B. A. R. T. Police stayed back, allowed the crowd to express their anger. Now Oakland Police are leading the investigation into the b. A. R. T. Officerinvolved shooting case, no word how long that investigation may take. Live in west oakland, im da lin, kpix5. A dangerous opioid suspected in the debt of three men in San Franciscos Haight Ashbury neighborhood. Their bodies were found outside the urban school on page street about 4 30 this morning. Kpix5 reporter betty yu is live at the Health Department with concerns about the mens death. Betty . Reporter allen, the San Francisco public Health Department does not know the exact cause of death at this time, but they say the fact that these three people died all at once near each other and near drugs is highly unusual in the city and thats why they suspect fentanyl is to blame. Heroin, and so becau ance of depende its really important for people to know that if you buy drugs on the street, they can be contaminated with fentanyl and its very easy to overdose with fentanyl. Reporter we do not yet know the identity of the three men who died on the sidewalk outside of haightashburys urban school overnight, but we now have a suspect in their deaths, fentanyl, a powerful opioid that often kills before Emergency Responders even have a chance to help. The piod form if we are lucky enough to be able to bring them back to the point where they can tell us what happened, theyll say i took a pill and it looked exactly like my other pills. Reporter a tiny all, those grains, can amount, those grains, can kill. Labs across california are announcing all kinds of samples that contain fentanyl. We have found them in pills, in powders, solids. Reporter whether its an obvious street drug like heroin or a pill that looks like a pharmaceutical product, theres no way to tell just by looking at it. Some of our analysts with over 20 years of experience are saying these look completely legitimate. Reporter tonight the Health Department is reaching out to facilities like the haight ash bury free clinic alert haightashbury free clinic alerting them to the three deaths and of a potentially drug that often comes very cheap. Fentanyl is cheaper than heroin. So it could be laced into the opiate or opioid in formulation. Reporter the Health Department is stressing that the best way to save lives is for drug users to always carry narcan. Its a nasal spray that can reverse overdoses and its available at pharmacies in some cases without a prescription. Live in San Francisco, betty yu, kpix5. Turning now to the wild bay area weather, not only is it unusually cold, were also getting wet. You can see here in palo alto it wasnt rain raining too hard. Raining too hard. In vallejo hail started filing up on cars and on the ground. There was enough hail in vallejo one man created this, a tiny snowman chief meteorologist paul deanno says bay area snow is possible tonight. Hey, paul. It happened earlier today, 2 00 in the afternoon, this radar image captured at 2 15. You see san ramon, the 680 corridor, mount diablo and the purple there would be snow falling above 3,000 feet in elevation, mount diablo certainly above that. So we had snow in our highest elevations earlier today and a chance this evening as showers wind down. We did something in San Francisco we have not done in four weeks. It rained officially downtown, a whopping 0. 01inch of rainfall but enough for us having to avoid having an 0 for february. Where is it raining right now . Very few showers. All the activity is heading east. I believe if i see lightning strikes there, that would be thunder snow to the east of sacramento. We had some showers in napa valley. Now its sitting over American Canyon, also vallejo. Heading to the south there were showers towards los gatos heading down toward morgan hill and the shower activity is greatly increasing in the sierra and those are four lightning strikes between placerville and san andreas. We are seeing some thunder snow in the sierra now. Any more rain chances . Well talk about when coming up. A state lawmaker facing expulsion for Sexual Misconduct wont be kicked out of office, after all. Instead senator tony mendoza abruptly resigned today, but he didnt go quietly. Kpix5 reporter Susie Steimle at the capitol with mendozas furious farewell message. Susie . Reporter thats right, allen. Tony mendoza called the investigation into his behavior today farsical. He said many men in this building are being afraid of being seen as protecting him and he also suggested the Senate Pro Tem might not be sincere in his support of the me too movement. A letter of resignation has been submitted by senator tony mendoza and has been accepted. Reporter Senate President pro tem kevin deleone spoke certainly on the floor of the deleon spoke sternly on the floor of the state senate about Sexual Harassment. We must start here and we must start now about Holding People accountable for their conduct. Reporter deleon accepted the resignationful his former roommate, senator tony mendoza, who is accused of engaging in unwanted sexual advances towards six women. His resignation shocked senators who spent the morning debating whether to expel him from his position. Mendoza wrote, it is clear that Senate President pro tem kevin deleon will not rest until he has my head on a platter to convince the me too movement of his sincerity in supporting the me too cause. I think his colleagues were not there to support him. I think they wanted to have him expelled. Reporter an independent investigation revealed mendoza more likely than not engaged in unwanted flirtatious and sexually suggestive behavior with multiple subordinates including Drinking Alcohol with a 19yearold intern and asked one to come to his home under the guise of doing resumes. Mendoza called the charges unfair. He is not the only senator currently accused of Sexual Harassment at the capitol. So sacramento will be dealing with more cases like this in the coming weeks. We have zero tolerance, but the guide books dont explain the ramifications are. Its very vague. I think we need to start tightening up for the future. Reporter mendoza is suing the senate for its handling of his resignation and he said in his letter he plans to be back on the ballot for reelection in june. Susie steimle in sacramento, thanks. There is breaking news in the wake of the Florida School shooting. The School Resource officer on campus the day 17 students and staff were shot to death has resigned. The Broward County sheriff says the armed officer never entered the building where the shooter was spraying bullets. Sheriff scott israel says the officer had only one job. The sheriff says two sheriff what i saw was a deputy arrive at the west side of building 12, take up a position and he never went in. What should he have done . Went in, addressed the killer, killed the killer. I mean these families lost their children. We lost coaches. Ive been to the funerals. Ive been to the homes where they sit and shiver. Ive been to the vigils. Its just there are no words. The sheriff says two Sheriffs Department deputies are also under investigation, but he did not elaborate on that. He says lack of action by campus officer made him sick to his stomach. President trump is talking about training and arming team offers to deter School Teachers to deter school shootings. Website reporter mola lenghi at the white house with the president s plan to put educators in the line of defense. Reporter good evening. The president reiterating that plan in day two of the listening session as the president describes it. Today less emotional, much more about policies and mother day of President Trump again really digging in and leaning into the idea of arming schoolteachers and staff. Sting your time. You sting your tim President Trump told state and local leaders from communities impacted by gun violence there is a way to stop school shootings. Unless youre going to have offense capability, youre wasting your time. Youre wasting your time. Reporter the president proposes putting teachers on the offense and having those who are trained carry guns on campus. It would be a small percentage, but it would be a lot of people and once you do this you would have a situation where all of a sudden this horrible plague will stop. Reporter pushing back against critics who say he wants more guns on campuses, President Trump argued schools are too soft of a target right now. A gun free zone to a killer or somebody that wants to be a killer, thats like going in for the ice cream. Thats like here i am. Take me. Reporter mark barton who lost his son daniel in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting told President Trump wednesday Arming Teachers wasnt the answer. And a deranged sociopath on his way to commit an act of murder in a school knowing the outcome is going to be suicide is not going to care if theres somebody there with a gun. Thats their plan anyway. Reporter the president said he wants to strengthen background checks, increase Mental Health services and raise the age to buy guns from 18 to 21. Now President Trump says he believes the nra will ultimately change its mind on raising that legal age from 18 to 21, but again the nra saying in a Statement Today that they object to such a proposal and theyve really shown no intention of budging really anywhere in this gun debate. Mola lenghi, kpix5, the white house. Up next President Trumps new threat directed at california. The agency he may pull out of the state and why he claims it would trigger chaotic crime sprees that couldnt be stopped. Plus the owners of a 60year old bay area pub say herren prices are forcing them high rent prices are forcing them out, how customers are banding together to save them. Plus ratted out, a cafeteria dealing with an unsightly problem. Pg e, this is jerris, how may i help you today . I help customers with their bills. Theres different rates to fit different needs, so listening is a huge part of my job. Because customers want to know that you hear them. They have kids, they have families, they have priorities. I definitely understand that. I have three children, i was a stay at home mom, i didnt have money to pay the bills, and so i put myself in their shoes. And im going to do all that i can to lower their bills and to help their situation. To choose the rate plan that works best for your family, visit pge. Com rates. Together, were building a better california. Drastic move against ays. He may pu. Closed captioning for this newscast is sponsored by living spaces. President trump is threatening a drastic move against california. He says he may pull all i. C. E. Agents out of the state to punish california for not cooperating on immigration enforcement. Ia alo re it out f they have the highest taxes in the nation and they dont know whats happening out there. Frankly, its a disgrace. The sanctuary city situation, the protection of these horrible criminals, that if we ever pulled our i. C. E. Out and said hey, let california alone and let them figure it out for themselves, in two months theyd be begging for us to come back. They would be begging and you know what . Im thinking about doing it. The president says california is not helping like it should to crack down on gangs like ms13. Governor jerry brown fired back saying, in california we protect all of our people from criminals and gangs as well as dangerous assault weapons. We do our job, mr. President. You do yours. An argument gets out of hand and this evening one man is dead, another in custody. Concord police were called to a home on lodge drive in the meadow lane area after 5 a. M. This morning. Officers found a man not breathing, performed cpr, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim was stabbed during an argument with the second man. The suspect was located in pittsburg and arrested for murder, no names released, nor a motive. This is concords first homicide of 2018. In San Francisco an online alert about a man lurking at a popular kids park ended in an arrest. Someone posted this picture on nextdoor saying the man was hanging around the excelsior playground. Yesterday officers got a call that the same man was there staring at children. The adult male was not with was by himself, was not with anyone else. Their investigation we discovered that the adult naturally had an outstanding warrant for his arrest. That warrant was for a theft charge. The man was arrested and ordered to stay away from the playground. Heres something you dont see every day, a coastguard helicopter taking off near the softball field at San Franciscos golden gate park. The chopper had to make an Emergency Landing about 7 45 this morning. It was in the air again by 11 30. Chopper 5 overhead when coastguard had to touch down near seventh and lincoln. Nobody was hurt. A mechanical warning forced the landing, but no other details were released. San francisco is pushing ahead with a plan to make its cable cars cashless in a couple years. It starts this spring at turn arounds that have ticket kiosks. By the end of next year transit officials want to require prepaid fares from every stop. The plan would eliminate any chance for cable car operators to line their pockets with cash. Two operators were arrested in april last year for doing just that. Another Bay Area Institution being forced to close its doors because of skyrocketing rent, the oasis beer garden has been a fixture in menlo park for 60 years, famous among the locals for its burgers and fizz a. Business is booming apparently, but the restaurant says it was not able to negotiate an affordable lease with the landlord. The regulars arent giving up without a fight. Theyve launched an online petition asking the Property Owner to reconsider. Its more than just a restaurant. Theres a lot of memories here. Most of the people that are here have been here hundreds of times and theyre reliving memories with every bite. At this point the oasis is slated to close march 7th. More than 1,200 people have already signed the petition to save it. An alarming discovery at the Marin Civic Center, rats turned up at the public cafeteria forcing it to shut down. Kpix5s john ramos shows us why after two weeks the eradication effort is not quite done. S form too over functio reporter when the Marin Civic Center first opened in 1962, it was hailed as a building of the future created by legendary designer frank lloyd wright. It put marin county on the architectural map even if sometimes form took priority over function. Details like the fact that the roof leaked. You had this beautiful building with flooding all along the way because it leaked so badly. Reporter that problem is currently being fixed, but it turns out rain is not the only thing getting into this building. The cafe now is closed after a routine inspection by the countys environMental Health services found rat droppings on february 9th. Reporter now two weeks later the cafeteria is still closed. It reopened a short time on the 12th until a reinspection found nor evidence of the little beadyeyed vair varmints. So now everything has been pulled up and stacked on tables. We want to figure out how they got in initially and make it so that wont happen again. Reporter thats not easy since rats can fit through openings the size of a quarter. So all the appliances and fixtures in the kitchen have been pulled out from the walls so the tiniest holes can be sealed. It is a long process. Reporter the cafe will reopen on monday if its approved. Besides marveling at its beauty, visitors will also be able to get a bite to eat. A private company runs the cafeteria, but the county is responsible for vermin control. So they have to cover the vendors lost revenue. An east bay Bank Employee is finally hanging up his keys. 96yearold phil muso is wells fargos Oldest Community banking team member in the nation. Hes worked at the Berkeley Branch on shadduck avenue for four decades. He said its time to retire, take it easy and spend more time with his family. Weather update, it is snowing somewhere in the bay area right now. Coming up ill show you live radar and talk about where its snowing. Thats mount diablo, unfortunately not seeing white on top of it anymore. Well talk about additional rain chances moving in and your weekend forecast next. Coming up at 6 00 tonight the new slick way to scoot around san jose. But first the markets closed mixed today. Heres a look at the closing numbers from wall street. It has been confirmed by the National Weather service that elevation 1,880 feet, thunder snow, thunder creek, population 2,500 in the foothills of the sierra south of placerville, thunder and snow at the same time. It is snowing in auburn right now, also. Cold air aloft is producing not only hail but snow in the sierra and Mount Hamilton and in the diablo range. It should be cold enough tonight the snow should not melt. If you wake up tomorrow morning in morgan hill or san jose, skies should be clear. Look to the east. You may see some white in the diablo range tomorrow morning from san jose