dion, shouldn't mattel hire this woman?awesome. >> that's what i expected her to say when she said mattel contacted her. but she just got some free barbies, which i guess is okay. i thought maybe there was a licensing deal happening. >> my first thought is mattel contacted me and they threatened to sue me. but i'm glad it didn't go that way. as so often it can. all right. let's get to spencer. >> she made us all smile. and that's what it's all about, right? >> yes. >> let's take a look at weather. this may not make you smile. we've got some rain coming in overnight in the early morning hours. overnight lows will be mainly in the low to mid-40s. we'll have showers during the day tomorrow. a wet morning commute as well as likely a wet evening commute in some spots. high temperatures tomorrow in the low to mid-50s. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. we've got a break for rain on saturday. and then every single day following saturday into next thursday, there will be some periods of rain with the strong storm, fairly s

i have heard no word from mattel about quarantine dolls. i realize i took their girl and messed her up, made her scruffy, messed up her hair, not the iesh barbie. i think it really is because they have really tried to make relatable barbies, tried to change their image. i think what i am doing is probably what ruth candler, make barbies to put in homes so kids could relate to them. i think people enjoy being able to laugh at themselves. that's what i think during this time. it has been great to laugh at ourselves. the fact i was able to make millions of people all over the world smile, it blows my mind. i think what a great honor, during a really hard year, i came up with something that made people smile. to me, that's the ultimate goal. i make people smile. >> and you can watch more stories on localish.com and >>> today is the time that comes around once a year, the magnolie bloom in san francisco. more than 200 rare historic trees in bo tan cal garden peak in mid january. it is the perfect day to check it out. the velvety buds line the tr

. >>> mattel is debuting a new barbie doll honoring author and civil rights activist maya angelou.floral print, floor-length dress and matching head wrap. she's also holding angelou's most iconic book, "i know why the caged bird sings." it's part of the inspiring women series and available for preorder today. it costs $30. this takes me back. i remember when i was in elementary or grade school nowadays, reading, i was probably too young to be reading that at the time. but it introduced me to -- she is a legend. >> yes. yeah. but i can understand how as a young person you would read it and get so much out of it. and then as you got older you could find some of the layered meaning in her words. i think it's a great idea. you know, barbie always tries to kind of pick -- be inspiring to little girls in terms of what barbie does for a living. but we actually have inspirational figures living and passed away. so why not, you know, show them off to little girls? hatell athis one's not for you to play with, though. >> i know -- >> one for my kid, one for the shelf. >> i have one barbie dol

activist and teacher dr.u, part of the inspiring women line, the doll is on sale at target amazon and mattel. "i know why the cage bird sings" classic and beautiful doll, too. >> laura, thank you. >>> kari, we were talking earlier about what just a glorious weekend is ahead. it's just beautiful. >> yes, and we're getting closer to the weekend. it's been nice to see the sunshine and warm weather as we take a live look outside in walnut creek. not a cloud to be seen anywhere within sight so our temperatures are starting to warm up quite a bit. let's get a look at the wide view of what's going on because we had this big storm system that was well off the coast and it's mainly been targeting the pacific northwest here. we've been just missing out on all of the rain, because of this large blocking area of high pressure that's been keeping our rain chances away, as we are still looking at those rain chances staying away from the bay area. we are warming up as we get that descending air that comes with high pressure, and it's giving us a really bad weather setup for the current drought situation th

nonetheless she's a legend is now getting a barbie del the barbie a poet maya angelou's part of mattel's inspiring women series the dell is holding a copy lou's mom law i know why the caged bird sings. she moved to san francisco when she was very young and was even the first black streetcar operator here other women on it in the series include rosa parks. billie jean king florence nightingale and susan b anthony. >>today would have been doctor martin luther king junior's 92nd birthday the civil rights leader was born on january 15th, 1929. doctor king received the nobel prize in 1964 is work with the southern christian leadership with them he was instrumental in getting both the civil rights and voting rights acts passed in washington of course doctor king was assassinated in memphis 1968 his birthday was first celebrated as national holiday back in 1986. we want to remind you one last time about our kron 4 special taking a closer look at the political glass ceiling shattered by vice president elect kamala harris from here in the bay area across california and on to washington d c join o

300 cases so those people who are trying to coordinate with the government especially women so far mattel with the audit of physicians and coat of sand to get off. and bothers to see how we can proceed to help the community and then house arrest me for training them to solve also the profit of the case to see how we can build the capacity of the hospital through them and to have joy and there's a lot of cases and the officers went back into emergencies they don't all of these hostesses and was playing our best to see how can we use ms software no basis for help them to them not to present to build the capacity of these fossils after. the end of the year that it becomes a lot of cases of all the theories are you special invaded by with no one on this is where the red cross i was i left england seems to see how they can manage to transfer the cases and to coordinate with that access in the field to help them and to transfer them to aim now is to saving lives how we can save lives of these people and how we can protect to respect the protocols and little ones and their religion. lebanon's ca

years and older but even the younger groups between 45 to 64 they also have a quite a lot of excess mattel's so it's not only elderly ok that is troubling what the numbers say about how some european countries have done better than others why is that. you know that this perhaps i find most striking that some countries have seen a hockey in the excess during the pandemic with us have been very bad effect that and if it did it basically tells us you know how quickly were countries able to control the spread of the virus how quickly did they start interventions and lockdowns you know that have had a huge impact on the spread of the virus and their faults and the the the matelote so you're saying the quicker a country has to react and the heart of the lockdown the fewer deaths is that correct. yes i think you can say that if you have it but you can shows a virus early on to prevent it exponentially increases quickly then you really avoid many severe cases and deaths if you wait the virus was spread more whitely in society and they stick most groups and then that's been also go up when government

going on a year in tempe is a yes they are guys that same problem they are suffering a lot of us mattel says he was forced to leave his home in pakistani controlled kashmir 2 years ago due to conflict in the region now he's one of several 1000 migrants and refugees here in bosnia-herzegovina right at the doorstep of the european union most of them have only one goal answering the e.u. ashmit is tried several times to reach crazy but says he was always violently pushed back by border guards we had a human being we want to live we have a family they all guys got to not give me the illinois terrorist we don't have a gun we had a very police asked for us medicinal stuck here in camp which made headlines just before christmas when it was 1st cleared and then burned down these damaged bank beds are or minder what happens since then people here have mostly had to fend for themselves some are collecting rain water to drink. we're not allowed to ensure at this camp police told us they're just following new instructions from the government but they could not explain to us why journalists are not

high, and that is a n area that we are looking at, and this is not going to make people happy, but mattel is making a stumble, and their biggest competitor is making a gain, and this is amd and the company is maybe going to go in a different direction, and it is very much like, and i'm not saying the outcome is going to be the same s and let's make it perfectly clear, but it is kind of rhyming with microsoft in 2012 when sat yaya nadella camen and he did things that the street didn't like because he wanted to break the company apart and he had a better idea. so i am looking at the new ceo thinking that he probably has a better idea. i am sticking with that name, and plus, a severe short for the semi, right. >> well, some new names there, and mark, i promise that the next time you get on, we will talk about why you are here which is health care and thank you for flexibility, and big story. thank you, kim forest and mark johnson. >> thank you. >>> and the squeeze continues as robinhood continues in trading with gamestop andothers. and now, vlad tenev is saying that they have move stopped tr

a poet maya angelou now has her own barbie doll she is part of mattel's inspiring woman's series. the dollar is holding a copy of her memoir i know why the caged bird sings angelou moved to san francisco when she was young. and was even a streetcar operator middle fact other woman honored in the series include rosa parks. billie jean king, florence nightingale and susan b anthony. all right now to a story that will warm your hearts and maybe even your feet a teenager in stockton is collecting and donating colorful socks to seniors in assisted living facilities. ellie an l gun alley and her mom hope that the sox bring some joy to people why they are isolated from their families. folks cannot see their >>some of the community together so even within the facilities there kind of segregated from what we understand the socks and a note from you. it just brings smiles and tears of joy and happiness and who doesn't want to senior the happy again. >>galley has been able to use donations to purchase more than 1000 socks. and before we sign off want to get a check of our forecast now with m

>>well, mattel county has about or blood or not coronavirus vaccines and they want to get those distributed want to speed up the rate of distribution vaccinations so for the second day here they have the event center in the city of san mateo opened up where people can drive in if they qualify and receive their vaccination. on monday san mateo county vaccinated approximately 950 people in its new drive-up vaccination location here at the events center for the time being they're only vaccinating people who qualify as health care workers. >>folks who live or work in long-term care facilities part of the phase one a plan of the vaccination rollout san mateo county hopes to eventually vaccinate about 2000 people per day here at the moment only the county is operating here at the events center but they would like to bring in other health care providers. you could also provide vaccinations at this location and we would really like to see. >>that large mass vaccination sites in the county. include the large health care systems that are trying to expand and scale up their efforts kaiser and center a

those move on to joe biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, do you think the economy needs at mattel?ld see 2.5 trillion, i am kind of surprised. i pressed for more funding, i thought president trump was right on when he said 2000 for people who need it, obviously it had to be tested, all the economic data in the last two weeks confirmed that the v-shaped recovery has run out of steam and people are hurting, 500,000 people in the leisure hospitality industry lost their jobs last month. we sell retail sales fall off a cliff. we had a big spark, we were able to get back to what we were with them an unfair momentum that we had february last year when the federal reserve and the federal government acted quickly i thought it should've been $2600, some of this other stuff we will not reward states for the economic malfeasance and letting them and allowing them to use the pain-and-suffering of covid and their own joe crowley all lockdowns as a disguise for what is the payoff for mismanagement. i don't think anybody think that's fair. a little bit more to have for the probably goes through, t