and king bao were all smiles today after about five inches of snow blanketed the washington, d.c. area. they're rolling around in it. three year old pandas arrived in the district in october. they'll make their public debut at the smithsonian on january 24th. the pandas will live in the national zoo as part china. so they're going to have to get used to the cold winters. i think they're used to it, i can say. i mean, look at that. it's the second wave of snow expected to fall overnight. fall tonight as well. and freezing temperatures over the next few days will make it difficult for the d.c. area to thaw out from all t that snowfall. that's a lt of snow. i think they're enjoying it more than the people i think they really like. you know why they're having so much fun? because they don't have to shovel it. exactly, exactly. all right. you can watch our newscast 24/7 on pluto and other streaming platforms. and jess and garvin, you guys have what's coming up. thanks, jeff. we got a lot coming up this monday evening. among our top stories, more drama involving the san

mateo county sheriff, who she is now suing, claiming there's a, quote, evil scheme to kick her out of office. also, we continue to look back four years at the january 6th insurrection that brought our country to the breaking point. our political analyst joins us, larry gerson, to discuss what's changed since then and is something like what happened four years ago could ever happen again. i'm scott budman. a new year and new predictions for our housing market. it might be good news if you're on the market. we'll have the latest just ahead. news at 530 starts right now. thanks for joining us. i'm jessica aguirre and i'm garvin thomas. it appears the growing controvsy involving the san mateo county sheriff. the county supervisors and many of her deputies is now likely headed to court. we're talking about sheriff cristina corpus. she has filed a $10 million claim with the county, alleging gender and racial discrimination. nbc bay area's robert honda joins us from the county government center in redwood city to explain how this

is likely to end up in court. robert, the san mateo county sheriff, is now essentially waiting for the county to reject her $10 million claim to proceed with a formal lawsuit in response to what they call the evil scheme to remove her from office. sheriff cristina corpus was initially scheduled to talk publicly today about her $10 million claim filed with san mateo county, but her attorney announced late last night that presser would be postponed. corpus is responding to weeks of accusations by the deputies association and county leaders. those accusations culminated with demands that she resign after an external report found evidence of everything from abuse of power to an inappropriate relationship with her chief of staff. the probe, commissioned by some county supervisors and conducted by retired judge ladoris cordell, included interviews with current and past employees. the sheriff's attorney, brad gage, blasted the report as slanted

and incomplete. it's missing information. witness names were not provided, and that report itself, by publishing it violates law because those are deemed confidential as peace officer records. gage acknowledged the filing of a claim alleging gender and racial discrimination is a required step before the sheriff can sue the county. we reached out to the county attorney and did not hear back today, but the county has publicly said the sheriff's claim has no merit and will address the allegations in court. i think the ulterior motive is fairly clear. there are people that are unhappy with not receiving double overtime. there are people that are unhappy about not receiving promotions and then there are people i think that just don't want to have a latina as sheriff. the sheriff filed her claim just before the holidays.

so if or more likely, when the claim is officially rejected by the county. corpus will then have six months to file a lawsuit in redwood city. robert honda, nbc, bay area news. well, in our nation's capital, the upcoming transition of power is now underway after congress officially certified president elect donald trump's election victory today. this comes four years after a mob of supporters attacked the capitol. today, though, no violence. vice president kamala harris presided over a joint session of congress this morning certifying the election that she lost to president elect trump. the orderly counting of the votes from each state happened without objection. the nation and security forces are now preparing for trump's inauguration, which happens two weeks from today. lots to talk about and no better person to talk about it with than our political analyst, larry gerston. larry, welcome. happy new year. okay, so we got through today. calm. no violence. no violence. is the violence and the division behind us? i tell you, it is an

accomplishment just to get through today. and maybe we can thank the snow or whatever. but we did get through today. look, is the violence behind us? that's a good question. we don't know whether the folks who didn't show up didn't show up because they decided, well, you know what? it's better to be peaceful than not. or our guy won, so there's no reason to show up. we do know this as well, that there were some alt right folks participating off the off the scene, so to speak. planning to do something, planning to get involved just in case trump lost. so this hardly seems to be clean. we'll know the real answer in 2028 when we see if a democrat wins. just what happens. you know, donald trump all along, he's saying he had no responsibility for january 6th. and anything that happened in that day. is it kind of evidence that he won reelection that kind of voters say, yeah, you didn't. garvin, this is one of the great mysteries of life, because i went back and looked at the data about how people thought to what

responsible for what happened on january 6th, 2021. look at this chart right here. you see in 2020 1st february, 50% say, yeah, he was really a lot at fault. and you go to october just before the election 2024. it's 54%. so in other words, more people thought he had great responsibility last october than they did when this event happened. go figure. i mean, it doesn't make sense, but the fact is they knew the voters that is, knew who they were voting for. they knew what they were getting. and frankly, it raises questions about democracy. is this what it takes and what are we getting? those are big questions. you've spent a lifetime studying the voters, and they still surprise you. yes, sir. so obviously he claimed no responsibility. and then president trump has also said he will likely pardon some of those convicted of crimes on january 6th. if we just saw if the poll says people said, yeah, he was responsible and were okay with that. do you think the same thing follows with pardons? you

would think he has something of a green light. okay, we'll see just how far that shines. we do know this much. we've got about 1600 people who have been arrested, most of them already convicted, many of them in jail currently or awaiting to go to jail. he probably will pardon some, i think, at the low end of the insurrectionist food chain, if you will. but the higher up he goes, the more responsibility he's going to have to take for what he does. because no matter how you try to whitewash this, this was a mess. this was the greatest threat to this country since the civil war. you don't make that go away just because you're new. a president pardoning people. so this is going to be a big deal. you go high up, you go to folks near the top. and he pardons these guys. with 2025 year sentences, there will be pushback. wow. wewell interesting to see larry gerson. thank you very much. jess. well, back in the bay. oakland police are investigating whether a string of burglaries stretching over two days are actually connected. police say at least four businesses were hit between 3 and 5 this morning, including two safeways on redwood road and fruitvale

avenue. the other two businesses on macarthur boulevard and park boulevard were also hit. it comes after another safeway and a smok shop were broken into early sunday morning. check it out. video shows a car slamming into the security gate at this smoke shop on san pablo avenue around 4:00 sunday. about a half dozen people then run inside a massage business and two convenience stores also targeted sunday morning. police so far are not saying whether the crimes are connected or not. in tonight's making the bay report, a peek into the future of our local housing market is hinting at something potential buyers have been begging for. at least one agency saying they expect more houses to hit the market in 2025. here's our business and tech reporter, scott budman. will the bay area deliver a gift of more housing inventory to homebuyers this year? frida ramirez hopes so. definitely 100%. i think it's a good investment. i already have, like a savings account built for a

good down payment, hopefully for first time buyers. but she says something's got to give. i would say probably a lower rate mortgage rates consistently above 6% for more than a year now, combined with high prices, have kept many potential buyers on the sidelines. sellers to the difference for them to do the second move up or even, you know or downsize is going from a 3% to a six and a half, 7% mortgage is qte a difference. but the national organization of realtors now says it expects more homes to go on the market this year. we absolutely need to see more inventory for the sake of a balanced market. more homes on the market typically means lower prices and that, according to silicon valley agent lindsey gridley, is what she hears potential buyers waiting for. everyone has just settled in and gotten used to the fact that interest rates are somewhere

around 6%, and we're just staying there for a while, and i think now they can feel the progress to take action moving you forward. there are also economic concerns that come with a new year and a new administration. things like tariffs, tax cuts and immigration cutbacks often raise consumer prices, which would likely also be felt in our housing market. in san jose, scott budman, nbc, bay area news. the gifts were given, but, well, some of them missed the mark. now tons of merchandise is returning to the store. i'm consumer investigator cis chmura with a revealing look at returns by the truckload and how they might score you a deal down the road. that's next. i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. we'll get a check here of the long range forecast. and what's happening with those rain chances, plus some wind on the way. we'll

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lands the way you think it's going to be. okay. maybe they don't fit, maybe it's the wrong color. and that is why today is national returns day. consumer investigator chris coomer is here with a look behind the scenes. when we take a product back, what actually happens. and this is why i think cash is the best gift, right. nobody ever takes that back. yeah. our team is constantly helping viewers get their money back when an actual gift or purchase just doesn't work out. but what about the stuff itself? well, to show us, a bay area based company called b-stock shared this warehouse video. it tells us all that stuff you see on your screen is returned merchandise that the company is helping to steer away from landfills. b stocks sean cleland said they help sort that merchandise to later be resold as refurbished or sent to outlet stores. right now, b-stock is seeing a surge by the truckload on our platform, we see a 30% spike of inventory coming back in really january, february, march. and we

estimate this year it's about $170 billion of returns, a lot of money. cleland says only 20% of the stuff we return goes back on the shelf as new, unopened merchandise. the remaining 80% ends up in a place like this, and later perhaps in your cart when you're hunting for a refurbished or gently used deal in that department, protect yourself. ask some questions. see if your refurbished product still carries a manufacturer's warranty, because some do. also some don't. also check the return policy. can you return what you bought at a discount after someone else returned it to? sometimes the answer is yes. all right, back over to the news desk. no returns. all good questions. i wouldn't have thought of asking all those things. all right. thank you very much, chris. jeffrey joins us right now. jeff, i know a lot of places saw a lot of fog this morning, but we are also going to talk about a lot of wind coming up. yeah, it's kind of a

combo here. i think over the next couple of hours we still could see some of that fog reform and really the wind chances that will be in the forecast here as we head through tomorrow. let's take it into that microclimate forecast on this monday. and we'll show you livermore where we had that fog this morning. there's no low level fog right now and currently 56. but we could see some patchy areas again form as we move through the next few hours. beginning to drop down into the 40s here starting at 8:00 tonight. i wanted to show you that fog map here, and you'll see as we head through 8:00 pm down towards the south bay. we may get some low visibilities all the way down towards gilroy, also close to the bay, including hayward up to oakland. some patchy fog in the north bay and then certainly right here near the coastline. then watch as we head into the overnight hours. you can see how that starts to clear out, and that's when we'll begin to see some isolated wind gusts here through the bay area. anytime you get wind, it's just going to help to sweep out the fog. so right now for tomorrow morning we're expecting some mostly clear skies, but we will again have to contend here with some

on and off gusts. the weather set up what we're looking at as we move through tomorrow, as this area of high pressure across the pacific, that's going to give us that sunshine. but then we have this low preure digging in down here across the desert southwest, and that air flows from high pressure to low pressure. so it's really kind of creating this vacuum effect and going to bring some of the strongest gusts right where that low pressure e is down in southn california. so unfortunately for them, they could get wind gusts above 60mph. we're kind of on the weaker side of it. so as we move through tomorrow morning, i see winds for a lot of the lower elevations, populated areas 15 to about 30mph. so we should be able to get through that. some of the mountains up to about 40. we stay with that same forecast through 5 p.m. for tomorrow. this drier wind coming out of the north and the east, and then eventually here by wednesday morning, we'll start to get out of get out of any kind of wind. i don't see any red flag fire warnings coming in. just because the ground is so saturated from some recent rains. but certainly be careful if you're traveling

any over any of the higher elevations. morning temperatures starting off here in the 40s for tomorrow morning, so not a bad start. it will be nice to not have fog as we head through tomorrow morning. 50 here in san francisco in the east bay at 47 temperatures as we move through the afternoon. going to be down here across south bay to 65 in cupertino. so a little bit warmer under this dryer wind out here to the east bay 66 in oakland, mid 60s in walnut creek. also getting in on the mid 60s through the peninsula up here to san francisco, 64 in the marina and for the north bay got you to 62 in clear lake, 65 in sonoma, a long range forecast. watch this high pressure in the pacific will continue to push storms off to the north, away from us right now, at least through january the 16th. we may not see some substantial chances return until the very end of this month and into february. so hang on a little bit unusual here for january. temperatures in the low 60s in san francisco and across the inland valleys.

also sticking with the 60s. so sunshine tomorrow morning that will make it a very nice rebound after this morning. it was very soupy out there no doubt. okay, jeff, thank you very much. the 49ers season has mercifully come to an end. hear from the team as they look back and look ahead

of the off season. yeah. and now it's time for the team and qb brock purdy to get down to business. the niners wrapped up a disappointing season, to say the least, with a loss to the arizona cardinals on sunday. but that means brock purdy is now eligible for an extension. last year, contract negotiations for wide receiver brandon aiyuk and tackle trent williams dragged late into the offseason. purdy says he hopes to get a deal done quickly this time. more than anything for me, like i want to be able to handle business the right way and do it in a respectful manner and get back to my team as fast as i can to get going. obviously, i want to help the team across the board with all the other guys who, you know, need to get their deals done, but everybody will handle it the right way and how they need to. the niners have a few other contracts to hammer out as well. defensive stars dre greenlaw, talanoa hufanga and charvarius ward are all set to hit free agency. the warriors are licking their wounds after losing by 30 points last night to the kings. up next for the dubs are the heat tomorrow night

at chase center. now the heat are currently looking to trade their one time star jimmy butler. one of the rumored spots he could go is the warriors. here's warriors entire insider, monty poole, with some valuable insight. jimmy butler had interest in the warriors. they never really had great interest in him, you know, and there's a number of reasons why. first of all, his availability. you know, he's missed like 30% of the games since he's been in miami. and he gets a little bit worse each year. he's missed i think 12 so far this season. so he's on pace to miss like another 30 games this season. two he's 35 years old three his contract you know $48 million this year 52 next year when he can also opt out of a player option. so and then what would you have to give up to get jimmy butler and would it be worth it? and everybody that i've heard from in the last couple of weeks been like, it's just not, you know, doesn't make sense for us and it doesn't make sense for the words i heard from people around the league. they're saying, why would the warriors do that? you know, with what jimmy is right now and the

way they value their chemistry, the way they value their culture. if jimmy can't stand it in miami, they're going to bring him to golden state and expect that to be the cure all. so i just to me, i never believed in it. and i know that jimmy was, you know, pushing for it. it sounds like. and when you heard him say last night, he's trying to rediscover his joy. yeah. like, okay. yh, yeah, yeah, yeah. but but the interest has been, from what i understand, has been pretty one sided. you can follow all the latest warriors news, including trade rumors and injury reports, by downloading the warriors talk podcast. still ahead, a woman will be in charge of a m major office a the vatican for the first time ever. the hisricto dave's been very excited about saving big with the comcast business 5-year price lock guarantee. five years? -five years. and he's not alone. -high five. it's five years of reliable gig speed internet. five years of advanced securit. five years of a great rate that won't change. it's back. but only for a limited time.

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trump is seeking to stay ahead of his criminal sentencing today. a new york judge denied mr. trump's request to delay his sentencing until after the inauguration. the judge was clear he does not plan to send the former and future psident to jail. in court filings made public today, mr. trump's lawyers argue the court should delay the hearing to give them time to appeal his 34 felony convictions on grounds of presidential immunity. mr. trump was found guilty earlier this year of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment made to adult film actress stormy daniels. the sentencing is still set for this friday. rudy giuliani is in civil contempt of court this evening for failing to comply with a multi-million dollar defamation ruling. it stems from the case brought by two georgia

election workers, whose lawyers clai giuliani has not surrendered assets they are owed in 2023. giuliani conceded that he made derogatory, defamatory statements about thehe electio workers, and a judge ruled he was liable for defamation. giuliani says his day to day life has been upended by the election workers, and he has not, quote, willfully disobeyed any court orders. another trial is scheduled for january 16th to determine the status of some of giuliani's possessions. as the debate continues about whether miners should have access to medications that support gender affirming care, a new study shows those drugs are rarely prescribed. the data, published today in jama pediatrics researchers analyzed private insurance claims for more than 5 million patients ages 8 to 17 over a four year span. it found that less than 0.1% of adolescents who are transgender are prescribed puberty blockers or gender affirming hormones. in december, the supreme court heard oral arguments in a case involving state bans on puberty,

suppressing medication and other forms of transition related care for minors. a historic milestone for the catholic church. today, pope francis named the first woman to head a major vatican office. sister simona brambilla, an italian nun, will head the department responsible for all the catholic church's religious orders. the appointment marks a major step in pope francis's aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church. the office is responsible for every religious order, from the jesuits and franciscans to smaller, newer movements. while gia vang joins us now with what's coming up next? well, right now, six survivors of abuse calling on a bay area archbishop to release a list of priests accused of carrying out that abuse. other local dioceses have done it. so why hasn't san francisco. tonight we investigate jusust into the newsroom. another bay area county filing charges against the kidnaper at the center of the notorious gone girl case. the latest home invasions at matthew mueller is being connected to. plus, a ufc

heavyweight is joining the board at meta. the new leadership changes announced today. good evening. the news at six starts now. thanks for joining us. i'm jessica aguirre and i'm gia vang. new calls tonight for the removal of san francisco archbishop salvatore cordileone for his continued refusal to release a list of suspected predator priests. now, one victim is going public about a living priest who she says groomed and abused her for years. senior investigative reporter bigad shaban has the latest from the church's ongoing scandal. i went through just about everything that you can imagine. outside saint mary's cathedral, men and women recalled sexual abuse they say they endured as children at the hands of priests inside the san francisco archdiocese. the ongoing risk to children is too great to be silent. they're now demanding san francisco's archbishop follow in the footsteps of every other diocese in the state and release its own

list of priests deemed by the church itself as credibly accused of committing sexual abuse against children. if you don't have a list, it's justhe absence of the truth. sandra oldfield is one of two women who filed official complaints with the vatican today, demanding san francisco's archbishop, salvatore cordileone, be removed from his position in light of what they describe as serious inaction. oldfield says her abuse began when she was just 15 by a priest in her youth group that was grooming. i mean, that was setting me up that whole time for a sexual relationship. all throughout my teen years and beyond. and so it was just rape. that happened over a lot of years. the priest has accused reverend lawrence finnegan did not respond to our request for comment. oldfield says she first reported the abuse to the archdiocese more than 30 years ago, but tells us it was only after a recent meeting with archdiocese officials that finnegan was stripped of his ability to practice as a priest. oldfield has a