definitely a monumental day we've all been waiting for. >> right now at 4:30 hope on the front lines. health care workers talk about receiving the coronavirus vaccine as some in the bay area are prepared to roll urea city e season over. cal fire saying not so fast. meteorologist kari hall is tracking when wet weather returns. "today in the bay" starts right now. and a good tuesday morning to you. thanks for making us a part of your morning. i'm marcus washington. we have mike holding down the traffic for us in just a bit. we'll get to that. first, let's start with the forecast. meteorologist kari hall talking about rain coming into our area. yeah, it's been so great to

see over the weekend we got a good soaking. now we're taking a break, but we do have more rain heading our way. as we start out this morning it's a cool one and we're still watching the king tides that will cause flooding for one last day. our next round of rain comes in tomorrow but then the week dry and cool. no surprises for the speed sensors, kari. i may have a surprise for some folks in the east bay as we look at the big map. you see green all over the place. you expect that obviously. no closures but lots of construction out there. do keep in mind, watch for those crews. and here we have wood. it's not good if you hit it on west 80. reports of wood on the road. not much details. chp will swing through the area. i'll let you know if there's a problem. you're at speed. the same thing for the toll plaza. back to you. >> thank you, mike and kari.

ready to roll and roll up their sleeves. health care workers in the bay area are now awaiting the first batch of the pfizer vaccine. it's already in the bay area now stored and ready to be put to use that will happen for the first time later this morning when workers at zuckerberg general hospital receive the approved vaccine. frontline workers at stanford health will be among the first to get the vaccine. nurse dawn tran is hoping this is a turning point for the pandemic. >> i will do everything i can to protect my children, which they're excluded from the vaccine at the moment. >> those who live in nursing homes and others at high risk will likely follow frontline workers in getting the vaccine. the general population is still months away and possibly not until next summer. well, california continues to see the high numbers when it comes to the pandemic. more than 33,000 new infections were just added to the state's overall total. that's the third highest number

of new daily cases since the beginning of the pandemic. the state's positivity rate is also at an all-time high of 10.5%. over the past week more californians have tested positive than they did in september and october combined. the bar on the left showing you those two months. 213,000. this past week 243,000 new infections. and with that surge comes more changes as the entire bay area will soon fall under that stay-at-home order. right now the entire region still in the clear but san mateo, napa and solano counties are under their own stay-at-home orders. of course, 15% icu bed availability is critical threshold for the entire region. and as you can see from the map some counties are already under that threshold. others are very close. region wide update is expected later today. well, this morning a group of mostly republican state

senators pushing for governor newsom to deem restaurants as essential businesses. in a letter they say the restaurants, in addition to serving meals, also help provide food to food banks as well as senior citizens in need. one san diego area restaurant says the safety guidelines could not have happened at a worst time. it just celebrated its grand opening last week and that owner says he has seen other restaurants defy those orders and despite feeling pressure to do so he won't. >> i would love to have tables outside right now and be able to serve customers, but no way the profitability or any sort of financial metric is worth risking the safety and the human lives, only in my opinion. >> at last check the governor has not responded to the group's letter. and happening today contra costa county is contemplating raising fines for ignoring covid health orders. how much the fines may increase still not known just now. but last week one supervisor said she wants the fines to have

a bite this is for business owners to find it just too pricey to shrug off. businesses face a $250 fine for their first violation. it's $400 for the second. and $1,000 for the third. making it in the bay can even be more difficult for low-income families forced out by gentrification and barring a late extension san francisco is about to lose one program. that allows black families displaced by redevelopment to have lottery priority in new low-income housing. the decades old program expires next month. supervisors will debate extending it. the examiner is reporting just how long it may be extended is still not clear. new details for you this morning. b.a.r.t. is going paperless. you will now have to use your clipper card. sf gate reports that back in august b.a.r.t. started selling those tickets through the clipper cardin stead of the paper tickets. b.a.r.t. says because of the

pandemic it's transitioning fully to touchless payment methods. it says the clipper card will help get riders in and out of the gates faster and will help them go green. more earthquakes continue to swarm central nevada. several hit yesterday near the same point near mina, southeast of reno. the biggest a 4.7 and followed by six aftershocks. scientists believe a 6.5 quake back in may could be the reason for all of this. since then that same area has seen some 6,500 aftershocks. the latest rain in the north bay has apparently enough for santa rosa's fire department to declare an end to the fire season. among other things it means crews can restore all wildfire-related gear to their fire trucks. cal fire has not yet made that same declaration. its seasonal stations remain open. new video posted to twitter

of high surf combining with this week's king tides in pacifica. look at that. well, it's an adjustment to the pier where we've been seeing a lot of big waves this month. meteorologist kari hall has been tracking all the conditions we're dealing with, kari. a beautiful sight to see but certainly dangerous out there. absolutely and it is typical for us in wintertime once we start to see these storms rolling in and those high winds to push up some high waves. we have also our normal king tides to go along with that because the sun is closest to the earth and we have that gravitational pull from the sun, the moon, the earth and the way they're aligned. today will be the last day we'll see the king tides for the bay area for the year, and we're still going to have those high breakers up to 25 feet. and we are also looking at that localized flooding right along the immediate coastline during those high tide times which will be late morning. so we're watching out for that for today up until 1:00. elsewhere across the bay area it's going to be cool and some

high clouds moving in. so we'll see a mix of sun and clouds today. we'll talk about that and our incoming rain coming up in a few minimum. mike, how is it looking right now for the commute? well, kari, it's looking great. yesterday we told you about something for the east bay. we'll take you out there right now. green sensors including over at the caldecott tunnel. as we zoom over to 24 i'll let you know that overnight, the start of the overnight work for a few nights, or ongoing, it will be down to one bore in the eastbound direction getting away from the bay bridge for the caldecott tunnel. everything moves smoothly, scheduled maintenance. it's counter commute and very early with light traffic flow. the note it's there following up, as they said. bay bridge toll plaza no problems, no backup for any of our bridges right now. back to you. >> thanks, mike. well, back on the campaign trail. still ahead here on "today in the bay" our washington insider breaks down the run-off race president-elect biden is drawing attention to. plus, returning to the

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heading over to the tri-valley. we're going to see a cool day. getting ready for more rain. we'll talk about that in the forecast coming up. and we're looking at a smooth drive around the bay, but a lot of crews out doing their road work restricting lanes like highway 101. a look in san rafael southbound away from us over on the right side. a smooth slowdown to lincoln as you approach the golden gate bridge. you may be down three lanes there as they're doing scheduled maintenance. no problem on the sensors. just note if you're traveling out of marin county and into the city. good morning. i'm bertha coombs with your business news update from cnbc. stocks are poised to open higher this morning following a mixed session yesterday. we saw the tech heavy nasdaq rise but the dow pulling back from a record high during the session to close in the red. investors weighing the rollout of pfizer's covid vaccine against rising cases of

coronavirus, tighter restrictions in new york and other major cities as well as parts of europe all ahead of christmas. markets are tracking progress on another round of stimulus talks from the government. bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiling a nearly $750 billion relief plan that includes additional unemployment benefits and money for small businesses and health care providers. meantime the federal trade commission is ordering facebook, twitter, amazon and other social media and video sharing companies to explain just how they collect your personal data. they are also asking whatsapp and tiktok to show you how algorithms are used and how practices impact children and teenagers. companies have 45 days to respond to the orders which are typically used by regulators to commit to new regulation or legislation. google is pushing back its return to the office until

september of next year. and will experiment with a hybrid model, part of the week once conditions are met. they will work three days in the office and the rest of the week at home. google's ceo is testing whether this will lead to greater productivity and employees' well-being. it will be a hybrid model that will require workers to live within commuting distance. fully remote option is not going to be offered. marcus and laura, back over to you. >> bertha, those three days are tuesday, wednesday or thursday, i think it will be a selling point. thanks, bertha. >> that's a thing i was thinking about, how do you decide who is out which two days. you and i, we've worked hours -- i used to have mondays and tuesdays off for years and years. >> me, too. i didn't like that. but oh, well. thanks, bertha.

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and here we go on this tuesday morning. is that rain on the camera? i'm not sure. meteorologist kari hall has been tracking that for us. i never can at the. meteorologist kari hall can. >> that was rain. that was rain. >> was. >> now it looks like my windshield. >> a lot of our windshields. so, kari, when are we expecting the rain to move in? >> just a couple swipes of the windshield wiper there as you cross the golden gate bridge, it'll do you some good. we are getting ready for heavier rain as we go into the next 24 hours. and also that rain moving from north to south as we get ready for, finally, what we've been waiting for all of this season.

but if you're like me, i'm waiting for next week because the kids will be off of school. we're still home schooling today, so let's show you that forecast. as you're making plans for the kids to get out and get some fresh air. still cool today. wear those jackets even during the afternoon as we went out. at least it was nice and sunny. the sun will turn to clouds as we head into tomorrow, and we'll start to see the rain moving in by 10:00 tomorrow night in the north bay. then as we go into late tomorrow evening we start to see those showers quickly pushing through, but notice by thursday morning as we wake up most of the rain has already cleared out, so we're going to see it moves in very quickly by tomorrow night and mostly out of here by thursday morning around sunrise and the rest of the day is looking pretty nice and clear. most of the bay area getting a tenth of rain. it may be even closer to an inch

for spots like ukiah. for the sierra a good dose of snow, a good foot of snow in ski resorts. most will be 7 to 10 inches of snow. and through our forecast we see this quick round of precipitation rolling on through and then back to sunshine for the week. a cool one with highs in the upper 50s and lower 60s. mike, you've been watching the commute and a few sprinkles on the windshield. >> not presenting too much of a problem but a good note out there, kari. you have to watch it if it's slick or if there's anything that prevents from you seeing clearly. check the wipers and we'll check the maps while you're doing that as well before you leave. look at that, green sensors all around the bay. a great flow of traffic. we'll zoom over to the tri-valley and notice this. highway 84 shows a little more, a little longer stretch of that yellow.

sensors just below the speed limit. indicating a few more cars. we'll track to make sure nothing unusual reported in the area. the build for 580 out of the altamont. a live look here, dublin, good spacing between the cars and no problems. you're still at speed and the bay bridge toll plaza you're also going just fine. no metering lights, not even any wait. >> we like a no wait drive. new overnight for you one person is dead following a shooting along the southern california freeway. this happened last night along the 15 freeway in ontario. investigators say a man was found dead after being shot. a witness reported seeing a man in a black suv pull over, get out of the vehicle with a handgun. so far no arrests. it's official, joe biden is elected the next president of the united states. the electoral vote got a lot of attention with president trump's refusal to concede.

biden will campaign with democrat nominees for senate, jon ossoff and warnock. the winners will determine which party controls the senate as the president-elect takes office. "today in the bay's" tracie potts on what's next and the fight against covid-19. >> this battle for the soul of america, democracy prevailed. >> reporter: a clear win in the electoral college. >> ayes, 55. no, zero. >> reporter: california put joe biden over the top as the next president of the united states. >> there's urgent work in front of us. getting this pandemic under control and getting vaccinated against this virus. >> i feel hopeful today, relieved. >> reporter: the first vaccinations are happening as the u.s. reaches a new milestone, 300,000 deaths. health officials think life may

get back to normal by fall if they can convince most americans to get the shot. >> unless the large majority gets vaccinated we will not be able to control the pandemic. >> reporter: nearly 3 million doses are expected at hundreds of locations this week. winter storms in the northeast could slow delivery. on capitol hill -- >> i think we've had a christmas miracle occur in washington. >> reporter: lawmakers think they have a relief compromise that will stick. president trump still refuses to concede and announces attorney general william barr will resign next week. tracie potts, nbc news. 4:53 for you this morning. an assist just in time. why things are looking up for the dubs ahead of their season tipoff. happening first, despite the rain and overcast skies, local tourists gathering to watch the

total eclipse of the sun. there was a moment the clouds opened up allowing people to witness the eclipse prompting cheers and shouts from the crowd that gathered on that rainy day. take a second look at this. this is what they saw. a beautiful shot. look, now that's beautiful right there. those clouds made that experience a lot better, they say, because they were able to see it without the glasses on south america won't see another eclipse until 2048. we'll be right back. hi, i'm mike. jack hired me to tell you about his bagel breakfast sandwiches with bacon or sausage. jack i thought you hired me to be the spokesperson!

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uncertain. state regulators are finding them due to uber's refusal to hand over more data on sexual assaults as was ordered nearly a year ago. the state is threatening to suspend uber's license to operate unless they comply within 30 days. a year ago uber confirmed roughly 6,000 cases of sexual assault between 2017 and 2018. uber objects to releasing the information as it would compromise the victim's identities. one week to go before the season tipped off and the warriors are staffed at full strength. draymond green and james wiseman talk part. each tested positive for covid. coach kerr says they may not see the court until the final pregame season, saturday. the warriors open next week. working to make a deal on "today in the bay." next for you here the relief proposals now gaining steam on

capitol hill and what both include for small businesses. plus, the first shot in the bay area hours away. the covid vaccine has arrived. where frontline workers are gearing up to roll up their sleeves this morning. you're watching "today in the bay."

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leaders believe businesses should have to pay a whole lot more for ignoring covid rules. a live report just ahead. plus, exiting california days after tesla ceo elon musk revealed he left the bay area, another silicon business says he's following suit. the new trend. "today in the bay" continues right now. a terrific tuesday as i like to call it. thanks for making us a part of the morning for you. i'm marcus washington along with mike inouye but first kari hall with a look at the forecast today. and we are going to have sunshine today and will watch