famed italian chef, lidia bastianich, sharing her recipes and being helped out with her granddaughter will go cook with her. first, let's check out the weather near you. >> we have beautiful weather in the eastern half of the country for saturday. rain and snow out west and sunday sunday, we are looking at more snow around the great lakes, rain around the central great lakes, snow in the rockies, wasatch mountain >> there will be a few clouds thickening up as we head through the day. there is a slight chance we could see brain. 30% chance for a >>> that's your latest weather. >> thank you very much. it is easy being green if you make simple everyday changes right after these messages. all day and night. [ man ] symbicort improves my lung function, starting within 15 minutes. symbicort will not replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. it is a combination of two medicines and should not be taken more often than prescribed. symbicort contains formoterol. medicines like formoterol increase the risk of death from asthma problems, and children and adolescents may have an increased risk

famed italian chef, lidia bastianich, sharing her recipes and being helped out with her granddaughterountry for saturday. rain and snow out west and sunday sunday, we are looking at more snow around the great lakes, rain around the central great lakes, snow in the rockies, wasatch >>> and here's a nice view from oakland looking back to san francisco. a lot of low clouds this morning and even some spotty areas of drizzle underneath the clouds as the onshore winds pick up. you can see in terms of more substantial rain nothing showing just yet. we are seeing the rain in the north coast. that is getting closer and closer to the bay area. back tomorrow a good chance of rain today. mainly cool and breezy. 50s and 60s for highs today. we'll see the rain at times for tomorrow then saturday and sunday windy and cooler. thatr yu >>> that's your latest weather. >> thank you very much. it is easy being green if you make simple everyday changes right after these messages. all day and night. [ man ] symbicort improves my lung function, starting within 15 minutes. symbicort will not replace a rescue

. >>> this morning in "today"'s kitchen an ilian today's christmas tradition with lidia bastianich, whoor as lidia calls you, nonna. >> when we go to bed at night, what do we do? all together, we pile up. the question is, nonna, tell me a story. yes. and the story, in this case, i told her many stories, in this case, it's about christmas, the christmas tree i made out of edible things, cookies and candies and apples and oranges and so on. we begin making the simple dough for this delicious cookie called a crostoli. tell nonna. >> crostoli. >> your question for your grandmother, nonna, is what are we making today? all right. >> out of the 14 recipes in the book, this is one, crostoli. we have butter and sugar and flr, very simple. for family, mother, grandmother, siblings with children, in the processor, eggs, lemon juice, lemon rinds, orange juice, orange rinds, and put milk and will get that all into a dough. >> now, did you grow up making this as a child? did your mother or grandmother teach you this as well? let me help you with that. >> help me out. >> i'm sure you grandmother stirr