hi, everyone, so good to be with you, i'm zinhle essamuah, my co-anchor kate snow is off today, and "nbc news daily" starts right now.

♪♪ today, friday, january 12th, 2024, new winter blast, powerful storms are bringing snow, rain, and bitter cold to millions of people, weather alerts are posted across the country, we're tracking what's coming, and when. returning fire, the u.s. leads a wave of strikes on rebel groups in yemen over attacks on commercial ships, the new threats of retaliation, and how the white house is defending the move. grounded. more max 9 flights are cancelled as boeing tries to deal with the aftermath of the door plug scare, how the government is cracking down and the alaska airlines passengers now filing suit. from "a" to z, before you rest your weary head tonight tips and tricks to help you get a better night's sleep. so good to be with you, we're going to start this hour with the winter weather that just doesn't seem to let up, parts of the country now bracing for a third blast around 46 million people are under some sort of alert from blizzard conditions to arctic temperatures and dangerous wind,

right now, snow and ice in the midwest are causing a ripple effect across the country, flights were grounded at chicago's o'hare airport earlier today, nearly 700 flights have been cancelled there alone, and it could get worse, another storm is now headed to the west coast. meteorologist bill karins is tracking when that storm is going to hit, but we start with nbc's adrienne broaddus, in a very snowy and cold and wet chicago. how is the system impacting travel for people across the country? >> reporter: hey, zinhle, i caught -- i didn't catch the last part of what you said, but i'm thinking we're talking about not only the midwest here, but also what's happening across the country. you know, this is not just isolated to the midwest, almost every state has some sort of weather alert, we're talking about high winds affecting nearly 145 million people, and winter storm warnings affected for 56 million people. here in chicago, we're expected

to get up to nine inches or more inches of snow by monday, that's more snow than what the city saw last year, and out west, they've already surpassed us, especially in island city, oregon, they've received 13 inches of snow, and in deadwood reservoir, idaho, about 11.2 inches of snow. now, another thing that's a big concern are these extremely strong wind gusts, we're talking about 45 miles per hour, and out west, they could range from 50 to 60 miles per hour. and then when you factor in the wind, and that windchill, it's just miserable, back here in chicago, people are concerned about the ice. >> for the first time on any weather news, any news that with the weather it said wickedly cold. that's an interesting word for a weather person to use. so, yes, i am, i have a 94-year-old mother, i'm concerned about that, i'm concerned about being out in

this weather. >> the real cold, it's not good to be out in it for a long time. i'm worried about for people who have to be stuck in it, they don't have anywhere to go. >> reporter: and so that is the big thing, once this temperature drops, the snowfall and the rain will form ice. zinhle. >> the elements are really hard out there. adrienne broaddus, thank you for your reporting. bill karins, let's bring you in now, you're tracking two separate storms, what should we expect this weekend? >> the one in chicago, that's the one that we're going to watch all weekend long, plaguing the great lakes and a little bit in the northeast. already out in the pacific, you see the next storm that affecting the moisture, coming into the oregon coastline, this one is a storm mostly for northern, california, oregon, and through all the mountainous areas, southern idaho, northern nevada, salt lake city area, i mean, this is great for the ski resorts, they're going to get a lot of snow and powder, but

people will have to be able to get to them first, many areas seeing over a foot of high elevation, and on top of this, the windchills and the cold air, the coldest of the season by far, the temperatures in montana, zinhle, we are now at about negative 39 in great falls, even wyoming is now dropping down to negative 35, in all of the bitterly cold air, it's plunging to the south. i mean, even areas like new mexico and arizona, are going to be saying brr. >> i'm saying it too, bill karins, thank you so much. well, this weekend, we'll mark 100 days since the october 7th attack by hamas on israel. 1,200 israelis were killed that day. hundreds of hostages were captured and taken into the gaza strip. more than 100 hostages remain there today, and now a deal has been reached to get vital medications into gaza for the israeli hostages as well as palestinian civilians. nbc news foreign correspondent raf sanchez joins me now from tel aviv. what more do we know about this deal to get medication into gaza? >> reporter: well, zinhle, there

had been rumbles of an agreement last couple days and prime minister benjamin netanyahu's office making it official, there is a deal to get prescription drugs to the hostages, being held inside of gaza from the perspectives of the families of the hostages, this is a major breakthrough, they have been calling for this, since october 7th, there are a range of health conditions among the hostages, one thing we are hearing from the families tonight is they want visual confirmation that these medicines are actually making it to the hostages wherever it is they're being held in hamas tunnels and different places inside of gaza. we believe it's going to be the red cross that will be responsible for delivering them, this deal also designed to get more medicines to the 2 million palestinians inside of gaza and as we've been talking about it, zinhle, the health care system collapsed, basically, in the early days of the war, doctors inside gaza operating under just unbelievable conditions, short of even the most basic drugs,

and the hope here is that this will provide at least a little bit of relief to those people especially as this cold winter weather is setting in, and disease is spreading among displaced people in gaza. zinhle? >> and raf, as you're talking about the early days of the war i'm reminded we're coming up on a hundred days since october 7th. how are people in israel going to mark that day, especially as to many are still held hostage? >> reporter: we've seen a range of events, families of the hostages went down to the gaza border and they used loud speakers to call out in the vain hope that their loved ones might be able to hear them, the kind of beating heart of the hostage movement here in tel aviv is placed on hostage square, it's near the big art museum here, there's going to be a 24-hour rally on sunday to mark a hundred shs days, if rally being addressed by the american ambassador in israel, and hearing from some of the

hostages who are actually released and one of the big concerns, zinhle, as we head towards this 100 days mark, we were hearing it today from the families -- of the family of one of the american hostages, is that the world may move on, and that it may forget about these people, who are still being held, not clear when, if ever, they'll be released. zinhle? >> yeah, we won't forget, and we're certainly going to continue to cover it, raf sanchez, thanks to your reporting in tel aviv, we appreciate it. staying in the middle east, growing tensions the u.s. gets more directly involved with conflicts in the region, american and british militaries launched strikes against an iranian-backed militant group, the houthis in yemen, five fighters died and they're promising to retaliate. the new strikes from the u.s. and uk follow weeks of day cks on shiple lanes in the red sea. allie raffa is following the latest for us. and let's start with courtney kube, how significant is this attack on the houthi rebels here, and what does it mean for the war between israel and hamas? >> it's extremely significant,

in fact, zinhle, we literally just learned moments ago there were many more locations of these targets than we originally heard, so, there were nearly 30 different locations, where the u.s. and british military struck last night, more than 60 total targets. and this really, the goal here was to degrade the houthis' ability to continue to carry out these attacks in the red sea. they've been launching drones, ballistic missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles at a pretty steady pace the past two months. the goal here, take out some of the munitions facilities, some of the launchers, thait they literally launch off these missiles and take out their ability to continue these attacks and now the more we hear about the battle damage assessment continuing, the more we hear about it we get the sense this was an enormous and punishing series of strikes they carried out against these houthis overnight, zinhle. >> and allie, what is the white house saying about this, could more strikes be coming? >> reporter: white house

officials are saying the final straw was the attack by the houthis on tuesday, that major assault in the red sea, and they say that that is when the president convened his national security team to go over retaliation options and he decided to move forward on this coordinated strike, on houthi land assets, which u.s. officials say the damage assessment of those assets is still ongoing. but as far as what happens now, whether we could see more strikes, as you mentioned, houthi forces have vowed retaliation, u.s. officials are saying as of now they don't have any operational info on any potential plan but from the u.s. side, they continue to point to part of the president's statement last night in which he vowed further measures to protect americans, and u.s. assets, in the red sea, should these houthi strikes continue, zinhle. >> all right, allie raffa, and courtney kube with the latest for us, thank you. time for today's cnbc money

minute, an important warning for parents of young kids and some student loan debt could get forgiven. pippa stevens joins me now? >> the u.s. consumer product safety commission recalled millions of kits to keep furniture from tipping over over potential child safety risks, the plastic zip ties can weaken, kits manufactured by the new age industries from november 2019 and later are affected. tesla announced they will be suspended most of their car production in berlin. the auto maker said yesterday they did in the have enough components to build because of the supply chain delays from the red sea attack, while tesla is the first to say the attacks are directly impacting them, other auto makers could soon suffer as well. and 6.9 million student loan borrowers will see some relief soon. the biden administration said today that loans will be

forgiven for some as early as next month. borrowers who originally took out loans $12,000 or under, were in repayment for at least a decade, and enrolled in the save program, are eligible for early forgiveness, no doubt, zinhle, very welcome news for some. >> i understand over 40 million americans have some student loans, i'm sure that will be impactful, thank you so much. still ahead, the dramatic rescue of a grandmother and a baby from a car rapidly filling with water. are you ready for some playoff football? a look at the big games this wild card weekend, including a wild card weekend, including a first ever if you're living with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis or active psoriatic arthritis, symptoms can sometimes take you out of the moment. now there's skyrizi, so you can show up with clearer skin... ...and show it off. ♪ nothing is everything ♪ with skyrizi, you could take each step with 90% clearer skin.

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following breaking news, the justice department has announced it will seek the death penalty for the white gunman who killed ten black people and injured three others in a racist shooting in buffalo, new york in 2022. the shooter, payton end -- was already given 11 life sentences after he pleaded guilty to hate crime charges in his trial. let bring in ken dilanian. and danny cevallos. what more do we know about this decision from the justice department? >> this is an interesting move. merrick garland approved a moratorium on federal executions, but did not pre-claude federal prosecutors in seeking the death penalty in cases where they thought that

was warranted. in other cases that were pending they inherited that i have continued to pursue the death penalty. this is the first time they have sought it in a new case under the biden-garland administration and clearly they believe this case is heinous enough and aggravated enough that it merits the ultimate punishment but federal executions are not happening right now and joe biden is a president who says he's against the death penalty and came to office vowing to eliminate the death penalty. remains to be seen whether this penalty gets carried out in this case assuming they achieve this result. duh it's kind of a symbolic move they wanted to impose the ultimate penalty. >> interesting, and danny, let's bring you in, this is a significant move, and the shooter's attorney said he would plead guilty to federal charges if prosecutors did not seek the death penalty. they now have done that. so, what do you think is happening next? >> this negotiation, they may still plead guilty because now the ante has been upped.

maybe they can still enter into negotiations with the government, but the government has just filed a notice, they arrive at that completely unilaterally, it's up to them, they have to go through statutory factors, aggravating factors that warrant the death penalty, and then they make that decision, whether or not they want to seek it. among those factors, the non-statutory factors they consider are whether race was was a factor, that's one, but also the danger to other people in addition, so, this is a case that was clearly qualifying under the statute, but the death penalty at the federal level is very clearly discretionary, there are probably many more such crimes that would qualify but it's up to the doj why as ken pointed out this is such a significant piece of news. >> unique in that a injury would decide. >> only criminal case in which the jury decides not only guilt, but life or death, the penalty phase. >> danny cevallos, and ken dilanian, thanks so much. boeing is under increased scrutiny. the federal aviation administration is expanding

oversight of the committee a day after launching an investigation, last week a panel blew out of an alaska airlines plane mid-flight, 16,000 feet aboveground. tom costello who covers aviation joins me now. boeing is feeling the heat right now. the faa is investigating, the national transportation safety board, walk us through what both agencies are looking at and what more oversight from the faa practically means. >> this is a dramatic development from the faa today because we know the ntsb is investigating how this accident happened and what contributed to the accident. that's the ntsb's job, the faa, yesterday, announcing its launching an investigation into what the heck is happening at boeing that would allow this kind of a defect to come through its entire production line and then make its way onto a commercial jet liner, and then today, the faa coming out and saying, we're not comfortable with the faa's quality control, we're not comfortable with their commitment to safety, we are dramatically increasing the

auditing, if you will, the safety auditing there, of the boeing production line, let me just read to you something that the faa released in a statement, as they're talking about all of their concerns, they say this incident should have never happened, and it cannot happen again, says the faa, faa formally did notify boeing it is conducting an investigation to determine if boeing failed to ensure completed products, in other words planes were, in fact, conforming to its approved dine and were in a safe condition. that coming from the faa, so boeing, by the way, responding saying that it is going to continue to completely, fully, agree with, i should say cooperate with the investigation, both at the faa and also at the ntsb. make no mistake about it, boeing, which five years ago was recovering following two max 8 crashes that killed 346 people, boeing's reputation right now is clearly on the line and it knows it. >> so, tom, speaking of that reputation, we're also learning

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the deadly one on wednesday that killed a 66-year-old man named kenneth kidd who lived in the bay area. that avalanche buried three other people who survived with minor injures. this was the frantic scene wednesday as rescuers dug to find those survivors. we spoke with jason parker, one of the three people who were buried in the snow. he was flipped on his belly. parker says it was eight minutes before help got to him. >> i got hit from the debris field that came down. it buried me so quick. i have taken a class. punch a hole with my right arm that wasn't sealed and make an air pocket. at that point, i felt a probe hit my spine. it jarred me. man. that's when i could hear the person above me just go, i found him or we got limb. at that point, you know it's probably going to be okay.

you made it. >> reporter: yesterday, a little more than 24 hours later, after the one on wednesday, there was another avalanche. this happened even though the resort had performed avalanche mitigation. they did search the area, found no one buried. it was cleared by ski patrol. that lift reopened. if you are heading to ski resorts this weekend, out of town via eastbound 58 or any other routes, the earlier you leave perhaps the better. don't leave late afternoon, early evening, when you could hit the get out of town rush. bob redell, nbc bay area news. >> thank you so much. where he following a breaking news story this morning. two people are dead after a horrific car crash in richard monday. video from nbc bay area sky ranger of the scene. it happened after a car skidded

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measles. the highly contagious disease spread to three pediatric patients, one of those children was then sent to day care, while still infectious. four people at that day care have since been infected. north korea is set to admit its first tourists into the country since the start of the covid pandemic. it's made up of entirely russian travelers, the four-day trip will begin next month. the group will visit pyongyang, and a ski resort. all six crew members aboard a navy helicopter that crashed yesterday are recovering, the chopper went down in the water near san diego. a spokesperson for the navy says the crash happened during a routine training mission. the cause of the accident is still under investigation. well, there may be a blizzard in iowa, but the campaign trail, well, that's red hot with the state's caucuses now three days away. nikki haley, and ron desantis are battling for second place, as former president donald trump maintains a big lead heading

into the final stretch. nbc news correspondent priscilla thompson joins us from sioux city, iowa. you're in the area where former president donald trump performed the worst in 2016. what are you hearing from folks there this time? >> reporter: yeah, i'm hearing from a lot of folks in sioux county already still undecided but leaning towards trump. they like ron desantis and donald trump, but feel that they know what they're getting with donald trump, take a listen to some of those conversations. >> donald trump's already like did it all, you know, he knows how to do it, he's experienced, so probably just lean towards him. >> will you actually come through desantis, will you? because trump is abrasive enough to push his envelope. you have backed down a couple of times. i am still undecided but i do believe i'm leaning towards trump. >> reporter: and given how

poorly trump performed in sioux county in 2016 you might think it's forget ill ground for someone like ron desantis who has tried to court evangelical voters but caucus goers don't feel like they know him as well as they know the former president now. zinhle? >> priscilla thompson in iowa for us, thank you so much, stay warm. newly released video shows a dramatic rescue in florida, first responders racing to rescue a grandmother and small baby from a car sinking into a ditch. guad venegas explains how they pulled it off. >> hey, can you hear us? sheriff's office. >> reporter: an incredible rescue are sheriff's deputies arriving within minutes. after a car crashed on its side in a florida ditch, quickly filling up with water during the rescue. >> the kid, kid. >> reporter: trapped inside just barely above water, a baby and a grandmother. >> we're going to get your baby

first, all right. >> reporter: first responders breaking the window with the baby still scrapped in her car seat. >> i tried. >> let's get the baby out. >> reporter: and the water was almost up over the car seat. >> we've got a kid in here. >> a baby in here. >> this baby's head is barely above water. >> so they knew that they had to quickly get this child out of the car seat, and out of that car before it slipped or even completely turned over. >> there's the baby. get her out, come on. >> reporter: deputies handing the child out to firefighters, and getting the grandmother out too. >> we got one child out, we're working on the female now. >> the harrowing rescue all caught on camera last week, the video just released by the flagler county sheriff. how does it feel to know that your officers made this rescue? >> but i'm very proud of our team. i am proud of the teamwork that was shown between the fire

rescue guys and the sheriff's office, so it's a great way to start 2024, just shows the community how well trained our deputies are, and how they're willing to, in this case, get very wet, jumping in to a drainage ditch, and rescue two people. >> you're good, you're doing great, ma'am. >> i can't. >> you're doing great. take nice and deep breaths. >> reporter: a grandmother and an infant, lucky to have survived. guad venegas. nbc news. >> so glad you're okay. guad, thanks. inequality is a huge barrier when it comes to racial healing. one group in rural kentucky is working to bridge the gap by fighting a common enemy. antonia hylton reports a as part of a national day of racial healing sponsored by w.k. kellogg foundation. >> reporter: nestled on the eastern kentucky border when ohio and west virginia sits ashland, a town of more than 21,000, where a quarter of

residents live in poverty. some in dire and dangerous conditions. nbc news was allowed inside this ashland apartment where tenants say the landlord has all but abandoned them. >> i have nowhere else to go. hypothetical row does that make you feel, you're paying hundreds of dollars a month to live here. >> reporter: the kentucky people's union in conjunction with showing up for racial justice, or surg, rallying around a shared goal to guarantee safe and affordable housing for everyone. beth howard is a lead organizer for kpu, highlighting common interests like housing can be a first step toward racial healing. is your concern if you don't reach these folks someone elsewhere?

>> absolutely. we know if people are not talking to white people about their suffering, we know someone else is, and that someone else is the far right. they know that there are so many of us working class people, white, black and brown, that if we came together we would outnumber them. kathy johnson among beth's first recruit. >> it has really opened up my eyes and i'm proud to say that i have friends that are different than me. >> reporter: why do you think this work is rare? >> because it doesn't serve those in power to have white people, first of all, recognizing whiteness, and having us talk to other white people about racism. >> reporter: volunteers wear red bandannas and call themselves red necks, organizers say it's a nod to the history of the working class, a 1921 labor uprising in which white, black

and immigrant coal miners joined together to fight for better wages and miners wore red bandas around their necks to signify to each other therapy union. >> red neck, that's seen by some as a pejorative or disrespectful term. >> that label has been distorted to mean racist, right, or trash, our history that shows us different stories, that shows us this different way of being a white person, is hitting those truths, dangerous to those in power. >> antonia hylton joins us now. you spent so much time traveling the country covering civil rights, poverty, race, i wonder, what struck you specifically about this report? >> reporter: this story shocked me in some ways, not the basic facts of it. i understood how housing could be an issue that unites everyone, because everyone cares about where they lay their head down night and the conditions they're in, right, but, what i saw in this community in

kentucky, it doesn't seem like something that you could imagine should be in the united states. the wealthiest country in the world, we pride ourselves on the economy, and our ingenuity all the time and we have americans who are working, who are paying rent, you know, these are not homeless people, who deserve all the support, but who aren't paying rent for where they're staying, but these are people paying to a landlord, to live in the conditions you just saw there, and it really changed me, i think, to see that on the ground, and so it -- it made me have an appreciation for the work that community organizers have all backgrounds do to support people for their housing, to connect them with renting, support, and organizations that do this work, but also i can see how conclude create a larger conversation in change, and that really was a lesson for me. >> wow, well really impactful report and you can see more of antonia hylton's reporting tonight as part of our upcoming

nbc news now primetime special on racial healing sponsored by the w.k. kellogg foundation, join kate snow and me as we host the conversation tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern streaming right here on nbc news now. in case you missed it the road to the super bowl kicks off tomorrow, the first round of the nfl playoffs, and you can find half of the games on nbc and peacock. here's the weekend places, nbc has both saturday games, the cleveland wrouns and the houston texans as well as the miami dolphins and kansas city chiefs and on sunday night, the most highly anticipated match yuch of the weekend, the los angeles rams kicking on the detroit lions. to break down the major story lines behind all of it and beyond the taylor swift factor, bringing in ahmed fareed. i'm so excited to see you, i can hardly get my words out here. let's begin with tomorrow, not only is the dolphins-chiefs matchup the first ever nfl playoff game to be exclusively streamed on peacock, of course.

it may also be one of the coldest games, 0 degrees is the forecast, the chilliest ever in 1967 when it was a brutal negative 17 degrees. walk us through the key story lines here. >> zinhle, you've done a good job of pumping us up. we're excited about having all these games on nbc and peacock, and i do think that taylor swift will be part of the story line, perhaps during the game but the cold temperatures, for sure, but the chiefs are a story in and of themselves, defending super bowl champions got one of the most recognizable players, patrick mahomes, interesting this year, zinhle, their defense is what's carrying this team, not patrick mahomes and travis kelce and taylor swift and that offense, we'll see the dolphins team that has been run by offense, most of the year, features a player tyreek hill who used to play for the it'ski chiefs and going back to kansas city, a lot of story lines with this game, pumped to have the chiefs on air. >> moving to sunday night,

detroit will host a playoff game for the first time in 30 years, and just to remind viewers what was happening, 30 years ago, that was 94 rks there was the tonia harding, nancy kerrigan controversy, and jeff bezos started amazon. there was a lot going on, and there's still a lot going on for the lions and rams beyond hosting the playoff games. can you talk to us about that quarterback drama? >> yeah, that was all really 30 years ago? that seems like it was just yesterday for some of that. there is quarterback drama in this game, matthew stafford, a longtime detroit lion quarterback set so many records with them, got traded a couple years ago, to the los angeles rams, promptly won a super bowl with them, had never won a playoff game with the detroit lions and now matthew stafford will go back, wearing another uniform, and this guy you're seeing on your screen, jared goff was the other part of the

trade. he was discarded by the rams, and gets a chance of revenge to try to end his former team's season, his former coach in sean mcvay, the two quarterbacks that used to lead the other teams to eliminate their current teams. >> switching gears again, a number of coaches are leaving teams, including bill belichick, new england patriots. what can you tell us about his replacement just hired today? >> jarrod mayo has been around that organization many years, entire playing career there, has been around there post his playing year, and really many years ago, the discussion was already that he was going to be the man to replace bill belichick whenever he retired. that was in his contract. and so here we are, and jarrod mayor at 37 years old is going to go in there and the big debate on if this is the end of the patriot way because there are some in that organization that think they need to modernize parts of their game, maybe move it in a different direction but i would be

skeptical, jarrod mayor seems to be doubling down on the patriot way. how can you talk about that in bad way? because they've had so much success but it will be interesting, bill belichick, the greatest coach in nfl history by all accounts, out in new england. >> all right, we'll see how it all plays out, quite literally, host of football night in america, ahmed fareed, such a plash pressure, thank you so much. and tune in for football night in america, on saturday, 3:00 p.m., nbc and peacock. still ahead, how you can get a better night's rest and taprove your men

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in today's mental health check we're talking about how to sleep better in the new year, according to a new study published by the american academy of neurology people in their 30s and 40s who experience interrupted sleep are more than twice as likely to have problems with their memory, and not only that, it's also tied to poor cognitive performance a decade later. joining me now to talk about this, jade wu, a board certified behavior sleep medicine specialist, happy new year. what causes our sleep to be interrupted and specifically what's keeping people up in their 30s and 40s? >> it could be anything, from a poor sleep environment, or not having a very consistent sleep schedule, sometimes things like aging, and too much coffee or too much alcohol can also

contribute. >> so, with all that, it's not just a matter of waking up and being a little grumpy, right, it actually has some serious health risks by not sleeping well, and has been linked to cognitive decline, break that down for us a bit. >> so during sleep, especially deep sleep, the brain is actually clearing out toxins from the brain, so that's really important because these toxins over time accumulate into beta ameloid plaque that cause alzheimer's disease. >> experts emphasize sleep is a tool to stay healthy. seven to nine hours. is that the number we should be trying to hit and practical steps we can take to improve our sleep, what should we be doing? >> more important than the amount of sleep you get is actually the consistent timing of your sleep. so using a device like patch for example the sound machine and light machine to automate your

bedtime routine, to make it consistent. and to make your bedroom really comfortable, and dark and quiet when it needs to be, but also, you know, a different context than your waking environment can be really helpful. >> i love that, using apps, creating a calm environment, and also being consistent about when you choose to sleep. i know some people think they can just catch up on sleep over the weekend. and recover from what some experts call a sleep deficit. explain that for us and why it's important to go to bed at the same time every night? >> well, the thing is, you can't really catch up on sleep debt. maybe a little bit you can catch up, you know, an hour or two here and there but over the long run, the damage of sleep debt, which is not getting enough sleep, just builds up, and the damage is done. so, getting that consistent sleep from night tonight, is much better than just, you know, trying to catch up later, when the damage has already been done. >> and to the point of damage, you know, for some people, like me, earlier this week i did not sleep well for one day but went back to my normal routine but

for others it may be a sign of a deeper issue. when might someone need to go and get professional help. >> if you find you're very sleepy during the day, falling asleep during meetings or while driving, can't stay asleep -- can't stay awake during a movie. a good sign something is not going right at night. not getting enough sleep or not good quality sleep might be a sign of sleep apnea or if you feel like no matter what you're not getting good quality sleep, can't fall asleep or stay asleep well. that's a good sign. >> in the new year, many people making new goals, starting with the basics, good sleep is a good place to start. dr. jade wu, thank you for your time. >>hank you. t t rsv can severely affect the lungs and lower airways. but i'm protected with arexvy. arexvy is a vaccine used to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv in people 60 years and older. rsv can be serious for those over 60,

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>> the group included supporters of the recall efforts against the mayor and the d.a. they criticize officials and agencies for the double digit jump in crime last year. a police chase in the north bay ended in a crash and the shooting a suspect. it started in american canyon yesterday afternoon. they tried to pull over a car for a vehicle code violation. the car took off. the driver led officers on a chase through several cities. it ended when the driver crashed into a fence. an officer shot and injured a man. police say they arrested the other suspect and recovered two firearms on scene. it's a nice day but cold day in the bay area. your weekend plans might get soaked. kari hall has more in her seven day forecast. >> it's going to be a cool day around the bay area. we are enjoying sunshine for now. we have been talking a lot about rain coming in on saturday. if you have outdoor plans, it's going to be soggy off and on

throughout the day. temperatures in the mid 50s. then it's clear on sunday. that's the day to make some outdoor plans as we will see highs a little bit warmer in the upper 50s. good for the holiday with the high of 59 for the inland valleys, like santa clara, tri-valley towards napa and sonoma valleys. more rain coming in on wednesday. looking at san francisco and along the coastline, we are looking at more of the same temperatures here. rainy saturday. clear on sunday.

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