Im marcus washington. Meteorologist kari hall is tracking the forecast. What can we expect today . Its going to be a chilly morning, but overall a really nice and comfortable afternoon. We are starting out a little bit cooler today. Take some time to get out there and enjoy the fall colors because tomorrow well see the cold front arriving and some showers late tomorrow evening but the weekend is looking pretty nice once that rain moves out. So ill detail that with the timeline coming up in a few minutes. Mike, any issues for the Early Morning commute . You know, things changed, kari. I had an issue to report. I circled where the crash just was removed from northbound 101 at the old oakland off ramp and a live look shows you no problems through the area. Very light traffic flow. The circled area now is not the problem, its opposite the arrow. Southbound and we now have reports of a disabled vehicle. Ill check that and a new crash in san leandro, marcus. Two things to update. Back to you. A Pivotal Moment in president elects joe bidens transtigz the white house. He has selected ron klaain as chief of staff and voicing new concerns about President Trump cleaning house at the pentagon. Some fear his decisions may threaten national security. Today in the bay tracie potts live in washington with a closer look at what is at stake. Tracie . Laura and marcus, some experts fear that those two things the changes at the pentagon and the president s refusal to accept the president ial results are linked. Mark me down as alarmed. Reporter military and Intelligence Experts say theyre concerned about President Trump replacing defense secretary mark esper and other pentagon officials with loyalists. This is just a tantrum of a president trying to accommodate himself to the outcome of the elections. This is some crazy thinking going on inside that white house. We are in a risky situation right now. Theyre doing russia and irans work for them. Reporter on capitol hill one republican says hell act to ensure president elect joe biden starts getting confidential daily briefings. If thats not occurring by friday, i will step in. Reporter the Trump Campaign continues to pursue lawsuits and recounts. Georgia is reviewing every ballot by hand. This will help build confidence. Reporter biden leads georgia by 14,000. In pennsylvania, the trump team is challenging 10,000 ballots that arrived after election day. Biden is winning there by more than 50,000. Meantime, the president elect is filling his administration naming longtime aide ron klain as white house chief of staff and considering rival Bernie Sanders as labor secretary. Tracie potts, nbc news. In the meantime, some bay area Trump Supporters not quite ready to let go of their beliefs the president won this election. They rallied last night in danville. Many gathering at the same spot since september. Some neighbors hope theyd let up once biden won the race. When they were doing it before the election is fine, but its over. A ton of mailin fraudulent ballots and whether its 3 million, 4 million, 5 million, i dont know what the number is. Its a huge number. Again across the country, so far no evidence of widespread fraud has emerged. Covid19 spreading at an alarming rate across the United States with another singleday record set yesterday surpassing 144,000. The situation also worsening in california. Recent case rates hold, we should top the 1 million mark today. Right now its at 996,000. Texas crossed that 1 million mark earlier this week. At the same time, new hope a vaccine will become available soon. Teams are planning the best way to distribute and store the potential lifesaving serum. See Cierra Johnson is live and talk about the role Northern California can play if and when this vaccine is approved. This week that pfizer announced that they have created a vaccine that has a 90 effective rate against preventing covid19 and local Health Officials right now are working to figure out their role in that and how they would and how and where they would store those drugs. Now, the vaccine as it is right now requires it to be stored in specialized low Temperature Freezers to maintain its effectiveness. According to the sacramento bee, uc davis not only has compatible freezers but also looking to buy more. Uc davis has been involved in the trials of the vaccine. They have a team of more than 200 volunteers that are all part of a larger pfizer trial. That article reveals that Sutter Health has acquired 15 fwrereez that can store 15 to 30,000 doses and some are portable for those popup vaccination clinics. Kaiser is also involved in trials. The hospital is involved in trials for pfizer and moderna. Making progress in an address to the nation the other day, yesterday rather. Dr. Anthony fauci said moderna will have phase three results in a week. Now, in regard to modernas vaccine, when that data on its effectiveness is available, he believes modernas effectiveness is that of pfizer. Some good news there. Also coming up this morning on today show Gabe Gutierrez will take us to Johnson Johnson where theyre doing some really innovative things with their vaccine. Thats coming up after this on today show. Were live in San Francisco, Cierra Johnson for today in the bay. Okay. Thank you. A follow up for you this morning one week after reopening the Santa Cruz Beach boardwalk has, once again, closed. Those rides and attractions were only open for the locals and this week the county went back into the red tier meaning restrictions have tightened. Some of those Outdoor Games and food and shopping areas will remain open. Some bay area restaurants are hoping people decide to preorder their meals to help provide a boost during the pandemic. Pedros is one of them. For the first time it is offering a nine course takeout dinner to try to make up for lost sales. This should help basically the business to help our people that need jobs and to helping everybody. Many restaurants are pivoting like top of the mark in San Francisco, which had to cancel reservations for thanksgiving night because Indoor Dining is now off limits. Instead, it will offer takeout. Happening today, two different food give aways in San Francisco. The Salvation Army will hand out food and masks to the homeless at the light center and glide Memorial Church will hand out food, Disaster Ready guides and both events start at 11 00 a. M. And we all can help those in need right now. Were actually keeping and really a tradition alive. Were kicking off our annual food drive with safeway so the next time youre at safeway, donate 10. This is to make a difference in our community. That 10 really goes a long way for local food banks. They certainly could need the help. Certainly your heart goes out to the homeless right now because were experiencing these cold temperatures. Absolutely. And we are starting out in some spots down into the 30s this morning. So, we are going to have more of these chilly mornings ahead and then some rain. Were watching out for that, as well, as we head out to work this morning around the east bay. Temperatures at 37 degrees in the next hour, but it gradually warms up today. Well have a much more comfortable afternoon with the sunshine and temperatures at 59 degrees in the east bay at noon and looking at our highs today in oakland reaching 62 and well see some low 60s for the south bay and expect a high of 60 today in clear lake. Well talk more about that weekend rain coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking for the commute right now . Yeah, kari, well look at the bottom of the screen. If youre driving through san jose specifically, ill note the crash left some debris. The sensors not showing any slowing and no problems there. That was earlier crash you mentioned. One of two. Now, the second crash is going on in san leandro. Actually affecting folks from oakland through san leandro and south 880 to connect you to south 238 may be affected by a crash there. No slowing shows up but be careful if thats your route heading into the trivalley against that direction of 580. No backup at the toll plaza and little fog in the north bay and no problems there in novato. Back to you. All right, sounds good, mike. Thanks. 5 10 right now. Rolling out a return plan for a concert comeback. Next on today in the bay the big changes you could expect from ticketmaster when Live Performances resume again with crowds. Today was supposed to be the last day of tiktok. Doesnt seem like time is running out. Well explain why. Plus. Talk about bad. When i say bad, i mean good. Billie eilish breaking records. The big milestone and the most popular alternative rock superstar. 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We are going to have some rain moving in, but this may not spoil your weekend outdoor plans. Well talk about that coming up in a few minutes. Kari, just like you, i watch things develop and or clear. Well take a look at the san mateo bridge where i saw something was developing with flashing lights just after the toll plaza. Those flashing lights stop flashing and good news for 92 heading over towards the peninsula. Those tail lights. Look at the headlights coming southbound through fremont. No problem. Easy drive through here and calm conditions. There will be some road work and patches throughout the nimtiz but no slowing. Well, good morning and very happy thursday to you, as well. You know, today was supposed to be the deadline for tiktok to sell itself to an American Company or face shutdown. Now, we know that wont happen today because one judge has already blocked it but bytedance is back in court asking the deadline be thrown out entirely. The Company Claims its having trouble talking to government regulators saying it seems like they have lost interest in the whole thing. Originally, the Trump White House had ordered the sale of tiktok saying it was worried the social network was sharing user data with the chinese intelligence agencies, thats something that bytedance denies. Sony playstation 5 goes on sale today. Unlikely youll walk into a store and buy one. Pretty much sold out. The new xbox went on sale earlier this week. I know laura has an upicadate o that coming up. The markets may take a pause today after a long string of runups. It moved higher after move of several successes in the race for vaccines. This morning a top biden adviser is talking about another shutdown to beat the virus. President trump used to say we would know we done had a good job holding the virus in check if we keep the number of americans dead between 100,000 and 240,000. We just passed 240,000 and the situation is getting much worse. 8,049 americans have died from coronavirus since election day. We get firsttime jobless claims today. Thats not unrelated. We get those at 5 30 this morning our time. Google says Unlimited Storage on Google Photos will end next summer. If you go over 15 gigabytes starting next june. You can store about 33,000 normal pictures that way. Marks and laura, they have been promising this since the jets jetsons. Builders got the go ahead to build an airport ride share aircraft to take off and land nearly vertically. The car airplane has not been perfected yet. Remember when we were kids the flying taxi and the jetpack and video phone calls. Now, we did get video phone calls. We have those now. Kind of doing one right now. Yeah. Jetsons right here. Meet george jetson. Thanks. Ill be judy. 5 17 right now. Scott mentioned xbox. Heres the news. Theyre issuing an alert to customers as a way to get ahead of a series of memes posted by people using the newest gaming console. It shows the console billowing out smoke but microsoft issued a post saying not to blow smoke into their new consoles. No reports of fires. Wow. You know what, ticketmaster is working right now on plans to keep concertgoers safe once the vaccine arrives. Fans will have to prove they have been vaccinated or tested negative 24 hours prior to that event. The customers status would then appear on the ticketmaster app to show when to enter the venue. Trending this morning, Billie Eilishs chart topping hit bad guy the song just reached 1 billion views on youtube. The first track to join the list of music videos to hit that billion mark. I love that song. I do, too. I remember when i didnt know the song. Who is this billie girl . Who is she . Like written at home with her brother. Amazing. They still live in this little house. Its great. Also trending from mad man and music videos. Jon hamm stars in a new video for we are all right again. I think were all right it looks like hamm is so into the song he doesnt even realize that theres some mad men behind him. Kind of cool. Stealing his painting. I like that album cover right there. What album is that . Probably like a classic album and i dont know what it is. What album . Im just looking at jon hamm. Can we just keep that up all morning. Well, okay. To be honest, laura, were all just looking at jon hamm. Well, you know what, kari is keeping her eye on that forecast this morning. How is it looking, kari . It is cold this morning. You guys are probably feeling it right now. And were much cooler this morning compared to yesterday morning with our temperatures starting out in the upper 30s and low 40s. So, were dropping back, once again. And then as we go into today here we are at noontime going into the lunch hour and well feel those temperatures mostly in the upper 50s and low 60s. It is going to be very much like yesterday and a lot more sunshine and it will be slightly warmer in a few spots as we reach into the low 60s for the south bay and then if youre planning to head out for a walk around sunset, its going to be starting to cool off once again. So, youll need a jacket as we come back to the 40s by late tonight. So, were going to have another cool morning tomorrow but then we get ready for some rain to move in. Now, this rain will start to move from north to south and by tomorrow afternoon. Now, the system has kind of slowed down a bit and were watching that, as well as what is going on with eta making its landfall for the fourth time in florida and parts of the gulf and caribbean. This is still a very active system. Well be watching filling up your social media feeds and also talking about this rain moving in by tomorrow. Starting to see those showers moving in during the afternoon. Here we are at 2 30, 3 00. Were starting to see the rain moving in, but this will not be a big weathermaker. It brings in a quick round of some showers late tomorrow night and then it clears out for the rest of the weekend as we are getting ready for some more nice weather. In terms of how much rain we could see, a lot of our rainfall totals will be very light. Mostly at about a tenth or quarter of an inch and then next week we have another shot of heavier rain and looking forward to that all next tuesday and wednesday that could bring a pretty good soaker. So, well of course have more updates on that. Mike, what is the update on the morning commute . Kari, well take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza because at 5 21, we should be seeing more volume of traffic and nothing major and no brakes tapping. Just for safety sake as you travel through the more narrow toll plaza there. No problems on the incline. As we look at the map, the slowing doesnt show up yet and the incline getting across towards San Francisco and Contra Costa County looks great and the earlier crash cleared from 580 through oakland and we still have this one off the 880 connected at southbound 238 heading in towards the castro valley. No problems but watch that connecter and still crash activity there with major damage to one vehicle and not major injuries and nothing else major going on for your morning commute. Back to you. Two airlines, one refund and zero success getting it. Im consumer investigator chris chmura. A fewer takes it into her own hands. Thats next. First our team always on social media. Check this out of kris sanchez sharing a picture of her at home with her little coworker there, cole. We all love cole. Be sure to follow kris on instagram, facebook and twitter. 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