But what is important is what will take place here at city hall later this afternoon to get things rolling. Well show you the images that you saw right there of the cars submerged in the water during the flooding. For a lot of the homes along coyote creek, city hall will vote on a recommendation to donate a city surplus of cars. What are the surplus of cars we are talking about . Ranging from old police cars to different types of sedans, tauruses and others. They are working with Catholic Charities to identify the victims that need the cars. I did have a chance to speak to san ricardo. And he hopes that the vote will pass this afternoon so they can start to help people out. With more 400 folks who need cars, were doing everything we can to bring the Community Together to see how we can get cars and trucks back in the hands of families that need them. Reporter on top of this, the city of san jose is working on a more comprehensive program to include Car Dealerships giving discounts on cars to the victims. The city of san jose has five of the surplus cars already who to go to be donated. They have an additional 15 cars ready in the next couple of months. Pete suratos, nbc bay area news. Pete, thank you very much. As we talk about recovering from the floods, this morning we got a price tag for the repairs needed from this winters storms. Between the intense flooding, the road damage and broken bridges, the total estimated cost to fix the infrastructure in california is 860 million. And that video right there headlining those expensive repairs. As the fire for Bridge Canyon in big sur is expected to cost more than 26 million itself. So just when we thought, the rain would be behind us, changes are coming to the bay area. Enjoy the sun now, because in a couple days, a dramatic shift. Dont uncover the Patio Furniture if you havent already. Look outside, the window to the left is emeryville. The window on the right is richmond. Meteorologist keri hall is here to talk about the return of rain. We are not talking about a sprinkle here either. We are talking about a significant amount of rainfall before the weekend as we are seeing this sunshine. But we are going to see the changes move in by the end of the week. We do still have a little bit more time to prepare for the incoming rain. Right now as you step out, a 62 degrees in livermore. 63 in morgan hill. And its 59 in oakland, palo alto and in San Francisco. Going to see the high temperatures today reaching into the mid70s. So well be warmer than it was yesterday. And the winds wont be as strong. 71 degrees will be the high in the peninsula. And 67 degrees in the east bay while San Francisco is up to 65. Heres the storm system were talking about. A little more time before it reaches the bay area coast. Widespread rain expected on friday. We will talk about the timeline and how much rain to expect, coming up in just a few minutes. Kari, thank you very much. A violent night with multiple crime scenes in san jose. And it all happened within blocks of the citys childrens discovery museum. We brought you this as breaking news today on today in the bay. A double stabbing that happened a little after midnight. Police found the first victim near aladen and the other victim was near tsome steps. It is possible Homeless People were living nearby. So far the only description they have of the attacker is that it is a man. Well, President Trump is hoping for a double win on capitol hill this week approving his Supreme Court nominee and health care. You heard that right, the Republican Health care plan is now back. Nbcs tracie potts is on the hill to explain why. Reporter revived efforts after two weeks that the Health Care Plan could be coming back to life. Skeptical conservatives were pitched a compromise to allow states to optout of obamacare mandates but covering maternity, Mental Health and emergencies and to allow insurers to charge sick people more. We are encouraged by at least the idea, intrigued bring the idea, but certainly we would need a whole lot more information. Reporter the details expected today when the possible vote happens this week covering preexisting conditions and young adults on their parents insurance would stay. Not everyone like that is. Were approaching this strictly from a Public Policy standpoint. And im quite confident that we can do much better with Health Care Reform than were doing. Reporter the compromise is after earlier meetings with skeptical moderate republicans and weekend gulf did plo mapplo senator rand paul. I think the president has made clear he intends to work with anyone who wants to help him get to the number of votes. Reporter that number still in motion. The one number lawmakers may not have if they vote this week, the Congressional Budget Office numbers on how much this compromise plan will cost. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. All right. A lot in the works in d. C. , traci. Thank you. Right now the ncaa is reluctantly ending the boycott against the state of North Carolina. The Basketball Organization pulled the tournament in light of the bathroom bill passed by the States Legislature that affected the Transgender Community and protections against drinlgs or the lack thereof. This all comes less than a week after North Carolinas governor and lawmakers repealed it. And the ncaa will now consider letting the state host championship events again. The ncaa pulled seven events out of the last season in protest. And they said that North Carolina has minimally achieved a situation where tournaments can be conducted in a nondiscriminatory environment. And police are looking for a man who keeps rubbing up against women inappropriately while riding on mun i. A woman filed a police report, but before that women were warning people on the next door app. This has bwomen looking over their shoulder. Im aware of my surroundings. I try to sit in a position where i can see everybody around me and i can kind of monitor what is going on, try not to have my face in my phone. Police say they have spotted the suspect several times on the line. And today a 50yearold felon accused of kidnapping and assaulting a 13yearold girl is expected in court for arraignment. He met a young runaway at a gas station last friday. And the next day then called 911 himself to save a victim who jumped from a moving truck. When the victim was found, she said she was drugged. And three men rushed into the Walnut Creek Apple store right off main street and took off with three laptops and 18 iphones worth thousands of dollars. The suspects did not appear to have any weapons. For now, police are still looking at the Surveillance Video trying to identify the men. And a followup, the city of san jose has taken the first step in looking for a new independent Police Auditor. Council members are expected to vote on creating a recruitment timeline. But the new hire is expected sometime this summer. The current independent Police Auditor walter katts is leaving his post on friday for a commander job in chicago. And equal payday is trending on twitter. To highlight the pay gap between men and women, about two dozen bay area Small Businesses and big ones like lyft are offering a 20 discount and other deals. According to the census data, women make 80 of what men make. White women make 75 , black women, 63 of top average of men larks tee know women fared the worst making just over half of what men do. And working women dont get a break making 70 cents on the dollar. To find the bay area businesses offering the discounts, go to nbcbayarea. Com. And icing out the Winter Olympics. Coming up, the reason nhl players wont be playing for gold. Also, separating your commute and politics. The xhapg youre going to notice on your next muni ride. Plus, how special is special enough . Well take a look coming up in business and tech. All right. They are cheering there on the New York Stock Exchange this morning. And right now stocks for the dow are up at the moment. 33 points. The s p 500 is under a half a point. The nasdaq is pretty much flat. Big changes this morning to the coveted permits that allow foreigners to work in silicone valley. Scott mcgrew, were talking about hightech, which depends on the h1b visa. Yes, perhaps too much. People on both sides of the political spectrum say it takes away jobs from americans. H1b allows companies to import workers for specialized jobs. Jobs the Companies Say they cant find enough americans with specialized skills to fill. The big change from here on out is computer programming, in and of itself, will not be considered special enough. Specialization to automatically count as an h1b. The Trump Administration is going to increase the number of spot checks the Companies Use for h1b. And Mercedes Benz and hyundai are pulling their ads from the Fox News Program of the oreilly show. Big oreilly and fox paid out millions so the car company knew of past allegations, but a sunday New York Times article brought the controversy back into the news and those decisions were made. Back to you. All right, thank you, scott. Well, amazon wants your business, even if you want to pay with Old Fashioned paper instead of plastic. Amazon launched a new Service Amazon cash to allow users to display a bar code at a participating retailer and deposit cash directly into their amazon account. Now, folks can access that code through amazons main site on the mobile app. Now, if you keep it really old school and dont use the smartphone, you can print the bar code from the computer and present that at the store. Kind of like a gift card. All right, 11 14 and keeping politics out of your commute as soon as tomorrow, political ads on the side of the mini buses are no longer going to be allowed. The examiner reports mta leaders are considering a new policy to prevent ads that, quote, concern the political or public issue. Now this coming as some ads in recent years have caused serious controversies and transit agencies and other cities have recently made other moves. The ban would take effect immediately. And voters will decide to pony up more cash for voters in the Woodside School district. They are voted on a parcel tax to boost revenues for woodside elementary. The parcel tax would provide eight years of funding for school programs. A symposium created for positive atmospheres for schools is going to take place today. It is called positive Behavior Interventions and supports hosted by the Santa Clara County office of education. And chris, we talked a lot about sanctuary cities, now california lawmakers are getting closer to declaring the entire state of california a sanctuary state. Senate bill 54 also known as the sanctuary state bill bars local and state Law Enforcement agents is i from using federal resources to help with federal immigration enforcement. It would limit state and federal police from integrating with other authorities. They passed this despite threats from the Trump Administration yesterday. Will they strike back at us . We dont know. We hope not. Hes the president of the greatest country in the world. It is not about retribution but bringing the country together, not tearing at the fabric of who we are as a nation. We should say the threats were taking away federal funding from cities, and in this case the state. Sb54 heads to the state assembly where it is expected to pass. San jose city leaders take steps to keep pedestrians safe on local roadways. This is a continuation of a 2yearold effort called vision zero, a commitment to fully eliminate trafficrelated injuries and deaths. In about an hour, city leaders plan to talk about what has happened so far and what is next if they want to meet that goal and they are still working toward that. New at 11 00, the nhl is giving the olympics the cold shoulder. The league will not participate in the 2018 south korean olympics because they are unhappy to lose two weeks of play every other year. Over four years, i should say. They will schedule the regular hockey season without a break for the Winter Olympics. This may also keep nhl players from being in the 2022 Winter Olympics. I cant believe were talking about Winter Olympics when it is absolutely springlike outside. We still have the hockey playoffs coming up as well. The sharks will be in that, but kari, she is right, this is the last stint of winter we want in a while. But well have rain heading into the next several days. So we are not completely done with winter, at least not the heavy downpours. But as we get a look right now at san jose, we are enjoying all of the sunshine, continuing to take it in. If you are getting ready to head out and enjoy the sun, maybe take it outside, temperatures have been a little cool, but we are going to continue to see them warming up from here. We are at 61 degrees in san jose. In morgan hill, 63. Also 63 in fairfield and oakland, as well as palo alto at 59 degrees. Now that the sevenday forecast is coming up at the bottom of the hour, we started in San Francisco. We are going to see some rain by the end of the week. And we are here on tuesday, and we are already talking about it because its been so dry. We have had such beautiful weather. And i know its a lot of hard feelings out there, but we are looking at a high for today up to 79 degrees. It is very nice and warm. Still cool along the coast, 63 degrees at halfmoon bay in San Francisco. And then well start to see the clouds moving in. So i think today will be the last day of just fullon sunshine before these clouds start to roll in. And the rain will hold off until thursday. And it will take its time making its way through the bay area. Here we are on thursday afternoon. Dry until then, once again, and then we start to see the rain moving inland, starting out with light showers becoming heavier late thursday night into early friday morning. Friday mornings commute looks really tough. Even the evening commute will be very slow because of the widespread rain still falling throughout the day. And we may have some standing water at that point. The potential of some flooding after several hours of some rainfalling across the bay area. And then look at saturday, even during the evening, we may still have some rain here. And some snow in the sierra. Sunday looks dry and then another quick round of rain moving through on monday. So its about to get really busy here after being able to relax and get some sunshine and warm temperatures. This model shows how much rain we can see. And we have the potential of getting over an inch of rain for much of the north bay, at least an inch and a quarter. And then you head across the east bay, the peninsula, as well as the south bay, about a half inch to three quarters of an in inch. And we will see more of that in if santa cruz mountains. We are looking at. 75 to an inh for most of us. We could see some wind gusts 15 to 40 Miles Per Hour that could bring down trees. And also some street flooding when the rain begins to fall, but no major river flooding expected as the reservoirs are still very low. Heres a look right now at kirkwood. The temperature is at 36 degrees. Still a fairly good snow pack out there. And well talk about how much additional snow we can see here as that storm system moves in. Thats coming up a little later, kris and sam. We are learning more about a deadly blast that rocked the st. Petersburg subway yesterday, and specifically more on the suspected bomber and the reason that person targeted st. Petersburg. But first, happening now, a Muslim Student in new jersey applied to stanford and got in based in part because of his answer to one yes. When asked what mattered to him the most, he wrote blacklivesmatter 100 times. And stanford accepted him. And many more will make their way to golden park for the seventh anniversary, tenth anniversary. Well have more coming up. The death toll now stands at 83 for the alleged chemical attack in north syria. This is video from the city of, dirks idlib. Human Rights Groups say 11 children were killed, some died of suffocation and others were hit by strikes. It is said to be one of the worst massive casualties of toxic gas since the syrian war began six years ago. And we have seen some of the most horrific images so far. And we are following a developing story out of russia and the attack there. The death toll has now risen to 14 people after that explosion out of a st. Petersburg survey. Subway. Heres more from st. Petersburg. Reporter investigators say the bomb on the metro carriage was packed with nails and ball bearings. It tore through metal and people. The injured were treated on the station platform. Authorities in neighboring kyrgyzstan named the suspect as a 22yearold russian citizen with links to islamic militants. Amid the smoke, clues and investigators were examining debris and explosive residue. Security camera footage, and above all, a second bomb. Inve