nation's airports. we're taking a live look now at home at san francisco international airport tonight, the wet weather is causing a couple headaches for travelers right now. flight aware is reporting nearly 300 delays and 11 cancellations at sfo. we're also tracking flights in the east and south bay flight aware is reporting 54 delays and 4 cancellations at oakland international. and 56 delays and 4 cancellations at san jose international. of course keep you updated on the numbers throughout the night. kron four's michael thomas was oakland international airport this morning speaking with some travelers about the rush home. >> 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. triple a 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 you got. how many of you guys are heading out what's number one travel temperament to go 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 she actually time because missing a place of words. >> 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. >> taking a live look outside now. kron four's chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us with a look ahead. as we look at the embarcadero, which seems to be a little slick out there. some more rain on the way, right? yeah, it's been coming down this afternoon. really kind of picking up and a few scattered showers early on today. but >> after that break on christmas day, it looks like the rain is backo we've got a series of storm going impact bay area in the coming days out towards sfo. you heard of all the delays looking glaze on average about 81 minutes over now. are there and sfo, oakland, not reporting any delays that oakland or san jose right now. of course, i'm you're connecting flights across the country could have some issues. well, it is been slick around the bay area this afternoon. the roadways getting very slick out there right now. dangerous traveling conditions around the bay area. pretty busy on bay area roads as well. temperatures out the door right now fairly mild 50's even some low 60's

in the san jose at this hour. but mostly cloudy skies and that rain continuing outside. so that warm frontal moisture beginning roll on shore as we head through the afternoon and the evening. now things are beginning to pick up outside. so if you're traveling anywhere around northern california are seeing some rain here. some snow developing in the high country in the bay area. yeah, we've got some stronger bands now begin to move on shore. you start to see some yellow, even some orange there. and we've got some heavier amounts of moisture just off the coastline. that's going to be pushing on shore as we head throughout the evening hours of some of the rain rates likely be picking up. that's nearly half an inch per hour or so. things are going to get going as we head through the night tonightdo expect that and some gusty winds to pick up as forecast models picking up on that rain as we head through the evening. now, 10 o'clock or so. you see some bands moving on by as we head toward midnight or so shortly thereafter, some stronger bands, probably the main cold front coming through. and then after that looks like that towards more towards scattered showers by tomorrow morning. so the roadways are going to be slick, but not expecting

heavy rainfall tomorrow morning for anybody traveling around the bay area may be an early morning commute. there's another storms on the way that was going to be a stronger storm over the weekend. we'll have more on that coming up in a few minutes. >> thanks, lauren. swell in the north bay. an investigation is underway after a body was discovered at a campground in bodega bay. the sonoma county sheriff's office says tuesday morning the u.s. coast guard call them about a possible dead body. well, a skeleton remains had washed up at daca tunes. campgrounds. it's unclear where they came from or how long they were there. identity of the body has not yet been released. san jose police say a months long investigation led them to an arrest of a man they say was operating a residential brothel. police say it was located on south 24th street near east santa clara street in the benita park neighborhood of san jose officers found 2 women inside and recovered about $10,000 in cash. police say the man was arrested and booked into santa clara county main jail for pimping and pandering. u.s.

officials say russia could be behind a passenger plane crash in kazakhstan that left dozens dead on wednesday. washing correspondent maddie beer-temple reports. >> u.s. officials say it looks like the plane was hit by russian air defense system. but investigators haven't been able to confirm what happened yet. >> 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 mission. it looks as knew. >> 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 and 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. >> russia says any guesses about the cause of the crash would be wrong until officials from azerbaijan and kazakhstan finish their investigations in washington. i'm maddie beer-temple. >> san francisco firefighters releasing some tips and tricks. so you can say fire dangers safe this holiday season. first off, they say to always 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. >> and asian 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. >> another tip is to make sure you always blow out the candles before leaving a room or heading to bed because a fallen cancel can easily cause trees to catch on fire. still ahead on kron, 4 news at 6 debris continues to wash ashore as engineers assess what's left of the santa cruz war. >> plus, if you're getting ready to take down your christmas tree, there was this corey college e says it will take it off your hands for free. we'll have the details

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>> welcome back. as california grapples with the homeowners insurance crisis, a non-partisan state agency has now released what it describes as urgent policy recommendations to help resolve the crisis. capitol

correspondent eytan wallace reports. >> the homeowners insurance market in california is in deep, deep trouble. federal nava not mincing words about california's homeowners insurance crisis. nava is the chair of the state, nonpartisan little hoover commission and oversight agency in charge of providing policy recommendations to the legislature. the governor and most recently, california insurance commissioner ricardo, >> in the last year and a half 7 of the 12 major home insurance companies in california, including allstate, state farm and farmers insurance have either limited their business within the state or in some cases stop selling new policies altogether for homeowners living in some of california's most fire prone areas. that resulted in some californians struggling to find any insurance coverage and all a key requirement to carry a mortgage from home. for their part. insurance companies have said they have no other choice but to pause or stop selling policies out of concerns. they

could face huge losses. should a major disaster like a wildfire destroyed homes and at-risk communities. but now the little hoover commission has released these policy recommendations, commissioners believe can help the state address the crisis we're trying to do with these recommendations say to the governor. >> the legislature into the insurance commissioner, here are some practical steps that you can take now. to provide some relief to homeowners and moving forward to provide for a more stable insurance market for all californians among the commission's recommendations, one that would require insurance companies to incorporate a homeowner's fire mitigation efforts, one underwriting and setting rates. if you spend the money to make it on fire safe. >> and you do it based on the certain rules that have been accepted by the state of california and the insurance industry to help reduce to prevent another recommendation would allow insurance companies to incorporate the cost of reinsurance when setting rates in a nutshell, reinsurance is often described as insurance for your

insurance company, its the process where your insurer can transfer at least part of risk to another company to help offset any potential losses. and then there's the recommendation to allow insurance companies to consider what's known as catastrophe. modeling with public oversight, which in a nutshell will allow them to factor in climate change and environmental risks. when setting prices, the ultimate goal is to get the insurance carriers to come back in. >> and make investments and provide policies to people who are going to get the script. during an interview with us over the summer and charts. commissioner lot of spoke to us about his insurance reform plan. the department of insurance recently responded to the little hoover commission with this letter indicating lot is plan includes several of their recommendations. once we have these reforms in place. >> more companies are going come back into the market and one-party state. >> and the timing is still up in the air, but a lot of hopes his reforms take effect sometime early next year reporting at the state tom wallace kron 4 news.

>> switching gears now to weather a taking a live look at the golden gate bridge. you can see pretty wet weather out. there seems like it's back after a short-lived break. kron 4 chief meteorologist lawrence karnow is joining us now with a look ahead. yeah, just start to ramp up. we had a few scattered showers early on in the day, but now things are really getting going rain wise again. >> and see more of that throughout the night tonight and some gusty winds to go along with that. so if you're planning on traveling to not down. pretty slick out there on the roadways. now looking out toward the golden gate bridge out there, very wet right now around the bear and that rain is really starting to get going. so we've been watching this come onshore, especially this afternoon. and now you start to see that pockets of heavier amounts of rainfall begin to move in along the coastline in the bay area. there you go. yellen, some orange out there. so all of a sudden the rains begin to ramp up in toward half moon bay pacifica. get into the sunset district in san francisco, seeing moderate to some heavy amounts of rain begin to move in a more that on the way as we've got to really kind of a series of storms that are going to impact a bay area. now to go

along with that, the winds beginning to ramp up just a little bit right now along the coastline. you see some 15, 60 mile an hour gusts, even stronger gusts up 4 point race up to 20 miles an hour or so. but overnight tonight we're gonna see those winds get going. in fact, it's going to be a blustery night around the bay area. in fact, the forecast models are picking up on that winds kind of light right now. but watch what happens as we head through the night tonight, right around 3 o'clock in the morning or so. you start to see a lot orange and red out there. some wind gusts, the 30 maybe some 40 mile an hour wind gusts along the coastline that some of the coastal ranges, little blustery out there overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. then things begin to subside. as we head through the day, the front moves through and things begin to calm down as we look toward tomorrow afternoon. so you wrap things up out there. so tomorrow we expect some francisco. not going to be a rain out. just maybe some rain early on in the morning. same with oakland and san jose. couple scattered showers. temperatures generally in the 50's and the 60's but looks like overall things going to settle down, though, as we

head toward the middle of the day tomorrow. then by tomorrow night we got a chance of a couple raindrops coming our way. and a larger storm expected for the weekend. we'll talk about that. we've got your snow forecast coming snow, lots of well, the thing is like everyone's looking for a little bit of a white. >> christmas christmas past. so now it's like, do you even really want but just know? they just want to break up there, right? it's been tough to get up in the high country. they loved to ski and that fresh powder. and i think there's going to be a little bit of a break. more storms are brewing. we'll talk about that coming up in a few. all right. awesome. thanks, lauren. fix. well, as the holiday season comes to an end, you may start thinking about whether or not to take down your decorations. >> for those of you who got a live tree this year, the san francisco recology department is here shed some light on how to get rid of it properly. for that. we're now joined live by robert reed. he's the spokesperson for francisco recology. thanks for joining us. >> excited to be here. how are you? good, are you? well? >> i mean, this is a busy time of year for you. that's for sure. >> yeah, extra material being

generated and there's all those christmas trees. 300 tons that we're going to pick up in the next 2 weeks. >> wow. so right now for people who are unsure if they want to get rid of it themselves, why should they go through your department? >> recalled sees the city's recycling company and working with the city. we've set up this wonderful tree christmas tree collection program. it makes it really easy for residents. you just take that tree and you put it out next year bins on your scheduled collection during the first 2 weeks of january. and we have come by and and pick it up and make sure that it gets. managed ultimately come posted. >> and that's probably the best way for a. but also what about your christmas tree? wrapping paper, your holiday decorations? i know a lot of people have not just the tree, but they have everything that comes under and on top of it.

so there's a lot to get rid of right. >> well, absolutely. we see a increase of 12 or 15% in overall times this time of year. and the first thing we got to do is create some space for that material. so, yeah, as you know, a lot of stuff arrives in cardboard boxes. you would you want to do is flatten those boxes or break them down. you don't want a box to be like a cube taking up all the space in your recycling bin that you're going to need for your bottles and cans and all that wrapping paper that you mentioned. so it's really good to tear up and break down those cardboard boxes. >> and what services does recology offer for sf city residents. so there might not be a lot of space to get it out. you just put it where you have your normal recycling bins or do to make an appointment head. you go about that. >> know everybody's got scheduled collection. if you're out at single family home. you have service once a week and youve got 3 bins and

in san francisco of customers have a nice, big blue been which is terrific because it creates it gives a space for those bottles and cans and all that extra paper. the wrapping paper. >> and that that. >> cardboard from those boxes. so you've got a nice bin for recycling in due course is very important that you've got green then for things that we can compost. and as you know, the holidays are the biggest food weeks of the year. so there's a lot of food scraps from the preparation of these holiday meals. and we want to make sure we get all those food scraps in that green bin so we can get them com posted and keep them out of the landfill. >> and when it comes to all of this is their unlike a certain way, besides, you compressing everything down. is there anything else that people should know while they're disposing everything, including the trees because i guess the trees are so large and everything. so when trying to get that out of the house,

is there a way to do it properly or just as he said, is the right way? of course, a couple tips here. one is. >> make sure you take any stand or or or ornaments off that tree. we just want a a bare tree. and if it's over 6 feet tall, just cut it once. get a saw cut it once in the middle in half. and then i want to bridge back to the composting. lot of us and all of us really in san francisco got these kitchen, compost pales in go the eggshells and coffee grounds and and the best will peelings and in need. trick is to put a used paper. napkins are paper towel at the bottom of that kitchen pale that will absorb moisture and help control odor. and then once a day before you go to bed, you go into that kitchen pale into your green bin. and a year helping local farms improve their soil health because you're helping make compost. that goes on to

all these wonderful farms here in northern california. and they can grow carrots. beats and cauliflower and all those wonderful food that comes back to the farmers market so we can take a lot of pride in san francisco in our curbside composting program. >> that's amazing. because right now people maybe a little sad about taking down the tree and having no more meals to be had with family. but then you're thinking about the future. you're helping so many other people have meals in the future. >> you know, all need. >> hope in our society and this can curbside composting program that was pioneered in san francisco really leads the nation. it keeps materials out of landfills. it reduces methane emissions. it helps. soil more healthy on local farms and helps farms grow. >> really nutrient dense food. >> that that that >> helps our bodies and helps us go out there and 2025 and

do all the things we need to do. and it provides all bounty. this cornucopia of. fruits and vegetables that were able to purchase of the farmers markets in san francisco. it's just terrific. composting program. >> that's amazing. and looking forward in the next couple of days, what does recology do for pickups? i know you mentioned a little bit, but for those who are just tuning in now, what can they do to get this all started? >> well, i you know, it's just important to just remember that, you know, you get your material in the bins to get them out to the curb. let's get those christmas trees out there during the next 2 weeks because we're going to send crews out to pick up your bins. but then we're going to have separate crews drive every street in san francisco to pick up us. you're so is christmas trees and make sure to to get them taking care of today. so that arced sidewalks

are clear and everything is safe and the material is moving and we help keep the city clean and help recycle as much as possible. and it really is something we can all do every day to help. protect the environment. >> all right. well, the christmas time and hanukkah and everyone with their holidays having a great holiday season, i hope you have one as well. thanks so much for joining al, joining us and sharing all that information. that was robert green. he's a spokesperson for san francisco recology. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> well, still ahead on kron 4 news, president biden spent the christmas break signing 50 bills into law, including an unusual one regarding the national bird. and many people struggle with their mental once the holidays roll around. after the break, we'll hear how spot the symptoms and some how spot the symptoms and some advice from health experts.

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>> even though the holidays can be filled with joy for some, it can also trigger feelings of loneliness, depression and isolation. today, kron 4 talk to a mental health expert who says it's not just the stress of the time, but it's also the weather that can affect us a lot. >> 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, you're most people are less physically active in the winner because, you know, going outside is putting on the coat 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 roos says you can also see a change in appetite. she says that when people feel depressed, sometimes they will even more and some people eat less. but she does want you to know that you're not alone. >> millions of people experience experience that so you're not alone. and if you experience the symptoms for more than 2 weeks, it's important to seek help because dot its the two-week mark in which we start to think that this might be a clinical

condition. so how can you take care of yourself? want to stay connected again? just spend time with loved ones. even virtually. all right. so do it by tax facetime. whatsapp video get sunlight. this is so so important because a lot of the depression in the winner is leading to that lack of sunlight. >> at the root says it is also okay to say no to social outings. she said finding the balance is the key to not feeling isolated. >> still ahead on kron, 4 news at 6 santa cruz engineers are working to determine the structural integrity of the war after a portion of it was wiped out. plus, the national weather service's again issuing a high surf advisory will get an update on how long it will last and what it means for the people near the coast. and we're taking a look at some of the dozens of bills