fire, apple tv and online. a very good morning to you. thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. want to welcome you to the final monday of 2022. we're going to have a look at your commute -- >> makes me feel like i need to do something important. >> i know. we're going to have a look at that commute as well as the forecast for you coming up. we want to start with our top story for the morning, that winter storm making holiday travel even more of a hassle with flight delays, luggage pileups all across the country and right here in the bay area. this morning travelers are making their way as they try to get home but might be out of luck. >> it's tough that arctic blast is forcing airlines to cancel hundreds of flights nationwide, over 2,800 flights canceled. "today in the bay's" ginger conejero saab joins us live from sfo with more, and we have cancellations here in the bay area.

>> reporter: that's right, laura and marcus. actually if you take a look at the line right behind me this is the line at terminal 2. that is the canceled flights line and has now stretched beyond the regular queue. you see people with positive spirit this morning but it does stretch all the way down looking like it's gotten longer since we moved over to terminal 2 last hour to terminal 3. this is right in line with what flight aware's info was telling us, tracks flights in real time. as of 5:30 this morning some updates on numbers of canceled flight numbers at sfo close to 50 flights are canceled, around 25 are delays as of earlier this morning's count. that's after 90 flights were canceled on sunday here at sfo. taking a look at other airports around the bay area, 29 flights over at oakland international have been canceled so far. 29 over at sjc.

they're looking at 29 cancellations. over the weekend hundreds of travelers were stuck because of delays and cancellations. they told us they were frustrated. one man we spoke to this morning hoped things would have played out differently. all right, well, we talked to a number of these passengers here. it's been a long night for them, that one traveler we spoke to, his ordeal started before christmas day. he flew out of seattle. he's from richmond, virginia. he went to seattle, was then brought to sfo, got here at midnight only to learn this morning when the counters opened at 4:00 a.m. that his flight was canceled. he is now looking to rebook tomorrow. luckily enough the airline granted him a hotel voucher. he's still looking at the bright side of things. he's heard great things about san francisco, the city. he's looking to enjoy some

things on his visit, unintended visit to san francisco. the good news is, if you do get past the assistance line or, rather, the cancellation line, any problems with your flight, if you do make it out to the tsa line, that's relatively clear running about four or five minutes, two minutes if you have precheck, so that's the good news here. the problem is actually getting to that point in your travel experience. we'll give you more updates before the end of the hour. this is what we're looking at so far. live at sfo, ginger conejero saab, "today in the bay." sounds like a lot of people have good attitudes about it. >> let's turn to meteorologist vianey arana to see if things are still going strong? it's still impacting us as far as lake-effect know and that's what brings on the gusty winds. winds up to 80 miles an hour in

the new york area. we have plenty of snow coming down and this will continue to make its trek out east, north/northeast. hopefully continues improve as it moves out. locally what's setting up now will be a big impact when it comes to the entire state of california really but also up through parts of portland and washington. they're not in the clear just yet. very gusty winds. in addition to that, we expect to see the winter storm tonight into wednesday for the sierras. so your travel window is closing. you have time to prepare, and i will take you through the timing in just a few minutes. let's check in with mike. >> vianey, that's the great note. the travel window right now but it is closing and right now 50 and 80 do not have any chain requirements right now. that will, of course, change. north and east where the weather

is going is tahoe. over here now the north and the east of the bay is where the fog is, the dense fog. we're watching for that. the impact, though, on specific cars. very light traffic. just watch those conditions, lower the speeds. we'll monitor this and all the news, weather and traffic right after this bre

good morning. it is 6:12. we've had a couple technical issues but we're back and we're rolling. right now we're seeing temperatures in the 40s, a couple areas of fog up through the north bay, but on deck is rain and lots of it. i'll guide you through the timing of all of this in just a few minutes. we're rolling, vianey, that's my line. we are rolling with light traffic. through some of that fog you see the low clouds.

we'll talk about that impact as i see it on the maps and what we're looking forward with coming up. with the end of the year quickly approaching we are moving you forward with a look at new laws set to begin in 2023. our political analyst larry gerston joining us this morning. always good to see you. let's talk about it, climate change. california has done a lot. governor newsom signed nearly 40 bills into law just on this. what should we look forward to with this and what do we need to know? >> reporter: good morning, marcus. 40 bills accounting for $54 billion in coming expenditures to deal with climate change. which californians rank as the number one issue and california does the best job of moving forward on this tough problem. therere's a lot going here in terms of what the voters want, what national organizations say about us and what we must do and

deal with, dealing with fires, dealing with all kinds of issues, pollution and what not. this piece of legislation and, believe me, out of 40 bills we'll be talking about a lot. carbon neutral policies for one thing, slowing down emissions another, all these -- emissions another. tighter rules regarding gasoline use and productition, refinener thingsgs like thatat. clean energy as a target for 90% by 2035. that tells you a very aggressive posture here. >> let's talk about california. they're about to have a clearer picture where their pay lies. companies with 15 employees or more will have to show the pay scale for their job. this certainly will change how we look at pay moving forward. >> reporter: marcus, this is a critical issue for california and particularly silicon valley which is known for very high salaries. the question is, are those

salaries equitable? are men and women paid about the same amount for the same kind of work? what about minorities? do they get paid what others get paid? how does that all work. there have been complaints the salary ranges are broad and women and minorities are often paid less than male whites. this law changes that. as you said, if you have 15 employees or more, what a company has to do is show both the range of a salary and the median, where it falls in the middle. and the idea here is to finally, long overdue some would say, bring up women and minorities to the kinds of salaries earned by whites and men. we've known for a long time that women nationally make about 80% of what men make. for the same kind of job. in this area we talk about equality, equity, this bill should go a long way to righting some of those historic wrongs.

>> tough to make it in the bay. people need to be paid to live. larry gerston this morning, always good to catch up with you keeping us in the know. and you can find a full list of all the new laws taking effect in 2023 including what you need to know from covid in the work place to paid family leave on nbcbayarea.com right now on our home page. from our wallets to the courthouse, it's been a wild ride for investors, employees and those of us, all of us, who use technology. it looks like 2023 will continue the drama. >> "today in the bay's" scott budman covered it all for us. a look as he looks back and looks ahead. tech drives our economy. this year it also drove us to distraction. here are some of the top stories from tech 2022. the story that affected the most people, the fall of tech stocks. trillions of dollars lost by investors here.

amazon, even as we shopped on it, lost a trillion dollars in value from pandemic highs. meta lost more than half its value trying to build out the metaverse and then laid off more than 10,000 employees. netflix, intel, and salesforce also among those hit hard by wall street and among the companies laying people off. one stock that jumped this year, twitter, thanks to a $44 billion buyout by the, at the time, richest man in the world, elon musk, who, shortly after walking into twitter hq, laid off thousands of employees then led the social networking site on a wild and controversial ride ending the year by promising to step down after polling users, possibly because the company that made him so wealthy, tesla, lost $800 billion in stock market value this year.

it was a year of tech on trial and the spotlight was brightest on elizabeth holmes who dropped out of stanford to run the doomed blood testing company theranos. in 2022 holmes was found guilty on four counts of investor fraud and sentenced to 11 years in prison. her ex-boyfriend and former theranos ceo sunny balwani found guilty on 12 fraud counts and sentenced to 13 years. crypto crashed this year. 2021 saw a single bitcoin go for $68,000. it ends this year worth less than $17,000. the crypto story will also be big in the coming year with palo alto native sam bankman-fried awaiting trial. his cryptocurrency exchange, ftx, lost $32 billion of investor value in what's shaping up to be one of america's

biggest fraud cases in history. also big heading into the new year artificial intelligence. ai had its moment this year both visually, yes, you all looked virtually gorgeous, and with something called chat gpt, a way to get a computer to write for you. it already has teachers wondering what's being created by humans and what comes from the inner workings of a computer. and for 2023 we'll also be watching, among other things, housing. if rates drop, will people buy and sell homes again here in the bay area? also, will workers have to go back to the office? will climate tech be the next big thing? we'll keep you posted. for "today in the bay," i'm scott budman. >> wondering if we have to go back. >> we are back. there's no place like home. now that we're back, something else is making a

comeback. >> rain again. it's been such an active weather pattern for december. we kicked off december with rain and snow and we're going to end december on that same note thanks to an atmospheric river tapping into some of the subtropical moisture. you could see there that setup and this frontal boundary will bring gusty conditions as well along that line, 30, 40, 50 miles per hour in some of the higher elevation areas. to give you an idea of the timing, let's get right to it. at around 7:00, santa rosa, san francisco will get that initial line of showers and if you notice the orange and yellow pockets, those are the heavier downpours and overnight late tonight into about 2:00, 3:00 in the morning we start to see this band here. you can see it there with the purple hue color, we're going to see that rain intensify bringing us a lot of rain all at once. it will continue to push southward really right in the middle of that tuesday morning commute with a couple of bull's eye areas. becoming widespread for the

entire bay area and then we'll start to see that continue to make its exit but then we'll see scattered showers in through tuesday and wednesday. your seven-day forecast right now will keep the scattered showers, rain by the evening wednesday, and another system creeps in on thursday and then looking ahead into next weekend. yes this is new year's eve weekend. we are going to see another storm system line up that will bring us more rain and wind carrying over into the first day of the new year and also right now rain pretty much through the first week of january as well. let's see how the roads are doing with a check of traffic with mike. right now, vianey, it's great. this is what we're talking about but especially today, a holiday observed by many businesses since christmas day was sunday. pushed that observance to monday. fewer commuters will have fog throughout the north bay and contra costa county and pushing over in toward 580.

still very, very light. the south bay into the peninsula the same. i don't think we'll see metering lights but we'll keep monitoring. next here on "today in the bay," nbc bay area responds. >> reporter: ribbon, wrapping paper, cardboard boxes and bows, what do you do with all the holiday remnants? i'm chris

>> reporter: this package is now a mess. let's figure out what to do with it. we're going to use guidance from the city of san jose. san jose says all bows and ribbons can be thrown in the trash or you can save them and reuse them next year. wrapping paper is easy to reuse, too. well, some of it is. it's okay. san jose says aggressive unwrappers can recycle most wrapping paper. one rule, wrapping paper that is shiny or contains foil or metallic pieces cannot be recycled, reused or trash. same for tissue paper. tissue paper contains the wrong fibers for recycling. you have three choices, reuse it, trash it or compost it. as for cardboard boxes they are generally recyclable. the city recommends you flatten them down saving space and helps with sorting at the recycling

center. greeting cards made a big comeback in 2020. what do you do with all of those? san jose says you can recycle them but first remove parts that have glitter, foil, metal charms, felt cutouts and ribbon. here is a crafty, use this year's card to make gift tags for next year's presents. coming up next the top stories we're following today including a foggy start to the monday morning commute. mike inouye tracking low visibility and meteorologist visibility and meteorologist nganey arana is timi sosometimes a a cough isn't t just a couough so it's s better to o be prepar. keeping g binaxnow™™ handy so it's s better to o be prepar. makekes it easy y to test. so it's s better to o be prepar. and self t test kits so it's s better to o be prepar. mamay be reimbmbursable so it's s better to o be prepar.

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right now at 6:30, the calm before the winter storm, bracing for a week of full rain. the floodgates are opening. meteorologist vianey arana is tracking when we will see the worst of it. and covid cases and hospitalizations are on the rise again. we are live with what doctors are saying you can do now to stay healthy as you head to more holiday gatherings this week. >> i think the thing that had me shaking the most was when he told us to meet him outside, and he kept on staring at us. >> a racist rant caught on camera. an incident in the east bay in-n-out burger is going viral now sparking a police investigation. the reason the woman who took the video says these incidents

should not be overlooked this is "today in the bay" streaming live on roku, amazon fire, apple tv and online. good monday morning to you. thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. well, welcome to the final week of 2022. we made it. we'll make it through the rest of the day. we are finishing up the year with a downpour for you. turning to meteorologist vianey arana. of course you are tracking that incoming storm we're expected to get. >> lots of rain, lots of wind, lots of sierra snow and a lot of advisories. right now the impact for your commute right now is going to be the fog. temperatures in the 40s so no freeze warnings or anything like that in effect. you can see that atmospheric river setting up nicely. it will make its move in to the north bay starting at around 7:00 tonight, right around dinner and then widespread overnight. just to give you an idea we're not just tracking one storm, we're talking about a series of potentially five storms to end the week leading into the first week of january as well.

the impacts will kick up. overnight a wind advisory goes into effect. in addition to that we're talking about flood watches that are in place especially for the ben lomond area. 3 to 7 inches in total all week, maybe even higher for the santa cruz mountains. there's a high wind warning. we are keeping that active weather pattern into the start of 2023. how are we looking on the roads, mike? right now we're looking great. for folks heading south, the low visibility at the top of your screen. over to the north bay vallejo, american canyon, over to brentwood, byron, discovery bay.

there's a crash. over by the cherry picking farms, watch that area. low visibility registering. speeds are at limit. a nice, easy light drive. lower those speeds. back to you. thank you, mike. our free nbc bay area app is a great resource to track this incoming storm on the go. you get access to our exclusive radar. we can send alerts straight to your phone minutes before the rain starts to fall wherever you are. 6:32. health officials are warning we could see another surge in hospitalizations and now they are reporting a jump in covid cases. >> cases up by an average of more than 1,400 daily case this is past week. 42 people died from covid cases. they are prepared to see more and more of those beds fill up.

>> reporter: already the icu beds here, 64 of the 68 across the county are full so only four icu beds available at this time right now. 42 hospitalized covid cases. we don't know how many of those are icu beds. there is an increase in covid cases across the bay area up about 1,400 daily cases right now. 128 new cases here average daily last week in san mateo county. the county here has set aside 67 beds for surges for holidays like this. that's an example how public and private health officials are working together to deal with this. all available right now as this forecast post holiday surge they are expecting will come upon us. people are getting indoors together at holidays and we see

the surges after the holidays. globally cases are surging especially true in china where doctors are worried there's fertile ground for another variant to develop that will eventually reach other nations like the u.s. >> we certainly thought with covid, with alpha and delta and omicron and when the next strains tomorrow and we go back to the science and see if we can develop monoclonal antibodies to treat it to make sure our population is safe. >> reporter: at jackson memorial in houston where that doctor works, they have already seen covid hospitalizations double. officials are concerned they will see the same thing after the holidays where people are getting together and getting infected with covid, rsv or the flu. they are reminding people that if you're still getting together for new year's eve parties, with family over the holidays, traveling, especially if you're traveling by air or by ground in mass transit, remember, just to assume that other people are infected and use those mask bes.

mask up. social distance where possible and take covid tests before traveling and before returning to work or school. we're live in redwood city, thom jensen, "today in the bay." >> be mindful of what's going on. thanks, thom. 6:35. in the east bay a tiktok video showing a customer making bigoted, racist comments towards other customers at an in-n-out burger has gone viral. the incident happened around 10:00 p.m. on christmas eve at the in-n-out in san ramon. arine kim and her friend elliot ha were filming a tiktok about their order and that's when they say another customer came up to them making homophoic and anti-asian comments. eventually the other customer asked them to meet him outside. ultimately they walked away unharmed. we spoke with the college students about the incident. >> i think a lot of people don't take these kinds of situations very seriously.

yeah, i think a lot of people don't end up taking these situations seriously. >> the video has been viewed more than 1 million times online. kim says she's been in contact with police as officers are trying to track down the man. we reached out to in-n-out about the incident but have not heard back. three buses coming from texas dropped off a large group of migrants near vice president kamala harris' residence on christmas eve in washington, d.c. they arrived on christmas eve from texas during historically frigid temperatures. now this is file video from one of those drop-offs back in september. this is the latest example of an effort by governors in republican-led states to bus migrants to liberal cities like new york, philadelphia and d.c. immigration activists are criticizing the recent drop-off calling it cruel because of the freezing temperatures. local organizations are now working to get those migrants shelter. deadly weather sweeping across the country this is

video, whiteout conditions in buffalo, new york. today more than 400 national guard troops will be arriving to help those in need. >> nationwide that storm has killed at least 50 people over the last few days. new york governor kathy hochul actually is declaring a state of emergency right now. >> we are in a war, a war with mother nature and she has been hitting us with everything she has since the late hours of thursday into friday, saturday, and now on christmas morning and this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo's long storied history. >> folks in the area are urged to stay at home and stay off the roads. i want to turn now to meteorologist vianey arana who has been tracking that storm for us. >> yeah, what are conditions looking like? we are seeing lake-effect snow but it is dissipating. the conditions are expected to improve but they still have the frigid air, wind gusts upwards

80-plus miles an hour in the area. the atmospheric river will be kicking up wind shear locally. at about 10:00 we see the wind advisory go into place, 35, 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts, we could see impacts to power outages. peak wind time early tuesday morning. we're monitoring flood watches for the entire area highlighted here. we're going to see heavy rain rates very quickly. we're also going to be looking at the roads and the creeks and streams in addition to the burn scars. high surf advisory goes into effect starting on tuesday into wednesday as that system passes through it will kick up the high surf creating a pretty dangerous swell with breakers upwards of

25 feet which will bring a risk for sneaker waves. we have that winter storm warning in place as well that will be in effect through wednesday. now let's see how the roads are doing with mike. there are no cars covering the roads at the bay area toll plaza. great conditions on the roadway. above the roadway there will be fog. low clouds, dense fog. contra costa county showing up on our road weather index. do lower the speeds if you need to. that's the only reason you would have to do that. that's up and down either signed of the bay, through the south county, santa cruz mountains, no delays reported. light traffic flow. keep that in mind right now. on transit we do have a change. there may be delays or changes you don't know about. today is a holiday observed by many businesses. christmas is a holiday but observed on monday so keep that in mind.

later on in the day you may have unexpectedly heavy traffic. you are at speed for 580. >> good to know. 6:40. phony fines. next on "today in the bay," the fake parking tickets police want you to know about be a and the arrest in connection to the crime. a prestigious honor for a dance group and why one member says it's a personal mission. you don't want to miss that. we have that and much more ahead is morning on "today ithn

and 6:43 right now. we'll be seeing those gusty winds. the rain moves in late tonight. we'll take you through the timing and how much, look at this, 2 to 5 inches possibly. the full forecast coming up. that's what's ahead of us right now at the san mateo bridge, easy drive. there was a curtain on either side. it's not quite so bad right now. passing through the bay area, very limited visibility, light traffic flow that should help you lower the speeds if you need to. we'll show you the bigger speeds coming up. this morning one teen waking up behind bars after being arrested for giving out fake

parking tickets. santa cruz police say that a 19-year-old man targeted cars near the beach on wednesday. the fraudulent tickets directed them to a website and paid through qr code. police say they don't know how many of the fake citations were issued or if any people paid the fines. investigators say they found evidence related to the scam inside the man's car, officers arrested him for attempted fraud. 6:44. a former white house chef says food and agriculture are now at the front lines of climate change. this is sam who worked as a chef for nutrition during the obama administration and now he's calling for more sustainable ways to grow food. he is warning many foods may be much more expenive in the future. he says americans need to change their habits when it comes to food waste. >> absolutely. the united states it's estimated we waste about 40% of the food we produce which is just insane. it's crazy on every level.

from a natural resource standpoint an ecological disaster. >> the climate conversation often focuses on energy but kass says decision makers need to focus on food production as well. an amateur soccer team in the bay area has qualified to compete in the most prestigious tournament in the united states. intersf has dominated the pro league and now they're headed to the u.s. open cup, the longest running soccer tournament in the country. it's been around for more than 100 years and they could even possibly play mls teams like san jose earthquake and l.a. galaxy. >> our goal was to make it to the cup and fulfilling that dream of making it only in the second year of the history of the club, a great team and great group of people that are having a good time together is a dream

come true. >> soccer in the u.s. is more popular. people watching soccer is different than four years ago, and that's different than eight years ago. >> all the hard work paying off. inter sf won their final match in the snow last weekend in reno. take a look at them there. they plan to keep training hard. the tournament kicks off in march. from christmas to kwanzaa, let's not forget hanukkah as well. today is the first day of the 17th annual san francisco kwanzaa celebration. seven-day celebration highlighting a principle every day. today is unity. the event starts at noon at city hall. tomorrow night city hall will be lit up in red, green and black for kwanzaa.

6:46. the west african dance company is taking off from sfo at 7:00 this morning. while in the country they will perform in senegal. >> it is an honor to perform on stage and to perform on the motherland in africa in senegal coming from the united states. the company returns on january 7. >> hope flip they won't have delays. >> a lot of people with the storm back east have had issues. here in the bay area the weather pattern will be active. the commute will be a concern tomorrow.

it's very calm but this is what will be setting us up for a series of storms. we'll see that atmospheric river that will move in late tonight to tomorrow and will bring a lot of rain. early tuesday morning and then another setup to follow leading us into january. i want to make sure you are prepared. monday at 7:00 san rafael, half moon bay, the first line of storms starts to move in and becomes widespread overnight. at 3:00 a.m. we see heavier pockets of downpours. the reds and purples the really heavy rain around 5:00, 6:00, 7:00.

it becomes more scattered as the line of showers pushes out. how much rain can we expect? look at santa cruz, even into the 1 to 2 inch mark. new year outlook, i want to prepare you for this as well. a setup in the model run. new year's eve, new year's day, it could tap into another atmospheric river effect with a lot of rain expected for the entire state of california that includes all the way to socal. if you have plans to travel this will be impacting your first week of january into monday. notice it's pretty widespread rain. in addition to that lots of wind as well for the l.a. area into the first week of january.

a look at the next seven days, rain and wind. we're going to see a little bit of a break at times on wednesday but then by late wednesday, that moves into thursday and we get a third system into friday and a fourth and fifth system as well leading into saturday and sunday for new year's day will set us up for additional systems into the first week of january. by the end of the week we could see over eight inches for the higher elevations. remember, a high wind advisory goes into effect starting tonight. a flash flood watch goes into effect. please use this as information to prepare. clear out the drains and don't leave anything on your patio you don't want flying around. 40 plus miles an hour in the higher elevations. let's see how the roads are looking with mike. >> vianey, did you ask for weather systems for christmas? we have a lot of them. easy traffic, that's what i asked for coming back on a

monday, christmas on sunday, a lot of businesses observe that on monday. we're looking at a light traffic flow. we do see the haze, low clouds, fog, very thick fog, in areas like the upper north bay and east bay, upper contra costa county. that's what fog does but that may be a factor. look at that green sensor all around the bay. back to you. >> thank you, mike. it is 6:51 and happening now in the bay area air quality management district is issuing a ban on burning any wood, manufactured fire logs or any other solid fuel sources. this is the fifth day in a row the bay area is under such an alert. air quality district officials originally issued one last thursday. a quick look at the top stories this morning including a post-christmas covid surge. the advice from doctors for you and your family before the new celebration begins.

>> reporter: we're live at sfo. take a look at the flight cancellation line behind me. it hasn't gotten any shorter these past couple of hours. we have the latest numbers on delays and cancellations because of that severe winter storm. stay with us. you're watching "today in the bay."

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6:55. welcome back. we're moving you forward with a look at the top stories on "today in the bay." first, the winter storm is making holiday travel even more of a hassle for a lot of people with flight delays and luggage pileup. >> it is a tough one. the arctic blast forcing airlines to cancel hundreds of flights. nationwide over 2,800 flights have been canceled. "today in the bay's" ginger conejero saab joins us live from sfo. she's been following a lot of paths of these folks trying to get out of town. >> reporter: and surprisingly still seeing some smiles despite the travel delays and cancellations. take a look at the line behind me. it hasn't gotten any shorter in the past couple of hours that we've been here. these are all the flights that have been impacted by

cancellations here at alaska airlines in terminal 2. according to flight aware which tracks flights in real time as of about 6:30 this morning we have some updates close to 50 flights out of sfo are canceled, more than 40 delayed at this point. that's after 90 flights were canceled on sunday. now over at oakland international and san jose around 30 flights have been canceled at both airports. over the weekend hundreds of travelers were stuck because of delays and cancellations. they told us they were frustrated. we spoke to one man today that says he wishes things played out differently for him. >> i had to come up here and they gave me -- they're trying to get me on another flight tomorrow morning, so they gave me a voucher so can i get a hotel. that's nice. i wish i'd have known ahead of time to make different arrangements. >> reporter: he is seeing the positive in his situation and, again, still seeing some smiles

like this gentleman in line. i love it. there's that holiday spirit even if your flight is canceled. the good news is, sir, if you do get out it have line you have a much easier line to get to over at security. i saw that time is under ten minutes. so the only real big hurdle is getting out of this line and getting you over at security. we'll give you more updates in our newscast live at sfo, ginger conejero saab, "today in the bay." >> we do love the good attitude. the "today" show has a team of reporters covering this storm and the flight delays. full coverage coming up in just minutes at 7:00. health officials across the nation are seeing a big jump in covid-19 cases, and they're preparing for post-holiday surge at hospitals. in the bay area more than 1,400 daily cases. this past week 42 died from covid. there was already a lot of pressure on hospitals as they were dealing with a lot of the influx of rsv and flu patients

in november and december. san mateo county, 42 patients are hospitalized. 64 of the 68 icu beds are filled in that county. but now they're really concerned about the new covid variants and the surge at hospitals in the new year. health officials are reminding people to wear those masks, wash your hands, and keep those covid kits nearby. a tiktok video showing a customer making bigoted, racist comments at an east bay in-n-out burger. >> are you kim jong-un's boyfriend? >> the incident happened at the in-n-out in san ramon on christmas eve. arine kim and her friend elliot were filming a tiktok about their orders, that's when they say another customer came up to them making homophobic and anti-asian comments. kim says she's been in contact with police as officers tried to track down the man. we've reached out to in-n-out burger but have not heard back.

nbc bay area spoke with the young college students. you can watch the full story on our website nbcbayarea.com. a last look at the forecast this morning. >> we have some headlines, under a microclimate weather alert because a storm is expected to move in late tonight into early tomorrow morning. the potential for five storms over the next week across the bay area. a lot of sierra snow, winter storm warnings go into effect starting tonight. also the wind, the wind will be a big factor, 40 to 50-mile-per-hour winds in some of the higher elevation areas. mike? >> we should still see lighter traffic but not this light. this is holiday monday light traffic at the bay bridge. no metering lights. i don't think they will be turned on. we do have the low fog. a better look on street level. you can see the bridge itself as you drive across. >> don't forget to download our free bay area app, keep up to

date with that storm as you're on the go. you can get access to our exclusive radar there as well. it's free. >> that's right. and we'll be back in about half an hour and every half hour after that. >> thanks for joining us this morning. the "today" show up next. good monday morning. it is the day after christmas and that means hitting the road or heading to the airport. >> we are getting a cold, hard dose of reality thanks to this winter weather that is not letting up. it is december 26th and this is "today." >> deep freeze. millions of americans waking up to bitter cold again as the death toll from this weekend's massive winter storm keeps rising, some new yorkers digging their way out after that historic blizzard. and there is more snow on the way. >> it is going to a war zone. >> we have complete coverage with everything you need to know