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the next phase for the covid vaccine. more states start offering it to older americans, one stadium is being converted into a 24-hour vaccination center. and an uproar over plans to vaccinate prisoners before the general public. record returns. long lines to send those holiday gifts back. how to make sure you get your refund. and the life-changing trick from magician david copperfield. how he gave this family a second chance. this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening. we begin another tense week with growing calls for the president of the united states to either resign or be impeached by congress. and not just from democrats, but some republicans now calling on him to step aside. the president not even speaking to his own vice president at this point. we re also seeing new video tonight of just what happened on wednesday at the capitol. and we re learning security warnings ahead of that day were ignored. the fbi had been tracking extremist groups plann
soon as daylight breaks tomorrow. truly heartbreaking. meteorologist rob mayeda has more on the rain. the high surf advisory has been extended in to tuesday night. you see that we have rough conditions, wave heights up to 14 feet. so, that is something that we will be watching as we head through tuesday. and we are beginning to see the clouds on the increase, which is leading to changes on our storm ranger, mobile doppler radar, just off the coast, you can begin to see that area of green off shore, that is the first band of rain from a pacific storm system that is tapping in to tropical moisture with a 1-2 punch. some of the top rain totals can be a half inch to a inch of rain. higher totals on the rain tops, something that you will see, the speeds, 20-40 miles an hour, around mid morning. a challenging commute, as the rain picks up across the north bay and the wind speeds are on the increase, coming up, we will look at the hour by hour timeline on this storm and two more
take a look at this. yesterday, more than 53,000 californians tested positive for the virus. that number is just shy of the record set in mid december. the positivity rate stands at 12.6%, the highest since the start of the pandemic. the surge is pushing hospitals to the limit. today, members oh it have army corps of engineers deployed to six southern california hospitals. they re tasked with helping upgrade outdated oxygen delivery systems to make sure patients can get the oxygen they need. let s take a closer look how we got here. this shows the surge over the past 2 1/2 weeks. on december 15th, 53,711 cases. you see the numbers dropping off there for a while, leading into christmas. then the day after christmas, cases spiked to more than 50,000. today, 53,341 reported yesterday, close to that record set last month. as classes climb, so do the hospitalizations. here s a long at the percentage of standard icu beds open across the state. sacramento s shelter order was going
times which is good because we ll need the extra rain we can get. 48 degrees right now in walnut creek. we have this beautiful view over san jose. 52 degrees right now. it s so nice to see the wet pavement out there. we ll keep just that for the first half of our day before the rain tapers off later this evening. you can see in san jose, the santa cruz area pushing in the heavier pockets as well. san francisco still getting some of the rain as well as the coastline. we will be seeing king tides. more details on that in just a few minutes. kira? we ll see you then, vianey. thanks so much. happening this morning a monumental moment in the making. the first doses of pfizer s vaccine are being boxed up and ready to be shipped out to hospitals across the country. new video from early this morning as workers at pfizer s michigan headquarters began packing up the long-awaited covid-19 vaccine. the first truckloads just minutes ago left the plant. the potentially lifesaving cargo i