f0 from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. now on cbs news bay area, the final hour of christmas. we look back on the cheer and charity being spread today. >> cool, awesome, amazing. >> i'm excited. i want to go home and open this. and then we prepare for a new round of winter storms. this time, we are in the path. what that means for the new week ahead. and harassment. homophobic and racist remarks while just trying to enjoy a meal. police think they're not the only victims either. good evening. merry christmas from cbs news bay area. an eventful christmas day across the bay. people out enjoying themselves, donating time and money to help others at churches, charities, even at chase center. and travel is in the news as well with delays and

cancellations continuing. betty yu was at chase center tonight and met with some kids that got a christmas experience. >> reporter: it was a win for the warriors and the kids this christmas. sunday's game was extra special for children dealing with critical illnesses. before tip off, jordan poole, klay thompson, and other players handed out presents to a select number of kids. the bay area non-profit family house, chose families whose children are being treated for serious illnesses, like cancer, at ucsf. shiloh's son was born premature and deals with ongoing lung issues. >> i got a replica ring, a shirt. >> reporter: the family lives near yosemite. the nonprofit

provides supportive services and resources to families undergoing treatment. >> i'm excited. i want to go home and open this, but i have to watch the game. >> reporter: first time at a game? >> yes, it was surprising. it was a good experience. i don't think, i'm, this is probably the best thing that a kid can experience. >> reporter: the warriors treated the families to a custom game day experience as part of their season of giving campaign. >> we decided we weren't doing christmas this year because we just didn't feel it, then this happened. i was like hey, who wouldn't want to see the warriors play for christmas. so we got to stay in the city and do union square and all the cool stuff. >> an ipad! wow, thank you! >> reporter: 13-year-old trey was born with kidney disease. how is your christmas? >> good! it's been very good so far. very.

>> reporter: what's the best part? >> this right here! >> reporter: what's the first thing you'll do with your ipad? >> probably watch tv and play all my games on here. >> reporter: his father said after one failed kidney transplant, he hopes to successfully donate his kidney to his son next year. >> it makes me feel real good bringing him. great. >> reporter: the night's experiences were a lot to take in for the children, but also for the parents. for many, it was their first time seeing a warriors game. >> i'm a little speechless with everything that's happening. the homeless in the tenderloin enjoyed warm meals this christmas morning courtesy of st. anthony's foundation. volunteers prepared and served 1500 meals with ham and vegetables and brownies. in other news, difficult circumstances overshadowed a christmas celebration for a bay

area church. st. paul's was targeted by an arsonist earlier this year. devin fehely spoke with the church. >> it's a resilient con con congregation. >> reporter: the pastor says they know what it's like to be a weary traveler. >> we don't know what the sanctuary will be like years from now, but as long as we're gathered in worship, church and worship is happening. >> looks like a church. heavy smoke. >> reporter: this was the scene from june of this year. san jose police say a homeless man, unconnected to the church, set fire to the sanctuary. st. paul's beloved historic pipe organ, in a cruelly iconic twist, acted like a chimney spreading the flames to the heavens above. >> that was the chuck i was married in, that was the church

both my kids were baptized in. a lot of good memories happened in that place. >> reporter: tina paulson has been a member there for nearly 20 years. she still attends at a borrowed chapel at nearby notre dame high school. >> recognize the fact that we're still here, together, and doing good work in the downtown area. >> reporter: did rebuilding process, the pastor says, is likely to take years. the downtown church is a corner stone of the community that struggles with homelessness and mental illness. she says it will be built on a foundation of faith and forgiveness. >> we understand the people who are suffering. the people who may lash out through no fault of us. the spare the air alert for the bay area was extended for another day, meaning don't burn wood in the fireplace. darren peck is here to tell us why the

spare the air has been extended, and presumably what happens after that. >> i could tell you, or i could show you. if anyone was out today, you saw it. our four cameras really drive it home. e that's all particle matter trapped at the ground level, so anything we put into the air stays here. a lot of it, majority, is from wood burning fireplaces. fireplaces this one, now, from oakland. you can see the lid sort of on the atmosphere. the inversion trapping it in. and this is the san mateo bridge. you got on one side, you couldn't see the other. that's all haze. and the last one from the san jose airport looking from actually downtown over the airport and out towards levi stadium. we

have another spare the air tomorrow. unhealthy for sensitive groups through the south bay. other areas moderate. here's how we get help. we need a storm to come in and break up this ridge of high pressure. and we don't have just any storm coming. there's a significant storm coming. tuesday is a first looks like it with a lot of starts mondaght. wel ok at the storin its entirety. it's going to be busy around here for awhile. the first alert forecast is coming up in a few minutes. brian, back to you. another homophobic and later in the same video, racist, outburst in the bay area going viral. it happened in san ramone. since the video was posted on tiktok, the san ramone police department say they've received complaints about similar behavior from what appears to be the same man. >> reporter: it appears to be

this man accused of harassing this couple at a restaurant on christmas eve. no one knows what caused him to start talking to them, but they quickly realized he wanted to start trouble. >> it was a shock to say the least. >> reporter: in the video, you can see the energy change when he approaches for a second time. >> i didn't say anything. >> you didn't say anything? >> elliott and i were shaking and stuttering towards the end of it. >> reporter: the back and forth with the man continuing to ask racist and homophobic questions. >> i'm korean. >> the alarm bells were ringing inside our head. like, we are in danger. >> reporter: eventually the man left, but the two say he stood outside staring at them. >> he was staring us down for 10 to 15 minutes through the window, and his gaze never went from us. >> reporter: eventually he did leave. store employees walked the two out to their car.

>> we made sure to ask the workers to talk us to our cars, make sure he's not still around. the workers were super helpful. >> reporter: the video has nearly 6 million views and tens of thousands of comments. >> community within the comments, if that makes sense, is so supportive of stopping asian hate, movements against poc in general. >> reporter: in the meantime, san ramone police are still searching for the man at the still ahead toght, season a moredela and s e likely ithmin and then, revitalizing market street gets a big boost as ikea takes a big step forward in opening their

up. 'ring a run. it with avs t me today, wi ellatidue to weather elsewhere, some people were arriving days later than expected. we talked to one woman flying in from portland whose flight was canceled three

times. now she's headed off to asia. >> i have been really stressed. then, to make things worse, when i finally found out my flight was going to take off, i couldn't get out of the driveway due to an inch of ice. but here i am, and i'm with my best friends in the world, so what a great christmas. >> an inch of ice in the driveway. i'm presuming she's not from the bay area. darren peck is here with more on the weather. a lot of rain, a lot of wind, it's going to be focused on tuesday. that's the first alert day. i start off first, this is our sunday night. already a little fog from the tri-valley. plenty of that over the last few mornings. probably have it again for monday. monday has two issues. foggy in the morning, and the air quality still unpleasant. not done with the spare e mid-s the ytime ghs tomozy skies.wa into the 60s. h

storm. very active storm track in the pacific. ours is that one right there. if we take that batch, bring it forward, this is a significant rain maker. get rid of the clouds and rain, and look at the water vapor in the atmosphere. a different story shows up. this is a fairly significant atmospheric river. the brighter the color, the higher the concentration of water vapor. this is what can really supercharge a storm with a lot more moisture than it would have ordinarily. and with a significant atmospheric river, plan on a pretty good rain on tuesday. we'll probably have minor street flooding. low lying intersections. it starts as early as tomorrow night. is already noticing ading edgethugh sonot

as wemoward, it's overnighuret into heart of this. 4:00 a.m. is probably prime time for the storm. some of the most impressive, widespread, steadiest rain. even some isolated thunderstorms in the leading edge. this is also when it will be the windiest, but first the rest of the rain story. stays this way through the morning. the late morning, we'll have follow up scattered showers that stay with us into the late afternoon. then blue sky in the afternoon. most of this is between 10:00 at night and 8:00 this the morning. that's the bulk of the inch and a half to two and a half inches of rain that will fall. minor ponding on roadways, tributaries and streams will likely rise above their banks. if that's a problem for you, chances are you already know vers, it's not keour anke e ma

eing floodi not in that kind of winter at this point. not yet. it's going to be busy the next several days. there's the wind. 40-mile an hour gusts. these atmospheric rivers are driven in an a conveyor belt of wind. it's part of what makes them so powerful. and we'll feel the wind when this thing comes on shore. 40 miles per hour gusts, and things better by the afternoon. it's a relatively warm system. most of the snow stays above 6,000 feet. and there's more coming, several more in the seven-day forecast. this could be an interesting end to december. but this is the main event. the rest of these are fairly moderate. friday and saturday looks like it could be a little better, but not as significant as tomorrow's rain. then there are more after that. but we'll deal with those further down the road here. the seven-day is busy. all right, vern, over to

you. actually, and you'll notice darren didn't say the storm door is open, but it's what i would have said. good news for san francisco's struggling mid-market area. ikea scheduled to open next year on market between 5th and 6th. da lin reports that a lot of business owners and neighbors believe it will help revitalize and clean up that part of town. >> reporter: the sign doesn't say when they're going to open, but we understand it's going to be in the fall of 2023. so by this time next year, you should be able to walk out with brand new furniture. ikea will anchor this multistory shopping mall. at around 80,000 square feet, it's smaller than the typical ikea stores. it's about a third of the emoryville ikea. >> even though it's smaller, it's still furniture i can by.

from the will heusthe cr. neighbsathere's a lot of open drug use and drug dealing on 6th street and spills over to market street. this restaurant owner agrees. his restaurant is right across the street from the new ikea >> it will make everything clean and more people come. >> reporter: even though ikea has its own food court, tootsie points out his food is different. it's from nepal in north india. >> we have asian cuisine people like. we have good reviews, you know. >> ikea coming to the mid-market area of san francisco shows us that large retail is betting on the recovery of san francisco in a major way. >> reporter: this is the ceo of the union square alliance and

believes more businesses will follow suit. >> we couldn't be happier. we're seeing positive signs are really coming back to downtown. >> reporter: an art gallery will open soon across from ikea. neighbors say this is progress. >> i think it will be really, really awesome to revitalize and bring up, let's say everyone's spirits in a sense. >> reporter: aside from ikea, they're also trying to bring in restaurants and entertainment venues to the building. straight ahead in sports, just what we needed after a day full of gifts, food, and family. a two for sunday night. not just one sports segment. you get two. and the warriors at home against one of the power teams sometimes a cough

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on attack. jordan poole. third quarter, grown man move and in. he scored 32 for a second technical ended his night. off the memphis miss, green, 13 rebounds and 13 assists. the warriors bench kept the lead at double digits in the third. steph really liked that one. block by green here. get out of my kitchen! klay off the screen on the next play. scored 24 and added 9 key rebounds. six dubs in double figures. 31 assists in the game. heated between the two. thompson had to remind brooks golden state has beaten them five of the last seven times. warriors win chnicals a jodfashio

aslki thi it tea technical, bu forgot about the taunting rule. we've been talking trash since middle school. so you either play you're best, or you're razzles. tom brady and tampa in arizona. brady had to scramble in the fourth quarter again. down 10, found white for a score. they got a folsom to force overtime, and then off a good pump fake, he found russell gage for a pick up of 27 yards, and he nailed the walk off kick. tampa won it 19-16, upped the record to 7 and 8. one of three nfl games today. rams beating the broncos and packers beating the dolphins. the 49ers remain one game back of minnesota for the second seed. if the season ended today, the 49ers would host the new york giants. there are two weeks of the regular season remaining, and the

eagles need only one more win to secure home field advantage and a first round bye. segment one in the books. ahead tonight, here comes the 49ers po think the 49er empire could review this team enough.

nfl, and the 49ers 11 and 4 after their toughest test yet

on saturday. they didn't even flinch against washington. especially number 85, tight end george kittle. little context for you. kittle, this is one of his two touchdowns against the commanders on saturday. back to back games with at least two touchdowns. six catches, 121 yards for the iowa hawk eye. he was asked about his first score coming up here, where he was not the primary receiver for brock purdy, who went to rival iowa state. >> i will say, if he didn't go to iowa state, you think he would have let me on the last play, but i'll let it slide because it's christmas. >> just can't give a hawk eye too many touchdowns in the game. >> i already told him the joke, as are admiriyogift, we wan what some of the 49er players remembered as their favorite

gift as kids. >> no doubt, sixth grade, i remember like it was yesterday walking outside to a basketball goal. have a goal, just right outside to shoot hoops, man, it was life changing. my mom got me that. i'll never forget it. >> my brother and i got a ping-pong table, like a legit one. i think i was maybe 11 and he was 9 or 12 and 10, and we were just playing constantly. my dad set it up the night before. >> it was like a monday goose with pads on the front end, back, trick bike, it was all white. it was clean, man. i think i was 9. >> tricked out bike for jimmy ward. not surprised. new year's day, the 49ers are already a six-point favorite