This never before seen virus has already killed at least two people. Nbc bay areas jean elle is at sfo where Health Screenings begin tomorrow. Reporter thats right, raj and jessica. The concern tonight is this virus can spread from person to person, so the cdc is coming here to sfo tomorrow to begin screening passengers arriving from wuhan, china, where this virus originated. Travelers from china arriving at sfo tonight. With the Chinese New Year approaching, its a popular time to visit loved ones. Fever and cold or flu symptoms. At sfo, Health Screenings begin saturday when the first direct flight from wuhan arrives. In the pligflight arrives, er connecting or nonstop passengers from wuhan would be diversitied to a separate area inside the customs facility where they would go through this interview and screening process. Reporter 45 cases of the virus have been reported with two deaths. This is a virus that affects the lungs, so it sounds a little bit like influenza. Fever, chills, aches, difficulty breathing, and a cough. Reporter tonight people picking travelers up say they hope screenings prevent the spread of the virus. I think it should be done because the communication of the whole world, and we should take that measure to prohibit the disease. Reporter tonight airport Officials Say the cdc screenings should only delay passengers from wuhan. They also say if a passenger is found to have symptoms, they will be referred to a hospital. Reporting live at sfo, jean elle, nbc bay area news. It was fast and it was deadly. An avalanche at Alpine Meadows ski resort in lake tahoe. A Plumas County man was an avid skier, skilled skier and was inbounds on the trail when a wall of snow engulfed. Nbc bay areas Jodi Hernandez has more from placer county. Reporter people couldnt wait to hit the slopes this morning after more than two feet of snow fell yesterday. But what started as a great day quickly turned tragic. It really shakes you up and like i think in small local areas, like everybody is like, oh, my gosh. We lost somebody to this. Reporter thats how skiers and snowboarders are feeling at Alpine Meadows. We have one confirmed fatality and we have another victim with serious injuries. Reporter rescue teams responded immediately but were unable to save 34yearold cole comstock. Comstocks wife posted on social media just yesterday how much she loved him. Now lets go play in the snow, she wrote. Its really sad. That could be anybody. Reporter the Avalanche Warning Center forecasted todays avalanche risk as considerable. If youre out there wanting to get, like, fresh runs and theres always the risk, you know, if its deep snow. Reporter the other victim is seriously hurt with injuries to the lower part of his body. We understand he underwent surgery today and is recovering. In the sierra, im Jodi Hernandez, nbc bay area news. Thank you, jodi. Cole comstocks wave, caitlyn, just released a statement this evening saying, in part, that cole was the most kind hearted and caring person to his friends, even strangers. He went out of his way to make everyone feel loved and cared for. This is one of the busiest weekends of the ski season. A lot of bay area skiers are heading to lake tahoe, and todays avalanche is a good reminder about safety on the slopes. Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd joins us in martinez along 680 with more. Cheryl . Reporter well, raj, bay area skiers who are headed to the slopes tell me that they are excited about this long weekend, but those who heard about the avalanche say that theyll be taking precautions on the slopes. There we go. Slide your foot through there. Reporter jeremy slacker spending the evening outfitting skiers at Sports Basement walnut creek for the long weekend. Making sure his customers think about safety following todays deadly avalanche. The best we can do is warn people, go through the precautions with everything, make sure they know how to use all the equipment properly. Reporter close to two feet of snow in 24 hours falling in the sierra overnight. The fact that one person was killed and another seriously injured during todays avalanche is a concern for paul thomas, who is packed and heading up there tonight with his two children. Usually its only when theres tons of new snow and youre trying to be out there while thats coming down and building up. I try to avoid being out there when thats happening. Reporter in spite of todays tragedy, people are excited about a ski weekend. Im going to tahoe. Im so excited, i cant even say it. A friend of ours has allwheel drive, so were hoping they dont need chains, and we are packing snacks, extra snacks and water just in case they get stuck in traffic, anything like that. Reporter so managers at Sports Basement tell me that business this year is a lot better than last year. So if youre headed up, be careful. Reporting live in martinez, im cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. Be careful indeed. Thank you. Whats our snow forecast and whats our bay area forecast for this mlk Holiday Weekend . Lets bring in our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. We made it to friday night. Yes, we have. As we head into this threeday weekend for a lot of people, we are expecting dry conditions right up here across lake tahoe. But as we have been warning you, watch out for any kind of avalanche signs. Please stay away from any of those posted areas. Head in the other direction. By tuesday, two to four inches expected at 5,000 feet and above. Right now dry wednesday, thursday, and friday. Thats your sierra forecast. Back here in the bay area, got to bundle up tomorrow morning. Look at this. Back down into the 30s. Not only in the north bay for the east bay, 35. San jose, 37. Even the chance of some morning fog. Well start off cold, and its not going to be as simple as sunny weather all weekend long. We have some clouds were tracking just offshore for saturday and another batch down here to the south. Well let you know what our rain chances are coming up in about 15 minutes. Thank you, jeff. Hes a man of faith and a pastor but police say this peninsula man threatened to shoot up his former church. Tonight the congregation is on edge and taking every precaution possible to make sure the Community Stays safe. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana joins us in san carlos. Sergio, a scary situation for those Church Members for sure. Reporter yeah. San mateo county sheriffs deputies say Paul Michaelson hand delivered several notes to the church here over the last week. So when Church Members were looking at Security Camera video, they were surprised that they saw someone they recognized. Outside Holy Trinity Lutheran Church tonight, San Mateo County sheriffs patrol cars, members and neighbors say theyre concerned for their safety. Everybodys scared. They dont want their kids to come. My friends daughter, shes supposed to light the candles this weekend. Shes like, no, im not even going to participate in that. Reporter detectives say 79yearold Paul Michaelson sent several disturbing letters to the church threatening to shoot members of the congregation where hes a former member. Hes also a current outreach pastor at the nearby Hope Evangelical Church in san mateo. We are saddened and we are in shock about what has happened. And we are praying for paul. Reporter this is a photo one of michaelsons neighbors shared of deputies taking him into custody last night. The neighbor said they arrived with assault rifles and body armor. Our detectives went out to his house and did a search of his property and possessions and cars and he was not found to be in possession of any guns, nor did he have any guns registered to him. Reporter michaelson has been released on bond. I talked briefly with him by phone but he didnt answer any questions. Tonight a locksmith changed the locks at holy trinity. They want to make members feel more at ease. Were doing everything in our power right now to just, you know, make sure our congregation is safe. Reporter the San Mateo CountySheriffs Department will be posting deputies at the Church Sunday just as a precaution. Now, investigators have not said why or who he was aiming those letters at. One of the neighbors i talked with this evening said it might have something to do with michaelsons wife, who passed away last year. Reporting live in san carlos, Sergio Quintana, nbc bay area news. Sergio, thank you. Tragic news at stanford. A student was found dead at a fraternity house. The university sent out an email notifying the campus about the death. The stanford daily newspaper reports that student was a sophomore and Palo Alto Police found him this morning at the theta delta kai fraternity house. No evidence of foul play and no word yet of the cause. We have just learned the identity of a person killed in a hitandrun in oakland today. Myisha simton from san leandro. Police say someone driving a White Nissan Maxima hit her and drove off. This happened at 98th near carter park just west of the oakland zoo. When police got to the area, singleton had already died. Theyre still looking for that driver. Its a second visit to the bay area as a president ial candidate. Today Mike Bloomberg was in the east bay, and even rode on b. A. R. T. The former mayor of new york was in oakland where he caught up with mayor libby schaaf. The two worked together on a Climate Change panel that they served on for mayors years ago. Bloomberg also hosted a rally at the popular barbecue joint everett and jones. The selfmade billionaire told supporters he will vote for whoever becomes the democratic nominee, but he hopes its him. If im in the white house, no tweeting ever again. [ applause ] i liked when he brought up, you know, what hes done in new york. You need a special person to beat trump, and i think its mike. Bloomberg has his eyes set on super tuesday states which includes california. Thats march 3rd. If elected he promises to double the money the government currently spends on preventing and fighting wildfires. Another president ial candidate, andrew yang, wrapping up his twoday bay area visit. This was a fundraiser in los gatos today. Evan lowe introducing yang at this lunch. They also met with former congressman mike honda. A proposed google village in san jose has some people bitter and confused. Today protesters disrupted a private event at the fairmont that promoted the project. Get out of my space. Y the event was called the future of san jose. Googles proposed plan includes retail restaurants and 5,000 housing units. Protesters crashed the party saying the google village will push out working class people from san jose. Up next here at 11 00, a battle brewing over something on top of a south bay catholic school, and it isnt the steeple. Why parents want a cell phone tower to come down. Plus students sloshing through floodwaters. What this latest storm did to that pacifica school. And we have some rain just off to the north. Ill let you know eventually when some rainfall chances return to our forecast in about six minutes. A cell phone tower perched on a Church Steeple is not sitting well with the congregation in san jose. Parents and parishioners from st. Christophers church in willow glen, which also serves as a school, want it gone. Nbc bay areas Damian Trujillo has the exclusive story. Reporter st. Christopher has been a place of worship for 65 years. Now churchgoers and parents on the School Grounds are praying the cellular station on the steeple comes down. Until the evidence is established that cell tower radiation isnt harmful for our children, cell towers like the one there should be removed. Reporter the diocese started leasing space on its steeple to a Cellular Company back in 1999. It wasds recently upgraded to 4g technology which parishioners fear could be emitting more radiation. One mom decided she couldnt risk her Daughters Health who was diagnosed with leukemia two years ago. We spoke with the mom on the phone. I will never take a chance with my child, just a minor chance of health concerns. So within one day, we made the decision to pull her from the school. Reporter Gina Rodriguez says four other parents did the same. In a statement, the diocese says the health and safety of parents, children, and parishioners are its top priority. The diocese said it established a task force of medical and Technology Experts to study the parents concerns and will hold a Community Meeting next week to release the results. But parents feel the results will undoubtedly favor the diocese and nothing will change. I dont understand why the diocese would put profits over the safety of our children. Reporter a battle brewing over the church tower at st. Christopher. Damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. New at 11 00 tonight, a Bay Area High School student is facing serious charges after a brazen beating on campus. The victim, another student but a parent and a mother of three. Maria Guadalupe Jimenez held a News Conference to talk about the assault at James Logan High School in union city earlier this month. She and her husband came to school to report that her daughter was being bullied. She says she was attacked by two girls who allegedly didnt stop kicking, punching her even after she lost consciousness. In addition to the responsibility of the minors involved for what they did to maria, we are also concerned about the conduct of the school and their lack of keeping people safe on their campus. Police have charged one student with battery and serious bodily injury. The school is not commenting. An Elementary School in pacifica looked more like a kiddie pool after it was hit by the storms. Tonight that cleanup is under way. Check it out. Ocean shore school yesterday in the midst of that storm. A hallway with a canal with kidding waddling through the water with their galoshes. Today workers tried to dry it out. Not clear when the school will reopen but luckily monday is a holiday so they have an extra day to try to get rid of all that water. Its going to be dry for the next couple of days. No big storms saturday, sunday, or monday. But we will have some clouds rolling back in as we head throughout your weekend forecast. Lets go ahead and get you ready for that saturday forecast. Were going to start you right off since it is a forecast, looking ahead into tomorrow morning. Its going to be cold. If you missed our earlier update, down into the 30s again for tomorrow morning. Got you at 38 in the south bay. 39 peninsula. Over to the trivalley, 35 degrees. The east bay, 37. San francisco, 41. The north bay at 35. Well start with some cloud cover, and the thing about tomorrow, its going to be that in and out cloud cover. Well get some breaks of sunshine at times. Then, okay, here we go again. More cloud cover starts to return. You can see at 1 00 in the afternoon, well likely see some sun for the north bay and also the south bay. Clouds will linger over the east bay and the peninsula. Then by 3 30 in the afternoon we get more of that high overcast returning. So not the sunniest of weekends, especially on sunday. Cloud cover really starts to roll back in. Youll probably think its going to rain. Theres going to be so much cloud cover moving across the bay area. But, again, dry weather expected as we head throughout the next three days. So our forecast as we move through tomorrow with the gray skies at times. Well have 59 down here in morgan hill. 55 in milpitas. 56 in los gatos. 57 in hayward. 55 in pleasanton. Closer to the water, 56 in san mateo. 55 in palo alto. You see where were going with this. Numbers really dont change much as you head around the bay area. 55 in the mission and also 53 in the marina. Across the north bay, 59 in napa. Down to mill valley, 54. Right up to ukiah, 56 degrees. My extended forecast. Dry weather again as we head through the next three days. That goes for the tahoe region. So if youre headed up towards squaw valley or Alpine Meadows, it is open. There was that avalanche earlier today. Avalanche warning signs may be posted, so you do want to certainly Pay Attention to those. Currently they have 205 trails and 24 runs. As we take you into that sevenday forecast, we have overcast skies coming in sunday for that 49ers game. Then eventually some rain by tuesday. About a quarter to a half inch possible. Then dry weather once we hit wednesday, thursday, and also on fridays forecast. Inland valleys we have you in those cold 30s tomorrow morning. Then we get a little bit warmer for the Morning Hours on sunday and monday morning. We get that rain chance once again on tuesday. Then after this, it looks like we could get some additional rain chances as we head into the following weekend. Its not in the sevenday forecast but just think about that if youre making plans for the following weekend. Right now looks really good as we head into that 49ers game on sunday. Overcast skies will make it good for any kind of photo ops with jimmy g. Or whoever you want to get a photo with. Jimmy g. Down on the sidelines. Oh, my goodness. She wants two photos, one with jimmy g. , the other with jimmy g. 49ers red on. He knows me well. Up next, its Innovative Technology that could transform landscape devastated by wildfires. How drones are playing a part in all of this. And we have jimmy. Hey, guys. Matthew mcconaughey and hugh grant are here. Plus we have vanessa hudgens, and thank you notes. The tonight show starts in just a few minutes. America isnt just sick of donald trump, americas getting sicker. There are one million more uninsured americans every year under trump. And hes repeatedly tried to repeal obamacare. Mike bloomberg will make sure everyone without Health Coverage can get it, and everyone who likes theirs, keep it. While capping fees to lower costs. As mayor, he helped expand coverage to seven hundred thousand more people. And championed womens reproductive health. As president , hell give access to everyone. Im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. A former army medic, made of the we maflexibility to handle members like kate. 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They have the ability to work six times faster than humans, planting 20 Million Trees in less than six months. Tesla is under the mike l microscope over reports of sundayen acceleration in several models. The Safety Administration says it has about 130 complaints from owners involving more than 100 accidents and 52 injuries. The scope of the problem is big. About 500,000 tesla sedans could be affected here. Tesla, those powerful electric motors with all wheel drive to make acceleration very quick. The agency says it will review the complaints first and decide if a full investigation is needed. Some prime real estate could be popping up in the market in San Francisco. The iconic macys building in union scare. Square. The new owner wants to convert much of it into housing and office space. The proposed plan is to put 21 condos on the top three floors and a roof top deck. The middle floors would be office space and the bottom three floors would remain as retail space. No word on when this will go before city leaders. Up next, we check in with Aaron Rodgers and tell you about the packers travel plans. Happening now, teachers in los angeles are suing Delta Airlines after a delta plane dumped jet fuel on several schools tuesday. That plane needed to make an Emergency Landing at l. A. X. And released fuel in order to make the plane lighter. That jet fuel fell on nearly 60 people at the schools, including children. Teachers say the airline was negligent by allowing the plane to take off in the first place. Were back with more in a moment. Im tom steyer and i approve this message. Climate is the number 1 priority. I would declare a state of emergency on day 1. Congress has never passed an important climate bill, ever. This is a problem that continues to get worse. Ive spent a decade fighting and beating oil companies. Stopping pipelines. Stopping fossil fuel plants, ensuring clean energy across the country. How are we going to pull this country together . We take on the biggest challenge in history, we save the world and do it together. City hall, coit tower, and sfo, take a look. Our landmarks dressed up in 49ers red and gold. The nfc championship game, niners and packers, sunday at levis stadium. Inside the airport earlier today, cheerleaders and sour dough sam. Nice welcome for all those arriving green bay fans. Speaking of the packers, they arrive in san jose tomorrow. Leading the way is their superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers. He is the key. If he does well on sunday, the packers could pull off the upset and beat the niners. Theres still plenty to talk about when the 49ers drafted alex smith instead of rodgers back in 2005. Rodgers is the former cal star who grew up in chico. I usually dreamed about playing for the 49ers as a kid, but obviously that thing passed a long time ago. Hes still a little irked. The 49ers played the packers on thanksgiving weekend. The dominated. They held rodgers to 104 yards passing, sacking him five times. Well see what happens this time around. Join us tomorrow. We will be at levis stadium for our 49ers playoff special. We talk with current players and 49ers legends about this magical season. Maybe it extends all the way to miami. Join us tomorrow night at 6 30. It turns out its not just humans. Were going to show you who else is cheering for the niners. Back with more in a moment. 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. Write this down, this is important. Amy, this is actually a life saving class. What a nice compliment, thank you save on fast internet and the best Wireless Network together. What can i say, i love what i do. Thats simple, easy, awesome. Get xfinity internet and mobile together and save hundreds on your wireless bill. Youll get unlimited talk and text and no activation or line fees. Switch today. Two bacon, two sausage, this is the two eggssuper slam. Hash browns and pancakes and now make those pancakes all you can eat for a buck. Thats where the duper comes in. The all new super duper slam just seven ninety nine. See you at dennys. Fabig game means big menu. Today levis stadium unveiled new food items. A flaming hot cheeto bratwurst. No, no. Loaded pork nachos. Chili. And also food from green bay, which i suppose would be some sort of wisconsin cheese. Meet hunter. 5yearold bernese mountain dog already in tailgate mode. His San Francisco owner sent us this photo of him. Hunter has his paw on the pulse of this championship showdown, and assures us that his favorite ball thrower, jimmy g. Will fetch us a win. Did you write that story . Thats pretty cute. Isnt he cute . Look. That hat is weather approved. Hes ready because hes got his little coat on. Weve got 50s, so that dogs going to be nice and warm. We have overcast skies. It will seem like its probably going to rain, but no rain forecasted on sunday. We just have the cloud cover, good for pictures. Youll need that jacket with those temperatures in the 50s. Otherwise here our next chance of rain hits once we hit tuesdays forecast. About a quarter to a half inch. Go niners. It looks perfect for this Holiday Weekend. You got it dialed in. And it will be freezing in green pay, so i think the packers will be happy theyre here. We dont want to make them happy. Hopefully it will throw off their mojo because theyre used to being cold. Thanks for joining us. Have a safe weekend. Byebye. [ cheers and applause steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon