will be mostly cloudy. temperatures in the mid-50s reaching up to 66 today in palo alto. we will see highs in the upper 50s for the inland east bay. martinez and concord reaching 59 degrees as well as 59 in santa rosa. we have been talking about that rain moving in. it first starts out in the north bay at about 3:00 to 4:00 in the morning, moving into san francisco around 5:00, and we may see about a quarter to half inch of rain before this system wraps up. we will have another one behind that and i will talk about that in the forecast coming up in a few minutes. >> sounds good, kari. developing at this hour, alameda county investigators are taking a new look at a number of police shootings and in-custody deaths. bob redell joins us live at the hall of justice in dublin. bob, it's the new district attorney asking the questions here? >> reporter: you are corrected. the newly elected district attorney, pamela price, is

opening the cases of eight in-custody deaths and officer-involved shootings. loved ones of mario gonzalez say this is welcome news. gonzalez was killed while three alameda police officers tried to restrain him in april of 2021. last year the then current alameda county district attorney, nancy o'malley, cleared the officers of any wrong doing. and amanda blanco has been working with mario's mother, edith for two years, and has heard that's one of the cases price plans to reinvestigate. >> she has a lot of faith that hopefully this is something the d.a. will take serious. >> reporter: in a statement d.a. price wrote, quote, i promise accountability, the unit and

it's work are the start of the reckoning alameda county has asked for holding people accountable for misconduct. and michael rains said price has had long standing vocal attacks on officers, and d.a.'s should not file claims until they believe beyond a reasonable doubt that officer violated the law. reporting live here outside the east county hall of justice in dublin, bob redell. >> thanks for the latest, bob. new overnight, a hostile new response from north korea. the foreign minister released a statement saying that it's

prepared to counter u.s. military moves with, quote, most overwhelming nuclear force. even ed quote. the u.s. is also upping the drills it's holding with south korea. we are learning more about president biden's first one-on-one meeting with kevin mccarthy. the meeting came hours after the fbi conducted another search for classified documents at president biden's home. >> let's start with the meeting between the two leaders. >> there's a lot to unravel here. they met for more than an hour on wednesday, but there was no sign of a break through when it comes to the debt ceiling. negotiations over avoiding a potentially catastrophic default on u.s. debt continues after what is being described as a

good first meeting between president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. republicans demanding spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling but are not providing specifics. >> do the republicans have a plan? what is that plan? >> and kevin mccarthy saying a deal can be reached before june 5th, and that's when the funds to pay america's bill exhaust. >> kevin mccarthy doesn't have a deal to put forward. >> one thing gop lawmakers are uniting around is investigating president biden's handling of classified documents. >> they covered it up. >> and officials revealing no documents were found at

president biden's pwoefp house. >> we cooperated fully. his personal attorneys have provided information to the doj. >> president biden ignoring questions about the matter as he prepares to address his challenges and triumphs at next week's state of the union. president biden delivers his second state of the union address on tuesday. marcus, laura. >> brie jackson in washington. thank you. we want to give you a look right now at the international space station where astronauts are doing a spacewalk. they are installing a modification kit on the international space station truss structure, and are preparing the orbital lab. the spacewalk should last about seven hours. kari has been tracking the green comet, right? >> yeah, this is the first time that we have seen this

particular comet since the stone age, so we have never seen it and we won't see it again for another 50,000 years. it's at its closest approach and looks like a little light moving across the sky. you will need a little binocular or telescope because most of us can't see it with the naked eye. we are clear as the clouds are going to be moving in later today. our temperatures head for the upper 50s this afternoon for napa as well as santa rosa. 59 in martinez. low to mid-60s from oakland down to the south bay as well as the south county. a little warmer this afternoon compared to what is ahead. we are getting ready for that rain tomorrow morning. i will have the timeline of that coming up in a few minutes. mike has a look at where we can find slightly lower gas prices. >> yeah, in marin county we squeak in under 4 bucks.

concord, today that is 20 cents higher than earlier this week when it was tied with cupertino. 3.69 in cupertino. that's one of the state's best and the area's best reported on gasbuddy.com. chp has called an alert for a crash on northbound 880 and jacqueline road. i believe they did a traffic break and that's the reason for focused slowing near 237 and up towards jacqueline. one lane blocked for the time being. look how quickly that backup formed. a 20-minute delay reported because we had overnight repair work done near the oakland wiped and it was delayed.

all the trains traveling to the oakland y. the alternate would be getting to the roads. typical timing for the bay bridge. we will see if there's a ripple affect from the bart impact, but bart is recovering now. a new day about to dawn for netflix that could lead to some subscribers scrambling as they are cracking down on password sharing. why you may want to be prepared if you rely on the kindness of friends and relatives. the fed has raised interest rates and will do so again, and wall street says we don't believe you about the again. let's look at the futures. a good start. look at the nasdaq there. i will explain coming up. you could have a chance to live at the mega store, well,

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it will be so much fun! right now at 6:11, we are talking about rain but you can leave the umbrella at home for today. in oakland it will be in the low 40s and a mostly cloudy day. temperatures staying on the cool side. we'll talk about that rain. we also got the drought monitor. i'll go over that in a few

minutes. fremont, 680 still gummed up counter your typical commute. an alert status for a crash around jacqueline road. good morning to you. it's groundhog day again. shares in meta, the old facebook ready to take off after that company pleased investors with its profit report and said it would buyback a tremendous amount of stock. if you buy a share of meta you own a piece of the company. if i buy that share from you, i own a piece of the company. if the company buys the stock, the share ceases to exist and all the other shares out there count for a bigger piece of the pie. the federal open markets committee did raise interest rates for the eighth time. not by much. just a quarter percent. that has some thinking the fed could be done raising rates.

not so fast, says powell. we may raise them again. here's what he said. brace yourself. he uses fed speak. >> we continue to anticipate ongoing increases will be appropriate in order to obtain a stance of monetary policy to return inflation to 2% over time. >> here's the thing. wall street doesn't believe him. wall street acting like we are done. meanwhile, we are swimming in jobs data. there are two jobs in america for every worker that wants one. once again, it's lower than we expected, weirdly low numbers. 183,000. those layoffs should show up here and they are just not. tomorrow we get the big jobs report, the monthly employment report showing how many new jobs were created and the unemployment rate, which is at a 50 year low right now. a new study from castle systems

say more people are coming back into the office. castle runs the key card door systems at a lot of corporations, so it has measure how many people are using their cards and go into the office. numbers slightly higher in san francisco of those going into the office. austin, hard core, 7 in every 10 office workers in austin go to the office. not air traffic controllers, they never left, right, but 4 in 10 in san josé is a high number. >> i think you can see it, too. it's reflected in the morning commute. >> yeah, wednesdays seems the day people have to go to work. >> yeah, and people are taking an early friday or starting on tuesday.

>> yeah, some have not transitioned except just to once a week, and that's on wednesday. >> yeah, we did work from home. >> yeah, you all did. >> it was not easy, my friend. >> i believe you. >> thank you, scott. it's 6:15. we know how netflix will implement its plan to password share. the streaming giant will have a code on new devices used. netflix will send an e-mail to the primary account owner with a code and expires in 15 minutes. in peru, costa rica and chile, netflix will have a fee.

talk about taking your costco membership to a whole new level. >> the retail giant considering plans to build apartments on top of its stores. it's calling for 800 living units in los angeles. all this includes options for affordable housing and that's not to mention the free samples and the $1.50 hot dogs. the project is still in the planning stages with no timeline for possible approval. >> it's hard to find a parking place there already. the verdict from punxsutawney phil. six more weeks of winter. thousands gathered for the annual groundhog celebration. yes, phil saw his shadow. and noaa found that phil has a

40% all-time success rate. so you know, groundhog day -- not a big fan of it. when you are putting punxsutawney phil over our meteorologist, kari hall, i would take kari. >> i would take kari. it's a clean sweep. >> i posted it on facebook and instagram. tell us who you would follow. >> it's all in fun. mike and i were watching it this morning, and i mean, it was a party out there in philadelphia. they were also, you know -- they are so official with it, like they have all of these people who do all of these different things, and -- >> a lot of medallions. >> yeah. how do you do? >> whatever. >> for six more weeks of winter, that could mean more rain. that could be good for us even as -- >> you agree with phil?

>> we'll see. i wanted to show you the drought monitor update this morning. we are still in a drought and we are also dealing with big improvements because of the parade of storms we had from late december into early january. we're still once again looking at our drought conditions. no change from last week this morning. we are under a moderate drought for the bay area but we also did see a lot of big improvements from the central coast to the santa cruz mountains with the last update. let me show you our reservoirs still at 48% of capacity for our four largest reservoirs across northern california. we still have work to do but we have not yet had the sierra snow-melt that tends to go down the mountains and fill some of the reservoirs, and the sierra snowpack is still over double its normal amount. the best snowpack we have had since 1995 all thanks to the big storms we have had.

recently because of climate change only in the past two of the 11 years finished past 100%, and we are finishing this season above snowstorm snowpack. this next system arrives early tomorrow morning. first starting in the north bay with widespread rain. it's moving fairly quickly and falls apart as it moves into the rest of the bay area. scattered showers will continue into the day on friday. a brief break on saturday and then we will see another system coming in on sunday. our expected rainfall totals will be anywhere from a quarter to half inch with a round of rain we will see on friday. on sunday by the time all is said and done, we may see an inch and a half for ukiah and about half an inch for some spots, but mostly about as least an inch of rain for much of the bay area. that's two systems coming in

over the course of the weekend. beyond that it dries out, but next weekend, a heads up, there may be a storm system approaching. i will keep you updated as we get closer. we are, of course, focused on this weekend. the next 48 hours will feature rain off and on. no more of the freezing mornings until the systems pass, and then highs will reach into the low 60s with sunshine early next week. mike, you have an update to the traffic alert for fremont? >> yeah, wish i had a clear update but we don't. still there is slowing, and this crash may have involved up to four vehicles. we talked about them spread across either side of the 43, and the middle lane is the one affected, and they need a second tow truck to clear that, and two vehicles in the middle of northbound 680 right around jacqueline road where the mini golf course is on the shoulder. locals remember that as they pass that iconic location.

that's the slowest spot for the bay, as far as the unexpected slowing. the peninsula, no problem. in the tri-valley, we are looking near the dublin interchange. the taillights stacking up westbound. that's your typical build towards the dublin interchange, and so we are looking at that area. no major issues. 680 cleared on time. overnight -- they will have that closure again overnight. we will talk about that again in the next half hour. we are looking at the build typical for highway 4, highway 37 and richmond. there's a building volume heading towards the north bay and across the bay bridge. we're looking at a smooth flow of traffic, but there could be more traffic because the bart system, there was a problem near the oakland y. the power issues were addressed and they are recovering from up to 20-minute delays from some of the lines traveling through

oakland and into san francisco. back to you. >> thank you, mike. coming up next, "nbc bay area responds." >> countless families will get a shock soon that i.d. thieves filed a fake tax return in their name. you have to take action. i will show you how, next. and then we are introducing you to influential african americans that left a mark on the bay area. first we would like to highlight the first african american controller. she worked as gavin newsom's confidential secretary. in 2013, she was author of the fair chance ordinance that barred employers and landlords from asking applicants to state theirriminal c

6:25 this morning. millions of families are filing their tax returns right now. >> inevitably, a lot of families' refunds will be declined because fraudsters filed before them. >> here's how it happens. a bad guy files a phoney tax

return with your social security on it, and then you go to file for real and your return is rejected because the irs sees a duplicate and tell you you filed twice. here's what you need to know. the irs says the first step is to fill out a form. you need form 14039, an identity theft affidavit. once there is an identity theft issue, you can't filed electronically. sorry. next, the irs says it will send you a letter acknowledging it got your affidavit. after that your case will be researched and resolved by an employee with specialized identity theft training. then you will receive notification your case has been resolved. you might be enrolled in the

identity protection pin program, and basically uncle sam will send you a new six-digit pin every year to file, and ideally the bad guys won't get their hands on that number. >> good advice. the new plan to prioritize removal of what advocates view as open air drug markets. flames and smoke damaged multiple businesses here in palo alto overnight. i am emma gosk at the scene. take a look at the damage. just ahead, new details on the unfolding investigation. plus, tracking the rain in the next 24 hours. wet weather is move into the bay area. meteorologist, kari hall, breaking down the time hraoepb for your neighborhood. stay

right now at 6:30, up in smoke. fire damaging several businesses. we will take you live at the scene for an up close look at the damage. a little fighter. that mountain lion picked the wrong kid to mess with. >> good thing he's doing better. we will talk about the road to recovery as family members talk about the mountain lion attack that injured a 5-year-old boy. plus, an update on the search for the animal. this is "today in the bay" streaming on roku, amazon fire, apple tv and online.

it's 6:30 on your thursday morning. i am laura garcia. >> i am marcus washington. the pebble beach pro-am gets under way this morning. you are looking live at some of the a-list -- well, you are not looking at them but this is where they are going to begin that party. kris sanchez will be live for us in about 15 minutes on the latest on what is about to get under way. let's check in with meteorologist, kari hall. it will be cold to hit the links this morning. >> yes, cold but dry. the weekend will be off and on rain. it's freezing in fairfield as well as santa rosa. 32 in san martin. 30 in dublin. one degree above freezing in mountain view. after the cold start you want to make sure the kids are bundled

up on the way out the door for school. walnut creek, once again very cold and you may have frost on the windshield. it will be mostly cloudy at pick up time at school, so make sure they are dressed appropriately for recess. and then tomorrow we will see rain coming in first in the north bay and then spreading across the bay area, and that could affect weekend plans. they are not telling you if they cleared lanes on 680. it's just shy of the mini golf course, and it's not what we are talking about with the pro-am, but it is where there's a crash. this one is building for west 580. the crash first reported east bay but now a crash westbound, the commute direction just shy of the dublin interchange.

you saw it going from red to orange. i would stick to the freeway. >> thank you. 6:32. new overnight firefighters right now still at the scene of a fire that roared through a palo alto strip mall. >> emma gosk is live for us this morning. what are firefighters telling you out there? >> reporter: marcus and laura, fire crews are right now concentrated in front of aj's cleaner and phil's coffee in palo alto. there's a fire truck in the parking lot, and there's also caution tape roping off some areas. the breakfast and brunch spot, bill's cafe and palo alto fine

wine and spirits are both being check you had out by the fire department after being impacted. crews responded around 11:15 last night to reports of a building fire. they initially saw flames coming from a.j.'s cleaners, which according to their website was already temporarily closed for this month. >> found flames coming from the dry-cleaner's building, and they initiated the fire attack. a little after getting inside the building, the fire ventilated through the roof. they shut that down and trying to control the fire. they started salvage operations on the building adjacent to that. >> reporter: the cause of the fire is still under investigation, and the damage done to the businesses is being assessed. phil's coffee that is normally

open at 5:30 a.m., has not been able to open. emma gosk for "today in the bay." >> thank you. new details this morning surrounding the former mayor of windsor forced out amid sexual misconduct allegations. he's facing a new civil suit, this one filed by a reality tv star, farrah abraham. other women have come forward accusing him of sexual assault or misconduct and in the past he denied all allegations and never has been charged. and there's a last-minute pause in the relocating for

laguna hospital. critics claim it led to the deaths of some of the most vulnerable patients who were transferred. thanks in part to a federal approval, they have time for recertification. this morning a new concentrated effort is aimed at getting drugs off the street of san francisco. the movement is called together sf and it has its sights set on removing the drugs from the city. they say local authorities need to step up their game. >> prioritizing ending the drug markets must happen, because that's not a stated priority of the leadership right now and that's the heart of the problem. >> they are calling for stricter enforcement for police and more treatment options for those addicted to drugs. now to a follow-up for you.

the search is still ongoing for the mountain lion that attacked a 5-year-old boy in san mateo. the boy got ahead of the group and that's when he was attacked. >> she was not able to fight it but scared it as she ran up and was screaming and scared it off. >> he is expected to make a full recovery. state fish and wildlife is looking for the animal using dna swabs from jack's clothing. look at the sun coming up over the bay area this morning as we take a live look outside, this time from the south bay in san josé. kari has a peek at the weekend forecast. dry today and rainy tomorrow, and what about the rest of the weekend? >> it will be on and off

throughout the weekend, and people hitting the road to pebble beach for celebrity sightings, the rain will be an issue but looks dry for saturday. only 61 degrees for a high. cool with off and on rain for sunday. it's probably not the best beach weekend, but if you are going to santa cruz, maybe you will be able to enjoy some of the breaks in the rainfall, but you do want to stay layered up with temperatures reaching only in the upper 50s on saturday and more widespread rain on sunday. look at tahoe. this is where you want the cold temperatures, or at least you are more prepared for it. a high of about 50 degrees on friday, and sunny on saturday, but sunday we will see temperatures dropping to a high of only 31 degrees as the rain changes over to snow. we are tracking that and will talk about how much snow we can see coming up in a few minutes. mike, you have a crash you are tracking now? >> yeah, one over here near the

doubling interchange, the taillights are moving better. we saw the speed sensors improve 580 to 680. we don't have the clear-all from chp. and there's the build closer to el charro. and then 680 south shows a build and it's feeding off of 580. the closure for 680 this weekend is being held off because of the rain, so they will have the last three weekends in february with that closure. northbound out of milpitas restricted and unexpectedly slow there. the rest of the bay, the expected pattern. back to you. >> thank you. the new partnership focussed on bringing new life to the oakland coliseum and the area surrounding it, and the

possibility of a new chapter when it comes to sports. in washington some encouraging words from republicans as far as the debt ceiling goes. the dow is down 190. i wish i could show you the nasdaq. it's on fire this morning. >> reporter: we are not on fire here at pebble beach. we are actually quite cold, but the forecast kari has with a little bit of rain will not dampen the spirit of people that love golf and people that want to watch celebrities. i will tell everyone is making room hm. *coughs* seriously? for the medicine cabinet's new essential. binaxnow -- with reliable covid-19 results in just 15 minutes.

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right now at 6:42, i am loving this sunrise in the north bay as we take a look in san rafael. snap some pictures and send them to me on social media. it's cold out there, mid-30s. we will see more clouds coming in so probably won't see too much more of the sun today. we will get a look at the incoming rain in the forecast, coming up. the number of headlights here over richmond towards san rafael, a slowdown here typical off the east bay. the build in the north bay here with no problems. just into our news room. bay area's nancy pelosi is ready

to endorse schiff, and the house speaker said she would support diane feinstein or adam schiff. president biden has been mum about his meeting with kevin mccarthy over the debt ceiling. >> we have a financial time bob and the best case scenario is it blows up in june. it could be earlier. at issue, of course, is raising the debt ceiling. there we go. congress has to do this each year because each year the federal government spends more money than it makes which means it has to borrow more to pay debts it already incurred.

speaker mccarthy wants to negotiate, and in his words it's unsustainable. >> we both from different perspectives, but i thought it was a good meeting. we promised we would continue the conversation. we will see if we can get there. i think at the end of the day we can find common ground. i really do. >> that's very positive language. the white house says it won't negotiate but will have parallel talks if mccarthy will agree the debt ceiling has to be raised. remember, the debt ceiling doesn't allow congress to spend more money. congress already spent the money. we were talking yesterday, if congress were to cut, it would almost certainly have to be cuts from one of these three categories because they account for most of the spending.

mccarthy said social security and medicare are off the table. congressman george santos continues to resist calls that he steps down over the lies he told about all kinds of things. a poll of voters in his district say an overwhelming amount, 70%, want him to resign. santos said if enough of his voters wanted him to leave he would in the past. >> but the majority of people in your district -- >> i don't want to talk about your poll. >> we will watch what happens with that, and then the big meeting with king jordan as well at the white house. we will talk about it on social

media on facebook. you can contact me @scottmcgrewtv. and then a historic new chapter involves a new partnership with the african american sports and entertainment group. a negotiated agreement calls for transforming 100 acres of the surrounding area to become a center for sports entertainment and residential use. the group still hopes to bring a black-led nfl expansion team and wnba franchise to oakland. still not sure how the a's might fit into the picture as the team is still eyeing a move to los angeles. this weekend is the pebble beach pro-am golf tournament. a lot of stars making their way towards the central coast for tee time.

>> yeah, kris sanchez is live there with more. >> reporter: it's beautiful and cold. my dad will be so excited for me to have this assignment today because we have been watching this event on tv for years. the stars and the players, they are making their way here not only to pebble beach where they will play, but they will play at two other golf courses as well, and spy glass and monterey country club. we are expecting to see big names like buster posey, and jason bateman. >> i do love this part of the country. i love all of it. the golf here is second to none. the fans, the volunteers, i just love the whole vibe and especially in weather like this.

>> might not be the exact weather he wants, but still a good time. the pebble beach pro-am kicks off tomorrow. the purse is $9 million for a professional, and first place is $1.62 million. there are still spectator tickets available. monterey peninsula foundation hosts the probeach pro-am tour, and because of the partnership they have been able to deliver a win for the community as well, and in the last fiscal year they donated $1.4 million to this county and the surrounding county. >> i love seeing that. oh, kris, watch out, fore! >> reporter: you actually scared me. >> you can watch the action live

on the sister network, the golf channel streaming on peacock. live coverage begins today through sunday. kris sanchez, don't go anywhere. we want to say congratulations to you. 19 years here at "today in the bay." nice to have you as part of the team. >> reporter: i am so proud. i am so excited. you know, when i first came here 19 years ago i had just a couple years in the business under my belt. you don't do news this long without making some mistakes, and i have been so fortunate to have support of my team, the management and the viewers who have been so kind and i am starting to get those, i used to watch you when i was a little kid. >> welcome to the club. >> yeah, i know, right. i think we have aged like fine wine. >> yeah, i know you have. >> aged? what? >> thank you, marcus. >> congratulations, kris. we wanted to send her

somewhere nice. >> yeah, exactly. >> the parking lot of pebble beach. >> yeah. >> the rain will be the issue coming up into the weekend. we have an update on the drought monitor. no change. we have not had any rain in the past couple of weeks, but we are still riding the coattails of the big amount of rain we had in late december into early january. as we enter into february, we are still looking okay. we are still in a moderate drought for the bay area, but we saw significant improvements for the central coast and into the santa cruz area. it's right now abnormally dry, and we have a severe drought for parts of the central valley. let me show you the reservoirs, how they are doing so far. for the four largest reservoirs across northern california, they are at 48% of capacity. we still have work to do for

some of the reservoirs, but we have not yet had the sierra snow-melt which tends to fill the reservoirs as it flows downhill. we are more than double right now the amount of sierra snow, the best snowpack since 1995. this is great news and it continues because of the past 11 years, only two of them finished at 100% of the normal amount of snow due to climate change. now as we go into the weekend, more sierra snow and more bay area rain, but this first system moves through tomorrow morning, and then a brief break on saturday before another storm system comes in on sunday. so the first round of rain brings us about a quarter to half inch of rain. some of the higher rainfall totals will be in parts of the north bay. in total, we could see an inch and a half further near the coastline, and inland valleys could get three quarters of an

inch of rain. once the two storm systems pass for the weekend, next weekend, just wanted to give you a heads up, there may be more rain coming in. i know that's far out so we will be fine-tuning that forecast as we get closer. we will reach in the upper 50s and low 60s, and then back to sunshine early next week. mike, you are tracking a commute through fremont. >> yeah, nothing noticeable traveling through fremont, and look at this, northbound the crash cleared from the middle of northbound 680, so everything is clear out of milpitas and through fremont. the build we showed you earlier on 880 is happening down towards union city. a typical pattern. no surprises for the tri-valley. coming over 880 after a crash

near the dublin interchange, still under a half hour there as well as vasco coming out of brentwood. back to you. >> thank you. happening now, giants fans are about to have their first chance to snap up single game tickets for the upcoming season. tickets will go on sale saturday. giant's seasons gets under way march 30th at yankee stadium. a top look at the stories for you this morning, including a overnight fire roaring through the strip mall. the reason the d.a. says some cases deserve a fresh set of eyes, but first, here's craig melvin. >> we are looking at the overwhelming demand for a

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it's 6:57 this morning. we are moving you forward with a look at the top stories here on "today in the bay," including the late night fire at a palo alto strip mall. >> we have a live look at the scene this morning where the cleanup is getting started. this is along middlefield road south of oregon expressway. the fire started a little after 11:00 p.m. in an area believed to have contain a cleaning business. four businesses had heavy damage. also a liquor store and coffee shop near there. then the alameda county new d.a. is launching a new public accountability unit. all this follows on the campaign promise she made to create transparency in law enforcement. critics are bringing up concerns about reasonable doubt in cases

that have already been closed. some fear that the standard will be disregarded when it comes to new evaluations. state official wildlife officers are searching for a mountain lion that attacked a boy near the peninsula. family members say they managed to frighten the animal away. jack suffered puncture wounds and a broken bone near his eye but is expected to make a full recovery. his aunt says the mountain lion chose the wrong boy to mess with. we have rain coming up? >> yeah, this time tomorrow morning starting in the north bay. we are dry one more day but it will be mostly cloudy and off and on showers over the weekend. no slowing for north 17, but

there's significant building for the south bay. sounds good. that's what is happening on "today in the bay." >> taking a live look right here. pebble beach pro-am. a lot of people going out to play golf. we will good thursday morning. millions waking up to day four of the relentless ice storm in the south. >> and for many other parts of the country, it's about to get even colder. it's february 2nd.ur this is "today." ♪♪ states of emergency. problems only growing across the south this morning. nearly half a million customers now without power, while those frigid temperatures make their way to the northeast, set to challenge records. everything you need to know, including a warm-up on the horizon. saying farewell. thousands attend the funeral of tyre nichols. >> my brother was robbed of his life, his passions, and his