The Scotts Valley City Council voted unanimously to ratify an emergency declaration following Saturday's tornado damage. The council also appointed their city manager as the new director of emergency services and disaster recovery.

"I declared an emergency as part of the tornado in order to help the city recover and seek state assistance in order to help pay for that recovery cost," Scotts Valley City Manage

The tornado never touched down in San Francisco. But the conditions in the atmosphere with wind speed and direction were right, said Brian Garcia, warning coordination meteorologist for National Weather Service in the Bay Area. “San Francisco got lucky,” he said.

He’s smart, well-spoken, part of the MAGA movement.” The Duke and Duchess of Sussex included their kids front and center in this year’s holiday card Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas offered a possible explanation for the recent uptick of drone encounters along the Eastern Seaboard—particularly in the skies above New Jersey—which have prompted concern among residents and lawmakers.

A Cal Fire firefighter who got caught in the middle of that rare tornado in Scotts Valley Saturday says he’s lucky to be alive and says the first thing he thought about was his weeks-old baby girl.