and killed crossing a busy bay area street. now the search is on for the person behind the wheel. big rig chocked full of frozen turkeys overturns in the east bay. mike inouye has impact of the morning commute. moments away from space history. the first of its kind mission taking place as we speak. and we could be making history in terms of record rainfall. not yet but start up shower activity as of tonight. turn cloudy before the rain arrives, as we get into tomorrow showers and kick open the storm window. what that means for your pacific microclimate in moments. we have this closure over the tri-valley, all hands on turkeys, coming up shortly. the latest on the closure for the tri-valley and your commute. a holiday kind of mood? we are a few weeks away from

thanksgiving as we take a live look outside from the san bruno mountains, the city by the bay. it's wednesday, november 12th. you are watching "today in the bay." >> announcer: from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." >> very good wednesday morning. thank you for joining us i'm sam brock. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. this morning, a stuffed animal, candles marking the spot where a 14-year-old boy hit and killed trying to cross a street in san leandro. the boy in a crosswalk when hit by a driver trying to get away from deputies. it happened last night near ashland and east 14th stroet in the unincorporated area of the city. stephanie chuang, the witnesses say the boy thrown several feet. just tragic. >> reporter: absolutely tragic. good morning. we spoke with a man who says he lives in the neighborhood, who saw the high-speed chase himself and that the car was a red or burgundy sedan going 50 miles an

hour in the 30 mile an hour zone. happened at 6:30. the victim halfway across the crosswalk there when he was hit. impact so great, he flew maybe 40 feet to where you see the bus stop and memorial, the stuffed animal, candles and the latest, a teddy bear on the pole. investigators are spent hours in the ashland area taking away evidence like the scooter that the 14-year-old had with him. this began when police first saw a reckless driver south of ashland. when the driver refused to pull over they began a pursuit. omar saw the chase and his wife stood in the middle of the street to get help from police. he felt compelled to pay respects as a fair father of five. >> for the family that has to deal with this, for the kids, just the person who did this, turn himself in because it's not

right for you to live out there a happy life and the person you hit, their family has to live in sorrow. >> reporter: friends of the victim, a couple of the friends headed to the park at the time. the chp is investigating the collision while the alameda county sheriff's office is conducting the criminal investigation. investigators looking for surveillance footage to get more details as well as the driver and if there were any other people in that vehicle. counselors, grief counselors, at san lorenzo high school for the students who need that help. stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." >> thoughts go to the family as well. thank you, steph. moving on to another instance of deadly driving, san jose a drive who hit and killed an elderly woman facing dui charge mz the 74-year-old on her way to a nearby laundromat when hit in the crosswalk. the driver stayed on scene but taken to the hospital when complained of chest pains.

police told us he was arrested for dui. the area in east san jose was shut down during that investigation. happening now, a small spacecraft the size of a washing machine headed towards a comet gearing up to make historic landing. if all goes as planned the probe will attach itself after 7:30 this morning. >> bob redell joining us from the space and science center. a glitch could make this test trickier than it already sounds. good morning. >> reporter: it is. good morning, sam and laura. at any moment they'll have 100 people, astronomers, seen tests, guests, coming to the planetarium here, watching a live feed from germany of the european space agency mission control running the rosetta mission. a lander called fila making descend down, to your right, look at that image on the screen, that's 67-p, 2 1/2 mile

wide comet over 300 million miles away from us. the lander left the rosetta, the mother ship, left rosetta around midnight our time. there has been a hiccup. part of the active descent system has failed. that's the thruster that's supposed to push it into the comet and keep it from bouncing. now a harpoon and ice screws to keep it from becoming detached. you have one large object moving very fast, a small one trying to get on top. the problem if it were to land on a boulder or slope. an astronomer here is plan b will work and it will be able to land on the comet and gather data the surface of the ball of ice and dust. >> a great chance to study the composition of our solar system like when first forming. >> reporter: for you as an astronomer? >> it's great.

you see comets periodically, we've had a couple of opportunities to fly by them, but this is the first time we can land on it and do an in-depth analysis of what it's composed of and how it works. >> reporter: what's happening now on the comet, over 300 million miles away, out of the hands of us earthlings. it takes over 28 minutes to get a signal and to rosetta. it's on its own. the thought it's going to hit the surface, land on the surface of the comet in an hour and a half, around 7:30. wouldn't get confirmation around 8:00 our time. hoping the confirmation will be some image that they'll be beaming on the live feed that will be shown here at the planetarium where we're having a gathering, viewing party starting any moment now. live here oakland hills, bob

redell, "today in the bay." >> cool place to be. wow. >> right spot. to believe this could happen. a closer look at rosetta's long journey, probe launched in march 2004. 2007 carried out, carried first fly-by of mars. july 2010, transmitted the first pictures from the largest asteroid visited by a satellite. january of this year, after three years of hi hibernation, 5 set its first landing back to earth before releasing the lander. we'll know after 8:00 this morning, as bob mentioned. good news, watch it live nbcbayarea.com. >> very cool. time to check the forecast as we give you a live look outside. overlooking san bruno mountain san francisco in the distance. rain in the works in coming days. >> yeah. we certainly need it. it's a great story that i get to tell. good morning to you. happy wednesday, as you're

making you're way out and about grab a jacket. waking up in the north bay and extra cautious, maybe wearing something nice, maybe something designer, bring an umbrella with you because we are expecting showers to arrive between 4:00 and 6:00 especially at the coast, north bay. activity will slide to the south through overnight hours. we'll get a dry day. if you have things outdoors that could get damaged, bring them in because this will start to impact us tonight across the bay area. it's not just going to be a north bay only event. so here's what's happening out there. you see that very well defined area of low pressure, counterclockwise rotation, rams horn looking good. watching a subtropical moisture tap formation. right now it does look like we're going to hit that tap for a couple of hours and that's going to provide decent rainfall totals in the south bay as we meet back tomorrow morning. we'll see a nice dry day before

those showers move in. 64 in san francisco, 66, on the cool side for the east shore, compare your temperature to average. overcast out there as well as that storm continues to barrel closer to the bay area. i'm going to show you the time line. a sneak peek, this is a good-looking system. not just talking about the light green. we're talking about the deep green, even yellow and orange as we head throughout the next 12 to 24 hours. so keep in mind this is the first of a series of storm systems. we'll talk about the next two in my next report. but first, check on that drive. it's been rough, unexpected, fowl play. >> exactly. fowl work. specific spot, illustrated by chopper overhead, lit up by the crew that just arrived there with the work lights. we also have fire crews on scene. a fuel spill, overturned truck, about 40 gallons of diesel and

the truck overturned has 25,000 pounds of frozen turkey. using a ladder to get on the side of the truck which is the top, trying to figure out how to right the rig. also in the right side of the screen, pallet of stuff there. looks like starting to offload turkeys and thinking there there's a better way. alcosta boulevard off-ramp from southbound 680, that is closed. more trucks arriving. south bound 680 closed alcosta. the freeway moves smoothly. use bollinger canyon as off-ramp until 10:00 a.m. when they hope to have it reopened by then. slow drive developing through pleasanton. some folks taking 680 south towards stone ridge and looping back how to get to alcosta. build on for the tri-valley and hayward, 880. no big surprises. metering lights on at bay bridge. south bay has north bound routes 101 and 87 starting to build. bay bridge approach, fender

bender at powell. palo alto, 101, peninsula, traffic flows smoothly. as you get farther north, on-ramps has the metering lights cycling green last week, now red and green. folks getting on to the freeway north bound 101 between 92 and candlestick, wait to get on the freeway. the traffic jam is on the southbound side so it won't help that. >> don't blow through the metering lights. >> no more test run. 6:11. murder trial surrounding sierra lamar could take a major step forward. changes in the way black friday works. we'll explain coming up in business and tech.

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wednesday morning, transition day, as we have rainfall moving in as of this evening. and this is a first of a series of storms, it's looking to be very active, as we get into next week. we'll show you what models are saying and my soon ticientific analysis for how much rain we might get if everything works out right. looking good. >> looking good weather-wise, not traffic wise, because there are turkeys, not rain on the road here in the tri-valley. alcosta boulevard off-ramp closed. your work-around for the tri-valley coming up. mike's got his eyes on that. a look at top stories. family of a ebola victim thomas duncan holding a news conference in a couple of hours to talk about a resolution that they've reached with the texas hospital where he was treated. no word on the details of that settlement but you will recall, the hospital sent duncan home though he had a fever and other sim testimonies, told him them

he had just come from west africa. friends of a tech worker missing since halloween plan to hold a prayer vigil for his safe return. last seen a week and a half ago, leaving his apartment. san jose police department holding a public meeting today, is holding a meeting, to tell people how it plans to use a new drone that they didn't tell them they bought. the police department, widespread criticism after it purchased the drone without telling the public. a judge may set a trial date for the man accused of killing sierra lamar. torres has pleaded not guilty to charge his kidnapped and killed the 15-year-old in 2012. a hearing to set the trial date in september postponed until today. lamar's hair found on a rope inside the trunk of torres' car and his dna found on her clothing. her body has not been found. >> the case against suspend

state senator leland yee could be moving forward. back in court as lawyers and a judge work to separate his case from a long list of other defendants who are also arrested in an fbi raid. yee faces various charges including corruption, brainry, gun trafficking. he was arrested in march with chinatown gang remember raymond chow, former san francisco school board president keith jackson and 26 other people. walmart will spread out black friday sales this year. >> that equates, scott mcgrew, to not all of the stuff on sale at the same time. good morning. >> not everyone, sam, rushing the store at the same time. walmart wants to make black friday a five-day event. not this. things will kick off early, walmart, one of the stores that's open on thanksgiving, going to roll out sales, starting with i toys and tvs, et cetera so not everything happens at once. walmart's been reporting slow sales over the last few months. this could help. also says it's going expand its

online sales. online is growing and growing with instant delivery. if you turn christmas shopping on its head and think of online shopping with free shipping which young people do, stores are christmas shopping but you have to get the item yourself, and spend money on gas. new developments in the president's push to reclassify the internet as a utility. that decision is up to the fcc and head of the fcc is saying publicly, he may not go along with the president's wishes, which is his right, it's an independent agency, not a cabinet position and the president can't tell him what to do. but the public can put on a lot of pressure. protest planned for thursday, calling it party at the fcc, to show the federal communications commission how people feel. here's the poster, save the internet, it says, fight for your right for free speech. i'm not going to tell you which side to agree with, that's not my job, but i'm going to say the

truth is way more complicated than fight for your right for free speech. it's an important issue to silicon valley, something you can't get on a poster. >> right. >> not going to dive into it. the president has ratcheted up pressure, as you mentioned, though, scott. >> he's made it a front page issue. i think that's great because we've been talking about it for years but we can get people 'tension. >> exactly. the "today" show's al roker, you've heard of him, admits he could get a little loopy when a approaches the end of his 34-hour weather thon. hitting the air at 7:00 hoping to set the guinness record for the longest continuous weather cast. wrapping things up at 5:00 friday, watch him live tomorrow around this time, 6:15 a.m., about 11 hours into his long, never ending weather cast. >> he's going to be talking to

christina loren. he'll have something to talk about with and all of the polar vortex and everything going on. >> yeah. >> what a beautiful look outside at the glorious bay bridge. lights on the water there. nice start to the day. >> certainly, nice out here today. and, boy, my heart would go out to him if he had to do that 24 hours to maybe 34 hour weather cast with no weather to talk about because that is always more difficult when we things to watch. that was last year for me, my friends. that was last year. this year, quite the contrary april completely different scenario shaping up. one more time, in case you're just joining us, loren and roker live tomorrow morning, set your dvr, you don't want to miss. temperatures show you mostly clear sky. we're going to have weather right here as we wake up and meet up tomorrow. wake up with al here on "today in the bay." got to love that. 58 degrees on the peninsula. 54 south bay.

60 degrees in san francisco. current temperatures. notice a difference between the north bay and san francisco. we're at 60 here. 44 degrees out in santa rosa. it has everything to do with that blanket of clouds that you'll start to see. waking up clear this morning. in the north bay, temperatures mile for today but not bad. 68 degrees, two shy of 70, not a bad day in the south bay. 65 degrees in the north bay with rain arriving by tonight. so let me walk you through the next five days and then i'll show you next week. looking pretty good for us when it comes to the drought situation. today dry, showers widespread tomorrow. clear for the second half of the day. as we head throughout your friday, residual activity friday morning, not expecting much. saturday into sunday, a little bit of a break before we get a series of storms here in the bay area. and you know what? when we meet back here next

week, this is going to be the talk of the bay area. it's looking really good for us to hit that subtropical moisture tap potentially three to six hours. not from the first one, but the first one looks good. move you forward in time. stop that clock at 2:00 a.m. tomorrow, widespread rainfall, clears out by tomorrow afternoon. a nice weekend. by monday, next round of rain started to move in. let me stop the clock and show you next tuesday into wednesday and that is not it, my friends, we've got more rain on the way thursday into friday of next week as well. so it looks like the pattern that we need to really take a clunk out of the deficit that we're running. that's the good news. something you don't need, slower than normal drive because of turkeys. 'tis not the season for that, mike, 'tis not. >> no, we have more time to defrost the turkey. some are defrosting now. tri-valley, unusual slowing for southbound 680, much heavier

traffic flow than yesterday. this should have nothing to do with the closure for alcosta. here's your slower drive through pleasanton for south bound 680. talking about the turkeys right there, alcosta boulevard. chopper's over the scene. there's a truck with a light, fire crew on scene because there's a fuel spill. this overturned rig and 25,000 pounds of turkey minus a few hundred pounds on the pallet. they have yet to clear that out of the truck and right that rig. my guess they have to offload that until they pull that up on to its wheels and clear the area. talking 10:00 a.m. until the off-ramp open from southbound 68 on back to the maps, bollinger canyon road alternate to get you on surface streets. san ramon valley boulevard into the alcosta area, or loop back through 680 northbound. look you have to travel past e dublin interchange, a lot of congestion. southbound and hayward union city. north 101 start the bill. no big surprises.

peninsula, traffic hasn't made it over san mateo or dumbarton bridges. fremont, southbound 880 a build. bay bridge toll plaza has metering lights on. we have a smooth flow of traffic down the east shore and congestion out of the maze. back to you. >> thank you. 6:23. up next, pumping poison into a lake on purpose. unusual tactic to get rid of unwanted fish in one bay area waterway.

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6:25. crews will pump poison into a san francisco lake in hopes of killing off several species of invasive fish. talking about mountain lake in proceed yo. four-acre upon people have dumped former goal fish, bass and sturgeon. they've done everything they could to get rid of the fish humanely but nothing has work so they plan to drop 47 gallons of a cocktail of poisons into the lake. the poisons should dissolve within a couple of days but the area will be fenced off and guard for three weeks as a precaution. 6:26. breaking up is hard to do, so the song goes. one man wanted to make sure is ex new there were plenty of other chicks out there. he backed that statement up with a box of chicks. he mailed one-day old chicks to her home in washington, d.c., with a note saying there are lots other chicks out there,

quote/unquote. the woman told the mailman she was going to throw the chicks in the crash and the mailman took them to the humane society. >> good thing he did. >> the mailman is the catch in all of this. >> yes. maybe he used it to his advantage. the chicks have found a new home in maryland. happy ending to a grotesque prank. >> someone bitter. opening bell moments away. we'll break down the markets and numbers next.

it is back to work with a new political landscape. congress returning to capitol hill for the first time since last week's elections. issues on the agenda coming up. and we have some changes coming to your forecast. as of today, turning windy and cloudy, then showers. as of tonight, the first of a series of storm systems. we'll show you what's coming your way in your pacific microclimate in moments. as your commute continues to build, no change over my

shoulder. looking at closure in the tri-valley, overturned truck, thousands of pounds of turkeys, more coming up. and wall street gets to work this morning. the dow and s&p 500, new records. jeff gordon, what he's doing there. over on the nasdaq as well, capitalism gets under way. let's take a live look outside. you can see the beautiful golden gate this morning. traffic appears to be moving smoothly. it's wednesday, november 12th. this is "today in the bay." >> announcer: from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." >> very good wednesday morning to you. thanks to joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> i'm sam brock. agreement billed as a major breakthrough in u.s.-chinese relations. president obama and the chinese president held a rare joint news conference in beijing today. together the pair announcing a landmark new deal to cut

greenhouse gas emissions. they also announced new military and trade agreements that will boost cooperation between those two powers. >> back here at home, congress returns to work following midterm elections. this, as the senate committee is set to discuss a $6 billion request from the president to fight the ebola crisis in west africa. "today in the bay's" tracie potts live on capitol hill. finding a middle ground on major issues could be difficult before the new congress takes over. >> yes, especially since they don't have a lot of time. you mentioned ebola, isis another funding issue they need to deal with. we have an attorney general spot that's open democrats want to get that taken care of soon. and they've got to take a close look at the budget. >> reporter: topping today's agenda, $1 trillion to keep the government running past december 11th. negotiations are under way. >> let me make it clear, no government shutdowns and no default on the national debt. >> reporter: congress needs to approve more than $6 billion to

fight ebola, just over $3.5 billion to deal with immigrant children, and $5 billion to fight isis. authorization to arm and train rebels runs out next month. president obama wants to send 1500 more troops to iraq. >> i don't think the republicans want to play politics with the question of deployment of forces against isis. this is a real-time crisis so we can't wait until january. >> reporter: the senate's got a ton of nominations to consider, including loretta lynch for attorney general. democrats will likely push those through before republicans take over in january. >> hearing some republicans say, i'm going to vote no on everything because we're about to take over majority. >> reporter: republicans are eager to approve the keystone xl oil pipeline but democrats may vote on that first to help their colleague, mary landrieu. she's in charge of the energy committee and faces a run-off next month. hold on to your taxes, we've got tax breaks expiring at the end of the year.

some pentagon programs expiring, including insurance for certain industries in businesses if there's a terror attack. all of that's got to be dealt with before the old congress says good-bye. >> hold on to my money, not give it away to taxes. thanks, traci. >> will they play nice? we'll find out. also immediately learn right now what's going on in the weather front. 6:33 on your wednesday morning. this is a live picture of downtown san francisco. iconic trans-america building. >> this time tomorrow could be different. >> yeah. counting on showers. good morning to you, laura, sam, all of my friends at home. what an interesting forecast. i get to tell you about. a good one. especially if you're somebody who has interest in farming, if you're somebody keeping tabs on the severity of our historic drought. i can tell you right now, looking optimistic for us to receive inches of rain through coming days, if everything stays the way it looks right now.

so there's science behind what we're looking at. we'll dive into that coming up. 60 in san francisco. good morning, san carlos, you're at 59. 54 here in downtown san jose. it's cold out in san martin south to gilroy. 40s to low 50s, as lows, as temperatures are starting to reflect our shorter days. these are numbers later on with a gray sky by 3:00. 68 degrees for the south bay. 66 degrees on the peninsula, and about 66 on the east shore. with rain moving into the north bay first, as we head through tonight. we'll talk about the timing and the science in my next report, but first, an alert for commuters. it wasn't that bad until just about now, as more people are starting to hit the highway. that backup, mike, good thing you're here with us. >> hi. folks, commuters know to expect a build, kicking in after 6:00. 6:30 really in earnest in many spots.

talking been an unusual problem in the tri-valley. this is the off-ramp where is what left of the off-ramp availability, none. southbound to 680 alcosta boulevard you can't use that bauld because of the overturned big rig. sand used to soak up the spill. box in the middle of the shot, boxes of turkeys on their way to costco in that rig which has to be offloaded and loaded on to the other rig at the bomb tof the screen. that has to continue to get it light enough to right the rig itself without tearing the sides off the back trailer. that's the big concern. no major injuries as a result of the crash. on-ramp, southbound 680, two lanes are open imfact of the freeway, negligible for 680 south, use bollinger canyon road as off ramp. if you don't use the off ramp, folks into 680 and the sunol area because you have to loop back around at stone ridge which will take you through the slower drive. use bollinger canyon to the north and surface streets to

alcosta. tri-valley, heavier flow of traffic than yesterday. same thing approaching walnut creek interchange. no surprises there. around the rest of the bias far as flow of traffic, build on for the south bay. a live shot over oakland, show you the volume of traffic start to to bill at coliseum towards toll plaza where metering lights are on. i think that's the last of the live shot. one more? san mateo bridge, smoothly westbound. we had a good burst of traffic but it sorted itself out. build will start on the peninsula as folks reach 101. >> could take until 10:00 for the truck. >> if they have complications -- >> that's at 680, turkeys. >> yes, alcosta, not the san mateo. >> sorry. did not mean to confuse you. >> remaining closed until 10:00, that's the estimate right now. it's 6:36. the markets have been at record levels of late. can they keep it up? checking numbers now, scott mcgrew. >> good morning. the dow's lower, after hitting

records yesterday. concern over europe. we get europe's gdp numbers essentially coming up later this week. we saw stuff out of england that was a bit discouraging. dow industrials down 75 points. want to take you back to the open at nyse. jeff gordon there, the smaller of two guy there's in the front, his net worth is about $200 million but axalta which used to be dupont which sponsors his car, ipo'd, almost $1 billion. one wonders if he got stock options because that would make him go from $200 million race car driver to more than that. >> boy, yes. small in stature but big in other areas. >> cash of -- stack of cash. >> a man trapped inside a wall for days could soon face charges. we'll tell you why, next.

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will picket to support those claims. kaiser calls it a tactic in its ongoing contract negotiations. biggest rallies planned for downtown oakland. kaiser saying facilities will remain opened but elective procedures have had to be rescheduled. a colorado man could face trespassing charges after he needed to be rescued from inside a department store wall. the man was trapped inside the wall of a marshall's for two, maybe three days. employees hear the yelling but didn't know where it was coming from. fire crews located the sound and broke through the outside of the store. they found a man squished in a crawl space. they believe he fell 20 feet from an access base on the roof. officials say the man was doing fine but extremely cold. as it was just 15 degrees in that area of colorado yesterday. >> that would do it. that would be arctic almost.

6:41. a boy hit and killed crossing a busy bay area street. the search for the person behind the wheel. a big rig full of turkeys overturns. moments away from space history, the first of its kind mission, taking place as we speak. a live look outside, san bruno mountain. enjoy this dry morning. tomorrow, everything's going to change. back with 15 minutes of nonstop news, traffic and weather after this break. this... is the best part of the day. when we sit down together and talk. more and more, we're having conversations about the food itself: how good it is for us. how good it is for the planet.

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street. the boy in the crosswalk when struck by a driver trying to get away near deputies. this happening in unincorporated area of the city. that is where "today in the bay's" stephanie chuang joins us. witnesses say the boy was thrown several feet when this happened. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, sam. we spoke with a couple of different people here witnessing the aftermath. one man saying the red or burgundy speeding car going 50 miles an hour in the 35 mile an hour zone and another woman telling us that the sh14-year-old walking through the crosswalk halfway there, had the light when struck and hit so hard he flew 40 feet all the way to where you see the growing memorial this morning of mostly stuffed animals and candles lit here. investigators spending hours here in the ashland area taking away evidence like the scooter the 14-year-old had with him. police saw a reckless driver

ought south of ashland. the car struck the 14-year-old. we spoke with two people who saw the saw the aftermath. >> i was talking home, seen everything, felt so bad. i thought he was going to be okay. when i saw the mom i wanted to pray for her and hole her. >> i don't think it's right a man who did something like this should be free. he hit -- he hit the kid, he should pay his dues. >> and the driver still on the run. the chp investigating the collision while the alameda county sheriff's office is conduct the criminal investigation. police looking for surveillance footage to get a better look at car and driver and anyone else who might have been inside. a red or burgundy sedan. friends saying the victim with a couple 0 other friends heading to eden dale park. just 14, student at san lorenzo

high school a mile away, where we're told grief counselors will be on hand for student whose need them. live in alameda county, stephanie chuang, "today in the bay." >> one of those inexplicable things, so hard to explain to kids. thank you. 6:47. let's check that microclimate forecast as we take a peek at golden gate bridge. traffic appears to be moving smoothly. christina, she's got a look of the changing conditions. >> yeah, rain on the way. and everybody's excited about it, it is going to be the talk of the town. and, yeah, hey, if you live somewhere maybe up in ukiah, looking for a personalized forecast, tweet me, tweet me, i'll make it my mission to get back to you as often as i possibly can, though laura garcia-cannon has been verifies with the blue check, what's up with that? where's my blue collect? 48 degrees. 46 in san ata rosa. 60 in san francisco.

as we get into the afternoon, temperatures will going to stay comfortable. and then our next weathermaker arrives and this is where i get excited. there's a scientific component to this, and it's something the models aren't picking up on just yet. we're seeing more and more of this in the models, what they're reflecting. we've got this constant plume of moisture from the hawaiian islands all wait to the california coastline. as we get this storm system, it's going to tap into that moisture and for us, that means we're going to get decent rainfall here in the bay area. now we're going to tap into it for one to two hours this time. but as we head throughout next week it looks very promising for us hit that tap potentially for 12 to maybe 16 hours, and that could bring totals way up. i'll show you that in a moment. let's focus on the weather story of the day. that's a cloudy sky. temperatures are cool but not too bad. 68 for example in the south bay.

66 east shore. as we get into thursday, keep that umbrella by your side. you'll need it until 3:00, the storm system heads out of town, friday residual activity, a little in the morning hours and maybe isolated thunderstorm or two. as we head throughout the weekend, it will be on the cool side. you can hit the beach comfortably sunday, 65 on sunday in san francisco. and then we really get it when it comes to storm systems. futurecast, best way, you find your region here on the map and let's take this thing, put it into motion. 7:00, you see showers fire off. up in the north bay, we could see isolated thunderstorm as well. a strong cold front. as we head throughout the later portion of the night into morning hours all of this activity will spread into the south bay at 2:00 a.m. we take you into the weekend, dry. we stop the clock at monday 11:00 p.m. when we start to get wet. if everything maintains, we've

got to have that connection, but right now the models say it will happen. we stop that clock for you at 1:00 a.m. wednesday, heavy downpours across the bay area. and then another system on the way as we head throughout your thursday. and potentially more rain on friday of next week. it's going to get active and i like to put everything on your radar as soon as i see. something to do to ditch the rain, strike out hunger. bowl for free, all the way through december 31st, all you have to dos a bring a canned good and it's a way for you to help out the community. and it's that time of year. time of year for turkey, thanksgiving, but not what you're talking about. >> good morning, christina. doing thatted tif drive at safeways on the 22nd. this are frozen turkeys we collect in our food drive. not sure what's going to happen to these turkeys but this rig has 25,000 pounds or more of these frozen

costco on its side. spilled 40 gallons of diesel. crews unloading the turkeys. and this rig hopefully will clear that from the roadway but not until 10:00 a.m. now we're looking at here on the map, talking about the alcosta boulevard off-ramp from southbound 680, 680 to the scene not a problem. folks in the know like you, use bollinger canyon road as off-ramp, get to city streets and take alternate into alcosta bofl. if you miss that, forced into the slowdown building out of san ramon into pleasanton. stone ridge where you can make the loop back over to north 680 and take alcosta off of the north bound side but takes you into the heart of the congestion. a little heavier north because folks missing the alcosta off-ramp. the rest of the look around the bay, nothing unusual for south 880 jamming out of hey war, slowing across the san mateo

bridge where 101 picking up v volume, slowing for the volume through fremont. earlier crash at curtner is off. tip c typical pattern here. at the limit through palo alto. slowing through san mateo and of course getting into san francisco from the peninsula, volume build around 280 split. golden gate bridge clear view and clear drive. good stuff out of the north bay. >> you have a scientific curiosity, so do we. happening now, small spacecraft the size of a washing machine headed towards a moving comic to make an historic landing. the probe will attach itself in 40 minutes. >> exciting to watch. "today in the bay's" bob redell joins us from the space and science center. a glitch could make this task trickier.

>> reporter: it does. we talked to an astronomer, they're confident the mission should succeed in the next 40 minutes. you've got 100 astronomers, scientists start watching the live feed from the europe. space agency. a mockup of the comet, 67-p. there's a probe descending on top of it. give you a sense of the size of the comet, 2 1/2 miles wide. to put it over oakland it would take up that much space april large object. not as big as the planet but large objects in space, very big. this started around mid night our time, the larger spacecraft started to release the lanyard, now, ideally what would happen, when it gets closer to the surface it would activate the thrusters keep the lander from bouncing off the comet. that system has failed so they have a plan b, going to be

activating harpoons that would go into the comet and ice screws keep the lander on to the comet. they don't want it to bounce off. if that does work, then it will be a success. and then within the next month or two, it would be able to collect data from the comet and get important information from an object we never have been able to study before. >> a great chance to study what the composition of our solar system was like when it was first forming. >> reporter: for you as an astronomer? >> oh, it's great. we see comets periodically, we've had a couple of opportunities to fly buy them, but this the first time we can land on it and do an in-depth analysis of what it's composed of, how it works. >> reporter: what's happening with it, it's autopilot, us earthlings have no say, the comet's over 300 million miles away. takes a long time to get i

signal. they can't do anything in real-time, takes 28 meants and change to be a relay. the idea this going to happen at 7:30 our time, then maybe around 8:00 is when they hope to get that first image there. again, first time unprecedented for mankind to send an object to a comet relaying information back. hoping it will work and give us information that at least through december. i watched the movie "armageddon" seven times, i'm a qualified expert. >> sounds like it's all in the bag. >> we'll flow if that landing is successful after 8:00. you can watch it live on our website, nbcbayarea.com. click on the linco link on our page. the san francisco police department bought a drone. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez live to explain what they'll be talking about at this meeting, why they didn't tell

anyone they bought it in the first place. good morning. >> reporter: the department said, boy we wish we would have been more transparent about buying that drone in the first place. tonight when the assistant chief answers questions about how that drone could be deployed in crime fighting, he will probably also get a lot of questions about why the department didn't tell the community or the city council when it was looking for those federal funds to buy the drone in the first place. neighborhood commission meeting is part of the outreach of the department promised in its apology for that in august. the department used a federal grant to buy that $7,000 unmanned flying machine which it claims will be a valuable asset in situations like a bomb threat for areas that are too dangerous for officers to go in blind. additionally, because that drone but was bought with federal dollars it could be a resource available to other bay area law enforcement agencies. the american civil liberties union has said the drone could readily be abused, providing surveillance and citizens

without warrant. if you want to go to the meeting, regarding the drones, plan ford 6:30 tonight san jose city hall, the public is welcome to attend. police say that though the drone has been in headlines since august, it has not been in the air. chrkris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> a discussion will be very interesting. 6:57. calls for protest to back up president obama's new position protecting net neutrality. >> the head of the fcc not convinced at this point. >> no, tom wheeler announced he probably not follow the president's wishes and reclassify the internet as a utility. his right, he runs an independent agency outside the executive branch. protests in support of the president that laura mentioned are for tomorrow, calling it party at the fcc, net neutrality an issue for years but getting headline attention in washington this morning. remember monday, talking about that problem where some new

android uses are couldn't get text messages because of a problem shutting down their old i messages at apple. that's officially before the court. a federal judge gave the go ahead to a previously filed lawsuit that says the problem violated california law. apple lawyers know the judge well, she heard the landmark apple-samsung case, and also the judge who heard the case for tech companies. right in front of lucy coe. >> a tech judge, a household name. >> collect heck in with christi >> rain on the way but not until this evening. couple 60s. grab your jacket, leave the umbrella home. take it with you in the north bay, especially sonoma county. tomorrow morning traffic and weather together, tracking showers for your morning drive.

>> that's life in the bay area. drives dealing with a problem in dublin. >> glad it's not too hot. frozen turkeys. >> fowl. >> fowl smell the case. that truck on its side, boxes behind it, turkeys offloaded. on the way to costco, not reached there. i don't know what they're able to do with the turkeys. continue to follow that. viewers are writing to in to ask. new truck arrived. i don't know what it's for. we have the fuel spill, cleaned up with the sand over there, look likes 10:00 to reopen the alcosta boulevard off-ramp from southbound 680. we don't see slowing for 680 north. use bollinger canyon has off-ramp. south of there folks miss the off-ramp they have it loop around in the jam towards pleasanton, where traffic is focused. rest of the bay typical. >> maybe salvageable. they're in boxes. >> exactly.

once the health inspector approves. >> pull out all of the stops. that's what's happening in the bay. back at 7:25 with a news update. >> join us for nbc bay area news at 11:00. good morning. breaking overnight. history being made right now as a spacecraft is attempting to land on a speeding comet. we're live with the mind boggling mission ten years in the making. polar plunge. temperatures set to drop double digits over 24 hours. west cities like denver already in the single digits and heading below zero. giving al a lot to discuss as he gets set to go fora marathon guiness world record. why did he do it? new autopsy results that show robin williams was suffering from a debilitating brain