right now at 3:00, the search for alexis continues. a march and vigil in the east bay as friends and family continue trying to find her more than a week after she disappeared. we'll take you there. the town made headlines for the wrong reasons. now it's getting the tension of the attorney general. why he is sending a warning over a plan to block new homes. two silvers, but the u.s. on hunt for gold. our coverage of the winter olympics continues. ♪♪ thanks for joining us at

3:00. >> a community walk and vigil held in oakley today for alexis gabe, who has been missing more than a week. her ex-boyfriend believed to be the last person to see her. christie smith joins us live from oakley with more. >> reporter: well, today one of her friends said it's hard to believe that she is missing. calling this just a heartbreaking situation. they walked here, but gathered about a mile away from here in the area where alexis gabe's car was found. her brother says the car was unlocked with keys inside, found on the 27th. friends and family and supporters wore shirts with her picture on them. flyers were taped to cars. the 27-year-old's disappearance has shaken up the community. today friends and family shared stories about her kindness and sense of humor. we spoke with her brother and his girlfriend, who said they appreciate all the community support they have received and wanted to offer thanks for that.

they have been spreading the word with flyers. there are billboards up, too. when she didn't come home she was reported missing and they have been looking ever since and say she would always stay in touch. >> before she leaves anywhere she tells at least one person where she is going. either it would be me, sometimes my parents, or most likely her best friends. and they are the ones that really thought it was really, really strange for her not to say anything because they know -- they usually know where she is all the time >> this is like day 11 and every day gets harder and harder. so just continuing to keep up with the awareness and spreading the word and posting flyers and getting her face out there is the biggest help. >> reporter: meantime, police have searched an anitoch home and taken evidence. that hope believed to be that of an ex-boyfriend who is also believed to have been the last person to see her. family and friend say they will continue to get the word out to

make sure they bring alexis home. in oakley, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thanks very much. pandemic news for you right now. in the east bay, in berkeley, starting tomorrow city health leaders will require certain workers to stay up to date with boosters. employees of restaurants, theaters and gyms will to show proof of vaccination and anyone 5 and older will have also require proof of full vaccination before they can enter a business. today in the bay marcus washington spoke to the city's mayor about the new policy. >> and we think particularly the businesses where there is a lot of interaction between the public such as restaurants, bars, theaters, entertainment venues, gyms, large events that those employees should get boosted in order to protect themselves and to protect our residents. you know, we are doing this out of concern. >> you can watch the interview with the mayor tomorrow morning

on "today in the bay" from 4:30 to 7:00. starting this week sonoma county is lifting restrictions on indoor and outdoor gatherings as cases and hospitalizations continue to decline. the restriction limited the gatherings. sonoma county was the only bay area county to restrict the size of gatherings during the omicron surge. the restriction will be lifted thursday. let's go to a live look out at san francisco. i don't think it gets much clearer than that. a gorgeous day and the calendar says not feeling that way right now so much and it's about to really not feel that way at all. rob has a look at that. >> we are already seeing a few areas climbing into the 70s right now. calistoga up to 72 degrees. 70 fremont and 70s from scotts valley into santa cruz and more of that on the way tomorrow. we'll expect santa rosa and san jose in the 70s. not records tomorrow, but look what happens by thursday.

we could see highs close to 80 degrees in santa rosa and upper 70s and san jose if we get there, those are new record highs coming up later this week. so this big ridge of high pressure which is a bit more like summer parked offshore giving us this dry weather, which has hit 30 days without measurable rain. looks like that holds up through the middle of the part. coming up, we will look how warm the temperatures will get in the seven-day forecast and if there are any signs of rain showing up a little bit later on this month coming up in the forecast in eight minutes. back to you. another silver medal and women's hockey dominates in their quest for gold. two of the many highlight for team usa in beijing. a live look now at the competition continuing to heat up and team usa has been earning some hardware. >> liz mclaughlin joins us from beijing where windy weather also playing a role at the mountain venues. liz, what's the latest out there? >> reporter: audrey and terry, good evening to you. a lot of excitement here.

some disappointments as the u.s. mixed curling team knocked out of medal contention after getting topped by switzerland 6-5 in their second straight loss. but some exhilarating runs on the slopes for the u.s. women, earning america two medals so far. >> double 900. julia marino. >> reporter: a silver start for team usa in the medal count. julia marino landing the first podium placement for the u.s. in slopestyle. >> i don't even know what too say. it's like a little overwhelming. feels so good. >> reporter: jaelin kauf winning silver in moguls. a comeback from her seventh-place finish in 2018. >> i am so happy right now. i honestly can't believe it. >> reporter: karen chen fell short of expectations in the short program for team figure skating, leaving the lead to the rockefeller plaza. >> i think i got tense at the

wrong second. >> reporter: a chance in free skating later today. one of three final events. >> first period. shot. score! >> reporter: u.s. women's hockey team remains undefeated. 13 members of the roster were on the ice in 2018 for the gold medal win, including hilary knight, who scored twice against switzerland sunday in a lopsided 8-0 win. >> obviously, the puck doesn't go in unless you shoot it. proud of our squad for being able to put it on net and be gritty and make it messry sichlt team usa hoping to clean up against rival canada on monday. >> we are in a delay. >> reporter: strong wind pushed ski races off schedule. a day's leway for the men's downhill, now taking place today in between women's giant slalom runs if the adverse weather subsides. and those ski races are set to start in just a couple of hours. it's the first time that we will see skiing star mikaela shiffrin hit the slopes in the giant slalom andnders kildee

is a gold medal favorite in the men's downhill and now those are both scheduled for the same day five miles per hour of winds there right now. but this area is prone to winter storms this time of year and it's raising questions about danger and fairness if a gust of wind comes through, say, when mikaela shiffrin is doing her run and it knocks her off course. you know, is that fair if someone else gets a calm run? we will just have to see how this plays out. terry, audrey. >> adding more to the olympics as if we needed any more. liz, thank you very much. all right. so another local athlete we are tracking in beijing is rachel giannis. competing on the hockey team. her team got a big win, this time over japan. giannis rode to the winter olympics started at age 10 playing hockey outside her san she scored a winning goal in one

game set to the point that a long-term goal isheo go to the olympic. she fulfilled it and was very happy and my husband and i are very proud of her. >> that's one happy mama. she attended gunderson high school. russian athletes have taken the lead in the medals race so far. let's take a look at the count. russian olympic committee has five medals overall. norway has three. two of which are gold. austria two silvers and a bronze women's sports. snowboarding and mogul skiing. now to a live look at beijing. the busy day ahead. here are a few sports we are keeping an eye on. primetime coverage starts at 4:00 with alpine skiing. curling starts at 5:00.

san francisco's eileen gu part of the chinese ski team competes in freeway skiing. the women's gig air qualifiers at 5:30. at 7:35 fremont's karen chen competes again during the women's free skate finals. of course, the games just getting rolling here. we are making it easy to get the latest updates on your favorite bay area and team usa athletes. we are posting it all in one place on the torch. our live blog. so much going on. not to check it out here. head to nbcbayarea.com. click on the link in the trending bar. running a red light cost a driver her life in the south bay. san jose police say the crash happened around 8:00 last night on piedmont road. a few blocks from the high school. police say the driver of an audi ran a red light, hit a car at the intersection. the audi went off the road, slammed into two trees. the driver died. her passenger was injured. the other driver suffered minor injuries. police say this is the 11th ssia border.and the 12th victim

u.s. officials say russia need to launch a full-scale invasion. national security advisor jake sullivan said an invasion could happen at any time. >> we believe that the russians have put in place the capabilities to mount a significant military operation into ukraine and we have been working hard to prepare a response. president biden has rallied our al lights. he is reinforced and reassured our partners on the eastern flank. he provided material support to the ukrainians and he has offered the russians a diplomatic path. either way, we are ready. >> when pressed by reporters today, the president said he would not speculate on the possibility of sending more troops to poland. if putin does not de-escalate, u.s. officials close to the matter say an invasion could create up to 5 million refugees.

dive teams continue to search for a person who fell through a frozen reservoir near lake tahoe. this happened at the stampede reservoir just north of truckee. the sierra county sheriff's office says eight people were ice skating when the ice broke. six fell in. five were able to get out. teams continue to search for that missing person who has not been identified. they said they are exempt from a new statehouses law. one of the wealthiest towns in the bay is giving his own take on the problem. his stern warningd ll he make i? he may one athlete's last-second scramble to compete. right now seeing sunshine, 67 degrees in san jose and that might be one of the collar temperatures we see in the week ahead. we will talk about some record-breaking warm temperatures headed our way when we come back. ahead for us, our live

report from beijing as team usa athletes find a place on the medals stand. plus, an olympic skier's comeback from a near sfat al crash and the parents cheering on athletes from afar. those stories and more "nightly news."

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an update today to a story we brought you last week. the state's attorney general is firing back at the town of woodside over housing laws. they declared itself a mountain lion sanctuary, but the attorney general says the community cannot claim sanctuary status to stop new homes from being build. he allegeed this was all an effort by woodside to sidestep sb 9, that's a new law. letting homeowners build up four units on a single property. he said in part, quote, do your idly by. celebrating the lunar

eclipse in san ramon. people gathered today to ushner the year of the tiger. the event featured are traditional drums, live music and the dragon there lion dances that always greet the new year. it's an effort to show the cultural celebration with the community. >> we are here to show the culture of the asian, like dance and music and the kung fu and let more people see the asian culture here. >> and this is just one of several celebrations across the bay area. the san francisco chinese new year parade is coming up on february 19th. a call for more mountain bike trails in the east bay. dozens of mountain bikers and supporters demand the park service make changes. they say the park service has ignored calls for more bike trails for decade. the leaders of the movement say they are not asking for all that much. they want existing animal trails and narrow trails that mountain bikers have done themselves to be designated official trails. >> the people are desperate.

they are digging trails. it's time to adopt the trails already out there. the park can polish then up if they want, make them safer. we want them to be adopted which is less environmentally impacted. it gets us off the fire roads and provides safety for the hikers and horsebackers. >> right now there are 73 trails mountain bikers can use. many more trails exist for hikers. we roechd out to the park district for a response. have not heard back quite yet. taking you now to a live look from sofi stadium. we are one week away from the super bowl. cincinnati bengals squaring off with the l.a. rams on the rams' home turf. the first super bowl held at sofi stadium since it opened in 2020. los angeles is where the first ever super bowl was held all the way back in 1967. you can watch the super bowl on nbc or stream on peacock, also on telemundo 48, our spanish

language partners. kickoff 3:30, february 13th one wake from today. and raj ma thigh and anthony flores heading to l.a. to cover the action. >> we have you covered there. for one olympic athlete it's a race just to get to the race. speed skater casey dawson is in the middle of a mad dash to get to beijing after finally clearing covid protocols from salt lake city to atlanta to paris and finally beijing. every leg of the journey needs to go off without a hitch. he is set to land hours away from his competition. so far one flight down, two to go. >> i just landed in atlanta. it was a great flight. i got some sleep and everything and not a lot of sleep, but actually they shouted me out on the plane. that was cool. the whole plane clapped for me. getting ready for my next flight to paris. >> he started two weeks ago when

he unexpectedly tested positive for covid. several negative tests later he is hoping to make the 1,500-meter speed skate. he will miss his specialty, though, which is the 5,000 meter race. i hope he makes it. >> i do, too. what a strange, bizarre story. you think it's so smooth. >> they work so hard to get to that point. i hope he gets to compete in at least one thing. >> good luck to him. that's a powerful thing you got going there behind you. >> it's february. i mean, it is -- we have to convince ourselves it is winter. san francisco, all sunshine, 62 degrees. not much of a wind from any a little patchy low clouds later tonight. right now 66 livermore, hazy skies in walnut creek and strong high pressure might have to watch that air quality at times, especially as we head to the middle part of the week.

right now 66 in walnut creel. upper 60s in san jose. from here temperatures climb mi. for the morning patches of low clouds inland and near the coast. during the day just like we are seeing now mostly sunny skies, dry air, and those clear skies mean once again the mornings start off very chilly. 30s and low 40s to start the morning, especially around the north bay valleys. midmorning, 50s and 50s, zres in layers. by lunchtime you have numbers in the mid-60s around san jose and numbers in the upper 60s and low 70s. really too much of a good thing. i know we love spring weather, but we need rain this time of year. nothing like that coming up the next seven days. are from here temperatures are about to climb. high pressure not giving up any ground. storm sitting off to the north. one chance for some showers, think maybe for the sierra. could be early next week. but notice how this storm tracks inland and then dives east of the sierra, possibly setting us

up for windy conditions. what's happening here is high pressure is still keeping those storms off to the north and you can see it on the upper air pattern, one high weakens, this is too close to the coast to allow that system to drop down more towards the bay area. so if these inland tracking lows, we have to watch for wind at times. i think in another week, next weekend, it's about valentine's day, it will be dry and breezy, but we will keep our fingers crossed. maybe here is the ten-day temperature trend for napa. that's all 70s from tomorrow all the way through next weekend. livermore seeing temperatures climbing into the mid-70s. thursday all the way through next weekend, things are staying warm and it's not just places like the tri-valley. look at the seven-day forecast. this is san francisco and we could see temperatures in the mid-70s by thursday and friday. if that is true, by thursday and friday you are going to start to see record highs falling around the bay area. warmer temperatures for our valleys and inland locations.

a few areas could be close to 80 degrees on thursday. trending cooler towards next weekend. right now still looks like a spring-like forecast is locked in. no signs of any rain or significant snow coming back to northern california. dry and warm continues in that seven-day forecast. >> what can you do? i know. >> i guess i'll just enjoy it. thanks very much. we'll be right back.

julia marino. run number two. big back side 900. what does three got on the bottom jump? a double front sclachl julia marino. >> silver medalist julia marino. marino. >> silver medalist julia marino. >> silver medalist julia marino. >> silver medalist julia marino. nbc bay area is celebrating black history month. all month we will be sharing inspiring stories and highlight people who are making a profound impact >> a look back at some of the key moment in the sports world the past year and the legend we lost along the way.ares on, so humanity and bla we lost black lege the first black home run champ.

john cheney, the fearless college basketball he coach who took temple university to 17 ncaa tournaments despite having only one consensus all-american. lee elder, the first black man to play the masters. tiger woods, the most visible of all time was lucky. he survived a very serious car crash. there was good news. former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin whose public killing of george floyd sparked international out rage that nearly every sport acknowledged, convicted of three charges and sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison. colin kaepernick told us that a white cop going to prison for kill a black man is unusual. maybe this is a sign of progress. the g.o.a.t. of women's gymnastics, simone biles, did not win gold in tokyo.

fords she might have done something of greater significance. she shined a light on mental health, an often ignored global crisis, along with naomi osaka, bringing this delicate subject to our living rooms and workplaces and perhaps blasted a few bricks off the wall of stigma. you want h mission state football coach mel tucker signed a ten-year contract that makes him the highest paid black coach in the history of american sports. which brings us to the nfl. the most popular league in our nation. despite its slogans promoting racial harmony, they entered the season with one black coach among its 32 teams. one. we can only hope we're not saying the same thing in 2023. >> so many admirable people.

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it's one of america's favorite guessing games. oscar predictions. nominations will be announced op tuesday. >> for the first time since buz like dune, belfast, "west side story" and power of the dog. denzel washington, benedict cumberbatch, lady gaga and kristen stewart mopping those predicted to be nominated for top acting award. the oscars take place sunday, march 27th. i am ashamed of myself. i haven't seen any of those movies. i am sure they are fantastic. >> i love watching movies. >> i have seen one. i better hurry up before the academy awards so i can have an opinion. >> we will see. thanks for watching. "nightly news" is coming up

next. >> olympic primetime coverage starts at 4:00. >> see you at 11:00. ♪♪ academy awards. . tonight, team usa wins its first medals of the olympic games the thrilling surprise runs for two american women who weren't even expected to medal. joining the celebration after new zealand's first gold ever and the 15-year-old phenom dominating on the ice. now all eyes on mikaela shiffrin, about to start her quest for gold tonight. the dire warning from the u.s. that russia could invade ukraine at any time. new satellite images of the buildup of russian forces, and the prediction that up to 50,000 civilians could die. we're inside ukraine with everyday citizens