>> a few lingering showers for tomorrow and then a stretch of dry weather before the window reopens. lots o to go over in your microclimate forecast this morning. >> and we have another update for the situation. >> and a live look outside of the bay bridge.

you mijed the. >> announcer: from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." >> good morning. thank you very much for joining us. i'm sam brock. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> another round of rain is about to hit the bay area. he opened the storm window against? >> it's going to come wide open as we head throughout the first week of january. but i can tell you this morning again the hours have returned were so if you have a high-pro vehicle, hang on tight to that steering wheel. another way for tomorrow morning, it will be light this

then re. if you wart to thank, the owner will be good news for want you to -- >> we have none of that flooding like we had last week. you'll see that same sheen across the roadway. sometimes that picks up by the ind and. >> i don't know about the swift conditions. they just reopened your left two lanes. your grand slow heading toward

sff rao. >> you heard it from the man himself. yes side. to millions of sfrks i've made pothole doesn't seem like a skrier. >> able pshl. >> good morning, bo be. >> good morning. as you heard christina mentioned, most likely in the ray this morning. triple -- that's a jump of just over 3 percent. they're talking about people on the roads, in the air and whatever. it doesn't cost nowhere near as much to fill up the tank.

that image from this morning, $2.255 on a gal of gas. that represents a drop of 30 sense at least one analyst predicts that gas prices could drop another 10, 20 cents by christmas day. if you are headed to the sierra's there's a winter advisory in effect, snow and ice over 6,000 feet. that's forecast from this morning through the afternoon. if you're going highway 50 in south lake, you can see as much see as much as 6 inches of rain.

we'll hear what the impact is on the rain in the sierras. >> tn opinion we'll have in-depth coverage caused by this latest round of rain. >> we're following a developing story in richmond this morning. has that crew spent the night ravaging the esfrchl. >> that's right. now chevron says there might be

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l lot. but the wind is pretty strong. faend at 12 miles an hour, 15 in oakland and what about 18 from time to time in half moon bay? as you know, the ground is archrated aboutle f you can see most of the order dismissed into the bay 12. we'll get another lightweight for tomorrow and then a stretch of drive weather that extend well in your holiday. but then the storm windows opens back up. i am concerned about people trying to get from the 30th, all the way back through the end of january. just get in mind, we have some droois coming your way. let's check on your dry we

haven't is some of tho rain you're talking about. slick conditions in many parts of the bay right now. we're talking about the north day moving very smoothly. we'll look to the bottom of the map. this is a big issue right now. less slowing than about 20 minute ago. two of your southbound lanes and 101 through san francisco still blocked. we'll still have two open recoveries continue. 280 to 380 to 101 is a great alternate for the morning commute. a crash still going on south 17 and 85 but that should be out of the roadway. back to you.

>> it is 5:11 right now. >> that story plus how the dating app tinder may have helped law enforcement, police specifically, catch an alleged thief. we'll explain.

uber promising full cooperation after allegations that -- >> according to police reports, a woman in cambridge called uber, but another guy pretending to be uber showed up and can statement says the company has been work, closely with law enforcement and continues to do everything we can to assist their investigation. >> soon fran may be able to i.k.

>> so we've talked about people using surveillance video to bust people they think have wronged them. this time they think it a little different. they say they caught a woman going through the office, who is not an employee, according to a kpd called balance noom. she look 30 mortgage sprm and that's when decided to get really creative posting it on tinder. >> if we put it on tinder, thousands of people will see her name and will know who she is. >> within two days, a $5 thut

rewa reward i -- >> you're looking for somebody you might want to go out to dinner with but this time the caption was there becauses balanced budget amendment they would bet the lot of ges. eng peacekeepers good morning to you, scat. the santa rally looks reich it could about raising interest

rates. the dow raising more than 700 in the past two game fan thursday, 7-7 had had 346789 hey, you want o see some va kentucky puckers? >> if you've been to this site, you probably have. this man a roll are bag, backtrack, i think he's got a tube a. twit and instagram users are fighting back with the hash tag "carry on shame," trying to get people to knock it off and get airlines to finally introduce their rules.

>> how funny. maybe that and some vacation pictures, too. >> would it be safe to say there's always a rabble rouser that is always doing something -- >> we carry it on the plane with us like who's going to rub us this time? >> i don't know. i bring three kids so i believe people are thinking of seeing saturd saturday. >> i know! finally, after all this hot weather. it bet it's been hard on the kiddos, too. finally yesterday we saw that sunshine, a little bit more for today and then you're going to see it for an extended period of time. so 8:00 to 10 a.m. is where

we're bulls eyeing the heaviest activity. in the north bay we could get rain rates of maybe an each an hour. as we get into your weekend, looking good, hitting the 60 and a nice warming trend well into next week. up to 69 degrees by tuesday of next week. like i said, we got some neff we your way temperatures start sp

oh, dublin. nchbls. >> south san francisco is still slow. the cars involved were reportedly going over 100 miles an hour before that crash. we do have some slowing heading to sfo. over on the east bay, the tri-valley, a smooth drive toward dublin. a live look at oakland.

we had a few drops in the lens a couple minutes ago. keep it in mind and that rain will be coming in. back to you. >> thanks very much. it was a bittersweet day for robin williams fans around the world. >> i couldn't tonight, levi. our very survival is at stake. >> night of the museum, secret of the tomb, hit theaters today. the it's the first one to debut since his death in august. he is revising his sewn playing. world police in place of an interview. and paramount pictures has decided not to provide theaters with the 2004 sat fire. a cleveland thiet er frrnl.

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thanks so much for joining us this morning. eem laura garcia-cannon. >> and sam brock. christina is in a festive period. the city and people still have to get ready for another round of pray. >> we do have a huge system. sfm and we take you into 11:00 a.m. it clears out by 2:00 and by tomorrow morning, some wide activity before we get into a long stretch. if you've got family and friends coming into town, it's going to look like a whole new wear innin nrc

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residents a few hours in advance. people hope to have it up and running by sfrem you know, when it comes to tahoe, you got the snow coming from mother nature. you've got that technological improvement when it comes to snow making, which is just really, really improved leaps and bounds because of the drought situation. so the two combined creating one of the best ski seasons, i'm hearing, in ten years. it's definitely one of those windors. my chief meteorologist called it epic last night and i'm going to have to go with that. just some light shower activity out there. if we do see flooding up in the

north bay, the best chance of that will be about between 7:00 and 810:00 this morning. but really the heavy stuff moves through by mid-morning. if you're trying to get out of town, that system is headed to the east. we're going to dry you out for christmas week and then we're going to kick open the store system again starting on the 30th through the first week of january. here's mike and your drive. >> you're talking about the sierra. bob redell is talking about a

roadway travel steen, a really big deal today. this is west bond with the headlights, your commute for the morning. we'll so you how much of a deal it son the map. not a big deal. maybe at midday, we are before a vacation week for a lot of schools starting next week. folks might be trying that early schedule. >> be a prevacation peek, it it would be how do i know they're on? because chp didn't update them. and look at your camera, "because i saw them turn on."

keep in mind the rain is coming in. folks, get into the office early today so they can try to get out early. that's what typically happens before vacation. >> a san francisco startup got lucky on a dating site. >> the perpetrator of this found a match. >> we had these children get surveillance to up. when computers started disappearing, tell and then taking things from day sfrchl

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>> this has been going on since the summer. some of the neighboring startups said we think she's getting into our sfnks okay. >> no nfrmt snfrm the man and woman were in fremont in the neighborhood on tuesday, the same day a couple forced their way into a nearby home. police say they threatened the victim with a gun. right now the man is considered a person of interest. the female victim was not hurt. surveillance images of a not so jolly st. nick.

these were taken inside the union square bay. he warned the teller he had a gun and then demanded cash. he was caught in the san jose pub crawl. it really made it hard to find the suspected robber. anyone who can place this face and really bad beard is asked to call the san francisco police. >> beauty is in the eye of the beholder there. some bay area charities are really scraping to help those in need. these palo alto ecumenical hunger program serving the community for 39 years and they say this year has definitely been a struggle, especially with gifts for teen-agers. >> it's very humbling because you kind of feel like you're

begging the community to help take care of the community. >> you really want to help those kids. if you would like to try and close the gap. search for the word "charities" in the search bar. we have a story linked to that. >> wall street is on fire, the dow gaining 700 points in the last two days. it today is looking optimistic as well. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this is all about the fed and whether they'll raise interest rates beep know they will but we don't know when. but on wednesday when the fed said we know you're waiting on us to tell you, everybody loved that. this rally is 50% glad the fed finally mentioned rates and 50% the party isn't over yet. >> hampton creek will no longer being the target of a mayonnaise

lawsuit. unilever which makes best food mayonnaise sued saying they couldn't call it mayonnaise. >> a star college football player before he became a kaecher in kenya. how does this guy have any qualifications to do the future of the, if. >> he's a showcase.

>> a lot of them live right here in the bay area. >> we want to check in with meteorologist christina loren tracking yet another one coming our way. >> a lot of rain. and some of the most intelligent people in the world live here in the sill i con valley. then we're going to slowly dry you out over the weekend. by next. >> you did. >> starting on the 30th of december, we could get hit by another strong series of storms. do keep that in mind. nor rain on the way prks fshlgs the camera just froze by saying

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