i don't ever see anyone coming out to maintenance anything, so it's very scary for me because i have everything i love in this home. so, we've now implemented drone technology. how is that safe for me? it enhances the inspection, so it allows us to see things faster. your safety is the most important, and if you're feeling unsafe, that's not okay. it doesn't feel like that in our hearts.

i mean, it's worrisome. [dog barks] [dog barks] right now at 11:00, we are following breaking news in the south bay. a horrific crash near gilroy. the chp says three people have died. this happened just before 7 p.m. on shaw road. this is eastf highway 25. investigators say a driver lost control, crossing into opposing traffic and hitting another car going the opposite direction. the driver of the car that lost control, along with two passengers, were killed. one of the victims just 17 years old. another passenger in that car and the driver of the other car were flown to a nearby hospital with serious injuries. shaw road is closed while this investigation continues. all

right. i want to turn your attention now to the latest from the e fire zone in southern california, where a red flag warning remains in effect. the wind is continuing to blow. nearly 90,000 people remain under evacuation orders. some 85,000 others are under evacuation warnings. the palisades fire has burned more than 23,000 acres, 18% contained. right now, the eaton fire in altadena has burned 14,000 acres and is 35% contained. the death toll from both fires stands at 25. tonight, more than 12,000 structures have been destroyed. these next 12 hours are critical. those high winds could be problematic yet again. jeff is here. what are you seeing right now, jeff? well, right now, winds are on and off 20 to 50mph. it's not the extreme extreme wind we had last week when it was up to that 7500 mile per hour range. we don't expect it to get that high. but anything, any kind of wind in these hot zones still could produce some embers that blow

around. so that's why, of course, it's just under such high alert down here. so the palisades fire right now, gusts 15 to 35 in that fire zone. i can tell you today there was not a lot of hotspot activity from satellite data that we could find on that fire. so some good news there. eaton fire right now. wind gusts 15 to 25. so wind overnight and into tomorrow morning. still could get 20 to about 50 and some of the lower elevations, but i really think those 50 plus mile per hour gusts would be saved. unfortunately for the mountains, that's tomorrow morning through the early evening. red flag fire warning expires at 6 p.m. tomorrow, and then watch the wind as we head through thursday. you can see how all of that wind starts to exit, so looks pretty good on that wind front here. not only thursday, but friday, saturday and sunday. we'll talk about more wind for california. yes, the chance of maybe some more wind. i have that for you in about 15 minutes. okay, we'll see you then. thank you. jeff. the

investigations continue into what sparked these deadly wildfires. at least two new lawsuits have been filed against power company socal edison. the suits allege negligence in the eaton fire in altadena. they claim that a transmission line sparked the fire because socal edison failed to de-energize the line. in a statement, the utility says it will review the lawsuits when it receives them. now, as far as the palisades fire goes, officials say they're not ruling out arson as a cause. the atf is now leading that investigation. so many families are trying to find some peace and stability after their lives were simply turned upside down. tonight, one family is finding normalcy here in the bay area. their daughter is now going to school in san francisco. nbc's audrey asistio has that story. tomorrow, we'll pick up zenni from fire evacuees in altadena to new beginnings in the bay area. dad's going to get here. tanya paz and her daughter clementine had no idea. early dismissal. last tuesday, her school closed early. we had

emergency pickup due to the high winds. would be the last. ty'd see clementine school in a while. later that evening, the eaton fire had sparked to the north of them, and by wednesday morning they learned the fire was rapidly expanding into altadena. clementine recalls. the sky looked different that day, but it woke up. it was yellow instead of a regular color. they were forced to leave their home in altadena. we were just outside the formal evacuation zone. however, there were police officers evacuating our area. the police came and called and called mommy for a long time, and then it said to go. they spent the next few days waiting for updates. on saturday, they learned clementine school was safe with little damage, but heading back to class wasn't going to be easy. we understood it was going to be a complex process to reopen. that's when paz decided to contact family and friends in

the bay area and head up north. they reached out to alta vista school, a steam based school in san francisco that specializes in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. the school's team, excited to answer the call. at the moment where there's so much uncertainty, we just want to try if we can help in any way. like a lot of other schools, we want to be able to do that. a couple days later, clementine stepped foot into her new kindergarten class. when we got there, she had a chair with her name on it and a cubby with her name on it, and they just had were completely ready for her. clementine seems to fit right in her mom. extremely grateful, and i think just being able to provide normalcy in a school and routine, even in not in our hometown, is kind of just an incredible thing that alta vista has helped us with, united teachers los angeles told the l.a. times. about 150 school employees it represents have lost their homes, and 550 are displaced. earlier today, governor newsom announced measures to help schools recover and maintain funding. raj jess

audrey, thank you. also headed here to the bay area, 30 dogs and cats from la animal shelters will arrive at san francisco's spca tomorrow evening. the goal is to create space down in southern california for animals displaced by these wildfires. so if you're wondering, like a lot of people are, how to help? just go to nbcbayarea.com. click on the tab in our trending bar. you'll find a long list of valid organizations that are focused on helping the fire victims. okay, we're following some breaking news overseas. impeached south korean president yoon suk yeol was arrested early wednesday morning, local time. nearly 3000 officers were on hand at his home to bring him into custody. this is the second attempt to arrest yoon following a failed attempt earlier this month. yoon is facing insurrection charges stemming from a short lived martial law declaration last month. he is the first sitting president, by the way, to be arrested in the country's history. a guilty plea from the man charged in a string of fire bombings at uc berkeley

last june, police arrested casey goonan for a series of fires at cal today, the department of justice says goonan pleaded guilty to a felony arson charge. he admitted to placing a bag of six molotov cocktails under a uc berkeley car and then setting them on fire. there are photos of that crime. he also confessed to setting three other fires on campus in june and attempting to firebomb a federal building in oakland. the doj says goodwin's goal was to influence and intimidate the government. goonan sentencing is set for april. he faces a maximum of 20 years in prison. while the long awaited deal to sell the oakland coliseum is another big step closer to reality tonight, within the past 90 minutes, alameda county board of supervisors voted unanimously to approve a term sheet to greenlight the sale of the coliseum property to the african american sports entertainment group. that vote means the deal could now be finalized within 30 days. city of oakland is relying

on that money to help balance its budget and reverse some recent cuts, but oakland won't see a dime until the deal becomes final. by the way, the total sale price for the coliseum 125 million.. a new sae sleeping site in san jose could soon open. homeless advocates say it's desperately needed, but it's only part of the problem. and the solution, we should say nbc's jocelyn moran has the details. i'm really excited that we're at this stage in the process. for our safe parking site in the city of san jose, tonight is inching closer to opening its second safe parking site in the city, this one on berryessa road. councilman david cohen says 85 rvs will be able to move in. there will be bathroom facilities, counseling services, community gardens and security. i just went by there this afternoon, and the site is almost ready for people to move in. so i'm hopeful that by the end of the month, we will start having our first residents occupy the site. this comes just days after the city began putting notices on rvs parked on

certain streets, informing owners they have two weeks to move or be towed. the city is cracking down on 30 sites near schools, parks and neighborhoods. and the number one question where am i going? i don't know. there's no place for them to go. homeless advocates are happy this new safe parking site is opening up, but say it's not nearly enough. the city estimates there are nearly 2000 oversize vehicles on the streets. we need safe rv parking tomorrow. on the phone, we talked with teresa, who lives in an rv and is hoping she can move into the site since this is something that you're really looking forward to. i am very much looking forward to it because the streets are not safe anymore. it's terrible out here. it's very scary. councilman cohen says the new space also addresses concerns from neighbors who don't want rvs near places likearks. but there are going to be still a number of rvs out on the streets, because we don't have space for everybody, and we're

going to have to continue looking to identify additional sites. in san jose, jocelyn moran, nbc, bay area news. well, new at 11 tonight. escaping that burning inferno down south. this is video of a grandmother's bolt for safety as flames raged around her. she's 81 years old and the only home she's ever known has been turned to ash by the eaton fire. but now zetta robinson is getting help from someone she inspired to be service to others. she's getting help and a lot of love from her granddaughter, who lives in san francisco. nbc's gia vang has our story. it's raining fire when a car blew up. then i really got nervous. these are the harrowing moments at three in the morning, when 81 year old zetta robinson escaped the eaton fire. she lived at her altadena home alone. but that tuesday night, her only son was there to drive her to safety. but i only grabbed three tops and noo bottoms because it got really frightening. i couldn't even

think. zetta lived at 263 poppy fields drive since the mid 1970s, when only parts of altadena were open for people of color to buy homes because of the discriminatory practice of redlining. she planted roots there. literal old photos from the garden and backyard barbecues. but she knows now their memories of the barbecue stand. and he said, there it is. the cars, the truck. it's gone. everything's gone. this is what she saw the following morning. two, six, three burned to the ground. my sister and i visited every weekend, went to church with grandma every weekend, and that was my dad's childhood home. keenan, who was just at the home that sunday, was told by her grandma to head back to san francisco for her own safety. i can't even imagine how she feels. and i don't know, i just want to do whatever i can to help her. she and her sister are through an online fundraiser to help the person who helped

guide them. she's just like judge free person. yeah, she's pretty cool. they special. that's all i can say. now, staying at a relative's home, the former nurse for decades. woman of family and god. and someone who continues to volunteer at her church. christ the shepherd, one of the only churches in the area still standiding, has this to count on for the uncertainty of what lies ahead. it was devastating, but i have faith that season's over and it's time for me to get a start off anew in san francisco, gia vang nbc, bay area news. we're back in 60s with more problems with the state's new 911 system. why one of the police chiefs who's struggling with it says it's too big and too important to fail. we investigate. also, the announcement from meta ceo mark zuckerberg about his underachieving employees. i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. as rain chances move way off to the north. i'll have

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welcome to the goodnight club. planned. all of los angeles would have been on california's next generation 911 network during these fires. but deployment of the new half $1 billion system is suspended. the suspension is the result of a major public safety concerns, which our investigative unit exposed. nbc's candice nguyen broke that storyor us in november and is now uncovering new problems. candice, we spoke to some of the first 911 centers to use the state's new internet bad nextgen 911 network. they told us about outages, misrouted calls and calls that would just disappear. new records show major 911 problems keep coming up some. just a couple of months ago. wasco pd near bakersfield, one of the latest departments to go live with california's new

next generation 911 system. our state's half $1 billion upgrade, bringing our landline design network into the digital age of the emergency. the california office of emergency services, or cal oes, promised it would save lives by connecting the hundreds of 911 centers throughout the state so they can back each other up in major emergencies. but new records obtained by our investigative unit reveal recent problems reported by wasco last november, its i.t. manager wrote in an email. 911 calls were not coming through the system, and callers were receiving busy signals. gia is one of the companies the state contracted with to create the new network. according to the manager's email, the problem has happened more than once. a few months before that, the department's records administrator wrote. our entire gia call handling system went down in a six hour outage. fortunately, we haven't had any

major tragedies as a result of the system coming online. charles fivecoat is wasco polole chief. he says he's recently noticed major improvements in how responsive state contractors have been when new 911 problems pop up. your reporting probably is what's causing these vendors to show up on my door every week. chief fivecoat is referring to our series of reports late last year revealing major public safety concerns with cal oes new half billion dollar nextgen 911 network. the tuolumne county sheriff's office near yosemite was the first to get the new system records from their department show. within a year of launching, tuolumne experienced a failure a month, which included a 12 hour 911 outage. new records we obtained show cal oes find gia more than $132,000 last july for call routing problems and failing to provide a report on what went wrong for one of tuolumne e's

outages. as our investigative unit filed more records requests, we found dozens of similar concerns at other 911 centers across the state, including at desert hot springs pd in the coachella valley and now wasco. given the reporting and the new concerns that have come to light, you still want next gen to continue at your police department? oh, absolutely. i think we're in a position candice where we don't have any choice. when you start making major technological changes, there's always unintended consequences that come with the technology. chief fivecoat says he remembers when 911 first started decades ago, and we had problems in the legacy system. this oquirrh having problems with the next gen system now. chief fivecoat says with our inevitably obsolete landline design, the 911 system, we need this upgrade. but he agrees the state and its vendors have to get it right. lives are at stake. in an email, gia told us it is

actively addressing the operational challenges faced by 911 operatotorsuring the transition. cal oes declined an interview, but told us it's continuing to assess any areas for improvement and committed to discussing them at the upcoming 911 advisory meeting. during their last meeting, shortly after our initial reports, the agency announced it suspended all deployment of nextgen 911 across california. the state 911 advisory board also called for an additional special meeting to figure out if they were misled. when cal oes and its contractors failed to inform them of these public safety concerns that they say they learned about for the first time from nbc bay area's reporting. why is that? and is that also a problem? we appreciate the question and just know that, as was reflected in the next meeting that's happening, that we are making it a priority to identify any such

concerns. if this board was misled in any way, whether by intentionally, by negligence, by poor communication or any combination thereof that needs to come to light. the state's new next gen system is in about 5% of california 911 centers right now. no big cities yet. cal oes says it will share more information about these problems and respond to concerns that it failed to be transparent about them. that will be at the upcoming 911 advisory board meeting. candice nguye nbc bay area. we investigate. candice. thank you. if you have a story tip for candice or anyone else in our investigative unit, give us a call or contact us. you see the screen here, you can call us at 888996 tips or visit our website nbcbayarea.com. slash investigations. all right. let's turn things over to jeff ranieri right now and talk about the win. this is still something that you're watching very carefully. it is. southern california has this area of low pressure that's going to linger through tomorrow keeping it gusty down there. then off to

the north, it's kind of this combo of weather. and northern california we have the exact opposite. high pressures bringing some very calm conditions. so just in case you missed it, quick, look here at the red flag fire warning. this is in effect until 6 p.m. tomorrow in southern california, primarily for the mountains. that's where we have the best chance of getting up to 60mph. and unfortunately, what's beginning to show up on the weather models for early next week could be more wind. by next monday and tuesday we could see more gusts, maybe up to about 50mph. still a lot to learn on that, but just wanted to get that on everyone's radar, so to speak. let me show you more details on what's happening with our forecast. we'll also get a check of the reservoirs here coming up. let's take a look here at tomorrow morning. and pretty simple here. we're going to start it off on the cold side upper 30s and low 40s. so as you get the jacket for tomorrow morning. don't forget the sunglasses. we got sunny skies all around. will be down here to 42 in the south bay, 38 in the tri-valley. also coming in with some upper 30s in the north bay.

san francisco headed there for work 43 and for the east bay 39. and talk about a rebound tomorrow afternoon. we're going to go up 2030 degrees warmer once we hit that afternoon. and i'm calling it best weather, no doubt right here across the south bay. we got 68 in san jose. i mean we're close to 70 for a lot of the south bay 69 here in morgan hill right over to the east bay. you're at 65 in oakland, 64 vallejo, 63 in livermore peninsula checking in with 60 and half moon bay, 63, in redwood city. and calm winds throughout the bay area, 61 here in the marina and 64 in the mission up across the north bay, 64 in clear lake and down here towards mill valley 61 now this sunny weather tomorrow, it's going to be beautiful to be outside in, but it is january. we would really like to get some rainfall in here, and we may not actually see that happening until february. at least substantial chances. so with that said, i wanted to show you the reservoirs. right now we're

doing good at east bay, mud, marin water 99%, lake sonoma 67. not as good in the southern reservoirs. that's because we didn't get as much rainfall in november and december, just 43% of capacity at lexington. we still have time to add up on that. february and march can still bring in some strong storms, but right now, dry through the next seven days and we'll be watching that wind chance next monday, where we also could locally get some wind gusts up to 40 again, still a lot. we need to learn about that next monday, but it is something we are monitoring very closely. martin luther king day and inauguration day as well. thank you jeff. all right. still to come. he says he had to do something. how a south bay teen is helping l.a. fire victims from his

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