After a violent system of tornados devastating a swath of the country, making for catastrophic cleanup from the deep south extending north to michigan. And to add insult to injury, another wallop of weather could hit the south as millions of holiday travellers are expected to return home on the roads or in the air. We begin tonight with nbcs mark potter. Reporter in holly springs, mississippi, families spent Christmas Day trying to salvage christmas. Speak of the grinch that stole christmas. But spared our lives. Reporter the spirit of giving took on new meaning in this community, with donations pouring in. Christmas toys along with food and clothing. We came out with the clothes we had on our backs. When something happens like this, we all come together and make sure everybody is taking care of. Reporter as many as 20 homes are gone around clarksdale. My heart goes out they are in pain and it hurts me to see them suffer. Reporter so far three people are confirmed dead across three sta
Napa valley marina and poseidon vineyard. The Sheriffs Office has not commented at this point but the coast guard confirmed that they are assisting in a search at this time. We have a crew headed to the scene. Were going to bring you updates throughout the morning of that search possibly for a person in napa in napa. Also keeping an eye on your whether on this thursday. Feels a little bit warmer. Each morning seems to be warming up a little bit. Near 70 for some again. Looks like this pattern is on hold until next week. Then we could go from one extreme to the other. Until that time, very little in the way up high clouds. Pushing into oregon and washington. Extreme northern california. For us there might be patchy fog. Had some yesterday. Morsel around san jose, also morgan hill. A little bit around mount diablo. So far, all locations say clear. Dry air moving in. Indicated by the darker blue. Everything is on hold as we talked about. Late in the weekend, early next week. Sunny, mostly
Well, some out in the valley, you expect that. But theres a lot around the san jose foothills yesterday. That didnt show up until later. Some pockets of fog. 40s and 50s on the thames. These have come way up. There were a lot of thursdays on monday and tuesday. Is not the case now. We are looking good to go for sunshine here. So a cool morning but lots of sun. Some areas of fog, high clouds to the north, near 70 after the fog lifts. A little hazy around the edge but nice with 60s, low 70s. 50 10. Things still all right . Things are okay. Ive been looking at the chp list here. Some of the other things. Just not believing it. I tend not to believe when things look so good. But they are looking good. This is not bad. This is a look at the commute here on the bay bridge approach. Looks very nice. There are no major problems getting it to San Francisco. Were also looking at some of the other freeways around the bay. This is interstate 880 and traffic is moving along very nicely. In san jose
Of weather could hit the south this weekend as millions of holiday travellers are expected to return home on the roads or in the air. We begin tonight with nbcs mark potter. Reporter in holly springs, mississippi, families spent Christmas Day trying to salvage what they could. Speak of the grinch that stole christmas. But spared our lives. Reporter the season of giving took on new meaning in this community. With donations pouring in. Christmas toys along with food and d clothing. We came out with the clothes we had on our backs. When something happens like this, we all come together and make sure everybody is taken care of. Reporter around clarksdale, as many as 20 homes are gone. My heart goes out to these people. They are in pain and it hurts me to see them suffer. Reporter so far reporter so far 14 people are confirmed dead across three states. Nicholas who was killed in mississippi. There is a parent out there that doesnt have their kids. Reporter max and Ellen Croxton together for
Incidents which is nice. Lets take a look at some of the slowdowns that we have. You can see traffic is beginning to get slow at the bay bridge toll plaza. You can see slow traffic coming up to the macarthur maze. It gets a slow waiting to get onto the bridge, 1015 minute delay which is typical. Were also looking at the commute on the east bay. 880 and 580 and also the castro valley, everything looks good to start off with. Speaking of 580, farther east, altamont pass, slow traffic, not all that bad. Looking at the nimitz freeway southbound, there was an accident near winton. A little bit of slow traffic, usually is slow there anyway. Not a big deal. On the peninsula, 101 is okay between san bruno and san mateo and so is 280. 6 01. Lets go back to the desk. Now following breaking news out of morgan hill. Fire crews from all over the south bay are now responding to a hotel near highway 101. The the call came from the courtyard marriott on madrone parkway in morgan hill. Fire officials t