Marin county. Its wet on highway 101. South of petaluma down to san rafael. Were going to see the rain continuing to stream in. Gives us a chance to dry out. Its another look in san rafael. The drivers are heading south. All those headlights. Youre going to see some of the rain and the need still for windshield wipers. Well talk more about this break when the heavier rain comes back. Mike, you were reading the signs at the san mateo bridge. Thats right, kari, i read the signs for the traffic. The lit up sign led us to a problem. The sign lit up caused everybody to tap their brakes as it came on. It just says to watch out for motorcyclists which is an important message. Now traffic is flowing much better. That volume is what we expect. The build over here for the san mateo bridge. Its a little bit of slowing. The traffic break from a crash. It cleared from ralston to 92. Well track that. The south bay start to go kick in with the flow as well as the bay bridge toll plaza with the metering lights, of course, on. Back to you. South bay landlords may face penalties. Bob redell joins us outside San Jose City hall how this may better protect renters out there. Bob. Reporter laura and scott, later today at city hall behind me, theyre going to decide whether or not to approve new fines for landlords who operate within the city limits much. This is to encourage the Property Owners to follow the law when it comes to how they treat their tenants. Landlords are required to provide a legitimate reason for not renewing a tenants lease. The city is considering a fine of at least 500 for those landlords who dont follow that socalled just cause eviction rule. Thats one of the fines that theyre considering. Some landlords say the new fines under consideration would create a financial burden for them and they believe the city should be focusing on the affordability crisis. Not them. The San Francisco supervisors rules Committee Approved new protections for them. Currently they can evict them without cause unless the building is more than 40 years old. The new law that needs full board approval would extend no cause eviction protection to renters in any building regardless of the buildings age from the moment they sign the lease. Reflect the moment that were in, which is a true affordability crisis. Its not about supply. Its not about what we build, when we build it. Its about can working class people stay here in San Francisco and be able to survive. This is a step in that direction. Reporter the San FranciscoApartment Association says that this proposal would add more red tape and make it more difficult for building owners to handle problem tenants. Reporting live in san jose, bob redell, today in the bay. 6 03. New overnight, President Trump in london attending a nato summit. He met with nato secretary. Trump expected to renew demands that european allies in an da step up spending. This comes as the impeachment inquiry in washington moves forward. Tracie potts live on capitol hill. Tracie, the president blaming congress and democrats for scheduling a hearing while hes overseas. Right. He says this meeting was scheduled for a year and the conflict, he says, is their fault. Meantime, the president also on twitter wondering if the Supreme Court should jump in and slow down or stop impeachment from moving forward. Lawmakers vote tonight on whether to approve the report summarizing the impeachment inquiry so far. Its a hoax. The impeachment thing is a hoax. Republicans have already written a 123page rebuttal d defending the president. This republican report is ridiculous. Tomorrows judiciary hearing will focus on whether the law supports articles of impeachment against President Trump for requesting a political favor, a biden investigation, from ukraine while withholding aid. One republican insists, without proof, that ukraine interfered in the 2016 election. It is clear to me that ukraine did meddle in the u. S. Election. We have sitting u. S. Senators helping spread that russian propaganda in an effort to defend the president. The president is watching from london where he meets with nato leaders today. His focus, making them pay their fair share of defense spending. Weve increased the numbers that other countries are paying 130 billion. It was going down for close to 20 years if you look at it. Like a roller coaster down, not up. That was going on for a long time. Wouldnt have had a nato if you kept going that way. President trump has several oneonone meetings with heads of state today. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. 6 0e 5. New details on a deadly house fire in east oakland happened early yesterday afternoon on 48th avenue h the man who died was 86 years old. Confined to a wheelchair. Firefighters managed to rescue his wife and the family dog. The woman suffered smoke inhalation. Firefighters didnt give an exact cause but said it was an accident. A recent standoff with police expected in court. Andrew white was arrested. He was facing drug charges and investigators say explosive devices were found inside the home. That prompted evacuations for People Living nearby. That home two blocks from oak grove high school. Police are still not saying if white had something to do with the homemade bomb found on schools campus. Changes coming to 880 that could shave time off the east bay commute. But it could come at a cost to drivers. Today in the bays kris sanchez joins us live in fremont with what commuters could expect. Kris . Reporter hi there, laura. 880 very busy and probably keeps a lot of you behind the wheel longer than you might like. Thats why the metropolitan Transportation Commission wants to convert the hov lanes on 880 to express lanes. But we asked people how they feel about having to pay to move a little faster. I think iowe i dont think that we should have to pay to drive on the freeway that weve paid for with our taxes. Expensive enough with the express lanes. I mean, with the fast lanes and all that, no, i dont think so. When the traffic stops, the diamond lanes stop as well. So they really dont work. Reporter so this is the stretch of 880 that were talking about. Its from heg en berger road to lewelling boulevard. Tonight is the first of two public open houses for people who weigh in before the mtcs Financing Authority holds a public hearing in two weeks and then a vote in january. If you cant make it, check my twitter feed for a link to a fiveminute virtual open house with a lot of good information there. They will convert the hov lanes to express lanes. In part, that should crackdown on the the mtv would require all drivers to have the tolls would start at 50 cents and go up from there depending on congestion. The Public Comment window is open for two more weeks. If you have a strong opinion, find a link on our page. Nbcbayarea. Com. Kris sanchez, today in the bay. Happening now, heavy snow and freezing rain causing quite the mess in the northeast. At least eight deaths are attributed to the storm. Pennsylvania state police say the driver of this suv was killed after the vehicle spun out of control. It was then hit by a tractortrailer. More than 10 inches of snow hit parts of connecticut yesterday. New york state capital of albany got slammed with more than 20 inches. Students in new jersey were sent home early. Much closer to home, the sierra getting a lot of fresh snow as well. At times, both i80 and highway 50 seen near whiteout conditions around lake tahoe. Anyone driving farther up the mountain than auburn should take tire chains with them. Over the last seven days, some areas have seen up to 7 feet of snow. As weve seen this weather, kari hall has dispatched our mobile radar to see whats out there. Looks better today. It does. It was so busy yesterday scanning all of the heavy rain that we still had from over the weekend. Today its the lighter rain and the good thing about storm ranger, mobile doppler radar, it can pick up on the fine details of light rain, mist and drizzle in the north bay. Its still making everything soggy from petaluma down to san rafael into mill valley. Well see the off and on light showers continuing as we still see moisture streaming in and the Atmospheric River has pushed well to the south. Were catching a break today and there will even be sunshine. Well see a mix of sun and clouds. Then the rain starts to come back in early tomorrow morning as we wake up and head out the door. Well see that rain in the south bay and it spreads northward into the afternoon. Most of the rain is south of the Golden Gate Bridge. Well see not all of the bay area picking up on additional rainfall. Thats ahead of another storm coming up. Mike, you may have a new crash in oakland. I say may because chp doesnt have it. We have it reported in our community. The waze community. Join nbc bay area wazers if you can. Pick a cool name like hog en dog. Crash reported here. We shouldnt laugh. I dont see any problems as far as live look. You see it reported on waze. A live look on camera. It shows you things are moving well. Smooth drive with a little flowing with the upper east shore. Kari has been talking about late drizzle there as well. Anywhere south of the bay bridge. Looks like something new for 237. Well check it out. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Weve been through black friday, Small Business saturday and cyber monday. The real question, do you have any money left . A look at how much people spent yesterday. Pretty soon, it will be possible that no amount of money will get you french fries or computers. Well track that shortage. Fry shortage. Well talk about it when we come back. Good tuesday morning. Lets head outside in san jose. Weve seen some patches of fog. Also mist and drizzle. Well start out still kind of soggy. But get ready for some sunshine today. Its also our day to prepare ahead of the next round of rain that will be moving in. Ill talk about that and the weekend forecast. Looking still soggy. More on that coming up in about five minutes. Were looking at the south bay. You see slowing rain where it says 101 near the top of the screen. Thats typical. The slowing as you travel west towards the scene of a crash, it may be distracting because the crash is in the eastbound direction. Well talk about the south bay and time out the peninsula coming up. Good morning. Im rahel solomon at cnbc headquarters. The top business headlines. Wall street could extend yesterdays losses after President Trump said it may be better to wait until after the 2020 election to make a trade deal with china. A weaker than expected report on manufacturing. The dow, nasdaq and s p 500 had the worst day in nearly two months. On the watch list, automakers report november sales numbers. May slap tariffs on french imports on champagne, cheese, handbags and other goods. New Digital Services tax would hurt u. S. Tech companies, including google, facebook, apple and amazon. The list targets some products spared from 25 tariffs imposed earlier this year, including wine, handbags and makeup and shares of Companies Like lbmh, loreal, lower in europe this morning on the back of this news. Shoppers were pointing and clicking and buying quite a bit yesterday. Cyber monday sales are on track to bring in a record 9. 2 billion. Thats driven by early promotions and free shipping. Adobe analytics says that sales rose by 17 last year. Nearly a third were from smartphones which also set a new record. Guys, back to you. Boy, people spend a lot of money. Hopefully theres something left for giving tuesday. New details. Huawei moving their Research Center to canada. No word what will happen to the remaining 250 employees still working in santa clara. U. S. Authorities recently called huawei a National Security risk. Trending this morning, pretty soon restaurants across america may be forced to hold the fries. Theyre reporting the possibility of a french fry shortage due to cold weather and Hurricane Dorian damaging north american potato crops. U. S. Department of agriculture is estimating the output would drop more than 6 this year. You have to have a shake without the fries. No. You have to dip the fry. You do that . Yeah. You want fries with that shake. You have to change the whole song. Were remaking this forecast, watching whats going on as we get round after round of rain. Its nice to see that some of the heavier rain is taking a break. Still left with patchy fog and some drizzle in parts of the north bay. Were going to still see some of the showers moving through marin county and southern Sonoma County as you get ready to head out the door. Then well see some partly cloudy skies. That means a break from all of the rain. Some sun peeking out as the storm system has pushed farther to the south and dried out quite a bit. As we take a live look outside in San Francisco. Lets talk about how much rain weve gotten with the past couple of storms that moved through. Santa rosa now at 95 of normal. That was such a good soaking that it almost caught us up to where we should be for this time of year. But we do still have work to do in San Francisco, oakland, river more, san jose. Were running at 40 to 50 of where we should be in terms of our rainfall. We are going to have more rain on the way. Were looking at a chance to dry out today. Maybe put out the christmas decorations. Were going to see the next round of rain moving in. Areas south of the Golden Gate Bridge going into tomorrow, well see light rain. About a quarter inch. We have a strong system headed our way by the end of the week. Thursday is really our only completely dry day here. Were going to see the rain approaching going into friday. Raining off and on on saturday and then it will dry out again on sunday. It looks like this could be a significant storm system once again. Initial computer models in the forecast, theyre putting down anywhere from about an inch and a quarter to over 3 inches. Possibly 4 inches of rain for the Santa Cruz Mountains. Pretty good soaker there as weve seen some changes in our weather pattern now. Were going to see only dry weather on thursday and then sunday into monday. Well be tracking all of that for you. Mike, youre seeing better conditions than yesterday. Yes, kari. There may be smaller puddles. You can see the sheen there at the toll plaza. Until the sun comes up, the roadways wont be completely dry. Heading to san rafael, kari talked about the late sprinkles. We may have fog and mist in the area. Smoother drive overall. Contra costa county looks great. Only the metering lights at the toll plaza. The south bay, this crash eastbound at 237. Thats out of lanes. Westbound shows a little build. If youre driving for example through san jose, you see a toward the airport, san jose international, its not a major problem. From san jose up until sunnyvale, the route doesnt build up until 7 00. You can watch the rest of our show and rit the roads before the commute kicks in. Palo alto, were showing you theres you may tap your brakes a little bit close to the san mateo. Thats the pattern off the san mateo bridge. The bay bridge toll plaza, you still have the backup at the plaza itself. 6 21 right now. Ahead on today in the bay. Whats the word of the year . It probably wont spark a crisis. Existential or otherwise. It came from the sky. The reaction from family after one of those escape slide from an airplane landed in their backyard. 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A another race horse died in southern california. The latest case is a 3yearold who broke down during trainer over the weekend outside san diego in del mar. The trainer is jerry hollendorf hollendorfer. They recently tried to ban the trainer after four of the horses died at the santa anita racetrack. A judge reversed that decision. New video from china. Scary sight as a fire engulfs a 25story residential building. It started on the fourth floor and quickly climbed to the top floor of the building as the insulation burned. Firefighters jumped into action and evacuated everyone inside. So far, no reports of injuries. New this morning, a suburban boston family raising concerns after an airplane evacuation slide plunged from the sky into their yard over the weekend. Luckily, no one was hurt. According to delta, the uninflated slide fell from one of its planes headed from boston to paris. Its not clear how the slide became detached from the plane. Theyve named the 2019 word of the year, existential. Defined as quote, characteristic of philosophical existentialism. As determined by the individuals freely made choices. Website says Climate Change and 2020 president ial candidates using the word helped existential in online searches in a manner of speaking anyway. Another contributing factor, forkies in the journey in the movie toy story 4. Thats funny. I wasnt sure. Okay. 6 27 right now. Are you noticing more free time in your life . Maybe its because wait times at the dmv apparently are dropping. Can you believe it . New numbers. Well talk abo