Dealing with what is a very wet and potentially dangerous winter. Reporter yeah, timing is important here, sam and laura. Thats how you got that announcement here in the Mayors Office just wrapping up and mayor ed lee saying the attitude at city hall is theyre always planning for a disaster for the rain. Planning for this apparently last fall coordinating among many agencies. 1,100 beds additionally open with more set aside for overflow in seven dedicated areas in the city where there are more homeless. Setting up in phases of 200 to 300 beds. Theyre working with Salvation Army and providing food. Public works passing out sandbags to Property Owners while several preparing for heavy rains, high winds, power outages, mudslides and landslides and trying to get to as many people as they can. Its about doing the right thing and making sure they take care of communications, their family, their businesses and their neighbors. Reporter and this is happening as federal Disaster Relief workers this morning taking on a multiple groups involved in a task force focusing on things like key atrisk populations, what facilities need monitoring and taking a look at the 9798 el nino. Back then 883 million worth of damages throughout california, 17 stormrelated deaths in the winter, 40 counties were declared federal disaster areas. 100,000 people evacuated with 55,000 more who needed shelters. So the preparations for el nino have been going on across the bay area including things like shoring up drainage canals in san jose. Important work as fema says the drought has hardened soil making it act like cement so the first heavy rains may cause widespread flooding. Winds could force widespread power outages, debris likely to clog streets and storm drains. A lot is going on. A lot of people working on this. Here in San Francisco public works offering a Program Giving away free brooms and bags and tools and those in my neighborhood i will pick up this litter to help make sure flooding doesnt happen. A very coordinated event here in the bay area. Live in San Francisco at city hall, stephanie chuang, nbc bay area news. Makes a difference to to avoid hteph. You know, in fact its flooding s andthis that we are hoping to ides. In the bay area. This scene playing out in the northwest. Heavy rains leading to floods and even landslides. This is in the city of ka lama water thwest washington state. More than a foot of water covering parts of the downtown ghea flooding businesses. City hall and the library both ing several inches of water inside that causes a lot of damage. Meteorologist anthony slaughter has been tracking the system behind this one that is expected to bring a lot of rain our way. Oh, yeah. In fact the storm were looking at this morning has kind of fallen apart. Its the one for north bay did exactly what we thought it would do. Bring a few showers through the Golden Gate Bridge, even right now. Reports across the north bay and you can see how much rain weve seen so far from the light activity. Sea ranch up to about quarter inch, santa rosa more than a tenth of an inch. Sebastopol closer to a quarter inch. And elsewhere trace amounts. Now, the storm system that brought the rain today thats this big one up across the Pacific Northwest. Thats where its been raining over the past few days. Here is the storm system thats going to move through for thursday. Time this to your doorstep. Not much in terms of rainfall there in the north bay, cloudy through the. Tonight around midnight well see first showers arrive across the peninsula even near the south bay. But the heavy band of rain doesnt push in until tomorrow morning around 4 00 or 5 00, especially for the best of the bay area, 5 00, 6 00, 7 00, the trivalley, south bay, peninsula, this is where were going to pick up the heavy band of rain, at least the first round. We get a bit of a break tomorrow afternoon. And then tomorrow night another heavy band of rain pushes back in and thats going to linger with us all the way through friday morning. Well talk about rainfall amounts, how much we could actually see from this storm, how much snow we could see and very strong winds as well. See you in just a bit to go over all that. Okay, anthony, thank you. Younds like the morning commute tomorrow is going to be a delight. You can track the entire storm any time you want with our free nbc bay area app. 11 can also see our live Doppler Radar, get a flames ized forecast for your neighborhood. New at 11 00, a twoalarm one damages a south san jose restaurant. Flames broke out shortly before ghte this morning at the Union Chinese restaurant on union avenue. Luckily no one was inside at the time. 31 2fighters believe that blaze started in the kitchen. They knocked down the fire flthin 20 minutes, but their work wasnt quite done. What does potentially happen with fires that start in the kitchen area and get into that flew there is that grease build up that happens in that flute. Didntn when they made that ble ial, theres still hidden fire inside. Crews spent another 20 minutes making sure the fire didnt escape. Theres considerable damage to the kitchen. The exact cause of the fire is still under investigation. L new details this morning on the turmoil within Santa Clara County jail systems. Sources telling nbc bay area the president of the jail Officers Union has stepped down, at least temporarily. Union members say they were told of the decision at a heated meeting last night and that no trat was needed. Hes been on and off the job since september when he and two essageofficers were placed on administrative leave by the sheriffs department. Sources tell us the officers are being investigated for exchanging what were called racist Text Messages mainly about inmates. Indamessages have not been returned. Ido rame invasion in the east nt ona nanny pistol whipped. One of the safest neighborhoods erday bay area. You can still see the footprint on the front door where the home karasion began at 2 30 yesterday timernoon. Red awith a handgun kicked down h marknage suspec still trying to wrap my es thround everything thats happened. Obviously startled and scared. A lot of emotions right now. They walked through the house going drawer through drawer through upstairs and downstairs looking for money. And at one point the suspect actually pistol whipped the nan any in the head causing a laceration. The nanny was treated at the homt. The girl was not hurt. The family says the gunmen took hoads, cash and 2012 black hayenne porsche. Happening today, San Francisco residents angry about the citys most recent Deadly Police shooting plan to hold a rally ahead of a Police Commission meeting. Ated week sfr officers shot and killed 26yearold mario woods in the citys bay view district. Hiswas all captured on camera by a bystander. Police say he had just stabbed someone and repeatedly ignored comers to drop his knife. Out 00 p. M. Organizers plan to rally on the steps of city hall. That is also where the Police Commission is set to meet and where chief greg sir is going to t. I about the recent use of ent by his officers. Mminpolice Officers Union is showing its support for comrades at toed in last weeks incident. In a statement the union says coat there was an imminent threat to life and that officers ion al other options. At tonights Police Commission eeting chief sir is going to n then the idea of equipping officers with tasers which the uld haalso does support. That idea has met serious resistance in the past, but proponents argue that tasers re nd have prevented what totimately became a fatal outcome involving woods last week. Parents in the east bay are not happy with a new program. At got the go ahead to be taught to their fifth graders. Boatheyre especially not pleased with whos teaching. Ed gnts and students protested outside city hall last night in san leandro. They wanted the school board to nd g no on a new federally funded Gang Prevention Program taught by police. K ts say the sixweek, sixhour course wastes valuable teaching time and gives officers dontch power. Approach children at all times of the day including at e rece recess, lunch, what have you. Here to learn about math, science, not how to stay out of gangs. We dont have a gang problem because of the fact were proactive. E progrout into the community. We integrate programs like this with our youth. Pt out board voted unanimously ws test the program at two Elementary Schools in san leand leandro. Students will have the option to opt out of the course. Major news in the business to sp this morning involving yahoo. Mmercompany is making moves to revive its struggling brand. Yahoo says its dropping a plan to spinoff its stake in the Chinese Ecommerce Company alibaba. Be tove basically means yahoo is going to separate the valuable Alibaba Investment from the rest of the company. The new yahoo will be two companies. One will have a 15 stake in alibaba while the other is everything else. In 2012 when i joined yahoo all of our Revenue Streams were in decline. They were large Revenue Streams, but they were all legacy businesses that were deteriorating. And the fact that today we have futuristic monetization opportunities and revenue growing as much as 50 year over she in terms of mobile, video, native and social thats a major achievement. Ceo Marissa Mayer adds shes deeply committed to yahoo. Eantime the companys chairman says the board is solidly behind mayer. And the company is not for sale. Toxic algae is polluting Lake Del Valle in livermore and usesits closed to swimmers. Even dogs cant get in the water. The toxic algae blooms have hit several other lakes in the east bay causing everything from itchy skin to diarrhea, vomiting and headaches. Rssearchers are trying to figure out whats causing the algae boom. Theyve never had a problem like his before. Up next at 11 00, the ag biors continuing their winning ways on the court but also off of it. There still could be one big snag though before they get their new sparkling arena in San Francisco. And im bob redell. Well take you live here to levis stadium for the one bowl event you probably havent heard of. Well tell you what its all about coming up. And this morning were still finding some light showers across parts of the north bay. Farther south more sunshine and temperatures a little bit warmer. We are going to see this heavy rain pull through tonight into tomorrow morning. Well time that out for you coming up after this. Got a tip for nbc bay areas Investigative Unit . Call 1888996tips, or email theunit nbcbayarea. Com. Nbc bay area, we investigate. Nchs in fau weeks theres going to be the faster farms bowl at levis stadium. College football, you might call it that. But students are also taking to the turf at levis stadium in a unique bowl competition of their own. Nbc bay areas bob redell is live in santa clara this morning. Hey, bob. Reporter good morning to you, laura and sam. This is the firstever stem bowl. So instead of trying to score touchdowns, these students are here trying to improve their understanding of science, technology, engineering and math through a handson experience throughout levis stadium right there. Thats one of the circuit stations that theyre participating in. That looks like game day motion in math. The 49ers museum along with chevron invited about 400 of these students from local schools to participate. Over the next few hours this has been going on for about an hour, but for the next few hours well rotate through six different stations throughout levis to teach them other things, stadium design, the Science Behind the solar panel that powers this venue, the Wireless Technology allowing fans to be online during the games. We want the students to walk away with an understanding that science, technology, engineering and math is part of everyday lives. And we dont want it to be a mystery to them. We want them to understand that its something that will help them in whatever career path they choose. Reporter i dont know if you guys realize, but the 49ers made a commitment to s. T. E. M. Education when it opened the stadium in 2014 with the construction of a hightech classroom in which theyve invited kids to throughout the couple years theyve been open. Live at levis stadium, bob redell, nbc bay area news. All right. Bob a big kid checking out the bells and whistles. Appreciate that. Bay areas next big thing the warriors 600 million privately financed waterfront arena getting the green light. So what does the decision by the board of supervisors mean . Construction could begin in months and the team could be leaving oakland by 2018. But theres still one wild card here. Nbc bay areas jean ellie shows us the possible hiccup. The warriors keep the winning streak alive on the court. The final sets the final Environmental Impact report is certified unanimously. Reporter and the front office wins a political arena at city hall in San Francisco after hours of testimony. My fashion and passion for the warriors is clear, so please bring them here. Reporter the board of supervisors denied an appeal and approved the Environmental Impact report for a new Golden State Warriors arena and event center in mission bay. Is even one life worth the risk . Reporter the Mission Bay Alliance released this video saying impacts to traffic and the ucsf hospitals created by the 18,000seat facility are not adequately addressed. Impacts on cal train and golden gate Transit System and on the ferry system. You have the finding that its significant and unavoidable reporter but the board says a stadium tax on tickets, a 17 million onetime fee and annual tax revenue from the arena will pay for improvements and services needed to keep things moving on event days. The warriors president says after three years of negotiating it feels like a win. I think were ecstatic. We have a culmination of so much work. Reporter but it may not be game over. The Mission Bay Alliance maintains the arena is a bad economic deal for the city. Any other development on that site consistent with the existing lands use entitlements would generate a lot more revenue to the city than this. Reporter it has 30 days to take legal action against the project, a move the group says is likely. Nbc bay area news. For only the fourth time ever a woman is time magazines person of the year. Yes. This morning on the today they revealed it, time named angela merkel, cited for standing up to Vladimir Putin in ukraine, opening germanys borders and managing the debt crisis. The other three women to appear solo on times person of the year cover, Wallace Warfield simpson back in 1936. Queen elizabeth ii in 1952. And corazon aquino. Few lucky san jose children get to shop with a cop. This is the eighth year of the heroes and helpers shopping spree. 100 underprivileged kids were given 125 gift cards to target and accompanied with Bay Area Police officers. Everyone met up at the s. A. P. Center for breakfast and took a Police Convoy to target complete with flashing red lights and sirens. They get to pick out their own presents. And just seeing the excitement in their faces and their eyes and knowing that this is something they will remember for the rest of their lives. All the little shoppers. So will the Police Officers. Sure. All of the little shoppers had to do a little homework beforehand. Thats right. They had to finish assignments, read several books in order to be chosen. I happened to stop by that target today where it was all taking place and it was such an exciting scene all these officers from different agencies throughout the bay area. Chp, fbi, you name it shopping with these kids. The kids had their little calculators out. It was really sweet. Such warmth. And we need it. And the kids were buying for other people. Theyre saying i want to get my mom this, or a little treat for their dog. I mean just that spirit of giving. Very moving. Im trying to tweet out pictures this morning. I wish you had or maybe a video, a little bit. A little. Ive been tweeting them out. Very cool. 11 19 right now. It is a little foggy out there. Its been this way on and off, anthony, for the last several days. Theres going to be a change in the works. There is. In fact im standing in fro of our next storm system brewing krooz the pacific. You can see for yourself its starting to get its act together. The rain we had this morning its from the north bringing rain to the Pacific Northwest and did what we thought it would, fade out across parts of the north bay. Were going to still hang onto light showers through the day across parts of the north bay, but the farther south you head youll see more sunshine. Mid60s across parts of the south bay, 59 in peninsula and cloudy skies north of the Golden Gate Bridge with on and off mist from time to time. Microclimate forecast here on wednesday brings sunshine for the south bay. Mid60s expected from san jose to morgan hill. Cooler on the peninsula, thats where youll find more cloud cover and cloudy skies across parts of San Francisco today, temperatures near 60. Across the north bay thats where youll see the on and off showe showers, temperatures cool upper 50s to low 60s, more sunshine east bay and trivalley. Here is the timing on this next round of rain expected to move across the entire bay area. Right around midnight tonight well start to see showers across the entire bay. It will start to get really heavy around 4 00, 5 00 especially across the north bay. The line pushes into the south baby about 7 00, the trivalley even the peninsula. And by 9 00, 10 00 tomorrow morning were done with the rain, at least the first round of showers. Well see some sunshine. Well get a little bit of thunderstorm activity by the afternoon hours. And then another heavy band of rain pushes into the bay area. This is around 5 00 tomorrow evening. And thats going to be with us all the way through the friday morning commute. So do keep that in mind especially if you have to travel tomorrow and for friday, at least through Early Morning hours. Now, heres how much rain were expecting, about half an inch to an inch and a quarter across the south bay. Looks like well see about an inch for San Francisco. Places north one to two and maybe potential three to five. I did some research over the past couple hours to see where this storm adds up and where it compares some of the top three previous storms weve seen over the past year. And san jose, you have to go back to november 2nd, thats when we had over an inch of rain, february 6th same deal. Last year almost to the exact day we had almost 3 inches. Now, in santa rosa weve only had one storm this year that produced more than an inch and that was on february 8th where we got one to two inches of rain. So if we get more than that, this could be the biggest storm this year. And San Francisco we havent had one storm this year at all that has produced an inch or more across parts of the bay area in San Francisco in particular. You have to go all the way back to december of last year to get anything thats going to rival what were talking about this upcoming well, next 24 hours. By the weekend we do clear out friday afternoon. Well see some sunshine. Saturday thats your dry day to get out and enjoy because more rain is on the way for sunday, laura and sam. And we could be talking about another inch at the valley floor by the time we get into monday morning. Get ready, here we go. We certainly need the rain. Thanks a lot. How is this for a cliffhanger . This unusual hotel in peru offering the most unique views in the world. Coming up after nbc bay area news at 11 00, access Hollywood Live followed by days of our lives at 1 00 p. M. Heres a cool gift for the adventurous type. Vo these are sleeping quarters that hang from a cliff, 3 like to travel . Heres a cool gift for the adventurous type. These are sleeping quarters that hang from a cliff 1,300 feet above a cliff in peru. Each capsule actually contains four beds and a private bathroom. Lighting powered by solar panels. But to get there youve got to work for it. Youve got to zip line across a couple crevices and actually hike up the mountain. Quite effort just to get there. A gold Country Police chief with a heart of gold now being called a Guardian Angel this holiday season. This story started with a poignant post online that left one homeless father extremely grateful. Aaron helped me provide for my kids. Thats just it. A few days ago Marysville Police chief aaron easton spotted a post from a homeless family. A Good Samaritan offering to sell the family a car but the family didnt have enough money. He sat down with his own money and suggested using some of their own Christmas Money to pay itd forward. To their credit they have great kids, absolutely no hesitation to help this family out. The family easton helped is calling them the Guardian Angel. He says its part of his own de daily goal to show compassion of his late wife who passed away a few months ago. Compassion local and throughout the state. That giving spirit. Spirit in the air. Up next, more backlash for donald trump. The impact of his latest controversial plan having on the Republican Party and its image as his colleagues try to force him out of the race. Extremist attacker who targeted paris bataclan french officials have said the third extremist attacker who targeted paris bataclan concert hall has now been identified as a frenchman who left for syria in 2013. Nbcs chapman bell reports. Reporter the third attacker in the bataclan attacks has been identified as 23yearold frenchman fouad mohamedaggad. Hes reported to have traveled to syria back in 2013. This morning the french Prime Minister told news outlets there that the attacker was part of a group of a dozen radicalized young people who left a neighborhood in strasburg in september 2013. Mohamedaggad was able to travel back to france and take part in that attack at the bataclan carnage hall where the worst of the carnage took place in the attacks in paris where 130 people lost their lives. He was identified by french authorities by matching dna with family members after his mother received a text message from syria telling her her son had died as a martyr in the paris attacks. The mother reported this text to french police. Chapman bell, nbc news, london. It has been exactly one week sinister r since terror attacks, now investigators are tracing a money trail including thousands of dollars that showed up in the suspects bank account. The shooters reportedly took out an online loan for 28,000 just weeks before the attack. The money may have been for syed farook and Tashfeen Malik and her grandmother who investigators are now questioning. Investigators were told farook discussed staging an attack in california back in 2012, but authorities are still investigating that claim. As investigators continue to sift through evidence for clues, were getting our first look at the Conference Room where the couple killed 14 people last week. A day never forgotten. I dont feel like a hero whatsoever. Anybody behind me or any one of the 300 people that were there would have said the same thing. Its part of our job to put ourselves on the line of danger to protect the community. The Inland Regional Center is still shut down a week later. Police and federal agents continue to investigate the scene. You might think that the Republican Partys finally g getting used to firestorms set off by donald trump, but this latest one has even some leaders in the gop calling for trump to exit the race for president. As nbc bay areas tracie potts reporting trump hardly backing down from his idea to ban muslims from coming into the United States. Its time for donald trump to withdraw from the race. Reporter and hes a republican. Party leaders condemn trumps muslim travel ban, but theyre careful not to completely abandon the frontrunner. Im going to support whoever the republican nominee is, and im going to stand up for what i believe in as i do that sfwl well, im certainly going to support the republican nominee for president. I dont think that would surprise anyone. Whoever gets the nomination, the party is goipg to support. Reporter ted cruz condemned the plan but steered clear of bad mouthing trump. A lot of our friends here have encouraged me to criticize and attack donald trump. Im not interested in doing so. Reporter but the partys already taking a hit. Hillary clinton is tying in other candidates. Their language may be more veiled than trumps, but their ideas are not so different. Any republican who is too fearful of the Republican Base to admit it has no business serving as president. Reporter theres no shortage of critics. That kind of crap is not going to work in the United States of america. Condemning all muslims is a shocking new low for him. I never thought that loud, obnoxious and simple minded solutions for really complex problems are the kind of qualities we want in a president. Reporter but trump not backing down. Some of the headlines flashed across newspapers in europe today and in israel, idiot, dangerous demagogue, unacceptable, betrayal in america. In the uk theres a push to ban donald trump from that country, although it doesnt seem to be effects him and his supporters much. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. Thank you. Vans and vandals, a School District victimized. Nearly every van it owns damaged. Well, now the beniche unified cool district, we have more from beniche. Reporter School Officials say this was more than just an innocent school prank. This was one of the vans that was vandalized. You can see they took out this entire back window. And while these vans are out of service, district officials are having to figure out other ways to transport students. Vice principal Shawn Thomson says hes never seen anything like it. As far as this damage, this is the worst in 14 years ive seen here. Reporter some time over the weekend vandals broke in. Thompson says nine of the ten School District vans were vandalized. There was a barrage of o at least 30 to 40 stones that were all over the ground. So they were pelting, throwing, they even grabbed some pieces of metal and parts from a car, took apart and threw those at it. Whatever they could find. Reporter they are now being repaired at a local autobody shop. Probably going to be 5,000, 6,000, yeah, its a lot of work. Reporter its a lot of work that will put the vans out of commission for a while, leaving the district looking for other ways to transport students. Because those vans are used widely for field trips that are put on by the School Schools and also sporting events. So away games. Essentially its more than just an assault on the vehicles. Its an assault on, you know, our school culture. Reporter and so for now the district will do without while these vans are being repaired. School officials tell me that they are now updating the Surveillance System on campus to prevent another incident like this one. If you have any information, youre asked to call the Benicia Police department. Elyce nbc bay area news. Its a whole new way of figuring things out using a whole new kind of computer. It costs millions and does best work in subzero temperatures. If all goes as planned, it could change about everything. We got a first look at what may be the future of computing. Reporter its just about the coolest computer in the world. Two factors colder than interstellar space. Reporter its also one of the Faster Computers youll see. Nasa unveiling its new experimental quantum computer, a joint effort between the space agency and google aiming to use Artificial Intelligence and algorithms to solve problems much more quickly than before. As you can imagine each quantum computing were to work, it is a truly disruptive technology. And it could change how we do everything. Reporter like more Efficient Air traffic control, or faster and more accurate climate forecasting. The possibilities are just now being considered, but at somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 million each these computers are not cheap. And they have to be perfectly calibrated. And, yes, super cold to work. It has to be that. Us standing in here, were raising the temperatures. Our facility came in and said we notice the temperature is rising, we need to make sure it doesnt get to this level or well have to recalibrate the system again. Scott budman, nbc bay area news. Something going well beyond football. A young girl in houston celebrating a huge honor the entire country is going to get to see. Shes been chosen to design a float in this years rose bowl parade. We introduce you to this 13yearold ballerina and cancer patient. Reporter with tutus and point shoes, every ballerina just wants to flow, so when North Western mutual asked kids to design one this little dancer knew what it should look like. Here are all of the ballets that i like. Reporter Peyton Richardson has been dancing since she was 3. And when asked about her greatest adventure, she answered with this. My greatest adventure is to travel around the world and visit all of the greatest ballet companies. Reporter this is what youll see floating down the streets of pasadena, california next month. A music box with a rotating ballerina and swans dressed in gold bringing atttion to Childhood Cancer carefully constructed and inspired by kids battling for life with the grace and dignity of a ballerina. The dream of a child, especially when theyre dealing with a rough spot in their journey, is really, really powerful. Reporter peyton invited her nurses, doctors and friends to sign a vile. These will adorn the float and be by her side in the parade. Ride along with me and my family on the float on new years day. Good for her. That was Hailey Hernandez reporting. Up next at 5 00, we know firefighters save lives, but this was a special call that one firefighter is never going to forget. The incredible impression that it left. Theyre going to remember this for the rest of their lives. Theyre going to remember that their community saw their problem and their community had their back. Making wishes come true in the south bay in todays bay area proud. The School Program in san jose thats changing lives. And gray skies continue to hang on to the bay area. Weve got light showers north of the Golden Gate Bridge, thats where it will stay today. The heavy rain thats expected by tomorrow morning. Details on that coming up after this. Gathering to make the wishes of their classmates come some students in the south bay gathering to make the wishes of their classmates come true. Its getting to be a tradition at san joses brandham high school. Garvin thomas joins us with todays bay area proud. Students and teachers admitted that homecoming time at school has tendency to bring out petty jealousies among the students. But what happens after that not only brings them together, it can bring them to tears. The Leadership Class understands theres only so many words one can allegedly fit on a sixinch blue paper star. The magic though they will end up creating out of them, well, that seems just about limitless. I feel like im doing something great that needs to be done. Reporter these students heading up this years fifth annual make a wish rally. They began months ago by passing out 1,500 of those blue stars to every student and teacher with one simple request, make a wish for yourself or someone else. Many wishes antwon says were small, but the big ones he admits were an eye opener. That in such a wealthy region so many classmates were struggling. They had to skip meals because they didnt have enough money or they were in thousands of dollars in debt because of medical bills. Reporter so for months while fulfilling hundreds of the small wishes, theyve been working on the big one, ones they feel deserve a big stage. And the whole school watching. It is a nonstop 45minute assembly of awesomeness and emotion of students wishing their coach be recognized for all her hard work. A boy wishing financial help for his girlfriends family over the holiday. She mentioned that she had no computer at home. Reporter a teacher wishing a home computer for her colleague so there arent as many late nights at school. Because weve been through everything together reporter and a girl just wishing something nice for her mom after two strokes and years in the hospital. Im glad shes finally home. Reporter as all teenagers know it can be tough to stand out in high school for the wrong reasons, but in this high school at least they know they dont have to stand alone. Theyre going to remember this for the rest of their lives. Theyre going to remember that their community saw their problem and their community had their back. In order to make all those wishes come true, the Leadership Class says they hold a lot of bake sales and do a lot of fund raising. This year they raised more than 10,000 to help make all those wishes come true. Garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. A great way of giving. If you know of someone doing something nice for others, garvin would love to hear from you. Head to our website nbcbayarea. Com and search bay area proud. You know firefighters and Police Officers are trained to deal in situations that would kind of create tension or urgency. Well, one firefighter going out of his way to deliver a baby in a parking lot. Thats right. But there is a twist to this one. This time its a San Francisco firefighter bringing his own son into the world. Heres today in the bay ian cole. Reporter calm baby boy lucas came into this world a lot faster than anyone expected. I knew we werent going to make it all the way to the hospital. Reporter michelle was in labor and husband charles was racing them to the hospital in santa cruz. They only made it two miles from home when she yelled, its time. His head was peeking out and it was imminent. Reporter charles, whos a deputy fire marshal at the presidio of San Francisco called 911 and pulled into this parking lot at the sheriff substation in felton because he knew help was nearby. He did not give me very much time before he entered the world. Michelle said the baby is coming. She slipped out of the car and leaned over the seat and i got into position delivered the baby. I believe she pushed two times. And the baby was born. Reporter but there were other challenges. The umbilical cord was wrapped around lucas neck. He wasnt breathing immediately. So it took a wlihile for him to start breathing. And he had some fluid in his lungs. So it was touch and go. We were worried about it, but then you could hear him cry and things got better. Reporter a minute later emergency crews arrived. Now mom, baby, even dad are all fine. They can laugh about the story theyll tell of lucas birth. I dont think hell ever live it down. I think hell hear it for the rest of his life. Reporter and charles has advice for expecting dads out there who might deal with the same thing. If she says she needs to pull over now, it means now. Reporter ian cole, nbc bay area news. Precious little baby. And understanding urgency. Really, that was an urgent situation. It was in the tone of the voice i think. So whether its stormy there, stormy outside here anthony as you watch the rain coming through. The north bay saw a little shower activity this morning, but our big storm system is out here across the pacific gaining strength. You can see over the past couple of hours its really blown up. Its going to be making its way here tonight. In the meantime we have a few light showers across parts of the north bay. And you can see Doppler Radar picking out a few blotches of green but otherwise mainly cloudy skies through the north bay. More sunshine across the south bay right now. Were at 64 degrees. You head farther north thats where were seeing more cloud cover. In fact low clouds. 57 right now in San Francisco. 60 degrees will do it for the north bay. In fact thats where were going to end up not going to move much because of the cloud cover and fog, even misty skies. 65 for San Francisco today, and 66 today for the south bay. Lets time out this rain. Its really going to stay mostly cloudy through the day. Its not until after midnight tonight when we start to see the showers pull into the north bay around 4 30 in the morning thats when the heavier bands of rain will pull through the yellows and orange and note that. As we move through the Morning Hours tomorrow that band of rain pushes through about 6 00, 7 00 in the morning for the east bay, south bay and peninsula as well. We will dry out tomorrow morning around about 10 00 in the morning. And then well get more thunderstorms as we head into the afternoon hours. So well see a good mix of sun and clouds by the afternoon, but again every now and then well get a brief thunderstorm. And we could see small hail with that as well. Tomorrow evening 5 30 in the evening well see another round of heavy rain push through the bay area and this will be with us through friday morning. So as far as rainfall amounts go were expecting about half an inch valley floor and south bay, maybe upwards one and a quarter inch near the trivalley. Peninsula, San Francisco, coastal mountains you could see up to an inch. Even north bay expecting one to two inches. And coastal mountains in the north bay this is really where we could see some of our highest totals, up to three inches of rain. Now, this is going to be one of the strongest storms weve seen all year. I want to take you back a little bit. This is san jose. Go back to november 2nd, thats when we had a storm gave us little more than an inch. Back too february 6th we had an inch and a quarter in san jose. If we get more than that this will be the strongest storm weve seen since december of last year. Same deal for santa rosa. Theyve only had one storm this year alone that produced more than one inch of rain. You got to go all the way back almost to the day where they got over four inches of rain from one storm alone. Were expecting to get about two inches in places like santa rosa, but in San Francisco we have had not one storm, zero, goose eggs, nothing has been as strong as this storm thats going to move this way. You have to go all the way back over a year to see anything as far as what were going to be looking at as we head towards the next 24 hours. So this storm system is going to be very strong in all regards compared to what weve seen all yearlong. Now, the other thing thats going to be with us is very strong winds. Were talking potential of 30 to 40mileperhour gusts and San Francisco down to the south bay, trivalley as well. Head farther north those coastal mountains in the north bay could see gusts anywhere from 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour through the Morning Hours. The winds do start to subside as we head towards the afternoon, so wont be as gusty at least all day long. The other thing we have happening, yes, more snow headed to the sierra. Winter storm watches posted already for today and they will go all the way through saturday. Were expecting upwards of two feet of snow. And even more than that across some of the higher elevations. So once this system moves through, we will be done with the rain at least for saturday. And another fast moving storm system moves this way, sam and laura, that could produce another half of an inch, even inch in the north bay of rainfall. Clean out the storm gutters and drains because really once we get into the next couple of days its going to be raining for a few days. Back to you. All right. It is already busy. Anthony, hope you get sleep somewhere in there. You got to come back tomorrow. A Christmas Card prank on a whole new level. Were going to show you what were talking about right after the break. Coming up after nbc bay area news at 11 00, access Hollywood Live followed by days of our lives at 1 00 p. M. Testing a new timeline format. It n look for tweaks to all those tweets. Twitter announced its testing a new timeline format. This new algorithm will sort tweets by relevance instead of chronological order. Its just an experiment. At 11 53, can you not live without the internet . You are not alone. A new study finds that a great majority of americans go online every day, but one out of five of them say they use the internet, quote, almost constantly. The younger you are, the more likely you are to be among the constant users. Plus, those who are more educated and make more money also reported going online more frequently. Pretty interesting. Well, tis the season to get holiday cards in the mail from family and friends, but probably not quite like this. Heres what laura is getting to. A College Student in michigan has been planning a christmas prank on his family for years. He wanted to confuse distant relatives with a card that makes it look like hes married with kids. He placed an ad explaining his idea, hired a fake family to take pictures with him. This is the final result. That prank has since gone viral with more than 1 million views online. I wonder how happy his mom was about that. I would pay to see the reaction of his parents the first time they saw that card. Were going to be right back. There. This might be the Christmas Tree for you. All the beer lovers out there this might be the Christmas Tree for you. How about a Christmas Tree that just is beer . This giant Christmas Tree made only of beer kegs. They drank the top of it. Is there a star at the top . Its 26 feet high, 428 empty kegs. New York Brewing Company set up the unique tree in downtown rochester, new york. Theres never been a star on top in lieu of an angel. That is quite the tree. Today on access Hollywood Live, the beak is back. Csi cyber star james vander beak is here. He is playing with our toys. His fourth baby is on the way. You are busy. You know. Birth control is for sissies. What are you talking about in People Magazine . There is no dad box. He has a reality show running around the world and having a blast with his wife. Talking about the run dmc flash back. Access Hollywood Live starts right now
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