tornado touches down in scotts valley. a look at the damage and

the cleanup plus. without the ground based truth, without a spotter report, you know someone from the ground literally sending us a picture or calling the office. we have no way of telling if it's actually on the ground. a lack of warning. this morning we are getting answers from the national weather service as to why a tornado warning was not sent out to santa cruz county residents ahead of the rare weather event and awaiting his sentence. deliberations for nina nima momeni set to resume today. this is jurors way the first degree murder charge he's facing for killing cashapp founder bob lee. this is today in the bay. well, a very good monday morning to you, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew, and i'm ginger conejero saab. laura and marcus have the morning off. it is that week kicking off. really the holiday spirit. but we're going to get a we're going to get a look at the traffic. that holiday traffic

has the spirit. but firste're going to take a look at that forecast with meteorologist kari hall. it's been so busy here in the weather department. i mean yeah, those storms over the weekend. and now we're tracking a new storm system arriving in the bay area, bringing more rain to the already saturated north bay. and we're seeing some pretty widespread rain here. and there are some pockets of some heavy rain that we're seeing just north of santa rosa, as well as parts of northern napa county. as we get a closer look, we can see the rain is coming down from bodega bay to santa rosa and extending over toward yountville and farther to the north, as well as down to petaluma and now approaching novato. this is a part of the next storm system that will be in and out of here quickly. that's the good thing, is that we're not expxpecting ts to have a major impact. opening up the picture, we can see there's still several more storms developing out in the pacific, but a lot of them will take a more northerly turn and avoid the bay area after today. so we are going to see this wave of

rain coming through over the next couple of hours. by 9 to 10:00, it is still raining across much of the north bay and into the south bay, but by 430 during that evening commute, we're expecting things to clear out. so we will have several more hours of this rain, more wet weather coming in. to start out the week, we'll be tracking what to expect for the rest of the week coming up. but mike, you've been seeing some police activity. yeah, that's the one blip on the radar right now. we do expect things to lighten up after the last hurrah for the work traffic, probably tomorrow and wednesday. but right now, light traffic as we expect. the issue is on 280 southbound. i've been watching this for about a half hour. police activity declared right around westboro boulevard. you see that a number of lanes, three lanes, perhaps are impacted by an unspecified activity. we're tracking that in the newsroom. but you do see the slow drive on 280 south coming through that portion of south san francisco. over here, 101 is completely clear. so is el camino. so you do have your options if you want to avoid

that highway 35 as well, coming through that portion of the bay, a smooth drive. there may be a crash around san pablo and we see some fog. that's a note for highway four and for 580. back to you. all right, mike, thanks. well, the cleanup continues in scotts valley from the rare tornado over the weekend, which left one person critically injured. the tornado was an ef one that is small by comparison, maybe to what they see back east, but still a tornado. new video capturing its force traveled about 30 yards across part of downtown scotts valley, sending a lot of debris flying through the air. flipped cars upside down, damaged businesses. some business owners belie the damage was not worse. we were worried about the business and you know, you couldn't get here because the power lines were down, power was off, you couldn't figigure outhat was going on. and, you know, again, you never expect something like a tornado to hit. tornado also damaged a classroom at scotts valley middle school. a pine tree fell on the roof. that classroom will be closed today, but schoollill go on as

planned. well, this morning, san francisco is still cleaning up after saturday's storm brought down a lot of trees in the city. so. nbc bay area's bob redell joins us live from downtown. and bob, over the weekend, the national weather service had its first ever tornado warning for san francisco. good morning, scott and ginger. you are correct. this was a first in recorded weather history here in the city of san francisco, because that incoming storm on saturday was so turbulent. that morning, the natnal weather service did issue its first ever tornado warning for san francisco, something that is common in places like the midwest, but unheard of here in the city. later that day, meteorologist dalton beringer, who works out of the weather services office in monterey, he came up to sf to investigate whether a tornado had in fact touched down here. and even though there was a lot of storm damage, he concluded there was no tornado that touched down in the city because of the way the trees here fell. they didn't

fall in a pattern indicative of tornado activity. now they ended up rushing. the meteorologist ended up rushing to scotts valley, where, as you mentioned, that tornado did actually touch down and cause serious damage. now, we asked why was a tornado warning issued for san francisco and not for scotts valley and santa cruz county? with the lack of ground verification and just taken into account what had happened earlier in the day, and having the knowledge from us surveying that the tornado actually didn't touch down in san francisco, i think that kind of prompted, you know, a little hesitancy. now, the city of san francisco is still cleaning up after saturday's storm, with reports of trees down in places like golden gate park, the presidio, the richmond district, the mission and bernal heights, among other locations. reporting live here in sf bob redell. today in the bay. thanks a lot, bob. well, still at work. pg&e crews working to try to restore power to some neighborhoods, which went dark during

saturday's storm. as of last night, the utility was reporting about 3500 outages. that is down from about 17,000 outages just 24 hours ago. now here's a live look at pg&e. s outage map. you can see most of the outages are concentrated on the west side of the bay. the lack of any orange dots also suggests that none of the outages is a large scale at this time. a yellow dot indicates anywhere from 50 to 500 customers impacted. jurors resumed deliberations today in the murder trial of nima momeni. he is accused in the deadly stabbing of cash app founder bob lee in san francisco. seventh day of deliberations. jurors weighing first degree murder charges. but if they cannot reach a consensus on that charge, they can still consider lesser charges. the jury last met on thursday. they are scheduled to reconvene at 130 this afternoon. now, once there is a verdict, of course we will

break into programing. send an alert on our nbc bay area news app. our full coverage will include expert analysis on the jury's decision as well. all right. live outt in san franciso this morning, where it is a sort of cloudy day. i can see the shine there. kerry joins us now. hi, kerry. yeah, we are clouds over san francisco and also the rain approaching. it is just to the north of us. so as we take a look at storm ranger, we are seeing the waves of heavier rain still well, to the north, but affecting the north bay commute. and we're going to see that continuing for several more hours as the storm system arrives. it won't be as strong as the storm we had over the weekend, but still affecting us after. we're still trying to clean up from that strong storm that is now pushed to the south. so as we take a look from our emeryville camera across the bay bridge and into san francisco, right now we're at 48 degrees and expect the rain to begin at about 7:00. so we will see a

couple of more dry hours for your commute. if you're up early and about to head out the door. but then we'll continue to see the rain into late morning as well as the afternoon, and we could pick up another half of an inch of rainfall to three quarters of an inch from mill valley to oakland, as well as san francisco into the tri-valley. that's where we're expecting the higher rainfall totals, about a quarter of an inch possible for los gatos, and 3/10 of an inch of rain possible for san jose. it will reach morgan hill a little bit later and then continue to weaken, so we're not expecting as much rain in the south county, but we'll talk about all of the impacts that we're expecting and what's ahead for the rest of the week. mike has a look at where we can get some gas for a little bit less. yeah. today's best ties the best in the bay in livermore. we've been talking about that all for the last two weeks, but we're going to call out the same price. 329 the best in livermore, the best in contra costa county as well, to call it concord ultra on clayton road. again, the best prices are starting to creep down in many

spots. san francisco has a number at 339. we'll call it speedway on cesar chavez. and then in the south bay, the like over here. 367 so just $0.02 cheaper than friday. that's at a number of spots. will point out santa clara's diamond gas and market on warburton avenue. you check out the changes. hopefully they're favorable near you. gasbuddy.com pretty favorable traffic conditions. a little fog over near the delta and over in the east bay. and that's one police incident on 280 southbound around westborough. but here, the golden gate bridge looks beautiful. and no fog in this shot. that's a nice treat. back to you. sounds good. thanks a lot, mike. well, new options could be coming for apple users. ahead on today in the bay, the way the silicon valley giant is looking to rev up its iphone sales. also helping disadvantaged youth in the bay area. the way the 49ers are stepping in and helping teens boost their writing skills in and out of school. stay wit

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buy one line of unlimited, get one free for a year with xfinity mobile. and see “wicked,” in theaters now. right now at 512. if you're about to step out the door in san jose, don't forget the umbrella. even though it is dry right now, we will see the return of rain coming in at about 9:00 and getting heavier at 10:00, and kind of off and on, at least into the early afternoon. this is the last wave of rain before we get a chance to really dry out this week. we'll talk more about that coming up in our full microclimate forecast. and what are we looking at here? 680 in

walnut creek, light traffic. but you're also looking at some fog that might make things look a little differently in your morning drive. plan on slowing down just a bit. if you need to see things a little better, we'll check out how things are looking in the business world. let's check in with pippa. good morning. wall street is set to open slightly higher on this final full trading week of the year. the market's losing some momentum last week as the dow extended its losing streak to seven straight weeks, and the s&p snapped a three week winning streak. but the nasdaq did buck the trend, grinding out a small gain in focus this week. data on housing inflation and gdp. the federal reserve also holds its final policy meeting of the year, with the decision due on wednesday. the fed is widely expected to cut interest rates by another quarter point. meantime, bitcoin is surging, hitting a record high above $106,000 overnight. the move coming after president elect donald trump suggests that he plans to create a u.s. strategic

reserve for the cryptocurrency, similar to the stockpile for crude oil. investors are also getting a lift from microstrategy, as the software firm turned crypto buyer will be added to the nasdaq 100 index today. bitcoin has rallied more than 50% since the november election, and apple is working on a number of major design and format changes to the iphone and other products as it tries to jumpstart sales. the wall street journal reports that starting next year, the company plans to launch an iphone that will be thinner than current models and is intended to be cheaper than the pro models. apple is also planning two foldable devices. the larger one would have a screen that unfolds to be as large as some desktop monitors at about 19in, and a smaller model would unfold to a display that's larger than an iphone 16 pro max. i guess scott and ginger that will be on the shopping list for next year. that's huge. i know. i was just going to say it flips 19in. that's cool. w. well you're

right, start saving up right now. thanks a lot, pippa. well, new this morning. a milestone for one of the bay area's largest nonprofits. well, they're helping write a new chapter to support disadvantaged youth in san francisco. the 49ers foundation is creating its first ever legacy beneficiary based in the city, teaming up with a group called 826 valencia. the group focuses on students in elementary through high school, boosting their writing skills and inspiring them to write. foundation leaders say each year it will dedicate $100,000 in funding and operating support to empower bay area youth. when you step into 8.26 valencia, you are transformed into this different universe where reading and creativity and expressionism is embraced. and so we hope that our funding will be able to kind of continue that and to be able to provide more opportunities for the students in the city. the money will help boost the

group's writing centers and programs spread across the city. now, this is the foundation's first formal partnership with a san francisco nonprofit. but for years, it's been involved in supporting city based youth enterprises. mike and kerry join us now. 516 on your monday morning. we're going to get rain on this commute. yeah, it looks pretty soggy in the north bay. we're already seeing that rain coming down. other areas out ahead of that rain. it's foggy, so it's kind of hard to see right now as we take a live look outside in walnut creek, where we've seen the dense fog drifting in through the east bay. we're down to a quarter mile visibility in livermore and one mile in concord, and it's going to be foggy where we are seeing the rain. also hard to see. so it's kind of a very slow morning commute. or at least you should allow some extra time to get there to slow down. we are going to see this rain that's covering the north bay eventually move its way into solano county within the next hour, and then beginning to pick

up for marin county as well. we're able to track this all with storm ranger. you have the same tool if you have the. nbc bay area app. you can click on the storm ranger icon and actually see exactly what our radar is picking up on. and we could see the reds and the yellows there in the north bay, indicating some heavier rain just north of santa rosa, as well as in parts of northern napa county. so we're going to see this picking up in intensity as it moves in, lasting for a few hours. and once again, we've been talking about how many storms we've had recently, how the ground is already saturated, there are more storms out there, but the storm track will start to lift to the north and will give us a break. so that's some good news. looking ahead for the rest of the week and our temperatures starting out chilly only in the low 40s right now for palo alto and walnut creek, it's 43 degrees 48 in san francisco, and the timeline of the rain for the rest of the bay area begins to pick up. during that main morning commute, 7 to 8:00, and then by 830 9:00, it's

moving into san jose as well as partrts of the south county. and then look at 415, 430 this afternoon. it's still cloudy, but at least the rain will be letting up and it's going to be a chilly day. so as you're standing in front of the closet getting dressed, lots of layers definitely. and make sure you grab that umbrella on the way out. as our temperatures today only make it into the low to mid 50s for the north bay, we will see a high of about 59. in san jose. that's one of the warmer spots. so we're all staying in the 50s, but looking a little bit warmer tomorrow. and that's going to be the trend as we go throughout the week. warming up, feeling nicer. upper 60s for the south bay by midweek. so that's going to be nice to have. and speaking of the cold weather, it is definitely very chilly in the sierra where we're getting another 2 to 5in of snow, very slick up there and they have at times had to close the roads or definitely have those chain controls in effect throughout the week. we are all dry all the

way up to saturday. now i know that's a busy shopping day right ahead of the christmas holiday, we are going to see some waves of rain coming in and potentially some more after that as we get closer to christmas. so we will have a few days of a break from the rain activity from tomorrow through friday, and then watching saturday for some more wet weather. and mike, you're saying we may have a traffic break coming? yeah, lots going on on this map, even though mostly green sensors now here through san pablo, westbound 80, the upper east shore freeway commute direction may have a quick traffic break to move a vehicle involved in an earlier crash. we have a little slowing on highway 3 right on schedule, as you would expect. here's some of that rain showing the wet pavement and the green highlight. kari talked about that and also some fog over here. so do note highway 4 across the bay bridge and north of there as well. coming off the cordelia junction now getting in through the city is fine. south of the city it's 280 southbound. the police activity continues to block a number of your right lanes heading south, but the fast lane is open at westborough and it looks like traffic is at

least getting through past the scene. watch those flashing lights and give as much space as you can as you're passing by that activity. everything else outside of that one patch of the peninsula is looking great. back to you. all right, mike, thanks. innovation at your service. still ahead on today in the bay. the way one local hospital is turning to ai powered robots to help their patients. a quick reminder our nourishing neighbors drive is underway. it's an easy way to help families in need this holiday season. i'm sure you've been asked at your local safeway. you know you can donate $10 at the checkout. we hope you will. that money benefits bay area food bank serving hundreds of thousands of people. this all

obesity rates are dropping in the u.s. that drop, medical researchers say, is attributed in part to a rise in the use of weight loss drugs like ozempic. however, the findings indicate other medications or factors such as the effects of the pandemic could also have played a role. the most significant weight loss decreases were found in the south, particularly among women ages 66 to 75, while providing the best care for their communities is a priority for health care. there are some tasks we can take doctors and nurses away from patients. robots have been used to schedule delery tasks for years, but a nurse at el camino

asked if robots could be used to guide patients from place to place. turns out the answer is yes. there are a number of tasks, both scheduled and on demand, for which robots and ai can be helpful. some of the hospital staff say it's quite unexpected. patients are very nervous when they arrive at the hospital, especially for a procedure for, you know, it's serious business. and so as a patient arrives, having a robot engage with them and be part of their day is almost a fun distraction for them. they often are chuckling and laughing and saying, wow, i never would have thought that would be available. we live in the future. they're finding robots. ai can help them predict needs based on patient data and create notes and records. and as they listen along. well, a new program, aims aims to get more californians on e-bikes and help our climate in crisis. the california e-bike incentive project will start accepting applications this

wednesday. that goal is making green transportation affordable to all. applicants need to verify their household income, which is less than $45,000 for individuals and less than about $94,000 for a family of four. they can qualifyor a voucher good for about $1,700 for buying a new e-bike. nearly 400 retailers throughout california will accept these vouchers. not a bad idea before the christmas holiday. that's right. you want to make. although we have a lot of teenagers in our neighborhood who are driving them like motorcycles. so be careful, parents. give them a helmet. at least a helmet. all right. sermon over. next. top stories we're following today, including christmas. only a week away. tsa agents gearing up for a busy holiday travel season. we have tips on how to correctly pack gifts and food in your carry on and checked bags. and it is all dry here in santa cruz county. and that is good news because there is a lot of cleanup still

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week is shaping up. also, new details in the killing of insurance. unitedhealth ceo brian thompson. what we're learning about a possible extradition, which could send the suspect back to new york. this is today in the bay. and a good monday morning i'm ginger conejero. and i'm scott mcgrew. laura and marcus have the day off. a lot to get to this morning. we begin with storm coverage cleanup underway in santa cruz couy, where people were shocked by a tornado on saturday. today in the bay's kris sanchez joins us live from scotts valley with what's happening kris what's going on? that was definitely a shocker. well, i'll tell you, there's still a lot of talk about this twister. so unusual for santa cruz county. and the cleanup continues today as the tornado did make a wreck of things here. i'm at one of the shopping centers that was hardest hit, but it hit homes as well. it sounded like an earthquake. it

was a big bang. boom. it sounded on this wall. and then the house shook and it sounded like an earthquake. i thought we were hit with an earthquake, but it wasn't. that's 86 year old carlene larue. the tornado tore off part of her roof on her mobile home. she found it a couple blocks away. now, during that ef1 tornado, tree branches and other debris fell on people outside, and at least one person in a car was pulled out and suffered critical injuries. two other people also went to the hospital, but they were treated and released. now, after the storm, people were shocked, but also in the dark because that twister took out power lines as well. we were worried about the business and you know, you couldn't get here because the power lines were down, power was off, you couldn't figure out what was going on. and, you know, again, you never expect something like a tornado to hit. some good news. although a tree did fall on scotts valley middle

school, it only damaged one classroom. so class is still in session for this last week before the holiday. by the way, you might have gotten if you live in san francisco, you might have gotten a tornado warning there as well, but that one didn't materialize like it did here in scotts valley in scotts valley. kris sanchez today in the bay. pretty scary to wake up saturday morning to that warning. very strange. yeah. another storm bringing rain to the bay. let's turn to meteorologist kari hall. who's got more of that? yeah. you don't have to worry about rumbles of thunder or crazy winds like we had over the weekend. we are still, though, going to see some rain is really having an impact as we're trying to clean up from the stronger storm we had on friday night into saturday morning, but we can see the heavier pockets of rain moving through sonoma county and northern napa county. a closer look with storm ranger, our mobile doppler radar, where you can see it is really coming down in those areas, and most likely there will be some standing water on the roadways

and it's going to have a hard time soaking in because the ground is already saturated. but as we take a look at the bigger view, there is still a very active storm pattern out there. but the good thing is that we're going to start to see this lifting to the north and giving us a break after today. it's a chilly start as you're heading out low 40s in some spots, and the rain continuing to make its way farther to the south, should be reaching san jose by 8 to 9:00 this morning, as well as much of the rest of the bay area, and then just continuing late morning. by the afternoon, the north bay is catching a break. and then during the evening commute, pretty much all of the bay area will be seeing that rain wrapping up. and mike, you're getting reports of a crash that cleared from highway to interstate 80. important. it's not this part of i-80, which is the bay bridge toll plaza. that's fine and normal for the morning on monday. we're looking farther back on the upper east shore freeway. the crash and traffic break both successfully cleared from san pablo without any significant slowing. it's green there. you see that? we do have some

slowing north of there, highway 37. and then we have the green highlighting at the top. wet roadways in the north bay. kari talked about and fog along the over on the right side highway for benicia bridge and through the north bay watch. contra costa county will be impacted, possibly down 580 out of the altamont. this looks like there's less slowing, but police activity still registers south. 280 at westborough, coming down through south san francisco. got my eyes on it. don't have a lot of detail other than those speed sensors. that's what the commute folks care about. but 101 is clear down the peninsula, and so is the rest of the south bay and portions of the east bay. back to you. thanks a lot, mike. well, pg&e crews are working to make progress when it comes to restoring power across the bay area. as of last night, the utility was reporting about 3500 outages. that's down from about 17,000 outages just 24 hours ago. now here's a live look at pg&e. s outage map. you can see most of the outages are concentrated on the west side of the bay. the lack of any orange dots also suggests none of those

outages is large scale at this time. a yellow dot indicates anywhere from 50 to 500 customers impacted. 534 on your monday morning, the man accused in the mass shooting in half moon bay is due back in court this week. the judge expected to set a date for suni lee jury trial. pretrial takes place tomorrow morning in redwood city. zhao has been in custody since his arrest in january of 2023 after the shootings, which killed seven farm workers and injured another at a mushroom factory. zhao has pleaded not guilty despite confessing to the shooting during a jailhouse interview with our nbc bay area's janelle wang. meanwle, closer to home, the man accused in the ambush killing of unitedhealthcare ceo is not due in court until next week. but there are new developments surrounding his possible extradition. one source tells nbc news new york city grand jurors may be asked to hand up

an indictment against luigi mangione as soon as this week. if that happens, it would likely speed up the extradition process. now, at the same time, manhattan prosecutors are more hopeful mangione may soon waive his right to fight extradition, especially in light of recent high powered additions to his legal team. a bitter battle is brewing between amazon and two of its ten unionized warehouses. within days or even hours, it may lead to a first ever strike. the warehouses are located in new york city. teamsters accuse amazon of not recognizing the union. they're giving the company a deadline of today to begin negotiations. amazon, meanwhile, tells nbc news the company has a large network and customers need not worry about their holiday shopping purchases. they also remind everyone they can track delivery dates and times on amazon's website. all right, a live look

at sfo, where the holiday travel rush will kick off this weekend. if you're one of millions taking to the skies, the tsa wants to make sure you have a travel day that goes smoothly. yet normal advice show up early. don't pack large liquids in your carry on if you're packing gifts for others, the tsa says leave them unwrapped so you don't hold up the line. we strongly recommend that you use a gift bag so that if the gift item triggers an alarm, the tsa officer can go in, push the say the paper aside and see what the item is and screen that item without, of course, having to tear off any wrapping paper. also, you know, we recommend using a gift boxes. christmas and hanukkah fall in the same week this year, making for extra large crowds at airports around the country. triple a predicts nearly 8 million travelers will fly between saturday and new year's day. that surpasses a previous record set last year. well, from

the skies. let's take a look at the roads. here's a live look at interstate 80 near castle peak in the sierra chains no longer required this morning, but over the weekend it was a different story. drivers were dealing with heavy snoall and icy conditions. chain installers called it a busy weekend. everybody's driving good. we haven't had a lot of wrecks. it's just been a tremendous amount of snow and they just couldn't keep up with it. with all the snow equipment, the weekend snowstorm and hopefully more this week should give a big boost to the sierra snowpack. meteorologist kari hall is tracking those conditions as well. kari, are people going to be happy with some good snow? yes, we are going to see additional snow coming in, so we don't have a lot of time before. most likely the chain controls go right back up because we're you come up into the sierra. and as of now, with this live view of palisades tahoe, you can see it has quieted down after that

heavy snow over the weekend. and there will be some additional snow today, but also some rain in the mix as we see those temperatures making it up to the upper 30s and then cooling down later on tonight in the teens for tomorrow night, but at least it will be dry as we get sunshine. the additional snow we're expecting is only at about 2 to 5in for today, and then we are going to have some better road conditions, a chance to dry out and also get some good snowfall totals and kind of look back on the storm that we had over the weekend. but we're going to see things starting to look much better after today. all across the bay area, across the region. we'll talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. but mike, you have an update on some police activity now. yeah, the good kind. all lanes cleared. unfortunately we don't have details of what was going on. i guess that's the good news. it's not a headline. southbound 280 at westborough is clear. that's my headline. and better news. as you leave the city, head through south san francisco 101 has never been a problem and continues to move

smoothly into and out of san francisco. give us a second to look ahead. we'll predict the traffic flow will be altered here for muni between 6 and 7 tonight. there's a menorah lighting over at jane warner plaza. i know the first night of hanukkah is not until the 25th, which is also christmas, but this is going on for the local festivities there, just on the edge of the castro. we'll look to the north bay as well. over the weekend, we had the smart system doing maintenance in preparation for some improvements, but then there was some storm damage, trees down andther issues going on. so they've extended the closures for the system, the smart train, the smart system is not moving this morning. it's closed until tuesday from best we know. but there's more rain coming. we'll keep tracking those updates. meanwhile, the rest of the bay shows a pretty predictable plan we have slowing for highway 37. some fog over here in contra costa county. but you see, those speed sensors are great. that slowing kicks off right here in san jose, as is usual here. just north of just south of oakland road. back to you. we'll check back in. thanks, mike. well, demanding a solution. ahead on

today in the bay. the push for new technology as those mysterious drones continue to raise concerns in parts of the east coast. plus, joining in on the challenge to learn cursive. do you remember that the now viral trend and the way the niners are joining in on the fun to help make sure students learn the skill? also, if we make it throughecember. everything's gonna be all right. i know the holiday spirit coming to nashville ahead, a preview of little big town's christmas at the opry star studded music special featuring a dazzling array of country's biggest

in the mid 40s and it's a cold start as we take a look at what to expect in napa and the rain gets heavier and continues through noon. it gets lighter by 2:00 and then is pretty much done by 4:00 today. but look at how chilly it's going to be. we only briefly hit the low 50s. we'll get a look ahead to warmer temperatures and more sunshine in our microclimate forecast. well, the commute is warming up here at the bay bridge. the last five minutes has been very productive for the backup. it's starting to build now visible at the bay bridge toll plaza. no problems. there may be some fog over in the east bay. some rain in the north bay. kari talks about. we'll track your commute coming up. thanks a lot, kari

and mike. let's take a live look at capitol hill this morning. president elect donald trump's selection to lead the nation's health agencies is preparing to participate in a series of meetings this week. robert f kennedy jr is trying to drum up support ahead of formal confirmation hearings. that is where he is expected to face tough questions about his views on vaccines. this comes after reports a lawyer who is helping him build his team petitioned the fda to revoke approval of a polio vacne. kennedy's team responded to the reports, releasing a statement saying in part, quote, the polio vaccine should be available to the public thoughly and properly studied. 544 mounting questions this morning, after weeks of unknown drones flying around parts of the u.s, lawmakers in the capitol facing growing calls for action, with top democrat asking for a drone detection system today in the bay's brie jackson. following the political fallout on this

growing mystery. can you see it? questions swirling about mysterious flying objects reported in the skies over new york and new jersey. it is not the iranians. it is not the chinese. they aren't martians. our local people who have questions about these drones should not have to shake an eight ball to get an answer. the fbi has been investigating hundreds of reports of drones operating at night. investigators say they have seen no evidence that the sightings pose a national security or public safety threat. but the new york stewart international airport was forced to shut down its runways briefly because of drone activity. senator chuck schumer wants federal leaders to deploy technology, including robin radar systems, to better detect and track drones. if the technology exists for a drone to make it up into the sky. there certainly is the technology that can track the craft with precision and determine what the

heck is going on. lawmakers are demanding action. we need to know who's behind it. but right now, i think law enforcement seems to be the department of homeland security and the defense department are kind of all doing this and pointing at each other. the administration has repeatedly assured people that they are safe. however, one, we need a briefing for the members of the senate to figure out what's going on here. two we need more transparency. the sightings have residents, investigators and members of congress searching for answers. in washington brie jackson, nbc news. well, from the nation's highest court to the state supreme court justice ketanji brown jackson made her broadway debut over the weekend in a one night only role in an juliet. i like it, too. i think what i like about it is that i am having a very strongly negative reaction to it. like i hate it,

which makes me think it must be brilliant. not something you see every day, right? jackson has frequently talked about her love for the stage in her memoir. the justice shared that in her application essay to harvard, she wrote that she wanted to become the first black female supreme court justice to appear on a stage. and guess what? yeah, she did it. that's so cool. it's fun to see them have fun. it is. yeah. makes them more human outside of the opinions that they write. right. and the black robes and the black robes. see them come to come to real life. well, christmas is just over a week away. that's right. way to wake up on a monday. yeah. somehow, some way, you're not totally in the holiday spirit yet. little big town aims to get you there with its christmas at the opry special tonight on nbc. here's mark barger. yeah. my soul. one thing i know, little big town's been so by over the years. one

major box managed to go unchecked. i can't believe it took us 25 years to do a christmas record. this fall, the group finally released what is simply titled the christmas record. it still went down to the wire on getting every little detail that we wanted buttoned up. if we make it through december, music from their album, as well as holiday classics from other stars, a white christmas are part of little big town's christmas at the opry. there's no better place to celebrate a holiday and season that we love so much than to be here at the opry with friends and family. yes, this is christmas, my dear. sheryl crow is also among the large roster of guests. yared chelsea gray as well as josh groban. this is a win win win to be here at this historic theater. it was the first time honor for kate

hudson. i'm so excited. i mean, it's the grand ole opry. this is like a dream, you know? happy golden days. to be at this venue is really special. and to be celebrating christmas with all these amazing artists is so fun. little big town hopes that fun santa baby includes fans at home. bring your families all around the tv and have hot chocolate and make some memories. mark barger, nbc news it's always nice to see. i feel like i'm in the christmas spir. i will, i will shape up later this week. all right. all right. well, new this morning. cursive is becoming something to write home about. what is that? right? well, the reason experts point out is that it may just boost a child's brain development. we recently spoke with one occupational therapist about the current cursive challenge going viral on tiktok. have you seen it? we have video of several 49ers players taking part, and maybe you didn't realize, but california one year

ago reinstated a cursive requirement for grades one through six. but before that, for more than ten years, schools almost everywhere tried to erase the idea of writing in cursive, which many experts now call a mistake. now, states are really starting to see that cursive really helps the brain activity. and currently, right now we have 24 states that have mandated cursive into their legislation. that's up from, i believe, ten states in the last ten years. well, she also says cursive knowledge is really a generational thing with many people in their early 20s and early 30s having the least developed handwriting skills. now, all this gave us an idea. so if you thought that you would get off easy in interning here at today in the bay, well guess what guys? think again. we recently had several today in the bay interns do the cursive

challenge, and we should point out, well, they all scare. they all scored fairly high marks. i'm taking a look at grace there. that is not. yeah i have. well, she's doing it with her left hand too. my goodness. yeah, but you said there were ten years. so if there are interns, most likely they had cursive. they had training. right? yeah. i'm thinking about my son. he's in the seventh grade. he did not have that in school. and now that they're starting it back up, he kind of missed it. so are you going to still have this gap of kids who just moved through as a generation? yeah. they didn't know of course. i will say most a lot of school administrators would say, listen, we got a certain amount of time to teach these kids. is cursive one of those things you're saying brain development, which is interesting. very, very. but at the cost of what? right, right. that was part of the whole common core schiff. they were focusing on different aspects, and now they're realizing, yeah, but even things like the constitution or grandma's recipe cards, you can't read those cursive. that's true. my mom only writes in cursive. she

doesn't even know how to print. so she thinks she writes in code. maybe it's a way of talking above the kids. you could just write things on a whiteboard and you'd be like, yeah, we should do that. yeah. christmas list. i will say handwriting was so important for my mom. she made me rewrite my homework in cursive until it looked nice. and so that is something that i will say, handwriting challenge. bring it on. right. that's the one thing i can bring. all right, let's check the weather with karen. all right. well, we're starting out this morning with some rain that's going to be moving in, but we're still trying to clean up from the storm we had over the weekend. let's talk about how much rain we measured. and the winner goes to mount diablo. almost six inches of rainfall over the weekend. and marin came in over four inches of rain. santa rosa three and a half and over two in san francisco as well as sunnyvale. much of the bay area had rain totals like this, anywhere from an inch and a half to two inches of rainfall. and here we go again. the storm ranger is lighting up

with some reds and yellows over the north bay, where the rain is pretty steady, and moving through much of sonoma and northern napa county, as well as northern marin county. now. and we're going to see the activity getting heavier for some of the spots that are seeing some green, like yountville and novato, as well as fairfax. the rain will be picking up here within the next few minutes. all of this surging in with a fairly quick moving system that will be with us through the morning into the afternoon, and there is a lot more activity out there in the pacific, several more storms developing, but this activity will be lifting back to the north and affecting the northwest and giving the bay area a break. so we are still going to have several hours throughout today with some rain coming through. we're at 10 to 11:00. seeing the rain moving into the tri-valley, the east bay and the peninsula, and then eventually into the south bay during the morning commute and then starting to taper off with some very spotty activity for the afternoon. but we may pick

up another half to three quarters of an inch of rainfall. the heavier amounts will be in the north bay from mill valley over toward oakland and dublin. that's where we could see some very high amounts of rainfall, but we're watching a different kind of flooding. the last day of king tides in these areas shaded in green, which includes those low lying areas, creeks and streams that kind of feed into the bay where the tide levels will be higher by late morning. and you want to make sure that you're also watching for that park and ride in the north bay, where we very often see that flooding the rest of the week, it's looking dry once again, storm track staying to the north. but then on saturday rain will be back. and i know that's a very busy day for shopping and trying to wrap up those last minute holiday gifts and getting things done. we are going to have at least much of the week for the best weather that we'll see. warming temperatures and a mix of sun and clouds. by sunday, it's going to be drying out once again. and in san francisco once again. king tides today. but a mix of sun and clouds and warmer

temperatures the rest of the week. and mike, you're seeing that monday morning commute building at the bay bridge. yeah, but it's a little slower, a little more gradual than most mondays. we talked about the last hurrah. as we get toward the end of the year. schools start vacation. but right now a lot of high schools at least, and, and, and middle schools are having their final exams before that break at the end of the year. and so we do have a lot of families still in town, but it will continue to gradually build lighterommutes. tuesday will probably see a good burst of traffic, folks getting in for some of the last meetings before they get some vacation. we do see some slowing on highway four again, a gradual build over at the bay bridge. it is not full. it typically is by this time of morning. highway 37 a little bills remember those wet roadways in the north bay? some fog over here, including vasco road where it combines with the build for some slowing. back to you. mike. thank you. happening now. former speaker of the house nancy pelosi is still recovering this morning after she was injured during a trip to europe over the weekend. she went underwent hip replacement surgery in germany. this comes

after she reportedly fell while participating in a congressional delegation to mark the 80th anniversary of the battle of bulge, a battle of the bulge in luxembourg. a spokesperson says the 84 year old speaker is, quote, well on the mend, and san francisco gets its first ever tornado warning, just as a twister strikes in santa cruz county. so why wasn't a warning issued there? ahead at six, we have live team coverage with answers to that question and a look at recovery efforts that are now underway in scotts valley this morning. plus, all new the bird flu prompting grocerytores, limiting purchases of certain items. we're breaking that down as well and telling you what is being

now at six, a rare and destructive tornado touches down in santa cruz county. we're live in scotts valley with a firsthand look at the damage and the cleanup getting underway this morning. you couldn't look a single direction without seeing a tree down somewhere or branches down