hi, everyone. i'm kate snow? i'm aaron gilchrist. "nbc news daily" starts right now. today, tuesday, january 17th, 2023. sigh of relief. parts of california begin drying out after weeks of rain, wind and heavy snow. we have a live report as cleanup crews begin sifting through the damage amid continued fears of mudslides. political firestorm. a losing candidate in new mexico is arrested in connection with a series of shootings.

why he was allegedly targeting the homes of democratic leaders. not over yet. another covid subvariant spreading fascinationwide raising concerns it could be the most transmissible one yet so how do we avoid the typical holiday surge. keep calm and kerry on. one of nbc's most beloved correspondents, kerry sanders is retiring after more than three decades on the job. we mark the end of an era and take a look back at some of his most unforgettable moments. we begin with the major recovery effort under way in california. >> three weeks since the first of ten storms in the golden state bringing torrential rain, wind and piles of snow, 22 people have died since it started. >> cleanup crews are trying to clean it up. the rain subsided but still the serious threat of landslides. >> president biden will be in california on thursday to see the damage for himself.

experts say the cost of recovery could be in the billions of dollars. leading us off this hour nbc news correspondent jay gray and dana griffin as well. jay, i'll start with you in santa cruz with utility crews on the ground there starting to get the electricity back on for people in that area. what kind of conditions are they dealing with today? >> reporter: beautiful weather for the first time in a long time that we can say that, aaron. blue skies, sunshine. a big help to these teams and really to get a recovery going you've got to have power. you could see right here, this is an old drive-in movie theater that now is a staging area for all of the power teams that have been here. 7,000 men and women that are part of this team and have been working over the last three plus weeks as these storms have rolled through one by one. let's take you up and inside what is the base camp here, the area where the command center is and once we get inside here you'll see you have the rvs,

tents, it's where they strategically plan how they'll deploy these teams and, boy, they've had to work around the clock. during this time period, they've restored power to nearly 3 million people, all of them at different times without any electricity. they described it to me as a roller coaster, you had storms moving through and as they moved through they deploy these teams. they'd get the power down to about 2,000 or so without electricity, they'd wake up the next morning and another storm came through, 30,000 or 40,000 now without electricity and continuing the effort and will until everybody is back online. they think that could happen in this central coast area by the end of the week. >> all right, jay, let me go to dana right now. you're at a place near the coast, several businesses were damaged by the severe weather. we've seen that in your shots. what are you hearing from them about rebuilding now?

>> reporter: well, kate, one business we know is not waiting for the insurance adjuster because they are so desperate to try to get up and running, this is zelda's. you may hear the hammering and drilling and starting the recovery process now so they can try to recoup some of the losses they've had from keeping closed. their patio was destroyed and a piece of the wharf inside their dining room. another business owner actually walked us through his business. he's located along the strip as well and the waves really did a number on his restaurant and he kind of walked us through what his business looks like. take a look. >> so this was our deck when you walked in. this got blown up and was out in the middle of the street. that's how hard the waves hit. this floor got listed at least a foot and the beams are coming out and the entire thing is going to have to get taken out.

it's, you know, scary to think of the force that these waves hit underneath and just broke everything. you've got to cut all the floors completely out and relay them and, you know, i really hope we can get some of these open by spring break, that's a big deal here. >> reporter: and he was a little frustrated because he didn't quite know how to start that process but for businesses that need the fema assistance you can go to disasterassistance.gov to try to get started. kate, aaron. >> dana griffin and jay gray, thanks to you both. the white house is facing growing calls for transparency over the classified documents found at president biden's delaware home as well as a former office. today the president did not answer a barrage of questions shouted by reporters in the oval office. >> joining us now mike memoli

and julia ainsley. the white house press secretary faced a lot of questions from reporters at her briefing today about these documents. how did she respond this time? >> well, aaron, it's been a frustrating and familiar script from the podium there at the white house. just a day after we learned from the white house counsel's office that five additional pages with classified markings were found at the president's home. karine jean-pierre, the press secretary, sticking very closely to carefully prepare talking points about why the white house can't answer more questions about these. take a listen. >> i'm just going to continue to be prudent here. i'm going to let this ongoing review that is happening, this legal process that is happening and let that process continue under the special counsel. we're not -- i'm not going to comment from here. >> reporter: the white house's rationale which we heard in a call today as well is that by

providing partial responses to different questions from reporters, they might be putting information into the public sphere that could interfere in their view with the special counsel's investigation but it was also interesting, aaron, we heard the white house also go on offense a bit responding to some of the republican attacks over this and calls for further investigation saying they are faking outrage as the spokesperson put it when they were silent about president trump's handling of documents as well. >> well, julia, let me bring you in here. it's been over a week since we found out about the first discovery of classified documents. since then we learned about more batches, two or three depending on where things were happening here. where does the investigation stand from the doj perspective? >> reporter: that's right. we've learned a lot of information just over the past week but from the doj's perspective this investigation lands squarely with this special counsel, robert hur, who has been taking over this investigation from the northern district of illinois where john

lausch ran that investigation as we know. he is leaving the justice department and leaving everything that they have so far squarely in the hands of the special counsel as he builds his team. it may be that the more information we learn for this from this will really be because of diligent reporters and because of the white house. the justice department won't want to leak out much information, they want to keep both of these investigations completely quiet, especially because they don't want to be seen as influencing the political process since they now have an investigation through special counsels into the former president and potential new candidate for president as well as the sitting president with biden because of the political ramifications they will be very quiet. so what we can expect now is if and when the biden administration learns of more documents being found they might continue to come forward like they did this weekend when we learned about those five additional documents but what that does for reporters like mike for people sitting in the briefing room, it can be very

frustrating as they try to be very, very careful about the messaging here and the public is sitting still wondering what is in the documents. >> the lawyers are very much in control of this. julia ainsley, mike memoli, thank you. new details coming forward about the nepal flight. the pilot asked for a change of runway just minutes before the aircraft was set to land. so far 70 bodies have been recovered. in all 72 people were on board the flight. today crews begin the task of returning those bodies of the victims to their families. nbc correspondent kelly cobiella joins us now. where does it stand right now? >> reporter: so investigators have both of the so-called black boxes, cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder both recovered yesterday and are said to be in good condition so they'll be taking a look at the information contained on those two devices hoping to get more clues on why this experienced

captain, this pilot, asked for a change of runway in the final minutes of this flight. the airport spokesman who we spoke to said that wasn't clear why he asked, it was simply granted but wanted to land in a different direction so why was that decision made? why was that plane seen banking soy hard left when it was so close to the ground and there will also be looking into the theory which has been posited by a number of experts as to whether the plane stalled and simply fell out of the sky, kate. >> kelly, what do we know about the piles flying this yeti airlines flight? >> reporter: the captain was a very experienced pilot. he was an instructor pilot with nearly 22,000 hours of flying time. his co-pilot just has a really tragic back story. she was 44 years old. she was married to a pilot who

died in a yeti plane airline crash back in 2006. she used his insurance payout to finance her own flight training because she wanted to carry on that dream of her husband to be a pilot. she had been flying for yeti since 2010. some of her family members reportedly didn't want her to be a pilot. didn't want her to follow that dream but she was determined to follow in her husband's footsteps, kate. >> it's so sad. kelly, thank you for the reporting. moving forward with speed toward electric vehicles and apple is unveiling new products. >> reporter: let's start with toyota. its prius was the first mainstream hybrid in '97. now critics says it hasn't been aggressive enough with all electric vehicles. it plans to spend $35 billion to introduce 30 new evs by 2030 but that's just under a quarter of the 130 models it makes today.

one research firm, however, says toyota is right not to go all in on electric. it expects that ten years from now half of all new vehicles sold will still be using gasoline because there won't be enough charging capacity. also at apple they'll start selling new versions of its macbook pro laptops and mcminnny later this month featuring its most powerful computer chip to date and finally starting in october, england will ban single use plastic cutlery. it is a good start but think the government should go after the plastic use in food and grocery packaging. back to you. >> all right, steve, thank you, steve. >> thanks. up next serious water woes. why an arizona community is being cut off from the main supply and you can't always avoid migraine triggers like your next period. qulipta® can help prevent migraines. you can't always prevent what's going on outside... ...that's why qulipta® helps what's going on inside. qulipta® gets right to work. in a 3-month study, qulipta® significantly reduced

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an arizona community is concerned about being left in the dust after being cut off from its water supply. scottsdale stopped providing water to people living in the rio verde foothills two weeks ago and now with just days ago until the water runs out they're desperate for answers. here's vaughn hillyard. >> reporter: the water crisis as thousands of residents are about to be left without water. the water war hitting those in the foothills, a small but fast growing area. two weeks ago they stopped the transportation of water making

good on a year's worth of warnings that municipal water supplies were running dry. about 500 homes including some midconstruction now counting down the days until water runs out. >> it's their livelihood. >> we need water now. we can't wait. >> reporter: last week rio verde residents taking their fight from the steps of city hall to the first meeting of the year for the scottsdale city council. >> not too late to do the right thing. within a matter of days our water tanks in our homes will be dry. but this is avoidable. we need scottsdale to process the water. >> reporter: it could be cut off noting developers of rio verde bypassed a state law which on the books would have required them to guarantee a supply of water for the next 100 years but the supply continues to drop. a decades' long treat depleted groundwater sources levering the

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>> reporter: let's bring in ali vitali. congressman torres penned an op-ed for nbc think saying my new co-worker george santos is a distraction and danger to democracy. now, he's a democrat but it's not just democrats saying some things like this. there are republicans speaking out. >> reporter: that's right. kate. not surprising we see democrats attacking santos on these lies and other points of exposure that could put him in legal jeopardy and campaign finance jeopardy but other republicans as well including all of the freshmen members he was elected with from the state of new york, they've all said he should step down including one today who was escalating what he was saying, congressman lalota saying his funds should be frozen. a lot of talk about where the money was coming from and if he was in violation of campaign finance laws. that would be big, more than just inflating a bio and a resume, that's actually legal jeopardy for santos. >> ali, how about speaker

mccarthy? has he said anything about the allegations? >> reporter: for mccarthy he's been happy to have this play out. there is an ethics investigation going on and, of course, all of the other investigations at the state and local level. nevertheless, he is saying he's had some questions about santos' background. >> i always had a few questions about his resume. >> the campaign pretending to be your chief of staff -- >> i didn't know about that. it happened and i know they corrected but i was not notified about that until a later tate. >> reporter: he referenced two things there, the idea that he had questions about santos' resume before the election and also the idea that one of the people on santos' staff at one point impersonated mccarthy's own chief of staff on a call with donors, mccarthy saying there he didn't find out about that until a later day but has talked to santos about it. even still mccarthy one of those key voices in the republican

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good afternoon. i'm here in the nabs bay area newsroom. we're going start in the east bay, where an ace train is finally on the move because it was stuck in a mud slide for hours this morning. witnesses on the ground, on the train also, say mud fell on the train while it was passing nyles canyon road in fremont. the train stayed on the tracks and did not derail. also luckily no one was hurt. just a few moments ago inspectors gave clearance and it is running again. we are told some passengers who didn't want to wait boarded another train back to pleasanton. over the last few weeks along the corridor, landslides closed highway 84 multiple times. more east bay storm coverage, where landslide cleanup continues. landslides hit the area twice in three days. >> a lot of work ahead for crews along st. andrew's road in oakland them specific area hit by two landslides in the span of

three days. now, that first landslide was on saturday morning in this area during the last of the big storms, and then on monday, residents were put cones in this area where you see that they're working on that cleanup. they put cones in that specific pot to keep people from driving through it. another issue is what appears to be a water main break, so it's contributing to more saturation in an area that already has a lot of saturation from the storms. clearly a lot of cleanup ahead. because the hillside is so saturated, concerns for landslides in the area. >> pete, thanks very much. now we have some other stories we want to you know about. president biden is coming to california. san jose police are investigating a new yore's day homicide. but first, storm damage forcing some peninsula famiies out of their homes. take a look.

the relentless rain took out part of a belmont hillside. two homes untagged, unsafe to live in until the city and engineers take care of area. neighbors say this is just one of many small landslides around town. fortunately no one hurt. the city says the road closure is indefinite. san jose police say they've begun a homicide investigation after a man was hit by a car on new year's day. police say they arrested the driver who's accused of hitting the man. police are investigating now the motive. we have new details about president biden's upcoming visit to california. the president will visit the central coast thursday. we'll get an upclose look at the damage for more than two weeks of back-to-back to back storms. the white house announced the trip last night, saying the president plans to meet with first responders and government officials to get a better handen on what federal and government support will be needed. many folks in the bay area

woke up happily to finally find sunshine. let's bring in cari hall for our forecast. >> reporter: take a look at these temperatures. it's going to be chilly. headed for the low to mid 50s for many spots, but at least we do have sunshine. that sunshine stays with us throughout today and gradually we'll start to see clouds moving in tomorrow as the rain first approaches the north bay during the afternoon to evening hours, and this quick round of rain will be sweeping on through late in the evening and clearing out by thursday morning. this could leave us about a quarter to half inch of rain in some spots, but then we go back to some dry weather as we go into the next several days. and it does look nice, but also very chilly, so we'll talk more about what to expect as we go through the next seven days as you make weekend plans. a look at the seven-day forecast is coing up in about 30 minutes. while most of us were trying

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bottom of the hour. here are some stories making headlines on "nbc news daily"? breaking news, brian walshe, the husband of ana walshe has been charged with murder. the district attorney's office made that announcement this afternoon. police have been searching for ana for more than a week now, brian walshe has been in custody since the weekend after he allegedly misled investigators during the search. he could appear in court as early as tomorrow. police in washington state are searching for a suspect who was caught on camera attempting to kidnap a barista through a drive-through window. the auburn police department posted this video on twitter

asking for the public's help in identifying the man. they say he tried to drag her using a looped zip tie device. kevin spacey made an appearance at italy's national museum of cinema. days ago he was in a british courtroom facing sexual assault from the early 2000s. in new mexico a failed republican candidate is the suspect in a series of shootings at the homes of democratic lawmakers. solomon pena was arrested last night. he resoundingly lost his race for the state legislature back in november but he refused to concede claiming the election was rigged. nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard joins us now. what do we know about pena and his connection to these shootings. >> reporter: as the mayor outlined this was not only a conspiracy that put individuals in harm's way but also democracy in harm's way. he is somebody who lost his

november election for the new mexico statehouse by a margin of 74% to 26% and over the course of the next two months he orchestrated, prosecutors allege, four different drive-by shootings in which he paid four individuals to go and fire upon the homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators. i want to let you hear from the mayor himself. >> they essentially discover what had we all feared and what we had suspected that the shootings were, indeed, politically motivated and that has basically been confirmed by this investigation. >> reporter: he himself, the prosecutors allege, even attempted to fire on one of those homes himself but the gun malfunctioned and this is a situation here that led to ultimately the s.w.a.t. team going and taking him into custody yesterday, again, this is an individual who claimed that the election was rigged. he has a felony conviction in

the past and served seven years in prison for burglary. but, of course, yesterday was a clear indication as laid out by prosecutors they believe this individual tried to organize a conspiracy that could have very severely if not killed those four different lawmakers and their family members. >> vaughn hillyard watching that for us, thank you. the nfl playoffs are marching on without tom brady. now the 45-year-old quarterback has a big decision to make about his future. >> his tampa bay buccaneers lost to the dallas cowboys and one of brady's worst postseason performances, the contract of the three-time most valuable player is expiring and now football fans are wondering whether he will suit up again in the fall or retire for real for good. nbc news correspondent morgan chesky is in dallas for us today. so, morgan, what do we know here ask what is he saying about his future in the nfl? >> reporter: yeah, aaron, kate, good afternoon. he's not saying much. kind of feels a little bit like

deja vu whenever we had this conversation about a year ago. he initially announcing that he's going to retire. this time a little bit different. tom not saying much following this loss to the cowboys, the loss that is really a lot of people didn't think would happen just looking at the body of work brady has put together on the football field over the last 23 seasons but it was a defeat for brady and there was no fourth quarter comeback that took place and this is what he had to say following last night's defeat. take a listen. >> what is your process from here when you start to think about what you want to do next, obviously it will be huge -- >> i'll go home and get a good night sleep. one day at a time. we're grateful for everyone's support and, you know, hopefully, you know, i love this organization, it's a great place to be in, thank you, everybody for welcoming me. >> reporter: so he said he loved the buccaneers organization. not necessarily saying he was

coming back, not necessarily saying he was leaving. regardless of what brady chooses he will have some options, fox sports reportedly offering him a deal worth $300 million to join their team as an nfl analyst. if he chooses to keep playing but leaves the bucs there are three or four teams pursuing them, among those the san francisco 49ers. no secret he grew up on the west coast, however, his three kids live on the east coast so lots of decisions to make over the next few day, weeks and months, guys. >> remind us about the eventful year that brady has had on and off the field. a lot of challenges and successes. >> reporter: yeah, kate, eventful for everything but feeble. he took that 11-day break from training camp back before the season even began. not exactly something typical that we've seen tom brady do and then, of course, on october 22nd the divorce from supermodel

gisele bundchen after more than a decade together. those off the field issues, of course, were discussed throughout the season, all while the bucs on the field trying to find a rhythm that obviously ended last night. guy. >> morgan chesky, thank you so much. while we're talking about football it is becoming more and more popular, particularly in some parts of europe. there is actually an american football league in ukraine where soccer is actually the dominant game there and some of the soldiers who played this football say that the camaraderie they've learned has helped them on the battlefield too. here's matt bradley. >> reporter: they say they were war ready. does it prepare you for the

front lines. >> you must attack some position. >> reporter: when grandpa isn't playing linebacker for the kyiv patriots, he's calling plays on the battlefield in back -- bakhmut. >> every second i look concerned and my football brothers actually. >> reporter: that camaraderie is so strong these players wear their football spirit as a badge of honor literal i. you wear this on the front lines. >> yeah. >> there it is. >> reporter: these men are needed more on the front lines than the line of scrimmage. how many of your teammates have been killed or injured in the war? >> oh, this is like actually terrible statistic. seven guys was killed from ulf, like american football players and some of the guys are injured now. >> reporter: while soccer gets the priority here, america's support for ukraine may be

changing the game. but it's not that popular here. >> it's not even not popular. it's lower than not popular. >> but is it growing in popularity. >> yeah, it should be. the word american in the name of the sport was not attractive for ukrainians, but now i think that this mentality will change after this war. >> reporter: their dream is to one day play in america. how do you think the kyiv patriot was do against the new england patriots? >> it's cold like in boston. >> code like here. >> if we play with soccer ball we will win. [ laughter ] >> reporter: but first these players need a big win on the battlefield. matt bradley, nbc news, kyiv, ukraine. >> a new covid subvariant is rapidly spreading across the country. >> a highly contagious strain of the omicron variant and it's now been nicknamed the kraken

according to the cdc it accounts for at least 43% of confirmed cases over the past week. >> scientists say this new covid subvariant could be the most transmissible one yet. here with us now nbc news senior medical correspondent dr. john torres to help us understand. and this is the xbb -- >> 1.5, exactly. >> we've been talking about it for a little while. >> i mean, if you remember the movies we know what the kraken is. it sounds like it's a bad thing. what makes this particular strain of covid different from previous -- >> it gets its name from social media. kraken has risen so fastly like the kraken out of the ocean. this one is becoming dominant. 43%, not quite half but it's going to get there. if you look on the coast particularly on the east coast 83%, 88% in some areas, where i'm from in colorado we're at 20%, not quite there but if it follows the pattern, east coast, west coast and starts in the

center of the country and takes over. the thing is it's more transmissible it can get into your body quicker, it can attach to cells longer and can replicate faster but doesn't make you as sick which is good. >> what does it means in terms of people have had vaccines and covid. are we going to be okay, dr. john, or is there going to be a wave of crack jr. >> there is going to be a wave of this subvariant but the wave and if we look at what happened in singapore, that's one of the nations this first attacked early on, singapore, huge upswing in cases. we don't think we'll get the upswing last year but hospitalizations and deaths didn't change. even though more people got infected not many more people went to the hospital and died. it does have immune evasion meaning it can get around the older vaccines or if you get sick, you know, six eight months ago or earlier you might not have the immune response you need to protect yourself. >> weaver's been looking at the data, the federal data, the

number of people in the hospital for covid is down this winter compared to previous pandemic years. what do you make of the decline in cases we're seeing there especially after so many predicted this holiday surge with the christmas holiday. >> if you look at what's happening a slight surge going up. around 30,000, 40,000 cases up to 50,000, 60,000, 70,000 cases and they did swing up. de we didn't think it would be the 800,000 cases we had last winter when omicron hit but everything went different there but did think there was an upswing. because, again, it does cause more infection but doesn't cause more severity meaning you don't get hospitalized or die from it. that's why you're not seeing the upswing there. if numbers increase it is a percentage game. we'll see more of those as well. >> we were debating in the newsroom what a surge is. like the word surge. >> last three years we've been talking about it. it's very relative to what's going on so we're seeing the numbers going up. not going up as much as before.

>> dr. john torres, we appreciate it. up next, proud as a peacock saluting our colleague kerry sanders as he steps afwra from the (vo) at wells fargo, direct deposits come up to two days early with early pay day.

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>> wow, it is a bittersweet day here at nbc news. after 32 years senior national correspondent kerry sanders is retiring. he has been a constant presence on nbc news broadcasts for neck dades now, no matter the story kerry was covering you knew it was going to be memorable. nbc's savannah guthrie takes a look back. ♪♪ >> reporter: kerry sanders, nbc's resident superhero, crisscrossed the planet at live warp speed. >> tomato fight! >> reporter: but on earth -- >> good morning. >> reporter: -- he was our every man. no ego. >> hey, hey! look it there! woo! >> reporter: no fear. >> i'm not looking down. >> reporter: he was just a guy asking the questions we would have asked.

>> did you know that he had purchased these weapons? >> no, i wish i did know. >> reporter: how he went there. >> this is where the garbage winds up, much of it plastic. >> reporter: one day trekking to the far reaches of the globe and the next -- >> there is more than just cattle. there is a big cat. >> reporter: discovering magic in our own backyards. >> we are headed out to the western -- >> can i say wow? >> yeah. >> how do you feel when you see this plastic? >> standing on our head. [ laughter ] >> reporter: he introduced us to the most wonderful humans. >> it's eerie to be here. >> it is. >> i feel their presence right now. >> and you feel like a young rooster? [ making rooster noises ] >> reporter: characters we never forget. >> are we ready? [ cheers ] >> yeah! >> reporter: and in the field, it was always, why don't we, or i got it, and what if i? hang from a cliff, start in a freezer, broadcast underwater. he pushed the envelope, keeping us all glued. >> we have a baby dolphin here

that has washed ashore. >> reporter: if he were an opera singer he would hit a high c before belting out a bass note. his range that vast. >> and lawyers for trayvon martin -- >> casey anthony. >> students are being urged -- >> incredibly anxious moments. >> reporter: always on top of breaking news. >> this is the third tornado that he has survived at this address. >> whoa! that wind is blowing. >> reporter: he weathered over 100 named storms. >> the military rulers here -- >> reporter: holding his ground during political turmoil. >> the fighting has been fierce for two days. >> reporter: and then there was everything in between. >> and true to his word, in 20 minutes the pizza guy is here. >> reporter: for three decades, day after day, up with the sun and with us after dark, we often wondered when he slept. >> the wonderful wizard of oz. >> reporter: kerry simply never said no. there was too much to discover, too many people to meet, too much to tell. >> one thing that's quite apparent -- >> reporter: just a kid at the

start, he joined team nbc in 1991 but never lost that eagerness, heart and curiosity. and from his first to his very last live shot, it was always clear he loved every minute of it. >> i have already won the jackpot in life. >> reporter: thank you, kerry, for a job well done. >> kerry sanders, nbc news. and so happy that kerry is with me here. my friend, i am sad that you're leaving. what do you think and feel when you watch that? >> i can't believe that i have had this opportunity to go around the world and to tell other people's stories and -- >> and be paid for it. >> and be paid for it and while sometimes it was very trying and scary, just as often it was an exciting and discovery -- a sense of discovery of things i did not know and i feel like

i've been in high school and in even in grade school you get one day that's the greatest day of the year. that's when you get a chance to go on a field trip. i've gun on a field trip for every day at three plus decades at nbc. >> i think that's what people love about you, your sense of discovery and learning you bring on tv. can we do rapid-fire questions? >> yes. >> i do this on the show. so rapid-fire questions. weirdist thing that happened on television. >> when i was standing with a rhino behind me doing an on-camera talking and the rhinoceros with that right up behind me on camera, weirdest thing. >> we've got that clip. don't worry. best advice you ever got? >> if you screw up today, there's always tomorrow. >> tomorrow morning when you wake up what are you going to do? >> it won't be at 5:45 a.m. >> do you have any big plans? >> you know, my plan is because

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i'm chris chmura here in the nbc bay area newsroom. thank you for joining us. so we've gotten some sunshine finally. but those weeks ever rain still have a grip on us. reservoirs are overflowing for the first time in years. near los gatos, water is flowing down the spillway. crowds have even been gathering nearby to watch the water. >> looking at the reservoir is like typically, there is at least the last years that i could remember, there is just feet and feet of rock at the edge. so to see it completely full, it is pretty amazing. >> amazing is one word. santa clara valley water is releasing 3200 gallons per second to make sure it doesn't cause coyote creek to flood. all right, so what is in our weather forecast. let's turn to meteorologist kari hall. >> the sunshine returns today. it is going to be so nice to see. but you'll have to stay bundled up out there. and then tomorrow rain coming in

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