now at 11:00, the clock is ticking for unemployed americans as covid relief benefits expire tonight. and we are keeping an eye on the approach of rain for tomorrow. it could be an issue in the santa cruz mountains in particular on the burn scars. we will explain why coming up in this forecast. plus, a major concern in the santa cruz mountains. we may have elevate to the next level and request for folk to evacuate. and good evening, thanks for joining us, i m juliette goodrich. i m brian hackney. a live look at capitol hill tonight. in an hour, emergency unemployment benefits for millions of americans are set to expire. kpix5 s kenny choi on the anxiety it is causing for so many jobless californians already having trouble during the pandemic. reporter: many economists say when people lose out on these benefits it also impacts small businesses, landlords, and the rest of the state s economy. tonight, the wait for another round of federal stimulus checks continues fo
richmond. 37 santa rosa and low 40s in livermore. this morning, since yesterday, we have really dropped our numbers despite the lack of 30s out there. so we were very mild with the rainfall yesterday, saturday, but today we are putting our sights on our next system, our level one system late tonight into tomorrow, bringing scattered showers. we ll see the highest totals in the south bay and not going to be that much at all. we are reducing the rainfall totals so it is going to be a breezy system with the rainfall focused from the santa cruz mountains to the south. count on cloudy skies today, temperatures in the mid-50s looking at the rain develop at night. we ll time it out and talk about new year s eve and new year s day next time we see you. jovina? thank you, lisa. public health researchers are keeping a close eye on a coronavirus variant spreading quickly throughout the uk. the cdc tomorrow is requiring a negative covid test from travelers from the uk and the variant
you. we have a lot of cloud cover out there and despite that, we re still pretty chilly with some 30s and fog out there but mainly 40s. live doppler 7, storm system will arrive along the central coast today that will bring rain to the bay area. we ll bring in our storm impact scale, a level one system late tonight into monday, scattered showers, highest totals will be in the south bay, it will be breezy at times. it is coming from a different trajectory. as we start out with the clouds today we ll get breaks in the cloud cover throughout the middle of the afternoon so we ll call it partly cloudy to mostly cloudy. low 50s on the coast, upper 50s around the bay. we re dry 9:00 but the rain comes in shortly after that, and it s going to start out, you can see right there, in the south bay. so we ll track it for you. we ll count up the totals and talk about the last week of the year, including new year s eve and new year s day in a few minutes. jovina? thank you, lisa. public
but since it isn t getting here until tonight let s not be valid most of your sunday is going to look like. it s just a few clouds today. the rain gets here after sunset and we have cold mornings coming up. going to show you just how cold here is an upcoming book into the late afternoon and early evening. we still haven t seen the rain yet. you can see them sitting out here. they are going to be focused in the south bay and arrived when we get to the evening tonight by about 10:00 a.m. it is raining. then, as we go into the overnight hours, here we are, that rain has rotated back up into the north bay. we continue to see scattered showers develop until he gets in the late morning tomorrow. not a lot of this. i will say those rainfall totals coming up and a look at why this potential storm is a bit more of a concern for those burn scars. back over to you. a live look at capitol hill. emergency unemployment benefits expired overnight. they report on the anxiety that many jobl
we go through the morning and temperatures right now a little bit on the chilly side. 47 degrees in san francisco with the cloud cover cooler in walnut creek. and into san jose in the 40s and you see the mostly cloudy conditions so know rain just yet. i think most of today we re going to avoid any rain except as we head to the evening. that s when the rain chances are going to start to increase and you can see it in the future cast. high temperature today in the mid-50s. our temperatures are not going to warm up a whole lot. our storm ranger for now is relatively dry. you have the clouds but when those rain producing clouds arrive, we ll show you the timing and possibly snow near mt. hamilton. we look forward to seeing you then, rob. as rob just mentioned more rain is on the way. happening now people in the czu fire zone in the santa cruz mountains are warned to watch out for possible flash floods and debris flows. it burned more than 86,000 acres and destroyed dozens of ho