chuck coppola was in the south bay for us. chuck, what about shoppers still checking out? >> reporter: they're all starting to leave the mall now. we're on the santa clara side of available valley fair mall. we made our way from the food court to the parking lot. you see passengers packing their bags and taking off. it's nothing like the gridlock we saw earlier, weeks ago. the mall closed at 6:00 p.m., just a few minutes ago. inside, store managers tell us, it was a pretty good season, a little stronger than last year. the last-minute shoppers said today was busy here but not nearly as busy as they had expected. >> i haven't gotten everything yet. as long as i got my wife out of the way, i'm good. >> reporter: how did dad do today? >> he did good. i helped him. good for mom. >> reporter: did you expect to see so many people today? >> yeah, but this isn't as much as i usually see. kind of low today. >> reporter: what do you think of shopping the day before christmas in the united states? >> too crowded. too many people. everything is like, discount, discount! >> reporter: t

chuck coppola has more. >> reporter: the youngest of the two sons loved star wars as a boy and became an advocate for social justice. >> jonathan loved to debate and argue. he had a brilliant and insightful mind and an aggressive way of arguing. >> reporter: friends and his older brother say that he found his niche as a deejay combining the visual arts with music. >> he recorded and mentored and invested in gear, learned the ropes and was making art as he could. >> reporter: like many of the warehouse fire 36 victims, he was an artist who sought independence. >> he objected the corporate game. >> he was so excited about his art. >> reporter: in lafayette, a service was held for sarah hoda who taught young children in oakland. one f one san francisco inner faith council provides more often than warehouses which is the so-called ghost ship. chuck coppola, nbc bay area news. >>> and we have more coverage and the ongoing investigation there on our website. that's nbcbayarea.com. there's a page dedicated to the victims of the fire and the latest in that investigation. >>> still to come, in

that's where we find chuck coppola. what have you learned? >> reporter: here at tenth and mission you see behind me there is an active crime scene investigation going on. there is a large police van in the way down the block there. there's the two police cruisers that have come up. this is an investigation that began around a quarter to 7:00 this evening. san jose police responding to the 700 block of north tenth street near mission. with me is lieutenant lisa gannon. you came up a moment ago. tell us what you know about what happened. i hear reports this is likely a case of domestic violence. >> we had a male caller call 911 at 6:45 this evening indicating a stabbing in the residence. the officers found an adult female who suffered from at least one stab wound. she died from her injuries. the male was arrested and we don't know the relationship between the two parties. so the investigation is still ongoing at this point. >> are they living in the same unit, same place? >> we haven't confirmed that. we don't know their relationship or living

. >> guido: coppola did a good movie for sure. >> anthony: coppola. he didn't -- it up. >> guido: no. >> anthony: no. >> guido: no. [ wind blowing ] ♪ ♪ ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la, ♪ sha, la, la, la, la ♪ [ man in street speaking greek ] [ ferry horn ] [ man speaking greek ] >> anthony: people who come here, stopping in naxos, are they island hopping, or are they coming is this the destination? >> lambros: well, i mean, island hopping happens a lot during the summer. so, you know, as someone who's arranged to have like a two-, three-week vacation in greece will probably want to visit like at least two or three islands. >> anthony: mm-hmm. so how many islands in this island group? >> lambros: the cyclades? >> anthony: cyclades. >> lambros: is it about 15. maybe more. there's andros, tinos, mykonos, syros, paros, naxos, um -- >> anthon

. >> guido: coppola did a good movie for sure. >> anthony: coppola.o. [ wind blowing ] ♪ ♪

chuck coppola, nbc bay area news. >> our coverage of the fire in oakland continues on-line.ind more details from the stories behind those that lost their lives on our website at nbc bay area.com. >>> a chaotic scene in the north bay as a police officer opens fire at a shopping center. officials say just before 6:00 this evening someone tried to run a pedestrian over with their car in windsor, sonoma county. the chase began. police were able to corner him in a shopping center parking lot at alden lane. officers say shots were fired and the suspect was hit. no one else was injured. they are saying he was a man in his 50s but not saying anything about his condition. >>> a dry night right now and bracing for what maybe a wet week. we have team coverage. we start with rob m. >> we have the storm ranger astop the san bernardino mountain. not too foggy. you can see the storm ranger scanning the bay area. you can see how things look at the radar level atop the peninsula and you can see a few sprinkles off shore to the west. a calmer view than yesterday where we had the periods of he

i'm chuck coppola. nbc news. >> thank you. it is cold here but nothing like the rest of the country. lots of images here of the freezing winter blast. it is gripping much of the country now. record lows reported across the upper midwest. holiday shoppers praised the outdoors despite a windchill of minus 24. >>> the chicago bears played one of their coldest home games, windchi windchill -4. >>> get ready for the monday morning commute. they will bring you up to the minute on the road conditions in case there is any freezing. >>> a woman killed in an east bay house fire. tonight they are trying to figure out what started it. it happened in a townhouse on san miguel avenue. rick explains how neighbors did all they could to save her. >> the flames had to be 30 feet in the air. >> a heart wrenching tragedy. an early morning fire along san miguel claiming the life of a female neighbor who lived with her cat. >> it looked like it could have taken the whole thing. i didn't know. maybe somebody's out house had gone up. it was really un

"today in the bay" chuck coppola shows us how that star's work touched so many lives here in the bayea. >> reporter: george michael burst on to the early '80s pop music scene in the singing duo called wham. later as a solo performer his image added a dangling cross earring and sex appeal. >> he pushed that envelope right over the cliff. but, you knew, i remember the video for that -- for that song, also having a message in itself where he was talking about mon ogg me, where he was talking about safe sex. >> reporter: michael revealed he was gay in 1998, was arrested for drug possession several times and conquered pneumonia that that hospitalized him in 2011 but his name in the '8 09s is what many people remember. >> george michael along with prince and madonna and michael jackson literally ruled the entire decade of the '80s. >> reporter: a new album and tour was months away and he gave a few had ints. >> some of my favorite albums would not be things that anyone expected. i still know who i am and what i'm capable of what my limitations are. >> someone who could sing, who could writ

reporting live on highway 17, near los gatos, i'm chuck coppola. >>> okay, thank you, we were talking about the burn scar. we want to show you how much rain in the burn area, the burn scar that the loma fire got today. that is the main area of that fire. the yellow, we put our radar over it. you see the yellow spots there. that is the steady amount of rain moving through and the yellow spots represent heavy rain with the potential to cause flooding. jessica? >> well, it may not be as heavy as earlier but the roads are really slick out there. look at the golden gate bridge, a lot of water on the road there. similar situation there, on 880, now the chp says they have had to respond to dozens and dozens of calls in alameda county. and that was before the commute at night even started. now tonight's rain also making a mess of bay area airports. by 11:00 this morning, 85 flights had been cancelled. and delays were averaging three hours. one alaska airlines flight had to land elsewhere, after the pilot had to get on ground to san francisco. passengers had to make a shuttle to sfo, a lot of

. >> reporter: it's the same story in new y orte where salvatore coppola likes to likes keep his restaurantamily recipes butecip b worries about finding help.s abd >> long hours.urs. getting paid 15, $22 at this point. po it's it's just a difficult d job. >> reporter: the bureau of the f labor statistics estimates eim 200,000 more cooks will be0 mo needed in the next eight years but the supply has beenas b chopped by the highee cost off culinary school wages that canst start off at just $10 an hour au and millennials wanting to go tg out on their own like aspiring r baker brittany hicks. >> by the time we graduate we really are like okay, i'veka i'v kind of done that already. alrd. now let's -- now let's brancheta out and do it for myself. mys >> these are students who saw s impacted by the recession ofon f 2008. 2008. they don't want there toon want happen to them.hem. they're completely entrepreneurial in spirit.t. their desire is to start is something on their own. >> reporter: who paysmeth theint price if there's not enoughh chefs. chef >> if we have six cooks went cks go down to four s

chuck coppola? >> they'll try to get the law changed. first thing we'll say. at the end of 25th street here in the south part of san francisco, very near the new mini rail yard. you see over here a notice, where the city posted a notice saying it wants to build a navigation center to help the homeless get up off their feet. you can see around here, there are hardly any homes around here. likely not very much push back. there may be push back in other parts of the city for the navigation centers because the city wants to put not one but maybe more of them, filled with some iv drug users as well giving them a chance to shoot up legally in the name of public health. >> 12th street, civic center hotel in san francisco. five months ago, a magnet for used syringes. now a navigation center helping the homeless, the kind of center that may soon take in iv drug users, shooting up under the supervision of public health workers. >> we live in a hotel that has got a navigation center in it? >> yes. >> would you live in a hotel that has safe injection center in it? >> yes,

director frances ford coppola described his magnetic quality.? >> you'd have to ask him. the head of parparamount, they didn't want me either. frances said they're going to let him go and i want him. so i showed him the scene in the restaurant. >> what's most important to me is that i have a guarantee no more attempts on lives. >> what guarantees can i give you, mike? >> michael shoots. that scene came up, it hit me. >> i want you to help me get my revenge. >> pacino would revive the role in godfather 2 and godfather 3. >> just when i thought i was out, they pull me back in. >> his sex appeal made him a star. >> vanity is definitely my favorite sin. >> in all, he's been in close to 50 films. >> i don't know how to do anything else. >> neither do i. >> and countless plays. >> oh, but i say -- >> you say? >> i say. >> always sculpting unique characters like over-the-top cocaine kingpin in "scarface." >> you, get over here. >> the cop, frank serpico. >> you're my prisoner, get over here. >> bank robber in "dog day afternoon." >> attica! attica! >>

. >>> continue our team coverage with chuck coppola in san jose along 101. we saw a lot of frost and accidents because of icy roads. could be a repeat tomorrow morning for the commute. >> it could be. one of the diceyest places off and on ramps, anywhere where you hit the brakes. between 5:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. before the sun warms up everything. before you get to the freeway black ice may be waiting. ice may form on bridges and tunnels. that's what happened on sunday in vallejo when the highway patrol says a driver on 37 near columbus parkway hit a patch of black ice. paramedics took her to the hospital with minor injuries. this wasn't the only ice on the roadway. a motorcyclist lost control and slid on to the roadway. a pickup, trying to avoid him, flipped on to its roof. investigators say the motorcyclist rode off. the truck's driver rode away. a water line 80 years old broke causing a sinkhole thousands this of gallons of water ran downhill. another water line burst near 7th and ulma. while parents bundled their youngsters as best they could, a men's she

here's "today in the bay's" chuck coppola. >> i want to extend strength and courage to the artist community. >> reporter: several hundred people observed a moment of silence for the 36 fire victims, then blew bubbles as tiny prayers and thoughts of loved ones lost. >> i don't know that there's a person here at the museum who doesn't know someone, either directly impacted or one degree of separation. it's a small community. many of our staff members are artists. we did have staff and former staff members there that evening. luckily, they got out. >> reporter: one who did not get out safely, alex, whose videos were part of an exhibition at the museum that concluded just six weeks ago. a wooden installation shared insights about the victims. >> i think it's a beautiful thing that oakland's coming together to support the community. you know, what happened was a tragic event. and the fact that the community just seems so together and strong is a beautiful thing. >> reporter: at oakland's first congregation church, the pacific boy choir academy dedicated tonight's performance in memory of former

let's face it, you see any house with columns and typically as it has a coppola you will think it is a mount vernon spinoff. this is the first mount vernon in public print in his resignation in 1789. if i omitted saying the author's name, that is one of the reasons you can make up the list, i do not want to take responsibility for remembering to take that out -- point that out. besides this being the first public image of mount vernon is that it is supposed to honor george washington's resignation. notwithstanding the fact that he is wearing a generals uniform, it is an image to honor his resignation from presidency two years earlier. washington's whole career was really a career of surrendering power and this is going to be very, very important later on. we will touch on it right now with probably the most important image of washington as someone who surrenders power. washington to cincinnatus. cincinnatus was a roman general in the early days of the roman republic, not the empire, who surrendered, who gave up farming when he was called by his country, fought the enemy, came back an

director frances ford coppola described his magnetic quality.rances wanted you. why did he want you? >> you'd have to ask him. the head of paramount, they didn't want brando or they didn't want me either. frances said they're going to let him go and i want him. so i showed him the scene in the restaurant. >> what's most important to me is that i have a guarantee -- no more attempts on lives. >> what guarantees can i give you, mike? >> then michael shoots both of them. that scene came up. it kept me. >> i want you to help me get my revenge. >> reporter: pacino revised the role in "godfather 2" and "godfather 3." >> just when i thought i was out, they pull me back in. >> his sex appeal made him a star. >> vanity is definitely my favorite sin. >> in all, he's been in close to 50 films. >> i don't know how to do anything else. >> neither do i. >> and countless plays. - good thing we've got a really catchy theme song. hit it! - ♪ grocery outlet bargain market ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "cbs this morning: saturday." i'm anthony mason. >> i'm alex wagner. >>>

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