the earthquake hit and then their home went newspaper flames. we speak with a humboldt couple that is left with nothing. we are tracking king tides and how long they are expected to last. the unusual training for store owners in the castro. this is "today in the bay" streaming on apple tv, roku, fire tv and online. i am marcus washington. >> i am ginger conejero saab. laura has the day off. we are going to start off with

how the weather is looking, kari? >> still the same. we are starting off with cold temperatures and fog in parts of the bay area, and it looks good in oakland as we take a look outside from our camera, but it's another morning where we have to bundle up. it's mostly cloudy to start, and temperatures in the mid-40s. we are going to see a mostly cloudy day. as far as visibility, a little more foggy up in napa and fairfield. elsewhere, looking good on your drive to work. 62 in morgan hill. 55, a little cooler, in the north bay, as we prepare for late evening rain. i will talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. mike, you have been watching the roads and looking smooth so far? >> yeah, you did talk about the fog, and that's what is on the map. and the weather data puts it on the road data and says you are likely to have fog in the north bay, and no driving problems as far as the speed sensors go.

there's a crash getting out of the altamont and no slowing on 205. this closure over here, highway 84, typical construction crews. last night parts of the east bay started shaking after a pair of small and minor quakes. a 3.3 magnitude hit yesterday. this was centered east of union city, and people felt that as far north as concord and as far south in san josé. a lot of people on edge following the strong earthquake along the humboldt county coast. >> i was at my dad's, and then a buddy said we have an earthquake. >> the whole room started shaking and i went outside to

see my parents, and they were all panicked, oh, did you feel the earthquake? >> there are signs of point as the community recovers from that quake. most of the power is back on. >> and "today in the bay"'s cheryl hurd has the latest. >> reporter: the power of tuesday's earthquake caught on camera. >> i had to come out three times to get a breath before i found them back in the bedroom and found them but couldn't save them. >> they explained how their two dogs died when their home caught fire after tuesday's earthquake. they left the house for 20 minutes that morning checking to make sure the fire was out in their wood burning stove before they left but it was not.

>> some of the embers must have got up there and caught. >> their friends started to gofundme page. but there are some others without a home because they were yellow or red tagged and 34 homes in the area are still without water, and those that do have water are under a boil water advisory. >> it's important that you boil your water before you drink it. it will be sometime before we are able to test the system to make sure that it's clean. >> tough times for people like chris and kalashakti. >> love each other and reach out to your neighborhood and how important that is, and it's unfortunate that sometimes it takes something like this for

people to do that. >> our website is a great resource in emergency situations. we are tracking earthquakes for you in real time. head to nbcbayarea.com/earthquaketracker . the city held an active shooter training prompted by the club q shooting in colorado last month. >> this is going to be -- >> reporter: the castro district business owners gathered on market street to learn what to do and after should somebody open fire in their establishment. >> what you can do to protect yourself without having to make it in that split second between the first gunshot. >> reporter: the shooting killed five in colorado and wounded 17,

and the department of homeland security lists them as possible targets for attacks. >> you look at synagogues or a lot of other places that are vulnerable, and people are starting to look at this as something necessary. i would not say it's in the conversation just yet, but we want to be proactive about it rather than sit around and not do anything. >> recommended precautions include a highly visible security team, and if anything seems out of the ordinary, have a detailed response in place. >> happening today, a warning if you are on the coast, king tides are expected and a warning is set to start around 6:00 a.m. the highest tides are expected to occur in the mid to late mornings for the nextfew days.

the warning is expected to be in place until sunday. tesla is giving some of its new customers a major discount. the amount you can have taken off your purchase and the cash that comes with it. stay with us.

as we take a look at our current temperatures right now at 4:39 on this thursday morning, it's another cold

start. upper 30s, low 40s. we're not seeing as much fog. we are getting ready for rain and we are tracking that system with an hour-by-hour update coming up in a few minutes. the north bay is cooler, but we have low clouds really touching the 101 from time to time, and that would be called fog where it touched the ground. there's activity over near the petaluma area, and a crash off the side of the road. we will watch all the crews coming up. good morning. i am silvanna henao from cnbc. earning reports were not as bad as expected and even with the gain the markets are on pace to finish the month in the red and break a three-year winning

streak posting the worst annual performance since the financial crisis in 2008. amazon is once again giving customers the chance to thank their delivery driver with a $5 trip, and it's bringing back the alexa thank my driver program. and amazon had to shut down the program just within one day because it was so successful. amazon will run the program up until the first million thank yous. tesla is offering bigger discounts than $7,500 if you take delivery by the end of the month. that's double the credit the company has offered on those vehicles, and it offered super

charging for vehicles sold in december. it comes on after the u.s. government delayed incentives on evs until march. >> look at that for your pocket view. i want to say, alexa, thank silvanna. >> oh, and thank you guys. >> thanks. we're just three days away from christmas. three days away. you know what that means? wrapping up the gifts. we will show you alternatives that are friendlier to our mother earth. coming up in san francisco, a place for gwnro

it's 4:45 now. we're taking a live look outside at the golden gate bridge. i don't see any cars. is that really the golden gate bridge? >> they are moving the crews. >> the roads look pretty clear right now, mike. i know you are keeping an eye on the traffic situation this morning. >> yeah, folks are out of town already or thinking about getting out of town, and we're looking towards the freeways and talking about a crash.

the one on the peninsula side, this is on the 101 at the ends off-ramp. the crash is a reported a disabled vehicle, and i don't know if it's affecting traffic flow. that's over on the peninsula side. in the east bay, a highway closure through niles and we know 680 northbound is closed until 5:00, and since it started on the 12th they had a little delay clearing the crews. and approaching the martinez bridge, there's a disabled vehicle. but the fog not a big deal as far as the bay bridge is concerned. >> yeah, the visibility is quite high for many areas as we see the clouds higher up as the system approaches. it will bring us rain later this evening as we go hour-by-hour. most of the day is dry, and then by 6:00 to 7:00, we will start

to see light showers moving on the coast into parts of the north bay, and sonoma coastline up around lake and mendocino counties. it moves through the rest of the bay area with hit or miss showers during the overnight hours. and most of that rain, the highest rain chances and where we could measure the most is further to the north. beyond that we are head into a dry weekend with rain. as you move up around oregon as well as washington, if you are heading north that's where the rain will be. for us, the rain returns on tuesday, and we could see a significant storm system coming in, and it starts out warm and then eventually the temperatures come down, and then we see another round in sierra snow next thursday. once again, this is possibly a very significant rain and snow maker for the bay area. the potential of three to five and maybe six or seven inches of rainfall next week, so we are

going to be talking a lot about that. at least we have a few more days to prepare. if you are going to the sierra, we are looking good through christmas day. next week is when the snow begins to fall and we could see several feet of snow there going into the new year. looking at our 7-day forecast, it will be some spotty showers later tonight. otherwise, we're dry, temperatures stay mild into christmas day. next week, colder temperatures come in and that rain begins and we are going to see our temperatures staying on the cool side through about next week. now, let's turn to our climate in crisis with christmas just three days away, and you may still have gifts to wrap and put under the tree, but is the paper eco friendly. >> there's always a celebration, and that means buying gifts and wrapping paper, but it can be

recycled because it's paper, right? think again, it's made with plastic and has a fiber in it, and some of the holiday shopping paper has glitter or metal. it's time for your climate hack, vianey. save those bags you have been given in the past for future gifts. another one is to buy cloth bags that can be reused for multiple purposes. here's the payoff. earth 911 estimates 4.6 million pounds of wrapping paper is manufactured. for more climate hacks, check out nbcbayarea.com/climatehacks.

>> you can see that story on our website as well. many americans say they like working from home, but this time of the year, they get a little lonely. >> no office parties or secret santa, just you and your webcam. scott mcgrew shows us the solution to holiday isolation. >> this is ground floor on valencia, and it's not a cafe and it's not a library, but it's a private club designed as a work space where you can work, sure, but also make friends. jamie came up with the idea after working from home himself. >> you literally don't have an office to go to, and you are saying where do i go to make a friend? you can go to starbucks, and

people are going to think get away from me, this is not normal behavior. we created a space where everybody opted into building friendships. all you had to do is go up to somebody and say, hey, do you want to be friends when you don't know their name, and it's harder as an adult. everybody here by definition wants to be friends. it's what they signed up for. >> i remember the first day that this opened, i was a really eager person because i live in the neighborhood, and i saw it getting remodeled and rebuilt, and once i became the member on the first day, i was here on the first day like 9:00 a.m., i was, like, hi, i am here and i have been in my apartment for two years. >> it comes with a price, and membership is limited, the price is $200 a month.

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a beloved movie franchise is making the transition from streaming starting today. >> "the best man," the final chapters is beginning to stream on peacock. mark barger has a preview for us

on the eight-episode series. >> i love you, and may god bless this union. >> the best man scored with movie audiences in 1999, and the best man holiday did it again in 2013. so a third go around seemed inevitable. >> i always thought there might be an ending, because the fans really demanded it. they really, really wanted it. >> and even though it has taken nearly a decade -- >> it's like a family, we had fun getting back on the set again. that's the only time regina talks to me. >> and even with the passage of time, cast members say it was easy rekindling their dynamic. >> the love is so strong. >> yeah, it's like a real family. we fight like family, and we

play like family. it's really, really, real. >> it's also the end. the series creator insists -- >> the bow is wrapped tight. this is it. the final chapters, and i mean it. >> which means saying good-bye to characters that meant a lot to the actors. >> we did something and are doing something very special. >> as well as to the audience and the culture. >> it's just a real contemporary story about black people having ups and downs. >> i am grown, getting married and moving to tibet -- >> you said tibet? >> no! >> all eight episodes of "the best man" drop today on peacock. i know what i am doing this weekend.

>> yeah, nice to binge on something we already know. up next, the headaches for holiday travelers. also, what you need to know before heading to the airport. if you will be going to the coastline, heads up that there is a coastal flood advisory as king tides come back today through sunday. we will be talking about what to expect around the bay area weather-wise coming

doom and groom scenarios, ukraine didn't fall. ukraine is alive. >> right now at 5:00. seeking aid for ukraine. coming from the front lines on the war with russia, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy meets with top u.s. leaders. also, how much the u.s. has already given the country. >> making it in the bay. inflation is causing the prices of food to skyrocket. one local food bank shows the drastic differences of what you can buy with $25 now compared to a few years ago, and how you can still help families in need. plus,