Windy conditions. A very good morning to you and thank you for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. We want to talk about the rain. Meteorologist kari hall has been following it. The rain is already in the area. What can we expect . The winds rushing up to that storm system moves north to south. Scattered showers. Were able to track that on our mobile radar and some of the rain still north. Weve seen some spotty showers moving out ahead of that. If youre traveling down crossing the Golden Gate Bridge heavy rain there. Were going to see some of the heaviest rain moving through later this morning. As we take it hour by hour that rain approaching San Francisco moving into oakland and then the trivalley around 9 00 to 10 00 this morning and it will be approaching san jose. Also whats happening in the sierra in seven minutes. Ive been looking at your radar. Bringing us surface level traffic sorry, air traffic. Surface level radar. That wind and the rain coming in from the north bay will move across the bay right in the middle of folks dropping off in school. Windy conditions, the yellow highlighting and the deadly closure. We do have a live camera showing you the closure at skyline. You see the smoke blowing off the flare. Down to manor because of a deadly crash. You are talking more about that. Back to you. Breaking news on that deadly wrongway crash that youve been covering in pacifica. Still shutting down lanes. Look at the mess just after 3 00 in the morning. The chp says a Dodge Charger was going the wrong way crashing into a mercedes suv. The driver of the charger died at the scene. A passenger taken to the hospital. The driver of the mercedes also rushed to the hospital. No word on when the lanes will reopen. You see the heavy response by firefighters and rescuers. Back to our Live Team Coverage of the storm. Today in the bays pete suratos is live in santa rosa for us this morning. The last time we spoke with you it started raining right after that. Reporter and its not raining right now. We are feeling wind gusts here in santa rosa. Turn around and show you what were seeing. We have some slick roads because the rain has been sporadic. It could affect people as you hit the roads. I want to show you some video. You see the rain coming down in that part of town north of where were standing, a bit of rain there. Weve been monitoring stuff throughout the north bay or from the mill valley area up into santa rosa and the windshield wipers going. At about 4 30 on the 101 back out here live, unlike the last report the lane isnt coming down. You can see there are some slick roads there. Well have another update on how the weather is going out here. Pete suratos, today in the bay. The rain having a mind of its own. Thank you, pete. If you are about to use one of the bridges to get to work you may want to take it easy. Any high winds yet . Reporter the wind gusts are still the same. Gusts 14 to 16 miles an hour. The winds are more sustained. Take a look at the flag. Were at ground level. The flags are higher and i suspect the winds are higher, too. I bring that up because as youre heading in driving up the incline you will see higher winds and why the chp issued a wind advisory. If you are driving a vehicle that has a high profile, a van or a box truck, you could get blown about. Something to keep an eye out. The gusts in the 14 to 16mileanhour range. We expect more as you head into San Francisco. Reporting live, bob redell, today in the bay. Bob, thanks for that. Be sure to stay with today in the bay throughout the morning. Follow kari on facebook, twitter and instagram. She is posting the on the go forecast updates. Were just a few hours away from the senate receiving the articles of impeachment. The lawmakers taking the first step to putting the president of the United States on trial. Tracie potts with what to expect. Reporter lev parnas, 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. 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 . Reporter new evidence from parnas including this voice mail. Lev, bt here. We have a request to talk to the big one. Reporter now heads to the is not. Along with articles of impeachment accusing abuse of power and obstruction of congress. They have a hoax going on over there. Lets take care of it. The. Reporter the seven managers who will manage the case. They passed the first president ial impeachment that does not even allege an actual crime under our laws. Reporter the senate formally receives the charges. An impeachment trial of donald john trump. Reporter chief Justice John Roberts is sworn in to reside over the trial. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell announces it will start tuesday. Roberts swears in the 100 senators who will act as jurors. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. Our scott mcgrew will have more at 6 45 in his checks and balances segment. At about 9 00, the senate is expected to formally receive those articles of impeachment. You can watch it all unfold here on nbc bay area. 6 07 right now. Investigators are on the scene of a shooting in san jose east foothills. Kris sanchez live there for us. What are investigators telling you . Reporter theyre not saying much. Theyre still out here at the scene about seven hours after the shooting was first reported. You see the crime scene tape is still up. It was reported around 10 20 last night on squeri road and clayton road. A witness told us he saw a victim outside a car not far from the quick stop in mt. Pleasant. San jose police tell us the shooting happened on squerpy road which is a road only about a third of a mile long and dead ends off clayton avenue. Theres a neighborhood there but theres also some sort of industrial type property. Squeri is blocked off as is clayton road between mt. Pleasant and mt. Mckinley road. We have seen people doing uturns and going another route. Sanders Elementary School is just down the block here. We dont expect the school day might be impacted by the investigation here because it is about a block away. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. Thank you, kris. We are under a micro climate weather alert this is a look eastbound i80 as you approach Donner Summit and this is where we see the snow going. The winter storm warning has just started and continues throughout the day as we go into the next couple of hours. Well see the storm system bringing the bay area some rain. Well move over to the sierra. As we look at the progress it has become a slower moving storm but it will still bring in the same punch with high winds and heavy rain even with the slower moving storm we will see at timtim times today very cold temperatures and looking at temperatures only reaching 28 degrees and another one to two feet expected today. Well be tracking that and how much the bay area rain we may get but, mike, you were saying with the live view in pacifica still that closure. And we can use the flares we saw here. It starts to gust and swirl. The flares are blocking off access. Folks have to continue as that car did. Well show you where they are on the maps. At manor drive, it happened after 3 00 this morning. Still have debris to clear up off the southbound side. South you see the slowing now. That is your alternate. The radar coming in with the rain. It is hitting the peninsula in watches. Its very smooth for the rest of the bay. 6 11. Still ahead on today in the bay, new details in the delta flight fuel dump over l. A. Area schools. Did the air Traffic Controller know what the pilots were about to do . New audio from the cockpit at 6 25. Plus, the stock markets open at new record. Right now at 6 14 we are under a micro climate weather alert as we track the rain with our exclusive mobile Doppler Radar. We are starting to see some of the commute on the Richmond San Rafael bridge getting soggy. The heavier rain moving from marin to fairfax within the next 20 minutes. Im timing out this for your commute. More as we look at our timing for the rest of the bay area in less than five minutes. A live look here on the lens again. Getting on southbound highway 101. The deadly crash that happened just after 3 00 this morning which keeps that highway closed along the coast. The dow will open above 29,000 this morning. Target stock under pressure after the company said Christmas Shopping wasnt very strong. 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Now to our micro climate weather alert, a major storm rolling in. A live look at the radar for you this morning and the Golden Gate Bridge, the story now north of the bridge where the rain is coming down. A live look in santa rosa. A bit of a break from that rain. You can see the wet roads as well. Kari hall has been tracking the storm. It has slowed down. Were not seeing the brunt of the storm with the heavier rain. The storm approaches from the north and weve seen the heaviest rain still off the coast and spotty showers across parts of marin as well as sonoma up to lake and mendocino counties. Weve also seen some rain now falling on the bay bridge. This is moving over to oakland as we get a look at the timing. Another 20 to 30 minutes before it makes it to orinda. Some of the heaviest rain moving into some of the coasts to the north on northward but its moving into santa rosa with the heavier rain already starting to hear the wind picking up there. A wider view and a look as it approaches. The center still off the coast and when well sea see spotty showers moving in this afternoon. Had is already a cold storm. As it starts in our north bay areas some of our mountains and hills elevations above 3,000 feet will see some snow coming down. Were seeing heavy rain and look at the time line. Making its way through the east bay and moving closer to san jose. And by noon to 1 00 were seeing the rain moving into the south county, some snow on mt. Hamilton. Were still looking at some showers coming down could produce some thunderstorms with small hail so even though the heaviest rain will have moved out that threat of thunderstorms for today. Totals from 1 to 3 inches and maybe higher in the hills. A slight chance of thunderstorms winds gusting. Snow levels coming down to about 3,000 feet. Were looking at two to three feet of snow. All of this moves out and well dry out for the weekend looking like a nice one. Well see temperatures back into the 60s. Mike, that incoming storm affecting the drive. We show the wind where we have the closure and breaking news. We have a live camera on highway 35. Theres the southbound side of skyline. Highway 35 is open. Well get you back out to your maps and show you youll get diverted off highway 1 on skyline. Into pacifica out of daly city that will keep you heading south. Allow an extra ten minutes. That rain and wind will affect your conditions for driving. I put on the red sweep, our storm radar giving you more accurate to what you would encounter when youre driving as well. The north bay, of course and the slick roadways. Do be careful. Building a high speed rail line hitting a roadblock this morning. Those obstacles in the way. Plus, nbc bay area responds. When it comes to consumer complaints, one particular gripe comes out on top. We often prevail. Im consumer investigator chris chmura, nbc bay area responds next. Welcome back to you. An nbc bay area responds. The more complaints about one topic than any other. Can you guess what it is . Chris chmura is here with the answer. Reporter good morning. It bears repeating our number one source of complaints since we launched in 2016 is your phone. That means we have a lot of practice resolving phone fights including rajat in fremont. He did not get the gift card he was promised until he dialed us. Thats 250 right there. Tony found his phone bill contained calls he didnt make to afghanistan and pakistan. They did talk with us and tony got 342. 60 back. Finally rosa and mamod were pointing fingers at a Wireless Company over tablet troubles. Maybe we could help with your phones, go to nbcbayarea. Com. Tap the menu and respond or call us 888996tips. Thanks, chris. 6 25. New details this morning, the pilots of the delta plane that dumped fuel on schools didnt tell air Traffic Controllers. Listen to this exchange. You dont need to hold to dump fuel or anything like that . Negative. You can hear the pilot saying no. The faa says that they had air Traffic Controllers known this they would have told the pilots to dump fuel over the ocean. Instead unleashed that fuel on 60 kids and adults on the ground. Aviation experts are weighing in and many wondering why. I hate to question their judgment but i personally and many of my colleagues ive spoken with would not have done it this way. The plane made an Emergency Landing after dumping that fuel. As for the people on the ground, some suffered minor injuries. A pie speed rail project aimed at connecting victorville to las vegas is hitting a roadblock. They expect the oneway trip to take 90 minutes in any direction. The federal Railroad Administration sent a letter putting that project on hold temporarily. The rail was originally projected to Begin Service in 2023. A Similar Service transports tens of thousands from miami to West Palm Beach every year. If youre looking to get out of the bay area you might want to plan a trip to Yosemite National park. Next month is the peak timing to seep the winter fire fall on el capitans granite walls. It refers to when the sun setting illuminates on the wall making a glow like lava flowing interest there. Mark your calendars. The best viewing dates will be from february 12th through the 28th. Maybe we should go. I think so. We could do it on a weekend i dont want to camp, though. Glamp. Thats more my thing. 6 27. Up next the weather alert. Team coverage on thursday morning as this years first powerful storm hitting the north bay right now. Meteorologist kari hall is tracking the time line for us. A look at storm ranger, seeing the heavier rain moving through the north bay, a closer look shows that rain moving through marin county and across the bay over to richmond and hercules in about the next 20 to 30 minutes. A look at more of our micro climates up next. For a slider bag thats easy to open and close and stays closed, try hefty slider bags. The expandable bottom makes it easy to stand, fill and store, while its easytouse slider clicks closed so you know its closed. Try hefty slider bags. Right now at 6 30 a live look at the radar we want to show you powered by our storm ranger. Nbc bay area issuing a micro climate weather alert for you on this thursday morning. Here is why. Rain already coming down in the north bay. Gusty winds may impact your morning commute. And we have you covered with Team Coverage of the storm with live reports coming up just moments from santa rosa and the bay bridge. First good morning. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Recallier some Power Outages in rohnert park. Tracking the wind and rain for us. Especially on the north bay peaks. Winds gusting 50 miles an hour as the storm comes in. What were seeing the winds rushing into the storm system. Out ahead of that main line were getting some light rain and some of the heaviest rain has been in the north bay so as we get a closer look looking at santa rosa and rohnert park, its about to get heavier. It will arrive within the next 25 minutes and continuing to the east. A wide view, you can see that a lot more of the storm has to work through the bay area. Were expecting not only heavy rain but high winds, some snow on bay area peaks and a chance of thunderstorms today. Details on all of that in a few minutes. Mike, youre updating that freeway closure in pacifica. Because of this crash we got into the newsroom early this morning, 3 15, closed down highway 101. A deadly crash. The driver was driving the wrongway and that driver has been killed in this crash. The passenger, though, in that vehicle and another person in the oncoming vehicle, theyre both in the hospital. So as we move away from that video that was what was going on for highway 1 and still closed because of debris in the area. From highway 35, skyline all the way down to where you take the alternate around that scene. Northbound those roadways is open but then we have that rain coming in right there along the coast and then along the peninsula youll soon see the incident with the gusty winds and the rain. A live look at the richmond to san rafael bridge shows you in the east bay we have this rain greeting you and across the span it may be gusty. Pete suratos this morning, we know there were some Power Outages close to you earlier. How are the winds, are they picking up . Reporter getting windy, guys. Good morning to you. I saw that tweet by kari about Power Outages. Were start to go see rain come down. As the cars make their way along cleveland avenue just off 101 south in santa rosa, the rain slowly but surely starting to pick up as weve heard from karis forecast as it makes its way through t