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vicky nguyen has more on what you should know before this weekend's festivities. >> this year, parentsback out there. >> the cdc, pediatricians and others giving families the green light, but not without important tips to help keep your community and family safe. one of the issues, the risk posed by millions of unvaccinated children. the latest data shows a quarter of new covid cases in the u.s. are still among school-aged kids. >> you still need to make sure that we're diligent and that we are doing everything we can to keep kids safe. >> so tips to keep in mind, make masking fun by incorporating it as as part of the cme, especially for unvaccinated children and adults. keep groups small, limited to one or two households and lastly, carry plenty of hand sanitizer. >> we want to make sure that we're still remembering social distancing when possible, being outside, using good hand hygiene, all of those things that we were talking about in 2020 >> as for kids and adults handing out candy, limit exposure by saying socially distanced and wearing a mask consider individual bags of hands off

nbc's fog correspondent vicky nguyen. >> reporter: do you ever wonder if they're practicing food safetyeffort to protect your food delivery. that's ahead on news 4 today. >> looking forward to it. we're tracking three sims moving through the bare a ya. what does it mean for your neighborhood? >>> plus -- >> they're struggling. we're all struggling. we feel superviolated. it's hard to process. >> ahead, a mother is due in court to answer charges. why one parent is calling it a violation of trust. a third hour of "today in the bay" begins right now. >>> a good wednesday morning. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. we're going to have your morning commute. but let's talk about this forecast. depending where you are or when you woke up, maybe you saw rainfall. vianey arama is in for kari hall tracking conditions. >> that's right. for the first half of the day, you can see if you're heading to work in

nbc's vicky nguyen is here with what you need to know before you book that next.ousands of people now relying on photos for peer-to-peer rental sites like vrbo and airbnb, it can be a real problem for vacation goers who show up and find their dream getaway is a real nightmare. how to spot red flags before you spend your hard-earned money and precious time on a place you'd never want to stay. the modern living room, the updated kitchen, the pool. the pictures on vrbo caught the eye of james who wanted to plan a special vacation after hunkering down for more than a year. >> i was definitely excited. >> reporter: he paid nearly $17,000 to rent the home in new jersey. >> the pictures online looked so good. the pool is vibrant blue. it just looked like such a nice spot. >> reporter: but when he arrived at the house -- >> it just didn't feel right. you look at the listing, this isn't the same. >> reporter: here's a picture of the living room in the listing. and here i am in the actual living room. it looks a little different. you don't notice it? take a closer look. her

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vicky nguyen is here we have courtney reagan from cnbc and the legendary stephanie ruhle.go. i want you to have a happy celebration, have the food and the presents and everything you need for your celebrations everyone is talking supply chain and shortages. i think it's more about the fact that everything is so unpredictable. we were just at trader joe's the other day. our cookies that we wanted are not there. it's not that they're never going to be there. it's that they're coming in on a truck that was two days late shop early and shop often. if you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. i want people to budget and make a list right now think about what kind of presents that you want to give and start saving you are going the want to prepare to pay a little bit more a friend of mine who knows people in the shipping industry says cargo containers that used to take $3,000 to get from a to b, now $21,000 those costs are coming down to us as consumers. when you're shopping, think about planning ahead, buy one get one free deals, things that are nonperishable, you like sparkling wa

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