julie ken will have more for you. >>> happening today, if you have ever wanted to run for president, here's your chance. washington nationals are looking for candidates to suit up for the new season. today is the deadline to apply online if you want to be one of the racing presidents, but here's the thing, you have to be at least 5'7" and no taller than 6'6". you have to be able to attend 40% of the home games and be able to run from center field to first base. we'll link you to the application in our nbc washington app. the thing is, chuck, you can't just run that distance, you have to do it in the suit which adds a layer of complexity. >> can i just say, chris, i would love to tryout for one of those things. >> i know. >> i don't know how i can make that many percentage of the home games. >> 40 percent is tough. >> some of those night games you come straight from there to here with the big president's hat on. >> if you wore the suit, we would tell you. >> i'm sure we would. all right. so a little chilly outside early this morning. 20s and 30s for most, but we are talking all about

. >> reporter: hi, ken, julie.hat we're seeing is this really rapid plunge in barometric pressure delivering strong gusts of winds and these really strong surges here along the east coast and here in atlantic city. >> very cold. i can't feel my nose. [ laughter ] >> reporter: from vehicles stuck in the snow in new jersey. >> what would you say to people out driving? >> stay home. >> reporter: to mail carriers in new england reporting blizzard-like conditions slowing them down, as they work to make important deliveries like medication.>> you can't see anything. it's hard to work in this. but we'll go out and try our best. >> reporter: all as a brutal winter storm known as a bomb cyclone is now blasting the northeast with heavy snow, high winds and bitter cold. >> it's too cold. [ laughter ] >> i go to school up in ithaca, and this is cold. >> reporter: the system has already left tens of thousands without power, has canceled thousands of flights, and has claimed lives, this as the south is now dealing with frigid te

ken, julie? >> lauren, you're talking about power being out in parts of new england and the east coast. it's so cold. how are people staying warm? do they have petroleum to heat their homes? >> reporter: well, that's what officials are very worried about. they want to make sure that with power outages, people don't get too cold. they have been telling folks to call authorities to make sure that everyone knows if the heat is not turned on in the building, that's what we heard from the new york mayor earlier that if their building didn't have heat to have the city bring it on. we have also been seeing warnings from folks like the weather service warning people like don't turn on your oven and open it because that can be very potentially dangerous. so those without power are being told to bundle up. make sure that they know authorities -- the power companies know if that power is out and for the most part just try and stay warm. >> all right. lauren blanchard in the very cold new jersey for us tonig

good evening, i'm julie haener. >> i'm ken wayne. the epicenter was a couple of miles of downtown berkeley and close to highway 24 where it heads into the caldecott tunnel. the quake struck around 2:40 this morning around the hayward fault one of two big fault lines that run northwest along the east bay hills. is ktvu's rob roth joins us live from berkeley. >> reporter: seismologists place the epicenter in front of the claremont hotel about eight miles down. and millions felt it. >>> reporter: even those who say they sleep like logs woke up to the jolt at 2:39 this morning. >> i woke up with such a start. it was, um, this loud sound. it got louder and louder and louder and luckily it stopped. it just stopped. >> it shook me. i woke up. it was really sudden. and it's just like instant. i woke up. and it was, like, kind of a an eye-opener. >> reporter: this camera on an oakland apartment building captured the sound of the quake on the hayward fault. >> every so often about three or four times in the last 10 years this little stuck patc

good evening, i'm julie haener. >> and i'm ken wayne. frank is off tonight. light rain this afternoon in alameda. this is where windshield wipers and headlights were both turned on and most people we saw walking outside finally had to dig out those umbrellas. in fremont, a similar scene this afternoon, although when our cameras were there it appeared the rain was coming down harder. this is the first of a series of storms expected to hit the bay area over the next week. >> traffic has been light throughout -- or light this week as people returned from holiday breaks. this is 80 through emeryville. it's usually slow in the area at this time of day and with the rain it makes things slow down even more. we want to check in now with our meteorologist mark tamayo in for bill tonight with the latest on the conditions. >> yeah. things will be changing rapidly over the next, say, between two to three hours across the bay area. so you will definitely notice a change. we have some lightning strikes offshore. today we had some scattered showers out there. you may have d

i'm julie haener. >> and i'm ken wayne. frank is off tonight.s been set up in the area. we want to show you where this is happening. it started just over an hour ago around 4:45 at 7th and center streets. that's right outside the west oakland bart station. >> skyfox is live over the scene right now. you're looking at these live pictures. you can see the bart station and the intersection that's blocked off. still a heavy police presence there in the area. oakland police tell us they received a call for assistance after a bart officer shot two people. >> and here's a look now at some of the social media pictures from the scene from people posting on twitter. right in the moments after it all happened, we are told a number of bart passengers saw a big commotion. bart says train service at the west oakland station is not affected. >> we get more now on this breaking news from ktvu's rob malcolm live at the scene near the west oakland bart station. rob, what are you learning? >> reporter: well, right now we're going to hear from the oakland police de

ken wayne. frank and julie are off tonight.t looked like it was going to rain most of the day but it's really started coming down this afternoon. umbrellas were the order of the day for a lot of people walking around oakland. >> yeah. let's give you a live look now at the current conditions on the golden gate bridge. the first raindrops hit there just about 2 p.m. and as you can see the road is wet and the cars are sending up spray as they pass the span. >> let's check in with chief meteorologist bill martin. we have been waiting for it and now it's here. >> it's on time and will be in the bay area shortly in time for the afternoon commute. it's going to be a nasty commute. the models have forecast this system. rainfall rates impressive especially in the area of orange to the north and the east out by fairfield. i have seen rainfall rates in here -- we can check it right now, um, -- that are over an inch of of rain an hour, which is significant, which is enough that it will slow you down. let's check this area here. about a hal

ken wayne. >> hello again, everyone, i'm heather holmes. frank and julie are off tonight. he is thankful to be alive after a hail of gunfire in east oakland. paul chambers spoke with the man who says he has no clue why he was targeted. >>> reporter: that's right. the man says he doesn't have any enemies that he knows of and he visited the area a few times to see his girlfriend without any issues. but last night he says that one wrong turn nearly cost him his life. >> i felt the whole car shaking and i said wow, i might die tonight. >> reporter: joseph was on his cell phone when he took a wrong turn. he pulled over in this 2000 block of 102nd avenue in east oakland, turned off his car and felt he was under attack. >> i didn't think i was going to make it out just because -- [ imitating gunfire ] >> reporter: his car was shot at roughly 30 times and struck 18. >> i heard so many rounds going off and the power of the bullets that were hitting my car, i just thought it was going to be relentless and i was not going to make it out. >> reporter: bullet holes are all over the car

ken wayne. >> and hello again, everyone, i'm heather holmes. frank and julie are off tonight.econd hike in as many years but now that the vote is postponed it's creating uncertainty for tens of thousands of students. ktvu's alyana gomez live in san francisco where the regents have been meeting all day at the mission bay campus. >> reporter: good evening. shortly after the board decided to postpone the hike shortly after the meeting began at 4:00, some members expressed concern and called for transparency and some more research to be done in the budgetary process moving forward saying may is going to come up very quickly and they still have a lot to get through and a lot more to do regarding the budget. they went into discussions about the tuition hike. again, they were proposing a 2.7% tuition hike for in-state students and amounting to just under $350 per student per year so students would then pay $12,974 a year in in-state tuition. they have also proposed