, the happiest place on earth, but... have you flown the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy? or channeled your inner jedi? you gotta love that... have you raced through radiator springs? or struck a power pose with them? now is the perfect time to feel like this... and this... and definitely that. kids enjoy the magic for just $67 per child per day, with a 3-day 1-park per day ticket. good saturday morning. it is 7:00 on the dot. here is a live look outside. in san francisco. as we begin our saturday. we appreciate your starting your weekend with us. good morning. thank you so much for joanings. i'm ri ka clapper. vianey arana has a look at the micro climate forecast.

she was helping me with my mike phone. >> we have the gray clouds. you saw them on the live take. this is satellite radar. we did have some showers pass just south of us. you can see it here on radar. the majority of the rain for the central coast of california so monterey, some areas of south san jose with showers but it wasn't really measurable rain so that's going to continue to trek eastward. now san francisco look at the current temperature, 55 degrees. the camera's keying out a little bit but seeing fog building in. as we head into the afternoon, though, expect to see beautiful clearing of the skies and our temperatures are once again going to be warming up into the upper 60s, a couple low 70s. the temperatures will be running just a few degrees cooler compared to yesterday but we have a couple of changes i'm gong to tell you about and the latest on the sierra snow pack and complete details in about 15 minutes. >> we still hope for actual

rain. >> exactly. >> thanks so much. we begin with developing news right now, late last night we learned a judge blocked a plan to transfer some 30 to 50 coronavirus patients from here in travis air force base in the bay area to orange county. the patients were set to head to an empty building in costa mesa as early as tomorrow. that building once served as an assisted living center for people with disabilities but because it's near a country club, golf courses and high schools, officials wanted the transfer stopped. they say they weren't given enough time to put safeguards in place to keep the virus from spreading. a judge did grant this restraining order a. new hearing is set for this monday. brief showers this morning but an overall dry month and the dangers from all the dry weather are on full display in the east bay. a rare february brushfire forced

firefighters into action igniting yesterday afternoon started when rich henderson was out doing some routine maintenance at the home saying a spark from a match started a fire on his brentwood property, quickly grew to seven acres. >> when i lit the match part of the match broke off and jumped about two feet, hit the grass and just went up so fast. i couldn't stop it. >> it's unusual but it's not unusual because of the amount of rain we haven't gotten. >> according to a weekly report by the u.s. draught monitor, close to 60% of the state of california is abnormally dry, all nine bay area counties. places that suffered significant wildfires like napa and lake counties, this lack of rain means a great possibility of another early fire season. in other news, just a few

hours from the nation's third primary contest, the nevada caucuses. candidates working late to secure the votes holding cotown halls and rallies last night as there's new allegations the russians is interfering in the elections. ian cole has the latest on the russia issue dogging sanders an president trump. >> reporter: last-minute push for voters in the silver state. >> dream big, fight hard and win. thank you, nevada! >> reporter: candidates putting it all on themselves. >> we will have a lot to celebrate tomorrow. >> reporter: while sharpening the attacks on front-runner bernie sanders. >> what happens if he is the nominee of this party? >> i think it's going to make it harder but that's for the voters do decide. >> reporter: sanders piling on over michael bloomberg's widely panned debate performance. >> if that's what happened in a democratic debate i think quite likely that trump will chew him

up and spit him up. >> reporter: russian interference on both sides of the 2020 campaign. sanders confirming that intelligence officials told him the russians are trying to covertly boost his candidacy. >> mr. putin is a thug. he is an autocrat. he may be a friend of donald trump. he's not a friend of mine. >> reporter: this as president trump ousted his spy chief over a briefing that congress about how the russians to help his re-election according to several hour r sources speaking to his supporters. >> they said today that putin wants to be sure that trump gets elected. here we go again. >> reporter: ian cole, nbc bay area news. in the wake of the debacle at the iowa caucus, nevada caucus organizers are making changes to the way they count the votes. originally they say they planned on using an app similar to the one of iowa and now a brand-new google forms app that they're calling the caucus calculator. they're also managing expectations saying they don't expect to have voting totals by

tonight. our turn is coming. the california primary is just about a week and a half away. march 3rd. get up to speed at nbc bay area.com. click on the link in the upper right-hand corner titled bay area election guide. in other news, new details now about a deadly stagging at a san jose airbnb rental. documents allege ryoichi fuseya killed his girlfriend at the rental home in east foothills of san jose. he appeared before a judge yesterday and was charged with murder. investigators say that after stabbing his girlfriend fuseya packed up and drove his girlfriend's car to his mother's home. deputies found the woman's body tuesday back in the rental home on mountain view avenue. a lot of reaction now and tension after the sudden firing of oakland police chief ann kirk

patrick. former l.a. police chief bill bratton stood up for kirkpatrick, he tweeted that oakland's crime problem is not its chief's. emeryville's top cop ri tweeted bratton saying it's troubling that she was fired for doing her job and doing it well. just thursday night the oakland police commission voted unanimously to fire kirkpatrick without cause. the mayor approved it amplt council member said he is getting pushback from the community. >> constituent said we've gone from being a city hall to a silly hall. >> oakland is now looking for its sixth new police chief in just 15 years. a 707, we have much more ahead. no pay increase, no grades. that's the message from striking grad students at a south bay university. we'll tell you what strike organizers say as the clock ticks toward midnight. plus, famous for its cheap

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ok! let's ride! oh hey man, uhh... [car beeps] my $4.99 triple bonus jack combo! stack it up for an extra buck. welcome back on your saturday morning. we are taking a live look outside. over walnut creek. it looks like a beautiful morning as the sun is just beginning to rise and pink skies there. you may have seen some slight showers overnight. but it will be a mild saturday. we hope you can get out and enjoy it. the deadline to open negotiations has come and gone on the uc santa cruz campus. grad students who helped teach undergraduate students are demanding higher pay. the uc president isn't budging. "today in the bay" reporter was at the campus as the clock ticked down to midnight. >> reporter: graduate students move ahead with the strike. >> i think the threat of mass firing was a monstrous move.

i think we're not surprised that it comes from janet napolitano. >> reporter: they say the cost of living is unbearably high and the instructors of uc santa cruz are paid less than at other uc campuses. they're refusing to release grades. uc president napolitano's office wrote in part i have invited leaders to join me for a meeting to discuss issues of importance and impact to graduate students, including cost of living, housing and other issues. >> this is uc president -- >> reporter: organizers said they got no such invite. >> they can meet with us on strike. they can decide to meet with us on strike. >> reporter: they were joined by droves of undergrads in solidarity marching on campus, some told us they're not worried about the grades. >> i have another quarter so at this moment in time it's not

really affecting me but for the students immediately attending grad school or applying to grad schools will be affected. >> are you ready to get fired? >> reporter: organizers say special arrangements can be made to release sol students' grades if necessary and the protest is getting the attention of one other uc campus. in berkeley, students took over a dining hall friday night saying they're inspired by the santa cruz counterparts, nbc bay area news. much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, we'll show you how high prices have gone up. and we have a good view of walnut creek this morning. showers passed to the south but how are temperatures doing and when is our actual chance of real rain going to make it to the bay area? i'll have a closer look at that coming up. i'm truly amazed at the effect that it has on people.

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san jose. kind of looks heavenly there. the sun just shining on the right side of the screen and the cloud cover. vianey arana will be along to detail a mild saturday. now to making it in the bay and the big question many are asking -- what does it take for millennials to buy a home? a report by lending tree says san jose has one of the highest rates of millennial home buyers in the nation. wow. they putt down an average of nearly $150,000. holy smokes. their average credit score 720 and the average amount requested for a loan, just more than $600,000. more than 50% of mortgage requests from millennials in san jose and who work for tech companies. there you go. all right. no card, no food court. costco will enforce the members only policy for pizza and cheap

hot dolls. it is just $1.50. costco says it's been pretty lax coming to enforcing members only in the food court. starting in mid-march you need a membership card to eat. >> the rates are pretty competitive so yeah. i'm sure part of it is from the membership fee. >> if they don't have a big family, they don't need the membership and if they just coming here for food, they should get it without membership. >> if you are not a member you will be able to buy alcohol and prescriptions from the store. well, you can't get much for ten bucks these days but maybe scoring tin scoring tickets to "hamilton." whoa. on super tuesday, all of the seats for the musical at san francisco will be just $10 each. >> what? >> wow. to snag the tickets you will have to win a loertd on the "hamilton" app or website. the lottery began yesterday and will run for the following week.

>> countdown. i have wanted to go and seems impossible. >> always sold out and it is really expensive. >> ten bucks. >> i might have to vote and then try to go and get tickets. >> yeah. >> we were both nodding our heads about costco because we use the co-workers' errands -- >> no, we don't. >> we do like family saturday and sunday costco trips. >> i heard -- >> vianey and i go with them. >> i don't go there for the food. like big packaged food because it is just me and my dog so -- too much food but -- >> paper towels, that kind of thing. good to buy in bulk. am i not supposed to say -- >> use the co-workers' membership? >> we go with them and we do -- >> pays the membership -- >> "today in the bay" family weekend grocery runs. no one's talking to me right now. okay. >> san francisco clear skies now but we have areas of cloud cover with a system just to the south

in the central coast. that brought a couple showers overnight and i want to show it to you here to see it right here. some shower activity, again, as i mentioned the majority of that rain passed through san bonito counties and south san jose and the peninsula seeing showers. a lot of that rain didn't make it to the ground so we didn't get measurable amounts of rain from this system which we really need the rain. 50s right now for the most part down through the south bay. look at how much warmer we are running in terms of the past 24 hours. san jose 7 degrees warmer. down through santa cruz, 2 degrees warmer. napa, cooling there. your microclimate highs for today, set up for a beautiful day ahead because even though we have cloud cover now by the afternoon we're going do start to notice some solid clearing. our temperatures remain in the 60s. we'll keep some areas of cloud cover along some parts of the coast. livermore, still in the 70s for concord and antioch and as we

head into sunday we get a ridge of high pressure to continue to keep us dry for the next several days. so where do we stand coming to the california drought? latest conditions, this was released as of february 18th of this week and want to show you this is the state of california where you see the yellow, the yellow's considered abnormally dry. as of now about 60% of california is ab normally dry. with this peachy hue there, that's an area of drought so that's about 10%. so we're still definitely needing the rain and we haven't seen much rainy at all for the month of february. also, the warmer temperatures have melted a lot of our snow pack so right now we currently stand at 52% of state average. remember, the sierra snow pack is what helps fill our reservoirs in the spring months when that snow begins to melt. how long is this dry weather going to last?

the dry weather continues as dry pressure rebuilds sunday into monday and going to keep us dry and also going to significantly warm us up into the 70s, even a couple low 80s as we head in towards the middle of the week. we'll start to get cloud cover into friday and saturday. that will bring some cooling but as of right now, the latest model runs show no rain for seven days with a better chance of rain heading into possibly not the second week of march and certainly going to keep the warm, dry conditions and look how much we warm up heading into tuesday. 78 degrees. again, we could be nearing 80s for inland areas and san francisco warms up into the upper 60s. kira? >> we'll enjoy the temperatures. thanks. 7:20. still ahead on "today in the bay," maried police officers decide to take action after years of taking on car break-ins. we'll show you the small but meaningful way to help viktctim

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welcome back. what easily ruins a vacation to san francisco? your car being broken into and all of your belongings stolen. unfortunately, we tell you about it a lot. many tourists have to deal with that reality. but a pair of san francisco police officers is trying to ease the sting. "today in the bay's" garvin thomas explains. >> sergeant rich jones and his wife sergeant jennifer hennessey jones say they love their city and they hate to see tourists, particularly children, have a bad experience. so with the help of their own son, they're trying to make that bad experience a little better. in this uncommonly beautiful city, it's an all-too common sight. the signs of san francisco's car break-in epidemic are scattered around for all to see. but it's the side of it sergeant

rich jones was seeing, a chinatown central station, that really stuck with him. >> we'd have lines out the door of 20, 30 people all waiting to make police reports. a lot of them have little toddlers. right? to see them with their kids and having the kids be so devastated is really what spoke to us. >> reporter: so rich and his wife jennifer also an sfpd sergeant would try to help with whatever they had on hand. often diapers or a toy from their own car belonging to their older son hunter. >> because you put yourself as a parent in their shoes. what if i'm in a foreign country, don't speak the language or everything in one bag was taken for the child. >> we got a storage container. >> reporter: all of hunter's toys couldn't keep up with the problem so rich and jenny started to buy more and more and eventually formed a nonprofit growing so big now they're no longer storing their inventory in their garage but at hunter's

point police facility. >> anything to carry on the airplane is very successful. >> reporter: rich and jenny supply toys to every police station in san francisco, and some outside the city. and toys, not going just to burglary victims. but to children who for whatever reason find themselves in a spot no one wants them to be. the nonprofit is called hunter's chest for a reason. >> it was a big deal for hunter because every night we would have to explain, okay, your favorite green monster truck given to a kid. it was a two-hour wait because his bag was stolen. it was important for us to honor him for that. >> reporter: rich and jenny know they're doing something good because think see the smiles return to children's faces when presented with a toy. some parents have taken to social media to praise the couple for their uncommon kindness in the face of such a common crime. rich and jenny are quick to

point out that police officers do this all the time. they'll run to the store and get supplies for parents. what they're doing is organizing it in the form of a nonprofit, one they hope spreads nationwide. garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> we hope so, too. what angels. thank you. 7:26. much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, stop taking selfies! the popular spot in the north bay is attracting too much attention and now the sheriff's office is getting involved. plus our coronavirus coverage continues in just a few minutes. we'll introduce you to a wuhan native teaming up with tech companies to get crucial supplies the those in need in china.

good saturday morning. it is 7:28. here's a live look outside. cloudy skies. thanks to our photographer norbert for that shot of the sun

trying the break through there. thank you for starting your weekend with us. i'm kira clapper. vianey arana has a look at the microclimate. >> have you been enjoying the mild temperatures? >> yeah! my son's been able to play outside. >> it's been such a great week. >> it has. it is like -- i know we need the rain but -- >> sunshine is nice. >> yeah. >> 53 degrees right now in san francisco. a live look at the golden gate bridge. wind speeds 14 miles per hour. we did have some activity just to our south. you can see it here on satellite radar. we had some overnight showers pass through portions of monterey. south san jose areas. now this system is going to continue its trek eastward. a lot of that rain didn't even make it to the ground and not enough to put a dent on any sort of numbers coming the lack of rain for february.

san jose 67. oakland 63. concord 70. look at the bay area skies. sure we have the cloud cover now but for the most part afternoon is clearing. i'll talk about where we stand coming to that lack of rain coming up. also a look at the allergy report. >> that's a lot of good information. see you in 15. thank you. we begin with developing news, late last night we learned that a judge blocked a plan to transfer 30 to 50 coronavirus patients from here in the bay area at travis air force base to orange county. the patients were set to head to an empty building in costa mesa. it was assisted living center for people with disabilities. but because it's near a country club, golf course and several high schools officials want the transfer stopped. they say they weren't given enough time to put safeguards in place to keep coronavirus from spreading. a judge granted that restraining order for now.

a new hearing is set for this monday. the nevada caucus starts at 10:00 this morning with voting beginning at noon. it is the nation's third primary contest. and democrats are working late to secure votes. they held town halls and rallies yesterday and this is all happening as there are new allegation that is the russians may be trying to impact this election, as well. even helping bernie sanders. "today in the bay's" ian cole has the latest. >> reporter: the last-minute push for voters in the silver state. >> dream big, fight hard and win. thank you, nevada! >> reporter: candidates putting it all on themselves. >> i think we will have a lot to celebrate tomorrow. >> reporter: while sharpening the attacks on front-runner bernie sanders. >> what happens if he is the nominee of this party? >> i think it makes it harder.

that's for the voters to decide. >> reporter: sanders piling on michael bloomberg's widely panned debate performance. >> if that's what happened in a democratic debate i think it's quite likely that trump will chew him up and spit him out. >> reporter: there's focus on russian interference, this time on both sides of the 2020 k578 pain. sanders confirming that intelligence officials have told him the russians try r trying to covertdly boost his candidacy. >> mr. putt season a thug, an autocrat. he may be a friend of donald trump. he is not a friend of mine. >> reporter: president trump ousted a spy chief. speaking to his supporters. >> they said today that putin wants to be sure that trump gets elected. here we go again. >> reporter: ian cole, nbc, bay area news. >> in the wake of the iowa caucus fiasco, nevada organizers are making changes.

originally they planned on using an app similar to the one used in iowa. but now they're going to use a brand-new google forms app that they're calling the caucus calculator. they're also managing expectations. they're telling everyone they do not expect to have voting totals by tonight. our turn is coming. the california primary super tuesday is just about a week and a half away. march 3rd. you can get up to speed at nbc bay area.com. just click on the link in the upper right-hand corner called the bay area election guide. turning now to the deadly coronavirus as it spreads rapidly in china, people there are getting help from volunteers here in the bay area with much of the thanks going to a silicon valley veteran feeling close to the situation. that's because tom gong is from the wuhan province. he's been working in tech here for many years. he recently started a group called wuhan united. he's using technology and getting help of tech companies

to send supplies straight to china where they're desperately needed. more than 1 million masks and other items are on the way right now to hospitals in china affected by coronavirus. >> i think one of the advantage of silicon valley is not only technology, we probably have the shortest path to reach anyone in the world. >> gong has recruited dozens of bay area volunteers, as well as companies of cisco and hp to help out and he does that say that he needs more help. if you would like to join in, they're accepting donations. it is easy to go to the website, wuhan united.org. well, if you're one of the folks trying to snap that perfect selfie, police want to get the word out. and make sure you're not trespassing on private property when you do it. farmers are asking people to stop taking photos on their almond orchards saying that

wandering through the grounds damaging the plants. most of the time the trees are on private property so farmers do have the right to tell people to stay off the land. police are now asking people to respected private property if they choose to take photos. they sure are beautiful. 7:35 right now. still ahead on "today in the bay," steph curry takes his kids to watch one of the best basketball players in the country. sports is next.

welcome back. while the hot ticket in the bay area last night, not the warriors. women's basketball at cal. the best player in the country right now in the spotlight and guess who's sitting courtside to see her? steph curry and his kids. no pressure there. date night with dad. curry bringing all three of his kids to watch c 5l take on oregon. oregon star sabrina grew up in

walnut creek, and now is this rising star. she had a triple-double on the night. oregon beats cal takes to sabrina. after the game, the currys had hang time with sabrina. now, baseball in scotsdale, bruce back to say hello. shaking hands with his replacement gabe kapler. also today, the games begin. the giants play the dodgers in the first game of the exhibition season. and we had a vip visitor at a's camp. jim harbaugh with his buddy bob melvin. the a's play tonight in arizona weather permitting and expecting a lot of rain in the phoenix area. 7:38 right now. much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, a warning on rising sea levels. we investigate the local areas

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♪ the wait is over. try my new tiny tacos. 15 for 3 bucks or loaded for 4 bucks. delivered exclusively with uber eats. good morning. it is 7:41. look at how beautiful this view looks of downtown san jose. you can see the cloud cover and we do have a couple of clouds lingering out there because we have a system that passed just to our south or still continuing to pass to the south that brought areas of scattered showers through the central coast. san francisco looking lovely. as we head in towards the afternoon we get good clearing and also getting comfortable weather. satellite radar showcases that system to the south as i mentioned. a majority of the rain passed through in the monterey area. a lot of didn't make it to the ground and definitely need rain

out there, significant rain. wasn't enough to put any sort of dent in the lack of rain in terms of the numbers. current temperature running warmer compared to yesterday. 54 degrees. 55 in palo alto. up through san francisco, 54. microclimate highs for today comfortable once again. lock at the daytime highs, 67 degrees for san jose. 70 degrees in concord. 69 in napa. 69 in santa rosa and 61 degrees in san francisco. when it comes to the bay area skies it is going to be a lovely afternoon to enjoy the outdoors and don't forget the allergy medicine or anything you need to keep the allergies at bay because tree and grasses are high right now. you are certainly going to feel that. i've been sneezing more than normal. ragweed and mold fairly low and aside from that, around the coast you should be doing better. en land areas with higher counts of pollen. the latest california drought monitor, we need more rain. you've been hearing it because february is a dry month and

latest drought monitor as of this week. the latest released. you can see here in the yellow these are areas of abnormal dry weather putting california at 60% abnormally dry. with this peach hue color, moderate drought so about 10% of california already in a moderate drought. if we don't get more rain, unfortunately, that's going to be even more widespread. how's the sierra doing? it's showcasing how beautiful it is with the weather underground camera. clear skies but as those temperatures continue to be fairly warm and we continue to see the dry weather, that sierra snow pack is getting smaller coming to north, central and south. nearly below 50% coming the state average. the sierra snow pack about one third of the water supply throughout the state of california so that high pressure will continue to rebuild as we head in towards monday. that's going to warm us up into the low 80s heading into the middle of the week. no rain in sight heading to

friday. more clouds an sol cooling but as of right now, the models are showing high pressure. look what happens to the temperatures. the average high's about 62 so we're going to see above normal temperatures, a lot of clear skies heading into the work week ahead. kira? >> thanks so much. 7:44. still ahead on "today in the bay," are we at a crisis point? why are people in the bay area still building where we know it's going to flood? we investigate that very question, next. now, we know the trump strategy-

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the bay area is at a tipping point. that warning comes from a new report outlining what rising sea levels will do to the bay area. our investigative unit on tanned an advanced copy of it and we found some of it could be considered revolutionary. bottom line is sea levels will rise more dramatically and it may happen sooner than many of us realize. here's senior investigator steven stock. >> some of the flooding models we are about to demonstrate to you may sound like they come from alarmist voices of doom but in fact they come from scientists, state planners and policymakers. this report, one of three we studied for this story, identifies 14 different communities around the bay in danger of permanent flooding in just a couple of decades. even so, we found construction still going up in those future flood zones.

and you the taxpayer most likely will have to pay to bail them out. ♪ >> reporter: 73-year-old marg retd gordon, miss margaret as she likes to be called, an advocate showed us around her neighborhood of west oakland. this would be under water? >> yes. all up under water. >> reporter: according to new scientific models, this area could see water several inches deep across several of the neighborhoods with oncoming sea level rise expected in a few decades. do you worry about the people that live here? >> oh yes. many will be displaced and never come back. >> reporter: according to state planning documents including this one from 2018, scientists expect that since 2000 sea levels to rise at least six inches and at least 12 inches by 2030, just 10 years from now as this graph shows, scientists say

the rate of sea level rise is growing exponentially. all because of recent increases in ice melt and warming of the oceans. >> we are absolutely a crisis point. >> reporter: zach wasserman chairs the san francisco bay conservation and development commission, a state agency that led the research on this report called adapting to rising tides. a report that shows more than a dozen communities in the bay area at risk, including 91,000 housing units. >> it is a slow moving emergency. >> reporter: using that same data, our team created maps showing where the 12-inch sea level rise with a 5-year storm to look like. what planners say we should prepare for. sfo runways are covered and the airport plans to build sea walls, sfo could be surrounded by water. >> when you have a certain amount of rising sea level if you do not adapt then you're going to be in trouble.

>> reporter: larry goldsband is the executive director. >> you have water coming in and housing stock that won't be able to recover. and you're going to have community that is won't be able to recover. >> what does the public need to understand about this crisis? >> that there is no longer any way to stop it happening. >> the city allows this. some of this is industrial. and residential. all packed up on top of each other. >> reporter: despite the warnings, our investigative team found that building in these areas continues, including two dozen major recent or current developments of $13 billion. >> are taxpayers on the hook for these buildings and projects 30 years from now? >> that's what the public does, we pay through taxes, we pay through fema coming in after a disaster. >> reporter: why are the buildings allowed to be built

right now? >> for those that are within our jurisdiction we are requiring adaptation methods. >> reporter: across the bay area projects have been allowed to proceed in problematic flood zones. in mountain view, using the same computer mod elts, there's google's charleston east and north bay shore developments that both could be surrounded by water. you acknowledge this is real? >> i do, yes. our city does. >> reporter: mountain view's mayor says for a decade her city is pushing back against some development and requiring that companies prepare for rising sea levels. even so, she agrees that four recent developments approved there are now at risk r. the taxpayers going to be on the hook if it goes south and worse than we expect? >> i think it's going to be a shared responsibility. but at the same time, we are requiring these corporations to contribute. >> reporter: further north in menlo park, the facebook campus

expansion project began in 2015 and then men lo park to require all new construction near the bay to raise building foundations by at least two feet. even so, mapping the data with a 12-inch sea level rise combined with a five-year storm shows that the new facebook west campus with the original campus would become an island. >> definitely something. what are we going to do to project the city? >> reporter: the mayor was not in office when facebook west was approved and says it could be surrounded by water sooner than anyone expected when it was first proposed. you are aware this is a problem? >> yes. there definitely is a concern now. >> reporter: then there's san francisco. in 2030 with a five-year storm could be flooding around brand new condos along mission creek. by 2050, 75 howard street could be surrounded and by 2100 brand new golden state arena could have water around it.

you will have to wear goloshans to get to a game. how are k they go forward when we know they're be in a flood plane? >> there is a balance between working to adapt for what we know is going to happen in the future and living our lives today. >> reporter: right now as we sit here srks there a comprehensive plan to deal with sea level rise? >> no. >> reporter: regionally? >> no. >> reporter: should there be? >> yes. >> this doesn't account for events like king tides, el nino and 100-year storms. those could make all of this that much worse. a representative from the golden state warriors told us that when they built the chase center they went above and beyond all state requirement for sea level rise and facebook said while the new building account for sea level rise the company is partnering with several south bay city it is protect the entire area from rising sea levels.

we also reached out to the planning department with san francisco. as well as to google. but neither returned our request for comment. i'm stephen stock, nbc bay area news. >> fascinating. it is 7:54. we still have much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up. our clear the shelter segment with our friends from pets in need. with'll do sbro deuce you to barbar next. ♪ the wait is over. try my new tiny tacos. 15 for 3 bucks or loaded for 4 bucks. delivered exclusively with uber eats.

♪ the wait is over. try my new tiny tacos. 15 for 3 bucks or loaded for 4 bucks. delivered exclusively with uber eats. welcome back. it is time for our clear the shelter segment featuring the friends from pets in need. jacklyn stewart and celeste are here with barbar, because i suspect he's gray like the elephant. 6 years old, a pit bull mix or -- >> bullied breed mix. >> okay. pit bulls, get a bad rap, scary, people think. this is the sweetest guy. he is so calm.

he is so gentle. he loves -- if you can see, he loves to give his paw. holding celeste's hand right now and you rescued him a few days ago from the central valley. >> yes. we rescued him on wednesday and that was literally his last day, like he would have been euthanized if we hadn't picked him up. he was there for four months but we'll keep him as long as it takes but hopefully doesn't take too long. >> you are the best. no kill. will keep him as long as it takes but hopefully after people see his gentle soul and hand holding and get adopted today. so essentially you think he was there for four mornnths because pit bull and six months old, not something they're drawn to? >> yeah. usually the older guys, he is not really that old. probably middle aged, they have a harder time sometimes and almost 80 pounds so -- >> oh yeah. that's a good point. >> yeah. >> but again, he is so gentle

and, celeste, you work with dogs like barbar. you help train them because you're rescuing them. they have no, you know, house brokenness sort to speak. you are looking for people to help do that with you. >> yeah. we are specifically looking for people with a comfort level of large dogs. sometimes they come in with no training and could be jumpy, mouthy. this guy isn't. we have young dogs that are pent up and need an energy release and looking for people with a comfort level around large dogs and we can tailor them to help with our training. >> positive reinforcement. you need people looking for volunteer hours, people looking for something to do. people who love animals to give some time and basically help you socialize the guys. find out more about volunteer opportunities and barbar at pets in need.original.

thank you all for coming in. thank you for making us a part of your morning. we we have more local news tonight and online. .

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