Heightened concerns over counseling and intervention. The bridge patrol captain says it benefits everybody. Years ago we would have maybe one or two on the sidewalk. But when we increase the staffing level we have three to four sometimes five assigned to the sidewalk or parking areas for the pedestrian approach to the span. Reporter the 36person unit combs the bridge by foot, in car, on cart. The size currently larger than the salts o police department. Other changes recently pb San Francisco marathoners won be able to run on the road after 2017. And stuntman scaling the bridge back in april brought more security and added scrutiny. And we want people to feel safe. Thats the number one things the officers are seeking for the citizens, safety. Knowing there are people its more peace of mind. Sight seekers taking in views without being preoccupied with the scares. Reporter now captain lisa hue heard from a second ago retired today after 40 years patrolling this bridge. What sme told me today was that youre safer for a number of reasons. There is a blend of forces working together. The u. S. Parks police and chp all teeming up to keep you safe. Reporting live in San Francisco, sam brock, nbc bay area news. Thanks. Turning to the weather, a live look at sfr assistants at this hour. We have seen hardly any rain but a lot of spare the air days. And this Holiday Weekend looks no different. Rob joins us now. This is unusual for this time of year. Especially for december. We have the spare the air day tomorrow. We have the worst of the plagues for friday. Heading into the weekend the fiveday air quality outlook has three spare the air days in a row. Carrying us through new years eve. The east bay valleys will see some thicker smoke saturday and sunday. What is highly unusual now through the end of december, in year, just this fall into the start of winter weve had 16 winter spare the air days. Now for all of last winter spare the air season from november to february this year, we had 7 total. This all ties back to strong High Pressure which acts like a lid trapping smoke below. This is commonly when we have the dryer years and even drought years a few years back. Next week here is good news. Both air quality and needed rain. Rain with turning to the sevenday forecast. Well show you how much and when coming up in 12 minutes back to you. Thank you, rob. You can track the weather from the palm of your hand from the free nbc bay area appear. New video into the newsroom. Surveillance cameras caught attempted robbery at a gas station in berkeley. You see the suspect jump over the counter punching the employee. He is punching him. He tried to open the cash register. Couldnt get that done. He left the store and took off running. Police are hoping maybe someone looking at this can recognize this person and call investigators. New details on a string of arson fires in antioch in which three churches and a florist shop were set on fire. Tonight police made an arrest. Kristi smith has the latest from antioch. Reporter this florist in sanity yolk sits damaged. The owner says in late december it caught fire. Its been in the family for 62 years. Im third generation. It was quite shocking. And you know, mostly for my parents. I thought, yeah, i felt terrible for them. It was devastating for enemy. Reporter word of a arrest was welcome. Imvery excited. I knew they would. I totally believe in our police and fire department. So i had no doubt. On the 18th into the 19th of december we had some fires that occurred in antioch. One at a there werist shop and another at a church location. And we have arrested this person in conjunction with those fires. Reporter he was identified as 37yearold jose luis gomes, as transient staying in antioch. There have been a series of fires in that area in recent weeks and even into late summer. Those are still under investigation. At this point we have not assigned a person to blame for those fires. Although we do believe those fires to be set fires as well. Reporter this brick, though with is a relief for the owner of the florist shop who has been handling weddings and funerals. Its been devastating. But we have really good support system, you know really good friends and my customers have been amazing getting ahold of me, trying to do anything to help. This was kristi smith reporting and the florist plans to rebuild. The Insurance Company says that would take nine to 12 months. Busted again a registered sex offender has been arrested in elbowed. The fbi say they found more than 100,000 child porn images of the home computer. He faces multiple counts of possession of a distribution of child porn. He is a registered sex offender. He was convicted in 2001 of molesting a minor. San mateo sheriff county investigators are trying to sort out the strange case of a man who shottis dog in public. In a belmont only on nbc bay area, robert handa joins us with bizarre details of what took place and what happened afterwards. Robert. Reporter well, it is a strange incident. We have been hearing different versions of what actually happened. Were here in unincorporated in belmont in San Mateo County where the shooting took place. Apparently after the dog malled its owner. This dog was extremely vicious. Reporter this is dogland a rescue center in belmont. The 6yearold owner was involved in a dog bite incident that turned into a Police Crime Scene on elmer street wednesday afternoon. A neighbor shows pictures of the commotion. Where the owner was says he was forced to shoot his dog. They were walking along without any sign the dog zieted to attack. That story doesnt match from people at the scene including a friend who said the man was walking two dogs. The two dogs started to get unruly. And the one dog attacked the other. And he tried to stop that. And thats when the dog attacked him. And then he pulled out a gun. Yes he pulled a gun out. He always has something there in case one of the animals happened to get out of control. Reporter other people who didnt want to be on camera also said the man handed off the gun to an employee and moving the dead dog when the officer stopped him. He stopped the guy in the car. And i guess the dog apparently was in the trunk of the car that he had shot. He was carrying a gun, and he do does not a have a concealed weapons permit. This man is a wonderful man. He takes in animals that should be euthanized and he takes care of them. Reporter well regardless the Sheriffs Department is still considering charges and will resume the investigation after giving the man time to recover from his injuries. Live in belmont, robert handa, nbc bay area news. A Christmas Day death now being investigated as suspicious. Freement police say this morning they found a transient women at the a train depot with a head injure. She died at the hospital. They have in the been able to determine the cause of the head injury and thats why they call the deg suspicious. New at 6 00 a scare at cupertino storage unit. A bomb scare. Nbc bay area sky ranger flew over the scene at the safe storage on franco court. Were told someone thought they saw dynamite in a storage unit. It turns out it was just flairs. A highprofile member of the uc board of regents is stepping down. He will leave the post on the university of california board in february. He has been op the board 16 years. The move comes after he was recorded last year at his Podcast Company asking an actress a lewd question. Now he is a member of the National Radio hall of fame, founder of west wood one a radio sinned zrooigs Indication Company he dnts mention the incident but was pressured to leave by the board. A mia kulpa of sorts from apple. He was addressing the edition to sloweden older iphones. They say there was misunderstanding on the issue. It claims it has never done anything to intentionally shorten the life of any apple product. Earlier this month a customer on reddit posted he noticed increase in the phone speed after replacing the battery. Now, apple says it will cut the price of out of warranty iphone batteries from 79 to 29. The deal starts in late january and good for anyone with an iphone 6 or later. Accused of trying to plan a terrorist attack at San Franciscos pier 39. The new details, the lead prosecutor revealed about that case. Plus some most expensive firefightering year in states history. How the north bay fires and others could impact the state budget for years to come. And the dry conditions continue with likely the warmest day of the week ahead tomorrow. San jose upper 60s, 70s possible for parts of the bay area as we see finally some change in the 7day forecast which will include rain making a come back. Well have a look at that coming back with the forecast in two minutes. California man accused of plotting a terror attack in San Francisco. A federal judge decided it m no veil today for a Northern California man accused of plotting a terror attack in San Francisco. A federal judge decided it might be dangerous to let him out of jail because of what he told fbi agents after he knew he had been caught. Nbc bay area thom jensen was in the fresno courtroom. And he joins us with the latest developments. Startling announcements in the courtroom today. Reporter definitely, the prosecutor in this case told the judge magistrate that even while the fbi agents were raiding the gnome in modesto they asked him whether or not he would still carry out the plot. And he said he would still kill americans in the name of isis. Jameson first showed up on the fbi radar in september after a confidante told agents jameson was on known radical islamic internet chat rooms pledging support to isis. The fbi raided his home where e heed lived and mother and stepfather eight days ago. They say he wanted to use explosives and guns to kill as many as possible on pier 39 on Christmas Day. His attorney argued jameson should be allowed bail because he has no criminal history and because he told undercover agents posing as isis leaders he had succeeded thoughts and couldnt follow through with the attack. But the judge ruled jamesons statements during the raid, saying he would do it if given the opportunity, and recent bouts with depression make him too much of a threat to the public. She denied his request for bail. Previously, jamesons father told nbc bay area that he thought his son was being set up by the fbi. But he wasnt saying much as he left court today. Are you guying able to say anything. No. Reporter you must be disappointed he didnt get out. Yeah, pretty disappointed. Reporter jamesons mom and sister declined to talk after leaving court today. Jameson could be sentenced to 20 years in prison if he is convicted the magistrate told jameson that he could appeal her decision to another judge before he appears in court again. His next appearance is scheduled a week from tomorrow. Live in fresno, thom jensen, nbc bay area news. Thank you very much. The fbi is calling him the orange goatee bandit. Tonight he is no longer on the run. Federal investigators announced today this man identified by his orange mustache, goatee and beard is in custody. He has been on the run almost a month accused of robbing banks in fremont and mill bra. Police say he was irrelevanced in kr. He cant release his name until officially charged. Breaking news. We are following in new york city where we get reports of a major Apartment Fire in the bronx. This video just into the newsroom. We learned that at least 6 people are confirmed dead, 15 others hurt. More than 165 firefighters are on scene. This fire broke out just before 7 00 p. M. Tonight. Again 6 people dead. We will be following closely as bring you updates. Back at the home with the clock running out on 2017. The Bay Area Food Bank is in need of donations before the end of the year. Yesterday we told you how they needed 8 million by the end of the year. Today the Sf Marin Food Bank says it has to reach 2 million by sunday. They receive 25 of the money in december usually. A dollar goes a long which. With every dollar donated we are able to buy two meals for a person in need. The food bank is worried that changes to the tax code will affect how people go about giving to charity. Some kids who bought makeup at a Popular Store ended with something more dangerous. There are some in the bay area, they sell jewelry and makeup. They found cancer causing asbestos in eye shadow they baugt for the 6yearold. They sent the product to a lab. And turned out 9 items tested positive for toxic chemicals. They are pulling the products from the shelves and looking who into it how it happened. The statewide fire as you see they say this was the most expensive season on record. Expensive and devastating. Calfire says they spent 700 million fighting the fires in california sner. We always keep a close eye on the budgets. But one of the things that sets california aside from the other states wells the nation is the fact that we have our own Emergency Fund set aside for fighting fires. Calfire says that Emergency Fund isnt set at one amount and can be jaufrted based on the season. Firefighters say the thomas fire in ventura and Santa Barbara is near containment. All the fires were fueled by the dry weather. Much different than last year. This tweet by our meteorologist says it all. The bottom right picture from a year ago. All the red areas were no longer in a drought. Fast forward to this year, and the picture on the left no red at all. Quite a change. Something california still seeing abnormally dry conditions on the bottom of the screen. Lets keep the red out if we could well need help on that. Usually this time of year we begin to see the retreat normally we get rain. The Drought Monitor tends to compress down and sometimes go away december in march. Comes back in the summer. But whats been unique about this year is somehow dry its been. Especially in Southern California where we have seen no rain. And the rain missing out here in the bay area. You can see we are missing out almost 2 to six inches of rain. With offsetting that is the flooding rain earlier this year which helped to bring the reservoirs to historical averages to 80 to 10 of the average. You can see from october to now, the bay area less than 50 of average for the north bay and worse as you move further south into san jose, just 33 of average. So good news, 7day forecast ahead finally brings a chance of rain making a comeback. Right now 5 a in san jose. On our way again to temperatures currently in the mid50s to lower to mid30s around the north bay. Patchy frost or a little bit of patchy fog possible in the morning. 40s closer to the bay not near the coastline. But look at highs tomorrow. San jose high should be 57. 67 tomorrow, maybe even close to 70 for parts of the south bay. And maybe around sonoma and pleasanton for the afternoon near 60 in San Francisco with hazy skies. Spare the air day tomorrow. That continues through saturday and sunday. The sevenday forecast for years eve anders new years day dry. Finally a chance of rain making a comeback in the some locations. Warmest temperatures over the next three to four days. Air quality issues follow us into the new year. And then you notice that pattern shift on wednesday. A chance of rain making a comeback. In the next half hour we look more closely how much rain and how much snow for the sierra coming up the middle of next we can. Coming up at 6 45. Thank you, rob. Rising sea levels more frequent rainstorms. Wildfires, the impact Climate Change could have on local highways. Stay with us. Uber has reportedly sold 15percent of its company to japanese conglomerate, happening now, uberhas sold 15 to japanese soft bank. How much does 15 of ubercost in more than 7 billion. Workers at a home in sacramento found bones in the backyard. Human bones, not too old. The Sheriffs Department opened a death investigation. More news in a minute. Unpredictable weather patterns are pushing officials to rethink how they invest in transpta california is increasing unpredictable weather patterns are pushing officials to rethink how to invest in transportation projects. Caltrans released the first of 12 reports highlighting the risk of Climate Change on xray infrastructure. Rising sea levels. Frequent wildfires and rain patterns pose a threat especially in the bay area. You may want to consider whether moving the roadway or foorking into bridges the fact that the water level will be higher. Its all part of being smarter with how we invest money into the future. Nearly 400 million of weather related highway damage occurred in the bay area in the past storm season. The remaining 11 reports will be released over the next two years. Coming the effects of Climate Change on the entire state. Dealing drugs in a high tech way. The Southern California couple is in trouble after police say they use add drone to deal. They were arrested after an undercover investigation. But investigators released information about in case. Any say the couple was dealing drugs out of their home in riverside. They started surveillance. Observed a drone flying out of the backyard to a Public Parking lot nearby where the drone dropped packages. Police say this is a new step forward in drug dealing technology. I believe this is the first time we have seen anything like this in our city. Yeah, fly high in the air and go over to the church or he will drop it in front of a house or down the street. The couple not only faces charges for possession of drug for steal and drug paraphernalia. But also child endangerment. Are you feeling lucky . This is only the second time its happened. Lottery players have not one but two chances at winning more than 3 oh oh million 37 both the power ball and megamillions are over 300 million. This happened before in august. There hasnt been a winner for either since october. The drawings this weekend. Be sure to check the ticket friday night and the power ball drawing on saturday. And if you have a lot of money, you might be more confused about the new tax plan. There is confusion now. The irs was warning to some people trying to pay property taxes before theyre due. Plus were used to charges our phones with plugs. But there is a Silicon Valley company that can charge them through the air. Well show you next. In a few days the new gop tax plan will go into effect and it s already causing some confusion with many people in a few days the new tox plan goes into effect and cautioning confusion with many people rushing to make lastminute payments hoping to save money before the end of the year. Should you pay early . The answer is different for everyone. But here is guidance to help you figure it out. Reporter Tax Professionals may be ink aring the new year busier than usual. The new gop tax law means starting in 2018 property Tax Deductions are capped at 10,000. Before there was no limit. That includes state and local taxes. Does anybody have the checks ready . Reporter that leaves many scrambling trying to prepay the taxes before years end to save money. But now the irs says that only works if you already had the 2018 property tax assessment. Tax advisers say the best place to start, check with the local tax office. It depends on your locality and whether or not they permit it. Some localities bend the rules. Reporter in bigger states there is concern the new law does more harm than good. In new York Governor Andrew Cuomo suggesting the law may be unconstitutional. Its the most egregious act i have seen. It was done quickly without any public review. And now you see the backlash. Reporter experts say you really notice changes tax day 2019. I think there is a rude awakening for a lot of people who itemized in the past who are going to see the itemized deductions whacked and brought way down. And that theyre going to omore tax. Reporter but filing tax this is coming april its business as usual. The new law doesnt yet apply. And if you are making a payment check the tax website. Some tax payments online others by mail you must be post marked by saturday to make the deadline. People here lined up again today at the santa clara goft building to pay property taxes specifically the second installment which isnt due until early next year but could bring a larger deduction for 2017. As we mentioned only deduct 10,000 max. Paying a second installment for the property taxes. Not due until february which now. Because the tax law changes. Reporter but while paying all the taxes now could save you money you cannot in california pay the 2018 property tax bill now. There is even a sign on the building saying that. The government building by the way will open tomorrow 9 00 a. M. To 5 00 p. M. There is an official winner the Senate Election in alabama. Doug jones. The state official the certified the results. That took place earlier this month. National attention on this. Jones become the first exact elected to the u. S. Senate from alabama in 25 years. He bite controversial candidate roy moore who still hasnt conceded. Moore files a lawsuit late yesterday claiming fraud. Alabama secretary of state says the election was conducted with the utmost integrity. I dont think there is any doubt from the minds of anybody in this room or anybody thats within the sound of my voice that if there was ever a question about whether or not the state of alabama conducts honest and fair, safe and secure elections, that question has been eliminated. Well after all the votes were counted jones defeated moore by a margin of 22,000 votes. Look at times square. Its the most crowded place in the country new years east. Potentially the most dangerous. Security preparations in new york city are in full swing right now. The ny p. D. Has been amping up security every year. And this year is no different with more officers and sniepers in place. The bottom line is this there will much the public will see and much they wont see. And the take away from our preparation is this. People will be safe and they should feel safe too because the ny p. D. And partners are well prepared. New york city city mayor is telling people to be vigilant and if they see something Say Something. Tough plans new years eve . If not go the website. Thats where we list the events guide for things in the bay area. A new law taking effect next year makes it easier for the uberdriver to get a dui. Drivers for Ride Hailing Services will have a blood alcohol concentration limit on the job. Starting in july, its illegal to transport someone in your blood alcohol level is. 04 or higher. Drivers found to be in violation could lose the license. We are going to hold the drivers to higher safety standard. Because theyre carrying precious cargo, human lives. And it also enhances our ultimate goal which is improving traffic safety. Its a rate much lower than the general public. Taxi drivers are held to that same limit, the. 04. You have to take them everywhere you go. The charging cords. Yes a pain. We got a lot close to a future you dont have to be including in. The business and tech reporter scott budman with a lot of cords. But you say you also have a resolution to this mess. We have a solution. This is something the Tech Industry has been waiting for a long time. You have a phone which means you have to have a cord. A laptop which means even longer cord. You know add in as. Device. Any sort of fit bit. A lot of cord and power. There is a wireless way to charge all the devices. Check it out, getting a lot of attention. Weve all been part of the mad scramble to charge mobile devices whether at the airport, coffee shop or home. But what you could charge through the air . This really does represent the future of charging. Ener g. I. S. T of san jose got approval for a way to charge devices from eventually about 15 feet away. Its been a holy gral for the Tech Industry for years. Today we went inside the First Company to get the f. C. C. Blessing. If you have your ear buds in your ears or you have a fitness bast on your wrist it charges while you are typing at your desk. Imagine a future with no more cords. The ceo says the transmitter will, thanks to bluetooth, follow the device around as it charges. The devices that you carry around every day are now charged when you are moving. As you might imagine, investors powered en. E g. I. S. T stock tripling in two days which the Company Admits amps up pressure to succeed. Its incumbent upon us now to deliver on the dream. Now this is early. Be cautious. I wouldnt advise jumping into the stock or anything. Another reason to be cautious besides the fact its so new. Competition just today two wire lets patent iks applications filed by apple. The race is on to charge all this stuff wirelessry. This is the future thanks so much scott. You bet. Update on the breaking news out of new york city. The fire in an Apartment Building in the bronx. Video that came in the past 30 minutes. Fire breck out inside the fivestory walk upbefore 7 00 p. M. 4 00 our time. 6 people dead. 15 others hurt. We learned from the nbc reporter at the scene that children were among the people pulled out of the building on stretchers. The the mayor is on the way to the fire right now. We are following this breaking news story for you. Get you more information as it becomes available. 6 dead 15 injured in the bronx. San francisco continuing an annual postchristmas tradition. A nice pine fresh scent in front of city hall. The city is recycling Christmas Trees. Last year the Public Works Department says close to 500 tons were recycled. The city officer Curbside Collection on shekt days. When people are done with the trees we need to put them in the right place. They dont go in the green or blue bin. They go on the curb between january 2nd and january 12th. The Public Works Department says the recycled Christmas Trees will be turned into mulch used around the city. Home for the holidays and ready to jump into action. Hue a group of friends came to a mans rescue in the south bay. If yyou need to stay downeaway from it. Call 911. Let our First Responders come out and handle it. Police and fire will respond as well as pg e. Pg e will make the scene safe. And you smell gas, your first step is to get out, travel to a safe distance until you cant smell the gas anymore, and then call 911. The First Responders will come out, and theyll make it safe for you and your community. Google s headquarters last night, did in fact involve well we now know an accident that killed a motorcyclist near google headquarters last night did in fact involve a google bus. We beirut you story at breaking news last night. Officers say shortly before 6 00 in the evening a man ride ago motorcycle crashed into the commuter bus. The bus was contracted by google to provide transportation for employees. The but only the driver was in the bus at that time. No earning passengers. We dont have information on who was at fault though. Update on a deadly shooting near a school in the south bay. In East San Jose last night near the intersection of capital expressway and story road. It was right by aptitude Community Academy at gogt elementary. When they arrived they saw the man who had been shot. He died a short while later. They are working to identify the victim and notify the family. Police havent released information on the suspects. College kids helped rescuers find a man who fell at the guadalupe reservoir. Look at this. The Santa Clara County firefighters climbing up tots man. He breck his leg when he fell. Use add light to senate for the help. Teenagers noticed the light and called 911. I immediately toll them this guy has a broken leg where we were. After that she sent units out was asking me questions about his condition. Whats broken where on the leg . Is he bleeding . Different inks things like that trying to maintain some sort of contact with him. Well done. The man was stuck almost two hours before firefighters got to him. He was taken to the hospital. About 2 30 this morning. We are told he is doing okay. Great work. We want to thank all of our viewers for giving this hole day season our feed the need campaign ended this week and the final bag total topped 356,000. Thats more than 4 Million Pounds of food donated. Thank you again for your generosity. We really appreciated you guys coming out and help feed the need. Fantastic right righthander christmas kicking it off and people responding as they do. Again, yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you. Rob is here. We would be thankful if you would Say Something other than dry conditions. Hazy skies, beautiful sunset. With you we need the rain. It could come back. And right now everyone will be happy with the pleasen forecast ahead and rain coming back in the sevenday forecast as well coming up. Plus the north bay wildfires destroyed her home. Now she gets a unique opportunity to be involved in a new years tradition seen across the country. Well explain next. For many people who lost their homes in the north bay fires, it s been a very tough holiday season. So many lives va too many people who oh lots homes in the bay area fires. So many neighborhoods burned to the ground. But one victim battling through the obstacles and putting talents to work for the national stage. Anser hassan has the story. We looked out. We live in a little court. The entire sky was glowing oregon. Reporter thats how october 9th started for this family. Like so many weigh up in the middle of the night to a city on fire. This is whats left. Its been a tough holiday living in temporary housing instead of the family home which she loved to decorate sometimes up to five Christmas Trees. She works for kaiser and remembers the Kaiser Hospital in santa rosa having to be evacuated. Then came an opportunity to help decorate the Kaiser Permanente float that will be in the rose parade. Still have some slots open before i close the lottery are you interested . I said pencil me in. Instead of ornament she will work with sculpted fruits and flowers decorating the 50foot long float. She will spend the day with her daughter down south working on the floats along with hundreds of other volunteers. The family was absolutely mom this is your wheel house you have to do this. Thats one happy mom np a north bay kaiser physician who helped evacuate patients from the santa rosa hospital will be honored as one of eight to ride on the fleet. The float is on new years day. Thaens, anser. On the most recent trip to the Grocery Store a woman picked up more than groceries. The store in fresno worked into a hospital room when she went into labor. Store employees helped with the delivery. The bumper took off the apron and wrapped the baby in the apron. We ran this way, me and baby. I seen the baby coming out. I bring the cook bring some sister. And she was like from where. Im like i dont know just bring the scissors. She used those to cut the cord. The owner visited the mom and baby in the hospital. Doing well. Whats cool about being born in a Grocery Store. Everything is there. Scissors, towels, water. Everything you need. Right. And thank goodness the people knew what to do. Very calm. Amazing how many people know how to do that. But checking the forecast you know thats well. Weve been copying and piecing most of the month. Youll be happy with the dry weather in the upcoming weekend. Look at the temperatures. Those are highs and focus on our friends in chicago, new york, even down into texas. By new years day youre talking temperatures below freezing from dallas northward up into canada. You see the area of oregon thats High Pressure keeping is warm and unusually dry across california in desert southwest. Temperatures wz something to be thankful for. But rain lurking off shore more of that showing up in the 7day forecast. San francisco right now 54 degrees clear sky. Not much fog now. But we may see patches around sand rafael tomorrow. Currently a chilly 54s 45. And san jose pb hazy skies. Again three spare the air days in a row coming up. Starting tomorrow. Combine was strong High Pressure no allows the winds to scoot the smoke out and not bringing any rain through monday. Not much change just fog and high clouds through the afternoon. 30s, lower 30s, patchy frost possible around santa rosa. 48 in San Francisco and 39 in san jose. But the interesting part of the weather tomorrow, just how warm is it getting in the south bay in south of downtown, san jose, upper 60s maybe even low sefrts. If that happens that could be close to record highs. Average highs this time of year midto upper 50s. Instead upper 60s around pleasanton. Low 60s from oakland into hayward. Temperatures also climbing into the low 60s. Just a little bit of patchy fog possible for the morning. San francisco close to 60 for friday afternoon. And north bay temperatures into the low 60s. Now about the changes you see at the bottom of the screen. We will be seeing at least an increasing chance of rain starting up around wednesday of next week. Both on the long range weather model agree on this seeing a chance of rain coming in maybe. 1 maybe. 5 of an inch. We are talking rain chances here with temperatures in the 60s. What that means for the sierra is likely snow levels initially are fairly high. Maybe close to 7,000 feet. But gun thats better nan the very dry december we have seen so far. Right now it looks like next wednesday through friday presents the best chance of snow showers. Maybe a half foot or so above 7,000 feet. Hopefully more systems to come to add to the sierra snow pack which statewide as of today only 27 of average. Hopefully that changes up. The Holiday Weekend one system clips by. High Pressure Holding on for new years eve and new years day. But well have clouds passing over the bay area. Then the middle part of next week the high weakens. We have the system crossing from wednesday into thursday. Then we think maybe another one can follow as we head into the first weekend of january. So as things look right now we see a chance of showers showing up towards the middle part of next week as we enjoy warm temperatures here. Especially as we match the nightly news casts have that temperatures in Single Digits for the upcoming Holiday Weekend. We have numbers in the 60s, a dry finish to 2017 but very hopeful the midweek change includes a pattern shift back into more typical weather for this time of year which also means better air quality too. More wind and rain helping out with that. Hope that comes in thanks so much, rob. Good news for the warrior. Steph curry ready to come back. The latest on his return to the court up next. At the xfinity sports desk, if you look at the warrior 9 High Pressure 1 record for the last ten games you wouldnt no steph curry has been out with a sprained ankle but he has. Well we have good news. Yes he practiced with the team today. And he might look good. Because the team expects him back on the court this saturday against the grizzlies. However the warriors ruled curry out for tomorrows game against the hornettes. The golden state doesnt want to rush him back so he will be reevaluate o evaluated a third time friday morning. The head coach snows steph wants to get back on the court asap. I doubt he will play tomorrow with a backtoback. It doesnt make much sense. But he wants to. But i would say its more likely that he plays saturday. If all goes well, i expect him to play saturday. But even if it goes well, i would not expect him to play tomorrow. In baseball new as trial date fors catcher Bruce Maxwell scheduled for april. Now maxwell was arrested in photograph and charged with gratified assault with a Deadly Weapon and disorderly conduct. His next Court Appearance is scheduled for january 29th. Now if he doesnt settle the case before trial he could miss time with the team. The as report to spring training in midfebruary with opening day march 29th at home. Versus the angels. The now the sharks host calgary on nbc sports california. The pregame starts at 7 00 with the puck dropping at 7 30 make sure you tune in. Well have highlights at 11 00. Thats it for sports. See you soon. Thanks. Okay lets get one last check of the forecast we have now rain on the extended forecast. Probably the warmest day of the week tomorrow. Especially for the south bay san jose, 67, maybe close to 70 in a few spots. The issue with the dry weather wsh spare the air days. We have one tomorrow and its carrying through sunday and then new years day we got temperatures in the mid60s still inland. The change we are watching closely next wednesday, thursday and friday rain chances making a comeback which will include air quality and hopefully drop more snow senators sierra moving to 2018. People coming back from the threeday ski weekend will have an easy go. Travel is fine here. Other than patchy fog. Bigger issues east of the rockies. The arctic blast. Thanks so much, rob. And thanks for joining us. Be back at 11 00. Hope you can join us then. Bye. Announcer now on extra Jennifer Lopez and kim kardashian. Is it a video . Yes. Why am i always doing that in a individual jo . 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