In the East Foothills, east of san jose. Snow in the rain snow mix. Altamont pass, looking at rain in the area. See rain snow mix here. Up north also seeing rain snow mix pushing out of here. Looking at snow for over the last hour or so. Look at this. The oakland little bit of rain snow mix. You may see periods of heavy downpours but it wont be long lived. Were talking scattered showers and unstable air mass and cold air mass as that. For the northern mountains, were looking at 1500 and 2,000 feet could see a couple of inches, foot of snow up there. In the sierras, snow levels 2,000 to 2,500 people. And then more than three feet of snow above the passes today. So expect travel delays. Well talk more about the rain and when it will dry out and when we see temperatures near 70 degrees. That is all ahead. The nightmare is over for hundreds of b. A. R. T. Passengers after spending two hours stuck on the train because of a fire. The blaze broke out at the walnut creek station. Firefighters were able to contain the fire quickly but could not put it out until electricians showed up to shut off the power. The people on the train did not know what was happening when the train stopped. Once we were stopped it was maybe a few minutes later and then all of a sudden the fire engines came and we were just looking down and couldnt see any fire. When they arrived they found a lot of smoke coming out of the electrical room along with explosions. No one was hurt. Investigators are not sure what caused that fire. They do not suspect foul play. Chaos in berkeley. Police make ten arrests at a pro trump rally. Violent clashes broke out between Trump Supporters and antitrump protestors yesterday afternoon. At one point large groups of people were beating each other with sticks. Many were left with bloody noses and faces. Some used pepper spray and threw smoke canisters into the crowd and some set off fireworks. I knew full well there might be some stuff popping off. It is a sad day and were better than this. For the most part Police Officers standing by in riot gear did not intervene in the individual fights. While fights were happening, kpix5 learned that officers were only intervening when there was a perceived victim. Any other altercation where there is no victim, is a battery situation. The tactic appeared to isolate trouble makers so the police could arrest them. Our cameras got a few arrests like this one. We were walking away from the protest and they started following us for no reason. We started running and they decided to pull over my friend and she started running and it took seven of them to take her down for no reason. We were walking away. Im trying to figure out what they got her on. Berkeley police put out a photo of some of the weapons they confiscated. Some baseball bats and sticks of different lengths including one with nails sticking out of it. Pro trump rallies throughout the country. Most were peaceful. In the nations capitol they listen to pro trump speakers. In new york city couple hundred Trump Supporters and protestors braced the cold near trump tower. The police kept that confined to an area with barricades. Organizes of last months womans march on washington will pound the pavement again this week. They say a day without a woman will be held on International Womens day on march 8. This is video on the march in washington in january. Action items are listed on the website. They call for women to take the kay off work and only shop at small women and minorityowned businesses. Organizers say the strike is meant to recognize the contributions women make to the economy despite the gender wage gap. In another statement critics of the president s made their opinions known on a beach in san diego. Hundreds of people staged a public art event spelling impeach with their bodies. And then they regrouped and spelled out resist. A similar protest was held in San Franciscos ocean beach last month. Thousands of people spelled out the word resist in the sand. In the president s first speech before congress this past week he laid out his agenda for the coming year. But what was in it . How much style . How much substance. That is what we asked former San Francisco mayor willie brown and melissa cane. Was this renewed trump or repackaged one. I think it is repackaged. It is the one supporters are happy with. They wish he stops with tweeting and personal attacks and that is what he did, while staying on point with all his policies. He didnt deviate from what he said during the campaign and what he is doing as president. But he sid it in a more president ial way and that is something a lot of republicans are happy to see. Youre smiling over there. Im smiling because im kind of shallow so to speak like clothing. It showed up. And he actually buttoned the suit. And the tie did not reach his toes as his size regularly does. When he showed up on that naval ship yesterday, he was wearing something he should not wear. That Bomber Jacket they gave him. And the hat. Increased his size, it looked like he was expanded, he could actually sub divide. He looked so big and awful. As funny that may sound, that has a good deal to do with the perception and the medias response to what he said this week. Is how he looks and presents himself. Which is kind of shallow. Back to your point. And is the bar so low that someone who just dresses appropriately can be called president ial . Youre talking barlow dressing with him in the room. Very important. For trump there is no bar. You cant make a bar when you start at that point. There is no bar. But trump did a good job. What destroyed what trump was attempting to do, he wanted three or four days of all of us discussing his performance. He didnt get it because sessions showed up meeting with the russians counterpart on the ambassador side and lying about it. So he sounded and looked pretty president ial and then he was back on twitter yesterday morning blasting schwarzenegger about the apprentice. He was. And international incident. Youre right. He was blasting about a Television Show and next thing you know hes talking about the Obama Administration wiretapping him during the election. So i dont know if he can hold it for that long before he has to go back to that form. No matter what the package it is like a jackinthebox. You never know what is going to pop out. As we wait for President Trumps revised immigration policy many bay area residents are afraid they will get kicked out of the country. Well talk with an expert about past and present executive actions on immigration and deportation. Tracking rain and snow this morning on highdef doppler and how long these showers will last. White house under fire well look at the administrations contacts with russia. Where does the Obamacare Repeal stand. That is face the nation today. , everything we stock at Grocery Outlet has crazy low prices. Do you know how we do it . How . Bargainomics say, if california has a bumper crop and produces too many oranges. Or a winemaker in sonoma suddenly has 1000 bottles too many. Weve got namebrand, topquality groceries priced 4070 off every day. Bargainomics. Thats our Business Model. And our Business Model is. Delicious. Grocery outlet bargain market trumps revised immigration policy will mean for them. With fear for many bay area residents are concerned about what President Trumps revised immigration policy would mean for them. A Peninsula School is offering support to worried parents. Immigrant parents in East Palo AltoSchool Officials and Law Enforcement offered information for them. Authorities assured them they are not offering assistance in immigration rates. We dont want people to be afraid not to report certain crimes being taken place because theyre fearful were working with ice and they will be deported. It is not our concern if their legal status here in this country. The president said he would crack down on illegal immigration and is already removing, quote, the bad ones including gang members and criminals from the country. Joining us now to talk about immigration deportations is hastings law professor. You have been studying this for years. We have not had a change in Immigration Law since when, the reagan add hins stration . Pretty much, yes. The only changes were seeing is changes in policy. Every president that came in has basically set the guidelines under these laws that are existing, correct . Yes. All right. Let us look a little bit how different president s have done it. Compare george bush, say, with barack obama. What were the differences in how they interpret it. When you look at the Obama Administration in all eight years of it you see a high volume of deportation. Higher than the bush presidency. But there is a nuance there, which is that most of the deportations under the Obama Administration happened in the first term of his presidency and in the second term of his presidency, deportations went down. And what led to this was the fact his policy became less compromising and things changed a little bit in the second term. He actually deported more people than his republican predecessor which is a soccer for people out there who would think it is the reversed. It is now become an issue because the Obama Administration justify increased what was the reasoning behind it . What was going on to some extent a political compromise. Obama was reaching out a lot to the right during the first term of his administration. This is one of the discontents of his presidency for many progressive supporters. In the second half, again, they scaled back pretty dramatically, ice enforced a lot less, and the enforcement focussed on different kinds of people, so it matters not just how many people you deport but also who you deport. Okay. Lets look at that between what the Obama Administration was doing and what the Trump Administration is doing. What do you see as the key difference there . The main focus is that the Obama Administration focussed mostly on two type of deportees, folks that just arrived at the border hightailed and sent back immediately on arrival, and people who committed serious, Violent Crimes and were there for serious risk for public safety. What were seeing this administration doing is creating a false nexus between immigration and crime claiming that immigrants commit more crime and a claim that is patently false. Every piece of Research Shows immigrants on average commit less crime than the nativeborn. Okay. That is a political statement. No, that is a fact. Im not disagreeing with what youre saying but the fact that trump says were going to do that and links Illegal Immigrants with crime, is a political statement. It is not an immigration policy. My question is, what is serious crimes versus serious crimes in the two administrations, obama versus trump, what are the differences there . Trump includes low level of offenses, misdemeanor s traffic offenses. So the whole definition of who is a criminal and who we should be afraid of changed. Would [inaudible] be serious versus obamas versus trumps. There are some both administrations they would be a serious crime of deportation. Yes. Where is the break . I realize you can have the ability under law if you have a parking ticket just the fact youre here illegally is grounds for deportation under the law. If we take the politics and pr and some of the light on hysteria, or whatever, what is the key difference of what we had and what were seeing. There are specifics in the Immigration Law that specify i think the term is crimes of moral turpitude which are crimes leading somebody to leave the country. These are categories defined in Immigration Law and include things that pose a risk to public safety. They do not include plain old offense. Under this administration, there are two things happening. One of definition of what counts as offense and how ice is going to parse their efforts is going to change. And they also increased the time limit for people that theyre seeking from two weeks to two years and that is also a big expansion in the operation. One of the biggest changes is the tone of the administrator saying what it is and linking it and using it as political which brings in the debate. Thank you for joining us this morning. Now well go out and look at the story on a different front. That is the one on your doorstep. Were tracking rain and snow in highdef doppler. Well loop our radar here. Notice as the rain passes through were seeing some snow in Higher Elevations. Down to 2,000 feet. Take a closer look at berkeley, oakland, rain snow mix. We did a little earlier. It is pushing off towards the east bay. You see a little near san ramon. Certainly the Higher Elevations this morning are getting a little dusting. Dont be surprised if that is what you see when you head out the door. As we advance throughout the day well continue to see scattered showers, a cold air mass in place, meaning unstable conditions, potential for thunderstorms today. Right now temperatures are in the 40s airwide. 40 degrees in santa rosa, 44 San Francisco. 45 in concord. Low pressure in pacific northwest. Bringing showers over the last couple of days. This trough here will shift inland over the next couple of days and we wont get High Pressure building in behind it. That means high and dry. Sunshine by midweek and we may see some of the warmest spots inland to near 70 by midweek towards the end of the week. In the meantime, we have a couple more showers and, yes, snow. You got to love california. Starting off this morning with scattered showers and we have seen rain snow mix in Higher Elevations. Lunchtime today well see those showers. You may see a downpour if a strong cell passes over i dont remember neck of the woods. You may see a thunderstorm. And showers begin to taper tonight. Lingering showers on to at least the first half of monday. Monday morning commute be prepared. Tapering monday into tuesday. Tuesday we start to see more sunshine and then later on in the week start to warm up. Scattered shower, cool and windy today. We are going to see gusty winds as well and possible thunderstorms, low snow levels. Really kind of a big weather headlines. Warming as we begin your workweek and more so towards midweek. Your High Temperature today running on the cool side of average. Definitely seeing those cooler temperatures out there in the mid50s, low 50s for the warmer spots in the east bay. Similar temperature range 52 in kentville. Colder still in 40s in lake port and clear lake today. Travel forecast shows possibility of some snow in any of those Higher Elevations and scattered showers around the bay and were looking at extended forecast. Showers tapering off. Sunshine, tuesday, wednesday and thursday and showers as we head into next weekend. Californias high speed rail is getting big bucks to lay track but it could be the last financial boost for the project. The state approved the sale of 2. 5 billion in bonds to kick off construction in the central valley. Billions more will be needed and the Rail Authority is looking to the federal Transit Administration for more money. Congressional republicans to urge to reject the request. A man is a slum lord and theyre making sure he gets the message. They camped out on the door step of their landlords home to protest a rent hike. They wrote several complaints to management about moldy ripped up carpets destroyed by water and moisture over the yoors, and mold bordering the within doeshgs but none of their concerns windows, but none of their concerns have been addressed. We have kids here and no matter how much we clean, it keeps coming back, the water, mold and the breeding. The tenants left the letter at their landlords door. We tried to talk to him after the crowd left but he declined. Still to come, pse g bills are soaring. Consumer watch is coming up next. ,,,,,,,,, turning up the heat on Public Utilities over gas bills. In our consumer watch today a bay area lawmaker is turning up the heat on Public Utilities over gas bills. Julie takes a look at what is behind the issue and how its going to affect you. Yeah, you know we have been getting complaints, a lot of people noticing their gas bills and energy bills spiking. Senator jerry hill is calling on pge to lower bills and better understand when their usage climbs. Hill and his staff did research into the spikes in bills in addition to an approved rate increase. They found the rate structure, higher cost for natural gas and colder winter months were to blame for the increases. He wants the Public Utilities commission to track the usage to avoid those surprises and increase the amount of gas theyre allowed to use in the winter before theyre bumped up to a more expensive tier. They say they are reviewing those recommendations. Electric bills to electric cars. Electric car charging stations could soon be a requirement for new developments in San Francisco. It requires 10 of the Parking Spaces in all rt r. Residential and commercial buildings would have to have electric charging stations. The mayor is backing the proposal. The New Buildings may also be subject to proposed rent control laws. That is one of the items assembly dem kragts are working on democrats to make housing in california more afford darryl. Now a state law limits rent control to buildings constructed before 1995. And they would make it to apply to every building including new ones. When a tenant leaves, landlord can bump up the rent to the going rate. And there may be changes as they go through this process. Obviously, landlords are strongly opposed to this proposal. They would like to see changes. They say it might force some of them to leave units empty adding to the housing shortage in the bay area. They will have another meeting in the next few weeks. I like to go back to the first story involving pg e and natural gas. A system that is aimed at conservation and if you go over a certain amount you find yourself in a whole different area . Pg e up until recently had several different tiers. They simplified it to two tiers. Year round if you use lower am of gas or energy youre in the lower tier and charged a lower rate. The second you go above that you are bumped into a higher tier. What jerry hill is saying, during the cold winter months allow them to use more gas before they get bumped up into the higher tier and let folks know whether be it via text message or phone call, whatever, that youre getting close to the higher tier level. That is why hes focussed on pg e. Yes, they recently raised their rates 21 and people noticed that spike. People notice the cold weather especially here in the bay area. Do you have a tax question . From family writeoffs to changes and personal taxes we gathered the experts this tuesday at noon to answer all your tax questions. It will be live at facebook at cbsSan Francisco on the facebook page. You can call into the hotline between noon and 2 00 at 8885help. 8885helpsyou. Get your questions ready on tax tuesday. That will be fun. On facebook live. Not on tv, you can also call in. ,,,,,,,,, a huge mess still lingers in san live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. A huge mess still lingers in san jose after the historic flooding. How volunteers are trying to mop up that mess. And punches thrown at a rally in berkeley as protestors clash with supporters of President Trump. Speaking of the president hes standing by his attorney general while down playing the controversy over Jeff Sessions contact with russian officials. Welcome back to kpix 5. Well get started with another check of your forecast. We are tracking rain and a little bit of snow on highdef doppler. You see the pink on your screen. That is rain snow mix on the highest peak. The snow down 2,000 feet. If you head to santa cruz, look at this, you might see dusting over the passes today. And certainly were seeing some of the east bay as well, got rain snow mix as well. And some of the Higher Elevations near san ramon, dublin, well see dusting this morning. We actually have seen as these showers pass through a dusting of snow on many of our mountains including oakland and berkeley foothills, and we have a storm warning in effect for the northern mountains near mount shasta. A little higher for northern sierra, 2,000 and 2500 feet, we could see three feet of snow above the passes. And dusting in lower elevations. Showers will continue throughout the day. Possibility of a thunderstorm with unstable air mass in place. Well talk more about this and time out when the rain will end. Volunteers are busy cleaning up the mess left behind by the devastating floods in san jose. About 350 people were out in city parks yesterday removing mud, branches and debris. At the height of the bloods this area, kelly park, was under six feet of water. The park manager told us the hardest part of the recovery is finding resources. That is why having the volunteers here is so important to us. It has been just it is hard for me to talk about without getting emotional. Without hear help it is an overwhelming task. The city is organizing more volunteer cleanup projects this afternoon. What a difference a little dry weather makes. Here is a look at the anderson reservoir. The water isnt even close to spilling over but a couple weeks ago water was pouring from the spillway. It is what led to flooding along coyote creek. Two days after a successfully restarting the power plant at the oroville dam, officials shut it down once again. The crews are deepening the water channel so the plant can reach full capacity. The shuttledown is expected to the shut down is expected to last one or two days. The spillway eroded last month prompting evacuation of 2,000 people. Another top story. Punches thrown, smoke canisters set off and faces blood deed as violent clashes erupt at a pro trump rally. The berkeley officials took a handsoff approach. They instead focussed nar attention to arresting instigators. Trump supporters said they were determined to assert their free speech rights even in potentially hostile territory. We tend to ignore the hotbed like berkeley and it grows and grows and pushes us out. It is turning into something awful and it is important that people address the issue and not run away from this intimidation factor. At least 10 people were arrested. Meanwhile members of congress are calling on the president to provide evidence supporting his stunning claim that president Obama Wiretapped his phones during the 2016 election. Trump tweeted is it legal for a sitting president to be wiretapping a race for president . A new low. Now, even republican senator ben sass and others say President Trump those elaborate. No one ever ordered any surveillance on u. S. Citizen and any suggestion is false. The president is developing a new travel ban according to cnn. Iraq will be removed from the list of banned countries. The original order blocked u. S. Entry from seven predominantly muslim countries. That was halted by a federal appeals court. President trump could sign a new version of that as early as tomorrow. And the u. S. Attorney general is at the center of a scandal accused of lying under oath about his contact with russia. Now much of this revolves around what is meant by the words meeting. A Justice Department said the attorney general Jeff Sessions spoke with Russian Ambassador of the United States twice during the president ial campaign. But sessions did not disclose that information during his confirmation hearings last month. Even though senators asked him about contacts with russians. If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump Campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do . Senator franken im not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians. And im unable to comment on it. A lot of the Debate Centers around what were those meetings, were they planned meetings to discussion Campaign Issues or were they social issues with senators normally meet with foreign dignitaries. The Justice Department says the conversations occurred in july and september. At that Time Sessions was serving as a republican senator for alabama and adds visor to the Trump Campaign at the same time. We spoke with face the nation host John Dickerson and asked if it is normal for a new administration to have so many stumbles out of the gate. We just won a big ee location election, and they think we can do a lot of things, but what is unique to this president perhaps from president s, gosh, going back a long time, is that he has come in with a jeel agenda to move very, very fast and almost used chaos chaos created by the Quick Movement to his advantage. Lot of the chaos in the sessions situation seems to be rotating around the word meeting and what happened. I asked San Francisco mayor willie brown who knows how to parse out a word. Meet means paums anything to anybody who is using that term. What do you think about this whole business . Well, i think, you know, look, you expect the head of the department of justice to be able to directly answer a question without adding Additional Information and without purging himself. It was interest, perjury is the intentional miss statement of facts. He is already setting himself up to defend against a perjury charge. You spent a number of years in public office, what do you think . He should be very clear on letting everybody know that there was no formal meeting on anything; that there was a number of meetings where they discussed what happens with alabama and whether or not they can beat ohio state and become number one. He should go through all of the possibilities of things that he said and let it go at that. In sort of if we pull the lens back a little bit, there is a meeting and then theyre in the context of how youre being asked about the meeting and was the meeting were they asking about meetings with regard to the campaign and relationship to russia, right . You understand this is all screwed up. Under no circumstances should there be anybody denying that on occasion when i bumped into you, we discussed the campaign. We discussed the show. We discussed my absence of comp timely payments of my child support. We discuss all the things we discuss. Period. That is not a meeting. This man named sessions you recall during his confirmation, he had to testify about things that happened in the 80s, that he made racial slurs. Okay. Next question, melissa, youre a lawyer and mayor brown is a lawyer, we have calls for independent outside investigator into all of this and now that sessions is saying he is going to recuse himself, my question is, how is the Justice Department ever going to conduct an independent outside investigation of the organization it works for . Whatever happens there is going to be tainted. First and foremost, independent means independent of the Justice Department, not just independent of sessions. And the public should get that clear. Sessions should make it clear. He didnt. When he said im recusing myself but im handing it off to my deputy. That is not independent. What if he had said, you know what, we did meet, we met in the hallway, we talked about sports. Im surprised he didnt. Because for a politician, let alone a lawyer, for a politician in that situation, that is how they clear their throat. The fact he didnt and we have another story we will be out there covering. And, by the way, after the break i will sit down with the hastings law professor to see what is next for sessions and what is next for the ties of russia. When we come back. ,, Grocery Outlet is the home of wow savings. Wow means you save 50 or more. There are three stages of wow denial. Is this price right . Acceptance. And boooyah. Wait for it. Boooyah has three os. Grocery outlet bargain market stop by our bar bonanza event and save up to 80 getting food to hungry older amerand it wont. Stop hey, these are our parents and grandparents out there. Lets Start Talking about how we can really get to the route of the problem. Hey, we hear you. Fighting hunger doesnt stop here. Im working with aarp foundations drive to end hunger team to change the National Conversation around hunger, bring experts together, and make programs better than ever. If you dont think were in this together when you think aarp, then you dont know aarp. Learn more at aarp. Org possibilities. Sessions is retreating from the russian front. After revelations about ,,,, his preelection dealings with moscow. Attorney general Jeff Sessions is retreating from the russian front after revelations about his preelection dealings with moscow. I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump Campaign. I should not be involved investigating a campaign i had a role in. Sessions maintains he never intended to mislead anyone. President trump is standing behind sessions, calling him an honest man. The question this morning, did the nations chief Law Enforcement officer commit perjury. So far no response from the white house. Thats right, joining us to talk about that and all of this other things is professor hastings, law professor. I got to ask you, you have been in washington, ufk around this. It seems you have been around this. In the modern presidency we say, here is your office, here is your staff, here is your special investigator for whatever allegations that seems to be popping up, whether white water or whatever. In your opinion, did segs commit perjury . Hard to say. He made a clear statement in his testimony under oath, and that statement was contradicted by at least he had two meet joogs do they rise to that level . Perjury is a hard crime to prosecute. Prosecutors dont like to do it unless it is clearcut. You need to show intent to deceive. So it is hard to say, but i think the important point here is that the perjury issue is a small piece of a puzzle. Noisy piece. The thing that will get attention and he recused himself from an investigation from a russian governments allegation, that the russian government involved itself in the election. That is the issue here. 82 yes. Does that rise to the level of a special investigation . I think it could well. Were seeing people from both parties calling for some sort of independent investigation because the issue is not did the russians hack into servers and did the russians try to disrupt the election. But the bigger issue is did the russians have contact any any kind of collaboration with the Trump Campaign. That is a huge issue that goes to the integrity of the government and the system. Is it illegal . It could well be. You know, there are a lot of laws there that could be violated by Something Like this. But more importantly is the integrity of the government and what went on and the American People need to know what went on and that requires, i think, an independent investigation. Okay. How would you come up with an independent investigator . Who would call the shots for this, if sessions says im recusing myself, then it would be recusing himself for selecting who ever would do this. Who would come up with it . There are different layers to this. Sessions recused himself which means his deputy, the Deputy Attorney general, will sort of run the Justice Department on this particular issue. Now, interestingly enough, President Trump has named his deputy, but he hasnt had has not been confirmed yet and he will have confirmation hearings this week in the senate. Well see action in the Senate Judiciary committee. Im sure he will be questioned about all of this and what he intends to do. That is level one. What is the attorney general or acting attorney general going to do . The next question is what is cress going to do. Another question Congress Going to do . And another question could the president name independent counsel or investigator here. Nixon did that. 82 yeah. And he fired him. Yes, but then named him again because the political pressure was too great. If we look back at the campaign, questions are being raised about Trumps Campaign contacts with the russians. But those exchanges have been brought to light supposedly by wiretaps possibly, by the fbi possibly, of Trumps Campaign team or people connected with the campaign. What kind of questions does that raise. 82 well if the federal government is eavesdropping on people during campaigns . Presumably if that was done, it was done because a Foreign Government somewhat hostile to the United States, the russians, were trying to interfere with our election, and that is a question that the Intelligence Services would want to find more out about. And if it turns out and we dont know yet at all, that they listened in on conversations that involved people with the Trump Campaign, that is a relevant fact that ought to be known. So could donald trump order an investigation into the security, nsa and fbis investigation into his campaign . He could. He could. Now this is where this is where our system hopefully comes into play, because President Trump is very powerful, the executive branch is powerful but there is another branch of government out there, the congress, that is independent. The congress could conduct its own investigation through its intelligence committee. So well have the presidency, supreme court, the legislature, the congress, and then the special investigators, the new arm of the government. Stay tuned. We could even have something even more which is a 9 11 type of commission, a war ren commission. Never shortchange the commissions as well. Thank you for joining us. Get to the forecast. Any sunshine out there today, julie. Yeah, sunshine between the scattered hours, but certainly going to see showers throughout the day today. Ill take you back over the last few hours and show you the radar loop. As these showers are passing through we see dusting of snow in the pink and white on Higher Elevations. We actually have seen them over the East Foothills over east san jose. East bay. The northern mountains and santa cruz mountains. Zoom into where we see some of the snow falling now. Take a closer look here. We saw some here not too long ago, East Foothills. East of livermore. Be mindful of this. We wont see a lot of accumulation but it is a dusting and exciting for the kids who dont see snow much. Snow levels down around 2,000 feet and down here were seeing temperatures in the 40s. Pretty much areawide to start your day. Throughout the day well see scattered showers, possibility of thunderstorm because we have an unstable air marks colder air moving in and thats going to create instability, possibility of thunderstorms. This trough you see here, that will shift east over the next couple of days. We have High Pressure building in behind it. Flat ridge here. That will help to keep us dry and sunny through midweek and temperatures warming near 70 before the next round of rain. We have to get through today. And scattered showers will continue off and on throughout the day. You may see peeks of sunshine and possibly a downpour as one of the cells passes over you. Lunchtime, scattered showers throughout the bay. And continuing off and on through the evening possibly lingering on through monday morning commute and maybe first afl of the day monday. It looks like well dry out second half of monday and then tuesday looking dry with more sunshine. Scattered hours, cool and windy today. Possible thunderstorms and low snow levels. Drying and warming, beginning later monday and on into tuesday. We have a winter storm warning in effect. Low snow levels in the foothills heading up to the sierras as well. Temperatures on the cool side of average topping out in the mid50s. We should be mid60s. Low to mid50s for the south bay. Temperature range for the east bay topping out at near 52 for brentwood. 52 in petaluma. 40ness the warm spots up north. Low snow levels for the foothills up in the high country if you are going to head that way today. Showers tapering out monday, drying out tuesday, sunshine wednesday and thursday and then looking at possibility of rain returning next weekend. Getting to mardi gras next year will be easier. United airlines is expanding its nonstop service between San Francisco and new orleans. Right now nonstop service is seasonal. But the airline says daily nonstops begin year round in june. Coming up, she is a pioneer of the antiSmoking Movement. How this jefferson award winner is helping millions of californians breathe easier. Its crispy sweetened flakes, plus crunchy granola clusters, plus a touch of honey. Its like adding up awesome, plus aweyeah. Its the sum of the best of the best in a cereal. 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As policy director of American Lung association, serena lobbied alongside anti smoking residents. They claimed victory when belmont passed its no smoking law. To hear the sound of glass breaking because there was a Glass Ceiling going into peoples homes. She kept us going. There was a long haul. Her late father began the apartment anti smoking petition drive. She said serena provided much needed policy support to keep fighting. Her emphasis is not on herself but all of the people out there doing the work in their communities. She really is that kind of humble servant. Thanks to serenas work in belmont pnt bay area, 2 million californians in 30 cities now have smokefree housing laws. In all, serene know has advocated for more than 50 cities and county smokefree ordinances. From parks to Public Schools and public housing. I always saw her as an enabler. I enabled communities to get their voices heard. 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It didnt take long for the glow of the president s address to congress to turn cold after reports surfaced that attorney general Jeff Sessions had not been accurate about his contact with the russians during the 2016 campaign. President trump found himself once again on the defensive against damaging leaks and intense tied the focus on the russia story. Launching an unsubstantiated claim on twitter the president wiretapped his Campaign Headquarters to investigate his russian ties. We will explore all of this with the top democrat on the Senate IntelligenceCommittee Mark warner and fellow Republican Committee member susan collins, former cia and defense