we know it is now up to bashar al assad whether he's going to use chemical weapons again. right now on nbc bay area news, use chemical weapons again and face more military action. the waurning from the white house, clarifying a tweench ini >> for us in california, we take a big piece of this problem. >> fighting taxes taking to the streets. nancy pelosi's plan to strike down president trump's tax bill. first, tracking big changes in the forecast. rain is moving into the bay area. the news start rights now. good afternoon, everyone. thank you for joining us. i'm terry mcsweeney. >> and i'm vicky nguyen. gorgeous weather giving way to

showers. take you outside. a live look at san francisco. there you go. just within the last few minutes, storm cloud hanging over the city. the rain had begun to fall. >> tracking conditions, a chance for thunderstorms, vianey? >> that's right. we have a couple of good chances of isolated thunderstorms. looks like my peninsula camera gave out there. rain on the camera. showers coming down. north bay also seeing rain out there. the east bay, getting cloudy, but at least we got through a majority of the morning. now, look at doppler radar. active. we can actually see thunderstorms forming. this is further up north. we will get our chance of seeing isolated thunderstorms for tomorrow as well, because this is a colder system, a colder storm. showers now moving through napa. the novato area, san ral jefael well. keeping the rain all night long. san francisco right now getting some of that rain, south san

francisco. seeing showers as well. oakland about to get hit with the rain as well and out through hayward. we'll continue to see that system trek north to south. if you notice, san francisco it's raining, but this is what it looks like in downtown san jose right now. doesn't mean it will stay that way all night long. here comes the rain. right around 5:00, expect to see that line of showers start to push further down south. i'll talk about the timeline for that and talking about frosty conditions and winter weather advisories as well. sending it back to you. >> vianey, thank you. also keeping an eye on the roads in the sierra. a live look at interstate 80 in truckee near the lake. a winter weather advisory in place until tomorrow morning. meaning people can expect rain, wind and snow with limited visibility on the roads. this storm is rprojected to dum three to six feet of snow. remember, you can track the rain and the conditions in the sierra or your neighborhood with our free nbc bay area app.

given gives you a five-minute warning when rain will hit your area. and two men arrested after an alarming crime in mountain view. police say about 2:00 a.m., they tried kidnapping a woman downtown. walking by a restaurant on the 200 block of castro street when the men allegedly tried pushing her into a vehicle. her friends dime her aid. one of the suspects grabbed a gun from the car and pointed it at the woman's friend. the struggle took place before the suspects got in the car, drove away while firing the gun. two men tracked down at they are home in menlo park and arrested. still no arrested after a violent scene on the freeway. about 7:00 someone opened fire on 580 in richmond forcing police to close the westbound lanes. conducting a traffic stop actually witnessing the shooting. happened neve second avenue. the suspect fired more than 20

shots. a van hit, but nobody injured. police is not announced arrests. the investigation is ongoing. and rushing to finish taxes before the deadline. nancy pelosi was in san francisco slamming the republican tax bill saying it hurts working-class americans and hits california especially hard. live in san francisco, our reporter explains. >> reporter: that's right. nancy pelosi was here in san francisco today, and she called the republicans new tax law basically a dark cloud over the capitol, and fraud. attending town hall meetings across the country and what these she's trying to do, educate people how they would be directly impacted by this and the budget and wants to create a unified opposition to the law. she spoke at a press conference today in san francisco at the labor council alongside organizers of the tax march last year. pelosi also said the bill gives

83% of the benefits to the top 1% while claiming to be a middle-income tax cut. we spoke with local republican leaders, too. this is a complete fraud scam. it's not a middle-class tax cut. it's unfair to america's working families. corporate america's taxes continue. >> this is just anti-trump. in reality, it's a bad idea, in reality the tax cuts are working and they're good for most people in most places. especially the low-income people. >> reporter: we're told shae taken part in nearly a dozen town hall meetings on the tax bill. pelosi says most democrats hope to win seats in the house in november would like to come together in a bipartisan way and create a tax bill that reduces debt and generates jobs. leaders plan to gather outside of the capitol on tuesday with

advocates. reporting live in san francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thanks very much. an unexpected announcement regarding a former first lady. barbara bush's health is failing and she won't seeking further treatment. the wife of former president h.w. george bush has doubled a recent series of hospitalizations. she is 92 years old. according to a family spokesman, mrs. bush will focus on comfort care after she and her loved ones consulted with doctors. mrs. bush is reportedly suffering from respiratory and heart problems. protests against the u.s.-ordered air strikes in syria continued in the bay area. people gathered in oes ee eed ia march. organizers want their tax dollars to be spent at home, not on war. >> we just want that money to be spent here at home on education, on health care, all the things that matter to our communities and not on wars and the

militarization. >> yesterday people protested outside of the san francisco home of congresswoman nancy pelosi and senator dianne feinstein. people around the country and the world speaking out about the air strikes in syria. today at the white house, a clarification about a recent tweet by the president. as well as a new warning for syrian president bashar al assad. nbc's jennifer johnson has the story from washington. >> reporter: despite targeted military air strikes on syria's chemical weapons sites, the white house is concerned president bashar al assad still has and may use chemical weapons again and is warning assad to be on guard. >> we know it is now up to president bashar al assad whether he'll use chemical weapons again and should he use it again, the president made it very clear that the united states is locked and loaded and ready to go. >> reporter: the white house says president trump's tweet of "mission accomplished" was referring only to friday night's coordinated action by the u.s., britain and france, which

destroyed three different research, production and storage sites. >> they also sent a strong message to syria, to russia, to iran that when this president has a red line, he will enforce it. >> reporter: assad met with russian lawmakers today calling the strikes an act of aggression. russia is helping assad fight militants opposed to his rule. now some members of congress say president trump needs to consult with them if there's further military action. >> we need to have these discussions because we don't see that bashar al assad will all of a sudden become a real nice guy. >> reporter: both syria and russia have dismissed reports of the gas attack as bogus. the president is praising the strikes as perfectly carried out while also tweeting more insults against former fbi director james comey calling him slippery and a slimeball. "nightly news" will have continuing coverage of the developments in washington and overseas in the wake of the air strikes in syria. "nightly news" begins at 5:30

right after our news cast. the crossroads of the gun show continues in daly city. a handful of protesters showed up, too. efforts made to stop the show. gun buyers expected to attend everything from ammo, handguns and rifles on display. the california buy verse to wait ten days and pas a background check before they can get their weapons. today a small group of bay area high school students stood in protest some holding signs reading "send the gun show packing." >> we're here to protest against gun sales and make sure a die loeg is able to be open between the two sides, because in reality, a lot more nuance than just two sides. >> you may recall, both san francisco and san mateo voted to ban gun shows but the ordinances have no effect because it is owned by the state. happening tomorrow hundreds of people expected to gather in oakland to demand action on

illegal dumping. residents say garbage is often dumped in their neighborhoods. residents say they are doing their part calling to report the dumping, even raising the issue at city council meetings. communities and city leaders gather for a meeting tomorrow at 6:00 at the st. anthony's school gym on east 15th. still ahead on nbc bay area news, starbucks continues to face backlash. >> more protest after a controversial move by police inside a store in philadelphia. the police chief himself speaking out today about the actions of his officers. plus, a terrifying threat of violence on a college campus. how police found the suspect at a school with one of the first mass shootings in american history. ♪

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today, bh protesters swarmed a philadelphia starbalks today, site of a viral video showing two black men being arrested. today both the police chief and the mayor spoke out about the

officers' actions. nbc morgan radford has the story. >> reporter: this morning, growing outrage over cell phone video captured at a starbucks in philadelphia. >> they didn't do anything. i saw the entire thing. >> reporter: it shows the moment multiple police office confronted two blek men seack m about a table waiting for a friend. >> got their friend on speaker phone. hey, tell these guys you're around the corner meeting us. >> the friend seen on the right arooved and began to question police. >> what are you -- >> a meeting? >> what did they do? >> reporter: the police commissioner says the issue was trespassing. the men entered to use the rest room and denied because they hadn't bought anything. when they refused to leave, that's when a starbucks employee called 911. >> in short, these officers did absolutely nothing wrong. they followed policy. they did what they were supposed to do. >> reporter: patrons watched in

disbelief as cops handed the men and es sported them out. the video quickly going viral. >> sitting there quietly on their phones chatting like everyone else in starbucks was. >> reporter: the philadelphia mayor was matter broken by an incident that seems to exemplify modern day discrimination. >> you can't get into the heads of the people who made the call but what were they thinking and why? >> that was morgan radford reporting. a disheartening swha ining situ led to a reprehensible situation. and police have a suspect in custody after threats were made to shoot up of university of texas at austin. the threats started a month ago. two days later threats to shoot at least 200 people on campus. >> i do want to stress that the investigation is ongoing, we did

clear the suspect's residence this morning with our canine bomb detection unit. nothing hazardous was found, other than there was some ammunition and firearms that were seized. >> police arrested the suspect in a suburb of houston about three hours away from austin's in 1966 a gunman opened fire from the top of the university texas tower killing 13 people and wounding 30 before police shot and killed him. still ahead on nbc bay area news, gearing up for game two. >> came up there, and -- also knew that we come out there, execute or game plan. >> the golden state warriors staying focused after yesterday's win. we'll hear from the team coming up. and the rain is here, and i'm tracking it all for you. we have the radar. you can see showers moving through the north bay in san francisco right now. i'll break down the timeline and how this is going to impact your monday morning commute coming up. it )s a special day in the

baseball world... 71 years ago today... jackie robinson broke the color it's a special day in the baseball world. 71 years ago today jackie robinson broke the color barrier in baseball when he suited up for the brooklyn dodgers. seems across baseball honoring robinson today. his widow rachel robinson and his children on hand between the mets and brewers game. every player on every major league baseball team wore the number 42 on jerseys today including the giants and as. the number robinson wore during his hall of fame career with the dodgers. robinson died in 1972. let's take you out live now. a live look at the arena and colosseum in oakland. quiet now. tomorrow night it will be packed. warriors hosting the spurs in game two of the playoff series at 7:30. and the as playing the chicago white sox at the same time. after a rough ending to the regular season, warriors looked like the champions we got used to seeing dominating san antonio yesterday. despite playing without steph

curry, they cruised to a win and looking to build on the victory tomorrow. >> just respect our opponent and who we play, but we can, dictate a lot of the game by how we approach it. it should be about how we come in every day. >> if you are planning to head out to either game, oakland leaders are saying, please, take mass transit. probably a good idea, too. >> basketball safe. the baseball game? >> yeah. up for debate, considering it's breezy and raining. >> tomorrow? >> yeah. even into tomorrow. so we're going to see, though. this is something that might move out sooner. that maybe will nep thhelp. and the rain is here. just as we forecasted the timeline of that. seeing showers initially for the north day. now rain for san francisco, tri-vall tri-valley, cloudy. peninsula cloudy. south bay still seeing sunshine out there, but look at san francisco. 57 degrees and north bay 54. east bay, 58 degrees. look at doppler radar now,

because you can really see the storm system pap cool front is sweeping in that will trek further south. right now, though, areas seeing rain include novato, san rafael, fairfield as well and still have showers and moisture behind that. even if it stays dry for just a bit, expect to see showers. at least over the next couple hours through tomorrow morning. san francisco getting some of that rain. south san francisco. light showers as well. oakland getting more of those pockets of light to moderate down pours and look at the south bay. not seeing rain just yet. right now about 4:50. you can see the rain approaching. staying the next 20, 30 minutes, don't be surprised if you see clouds roll in and see the rain. through the timeline. by six, fast-forward this a little ahead, you can see we have pockets of rain moving through hayward. palo alto, san jose and then right at about 6:30, 7:00, that system now will be more focused in the south bay. it's coming down there.

if you live in the south bay and wondering where is the rain? don't worry. it's coming. monday, 5:00 a.m., right in the morning hours during your commute early on, expect to see some showers, wet roadway s out there. keep it in mind as you head out. slick roads, things get backed up quickly. also, isolated chance of thunderstorms heading in towards tomorrow into the afternoon especially, before the 10:00 a.m. hour, and then we could see showers move out fairly quickly into the afternoon. now, because this is a colder system dropping down from alaska, there is a winter weather advisory and that is in place through monday morning. expecting dangerous travel conditions up to a foot of snowfall for elevations above 7,000 feet and the heaviest snow is expected between 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. tonight. so temperature difference, also going to be very noticeable heading into tomorrow. even rain now. look at that. raining, 10, 15 plus degrees cooler than yesterday and tomorrow, daytime highs only in the 50s.

today we saw 60s. keep going down. >> went from summer to -- spring. >> just like that. >> in a day. >> yeah. >> all right. thanks very much. >> vianey, thank you. still ahead on nbc bay area news -- >> a bay area woman takes action after seeing parts of puerto rico still without power. her 15,000 pound delivery helping to get the country back online. ack in t box for the cholula buttery jack. a little hot sauce there... woah. what's happening? jack i'm trying to film this commercial! oh my gosh, sorry. with delicious cholula hot sauce and crispy jalapenos on a signature bun. the new cholula buttery jack. part of the buttery jack family.

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last fall was a departure from anyone she's ever done running her solar company but one she had to take. >> a pretty even distribution. >> reporter: as ceo of a solar energy company, lynn spends much of her day talking and thinking about power. but not just the electric kind. there is also power as in the ability to be in control of one's life. both types of power, lynn says, are what her company provides their customer. >> what's so powerful about solar for people is that it's freedom. >> reporter: they also happen to be the two things she said the people are puerto rico were desperately lacking in the wake of hurricane maria last september. destruction, practically everywhere. electricity, practically nowhere. >> you can see this is the conditions. >> reporter: while they didn't

have customers in puerto rico, lynn felt it had a responsibility. >> it was just a no-brainer. when we saw the fact that the electricity system was down, it was going to be down for the foreseeable future, we knew we had the solution. it was inexcusable for us not to go there. >> reporter: so in a matter of weeks, 15,000 pounds of donated sun run solar batteries loaded on to a private plane and flown in. lynn questions now months later they might not have dotted all the is and crossed up a the ts they were supposed to, but time was of the essence. >> when we went there, it was 60 days after and half the fire stations didn't have electricity. we thought we need to get in there now. >> reporter: lynn didn't just lead the charge. she grabbed the tools, climbed the ladder and helped install batteries on a handful of stations herself. >> why we were so happy to come and restore. the hope more than anything else.

when you see the tough firefighters almost tearful they're so grateful to get the systems up and running to get electricity back, to have their fire stations service community centers. it was very powerful. >> reporter: and the beauty, of course, is that now they have that power going forward. not relying on the grid. just recently in puerto rico a single tree fell, took out power lines and once again 900,000 people lost power. garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. still ahead, a convenient way to get around town but is it causing a problem? >> the transportation alternative that has people budsing in san francisco. why it's led to so much concern. and five years ago, an iconic sporting event turning into tragedy. the boston marathon bombing victims, all coming up at 5:00.

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francisco. right now at 5:00, a storm

moving into the bay area. rain already falling in san francisco. we're tracking the forecast and the timeline of this latest round of showers. the news at 5:00 starts right now. good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us i'm terry mcsweeney. >> and mi-- >> a answer that of thunderstorms, vianey arana, what's going on? >> raining in some parts. not everyone has seen rain. south bay, get ready. you can see the dark clouds. temperature, 60 degrees. showers, 58 for the tri-valley. coming down in san francisco and the east bay is getting rain. seeing that system certainly trekking around, and also noticing the cooler temperatures. look at livermore. about seven degrees cooler than yesterday. 12 degrees cooler in san jose. because it's a cold front sweeping in dropping temperatures down. zoom into doppler radar. show you where the rain is