area tracking some trouble spots for your morning commute. >> and of course a winter whiteout in the sierra. treacherous traveling but a good sign for our water year. kari is adding up the weekend snow totals. "today in the bay" continues right now. a very good morning to you and thanks so much for joining us. first monday of december now. hard to believe. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm scott mcgrew in for marcus, who has the day off. kari definitely does not. it was a messy weekend and we're still seeing a lot of rain. >> we are still seeing a lot of rain, even though the main part of that atmospheric river has shifted just south, we are still going to have to deal with some off and on rain today. and so we are seeing mostly some light rain as you get ready to head out the door. where you see the reds and the yellows indicates some heavier rain, now moving into oakland and that will make it very hard for to you get out the door this morning. dealing with the heavy rain and the wet conditions out there, with, along with the gusty winds.

san jose also getting some rain, so we'll talk about what's ahead coming up. mike, you're also seeing those slippery conditions. >> yeah, i borrowed your radar so we'll show you why we're talking about this slippery rain conditions. we have radar activity all over the map. i'll take it away so you can see the green while the road weather index and the speed sensors, the speed sensors are mostly green. road weather index shows where it will be wet and 101 at san antonio in the east bay, both crashes involved a single car hitting the center divide. a lot of times that is a result of loss of traction and spinouts. under these circumstances, keep that in mind, those are possibly what happened over there. 980 at 880 we have a disabled vehicle and tougher to see with that rain coming down. another one we call out. light activity around as far as the chp reports. chp does also report wind across the san mateo bridge, the bay bridge and across the summit, it's been a tough drive on that top. look at the green. we'll send it back to you. >> look at the green. we keep looking at it because

it's hard to believe, it keeps coming down. the rain is moving across the bay area. our "today in the bay" team live monitoring with what we can expect out there. we're going to get to kris sanchez, she's down in morgan hill area but first let's start out with damian trujillo in the santa cruz mountains. >> reporter: in the last storm the santa cruz mountains received a whopping seven inches of rain, that is a lot of water falling on the santa cruz mountains. right now there's been a break in the weather, no rain right now. drivers are cautious on highway 17 opinion the headlights are the northbound lanes that is traffic headed in to san jose to work perhaps in this early morning hour. we did shoot some video on the way up to the mountains this morning, the highway has gotten a good soaking overnight, and although the rainfall was light this morning, it's still required both hands on the wheel as puddling has become a concern. the other worry along highway 17 is the potential for mudslides.

cal trans has been working throughout the summer to shore up any potential hot spots for the slides. so far, nothing major has been reported. we did spot chp officers on the side of the road, ready to respond to any slide or any accident caused by the rains. fortunately what we've seen so far is drivers going below the speed limit up here, aware of the potential for danger. the faster you go, the more difficult it is for you to react to trouble up ahead. you might be driving okay but never know what the driver in front of you is about to do. the best advice, slow down, put both hands on the wheel and become a defensive driver with all of this rain, and behind me on the southbound lanes on highway 17, down there is known as rollover corner. you know what that means, so best precautions driving up and down highway 17 headed in to work this morning. we're live on the summit of the santa cruz mountains i'm damian trujillo, "today in the bay." >> surely want to take it easy out there, thank you very much. damian mentioned all the rain

coming down, it's got to go somewhere. >> the higher mountains is where we get our water from. >> around big sur they had about 15 inches of rain. >> no kidding. >> we compared that to ben lomand and the santa cruz mountains seven inches of rain there. almost seven inches of rain in marin and santa rosa had about five inches, compare that to a tenth of an inch in san jose and we see more rainfall totals anywhere from two and a half inches morgan hill as well as yountville. oakland hills getting close to an inch of rain. concord about three-quarters of an inch and livermore about 0.3 of an inch of rain. it's still coming down so we'll talk about what's ahead, that's coming up in a few minutes. >> kari, thank you. kris sanchez has been talking about it on twitter the puddling that she's seen on 101. >> that's right and kari just mentioned there, two and a half inches in the last 48 hours. we need a little bit of a break here, kris. >> reporter: yes, we're getting a little bit of a break right now. it's a really light rain that's falling. the winds have died down just a

little bit. so if you have to leave the house right now, this would be a good time to do that. you're going to get a small break, but with two and a half inches over the last 48 hours, you know that you are going to find some ponding, and puddling on the roadway. we saw that on our drive down. didn't have to use the windshield wipers too much as we were headed 101 south san jose to morgan hill but we had to use them because of the water that was coming off the back of the trucks and the cars that were driving nearby be. even if the rain lets up you'll see water on your windshield. be ready to use the wipe he weres. we have video from a massive roof at a medical centerff to h scramble to move equipment as the rain pummel the roof, spilling into the hospital below. and if the sunday drive was any indication, this morning's commute is going to be rough. we've been looking at mike's maps all morning long. chp reported a lot of accidents including a spinout on highway

101 in san jose, where the driver told us that he saw the water and by the time he saw the water, he was already spinning out. so just a reminder of how fast things can go south. make sure you keep both hands on the wheel and you slow down for the conditions. damian said he saw folks up in the santa cruz mountains driving a little bit slower. sometimes we don't see that on highway 101 because folks get into their regular routine and they think i know the roadway, but you don't know it the way that it is this morning. the wind is also a factor. we have a high-profile truck, a tall vehicle, and we could feel the wind buffetting the live truck so keep both hands on the wheel this morning, and do slow down for the conditions. remember, don't hit the brakes suddenly because that could cause you some trouble. in morgan hill, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> good advice. kris, thank you. >> very slick out there. taking a live look outside at sfo. wet weather will impact air travel likely this morning. the rain and wind had a very big

impact yesterday for travelers headed home from their vacations. weather issues led to 164 canceled flights. some 500 additional flights were delayed, those delays averaged about 40 minutes and also this morning, let me add here that 13 canceled flights remained at sfo this morning, nine arrivals and four departures so make sure you check ahead. you can also follow kari hall tracking this storm. she always gives updates on social media and she's posting forecasts, so you can take those updates on the go. 5:07 on your monday morning. happening today,re with representatives of at least a dozen nations reportedly president trump will in london. discuss challenges nato members face from china and russia. the summit kicks off today or tomorrow, rather, continues through wednesday. now that trip comes as rewestern president trump's lawyers decided not to attend wednesday's impeachment hearing.

"today in the bay's" tracie potts explains why. >> reporter: as president trump heads to the nato summit in europe today, a white house lawyer wrote the judiciary committee "we do not intend to participate in your wednesday hearing" calling it an unfair and irretrievably broken process. >> this is a complete american waste of time right here. >> we're giving the president every opportunity to participate. >> reporter: tomorrow the intelligence committee is expected to hand over its findings from last month's hearings on whether the president was wrong to withhold aid from ukraine while asking for political favor. republicans want the man who led those hearings to testify. they argue intelligence chair adam schiff is biased. >> the best witness, the most effective, the most valuable witness that we have is the president of the united states himself. >> reporter: wednesday's judiciary hearing will feature four constitutional experts trying to tie the testimony to

the law to make the case for impeachment. lawmakers are expected to consider charges of bribery, abuse of power, and obstruction of justice for directing white house staff to defy subpoenas. democrats are hoping for a full house vote before christmas, setting the stage for an impe h impeachment trial in january. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. >> 5:09 right now. new technology now in the testing stages may one day help lower the number of power outages tied to fire risk. pg&e is trying to develop a software system metodiagnose po before they trigger outages or wildfors. texas a&m a.m. researchers deve it to boost reliability through what's distribution anticipation. california utilities believe the same technology may be able to detect and better localize possible power line issues long before they ever occur.

leaders in some bay area cities pushing to strengthen eviction protections to cover the run up to the end of the year, when stronger state protections kick in. happening today, palo alto city council members will debate that. leaders are especially concerned about long time tenants living in a downtown apartment complex facing evictions tied to a hotel conversion plan, that meeting starts at 5:00 this afternoon. in san francisco, supervisors are expected to take the new state law at even more protections. voting today on regulations that would require landlords to have just cause for evictingenants from buildings built after 1979. right now, those protections apply only to tenants in buildings constructed before 1979. ten minutes after 5:00. back to the storm, which is making for slow going, if you're driving to or from the sierra. you can see, cars are traveling through, but there is a chain requirement from just below blue canyon up to the state line. that area picked up about two

feet of snow over the weekend. chp says despite a heavy volume of holiday traffic yesterday, drivers paid attention to those chain warnings and crashes were kept to a minimum. >> a lot of people headed up there really tried to time it right in getting up there, and even coming down, having to cut their trip short. kari? >> today is the day to come back home. as we await the specific snowfall totals we expected anywhere from one to two feet. we have a live camera looking at squaw valley and we're waiting for someone to wake up and stick a yard stick down into the snow. it's not automated like rainfall totals. so we are going to see that snow tapering off in the sierra, as we go throughout the day, and so it will be a good travel day coming back to the bay area. some scattered showers will continue there, as well as here, going into today and then we will have another storm moving in by the end of the week, that will bring in more significant snowfall totals. we'll talk about what that means for the bay area, coming up in a

few minutes. mike, you had a wrong-way driver reported. >> kari, this is different than the spin-outs we talked about, sometimes they'll report the car facing the wrong way on the shoulder. this is over here in oakland. i have left the other spinouts but there is a couple of new incidents i'm tracking over here as well to the east bay, very slick conditions. it's eastbound 580 getting away from the been been, reports of a wrong-way driver around seminary. i saw slowing as well. my hope is there was a traffic break and someone was pulled over, that would be the best case scenario, no incidents 'llng on after that. ouble check that. be careful for that area if you're traveling on 580, headed up past highway 13. the rest of the bay does show a smooth drive but with wet and windy conditions, be careful out there. allow yourself extra time. we'll talk about timing coming out of contra costa county and the drive there coming up. back to you. >> thank you. calling all online shoppers today, cyber monday. coming up next on "today in the bay" the major deals you could score and the best items they say to buy. plus at 5:25, dogs are not

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we have a problem. another spinout reported in the santa cruz mountains. we will tea talk about highway 17 and about the wrong-way driver we may have a crash. we'll double check with our partners at waze. i'll get you the information however we get it. good morning. i'm rahel solomon at cnbc headquarters and here are today's top business headlines. wall street is pointing towards a higher open this morning. investors are reacting to positive economic data out of china. factory activity growing at the fastest pace in three years despite the impact from the trade war.y, a the dow, nasdaq, and s&p 500 had their best month sincee. spending. new numbers, consumers largely avoided the stores and malls on black friday, choosing instead to shop from the comfort of their couch. adobe analytics says that online sales hit $7.4 billion, up more than 19% from last year but still a shy of estimates.

shopper track, which monitors foot traffic, says that store visits fell a combined 3% on thursday and friday. so traffic was actually up on thanksgiving evening, but that was dragged down by a 6% decline on black friday. shopper track says the traditional pattern of people visiting stores has not only been disrupted by online shopping but also offers like buy online and pick up in stores. and disney's "frozen 2" stuffing the competition over the thanksgiving holiday weekend with a record-setting $137.2 million. the film has made $739 million worldwide and will likely be the sixth disney movie to cross $1 billion by the end of its run in theaters. overall, thanksgiving brought in a solid $253 million in sales, but that was shy of last year's record $315 million. the holiday season is helping to offset what has been a bleak november at the box office. sales had been down more than 7%, headed into the weekend. i'll send it back to you guys. >> gives you all the songs to put in your ear, too.

thanks so much. today it's cyber monday. deals to be had, walmart has a 55 inch tv for $279, a ninja four quart air fryer 70 bucks. walmart offering two-day shipping. target kicked off its cyber monday deals early, including markdowns on apple products and gadgets from other top brands. the promotion will run through next monday. and red lobster lovers saying pinch me over a holiday wardrobe dream come true. >> tell me what you think of this. you may have to be buttered up before you put down the money for it. you can make it out? this is their ugly sweater contest. >> shrimp and biscuits. >> biscuits, shrimp, snowflakes. >> oh, pocket. >> oh a pocket for the cheddar biscuits and the chain says it's a $w40 sweater and already selling out after going on sale last tuesday. >> you can never be too tacky. >> have you ever been to one of

the ugly sweater parties? >> i have not. i don't know what people are saying about what i wear. >> oh, ugly sweater contest. >> no. >> my grandmother made this. >> i just bought one over the weekend. >> you did? >> i'm going to bring it out for the christmas party. >> you got a red lobster sweater? >> not one of those. >> with the cheddar biscuits. >> ugly christmas sweater. >> i can't wait to see. >> okay. >> you're going to need it. >> it's very cold out there. we're going to talk about that. also, the rain that's still falling across the bay area, so as we take a look, let's switch it over to wsi 1, because we are seeing some of the showers moving through, and we are still going to see some rain that will be passing as we go into the day. i wanted to zoom in to parts of marin county, where it is still raining quite heavily and we're seeing the yellows and the reds coming in to muir beach and that will be moving off towards the east so we'll see some scattered

showers that will at times get heavier, especially this morning. just north of orinda, we're seeing some heavy rain so that will most likely be closing in on concord, as well as walnut creek. so we are going to see at times some heavy rain, as you get ready to head out the door for that morning commute. a lot of us getting back to work and school, and so we are seeing the atmospheric river and the heaviest rain pushing to the south of us, and this is helping. this is the upper level low, the center of the storm, that's going to push a cold front toda so that's going to help move that atmospheric river to the south, but it also will bring about some rain. right now, temperatures are fairly mild, compared to what we've seen recently, with some mid-50s heading out the door. we're going to see highs today in the lower 60s, and some upper 50s in parts of the north bay. so off and on rain expected, but this will all start to taper off as the winds calm down, and so we are just going to have the possibility of some quick moving showers throughout the day, and

then by tomorrow morning, we're waking up to clouds, but at least we won't see a lot of rain coming from those clouds. so additional rainfall totals look to be fairly light, except for the north bay, where we're looking at another half to possibly close to an inch of rain. we'll see the storm systems tapering off for a little while but then thursday is really our only dry day in the forecast before another storm system comes in by the end of the week and so that's going to make it soggy for the start of the weekend. so we've had a lot of wet weather. there's still going to be some today, off and on rain tomorrow and early wednesday and a break on thursday. mike, you're getting updates on the wrong-way driver. >> i am. i want to show folks first of all the big view but we have an update for that wrong-way driver through the east bay. the green highlighting as folks know is our weather index, we've taken kari's data, weather con soupy, sloppy around most of the bay. here is the south bay and really hearing about another issue, highway 17 another spin-out reported near the summit that's been a repeated issue every few minutes over the morning. over here looking at contra costa county with the slowing

for highway 4 but it's right there at 580. i want to show you with waze what's going on here. we have reports of an issue for waze, we had first just slowing and a wrong-way driver reported. there is one wazer who did report a crash looks like they may have edited that update and so we'll check on that. we want to bring you the latest as we have a number of reports. we have all these reports here from our various wazers and we thank them as well. we'll thank each of them for showing them on tv and being part of our team. nbc bay area wazer bay bridge and the that rain, be careful. wind and rain are the key right now. back to you. >> thank you, mike. 5:22. going t airline that using sustainable fuel to get you to europe. remembering rosario, the way the cast of "will & grace" is honoring one of the show's favorite characters. here, it all starts wi s

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welcome back. it's 5:25. new developments in hong kong. china is suspending u.s. navy visits to the city. it's in retaliation of new legislation supporting human rights in hong kong signed by congress last week. in the meantime, protesters and riot police were back in the streets of hong kong on sunday. a huge crowd took to the streets, some protesters flying american flags. they're demanding more democracy and an investigation to police use of force. 5:25. catholic leaders expressing new worries about the financial future of the entire church in the wake of newly expanded laws, tied to sex abuse litigation. over the past couple of years, 15 states including california have expanded so-called look back windows, which allow sex abuse claims to be filed no matter how far back they go. the concern is a new flood of claims could result in billions of dollars in new payouts and legal battles. actress shelly morrison

died. maybe the name rosario will ring a bell if you're a long time fan of "will & grace." >> she played the temperamental maid. fans considered her a favorite and the show's producers wanted her back for the revival, but by then, she had retired from acting after appearing in more than 150 television series over the years. new this morning, at 5:26, air france flights going green flying in and out of sfo. starting in june of 2020 the airline will use a blend of sustainable aviation fuel and conventional fuel for its flights. this is to save approximately 6,000 tons of co2. it looks like dogs aren't just man's best friend. >> according to a new stud ye and apparently they studied this, women who cuddle up with

their dog get a better sleep than if they were with a human partner. researchers compared dogs to cats, and how well female pet owners slept next to each one and you're going to ask which one is better and i don't know, because we didn't get that part of the research. so we'll just leave that. i do know dogs don't snore, most of them. >> most of them. >> boston, those do, bulldogs. >> some of the pugs maybe. we're tracking rain across the be rain officer-involved shooting in contra costa county. we'll tell you what we've is coming. learned this morning about the moment leading up to the incident.

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with coverage monitoring what you can expect as you head out the door, little bit. good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> i think that's what marcus is doing. i'm scott mcgrew. marcus washington has the day off. meteorologist kari hall is watching carefully what's happening. >> rain moving through parts of the bay area as we look at storm ranger and some of the rain, especially the north bay right now and marin county, where we see the bright reds and yellow. our mobile doppler radar is picking up on heavy rain moving into mill valley, getting ready to move on to highway 101 as well as 580 near san rafael. watch out for that. we'll see scattered showers off and on, even though the atmospheric river has pushed to the south. we still have this swirl of clouds the upper level low that will push a cold front as kro the bay area going into today, so that will also bring about some scattered showers but the bulk of the heavier rain is moving out, mike, probably good

news but you're already tracking two crashes. >> only two i guess because we're the big view. look how wet these roads are, nde green highlighting, remember says it's of soupy, sloppy, a note but there will be those bigger puddles on 87 for example into downtown. 580 eastbound is recovering an earlier crash in the area where there was a wrong-way driver reported. i'm still waiting for an update from chp but southbound 880 just past 980 a couple of crashes reported there, more slowing shows up. we're concerned with that. we have the backup at the bay bridge toll plaza, not a major issue, right on schedule there, but windy across the span as well. back to you. >> thank you, mike. most people just dealt with some inconvenience as far as the commute or maybe some branches down, but we've been really worried about the north bay, and the burn scars up there. >> you can see from this video here some rocks fell on the roadway out there, this is what they're trying to do to shore up some of the land there. w sron

katsuda, live in geyserville this morning with more on the conditions there. sharon? >> reporter: that's right, scott and laura. the rain is starting to come down on us again, and we're here along highway 128. you can see the b area right behind me. sadly what we're looking at right here is the remnants of a home, and you can still smell the smoke out here, mixed in with the rain. right up highway 128 here near chalk hill road yesterday, huge boulders came tumbling down, big enough to take out cars. fortunately that didn't happen. chp had to call in extra help to remove the rocks from the roadway. >> people needed to keep an eye out, drive slow, pay attention, because it can be around any curve, any of the roadways. >> reporter: here is another rockslide that happened along geyser road in geyserville. these rock slides occurring in the kincade burn areas. with more rain on the way this week, there's concern about what more could come tumbling down.

and back here live, some parts of sonoma county you can see the rain still coming down here, received more than four inches of rain this past weekend, so the hills are soaked and the burn areas are prone to more mudslides. so do be careful if you are driving out in this area. reporting live in sonoma county, i'm sharon katsuda, "today in the bay." >> sharon, thank you. it's been a travel nightmare for so many people. thanksgiving holiday, you got family coming to town or trying to plan when you can get out. there are a lot of delays to report at sfo. >> bob redell is out there checking out some of the delays at sfo as well as the folks coming in from tahoe as well. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning to you, scott and laura. think about many of the people trying to get back in to the golden state, back to their places, their homes here in walnut creek and other places in the bay area. this is what they had to deal with. talking about people coming from tahoe, coming from novato, reno area.

looking at westbound highway 80 near the california/nevada border this week, there was lots of snow, a number of drivers having to pull over to get those chains on their tires, causing delays for a lot of people and this was the scene much further south in the state. californians trying to leave las vegas to get back home to california. they found themselves in a backup along westbound i-15, this is out of las vegas. this backup extended for 21 miles yesterday afternoon. nevada's highway patrol was warning drivers do not try to get around this traffic mess by using the shoulder on the road or you could be fined $200. as you were talking about earlier, sfo the bad weather there and other parts of the country led to the cancellation of 13 flights today, talking about nine arrivals, four departures. yesterday the air report saw almost 500 flights delayed and another 164 canceled. >> i'm just thinking it's going to be a pretty long night, because we lose two hours going

back flying in to dallas and we have the three-hour drive to get home to shreveport and i have to be at work in the morning, so i'm not looking forward to it. >> reporter: the wind was so strong above the bay area yesterday, national weather service issued a severe turbulence notice for all aircraft flying in and out of sfo. "the chronicle" reports a pilot flying into the airport at monterey reported winds of 75 miles an hour at an elevation of around 2,000 feet. reporting live here in walnut creek, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> bob, stay dry. >> try to at least. because as the weather changes, we're certainly tracking it all. our website and mobile app great resources to stay in the know. on your screen in the bottom left is a qr code. if you have an iphone, you can point it at that code, it will take you right to our weather page, where you can stay up to date and get tailored weather radar for your area. 5:36 and developing this

morning, concord police investigating a deadly shooting by its officers. this happened yesterday around noon at a home on oasis drive between treat and monument boulevard. police shot and killed a 60-year-old man. neighbors say the man who died had severely beaten his elderly parents. when officers arrived, they say the man was on the verge of killing his own mother. >> our officers went inside and they located the son straddling his mother while holding a knife. >> to be honest, it's a sad thing that things like this have to happen this time of year and it ended the way it did. >> police say the couple called 911 saying their son was armed and drunk or on drugs. the husband and wife are in the hospital with serious injuries. >> 5:37 right now. the chp talking a little more this morning about the most recent attacks that were targeting drivers south of the bay area right where highway 101 meets highway 152 and 156.

someone is either shooting or throwing projectiles at cars. four cars were hit on thanksgiving night alone, adding to the nearly 50 attacks in that same area since february. it's not really clear if all these cases are linked, but the sad truth is the chp now has a new name for that area, calling it projectile alley. >> they do match some of the previous incidents we have had, so we have a lot of resources dedicated to this. >> i have this up on both sides of my kids because i'm too afraid to drive around. >> that's a driver who lives in prunedale trying to better protect herself and her two young children. the reward is up to $4,500 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. only on nbc bay area, the community giving back after a mobile shower unit serving the homeless in the south bay was damaged.

it's a story we brought you last week on "today in the bay." so far more than $2,200 has been donated to casa de clara, the charity provides hot showers to more than 100 people living on the streets in san jose. thieves stole the catalytic converter off the van that tows that unit. replacing the part will cost $3,000. police continue to investigate. happening today, the capitol christmas tree set to light up sacramento. >> this is a 6-foot plush white fir, chopped down from a state forest in shasta county. governor gavin newsom welcoming a 10-year-old girl from gilroy to help with the ceremony. leila limas a fourth grader at the charter school of morgan hill. she has down's syndrome. she was selected to attend today's event because her teachers say she is an independent and energetic student that inspires others. it is raining and wet out there. we were tracking all kinds of standing water out there as well. >> what's gotten me, standing water, it is a puddle. a big one so be careful. 87 is where scott saw a few of those coming up, your usual

suspects, thank you team member scott. green highlighting all over wet conditions. there is a crash out of the altamont, not a manjor issue. 580 eastbound the crash cleared. i know a crash here in the corridor just south of 980 headed down toward fifth street, that's where we have a crash blocking two lanes. that's the issue for oakland as we zoom out, i want to get you over to our waze system. you see the maps here, the waze times out your drive out of concord, over in toward the bay bridge at 36 minutes now, and that will hold steady for another hour. you can watch us for another hour but then things start to slow down so keep that in mind, waze has predictive timing if you use their app on their phone and try that out as well. >> pretty handy if you want to get away. >> i don't know if anybody else has the forecast. >> or weekend forecast, hopefully drier. >> well that's not going to be the case this upcoming weekend. we'll see some more rain coming in. unfortunately we're only going to see a break on thursday, but

we will have a break on sunday, so that's probably the best day to get outshe sierra, we are goo low to mid-30s and lighter snow showers on sunday a yck to the . if you're headed to the coast this weekend, expect it to be very soggy, upper 50s. i know that didn't stop the surfers yesterday, and so we're going to see in russian river valley some highs in the mid-50s and sunshine looking better on sunday. we'll talk about what's going on today, with our temperature trend, and a look at storm ranger coming up in about three minutes. >> thank you, kari. it's 5:41 right now. coming up next on "today in the bay," new technology that could help pg&e keep your lights on and help prevent wildfires. plus you have to see this out of the world home, a california man restoring it and living inside of it. (avo) do you push through migraine?

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good monday morning. right now at 5:44, time to get up and get ready to head back to work. this is a look at the road through dublin headed on 580. we'll see off and on rain showers today. make sure you have the poncho and umbrella ready to go. we're tracking rain on storm ranger. we'll take a closer look at this and talk about what he's ahead for the rest of the week, coming up insminutes. >> just got word of a crash in this report. the person says they lost control in the rain. that's another note. conditions out there are tough, westbound on your east shore freeway. fortunately i guess the traffic held up in vallejo, we'll talk

about that coming up. >> thanks so much, kari and mike. it's 5:44 right now. san jose firefighters not saying if they know what sparked a house fire near alum rock park. that left a family of five without a place to live for some time. three adults, two children made it out of this home safely, this started before 9:00 on adams drive in the berryessa neighborhood. flames damaged the kitchen, dining room and garage. other areas sustained smoke damage. new details about the cost of pg&e's october power shutoff in one east bay city. orinda's city manager ran those numbers, his report showed the city wracked up nearly $60,000 in expenses. about 30,000 went to city workers who had to put aside their usual work to deal with the power shutoff. $28,000 went to overtime pay, and buying and renting emergency supplies. pg&e turned off the power to orinda as a fire safety precaution october 9th through the 11th, and again from the

26th through the 29th. >> 5:45. in southern california, passengers of a norwegian cruis symptoms as the norwegian "joy" arrived at the port of los angeles yesterday.quesd to be taken to the hospital. last week, six people fell ill aboard that same cruise ship. four were taken to the hospital. the 49ers could lose even more tonight after that close loss to the ravens early on sunday. fans already know baltimore kicked that field goal as time expired to drop the niners to 10-2 on the season. so the two, the other loss came against the seahawks. this is why it matters. if the seahawks win tonight, seattle owns the tiebreaker which drops the niners from first place in the nfc to fifth and it means no home field advantage. don't worry, though, plenty of season left to play. could come down to the final game of the regular season between the 49ers and the seahawks.

that is december 29th. warriors forward draymond green going to spend tonight on the bench. he's dealing with a heel injury. he tried playing yesterday but went to the bench after only spending about half the game on the court. the warriors ended up losing to the magic last night. in other news, green will be back in his alma mater, michigan state tuesday when his college jersey will be retired. trending this morning, a california man truly has a home that stands out. >> the futuro home, wayne donaldson in milford showing off the renovated plastic prefabricated home. its ufo style was popular back in the late '60s when it was first built. he's renovated it, 500 square feet, includes all the creature comforts of a tiny as many of 100 of these were built but 20 are still livable in the u.s. it is now in san jacinto mountains. >> very interesting.

>> you know who could use that as a mother-in-law unit the person who owns the fred flintstone house in the backyard. >> neighbors would love it. a lot of wewther this morning. >> it's still soggy out there this morning, as you get ready to head out. off and on rain and some of the heaviest rain moved on. we have storm ranger on tracking the downpours and giving us the best high resolution view we have and as we see the rain moving across the bay, we were just seeing the heavy rain pouring over san rafael moving off to the east and we'll be in vallejo soon. you're seeing it in milpitas right now. if you're about to head out the door give it a few more minutes to let the rain lighten up. we're seeing the atmospheric river shifting to south so here is the upper level low and the cold front that will help push this farther to the south, but it will also bring about

some scattered rain as we go throughout the day. showers still not heavy but light and hit or miss rain as we go into the rest of the day. if you're able to get our nbc bay area app you'll track that rain, and going into tonight, it's looking a little bit better, going into tomorrow as well, but there will be rain returning by tomorrow evening into wednesday as we'll still see wet weather moving in. the atmospheric river is waving back and forth and into the next several days there will be another storm system approaching in time for friday to saturday looking like we'll get additional rainfall here, going into the rest of the folks. we're going to see some of the showers also in san francisco and our temperatures in the upper 50s so quite wet here going into the next several days. so that's what we've been tracking here this first round

of rain, that will gradually start to wind down. >> kari, you've been talking about the atmospheric river and that's a wintertime thing. why is that not a year-round thing? >> it's not year-round because at some point it weakens and pushes farther south. here in the bay area we don't get that focus of the rain, but then looking at what's happening here, this moisture connects all the way to hawaii so it's tapping into some tropical moisture, the reason why we sometimes call it the pineapple express, you can see where it's targeting right now, waves due to the influence of the jet stream and it brings the majority of our rain and snow and so this is something we'll be hearing very often, going into the winter. it's because it also brings about 30% to 50% of bay area precipitation, and it's only 200 to 400 miles wide, hard to refer to as an out of control fire hose that's blasting rain. it makes it hard to predict, as

it moves back and forth, but we get the majority of our yearly rainfall and snow but because of climate change, we have seen temperatures within that atmospheric river warming up, and so it's changed a lot of the precipitation that we get from rain and snow to larger amounts of rain, and that of course affects oursnowpack. that's something we'll be talking about here, going into the winter. mike, you've been tracking the roads. how is it looking? >> great. kari, you said the snow can come from the pineapple express? talking about the rain that is an issue and no jokes over here, looking at westbound 80 around willow, highway 4. a report came in to chp and the person who called it in said they lost control as a result of the rain in the area. slick conditions, be careful. there's another crash in that area on the shoulder. now this distraction at least but i think there may be one lane blocked while they move that vehicle completely off to the shoulder. be careful. affics held up as is

tradition out of vallejo across the carquinez bridge. the bay bridge also has the backup traditional at the toll plaza, nothing worse than that but the conditions are pretty tough. wi a 808 southbound looks like we're recovering. the earlier crash south toward fifth may be clearing to the shoulder but quite a distraction, and the build is on right there for that portion of your bay. the rest of the bay shows a smooth drive as far as we can see but coming up from gilroy, very slow through san martin. waze says 20 minutes before the real traffic kicks in but the crash, so there will be more slowing headed up to morgan hill. back to you. >> mike, thank you. montana governor steve bullock is ending his presidential campaign. the announcement happened overnight. the 53-year-old democrat entered the race in may, filed for the new hampshire primary less than a month ago. bullock pitched himself to voters as a campaign finance reformer, who could win in red states but his campaign never caught fire. there are now 16 candidates running for the democratic

nomination. still ahead this hour, we all keep talking about the weather, but it affects so many of us, no matter what your day has in store. live team coverage coming up at 6:00 a.m., including the rain totals that we've seen in the santa cruz mountains, and the issue one south bay medical facility overnight. but first -- >> that kind of took away the last little bit of strength i had for a little while. >> america's prescription drug crisis is more than the high cost. the economic reason for a shortage of some life-saving drugs. you're watching "today in the bay." so, as you can see, saving can be quite simple.

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there's mike inouye, post being christmas in the park in san jose. he was the emcee for the christmas tree lighting on friday. you see the big switch behind him. check out the photos from that. follow him on facebook. good news this morning, another one of the baby races at an nba game. >> this halftime show included a diapered diva. >> oh, number six on a mission. on a mission! on a mission!e's almost -- ooh, fire behind her in there. >> what a cutie. >> the baby with her leg in the air eventually cross finh line to win it all, sunday at the pelican/thunder game in new orleans. >> look at the kids, the parents cheering them on there.

"frozen 2" set a thanksgiving record while holding on to first place at the weekend box office. >> its second weekend it brought in $85.3 million domestically. it also earned an unprecedent the $132.7 million across the five-day weekend, making it the highest grossing weekend in thanksgiving history. 5:57. cities across california still try to figure out how to handle recreational marijuana, the midwest is about to figure that out as well. recreational marijuana is officially being sold in michigan, and lines were out the door on sunday. here is a customer. >> i'm so happy to see it happen. people that have care issues, people who want to enjoy it recognize cessionally, it's a long time in coming. >> a little discouragement in line but a lot of people are here to get good weed. >> that's michigan. marijuana is legal in illinois

in january. no doubt you've heard firsthand.l ctes railing areto g shortages for about 100 drugs which doctors blame on a failure in the free market. >> in general these are very, very inexpensive drugs so it's not profitable to make the products but also difficult to make these products. in many cases it doesn't make economic sense for a company to make one of these old, cheap drugs when they could make something more expensive. >> to say to somebody we don't have that, i can offer you inferior products is decimating. it's no question it's caused deaths. >> of course patients say they're frustrated because there are medicines that will work for them that they just cannot get. a national scandal involving parents changed her life, lori loughlin is speaking out. ughlin's daughter olivia returned to youtube yesterdayup loading her first video after the college admissions scandal. in march her parents paid more than $500,000 to get olivia and

her sister in to usc. the parents of both pleaded not guilty to the charges. olivia's no longer enrolled at usc, took to social media saying she can't legally talk about the charges that her parents face but she's excited to get back to posting videos about her life. right now at 6:00, tracking the storm. nbc bay area storm ranger bringing us the most accurate weather radar data there is and the rain is not letti kari just downpour, our team ren the streets, covering the big weather stories for you this monday morning including nearly five inches of rain, actually it was seven inches of rain i believe in the skruanta cruz mountains. look at the updates coming in. we have a live update from damian trujillo. workers in the south bay having to move important equipment out of the way, we're live with the issues all this wet weather is causing. "today in the bay" continues right now.

>> a very good morning to you. thanks for joining us. first monday in december already. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm scott mcgrew. in for marcus. i know you had a lot of rain, in fact we have video from overnight, raining sideways at times in the south bay. small branches came down in my area in san jose but i think i got the best of it. a lot of people had much worse. >> and it was a lot of really heavy rain coming a so peopleea and out the door early this morning have to watch out for tree branches that may have come down or some potholes that may be covered by water, and we're also still seeing some scattered showers right now in the north bay, as well as san jose, and so we're going to see