A very good morning to you. It is friday. Oh, my goodness. Its friday the 13th, too. You know what, its friday. Good morning. Im laura garcia. Friday the 13th in the year 2020, uhoh. Dont laugh. What could go wrong . Hmm. Lets get a look at the forecast for you that morning. Kari, what do you have for us . I think its good luck that we are seeing some rain moving into the bay area and this is not a particularly strong storm. We are looking at light rain to the north of us that will be moving from north to south. As we go into the rest of today right now we have storm ranger tracking it. Our mobile Doppler Radar. Showing very light rain up around parts of lake and mendocino counties. So far the bay area is dry as you head out the door. Some of that rain moving through lakeport and clear lake and that will be moving in for the rest of the day. Were going to have some scattered showers moving from north to south today. The weekend, sunny and mild conditions by the end of the weekend into early next week. We warm up and will be tracking more rain. Ill have more on that in a few minutes. Whats going on with the commute . Kari, your typical overnight lighter traffic flow will be the case as we look at your map of green sensors dominating the view. Ill zoom in to the south bay. Northbound 101 right at the 880 overcross or the interchange, i should say. Theres a minor crash. No major injuries but it will be a distraction northbound at the arrow. Further south story road near the off ramp, an encampment with a fire. You see those during colder weather, nothing out of control. An easy drive on the travel times over to the bay bridge. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. More restrictions go into effect today as the bay area continues to deal with the spike in covid19 cases. Businesses across Contra Costa County are scaling back following the county regressing into the red tier. The capacity of many indoor businesses from 50 to 25 or 100 people, whichever is fewer. Gyms must return to 10 of their maximum indoor capacity. Meanwhile, starting at midnight, no more Indoor Dining at San Francisco. That decision made by mayor london breed earlier this week due to the increase of infections within the city. Meanwhile alameda, napa and Solano County officials are warning that if recent increases continue all three would regress into the more restrictive tiers. Alameda is in the orange tier and Health Leaders warn moving into the red is not out of the question when it comes to the state when it makes rulings next week. Solano county, a regression would be back into the purple tier, the states most restrictive tier. Officials warn with the increase thats going on right now going back into the red or even purple tier is a possibility. San francisco taking new steps as it prepares for students to return to the classroom amid this pandemic. According to the examiner starting monday the city plans to deploy 20 disaster workers to help Public Schools access buildings for inperson learning. The workers will look at any repairs that need to be completed before some students return on january 25th. When it comes to making it in the bay the south bay appears to be the exception rather than the rule when it comes to lower rent in big cities. As you probably heard cities across america including San Francisco and oakland are seeing the largest drop in rent prices. According to the new Apartment List study reported by the mercury news san jose is experiencing only a 6 rent decrease. This while surrounding suburbs including mountain view, sunnyvale, santa clara have rent drops at 1 . Some may have to do with Silicon Valley companies allowing more work from home during the pandemic. And new for you this morning today is your chance to support San Francisco opera and look mighty fine doing so. Yeah, i love this one. The opera is selling more than 500 costumes worn in productions of the merry widow among others. They run from 75 to 1,000 but all the proceeds will support the operas operating expenses and young artist development. We decided to do a virtual sale. This sale is held completely online and people can go to our website and not try them on but with measurements they can find costumes that will be their size. Isnt that cool . The online sale starts at 11 00 a. M. And will end on sunday. Could have a grand gown by next monday. Happening today if youre feeling a little superstitious this friday the 13th, it might be a good day for a visit to the winchester house. All decked out in Christmas Decorations right now. You can take a candlelight tour or a holiday theme tour of the mansions. Reservations are required and, of course, like everywhere the Covid Protocols are in place but tickets are on sale now. That sounds like your cup of tea, marcus. It is. Take a look at this right here as you make those weekend plans you might need to plan ahead. Our Storm Tracker putting in that work tracking the incoming rain. A live look for you outside in san jose and San Francisco, all clear right now. Meteorologist kari hall is timing out when we could see the rain and, kari, i have my umbrella on standby. When do i need to pull it out . Youll need it later on today in the south bay. Lets get a look at storm ranger and what were showing now, a lot of that rain still well to the north of us and it is light and spotty. Thats about what were expecting here as we go through the time line. Were going to take it through late morning into the afternoon and here we are at 12 30 just starting to see light showers making it into parts of northern sonoma and napa counties and then at 5 00 right in the middle of the evening commute were seeing that rain coming through so make sure your windshield wipers are ready as you head home. Well talk more about this and how much rain you can expect and sierra snow. Well talk about that in a few minutes. Mike, anything going on for the commute . Kari, we have just your typical overnight road crew which i thought was causing the slowing. Now we also have a crash. A look at the map shows you scattered smaller incidents. 880 we are seeing slowing. Again, i thought it was for the crew approaching 23rd and 29th that stretches both directions. Northbound around high street just before the Construction Zone theres a crash that may be blocking the fast lane as well. The vehicle reported in the fast lane trying to get to the center divide. Chp should get more detail and hopefully you see that clear but well track that and the bay bridge no problems it at the toll plaza. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. Travelers beware. Next on today in the bay the California City now issuing new warnings ahead of the holiday season. The impact it could have on your travel plans. Plus, the airline now planning to start phasing out blocked seats on those flights. Well talk about it. A hundredyear comet. Did i miss it . But you cant sleep through my breakfast. Because its served all day, every day thanks, jack. Try my 4. 99 french toast sticks jumbo breakfast platter. Part of my all day, everyday breakfast. Less oral steroids. Taking my treatment at home. Nucala is a oncemonthly addon injection for severe eosinophilic asthma. Not for sudden breathing problems. Allergic reactions can occur. Get help right away for swelling of face, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing. Infections that can cause shingles have occurred. Dont stop steroids unless told by your doctor. Tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. May cause headache, injection site reactions, back pain, and fatigue. Ask your doctor about nucala at home. Find your nunormal with nucala. Ask your doctor sfx turkey gobbleome. Sfx dog bark sfx bubbles give thanks, no matter how you share it. Tv this is the greatest play ive ever seen whatd i miss . But you cant sleep through my breakfast. Because its served all day, every day thanks, jack. Try my 4. 99 french toast sticks jumbo breakfast platter. Part of my all day, everyday breakfast. Right now at 4 40 lets get you out the door in the north bay. Its a dry commute for most of us. Temperatures are still cool. Mostly in the low 40s and some clouds. We should start to see the rain reaching santa rosa at about 10 00 to 11 00. Well talk about the rest of the time line and the rest of the bay area coming up. And were looking at the slower drive. The problem is northbound 880 over in oakland we have this crash approaching high street. I still see slowing. Chp has given me more details. Its right in the Construction Zone. 880 from fremont moves very smoothly. An easy drive here. No problem. Well update you. Good morning. Im Bertha Coombs with your cnbc business headlines. Stocks set to open higher following yesterdays selloff as investors continue to grapple with the rising number of coronavirus cases and another potential slowdown of the economy. The dow dropping more than 200 points for a second straight decline. The s p 500 falling 100 wiping out all the gains for the week after stocks surged on positive vaccine news from pfizer on monday. Jay powell says the outlook for the economy remains uncertain in the next few months could be challenging. Today well be getting reports on Producer Prices and consumer sentiment. Jetblue is gradually phasing out blocked seats on flights and will make all available seats for sale after the Holiday Travel season. Jetblue says the decision follows a number of studies including one from Harvard School of Public Health that validates the safety of aircraft cabins. Jetblue will limit capacity for now to 85 between december 2nd and january 7th which is up from the current 70 cap. Thats going to allow extra holiday demand while allowing for space on planes. Paypal is now going to let users in the u. S. Buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency such as bit coin right from their account. The Company Announced last month the new feature was on its way and had done a limited rollout. Paypal is offering initial support for bitcoin, bitcoin cash and life point. It will expand the feature to venmo and let people use it in their paypal wallet. Marcus and laura, its tough to use bitcoin or currencies to shop. This could open up a whole new avenue. Im still weird about it. I dont know. I use venmo quite a bit to pay babysitters. I think marcus and i should venmo bertha so she and her husband can go to dinner out tonight. Or actually it can be delivered in. Yes. I got in trouble for that comment yesterday because one of my husbands friends actually saw the clip and figured, oh, no one is watching in the bay area. It got back to him. See, you never know who is watching. You are queen bertha. This is today in the bay, exactly. Well, and he is a prince because he always volunteers to go get it. A match made in heaven. Youve got a good one. Thanks, bertha. Have a great weekend. Hey, theres a new report out showing many Grocery Shoppers are spending extra cash during the pandemic. New Market Research reveals frozen entrees all seeing an uptick in sales. Report from data indicates shoppers are going for higher price items because they have more cash to spend since the pandemic has limited other activities. Instead of panic buying, its on the decline. Something trending for you that morning, its the cats meow. Great news for you pet lovers, you can translate what your furry friend is trying to say to you. Thats right. A former amazon engineer launched an app that claimed it can translate the cats meow into human speech called meow talk. It allows users to adjust the apps phrases to correspond to their specific cats meows. That will be interesting. Put it up against that commercial meow meow meow feed me and get away. It is a cat, after all. Hey, covid confusion next on today in the bay. Elon musk takes to twitter about recent covid19 tests. The concerns hes raising about their accuracy this morning. 4 45. Well be right back. We have the power to harness californias Abundant Solar and wind energy, but its not available all day long. Use less energy from 4 to 9 pm for a cleaner california. Gillette proglide and proglide gel. Five blades and a pivoting flexball designed to get virtually every hair on the first stroke, while washing away dirt and oil. So youre ready for the day with a clean shave and a clean face. Theres no bad time to start at amazon. I like the flexibility. It also allows for picking up shifts. Safety comes first, speed comes second. Safety. Safety. Safety. Were making sure that somebody is getting their very important items. It makes me very happy. It is 4 48 for you. Dark and early this morning. A live look out of walnut creek there. You can see the light flickering. Some cars on the road. You know what, its friday. If youre still in bed, stay there for a moment and keep watching us. Just stay in bed. Its friday the 13th, just stay in bed. That forecast some rain in sight for us, kari. Im planning for a really nice afternoon nap with some light rain coming down and it will be for most of us later today. Lets get a look at storm ranger, our mobile Doppler Radar tracking that rain and you can track it, too, if you have the nbc bay area app. You can zoom in, see storm ranger, and where you live. Im going to show you whats going on right now as we look at the light showers coming through the far north bay and were going to see in some of those spots a little bit of a wet morning but for most of us it wont arrive until the afternoon. This will keep the temperatures down as were going to see more clouds moving in, most of us in the upper 50s for today and then we start to see those showers developing to the north moving in. There may be a few areas especially along the coastline that will see heavier rain, but for most of us its going to be very light. Here we are at 5 00 and were starting to see the rain moving into parts of the peninsula and the east bay and kind of skipping around the south bay for the most part until after sunset and were also looking at some spots getting light amounts of rain. Other spots may not get much at all. This is a fairly weak system moving in and its going to clear out by tomorrow morning. Saturday and sunday are looking all dry for us. Some of the models are putting down anywhere from about a tenth to a quarter inch of rain. Coastal areas may see more as well as parts of the north bay. Up to half an inch of rain will be possible. As we head to the sierra, light snow for the week and the good news is we are seeing another system moving in next week. So even though this woen be a lot of snow we will have a another chance tuesday and wednesday. Were also going to see the chance of rain as we look at whats going on here, some upper 50s today but look at the warming well have between the weekend and early next week. Mike, you are tracking the commute. Anything new coming up on the report . Not new but more. More slowing. Over in oakland well look at the live camera we have. The coliseum area. You see that on the taillight section at the top. Things are bunching up around the high rise. Heading up to the Construction Zone. Theres also a crash blocking your fast lanes. Chp just arrived. The map will show you its only a short section with slowing for north 880. Those sensors are slow and that will cause the delay for folks traveling from hayward and san leandro. 580 is clear as they crash eastbound getting away from the bridge out of lanes. The rest of the bay a couple smaller incidents. No injuries for the crash in oakland but clear past high street, marcus. Back to you. Thanks, mike. As the clock ticks towards Scott Petersons death sentence retrial, attorneys on both sides will be in court for a limb hearing. The court is reconsidering his Death Penalty from 15 years ago in the killing of his wife laci and unborn son. Prosecutors say they will seek death again but there are still some issues they need to sort out in the filing. Presumably some of that may be sorted out today. This morning were getting a look at the wreckage following a deadly plane crash near los angeles. It happened near a residential area around noon yesterday. Investigators say a single engine cessna went down. It burst into flames. The fire burned two vehicles, damaged a third. One person was onboard and died. Still no word on their identity or the cause of that crash. Tesla ceo elon musk says he may or may not have covid. Heres the tweet saying that he tested positive twice and negative twice and its because it was rapid testing. Hes now getting a more definitive test. Right now he says hes experiencing cold like symptoms and in a tweet he says the whole thing is bogus, which is raising eyebrows. In the past hes been outspoken about the pandemic. The bay area idea of recommending a quarantine for those who travel over the thanksgiving holiday appears to be growing. About a week ago bay area Health Leaders started considering a regional advisory. They advise them to quarantine for two weeks after they return home to prevent a spike in cases. The l. A. Times reports Southern CaliforniaHealth Leaders are now considering recommending the same thing. New ideas to provoid a sense of normalcy as covid cases surge. The warriors want to test all fans at their games. Next on today in the bay what has to happen to make it a reality and would it actually work . Plus youre a tough guy like it really rough guy just cant get enough guy from setting records to releasing all new music, the new track Billie Eilish is sharing this morning. And happening now for you, thick mud and debris coating many villages in the philippines today after a typhoon caused extensive flooding that sent people fleeing to their roofs. Thousands have been rescued and waters have mostly receded. Officials said almost 2 million homes remain without power in the metro, manila and nearby provinces. Lets be honest. Quitting smoking is hard. Like, quitting every monday hard. Quitting feels so big. So try making it smaller, and youll be surprised at how easily starting small can lead to something big. Start stopping with nicorette. Welcome back to you. The warriors may have a way to more safely bring back fans. Its a pregame rapid covid testing game for fans who cant pretest at home. The team says theyve been working on the idea for months. Everyone admits and then the plan has a lot of hurdles to overcome. The stateoftheart chase center already has some advantages including the advanced air filtering system that may help bring back as many as 9,000 fans to games once the season begins. Thats 50 capacity. Trending this morning another act of kindness from actor donnie wahlberg. He left a big tip for a waitress in massachusetts. A copy of the receipt posted on facebook. He left a 2,020 tip for a meal just over 35. This is the second time so far here hes done this. Wow. Thats generosity. Nice. Trending this morning bad guy singer Billie Eilish is out with a new song and video. Take a listen. Her new single is called therefore i am. In the video shes running around an empty mall. She will be debuting the song live at the 2020 american mousse music awards this weekend. Cool. Another Big Development in the race for president. Up next on today in the bay, the state president elect joe biden just won overnight. Plus, having a tough time deciding what to do for the holidays, the new online tool that helps you calculate the risk of getting covid in a specific situation. We have the power to harness californias abundant wind and solar energy, but its not available all day long. Use less from 4 to 9 pm and we can protect california for generations to come. Sfx turkey gobble sfx dog bark sfx bubbles give thanks, no matter how you share it. Hes our president right now. Dont know if hell be president january 21st. The need to get full access. Right now at 5 00, rising transition tensions on capitol hill. President elect joe biden not yet receiving classified intelligence briefings. Our washington insider breaks down the new republican push to challenge all of that. And calculating your risk, an allnew tool that can help you track which covid hot spots to avoid this holiday season. Plus, rain returning to the bay area. Meteorologist kari hall is timing out when you may need to break out that umbrella and how long the wet weather will sck