. >> reporter: if 2024 has proven anything, it's that music really was -- ♪ >> reporter: chapel roan , with her album, "the rise and fall of a midwest princess." >> it's all about the girls. it's about chapel, sabrina. it's amazing. they are killing it. >> whit: a year to remember. our thanks to deborah. you can catch her and david as they join robin roberts for "the year 2024," the all new abc news special, tonight at 9:00 eastern on the abc network. and then streaming later on hulu. thank you so much for watching tonight. i'm whit johnson. hope to see you right back here tomorrow night. good night. news starts right now. >> oh, that green blob you see there on live doppler seven shows our latest wave of rain rolling into the bay area. >> that is a big green blob. prepare for a soggy night followed by day after day of rain. good afternoon. thanks for joining us. i'm larry beil. >> and i'm kristen sze. it's almost like the grinch, right? green like that? yeae had a brief break from the rain, but steady showers are just hours away. >> now, let's take a live look at conditions right now

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also, irish actor barry keoghan and transportation secretary pete buttigieg, along with pop star chapell roanr easy name zendaya. zendaya. zendaya. why can't i do it? shohei ohtani is pretty easy for sports fan, and she and still tongue tie, as some people are familiar with the chinese fashion giant and the paris olympic mascot fridge. and then there's semaglutide, the active ingredient in ozempic. i apologize to all zendaya fans know zendaya. oh come on. i swear, i think i have a scar on my brain or something. i am so sorry. shohei ohtani shohei ohtani shohei ohtani. yeah. okay. thank you. well, let's talk about something about shaming your talent. let's talk about the holidays here. so that alalways putus in a good spirit. i know you love it right. all right. so we're going to talk about tonight's holiday tree lighting ceremony. it's happening in new york city. rockefeller plaza. yeah. all right, let's take a live look for you right now. you can see that tree ready to roll. today's show team. they're also helping out light this tree. so ahead of that, you're going to have kelly clarkson. ye

.# ..to chapell roan. # h-o-t-t-o-g-o # you can take me hot to go...# but charli xcx ruled the roostm sojulia ah—ah, ah...# which even influenced the us presidential election. # 16 carriages driving away # while i watch them i ride with my dreams...# beyonce went country on her latest album, cowboy carter, adding a record 99th grammy nomination to her belt buckle. # do it with a broken heart...# taylor swift shattered records again with the year's biggest selling album and a tour that generated $2 billion in ticket sales. you're making me feel excellent right now! as for the men, drake and kendrick lamar squared up for a headline—making rap battle. # they not like us, i they not like us...# taking the opposite approach, noel and liam gallagher buried the hatchet after a 15—year strop. # do it with a broken heart...# taylor swift shattered records again with the year's biggest selling album and a tour that generated $2 billion in ticket sales. you're making me feel excellent right now! as for the men, drake and kendrick lamar squared up for a headline—making rap battle. # they not lik

yeah. ..like chapell roan, sabrina carpenter, new names coming through. yes. yeah.at feel? why do you think this is happening now? women are great? i don't know. i think — i think it's a beautiful time, in a way, how music is discovered and consumed now. you know, ithink the people decide. i think the gatekeepers that really used to be able to control what people were exposed to and got to discover, it's changed now because of social media and all of this stuff. so, i think it's a really beautiful thing in that great art is finding its way to the surface. also, a song never dies. it can come to the surface at any time. do you know what i mean? it's kind of like a new time. and i guess people are seeing these incredible women doing incredible things and being like, "this slaps. let's share it. "let me listen to it." it's great. i'm so proud of the girls. it kind of levels the playing field as well, like you said, because the people get to decide what does well. the people — yeah, people decide, do you know what i mean? i think there's a real thing that you can get ki

wrapped d up r record-breaking tour -- ♪♪ -- as a new generation emerged like sabrina carpenter and chapel roant summer bathed in a shade of green perfectly paving the way for a wicked pitch named elphaba. ♪ you and i defying gravity ♪ >> reporter: simone biles defied gravity, capping off her comeback, becoming the most decorated u.s. gymnast in olympic history and a new hero rode in on a horse, a pommel horse. steven nedorosic. we were talking basketball, caitlin clark. >> how will she go for history? there it is! >> reporter: -- who became the ncaa's all-time leading scorer. she was the number one draft pick in the wnba draft leading a surge in popularity for women's sports, a hard court hero blazing an inspiring trail that's leading us right into 2025. for "sunday today," joe fryer, new york. >> all that just in the last 12 months. joe, thank you very much. >>> straight ahead, our countdown of the highs and lows of the year including the internet's favorite disgruntled little girl launching an absolute diatribe about the soaring cost of an ice cream cone. and the year of taylor swift, again,

well, we saw that that guy, guy or gal do it chapell roan in the city. yes. that's right. it was really cool. yeah. now the challenge is to make movies. let's see how those knees are in a few years. i know, just thinking about it. thanks, scott. you bet. today is giving tuesday, and we're calling out one organization support who serve our country each and every day. the navy, marine corps relief society was created more than a century ago to take care of family members left behind after a service member died in combat. but the president and ceo says it has now grown into a group working in all sorts of ways to care for families of those who are actively serving from home loans to mental health needs a lot of challenges. they face have to do with housing costs, gas inflation, life events that happen that they can't control, emergency leave, those kind of things. lockheed martin is doing it now for the third year in a row. so what they do is they do $1 million match. and this is not just for the navy and marine corps relief society. it's for for the military aid society. so

yeah, i kind of perused mine a little bit and it's got a lot of harry styles chapell roan sabrina carpenter. wow, i have teenagers. keep that in mind too. mine is so weird. i just don't i don't know to how use spotify. i just go there when i want to find a song. yeah, my list must be whacked. really whacked, i don't know, but did you make that? you guys just make those lists just to be cool? do you have, like, the real one? and then this is my. oh yeah show everybody like we are. cool. yeah, yeah. if we have to tell you to bring your own, i don't know. can i show you guys my 40 fives? i need to use some of those. all right. kerry's got to look at our forecast for today. yeah, we're starting out cool. across the bay area. it's going to be a nice one. here's a live look outside in the cit and we are starting out with some spots dealing with some patchy fog. we've seen that in parts of the delta and moving over toward the central valley. but it's going to linger for a while in those spots. if you are seeing the fog and then hazy through the afternoon. other than that, we're looking at mild tem

along with pop star chapell roan because i love her. and of course, another east bay area native. zendaya. zendaya. yes, i almost cursed you guys. shiotani is pretty easy for sports fans, but she can still tongue ties people unfamiliar with the chinese fashion giant. finally, the paris olympic mascot freaky fridge fridge the dwarf planet speculoos 3d and semaglutide is the active ingredient in ozempic. thanks you guys. that was super special for me. i actually looked over those earlier just to make sure that i knew laura was like, i'm out. and marcus was like, yeah, i'm not taking it well. trending this morning as the year comes to a wrap, spotify wrapped is now out with its list of artists and creators who shaped 2020. so grab your friendship bracelets and top of the goal. artists took over a year and some say this is her era. and for a fortnight there we were forever running to. you sometimes ask about the weather. now you're in my backyard. look, i don't think this is a surprise here. this year's global top artist, taylor swift. this is the second year in a row that taylor has

. >> breakout artist chapel run -- chappell roan with this hit. ♪♪ hit -- ♪ >> how bad is it i don't ♪ >> of course, taylor had to get in there straight from her epic eras tour. that's the music video for "i can do it with a broken heart." i can say that i've also not heard that song. >> 2024 is the year of taylor. were she not number one -- >> that wouldn't have worked. >> dylan, have you heard of spotify? >> i'm sorry. i don't know what we're listening to, but yeah. >>> next up, john legend. the grammy winner just sat down with billboard for the latest on his project. it is a kids music album called "my favorite dream." guess who conducted the interview? his 8-year-old daughter luna who opened up about how it felt to open up about the new album. confidence. she's just like 8 years old. >> he looks just like his son on that album cover, too. he looks just like myles. >> yeah, he does. >> thanks, dylan. ♪ >>> back now at 8:30 on this friday morning, december 27, 2024, as we roll into the weekend with an incredible crowd on the plaza there. they are ready. this is a friday crowd. this

roan. not like us by kendrick lamar and who by jimin, who, who mean we had a lot of these stars here locally. >> i mean, chapelere early enough. those are some inexpensive tickets to see big pop artists like kendrick. >> his tour goes on sale today. >> yep, coming our way. >> sabrina song really was the song. it really was. she did great with that. >> why don't we say it was the song of the summer? it was just kind of. was it just known? no one ever said like, anointed. this is the song of the summer. >> yeah. you know what? i was pushing against it for a while. >> but sabrina, you lost. >> you had you had the song of the summer lady this morning. >> let's talk about warm temperatures this afternoon for december. we're looking live outside from our sutro tower camera. it is dry. it is warm today. so when is our next chance of any sort of wet weather? this will occur on the 14th. here's future weather showing you probably our next system. the bulk of the rain to our north will likely see some lighter showers, but on the heels of that system, another one likely on the 16th and the 17th. so the middle part of the