New cases county by county. You can find the latest number ls on our website on nbcbayarea. Com. Coming up, this man, a tv legend being mourned around the country. Who is alex trebek. Well take a look at his remarkable career. One east bay diner with a special tie to joe biden and Kamala Harris. As the showers and hail and mountain snow around our bay area peak moves out, we are watching this Winter Weather setting up in a form of frost advisory, a closer look at your morning temperatures when we come right back. We love our new home. Theres so much space. We have a guestroom now. But, we have aunts. Youre slouching again, ted. Expired, expired. Expired. Thanks, aunt bonnie. Its a lot of house. I hope you can keep it clean. At least geico makes bundling our home and Car Insurance easy. Which helps us save a lot of money oh, teddy. Did you get my friend request . Uh, ill have to check. doorbell ringing aunt jonis here for bundling made easy, go to geico. Com. Hello . A true tv icon passes away. The world remembers alex trebek. He achieved his greatest fame in america. We look back at trebeks 80 years of life. Reporter alex trebek, jeopardy won him the audience worldwide with or without his mustache. He hits the stage 1984, he was already a successful host. His career began in canada. He moved to television hosting a bilingual show for students after a special event. The ontario native found a niche in game shows. He eventually set the Guinness Record for the most game shows with the same host and his native countrys second highest honor, the order of canada. He lived most of his adult life in los angeles where he and his second wife, jean, raised two children. Trebek often talked with the audience. If you have no personality, you cant be a contestant. You can be the host of the show. I am a lot lososer than most people think i am. Reporter trebek had some serious healthcare including brain surgery. I have some news to share with you. Reporter trebek announced hes been announced with stage four pancreatic cancer, he plans to beat the low odds of survival. I have to, under the terms of my contract, i have to host jeopardy three more years. Reporter he thought of his replacement. It will be a woman, somebody younger and bright and personable. Reporter alex trebeck was so endearing. Throughout the day fans have flocked to trebeks star, they feel a strong sense of loss even having not met him. I dont know who has the ability to come after. It is a sad day in hollywood television. I saw him on television not too long ago and he look great and all of a sudden you hear this. The game show must go on but today is sad. It is really sad. Trebek was given that star in 1 1989. Some students in berkeley is heading back to their classrooms. Many schools in that city feels it is too early to be doing that and too early to reopen, malcolm x elementary and jefferson elementary, those schools are allowing select kids back struggling with distant learning. In alameda county, grade 7 through 12 are allowed to return to class starting tomorrow. If that safety plan is in place, nearly 60 schools have submitted requests to reopen in alameda. It is up to the school to decide which day they want to reopen those classrooms. When president elect joe biden was just a candidate, he campaigned at a popular oakland diner. The owner and customers reflected on the incredible election cycle as east bay politician reflects on what Kamala Harris can do as Vice President. Here is christie smith. He ordered the Coconut Cream pie which is his favorite. Reporter it was a day they wont forget at the family owned butter cup diner. On march 3rd, super tuesday and president ial hopeful joe biden came by. It was amazing because he tried to connect to every Single Person asking a personal question and just like making a little extra effort. He asked me oh, i heard he comes through. Reporter there were plenty of people inside. Michael houston did not know about bidens connection to the diner but hes a supporter. He thinanked us for our unwaivering support and all those kinds of stuff he apologized for. He specifically thanked us so i want to see you know plans and actions for our community. You hear Vice President elect was born in oakland. Reporter shes excited for the country and believe harris is ready Vice President elect will be able to make and help explain on why we need to move forward on structural and systematic change. Well have a country thats based on justice and equity. Not to mention how personal i feel in terms of just my emotions in knowing that here we have a black woman, a south asian woman, a woman of color to sit the vice presidency. And now we have young girls can achieve whatever they want to achieve. People continue to gather the school harris attended at thousands oak elementary. Parents and students came to take pictures in front of the mural. One woman traveled from Mountain View to soak in the historic moment at this historic place. Unbelievable. Never did i think in my time i am going to see this. What an honor and privilege to be here and experience this moment. It is awesome. Awesome. Students at the school have been learning about harris and the election. Theyre thrilled of the connection and now theyll forever have with the first woman Vice President. While kamala was born in oakland, she brew up in berkeley in this yellow twostory house. There is a lot of chalk art and positive messages on the sidewalk. People were excited and they moved just to be at the spot where harris lived for her formative years. It is incredible. It is wonderful. I am still wrapping my mind around it. It is a joyous occasion. She made it into the oval office and accomplished all that she accomplished and means the world to a lot of little girls in this country today. Harris lived in berkeley for 12 years. That duplex where she grew up is now a school. Joe biden celebrated his victory today. People waved their signs and flag and a card board cut out of president elect. A bag pipe band played a new song called joe. I would like to hear that. It was part of the reason why hes president elect. Joe biden understands the issue like brexit and i know that hell look after our country. Britain hopes to secure a trade agreement with the u. S. Soon after it is official, departure from the European Union in january and washington leaves prospect of a deal uncertainty. It certainly seems we just have we didnt have fall. I was on the beach on thursday and it was summer and this is straight into winter. New video into the sierra. Check out the scene at squaw valley. They had 7 inches at the base and 9 inches up top at the mountains. It is not open for skiing yet but get out your wax. Look at this. Snowfall and the traffic, highway 50 near twin bridges at about 1 30 this afternoon. Slow and go. Take a look at this, a breathtaking day in yosemite. These all look like postcards. You can see all that snow coming down. This is happening really, really fast. Yeah. It was summer on wednesday or thursday and it is winter now as roberts saying. It feels more like january, instead of november 8 oeth. You didnt have to head up to the sierra. This is Lick Observatory whe th. Well see some chilly temperatures around the same time. Frost starts in the morning in a few areas and windchill valley and other places well deal with breezy condition. It is going to be a little uncomfortable tomorrow. We do have more storms coming up later this week. The best potential for significant rainfall could be up around the north bay especially as we head towards friday and next weekend. The story is the coldest. Current temperatures a lot of blue and you see 39 degrees in morgan hill and 44 in san jose. Well take you on a quick tour, there is not much wind in san jose but 44 degrees. 9 00, it feels more like winter outside right now. Look at walnut creek already down to 41 degrees. Trivalley at 41 degrees. By 11 00 well see a few areas approaching freezing around the north bay, that seems to be the location for those wind shelter valley. Coldest part of the morning. And north of sacramento could see upper 20s the next couple mornings. The wind speeds thats where well find tr cold temperatures. It is gusty and breezy and uncomfortably cold up the higher hills there in napa county and in land. A lot of 30s for the valleys. Well see high temperatures tomorrow with high clouds and no showers and no hail. No local snow but those clouds will kind of keep things cool when we are trying to warm up those 30s for the morning. We are looking at highs in the upper 50s. The forecast for the middle part of the week does stay dry. Cloets that we begin to see changes as we approach thursday and here is a sneak preview of the long range outlook of rainfall. What you are getting is the rainfall projection there around the north bay. You see orange and red showing up in that map. These are locations we could see potentially maybe up about 2 or 3 inches of rain as we head towards next weekend. Really two storms here. The fers one coming in on thursday and friday. You see it right there. Second system for the weekend we may have a bigger punch for the north bay. Notice theyre also moving into the ocean. That holds a better promise of seeing more rain as we head into lets say thursday night, friday and into the weekend. So not as low in terms of the snow levels but potentially better rainfall. We slowly but hope to start to work our way out of fire seasons. Our rain forecast is looking good. A little cooler is what we would like to see. The rain forecast does need much needed rain. Back to you. Thanks very much. Coming up next. The dodgers facing a covid19 outbreak and it is getting worse. Do you think it is tied to the world series . Maybe not, well explain. Whats up with my new couch . Nbc bay area responds to a walnut creek man who says his furniture plans let him down. Patel says he paid for the protection plan. Just as year later he spotted this hole. Jake says he called the Service Provider but his claim was denied because the company says it was a seam rip and not a tear. Jake thought it was unfair so he asked us for help. We reached out to bassett furniture, it agrees to replace it as a goodwill gesture. The service does not cover seam separations and it considers jakes case a seam rip. Bassett says it wants to make everyone aware of what the actual warrantee says so there are no misunderstanding should a fabric separates at the scene going forward. Before you bikinuy any extended warrantee, read the paper work. If you had a run in with any company, we want to hear about it. Scan this qr code or go to nbcbayarea. Com consumer survey. Well have the survey up running in two weeks and well share the results in november. State Health Leaders are leaning more on technology to control the spread on coronavirus. The app notifies the user when they have been exposed to someone infected with covid19 is expanding. The program started in mid september at two uc campuses. The project will include seven universities and the app is designed by google and apple. Researchers found a way to determine if people have covid19 based on two things. The sound of their cough and artificial intelligence. The human ears can pick up on the different variations of a covid cough. Thats where ai comes in, a team of researchers begin to collect audio coughing and the sample is submitted on a website using a cell phone and a laptolaptop. And 100 of the cough from those reportedly did not have symptoms but still tested positive. Developers are building an app to allow people using something as convenient as their smartphone to access the technology and find out if they could be infected. The model still needs federal approval though. Another angle on the coronavirus, nearly two weeks after winning the world series, nine people have gotten the coronavirus been the dodgers organization. It should be noted among those who tested positive, most if not all reportedly nuts. The identity of those who have the virus are not being released. Justin turner was removed from the final game in the series when a positive test came back during the game. He got taken out and he returned after the game to celebrate with the teammates. A lot of controversies from that. Gymnasts from four country in tokyo. Japan can safely carry out the postpone 2020 olympics during the pandemic. 30 gymnasts from japan took part. This is a first event at a Tokyo Olympic venue since the postp e postponement of the game in march. It is a crucial trial run. There are months long lockdown in many places as a second wave of coronavirus races across the country. Reporter silence again. Milan placing fresh restrictions. It is a red zone in a new italian traffic light system of lockdown. People here cant leave homes without good reasons. Reporter many local leaders are furious. The Prime Minister is under pressure. Europe covid fight back. In france, patients are being flown from over stretched hospitals. The second wave as violent, in belgium, patients on ventilators flown to germany by helicopters. In spain, hospital wards are overwhelmed. We are tired. The number of people is not enough. Reporter tough restrictions are now in place in all of these countries. England, hundreds protested tsa country enters the first weekend of its second lockdown. I know many of you are anxious and we are fed up with the very mention of this virus. I want to assure you this is not a repeat of this spring. Reporter europe has the highest number of confirmed coronavirus case s in the world. Last week, europe has 250,000 cases everyday. The first wave of coronavirus saw 50,000 but back then there was much less testing. More people are hospitalized with coronavirus than in the spring. In the english city of liverpool the city is preparing for more testing. Europe needs to improve test zg traitestin testing and tracing. Lockdown is the last resort. Reporter animals are being told after some were found passing the covid strain onto people. Europe is battling covid on multiple fronts. That was keir simmons. After being closed several months, happy hallow is opening. Members can begin to make reservations of that reopening. A safe and modify experience has been created that conforms with all Public Health safety protocols and guidelines and that includes limited capacity, mandatory face coverings, the closure of indoor spaces. Admissions will be available at the end of the month. 2020 has seen as devastating pandemic impacting every aspect of our lives to our daily routine and health and security. To a lot of people their personal safety is now in question. Adam harding takes a look at new Service Offering body guards on demand. Reporter it is a typical afternoon for Tammy Johnson running a running errands. Pay close attention to the man walking besides her. Thats a body guard hired for the day. We know safety is not always at the top. Reporter tammy is not a celebrity, shes an everyday fonew yorker but she lives her long enough to have 2020 questioning her safety. A number of homeless folks are surrounded in the neighborhood where that was not the situation prior and it is alittle concerning to me. I am always out and about. Sometimes i am a little afraid. Even on regular days can turn into not so regular day quickly. Reporter her body guard spent 20 years with the departments intelligence. Hes now part nenering with new app called bond. Personal security and peace of mind. Reporter the companys creator launched a body guard service, clients can have high protection for as little as 30 bucks for 30 minutes. New yorkers in tammys neighborhood say they feel increasingly unsafe. Just the perfect storm of covid, politics and crimes all those things combined can create a dangerous situation. Safety is everything. Still ahead, Kamala Harris family celebrating last nights historic victory in india. Yes, in india. Well take you there. Congratulations for the biden harris ticket continues to pour in from around the globe. The messages from world leaders. 100 beef and hearty chili. Try my 5. 99 chili cheeseburger combo. Its pretty delicious. Try my 5. 99 chili cheeseburger combo. Climbing after you. The pain is coming. 100 beef and hearty chili. Try my 5. 99 chili cheeseburger combo. Its pretty delicious. President elect biden kept the day focused on family and the future. This morning he went to church with his family and after that he visited his son, beau. Bidens communication director reiterated that priority on meet the press. To unify and lower the temperature and set aside the harsh rhetoric of the campaign and get to work. The Biden Campaign is already launching a new website and fwanifwa gaining access to federal agency. President trump returned to the golf course today and yesterday. He has yet to concede the election but instead his campaign filed numerous lawsuits to try to reverse the results. Top republicans appeared split. Some of them backing the president unstubstantiated clais on fraud. Others calling on him to tone down his rhetoric and accept that he lost. You can see a small crowd gathered outside. Much smaller than the group we saw yesterday after President Biden won pennsylvania. And also lined with a lot of signs. Kamala harris historic achievement is being celebrated in india. Many people are reacting with pride and prayers in her success in the town where her grandfather lived. Her uncle in new dehli, he calls the election good for the u. S. And the world. I feel good for the United States. And it is important. Harris late mother was born in india before moving to the u. S. At age 19 to study at uc berkeley. World leaders are reaching out to congratulate president elect biden. Even some of trumps allies are recognizing americans have voted for change in several foreign countries. Crowds taken to the streets to celebrate the u. S. Election results. Richard engel reporters frs fro london. Reporter the world watched the celebration across the United States for president elect joe biden and now even more congregatioatulat are pouring in, even from joe bidens ally. Benjamin netanyahu thanked President Trump for his backing of israel but even Benjamin Netanyahu reached out and congratulated biden and even hunga hungary, reaching out looking forward to work with biden. There was a concern that four more years of Trump Administration would do harm for the International Community to international institutions. There is a hope now that the Biden Administration will reach out and rebuild bridges to americas traditional ally. Richard engel. A restaurant in beijing wants biden to come back. He visited a noodle restaurant nine years ago when he was president. He visited with his granddaughter. That photo of him are still hanging in that restaurant. It was a big day. The picture showing him enjoying a bowl of noodle and some du dumplings. On friday before the election was called, Notre Dame High School in san jose honored Kamala Harris. Senator harris niece attended notre dame. Students reflected on where the election was headed. She came and can be a role model for so many girls and they can do other stuff as well. Kamala harris is from the same region as my family. It is crazy to see how like we are being represented. The event came after students spent weeks canvassing the school to get out to vote. On tuesday, they held a mock election. We are tracking all of the reaction in the bay area as well as the latest results on states and local races. Head over to nbcbayarea. Com and make sure you click on decision 2020 news in our trending bar. A lot of eyes on the Supreme Court on Affordable Care act. That could leave 23 million americans losing health insurance. Consequences can be felt past that. Flu shots and Preventive Care can no longer be free. Vaccine could be dramatically impacted. A memorial for Breonna Taylor has been moved to a new location. The memorial consists of various paintings and crafts and flowers and signs and other forms of art work. The plan to move the memorial to the museum was made in conjunction with breonnas family and the Kentucky Alliance against racist and political repressi repression. We have been watching and listening as changes are happening around us. You can watch all of those specials on our website on race in america on nbcbayarea. Com. A teenager did something not many of us could, looks like it is in fast motion. He solved a rubric cube in the shortest time. Make sure to check us out on xfini xfinity cable or any time on lx. Com. A remarkable survival story for two pilots parachuted out of their planes right before they collided. The two gliders crashed before 1 00 p. M. Yesterday. The pilots got out of the aircraft in time. They are okay. The faa and ntsb are now investigating. A real unfortunate setback for the Salvation Army at oakland. Two semi truck trailers full of donated items went up in flames this morning. Everything inside destroyed. This happened about 3 30. Nobody is injured. How did that fire start . Thats what they are looking into. They dont know yet. At one point during the height of the fire, close to 60,000 people had to leave their home. Now two years later, that long road to rebuilding continues. It is not just california thats been bludgeon by wildf e wildfir wildfires. Oregon is facing a set of challenges. It feels like a dream. It feels like it was a dream. Reporter it has been weeks since the wildfires swept through parts of oregon. It is all around us. Reporter the memory is fresh in mike robs mind. One of the fires came within five miles from his vineyard in silverton. Reporter it was something they would never experienced. They did not know how much was too much. Thats where elizabeth and a team of researchers analyzing both wine and wine grapes. Using this hightech machine, scientists are able to extract the smoky compound in the grape and determine if they are wine quality or too damage. We have done 500 samples. Reporter it depends on how close the grapes were to the fire. People who were close to the fires, unfortunately thats some extreme levels but on the whole i want to say a lot of the numbers we have seen, choices you can make in the winery so you can produce a nice wine. It is more like i just lifted an ashtray. It is not a good smoky flavor. Reporter unfortunately, the grapes did not pass the test. The couple will be leaving most of their grapes in the vines. We ended up picking up about five tons and we normally pick up to 160 tons. Reporter it will be about 250,000 loss. It is a loss they are okay with. They know they are lucky they can grow again. Oh yeah, well start over. Sure. They feel lucky to have head it through the fire safely without losing their home and vineyard. Theyll be able to recover from the financial hit. This next story is pretty cool. The teenager accomplished something that a lot of people have been trying to figure out since the 80s. How to solve the rubric cube. Max park needed just six seconds to win the rubric cube. He takes home a cool 30,000 prize. What does that work out hourly . A lot. Here is something you may not know. There is actually a National Toy Hall of fame in rochester new york. Three new toys in ducted in the prestigious hall. Sidewalk chalk, jenga and baby nancy. Anousha, did you have any of them . I did not. There were 12 nominees totaled and they were voted on the toy association, the in inductees are recognized for their contribution into the industry. The toy hall of fame established in 1984, the slinky better be in there. I actually had a slinky and not jenga. Speaking of rochester, new york, we kind of having the same weather here. The rain came in and washed it out. Yes, the rain has moved out, now we are watching these chilly temperatures and frost adviso advisories and the forecast. A look at how cold it will get. Well come right back. Wild thing, you make my heart sing wild thing i. 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People had patient with the drawing out casting of ballots, perhaps it is because we all realized the process is fundamental to who we are. Of course now there are threats of legal challenges to it all but perhaps those two are best met with patience. If the lawsuits are shown to be weak and without merit, the system proves itself to be stronger. May be well have to wait just a little bit more for all the answers we are looking for but we can do that. 2020 has shown us how. Garmon thomas, nbc bay area news. Patience is never my strong suit. 2020 is kind of forcing it upon us. Testing us. Testing our patience for sure. You and i have not sat at a tiebl same table for a long time. All right, switch gears now and take another look at our crazy weather. It is november after all. Did you see this though . Thats hail. There is hail and i will see you hail and i will raise you snow robert is talking about a little bit ago up on Mount Hamilton getting a dust of snow this afternoon. You can see it is changing the landscape. Rob mayeda is joining us now. Are we getting more of this snow, whats going on . It is interesting off the serbia, they picked up a foot of snow. At least temporary put the brakes on the fire activities which is nice. Things are starting to dry out now. Our attention is shifting to the cold temperatures we are already seeing around bay area. Temperatures outside right now, and san jose clear skies and temperatures dropping down to 44 degrees. Rather chilly around santa clara valley. You can see san francisco, 49. Temperatures bay side should stay in the mid40s. Walnut creek is down to 41 degrees. The humidity is at 76 . Dew point temperatures in the low to mid 30s. Probably wont get too chilly in contra co contra costa county. Fairf fairfax, valley in the north bay likely seeing the coldest temperatures by tomorrow morning. Napa out towards sonoma and petaluma. Thats where you will see the coldest temperatures at least low to mid30s tomorrow morning. In terms of the forecast tomorrow morning. Coldest spot up towards santa ro rosa, you will notice increasing high clouds. These are not snowproducing clouds, it will filter the sun at times. After the cool start in the morning, it will feel chilly with over cast skies and high in the upper 50s. Sevenday forecast stays dry, through about midday on thursday and thursday evening, well see that next chance of rain. Showing up we think in the north bay, well zoom in for you now, the window essentially thursday night on into saturday and sunday. You see a lot of orange and red on this map. Well zoom in now and give you a preview of how it is going to play out on the bay area. Whats more important is the focus on the trend which for areas of santa rosa and north ward. Those are the area where you saw on the large scale map. Looks like the north bay is going to get the best chance. Potential rainfall is coming in off the ocean. The cold stm we system dropping british columbia. These next two systems are more traditional. Theyre coming in off the ocean and more available moisture which is what you saw. The north bay could be trending from two to three inches of rain. Again, that time frame gets started late thursday and off and on as we go into the weekend. The good news in terms of the fire danger is the storm door is staying open and better opportunities for more significant rainfall gets underway later this week. Temperatures should warm up a little bit. This was too much winter for you all at once. Well keep those rain chances going and slightly more mild temperatures approaching next weekend. Thats one piece of good news. Thank you very much. Lets check in with anthony flores. The raiders game was out of control tonight. Yes, certainly was. If i had known you guys were going to show my hail i didnt d video, i would stuck around. Stick around, sports is next. 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We are happy to win and especially a game like that. It shows a lot of character. The raiders will take on the broncos in Las Vegas Next weekend. On the track, the season comes to an end. Seven times champion jimmie johnson, he would finish fifth. Stage 3, lap 270. Chase eliot puts joey logano in the rearview mirror. Nascars most popular driver wins the cup series championship. Hes the third youngest driver ever to win the championship. This is unbelievable. Oh my gosh. We did it. Decisions day. They already punched their ticket to the postseason. Marcos lopez scored. The founders beat the quake. San jose is already in the playoffs. The quakes will face top seeded Sporting Kansas City in the first round. Thats a look at sports, guys. Back to you in the studio. How much money do you want for that weather video, anthony . It started really coming down here, like i said the game was good. I had to go. All right, thanks ant nhony. Well be back at 11 00. See you then. 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