tv Today in the Bay NBC December 15, 2024 7:00am-8:00am PST
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sunday, december 15th. a live look outside in san jose. christmas in the park. wow. a totally different scene. a 180 from what we were seeing at this time yesterday morning. thankfully, that what 65 foot tree is still standing after the torrential rain and winds we saw yesterday. thank you so much for starting your sunday morning with us. i'm kira klapper cinthia pimentel up late last night doing the weather is back with us with a look at our microclimate forecast. what a wild start to the weekend that really just carried on into the afternoon. but yes, much different. this morning we are settling in with some colder air, some patchy fog. you can notice right behind me santa rosa. some of the worst right there with the visibility down to about less than a mile. apart from that, we also have the frost advisory for the north bay, the east bay hills, and down h here into the foothills f the santa clara valley. so just a couple extra minutes to bundle up and get the car warmed up, ready to go. now, speaking of ready to go, today is a cleanup
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day. after the storm that we had yesterday. you'll notice a mix of sun and clouds as we go on into the afternoon. slightly cooler as we go on into later on tonight. i am looking at some more rain in the picture going into our workweek, so we'll time that out for you coming up in about 15 minutes. kira cynthia. thanks. new. this morning, the san francisco fire department is on the scene of a one alarm house fire. this is in the dogpatch neighborhood. it sparked just before six this morning at minnesota and mariposa streets. this is across the street from ucsf children's hospital. firefighters say there is no threat to the hospital. no word on any injuries nor what sparked that fire. good that the hospital is safe. all right, back to the forecast. that ef one tornado that touched down in the santa cruz mountains yesterday afternoon tossed cars and parts of signs and buildings. it happened in scotts valley, which is about eight
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miles inland from santa cruz. the national weather service confirmed it was an ef one tornado, bringing winds of upwards of 90 miles an hour. the tornado didn't last long, but the damage it left behind is significant. we want to give you a look of the damage it caused. power lines, pg&e trucks and crews responding to fix those downed lines and restore power. power is back on for many this morning, but at last check. hundreds of customers are still in the dark and in the cold. the main thoroughfare through scotts valley, mount hermon road, is expected to be cleared and reopened by nine this morning. today in the bay's marianne favro takes us there. my god. holy oh god, oh my god. strong reactions as people left stores to see branches and debris fall from the sky. the national weather service confirms an ef one tornado hit scotts valley at 140 saturday afternoon. this is
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what it looked like. i knew it was something different. it it was wind. i've never, ever seen before. and it hailed minutes later, the aftermath. cars flipped on their sides, including a cal fire truck, and some vehicles picked up and turned upside down. ronan says he walked out of the safeway on mount hermon road to chaos. in the parking lot. you could see the wind starting to swirl and pick up, and then it grabbed a bunch of those branches and you could just see it come right down through the parking lot. some were injured. we had three people that needed to be transported to the hospital. i think we had six injuries in total, one person in critical condition. we also had several vehicles damaged, probably approximately 20 vehicles that were damaged in the incident, as well as six that were had to be hauled away. the tornado uprooted this giant ponderosa
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pine tree, sending it crashing down on scotts valley middle school. using chainsaws. crews worked for hours to carve up the tree and remove the trunk. witnesses say this man was hit in the head with a flying branch as he ran through a parking lot. many businesses were forced to close early because a tornado took out power lines, leaving many in disbelief. a tornado touched down here, but relieved more people weren't hurt. marianne favro today in the bay. another look for you at that twister in the santa cruz mountains yesterday. the national weather service needed a few hours to determine the strength of the tornado, ultimately describing it as an ef one. and here they explain why it's not one of those things that we can really turn around in an hour or two because, you know, you have to find the start point, the end point, and then you also have to, again, you
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know, talk to different people, assess the video data, assess the radar data. and so these of course, the sentiment is tornadoes in the bay area are rare, but they have happened before. we looked at data from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration or noaa. you can see on this map five of the most recent tornadoes in our region that measured at least ef one. the strongest happened back in 1998. on may 4th, a pair of funnel clouds touched down in sunnyvale and los altos. this is a look at some of the aftermath. these photos are from sunnyvale. emergency response volunteers or serve. the funnel clouds brought down trees and power lines, but as you can see, damaged about 50 homes as well as a church. remarkably, there was only one injury no deaths. to san francisco, now a live look. cloudy skies, but not bad compared to 24 hours ago, where people were awoken by their phones notifying of a tornado
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warning. the first ever tornado warning for the city and county of san francisco. the alert also impacted parts of northern and western san mateo county, but the tornado warning was canceled within about 20 minutes. you can see in this video how extremely powerful those winds were that brought down trees and power lines across the city. golden gate park, the panhandle, the richmond today in the bay alyssa goard continues our coverage from san francisco, where cleanup continues into its second day. reporter a rude awakening for san franciscans. early saturday morning. the wind i was howling. i think the windows were howling and that kind of woke us up. and then we checked our phones. just before 6 a.m, people across san francisco and part of san mateo county got an alert from the national weather service. a tornado warning. the alert was canceled shortly after. san francisco's department of emergency management notes there have been a few other tornadoes in theegion over the decades. it is, however, the first time
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that the national weather service has issued an actual tornado warning for san francisco. i wasn't sure if it's like a real thing. considering so many alerts recently, last week, san franciscans, along with the rest of the bay area, were rattled by a tsunami warning that was canceled, too. officials say it's a good reminder to turn on local alerts and to make a plan for what you do in an emergency. though san francisco didn't see a tornado. strong winds toppled trees, downed power lines, and even blew out the roof of this home. as of just 11 a.m. this morning, there were already over 120 storm related emergency calls for service. so we saw a significant number of downed trees, downed electrical equipment. yeah, it does seem like it's happening every year. like trees around this time. like lots of trees falling down in the city. pg&e says trees and debris fell into power lines, damaged equipment and at one point, more than 108,000 customers were impacted. by saturday evening, thousands of
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customers were still in the dark, most of them in the north bay. laura flynn's mill valley home has been without power since saturday morning, and while i'm sure it's weather related because it was nasty, you know, with the wind and the rain, she's been getting by with candlelight and lots of blankets. there's no indication from pg&e as to when it's going to turn back on at all. the utility says its crews are working to restore power for customers as soon as possible. alyssa goard. today in the bay. so we're going to take it from there. thousands of pg&e customers remain in the dark as gusty winds blow through the area. all that green you see there are fewer than 50 customers without power. a little bit of orange. that's anywhere from 500 to 5000 customers without power. as of 10 p.m, more than 20,000 customers were still in the dark. the majority of those outages you see were in the north bay, but now into the peninsula and south bay. in livermore, cars were stranded in
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flood waters. you can see at least two right there in this video at murietta boulevard. it's the undercrossing at stanley boulevard. several roads were closed for hours. murietta didn't reopen until around two yesterday afternoon, when the water finally receded and crews were able to move in and clean things up. authorities say this is a reminder turn around, don't drown. and in the north bay, an hours long shutdown continues. we brought this to you as breaking news yesterday morning, part of highway 121 between sonoma and napa was flooded. the roadway is still closed near the intersection of highway 116. no word on when it might reopen, but this is a great rememinder. our free nbc bay area app is a perfect resource to have during this stormy weather. we have redesigned the weather section. you can scan that qr code on your screen to download it and get weather alerts for your neighborhood. tailor it to what you're interested in, and those
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alerts will get sent straight to your phone. another quake rocking northern california last night. on the c coast, the magnitude 5.2 quake hit off the coast of ferndale. our seismograph here at the station captured the shaking hundreds of miles away. it struck just before 1130 last night. it was initially reported as a 5.4, but later was downgraded to a 5.2. no reports of any injuries nor damage. ten past the hour. we have much more ahead on today in the bay. coming up, we take you live to washington, d.c. for our weekly interview with ksten ri
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could be found after the discovery of another american freed from a syrian prison. please join me in welcoming kristen welker, moderator of meet the press. hi, kristen. great to see you this morning. as always, we've seen people going into those prisons now looking for loved ones. i understand that the tice family has new information in the search for their loved one, their son. and this morning you have an exclusive interview with his mother, deborah. what can you tell us? well, kyra, i was just able to talk to deborah tice. it's an incredibly emotional interview. she talks about the fact that she is more optimistic than ever, that they will be reunited with austin, because with the overthrow of the assad regime, these prisons are being emptied, families are being reunited. and she really feels confident that their turn will come. she also had some really striking comments when i
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asked her about richard engel visiting a prison cell. it's believed that austin tice was held there and seen there in 2022. she says that they can confirm that that was his cell. so really fascinating new information from her today. and again, her message to everyone, to the world is help bring austin home. it's a really powerful conversation here. i cannot wait to see that. i did see that richard engel report of walking down the 26 stairs and turning here, and this was a 100 yard confinement space. we are praying for deborah and their entire tice family. we look forward to that interview. kristen, thank you so much. we hope you join christian for this morning's meet the press. she will have exclusive interviews with senators lindsey graham and bernie sanders, as well as that deborah tice interview that we just mentioned. if you just stick right here with us for today in the bay, meet the press is on at 8 a.m, right after this newscast, and coming up in about
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30 minutes from now, we will talk to nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston for our weekly segment, we'll take a look at how the california legislature is changing. with more women now filling seats. turning now to comedian and actor jamie foxx is recovering after being hurt in a fight on friday night at a restaurant where foxx was celebrating his 57th birthday. police in beverly hills there say it was a physical altercation. no arrests were made. fox's representative says someone threw a glass at the star, hitting him in the mouth. he had to get stitches. this comes just a few days after the release of fox's new netflix special. after all those questions surrounding his health and answers emerge this weekend in the bay area, a health fair is looking to help move the bay area forward. it's an educational program called know your genetic health history. it's being put on by alpha phi
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alpha fraternity. black health matters and alnylam pharceuticals. it's looking to bring awareness to genetic mutations of the teetee gene called hereditary amyloidosis. it's a mutation that can build up in the body and cause a variety of symptoms impacting the heart, the nerves, other organs and tissues. organizers say it's important to know your genetic history. and so we want to spread awareness of this condition, even though it is considered rare. like i said, 1 in 25 african americans carry the genetic mutation for this disease. and so we want to get people to be able to inform themselves, to be knowledgeable and to get the genetic testing once they confer with their doctors to see if ■genetic testing is warranted. it is a free event, but you have to register. you can scan that qr code on your screen. it will be
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today in berkeley at the covenant worship center. again, that's in berkeley at 5 p.m. hundreds of volunteers came together in san francisco for the annual feeding 5000 event. the city's department of public health partners with the san francisco african american faith-based coalition and several other organizations to pull off feeding 5000. but get this instead of feeding 5000 this year, they fed 7000 people. the event began as an experiment during the pandemic, and has since grown into a badge of honor. and that stormy weather we saw yesterday in san francisco didn't dampen the holiday spirit in chinatown. this is the annual b chinatown christmas on waverly. but as you saw, there wasn't on waverly. i had a last minute venue change because of the weather. the festivities moved indoors to victory hall on stockton, but
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still more than a thousand people showed up for the free four hour event. b chinatown treated families to a snow machine. all those games and prizes you see there. plus santa. and don't forget mrs. claus. she is often left out. san francisco fire passed out nearly 1000 toys for kids. these are people who are really underserved, so we just brie sheng thao, you know, glad to have all these volunteers. it's a small token back to the community. among the volunteers. i know that woman, our very own vice president of news here at nbc bay area. stephanie adrian. she was serving up popcorn in that hat there. and san francisco mayor elect daniel leary stopped by as well. if you missed that happening today, a k pop block party taking over downtown hayward. it's for all ages, giving people a chance to experience korean culture, art and entertainment. if you're a korean culture enthusiast or
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want to make some new friends, it's a fun, free event. we have an interactive laser tag experience featuring some elements from squid games and popular show on netflix. and then we also have raffle prizes. wow. the k wave pop up will be set up on kraft pizzeria on foothill boulevard at kraft pizzeria, i should say. there will also be a vendor hall showcasing local businesses and artists. it's happening today from noon until 6 p.m. squid games i feel like that's all you have to say and so many people will show up. time now to check in with cinthia pimentel for a look at our microclimate forecast. i mean, it's not great behind us, but significantly improved from yesterday. and it's going to be dry so people can get out, you know, either clean up mode or do those holiday errands as we go on. this is our final sunday in fall. next weekend will be in winter. so getting busy here right through san rafael. we are looking at some patchy, dense fog this morning. all of that
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cooling going on as well. we start in the low 40s. i see it getting slightly better as we go on into the nine 10:00 hour. we're going to stay in san rafael and highlight that we still have those king tides with us, at least through monday afternoon as we go on and take a look through parts of vallejo as well parts of the east bay shoreline and down here into mountain view, palo alto. so just be careful of that. it's not raining, but we still have those pondi issues to be aware of. if there are signs to stay away, just find another alternate route. we're going to keep the mid to upper 50s up there in the north bay. it will be a cool day behind this front. 57 in the city. we'll do those mid 50s as well out towards livermore for maybe a shopping day. now that it's nice and dry down here into the south bay, we'll get it at 59 in san jose, 60 in gilroy. now, aside from staying dry, you will notice some clouds creeping in as we go on into the second half of the afternoon. and that front starting to approach with our next rainmaker coming in on monday. now, this one won't be
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as crazy as what we saw yesterday, but some more rain in the picture. so if you didn't get a chance to clean all of it up today, we are looking at this to dampen that process as we go on and track that rain that will push on through the morning commute into the north bay, the east bay and the peninsula and the south bay. getting more of that as we go on into the lunchtime hour. and then it's a quick passing system that will leave some cooler air behind it. as far as estimatates go. wre looking at another shot of maybe 2/10 to maybe half an inch of rain as we go on into parts of the north bay. the system from yesterday brought us about 2 to 3, so it's going to be a soggy start to our workweek here. but after that we get into some clearing, settling in into our workweek, which also is trending not only dry but a bit more mild. and then getting into next weekend. officially starting winter, we are looking at another shot of rain here in the bay area. possible sierra snow as people start to get those holiday travel plans in order.
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so watch the 7-day forecast here. we'll go for the patchy frost today into tomorrow, watching that rain in the morning. and then, as i mentioned, slightly warmer into the middle of the week here 60s and going into next weekend, maybe that chance of rain approaching late on into friday. but saturday, as far as right now, models are bringing more of that moisture here into the bay area as we go on and make that countdown to christmas and all the holidays. there's t ten days left, everybody. oh my gosh, i'm not ready. all right cynthia, thanks. 22 past the hour. much more ahead on today in the bay. coming up. did you see it? a new heisman trophy winner has been crowned. see who took it home. plus the sharks hosting utah at the shark tank. all sports highlights. next.
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straight there to the second period mikael granlund scoring sharks going up by one. and then in the third period utah unfortunately tying it up 3 to 3. then with less than 45 seconds left in the third utah hockey club scores again. and that is your final 4 to 3 utah. the sharks currently are seventh in their division with 11 wins, 17 losses. the 2024 heisman award goes to travis. hunter. colorado's travis hunter, the winner of the 2024 heisman trophy. college football's mos prestigious individual award. he is the first honoree in more than two decades to play significant roles on both offense and defense. he's a two way player. hunter says he will enter the nfl draft following colorado's season. i think their last game is coming up. he's in
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the top five for the nfl with the niners essentially out of the playoff picture, their focus can now shift to the 2025 season, and that includes questions of job security for the team's longtime coach. despite all that, that went wrong this season, san francisco is sticking with coach kyle shanahan. that's according to a report by the athletic. the report claims that while this has been the niners worst season since 2020, the organization fully believes in shanahan's ability to lead the team moving forward. fingers crossed for next season. 26 past the hour. much more ahead on today in the bay. coming up. cleanup underway across the bay area, but especially here. tornado ravaged santa cruz mountains. we have a look at the destruction left behind. plus, president elect donald trump and some of his cabinet selections attend the army-navy game yesterday. the support they're gathering in hopes to get cabinet
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good morning. it is sunday, december 15th. a live look outside in san jose. our intrepid director, aaron kaufman, searched every camera we have. and this is the only sunshine he could find this morning, so we wanted to bring it your way. thank you so much for starting your sunday morning with us. i'm kira klapper cinthia pimentel has a not so sunny. quick look at our microclimate forecast. but hey, we'll take it. it's better than yesterday. i went in the opposite direction and i searched for where that dense fog was. after we got that clearing late last night. will that allowed for that fog to develop as we went on and woke up this morning really bad right now through parts of the north bay, around highway four into the east bay. and of course, that dense fog advisory into
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parts of the central valley. not only that, but we have some very cold numbers to start with this morning, 33 in calistoga under that frost advisory continues through parts of the tri-valley, 38 in danville right now. and we come down here into the south bay. we're looking at 37 in south san jose. there's that beautiful sunrise. once again, we'll get into a dry day today. cleanup mode for some people. but as we get ready for the next workweek, there is more rain in that forecast as we go on into tomorrow and maybe into those early holiday travel plans. i'll walk you through that coming up in about ten minutes. kira. all right, cynthia, thanks. new this morning. we continue to follow that warehouse fire in san francisco's dogpatch neighborhood. we just learned moments ago that the sf fire department now has that fire contained. it sparked just before 6:00 this morning at minnesota and mariposa streets at a two story warehouse. this is across the street from ucsf children's hospital. but firefighters say there never was
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a threat to the hospital. the cause of that fire now under investigation. back to that weather, that tornado that touched down in the santa cruz mountains yesterday, tossing cars, debris across scotts valley, which is about eight miles inland from santa cruz. the tornado hit at 140 yesterday afternoon and the main thoroughfare through scotts valley, mount hermon road, was a mess, but it is expected to reopen by nine this morning. oh my god. okay. oh my god oh my god. wow. that video showing what it was like to drive through those winds as they tore through the area. the national weather service confirmed it was an ef one tornado, bringing winds of upwards of 90 miles an hour. when the tornado hit people we found at the target parking lot say there were big tree branches and debris from
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trees raining down on them. power lines, as you might imagine, were taking out cars and that entire truck flipped on its side, including that cal fire truck. some vehicles picked up and turned completely upside down. you saw there. look at that twister. we know at least one person was critically injured. we just spoke with scotts valley vice mayor derek timm, who gave us an update on how many people were hurt. but i believe we do not. we had three people that needed to be transported to the hospital. i think we had six injuries in total, one person in critical condition. we also had several vehicles damaged, probably approximately 20 vehicles that were damaged in the incident, as well as six that were had to be hauled away. we also heard from witnesses, see that man there holding an ice pack on his head? he was hit with debris. many businesses were forced to close early because the tornado took down the powerer lines. power is
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out. hundreds of people still without power this morning. here's another angle a look at that twister in the santa cruz mountains. the national weather service explained why they needed a few hours to determine the strength of the tornado. here's what they told us. it's not one of those things that we can really turn around in an hour or two because, you know, you have to find the start point, the end point, and then you also have to, again, you know, talk to different people, assess the video data, assess the radar data. and so these things can take. so right. tornadoes are rare in the bay area. but they have happened before if you can believe it. we looked at data from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa, as it's known. you can see on this map five of the most recent tornadoes in our region that measured at least an ef one. the strongest happened way back in 1998. on may 4th, a pair of funnel clouds touched down in
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sunnyvale and los altos. this is a look at some of the aftermath. the photos, thanks to sunnyvale emergency response volunteers or serve the funnel clouds brought down trees and power lines, damaging about 50 homes and one church. remarkably, there was only one injury. no deaths. now back to san francisco, where all is quiet. but yesterday, around 6 a.m, people in san francisco and parts of the peninsula were awoken by their phones and told to brace for the possibility of a tornado. the powerful winds from the storm triggered the first ever tornado warning in san francisco. no tornadoes actually formed, but wow, those winds created plenty to clean up. look at this aftermath in golden gate park. massive trees torn out of the ground. even without a tornado, the gusty winds gave people plenty to worry about. i went upstairs, far from the window, and the
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wind was so intense. crews, as you might imagine, spent all day cleaning up trees, fixing power lines across the city. and day two continues today. speaking of day two, thousands of people remain without power. in the dark, in the cold, because of the gusty winds that blew through the bay yesterday. all that green is about 50 customers without power and orange. there's plenty of it 500 to 5000 customers without power. the majority of the outages from the north bay all the way down to the south bay. and as we always seem to say, rain here in the bay area this time of year means snow in the sierra. this weekend was no exception. some places received as much as 18in all of that snow, causing danrous conditions for drivers. good for people who were already there. chains are required on both i-80 and highway 50 where it's still snowing. we found some people
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caught in the blizzard conditions on i-80. they pulled off to wait for things to improve, and they were optimistic about things. we were driving. we were having a great time. we're playing music, and then all of a sudden blizzard, a whole blizzard. and we were just stuck and no one knew what to do. we were trying to turn around, and then our car was sliding back and forth. it was scary. it was like got progressively worse the more you got up the mountain. those girls were very well dressed, apparently on their way to a music festival. the chp is urging drivers not to travel to tahoe unless it is absolutely necessary. while you're still here, our free nbc bay area app is a great resource to have during all the storms we are anticipating. as winter arrives next week, we've redesigned the weather section. it's more accurate than the weather app on your iphone. just scan that qr code on your screen to download it, and you'll receive weather alerts sent straight to you. an
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investigation is underway after a san francisco police officer hit and killed a pedestrian. it happened around six yesterday morning in the area of bayshore boulevard and industrial street. it's not clear how the crash unfolded, but police say the officer hit a man who later died at the hospital. the officer was not hurt, and a follow up to that story we brought to you yesterday morning a very welcome development in the case of that teenager kidnaped from san jose. police now say 17 year old yazmin carrera bravo has been found safe. we're told investigators have alsoound this suspect, 25 year old noah pimentel. police tell us he forced the 17 year old fm her home on friday night. he then hit a woman who tried to intervene. he hit her with his car before he drove off again. yasmin bravo has been found safe. the suspect is now in
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custody. president elect donald trump brought politics to the football field for yesterday's army-navy game, with a very public show of support for some of his embattled cabinet nominees. nbc's aaron gilchrist reports. three as a tradition, president elect donald trump making a cameo at the annual army-navy football game, surrounded by the house speaker and the incoming vice president and senate majority leader and some of his more controversial cabinet picks. tulsi gabbard, trump's choice for national intelligence director, and pete hegseth, the former fox news host and army national guard veteran who trump chose for secretary of defense a high profile show of support for hegseth, whose selection has been challenged by allegations of excessive drinking and sexual assault, both of which he denies. trump previously confirming his support for hegseth in an interview last week with nbc's kristen welker. do you still have confidence in
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pete hegseth? yes, i do. i really do. he's a very smart guy. trump's renewed backing a boost for hegseth, who has spent many days since his selection in one on one sessions with senators he will need to win over. and court filings showing a settlement has been reached between abc and abc news anchor george stephanopoulos and president elect trump. abc agreeing to make a $15 million donation to a future trump presidential foundation and museum, pay $1 million to cover legal fees, and publish a statement of regret to settle a defamation lawsuit trump filed against abc, abc news and stephanopoulos in march. stephanopoulos said on air that trump had been found liable for rape in the e! jean carroll case, when in fact trump had been found civilly liable for sexual abuse. that was aaron gilchrist reporting for us 40 past the hour right now. still to come on today in the bay christmas tree makers get this say if tariffs are put on mexico and china, the prices of fake trees will go up. our scott
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our exclusive mobile doppler radar. they're on top of san bruno mountain. getting a little bit of a break this morning after a wild start to our weekend, but we noticed some dense fog right there through the peninsula, also carrying it through parts of the north bay. and we're seeing some drizzle right there on our camera lens, and it is much colder up there. 39. 39 in walnut creek as well, with some patchy clouds that we're noticing through the east bay. and that gorgeous sunrise down here in san jose. i've got you at 43 to start our morning. we should start to clear out of some of that fog at around 910 this morning into the afternoon, middle part of it. we should get a peak of that sunshine going into drying mode and cleanup mode for people. hopefully you get your power back on. i do wish that for you. if you lost it yesterday in that storm into the afternoon, we will see a slightly cooler day, mainly mid
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to upper 50s for our region. with that late rain chance on the way as we go on and get our week started ahead here. i see it rolling on in first into the north bay as we go on and start to get those early commuters on the road sweeping on through the east bay, the peninsula andnto the south bay as we go on mid morning. it's not going to be as strong as what we dealt with yesterday, but let's be prepared for this one as we start to get the day going again. that cleanup process and getting the windshield wipers going, the umbrellas, we're not putting those away just yet. there will be a chance, though, to dry out behind monday's rain and look at our ten day forecast as we go on into san jose. actually going to boost up the temperatures a little bit as the rain stays away through our workweek here. but then going into the weekend. different story as we line up to get that holiday travel started going into next weekend. i see another shot of rain possible here as we go on into saturday, first day of winter, and maybe
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even into the start of that holiday week there on the 23rd for that monday. now our 7-day forecast for our inland valleys. watch out for that patchy fog and frost this morning. also, the weather service was warning of some really slick roads there as we get that melting on the surface. but then into the middle part of the week, that looks better than what we're starting with the rain, and then we'll end it with the rain again next weekend. all right. good to have that. heads up, cynthia. thanks. 44 past
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go to place across the country. for those looking to buy a realistic, artificial christmas tree. it's a peninsula based company and our own. scott mcgrew spoke with the ceo about how prices will be impacted if president elect donald trump places new tariffs on mexico and china. good morning, matt harmon
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and i connect every december to talk about the business of christmas trees, whether it's supply chain or inflation or in this case, tariffs. redwood city's balsam hill is one of the top manufacturers of artificial trees. if you see a tv show or a hallmark movie, it is almost certainly a balsam hill christmas tree. now they're expensive and they're going to get more expensive. if those tariffs threatened by the incoming trump administration go through. balsam hill did move some of its manufacturer from china to mexico after the trump white house renegotiated nafta back in 2018, but now the company expects that factory to will face tariffs on the campaign trail. mr. trump has long claimed that foreign countries pay american tariffs, but that's simpl not true. here's a clip with my conversation with matt harmon. china is not paying that tariff. is that correct? that's correct. if there is a tariff, we get charged that tariff on the price
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we pay for the goods that come from, say, china. and so, as an example, if there is a 10% tariff levied, balsam hill will pay all of that to the us government. i don't know where it goes after we pay it to the us government, but we pay it to the us government. and then we have calculated for us to kind of stay in business and make the same amount of profit we would need to raise our prices. unfortunately to you, the consumer, 9%, matt harmon coming up, is my guest. just in a little bit on press here right after meet the press. we'll also take a look at the huge growth in blue sky as an alternative to the growing toxicity of other social networks. scott mcgrew press here is a dvr worthy if you can't watch it at nine. all right, now to the california state legislature. it is changing. after the novemember election, which was just about a month ago. women are just one seat away from having an equal amount of legislators. as men in the 120 member body. women
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actually now have a majority in the california state senate, but they fall short in the state assembly, at least for now. nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston is here. hi, larry. good morning. as a woman, i love to hear this. tell me about it. it's a good news story. we've had enough of the other stuff, right? so let's talk about something good as we get out of this year. look, you know, the california legislature is a very unusual legislature in lots of ways. for one thing, we have term limits. the most restrictive term limits program in the country. as far as the 50 states go, that means that our legislators can be there for only in this case 12 years, and then they're out just like that. they're gone. well, with term limits you have turnover. and that means that lots of people who otherwise would not have considered running for the legislature do so because there's going to be changed openings. okay. and women have been greatly impacted by this to the extent that they have taken advantage of this opportunity and gained considerably in terms of the state legislature's representation. so we've got this little chart for you to look at, and you can see what's
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happened here. it's absolutely amazing. look, from 1989, percent of the legislature was women to 2024, almost 50% one seat short. cure this in just 44 years. it's absolutely amazing to see how quickly this has happened. wow. and california of course across the country known as, you know, a barrier breaking state, for better or worse. how people might see that. how does the presence of women in our state legislature compare to other states? i would assume we're at the top, but we're not. we're we're near the top. i think it's nevada. nevada is number one. we've got it here for you, too. nevada is number one. california is now five. but it's really clustered with the other 3 or 3 states to be very close to that second spot. but it's just changed so much. and look at this in comparison with the five lowest states. you know, all southern states, by the way, all in the teens mostly. and i mean, it's absolutely amazing. they're all
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by the way, these are all part time legislatures. california, remember, is a full time legislature which also increases the importance of the state. it's a $291 million billion dollar budget. $291 billion. and that's why it's full time and that's why it's so important. but we are now near the top. and i suspect that the way things have gone over the last few years, we will be very close to the top in the next couple of years. it's quite an amazing change. yeah. and of course representation is important in government. so, you know, voices can be heard. but what makes this, does this make this more important? i assume it would. you know, we've got all these rungs, rungs in politically speaking. you know, when you're running for office, you start out sometimes at the town council or the boardrd of education important to themselves, and you run up maybe to state legislature. that's what we're talking about here. and then maybe beyond that, we took a look at the 13 women who are in the state to run congress right now. seven of those women,
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seven of those women stopped for stays in the state legislature along the way. it's a place where you cut your teeth, so to speak. you learn about budget making in a big in a big way. you learn about policy making. and then from there, you run up to the house of representatives. seven of the 13 were formerly members of the california state legislature. so it shows you how important it is as a building block to be part of this institution, the state legislature. it's not like her state legislatures. it's like a country. and so these folks are learning a lot here. and then going up to the top, right? i mean, we have one of the top five fifth largest economy in the world, just california. all right, larry, thanks so much as always. great to see you. 52 past the hour right now. up next, a quick look at our top stories, including a live look at scotts valley and the santa cruz mountains after a tornado touched down
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harlem has everything. but i couldn't find pilates anywhere. so i started my own studio. and with the right help, i can make this place i love even better. earn up to 5% cash back on business essentials with the chase ink business cash card from chase for business. it was brief, but the damage will take long to repair. the ef one tornado brought winds upwards of 90 miles an hour. we have a live look for you now at that main thoroughfare in scotts valley. this is off of mount hermon road. after cleanup pg&e repairs, it is expected to reopen around nine this morning. but we have a crew there, as you can see, and we will continue to
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monitor the progress there. the tornado took down massive trees. look at this one. a huge ponderosa pine sending it slamming down onto the roof of scotts valley middle middle school. chainsaw crews worked for hours carving up the tree, removing the trunk. miraculously, no reports of injuries from that. when the tornado hit, power lines were taken out. cars were flipped on their sides, including a cal fire truck. some vehicles were completely picked up and turned upside down. we know at least one person was critically injured. thousands of pg&e customers remain in the dark and the cold. this morning. the green and the orange are seeing and the. and the yellow. upwards of 5000 people without power. 5000 customers without power. this morning. we will continue to monitor the progress as pg&e heads out. today they were monitoring the storm to see when it would be safe for their crews to come out. cynthia has one
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last look at the forecast before we go. and it is a cold one, so hopefully everybody gets that power back. we're also watching the frost for today and the rain that returns tomorrow. we'll time it out all morning long. of course. all right cynthia, thanks. and thanks so much to all of you for making us a part of your sunday morning know, 5 or 6 p.m. news t tonight.nstead, it is football night in america right here on nbc bay area. the green bay packers at the seattle seahawks on sunday night football. we'll have a special edition newscast right after that. and then we're back again at 11 p.m. until then, you can always stay up to date on nbcbayarea.com. are you back with the forecast tonight? no, no. okay. break a break from yesterday. thank goodness. we hope you have a great sunday. stay safe, warm and dry. we'd love to
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