>> i believe it happens for a reason. >> you are here to get one last shot at a dream. >> john daly! >> the youngest american to win alpine olympic gold. >> i just want to give myself a chance to be better. >> three american stars with huge expectations. over the past three days, they've all come through in event. that comes tomorrow in the slalom. those of you in the eastern and central time zones, prime time coverage is coming up again. in the mountain and pacific time

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that mass shooting in florida. a picture just in now of the suspected shooter, a young man with a troubled past. teachers and his classmates knew about it. >> a high profile stanford professler, how the upcoming june election may be connected. >> the news starts right now. thanks for joining us on nbc bay area news. i'm jessica aguirre. >> i'm raj mathai. we want to start in sabrina king. so far in these olympics we're seeing two rising stars. it's not just a story about competition. it's also about their family. on slopes for us in pyeonchang, garv garvin, amazing. what's the reaction there? >> reporter: raj, i think awe is

the word i would use. perhaps it's inevitable. after what we saw tonight, it's hard to imagine michaela shuf rin isn't going to win many, many more gold medals. her first at these 2018 pyeonchang olympic games, the giant slalom. the best female skier on the planet came from behind after her first run passed the competition and promptly fell to her knees and wept. her best event slalom is just coming up tomorrow. shiffrin is in a place that bryce bennett would love to be one day. he had a very good showing for a 20-year-old at his first olympics in today's men's downhill. bryce told me moments after the race he is more focused on ever on getting back in four years but he said he made sure to savor this moment.

>> that's got to be a dream come true. >> you finally get the opportunity to stand in the start and you have the bib on and you're at the olympics and you're like all the hard work and years of fries from not only me but my parents and people in the community and coaches in my career and everyone felt pretty good. >> now to some olympic news off the slopes. three-time gold medalist shaun white is trying to tamp down a growing controversy. after winning the snow pipe, he was asked a question about a sexual harassment he settled. he referred to it as gossip. that didn't go over well. he followed up with a statement. representing team usa in the sport that i love is a true honor. i was thrilled to win gold. i regret my favor many years ago and sorry that i made anyone particularly someone i considered a friend uncomfortable. i have grown and changed as a

person. as we all grow and change, and i am proud of who i am today. so shaun white certainly hoping that statement will tamp down this controversy. and raj, just to share a personal olympic moment, we are live at the downhill location where bryce bennett, shiffrin's he'd was a different location. we're into the media room surrounded by some of the best journalists in the world. listening to them analyze every moment. >> a beautiful recount of that story. we'll come back to you later in the newscast. here's how the hardware as it stands right now, the medal count, germ and norway tied for the lead with 13 medals each. look at germany, eight gold so far. canada is in the fourth spot. team usa, followed by japan. you don't have to miss a moment of the olympics. logon to nbcbayarea.com and

watch our live stream from your laptop or phone. >> our other top story, pure evil, that's how the governor of florida described the shooter. nikolas cruz, this is a photo of him being taken into custody. we're learning more about his victims and heart break over taking the town of parkland. 17 people are dead, 15 others hurt. ian cole joins us with stories of the heroes coming to light tonight. >> reporter: the sheriff says a high school football coach was killed. it's not clear if it's the same coach that will reportedly shielded students from the shooter. this story contains cell phone video from students when the shots rang out. it is disturbing to watch. >> video shows the moments shots were fired into a classroom just before the end of the day at marjory stoneman douglas high school in south florida.

the sheriff says the suspect was armed with a semi-automatic rifle. he pulled a fire alarm and targeted students as they ran out. >> i heard three or four shots or pops. >> we all realized it was real. we all started running. >> reporter: s.w.a.t. teams swarmed the school going classroom to classroom. the 19-year-old suspect nikolas cruz was caught an hour later. he was expelled last year for disciplinary reasons but he was attending another school in the district. >> he's just always been a crazy kid. i heard some people say one day he would have done this. annan foreign, i think that was today. >> reporter: tonight the fbi is assisting local authorities as they gather evidence at the school. the sheriff calling for action. >> you see something that's not right, you owe it to your family, your community and uh-oh it to law enforcement to make this a safer nation by calling up someone. tonight. >> reporter: the victims have not been identified as this community tries to heal.

>> this has been a day we've seen the worst in humanity. tomorrow is going to bring out the best as we come together to move forward from this unspeakable tragedy. >> the florida attorney general tonight saying the state will pay for the funerals of the 17 victims killed. ian cole, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. we invite to you stay with us for the latest out of florida. our twitter feed is a great resource for breaking news. we tweeted a link of the latest conference by that broward county sheriff. you can follow us on twitter @nbc bay area. we're following breaking news in washington, d.c. a bipartisan group of senators unveiling a plan that would permanently protect dreamers from deportation. in exchange, the plan would increase border security. here are the details. eight republicans, seven democrats and one independent introducing legislation. it calls for $25 billion for border security while protecting

nearly 2 million dreamers. the question now, will this plan get enough votes to pass. >> i think that's reprehensible and it should stop. >> an envelope containing white powder was sent to that law professor leading the effort to recall the judge who presided over the brock turner case. a hazmat team called in and a section of the school temporarily evacuated. we're at stanford university with more. that professor is okay. >> reporter: she is okay and she says she's actually used to getting some threats because she heads up that campaign to recall the superior court judge but getting this letter today that had powder inside was really a shock. >> terrible mistake. >> law professor michele daughter says she received a similar last week. it reads in part, since you're going to disrobe% ski, i'm going to disrobe you and treat you like emily doe. last week's letter contained

glitter, today's did not. >> there was white powder all in the nfl and all over it. we had both touched it. at that point i reported it to the department of public safety. >> reporter: dawber and her assistant were examined and the law school was temporarily shut down as hazardous materials teams swept several rooms. according to a statement from stanford, the powder was not harmful. dawber says this may be related to the effort to recall judge air% ski. his supporters have been increasingly an gressive. let's talk about his record and the issues and stop attacking people personally. that is creating the environment for these kinds of threats. >> i have no idea what she's talking about because all that our position has done is put out facts. >> reporter: retired superior court judge says aaron persky acted appropriately in the case. % ski has been criticized for sentencing turner to six months

in jail after being found guilty of three counts of felony assault. professor dawber does not believe anyone connected to the campaign supporting judge persky sent this letter. she says it was postmarked from boston. sergio quintana, nbc bay area area news. >> a day after san francisco radio personality made sexually explicit comments about chloe kim, he was fired. here is what he had to say say about that dismissal. >> she's hot as hell. if she was 1, you wouldn't be ashamed to say she's a little hot piece of ass. >> former now former knbr radio host patrick conner made those comments on sirius. this afternoon, cumulus fired conner. he feels remorse and he's embarrassed. he went on to adenos he insulted chloe kim and now she's is an

awesome athlete. >> new at 11:00 this bay area school bus driver facing felony charges of child abuse. this involves special needs children. terry mcsweeney joins us with the details in vaccaville. >> reporter: that 64-year-old woman driving the school bus allegedly got rough with the 7-year-old when the little girl refused to get off the school bus. so rough that the second grader was injured. it happened here at browns valley elementary school last week. as special needs children were being cropped off, one 7-year-old refused to leave the bus. video shows the driver forcefully grab add the girl. >> physically we gan to move her around the bus. at one point the child is down on her buttocks and the driver is forcing her knees up against the student. >> reporter: the child had scratches on her back and ribs. the driver kim klopson booked into jail today for felony child

abuse following a week long police investigation. unified school district says klopson no longer works there and says no child should ever experience something like that can especially at school. we hope the consequences and charges filed reach the full extent of the law. she could be sentenced up to six years in prison. she has no prior arrests. we were not able to contact kloppson tonight. terry mckean sweeney, nbc bay area news. >> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. our mobile doppler radar continues to show the driest conditions in san francisco since 1864. i'll let you know when rain chances increase and a cold blast returns in about eight minutes. >> plus a mountain mystery unfolding tonight. he disappeared while skiing in new york. how did he end up in sacramento in the same ski clothes? and meet adam rippon, not

the olympic skater. the san francisco man caught up in a frustrating case you have mistaken identity. that's next.

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you share it with someone famous. >> soy what's in a name? everything good and bad if you happen to share it with someone famous. that happens to be the case for a bay area man who has the same name as an olympian. on left is adam rippon -- olympic skater. on the right, adam rippon, game developer. nbc bay area michele hurd joins us live with the details. so is he enjoying his newfound fame? >> reporter: i think he is. you know, it might be kind of nice to share the name with someone famous but if that person becomes controversial, maybe not so much. it's happening to a man who

works here in emeryville and he's having fun with it. ♪ >> meet adam rippon. not this adam rippon. this one. >> my name's adam rippon. >> reporter: he's not a figure skater but a video game programmer enjoying his 15 minutes of fame. >> it's been interesting. >> reporter: he realized over a decade ago that he shares the name of the now famous bronze medalist who was the first openly gay american athlete to qualify for the winter olympics. >> i really believe in what he's doing. >> reporter: he even had a cyber chat with the skater in 2006. >> we had a basic hi, oh, hey, i'm adam rippon. i'm adam rippon, too. i figure skate. i make video games. >> reporter: a few days ago, the gamer with the famous name got weird messages. >> telling me that i was an idiot. >> reporter: realizing he's now getting dos of message directed

at the figure skater says he doesn't have the heart to tell rippon fans he's not the other guy. >> i'm just a 37-year-old straight guy who makes video games. >> reporter: a gamer who would love to meet the figure skatener person. in the meantime, he says, keep the negative messages away. in emeryville, cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >> we like them both. fun story. it's thursday afternoon. south korea. this is a live look at the olympic cauldron. we talked about our lake tahoe and southern california olympians. now it's time for the bay area. >> the skaters are ready to go including vincent joe, garvin thomas us again from south korea. hey, garvin. >> reporter: jessica, if we can't wait for the singles portion of the figure skating to begin, imagine how vincent joe feels. he has been waiting for this moment for most of his life. we have video of him practicing earlier this week in pyeonchang.

the 17-year-old palo alto native is not a medal favorite but he includes so many quad jumps in his program. if he lands them cleanly, he could post a big score and surprise some people. as a first-time olympian, he says the whole experience has been incredible. beginning the moment he walked off the ice after his last practice. >> as i was skating off the ice, i suddenly stopped and it was like, i'm headed out to the olympics. it just kind of hit me and i mean, i'm having one of those moments right now. it's just like wow, i'm really here. this is really happening. >> reporter: believe it or not, zhou is not the only palo alto native who is competing in a short time here at the pyeonchang olympics. joann roid who is a by at

athlete is going to compete in a couple hours she competed earlier in the first buy athlete event, the 7.5k sprint. she was disappointed in her performance. finished near the bottom of the pack. tonight she was just added to the 10k individual a couple hours ago and excited for some redemption here. >> we'll be rooting for our local ice skaters. >> we will be. >> what's the finger hart, the korean finger heart everyone's doing? can you show us? >> there it is. >> like this. on valentine's day. >> social media everybody does this. in korea, they do this now. >> this is for you. we love. >> you perfectly appropriate to send this to you on valentine's day. >> speaking of that, garvin's been having fun behind the scenes telling us about all the stuff. check our behind the scenes con ten at nbcbayarea.com on the top video section of our website.

>> let's bringing in jeff ranieri. >> i was going to say, i've got to give that a try. how do you do that? >> it's not too bad. weather forecast for us throughout the next couple of days, we'll be changing not only a cold blast moving in but rainfall chances picking up. our forecast right now, we want to start you off with the bay area's one and only mobile doppler radar. it's home to us right here called storm ranger. right now we have it positioned in the south bay. no rainfall to pick up but we're seeing increasing chances of maybe wet weather here. i'll have more details and the seven-day forecast coming up in about a minute. your forecast tomorrow morning as you get started off, lots of sunshine. 42 in the south bay. 43 in the peninsula and 41 in the tri-valley. 39 for the north bay. san francisco looking good at 45. you need the jacket over towards the east bay and 43. sunshine from the morning

through the afternoon for tomorrow. that's going to help temperatures warm up. the other thing we'll notice is kind you have breezy out of the northwest at 12 in the south bay. humidity lowering. the air will be drier increasing fire danger. humidity down to 22%. of 3 in cupertino and 66 in san jose. alameda county, 67 tomorrow in concord. that be a noticeable increase and 64 in hayward. sunshine continuing right over to the coast. half moon bay at 60. palo alto 65, san mateo 63. san francisco cooler here but beautiful day. lots of sunshine. if you're here visiting, probably couldn't have asked for better weather this time of the year. right throughout the north bay, 65 in napa. chilly in pt. reyes at 59 my extended forecast keeps sunshine dry weather through sunday. temperatures down to 54 on sunday. winds up 20 to 40 mice per hour.

low snow possible on monday between 1,000 and 2,000 feet. right now i'm eyeing potentially the 25th into march 2nd for rainfall that could make its way in. it's a long ways out. we're keeping our eyes focused on this. temperatures up to 70 on saturday. >> by sunday, we are down to 59 degrees. look at the morning lows next week. we'll start off in the 30s monday, tuesday and wednesday, maybe even some 20s. >> that's pyeonchang weather. >> it's getting close. >> colder than pyeonchang weather right now. >> the olympics are here. >> up next on the prowl on the peninsula and in the south bay, the reason wild lieu of experts say we may be seeing more mountain lions than we normally do. east bound on the bay bridge several lanes were just re- an. >> happening now, big delays for drivers heading eastbound on the bay bridge. several lanes were just reopened following a six-car crash about 30 minutes ago. no word of any injuries. we're back in a moment.

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been found. a bizarre story continues to unfold after six days of searching, a missing skier in new york has been found in sacramento. danny was reported missing last week. his belongings were at a ski lodge in new york and his car was in that parking lot in new york. hundreds of volunteers spent countless hours combing the mountain there for him. yesterday he was found disoriented in sacramento wearing the same ski clothes. investigators say he has no idea

how he got there. >> we know what made ten students from a san francisco middle school sick enough to be rushed to the hospital. marijuana intoxication. students became sick at james lick middle school yesterday. a container labeled medical cannabis was confiscateded. at this point no, word what punishment they might face. >> more mountain lions spotted around the bay area. you can blame it on the weather. these are ins of a mountain lion taking last night near quicksilver park in south san jose. the director of the puma project says the warm weather is the reason for increased activity. witnesses were in awe of what they saw. >> huge muscular beasts and it bounded across the street. literally it went from the side of the street, one step in the middle and off into the bushes. >> experts say they're on the move searching for prey like

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steve kerr as he's done before using his platform to speak against gun violence. kerr tonight questioning political leaders and the nra following today's mass shooting in florida. as for the basketball, you just saw it right there. the warriors limping into the all-star break. that was damian lillard from oakland with the hoop. 44 points for him. the blazers win it, 123-117. the warriors bumped to the number two seed behind stat rockets in the western conference. >> michaela schiff fin saved her best for her final run tonight. >> weather delays delayed her first gold medal of the olympics. it was so moving to see her there. so emotional when she won. this may be the first of many of those golds for her. >> like michael phelps in the summer games. after winning gold in sochi, michaela said she was looking ahead four years to the opportunity of potentially winning five golds in south

korea. her quest began today with the giant slalom. second after her first run, she went second to last in run two, blazing speed to the top of the mountain. that was the difference. shiffrin nearly flawless throughout and takes the gold by almost .4 second. he'll go for gold again tomorrow in the slalom. potential gold medal preview in women's hockey, u.s. and canada, despite being outshot by the americans, canada would take the lead into the final period. kendal gets the u.s. on the board 23 seconds into the third. the u.s. empties their net late. closing seconds so close to punching it in, you could argue they played a more complete game. canada wins its 23rd straight game at the olympics. the americans move into the semifinal. a look at the current medal count, germany and norway lead the way with 13 each. as for the united states, in fifth place, thanks to shiffrin with eight. we're back with more news right

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