have details next. parts of the east coast at a standstill as the new winter storm rolls in. the federal government shut down and it will affect people here as well. >> we've got showers rolling in just to the north of the north bay this morning, about 20 miles away, as we head throughout the day, showers will start to move into the south and i can tell you right now, we've got a wet weekend ahead. stick around. your full forecast is in moments. >> those low clouds are drifting around as clouds will tend to do. we'll see where you can see the road and where you'll have a little problem coming up. a live look outside, it's thursday, february 13th, foggy day. this is "today in the bay." >> good morning everyone. thanks for joining us. i'm scott mcgrew. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. we begin with breaking news we're following. two people hurt, dozens evacuated when a high-rise near san francisco state fought fire

this morning. it started about 12:30 on a 12-story complex. "today in the bay's" christie smith is live in san francisco. have people been allowed to return home? they're probably cold outside. >> reporter: yes, good morning to you. they have. we're talking about 200 or so people back in their apartments, most of them. firefighters are saying no one has requested help from the red cross finding a place to stay, after a rough night, these people being rattled out of their beds by a fast-moving fire, in this 12-story apartment building firefighters say burned hot and kick on camdon drive near san francisco state. flames were shooting from a sixth floor uninit the back. the building is blackened where that was. on the way here it escalated, reports of oxygen tanks exploding here at the park

merceda apartments and they had to dispatch more units because of that. firefighters helped two people out of that sixth floor unit, two people injured, one needing oxygen. with such a large building, the concern getting everyone out safely. >> it's a high-rise building, requires evacuation, that's one of the big efforts we have to do, evacuate the personnel because of the smoke. precautionary measures we took to evacuate the building. >> reporter: the extent of their injury is not clear but two people were transported. dozens of residents evacuated or sheltered in place, they got out bringing what they could, their pets, their cats, their dogs. back home we're told there is damming to that sixth floor unit and possibly some water damage on the fifth floor. at this point the cause of this fire is still under investigation. reporting live in san francisco, christie smith, "today in the bay." >> good thing they're back in, thanks, christie.

the case against a man accused of kidnapping and killing 15-year-old sierra lamar is in court today. peggy bunker joins us with what will happen in court. >> a lot of relief for the famently now that angeline garcia torres has been indicted for the disappearance and murder of 15-year-old sierra lamar. the family has been waiting for two years and will finally see progress after the disappearance of their daughter. the arrest came after sierra's dna was found in his car. in the two years following that arrest garcia torres never entered a plea, holding you. the process. with tuesday's grand jury indictment the case can move forward without a plea in place. >> languished for a while. i'm not happy that it's languished. but i think that this will speed up the process. >> the other painful part for

sierra's family, garcia torres refused to tell the family about the whereabouts of her body. the sheriff's office told nbc bay area they were not looking for sierra's body in hidden bay lake but conducting training exercises. they retracted that statement and said they were acting on a tip. finding tsierra's body is crucil to the prosecution. >> the grapd jury said there was enough evidence to take this case to a trial. that does not mean that this case can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt and that's the key at a jury trial. >> the lake we just showed you is critical. garcia torres used to fish at hidden farm lake and of course the sheriff says they will be continuing to search for sierra's body across the country. divers unfortunately did not find anything as they searched that lake but they say they are going to continue to look. also finally after that arrai arraignment that will take place

this afternoon lawrence scott the district attorney will ask the case be scheduled for trial. that's the holdup getting the case scheduled and it looks like that will happen this afternoon. so a bit of relief for sierra's family. >> exactly. fresh off her visit to sochi, where she led the u.s. del dpaegation at the olympic opening ceremony janet in napolitano back in california. the new uk berkeley president will be taking a tour. she faced opposition from students and staff during her nomination for the post. they were angry about her record as head of homeland security. they say more than 2 million undocumented immigrants were deported under her watch. and now to the 2014 sochi games and snowboarding has a new golden girl, 24-year-old kaitlyn farrington shocked just about everybody. >> "today in the bay's" janelle

wang is live in sochi. >> it was a cinderella story underdog kaitlin fairington wins the gold medal, she was the last american to qualify for the half pipe snowboarding olympic team for the women and made it at the last minute. winning the gold surprised her family and herself. the 21-year-old boarded perfectly and posted a high score on her final run but still had six boarders after her including three former gold medalists but when they all finished their runs, her score held up and she won the gold medal. i just spoke to her one on one pun kaitlyn congratulations on the gold medal. this is not what you expected coming to sochi. >> no, i was just happy to make the team and it took at least a week for that to sink in that i had made the team so now i just can't even believe that i'm walking out of here with a gold medal. >> reporter: you grew up in

idaho near sun valley and they had to sell off cows to support your snowboarding career. >> my parents were selling cows to support my snowboarding early in my career and now i don't think they miss those cows. >> reporter: it has definitely paid off. there to congratulate her, the original favorite in this event, four-time olympian and snowbo d snowboardisnowboar snowboardisnowboar snowboarding legend kelly clark, she won bronze last night. adding to her collection of gold in bronze. >> it was a tough night for me coming back from a first run fall but to be able to rally under that pressure is amazing. >> reporter: you're only 30 years old and called a legend. what do you think of that? >> when they say the 30-year-old veteran it always makes me laugh a little bit, but i guess we don't know what the life expectancy is of a snowboarder. >> reporter: as for kaitlyn she has a hockey ticket for tonight

but those plans are scratched because she has a gold medal appearance to go to and the "today" show appearance. janelle wang, "nbc bay area news." >> bet she could buy the cows back. that could be a good one. olympic coverage tonight, gold medal finals in the men's 20k b biathlon and team relay in the luge and men's figure skating short program, women's skeleton and men's slopestyle skiing gold final and women's 1,000 meter speed skating. coverage starts for prime time at 8:00. >> always fun to watch. 5:08. meteorologist christina loren watching that radar with a look at the forecast. >> good morning to you laura and scott and good morning to you at home. we're still in the heart of a drought and we need any rain that we can get, especially if it can accumulate and

three-quarter of an inchtally between now and sunday. right now the showers are still to the north of santa rosa but they are going to arrive in their neck of the woods by 6:26 this morning. make sure you're ready. it might be slick up there and the north bay after accumulating over a foot of rainfall in napa you may not be that happy about the return of the rain but it's not going to be heavy until sunday so at least that might comfort you. take a look at your seven-day forecast at the bottom of your screen you'll notice we're talking about rain chances not just this weekend, we're talking about rain for just about every single day next week, which is also ski week so you want to keep that in mind headed up there with your kids you will need the chains. 51 degrees in san francisco to kick off a thursday or a friday eve if you like to think of it like us. 50 degrees in the north bay, south bay at 51 degrees headed towards the 70s. so yes, not going to feel like january out there later on or february for that matter. it will feel more like an april

or march afternoon. 71 degrees in the east bay, 62 in san francisco, and 68 degrees along the peninsula and yes the cherry blossoms already starting to make an appearance. as we head throughout the day today this is what we're expecting, storm track sits to our north, pretty much stay there is all day long. few isolated showers moch into sonoma county, 5:00 p.m. saturday we stap right back into the atmospheric river hopefully accumulating decent totals. whole thing clears out sunday at 3:00 a.m. the bottom of your screen more rain for next week and we could be talking about additional inches of rain between monday and tuesday. i'll talk about that in my next report. you might be trying to get out the front door. here's mike to help you out. >> christina is talking about the cloud system coming through and we see changes on the

peninsula, this is palo alto. we have less and less visibility of the roadway, on the roadway you'll get glimpses of fog, fog will take away glimpses of the roadway i guess would be the real situation. 101 north of the university there. not indicated by the green we often see on the traffic and road weather index around the bay reporting a clear view, our cameras are spotting low clouds drifting through from time to time. oakland area traffic slows a little slower as well coming up past the coliseum. we're seeing the traffic dip up through the hills watch 580. back to you. >> thanks, mike. 5:11, the bay area's tech company finding new ways to work. >> the east coast slammed with another winter storm triggering flight cancellations. live outside of sfo with how it could affect you coming up.

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just about an hour ago comcast announced a major deal with time warner cable. bertha coombs is live at cnbc headquarters with the details. good morning. >> good morning, scott. this is a very big deal in media. comcast, which is the parent company of cnbc, nbc universal and this station has struck a deal to buy time warner cable for about $44 billion in stock, about 45 actually. the deal will create the nation's largest cable provider with more than 33 million subscribers. it's expected to face a tough regulatory review from the fcc, though. comcast, brian roberts, ceo of the company, telling cnbc this morning that they are willing to give up about 3 million subscribers to alleviate regulators' concerns. that would leave the combined

company with control of 30% of the national able market. time warner cable recently rejected a takeover from rival charter communications because it was too low. if the deal is approved by regulators it will give comcast markets not just in boston and philadelphia, houston, but also new york and los angeles. biggest markets that time warner has. taking a look at the futures, looks like we're still on pace to open down about 50 points on the dow. scott? >> bertha coombs live at cnbc, thank you much. >> 5:15, happening now a storm that turned atlanta into an icy ghost town and highways in the carolinas into parking lots. it is now headed north. washington, d.c., is in the thick of it all. the federal government actually closed this morning as that storm moves in and the icy mess means bigger mess at airports across the country, including right here in the bay area. "today in the bay's" rob redell is live at sfo with latest here.

good morning. >> reporter: good morning, laura. if you look at the picture nationwide this is billed as one of the worst travel days in years. we spoke earlier with the duty manager here at sfo, they tell us that almost 50 inbound and outbound flights have already been canceled this morning at sfo and here's the problem. you're looking at new video from reagan national, washington, d.c., you can see this storm on the east coast has blanketed that airport with snow, suspending operations there and at dulles, causing problems for travelers here on the west coast. let's just again look at the big picture, more than 5,000 flights have been canceled between monday and wednesday nationwide. airlines have already scratched another almost 4,600 flights just for today, that includes 13 departures, 34 arrivals between sfo and airports from raleigh up to boston. it should be noted not all flights have been canceled to the northeast from sfo, at least not yet, which is why this passenger is a little nervous.

so you're headed to washington, d.c. >> yes. >> reporter: do you think you'll make it? >> i surely hope so, with the stormy weather. >> reporter: have you checked the boards? >> they say it's on time so far but i don't know yet. i still have like three or four hours before the flight. i'm hoping that nothing cancels. >> reporter: are you a gambling man? >> no. >> reporter: this winter storm has been unusual, dumping snow in atlanta, six inches of snow in charlotte, which is unusual for that part of the company -- country, excuse me and shutting down the federal government in washington, d.c., with several more inches on the way. yesterday the snow canceled 50 xart durs out of sfo but we have not seen passengers camping out at the terminals stuck here. it's hard to tell if they went to their homes, hotels, or found a different flight rude. bob redell, "today in the bay." >> extraordinary. you have to feel sorry for the east coast. it's about four storms major ones now. we continue to motor along just

fine. good morning,/l christina loren. >> yes, the picture is improving for us, scott and laura, because we need the rain and it is in the forecast. this will mostly impact the north bay in santa rosa but as we head through sunday we're expecting widespread rainfall across the greater bay area and then getting into next week, we bring that storm track right back and that atmosphere comes along with it. this is what we're working with today. santa rosa is looking good right now, no shower activity, do find plenty of low clouds, all across the bay area, at this point, not a lot of fog but plenty of low clouds out there that morning. it's going to limit your sunshine for the first part of the day and lightly force flight delays out of sfo. those usually come in at about 6:00 a.m. 62 degrees in san francisco later on. 65 degrees in the north bay. looking good in the south bay at 70 degrees for today and 68 degrees along the peninsula. thanks for moving that camera,

mike, getting so fogged in hard to keep track of where that camera is. i appreciate that mike inouye. he'll be along with your drive in a moment. your valentine's day is looking pretty good for outdoor plans especially areas to the south of that golden gate bridge. we'll hit about 68 degrees in the south bay, the peninsula looking good at 65. san francisco 58 degrees and a little bit of drizzle in your forecast. east bay is at 68 and 61 degrees in the north bay, with the full moon tomorrow night. very appropriate. as we head throughout the next couple days, we're going to keep that storm track to our north and then by saturday into sunday it comes back and i want to make sure you're aware of this, because of course it's a holiday weekend you want to make outdoor plans. stop the clock at 5:00 p.m. on saturday where we're expecting showers to start up in the north bay as we head throughout the overnight hours saturday into sunday a lot of shower activity moves into the south bay while you're sleeping and we should be nice and clear by about k a.3:0 a.m. hooer's mike inouye and your morning drive. >> feel free to move anything

you want while i'm talking. sorry about that. the south bay moves slowly as traffic flows northbound for the commute, all the construction crews for 101, 680, they've all cleared from the overnight work, 880 at stevens creek just. and the peninsula flows nicely. the orange is creeping in, that means the averages have come down our road weather index, fog night be an issue for 280 around highway 84. i will look 10 is slowing and the clouds sinking down becoming a fog situation just right here between university and the dumb barton bridge headed over there on willow or university or highway 84 as we talked about. slow toward the east bay, the trivalley you have a smoother drive, no problems 580 westbound, a gentle build through livermore, 50-mile-per-hour on average the overnight road crews clearing from tracy, that's better news for that area. toward the approach to the bay

bridge smooth drive down the east shore freeway, 24, 580 and 880, the bay bridge toll plaza no real backup and no real problems, throughout the north bay we're not registering with the nothing either but as we showed live, we have the fog impeding the few from the camera, westbound 80 moves smoothly. >> thank you so much, mike. a small step forward in the plans to build a new a's stadium. the port of oakland advising its board of directors to reject three proposals for howard terminal at tonight's meeting. if the board agrees the port could recommend to start negotiations with the team of businessmen who want to transform the terminal into a stadium. the business group pushed for a waterfront stadium that could spur nearby development. a's co-owner lou wolfe said the site is not feasible. the u.s. luger who shot to fame with her interesting warmup team getting support from a big named celebrity.

>> you may remember this video, kate hansen liked to warm up to beyonce, busting out some moves before every run, she says it's beyonce and no one else that gets her going. >> beyonce posted on her facebook a picture of her and "go kate." hansen heard it and was ecstatic. after the break we'll go back live to janelle wang in sochi with behind the scenes look at the olympic village.

5:24 in the morning for us. 5:24 in the late afternoon in sochi. live look at the olympics game burning. temperatures downright balmy on the coast and up on the

mountain. >> let's go back to janelle wang. it doesn't feel like the winter games out there, does it? >> reporter: no, it's like the spring games, it's been like this since yesterday, the mid-60s here, it's going to be like this for the next two days. the weather is so warm people are out in their shorts and t-shirts, swimming in the black sea. they call this the russian riviera. it is the perfect time to be here. some of the athletes up on the mountains not too happy about the slushier conditions. one of the most popular spots the usa house where you can find the usa merchandise and insider at the store tells me they didn't think they were going to sell that much this time because the state department advised americans not to wear usa gear or usa colors but this stuff is flying off store shelves. americans proudly wearing their red, white and blue. americans admitted when they

first got here they're nervous and now they feel safe and secure. my friend who works at the usa house has been here all week today is her last day she koi coincidentally e-mailed her, "so much fun here, so safe, president putin did a great job, best games i've ever been to and this is games number four." so they're getting out enjoying the beautiful weather. >> so good to hear. >> thanks so much, janelle. for everything you want to know about the games on sochi, visit us online at nbcbayarea.com and click on the olympics tab and you'll find profiles on all our local athletes as well as janelle wang's block from sochi. when seth myers takes over for "late night" he'll have a powerful first guest. >> vice preside >> vice president joe biden is scheduled to appear for the premier. fimy fa

jum jimmy fallon will be the front man for "the tonight show." >> first lady will be a guest on akñ new show which day would y debuts on monday. we're looking towards a really good looking day today, sunshine and 70s for most of the bay area but everything is slated to change. look at what's on the way, potentially 0.75" of rainfall in santa rosa over the course of your weekend. we'll help you plan around the showers in your full forecast. before we get to that sunshine and 70s you got to get through low clouds and your work day. the san mateo bridge, some crowd building and we'll talk about where your visibility is changing coming up. ♪

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early morning fire, at least two people taken to the hospital. good morning to you and thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm scott mcgrew. the fire started after midnight at a six-story complex on cambon drive just blocks from san francisco state. "today in the bay's" christie smith is live in san francisco with the latest. >> reporter: good morning to you. things are getting back to normal. most residents, 200 or so people are back in their apartments at this hour after being rattled from their building hearing their apartment was on fire right in the middle of the building where it was burning. this is a 12-story building and firefighters say that this started before 1:00 this morning with residents seeing the flames pouring from a sixth floor unit window in the rear of the building. these are apartments at park merced near san francisco state on cambon drive. on the way in it escalated, they

got reports of oxygen tanks exploding. dozens of people evacuated, some of them sheltered in place, stayed away from the fire, two people injured in all this, at least one of them needed oxygen at the scene. flames were still coming from that sixth floor unit. >> aggressively attacking the fire, one unit, we evacuated two residents from that unit and contained the fire to that. it was out pretty quick. >> reporter: those two people were transported. the extent of their injuries unknown. the resident didn't have much time to get out, they grabbed their precious pets, cats, dogs, waited for the all clear to return and firefighters are telling us that no residents requested any help from the red cross. mainly the damage was contained to the one unit so it's possible there was some water damage on the fifth floor. the cause of this fire is still

under investigation. reporting live in san francisco, christie smith, "today in the bay." the man accused of killing and kidnapping 15-year-old sierra lamar moves forward today, garcia torres will be arraigned today. he was indicted tuesday by a santa clara county grand jury. lamar was last seen in march of 2012 after she left her home in morgan hill. she never made it to school that day and her body was never found. garcia torres was indicted for several violent attacks on south bay women in 2009. coming up at 6:00 peggy bunker will have more details on what we could hear in court today. to the sochi games where we are just learning the start of training runs for twomen bobsled after a worker was hit by a

tractor trailer. he is alive. four-runner sleds are used before competition to make sure the track is safe for racing. crews are making repairs to the ice right now. u.s. men's hockey team started its quest for gold. the game is on nbc sports network. sharks joe pavelski among the players on the ice for team usa in their first game silence slovakia. the u.s. is leading 3-1 in the second period. players say it's nice to get the olympics going. >> i'm excited to get to the game. >> and defenseman brooks orpik was born in san francisco and grew up on the east coast. team canada gets under way this morning, they play norway that n their opening games starts at 9:00 a.m. on the usa network. >> a lot of events happened while you were sleeping, event we'll put on television later today so if you're one of those people who can't wait, you can look. there will be a preview here. >> spoiler alert. if you'd rather wait until

tonight close your eyes and wait for the music to end. ♪ ♪ >> does that work for you? do you really close your eyes? take a selfie and send it to me. just curious. it's safe to come on back. well a deadly and intensifying winter storm packing heavy snow, sleet and rain, pelting a human part of the east coast this morning. the icy mess made a bigger mess at airports across the country including here in the bay area.

bob redell is live at sfo with the latest. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning, laura. not a great day to travel trying to get between sfo and the northeast. here is the arrival board. there's a lot of cancellations, these are between sfo and basically the d.c. and new york area and if you're trying to get out of town, the same problem. here are cancellations, these are trying to get to newark, jfk, as we look down here, dulles, washington dulles and t operations suspended because of snow. if you look at the numbers sfo already canceled almost 50 flights or the airlines canceled almost 50 flights, just for today alone. that's on top of the almost 70 that were canceled yesterday and because you had cancellations yesterday you can do the lodge knick your head, if the airplane isn't here to get the people out, well then you have cancellations today so they have to do catchup from yesterday as well. you have a combination of catching up and the weather on

northeast, we've had this winter storm that forced the cancellations including today of almost 10,00^kv flights nationwide. this is a storm that hit the southeast, we're talking about atlanta, which again that's not an area normally that gets snow. traveled up to charlotte, six inches of snow there again not used to having that much snow and now it's over the northeastern area where i mentioned washington reagan national and dulles, those airports are suspending operations at least for the time being until the snow at least clears out and the federal government there is shut down so you just got, what's happening on the east coast is obviously affecting people here on the west coast, as we are talking about earlier, though, when we walk through the terminals here at sfo we're not seeing a lot of people coming out, we're assuming that they, like smart travelers, have checked ahead and found out their flights were canceled and they shouldn't bother showing up at least not right now. reporting live at sfo, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thanks a lot, bob. "today in the bay's" tracy

potts is outside braving the cold this morning. washington is shut down because of that storm moving in. tracy is going to join us with a live report in about five minutes. >> i know there's chaos in north carolina, pictures of cars off the road. >> people had to stock up on food and everything, supplies. >> absolutely amazing. christina loren joins us with a good california forecast. >> a really good looking california forecast. you know with us we are in a drought. we have a lot of rainfall in the near future which is great news for our california farmers. we do feed the world with our agricultural products. taking a live look at san francisco, a little bit of fog out there that morning. keep that in mind. travel cautiously. temperatures in the 50s. 52 degrees in san francisco, right here in beautiful san jose, 52 degrees to kick off the day with some microclimate changes i really want to make you aware of. south bay will hit 70 degrees. lots of sunshine headed our way. there is this storm system hovering just to the north of

the golden gate bridge and as a result we're going to see a strong onshore flow, temperatures in the mid-60s in the north bay, low 60s san francisco with plenty of clouds and showers isolated and mostly up in sonoma county. more widespread rainfall as we head into this weekend. tomorrow is a pretty important day for all the lovers out there. remind you with unmore time it is valentine's day tomorrow and that means you have more time to then just run to the 7-eleven and we know when you guys just run to the 7-eleven. 68 degrees in the south bay. 65 along the we nips la. north bay 61 degrees, full moon for valentine's day night. now your wife is an attorney, mike, so you really aren't going to be able to run that path. >> she's not an attorney but she's attorney smart, for our friends who are attorneys we don't want them insulted. she's smart and knows the difference between cvs and 7-eleven as well. to our peninsula a smooth flow

of traffic. if it is impeding your drive and on the ground it's fog. the roof top camera and 101 you might get stuck with a path because it will sink around as clouds tend to do. the map and the speed sensor no delays reported for your commute, the arrow pointing to the area we just looked at our camera. san jose, south bay in general showing a smooth flow. we'll get that start to build over the next couple of minutes. overall we don't see fog registers consistently for our weather index around the bay. the trivalley looking at the speeds, a smooth drive slow of course through dublin. live look will show you a clear view of what's getting to be not so clear of a drive, congestion, oakland shows you also this part of the east bay low clouds starting to drift through. visibility might become an issue across the bay bridge. >> thank you much, mike. uber is making changes to how it fixes drivers after a string of accidents.

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look at this, traffic just at a standstill in charlotte, north carolina this morning, sleet and freezing rain making the roads so difficult to maneauer some people ditched their cars on highway 7 had out there. others found other ways home, the scene playing out all over the east coast. "today in the bay's" tracy potts is live in washington, d.c., in the middle of the snow where the government is shut town for the day. tracy? >> reporter: the government shut down, the airports are closed, the schools are closed. people are told to stay at home. several inches of snow depending on whether you're in the district, five, six, seven inches or further out where one outlying county e-mailed and said to expect between 12 and 16

inches of snow, that's because we've got more coming tonight. right now it's a wintry mix falling with fine rain and the snow is expected to come back later this evening. you saw what happened down south as of this morning they had half a million people without power and people who had just gotten home after spending hours out in all of that traffic. now it's moving up this way and from here it's headed up the coast, philadelphia got a big snow dump this morning. new york, new england, boston, they're all next. >> all right, tracey potts, thank you so much. we look at video of what's going on out there. >> they're having a tough go. 5:43 right now. in the meantime in sochi, much warmer there, another big day for the olympic games, team usa could wrack up more medals. here is where the united states stands in the medal counts.

three gold, one silver and five bronze. but there's a lot of anticipation for one of the brand new olympic sports, slopestyle free skate. >> "today in the bay's" janelle wang is live in sochi with a preview of what to expect. good morning. >> reporter: yes, team usa not doing so well so far, only three gold medals but tonight in prime time that could all change with the olympic debut of slopestyle free skate, men's free so skig, four american skiers could contend for a medal led by 19-year-old nick goepper from indiana, the 2013-2014 x games champion. i interviewed him and he said he's so excited to be here at his first olympic games. skied skating the american women will try to win their first medal in the sport since the 2 to 2 salt lake city gam2002 gam.

the women have finished one and two respectively in the world cup standi inings and the two a good friends, training partners and roommates in park city, utah, so it will be great if they can both medal tonight. also men's figure skating, jeremy abbott on team usa is looking for redemption after a terrible fall in the short program last weekend and the new figure skating team event american teammate jason brown debuts tonight. they have major competition from russia, yevgeny plyushenko. the ice is heating up and so is the weather. people gathering at the park enjoying the day. scott and laura back to you. >> amazing, more snow in washington and its than at the games. >> thanks a lot. >> catch the olympic excitement

here on nbc bay area. >> starting at 3:00 this afternoon, we will have gold medal finals in the 20 kilometer men's biathlon and the team relay in the luge. >> janelle talked about prime time 8:00 tonight short program in men's figure skating and the women's skeleton and gold medal finals in men's slopestyle skiing and the thousand meters in women's speed skating. >> fun to watch. 5:46, you're getting ready for the day. check in with meteorologist christina loren with the forecast. >> a lot of kids have next week off for ski week so they're getting into their final days at school. i bet they're excited about that break and you know what? just in time for ski week we're going to get more snow along the see yessia nevada, mostly along the higher elevations. we'll talk about that coming up. right now we're tracking a little bit of shower activity to the north of sonoma county. it will press into sonoma county as we head throughout the next hour, 6:53, expecting light

showers in santa rosa. for the most part showers north of marin county all day long. i don't think the showers will push south of the golden gate bridge for today. temperatures will reflect the we'll end up in the 70s in the south bay. lot of sunshine down here for the second half of the day. plenty of clouds in san francisco that will limit your sunshine and keep your temperature to 62 degrees. remember we know you want instand tapious information and that's why we give you your seven-day forecast at the bottom of the screen. maybe you want to see what's in store for ski week it's there throughout all of my weather reports and we pinpointed what to expect. as we head through the next couple days the storm track just to the north of sonoma county. we'll hit 70 today, valentine's day looking good for outdoor plans in both major cities, 68 degrees in san jose but much cooler in san francisco, ten degrees cooler at 58 degrees. saturday we bring in the showers

starting saturday afternoon, in san francisco, we'll stay mostly dry in san jose, and sunday showers spread into the south bay and looking good for rainfall as we head through sunday all across the board. then on monday presidents day, rain returns to the forecast, tuesday, wednesday and thursday of next week, and we could be tallying up significant totals even before we get that next round of rain monday into tuesday. this is what we're expecting, maybe 0.05" from the first system in the north bay. 0.75 inch monday and it lasts into thursday. as promised here's mike inouye and your drive. >> good morning, christina. talking about the increasing moisture and the systems coming in. we see the effect of that. this is the san mateo bridge, i've been losing the view trying to track it. glad section here there is a sign indicating eastbound traffic the speed that you're getting over to the bay.

we're losing a little visibility here and look at the map and see that overall eight not registering on our weather index. the clouds are drifting through not holding the averages down enough to cause an issue as far as the sensors are concerned. that's why you have us to interpret that data. northbound 101 shows a bit of slowing as we approach the 6:00 hour on this thursday. we see the slow approaching 60 and continuing up toward 880. 87 will follow suit oef the next few minutes. over here smooth drive through the trivalley and no problems there. southbound slow coming from 84 but typical visibility in this area it's fine including the sunol grade moving nicely. over here a little slowing, fender bender northbound 880 to the shoulder. 580 no delays, and approaching the bay bridge toll plaza a smooth flow, no delays. back to you. >> thanks so much. flowers and candles light a

sidewalk outside a popular bay all in remembrance of a bouncer who was stabbed to death. more than 100 people attended the vigil for ryan vieri. he was not on the clock at johnny v's nightclub yesterday morning. man carrying a case of knives had just been asked to leave the bar, and vieri was leaving at about the same time. vieri was found stabbed on the corner of first and santa clara. one person was arrested. it is the third stabbing in downtown san jose in just a week. city council approved overtime for five additional officers to patrol downtown. popular ride sharing company uber is expanding its screening and background checks as part of the program all new driver also undergo federal and county checks on top of existing criminal database checks. existing ride share users will also be subject to expanded checks. uber came under fire last month after a 6-year-old girl was allegedly hit and killed by a company driver in a san

francisco crosswalk new year's eve. the driver, 57-year-old sai said musafar said he was waiting for a fare when it happened. he maintains he was not driving for them at the time of the crash. tonight the san mateo city council meeting to discuss its search for a new city manager. susan loftus retired recently taking with her an additional $300,000 in unused sick time and vacation pay. already $200,000 a year salary. there's nothing illegal or unethical about this. it was a deal she made when she took the post. the objection is she was the only one allowed unlimited acruel and cash-out. no doubt it will be a hot topic at tonight's meeting. it's 5:51. the u.s. skier that's making it his mission to rescue some of the stray dogs on the streets of

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to the u.s. athletes. says it will donate the yogurt to local food banks. >> they have a lot of dogs. gus kenworthy wanted to come home with a medal but instead getting something much cuter. >> kenworthy posted several pictures of a pack of stray pup puppies. he's found several kennels in the united states willing to take those puppies and plans on getting them vaccinated so he can bring them home. visitors being treated to rehearsals and taping for a big lady gaga production, dancers, synchronized swimmers shooting a music video in the historic neptune pool. gaga expected to make an appearance in the next couple of days. she mow dated $200,000 to the

hurst castle. >> lady gaga is paying for the extra water. >> we will investigate. let's join christina. good morning. >> good morning. hard to tell with her sometimes she keeps that poker face. good morning to you. ah! nobody got that but me. 52 along the peninsula. i can ohm hope you're right withwith me, mike, after all tomorrow's friday so it's okay to feel good about it. good morning poto you. >> fremont slow traffic on 880 southbound, moving nicely with the headlights, getting a few more of them. also low clouds offering around the deck. visibility not a problem for this part of the bay. we'll look at the b is south bay. 068 and 880 will continue to build. palo alto area we're losing visibility. 101 north of university. fewer cars but lower visibility and jump to 101 in the north

bay, a clearer view but more cars, it's a tradeoff. we'll send it back to you. >> it is 5:56. our coverage of the games continues next. we'll hear from the new gold medalist whose parents didn't even think she'd win a medal. almost after two years the disappearance of morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. we'll have details in a live report. arch overnight gas explosion rocks a neighborhood in kentucky. at least two people burned in the blast. we'll have details next.

right now at 6:00 breaking news an apartment building evacuated near san francisco state university as flames ripped through two units

overnight. thanks for joining us. i'm i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm scott mcgrew. the apartment tore through on cambon drive. lot of students forced from their homes overnight, christie smith. >> reporter: the good news is most residents are back in their apartment after a scary night while they were sleeping they were rattled from their sleep to find that their apartment building a 12-story high-rise was on fire, that fire right in the middle of the building. san francisco firefighters say that on their way in before 1:00 this morning on cambon drive right near san francisco state they were getting reports that residents were seeing flames shooting from a unit on the sixth floor, and then reports of oxygen tanks exploding inside the