what we've just learned about how to tell if your information is at risk. and a southern california strip mall burns to the ground overnight. our next weather maker kicking up some fierce winds for your morning drive. this could be a problem if r your holiday travel plans. >> the wind played one factor across the bay bridge. remember that? yeah, we still have a back-up today. i'll explain why it's heavier today. >> and a live look outside san francisco and that trans america building, all 853 feet of it. not really standing out this morning. it is thursday, december 19th, and this is "today in the bay." >> breaking news, a gas fuel fire in the east bay, a driver slams into two gas pumps. now, that driver is under arrest.

this began as a chase. >> good morning to you. we're getting a clearer picture of what happened. i just got an update from a sheriff's spokesperson and he said the driver hit the first pump here, then kept going and hit a second one. that's what sparked this fire here. they have the fire out at the 76 station, but there were evacuations at the apartment next door and the driver was arrested for dui. what sheriff deputies are telling me is that the officer who tried to pull him over overnight at 98th and d ended up saving him. actually pulling him from the car that crasheded here. that driver as they tried to pull him over, part avoids the

holiday dui enforcement campaign. they say the driver ended up crashing here and a passenger got out and took off. this turned into a two alarm fire. firefighters were able to get here lt. they put foam on it. >> currently our hazmat team is providing air monitoring. they're going to totally isolate and make sure the pumps are are

secured. so about 20 people of the apartments which are right next door, they had to be evacuated there. firefighters still here taking every precaution. they say representatives from the gas station should be here soon to help out. we asked how long this might be shut down. they say they just don't know. they have to make sure that everything is safe and secure. that's the latest, live in oakland, christie smith, today in the bay. >> this morning, target is now confirmeding a security breach. that means if you shoppeded at a target since black friday, your credit and debit card information could be at risk.

>> 40 million, a skagerring amount of accounts involved in this. maybe you're not a regular shopper, but more than likely, you've been in the store between black friday and now, this is when shopping is at its peak. that's when 40 million accounts for accessed. this attack is so massive that the secret service is involved. you duoto the cash register, give the cashier your credit or debit card and that's when the information gets stolen. >> the cash register is grabbing that data before it gets to the computers and they're taking that information to steal money out of the customer's accounts. >> after the data is stolen, thieves make up counter fit cards and if you use the pin number, that could allow thieves to take out cash from atm

machines. now, if you are a target online shopper, this breach does not affect you. it is only indicated for in store purchases. still, the stolen information makes some shoppers feel pretty defeated. >> my number's out there in cyber space and everything they know about me is in cyber space and if somebody really wanted to get to my account, i'm sure they could do it. >> so, if you are a target shopper, once again, about 40 million accounts have been affected by this breach. the accounts may have been used between november 27th and december 15th. if you do think you've been affected, you want to check those statements. you can contact target through this phone number, which they are releasing. you can also find that number on our website. target's ceo did speak out this morning confirming the breach. he said they have identifieded and resolved the issue. still, if you are concerned, take a look at those statements and call the number if you are

in question. >> thanks so much. target did decide to alert customers on its own overnight and most states require companies to notify customers if their names and credit card numbers are compromised. but some states make exceptions for encrypted information. as long as companies scramble, the companies do not have to tell customers about a breach. we checked out california's laws. it appears retailers have to alert customers in this state. if they're unencrypted information is attacked. for clarification, we're waiting to hear back. >> so, what should you do today to protect your information? scan your accounts for unauthorized transactions, change your pin number on your debit card and if necessary, change your credit card number. we'll continue to update you on the story all morning on air and online at nbc bay area.com. just search target on our home page. now, a look at the forecast for this thursday morning with

christina. the weekend quickly approaching. >> it is and i have to say, i totally got hacked and somebody used my credit cards, so you always want to check your statements. i had to call bank of america today. it's that time of year, you always want to be checkinging, but yeah, if it could happen to me, it could happen to you. temperatures this morning are around 50 degrees and you can see here, we have that wind coming in out of the northwest. it's pretty strong. right now, it's kind of fluctuating between the teens and looks like the 20 mile per hour range. we're looking good right now. winds aren't as fierce, but these numbers are going to play a factor in your morning drive. as we head throughout the day today, when it comes to the wind, we're going to find the fiercest conditions near the coast, the higher terrain and we're really targeting around 1,000 feet this morning, so the east bay hills, the north bay mountains. 9:30 a.m., that wind will start to drop off. the yellows, the blues start to

move in as we head through tonight. that's going to make for safer travel and by the time we meet back here tomorrow morning, winds will be calm, so that's good news tomorrow. looking better for your holiday travel plans as the state's going to be impacted for the system today. at this point, you can get your seven-day forecast, take a peak at your christmas forecast at the bottom of your screen. we're going to take a look at what you can expect. let's check your drive. he's a dad. are you done with your shopping is the question, mike? >> mom overrules all my decisions. i made all my decisions and she made the purchases. the bay bridge, we get the last hur ra. this is just before a lot of folks will take off next week. if you're lucky enough to do so, folks heading into the office now, changing their e-mail message to outbound.

over here, we're look iing at a easy flow. all around the east bay, 24, nicely and just down below around pittsburgh and bay point. usually, down below 20 miles per hour in that stretch. 580, the volume coming out of the pass holding steady. around the 55 mile per hour range as you head westbound toward the double interchange, more slowing around greensville, as well as a crash on the shoulder. not a big deal and no injuries. it's just there. the south bay smooth by with just a couple of slower spots developing. we'll get a live look out there. as we have the focus and that's typically the first spot we see the slowing because of the volume there. that will continue into another hour or so as we look at the

peninsula and approach off the bridge, a nice easy drive across, but the note, the bridges have the overnight wind advisories, so just use caution. back to you. >> happening now, fire crews still on the scene after a massive strip mall fire in southern california. firefighters have that fire knocked down, but they are still there cleaning it up. just massive. the fire started about 9:00 in awe thorn. fire officials think it started at a discount store, then spread to the ceiling and attic space at a nearby asian restaurant. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. >> kobting coverage of the wildfire burning in big sur. fire crews hope to have those flames under control by tomorrow night. the fire started monday in the los padres national forest near highway 1. it's destroyed 22 buildings, including more than a dozen homes.

one of which belonged to the big sur volunteer fire chief. more than 1,000 men and women are figing this fighting this fire. it's about three quarters contained now. no word yet on how this thing started. still ahead, whole foods loses its case for -- we're going to tell you why the greek yogurt is getting shovelled. plus, is the owner of the dodgers about to make a bid by the oakland ais?

. fire crews also cleaning up after this massive strip mall fire in southern california. about 8:30 last night and burned for several hours. no one hurt. the cause under investigation. target says up to 40 million credit and debit card accounts may be vulnerable after a nationwide data breach. the chain says anyone who used credit or debit cards at target between november 27th and december 15th may be at risk. secret service is now investigating. americans eat more chicken than any other meat, but producers are not addressing poultry safety risks. the first report examined two recent salmonella outbreaks linked to foster farms chicken and found the usda lacks the the public. the second report says 300 store

bought chicken breasts and found bacteria in almost every one. both tests call for increased government oversight in the poultry industry. whole foods market says it will stop selling chobani to make way for brands free of genetically modified organisms. some have complained that they produce milk from cows field with gmo animal food. they say such foods are safe, but whole foods says it plans to sell more non-gmo enriched yogurt. wall street played a strange trick wednesday. everyone's convinced news of the fed slowdown would hurt prices and the opposite happened. >> wall street's hard to figure out on the best of days. the federal open markets committee announces it will start slowing or tapering the amount of money it injects into the american economy and wall street heard the good news part

of that. the recovery part. sent the dow more than 300 points hire. ben bernanke said the fed would hold interest rates at near zero and said janet yellin agreed with the fed's plan. apple has started selling its high-end mac pro. very high-end workstation. will set you back more than $3,000. it's also man fufactured right here in america in texas by the company flextronics. makes all kinds of things you use every day. your kindle, your x-box. that said, the company tries to stay behind the scenes. shortly after, i asked the ceo if he'd be buildinging it. >> we have about 1,000 customers

across all these different industries and i'd say on average, 90% of them don't want to talk about the marketing strategies. >> that would include apple. mike mcnamara won't say, but they are building the new mac. they have more employees than the united states has marines. that's how much stuff they make. >> oh, my goodness. quite a workforce there. thanks. let's take a look and see what's going on with this windy weather. >> windy weather. good morning, everybody at home. now, it is the wind that's going to impact the bay area, but we are going to see snowfall out of the same system over the tahoe area, so if you're headed there today and really only for today, make sure you have those chains ready to go. 42 degrees in livermore. 49 degrees to start the day in san francisco. that is down right mild. compared to where we were waking up last week, so temperatures about 49 degrees. that's also where we're getting

the strongest wind. we have a sustained speed at 32 miles per hour. the winds are going to increase and then drop off. gusty winds for the first part of the morning drive. travel call your attentionly. cautionly. this is what we are expegting in terms of high temperatures. a nice, comfortable finish for december standards. 62 degrees. 60 in the east bay. south bay as well, so a good looking day shaping up temperature wise and i am so happy to report we're not sparing the air and it has everything to do with the wind. that defense area that just settled over the bay area in pollution, that's great news. northwest wind, 35 to 40 miles per hour. gusts of 60, we're going to keep that going until about 9:00 a.m. after which times those wind wills start to drop off more so. you know what? we're getting so close to christmas time, on your

seven-day forecast, you can check it out at the bottom of your screen. let's check on that. here's mike in l.a. >> good morning. we have the back-up and chp did issue overnight a wind advisory, so that's how the wind might affect you. they turn on the metering lights because the volume the steady, which are close to the speed limit, but we have the back-up in all lanes. as we look at the map, we'll talk about the thursday before a lot of folks are taking off, so the final wrap up. . change the outstanding e-mail message, then get out early, or maybe stick around for dinner and shop. over here, we're look iing for e peninsula. 101 coming up.

the volume is picking up just a bit and into redwood city but, no real forms. now back outside and we'll show you how things are shaping up across the bay. we have one concern. this is where christie smith continues to report that fire still burning. westbound 98, that's still closed. you'll have to reroute a couple of blocks. you can take those toward 880. going eastbound on 98, no problems, that is open and heading towards oakland airport, that is unimpeded. no problems in that area. over toward the maze and a smooth drive down here. a live look at oakland coming up toward 98. a steady flow of traffic, but no slowing past the coliseum. back to you. >> thanks so much, mike. warriors co-owner says despite rumors he has no

interest in buying the oakland a's. rumors part of an investment group and building a new ballpark in oakland, but late last night, he told the last times the rumor is quote, 100% not true and that he has no intention. a new report is out this morning showing how many colleges are hiring women to coach women's sports an stanford and cal, both getting c grades. the tucker center and alliance of women coaches look at the percentage at 76 big time athletic programs nationwide. cal and stanford both fall in the 4% range. ucla is the only pac 12 school with 57%. only school with an a, cincinnati, with 80%. the survey says from 2012 to 2013, just about 40% of women's

head coaches were women going back to 1972 when title 9 was first enacted. more than 90% of head coaches were women. still ahead, acquitted murder suspect george zimmerman picks up a paint brush. we're going to show you his politically charged artwork up for sale on ebay. and why dennis rodman says it will be cool to visit kim jong-un. did you get chips for the party? nope.

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and look how clear it is. nice, clear start to our thursday morning. and the spare the air day we've been having finally ending. >> san bruno, looking at the peninsula, the airport, beautiful lights out -- valladimir putin says he's never met edward snowden, but he does envy him. putin said he did not know snowden personally, but said he seems very noble. he added the russian intelligent agency did not make contact with snowden. he said he even envied snowden because of what he was able to

do. dennis rodman just landed in north korea for another visit with the country's young leader. rodman along with the delegation of media and other athletes is in pyongyang to help train the north korean national team. all part of a birthday celebration for the north korean leader who rodman says is a close personal friend. as for those former nba player, rodman says he's keeping the names on this roster under wraps. >> what do you think of this one? george zimmerman's now a painter to his resume. listed an original painting on ebay and it has sparked a bidding war. it was listed for 99 cents and is now going for more than $100,000. a blue american flag, part of the pledge of allegiance. zimmerman was acquitted in the

deadly shooting of trayvon martin last year. >> earlier this year. was it not? it's early. the time is 6:27. still ahead, ab update to breaking news as two bay area gas pumps exploded. tell you what caused the crash and what chefs say about the investigation, next. plus, outranl across india. we're going to tell you why the country is demanding an apology. the sun is thinking about coming up and indeed, it will.

breaking news. how an ordinary police stop ended like this. >> plus, does the u.s. owe india an apology? we'll tell you why the arrest is sparking so much controversy.

and out to wall street. big surprise yesterday. oling bell ringing now and we're going to have the ringing from nasdaq. the card board cutout, this is "today in the bay." >> good morning to you. an up u date to breaking news. hazmat crews are on the scene of a crash in oakland. crews tried to stop a vehicle, but the driver took off, crashed into two gas pumps on the corner. the crash sparked a fire. that prompted officials to evacuate a nearby apartment complex. the driver has been arrested for dui. christie smith live in oakland and we're going to have more on this story in 15 minutes. sparking a growing rift

between the united states and india. the morning, the foreign minister is demanding the u.s. drop a case against an indian diplomat who was strip searched after an arrest. danielle, indian officials are describing the arrest as degrading. >> that is true. the situation has been escalating now for a couple of weeks. it was earlier this month that one of their senior diplomats was arrested and also strip searched in new york on charges of visa fraud and understopayii her nanny. india says the u.s. treated one of their senior diplomats in a disrespectful way and now, the country moved some security barriers from the u.s. embassy in india and there's been a lot of protest, a lot of outrage in that country. john kerry has called to express his regret and -- which has been

a good relationship between the two countries. the obama administration is now looking into the the incident and all of this questioning about what the motivation was has prompted the manhattan u.s. attorney to say it's only motivation was upholding the law. if convicted, second face 16 years in jail. only on nbc bay area, the wife of missing san jose executive dale smith is opening up for the first time since her family disappeared 18 days ago. >> to me, there's always a chance. until they find the plane. >> she says she is not giving up hope. her husband, two children will be found alive. the small plane dale smith was piloting vanished after engine trouble in idaho. family and friends continue to search the terrain for any sign of the plane. she says faith is keeping her strong.

>> that's because overall, i have always had this feeling that my family's okay. and whether they come walking out of those wood and they're okay or they've already passed on, i feel like they're okay. >> she says her husband is her hero. it is 6:33 right now. time to check the weather. nice, clear look at downtown san jose. >> you know, not only is it thursday, it's the thursday before christmas, and we're looking pretty good. if you are going to be traveling today and you have a high profile vehicle, you want to take it easy. just traveling locally around the bay, you have gusty winds picking up, but it's not wind that brought about this beautiful, clear sky and yeah, we're looking good for air quality today after sparing the air for 11 consecutive days, a record breaking stretch. historically, hopefully, we don't see that again as we head throughout this winter, which starts on the 21st.

we're going to see some subtle differences. no major changes between all the different micro climates. looking good. a mix of sun and clouds. temperatures in the low 60s, but in service, you are going to find a little bit of fog this morning. kind of ragged patches an that's where the wind is really strong. as we head throughout the north bay, the east bay and trivalley, temperatures ending up in the low 60s across the board, so no major differences. if you want to take a look at your seven-day forecast, we've got it scrolling for you at the bottom of your screen. let's talk about that wind forecast. strongest near the coast and higher elevation, especially above 1,000 feet. that's when the calmest conditi conditions are going to develop. at that point, we're talking about calm winds in the south bay, we're still going to be strong today. with those 30 to 40 mile per hour wind speeds. at the coast and through the

higher elevations, we'll relax that friction, so travel cautca but no major changes when it comes to that forecast, but christmas is a big day, you might have family in town. we're going to take a close look at your christmas forecast up next, but right now, say good-bye to mike. from. >> although the heat, i guess we couldn't because that was no burn day a couple of days ago. toward the bay bridge, these folks are paying their toll, walting in line first because there is a good volume of traffic coming down the east shore freeway. there's the back-up at the toll plaza. we also reminding you overnight, the chp issued a wind advisory. we also see westbound 80, underneath university avenue, a steady flow of traffic. around 50 miles per hour at the very worst.

over here, trivalley, traffic for 580 and now, some slowing down through 680. you have a good volume, but no major issues. across the bay, the san mateo bridge got a wind advisory. anything about it, let's go. as we travel north on 101 at holly, reports of some wood p palat palates, so be careful. and over here in the south bay, a live look at san jose, northbound 101 starts to show that slowing as the volume really starts to kick in now. that's about it. although watch 87 and iv%85. getting some company there. >> thanks so much. still ahead, cooling off countdown. coming up, an update between on yoing talks between ac transit and the union and whether the two sides will be able to avoid

a monday strike. taking a live look outside. back east. new york city this morning, wind blowing at rockefeller center. beautiful tree there. less than a week before christmas. pretty exciting. a lot more news ahead.

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live picture for you. sun coming up. good day of sunshine. >> wow, that is gorgeous out there. they're protesting the closure of the paid yatic unit. kaiser is shutting down the unit in hayward and moving the young patients to oakland. this morning, members of the california nurses association will march to kaiser headquarters in oakland to protest that decision. the higher ups say there are not many children hospitalized in hayward and they'll get better care in oakland. bart and talk today. an issue, a medical leave policy that helped end the most recent strike. both sides signed the deal, but

bart says the medical leave policy was accidentally included. the unions say a deal is a deal. just yesterday, bart revealed another glitch in the contract with one of its small unions involving the start date of a medical benefits program. talks appear to be making progress. a 60-day cooling off period expires meaning drivers could strike monday morning. the ac transit president is hopeful saying they're close to a tentative deal. coming up, a gas fuel fire ball and a bay area filling stag. we'll tell you what caused this overnight crash and burn. plus, mark zuckerberg plans to share some of his shares of facebook. >> good morning to you. 6:41. good air quality for today. finally, we're not sparing the air. you can breathe easily, but don't get too comfortable. we have some gusty winds. we're going to show you where and when that will start to calm down in your full forecast.

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deputies are telli ining us. this is a bmw suv. it actually nailed to gas pumps out here and that started a fire and i just spoke with firefighters and they said it's going to take a while to even get the car out of here. the driver is at highland hobbs. the attendants at the station here on 98th actually saw the driver and they are able to shut them down, but the vapers burned. the sheriffs deputies who stopped the driver on a holiday dui enforcement campaign. they say they ended up helping the same driver who sped away down city street. >> when they found him, he crashed into the the gas stag,

which started a fire and resulteded in the driver being trapped this that car. and the irony of the space station situation is the deputy who initially has to do the stop as part of the avoid campaign now u has to save this driver from his burning vehicle. >> a passenger was spoken to, but not arrested. 20 people evacuated from the apartment building just right next door to the gas station. that's the brookfield place apartments. they were evacuated, taken to an elementary school around the corner. air quality out here monitoring, but so far, they're saying they're not seeing any gas vapors, anything like that. 98th had been shut down. the main thoroughfare to the oakland airport is back open, but even though the street is back open, it will be a while before this gas station is back open. christie smith, "today in the

bay." >> time to check the forecast. let's step outside and look out over oakland and you can see it's beginning to look mighty nice out this. very nice sunrise coming on. >> beginning to look a lot like christmas. >> start singing it to me. >> santa baby, you like that one? we can make that happen. 49 degrees right now. and temperatures are looking pretty good. as we head throughout the afternoon, temperatures are going to climb into the 60s. not too bad. you can definitely see the difference. what a difference a day makes in terms of our air quality here. really beautiful blue sky this morning and we're basically getting the same sky over the entire bay area. we have some strong wind out there. right now, sustained speeds are about 15 to 20 miles per hour. especially at the coast, higher elevations. we're going to see stronger speeds for the next couple of hours, so strong wind between now and about 9:00 a.m. an as

start to change. temperatures are going to drop quickly, but the good news is the winds will drop off thand we'll hold on to that good air quality. friday, saturday, sunday, across the bay area, that means no sparing the air at this point. but i hate to say it with no actually significant rainfall in the near future, you might have to spare the air on christmas day because we have high pressure building back in, but overall, we're looking pretty good. you can see right outside the window, christmas, we'll get a little fog off the golden gate bridge, but most areas will be nice and clear and temperatures on wednesday afternoon will be down right comfortable. oakland will be about 63 degrees. 62 for san francisco on christmas and lake tahoe, 40 degrees. your seven-day forecast is right here at the bottom of your screen. check out what's happening on the roads with mike. >> we'll take you to the south

bay first of all where we have slowing starting to develop. we talked about lighter volume, but kind of kicking in little stronger than yesterday. this is northbound 101. sounds like there's a stall maybe be clearing lanes quickly, but it's still there and slowing develop, again up towards capital expressway. 87 shows the volume building. also starting to kick in here. toward the bay bridge, the toll plaza. we have those metering lanes on. then those lanes coming off the berkeley curve, you start to slow down approaching this area. t a good volume down the east shore freeway, but let eets s's show you the map. not a will the of drama ouch rich mond. an earlier crash that kind of mixed things up. 880 moving nicely.

off the east shore freeway, a smooth drive as well. >> moving smooth ly. overnight wind advisory, calling that out. we'll give you a live look at oakland. a smooth drive north past 98. there's still activity at the intersection, but it sounds like traffic flow is okay an if you're trying to get to the art, that's on the other side to have freeway. back to you. >> thanks. happening now, fire crews still on the scene after a massive strip mall fire in southern california. this is what it looked like just a few hours ago. firefighter s have the fire knocked down now. just south of l.a., fire officials think it started at a discount store, then spread to the ceilings and attic space at an asian restaurant. redwood officials are talking with sims metal management after the second fire

in two months. they want to come up with quote immediate actionable items to prevent future fires that impact air quality. tuesday's fire sent smoke as far south as gilroy. a november fire triggered a health advisoryáo@ in three cou. the district fined sims for that november fire. it's expected to fine the company for its most recent one as well. san francisco's attorney is now investigating a partial collapse in the home of a twin peaks neighbor. the home's owner, mel murphy, has been ordered to preserve all material and documents relating to the home in case there's legal action. dennis herrera has not said if the city will be suing murphy. the home was under construction when it slid down the hill monte nigtd. the school district has agreed to give money to the families of children who were reportedly abused by their teacher. the teacher was accused of

beating and humiliating that children. some of the kids cannot speak. parents filed a lawsuit earlier this year against the teacher, the district and top officials at the school who they say knew about the abuse and tried to cover it up. the district has agreed to an $80 million settlement. a san francisco woman charged in connection with a crash that killed a 16-year-old is set to enter a plea in court today. she faces felony vehicular manslaughter. it happened in september. witnesses told police say saw her suv going about 80 miles an hour before it slammed into a mini van and catering truck. the utilities commission will hear from the public today on whether pg&e should restore pressure a in a pipeline under san carlos. it went offline at the beginning of october.

people were worried about the safety of the line following the 2010 explosion in san bruno. only in a much lower pressure than the pipe was designed for. today, the public eutilities commission will consider increasing pressure on the pipeline. the meeting will be held at 9:30 in san francisco. new this morning, oakland is being ordered to set aside $2.3 million to pay for three years of parking ticket refunds. the refunds were ordered after a parking ticket management audit. reported the city was holding the money without telling people they overpaid. government code requires public agencies hold funds for three years and notified citizens of overpayment before the agency could spend that money. notices of overpayment begin going out next month. today, a popular online bingo site will present a check

for $5,000 to a popular san jose band to replace money that was stolen. they said they feel fortunate to be able to help the school. last wednesday, someone wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun, robbed the band's weekly fund rarz. last night, an armed security guard was on duty. palo alto officials will consider allowing tesla motors to add a pair of signs to the showroom today. tesla says the signs will make the property look better and the current signs people miss driving, even walking by. at 116 feet, a new wall sign would exceed a requirement. also exceed the number of signs companies are allowed to put on each wall. officials cently made an exception for a grocery outlet. this morning, target is confirming a massive security breach involving nearly all of

its target stores nationwide. that means if you shopped at target since last friday, your credit and debit information could be at risk. peggy, target is now saying up to 40 million cards could be oskted. >> almost unprecedented, with 1800 stores nationwide, this is affecting millions of people. seems to be growing by the minute here. from black friday until christmas, that's when the accounts were access. this morning, target is telling its customers the thieves have stolen the name, payment card number, expiration numbers and codes. a credit card attack of this size is almost unprecedented. now, the secret service is investigating. you go to the register, give the cashier your credit or debit card, that's when your information gets stolen. >> my mom always tells me to do credit, don't do debit because that can happen. and i don't listen to her and i

guess i should leston to her now or use cash. >> that's right. you've got to listen to mom because in this instance, she is right. according to the investigation. people who use their debit cards could be more vulnerable because thieves now have access to their pin codes. what about online shopping? this does not affect you. so far, it's for instore purchases only. here's what you need to do, if you made purchases between november 27th and december 15th. if you have concerns, target has released its customer number, 866-852-8680. a lot of people have heard the news. they are now rushing to the target website to check their red card balance and when you log login, yo you get an error code saying the web page is not available, so a lot of people worried about this, trying to see what about their account is definitely worth the look. >> i couldn't get into mine.

christina's account was breachs add well, so it's affecting everyone. for more, and new details about how you can protect your credit and debit card information, he on over to our website. just search target. it appears we are shopping more this christmas season. >> scott says stores are not making the profit they had hoped. >> shopper track, which measures the number of retailers, says there are many people at the mall and they're buying more, but they're spending less and this is because prices are down. as much 13%. and stuff continues to get cheaper, generally speaking. the closer we get to christmas. this is one more reason black friday may be the least logical time to go christmas shopping. facebook's stock price lowered this morning on word the company is selling stock in itself again. the first time it's gone back

since its ipo. mark zuckerberg says he'll share more than 41 million shares. in a statement, he says he plans to buy a different class of stock. facebook meanwhile, they're raising money. we weren't aware they needed the cash. looking at the market, we got a bigger than expected jobless number on the weekly jobless claims. we're watching the dow industrials, down about 15 points this morning after a huge run up yesterday. >> thanks very much. >> let's check in with christina. >> pretty nice day. we have some wind out there, but we have such better air quality. you're going to be able to make out the mountains anywhere across the bay area today. it was so thick for the past couple of days, we were sparing the air for 11 straight days i'm happy to report we are back in a good air quality range. temperatures are in the 40s for most cities.5&& the winds will decrease.

let's check your drive and say good morning to mike. >> we have the meter lights turned on, so about your normal time. the back upstarts a bit earlier because a lighter volume of traffic and we show you the maps, speed sensors down area through the east shore freeway. not a big deal. 800 southbound starting to show the build. about 15 miles per hour. back to you. thanks very much. time is 6:59. one final check of the day's top stories. intersection in east oakland is shut down after a suspected drunk driver crashed into two gas pumps. the intersection is back open. the station still closed. the driver was trying to get away from police, lost control. the fire is out, the driver was hurt and is recovering at the hospital.

arrested for dui. >> we're going to be back at 7:25 with a live local news update. >> nbc bay area news at 11:00 and have a great day. >> good morning. bulls eye. a major credit and debit card breach at target stores. some 40 million customers at the secret service investigation now under way. hacked, the very personal voicemail messages just revealed in a london courtroom this morning. we'll be there with the latest live. what nasa is planning for a high-stakes space walk to repair the international space station. and the controversial comments that have led the patriarch of the duck dynasty clan to be put on permanent