at six strong winds, knocking down a tree in berkeley. we're going to show you the damage done to this neighborhood overnight. plus an overnight

wreck during a crash investigation. a suspected drunk driver slams into multiple patrol cars. new details on the close call for first responders. i can tell you that this is one of the last people you'd think would do something like this. charged with murder. the suspect wanted in the deadly shooting of a health insurance ceo is arrested after a lengthy manhunt. the new information we have this morning about his ties to the bay area. this is today in the bay. good morning to you. on this tuesday, i'm marcus washington, and i'm laura garcia. so we begin with breaking news out of the east bay, where strong winds caused a redwood tree to come crashing down into someone's home. it happened on eunice near spruce street. the tree also clipped the roof of a neighboring home, but no one was injured. first responders are calling it a reminder to make sure your trees are trimmed and in good shape.

with this soon arrival of winter. now let's turn to meteorologist kari hall. how are conditions looking right now? yeah, most of us are feeling a calm wind, but i did see some of the peak wind gusts around grizzly peak up to about 49mph. while the valleys are feeling a calm wind. the temperature is dropping and we'll have a frost advisory in effect until 9:00 this morning. and then becoming sunny. increasing clouds tomorrow. and then we are looking at rain in the forecast starting on thursday, along with king tides ahead of the weekend. and as we start out right now, it is a very cold and we're also seeing some patchy fog as our high temperatures head for the upper 50s. it will be cooler than it was yesterday. and mike, you have a closure on 101. yes. i need our friends to look at the screen. folks, let me give you a map of the entire bay where there's not a lot of sensor reads that look unusual until we zoom in to this portion of the peninsula. if you're heading to or past sfo from the peninsula, keep this in mind. north 101 is closed and will

remain closed for a period of time just north of 380. folks are having to get off the freeway around the south san francisco exit. you can use airport boulevard to get around your way. if you have to go to sfo, pick up someone, or drop someone off. you can use san mateo avenue as an alternate along city streets, but that will get very crowded over the next half hour. 280 is a much better route if you're going from south bay up into san francisco. meanwhile, the rest of the east bay shows a pretty standard pattern. back to you. thanks, mike. well, new overnight, a huge scare for police officers at the scene of a deadly crash in pittsburgh. suddenly, a car plows into the crash scene. they were investigating, and they nearly became victims themselves. today in the bay's kris sanchez. look. okay, so, kris, we do know that that driver now in custody. yes. there is one driver in custody. that driver under arrest on suspicion of being drunk behind the wheel when she slammed into three pittsburgh police patrol cars. the officers were at the scene of a deadly solo crash that happened around 7:00 last night on east leland road between loveridge road and

gladstone drive in pittsburgh. they were about five hours into that investigation, and though it was dark, the patrol cars were parked with their flashing lights on. as you can see, there were reflective barricades blocking the roadway. and yet a driver appeared to run a traffic light and plowed into those three patrol cars. we were able to manage traffic for the first 5.5 hours. we were out here without anybody running through the barricade. this last vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed than was safe for the roadway, and didn't see, for whatever reason, didn't see the barricade or the police cars with their emergency equipment on. now, the captain said that the driver did show visible signs of impairment at the scene and was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. that crash and the original crash are under investigation. the original crash did damage a pg&e pole which knocked out power. at this point, it looks like there's only one customer

impacted, but the captain did not mention whether the power outage might have affected that stoplight that the suspected dui driver ran. marcus. all right. chris. thank you. well, it was an observant fast food worker being credited for ending one of the longest man or. largest, i should say, manhunts in years. this also led to the arrest of the shooter and or the possible shooter in united healthcare's ceo. so new york city prosecutors, they have already charged 26 year old luigi mangione with murder. he is now awaiting his extradition. now, authorities in pennsylvania arrested him yesterday as he sat eating breakfast at a mcdonald's in altoona. police say that officers also discovered a ghost gun, similar to the one used in the killing of ceo brian thompson, and other evidence tied to the investigation, including fake ids and a three page manifesto. the suspect now facing five criminal counts, including murder. university of pennsylvania saying that he graduated in 2020 with bachelor's and master's degrees

in computer science. police are saying that his last known address was in hawaii. well, san francisco standard reporting that the suspect's mother last month reported him missing to san francisco police. but his bay area ties went deeper than that and include a job once held at stanford. our investigative reporter, candice nguyen, is really digging deeper into those details. stanford confirms that about five years ago, a person named luigi mangione was a head counselor for their university. social media pictures appear to show mangione with several other counselors in stanford in 2019. now, this is a part of that facebook group photo. you're looking at mangione. his facebook page has since been taken down. stanford told me today a luigi mangione was employed with them from may to about september 2019, with stanford pre-collegiate students program. we wanted to learn more about this stanford program. what is it and what did mangione do there? according to their website, it's a summer program for promising high school students. it gives them a sense

of what it's like to be at stanford. mangione's linkedin profile shows he specialized as an artificial intelligence teaching assistant, teaching these students about ai. it also says he supervised more than a dozen of these students as a residential counselor, and led other counselors. mangione's linkedin shows more recently, he was working at a company called truecar in santa monica in southern california. he started there in october 2022. now, that's a company that helps car buyers with research and pricing transparency. mangione was a full time level three data engineer there. a truecar spokesperson told me he parted ways with them in 2023. it's unclear why. candice nguyen, nbc bay area we investigate. 607 right now, jurors in san francisco today will continue their deliberations over the fate of nima momeni. he is facing a single count of murder in the stabbing death of cash app co-founder bob lee in april of 2023. his attorneys claim he

stabbed lee in self-defense after lee brandished a knife. while prosecutors argue the dna on the knife handle is almost entirely momentous. if jurors cannot reach a consensus on the murder charge, they can consider a lesser charge of second degree murder. voluntary manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter. and when the jury reaches a decisio, we'll break into programing to bring you that verdict. we'll also send a breaking news alert on our nbc bay area app, along with complete coverage that you can find at nbcbayarea.com. anxious families in san francisco are expected to learn tonight how school leaders plan to close a massive budget shortfall. board members are trying to slice more than $100 million from the budget through cutting more than 500 jobs. until recently, school closures were in the works, but the new superintendent took that plan off the table with the idea of creating a budget stabilization plan that includes incentives for early retirement. board members are scheduled to vote on

that plan during tonight's meeting. 608 for you this morning. let's take a live look out at christmas in the park in san jose. beautiful shot there to start out our tuesday morning. now, if you step outside without that coat, it might be another story. meteorologist kari hall has been tracking those temperatures that we've been experiencing across the bay area. cold. it is cold. and the coldest morning of the week. most likely as we are starting out with 30s a low 40s. we've even made it down to 29 in santa rosa right now. and it's 52 in san francisco. so you can see the range and temperatures that we're starting with. and the breezy winds through parts of the delta as well as into the central valley, along with the fog as our temperatures there start out with low 40s. we are freezing in morgan hill right now with the clear sky as we go throughout the morning. we'll see temperatures in the 30s through 8:00 and the rest of the day sunny and gradually warming, eventually making it into the upper 60s, which is one of the warmer spots on the map here. so

we'll be tracking all the changes and also giving you an update on the incoming rain in a few minutes. looking at gas prices, mike, where are they? a little bit lower. we're doing our best to check. but you know, we have old reliable livermore still in the top ten, but only these two we talked about at 319. that's the bay's lowest. continuing at the two marathons. the one on holmes and the one on south livermore avenue in livermore, then in san francisco, our low there is 349 in the middle here. take a quick stop at speedway on cesar chavez street, then the bottom number. we'll talk about south bay. the low there is 369. a number of different places. we'll call out cupertino, cupertino, car wash on north de anza boulevard, and you can check wherever you are or wherever you're headed. gasbuddy.com onto the roadways. we have mostly calm drives, but two very serious situations. north 101, just north of the airport, 101 is still closed because of an investigation. turned out there was a pedestrian on the roadway. now it's an investigation for a fatality. so it s should bebout 7:00, i believe, when the

coroner's investigation may be completed. find your alternates. airport boulevard, san mateo avenue will get you past the local streets. 280 will get you well past that scene without any slowing on the freeway itself. then from the east bay, everything seems to be normal except for north of the carquinez bridge, eastbound 80. we heard this earlier crash is now an investigation for a fatality as well. this will counter commute cause slowing through american canyon. back to you. thanks, mike. it is 610 right now negotiating a deal. the a's are long gone. so what's going to happen with the coliseum? coming up next on today in the bay. the debate is set for tonight as ownership for the oakland ballpark remains in limbo. and google announces a super cool new computer. actually, it's super cold out to the futures this morning. we've kind of had a pause on our year end rally. oracle shares under a lot of pressure. mixed market to start. plus stick around because we're going to introduce you to san francisco zoo's newest furry friends. you don't want to miss

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614. we are taking a live look outside in palo alto. it's a clear start here and very chilly. it's down to 41 degrees now and throughout the day we will see a gradual warm up, a

mix of sun and clouds and overall a pretty nice one as we head back to the low 60s. rain eventually returns. we'll talk about that coming up in a few minutes. and here's the backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. that is a typical slow spot. atypical. we're also tracking a closure for north 101 near sfo and another northbound 80 or eastbound 80, i should say, around american canyon. we'll talk about those major crashes coming up. well, good morning and very happy tuesday to you. bytedance, the company that owns tiktok, wants the u.s. supreme court to step in and block the law that will require it to sell tiktok or shut tiktok down. now, that doesn't mean the u.s. supreme court is going to take the case. we'll see. reddit says it will create a service where you can ask it questions, and it will answer based on its millions of postings using ai. google, with the huge development it's created, the fastest quantum computer chip ever. here's a look at the full computer. they call it willow.

now, you might wonder if quantum chips work on a subatomic level. why is this thing so big? well, truthfully, it's mostly a refrigerator. you have to make qubits really, really cold for them to work. and what can this thing do? well, it can solve a math problem that would take a regular supercomputer ten septillion years to solve. ten septillion years is more time than the entire age of the universe. a lot more. moments ago, schmidt sciences the foundation created by the former google ceo, announced a multi-million dollar research grant to top scientists studying ai yeijin choi among them. she's currently a professor at the university of washington, but stanford has stolen her away. other news canadian prime minister justin trudeau says canada will place a 25% tariff on all american goods if donald trump goes through with his promise to tax canadian goods. trudeau warning a trade war between two friendly free

trading countries will raise prices for everybody. americans, he said, are beginning to wake up to the reality that tariffs on everything from canada would make life a lot more expensive. i was speaking, in fact, to a manufactururer of arficial christmas trees in redwood city who said, if america goes through with the massive tariffs on materials from mexico and china and canada, they have factories in mexico and china, the cost of your christmas tree is going to go up by a lot. we use equipment. we have some machines that cost millions of dollars and are the size of a football field. like that is not something you can just pick up and you can't even put it on a truck, right? you have to disassemble it like it's a huge investment of millions of dollars. and a factory that makes christmas trees is like a 50 to $100 million investment. and so those are slower to move. now we have actually moved and we have some of ourr production outside of china now in asia. and so that's an investment decision. we made years ago in anticipation of potential tariffs. because we understand,

you know, there are reasons to diversify the supply chain. and we sort of saw where this was going. but we can't do everything there overnight. it's going to take time. i asked mack where was he got all that stuff behind him. he was at the hallmark movie christmas festival in kansas city. he knows my girlfriend likes hallmark movies. he's like, ge on a plane, get over here. you can meet all the hallmark stars. you could be like a lumberjack or something that was. see, that's the problem. i don't want her. my girlfriend. meet the lumberjack who has the puppy. that's because it's just. it's a hallmark movie. all over that guy. i'm that guy. i'd be the one in the big city with the big business. i got very busy. you're right. too busy for your girlfriend. busy? okay, well, you go make time for it right now, but stick around. we might have more for you to do. the magic of christmas starring scott mcgrew all right, i'm tuning in. right. i get my green sweater. okay. 618 for you right now, let's take a live look over at the oakland coliseum and

happening today, alameda county supervisors are expected to pick up that debate on the looming sale of the property of the african american sports entertainment group. now, with the ownership group awaiting finalization of the deal, payments remain on hold for the city of oakland, and that's been a sticking point in oakland with the resolving of its own budget crunch. all sides remain confident about the deal eventually being finalized. striking san francisco hotel workers are trying to send a message to people invited to a large health care conference planned for next month. they're saying, don't bother coming. about 2500 workers at half a dozen hotels are involved in what is now a long and bitter stalemate over a new contract. and the next month, the jp morgan healthcare conference is scheduled to be held at the westin saint francis hotel. union leaders are now trying to advise people the conference will not run smoothly if the strike remains in effect. marriott owns the saint francis and has so far not commented. jp morgan declined to comment as

well. 619 trending this morning there's a new quartet in town and they're fluffier than most. yeah, it's not the team here. okay, so san francisco jews just welcome these young male baby doll sheep. they are two pairs of brothers. the zoo says that baby doll sheep are small in stature, but big in personality. kind of like us. well, i guess i'm not that small, but, you know, kind of like us. they went extinct after the late 1980s, but seeing a recent resurgence, their visitors can stop by the zoo to see them very soon. okay, little baby dolls. at first i thought, why do they have farm animals at the zoo? but it makes sense now. it does in the city, not seeing, you know, sheep going from extinct. that's more than a resurgence. that's a complete comeback. hey, baby doll, there we go. there you go. go see him. but bundle up. it gets cold there. yeah, they got need. yeah, they they've got, they've got their own insulation. right. we need that too. we're starting out this

morning with temperatures below freezing in parts of the bay. and then a frost advisory is in effect for a lot of the inland valleys until 9:00 this morning. and then rain chances increasing, starting on thursday, off and on rain and the return of king tides. here's a live look outside in san jose. this morning as the sun comes up. it's going to be clear for the next several hours at 41 right nonow, and it is going toe very chilly through about 9:00 and then starting to get a little bit better. but we do need some layers for the day as we start out cold. it will be a nice and mild afternoon with mid 60s even upper 60s for the south county. parts of the east bay won't be as warm as it was yesterday due to that central valley tule fog that lingers a little bit longer and that's going to keep those temperatures from rising throughout the next several hours. looking ahead, this is the storm system that's remained off the coast and will start to move in as we go into the day tomorrow, as well as

thursday when the rain begins. so we're starting to see that rain moving closer to the pacific northwest. and it's going to be in and out of here fairly quickly. a brief break before another storm system rolls in. right behind that. and we're going to enter into a very active storm pattern here going into next week with waves of rain in the forecast. even just this weekend, we're looking at the possibility of parts of the north bay. those gray shadings for northern sonoma county. that could be six inches of rainfall. and then for the areas in pink and purple, that's 2 to 3in of rain. san jose could possibly see 1 to 2in of rain, and the sierra is going to get a decent amount of snowfall this weekend with about 1 to 2ft between the weekend and monday. so we're going to start to see things cranking up here. cooler temperatures coming in for those highs and then off and on. rain in the forecast through next week, at least for today. it's still sunny and nice with highs

in the low to mid 60s. mike you've got two traffic alerts. yeah the first one is on the peninsula. heads up. if you're heading to or past sfo 101 is blocked north of 380. all lanes are blocked due to an investigation after a death on the freeway. folks heading to sfo have to get off of the freeway anyway, like everybody else around south san francisco. exit. you can use airport boulevard as your option. getting past the scene, take 280. a much clearer route along the peninsula. the second incident, the alert is eastbound, so getting away from the carquinez bridge on i-80, you have one lane open at american canyon. there's also investigation of a deadly crash there. be careful. back to you. good to know. thanks, mike. 622 right now on the comeback trail up next olympics legend lindsey vonn making her return to competitive skiing. we're going to hear from her. on how she's feeling about her first race in years plus. hey, there it is. day four of the 12 days of christmas snack mix edition, and i give you three bites. i bet you saw these all over your feed over thanksgiving. i know that i

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all right. we've got a lot more ahead for you at 630, including strong winds causing trouble right here in the bay area, but also down south in malibu. a dangerous wildfire burning out of control. we're tracking that containment effort right now. and evacuations as those flames inch closer to homes. plus, emerging details tie san francisco and the bay area to the young man accused and arrested of gunning down unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson will tell you what those ties are when we return. stay with us. you're watching

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during the season of audi sales event. news right now at 630. strong winds wreaking havoc across california here in the bay area. a tree came crashing down into a home overnight. we're tracking the conditions will likely face for the rest of the day. plus, down in southern california, firefighters battling this wildfire that exploded in size overnight in malibu. t evacuation order is in effect right now for hundreds of homes. plus, a manhunt ends for the gunman wanted in the deadly shooting of a health insurance ceo. he's now being charged with murder. the new details being revealed about the ivy league graduate with bay area ties. this is today in the bay. good tuesday morning to you. thanks

for joining us. i'm laura garcia. and i'm marcus washington. we want to start with some breaking news this morning for you. strong winds playing a lot of havoc there overnight in berkeley. in one case, first responders. they say that the redwood tree crashed down into someone's home. take a look at this. this happened on eunice. this is near spruce street. you can see the damage from the front deck there. the tree also clipped the roof of a neighboring home. luckily, no one was injured. elsewhere, a large branch fell on top of a tree. this is a pic fell on top of a pickup truck on mlk way. this is near cedar street. it's also partially blocked that road. first responders are saying that. look, this is a reminder to make sure that your trees are trimmed and in good shape once the arrival of winter comes. also breaking now in southern california, firefighters battling an exploding wildfire near pepperdine college in malibu. these are live. look at the flames right now. an aerial view from our sister station

helicopter. the fire itself started a little before 11:00 last night. and as of this morning, nearly 2000 acres have burned. 6000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders, and pepperdine students are being told to shelter in place with those flames burning dangerously close to campus. meteorologist kari hall has been tracking the conditions there for firefighters are also dealing with these santa ana winds that we know can be so strong in that region. yes. so those are the very strong winds that go downslope and kind of funnel through some of the mountains and blow offshore and can create some very explosive fire weather conditions. and that prompted the national weather service to issue a very rare pds red flag warning. that's a particularly dangerous situation where we could see any fires that do start spread so rapidly. and that's what we are seeing now with the franklin fire. this will be in effect until 2:00. those downslope winds may peak at 50 to 80mph. and as of right

now, we are seeing some of those winds gusting in that area. and even at this afternoon from 5:00 to 6:00, we're still looking at some gusty winds. so unfortunately it may make it very hard for them to try to get some containment for that fire that's right there around malibu. as we start out this morning, we are seeing a fairly calm wind, a clear sky, and the temperature right now in san jose is at 41 degrees. it is a cold start and will be a slightly cooler day compared to the past couple of days. we'll talk about the changes coming up. but mike, you're tracking a freeway closure near sfo. that's right. so even though the conditions are calm and fine right now, we've had two major crashes going on this morning. north 101 is still blocked. all lanes are closed just north of 380. that's right near sfo. if you're heading to the to the airport, you can exit at south san francisco exit. use airport boulevard to get to the scene. san mateo avenue will take you past, but 280 is a much clearer

roe if you're heading into the city from the peninsula. meanwhile, heading in through the north bay, away from the carquinez bridge, eastbound 80 does have one lane open through american canyon. there is a deadly crash there as well early morning. and so we have the coroner heading to the scene. should be about another hour until they can clear those eastbound lanes. meanwhile, your commute directions throughout the east bay and north bay looking pretty standard. back to you. thank you very much, mike. it is 634 right now and developing this morning as the ivy league graduate accused of murdering a united health care ceo, brian thompson awaits extradition. surprising new details are emerging about his background, and it includes ties to the bay area. today in the bay's ginger conejero saab joins us live this morning. and ginger, it seems like there's always a bay area tie. i understand he worked here about five years ago. that's right. laura stanford confirms that 26 year old luigi mangione worked as a head counselor in its pre-collegiate studies program back in 2019. now, police are

also saying that he has ties to san francisco, the san francisco standard reporting that his mother reported him missing to sfpd last month. but this morning, authorities are still piecing together more answers. now, police arrested mangione yesterday in altoona, pennsylvania, at a mcdonald's that is about 280 miles west of new w york. he eluded them for almost a week now. officers say he was sitting eating breakfast when an employee spotted him and called authorities and when they asked him if he had recently been to new york, police say he became, quote, quiet and started to shake. they then later discovered a gun and a silencer, similar to the one used in the shooting. they also recovered a handwritten document they believe speaks to his motivation and mindset. mangione is now awaiting extradition from pennsylvania. court records show he is facing five counts, including one count of murder.

now, in a statement, the mangione family says, quote, unfortunately, we cannot comment on news reports regarding luigi mangione. we only know what we have read in the media. our family is shocked and devastated by luigi's arrest. we offer our prayers to the family of brian thompson, and we ask people to pray for all involved. we are devastated by this news now. friends say mangione was the valedictorian at his all boys prep school in baltimore before graduating from the university of pennsylvania with a bachelor's and a master's in computer science. news of mangione's arrest is shocking those who knew him. there was nothing came off weird about him. he had great friends. he had a lot of female friends as well. he was a relatively unassuming kid. he was down to earth. he was smart, well adjusted socially. he was at least a two sport athlete. from what i can remember, and he really had everything going for him. our candace nguyen and our

investigative unit has delved deeper into his ties to the bay area. you can find more on that on our website at nbcbayarea.com. for now, we're live in san francisco. ginger conejero saab. today in the bay. not your typical suspect. all right. thank you very much, ginger. well, happening today, a man investigators say shot and killed his coworker at a vta bus yard is scheduled to enter a plea back in september. san jose police say a 33 year old bus operator killed his fellow driver. it happened at a vta yard on south seventh street in san jose. investigators later determined that shooting may have sprung from a gambling debt. that hearing is scheduled to happen this morning. alameda county leaders today they plan to lay out what comes next in replacing recalled district attorney pamela price. the interim for now is roy roberts. he took charge once price vacated the office last thursday, and he'll keep the reins until supervisors name a

permanent replacement. if all goes according to plan, a permanent replacement should be in place by the end of january, and voters will elect the next da in november of 2026. 638 on your tuesday morning. whoa, look at that sunrise. that's beautiful. i know we've had some nice ones lately. it's been clear out there, but it is a cold start once again to the day. kari got a look at our temperatures. it is nice, but very chilly. and you probably even feel that before you flip back the covers, it's going to be a very cold start. even below freezing in parts of the north bay, we're seeing the temperature in santa rosa now down to 29 degrees, and it is 49. in hayward. so you can see the range that we're starting our day with. and as we are looking at the visibility, fog has been kind of creeping into the delta and some of the inland areas, some of the low lying areas, and that's where we are also going to see slightly cooler temperatures compared to yesterday, as that fog will be slow to clear. but elsewhere we

have sunshine and highs headed for the 60s. mike, you're still tracking two traffic alerts i do. we have two traffic alerts. let's give you the big overview. south bay standards slowing. east bay six 8880 still building. and so is the san mateo bridge. standard pattern first alert here. north 101, just north of sfo. all lanes are blocked, but the coroner has arrived on scene. we're told they can do their examination and hopefully they'll have two lanes open north 101. but that does indicate that this is a deadly incident that's going on. and that's why the traffic is forced off. right now at your south san francisco exit. 280 will take you past that scene and into san francisco. meanwhile, your commute, it's eastbound 80. it only has one lane open at american canyon. this is a deadly crash as well, traveling through solano county away from the carquinez bridge. your commute is the opposite direction, and that is looking pretty standard, though. coming through the north bay highway 37. in the east bay, we now have the build and slowing southbound 680 in toward walnut creek. back to you. thanks, mike. after two

years in the dark, the bay bridge lighting up once again, still ahead. how soon the iconic light display could be back on display, and lots of names to talk about in washington as president elect trump tries to fill his cabinet. plus, i'm not your friend or anything. you think that you're the man. i think therefore i am. billie eilish taking the stage, but not without putting her own flair on things. so we're going to tell you about the major changes fans can expect when they step inside sap tonight. keep it right here. we'll be right back. are you talking about get my namout of youre

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involving oakland mayor sheng thao. the east bay times reports members of a bay area family at the center of the scandal are named in a new motion filed by prosecutors. fbi raids in june included the search of two homes owned by members of the dewan fami. they own cal waste solutions, which holds the city's recycling contract. a new filing suggests the family helped support the town's mayoral run, with the expectation of receiving lucrative government contracts for their own company. the same filing also alludes to secret payments made by callaway solutions and a separate security company to help boost her candidacy. neither tao nor

the dong family responded to the times request for comment. well, a group of scientists are telling the senate do not confirm robert kennedy jr. scott mcgrew not just any scientist. we're talking about nobel prize winning scientist. and more than 75 of them. so all of them opposed to rfk jr running the department of health and human services. remember, rfk has tried to link vaccines to autism. that link was disproven years ago. he worries 5g cell signals can control your brain. in the letter to the senate encouraging senators to turn down kennedy's name, which was first obtained by the new york times, it's the first of a time. a group of nobel laureates has gotten involved in such a direct way in politics. trump is nominating a whole group of controversial people to his cabinet and other positions. pete hegseth is hoping to be defense secretary. you remember his own mother accused him of abusing women. those women, though she later retracted that.

one of the key republican senators standing in his way. joni ernst, now indicating she will at least listen to testimony at a confirmation hearing. that is a big step in her home state of iowa. her own party is running ads putting pressure on her to approve. we're putting the warfighters first. that's what donald trump asked me to do. the deep state is trying to stop his nomination, but pete isn't backing down. call your senator today and urge them to confirm pete hegseth for secretary of defense. tulsi gabbard, also meeting with senators gabbard up for director of national intelligence, despite concerns she often repeats kremlin talking points. here's lindsey graham shortly after their meeting. we'll see. but were you satisfied with her answers on those topics? she's going to get back with me. we had a very good meeting, and i'm inclined. well, let's see what the answers are. speculation is the reason lara trump stepped down as the head

of the republican party over the weekend, is she wants to be the next senator from florida. florida governor ron desantis will have to appoint a new senator to replace marco rubio, who will likely become the secretary of state. president elect also named bay area attoey harmeet dhillon, assistant attorney general. she's a longtime official with the california republican party and at one point served in the california assembly and california's adam schiff. meantime, just became a u.s. senator. most new senators will be sworn in later, but schiff won a special election to fill the seat vacated by the late dianne feinstein. fellow californian vice president harris did the honors. enjoy. enjoy t thisoment. enjoy this moment. and thank you in advance for all the work you're going to do there, but all the work you've done. i've had some big shoes to fill here. i know, be strong. be well. president biden will speak later today at the brookings institute about the

economy. biden is the only president so far to see job growth in every month of his presidency. marcus. interesting. all right. thanks, scott. well, this morning, you can get one last look at lafayette's long shuttered park. theater crews are set to start the renovation next month. today, visitors can tour the theater on golden gate way. the iconic marquee tower. and meet the team behind those plans. that theater, built in 1941 and was forced to shut down in 2005. but it's set to reopen next year. i'm the bad guy. i'm. billie eilish, kicking off her two night stay at sap in san jose tonight. caltrans says a special billy car will depart from san francisco to san jose, where riders can win free merch, and sap says it will make its menu fully vegan and vegetarian. like her own diet. why not?

exactly. maybe it'll change some taste buds out there. now trending this morning as well. bay bridge lights display. it's all coming back. oh, yeah. so look. workers just kicked off installation and installing 50,000 led lights on the western side of the bridge. it's organized by a nonprofit, illuminate, which first installed those lights at the bay bridge over ten years ago. the bay bridge lights display originally went dark last march because lack of funding. you'll start seeing those lights display early next year. very cool. it's always pretty bad. i was hoping they'd be done sooner, because we had a problem with one of our strings of lights at our house. oh, you got to go climb and find that one. i'll take this, and i'll bring it back after the new year. yes. all right. a lot of displays out there, which is nice to see. it is beautiful, but you may not be able to see much of that this weekend as rain comes in. so you may find yourself inside a little bit more. we have a lot of changes coming our way. it

starts out with a clear sky and cold temperatures this morning. a frost advisory in effect until 9:00 for many of our inland valleys. and then by thursday, rain chances will return and we'll see off and on rain into the weekend. as well as the king tides affecting some of the coastal areas and parts of the bay. starting on friday, coming at the same time that we're finally seeing high pressure moving out of the way, that's what's kept it dry and warmer an normal. but going into the weekend, we are going to see the arrival of this next storm system that will bring in some off and on rain starting on thursday. this is round of rain number one on thursday. a brief break on friday and then take a look at saturday's forecast, with possibly some heavier rain and some more gusty winds. and then on sunday into monday, another storm system coming in. you can see them one after another. that may make it quite busy here. as we approach the christmas holiday. and for rain just this week into monday,

we're looking at the possibility of seeing see the shades of gray there? that's six inches of rainfall for northern sonoma county. and then the shades of pink that we're seeing is about 2 to 3in of rainfall. that includes the east bay as well as the peninsula. the south bay may see 1 to 2in of rainfall. that's all this weekend, with two storm systems coming in, and the sierra could possibly see about a foot to possibly two feet of snow into early next week. so as we take a look at the changes in our 7-day forecast, we are going to have our temperatures nice and mild today for the afternoon. cooling down quickly tonight, and it will be cooler for the next few days and rain and clouds arriving on thursday. mike, you were looking for some of those lanes to reopen? yeah, i'm thinking maybe in the next half hour north past the airport there. north 101 is still blocked though, for all lanes as the coroner conducts the investigation. on highway 101

northbound, just north of 380, there may be another crash in the backup. use caution. you're going to come up on a lot of folks who are stopped up as you're passing by sfo again, airport boulevard. you get there on surface streets that will get you to the airport, but there will be delays for you if you're going past the airport, take 280. we still have only one lane open eastbound 88 american canyon that's heading away from the carquinez bridge into the north bay. everything south of there looking standard patterns. back to you. thank you very much, mike. happening now, the search is on for a new san bruno police chief. the current chief, ryan johansen, announced he's leaving after five years leading the department and nearly two decades on the force. johansen is taking a new role as the chief of police in apex, north carolina. johansen's last day is february 23rd. san bruno now begins a nationwide search, and we're back in just minutes with a look at our top stories this morning, including strong winds knocking down a tree in berkeley. we're going to show you the damage done to this neighborhood overnight. but first here's hoda. coming up on

today, we're going behind the scenes of the holiday shopping rush this morning. vicky nguyen is taking us inside one of the nation's largest and busiest ups hubs. plus, the key deadlines to meet if you want your gifts to arrive on time. we'll have that and a lot more a little

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welcome back. we are moving you forward with a look at the top stories on today in the bay. first, we want to continue following that breaking news this morning. strong winds wreaking havoc overnight in berkeley. in one case here, first responders say that this redwood tree crashed down into someone's home. this is on eunice near spruce street. that tree also clipped the roof of a neighboring home. luckily, no one was hurt. breaking news right now in southern california live look from the skies above

malibu, where a wildfire is exploding in size. this morning. it's fanned by the notorious santa ana winds. it's burning out of control, very close to pepperdine university. the fire started last night a little before 11 p.m, and as of this morning, it has burned somewhere around 2000 acres. so far, no number on the damage, buteams at our sister station have seen at least two homes go up in flames. some 6000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders, and pepperdine university students are being told to shelter in place with the flames burning dangerously close to campus. this morning, a suspected drunk driver in the east bay has been arrested. police say that that driver smashed into three police patrol cars parked in a deadly accident. now the deadly one car crash happened last night around seven in pittsburgh. some four hours later, police say the drunk driver plowed through the barriers into three patrol cars. all were empty at the time. the

driver is not seriously hurt, but she was arrested at the scene. the ivy league graduate accused of murdering unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson is now awaiting extradition to new york city from pennsylvania. it follows his arrest yesterday in pennsylvania, where an observant fast food worker is being credited for alerting altoona police. new york city prosecutors meantime, have already charged 26 year old luigi mangione with murder. police say officers discovered a ghost gun similar to the one used in the shooting and other evidence tied to the investigation, including fake ids and a three page manifesto. here in the bay area. meantime, stanford university is confirming the suspect worked at the school in 2019 as a head counselor for its pre-collegiate studies program. more recently, according to the san francisco standards, his mother reported him missing to san francisco police last month. well, this morning, jurors in san francisco continue their deliberations over the fate of nima momeni.

he's facing a single count of murder in the stabbing death of cash app co-founder bob lee. this was back in april of 2023. now, his attorneys claim that he stabbed lee in self-defense after lee brandished a knife. prosecutors argue the dna on the knife handle is almost entirely momentos, and when that jury reaches the decision, we will break into programing, bringing you that verdict. we will also send out breaking news alert on our nbc bay area app, along with complete coverage over at nbcbayarea.com. 658. the today show just moments away. however, for more local news, stay with today in the bay. streaming on roku, pluto and other platforms. ahead at 8:00. the major impact the recent financial aid fiasco is having on enrollment at bay area universities. all right, let's get a look outside at those cold temperatures. yes, it is very cold. we've even seen some below freezing temperature. patchy frost for the inland valleys, but it will warm up into the low 60s for parts of the south bay and south county this afternoon, and rain starting on thursday. the

conditions are okay for driving, but the driving is very tough with the closure of north 101 continuing just north of the airport, just past 380. they're investigating a death on the freeway. a pedestrian this morning. and so that will remain until the coroner completes the investigation there. another deadly. this is a crash. eastbound 80, getting away from the carquinez bridge. you're restricted down to one lane through american canyon, away into the north bay. good to know. all right. well, that's what's happening today in the bay. stick around, because today's show is next. we leave you this morning with a beautiful sunrise over the east bay in the bay area this morning. bundle up before you head out the door. we thank you so much for joining us. have a great tuesday. good tuesday morning. we're following breaking news overnight on that brazen shooting here in new york. >> the suspect in custody facing a long list of charges. it's december 10th. this is "today."