Area. Parts of the south bay in the rain shadow. That will fill in the rest of the day with the next round of heavier rain moving in. We get a closer look at parts of the peninsula toward the east bay. We have seen rainfall right now a tenth of an inch as far as rain accumulation so far this morning. There may be standing water on the roadways. Lets head over to multiple ways of getting to work. We still have is the road weather index indicating they are on the surface. A little bit of a break drying out drying San Franciscos western edge. We will look without the road weather index. We also have pigging up patterns. We have a slower pattern typical of your morning commute. A light morning commute. 8830 slow through hayward and union city. The other ways of getting to work, the rails, bart sometimes gets minor delays the as rain comes in. That hasnt happened yet. Well be tracking that. Were watching all of that. Bob redell is live. You have the surface eye view. What are you seeing this morning . Good morning, sam and laura. Roads are still wet but not coming down as hard as it was. Workers trying to get on the morning commute on 101, which has been heavy for a regular tuesday morning. 30 minutes ago the rain was much heavier as kari hall has been forecasting. Make sure your windshield wipers are fresh and they are working. You are going to need thofrpis morning. I was just talking to go a lady gassing up at a gas station behind the Camera Position here. She tells us she will drive more carefully. I said how are you going to do that . She had she will watch her speeds and other drivers as well. In millbrae, bob redell, today in the bay. Still a lot of snow. Traffic i80 was bumper to bumper most of the day yesterday. This is 80 at soda. Chains, a probably dont have to tell you. Its required right now. Coming up at 6 15 this morning, a live report to show you some of the Current Conditions there and all the great snow that has been falling. Another great source is our nbc bay area app. It is free for iphone and android devices. 6 04. New this morning. New video out of San Francisco. Fire investigators trying to figure out who set fire to a homeless encampment. Burn marks can be seen on the wall of that church on south van ness and 18th street. A homeless vet tells nbc bay area he believes he was targeted overnight. He said some of his possessions were lit on fire on purpose. Nobody was hurt. A flight from sydney, australia takes a turn as he starts making homophobic remarks. A San Francisco couple shooting video on their phones. It ended with a stop in new zealand and 24hour delay. United Airlines Says the captain decided to ultimately turn the plane around because the pattern refused to follow instructions. They arrested the 42yearold man. They say they are not filing criminal charges. The other 250 plus passengers on board that flight were put up in hotels and finally land at is sfo. An International Manhunt continues for the man responsible for an attack in stan bull. 7 of 39 People Killed can were Foreign Tourists and among the Dozens Injured was an american. He was walking on a bench above my head where my head was underneath. When he shot me, i couldnt move. I just let him shoot me. Isis is claiming responsibility for the attack. At 6 06 this morning, now lets get back to storm coverage. Were in a microclimate weather alert. Light rain moving through all the bay area. Some spots, though, take thing a bit of a break after it moved through this morning, especially near the peninsula. And spotty light showers around san jose. You havent seen as much rain there. A chance to dry out. Still there may be puddles on the roadways. From north bay, san rafael, there as well. As we head over to east bay, a steady downpour concord, livermore. Heavier through the day, especially the evening commute. It stays wet with more light rain. We take a break thursday and friday. We could much snow by the feet over the next days. Another storm moving through this weekend will raise the flood concern. Ill detail that coming up in 10 minutes. Heading over to mike, lets see whats happening in the trivalley. Rain active through that area. More traffic flow as well. Thats not a great combination. The wetter roadways. The pattern showing green, yellow, orange. We do have slowing for 680 through pleasanton. 880, hayward and union city. 238 did sort itself out like we talked about. A live look at dublin shows one of the reasons for slowing. Wetter roadways. Pushing through livermore and moving over to altamonte pass as more folks are coming out of the tracy area and slick off ramps. Spinouts have not really been a problem. We dont usually get this. This is pete suratoss view. Youll notice three lanes in that configuration. Pete will explain why that will stay the case. Up next, changes are coming to a busy San Francisco street all in an effort to make safer for walkers and cyclists. Plus, we have continuing coverage of the storms hitting the bay area. The south bay mountains get a rare dusting of snow overnight. Donald trump trips up the stock market. Former governor schwarzenegger has a new catch phrase. Good morning. It is 6 11. We are in a microclimate weather alert. Weapon continue to is see the rain today and tomorrow. Two inches possible across the bay area. A bigger storm is on the way of the weekend. More coming up in microclimate forecast coming up in six minutes. Mostly richmond, albany area. The toll plaza has a backup. A typical pattern for your tuesday. San ma tea and dunbar bridges are clear. Hope they stay that way. Thank you, mike. 6 12. Happening today, San FranciscoTransportation Leaders will reportedly review the ongoing changes to the a major cyclist and pedestrian corridor. It runs from Golden Gate Park into the presidio. Examiner reports the board today will discuss traffic closures for the next round of improvement. Nearly two years after it happened, the couple at the center of a kidnapping once called a hoax by police have something to do about the ordeal. Matthew muller pleaded guilty to kidnapping denise huskins. The couple says it is continuing to be harassed despite a guilty plea. Huskins are showing some of the nasty messages they are continue to go receive on social media. We blurred out this particular post because of crude language. She said all i did was survive and i was criminalized for it. The search is on for a man accused of burglarizing a santa rosa elementary school. Police released it of the man they are looking for. They say friday night the man walked into an unlocked elementary classroom and stole five tab the lets, a laptop, and a box of sharpies. The thief used the sharpies to write graffiti outside two classrooms. The power of the president ial tweet. Donald trump tweeted about boeing, the company lost billions in value. And soon to be president scott mcgrew tweeting about General Motors. About 16 cents lower this morning after trumps Early Morning tweet. He says General Motors is sending mexican made model of chevy cruze to u. S. Car dealers tax free. Make in usa or pay big border tax. One amazing trick would be to try to figure out mr. Trump is angry at and short that stack you could have made a fortune on boeing or lockheed martin. G. E. Did respond pointing out the sedan is made in ohio. There is a hatch back made in mechanics core for world markets. They are not taxed of course because of 1 2 attachment not to get too distracted by the tweet. You are talking about some of the startling moves on capitol hill by republicans to weaken the office of congressional ethics. If youre draining the swamp this would be one of yours. It is not uncommon for mr. Trump to sweet something controversial. The apprentice started its new season last night without him. Instead, former governor arnold schwarzenegger. Youre terminated. Has ta la vista, baby. He is still executive producer on that show. It is unclear who will be paying him and for what. It is is very unusual anyone, nbc or mgm. I just wish he picked one. You cant have both. Get to the chopper. Should they chopper in to check the snow fall . They get their first real idea how well this years snowpack is performing. Surveys take place once a month, january through april. There are still concerns snowpack is below average. It is great to be able to see it in video. Forecasters point out a long way to go before we can draw any conclusions. We have had a lot of nice snowfall so far in the sierra. It is is getting a boost from the rounds of storms moving over northern california. Brian hickey showing us the Current Conditions. We can see behind you that it is snowing right now. Yeah. The snow survey next week. It will be far different in the sierra. The alta exit. It is is getting ready to break down. They have moved it back to colfax. 2,500 feet. It will give you an idea how the snow is falling along 280. It was a very rough drive for holiday travelers i should say trying to get home last night. In some cases hours it took to get from trucky to the roseville area with the storm that continued to bear down. This morning more snow. We are expecting it throughout the day. Were at about 3,500 feet. A foot and a half of snow on the ground here. Great news for the sierra. Great news for the water situation. Now we are weird about the next storm over the weekend, which promises to be the next. For now, it is all about drivers trying to get of the pass on 80. A lot of patience out there. Thank you very much. I have a girlfriend who came from trucky to roseville, seven hours. Seven hours. Seven hours. Hopefully not too many kids in the back seat or a podcast to get you through that. Rain mixed with plunging temperatures created this rare sight. Snow. It created slick roads on top of the mountains. It will be really great to see. Also great to see the rain in the bay area. Theres going to be a lot of it. Let me talk about what to expect as we go into the next couple of days. The snow starting to move up in elevation. 41 degrees with the rain coming down. We will see warmer temperatures throughout the day. And now some of that rain take thing a break in some spots, especially along the coast. Still light showers coming down. And we see this rain how widespread it is. Around south lake tahoe, some of the heavier snow coming down. Only about a 10th of an inch for spots in the north bay. 0. 3 around san rafael. Anywhere from and. 01 and a quarter inch. For the east bay, about a quarter inch of rain in spots like lafayette. Now with the next round of rain moving, we see the bright reds and yellows here. Heres heavier rain moving through. It will be off and on. Even tonight before early tomorrow morning. It still will be wet at times through tomorrow afternoon but not as heavy as the rain we will see today. Then a break before the next round of rain moves in. So the next round will move in saturday. It looks like a pretty soggy weekend with the potential of strong winds and heavy rain for both the bay area and the sierra as well. Heres a look at how much rain we can see with this first round. Two inches of rain. Then a lot more this weekend. Well keep you up to date on on that flooding potential all over the bay area. Mike, how is it looking for the commute so far . Remember, its a tuesday. We do have a commute which is different than last tuesday where there was almost none. The backup is there. I want to show you that we are getting a little bit of a break. The green highlighting says it will be wet on the roadways. That is our traffic and weather data tied together. Hayward, 880 as well. Concord and walnut creek. Same thing for the east shore freeway heading towards the bay bridge. No real drama. I want to show you the toll plaza camera. We have the backup. Notice already the left approach is getting a little bit lighter. Still slow off the east shore freeway. Westbound you across 92 does build 101 doesnt have any problem. 6 22. Coming up a worry about muscle building supplements. Nbc bay area responds. A refund is refused but a credit is offered instead. What happens when you cant redeem it, though. Nbc bay area responds next. Pediatricians recommend teenagers not use creatinine. Twothirds of the salespeople recommended it. It is unclear if it harms growing muscles and bones of teenagers and kids. This morning bay area responds to a san jose woman who kept striking out to get a business to give her a refund. Good morning. Back in the summer of 2015, cynthia danly said she paid 348 and signed up daughter courtney for a softball camp through College Coaches skills camp. But a few weeks before camp started, courtney dislocated her shoulder. That meant she had to go to the doctor, and the doctor said she would be out four to six weeks. Translation, no champ. Cynthia contacted the camp, and it said it doesnt give refunds. Sure enough, that is on the camps website. But the camp said it would give her a credit for a future camp. So she circled back this fall but there werent any camps in northern california. She said she tried again this past summer. Again, nothing in the area. Cynthia is thinking a refund is fair because the camp is not available and the camp still says number we reached out and it issued cynthia a refund. It says it was deciding to reward the rebased on the companys lack of communication. 888996tips or nbcbayarea. Com responds. Back to you the. Thanks so much, chris. 6 26. Coming up next on today in the bay, new congress convenes today on capitol hill. The item at the top of the agenda for republicans. It could be a longer commute drivers crossing the golden gauge bridge. Had has nothing to do with the weather. Why this could take a while to fix. Im bob redell. Were heading live across the san mateo bridge. Youre watching today in the bay. And good morning. Almost 6 30 on the dot. A live look at the radar. We have watched this wave move inland over the course of the morning. There will be more rain to come. A live look at the san mateo bridge toll plaza. Can you make it out there . A lot on the roadways. Good morning to you on this tuesday. First tuesday of the new year in fact. Im laura tkpwgarciacannon. We are seeing a consistent wave of rain come in here. Yeah. Its been pretty widespread throughout the morning. Another round moving in late morning and early afternoon. We are going to see quite a bit of rain in the next 24 to 36 hours. And looking now at some of the heavier rain shifting inland. Light rain left behind and standing water on the roadways as a lot of people go back to work, kids going back to school in some spots. And we will have a soggy morning. At least temperatures are milder. A closer look at San Francisco. Mostly light rain. No Major Concerns here. A little bit of heavier rain 680 to san ramon. Lets see whats happening in the trivalley on the roads. We have commuters as opposed to yesterday. The patterns you do see on your typical ones. Remember, this is tuesday. This is very is, very late for a tuesday. Restoring traffic throw because some folks have come back to school. It will kick in 7 30 in the south bay as well. Were looking to 680. The same thing through pleasanton. The rain kicking up. Folks taking the offramp. It can be slow on the ramps. Stopping may be a factor as well. I want to show you san mateo bridge, westbound. This is your commute. A lot more traffic. I saw a tow truck got into traffic, it went across the bridge. I was worried about a problem. It looked like they cleared any suspicion. Eastbound bob redell. Bob has been out there. Whats it been like . 88, oakland, is sf, 101, san mateo, now heading into hayward. Most drivers doing a good job of watching their and the distance in front of them. A little bit of a lull. A heavy drizzle. We had seen it earlier where it was coming down a lot heavier. Definitely heavy rain. Wet out there this morning. You do want to watch your speeds. The speed limits as the conditions permit. It is not necessarily 65 all the time. We just want to keep your eyes out there on the road. Of course make sure your windshield wipers are working. Sit coming down quite heavily. Live southbound 880, bob redell, today in the bay. Bob was using our weather app to track where the heaviest rain was coming. That is a great way to keep up with the changing forecast. Free or iphone and android users. It is slick out there. The morning commute over the bridge could be slower than normal. Not just because of the rain but because a section of the moveable median barrier was damaged. That is reducing the number of lanes. We will explain how this might impact drivers. Pete, good morning. Good morning to you, sam and laura. This is the first time something has happened to this median. Heres how things are going to change as the get to work this morning. We know that the lanes that will be open are the three southbound lanes. There is not going to be a shift in the four southbound lanes. Crews first noticed damage yesterday afternoon 1 30 p. M. Live near the golden gauge bridge, pete suratos, today in the bay. It has been four years since see is air ra lamsierra lamar disappeared. It has been a long time coming, kris. Thats right. The court says it is is about jury selection. Although the last time all these folks were together the judge told the attorneys to have their Opening Statements ready. And thats when things seemed to heat up in the courtroom. Jury seating started back in october. They answered 178 questions ranging on their opinions about the Death Penalty and whether they have been victims of crime. Everybody knows about the case but are they coming into it with the deck stacked against garciatorres. Nbc bay area is in the courtroom. The trial could lost up to six months. And there was an audible gasp. Our cameras will not be allowed in for todays hearing. However, reporters will be inside. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. Thank you very much. Well continue to follow that. Good news and bad news for muni riders. Muni collisions occurred aft year 6. 6 for every 100,000 miles, the highest rate in four years. However, ontime performance improved to just under 60 . In 2015, it was closer to 55 . Muni targets 85 ontime performance. Congress getting to work in washington with the gop in control of the house and senate and soon to be the white house. The gop says getting rid of the Affordable Care act is at the top of their agenda. Health care is the number one priority for the Republican Leadership