not a simple question. okay. sit down. i understand the rest of your question. so here's the story, folks. number one, i am the least anti-semitic person you've seen in your entire life. number two, racism, the least racist person. we did very well relative to other people running as a republican. quiet. he lied and said he was going to ask a simple question. welcome to the world of media. let me just tell you something. people that know me -- and you heard the prime minister, you heard netanyahu yesterday. did you here him? he said i've known donald trump for a long time and he said forget it. so you should take that instead of having to get up and ask a very insulting question. go ahead. >> thank you. that's the way the press is. >> thank you, mr. president. lisa from the pbs newshour. >> go ahead. >> can you give us more details on the executive order you have planned for next week, even the broad outline? and in addition, on the daca program for immigration, what is your plan? do you plan to continue that program or to end it? >> we're going to show great heart. daca is a very difficult subject to me. it's the most difficult subject. you have incredible kids -- not in all of the cases. in some cases they are having daca members and they are drug members but you have absolutely incredible kids. i would say mostly. but they were brought here in such a way -- it's a very, very tough subject. we've made a deal with daca with heart and i have to deal with politicians and convince them that what i'm saying is right. and i appreciate your understanding on that. but the daca situation is a very, very difficult thing for me because i love these kids. i love kids. i have kids and grandkids and i find it very, very hard doing what the law says exactly to do. and you know, the law is rough. i'm not talking about new laws. i'm talking about the existing law is very rough. it's very, very rough. as far as the new order, the new order is going to be very much tailored to the -- what i consider to be a very bad decision but we can tailor the order to that and get in some ways more but we're tailoring it now and we have some of the best lawyers in the country working on it and the new executive order is being tailorred to the decision we got down from the court. okay? >> [ inaudible ] and she does a lot of great work for the country as well. can you tell us what the first lady melania trump does for the country and unique levels of interest in your administration by opening the white house visitors office what does that mean to you and -- >> now, that's who i call a nice question. who are you with? i'm going to start watching. all right? thank you very much. melania was here last night. we had dinner with senator rubio and his wife who is, by the way, very lovely. we had a discussion about cuba because we have similar views about cuba. t and i think melania is going to be outstanding. that's right. she just opened up the visitors center, in other words, the touring of the white house. she, like others that she's working with, feel very, very strongly about women's issues, women's difficulties. very, very strongly. she's a very, very strong advocate. i think she's a great representative for this country. and a funny thing happens because she gets so unfairly -- the things they say. i've known her for a long time. she was a very successful person, a very successful model. she did really well. she would go home at night and didn't even want to go out with people. she was a very private person. she was always the highest quality that you'll ever find. and the things they say -- and i've known her for a long time. and the things they say are so unfair. and actually, she's been apologized to, as you know, by various people because they were lies. she's going to be a fantastic first lady. she's going to be a tremendous representative of women and of the people and helping her and working her will be ivanka who is a fabulous person and a fabulous, fabulous woman. and they're not doing this for money. they're not doing this for pay. they're doing it because they feel it, both of them. and melania goes back and forth and after barron finishes school, because it's hard to take a child out of school when there's a few months left, she and barron will be moving over to the white house. thank you. that's a very nice question. >> go ahead. yes. this is going to be a bad question, but that's okay. >> no, it's not. >> good, because i enjoy watching you on television. >> thank you so much. mr. president, i need to find out from you, you said something as it relates to inner cities. that was one of your platforms during your campaign. >> fixing the inner cities. >> what will be that fix and your urban agenda as well as your hbcu executive order that's coming out this afternoon. see, it wasn't bad, was it? >> that was really good. i'd rather let the order speak for itself. we'll talk to you about that after we do the announcement. as far as the inner cities, as you know, i was very strong on the inner cities during the campaign. i think it's probably what got me a much higher percentage of the african-american vote than a lot of people thought i was going to get. we did much higher than people thought i was going to get and i was honored by that, including the hispanic vote which was much higher. by the way, if i might add, including the women's vote which was much higher than i thought i was going to get. so we are going to be working hard on the education, having to do with crime. we're going to try and fix as quickly as possible -- you know, it takes a long time. it's taken 100 years or more for some of these places to evolve and they evolved very badly. we're going to be working really hard on health and health care, very, very hard on education and also we're going to be working in a stringent way and a good way on crime. you go to some of these inner city places and it's so sad when you look at the crime. you have people -- and i've seen this and i've sort of witnessed it. in fact, in two cases i have actually witnessed it. they lock themselves into apartments, petrified to even leave in the middle of the day. they are living in hell. we can't let that happen. it's a great question and it's a very difficult situation because it's been many, many years. it's been festering for many, many years. but we have places in this country that we have to fix. we have to help african-american people that, for the most part, are stuck there. hispanic-american people. we have hispanic-american people that are in the inner cities and they are living in hell. i mean, you look at the numbers in chicago, there are two chicagos, as you know. there's one chicago that's credible, luxurious and safe. there's another chicago that's worse than almost any of the places in the middle east that we talk about and that you talk about every night on the newscasts. so we're going to do a lot of work in the inner cities. we have great people to help. >> when you say the inner cities, are you going to include the cbc, in your conversations with your urban agenda -- >> include who? >> the congressional black caucus and -- >> i will. do you want to set up the meeting? >> no, no, no. >> are they friends of yours? >> i know some of them. >> i would love to meet with the black caucus. i think it's great. i actually thought i had a meeting with congressman cummings and he was all excited and then he said, oh, i can't move. it might be bad politically for me. i was all set to have the meeting. he was all set. i spoke to him on the phone. very nice guy. >> i hear he wanted that meeting with you as well. >> we had it. we called, called, every day i came in and said i would like to meet with him because i do want to solve the problem but he was probably told by schumer or somebody like that, some other lightweight, he was probably told, don't meet with trump. it's bad politics. and that's part of the problem in this country. okay. one more. go ahead. give me the better of your two. >> [ inaudible ] some of it by supporters in your name. >> and can i be honest with you? this has to racism and horrible things. some of it written by opponents. you do know that. do you understand that? you don't think anybody would do a thing like that. some of the signs you'll see are not put up by the people that love or like donald trump. they are put up by the other side and you think it's like playing it straight. no. but you have some of those signs and some of that anger is caused by the other side. they'll do signs and they'll do drawings that are inappropriate. it won't be my people. it will be the people on the other side to anger people like you. okay. go ahead. >> [ inaudible ] what are you going to do about it? what are you going to do about the tensions that have been discussed? are you going to give a speech? >> hey, just so you understand, we had a totally divided country for eight years and long before that. in all fairness to president obama, i didn't come along and divide this country. this country was seriously divided before i got here. we're going to work on it very hard. one of the questions that was asked was about the inner cities. that's part of it. but we're going to work on education. we're going to stop -- we're going to try and stop the crime. we have great law enforcement officials. we're going to try and stop crime. we're not going to try it. we're going to stop crime. but it's very important to me. this isn't donald trump that divided the nation. we went eight years with president obama and we went many years before president obama. we lived in a divided nation and i am going to try -- i will do everything within my power to fix that. i want to thank everybody very much. it's a great honor to be with you. thank you very much. thanks. >> president trump concluding about an hour and ten minute session with reporters in the east room today continuing his attacks on what he calls unfair media coverage. questions over reporting about russia, reporting about general flynn who the president acknowledged he fired for giving false information to vice president. it was contentious, it was ugly at moments and we haven't seen anything like it. let's bring in moderator of "meet the press" and our political director chuck todd. give me your thoughts. >> look, this is a president that appears to be in a bunker mentality, whatever that is. look, this was a strategic decision, very explainable at a time when a lot of people are questioning what's happening in this white house, do they have command and control of this situation, you have capitol hill republicans that are starting to get more comfortable criticizing this administration, getting nervous about the russia story, comfortable about dumping on his cabinet picks. so the point of today before this presser unfolded was to try to offer some reassurance, at least to party leaders, reassurance to capitol hill. i don't think his performance is going to reassure those skeptical republicans. his russia answers at times he was twisting himself into a pretzel in not answering both the substance and the charge on the questions that have to do with russian interference in the election but also just an odd rationale when he was asked by our colleague over at cbs major garret about some of the actions that the russians have taken that have been aggressive and somewhat antagonistic and he had this weird explanation about what putin may be thinking right now. so i don't -- if this press conference was intended to calm the waters, i think it did the exact opposite. i was hearing during this press conference from some republicans, from some folks on capitol hill going -- just shaking their head going, what is he doing? what is he saying? those were among the type of reactions i was getting realtime in watching this. >> chuck, let me go to kristen welker who was in the front row of this press conference. i know there were a lot of pent-up questions. this was the first solo news conference in which a lot of reporters had a chance to question him. describe what it was like to be in that room. those of us in watching were squirming. >> reporter: i think you're right, pent-up is a good way to describe the questions that i and my colleagues had here which added to the intense nature of this press conference. i think the president got on the record and was pressed on a number of key questions. number one, why did it take him 15 days to tell his vice president about mike flynn and the nature of his conversations with the russian ambassador. he said because he didn't think it was a problem that he had been discussions prior to the inauguration. i asked him point blank did he direct mike flynn to discuss this with the ambassador he said he did not, he would have let him go regardless. but this is the first time that we've heard him say that he asked for mike flynn's resignation because he mislead the vice president. he struggled to answer a number of questions about what type of contact his former campaign aides may or may not have had with russian officials. and as you just saw, lester, that got a lot of attention during this press conference. so that's going to be an ongoing issue for this president. also notable that the bulk of the questions were about russia but then there at the end you saw a real focus on the tensions that exist in this country and that have been bubbling up in the wake of the 2016 race. at the very end of the press conference, i pressed him on that as well. he vowed to take action but didn't get specific about what he plans to do to address that problem. >> the president clearly reporting he doesn't like it and is quick to call out and one thing is that the white house has been described by some as unstable. it's anything but. >> i turned on the tv and see stories of chaos. chaos. yet it is the exact opposite. this administration is running like a fine-tuned machine. >> chuck todd, what's your reaction to that statement? >> well look, it doesn't match what everybody in their inner workings and dealings with it. a lot of this press conference had to do with the president airing grievances about the press and we've got to remember what this is it's a political tactic and this is a tactic he wants. he kept bringing up hillary clinton. i think he misses running against her. if he can't run against her, he wants all of the bad stories to be grouped into the country's collective anger at some member of the press corps. so that, to me, was a deflect, defensive mechanism that he was trying to do and it can rally his own troops for a while, blaming the press is a popular thing among some in the conservative base. but to do it almost on every answer overtime, it's not playing well on capitol hill at all and over time it's going to start hurting him with skeptical voters that he got, people that weren't big fans of his but voted anyway, they'll be the first to leave if he continues to do this. >> the first press conference was a long list of accomplishments, making the point that he has done a lot in this less than month in office. as you watched him and listened to him tick down those, has he been as accomplished as he's leading us to believe? >> no. he's done a lot on executive orders but he's actually well behind, if you look at both president obama and george w. bush, he's well behind in getting legislation moved. executive orders can be big deals. we know they've led to major court fights when it comes to the travel ban. most of the executive order are ticky-tack. but if you want to make big changes, you've got to do it in congress. there are members of congress that are ready to repeal and replace health care. they are waiting for the white house. members of congress are waiting to do tax reform and they are waiting for the white house. this is why this press conference was needed, at least on paper, to sort of give direction and calm the waters down in capitol hill. everything that happened today, lester, is not going to make any of these nervous reporters less nervous. >> kristen, we saw reince priebus in the room and other members of the inner circle of the president in the room. could you see their reaction during this and did you get any sense as to how hastily this news conference was called and why they wanted to do it? >> it was a very hastily arranged news conference and it's about trying to turn the page based on my conversations here with the administration officials. they have been frustrated with the fact that this is overshadowing the broader agenda here. in terms of the reaction from those sitting in the front row, the vice president steve bannon as well as reince priebus, they were amused at times, very serious at times but clearly became uncomfortable when the news conference dragged on and they were giving him the wrap signal. i think they wanted him to come out and change the narrative. chuck was pointing out, this has really overshadowed what the white house wants to be working on, things like health care, immigration, trying to fix the problems with the ex tif order which the president said he will roll out against next week and he tried to paint the picture that it was rolled out but the reality is there were a lot of protests all across the country. there have been a number of bumps along the way, this perhaps being the biggest one, lester. and so this moment, this press conference aimed at being a big reset. lester? >> kristen welker and chuck todd, my thanks to you both. there's a lot to go over. we've become one of the issues right now that the american public. we'll have full coverage on msnbc and on nbcnews.com and a complete wrapup tonight onour r. all right. from the politics to the push of more rain. right now at 11:00 our radar is looking pretty clear at the moment, but there are more storm systems on the way, and all eyes right now are fixed on dams across the area as the accumulation of rain could be an issue. good morning and thank you for joining us for this midday newscast. i'm sam brock. >> and i'm kris sanchez. we are starting 22 minutes late because of the president's press conference. we'll talk more about the president's pick for labor secretary in about ten minutes, but we want to turn to the big local story and that is the series of storms that are now headed toward the bay area. this is our camera live at anderson dam in morgan hill. we're watching it because in the last few hours people were warned that coyote creek kwo could flood as the anderson reservoir is nearly full and could begin dumping water over the spillway. >> kris, we also go north to the oroville dam where the rush is on to relieve pressure on the vulnerable emergency spillway there by releasing water and lowering the lake level. although we did just learn within the last hour or so they are also reducing the outflow just a little bit, trying to clean up some of the debris there. we have team coverage of the storlz and we start with meteorologist kari hall trauking the latest conditions. can kari, good morning. >> good morning. we are seeing the first round of the series of four storms tapering off. a lot of that rain rolling offer to the east. still lingering light showers. we've seen quick moving light rain. here is a live look outside at san jose. just recently we had some rain. quickly move through there and it dropped some extra raindrops there on the camera lens. looking at the north bay, san rafael also all dry after early morning heavy rainfall and looking at the time line for the rest of the day, this activity tapering off as we will get a mix of sun and clouds, a little bit of a break here. and then the next storm system moving in early tomorrow morning, rolling from south to north with some gusty winds and seeing that rain becoming more widespread during the morning commute. and also through the lunchtime hour with some pockets of some very heavy downpours. we'll have to watch out for this. also those wind speeds. that may bring down some trees and many concerns here heading into the next several days. details on that coming up in the full microclimate forecast. >> no rest for the weary here, kari. thank you very much. back now to the anderson reservoir which is nearing capacity. if it fills that meends the water could be flowing over the spillway. that is why the santa clara county water district warned it is taking steps now to relieve pressure on the anderson dam. that is where we find nbc bay area's bob redell in morgan hill. bob, what kind of steps are they taking to relieve that pressure? good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, sam. the santa clara county water district, they've been trying to keep that from reaching full capacity for the past several week. they have had this outlet fully opened since january 9th. it's gushing water at 400 cubic feet per second, but there's been so much rain the district has not been able to get the water out fast enough. the anderson reservoir which is currently at 99% kas pass it is expected to reach full capacity during these next storms over the next few days. that means the water could start pouring over the operational spillway and here into coyote creek. and eventually flood homes downstream. >> so, we're not expecting any problems with spillway in any way. the risk that we're seeing right now is that the storms that are coming, just like any of our other reservoirs could increase the chance of flooding. so, without any more space in the reservoirs to capture water, the next storm the water is going to be pretty much just passing through and going down to coyote creek. >> reporter: the santa clara county water district sent out this letter to reassure residents that the anderson dam is safe in spite of it being near capacity. they are addressing this because of a 2009 study that found that the dam is at risk of becoming damaged if there were a magnitude 7.25 or greater quake on the nearby cal var asphalt. they believe it could become damaged, unlikely it will fail. they determined the reservoir shouldn't go above 6% capacity in order to relieve pressure on the dam hence the reason this outlet you see right here draining in the coyote creek has been open for five weeks now. the district is doing redesigns on a $400 million seismic retrofit of the dam. that construction scheduled to start in 2020 with completion slated for 2024. reporting live here at morgan hill, bob redell, nbc bay area news. >> all right, thanks, bob. meanwhile tens of thousands of people are holding their breath and watching the oroville dam about 200 miles to our north. oroville lake which got about a half inch of rain overnight -- well, that was not a lot of help for crews trying to lower the water levels there. nbc bay area pete suratos joins us live from orville where we want know if the rain is interfering with the progress on the spillway, pete. >> reporter: yeah, good morning to you, kris. really with the exception of this morning on our morning show, that is the only time we saw rain near the oroville dam. it's been pretty dry t. was windy but not so much right now. i want to show you guys this is the main spillway of the oroville dam that you're seeing, quite the outflow of water it has been reduced. we got that update. the intention of that is to reduce the lake levels near the emergency spillway and is definitely doing its job. i want to show you guys some new video we have of crews that have been on-site. you hear the helicopters overhead. they have been working hard to deal with the erosion at the emergency spillway. you're seeing trucks bringing in those big boulders that are going to be placed by helicopter in the air a utah jazz that are eroding and of course that erosion at the emergency spillway prompted the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people near the oroville dam. and so far, guys, crews are making progress suring up the erosion at the spillway. let's get to the latest information from the california department of water resources. we know the lake oroville levels are 32 feet below that will trigger that emergency spillway. the main spillway was releasing 100,000 cubic feet of water per second which has helped tremendously as far as reducing those lake levels near the emergency spillway. as i mentioned, they have recently reduced that outflow. and the good news is the inflow into the lake is at about 45,000 cubic feet per second. crews are taking out more water than is coming in. >> what we're looking at now is our crews out there continuing to armor up the emergency spillway. so if we have to use it in the future. we have some more confidence in the material and work that we've put out there that the erosions initially happened aren't going to increase. >> reporter: back out here, taking another look at the main sfil way of the oroville dam, i want to point out there is erosion there, too, and the department of water resources says it will look at it closely in the dryer months. you're seeing the water splash in that area. as i mentioned the weather is not having an impact when it comes to repairing the spillway. there will be a briefing at 12:00 p.m. nbc bay area, pete suratos. >> a half inch over into the morning hours. along with the dams we're also watching the mountain sides, particularly in the santa cruz mountains. traffic on highway 17 is still reduce today just one lane in each direction and that's putting a lot of pressure on local streets as drivers look for detours. today we know that some of the off-ramps in scotts valley will be close today keep some of those highway drivers taking short cuts through that city. the next few days work crews and commuters will brace for more rain and hope those storms don't trigger major mudslides. our nbc bay area app is a great resource during this stormy weather. you can download it now and keep it with you. with a few swiepz you can watch our live doppler radar and get a personalized report for where you live and work. >> there were a lot of rattled nerves in san francisco last night. crews working on a permanent fix for a platform that became unstable forcing evacuations in 16 buildings in soma. heavy piece of equipment was resting on top of that platform which moved down on an angle. all of that happening at the 41 tehama sky scraper which is under construction. it is secure, not in danger of falling. last night streets were shut down and buildings evacuated. those evacuation orders were lifted late wednesday. >> new at 11:00, an east san jose neighborhood is getting an all-clear after an intense manhunt while officers tried to make an arrest. we got calls into our newsroom about all the police activity which started around sir6:00 th morning. after officers made that arrest, they had to clear the home where several other people lived. we are told that this was not an i.c.e. operation, immigrations customs enforcement agency, but we do know that it did impact community and so you can find more information at nbcbayarea.com. also happening now, mass protests across the country as we look live at this protest in st. paul, minnesota. these protest are part of a larger demonstration for a day without immigrants. organizers asked immigrants to stay home from work and school to demonstrate how important they are to america's economy and the way of life. many businesses are closed in solidarity here in the bay area as well. >> right. that's a look at what is going on in the midwest, kris. action here as well, some of your favorite restaurants and businesses could be closed because of the national grassroots effort you talked about encouraging immigrants to stay home. this is prompted by the stamp on immigration. a contemporary indian restaurants in burlingame, the owner says it is important to him and it is important to his employees so he canceled about 100 reservations that he says will cost him about thousands and thousands of dollars. >> it is no america without immigrants. and immigrants do feed america at the same time. especially within our industry. so, it is important to take a stand. >> other businesses like chavez super markets are also closing. >> breaking news in our coverage of president trump's first 100 days in office, we just heard him wrap up his first solo press conference. it lasted about an hour and ten minutes. but before that, the president tapped alexander accosta as his nominee to lead the labor department. accosta is a former justice department official and if he is confirmed, he would be the first hispanic member of trump's cabinet. this all comes one day after the president's original choice, andrew puzder, had to withdraw once it became clear scandal would likely derail his confirmation. after spending the first minute of his press conference on the nominee, the president quickly shifted topics, launching a tie raid on what he called the dishonest press. >> unfortunately much of the media in washington, d.c. along with new york, los angeles, in particular, speaks not for the people but for the special interests and for those profiting off a very, very obviously broken system. >> the president faced questions about the resignation of michael flynn. he backed his former national security advisor, though, who is accused of lying about talks with russia saying, quote, what he did wasn't wrong. it was the information leaked about him that was wrong. >> all right. certainly a lot to still take in from that press conference. we'll have more coverage dlout the day. right now we are talking about our main story locally which is not the storm we saw this morning, kari, but the next three to come as well. >> yes, this is going to get very busy. the good thing is we will have breaks in between and that is what we are getting now. allows for some of that water to soak down into the ground. one of the things we've been talking about is sharing what you're seeing where you live, on your way to work, that's what terri lynn did today, shared this picture with me on facebook. if you see rainbows, clouds or rising creeks and rivers, that's what we want to share with everyone else. definitely appreciate that. here's a live look in san jose. you see those clouds peeling back. we see them in the distance, and we had some quick-moving showers moving through there, too as we get a live look outside at emeryville, getting a chance to dry out from some rain that moved through earlier this morning that was really heavy. 7-day forecast coming up at the bottom of the screen. we are going to see more wet days over the next few days. may not be rain the entire time. kind of like what we're seeing now, heavy rain move through this morning now it's clearing out. a beautiful shot at half moon bay. you see a mix of clouds in the upper 50s. as we look at the bigger picture here, we have that storm system moving through. it has now moved into parts of southern california and still some lingering showers left behind. as we see some of these light rain and some of the spotty activity on the radar, that is what we can expect as we go through the day. so, still a chance of some rain moving through fairly quickly for the rest of the day, a mix of sun and clouds, and then our next storm system will be moving from south to north heading into the day tomorrow. starting out early in the morning at 5:00, a pretty good coverage here, and then during the morning commute it look pretty sloppy with some waves of some heavy rain and torrential downpours briefly in there and tomorrow lingering showers throughout the afternoon. so, between today and tomorrow, looking at the potential in some spots of rain reaching about half an inch. in palo alto about a quarter of an inch in redwood city, and maybe a lot higher for spots like santa cruz mountains where we have the concerns of some mudslides. not only mudslides, but also the gusty winds. showing you the wind cast for today coming in from the south, picking up through early tomorrow morning at about 30 to 40 miles an hour. so more concerns there. and also there's two more storms after that. we'll talk about it coming up a little later, kris and sam. >> thank you very much, kari. thousands of non-human pry mates, mostly monkeys are being used as test subjects in medical experiments right here in northern california. in fact, u.c. davis is home to more than 6,000 such experiments. there are striking similarities to humans is what make them prime candidates for testing drug or medical procedures. critics say he these experiments are out date and had sometimes deadly. tonight at 11:00 investigative reporter begat shaban digs deeper into the controversy of the medical breakthrough to physical and emotional scars the experiments leave behind. >> it's not that i don't think medical research has ever been helpful because it has. i just don't think that we need to do that now and i think there are other means to develop those drugs now. >> those who say that the use of animals in research and nonhuman pry mates in research is unnecessary are simply wrong. >> so, how are scientists using pry mates in the lab, and can they use new technology to get the same results without testing on those pry mates? you can watch our full investigation tonight on 11:00. if you have a tip for our investigative unit you can give us a call at 800-996-tips or send us an e-mail to the unit at nbcbayarea.com. coming up a high-end south bay restaurant accused of bait and switch in term of its customers and what they're putting on the plates. we'll tell you the dish they were changing out which the patrons might not have noticed. >> first happening right now we're tweeting about president trump's latest press conference. the president saying, quote, we're becoming a drug infested nation. drugs are 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order today pay $120,000 in fines and rebates. investigators say that for more than a year when customers ordered petrali sole, they were served talapia. we tried reaching the owner for comment, but he did not return our calls. but you can contact the restaurant for a $30 rebate if you think that you were scammed. >> all new at 11:00, tens of thousands of the country's most heavily used bridge s are in need of some serious repairs and that includes hundreds right here in northern california. a new report from the american road and transportation builders association found that there are 56,000 structurally deficient bridges as cross the country and that does include as we mentioned several right here in the bay area. for example, interstate 680 in contra costa county, i-280 and creek in santa clara county, san leandro creek alameda county, highway 101 in san mateo. that report says that when a bridge is classified as structurally deficient, it means that one or more of the key bridge elements is in poor or worse condition. >> coming up, we are continuing to track the first of the four storms headed to the bay area. kari hall is watching the radar and we'll have an update. plus. >> the school let me down i measurably. >> he says classmates bullied him because he's black and teachers failed to stop it. i'm liz wagner. coming up next we reveal the miss steps that led to a federal investigation. with the xfinity tv app, anything with a screen is a tv. stream 130 live channels, plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. you can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. download the xfinity tv app today. well, this midday we investigate. one young man says his classmates took his dignity and his school made it worse by failing to act. a high school student says he was subjected to a long pattern of harassment because of the color of his skin. >> kris, his parents tell us the district is now failing them. investigative reporter liz wagner is with us now. liz, what's happening here? >> we found their claims are backed up by other students and a federal investigation. tonight the family is telling its story because a year and a half later they feel like there's still no resolution. as a kid, football meant everything to evan mack, and he couldn't wait to play at is he bass that poll high school. >> i went to that school because it held this promise of making my life better. >> reporter: but mack said the school made his life worse. >> all i got from the day i showed up on that campus was nothing but disappointment after disappointment after disappointment. >> reporter: he said students made racist comments, teachers overlooked it and administrators failed to act in a district where black and biracial students makeup just 6% of the population. mack says on the field kids used racial slurs and in class they called him the n word. >> and i would say, could we please not do that? >> reporter: around campus he noticed the confed rat flag on clothing and cars. a former class matd posted this picture on social media. and in the locker room he says he once overheard some teammates singing this david allen coe song. ♪ he tells us the language happened within earshot of school staff, but no one intervened. >> it was the kind of thing that you didn't talk about, for one, or if you did talk about it no one really even cares. >> reporter: matt kept quiet two years until he showed his parents these online exchanges with two students. >> just because you're a [ bleep ] and don't think like that i will punch you in the [ bleep ] mouth. >> reporter: they brought the threats to the west sonoma county union high school district. officials spoke with the students and according to this letter, warned one of them about any continued harassment. the other left the school. they discussed with the coach ways to ensure all players feel supported. then the principal closed the case. how would you describe the school's investigation? >> there wasn't one. >> no, there was no investigation. >> reporter: so, the mack's sent a complaint to the u.s. department of education's office for civil rights here in san francisco. it investigated and last fall issued this 20-page report, noting the district's failure to follow its own grievance procedures and finding its investigation was not appropriate. it amounted to a civil rights violation. the district didn't admit any wrongdoing, but agreed to make changes, create an anti-harassment statement, provide training and conduct climate surveys about race. the district told the feds, the climate for african-american students was welcoming and friendly. >> they would say the n word all the time. >> reporter: but these kids say they felt like outsiders. >> they tried to call evan mack's situation a singular situation. it's not. they treat other kids of color like that. >> reporter: do you feel like administrators at your former high school had your back is this >> no, not at all. >> reporter: when their parents peld them, they say school leaders never followed up. what does that say to you? >> that they didn't care. >> reporter: we wanted to ask the district why it took a federal investigation to confront an apparent racial divide? they declined an interview request citing the lawsuit the mack family filed last movement the superintendent tells us he's following the federal agreement, writing the district takes these matters very seriously and strives to provide an environment free of harassment and discrimination for everyone. >> there needs to be a mutual culture of respect. >> reporter: evan mack will graduate from a new high school this year, but his parents want accountability for all students in his former district. a district in a city where people want to get rid of racism, not promote it. the department of education's findings here signal serious action and it doesn't happen often. last year the feds received nearly 2,500 racial discrimination complaints. they found violations and resolved just 57 cases nationally, 17 in california. guys? >> if you have a tip for our investigative unit give us a call at 800-996-tips. we'll dig into any story. send us an e-mail to the unit at nbcbayarea.com. >> coming up next this thursday morning felt a lot like the last thursday and the thursday before that. rain is the theme here. kari hall tracking the latest. >> and it will be another stormy week. another storm set to move into the bay area. a look at the time line and what you can expect coming up right after this break. ♪ strummed guitar you can't experience the canadian rockies through a screen. you have to be here, with us. there's only one way to travel through this natural wonder and get a glimpse of amazing. and that's with a glass of wine in one hand, and a camera in the other, aboard rocky mountaineer. canada's rocky mountains await. call your travel agent or rocky mountaineer for special offers now. all right. we are feeling a little bit weather weary, but we have to stay on top of these storms because of all the pressure on these local dams, kari. >> not only that, the rising water levels, the creeks and rivers on the tributaries, we have to watch that next week. there will be another storm system moving in tomorrow, another quick moving one as we start out the morning and then some lingering showers. look at how things have cleared out right now as we get a look at some of the our microclimate mix of sun and clouds. san francisco right now 58 degrees, a little bit of a breeze there, too. the radar showing some clearing as well, but still some lingering light showers. at any pointed to you could see some quick moving rain moving through, but the brunt of the heaviest rain we had earlier this morning and now we have a chance to allow some of that water to soak into the ground. the next storm system not far behind during early tomorrow morning we'll see this moving from south to north and then seeing that rain getting heavier as we go through the morning commute, even into the lunchtime hour. and then some scattered showers throughout the afternoon. and getting ready for another round of rain heading towards the end of the weekend. a lot of events going on. today we have the heroes and hearts in san francisco, right there under that white tent at at&t park. it will be in the upper 50ss there. and for this weekend in the santa cruz mountains at the music festival, it will be 58 degrees and then falling down to 50 degrees by 11:00 in the evening. it will be dry on saturday. so, also for the san francisco wine competition we'll have a mix of sun and clouds. temperatures in the mid 50ss. i am tweeting and showing you on facebook about all of this so make sure you're following me. and as we go through the forecast, going to see some more rounds of rain moving into next week, also going to see some more wet weather through next wednesday. sam and kris? facebook is taking on linkin, letting businesses post among the many things that you can now do on facebook, the company is taking on linked in letting businesses post job listing on their pages and into your news feeds you can find a job on facebook. you can apply to the company's page. facebook will offer to auto fill your information with all your information on the profile. be careful what you put in there. facebook can let companies pay to boost the reach of their listings to very specific demographics. >> so finding a job on facebook, not at facebook, necessarily. >> or both. >> so, going viral today, one midwest college student has quite the story to tell after one of the hottest stars in tennis proved that she is also a woman of her word. >> in fairness to her, this was not a likely scenario. this all started when 44th ranked genie bouye shachard. she agreed to a date if the patriots somehow historically unpress de unpreu unprecedentedly came back and won. she went to a basketball game with a 20-year-old college student. she paid for the flight and his hotel room. and wowed everybody with the jacket. >> i saw his strut coming out of the tunnel there. he knows what's going on. good for her for being a woman of her word. >> you are a woman of your word as well. >> we'll be back tomorrow. 66 stand by, everyone. we're live in five, four, three, two, one. i have been producing the annual swim suit issue for 19 years. this year i'm in a swim suit. this will show case the widest diverse of women in history. >> the fearless leader, the boss behind the "sports illustrated" swim suit issue. and the best behaved guy of all time. she says if i'm going to talk the talk i need to walk the walk. >> i spoke to her yesterday, and the issue is all about diversity. body diversity. she

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