bill spencer joins us live in the heights. bill?> reporter: yes, bill, and the candidate just took the stage a few minutes ago along with his lovely wife melissa and he did accept winning the sheriff's race, he acknowledged himself as the new sheriff. the new sheriff in town. in fact -- >> a new sheriff in town, in fact. that thing we always say applies literally here. elections do have consequences. sheriff hickman lost and harris county ed gonzalez became the new sheriff in town. interestingly that didn't stop the local activists. they continued to rally and march and organize even after ed gonzalez was elected. every week people would march to the city council and jail to put pressure on the new sheriff to get rid of 287g and today he kept his promise. today sheriff gonzalez in harris county announced he would scrap that program. >> i decided to opt out of the voluntary 287g, the department will no longer be serving as front line immigration officers as they've been deputized to do under this program. >> the new sheriff reviewed

bill croyle, the head of the department of water resources refused to comment on the 2005 concerns. and one of the largest evacuation centers is in chico... that's about 20-miles northwest of oroville. kron four's spencere who are worried about what's next. the silver dollar fairgrounds are the temporary home for about 15 hundred evacuees monday night - about twice as many as slept here sunday."we have kids. i can't just go and put myself in harm's way with the children." the red cross closed the shelter in paradise and moved those three or four hundred evacuees to chico in the afternoon."we opened one wing of that last night, and we're filling the other wing and kind of the connecting piece." those who preferred a hotel bed over sleeping on a cot had to be either fast or lucky."i was calling everywhere. chico's all booked out. so finally i got a hold of somebody here in red bluff at this hotel." that hotel is another 45 minutes beyond even chico.but one 12-year-old is putting his boredom to good use."i've been lping people like with their dogs and stuff, taking them outside to get 'em, take them to go to the bathroom and taking them back up to their hotel." back in chico, the chico state men's soccer

i'm george spencer, and it is 9:56 on this friday morning. let's get right to first alert meteorologist billert traffic with fran ches is a ruscio. >> this is northbound at route 40 and affecting the traffic in this area. in red, you are seeing the residual redelays. the left lane is blocked, but passable. another accident at tellford at east hamilton. back to you, jeff. >>> and a hotel fire at cumberland county at the ramada inn where the crews fought those fires for three hours. two people with injuries are expected to be okay. we got this from sky force 10 at 7:30 this morning. tap the nbc 10 app for more on or the investigation. i'm george spencer, and we will have another update in 25 minutes, and you can always get the latest news, weather and traffic at the nbc 10 app. now, back to the "today "show. have a great day. . >>> from nbc news this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> hello, everybody. it's try day friday. we're so happy you're watching with us. it's februar4th, and that is the news by train. >> you like it? >> see, that's