Tonight heading into sunday. Well let you know how much longer you might need the umbrella in the forecast for the rest of the weekend coming up in about ten minutes. Thank you so much. How about some Video Evidence of rob of what rob was talking about. Serious roadblock for drivers in San Francisco. You see flooding in the road. Southbound 101 at 17th street. At one point, three cars were stranded. There the connector to the central freeway is closed. Viewer video showing cars driving through the water. This is not with the chp, not what any Police Department would advi advise. Dont do it. You get water in the engine, you lose your car. Well show the back up thats been caused by all this flooding. Sig alert issued for the area. Chp says it does not know when the road is going to reopen. How about fallen trees . A serious danger tonight. This is south van ness and 16th street. A tree absolutely perpendicular to the right. A strange sight hanging over the street. The streets been blocked off obviously. In San Francisco, a tree fell on two pedestrians on the sidewalk. This happened at locust and clay this afternoon in presidio heights. The man and woman were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Look at this here. Oakland firefighters tweeted out this picture. Its a tree that went right into a house. Caused a lot of damage. There is in the this is in the oakland hills. Thankfully no one was hurt. Pg e is there to help firefighters. We have more now from sergio, youre seeing the aftermath of i downpour that hit the city today. Reporter yeah, theres a whole lot of cleanup going on across the city. We are at 15th avenue and warona. This intersection basically turned into a pool. Thats because a lot of storm drains just got clogged up. Look, you can see how deep the water got here. That is the water line there. Several homes and vehicles that were damaged at this intersection. This is video posted to social media as the rain was falling. You can see how deep and how big that pool grew. It expanded so much that water started creeping into several homes here. This is the cervantes home at the corner. They had planned a Birthday Party for their 2yearold son, but it got washed out by the rain. Three rooms in their home are damaged by the rain. Everything was flooded from like four inches in to the room into the living room. Basically everything got wet. And its pretty dirty now, too. Reporter now flooded intersections are a recurring theme throughout the rest of the city. People tiptoed through the deep waters, and drivers tried to steer around those sunken intersections. Most of the water has subsided so far, but crews are now out in force trying to clear out clogged up storm drains across the city. The San Francisco muni central tunnel also had some flooding. In fact, they had to shut down service there for some time. They have been slowly restoring that service. And there were also some Power Outages in neighborhoods throughout the city. This is the storm that packed quite a wallop for San Francisco. Reporting live in San Francisco, sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. Thank you so much. He was talking about the rain impacting muni service. Nbc bay areas kristi smith has that part of the coverage live. Christie . Well, we are standing here at west portal, and the station is closed. There is an area right there where you would normally walk through. But they have orange cones set up. And people keep showing up here who dont know. They walk over, and they were told about flooding, then what they do is they cross the street and wait for a shuttle. This is what was posted to twitter earlier today with water flowing down the stairs. The person who posted it said it was the van ness station. Sf mta tweet thursday is no south bay service between the west portal and church stations, but that the van ness station has been cleared from the flooding. I just spoke with one man waiting for the shuttle about his experience in the city during the downpour, just trying to get here. All the flooding on 19th avenue. I came from Mercy High School and walked the side where Mercy High School is. The outer lane was like a river. The cars drove through, and water splattered just awful. The drains obviously couldnt handle it. Reporter now when we arrived here, there was a big crowd standing around on the corner bundled up waiting for the slut for the shuttle to go to the van ness station. It was packed with people trying to get on. Back here live, i want to show you people lining up trying to get on the next shuttle. They come rather frequently. But a lot of people showing up to get a ride. We did reach out to tm s to sf mta and didnt hear back. More people waiting for the shuttle. Reporting live in San Francisco, nbc bay area news. That is a lot of people. Big inconvenience there. Thank you. A deadly crash in the east bay and police are looking into whether the rain was a factor. It happened after 3 00 in the morning on highway 24 in orinda. Chp says the driver veered off the highway and crashed into a tree headon. The three people inside died at the scene. Two lanes of the highway closed during the investigation. The chp has not identified the driver but say theassengers fro a hayward. Police are looking into what role the wet pavement may have played in how fast that driver was going. The wet weather, slowing down is probably one of the most important factors. Allow yourself extra time. The road conditions, especially at night, especially when the rain is it started up again today. We just encourage people to slow down and take their time. Chp reopened the lanes around 6 30 in the morning. Heres a good way to get the very latest updates on the forecast and as we found out today we need it. Rob is always tweeting information about our changing conditions. Make sure you follow him. His handle is robmayeda. Around 8 30 this morning, Police Responded to a prowler in the process of burglarizing a home. The officers confronted a man, a person matching the suspects description. That suspect allegedly assaulted the officers, and police opened fire. Several neighbors say they heard that exchange. I heard in rapid succession four or five gunshots followed by a pause of a few skpenggunsh. The officer is in the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. We sent out a news alert as soon as we learned more about the shooting. The nbc bay area app is totally free. Download it. Its a great way to stay up to date on whats happening across the bay area. Ahead, they are ditching their jobs and hitting the picket lines. When kaiser employees are going to strike and their demands. The rain is bringing wind and packing snow up in the mountains. Mike bloombergs never been afraid of tough fights, the ones that make a true difference in peoples lives. And mikes won them, which is important right this minute, because if he could beat americas biggest gun lobby, helping pass background check laws and defeat nra backed politicians across this country, beat big coal, helping shut down hundreds of polluting plants and beat big tobacco, helping pass laws to save the next generation from addiction. All against big odds you can beat him. Im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. The date is set. Thousands of Mental Health workers at kaiser will be striking this month. Workers all over the state say they will walk out on december 16th. The strikes expected to last five days. Mental Health Workers say theyre going on strike because they are understaffed, they have unequal wages, and wait times are too long for appointments. Kaiser also says all hospitals and emergency and u departments willha strike. Now to San Francisco. Santa monica Scooter Company bird has laid off bay area workers just months after buying out its rival scoot. The move is raising questions about San Franciscos permit to rent out electric scooters. Sf mta let bird acquire scoots permit last year only if it maintained the same or greater number of employees at the same or higher pay. In a statement bird said the integration of bird and scoot does not impact or change our previous or future commitments to San Francisco or to providing its residents and visitors access to the highest quality and most reliable shared micromobility vehicles and services. Stopping shoplifters, thats what Concord Police are trying to do this holiday season. Ave e out near the local malls trying to catch shoplifters. Police say on the first night of doing this, they caught someone trying to steal clothing. About 3,000 worth of clothing. Okay, we want to get back to our weather coverage now. Youre looking live at San Francisco. On your left, san jose, christmas in the park. On the right, the heaviest rain weve seen in San Francisco. Pretty muggy, wet, cold, yucky out there. It was coming down. That rain is creating some bad news for flyers. Weathers impacting flights in and out of San Francisco. Strong winds causing delays of almost three hours, according to airline trafficking website flightaware. So far, there have been more than 30 cancelations, more than 200 delays. Rain in the bay means more snow in the sierra. And this is picture for you. This is i80 near kingveil. The past 30 minutes. You can see the snow on the ground there. Those cars backed up, they are moving slowly. Heres a look at highway 50 near echo summit. You see snow also on the road there. Caltrans just tweeted that chain controls are in place for both i80 and highway 50. Really important for you to remember that. Yep. I was born and raised in San Francisco. I was driving on 19th avenue about 3 00 today, and i do not remember it ever, ever pouring that hard. It was incredible. Yeah. When you had about three quarters of an inch of rain fall in an hours time, that adds up quickly. That is really whats made the rainfall totals very impressive. One to two inches of rain is a pretty good storm for the bay area. Keep in mind that San Francisco total, almost an inch and a quarter, almost three quarters of that fell just between 2 30 and about 3 15 on top of a concrete landscape of hillsides, obviously roadways and storm drains that were clogged. That caused problems. Similar issues around 880 into oakland. It was San Francisco and the central bay that saw from three quarters of an ever of rain to almost an inch. Right during the midafternoon hours. Notice the santa cruz mountains, three inches of rain. San jose, one third of an inch. Were adding to the totals as the rain thankfully moves away from San Francisco. Cloudy skies, 58 degrees. Christmas in the park. A little drenched right now. 59. Kind of muggy out there. Weve got rain flying in the evening hours. Still near 60 outside. Thats the line that caused all the problems into San Francisco, oakland, and berkeley. That was midafternoon. Right now a very different view as were still seeing a few scattered showers. Nothing like we saw earlier this afternoon. Now keep in mind for the north bay, sonoma county, napa county, northern marin county, you still have that Flash Flood Watch up to about 10 00 tonight. The rain rates here have certainly come down compared to where they were a little bit earlier this afternoon. Trivalley starting to see a break. Here you can see where most of the rain is. From millipedes south of the sunol grade, into san jose. Campbell, saratoga, los gatos, highway 17, still getting slammed by pretty good rain. And now more of the rain spilling toward morgan hill and gilroy. Notice behind that line, not a lot left. Well still see scattered showers off and on tonight. Maybe just still a slight chance of an an isolated thundershower at times near the coast. Tomorrow, still some showers in the forecast. Not the outright ce the rainfal now as we finish the weekend, most of the higher totals around the santa cruz mountains, less for San Francisco and oakland through the day tomorrow. The trend will actually be the opposite of what we saw today. Instead of the afternoon being the peak time for showers, tomorrow morning will be the most widespread for parts of the south bay, midday still a few more showers, notice how San Francisco and oakland will start to see less of that toward midafternoon. And then toward the evening, dryer air comes if n from the north, showers should start to shut down. That should follow us into monday. And the week aheads going to be a little bit different. High pressure off to the west. Strong enough to kind of take the energy out of these incoming storms. Still enough for showers for San Francisco north, especially for the second half of the week. Youll notice here rainfall estimates of the shower chances hitting next week are a lot less than what were going through now and what weve seen the past seven to ten days. The forecast has a few showers lingering around until sundown for the bay area. Monday looks dry. Tuesday night into wednesday, a few more showers. We think mainly for the north bay. Wednesday morning, probably the best chance of showers in the bay area might be toward the start of next weekend. Those rain totals about a quarter inch. Not the inch per hour that we saw around San Francisco. Youre right. We dont often see that around here. This system did pull in tropical moisture. Helped to boost the rain rates for a time. Yeah, you dont get that often in any city in america thats got that many paved roads and hills thrown in. Thats going to run off quickly and lead to problems. Rob, thank you so much. A rare case of cooperation between the u. S. And iran. Details on the prisoner swap that saved an american. 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He feels very strongly, very, very devastated by what happened, what took place. Likewise, the crown prince. They are devastated by what took place in pensacola. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani legally purchased the handgun from a dealer in pens cole a. H. He exploited a loophole that allows people to buy hand googlhandguns if they have a hunting license and he d. An american citizen and researcher held captive for three years finally freed from iran. Xiyue wang was arrested in 2017. Princeton graduate student was in iran to research a former monarchy. Instead, though, he was arrested on false charges of espionage and sentenced to ten years in prison. Iran agreed to trade wang for an iranian medical Research Scientist arrested in the United States for trying to export human growth hormones without authorization. That scientist is already back in iran. Wang is being checked out by doctors in germany before flying home to his family in the United States. President Franklin Delano roosevelt called it a date which will live in rsince the attack on pearl harbor, hawaii. In 1941 japanese planes bombed the shipyard. 21 ships were sunk or damaged including the uss 2,390 americans died in that attack. Some 1,100 others injured. The attack drew the u. S. Into world war ii. In the east bay today, people gathered at the uss hornet to commemorate the anniversary of the attack. A veteran spoke, a veteran of the japanese american 447 Regimental Combat Team who was awarded five purple hearts. The National Parks service and the navy also hosted a remembrance b. A dozen survivors were there. Anthony flores now. A lot of sports going on. Many of us thinking about the sport going on tomorrow. Thats right. Show you how important each game is. I went from one to five with one loss. For the second week in arow, the 49ers face another tough test on the road. How staying on the east coast helped prepare them for their showdown sunday in new orleans. 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Its about stepping up in the right situation, crucial times. Making the plays that are there for you. Not doing too much, not doing anything outside of your norm, but being ready when you football team. Unfortunately we didnt get it done last week. Now its an unit to go into someone elses house and get a win. Thats our goal this week. The game kicks off tomorrow bright and early at 10 00. The final countdown continues. The raiders have just two remaining home games in oakland. Next year scenes like this celebrating with the black hole will take place in las vegas. Theres no time to get sentimental. The raiders are still in the playoff hunt. They face tennessee on sunday. Now the titans are one of two teams ahead of them for that final wild card spot in the afc. But i think weve got a confident group of guys. We realize what were up against, the titans are a great team. In first place. They can do a lot of things. They present a lot of problems, but we know what were capable of doing if we play good football. Beautiful thing about this game, you know, you you rewind two weeks ago, we were greatest story in the nfl. Two weeks later, we suck again, you know what i mean. So i think well be all right. All right. The raiders and the titans at the coliseum, kickoff is at 1 25. Big 12 championship number six oklahoma taking on baylor in overtime. The sooners first possession, they score a touchdown on a fiveyard run to take the lead. The defense would take care of the rest. They stopped baylor on downs. Oklahoma wins the big 12 title for the fifth year in a row. Your final, 3023. Utahs loss and last nights pac 12 championships and georgias loss today in the sec championship should clear the way for oklahoma to punch their ticket to the playoff. The stanford womens soccer team is headed to the National Championship game. Heres the best part its happening in their back yard in san jose. The cardinal beat ucla 41 in the semifinals of the college cup on friday. How about this sophia smith had a hat trick. Two, three goals in a game, if youre keeping score at home. The cardinal are hoping the homefield will help lift them to to their second National Championship in three seasons when they take on North Carolina in sundays title match. I dont think it adds pressure, more like excitement. Like its just really cool to have our friends and our family come out to the game and its different when its across the country. Here its like our home field. Its just great. Weve had such a special year, and you know, we want to finish it off with a National Championship. Rain or shine, same team, same goals. We got it. I love that confidence. Why not . She had three goals in the last match. The championship is sunday night at 5 30 in san jose. Mens college hoops. Santa clara trying to keep the beat going. I said keep the beat going on that perfect home record. Second half, cal out and running. Rocking the rim, but the broncos have an answer. Check out d. J. Mitchell fly high and throwing it down. Santa clara beat cal 7152. The broncos improved to a perfect 90 at home this season. Thats a look at sports. More news after the break. Here, it all starts with a simple. Hello hi how can i help . A data plan for everyone. Everyone . Everyone. Lets send to everyone wifi up there . Uhh. Sure, why not . Howd he get out . a camera might figure it out. That was easy glad i could help. At xfinity, were here to make life simple. Easy. Awesome. So come ask, shop, discover at your local xfinity store today. Mike bloombergs created on tover 400,000 jobs. Ue leader. As president , an opportunity economy that w tax fairness where the wealthy pay their fair share. Education. Affordable college and high skill Vocational Training so people can succeed in the new economy. Economic security. Lower Cost Health Care and affordable middleclass housing. Proven leadership on jobs. To build an economy where people dont just get by, they get ahead. Im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. San francisco today. Kicking of san red coats and red hats filled San Francisco today, kicking off santacon. Santas flooded union square to start the bar crawl through the city. It was the 25th anniversary of this event. Its a strange one. Organizers had more than 12,000 people attending this year. A lot of drinking involved. And really nice side, too. The santas brought more than 1,500 toys for the toy drive put on by the San FranciscoPolice Department. A lot of it has to do with making sure that youre representing santa in a proper way, that youre respectful, kind. You know, if you meet any kids, you know, that youre not youre not being a bad santa. That youre being good. Repin santa better be good. This is the largest in the history of the toy drive. Rob, a last look at the crazy weather. Hopefully santacon wrapped up before that. Right now christmas in the park in san jose seeing a pretty good drenching as the heavier rain moves out of the south bay. And a few more showers off to our east. Thunderstorms east of sacramento. An update coming up tonight at 11 00. Sounds good. Thanks for joining us. Were back at 11 00. Hope you can join us then. Have a good night. Garvin thomas hello, im Garvin Thomas and thank you so much for choosing to spend some time with us. We promise nothing but good news for the next half hour, including a dog saves owner, story the likes of which i am sure you have never heard before; and the tale of a mothers incredible sacrifice for someone elses child; and a vacation interrupted by wildfire finished thanks to wine country hospitality. We begin in san jose with an artist who wants to change how you view homelessness; not the issue, but the people. Suhita shirodkar is drawing the homeless. Its not only opening her world, but hopefully doing the same for others. Garvin every piece of art Suhita Shirodkar creates starts not with a brush stroke, but with a question. Suhita shirodkar the question has to be mine. Its what drives this sort of wanting to work on something longterm. Garvin like her recent projects sketching vintage signs of san jose, suhita, you see, was curious about her adopted citys past. Suhita ive seen it only at silicon valley, but drawing these signs sort of made me research them and go back to a time when i was farm country and all this stuff