Former public works director who is accused of corruption. Nbc bay areas jean elle joins us in San Francisco with all the drama. Jean . Reporter raj, tonight the District Attorney says he is investigating what he calls the mayors possible ethical violation. But people here at city hall say the rules make it clear no one is supposed to accept a gift from a subordinate, and thats what the mayor did. I am just asking her to do the right thing and resign. Reporter supervisor Hillary Ronan is calling on San Francisco mayor breed to step aside after breed revealed details about her relationship with the former head of the department of public works, aft arrested him on public corruption charges in january. Breed now says she and nuru had a romantic relationship 20 years ago and more significantly, nuru paid 5,600 to fix her car and provide a rental car last year. Ive checked with the City Attorney and every step of the way, whether its the relationship, whether its the car reporter breed clearly knows shes walking a legal tight rope but insists she has done nothing wrong. Im not required by any laws to provide this information, but i felt it was important to do so for the sake of full transparency. Reporter the San FranciscoGood Government guide says accepting a gift from a subordinate is against the rules. Ronen says the mayor crossed line. Its an obvious breach of the law, and its quite serious, and i think it has to stop. Reporter by phone, supervisor matt haney says nurus gift to the boss raises troubling questions. There are real questions about his effectiveness in his position. He was giving an undisclosed, likely illegal gift to the mayor. Its incredibly problematic. Jean elle, nbc bay area news. Were following breaking news in the east bay. A man was shot in pittsburg. His body found at Woodland Hills park just off crestview drive. This is a quiet, residential area. No description yet of the victim. We will be following this story through the weekend. A horrible story in vallejo. A 4yearold boy is dead along with his mother. Vallejo police say they were killed by the boys father, 25yearold jacoby brooks. Late last night officers got a report of an unresponsive woman at the intersection near six flags. She was dead at the scene. They then went to her home and found her son alsohoan the fath selfinflicted gunshot wound. In the south bay, a violent altercation over a pace. Ng the person who shot this video says those two men you see there are arguing o where that gray suv is parked. All of a sudden one of the men starts punching the other guy. This is on north third street in san jose near japantown around 1 00 p. M. Today. T the man then gets in the car and drives away. The victim is okay. Its a problem so many people are facing in the area, rising rents. Its estimated more than half of the region are renters. One group of tenants in oakland spent valentines night to make a protest against their landlord. Nbc bay areas ian cull explains. Reporter tonight, dozens of oakland tenants and their supporters chose a restaurant on one of the busiest nights of the year to ask where is the love . Connected to the mosser hotel in the San Francisco financial district, mosser is their landlord. Housing is a human right. Reporter mosser owns more than 80 properties in San Francisco, oakland, and los angeles. Company told them it has to make improvements to their buildings, and that all mosser to charge them more. So it can be as much as 10 . This kind of stress, it takes a real toll on Peoples Health and peoples lives, and you know, we dont have to wait until people are on the street to take it seriously. Just see ago i notice on my door puts me in a state of anxiety. Reporter sabina shaw is one of those renters. She pays 20 more than she did three years ago. Shes a teacher who also works as a nanny. I thank god im in good health and i have the ability to work two jobs and work seven days a week. Reporter she says those improvements mosser wants to make should be considered maintenance. I think its a way for them to pad their wallets and make it look like theyre improving the building without addressing any of the serious issues that we have around housing and e will come back. Reporter the protesters say theyll continue pleading with the rent board in oakland. Mosser did n bay area five minutes from now, were going to show you the unique Way College Students are creating a place to live. Our Jonathan Bloom takes us inside tiny homes on wheels as part of our making it in the bay housing series. Ready or not, here they come. The blitz has begun. President ial candidates targeting the bay area. Keep in mind the california primary is march 3rd. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders will be in the east bay on monday. A president s day rally in richmond at the craneway pavilion. Bernie staffers will be on hand to collect votey ballots. They will then turn in those ballots to county registrars. We expect more than 3,000 people will attend. Pete buttigieg already in Northern California. Mayor pete hosted four events. He spoke just about an hour ago in turlock. Earlier in the evening he held a rally in sacramento. He is riding a wave of momentum after a strong showing in iowa and new hampshire. However, not all democrats are on board. That america is ready for a gay person . Of course not. I just say, no, i dont think so. But its possible, you know. I was overwhelmed when i was like crazy when they brought trump in. Mayor pete started the day with a fundraiser in San Francisco before having lunch with donors in palo alto. More candidates are planning california events before super tuesday. On sunday, Amy Klobuchar will be in San Francisco for a private fundraiser. The minnesota senator also picking up a big endorsement today from the bay area news group. That cluincludes the mercury ne and east bay times. Oice for the democrats to win t back the presidency. On the republican side, President Trump will be in palm springs on wednesday for a fundraiser hosted by oracle boss larry ellison. Our website is a good resource for super tuesday. We have a complete voter guide highlighting issues in every local county. Just go to nbcbayarea. Com electionguide. Two high profile bay area mayors are saying not in my city. Tonight san jose mayor sim liccardo says he will not comply with President Trumps orders to deploy immigration agents to sanctuary cities. Customs and Border Patrol typically detain people along the border and at ports of entry. Today the New York Times reported 100 Border Patrol officers will be assigned to ten sanctuary cities. Mayor liccardo posted a series of tweets tonight saying he rejects the administrations tactics of fear, tearing families apart. Oakland mayor libby schaaf also taking a stand. Oakland does not need tactical agents. We need safety. Wemeland security has not named oakland or san jose as deployment targets. List. The man acquitted in the shooting death of kate steinle wont be tried for federal gun charges. Today an evaluator says jose inez garcia isnt competent to stand trial because of his mental illness. He was found not guilty of steinles death in 2017 but federal prosecutors later filed a weapons possessions charge. Zarate is an undocumented imfwrai immigrant and remains in jail. The last direct flight to Mainland China from the bay area took off from sfo tonight. All commercial airlines have suspended most flights between the u. S. And china through march because of the continuing concerns about the coronavirus. As china struggles to contain infections, businesses here in the bay area are feeling the pinch. Lets bring in nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana who spoke with passengers at sfo who just arrived on one of the last flights here from china. Sergio . Reporter yeah. China Southern Airlines just arrived here this evening around 5 30 from guangzhou, china. That same jet as you mentioned already on its way back. Everyone we talked with tonight who was on board the flight arriving here at sfo said they feel lucky to be here. This is probably the last time youll see china Southern Airlines blue and white jets on sfos runways for a while. It like all other carriers has suspended flights to Mainland China for now. Passengers who touched down from guangzhou are relieved to be here. Im happy to come home, you know. I was lucky. I was planning to fly on the 14th. I was like, oh, man, i dont want to stay over there for the whole three months, you know . Reporter for now the planned suspension of flights will stretch on for at least six weeks for some foreign carriers. American carriers like united have announced flight suspensions to china until early april. All the passengers we talked to hae in which is more than 600 miles south of wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus. Even so far away they describe a lockdown to try and contain the spread. Henry mai patiently waited for his wife to arrive. Shes been in china for weeks and has told him about a very quiet Chinese New Year celebration there. Everything is quiet. The restaurant only offered food to go, not to eat in. The shopping malls closed. Reporter some of the concerns about having large groups of people together in the wake of this spreading contagion has also prompted companies here to take action. Facebook canceled its upcoming Global Marketing conference in march. About 4,000 people were expected at that event at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Ibm has announced it will not participate in the upcoming rsa Computer Security conference here later this month. Adding to concerns about the coronavirus here in the united states, Health Officials in ii contact with people who may have been in contact with a tourist from japan who just tested pitavirus but didnt display any symptoms while h vacation in reporting live at sfo, im Sergio Quintana, nbc bay area news. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. A cool 50 in san jose right now. Well show you who reaches into the 70s tomorrow and when the wind picks up. Ill have that in six minutes. Also these arent your typical rvs. The creative ways College Students are transforming vans and trucks in order to make it in the bay. And as this political season ramps up, youll be seeing a lot more ads. The slight change you might be seeing on your facebook feeds. When it comes to your business internet, which is more important . Okay, i wish i didnt have to choose. Like the more i think about it, the more i want to jump to each room. What if i said you can have it all . 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This is my bed. A little closet right here. I dont want to be thousands of dollars in debt when i leave school. A shortterm sacrifice for a longterm success. Until i graduate at least, its a better option for me. Theyre studying everything from art to computer science, but for a lot of students, college can be a tough lesson in economics. Here in San Francisco, city College Offers a Free Education but you have to live here to get it. And faced with some of the highest rent in the world, some students are getting creative. On the outside, it looks like any other delivery truck. But on the inside its not much to look at right now. Reporter kyle murph building a tiny apartment. The shower will probably open out this way. Reporter it will have running water, a full kitchen. You could throw dinner parties back here is what youre saying. Absolutely. Wow, how many people . I would like to create seating for at least eight. Reporter kyle is part of a growing community. This is my buddy, mark. This is the box truck that was done most recently before me. Reporter in more than a dozen of these nondescript vans and work trucks, city College Students are building temporary homes while they go to school. This is Home Building type insulation . Its all home depot. What happened in here actually happened at home depot. Reporter just about every weekend they gather here in the parking lot to share tools and share ideas. Just take it up and put it here. Reporter painting, polishing, and problem solving. With ready access to supplies. Something like that. Reporter as kyle starts his project rg project, hes learning from others that are almost done. Eventually well have a shower curtain. Reporter from this dodge van with a work space that turns into a bed to jimmy woos home on wheels. What did this used to be . This was like an ambulance. Reporter jimmys remodeling for at least the fourth time. Theres an extending table right here for extra counter space. How often do you cook and what do you tend to cook . I usually cook every day during school. Today i cooked turkey curry in the insta pot. That smells nice. Reporter you could call this roughing it, but jimmy and kyle have both seen much worse. I did four years in the army, active duty as a combat medic. Reporter of the students who live in these vans and trucks, an overwhelming number are veterans. After serving their country, theyre now entitled to an education. Jonathan ploom bloom is here. This because of the expe of o housing here is so high, and so much higher than even other places in Northern California that these folks have decided that they just cant justify being the g. I. Benefits housing. Youre well connected around town. How did you find these guys . I have a friend who is a student at city college. I said how are students dealing with the housing crisis . And he said theres a whole bunch of them living in vans on the edge of campus, but im not sure if theyll talk to you. It turns out i met kyle. He said we kind of keep to ourselves. He said one of the things we learned in the army is dont call attention to yourself if you dont need to. While i was interviewing him, some of his neighbors dropped by and the neighbors agreed to be interviewed. They didnt show up exactly when i wanted them to, so i waited by their van. They actually invited me in and gave me a tour. Kyle said why dont you show up at home depot. T milliong . Dolla especially if im a neighbor there, i see all these vans. Is it legal and whats the response from city college . It is technically legal. I mean city college, they havent had any sort of official response yet. They have been asked about making a parking lot available. They havent responded yet. The students, they try to be good citizens, good stewards of the neighborhood. They keep their vehicles with a current legal dmv registration. They make friends with the Campus Police officers. They move to the correct side of the street for the street sweeper, and they even actually pick up garbage every morning before theyre doing their part . Theyre doing their part. Theyre taking care of the neighborhood so the Campus Police say hi to them and dont bother them. Were seeing so many people in vans and rvs around the bay area. Very good work. Our coverage continues online. Mike from our morning team, you can see his reports right now, nbcbayarea. Com making it in the bay. Lets talk about our weather now. We are kicking off a threeday weekend. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Happy valentines night to you. Yes, and to all of you as well. We do have a really fantastic weekend shaping up after a lot of fog the past 24 hours over San Francisco, at least in the morning hours. We have started to clear on out. Currently in sf, we have 50 degrees. Once we hit tomorrow morning, down to 47. Well see some clouds develop but as youll see in my morning forecast, its going to be easy to start off your saturday morning. Were not expecting anything in the way of thick fog or cloud cover. Well see a mix of sun and also clouds. Starting you off with 44 in the south bay, peninsula 46. Trivalley at 42 degrees. East bay at 43. San francisco 45. And for the north bay, 42. Temperatures actually warming up a couple more degrees tomorrow, so that does mean we have some 70s. Look at this. In the south bay for february, extremely rare. More low 70s for need tomorrow. San jose up to 68 degrees. Over to the east bay, low 70s for concord,oakland, 64 degrees. Peninsula, not quite widespread 70s but 65 in san mateo. Palo alto at 69. San francisco, 59. The embarcadero, 62. Maybe, just maybe youre headed up to wine country. Lucky you. Id like to be there. 70 in napa. 68 santa rosa. 70 in novato. Or youre getting in the car heading up to lake tahoe. Our toyota tahoe snow report,. P nice travel weather tomorrow, 47 degrees. Clouds increase and slight chance of