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a full day of olympic competition, and some local stars, are in the spotlight. right now, a full day of olympic competition, and some local stars are in the spotlight, but one fan favorite suffered a tough break. >> we're tracking unusually dangerous weather conditions. firefighters on alert across the bay area. >> the news starts right now. good afternoon, everyone. thank you for joining us. >> we're on with a special olympics edition of nbc bay area news. wohl get to all the action on our bay area athletes in pyeongchang in a moment. we want to update you on unusually strong winds across the area. park rangers had to close the

lighthouse stairs because of that high wind. firefighters notice north bay are keeping a close eye on the conditions. >> rob mayeda has been tracking the wind all afternoon. >> it looks like we're looking at this evening to midnight tonight. our storm ranger doppler radar, should be seeing a lot of rain this year. seeing nothing of the sort in san jose, 71 degrees outside. mostly clear skies. it's those north bay hills through about midnight tonight that will see wind gusts approaching close to 50 miles per hour. given the dry conditions we've seen this month, this has to be watched. the areas in red you see there in the north bay hills could get gusts above 45 miles per hour. at the same time. relative humidity levels even as the sun goes down, down to 17% in napa. that's what we're watching tonight. by tomorrow morning the winds start to ease off. by this time tomorrow increasing clouds, increasing late day shower chances.

we'll show you how much of an impact that will have on the weekend and your forecast coming up at 3:20. >> you can track the forecast with our free nbc bay area app. get a detailed forecast for your community. >> we want to show you a live look right now at olympic park in pyeongchang. you can see the olympic flame is burning strong. lots of competition at the winter olympics, some of our bay area athletes have their first taste of defeat. let's start with ski skating, j.r.selski in the 500 meter race. among a loaded field in the semis he was penalized and he filed to advance. in the women's biathlon sprint. joanna reed had her first olympic competition. she began her sports career on roller skis in palo alto, and then she picked up the biathlon thanks to her grandfather. she finished 86 and failed to

advance. we have a full slate of competition still ahead in prime time with more bay area athletes set to go in gold. bryce bennett will compete in the medal race in the downhill competition, then at 1:00, the u.s. downhill title in 2013. also in prime time, the ladies short skating. free monday karen chen will be making her olympic debut. this is super exciting for everyone here in the bay area. we all saw her shine at the sap center back in january in san jose. there she is lacing up her skates, she is ready to go on tonight and the bay area will be watching. politics put aside in the name of sports. the big story line has been the unified team for north and south korea. fans cheering as the first ever women's unified korean hockey team competed today. they're going crazy out there. the match drew some big names in the crowd including the sister of kim jong-un the first immediate family member of the

north korean leader to set foot in south korea. the unified hockey team lost to switzerland 8-0. many are calling this a big win for both countries. here's the medal count so far. it's very early on. many competitions haven't even happened yet. right now the negligenter lands and norway are tied for the most medals. germany has two. no medals for the u.s. that will likely change and very soon. as we mentioned, so much more to come in these winter games, prime time coverage begins tonight at 5:00. medals on the line. the ladies short program and ice dancing. jessica aguirre is up for that. now for a story new today, a san francisco man took to twitter to revealing a truly wild story of vigilante justice. also criticizing the city of san francisco for what he says are laws that prevented police from helping him track down a stolen van.

it's a story that's gotten a lot of attention from bay area leaders. >> this is where the van was recovered at 17th and mission. we spoke with the owner of that company. he said the van was over due, they believe it was stolen. they spotted it in the city, tried to get help, that didn't work. they took matters into their own hands. >> the van is back at vandango van rentals in san francisco. a woman rented the van for the day and didn't bring it back. instead a man called. he declined to extend the rental. >> he refused to bring it back. looking into her background he found red flags, he began the required process of waiting and sending certified letters believing the van was likely

stolen. >> you go to the police and file your report and it gets listed as embezzled. >> he spotted the van near 101 and san francisco. he followed it. because of state law surrounding rental vehicles there was little he could do. he went to twitter about his ordeal. jane kim was among those tweeting back. >> the police are following state law. it treats car rentals -- >> we should have procedures in place so san francisco police officers are twrrained, ready a able to assist a citizen while a crime is in process. >> he walked up to the van calmly and bluffed, giving those inside three options. he said they remove the loads of luggage and hand over the keys. he says he isn't sure if he would do it again. >> i think it was a bad idea

that had a good ending. >> the incident has been brought to the attention of the police. and they're investigating. >> he really doesn't want to criminalize anyone for this, he just wanted the van returned and he'd like to take a second look at that law. reporting live in san francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> a story you'll only see on nbc bay area. some serious security changes at a popular south bay kids attraction, after a mother reports a disturbing incident. coming up on a special edition of nbc bay area news at 4:00. now to a developing story out of ohio, two police officers are dead after a violent encounter in westerville, which is just north of clom bus. the two officers are responding to a 911 hangup call, when they arrived at the address the call came from, someone opened fire on the officers killing them.

prayers have been answered for members of saint matthew's clutch. they are ready for mass which will take place later tonight. a water main busted sending muddy water into the church and the brand new campus gym. >> we are pleasantly surprised at how fast we were able to recover, the restoration company has been here almost 24/7. cal water has already fixed the entrance. it's accessible now. it will be accessible tonight. >> they plan to open the school doors on monday. >> an earthquake struck near san benito county this morning. this is where the 2.5 magnitude quake hit southeast of san juan batista. it happened about 8:00 this morning, no injuries, no damage reported. >> still ahead on nbc bay area.

an olympic controversy over smart phones. why certain teens were told they wouldn't be getting them. >> coming up later on the newscast. he's back. he was hitting rio and again during the opening ceremony in pyeongchang. now that bear chested tonga flag bearer is bringing a lot of attention to the 49ers. we'll show him to you again. at&t has a network with thousands of best-in-class security experts. which means... more of the eye balls you want watching the network... & less of the ones you don't... more experts preventing security issues & less security threats impacting our customers. more of a highly secure network with more security products available for further protection & less per month than comcast for business internet. switch to at&t internet for business. more & less - that's the power of &. ♪

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transferred to maximum cu disgraced former olympic doctor larry nassar has been transferred to maximum security federal prison. nassar is now serving his 60-year sentence in tucson. the prison there has a program to offer treatment for sex owe febders. nassar pleaded guilty to sexually abusing 10 girls who were his patients. he's accused of molesting more than 250 women and girls. hold the phone, just as the competition is heating up in pyeongchang an international tussle over smart phones. south korean olympic organizers apologized to the team after saying the athletes could not keep their limited edition samsung phones which are given to every olympian. the iranian team was denied the phones because of international sanctions against the committee. the team will be given the phone. olympic officials are trying to

downplay the controversy. >> i can confirm they're entitled to receive and keep the phones, i think it's kind of a minor who said what when whatever. >> north korean athletes were given phones after also reportedly being snubbed. they will not be able to take the phones back home to the north with them. the bots are back, this time targeting airline passengers. coming up, nbc bay area responds. how it's costing you money and how can you avoid it. spring like weather outside. mid-60s, a beautiful view from emeriville, and still 70s around the trivalley. this time tomorrow, a chance of showers. what to expect in your weekend forecast when we come back.

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more about a local company trying to fight back. chris? >> we want you to be careful the next time you're shopping for a flight. there's something murky going on in the background. >> going to l.a. >> among the passengers. >> shuffling through san jose international. >> phoenix/salt lake. >> you'll find a couple of robots. >> norma and her friends are novel. these bots aren't alone in the travel world. >> bots is a huge deal. >> this is a san francisco security firm. its engineers allowed us to watch how they're waging war against bots. elicit computer programs are passing as humans and tinkering with the prices. >> the bots are forcing the prices up for consumers. >> here's the shady scenarios they're fighting.

say an airline announces a sale. bots sometimes reserve the cheapest seats before anyone else has a chance. you get burned when the airline computer which lives on the laws of supply and demand, increases fares for the leftover seats. >> they make these systems kind of confused. they throw them off. the bots are working for unscrupulous online travel agents. they're exploiting how an airline seat can be held but not bought free for 24 hours. they make dummy bookings and repeat the trick every 24 hours or so. >> there are thousands of requests every day. they hold thousands of seats. >> we asked what happens to all those dummy seats. she said fringe travel sites sell them at a price somewhere in between the low fare they're holding and the higher fare the airline is charging.

it's clever scalping. most people book flights like linda. >> whoever offers me the best price. >> i don't believe it's a big issue. >> fare compare, a website that analyzes airline data and tracks flight prices. he hasn't seen bots gobbling up seats, but he agrees if they are, every day consumers are probably paying more than they should. >> if the enconvenient tory goes away. that's less cheap inventory for everyone that's shopping. >> we asked if they're taking action to combat bots. >> more than 5 dozen airlines have hired her team to take down the bots. >> that's airlines you fly with often. >> they want to give you a heads up. third party ticket sellers are supposed to support passengers, especially when problems occur on a trip. anna warns that a bot based site

may not fulfill that responsibility be careful before booking on a site you've never heard of just because it's a couple dollars cheaper. >> if you buy these bot tickets you don't have direct communication with the airline eith either. if your flight is cancelled or delayed, you don't get that information. >> not having that information could have you stuck after a delay or cancellation. how do those of us who are not cyber security experts figure out if we're booking with a bot based website. she says call them on the phone. see if any actual human beings are there to help you if your plans go south. call us with your questions. we employ humans, not bots. >> thank you. >> humans to the rescue, i like to talk to humans on the phone. >> we are human and that's good. >> exactly. >> you're talking about wind,

mr. human? >> yes, for february, dry, but we have wind to talk about and our own moeb el doppler radar scanning the skies, findsing dry air for you tonight. it's scanning. if we had showers, you'd be able to see it in raziszor sharp det. right now you're seeing skies like this, average highs by the way, upper 50s and low 60s. an early start to spring continues around most of the bay area. 63 in san francisco. you may notice our cameras bournsing around from those wind gusts up to 21 miles an hour. toward the trivalley, breezy at times, close to 70. the wind speeds will likely increase as we go through the evening. you'll notice these speeds from 8:30 tonight until midnight. we'll get gusts above 30 miles per hour. wind speeds back off.

with the clear excise and dry air, you could wake up to 30 around the north bay valley. possibly locally breezy around some of the hills as we get the day started tomorrow. >> high temperatures similar to what we saw today. upper 60s, likely we'll find increasing clouds as we go through the afternoon. 65, 67 in danville. peninsula temperatures similar you'll see san francisco in the mid-60s tomorrow. wind speeds picking up again this time tomorrow evening. the change coming to your forecast, increasing clouds stock market evening, there's a brief chance of seeing showers. you'll see here on the future cast, not much to show for, but between now and 11:00 tomorrow

night there's a chance we could see a few brief showers. an area of low pressure drops into southern california. we'll get rain through the middle of the week. notice the bay area in no man's land in terms of the dry air and dry weather as that system kicks out, no real chances of rain headed our way. likely we'll see these windy patterns as we go to the week. notice the temperatures trending cooler, they'll rebound again and we very likely will be seeing more medicine to upper 70s wednesday and thursday. we really need a pattern change to bring more snow and rain back to the bay area. right now, 7-day forecast continues the trend we've seen so far this month. >> maybe we can count on march to comb through. a 49ers player being compared to the viral hit at the opening ceremony. >> also coming up, getting in the baseball spirit. yes, baseball spirit. a sea of fans, a lot of

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favorite giants today... a live look at at&t park in san francisco, fans out there today flocking to see their favorite giants. it was fanfest wrapped up about 25 minutes ago. this year a lot of excitement for the team. some big offseason moves. as the team tries to move on from a very disappointing season. outside it was a sea of black and orange. madison bumgarner, he looks a little different. that's not him. pictures in the dugout, on the mound. players beak interviewed. you can get player autographs right there. they got a chance to tour the press box. one fan making his first trip to fan fest, he couldn't wait to get in. >> i'm a kid in a candy store

right now. i think i'm more excited than my grandson is. >> of course he is. 49ers player having a little fun on social media, after some olympic fans got a little confused. here's the photo from last night's opening ceremony, the olympian from tonga. they tried to tag him on pictures but they ended up tagging a 49ers player. he had some olympic fun with the fans before congratulating the tongan player. >> you met him in rio? >> when he was doing taekwondo. >> now he's doing skiing.

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helping superheroes fly. united. ♪ one final moment here with rob talking about the gusty winds. >> we're seeing the winds right now, some of our cameras bouncing around from the breezes outside. likely from about k89 00 tonight to medicine night. we have a wind advisory up for the north bay hills. we'll see the winds easing tomorrow morning and during the day tomorrow. slight chance of evening showers, but as february forecasts go, that continues to be bone dry. we'll see temperatures rebounding wednesday and thursday. >> we have no choice but to enjoy the warm weather. >> yes. >> thanks for being with us. we will be back at 4:00.

see you then. tonight as the race for gold heats up, the surprise invitation from north korea to the south. while the u.s. maintains a hard line toward kim jong-un and the father of a young american who died just days after north korea released him speaks out in our exclusive interview. president trump speak up for two white house aides accused of domestic abuse. major drug company, the maker of oxycontin announces a pull back. saying it will no longer promote them to doctors. the american speed skating sensation making history as she races this pursuit of gold.