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Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20170102

And the rest of us seeing some rain. So as you head out the roads are wet and you also need a heavier jacket. Grab the umbrella. You will need it. If not this morning, then this afternoon. And that may affect your commute. Also b. A. R. T. Riders dealing with effects there. Thats right. B. A. R. T. Station some of them outdoors so be careful. Youve got to bring those umbrellas in for a possible extended delay. Just a slight extension on here. Daly city station. Much better than earlier. There was power issues. B. A. R. T. Reduced it to ten minutes. Again, continuing to improve. A smooth flow. No improvement necessary for the roadways. Slow it down a bit though because as you see the green and the blue, wet roadways around the bay. Live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, no metering lights yet, 6 01, no metering lights, we do have ponding and puddling. Slick conditions around the bay. Back to you. Thank you very much, mike. Happening root now, investigators looking for a possible serial arsonist. Suspected of setting more than two dozen fires in san jose in recent weeks. Today in the bays kris sanchez is live at the san jose chp office to explain where these fires have been set up and bringing us up to speed on the investigation. Kris . Well, good morning, scott and laura. You might wonder why were at the california Highway Patrol talking about a fire. Its because one of the reasons why investigators think that this is a case of arson is because these fires are being set along a stretch of highway 101 in the south bay. The latest fire happened just on saturday morning off 101 north on story road. Thats where the suspected arsonist set fire to a handful of palm trees along the freeway. The fire in one of those palm trees quickly spread to a storage shed. You see what happened next. The San Jose Fire Department tells us that it is among several dozen fires reported over the last few weeks in this same stretch of freeway. We dont have any cause but it was we believe to be inteni intentionally set due to multiple locations for these fires. Reporter now, on saturday morning when fire crews were out in the area putting out thoet fires and those palm trees there was another crew that was putting out another fire about half mile away. Now, investigators want to put a stop to this arsonist before anyone gets hurt. So if you know of anything that happened in that area or you saw anything in that area saturday morning or any of the past few weeks you can call the california Highway Patrol. You can also call the San Jose Fire Department. In san jose, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Thanks for the very latest there, kris. At 6 03 right now, to a developing story happening at this hour, overnight isis claimed responsibility for the istanbul nightclub shoot that killed 39 people and wounded scores of others. Right now the search for the gunman continues this morning. New video shows glimpses of the gunman moving decisively shooting at home. Within minutes he killed dozens. Then dropped his weapon and escaped among the fleeing survivors. An american from delaware was shot in the leg but managed to make it out alive. Crazy people came and shooting everything. How many . I dont know. I saw one person. Theyre shooting. Im hiding. He said he was in turkey to celebrate the new year with a friend when that attack happened. The deadly new years attack is rattling the nerves of turkish natives here in the bay area as well. For one man, the attack hit too close to home. If i stay sad, nervous, anxious, billboards wont be enough. 42yearold bakan grew up in istanbul but says its not the same city where he once lived. He says hes been restless since the mass shooting but its nothing compared to what his friends and families in turkey are feeling. He blames the internet, social media, and the fanatical propaganda which has become fal false truths for so many people. Back here at home this morning it is official, the 49ers have fired head coach chip kelly and general manager trent baalke and plan to turn the page. Niners ceo jed york is scheduled a 10 00 a. M. News conference to announce the change of direction. A source tells nbcs mike the team will hire the general manager first before beginning the search for a coach. With the firing of kelly the niners next year will be on their fourth head coach in four seasons. Bob redell following developments for you. He will have a live report in the next half hour. With the new year comes new laws. It appears some californians are ready or Recreational Marijuana to be legal which it is as of yesterday. Over the weekend, someone changed the iconic Hollywood Sign to wheed hollyweed. This comes after california voters passed proposition 64 in november which legalizes the Recreational Use of marijuana and hemp. Today in the bays pete suratos is live in San Francisco this no rning to explain the new rules regarding marijuana will work. Good morning, pete. Good morning to you, laura and scott. Actually it went into effect november 9th after prop 64 was passed. Before i get into this, i want to point out you will still need a medical marijuana card to purchase marijuana at a dispensary. That could change in 2018. Well get to that in a second. But here are the details on this. So if youre 21 years and older you can legally smoke marijuana pry vautly. You can also have up to 28. 5 grams of marijuana and up to 8 grams of concentrated marijuana such as hash. You can grow up to six Marijuana Plants at a private home. You can give marijuana to these who are 21 and older as long as it fits the guide inloose of the possession that i just mentioned. And also the passage of the law authorizes the resentencing and destruction of records for those with prior marijuana convictions. But, its still el legal to smoke weed while driving a car in a public place or any location where smoking tobacco isnt allowed and you cant buy marijuana without a card at a dispensary but thats expected to change out of prop 64 starting in 2018 and another new law peep are looking at has to do with your cellphone and when you can use it in your car. Ville those details in the next half hour. Live near treasure island, pete suratos, today in the bay. You can read about the new laws in effect. We posted the list on the front page of our website nbcbayarea. Com. 6 07. So now the countdown begins to inauguration day. Just 18 days to go. President elect trump still questioning the u. S. Intelligence community over hacking attacks tied to russia. We are live in washington to explain how the president elect is gearing up for a possible fight over obamacare as well. Yes, scott and laura, good morning. Were now in the first monday of the new year. Donald trump is back in new york city after spending much of december in florida for the holidays. He is set to receive an intelligence briefing early this week on the hack of the Democratic National committee. In washington work is well under way preparing for the inauguration of donald trump. The president elect arrived back in new york sunday night after spending the holidays at his florida resort at a new Years Eve Party saturday trump signaled hes gearing up for a fight on two fronts. First, sanctions on russia, casting doubt on the u. S. Intelligence communitys conclusion russia and president Vladimir Putin are behind Election Year computer hacking. I know a lot about hacking and hacking is a very hard thing to prove. It could be somebody else. Reporter trump even hinting he has insider knowledge about the hacks. I also know things that other people dont know. And so they cannot be sure of this situation. Reporter but top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee disputes that. Democrats and republicans, none of us have any question about this. The only one who does apparently is donald trump. Reporter president obama returns from his vacation in hawaii today. Wednesday he meets with congressional democrats. Trump vowing to repeal the Signature Health care law, obama will discuss strategies to protect obamacare with members of his party. Trump is shrugging it off. January 20th. And then after that its our turn. So lets see what happens. Reporter a new year and a new era in washington. Less than three weeks away. And president elect trump said he could share more information about what he knows about the hacking either tuesday or wednesday. That would probably come after he has briefed by the community the intelligence community, which should happen early this week. Live in washington, scott and laura, back to you. Thanks so much, chris. Stay with the nbc bay area with coverage. Raj mathai heading to washington, d. C. For the event. You can count on nbc bay area news to give you complete coverage on air and online. Preparations uner der way in pasadena this morning. Volunteers preparing for the 128th road parade. Festival of flowers ahead of the rose bold football game. Typically held on the first day of the new year. But they do have a never on sunday fra addition that dates back to 1893. Were going to continue to cover rose parade preparations throughout the morning. And you can watch it live right here on nbc bay area at 8 00 a. M. It is 6 10. Its wet on those roadways as you head out. Weve had light scattered showers moving through but not a lot of heavy rain. Its also very chilly. Were only now at 35 degrees in santa rosa and 44 degrees in san jose. 43 in livermore. Palo alto and oakland at 45 and 44. In San Francisco. Now, as we go through the week, more scattered showers between now and wednesday. Snow and sleet with these chilly temperatures. A break in the rain between thursday and friday. And then more heavy rain for the weekend. Also some sierra snow. Ill detail all of that coming up in about ten minutes. Mikes tracking a water main break in redwood city. Light around the bay, water on the roadway because of the rain kari is talking about. Not a major factor for your commute. We will take you over to redwood city where we have a rose closed because of this water main break. Roosevelt avenue. Those two major roadways are open. Ill get out of your way because our photographer matt has been on the scene and were showing the crews continue to build with the amount of equipment. Thats the reason why roosevelt avenue is closed. It affects just that local roadway and watching for extended affect to the houses in the area. So far, its just that immediate vicinity. Again at roosevelt that is just west of el camino real. Up next, at 6 11. There is an increase in drunk drivers on the new years Holiday Weekend even though the new years eve festivities are over. Law enforcement officers still plan to be out in full force today. The reason ahead. Good monday morning. Happy new year. Time now is 6 14 as you head out. Scattered light showers across the bay area and snow for some of our hilltops and mountain peaks. We will continue to see some of this rain moving in off and on as we go throughout the day. Also in a few days ill have details coming up in the microclimate forecast. That means wet roads but we also have light conditions, holiday for many folks. Just mild slowing down the east shore freeway. No metering lights on the bay bridge. We do have a minor delay for the b b. A. R. T. System to talk about. Its a quarter after 6 00. New years eve may be over but the chps maximum enforcement period is still going strong. A live look at palo alto this morning. Officers are out continuing to look for impaired drivers. It began friday night and ends tonight at midnight. Officers say while new years eve was the busiest night many people are off monday and they continue their celebrations of drinking and driving. We want to make sure to stop those people before they actually crash and hurt themselves or somebody else. In the south bay, the chp says the driver was arrested on suspicion of dui this weekend after his car swerved and landed on its roof on highway 101. A Good Samaritan stepped in to help him get out of the car. As that car was starting to burn. The driver was not injured. In the east bay, a concord man is facing dui charges after police say he hit a buy cyclist with his car. It happened just before 10 30 at night on new years eve near vinnies bar and grill. A bicyclist was riding south on mt. Diablo was the driver was going north if driver tried to turn left into the bar and grills parking lot when he hit the bicyclist. They arrested the drive, 24yearold from concord, appeared to be drunk. In business and tech news, workers are afield their top resolutions for the new year. According to Career Builder survey. The top ten resolutions among workers is to save more money from the pay. 49 of workers planning to save more of their paycheck compared to 38 last year. Rounding out the top three resolutions for workers were to be less stressed and to get a raise or promotion. Im not sure thats ever not a goal. Why not, right . Tracking the rain in the bay area as usual. Means snow in the sierra. Good amount, too. Today in the bays mike is live in El Dorado County to show us the Current Conditions there. Youre all bundled up, mike. You see some on this ground behind you there. Yes, this picture says it all. It is snowing along highway 50 but the kae is the city that you mentioned, plaserville. We are just outside of plaserville and this is the scene. In fact, were about two miles to the east of plaserville at the apple cafe, if youre familiar with that. Driving up towards lake tahoe on highway 50. The cafe off to the righthand side. Chain controls have now gone all the way down to just on the owes side of downtown plaserville. If youre heading up highway 50 to go skiing, snowboarding today, chaining up right now this morning is all the way outside of downtown. So this is significant low snow and its not just basically a novelty. Let me show you it is actually i accumulating low snow. This is on the ground here at the apple cafe along highway 50. So what a start to this return to work for some of us, return to the work new year, starting off 2017 with what could be days of snow this morning. It is definitely low snow already falling. Its been falling this way since about 5 00 this morning. Great sight to see to kick off a new year, especially if youre a snow lover in tahoe. Live along highway 50, mike teselle. Got to get you some gloves and a cup of coffee from that apple cafe. Scattered snow up there, rain down here. Yeah. Were lost seeing snow in spots like mike and i were talking about. Mt. Hamilton and you say dont go there because its slippery and then watch it on tv. Yeah. Just watch it here. We are taking a look and now at some wet roads as you get a live view at oakland at this point and the drivers are on the roads heading back to work and getting ready for a very soggy week ahead. We will continue to see that rain moving through. And, yes, when we see all of that white here on the radar, thats that low snow happening as you head towards the sierra. You dont even get all the way up the summit and you see that snow coming down. Were also tracking a little bit of snow there in the santa cruz mountains. Also mixed in with some rain and some sleet most likely and mt. Hamilton snowing. Weve seen a little bit on mt. Diablo and in the north bay, mt. St. Helena. Cold weather mixing in with this rain. And most of the roads are wet. But were not seeing a pretty good coverage of that. Were seeing it in spots and just off and on. So now as you head down 101 from novato, you will see the showers there. And then also down the peninsula redwood city seeing some light rain. Thats where weve had the most accumulation at about tenth of an inch. Were looking at a tenth of an inch of rain or less. Then over toward hayward some light showers coming down at this point. Its only 43 degrees in the trivalley and in the north bay, 35 degrees. So some chilly temperatures heading only up to 52 degrees today. Much cooler than average. 49 degrees as well as the east bay. And those showers will continue for today. Mostly cloudy skies. And then also seeing the rain getting heavier for tomorrow, starting out in the north bay as thats where we will see the heaviest rain coming down throughout the morning and early afternoon and the rest of the bay area seeing the skalterred showers. Another round of rain on wednesday but then there will be a little bit of a break between thursday night and throughout the day on friday. Saturday, another storm system moving in. That continues into sunday as well as monday of next week. And the potential of at least a couple of inches of rain here. For most of the bay area and then it gets heavier as we get toward the weekend. We talked about snow in this sierra. Heres a look at how much we could see between now and late sunday night, possibly a southlake a how, 36 inches of snow. And mike is talking about those tire chains you may need if you head this. Even if you have snow tires and four wheel drive you probably want to pack the chains, but especially if you dont that will be a factor. Tike just talked about highway 50, enter tath 80 across the summit. Over here closer to the bay a light flow of traffic with mild spots for a little slowing. 101. Right about the airport there. And also watch redwood city. We still have that closure for roosevelt avenue, the water main break. The freeways through the area move very well. Crash reported just off of the bridge. Ill doublecheck with chp. No major issues with the travel agency across the transit systems. Modified schedules because this is a holiday for many. Were going to end with a quick shot at the bay bridge toll plaza. No metering lights. Thats the headline right now. No metering lights. Still dampl slick roadways. Be careful. Back to you. Thanks a lot, mike. Coming up next, good news for ice skating and hockey fans. Theres a plan to expand the ice rinks. Nbcbayarea responds. A bonus for switching smartphones that never materializes. Im can super investigator chris camorra. Its just a date. I can stay. Im good. I wont be late hey mom. Yeah. No kissing on the first date, alright . Life doesnt always stick to a plan, but with our investment expertise well help you handle whats next. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase. So you can. M. A new plan is reportedly heating up to offer more ice skating options on the peninsula. Skaters and hockey enthusiasts in San Mateo County currently have just one option following the closure of two ice rinks over the past four years. That includes belmont iceland which closed in april. The mercury news reports leaders in burlingame a

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