Tracking the chance for rain returns to the bay area. Today in the bay starts right now. And a very good tuesday, no, thursday. Goodness. Thursday morning. Thanks for joining us, im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. Mike is keeping an eye on that commute and first lets start with meteorologist kari hall with a look at that forecast for today. Kari . We are starting much cooler again now that the skies have cleared and well see a mostly clear sky today and comfortable afternoon. And then by tomorrow evening rain chances go up as a cold front arrives it brings in scattered showers and its all out of here by early saturday morning. We will have a nice weekend ahead. As we check out what to expect for today. Look at for those highs to reach into the low 60s and, once again, that sunshine continuing. Well talk about the timeline of the rain coming up. Mike, how is it looking for the Early Morning commute . Well, things are clear on the roadway for the most part except for road crews. Lets look at the Golden Gate Bridge where we have a crew on the northbound side. The this is typical and just moving from right in front of our cameras. That will be an issue heading to the north bay. No slowing on the Golden Gate Bridge and really the rest of the bay. Take you down to san jose where the incident cleared and over the last few minutes reports of northbound 101 the issue at the oakland road off ramp there affecting traffic from an earlier crash. No slowing shows up on our sensors. Mark s marcus . Coronavirus concerns as the case count. The number of cases over time. Shows the average number of covid19 infections right here in the bay area. As you can see, the cases are rising, again. Bay area Health Leaders are warning the spike may lead to a surge, something that could overwhelm hospitals. Peter hong says that hospitals have stockpile drugs for Safety Equipment for their staff but with cases surging across the country, cases could dwindle. Even though we could, of course, run out if the National Supply gets low, which im afraid of. South bay Santa Clara Health officials transformed the Convention Center into a hospital in the spring. Theyre prepared to do that, again. Experts say all their preparations may be put to the test right now as the virus continues to spread. Well, this morning, parents, educators and school staff are expected to gather outside of the Santa Clara County headquarters as they say there is a rush to open schools without safety precautions. Comes following news that san jose unified plans to allow students back into the classroom starting in january. In the meantime, the Mckinley School district located in one of the covid19 hot spots says it will continue Distance Learning until june 15th. Meanwhile on the peninsula, Palo Alto School board leaders unanimously voted to resume inperson in middle and high schools. This is starting in january. Only 30 of students will be able to return to the classroom. Families can continue full Distance Learning but have until wednesday to make share choice for the rest of the school year. Board members say the new hybrid learning option could help students who are struggling with online instruction. Well, it started with an East Bay High School student expressing his commitment to social justice and then came the online threat and the hate mail. This morning a truth between the two sides. A High School Senior and a senior citizen. It all started when a 17yearold dublin High School StudentDaniel Mcmahon organized the trivalley for black lives matter rally. He was stunned when he heard about a Facebook Post threatening the rally. It had the green light from the city council. But called on nra members and other groups to show up with helmets and vests in case, quote, these blm people start trouble, unquote. He posted a picture. His father tracked down and now the family plans to meet with him. Actually had 29 shares. That also made me very nervous because 30 people were feeling like this and that are 30 people potentially threatening me. I thought it was going to be a black lives matter that was not friendly style. Weve seen it across the country. The two sides are expected to meet in person soon. Grant now says to just let the protesters be. Two months of debate should reach a conclusion tonight in fremont. Thats when School Board Members will vote on whether the district should continue its Campus Police patrol. The 25member task force earlier this week recommended removing School Resource officers and using the money, instead, for what supporters call more proactive safety measures. Right now one fremont pd officer is assigned to each of the districts six high schools. Mammoth mountain ski resort getting a weeks head start on tahoe destinations thanks to a solid storm last weekend and more snow on the way. Mammoth will open tomorrow. If youre thinking about going, you better have your lift tickets in hand because Opening Weekend already sold out. Besides, from here, its a longer drive. Right now north star and heavenly are set to open on november 20th, right around the corner. Kari, finally, they have some cold weather up there and that precipitation leading to a little snow pack. Yeah, so, we have some more snow on the way going into the next few days and the next approaching storm and what were expecting for the weekend in case youre planning to go to parts of the sierra. It shows that were going to get some light amounts of snow anywhere from four to seven inches and could be as much as 11 inches in some of our upper elevations and even more snow next week before we see some of our closer ski resorts open. So, well talk about that and how much rain we can expect. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking right now for the commute . You know, kari, the Speed Sensors are looking fine but the chp did say there was a traffic, actually requested a while ago for this section on the map, north 101. Heading up towards oakland road from alan rock a chance they will run a traffic break to remove one of the vehicles involved in a crash. I dont see any slowing and havent for the last few. Things are moving slowly through Silicon Valley and the rest of the valley you see a smooth drive. The bay bridge toll plaza shows you a light traffic flow right now. We should see that for the morning. No wind advisories and cold out there. For now your car with a heater on. Send it right back to, mas. 4 37 for you this morning. Bracing for a winter surge. Still ahead for you on today in the bay. Californians are lining up for hours to get tested as covid cases spike. Plus, the big impact the pandemic is having on the Housing Market across the country. Something were seeing right here in the bay area. A lot more news ahead, youre watching today in the bay. We have the power to harness californias Abundant Solar and wind energy, but its not available all day long. Use less energy from 4 to 9 pm for a cleaner california. Right now at 4 40, it will be a nice day to spend out doors and maybe going to the park today and getting some sunshine. Well see temperatures in san jose this morning in the mid 40s and then turning much milder into the afternoon. As we reach into the low 60s. Now, we are going to see some rain moving in before the weekend. Well talk about that and the forecast coming up. And we took a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. There was no backup there and then we took a glance at the Richmond Bridge toll plaza and a lot of traffic which just cleared now, as well. Just depends when you head over there for 580 across the north bay. Pretty much no matter when you drive, youll find a lot of company. There we go, with those drivers for the dublin interchange, but no problems. Well take a look at the Altamont Pass coming up. Good morning, im Bertha Coombs with your cnbc headlines. Wall street set to open mostly lower following a strong session for tech stocks yesterday. The nasdaq rising more than 230 points or 2 with large tech names like apple, amazon and netflix leading the charge. Nasdaq looking to open slightly higher. The dow and s p 500, though, falling as stocks dependent on an economic recovery lag. They rallied earlier this week following the positive vaccine from pfizer. Thats being offset now by concerns about the rise in covid cases across the country and some areas announcing new restrictions. This morning well get the latest data on the number of people filing for unemployment claims as well as Consumer Prices and this afternoon well hear from disney on their quarterly earnings. Covid has upended americas Housing Market. The National Association of realtors said it pushed buyers to multigenerational homes or those with two or more adult generations living under the same roof. And thats motivated sellers to move faster. Purchases of multigenerational accounted for 15 of sales in march compared to just 11 before the pandemic began. Buyers who purchased after march were more likely to move to the suburbs and also more likely to pay more for that home regardless of the location. And you can go to chipotles newest restaurant in new york state, but you wont be able to stay there even after the pandemic. The burrito chain is opening a new store this weekend that is exclusively for pickup and delivery orders. Customers will have to order through chipotles website or app. The digital orders rose more than 200 last quarter. Marcus and laura, one of the things that i do. I just order it online and then i send my husband to pick it up. I dont have to move at all. Were going to start calling you princess bertha. I love it. Your highness. All hail queen bertha. Thank you. Well, happening today for you, out with the old, in with the new. The tree that will stand at Rockefeller Center this christmas is being cut down today. It weighs 11 tons. About 75 feet tall. Meantime, macys revealing the lineup for performers for the thanksgiving day virtual parade. Broadway performers include hamilton, jagged little pill and mean girl and performers legendary dolly parton, ella mai and you can watch the macys thanksgiving day parade right here on nbc bay area. Laura . Also working to prevent another potential disaster. Next on today in the bay the allnew cameras coming to parts of california that can help stop fires. Well tell you all about it, when we come back. Trelegy for copd. Birds flyin high, you know how i feel. Breeze drifting on by you know how i feel. Its a new dawn. If youve been taking copd sitting down, its time to make a stand. 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You know what, i mean, i guess yay, too, for this forecast, kari. Its been cool, but the sun has been out. That is a nice part about it all. Absolutely. And weve had some really nice afternoons. But yesterday morning we started out with some clouds which can kind of act as a blanket to keep the surface a little bit warmer, but now somebody has peeled back that blanket and were cold again. Take a look at these numbers. Were in the mid 30s starting out in napa and parts of the trivalley and were also feeling some mid 40s for the south bay and parts of the peninsula. But take a look at how much cooler it is now compared to yesterday at this time. Novato is at 20 degrees lower so youre going to need a heavier jacket as you get ready to head out the door. Later today youll take it off and be comfortable with light, long sleeves. Temperatures in the low 60s and reach up to 64 degrees in gilroy and also looking at some mid 60s in most of the east bay with livermore reaching 63 and 62 in oakland. Right around the coastline we started out with early clouds and fog and that clears out for sunshine and temperatures in daily city reaching 67 and San Francisco will mostly be in the 50s and for the north bay up to 63 today in napa. But we are getting ready for some rain today and it starts to move in as we head into tomorrow afternoon into the evening. So, we first start to see the rain moving in shortly before sunset in parts of the north bay and then well see that rain pushing from north to south as we head into tomorrow evening. And pretty much by saturday morning, its out of here. So, were enjoying the rest of the weekend with a mostly sunny sky and milder temperatures. As we go through the forecast, it does show that well see the possibility of getting half inch of rain farther to the north but most of us getting about a tenth to quarter inch of rain and maybe a little higher in some of those spots where we get heavier downpours possibly in dublin. But more rain next week and it shows we will see additional rainfall on top of what we get over the weekend. By next tuesday and into wednesday, there will be another round of rain coming in and in total we could see some heavier amounts of rain so were looking forward to that rain event next week. Mike, youre getting people ready for work this morning. How is the commute looking . Well, you know, kariy was going to show folks the big view, but i unintentionally put everything off to the edges. Lets look at the screen at the very bottom the hazard sign or exclamation point and still the ongoing report of the crash going on there at the oakland old off ramp from north 101. And move the map so you can see at the top of the screen were talking about something else, as well. The Altamont Pass a little bit slow and 84 from livermore and into sunol. No surprises. I did show you that volume a few minutes ago near dublin and the interchange. And eastbound highway 4, laura, that is near san marco and off of your main commute and your main commute towards the bay bridge no problem through contra costa county. Back to you. Thank you very much, mike. In the north bay, people running smart train are looking at installing more safety upgrades at an inetersection plagued by five crashes. At least two of those crashes were deadly. Officials say all of the train Safety Equipment was up to date at the time of the crash, still Board Members are pushing for additional safe guards. We all know too well the danger of wildfires and what they pose. Well, now there is more technology tracking the threat. There are now more than 600 wildfire alert cameras. The most recent camera was just installed in santa monica. One of those cameras captured these flames right here north of santa cruz back in august. Across the state including here in the bay area. The goal is to spot the fire first and then that increases the fire crews response time. Well, as california approaches 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, a Southern California doctor believes were now in the third wave of covid. This past week San Diego County rolled back to the purple tier as cases started to surge. Covid survived best in Colder Weather making more people susceptible. A uc san diego ear, nose and throat specialist said were in the first phase of the third wave. You have the colder temperature. You have people are going to be more indoors and then after that, of course, the upcoming holiday season. He says he thinks the next phase will be an increase in hospitalizations, more serious cases and deaths. Covid19 concerns are mounting in Southern California. I want you to take a look at this. This long line of cars last night. Outside of dodger stadium. Not a baseball game or a celebration for the world series champs but people lining up to get those covid19 tests. L. A. County more than 900 Covid Patients right now are in the hospital. Its the countys highest number since september. New video to show you this morning. We told you about a los angeles couple they lost their van after it fell into a sinkhole. We have the video to show you the moment the ground gave away. Take a look at this. There it goes. The couple says the van was completely totaled after it was taken out of the hole eventually. The Water Department says the sinkhole was formed after a water main installed nearly 90 years ago failed. Wow, what a surprise for them. Well, colleges and covid. Coming up next on today in the bay the growing number of football teams being forced to cancel games. Whats on the line for cal this morning. Plus. From performers to award winners, a breakdown of the top moments from the country musics biggest night. Happening now for you the first passenger cruise to restart in the caribbean is off to a rough start. A passenger onboard has tested positive for coronavirus and now all 66 crew members need to isolate until further notice. Passengers say they had to receive a negative test result three days before the cruise and right before boarding. This was the first cruise in the caribbean by any vessel since march. Well be right back. Theres no bad time to start at amazon. I like the flexibility. It also allows for picking up shifts. Safety comes first, speed comes second. Safety. Safety. Safety. Were making sure that somebody is getting their very important items. It makes me very happy. And a high risk for fracture, osteoporosis now might not be the best time to ask yourself, are my bones strong . Life is full of make or break moments. 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Cal might be forced to cancel another game. A defensive lineman tested positive for coronavirus which led to teammates being placed in a 14day quarantine where they remain. Last weekends Season Opener was canceled and now no update on whether theyll play this weekend at arizona state. Due to other outbreaks, at least five other College Football games have been postponed for saturday. 49ers defensive back Richard Sherman back on the practice field, but still not certain how long this will actually continue. Its going to be a long shot if hes actually going to play on sunday against new orleans. Also a limited number of fans are allowed in new orleans, which will mark the first time this season that the niners play in front of fans. Trending for you this morning, it wasnt all biscuits and gravy, but the show must go on, especially when it comes to country musics biggest night. 10,000 hours or the rest of my life Justin Bieber there taking the stage at the cma awards and included tributes to kenny rogers and take us to Church Winning cma entertainer of the year with a pandemic something he was mindful of during his acceptance speech. This award this year at least for me has been about the loss of this year. The win is we are all here tonight together as country music, in person, live, not on zoom. Other big winners last night luke combs won for male vocalist and album of the year and maren morris took home prizes for female vocalist. Our washington insider breaks down what we know about president elect joe bidens chief of staff. Searching for a solution. An inside look at Johnson Johnsons promising covid19 vaccine trial. Sfx turkey gobble sfx dog bark sfx bubbles give thanks, no matter how you share it. Right now at 5 00, our washington insider breaks down about what we need to know about president elect joe bidens chief of staff. The growing concerns over President Trump cleaning house at the pentagon. Searching for a vaccine. The live report on the action bay area hospitals are already taking as they prepare for a potential rollout. Plus, trying to serve up solutions to survive. The unique takeout spin some bay area restaurants are planning to offer this thanksgiving as they try to stay afloat amidst the pandemic. Today in the bay continues right now. A lot of food on the table there. Good thursday morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us