leah melendez is tracking conditions in the north bay. >> we begin with sandhya patel for the latest on the weather right now. what is on the way? >> just about everything you can imagine. let me show you live doppler 7. we are going to talk about what is happening first. with our radar, we will get you into where we are seeing a wintry mix around the santa cruz mountains around the summit of santa cruz, highway 17. up to the north around cloverdale, you can see just a wintry mix there. as we wind this picture, current level one storms are producing lightning strikes over the sierra. we have seen some isolated thunder in the bay area. that is still not out of the question. as we go hour-by-hour, we will continue to see isolated to spotty showers going into 2:00. 7:00 tomorrow evening, things begin to pick up in terms of coverage. you will see more widespread rain and certainly some snow as well. gusts nowhere near the intensity of yesterday. it is morning. spotty showers, windy conditions. snow over the hills between 1500 and 2000 feet. that leads me to something very good. total sno

leah melendez has more. reporter: today's speech was different from last year's address. last year the mayor's main focus was the impact covid had for two years on san francisco. today it was more like survivor getting past a shipwreck without the distraction of covid and having a better picture of what it will take to get san francisco back on course. san francisco's persistent problems were highlighted at the top of the speech. >> public safety c fentanyl prices -- crisis. reporter: to overcome the problems she says first and foremost, the city must guarantee public safety. >> our residents are demanding we build a safe city and build back the police force. we need to deliver for them. the push for full staffing has to be consistent and sustained. reporter: but she made it clear that is still years away. the extra overtime will go to make sure officers continue walking beats and making more drug arrests. >> i want to make one thing very clear. i am not ok city. reporter: she stressed public safety is crucial in bringing the downtown economy back to life. >> even as we d

leah melendez is live from panoramic highway with how they are preparing. >> it is a little bit here. 39 degrees right now. people are excited. we are not in tahoe but they hope it will snow. the last time it snowed here was back in february of 2019. about 100 years ago in mill valley had a big snowstorm, six inches. >> as the marin county significantly died down late this morning, crews were able to remove some of the fallen trees and branches from the night before, the concern is the antipacid snow, possibly even falling on some of the lower elevation areas. >> i would say stay away. it is very rare to get snow up here. drive like you are in the mountains and use the corrected defensive driving. >> even without snow, the can be treacherous in some areas as wenessed moments ait cno one was hurt. if there is snow, the county is not equipped with snow plows to clear the roads. if driving conditions become a potential hazard, the state park could keep the gates closed. the gates come down at sundown and reopen at sunrise. most of the locals that will come out mid week, they are aware it

senior education reporter leah melendez tells us the next step to begin hiring more teachers in that the name of the san francisco high school speaks for itself. valeo academy of science and technology. >> usually they just asked me are you in ap computer science. >> in 2015 the school board voted to begin teaching computer science at all san francisco public schools from preschool to th grade. salesforce had been the main supporter in stem and commuter science education. >> students are going into a world where everything they are doing is on some sort of device. i think it is important for students to learn about how that technology works. >> 25% of public high schools in california do not offer any computer science courses. that is about 429,000 students statewide. >> 27 states require at least every high school student have access to computer science. there are five states that already have computer science as a graduation requirement. >> those states are nevada, south carolina, arkansas, tennessee and nebraska. a summary member mark berman representing menlo park has introduced

leah melendez walked through the tenderloin with jj smith. it is getting a lot of attention. >> i always stopped to read his posts because i truly believed there are people in this world who are doing great things and he is one of them. his mission is simple. jj smith once people on social media to see what those on the streets hooked on fentanyl and other drugs are going through. you know everybody. >> yeah. >> everybody knows you. >> yeah. >> what to they think of you? >> they just like me. >> and so my journey with jj smith began through the embattled tenderloin. born and raised in san francisco and living in this neighborhood. what is it going to take for this epidemic, the fentanyl epidemic, to stop? to go away. >> treatment on demand. >> but they don't want treatment a lot of them. you say it in the video. >> you have to get yourself some help. >> i'm sorry. i'm kind of zoning out and getting worse. >> if it is getting worse, let me do something about it. >> you think there should be forced into treatment? >> nobody should forced -- sho