it is sunday, february 21. as we take a live look outside, basking in the glory of the sun shining over the golden gate bridge. on yet another chilly start to a sunday morning. if it's anything like yesterday, it will be a lovely day. thank you very much for starting your sunday with us. oh, wow, look at the sunrise behind me. i'm kira klapper. vianey arana has our forecast.

hey, vi. >> good morning! we're not worried about the rain. it will be warmer than what we saw yesterday so i think it will be a fantastic day to explore the outdoors. 42 now in san jose. look at your temperature trend for san francisco, 47 right now but eventually by 1:00, 2:00 in the lunch hour, plenty of sunshine. temperatures in low 60s stowed. today. this will set up for a dry and warming trend ahead. so right now it's 38, a little chilly. so grab your coat. we will talk about how warm we're going to be in a few minutes, kira. >> we will see you then, vi. thank you very much. overnight a man is in custody after shooting a firefighter and paramedic. it happened overflight in antioch. they were responding to an injury at auto center drive and sycamore drive and someone else drove by and s

foot. the paramed parked car, and ran. richmond police arrested the driver a short time after. by the way, the firefighter and police officer are expected to be okay. now the pandemic and issue of when to return to bay area schools. parents and teachers took to the streets to push for plans to get students back in class safely. today in san francisco, where a deal has yet to be reached. >> we know this pandemic continues to take its toll. >> reporter: on a chilly night outside san francisco city hall, a few parents and teachers hold candlelight dithle as associations continue between parents and school board to restart in-classroom

instruction. >> we are proposing the students come four days a week for part of the day, half of the day. >> reporter: the school president and school board commissioners did not reply for comments but tweeted out summaries of the district's proposals like this one, having students attend two full days in class and three at-home instruction. parents say the proposals are u to classrooms has got national attention. >> the frustration for me is how everything has become political. everybody seems to be taking a shot at the teachers union, taking a shot at -- for political gain. >> reporter: as the teachers union and school district continue to negotiate over teaching schedules, there are still some safety issues that need to be settled before a return to in-person instruction. both sides are discussing the deilz that of vaccines, which can be in the city on wednesday and potential on-site inspections to make sure classes have proper spacing and

ventilation. no return date has been proposed. in oakley, parents also took to the streets pushing for reopening. it comes after the entire oakley union school district board resigned after being caught bad-mouthing parents in an online meeting they didn't know was being livestreamed. >> [ bleep ] you up. >> they like to pick on us was they want their baby-sitters back. >> reporter: and parents worried some efforts were dragging. >> we felt like we weren't taken seriously and being ignored. >> reporter: they're hoping interim members of the board will move fast for in-classroom instruction. >> san francisco unified will continue they are negotiations at their school board meeting on tuesday. that will mark about nine days of negotiations. more vaccination sites are opening up as governor gavin newsom announced his new milestone, 7 million vaccines in the arms of californians.

today in the bay reports >> reporter: early morning and dozens of bundled up and lined up to get a sought-after covid vaccine. zuckerberg general hospital is making the shots available for residents 65 and older through tuesday without an appointment. >> our goal is to remove barriers for our patients coming in to get the vaccine. we thought a drop-in clinic would be a good idea >> reporter: and another vaccination site is set to open sunday in marin county at the larks ferry terminal but there it will be appointment only. and governor newsom announce ed today california administered more than 7 million vaccines. ucf infectious disease specialist dr. monica gandhi said that's a good sign but we still have a ways to go. >> after a slow start, things are going faster in california, which is great. potentially 40 million people in the state, 7 million administered, and we're getting

closer >> reporter: she said we also may be getting closer to herd immunity and that will limit the spread of the virus. >> estimates are in this country up to a third literally between 20% and 30% of people have already had covid-19, and that gives you already some immunity because immunity is likely durable and then you put vaccinations on top of it, we may be getting closer than we think. >> reporter: and what is that percentage of the population we have to hit? >> we think 70%. we never know until we get there. and here's a breakdown of vaccine numbers. so far the federal government shipped 8.8 million doses to california and most have already arrived. more than 7 million doses have been administered. the city is seeing a bit of a slowdown now. shipping delayed because of last week's winter storm that hit much of the nation. here locally more than 1.5 million doses have been

administered in the bay area. and now costco is offering vaccinations. the company made the announcement last night. right now the only bay area costco offering vaccines is in navedo. people can sign up to get the vaccine there by making an appointment online but it appears right now it's just for health care workers. people waited in line for hours at the oakland coliseum as the rollout there continued. this is the line of cars from our traffic camera before 11:00 yesterday morase've been saying there's a lot to keep track of so nbc has launched this website called plan your vaccine. it's hoping to help you telling yo shots. just go moved this morning. yes, they are moving the entire

house. we have a look for you at the property, 807 franklin street. the victorian home has been at that address for 139 years. so this morning crews will load it on to a dolly. it will travel at a speed of 1 mirp over a distance of one quarter mile to its new location. 635 alton street. years were planning for this move, coming with a hefty price tag $400,000. at 7:08, we have much more ahead on "today in the bay." we go live to washington, d.c. for our weekly interview with chuck todd for a preview of this week's "meet the press." and recall for governor newsom hits a snag. new details about the signatures that may have put their efforts on hold. and this morning our black history month a musical powerhouse performer. her was born as gabriela wilson

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moderate to progressive democrats on key points as well. >> look, it is on -- the way to look at it, it is on track. ever think you go to an amusement park ride and some rides have to be on a specific track to operate, it's on a track and it is moving through the house. it will get to the senate and this thing is going to get past by mid-march, i believe. are there speed bumps? there are. probably the biggest argument over minimum wage. we will see what the senate parliamentarian says if it is in the final bill. it seems as if certainly president biden expects it not to be and is comfortable with that. i don't think progressive pushback on that is going to be so heated that it details things. look, i don't think it is going to get derailed. we are seeing this is on track to get passed somewhere around mid-march. it's interesting, republicans haven't come up with a coherent

way to oppose this plan because they have not been able to agree to an alternative. i think the divides inside the party about how to impose this plan have in some ways made it easy for the democrats to go it alone. >> is it interesting, chuck, here in the bay area now that vaccine distribution is ramping up so this is zeroing back on safely returning to class. on "meet the press" this morning, you talked to dr. anthony fauci. i don't want to give any spoiler alerts. we want everyone to tune in. but is there any indication that kids can even return in 2021? >> there is. i also have the head of the teachers union, american federation of teachers, there's two unions but she represents a big chunk of them, randi weingarten. look, she -- she painted i would call a more realistic picture for the end of this school year but seemed to be optimistic we're heading to perhaps a more normal opening in september.

but, look, whether it was dr. fauci, you know, i asked him would he feel comfortable teaching in a cloos room, and he was -- you will hear the answer. there was sort of caution there too. and i think at the end of the day, remember, the science says one thing but the teachers are human beings and at the end of the day, their safety is i think been a little harder to make people sort of feel comfortable with. and i think that's where we are. how do you define reasonable risk? and i think it's very subjective. >> as a parent of young boys, i can't overstate how these teachers are our heroes among all of the other frontline workers. chuck todd, as always, thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate you. we hope you join chuck for this an interview with the director of national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, dr.

anthony fauci. plus exclusive interview with the american federation of teachers randi weingarten as well as former representative will heard. we hope you will stick right here and continue to tune in to "meet the press" after this broadcast. and we will talk to our political analyst larry ger stin for our weekly segment looking at the horrific hate crimes in the asian american communities and whether the recent political climate could have spurred these crimes. shifting now, we have new details about the effort to recall governor gavin newsom with less than a month until the deadline. only half the signatures needed to put the recall on the ballot have been verified. officials say 6,700 signatures have been marked as valid but to qualify for the ballot, it needs nearly 1.5 million signatures. organizers say they have collected that money but will continue collect until the

deadline. once they qualified for the ballot, if the signatures are considered valid, a recall could begin in november. and looking now at the forecast. yesterday was a chilly start, ended up being a beautiful day. get this, the ice cream truck came to our neighborhood. my sons got ice cream on th. i mean, joyous moment for t but it's like what winter. >> right. very on brand with california though. very on brand. >> yes, absolutely. >> you know, and today, kira, get this, it's going to be even warmer. i have a feeling you're going to see the ice cream man one more time again, especially the next couple days. our temperatures will be in the upper 60s, maybe even 70s. so spring seems to be creeping in a lot sooner. 47 now in san francisco. notice how beautiful the skies

are. san jose right now 42 degrees but not everyone is in the 40s. we're still seeing some 30s out there. napa 33, concord 38, livermore, 38. definitely a chilly start. even through morgan hill at about 36. by the afternoon though, those 30s will warm up very comfortably. and notice how we didn't wake up to rain today. that system made its exit yesterday. now storm ranger is still on top of the mountain, i just tweeted a beautiful photo with our camera up there and notice how it's taking a break. peaceful on radar yesterday as well as today. you just see a couple high clouds that will likely roll through with moisture passing by. aside from that, we're going to see a beautiful day. temperatures in the mid-and-upper 60s. san jose 67, hayward 63, fairfield 67, oakland 62, santa rosa and san rafael 67 and 68.

so go enjoy. temperatures will be great but it will be breezy at times and this dry, warm weather is expected to remain the next several days. looking ahead at our weather pattern, you canll tuesday, wednesday, thursday for the remainder of the week, we could see temperatures in the 70s. the we've got a chance to at seeing gusty winds. we have seen gusty winds on top of the mountain area. we're watching winds as the storm drops to the east. here's a closer look what we're expecting the next seven days. sunshine, sunshine, sunshine. tuesday, possibly going to be our warmest day, 72. inland areas. wednesday 70s. overnight lows for sunday night, tonight into monday, will be in the 40s. not as cold as what we're waking up to today. the reason we're waking up colder is through the interior valleys is because the cold front passioned through yesterday but for tomorrow, look at san francisco.

63 to start off the workweek. we will start off spring like tuesday, wednesday and thursday. similar conditions remain and it isn't until next friday and saturday we see a little decrease when it comes to the temperatures. but if you look now, no rain in sight. i know not everybody is a fan of the rain but we need it. as kira mentioned, we're still in winter. right now our outlook is dry. we're below average when it comes to rainfall total. i'll have a closer look how we're going when it comes to that before i get to that, we have to talk about today's climate hack. because this one involved hair, right, ladies and gentlemen. what's one thing we use when we have to take a shower? shampoo. did you know there's a planet friendly swap for those shampoo bottles? check this out. >> whether you shower in the morning or prefer to take a relaxing bath, at the end of the

day long, we use shampoo to wash our hair. here's the problem, most shampoos come in a plastic container. according to wrap live, a plastic-free brand brand and 5512 bottles end up in a dump in a year. to give you an idea, that could fill more than 1,100 football fields. so it's time for your climating ha. find an old jar you might not be using at home, clean it out or go to some of the stores in san jose and they have two bottles like this one where you can refill. and in addition to refilling your own shampoo bottles, they also have bars of shampoo. >> what's the payoff? those shampoo bars are more concentrated, so you're using less, and it's plastic free. if you choose to refill your shampoo bottles, you can keep ten bottles out of the land fill each year. if everybody in the city does that, we would stop throwing away 4.2 million shampoo bottles a year.

for climate change hacks, follow me at nbcbayarea.com/climatehacks. and i've been getting great feedback from the viewers. good news is i'm working with the store owner of the store zero in san jose to compile a list of stores just like thato you can visit your local shop and, of course, support small businesses. >> absolutely. there's a store in san francisco i resell my items. i in recent years had to change my shampoo, so i've not been good about that but my body wash is still refillable, dr. bronners. so thank you for reminding and encouraging all of us to do a better job. thank you very much. see you in about nine minutes, girl. >> you got it. we have much more ahead on "today in the bay." a new social media app. you may haverred had of it. well, it's hard to get in.

it's pretty exclusive. we'll tell you about it. elon musk and oprah and all of the celebrities who are a part of it coming up.

welcome back. sunshine to start your sunday morning at 7:24, as we look at the sunrise from our san bruno mountain camera. that's stormranger in the foreground. pretty sunny week ahead so our stormranger will be getting a break. sweeping immigration changes are under way. president biden is relaxing tough trump-era rules for asylum seekers creating a rush to the border. 25 asylum seekers are quarantined in hotels in san diego after crossing the border and being processed yesterday. they're the first of 25,000 waiting in mexico for asylum hearings in the u.s. under president trump, asylum seekers had to remain in mexico

for their hearings. the biden administration is warning migrants should not just show up at the border because of this change. they still must fill out an online application and test negative for covid before trying to enter the u.s. as we've been reporting this week, extreme weather is causing a humanitarian nightmare in texas. more than 14 million texans are still without clean water after a week. now forced to broil or find bottled water costliest weather event in history. president biden approved an emergency disaster declaration offering temporary grants and housing loans to repair conditions caused by the freeze. thankfully, weather conditions are starting to improve. have you heard of the app clubhouse? and do you have an invitation? if not, you can't just join. nbc's mcglockton explains

>> reporter: social media usually involves photos, texts and videos but clubhouse is centered around good, old-fashioned audio. >> you can sit and listen to people like you would perhaps a concert or participate. >> reporter: the platform is attracting celebrities including drake, oprah winfrey and elon musk and driving uncensored opinions on topics. >> it will be rooms with a breadth of topic that's might be relevant to them. >> reporter: you have to be logged into the audio chat rooms, which caps capacity at 5,000, to be part of the conversation. there's no replay or recording feature, and at least for now if you want to join clubhouse, you have to be in the club. >> it's still in beta and not available to everyone. if you want to be on clubhouse, you need an invite >> reporter: it's also only available on apple devices so

far, but those limitations have not stunted its growth. the 11-month-old app had 15 users in may, exploding beyond 2 million last month. the high demand is driving some early adopters to sell invites on ebay and etsy for up to $150. >> this app will eventually open up to everybody and you can sign up for free without a code. >> reporter: but for tech titan twitter and facebook to develop their own audio platform. liz mclaughlin, nbc news. >> twitter is currently tested a product called spaces, similar to have a similar audio alternative as clubhouse. facebook is working on a competitor but no word on what it will be called. i'm still waiting for an invitation. so much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, more than wieck straight of negotiations but still no resolutions. school teachers and san francisco school district remain

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good morning, it is february 21. a beautiful morning as the sun shinings over the san francisco skyline on a sunshine-filled sunday morning. thank you very much for starting it with u i'm kira klapper. and via is joining us with our microclimate forecast and you say it will be even better than yesterday. >> yes. and speaking of sunshine, usually i use my window as a backdrop, but it was almost too much sun, i had to close it! but, hey, look we have a fantastic start. 47 now in san francisco. look at the temperature trend,

notice by 2:00, it will be about 60 and i know those small businesses and restaurants have those patios open, so perfect day for little brunch outdoors maybe. a nice afternoon morning stroll as well. san francisco 47, but take a look at con kwoerd, 38 degrees right now. so it's still a little cold and nippy out there but by 10, 11:00 a.m., it will be climbing into the upper 50s. get this, we're talking mid-60s. more spring like around here and this will send us up for a dry, warming trend. we'll have more in a few minutes. >> see you then, vi. thank you so much. new overnight a man is in custody after shooting a firefighter and paramedic. it happened around 9:00 last night in antioch. emergency crews were responding to an injury at the courter of auto center drive and sycamore drive and then somebody drove by and shot at them. the firefighter was hit in the foot, the paramedic in the leg.

the driver then sped off heading to berkeley and then richmond, leading the chp on a high-speed chase before he hit a parked car, got out and ran. richmond police were able to arrest that driver shortly thereafter. the firefighter and paramedic are expected to be okay. back to our ongoing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. and the issue of when to return to bay area schools. parents and teachers took to the streets yesterday to push for plans to get students back in class safely. "today in the bay" reports from san francisco, where a deal still hasn't been reached. >> we know this pandemic continues to take its toll. >> reporter: on a chilly saturday night outside san francisco city hall, a few dozen parents and teachers hold a candlelight vigil as negotiations continue between the teachers school board to restart some form of in-class instruction. >> we are proposing the students come to school four days a week for part of the day, half of the day. >> reporter: the school district

and the president of the school board of commissioners did not reply to calls for comments but the board president did send out a series of tweets tonight summarizing the district's proposals, like this one, to have students attend two full days of school in class, and then three at home instruction. parents at the vigil say the proposals are pro a shot at the teachers union, taking a shot for political gain >> reporter: as teachers union and school district continue to negotiate over teaching schedules, there are still safety issues that need to be settled before a return to in-person instruction. both sides are still discussing the details of teacher vaccines, which can begin in the city wednesday. they're also discussing regular covid-19 testing on campuses and potential on-site inspections to make sure classes have proper safety and ventilation. no return date has been

proposed. in oakley parents also took to the streets pushing for reopening. it comes after the entire oakley union school district board resigned after they were caught bad-mouthing parents during an online meeting they didn't know was being livestreamed. >> they want to pick on us. they want our baby-sitters back >> reporter: before the scandal erupted, some parents worried efforts to get their children back in school were dragging. >> i felt like he we were not being taken serious and ignored. >> reporter: the interim members will move fast for in-school classes. >> san francisco unified will continue their negotiations at the school board meeting this coming tuesday. as the deadly covid-19 pandemic drags on, nearly one year now, frontline health care workers are continuing to perform the impossible, asked to more work hours, care for more patients ever before.

nbc bay area's eatia gutierrez is exploring the ranks >> reporter: for almost a year now, frontline health care workers are being pushed beyond their limit, often forced to make impossible choices. >> we made a decision who would live and die in the emergency room when taking care of 11, 12 patients at a time when you really should be taking care of four or five. you're allowing people to remain in the suffering state because you simply can't get to them >> reporter: the feeling of helplessness overwhelming. >> i could literally cry talking about it but i knew at some point this 87-year-old grandma, who might have the most biggest, loving family at home, i knew she was coming to this hospital with the coronavirus and, you know, ultimately dyeing alone. and lack of institutionaling the

>> reporter: at penn lbi studies looking at understaffing at hospitals in new york and illinois found each additional patient per nurse was associated in significant increases in the odds of nurses reporting poor outcome, including job dissatisfaction, intent to leave their job and high burnout. and in many hospitals, all of that is already happening. >> i personally have lost like at least six rns over the last calendar year and some rns i know personally that have left the bedside, have left that side without even a job lined up. >> reporter: simon tang is one of those nurses, leaving his job at a new york city hospital after more than a year there. >> the worst part is we were just consistently critically understaffed. i just felt like i was reaching a point where i was getting frustrated at work, where i want giving the best care i could and where it was just becoming toxic

for me to go into work, continue working under those conditions. so i made the decision to leave. >> reporter: at times the situation is so dire for these nurses, that they choose to protest their assignment, meaning that they physically carry out theirel complete their jobs. >> think about that, professionally you have to fill out something every day that says you're protesting your assignment because it's sharing liability. i know i can't two this job right so i'm filling out this form to let you know, i can't do this job >> reporter: the physical and mental toll of the pandemic has left nurses forever changed. >> i'm trying to come to terms with all that has gone on but that's something a lot of us will never forget what we have going on. ptsd is real in some of us. >> what do you do? do you shut it out? do you take it f a better future for nurses to come. >> i think there are some people

who really want to be nurses seeing what we did and feeling really proud. i think that we have to -- we can't lead them into a shiny path and then they walk into good health. we want to help them understand we will do everything we can to make this profession meaningful and they will have the tools to practice the profession. >> now to a vivid look at how covid-19 has taken its toll on america. this is the front page of today's "the new york times," it's full of dots that get darker, representing the covid deaths in the u.s., now close to half a million people. a friendly reminder nbc has launched a new website called plan your vaccine. it will help you with how, when and where to get your vaccination, where you can close to your house. just go to plan your vaccination.com. back here locally, an historic san francisco home is getting moved this morning. 807 franklin street is about to become 635 fulton street. we have a look at the property on franklin. it's not far from san

francisco's city hall. the victorian hope has been there 139 years. this morning crews were loaded on to a dolly and it will travel about 1 mirp six blocks away to its new address. according to the chronicle, it will be turned into apartments. years of planning and cost of $400,000 have gone into this move. and at 7:39, still to come on "today in the bay," did you see it? draymond green gets two technicals that likely cost the warriors a win in charlotte. we'll tell you what steve kerr said about it next. i'm morgan, and there's more to me than hiv. more love,... more adventure,... more community. but with my hiv treatment,... there's not more medicines in my pill. i talked to my doctor... and switched to... fewer medicines with dovato.

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during the past year, 2,100 hate crimes in the united states were reported against asian americans, and more than 800 of those have occurred in california alone. it's time now to bring in nbc bay area political analyst larry ger ston for this discussion. hi, larry, good morning to you.

what do you think accounts for this recent development, up-tick in attacks. >> when you talk about hate crimes, there are a lot of variables. a lot has to do with the economy and people's perceptions in advance but we know one thing, since covid-19 we've seen a massive uptick as you referred to at the beginning. that massive uptick has been related to asian americans. a recent pew research poll shows asian americans have really suffered the brunt of the outrageous remarks that have happened since covid-19. 58% of asian americans have felt the bankrupt, 45% african-americans and then down the line, only 18% are white. what this shows is a lincoln between the emergence of covid-19 and mistreatment of asian americans, often costing them their lives as we've seen

in some recent bay area stories. >> so you said since covid-19 and at the end there you said a linkage between covid-19 and the treatment of asian americans. like how, why are those related? >> one factor has to do with the approach taken by president trump, former president trump. he blamed covid-19 on china. remember, he used the term chinese virus. he also mocked the whole thing flu.alking about a -- the kung and president trump went so far as to say at one point the virus escaped a chinese lab and maybe, he said, maybe it was let out intentionally to hurt americans. now, you've got to put this in context with all of the other kinds of remarks the president said about the mexicans, haitians, muslims, africans at

various rallies, all of which were derogatory and now puts this on with respect to china. that inherently is strong lincoln. >> you're saying former president trump's language is what led people to come out with these hate crimes? >> yes, it's opened the door, let's put it that way. we know there have always been a swath of people in this country who have a hard time with immigration. they've been there before, they're there now and will be there in the future. but president trump's language opened the gate. whether that means he's a racist, that's for others to decide. that's out of my area. the data shows a kinship by racist groups toward trump. as a matter of fact, we've seen 45% increase in hate groups that occurred during the trump presidency. again, their language often parroted trump's language. add to that what we saw from the capitol insurrections,

confederate flag, language on some of the apparel these folks were wearing, racist language and whatnot, you have some sort of connection here that's rather uncomfortable for a lot of us to think about. moreover, the fbi said there were lots of -- lots of hate group members as part of that entourage, if you can call it that, at the insurrection. >> so where do you think we go from here with a new president in the oval office, but ch a dedicated base? >> yeah, first we have to make sure we tie up a couple loose ends here. we're not suggesting all people who support president trump are racist. absolutely not. that is way out of kilter for that. we are about to say, however, that the white insurrectionists, white supremacists, if you will, view trump as an ally, as an ally, he speaks their language. you ask where do we go from

here? this is part of president biden's attempt to heal. notice he used that word so often, we have to heal the nation, we have to get past the bigotry and divisiveness. this is a tall order, kira, especially since so many of these people felt he this way even before president trump came to power. he i flamed it but he's not responsible for that undertow if you will. so president biden has a big hill to climb here. he's going to need the american people to help them and hopefully along the way people will see it's better to all work together to point fingers at others. >> regardless of who is in the white house, we need to be responsible for our own actions. larry, thank you for joining us with your insight. we'll be back with your final forecast after this. stick with us. it's a big vote the parents across the state are launching. the decision before teachers.

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hi, there. good morning. buenos diaz. how is your morning so far? hopefully going well. got your coffee set up. make it fancy and nice coffee because the weather will call for it. we've already got plenty of sunshine. that's why i had to close my blinds this morning. 47 to start now in san francisco. it's still a little chilly in some spots though, including areas into the interior valley. san jose 42. we have beautiful skies. look at the 30s up in napa, 36, concord 38, morgan hill, 39.

however today we are expected to be a little warmer than yesterday. we're not worried about the rain for next several days as we head into a trend ahead. you can see it's still up and standing, our very own doppler radar, i posted a beautiful one taken from cameras on instagram. and we're not expecting rain out of this. just a little mother-in-law that moisture that might bring up a few clouds in the afternoon. it will be breezy to windy at times. especially for some of the higher elevation areas. talk about perfect sunday-funday weather. what can we expect the next several days? i know not everyone is a fan of the rain and we need it, but it looks like we will not get any the next several

breezy at times but warmer the next several days.ur into thurs friday. and storm drops inland and east heading into next weekend, which will have us monitoring the windy conditions, especially for some of those higher elevation areas. aside from that though, we don't have any rain in sight. at least not for the next several days. here's a closer look at your seven-day forecast. look at the sunshine. yes, those are 70s on the map and we're in february. springlike around here monday, tuesday, and wednesday. above the 70s through friday as we start to go down when it comes to the temperatures. in san francisco tomorrow 63. look at tuesday and wednesday, 65 and 64. it will be stunning in the city. friday and saturday we start to dip down back into the 60s and upper 50s. notice the overnight lows are a little warmer. morning lows were cooler because of the storm that passed through yesterday that brought a little

of the morning rain. we will have a great week ahead. i love seeing your sunrise photos and, of course, i will keep sharing climate hacks. the i will put together the list of eco friendly shops around the bay area. probably some time this week on my instagram, and i will be on facebook and instagram live after the show. >> love it. i have been bag with instagram lately but i tagged you in my reusable coffee pod thing a couple weeks ago. we're all in this together. >> i did see that. i loved that! >> i thought you would be proud of me. thanks, vi. did you see they're trying to lure our tech talent out of the bay area with these bill boefrds? a mock tweet to miami's mayor frances suarez, thinking about moving to miami? dm me. another shows a picture of a laptop on the beach with the caption, "you might as well code from here." miami's mayor said he had nothing to do with the planning process but he did sign off on the billboards. so who is responsible, "the

miami herald" said a reddit co-founder and another man who was an early investor in uber and airbnb are behind the messages, the duo local supporters of the miami tech scene. and a tribute by the symphony for the lunar new year. ♪♪ wow. it is an annual tradition for the symphony. of course, this year it was different because it was prerecorded and it was free right here on nbc bay area last night. the year of the ox concert features traditional music and newer works by asian composers. if you missed it, as did i, the concert is being rebroadcast next saturday, february 27th at 4:00 p.m. set your dvr. and at 7:57, vi and i want to thank you so much for making us part of your sunday morning. we will see you all day on

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