tv Today in the Bay NBC February 14, 2018 6:00am-7:01am PST
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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. >> slightly cooler this morning.
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as we go through the day we are going to have a nice one with highs in the low 60s which is about where we should be for valentine's day. as you get started this morning let's take a live look outside in fremont where it is already busy and those temperatures will be in the upper 50s as we go through late morning, early afternoon. low 60s, more clouds rolling in today and as we go to the tri-valley to get you out the door for that school day forecast look at how chilly it's going to be. bundle those kids up. make sure you write the name on the tag so it comes home with them. it's going to be in the low 60s later on today. we will talk more about this and what's ahead as we track a slight chance of rain. there was a report of a disabled vehicle on the san mateo bridge. there are flashing lights and i also saw in the service lane flashing lights. it is somewhere along that flat section before you get to the high-rise right over there and it looks like they may have moved everything over to the right side. if it's over on one of the service lanes that's better news and i do see the traffic flowing
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better than a few minutes ago. the map will show you whether or not those sensors have showed. just a little bit and that's around the toll plaza. so it doesn't look like a play right now. more traffic across the dumbarton bridge as well. typical timing there. we had the crash in san jose affecting the on ramp to 87 north at capital expressway. back to you. right now we will go to breaking news to tell you about. our nbc chopper giving us a live view of what's happening. this is over the scene of a shooting at the entrance of the nsa. this is in ft. meade, maryland, about an hour northwest of washington, d.c. as you can see that black suv at the lower end of your screen there actually clipped into -- or crashed into that barrier. we know at least one person appears to be taken into custody. the president has been informed by this as of right now we don't know of any serious injuries, but of course we are staying on top of this story. we will bring you the latest information right here on "today in the bay" as well as online. nbcbayarea.com. as soon as we get that
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information. it is 6:02. happening today a case that has many people boulevard. the 19-year-old man and 25-year-old woman arrested in connection with a deadly stabbing are due in court. investigators say the suspect stabbed a young tracy woman and left her for dead on a rural east bay road. "today in the bay's" bob redell joins us live in dublin this morning with some of the information we're learning about the suspects as well as the victim. bob? >> reporter: good morning, laura. yes, later this afternoon at around 2:00 here at the east county hall of justice in dublin a judge will arraign the man and woman accused of this horrific crime. this will be their first chance to enter a plea to the charges against them. those who are charged it's daniel gross, 19 years old, and melissa leonardo, 25 years old. both of them from mow des stowe, both stand accused in the murder of liz cuesta, the 19-year-old woman who was found near death early monday morning off tesla road. this is in a rural part of alameda county east of
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livermore. unfortunately she passed away a couple of hours later at the hospital, but according to investigators was able to first identify her killers. last night cuesta's friends gathered to remember her at great oaks skate park in san jose where she used to skateboard, something she was passionate about. her friends lit candles, 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 got those tiny eyes and she would laugh and her big old cheeks, just so funny. >> reporter: liz cuesta lived in san jose most of her life, went to silver creek high school, san jose city college before moving to tracy last october with her parents and her sister. a friend says she did not like it much out there. it's not clear what happened in the hours leading up to her death earlier this week. what kind of relationship if any she had with the suspects.
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alameda county sheriff's office spokesperson did say that cuesta did get into the suspects' car willingly, but don't know why they allegedly killed her. again, there is no motive. the sergeant does believe that the suspects have been dating each other. again, those suspects gross and leonardo their first court appearance scheduled for later today here at the superior court location in dublin. right now they are locked up in the santa rita jail just across the street. reporting live in dublin, bob redell, "today in the bay." thank you for the latest, bob. breaking news out of southern california where actor luke wilson was involved in a deadly crash that also included a well-known pga golfer. both wilson and the golfer, bill haas, are expected to be okay, but police say that the crash -- look at the mangled car there -- it happened last night near the riviera country club. l.a. police say a ferrari
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clipped wilson's suv and collided with a bmw head-on. the driver in the ferrari died. police say golfer bill haas was also in that ferrari. the bmw driver was also taken to the hospital. happening today in fremont, teachers fight 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 its teachers now for a here. the district which is facing a budget deficit has offered a one time 1.3% raise. the teachers union says that that's not enough. overnight we looked closer and according to the california department of education unified school district teachers maybe $47,000 to start but they top in salary at $96,000. a live look at the nations capitol where hopes are starting to dim on any possible senate immigration deal. this week's much anticipated senate debate got off to a slow start. that's when republicans called
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to vote first on their plan to crack down on sanctuary cities. democrats said they want to he can to us the debate on extending daca and protecting dreamers. >> that does absolutely nothing to address daca, does absolutely nothing to address border security. >> everybody in the room banwan daca. let's see if we can get that done. they've been talking about it for many years and if we can do it would be a great achievement and something on a humane basis would be ex present. >> mitch mcconnell has issued an ultimatum to end the daca debate by friday. this comes as a second federal judge yesterday ruled president trump cannot eliminate daca on march 5th like he is threatening to do. the white house wants the supreme court to now step in. it's the return of the king in the men's halfpipe. >> talk about a joyous time. continuing coverage now from the
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2018 olympic winter games. shaun white's gold medal win is one of today's top stories from south korea. also today two athletes from northern california with ties here will compete. squaw valley's bryce bennett looks for redemption on the slopes in downhill. he failed to medal earlier this week. plus hillary knight and the u.s. hockey team take on rival canada, that's all in prime time. happening now that weather is causing problems for fans and athletes in south korea. >> garvin thomas joins us again live from pyeongchang. high winds are no joke over there. >> reporter: they are no joke, laura, particularly when they lead to evacuations and that's exactly what happened in the building behind us. you remember monday i took you on a tour of the super store. as you can see that's basically a big tent and the winds were so high they had to evacuate the building because they were afraid it would call down. you will understand why when you take a look at this crazy video
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from overnight. people literally running from falling debris and banners, tents and fencing be being ripped to shreds. the super store wasn't the only tent structure evacuated. the nbc commissary that is here at the olympic park which is where we can go to eat when working that is and a tent as well, that had to be emptied out for the evening as well. it isn't the type of experience that one couple from san francisco was expecting on their trip to the olympics. >> we just got an emergency alert, we were stressed out because we can't leave what's going on, but it looks like that structure might fall over. we don't know. >> we were in the cafeteria having a couple beers and it sounds like it's about to fall over. >> reporter: that was just the spectators. the wi the slalom was postponed so
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mi mikaela shiffrin will have to wait until friday. the downhill is scheduled to be in prime time tonight, marcus and laura, of course, weather permitting. >> garvin, you were alerted about the wind. talk to us a little bit about that. how you were -- how you got that alert and how it was slightly confusing at first. >> the language barrier. >> reporter: that's true. so every phone in the area was sent a push alert, it was an alert that came to all our phones. you would be in a room with people, they would all go off and this was the message you would see, it's obviously in korean. at first there was initial confusion and a little bit of fear. we are about 50 miles of north korea and we all had concerns coming here so when you see an alert like this you are worried. fortunately there are folks here who work with nbc and get those alerts and immediately as soon as they get them they translate them and send us a message or e-mail that let's us know what the alert was. in this case it was high winds,
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take shelter. something we had to heed but maybe not something as serious as we feared it might be. >> that's a very good point being right there next to north korea. stay safe, my friend. we will continue to check back with garvin as he's reported live from the winter olympics in pyeongchang. very cool. >> it is cool. a little cool to start for our morning as well. happy valentine's day, kari. >> happy valentine's day. we've been talking about how told it is there in pyeongchang but it's actually a little warmer there than it is in squaw valley where it's 23 degrees. in garvin is it's right now late wednesday night at 11:10 as we get a look at our forecast and what to expect as you step out on this valentine's day, a chilly morning with some spots dipping into the mid 30s but it will be a nice one. highs today in the upper 50s to low 60s. as we head over to mike you've been tracking a few issues out there and another look at that san mateo bridge. in the backup we also have a disabled truck that pulled over
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off to the service lane. right by the toll plaza there is more traffic slowing to get over past this -- it's a distraction here. and the other issue flashing lights about at the end of the flat section midway across the span toward the high-rise. two issues for the san mateo bridge. let me show you the map, there is slowing that shows up on our sensors, the dumbarton bridge is a better route and 880 still smooth getting over there. the rest of the bay moves slowly but golden gate ferry canceled. coming up next on "today in the bay," the force is strong in the north bay. all new this morning the "star wars" themed auction being held to help fire victims of the north bay wildfires.
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you will be waking up early and going to mass, we are going to have a few clouds and a live look outside in san jose. a cool start in campbell. we will be at 43 degrees at 7:00 and it warms up nicely again today and about normal for this time of year. more clouds in the mix but still no rain until possibly monday. we will talk about that coming up in five minutes. and i'm going to keep showing you this live shot here, the san mateo bridge, though, look, over on the right side you see one truck with flashing lights, it's out of lanes,
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there's another disabled vehicle closer to the high-rise, two reasons why you might want to avoid the san mateo bridge. we will give you alternates if you choose. in business news this morning chipotle is back in the news. it hires the head of taco bell to run its operation. chipotle has really been struggling. netflix landed itself a big name director from fox, the guy who created glee. all right. the boarder markets, do you know what's a popular color today? red. a lot of red. expect a lot of red on the markets at the open this morning. why the big reversal? inflation. inflation numbers show prices are way up. prices tend to go up when the economy gets too hot and then the fed comes in and symptoms it down with interest rate hikes and that makes investors unhappy. they bid the markets lower. inflation also robs you of your savings. the consumer price index shows prices jumped last month not just in things like gasoline,
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but food and housing and medicine. the guy in charge of electric car company faraday future says his company is back on track, something investors will find hard to believe. in 2016 the company said it would build a huge factory in nevada. never did. it said it would build a factory down in the san joaquin valley, it never did. now, the other guy with an electric car is doing just fine. elon musk spacex plans another launch this weekend. a regular falcon rocket to put sat fights into space to 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 cluttering up space with all the things he's doing. we do worry about space junk and there is a car that's just floating around there sort of useless, although kind of cool. it's not actually in earth orbit, it's orbiting the sun so we don't have to worry about it
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hitting any of our satellites. >> it's way out there. >> way out there. speaking of satellites, he does plan to launch thousands of these high speed internet satellites. >> as long as it keeps up with the space. >> and at a cheaper cost. >> 6:18. follow up now to google's plan to create that large development in san jose. it could affect traffic of course and home prices in the south bay. san jose leaders last night unanimously approved a real estate pricing agreement. city council agreed to offer google nine lots of land in six different locations at a cost of $67 million. this is all around that area of the diridon station. the committee will evaluate the asking price before it is officially offered to google. new this morning at 6:18 using the force to help the ongoing relief efforts from the north bay wildfires. props from last two "star wars" films are up for auction, it
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includes a model 4 which you may remember from the latest moisture, there is a storm trooper helmet there from "the force awakens." that money raised there go to wine ton tree emergency fire relief fund. the bidding ends on march 2nd so you still have time to get out there and place your bid for a part of history and help the north bay wildfire victims. >> for "star wars" fans that would be cool to own a piece. >> after signing that helmet it's not in the box. >> still a collectors item. >> the signature. >> that will do. >> speaking of something to get your sweetie maybe for valentine's day. >> you may be rushing out the door like i still have to get to the store. yes, it starts out cool. grab a jacket before you leave. it's going to be a nice one after a cool start. we are looking at storm ranger, our mobile doppler radar. if a storm is coming in we can move it around to get the best view of the storm and what it
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looks like and even zoom it down to where you live. you want to keep checking back in with us with that one chance of rain in the forecast on monday. starting out with cool temperatures, napa now we are below freezing, 30 degrees there, it's 34 in santa rosa. we will have more really cool weather in the forecast as we go into next week and i know that's a huge concern because everything has started to bud and bloom because of the warm weather we have had recently. as we get a look at our high today, reaching into the mid to lower 60s and a high of 65 today in walnut creek, oakland up to 58 degrees there, 59 in san mateo, half-moon bay 55 and cooler in ingleside 55 and santa rosa 59 degrees. we will have a slight chance of rain in the forecast early next week. this may do better in bringing the sierra some snow but we will have much cooler temperatures moving in between monday and
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tuesday. we will be monitoring that chance of showers moving in. i will talk more about that coming up, but, mike, you were saying the commute is mostly looking good. >> there is maybe two things i have to mention, one trouble spot would be the san mateo bridge because the rest of the commute is great, a typical pattern which is a little lighter than yesterday because this is a wednesday. this may show a lighter traffic flow. watch the evening commute that may start earlier. the san mateo bridge has%s been showing a slower drive but the live camera may indicate better news. we have this truck on the shoulder but folks aren't slowing past it and moving smoothly across the flat section where there is another disabled vehicle. back out to the maps we are talking about your transit agencies, possible delays for ac transit. and golden gate ferry canceled to and from sausalito. a woman makes a scene after
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than $1,000 and wasn't getting any help anywhere. >> that's until consumer investigator chris chmura took his call. >> we spoke up for him and not results. scott kimura, no relation, it's spelled differently, he wrote me to say he had an $1,100 gift card with amazon in his account, but amazon notified him that it had sent that amount to somebody else. that $1,100 sent to somebody else's e-mail address, one that scott didn't recognize. scott insisted he did not authorize that transfer. "ts back unsuccessfully. scott says amazon didn't want to help. so he asked the attorney general to intervene but that didn't work, either. scott was frustrated when he wrote us he said, i hope you have better luck than i have in pursuing this issue. i don't think i will get my money back unless they are shamed into doing so. we didn't have to shame amazon, all we had to do was e-mail headquarters.
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within seven days amazon restored scott's $1,100 credit. a spokesman said sorry for the delay, we work directly with our customer to resolve the issue. we asked for more detail about what happened here and where scott's money went, but amazon didn't respond to those questions. if you have a consumer complaint like scott did, call us, 888-996-tips, or visit nbcbayarea.com/responds. thank you very much, kris. it is 6:26 right now. new this morning a passenger on a recent delta flight says flight attendants did the right thing in kicking a frustrated passenger off the plane. >> your name? >> tab that. >> thank you, tab that. you may not have a job tomorrow. >> so tab that was the flight attendant and she does still have a job. the unidentified woman in the video actually apologized right after this, but it was apparently too little too late. a woman traveling with her infant took the video.
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she gave it to the daily mail saying the woman in the clip complained about her baby and about having to sit in the back of the plane. apparently a gate agent escorted the passenger who was complaining from the plane about ten minutes later. >> another airplane story for you right now, this one including terrifying moments for those passengers on board a bay area flight bound for hawaii. >> i really thought we were going to die. >> the critical part that was damaged during that flight. plus, shaun white winning gold, a historic win for the snowboarding sensation at the 2018 winter olympic games in pyeongchang. ♪ it's like, what do they do in there? you know have you met a scientologist? yeah, like what do they believe?
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joining us. i )m laura garcia. a very good morning to you. it is 6:30 right now. thanks for joining us on this valentine's day. >> it is. >> i'm laura garcia. >> day of love. i'm marcus washington. thanks so much for joining us. right now we want to bring the love to you even more with someone else, meteorologist kari hall. she's bringing the love of weather for us this morning. >> i think you will love this weather today, it's going to be really nice, even though it does start out really chilly this morning. here is a live look outside in san francisco, all clear start and as we get out the door in san francisco taking the kids to school it's going to be in the mid 40s. this will be more clouds rolling in as we go through the day and highs reaching into the high 50s there as you pick them up for school. for the south bay 63 degrees, still not bad but cooler than yesterday with breezy winds and we will talk about a warm up and
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a chance of rain in the forecast in just a few minutes. mike, you've been tracking a few of those slow spots but a pretty smooth commute but you are still focused on the san mateo bridge. >> pretty smooth overall, this is a lot more red lights, the taillights and brake lights as you travel westbound across the san mateo bridge heading over toward foster city. one disabled truck over on the shoulder but a distraction, folks flow past that and continued slow toward the end of the high-rise where there is another disabled vehicle. a lot more brake lights, i think a tow truck may have arrived on scene. still slow coming over from the hayward side. another crash south 880 at a street may be presenting an issue. one lane is blocked there. more slowing through san leandro. the rest of the bay the commute looks both, the south bay buildings a bit and the metering lights are on at the bay bridge toll plaza. back to you. we want to continue with breaking news that we have been bringing you this morning on "today in the bay." you are looking at video over
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the scene of a shooting at the entrance of nsa. we know that one person was wounded. ft. meade this is in maryland about an hour northwest of washington, d.c. you could see just a moment ago that black suv crashed into a barrier right there. we know at least one sis spect appeared to be taken to the hospital -- into custody, rather, i should say. police have confirmed that the president has been informed and nsa tweeting out that situation is under control and there is no ongoing security or safety threat. at 6:32. new this morning we are tracking a developing story. we've learned police are investigating a deadly officer involved shooting in vallejo. "today in the bay's" pete suratos live at the scene to explain what led up to this shooting. good morning, pete. >> reporter: good morning. we are just getting new information from val low police this morning but it was quite a scene on the 400 block of carolina street in val low last night. i will show you guys that video.
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not too far from that busy intersection on florida and marin streets in vallejo. they are saying that that shooting took place just before 8:00 p.m. there was a stop, officer made a stop of that subject around 8:00 p.m. on the 400 block of carolina street and marin. the subject ran from the scene which led to a foot pursuit chase which ended in a violent physical struggle between the officer and the subject. at that point we're told according to vallejo police that that officer discharged his firearm into that person. that person is pronounced dead on the scene. there is no word on if that subject had a firearm or any other weapon at the time of this shooting, but we know that the solano county da as well as vallejo police will be investigating this matter moving forward. as per the protocol we know that the officer will be put on paid administrative leave. live in vallejo, pete suratos for "today in the bay." new this morning at 6:33
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crews are on scene of a strip mall fire in san carlos. officials told us it broke out inside a sporting goods store in between best buy and rei right off of highway 101. crews were concerned when they arrived on scene because of a dialysis fremont center being located nearby. everyone was okay. took about an hour to contain. 6:34. new this morning we have just learned that passengers on a terrifying united airlines flight out of san francisco have been refunded their fares for that plane ticket. look at this video, one of the engine casings was torn off. this is about 40 minutes before that plane landed. passengers say they feared for their lives before united flight 175 landed safely on the ground in hawaii. passengers say that they've heard -- or they heard that loud bang and felt the strong turbulence. >> i saw a bunch of other people crying around us. i think we were bracing for the worst, like what if this actually lands on the water. >> the faa says that pilots
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declared an emergency when the right engine started vibrating. united airlines says all necessary protocols were taken to safely land the plane. aviation experts say losing the casing would likely not affect the engine. the faa and ntsb are investigating. new this morning, there is a lot of talk of wine and roses on valentine's day, but for some people domestic bliss is replaced by domestic violence. in fact, san jose police department's family violence unit got more than 7,500 cases in the last fiscal year. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez has been digging through those numbers and, kris, you found that domestic violence is on the rise here. >> reporter: right. there are more cases in the city of san jose for the police department and also more cases handed to the santa clara county district attorney's office. now, we do have the latest numbers available. let me show them to you right now. from january through june of 2017, these are the most recent numbers available, san jose
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police got more than 1,600 total cases of domestic violence, nearly 300 cases of misdemeanor domestic battery. 721 cases of minor injury and 121 cases of serious bodily injury or cases involving a weapon. those are felony domestic violence. nearly 500 people violated restraining orders with more than 1,400 of those cases ended with criminal filings. in all of santa clara county in 2017 there were ten deadly incidents of domestic violence resulting in 14 deaths including nine victims. there were 11 people who were shot to death, two people stabbed and one person beat to death. in nine of ten of those incidents the attackers were men though there was a woman there in a same-sex relationship and killed a male friend who tried to intervene. a third of all women will experience violence inflicted by an intimate partner at some point in their lives.
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a quarter of all men according to the centers for disease control. children and the elderly can be victims of domestic violence. now, according to the san jose police department overall staffing is an issue for them in dealing with domestic violence, but the department is using resources through community service organizations. now, experts say that if a loved one is prone to violence that behavior is not likely to change and is often likely to escalate. so if you find yourself in a violent relationship make sure that you get help before it's too late. i have been posting resource numbers in my twitter feed, you can also find it on my facebook page and hopefully you have a healthy and happy valentine's day. in san jose, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> very important to bring attention to this topic. thank you, kris. 6:37. vector control teams this morning will spray two marshy areas along the bay to eradicate mosquitos and their laf spray. the areas being sprayed sit at the southern end of the bay near
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east palo alto on the west on one side and west of milpitas on the other side. vector control says it's routine spraying, they do it every year. it it's a at 7:30. february is a good time to do these kind of sprays, not only do mosquitos lay their eggs in moist soil but concerns about west nile are low right now. the state department of public health says last year california recorded more than 500 human cases of west nile. there were 41 total deaths linked to west nile as well. all but two of them in southern california, none were recorded here in the bay area. and at 6:38 back now to coverage of the 2018 winter olympic games in pyeongchang. this morning everybody talking about shaun white. >> here is the emotional moment after his big win. >> i can't believe you did this. i am so happy. all that work.
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>> winning the gold in the men's halfpipe. white, whose nickname was the flying tomato he says he has graduated from that name now, but he's won this event in three different games. just a couple of hours ago he stopped by the "today" show to celebrate. he was of course still emotional. >> watching that footage is -- it's 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 a great feeling and the score hit and i just -- i was just crippled with, you know, overwhelming joy and happiness. >> it's hard not to share that excitement and happiness. full interview airs at 7:00 a.m. you should check it out. by the way, white's win notched a historic mark for team u.s.a., it is america's 100th gold medal since the winter olympic games began. germany the new leader with 12 medals, netherlands and norway are in a second place tie with 11, canada coming in with 10,
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the u.s. so far in fifth place with seven medals. pretty cool. very cool. our percentage, though, of medals and god medals of those, we have a high percentage of god medals for those we won. over here san mateo bridge westbound still slow across the flat section, the disabled truck now with chp and a tow truck have arrived, more distraction, though, so that's why there's more slowing off the toll plaza. your map on the hayward side of 92, the dumbarton bridge looking good, 880 still slowing a bit more. the rest of your bay shows a nice drive, south 880 at a street there is a crash in the middle of the roadway that will slow you out of the san leandro and the bay bridge has your metering lights of course. >> that's your gift, i guess, for valentine's day. >> they want people to get together. a lot of people will extend the celebrating into the weekend as well. >> i think so, with valentine's day in the middle of the week you may be making your plans for the weekend and it's going to be
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a nice one. cool morning temperatures but our highs during the afternoon will reach into the mid 60s for the coast, bay and inland areas on saturday and then we're looking at the sunday forecast. we will start to see more clouds moving in, but still pretty nice with highs in the 60s. santa cruz will be a nice play to hang out and have a nice romantic beach maybe picnic. it will be in the mid 60s. on sunday breezy, more clouds, 59 degrees going down to l.a. it's going to be in the low 70s. on sunday 64 degrees, more clouds rolling in and going for a hike this weekend in yosemite, 49 degrees on saturday, but by sunday we will have a wintry mix of some rain and snow. we will talk more about that, also what's ahead for the bay area coming up in three minutes. >> that will be a change for us. we will check back with you. coming up next on "today in the bay," finding housing for the homeless. new this morning the locations where tiny homes could soon be built in the south bay. and a very strange development this morning in the
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we take a live look outside in san jose this morning, make sure you're wearing something nice and warm. willow glen we will see our temperatures in the low 50s, at about 10:00. normally we are at 62 degrees, that's about where we will be today. we will have more of this dry weather and are you down for a pillow fight? i'll talk about that and what to wear, that's coming up in five minutes. be prepared when you get back to your station, i might be there. looking at san jose, we have traffic right here, it's building for the south bay. also some flashing lights. i will check that out as well coming up. thank you very much, kari and mike. we've got new details this morning on san jose's push to build tiny homes for the homeless. the city has settled on three locations so far to build those homes. we want to show you where the three sites are. now, you can see on this larger map of the south bay as well that all three locations sit along highway 101. site number 1, let's go into the first location, it is off of mayberry road, you see it right
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he have knee she had a %qñ sexual relationsh with donald trump. president trump says that's not true. looking at the calendar it's been a rough start to the new year for the white house. the week of january 1st that's when the book "the fire and fury" came out. january 8th is when the president calls african shuts down. the week of january 22nd the report that trumpç tried to fi mueller. january 29th, that's the nunez memo controversy. moving into the new month last week the white house defended repeated spousal abuse. the u.s.lfm:(w>+se just launche new in(evn)!tion into nbsyy>n7t. during senate testimony on tuesd4a the head of the fbi sad presidñdkéqa interference in our elections.
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you see on the radar in san josz and it's also picking up on those wind farms in the delta. very high accuracy, i cannot wait to starm a storm, but we still have to wait until about monday. we are still in with dry weather, looking right now at cool temperatures around the bay area, right now 45 degrees in san francisco and look at the north bay, 34 as you get ready to head out. our highs today will reach into the upper 50s and low 60s with some mostly sunny skies and getting dress this had morning you do need to make sure you have on a nice warm coat and also sunglasses. later on today we will get some sunshine. i talked about a pillow fight that's happening today in san francisco, justin herman plaza at 5:50 but it will be chilly out there. wear something nice and warm and you do have to hang out to clean up. look at these numbers as we go into this evening and the seven-day forecast remains about the same. next week i will be tracking a slight chance of some scattered showers and also some very
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chilly temperatures. make, you were saying the drive is not bad for a wednesday. things are slowing down, typical patterns around the bay. we will focus on the san mateo bridge. the south bay i will give you a quick look, northbound routes building through san jose. san mateo bridge we still have the disabled vehicle over there. the live look westbound boggs down. they've cleared one truck but still activity on the showered. a distraction across the flat section and the build to foster city. the bay bridge the metering lights are on. 35 minutes from highway 4 down the east shore freeway which a moves smoothly down to thequ ay. backup at the toll plaza.ding ab back to you. coming upco aurt quick loo the top stories here on "today in the bay" including a bigim t in court for the suspects in tha deadly tesla roadppen stabbing. the information we're learning about the victim this morning. but first happening now at l 6:52, twoau san francisco the firefighters hurt while battlinm a fire early this morning. it broke out just before 3:00 this morning at a laundromat on east 3rd in the bay view.
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crews saved one man, gave him lifesaving care, he is in the hospital now we know in serioust condition. plus it is ash wednesday fof millions of christians and catholics. the traditional start of the season of lent.an lent representing the 40 days er jesus wandered the desert praying and fasting. it ends on easter sunday.
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my name is cynthia haynes and i am a senior public safety specialist for pg&e. my job is to help educate our first responders on how to deal with natural gas and electric emergencies. everyday when we go to work we want everyone to work safely and come home safely. i live right here in auburn, i absolutely love this community. once i moved here i didn't want to live anywhere else. i love that people in this community are willing to come together to make a difference for other people's lives. together, we're building a better california.
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at of 55 on your wednesday morning, welcome back. before you head out the door here are the top stories we're covering on "today in the bay." a live look from dublin this morning where two suspects are accused of beating and stabbing a tracy woman. they are due in court today. daniel gross and melissa leonardo are accused of attacking liz cuesta and leaving for dead. that victim attended school in san jose and went to san jose city college before moving to tracy in october. police say she was attacked early monday morning then dumped on tesla road. she called to get help and named gross and leonardo as her killers just before she died. live pictures from vallejo this morning where police have he get investigating a deadly officer involved shooting. it happened last night near the corner of florida and marin streets. a police officer was trying to stop someone as part of an investigation but the person ran from the scene. the officer chased that person eventually caught up with them. police say the two got into a violent physical struggle and
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the officer shot his gun in self defense they say killing the person. talk of banning the sale of fur continues today in san francisco. a supervisor's committee will consider that ban again today after delaying a vote last month. the chronicle reports storing only sell about a million dollars worth of fur items every year. back now to our coverage of the 2018 winter olympics. some of the athletes have more than medals on their minds. they are actually going for gold in love. >> here lindsey vonn tweeted apparently it's valentine's day. i forgot all about this pause i'm at the olympics and i'm single. anyone else out there single want to be my valentine? #worth a shot. not surprisingly she got a lot of responses including one man who writes roses are red, medals are gold i'd get down on one knee but i'm way too old. vonn wrote back, now, that's awesome. >> she is not the only one looking for love. our garvin thomas is still in
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south korea. fwarven, you found local love birds for us this morning. >> reporter: well, marcus, we were at a press conference with the halfpipe free skiers for team "usa today" and the subject of valentine's day came up. now, that includes tahoe heaters and skiers david wise and maddie bowman and they were asked what their plans were for valentine's day. >> i will answer the valentines question first because i actually do have some plans for tonight. my wife and i went through a two-year project creating a vow renewal video, we've been married for seven years now and kind of coming up on our fifth anniversary so we started shooting this video. i'm relaunching that, that's kind of my -- i mean, we're obviously not together because she is not here yet but we're relaunching that video and there is some writing to go with it so you guys can stay tuned for that coming out. >> valentine's day on the girls side, i think we will finish
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watching "the bachelor". >> winter times. >> the bachelor winter games start tomorrow. that's on our to-do list also. >> reporter: okay. the bachelor, those are some plans for valentine's day. marcus and laura, if i could just say a few personal words, i'd like to say hi to my val fines, my wife and three kids back home in the bay area. it's not easy having dad away for a whole month so i wanted to say i love them, i miss them and i hope they have a great day. >> you're going to make us cry. karen and the crew are the best. thanks so much, garvin. well, this valentine's day theme continues in just a few moments, the "today" show is talking with married figure skating duo competing for america in their first olympics. hear about the romantic surprise. >> so much love. >> it's very nice. >> that's what's happening "today in the bay." >> we will leave you with pictures from the "today" show set from pyeongchang. the "today" show starts in just a few moments.
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>> happy valentine's day. >> we love you. happy valentine's day. >> we love you. we will see you in half an hour for our next local news update. good morning. good morning. red, white and gold. >> double twist 1260. >> shaun white delivers the run of a lifetime to become olympic champion for a record third time. >> it's the return of the king in the men's half pike. >> his goal doesn't come without controversy. we'll talk to him live. brutal conditions, strong winds force olympic park to close and several events are postponed, including mikaela shiffrin's debut of the slopes. >> oh, we want to race. >> as nasty falls and frightening crashes leave their mark on these games.
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