finally have showers and sierra snow back in the forecast pap look at that coming up. and a new crash for drivers in the east. we'll talk about how that might affect one of two early traffic spots in your early commute. and a live look outside on this thursday morning. beautiful shot of the bay bridge. it is thursday, february 26th. this is "today in the bay." and a very good morning to you. thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm sam brock. breaking news. we now know the name of the man isis uses to behead hostages in those violent propaganda videos. >> kris sanchez joins us live. we understand he is actually in london? >> not only is he from london, from west london. if you've been there you know it as the more of a fluent part of town, came from a well to do family allegedly, all confirmed by nbc news this morning. you can't see his face, really. he's all covered up, however,

nbc news confirmed that the so-called jihadi john was at several beheadings, that revolted the world. a u.s. intelligence official confirms that jihadi john is mohammed emwazi, a british citizen born in kuwait but grew up in west london in the suburbs. he graduated from college. he has a degree in computer programming. we also know now that he traveled to syria in 2012, and that is where he joined isis. mohammed emwazi appeared in the videotape executions of american hostages james foley and stephen sotloff and present at the beheading of two brits as well and we know that we're learning his name for the first time, but u.s. officials and british officials have said they identified him long ago as the person who their captives called jihadi john. we hope to have more for you. >> additional motives as well. wow. interesting. thank you very much, kris. 5:01 right now.

college transfer students could soon face a new hurdle getting into san jose state university. live in san jose this morning, class sizes are a big reason behind the new moves? >> reporter: that's right, laura. it appears transfer students are not ready for upper division courses when they get here to san jose state. so they have to take lower division courses, and that takes away seats meant for freshmen and sophomores. a new policy is considered to change the way this campus ranks a student's transfer application. according to the san jose mercury, those in popular majors like computer science and engineering would be ranked higher, increasing their chance of being admitted, if they've already taken the prep courses for that major. that way they are truly ready for upper division courses, and there would be more seats for lower division students in lower division classes. submitting the proposal to the chancellor people can give

opinions at any one of three public hearing. the first is later today from 3:00 to 5:00 at the student union theater on the ninth street plaza. the next swun monday, also 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the west valley college fox technology center in saratoga and the last one is back here at san jose state at the college of engineering from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. if approved, the transfer change would only affect people transferring next year, not this fall. live in san jose, nanette miranda for "today in the bay." >> thank you very much. 5:03. a turf war brewing in the south bay. the community at odds over the redesign of santa clara's montague park. the city wants to build two soccer fields next to the baseball field already there, but families whose kids play baseball say if that happens there will be no room for baseball practice or for fans. in addition, a playground for kids dismantled in the process. >> we want a place where our kids can play have an open area to play. my daughter loves the playground

and as my son plays little league my daughter plays on the, in the park and it's a great time. >> the flip side of this, the city says santa clara needs four more soccer fields and this would help meet that demand. 5:04. is it just a case of supply and demand economics or something more sinister. each taking heat for charging one south bay driver $450 for a 12 mile ride. stephanie chong live outside uber headquarters in san francisco this morning, and steph, the user accepted the company the surge pricing conditions you get ahead of time but didn't expect to shell out this much money. >> reporter: no, he did not. good morning to you, laura. uber policy is that if the surge rate is more than double, you actually have to take your phone and type in that multiplier. that's supposed to ensure you understand what you'll be paying. however, this $452 bill for the 30-minute ride that was 12 miles

long from santana row in san jose -- sorry, from levi stadium to santana row in san jose after the sharks game caught one south bay man off guard, he's from san jose and says the uber ride to the game was $23. when the vta rail was too packed, he accepted charges that was 4.9 from uber. he did say he was shocked, though, by the total. >> recommend uber for any big events. that's what i did and i learned the hard way. >> hernandez reached out to uber asking for a price reduction but a representative suggested always getting a fair estimate or waiting for the lines to end and in a statement the company says the uber app was given to give riders a safe option to move around town at the touch of a button. that makes it possible for them to meet that standard of reliability even during high

demands. lawmakers in the country are trying to shut down the surge pricing policy altogether. more coming up in our next report in a half hour. >> thank you very much, steph. another delay in the trial of the man accused of killing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. more time to prepare for trial. both sides will return to court in april to try to set a trial date. a water leak could lead to traffic delays in los altos this morning. one southbound lane closed from 9:00 this morning until 3:00 in the afternoon. that closure affects the stretch of roadway between portola and pine lane. cruise are repairing a water line at a nearby house. and helping save sea birds sickened by a mystery goo in the bay. more than 30 students at oakland the spark day school raised more than $600 for the birds. as thanks they get to help release brown pelicans back into the wild this morning. the pelicans were not rescued as

part of the mystery goo response but came in with fishing lines and other issues. and nice skies and temperatures out there. 5:06 and our meteorologist joins us. >> a chilly start for now. at least one more warm day for the rest of the week coming up. temperatures climbing into the 60s and 70s later on but you still need your jacket in the north bay where you have 41 degree, patchy fog. visibility at times down to less than a half mile around santa rosa. you can see towards napa, patchy fog, and clear skies to start in san jose. so as we go hour-by-hour, temperatures from 7:00, mostly in the 40s. as early as lunchtime today, notice temperatures climbing quickly around san jose and livermore. mid-60s by noon. by 3:00, approaching 70 in downtown san jose and out near livermore, but the wind part of the story. the wind pretty light now but pick up as you get into the afternoon. temperatures later today, low 70s around the santa clara

valley, close to the upper 60s for san francisco and in the north bay upper 60s to near 70 in mill valley. pleasanton and livermore looking good. low 70s today, but tomorrow we could see about a 10-degree drop in temperatures. watch wind speeds from the morning. relatively light. by the evening, wind speeds of 20 to 30 in the hills of the north bay. a system drops down the coast not impacting us today. by tonight a few showers in the north bay and tomorrow morning's commute running into some raindrops, perhaps around the santa cruz mountains and finally snow heading towards the sierra beginning late tomorrow. another check of your morning commute, here's mike. >> for tomorrow, also for this morning, talking about cooler conditions and maybe patchy fog in the north bay. over here, this is san rafael, easy drive. not a problem for this commute. look on the maps. a little west of there. there's san rafael, where the camera was. over here, stinson beach, north of there, patchy fog on the

index seeing the orange blog and from time to time there also santa rosa. watching those patches. no problems reported north of the bay bridge for drives or from chp on those conditions. the carquinez bridge, and the westbound highway building out of antioch over here in the brentwood area byron highway, a crash reported might affect traffic at intersection. positive as some folks head north to antioch or south towards 580, down towards the altamont pass in the livermore area, and so far towards this area, the tri-valley shot shows a typical slower drive. through livermore, dublin and the rest of the tri-valley, an easy flow of traffic as you imagine at this time on a thursday. no drama off the dublin grade towards the dublin interchange. that's typical for this time of morning. easy flow through the south bay. san jose, the rest of the silicon valley, at speed up towards palo alto. the live look, cameras show

moving nicely as far as color. in past willow and in towards san francisco. back to you. >> thank you, mike. a shocking re ining revelat the police chief investigating the disappearance of jonbenet ramsey. what he's saying coming up. and a new push to make diapers in california free. >> he did. >> duty-free. >> he did. and net neutrality coming up as well in business.

all right. it is 5:12 right now. maybe clarity on a complex issue today. the commissioners of the fcc will be voting on new rules. some of the first rule, really, controlling the internet. they're doing so at president obama the urging. >> yeah. the fcc is supposed to be more oh less independent of the executive. yeah, president obama first pushed for the commission to regulate internet connections as utility similar to the way phone systems are, and the fcc will take up that issue today. commissioners have been briefed and they will vote. we have a pretty good idea of what the new rules are. that they're voting on. we, the public, though, don't have the full details yet. the general idea of net neutrality is that all data should be treated equally across the internet. no one's 1s and 0s or more important than anyone else's. theoretically we don't favor

cnbc but each morning we turn to the cnbc washington bureau. good morning. >> good morning, scott. come on now. i thought i was your favorite? >> definitely. >> golly. all right. let's get a quick check -- of the markets. futures are higher ahead of the opening bell. stocks searching for new heiss after the dow and russell 2000 closed at record highs yesterday. the nasdaq coming close to that 5,000 mark. it's a level it hasn't reached since the dot com boom of 2000. investors looking for data today on unemployment and inflation. rising 15 points to 182247 and the nasdaq closed less than a point at 4967. scott, back to you. >> thank you. the nasdaq had been on a tear ten straight days of gains, but then apple shares sank yesterday on news that google would be pushing android devices in the workplace. this is actually the long video. we'll talk about this later. apple's such a big stock. remember the nasdaq index weighted. pulled the index lower.

if only by a single point. again, this is a, an apple watch. we can talk about this, if you want to. this is an apple watch that is being advertised in vogue, actually. that will be exciting. as we begin to see the apple watches come in, we'll see some interesting advertisements and "vogue" one of the very first places to see that advertisement. >> making it a fashion statement. right? >> hey, hey -- look who it is. >> it's a lot of interest there. find out. thank you very much. >> my birthday's coming. just saying. 5:15 right now. an ultimatum from boston's mayor. starting monday people snow town beantown will no longer be allowed to save parking spaces. until now they've used orange traffic cones and whatever else to save the parking spot to shovel themselves out of. the mayor said on monday city crews will clear out the space savers. fights over parking have led to eastern more fights, a lot of

vandalism as well. but it's a coveted thing to get that parking spot. >> not even talking about san francisco or new york city. that's a lot of work, though. >> yes. >> train to be able to do that. you do a little training. you could help them out. >> perhaps i could. a lot of snow. actually boston announcing this winter, over 100 inches of snow. nice to move some towards the sierra and local higher peaks and a chance of that is coming late tomorrow and saturday outside this morning fog really is the main concern. seeing a little of that in the north bay where it's chilly. 39 degrees around napa and santa rosa this morning. 48 currently closer to san jose. you see 46 around the tri-valley there and dublin and 51 in san francisco right now. fog-free in san jose. nice start to the morning pap gorgeous sunrise. dublin 46. traffic on 580 westbound approaching hop yard and san francisco. right now no low clouds in the way, but a little bit of patchy fog up towards santa rosa at times visibility about a half

mile or so. so hour-by-hour, wake-up temperatures mostly in the 40s. still need a jacket at least through about 9:00 this monrnin. by lunchtime, t-shirt weather. san jose and livermore highs eventually upper 60s, low 70s through the afternoon today. 73 in los gatos toward saratoga mild today. san francisco upper 60s and close to 70 for one more day in the north bay before cooler changes arrive and tri-valley temperatures today in the low 70s. one thing you will notice, though, not much wind this morning, but watch what happens here heading towards the evening. winds speeds picking up a and friday blustery, a weather system dropping down out of the gulf of alaska driving down temperatures and bring a chance at seeing showers. not today but perhaps by tomorrow morning. beginning to see a few showers and look at the sierra by tomorrow afternoon. into saturday. some of the snow totals expecting out of the system that comes in for friday on in through the weekend. maybe approaching more than a foot above places there up

towards 8,000 feet and higher, but the snow level at times could be a little lower than 4,000 feet. there's goodness there in the high country. meantime rainfall totals out of the system coming in late tomorrow into the weekend. not expected to be much. the bigger punch will be the cooler air. driving down our temperatures. notice it beginning tomorrow a slight chance of showers and it looks like the weekend will start off with showers and maybe isolated thunder. one of the things to watch for saturday afternoon. then skies clear and we see a dry finish to the weekend. next chance of showers arriving by next tuesday. slowing down your morning commute this thursday morning, over to mike. >> the number of cars the issue for most of the bay. no issue as far as crashes in the roadways for 580 at least pap smooth drive through dublin and look at all the company you have. why speeds are coming down a little bit. look at your map. talking about your typical pattern here west 580 all the altima pass and in through here and the dublin interchange a little flow right here approaches hop yard and the

tri-valley commute, zoom out show you first of all point here towards antioch and we have the typical slowing for highway 4. through brentwood, earlier crash at byron highway in marsh cleared quickly from the roadway and no problems now off the carquinez and venetian bridges, and move all the way over to your left, my right here, this orange patch. maybe patchy, dense fog in the north bay. most of it along the coast and santa rosa as well. no major problems, mill valley and across that golden gate bridge. moving south, between the city and san mateo, peninsula side easy drive at the limit. across the bridge, live look out here. overnight road crews in both directions as is typical. both directions sound like all lanes open, without interruption. in the south bay northbound 101 volume going on throughout the silicon valley. easy drive. at the limit at the freeway. back to you. >> mike, thank very much. critical change to the 911 policy at the postal service in the bay area.

triggered by a series of investigative unit reports. investigative reporter vicky wynn broke the story revealing a policy that may have cost one man his life. >> reporter: the new policy for medical emergencies at the usps in oakland. allowing work toers call 911 directly in an emergency. sounds so simple and obvious, but employees tell us for years the old rules led to serious delays in medical treatment. in november we told you the story of sam, co-workers found him lying on the ground bleeding from his head. no one saw what happened. the dispatch records show up to 53 minutes may have passed before anyone called 911. it's unclear whether he would have survived had 911 been called sooner, but his family spoke out and fought for changes and it worked. for years the policy at the oakland facility said only oakland police initial. now in an emergency anyone should immediately call 911.

the usps declined our repeated requests about the new policy but the gravity of concerns raised in our report prompted this change. see our full investigation on the website. click on the investigation tab. back to you. >> all right. prompting changes. thank you. if you have a tip for the investigative unit, give us a call at 888-996-tips or e-mail us at unit at nbc bbayarea.comn 5:21. some of california the liberal and conservative lawmakers joining forces to make diapers duty-free. talking taxes here. under a new bill, diapers exempt from state sales taxes like food and prescription health products. it would save families about $100 a year. the bill has support from both sides of the aisle and right now there's no formal opposition. six other states already exempt diapers from sales taxes. as a parent that would be great. a parent of triplets, that would be fantastic. >> definitely benefit.

>> thankfully we're through that. >> a good point. 5:21. warriors going to washington. by steph curry received a special invite from the president.

welcome back, everyone. wow, isn't that a terrific look outside this morning? beautiful bay bridge. the traffic lights moving across makes it nice.

5:24 right now. the warriors get back to work in cleveland today taking on king james and the cavaliers. >> for all intents and purposes a showdown. but yesterday they spent a little time checking out our nation's capital first. [ playing taps ] >> david lee, andre ga doll la and steph curry the honor of laying a wreath at tomb of the unanother soldier at arlington national cemetery. the warriors also visited the pentagon. >> curry had one extra stop to make. the oval office, he met with president obama to talk basketball and malaria. for every three pointer curry makes this season donate insecticides to the united states anti-malaria program. curry says he got a look at the room the president uses to meet championship winning teams, just in case he and the warriors need to make a trip there next year. >> he's the best shooter in the nba. >> and a giver. >> and a humanitarian. not bad. >> very nice, what we do here.

a little bit of everything in the bay area. 5:25 right now. if want to do anything outside today, pretty good at least for the weather forecast now. patchy fog in the north bay for you and by lunchtime, already pretty warm around places like san jose and santa clara. mid-60s by noon including livermore in highs today upper 60s, low 70s. very nice to get outside this afternoon. mike that patchy fog might slow things down in the north bay this morning. >> a great note for drivers. haven't heard of problems. usually warns us, but your notes are well taken for the north bay where we've seen patchy fog over the last couple of days as well. an easy drive. rest of the bay look at the map. no delays for sensors on usual spots. tri-valley, no problems feeding over from 580, all of this traffic now just starting to come in out of the altamont pass. 580. typical and head towards vasco road in the livermore area.

back to you. >> thank you, mike. 5:26, the tile. almost 500 bucks for 12-mile uber ride. the trip that has one man calling out the service, coming up next. plus a new study names one local university among the most anti-semitic in the kpuncountry. we'll tell you which one, next.

5:29. breaking news. new information released about one of the most infamous isis militants in the world. and look innocent enough. detergent pods can be deadly for kids. trying to make them safer, one lawmaker, coming up. despite cool temperatures, 41 around napa now, by the afternoon, highs 60s and 70s. talk about a chance of rain back in the forecast in a knew minut minutes. few minutes. don't have to wait that long for changes at the bay bridge. traffic stacking up for the cash

lanes. coming and going no matter where you are this morning, we've got you covered. it's thursday, february 26th. this is "today in the bay." and a very good morning to you. thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> amend i'm sam brock. begin with breaking news. we now know the identity of jihadi john, the masked man seen in the brutal beheading videos released by isis. kris sanchez is here with who he is and whether he fits the profile. >> a lot of folks say, sam, he doesn't fit the profile those he's from london, an affluent part of london is where he's from and that's one reason why he doesn't fit the profile of the young man that security officials say become radicalized because they don't have jobs and can't make money. you can't see his face in the images that we have of him, but nbc news has confirmed that he is, was the person who was present in the videos of several

of those beheadings that revolted the world. mohammed emwazi appeared in videos of beheadings of american hostages and also present at the beheading of two brits as well. here's what we know about muhammad emwazi. he is a british citizen, was born in kuwait but grew up in west london in an affluent suburb, graduated from college with a degree in computer programming. he travelled to syria in 2012 and that's where he joined isis. a statement from the international center for the study of radicalization at king's college in london reads this demonstrates what we have long said about radicalization. it is not something driven by poverty or social deprivation. ideology clearly participates in some people participating in jihadi causes. a source from an advocacy group for the muslim community in britain their statements alludes to the fact muhammad emwazi reported to them he felt

harassed by security forces which that group says could have contributed to him joining isis. >> those videos, bone chilling. thank you. 5:31. in the north bay, three men under arrest accused of holding a woman captive almost two months. we first told you about this story last week. a 22-year-old victim says she was kidnapped and gunpoint and taken to a rural santa rosa home. the captors beat her and sexually assaulted her until she escaped. these photos show the suspects taken away by officers. police say the woman is safe and recovering. 5:32 late to. a woman is dead and a -- a man dead, i should say, a woman injured after a are the roed fight in a quiet east bay neighborhood. officers responded to a 911 call about two men fighting in a home in hercules yesterday, found a trail of blood from the driveway to the house. inside they found a fake handgun and a dead man. suspects arrested blocks away. and the university labeled

as the seventh most anti-semitic college in the country. ranking colleges based on anti-jewish incidents and activities on campus. students, jewish organizations and school executives are reacting with disbelief. >> they do reach out deliberately and speak with students, familialty an harassment. >> never heard complaints about this issue. >> we believe in free speech, and people can express what they want. >> a couple other california universities on that list. ucla at number nine and san diego state number six. at the top of the list, columbia university in new york city. okay. back home now. 5:33, and bay area congresswoman jackie speier speier unveiling her plan to stop children from eating those laundry deterrillant pods. they're dangerous because children mistake them as candy since they're in colorful, bright and bite-sized packages.

if the bill passes the packets would have to be changed within 18 months. and uber is changingal landscape for ow people get around but this morning the surge prices clearly is surprising people. one man paid more than $450 for a 12-mile ride. "today in the bay" steph any chong outside heany -- stephanie chuang. is it a case of buyer beware? >> reporter: it is basically, laura. a policy with the company, uber here. now, to be clear, uber is acting completely legally, but one bay area customer says it's still not right for a trip he ended up paying that would amount to about $37 for each mile. as you said it was 12 miles altogether. you look at the bill. this is for a trip from santa clara's levi stadium to san jose santana row after the sharks game. the ride to the game, $23 no

surge pricing. he went with uber back when the it was packed and surcharge of 4.9. >> the right itself should have been like $30 times four, doesn't add up to $452. >> now in a statement the company says the uber app was created to give riders a safe, reliable option to move around, adding that dynamic pricing makes it possible for abouter to meet that same standard for reliability even during times of high demand. one new york lawmaker is pushing to ban surge pricing altogether for uber and other services like it. assemblymen ortiz introduced legislation in that state to fine violators $250 each time. ortiz says consumer protections here are very necessary. that man did reach out to uber asking for a price reduction but a spokesman said you should just either wait for the surge pricing to end, or take the

higher price option. that was the response from the company. live in san francisco this morning, stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." that man will make alter knit plans next time. lots of people around here like their sports. we are going to check your forecast, 5:35. >> maybe people can get out and bike, walk and run. whatever. people are athletic in the bay area, rob. >> yeah, and today is a perfect day to get outside, i think, today, because of changes coming up tomorrow and for the weekend that will bring in a much-needed chance of showers and snow. maybe as low as 4,000 feet. right now 40s and 50s outside. san jose free of fog right now. 48 degrees over around the tri-valley. you can see dublin there. 46, in san francisco, no fog across the golden gate bridge. 51 degrees now. parts of the north bay around napa and santa rosa, visibility down to a half mile. not bad now there. you can see around the santa clara valley, not bad. ten miles visibility currently

with low clouds hugging the coastline. today, mostly sunny skies until late. goin see high clouds approaching the north bay. despite the chilly start to the morning, pleasant day in store seeing temperatures by noon approaching the mid-60s around san jose and livermore and by 3:00 now, talking close to the 70s around san jose and the tri-valley for today before temperatures cool down quite a bit come tomorrow. highs, low 70s today. around los gatos, saratoga, a couple warmer spots around the bay area today. upper 60s around san francisco and for the north bay, highs, close to 70 in mill valley. low 70s around pleasanton and livermore and i want to show you the changes by this time tomorrow morning. scattered showers coming into the picture and coming up, let you know how much rain we expect in the bay area and snow for the sierra coming up in our next forecast in a few minutes. now another check of the morning commute with mike. >> turned our cam are in emeryville towards the east shore freeway approach out of berkeley. the off ramp a set of flashing lights blocking the shoulder

here. the off ramp remained open. the crash that occurred cleared. easy drive away from the bay bridge. towards the bay bridge volume builds. look at the toll plaza itself, cash labs fully backed up past the end of the parking lot. fastrak moves nicely. should see metering lights on in a couple minutes. there's the incident, just cleared from the pash buy avenue off ramp from east 80. no problems, zoom out to show you the north bay. talking low clouds hovering around the coast not a major concern zooming out to the rest of your commute. easy drive all around the bay. back to you. >> mike, thank you very much. happening today, the fcc will make history voting on new rules to regulate the internet. the commissioners led by democrats are expected to approve a proposal that would give internet providers, characterize them at title 2 carriers the same way telephone or natural gas providers are regulated. cable companies including our parent comcast and republican lawmakers have been fighting the new regulations.

scott mcgrew joins us now. not john oliver but the next best thing in trying to break down the topic. >> not even close. if you have the chance go on youtube and watch john oliver's take on net neutrality. he does a great job of it. the basic idea, sam, why we should care about it is, the idea that all data ought to be treated equally over the internet. your 1s and 0s, my 1s and 0s are the exact same priority. this allows start-ups after all in san francisco or elsewhere to compete with the googles. googles can afford all kinds of fast lanes on the internet if those were allowed and you and i as a start-up couldn't. it will continue to help the internet become interesting and new and allow small companies to compete. >> supporters would say this kind of levels the playing field and kind of encourages more innovation? doesn't matter how much money to get involved? . true. i think everybody's a support purse cable companies would be

is a spottedive of an idea of net neutrality as an idea. the question is, should it be the fcc that regulates it? maybe congress should regulate it? maybe something else. i think that's where the fighting was. although the republicans have since given up. >> once we have a set of rules established, is that applied just in the u.s. or -- >> yes. right. the fcc, federal communications commission, that's a concern. right? it's that people could do other things elsewhere in the world. we'd be hampered, the critics would say bishgs a certain set of rules we've set up for ourselves in france, germany, brazil, whatever, can do whatever they want. >> okay. very good breakdown of a topic that most people's head spin over. >> and even we don't know all the good rules on this. we'll find out more this afternoon once they've made the vote and able to see what they voted on inchs. >> i have a hunch we'll talk about this tomorrow morning as well. appreciate it. 5:40 now. clay thompson has skills but did you know he can hit three

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5:42 light now. washington, d.c.'s new pot laws are now in effect. but it may not mean a thing. tracie potts joining us live from capitol hill this morning where a battle brewing, tracie, between city leaders and the federal government. good morning. >> reporter: that's right, because unlike alaska and colorado and washington state where marijuana's been made legal, washington, d.c. is not a state. it's a city, under federal jurisdiction. they have to get the approval from here on capitol hill for everything they do. some republicans are objecting to this new law that was approved, by the way, by two-thirds of d.c. voters. mayor muriel bowser says as a result she is going to enforce it, and republicans, some of them here, say as a result they're asking the justice department to get involved, and mayor bowser may end up behind

bars for violating, willfully violating, as they say, federal law. so the new law is in place as of midnight, which is when the period for review here on capitol hill ran out. it means that people over 21 years old can have up to 2 ounces of marijuana for personal use. they can't sell it. they can't barter it. they can give up to an ounce to someone and cannot smoke it in public nap means including in your parked car. >> and you wonder, tracie, if at some point it's inevitable, the complete overhaul of marijuana federal laws that pertain to marijuana could be in the works. thank you very much. >> reporter: certainly they're changing and seeing them change here and we're seeing them change around the country. interestingly something that's likely going to come up in the next election. candidates are probably going have to take a stand one way or the other. >> yes, they will. thank you so much, tracie. appreciate that report. and at 5:44 this morning a surprising new admission from the former police chief who led the investigation into the death

of jonbenet ramsey. former boulder, colorado police chief mark vector now believes his officers mishandled the investigation. ramsey's bead was found in the basement of letter home in 1996. in an online chat he says the case was mishandled due to confusion and a police staffing shortage. the case remains unsolved. an astronaut aboard the international space station getting a lot of attention for his space walk selfie. >> check it out. beary wilmore snapped this shot working on wiring outside the space station over the weekend. you can see a fellow astronaut reflected in wilmore's visor there. interestingly, this is not the first space selfie ever snapped. >> it's not? wait a minute. that honor goes to none other than than buzz aldrin, this foet i-of-oh along with 600 rare and vintage photos go up for auction. did he take that way smartphone? the collection expected to go

for as much as $1 million. >> pretty cool. probably cooler than any of ours. right? >> and al gore probably invented that set offie, lfie. >> and the cell phone. hello. a cooler start to the week, we can agree. temperatures dipped a little but nice in the afternoon. >> still winter. doesn't seem like it. >> i know, right? >> but we have temperatures this morning in the 30s and low 40s around the north bay, but a mild afternoon in store later on. show you some temperatures now. a little patchy fog. there around napa and santa rosa. now down to 39 degrees. san jose not bad. 48 and in san francisco, a few clouds, but mostly fog-free there across the golden gate bridge. really fog is the main weather kernel for this morning as you see here. visibility dropped off. numbers are actually improving from a half mile visibility in santa rosa to two miles and san jose and gill more no problem with the fog. wake-up temperature, still need a jacket from 7:00 but not by lunchtime. you can see mid-60s in san jose

and livermore. on our way to upper 60s and low 70s today, but enjoy it, if you like the mild temperatures in winter, because big changes are coming our way come tomorrow. so today's highs low 70s around the south bay including los gatos and saratoga. upper 60s around san francisco into the north bay. 69 degrees there in santa rosa. 71 napa. goin see changes first with winds later today. not much wind outside now. look at the wind speeds by the evening into your friday. blustery and cool will be canadian air conditioning helding our way with the system dropping right down the west coast bring as chance of showers during the day tomorrow into tomorrow morning when we'll see a chance of showers. look at the snow there in the sierra and last weekend we had two inches of snow in the sierra from those showers. now this system is going to make a difference as you can see there. elevations above 8,000 feet may pick up more than a foot. there's great news for the sierra and about at least six inches there at 6,000 feet and snow levels maybe as low as just

below 4,000 feet with the system coming in late tomorrow into saturday. rain totals, though, not great for the bay area. take what we get. most of it likely falling on saturday. so today it's dry. tomorrow we see a chance of showers coming back into the picture. weekend, plan on scattered showers to start things off saturday. then skies clear. temperatures staying cool as you wrap up the weekend. another check of your thursday commute, what's going on with mike? >> big change in the commute now is looking here towards fremont, traffic moving smoothly. big changes at the bay bridge. touch on that later in the commute. there's the bay bridge. here we go. traffic flowing nicely. metering lights turned on. the stack up. fremont, the parkway, northbound heading away. traffic moving smoothly on the span. towards the map, talking about the altamont park rey on ramp to get on to 880, disabled vehicle. sounds like the car ran out of gas. no help for another half hour at

least. affecting folks getting on to 880. two crashes reported north of there, through dakota. soundbound side, getting details from chp. showing up on sensors over the last two minutes in that stretch of fremont. the tri-valley moving nicely. that volume is building here. west 580 and south 680, nothing unusual about this pattern and in fact the rest of your bay moves pretty typical pattern here. the peninsula, south bay, silicon valley moving close to the speed limit. the bridges, dumb bart -- dumbarton no problem and through novato, and the golden gate bridge. the bay bridge metering lights are on, backup there right as you approach the toll plaza. back to you. >> thank you, mike. a proposed set of new admission rules could keep some transfer students from being accepted into san jose state university. live in san jose this morning, we have more. a big reason for the change i

understand is overcrowded classrooms? >> reporter: that's right, laura. it appears that many transfer students are not ready to take upper division courses here at san jose state. so they end up taking lower division courses, and taking away seats meant for freshmen and sophomores. a new policy is being considered to change the way this campus ranks a student's transfer application. according to "the san jose mercury" close in computer science and engineering would be ranked higher increases chances of being admitted if they've already taken the prep courses for that major. that way they are truly ready for upper division classes and more seats for lower division students in the lower division courses. before submitting the proposal to the csu chancellor people can give opinions as any one of three public hearings. first is later today from 3:00 to 5:00 at the student union theater on the ninth street plaza. the next is monday also 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the west valley

college fox technology center in saratoga and the last one is the day after, back here at san jose state's college of engineering from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. if approved the transfer policy would be in effect next year. so those transferring this fall would not be affected. live at san jose state, nanette miranda for "today in the bay." >> better get caught up. thanks. possible solutions for a national concern playing out on the cal campus. the issue of sexual assault pap two-day conference addressing how to stop sexual violence on college campuses ended with keynote speaker anita hill. back in 1991 hill testified against then supreme court justice nominee clarence thomas claiming he had sexually has rationed her bringing the issue to the forefront. now cal finds itself in the spotlight. the university is one of 90 colleges under investigation by the federal office for civil rights for its handling of sexual assault cases. >> taken steps that really

have -- we beat the policy for survivors to give them more rights throughout the process and that's just to name a few. >> berkeley has the nerve to call their conference beyond compliance, as if they're some role model everyone else should emulate when they're not actually listening to students survivors. >> uc-berkeley officials will continue to address, create and implement more programs. 5:52. for the first time publicly the daughter of robin williams is talking about how she's coping with his death. >> good days becoming more frequent than the bad days? >> it's never about frequency. the thing for me has been that -- because there's no predictability to anything. literally life in general, but i -- you can turn bad days around as well so i've just been focusing on that. when i have a day i'm not feeling great i try and go do something funny or fun or strange. >> robin williams took his own life inside his tiburon home

last august. you can watch the full interview with zelda williams on the "today" show starting at 7:00. five east bay students are recovering this morning after apparently popping pills at school. paramedics rushed the girls from albany middle school to a nearby hospital yesterday morning. the girls expected to survive knop word on what kind of pills they took. and tenants evicted by a google lawyer plan to deliver a petition to the company's mountainview headquarters today. the tenants eviction-free san francisco collected more than 1,500 signatures demanding jack halperin stop the evictions. the protesters say hall sprin not living up to google's code of conduct. halperin bought a building on guerrero street sand using the ellis act to force tenants to move out. the ellis act allows property owners to evict people if they're getting out of the rental business. talking about google meantime. badly needing a new headquarters. scott mcgrew, bursting at the seams in mountainview?

>> some say yes and bursting the seams of mountainview. they do need new space. inherented their headquarters in 2003 when the company was relatively small. 800 people moved into this facility at the time. google now uses this campus and dozens of buildings all over mountainview. google pays huge amounts of taxes into the city fund, it's also brought in lots of traffic. so tomorrow google's going to go before the mountainview city council to present a new plan for a massive new headquarters. staying in the city. we may get our next good peek at plans when google shows them off to this city council. turning to markets. dow starts the morning at yet another record high. nasdaq seen here, still very close to 5000, but the index closed lower for the first time in ten days after apple shares moved lower. wr e excited by nasdaq 5000. hasn't hit that level since march of 2000. sit there waiting and waiting

and waiting. fun stuff to show you but we can't until we get the nasdaq 5,000. >> if i knew what you're talking about, it's worth the wait. thank you very much. the rain well worth the wait. a clear day today. get out and enjoy but rain coming this weekend. >> probably by this time tomorrow morning. meantime, patchy fog to start off today, by lunchtime, lose the jackets. look at temperatures already mid-60s san jose and livermore. upper 60s althoulow 70s this afternoon. fog spreading akrot the north bay. >> tracking it. hasn't present add problem for drivers so far but we're on the watch and also watching a crash south 880. details, right at thornton. the fast lane blocked southbound building approaches the dumbarton bridge cross-overfrom the newark area. watching that. the rest of the bay a typical build. more folks from heyward and

pleasanton, and south bound 680, zooming out to the rest of the bay, smooth drive. typical of this time and the bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights, a live look. lanes built in for the toll plaza. fastrak, still have an advantage. back to you. >> thanks, mike. 49ers hoping to, for a chance to host the college football championship game at levi stadium. the team making a bid to host either the 2018, '19 or 2020 game. wipte e winners announced this fall. >> super bowl as well i hear, coming up. >> talk a little basketball. >> hoops. >> all right. clay thompson, he's good. we all know that, but really did you know he was this good? >> check out the video produced by espn's sports science. tested clay thompson to see if he could hit three pointers with the lights out. he was, to say the least, lights out. sinking eight out of ten threes in complete darkness. scientists say about this, thompson has done so much

shooting in this life he needs just a split second to see the basket. all it takes to know exactly how to sink the ball even in the dark. that muscle memory. >> that visual he needs just to shoot and make it. >> from there, all memory. flash. 5:57 now. and steph curry joining a-list celebrities for a special campaign. we'll tell you about it coming up next. the new view californians are taking on the drought. that's coming up. and the search for a missing baby in yolo county. what we're learning about the newborn's disappearance, next.

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kids. good grades, no longer good enough. the big change possibly coming to admissions at san jose state. and after a cool start to the morning we'll see temperatures today in the 60s to near 70 before weather big changes head our way come tomorrow. that's in the forecast coming up. and a crash in fremont may cause more folks to try that san mateo bridge as an option. the issue and how to get around it coming up. a live look outside right now. the bay bridge all lit up this morning. thursday, february the 26th, and this is "today in the bay." and a very good morning to you. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm sam brock. an update of breaking news. a name to this masked man. hours ago confirming the identity of the isis terrorist seen beheading hostages in those graphic videos. >> "today in the bay" kris sanchez joins us now and more information about this man continues to come into the