His first classified briefing and his historic picks as he staffs up his administration the injury over the weekend hes recovering from and the two battlegrounds delivering a new blow today to President Trumps legal fight. Severe storms barrel through several states, tornadoes, strong winds, heavy rain al roker is here. Cyber monday expected to be the biggest ever how to score deals all week long. Plus, the shipping alert you need to know about. The man clinging to a capsized boat 86 miles off the coast. Tonight how he survived messages to santa in the pandemic. What kids are really asking for this year this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, everyone the specter of a covid surge on top of a surge is almost too much to imagine. But its exactly what Public Health officials believe we may be in for as millions of americans return to their lives today, some likely bringing home from thanksgiving gatherings more than just family memories officials urging travelers to take
Week and its not just the dow, this is the best week for the other two major averages as well in seven months. Now to the election of what we know as we come to you at 4 00 oclock in the afternoon on friday, we still cannot call the president ial race and four key battleground states, pennsylvania where we are is one of them, were watching nevada, georgia, north carolina, uc alaska is still not called but that is suspected to stand up in the president s call, if the other for we are watching, pennsylvania, the big headline from the state, former Vice President joe biden taken the lead earlier today as a mailin both cumin, he is up by more than 14000 votes, the same thing happened overnight in georgia, as we look at george of the biden lead has been smaller but he has taken the lead by 1500 votes. We will follow with throughout this hour as we have you covered on all fronts, we have fox Business Team coverage, jacqui thJackie Deangelis, hillary vaun with abiding campaign in delhi were p
The bay area, San Francisco Oakland Livermore Half Moon Bay petaluma all looking at winds gusting regularly into a 30 mile per hour range well even windier than that right now in danville conquered Vacaville Fairfield and sonoma are areas into that 40 mile per hour range this morning by 10 15am not much of a difference still very windy. So this is something thats going to impact all of our morning commute watch out for breeze on roadways like branches and garbage thats just blown around and been pushed on roadways during overnight hours by 05 00pm tonight your evening commute will be a bit calmer and into tomorrow, even calmer conditions just yet so we are looking at this wind events winding down over the next 24 hours. But certainly remaining very windy through the morning red flag warnings and wind advisories both remain in effect until 11 00am this morning. As winds continue to gust regularly as high as 50 Miles Per Hour doesnt matter whether youre at the coast or further inland. We
Fuel to an already historic fire season. We do have Team Coverage. Of the fire danger and also the potential for power shutoffs for so many pg e customers across the bay area, well start now with our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez shes in the Weather Center were tracking. The latest weather conditions for us for sunday. Were really worried about the a presa yeah and we definitely should be just stayed in jonathan, especially when we see sustained winds 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour our valleys could actually see gusts upwards of 55 Miles Per Hour even throughout the coast as well with the strongest gusty as winds. No surprise our highest peaks, north bay mountains east bay hills and diablo range. Could see near category one Hurricane Force winds at around 70 Miles Per Hour on the eve of the oneyear anniversary of the kincade fire. So prime fire season, a peak of high fire season here in the bay area. Thats when the wind advisory going into effect for everyone in the bay area sunday afternoo
Wildfires. Now at 10 oclock the bay area and Northern California just hours away from seeing potential Hurricane Force winds. The threat now causing extreme fire danger. And another round of power shut offs from pg and e thats where we begin this saturday night at 10 oclock here on kron 4 news. Thanks so much for joining us. Im Jonathan Mccall and im justine waldman. It is dry, theres very low humidity and the winds are going to whip that adding even more fuel to an already historic fire season. We have Team Coverage tonight on the fire danger and the power shut offs will start with meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez whos standing by with the latest on the fire danger this weekend. Yeah thats right just cnn jonathan all eyes will be not just on our hills but also our valleys and coast. Everyone in the bay area will be impacted by this upcoming wind storm and we do have a wind advisory going into effect sunday afternoon through monday morning most of us will see sustained winds at 20 to 35