We are seeing that rain coming down. Mike, you were saying highway 1 is closed in one direction. This is the remains of a vehicle involved in a deadly headon collision on highway 1. Whats going on, it was going northbound on the southbound side, so the two vehicles involved, one person died as a result of this crash. Two others are in the hospital. Were checking on the condition repeatedly but its not a very good situation there. The southbound side is obviously closed. A reminder that will slow you down. Youll have to divert off at highway 35 getting over to highway 35 and taking sharp park road. Its slowing with folks taking that diversion into pacifica. Im told theres only one tow truck to do that back and forth. The rest of the commute is still very early. Back to the continuing coverage of the storm heading our way. Bob redell is live this morning. Should be pretty high winds out there. Reporter the chp has issued a wind advisory. You can see the speeds were seeing now, right now registering around 6 miles an hour, going up to 15, 16 miles an hour and, of course, were at ground level. You can see the flags at the bay bridge toll plaza. Sustained winds up there and i bring that up because as you hit the incline going over the bay bridge, upper elevations. If your vehicle has a high profile if youre driving a truck or a van, theres a chance that you could be blown about. If youre heading into the city this morning, just something to keep in mind, it will be windy on the bay bridge. We could see gusts up to 25 miles an hour. In oakland at the bay bridge toll plaza, bob redell, today in the bay. And be sure to stay with today in the bay and nbcs bay area throughout the day. You can follow kari hall on facebook, twitter and instagram. Shes posting the on the go updates for you. Taking you live to capitol hill where in just hours the articles of impeachment will be walked over to the u. S. Senate. Lawmakers are taking the first steps to putting the president of the United States on trial. Today in the bays tracie potts joins us with whats expected today. Tracie . Reporter good morning, laura. We are also expecting that new evidence from the house to be turned over to the senate including Text Messages and notes. The man behind those documents spoke exclusively to msnbc. The white house is reacting saying hes on bail for federal crimes and desperate to stay out of prison. Less parnas, an associate of trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, addressing the issue at the heart of impeachment. The president didnt know what was going on, President Trump knew exactly what was going on. Reporter hes talking about efforts by himself, giuliani, and others to get ukraine to investigate joe biden. President trump said he did not know those involved. Youre saying that was not a true statement from the president . He lied. Reporter new evidence from parnas including this voice mail. Hey lev, we have a request to talk to the big one. Reporter now heads to the senate along with articles of impeachment. They have a hoax going on over there. Lets take care of it. Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi named the seven managers who will make the case. The president is not above the law. He will be held accountable. The first president ial impeachment that does not allege an actual crime under our laws. Reporter the senate formally receives the charges today. The impeachment trial of donald john trump. Reporter chief Justice John Roberts is sworn in to reside over the trial. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell announces the trial to start tuesday and roberts swears in the 100 senators who will act as jurors. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. Now at around 9 00 this morning the snaz is expected to formally receive the articles of impeachment. You can watch it all unfold here on nbc bay area. 5 05. Investigators on the scene of a shooting in san joses east foothills. Today in the bays kris sanchez live out there right now. What are investigators telling you . Looks like an active scene. Reporter it is pretty active and this is six hours after the shooting was reported. We do know that homicide investigators are out here on the scene. I want to show you what it looked like after the shooting was reported. This is squeri road and clayton road. A witness said he saw the victim outside of the car. They tell us it happened on squeri road, a road only about a therd third of a mile long. There is a property that looks to be an industrial business. Squeri is blocked off as is clayton road in mt. Pleasant and mt. Mckinley road. An Elementary School is a block away in that direction. This investigation should not impact it as its down the street. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. New for you this morning San Francisco might be losing some of its luster when it comes to hosting conferences. Bloomberg news reports the 38th annual Jpmorgan Health care conference are not impressed with the city. There are complaints of Hotel Room Prices some as high as 2,000 a night and concerns about safety. Some say theyve never seen a homeless situation so bad. They are not the only ones with concern. Oracle is moving to vegas. License plate readers could be coming. The city council backed a study that would look at installing the devices at entry and exit points on the island. According to the east bay express alamedas mayor says multiple people have asked her about license plate readers to stop porch package thefts. The study was supported, some voiced concern it reduced crime. It was rejected in 2018. The decision came after the license plate reader vendor at that time had recently signed a contract with i. C. E. Back now to that storm thats moving into the bay area. And the sierra as well. Looks quiet at i80. A winter storm warning will go into effect for the sierra at 7 00 a. M. You see its clear. Chains are not required. Two feet of snow may fall in some spots. Kari has been keeping an eye on the rain and winds. It is not yet snowing in the sierra. If you hit the roads now you can get to the area before the snow really starts to come down. Then well see the rain spreading north to south as we track it with storm ranger. First moving into santa rosa, San Francisco and napa at about 8 00 to 9 00 this morning and moving into oakland. We see a lot more people up and out on the roads. Its moving into the peninsula as well as the east bay approaching the south bay by 10 00 to 11 00 this morning and the south county before noon. Well be tracking this and will talk about how much rain to expect. Mike, you have that major crash. Highway 1 is closed as crews are there now. We do see them here getting through this mangled wreckage on southbound highway 1. This is the reason its closed. Well show you where that is on the map. Southbound highway 1 getting out of San Francisco and heading to pacifica. You are diverted off the freeway at skyline. You can take manor drive back up. That will be for the morning commute. Right now the reason is that deadly crash before you get to manor drive. Were tracking that with two vehicles that have to be cleared, that one tow truck will take a while to do that. We hope it beats the rain north to south. The roadways are dry so things are moving smoothly. Back to you. Next on today in the bay, a big store chain will soon close many of its doors across the country. The 11th set to close here. The u. S. And china signed the first phase of a trade deal. And ahead at 5 25, a report on the questions raised about whether lori loflins daughters were athletes a year before the mission scandal was revealed. So, as you can see, saving can be quite simple. Case in point, if you get xfinity internet and mobile together, big savings on your wireless bill. 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Well talk about your reroute and what else were learning and what led to the closure. Good morning, everyone. Happy thursday. The dow is going to open above 29,000 today. Target stock under pressure as they said Christmas Shopping was not very strong. Well get more sales data this morning. President trump and premier xi got a trade deal. No one else saw it before it was signed. Its a bit more vague than some people hoped but it does crack down on the chinese practice of requiring companies to share their trade secrets. Toyota investing in the Santa Cruz Based joby aviation. Take a look at the jobs page. Theyre hiring dozens of positions. Modilla laying off 70 workers. They make the fire fox web browser. Now they make money off the referrals to google. The company has about 10,000 employees. Hipmunk is shutting down. I use it for all my travel planning. It has to be the easiest way to buy airplane tickets, shows you the flights like a bar graph, whats cheapest and shortest. The company was created by Adam Goldstein who managed travel for the Harvard Debate Team while in college and needed to find the cheapest and fastest flights. Remember i used to gush about this app that would give you guided tours . Bose, shut it down. Its like when youre in preschool building the tower of blocks and a kid just knocks them over. Why did you do that . I wonder if just not enough people knew about it . Who knows and adam offered to buy it back and they said no. If youre head to go pier 1 anytime soon, talk about closing down, you might get a better deal than expected. They plan to close 11 of 16 stores in the bay area. Stores in cupertino, napa, novato, redwood city, San Francisco, san mateo, san rafael and walout creek are set to close. The friendship between Reese Witherspoon and jayz keeps growing with a lot of new gifts. Just days after the Golden Globes they were sent a case of their ace of spades champagne after witherspoon asked for some and now is revealing the singer send her the entire collection to her home. Thats whats inside there, all of those clothes. I see a lot on line sharing that. And she was on instagram. It was a well produced video. Great advertising. If you give a mouse a cookie. If you ask a power couple for water then youll get champagne. A whole line of adidas wear. Cheers. Grasping for sun. Youll get it mom. We need the rain, too. Here is a look at storm ranger. The red scan south of San Francisco is giving us a lot of detail of the rain as it moves into the bay area so some heavy rain in marin with moderate rain and rain approaching ukiah. The bulk still to the north. If youre in San Francisco or areas to the south youll see the rain holding off until about 7 00 to 8 00 moving into napa by 9 00. Of course thats the main commute time, so its going to be a mess. And then as we go into 9 00 to 10 00 were seeing that rain moving down the peninsula and approaching the south bay by 10 00 to 11 00 this morning. And then well see heavy snow on our bay area peaks. This is a cold storm, but well also have gusty winds and some heavy rain. Here we are by early afternoon and its still raining off and on. There will even be a chance we could see some thunderstorms moving through, but the rain wont be as widespread, even tonight there still will be some waves of rain coming through and a chance of small hail. So here is a look at the storm impact today. Were looking at 1 to 3 inches of rain, a slight chance of thunderstorms, some gusty winds up to 45 miles an hour. About two to three feet of snow expected today. Looking at the tahoe report, we have about 36 inches of snow right now at the lower parts of the mountain and then heavy snow today will bring in once again over two feet in some of those resort areas and then a dry forecast from tomorrow throughout the weekend. Looking pretty good with highs in the low 60s. Mike, youre following that horrible crash along the coast. This crash with the fire crew dancing around a vehicle theyre trying to get into the vehicle itself. A headon crash that closed the side of the highway there. Talk about the fact it was the southbound side. Dividers keeps it moving. You cannot get from here, which is skyline on to southbound highway 1 where the closure starts. Im told theyre waiting for roadway cleanup. Theyre a half hour out. If youre getting from daily city or San Francisco in to pacifica you can take your alternate. The rest of your commute builds at the bay bridge toll plaza. Were watching for the rain to come north to south as kari has been telling you. A pilot dumped jet fuel. What the pilots didnt tell air Traffic Control during the emergency. And peak viewing. The best time to see the winter fire fall at Yosemite National park. Well tell you all about it. Trump those preexisting conditions are protected. Vo a broken promise. Trump repeatedly tried to undermine coverage for 134 million americans with preexisting conditions. Mike he just doesnt care if you have a preexisting condition he wants to deny you access to coverage. If he is reelected, hell keep trying to do that and i think we cant let that happen. Vo as president , mike will lower costs, and protect americans with preexisting conditions. Mike im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. And a good thursday morning to you. Take a look here at your screen. You can see our radar and the golden gate bridge. We are in a micro climate alert as the storm comes into the bay area. Developing this morning in Southern California a 5yearold is in the hospital after accidentally being shot inside her home. Police say several of her siblings were with her in the house during that shooting. And in Orange County dramatic new video showing a suspected arsonist at work. Police want the guy were going to show you right here, as you can see spreading what looks like an accelerant on the ground and then take a look at what he does next, lighting it on fire. This footage shows him setting the Leasing Office on fire. You see firefighters working to put that out and this is whats left of the building. More than 100,000 in damage. Luckily no one hurt. The pilots of the delta plane that dumped fuel on some l. A. Schools didnt tell air Traffic Controllers, listen to this exchange. Okay, so you dont need to hold to dump fuel . Negative. You can hear the pilot say no. The faa says they had air Traffic Controllers, had they known, they would have told them to dump fuel over the ocean adjacent to l. A. X. Instead unleaded kerosene was dropped on kids and adults on the ground. Aviation experts are waying in and many are wondering why. I personally and many of my colleagues ive spoken with would not have done it this way. The plane made an Emergency Landing after dumps that fuel. Some suffered minor injuries. Questions raised about the College Admissions scandal. A report by the l. A. Times says usc was questioned whether lori loflins daughters really were athletes. The paper says in 2018 several high schools contacted wondering why some were recruited as athletes. An official at usc investigated reporting that loflins younger daughter rode for competitive club, that same official is charged with arranging deals to admit unqualified students into usc. A high rail project connecting victorville to las vegas is hitting a roadblock. They expect the trip to take 90 minutes in either direction. They put the project on hold at least temporarily. It says it still has questions about the 300 million project. It was projected to Begin Service in 2023. Supporters say the benefits would extend beyond just transportation. This project will offer thousands of new housing opportunities of all types. A similar High Speed Rail Service currently transports tens of thousands to West Palm Beach every year. It is illegal to vape and smoke on state beaches. If that budget request is approved about half the money will go to no smoking signs. Governor newsom signed that ban into place next year. The winter fire fall on el capitans granite wall. It refers to when the setting sun illuminates a water fall to make it clough like lava. The best viewing dates. Show lava love to your love for valentines day, right . Something to think about. 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It may make a mess for that morning commute for you. On the left a look at our exclusive cools and on your right a live look in san jose and San Francisco. Live tracking continues now. And a good morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Lets talk about this storm right now. Weve issued that micro climate weather alert for this storm and were just finding out there are already some Power Outages to tell you about. About 1,000 customers up in rohnert park. Meteorologist kari hall tracking it all for us. This storm actually started in the north. And were getting gusty winds. We are still getting gusts in rohnert park. 30 to 40mileperhour winds but along the coast it could come up as high as 55 Miles Per Hour later this morning in Half Moon Bay and inland areas. Here is the current look at our storm radar and it is showing the rain moving through. It doesnt look all that impressive but the rain bands are quite heavy and packing high winds. Well chicago this as it moves from north to south. This crash happened on the southbound side of highway 1. A vehicle traveling north involved in a headon collision. The driver died as a result of the crash. We have two other people, theyre both at the hospital. Were looking at the conditions on the roadway. This is a closure. Skyline is what youre looking at here, neither direction can access highway 1 at the scene that is forbidden because of the closure and the cleanup. Notice the smoke coming up off the flares being blown around. You have to get off the roadway, take skyline over to sharp park. Thats your alternate down through pacifica. The rest of the bay moves smoothly. You see the wind coming in. That is the changing conditions on the peninsula. Back to you. Thank you, mike. As you see behind us were talking about the rain moving in. The north bay already experiencing that storm. We sent today in the bays pete suratos to santa rosa. How are things this morning, pete . Reporter good morning to you. Right now not seeing any rain as you can see behind me. The roads are a bit slick because we saw a little bit of rain on and off. Were just off steel lane. Near the 101 on ramp people are heading on the roads this morning. This is the windsor area where you did see some rain coming down in a parking lot, up north 15 minutes north from where were standing. You see the rain coming in before 4 00 a. M. I want to show you a clip, cell phone video. We were traveling to santa rosa, you could see the windshield wipers going as the rain began to come down. Not much rain, guys, as we take you back out here live and, guess what, the power of television. Rain coming down. Its kind of a light sprinkle but its coming down on and off and will continue to monitor the conditions as the rain begins to pick up in the next hour. Reporting live, pete suratos for today in the bay. Pete, thanks so much for that one. Stay with nbc bay area for the updates throughout the morning. Be sure to download our nbc bay area app. It is free. That way you can track the storm on our interactive radar. Jury selection is set to move forward. It comes after a judge ruled John Lee Cowell is mentally competent to stand trial. Investigators say he stabbed nia wilson to death on a macarthur b. A. R. T. Platform in 2018. Her sister was seriously injured. Cowell has pleaded not guilty. New details are surfacing this morning about a shooting at a union city School Parking lot that left two boys dead and now police are releasing a new clue in that case. A photo of a car that may have been involved. You could see it moving there. Police believe the shooters were driving this silver toyota camry. An 11yearold boy sitting inside his mothers minivan along with a 14yearold friend were shot to death last november. It happened in the parking lot of an elementary. Police still dont have a motive and have not ruled out gang involvement. Governor newsom heads to the east bay today. He expects to outline a plan to tackle the homeless epidemic. Part includes 750 million to help tackle the crisis. He also signed an executive order that would force the states agencies to identify properties that can become shelters. The San FranciscoPolice Commission wants Mental Health professionals to deal with homeless encampments rather than San Francisco police officers. The chronicle reported they are asking for mayor london breed and the board of supervisors to reconsider the citys response to the homeless crisis. This comes after officers continue to come under criticism over tent encampment cleanup. Supervisor matt hanie supports the idea. Mayor london breed is celebrating a new victory in her fight against the homeless epidemic. The location will provide 200 shelter beds. The facility is slated to open by the end of the year. The backlash from nearby residents. Two councilmembers are making a push to add new 5g networks. Its really a lot of hype surrounding 5g, touted as a game changer, speeds up to ten times faster than the 4g let network most of us use now. It is in San Francisco and san jose. Its called destination discrimination and some are expressing concerns about ubers new driver policy. Drivers have the ability to know every riders destination in advance and can reject those requests without penalty. The San Francisco chronicle reports advocates for minorities and low income communities are worried drivers could refuse to go to certain neighborhoods. That means some neighborhoods like Hunters Point or east oakland which are already underserved could be further discriminated against. Check this out. If you got a ticket recently in alameda, you may want to give it a second look. Someone has been leaving fake citations. They read, this is for entertainment purposes only. Which is kind of weird. You would think they are trying to get money out of you. They were just having fun. It might be real ticket so dont assume that either. Make sure you read it carefully. Were looking at the signs for the drive times. The conditions are changing as the rain is out of the north and windy conditions show up on the peninsula. The closure remains there. Off highway one to skyline. You continue back on to highway one. That crash continues as they have to remove vehicles at manor out of daly city. We still have work today. We have some rain coming down as well. Santa rosa. A live look right now. The storm is set to be headed south and bringing high winds with it, too . Its been windy especially further to the north. And well be tracking this rain. Take that live look. Roads are wet as you head out the door but most of the bay area seeing the rain coming in later this morning. I wanted to show you a live look at storm ranger and mobile Doppler Radar in case youre about to head out the door. Its santa rosa on northward. We will see a mix of sun and clouds. Im taking out the chance of rain on soth because it looks like it stays well north of the bay area. Dry weather throughout the weekend and mild temperatures. More sunshine on sunday as we reach up to 60 degrees. The womens march in san jose on saturday, these events will be going on around the bay area. Temperatures right at about 50 degrees and then a slow warmup as we go throughout the day with a mostly sunny sky. And then on sunday great weather for the 49ers game, kickoff 3 40. Mild temperature at about 60 degrees and then a few clouds with trmts about 56 degrees at halftime. Another look at storm ranger coming up in three minutes. Thanks, kari. The new statewide push to raise taxes on some of the countrys largest companies. How much they could be forced to pay. An unexpected visitor, a coyote spotted. The reason why theyre becoming more common. A startling new interview with a republican operative says President Trump knew all about the ukraine plot. Wherever we want to go, autosave your way there with chase. Chase. Make more of whats yours. It is 5 43. Right now we are under a micro climate weather alert now approaching the north bay. A slow moving storm will bring in heavy rain as we go through the rest of the morning. Moving through sonoma and approaching napa. Well be tracking this hour by hour coming up in less than five minutes. Kari, this is pacifica. Its not fog, its smoke from the flares. Law enforcement closing off your access to southbound highway 1 for this deadly crash. Theyre putting down more flares. Well talk why and where coming up. 5 44 right now. Another coyote sighting in the south bay. A home surveillance camera shows it hopped monday morning about 3 30 in the morning when the animal was chewing up the irrigation system. The owners of the home says the same coyote has been visiting his street for the past month. Probably wants to be in a safer area closer to water and food. I used to take my dog out for walks at dark by myself but not anymore. They say coyote sightings are up because more people are using surveillance cameras at their homes. 22 sightings have been reported for all of january. Governor newsom is reviving the project pushed hard by his predecessor governor jerry brown. He supports building one tunnel under the delta to pump water to Southern California. The project will enter a lent think process. They say it could impact the system. California is considering raising taxes on some of the largest companies. It would depend on how much a company pays its top executives. Its being proposed by nancy skinner. The bigger the tax gap, the bigger the tax increase would be. It would apply to about 2,000 companies. Homicides are down in los angeles. While those numbers are lower, the attacks on the homeless are on the rise. Two more Homeless People were killed last year. The city is also saying its poemless population increased 16 . Violent crimes are down overall. 5 46. The impeachment is now in the hands of the u. S. Senate. The impeachment articles will be read on the floor today, scott. Every day brings a little bit of history. Good morning. Today the articles of impeachment read on the senate floor. The chief justice of the United States, john roberts, will be sworn in as the judge. Roberts a conservative, but washington insiders say the white house is nervous he may make key rulings allowing damaging. Two californians, adam schiff and zoe lofgren named to the impeachment managers. You can think of them as the prosecution. Now those documents that you saw dont include startling new evidence revealed by lawyers for republican operative lev parnas. Letters and memos all among this evidence and Text Messages showing the plot to push the president of ukraine to announce an investigation into the bidens. Parnas talked with Rachel Maddow and said the president knew every detail. What do you think is the main inaccuracy or lie being told that you feel you can correct . That the president didnt know what was going on. President trump knew exactly what was going on. He was aware of all of my movements. I wouldnt do anything without the concept of Rudy Giuliani or the president. Im showing you the msnbc network. He was on cnn, he was in the new york times, hes on media tour. Hes been accused of funneling money into campaigns and was caught trying to leave the country. He is not a sterling witness. So the impeachment trial gets under way ties. Will witnesses be allowed to speak . The Senate Majority leader so far has said no. Every day brings a historic moment. You can follow me on twitter. We are just a few days from the 49ers taking on the packers. One game away from the super bowl. Looking at veterans for guidance. Emanumanuel sanders will be playing. The trophy the 49ers and the packers will play for on sunday is on display yesterday in santa clear a. Whoever ends up hosting that up on sunday will head to the super bowl. Facing our helmet. Britains prince harry is expected to make his first public appearance today. This following the announcement they will step back in their role as senior royals. The prince will host the draws for the Rugby World Cup at buckingham palace. Trending this morning ben jerrys unveiling a new flavor of ice cream and it promises to be binge worry called netflix and chilld. Pretzel swirls and brownies packed into Peanut Butter ice cream. Crunch it up. Broken pretzels. Maybe by this afternoon you want to stay in with some ice cream. The rain holding off for our start for the day. As we go into the rest of the day at times some reffy rain. As we go into the main morning commute time. As we see the storm system rolling through it will be quite windy throughout the day. Lets go through the time line. At 8 00 the rain approaching, moving into san rafael as well as San Francisco. It may be moving into Half Moon Bay and then as we go into 9 00, 10 00 its moving through the east bay up and down the peninsula. You can see the progression it makes as it starts to approach the south bay by 11 00. And then some heavy rain moving into the south county by noon. Well also see some snow on mt. Hamilton and all the different colors. Well see a lot of very cold rain, gusty winds and some snow on our bay area peaks. Even as we go into this afternoon some lingering showers here and there. Keep in mind even through the evening commute there may still be rain coming through but it wont be as widespread. Well have a slight chance of thunderstorms with those gusty winds and temperatures in the low 50s. Rainfall totals from 1 to 3 inches, maybe a little bit higher in our hills and coastal areas. Well also have a slight chance of some thunderstorms. And winds will pick up from 30 to 45 Miles Per Hour especially this morning. Snow levels dropping down to 3,000 feet. Any of our hills at 3,000 feet in elevation will start to see some snow coating those areas. As far as the sierra were at 2 to 3 feet of snow in the forecast just for today. It all clears out for the weekend and will gradually warm up after the cold front passes and were going to keep the nice and dry weather for the holiday, Martin Luther king day on monday. More rain back in the forecast on tuesday. And, mike, you can see the changing conditions for drivers. This is a live look. This is our breaking news but i want to use it now. You see the smoke from the flares blowing gusty. The rain comes in. We hope this will clear but right now still closed. Highway 35, you see water on the lens. You cannot access 101 from this portion of skyline. Video that came in to our newsroom, the reason its closed, a deadly headon crash happened about 3 15. Still has that direction closed. Were waiting for crews to clear the debris. Getting down toward sharp park if youre heading to pacifica out of San Francisco and daly city. We see that active radar going on. The activity there indicates it is moving into the area. Well see more. Now coming along the coast. Back to you, mike. Happening now police in the philippines are blocking towns near taal. That volcano has been erupting and now is shaking the ground and opening up cracks in the roads. Tens of thousands are evacuated. 5 53. So much more ahead on today in the bay including all new this morning what a lot of people are saying about the conditions of the streets and their safety. Plus, office, surround a neighborhood after a shooting overnight. Coming up in a live report what a witness says he saw. And our coverage of the incoming storm conditions. Our team of reporters live on where that rain is coming down right now. Introducing a single sports destination. Where you can find games, news and highlights. All in one place, right on your tv. The new xfinity sports zone. Use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Follow the teams you love and get notifications when the games about to start, so youll never miss a minute. With the xfinity sports zone. Everybody wins. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Click, call or visit a store for details. Welcome back. Youre watching today in the bay. Nbc bay area issuing a micro climate weather alert on this thursday morning. Were tracking this years first major storm starting to slowly move into the north bay right now. It will make its way through the entire bay area. Coming up in five minutes meteorologist kari halls forecast and, of course, you can take our weather radar to go with you. Download our free nbc bay area app. And new this morning San Francisco might be losing some of its luster when it comes to hosting conferences. Bloomberg news reports attendees in San Francisco for the 38th annual Jpmorgan Health care conference this week were not impressed with the city, to say the least. There are complaints of Hotel Room Prices, some as high as 2,000 a night. There are also concerns about safety. Some Conference Attendees say theyve seen the homeless situation so bad, theyve never seen it like that anywhere else, and they are not the only ones with concerns. Oracle moving its open world conference to vegas. License plate readers could be coming to an east bay city. Alamedas city council backed a study that would look at installing the devices at entry and exit points on the island. According to the east bay express alamedas mayor says multiple people have asked her about license plate readers particularly to stop porch package theft. Some voiced concerns they help reduce crime. A decision came after the citys license plate reader vendor had recently signed a contract with i. C. E. A pot shop is getting the okay to open blocks away from a high school in martinez. The store called embark will be 1,000 feet from el hambre high school. School officials oppose the store but the city Council Agreed to give a oneyear use permit. 10yearold samantha winters lost control of her arms and legs in november. She is currently at benioff Childrens Hospital in oakland. She was diagnosed with a rare disease called acute flaccid myelitis, also known as afm. This begins with cold like symptoms and progresses to paralysis in a matter of days. Samantha and her mother are putting the word out to help others. What i went through i wouldnt want any other kid to go through. She has a long road to go. Were trusting in the lord that shell have a full recovery. Samantha can recover with intense physical therapy. She hopes to walk out of the hospital in a month. A school accused of favoring nonminority students will stay open. The board of education making the decision late last night. Cornerstone is a Charter School in san jose. In october they rejected the renewal accusing cornerstone of not enrolling enough latino students and students with disabilities. The school appealed and appeared to have won. Happening today there will always be sea lions at pier 39. Its to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the real lions arrival. Right now at 6 00, the first major storm of 2020 moving in. Expecting rain and strong winds. When youll experience it. And a live look at storm ranger. The system slowly moving in. The north bay, gusty winds as far south as san jose foothills. Live Team Coverage with reports from santa rosa where its already coming