now, the mancced of ting courtroom ithe mide of ahighly-. ==sam/2shot ood morning and ank. and i'm samroc=4shot= ad libossr we have breaking news from d.c. to report on. i'm warning you all right now i'm on a kick. first day of march madness come willing up in just hours. >> we're coordinating. >> and i didn't even think about it. i'm wearing pink. >> a pretty day today too. more sunshine.

we start out with clouds. mild temperatures. 56 in the peninsula with coastal fog. patchy fog in the north bay. san francisco and the east bay will be another nice one. 70 in the tri-valley and the south bay. 64 in san francisco. a look ahead to rainy weather heading into the weekend early next week in a few minutes. let's see how the roads are moving. things are very nice. smooth drive. overnight road work. travel times towards the bay bridge are just fine. i want to show you low clouds and fog. back to you. thank you very much. this is what sam was mentioning at the top of the show.

in the last 30 minutes we have learned that a maryland federal judge is the second judge to block president trump to revise the travel ban. >> it comes on the heels of what happened yesterday when a judge issued a nationwide ban hours before it was set to go into effect. they were discriminatory. the executive order would have restricted travel from six predominantly muslim companies and banned all refugees for 120 days. tracie potts is following the story. she will bring us an update live at 5:00. 4:32. a somber milestone. today marks five years sierra lamar was last seen. >> this as the trial for the man accused of killing her continues

this morning. today in the bay kris sanchez joining us live from the courthouse with details where the trial stands. no doubt today will be emotional one for the family. still a waiting answers five years later. >> this was the day in 2012 that her mother called 911 frantically asking for help in trying to find her daughter. as you said, it has been a long five years for her and for sierra lamar's father steve who has been in the courthouse for most days of the trial. we have learned the face of the woman who testified that garcia torres got into the back seat of her car in a safeway parking lot where she picked up groceries and where garcia torres worked. >> these victims are the building blocks of the prosecution's case to show mr.

garcia torres had the modus epreandi to commit the murder. >> tonight folks will gather in sierra lamar's memory where she lived most of her life in morgan hill. we'll keep you updated both on air and online. >> hard to believe five years. thank you. >> a bizarre kidnapping case back in the headlines. matthew mueller will be sentenced. last september he pleaded guilty to kidnapping ava lay hoe woman in 2015. police initially called the whole thing a hoax, and it wasn't. prosecutors are now pushing for a 40-year prison sentence. his lawyer argued that a 40-year sentence is too harsh for a man who served in the marines and is

a harvard educated. a seven-hour standoff comes to an end with a suspect in handcuffs. it is a story we have been following overnight with you. he he allegedly tried to strangle his mother. it happened across the street from the edenvale branch library. he barricaded himself inside an apartment. officers eventually did get that man out. the 38-year-old allegeedly attacked his mother at the oak tree victim is large apartments. it started 6:00 last night. the mother and daughter were able to get out of the house. the suspect taken into custody 1:00 this morning. now to berkeley where this man is behind bars after taking police on a wild case and eventually climbing onto a rooftop try to evade their

arrest. police officers tried to pull him over as he was driving a white pickup. he rammed his truck into a police car and took off. he led police on a chase back through oakland, crashing into cars in berkeley. a man's wife was driving one of the car that the suspect crashed his car into. >> he was saying, oh, my god, i'm hit, i'm hit. i said are you okay? he said yeah, i was getting chased. >> i saw cops outside with guns. so we locked the doors and ran into the back. all the staff helped us hide and made sure we were okay. turned off all the lights. >> a terrifying scene for people nearby all of this. there was a woman in the suspect's truck. she was also arrested. before the suspect came down from the roof and surrendered he

shouted out to that woman that he office her. 4:36. california rolling out its new school report card standards. how to find out if you're child's school is making the grade. >> it came in like a wrecking ball, quite literally. we're going to say good-bye to a decades old bridge. that is not what did it. what will finally work to bring that bridge down. new detailshis morng. a legablo

4:39 on your thursday morning. a legal blow for the city of san jose. it has reportedly lost its bid when donald trump supporters were in confrontation with angry demonstrators. one supporter covered in eggs. you see her being hit there. 20 people later sued the city claiming police stood by and didn't intervene when that was happening. the judge denied the city's request to dismiss the lawsuit. right now parents have a new tool to see how their local schools perform with a report card. blue is the best and red is the worst.

critics point out it is still a little too complicated. >> color coding there. a longstanding bridge in big sur slowly but surely coming down. the work the demolition will take. the wrecking ball tried to do the job. it was only able to pound out small pieces of the bridge. kari, how low will we go? >> it will be a little bit cooler. then warmer temperatures later on today. starting out with fog. so we will talk about visibility coming up after the break. or lack of visibility. there's the golden gate bridge.

bring on the madness. march madness arrived officially today. let's get this party started. stkph i think it started already. >> for me for sure.

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we get a live look at santa clara already making it into the low 60s. 66 degrees. right where we should be this time of year. rain in the fork. i'll talk about it coming up in three minutes. i'll show you what may be an issue getting to the bay bridge. quarter to 5:00. business and tech news, launching a new parental control for android smartphones. >> we turn to landon dowdy live at cnbc world headquarters. good morning to you both. wall street looks poised to add to yesterday's gains. the fed hiked interest rates as expected and signaled two more hikes this year as the economy

improved. google launched new software to give their child more control to see what they watch online. they can manage and track screen times and which apps they could use. a version for ios is not yet available. mcdonald's is testing mobile orders in monterey and salinas. it is is expected later this year. sam and laura, back over to you. hopefully they have a system that will work out well. i know you're a north carolina tar heels fan.

we know how you feel about your bracket. we know how we feel about our bracket. tip-off coming in hours. four and a half hours left to finish your brackets. sam, you can only be talking about march madness. ncaa tournament gets under way this morning. >> there are so many ways to use it to your advantage. >> the consulting firm office team discovered one out of four u.s. companies are organizing around march madness because it can help build camaraderie. think about that the next time your bracket is getting slim.

>> thinking about march madness, i was just told to get my head in the game. it's going to be a hard day to stay inside and watch basketball all day because we will have sunshine. even though we start out with patchy fog this morning. we have seen the patchy fog reducing visibility down to two and a half miles. so it's not too bad. half moon bay down to a mile. at least it's not very cold. 70 degrees in san jose and livermore. 72 in napa. san francisco is up to 63. the seven-day forecast now at the bottom of the screen shows

rain drops in the forecast. now we will talk about that. here's a look at the day planner for san jose. 55 at 8:00. a lot of sunshine making the temperatures fairly quickly jump into the low 60s by lunchtime. and low 70s today. but as we look ahead, here's the storm is system set to arrive for the weekend. we will start out with fine, light rain. that's on saturday, into sunday. then as we head into early next week, more widespread rain expected saturday evening. north bay may see rain while the rest of the bay area stays dry. sunday, scattered showers. monday the rain picking up and spreading out. we will all be seeing heavy rain moving through. next week is looking really wet. after all the warm weather we have had recently and the potential of getting at least an

inch and a quarter of rain or up to an inch and a quarter of rain across much of the bay area, you may be wondering how much do we normally get in the month of march? we normally get 2 inches but we have only had .3. you will keep you up to date on the changes in the forecast. looking ahead to the temperatures, we will see the rain moving in once again late saturday night, into sunday. looking at warm temperatures as well. so those temperatures will be in the 70s. dropping back early next week. over to mike now happening on the drive-through the tri-valley. >> that's where we expect to see anything other than sensors at the limit. >> more fog creeping in. we'll talk about that in a second as well. no real problems. a little bit of slowing in and out of tracy.

and the construction zone through livermore. that drive is looking a lot better than we off see. bart has 24 running on time without any issues. look how clear the skies are. 4:51. video you have to see straight out of a movie. a woman escapes her captors by jumping out of the truck. the quick thinking that allowed her to get free. >> good thing he's okay. happening right now, we are following breaking news out of paris this morning where a letter bomb reportedly exploded at the french office of the international monetary fun. one person was lightly injured. no other damage reported. it is unclear who sent the

letter. but france remains in a state of emergency after a string of deadly attacks the last two years. >> plus, impeachment papers are being filed against the president of the philippines after thousand have died in an anti-drug crackdown. some dramac newurveillce

video froalabama to sw you n -- watch ai 4:54 on your thursday morning. dramatic new video to show you. look at that car right there. drives out of the gas station. and you see the trunk open. a woman jumps out and ran. they drove her to get money out

of an atm. she ran inside the station. the owner called for help. police are still looking for the suspect. >> that is going to be the difference in saving her own life. 4:55. more details about the rise of sexual assault at two distinguished american military academie academies. assault reports at the u.s. naval academy in annapolis and west point. there were 26 reported assaults last year compared to 17 the year before that. there was a decline in reports at the air forced academy. 48% of female cadets and 20% of male cadets experience sexual assault at military academies. our investigative unit learned oakland is paying a public relations firm to deal with the media in the wake of the deadly warehouse fire. >> one executive is reportedly getting paid $500 an hour. and you at home are paying for

it. tonight at 11:00, speaking with one lawmaker who calls it a waste of your tax dollars. >> you feel it could be better spent? >> absolutely. there's no way to get around to it or justify it. >> okay land says the p.r. firm hopes it will reduce its risk of getting sued. we'll explain and tell you why there are parts of the contract the city doesn't want you to see. watch our full investigation tonight at 11:00. is and if you have a tip for our investigative unit, give us a call at 888-996-tips. or nbcbayarea.com. there's moisture in the air right now, karr. >> yeah. we start out with fog, mild temperatures. a nice day after all that fog clears. we'll look at what to expect as you system out the door and this weekend coming up. and looking out there, the

north bay, san rafael, a glow from the lights. no major problems through the north bay. we have matches of clouds coming through. plus, a teenager killed in a police shooting in the east bay. new details we're learned this morning about what led up to that deadly confrontation. pete live tee=laura/vplus--ut o

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san jose this morning. los gatos, the temperature trend from the mid-50s up to 69 by 3:00 this afternoon. a little bit above average. another nice day after the morning clouds clear. we will get sunshine. more sun in the forecast before the rain rolls in. we will talk about where ask and when coming up in eight minutes. >> we have an issue. i thought it was outside the tunnel. we look at the traffic. no real problems. the potential for eastbound 24 to be an issue inside the tunnel. light traffic around the area. be careful as you head into owe rain da out of oakland. maybe a traffic break. we'll track with chp. low clouds around the area. fog at the