good morning. it is saturday, january 9th. a live look outside in downtown san jose on a very cold saturday morning. thank you for starting your weekend with us. i'm kira klapper. vianey arana joins us with a look at your microclimate forecast. >> hey, girl, i'm back, i missed you guy is. i wasn't in last weekend. >> happy new year. >> let's get to our forecast. happy new year to you too. it is a good morning and it is cold, you're absolutely right. a beautiful view over san francisco.

47 degrees right now and let's see how the rest of the bay area is waking up. 32 degrees in novato. oakland, 38, concord, 37. we are seeing in addition to cold temperatures a couple of areas of low visibility, including, novato, napa. patchy fog in san francisco, so use caution. just know, don't turn on your high beams it makes it worse. it makes it more blinding. just use your regular headlights and drive with a good amount of distance. now, we will be seeing plenty of sunshine but we're going into the bit of a drying trend ahead. that's actually going to warm up some of these temperatures to potentially near records heading into the workweek. full forecasts in a few minutes. >> thank you so much. we begin with a developing story where at least one person was killed in the early morning freeway crash. just before 1:00 this morning,

alameda fire and chp responded to this. on southbound 880 near marina boulevard. seven people were hurt inside three heavily damaged cars. two passengers were ejected. one was declared dead at the scene. the six other people were taken to the hospital. this morning some lanes may still be closed on southbound 880 as the chp investigates. now to our continuing coverage of the riot on capitol hill. the fbi says they have arrested more than 50 people who were involved. some being charged in federal court. others in superior court. the fbi says this is quote, just the beginning. "today in the bay's" ian cole reports on disturbing video including the deadly shooting of one of the victims. >> reporter: videos shows the terrifying moments the rioters reached the door of the speaker's lobby. in a tense standoff, officers tried to keep their cool.

the crowd advances and smashes windows when capitol officers move inside to make way for tactical officers. the mob begins climbing towards them through the door. at that moment, an officer on the other side opens fire. ashli babbitt of san diego falls to the ground. she later dies. the officer who fired his gun now on administrative leave. the fbi says dozens have been arrested for wednesday's rampage. including richard barnett of arkansas photographed in speaker pelosi's office charged with stealing her mail and charged, lonnie coffman of alabama for possession of 11 molotov cocktails, handguns and a semi-automatic weapon. nationwide, hundreds of federal agents are pursuing riot suspects. tim gallagher, the former fbi special agent in charge in d.c. >> this is an act of domestic terrorism. this is what the fbi will be focused on 24/7 to both look

backwards, lock up lawbreakers and looking forward to help keeping the city and america secure. >> reporter: blaming him for inciting the violence, at least 230 congressional democrats are demand president trump be removed now, just days before his term is over. either through the 25th amendment or his resignation. if not, speaker pelosi is pledging to move forward with impeachment. so is jackie spear. >> one of the resolutions which i'm a co-author of will be introduced on monday. >> reporter: she was in the house chamber when the mob stormed into the capitol halls. the country can't wait until january 20th because the president presents a deadly threat to our democracy. >> if we sit silently then it is tacitly accepting the fact that the president of the united states incited terrorism and insurrection. all you have to do is look at

the people who did get in. >> reporter: one senator, lisa murkowski, said that the president should resign. i want him out. he's caused enough damage. lindsey graham heckled at an airport for criticizing the president. >> traitor, traitor! >> reporter: said another partisan impeachment would further divide the country. at the capitol, the flag at half-staff for officer sicknick who died. sicknick's family said he is a hero and that's what we want people to remember. ian cole, nbc, bay area news. now that twitter what permanently suspended president trump's personal account, he says he's in talks with other social media platforms or may launch his own. in a statement, twitter says it ultimately took this step because of the risk of further incitement of violence. after the move, president trump then used the government-owned potus account to condemn the ban accusing the company of

violating his first amendment rights and twitter removed the tweets last night. many supporters agree that the president is being censored. experts say it's within the company's rights to do it. >> they have the right, and they have no legal compulsion to provide services to anybody. so i don't think it's a question of legality. i think you can look at whether it's good policy, whether this is how we want these services to be operating. >> google is also making moves suspending parler from the google play app store until they develop moderation policies that prevent people from organizing violent acts. and twitter also suspended several accounts connected to the qanon conspiracy theory. they include michael flynn, former national security advisers who was recently pardoned by president trump. attorney sidney powell who tried unsuccessfully to overturn election results. and ron watkins, associated with

the dark web. it has been a long week and we expect more major developments this weekend. we hope that you will stay with us for the latest on air, online, and everywhere else on our social media platform so you can head to nbc bay area.com. now to our continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. we are now confronted with that dreaded post holiday covid surge. our state alone reported 50,000 new cases yesterday. that is the most we have seen in a week. you can see on this graph most states this week were between 30 to 35,000 cases per day. it is likely our stay at home order will remain in place. we are waiting for word on that today. we are nowhere close to where we need to be for it to be lifted. as a whole, the bay area has 3% standard icu beds open. that number has to be at least 15% before our stay at home order can be lifted. there is pushback this morning against the state's stay at home orders.

several restaurants in downtown pleasanton are allowing outdoor dining. the businesses said they decided to do so on the same day they had anticipated restrictions would be lifted. we found restaurants including the side track bar and grill. last night the owner allowed outdoor dining only after allowing only takeout. >> the fact that we ramped up, hired people back with the hopes that the she wanter in place was a three-week time frame i felt we were right to open on friday. >> in a press release, alameda county public health department says the state's regional stay at home order will remain in effect until lifted by the state. the state will not lift the order until the icu capacity meets or exceeds 15% and again that is not the case here in the bay area. we are waiting word from the governor today on how long the stay at home order will remain in effect.

at 7:08. we have much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, speeding things up. what is being done to get more people vaccinated. plus, the numbers from the mega millions drawings. one of the huge jackpots up for grabs this weekend.

welcome back on your saturday morning. see if you can tell what that. the very tippy top of the golden gate bridge covered by clouds and fog. it is very cold out there this morning. we'll get your full microclimate forecast from vianey arana in five minutes from now. the man policeelieve is responsible for killing a young san francisco boy made his first court appearance. 18-year-old james harver is facing murder for the murder of

jase young. the 6-year-old was watching the fireworks and he was shot and killed. jase's family was in the courtroom hoping for justice. >> you know, my son is not going to get eat again. my son is not going to do none of those things. he's not going to get to wake up, and it would be fitting that would be the same for him in any other part of those involved. >> the case was delayed until tuesday for a plea entry. that's when the judge will also decide whether to keep harver in custody pending trial. we still have more ahead. coming up, nearly $1 billion up for grabs. the first drawing was last night. we'll let you know if anyone won. and we are cold now, but eventually we're going to warm up nicely. we're headed into a drying trend. what this means for the rest of

the week. the full forecast coming up. stay with us. ♪ ♪ oh, this is how it starts ♪ lightning strikes the heart ♪ the day has just begun ♪ brighter than the sun ♪ oh, we could be the stars

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welcome back. 7:15. that's a beautiful look at pink skies over walnut creek. you can see the low clouds and fog hanging over the city there. on a very chilly morning. vianey arana says we have some sunshine on the way. she'll be along in two minutes. but first, 269,000 of coronavirus, the record for the single mostcatio cases in a sin day. the rollout of the vaccines has been slow across the country and in santa clara there's a new plan to speed up the new phase. >> reporter: a covid-19 vaccine card is a rare item. this man is among those inanta

clara county to get his. along with his first shot of the vaccine. >> i didn't think i'd be able to get it. i thought i was in a later tier. >> reporter: the state has expanded the eligibility of phase 1-a to include all health care workers like kevin who is a dental worker. the vaccinations will not expand to the next group until this group is completed and health care organizations across the bay area are already sending out messages to members like this mass email from sutter hill. group 1-b which includes those 65 to 74 and teachers will soon be able to book online. santa clara county health plans to open the second evacuation center, adding to the capacity private groups like walgreens and cvs and others. >> we talked about this more. like for example, our private

hospital like palo alto, kaiser, they are administering their vaccines separately. >> reporter: but that expanded capacity all depends on the availability of the vaccine. >> the vaccines come in waves. we get it bulk, 50,000 to 100,000 at a time. one of our key factors in being able to expand capacity further is whether or not we'll have enough vaccines. >> reporter: sergio quintana, bay area news. we'll get lighter here. nobody won the $520 million jackpot last night. but there were plenty of other winning tickets in last night's mega millions drawing. 3, 6, 16, 18, 5 and the mega ball is 1. since no one won it goes up to $600 million combined with tonight's powerball jackpot is going up big. we found people dreaming big. >> pay off the bills, buy a nice

place for my mom. it will be nice. probably retire from my career. >> what a good son. the drawing is at 8:00 tonight. time to check in with vianey arana for our microclimate forecast. is it a good day to head outside and go buy a mega millions ticket? >> absolutely. even if it was raining. get an umbrella, right? i think i'm going to go get one. why not? >> why not. dream big. >> it is lovely -- exactly. it's so pretty outside, kira. you were talking about the pink skies over walnut creek. that what's we're seeing in san francisco. it is chilly though, 47 degrees for san francisco. we are in the 30s in other sports. san jose, low 40s, you can see the fog off in the distance so we got the patchy fog early this morning.

check out walnut creek. this is beautiful. i believe this is a similar shot to the one that kira was talking about. 37 degrees. the fog layer there and the pink candy cotton skies. there we go. right now, the current temperature is 30s in novato, 32 degrees. napa, 38. concord, 37. 40s in the south bay. we are seeing a big difference in terms of the past 24 hours. take a look at the temperature drop compared to where we were at this same hour yesterday. 16 degrees colder right now in novato. oakland, 14 degrees colder. napa, 10 degrees colder. so we're heading into a bit of a dry spell. the high pressure will roll in and once it rolls in we're going to see a warm-up headed into the afternoon. so i was talking about that visibility so keep that in mind if you're headed to san francisco or novato or napa, down to a quarter of a mile when it comes to the visibility. so drive with caution. let's talk about doppler radar and satellite because it sort of shows the picture of what's

going on over the bay area. things have quieted down. we have a little bit of the rain last week and overall, we're going to see a dry pattern coming up. but we have a system just to our north that could mean just showers to very far northern california. not the entire bay area. before i get to your extended forecast let's look at your microclimate highs for this afternoon. afternoon sunshine, definitely expected today. temperatures will be in the upper 50s, low 60s. oakland, 60 degrees. look at san francisco, 58 degrees. it will be such a lovely afternoon and we'll keep that trend into sunday as well. let's look at the long range outlook. as i mentioned headed into tuesday there's a system that passes farther to the north. we're talking about eureka, santa rosa. we are not worried about the

rain for the next several days headed into the workweek and that high pressure can bring us to some near record highs into the middle of the week, into wednesday and thursday. we're monitoring the tides and we'll look at the high and the low tide. any time we see the king tides roll around it makes for dangerous surf and always something we keep in mind. which by the way, a high surf advisory did expire as of 6:00 a.m. they had that in effect but that has since expired. still if you're headed to the coastline because it will be such a beautiful day, just be careful out there. kira for now, send it back to you. >> all right, thanks so much. still ahead on "today in the bay" -- >> millions of families are unaware they could have their federal taxes figured and filed for free. i'm consumer investigator chris chmura. we'll show you how next. . - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. visit right now or call

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"today in the bay." coming up, social media shutdown. president trump banned from twitter permanently. is that a violation of his free speech. plus workers warn of the severe conditions at our local hospitals.

good morning. it is 7:28 on this saturday, january 9th. a gorgeous look at the sun rising over that blanket of clouds. this is our storm ranger on sam bruno mountain. by the way, i just learned this week my son -- my 4-year-old son loves when we show storm ranger so thanks to our director aaron for showing this. thanks so much for starting your saturday with us. i'm kira klapper and vianey arana is joining us. usually when we have that cloud cover, you have taught me that it keeps things a little warmer, but it's pretty chilly out there

today, huh? >> yeah. it is. you know, it is chilly. you know what? i didn't know your son was a fan of storm ranger so we have to get him one of these. i'm going to hunt another one down for you for promotion. because i feel like he would love this. >> oh, thank you so much. >> let me look for that. >> thank you, sister. i just learned that this week. >> well, oh, timber. that's awesome. i welcome all weather watcher fans, fans of storm ranger. right now the doppler radar is quiet so temperatures are in the 30s. we will talk about what you can expect for the daytime highs. we have a drying trend for now. full forecast of course coming up in a few minutes. beautiful view. headlines as i mentioned. warmer mid and upper 60s. that's warmer than what we're supposed for this time of the year. i'll have the full forecast in a

few minutes. >> all right. see you soon. thanks so much. we begin with a developing story in the east bay where at least one person was killed in what an early morning freeway crash that happened before 1:00 this morning. alameda fire and the chp responded to this crash on southbound 880 in san liane droe. two passenger was ejected, one declared dead at the scene. six others were taken to the hospital. this morning, some lanes may still be closed on southbound 880 as the chp investigates. now to our continuing coverage of the riot on capitol hill. the fbi says more than 50 people are being charged for their involvement and that this is quote, just the beginning. "today in the bay's" ian cole reports on new information including disturbing video of one of the five victims. an air force veteran from california. >> reporter: video shot by a self-described civil rights activist shows the terrifying

moments rioters reached the door of the speaker's lobby leading to the house chambers. officers tried to keep their cool. the crowd advances and smashes windows when capitol officers move aside to make way for the tactical officers and then the mob climbs towards them through the door. at that moment, an officer on the other side opens fire. ashli babbitt of san diego falls to the ground. she later died. the officer who fired his gun now on administrative leave. the fbi says dozens have been arrested for wednesday's rampage. including 60-year-old richard barnett of arkansas photographed in speaker pelosi's office. charged with the legal violent entry and stealing her mail. also charged -- lonnie coffman of alabama for possession of 11 molotov cocktails, handguns and semi-automatic weapon. nationwide, hundreds of federal agents are pursuing the riot suspects. tim gallagher is the special agent in charge in washington,

d.c. >> this is an act of domestic terrorism. so we're looking backwards, lock up lawbreakers and looking forward to keeping this city and america secure. >> reporter: at least 230 congressional democrats are demanding he be removed now either through 25th amendment or resignation. if not, speaker pelosi is pledging to move forward with impeachment. so is jackie spear. >> one of the resolutions will be introduced on monday. >> reporter: she was in the house chamber wednesday when the mob stormed into the capitol halls. the country can't wait until january 20th because the president presents a direct and deadly threat to our democracy. >> if we sit silently then it is tacitly accepting the fact that the president of the united states incited domestic terrorism and insurrection. all you have to do is look at

the video of those people who did get in. >> reporter: one republican senator alaska's lisa murkowski told the anchorage daily news that the president should resign. i want him out, he's caused enough damage. and lindsey graham was heckled at an airport for criticizing the president said another partisan impeachment would further divide the country. the flag at half stall to honor officer brian sicknick who died from the injuries he sustained. the fbi now leading the investigation. the sicknick family says brian is a hero and that is what we would like people to remember. ian cole, nbc, bay area news. you likely know by now twitter has permanently suspended president trump's personal account saying they're concerned he'll invite further violence, however, he did sneak in other tweets and they were removed. bigger picture it's not just twitter. other social media companies are

silencing the president as well. "today in the bay's" jean elle explores what precedence this sets. >> reporter: don't look for any tweets from @real donald trump on twitter. they said that they suspended the president's account due to the risk of him further inciting violence and when the president tried to get around the ban by using the government owned account, twitter almost immediately removed those tweets. >> i mean, this was probably the world's most high profile user of its service. >> reporter: david green with the frontier foundation says while it's within twitter's rights, the move will be debated. >> they have the right to secure any of their sites. they have no legal compulsion to provide services to anybody. so i don't think it's a question of legality. i think you can look at whether it's good policy, whether this is how we want these services to be operating. >> reporter: outside twitter

headquarters some say it's the right move. >> a little bit too late, perhaps. but i think it's the responsible thing to do. given that, you know, people have now died over lies. >> it's taken them too long but i see what he's been doing on twitter and endangers public safety. it's not a matter of your political believes. he endangers the safety of the public. >> reporter: dillon tweeted disagreement. one of those not -- twitter isn't the only one cracking down on content it says is being used to incite violence. google is suspending the parler app if from the google play app store until they develop moderation policies. the crackdowns aimed to prevent people from organizing violent acts but experts say they also narrow users' worlds. >> i do get concerned about that.

because again i want to see users having more options and not fewer. >> twitter suspended several other accounts connected to the qanon conspiracy theory. they include michael flynn, former national security adviser who recently was pardoned by president trump. attorney sidney powell who tried to overturn election results and ron watkins. he is associated with the dark web. it has been a long week. we expect more major developments this weekend. we hope you stay with us for the latest on air and online. nbc bay area.com. now to our continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. we are now confronted with that dreaded post holiday covid surge we were all warned about. california reported 50,000 new cases yesterday. that's the most we have seen in a week. you can see right here, most

days we're between 30,035,000 per day. but now at 50,000 yet. it's likely our stay at home order will remain in place. we're no longer near where we need to be for it to be lifted. as a region the bay area has 3% standard icu beds open. that number has to be at least 15% before the order can be lifted. it's already a nightmare and they say the worst is yet to come. that was the message from the california hospital association. it's now calling on governor gavin newsom for more help. "today in the bay's" anoushah rasta talks about the challenges that the hospitals are facing. >> reporter: hospitals in california are quickly reaching their breaking point because of covid-19. some places including sonoma county are acquiring refrigeration trailers in case the morgues reach the limits. >> we find ourselves in terms of the numbers at a point where we are standing on a beach and

watching a tsunami. >> reporter: that's the president and the ceo of california's hospital association speaking to reporters today on the phone about the biggest challenges hospitals and staff are dealing with right now. one of those problems is something this woman map dealing with since the start of the pandemic. staffing. >> i go in and there's one nurse. i'm doing the job of two nurses. >> reporter: she's a registered nurse in the emergency room the hospital. she is exhausted. >> we start off with one or two patients and then the er got overwhelmed. we are dealing with patients in and out. nurses getting sick, nurses need to take time off because of their families. >> reporter: california's hospital association argues another challenge includes some state day to day requirements for doctors and nurses like filling out paperwork and reports. that's taking a lot of time away they say from caring for

patients. >> if we can take the nurses and the doctors who are already taxed and spend more of their time on providing care and simply postponing the requirements, lifting them for now until we're over this peak, we will be able to maximize the care that can be provided to californians. >> reporter: the other big problem is sending sick people to the right place so they're not flooding hospitals if they don't need to be there and transitioning patients out of hospitals places like skilled nursing facilities so they don't stay longer than needed. california hospital association says it expects 15,000 new patients to check in to hospitals across california within the next ten days. anoushah rasta, nbc bay area news. there's pushback against the stay at home order. restaurants in the east bay are allowing the outdoor dining and they decided to do so last night on the day that many had anticipated restrictions would be lifted. we found a few restaurants in

downtown in pleasanton that were open. this after they only did takeout for months prior. >> the fact that we ramped up, stocked our fridge, hired people back with hopes that the shelter in place was a three-week time frame. then i felt we were right to open on friday. >> in a press release, alameda health department said the regional stay at home order will remain in effect until it is lifted by the state. the state though as just mentioned will not lift the order until the icu capacity meets or exceeds 15%. that's not the case here in bay area. the current capacity is around 3%. california is expected to provide an update on the stay at home order later today and we will keep you posted on that. still to come on "today in the bay," why a spectacular warrior comeback wasn't even in the headlines. we'll show you the special

sendoff for the long-time employee. don't miss it.

with all the heavy news of the week, many of us really needed this happy ending. the best warriors game of the young season. if only a playoff game at chase center, the warriors long-time official scorekeeper fred kast, the san jose resident has been keeping score for 57 years and this was his last game. it was a good one. they sent him off in style in the second half. the warriors overcame a 22-point deficit against the clippers. steph curry led the come back, scoring 38 points on the night. see that, andrew wiggins hits that dagger three and they outscore the clippers 52-20 in the final 15 of the game. warriors beat the clippers 115-105. they are now 5-4 on the season. and it's cold. we have a little bit of fog out through portionness of the north bay but we'll warm up nicely

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a very lovely morning. i hope you're off to the good start. we've got good stuff on the way in terms of the weather. i think you're going to enjoy what we've got ahead because it involves sunshine and slightly warmer temperatures for this time of the year. but before we warm up, of course it's cold outside. 47 degrees in san francisco. beautiful views. you can see the large camera there and we are seeing reports of some fog. so i'll get to that in a second. limited visibility through parts of the north bay. meanwhile in san jose 42 degrees. check out this morning's shot. you can see the sun shining through. even colder in parts of novato and napa. down to 32 degrees in novato. 33 in napa. oakland waking up to 38 degrees. livermore, 36.

so pretty cold right now and here's a look at the 24 hour temperature change. novato, 16 degrees. oakland 14 degree tell temperature drop and let's look at the vitzability because we've got a quarter of a mile in napa. a quarter of a mile in terms of visibility so just slow it down and drive with caution this morning. we are going to get into a bit of a drying trend ahead as high pressure continues to roll in. and this is what's going to happen with our afternoon. we're going to see a lot of sunshine. temperatures are going to climb up into the high 50s, low 60s for the san jose. livermore, 60 degrees. concord, 63 up through napa. 62. san jose, 61. san francisco upper 50s. so we'll keep that afternoon sunshine into sunday as well. we'll have a lovely weekend ahead. here's a closer look at doppler radar. overall, very quiet. we had some of the moisture left over from some of the rain we have seen that's bringing in the

fog we have seen earlier this morning. let's look at the long range outlook. on tuesday, a system passes to our north but that's not expected to bring rain for the entire bay area. if anything it will bring rain to ukiah, eureka, san jose into tuesday. we're not expecting any rain here in the bay area for the next several days. now on monday we'll start to monitor the king tides. we are seeing some rough surf out there so please be careful if you're headed to the coastline. keep a nice, clear distance. a closer look at what to expect. temperatures will warm up ininto the 60s on wednesday. this going to bump our temperatures up to the record breaking for this time of the year. temperatures in the 60s into this weekend and next weekend as

well and then possibly 70s for the inland areas. >> beautiful but strange for january. thanks so much. still ahead on "today in the bay," governor newsom releases his budget proposal. we take a look at the numbers including what it means for our children.

governor newsom has unveiled the new budget and it's a plan

to get kids back to in-person learning. "today in the bay" christie smith explores it. >> we are proposing to the legislature a record investment in our public schools. >> reporter: governor newsom says that investment includes $4.6 billion for more learning time, summer school, before and after school programming. >> because of the clear challenges and strife that so many of our families are struggling with the current distance learning model. >> reporter: most public school students have not had in person learning since march. >> we're a little bit tired already. >> reporter: this parent has concerns amid a new covid surge. he's also looking ahead. >> when the numbers come down we would love them to go into school for sure. definitely. >> reporter: he wouldn't mind a few summer classes. the budget proposal calls for millions of dollars to support

teacher development and he had already unveiled plans to ask the legislature for $2 billion in incentives to get districts to open up for younger students by february. >> i think that what you're going to see now is people really scrutinizing this -- the funding that the governor is offering to incentivize people to expedite the return to school. >> reporter: there were requirements for testing and covid safety plans, but this week superintendents from seven large districts sent a letter to the governor saying the school for all plans fails to address the urban districts that serve many who live below the poverty line. >> we share the same goal for safe reopening for in-person education but our approach is not to do it topdown and mandate. it's to have a collaborative framework with real incentive. >> reporter: in san francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area

news. a few parents protected the plans to reopen the schools. yesterday the sky ranger captured the school caravan and they drove to the state building on clay street in oakland. newsom's plan includes $2 billion for covid testing, to for ppe and for ventilation for classrooms. earlier this week, several superintendents said they supported that funding but worry that the plan doesn't address the disproportionate effect it's having on low income schools of color. pfizer said there are signs that the vaccine can protect against the new more contagious strain of the vaccine. scientists from pfizer and university of texas used the blood samples from those who already received the vaccine in order to test the effectiveness on the new variant. they found antibodies were able to fend it off. the scientists warn the study is

still preliminary and not peer reviewed? still ahead, a change to california's travel advisory. what you need to know if you plan on leaving your city any time soon. ♪ ♪ oh, this is how it starts ♪ lightning strikes the heart

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the message once again from state health leaders is to stay close to home. we have the new updated travel advisories and californians are being asked to avoid any nonessential travel to california 120 miles beyond your home. if you're going beyond 120 miles you're required to self-quarantine for ten days. this is close to what santa clara county already require. after being closed for nearly two months, golden gate fields in berkeley will resume live racing next week. at least 300 employees contracted the virus back in november. the track owner tells us after

extensive testing the track can reopen, but there's no training or racing sessions. before we go, it is time now for our clear the shelters segment featuring our friends from pets in need. meet leopold or leo for ort.sh oh, what a proud, sweet guy. he is a 1-year-old lab mix who has tons of energy and as pets in need puts it loves to go, go, go. he loves to play. he would be greath w a home with another large home. 's bitt that the kids are older than 16 in the home. he needs an experienced owner who will help with enforcement training. he listens to walk, sit, high five. he doesn't have a shy bone in his body. what a cutie. call pets in need or go to their website to find out about leo. thank you very much for making us a part of your morning. we'll have more local news tonight at 4:00 ahead of the washington football team and the tampa bay buccaneers.

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television that is educational and informational.ou're watching the more you know on nbc. dylan: hi everybody, i'm dylan dreyer. welcome to "earth odyssey". today, we'll explore the fascinating landscape of arabia and what makes this land of sand so unique. we first take flight with the birds of arabia, who thrive off the desert's resources. plus, we'll see what's hatching and crawling under the surface of arabia's beaches. [music]