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that's new overnight. we will tell you exactly what happened ahead, but first back to you. right now we want to get a check on what's going on. you can see garvin had on the coat. you will need one here this morning as well. >> but it's not that cold, but, yeah, that's always in relative terms. >> not olympic cold. >> not olympic cold. we will start out this morning with some 40s across parts of the bay area and as you step out also some 30s in a few spots. all clear skies as we get a live look outside in san jose, let's go to santa teresa, it's going to be 42 degrees at 6:00 and a lot of sunshine throughout the day. a few more clouds in the mix and temperatures slightly cooler than yesterday reaching into the low 60s. we will be up to 58 degrees in oakland and 56 degrees in san francisco. 60 in napa. today in antioch 62 degrees. i will have more on a slight warming trend in the forecast and then that chance of rain that's coming up in a few
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minutes. mike, your chp reports have calmed down. >> they were going a little crazy in the morning, but all these crashes that were in the east bay all cleared up, i reported them as they got deleted by chp. they took care of that. in the south bay as well the disabled vehicle. all over the bay the speed sensors are great. north bay no problems coming across that benicia bridge or carquinez bridge. easy drive heading over toward the bay bridge. transit shows a good ride. we will show you the toll plaza itself. we have only these cash lanes on the right approach that show a little lag here so we will track that. back to you, laura. right now, mike, i will take it from here, i want to tell you about breaking news that we have coming out of southern california. that's where actor luke wilson was involved in a deadly crash. now, this also included a well-known pga golfer. that crash happened last night near the riviera country club. l.a. police say that a ferrari clipped wilson's suv, then collided with a bmw head-on.
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the ferrari driver also died. police say that golfer bill haas was in the ferrari, but he is doing okay. the bmw driver was also taken to the hospital. wilson was not seriously hurt. happening today, a possible step towards justice for 19-year-old tracy woman. she was buttely butte ll ll ll beaten and stabbed. the two people accused in her death will be in court today. bob redell joins us with what is next in this case. >> reporter: good morning. yes, this will happen later this afternoon at around 2:00 here at the east county hall of justice in dublin where a judge will arraign that man and woman accused of this horrific crime. they are daniel gross, he is 19 years old and melissa leonardo, she's 25 years old. both of them have momodesto, bo
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accused in the murder of liz cuesta. who was found off of tesla road. unfortunately she passed away a couple hours later at a hospital but according to the alameda county sheriff's office she was first able to identify her killers. last night her friends party gathered to remember her at the great oaks skate park in san jose where she used to skateboard. her friends lit candles, they cried and told us what made her so special. >> she was a fighter and she is a warrior and i'm always going to admire that of her. always. >> her laugh. she had such a giggle laugh and she had these little tiny eyes and she'd laugh and her big old cheeks, just so funny. >> reporter: liz cuesta lived in san jose most of her life before moving to tracy last year with her parents and sister. a friend tells us she didn't
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like it out there. it's not clear what happened in the hours leading up to her death, what kind of relationship if any she had with the suspects. an alameda county sheriffs spokesman tells us that they were cuesta did get into the can you say spects' car willingly but don't know why they allegedly killed her. the sergeant said that they do believe those two suspects had been dating each other. gross and leonardo will make their first court appearance here at the superior court building in dublin. right now they are in the jail just across the stleet. reporting live in dublin, bob redell, "today in the bay." 5:04, we have more breaking news to tell you about. an apparent shooting at the entrance of the nsa. this is a picture from twitter that we have. >> we know at least one suspect appears to be taken into custody. we know that an suv crashed into a barrier. you can see some of the crash there in this twitter picture. we will try to get you more information as this story is breaking this morning.
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back to local news. san francisco's james lick middle school will be open this morning. this one day after ten students were sent to the hospital. all of them started feeling ill ÷v unknown substance and all are expected to be okay. now, emergency responders were called to the school a little after lunchtime. school administrators have not indicated if they know what the children ingested. happening today in fremont, teachers fighting for raises. rallies are planned for before and after school today. fremont unified, the third largest in the bay area has been in contract negotiations with teachers for a year now. the district which is facing a budget deficit has offered a one time 1.3% raise. teachers union says that's not enough. now, overnight we looked a little closer into the numbers. according to the california department of education unified school district teachers make about $47,000 to start with a top end salary of $96,000. a live look at the nations capitol where hopes are quickly
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starting to dim on any possible senate immigration deal. this week's much anticipated debate got off to a slow start. that's when republicans called to vote first on their plan to crack down on sanctuary cities. democrats said no. they want to focus on the debate of existing daca and protecting dreamers. >> that does absolutely nothing to address daca, does absolutely nothing to address border security. >> everybody in the room wants daca and let's see if we can get that done and it would be a great achievement. they've been talking about it for many years and if we could do it would be a great achievement and something on a humane basis, it would be excellent. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has issued an ultimatum to add the daca debate by friday. this comes as a second judge ruled president trump cannot eliminate daca on march 5th like he's threatening to do. the white house wants the supreme court to step in. a follow-up for you now to
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google's plan to create that large development in san jose. san jose leaders last night unanimously approved a real estate pricing agreement. city council agreed to offer google nine plots in six different locations at a cost of $67 million. this is all in that area as we've been telling you around the diridon station. a committee will evaluate the asking price before it is officially offered to google. now this morning new information frustrated palo alto residents are reportedly demanding the city take the faa to court. that's because they believe nothing is being done to ease the problem of the airplane noise. palo alto weekly reports angry neighbors voiced their concerns at a council meeting this week. they say nearly four years after the faa first introduced new flight paths there has been no real progress on dealing with the noise. the committee agreed that with members saying that they would not rule out litigation. t)ñ it's the returnt( of the
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in the men's halfpipe. >> continuing coverage now from the 2018 olympic winter games. shaun white's gold medal win one of today's top stories from south korea. garvin thomas told us about it last night at 11:00, he is still in pyeongchang for us right now. this morning the other big story is certainly the wind. >> garvin, fans had to be evacuated overnight. scary time. >> reporter: exactly. marcus and laura, there are two things i want to show you, first this big building behind me. remember when i gave you a tour of the super store, that's basically a big tent. that had to be evacuated when the winds kicked up because the olympic organizers were afraid it was going to fall down. the other thing i want to show you, this, our phones were blowing up in korea yesterday with emergency alerts, once translated they said heavy wind, seek shelter. we have some new video to show you from overnight to give you
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an idea of just how crazy it was at least down here in the olympic park. there was debris flying everywhere, tents and fences toppled over. if it was this bad on the coast imagine what it was like on the mountains where they postponed yet more skiing events, i think at least four have been postponed so far. an ioc spokesperson says it is not a big deal, at least not yet. >> if the wind continues to blow for the next 15 days then i guess it might be a problem, but at present everything is okay as we've said before, the international ski federation is well used to disruption by wind, by too much snow, by too little snow, by too much rain. >> reporter: so the slalom was postponed until friday, but the next race up, that's the downhill and that's going to be pretty exciting, that's going to be tonight in prime time. so will the wind die down?
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well, marcus and laura, if there is any evidence by what it is like right now, we are just after 10:00 on wednesday night, it's actually pretty calm and probably the warmest it has been since we arrived in pyeongchang. it's about 44 degrees. look, the gloves are even off it's that warm. >> wow. you have a big heating trend there. how frightening, though, to get an emergency alert and not understand the language. >> reporter: that's got to be -- you know, when you are reporting 50 miles from the north korean border that gets your attention. >> no doubt. we know it was the wind now. thank you very much, garvin. and of course also happening tonight two athletes with northern california ties will compete. bryce bennett looks for redemption on the slopes in downhill, he if a ild to medal earlier this week. plus palo alto's hillary knight and the u.s. hockey team take on rival canada in prime time. we want to get you caught up. norway and the netherlands are tied with 11 medals, followed by
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canada and germany, 10, u.s. in fifth with seven. and right now at 5:11 i just wanted to give you a look at what we are expecting in pyeongchang over the next seven days. as we head throughout the day on thursday, a high of 36 degrees and it will still be windy. they will also have a lot of changes with those temperatures going up and down and of course more gusty winds over the next few days. taking a live look outside in san francisco, all clear, let's go throughout that school day forecast, where it starts out chilly and we will still have a cool day, more clouds in the mix and highs there in the upper 50s. mike, you spotted some red sensors. >> red means it feels like you're stopped, barely crawling and that really is unusualw÷wbo where4hñ this construction s i think that's what, if anything, going on. they didn't even wait for the report. and i do believe it was the construction on the warren freeway. there is one crash at the
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antioch bridge. we will just let you know that it's not blocking lanes but i'm tracking it just off the antioch bridge over on highway 4. back to you. it is 5:11 right now. coming up next on "today in the bay," bullied on a flight. >> she's not going to cry the whole time. >> the passenger altercation caught on camera that has some mothers livid this morning. plus new this morning an out of this world auction, the "star wars" collectible items up for grabs and now it will help fire victims in the north bay. plus the thing that steals more money from your family than anything else when "today in the bay" continues. (vo) i was born during
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right now at 5:15 wouldn't be a bad idea to get some nice warm winter clothes out of the closet and wear that today because it will be slightly cooler than yesterday and it starts out really chilly. let's go to palo alto as we see those temperatures that have been in the mid 40s, we are going to be at 50 degrees at 9:00, more clouds in the mix and highs in the low 60s. we will talk about what's ahead oz our temperatures go up and down and we will have a slight chance of rain, that's coming up in five minutes. and i did want to show you a little bit of the bay bridge break we have. they have all the cash lanes open but now we are starting to show the build. a little moment for a breather. we will check back in a few minutes. happy valentine's day to
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you. the stock market will continue to bounce around. lately it's been bouncer higher, over the last couple days, actually three days, we have seen the dow rise hundreds of points. chop olt lay is in the news, it hired the head of taco bell to run its operations. netflix landed itself a big director from fox. okay. back to these broader markets here, investors will be watching the second most important economic data point today which is inflation. inflation numbers are critical, we get them today. prices tend to go up when the economy gets hot and then the fed comes in and symptoms it down with interest rate hikes. jobs numbers are most important, but inflation robs you of your savings and wakes up that sleeping dragon that is the fed. the guy in charge of faraday future says his company is back on track. c2016. the company said it would build
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a huge factory in nevada. it never did. said it would build a factory in san joaquin valley, it never did. the other guy with an electric car is doing just fine. elon musk's spacex plans another launch this weekend to put satellites into space that will deliver high speed internet. it's been 11 days since elon musk did something amazing. one of our coworkers asked if musk was kind of junking up space, cluttering it up we worry about space junk and now there is that car that's floating around there. the answer is that car is not in earth orbit, it's way out there orbiting the sun so, no -- you know, the international space station doesn't need to be worried about getting into an accident with a car. >> it could burn up near the sun, right? >> it's far enough away from the sun, they have it in just the right orbit. new this morning a passenger on a recent delta flight says
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flight attendants did the right thing in booth a frustrated passenger from the plane. >> your name? [ inaudible ]. >> thank you, tab that. you may not have a job tomorrow. >> so tab that was a flight attendant and she still has a job. the unidentified woman in the video actually apologized right after this, but it was apparently too little, too late. the woman traveling with her infant took the video and gave it to daily mail saying the woman in the clip also complained about her baby and about having to sit in the back of the plane. apparently a gate agent escorted the passenger from the plane about ten minutes later. new this morning, using the force to help ongoing relief efforts for north bay fire victims. props from the last two "star wars" films are up for auction. that includes what you may remember from the latest enemy, storm trooper helmets from "the
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force awakens." that money raised will go to wine country emergency fire relief fund. the bidding ends on march 2nd. >> you better hurry, laura. i know you are a big "star wars" fan. >> i have a lot of light sabres all over my house, i can tell you that. >> i've joined in the lightsaber battle at your house and it is awesome. >> that's right, you have. >> next time i will beat you. >> when you come to visit me you have to be in a lightsaber battle with jack. a lot of fun on this wednesday morning and it's valentine's day. so hopefully you didn't forget, you are on top of your game this morning. we are starting out with all clear sky and as we get a look at storm ranger, nothing to scan as of now, but this is our mobile doppler radar, that red beam you see on there, and it is going to be tracking our next storm moving in for early next week. look at how cold it is this morning. oh, my goodness, it's only 33 degrees in santa rosa, it's 37 degrees in livermore and in
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morgan hill 38 degrees. we do have mostly some 40s for the inner bay and san francisco. here is a look at our high temperatures today reaching into the low 60s. even some mid 60s today for gilroy, but you will notice and it may be a little bit cooler than it was yesterday and those winds picking up coming in from the west at 10 to 15 miles per hour, up to 65 degrees in walnut creek and 59 degrees in san mateo. in san francisco 58 degrees in the mission district and 60 in sonoma and napa. how have you been doing with your new year's resolutions? if you are trying to get become on track and maybe go for a jog today it's going to be in the low 40s and into the low 60s by later this afternoon. i wanted to talk quickly about our rainfall deficit and where we stand now. in santa rosa we have had about 13 inches of rain but we are still missing ten inches of rain to catch up to normal. for san jose about four inches measured and we need another four inches so we are right at
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50% of normal. as we head over to mike, traffic about 50% of normal? >> we would hope, right? it's pretty normal right now, in fact, it's about 50% of what we see at other times of the day. looking at a very smooth drive and pretty much a nice flow of traffic except for that one crash i'm tracking just off the antioch bridge, it's actually on 160, not on highway 4. we are not seeing any slowing through antioch, pittsburg, bay point are great toward the bay bridge toll plaza. a quick look at the transit systems and the tri-valley. the travel time out of the altamonte pass a little slower, a few more cars coming for westbound 580, typical over toward grant line road. transit systems no delays, 46 bart trains reported on time right now. the bay bridge toll plaza we have had a few minutes of a break and now we have the build and that will continue throughout the morning. look at those fast track lanes, guys. back to you. coming up next on "today in the bay," a rising problem in santa clara county. new this morning the push for std testing in the south bay. ins
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at risk. some schools at the heart of the teen suicide epidemic (are not welcome back, everyone. it's 5:24 right now. in the dark about students at risk. some schools at the heart of the teen suicide epidemic are not tracking valuable information that could help save lives. >> here is vicki nguyen with a preview of what she uncovered. >> reporter: teens suicide is an alarming realty affecting students across the bay area but there is a way for schools to know who is at risk so they can
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help those kids. since 2007 the national suicide rate is up 31 is percent for teenage girls and double for boys. >> i wanted to go to sleep and not wake up and like with better grades as sad as it sounds. >> some people say talking about suicide encourages it. do you agree? >> absolutely not. >> tonight after the olympics we investigate the important data that some schools are use to go combat teen suicide and we will tell you which schools don't track this information at all. we investigate tonight after the olympics. so do you have a story you want our investigative unit to look into? that number 888-996-tips or visit our website nbcbayarea.com/weinvestigate. it's 5:25. happening today south bay health leaders are using valentine's day to remind everyone about the importance of getting tested for sexually transmitted diseases.
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according to the santa clara county public health department, std rates have been increasing over the past five years. california has the highest number of cases anywhere in the u.s. experts recommend everyone get tested, know your status and take precautions. coming up next on "today in the bay" a scare in the sky. >> we were just praying because we had never gone through this experience and i really thought we were going to die. >> panic over the pacific. the nerve wracking experience that has aviation experts wondering what happened to these united flight's engine. plus -- >> a historic win. what shaun white is saying this morning after becoming the most decorated male snowboarder in winter olympic history. francisc.
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and welcome back to "today in the bay" as we quickly approach 5:30. a live look at san francisco's flower mart. it is valentine's day so you know a lot of people will be rushing in to get those flowers for their loved ones. you still have time. look how many are left. >> it's only 5:30 in the morning. you have all day. >> surprise a loved one. good morning and thank you for joining us on this valentine's day, i'm marcus washington. >> i'm laura garcia. you know, it's a cool start to our morning, i guess you can snuggle up with the one you love. >> or hurry up and get out the
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door to get those flowers, right? you don't want to miss out on the flowers. >> a kiss on the cheek and run out. >> it's a cold morning, you will want to snuggle up because we have had some cool temperatures. here is a live look outside in san jose. let's go to willow glen, it's going to still be in the 40s at 9:00. today more clouds moving in but we are still going to have those highs reaching near normal for this time of year. i wanted to show you that pollen count forecast because i've been struggling with this. we still haven't had any rain, it's been breezy so there is a high amount of pollen in the air today. mike, you were saying there is a slower build down at the bay bridge. yeah, but not in my sinuses, i also contribute to kari's pollen report. looking over here there is a backup, just filled in slowly at the bay bridge. just in the last couple minutes we have all lanes backed up and the metering lights of course were turned on about 5:23. so we will look at your map, a slower build and lighter volume throughout the bay. we are looking at the south bay,
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there was one incident reported for northbound 87, turns out it's at the capital expressway on ramp, there is a car crash, a lot of damage to the car but not the driver. 87 is okay, though. back to you. we have breaking news to tell you about, our nbc chopper out of washington, d.c. over the scene right here as you can see this is an apparent shooting at the entrance of nsa in ft. meade, maryland, an hour north of d.c. >> one suspect appears to be taken into custody and an suv crashed into a barrier. the nsa releasing a statement this morning saying it happened at one of the ns a's gates. the situation is considered to be under control and there are no ongoing security concerns. we do know this is not the first time an incident like this has been reported at the gate. you may remember back in 2015 a woman was killed and a passenger was wounded when police opened fire after a pair tried to gain unauthorized entry there.
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of course, you can see right there that car and then some things spilled out on the ground. we will continue to follow this and bring you the latest updates on air as well as online nbcbayarea.com. new this morning we are tracking a developing story affecting a solano county neighborhood. a violent night in vallejo. police opened fire killing a suspect in the area ofw1z florida street. li there now with what led up to this deadly encounter. pete? >> reporter: good morning to you, laura and marcus. according to vallejo police that new information we are getting this morning they are saying that the shooting all began with that violent struggle after a stop was made roughly before 8:00 p.m. now, that scene has since cleared near florida and marin street, but we will show you guys that screen when it cook place when our crews were here. according to police it happened on the 400 block of carolina so that's carolina and marin streets not too far from the post office in in area.
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they say that an officer was making a stop in the area just before 8:00 p.m. and at that point the person tried to run from the scene, a foot pursuit chase ensued which ended in that violent physical struggle. at that point the officer discharged the officer's firearm into the person, the person was pronounced dead on the scene. at this time or at this point this morning there is no word if that person had a firearm or another weapon, if that led to the discharging of that firearm. of course, it is under investigation by solano county da as well as vallejo police and per protocol that if err is on paid administrative leave. live in vallejo, pete suratos for "today in the bay." crews on the scene of a strip mall fire in san carlos. fire officials just told us that it broke out inside a sport goods store in between best buy and rei. this is right off of highway 101. crews were initially concerned when they first arrived to the scene because of a dialysis treatment center nearby.
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patients were previously evacuated but everyone is going to be okay. it took about an hour to contain that fire. we've just learned that passengers on a terrifying united airlines flight out of san francisco have been refunded their plane 4wtickets. take a look at this video. one of the engine casings wasgl torn off about 40 minutes before the plane landed. passengers saynk43asc they fear 175 landed safely onúpn the gr in hawaii. 6zuhp &hc% i think we were bracing for the j w4s'ó all taken to safely land that plane. ÷q valentine's day there isvi(v7e, of wine and roses, buthwç for s
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i'm posting resource numbers in my twitter feed all morning long so you can have a healthy and happy valentine's day.ux pas in san jose, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> it's important topic to address. thank you very much. right now at 5:37 fashion faux pas, wearing fur, it sco. depends on your age group, where you live.ee will there is talk of banning the at sale ofe fur in san francisco.r they are continuing that as a supervisors committee will canner to ban it again tomorrow. this is after delaying that vote last month. the chronicle reports that sales here in san francisco area about $1 million a year worth of thos sales every year. if the ban is approved san francisco will be the third vere
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california city to do so. berkeley and west hollywood banned the sale of fur last year. back to you to our coverage ofing ab2018 winter olympic ga pyeongchang. this morning everybody at least here are talking about shaun white. >> watch this, the emotional a moment after his big win. >> i can't believe it. i'm so happy. all that work. >> winning the gold in the men's halfpipe. white whose nickname by th wase flying tomato, yep, he has graduated from that now, he has won this eventnt in three different games.motion just a couple hours ago he stopped by the "today" show to celebrate, still emotional. >> watching that footage is -- is heavy. >> just sitting there like please be my moment, you know, i gave it my all, i put down that run, it was so incredibly -- you know, a great feeling and the score hit and i just -- i was
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just crippled with, you know, overwhelming joy and happiness. >> wow.e )s see.or amazing toic the full interview airs at 7:00 a.m. by the way, white's win a historic mark for team u.s.a. it is america's 100th gold medal since the winter olympic games started. isn't it fun to with a muatch? >> it was great. winning the gold, ugly cry came on. that was good. not an ugly commute. it is a beautiful drive, a little slowing for 101, typical at this time and 87 it's the on ramp at capital expressway where we are tracking a crash, no major injuries and the on ramp is open. moving up toward the east bay, highway 4 a little slowing through bay point in toward concord. not a major issue getting toward the bay bridge. your transit agencies show no delays, either. i've got to be honest, actually, ace train number 1 is one minute delayed.
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>> a whole minute. >> be careful. some people are impatient. >> got to keep it moving. >> that's right. the weekend is coming. with valentine's day and the middle of the week some people may be making big plans for the weekend so this weekend i think that it's going to be a nice one. highs reaching into the mid too upper 60s from the coast to the inland areas and we will still have that sunshine. cool during the morning hours but then we make it into the mid 60s again on friday with mostly cloudy skies and that will be ahead of some changes for early next week. as you're going to santa cruz it's going to be in the mid 60s, but a touch cooler on sunday and that will be the day to make sure you have a nice warm jacket on, especially when those winds start to pick up. going to l.a. this weekend, it's going to be in the low 70s, except for sunday, that's also going to be the day where we feel cooler air even making it into southern california. also in yosemite there will be a chance of a wintry mix with some rain and snow by the end of the weekend so that may slow you
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down coming back home, but i think you will enjoy a nice long hike on saturday with all of that sunshine and highs in the upper 40s. let me know what you're doing this weekend, i'm @karihallweather on facebook, instagram. coming up next on "today in the bay," new this morning we h investigate theoo struggle colle students are facing across the state. the newbuyin study that shows t forced to choose between buying textbooks or food. plus a new development this morning in that $130,000 porn star payoff. when "today in the bay" continues.
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it's 5:44. time to get up and get moving even though it's valentine's day you do have to get to work. now, as we take a live look outside in san jose, all clear, no issues. as we go to los gatos it will be at 45 degrees at 9:00 and warming temperatures today will be back in the 60s. it won't be as sunny as it was yesterday, but still pretty nice. we are going to have more of this dry weather in the forecast, chance of rain, we will talk about that in five minutes. and these travel times are great coming out of the alt month pass, a little build toward livermore and 84 in through pleasanton and livermore, that's where we're seeing more congestion on that major surface street. 5:44. for you right now new details this morning on san jose's push
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to build tiny homes for the homeless. the mercury news is reporting that the city has settled on three locations to build those homes. now, here is the site of those three we are looking at, all along highway 101. we want to zoom in to get a he is color look at that first site. that first site actually is off of mulberry road next to as you can see right here next to coyote creek and that area there. also we want to see that highway 101 and watson park, the second location is not -- is way down south off of hellier next to coyote creek as you can see right here. and that final location is far up northeast of san jose at highway 101 and the 680 interchange. you can see out here in this area, the site actually right here. now, people of san jose really they have fought hard against those tiny homes. three community meetings are planned for the three locations. the first meeting is next thursday. at quarter to 6:00 new this
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morning high cost for books and other materials reportedly stretching students thin at san francisco state university. a recent cal state poll reported by the examiner finds neither eight in ten sfsu students have been stressed out about book costs. one in three have had to choose between food and buying course materials. that struggle has led to 25% of students to consider actually leaving school. also developing this morning, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he will continue to lead israel even though police are recommending that he be indicted for corruption. netanyahu denies any wrongdoing and says it is a political witch-hunt. our own president of course facing his own investigation. >> scott mcgrew, there is little chance he will end up indicted like netanyahu. >> right. the general legal opinion, marcus, is a sitting president did not be indicted, but if mueller comes back with accusations of obstruction or money laundering, the president would certainly be under pressure to resign, congress
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would be under pressure to impeach him. really peculiar development in one of the white house scandals this morning. donald trump's personal lawyer admits to the "new york times" he's the one who paid adult video actress stormy daniels that $130,000 that everybody has been talking about. now, why in the world would he do such a thing? because political groups were nosing around asking if that payment came out of the president's election fund. the lawyer said, no, it came directly from him. not the president, but from him. now, the lawyer don't say why he just randomly paid a porn star $130,000, only that he did. seven years ago daniels whose real name is stephanie clifford told in touch weekly she had a sexual relationship with donald trump. president trump says that's not true. it's been a rough start of the new year for the white house. the week of january 1st that was when michael wolf's "fire and fury" book came out. january 8th donald trump called
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african countries that terrible name. the week of the 15th the government shut down. the week of the 22nd, the reports that trump tried to fire mueller. january 29th the white house released the nunes memo. february 5th the white house defends rob porter a man accused of repeated spousal abuse. during senate testimony tuesday the fed of the fbi said president trump has never told him to fight russian interference in our elections. remember, president trump has also refused to sanction the russians for the same crime. the head of the fbi, the director of national intelligence and the cia director each told the senate intelligence committee that russia indeed interfered with our election and will again later this year. >> there should be no doubt that russia perceived that its fast efforts as successful and views the 2018 u.s. midterm elections as a potential target for russian influence operations.
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>> president trump has expressed doubt that russia did what every single intelligence head said it did. keep in mind all three of the men i just named who testified tuesday they are trump appointees. speaking of russians twitter deleted 200,000 russian tweets. we collected them all. you can read it yourself. i'm @scottmcgrew. right now sending love to someone on this day, valentine's day, is often done with flowers. take a look at all these flowers here. it's estimated that 88 million of those flowers are on their way to those love birds across the country. this is a live look inside the san francisco flower mart as workers quickly put together -- you don't see the workers but they are actively working behind the science trying to put all those arrangements together for valentine's day. >> just gorgeous. you have to love the san francisco flower mart all ready to go. what do you think tops the list for what people give to their loved ones during the holiday? flowers? actually candy is topping the list.
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a little something swede for your sweets. 35% will give flowers to their valentines. spending a expected to top out at nearly $20 billion up once again from last year. >> if you forgot and want to do something quickly, i did this one year, run up the store, you get strawberries and run to the chocolate section get white and dark chocolate, put it in the microwave, whip it up, bam. >> marcus, is this a life partner for you? that you did that for? >> didn't work. didn't work. >> i was like where are you going with this? >> it worked for a minute. >> or do what i did and just pick them up already covered with chocolate and bring them home. >> if you act like you did it or if you did it yourself -- >> i can pretend like i did those. >> she's married. >> so it worked. >> we are all just scrambling this morning trying to figure out what to do and it's a cold
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morning, but at least you don't have any rain to deal with. let's get a look at what storm ranger is tracking right now. that's our mobile doppler radar. we have it in san jose, you can see that red beam going around the bay area and it looks pretty clear this morning, but also pretty cold. here is a look at our temperatures. we are just one degree above freezing right now in santa rosa and in napa it is 35 degrees, we also have some 30s in the tri-valley and morgan hill, san jose at 45 degrees so bundle up before you step out. our temperatures today will reach into the upper 50s and low 60s, a little cooler than it was yesterday, but it's definitely a morning you have to bundle up wearing some layers and a warm coat and also some sunglasses and especially if you will be out later this afternoon for that pillow fight. that's happening in san francisco today. show up in justin herman plaza with your pillows and just have a fight, but you do have to stay and clean up so make sure you do that, too. it's going to be chilly out there with our temperatures
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today in the mid 50s. as we go through the rest of the week we keep the upper 50s, low 60s but the temperatures are normal for this time of year. we only have a slight chance of rain in the forecast on monday and i will keep you up to date on that. mike, you are tracking a new crash in hayward. i have a new crash. 238 is what it's talking about. let's look at the maps. overall great flow of traffic but a concern anywhere around the castro valley y especially for interstate 238, but i looked at the report again it's state route 238 which is foothill boulevard just off of 580. there may be an issue for surface street traffic, but the freeway itself 580 slows on the typical pattern out of castro valley. a little slowly reported possibly for the san mateo bridge. there may be a stall along that flat section. back to you. 5:52.q coming up, ticket trouble for bart riders. we investigate how outdated parking machines are costing some riders big bucks. but first happening now,
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just into our newsroom, two san francisco firefighters hurt while batsling a fire early this morning. that fire brought out just before 3:00 at a laundromat on 3rd street in bay view. the man went to the hospital in serious condition. plus it is ash wednesday for millions of christians and catholics, a traditional season of lent. lent represents 40 days jesus wandered the desert praying and fasting and ends on easter sunday. we are back with more news after the break.
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for all drivers who take ;jc be a o)pain. long time commutersx$ know thos rules, but what about the first timers? >> liz wagner is taking a-ec lo at how old technology is causin$ >> reporter: good morning. several ride2vhdsgñ turned to un they gota5 ticketed because bas th for spots that aren't actually valid at the times they showed up. this happened at the rockridge station in oakland. the riders parked in what they thought were available spaces, parking machines and paid. turns out, though, they parked in spaces that require permits. now they're asking why don't the machines alert riders that the spots they are about to pay for aren't actually available? we found some complaints about
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this going back years. bart says the computers don't offer the flexibility to display warnings, plus bart doesn't want the flexibility to warn riders. a spokesperson says due to ongoing onstruks spot numbers change and they would be impossible to track. she says riders can appeal their citations. bart dismisses about 40% of the tickets, but riders we talked to lost their appeals. you can watch our full investigation online right now at nbcbayarea.com. if you have a parking problem you think we should look into send a tip to the unit at nbcbayarea.com. back to you. you can give them a call, 888-996-tips. they're always willing and ready to hear what messages you have. 5:57 right now. new this morning the race for california governor heating up. some of the leading democratic candidates faced off in a forum in sacramento. former l.a. mayor villaraigosa,
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john chang and dlan in a easton called about policy ideas. the event was organized by the african-american women's advocacy group our time to engage. they want to hear about how the candidates would impact them. the latest poll shows lieutenant governor gavin newsom with a two point lead over antonio villaraigosa. knew some was absent at that event last night and the other candidates wasted no time pointing that out. >> i came. i showed up and i come from a community where it's important to show up. >> when you make a pledge to attend this historic gathering you have to keep it. >> in knew some's defense his team says he's participated in about six similar forums so far this year. he will be at a public event in stockton on saturday. so we've been talking about valentine's day and on this valentine's day we wanted to see the top reasons why people are actually getting married these days. >> according to an online poll
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88% of surveyors said that love is the reason. no surprise. you hope love is the main reason. 81% said making a lifelong commitment. 76% said companionship. 28% said for financial stability. right now it's 6:00, the information about two people stacking an 18-year-old woman. plus running out of the time the deadline that is approaching to come up with a plan for daca. and -- >> shaun white winning the gold. his emotional response after a historic win in south korea. "today in the bay" continues right now. ♪ dangerous high winds another big story toe olympic games
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delaying events and prompting at least one evacuation. 6:00 right now. welcome to "today in the bay." i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. we're also covering some of the big local stories, we will get to mike's traffic and of course we want to go to kari's weather in just a moment, but first here is garvin thomas live in south korea where you were telling us earlier this is a warmer day there than you've been experiencing. >> reporter: it is warmer right now and less windy, but earlier, forget about it. you know, evacuations and emergency alerts, those are scary terms when you are a few miles from the north korean bo border, but this time it was just the weather to blame. first back to you guys. >> we saw that video that wind certainly picking up there. >> really big time. it picked up a lot of tents even. >> that can be dangerous. >> not having that situation here, but we're experiencing cooler temperatures this morning. li
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