about. so with that said, if you are headed there, the big word of warning, a high surf advisory for the coastline from point reyes to santa cruz. waves picking up to 9 feet on our current buoy report but they could top 12 feet. we ll have more coming up in the full forecast in about 15 minutes. okay. thank you very much, jeff. now let s get to michelle roberts in pacifica for more on the wild waves coming in with the weekend heat. and they are tempting. reporter: they certainly are. the sun went down about 20 minutes ago. and surfers just got out of the water a few minutes ago. they ve been putting on a show for a lot of us watching onshore. the waves look so powerful, some well over 10 feet high. ooh yeah! reporter: rough waters and blue skies drew an audience to the pacifica pier. feels like a beautiful day but with really big waves. thought we would come out and check it out. this is going to be good. reporter: people enjoyed the sight of 10 to 20-foot w
among them sarah palin, who says she is ready to throw her hat in the ring. and remembering mr. cub. baseball fans in mourning with the death of ernie banks. we will look back at his life today, saturday january 24th 2015. announcer: from nbc news this is today with lester holt and erica hill. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m erica hill alongside sheinelle jones and dylan dreyer. tough news overnight. you spent a long time in chicago. he is mr. cub. ernie banks. we woke up to the news overnight. what an incredible optimistic guy. i had a chance to meet him. he had the enthusiasm. the chicago sun times with let s play two. that got the fans to go to the wrigley field. i was rushing around and started reading articles about him. every word approachable and optimistic and all the positive words. he got the medal of freedom from president obama. let s get to the top story. the
oakland police are looking for the driver who hit and killed an 84-year-old woman and then drove off. the intersection of 18th avenue and east 15th street was closed down for much of the morning. police say the woman was found in the street just after 8 a.m. she was unconscious and bleeding. authorities think she may have been disabled because a cane was found nearby. police think a green honda may have been involved. this crash early this morning on 580 in castro valley killed a san francisco woman and injured three others. the chp says the driver of a kia hit a guardrail near the 164th street off-ramp. it flipped over several times, throwing the driver and passenger from the car. the passenger didn t survive. then a honda crashed into the kia causing it to then burst into flames. both drivers were injured. someone who stopped to help in the first accident was also slightly hurt. health officials in santa clara county are aggressively spreading the word. get your children
the holy cross lutheran church tonight. because of the chilly temperatures, their intake is up more than 1/3, with 21 people here getting out of the cold. the livermore refuge handed out more blankets than usual tonight. it s difficult for the homeless to find a safe and warm place to be. you know, when the temperature drops into the 20s. we had one lady the other night show up, and say she actually had frostbite. reporter: in san ramon, the cold weather has made a broken water heater, an urgent matter. i started having my teenagers and wife complaining that the showers weren t very warm, and the water wasn t very hot. reporter: business has shop up 50% this week. supply lines to homes breaking as well as the demand going up. reporter: workers either covered sensitive plants or moved them indoors. limes are really tender. but any of your citrus plants, especially young plants are really important to cover. the first thing we always do, and recommend doing, espec