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>> with cheaper gas prices, a lot of people will be traveling by car this year. tomorrow dangerous conditions, today a great day with a mix of sun and clouds. dry weather sunday. more rain next week. the pattern continues to change. i've got all the latest coming up in just moments. >> but we're likely to see a lighter pattern as far as the morning commute. however, we're talking about the issue this morning and depending on where you're driving, it could be tough to see the roads. >> you might have to strain but you can see some brej. >> from nbc bay area, this is "today" in the bay. >> thank you for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon and
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pooh. >> you know, you may have the deoff. >> as you head out and about this morning, we do have this fog quite ton rarpy this morning. you can see where you're getting the deep grays right oaf your inland valleys, spell over marin county and it's starting to creep through the delta as well. so traveling out of the bay area could be difficult, especially you're f you're going to head through gilroy this morning, there's thick fog out there. the thickest fog expected by about 7:00 a.m. happy friday,
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christine? >> low clouds whoever above the city. we've seen that orange beb be very careful out there. become to you. >> in just a matter of hours, president obama is going to be signing his name on president digs limb tipped has a child that was born hoar or came here as a child. the government will then focus
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on deporting gang members and suspected terrorists. >> today as in the gang pons what does it man? what does it mean from my family? we heard from churches in san jose seasoned that what the president is doing is jo zwrm the the prz as response. the phones let up immediately with people camming in and asking question taking in that plan to will the stem. to stay here and correct to the
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economy after krej. >> it's good. it's a step closer to where we want to be. it's not good enough. >> i'm from india and i'm moo from working with that. i'm expecting some good news people o. >> are about 7 million who are still left out. lgbt advocates and suchers either because we haven't been here long for opinion. >> coming up, we'll talk more about that part of the story. as you might imagine, it will remain for quite tom snm n.
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mat match. her sister marion also died at a hospice center in san mateo. she was also 87 yoors old. >> just in time for the start of the holiday season, a brand new oakland ramp. stephanie, this will certainly cut people's travel time on that route by more than half. that's pretty huge. >> yeah, that is. good morning to you, laura. this is being touted as the plane to train service. the tram station is lit up and ready to go. tomorrow $ had will turs.
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there are four of these so-called people movers, who bridge leads are willthere as nine intersections and traffic can frchk. >> and san jose minetta is trying to make it easier for dogs with rngs in a 3:00 this afternoon as part of the celebration. meantime be goes pras as a fchg that's good and bad for travel rts on the.
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>> live owe oak interdef definitely make your holiday commute a little more enjoyable. >> lots of rain has been coming through the area. meteorologist christina loren has been tracking it every step of the way. >> hey, good morning to. another storm onlt way. it's starting to feel and actually look like the holidays around here. after we get this next round rain, i believe our hillsides are going to tun who highs and green. we have to deal with aftermath, it will keep your day clear for most of the rain today.
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about the timing of this next system in just moments but, first, i want to talk to mike inpie a. in there's some mist, some moisture in the air. visibility is just fine. the map is similar to what christine was showing you, which translates down a valley. you i know that is it580 and cleaning up the area. >> if you're going away for the week, take the chains because you may get stuck at one point. visibility a tough issue through gill roy. the greater bay area for our
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commuters, most of them staying home today or at least for the morning. we're looking at a nice drive and slick roadways at the english. you this there's still condit n condition. >> sflochlt. >> world famous. >> thanks a lot. >> it's global really. >> christina loren will have a complete rens. >> reporter: and good morning thisis a hunt are crime here. we'll tell you how you're trying to pep and how we can answer.
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you're watching "today in the bay." >> a very good morning to you. it's 5:14. just a few moments ago we were examining the president's words on immigration. >> we're still waiting to see the actual document on the executive order, the president's order order to understand what it means for skilled workers the practical training visa is super helpful because it allows them who is caught to stay porkany of tho. tee dpo o it will prrnl. >> they hired a number of full-time employees, paid thousands of dollars in
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america's cop pratt tax but at the. >> well, let's check the american market. good morning, landon. >> reporter: scott, good morning to you. futures are higher dow and s&p closing at record highs. investors reacting to better-than-expected data on manufacturing and home sales, which helped ease concern about slowing economic growth in europe and china. also powering tech stocks higher as the chip company raised it's estimates higher for the year. scott back to you, have a great weekend. >> you, too. we talked before about gabe's effect on the rab effect unhigh
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plan pj. >> help me help you this morning. give me a little bit of your time and i will do my best to get you around this fog. patchy morning fog will be the storm. what you'll notice about this happ happen. >> you keep that in mind. if you're someone who is used to this, you know how to tlef. you want to keep a good distance between you and $ and our inland valley spot, especially sonoma county, fog sleeping through the
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important it really, really is a good cause nm. >> oh. i made a first niechl i am going to be a rhythm artist sfwlochls stay tuned to facebook and twitter for those locations. >> i'll be on michigan boulevard at the springs. a met a young couple and just found out they're going to have a baby. i look forward for them again. over here looking forward the
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peninsula. palo alto looks just fine. you see this little bit of a glow around the light. not much moisture in the air here but the more moisture there is, that downs about lock on to ev even. >> >> a little moisture of budles over along the shoulder. there is nothing registering for the a in frnl it's a one-month event to help find hunger. >> all for a very good cause. bob redell will explain house of representatives can you join that effort and also work on
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million pounds? >> yeah. we do this often in there's wind or rain in the air. it's very exciting for us. >> so you pay $10, what do you got? >> we have jiffy, we have pasta, green beans, tasted up. >> you make ities p seemar yrn i p including. >> how big a deal is this? >> we love safe way driving. ij a huge deal.
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his bagging about prk from. >> you're probably wondering why do we have a team? this team participate in the music and my contract requires i have live at least one. >> do you travel with the band? and they're playing a tumor shoft. for more. >> that good drive kicks off tomorrow but you can visit any of the bay area's zprshlgs rn
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>> is there any way if you have a monitor if you know you're being screened? >> better would be just change the password! >> thank you very much. >> good advice there. simple advice as well. >> it's being touted as fast, easy and reliable way to get you to the oakland airport. it's going to start just in time for the holidays. stephanie chuang is live at the airport where they celebrate the grand opening this morning. right into n time for thanksgiving. >> reporter: that's right. good morning to you, laura. this project started four years ago and finally tomorrow kicks off in service, replaces the air bart bus. bart cuts the time in half, from 20 minutes down to eight minutes. no drivers pulled by a series of cables, each train can set up
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for 120 passengers. project leaders say typically the buses provide a $400 million price tag for the convenience. >> it's a subject that's been studied for many decades and maybe long overdue. these are always pris it and. >> there will be therapy dogs and their handlers available in the terminal to get some smiles. there will also be discounted parking and holiday music through thanksgiving day. also good news, the price of gas is at a five-year low. california hitting 3 .11 for the lowest number, at a bieven
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puerto rico. >> as for the bart transi. >> you're celebrate today and officially open toll. there sond good. he is spn in the past 12 hours or so. one of two resorts opening up this morning is heavenly. >> we've been getting some pretty impressive totals over the last 24 hours. >> yeah. we're getting it right where we need it as well, over our local
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reservoir. right now let's focus in on the fog this morning. if you're trying to get out of town early this morning, do count on thick fog all the way throughout the sacramento valley. it is really deep out there. just trying to travel around the bay area could become a little bit difficult over the next couple hours. we're seeing that fog settle in. the tri-valley, it's develop for you as well. the weather story of the day will be nice and clear for the first part of the day with clouds increasing after about 2:00. our next storm system is get being its act together and barrelling towards the coast. and this one is powerful. it's going to provide wind and potentially another round of moderate to heavy rain for all of us here in the bay area. we really need it. so that's a good story to tell. temperatures in the 40s and 50s right now. we're well on our way to the low 60s. it's going to be cool enough for a jacket out there. now that our days are getting
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shorter, sun set. >>. if commuters were leaving right now, trying to get out of town, mike, what do you? >> if they're try too long get out of town, the bay bridge is the wrong place for them to be because you're going the wrong way. folks trying to get into the office early so they can get out early. we're looking we'll look at the toll plaza where where western bench -- down here if you're
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going from 101 to i-5, you would head to disneyland. there is fog there. be very careful right now. looking at a live look of san jose, a little sheen on the roadway. maybe damp off and on. traps at critical lk trp federal budget. >> good morning. senator jerry hill says pg&e has not done enough to protect key electric sub stangss in morning
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compa company. s have it's to substations in northern california. our captures found guard sitting in cars around gates but not conducting round. it was said the level of the security was only at a minimum and not enough to deter a tack. and loretta lynch said the evidence she has seen is certainly more than sufficient for the p.u.c. to open an investigation. >> p.p.
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>> at least one republican lawmaker said his state would sue over the president's action. john boehner accused the president of acting like an emperor. a lot of stake. good morning. >> reporter: the tone is very different for some of the 5 million undocumented immigrants who might be able to come out of the shadows, as president obama put it. the focus seems to be keeping law abiding families together and instead focusing law enforcement efforts on deporting criminals who may have broken the law. let's go to tracie potts in washington where the house speaker will take the mic in a few minutes. will he say anything different? >> probably not.
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the president's argument is you haven't been making policy, we've got to deal with the 11 million undocumented people who are here. those people, if they have been here for five years working, paying taxes, can pass a background check cannot be at the front of the line. >> and then the fight here on capitol hill, president obama says applications for people who want to stay in the u.s. should open beginning february. >> all right. thank you very much. we certainly saw the phone lines lighting up at some of the advocacy groups here in the bay area. there are so many different kind of immigrants who call the bay yafr home. from the farm workers, who were not covered in the president's plan to college students.
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and also there are minors and lgbt families who worry they may not be eligible because not all recognize same-sex marriage. >> if family relationship is through blood is the only way you can consider yourself safe, it is a concern. minors who have flooded the borders recently will be excluded. we will monitor john boehner's
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speech. >> a lot of tentacles to this topic. thank you very much. >> i was driving around in the rain yesterday, christina, and i was thinking about you. because there are times that people complain about the rain and i was driving around thinking this is glorious! >> it really is. we picked up a quarter of an inch right here. the big winners were in the north day. mount tam up to 4 inches of rainfall. point reyes yesterday picked up two inches just on the storm that came through yesterday. our ground is april rated out there and there's more rein. >> mike: almost had 4 inches, i
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kp that's rain right where we need it. we also need it over our hillside so that they'll turn nice and green. it's going to look really good in here as we get into the next couple of weeks. 55 degrees in san francisco to start. good morning to you on the east short. you, too, are at 55 degrees. we're all going to end up in the low to mid 60s later on today. you'll need your coat. wind picking up later today. until tonight. let's talk about the timeline for this next round of rain. we stop the clock for you at midnight. showers moderate and heavy, starting to move into sonoma and marin county. south of highway 92 at around 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. so a lot of it is going to come through while you're sleeping. it might wake you up in the south bay as it comes to our neck of the woods around 7:00 an
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pand. sunday is looking like a much better day for you. as we head to your sundays, temperatures gorgeous. and another round of rain potentially next thursday into friday. next thursday is thanksgiving. next friday, the gir dhiradellee lighting! >> raining chocolate can either be spectacular or horrifying! we'll expect spectacular,
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christina. we're looking offver here. let's look at the span at the toll plaza. it has filled in already. i think a lot of people are trying early in/early out and it's backing up already. the reason i'm watching the north bay is because christina is talking with the fog. highlighted with orange on my map. that's the road weather index saying you're going to have tough visibility anywhere north of nevada. the tri-valley moving smoothly. livermore, the slowdown has subsided there. >> central bay area ports will be back up and running today after they suddenly shut down
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for 24 hours, all because of the death of a port worker in benicia wednesday night. they will reopen at 7:00 a.m. >> protesters upset, furious with the u.c. tuition hike are trying to get a few more hours of shut eye after spending another night in wheeler hall at cal. you can see dozens of students still congregated there settled on the floor trying to sleep. now this is the second night of protests at u.c. berkeley. students are angry at the decision to hike twice 5% every year for the next five years. they say they will not leave wheeler hall until they freeze
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tuition and have transparency with the numbers. >> bob redell, i see you have a bag in hand already. >> we make this real easy. you come to any safeway. it's the sixth year we're doing this. up spend $10, you buy one of the prepackaged grocery bags of food and it's going to go to one of the seven food banks. there are unfortunately 780,000 people who rely on food banks in the bay area. what do you do to help the hungry? >> our class is organizing a few drives to help our school give groceries. >> reporter: why is this important to you? >> it's important to us because it's nice to give back to the community. we're really fortunate people to have an opportunity to do this.
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>> reporter: claire is going to show us how it's done. she's going to take the bag, put it in the bin. claire, look at this hand/eye coordination. and we've got her mood music, which i think always follows her. talk about the numbers, for you guys, it's at least one in five. and is it still working poor, which is a term we've heard over the past few years? >> the cost of living has skyrocketed in the bay area. it's really difficult even with two people working to get by. >> you've got peanutbutter, pasta, tuna. are those kind of the staples that people are most relying on? >> these are the exact food that food banks really need.
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nutrient dense, high protein items. this is great. it stocks our shelves and our client's shelves with the most nutritious food. >> last year we sold 134,000 of these bags, it's about 1.6 million pounds. we're trying to increase that number by 20%. if you can help out, you feel good and you might have a marching band behind you. >> laura and i will be at morgue and hill this saturday. >> the safeway on dunn avenue. i don't know if we'll have a tuba following us around like bob. >> let me sell you a bag.
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christina is just bringing them in. i'm over here like hello, hello, hello. >> you can take them out to the car. >> i'll take them out to the car. >> the dow s&p 500 hit new closing highs thursday. go pro fell 9%. i gave you a heads up on it before it happened. >> you have to meet a need. that's the real important thing.
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you have to do your homework so when you do present to the buyer they're like, oh, yeah, i could use that. it's a little easier to get into mom and pop stores but the volume is not there. you hire a broker and salesperson and just really do your thing but it takes a long time. >> sort of a kitchen sink entrepreneur. she'll be here after "meet the press" on sunday. she's like if up got that pasta sauce or barbecue sauce, we'll show you how to do it. >> scott mcgrew, you always have some fan favorites. i can tell you right now we are really looking forward to meeting you and really looking forward to helping those in need this year. hard to believe, i mean, we have it so great in the bay area but there are actually a lot of people in need but it's really
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easy to help out. $50, five families fed for thanksgiving. on the peninsula and the north bay and though we'll be separated on saturday, traffic and weather always together in my heart. >> you should head over to mission boulevard where i will be able to help you at my safeway in fremont. just a note. you saw it behind me, san jose north, just starting a little build there. no real drama, just a little build in this area. you don't see a lot of slowing, it's just for that very short segment. the metering lights are on for the toll plaza. >> you are not an underdog story, but i'll tell you somebody who is, the oakland raiders. a big congrats to them this morning. after a year-long drought, the
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team has finally won a game. >> they took an early lead over the kansas city chiefs. the chiefs turned it on in the second half of the game taking the lead until just a few minutes left in the fourth. that's when quarterback derek carr threw a touchdown, bam. the raiders win it 24-20. >> their running back can run really, really, really fast. >> it's amazing. you know what we have to do? hit the slopes. ski season starts officially today. >> and the president planning to push forward with his plan to reform america's immigration policy. we'll get more details on his appearance toyota, let's go places.
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a family for days this holiday season. how you can help us end hunger now next. >> and we've got more rain on the way. but today's a transition day with a mix of sun and clouds. we do have some sun out there now. the fog will be burning off by about 9:00 a.m. then a nice dry day for sunday before more rain in the forecast next week. lots to go over in your microclimate just moments away. >> i am away it's friday. you should be aware the metering lights are on on the bay bridge. fog may play a factor. that's coming up. >> and thank you very much, mike. we are looking right now outside at san francisco in the early morning hours. it is 6:00 on friday, november the 21st and this is "today in the bay."
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