Mayeda spearheads our coverage. Rob, wheres the storm right now. Right now were seeing rain heavy at times especially across the north bay where rain totals have been extreme. Youre look at 1 to 2 inches of rain falling in four to six hours time and that is causing some localized flooding from Sonoma County down into napa county. Moderate rain at times from san rafael but its this section of the north bay under a flood advisory through noon, napa, sonoma and marin counties. You can see the rain making an approach down into San Francisco. A slowmoving line and its because the line is stalled out that were seeing more of these problems, tapping into a plume of moisture which does extend all the way down into hawaii. This is helping to boost the rainfall rates around the bay area as that rain comes racing into the north bay. Were seeing not just the local flood advisory for the north bay but bay area wide a Flash Flood Watch between now and 6 00 sunday. Just updated, the hydrograph, the R
Called the brain worm which infects ants and an infected ant has its behavior change. The brain worm burrows into the brain of the ant ant and make solution in the brain of the ant just like a physiologist might make a lesion in the brain of an ant and causes the ants to instead of going down into the ground in the heat of the day the ant goes up grass stems to the top where it shouldnt be in the middle of the day and there it becomes vulnerable to being eaten by a sheep which is exactly what the brain worm wants because the brain worms next host after the ant is a sheep. There are lots and lots of examples of parasites manipulating their hosts for their own advantage. I want to regard every one of those changes in the host behavior as an extended phenotype. Finally, a parasite doesnt actually have to live inside its host. Cuckoos and the american equivalent of cuckoos parasitize other birds by laying eggs in the other birds nest in the cuckoo hatches out and i talk about cuckoos, euro
Numbers drop considerably in the last hour here so overall its five degrees cooler in hayward. A couple degrees of warming from novato and santa rosa. This all translates into this, a he very hazy afternoon in store. Thats why we have a spare the air day today. A chilly afternoon with low to mid50s for most on the coast or in the south bay upper 50s. Were getting to are more mixing, a warmer atmosphere, but what about the rain . Well talk about all those outlooks in a few minutes. Chris . Lisa, thank you. Some people head out in the cold weather to enjoy fun winter activities. For others the frigid air causes problems and can really be dangerous. Katie marzullo has more. Reporter when youre young im pretty cold. Reporter fun wins out over weather. Its once a year. I have time to spend with my friends. Reporter the ice skating rink is filled with people who have chosen to embrace the cold weather rather than avoid it. Firefighters cant avoid it. We got a lot of burst pipes people who do
Continues to set in across the north bay. Take you all around the bay. Get a look at coldest. Petaluma. 35. For the east bay, close to the 20s at this hour. Walnut creek. 32. Danville. Back towards dublin. 35. Livermore, 37. And numbers also near the 20s here for parts of the peninsula, woodside 32. Stanford 3 4. Mountain view 39. Widespread 30s here throughout the south bay. Downtown san jose back into los gatos. Most critical areas. Marin, napa sonoma. Take the pets inside. Cover up the plants. Not too late for you. Now the side effect from the cold air, not day whole lot of movement in the atmosphere. Check out windcast. Head throughout tomorrow. Barely moving outside. Anywhere from 2 to maybe 5 mile per hour. Thats it. That is going to be well keeping air quality unstable here. Looking at spare the air alert. Head through out saturdays forecast. Worst air quality in the north bay. The peninsula. Full details when all this the cold weather kicks on out. See you soon. Thank you, jeff
Of the night. This morning, you will hear his call to 911. Who shot her . Me. How did you shoot her . The gun was in the bed. I went to move it and put it to the side and it went off. Was it a terrible accident . And vacation surprise. A british couple visiting new york is surprised when their baby arrives 11 weeks early, but the shock is the hospital stay. How the kindness of strangers is helping them. Today, january 3rd 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. What is the song . Reunited. I looked for you in times square in the crowd, but i could not find you. I thought we would meet. Maybe next year. Anyway we will talk about how our new years went. We begin with the top story. The wild weather system is wrecking havoc in the southwest and northeast. Here is the scene in amarillo