golden gate bridge. wet morning. we're looking live outside at the going at this hear you see that there, that's the radar on the top left and you don't need your glasses to see that there's green on t thanks so much for joining us, i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. >> i don't care what the forecast looks like i'm just happy to have kari back. >> thank you. >> welcome back. >> thank you. it's great to be back and great to be tracking some rain, too, because it's going to be a little bit dicey as we go through the day. we're going to start out with some spots of rain and i'm going to show you exactly where it is with storm ranger our mobile doppler radar. you can see not all of the bay area is getting some rain and, in fact, in san jose it has

moved on, but the roads are still wet. i want to take you right into san francisco where we can see there is some rain right around chinatown and also the marina district and also a little cell moving through the mission district. so these little areas of showers will be what we'll be tracking as we go into the next couple of hours. we will take a closer look at this in the day ahead. mike, you're already tracking a crash off to the east. >> that's right. kari, you were talking about the rain over here in san francisco and that's where the road weather index shows wet roads there, the north bay and creeping over in through richmond. we had overnight rain, so damp roadways pretty much everywhere. way out here this is coming out of tracy west 205 there is a crash right at mountain house just before the merge with 580. that's got traffic backed up way back to tracy boulevard. there is a business 205 but that also takes you into the traffic flow. you are going to get on to the jammed grant line road. a couple lanes are blocked by this crash and there was a person laying in the roadway with injuries as far as i understand. that was the initial report.

tracking injuries because we want to worry about people involved and then traffic involved, you can get past it on grant line road and then it's all clear towards the rest of the dublin interchange. that's what we're tracking right now. happening today widespread protests across the nation and here in the bay area this morning. thousands of students will walk out of school at exactly 10:00 a.m. to mark one month since the mass shooting in parkland, florida. >> teenagers are demanding stricter gun control and an end to school shootings. "today in the bay's" cheryl hurd is in oakland with how students are preparing there. >> i have my signs here, protect kids not guns. >> reporter: that's something 13-year-old milo stern believes it. >> their solution to the whole thing is to arm teachers. >> reporter: his solution is to

ban assault rifles. they want lawmakers to listen. >> they are not the ones who have to go through lock down drills and be like terrified every time something like this happens. we are the ones that that happens to. >> reporter: they saw it happening to these students in parkland, florida, last month and a revolution started taking shape. on wednesday students across america are expected to walk out of classes for 17 minutes in honor of the 17 killed in parkland. >> i believe that it will send that we are serious about what's going on in our country. >> reporter: these two are high schoolers at oakland tech. they plan to walk out of class tomorrow. >> stricter background checks will allow us to see what's really going on with people's stability and if they have the right to have the guns. >> we're seeing a generation that's going to change some of the current laws that unfortunately their parents have allowed to ride for generations. >> reporter: cheryl hurd, "today

in the bay." now, we've confirmed students from more than 100 bay area schools will plan to participate in today's walkout. you can see a full list on our website, that's nbcbayarea.com. we will also have a team of reporters at schools across the bay area watching for those developments. if you are participating in today's event, you can tag us in your photos and video on facebook as well as twitter. a renowned british theoretical physicist stephen hawking died at the age of 76. hawking's family says he died peacefully at his home in cambridge, england. the best known theoretical physicist of his time he wrote "the mysteries of space and time" and wrote all about them. in his book "a brief history of time" he became an international best selling author making him one of sciences biggest celebrities since albert einstein. he was paralyzed at the age of 21 by a neurological disease. remembering the victims of last friday's veterans home

shooting in yountville. people will brentwood will hold a vigil tonight organized by diane burgess. there are still questions about the response from authorities on the day of the shooting. some wonder why it took law enforcement nearly seven hours to storm the building. everyone including the gunman was found dead. chp is leading that investigation and so far is not commenting. new details for you. experts at a bay area forensic lab will play a key role in trying to solve the recent deadly package bombs in texas. two people have died in three attacks over ten days in austin. one of those victims, a 17-year-old boy. the third bomb critically injured a 75-year-old woman. now, evidence is now being sent to atf lab located in walnut creek. that lab is one of three such facilities in the nation. it's exact location is kept secret. >> we all get so many packages. coming up on "today in the bay," from the shelves of the

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good morning, i'm contessa brewer. here are today's top business headlines. wall street is set to open higher in morning after stocks fell yesterday. the nasdaq snapped a seven day winning streak aztec stocks dropped after president trump blocked broadcom's takeover offer for qualcomm and now broadcom just giving up apparently. there's also growing concerns that trade tensions between the u.s. and canada could rise on reports the white house is considering billions of dollars in tariffs on chinese imports. we get data today on retail sales and inflation at the wholesale level. the dow fell yesterday 171 points, the nasdaq closed down 77. walmart is expanding its same day grocery delivery service to 800 stores in more than 100 u.s. markets by the end of the year. customers place orders online then walmart workers put the order together, it gets delivered to the door by a third

party such as uber. a flat free of $9.95 on orders of $30 or more. walmart is the biggest seller of groceries in the united states but was facing new competition from amazon as it purchased whole foods last year. google will ban ads from bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. starting in june. under its new policy google is restricting ads for any financial product that is unregulated or speculative. the company says it removed 3.2 billion ads that violated its policy last year. in january facebook also said it would ban ads that promote cryptocurrency. i will send it back to you. >> thank you very much. a plan to boost safety and visibility in walnut creek's three public parking lots will cause some short term headaches for visitors there. the city announced plans to add led lighting to the garages on locust, broadway and lesceh center.

the upshot is lot closures and limited parking availability during parts of april and may spending on where the work is being done that day. they will come to an end at some point. coming up next on "today in the bay," keeping track of what's going on weather wise, meteorologist kari hall is keeping track of it all. >> we all walked out to door to some wet roads, but we are still seeing that rain falling from vallejo over towards san francisco. let's go to san jose and in campbell we're still going to see the clouds, but more rain will be in the forecast today. we'll talk about that and what else is ahead coming up next. and we just saw the morning rush, there were three folks that were there at the richmond bridge toll plaza heading over towards san rafael. we will talk about the traffic, i'm tracking two crashes right now. the next step a bay area won is taking after her eggs were plus dreams of having a biological child dashed, the next step a bay area woman is taking after her eggs were destroyed by the clinic that was supposed to keep them safe.

francisco and taking live look out at san francisco this morning and you can see right there a little -- >> it looks miserable. >> yeah. >> but we can act like it's a disco ball, just play the music,

but that is rain. we're tracking that this morning. >> you will be dancing around those rain drops today, right? >> trying to duck and dodge that. >> we're going to see that rain off and on. we're not seeing everywhere, but we all do see the remnants of that rain. it's been pretty soggy here. i want to show you exactly where storm ranger is tracking it because we do have it parked on san bruno mountain, it's our mobile doppler radar, we can see that red beam there. i want to take you right into san francisco. we can see the rain happening around the bay view district, here is one little cell right there on 280 so that's going to affect your drive. i'm going to take off storm ranger and show you what the national weather service radar is showing you and it's a few minutes behind and showing that the rain is still just off to the west and it hasn't even made it to the bay view district. so i want to let you know that it has made it just a little bit farther to the east. heads up as you get ready to head out the door. we are also seeing a very high

resolution view of the rain happening in richmond and also just north of vallejo. so it's been very hit or miss and that's what we are going to see as we go throughout the day. this little impulse that's just offshore is actually forcing this cold air to rise and we know from basic science that warm air likes to rise, but when cold air rises, we start to get these showers and also these little pops of thunderstorms and even some small hail. that will be possible throughout the day and the next couple days as our weather stays unsettled as this big area of low pressure expands all across the region. this will not get out of here until saturday. so this is the way it looks for your day, we're going to start to see some more showers developing by late morning, early afternoon and it's just going to be hit or miss all over the place. then we're going to have some chances of rain in the forecast until about this evening and then things quiet down. all clear tonight, we start out tomorrow morning with some mostly clear skies, but another

round of rain will be here by late morning and tomorrow afternoon. the rain continues until friday and even saturday, but then by saturday afternoon that's when the rain clears, sunday is also looking dry and then there may be another storm system right behind that for early next week. so really the only completely dry day in our forecast is sunday, but you won't see the rain the entire time. we will be tracking all of these little disturbances as they move through with storm ranger and also our high resolution computer model so keep checking back in. mike, you're tracking two crashes on the roads now. >> that's right. i also was tracking that rain because our systems are tied together. we're looking over here that rain showing up anywhere san francisco and north of there. we will remove that layer now and we're showing you the green highlighting which shows you where it's going to be a little wetter on the roadways. damp pretty much everywhere because of the leftovers, it's called water on the road. 24 does have a crash, west 24 at

fish ranch road, sounds like everything is off to the right shoulder, but the rim of the tire of one of those cars is stuck in the guardrail so they will have to remove that. no lanes reported blocked. we don't soo nebraska slowing as you're heading past the caldecott. the better news for the second crash is that has cleared from the incident report, no i think maar injuries reported for that person that was in the roadway for a few minutes at least and traffic is flowing with no lanes blocked out of the altamonte corridor. more traffic through the dublin interchange. no weather related delays or any delays at all for bart, the ferry systems or golden gate and capitol corridor. the bay bridge toll plaza has a few folks waiting in crash lanes, the roadway just got washed off there so there is still a sheen, will be slick at times, watch those off ramps. even that spider we had is clear. oh, we have active rain falling as well. so we're watching that. >> don't you be taking kari's job. the very first lawsuit has

been filed against a san francisco fertility clinic where hundreds of frozen eggs and embryos may have been damaged and this morning there is a push to turn that claim into a class action lawsuit. the mercury news is reporting that a woman is suing pacific fertility center for damages due to negligence and breach of contract. the law firm representing the woman claims at least 400 people were affected after a storage tank at the facility may have malfunctioned. the problem was discovered by the clinic earlier this month. a similar incident happened at a cleveland fertility clinic right around the same time. it's being said there is a lot to be done to fix healthcare in california but the single payer health plan is not one of our options at least for right now according to a new state report. a panel of lawmakers has been studying the state's healthcare system and recommends a ra variety of ways to eliminate healthcare costs but finds a government run system will take years to develop. a single payer system will

require approval from voters and congress. progressives have been pushing hard for universal healthcare. on may 8th nbc bay area and the silicon valley community foundation will host a live debate featuring the top gubernatorial candidates that including gavin newsom and antonio villaraigosa. nbc news political director and "meet the press" moderator chuck todd will be here to moderate that debate. we will broadcast it live on nbc bay area and telemundo 48. controversial conservative speaker ann coulter returned to the bay area last night. it was her first speech since the talk she was planning to do was canceled at uc berkeley last year. there was a much calmer turnout in mountain view last night. organizers hired private security and police stepped up its presence as a precaution. in the end, there was only one protester as you see right there. a much different feel from last year, her appearance at cal was

canceled after protesters showed up. we asked if she plans to ever speak at cal again. >> but i do need to speak at berkeley because it was shut down and to prove the point, to redeem the first amendment. this is crazy. >> in her speech coulter praised president trump for not backing down on his controversial comments or policies, but she also said that he should have already built the wall between mexico and the united states. happening today chelsea clinton comes to the bay area. clinton is on a book tour and she will be at book passage at the ferry building in san francisco at 5:00 tonight. her book was called "she persisted, 13 american women who changed the world." it features harriet tubman, oprah winfrey and others. happening today the second of two public feedback meetings on plans to renovate market street, designs are in place for a long-term project called better market street. this involves more than two miles of busy street. now, it's an improvement plan

between octavia and the embarcadero. construction is slated to begin in the year 2020. tonight the meeting takes place at hastings law school at 6:00. coming up on "today in the bay," nbc bay area responds. >> an easy prepaid purchase that proves difficult to refund. i'm consumer investigator chris chmura. nbc bay area responds next. but first, happening now, the votes are in in germany. angela merkel has been sworn in for her fourth term as german chancellor. lawmakers voted earlier to reelect merkel nearly six months after germany's election and a lengthy coalition building effort. plus the world's former number one doubles tennis player has died. ken acflach was being treated f bronchitis when he died.

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good morning. just a few minutes before 5:00 and this is a live look out our window over the richmond-san rafael bridge. you can see it is slick out there this morning. we are seeing some ponding in the east bay, south bay, pretty much everywhere you are headed out this morning. nbc bay area responds to a castro valley woman who did not get the service she paid for. >> consumer investigator chris chmura is here with her story and how we took action for her. sheila stitch paid 85 bucks for a three-session massage package on grew upon. after her first massage the

merchant said it was no longer honoring the grew upon deal so she asked for two-thirds of what she paid. she thought that was share. instead grew upon gave her a $30 credit so she asked us to help her get the rest of what she thought grew upon owed her. we contacted groupon and it refunded sheila the remaining $27. they didn't respond to our questions about what happened. sheila had to pay up front and we hear from a lot of consumers like her who pay retailers in advance for services but later struggle to get refunds. so our advice is simple, try at least to negotiate a pay as you go plan. that way the provider has to deliver to get your money. if you have a consumer complaint, call us, 888-996-tips, or nbcbayarea.com/responds. it's been almost a year since a former cal rugby player's life changed in a matter of a second.

>> robert paler was paralyzed ten months ago. he returned to his home turf for the first time since that injury. he said being back in the place where he loved was special. >> i remember when i got hurt there's really nothing good that you think can come out of this, but it's because of this amazing people and this place that the good far outweighs the bad. >> he continues to go through rehab in denver. his goal remains to one day walk on his own again. coming up on "today in the bay" kari is tracking weather that will make your commute a little sloppy. >> it's been really sloppy in richmond but now that rain has just cleared. berkeley is just now getting started. you still have a ways to go. now, we are going to see where that rain is for all of the bay area, that's coming up next. plu- students taking matters into their own hands. it was golden gate bridge and, look, you had slick roadways. dealing with leftovers, which is always the case after the rain.

we will talk about what's going on. plus students taking matters into their own hands. nationwide protests over gun control just hours away. how bay area students are preparing. a live look outside at

another and welcome back. right before 5:00 this morning on wednesday, a live look outside as we head to another soggy morning here. we've got team coverage for you as you can see on our radars, you can see pictures from fremont as well as san

francisco. we are going to help get you started with your day. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia. she will be working the 5:00 and 6:00 news tonight which is exciting. i will get to watch her during dinnertime as i'm chopping, right. lucky she's not commuting this morning. >> not commuting this morning but she will still have some rain by this afternoon. it's going to be off and on. we're starting off this morning with pockets of rain across parts of the bay area. we have storm ranger to show you the highest resolution and most up to the second updates than any other station here in the bay area. it's all clear, the rain has moved out of san jose, so let's go right to the east bay where we're seen some of those heavy downpours around berkeley and also approaching orinda, emeryville and also just leaving richmond. i will be tracking this second by second as we continue to see these showers moving through. as we go through the day there is more rain on the way, in