where there's love, there's family. ritz. a taste of welcome. >>the news station you're watching >>good sunday morning to you thanks for joining us here on the kron 4 morning news it's sunday december 27th, i'm noelle bellow we are going to get a start by checking in on our forecast dave spahr standing by in the weather center with a look because we do have some rain that's expected later today right dave yeah that's what we're looking for as we get into tonight, good morning. well, good morning, everybody and as we take this little break in activity here. we saw a nice little cool down occur from out last night in sea temperatures this morning a bit cooler than yesterday now. >>right now we have quite a bit of cloud cover across the bay for for what we see here this will clear out later this

morning allow probably more sunshine today than we saw from yesterday. take a look at some of the pictures here, here's the golden gate bridge as you can see looking pretty good at that vantage point and here's alcatraz with the city all lit up behind it as we see the sun join us but temperatures have been able to slide look at that 30's up in the north bay there down in the east bay we have mid to upper 40's, 44 any off 44 livermore little chilly in some of the valleys there. 45 meanwhile for san jose but here's the real deal. we're some doesn't degrees or so behind up there in the north bay that was the last place to see this cloud cover arrive contrasted with down south we're kind of originated which is interesting how this next storm system is going to blow on in looking at the fog will see some clearing of this happen as we approach the noon hour and get better sky conditions to however with rain developing tonight and into tomorrow morning there you got that fog particularly concentrated in the east bay peninsula and the santa cruz mountains so out of your day shape up today, we've got clouds kind of a mixed bag today variable we'll see highs

get to the upper 50's lower 60's but again as we were talking about rain expected for tonight, get into all of that just a bit well. >>the situation today is desperate urgent, it's inexplicable he's literally golfing. he really wanted to shift this legislation he could have done it any one of those couple 100 days that collapsed. unemployment benefits for millions of americans expired overnight as president donald trump refused to sign 90900 billion dollar covid relief. >>and spending bill president trump says he wants direct stimulus payments increased from $600 to 2004 americans also in jeopardy is the pandemic unemployment assistance program which promises a $300 weekly bonus payment to the unemployed, democrats republicans and the president's own administration have been negotiating this bill for months and lawmakers say this is the first time they've heard from the president about wanting those $2000 payments to the american

people kron four's dan thorn spoke with a political science lecturer about the implications of the president's inaction donald trump ran for office saying he was the one person who could fix government i have to say today, it looks like he's the one person who is breaking it. donna crane adjunct professor of political science at san jose state university says a lot of compromising between democrats and republicans had to be done to get to this point the president's belated askin seeing an increase in the payment amount the professor says is willfully disruptive. >>president trump should be looking at his own party as to why there was no increase before the bill was passed $2000 would be better than $600 the problem is republicans won't vote for they didn't go for it in between may and december and they just voted down 2 days ago when nancy pelosi put that resolution on the house floor, the pandemic unemployment assistance or pua and the pandemic unemployment emergency compensation programs would both be

extended under this relief bill, but as the president delays signing the latest round of federal aid an estimated 12 million people will lose unemployment benefits after this weekend. if the president eventually does sign the bill, those payments are now expected to be delayed for weeks i just don't understand how the president is golfing on a day when i walk literally on my block and there are more homeless people this week than there were last month. reporting in san francisco, dan thorn kron 4 news. >>now to the coronavirus for the united states has reached a grim milestone as one in every 1000 americans have now died from covid-19 this year the u.s. has seen nearly 19 million cases since the start of the pandemic with more than 331,000 deaths that's the highest number of cases and deaths in the world on saturday more than 100,000 new cases were reported and more than 1200 people died of

covid-19 here in california, the state recorded more than 19,000 new cases of coronavirus overnight bringing our active case count to nearly 60,000 now in the state. this as hospital beds quickly fill up with covid-19 patients. the total number of people in the hospital close to 20,000 across california. here in the bay area roughly 11% of icu beds are available. but there is 0 icu bed availability in the san joaquin valley and southern california regions. now with just days to go 5 days to go the u.s. likely won't meet the original goal of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of the year. according to cdc data only about 2 million vaccinations have been reported as of yesterday morning. less than 10 million don't vaccine. doses have been distributed. but health officials say it lags in data reporting may be causing a lower count and what's in actuality now many hospitals are still setting up their

vaccine processes and they're staggering vaccinations among staff, hundreds of thousands of vaccines are expected to be given out across the state of california starting tomorrow, cbs is going to be an administering vaccines and more than 15,000 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities on monday cbs health says they expect to vaccinate nearly 700,000 patients through the program here in the state. the pharmacy says it has an agreement with hhs to eventually provide vaccines to the general public in 2021 as well. >>all right coming up on the kron 00:00am morning news. >>this new wet weather has fire officials keeping a close eye on the area around the czu complex fire burn scars. just in case the rain causes anything to come loose and got a full report, the first after the break we have the latest out of nashville, us federal agents zeroed in on a house links to a person of interest and christmas morning bombing those details after the break.

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>>investigation into a christmas day explosion in nashville continues this morning federal and local investigators are now classifying the incident as a suicide bombing there still combing through debris at the

explosion site as well as at a home where they think the rv was parked in the days leading up to that explosion. tom ago that has the latest. >>the focus of the investigation right now this secondary scene in antioch tennessee the fbi won't talk about what they're looking for here or comment yet on who they might be interested in we have over 500 investigative leads that we're following up on every one of those are their number of individuals that we're looking at. the explosion rocked downtown nashville around dawn christmas day, the device concealed in old white rv detonating near an atnt transmission building on the city's busy second avenue home to a row of bars and restaurants, the rv eerily playing a recorded message counting down to the impending blast. tennessee's governor today appealing for federal help he says will be needed to rebuild calling the damage shocking saying it's a miracle

no one was killed 3 people suffered just minor injuries, but there's still no clarity on human remains reported to have been found at the scene this is several 100 agents. this is our national best stepping forward to help us solve this crime. the fbi and atf are leading the investigation. the fbi with 250 agents and analysts focused solely on this case on finding out who would do this and why the teen is behind me and the folks at they represent are doing everything we can to find out what happened here to get the answers that you deserve. >>and make sure that we're all safe. >>tom negovan news nation. >>we're going to mostly cloudy cold start to euro sunday and it looks like we'll see the skies open up a bit see some sunshine going on temperatures in the upper 50's lower 60's of that no delays at sfo however, rain is coming tonight kind of pain and a free in just a

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open up we'll see a lot more sunshine going on this afternoon we did from yesterday. >>and just as we get past sunset and early sunset we get this time of year. well that's when the rain will come knocking at our door will plot that freed just a bit but you can see some breaks already starting happening in this cloud cover initially was really projected to be on the south but it really start to spill up north as well live shot coming in from alcatraz island there's the cloud cover you can see behind us a little bit of the way of some fog going on as well golden gate bridge up close and personal notice that offshore wind which we're actually going to have because of our placement relative to this next storm system coming our way which is kind of interesting is lat tapping into as much moisture is a lot of the storm systems can do so that's a good important point. but here let's look at those temperatures now up in the north bay got a lot of 30's even with this cloud cover, 35 for santa rosa inland in the east bay we're dropping about 44 livermore 43 conquered the east bay shoreline mid 40's, 45 going on for san jose. so in future cast for are watching march on in first of all we clear things out for

today, lots of sunshine going on as we get into early afternoon late afternoon evening boom here it comes. now this is really the making of a low pressure system it's a cut off lows are saying that race so it doesn't have as much moisture is some of these other storm systems that we get at some times poll in that subtropical moisture away we go. that's good news to avoid flooding now so that's why you haven't heard about any flash flood watch talk with this because amounts look like they have dropped from our perspective a little bit but make no mistake about it the models agree it's common that will be for tonight overnight, here's the hip boom around the bay area. already by 06:00am from our perspective clearing up with the heavier stuff remaining to the south and then the whole bay area with some last minute showers looks pretty good as we go into the afternoon hours and seeing some sunshine. mountain yeah, they're going continue up there in the sea air all day. now for the winds to kind of interesting to watch this. we don't get always the typical type of strong northwest winds 10 program. this being the cut off lower actually seeing a lot of offshore winds know

obviously this is bringing rain and so it's not a concern we always say offshore we get little nervous. but that's just the direction we're seeing the winds in the teens you can see and they kind of bounce around that low now moving to the southeast of us from our perspective in the winds come out of the north as we get into tuesday morning. so partial afternoon clearing we're expecting for today, cool temperatures upper 50's lower 60's. so for tonight, rain and showers heaviest 4 main south and also the heavier amounts beyond that will be in monterey bay more so than even santa cruz mountains then for this week, monday early showers we clear on out and wednesday night to thursday morning. there's another batch of showers in more upstream perhaps into the following weekend. for today. we do about 58 san francisco, but on the cool side, but it is winter 64 san jose and 59 going on for coming up a little bit while the 4 zone forecast for you. it also check into the extended to noel. >>save happening tomorrow. a new travel restriction goes into effect for people heading from the uk into the u.s.

travelers must prove they have had a negative covid-19 test in the past 72 hours before boarding their flight this comes as the world tries to stem the spread of a new more transmissible strain of the virus. health officials in la county hospitals are reporting patients with that new mutated strain already. that's a mutation they're testing for in l a was first confirmed in britain but has been detected in japan, lebanon, australia, south africa and several other european countries, swedish health officials say a traveler from the uk tested positive for the new variant that traveler is isolating and so far no more positive cases of that strain have been detected in sweden. after confirming 2 new cases of that strain in japan though out of an abundance of caution the country is now temporarily banning non-resident foreign nationals from entering the country japanese citizens and foreign residents can still enter but they are required to

self quarantine for 14 days after arrival the ban will start monday and is expected to last through january 31st. meanwhile, the first shots of pfizer's vaccine are being administered in most of the e used 27 countries today the eu originally planned for a coordinated rollout to start today but germany and hungary and slovakia began vaccinations as soon as the doses arrived yesterday, the operator of a nursing home in germany says they broke with the eu's plans because quote every day they wait is one day too many. there could soon be a new coronavirus treatment available that would help right after being exposed to the virus. scientists at university of college london hospitals are performing trials on a post exposure treatment. they're seeing if people who were recently exposed could get some protection from the virus by receiving a direct antibody injection. researchers don't want this to be an alternative to the vaccine, but they say

this could be helpful for those who have not yet been or are unable to be vaccinated results of the trials are expected in the spring. meanwhile an fda review of the moderna vaccine has found a side effect for people with cosmetic facial fillers according to the study the vaccine that can produce swelling and inflammation in areas with stiller all patients who suffered side effects have their symptoms resolve with steroids and antihistamines doctors say reactions like this are expected because the vaccine amp's up the immune system leading it to target on natural substances inside the body. we do have some good news this morning, one sacramento man not letting the pandemic stop him from helping save people's lives around the globe. he began his mission after a stranger donated bone marrow to his daughter and saved her life and now he wants to do the same for others. jessica mensch has his story.

>>i've been to many of the city's more than once from iowa to austria somebodys life was impacted in each of the cities and the to the state's scott mcgregor his world travels can't stop even during a pandemic cancer and blood disorders they do not take a holiday for covid as a volunteer courier for be the match. he makes lifesaving bone marrow deliveries to patients who need a transplant i'm san antonio texas and here in memphis tennessee, proffered it's a deeply personal mission. his own daughter terry was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia just 7 years old in need of a bone marrow transplant as a father. >>the immediate thing is you wish you could trade places with your little you don't want or have to go down that road at all a first look to family members but none were a match. it was ultimately a stranger us donation that saved her parent is now completely cured of that illness. >>and i just feel like every

day is a gift a gift that he wants to share with other families but the pandemic has made it difficult my family got a little concerned and rightfully so saying hey if you're going to be flying all over the country and you're going to be going into hospitals and coming out. there's a chance that you could unintentionally get somebody second home so since april he's been living out of this camp or to keep his family safe. well he cannot be close to his family this christmas they visited outside from a distance a sacrifice. he's more than willing to make to give others a chance to celebrate together for years to come i've been given that gift with my daughter and and it's my turn to try to be play a small part in trying to for that gift to the next patient family in eldorado hills jessica mensch fox 40 news. lawmakers working to overcome racial bias in the military that

>>welcome back 7.25 on this sunday morning, california congresswoman jackie spear is part of a push in congress to force the u.s. military to come to terms with its long history of racial bias as our washington dc correspondent joe khaleel reports military leaders are confident their service members will rise to the occasion. >>the way things have always been done is wrong. congresswoman jackie spear says like law enforcement the

u.s. military must come to terms with its own racial bias we still struggle to carve out an equal place for people of color. >>struggle to ensure they have the same opportunities to serve in advance, according to a 2017 government accountability report minority service members are much less likely to be promoted to officers. i think i had the first african american for sort of the mississippi army national guard served under my command republican trent kelly says he seemed discrimination firsthand we know the five's people with 5 years and below are treated differently. if they're african-american and it's more than just advancement minority service members are more than twice as likely to get court-martialed or prosecuted a trend that's gone back more than 30 years and every single year black service members replenish at a significantly higher rate than white service members retired air force colonel don christensen says those disparities affect every branch ron says the air force especially need significant

reform air force needs to focus on finding solutions and causes congressman gil cisneros, a minority veteran himself says the solution starts with recruitment recruiting more. >>a diverse officer corps. really help solve this criminal justice system cisneros is hopeful the military can improve adding our armed forces have a history of leading on civil rights in washington, i'm joe ♪

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>>welcome back just about the 7.30 here on this sunday morning, it's a little chilly out there that's for sure i've got my hot tea here with the dave's far standing by in the weather center with a look at just how chilly it is a day it's are all i can testify that the smell it from pretty good. we have good morning everybody we do have those cold temperatures going on even with a lot of this cloud cover you know frequently we're talking about these cold numbers in the shoes, the clear when how much the way when going on. but it's dry air has kind of moved in here a little bit just a temporary break here, we've got 30's up there in the north bay, some 40's filtering in the east bay, a chilly 44 livermore but it does get to the mid 40's on the east bay shoreline. >>and 40's also down south and also for the peninsula live shot of alcatraz kind of expose in the clouds and the fog that remain, but it looks like some sun is trying to peer through there off towards the left-hand side. so this is what it looks like from space you can see that will clear out here in the next couple of hours and it will be pretty uneventful sunday for us today

to kind of enjoy the rest of our weekend, however things change by tonight we do check track the winds a little bit they were kind of offshore a little bit from the golden gates perspective but the kind of variable single digits to come. what we're watching for today after the clearing patches. oh, yes, a new storm system to our south as you can see it will hammer the samara santa cruz mountains as of this conversation right now we don't have any flash flood watches but this certainly concerns about the burned areas up there that may cause a problem very locally 51 1 on 11 by to work 57. coming up a little bit there stole but more rain upstream for the week ahead in into the following weekend. well. >>as davis mentioning that rain there in the south bay officials are keeping a close eye on the burn scars around the czu complex fire. just in case all that rain tonight causes anything to come loose. kron four's gayle ong reports. >>santa cruz county officials have been working to remove the hazardous debris and materials from the wildfires over the dry months before the

rain. it was a dry saturday in the santa cruz mountains but people stopped by a scarborough lumber in boulder creek to prepare for the rain expected sunday afternoon has been relatively busier than we would have expected for right after christmas, primarily what we've been is a russian patrol sandbags at the news you use outside your home. >>waddle strong become these big 25 >>the bay area got a white christmas on friday, the national weather service is anticipating the next storm system sunday to monday projecting the highest rain totals on the big sur coast up through the santa cruz mountains it looks like they'll precipitation amounts that could be an inch to 2 inches. >>meteorologist david king with the national weather service bay area office says he's also keeping a close eye on potential debris flow near the czu fire burn scars. but sunday's rain is not enough to trigger any warnings the thing that really triggers whether or not. >>you could actually serious flows and flooding concerns where we would issue a it

depends on the rain rate and so it depends on how strong the actual rain is falling debris, flow, danger signs are set up in boulder creek an area hit hard by the czu fire that burned more than 85,000 acres in santa cruz and san mateo counties in pescadero cal fire's czu crews are wasting no time. >>crushing wildfire fuel before it gets burned preparing 5 to 7 acres for a vegetation management project burn in the spring back boulder creek michael connell spent the day selling rain protection supplies. he also lives in the santa cruz mountains, he was evacuated for a month during the czu fire. he says his home was built on the side of the hill making preparations for rained debris flow or mudslides challenging tar as preparations go for us. >>in terms of debris flow, it's packing a go back and just being relief. >>and santa cruz county officials say they want to remind residents to be alert for any changes in 2 was set up those text alerts for emergencies as we get into this rainy season. here in

scotts valley gayle ong kron 4 news. >>back to our top story now today, the united states has reached a grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic as one in every 1000 americans have now died from covid-19 this year as cases continue to surge icu capacities across the bay area are limited. kron four's reyna harvey joining us now live in walnut creek with a little bit more on those details good morning, >>the well, you know it's heartbreaking we're looking at the numbers but each of those numbers represent a family who has lost a loved one during this time nearly 19 million coronavirus cases across the united states and the icu capacity here in the bay area continues to fall we're at 11% capacity right now for a lot of these hospitals in the bay area we hear from the governor talking about how they anticipate seeing a surge on top of the surge on top of us served in the new year and

this all depends on how people decide to spend the holidays. if they decide to travel over the next few days for the new year, you know hospitals have been pushed to the brink. you have a lot of in caring for patients in the hallways at different hospitals but look at these numbers right here in california. the state recorded about more than 20,000 new cases of coronavirus overnight. the total number of people in the hospitals close to 20,000 in the bay area like i mentioned the icu rates continue to drop they were at 13 a few days ago. now here we are at 11 now the nurses and the doctors have really been pushed to the breaking point. take a listen as one nurse describes what it's like for them in the hospital. >>every day i see a look into the eyes of someone who is struggling to who's struggling to you know get while they want to be home with their family, it's frustrating when you're you're in it for let's say you're 12 hour 9. go home

or you see people not median hearing to some of the guidelines. >>all right so those guidelines a lot of people want to know how long we're going to be here in the bay area and that regional stay at home order and looks like no sooner than january 8th, that's the day that they've been floating around a lot of the hospitals and doctors are just concerned they have to see what happened over the holidays and so once the numbers come in for that they know what they can expect to january and into february now reporting your lawn creek reyna harvey kron 4 news that's right right now we need to get above that 15% icu capacity before we can get out of the stay at home but. >>millions of people traveled over the holiday week. we'll see just how how soon we can get out of the stay at home order yeah, thank you for that report. >>the kron 4 morning news. we're taking a look at some of the extended effects of

covid-19 that can linger long after people recover from the virus details after the break.

>>we've all heard about the symptoms of covid-19 things like losing your sense of taste and smell, but now we're getting a better idea of some of the long lasting effects of the virus. rachel introduces us to a woman who says despite

recovering from covid she's still dealing with issues that affect her everyday life. >>there's nothing like the smell of freshly brewed coffee like something dead and horrible and like it makes want to vomit unless you're britney hansen over the summer and my husband put his coffee finishing up a garage stages, okay, i can't handle it add that to the list of things that now produce a pretty unpleasant smell and taste to her like most top foods and drinks as well as meet its heart, i mean it's hard for me to cook mine family my husband and son are big meat eaters so it's just sometimes they wear a mask doctors say this is a neurological side effect of covid-19 we see that quite in the in the larger studies are the gun doctor david an early infectious disease expert at u c health. >>estimates about 25% of covid patients he seen reports some kind of taste or smell abnormality in the most basic terms. he says study showed the virus can cause nerve damage in the upper part of the sinuses and that was likely contributing to problem

with the signaling that was required to go from that the century nerves from the from the nose up to the brain but they still don't know why some people get the symptom and others don't or how long it could take to fully recover we know that age is a player and how quickly people can recover in general from nerve damage that probably plays a role and then other probably play a role as well hanson has tried some treatments like smell therapy with essential oils but 9 months after her first covid symptoms. this one seems to be sticking around eating is a it's a social thing its connections with people inside train. i just feel like it has it's changed that experience. >>rachel sky to news nation. >>and we have some clouds to deal with this morning with that we'll be breaking up to give us a little patch of some clearing upstream but beyond that into yeah things are going start to get ugly again as we see some more rain come our way we'll show you some of the projections in just a bit.

>>welcome back 7.44 here on this sunday morning it is chilly hopefully, you're still kind of bundled up there wherever you're watching us from the dave spahr has got some details on exactly when we can expect some rain later today he's safe and well good morning and good morning, police will get a clear patch going on for today during the daylight hours after we get in

the sunset. >>the things start to change of this next storm system comes our way section on tapping into deep moisture which is a good thing that will maybe cut down on flooding concerns a little bit but it will be this cut off low would all play out mostly during the overnight hours there as you can see some scattered rain showers far down to the south there also be treated by the system as well but here's a clear patch that are sunday so take a little breather on that for today live shot again alcatraz with still dealing with some cloud cover off to the background. fog is kind of interesting what we have will break up as we get the sun to join us today and then tonight tomorrow, yeah, fog returns, but notice the pattern this go around it the same footsteps that we're seeing with this next shot of rain a little bit in the north bay here but the santa cruz mountains and off to the valleys of the far east bay, it looks like. temperatures now for you we've been talking about how cold it's been even with the cloud cover mid to upper 30's up to the north bay we've got 40's in the east bay, 43 palo alto 45 san jose and 47 for san francisco. so it's going plot

this for you again looks pretty nice for sunday during the day here comes the next hit though, again it's a cutoff low, so it does have as much moisture which to play with and it's very different than our typical come out of the gulf of alaska, the come of the northwest what's not going to favor the rain as much in the north bay, but it will hit the santa cruz mountains you see the park pretty quickly after dawn. on monday morning will be few stray showers but skies will start to really improve and the snow showers will continue up there in the sierra all day it looks like for monday. they do have at this point a winter weather advisory. this is pretty much also following that same pattern to the south as you will notice, and that it will be for late tonight through monday morning. now look at how much rain we're getting and where the rain will be as we march forward with all of this token amounts up here in the north bay but down south is where the heavier ones will be but a quarter of an inch expected from mountain view, san jose there and that rain shadow the santa clara valley. and even off to the east bay we're getting close to well actually

0.1 2.15 or so expecting much of the east bay, so this is just one of a series of several systems playing out over the week ahead take a breather in early next week wednesday night this is modest in the thursday another little it happens. we ring in the new year pretty much dried and sale. it's been up but another hit takes a still sunday and even monday and there's more upstream of the following week so that's the good pattern we have we don't get that real heavy rain but we do get bouts of rain the kind of rain we need the beneficial type or an early break, the drought, hopefully look at 58 going on for san francisco for the high today in the 4 zone forecast 55 pacifica and half moon bay, we'll look at upper 50's along the bay side peninsula down south scratching at about 60 or so this is very reminiscent of yesterday with maybe a touch more afternoon sunshine, san jose at 60 miles in view following suit. morgan hill and also milpitas looks like to cupertino 59 and 58 for

fremont union city 58 also tri valley, dublin looks like 59 for walnut creek and oakland berkeley, a 56 county, mostly in the upper to middle 50's for today 57 for sonoma and santa rosa in the 50's with upper 50's down south so we get a breather after this into early next week it looks like by wednesday night into thursday here comes some rain but we do have another dry patch until saturday stretch develop those lows are kind of interesting too we're going to be seeing 30's when we dry out post the rain events more moisture builds again. we do we climb back up to the 40's and of course 40's at the coast. well. >>and it's been extremely busy year for the california national guard handling wildfires, nationwide protests and of course responding to the coronavirus sunseri tonsil takes a look back at their year. it was. >>the year of the guard. >>reserve airmen, soldiers and sailors have been on the front

lines of all the major crisis events of 2020. the national guard first coming to the rescue in march when the grand princess cruise ship sailed into the san francisco bay filled with passengers infected with coronavirus. >>so our first involvement was to send up para rescue choppers are marked. >>rescuing that's located in the area that inserted by fast rope rappelling on ground for us to deliver a and that was our we'll first experience with what was >>and covid-19 spread rapidly in the weeks that followed major general david s baldwin says the national guard mobilized to combat the virus from every angle from pop up testing to medical strike teams and search hospitals even helping in the food banks we but several 100 soldiers airmen and sailors into food banks where they've been packaging millions and millions and millions of. >>the eels for people in need throughout the state.

>>then in may in 8 minutes and 46 seconds in minnesota that sparked outrage across the country unrest over the death of george floyd in police custody from all the world to see the national guard was activated as californians took to the streets demanding justice we saw that our role was stop the violence. but at the same time to build them to support mom and allow protesters that were legitimately set to get out there and vent their frustrations. >>then later in the summer another crisis are up to it california's unprecedented wildfire season. the guard jumped right in to help save homes and lives alongside firefighters to just point more soldiers and airmen that role that we have are out of his street. among their many firefighting efforts the

national guard. we often a road rescue in september as the creek fire closed in on campers at mammoth pool in fresno county. we're getting an airlift of more than 200 people trapped by the flames on the shores of the reservoir because the smoke conditions because it was night fall the only air crews that have the capability to go fly in those conditions were in the national guard and their heroism didn't go unnoticed by the commander in chief. >>7 guardsmen received the distinguished flying cross from president trump himself in a special ceremony at mcclellan park it a nice testament to the work that they did and we're very very proud of those are those. >>and even as wildfire season in the protest eventually come down the pandemic still raged on throughout the year poll that will continue to be a threat. >>for months to come and what i'm what hope is is my asked might demand to the public is get the vaccine. >>and while there is progress

and hope in sight. the pandemic is far from over major general baldwin is urging people to wear a mask social distance and stay home, we know the doctor you know it's hard because we've had many times and be with our families during the holidays and unfortunately, even though we're in service. >>as for 2021. the guardians of the golden state will remain vigilant. >>ready to respond we're hopeful that it will not be at the same pace that we had to do in 2020 will be more than >>if it does sunseri >>so thankful for all of their work stick with us from 4 nicorette knows, quitting smoking is hard.

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>>i love this up reaction from the santa ana teen and her family found out she got accepted into harvard at first, clo says she didn't believe what she was reading until she heard her family screaming and hugging her and then she realized it was all real she says all the obstacles she and her family have faced in the last few years led her to pursue a career in medicine. >>my maternal grandmother passed away from cancer. my paternal grandfather currently has it. so i turn on studying molecular and cell biology and going on. >>or just if you are confident in yourself. if you're confident in their capabilities and if you remind

yourself that you are challenges the challenges in their life only add to your >>and possible. >>i got chills watching that video clo is the 4th a student from santa ana high school to be accepted to harvard this year she says she plans to use or education to give back to the community that got her to where she is now so congratulations to her. well the mysterious gingerbread model is that appear to top san francisco hill on christmas day hasisadly collapsed the nearly 7 foot monolith appeared in corona heights park. the cookie tower models those mysterious metal monoliths that have been popping up all around the world over the past few months. it's unclear if someone pushed it over or if it just collapsed on its own either way shortlived fun for the city this holiday weekend. we do want to remind you kron 4 is teaming up with the super bowl of caring to raise 1 million meals for families in need this holiday season, if you'd like to donate use your phone to scan the qr code on your screen or text the word n y e don't 8 to 2, 6, 9, 8, 9 you can also visit tackle

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>>thanks for joining us here on the kron 00:00am morning news at 8 it is sunday december 27th. >>i'm noelle bellow marty gonzales has the morning off it's time to check in on our weather forecast o because it is very chilly out there. dave spahr encouraged me to get some tea this morning. >>know that a lot of folks are still bundled up sipping on their coffee trying to get warm the temps are much chillier than yesterday morning right dave yeah, actually and that's what the cloud cover to we usually see that you know with clear skies going on here when you have overcast skies, usually temperatures hold up nicely. we did have that. >>with the rain going on friday night into saturday well was dry overnight. so we didn't have that issue good morning, everybody and what we're looking at for today is clearing skies a little bit just temporarily now to know if you noticed that last night a little bit but we have that ring around the moon that's just those high ice crystal clouds up in the higher elevations, and sometimes as a civil war, the old wives tale

kind of thing that all what that means rain is coming what we are going to be getting rain but not from those ice crystals is another system that's further out in the pacific. here's what looks like from the golden gate bridge and there you see still kind of a stratus lingering a little bit not much the way of some rain but we will see this please clouds left off with the right hand side of your screen a little bit of hope happening there, little blue skies as you can see try to make it in there. but there are those cold temperatures up in the north bay with overcast we still managed to get to the 30's up in the north bay in the east bay lower 40's to middle 40's, middle to upper 40's along the east bay shoreline and 45 or san jose but here's the contrast up in the north bay while more than a dozen degrees behind were this time was yesterday. showing you how much that rain sometimes keeps our temperatures very mild and not much movement. when the air dries it's a different story. now speaking of which we do have still some fog this snuck in there for the delta in portions of san francisco down along the peninsula. there course that clears out as the skies do but then tonight with rain coming boom there you can see it developing in where it develops tells you where the

heavier rain will be east bay in peninsula course we'll get into all of that just a bit a look at the forecast today, a mixed bag of sun and clouds highs in the upper 50's lower 60's. well. >>the situation today is desperate it's urgent. it's inexplicable he's literally golfing. he really wanted to shift this legislation he could have done it any one of those couple 100 days that collapsed. >>unemployment benefits for millions of americans expired overnight as president donald trump has refused to sign a 900 billion dollar covid relief and spending bill president trump says he wants direct stimulus payments increased from $600 to $2000. also in jeopardy with this bill is the pandemic unemployment assistance program which also promises a $300 weekly bonus payment to the unemployed democrats republicans and the president's own administration have been negotiating this bill for months and lawmakers say this is the first time they've heard from the

president about wanting those $2000 payments to the american people kron four's dan thorn spoke with the political science lecturer about the implications of the president's inaction donald trump ran for office saying he was the one person who could fix government i have to say today, it looks like he's the one person who is breaking it. donna crane adjunct professor of political science at san jose state university says a lot of compromising between democrats and republicans had to be done to get to this point the president's belated askin seeing an increase in the payment amount the professor says is willfully disruptive. >>president trump should be looking at his own party as to why there was no increase before the bill was passed $2000 will be better than $600 the problem is republicans won't vote for they didn't go for it in between may and december and they just voted down 2 days ago when nancy pelosi put that resolution on the house floor, the pandemic unemployment assistance or pua and the pandemic unemployment

emergency compensation programs would both be extended under this relief bill, but as the president delays signing the latest round of federal aid an estimated 12 million people will lose unemployment benefits after this weekend. if the president eventually does sign the bill, those payments are now expected to be delayed for weeks i just don't understand how the president is golfing on a day when i walk literally on my block and there are more homeless people this week than there were last month. reporting in san francisco, dan thorn kron 4 news. >>the united states has reached a grim milestone as one in every 1000 americans have now died from covid-19 this the u.s. has seen nearly 19 million cases since the start of the pandemic with more than 331,000 deaths. that's the highest number of cases and deaths in the world on saturday more than 100,000 new cases were reported and more than 1200 people died of

covid-19 here in california, the state recorded more than 19,000 new cases of coronavirus overnight bringing our active case count to nearly 60,000 across the state. this as hospital beds quickly fill up with covid-19 patients, the total number of people in the hospital close to 20,000 across the state here in the bay area roughly 11% of icu beds are available but there's 0 icu bed availability in the san joaquin valley and southern california regions. with just 5 days to go the u.s. likely won't meet the original goal of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of the year, according to cdc data only about 2 million vaccinations have been reported as of yesterday morning less than 10 million doses have even been distributed but health officials say lags and data reporting may be causing a lower count. many hospitals are still setting up their vaccine processes and staggering vaccinations among

staff. hundreds of thousands of vaccines will start to be given out across the state of california tomorrow as cbs will begin administering vaccines and more than 15,000 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities on monday cbs health says they expect to vaccinate nearly 700,000 patients through this program. the pharmacy says it has an agreement with hhs to that eventually provide vaccines to the general public in 2021 as well. >>kron 4 morning news when can kids expect to get vaccinated for covid-19 and will their doses calm before the next school year we've got those answers next. but after the break the latest out of nashville, us federal agents zeroed in on a house linked to a person of interest and that christmas morning bombing stick with us we'll be right back.

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>>the investigation into that christmas day explosion in nashville continues this morning, federal and local investigators are now classifying the incident as a suicide bombing there still combing through debris at the explosion site as well as at a home where they think the rv was parked in the days leading up to the explosion. >>tom the govan has the latest.

>>the focus of the investigation right now this secondary scene in antioch tennessee the fbi won't talk about what they're looking for here or comment yet on who they might be interested in we have over 500 investigative leads that we're following up on every one of those so their number of individuals that we're looking at. the explosion rocked downtown nashville around dawn christmas day, the device concealed in old white rv detonating near an atnt transmission building on the city's busy second avenue home to a row of bars and restaurants, the rv eerily playing a recorded message counting down to the impending blast. tennessee's governor today appealing for federal help he says will be needed to rebuild calling the damage shocking saying it's a miracle no one was killed 3 people suffered just minor injuries, but there's still no clarity on human remains reported to

have been found at the scene this is several 100 agents. this is our national best stepping forward to help us solve this crime, the fbi and atf are leading the investigation. the fbi with 250 agents and analysts focused solely on this case on finding out who would do this and why the teen is behind me and the folks at they represent are doing everything we can to find out what happened here to get the answers that you deserve. >>and make sure that we're all safe. >>tom negovan news nation we're dealing with clouds going on for this morning, but they're going to part of it open up those skies nicely for us we'll get some upper 50's even some lower 60's across the bay today, however. >>tonight we arrive on the new storm system bringing rain particular the santa cruz mountains we'll show you some of the forecast that's just a bit.

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>>welcome back 8.14 here on this sunday morning. we are preparing for a big dumping of rain overnight. dave spahr is standing by with a look at those details when can we expect that rain to come probably after sunset as we're looking at noel will be maybe even a couple hours after that it's going to also favor the south a lot more lot of times in the winter months we're talking about these storm systems as the north bay and then. >>perhaps down around the bay give a bit more than less off to the east to cut the south bay not this go around it's going to be different here clear pat starting to develop nicely here for us. so we'll be starting things off with

improving sky conditions type forecast in the early part of the day into the early afternoon that's when things flipped again with you can see from the scope of this map but way out to sea as our next storm system look out for take a look at this here you see a little bit of clearing off towards the side here so this is our future. give us a little time to work its magic there's the golden gate up close and personal at this hour not getting too much the way of those offshore winds. number a traffic either anybody out few people going up run. so our temperatures right now chilly up in the north in the 30's you can see mid to upper 40's line up the east bay shoreline inland again dropping off around tri valley of 40 we see 47 san francisco in 45 meanwhile for san jose but going through this again improving sky conditions today, although cool day expected. then by after sunset here comes this barreling of rain probably will get the heavy line moving through fairly early in the night in other words, maybe pressed around the witching hour after that and you get to 1 o'clock or 2 o'clock it starts to taper off and

becomes much more broken up in terms of the rain and that you can see by the projections and his latest 07:00am most of the action is down to monterey bay, but they'll still be some scattered showers lingering a little bit for your morning commute tomorrow, opening up those skies for the afternoon. mountain snows of course continue, although they're looking for the heaviest amounts happening down to their south as well. the winds are kind of interesting with this too because that storm systems coming in is a cutoff low. so you think the circulation here is following suit with what we typically see when a low comes out of the gulf of alaska so we're getting actually a lot of offshore winds for good piece of geography that normally would cause us concern but offshore winds but not with something like this with carrying with the rain we could certainly deal with that. so we have some partial clearing this afternoon cool upper 50's lower 60's perspective then tonight comes to show the rain we're talk about as we speak now, there's no flash flood watches that have been posted from the national weather service itself however, local infrastructure just really watching this carefully because it could still pose some local problems with the

rain heaviest in the south. now for this week we have monday early they'll be some showers. we take a break for a couple of days in the next little window and this is going to be modest wednesday night thursday and then another batch coming into the following weekend probably next week and will be a little wetter than this one is to now 58 for san francisco today, 59 coming in for oakland, san jose at 60 they'll be some 60's to be had out there but on balance we met actually be a little cooler today. then we were from yesterday, here's the wide perspective most reading gc and the upper 50's just approaching 60 of course what the 4 zone forecast and check into those longer range forecast models to noel. >>happening tomorrow, a new travel restriction goes into effect for people heading from the uk into the u.s. travelers must prove they've had a negative covid-19 test in the past 72 hours before boarding. this comes as the world tries to stem the spread of a new more transmissible strain of the virus. health officials in la county hospitals are

already reporting patients with that new mutated strain that's a mutation that they're testing for in la was first confirmed in britain but has been detected in japan, lebanon, australia, south africa and several other european countries swedish health officials say a traveler from the uk tested positive for that new variant that traveler is now isolating and so far no other positive cases of the strain have been detected in sweden. but after confirming 2 new cases of that new strain in japan out of an abundance of caution that country is now temporarily banning non-resident foreign nationals from entering the country japanese citizens and foreign residents can still enter but they're required to self quarantine for 14 days. the ban will start on monday and will last through january 31st. meanwhile, the first shots of pfizer's vaccine are being administered in most of the eu's 27 countries today, the eu originally planned for

that coordinated rollout to start today. but over in germany, hungary and slovakia they began vaccinations as soon as the doses arrived yesterday. the operator of a nursing home in germany says they broke with those plans because quote every day they wait is one day too many. there could soon be a new coronavirus treatment available that would help right after being exposed to the virus scientists at university college london hospitals are performing trials right now on a post-exposure treatment. they're seeing is people who were recently exposed could get some protection from the virus by receiving a direct antibody injection. researchers don't want this to be an alternative to the vaccine. but they say it could be helpful for those who have not yet been or are unable to be vaccinated results of these trials are expected sometime in the spring. meanwhile an fda review of the new moderna vaccine has found a side effects for people with cosmetic facial fillers

according to the study the vaccine can produce swelling and inflammation in areas with filler all patients who suffered the side effects have their symptoms resolved with steroids and antihistamines doctors say reactions like this are to be expected though because the vaccine amped up the immune system which leads it to target an natural substances within the body. some good news this morning, a sacramento man not letting the pandemic stop him from helping save people's lives around the globe. he began his mission after a stranger donated bone marrow to his daughter and saved her life now he wants to do the same for others jessica mensch has his story. >>i've been to many of the city's more than once from iowa to austria somebodys life was impacted in each of the cities and the to the state's scott mcgregor his world travels can't stop even during a pandemic cancer and blood disorders they do not take a holiday for covid as a volunteer courier for be the

match. he makes lifesaving bone marrow deliveries to patients who need a transplant i'm san antonio texas and here in memphis tennessee, proffered it's a deeply personal mission. his own daughter teran was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia just 7 years old in need of a bone marrow transplant as a father. >>the immediate thing is you wish you could trade places with your little you don't want or have to go down that road at all a first look to family members but none were a match. it was ultimately a stranger us donation that saved her karen is now completely cured of that illness. >>and i just feel like every day is a gift a gift that he wants to share with other families but the pandemic has made it difficult my family got a little concerned and rightfully so saying hey if you're going to be flying all over the country and you're going to be going into hospitals and coming out. there's a chance that you could unintentionally get somebody second home so since april he's been living out of this camp or to keep his

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>>welcome back covid-19 has impacted people in many different ways some are asymptomatic while others take months to recover for one sacramento firefighter, his journey continues as he regains but the virus has taken away garage shares his journey to recovery. >>we're 3 times a week walking on treadmill with a 50 pound here this is how far criminal firefighter, matthew rogers is trying to regain what covid-19 the wait. >>history. and conditions just knowing where you where you were and where you are now it's been pretty hard a difficult process. he said it closer to the end than the beginning the sacramento fire

fight a contracted the virus back in july i've been sick before, but i've never been this sick. >>and that never had extreme body aches to where the point i couldn't sleep that it just felt like my back and hits for just being kind of mangled around he thought he had a 103 degree fever for a couple of days. >>he had trouble walking and eating while he didn't go to the hospital he did lose 25 pounds in just 2 weeks but had no prior illness says. >>where you lose about 10 pounds or so and a week or 2, but this one has definitely lingered. >>a lot longer >>more than 5 months later froggy says he's taking baby steps in his recovery, he encourages people to follow the safety guidelines. >>and play it safe, you know if you do get sick take take time to heal. >>in the north bay marin county officials have released new resources for residents who need help paying their rent about 3 million and

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>>if 30 here on this sunday more opened thursday heidi. >>that was no al nice to see you guys it is a little chilly out there this morning and we've got some rain coming laker today back to dave now what's going on d they woke me up a we have a day to day that's going to be an that means improving the sky conditions starting from the coast and moving inland and it's going to be timed just right for the daylight hours because. >>later upstream even hearing about rain happening tonight and that will be pretty much confined during the overnight hours as well, here's how we stand for those chilly temperatures we've been

talking about 30's up in the north bay for the most part is what we've got going on some 40's off to the east bay east bay shoreline, not too bad upper 40's, but when we had this cloud cover around usually temperatures will hold a little better than this uses dry clear skies to do that. here's a live picture of walnut creek as we see going on here still fighting up to some cloud cover before we clear out as you can see kind of socked in right now, but again that will road into somewhat mostly sunny skies in parts to variable clouds and then later on tonight things change again quick check in the winds. not much happening here either single digits to calm, here's the breakdown today, no delays out of sfo turning mostly sunny by the next hour and then some scattered clouds into our afternoon temperatures in the upper 50's maybe scratch, 60 or so but as we talked about more rain is expected happening tonight and there's a little bit more upstream as we get into next week and next weekend. well. >>that's our top story today, the united states has reached a grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic as one in every 1000 americans have now

died from covid-19 this year as cases continue to surge icu capacities across the bay area are limited our kron four's reyna harvey joining us live now in walnut creek with a little more detail here >>i know, wow you know i wish i had better news to share with everyone but we're looking at the numbers more than 19 million across the united states and here in the bay area over 200,000 and they're not just numbers right these are families that have been affected. why the virus in some way he talked about that earlier when you play that story about the firefighter now icu capacity here in the bay area continues to drop a few days ago it was around 13% now at 11 and there's some places across the state where you see hospitals have run out of icu beds all together so that's a big concern for a lot of the health experts here at many of the hospitals are concerned be able to care for people if the numbers continue to go up. now we also know here in

california the state recorded more than 20,000 new cases of coronavirus overnight. the total number of people in the hospital across the state is close to 20,000. like we mentioned here in the bay area, those numbers not looking great as well. 11% of that icu capacity now we're hearing from hospitals that say they are dangerously low on oxygen and other supplies that are necessary to treat covid nurses explain just how overwhelmed. they are with everything take a listen every day i see a look into the eyes of someone who is struggling to >>who's struggling to you know get while they want to be home with their family, it's frustrating when you're you're in it for let's say you're 12 hour 9. go home or you see people not median hearing to some of the guidelines. >>right so another concern you

know that hospital workers have is just with what's going to happen with traveling are people going to listen to the regional stay at home order and do so if you're wondering also how long that regional stay-at-home order. it's going to be in effect we'll still be in that for the next couple of days. maybe even weeks january 8 is actually the earliest we can even not leave that stay at home order so we're going to be looking at the numbers and definitely keeping a close eye on what's happening with the medical staff working at many of these hospitals for now reporting here wannacry craig harvey kron 4 news all right reena thank you for that report. >>she mentioned travelers despite those rising case numbers and stay at home orders across the country another 1.1 million people traveled through us airports yesterday. that's the 5th day in the last week that more than 1 million people were screened by the tsa here's a look at the numbers compared to last year a stark contrast usually more than 2 million people, our traveling by plane

throughout the holiday week but still pretty troubling that so many are bucking the order to not gather due to the pandemic. the rollout of both pfizer and moderna vaccines continues many questions are arising one of them being whether or not employers can make vaccinations mandatory. some experts say businesses can require covid-19 vaccinations for employees but that doesn't mean they will experts say employers can require the employees to take safety measures, including vaccinations and the past the u.s. equal employment opportunity commission has allowed companies to mandate flu vaccines. and has indicated they can also require covid-19 vaccines. if an employer does require the vaccination it doesn't necessarily mean you get fired for refusing it. instead you might need to sign a waiver or work under specific conditions to limit any risk you might pose. people can also request exemptions for medical or religious reasons of course, employers also might not want

to make vaccinations mandatory since tracking compliance could become an administrative burden as a result, many employers will likely just strongly encourage vaccination without making it requirement. another question many have is when will children be able to get vaccinated the pfizer vaccine authorized in the u.s. is for ages, 16 and up testing on children as young as 12 did begin in october. but that's expected to take several more months the food and drug administration will have to decide when there's enough data to allow emergency use in the younger age group depending on those results younger children may be enrolled for the study as well, but so far it's uncertain if those results on younger children will come in time for vaccinations to begin before the next school year. all right coming up on the kron 4 morning news, a bay area business owner on the brink of closing her restaurant. >>why she hopes the county loosens restrictions on outdoor dining soon so they

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the owner is closer to shutting her business down. >>with every step she takes walking through her empty beer garden in the back patio ellen nasser al dunn's heart sinks fearing her family's business is slipping away if. >>this continues. we have to shut down we cannot do. >>takeout helen coe own specific a brewery in pacifica with her husband so also doubles as head chef ellen says when the regional shelter-in-place order went into effect last week eliminating outdoor dining she in turn had to lay off 18 employees. >>terrible in in knowing that they can't fall back on their unemployment because as of today that the ending for many of them. it's heart wrenching they live penny to penny in paycheck to paycheck. we have to tell them that there's just no way to keep them on for take out because it's so far in the wrestling says takeout orders are generating at most $1000 a day in revenue and

that's not that number needs to be above 10,000 in order to be efficient business. she also worries the regional shelter-in-place order in san mateo county will be extended and her brewery will remain deserted. >>especially if she is unable to secure another loan through the stimulus package awaiting president trump's signature. >>ellen says they are following all health and safety protocols and have not contributed to the spread of covid-19 we. >>are essential and we are important and we have bills to pay on wednesday at 1 o'clock in the afternoon helen is organizing a rally here in her parking lot that will turn into a march down highway one in solidarity with other small business owners impacted during the pandemic in pacifica phillipe djegal all kron 4 news. >>clouds and fog this morning but that's going to give way to some opening up of sky's get those temperatures in the upper 50's are about 60 or so don't forget to still win or we do have rain coming tonight and there is more further

upstream, we'll take a look at the long range forecast to keep

>>welcome back 8.44 year on this sunday morning we've got some serious fog rolling through the city of san francisco right now dave spahr is taking a look at what else is happening across the bay. well noel it's going to be

improving forecast of for today, we'll get those skies to improve that's right fog is an issue with the ground we have rain a shipping ways to the south as you can see, but it's the storm system here that's going to be a player tonight and bringing us some rain it looks like including the santa cruz mountains because it's going to favor basically the south. here's a live shot coming in from walnut creek is still working on some overcast and fog conditions for now our temperatures in the 30's up to the north bay 40's off to the east bay, 45 meanwhile for san jose but let's get to the real show that is tonight. >>today clearing up boom here comes the hits after sunset overnight. the heaviest stuff being before the morning commute will still be some lingering showers a bit we open up the skies for monday afternoon. take a breather for the next couple of days. this also means a winter storm. watches earth action advisory excuse me to the south that doesn't actually include little pocket doesn't really include this. in the south pole late, but it's to the south is where most of that's going to be so the amounts won't be that heavy like the storm system speaking of amounts, here's how much it looks like we're going to get

those the north bay, this is very different than we typically get the heavier stuff down to central and down to the south bay. here's what happens the first it happens on monday we take a breather for a couple of days wednesday, a modest system. then as we get into friday next saturday after the new year, yeah looks to to hit and then by monday we clear out for yet another system by the middle of next week us try to do this here for the 4 zone forecast not lot of variety 50's for san francisco. we've got 55 pacifica upper 50's cover the peninsula down south we're in about 60 as we're doing the same thing in the south bay santa clara valley here which will get a decent amount of rain from this too and that rain shadow upper 50's also to be found tri valley. we're looking at 59 walnut creek 58 per conquered and a solano county mid to upper 50's 55 nap and rosa, having said all that we'll get that rain happening tonight monday. but notice the lows here we're dipping a yeah the 20's and 30's watch out when that air starts to dry out

mean weather 40's at the coast. well. thanks dave. >>federal agents in southern texas are cracking down on human traffickers in the rio grande valley. each year trafficking profits top 150 billion dollars globally 71% of those cases involve women so far there have been 11 convictions just this month alone. sydney hernandez gives us an inside look at the operation happening right now. >>human trafficking situations are unthinkable unimaginable. >>is it something you expect to be happening here, police department. >>the process but court but it is here in the rio grande valley. it is a transit area people are moved out of the valley drugs going north. >>human smuggling assistant special agent in adm each elements will lead the homeland security investigation division in mcallen. >>the homeland security investigations in the valley. there's been some cases where. >>we have women had been lord

into the united states are smuggled and then tree and then turned into a trafficking. scenario where they're made to pay their smuggling fees and they're kept against her will to work their dead off at a bar or you know or a it out for those reasons one of those examples and but i still bar mission texas. >>there was a bar mission texas where. women had been lord to work in them are smuggled over from mexico. and eventually were being trafficked girls ages, 1415 17 were promised $3 for every beer that a customer bought them. >>and then they could keep any money they made having with customers they had to subtract $50 to pay back for smuggling fees. but it was a lie. the teens were never paid just trafficked between paying customers in mission by the

time that we rescued them they were being held in the in a room. >>that was locked where they could not leave if they wanted to they were not free to leave and this is just one of many cases it just like it. >>there was a professor at southern texas college who was a math professor who was uploading images to their google photos account or various social media accounts and it would be flagged in the system. we get that lead. >>hsi agents tracked down the photos on google drive the professor in romantic relationship with someone who had a child and what he was doing grooming the girlfriend and grooming the child into doing you know exploitative things to the child these are real lives in person every day human trafficking cases, but many times predators are opting to go online with one slide them with a double tap

that they can be on your child's phone. >>the student had initially met the suspected of playing gears of war on or x box game console. so we identified chris christopher thompson is the one that was trying to extort her. but they met through this game. >>this is the man sent to prison for extorting that mcallen teenager through her x box, sometimes they're caught, but sometimes it's just too late. >>between the of. leaving. and arriving a full four-year she had already been sexually assaulted recently a 13 year-old girl in mcallen. >>was taken by a 21 year-old man from louisiana. within one hour. she was raped multiple times. >>we truly absent that entered interception we she moved she may have met her demise. >>and they're getting younger and younger with distance learning more and more teens are spending time online there's a lot of predators on the internet nowadays and when

kids have more access to their to their internet on their phones in her home a lot more. it's important to monitor that because we people using social media applications to exploit the children. >>weatherbee snapchat kick, whisper others all there's always going to be a new application out there where allows predators to to see and talk to children. >>now these agents have committed themselves to make it stop it's very important for us that you know this is why we do what we do to see people pay for the that they caused these children over the longevity of their lives. so it's really important for us to see these people get but you know arrested and found guilty on these crimes that they commit. >>sydney has not this news nation. >>according to the state department website there are several red flags that can indicate someone is a victim of human trafficking some possible signs include if the person is living with their

employer. if they're unable to speak to others when alone. if they're working for very little or no pay or if they show any signs a physical abuse. >>stick with us the kron 00:00am morning news might be right back. 2 kids and it's best time of year again did you see this fast approaching and even the pandemic isn't going to stop us from having fun checking out the fireworks and looking ahead to it. >>we have better 2021. that's right. he was spending a lot of time right here on our couch at home and we hope you stay safe at home and join us on new year's eve, starting at 1130.

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>>well lot of people are getting ready to return or exchange their gifts right now, but as jamal was explains that could undo all the work done to try and save local businesses this holiday season. >>want the opportunity to make it right if a customer is not 100% satisfied, you may be looking to return or exchange of gifts you got for christmas, but no. >>that it could hurt small businesses we welcome you to you know bring it back bring an item back exchange if needed. >>but we also ask that you you know be mindful that i might

some of these big box stores, small businesses are directly impacted made high sales before christmas and helps to keep items from being police still have been increasing and steady here. i mean. >>i think that people have been very mindful of shopping small it was a challenge for been sent to open her business during the pandemic but says the experience has been rewarding part at that time it was really knew we don't know what to expect. we don't know how it would impact our businesses where people know simply not going to come out anymore. she says the success of her store, especially during the pandemic is because of customers and the community rallying around really you know we don't see a lot of returns because every small business we put customer service parts and we want to make sure that you know during every purchase that you know we answer any questions we'll out try and even during you know during the pandemic. >>we've seen everything after

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>>the news station you're watching good sunday morning to you thanks for joining us here on the kron 00:00am morning news. it is december 27th, it is 09:00am. >>i'm noelle bellow in for martin gonzalez this morning, it's time to check in on our weather forecast, we've got some fog and cloud cover today and we're bracing for some big rain to come later tonight, dave spahr has all the details, hey hey hey good well, good morning, everybody yes, the overcast skies just start to peel away here to open up for some sunshine in the afternoon talking to a lot for temperatures though still bit on the chilly side. >>least will come with a lot the way of winds that just be you know cool temperatures with all of that and starting things off in a chilly note as well now the satellite picture kind of reveals that that the cloud cover just about to lift. give another hour or so we should be pretty much in the clear at least at the coast are going close to it not much the way of winds though golden gate bridge. flags not doing much at all this hour. here's half moon

bay. another area, that's looking for rain coming our way for tonight as the system will favor the south progress on those temps not a lot of movement we see still some 50's though making their way along the east bay shoreline inland. you can see a lot of 40's 38 going on for santa rosa 39, a bottle 46% was a much cooler up in the north bay by a dozen agrees trailing. meanwhile, half a dozen across most of the rest of the bait that to morning fog in the cloud cover you see departs and what's interesting is when it develops tomorrow, it's going to redevelop across the east bay, the delta little bit and also the peninsula because that's where the concentrations of rain will be with this next system 56 or so expected by just after high noon 4 o'clock mostly cloudy signaling the next system moving in we'll have more details on that next bout of rain we're looking for for tonight and early monday morning. well. >>the situation today is desperate urgent, it's inexplicable he's literally golfing. he really wanted to

shift this legislation he could have done it any one of those couple 100 days that collapsed. >>unemployment benefits for millions of americans expired overnight as president donald trump refused to sign a 900 billion dollar covid relief and spending bill. president trump says he wants direct stimulus payments increased from $600 to 2000 also in jeopardy is the pandemic unemployment assistance program which promises a $300 weekly bonus payment to the unemployed, democrats republicans and the president's own administration have been negotiating this bill for months. lawmakers say this is the first time they've heard from the president about wanting those $2000 payments kron four's dan thorn spoke with the political science lecturer about the implications of the president's inaction. donald trump ran for office saying he was the one person who could fix government i have to say today, it looks like he's the one person who is breaking it. donna crane adjunct professor of political science at san jose state university says a

lot of compromising between democrats and republicans had to be done to get to this point the president's belated askin seeing an increase in the payment amount the professor says is willfully disruptive. >>president trump should be looking at his own party as to why there was no increase before the bill was passed $2000 would be better than $600. the problem is republicans won't vote for they didn't go for it in between may and december and they just voted down 2 days ago when nancy pelosi put that resolution on the house floor, the pandemic unemployment assistance or pua and the pandemic unemployment emergency compensation programs would both be extended under this relief bill, but as the president delays signing the latest round of federal aid an estimated 12 million people will lose unemployment benefits after this weekend. if the president eventually does sign the bill, those payments are now expected to be delayed for weeks i just don't understand how the president is golfing on a day

when i walk literally on my block and there are more homeless people this week than there were last month. reporting in san francisco, dan thorn kron 4 news. >>in the north bay marine county officials have released new resources for residents who need help paying their rent about 3 million in rental assistance has been provided since this program started back in march. and right now about 2.8 million more is available to cover rental payments for those who need help from september through january. those who want to apply need to provide proof of residency and income such as a pay stub or bank statement as well as a copy of the first page of their rental lease tenants must also be able to pay at least 25% of the rent to do to avoid eviction. the united states has reached a grim milestone as one in every 1000 americans have now died from covid-19 this year the u.s. has seen nearly 19 million cases since the

start of the pandemic with more than 331,000 deaths. that's the highest number of cases and deaths around the world and so on saturday more than 100,000 new cases were reported and more than 1200 people died due to covid-19 now here in california the state recorded more than 19,000 new cases of coronavirus overnight that brings our active case count to nearly 60,000. this is hospital beds quickly fill up with patients. the total number of people in the hospital due to covid-19 is close to 20,000 across the state. here in the bay area roughly 11% of icu beds are available. but there is 0 icu bed availability in the san joaquin valley and southern california regions. with just 5 days to go the u.s. likely will not meet the original goal of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of the year. according to cdc data only about 2 million vaccinations have been reported as of yesterday morning. less than 10 million vaccine doses have

even been distributed but health officials say lags and data reporting may be causing a lower count. many hospitals are still setting up their vaccine processes and staggering those vaccinations among their staff. meanwhile, though hundreds of thousands of vaccines will be given out across the state tomorrow, cbs will begin administering vaccines and more than 15,000 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities on monday. cbs health says they expect of accident nearly 700,000 patients through the program. the pharmacy says it has an agreement with hhs to eventually provide vaccines to the general public in 2021 as well. coming up on the kron 4 morning news when when can kids expect to get vaccinated for covid-19 and will their doses come. >>before the next school year we've got those details next, but first after the break the latest out of nashville, us federal agents zeroed in on a house linked to a person of interest in that christmas morning bombings stick with

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>>the investigation into a christmas day explosion in nashville continues this

morning federal and local investigators now classifying the incident as a suicide bombing there still combing through debris at the explosion site. they're also combing through a home where they think that rv was parked in the days leading up to the explosion tom negovan has the very latest. >>the focus of the investigation right now this secondary scene in antioch tennessee the fbi won't talk about what they're looking for here or comment yet on who they might be interested in we have over 500 investigative leads that we're following up on every one of those so their number of individuals that we're looking at. the explosion rocked downtown nashville around dawn christmas day, the device concealed in old white rv detonating near an atnt transmission building on the city's busy second avenue home to a row of bars and restaurants, the rv eerily playing a recorded message counting down to the impending blast. tennessee's governor

today appealing for federal help he says will be needed to rebuild calling the damage shocking saying it's a miracle no one was killed 3 people suffered just minor injuries, but there's still no clarity on human remains reported to have been found at the scene this is several 100 agents. this is our national best stepping forward to help us solve this crime, the fbi and atf are leading the investigation. the fbi with 250 agents and analysts focused solely on this case on finding out who would do this and why the teen is behind me and the folks at they represent are doing everything we can to find out what happened here to get the answers that you deserve. >>and make sure that we're all safe. >>tom negovan news nation. >>and open up the skies a little bit is that the day starts to wear on however late this afternoon all yes clouds build for the next storm system that is more rain coming for us tonight and early tomorrow morning to put that all together for you just

a bit

>>welcome back 9.14 here on this sunday morning, pretty chilly out there we've got some clouds and some fog that was rolling through dave spahr standing by in the weather center all the details, hey good well, good morning, everybody and improving sky conditions will say for the

late morning and into the early afternoon as the said that cloud cover starts it apart. >>only temporary because they're going to beat up on us for tonight as we watch our next system drop on in this is going to come more from a lateral perspective not coming in from the northwest out of the gulf of alaska like a lot of these systems this time of year do that means the rain is going to be favored for the peninsula santa cruz mountains into the south bay. we'll show you all that just a bit right now live shot coming in from half moon bay still working on the clearing from this perspective here allen all not going to be a bad day. little course get the rain for tonight, golden gate bridge you can see some blue trying to break into the clouds just a little bit but some fog clouds can left over as you can see closer to ground level our temperature check with kind of hodgepodge we're already getting some lower 50's lining up the east bay shoreline but inland a little cooler as it is up in the north bay, rosa 41 48 meanwhile for san francisco in 46. for san jose. so for today opening up the skies nicely shore and then tonight after

sunset here comes a nice juicy line as you can see basically from west to east. this kind of stamp at about 10 o'clock so the heaviest rain will be before really late tonight and then we'll kind of taper off or break up a little bit if you will to more scattered showers by the time it creates this for the morning commute. we're going to keep that in the forecast going on there to the south elsewhere across the bay you can see breaks up even seeing some sun up in the north bay of course different than sometimes a storm system to come directly from the northwest and this is a cutoff low as we say in the trade that means it doesn't have a major source of moisture is working with that's good news meaning that's why we haven't been hearing about flash flooding going on for any watches at this point for the santa cruz mountains, although that can change in the future as they took a look at the later model runs upstream, we do see some more systems coming our way however, so for today we're back to the partial clearing going on cool upper 50's lower 60's. pretty much you can expect. clouds back again, rain showers heaviest will be in the south a little bit of midday to and then for the week ahead monday

morning, lingering showers and so forth. we have another opportunity wednesday night thursday that's almost a hiccup compared of what we're getting tonight and what lays ahead for us for next weekend. that's right more coming in here and looks like even the following week as well so kind of open up the pacific for the wet. a season to live up to its tradition 58 san francisco, 59 open 60 about san jose your body is dealing with the morning clouds clearing out basically from west to east on this so we should see some better clearing at the coast and along the peninsula in the north a little bit before it makes its way off towards the east bay. the late morning, mid 50's up there the north bay these are highs now upper 50's off to the far east bay hayward maybe about 60 along with san jose so even though we're seeing more sun today, temperatures will be a bit more on the modest side coming up a little bit of course your 4 zone forecast we'll check into and take a look at some of those longer hits of rain later on in the forecast period. noel. >>happening tomorrow, a new travel restriction goes into effect for people heading from the uk into the u.s. travelers

must prove. they've had a negative covid-19 test in the past 72 hours before boarding. this all comes as the world tries to stem the spread of a new more transmissible strain of the virus. health officials in la county hospitals are already reporting patients with that new mutated strain that same mutation that they're testing for an l a was first confirmed in britain but has been since detected in japan, lebanon, australia, south africa and several other european countries. swedish officials say a traveler from the uk tested positive for the new variant that traveler is isolating and so far no other positive cases of that new strain have been detected in sweden. meanwhile, the first shots of pfizer's vaccine are being administered in most of the eu's 27 countries today. the eu did originally planned for a coordinated rollout to start today. but germany, hungary, and slovakia all began vaccinations as soon as their doses arrived yesterday. the operator of a nursing home

in germany says they broke with the eu's plans because quote every day they wait is one day too many. there could soon be a new coronavirus treatment available that would help right after being exposed to the virus. scientists at university college london hospitals. our performing trials right now on a post exposure treatment. they're seeing of people who were recently exposed could get some protection from the virus by receiving a direct antibody injection. researchers don't want this to be an alternative to the vaccine, but they say it could be helpful for those who have not yet been or are unable to be vaccinated results of the trials are expected sometime in the spring. meanwhile an fda review of the new moderna vaccine has found a side effect for people with cosmetic facial fillers according to the study the vaccine can produce swelling and inflammation in areas with solar. all patients who suffered side effects have their symptoms resolved with steroids and antihistamines

doctors say reactions like this are to be expected because the vaccine does amp up the immune system which leads it to target any a natural substances within the body. some good news this morning, a sacramento man not letting the pandemic stop him from helping save people's lives around the globe. he began his mission after a stranger donated bone marrow to his daughter and saved her life now he wants to do the same for others. jessica mensch has his story. >>i've been to many of the city's more than once from iowa to austria somebodys life was impacted in each of the cities and the to the state scott mcgregor his world travels can't stop even during a pandemic cancer and blood disorders they do not take a holiday for covid as a volunteer courier for be the match. he makes lifesaving bone marrow deliveries to patients who need a transplant i'm san antonio texas and here tennessee, proffered it's a deeply personal mission. his

own daughter teran was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia just 7 years old in need of a bone marrow transplant as a father. >>the immediate thing is you wish you could trade places with your little you don't want or have to go down that road at all a first look to family members but none were a match. it was ultimately a stranger us donation that saved her parent is now completely cured of that illness. >>and i just feel like every day is a gift a gift that he wants to share with other families but the pandemic has made it difficult my family got a little concerned and rightfully so saying hey if you're going to be flying all over the country and you're going to be going into hospitals and coming out. there's a chance that you could unintentionally get somebody second home so since april he's been living out of this camp or to keep his family safe. well he cannot be close to his family this christmas they visited outside from a distance a sacrifice. he's more than willing to make

to give others a chance to celebrate together for years to come i've been given that gift with my daughter and and it's my turn to try to be play a small part in trying to for that gift to the next patient family in eldorado hills jessica mensch fox 40 news. still ahead on the kron 00:00am morning news, one first responders journey to recovery after having covid-19 is

my mother died when i was a kid. it inspired me to become a doctor. then covid hit. no one has ever seen anything like covid. you feel hopeless. my best friend's father died of covid-19.

then my father caught it. wearing a mask, washing your hands. sacrifice those things now. you have the power to protect the ones you love.

>>well covid-19 has a different impact on anyone who gets infected. some are asymptomatic while others take months to recover for one sacramento firefighter, his journey continues as he regains with the virus has taken away garage while shares his journey to recovery. >>we're 3 times a week walking on treadmill with a 50 pound here this is how far criminal firefighter, matthew rogers is kind of the game what covid-19 the wait. >>history. and conditions just knowing where you where you were and where you are now it's been pretty hard a difficult process. he said it closer to the end than the beginning the sacramento fire fight a contracted the virus back in july i've been sick before, but i've never been this sick. >>and i had never had extreme body aches to where the point i couldn't sleep and just felt like my back and hits for just being kind of mangled around

he thought he had a 103 degree fever for a couple of days. >>he had trouble walking and eating while he didn't go to the hospital he did lose 25 pounds in just 2 weeks but had no prior illness says. >>where you lose about 10 pounds or so and a week or 2, but this one has definitely lingered. >>a lot longer >>more than 5 months later roddy says he's taking baby steps in his recovery he encourages people to follow the safety guidelines. >>and play it safe, you know if you do get sick take take time to heal. >>here at home in the south bay, san jose police are investigating a deadly hit and run crash that happened around 6.30 saturday night near story and center roads. the victim was an adult male, but police haven't located the driver or released any details about what led up to the deadly crash. this was san jose's 46 fatal collision on city

streets this year. >>happening right now california highway patrol still out in full force this holiday weekend monitoring the roads for drunk and distracted drivers. >>according to chp more than 300 drunk drivers were arrested statewide on christmas eve and christmas day and at least 3 people were killed and drunk-driving related crashes over those 2 days. how it highway patrol is asking drivers to slow down and to not drink and drive the maximum enforcement period is expected to expire tonight just before midnight right now. >>and as coronavirus cases continue to rise a loss to us here in california back here at home sort is in icu beds we're going to tell you the health experts baby from residents across the day. we'll have that story coming up next.

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>>welcome back 9.30 here on this sunday morning it is not too windy out there, however we are expected to get some rain overnight stays far standing by in the weather center with all the details, hey good well, good morning, everybody out the timing is good on this 2 happening at night while we're sleeping and so forth and then tomorrow morning starting the day. >>things start to clear out rain will taper off and it looks pretty dry until the

middle of the week with another evening system to come to greet us right now, here's a look at bay area temperatures though still chilly up there in the north bay at 38 santa rosa. everybody else is at least graduated up to the 40's although we're seeing some 50's in the east bay shoreline 54 oakland and we're there live shot from half moon bay. still those scattered clouds but it looks like we start to clear out a little bit here as we start to march through the mid morning hours here a little bit. and here's how it looks like the view from space. your sunday looks to be pretty good with all the trouble out to sea and that again will be playing out tonight, it looks like 2 tomorrow morning just a quick check those winds know i was talking about we've got single digits to calm conditions going on for right now we will have a bit of a noticeable offshore wind but that's just because the location of this cut off low. what does drive winds in that direction but coming with the rain that will be a problem so got 50's upper 50's in some locations by the mid afternoon here come the clouds by 4 o'clock signaling the next storm system coming

up in a bit we'll kind of plot that for you and what you can expect plus in the week ahead with other bouts of some rain as well well. >>back to our top story now the united states has reached a grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic as one in every 1000 americans have now died from covid-19 this year and as cases continue to surge icu capacities across the bay area are limited kron four's reyna harvey joining us live now in walnut creek with more details on that good morning right now. >>the morning, no al you know all eyes are on california we hit that grim number this week the more than 2 million covid cases across the state and right here in the bay area you see the icu capacity continue to drop now and 11% capacity and the concern for a lot of the medical experts are we don't have enough icu space for people if the cases continue to go up we know that they were taking care of

patients in hallways in conference rooms throughout many of the hospitals across the state and you also see some hospitals that don't have any icu space at all for people who are getting sick and coming to these facilities the governor talking about we could see is served on top of another surge, if the numbers continue to rise so january and february the nurses and the doctors are going to have their work cut out for them now if you also look at some of the other numbers here in california. >>the state recorded more than 20,000 new cases of coronavirus just overnight that total number of people in the hospital cross the state close to 20,000. right here in the bay area we talked about those numbers they continue to go down in the icu they were at 13 a few days ago. now at 11 the doctors and nurses are definitely exhausted when it comes hours they've had to work here is what it's been like for them working in the hospitals take a listen. >>every day i see a look into the eyes of someone who is

struggling to who's struggling to you know get while they want to be home with their family, it's frustrating when you're you're in it for let's say you're 12 hour 9. go home or you see people not median hearing to some of the guidelines. >>right those guidelines so a lot of the hospital workers are just paying attention to what's happening with the travel over the holiday season into the new year people are going to be staying at home and following that regional stay-at-home order another thing along we be inside that regional stay at home order. we won't be able to leave that any earlier than january 8th. so right now we're just paying attention to the numbers to see how the cases continue to go up or if they're able to get some sort of containment on those numbers but for now reporting your lawn at creek reyna harvey kron 4 news. that's right we have to get above that 15% icu capacity before we can get out of the

stay at home, so we'll have to wait and see what those numbers show rain a thank you for that report. >>now as rhonda mentioned travelers did continue spend their time in the air this weekend of the another 1.1 million people travel through us airports yesterday. that's the 5th day in the last week that more than 1 million people were screened by the tsa what you're looking at right now numbers compared to last year a stark contrast is usually more than 2 million people travel by plane throughout the holiday week. but still pretty troubling that so many are bucking the order to not gather due to the pandemic. now as the roll out of both the pfizer and moderna vaccines any questions are arising one of them being whether or not employers can make vaccinations mandatory. some experts say businesses can require covid-19 vaccinations for employees but that doesn't mean they will experts say they can require

their employees to take safety measures which do include vaccinations in the past the u.s. equal employment opportunity commission has allowed companies to mandate flu vaccines. and they've indicated they can also require covid-19 ones if an employer does require the vaccination it doesn't necessarily mean you would get fired for refusing to take it. instead you might need to sign a waiver or work under specific conditions to limit any rescue might pose people can also request exemptions for medical or religious reasons as well. employers also might not want to make vaccinations mandatory though since tracking compliance could become an administrative burden as a result, many employers will likely strongly encourage vaccination not necessarily require it. another question many have is when will children be able to get vaccinated the pfizer vaccine authorized in the u.s. is for ages, 16 and up testing on children as young as 12 did begin back in october. but that's expected to take several more months, the food

and drug administration will have to decide when there's enough data to allow emergency use in that younger age group depending on the results, younger children may be enrolled for the study as well, but so far it's uncertain if the results on younger kids will come in time for vaccinations to begin before the next school year. last december wuhan china began a strict 76 day lockdown due to the coronavirus now one year later things are returning to business as usual in the hubei province. news nation's spoke with one man who happened to be there when the worldwide pandemic erupted pierce's story. ♪ ♪ ♪ sometimes family... ♪

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>>and flying 40 here on this sunday morning and we are awaiting rain to return in the bay area we got pretty good sample on christmas day but dave spahr says next system supposed to be a little bit heavier out of the south it's really going to concentrate is what we're looking at good news is there's no talk of flash flood watches that have been posted, although. >>maybe in some of the local areas, the recently burned areas they want to watch that perhaps as we open up the skies though for today so we get a nice sunday out of this get the necessary rain, although it's not going to cross the whole bay. >>you universally the saying it's going to begin focus to the south and the east a

little bit but this opens up the pacific in the next 7 to 10 days could be kind of interesting we'll have a couple more hits of rain it looks like we'll give you a couple shots of those were looking at again opening up the skies right about now for the next few hours this is the thing we're talking about tonight. we play that for you just a bit live picture shot from temper on look at the blue skies making their way known yeah we have some leftover fog clouds will but there but up pop looking much better here is the kind of open up to variable clouds will say on balance is what we expect, but it's been a chilly morning it has been 38 still santa rosa 40's pretty much all over the rest of the day with a couple 50's here and there like half moon bay. hayward and oakland checking in at 50 at this hour. now with more sunshine today than we saw yesterday. temperatures going to be still a bit on the modest side, so don't expect a lot of moving on the mercury but at least one joy that sun. before the next bout of so the timing of this is great it's happening at night. we enjoy today with the sunshine here comes the hit of rain by sunday night. breaks up a

little bit as we approach dawn as you'll see in the skies open up into your monday looking pretty good by high noon. just about the entire bay is in the clear by that point still some leftover clouds may be in the east bay. and the next couple of days, fairly quiet until next system gets here by wednesday night. now this will also produce with it some winter weather we have a winter advisory this is down to the south though, but the will be snow that will make it up to the sierra a little bit. lake tahoe area that's going plot for you what we're looking for in terms of rain again this is not everybody getting this rain about a quarter of an inch or so from san francisco, south as what we're looking for livermore really hits the jackpot they're approaching a half inch of rain very modest up there to the north bay which usually the reverse of what we typically see so that's the first one then we get a little breather in this for a couple of days early week by wednesday night here's another hit as you can see far more modest this will favor the north. another little break and we get into the weekend. the biggest issue with this is there's a big disagreement on the models

they both agree next week and will be unsettled. but it's the timing that we're not clear daylight hours nighttime we're not sure but here's kind of an estimation this far out looks like that's going to hit us. early in the day and linger a bit and then another hit for sunday, we take a breather until the next dose comes our way, the middle of the following week sought the lot of traffic coming our way in the next about 10 days or so, and we certainly could use the rain for zone forecast check-in like this for your sunday, 58, san francisco, 55 pacifica 6.55 per half moon bay with the upper 50's lining up the bay side of the peninsula approaching about 60 heading down south. the south bay, 60% jose morgan hill milpitas also cupertino 59 upper 50's on the east bay shoreline 58 for tri valley. and it looks like walnut creek at 59 with berkeley 56 solano county 57 going on for fairfield 56 filet o 55 benicia also napa and sonoma at 57. you see what the sun we're not moving much temperature wise though with this upper 50's lining up

heading down south and still chilly at the beaches here mid 50's in the seven-day forecast rain comes and goes in comes and goes with all of this. this rain by the way may be the early part of our new year's eve will to ring in the new year on a dry note on that watch out these lows though what times they're going to dip here to around freezing or a little bit more but between these systems as we get some drier air in here in the clear skies and then the coast remaining pretty much in the 40's. well. >>and it's been an extremely busy year for the california national guard, healing wildfires nationwide protests and of course responding to the coronavirus sonseeahray tonsall takes a look back at their here. it was. >>the year of the guard. >>reserve airmen, soldiers and sailors have been on the front lines of all the major crisis events of 2020. the national guard first coming to the rescue in majch when the grand princess cruise ship sailed into the san francisco bay

filled with passengers infected with coronavirus. >>so our first involvement was to send up para rescue choppers are marked. >>rescuing that's located in the area that win in inserted by fast rope rappelling on ground for us to deliver a and that was our we'll first experience with what was >>and covid-19 spread rapidly in the weeks that followed major general david s baldwin says the national guard mobilized to combat the virus from every angle from pop up testing to medical strike teams and search hospitals even helping in the food banks we but several 100 soldiers airmen and sailors into food banks where they've been packaging millions and millions and millions of. >>the eels for people in need throughout the state. >>then in may in 8 minutes and

46 seconds in minnesota that sparked outrage across the country unrest over the death of george floyd in police custody from all the world to see the national guard was activated as californians took to the streets demanding justice we saw that our role was stop the violence. but at the same time to be able to support mom and allow protesters that were legitimately set to get out there and vent their frustrations. >>then later in the summer another crisis erupted. california's unprecedented wildfire season. the guard jumped right in to help save homes and lives alongside firefighters to just point more soldiers and airmen that role that we have are out of st. among their many firefighting efforts the national guard. we often a road rescue in september as the creek fire closed in on campers at mammoth pool in fresno county. we're getting an airlift of more than 200

people trapped by the flames on the shores of the reservoir because the smoke conditions because it was night fall the only air crews that have the capability you don't fly in those conditions were in the national guard and their heroism didn't go unnoticed by the commander in chief. >>7 guardsmen received the distinguished flying cross from president trump himself in a special ceremony at mcclellan park it a nice testament to the work that they did and we're very very proud of those are and even as wildfire season in the protest eventually come down the pandemic still raged on throughout the year covid will continue to be a threat. >>for months to come and what i'm what hope is is my asked might demand to the public is get the vaccine. >>and while there is progress and hope in sight. the pandemic is far from over major general baldwin is urging people to wear a mask social distance and stay home,

we know doctor you know it's hard because we've had many times said to be with our families during the holidays and unfortunately, even though we're in service. >>as for 2021. the guardians of the golden state will remain vigilant. >>ready to respond we're hopeful that it will not be at the same pace that we had to do in 2020 will be more than >>if it does sunseri >>on the peninsula business owner is speaking out about the latest covid-19 relief bill and how not passing it is having an effect on her brewery as kron forcefully call explains every day that passes the owner is closer to shutting down her business. >>with every step she takes walking through her empty beer garden in the back patio ellen nasser al dunn's heart sinks fearing her family's business is slipping away if. >>this continues. we have to shut down we cannot do. >>takeout helen coe own specific a brewery in pacifica

with her husband so also doubles as head chef ellen says when the regional shelter-in-place order went into effect last week eliminating outdoor dining she in turn had to lay off 18 employees. >>terrible in in knowing that they can't fall back on their unemployment because as of today that the ending for many of them. it's heart wrenching they live penny to penny in paycheck to paycheck. we have to tell them that there's just no way to keep them on for take out because it's so far in the wrestling says takeout orders are generating at most $1000 a day in revenue and that's not that number needs to be above 10,000 in order to be efficient business. she also worries the regional shelter-in-place order in san mateo county will be extended and her brewery will remain deserted. >>especially if she is unable to secure another loan through the stimulus package awaiting president trump's signature. >>ellen says they are following all health and

safety protocols and have not contributed to the spread of covid-19 we. >>are essential and we are important and we have bills to pay on wednesday at 1 o'clock in the afternoon helen is organizing a rally here in her parking lot that will turn into a march down highway one in solidarity with other small business owners impacted during the pandemic in pacifica phillipe djegal all kron 4 news. >>stick with us the kron 4 morning news, we'll be >>a new year's eve is fast approaching even the pandemic isn't going stop us from having fun checking out the fireworks and looking ahead to what we have better 2021, that's right even spending a lot of time right here on our couch at home and we hope you stay safe at home and join us on new year's eve, starting at 1130.

>>welcome back an emotional celebration for a southern california high school senior who found out she has been accepted to harvard kimberly chang spoke to the new ivy league student who used her personal obstacles to motivate her to get into her dream school. >>this was the moment said at a high school student seattle

that you're going and her family. >>found out she was accepted into one of the most prestigious universities in the world harvard i saw that it says said you'd been admitted. >>and then i make let myself cry out in the go crazy my sister sites going when he saw can gradually sons. >>getting in is a rare feat in itself only about 5% of applicants are accepted. clo is only the 4th senate and a high school student for the majority, the odds are against them. according to school administrators more than 80% of their students are living below the poverty line, i know that's shoe because. >>my mom is a seamstress. you currently has an injury. so he's not working my dad was detained by immigration my junior high school thankfully he came back home before the pandemic began but i know how many obstacles there are in in

our community for clo her personal obstacles have turned into motivation. >>in middle school she was diagnosed with a chronic progressive tissue disease. that combined with her family's battle with cancer letter to an interest in pursuing medicine i'm eternally grandma passed away from cancer. my paternal grandfather currently has it. >>so i turn on studying molecular and cell biology and the >>she credits her mentor and family for helping to guide her and she hopes to be able to give back to her community. she's also hoping her story will inspire others to shoot for the stars if you. >>are confident in yourself. if you're confident in their capabilities and if you remind yourself that you are challenges the challenges in their life only add to >>and even possible. >>kimberly chang news nation. >>a beautiful story congratulations to clo. well it's hard to believe we're already talking about curbside

pickup of your christmas trees in san francisco, it's going to begin early january people are asked to place their christmas trees next to blue recycling bins the night before their scheduled collection day that starts between january 4th and goes until january 15th now the city is asking that people remember to remove all of the tensile any decorations at the lights and of course that tree stand remove that from the bottom beforehand. any tree more than 6 feet tall should also be cut in half. the trees are going to be checked and then turned into mulch last year the city actually chip to more than 500 tons of christmas trees usually find them now rim in the parks around the city. we do want to share a bit of a sad update to the serious gingerbread monolith that appear to top a san francisco hill on christmas day has collapsed that nearly 7 foot tall monolith appeared in corona heights park. the cookie tower does model all of those

mysterious metal monoliths that have popped up around the world over the past few months not sure if anybody kicked it down or if it just toppled over on its own was a short-lived little fun for the city, this holiday weekend. we do want to remind you kron 4 is teaming up with the super bowl of caring raising 1 million meals for families in need. if you'd like to donate scan the qr code on your screen or text and why he donated 2, 6, 9, 8, 9, you can also go to tackle hunger dot org to pick a local charity to help out that's all time we have for today, thanks for joining us here on this sunday morning have a good night.

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