huge high school still a crime scene, more red flags about the former student now murder suspect, 19-year-old nikolas cruz making his first appearance in court today. >> you are charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. >> reporter: expelled from school, ties to a white supremacist group and troubling posts on social media about his obsession with guns. >> the violence has to stop. we cannot lose another child in this country to violence in a school. >> reporter: a sentiment undoubtedly shared by every parent, child, teacher and student today. >> thank you. part of that time line that wendy was referring to after the shooting, the suspect fled the campus along with the students. he then went to a local subway sandwich shop, got a drink and then to a mcdonald's and was captured soon of after. we're also learning more about the victims in all this.

17 people died, alyssa alhadeff was an avid soccer player. jamie guttenberg's family describes her as full of life. 17-year-old with a keen oliver moved to the united states from venezuela at the age of three and to become a u.s. citizen just a year ago. in washington, d.c. today emotional and strong reactions to the mass shooting particularly from california lawmakers, noer dianne feinstein has been campaigning for years to ban assault rifles and today she posted angry messages on twitter, including a video. >> this isn't going to stop, members. it's going to continue and we become culpable when we do nothing. >> and we cannot tolerate a society and live in a country with any level of pride when our babies are being slaughtered. >> who's political survival in this body is more important than the survival of our children?

>> senator feinstein also tweeted today that her bill to ban assault weapons is ready for a vote right now. the shooting has many bay area schools scrambling to test their emergency responsibilities and it's bringing one problem to light the difficulty to hire campus police. he joins us now with more, damian? >> reporter: the trin pal tells me that he has the money to hire one police officer every day of the week, he just isn't getting many takers. >> i'm sure you're all in shock yesterday when you learned about the tragic shooting that happened at a florida high school. >> reporter: the principal at san jose high school took to the intercom today to put his students at ease. >> believe in each other, be there for each other and community go royals. >> reporter: he lowered the school flags to half staff today in honor of those killed in the florida shooting and on a day like this, the principal wishes he had an officer on campus.

>> when we have officers on campus every day building relationships with students, we're able to prevent things from happening. >> reporter: he can afford an officer every day at roughly $55 per hour but that officer can earn a lot more working overtime for the police department which continually needs shifts filled because staffing remains lower than normal. not enough offduty cops are signing up to work the schools. >> we want our kids to be safe in all the schools, we want officers there. tans offduty option for that. >> reporter: the good news is more recruits are signing up to join the force. this week another academy of 57 cadets began their training. repulling the department will take more time meaning for now the high school will remain without a cop on campus three days a week. so the more officers on the force the less overtime is available to them through the department so that means more officers will be available to work the campuses. we're live in san jose, nbc bay

area news. >> thank you. our hearts are with those victims in florida. flags across the bay area are flying at half staff today. that includes this photo here in front of san jose city hall, our own scott budman tweeted this picture. we're constantly posting updates on our twitter feed. turning now to our weather. we've been dry for a while now. not a lot of rain in sight. this map, you can see it here, if you look at california, the yellow signify nais abnormally dry areas and the darker the color, the more severe the drought. so what does this mean for the bay area? let's bring in our own jeff ranieri. i feel like we haven't seen rain for several weeks now. what does this mean for the bay area? >> at this point it's going to be hard for us to catch up and really make good on the rainfall that we have not seen across the bay area. i do want to highlight the biggest change today in the brand-new drought monitor update

and that is the severe drought is now spreading in southern california. it's now pushed right up into central california. right here in the bay area we still remain abnormally dry throughout the north bay, santa cruz mountains and close to gilroy. it's now been 21 days since our last rainfall in san jose putting us on track for the driest february ever on record. back in 1953 they had 207 inch for the month. right now we have zero. we have not seen a drop at all in february. so where do we see things going from here? i'll take you into my long range outlook and over the next seven days the biggest thing coming our way is much colder air. no major storms. next 30 days, la nina continues to fade. that brings us below average rain and average be esh temperatures in the long-term. once we hit summer, we likely could have a moderate drought

returning once we hit the summer here across the bay area. i'll have a look at the long range forecast in 15 minutes. >> we'll see you shortly. a brief court appearance today for that mow des tow couple accused of stabbing a teenager and dumping her body in livermore. 18-year-old daniel gross and 25-year-old melissa lombardo are facing murder charges for the stabbing death of liz. this happened early monday morning. a source tells nbc bay area that gross admitted to stabbing questa more than 20 times. we learned that they all work together at the karlz jr. in tracy. questa had moved to that area after graduating from silver creek high school. a source also tells us la in regardo is pregnant with her fourth child and gross in the father. they'll be back in court to enter formal please. new details tonight in a homicide investigation on the

san mao county coast line. they have identified a man found dead near half moon bay. it happened overnight on tuesday. police aren't releasing the man's name yet but say evidence suggest he was murdered after a struggle. investigators are trying to determine if this was a robbery/murder. homicides around half moon bay are extremely rare. four times today the u.s. senate voted on immigration bills. all four versions failed to pass. three of the of plans would have provided a path to citizenship for so-called dreamers. young people brought to the u.s. illegally as children. a bipartisan bill had the best chance of passage but failed when the white house threatened a veto. that promised some republicans to vote no. it needed 60 votes to pass but only had 54. there is a lot of good news tonight. especially for team usa. this is a live look at that cul

drin burning bright on this friday morning. the americans are winning with flair, five gold medals all of them in dramatic fashion. here's what's so special. we're seeing the rising stars shining bright. 22-year-old mikaela shiffrin won gold last night in the giant slalom but today shiffrin is making a change. let's bring in gina kim who joins us from south korea with all the low down. first and foremost, are you having fun out there? >> reporter: i'm having tons of fun out there. it's so cold and i am a california girl, putting up with that but other than that, absolutely. my first olympics having a blast. shiffrin is in the company of chloe kim, shaun white in that her performance, everybody was expecting to see that was so much anticipation built up around it over the past few months and boy, did she not disappoint? she is the youngest ever olympic gold medalist in slalom she achieved that four years ago in

sochi and achieved that in skrient slalom. >> she was in second place going into her final slalom run. she fought that. >> i thought maybe i can't do it, what if i can't and then i thought, who cares? >> gold for mikaela shiffrin in pyeongchang. when she realized she won, shiffrin collapsed in tears. >> sthaekd run i really -- i risked everything that i could. >> reporter: tonight shiffrin races in slalom her strongest event. in other events team usa had a lot of near misses for medals. fourth and fifth in men's snowboard cross. >> another close call. >> reporter: fifth place for jessie digens and fourth in luge team relay. >> this is racing. sometimes it doesn't go the way you plan but fourth place in the olympics really isn't a bad day. >> reporter: in ice hockey, u.s. women suffered their first loss

to the olympics to canada. the men play against lisa voccia today. we got figure skating coming up just a little bit from now with the u.s. represented by nathan chen and you're very own vincent zhou. back to you. >> we will be watching very closely and is he the next bay area skating star. we've had boy tanna, yam gucci, flemming the list is long. palo alto vincent zhou making his debut at the olympics. we have video of vincent practicing in pyeongchang. he has to remind himself he's at the olympics. it can all be overwhelming. he's just trying to stay focused on this performance. >> i think things are feeling pretty good. i'm feeling just that a little bit stronger than i felt at nationals. i felt pretty good at nationals, but here i feel like i have a little more confidence especially my ability to do

clean programs. >> palo alto and the bay area is rooting for you. not considered to be a medal threat by the experts but if he performs this program cleanly he could surprise a lot of people. raj, where do we stack up on the medal count? right now norway leads the way with 17, followed by germany and canada. the netherlands is fourth, followed by the u.s. like you said, team usa has eight medals, five of them gold japan rounds out the top six. you don't have to miss a moment of these olympic games, if you're away from the television just go to our website and watch our live stream from your laptop or your smartphone. up next at 3:00, a skier goes missing in new york and then he shows up in sacramento but the mystery tonight, how'd he get here? and tracking lyft drivers on the streets of san francisco. the company agrees to handle over crucial data but will it help cut down on congestion?

it's still dry on storm ranger but i'll let you know more about when we might see a little bit of wet weather moving in coming up in eight minutes. s

disappearance, a missing new york skier has been found -- in sacramento. friends reported fire- captain "danny filippidis" friends reported fire captain danny missing last week. his belongings and car were found at a new york ski lodge.

hundreds of volunteers spent hours searching the mountain. two days ago he was found disoriented in sacramento wearing the exact same ski clothes and boots. he remembers very little but believes a truck driver drove him cross country. doctors cleared him to travel back to his wife and two children in toronto. the high level, high steaks deal lyft and the city of san francisco announced that lift will hand over mounds of information as long as san francisco in return protects lyft's trade secrets. so what is this all mean and why is it so important for our traffic? sam brock joins us in the city this afternoon with all the details and how uber's reacting to this as well, sam? >> reporter: uber still refuses to fork over that information but you talk about high level and high stakes, the information that is generated by these ride sharing companies for their own operations is so valuable, we're talking about where passengers are getting picked up, where drivers are commuting to and

whether or not traffic laws are being obeyed, you can understand why the city wants to get its hands on that data. it says it would like to investigate some 45,000 lyft and unier drivers that operate around san francisco to see if they are creating a public nuisance. that can be anything from creating safety hazards for pedestrian or not picking passengers up in certain areas of the city. they had issued subpoenas back in june. that's how long for lyft to agree. uber still trying to hold on to its information. we spoke to an intellectual property expert who runs the ip legal center about what this fight is over, trade secrets. >> it's any information that is relatively secret. it doesn't have to be absolutely secret but you're maybe one of very few and that you've taken reasonable steps to keep it secret. otherwise you lose your trade secret status if you don't keep it secret and it has economic

value to you in the operation of your business because you have the information and your competitors do not. >> reporter: franklin described the dynamic in an interesting way, our love affair with new technologies like ride sharing is rubbing up against the public interest of using that information for good. now when i asked mr. franklin whether or not he thinks uber is going to be complied force to share its information, he said, he think it's does. reporting live in san francisco this evening, sam brock. >> thank you, sam. let's turn to our olympic coverage. a lot happening in south korea. the athletes competing under the bright lights at the olympic venues but not far away is the darkest building in the world? >> it's drawing a lot of attention. let's check in with gar min thomas in pyeongchang. >> reporter: this is the area outside the olympic stadium where they hold the opening and closing ceremonies. i want to call your attention to

this building behind me. that is the world's darkest building. not on the inside, but on the outside. in a demonstration building put together by hyundai it is coated in something called vanta black. that substance absorbed 99.695% of the light that hits it, the lights you do see are l.e.d.s they put up there to make it look like a star field. another reason they do that, if it's all black, it's tough to look at on your eyes. just one of the fascinating and fun things we've been finding here in pyeongchang. coming up later tonight, we'll give you all the latest olympic news but for now back to you. >> thanks garvin. for a kick look at the olympics lineup, check out three reasons to watch right on our website. >> is there a skylight in that building that darkest building? >> i don't think so. >> jeff ranieri is here with talking about that sobering

forecast. >> we really think it's going to be hard to make up the difference of all the rainfall we haven't seen so far but not all hope is lost to at least eventually get some rainfall to return to the bay area. as we bring you into our microclimate forecast tonight, you can see our doppler radar continues to show no rain right now. it's been beautiful. the clouds cleared out. sunny skies down across the south bay here in san jose. checking in with 64 degrees. humidity low at 28%. drier air moving in today. we keep the clear skies tonight and down to 52 degrees at 9:00 p.m. through tomorrow's forecast, i don't see any issues for the morning commute. we start off sunny from the south bay over to the tri-valley. that's going to allow temperatures to drop even colder, down to 38 for the tri-valley. also expecting 43 for san francisco and the number one coldest region will be the north bay averaging 37.

throughout the day, we keep the sunshine on your friday forecast. it's going to be beautiful. we should have the rain, much colder temperatures this time of the year but without that happening, we'll be close to 70 here in san jose. 69 for that high, fridays forecast, also 67 in morganhill. throughout the east bay we're going up to 69 in concord, 66 in pleasanton. oakland 63. sunshine all the way up against the immediate coastline and 60 in half moon bay, 67 in palo alto. san francisco, 62 for the outer sunset and you'll continue with those lows 60s over toward the -- we have 69 degrees in napa. that's one of my warmest forecast temperatures tomorrow and 67 in mill valley. the big change coming our way gets here by sunday. what i see happening right now is a huge dip of cold air moving down from the arctic regions. this could stay in place not only from sunday but through a good part of next week.

let's show you how this will play out on the extended forecast. once sunday gets here and the cold air, 24-miles-per-hour winds down to 53 in san francisco. snow possible on monday down to 1 to 2,000 feet. and then potentially we could see the storm door open up once we hit the 25th through the second of march for maybe wet weather. i really think the colder temperatures coming in will be much more dramatic for the interior valleys. by saturday, 71 for the average. down to 59 on sunday and morning temperatures for the early part of next week going down to the 30s below freezing likely. an isolated 20s especially here by next tuesday morning. we'll have more on this coming up at 4:00 and also more details on the pyeongchang forecast as well. >> thank you, jeff. coming up here at 3:00, so common sensitive you know this, even well paid tech workers can't afford to buy a house here in the bay area and it's likely going to get worse.

we'll explain why. a palo alto

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are a common if you live in california we know it first hand, across the state wildfires are a common occurrence but some say the state is spending too much money and time and resources trying to prevent the unpreventible and not enough on protecting neighborhoods from the inevitable. senior investigative report vicky nguyen joins us now with this new approach, vicky? >> reporter: some fire scientists say just as we retrofit building to withstand earthquakes, we should retrofit homes to withstand wildfires. we investigate new technology that can help your home survive a fire and we asked the state

fire marshal if the state's approach to wildfire needs to change. is what you're doing working? >> it's the million dollars question. we've had a disaster that's affected thousands of lives and we just sit back and say, we couldn't have done anything about it. that's not true. >> reporter: tonight, after the olympics, we'll show you how much money local governments may be leaving on the table that could help prevent thousands of homes from burning. we'll see you tonight after the winter games. >> the high price of bay area housing hitting techies shoes. even successful silicon valley engineers struggle to buy a home here. they say software engineers, for example, making close to $200,000 a year still pay a high percentage of their salaries to own homes near work. >> people are willing to determine the area that's most appropriate for where they work and because of that, they're willing to spend 10% or more over the list price. >> here's an average breakdown.

apple engineers spend 33% of their salaries to help pay for house close to their headquarters. google engineers 32% in mountainview. similar for those working at twitter and facebook. >> you need three jobs to buy a house here. >> i know. back in a moment with the big change for mcdonald's and the happy meal menu. stay with us. at stanford health care, we can now simulate the exact anatomy of a patient's brain before surgery. if we can do that, imagine what we can do for seizures. and if we can fix damaged heart valves without open heart surgery, imagine what we can do for an irregular heartbeat, even high blood pressure. if we can use analyze each patient's breast cancer to personalize their treatment, imagine what we can do

for the conditions that affect us all. imagine what we can do for you. the energy conscious whopeople among usle? say small actions can add up to something... humongous. a little thing here. a little thing there. starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. who are all these caretakers, advocates too? turns out, it's californians it's me and it's you. don't stop now, it's easy to add to the routine. join energy upgrade california and do your thing.

new drought worries in california. how local water districts are tonight, we told you earlier about the new drought worries in california, how local water districts are now responding to the concerning reports. that's in our 4:00 newscast. >> finally here at 3:00, the world famous happy meal is about to get healthier again. mcdonald's says -- this right? cheeseburgers and chocolate milk will not be listed on the happy meal menu. instead kids can get a hamburger and certain combos will come with certain fry orders to reduce the sodium intake. mcdonald's wants happy meal options to have less than 600 calories and less than 50 milligrams of sodium. >> i'm stealing my daughter's chocolate milk and we're sharing the fries.

>> cheeseburgers are great. thanks for joining us at 3:00. lester holt is next with "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> we'll be back at 4:00. hope to see you then. clarify tonight grief and disbelief. new details in the florida high school massacre and the 17 lives cut tragically short. dramatic stories of survival and the hero teachers who shielded students from the bullets. >> coach feis is an american hero. he died saving his students. he died saving us. >> and chilling new video of students hiding in a classroom as the terror unfolded. the suspected shooter in court charged with 17 count of premeditated murder. new questions. were warning signs missed? how the fbi may have been tipped off about him months before the massacre by a threat on ub