some businesses are welcoming the styrofoam ban. >> the new ordinance is great. i like the fact that we're using paper products or a lot of restaurants are using them. five guys have been using paper products for a while now. it's something we can use for compost and help out recycling. it's great for the ecomovement. >> not everyone is happy, some complain cardboard containers leak and many are more expensive than styrofoam. the new ordinance does not affect grocery stores. freemont is the last city in the area to ban styrofoam. >>> still to come at 11:00, celebrating the new year with a new baby. we'll meet the first child born in the bay area. >>> keeping an eye on the economy by peeking into s. closets. why economists are looking at lingerie to gauge the economy. os >>> analysts are seeing some uplifting signs in the recovery. recent sales of push-up bras mean the financial outlook is getting a lift. women are willing to indulge in those expensive extras, a big change from last year. >> we're seeing a shift in our sales, we've gone from 55 t-shirts, to 55% fa

rain in southern california and styrofoam.st. >>> here's a look at our regional radar out to the sierra you want toch te akange heading up to lake tahoe but need the umbrella around the bay area for your sunday morning from the mountains into san jose. rain easing off a bit around downtown, but picking up now in livermore as that rain goes from south to north out towards the tri-valley and still some showers around san francisco and a few morecre aoss the north b. we'll be watching this area of low pressure track by through the central coast today but the slight chance of thunder for areas south of santa cruz for the afternoon. >>> and you can always check your weather any time by logging onto weather.com. if you want to know about football weather i'm going to tell you. tonight is football night in america here on nbc. the st. louis rams and the seattle seahawks at qwest field. mostly cloudy and cold, temperatures in the low 30s during the game. that's a check of your weather. here's lester. >> janice, thanks. >>> the future

so in the past five minutes here in the content creek i took a little walk around to see how many styrofoam cups i can pick up in five minutes what you see here is what six people would consume in one week of drinking coffee every day so many people think that their individual actions don't really have an impact but if you multiply this by the millions and millions of people that drink coffee in los angeles alone you can start to understand how we see something like this in every single river every single creek everest single stream and los angeles behind me is compton creek it's one of the many streams that drains the los angeles area now this stream will go into the los angeles river and then out to the pacific ocean the purpose of this boat is to to get attention and get politicians get other schoolteachers get the public to look at us and listen to our story. listening to marcus and emma's story is like being in most of the planet seas and taking the time to look. in the mediterranean alone there are three million tons of garbage drifting around and eighty percent of it is plastic. we d

francisco bay, crews cleaned up 130 tons of waste, mostly plastic. 90% of the trash in our streams like styrofoam does not biodegrade. and now two dozen such waterways violate federal law. so you want to make a difference? don't litter. carry reusable bags. take medicine, paint, and other toxics to disposal sites. nbc bay area believes it's up to us to save the bay. find out how to volunteer for cleanups and planting. nbc bay area editorial.com. >>> good evening and welcome to "sports sunday." i'm laurence scott. we have a show of gray beards, and a ton of baseball talk before the giants and a's head to spring training in a couple of weeks. what have they been up to? in the off-season, brian wilson has been on the talk show circuit, killing wit george lopez this week as a sea captain. if the super bowl is next weekend, tonight we meet a san francisco bay native part of a unique club. one of a handful of people who have attended each super bowl. >>> and this guy bringing a bit of james bond to torrey pines today. he is from san jose, and he's got a direct line to tiger woods. >>> but first, we dre

of injuryies and deaths >>> restaurant owners in vallejo are finding out about a new ban to ban styrofoam containers. they would be the first city in solano county with the ban. the recycling coordinator is recommending it. he said they end up in landfills or waterways and a ban would help protect riddler creek, which has been known as a trash hot spot >>> all right. we want to check in with sal and see how things are moving. sal? >>> we have a couple of slow spots. if highway four comes to mind and highway 280. we will start with highway 24 which is moderately heavy. it is going to be busy from about arine da up to the tunnel it looks good into oakland. we have a little slowing in the middle lanes, which are the fast track lanes. i'd say that's maybe five minutes. the fog is not an issue anymore for the bridge. this is a look at interstate 880 northbound. 280 at 17, 80. the commute is beginning to wake up. at 7:25, let's go to steve >> clouds, overcast. the fog has lifted. it was reduceing visibility early. there's a lot of gray over the bay. downtown oakland 55, so is morgan hill. there

is seeing portrayals of aa meetings on television that show these bored depressed people holding styrofoam cups. he said if meetings were that dreary, who would go? he said the meetings i go to are raucous, they're full of dark humor, they're stories of people who are surviving and even thriving. he said, that's why we go to meetings. and he wants that changed. i thought that was really insightful. those are the kinds of things we need and that's why we take recovering addicts into the writers' rooms to meet with them and to tell them how it really is. doug, let's shift gears a little bit. as we know, the internet has many positive and negative ways that it can be used. talk to us a little bit about how the internet has contributed to both a positive and a negative perspective on addiction treatment. well, one obvious way that the internet has contributed in a positive way is it gives us a place to go to get more information. so if through the psas that are being put out or through programming that's got a positive message around recovery and recovery from addiction, you can then go somepl

mostly plastic. 90% of the trash in our streams like styrofoam does not biodegrade, and now two dozen such waterways violate federal law, so want to make a difference. don't litter.

. >>> the vallejo city recycling coordinator is pushing for a ban on styrofoam containers.says that a ban would help protect hinder creek. >>> now that organizers of the maverick surf contest have banned spectators from the beach, they are setting up the áf areas to watch the contest live. robert handa is telling us how this will work and how fans are feeling about this. >> reporter: we're close to a venue that will beshowing the competition live. but will fans come to theater and stay away from the beach? the view of mavericks shows why surfers are still waiting for the contest. when the waves get big enough. competitors will have hours to arrive. but now at spectators will not be allowed on the beach some fans are upset. >> i don't agree with it. i'm going to show up. i know a lot of people are going to show up no matter what. >> reporter: the city has set up several venues to show the competition live. including the fox theater in redwood city. the fox owners acknowledge the challenge of setting up in a 48 hour notice but says that the theater has an advantage to the bea

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created in a styrofoam. it is hard to imagine what culture would be like had there have been no motown and when it comes to jazz. miles davis parents migrated from arkansas to illinois. he would never have had the opportunity to spend hours upon hours that would have been necessary to hone his genius and become the musician he was at his parents not migrated out of the cotton country of arkansas. polonius monk whose parents migrated when he was five years old from north carolina to harlem where he have the luxury -- this would have never been possible in tobacco country in north carolina to spend hours upon hours to get basic lessons. there would have been no time to do that in the cotton country out in the farmland of, small-town north carolina and john kohl train. john coltrane migrated at 17 from north carolina to philadelphia where believe it or not, he got his first alto sax. where would just be if he had not migrated and been part of the great migration and got the opportunity to go to the school of mu