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live in san francisco, gia vang, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, gia.he attack on paul pelosi has bunted local leaders to re- examine their own security, including san francisco mayor, linda bray. >> i had a number of death threats. i've had someone show up and protesters with a pitchfork in front of my home. you know, others who have been very aggressive so, yeah, i'm definitely concerned. >> the mayor said, her team has already made changes to her security protocol, but they're not going to go into details about what those changes are or what the protocol is. >> and notable decision in alameda in a high-profile death. no charges will be filed against the driver who was struck and killed. east bay supervisor, wilma chan. chan died last december while walking her dog in alameda. police launched an investigation into the crash at the time, but the da announced late today, no charges will be filed. >>> we're back in 60 seconds. an exclusive cracking down on sideshows. the plan in the south bay to stop illegal street shows. >>> also, elon musk, full speed

gia vang will have much more coming up at 5:00. >>> growing a covid surge in the bay area. course, this right before the holidays. cases are on the right, and today we learned a covid outbreak has shut down some services at the family law justice center in san jose. our marianne favro has been working on the story since we learned about it. marianne, can you go ahead and start telling us what exactly happened? >> reporter: yes, the covid outbreak is impacting the clerk's office. they didn't have enough staff to keep the office open. so it was closed today and will remain closed tomorrow. and they hope that the office will reopen on monday. of course, the timing was bad because there were so many people who were also off on vacation this week that they simply didn't have enough people to backfill. that's why they had to shut down today. >> sure, speaking of today's shutdown, who exactly is being ■@ >> reporter: the closure is only impacting the clerk's office. it does not impact scheduled court cases and divorces or custody battles, et cetera, already scheduled in court. i d

. >> i'm gia vang. a heartbreaking sunday as the nation reels from a night of violence. police say a gunman made his way inside just before midnight and started firing. people inside the club say at

. >> i'm gia vang.ain, possibly thunderstorms. >> we want to get right to meteorologist rob mayeda. how much rain are we expecting? >> we're sort of seeing the opening act at wind and rain start to pick up. from napa at 20 miles per hour. peninsula locations, offshore, near the santa cruz mountains, the first of the rain starting to move in. and to the north, we've already seen a few lightning strikes up towards chico and redding, all of this progressing southward. things will calm down by 4:00 in the morning for the morning commute, probably about midmorning. in the north bay, as we approach lunchtime, we begin to see the unstable air going through the bay area, seeing an increase in chances for thunderstorms and hail. so we've got the chance of thunder, heavy sierra snow at times, by the way, and the biggest rain with this series

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i'm gia vang. we're learning more about a deadly crash on the peninsula. the two people killed parents of young children. their daughters in the car when the crash happened. nbc bay area's alyssa gourd joins us. you spoke with the family members of those victims? >> reporter: that's right. and the physical impact of that crash was so severe that here on el camino real, you can see where one of those cars was propelled up into the housing development. and police have not released how exactly this crash happened. however, we have spoken with multiple witnesses who said they saw cars racing down the street at the time and running into another vehicle. neighbors here have said it's just been heartbreaking to watch it all unfold. flowers marked the spot where two people were killed during a fiery crash on el camino real and singer avenue friday. this man who didn't want to be identified tell us the people kills were his brother and sister-in-law. their two seven-year-old daughters were in the car but are expected to be okay. he says the family was driving home