Hurricane. Heavy rain, powerful winds knocking down trees onto homes, the dramatic rescues. And tonight francines remnants on the move. Millions under flood alerts. Our team in the storm zone. Also Tonight A State Of Emergency declared as raging wildfires spread in Southern California. Dozens of homes destroyed, the race to escape the flames. An alaska Airlines Plane slams the brakes on during takeoff avoiding a potential collision with a Southwest Airplane cleared to land on the same runway. The faa investigation. The race for the white house. Donald trump now saying there wont be another debate, as he and Kamala Harris hit the Campaign Trail for the first time since tuesdays showdown. Both candidates and key battlegrounds they hope to flip. The aweinspiring images from space. The first ever private Space Walk. And the Life Saving Scene Playing Out on live tv, as Hurricane Francine hit. The hero e. R. Nurse who came to the rescue speaking out to us. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News
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Warm start it is in the 30s for only a couple of spots most of us are 40s 50s and alametos case even 60 degrees currently it is quite the warm way to start this monday morning, a whole lot warmer than yesterday, especially for north bay cities. Napa solid 21 degrees warmer than we were at the same point yesterday later on today expect daytime highs to be unseasonably warm back into the low 70s for a lot of us im talking are warm conditions more about the wind and what else to expect for the week ahead still to come rebecca all right, thank you john well take peek outside at traffic in the bay bridge really no traffic here just a few cars, a handful. Well be sharing on the roadway 4 westbound 80 your commute into downtown San Francisco across the upper deck. Under 10 minutes out of the macarthur maze and then looking the san mateo bridge this morning were going to be seeing it so still pretty lightly traveled at this early hour west bay 92, nice and smooth over to the foster city. 1 one
Afterwards is, well, just what the Christmas Season is all about. Early today starts right now good morning im valerie castro. Glad youre starting your week with us im Frances Rivera the start of this week brings new hope the u. S. May soon see the approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but as the country anxiously waits, cases and deaths continue to climb as of today, there have been over 14. 8 million infections, and over 283,000 deaths, according to an nbc news tally. The pandemic isnt stopping pope francis from spreading an uplifting message this Holiday Season at his sunday blessing, the pontiff said the Christmas Season provides a sign of hope in this difficult time his words come as most of california enters a new virus lockdown nbcs Meagan Fitzgerald has the latest. Valerie, good morning millions of californians are waking up to some of the most restrictive measures weve seen since the beginning of the pandemic all while state officials do what they can to try to stop hospitals fro
The breezy us for the north bay and then right along the coastline, right now Half Moon Bay sonoma in petaluma all looking at winds at or above 20 Miles Per Hour and thats not even including gusts which will be as high as 45 Miles Per Hour at times red flag warnings expire at 5 in effect right now all across the north bay, the inland east bay and the san mateo coast line temperatures are mild right now were low 60s in alameda and hayward as well as napa at 6061 degrees little cooler for dublin in concord in the 40s. Im talking what to expect this afternoon and when these winds will really come down in your forecast rebecca all right john look forward to that because that we do have a high wind advisory issued a since about 4 oclock this morning. Because its been some blustery out there for the bay bridge. So both hands on that Steering Wheel if youre going to be heading into downtown San Francisco. Traffic really starting to thin behind the tolls because we did have a couple of problem