it's wednesday, november 23rd. this is "today in the bay." good morning. thanks so much for joining us. it is close to 5:00. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> good morning everyone, i'm jon kelley. time to check in with meteorologist christina loren for the forecast on the day before thanksgiving. >> we have rain on the way. the good news is, it doesn't arrive until tonight. wait until i show you what they're facing on the east coast. we had flight delays yesterday out of sfo for low ceilings, pretty thick fog. this morning the fog is not that bad just yet. it could become a factor. we will time the showers out for you. we have your black friday and cyber monday forecast coming up. traffic is relatively light as we look at 87 approaching downtown. reports of big chunks of debris

87 at 101. no details on what the debris was. so far, the light traffic, what it was, should be able to get by. just prepare for it, guys. thank you very much. a dangerous intersection on the peninsula where a young girl was hit and killed earlier this year has been the center of attention for months now. this morning there's growing concerns after a new study finds what residents don't want to hear. "today in the bay's" marla tellez is live with the new information for us. good morning. >> reporter: laura, good morning. this is the intersection where 6-year-old sioreli torres was hit and killed. this is bay and gloria in east palo alto. you can see there are crosswalks here, even the yield to pedestrian sign. here is the kicker. there's no stop sign here. that's what residents want. a new study just released says one is not needed. after the september 28th

accident, the city hired a consulting group out of san francisco to analyze this intersection. the firm's report finds, though there have been five accidents at this intersection in the past year, it does not warrant a stop sign, primarily because two of the incidents were caused by right-of-way violations which are not correctable by a stop sign. instead this is what the firm recommends, school crosswalk signs be posted at the intersection. it also says slow school crossing markings should be painted on the pavement of bay road as soon as possible. sioreli torres was hit on her way to school who was hit and killed by a school teacher who said she never saw the girl because she was blinded by the sun. there is a significant windshield glare for southbound drivers at that time of the morning. last week the district attorney's office got the case

to see if they should file criminal charges. in the meantime, i have reached out to the mayor of east palo alto to get his reaction. i'm waiting to hear back from him. reporting from east palo alto this morning, i'm marla tellez. time is 5:03. a bicyclist accused of hitting and killing a pedestrian in san francisco will be in court for the first time this morning. 23-year-old randolph ang allegedly ran a red light back in july. police say he hit a woman and she died from her injuries a month later. ang being charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. the case against former b.a.r.t. police officer johannes mehserle and four current officers continues. mehserle and the four officers are expected to take the stand sometime today. they are accused of using excessive force on kenneth caruthers back in 2008.

caruthers says officers tackled him, hogtied him and kicked and punched him. b.a.r.t. says the officers used reasonable force after caruthers appeared to be threatening violence. an annual tradition, today expected to be the busiest travel dare of the entire year. more than 5.3 million californians say they're planning to travel, more than 4% higher than last year. christie smith live at san francisco international airport where officials expect a 2% increase for passengers this year compared to last. >> reporter: good morning, jon. i took a look at the crowds inside. it's really not that bad right now. they're saying most of the flights in the morning pick up around the 6:00 a.m. hour. i've been keeping an eye on the people. it seems the most tension is trying to get in here and parked. here is mike mccarron, spokesperson for sfo. i took a quick look at the board

and everything seemed to stay on board. >> right now everything is on time. that looks good for us. we're looking at the northeast weather right now. there's some storms going through the boston area. right now that has not had an impact. hopefully it won't throughout the day. we're hoping it will bb a good day throughout the day. >> i remember when the wednesday before was the day when you would see these outrageous lines. we're not seeing that. you were saying actually the friday before is a real busy day now. >> our busiest day of the whole travel period was last friday. we've seen over the past eight, ten years more and more schools take the whole week off so families are traveling not just on wednesday, but tuesday, monday, the weekend before. it doesn't mean it's not going to be busy. it's still going to be very busy here. we'll do about 135,000 people today. a normal day is 100 to 105. that's about a 30% increase over an average day. also for us physically at sfo,

we stretched our crowds out among four buildings instead of three. so that makes it better. >> how are the parking lots looking? >> we added about 1400 lots to long-term parking. even if that fills up, we'll issue vouchers and let people park in the short-term garage at the long-term rate. >> any advice for people coming in? anything else that people should know? >> the best thing anyone can do before they leave their house is check with the carrier about the status of their flight. they can be going someplace like hawaii, but it could start in boston and it could be delayed. get here at least 90 minutes early for domestic, two hours for international. bring a lot of patience. >> you're probably in a good mood if you're going to hawaii or mexico. >> i would be. >> thanks so much for talking with us. i'll send it back to you.

>> hawaiian islands always make you smile. if you're not hitting the skirks hitting the roadways, be especially careful this holiday weekend. the chp is kicking off its thanksgiving maximum enforcement period tonight at 6:00. that means there will be extra patroltios on the streets looki for drunk and unsafe drivers. the maximum enforcement period lasts through midnight on sunday. it is back to the drawing board for occupy oakland protesters this morning. once again, just looking for a place to camp out. a small group of them gathering at frank ogawa plaza this morning. they're not camping, holding a little vigil, trying to figure out where to go next. police asking protesters to leave a foreclosed property last night. when they first camped out they say they received permission to camp there from the owner of the property. police say, however, it was the

owner that signed off on removing all the protesters last night. it is 5:07 right now. in the meantime san francisco leaders are offering an only live branch to occupy protesters giving them a new place to set up camp. mayor ed lee wants protesters to relocate to a former high school site on mission street. it's essentially a parking lot with adjacent portable classrooms all secured by a fence. no word if occupy will agree. some protesters say the city is just trying to keep them out of sight. police say they know who vandalized a number of banks in the east bay. they just have not arrested them. 23-year-old jared viticara. he apparently confessed to writing on the windows of banks. police say brksetacari is an active occupy protester and said he didn't intend to damage the banks. he was not arrested.

the case was turned over to the district attorney's office. it is 5:08 right now. going to get some rain. it most likely will fall when everybody is snug in bed? >> kind of depends on where you're waking um this morning. the north bay will get the showers first. late this evening into tonight starting for you. as laura pointed out, overnight. that's when the greater bay area will get the rain. this is what we're working with right now. all the action is well off to our north. take a look at this storm versus what they're facing on the east coast. take a look at this monster storm. if you're trying to get anywhere along the eastern seaboard, check ahead with your carrier. right now we don't have any delays. i'm checking with the faa about every five minutes. right now you're looking okay. you can imagine there's going to be a ripple effect once we start to see the delays. that's a mean system. thunderstorms, the number one weather condition that grounds airplanes. seattle, moderate. some delays expected out of sfo because of the low clouds

thickening up over the next few hours. i'll put a link on my facebook page so you can track any flight. new york city today, major delays, same for philly. chefk ahead throughout the day. for us, if you're just trying to get to work this morning, not too bad. mostly cloudy conditions, a little rain shower activity but nothing major. a couple of light cells to the south of antioch. as we head throughout the day, the clouds will increase, winds will pick up. the main rain event doesn't arrive until 10:00 p.m. to night. the showers will continue overnight, 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, still getting light rain showers. that will continue through about 11:00 a.m. we get a nice dry break for the second half of turkey break. i'll table you to the second day outlook. right now let's check your drive. some folks getting off for their thanksgiving break at 680 northbound, we saw the clearing through alamo and danville. southbound clear as far as the freeway is concerned. livorna, maybe blocked until

6:00. an easy drive out of the altamont pass. 14 minutes to the dublin interchange. san mateo bridge, a crystal clear view. peninsula not a problem all the way up to golden gate bridge, 101 from if north bay showing an easy drive as well. at the limit in san rafael down to the city. just 20 minutes, guys. back to you. >> thank you very much, mike. a north bay robber chose the wrong victim. police say a teenage girl was on her way home when she was attacked by a man on monday. the teen who had martial arts experience says she fought off the attacker by punching him in the groin. the attacker punched her in face, but the guy got away. dorell wright is no stranger to dishing out assists. wright helped provide more than 2500 low income families, senior citizens in oakland with a free

thanksgiving feast. oakland says without wright's help the 20th annual dinner would have been canceled. ifs 5:11 right now. the million dollar mystery. a suitcase full of cash left at a restaurant. we'll have details coming up next. the dismal budget picture san jose leaders are painting this morning. what they are suggesting we do about it. why the fugitive on the run for more than 40 years finally ice.deba tol pice. against dental problems, my dentist said use act. [ male announcer ] act mouthwash restores enamel and makes teeth up to 2 times stronger. act. stronger teeth and fresher breath in every bottle.

welcome back everyone. live look outside golden gate bridge. not a lot of traffic there right now. we expect it to possibly pick up a little later, busiest travel day of the year right before

thanksgiving. 5:14 right now. australian police trying to figure out why a man left a suitcase at a cafe which happened to contain a million bucks. that's right. the man left the suitcase at a cafe in a sydney suburb yesterday morning. the staff says it thought the suitcase might be a bomb, but as they quickly found out, it turned out to be hard, cold cash. police did arrest a man from hong kong in connection with this incident. he's currently under police guard at a local hospital after suffering from an unknown medical condition. yeah, it's called lost cash. police waiting until he recovers to ask him a few more questions about this lost money. >> i just think that's one heck of a tip. >> exactly. appreciate that. thank you. 5:15 right now. want to check the forecast with meteorologist christina loren. >> everybody wants to know what the weather will hold for today. what it's going to be like on thanksgiving. i have those answers. right now let's take a live look at christmas in the park, downtown san jose. the lights, not just lit up.

looks like friday will be the case. tree lighting ceremony takes place in downtown san jose. they're bringing in an international superstar to light that tree. our own mike inouye. give it up for him, everybody. that was kind of weak. we'll get that better next time. >> my man, mike. >> thank you, mcgrew had to step in and take my back on that one. san francisco, no delays out of san francisco, nor seattle. expecting moderate to major delays later today in new york, philly already with a 30-minute delay. we also are expecting those low ceilings here in san francisco throughout the day. so unfortunately weather will come into play when it comes to your travel plans, flying and driving. as you can see, mostly cloudy conditions san jose through santa rosa. the rain has not yet arrived. you can see the moisture ban through the north. as we head through the next 48 hours, on and off shower activity. nothing too heavy except for the

north bay and the north end of the peninsula. i think places like san jose, livermore, maybe a tenth of an inch up to a quarter. nice and comfortable temperaturewise. we'll be in the 50s. 58 degrees at about 5:00 p.m. as you make your way home from work if you have to go to work today. we'll stay nice and mild until about 10:00 p.m. this is not a cold system, but it is packing a lot of moisture. 5:00 a.m. thursday, we stop the clock on your futurecast. light showers coming down at that time. steady rain concludes 11:00 a.m. thursday. getting a nice dry break for the second half of your thanksgiving. the rain develops between 8:00 and 10:00 tonight. if you're trying to get out of town, you probably want to do so early. dry conditions on saturday. sunday nice and crisp, up to 67 degrees, even warmer on monday. let's check your drive right now with mike inouye. >> you know what? looking at the south bay where construction crews have cleared from the southbound side of 880.

the stretch just for another half hour. watch for that. we do have an accident northbound 280, the saratoga off-ramp. there may be one lane that's affected. the other lane gets by just fine. prepare for flashing lights. 280 itself is clear. that's the freeway. we're looking up the peninsula with no major issues until you get to grand avenue. northbound 101 has wood debris reported. middle two lanes just north of 380 and sfo. they still have parking. a note about sfo and oakland. you can take b.a.r.t. there to avoid the parking and keep in mind they're running longer trains both to oakland as well as sfo. you can keep that in mind for the day as well as for sunday. a live look at the oakland coliseum camera past the station and a smooth drive on the roads and again from the oakland coliseum station, that air b.a.r.t. system is running every ten to 15 minutes. consider it. it's an option guys. prices just seem to be going

up. that includes what you pay for the thanksgiving feast. american farm bureau confederation says the average dinner complete with the 16-pound turkey, trimmings, $49.20 this year, almost $6.00 more than last year. meantime supermarkets are trying to make sure those prices don't just scare you away. in fact, they've started a turkey war of sorts. want to check in with jackie deangelis. she's live at cnbc world headquarters. good morning. >> good morning, laura. we're watching the markets closely. the futures sharply lower this morning on the back of weak manufacturing data in china and europe. chinese manufacturing activity fell to its lowest level in 32 months. of course, this is raising concern that the world's second largest economy may be slowing down. the asian markets, they fell overnight. europe mixed right now. the u.s. markets, they fell on tuesday after reports show that the economy grew less than expected over the summer. today we'll get data out on

unemployment, personal income and spending, demand for durable goods and consumer sentiment numbers. so keep an eye on those. the dow lost 53 points yesterday closing at 11,493. the nasdaq slipped nearly two points to 2,521. at&t is calling the fcc's move to potential loi block the $39 billion takeover of t-mobile, saying it could significantly hurt competition and lead to massive job losses. at&t says the deal would accelerate its rollout of high speed wireless services across the country. the review likely wouldn't happen until after the justice department's anti-trust trial. that trial is scheduled to start in february. the turkey wars are breaking out at your local supermarket. many stores are selling the birds at deep discounts to woo shoppers in the door. some offering frozen turkeys for as little as 47 cents a pound.

the current wholesale price a record $1.19. most supermarkets don't make money on the turkey. the profit is coming from the rest of the thanksgiving dinner, the favorite sides like sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and my favorite, the pumpkin pie. back to you. >> i agree with you, jackie, the pumpkin pie. after more than 40 years on the run from the law, a fugitive finally admitting to shooting at two south san francisco police officers. ronald bridgeforth admitted to the 1968 shooting yesterday. none of the officers were injured. bridgeforth who turned himself in two weeks ago says he wanted to correct a past mistake and set a positive example for his sons. right now he's free on bail. the 67-year-old will be sentenced in february. a pretty dismal picture of san jose, longer response times in emergencies, shutdown libraries and community centers,

deteriorating roads. the city, however, will vote in a couple weeks on whether to declare a fiscal emergency. if it does, it will set up a special election in march to put pension reform on the ballot. city leaders said yesterday if the city's pension reform is not reformed, service also be cut to unacceptable levels. union says the fiscal emergency is a way to weasel out of promises to workers. the time is 5:22. coming up, an early christmas gift. the bay area university opening up places to everyone for free. toxic toys. g'dodog's lis eas's list.made p.com y from the comfort of your home, or shop in store friday starting at 4am. find over 500 black friday deals... ...like cozy sweaters for just 9.88... ...stylish peacoats for 49.88... ...over 150 styles of boots from 19.99...

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children. a watch dog group released its annual trouble in toyland report. it found some toys still contain harmful toxins. on the lift, an interactive book for toddlers titled "little hand love," it had double the amount of led than legally allowed. same with a toy called the whirly wheel. for a look at the list go to nbcbayarea.com and search toxic toys. >> i have "little feet love." we don't have it anymore. if you don't have the grades or money to get into stanford, don't worry. stanford is opening its virtual doors for free. it's experimented with free classes. after an overwhelming global response, stanford will offer seven computer courses and two entrepreneurship classes online. registration is free. for more information head to nbcbayarea.com and search stanford. speaking of that, business

and technology reporter scott mcgrew already registered. totally true, i'll be taking that computer science class. i was thinking about inviting the professor on "press here." >> quit trying to get an a. >> suck up to the teacher. you know who could use more computer classes? virgin american airlines having trouble with the online reservation system after it switched service ts. some people say they're over charged. others say they can't change their flights. virgin america ceo david curb tells the "wall street journal" things should be totally fixed by the first of the month. this hurts virgin in particular because it's always been seen as a hip center airline, an internet friendly airline company. google must have looked itself up on google and figured out it's a search engine, cutting all kind of programs that aren't in its core strength including a program to invent new clean energy. the company says it will still

buy and support clean energy, but it's not going to try to be the company that invents it. shares in los gatos-based netflix fell to the lowest level in two years a day after the company raised millions of dollars by selling stock to a private firm. netflix ceo reid hastings under a lot of pressure from disbelieving investors. take a look at this. netflix spent $200 million earlier this year buying back its own shares at $222 a share. then this week it sold $400 million worth of the company between $70 and $85 a share to raise money it needed that it didn't have. let me remind you, buy low, sell high. >> it's just been amazing the see right here in the bay area, being in our own back yard how well it's done and how it's fallen. >> it's having a lot of trouble. that ceo under a lot of

pressure. >> no thank you very thank you very much. it's 5:27 right now. a lot more to come on today in the bay. stick around.

new this morning, even though a 6-year-old girl was hit and killed at this intersection right here, a new study says a stop sign isn't needed. i'm marla tellez. i'm going to explain these study results coming up. solyndra is for sale. why isn't anyone buying it? we'll take a look coming up. >> reporter: unfortunately a turkey shortage here in the south bay. i'm bob redell. i'll tell you how you can help out those in need this holiday season. a live look outside. lots of folks traveling, by air, by road, perhaps by cruise ship. it's wednesday, november 23rd, this is "today in the bay." meet me on the promenade

deck. 5:30 right now. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> that's very good. good morning. i'm jon kelley. let's check in with meteorologist christina loren to find out what kind of love boat weather we'll have. >> if tattoo were with us now. >> that's "fantasy island." >> excuse me. it's all way before my time anyway. i was just trying to play along. that's what i get. good morning to you. we've got showers coming down, mostly in the northern most portion of the state. those showers are also coming down from washington through oregon. we're looking pretty good for the first part of the day. we'll start to see more and more cloud cover. as we head throughout the second half of your day. tonight we'll time those out for you. we're taking a look at what everybody across the nation is facing in terms of flight delays. already have some out of philly. first let's check your drive with mike inouye.

>> the call back is for everyone like me. that's isaac. nbl 101 has cleared from your middle lanes north of 380. now a new report of more debris, a different sort. it's a big rig strap in the lanes across the two middle lanes south of the airport. it looks like folks are already picking up and dropping off at the airport. we'll continue to follow this. >> thank you. >> the coolest bartender on the waters. parents living in one peninsula neighborhood calling for more action at one dangerous intersection after city leaders review a new traffic report in the area which contains details residents did not want to hear. "today in the bay's" marla tellez live in east palo alto with more on this story. marla, good morning. good morning. this intersection here was deemed one of the most dangerous in east palo alto last year. since then a handful of accidents have happened. the most recent included the death of a 6-year-old girl. now, she was in this intersection in the crosswalk

actually. this is bay and gloria, when she was hit and killed. the problem, according to residents is there's no stop sign here. a new study says one is not needed. sioreli torres rah mora was on her way to school when she was struck and killed. after that accident the city hired a consulting group to analyze the intersection. state guidelines require five collisions at an intersection in order to install something like a stop sign or a traffic light. the firm's report finds though there have been five accidents at this intersection in the past year, a stop sign is not warranted essentially because two of the incidents were caused by right-of-way violations on behalf of the drivers which are not correctable by a stop sign. now, instead, here are the firm's recommendations. one is to post school crosswalk signs at this intersection of bay and gloria. number two, paint the pavement of bay rode with "slow school

crossing" markings. the engineers also suggest prohibiting on-street parking on the west side of bay road. this is right across the street, in order to give drivers of vehicles and pedestrians a better view of each other. the east palo alto city council is going to be discussing the results of this study at its next meeting. that's coming up next tuesday, the 29th. reporting from east palo alto this morning, i'm marla tellez. jon? >> thank you for the update. 5:34 right now. the federal government's chances of recouping money from solyndra appears to be getting slimmer. appears there are no serious offers to buy the company. scott mcgrew joins us with the details. good morning, scott. >> good morning to you. it looks like solyndra may be sold in pieces because no one wants to make what solyndra made. there's no reason to buy the whole factory, lock, stock and barrel.

solyndra tells a bankruptcy court in delaware, it will probably have to auction off the machinery, real estate and patents separately. that hurts taxpayers because we invested hundreds of millions of dollars in solyndra and we want our money back. to make it worse, under a strange deal, washington is allowing private investors to get paid first. we're in the back of the line for what's looking like a smaller and smaller pool of money. so why won't anyone buy solyndra out rite? solyndra made thin film solar which is state-of-the-art but much more expensive than the poly silicon solar cells you see everywhere. solyndra figured out how to turn gold into silver. frankly, nobody wants to do that. >> thank you very much. most of us certainly know how tight times are right now. imagine the struggle local charities are facing. this morning we're learning a major food bank in the south bay is still short on holiday turkey this year.

"today in the bay's" bob redell is live outside the second harvest food bank in san jose. there's still time for us to help? >> reporter: maybe not for thanksgiving, but definitely for the rest of the holiday season. good morning. second harvest here in san jose says it needs a minimum of 11,500 frozen turkeys to feed its clients. right now they're about 1,000 short. the situation is much better than it was last week when we checked with the food bank. they had just over 7,000 turkeys donated at that point. now they're just over 10,50, still shy of the goal of 11,500. second harvest serves about a quarter million people in santa clara and san mateo counties. what's frightening is that the food used -- is used to supplement the meals of those in need where before we used to

supplement the meals of those in need. now this is all they got. it's just their primary source. you can still help out by dropping off a frozen bird to second harvest to the collection center location. you have the one in san jose. there's also a second one in san carlos. of course, they always are reminding us cash is king. they're more than happy to take your cash and make it go a long way. to get more information, you can go online and google second harvest food bank or look right there. there's there website, shfb.org. >> easy to remember. thank you so much, bob. all right. it is 5:37. time to check back in with meteorologist christina loren. >> good morning to you. we're still looking good. we don't have flight delays outs of sfo, none out of san jose or oakland. we're expecting moderate delays later today out of san francisco and seattle. major delays expected out of new york city and philadelphia. philadelphia this morning already reporting 15 to

30-minute delays due to low ceilings. check ahead throughout the day today. overall, if you're traveling by vehicle, looking good, especially if you're heading to southern california this morning. the rain not yet moved into the bay area. still about 12 from our significant steady rainfall. as you can see here, pretty good rainfall starting to push into the northern most portion of the state. a little spotty activity, prefrontal participation. main event arrives by about 10:00 p.m. in the greater bay area. i don't think we'll see too much of that heavy rain. definitely moderate and light rain on the way. by 5:00 a.m. thursday, the showers completely subside by about 11:00 a.m. thanksgiving. looking pretty good there. temperatures stay a little on the cool side. you'll probably need that jacket throughout the day, especially if you're waking up near the water. 58 degrees at 5:00 p.m. as you make your way home hopefully pour the abbreviated workweek. let's check your drive right now. stick around for the seven day outlook. 5:38. mike, how are we doing out

there? >> it's a pre holiday weekend. highway 4 shows the slowing, speeds into the 30s as you're traveling between hillcrest and loveridge. it fluctuates back and forth. closer to 40 in most spots than 30. that's better than we often see. looking at slowing at bay point as well. queueing the fact that concord will see slowdowns in 40 to 30 minutes. north bay times travel is very nice right now. no slowing from highway 12 through novato and continuing down to the golden gate bridge. a live look out there shows you the bay bridge which is an easy flow of traffic down the eastshore freeway. no backups here. looking at the reports on the computer. just getting report of an accident? san jose. i'll show that to you in the next reporting coming up. >> thank you very much, mike. another week, another showdown between the gop presidential candidates. we'll tell you which candidate is breaking away from the pack when it comes to immigration. hundreds turn out to remember the danville marine who died while serving his country.

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welcome back everyone. a live look outside. christmas in the park. see that tree? can you make it out in the center there? you will come friday night. mike inouye is going to go out there and help light up the christmas tree and kickoff holiday festivities. 5:42 right now. as we all know, black friday is an exciting start of the holiday season, but very costly for the gift-giving. according to the latest estimates, we will spend an average of $700 on holiday gifts, even if we can't afford it. "today in the bay's" tracie potts live in washington with all the holiday details. good morning.

>> reporter: all 14 million americans still paying off last year's credit cards. the stores are expecting $455 billion, up a little bit. you might want to be particularly careful if you're going to do this on credit. four out of ten say they'll spend less than last year. 8% of americans, even in this economy, plan to spend more. what can you do about the plastic? there are some tips from the experts this morning. set a budget before you shop. try to pay off those credit cards within 60 days, those holiday purchases. so by the end of february, your february bill. so finally, know your credit limit and know your interest rate. a lot of people aren't aware of this. but if you've got bad credit, sometimes the credit card companies will target you, blast you with applications for new credit cards. a couple of reasons for that, they can make more money off of you. people with bad credit tend to carry balances months after

month. those balances are higher because they charge a higher interest rate. >> word of warning on the credit cards, proceed with caution. thank you very much. 5:43 right now. the 11th gop presidential debate is in the books. no one candidate seemed to walk away with a win. >> they want to kill all of us. we should use every means possible to kill them first or identify them first. >> that was herman cain talking about the patriot act. other topics included racial profiling, possible defense cuts and foreign affairs. the geb bate was full of tough talk and big ideas. in the end it was only newt gingrich that broke away from the pack by saying long-time undocumented immigrants should stay in america. >> if you've been here 25 years and three kids and two grandkids, you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, i don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out. >> latest polls show gingrich

leading the race with mitt romney close behind. while the gop candidates are recovering from that debate, the president will be issuing a pardon, an annual tradition. president obama will pardon a turkey. that's why that turkey is smiling. he'll do that at the white house. this is video of the president sparing a turkey last year. after today's pardon, the bird will become kind of a rock star, greeting visitors at george washington's mt. vernon estates and gardens all through the holiday. i don't know how you meet a turkey? do you shake his thing hanging there? the president's pardon of the turkey is a tradition that dates back to president john f. kennedy. it started in 1963. >> things go through my head. >> foul language? stay away from that, a morning show. we're looking good. we really have some good weather. you don't have to be turkey about traveling especially if you're heading into southern california. pretty nice conditions. spotty activity, but nothing

heavy just yet. the heavy steady rain arrives tonight. so when most of us are already in our destination to enjoy thanksgiving. as you can see right now, mostly cloudy conditions. we'll see a few breaks with sunshine. those breaks will be very limited throughout the day. intervals of clouds continuing moving onshore as the system of low pressure moves on. in the northern california region you can see we're already getting rainfall up here. this main event hasn't pushed onshore in northern california. still about three hours out from that. 12 hours from now we'll start to see our first changes. that will be pretty steady rainfall arriving in the north bay. from 8:00 to 10:00, the rain develops there. a mild start to your thanksgiving morning with a few periods of rain. i'm thinking by about 7:00 a.m., even in cher we'll start to clear out. gradual clearing as we head through thanksgiving afternoon. all right. let's take you through your fast for today. 60s in places like benicia and redwood city.

59 in san francisco. temperatures running a bit on the mild side. concord, 61. 62 for oakland today. we will get closer to that 70 degree mark. a warmup on the way, but not until next week. 59 in novato, 58 in san rafael. friday, saturday and sunday starting to dry out, starting to get that crisp sunshine back in the mix. temperatures will be warming as well. up to 68 degrees on monday. this is sour last main rain event for quite some time. let's find out about your drive with mike inouye. >> i'm happy that rain will ease up in time for me to take a nap on thursday. the accident at toey road, the only information i have, it's involving a car at least over on its side, an am balance called to the scene. this could be very serious or could just be a car on its side and someone that's just bum about it. we'll check it out. no slowing at the scene so far.

looking at 280 just north of there. the accident here at saratoga has cleared from the roadway. the rest of your northbound routes at the limit throughout the south bay. here, southbound 101 approaching millbrae, still have reports of the big rig strapping in the middle of the roadway. a new report, eastbound 92 heading toward 880, this may be the route this big rig may have taken, dropping in a couple areas. prepare for crews to clear that from the roadway. meanwhile we'll look at oakland across the bay. a smooth drive here, northbound past the coliseum, an easy drive. if you take b.a.r.t. to the coliseum, the air b.a.r.t. running every ten to 15 minutes to the airport. back to you. >> thank you very much, mike. on the battlefield he was a soldier, at home, a son, brother and friend. marine lance corporal joshua corral was remembered last night. he died in afghanistan on friday. more than 1,000 people gathered

at oak hill park in danville remembering his leadership and passion for life. >> life of the party. he was a great guy. he was a big inspiration. when he talks of the military, people believe him because he's a very likable guy. >> friends say corral joined the marines out of high school and encouraged ten of his friends to join him. those who knew him say he will never be forgotten. james capoot was killed during a police pursuit last week. a youth choir performed at last night's vigil where friends and community members gathered to give condolences to ka pootd's widow and their three daughters. he'll be laid to rest on november 30 kt. senior citizens at a marin county nursing home quaurn teed after an outbreak of norovirus

may get to see their family on thanksgiving after all. about a third of the center's residents have the gastrointestinal illness. family and friends were being told to stay home. now we're getting word that it may reopen to visitors as early as tonight. officials continue to monitor the situation. they have to do a deep cleaning and make sure everyone was okay. the cal men's basketball team is ranked 20th in the nation. that could end very, very soon. the bears taking on the missouri tigers last night, the cbe classic championship game. the first ranked team cal played this season, it was a no contest. that was not good for cal. they got blown out of the gym last night. 92-53. it was their very first loss of the season. 5:50 right now. coming up, the possible alternative to pg&e's smart meters. it won't ceome cheap.

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find over 500 black friday deals... ...like 50% off liz claiborne... ...and 40 to 70% off fine jewelry. we make christmas affordable. you make it yours. jcpenney. welcome back everyone. a live look at san francisco and the embarcadero there up at the top of your screen you see one big holiday love boat docked there. hopefully some good vibrations happening, getting set for the holiday. it's 5:53. pg&e's controversial start meter technology stirred up a lot of debate for months now. the utilities commission is considering letting people opt out, but it comes with a price tag. california public utilities commission will vote on the pg&e proposal in january. those who know longer want smart meters on their homes can opt out for an initial $90 fee with a $15 monthly charge thereafter.

some residents we talked to says the smart phone caused them to pay more on their bill any way. >> i thought it was to be more accurate and that at least they would drop a bit knowing they would be more accurate. but it's not accurate. it's gone up and it's increased. >> pg&e stands by its smart meters releasing this statement. while those customers who choose to opt out will lose the benefits of smart meter technology, we recognize some of our customers will have a preference on their available alternatives and we will work with them once a final decision is reached. the family of apple co-founder steve jobs could soon owe almost a billion dollars in taxes. jobs died with $6.78 billion worth of apple stock and disney stock. it was in a trust which means its family will avoid probate fees. experts say inless they sell soon, they could find themselves paying $867 million in capital gains tax.

one financial planner says if jobs' widow has no interest in running apple, selling off her apple shares is a no-brainer. >> amazing. the fact that the american government cannot get its financial house in order doesn't seem to bother the folks lending out u.s. money. business reporter scott mcgrew joins us now. >> remember when the s&p downgraded the american credit rating? it got cheaper for the u.s. to borrow money. now that the so-called super committee said it can't figure out how to reduce it, that's changed. surely the interest rate that the american government pays must be going up. no. bond yields fell again this week making it cheaper for washington to borrow more money. money is coming out of the u.s. stock markets into relatively safe u.s. bonds. this has got to give italy and spain absolute fits as those companies pay more and more. do you have flip board on your ipad? the san francisco company's says

it's a fun way to read facebook and twitter and the "san francisco chronicle." starting on black friday, you can browse catalogs on the app. microsoft has a new set of tv apps using rudolph and friends to show for bing. watch as your childhood is stolen from you. >> it's fantastic! >> oh! >> it could be mrs. claus and santa claus wearing bubble wrap pants and then rudolph and the dentist kid -- anybody want to help me out? let's call him andrew. rudolph himself is actually a commercial for i believe it's wool worth's. they invented rudolph as a giveaway, as an advertisement and then he became part of american culture. >> very cool. >> i'm going to find out that

elf name, by the way. scott, we're going to get some of those bubble wrap socks and pants. >> in your stocking. 5:56. still to come on today in the bay, a robber gets more than he bargained for when he tries to rob a north bay team. one of the busiest travel days of the year. we will try to find out what you need to look out for today and tomorrow coming up in a live report. we have weather delays already at some of your major airports across the nation. none yet here locally. if you're driving today, we've got the forecast, rain on the way. we'll help you get around it. coming up. before you get away, you've got to get to wofrk for some folks. i have an accident in san jose.

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