the blizzard that shut down airports on the east coast for the secretar day is affecting flights across the country. >> at least a thousand fligh have been cancelled. fad rally aviation administration says newark and j.f.k. is not expected to open 3:00 this afternn our time. the new york took a beating from the storm with more than two feet of snow. this i tis square, people can't get home to go to work. terry? >> thousands of people here in the bay area impactedy the flight cancellations, here are the latest numbers at sfo. 17 departing flights cancelled. 30 incoming flights cancelled. you adto that 35 flights

diverted from san francisco. add it up you have some very unhappy holidays. >> this is toe tapping for -- i'm waiting. this woman had a basketball practice to get to in upstate new york. >> i'm just trying to get back to the east coast. >> what time is practice? >> 4:00 p.m., i'm not going to make that. >> they couldn't get a straight answer on the phone or on the internet about their cancell flight to new york. >> if i don't get a flight by tonight or tomorrow i' go to another airline. >> after they reopened, passengers trying to rebook will have a hard time finding open seats, one, they ar scarce and

fewer seats due to fewer flights because of the down economy. a flight on friday, he has already paid big money for a tour of india. his connecting flight in new york was cancelled. >> everything has been pushed off fodays and if i push my time off, i have to fure out what i tell my boss. >> at least through in morning, things are getting worse. >> american airlines cancelled their departures. united airlines has cancelled most of their dpavt urs. >> reporter: the fog is also causing three hour long delays, so the lates information on cancellations and delays, go to www.abc7.com and check out flight track. it has all the latest information. terry mcsweeney, "c 7 news." air travel isn't the only

nightmare, four subway cars in new york stranded nearly 500 for nine hours. they were finally rescued this morningust after sunrise. one passenger pulled apart the doors on one of the trapd trains to talk about the ordeal. >> there is no heat. there is no heat, no nothing. we're not going nowhere. >> bus service was also affected. dozens of passengers spent the night at the greyhnd station and amtrak resumed limited service after shutting down all operations yesterday becau of the blizzard. switching gears, the 49ers will hold a news conference at noon at santalara headquarters to discuss the firing of head coach mike singletary. he was let go aft the team's loss to the st. louis rams. that loss ended any hopes the niners had of making playoff after last night, he was fir

and singletary took the blame for the disappoinng season. fans said it was about time the team made a change. >> i tnk it's great. i think it's what they needed for at least this season. defitely the coa. >> i'm surprised it happened earlier. he should have been fired before the bye week. >> i am the head coach of this team a i felt that we could do better. there are some obvious question marks that i had hoped would be answered as the season went on. i'm not going to do go into that right now, but obviously were not answered. you know, when that happens you and up out of the playoffs. >> aft the firing was offially announced, singletary released a statement, one of the greatest experiences of my life was having the opportuty to coach the 49ers.

he said he was thankful for the faithful fans and sorry he couldn't give them more to cheer for. officials are expected to announce that defensive line coach will be the interim coh. crime prevention program that offers monetary awards has been extremely successful in solving crimes in oakland. crime stoppers pogram has resultedn hundreds of arrests over the past 20 years. the oakland tribune says crime stoppers has solved 79 cases this year, up from 62 last year. it's determined by the crime stoppers board, a five member panel of unpai oakland residents. >> new laws will take effect this yr, including a new rating system for nursing homes. the federal ratgs give nursing facilities one to five stars depending on quality of care, similar to restaurant letter grades. it should make it easier for

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offices and handles 1.5 trlion dollars in client assets. >> officials are expected to decide today whether to euthanize a california sea lion that was found shot in the head. he was disvered earlier this month sausalito beach by officials, they took him back to the center for treatment. veterinarians say if the sea lion is blind, he will likely have to be put to sleep. he was probably shut shot by a fisherman. >> the government considers new rules to stop those hidden fees on your cell phone bill. >> plus, new details on what apple is working on. >> and major phone company joins the nationwide fight against distracted driving,

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three dimensional images that you won need special glasses to see. >> it appears facebook has hit a new miltone. new numbers show the giant is third largest website in the world. facebook had nearly 650 million users last month that is about 20 million more than yahoo. federal communication commission is considering new rule f cell phone user to amass extra charges. the proposal would require all wireless carers to send customers to send a text alert when they are about to exceed their text limit. many uss says there is no warninwhen they are nearing their mit. the new rules could be approved by early next year. >> a major phone kane is launching a new awareness campaign today abo the dangers

of texting and driving. at&t is releasin a new documenty featuring stories from individuals whose lives have been changed while texting while driving. >> you are 23 times more likely to get into an accident when you are texng and driving. >> we don't want anyone to use the technolo unless they are safe. >> transportation secretary sa distracted driving is an epidemic. 5500 people were killed last year because of diraktsd driving. largest number of fatalities occurred from young people under the age of 18. >> the average price of a gallon of gas is now 3.28,.

it's expected to get worse. experts estimate the average price of a gallon of gas will reach 3.50 by summer. are you cheered up now? >> thanks a lot. >> i guess we won't be driving. the sun is having a hard time breaking throu. but there is some sun out there. we'll tell you when to expe more rain in the accu-weather forecast. >> and new idea that could have you turning unwanted gifts even before you get them. >> and a look back at hollywood in 2010, the stories that had all of us talkg.

next chrisas, you may be able to intercept those loud sweaters before they get to your home. amazon.com has patent a process allow people to quietly return gifts from the website before they ever arrive. under the plan, recipients would get an e-mail from amazon

telling them a gift is on the way. you can reject a single gift or choose to reject any gift fr a particular pson. critics call the idea impolite and uncouth. it would reduce the time to return gifts. >> also eliminates re-gifti. >> and rewrappi. >> talking about all the problems in new york. >> my gosh, everytng that starts here goes that direction. so it's just the timing has really hit. this is downtown manhattan, it is 27 deees, seeing one to two feet of snow, eric, you and i talked, people were?

snow drifts. that is how deept is. manhattan needless to say, a live picture and it's srting to impre. we will see much improvement as the week progresses but that doesn't help you today tod. san francisco, threhour delays for arring flights and not onlyecause of the snow back east but because we've had fog form here. all the sunshine we're starting to see around the area from vollmer peak, look at this beautil picture, looking east. mount diablo and a live picture in hd. most of us are buried underneath cloud cover. that will give way to sun. this is the winter sun so very low angle. let'take a look at this sunlight image, as the storm system winds up on shore to

continue pulng the air out of the northeast. this syste is in place for anotherix to 12 hours and then left off to the northeast and we'll see improving condions. lots of fog this morning. dense fog advisories in effect. another storm system producing wet weather in the north bay by this time tomorro by tomorrow afternoon and wednesday, very powerful sto, look like the storm we had on saturday. then we got some northwest winds that will bring in cold air. as you can s, its chly start to the day. we had some low 40s but some areas still socked in with fog. napa valley, 47 and 47 in oakland. just a brief, brief ridge of high pressure that steering this storm system to the north but it's stalling the system and continue to pick up tropical

moisture. it's a very wet storm that will arrive here by tomorrow. so if you are enjoying the sunshine above the fog, reading in the 50s but that heavy ra and all the way from hawaiian islands. this is brief time lapse of what we can expe by tomorrow. we start to see the heavier rain in the afternoon into wednesday. we have some breaks and then into the south bay and colder air even into the mountains and lake county. here is the monday forecast. partly sunnyskies, clouds will give way to some sun around th bay and temperatures will bin the mid to upper 50s. seven-day forecast shows that wintry weather, all the way through the re of the year. [ laughter ] >> we're csing in on the end.

>> speaking of that, is coming tan end very quickly and hollywood, some laughs and drama. now a look back on the year in entertain am. >> 2010 got off to a bang at the movies. 3-d adventure avatar earned 2.8 billion dollars at the box office. it went on to win three academy awards. drama dominated late night, nbc decided to move jay leno from prime time as host of the tonighshow. c o'o'protested but eventually agreed to a $45 million deal to hand his time slot over to leno. it was a year of problems for tv star brett michaels.

first he underwent an emergency appendectomy and then underwent more sgery. weeks later he had what they called a warning stroke and was diagnosed with a hole in his heart. she expected to undergo heart surgery early in 2011. >> i'm not taking this as a joke. >> lindsay lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail fo violating her probation. the actress spent only 13 days behind bars before she was freed but in september. she was sentenced to a month behind bars for failing a drug test. the actress out on bail after a mere 14 hours. she is in court ordered rehab until january. >> a bitter custody dispute between mel gibson and ex-girlfriend goes from bad to ugly. she filed a restrning order agait the actor alleging assault. gibson had denied claims of

dispute. facebook fans petitioned to get the actress a hosting spot on saturday night live and it worked. she earned her sixth emmy for her appearance. no award show stunt through more attention an lady gaga's dress. she accepted her award in a dress made of raw meat, saying it's time to stand up for what people believe in.

today on oprah at 4:00, a reunion for the cast of sound of music. then at 5:00, a woman takes issue with uned airlines after she says they refused to keep her baby in an infant carrier through most o the flight. and what is next for the san francisco 49ers now that they fired mike singletary. we'll have those storiesore and later. >> it's great except for all the fog we saw this morning. a live look, does it matter? you can see the fog at the embarcado and a little bit of sun. earlr we had a picture of vollmer peak where you could see mount diablo.

there is sun and that means a dry day but rain increasing over the area and dusting of snow by friday morning. we still have a stormy week left in december. >> we trust you. >> thanks. >> thanks for joinin us. "who wants to be a millionaire" is next. >> have a great day and be careful in the fog. >> bye-bye.

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