from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. now at 11:00, santa is not the only thing on its way to the bay area tuesday. rain is bearing down as we head toward christmas. darren has the forecast. and how much of that rain will impact the tens of millions of americans rushing to make it to their holiday

destinations? local airports see a surge in passengers. >> it's been pretty smooth. >> so far, so good. >> i haven't seen her in a really long time. and then we'll tag along with some of santa's ground team as mail carriers work to try to make sure everybody's gets end up where they're supposed to be in time for christmas. >> good evening. i'm brian hackney. >> and i'm andrea nakano. with just three days before the first night of hanukkah and christmas day, families across the bay area are keeping an eye on the weather. >> which is why we'll start with your holiday forecast. take a live look outside now. there's still a little rain coming down over the bay area, but more serious stuff is a few days out. >> tuesday morning, can't really stress that enough. i'm going to keep hitting that one. there's like four different systems coming our way in the seven-day forecast. >> i saw lightning tonight. >> i want to talk about that now, too. tuesday morning is the headline in terms of what's coming, but since brian saw lightning tonight and he's

not the only one, you had to be in the north bay really to experience this. look up here. i'm going to play it real slow is. watch the time in the bottom corner. this got into the 6:00 and 7:00 hour. we can track these thing now specific in relation to time and get a real great overview on how tonight went. we all got some rain out of this, but those returns were brighter and deeper orange when you were farther in the north bay between 6:00 and 7:00. look at the rainfall totals from this. this is going back to like 5:00. we got a couple hundredths of an inch of rain for locations along the peninsula and in the south bay, but look at the cluster of rainfall totals up here, novato, petaluma, santa rosa coming away with a half inch. we'll say good-bye to the wide view and i'll show you a few light showers are possible between now and 6:00 a.m. over the bay, really light stuff, nothing too dramatic. it's done by tomorrow and then we

are getting a break. that's good because the next system awaits or at least is on its way. i want to give you that quick view. we'll leave behind live radar, put it into futurecast, say good-bye to tonight's rain and now i want to get you into monday night late before we bring this to an end. i want you to see what shows up on tuesday morning. i'll leave you with that image, the first frame of the arrival of that cold front. that's different. that's going to be more noticeable rain and have an impact on tuesday morning, wind, maybe isolated thunderstorms, all the details coming up in the complete forecast in a few minutes. >> thanks, darren. the weather at least has not had much impact on the millions of people traveling for the holidays with one in three americans on the move this weekend. between now and january 2nd the tsa expects to screen nearly 40 million passengers. that's a 6% increase from a year ago and 107 million americans are expected to drive to their

holiday destinations. well, this is what it looked like about an hour ago as people were trying to get into sfo, bumper to bumper traffic leading into the arrival terminals. an estimated 8 million people are expected to pass through bay area airports before the new year, more than 6 million through sfo alone, but as our amanda hari found out, they seem to be handling it well so far. >> reporter: most of the people i spoke to say they're surprised by just how smooth their travel experience has been this weekend. we look at the departing flights. almost all of them are on time. on the sunday before christmas, baggage claim at sfo was filled with people waiting to complete their travel experience and make their way to their final holiday destinations, but upstairs navine mendoza and her family are waiting for even

more precious cargo, her older sister angie. >> i'm really excited. i'm a junior in high school and haven't seen my sister since my freshman year. >> reporter: mendoza's sister lives in seattle with their biological mother. they don't get many holidays together, so she was determined to make this one special. >> i bought her a bouquet with butterflies on it. i picked them out. she really likes roses so i got some that have different colors. >> reporter: while mendoza was waiting to begin her holiday celebration, tom baldwin's was coming to an end. >> we went up before the holidays to visit grandparents in georgia. so now i'm on my way home. >> reporter: baldwin says sometimes it's less stressful to visit family before the actual holiday. >> just squeezing it all in with work and school schedules. >> reporter: he was pleasantly surprised with how easy the travel experience was and so was spencer robert who just arrived from florida. >> very relieved, yeah, going to get a christmas beer and get

on the day. >> reporter: j.j. josie is on a business trip over the holidays and says he anticipated crowds and long lines. >> i would have thought it would have been more people than i thought even though they say there's a lot of people traveling. i don't see it right now. >> reporter: making for an easy day, but for mendoza, she was anxious in the final minutes of waiting for her sister to get off the plane. >> probably pretty emotional, you know. it's like oh, my gosh, i might cry, but i haven't seen her in a really long time and growing up we were always really close. so i'm pretty excited. >> reporter: when the moment finally arrived, mendoza and her siblings sprinted across the terminal to meet angie, grateful her flight arrived safely and ready to spend the christmas holiday with the whole family. >> happy you're home. >> reporter: sfo is expecting a 15% increase in travelers this year compared to 2023. they say

despite how easy many people have said it's been so far, you should still arrive early for your flight and check your flight status before leaving home for the airport. meanwhile at the oakland airport it all seemed fairly manageable today, but the holiday travel season is expected to be one of the busiest. more than 500,000 passengers will pass through the airport. the airlines expect the 26th, 27th , and 29th to be the three busiest upcoming travel days. >> yeah. definitely get out early. i would definitely say -- i know they say two hours ahead, maybe a little bit more. tsa can get a little backed up. >> usually i don't fly around the holidays because i know how hectic it gets and i don't have the patience to be stuck in long lines and all that stuff. >> not just people rushing to get to their holiday destinations this week. millions of packages are criss-crossing the country tonight and if you still haven't sent your gifts, what

is keeping you? mail carriers are rushing to get everything where it needs to be on time. >> yeah. they are working six-day weeks, walking more than ten miles a day. sooji nam tagged along with one mail carrier in san jose during the busiest time of the year. >> reporter: that nahima starts her day as a postal carrier at 7:30 a.m. six days a week in san jose. >> i'm getting my packages ready. >> reporter: she's been working for the u.s. postal service the past seven years. >> my route has 513 residentials. >> reporter: delivering to more than 500 homes every day. >> i walk about 14 miles an average just on my route alone. >> reporter: nahima is used to delivering countless packages on her shift, but there is a significant spike during the holiday season. she's averaging at least 1,000

package deliveries every week. in fact, the berryessa postal office in san jose processed over 30,000 packages over the past two weeks. nahima will be working christmas eve to make sure all her residents get their mail in time. >> i'm the last stop christmas presents go. so i have to make sure i deliver them because i mean like it or not, there's that christmas present and i have to be the one delivering it. >> reporter: she adds it's all about the people, not the job, houses turned into familiar faces and those familiar faces soon turned into friends. >> she's awesome! you take care of her because we want her forever! >> reporter: like mercedes and her family who now call nahima a lifelong friend. >> didn't see my dad for a long time because he was sick. she asked and she was just worried about him because that's what it is. she knows us and she cares about us. >> reporter: it's a special

moment for nahima who was moved by the love from the community she serves. >> happy holidays to you, too. well, it's nice to hear. it's nice to hear that what you do matters to certain people, you know, and the impact that you cause. they know about my son being in the military and my daughter and stuff like that. so they know when i'm not here and they know when i'm here. >> reporter: it's something so much more than just delivering mail. >> sometimes you think that, you know, you're just walking down the street and people don't notice you, but obviously they do. >> reporter: nahima is grateful that she is cared for by the friends she's made along the way in this san jose neighborhood and she cares for them back, one letter at a time. >> the deadline for your packages to get to their destination by christmas through the post office was yesterday, but if you're willing to pay a little bit more, fedex and ups still offer

next-day air through tomorrow. >> well, time to start shopping. people across the bay area are celebrating the holiday weekend. some spent the day riding the tilden steam train. the last day of winter fest in orinda, the redwood valley railway runs two trains taking passengers through the trees and holiday-themed exhibits and in san francisco the warriors are giving back to the community by hosting a pop-up holiday market at thrive city. families were able to stock up on free groceries for their holiday meals. it's part of the team's annual season of giving campaign. join us for our special decked out for the holidays airing christmas eve and christmas day. still ahead tonight at 11:00, it wasn't the get 49er fans hoped for, miami. what comes next for the red and gold after a disappointing end to a lackluster season. later, law enforcement officials are growing more and

more worried about the online rhetoric about the alleged unitedhealthcare ceo shooter ahead of his court appearance this week.

foggy out there tonight. >> you know, i'm guessing, darren, that's a time lapse, but that is also pacifica with the surf up. high surf warning is in effect now through tuesday through the west coast. breakers could be up to 35 feet and folks need to be very careful if they're headed to the coast. >> i want to start with that. >> yeah. while we're standing on pink and green. >> and specifically you're standing on green for the coast. just hang out here a second. >> okay. >> we've got a high surf

warning in green along the coast. normally we talk about these and it's a high surf advisory. national weather service doesn't often elevate these to warnings, but they do when we have a map that looks like that. what we're looking at here is the wave energy coming our way. the magenta shows you the higher swell and you can see that thing hitting the coast over the next three days. >> surf's up. >> especially tomorrow and tuesday, you know. my one concern is you've got friends or family here and maybe there's somebody who is not near an ocean who wants to go see the ocean. if you get anywhere near the beach, stay away from the surf over the next two days. this is the kind of situation where people lose their lives because they'll sneak right up on you. the other thing i'm going to do is transition from that because we'll switch from the wave height and go to live radar. we've got some light showers moving across the bay right now. we're looking at it there. we can also look at it when we bring in the last hour of radar on the virtual set. look at the timestamp here, a

lot prettier this way now, because when we look at it for just the bay, now you can see there's a weak little front, perfectly organized line marching its way across the bay. this is really light stuff. the impressive stuff from tonight, that's what came through around 6:00. keep your eye on that time staff and let's get a slightly wider view out this way. we'll lose the front because i'm switching this. watch the timestamp go back and keep the north bay in view and watch what it looked like at 6:00, 7:00, and 8:00 up here. that was impressive, a fair share of lightning, a few isolated thunderstorms, fairly short lived. so that was fairly mild in comparison to the way things are looking to stack up for tuesday. come back down. i'm going to remove the map and go straight to the forecast imagery where we can time out the high resolution model. say good-bye to radar and say good-bye to tonight's rain and i'm going to let this play through monday first. monday is cloudy, a few light afternoon

showers in the north bay. that's not it. the system itself is waiting for like midnight going into tuesday. so now here's that time frame. that's a really good looking cold front. let's march that across the bay. deeper shades of red, higher intensity rainfall, really well organized now in a broader line. that is a much more impressive cold front. these are the kinds of systems that give you brief heavy downpours, winds gusting perhaps as much as 40 miles an hour and with this one a few embedded thunderstorms. so in the predawn hours in the north bay you very likely could get awoken by a rumble of thunder, certainly by wind and then this gets down to the golden gate around sunrise on tuesday morning and now we're going to watch that line continue to march its way across the rest of the bay. so the most intense stuff will be in the north bay, but everybody will get in on the act. it shouldn't be as bad in the south bay. by 10:00, 11:00 tuesday morning it's winding down, but just keep

that tuesday morning time frame forefront in your mind in terms of the ability of some pretty impactful rain, some heavy downpours, and we'll probably pick up in total from that about 1 1/2 inches in the north bay, maybe half an inch of rain in the south bay. that's kind of the main event of this week, but it's not the only one and it gets a little murky after christmas day. of course, the most important thing about that forecast. for christmas day is we're out of the storm business. wednesday has no rain on it. even though tuesday is the most important day here, most of the intensity is done by like noon, 1:00. as we get towards christmas eve, things will have really quieted down. all right. thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, all four of these days now have a chance of rain in them. over the four days it's three separate systems coming our way. i'm not showing you those on futurecast because it will evolve and change as we get closer, but the total rainfall

spread out here could be as much as 2 or 3 inches in the north bay and maybe an inch in the south bay. that's a lot of rain, but manageable spread out over four days. the takeaway is you got to plan on rain on about every day and we'll do our best to tell you when the dry times are so you can make your holiday plans. right now it stands with the chance of rain on each one of those days. guys, back to you. >> thank you, darren. coming up next, what to expect when the alleged unitedhealthcare ceo shooter goes to court. (♪♪) make the most of your season during the kia season of new traditions sales event. gift yourself some savings and visit your local kia dealer today. look out for these stickers to find great deals

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you heard the man, game day for december 22. last one before the reindeer and the jolly guy in a red suit visits. now when the niners unwrap their presents, there won't be a playoff invitation under the tree. now why does brock purdy wear number 13? he's a fan of dan marino. miami's first drive is the end of number 57, dre greenlaw. and he left the game and did not return. wide receiver deebo samuel returned with a strong game. seven catches, 96 f