have a lot of windchills in the low 50s. right now it only feels like 50 in fremont. we'll let you know when more chance of rainfall will move our way. i'll have my full forecast in 17 minutes. you mentioned snow in the santa cruz mountains. how about some snow in the sierra. this is i-80 near kingvale. chains are required on i-80 and 50 right now. how about a rainbow amongst the raindrops? we caught this one on our golden gate bridge camera about 40 minutes ago off to the right side of your screen. do you see it there past the raindrops? that's the rainbow. at the bottom of that, a pot of gold, of course. good luck finding it. we also captured this one looking at the bay bridge right around the same time. follow our ever-changing weather with the nbc bay area app. it is free and more accurate than standard weather apps. frustration coming from the oval office and it's aimed at california. today president trump suggested he might punish our state for its position on sanctuary cities

by pulling i.c.e. and border patrol agents out of the state. sam brock is live in front of san francisco city hall. the statement is raising some eyebrows in san francisco. >> reporter: janelle, good afternoon. you know, it's a menacing threat but many who work in city government and civil rights groups don't think the president would ever follow through with it. they say if he does, great. see where deportations and less harassment of communities here. >> we're getting no help from the state of california. >> reporter: a roundtable discussion on addressing gun violence at the white house thursday somehow pivoted to this. >> all i'd have to do is say i.c.e. and border patrol, let california alone. he'd be unundated -- you would see crime like nobody has ever seen crime in this country. >> reporter: as president trump looks to punish california for crafting policy around sanctuary cities, san francisco's supervisor, hillary ronan calls the president's comments an act. >> we've all become very

customed to the president scapegoating immigrants when there's any tragedy or something is going wrong in our country. >> reporter: ronan's district 9, which encompasses the mission, has the largest spanish population in san francisco. the asian law caucus also weighed in with senior staff attorney angela chan telling us over facetime she would feel relief if the president delivers on his words. >> i.c.e. has been terrorizing our communities. showing up at courthouses, near schools and hospitals. >> reporter: the security and criminal enforcement gap created by an i.c.e. withdrawal would be considerable. >> we would rather one-up a state that cares about immigrant rights instead of protecting the security of every american? then shame on him. >> reporter: now, janelle and terry, within the last hour or so the governor's office releasing the following

statement. in california we protect all of our people from criminals and gangs, as well as dangerous assault weapons. we do our job, mr. president. you do yours. mr. ferrell saying if the president thinks he can coerce us into breaking trust with our immigrant communities here, he is sorely mistaken. sam brock, nbc bay area news. the debate on gun control continues to heat up a week after that high school shooting massacre in florida. and now president trump is defending his call to arm teachers. the president says he's been on the phone having frank conversations with lawmakers. he's also talking about tougher back groundiground checks, bann stocks and arming teachers. >> we need to let people know, you come into our school, you're going to be dead. >> reporter: the president says he is not proposing all teachers get guns, just those with military backgrounds or other special training. major moves in the state

capitol today after a california senator resigned to avoid what could have been historic punishment following sexual harassment claims. democratic senator tony mendoza from los angeles county submitted his letter of resignation shortly before noon today. an investigation revealed he had engaged in sexual behavior with staffers over several years. the california senate was debating whether to expel mendoza, a move that hasn't happened in over a century. mendoza resigned before a decision was made. he had been suspended from the senate since january 3rd. a grewsome scene outside a san francisco school. three young men found dead. police suspect the cause is fentanyl poisoning. police say the bodies were found near the urban school of san francisco on page street. fentanyl is a powerful opioid that can be more deadly than heroin. overdoses of the drug are becoming an epidemic nationwide. a picture snapped aboard a b.a.r.t. train going viral. one rileder was on his way home when he spotted this hypodermic

needle sticking out of a seat on the train. christie smith spoke with the man and officials about whether dirty needles are a problem. >> reporter: yeah, we spoke with matt cornic today and he said he was on his way home and he saw that he whaut wthought was a hyc needle sticking up from the seat. he said he acted quickly because he wanted to make sure no one else sat on it. >> i panicked. at first i didn't know what to do. >> reporter: he says it happened monday night after work. >> i went to check the seat and how the needle sticking out. >> reporter: a hypodermic needle. he took this picture riding from walnut creek to concord. he was concerned someone might sit on the needle. >> i found a lemon so i put a lemon over the needle and found a plastic baggy and carefully put it in the baggy. >> reporter: he said he took it to the station agent unsure what

the needle was about and posted on social media, urging riders to look before they sit. >> we're in the midst of a national opioid epidemic. >> reporter: a spokesperson says if you do see a needle, don't touch it. use the intercom to alert the operator and they will come. the agency is in the process of hiring more. b.a.r.t. police are watching for activity, particularly at busier stations. >> we're also involved in a lead program, law enforcement division, where we're trying to get drug offenders services instead of getting criminalized. >> reporter: now, b.a.r.t. spokesperson says they're also working to connect homeless people with more services, particularly in the san francisco area. they also say it's very good to always look out for debris in general when you get on a train, though they say it is very, very unlikely that you would come across a hypodermic needle on their train. but they say of course if you do, you want to report it. reporting live in walnut creek,

christie smith, nbc bay area news. a banner on campus in response to a controversial speaker. protesters hung this banner at hoover tower at stanford. it says stanford loves racism. it's gone now. they say they put it up to protest the speech by political scientist charles murray. murray is the author of "the bell curve" a 1994 book speculating on racial differences when it comes to intelligence. the people who hung the banner from hoover tower are planning to hold a protest before the appearance scheduled for 7:00 tonight. a live look at the olympic cauldron burning brightly over a new morning in pyeongchang. the buzz continues in that city all the way to the u.s. after yesterday's thrilling gold medal game in women's hockey. the canadians have been dethroned in one of the most exciting hockey games in american history. the american women beat their arch rivals to bring only the

gold. the u.s. is back on top of the hockey world for the first time in 20 years. >> reporter: that's right, terry. even if you're not an ice hockey fan, come on, that game was absolutely insane. the last time the u.s. women won a gold medal in ice hockey was 1998, which is also when the sport debuted at the olympics. since then it's just been canada, canada, canada, gold, gold, gold until now. >> overtime, 2-2, gold medal game. >> reporter: the u.s. men played like it was the last game of their lives. they forced their gold medal ice hockey match against canada into overtime, then into a shootout. >> she scores! >> reporter: in sudden death, the unbelievable happened. >> the united states wins gold in pyeongchang! >> i'm emotional, in shock. three words come to mind. our team did this together, though. it was an unbelievable win by us. >> reporter: the u.s. also defeated the canadians in the

curling semifinal meaning for the first time in history, american men will play for curling gold. >> hopefully in a couple days we're standing at the top of the podium with our national anthem playing. >> reporter: in the ski halfpipe americans david wise and alex ferreira spun and grabbed their way to gold and silver, as did jamie anderson, who won silver in snowboard big air. mikaela shiffrin grabbed silver in the alpine super combined, and teammate lindsey vonn was number one after the downhill but failed to finish the slalom. even more heartbreaking for vonn because this could be her final olympic race. now, coming up tonight, american women, including karen chen, really have to step it up if they are going to medal in figure skating. back to you. >> all right, thank you so much. tonight is one of the most highly anticipated nights of the olympics. medals will be decided in women's figure skating. fremont's karen chen is among

three americans hoping to make it onto the podium. she's in tenth place going into tonight's free skate. well, we'll all be watching from karen's hometown of fremont to our nbc bay area newsroom all the way to pyeongchang. we can't wait for ladies figure skating tonight. two russian teens are poised to fight it out for gold. the american women are sitting in ninth, tenth and 11th. they'll have to have a clean skate for a chance at the bronze. a beloved pizza and burger joint on the peninsula forced to close because of skyrocketing renting. there's a new campaign to save it. and -- >> we are one illness away or accident away from financial ruin in this country. >> an east bay family is coping with a five-figure medical bill. tonight the new initiative. how nbc bay area is helping get more than a million dollars of your medical debt forgiven. areas of isolated storms moving through the bay area right now. we'll continue to see wet

weather in santa clara through 3:52 tonight. i'm tracking it, when this moves out and when a better chance of widespread rain returns. that's in eight minutes. ♪

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problem. we'll help a lot of people with their medical bills. >> these days one visit to the doctor or emergency room can have crushing financial consequences. the industries involved say they're trying to reform the high prices, the insurance denials and the billing errors that can pinch families for years. still mounting medical debt continues to turn lives upside down every single day. >> i rush him to the emergency and the next thing we know he's in the o.r. >> reporter: kevin required emergency abdominal surgery that saved his life. now he and his wife are fighting a new battle, the staggering bills. >> the total bill from the hospital was about $76,000. >> reporter: his insurance refused to pay claiming an existing condition. he's appealing. but his case has been sent to a debt collector anyway. >> they call me at work. they call my family members looking for me. >> reporter: now a $76,000 cloud looms over them. they're confident they'll eventually prevail, but they know many people do not.

>> what are you left with? bankruptcy? >> reporter: sadly in many cases, yes. medical debt is considered the number one cause of personal bankruptcies. a federal study estimated 43 million people are haunted by unpaid 34medical debt. they often include inflated charges and are riddled with errors, and yet medical debt festers on credit reports. >> 15 million people go insolvent every year because of medical debt. >> reporter: craig was a career debt collector. he formed an unusual nonprofit called rip medical debt. he says rip buys batches of medical debt but instead of hounti hounding consumers to patience his charity forgives it and closes the cases. >> we put it into a debt s cemetery and it's history. >> are you ready to make television history? >> reporter: hbo's john oliver made the efforts famous when he

announced he bought a bunch of debt in 2016. >> you are about to watch me give away $15 million. >> reporter: now nbc bay area is making a donation to rip medical debt too. our company is making a $150,000 donation which rip will use to buy and forgive $15 million worth of medical debt for people around the country, including $1.5 million for people right here in the bay area. >> you're one illness away or accident away from financial ruin in this country. we need like a secondary safety net. that's kind of like what we're doing. >> reporter: a look at how it works is a peek at the underbelly of debt collection. say you go to a hospital and rack up a $10,000 bill and end up in a payment dispute. the hospital might sell that debt to a collector for less. then the collector still tries to get the full ten grand. over time your unpaid account might be bought and sold between

various debt collectors, who pay less and less at each swap. eventually medical debt trades on this insiders' market for just pennies on the dollar. that's when rip medical debt says it identifies hardships, buys the accounts in bulk and closes them. he says for every $1 that's donat donated, $100 in debt may be forgiven. >> right now i buy a million dollar portfolio, a $100 million portfolio and it's a random act of kindness to those thousand people that were in that portfolio. >> kevin and deanna are still battling their insurance company. they're hoping something will change in the system as a whole from hospitals to insurance to debt collectors in order to lift this heavy financial burden from families like theirs. >> it baffles me. it makes me mad that this is the kind of system that we have. >> we wouldn't ask rip to forgive the debt of specific people like kevin and deanna.

rip can't take requests because it's buying debt in bulk. now, if your account is part of the up wi1.5 million in the bay, you will get a yellow envelope in the mail. if you get one, we'd love from you. even if you don't want to contact us, please hold on to that yellow paper. that is proof that your debt has been forgiven and those debt collector calls should end. rip medical debt accepts donations from the public too. we encourage you first to check out what rip is doing. we are also posting its tax forms for your review. again, like any charitable contribution make sure you are comfortable with its mission before you donate your money. if you have a consumer complaint please call us, 888-996-tips on online at nbcbayarea.com. a restaurant says its lease

is running out and has to close but the community isn't letting it go without a fight. oasis says it's shutting its doors after 60 years in business because the rent is too high. the pub known for its burgers, drinks and fun atmosphere was packed at that as news got out. >> since i was young, my dad used to always bring me here. first of all, when you walk in, there were like peanut hulls all over the floor and you could carve your name in the wood, but the food is excellent. >> a petition is circulating collecting signatures to ask the owners to please reconsider t higher rentin eer rent. it is scheduled to close on march 7th. >> rents are skyrocketing there, so i understand. that was my place. >> you were emotional about that. >> whenever my mom was out of town, my dad took us to owe cases. whenever my dad was out of town, my mom took us to sizzler. >> man, i am hungry.

>> are you hungry? >> yes. >> time to do weather first before that snack, jeff. >> definitely. we have been hungry, so to speak, for some rainfall here across the bay area. finally starting to see some areas develop across the bay with certainly some instability and heavy downpours this afternoon. a look right now at storm ranger, our mobile doppler radar and you can see several different zones of wet weather. certainly heavier pockets have developed. the main complex impacting most of us is this line of rainfall here throughout the south bay. also now exiting the peninsula. it's going to continue right here through willow glen through 3:53 tonight, madrone until 4:12. i want you to see exactly what it is picking up. some hire intensity rainfall cells right now over santa clara. also near winchester. it's all moving off towards the south producing a rainfall rate of about 0.65 of an inch per

hour, so again some heavier downpours right here in santa clara. storm ranger is picking up and will continue through parkmore through the next 30 to 45 minutes. we'll continue to track this of course coming up in our 4:00 show. i'll move things on to what we expect to happen into tonight. i really start to see things clear out. all of our rainfall chances by 10:00 p.m. that's going to set us up for a cold and sunny start tomorrow morning. temperatures dropping down to 31 here in the tri-valley, also 37 for the south bay. going down to a chilly 36 for the east bay and 30 with frost possible for the north bay. so heavier jackets out again but you're not going to need the umbrella as we start off your friday forecast. temperatures still stay cool into the afternoon. you can see across the south bay 55 in san jose. still a little breezy with a slight windchill. winds out of the northwest at 10 to about 15 miles per hour. 58 in danville and 54 in oakland. for the peninsula 54 in san mateo an 56 in redwood city.

san francisco low 50s. right up throughout the north bay 50 in point reyes and 56 expected here back into sonoma. on my extended forecast, there's better chances of rainfall ahead. what we're thinking at this point is by next monday a 10th to a quarter inch possibly. then a second system approaching by next wednesday and thursday night with maybe another quarter inch on tap for us. notice temperatures in san francisco staying in the 50s for highs the next several days. for the inland valleys we're looking at 30s for those morning lows and 50s for those highs, so we'll have more looks at storm ranger and some of those heavier intensity rainfall cells coming up at 4:00 tonight. >> thanks very much. snapchat may have lost over a billion dollars after just one tweet. we'll explain.

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the fallout in our 4:00 newscast. before she was an olympian she was a proud swimmer for a high school. she will be honored in concord in just about 30 minutes. we are there at a ceremony dedicating the new aquatic ceremony in natalie's name. she's one of the most decorated female olympians ever, with a record 12 medals. students at a san jose elementary school have the olympic spirit. our very own vianey was there. kids drew pictures of their favorite events and even enaccideenacted a few of them. okay, storm ranger is out. >> you guys can see heavier rainfall down south of san jose. about 0.42 of an inch per hour. we'll have more looks at this coming up tonight at 4:00. again, it's a higher detail

radar than anything else in the bay area. we'll have more tonight. >> thanks very much. nightly news with lester holt is next. >> we're back at 4:00. breaking news tonight. shocking new revelations about the police response to that florida school shooting. the sheriff revealing late today the school officer on duty that day never went inside as kids were slaughtered. that deputy off the force tonight. vowing action. president trump backing new gun control measures but doubling down on arming some teachers. even proposing bonuses if they're trained to carry guns in the classroom. governor indicted. the up and coming politician now facing a felony charge, and it all stems from blackmail allegations and an extra marital affair. deadly floods. hundreds forced to evacuate as the midwest braces for more heavy rain. and redempt o