we're live in san jose, thom jensen, "today in the bay." >> awfully sad outcome for the family. thank you very much. appreciate that report, thom. >>> bart service is back to normal after a person walking on the tracks ended up forcing a major delay. police searched the transbay tube near the embarcadero station for more than an hour trying to find that man. trains in the meantime were stopped in both directions. the man was finally arrested around 8:00. >>> an attempt to keep drunk drivers off the roads this new year's eve, some bay area transit agencies are offering free rides to anybody who needs one. >> "today in the bay's" pete suratos is in san francisco with details on that and the preparations under way this morning. good morning to you, pete. >> reporter: good morning to you guys. back in the newsroom and tomorrow night for new year's eve, a busy one for san francisco. here is important information you node to know if you're coming into the city, specifically if you're using public transportation. if you use muni, all rides will be free. all rides will be free from 8:00

thom jensen, "today in the bay." >> very fortunate indeed, thom. thank you very much. there are traffic implications we're going to get to in five minutes. in the meantime pete suratos is covering a developing story this morning with president vladimir putin of russia condemning a new round of sanctions. within the last couple hours he announced something he's not going to move forward with. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, sam. a federal source tells us two russian officials had been ordered to leave the russian consulate you see behind me in san francisco. this is of course a part of the heavy sanctions that have been handed down by the obama administration. officials saying this is the response of a cyber attack. as part of these sanctions by president obama, he wants 35 russian diplomats including those in cities like right here in san francisco and washington, d.c. out of the country by this weekend. employees at the consulate aren't commenting much, but russians with business at the consulate are worried. >> it's a small planet. it takes very littl

thom jensen. nbc bay area news. >> thank you very much. >>> right now police are looking through surveillance video trying to figure out who opened fire outside of an east bay hotel. this happened in emeryville. police say they heard gunshots about 11:00 last night and were told by numerous callers to respond to the hyatt on bay street. officers didn't find suspects or victims when they arrived but did find shell casings and shattered glass in the parking lot. witnesses say two people in two separate cars were shooting at one another and then took off in different directions. >>> in a developing story we learned this morning that russian president vladimir putin says a syrian ceasefire agreement has been reached with turkey. putin added that russia and turkey guarantee the truce, set to begin at midnight local time. he said it would be followed by peace talks between syrian president bashar al assad's government and the opposition. it was not clear which opposition groups were consulted as part of

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live in the press video, thom jensen, nbc bay by a area news. >>> markham mill tweeted "as if the 2016 couldn't get worse, sending our love to carrie fisher." and peter mayhew tweeting "our thoughts and prayers for our friends and everyone's favorite princess." >> you can leave your comments on the story as well, it's pinned to the top of the nbc by a area page. and "nightly news" will have continuing coverage of the health scare for fisher. fans across the globe showing their support for her. >>> the bay area getting a good holiday soaking. >> a strong storm brought a significant amount of rain today. let's begin with our chief meteorologist. jeff, where's the storm heading now? >> right now the strongest portion of the storm system is moving towards the south in the central valley near los angeles but we still have some instability back behind the main branch and that could bring us hit-and-miss showers as we head throughout tonight. rainfall totals impressive from about 4:00 to 8:00 a.m. we pick up the bulk of the rainfall that tallied up to one-tenth of an inch. eight-tenths of an

for now we're live in san jose, thom jensen, "today in the bay." >>> now to the christmas eve stabbing in an east bay target store. yesterday cameras were allowed in the courtroom but the defendants never appeared. attorneys for the co-defendants, jesse archuleta and his brother franky waived their right to appear in court yesterday. the two brothers are accused of stabbing tyrone griffin while he was shopping with his 4-year-old son. witnesses say it happened after griffin asked the archuletas to turn down what he considered inappropriate music for the toy section of target. one defense attorney said it would have been inappropriate to have his client appear in front of the media. >> when this case does end up going forward, i expect he will be fully exonerated and he was acting in self-defense. >> according to the police report, griffin grabbed a wine bottle off the shelf and hit franky with it. his widow says she doesn't believe it and hopes the investigation will be thorough. >>> for the first time we're hearing directly from the family of a 14-year-old san jose boy who was killed

we are live in san jose, thom jensen. nbc bay area news. >> thom, thank you very much. right now a christmas eve shopping trip that started as a quest for presents and it ended with an east bay father of four dead. one of two men arrested in the fatal stabbing at the hayward target is expected to be charged later today. nbc bay area's pete suratos joining us live outside the police department. witnesses say this all started with a simple request. >> reporter: good morning to you, sam. a request to turn down some inappropriate music inside the target store on whipple road in hayward. this is just a claim. when we spoke to hayward police, they are not confirming the claims as this is still an ongoing investigation. but we do know since the gofundme page was set up for the griffin we are talking about tyrone griffin ii. father of four. he died of the stabbing injuries after being taken to a nearby hospital. the two suspects are in their 20s and are in custody. back to the claim you mentioned. a man tells nbc bay area that a witness claims griffin was attacked after telling

live in hayward, thom jensen, "today in the bay". >> thom, thank you for that report. now to a woman is the ep pit many of old school style and grace. the world is mourning the tragic loss of debbie reynolds who died one day after her daughter carrie fisher passed away. the 784-year-old was a star on the screen and on stage for almost seven decades. video from tmz shows an ambulance leaving reynold's son's home yesterday. she was there discussing funeral arrangements from her daughter when she suffered a medical emergency herself. we spoke to fans last night, some of them lucky enough to have met reynolds. >> she was playing at the fifth avenue. she could come in every morning for breakfast. very proud of carrie fisher. in fact, she gave me an autograph and she autographed it, debbie reynolds, carrie fisher's mom. >> debbie was talking to the whole crowd and making us all laugh. we all loved the whole cast because of her. >> incredible stories of her charisma and kindness. from broadway to hollywood and all places in between, reynolds and her talents being remembered s