>> and i'm keeping an eye on the weather. we've got rain starting to roll in the north bay. i'll have details straight ahead. and many will now be returning home. we check in on local airports to see how the travel is going.

>> thanks so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 2. i'm stephanie lin. >> the top story for the day. is the rain taking a live look outside our mount tam camera. we can see the rain and winds already whipping up quite a storm out there. kron 4 meteorologist kyla grogan standing by with the latest. there. >> downtown san francisco. obviously skies are darkening. the clouds are certainly taking over here. we've been a little drizzly today, but now we're starting to see some of those sprinkles turn into rain in the north bay right now. but it will start to roll towards the rest of the bay area as we york our way through the afternoon and evening. so there's that light rain that's starting to move into some light shogers right now in the north bay. certainly making those roads a little bit slicker. and you can see right where it's coming to point rays starting show up on 101 right through santa rosa down towards petaluma lighter showers as we head to points south of that. certainly not a whole lot happening yet in san francisco are over in the east bay, south bay. also still quiet. but this will track through as this happens. we're going to see the winds start to pick up, too. so just get ready for that. right now. you can see in san francisco, the flag not

really moving there in the golden gate bridge. good indication that we're still seeing the calm wind, but we will start to see that get going this afternoon. temperatures. 57 degrees in san francisco. we are a little warm today and spot san jose at 65 living word. 63 16, oakland and then 50's around the rest of the bay here. as you can see, listed let relatively warm day compared to yesterday. you can see temperatures up 10 degrees from 24 hours ago in livermore and a few other spots that are up, you know, 4, 5 degrees. but it feels little bobby were in the warm sector of the system. once it passes a spy, we get a little bit cooler behind it. here is our by our alright. 5 o'clock rush hour. here we go. light rain turns into some showers. they get a little bit heavier as we get later into the evening. this is about 11 o'clock at night. i do think the heavier stuff does hold off until we're home for the evening and then starts to dissipate as we go through the night and now taking you into our morning about 08:00am still a little drizzly, but starting to be a lot less as far as rain is concerned. but notice by friday at 5.30, here we go

again with some chances of some showers. so between now and tomorrow, looking out for about an inch of rain up in the north bay. you can see about 3 quarters in san francisco between about a half inch to three-quarters elsewhere across the bay. so this will be a pretty significant bump of rain in the overnight hours. so just be ready for it. we do have sun in the seven-day forecast. i'm looking forward to showing you that in just a bit. all right. great. thank you so much. >> aaa says today marks another busy day at the nation's airports. we're taking a live look now at san francisco international. just look at that plane take off into the sky. all right. now, flight aware is reporting more than 200 delays and more than 10 cancellations at sfo. we're also tracking flights in the east and south bays. flightaware reported more than 30 delays and 4 cancellations at oakland international. about 50 delays into cancellations at san jose international. the cop was michael thomas was at oakland international airport earlier today speaking with some travelers about the holiday rush. >> it's the day after christmas in were just a few days away from new year's eve.

you can imagine these airports are going to be packed. take a look. this is oakland airport. if you're heading out today or within the next few days, you can expect a lot of people to be waiting ahead of you and behind you. aaa says 119 million people are said to be traveling this holiday season, which is up 3 million from last year. and so is the number of people flying coming in at 7.9 million. but guess what else is up prices by about 4% with the average domestic ticket costing about $830. however, oakland airport is still expecting half a million people to pass through some of those travelers. the san leandro high school girls basketball team. take a listen to what they had to say this morning. >> you know what pay and you got how many of you guys are heading out diego? what number one travel to from goal down the line. >> i actually go well. they didn't have much advice for travelers. others did. here's some tips. jane i. going to be

all going to be bring cash you're alive. when should have extra time. because missing a flight. so workers. >> overall, officials say arrive early. have your ids and boarding passes out. check your flight times before hand and remember no liquids over 3 ounces. and of course, pack your patients. that's the very latest here in oakland. i'm michael thomas. send it back to you live in san francisco. >> in the north bay, an investigation ds underway after a body was discovered at a campground in bodega bay. the sonoma county sheriff says tuesday morning the u.s. coast guard call them about a possible dead body schedule. skeletal remains had washed up at bodega dues, campground. it's unclear where they came from or how long they were there. the identity of the body has not yet been revealed. police in san jose arrested a man they say was operating a residential brothel. 44 year-olds and way was taken into custody last week after months long investigation into this brothel. police say it was located on south 24th street near east santa clara street

in the bonita park neighborhood of san jose. residents and recovered about $10,000 worth of cash. police say when was arrested and booked into the santa clara county main jail for pimping and pandering. again, stop san leandro is boarded up after thieves rammed a car straight into a check this out. police say the break-in happened tuesday morning at the shop in the fashion fair shopping center. police say they were able to arrest one of the fees from a group of suspects that fled in multiple cars after that arrest, police found the same group of suspects have burglarized leo's family restaurant on full boulevard near washington avenue. some of the items stolen were recovered after officers found them in one of the suspects. cars. still ahead on kron, 4 news at 2 bay area. firefighters morning about christmas tree fires. >> some options and how you can get your tree recycled safe. and while the holidays mark moments of celebration, it can also be a difficult time of year. the tips from experts on managing seasonal

stress and anxiety. >> he's the one that was taken to the house. make sure that everybody that by doing that >> and after the break and oakland family in mourning today after the death of their son, we rescued them from a house fire on christmas

>> he's the one that was taken to the house to make sure that everybody saw the by doing last slide. >> a devastating christmas day tragedy for an east bay family, a beloved son, friend and soon-to-be husband dead after rescuing his family from a house fire. was was the good and spoke with the victim's loved ones and they told her

she had just bought a wedding ring. >> don't know exactly what the state is. giving the as a person you could ever be a book. this family. it spreads. everybody's he died trying to get them out there a scene >> a family is mourning this christmas after their son each or fiance and friend died in a fire inside of this house was the morning around 06:15am. wrote a just he's super funny, beautiful kind of so you could ever meet. >> his name is steven weatherford. he was 37 years old, according to his family. they tell us christmas morning he saw the house on fire and got his family out soon to open fire department arrived here to boulevard. everybody. >> and just how? a family we're talking 6 years. not

just christmas. it's awesome. >> ofd says they found steven unconscious while they were continuing to search the house, they believe he likely became disoriented by the smoke died around 06:30am. his family says he was planning to propose to his girlfriend. this new year's and the rain is still somewhere in the house. >> i found out he was close. it's a very thought the rain. in it was chance to but this in the house, going find these healthy and safe. >> fire is still under investigation, but it's believed to be accidental in nature, according to a lefty understand. >> he's one that was yelling out the family, the pats. he's the one that was taken to the house to make sure that

everybody that by doing that, >> was a good in kron. 4 news. >> francisco firefighters releasing some guidance on how you can stay fire safe during this holiday season. first off, they say it's important to test your smoke alarms and if you have a real christmas tree, make sure to water it on a regular basis and to keep it at least 3 feet away from fireplaces. >> nation is to make sure to water your tree daily. but we do say about this time of year, even going into the new year, they're starting to dry up big been out for quite a while. and we check with your local garbage company to see if they have a recycling program. sometimes the boy scouts of america offer recycling services as well. so you have to check with your garbage company to remove it out of your home. >> they also say it's important to blow out all of your candles before leaving a room heading to bed at falling candle can easily cause trees were wrapping paper to catch on fire.

>> well, your health this holiday season, while the holidays can be filled with joy for some, they can trigger feelings of loneliness, depression and isolation. earlier today, kron 4 spoke with a mental health expert who says it's not just stress, but also the weather can have an effect. >> this is definitely a triggered stress is a trigger for pretty much every mental health disorder and for a lot of physical illnesses as well. but also the weather changes the cold. the minutes i remember for me when i moved to seattle, i didn't drink coffee before that. even though i'm from jamaica, where the best coffees from. but on stat rain and grain us just how do you feel? he had me feeling sleepy. and so the stress is definitely there. you know, the pressures, the financial concerns out of that, the cold, gloomy weather. so we're not going outside and getting as much sun as we normally would. and also for some people reduced physical activity. if you're like me, wou're most people are less physically active in the winner because, you know, going outside is putting on the coats boots and a scarf and all of that. but because

of the reduced pace collective, it is stress some social isolation as well because again, we're not interacting with people as we normally would, because we're not going outside as much so social isolation can also be a risk. >> doctor, ruth white also says you could see a change in appetite with a seasonal depression. she says when people feel depressed, sometimes they'll eat more or less. but you want everyone to know that they're not alone. this holiday season. >> this definitely triggered stress is a trigger for pretty much every mental health disorder and for a lot of physical illnesses as well. but also the weather changes the cold. the glue minutes. i remember for me when i moved to seattle, i didn't drink coffee before that. even though i'm from jamaica where the best coffees from. but on stat rain and grain us just how do you feel? he had me feeling sleepy. and so the stress is definitely there. you know, the pressures, the financial concerns out of that, the cold, gloomy weather. so we're not going outside and getting as much sun as we normally would. and also for some people reduced

physical activity. if you're like me, you're most people are less physically active in the winner because, you know, going outside is putting on the coats boots and a scarf and all of that. but because of the reduced pace collective, it is stress some social isolation as well because again, we're not interacting with people as we normally would, because we're not going outside as much so social isolation can also be a risk. >> well, doctor white says it's okay to say no to social outings as well. as you said, finding balance is the key to not feeling isolated. >> all right. well, with let's take a live look now at pacifica beach. the bay area currently under a high surf advisory. >> yeah, it is. i want to mention, though, on the note of the last story, we are gaining a little daylight each day now as we overcast or solstice. also in your seven-day forecast are some sunshine for you. all right. good news there. yes, looking forward to it, too. but let's talk about the danger the coast because it is important every window in this is because we've got a northwest swell that's been rolling in very similar to what we had a few days ago. you can see we

look up by point arena wave high right now about 23 feet were not that high as we get in towards the bay area. but we are certainly well above where we should be right now. you can see sitting off the point race coast about 14 foot high wave. so that advisory does go not just through today, but through 04:00pm sunday. so it's all through the weekend. you want to make sure that you're being careful or better yet. if you can avoid the coast, it's going to be a little bit rainy anyway. so it's not really the most pleasant place to be. sneaker waves are definitely a possibility. and breaking waves of 20 to 30 feet, which as we've seen, can have tragic consequences. so you just never want to turn your back on the ocean and please be very careful are the big stories. we've got rain coming in not just today, but over the next couple of days. this is the next 5 days. so we are again in that showery drizzly phase. we're going to see this rain kind of roll in tonight. and then tomorrow we're going to have that wind and a little bit of rain to start the day off and then little pull back a little bit and just be kind of drizzly. another shot coming in as you can see. but once we get to monday, that's when things finally start to clear out. and we catch a

little bit of a break. so between now and tomorrow, looking out for about an inch to an inch and a half of rain. but look at what happens as we go all the way to sunday. you can see that we're looking at 2 inches of rain in the north bay, almost an inch and a half in parts of the east bay. so it's really quite widespread. so that just means that, you know, we've got to just continually be on alert for this creeks and streams because we're very saturated ground out there. we've seen some of those levels start to rise and over the next few days are just going to be off even more. here's the big picture. look, and i want to show you this because, yes, we have the success of systems. the one tonight, the one tomorrow. and you can see it kind of rolls through. but once we get past the weekend and take you into monday, now you start to see that stormy weather staying to the north of us. a little high pressure building in helping bump it up to places like seattle and portland and start to keep us a little bit drier and a little sunnier. here's your seven-day forecast. so kwanzaa starts today. happy kwanzaa to anyone who celebrates a little rain for you for that. as we get to our evening showery as

we head across the next 4 days. but then monday and remember, this is going to be new year's eve new year's day when we get into tuesday night and wednesday, it looks like we're gonna have some really nice weather now. the caveat is once we clear the skies, look at those overnight lows in milan, valleys, they go right back down into those 30's. so we'll start to cool it down a little bit compared to today will be kind of warmed it up as you're in the warm sector of this system. but some dry weather on the other side of the weekend. all right. hip, hip, hooray. >> engine ears as santa cruz are still working to assess the structural integrity of the wharf after a portion of it was wiped out. dangerous. well slammed into the structure on monday comes a 3 city workers to fall into the water. 2 of them were rescued by lifeguards. the other managed to swim back to land. officials are urging tourists and beachgoers to avoid this area as debris continues to wash ashore. a driver in san francisco is dead after crashing into a tree at golden gate park. this happened wednesday evening on 19th avenue between park, presidio and crossover drive. no word

this morning other today on what caused that collision. on the golden gate bridge. a car crashed into the toll plaza says in that video showing the aftermath yesterday afternoon. a couple of lanes were temporarily blocked. thankfully no one was hurt. and now to developing news, u.s. officials say russia could be behind a passenger plane crash in kazakhstan that left dozens of people dead on wednesday. our washington correspondent mandy beer-temple reports one reaction from dc i'm not in what officials believe happened here. >> well, u.s. officials say it looks like the plane was hit by a russian air defense system. but investigators have yet to confirm exactly what happened. >> rescuers arrived at the crash site of a passenger plane kazakhstan wednesday and azerbaijani airliner headed to russia. went off course crashed killing dozens of the 67 people onboard. the mission isn't in you. >> russian president vladimir putin expressed condolences

for the victims azerbaijan says it's launched a criminal investigation to figure out what happened. u.s. officials say there's early signs are russian anti-aircraft system may have struck the plane. this comes amid speculation russia was fending off ukrainian drone attacks in the area of the plane was trying to land ukraine launch drones after russia attacked ukraine's energy grid on christmas, leaving half a million people without heat. president joe biden says russia's holiday attack was, quote, outrageous and vowed to keep sending weapons to help ukraine adding quote, the united states will continue to work tirelessly to strengthen ukraine's position in its defense against russian forces. president-elect donald trump's pick for special envoy to ukraine and russia also criticized russia's attack. retired lieutenant general keith kellogg posted on x, launching large-scale missile and drone attacks on the day of lords. birth is wrong. >> she says any guesses about the cause of the crash would be wrong until azerbaijan and

kazakhstan officials finish their investigations in washington. i'm maddie beer-temple many. thank you so much for your coverage on this big story of art of u.s.. officials saying anything more about the cause of the crash or >> they're not publicly commenting on it. but they have told us that if it is russia, it shows the country's recklessness in its war against ukraine. all right, patty, thank you so much. and other national news president elect donald trump tapped billionaire elon musk and businessmen vivek ramaswamy to cut government spending. once trump takes office in january. >> our court correspondent vinay simlot explains their plans and whether cuts to social security are on the table. >> billionaire elon musk was one of the most prominent voices who helped tank a spending plan in congress last week leading democrats to joke about his influence. said. don't do it. you on musk. well, apparently he's become the 4th branch of government. speaker johnson should maybe just hand you unless the gavel

buscan businessmen, vivek ramaswamy will lead the doge commission aimed at cutting federal spending when president elect trump takes office. >> republican lawmakers have tried to make cuts for years. think this is once-in-a-generation opportunity when tend to be successful. texas congressman pete sessions and senator john cornyn are part of the doge caucus in congress. busken ramaswamy met with lawmakers early december. they say their goal is getting the national debt under control. we intend to be successful. it's a tough task. the national debt is over 36 trillion dollars and congress controls less than a 3rd of federal spending in 2023. the congressional budget office says the u.s. rate of 1.7 trillion dollar deficit. the government spent 6 trillion dollars but brought in 4.4 trillion. 3.8 trillion is mandatory spending. it can't change things like social security, medicare and medicaid. democrats have accused republicans of trying to cut those programs. neither

political party can unilaterally change medicare or social security. so i think for practical purposes, those are off the table. >> but republicans say they can find other programs to cut in washington. i'm today some lot. >> still ahead, many people living the white christmas we hear from those who hit the slopes this holiday week. and after the break, a new scam this holiday season where your this holiday season where your money is next.

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always drive carefully in order to arrive to your winter destinations safely. yesterday, lots of families and friends with jumping into the holiday spirit in tahoe, many spending their christmas day up in the snow in on the slopes. we spoke with families who say enjoying the snow is the perfect winter tradition. >> started when i was 4 years old, i've never had a season pass, but i do like twice a year once once an chris's and went one for every like around was skiing in general. see as they get older and more advanced seeing will probably go to different mountains. but this is starting point. >> and while the resort wasn't at full capacity, yesterday's officially excuse me, officials anticipate that it will be busy in the coming days as more visitors head to the slopes after the holiday. all right. and taking a look at a time lapse video of conditions at tahoe. it looks like things just kept getting snow. europe, at least a lot more snow starting to blankets of the hillside out there. let's check in now with kron 4 meteorologist kyla grogan for

more just so pretty that i i'm taking dime to people with got a few hearty souls have been at here hanging out. >> even though the snow is coming down there right now. so snow here and you can see as we take a look at temperatures at the surface, a little bit warmer here at the gauges south lake tahoe, where the reporting rain right now and we take a live look at. you can see that is certainly the case for uc definitely just the wet roads that are out there here at incline village. but it's been a snowy day and they are going to see that continues to get throughout the night tonight. you can see some of the rain that starting to roll in to the bay area. and that, of course, will make its way up to the sierra eventually as well. so here we are things a little bit light, but certainly some snow happening. if you're on 50, not a great place to be. they are under this winter weather advisory and it doesn't just go through tonight, but it does go through noon on friday. so that's really the time frame. if you want to get up there, you kinda want to wait until noon on friday. passes by and then things calmed down a little bit. so we're looking at snow levels about 6,000 feet, about 2 to 8 inches up the peaks. we could see another foot and a half or so of snow. so adding to all of

those totals, here's futurecast me take you through. so again, here's the rain that's coming into the bay area. the snow that is in tahoe right now as we get into the evening very quickly, we see the showers turn to more snow for tahoe and then really involved as we get to the late night tonight. so those folks on the road, i hope they get where they're going because this is going to get worse before it gets better. that's for sure. friday morning, a break. and then you can see a few more flurries trying to come through as we work our way into friday evening. that one probably won't add up to much. but later in the weekend we have another shot. so this is totals are looking out for tonight. and then once we get into saturday and sunday, you can see your dad to that a little bit. so we just kind of continue with this pretty decent season of snow we've had so far and rain for us here in the bay. if you're making your plans again, i would not head up there to afternoon tomorrow. you can see a few showers expected friday morning. but then things should start to get better weather-wise, cloudy conditions on saturday. so that would be a fine day for travel and probably a pretty good day for skiing, too, bringing it back to the day. we have had some cloudy skies

out there. a little bit of drizzle. the rain is going to start coming down already happening in the north bay. i'll track that for you when i come back in a bit. all right. thank you. >> and now that christmas is over bay area, residents are probably wondering what to do with their trees. well, the city of san francisco is working to make things easy for people who live there from january. second, through the 17th college, you'll be coming around and picking up any of those bare trees. they'll be recycling and composting the trees as well. >> so make sure you put those trees out by tucker next to your garbage bin so we can pick them out is a free program during that time frame. ends on january. 17th. so please ensure that you put your christmas trees out. important to keep our streets clean and free of debris. and we appreciate his service is healthy. let's give these trees. >> last year, san francisco, recycle 274 tons of christmas trees. that's the weight of 500 grand pianos. and we have an interview with the coming up during kron. 4 news at 6 to

tune into that. if you'd like some more tips on this. for the first time in almost 20 years last night, the start of hanukkah and christmas fell on the same day and to celebrate a 22 foot menorah was lit at san francisco's union square. pope was lindsey ford attended that event and brings us the latest. >> a holiday for me. it's about freedom being grateful. union square was packed with people celebrating hanukkah dancing in catching up with friends and family and the first night lighting the menorah. rabbi yosef linger, lit the torch and walked through the crowd of people so they may touch people in the crowd said touching the torch means you will be blessed for us to lose. so remarkable. >> under the circumstances that's going around the world to see so many people here tonight. the jewish holiday is also known as the festival of lights, a celebration of light overcoming darkness, the

holiday of unity. we all come together add more light by letting them and all round one. and we do this for 8 days. every day we add another candle because represents every day that we need to add growth into our sounds. this is actually what this college, only battle to be friedman and louisa brown. it says family time extra special during this time this holiday represents where we break and able to publicly openly display religion freely, in the time king anti atlas, we weren't able to do i everybody everybody to have a lot in their hearts in their homes, in the celebration, of course, came with traditional jewish dishes. my favorite course, he's put a into force. lock my all-time favorite is sweet potato lock eyes, which potato

packet. fried friedman says her family also makes traditional jewish jelly field doughnuts, which is her daughter's favorite. and we also make fried doughnuts, all different flavors, custer jelly car. now. >> atlas active in show. >> the final an 8th day of the lighting ceremony will be on new year's day starting at 05:00pm in san francisco. lindsey ford kron. 4 news. >> so great to see so many people out there. meanwhile, at the state capital, not even the rain could dim the holiday spirit. last night, the sacramento jewish community officially marks the beginning of hanukkah. >> and this is what it looked like on the west steps outside the state capitol building on wednesday night. as is the tradition, the first menorah candle was lit on that. and the first night of hanukkah, dozens of jewish community members were on hand to take part in the festivities, also known as the festival of lights the eight-day holiday commemorates the rededication

of the second temple in jerusalem. more than 2000 years ago. the jewish faith believes the miracle of the oil occurred when enough oil to light the temple for one night lasted for 8 nights. instead. >> every single one of us is prime example. unlike right to the world and brighten up each other's life. and by doing ll have a brighter world, a better world. >> organizers with chabad of sacramento placed many even nora's on display to shed light on the nearly 100 israeli hostages kidnapped by hamas and who remain in captivity. hanukkah last through next thursday. today marks the start of kwanzaa, a week-long holiday celebrating african american heritage. kwanzaa is not a religious based holiday. it facilitates unity and is based on african harvest festival. traditions from different parts of africa. it was first celebrated in 1966. the

holiday is observed until january first when it ends with a big part. look, style dinner on the final night, roughly 2 and a half percent of americans observe kwanzaa. in san francisco say anthony foundation served more than 1500 christmas meals in the tenderloin. 60 volunteers helped distribute more than 1000 plates of chicken potatoes, fresh bread and cookies. saint anthony says one of the most important parts of this event is connecting with neighbors. >> lot of folks in the tenderloin seen anthony's means family. so we're really here to share the love. >> and lot delicious food. i love being here. you i love to give back to a place that once gave me so much. >> yesterday say anthony's gave away warm drinks, muffins and pastries for breakfast as well. staying in san francisco glide memorial church held its annual christmas day lunch and celebration in the tenderloin church leaders and volunteers prepared ham, turkey and sides for thousands of community

members. lights as mayor-elect, daniel lurie and his family also stop by. there was a musical performance by the glide memorial church ensemble 10. >> beautiful because you know what it's a beautiful day. >> it is a beautiful day in for more than 40 years. christmas in the park in downtown san jose has brought festive cheer to the south bay. despite some financial worries, big crowds showed up to the dazzling display this holiday season for stephanie rothman reports. >> decked in thousands of colorful lights. it's christmas time at cesar chavez plaza. we didn't expect to be open. we've got everything is going to be dead today, but they were dead wrong. whether you visit the enchanted far as taking the creative holiday displays. >> where even marked the first night of a new call. >> there's something for everyone. it's because there's like. songs trees. and i

really like christmas spirit. despite some sponsors pulling out the free event continued its tradition of bringing the holiday spirit of visitors in san jose with more than 50% of the $100,000 needed already donated by the community. we really hope that with the donations not only to that 100,000 level of gets us to an even break even for the year. >> but going forward to next year, the donations from the community from the corporations will help us have a tree decorating contest will help put. >> stones in the park that you can dance on and they light up. >> and even more to look forward to next year. the event will run through new year's day at 10:00pm. but for now, it's all about soaking in the joy on display like celebrating. and they're

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>> digging deeper into holiday travel and the weather impacts meteorologist tom skilling takes us inside the cockpit to find out how pilots are briefed on the weather.

>> there's a rhythm to a busy airport. steady steps orchestrated departures. a quick embrace but we were audience to a much smaller stage. this is so cool. >> our office, this is and a lot of ice to more time here that into my car. tapped spring flyers, one of the largest planes for the largest airline in the world. >> navigation here. so this is my route. engine instruments for both to to trials for 2 engines. we have landing gear lever here. he landed a job at united in 1987, a big cross country for me when i learned to fly was decatur to springfield. think it's like 30 miles now at the helm of an aircraft that stands nose and body above the rest. the seasoned pilot navigates a behemoth 7.87 dreamliner to europe, asia, south america.

>> and hawaii, when you turn on the fasten seat belt sign, how do you do this right here? simply that all sides, that's a great talking shot with sprigg is just one is talking weather. what sort of weather really concerns you when you're flying and you're playing around? be honest, there's whether we can't fly. and i mean, we fly airplanes out of the hurricanes in the typhoon areas. we >> leave that alone. let the hurricane moved through and then we'll fly back. and so we can't fly and that there's some snow events that are too deep to take off in our land and that iphone and some pretty severe weather. i've been in 50 knot winds and some crazy stuff in the airplane can do it. but it's based on experience too. >> we lived by whether every second of the day, you know, i'm thinking about whether as i'm driving to work or even the night before, starting to look at weather ahyad of flight the other day to tokyo, we were dealing with low key knows that had erupted that we had to fly around. there was a typhoon approaching tokyo from the south. my radar really can

only look out 8200 miles. so what you know, 25 years ago would fly up to the stormy. then you see it. then you have to fly around that adds miles and fuel. >> now with the internet, you can see these building earlier. i see that live here on my ipad and i can. way earlier. >> deviate around whether this is what captain sprays flight plan guidance looks like today. we didn't have the computer capability 20 years ago to do this. rap and precision missile scale it takes a very high-powered computer. they divide the sky up into tiny little grits. and in that we can actually almost see turbulence. it's where their professions, a pilot and meteorologist collide. we call these pickles in the pilot world. their flight plan guidance. and when you click on, will tell you the out to to set the turbulence is that every single day in this room are managing some kind of weather where nathan it is a senior manager of meteorology united. his team is embedded

that the airlines massive. >> network operations center today, we're monitoring a couple large weather systems that to one on the west coast, but also this one coming through the >> ohio valley into the east coast. that's a lot of low ceilings. low visibilities yesterday had a lot of fog issues or weather team here. we have a team of 14 that supports the airline. 24 7. >> the forecasters there generate this sophisticated weather maps. pilots like captain sprayed use to plan their routes. what happens exactly when a plane goes through a choppy area? well, what's going on there? >> yeah, i like to describe it is that our airplanes are like a boat on a river and the river in this case is the jet stream. that's a river of air. >> as you imagine a fast-flowing river is not always smooth. so if you're in an airplane flying alono on that river, any of those little swirls are at ease or what your airplane feels as flying along in that stream of there. there's always turbulence, right? it's almost impossible to avoid turbulence. 100 1% of what we

try to do here is mitigate the highest risk of turbulence. it's not just a bumpy ride that concerns the team. believe it or one of the highest prior concerns and priorities on top of our radar is volcanic ash. >> emissions. we watch those around the globe. the atmospheric phenomena in this case, volcanic ash clouds reduced visibility damage, flight controls and can cause engines to fail. >> but closer to home, mixed precipitation is probably the most impactful weather event that we incur because we basically cannot operate with ice pellets falling, that any sort of rate that the significant it's amazingly accurate. it's not perfect. that's made and sunny. but cold day in chicago. >> we watch captain sprague maneuver his senate 87 to the i kind of want people to

appreciate the magic still bound for honolulu. the winter weather has yet to catch because, you know, they get on now days in the close, the window shade and they're read their e-mails or watch a movie and a lot of people don't want to take or land and that that is so fun. we want people to appreciate. >> that magic because it still really is. >> not just the coolest and whole meteorology department that they have their united. you know, there are a lot of businesses that employ a lot of meteorologist airlines is one of them. in fact, i've had several people that i've known that have gone from the airline industry into tv meteorologist because they have such a deep background. their military also is another area where you have a lot of meteorologist that come out of that. yeah, i let's and military to. yeah. just super interesting behind the scenes. look at how all that works. yeah. tom skilling, anyone who knows whether he's like the premier midwestern chicago, yeah, know each other. well, i know of him because he's such a well-known meteorologist. he's a he's kind of a legend in that part of the country's most powerful to see him to absolutely getting in seeing him with the pilot and

interacting in that way. just yeah. stating story. yeah, it's it's also interesting to because our data is just getting better and better and better. writer technology keeps improving. so that's part of it let's talk about the weather. where would he say we've got a northwest welcoming everybody. what that means is dangerous surf. so just be careful or avoid the coast, if you can. those waves potentially 20 to 30 feet. sneaker waves is the big threat there. people get knocked off their feet. and obviously we've had some problems with that. as we've gone through the last week. so heads up that this is a to 4 o'clock on sunday, not just today, but right through the weekend. if you can avoid the coast, that is the recommendation. little cloudy out there today. half moon bay looking relatively quiet. but if you look past the data kind of head out into where you can see some of the waves, they are churned up today. >> no doubt about it and high as well. this is right the coast of point rage right now. they're about 14 feet. so that's well, it's been kind of pushing in as we've gone throughout the day today. and that will continue, as i mentioned through the weekend, usually kind of increases as we go along. the other thing happening is we've got some rain rolling in stormtracker 4 kind of show you some of the action happening now in the north bay. that means the

roads are slick out there for you. if you're going along 101, if you are right now, head between about santa rosa down to petaluma, even sandra fell. the showers are there. and of course, that's just in time for rush hour. a little bht tricky there with the holiday. hopefully that'll mean less people on the road also start to make its way to the peninsula. so here we go. we're gonna get some light showers there. these will increase in intensity as we go throughout the evening. i think the heavier part of this, we'll come in late tonight about 10 till midnight, right? so you'll likely be home. but think it's going to pick up as the wind wind gusts right now. not bad notice. it's a typical onshore flow. watch what happens as we get later into the evening. you start to see a little more of a southerly component and get really, really but gusty out of the coast. places like that. big of a and half moon bay could get upwards of 30 35 miles per hour continues in the overnight. that's about 04:00am. so when we wake up tomorrow, expect those gusty conditions to still be with us before they finally slack off. as we get into our friday afternoon. alright, hour by hour. let's take you through future cast here come the showers. that's about 6 o'clock. you can see some of the pockets of heavier rain.

as i mentioned rolling in later in the evening. so this right now is about midnight, right? i think that's when we could start to see some of that push through once it's through, we get some sprinkles on the back end but mostly cloudy skies as we go through our friday with just that chance of a little drizzle friday night. you can see that chance wrapping up a little bit. so we do stay just active here. rate as we go through the next 4 days. you can see not a lot, but a little bit coming through on friday, saturday, even into sunday. this is the rain were set to pick up between now and tomorrow afternoon. we're going to add to those totals. so we go from is an example. santa rose an inch in this system. but then we add kind of what happens on friday and saturday and we end up at 1.0, 9, 3, inches. so it is quite a bit of rain that we still have left to pick up. the good news is the other side of this week is looking really nice. that would be monday. take a look. sunshine 3 days in a row. it's like we won the jackpot, but we just have to get their yes. and while we're on that topic, still ahead. >> and mega millions jackpot continues to grow. when your

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>> now at 3 packing up and heading home. busy airports and traffic as the holiday rush comes to a close. >> plus, another round of rain making its way into the bay area with a high surf advisory in effect today. we are tracking the conditions. thanks so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 3. i'm