Of rainfall later on this morning into early afternoon and behind it, stash of cooler air. This is all the speckled cloud cover right here. Cellular clouds, a sign of unsettled weather chance of thunderstorms and usually a sign of much colder air to. And so thats something you can expect a cool down chance of thunderstorms into the afternoon for the sierra. It is feet upon feet of snowfall. Futurecast shows that blue gradually expanding into tomorrow and especially saturday morning as snow level falls to 1500 to 2000 feet. That does mean some snow in upper elevations in the bay. But for the sierra 5 to 12 feet of snowfall in our higher elevations. That is going to completely put travel at a standstill up into the Sierra Nevada. Do not be heading up. Theyre extremely dangerous conditions. Snow is already kicking off and only intensifies into tonight tomorrow and saturday and it is going to take several days crews to get up there and clear all that out. So if youre already up there and planning on staying put, just make sure you plenty of food and supplies with you 50s for our current mostly 50s for daytime highs later mixed with a few low 60s. Im breaking down everything from the sierra to right here in the bay. Still ahead, rain. All right, john, were seeing a lot of out there on the highways. But remember, things are wet 90 minutes into the city this morning. Maybe youre taking the mateo bridge, 70 min right there. Richmond, sandra fell bridge just 9 minutes in the Golden Gate Bridge. 37 to the tolls. 35 ok, what we saw a few of those Traffic Cameras with some raindrops on them. We know that its been raining off and on. In the north bay, thats where we saw first. Yes. So weve been checking out throughout the morning. Crop was will tran. Thats so we that youre not going too fast for these conditions. Back to all right. You can see everybody kind of coming to a little crawl. Find himself taking it safely. Drive safe. Thanks. Well, all right, happening tonight, were also following the latest out of oakland where the public will get its first chance to meet the candidates that are vying to be oaklands next police chief. But tonights candidate comes with a little controversy. Mayor sheng thao says she wont be kron fours dan kerman takes a closer look. Cincinnati Police DepartmentLieutenant Colonel lisa davis, new york assistant deputy mayor for public safety. Louis molina, former San Leandro Police chief Abdul Pridgen and retired lubbock, texas police chief Floyd Mitchell are all candidates for Oakland Police chief and now the Oakland Police commission has selected them to answer questions at a Community Forum thursday. But mayor sheng thao says this public forum is making top candidates withdraw their names from consideration in this letter to the Police Commission. Tell us as oakland city charter does not require a public form to select the Oakland Police chief hosting a public forum is detrimental to attracting the best candidates. I will not participate in the forum for these reasons. Chief election help. That we had from. We dont have a public. There was a public forum. Civil rights attorney, john burris is closely watching the process. Mares position on this, although theres some legitimacy to i dont know that overrides the Public Interest to know who these people are before they selected. I think thats the overriding consideration. Former San Francisco police chief tony rivera says the current list lacks any internal candidates. He says oakland could benefit from someone who knows the department and the Community Problems are always going come up with your teeth. Look at a problem in in a specific community and its nice to to know a couple of leaders in that community, but you can call up on a personal basis and saying, hey, i have a problem here. What do you think . And it really gives you some firsthand knowledge of that. I think its very advantageous. Former Oakland Police chief Anne Kirkpatrick says shes also disappointed theres no internal candidate and she says whoever is chosen, they must be someone who can make peace among all the factions fractures between the commission. And the mayors pressure between the mayor and the city council, a fracture between the community. And all the politics that place fractured. And yet you have a great Police Department that just really hungry for the right person who could be a peacemaker. I think between all of these different factions. How this all plays out remains to be seen. But civil rights attorney jim chanin says the mayor and the Police Commission need to stop the infighting. They have to get themselves together. Whether we have a public hearing or not is not to be by not what people want, but but bucks best for the people of oakland. And thats clearly not happening. That Candidate Forum will take place thursday evening at 6. 30, at city hall and online. Dan kerman kron. 4 news. Well, san jose, they also need a new police chief city leaders are planning to hold virtual and inperson meetings. Next. Mobile residents can voice their opinion on who should be the new chief, the current chief anthony mata is retiring next month after spending nearly 30 years with the department. Hes accepted a new position as the Investigations Bureau chief for the Santa Clara County district attorneys office. Happening today, the man charged in connection to the Half Moon Bay mass shooting. We back in the San Mateo County courtroom. Shelley zhao was supposed to enter pleas. The grand jury indictments last month. That didnt happen after the defense asked for more time to review the changes of the charges. Last years out pled not guilty to all charges and remain in custody ever since. Prosecutors say they hope the trial happened this year, but they admit could be delayed until 2025. Well, today is a key deadline for the Company Behind a proposed ecofriendly city in solano county. Todays the deadline for the salon, the county counsels office to give California Forever the ballot title that the company will need in order to start collecting signatures for ballot initiative. The companys trying to get the proposal on the november ballot. As we know, California Forever is had to revise its initiative twice and those delays have sort of shorten now the amount of time they have to collect the 13,000 signatures. Theyll need. But a spokesperson for the company says they are confident that their initiative will make it onto the ballot. In the north police are asking for your help now in identifying the person they believe started a fire in a target saturday afternoon. Officers say the man you see here on the screen set paper towels on fire, which then forced the evacuation of the store and its closure, which is still in place. Store managers are hoping to reopen on saturday. The damage is now estimated about 3 Million Dollars. You know who that arson suspect is or where he is. Contact police. Person had to be taken to the hospital after they were hit by a caltrain and Officials Say that incident happened at the blossom hill station just before 7 last night. They say for unknown reasons the person was on the track as a southbound train was approaching about. 38 people were on board that train. There are no reported injuries to any passengers or crew. Still ahead, a kroger morning news. Investigators reopen a 5 year old deadly shooting case. The south bay after developing new leads. Plus, Oakland Councilmember takes a walk with police, the open streets. Were going to hear the needs of local businesses and what theyre demanding. And after the break, for less than a week until the primary election, the new exclusive poll shows whos in the lead for the open u. S. Senate seat in california. And were just at the start of several days of rainfall for the bay and the heavy snow up in the Sierra Nevada. Well be breaking okay. Were back at 9. 12, checking bay area weather here. As we look outside, we saw earlier raindrops on some Traffic Cameras getting great here over the bay and the storm gates. Weve been talking about john. As many ways it too late close right theyre wide open now. Theyre not closing for a few days. Were looking at a heavy dose of snow in the Sierra Nevada for us in the bay area. Increasingly cloudy and increasingly wet, san jose. But one of our commerce spots as of this point, generally the further north you get in the bay, the more likely you are to have already seen some areas of heavy mist and some showers in there, too, up towards santa rosa. Its starting to come down more and more now in the very heavy stuff. Well, thats still several hours to our north up there in the sierra. Just now starting to see snow really kick into gear. Big system. Low pressure still centered up well to the north up in the gulf of alaska. Dives in deep and drags with it. Some really cold air several days of rain and several days of heavy, heavy mountain snow. All its going to pile up above 5,000 feet to 5 to 12 feet of snowfall donner summit. Thats the highest point along 80 right. Theyre expecting as much as 9 feet of snow. This is going to take several days for road crews to get out there, get everything cleaned up. So if youre already in the sierra plan on staying up there, possibly getting snowed in, also, potential lost power up there definitely have all the supplies and all the food with you. If you have plans on heading up there, plan on not doing it, roadways and possible for travel. 3 to 6 inches of snow on some of our bay area mountain peaks, including mount saint helene in the north bay snow level is going to fall to increasingly lower elevations. But its not just the snow, but also the wind gusts as high as 80 to 90 Miles Per Hour prompting blizzard warnings in effect here in just a few minutes. 10 00am this morning all the way through 10 00am on sunday. This is going make for white out conditions and very dangerous travel. The heaviest of snow is on the way tomorrow and saturday. And it is going to take several days to clear it all out. As i mentioned, snow level falls to very low elevations. Well, down in the foothills. But once you head above 5,000 feet, were looking at a lot of it around 4 to 8 feet at lake level at lake tahoe for the bay area are situation definitely not as hazardous. We do have a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon, though, and a rush of heavy rain along with strong winds into the afternoon. Staying with us into tonight and tomorrow, little bit of good news on our end as weve had time to drive back out. So the ground is going to be able to absorb a lot of this fresh moisture and we stream levels are relatively low compared to where they had been. So there is some room for water levels to rise without reaching flood stage. So this is good news for us locally. Quarter of an inch to half an inch of rainfall today will see additional rain over the next 2 days. By the time we reach the end of the weekend, several inches of it for us here at home. We do have a High Surf Advisory at the coast going into Effect Tomorrow through saturday, 15 to 20 foot, breaking waves and winds will be a factor to 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour. Gusts today into tomorrow. Todays daytime highs will be the most mild of the next several days. Upper 50s to low 60s were only getting colder from here by friday, saturday and sunday. Were barely make in the low 50s low elevation snowfall means a mountaintop snow right here in the bay area. Well, cold showers for the rest of us. And if you had plans on heading to the sierra, it is time to put those on hold, at least for the next several days right now. All right, john, thank you flr that. Lets get a look at your morning drive heading into the city this morning. Things are so 60 minutes. Drive times are going down. Thankfully san mateo bridge about 14 80 to 101, Richmond Center fell bridge just under 8 minutes. And the Golden Gate Bridge. 37 to the tolls. 34 minutes. Time now to talk winners and losers on wall street financial expert rob black. Joining us on this final day of february on leap day that meaningtlucky for the markets. Rob, good morning. Yeah, things that are kind of lucky today. Its been a lucky start to the year. Earnings have been nice and a key inflation. Pisa data also known as the p c e should that are incomes went up. Our spending went down. Inflation really didnt reignite. Its very, very manageable. Any yearoveryear level about about at 2. 6 . The feds still wanted to come down. But this is a good day pending home sales did slide more than expected down 4. 9 . So theres some. Weakening some softness in the economy for sure. Interesting. All right. I got to bring this up because we talked about wendys and the backlash with the whole. Demand surge pricing which they say theyre not doing. But i guess burger kings now getting into the fray. Whats going on here . When these calls part discounts to say, im burger king, if you spend 3 or more on the app for the next couple of weeks, youll get a free whopper and theyre basically saying, look, we dont have the inflation issues that way hes or they do. But theyre just trying to get some free publicity and Mission Success rate. I just talked about it. Theyre pushing their apple to notice a get used to order in on the app. Therefore, you wont be using human. Therefore, we wont have to do price surging or change the way we pay people who are or deliver our products when we dont have enough staff. Okay. Good enough. And we also did talk dune part 2 few days ago. I guess were coming up on the weekend the opening weekend. We start to get any sort of indication on how much its bringing in. Looks like it to be the first blockbuster see this weekend of my kids want to go. I wont get the 26 creepy by go of pop art. Youre not going trigger on know, the Rotten Tomatoes score, though, on doing to is unbelievable that. So its its theyre saying its the best scifi movie ever. As of now knock on wood. You never the books many, many years ago. And i felt like it was very 1960, science theres a lot of funny devices planted in the nose and things like that. Im im im in for success. All in success. Good enough. All right, cool. All right. Lets get to our First Official story now that ive got questions out of the way. So lets talk about oprah, i guess is. Thats right. Shes shes leaving Weight Watchers. What happened . Yeah. Big basically need to be able pay a billion dollars which is now worth 200 million ultimately the gop, one drugs ozempic would do. Exact bounded been such a success people are quitting left and right. Weight watchers Weight Watchers signed up a subscription model that included those drugs. 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You think that every revolutionizing and a lot of different areas, i guess party are they already are the can now get when you can get them prescribed. Unlike the hymns online where it can be done. Discreetly. I think the uses are going to go up even higher offlabel. Wow. Okay. All right. And then will round out the today segment with a look at event tourism against taylor swift has something to do with yeah, im going to london this summer. My wife wants to see the killers and i want to see a soccer game. Thats an event. Tate haze in Singapore First shows this weekend right after bruno mars just finished and sheer unfinished. Coldplay finished coldplay sold 200,000 tickets which was a world record. I think that in one day the lion city, singapores typically known for business. But now turning into an event for tourism. Theyre going to add about 10 of gdp with all that worst time on music events this year, hotels are up 10 with taylor swift flights are up 20 . Not a taylor swift fan, but i glad to see singapore because it might be easier score tickets there than it was hearing San Francisco, 260 million to 70 million potential benefit for singapore by hosting taylor swift and united states. She pulled in 4. 6 billion to the economy. 4. 6 billion into the u. S. Economy in 2023 event. Tourism is the thing im going to you too, at the spear in vegas. Yeah, thats a thats an event. Tourist thing. Watch for james carried a bigger and bigger and bigge