now at 11:00, one family was just settling into their new home right as the storm was settling in over the bay area, the mess they're left with as the clouds start to clear and people along the russian river have seen their fair share of flooding. >> with previous floods and

even through the fires and everything we were getting alerts, but this time we didn't. >> why they say this time was unlike anything they've ever seen before and it's a group aimed at helping some of san francisco's most vulnerable, but now it is looking for help from the city so that hundreds of people don't lose their jobs. plus few of us are looking forward to talking politics at the thanksgiving table, why this trump supporter and this harris volunteer said they were eager to meet. >> we had this conversation. it had bumps. it had smooth parts. it had places of agreement. from kpix, this is the late news with sara donchey on cbs news bay area. >> hello. i'm sara donchey. all this rain we've had has definitely made its mark. we may be closing the book on fire season, but it's come at a price after historic downpours. we know two people have died and the damage is adding up. two storm-related deaths are under investigation

in sonoma county. one man was found dead in a car saturday on a flooded road in guerneville. another body was found in a santa rosa creek. for others, the rain meant they lost much of what they owned. kara st. cyr was in guerneville with the story of a family who was barely settling in when the rain forced them out. >> reporter: the atmospheric river brought feet of rain to some parts of northern california, triggering landslides and flooding roads. in guerneville about 20 miles from santa rosa trava faust saw her new home swell with water in less than 24 hours. the aftermath was devastating. >> he's doing his best. >> reporter: faust and her partner had just signed a lease of their three-story home and were still moving in the day the storm was set to hit. the couple used the bottom level of their home as storage for incoming boxes. faust said the moving process was well underway when water started to

seep into the basement. >> we just moved in and literally had no idea we were in a hotspot. >> reporter: the couple tried to move all the boxes upstairs with a forklift, but by 3:00 p.m. 3 feet of water had filled the basement destroying precious momentos, tools faust uses for work and cars. >> without even getting a notice from the landlords the cars didn't have a chance. it was really fast and no, was not expected. >> reporter: faust estimates that combined her and her partner have lost more than $100,000 worth of their belongings and possible income. they spent the last few days fishing their belongings out of a nearby river. >> we're still in the middle of it. devastating, my partner took the biggest loss because it was his contracting tools and childhood memorabilia. >> reporter: the couple is living on the second and third floor of their home while they try and piece their lives back together. faust said she does

not know when she'll recover. >> there were other people along the russian river who say they were not given a proper warning all of this water was coming at them. our wilson walker spoke with people on the riverfront who say they had no idea how bad it would get. >> water came up to about right here. so it was up to about here. >> reporter: teresa burns is still sorting through what might be salvageable from her camper consumed by the nearby creek as the russian river rose on friday. >> it was at 34 feet, i believe, or 35 feet is where it got to and that sealed our fate. in the past we've had nixel alerts and stuff like that with previous floods and even through the fires and everything. we were getting alerts, but this time we didn't. >> this water came in and it was a flow of water. >> reporter: michael gomez says he was lucky to save his camper at the last minute, but given the impact of the water he,

too, was left wondering. >> well, you know, that was funny because we were asking ourselves the same question. we didn't get any nixel alerts. we didn't get anything. >> well, i want to emphasize that although an alert didn't go out, there was plenty of communication. we spent the last eight days working with our community partners, cities, fire districts, national weather service, including our media partners in getting word out about the significance of this atmospheric river that was approaching. >> reporter: the communications manager for sonoma county said the storm response was by the book and that includes notifications based on the specific forecast of the river. in this case it reached 34.65 feet, just short of moderate flood stage at 35. >> when the river reaches a moderate or certainly major flood level, which did not happen in this case, there

would be evacuations start to be ordered and there would be evacuation centers opened and at that time nixel hearts most likely would be going out alerting people, but the russian river reached minor flood stage, but i don't want to diminish the fact even at minor flood there are many people impacted. we recognize that. our thoughts are with them. many people know that that's the risks of being in low lying areas near the russian river, but that said, again, we learn from every event. we're going to take stock in what happened in this case and we'll evaluate that and we're always looking for ways to do it better. >> i think that's a good example. obviously a lot of people in this area know that the russian river floods a lot. it's a good example just because it's not moderate flood stage doesn't mean it

can't cause problems or we shouldn't really pay attention to the forecast. i feel so bad for all of those people. >> yeah. it's one of those things where the phrasing can be a little misleading, minor flooding. >> not minor if you lose everything. >> right. minor is something that happens to somebody else, i guess. it's just unfortunate and fortunately, for all of us we're going to be seeing drier weather taking over as we head through the next few days, but not yet tonight. we do have rain moving into the santa cruz mountains and into the southern end of the santa clara valley, coming down at a good clip around gilroy. this is another atmospheric river, on the northern fringe of it. the bulk of that moisture is directed to the central coast where they'll face greater flooding potential through the rest of tonight. this atmospheric river is not nearly as strong as the one that inundated the north bay last week. let's look at the rainfall totals we've been adding up over the past six days or so. over 22 1/2 inches of rain in sonoma county, over 13 inches for santa rosa, san rafael over 10 1/2, over 8 for

ben lomond, santa cruz mountains picking up another half inch tonight, over 4 inches for san francisco and a few off-and-on showers are possible through at least the first half of the day tomorrow, but conditions are going to improve around the bay area, around most of california. any local travel looks good except if you're heading up to south lake tahoe, winter storm warning continues until 4:00 a.m. wednesday. wait until the day before thanksgiving if you're heading to do some skiing. nationally, new york is a trouble spot. the northeastern u.s. might get a nor'easter on the thanksgiving day. we'll look at our thanksgiving forecast coming up in a few minutes. some other headlines, police finally arrested the man accused of stabbing and killing a man outside embarcadero b.a.r.t. last month. it seems they may have stumbled upon the suspect by chance. b.a.r.t. police arrested jonathan wright yesterday morning in san leandro for allegedly not paying his fare. san francisco

police now say wright was responsible for that deadly stabbing. san francisco's street ambassador program has been a big part of the city's safety plan under mayor london breed. one year ago nonprofit urban alchemy launched a new operation aimed at helping women and victims of domestic violence, but now the project may run out of money. urban alchemy issued a notice to 300 employees that they could be laid off. they're waiting on the board of supervisors to approve some $7 million in funding. as our lauren toms reports, the program is trying not to get distracted about what could happen and instead focus on helping people in need. >> everybody needs help and everybody needs love. >> reporter: it's not just a feeling. it's a mission for sherman, deputy director of urban alchemy's love team. each day he walks this block of mission street between eighth and ninth making the city a little safer and a little

kinder. >> i feel good helping people. i remember my first reversal. i once took lives. now i save lives. that was a good moment for me. >> reporter: for sherman saving lives is more than an act of kindness. it's redemption after spending more than 30 years behind bars. he's found a way to give back, repairing the harm he says he once caused. >> it's truly given back and it was truly making a living amends to the community and to the people. >> reporter: sherm represents the evolution of the love team, originally founded in 2023 as an all-women group focused on unhoused women and domestic violence survivors. the team has since grown. today its practitioners, men and women alike, connect with anyone in need. >> you're welcome. have a good day, okay?

>> reporter: and that love is making an impact. in their first year the love team has collected more than 1,700 needles, used over 1,000 trash bags to clean public spaces, and reversed six overdoses. sherm personally saved one of those lives, but he doesn't do it alone. meet nataya, once homeless herself, she now channels her past into compassion for others. >> i was homeless before. so that's why my compassion comes. i felt like nobody did love me. that's how i felt in the past, but now being with the community and actually working for the community, i see what i was going through. i see myself within that unhoused guest. >> reporter: together the love team has transformed this small stretch of san francisco, but the work has also transformed sherman and the team themselves.

>> every day i learn and every day i listen. >> reporter: on this block love isn't just a word. it's an action and for sherman it's also a second chance. >> the future of urban alchemy and its funding will be discussed during a meeting on december 4th. a lot of people say this election has a lot of us divided as ever as we head into the holiday. so we decided to put that to the test. >> i thought let's go. let's continue this. >> we followed a harris supporter and a trump supporter before, during, and after the election. we'll show you how it met when they finally decided to meet. if this looks to you like some kind of professional holiday fireworks display, you would be wrong, where this illegal show happened that had neighbors worried that something had exploded.

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factory of fireworks exploding. fireworks, of course, are illegal in the city of oakland. opd says they are looking into it. if that were sanctioned, that would not have been a good night to watch them because it was pretty cloudy. >> yeah. they were going off essentially at ground level was the only way you would see those. the clouds are eventually going to leave us. the showers are eventually going to leave us. it will happen gradually throughout the day tomorrow. let's look at the big picture changes in store for us. lingering showers tonight and the first half of tuesday, but i think we'll start drying out during the afternoon, a prolonged stretch of dry weather beginning wednesday, just in time for all that prethanksgiving travel and continue through thanksgiving weekend. we're talking about an extended dry break that is going to carry us actually into december. the six to ten-day outlook shows a strong signal towards drier than normal conditions and an eight to 14-day outlook shows the same,

taking us through the first full weekend of december with drier than normal conditions, some forecast model data saying zero rain for wednesday through at least a couple weeks. for now we still have a few showers. let's look what's happening on first alert doppler. for most of the bay area we're talking about a few radar freckles, nothing in terms of intense rainfall. when you go farther south into the santa clara valley and especially the santa cruz mountains, that's where we are picking up on some rain that is hitting the ground and that's the case through the rest of this evening and into early tomorrow morning as well. the bulk of moisture with this particular weaker atmospheric river is missing us to the south. let's look at futurecast and track how things are going to evolve as we head through tonight and tomorrow. there is that next surge of moisture that is mainly soaking the central coast, but it's close inform to send some rain into the santa clara valley and santa cruz mountains, moves out before the sun comes up tomorrow morning, doesn't mean we're completely dry, still a

few hit-or-miss showers dotting the radar through the first half of tuesday. beginning around lunchtime the showers are much more miss than hit. we just don't lose all the cloud cover yet. the gray skies overhead keep temperatures a little below average. skies gradually clear out tomorrow night. the pattern holds from wednesday through the four-day weekend, talking about morning fog giving way to plenty of sunshine for the rest of the day, just looks like a generally pleasant weather pattern for thanksgiving weekend. in terms of how much additional rain, a few hundredths of an inch, some spots maybe approaching a quarter inch. the number for ben lomond may be a little bit on the low side, but even there a quarter to half inch of rain on top of what you've picked up, hardly a drop in the proverbial bucket. it won't lead to any significant flooding issues. in the sierra the snow will continue to fly, but we're only talking about 3 to 6 inches of additional snowfall in the tahoe vicinity. in bear valley further south they'll pick up another 10

inches or so. i would wait until wednesday for any travel in that direction since the road crews will have to catch up. let's look at tomorrow's forecast. high temperatures underneath the cloud cover, a mix of upper 50s and low 60s, not a whole lot of variation across the entire bay area. the cool spots along the coast, 57 degrees for pacifica and half moon bay, 63 degrees the warm spot. that lack of contrast carries us through the holiday weekend. let's look at the seven-day outlook and we don't have to break it down because everybody is pretty much on that evening playing field, a couple degrees cooler for the coast. basically around 60 degrees through the entire seven-day forecast. we will see more and more sunshine as we head through wednesday, thursday, friday and saturday and then some fair weather clouds making a return by sunday and monday of next week. after tomorrow we have zero rain in the extended forecast. just a few additional showers,

nothing problematic and then we dry out a bit. >> i love not being problematic. >> do you? this is a first. turning over a new life. >> thank you, paul. speaking of problematic, thanksgiving is coming. so are all the awkward family conversations. some of them may be even rising to the level of fights and perhaps more so than ever politics will inevitably light the match for take lot of people. our itay hod had been following two different people throughout the election cycle, one of them firmly with trump, the other stumping for harris. they did not know each other. we thought after the election ended at least in the immediate aftermath their story did, too, until the two of them saw each other's coverage and decided hey, we want to meet. itay hod shows us how that went. >> hey, lisa, i'm stephisa, nice to meet you. this is my wife vivica. >> reporter: they came from opposite worlds both hoping that a handshake could lead to

a conversation that most of us are trying to avoid. >> i'm really excited about this. >> yeah, me, too. i think this is good. >> reporter: lisa disbrow, a trump supporter, and stephisa ycoy-walton, a harris volunteer, had every reason to stay apart. >> nice to meet you, miss jill. >> reporter: on this day at the black panther party's mini museum in oakland, they came together, each clinging to a small but genuine belief that just maybe a bridge could be built. lisa, a grandmother from moraga, spent weeks waving trump flags on an overpass near lafayette. stephisa organized for kamala harris. one to ten, how bad are the stress levels? >> 12. >> reporter: aside from appearing in a series of stories about the election, they had never crossed paths before until lisa reached out. >> i thought let's go. let's continue this. >> reporter: stephisa agreed,

suggesting they meet here at the museum. >> i wanted to meet you here because i wanted you to see the root of our history. >> reporter: it started well enough. >> what about you? what do you do? >> reporter: but regard little of their good intentions, it quickly became clear this wasn't going to be easy. >> i don't think that the values espoused in the trump administration is anti any racial group. >> oh, my. >> reporter: but the conversation got particularly heated when it came to education. lisa as a former teacher, stephisa helps disadvantaged youth become more financially literate. >> donald trump li people? >> donald trump loves black people? >> yes. >> reporter: in the end there was a deeper divide. >> i tried to listen to her in a more accepting neutral that's how you think, okay. and i think you didn't respond in that same manner.

>> do i want it to be an understanding that like we kind of don't agree? yeah. do i want you to feel like i'm going to be your friend? i don't want to be rude, but no. >> reporter: despite their differences, both women found value in meeting face to face. >> we had this conversation. it had bumps. it had smooth parts. it had places of agreement. >> this is a conversation that i appreciate simply because it brings two opposing views to the table and lets us know we can still walk away okay. >> reporter: still far apart, but giving each other some measure of respect and a firm handshake. still ahead, a very strange thanksgiving cooking competition gets underway, why you may decide to have a dietary restriction if you choose to dine from one of these people. straight ahead in sports, a popular 49er is about ready to

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well, the remaining bay area sports teams are having a bit of a struggle. >> peaks and valleys, sara. we're in the valley right now. >> we're deep in the valley. >> but at least we have the warriors and tonight the warriors, it's one of those games where got a big lead, just turn off the tv, come back and go what happened? we're talking about the warriors tonight. what happens if they don't protect the ball, miss free throws? here's the game at chase center tonight with the brooklyn nets. moody scored 15 in the first half. they were running undermanned out of the building. curry feeling it

scored 28, but brooklyn stormed back, made that deficit disappear with a 27-6 run, took the lead back. brooklyn made 20 three's, no answer for dennis schroder scoring 17 of his 31 points in the fourth period. brooklyn earned this one, 128-120. hockey night in san jose for sharks goalie earning his first win. how? they were tied with the kings third period and the kid struck, 18-year-old macklin celebrini took over. the rookie put the sharks on top and in less than three minutes alert this, a one timer for the superstar number one overall pick. celebrini's sixth goal in 12 games. the sharks scored five goals in the final 20 minutes, beat l.a. 7-2. celebrini, i guess he can help his old roommate crunch the

numbers. >> and mack, thanks for helping it out with grade six math. it's not one of my strong suits. >> you know it. to the nfl, it was monday night football, but billed as the hard bowl tonight in los angeles, jim and john harbaugh on opposite sides the first time since super bowl lii. >> i love my brother and i'd lay down my life for my brother, but i would not let him win a football game. >> jim, the chargers coach, was looking for his first win in three tries against his older brother, about the john has ravens quarterback lamar jackson into the first half deep to rashod bateman, what a catch, gave baltimore the lead, one of three touchdowns for jackson. the ravens beat the chargers 30-23. john stays unbeaten against his little brother. 49er fans have been waiting for this one. line breaker

drake greenlaw will practice wednesday, his first since tearing his achille's in the super bowl. the team has 21 days to decide when to add greenlaw to the active roster. as they look to get brock purdy back for the bills game, sara, you see the nfc west, 9ers only a game out of first, but as we close business tonight, they have a 17% chance of reaching the playoffs. >> i just asked you in the commercial break how the chances looked. >> got to go out and play the game, can't quit. >> doesn't look great. we'll see what happens, vern, thank you. thanksgiving is almost here. before you start complaining about your aunt's horrific green bean casserole recipe, we have this to show you. you may

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for those of us lucky enough to celebrate thanksgiving with family, there is a lot to be grateful for, but we would be remiss not to acknowledge the fact there will be some pretending happening at the dinner table because who among us has been asked as we were eating so what do you think and said good. >> great. >> yeah. well, this next story will put that dry stale stuffing recipe in perspective. this thanksgiving cooking contest in idaho was all about one ingredient in particular that i would guess is not on your menu this year, bugs. all the participants at the competition at the museum of idaho had to use either crickets, mealworms, or black ants. >> so basically what i'm looking for is a flavor that kind of fully incorporates the insect's flavor. so each insect has a slightly different flavor profile and depending on

people's culinary skills, it will either blend really well with whatever food that they're using or it will stand out really strongly. >> oh, come on, the flavor profile? >> oh, my gosh. >> what is the flavor profile of a mealworm? that is a question i hope to never have the answer to. the judges tried out the dishes and the winner was the cook who created jalapeno cornbread topped with honey and crickets. >> basically masking it with as many different flavors as possible. >> drowned in honey. >> you get the heat and the sweet and the crickets. >> some people probably get those in there on accident. >> good point. >> yeah. that's a ho >> in the wake of the 2024 election, a cruise line is now offering a 4-year "skip ahead" trip for people looking to avoid a