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continues. soldiers returning home from afghanistan reflect on what this historic week means for them. plus, millions of working americans again hang in financial limbo just days after the senate agreed to a payroll tax cut extension. we'll tell you who is now saying not so fast. and with 800 million friends, moving day should be a snap. we'll take you to facebook's new digs. the news starts right now. good evening. i'm garvin thomas in for diane dwyer. thank you for joining us for this special edition of "nbc bay area news." we begin with the death of a dictator. kim jong-il, dictator from north korea died this evening. one of the world's most notorious leaders. he was 69 years old. his death was announced on state television late tonight. an autopsy revealed the cause of death to be heart failure.

nbc's bruce hall takes a look back at his dictatorial and controversial life. >> reporter: even in death, many of the details of kim jong-il's life are elusive. cloaked in secrecy that surrounded much of his rule in north korea. in 1964, kim graduated from kim il-sung university and was groomed to take over the country. but it was not until 1991 that he achieved real power. when despite his lack of military experience, kim jong-il took control of the armed forces with his father's death in '94, kim took over the leadership. but north korea fell deeper into poverty, struggling to feed and provide for its own people. in the wake of the september 11th terrorist attacks, kim jong-il and north korea were thrust into the forefront. president bush labeled north korea one of the world's most dangerous regimes. >> states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an

axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world. >> reporter: kim jong-il played an international cat and mouse game with its nuclear program. kim called off talks with neighboring asian nations and continued to threaten the world with nuclear attack. some called him vain with a delusional persona. but others said kim jong-il was a clever manipulator, willing to take risk to preserve his family's regime. bruce hall, nbc news. back here in the bay area, warren helmand, the billionaire investment banker behind the bluegrass festival also died today. he started the popular festival in san francisco back in 2001. his generosity meant hundreds of thousands enjoyed the event every year in golden gate park for free. he's also known for leading efforts for pension reform in the city government and supporting public education. he was in and out of the hospital over the past several months because of leukemia.

public services are planned for wednesday at congregation emanuel in san francisco. his daughter tells the "san francisco chronicle" today that the bluegrass festival will go on. a historic chapter has now closed in iraq. all american troops are now out of the country. the only mission left now is bringing them all the way home. the last convoy of u.s. soldiers rolled out of iraq and into kuwait early sunday morning. the exit marks the end of a nearly nine-year long war that cost the lives of close to 4500 u.s. soldiers and an estimated 100,000 iraqis. at least 4,000 u.s. soldiers will remain in kuwait for several months helping finalize the move out of iraq. but soldiers still remain in afghanistan. and today, christmas came early for dozens of california families who had loved ones serving there. 160 members of the national guard returned today from a deployment in afghanistan. nbc bay area's kimberly tere is

at the san jose airport. >> reporter: most soldiers we talked to didn't even know the end of the iraq war came until they hit u.s. soil. they tell us they were really focused on what they were doing in afghanistan. soldiers came home here to san jose also to oakland and san francisco airports, home just in time for the holidays. members of the california national guard's 870th military police company were in afghanistan for a year. they were deployed last december. tonight we were at san jose international airport as 22 soldiers were welcomed home with cheers and hugs from loved ones. the patriot guard lined their routes with flags. >> it's been a long journey, but, hey, i'm back home in one piece. >> i just want to thank everybody for their prayers and their thoughts and i just want to thank everybody for believing in us and happy to be home. thank you. >> the company of 160 were responsible for conducting

security forces operations. among this group there was one casualty. 21-year-old specialist shawn walsh was killed by enemy fire a month ago on november 16th. tonight walsh mother cheryl was here to greet her late son's fellow soldiers. his company will likely not be deployed for another two years. kimberly tere, nbc bay area news. >> thank you kimberly. unhappy with the payroll extension passed yesterday, house republicans are threatening to kill the deal. they want a long-term fix but senators have already gone home for the holidays and unless a compromise is made, millions of americans could still yet see smaller paychecks beginning the first of the year. nbc bay area's brian mooar has the story. >> reporter: the senate ended its business for the year on a bipartisan note. voting to extend the payroll tax cut for two months. >> the ayes are 89. the nays are 10. >> reporter: it was just a temporary fix, but it ensured

that 160 million americans wouldn't be seeing a sudden tax increase on january 1st. >> have a happy holiday everyone. >> reporter: but now house republicans are saying, not so fast. >> two months of just kicking the can down the road. the american people are tired of that. frankly, i'm tired of it. >> reporter: the senate's bill extends long-term unemployment insurance, which democrats wanted and gives the president two months to make a decision on the canada to texas keystone oil pipeline. that was a measure designed to get house republicans on board. but speaker boehner says the two-month deal is no deal. >> it's time to just stop, do our work, resolve the differences and extend this for one year. >> reporter: senators have already gone home for the holidays. if the house rejects the senate bill and if saenchts won't come back to work out their differences, payroll taxes could go up on january 1st. nancy pelosi, the top democrat in the house is already calling it the tea party tax increase. house leaders are still planning

their next move. a vote is scheduled for monday. brian mooar, nbc news, washington. in oakland today, a 55-year-old man died after a fire in his home. the fire happened around 7:30 at a single family home near arthur street and 79th avenue. firefighters say it appears the man was sleeping at the time and he died of smoke inhalation. arson investigators are now trying to determine what started the fire. three other people who were at the home managed to escape without injuries. today is the international day of the migrant. and in the east bay, dozens of people gathered to show their support for hundreds of workers fired after an immigration audit. members of the community and faith organizations met at st. mark's catholic church in richmond to protest the firings of more than 200 workers at the pacific steel castings foundry in berkeley. the workers were fired from their jobs as a result of the audit of the company's paperwork that found the workers were in the u.s. illegally. some employees that worked at

the foundry for nearly 20 years and many are left wondering how they'll provide for their families. >> i need find any job. salary for the family. so i need to find something. >> similar audits have led to the firings of hundreds of janiters in san francisco as well as thousands of other workers throughout the country this past year. next on "nbc bay area news," social media giant facebook and its 2,000 employees are on the move. we'll show you how it may impact your daily commute. and from hollywood producer to co-owner of the golden state warriors and now you can add another title to this modern day renaissance man. is there anything peter guber can't do? we saw a cool day around the bay area our temperatures right now already in the 30s and 40s outside. 37 in napa. 48 san francisco. as we await more patchy fog to fill in overnight. but coming up this week, will you need the umbrella any'larew?

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and a much larger facility. the company also purchased land on the other side of the bay front expressway which connects to one hacker way by a tunnel and the company hopes to expand the campus there. have even v been concerns about traffic congestion and an environmental impact report is still being worked on. one report suggests that nearby businesses could gain about $29 million in annual revenue as a result of facebook being here in menlo park. >> the great thing about this is that everyone will be in the same place. when we're in palo alto we're in two buildings separated by about a mile and a 15-minute walk. now serve kind of like under the same roof. >> facebook's new facility will include amenities for workers similar for employees at the google complex. two full-service cafes, a burrito bar, a burger bar, a barbecue shack here on campus. there's also laundry service and bus service to and from the city and the south bay. there are critics that say this new campus is so self-contained

that it won't end up benefitting the local economy. coming up at 11:00, why some local business owners here are still hopeful. live in menlo park, monte francis, nbc bay area news. >> thank you monte. the owner of the golden state warriors can't teach you how to sink a jump shot. something about his other line of work. anything else, hon? hon? do you call everyone hon? no. i'm sweetie. precious. sugar britches. whoever you are, get a whole dinner

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golden state warriors owner peter guber is not only a big time movie producer with movies like "rain man" and "bat man" on his resume. he's now a best-selling author. >> reporter: the golden state warriors will eventually write a new script turning the page of the franchise with a clearly defined story. the director is in place and so are the executive producers. >> i'm a story man. we want to tell a great story. we're going to live a great story. we want to be a great story. >> reporter: that was peter guber days after he and joe laka

purchased the franchise. several months after that, he began sharing the story in what's become a best selling book about the power of story. "tell to win." >> this is not a secret. it's the way we're all wired. in it's our dna. my job, my role, my mission was to shine the light on it. >> which he does with numerous examples hough he and a variety of successful people in all types of business have excelled by having a compelling tale that can easily be retold by others. >> if you can't tell it you can't sell it. when you want someone to buy your product, vote for you, do better as a sports team, whatever you want them to do, in order to move them to action, the best, most popular, most violent, successful tool is the ability to tell your story. >> stats and information are critical to virtually every sport and all types of businesses. but to get to the heart of any listener, guber contends that embedding those figures into a narrative is what creates

meaning and further makes the information memorable. >> it allows the person that hears it, that audience, that cust oerm, that client, that team member, allows them to metabolize it, to own it and be able to pay the story forward and in a sense become a viral advocate, evangelize the product or the service. so the secret is, that's the way you turn on the power of your product. >> reporter: and to this day, having taught for many years at ucla, guber shares these concepts with the zeal of an academic but all backed by the weight of a career of amazing stories from the worlds of film, music, sports and other creative endeavors. >> 80% of it is the telling and 20% is the story. but telling it, understanding that you have to motivate, not your person listening but yourself. are you motivated? is your intention aligned? is your intention there before you try to get their attention? if that isn't there you'll not look authentic. it won't shine through. >> he's well known for the blockbuster movies he's produced

and the stars he's worked with along the way. his ability to adapt in the story telling process helped gain one of his key crews key access to the havana harbor among convincing castro that a historical legacy could be preserved with permission to film in the harbor. his work led to the landmark film "gorillas in the midst." one of the great stories of his career centers around not words but music. guber's inspiration to create an album in celebration of the 1984 summer olympics in los angeles led to the john williams composition that has become part of the olympic fanfare to this very day. >> look how music creates an impression, an emotional impression on its audience. music is story. music is narrative. it's a different form like art and food is narrative. so i thought to myself, what is each movement of the olympics

could have similar movement in music? >> now the stories he's immersed in regard the number of minor league baseball teams he operates as well as an nba franchise in need of a comeback story. >> sports is a pallet for drama. it is a theater. and it sets itself up as a theater. it's a perfect glat form to explore how narrative works. so basketball is a terrific persinnium for those kinds of stories and narratives. and that's what sells a team, what sells the brand, what sells the fans, what sells the players and the tv audience. it's the way it works. >> in pretty much each of these stories shared in the book is a sense of humor and a road map for how to make connections with purposeful stories. and just like excelling in sports it might take practice. >> here's what i do know. no risk. you don't have to call your doctors after four hours. it's absolutely no risk. it's a jackpot proposition with no risk.

just use narrative as a power to emotionalize your offering and it works in sports, in business, in law, in politics. narrative makes up our life. so this is inside of you. just use any of the tools. >> that was laurence scott reporting. the warriors open their season a week from today on christmas day. meteorologist rob mayeda joins us now. i thing way the weather pattern is, you have a pretty good christmas day forecast already in the books. >> looks like things will be just like we're seeing right now. just some low clouds and dry conditions. high pressure really not giving any ground. right now it's once again cool, dropping into the 30s and 40s. but there's a change now. we've got low clouds filling around the bay. and at least partially that will act like a blanket overnight. the heed that radiates off the ground will hit that layer of clouds and go back to the surface. should not be quite as cold tomorrow morning, but still probably seeing some upper 30s to mid-40s for tomorrow morning.

winds did turn briefly onshore. that supplied a little extra moisture and helped to get those low clouds to form. another spare the air day for the banning any of kind of wood burning appliances tomorrow. worst air quality will be in the north bay counties through monday afternoon. so low clouds will start things off tomorrow morning. but it's going to change up probably around this time tomorrow. the winds pick up a little bit which will warm things up slightly in the north bay locations for tomorrow. right now we really don't have anything in the way of high clouds. surn california has dried out as snow as flying across the desert southwest for some of the mountain areas. offshore, a lot of moisture trying to get towards the bay area but high pressure again is acting like a wall. as we flip forward here on your futurecast, look at this. as we go through the entire week, maybe some sprinkles there on the north coast on thursday. but more likely if that system is going to dive down into the sierra. much like we've seen over the last couple of weeks, it's going to be more wind versus wet as the systems turn into inside sliders and drop into nevada.

we'll see breezy conditions picking up later on this week. that's the story of the week. it's either fog or at times a little breezy as the wind turn slightly offshore. late tomorrow into tuesday and probably another round thursday and friday. so tomorrow morning, as you wake up, you'll see overcast skies. temperatures in the 30s and 40s. around lunchtime, still pretty chilly outside. notice the numbers around, let's say, santa rosa and fairfield. the winds start to pick up out of the north during the afternoon. we should see those temperatures starting to climb up into the mid-60s around santa rosa and also around fairfield as we get into the afternoon. you'll see those numbers in the 60s during the day tomorrow. close to 60 in san jose. so you brought up the christmas day forecast as we head toward next weekend. notice the numbers not changing much. the only variations will be how breeze the is in the hills which will be great if you want to clear out the fog and also perhaps pull back on some of the spare the air days. dry weather will continue through the next 7 to 1thu k yo. we'll be rightve much.

a new grocery store opened its doors in san jose today. the fresco world market is located at east ridge mall in the evergreen neighborhood of san jose. it is a family owned business and owners say their goal is to meet the needs of the diverse community in that area. fresh cuisine from countries all over the world will be imported daily. fresco opened just as two other grocery stores recently closed in san jose. >> we need jobs. and especially those people who are not high tech workers. the unemployment rate has been devastating for construction and for blue collar workers. so this is blue collar jobs here today. 200 jobs. >> in addition to groceries the store offers prepared ethnic foods and has akwairiums with live fish and shellfish. thank you for watching this special football edition of "nbc bay area news." join us for more news tonight at 11:00. we'll hear the latest from soldiers exiting iraq plus bring you the bittersweet homecoming of dozens of troops who spent the last year in afghanistan.

and a live in-depth report on the effects of facebook's move to menlo park. "30 rock" is up next. have a great night.

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