Officers that are rotating back to patrol that were just not going to back fill the positions until we have stability and eventually can then actually reinstitute those officers back in those positions. The chief says nearly everything is on the table at this point including one day outsourcing at the dpts recruiting unit. All because the dwindling Department Needs more boots on the ground. It is a reality for us. It is troubling for us do this. It really is painful for us because we want officers like our metro unit to be out there proactively looking and seeking out criminal activity. They say the chaos has tarnished what was once a prestigious brand. I feel disappointed because we dont feel the support any more from the police. Urging them to get back to the table and solve the funding differences that led to the exodus of officers. If we need to sit down in the office for a week however long it takes, but just to come up with some kind of direction. Anything, says the chief, to stop the bleeding. Now this will all take place at what is called shift change at the beginning of march. Sources tell me every specialized unit in the department has been put on notice. Live at Police Head Quarters in san jose nbc bay area news. Thank you, damian. The clock is ticking. A few more hours and the Golden Gate Bridge will be closed. Here is a live look now as people make their final pass across the iconic span before this weekends historic closure. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith is at the bridge and christie this is the longest closure in the bay area history. Reporter this is meant to prevent headon collisions on the Golden Gate Bridge. While drivers on both side of the bridge say think appreciate the safety of that but say this will certainly be an adjustment. It is beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous view. Crowds of tourists gather to take in the legendary sight. Coming from los angeles i had no idea. I said, i want to visit the bridge. She said, it is closing. We decided to come today because i know the bridge is going to close. To close for 52 hours is a big milestone for the bridge. Reporter she knows this is the longest closure in the spans history. It is done to include a median barrier. There have been 128 headon collisions and 16 fatalities. The barrier will virtually eliminate headon collisions. Report with tens of thousands using it each day, without it, it could cause traffic trouble. We had a trip scheduled to the airport on saturday so my daughter changed her flight. The east sidewalk will be taupe cyclists and pedestrians but parking lots near the bridge will be closed. Closure starts at midnight. Chp is working in advance. Our goal is to have everything set up so at 11 30 p. M. Tonight, the roads will be closed. That gives us half an hour to sweep the entire area that is closed ensure there is no vehicles, nobody stopped anywhere. Reporter and chp is telling us they plan to start staging in advance of the closure sometime around 9 30 or 10 00, the bridge is expected to reopen by 4 00 a. M. Monday morning. Live at the Golden Gate BridgeChristie Smith, nbc bay area news. Okay christie we see the bus right behind you. Traffic is still moving on the bridge. The bridge right there is circled. But traffic wont be moving for long. This weekend, you have to use the richmond and bay bridges. A live look at those bridges. Caltrans estimates about 160,000 cars roll over the Golden Gate Bridge each weekend. So they expect that many cars those many cars to end up on the bay bridge and Richmond San Rafael bridge. On our front page one will find information on bus ferry routes and taxi service at the nbcbayarea. Com. Just in tonight, shouting in an east bay courtroom as the killer of a teenager is sentenced. Steven carlson yelled he didnt do it while family members pleaded for the maximum penalty. The judge gave carlton 26 years in prison. When tina was attacked and killed in 1984 she walked home from foot hill high school. She was stabbed more than 40 times. There was talk at the time that fellow student Steven Carlson was the killer. But he wasnt charged until he was identified by dna test in 2011. It is known to many of us as the mrs. Doubt firehouse. The homemade famous by Robin Williams classic movie. Less than a week ago someone tried to burn it down. Today the person accused of setting that fire faced a judge for the first time. The judge set bail at 1 million. Nbcs bay area nan jerry tte miranda joins us. Nana nn jerry tt . The suspect is ordered not to go near the home or the homeowners. The front door of mrs. Doubt fires home shows burn marks, the door mat set on fire on monday. The base of the garage door also shows evidence of a fire. I really would encourage people not to rush to judgment especially when it involves circumstantial evidence. Reporter prosecutors say 25yearold tykwan welch lit the fire after a confrontation with the owner of the mrs. Doubt fire home. There are certain pieces of evidence that will be publicly available at later date which lead the investigation to the defendant and the defendant was subsequently arrested. The judge ordered the media not to show welchs face during todays Court Appearance so she can get a fair trial. Her attorney entered a not guilty play. Welch is trans gender and identifies herself as a woman. It is not clear whether she was a patient of dr. Douglas osterhaut, a leading doctor in trans gender surgery. Any time have you an arson, it is very concerning. Especially when it involves someones residence. Especially concerning, because fires are so unpredictable. Reporter mean while, hilton is concerned his client is held on the mens side of the jail even though she identifies a. A woman. Those issues are important and personal. I need to talk to her about that. That is on my top list of things do, to make sure she is comfortable where shes at. Report a jail spokeswoman says trans gender suspects can asked to be housed outside the general population. She declined to say whether welch requested that. Thank you, nann. A record amount for the golden state with 1. 2 billion put away for a Rainy Day Fund and another 1. 2 billion to pay state debt. The massive spending proposal puts aside 120 million for uc schools. They say that is not enough to avoid a tuition hike. Students say they are the ones caught in the middle of this nasty budget battle. And jessica, students are not happy about it. It appears that the governor and the university of california are in a financial standoff. Leaving students in limbo. It is that fees are hiked again, this would be the, i cant even count how many fee hikes we have seen already. Uc physics major say students are bracing for just that. After the plan jerry brown unveiled this morning wont deliver the funding boost needed to keep a fiveyear tuition hike from kicking in. Yes, tuition will rise by up to 5 . Im trying to find some way of creating balance. I think the university can be a fine University Living within the funds we have appropriated. While state revenues are up the governor says the budget remains tight. His plan would give university of california system a 120 million boost. The 120 million is not chump change. It is real money and some part of the budget didnt get any increase. I wouldnt call it chump change. But in the scheme of things it is not significant. Reporter uc Officials Say it is not enough. While janet nepal tanno continue a financial feud. Students are left to sweat over an uncertain future. Students are already struggling. The governor and the president should try to work something out so that at the end of the day, student dont have to suffer. It doesnt feel good. It doesnt feel good to take out these loans and worry about how im going to pay them back. And i know some student that had to drop out already because of fee hikes. And it is shameful really. Very shameful. Now there is still time tore the governor and the university of california to negotiate a final budget is not due until this summer. But if that fiveyear tuition hike does indeed kick in this fall tuition could go up to nearly 16,000 in 2019. Reporting live at uc berkeley im jody hernandez, nbc bay area news. Jody thank you. Calling it extremely rare. Marine biologists hope to learn more about a whale beached at the national sea shore. Hikers came across the sperm whale yesterday near abbots lagoon. The site was difficult to access. Marine experts couldnt make it there before dark. The whale died overnight. Marine biologists say it may have been sick because it came so close to the shore. Can be harder to spot. They dont breach very often. They are deep divers. We dont see them very often around here. We dont know what their status is if they are endangered or not. We just dont have enough numbers, population numbers. They will get answers, hopefully. The last known sighting of that kind of whale in that area is 1998. Biologists want to do tests at the Mammal Center of sausalito. Coming up a new study that tells you about the worst congestion hot spots and how that list might lead to slicing. And a change in rank and file. Where the chp is trying to recruit and why. Good evening. In our Weather Underground time lapse camera today starting off with clouds but eventually blue sky in San Francisco. We will talk about more clouds for your weekend and which days will be best. Mmm ring ring ring ring progresso wow soup people, i cant believe im eating bacon and rich creamy cheese before my sisters wedding. Well its only 100 calories, so youll be ready for that dress. Uhhuh. Thats what im afraid of. You dont love the dress . I love my sister. 40 flavors. 100 calories or less. Live look outside our usual friday and usual friday busy commute across the bay area. The stuff nightmares are made of. Bay area traffic is rough most of the time. Who has it the worst . Which local roads and which local freeways . A new report is identifying bay areas 10 worst spots. But the data could also be the key to new traffic solutions. Nbc bay areas robert handa joins us at one of those hot spots. And robert let me guess, 101 in san jose behind you. Reporter good guess. As you know trying to come up with some of the worst hot spots is a long way from coming up with solutions when you come up with the problems first. When you look at this section of san jose on highway 101, these people could probably use some encouragement. This section is considered the third worst hot spot and some drivers we talked to say gathering new information about congestion is fine if it helps. The metropolitan transportation, n mtc, shows many new trends since the last study five years ago. Congested delay times spent in traffic at less than 35 miles an hour jumped almost 20 . Highest since around 2000. We have a number of initiatives to reduce Traffic Congestion congestion, to improve safety, to near transportation core doors. The hot spot is the eastbound 80 commute from 101 in San Francisco to where the average speed at the peak of commute is 4 miles per hour. Second on the list is 880 between hayward and south bay and third is 101 from sunnyvale into san jose. Officials say the list helps arrange could be to focus plans to reduce congestion. Certainly getting bart complete from san jose and beyond will be critical. Caltrans and all of the initiatives are critically important. There is so much traffic. I dont know. Sometimes just to get home for a four miles to get home it takes me sometimes almost an hour. Well in about two or three weeks the mtc plans to set up on its website a way for people to see the Data Collected as well as current traffic conditions in their area. Live in san jose robert handa, nbc bay area news. Thank you, robert. Increased emphasis on diversity. Highway patrol is stepping up efforts to make its department more ethically diverse. It is reaching out from people from churches online ads. Leaders admit it is a challenge to lure minorities and women, which is what they need. In some communities, there is probably a plis trust between Law Enforcement and communities. And thats our challenge. Again if you are interested you can find out more by going on to the chps website. A violent street fight in downtown palo alto has become deadly. Two men will face charges. Neil rotroff fought with a victim outside the bar. That victim died. Mastakar is facing charges for driving the get away car. A plane just taking off from sacramento was heading to denver where Officials Say it hit several birds, a bird strike. A passenger said she heard a couple of booms then suddenly smelled smoke. You felt a jolt but not a sudden dramatic dip or the wing dipping. It was like a jolt to the plane. Boom, boom boom. And i could see the flames. Those flames coming from the engine. The pilot calmly told passengers they hit some birds and then they landed the plane back at the airport. Good job, no one hurt. Passengers rebooked on different flights. Everyone took off fine. A san jose world war ii veteran who gained unexpected National Fame last year has died. You might remember joe bell who in march was caught on video right here cheering on the pat tillman run from his front yard. He was in his army uniform to show respect for tillman killed in afghanistan. You see here one by one, runners started veering off the street to shake his hand. Nbc nightly news named this clip one of the most inspiring viral videos of 2014. In the months that followed bell was named grand marshal of the fourth of july parade and got his own giants baseball trading card. Bell died at his home yesterday. He was 95 years old. What an honor for those folks to have shaken his hand. Nice video. Jeff outside, so hazy. We are having a hard time getting rid of this pollution. Even though we had sunny skies for just a little bit, it was hard to see it through the haze. We still have poor air quality in the north bay, San Francisco trivalley peninsula. Tomorrows forecast unfortunately, another spare the air day in effect. It does not look like pollution will be improving too much. And temperatures will stay in low to mid 60s for the most part. Dont expect a lot of sunshine. Another weak storm system keeps areas of cloud cover here across the bay area. We take knew that forecast and can you see for the air pollution, itll be worse in the north bay, also the south bay. Moderate levels here for the pe flins la and for the east bay. As we head through the next several days average will be moderate here throughout the region. No good levels expected throughout the day. If you want be a at least sun to shine through the pollution, if you can get a little bit of blue sky, it willing on sundays forecast. Temperatures in the 60s for the south bay. Cloudy sunday. Sun breaks on monday. Temperatures dont change much. We are expecting upper 50s to low 60s. Pushing toward sunnier conditions as we head throughout mondays forecast for the forecast. Coming up in about 25 minutes, full details in the forecast and we may actually get rain fall to clear out that pollution. Okay thanks jeff. Still ahead, 49ers player turned security guard. This operation really changed my life for the better. Calling it her miracle surgery. The operation at stanford that this teenager says changed her life. President obama wants itto make college more affordable. But where will the money come from . Ring ring progresso i cant believe im eating bacon and rich creamy cheese before my sisters wedding well its only 100 calories, so youll be ready for that dress uhhuh. You dont love the dress . I love my sister. 40 flavors. 100 calories or less. You say avocado old el paso says. Zesty chicken and avocado tacos in our stand n stuff tortillas. record scratch you say stand n stuff tortillas old el paso says. Start somewhere fresh a lot of smiles at stanford today. Years of pain, discomfort and embarrassment. But today, no more. Specialists on the east coast said she couldnt help her. So a connecticut teenager found a stealth surgeon at stanford who could help. Born with one neck muscle tighter than the other, a problem that became more painful and disfiguring as she grew up. Several specialists said they couldnt fix the problem. But she went online and found a surgeon at stanford that said she could help her. By cutting this we could get her to cut up straight like this. Dia small incision in the armpit of the skin of the armpit and then tunnelled up under the skin using endo scopic equipment. Really the best, you know, present ive ever received in my whole life. Every birthday and christmas, i would be wishing for this. Amazing way to start off the new year. Jennifers condition made her feel ugly and she would keep her head lower so people wouldnt notice. Now as she returns to college, she can literally hold her head high. She says next to living a pain free life she is looking forward yoegto yoga. A total number of cases of measles has come to 12. Only one was vaccinated against the disease. People were exposed at local hospitals and the lab. Measles are highly contagious. Most people in america are vaccinated and that is the best prevention. A threestory bloomingdales is coming to Valley Fair Mall and is expected to open under 2017. It will bring some 250 jobs with it. Itll be the third bloomingdales in the bay area. There is one in San Francisco and one in the stanford Shopping Center. Macys owns the bloomingdales chain. Cooperville Shopping Center will be closed and restructuring closing 14 macys stores nationwide. So three bloomingdales to choose from. Three. Nice. A blood bath in paris today. Two standoffs. More gun battles. Four more innocent lives lost. But the main terror suspects killed. Ill have the latest on frances deadliest attack in five decades and the female accomplice still on the run tonight. Police working on the first homicide case of the year. The people they are looking for. A remarkable thing has happened. Over a million californians have gotten something thats been out of reach for far too long. Health insurance. How . They enrolled through covered california. 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