minutes ago. >> new problems for dmv. some people who paid to renew their license don't have their license and don't have their money back. what the agencies is saying this morning. >> secret screen shots. the app you may have on your phone right now that might be recording what you type and look at. a new report says it didn't ask your permission. "today in the bay" continues right now. a very good morning to you and thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. mike is going to have a look at the commute in a bit but first start with meteorologist kari hall taking us through the day with those temperatures starting low. >> very low temperatures this morning, very chilly and then a milder afternoon. we'll see peeks of sunshine today and a day to enjoy before weather moves in. highway 101 as you get ready to drive into work only upper 30s. at 1:00 this afternoon, we'll be

at 50 and then see the highs reaching into the mid-50s for this afternoon. we'll talk about the rain moving in in just a few minutes. mike, you're concerned about a motorcycle crash. >> i am, kari, also on the east shore freeway. westbound 880 east shore past golden gate field, see the lights here, and berkeley area university avenue. we don't see interruptions in the flow of traffic. it looks lighter than i expect from berkeley. that may be again, the crash around central as folks are coming off richmond to san rafael, san rafael to richmond eastbound 580. looking at slowing el cerrito out of richmond. a standard build. good news heading to the airport via b.a.r.t., the connector has been restored. still an interruption, a reroute for 38 and 38r because of a closure at geary and parker. that of course started yesterday afternoon. we have the related story of course. send it back to you for that

fire. >> thanks, mike. we're still tracking that developing story. this gas line fire in the middle of san francisco could be seen for miles yesterday. we brought you live breaking coverage of it all afternoon at nbc bay area. now there are still a lot of unanswered questions this morning. "today in the bay" pete suratos live at the seen on geary. pete, still a very active scene there. >> good morning to you, marcus. still a lot of unanswered questions. we are getting an update for pg&e when it comes to folks affected by the fire. all the electricity has been restored in the area but there's still plenty of work to be dub when it comes to gas service in the area because of that ruptured gas line that caused the fire in the first place. in fact, you see the damage behind me on geary an pad parkes a result of the ruptured gas line in the area. a number of pg&e trucks. you see one of the destroyed structures here as a result of that fire. here is what we know when it

comes to this explosion that took place yesterday. we know it took place roughly around 1:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon right here in this construction zone near geary and parker. that fire spreading quickly in the area and destroying five buildings all together ranging from businesses to homes. now, san francisco fire says that fire was ignited after a third party construction crew, a company we now know goes by the name of mass tech ruptured the gas line. the fire took out power for at least 2500 customers yesterday from laurel heights all the way to parts of the presidio. that has been restored for the most part. as i mentioned, the latest update from pg&e, we know the gas line has been repaired. still 300 people are without gas. electricity was restored at 5:00 a.m. not too long ago. here are what fire victims affected by this are saying about the incident. >> we're thinking about where we can move programming. some other sites people have

offered. >> we're allowed to get stuff, emergency supplies because they don't know anything about when we'll be let back in. >> i come back, i see my house over there. oh, my god. the fire. >> take you back out here live to geary and parker argus the cleanup continues following the fire yesterday afternoon. it's yet to be determined when the gas will be restored by pg&e. that's the latest information we're getting from them. thankfully no injuries from the fire. we'll provide new updates as they come in. live in san francisco, pete sur suratos for "today in the bay." our cameras were rolling that entire time. you can watch that video plus raw footage from sky ranger on our home page, nbcbayarea.com.

6:04. a teenager accused of stabbing a pacifica boy is behind bars this morning. elves arrested last night. police say he allegedly stabbed a 14-year-old boy at the fairmont shopping center yesterday afternoon. he was taken to the hospital where he remained in serious but stable condition. officers say at this time a motive not clear. also new this morning, a 17-year-old shot in the leg walking his dog in menlo park. it happened near least okeefe street and menlo avenue. he was taken to the hospital and expected to recover. no arrests made. police say no motive is clear. a shake-up at mta. the director out after allegations that sexual harassment complaints were mishandled. the last day on the job was friday. since last year several muni employees have come forward with allegations of sexual exploitation, groping and racial

slurs. you might recall john hailey, former director of transit retired from the agency last october following a lawsuit from an employee who alleged he groped her. you renewed your driver's license and haven't gotten it in the mail yet? you may be part of the tech glitch in the state agency. kris sanchez joins us live from the san jose dmv this morning. what's the problem this time, kris? this latest glitch affects people who didn't procrastinate, renewed their driver's license as soon as they got their renewal in the mail. here is what happened. they tried to get ahead of a backlog sending out renewal notices earlier than usual, 5 to 3530 days early. the problem is they can only accept renewals 115 days or less before stiration.

some folks renewed early, paid the fees, and now the system shows no record of that. if you got a notice to renew your license between november and january, this could be you. the dmv said people with birthdays of february 25th would be the expiration date on your license, that's the earliest folks would be impacted. sacramento dmv uncovered this glitch and could affect tens of thousands of californians. there's an internal review under way to get to the bottom of this problem. this is in addition to a review by governor newsom and an audit by department of finance of it's completely different from the problem we saw with real ids and motor registration snafu as well. clearly another difficulty for the department of motor vehicles. i did ask on twitter and facebook whether or not anybody had been impacted at this point. we did have one viewer who said her driver's license is about two weeks late. the good news if you are impacted, the dmv now is aware

of this. they are not going to ask you to prove you paid and not going to tell you you didn't pay, if you did. it is going to take a minute to sort all of this out. in the meantime if you have that renewal notice, make sure you keep it with you and your driver's license in the event you get pulled over. in san jose, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." thank you, kris. retailers might be secretly recording iphone screen. session replying requires using third party firm to insert technology into an app. that software records everything you do within the app. it takes screen shots including in fields where you input sensitive information like credit card and passport numbers. newspaper of the widely used apps that do this disclose it in a privacy or public document.

as you get ready to head out the door, it is cold. as we approach 6:09 we are freezing for inland valleys especially the north bay and tri-valley where we started out below freezing in santa rosa, ukiah, livermore now at 32. if you're not having to deal with scraping frost off the windshield and heading to diridon station you still have to prepare with much needed layers with temperatures in the mid-30s. we're going to go from 36 to 46 by 10:00 and eventually into the mid-50s today. as you're getting up and heading out the door for school in martinez, 35 there and low 50s for the afternoon. mike you'll take us to the east shore freeway. >> that's right, kari. a crash reported with a motorcycle involved. i've got no updates on reports for injuries. i did get told by chp the lanes

had been cleared. you see this out of san pablo avenue. picture as well. co-pilots able to do that. thank unnamed wazers for information they sent to us. great information here. join our waze team. nbc bay area wazers. get back to other maps, there is a slow drive despite the fact lanes are clear. it's starting to build out of san pablo. should be a clear through the merge toward the bay bridge where the disabled big rig on the shoulder but out of lanes at the toll plaza. metering lights on there, a standard build for the rest of the day. on thursday a lighter flow through the tri-valley, across san mateo, dumbarton bridges. there may be a new crash 101 around oakland road. i'm going to check the latest from chp coming up. back to you. >> thanks, mike. all new this morning, new comments from dwayne "the rock" johnson making headlines this morning. the reason the bay area native said he turned down the chance to host the oscars this year.

>> there's a darn good reason half of electric cars are sold in california, because elsewhere it's too cold to hold that charge. we'll take a look coming up. a good lesson of why you never leave a baby alone. what happened on this train coming up at 6:25. you're watching "today in the bay." heck (

the time is 6:13. it's time to check out tahoe report for squaw valley and alpine meadows. today is the day to get to the sierra. by tomorrow winter storm watch goes up and we'll see snow coming down. it's going to be off and on throughout the weekend until about monday. at the base we have 177" of snow and there's a lot more on the way. the possibility of getting possibly 3 to 4' of snow throughout the weekend. we'll talk about what that means for bay area rain coming up in less than five minutes. >> we're looking at the san mateo bridge. a lot more company heading west to the peninsula. the bridge itself moves slowly but slower now that traffic is there. recovery on the east shore freeway. we'll tell you what's gon on. >> a very good morning and happy thursday to you. stocks fell yesterday as

president trump's state of the union didn't spell out specific spending on infrastructure. electronics arts the game maker in redwood city, we gave you a heads up on that before the opening bell wednesday morning. instacart said it will no longer count workers tips as part of their guaranteed pay. the san francisco company guaranteed workers $10 on a delivery but that included tips. up to a point, the more a customer tipped, the less they paid the worker. they complained on facebook and reddit. they will no longer do that and will pay back wages as well. you may not know this man but he changed the internet. craig newmark, the craig in craig's list. he just gave a huge amount for journalists to fight fake news. scenes from inside the chronicle newsroom, real reporters hard at work. elon musk tweeted last night the model 3 cost $35,000. but note those parenthesis. that includes fuel savings over the life of the car. musk says he's doing everything he can to get the real price tag

down to that targeted $35,000 but it's, quote, a super hard grind, he says. tesla is also handicapped by its own success. it sold so many cars, the government has reduced the tax break on tesla. new statistics, by the way, show half of all the electric cars sold were sold in california. here is the reason why. yeah, cold weather. we knew cold weather cuts battery time. but midwesterners really found that out last month, new tesla numbers. aaa put together numbers. 20 degree weather, that's 20 degrees, will reduce your range by 20%. yeah, batteries don't perform well in cold. that's before you turn on the lights and radio and seat heater and heater heater. >> and the car. >> and the car and everything else. then it goes down farther. that's positive 20. it was negative 20 in a lot of

spaces. those cars won't perform well there. >> never mind there's no heat. >> thanks, scott. new this morning, we're learning new details about the oscar host controversy. actor dwayne johnson put on twitter he was the first pick. however, the hayward native insists that he was just too busy. he was booked doing "jumanji" 2 to host. as we first told you on "today in the bay," the awards show will not have a host this year after comedian kevin hart stepped down from hosting after past homophobic posts. fans of flickr, especially those with lots of images stored on the site. there's a reprieve. for all free accounts flickr's new owner they plan to nuke every new for the exceeding the new 1,000 photo limit starting with your oldest photos first. the plan was supposed to kick in yesterday but now flickr extended the deadline to march

12th. apparently some of this had to do with downloading for people trying to hold onto all those memories. >> also giving one more chance for -- >> maybe. got about a month there. >> all right. that weather out there for us, pull out the big old coats, gloves, scarves. >> i was very tempted to take pictures of the frost that was on some of the windows on the cars because we don't see that so often around here. yes, it's happening right now as you get ready to head out the door. it is very cold with our temperatures near or below freezing for many of our inland valleys with parts of the north bay now down to 31 degrees. ukiah, fairfield, we are below freezing there. it is at freezing in livermore and frosty in san jose where the temperatures is at 37 degrees. as you take a live look outside with our camera, looking over downtown san jose heading to santa clara with our

temperatures staying in the upper 30s through 8:00. after that it's going to start to get milder as the sun comes out. we'll see clouds mixing in and our temperatures heading to the 50s. microclimates will see highs, 55 to 57 degrees today. then we are going to try to take it in before this storm system arrives it's going to be a wet weekend. so today is your day to get outside, get to the sierra, get things done before the next round of rain moves in. by tomorrow morning, we could see the rain coming down during the morning commute and could be quite heavy at times. it's going to be scattered off and on throughout the day and parts of saturday as well. there may be a few breaks in between but pretty much looks very unsettled. we may start out on sunday morning with another round of snow on mount hamilton and also for our north bay mountains and hills up around ukiah. then this storm system starts to taper off in time for the first part of next week. during that time we're looking at the possibility of getting

about three-quarters of an inch of rain up to an inch. santa cruz mountains may get 1.5", showing higher rainfall totals for the area south of the golden gate bridge. as we go into the next few days looking at highs well below average, only reaching low- to mid-50s. early next week we take one day of a break before more rain moves in. that we'll also have to watch out for low elevation snow and more rounds of rain. more updates on that. san francisco dipping to 49 for the high on sunday. as we head over to mike, you've been keeping tabs on what's happening on the east shore freeway. >> right, kari. we'll start with the live shot showing headlights coming towards you. i should point this out. golden gate field. these headlights are westbound underneath university avenue. looks smooth but traffic held up out of richmond and san pablo. you kind of get a hint of the density of headlights here. let me show you on the map. we're watching the jam up

approaching central because of the crash. one vehicle moved out of the roadway but still trying to find the status of the motorcycle and rider down out of herk less jamming up through san pablo and through richmond. once you past central you saw the live shot over there close to the university, smooth. more traffic towards the bay bridge. once they clear the crash, updates from chp as soon as they are available with more info. they are working hard trying to take care of everything over there. castro valley a minor crash on the shoulder but no major problems. a slight back-up for 880 toward the dumbarton bridge. south 880, a crash on the shoulder, should get an update as well. crash 101 on the shoulder, typical build through the south bay. on the peninsula, an easy flow of traffic. north 101, palo alto. towards san francisco the opposite direction, of course, the taillights into the south bay with no problem. back to you. >> thanks, mike. still ahead at 6:30, going green. a bay area service to clean up

your commute. we'll tell you what you'll soon be able to do. >> he ends up with an extra phone line on his account and it cost him hundreds of dollars. i'm consumer investigators chris chmura. nbc bay area responds next. when i'm not at work, i'm working in the kitchen with a whole bunch of helping hands. we're kicking off valentine's day early at my house baking up a storm. follow me on facebook, laura garcia nbc bay area. stick around, more coming up. ne

moment for one cleveland father! it is 6:25. new this morning video showing a frightening moment for a cleveland father. he steps off the train to smoke a cigarette. then he frantically starts chasing it when it leaves the station with his baby on board. the train's driver learned about the baby on board before it arrived at the next station with just about a minute away. the driver actually returned to the station and the father was reunited with the child. 6:25 right now. an nbc bay area response to a san francisco man who says he ended up with an extra phone line that he didn't need. >> so he called consumer investigators chris chmura and his team for help. >> good morning. george kelly lost his smart phone so he went to a nearby store for a replacement. he was told he was eligible for

a free tablet. george said what he didn't know until later on, that getting his free tablet required him to add a second phone line to his account. that's exactly what happened without his knowledge. he soon started seeing monthly charges for $27.95 for a phone line he did not use. george felt misled. he made his case with verizon. the dispute went nowhere. so he contacted us. we contacted verizon and it refunded george $500.50 which covered extra service with a little extra for the hangups. in a statement verizon said, we strive to provide the world-class experience our customers expect and deserve. in this case we did not deliver on that promise. we sincerely apologize. call us any time. 1-888-996-tips. call us any time or nbcbayarea.com/bay area responds.

here is what we're looking at for the next half hour. live conditions on the ground after the massive gas explosion and fire in san francisco. the questions we're still asking about the people affected and the impact on the morning commute in the city. > . all new overnight, deadly mobile home fire in contra costa county. you can see firefighters working in the cold overnight. the biggest challenge crews told us they faced and what we know about the woman who died. bay area actor, victim of an alleged hate crime, just took a big step forward. what we learned overnight about jussie smollett. you're watching "today in the bay." taking a live look outside

walnut creek. another cold one! >> right now 6:30 on thursday morning, a cold start across the bay area. a live look in the east bay this morning, waiting for the change. tell me the temperature in walnut creek, it is 6:30 but it is 35 degrees. thank you for cooperating there. good morning to you and thank you for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. let's get over to meteorologist kari hall. she knows all about the temperatures this morning and they are cold, kari. >> wait for it, wait for it -- >> i know. >> we're 39 in oakland. it is below freezing in the tri-valley and much of the north bay as you get ready to head out

the door. if it is not freezing it is very close and you still have to scrape the frost off the windshield. allow time to do that and watch out for icy spots on the roads. in brendwood we're down to 33 at 6:00 and a little better throughout the day with low 50s by early afternoon. we'll see highs reaching mid to upper 50s by later today in antioch 55 and 57 in santa rosa. we'll talk about the weekend in a few minutes. mike, you have a delay in the east bay. >> i do. it looks much worse than it actually is. this is improvement for east shore freeway although we have a flood of traffic underneath that university crossing. the deal is they finally cleared all lanes after the earlier motorcycle crash west 80 at central. san pablo toward central and flowing all the way to the bay bridge toll plaza. the build will be at the berkeley curve. the maze itself moves relatively smoothly. so does east bay 880, dumbarton

bridges, south bay northbound through silicon valley, the oakland connector has been restored from b.a.r.t. to the airport. we do have a disruption, a reroute for 38 and 38r muni past geary and parker because of the fire yesterday. for more on that we continue to follow that with laura. back to you. >> how can we not follow this, the explosion and fireball that happened in the middle of san francisco. sky ranger caught the video flames shooting in the a air on geary. "today in the bay" pete suratos joins us live with streets are still blocked off this morning. a lot of questions still remain about this one, pete. >> reporter: yeah, good morning to you, laura. yeah, a lot of unanswered questions when it comes to this massive fire that took place at geary and parker yesterday afternoon. we do know according to pg&e that all the electricity in the area has been restored but the gas service, that's something they are still working on. they did repair that gas line.

that's the latest update from pg&e. take a look behind me. you still see pg&e trucks on scene as that fire yesterday destroyed several buildings in this area. you see a lot of damage there to that restaurant at the corner of geary and parker. here is what we know so far that led to this explosion. we know it happened just before 1:30 yesterday afternoon in this construction area, the area we just showed you guys and spread quickly in the area destroys five buildings ranging from businesses to homes in the area. a san francisco fire official say the fire was ignited after a third party construction crew, a company we're learning is called plastic ruptured the gas line in the area. it took out power in san francisco from laurel heights all the way to parts of the presidio. for the most part that has been restored. as of last night there were when it comes to the latest update, they say the gas line has been repaired.

roughly 300 people are without gas and electricity was restored as of 5:00 a.m. here is what some of the fire victims are saying about this incident. >> we're already thinking about where we can move programming, some other sites friends have offered. >> we're allowed to get some emergency supplies because we're going to stay somewhere else for the night. they don't know when we'll be let back in. >> i come back and see my house over there. oh, my god. the fire. >> now, the time line is still to be determined as far as when gas service will be restored. as you see pg&e crews still on the scene. thankfully, guys, no injuries to report even though we're talking about a massive fire here. as you see behind me, still a lot of work for crews on the scene. live in san francisco, pete suratos, "today in the bay." >> a lot of concern for people, too. thanks a lot, pete. 6:34, new this morning, a deadly fire in eastern contra costa county. one woman sadly is dead.

>> the challenge firefighters faced. it happened in bethel island. >> i did speak tops one of the five family members asleep inside the mobile home when it caught fire. see the green garden hose in the foreground there. he tells me he did try to use it to put out the fire. as you can see, the entire home went up. sadly, an elderly adult woman asleep in a back bedroom, she did not get out. other people did escape. they are physically okay. a fire started before 1:00 this morning inside the santiago village mobile home park on bethel island. the man we spoke with was asleep in one of the bedrooms. he said if the smoke detector didn't go off, they wouldn't be here. >> it was all smoky. i had to really wake up my son, pull him off.

when i seen a glow underneath our bed. when i lifted it up, flames and smoke just came out. i don't know what happened. i could barely get out of there. >> the fire was underneath the bed. >> yeah. >> did you have something electronic underneath there. >> i don't know. we didn't plug anything in. we didn't do anything different. >> the other people in the home, the man's girlfriend, her mom and her aunt who died in the fire. the fire department doesn't know the cause yet. one challenge putting this out, the fire department had to bring in their own water in three continueders since bethel island doesn't have its own water service. reporting live on bethel island, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> bob, thank you so much for those updates there. new details for you, actor and singer jussie smollett back to work on set of "empire."

he grew up and was the hate crime in chicago. they tied a rope around his neck. they want to interview smollett a second time. officers found more surveillance video surrounding the time leading up to and after the incident but the new video has not been released. happening today, even though we're in the middle of winter south bay's vector protection team stepping up west nile prevention efforts. they plan to spray palo alto area by helicopter to halt the spread of mosquitoes. the covered area is march land east of 101. the spraying not expected to affect nearby communities. a new lyft will allow you to specifically request hybrid or electric vehicles. this is a new green mode they have. for now they are making it available in seattle but will soon expand to other cities. rides in electric and hybrids won't cost extra than gas powered cars. lyft drivers who don't have ev

or hybrid will be able to rent one from the company. >> all right. definitely hybrids are popular, drivers all around the bay area and drivers all around the bay area looking at a popular drive with most of the green sensors flowing for the south bay down here. typical northbound build through silicon valley. also 880 south san mateo and dumbarton bridges to push westbound for that commute. we're looking at continued recovery. these are smoothing out, very slow from san pablo, down to the bay bridge. it takes about an hour for timing. disabled vehicle, second one of the morning for the bay bridge toll plaza. walnut creek, 680 at the top of the screen moving smoothly. the parking lot at the bottom looks like spaces. go ahead and avoid the drive, just ride. >> put your layers on, it's so cold this morning. >> yes. especially if you have to be outside for a while. don't underestimate how cold it is out there, especially for us

here we're not really used to this. as we go into the weekend, we're going to see rain off and on on saturday. those highs only reaching the low 50s. more rain on sunday. it may even be a little bit cooler as we start to see the system rolling out of the bay area and tailing off for late sunday night as that rain ends. if you're planning to go to the at&t pebble beach pro-am on sunday, it is going to be soggy. those temperatures cool. we're only reaching to the low 50s throughout the day. if you're going to heavenly this weekend, it's going to be one where we see heavy snow falling pretty much all weekend long. if you can get there today, maybe take off tomorrow or get there early in the morning, that's going to be your best travel conditions because after that you may have to check for road closures and bring the tire chains and all of that stuff. then we're also going to see some scattered showers throughout the weekend. some of the heavier rain moving in tomorrow for russian river valley. then those highs only reaching

46 degrees so very chilly. not the best weekend for hiking. if you are able to catch breaks in the rain and head to muir woods, on saturday see the high up to 53 degrees. dress in layers, maybe you'll enjoy it. out of town going to santa barbara, southern california won't see the rain until the end of the weekend. maybe that's where you'll catch rays with cool temperatures only reaching 59 degrees. i'll be tracking this storm and of course all the storms moving into the bay area. for more updates, follow me on facebook, instagram and twitter. i'm @karihall weather. i'll look at the temperature trend. that's coming up in 20 minutes. >> already following you, kari. >> one of our top stories, new problems for dmv. some people who paid to renew their license, they don't have their license and they don't have their money back. what the agency is san diego this morning. new numbers showing just how many people are getting hurt on electric scooters. what families need to know. >> at 6:50, back home again.

the brady bunch returns to the california house made famous on the hit tv show. their reaction temperature renovations under way. don't play ball in the house. >> marcia, marcia, marcia. democrats ramp up their investigation. take you to the big board. dow industrials falling at one point more than 200 points just above 25,000. you're watching "today in the bay."

in our other top sto happy birthday. right now it's 6:43, a sunny spot, at least start to see the sun coming over the hills looking at palo alto and highway 101. we are going to see those temperatures very cold to start. upper 30s as you head out the

door. then we go from 37 to 50 at 1:00. we'll talk about our dry day and when that rain comes back in the forecast in less than five minutes. over here the san mateo bridge, we do have a crash on the hayward side. slower traffic on the peninsula and on the peninsula we're tracking another crash near university. >> thanks so much, kari and mike. 6:44 right now. other top stories, if you renewed your california driver's license and haven't gotten it in the mail yet you may be part of the latest tech glitch for the agency. live from san jose dmv this morning. >> they tried to renew notices as soon as they got them in the mail. here is what happened. they sent outlet renewal notices as soon as possible. they only accept them 115 days

before expiration. some people renewed early to avoid fees and the system shows no record. a new study shedding light on electric scooter injuries in california. ucla researchers looking at 250 injuries at the hopped. 200 arrived by ambulance indicating more serious injuries, 30% broken bones, 11% younger than 18. only 4% wearing a helmet. 21 of those injuries involved people walking on sidewalks. well, president trump's ambitious plan to eliminate the hiv/aids ep emdiddic in a decade is being met with a few raised eyebrows in the area. >> he announced it at the state of the union address. a more detailed plan introduced yesterday calling to reduce new infections by 90% in the year 2030. the strategy focused on

additional resources and expertise in the hardest hit communities, san francisco and alameda, but so far it lacks funding. the head of the president's san francisco aids foundation released a response. in one part it says, "ending hiv will require more than increased funding for hiv services like testing and treatment. it will require comprehensive policies that address the root cause of hiv, health inequities like poverty and institutional racism." 6:46 for you right now with the president facing a new and very serious opponent this morning. >> scott mcgrew, adam schiff waiting for action. >> adam schiff was waiting for this day. he was ranking member of house intelligence committee investigation into trump. ranking member means the guy in the background, in power. last year it's been republican devon nunez calling the shots. now schiff is in charge and he's reopening the investigation. he says not only will he be

going back and reexamining testimony republicans failed to follow up on, he's going to aid the criminal investigation. putting democrats in charge of the house investigations was one of the biggest, if not the biggest ramification of the midterm elections. not only do you have mueller but schiff working independently. that has to be worrying the president. listen to this. >> an economic miracle is taking place in the united states, and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics, or ridiculous partisan investigations. >> that was the state of the union. now let's go live to washington where the national prayer breakfast, president trump will speak shortly. we're keeping an eye on this. nancy pelosi there as well. the president has tweeted several times this morning about

schiff saying what he's doing is presidential harassment. in a separate matter the house is working on a bill that would require presidential candidates to roles their tax records, something mr. trump has so far refused to do. we expect to see interim attorney general matt whittaker testify before the house judiciary committee tomorrow as those investigations get into full swing. we just learned closed door testimony from trump's former personal forney michael cohen has been delayed until the end of the moment. not clear why. also keeping our eye on virginia. the governor there accused of wearing black face when he was a med student. if the governor were to step down the lieutenant governor will take over. except you know the lieutenant governor has been accused of sexual assault by a california college professor. he denies it. if he were to step down, the state attorney general takes over, except "the new york times" now reports he, too, wore black face at a costume party in

1980. all of these men were democrats. if all stepped down it goes to republican state speaker of the house. we're working on getting his picture. we're keeping an eye on that and everything else going in politics. if you would like to follow along you can do so on twitter @scottmcgrew. >> new this morning, an update on a family most of us know now returning to television tore a whole new generation to enjoy. yes, we're talking about the brady bunch. you may already know they are all reuniting for a reality tv series on hg tv called a very brady renovation. bobby, marcia, jan, reunite to renovate the show featured in the show's opening and closing segment. >> i'm so happy they were able to get us all. you know, if one was missing or, god forbid, just me and barry, you know. >> there would be no show.

>> it would be half has house. >> we're going to do this with a thing called a very brady renovation. >> on "today" show with natalie morales. that's bobby. there's cindy. >> marcia, marcia, marcia. >> more of that on the "today" show. >> jan looks good. >> she does. >> revenge finally. >> hey, there's nothing wrong with glasses. >> she took them off. she shouldn't have. she broke the family portrait. look it up on imdb, folks. >> good life lesson. >> i don't remember any of this? >> really? you never watched it? >> come on over to the traffic center. >> i've seen every episode. >> i have, too. >> maybe i've got some catching up to do this weekend. >> this weekend. >> it's going to be raining off and on. we're going to see heavy showers moving through. today is the day to get out there.

it is so cold. a live look outside in san francisco. our temperatures are right at 40 degrees there in the city. it's 39 across the bay in oakland, 38 in palo alto, 37 and still frosty in san jose. below freezing temperatures for many of our inland valleys. seven-day forecast already up at the bottom of the screen. yeah, we will have a lot more rain on the way. even as you get dressed this morning, you do need has heavier coat and also maybe some boots. not the rain boots just yet. you'll need those tomorrow. as we track the next storm system moving in, we can see it closer to the coast, an increase in cloud cover throughout the day, as we time it out for you as you start to make plans, during the commute, start to see that rain moving in. it will get heavier throughout the day. also scattered showers continuing. they will be off and on through saturday and then on sunday, too. it may end with the potential of snow on mount hamilton by sunday night. we're looking at another half

inch, possibly three-quarters of an inch especially in the north bay. could be higher as you head south of the golden gate bridge and santa cruz mountains. some decent rainfall totals once again. early next week some cool temperatures and another round of some rain moving in by tuesday and wednesday. so the breaks will be few and far between. but today you better enjoy a look at all that sun in the forecast. 55 for inland areas, san francisco today reaching 53 degrees. we'll have more updates on the rain. mike, now you're tracking two crashes. >> i was tracking two crashes right in front of our camera. the first one in san jose just cleared. i hate to sound disappointed. that means someone was helped off the roadway. it was right there. thanks to damon in our operation center he found that to check out the slowdown we have and we have are recovery now. nobody 101, continues with the build, smoother drive past 280 because that crash cleared. over here you kind of see flashing lights.

there was a spinout south 101 at university, outside our view. as they cleared the vehicle off the university off-ramp, we were able todd that see the volume start to build, past the shopping center with home depot, ikea. you know it. without any major problems, san mateo there, further north building folks coming off the bridge. silicon valley, east bay, two bridges, san mateo and dumbarton moving smoothly. the bridge crash cleared at central, highway 4 to the berkeley curve. you have just about 45 minutes as you go off highway 4 to the berkeley curve and the metering lights, which, of course, are on. back to you. >> thanks very much, mike. 6:53. a norwegian air flight evacuated after a bomb threat. it was forced to return to st k

stockholm soon after taking off. they found no explosives but officers still checking that plane. >> next on "today in the bay," a quick look at top stories including a deadly mobile home fire overnight in contra costa county. the biggest challenge they face. meet the bay area teacher said to be honored by the grammys today. the special distinction he's getting. back in two minutes with more news. you're watching "today in the bay." welcome back.

before you head out the door, here are the top stories on today in the bay-- we )re tracking a developing story -- an explosion and fireball in the middle of san francisco. welcome back. before you head out the door, stom stories on "today in the bay." an explosion and fireball in

the middle of san francisco. a look live at the scene on geary and parker. pg&e crews worked overnight for repairs. our sky ranger caught video of the flames shooting into the air yesterday afternoon. it happened at a construction site and quickly spread destroying five buildings. according to the san francisco fire department that fire was ignited after a third party construction crew ruptured a gas line. no one was hurt. we've learned within the last hour that power has been restored to everyone in the neighborhood. no word when gas will be back on. our investigative unit is looking deep into the fire and the time it took to turn off the gas. head to the website, nbcbayarea.com for video and to see how pg&e is responding. new this morning, a live look at bethel island. that's where one woman is dead. this is after an early morning fire swept through a mobile home. it started about 1:00 in the morning at a mobile home on

fairway drive. four others inside that home did get out safely. firefighters kept the fire from spreading. one of the people who escaped said an elderly woman, also asleep in the back room, got trapped. >> it is 6:58 right now. the grammys are this sunday. today the recording academy will honor music teachers across the country including here in the bay area. ♪ john burn leads the orchestra in the fremont union district. he's one of 3,000 teachers nominated for this year's music educator award which recognizes teachers who make a lasting impression. >> there were thousands of nominations and then i was a semifinalist. i made top 25, which is ridiculously school. i don't know how they choose. there's so many incredible teachers doing amazing things. >> mr. burn says he loves

teaching music because students learn what hard work pays off and that by working as a group they can create something bigger than what they could do alone. >> congratulations, mr. burn. >> thank you to all of them, mr. burn, all the teachers out there. all right. let's look at that weather where it is cold. >> you have to bundle the kids up as you head out the door. it is below freezing in the inland valleys reaching 55 degrees. you better take in that sunshine today because we have a lot of rain headed our way over the next seven days. >> something to watch, too, muni impacted from yesterday's fire in san francisco. >> so we have a closure at geary and parker. remember the muni 38 and 38r around the area. avoid that if you can. geary is an important roadway. smoothly 680, the top of the screen, bottom is the b.a.r.t. station moving smoothly. b.a.r.t. service to the oakland airport that service has been restored. >> in case you want to get away.

>> that's right. >> we hope you stick around, we'll be back with an update. don't forget to join us for nbc news at 11:00. thanks so much for starting your day with us. have a great day. good morning. from bad to worse. virginia thrown into chaos with . good morning. from bad to worse, virginia thrown into chaos with another high ranking official embroiled in a new black face scandal. the state's top three lawmakers each facing growing controversies. calls for their resignations getting louder. >> this week has made me sick. >> so where does it go from here? calling his bluff. ignoring president trump's state of the union warning about investigating him, house democrats launch a sweeping new probe of his business and personal finances. we are not going to be