Heightened surveillance here in the united states. The American Council on American Islamic relations is handing out booklets reminding people of their rights and after 60 people were held for questioning this weekend at the u. S. canada border in washington state. They were detained for between six and 11 hours in some cases. They were people of all ages including a number of u. S. Citizens and asked questions about their iranian identity and the heritage and family and connection to the country. All of this is very concerning. Customs and Border Protection claims they did not detain iranian americans at border. They said they have not received any reports of bay area iranian americans being detained however Immigration Attorneys are are on standby. This crisis with iran is tlud. Were tracking the story on all of the digital platforms. We posted new information about u. S. Troop movements. It is on the top story box at nbcbayarea. Com. Well back here at home, a new plan to tackle vioy oaklan off a new hire dedicated to making the city safer. This happening at two men accused of stealing a laptop and killing a man appeared in front of a judge. Family members of one of the man said he had nothing to do with it. Hes innocent until proven guilty. Reporter teresa here to support his nephew, 22yearold byron reed accused of killing a Research Engineer who died trying to get his stolen laptop back. My heart and prayers go out. But i want my i want prayers also to go out to my family. Because hes innocent until hes proven guilty. Reporter police say on the morning of new yea was a getaway driver for the accomplice 21yearold javon lee. Records show lee was on parole at the time of the crime. Witnesses say they saw zhang leap into the car and the car drove off slamming him on to the pavement. Prosecutors charge leigh with Involuntary Manslaughter and charged reed with special circumstance murder. From my understanding, he wasnt there at the the time. And my niece said that he was at home. Reporter just a couple of blocks away at Oakland City Hall the mayor introducing the latest hire, guillermo cespedes. During his time in los angeles, he was called the antigang czar. He was credited with redoubting violence in los angeles. By 56 . Reporter can he do the same for the town . Not possible to arrest our way out of this probable. Reporter melissa colorado, nbc bay area news. Also in oakland, the highprofile trial of a man accused of killing nia wilson on a b. A. R. T. Train started today in alameda county. But it might not be there for very long. John lee cowell is accused of killing wilson at the b. A. R. T. Station in oakland in 2018. Prosecutors say the attack was unprovoked. Cowell is also accused of stabbing wilsons sister who survived. Next week the judge will hear arguments for a change in venue motion. Defense attorneys cite a recent poll that shows more than 50 of potential jurors believe cowell is either definitely or probably guilty. Well the last thing you want to see when you walk out to your car in the morning is broken glass since you know it halloweens someone broke in overnight but that happened to a dozen people in the san jose willow glen mabd this morning. We caught up with one woman cle. An overnight thief made quick work of stoke street. This is the first time it was hit and neighbors are frustrated by it all. Any neighbors replaced his twice now and ive had a car stolen perfect from here. All and down the streetcars broken into and winds smashed one after the other and personal belongings in some cases thrown on the sidewalk. Now all of the folks say they know not to leave valuables in the car and told us police advised them to leave doors unlocked so that the thieves could look in the car without having to break the windows. Famed movie producer Harvey Weinstein facing sex crime charges on both coasts. Shuffled into a new york courtroom today for day one of what is expected to be a twomonth trial. Hes charged with assaulting a Weinstein Company employee in 2006 and raping an unidentified woman at a hotel seven years later. As he left the new york courtroom today, l. A. Prosecutors charged him with Sexual Assault of two women in 2013. The da. Expected hell face an is a tough two years for People Living in the north bay with fires ripping through neighborhoods and destroying thousands of homes. Today the federal government announced 7 million grant to help wildfire recovery in sthoema county. Representatives in the area said people moved away after the fire because they couldnt afford to rebuild. Now part of the money will go toward teaching construction training to students at santa rosa junior college. Some neighbors who already rebuilt said the federal funding will help the rest of the community. We rented for a year and a half and lived with inlaws and built this home in about 15 months. Locals say more needs to be done to prevent those wildfires from starting or spreading. They say they need better communication on how to clean up dry brush and old trees. The legal battle revved up with a new lawsuit. California Coastal Commission is suing the Property Owner and Silicon Valley valley billionaire coslaw and he bought the building with the beach and he picked up put up a gate blocking access. After the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal the l. A. Times said he kept the the gate open during the day. The Coastal Commission wants all of the gates removed all of the time. Immigration officials have been ordered to return a deported man to san francisco. 31yearold omar yiday was arrested last summer for being in the country illegally. He was deported to chad just after thanks giving. He is gay and protesting that he could be sent to prib in hchad. His friends say it is an emotional few weeks. When i first found out he was deported i burst into tears when i found out he was coming back and i burst into tears but it was happy tears. Judge briar initially game Homeland Security two weeks to bring him back from chad but the agency said it needs more time so theyll all reconvene in court on wednesday. Well it is an eyeopening number. Thousands of vacant homes here in the bay area. When so many people are desperate for housing. But we took a closer look at numbers and found they tell a different story. Our Business Reporter scott budman joins us near one vac ant home in san jose. Scott . Reporter good evening. The home behind me in the allen rock district in san jose is vacant and has been for years but it is kind of an anomaly around here. We dont see many vacant homes in the bay area. Lisa, like a lot of san jose residents is struggling to make ends meet largely because of housing cost. Im having a problem right now. Reporter she knows not far from where were talking this house on east jackson in san jose sits vac ant. Yeah. That could be a lot for homeless people. Or people that are are low income. Reporter the u. S. Census said the bay area has tens of thousands of vacant houses. More than 11,000 in san francisco, nearly 6,000 in oakland. And close to 4,000 in san jose. [ crowd chanting ] reporter the ongoing story of two homeless moms who took over this vac ant house in oakland can give the impression that abandoned homes are everywhere. But we found a census also counts homes that are for sale or for rent as vac ant. And truth is, there arent that many homes like this around here. I think were seeing some communities being revitalized and formerly vacant homes are are bought and updated or redeveloped into higher and better use. Reporter and when you compare the number of vac ant homes here in the bay area to other major metropolitan cities, we have far fewer, our haasing market is too strong. Live in san jose, scott budman, nbc bay area news. Than were following breaking news we want to tell you about in the east bay. Our nbc bay area sky ranger is overhead. You could see down below, this is a traffic mess. All northbound lanes of 880 are closed because of a jackknifed big rig. You could see that track there across 880. This is right near the coliseum and you could see the signage of the oakland arena right there are. All traffic is routed off the freeway. Again if you are planning on going on 880 or know anyone that is, here is what you deal with. All lanes of northbound 880 at coliseum are closed. We have no idea right now how long 880 will be closed northbound but expect major delays through the next two hours at least. It is set. The 49ers will play the vikings on saturday and the first ever playoff game at levi stadium. If you want to go, prepare to pay out big. The average ticket for man more than 415. The most expensive of any game this weekend. Lowest available ticket is 270. If you are not paying that much or dont want to, dont worry. We have you covered. Watch the game for free right here on nbc bay area from the comfort of your yummy couch. Kickoff is at 1 35 and pregame show at 11 30 and postgame after the game. Should be a heck of a game. Up next, new images of the fires in australia from space. This is as help arrives from around the world including here in the bay area. Which is the richest county in the state. Turns out that county is right here in the bay area as you might expect. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. There is a brandnew system off to the north. Well let you know when a few more showers roll back in. Ill have that in about seven minutes. San jose Police Addressing a dangerous situation that unfolded over the weekend. It ended with with officers shooting a man at a gas station. Robts handa joins us from headquarters with with what we learned today. Reporter there has been a lot of Public Interest and curiosity because this was such a strange violent incident that could have had severe consequences. Julia wrangle is a regular customer at the arco station on quimby road in san jose but got turned away as police cars swarmed the station and was horrified to hear officers shot a man trying to set a gas pump on fire. Crazy and bizarre and just weird. I dont understand what happened. We came to fill up and we couldnt get here because all of the streets were closed off. Reporter the station manager who asked us not to show her face confirms a worker called to said a man was stuffing paper into gas nozzles and she told them to turn off the fuel. I told her to turn off the pump, we heard the shooting. And i told her, hide. Reporter eddie garcia said the shouting was two Police Officers commanding the suspect to put the lighter down. Instead he kept trying to ignite the paper in the nozzle. Ultimately Police Say Officers used powerful bean bag stun guns and a taser to no effect before three gunshots brought him down. I will tell you one of the things that we all noticed was towards his charge at the officers, the very ominous laugh that the suspect had. Reporter now chief garcia saw and heard that on uniform cam footage that he said will be released publicly in a few weeks. Now the suspect De Los Santos is a man with a violent criminal history and now in stable condition and will face two counts of assault on a Police Officer and one counts of attempted arson. Live in san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. As fires continue to ravage large parts of australia, more help is coming from around the world. This image from the International Space station here shows the smoke around sydney. Another wave of firefighters arrived today from the united states. Including from right here in california. Among them captain david sal from lakts photographed holding a baby kangaroo known as a joey. He will be in australia throughout the month and will help in a variety of different roles. Now there is some good news from the fire lines. Cooler temperatures and even some rain there in australia. That is helping out just a bit at least. At least 24 people have died so far. Nearly 2,000 homes have been destroyed. Thousands of koalas and kangaroos have also died. Well take a look. Eyeopening video from the inside of the cockpit of an Australian Air force plane. You could see that orangered and the haze there. The australians fires were brought up during last nights Golden Globes during acceptance speeches. Some of the biggest names talked about the devastation. It is really nice in a so many people have come up and sent their well wishes to australia. But we have to do more than that. Russell crowe could not be here with us tonight because he is at home in australia protecting his family from the devastating brush fires. From words in hollywood to online donations on facebook. Celeste barber started a fundraiser. So far it is raised more than 28 million. Facebook said that is the most money ever raised by a fundraiser on its platform. Researchers identified the richest county in california, wouldnt come as an al together surprise. It is not san mateo but the Financial News website 24 7 wall street said it is santa clara county. The website used census data to determine each county in the state with the highest median household income. In the south bay it is more than 116,000 a year compared to the Median Income statewide which is 71,000. That doesnt mean the people earning those sixfigure salaries all live in santa clara county. A lot of them just happen to work there. We say this every year. It is the super bowl for technology. The biggest week for tech is about to kickoff in las vegas. The ces, Consumer Electronics show begins tomorrow. Reporters get a preview of the awa Award Winning innovations and everything in your home is getting smarter and that includes the kitchen sink. Artificial intelligence is making its way into toothbrushes, shower heads, toilets and even the pillow you sleep on. It is subtly suggests that you change your sleeping poti alleviate any snoring you might have. It doesnt wake you. It turns you like a suggestion. It is a pillow . Jessica, move over. Is that what it would say. Nobody at ces is getting much sleep and that includes our reporter Jonathan Bloom who is there there right now covering it all week for us. Jonathan bloom is at ces. Follow him on twitter his handle is bloom tv. And this is fun to see gadgets coming out. Jeff has a lot of gadgets to let us know how things are outside. I dont know about the pillow. Ill have to see. I just want to go to sleep. Just relax. Okay. Lets bring in the Weather Forecast through the them. Couple of days. We have some shower chances returning. I dont think it is going to be anything that willin of days. Lets take you outside. If you are making dinner or doing something away from the tv but happen to have it turned on, this is one to come back and take a look. That sunset is beautiful right now over san francisco. With the city lights starting to be visible with that orange sunset. Now that we have reached winter every night into spring were getting a little bit extra daylight as the sunset continues to get a couple minutes later every single day. Right now in san francisco, 57 degrees. And were dropping down to chillier 40s at 10 00 p. M. To the east bay, a cold night on tap while we have 56 as well. Well be down to 48 here once we hit 8 00. So the jackpoteeded this evening. But no umbrella in the forecast tonight. You could see on storm ranger our mobile Doppler Radar were dry across the bay area. But we do have a system were following just off to the north. A little part of that is going to move over the bay area tomorrow to bring us the potential here of some showers by tomorrow night. Well show you more on the timing in just a second. But i want to get you ready to go for the tuesday morning. And well start off on the cold side. 40 for the trivalley and one of the coldest in the trivalley at 41 degrees and well have sun as you step out of the door and a little bit of cloud cover. 42 in the east bay. San francisco 45. And also another chilly so the there in the north bay at 40. As we move through the day, i see a lot of sunshine for us here. At least through the early afternoon. This will put us back to 59 in san jose. 60 in cupertino. And in the east bay heavy at 56 and martinez back to pittsburg 60 and pleasanton at 58. Peninsula is capitol hillier closer to the ocean breeze. At 59 in palo alto and 56 in and 56 along the marina. And similar temperatures here in the north bay, upper 50s to low 60s. So dry through the day with that sunshine returning but tomorrow night the storm system i showed you will move in to bring us spotty showers at 5 30 near the coast. Again tomorrow night. And then eventually some quick passing showers here as we head through 11 30 on tuesday evening. So some sprinkles in the forecast tomorrow night. Dry weather for you on wednesday. A tew more showers on thursday. 500ths of an inch and it is like this on again and off again pattern and showers here on saturday with the 59ers game here on nbc bay area. About 1500ths and then starting off the early part of next week dry. Inland valley, 50s and 60s for the day time high and mixes of 30s and 40s of morning lows. So the shower chances on saturday for the 49ers game, i think it will make it interesting. I dont think it will impact the game to where they have to move it to another day by any halloweens. And jimmy g. Will be watching jeffs forecast. Were always in touch. Really . Yeah. You should not have told me that. Now ill start stalking you instead. The tex thread. Youre cced on it. We continue to follow the bra breaking news at the top of the show. All lanes closed at the 880. Well take you back there for an update on the situation in a moment. In a world where everything gets a sequel. Its finally time for. Geico sequels classic geico heroes, starring in six new commercials, with jawdropping savings. Vote for your favorites at geico. Com sequels ahhh, which way do i go . i dont know, im voting for our sequels. With geico, the savings keep on going a