and well in the south bay. coming up, the money pouring in to a church that was robbed of its donations box days before christmas. >>> thunderstorms and rain passing over the bay area overnight. when will it clear out? meteorologist kari hall has a look at our christmas day forecast. "today in the bay" continues right now. merry christmas to you and thanks so much for joining us this morning. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm kira klapper in for marcus washington. kari hall has some special video to show us. a christmas gift for weather interested folks. >> rain and hail, this falling near the golden gate bridge, and in parts of the north bay, near marin. this is some heavy hail that fell at about 2:00 to 3:00 this morning. it was so much hail that it coated the roadways and chp issued advisories, and saying that people were sliding off of the roads, and then we also had some lightning that went along with that, and now things have since started to clear out, but there is still some flooding on highway 101 near luck

you see the orange highlighting for oakland up to the bay bridge across the bay toward san francisco and across the golden gate bridge, in the north bay, patchy, dense fog through vallejo. that will be an issue for american canyon and coming down into novato from areas north like petaluma. the tri-valley looks great. our dublin camera is not having a problem but out of the altamont into the south bay you'll have patchy fog and low clouds. keep that in mind, watching the south county and santa cruz summit, no problems reported so far. the visibility is a factor and we still have a crash over in this area 880 through fremont, the low clouds, the warren off-ramp may be affected one lane blocked by a crash and anything in the roadway unexpected tougher to see so slow it down. >> good advice. >> always. >>> a dangerous undertaking to provide some sense of closure, coming up next on "today in the bay," we'll update the recovery effort off the new zealand coast following this week's deadly volcanic eruption. >>> plus, renting the runway, a close call in southern california, a pilot making a

we were just in the newsroom. >> more ahead on "today in the bay." >>> nbc bay area responds to viewers who have trouble returning merchandise. >> we asked chris chmura for a quick refresher. >> reporter: we will return billions upon billions of dollars worth of merchandise because it doesn't work, doesn't fit or doesn't do it for us. $41 billion this holiday season most stores have a return policy but they are not required by california law. don't assume a store will allow you to return an item if you changed your mind. can they charge a restocking fee? yes. can they only allow you store credit? yes. can they deny you a refund if you don't have the original receipt? >> yes. do you see a trend here? some stores loosen their policy and, again, they don't have to. if you have trouble, please let us know. call us 888-996-tips. >>> 6:26 for you right now. a christmas miracle down under, rain finally hitting australia providing much-needed relief to the wildfires. firefighters in australia. crews continue to battle more than 60,000 acre fire in southern australia. >>> a choking toddler on ch

of an inch around the bay to even a half inch in the north bay. a nice, healthy system that will hit tomorrow morning's commute the hardest. >>> a north bay tradition put on hold. the sausalito art festival draws in thousands of people from around the world. organizers say it will not be coming back next year. according to the website recent mass shootings like the one at the gilroy garlic festival are driving up the cost of security. >> i saw the security and they had to pay for that suddenly, so the costs have been rising every year for the festival and i'm really aware of that. >> organizers say it will take a year to plan a new version of the event. >> how much do you spend on holiday gifts? the budget is just over $700 according to s will top $1,000 which falls in line with a previously reported poll from the national retail federation. that poll said that people expect to spend about $1,050 this holiday season. christmas eve is exactly two weeks away, reggie. last-minute reggie. >> should i start shopping? i have bought nothing. >> you have

so showers for the north bay this morning into the afternoon showers scend on into the rest of the bay area come 2, 03:04pm, they'll be on and off after that point heavier showers, especially its past 10:00pm this evening and heavy rainfall up in the syria if your plans to involve heading up to tahoe rain and then snow once you get up to lake bubble, so definitely one of those days today, you got to just slow it down tomorrow a bit ofsunshine mixed in with some showers late late into the evening tomorrow, predominantly dry day though, and then sunday will follow that up with more dry weather weekend ahead of us. today's daytime highs will rise only a few degrees from where we're at currently right now we're in the mid-fifties to upper 50's and later on we're only going to be in the upper 50's to low 60's. so pretty similar to where we're currently at showers pushing especially into the afternn. i've got more details on what to expect this weekend still to come over robin all right. thank you john and i want to check in on traffic. we have a number of crashes working around the bay area

we have the clouds lingering in the east bay and south bay. looking at san francisco commuting, if you're working, getting out on the bay, conditions will be calm today. a northwesterly swell will be increasing tomorrow into new year's day. it is going to be rough out there. if you're headed to the coast, you may want to because we'll have dry conditions not only today through the end of the year, the start of 2020. today it's full sunshine. 57 in san francisco. 60 in concord and napa. 59 in san jose. little fog tonight. temperatures dropping off into the low 40s in the north bay. so chilly there. 40s elsewhere. it's kind of quiet out there, huh? >> total crickets, which is a good thing for commuters. looking live at emeryville. this is live picture showing 80 now. those headlights moving towards the maze and the bay bridge. 5:40 this morning, metering lights are not on. that's how you know it's a light day on the roads. checking out san jose, 280, nice clear ride there as well. i will bring in our mass transit alert for you all. new service a

let's show folks the big shot of the bay, big shot of the bay, a nice, smooth flow. a couple of fog reports and co doctor, co the off-ramp at pinole valley road is temporarily closed because of an earlier crash i told but. i believe they're hooking up this car. the speeds on the freeway are fine, 20 minutes from highway 4 to the bay bridge toll plaza where the backup is not bad. i'll show you that in the next report. >>> 5:10 right now. a nightmare, still ahead on "today in the bay" at 5:25, the internet outages at sacramento international airport that led to massive delays for people looking to head home or out of town for christmas. >>> plus, do you still have gifts to buy? you are not late, well you are late, i should say but you're not out of luck. we have deals you can still score this morning. you're watching "today in the bay." i guess you're not late. >>> right now it's 5:14. here is a live look outside in san francisco, if you're about to step out the door, some patches of fog, as you make your way to work. we have some low 40s. bundle up. it will not only b

in the bay area, activists held rallies on all sides of the bay.san francisco, hundreds of people marched from house speaker nancy pelosi's office to senator kamala harris' office and dozens also gathered in oakland. >>> coming up on "today in the bay" at 5:00, we'll have a live report from our d.c. bureau on the explosive letter president trump sent to house speaker nancy pelosi ahead of today's vote and at 5:45 and 6:45, scott mcgrew will take a deeper dive in his "checks & balances" segment. >>> in san francisco a heated debate on the packed meeting on the police shooting that critically injured a burglary suspect. the incident happened 11 days ago in the mission district. it started when two officers tried to question 24-year-old jamaica hampton. the video shows him lunging at the officers and attacking one of them with a glass bottle. moments later he appears to charge at the officers, who then opened fire. last night's town hall the sfpd also showed photos of the bottle and the injuries one officer had to his face. some still believe that thi

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check it on demand after "today in the bay." >> yeah, after "today in the bay."t was such a good show. >> i didn't get to see it yet but you can get it on demand. bill cosby's representatives had something to say but so do stay-at-home dads who aren't necessarily boring. >> exactly. >> mike inouye has something to say about that. we'll talk after. >> let's check the forecast. a lot of people traveling this week, you have family coming to town. >> it's a busy week from shopping to travel and all that stuff going on, last few days before the holiday and we're going to start out this morning with cold temperatures and patchy, dense fog. a live look in walnut creek, here visibility has been fairly clear and we're looking at those temperatures starting out in the upper 30s, so be prepared for that, and you're also blasting the heater in the car as you make your way to work and as we go into the rest of the day, we'll see a mix of sun and slouds a clouds and temperatures in the low 50s. if you're shopping in livermore trying to get on some of those deals we're going to

on up into the north bay at least portions of the north bay. still definitely looking rainy. there's kind of a line drawn right here where you head west of it and conditions com or you head east to that same line and it's still just as rainy as it was dublin on over to livermore and much of the tri valley is still looking at moderate showers concord in walnut creek it's been very light for you so far this morning, it really lightened up for oakland to after a some heavier rainfall earlier on you may have been sleeping through it or at least heard it as you were sleeping last night, san jose up to milpitas down to 7 trees still holding on to some moderate showers are back is going to tell you about a traffic nightmare shaping up down in the south bay because of a pile up down there. so what we do have is isolated showers continuing even into the afternoon. heaviest of rainfall for sure is this morning into the afternoon we still got a few scattered showers so you do want to be prepared for that later on today's one of those days, it's just a goo

green for most of the east bay. the big problem east shore freeway jamming up off the richmond side of the san rafael to richmond bridge and come down out of richmond and san pablo for westbound 80 at ashby, a crash blocks your right lanes. chp said they hope tow trucks would arrive and have in the last few minutes but i don't know d.o.t., the department of transportation, i don't know how long it will take for them to clear the lanes. what's going on is that's holding traffic up in berkeley but makes the bay bridge toll plaza clear for everyone else approaching from the east bay and the other side of the oakland areas. the rest of the bay shows a smooth drive. san jose a crash cleared north 101 at oakland road. where the hazard sign is residential area that's white at florence, continuing with the police activity of eta, routes 25 and 0 will reroute around the police activity. >> that's right, deadly shooting there overnight. >>> it's 6:37 right now. >> that's right, let's get a check of your weekend which is right

just three around the bay area now. the town of cotati is starting its tree lighting event at 4:00 this afternoon, they say rain or shine so most likely rain. burlingame city hall at 5:00, likely raining, also when santa clara lights its tree in front of the rec center and should be raining around then. you want to get the nbc bay area app to track it all. >>> so all of the rain is why we are now on the verge of a microclimate weather alert. right now at 6:00, brace yourselves, heavy rain now just hours away and expected to bring several inches of rain across the bay area. coming up in just a few minutes, meteorologist kari hall will let us know if that storm will bring a weekend washout. >>> plus, the new year will bring higher fares on b.a.r.t. we'll break down how much more you're going to pay for your commute. >>> and it's going gaga for lady gaga. the new california pop-up store that the pop star just unveiled. we'll show you what's in store. "today in the bay" continues right now. thanks for joining us on this soo

south bay sometimes we don't see any fog, clear skies over the rest of the bay.he last few minutes the shot cleared up. you see the low clouds and beams of light coming off the headlights showing you the moisture in the air. the amber orange color reflects where the lowest visibility is registers for our road weather index, creeping through the south bay, all the way in toward the altamont pass but we see it on camera scatter the around the bay. san mateo bridge getting hit with the fog coming out of hayward, a tough time seeing the camera. we can't see the oakland coliseum from across the street. slower drive discovery bay and brentwood. the two-lane highway, two-lane road will be a major thru-way with a lot of fog coming out of byron so keep that in mind. just about 20 minutes right now. now we're showing a smooth easy drive through the rest of contra costa county and no real backup at the bay bridge. we just have your typical morning commute. the north bay will be tough to see, a quarter mile visibility, getting from the richmond side you see the glow again, t

same thing with discovery bay.is is the way it looks there south bay toward the western span of the bay bridge, that is how thick the fog is here. temperatures cooler this morning, mid to upper 40s. going will be gone by noon and high clouds and sunshine this afternoon. upper 50s to low 60s at 6:00. and low to mid-50s at 7:00. so we get a break from the rain today. but it comes back this weekend. more on that next. >>> and so far we really are just looking at fog impacting your morning commute. no major issues as far as the traffic is concerned. so people coming through the al take month pass there, north the bay, you will see the fog. and there is a fog advisory for the bay bridge. and you can hardly make out the bridge. a live look at 280 at king street, very light this friday morning and things are looking good. >>> and this morning counselors will be available to talk to students and staff of a san rafael school, they lost a young boy yesterday who died after some sort of accident at the playground. >> it was s

you're watching "today in the bay." good morning. right now at 6:16, let's head outside in fremont. if you're about to head out the door we have all clear skies here, cool temperatures. you need to bundle up. morning start in the low 40s. reaching the low 50s today. rain arrives tonight. we'll talk that b that and the traffic forecast in less than five minutes. >>> and right now it's a nice drive here at 580 with the headlights coming westbound, out of the altamont, and in through dublin, getting down to 580 out of brentwood, still under 20 minutes and predictive timing for waze talks about it holding steady the next few hours. we'll talk about the upper east shore freeway. >>> good morning. i'm rahel solomon at cnbc headquarters. here are today's top business headlines. wall street is set to open slightly higher this morning. stocks rising yesterday with the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 closing at record highs. shares of boeing by the way leading those gains after the company fires ceo dennis muilenberg amid the 737 max cri

and the east bay.o here is storm number one rolling on through, and the next one comes on saturday afternoon. and so we'll be tracking that for the 49ers game, it looks like by the end of the game, we could see some of those showers moving through and it's going to be cool out there, all throughout the day, as we see our temperatures only reaching the mid-50s. saturday once again off and on rain, starting in the evening, but then we will start out with some sunshine for the morning, and temperatures reaching up to 58 degrees, and then by sunday, waves of rain coming in, looks pretty soggy on sunday. if you plan on going ice skating on saturday, just a heads up there will be some rain moving through, possibly as we go into the late morning and early afternoon hours in san francisco. for the tri-valley, we're looking good on friday, with a high of 63 degrees. that's the best day this weekend, before we start to see that rain coming in. i'll be tracking it on storm ranger, we'll take another look coming u

a little bit further north in the bay light to moderate showers up in the north bay right now it's a little bit more sparse up here. some of our heaviest isolated areas of rainfall though are up in the north bay, including right around youngsville in saint helene at this moment. we did have flood advisories around the contain fire burn scar. those have since expired as rainfall has diminished. rebecca. >>alright checking the roadways around the bay area starting off of the bay bridge toll plaza approach it is what it is raining like. john has been mentioning so that is going to make for a wet commute to leave early if you can and it's windy out there there's a high wind advisory issued for the bay bridge. getting in the san francisco, supposed hands on that stirring well this morning and then over to the san mateo bridge we're looking at some pretty good conditions here. folks are not quite yet here. speeds are the limit no problems to report on your westbound 92 ryan over to the golden gate bridge coming out of the north bay that is going to be a wet right for you you can see the ra

in the north bay where we have our mobile weather center. know how that feels. way the windy weather and let's go to kron four's will tran our human borough. >>you guys is ph d. because it's gotten a lot better than say 30 minutes ago when it was. on the other side that's the commute direction you can see the tail lights, right there so looks like slowing go as a head and to san francisco. i can't believe i even girl. i literally spent my home, child walking to bus stops. in the rain and this is what you can expect if you are walking your bus stop this morning. a lot of. only into san francisco. i know it's counter intuitive but i am so. traffic starts to stack up. people camp the daredevils and go too quickly. and says so far so good, i don't see it the accidents of of course people back out the station there monitoring the traffic situation as well including rebecca and you heard her say it looks like people are understanding the situation and going as necessary and as the speed limit should be today a little bit slow because of all. don't

half moon bay at 50. bodega bay at 52. the peninsula, starting at 7:00, a lot of fog through 9:00. 56. we'll try to squeak out 59 before the rain rolls in before 1:00. it cops off and on throughout the day and evening. east bay, fog and 56 through 9:00. 58 about as warm as it will get. from 1:00 on we have a chance of wet weather also. our last stop will be san francisco. fog through 9:00 and 56. we may warm to 58. most of the day around 56 to 57 with rain as soon as 11:00. i'll show you other neighborhoods and what to expect coming up. here is jobina. >> thank you, mike. good morning. we're starting off with a look at our overall map. you can see the fog. i noticed a big change through the at mobtltamont pass. the fog is moving south and closer in towards the bay. live look now in emeryville, 80. you can barely make out those headlights. there is just so much fog sitting over that area right now. it is looking better in san jose, 280. i can see it's starting to get foggier. it's moving south for sure this morning. checkin

>> there is fog, sal, over the inner east bay.will check on visibility in a moment but let's talk about the storm br are the storm is off the coastline and even northern california dry at the moment. the green on the screen is creeping closer to crescent city, eureka but for us this is an afternoon event. it will last through about sunday morning. timing it out, the future cast shows you a good idea on what to expect. the lunch hour mainly dry with a little bit of drizzle moving in toward the sonoma county coastline. into the afternoon here it is, widespread with light rain over central and southern bay area. over the north bay coming down fairly good for the evening drive. for the evening festivities scattered showers will continue. this storm will bring with the wind. we have a wind advisory starting later today. a look at saturday morning, in and out of light in scattered showers with heavier rain moving in during the afternoon. we remain with wet weather through saturday but breakaway to scattered showers saturday night. at ea

dry from north bay to south bay. put a zoom on this, initial signs of the storm system not far off shore. some cloud cover about 200 miles out in pacific. even wider look. cold front on friday and center of the storm system looking to get her saturday to continue the rainfall chances. rain on friday, don't see big wet weather for morning. maybe spotty showers north of santa rosa. we'll have to wait until the afternoon to start to see this dropping on down. been timin chn this, going to take a while to sweep ac b area. tabout that, sierra snow, wind gusts, wrap it up and take you into the weekend in about 18 minutes. >>> reservoir levels. thanks to all the rain, many of the state's reservoirs are more than half full. folsom lake over half, lake oroville, 55%, lake shasta, vest% and new mel ownes lake is chopping. keep track on our free app. qr code on the screen will take you to the radar. if you have iphone point camera at code for weather page. >>> san jose police actively looking for two men robberies. sergio quint

the rain heading for the bay area this afternoon will arrive in the north bay. they are still recovering from the big fire and there may be a new threat this weekend. alyssa harrington is in the town of windsor right now to tell us how they are getting ready for it. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i'm at foothill regional park this remains closed. the fire burned about 95% of the park. in the distance you can see are bulldozers and other heavy machinery. those machines have been used to try and manage some of the loose soil and take care of some of the issues they have with possible erosion. later today there is a flash flood watch in the burn zone. last night in windsor people arrived for the tree lighting ceremony and some parts of moment county got half a foot of rain since last saturday. >>> when you almost lose your whole town, a little rain doesn't seem like a big deal. >> at least the flood is something we kind of knowing that is coming. because it has been there before. >> reporter: officials in the area concerned about erosion and any debris ru

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the south bay.st for today. sfo here you have it 4 and a half hour delays as we expect today maybe conditions for improving at spots because theyid say the peninsula the s a little bit better at check they birdshot are vibilities are too bad here at least the rain oks like it stopped, but there certain certainly a lot of peddling and what rds in which to deal with he's how it looks like on the satellite picture that subtropical jet extending all the way out to hawaii. e moisture supply not going to end it all because of these cotal mountains though they're particularly very sensitive because you have l that moisture and it gets sent to higher elevations. it's like that what ragen your ring it out like that the up sloping effect or graphic lifting if you want to have all the vowels andverything in that big big word. but that's we get soetimes a lot of flooding in the mountains in the santa cruz mountns will b an example of that later on with the heavier rains teeratus across the state if you are in a

you're watching "today in the bay." if your dishwasher doesn't get dishes completely dry... try finish jet-dry. it dries 100% better than detergent alone - even plastics. get dishes drier than you ever thought possible. try finish jet-dry. >>> 4:44 on this christmas eve. here say live look at walnut creek on a very cold morning, 43 degrees right there on your screen meteorologist kari hall has a look at how this weather will impact santa's visit to the bay area. >> a bundle. >> might wear a coat. ? the north pole it was below zero. >> he's coming to sunny california. >> later today. right now he's tracking across parts of the western pacific, that's the krill islands right now we'll be tracking that throughout the morning and watching our weather as we get ready for rain. it's very cold out ahead of that rain and mostly clear skies, allowing for the temperatures to drop well below freezing in parts of the north bay. we have seen some clouds across the south bay, where it is a little bit milder right now in san jose. it

now heaviest of rainfall can be expected at times working its way through the north bay, south bay is still at the very northern tier of some shower activity if this moisture plume ends up moving a little bit further northward south bay you could end up getting in the mix a little bit more the future cast is showing right now north bay will continue to see showers into the latter part of your commute after which point the nature of the showers begins to change not quite as widespread, not quite as heavy, but you will have isolated showers interspersed by some dry conditions. so i like we had yesterday when at times will have dry skies and then some rainfall picks up here and there sometimes only lasting a few minutes, sometimes a little bit longer showers pick up into the early evening tonight and then we work our way into tomorrow a bit more sparse as far as rainfall goes but still do anticipate the potential of pop-up showers here and there a good one just to keep the in jacket with the and the umbrella handy in your pack, if you've got room for a wednesday also looks to have some s

>> thanks, kari. >>> coming up for you here on "today in the bay," a south bay woman found dead just a few feet from her home. her family says she was beaten and robbed. coming up, what surveillance cameras captured shortly after the attack. >>> and avoiding a strike. the contract deal just reached for nurses at hospitals in one bay area county. >>> and taking a look at the big board for you this morning, we want to show you it. well, okay, there we go. you can see the dow is up 61 points. stocks hit nor all-time highs as the market rallies into the end of the decade. more news for you. >> look at this, showdown in seattle. the funny comparison the niners defensive coordinator is making about this seahawks rivalry. a lot more news ahead. you're watching "today in the bay." >>> right now at 6:43 on your friday morning, a beautiful sunrise as we wrap up this year, last friday of 2019, and it's going to be a cold start this morning. we have some mid-30s here in palo alto, but we do lead in to a beautiful day, with some sunshine and highs into the mid-50s. a look at the morning commute q

south bay, not too bad.hough there are some heavy rain, we're slowing down in a few spots. more on weather and traffic coming up in about five minutes. >> thanks, kari. >>> we have new details now in butte county where two people are behind bars for allegedly stealing more than 100 packages. the pair was caught monday morning after trying to drive away from sheriff's deputies. jeremy bloomline and breanna meyer were charged with identity theft, mail theft and violation of probation. methamphetamine was found in their car as well as a wallet that this giflts and prepaid cards and hundreds of dollars of cash inside. >>> it is 5:44. california's legal pot industry no match for the black market. now some state officials are calling to overhaul the legal industry possibly even going back to voters. "l.a. times" is reporting the cannabis advisory committee is warning governor newsom the taxes are way too high and too many rules for pot shops. the tax revenue is only a third of what the state was hoping for. the co

breaking news out of the east bay.everal people pulled out from a burning warehouse in oakland including a pregnant woman. coming up in a live report hear from one man who ran into the burning building for help. >>> a south bay woman found dead a few feet from her home. her family says she was beaten and robbed. >>> voters in one south bay city could have the final say on whether or not homeless people living in rvs can park on city streets. "today in the bay" continues right now. and good morning to you. thanks for starting with your morning here with us. i'm marcus washington. >> i'm laura garcia. it's a cold start. saw frost on some of the cars, shows how chilly our start was this morning. my future stepdaughter is going to get her license soon so i was explaining the california way, honey, when there's frost on your window, get your credit card out and scrape it off. >> safeway, cvs, whatever card you have in your wallet. maybe her new license. >> do they even sell scrape irs in california? >> they sell them but we

this is the bay area socked in with low grade clouds or patchy fog. you can see the north bay. that's issue number one, but as far as the small chance of rain, look at the futurecast. we start this tomorrow afternoon, and by late tomorrow night, like midnight and past, we're starting to see very light showers work into the north bay. not a lot here, but i want to talk to you about amounts and how likely we see it across the whole bay area. more on that coming up in a bit. >>> all right, thank you. governor newsom reviewing a $13.5 billion settlement proposed by pg&e for the wildfires blamed on the utility's equipment. pg&e said today if the governor and a judge approve the settlement, they'll avoid court and a federal court hearing that was supposed to estimate its total bill. the governor is expected to give his take on the deal by friday. >>> new at 6:00, 2 east palo alto schools are targeted for closure. they say there's just enough another kids, and it's a growing trend around the bay area. >> reporter: there's a meeting just getting underway here in east palo alto. the dis

>>good to go in the bay area, the rain is a

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from the south bay first. eventually, tomorrow, making its way to the north bay.break from the rain but not for long. we'll have complete details when we cover the forecast, but first let's get the latest on the road ahead. >> it is pretty busy working your way out there on the san mateo bridge. heading out the door, plan on taking the bay area bridges it is slow. we have a broken down vehicle cleared out of lanes. the damage is done. it is a slow ride between 880 and 101. you might want to use the dunn barton bridge bridge. 12 minutes as opposed the 60 minutes. traffic is pretty quiet through there. bay bridge, metering lights are on at the toll plaza traffic is backed up through there. we have reports a crash through the maze. i did have a live shot there. wait for it. maybe not. you can see traffic not moving too badly. it clears like it is clearing out of lanes. westbound 80, east shore freeway. highway 4 to the macarthur maze, a 24-minute drive time. 51 minutes through altamonte pass. >>> i'm anne makovec. we're going live to davis. there was an officer invol

rainfall in the eas bay is now stly east of 6 80's. so it's really calm down and oakland hayward in unn city. well you are still looking at some of our heaviest of showers right ound the tri vall up north towards mount diablo walt creek you are beginning to come down and it's going to further calm here in the next few minutes for you. so no you're stting to work your way out of some of the heaviest showers as they move further to the east in san jose, some moderate conditions currently well sunnyvale dries back out temporarily has some heavier rainfall is to the west right across the santa cruz mountains and then also just offshore zooming back out you do see all the rainfall that we've still yet havework our direction out there in the pacific. robin all right. thank you john get on out there early because the longer yowait the heavier the traffic ts n more problems continue to pop up we're checking the richmond sandra fell bdge. i know it's a little blurry that's because of the raindrops on the camera it's a very soggy t there your ba

>>coming up next tonight, a powerful storm rolling into the bay and through the bay north bay east bay to chief meteorologist lawrence karnow but they'll whole region is going to get hit. lawrence karnow tells us when we can expect the hardest rain to hit overnight into tomorrow. >>plus breaking news pg any reaches a multi-billion dollar settlement with northern california wildfire victims. what this means for the utility company that is in bankruptcy give right here kron 4 news at 9 starts ri at at&t we believe in access. the opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. connecting with the things that matter most. and because nothing keeps us more connected than the internet. we've created access from at&t california households with at least one resident who receives snap or ssi benefits. may qualify for home internet at a discounted rate of $10 a month. no commitment, deposit, or installation fee. visit att.com/accessnow, to learn more. >>the work week with quite a bang a big storm pounding the bay area as we speak bringing heavy rain and gusty winds. this is a look at stormt

it is foggy for the south bay, east bay, and the trivalley. about a mile in san jose for the visibility, but zero in livermore right now. dense fog across the trivalley. about a half mile for santa rosa for the visibility across the north bay. a mile and three quarters for fairfield. we'll talk about what you can expect with the next big storm that arrives tomorrow, takingyoe of the foggy spots, 92, the san mateo bridge getting reports of an accident. a live look here at the maps as you work your way in and out of the south bay. foggy conditions here, limited visibility as mary mentioned, as they have issued, chp has issued a fog advisory for santa clara county. that will affect your drive on 101 and 280. we're seeing a lot of green. hopefully things are fairly quiet right now. northbound 101, 85 to 280, 87 minutes. >>> a 49ers broadcaster has been suspended for comments he made about an opposing player following sunday's game. >> take a listen. >> really good at that fake, jackson, when you consider his dark skin color with a dark football wi

, and on either side of the bay a smooth drive, crossing the bay getting more crowded as westbound is your commute, no problems getting to palo alto. i'll check on the road crew closer to marsh. back to you. >> thanks, mike. >>> 5:10. discontinuing excursions. ahead on "today in the bay," the cruise line making a major revelation following a deadly volcano eruption on a new zealand island. >>> and the changes google is making to its mapping service amid helping you find charging stations. >>> plus trending this morning, calling all coffee lovers, how you can get paid to live in a castle and drink caffeine. [ electrical buzzing ] [ dramatic music ] ahhhh! -ahhhh! elliott. you came back! >>> good monday morning. we're coming up on 5:14, and as you head out the door, you might want to head back in to get a heavier coat. we're going to see clear skies and chilly temperatures, in dublin we're dropping down to 35 degrees this morning. it leads into a nice day. we'll talk about the sunshine and the incoming rain by midweek, that's coming up in about five minutes. >>> and here is again 101, b

the rest of the bay i saw some slowing in the east bay, we'll see if it clears up by the time we getaking action to ease the housing crunch. the steps two bay area cities are taking right now to help provide relief. step right up! try the all new tyson air fried chicken. with 75% less fat. it's all pleasure and no guilt. plus we air fry it before you buy it. it's the best thing to happen to fried chicken since... fried chicken. the ones that make a truebeen difference in people's lives. and mike's won them, which is important right this minute, because if he could beat america's biggest gun lobby, helping pass background check laws and defeat nra backed politicians across this country, beat big coal, helping shut down hundreds of polluting plants and beat big tobacco, helping pass laws to save the next generation from addiction. all against big odds you can beat him. i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. >>> 4:44 right now. a live look at san jose. christmas in the park, beautiful way to start the day. no one's there just yet. >> we're up before the tree is on. >> little mag

the rain having touched most parts of the bay, all parts of the bay.e have a crash that must have cleared southbound 101, just past that robin williams tunnel. we know one vehicle drove off and chp was checking on the second, i think we have cleared that. look at the mild drive though throughout contra costa county, so larkspur into san francisco another half hour until things build up for the volume of traffic. brentwood to dublin if that's your drive you pretty much have no more than an hour's drive all morning. it's about 50 minutes right now, so you can hang out and know that you'll have a steady flow of traffic there. there will be the build for the south bay, but with that rain, see that blue, the puddling and the ponding, my concern with highway 101. no major crashing but the flow something starting to build. back to you. >> thanks, mike. >>> happening now, japan's government working on an economic stimulus package worth about $120 billion. officials hope to upgrade dams and utilities in preparation for natural disasters. under the package, all

as the south bay.ind of some off and on showers. the only dry day we have is on thursday. by the weekend a new storm will be moving in, and that will bring us some wet weather on friday and into saturday morning. so we are still looking at the cold temperatures continuing with upper 50s and low 60s throughout the week. if you're planning this weekend to go to the sierra, a lot more snow headed that way. in squaw valley we're only going to see high temperatures in the low to mid-30s and going to see the snow starting to ptaper off sunday as you come back to the bay area. if you're planning to head to the beach for the surfers it's still looking good. i know you were out there yesterday. friday it's going to be windy and rainy, and still some scattered showers through sunday. we'll talk about what's going on today, and a look at storm ranger coming up in about three minutes. >> thank you, kari. >>> our team still on the streets covering the big weather stories for you are, including seven inches of rain.

we'll have upper 40s in the east bay valleys. 50 to 52 for the east bay. the storm track has more energy today. steady rain to the north. every once in a while dipping out of lake and mendocino counties. from 7:00 on, it stays up there. at noon t makes the shift down to the south. during the afternoon and eve ning houevening hours, steady to light rain developing. tomorrow morning, fog is out there. look at saturday afternoon, not nearly as wet as the model was showing yesterday. so, hopefully we can get out there and do outdoor activities. if not, for sure monday, tuesday, on tuesday another storm is on the way. >>> we have a few things to get to. a sigalert we're following in berkeley involving two cars. injuries have been reported. this is westbound 80 at ashby. that crash is blocking two lanes right now. emergency crews are on the way. speeds down to 11 miles per hour. that backup extending five miles towards el cerrito. in antioch, visibility down to 100 feet still. we have fog advisories issued for several bridges including the dumbarton bridge and t

look at the bay bridgeanae. about putting a 1 on the storm impact scale for tomorrow and wednesday morning, look at the rainfall totals up to a quarter inch in the north bay, less than a tenth of an inch forev the re of us. wednesday's morning commute could be slippery. >> thanks. >>> this morning a leaked document from apple is tipping us to a new apple ios update possibly coming this week. according to forbes, apple is looking to fix a problem that gives away locations even if they turn it off in the phone's privacy settings. another tweak would be the ability for parts to limit children's screen time. >>> new this morning, 90% of american tech innovation is happening in four metro areas in the u.s. one of them is the bay area. this ang to a new rept from the brookings institute. authors say concentration of innovation is bad news for america because it's also concentrating the wealth in those five regions and leaving the rest of the country out. along with the san francisco bay area, the report lists seattle,

they're excited fbi ambrose recreation center in bay point on saturday afternoon. presents from santa and they also had help from the sheriff's department ramirez and her family they collected hundreds of toys throughout the year. so that they can make this happen and contribute to the toy drive. we wanted to bring some of the girls. >>the joy that they had in their life to other kids specially in the holidays, it's very tragic that their lives for take in at a very short h we see it as bringing a little bit of their choice in 2 other lights. >>and the ramirez family has since adopted a 1012 year-old and they also plan to start collecting toys for next year in january. >>police have identified one of the man wanted in connection to the stabbing death of the brother of 9 ers backup quarterback c j beth 3rd his name 22 year-old clayton clayton beth, 3rd. he was in nashville, tennessee. he was one of the people killed in that double stabbing his friend was also killed in the 3rd was the other victim in addition to the 23 year-old man they've already identified police

watch parts in the north bay as well.a crash in san pablo is on the off ramp not affecting the freeway for westbound 80 at speed and waze times it out from our partners, concord we see a blip for 242 toward the bay bridge where we showed you that mild backup for the cash lanes that takes about half an hour. if you wait until 5:00 it's 45 minutes. until 6:00 it's over an hour. time your commute accordingly. they tried to adjust for the time of the year as well, talk about a little bit lighter shorter-lived commute. 18 minutes out of brentwood and byron toward 580, a clear drive. there may be patches of fog we showed you the dublin camera with low clouds there. everything is looking good, peninsula and the south bay. there was an earlier crash northbound 101 around capitol but it cleared off the shoulder and i believe cleared from the off-ramp. a quick look over here, a clear view across the san mateo bridge. kira, back to you. >> mike, thanks. >>> now to decision 2020 and the presidential race. president trump is gaining s

better bay area. this is abc 7 mornings. >>> rains drenching the bay areaover night and strong wind gusts getting dangerous in some areas. >> where the wire connected to the house across the street, a puff of smoke went up. >> all those wires were right on top of me. >> however, in other spots the wet weekend is a welcome sight. we will show you where and our live doppler 7 shows what lies ahead for the weekend forecast to come it is sunday december 1st. i'm liz kreutz. let's get right to a look at the weather. here is meteorologist lisa argen. >> we are still on track for a level two with our storm impact scale. that means some periods of heavy rain. the focus has been to the south of us around the santa cruz mountains, monterey county and the coastal hills. winds gusting 40 to 50 miles an hour. here is a look at live doppler 7. you can see the focus in the santa cruz mountains from scotts valley to boulder creek and also up in the north bay around san rafael, elsewhere light to moderate rain. we wid

off to the south, not much for the south bay, peninsula or east bay. we'll tell you what's ahead for us later tonight. >> we'll see you shortly. a terrifying day in new jersey. a shootout that lasted for hours. witnesses say it sounded like a war. a police officer is among the six people killed. three were civilians, two were shooting suspects. this all started as a homicide investigation, when an officer approached two of the suspects, shot and killed that officer. they then fled to a nearby kosher market where they waged an explosive gun battle. a witness say it is must have shocked the police officers. >> because the hail of gun fire was pretty powerful, they was shooting. i doesn't think they were expecting what they ran into. >> the officer kills wed was a married father of five. >>> santa clara county is holding a gun buy-back event. top brass from the gilroy and morgan hill police departments made the announcement. the buyback event is on saturday at the gilroy corporation yard. police want to get more guns off the streets after the double murde

rahel, thank you. >>> coming up on "today in the bay," kari is checking our bay area forecast this morning. >>> the rain is moving out but the roads are still wet as we take a live look outside in palo alto. as we start out today we'll feel temperatures in the low 50s. a slow climb but we will get some sunshine today. we'll talk about that and the rest of the forecast coming up next. >>> and a live look right now in oakland along 80. both lanes moving along but i'm keeping an eye on the roads. a closer look at your drive times throughout the entire bay area coming up. >>> plus, the combination of green and yellow becoming more common when it comes to one kind of transportation. how california is changing the way your kids get to and from school. on the economy, a unique leader. mike bloomberg's created over 400,000 jobs. as president, an opportunity economy that works for us. tax fairness -- where the wealthy pay their fair share. education .. affordable college and high skill vocational training so people can succeed in the new economy. economic security .. lower cost health care and affo

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a chilly start across the bay area. taking a live look outside san francisco, oakland and san jose, a nice trek back through there, waking up to some frost this morning. "today in the bay's" kari hall tracking what we can expect for our weekend forecast. yes, the weekend is almost here. good morning, thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. all right, kari, let's talk about it. the cold temperatures keep out the coat, scarves, gloves? >> all of that. we have to layer up again today because of that system that moved through yesterday. it's really pulling down some cold air from canada, as it continues to move across the dese have been in the 30s, below freezing in parts of the north bay, that's a look at palo alto, where we're starting out at 36 degrees, and we'll stay in the 30s through at least 8:00 and then start to gradually warm up, but you can see there is a lot of sun in that forecast today. as you get ready to head out on the roads here is a live look in san jose, looking at the inte