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Local athletes are in the spotlight in south korea as we are live right now taking a look at the olympic burning flightily there, the flame you can see there. This is monday, february 12th. Monday morning here. Monday night there. Thats right. Good morning to you and thank you for joining us on this monday morning. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Were going to get to mikes traffic and karis weather in just a moment. First we want to bring in Garvin Thomas who has been hard at work in south korea. A really big night or day i should say. Reporter thats right. We have some local athletes we are following. We will tell you about those in just a moment, but first i want to bring new video in overnight. The winds whipping through pyeongchang, it has been so bad that organizers have had to postpone two alpine events. Hopefully that wind wont effect the two local athletes coming up next to compete. We will have their stories in ....
Else there is going for the cold. Im cold. No doubt. Well check back with him in a bit. We want to check in with meteorologist kari hall and get a look at whats going on. Colder temperatures this morning. Yes, cold again, another morning with near freezing temperatures for parts of the bay area. So you watch out the door, you will want to head back in for more layers. Here is a live look in san jose. This starts out with clear skies. As we go throughout the day we will be in the mid 50s by 10 00 and quickly seeing those temperatures warm up into the upper 60s today. Thats going to be above normal for this time of year. 69 degrees in downtown san jose and also in concord and napa. 63 today in oakland and in San Francisco. We will talk about a rainfall deficit thats coming up in just a few minutes. Mike, you were saying theres still more problems around the san mateo bridge. Thats right. First of all, we had the motorcycle crash mid ....
Crowd in olympic park right now. And these folks were treated to fantastic figure skating. Japanese gold and silver. The americans three finishing in the top ten. You cant judge performance without expectations, which is why the american finished 5th has regrets and the one 6th is over the moon. Nathan chen delivered a fantastic and record breaking free skate, posting all six quad jumps. Heres the regret. He skated so poorly in the Short Program yesterday and dug himself such a big hole, this performance could not lionel messi climb him out and put him on the podium. Vincent zhou was never expected to medal. This was the chance for the youngest member of team usa to learn the ropes. But boy did le he deliver and overachieve. Two clean programs, winding up in sixth place. Knowing he did something special, he dropped to his knees when the music stopped. I finished the pose and it was such a release of emotion and pride andd a feeling ....
Record. San francisco 38 degrees. Well talk more about how you can battle this chill and also some showers in the forecast, a couple chances. Thats in about 18 minutes. Lets go to damian trujillo. A lot of people are worried about the cold snap tonight. Reporter a lot of people are concerned what it will be like when the sun goes down. Theres a concern because of the freezing temperatures overnight, and concern for human life. These images say it all. Snow in some parts of the sanity cruz mountains. This was an overnight dusting near boulder creek. That meant a cold night on the valley floor. How cold was it last night . Oh, very cold. Reporter the homeless under the 280 101 connector said the cold caught them offguard. The mince tremendous brought they blankets tonight. Theres an immediate need here that is life or death. James landa knows that feeling. I was homeless at one time in my life and i have lived some of the rough parts that some of these folks are living. Reporter today la ....