Weve had as much rain. Barely enough to measure. Just. 04 of an inch in the santa cruz mountains. Its passing in cooler air a loft. 1 to 2 feet by the time the weekend is done. High surf advisory on the coast during the day tomorrow. Wave heights above 15 feet and as the cooler air rises, increasing chance of thunderstorms. Part of the forecast tomorrow which could include small hail. The hour by hour outlook in a few minutes. Rob, thanks very much. Were talking about the north bay getting hit the hardest. Storm cleanup under way right now. Video from marin county where downed tree branches were cut away from power lines. A lot of tree limbs breaking off from the rain strorm and trees falling. Windsurf advisory great time to go to the beach. But swells could reach 13 to 15 feet. Stay with nbc bay area for continuing coverage of the weekend rain. Download our free nbc bay area app for a personalized forecast and to look at the same radar our meteorologists use. President elect donald trump putting his search for cabinet candidates into high gear. He met with more than half a dozen people today. Marianne favro has a look at who he is considering and many of his appointments have been controversial. It looks like weve lost leads during the campaign. In a 90minute meeting, trump characterized the meetings as an exchange of ideas. We had a farreaching conversation discussing interests of the United States, we discussed those areas and exchanged our views on those topics. Trump has announced his picks for attorney general, National Security adviser and cia director. But hes been coy about whether more announcements are imminent. Tomorrow, trump is expected to meet with new Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former new york mayor rudy giuliani. The president elect also met today with todd rickets, gop fundraiser and owner of the chicago cubs and the ceo of the company than owns carls junior and hardees. An indication hes reaching beyond his inner circle. Back to you. Marianne, thank you so much. Also in bedminster, new jersey, with her husband, mayor kevin johnson, rhee is on the short list for secretary of education. She said it went great. Another peaceful protest following the election. A few hundred people marched through the rain in the financial district of San Francisco. This happened a few hours ago. Video on a demonstrator posted to twitter. There was a slight traffic problem. The protests did remain peaceful. Crackdown against fake news on facebook. Mark zuckerberg announced that after krit critics say the stories impacted the election. Heres more with how the site is about to change. Rick boone has more. Reporter i got real details on fake news on facebook. Ceo, Mark Zuckerberg says only a small percentage of fake news on the website. But he says thats enough for him to order an overhaul of how facebook does business. In wake of the election, facebook fake news problem has drawn national attention. Headlines like this. Isis oil king paid off hillary clinton. Pope francis endorses trump. Causing serious concerns. We have a fundamental choice in how we choose to address this inequality. Facebook ceo Mark Zuckerberg installing blockers in the surge of false stories. New tools in the classified materials. Creating warning labels on the questionable stories. Reorganizing the advertising policy attached to fake news. Typically they would run on the web and there would be links on facebook and twitter. Media company say a host of writers like paul horner is the mastermind behind his fake new frenzy. Admitted to the wall street journal or the Washington Post he created the fake stories. Experts say even though the info is false writers still arent breaking the law. Experts say you can fight back against all of this fake news out there. Like it, fact check it, make sure the information is correct before you spread that fake news yourself. It would not be a good thing at all. Live in menlo park, rick boon, nbc bay area news. This is not how shoppers expect today spend their evening. Two hours stuck in the parking garage. Can you imagine. Take a look at the photos. Pure agony stuck here in the garage. This is from the mall. One driver told him it took about 90 minutes to get to the lower level of the garage. Not to even get out. Witnesses say all of the parking garages are jammed. Another driver told us they talked to mall security but told this was somewhat typical during the holidays. Two hours to exit. All of these are ticking off early this time around. Normally a safe shopping area. But a series of thefts at stores Christie Smith is in berkeley with the details. Reporter terry, ford street is lit up for the holidays. Except for a bit of rain earlier, people are out and about shopping. Berkeley Police Stepped up patrols in the area because the apple store across the street here on fourth has been hit three times by thieves recently. Even tonight theres a large number of shoppers at that apple store. The Berkeley Police say what happened is a small group comes into that store while its open with hoodies on. Kind of hard to see them. They snatch apple products. One clerk off camera at a Clothing Store on the street. He says while its certainly a big concern to have this happen nearby, it hasnt really impacted his business because he doesnt sell what these thieves want. Fortunate fortunately, no one has been hurt in this. They run in and out quickly. We are working with apple as well as the Business District on Fourth Street to see what he can do. I come here all the time and never heard that. Ive never been frightened to shop down here. Its kind of disturbing. Reporter the meantime, Berkeley Police are working with every agencies to see if theres a bigger pattern related to whats going on here. Because of holidays, theyre increasing patrols in all areas. Christie smith, nbc bay area news. Overnight homeless shelter is Opening Doors for the first time in walnut creek tonight. Its in a National Guard armory next to homes and popular parks there. It has Community Members pretty nervous about the location. Shelter leaders say those staying the night will be locked in and supervised throughout the night. Everyone using the shelter is vetted first. Theyre paying about 100,000 to make the Emergency Shelter possible. Other funds were donated. Tracking some showers around the bay area tonight and out at the 49ers game tomorrow. The 49ers take on the patriots and some of the showers have a chance of dropping some hail. Well talk about Thunder Showers in the forecast and a lot of snow to wrap up the weekend when we come right back. A massive sea of foam. Did you see this story. Led to a cleanup effort today. Well have an update. A lot of people wont have food on their tables this thanksgiving. How nbc bay area is partnering with local stores and food banks and how you can help out too. Have you seen this yet . Its no foam party. A giant foam block taking over part of the san jose airport yesterday. It was blowing around. It kind of looks like snow. It turns out a Fire Suppression system malfunctioned inside an airplane hangar sending fire retardant everywhere. Not dangerous, they say. But tricky to clean up. Heres what it looked like today. Not nearly as bad. You know what theyre doing. Cleaning it up. Residue on streets and on trees. Crews worked all day to get it cleaned up. Take a look at the photo as mercedes parked location, location, location. This is a bad location. This is the foams path. Covered in the sticky white mess. My dirty car could have been improvement, possibly. Into the holiday spirit by helping struggling families. Nbc bay area is across the area for the holiday food drive. Our lori malpert is out at one of our this is a huge problem, right . Thats right. Peggy. Take a look here. All of this food was delivered today and it will soon go to families in need. Its a communitywide effort to help feed those who would otherwise go without. Shoppers at bay area safe ways today likely saw this. Community volunteers and familiar nbc bay area faces greeting customers. Hope others will reach out to help the hungry. Its important for us to get out. The styles with the kiwanis club hits home. I lost my job before. Make it so the not so hard on other people. Thats why shes dedicated to feed the need. A oneday food drive hosted by nbc bay area and safeway benefiting seven local food banks. This is one of our biggest weekends of the year. All the support we are getting today and throughout the Holiday Season is going to come back to our food bank and across the area to help serve families in need during the holidays and throughout the year. Giving back is easy. Remove a flyer from the chair pads found in the stores display area. Give it to the clerk at the register. And for 10, you can buy a bag filled with food. Every year the need gets higher and higher. The items help provide food for the families to make the holidays a little brighter. Everyone make a difference. Help feed the need. Shoppers like neal cannon and his family are happy to make a difference. Its important. Its the time of the year when less unfortunate ones want to do something nice. Back out here live, im told the Food Bank Needs purchase for thanksgiving. If you can, drop one off. 159 area safe ways are participating and the food drive runs through december 27th so you still have a lot of time to help out. Reporting live from san jose, laura malpert, nbc bay area news. Its easy to grab a yellow sheet and go and make that donation. I did it at the selfcheckout. Very, very easy. For more information on the feed the need, look for the link on our home page. It is officially ski season in the sierras. Check out the conditions. Wow. Nice. Night skiing . I would rather be there, absolutely. I would. A lot of the snow is man made. Still counts. You can still ski on it. Heavy amounts of snow tonight and tomorrow. A live look at the Road Conditions on 80 near castle peak. I think this is a grab, screen grab. I think traffic is moving faster than that, right, rob . This is a half foot to a foot of snow there. Close to 7,000 feet. Whats interesting is the forecast moving forward could add another 2 feet there. Wow. Above 8,000 feet. This week . For right now throught looks like monday morning could see another foot or two of snow. Thats good news for the sierras. Look at that hourbyhour forecast. Here in the sierra, a Winter Weather advisory for conditions as you just saw. Elevations above 6,000 feet could pick up another foot of snow. It looks like 1 to 2 feet above 8,000 feet. Heres the key factor. Snow level down to 5,000 feet. Thats going to increase your drive time in the snow. Use precautions and take the snow cables for the changing conditions into the sierra. Right now, obviously not cold enough to snow in san jose. Be nice to get rain. Havent seen it in the santa clara valley. Tiburon northward is where a lot of the big rain totals continue to track on up. You see that, more than 2 1 2 inches of rain. 1. 75 inches. In San Francisco,. 75 inches on the ocean side facing. A lot less in the palo alto. The rain is forced to rise. On the west side of the santa cruz mountains, 1. 5 inches. Really not a lot of rain. About. 04 of an inch in san jose. Similar in the trivalley. Only. 04 of an inch of rain. Scattered showers this evening. The intensity of the showers could pick up as convective showers, including thunder to the west of ft. Bragg. You saw that in the last hour or so. Thats sweeping through during the day tomorrow. Tomorrow morning, 7 00 a. M. , could have more intense showers as the cooler air could set the stage for Thunder Showers and small hail. So very localized areas of intense rainfall at times mixed in with the sunshine. Towards tomorrow night and monday, things dry out. The rainfall projections, highest in the north bay and fortunately, not a lot in san jose. In blue here, around the north bay, another half inch of rain during the next 24 hours. Mid60s in the forecast, similar temperatures in the trivalley. Concord, 63 degrees. Belmont in the low 60s. Near 60 in half moon bay. Low 60s in San Francisco and north bay highs in the low 60s. Once the system clears monday afternoon through tuesday should be dry. Wednesday is the next event. Friday and saturday, looks mainly into the north bay. Quick check of the forecast, tuesday for travel looks good. Wednesday, maybe not so much. Looks like more snow towards the sierra. The bay area, the first half of the day, thanksgiving day does look dry. The next chance was rain friday, saturday should be mainly in the north bay but travel day wednesday could be some issues here and in the sierras. So many people up in the sierra make their living this time of year. Its great to see the snow arriving. Great for thanksgiving. The cast of hamilton gets political after they learn mike pence was sitting in their audience. Donald trump getting involved. The message hes tweet to the actors tonight. We are the diverse america who are alarmed and anxious at your new administration will not protect us. Defend us and hold our inalienable rights sir. President elect trump is demanding the cast of the hit musical hamilton that you saw apologize for the harassment of mike pence. The incoming Vice President attended that show and during the curtain call, they read a statement thanking him with concerns for trumps administration. Some say the satellite will revolutionize tracking. This happened about three hours ago. This is in florida when it was launched. The satellite will provide images of developing storms faster than any satellite before its time. This is going to help out scientists to improve warning times and help plan the best flight routes. Theyre saying this will help avoid im not a great flier. I am not either. She doesnt like the turbulence either. I dont like that. 49er fans, a ton of things to celebrate. The 49ers will celebrate. The hall of famer reacts. The big game kicks off in the rain. A highlights in sports. Dont go anywhere. For the golden bears with 2 games left in the regular season, welcome back. Today marks the 119th big game between cal and stanford. The golden bear, the regular season, they need to win out to secure a bowl win. Stanford hasnt had the season they hoped for. But theyre still postseason bound to move up in the pac12 standings. They stanford has won six consecutive games hoping to change that. Third quarter. Takes the handoff. 09 yards to the stanford got the lead. He was not done. Later in the quarter. Mccaffrey, middle of the for another touchdown. Mccaffrey finished with 284 yards and a stanford rushing record and three touchdowns. Stanford wins 4531. They win the the 49ers hope the patriots on sunday pay tribute to former owner presentation of the ring of excellence for pro football hall of fame. Heres eddie d on the special weekend. The city and the fans and the players, our coaches and staff, over all these years meant so much to me. Weve continued to have this relationship. I tried to develop my ownership as a family. It started even before bill came in. Tp wasnt we had our tough times and i hired bill and we discussed it and i told him what i wanted to do and how i wanted to do it. He was all for it. And it was just something that comes right now to 2016. Im as close to he and as many of my old players as i was throughout the years. Super bowl years, nonsuper bowl years. Hall of famers, nonhall of famers. I see them, i talk to them. We spend time together. We try to get together at least three or four times a year, different players, and just go someplace and just go for a couple of days and just have dinner and just talk about old times like a bunch of old men. Tomorrow should be really, really special. Thats it for sports. More news after the break. Heres our very own Marianne Favro with her kids at the we do want to remind you that today is our annual food drive. Take a look here. Marianne favro with her kids in los gatos. Also this fearsome fivesome. Raj, janelle. Peggy people you work with. Her daughter. Thats right. Thank you to everyone who donated and everyone who came by. See you back here tonight at 11 00. Good night. Youre watching an nbc bay area news special. Tonight, we investigate. We uncover a deadly danger at our local railway and the crashes that some say could have been prevented. Plus i think you realize this was this is what was going on. First of all, this wasnt right. She tried to blow the whistle on the wells fargo bank. Cop on campus. We examine why certain schools are using Campus Police officers for reasons that are angering parents and even officers themselves. But first it really is we investigate bogus airplane parts. Theyre used all over the United States and the consequences could be fatal. Heres Senior Investigative reporter steven stock. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. For the next 30 minutes, we investigate. We begin tonight with an issue that has caused airplanes to crash and people to die. Questionable airplane parts for sale everywhere. This is what they look like. They are supposed to have faa documentation along with them when theyre