right now at 4:30, the people have spoken. twitter users vote to oust ceo elon musk, but will elon musk keep his word and actually step down? we're talking about what might happen next. plus one san francisco city demanding more from city leaders saying crime and homelessness are out of control. the changes they insist need to happen this is "today in the bay" streaming live on roku, amazon fire, apple tv and online. governing to you on this tuesday. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm kris sanchez. laura garcia has the morning off.

a pretty sizable earthquake, 6.4 magnitude, rocked northern california this morning. this is the seismograph and, boy, was it rocking. that quake was centered in ferndale near the city of eureka in humboldt county. >> i want you to take a look at this photo this morning. you can see this inside one person's bathroom there is from ria espinoza. she grew up in san rafael. you can see all the things within that bathroom just shattered and tossed around. the shelving and everything, the toilet is still intact. she says she is planning to drive back to the bay area, going to marin for the holidays, and explains to us this morning what she felt. >> it felt like turbulence like on an airplane, intense.

>> we will continue to monitor any changing developments with this this morning. to meteorologist kari hall. she is taking a closer look at the fault lines. kari? >> there have been quite a few reports of earthquakes in the area since that 6.4 magnitude earthquake happened. it's the large yellow circle stepping just off the screen so i can query how many earthquakes in the area since the first large one was reported earlier this morning. as we highlight this area, there have been 60 reports of additional earthquakes since that 6.4 magnitude earthquake happened earlier this morning. you probably got that alert on your phone because it was such a large one, and so now we are seeing the aftereffects as more aftershocks happen. and we're also seeing rain in the area. i've been watching out for that with the reports of possible mud

slides as well as damage. they're having to deal with some scattered showers moving through the area and right now some light rain, so we can see the area just south of eureka where the earthquake was felt and where it happened earlier this morning just off of that coast. and this is all a part of the san andreas fault, the northern edge of that that runs through northern california before it meets up with the pacific plates and the north american plates. when we talk about magnitudes here, a 6 is very strong and also causes property damage very likely. in all about 120 of these on earth per year, and that's the energy equivalent of about 33 million pounds of explosives happening under the ground, so you can see just how much damage it can cause. and just a reminder you may have gotten that shake alert this

morning, you don't want to run out of the building when you get that alert and be mindful there could be falling debris as we saw with that picture in the bathroom this is most likely what happened all across northern california in that area, and so the interior walls are best. hallways are not always the safest. look around you and see what could fall on you when you get that alert as far as a place to shelter, get under a desk or a table, something sturdy. as we see now aftershocks will continue and, of course, you want to remember that the drop, cover and hold. we'll see if there is any more damage on that and watching out for all of those reports that are coming in this morning. and, mike, you've also been looking at some of the impacts. >> yeah, kari. we do have a very specific one. this is the ferndale bridge. this is the eel river, the waterway after 101. between ferndale over here and 101 itself. and so because of that bridge

having some structural issues, there are a number of large cracks reported and they will have to examine that. they've closed the bridge down for structural concerns. right now coming across the water on ferndale bridge, state route 211 is not possible right now and is not a great alternate. way down here we will have to come around perhaps from the south but right now, again, without electricity and damage to homes, travel is not the concern. the concern is for all these folks up there. 70,000, i think you said, kris, without power. it's cold, folks. the reason i didn't feel it in the south bay, look how far this is. ferndale this is a few hundred miles from san francisco. there is ferndale. we're down here in the san francisco bay area. some folks in the north bay may have felt it. no issues as far as local transport goes. the rail lines are too far south for the major issues to be affected this morning. they're not running right now. would have been traditional certificate. for caution. the ferndale bridge is closed.

in the local area the bridges are fine. everything is moving smoothly. no structural concerns. no alerts. we do have overnight closures. i will talk about those. 680 northbound is shut down. back over to you. oakland police and a family are asking for your help to find these two missing sisters. 14-year-old martinez and 13-year-old viola martinez were last seen late sunday night on walnut street not far from elmhurst united middle school. the girls are considered at risk because of their ages. if you have any information about their whereabouts you are asked to call oakland police. leaders in the fillmore district are asking for help with safety threats and some call the area the heart of the african american. "today in the bay's" terry mcsweeney takes a look at concerns and requests they're raising. we're saying we want access

and we don't want to enter into 2023 with any more excuses about what we can't do. >> reporter: the reverend amos brown called the meeting to hold the city's feet to the fire about the homeless, open drug use, using the area like a toilet and threats to public safety. he conference called a safeway executive to demand he make the local store safer and cleaner. brown spoke to representatives of the city's police, fire and homelessness departments. >> we want more action to make sure it is not a get tough policy but a common sense policy. >> reporter: the executive director told of being beaten right outside the center by two homeless men swinging 2x4s. >> it's not okay to be camped out. it's not okay for my kids to walk by and see you using something.

it's not okay, y'all. if we don't try to fix it, who will? >> reporter: city leaders are scrambling to adequately respond. >> fentanyl has changed the game in so many ways and it's concerning to us. >> reporter: the produced solutions were second by the pd's representative who offered this path forward. >> tonight we write down some of these things, but in the next 24 hours there's a small group of us that drills down on what needs to get done and everybody commits to doing something, and let's do it. >> reporter: police say another part of the problem is lack of cops. they say they need more than 500 officers hired to get to the proper staffing levels. terry mcsweeney, "today in the bay." 4:38 for you this morning. the future of twitter's leadership uncertain this morning after elon musk launched the poll asking whether he should step down as ceo. the majority of followers who

voted said yes. by the time the poll closed more than 17 million votes were cast with 57.5% saying musk should step down. so what happens now? social media experts say the biggest challenge another ceo would have is musk himself. >> the hardest thing to do would be to rein in musk himself because musk continues to be his worst enemy and if he tweeted far less, the company would do far better probably. >> typically a board of directors would choose a ceo, but twitter has no board and no shareholders. it is a private company right now but it's clear quite a few users from those votes cast that they are ready for a change. limiting your purchases, coming up on "today in the bay." the new limits pharmacies are enforcing to keep up with high demand for certain essential winterti medicine. winterti medicine. meyo

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good tuesday morning. right now at 4:42 a few areas waking up to a few spotty sprinkles earlier this morning, but now it is clearing out, and we'll be left with clouds and actually slightly warmer temperatures today. we'll talk about more changes ahead in our forecast coming up. and changes in the process right now. this is the san mateo bridge, heads-up. the flashing lights, the tow truck came eastbound. made it circle around through the parking lot and made its way

back across the bridge. westbound 92 we may have a crash with two vehicles blocking two or three lanes. that's only a three-lane bridge. i'll show you the slowdown and give you the update once crews arrive on scene. the dumbarton is your alternate. we'll see if you have to call for that coming up. good morning, i'm silvana henao from cnbc. wall street is set for a mixed open this morning. the markets falling yesterday to extend their recent losses on continued fears the federal reserve could tip the economy into recession by keeping interest rates higher for a longer period. the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 are on track to end both the month and the year in the red with hopes fading for the traditional year end santa claus rally n. focus today earnings from general mills, fedex and nike. apple reportedly plans to move some macbook production as the

company continues to shift its manufacturing outside of china. apple has been working on adding production sites in asia for all its major products, but the macbook has taken longer. apple produces between 20 and 24 million a year. cvs and walgreens are limiting purchases of children's pain and fever medications, facing supply issues and high demand with the country experiencing one of the worst flu seasons in a decade. cvs has a two product limit on those bought in store and online and walgreens is limiting purchases to six over-the-counter pediatric fever medicines per online sales. >> some of us have more than one kid at home sick. >> if not the flu, it's something else. to our climate in crisis. ahead, the new steps under way

to secure that enough christmas trees are grown every year for those of us who want one.

welcome back. closely watching the reports for the san mateo bridge. westbound you still see traffic moving away from us. that's where i showed you the flashing lights, what looked like a tow truck. it came from the eastbound direction perhaps from the foster city site through the parking lot here and went back

to mid span, i believe, where a crash is reported on the chp report. the details from the initial crash reports two cars blocking two left lanes and another car blocking your right lane. that's three lanes on the bridge. so far the sensors have not changed in the last five minutes. the dumbarton bridge, maybe a word of caution. 84 here has your typical closure. we haven't seen it for a while t. should clear by 5:00 a.m. and northbound 680 should clear by 6:00 a.m. a complete closure for the highways and freeways. the caldecott tunnel work has cleared. 24 no problem. an easy drive and across the bridges locally to the bay area, a smooth drive around the rest of the bay. kari, things are cold for the folks who are working on the roads but they'll be done soon. >> it is still another cold morning across the bay area. we've also seen some showers just to our north but for the most part really not affecting

us too much here in the bay area. it's a lot more cloudy but that is keeping us from seeing as much dense fog. this is a live look at the golden gate bridge. the shot is a little dark but we're under a spare the air alert day. in the north bay as well as santa clara valley with the measure particulate is still quite high across the bay area. visibility is not as low as yesterday thanks to the clouds moving in. we are seeing visibility in about throw to four miles for most of us. still not too bad and our temperatures are back down in the upper 30s for martinez this morning. 39 in sonoma and santa rosa. it doesn't look like we'll dip below freezing and won't see as much widespread frost. temperatures, slightly warmer compared to yesterday even though we're starting out with clouds we will see clearing as we go into this afternoon and it will shame up to be a nice day

but still jacket weather with temperatures in the mid-50s. now going into tomorrow morning as we wake up and head out, we're back in the upper 30s and low 40s. that means we're not having to scrape frost off the windshield. spotty showers moving to our north like this morning. we are really not getting a big impact from that. as we go into the weekend staying mostly dry but there will be better rain chances in the forecast. we're watching that closely. a lot of people will be hitting the roads. we're looking at maybe a quarter inch of rain around ukiah but much less elsewhere and going into next week most likely much more rain on the way possibly an inch or two for parts of the north bay. so our seven-day forecast shows at least for now we are looking at some milder weather. we'll start a warming trend and

another slight chance of rain as we head to the end of the week. for the weekend it's looking nice for christmas. highs in the mid-60s with sunshine and then we'll be tracking some better rain chances next week. we're looking good with spotty showers here and there. another chance on thursday. back to the sunshine and temperatures in the low 60s. our climate in crisis. it is a family tradition for millions of americans to find and buy that perfect and fresh christmas tree but these trees need a lot of time and water to grow and with much of the country dealing with drought, lx contributor greg bledsoe brings us some insight. >> reporter: it's not just christmas trees, it's agriculture. you have to grow your crops in the environmental conditions that you're given. there are varieties of trees that are known to do better and more of those are being planted.

>> christmas tree farm owners are very concerned about climate change and the trends we are seeing and they're trying to find ways to adapt to keep their business going for years to come. you can watch the full story on our climate in crisis tab on nbcbayarea.com or on lx.com. >> kari, thank you. 4:52 right now. one coffee shop in the north bay says it is fed up with growing crime after being burglarized twice in six weeks. our "today in the bay's" pete suratos says the coffee shop owner is calling on the city to take action. >> reporter: the scene at the grind cafe in vallejo is an all-too-familiar one. the shop had to do the same kind of cleanup after another burglary. as a result the business stopped taking cash just to reduce the risk of being hit again. >> i opened up the door, yelled, if anybody is in here, get out. >> reporter: the co-owners of

the grind cafe says their coffee shop is one of many small businesses in the area dealing with break-ins and in some cases much more. just down the street a robbery outside scotty's cafe resulted in a customer being shot and killed while trying to protect a waitress. >> then it hit my mind that somebody just got killed. i don't know what to expect. >> i was scared. i was overwhelmed. we've been on high alert since the situation. >> reporter: and the couple believes it's due to a lack of police presence. vallejo pd was not available for comment. officials say measures are being taken by the city to make it safer including increased patrol, lighting, and cleanup around downtown. marco and tiffany will continue to bring awareness to the issue but fear it's only a matter of time before they're picking up broken glass again. >> it's outrageous. another person is going to get hurt, a business owner is going to get hurt.

that's where we're at right now. >> pete suratos, "today in the bay." how about a good cause? volunteers coming together to make thousands of tamales. the great cause the effort is supporting. first, happening now, california's department of education has just released its first set of data dashboards. categories include enrollment levels, absenteeism, literacy and graduation rates and some bay area districts perform better than others, for example, when it comes to chronic absenteeism. some approach 20% of its students, but that's still lower than the statewide race which is oser to 30%.cl

in some homes in san jose a big tamalada was hosted. tamales were handed out to workers. >> these farmworkers are working every single day of the year and they never get time off. they work 40 to 70 hours a week. they don't have time to make tamales, so we are giving the gift of tamales to them. the caravan host this had event and the organization grew out of the pandemic to support farmworkers and their families. we talked about that. that's like a fish fry back home. >> it's a big thing. >> i like that. 4:57 for you right now one san francisco community

demanding more from city leaders. they say crime is just out of control so next on "today in the bay" we'll talk about the anges they insist needch t

breaking now at 5:00 a strong early morning earthquake rocks northern california leaving thousands without power right now this is "today in the bay" streaming live on roku, amazon fire, apple tv and online. thanks so much for joining us on this tuesday morning.

i'm kris sanchez in for laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. we want to get you started with that breaking news. it was a 6.4 earthquake in northern california. the seismograph capturing that quake when it happened was about 2:30 in the morning. that quake centered in ferndale in humboldt county near the city of eureka. no threat of tsunami or any word of injuries. the number of customers without power standing at 70,000. >> and new video of damage. you can see things tumbling down on the ground. we don't know of any injuries at this point. this was sent to us by ria, a young woman who lives there now but is originally from the bay area. >> it felt like turbulence.