Thousands without power after punishing wind storm hits Bay Area; snow starts pummeling Sierra

Thousands of people awoke without power Wednesday morning after a powerful storm slammed into the Bay Area, toppling trees and further complicating holiday travel across the region.

The North Bay, Peninsula and the South Bay appeared to bear the brunt of the latest storm front, which packed wind gusts topping out at 108 mph in Marin County and left pockets of San Jose, Sunnyvale and Half Moon Bay without power. Elsewhere, tens of thousands of people in Campbell and Saratoga were without power...