Forces may have mismitook an ira threat and shot it down. The planes black boxes are in the hand of the iranian investigators. The plane disappeared from radar less than two minutes into the flight. There were no americans board. President trump says he doubts irans claim the mechanical problems. I have my suspicions. I dont want to say that because other people have those suspicions also. Its a tragic thing when i see that. Its a tragic thing. Somebody could have made a musc mistake on the other side. It was flying and not our system. It was flying this a pretty rough neighborhood. Somebody could have made a his take. Some people say it was mechanical. I dont think thats even a question personally. So well see what happens. All this comes in the wake of the killing by u. S. Forces of iranian gene exclusive interviee today show, mike pence doubled down on the white houses position the u. S. Was facing an em nnt threat from iran nor will the white house tell congressional leaders required d by law. When we first learned a about the breaking news about the possible shootdown of that airplane, with sent out a push alert. Download our nbc app to get updates on breaking news. Back here in the bay area, bart leaders are going to vote on something to make passengers feel safer. They voiced concerned about s e safety while riding the trains. Reporter good morning, bart board of directors are holding that meeting right now in oakland. They are going to decide if they are going to add Community Service officers to specific trains along the bart line. The goal of the the officers is to focus on the quality of life or making it a better quality of life for a passengers on those trains. I want to explain exactly how this will work. Its going to be a Pilot Program that will span six months with bart bringing on Community Service officers to provide a daily presence on trains. So were talking about the busy corridor on the trans. The hours will be 2 00 p. M. To. With two of th worng bart police raids of those nonsworn officers. Thats the key point there. Now the cost of the program will not exceed 690,000. Espendon about the program being voted on this morning. Also with passengers about the possibility of the addition of these officers on trains. They want to make sure situations that could escalate, they want someone to get in front of it and make sure obvious Customer Experience issues are addressed quickly its frustrating when you get on board a train and its dirty or theres a biohazard. They are going to be walking the trains that can address those. They can get to it much quicker. Probably help the trains run more efficiently and make r bart a little better. Reporter were showing you a live look of the bart Board Meeting in okayland. They are going to vote on this issue. Now the Community Service officers cannot issue citations. They can only observe and help. Most importantly, they have a officers by february 10th. Very interesting, thank you. Our investigate i havive unit just finished a series at a look at crimes on bart. You can watch it on nbcbayarea. Com. Your next uber ride is going to look different. Uber says its in response to a new state law that defines the difference between a fulltime employee and a contract worker. Many drivers have beenreclassif. It you take noncar pool uber rides, you will not get a set price. Your fair will be calculated at the end of a trip. Reject your e well without penalty after seeing where you want to go. The time, distance, estimated fare. You can schedule rides with favorite drivers after giving them a fivestar rating. Some uber rewards are also going away including flexible cancellations. New at 11 00, a look at the upcoming magazine cover featuring nancy pelosi. The article focuses on the impeachment of President Trump. In it the speaker says shes most proud of passing affordable care, but impeachment is the most serious initiative shes been involved in in her political career. So far, shes refused to take impeachment action sending charges on to the the senate has yet toarly enough this morning, you probably saw this or maybe heard it. Rain hitting the bay area pretty hard overnight. Kari hall has been watching the skies for us. We still see a few lingering showers moves through areas south of the golden gate bridge. We have seen the rain, especially in parts of the east bay and south bay. Still holding on, especially over the hills. Moeps of that rain that moved through was fairly quick. And it was just enough to bring us about a quarter inch of rain. But the weather system is still across the region bringing us scattered rain and some light snow showers. Looking at the bigger picture, once that moves on later on this afternoon, well be watching our next storm system. That is set to move in heading into saturday morning. And this could bring in another round of some quickmoving light rain. Not a strong storm. So ill let you know how to make the weekend plans, when this rainn cll now be allowed to use military wall. A court of appeals has overturned a ruling. It allows President Trump to use 3. 6 million for the walls construction. The money will come from the militarys construction funds. In a statement, the white house called the ruling a vikt ri and committed to keeping borders secure. The federal court in San Francisco will hear arguments surrounding the fate of thousands of asylum seekers. Specifically unlawfully prevented from access iing the u. S. Before the white house issued its ban last year. S thoer s. Potential jurors filling out questionnaires in the acquitted until the Katie Steinly shooting. Prosecutors filed that charge after San Francisco jurors found him not guilty in theof acciden heres a story explaining that gun under a bench. The housing crisis in the bay area. Housing advocates are speaking on behalf of more than 700 people a san jose mobile hospital park. Residents received eviction warnings this week they may have to leave by august of 2020. Mhc operating manages the park and says the owners of the property are demanding the property be returned with no residents when the lease expires. But, bruce says the wellbeing of tenants and stability of the park is the top priority. Tenants a at the Mobile Home Park say this they are forced to move, theyll have to leave the bay area because they simply n cannot afford to stay. Now to that rift in the british monarchy. Growing after prince harry and meghan plan to step back from the royal duties. Its a move thats sending shock waves throughout the world, including buckingham palace. Keir simmons has more. Reporter a rift in the royal family not seen for a generation. Prince harry and his american wife meghan issuing what amounts to a declaration of independence. Their bomb shell announcement taking other royal bis surprise. Saying they plan to split their time between the uk and north america. We intend to step back as senior members of the royal family, their statement says, and work to become financially independent wh continuing to fully support her majesty the queen. There was no advanced warning for the queen. Prince charles or wince william. Issues a terse response. Discussions at an early stage. We understand to take a a different approach. These are complicated issues. They really are the global royal couple. Them stepping back as senior royals is such big news because it is the end of harry and meghan as a central part of the royal family. On a slick new website this morning, harry and meghan setting out how the arrangement will work. Even calling out tabloid newspapers. Prince harrys fury with the media, which he blames for the death of his mom and other big factor. But how the break will work is still unclear. Will the couple keep their royal titles, even if they live overseas. Would harry still be in line for the throne . This is now a crisis for the royal family. Just to give you one example, antimonarchists are saying this is how entitled and overprivileged members of the royal family are and also accusing other members of the royal family of being cold and unfeeling. Not since harrys mom has a split in the royal family had the potential to do such damage. Keir simmons, nbc news, windsor. Coming up, more and more colleges considering not accepting the s. A. T. Scores. Why the test makers say there could be bad consequences. Who is watching who . Did you get a new smart tv over it om lidays . Snooping on you. We tried to get the politicians to deal with the problem. But they wouldnt. So we took it to the voters and forced big tobacco to pay its share of healthcare costs. We fought oil companiesfor new s Corporate Tax loophole to fund public schools. By going directly to the people. Thats not something you see a lot of from washington these days. Im tom steyer and i approve this message. Lets make change happen. New at 11 00, millions of smart tvs were delivered over the holiday season. They are cheaper than ever. But the bargain could come with a tries. Todays bay area is taking you where no one wants to go deep down into the settings of your smart tv. What you need to flow about what it knows about you if you dont want to be quite so smart. Heres what you can did do. Reporter they are a big ticket item for millions of people. Nearly every tv these days is a smart tv. Meanirying from netflix to youtube, to disney plus. If it youre not using a smart tv, you might plug in one of these. A fire stick or Google Chrome cast. Yo a all these devices are services you use, what shows you watch, when youre watching and how long. Even your voice if you do Something Like this. According to their terms of service, those Smart Devices use that information for a a range of reasons including analytics, marketing and targeted advertising. They can share that data with countless third party firms. They are monitoring what you do. Monitoring what you watch. Consumer reports says your smart tv is basically a a computer. These are connected. These are collecting data. These are sending data. And that is a lot different than how you think of a tv. Reporter she says many smart tvs use acr, or automatic content recognition. That is the technology that the tvs use to identify what youre watching. Do you think most people are awir a that this much information is being collect eda about them . No, i dont think people are aware of it. I dont think people are aware they can actually do something about it. Reporter so what can you do . Maria shows me the steps on the samsung. Thn this tv, we go down to settings, you then have to gopo. You want to go to viewing information services. Then theres this i agree. Were going to uncheckoes at do . What that will do is have it stop monitoring what youre watching. Reporter next look for interestbased advertises privacy noelts. You can also turn off the ability to get targeted ads. So this is not that easy or intuitive for a normal user. Reporter others like roku are not as complicated. From the home screen, go down to settings, over to privacy, go to advertising, now on this one limit ad tracking. So we want to check it. Smart tv experience, we want to uncheck that. Reporter another popular device, amazon fire tv. Fwo to settings, preferences, privacy settings, and device usage data. Wed like to turn that off. Lp and over the air usage and interestbased ads. Some good tips to help you outsmart your smart tv. Obviously, that was a lot to follow. You can go to nbcbayarea. Com and find step by step instructions. The power is expected to be turn turned back on for many People Living in puerto rico following this weekends deadly earthquake. 75 of homes are expected to have electricity by the weekend. The earthquake knocked out the biggest power plant collapsing homes and killing one person. Many of the islands residents say they are fearful if not quake hit, their homes will collapse. In the meantime, a puerto rican restaurant is planning to help victims. They say they plan to collect money to help the island. They help victim ed of Hurrican Maria in 2017. Nobodys Retirement Fund is up 90 . But markets are at new records. The dow industrial is up another 200 points. S p 500 the at an historic record as well. S system thinking of getting rid of the s. A. T. Has requirement for admission. Now they are hearing from the test makers. The University System worries standardized tests might be discriminatory. They sent a letter listing potential negative consequences of getting rid of the test including closing the door on underserved student who is dont have stellar grades. Ruth bader begins burg says shes cancer free. Shes now survived cancer four fives. She missed oral arguments in january of last year while recovering from surgery that removed two malignant nodule from her left lung. She was diagnosed with last year. Happening today, parents and students can weigh in on renaming wilson elementary mic. A committee will meet to hear public input tonight at 6 00. The committee will meet a second time late⌞ this motto discuss the possible name change again. A rainy start to the commute this morning. For the most part, were seeing spotty showers in the bay area with a live look outside. We have seen the camera kind of shaking around at times. The winds picking up and we have seen light rain. But the trend for the rest of the afternoon will be for it to dry out. Temperatures staying on the cool side with mid50s for a high later today. Looking at all of our high temperatures, we will be a little bit lower than yesterday reaching 56 degrees in pa lo al to. The sevenday forecast is now up at the bottom pushes out, you our rain chances were all dry. Go down for tonight and tomorrow but you can see here as we take a look at the radar, still some green here and there indicating some light rain. And a closer look at some of the areas now seeing it over parts of the hills and over towards the trivalley. Expect a slight chance of rain. The weather system is close by. Its redeveloped some showers in the area. And then as we go through a little bit of time with dry weather. The next system gets here on saturday morning. It also looks like a quick mover and may only bring in light amounts of rain. But ahead of that, you may enjoy time res a live look at ocean beach. Well be watching this area tomorrow as well as throughout the weekend because the king tides will be kicking up. Thats when we have extreme r n rain. But we have some work we need to do in terms of getting more rain for the water year. Were at 84 of normal. And then for San Francisco, as well as okayland, liver more, we are well below where we should be. We do have some more rain in the forecast. Well have another quickmoving system saturday morning. It looks to clear up by saturday afternoon. Then going into next week, it stays active with a few more storms coming in. So the saturday storm will bring us about a tenth of an inch of there may even be 1 to 2, way next week. Possibly 3 inches of rain in the north bay over the c week. We may have significant snowfall after some light weekend snow. We could have a couple feet in the sierra. That would be great news. We s a bit behind and it stays active just about every other day we could see a chance of rain. Here in the bay area as we go into early next week. Ill have all the updates. Coming up, the 49erscted to strength for saturdays playoff game. Well be back on the field. And promising to be a good time. Whats onset will make you dance. Happening now, the judge in Harvey Weinsteins trial will not step aside. He denied a request to remove himself from the case. They rejected comments made when he threatened to put him in jail for ignoring a court order. His lawyers called the comments prjs and in the case entered day three today. Weinstein is accused of sexually assaulted women. Prosecutors in los angeles announced new similar charges against him. Well be back after the break with more news. Today on california live, its nirvana. A hidden gem. And live in studio to perform his oneman cabaret. Its happening on california live. Trump obamacare is a complete and total disaster. Let obamacare implode. Nurse these wild attacks on healthcare hurt the patients i care for. 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We have been talking with the rain we have been having. It looks less like lu for later in the game. Thats good news for the 49ers and their precision offense. As for the defense, one less mystery. He will have a starting spot. He got benched during the win against seattle. We take on minnesota at 1 35 in the afternoon. Were going to get started early on saturday. Well have a twohour post game show. A lot of people already again geting their game faces on. They are just among some of the bands announced for the line up. A heads up for music fans. Single day tickets go on sale today. Tickets range m ndy ower for areas to the south. But after that, well see a little bit of sunshine. More sun tomorrow ask then that rain on saturday. We have been watching it. It looks like its going to be early in the morning. Then as the day goes on, rain chances go down. On sunday were going to get more sunshine and possibly more rain early next week. Thank you for joining us. 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