i was raised by danny inouye in the united states senate. and to president sharp and chairman hill, the oneida nation, and our president fulsi, i thank you, all, for what you're doing and i want to recognize you. and chairman hill, i thought going -- being from upstate new york and college -- my deceased wife is from -- not far from oneida, new york, i thought oneida nation was all in central new york. but obviously you're up in wisconsin. come down and see us in oneida. anyway, i want to thank you, madam secretary, for your remarks. i want to thank you, deb, for be willing to join when i asked you to come along and to serve. as i said, i was confident at the time you would be incredibly important. when i got to the senate, danny inouye took me under his wing. the simple truth i was only vaguely aware of. tribal nations do better when they make their own decisions. that's why some of the votes i took as a young senator were among my proudest. supporting the indian education, indian child welfare act, the repatriation act. and so much more. w

mike inouye tracking the roads. first, to nbc bay area's cierra johnson live at sfo. a lot of people coming and going there, but there's also a protest going on. >> reporter: good morning, marcus. you can hear the protesters behind me. we'll get to them in a moment. we've seen a steady stream of travelers, rideshare drivers making the drop-off at the airport. it's a scene playing across the country if you are planning to floi to visit friends and family you'll not be alone. aaa predicts millions of people will travel from home despite the high gas prices. if you are flying, a lot of airports will be seeing a huge jump in travelers. take san jose for example, this time last year, 125,000 travelers during the holiday rush. this year 400,000 travelers during the holiday rush. but here at sfo, as you can hear behind me, a group of workers gather to protest their jobs, not providing affordable family health care. now just moments ago, you can see on your screen cashiers, cooks, dishwashers, servers and bartenders are among those who gathered to protest. some protesting are

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it just opens in 15 minutes, and our own nbc bay area's mike inouye is emceeing. the rink features a one of a kind track. the celebration tonight includes live performances and special guests. it is super, super fun. >>> another celebration. last year the christmas in the park had to be changed to a covid-safe drive- it will be available again this year. but if you like the traditional christmas in the park at cesar chavez park, can you go to that as well. it will feature a new 65-foot walk-three christmas tree. >> you can hit the ice skating rink, go to christmas in the park. >> yes. >> lots of things to do in san jose for the holidays. >> it is gorgeous. let's get you into the microclimate forecast, if you're doing any of the festivities or just going to the grocery store. 65 degrees right now. i am tracking something just offshore. this looks pretty ominous here, lots of cloud cover with it, but this is really just going to give us a reinforcing shot at cold air as we head through tomorrow morning, and it's that kind of weather where you definitely have to make

mike inouye will be out there with kristi yamaguchi for the opening ceremony.s going to be light jacket weather and, yeah, always perfect for hot chocolate, too, going into this evening. i know a lot of people are traveling or maybe have people coming in town. looking at the airport delays, there are none anywhere across the country. it's fairly quiet weather, except for the showers that we're seeing all up and down the east coast. but that's going to be clearing out soon. so we'll see some dry weather continuing. there is a weak storm system off our coast that we'll see coming in for the next couple of days. the rain dries up before it gets here. there may be showers up around seattle, but not much for the bay area. even going into the weekend, we still are seeing some dry weather in the forecast and unfortunately that's not good for our drought but, of course, good for all the holiday activities you have going on, including shopping on friday. going into the weekend, we have some upper 60s, reaching 68, 67 degrees and we'll see more of the same in san francis

pretty heavily on the va selection and introduced general peak at the hearing along with senator inouye a couple weeks ago. you know, it's -- i don't have anything to ask him. i've met with hadley a couple times about libya, or the law firm, take libya on. i've met with lautenberg and all the other people, lockerbie because we think we might be able to help. so, they've been good about giving me certain information, you know, but -- and i think bush, you know, one-on-one, i mean, talking to these veterans we take down, veterans that lost their legs and all this stuff, he's great with them one-on-one. and they all -- this one guy, jose ramos, lost his arm. boy, he thinks bush was great. he was on our commission. bush has had us down there, what, three times. and the last time spent two hours just visiting with all these different -- so, you know, it's pretty hard to beat. >> is there such a thing as presidents being unlucky? >> yeah, i think he's unlucky. well, history's going to have to judge preemptive strikes and why the whole world community said they have wmds and they didn't. and w

mike inouye taking a look. >> let's show you how things are from those maps because kari also talkingat i'm going to talk about in this first part of the report. we look on the left side of the screen. the blob over novato. highlighting novato. kari had readings zero mile visibility up to three miles visibility and fluctuated and fog doesn't stay in one place. we know that even if you're not a meteorologist. fog moves around. moving through this portion right here highway 4 and discover the overnight crews there also had that closure and should be picking up soon between stockton and discovery bay and that is going on tomorrow night, as well. should be clearing up and that does not affect the drive for vasco and kari flashing lights in palo alto and they just cleared and the crews highway 101 all good right now. >> all good there and all good, too, in the east bay as we get a live look at walnut creek. we haven't seen the fog developing here and 44 degrees right now. and we'll see the temperatures go from 44 in the next hour to 50 at 9:00. not much of a warm up. it's going to be slow

into the evening for the downtown ice in san jose, opening ceremony in the circle of palms, our mike inouye will be there. it will be at about 66 degrees at the opening ceremony. and then going into the evening with some upper 50s. so hot chocolate will be perfect along with a couple of layers of clothes. if you will be having people coming in, traveling, here's a look at the current airport delays. it doe 30-minute delay but and it's also looking good, traveling across the region, across the west. we will have to watch out to see if the showers that we're seeing along the east coast do have more of those delays forming as we go into this afternoon. looking to see what else is coming our way. it's all nice and quiet out there. except for a long line of clouds that we're seeing. weakening system will be approaching the bay area. and giving us more clouds and slightly cooler temperatures. but still no rain as we go into the rest of the week, even into the weekend. it's going to be pretty dry here as our temperatures stay very seasonable. taking a look at our seven-day forecast. for the inland

mike inouye got a box, and his family left him only the dark chocolate covered raisins.uckily he likes them. follow him on social media. >>> welcome back, everyone. it's 6:24 right now. with fda approval still in the air on the state's my turn app, still not technically available on all adults. >> we wanted to prepare you, and consumer investigator, chris chmura, takes you through the steps to receive a booster shot. >> we have good news. getting a vaccine booster appointment is way easier than it used to be. no midnight web surfing, no stand-by wait lists or long road trips, like the one i took. to find an appointment ask your doctor or pharmacy or you can use a federal location. there's contact information and what boosters they have. if you don't want to text you can call the federal locater service. you don't have to search for a specific booster to match your original shot. the cdc says it's okay to mix and match. when you are scheduling, you will likely have to specific you are looking for a booster. have your vaccine card handy because they will want to know when

. >>> first, check out this photo mike inouye posted. it is super tony, our producer right there.y ran and got coffee and tea for the team yesterday because our station's coffee machine went down and tony said, you know what, merry christmas to you all. nice of tony. >> great of tony. >> we want to know what you're thankful for ahead of thanksgiving. you can actually post those photos and even video explaining what you're thankful for and share with us so we can post them and share them with you and everyone else in the bay area. make sure you tag us at nbc bay area or tag laura, myself, kari. spread some cheer on this thanksgiving. >> we're thankful for our viewers, too. >> thank you. every morning you guys get up. >> come back after this break. r9 the more questions and worries we have. calhope can help with free covid-19 emotional support. oporg today. ray loves vacations. but his diabetes never seemed to take one. everything felt like a 'no'. everything. but then ray went from no to know. with freestyle libre 2, now he knows his glucose levels when he needs to. and... when he

. >>> first check out this post from mike inouye saying thank you to our producer tony.y ran and got coffee and tea for our entire team because our coffee machine is done. he said merry christmas to you all. tony, thank you. so happy for that. we want to know what you're thankful for. post photos and videos explaining what you are thankful for and we'll share them right here on "today in the bay." make sure you tag us at nbcbayarea or any one of us and we would love to know what you're thinking about. >> our coffee machine is still down. >> hey, tony. coffee! >> thanks, tony. >> we'll be right back. >>> a follow up for you this morning and thanks to feer lingering containers, plans are being delayed again to start implementing fines. port leaders say the amount of idling cargo has dropped since those fines were announced last month. cargo ships by the dozens are still waiting their turn to be offloaded now anchored 150 miles off shore. >>> 5:24 right now. usually the biggest mystery this time of year is what is in that beautifully wrapped box. but this year the big quest

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