from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. >> now at 11:00, sunday's big nfl matchup is almost here and the 49ers and the lions both trying to punch a ticket to the super bowl. >> niners! and the red and gold faithful couldn't be more excited to cheer on the team knowing they are just one win away from heading back to football's biggest stage. all i care about is we win and go to the super bowl. you can feel the energy and

the excitement. >> and we will go behind enemy lines to a lions pregame party to see how they are feeling. we have less than 18 hours to go before the 49ers kick off in the nfc title game against the lions. going deep into the post season isn't anything new for the red and gold but they have unfinished business to settle and the whole bay area is behind them. sfo and coit tower lit up in red and gold showing their support. 49er fans from the bay area and across the country gathered in the south bay getting a head start on all the tailgating and festivities. da lin is at san jose mineta airport talkerring to both fan groups and even a 49er legend. >> reporter: behind me is the detroit lions team plane. the plane and the players arrived just after 4:00 saturday afternoon. now, too far away from here, a 49ers fan rally.

those fans say they are ready to send the lions home with a big l. the music, the energy, and the enthusiasm of the 49ers fan rally went through the roof when jerry rice made a surprise visit to hype up the fans. people lined up to take pictures with the goat. including juan catalan and his son. they drove from la on saturday morning. >> i was just telling jerry he is the reason him and joe montana are the reason i'm a 49er fan. now i'm passing onto my son. i saw my first ever game. niners, bengals, super bowl 88, 89. >> reporter: juan says meeting his childhood idol is already a win. >> i was shocked like he shook my hand. like i have never met jerry rice. this is an honor.

to me, the goat. >> reporter: jerry tells us it is fun to interact with fans he loves it. >> he can feel the energy and the excitement for tomorrow. just being able to take some pictures and sign some autographs and just make their day you know. it is priceless. >> reporter: priceless and unforgettable for young juan carlos to have a picture with the hall of famer. >> i will remember this my whole life. >> reporter: fans are optimistic. this is the year the niners win at all. >> this is a super bowl ring from 95. i have been wearing it for 12 years. and it is time to replace it. >> reporter: as fan celebrate, lions players arrived at the airport. several fans cheered on the team behind the fence. some flew in earlier this week from detroit to attend the game. >> it was pretty surreal. we have been season ticketholders now quite some time. and it is pretty surreal to see them comingover here to play for the

nfc championship. >> reporter: juan says nope, not going to p ha. he and his family bought tickets for the game as well. >> you are coming into our house. we are not losing tomorrow at levi stadium. we win tomorrow. i think it will be by two touchdowns. >> we have to be loud. i want that place to be rocking like crazy. >> reporter: juan says he paid $2,100 for three tickets. this trip with hotel and food will cost more than $3,000 but he says it is worth it because a win would be priceless. >> all right, not far from the 49ers party. lionings fans have their own pregame celebration going on. as you can see, it was absolutely packed and a lot of these fans are pretty confident. >> we are in it to win it this

year. right now. >> living the life. living the dream. >> tonight, celebration was so big, that many fans were turned away. levi stadium says an estimated 22% of the tickets sold for tomorrow's game were to lions fans. and the weather shouldn't really play a factor tomorrow. it should be a nice day like baseball weather. >> this will be like pressing a button tomorrow and we will go up another 10 degrees from where we were today. we will clear out the clouds. let's go straight to levi stadium. we will be in the 70s for the game. we will start out at 3:30 and the temperature will be 73 degrees. so it is in the mid 60s there today and it was cloudy. last week, that's not a concern for tomorrow. and did you see what happened in the futurecast? by the time we get to tomorrow morning, the clouds have cleared out. we'll probably have a few high clouds here and there. but for the most part, you will see beautiful blue sky. and by the way, it's not just for santa

clara. everyone notices a pretty big warmup tomorrow. pick out your part of the bay. some of these will break records. i'll be back with the rest of the forecast in a bit. let's take a live look at levi stadium and if you are headed out there tomorrow, be sure to plan ahead. drivers should expect heavy traffic and delays on major roads leading to the stadium before and after the game. the drive between convention center circle and marie p. debarlado way and the off ramp to stars and stripes drive will also be closed except for those parking in the gold lot. parking lots open at noon and stadium gates open at 1:30. fans are also encouraged to use public transit. vta light rail trains stop right in front of the stadium and connect with bart and cal train. we have all the information you will need to

get there on kpix.com. and it looks like the chp is already throwing the flag on excessive celebration in san francisco. they plan to close a number of freeway off ramps starting sunday night at 7:00. that is just about the time the game should be ending. if you are still looking for a place to celebrate, john ramos tells us about a bar rich with history. >> reporter: the canyon in redwood city is one of the oldest 49er themed bars and restaurants in the area serving not just the fans but the team itself. it started with an offer that was just too good to refuse. he was at this gas station when tim harrison noted an abandoned 7/11 and thought it would be a good location for a restaurant. it was 1972. >> all the booths over there were deli cases. it was empty. full of slurpee cups. >> reporter: so he opened the canyon inn serving up

hamburgers his customers loved but his love was preserved for the 49ers. he remembers watching his heros playing. but the team never had a whole lot of success. so in 1981, he offered to host a rally for the team in his parking lot to stir up some local spirit. >> he says you know what? i started to think i'm trying to help these guys. >> reporter: so he made the team an offer. a free meal for anyone in the organization including office staff on weeks when the team won. >> what do they have to lose? they only won by three games a year. that was the year they went to the super bowl. they went 16-3. >> reporter: talk about timing but it worked and players and coaches began frequenting the place. harrison still has the free meal card issued to jack reynolds. now the restaurant hads a burger named after him. >> how much did it cost you to feed these guys for free? >> it turned out to be a lot.

quite a bit. i never really stopped to add it up. >> reporter: but for what it cost him, he got much more in return, the bar flourished with fans and he became close to many on the team. displayed on the wall is a personal information from the family to attend bill walsh's funeral service and he became friends with many of the players who were part of the glory days of those first championships. >> this is dan over there sporting a super bowl ring. notice he has a real tight grip on my neck there. want to make sure i wasn't going to run away with it. >> reporter: and it meant a lot to him that former linebacker kena turner offered to voice a radio commercial for free. >> do you know the greatest red and gold restaurant in the bay area? >> reporter: harrison says he never intended for this to be a 49er restaurant. it just evolved that way with each new

memory added to the walls. his wife thinks it is that authenticity that makes the place so popular. >> people come in wanting to talk about the 49ers. >> reporter: it's been a long time since the 49ers were upstarts but for harrison, those were the sweetest days of all. >> so, it has been a great ride. and here we are. 42 years later. hoping for another one. >> reporter: another team has come from nowhere to surprise the football world. harrison says he wishes them well. just not this year, the lions. >> the 49ers practice facility used to be close by. lots of players and coaches had homes in the area. and became regular customers. meanwhile, in michigan, general motors has delayed the start of some 1500 employee shifts so they can watch the game. auto workers at this flint, michigan factory says they have a special

connection with the team. >> i think it is resilience. it resonates with every person that is not only from the city of detroit, the surrounding cities. and the entire state. >> we love an underdog. we have been fighting the fight a long time. and living the underdog life. >> this is only their second ever nfc championship appearance. the last time was all the way back in 1992. and at the 49ers make it to the super bowl, you will only see it here on cbs and streaming on paramount plus. after tomorrow's nfc championship game, we have a special red and gold report on pix plus. but we are not done yet here tonight. matt lively has all the details on how the 49ers players and coaches are getting ready for tomorrow's game. and then a new city has thrown its name in the hat to host as home games once they leave the coliseum. we'll let you know who is behind the new campaign. and now that we have talked about the forecast for the game

and whatever part of the bay you will be in tomorrow, it will be quite warm. we will look ahead. widespread rain coming. on wednesday, so we will go into all the details on this storm. we are getting closer to it now. we can start pulling out a few more specifics, coming up after the break. in order for small businesses to thrive, they need to be smart, efficient, savvy. making the most of every opportunity. that's why comcast business is introducing the small business bonus. for a limited time you can get up to

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free, free, free palestine. >> in downtown san rafael today, people gathered to show support for palestinians and called for a cease fire. the death toll in gaza has surpassed 26,000 as israel continues to bombard the territory. and now, an accusation by israel has led to a number of nations cutting aid to gaza. the israeli government claims that members of the united nations relief agency in gaza were themselves involved with hamas and participated in the october 7th attack. the united states and several other western nations have halted their funding of the agency as a result. a move the u.n. rwa commissioner called shocking. >> the secretary general is horrified by this news. and asked him to investigate this matter swiftly.

>> the palestinian red crescent said their headquarters and hospital are being besieged by the israeli army. back in the bay, the recent rainstorms have paid off big for the seven reservoirs managed by the marin municipal water district and it has reached 100% capacity. according to the marin independent journal, recent storms have dropped nearly eight inches of rain. the district rainfall is at nearly 34 inches. the start of the water year is october 1st and at that time, district reservoirs were at 86%. in the south bay, while the valley water reservoirs are well below average, they are pleased with the regularity of the rain we have been seeing this year. >> really a normal year is when we have flooding or drought. i mean, that seems to be what happens is we have these extreme weather events that happen during our winter months. and then of course, the droughts during our summer months. >> keller says next week's storms are expected to really bolster the santa clara reservoirs but he is also keeping a close eye on the snow

pack in the sierra. the runoff makes up a lot of the water supply there. okay, so we are supposed to have a nice day tomorrow. but there will be something. something coming next week. again. >> wednesday. >> wednesday. >> and then, a couple of days after that, too, it is cloudy a bit. leftover showers but wednesday is the day when we are going to experience the majority of this rain coming in from the system. so i just want to go straight to that part of this forecast. there are already a lot of storms coming out of the pacific. the warmup is blocking all the storms but that warmup comes to an end on tuesday. sunday and monday will be pretty identical. tuesday, we get cooler, wednesday, the rain gets here. let's look at this in a couple of different ways now. we are starting to pull out a little more detail. and there is certainly as much agreement now on this in the long range models has there has been the last 36 hours. it will

be widespread steady rain coming in wednesday. and that's the main event right there. i'm not putting the specific times there yet. we are keeping it generally bracketed to wednesday. into thursday morning before the tail end of it kind of clears and then we will be back in the center of the system which is kind of where the colder air is. that one will less us at this point. >> this one can look pretty dramatic. this storm is put together in ways that enable it to have stronger wind than the last couple of storm that's have come through. and you can watch that line kind of come in right when the main bands of rain do. so right through wednesday, we'll be looking at an up tick in winds. again, we are not putting specific numbers on it yet. there is no wind advisories yet. it is kind

of early. but if the national weather service, we will let you know. we have already designated wednesday a first alert day. that is just our way of always making sure several days out, if we can see something with high certainty coming, we just want to raise the awareness on it, we'll do it. but here's the nuance on this. while this will be a good amount of rain, this is not going to be an overwhelmingly problematic amount of rain for us. we are looking at two-and-a-half inches in the north bay. and an inch-and-a-half in the golden gate south. that is pretty comparable to the last storm that came at the end of last week and the impact should also be comparable. you get ponding on roadways. and some of the smaller streams and creeks up in the north bay. might reach banks. the levels of the banks. so that's it. this would not be the kind of storm that would cause widespread flooding on the mainstream rivers. this is not like that. but it is still going to be an impactful

system. that's why we have first alert wednesday, thursday might have to be included. for right now, we can clearly see wednesday having some of the best ingredients of the system. notice how the showers do kind of linger a bit going into friday. it looks like a progressive pattern. there could be more coming after this one. but let's take them one at a time. all right, andrea, back to you. >> thanks darren,. utah has put up new billboards to try and convince the as to play there following the 2024 season. that's when the lease at the coliseum ends and the stadium in las vegas isn't expect today be finished until 2028. matt? >> very interesting. coming up in sports, we are in the final countdown. the niners just one win away from the super bowl. but they are going to have to get past the lions first. we have the keys to the game for you right after the break.

the 49ers are ready, biggest game of the year. we have three keys to the game for san francisco. number one, it all revolves around brock purdy. he has to play like the finalist. the lions ranked just 27th in passing defense this season. their secondary is certainly a huge weakness. and they have allowed over 340 passing yards to matt stafford and baker mayfield in these playoffs. it is time for brock to step up, have a signature performance. all right, and open up that passing game, what do you do? you have to run it well. key number two is feed christian mcaffrey. seems like kyle shanahan forgot he has the rushing champ on his team. the lions are the second best run

defense in the league. mcaffrey is not simply your average running back. the third key, you have to make detroit one dimensional. this makes stuffing their duo. they have the fifth best rush attack. the niners defensive front has not played to their standard in recent weeks. you have to have a big game out of the big guys you pay a lot of money to. i'm looking at you, nick bosa, chase young, and hargrave to make a difference. they reached this point differently due to their vastly different coaching style. >> when you knock us down, we are going to get up. and on the way up, we will bite a kneecap off. >> reporter: when dan campbell has the floor, you are guaranteed to have something interesting. >> we have to get all the rest of this [bleep] out of our stuff. doesn't matter if you have [bleep] [bleep]. i will be. >> reporter: campbell is an

aggressive motivator. a sound byte savant. and a leader with a commanding tone. >> dan is the greatest leader i have been around. cultivated this culture we have. >> reporter: leaders come in many forms. kyle shanahan is not nearly as intense as dan campbell. >> never had a grown man send me s■o any ictures with his shirt off, but it looks good. >> reporter: his players don't need him to be anyone but himself. >> kyle is funny. a cool dude, great sense of humor. funny in his meetings. very relatable to the guys. i like him a lot. >> reporter: the 49ers locker room couldn't imagine him using a tactic from the campbell school of knee biting and punches. >> has kyle ever walked in here and said something as raucous as that before? >> i never heard kyle say nothing like that. no. never heard that. >> how would you guys react? >> we would probably laugh after it. >> reporter: while their approaches different. >> when you drag their [bleep]

out to the deep dark abyss, you can drown them. >> reporter: their goals are the same. deliver a victory speech sunday. one will sound like this. >> you guys earned it. i love everyone in here man. >> reporter: the other could be slightly more fierce. >> it has been 30 years! 30s years. this is special. >> there is a reason both of those guys are finalist for coach of the year. still to come, the as are getting a new pitcher but he probably won't have to hire any movers. plus, a wild game at chase center saturday night. it is always competitive when the lakers come to town, but this one instant classic.

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lakers and warriors certainly have a healthy rivalry. a true morn california versus so cal feel. but you never expect the two teams to duke it out like these two did saturday night for what was one of the best regular season games in a long time. before the game, here is how klay

thompson rolled up on his bike. we pick things up in the fourth quarter. warriors look like they are putting this thing away. steph curry makes it a nine point game. but the lakers clawed back. way back. under two to go. deangelo russell gives la the first lead of the quarter. warriors down two. ball in steph's hands. the wizardry here to get after anthony davis. lays it in to tie the game at tom and jerry. final seconds ot. warriors down three. klay thompson sends it to overtime. wide open look for curry. huge night for curry with 46 but it wasn't enough. the lakers ball goes to lebron. curry can't believe it and lebron makes the first and the

second. puts them on top. one last chance here for steph. and it just wasn't in the cards. lakers win. 145-144. an instant classic in san francisco. tough loss for the warriors. they fall to 19-24 on the season. a familiar face in the bay area is joining a new team. but not going to have to go very far. alex wood agreed to a deal to join the as . the left-handed pitcher has played in san francisco the last three seasons. wood started over 60 games for the giants over the last three years. andrea, we were just talking about it. what do you think of dan campbell and all that rah-rah? >> i thought the introductory presser was a little awkward, dan campbell was a lot more awkward. the kneecap thing. just no. >> it will be fun to see what it's like tomorrow. >> thanks matt. we'll be back after this.

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a quick prediction. >> niners. >> niners,. >> niners tomorrow. all right, thanks for watching. we'll see you back here tomorrow. goodnight.

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