A very good monday morning to you. Thanks so much for joining us. I am laura garcia. Im kira klapper in for Marcus Washington. Well get to the breaking news in a moment. First a check of our traffic but first weather with meteorologist kari hall. Yes, we had a lot of fog in parts of the trivalley and north bay. Elsewhere were seeing Clear Conditions but very cold temperatures, as you get ready to head out the door. Here is a look at what we are now, dropping to freezing right now in santa rosa and in napa, and some upper 30s in concord, as well as livermore. Well get a look at the rest of our forecast coming up. Mike, youre looking at light. The bay bridge emeryville camera lights in motion across the bay bridge light show as far as im concerned, lights in motion here, no lights and emotion at the bay bridge toll plaza, that cues us this is a Holiday Light week. We have slower spots for 680 both directions getting toward the walnut creek interchange. The rest of the bay youre good. Bac
Before we get to karis forecast, i believe we have some really crazy video to start our Christmas Morning with. Hail in San Francisco, is that right . And lightning. Yes, just north of San Francisco. Oh my goodness. Marin county. So thats caused a lot of problems. It was just this cell that moved through marin county, it dumped a lot of heavy rain and even brought some flashes of lightning this morning, and so that also caused some problems on the roads, so as we take a look out here right now, i wanted to show you what it looks like on storm ranger, our mobile Doppler Radar. That moved through at about 2 00 to 2 30 this morning and has since cleared out but theres still some lingering rain in that area. As we take a closer look, we are seeing still some heavy rain pouring just south of that area in marin county, just south of san rafael, that move through, and then also in San Francisco right now we are seeing some heavy rain, moving toward the east bay also picking up on some rain th
Good morning, leigh. Reporter good morning. Yes. And its very busy. Very crowded in this kitchen. So im doing my best to stay out of everybodys way. We have all the volunteers here. Theyve been here earl 84 this morning. And they are doing an Assembly Line of the meals. And it looks like the potatoes that is now on its side which means we are probably getting low on that end. And they will have to put in the second shift of potatoes. They are moving along pretty quickly. There are more than 4,000 meals that will be packaged here and hand delivered to thousands of San Francisco residents who cannot leave their homes either to illness or age. Now we have more than 500 volunteers coming to pick up these meals and deliver them. There are some longtime volunteers that are here. We did meet a guy in the first hour named zach who is here with both of his parents. We have also met tourists from germany that came early to help out. We were thinking what to do with our christmas. And we thought
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