue. When it comes to san joses situation they are trying to figure out what to do with that Christopher Columbus statue. If this statue is taken down San Francisco will put it in longterm storage but that commission will vote on the issue later this afternoon at 12 30. Pete suratos for today in the bay. All right. I think it looks pretty calm in the background around the civic center in San Francisco. Light commute around most of the bay. I have to call out a couple of things there. In the southbound, southbound 87 past 280, reports of a crash somewhere in that area. So chp is going to travel through, let you know if theres a problem. 101 northbound no major issues, just your typical slowing, just a little build and the crash still blocks the whipple off ramp on the peninsula from northbound 101, whipple avenue off ramp is currently closed, you can use holly or 84 getting over to the area just prior. Guess what . The weekend is within sight. Time to talk about the weekend. It looks like a nice one for all of the bay area. Still kind of chilly, though. Here is a look at the saturday forecast, only in the upper autos, but, hey, weve got some sunshine and its going to be a great one. We will start to see more clouds moving in on sunday. A high of 58 degrees for the coast and 60 for the inland areas. What are you doing this weekend . How about Russian River valley, its going to be nice there. Highs reaching into the mid 50s. Sunday a lot of sun and 58 degrees. Then for Carmel Valley upper 50s there as well. I think it will be a nice one as long as youre dressed appropriately, wearing lots of layers, and you will definitely need a lot of layers heading to this, on friday the high will only be 27 degrees. Yes, thats the high temperature, but a little bit milder by sunday and then going hiking in muir woods its going to be in the mid 50s all weekend long and we do keep the sunshine there. We will talk about whats ahead for today, we will bring it back to wednesday, thats coming up in three minutes. Its 5 41. Coming up next on today in the bay, getting your voice heard. How people in the bay area will get the chance to push for action when it comes to air pollution across the country. And President Trump this morning will sit down with Students Affected by School Shootings. He calls it a listening session. When today in the bay continues. Ive seen wonders all around the world but what i see here never ceases to amaze me change. I see it in their eyes. It happens when people connect with nature, with culture, with each other. Day after day im the first to see change. To see people go out, and come back new. Princess cruises. Sail with the best premium cruise line. 7day cruises from 599. Were coming up on 5 44 and on this wednesday morning another one you will have to bundle up on as you head out the door and were still going to be in the mid 40s. Another chilly start in cupertino. At 9 00 we are at 45 degrees, you will see more clouds mixing in today and highs in the upper 50s. ÷. Z chance of rain  in the foreca i will talk about kf that an whats ahead as we are tracking some rain for you this morning coming up in five minutes. And maybe even some snow up there in the north bay. Highway 37, sorry, a little slowing, 101 is just fine, though. Over in the east bay coming off the Castro Valley y, a little build, a little slowing. Its 5 44 right now, happening today its the deadline to enter the race to be the person to replace Santa Clara County judge aaron persky. Hes facing a recall in june. As we reported earlier this month county officials gave the recall measure a green light. Candidates have until 5 00 tonight to turn in their applications complete with signatures. Efforts to recall judge persky began after he sentenced brock turner to six months in county jail for sexually assaulting a woman on the stand dord campus. Recall Campaign Organizers say turners sentence was too lenie lenient. The Trump Administration wants to repeal the Clean Power Plan which requires power plants to reduce air pollution. People will get their chance to voice their own opinion. There is a public hearing for next wednesday at the San Francisco main library. The head of the epa wants to eel late the rule because it says its too burdensome for some businesses. Pruitt has been known to question the effects of Climate Change even going as far as saying that humans have benefitted from it. President trump says he will sit down with Students Affected by School Shootings today. Scott mcgrew, he calls it a listening session. Yeah, good morning. I just have to name the towns these students have from, you know exactly what im talking about. Parkland, columbine, new town. The president will hear from students, parents, teachers from those schools and others affected by School Shootings. His press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders says dont expect quick solutions. One of the things that the president wants to do is make sure that he sits down with a number of people from across all fronts. Unfortunately when horrific tragedies like this happen everybody wants a quick and a simple answer, but there isnt one. So we have pictures from florida this morning of students marching on tallahassee, they are headed to the State Capitol, they will be confronting the Florida State senate, encouraging the state senate to ban assault rifles. Yesterday the students watched as the Florida House decided not to consider the same bill. Now, as you watch all of this unfold on social media, understand there is a lot of anger out there and there is a lot of fake news as well. You need to be on guard. Here we see 15yearold rotc cadet peter wang laid to rest. Lots of far right accounts and even russian accounts are saying awful things claiming the surviving kids are actors or theyre coached by antigun forces. Case in point this tweet which claims its uncovered a conspiracy after it caught a student wearing an earpiece while he was interviewed on live television. He is indeed wearing an earpiece, its entirely normal to wear an earpiece while appearing on live television. Its how you hear what other people are saying. When the young man is interviewed he is in florida, the cnn anchor is in atlanta or new york and the crew gives him an earpiece so he can hear those questions. It is not a conspiracy when somebody wears an earpiece, its just how television works. Now, we are interested in what you have to say, weve placed we have a twitter account scottmcgrew where i would be interested in your reaction to all of this. And a lot of you said youd like to talk on sam brock so weve added that as well, its scott mcgrew tv. It is 5 48. Weve been saying how cold it is lightly here. We are not the only ones feeling it this week. This morning animals at the oregon zoo adjustingu v to the change in the weather as well. Otter rivers seem to be basking in it cuddling together at times. Others taking vols as the flakes fell. The cheetah didnt seem to mind the snow. Leaping around snowing its agility. What about the elephant, actually, he was trying to eat it, hoisting it up into her mouth. Fun to see. Not often you see an asian elephant against the backdrop of snow. Unless youre living outside at the snow. Right. Theyre probably like, i need a jacket out here, im not used to this. Our animals are pampered here in the bay area. Right. So you definitely need to bundle up. We are spoiled, too. We talk about 30s and 40s and we go, oh, my goodness, it is so cold. So thats what were dealing with again. Also some rain in spots. Ive been tracking this on our storm ranger looking at some spotty green, much of it has been offshore and also in parts of the north bay, also starting to see rain popping up just in the south San Francisco area and also on 280. So the commute may be slicker, weve seen rain and light snow, that has since cleared for much of the north bay but there still may be lingering ice and some of the effects of some of the wintry mix thats been coming down just south around cloverdale. Thats a look at the loop and what was happening earlier this morning. So there still may be some leftover ice once again, especially on those bridges and overpasses. Looking at our temperatures now that are in the upper 30s in the south bay, 41 degrees in the peninsula, trivalley 35 degrees, 37 now in the north bay and its a cold morning again in San Francisco, 42 degrees. So that morning drive throughout the peninsula. We will start out in the upper 30s, we will be there through sunrise and a gradual warm up heading through 10 00 to 11 00 and noon, at 51 degrees today. All of our high temperatures reaching the mid to upper 50s today and then as youre getting dressed this morning you do need to make sure youre wearing some layers, good option to have a nice warm hat and also a coat and then also for the rest of the day we will need Something Like a scarf and maybe even gloves, especially if you will be outside for quite a while. Or staying out on the train platform or bus stop. We will have spotty rain in the forecast heading into the next couple days. I think most of today will be all dry, but then we will start to see spotty showers popping up throughout the day tomorrow. That will be our best chance of seeing some rain moving through. As another disturbance passes across the bay area, just kind of reinforces this cold air that were already feeling. As we head over to mike youre saying things are different at the bay bridge. A little bit this morning. Well show you that the lights are backed up for the fast track lanes and just starting on the right approach, the left approach not just filled in. Metering lights were just turned on at 5 35 a few minutes later than we often see. Ten minutes later than we often see. So there is a lighter volume through the area. We will look at the map. Its still there, it still backs you up getting over toward oakland towards San Francisco and slowing over through the tunnel on treasure island. A minor crash reported in san pablo. I will give chp a few minutes to give us more detail. The off ramp 101 at whipple avenue in redwood city is still closed. You can use holly to the north to get around the crash. Theyre trying to remove a vehicle there. The rest of the bay moves nicely, a little slowing through san jose. They protect and serve our country and the future of transgender soldiers could become more clear today. The big announcement were expecting in a few hours. 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Over at Nbc Sports Network coverage of the gold medal womens hockey match starts at 7 45. They look to beat rifle canada. Happening today the pentagon is expected to announce its new policy on transgender troops. It comes about a half year after President Trump tweeted asking to ban the service of transgender troops. The tweet sought to overturn an obama era policy which allowed transgender troops to serve openly and receive medical care. Jim mattis is expected to make his recommendations on the new policies today. New video into our newsroom this morning. A Dramatic Police chase in Southern California ends inside a train tunnel. This happened last night in los angeles and police say that that chase happened when they spotted a pickup truck that they believed was stolen. That driver led police off the road, down oneway streets, at one point the driver crashed into a taxi and drove away, eventually the driver turned onto metro transit tracks and drove into]he9 a subway tunnel. Police were able to get that suspect into custody. New this morning a Mental Health support hotline in the bay area could soon run out of funding. The examiner reports this morning that the warm line in San Francisco could start sending callers to voicemail beginning in june. 30,000 people called that hotline each year and to talk about issues like suicide. It was created in 2014 by the citys health department. Its funded by a 1. 4 million state grant but the current funds will expire by june 30th. Hotline workers are launching a Public Outreach campaign as they try to get more funding from state and local officials. Staying safe in the event of a fire. The San Francisco Fire Department is hosting its Community Safety fair today. There will be fire demonstrations and fire inspectors can answer your questions. Paramedics will be reaching hands only cpr. You can also pick up information on Fire Prevention and education. If youre interested in working for the Fire Department as well the Recruitment Team will be there to talk about the hiring process. It goes from 11 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. At the africanamerican art and cultural complex on sultan street. Amazon launched and exclusive line of over the Counter Health products, the move to possibly challenge retail pharmacies and sparks a price war. Amazon launched the basic caroline last august with products ranging from ibuprofen to allergy medication. Pharmacies make money when customers getting medicine buy other items such as could say met fix but are losing traffic. Creative people all over the country are doing their part to raise a fairness for congenital heart defects. Its part of the american heart associations little hats big hearts program. People are hand making and donating the tiny red hats for those babies. Participants say its a labor of love. I thought, you know, this is something we can do thats not going to cost us a lot of money but we can still give back. I just love babies. Nationwide more than look at that more than 200,000 red hats have been donated through the program. So precious. 6 00 right now. Today marks one year since the historic coyote creek flooding in the south bay. The progress the city has made since the disaster and what is being done to prevent future tragedies. The president speaking with victims of the Florida School shooting at the white house today. What could come from this emotional s7meeting. And and the United States has done it. A stunning victory for team u. S. A. The historic win for womens crosscountry skiing. Today in the bay continues right now. Crosscountry skiing just makes me tired. Thats a lot of work. Good morning to you, thanks for joining us, im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Of course, we have kari and mike here with your weather and traffic. We will get to that in just a moment. First we want to go to south korea where Garvin Thomas is there for us this morning. Another busy morning he has. Reporter the medals are coming fast and furious in pyeongchang. I promised you last hour we would have a medal to tell you about in bobsled. We do. Plus the United States just won another medal in a sport where they havent won one in quite some time. We will have all the details for you on all the medals, everything that happened overnight. We will tell you about that in just a few minutes, but, marcus and laura, first we will send it back to you. Bringing the medal count up. Now, if we could do the same for the temperature. And if you were following me yesterday on instagram, you know, mike, you were doing some skiing yesterday. Oh, yeah, i saw that. So, yeah, mike inouye. Getting a workout. And kari hall weather, check us out. Im tweeting and insam