right now at 3:00, the voters have spoken in san francisco. >> and now three school board members are not out. what is next for schools in the city and how the mayor is responding. >> scene stein tibts warn sea levels could be rising to dangerous levels in the next 30 years and some homeowners here in the bare area already feeling the impact. plus, a step toward a new normal. ditching the mask. but not everywhere is willed to lose their face coverings, just yet. the news at 3:00 starts light now. thank force joining for this olympics edition of nbc bay

area. >> you can always find use here are. we are also live on roku, amazon fire, and apple tv. and let's start new mask rulesisms we have done before. you can ditch that mask depending exactly where you are. every county, take a look here, export santa clara county has loosened its mask restrictions. starting today, no more masks indoors if you are full va naks ited, again be dpept for santa clara county. >> but as robert handa explains, not everyone is ready to take off those masks. >> it is kind of a strange situation to be here in santa clara county with this mask man date, and yet be able to stand into in san mateo county. but a lot of people made clear this is still very much an individual choice. it is supposed to be a big guy for other cafes in san mateo county but for workers and customers we talked to, they didn't think it would cause any

rush of customers from santa clara county. >> my personal business is i like having an establishment that people are mask upd doing what they believe is is right to protect the customer. >> they have the option to wear them or not. uh-huh. >> is that make you feel uncomfortable at all? >> not at all. >> one of the most emotionally resolved groups is gym members, here at the popular 24 hour fitness in san mateo, lift lgt mask mandate pumped up attendance. >> great energy and great positivity in san ma tray yoe right now. i am actually in santa clara right now and it is esolid, it's good, kind of business as usual as it has been lately. >> members are are mixed. >> this is great. i feel a lot better being able to do my reps and exhale, and breathe in fresh air ooze opposed to the -- blow back in the mask. >> i was told it is not required for the gym but i still continue to wear it again to respect other'sen opinions. >> it might take awhile.

masks still generate a lot of mixed feelings. in the beginning, we saw many people slow to put them on, and now slow to them off. in san ma day toe county and santa clara county, robert handa nbc bay area news. >> now just because the rules have loons loosened, you will still need masks in certain areas. in san francisco, for example, you will still need to mask up all city-owned buildings, that means city hall and courthouses. that rule applies to everyone, regardless of vaccination status and it could be a sign we are moving from a pandemic to endemic. the doctor cdc plans on updating its mask gietdness as early as next week. the cd doctor director said they will be looking at case rates, hospital zagsz rates and vaccinations. she wants to give people a break from mask wearing when metrics drop. so what are the case rates? nationty slaeking, cases have

dropped by 67% in the last two weeks. these are dramatic numbers here. told, the daily average is about 140,000 cases. here in california how, our positivity rate has plummeted. today, at 5%. a month ago, wrp around 20%. another good sign. hospitalizations in the state are down. in the last 24 hour, there were 326 fewer patients admitted than the previous day. now, we are moving you get our nbc bay area streaming app for apple tv, amazon fire or row kie. click on covid what to know play histoto see the latest news. audrey. >> raj, a chemical spill and fire inside a fremont business caller caused? tense moments today. overhead this morning near fremont boulevard and landing park way. they say flames sparked in the building around 7: 30 this

morning and roads near the area replained closed for a few youror hours. you may have been cloegsz faekted by affectedpy this. >> so we ask that businesses in the local area, including hampton and the hyatt shelter in place. and we ask fremont pd to assist us with closing veets to prevent stints from coming into to this area. >> the area was ultimately deemed safe and all roads reoepd around 12:30 this afternoon. no injury wrs reported but till no word on the chemicals involved. >> a lot emotion in san francisco. it is all about the kids. all three members of the board of education have been recalled. this was the city's first rekale election since 1984 when then-mayor diane feinstein fended off a recall attempt. so what's next? here is nbc bay area's sergio quintana. >> reporter: a subdued mayor london breed recapping the city's recall election.

>> rabbit night during the race, the voters sent a clear message. >> it was a landslide. more than 70% of sthoez who couldn't ballots voted to oust school board president, former school board vice president allison collins and member. >> start out with something that people said buzz impossible and then to end up with such overwhelming show of support from every pre sinkt in the city has just been amazing. >> and now the work to replace the ousted members begins. it will take some time to certify the results, and forward them to the board of supervisors so mayor london breed has about a month to decide who will fill those seats. she's yet to interview knee candidates. >> bridge builders. that's what we are going to be looking for. >> organizers of the recall say they weror they were motivated by what they say as a disconnected school board distracted by efforts to rename schools instead of getting students safely back in class during the pandemic. >> loud and clear.

is that you are not progressive if you are leaving behind the kids that need the most help. and focus on your own. you are not progressive if you are focused on changing the names when the kids inside those schools -- >> the new school board members will immediately have some tough decisions. schools are facing a deficit of up to $125 million. they will need to lee place a retiring superintendent, not to mention get school learning back to up sfeed in the midst of a pandemic. this successful recall comes as members of the san francisco board of supervisors passed a measure to reform the process, essentially barring a recall itempt within a year of a election, which is something the now successful recall organizers don't like. >> if they wanted our community to come out and vote in the june primely, i think they found a tre men du did you say way to do it. >> nbc bay area news. >> sergio thank. now, let's go to beijing. two more olympic medals for team usa. alex hall got his first fwold medal in the men's free skigs

slope style event. he called his winning run the bust went you has ever done. also, team usa. >> heartbreak now for the u.s. men's hockey team. slovakia knocked the men out during a dramatic shootout. the goalie stopped seven-straight shops before slovakia made the gone lone gol of the shootout. men's hockey team hasn't won a medal in the olympics. >> hard hch fought game. sometimes, it comes down to the should shootout and anything can happen. >> hard to put into words. just gut wrenching. >> the men's hockey team hasn't won a medal in the olympics since winning a silver in vancouver back in 2010. >> surely heartbreaking but for every lull, there is height to

match. >> you know who bridges us high? >> garvin thomas. garvin, clerk the call bl der here. we only have a few more days remaining. >> going to miss it, aren't you? >> raj and audrey, you are right. for every loss, there is a plch wing. nor the team hok just taems thrilling shoot out loss, well, that had us feeling bummed, so what were they feeling in slovakia? just take look. this was an aefrl-morning youth hockey practice. -let kids see the winning save, and they just go wild leak thid won it themselves. gloves, helmets, sticks, they all go flying. players slide across the ice, and of course, dreams that one day it will be them. that's pretty cool. >> because hasn't been training. >> now, our next story is not about an olympic dream. it is about an olympic sniet

mare for norwegian skier holding a huge lead. he went the wrong way and had to stop, backtrack, losing valuable seconds. and eventually, losing a spot in the poed yim. now, in his defense, because he had just gotten out of a covid quarantine, he didn't have a chance to even do a practice run on the course so wasn't familiar with it. he said afterwards it is' not fun to show the world. now, athletes compete many reasons. love of the sport, love of their country. for one san francisco native, snowboarding for seems to be one of her motivations. when she moved to tahoe 12 years to try and make oat him picks, she said some people mosted mean things about her dream she didn't forget. >> i waited is it years to respond to this and now sfienlly the time. so dear guys who wrote this, i

am not a stupid, ignorant, spoiled, trendy, naive, helpless, little drn actually, i'm an olympian. >> yeah. take that internet haters. >> i am with her. >> terry is competing because that's where her grandfather is from. she did come in second to last in her event. and did not qualify for the final but, raj and audrey, i don't think that really matters to her. do you? >> fired up. >> thanks, garvin. still ahead. a dire warning from climate scientists. how much they say sea levels will liez in the next 30 years and the impacts already having on bay area homeowners. also, changes at google. what the company is doing to protect your data on your smartphone. i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. what a day? lots of blue sky. we will show you what is ahead for the rest of the week and your weekend coming up in about

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at nato' brussels' headquarters today, european defense ministers debated strategies for their biggest security crisis in decades. we are talking about russia's threat to invade ukraine. there is still no sign of a drawdown vladimir puden promised. the u.s. is deploying 5 sthn troops to poland and romania. germany, the netherlands, and norway are sending troops to lithuania, denmark, and spain are providing jets for air policing. >> >> so president biden is now directing national archives to hand over the white house visitor logs during the trump administration. those logs are part of the hours select committee investigating

the january 6th attack on the capitol. president trump attempted to block the release of those records, citing executive privilege. but council for the white house is rejecting that claim. the head of the national archives says he will hand those records over to the committee in a couple weeks on march 3rd, unless a court order stops it. all right in our area, the mystery of the flair gun seems to be solved. it all started back in january when the san mateo police got an e-mail with this video that shows someone shooting a flair at the police department building. then last night. >> on the peninsula, a police officer was startled when a burning red object nearly missed his patrol car. well turned out to be a flair. the officer found a man at a bus stop, and investigators toorjor determined the man deliberately waited for a patrol car to drive by. that led to a search of the man's home, which turned up several other weapons. one person is dead, and another injured after a car flew off a south pay free way, and hit a tree. this happened around 11:00 lab

night at the 7th street off ramp on 280 in downtown san jose. right now, it is not clear what caused that driver to veer off the road. a 25-year-old cold case has been solved in sonoma county. back in 199 6, michelle veals' nude body was found dumped near rohnert park. the 32-year-old had been beaten to death. last year, they asked for updated dna testing in this case, then in january the lab reported a match for jack bokan of san francisco. he died in december while in prison in vacaville. he had been sentenced to more than 200 kblaers in prison for the kidnapping, rain, and attempted murder of a minor. the payout to a south bay jail inmate. he was permanently in san mow za's main jail back in 2019. he fell on a concrete slab in a cell. injured his spine. his lawyer says his screams for help were ignored for 24 hours leaving him a quadproceduric. the county settled for

$7 million. this follows a record 10 million that are payout to another inmate who became disabled after rideling unsecured in a jail van back in 2018. >> well, beware of the water. a new report is putting a finer port report on a longtime worry. that suggests sea levels could rise as much as a foot by 2050 due to climate change so how would that impact us? here is nbc bay area's christie smith. >> the bay your is known for its stunning water front views, to king tides draw people to our shores but new data suggests the location of those shores could dramatically change by 2050. that according to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration which has improved research and data. >> there is bad news and there is good news. bad news is the bay area is ground zero for sea level rise. >> executive director of the san

francisco es chew way institute, he says much of our local infrastructure is in danger zones. the concerns are not just rising seas by risings groundwater and low-land flooding during more extreme storms. >> good news is our bay area leaders have just completed two regional vat justs to address climate change and adaptation and that's come from the bay planning and conservation commission and from our metropolitan transportation commission. our state government and federal governments have also turned on the firehose of funding opportunities to help support both planning and implementation strategies. >> people with we spoke with say it is an issue they are watching closely. >> san francisco i think is one of those places where, you know, they scare about climate change and what to do about it. but i think it's a much, much bigger problem. >> reporter: some believing this highlights the importance of current efforts like restoring wetlands and constructing sea walls. >> and building up our witlands so they keep pace with sea level rise and provide an essential

buffer. there is no one size fits all. there is some places where wetlands are going to be inneror more important. there is some places like the shoreline of san francisco where a sea wall is going to be necessary. >> the question now is are we doing enough? christie smith nbc bay area news. >> our nbc bay area investigatistic unit uncovered how climate change is already hitting bay area hemoowners and their have to pay for flood insurance when they moved in, then came a letter from the government. >> i was trying to understand how it was possible that we would -- flood insurance in the past and how is it possible all the sudden it changed? >> make sure to watch our story this sunday at 11:00 p.m. to see how rising seas are creating the biggest insurance change in decades. let's turn things over to chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. all i know is this morning, it was freezing. >> then, this afternoon, it was hot. a lot happening here. >> weigh came through for you

this afternoon. and that is really going to be the trend through tomorrow. what a day outside? if you were looking through the window, itself hard not to head outside and just enjoy some of today. and of course, you might even feel a little guilty here because we definitely need railroad rainfall with our drought. we are still doing okay because of some record-setting rainfall in december, and also in october. but we got to get more in here. we will talk more about that weather pattern coming up because again in san francisco right now, you got anything to do the next couple hours, you are looking all good here with sunny skies and 63. dropping down to the 50s by 7:00 and 8:00. still, with some 70s. winds becoming to calm out of the 7:00, 8:00, back down into chillier 50s. and down here in the san jose, not quite 70s but you are close if you are out in the sun, it feels like it.

69 degrees right now. you are also in the 50s here once you roll into 7:00 and 8:00. so overall today, we were good for about 4 to 11 degrees of warming everywhere across the bay area sue warmer temperatures and it is all coming from this area of high pressure. this is what has been keeping the rain away. just sends those storms off to the north. in fact, look at this. last time we had any measurable rainfall was january the 7th and that was just 15 hundredths of an inch. so waez move through tomorrow, interestingly enough, we are going to see a new system beginning to drop down because this is moving over land, passing over canada and washington, it is not able to pick up moisture from the pacific, so this yet again will be another drier system dropping down. so basically, expect more of what we had today as we head through tomorrow. so we are going to start on the cold side. raj, make sure you got that zwrakt tomorrow morning. we got 43 until the south bay. 40 light there for the tri-valley. over to san francisco, 4r5. north bay coming in at 4 1.

but again, through the afternoon. we are going to come in for you and in a big way. look at this down in the south bay. we got it up to 69 in sap jose. 67 in morgan hill. let's take over to contra costa, alameda counties. anti concord, danville. palo alto at 69. san francisco, 63 in downtown and through the north bay, some low 70s. santa rosa, right over to napa. my seven day foefr cast, rainfall continues to stay away. we are looking at interesting changes maybe by next wednesday that could offer some showers. i am not sold on it quite yet. we have got 60s next couple days in san francisco. and through the inland valleys, i have some on-and-off 70s thursday and saturday. and then, we will also go colder with 50s next tuesday and wednesday. so, raj, have your jacket tomorrow morning. shorts by the afternoon. and then, a suit at night. lot of wardrobe changes.

>> thanks, jeff. up next, what makes a good uber passenger? uber says it knows. we will show you how people in san francisco were rated.

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this might impact you. google is working on devices. the effort will take years. conversation. it follows a similar move by apple but when apple addressed privacy, it turned out to be disruptive to companies that did target advertising like facebook. have a question for you. are you a good passenger? well turns out, uber riders in satisfy have some of the worth ratings in the country. uber now allows riders to see how drivers rated them. out of all the major u.s. stays, uber says san francisco's rider average is near the bottom of the list.

but a few cityings leak new york and seattle are even lower. city with best passenger etiquette is san antonio. sack ramon toe also made top ten for best beingb etiquette. something drivers had dock you for include not wearing your seatbelt, making drivers wait before you hop in the car, squlaming the door when you live. let there be light. san jose is ending a decades-led ban on lek trnic billboard. the city council approved the radio he vergsle last night. the soon go up along 101 near the airport, those against the move argue the light from the signs are too distracting. now, the new signs will generate about a half a million bucks in revenue for the airport. also, as part of the deal,bods removed predominantly in low-income neighborhoods. all right. we have had our share of parades around here. now, it's la's turn. take a look. today, thousands of fans behind the streets of los angeles to celebrate the rams and their

super bowl victory over the bengals. lot of waveling, lot of dancing and celebrating in a sea of fans. and the iconic hollywood sign, by the way, also got a makeover. instead of hollywood, i think it said was it ram's house? our house? ram's house? >> here is the thing. looking at that video. doesn't look like there were that many people at the parade. >> it's la. it's la. >> all right. still ahead. eileen gu hits the slopes, one again. will she get the gold? you can watch her performance, next.

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but first on "nbc nightly news," the crackdown on those unruly passengers. why they could be added to a no-fly list. lester holt joins us right now in washington, d.c. we'll see you, again, at 4:00 p.m. breaking news tonight. the massive winter storm sweeping across the country as we come on the air. dun of millions in the path of snow and rain, high winds across 2,000 miles from colorado to maine. al roker timing it out. the u.s. is seeing more russian troops, not fewer, near the ukrainian border, despite vladimir putin's claims of a partial withdrawal. it comes as another wave of u.s. troops arrive in eastern europe. the cdc under pressure, the director saying new mask guidance is coming as another blue state, ch