breaking news now at 6:00, a gold heist overnight in san francisco. the suspects on the run right now. and a south bay man being hailed as hero. how his quick actions and quick thinking saved his neighbors from a burning apartment complex. and it's bad, but not as bad as predicted. the impact of snow snowstorm on the east coast is having on bay area travelers right now. and something we need desperately around here, showers. now, this could interrupt your smooth drive this morning. we also have some fierce wind in the forecast for today. and then a warming trend. that's to go over in just moments. and a few issues for oakland. i see some flashing lights off the anymoric. and a big slowdown for 580. answer closure for one side, and the south bay, we'll get you that coming up. and christina gave a sneak

peek of her radar. showers in the peninsula. but right now a lovely start to the day in san jose, tuesday january 27th, this is "today in the bay." >> announcer: from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." good morning. and thanks for joining us on this morning. i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia-cannon this morning. >> i'm sam brock. >> stephanie chaung joins us live from the scene. >> reporter: so far, no one was injured. we see the tow truck, it's still trying to figure out the way to

get that suv, that sbeuburban. and now some of that glass on the left, it's a very precarious situation because there are concerns that the structure on top may give way if there's too much force. you can see this happened around 2:00 in the morning here. inside, this is a wells fargo history museum. and there's a stage coach. on the website, it's actually one used in the 1860s on display. behind it, a lot of counters. there were artifacts displayed in the counters including gold nuggets and that was confirmed with an investigator this morning. that is one of the things they're looking at was taken from this scene by suspects who were armed. we also want to update, there were earlier reports that the suspects held up at least one security guard here with an assault weapon. he's saying that was not the case. the suspects were armed but not with an assault weapon. so the question is, where are these people are.

and how much they got away with, right now, trying to deal with getting this suv out of here. that's the investigator looking at the scene. as you look up a little bit, also directly above where the suv was, you can see security cameras. and investigators are taking a look at every possible bit of evidence that they can. that is the latest from montgomery where this smash and grab occurred. >> quite a contrast there, the suv and the stage coach right next to each other. thanks, steph. also breaking news in san jose. charred vehicles now in a carport, in a fourplex, the result of an overnight fire. and this morning, a man coming home late was being called a hero for getting everybody out of that neighborhood. >> and marianne favro is live in cupertino with a happy situation. >> reporter: good morning, neighbors are calling this man a

hero. they say he was very alert. he pounded on the doors to make sure everyone got out safely. take a look at where the fire started. at one of the vehicles and quickly spread to one of the three in the carport. fortunately, the flames did not reach into the units. the seven people were evacuated from the four-unit townhomes. and firefighters say a neighbor who was coming home visiting a friend who just had a baby in the hospital, saw the flames and then sprang into action. >> this guy did everything right. i mean, he pulled up in his car. he noticed a little bit of smoke. he wasn't quite sure what he was seeing and he saw flames and that's when he thought, oh, my god, the car's on fire. he called 911. and as soon as he hung up with 911, he began knocking on the doors and woke everybody up. he got everybody out. >> reporter: investigators are trying to determine if the fire

started because of an electrical problem with one of the vehicles or if there was another cause. you can see firefighters are looking at each of the vehicles here in this carport. now residents in three of the units have been allowed to return to their homes. but one units does have water damage, so these people cannot return quite yet. reporting live, marianne favro, "today in the bay." breaking news, overseas, gunmen in libya stormed a luxury hotel killing at least three guards and five foreigners. this is an attack that happened at the quincy hotel in tripoli just along the mediterranean sea. a hotel staffer said five masked attackers wearing bulletproof vests stormed that hotel and started firing randomly in the lobby. a libyan security official says it is now under control, but they did not say what happened to the gunmen. developing right now,

powerful snowstorm smothering much of the east coast. you see the live radar there. from the realtime doppler radar. we're also going to see what it looks like outside. a live look from massachusetts. that reporter under the stick there gets ready for his live shot. parts of new york and new england could receive 30 inches of snow. but a bit of good news. so far, forecasters say it's not as bad as they first thought, at least in new york city. >> over 7,000 flights have been cancelled nationwide. and that includes some coming into and leaving the bay area. sfl's duty manager said 85 flights have been cancelled. that amounts to 36 departures, 49 arrivals, flights from new york, philadelphia, newark, boston also impacted. we're awaiting for san jose. >> an umbrella couldn't hurt

depends on where you're living right now. let's check with christina tracking the rain quickly coming up. >> hey, good morning to you. yeah, very light shower activity. i don't think we actually need to carry the umbrella. maybe breaking out the versace, that designer gear, yeah, go ahead and grab it. we don't want you to ruin those expensiive duds. the showers just start to work their way into the south bay and maybe east bay getting a little more action as well. temperatures look at these numbers this morning. in the 60s to kick off the day. 61 degrees in south bay. 63 on the peninsula. 64 degrees right now in san francisco. on our way to the upper 60s all across the board. it's going to be mild out there. kind of a damp day. warm, breezy an damp. watch out for wind as well. if you have morning hours, that wind will be by its strongest by the evening. cooler day on the way tomorrow.

that warming returns, we're going to hit the 70s again into the weekend. more on that coming up in just minutes. back to you. today, the san francisco board of supervisors is set to approve a nearly $3 million payment to the family of a woman whose body was found in a stairwell. the city reached this deal with elaine spalding's family last month. spalding was found in the stairwell of sf general 17 days after she disappeared from her hospital room. this was back in 2013. the payment will be sent to spalding's two adult children. >> happening today, doctors at the university of california's student health centers are walking off the job this morning. the doctors unionized in 2013, and they're getting contract talks with u.c. the union claims the university is not giving them information that they need to bargain for their contract. the student health center will remain staffed during the

strike, though some nonemergency procedures have been cancelled. san jose leaders are looking at what they can do to make a well traveled road a little safer. that's where a jogger was hit and killed in yerba buena road just blocks away from silver creek high school. neighbors say it sounded like the two cars were racing. something they say happens a lot where they live. police arrested the two drivers and booked them on vehicular manslaughter charges. and also a charge of reckless driving. neighbors want more safety measures on that road. >> right now, you would like to hopefully speed up your commute to work this morning, mike. >> we'll show you what we have on the drive around the bay, sam and kris. take a look at the bay. this toll plaza where we have all the lanes blocked by the metering lights -- actually not blocked. held up there. you look at the maps, we're showing a pretty smooth drive on the approach.

top of the screen, east shore, a little slow in your commute direction. look over to the right itself, that red triangle, westbound 580. that megaphone, that's where the coliseum is shouting out there's a gayle tonight. but a vehicle on the shoulder of northbound 580. it has cleared. west 580 has a slow. one lane blocked by keller avenue. with an kreearlier crash. towards the trivalley, west 580. southbound 680, and a crash, that looks close to the shoulder. it's not completely off the roadway. this is typical for the trivalley. and as we move farther south, we're looking at 152 that has one-way traffic control continuing overturned big rig with 30,000 pounds of glass

there. we're worried about the roadway, having one direction at a time flowing from casa de fruta. and i-5. the rest of the south bay looks nice as well. just that one incident with 101. you see the volume is just building up a little bit. not a big problem. no issues from palo alto all the way from san francisco. across the golden gate bridge to the north gate. cleared again. >> that is nice to hear. who is going to win the super bowl? plenty of people have their predictions. one authority thinks it knows. the madden video game. we'll have the answer on that. plus, can a big pile of money actually end up getting you fired? we'll take a look coming up in business.

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"today in the bay." welcome back. good tuesday morning to you. i'm meteorologist christina loren. taking a live look at your radar. this might surprise you this morning. showers coming down near the golden gate bridge. we also have serious wind to tell you about before we make our way out the front dor this morning. we'll let you know how much longer this will last and how much more is expected in your neighborhood in just moments. we'll track the showers that we're continuing to talk about. so far, the roadways look fine across the san mateo bridge. a live shot here. you're going to see it build on the peninsula because all the folks heading there. and problems farther south in oakland coming up. here's today's top stories, this morning, san francisco police looking for the robbers who smashed into a bank and stole gold nuggets. this happened at the wells fargo museum in montgomery just a few hours ago. at least one security guard inside when it happen investigators are trying to

figure out what started a fire in san jose. they say it started in a c carport. and burned three vehicles. a man on his way home banged on the doors. and the country awaits super bowl xlix. we'll hear from the players and the coaches ahead of the big game. the new england patriots arrived in phoenix for the super bowl yesterday ahead of the storm in the east. and the seattle seahawks got there on sunday. all right. lots of predictions about who is going to win the super bowl. let's go to something more scientific kind of. each year, redwood city tries to project the winner of the super bowl through madden football. >> and last year, they were about as wrong as can be. >> holy cow were they wrong. they they predicted the broncos. the broncos was so bad they

fumbled the ball on the first play. madden said it will be the patriots who win this year. there's going to be a squeaker. seattle will lead at the half, the patriots, they win 28-24. when madden is right, it's very right. let me take you back two years ago, in the 49ers versus the ravens. this is a man gave ahead of time and predicts there would be only one interception in the whole game. it will be in every pick of the kaepernick pass. and it would change the entire outcome of the game. and you know what, that's exactly what happened. in real life. it's hard to predict what marissa mayer will do today. all eyes on the ahead of yahoo!. she's going to explain how the company's going to handle that enormous windfall from yahoo!'s investment from alibaba. can they structure the deal to

avoid huge american profits. investors own the company, why shouldn't they get it but then again, it's meyer's job and yahoo! is getting bigger and better, she'd like to keep it and reinvest it. does it mean she pays too much in taxes? let's be frank here, investors are going to try to get her fired. so this is a very serious day for yahoo! and marissa mayer. >> she's making a bunch of money to make the right choice. >> she's well paid to make the right choice and i'm quite concern it will be the right move for yahoo!. back now to the story right now. much of the east coast getting smothered with heavy snow and strong winds. this is out of portland maine. this is not nearly as structure as forecasters predicted.

right now, you can see the front of the storm heading towards maine. 7,000 flights nationwide impacted. that includes 90 into and out of sfl. and the wind is the major story this morning, christina has been talking about that and light showers as we take a live look outside to the bay bridge. things looking fairly calm, christina. >> you know what, it's california and we have some rain. we in the midst of a drought. so, yeah, they have their problems, we have ours over here as well. 6:18 now. we almost broke a record in san francisco without any rain so far this month. if we didn't get any rain today, and i think we are going to, it would have been 150 years since that was the case no rain in san francisco in the month of january. so that's basically as far back as our records go. so what's coming through right now we need. that's one of those records you

do not want to break. now, wind is pretty strong. this will likely impact you in combination with the showers coming through for your morning drive. give yourself extra time. especially waking up with us. you live in san jose, santa cruz, the winds 26 miles per hour. up to 40 miles per hour from time to time. in combination with the showers which are organizing a little bit more at this point. we've seen pretty wet weather all the way from gilroy to san jose. mostly south of 92 for the time being. as we head throughout the day, the showers will slowly but surely work their way out to san francisco. we're not expecting a lot. enough to break what would have been seen as a record. that looks good for us. san francisco, this is all it's going to take, 0.02 inch for today. that is likely, santa rosa getting 10.01 inch.

and san jose overall in not looking too bad for us. take what we can get and a better chance as we head through the night and tomorrow morning. 60s to start. upper 60s at that. about 10 degrees above average on the peninsula. 68 degrees. 69 for the south bay. taking you into the rest of the week. and if you're starting to think about that weekend, temperatures will be nice and mild for saturday into sunday. we'll tell you what's going on around here this weekend. maybe you don't want to go to the super bowl parties. i don't know why, you're going to find that super bowl right here on nbc bay area. but it's also one of those days you can get out and about without any crowds. we'll tell you what else is going on in the next report. first, let's check out the drive with mike inouye super anchor traffic. >> i'm not going to the game either. two local teams right here, in south bay, we're looking at northbound 101, this team, of course, heading to work without

any delays, nothing unusual. and then look at your map, we're talking about the compression that typically happens at north 101 and 680 including bit time you get to the airport. farther south between gill rroyd hollist hollister. and then the other direction because of the overturned vehicle still blocking the eastbound lanes and a big issue as it has been all morning. this is casa de fruta. and 101 north, that's critical for traveling towards i-5, take 25 to 156. a couple of service streets through the area as well. an issue for you if you're traveling there. meanwhile, the rest of your day looks standard as far as your flow of traffic. to the peninsula side, john daly boulevard. as you see from the map, no slowing on the peninsula side.

typical for hayward, and the trivalley as well. we're going to zoo in on 580 westbound. and all the way past keller avenue for that crash. meanwhile over here at the coliseum, let me show you the live camera. we had a stalled vehicle on the shoulder approaching high street that has cleared up. all the way up to 880 through downtown to the bay toll plaza. back to you. >> thank you very much, mike. 6:22 now. san jose stepping up its fight against wild pigs. we'll show you what the plan is next.

>> announcer: you're watching "today in the bay." welcome back. san jose city council will be voting this evening on a law that would help fed up residents deal with wild pigs. the pigs tear up people's lawn digging for grubs. in 2013, the city council passed a similar law allowing trappers to trap and kill hogs. that law will expire next week. the council is going to vote on whether or not to make that same measure permit. parents of 30 babies of almeida county were told to keep their children at home. the allegheny county public health department told the parents to keep the infants at home to avoid further start of

the illness. the times reports that the babies did not appear to be infected but did have contact with measles patients. there are five confirmed cases in almeida county right now. in the meantime, we know know that a person with measles visited not only a costco and a walmart on a very busy weekend. but now also a dave and buster's at milpitas as well. the health department is warning people who visited that may have been exposed between 6:00 and 10:00 that night. and the same customer shopped at costco in gilroy between hours of 4:00 and 6:00. that person is one of two cases of confirmed measles. neither cases are related to the recent outbreak in disneyland. and scott is going to join

us with a look at the numbers. and the report now being tracked on the move. and a live look outside, right now, downtown san jose, kind of glistening in the early morning hours. we'll see what the rest of the day has in store for us. christina will be back with the weather forecast. mike also updates on your traffic. we'll be right back.

obviously a backup right here over my shoulder. getting there is a problem for some folks in oakland and getting out of the area for folks heading south.

could be a rough start to the business day on wall street. we've got variable goods numbers disappointed here on the opening on the nyse. and over on the nasdaq as well. folks were able to make it in through the blizzard as business gets under way. no rough start here as we take a live look outside here from the san bernard mountains, checking out the bay area, we may have a speckle or two. january 27th, this is "today in the bay." >> announcer: from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." and a very good tuesday morning, thank you for joining us, i'm sam brock. >> and i'm kris sanchez today when you hit the road, someone can be watching you. a new report said the federal government is quietly building up a database to track

drivers nationwide. tracie potts joining us from washington. tracie, tracking? >> reporter: exactly, it comes from interviews and government reports that the aclu picked up through a freedom of information act request. they get this information from the government. bottom line, when you're driving on the nation's roads and highways, the government may be tracking in realtime your license plate and then storing that information. at least up to two years. now, they're doing it up to 33 months, according to this report. started out seven years ago as a way to track criminals who are bringing drugs across the border. now, it's being used in connection with local and state police departments. according to this report, to track other types of criminals to help with amber alerts, with missing children. the government says it is all legal. but the aclu and some lawmakers on capitol hill question that. the top democrat on the

judiciary committee said there needs to be accountability here and it needs to be open. now, we're getting more details about it, likely a lot more scrutiny as we saw with the surveillance on cell phones and internet use. >> a little bit more pushback now, thank you very much, tracie potts from washington. it's 6:32, we want to take another live look from san bernard mountains. showers south of the golden gate bridge with christina loren. >> good morning, kris and sam. something we haven't seen in a while, i haven't had had to activate the doppler so far this month but i had to this month. the activity is more widespread at this point so as you make your way out, keep in mind, if you move quickly, you don't need the umbrella, but you may want to pull it out especially if you have technological gadgets with you, your ipad, you want to keep

that nice and secure. temperatures 55 degrees in the trivalley. 64 right now in san francisco. and this is a really warm system. although it could dump 2 to 6 inches of snowfall. about 7,000 feet in tahoe. we're going to talk more about that coming up in the next report. 69 degrees for the south bay. upper 60s for all of us to enjoy. let's take you to super bowl sunday. remember, you can catch that game right here on nbc area. if you're like me, you'll probably be watching for the commercials. if you're doing so in santa clara, 70 degrees, 68 in san francisco. glendale, arizona, comparable at 73 degrees. you know what, sundays are an important day. groundhogs popping out of the hole on sunday. forecast forgobbler's knob. he's going to see his shadow. six month weeks of winter. even though he's not a

meteorologist, the odds are 50/of course, mike. what do you got? >> it's better than vegas odds, punxsutawney phil, we're watching for him as well. groundhog day, it's a repeat every day, pretty much, the toll plaza. and over towards the maze, let's took at the maps. notice the approach, west 580 off of 24 and down to east shore on the top of your screen, from richmond and emeryville. now, we call your attention to oakland, though. this san issue. as we zoom into 580. westbound 580. the crash creeping for over an hour and a half. one of the vehicles overturned. and the other one waiting for a tow truck to get there. all the way up to keller avenue. by the time you reach that, 880, itself, very smooth. we're looking towards the trivalley with this map as we move towards dublin, livermore.

an easy flow of traffic. for this section of your drive, 680 south, you have a nice easy drive in towards fremont and the rest of the south bay. 880 to the top of your screen as we move to the south bay, we're looking northbound where we have the commute to san jose, slowing to just below 60 miles per hour. that will continue to build as the morning continues. we take you to the north bay, look at 101 southbound. and san rafael, over the last ten minutes, it's really going to kick up, speeds close to the speed limit but still down off of 87 coming into navarro. i'll get that right. >> all right. >> thank you, mike. obviously, snowstorms have shattered a lot of things today. not the markets, a rough open so far. >> it's not because of the snow? >> no we've expected lighter trading because of the snow.

but what we got was really bad trading. the dow industrials are down 300 points. 1.7% there. you see. what's the cause? the durable goods orders. the airport orders much lower than expected. durable goods are anything you hold on to. refrigerators are a classic example of a durable goods. and it's spoofed the markets down 300 points. and we talked about the demise of the sky mall on airlines. you did the math, one of the catalogs weighs four ounces, that's 37 pounds worth of catalogs on a 737. extend that out fleetwide, that's a lot of weight. getting rid of the magazines should save american airlines about $350,000 in a year in fuel. go figure. >> so will my flight get cheaper? >> no. >> added space would be nice with all of those magazines,

come on. >> yeah. you need more leg room, right? >> i'd say. >> you can have mine. >> thank you. 6:36 right now. still ahead, new details about who is behind that drone that caused a lockdown at the white house. a live look outside in san francisco, the illustrious bay bridge as people getting ready to start their work day. what kind of day will you be greeted with. we'll have a look at what's going on in your community coming up after the break.

>> announcer: you're watching "today in the bay." good morning to you. welcome back top take a live look at some of the lights that are heading over san jose's skyline this morning. we know that there have been some flight delays, departures, arrivals out of sfo. call ahead if you're heads out of town to the airport. the secret service said the drone that crashed into the white house grounds was just an accident. it says the drone's operator is a government employee who claims he was playing around with the drone and lost control of the device. but the secret service admits the incident raises s question about the security of white house. the president and first lady were on their way to saudi arabia. the president will meet with the new king of that country sing salman. he's the half brother of the

late king abdullah who died last week. while the united states and saudi arabia are allies, he and president had a strained relationship. today marks 70 years since the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp in poland. more than 1 million jews were killed at that site. >> 94-year-old helen farkas was forced into the camp. most of her family was executed there. as the camp was about to be liberated there. farkas and her sister escaped. and many people died along the way, but farkas and her sister escaped at night on the road. >> but if nothing happened, we started putting one foot of the other out. >> she has told her story thousands of times at schools around the country. and she says she's happy to do

it. she wants to make sure everyone always remembers the holocaust and perhaps is a bit more tolerant of one another. >> just thinking back to that time. 6:41 right now. coming up, we're following several breaks news stories this morning. first, a gold heist in san francisco. robbers are on the run right now. and a south bay man being hailed a hero. how his quick actions saved his neighbors from a burning apartment complex. a live look at the big board right now. the new york stock exchange. that is not what investors want to see. down almost 300 points in early morning trading. hopefully -- well, we know we have a fair amount of time to make it up here. we'll see what happens the rest of the day. we'll be back here with 15 minutes of nonstop weather and traffic right after this.

>> announcer: now, 15 minutes of continuous news, weather and traffic on "today in the bay." breaking news right now. san francisco police are investigating a smash and grab at a wells fargo museum. robbers drove an suv into a bank before making off with the loot. >> stephanie chaung joins us from san francisco. looks like the robbers didn't make off with money, but instead, they made off with gold. good morning. >> reporter: that's right, good morning, kris and sam. that's right, gold nuggets taken from the wells fargo museum here in montgomery. as you can see, people are cleaning up outside the doors here completely smashed in from the suv. you can see inside investigators are working. looks like they're talking to managers outlets and inventory of what was taken here. we can show you a picture actually of what one of the items were. gold nuggets from the gold rush era. so we're talking about a lot of

historic value here. this is featured on the wells fargo website where it also advertising the fact that there's real gold from california gold country region here displayed in the museum. along with works of art and the stage coach that is outside of in the forefront here. used in the 1860s. as you come back live, that stage coach out of wells fargo just released the statement saying it is glad that none of the stage coaches and the historical artifacts were damaged. nobody was hurt. we know there was at least one security here in the 2:00 hour when the armed robbery happened. we also know that the suspect did not have assault weapons as was first reported. but right now, it's a cleanup stage. they just took the suv away. it was a chevy suburban. and it took a while because they didn't want the front to drop

down. in fact, the top could have given away. i did speak to investigators who said there have been several smash and grabs in the last couple months. they're not sure if they're connected but that is a possibility they are looking at. live in san francisco, stephanie chaung, "today in the bay." >> thanks. now, to a developing story right now, a powerful storm hitting much of the east coast. not as bad as it's supposed to be. take a look at the radar. it's still pretty bad. that's realtime radar. >> that's nice to see what thinks are looking like. that is portland maine as the storm makes its way up the east. it could receive up to 30 inches of snow. a bit of good news. so far, forecasters say it's not as bad at least in the new york metro area as they first thought. still around 7,000 flights have

been cancelled nation wide. that includes some coming into and leaving the bay area. sfo duty manager said 85 flights have been cancelled. it amounts to 36 departures and 49 arrivals. flights to new york, philadelphia, boston and newark all impacted. >> our weather, certainly something on the radar, but it's a welcome sight for us. >> yeah, definitely. we need it all of january has been so dry. >> you know what, the storm system is really warm, it's keeping it from the south move to get north. and our temperatures really reflecting that warm air moving in. 61 degrees in san jose. you're 55 degrees in livermore where typically your average daytime high is about 58 degrees. we're going to blow way past those highs yet again today. we're going to see showers in the forecast in the first part of the day, only for areas south of the golden gate bridge. the wide view shows all the way

down to the san jose valley. and we'll take every single drop we can get. we went to focus on the south bay right now. pretty good looking showers rolling through san jose. and there's a pretty good batch that's going to hit the los altos hills in the next 20 minutes. and the weather in just about every 15 minutes. we'll forward it in time, stop that clock for you. we'll notice that 32 days without rain in san francisco. i think we'll break that trend as of today. the place where we really need the snow pack, tahoe, yeah, more up there for the ski resorts, feeling pretty good, two to three inches through the day today. especially for tahoe, remember, when we meet back here every once and thursday, we give you updates. we take you to tahoe. we'll have the ski report update

for tomorrow. this is pretty good, between 10:00 and 1:00, a chance for snow showers going. but because the system is so warm, that snow level is going to be very high. now, temperatures looking good for outdoor plans later on today. you can dodge those showers by 5:00. 68 degrees on the peninsula. and 69 degrees on the south bay. as we get into the next couple of days. temperatures will stay relatively steady. we ask you to drop your numbers just a couple days. a good looking weekend. saturday, 68 degrees in santa clara. as we head to your super bowl sunday, 68 degrees. and 73 degrees at university of phoenix stadium. nice and warm for that game. if you have not yet made those plans, maybe you want to get outdoors for your family, a scavenger hunt happening, at the

san carlos museum. mike, who doesn't love a scavenger hunt. i had those in a sorority but this is a whole different kind. >> they do that as part of that that's a cool way to integrate science and math with a scavenger hunt. over here, no need to hunt. it's right in front of the camera. 680. we'll show you the map where we have your general northbound build. here's the south bay map. to san jose. to the camera shot here at 680. there's 85 with the build as well. folks coming down into milpitas. and traffic control going on one direction at a time around-san felipe road. highway 152. there's an overturned big rig and it's been there since very early this morning and it will be there until 8:00 or 9:00 this morning.

here is casa de fruta. and highway 101. if you're traveling to i-5 that will slow them down. here's the alternate, 126 to 25. or just travel through the area and wait your turn. there will be significant delays out there. meanwhile, north of the dumbarton bridge, we're looking for that. oakland, keller, look at this, about ten minutes for the sensors to come up to the speed limit. and moving nicely through oakland hills. 580 and 880 through the toll plaza. a live look at the bay bridge shows you as you'd expect, the backup to the toll plaza. a clear view. slowing it down to east shore. a live look at the san mateo bridge. and really kicking in every morning for the last two weeks, just before 7:00, westbound to the peninsula, 101, we'll see a lot more traffic in the next 20 minutes. back to you.

6:52 right now, breaking news in san jose. a vehicle in a carport in a fourflex as a result of an overnight fire that burned while people were sleeping. a man who was headed home late is being called a hero for getting everyone out of that building. >> marianne favro is live near cupertino. marianne, the action that it took to save lives? >> reporter: yes, right now, investigators are focusing their attention on the three weeks they see here. the fire started in one of those cars early this morning. fortunately, it did not spread into the townhomes. seven people were evacuated this morning when the two-alarm fire broke out around 3:30. firefighters say a neighbor who was returning from visiting a friend in the hospital saw the flames, called 911. then pounded on all the doors to make sure everyone got out okay. investigators are now trying to pinpoint the cause.

>> we're trying to figure out if people got work done on their car. whether electrical or anything like that that might have caused a leak or a short. >> reporter: for nearly two hours, resident has to stand out in the cold in their pajamas. but now, most of them have been allowed to return home. but you can bet that they are very grateful to their alert neighbor who made sure that they got out safely. i guess they'll be baking a lot of cookies for him. reporting live in san jose. marianne favro, nbc news bay area news. >> chocolate chips. a pilot flying out of tracy should have been so lucky, he ran out of fuel on his way to hawaii and ended up using a parachute to bring down his plane. the plane crashed 250 miles off the coast of maui. look at the video shot by the

u.s. coast guard of that plane making that parachute landing into the pacific. the pilot took off from tracy airport where the plane had been retrofitted with a fuel tank designed to support a plane like that. the pilot was rescued by a passing cruise ship. >> eye with the coordination of the coast guard. their work getting out out of the water and on to the boat. >> the aircraft was designed 16 years ago and it is one of the most popular selling models. one of the few models with the a parachute model like we've seen in the video. happening today, a femur chp officer accused of sharing racy photos of women in his custody is now expected to take a plea deal. according to the oakland tribune sean harrington plans to plead either guilty or no contest to two felonies. prosecutors say harrington sent

the racy photos from the women's cell phones to his personal device. he then forwarded the pictures from other officers. harrington resigned from dublin in october. and set to approve a $3 million payment for the family of a woman whose body was found in a stairwell. the hospital reached that deal with lynn spalding's family last month. the spalding was found in the stairwell at sf general 17 days after she first disappeared from her hospital room in 2013. payments will be sent to spalding's two adult children. the dow industrials crushed on the open. >> travel worries on the economy this has nothing to do with the storm. >> no, it doesn't. we expected some light volume because, kris, we thought it would be harder to bet into new york city. but we saw the dow lose 300 points right off the open.

it is durable goods spoobking investors. durable goods usually thinks like refrigerators things that you hold on for a long time but we're talking about aircraft manufacturing much lower than expected. apple reports its profit at closing bell today as does yahoo!. but what people are going to care about today is what ceo marissa mayer will say about her plans for yahoo!'s huge windfall from alibaba. will meyer keep the money for yahoo! use it to grow the company or give investors the dividend? bottom line, who is she going to disappoint? whatever she does can she navigate the taxes to avoid losing a lot to the tax man. the bottom line is, can meyer keep her job? it's grossly oversimplifying it. her job to use the money to make yahoo! better. but she can't keep her job if

she uses the money. the time is now 6:57. one final check of the day's top stories. including this story. gunmen in libya stormed a luxury hotel killing at least three guides and five foreigners. the hotel worker says five masked attackers stormed the hotel. san francisco police right now looking for robbers who crashed into a bank and stole gold nuggets not from ft. knox but actually from a wells fargo museum on montgomery street a few hours ago. there was at least one security guard when this happened. and the airports on the east coast closed after the area gets pounded. the storm is forecast to continue through the morning and clear up sometime this afternoon. >> and as we've seen, those conditions do persist right now in the northeast. for much more tolerable

conditions. we are seeing a little rain you're tracking? >> yes, a welcome sight. a welcome sight on a tuesday morning as you make your way out the front door. you can see you've got light shower activity and the wind as well. police travel cautiously. temperatures hard to beat. we're in the 60s to start in the south bay on the peninsula in mid to upper 60s across the board. let's go to air quality. hard to beat that forecast. >> thank you very much. >> not going to try and beat it. we're looking over here at southbound 101 and now the traffic beating down on highway 101 actually there still because of the traffic here. bay bridge toll plaza with alternate issues. metering lights turned on like every morning. and through the maze, and no big surprise with the maze itself. 580 at keller has cleared from the earlier crash and still has all the slowing. and south of san mateo and bay

bridge toll plaza. the connector between 101 and i-5 still one way traffic control because of an overturned vehicle. it's open on both lanes. that's what's happening "today in the bay." we'll be back live in 30 had minutes. . good morning. frozen, the blizzard still slamming parts of the northeast after bringing the region to a stand still. worcester, massachusetts, closing in on an all-time record. 25 inches of snow and counting. from new yk city dodges a bullet, and our team is scattered far and wide today, tuesday, january 27th, 2015. >> from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today," the blizzard of 2015, with matt