Good friday morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Of course vianey is in for mike but first lets get to the forecast. Kari hall is tracking that. And were starting out cold again this morning as we see mostly clear skies. Taking a look at what to expect as you head out the door. We have some freezing temperatures again in ukiah and clear lake. Most of the rest of the bay area in the upper 30s and lower 40s. And then after this chilly start once again well see the same weather weve seen all throughout the week where it warms up nicely for the rest of today and well enjoy some sunshine and light winds. Well talk about the fire danger ahead in the forecast coming up. Vianey, any issues for Early Morning commuters . It looks like overnight crashes have cleared up quite nicely leaving for pretty open space with the exception of a little bit of slowing along 280. Aside from that, though, it could be construction. I havent seen any reports of clearing crashes in the area. Take a look at the bay bridge. I just wanted to show this to you because it looks beautiful at night. You can see the traffic flowing along nicely. Ill have a closer look at how the rest of the bay area is doing. The drive times are up next. Thank you very much, vianey. Developments fast and furious on the vaccine front. Today marks the critical deadline to order the initial rounds of vaccine. California will receive somewhere north of 300,000 doses in its first shipment. Of course Senior Care Centers and Frontline Health workers are getting first priority. Pfizer, meantime, says it has a glitch in its Global Supply chain and only expects to deliver 50 million doses between now and new years day worldwide. Next year pfizer still hopes to ship more than 1 billion doses. Well, theres no denying the latest covid surge is unprecedented. As you can see right here, well, the current spike in Santa Clara County mirrors the state. Cases are higher than they ever were over the summer and has led to some south bay facilities suffering their first ever outbreaks. Amber wood gardens nursing home has more than 150 cases. The citys homeless shelter has seen a spike of 60 cases over the past week. Residents have been moved to hotel rooms. Due to those rising case as new stayathome order is likely and could start mid month and hinges on how many icu beds are available in each county. Once the county dips below 15 capacity that triggers a stayathome order. Santa clara county is at 17 . Sonoma county in rough shape, less than 1 capacity. At last check it only had three icu beds remaining. The governor broke the state into five regions the bay area, northern california, greater sacramento, san joaquin volley, and southern california. The bay area includes monterey and santa cruz counties. The governor says some regions could get shut down in just a day or two. Business owners in the east bay are bracing for another round of closures. The shutdowns would include hair salons, bars and restaurants. Frustration in the Small Business community there is mounting. If thats the case i probably have to lay off most of my people again and its christmastime. No fun for them or anybody. But situations seem dire. These Small Businesses arent the problem. Outdoor dining isnt the issue. Its the people acting a fool out there that arent taking care of themselves and the people close to them. The Alameda CountyHealth Department has put businesses and people who live there on notice. A victory for california churches. The Supreme Court has ordered a lower federal court to reexamine the states covid restriction on church services. This comes in the wake of high courts narrowly siding with churches and synagogues in new york. And it means attorneys here will seek an Immediate Court order to allow indoor worship to resume. Some believe the reversal may happen here before christmas. Others argue that new yorks ruling sprang from a far different set of circumstances than those here in california. B. A. R. T. Just finalized new deals with its three largest unions. It ensures no messy strikes for at least the next three and a half years, some critics question the timing of those new deals especially in light of b. A. R. T. Hemorrhaging tens of millions of dollars talking about early retirement not to mention possible layoffs. B. A. R. T. Does point out salary hikes are strictly tied to higher ridership numbers. Rent is plummeting in the bay area. It looked at the biggest cities in the nation and found rent is dropping for both one and twobedroom apartments. Since the beginning of the pandemic until now rent has dropped around 25 in San Francisco. According to a report San Francisco had the biggest plunge in the nation. In san jose rent dropped about 14 and in the east bay more than a 13 drop in oakland. Okay, here we go, team. It is friday morning. Obviously very early, but were going to get through it this morning. A chilly start once again, kari. Yeah, weve had these dry weather conditions. I wanted to show you whats coming down the line, something were watching as we go into the weekend. Well have a cold front coming in. It looks like the rain dries up before it gets here. There will be a slight chance we could see spotty sprinkles in parts of the north bay between saturday night and sunday and then back to dry weather as we go into early next week. Now were also watching out for the potential of some high winds especially going into sunday night and monday. And that is when we could see the winds picking up. Well be watching the north bay because there will be a high fire danger coming along with those winds. So ill talk about the Drought Conditions that were seeing right now. The time line and how we are going to really have to keep a close eye on the forecast going into early next week. Vianey has been watching the roads this morning. Any new issues popping up . No new issues which is something we like to hear in the Traffic Department because usually overnight we get a couple of fender benders and it looks like they have cleared out. Aside from that, though, im noticing a little bit of that slowing from san jose heading to palo alto. I have not been able to pinpoint what it is. Lets take a look at some of the bridge drive times. Westbound 580 to the Richmond Bridge seven minutes. Westbound 82 to the san mateo bridge only 12 minutes. So no major slowdowns at this hour. Marcus, ill send it over to you. Thanks, vianey. 4 37 this morning. Testing positive, still ahead the second covid case governor Gavin Newsoms team is dealing with this morning. Plus, queue up the christmas cheer. The big spike in fresh tree sales so far this year. 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Right now at 4 40 as you head out the door in the east bay were starting out with some mostly clear conditions, but take a look at how cold its going to be as youre driving to work, upper 30s. Turn on the heater in the car. We wont need the heater later today as the sun warms us up. Well talk about what were watching for the weekend coming up. If youre driving in from the trivalley, lets take a look at the drive times for you that morning, westbound 580 to 680 looking at 18 minutes. Southbound 680 only about a tenminute commute. Westbound 84 to 680 about eight minutes. A full traffic report coming up in a few minutes. Frank . Good morning. Im Frank Holland from cnbc. The markets are set for a positive open as investors await the november jobs report. Key engaging the recovery of the labor market as we see rising cases of covid19. Major averages cut gains the final hour of trading after reports saying pfir is dialing back its covid19 vaccine rollout plan for this year due to supply chain issues. Important to note cnbc and other outlets are pushing back on that report. Following a nearly twoyear investigation the department of justice at facebook, the social media giant discriminated against u. S. Workers by reserving positions for temporary visa holders between 2018 and september of 2019. The suit alleges that facebook did not consider qualified and available u. S. Workers for more than 2,600 positions with an average salary of 156,000. A facebook spokesperson says the company has been cooperating with the review but disputes the allegations in the complaint. Retail remembers seeing a spike in Christmas Tree sales as americans are forced to stay closer to home this Holiday Season. Christmas tree sales are up 29 so far in 2020 according to a survey. Evercorp found consumers are spending on larger, more expensive trees. The impact on businesses and the economy overall. Marcus and laura, over to you. I hope your trees are up and decorated already. Lauras is. Mine is right behind me. Im living through laura. Through the window. Not the kind of vicarious living we do. If you need somebody to put the star on top of the tree, marcus can just grab it and put it. Im always here to help. I can only decorate the tree so high. Thanks so much. Thanks, frank. Have a great one. You, too. All right, well, it doesnt look like december just yet. Coming up next on today in the bay the flames that had firefighters scrambling amid the ongoing pandemic. The extra charges that will soon be coming to your pg e bill and why the utility is making the change. 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. 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A beautiful newscast. Look at that, laura, vianey and meteorologist kari hall with a look at all that forecast for you today. Well, we have a lot were watching even though the weather has been quiet and weve had the pattern thats just been repeating every day. Were going to see that continue today with a chilly morning and overall a nice and sunny afternoon. By tomorrow well start to see more clouds moving in and the chance we could see some spotty light rain moving in for the north bay. After that well have to watch out for a high fire danger and that increases as we get gusty winds and dry conditions continuing. Lets get you through today. I know youre just trying to make it through home schooling on this friday in the south bay. San jose is going to see those temperatures in the 50s and by about 10 00 this morning were at 54 degrees and reaching into the mid60s. Let the kids run around in the backyard and play and enjoy this nice day. We are once again looking at some changes as we start to see this weather system coming in that will bring in more clouds tomorrow and then the models are putting down just a little bit of light rain. Doesnt look like a big weather maker here but it is good to at least see the increase in humidity and moisture for parts of the north bay thats been critically dry dealing with an extreme drought at this point and the models are only showing a very light amount of rain, the potential of a few hundredths of an inch up to a tenth around ukiah. We do see the extreme Drought Conditions for all of these areas shaded in red and that includes much of the north bay and then it gets a little bit less dry as you head down to the Central Coast and southern california. Now that we are seeing the moderate Drought Conditions, the fire danger will increase with the breezy winds, warm temperatures and looking at still the fire danger continuing into next week. Thats what well be watching as we go into monday, possibly a red flag warning issued in the month of december. Of course well have more updates on that. Youll be watching that over the week, vianey. What are you watching on the roads . I will. Definitely something to look out for there. I was going to say were all clear on the road, but this map does update live and a new crash just popped up near the milpitas area. Ill check out the chp reports and see what thats about. You can see the little icon near milpitas. Ill check in on that and given you an update as soon as i know more information. I have a look at your south bay drive times, northbound 101 from highway 85. 18 minutes. And northbound 85 from higayhw 101 in san jose youre oy looking at 19 minutes. I will check in on that crash and have an update in just a few minutes. Laura . Developing this morning strong winds are fueling an outofcontrol wildfire in southern california. The bond fire started from a house fire on wednesday in orange countys silverado canyon. Its exploded burning some 6,500 acres. Several communities have been evacuated and two firefighters were injured. Theyre now in the hospital. The fire is about 10 contained. Power is also out for about 50,000 homes due to high fire danger. Back here in the bay area get ready to pay a lot more money for your power bill, a new pg e hike set to take effect in march. Average monthly household bill will rise about 8 or more than 13. Over the year thats an additional 150 or so. Pg e says that money will go to improvements to hel lower wildfire risk. New detailsn the quake storm going on in central nevada weve been telling y aboou. 150 miles southeast of reno. We did some digging and scientists believe a 6. 5 quake back in m. I. A. Be the reason for all of this activity now. Since that quake struck some 6,500 aftershocks and this is the same fault system that includes the ridge crest area in southern california. You may recall 7. 1 quake there last year triggered a lot of aftershocks. Peninsula voters came out stronger than they have in 50 years. The nine bay area counties this weeks final election results. 380,000 people voted in san mateo county, a hair under 86 voter turnout which is its highest since 1968 and about five Percentage Points above its typical president ial turnout. Nearly 4 Million People voted in the election. The chronicle reporting a massive edd fraud ring busted in the south bay. This started last month with a burglary arrest at the larksburg hotel. Stolen credit cards and personal data were discovered. More than 100 victims have been identified and thousands may have been targeted. Five suspects are accused of stealing more than 1 million in benefits. Another staffer in the Governors Office has tested positive, the second known case. Governor newsoms case says it involves someone working remotely for several weeks who never came into contact with the governor. The first family is still in quarantine after three of the governors quarantine came into contact with someone who later tested positive. After being kicked out due to covid the 49ers already seem comfy in their new home away from home practicing for the first time near cardinals home base in phoenix. Theyre right next to state farm dome this is where theyre going to play three of the next four games. Santa clara county gave the 49ers the boot when they banned Contact Sports for at least the next three weeks. The niners play buffalo monday night. Looking for something to binge watch this Holiday Season . The show most californians searched for on christmas day. Plus, helping children. You can help the big guy at the north pole fulfill a childrens special christmas wish. Happening now for you the breaking news this morning. Law enforcement sources confirm to our new york city affiliate three u. S. Marshals were shot early this morning in the bronx. It happened as they tried to arrest a man wanted for the shooting of a massachusetts state trooper. During a traffic stop last month, who was actually shot in the hand. The marshals shot this morning were all expected to survive. They did shoot and critically injure the suspect. 4 53. Welcome back. One of the Postal Services favorite holiday traditions returns today, operation santa. Because, really, santa has a tough time handling all those letters sent to the north pole. Some families can probably use the help. Usps customers can go online, adopt one of the many letters sent to santa and help fulfill some of the holiday wishes. All of the adoptions are online this year and lists must be submitted by december 15th. To find out more visit the usps website. Trending for you this morning 21 days away from christmas. Can you believe that . You know what, people, already starting to think about being together and watching some favorite tv shows. Thats right. So can you guess what people in california watched when they hunker down for the holid