Is owned by a chinese based company. Alice is on capitol hill with the new details. Reporter time and may be ticking down for tiktok. After the house overwhelmingly passed a bill to force the wildly popular social media app Chinese Parent Company bite dance to sell. Her face a ban in the u. S. Lawmakers in both parties voicing National Security concerns about the Chinese Government accessing the data of tiktoks 170 million american users. This bill therefore forces tiktok to break up with the Chinese Communist party. Our intention is for tiktok to continue to operate but not under the control of the Chinese Communist party. Reporter tiktok denies the Chinese Government controls the app or accesses u. S. User data. A spokesperson saying today the government is attempting to strip 170 million americans of their constitutional right to free expression. Some members of congress voted against the bill on First Amendment grounds. Constitutionally it is a problem. Reporter users defending the app many counseling for their businesses. You will be destroying small businesses. Reporter they say ticktock is a vital source of news and information for young people. While recognizing the risk of misinformation. I tell my audience this is not accurate in here is what is accurate. Reporter as the election draws near the u. S. Intelligence Committee Community warning that chinese proxies did interfere in the 2022 midterm elections. This is here this is now this is today. Reporter the bill heads to the senate where it faces an uphill climb as some senators warned the risk of alienating young voters. One democratic congressman who opposed the bill told nbc news it is more important to pass an internet bill of rights. That protects americans the data and privacy everywhere online. A major ruling out of georgia today involves the election interference case against donald trump. The judge presiding of the case has dismissed some the criminal counts against him. He ruled six of the charges lacks a sufficient detail. The judge said the charges did not clearly explain what felony was committed. The District Attorneys Office is reviewing the ruling and could appeal the decision despite this trump and his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani are still facing 10 charges in the case. The trial date has not been set. Hunter biden is drawing the line. The president son will not testify at a hearing for the impeachment inquiry of his father. He declined a letter saying he has a scheduling conflict. Letter says he would only attend the hearing if the households one for relatives of former President Trump as well. The oversight chairs at the hearing will move forward as planned and that lawmakers still expect hunter biden to show up. That hearing is scheduled to take place a week from today. Another highprofile feud for elon musk. It is with former cnn anchor don lemon. Don lemon was supposed to have a new talk show on twitter. But this morning said the show had been canceled. He posted a video saying elon musk is mad at me. He said musk is upset about a heated interview the recorded which touched on accusations of him using the drug ketamine. Musk is firing back accusing don lemon of lacking authenticity. Don lemon said still be available on youtube. The show was supposed to be part of a push by elon musk to expand the programming on ex. He was something that could make it easier to buy a home and make it in the bay. Mortgage rates are dropping. Report stories Mortgage Applications are rising. As Interest Rates fall. The average for a 30 year fixed mortgage fell from just over 7 to 6. 8 . Real estate experts say weaker Service Sector and higher unemployment contributed to the rate dropped. That triggered more people to apply to purchased a new home or refi their home loans. All this is homebuyers space skyhigh prices a limited supply of homes for sale. Building accessory dwelling units per adus is at an all time high in california thanks the policy changes in sacramento. A way to add more housing quickly. Invest get of reporter hilda looks into how all of this has been playing out in the bay area and beyond. Reporter we came to see what bay area counties could learn from the moment some in santa cruz where adu construction outpaces all other types of housing combined. The view from here it may look familiar. Winding tree laying streets manicured lawns and a twocar garage at the front of each house. Neighborhoods like this one in Santa Cruz County were built to meet the needs of the time. Booming families seeking refuge from tightly packed city centers. It is such a low density and maybe that worked when the car generation came along. It is not working anymore. Reporter david has worked as a general contractor in the region for the past 40 years. He says neighborhoods like his simply dont meet the needs of the homeowners today. I think suburbia was a mistake. Reporter when he saw that new state rules were giving homeowners a right to build up to 2 adus existing Single Family lots he jumped at the chance. He tapped his decades of experience to design and build one. Right on top of his twocar garage. We put in electric dryer and washer. We are able to fit the shower and everything into the bathroom here. Reporter he estimates building a unit like this will cause most homeowners six figures. Changes to state and local laws means that other than cost there arent too many roadblocks now. There is no public hearing. There is no neighborhood input. It is mandated by the state of california. Reporter across the county adu construction is in an upward swing. Santa cruz edit them at a faster rate than all nine bay area counties. San mateo and sonoma had the highest per capita rates on long bay counties. The uptick is happening across the state. There was a 300 increase in adu construction from 2019 to 2022. Lee butler director of planning and Community Development for the city of santa cruz. He says the city was among the first to adopt adu guidelines in the early 2000s. Giving it a head start on the bay area. Santa cruz continues to update rules as broader changes cascade down from the state. Weve been putting in place local regulations that facilitate adu production trying to stay one step ahead of the state. Reporter at the heart of the regulations a 60 day maximum review period and preapproved building plans. The fast tracking does come with one notable restriction. No shortterm rentals of fewer than 30 days. This is one of the solutions to the housing crisis. There are many that are needed. There is no silver bullet. Reporter across town eric of elite construction is at work on another adu. He said he saw a adu construction boom on the horizon five years ago. Back then building one meant navigating a complex web of regulations. But he chose to pivot his business anyway. The state laws in the local laws were pretty unfriendly toward the process. We went ahead and started our division at that time thinking it will get better or we will figure out how to make it work. Reporter he estimates 40 of his business now comes from adus. Like the one his company is building for homeowner margaret benton. Shes the hands on type so she does go back and forth with the city. They make it easy. They make it accessible. You get to answers really quickly. Reporter a streamlined process providing more options for homeowners like benton. I was interested in providing flexibility for living arrangements moving forward. In my retirement. So that i could stay in my own home as long as possible. Reporter contractors we spoke to say units can be designed and built in about a year. Sometimes longer. Using preapproved plans is one way to save time. How about this you want to make five grand heres the catch you have to complete a 1600 Mile Mountain walk to the canadian border. It is all part of a plan in carson city nevada to promote a new 10 mile trail that allows people to pass through the peaks separating carson city and the tahoe basin. The capital to tahoe trail climbs to an elevation of 8300 feet before dropping down to lake tahoe and intersecting with the tahoe rim trail. As for that. Hike it goes to the northern sierra across oregon and into washingtons cascade range. Before it ends at the canadian border. They are going to select two runners to make this epic hike. Those runners will be paid five large. They should. Only five grand . That seems low to me. Speaking of low and high numbers lets talk about taxes. It was good news. Uncle sam is saving some families hundreds of millions of dollars on tax prep fees. Im consumer invest get her chris and i will show you how you are eligible for free filing next. 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Only it is free and it is directly with the irs. It is online right now at direct file that irs. Gov. Many films will qualify. Claim common credits for things like your kids and independence. If you make money from things like a pension or investments direct file probably will not do your taxes for you. Still check. Check your eligibility on the irs website. Direct file. Irs. Gov. Who runs a group called Economic Security california in San Francisco told me direct file should save the typical family 150. This year around 5 million californians are actually eligible to use the direct file tool and file for free. Which will saves hundreds of millions of dollars. Again check your eligibility. If you get stuck at the irs offers a chat feature. It is not artificial intelligence. The irs said its chat window connects you to a real live person. Old school. If you need inperson old school tax help this weekend the irs is opening its doors on saturday. They are doing it in oakland San Francisco and san jose. The addresses are on your screen. Irs workers will be there to answer your questions and help you out between 9 00 a. M. And 4 00 p. M. If you have questions do take advantage of that. If you think you are one of those 5 million folks who might be able to file for free check it out. Dont pay somebody if you dont have to. How many more days until the deadline . 33 lets move on. Are you ready for march madness . The tournament tips off next week. But the party already happening in morocco. This morning on the st. Marys campus the gaels returning home fresh off their wcc championship victory over gonzaga. They took on guns i got last night in las vegas and snapped their fouryear reign as the conference champs. Look at the smiles. Look at all the wellwishers. St. Marys now looking ahead to the big dance. It is a little difference but at the end of the day you work for this the whole year. It is just exciting and it is fun to be there. This is where you want to be. You want to go there and play well. Play for the love of the game. Fight for the joy of being in the moment. St. Marys went to the final four. It could happen. This is the First Time Since 2012 st. Marys won the regular season title and the conference tournament. The other 21st ranked team in the country. It gives the gaels an automatic spot in the ncaa tournament. Again selection sunday is this weekend the attorney begins next week. We have to do our brackets. We need the selection sunday to come out first. On monday we would do the brackets. I will be the person looking over your shoulder and checking my sheet off of yours. You just have to guess the topseeded and do a few different ones and mix it up. Im going to merge both of yours. The wind is in our forecast as we roll through tonight. Eventually we will get into some commerce on your weather just in time for the weekend. Let me show you where the wind is picking up the most. And look at these bright colors through the central valley. It is your window models picking up on wind gusts that are already anywhere from 30 to 40 miles per hour. That wind is on the way towards the bay area. This is a look at the current wind gusts from 10 to 26. San francisco right now at the highest at 26 miles per hour. We have highpressure building to the north. That is what brought us the sunshine today. And the dry conditions. Low pressure developing to the south. Basically both of these weather systems together it is going to helped the Conveyor Belt the wind across the bay area. Heading into later on tonight and right through tomorrows forecast. It will be gusty starting around 11 30 tonight especially in the mountains of the coast in the east bay. 20 to about 35. For a lot of the lower elevations 15 to about 30 miles per hour. Strongest zone of wind will come as we head through tomorrow mornings forecast. North east 15 to 35 for most of us. The northbay mountains right here at the coast to get up to 50. We will stay with a strong wind all the way through tomorrow evening. I fridays forecast the wind will start to drop and calm one down. Now as we head through tomorrows forecast for that wind the other thing i want to make sure you are aware of this the pollen. Youve seen it on your cars the yellow stuff that is all over the place. Pine ash cedar and oak in moderate categories. Look out for that tomorrow. As you head out the door with the blustery conditions numbers will be in the 40s to low 50s. We will start with 50 in the peninsula. Trivalley 46. Dipping down to 49 for the east bay and 52 in San Francisco. Daytime highs because this is a dry wind out of the northeast will warm a few more degrees. It is going to be good enough to bring us into the 70s for parts of the bay area. 70 morgan hill also san jose concorde and santa rosa. San francisco right there up to 69 degrees. This trend of 70s will stay with us right to this upcoming weekend. Perfect for wine country. Anywhere across the bay area. Up to 73 saturday and sunday in napa. Then the numbers drop and fast by next thursday friday saturday back down to the 60s. And with the colder temperatures we will see the chance of maybe some rainfall coming back and pick not for a while. Maybe once we hit next friday and saturday and see march 22nd and 23rd. We will keep an eye on that. Otherwise keep your eyes on that we can forecast. Sunny skies 68 saturday. 65 sunday in San Francisco. When it calms down friday at least ours to taper off. That will set us up with very nice conditions. Coming up tonight we will have a look at the wind advisory throughout the bay area and also a look at our fire danger. It felt nice today. Like sunroof open kind of day. 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A lot of buzz for the bay areas newest sports team afc. This weekend the club plays his first match in the womens soccer league. Part of the Ownership Group local Soccer Legends ellie wagner and brandi chastain. Anthony florez. Reporter drilling the fundamentals while trying to develop Team Chemistry. That is one of the many challenges for the newest Expansion Team in the National Womens soccer league. It is a talented group but they come from different backgrounds the way they play what they have been asked to do for pretty much all of their career. It is all about knowing your teammates and honestly eight weeks is not enough. We are on our way. Opal afc features and a handful of International Stars along with players coming over from other and wsl teams. And a few promising newcomers. That includes the number two overall pick in this years draft from north carolina. It has been an easy transition. I love it here. Weve just been working well together the Team Chemistry is there. Im excited to show everyone what we have. Reporter deceives and marks a bay area homecoming of sorts for alex shes from colorado but in 2020 she let the santa clara broncos to a national title. Obviously i love the area. I was asked so excited to be coming back here. The whole environment im stoked to be back. Reporter just like with any Expansion Team afc expect to have plenty of ups and downs. But they still have lofty goals in 2024. I want to win the championship. Why wouldnt we . That should be your instance of fro