thanks, garvin. >> thanks, garvin. >> let's get a check of our forecast.can't even see the top of the transamerica pyramid. they're more on the rain in the bay area. here's jeff. >> we have the storm system, spotty showers, nothing too heavy today, but it's continuing to move on toward the south. if you're headed out over the next couple hours, definitely be careful on those slick roadways tonight. let's get you a look right now. and i did want to kind of set the table , so to speak, with hw we're doing with the rainfall this season. it starts october 1st. we are running a deficit here. we did really good in december, but january has been a little bit lackluster. anywhere from 3 to about 5 inches behind for that rainfall season. even though this is not a strong storm, we will take every drop we can get. right now that storm front is right now positioned on top of the bay area. it's beginning to break up, so it's mainly some light to moderate rainfall. closer look on storm ranger mobile doppler radar, activity in the peninsula, east bay, i'll put a track on

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. >> nbc bay area's garvin thomas was alongside the children when it happened. joins us now with the whole story in tonight's bay area proud, garvin. >> terry and jess, in november, we shared the story of deborah carlino of her 5th graders in south san francisco. it was turning into a full fledged movement. people were tag attention to what they were doing. this one in particular they really wanted to let know. at the sacramento state student union saturday night, at the annual celebration for the man who had the dream. deborah carlino and her students have a plan. >> we are going to meet that little girl today and she has grown up into a beautiful woman. we hope to meet her. we hope we're going to meet her. >> reporter: that girl now woman is the evening's keynote speaker, ruby bridges, who at just 5 years old, desegregated new orleans public schools in 1960. >> the first goal is ruby bridges knows. the first goal. what is the next step inside this problem? >> reporter: what deborah wants ruby to know is what she and her students at south san francisco's martin

"today in the bay's" garvin thomas talks about a company's unique hiring practices. >> reporter: jack clark is in charge of the toy library, both the budget and the tracking. >> i make sure everyone turns the toys in on time and if they do not, i give them a phone call or send them an email. >> reporter: jack has been a model employee, says his boss. >> jack is, they care less about me, they care about jack. >> reporter: jack has done more than just find a job at csd. pete says he opened the door for others. >> jack gave us the green light to work with this particular population with these particular symptoms. from jack, then zain came. >> i'm going based off the one i sent you. >> reporter: zain was hired as project coordinator for csd. >> put them right here. >> reporter: then came will as a behavioral specialist. >> race to the village from the bridge. >> reporter: and martin slingstad as a clinician, all of them diagnosed with autism themselves as children. >> i was diagnosed at age 3. >> i was 5 years old. >> i was 4. >> reporter: pete says hiring people with autism to help other

>> reporter: that's right, garvin. local health officials are still waiting to hear back from the cdc on the several suspected cases that came out of the alameda county area and sent to the cdc. from now on the local health officials will only report confirmed cases by the cdc. they don't want to alarm people over tests that might come back negative. >> here's the farmers market in chinatown. people touch and sample the goods getting ready for the lunar new year celebrations. unlike the ghosts in wuhan, china, where celebrations have been canceled and everyone is wearing masks. travelers who have been recently to wuhan, china, are screened. the bay area response team addressing the coronavirus says although information was released yesterday saying there were persons under investigation in alameda county whose tests for the virus had been sent to the cdc, people should not worry. health experts say the people under investigation are quarantined in t homes. >> we not only investigate the case and confirm it once it's po

like that, but just somebody reaches out. >> see somebody struggling, stop and say hi. >> thanks, garvin. >> let's bring in meteorologist rob mayeda as we look at this beautiful sunset. i think things are changing. >> in less than 24 hours. that is the weather story tonight. we're going to see temperatures cooling off to the 30s as early as maybe 9:00 around the north bay. so you may have to scrape your windshields tomorrow morning for patchy frost. you're going to want wiper blades for what's to follow thursday morning. clear skies san jose, 51 degrees. breezy outside. winds close to 12 miles per hour. san francisco is in the clear. 52 degrees. winds out of the west at close to 12. so notice the temperatures here approaching tomorrow morning, low to mid 30s for most of the valleys. cold starts and kind of a cool day, too. it's going to take time for temperatures to rebound, plus increasing clouds. that's going to limit the warming of the day. highs tomorrow mostly in the lower 50s. around the bay area for your wednesday. storm ranger now not seeing much. you'll notice here the storm is

garvin thomas has tonight's 49ers bay area proud. >> the family is that of a 5-year-old alamo boy. once in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant, he's now dealing with the complications of that transplant. for his parents it is a tremendously difficult time, made a little easier by the support of someone who's got ae. there are times when a football game can seem so very importantl be one of those times. though one 49er player clearly understands that as important as this game is, there are things much more important. it's why last saturday one week before his biggest game of the year, tight end levine tulolo took time to come here to the hospital and to the bedside of sabian hamilton. >> we just wanted to go encourage him and take a few gifts to cheer them up and try to get their minds off of hit. >> he and his wife learned of the struggles when his parents trie a bone marrow donor to help him beat an aggressica sabian's mom, jasmine, while not a perfect match ended up being the donor. >> we went for it. we needed to. >> sabian is still struggling with complications from that

garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> garvin, thanks. >> we have much more ahead on today in the bay. president trump is beefing up his legal defense team. we have the latest on the latest person to join ahead of the senate impeachment trial. >>> plus, a hiccup in the process to rename the oakland coliseum. we'll tell you what happens next. >>> good morning. it is saturday at 7:28. that's ahead of tomorrow's match of green bay for the nfc championship game. thanks so much for joining us. i'm kyra klapper. vianey arana has a look at our microclimate forecast and all eyes are on you. >> i know. >> people want to make sure it's not going to rain. >> and the clouds make people a little worried, but don't worry. i'll take you through it. san francisco, the span has a great start to the morning. i'll take you through a look of the daytime highs and livermore, 54 and we'll remain dry today and a iks mix of sun and clouds it will be warmer and don't have to worry about the rain and we have a system to the north and here it is, the big nfc championship game for tomorrow tomorrow. it will be ja

"today in the bay's" garvin thomas shows us the memorable moment. >> reporter: the petaluma high school football team going into their last game of this season. >> on your mark, get set, go. >> reporter: did not have what coach rick crist would call a good record. >> it was a tough year. it was a tough year for the wins and losses. >> reporter: but for that final game against rival casa grande, coach crist had a play up his sleeve he knew would turn the trojans' losing record into a winning season. >> we ran flex 25 draw, and he was the draw. >> he is aidan spillane, a 17-year-old senior with cerebral palsy which makes it hard for aidan to speak but when it comes to football it's easy to understand. >> throw it. >> reporter: aidan's dad, brett, says his son fell in love with the sport when he was a little boy. being a part of that team brett knew would mean the world to aidan. >> prior to the freshman year and during that summer, i called up coach and said is there any way to get aidan involved in the team in any capacity. the coach said absolutely, we'd love to, maybe make him the wate

garvin thomas shows us how the women are helping his family heal from the loss. >> reporter: there is a phrase we use in tv, probably overuse it, in fact, to describe flowers, candles and notes left at the scene of an accident or crime. makeshift memorial. meaning it is temporary. but for two women in montclair what they saw outside of the local starbucks, well they didn't want that message to be temporary. the signs of trauma. at least the visible ones, are gone from montclair now. no crime scene tape on the street. business as usual at the starbucks on mount boulevard. it is the pain you can't see that still lingers. >> this really uncomfortable sadness that was overwhelming. >> reporter: sue graham lives about a mile from the starbucks, one she's been to countless times, i came down here -- >> reporter: so when she heard about the death of shuo zeng, she was drawn to visit the site, with pen and post-it note in hand. >> i could feel so sad about somebody i don't know and i could leave a note and hope that others would leave a note too. >> reporter: to help others do that, sue broug

garvin thomas explains in bay area proud. >> there is a statistic that many have heard before but it is important to repeat before this story. according to the v.a., 22 veterans aday take their own lives, a number driven john preston to help figuratively and now literally. on the side of the road, somewhere in monterey county, john preston is caring for his best -- blisters and counting the miles that was given to him. >> probably about 102 miles in total. >> with another 400 ahead of him, john has no time to let them heel. >> are you ready? in september, we shared the palo alto firefighter and iraq war veteran's plan to hike from the bay area to san diego. ♪ for years john has been an advocate on the issue of veteran suicide. ♪ [ singing ] >> reporter: in the past john used his music to ved his message. this time, though, he planned to use his feet. hiking 22 miles a day, carrying a 22 kilogram or 50-pound pack the entire way. john trained for months to be physically ready to tackle the challenge -- but discovered after just one day it was the emotions of the journey that were going

i'm garvin thomas in forage mathai. >> i jessica aguirre.nother fight between california and the trump administration. this time over abortion. california's requirement that private insurers pay for abortio abortions. melissa colorado joins us now from the embarcadero which will be packed with anti-abortion advocates tomorrow. melissa? >> reporter: anywhere from 40,000 to 50,000 people. i can tell you, jess, the organizers of tomorrow's event, they're thrilled with the threat from washington. it's certainly going to add a pep in their step tomorrow. they have an ally in the white house. those in sacramento say the threat does nothing. >> all i can say is go president trump. >> banners and crucifixes are typical of what you'll see during tomorrow's walk for life event. don't be surprised if you also spot the make america great again hats or trump 2020 sign making its way down market street.

. >>> a woman is doiom garvin thomas has the story. >> beautiful is a good word to describe what you are about to see. but it begins with an ugly truth. tens of thousands of unwanted horses are shipped out of the u.s. each year headed for slaughter. it is a fact that started alisha guest on a path to save the ones she could. just off highway 101, in san benito county, just behind these gates is where you will find a lottery winner. well, more like 500 of them. and the woman who gave them their prize. >> i have 400 and like 93 right now. but another ten are coming. so, yeah. but they're here. they're okay. >> reporter: for the past six years, on this 4,000 acre ranch, alisha guest has quietly been building one of, if not the largest horse sanctuary in the nation, though not by design. >> it just happened, uh-huh. that definitely wasn't in my plans. this is the property line between the front and the back right here. >> reporter: alisha says it wasn't until one of her daughters got into horses that she began to learn the fate of tens of thousands of unwanted horses each year, shipped o

thanks, garvin. >>> let's turn our attention to chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. what didn't we have, jeff? >> we had a lot today, and that storm system hit pretty hard this morning. we are seeing most of that move out as we go to the microclimate forecast. i always like to give you this birds eye expect so you can see what's happening so you can see what's happening now. you can know comfortably here the worst of that storm system is now pushed off towards the south and also the east. now, it did produce about a half to one inch of rain on average. but look at this, we're still running a deficit right now of two to about four inches. and even though we had all of that rainfall in december, we were well above average. it's just been slow to get going this month. in fact this was the strongest storm system of january. so what's left of this, we'll take you into our stormranger mobile doppler radar. we have some hit and miss retain right now across the bay area. we'll take you into the top two zones. i have some rain over novato, moving east into martinez by 5:35. t

european court of justice issued its own superior court decision about one of the elected parliament garvin's to the european parliament for the other 2 or 3 were here and they have got the access to the parliaments always friends to the intervention of the european court of justice now it is true that there is a problem if there immunity is don't spend you saw oil it's very unclear because the the the ways spain is doing looks reaffirming its own serenity without taking into account the unit level of diction but of course the colors 1 push the wrong if you like as far as madrid is concerned is the sculptor if you like where does he stand with immunity now is an m.e.p. our account can i pound son if it goes by it's weird what is the you know the lawyer but what is the position as far as you know it. well it effects the immunity as an elected member of the european parliament which he has because he has been accepted as such you should be able to move throughout the youth be in congress without any impediment so the so to pose arguments and. speed and simply disregards the decision of the euro

garvin and jessica? >> thank you. >>> safe to drive again. errorizing drivers for months on south 101 made his first court appearance today. officers arresting this man, charles lafferty. investigators say lafferty used a slingshot to launch glass marbles at nearly 70 cars on south 101 near brprunedale. at least five people were hurt. police at this point aren't revealing why lafferty was targeting those cars. >>> a pittsburg family calling for action tonight after a driver nearly drowned when her car plunges into a canal. that crash happened at the very same spot their own loved one died five years ago. the curb is subtle enough that some drivers don't realize it's coming. that's what happened five years ago when dennis sandoval veered off the road and into the canal. at the time his family asked the city to put up a barrier to prevent it from happening again. >> put a barrier up, please. let my dad's death be the last. >> the city says it does plan to add more safety measures along the curb including rumble strips and better lighting. >>> l

garvin, thank you very much.ce that he's standing in the labour leadership contest. writing in the sunday mirrror, the shadow brexit secretary says the party needs to "rebuild fast" to restore trust. he's the fifth person to put themselves forward after lisa nandy, emily thornberry, clive lewis and jess phillips. you may be right in suspecting they will be more before this contest even begins. 0ur political correspondent tony bonsignore is with me now. keir starmer starts as the favourite and the frontrunner. it's not always at the position you want to be in as at the position you want to be in as a candidate? yes, very often it's an unexpected candidate who winds these sorts of contests. keir starmer today, coming out all guns blazing, he was on andrew marr, but also his article in the sunday mirror, a campaign video, two bits to the message, one about labour can't bury its head in the sand that needs to reconnect with voters but also interestingly keir starmer saying that also labour mustn't get rid of all thos

garvin, thank you so much. >>> we have much more ahead on "today in the bay."up, game day finally is here. the 49ers hosting the minnesota vikings in the divisional round playoffs. we are airing the game right here on nbc bay area. we have a live report from levi stadium right after this. >>> and b.a.r.t.'s brand new police chief details his plan to tackle crime on b.a.r.t. trump: those pre-existing conditions are protected. vo: a broken promise. trump repeatedly tried to undermine coverage for 134 million americans with pre-existing conditions. mike: "he just doesn't care if you have a pre-existing condition he wants to deny you access to coverage. if he is re-elected, he'll keep trying to do that and i think we can't let that happen." vo: as president, mike will lower costs, and protect americans with pre-existing conditions. mike: i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. >>> good morning, it is saturday january 11th. we're pumping it up. here's a live look outside at levi stadium. a little cloudy right now. could some rain be coming in. we have the all

. >> reporter: yeah, garvin, this is where that accident happened near pier 35, along the embarcadero, just one week before transportation experts will consider safety changes here. you can see people on buy, scooters him people walking have no physical barriers to protect them. ask anyone who ride a bike or scooter in san francisco about safety and you'll get the same story. >> i'm scared. i'm definitely scared. >> it's very dangerous. >> reporter: he says just this morning, he nearly got into a crash and yesterday -- >> the driver want to kill me. >> she was very -- beep beep beep. >> reporter: friday afternoon, a 69-year-old woman on an escooter hit a cement mixer near bay street and the embarcadero one block away from where they hit and killed kevin manning a petty cab driver in 2018. it struck outrage saying the port of san francisco and san francisco municipal transportation agency need to do more. next tuesday, the sfmta board of directors will consider approving theic bark der ro enhancement project which includes bike lanes. sfmta says, in part, we have been busy advancing th

>> well, garvin, as you imagine, 2020 starting off on a somber note for the folks in montclair. police have arrested two of the three people they were looking for. if you're wondering how were they able to arrest those individuals in less than 24 hours, the executive director of says it was thanks to a surveillance camera that caught an image of that getaway car. i also want to show you, you can see this growing memorial just outside of the starbucks where this saga started yesterday morning. you can see there is bouquets of flowers. there are some heartfelt messages dedicated to the young man gone way too soon. >> as the getaway car blasted through the intersection, we were one step away from getting hit. >> aaron reams is counting his blessings tonight. yesterday morning, a little after 11:30, he and his daughters were crossing lasalle avenue in oakland's montclair neighborhood when a da colored suv came barreling down the street and swerved. >> u.s. in the nick of time. >> i made eye contact with that driver when he went through that intersection. i saw that he had a black ma