A three alarm fire destroyed a home in San Francisco early this morning. KCBS Radio's Jennifer Hodges says one resident had to jump from a window to safety.

Starting today, cops will be back on public school campuses in Santa Rosa. KCBS radio's Matt Bigler reports from Santa Rosa where there's been a spike in violence at schools this year.

Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco is kicking off some of its holiday cheer, with volunteers today stuffing thousands of grocery bags to distribute later this week.

This is just one of the events the tenderloin-based non-profit has in store for the season, helping to keep the most vulnerable of us fed and warm all year long.

For more on this KCBS Radio's Margie Shafer spoke with Jean Cooper, Chief Finance and Operations officer at GLIDE.

More on the 3 alarm fire in with San Francisco Fire Spokesman Lt. Mariano Elias. 

The sports world was buzzing when the two-time American League M-V-P Shohei Ohtani announced he accepted a record breaking 700 million dollar, 10-year contract with LA Dodgers. This ended months of speculation about where the two-way superstar would go ahead of November 2nd...when he would leave the Angles and become a free agent.

For more, KCBS' Liz Saint John spoke to Lauren Anderson, Director of the Warsaw Sports Business Center at University of  Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business.

If you're a frequent user of public transit in the Bay Area, perhaps you've wished for an all-in-one card that would let you transfer from light rail to buses to ferries and back - for free.

Though it sounds like a pipe dream, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission is piloting just that: an all-encompassing pass that gives riders access unlimited free rides to most of the region's 27 transit agencies.

To tell us more about the BayPass, KCBS Radio news anchor Holly Quan spoke to John Goodwin, spokesperson for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

Every weekday on KCBS Radio, we're giving you direct access to top experts in various fields.

Food trends cycle in and out, just like fashion. Social media and online reviews influence cooks and diners on where to go and what to buy. Restaurants come and go, but the success of the food industry could be crucial to continued economic recovery in the Bay Area.

For more on this, KCBS Radio news anchor Eric Thomas spoke to chefs Dustin Valette and Douglas Keane in today's Ask An Expert segment.

California is facing a massive budget deficit of $68 billion dollars, a huge financial challenge for Democrats heading into an election year. The delayed tax deadline, inflation, and unemployment have all contributed to building this problem, but now the state's leaders have to find a way to mitigate it.

For more on this, KCBS Radio news anchor Eric Thomas spoke with KCBS insider Phil Matier and former mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown.

A San Francisco anti-violence group is holding a gun buyback program in the city's South of Market neighborhood tomorrow. KCBS Radio's Shannon Golden reports top officials, including Mayor London Breed and California Attorney General Rob Bonta, joined the call to help get guns off the street.

San Francisco marked the first night of Hanukkah with a beefed-up police presence during the lighting of the menorah at Union Square. But as KCBS Radio’s David Welch reports, despite tensions, organizers focused on a message of resilience.

Put the melted butter away for a few more weeks: State wildlife officials are pushing back the local commercial Dungeness crab fishing season to at least December 21 in order to protect migrating whales and leatherback sea turtles. As KCBS Radio reporter Holly Quan tells us, this means making alternate holiday plans for chefs and fishmongers.

Get these stories and more in this morning's edition for the KCBS Bay Area All Local podcast, anchored by Eric Thomas.

It's very cold this morning! So cold, in fact, that the National Weather Service has a freeze warning in place this morning.

For more on the cold temperatures, KCBS Radio news anchor Eric Thomas spoke with National Weather Service forecaster Sean Miller.

More than 3 million Americans suffer from Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and can cause fatigue, diarrhea, weight loss, and pain.

For this week's "As Prescribed," KCBS Radio's Alice Wertz learned more about UCSF's efforts to study and treat IBD by speaking with Dr. Rishika Chugh, Gastroenterologist at UCSF Health and Director of the UCSF Ultrasound Clinic.

As Prescribed is sponsored by UCSF Health