it is sunday november 25th here is a live look outside -- san jose good sunday morning. it is november 25th. here is a live look outside. that is san jose. you might not be able to tell from communications hill. lots of fog out there. thanks so much for joining us. i'm kira klapper. meteorologist rob mayeda is in for vianey and has a look at our microclimate forecast. you just pointed out t is one month until christmas. >> oh, no. >> today! i haven't even -- i mean, he's 2. do you even know santa exists? that's a whole nother thing. >> it's starting to feel like november and almost december outside. we have the low clouds. here is the view above the clouds from our sutro tower

camera. underneath the clouds, san francisco, you see the temperatures this morning, cooler, 53 degrees in san francisco. clear in san jose, where it's 47, chilly for you and look at concord and walnut creek, you're xw beginning to see more fog. 49 degrees and visibility at times, livermore near concord and napa at times close to a quarter mile. look out for the patchy, thick fog in the inland valleys. highs san jose mid to upper 50s in the santa clara valley so warmer, a dry day tomorrow and three storms ahead in the sunday forecast. we'll look for the timing coming up in our full forecast in 15 minutes. >> basically, enjoy this dry weather while we have it. rob, we'll see you in 15, thanks. we begin with breaking news, 9e 49ers linebacker reuben foster has been released from the team, following his arrest on charges of domestic violence. this is his new mugshot. ard doing to the police report, foster and a woman were in a

verbal altercation at the team's hotel. during the confrontation, he slapped the phone out of her hand, pushed her in the chest and slapped her with an open hand on the left side of her face. "during the investigation officers learned foster and the victim lived together in the past and involved in an on again/off again relationship over the past three years." foster faced weapons charges and domestic violence charges after being accused of attacking a woman at a los gatos home in february. she later recanted the allegations and the charges were dropped. the tampa police report this morning shows last night's altercation involves that same woman. foster spent the first two weeks of the season in september serving a suspension for marijuana possession in alabama, back in january. a pollup now follow-up to t gate ferry that crashed into a san francisco bay terminal on friday afternoon. crews in the city spent

yesterday making repairs to the dock, and put temporary fencing up at gate b, right in front of the slanted door restaurant. the ferry was towed to larkspur for inspections and repairs to the two gaping holes left in the vessel. customer service representatives were outside as riders on the san francisco bay ferry vallejo line had to scramble to find their new gate. >> i've been taking the ferry to go shopping in the city but for some reason, it's not not all. >> that change created some confusion for riders especially those visiting for the holidays. gate b is expected to reopen today. the cause of friday's crash has yet to be determined. the rain over the past few days is playing a crucial role in butte county. the camp fire is now 98% contained. as the fire fight winds down, the death toll has risen again. 85 people now have been killed. "today in the bay's" marianne

favro continues our coverage from chee yo. >> reporter: as flames descended on her home, michelle garsia, who was in a wheelchair, rolled to the edge of the street and started waving. >> someone saw me and got my wheelchair and pushed me across the street to the church where finally i got saved. the police picked me up and took me to, you know, a shelter. >> reporter: now michelle and 75 other fire victims are camped here at this walmart parking lot in chico, dealing with new challenges, the cold and rain. >> this is where we have the warming mat. >> reporter: this trailer is being used as a warming center, after two people went to the hospital for hypothermia. >> we do a tent check every hour on the hour to make sure they're not freezing. >> reporter: search and rescue crews worked with a specially trained dog to comb through a mobile home park in paradise, looking for victims. the rain turned the ash into thick paste, making the daunting search for bone fragments even more challenging. >> takes a little bit longer to

get through things, instead of it being just able to be pushed over. >> reporter: there is some hope. the fire is now 98% contained and some fire crews which have been here since november 8 are finally heading home. >> the first thing i'm going to do is get some rest. >> reporter: marianne favro, "nbc bay area news." many evacuees and survivors are anxious to get home and see the damage. dozens of families are staying in roseville. they're waiting for instructions from state and federal agencies like fema. they gathered for a town hall yesterday. one survivor tells us he's working to move forward, but what he really wants is to see his home. >> not looking for fault. i don't really care who is at fault here. that will come out and everybody else will deal with that. us here, the families, we just want to go home. >> plans for that journey are still up in the air. police say they sympathize with evacuees but warn that area is still too dangerous to enter.

if you want to help camp fire victims, join us. nbc bay area is hosting an all-day telethon along with telemundo 48 and the united way, answering your calls on tuesday from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. all the money will go to camp fire victims to help them find housing and cover other costs. for more information, go to nbcbayarea.com and again, that is happening on giving tuesday, as it's called. a tragic and deadly scene at the sonoma raceway. driver killed after crashing his go-kart during the northern california karters event yesterday. the raceway sent out a statement saying the driver, a 65-year-old man from mantica, crashed and flipped his car on a turn. he died at the hospital. now to police on the peninsula asking for help after a disturbing encounter. 14-year-old girl sailed she was walking her dog on monday when a man pulled up alongside her in his car and exposed himself to

her. this is a police sketch. the teenaged girl was walking along east meadow drive. the girl quickly walked away but thinks the man was following her. if you have any information, contact palo alto police. a man with a familiar voice to many in the bay area is missing. nobody has seen nor heard from long time kgo host ray talisiero in more than a week. the 79-year-old was last seen at a pizzeria in paducah, kentucky, about a half hour from where he lives. he hosted an overnight talk show on kgo from 1977 until 2011. he's a member of the national association of black journalists' hall of fame. it is 7:07. we have much more ahead on "today in the bay" coming up. the battle at the u.s. border continues. potential major change from migrants seeking asylum. is mexico now on board with president trump's plan? plus, are the black friday

lines a thing of the past? we'll tell you where people were actually shopping during the biggest shopping day of the year. sunrise over palo alto

a back and forth at the border. the trump administration says its reached a deal to keep asylum-seeking migrants in mexico while their applications are considered in the u-s. it )s a potentially major chang. but mexican officials are now casting doubt. today in the bay )s sergio quintana has the details. there is much more ahead on

a group of southern california doctors headed to tijuana to help the migrants. >> we've been watching the suffering and pain in a the news and sitting there feeling sorry for them isn't enough. we have to do something. >> they loaded up medical supplies to drive to thousands staying in a cramped sports stadium that has become an imp vialsed shelter. the group of doctors and medical students is helping to treat any ailments migrants are suffering because of the grueling journey from central area. group of bay area organizers traveled there earlier this week. the mayor of tijuana says his city is facing a humanitarian crisis and is asking the united nations for support. on the u.s. side of the border, barbed wire, armed border patrol

guards and members of the military. president trump vowed to shut down border crossings. >> we'll either going to have a border or not. when they lose control of the border on the mexico side, we close the border. coming up, talk about a lucky and unexpected find one california couple finds a million-dollar discovery inside a storage unit. >> right now we're waking up to patchy, thick fog, a sea of low clouds looking back across san francisco. dry pattern for now but when will the rain make a big comeback? i'll look at that and our forecast in two minutes. this little home of mine,

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if you were out shopping on black friday, you may have noticed the lines weren )t as long as in years past. but people still spent billions of dollars. black friday is considered to be the busiest shopping day of the year. but this year -- many shoppers decided to stay home and find deals online. "adobe analytics" says retailers pulled in a record 6 billion dollars in online sales, up 23 percent from last year. the average shopper spent about one thousand dollars. shoppers may like to buy online, but "adobe" says they prefer to pick up in store.... instead of waiting for packages to arrive in the mail. global data projects overall black friday spending to jump six percent to about 60-billion dollars. yesterday was all about "small business saturday". the holiday was created by american express in 2010 - to get people shopping small during the recession. shoppers are encouraged to buy from independently owned stores and online

boutiques. and here in the bay... many shoppers flocked to downtown willow glen. including this woman, who was shopping for books and gift- here in the bay shoppers at willow glen, one woman shopping for books and gift cards to put under the tree. >> well, i live in the area. i like to support the businesses along the avenue. don't want to see any of them closed, so i'm here to do some christmas shopping. >> many shoppers told us that they enjoyed shopping on the avenue, as there are fewer crowds and more familiar faces. they are some of the 67 million people that the national retail federation anticipates to have shopped small. all right, this is crazy. one lucky treasure hunter found the find of a lifetime. call it a modern day treasure hunt. if you ever watched "storage wars," then you know how the excitement builds as the new owner of a storage unit opens it up to see what's inside. it's often someone's stuffy old stuff but one of the show's

auctioneeres says one of the units sold contains something as good as gold, cold, hard cash and lots of it. >> this time it wasn't empty, $715 millio$ $7.15 million. >> the people who found it did get to keep more than $1 million. take a look at this video of the busy slopes at squaw valley. the ski resort sent us this video yesterday. you can see the skiers and snowboarders were eager to hit the slopes. so far, eight lifts are open at squaw and one at alpine meadows. squaw has seen more than two feet of snow at the summit since thanksgiving. perfect timing to check in with meteorologist rob mayeda with a look at your sunday forecast, and gosh, when there's snow like that, the traffic is going to be bad headed to tahoe. >> good news for folks there,

travel is easier coming back today. the next seven days, snow headed up toward the sierra. there is the view right now, speaking of squaw valley. temperatures at 28 degrees. pretty view there. clear skies, more snow on the way as we go through the week. closer to home it's a sea of low clouds. you see sutro tower live above the clouds. there's sunshine. below the clouds, misty skies around san francisco this morning. 54 degrees. more mild thanks to the low cloud cover, skies have cleared out. temperatures drop into the mid and upper 40s this morning, like in san jose, 47 degrees. as you see, running a little bit cooler than yesterday morning as we're seeing the clearing that happened overnight, which also allowed patchy, thick fog to set up. you saw san rafael, napa, concord, into the tri valley. 68 to south to sunol quite a bit of low clouds and fog. as we go through the afternoon, hazy sunshine, as the low clouds break up mid morning and we'll see no rain in the forecast today, no rain in the forecast tomorrow, and then tuesday we

begin to see those changes. so highs today mid-60s in san jose. might even see upper 60s down toward san martin and santa cruz. low 60s from san francisco to oakland. the cooler temperatures the next few days around the inland east bay value i whys, fog is setting up over the next couple of mornings. storm ranger, mobile doppler radar not seeing much. few high clouds passing by and an active pattern taking shape as we go through the week. first system due in on tuesday. we'll bring light to moderate rain, not a huge impact on the weather, other than the fact the rain is coming back. late wednesday and thursday, this system developing here will bring rain and wind and the potential for some pretty heavy rain at times for thursday. friday right now, looks like we catch a bit of a break and as we get into the weekend, another storm drops more rain our way for sunday, and then possibly tuesday and the ten-day outlook keeps these storms coming on in as we go through the next few days. the biggest impact is the ten-day rainfall outlook, looks to be that thursday storm or the

wednesday to thursday midweek storm as you see here, some of the projections for ten-day rainfall, again, this isn't just one storm, we're adding up all three or four of them. here in the north bay, that little bull's eye in the sonoma and marin county coast similar to what we just saw, as much as three to six inches of rain on the higher hilltops is the possibility. santa cruz mountains as well could see quite a bit of rain. for the sierra, this go-round snow levels the second half of the week dropping to near 5,000 feet and lower so that's some good news. we could see at least one to two feet of snow and maybe even more than that, by the time we get through next weekend, and you see both long range models bring quite a bit of snow to the sierra. enjoy the dry break as the winds pick up wednesday and thursday. you want to keep things clear in terms of branches and things that are outdoors and probably bring them in, as they'll be contending with the wind. also some high surf headed to the coast, so this storm will bring the punch of wind, rain, high surf, heavy sierra snow,

some tough travel middle part of the week, a break comes friday and more active weather heads their way, as we head toward next weekend which looks a lot like december, as december starts, heading toward next saturday. back to you. >> it's good. you know, we'll take it, rob, thanks >> it is 7:21, still ahead on "today in the bay," views of the bay area not seen in more than a century. we'll show you how one man is using technology to stitch together old photographs to create panoramas of the past. ofe

early days of san francisco. one local man... has fallen in love with those photos and has taken it upon himself to bring those old memories into modern times. today in the bay )s joe rosato jr. shows us how he )s using technology to take the photos to a place.. their photographers hadn )t imagined. much more ahead on today

such a large number of photographers photographing a city growing so rapidly. >> the early days of san francisco. >> this is what the city looked like before the fire. >> large numbers of photographers like edward moibridge and william henry jackson fanned out with equally large cameras. >> this was the bank. >> from glass negatives, highly detailed photos of the growing city. >> this is a five-plate multiplate panorama. >> reporter: but it's taken a century and a half, modern technology, and someone like nick wright to come along. >> this is the palace hotel. >> reporter: and finish that work. >> that would be how one of these would start out. >> reporter: as someone who loves history and technology, the san jose man figured out modern tools with bring the past new life. >> if you get enough of these pictures, you can put them together. >> reporter: using photo shop, he began digitally stitching together old pictures to create vast views of the early city.

>> i found the photographic jigsaw puzzle putting together pieces through time. >> reporter: in some cases photos shot in a series intended as panoramic views but sometimes he weaves together photos merely shot from the same vantage point around the same period to create a panoramic picture that was never actually taken. >> i tell people i have pictures you've never seen before because it's never been seen like this in 150 years. >> reporter: the high quality photographs reveal intimate details of san francisco's beginnings. >> we see somebody in the window here, people's laundry on the roof. you get involved in people's lives and get emotional. you see the struggle and the success and the loss. >> reporter: wright, who runs two popular facebook sites devoted to san francisco history has labeled nearly every building and street in his

pictures. >> this is the curvy street part of lombard. >> reporter: wright created several hundred panoramas from old photos. >> it's all part of the pieces of the larger san francisco puzzle. it's great satisfaction to be able to recreate something that hasn't been seen in 150 years. >> reporter: a case of history just waiting for the right time, and the right person to come along. joe rosato, jr. >> brushing away the haze of 100 years. >> reporter: "nbc bay area news." >> incredible. we have much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up the 49ers star no more. reuben foster released from the team early this morning. what happened overnight that led to his being cut from the roster. and nbc bay area is joining forces to help victims of the camp fire. how you can help us support the thousands of victims in two days from now, on giving tuesday. goo-

take a live look outside -- san jose good sunday morning to you. november tath, one month until christmas day. live look at the fog and low clouds cover downtown san jose. thanks for joining us. i'm kira klapper. meteorologist rob mayeda is in for vianey arana and has a look at our microclimate forecast. >> we're seeing a little bit of everything, low clouds, especially around san francisco. fog setting up inland. san jose, hazy sun and patchy, low clouds. it is a cooler start to the morning, 47 degrees in san jose and there's a look at the filtered sunlight around concord and walnut creek this morning. fog out through inland contra costa and alameda county. concord visibility a third of a mile. half-mile san rafael and napa, seeing thick fog for the morning. highs today will be in the low to mid-60s. similar trend tomorrow with some morning fog and the rain makes a big comeback starting tuesday

and for the middle part of the week. full look at a stormy week ahead which includes rain but this go round more wind, high surf and bigger snow totals for the sierra. >> lots of fun in the snow ahead. rob, thanks. we begin with breaking news right now. 49ers linebacker reuben foster has been released from the team following his arrest last night on charges of domestic violence. this is foster's new mug shot. according to the police report in tampa, florida, foster and a woman were involved in a verbal altercation at the team's hotel. during that dispute the victim says foster slapped the phone out of her hand, pushed her in her chest and slapped her with an open hand on the left side of her face. the report went on to say "during the investigation, officers learned foster and the victim lived together in the past and were involved in an on again/off again relationship over the past three years pablo pereira" you may remember foster faced weapons charges and domestic violence charges after being accused of attacking a

woman at a los gatos home in february. she later recanted the allegations and charges were dropped. the tampa police report shows that altercation involved that same woman. foster spent the first two weeks of the season in september serving a suspension for marijuana possession in alabama, back in january. a follow-up to the golden gate ferry that crashed into the san francisco ferry building terminal on friday afternoon. crews in the city spent yesterday making repairs to the dock, and put temporary fencing up at gate b, right in front of the slanted door restaurant. the ferry was towed to larkspur for inspections and repairs to the two gaping holes left in the vessel. customer service representatives were outside as riders on the san francisco bay ferry from vallejo line had to scramble to find their new gate. >> i've been taking the ferry to go shopping in the city but for

some reason, it's no, not all. >> that change created some confusion for riders especially those visiting for the holidays. good news -- gate b is expected to reopen today. the cause of friday's crash has yet to be determined. as rob was mentioning, the rain over the past few days is playing a crucial role in butte county. new numbers out in the last 20 minutes report that the camp fire is 100% contained. as the fire fight winds down, the death toll has risen again. 85 people now have been killed. "today in the bay's" marianne favro continues our coverage from chico. >> reporter: as flames descended on her home, michelle garcia, who was in a wheelchair, rolled to the edge of the street and started waving. >> someone saw me and got my wheelchair and pushed me across the street to the church where finally i got saved. the police picked me up and took me to, you know, a shelter.

>> reporter: now michelle and 75 other fire victims are camped here at this walmart parking lot in chico, dealing with new challenges, the cold and rain. >> this is where we have the warming mat. >> reporter: this trailer is being used as a warming center, after two people went to the hospital for hypothermia. >> we do a tent check every hour on the hour to make sure they're not freezing. >> reporter: search and rescue crews worked with a specially trained dog to comb through a mobile home park in paradise, looking for victims. the rain turned the ash into thick paste, making the daunting search for bone fragments even more challenging. >> takes a little bit longer to get through things, instead of it being just able to be pushed over. we have to dig through it. >> reporter: there is some hope. and some fire crews which have been here since november 8 are finally heading home. >> the first thing i'm going to do is get some rest. >> reporter: marianne favro, "nbc bay area news." >> many evacuees and survivors are anxious to get home and see the damage. dozens of families are staying

about an hour south in roseville. they're waiting for instructions from state and federal agencies like fema. they gathered for a town hall yesterday. one survivor tells us he's working to move forward, but what he really wants is to get back to paradise. >> not looking for fault. i don't really care who is at fault here. that will come out and everybody else will deal with that. us here, the families, we just want to go home. >> plans for that journey are still unclear. police say they sympathize with evacuees but warn that area is still too dangerous to enter. if you want to help camp fire victims, please join us. nbc bay area is hosting an all-day telethon along with telemundo 48 and the united way, answering your calls on tuesday from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. all the money will go to camp fire victims to help them find housing and cover other costs. for more information, go to nbcbayarea.com. back here locally, the slick

roads likely were a factor in a crash that killed a woman and injured a chp officer. it happened yesterday morning on highway 101 in sausalito. two chp officers were investigating a spinout near the spencer avenue exit. that's when another driver slammed into a chp cruiser. one of the officers managed to jump out of the way just in time. the female driver of that second car was killed. the officer is out of the hospital. a follow-up again, there may be a gunman still on the loose in alabama, that's because police officers looking for an armed suspect on friday, accused of shooting and killing the wrong man at a mall overnight on thanksgiving. >> no justice! >> no peace! >> protesters gathered outside the mall in hoover, alabama, jut south of birmingham demanding answers from police. authorities say it all started with a fight during black friday shopping. someone opened fire, shooting an

18-year-old and a 12-year-old girl. police ran in. people ran everywhere in panic and an officer shot and killed a man. police say he was running away with a gun. investigators admit they likely killed the wrong person, and the real gunman is still on the loose. >> they killed an innocent black man. >> we were fortunate that hoover officer was there, where he needed to be. >> both of the other people who were shot are still recovering in the hospital. no word on how they're doing. the state of alabama is now taking over the investigation. the trump administration is pushing back this weekend after the federal government released a stark, new report on climate change that predicts increasingly dire consequences in the years to come. nbc's white house correspondent kelly o'donnell has that story. >> reporter: a dire, new forecast. more frequent and more devastating weather crises on the horizon, as average

temperatures rise. 13 central agencies produced a 1600 page report required by congress called the national climate assessment. major finding. the evidence of human caused climate change is overwhelming and continues to strengthen. the report projects staggering long-term economic consequences. rising sea level costs as high as $118 billion, and infrastructure damage of $32 billion. with drought and heat expected to reduce u.s. agricultural productivity, while president trump gets his own close-up look at destruction from weather and fire disasters, his policies and views are at odds with the science. >> we do have an impact, but i don't believe the impact is nearly what some say. >> reporter: the holiday weekend timing of this report's release

threw heat. environmental advocates like al gore accuse the administration of trying to bury the assessment. house democrats who take control in january pledge to tackle climate change head-on with an fwraesive agenda. the white house responded the report is largely based on the most extreme scenario and argued the u.s. is leading the world in reducing carbon monoxide emissions. he said seeing fire damage did not alter his views. >> that was kelly o'donnell reporting. turning to sexual misconduct allegations against the chair of the california democratic party, eric bowman allegedly committed the acts at party functions. the democratic party's vice chair says he learned of the allegations from staff members and has filed an official complaint. he wants bowman removed as chairman. the los angeles politician took office in may of last year, and

is the first openly gay chairman of the democratic party. bowman since released a statement saying he takes the allegations seriously and that an investigation is under way. he added, "i look forward to putting these allegations behind us and moving forward as unified democrats." leaders of european union nations gather in brussels today to sign an agreement on britain's departure next year, the first time a member country has left the 28-nation bloc. it took about 30 minutes for the 27 eu leaders to rubber stamp the brexit deal. the 600-page treaty sets the terms for britain's withdrawal from the european union on march 29th. declaration outlining a future free trading relationship with britain also was approved. >> reaching a brexit agreement that worked for both sides was an impossible task. from the start, i rejected that counsel of despair and set about

negotiating a deal that worked for the uk and the eu, one that delivered on the result of the referendum and set upon course for a prosperous future. >> british prime minister tee is amay has to sell the deal to parliament. it's been nearly three weeks since the midterm elections but still not all votes are counted. larry gerston joins us live to explain why nearly a million votes have yet to be processed. also, the game between the warriors and kings goes down to the final seconds. brodie brazil shows us the wild finish from oracle arena, next. i am a family man.

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it's been 19 days since the november 6th midterm election, almost three weeks. most of the results we know but not all here in california. of the 12.8 million votes cast, the secretary of state's office reports that nearly 1 million ballots still need to be processed. that's why we bring in nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston. is it mail-in ballots, provisional ballots, what is left? >> most of the remaining ballots that were mailed the day of the election or the provisional ballots and those are tough. they're given to voters who have moved and changed their addresses, or whose signature just may be too varied from their registration. the second group is difficult to manage because it's done on a

case by case basis that can be painstakingly slow. >> dare i ask, do the remaining votes really matter? not that votes don't matter, but it seems most of the races have already been called. >> most, you're right, most, but not all. look, there are still a handful of races in the state legislature that democrats appear to be winning, but we won't know for sure until all the votes are counted. and in the 21st district of the house of representatives, oh my god, a nail-biter, republican incumbent david valedejo is hanging on with 450 votes more than democrat t.j. cox. this is a republican district. several thousand votes remain to be counted and there with cox dp gaining on the incumbent nobody knows what will happen. we won't know the results for probably a week until there are recounts another week or two long per >> wow, that word is too familiar. 450 votes though.

by now we have a pretty good idea of the overall results. right? >> yes, we do. we do. at least in california. what some call the blue state elsewhere has become a blue tsunami here. there's no question about it, after all the votes are counted, it appears that democrats will have 60 of the 80 seats in the state assembly, that's a record and democrats will have 29 or maybe even 30 seats in a state senate. with respect to the house of representatives, democrats have gained six seats with valedejo's seat hanging in the balance. that means democrats will have 45 of the 53 congressional seats along with, of course, two democratic u.s. senators. it's pretty one-sided. >> yes. so as you just said, it seems that california is now pretty much a one-party state. what does that mean for future of our state since the voters elected democrat gavin newsom to

the governor's house. we used to have red orange county and now that changed. >> that's blue. short term not much change. democrats will be calling the shots, assuming they vote as a block, but the democrats are far from unified. many of the new crop from southern california, once went red, now it's blue, but not so blue and the central valley are more conservative than the progressive or liberal democrats we know here in the bay area. that means on key questions such as taxes, water, even health care that require the two-third votes in the chamber, the democrats may find it harder to put together the votes than their numbers might suggest. it's tough. >> yes, and meanwhile, what about the state's republicans who are obviously fewer in number than political independents? what about that party in california? >> fewer is an understatement. it really is. look, there are two reasons here, two factors to consider. first, if history is any guide, it will only be a time, a short

time before democrats implode from in-fighting. that's what they do. it's happened several times after their numbers swelled. second and the biggie, california republicans have to take a hard look in the mirror and deal with the party's shortcomings, the lack of minority support. african-americ african-americans, latinos, asian-americans have joined in the democratic coalition, why, because the democrats proposed policies on bread and butter issues, public education, health care and tax reform, all important to the groups. rhetoric not withstanding the republican party has not reached out seriously to minorities, which are growing in numbers, much faster than the non-hispanic whites. so simple demography will not allow republicans to be viable as a party, almost exclusively made up of just whites. so for california to have vibrant two-party system, a vibrant two-party system,

republicans must make this adjustment, and they probably will sooner or later. the request he is, how many election losses will the republican parties suffer before they seriously reach out to minorities. that's what they have to do. >> it might have been this blue tsunami that gets them to wake up and do it. >> it could, but in 2012 after the presidential election, they had the same thing, they had a meeting, a kumbaya session, we have to do something about it and -- >> look. >> nothing's happened. we'll see. >> stay tuned. i always end your segment like that. thanks, larry. still ahead on "today in the bay" there were a lot of fire engine rides this weekend, li t lightening things up, for a great cause. >> waking up to the blankets of low clouds, a unique view atop sutro tower looking across the bay. we'll look at the fog and when rain makes a comeback in the forecast.

at 7:54, waking up to low clouds and thick fog inland. here is the view from sutro tower looking across the bay with low clouds over san francisco and now looking up from below, you got misty skies in san francisco at 54 degrees. san jose mainly clear skies, cool start at 47 degrees and around the rest of the bay area, mid-40s around napa and 43 chilly start in santa rosa but look at the visibility, miles from the north bay, san rafael

to napa, concord, tri valley, 680 south to sunol, reduced visibility which might take to late morning before the low clouds start to fully break up. so we will see hazy sunshine inland but the coolest temperatures today probably in the inland east bay valleys. highs around san jose mid-60s. could have upper 60s south of san jose for the next couple of afternoons. low 60s around san francisco and mid-60s into the north bay. so other than the low clouds, no real rain producing clouds out there, that is still lurking offshore and a very energetic system offshore. look at the wave forecast as we get into monday and tuesday. you see the ocean swell here approaching the coast, some of the ocean swell heights will approach 14 to 16, maybe up to 18 feet. so could see some high surf advisories approaching tuesday and wednesday. so surf is one part of the story. rain making a comeback on tuesday. light to moderate rain with that first system, and then storm two develops during the day wednesday, turning windy, progressively more rainy

wednesday night through thursday and it looks like we should see a break friday and then another storm starts to approach come saturday. maybe some north bay showers on saturday, and saturday night into sunday we begin to see this next band push on through, and then the pattern stays active. look at the date now, out to the 4th and another system here looking offshore. basically over the next ten days we could see four storms coming on in, which actually for late november/december we should see that. here is the ten-day rainfall outlook and notice the bull's eye here on the north bay hills. skrouz mo santa cruz mountains another event the last three days wednesday through friday, where we saw three to six inches of rain in some of the higher peaks of the north bay. the pattern could repeat along the coastal range. most inland spots anywhere from one to three inches of rain as we add up the storms over the next ten days. both long range models painting a wet picture for northern california and a lot of sierra

snow. snow levels this time may drop closer to 5,000 feet or lower. the seven-day forecast stormy. wind, rain, high surf wednesday and thursday and then cooler temperatures to follow as you see, once we get temperatures in the bay area with rain in the 50s, you know what that means, sierra snow level starting to drop. big snow next weekend. >> looks good. firefighters annual tradition is back and better than ever. we're talking about the rides for toys event held yesterday in sunnyvale. exchanged new and unwrapped toys for a ride on a fire engine. children of all ages were welcomed. the event benefits 1500 families, so they can have gifts for the holidays. just wonderful. athanks for making us a part of your morning. no 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. news tonight. >> football. >> you can take a nap. it's sunday night football night

in america, a special edition of "nbc bay area news" at 9:00. you'll see rob back on air doing the weather and of course we'll be on again at 11:00 tonight. until then, see ya!

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