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tonight, you are warned, don't light that yule tide log. good evening, i'm gray lee. in for ann notarangelo. we begin with christmas chill dropping temperatures to the 20s. which parts of the bay area will feel the deepest freeze? we have elizabeth wenger with details on that. hey, elizabeth? >> that's right. we are under a freeze warning yet again. last night and again tonight. it is really cold. the temperatures, what does that mean, temperatures dropping to the mid-20s. to low 30s in a lot of parts. so the warning is specifically for our inland valleys. the east and south bay valleys and portions of the north bay. so protect your plants, your pets, your people, your pipes. you know the drill by now. it is going to be a chilly night for santa. going to remain dry. so the high pressure remains in effect. so coming up, we will take a look at your seven-day forecast. where there is rain in our seven-day forecast. we will tell you all about that coming up. back to you. >> don't worry. santa dressed warmly. it will be okay. >> what about the -- reindeer? >> they will be okay. on this chilly christmas

eve, wouldn't you love to stoke up the fire to get you in the holiday spirit? this year, you can't. it is a spare the air day. don knapp shows us, the cozy fire could cost you a hefty fine. don? >> reporter: grace, well, it is that kind of gut reaction you have, it is like aw, come on, no fire, christmas eve, cold night? that's what the agency is telling you. they're saying no fires tonight. it is for your own good. and they're right. it is a beautiful christmas eve here in the bay area. but not a clear one. and will is mist and probably a bit of -- there is mist and probably a bit of fireplace smoke in the air and the grinches at the bay area air quality management are saying douse the flames. what? on christmas eve? >> i'm just grateful i no longer have a log-burning, a wood-burning fireplace. >> what do you do for christmas eve? do you have a fire? >> yes. because the gas logs. >> reporter: when the air quality district calls a spare the air alert, they're only trying to give cleaner air for everyone to breathe, and all

burning is banned indoors and outdoors for 24 hours. no fire in the fireplace for tonight, of all nights? >> thank god i don't live here? >> where do you live? >> apple valley, california. >> can you have a fire there? >> yes, i have a fireplace there. >> and you don't want to live in the bay area because you can't have a fireplace tonight? >> i don't want to live in the bay area if there is no fireplace tonight. >> reporter: the people can bundle up the district says in a press release but apparently folks don't need to be told that when it is cold. they may have the impression of cold weather but the temperatures drop after the sun sets. and there are freeze warnings in the east bay interior valleys and santa clara valley areas. a cold night and a christmas eve tradition are not enough reason to put a log on the fire. there is an alternative some folks have been using for years. video recordings are brilliantly blazing yule logs,

downloaded from youtube, heart warming fires that are pollution free. so just put that youtube yule log on the tele. and turn up the thermostat. grace? >> snuggling up with your loved ones. >> that's a good idea, too. probably much warmer. >> all right, thank you, don. on to sports now. we may know in a matter of weeks if the a's are moving to the south bay. a "usa today" reporter tweeted today that major league baseball could grant permission by february for the a's to move from oakland to san jose. no one on the a's camp would comment on this report. but san jose city city councilman sam rikcardo says there is reason to expect the move will be discussed next month. >> we heard indications that there would be a topic of conversation for the winter meetings in mid january. so we would like to believe this would all get resolved within the next few weeks. >> he represents the downtown district. where the new ballpark would be

built. and major league baseball commissioned a study in 2009 to research stadium options for the a's. so far none of the findings have been released. san jose mayor chuck reed says as long as the commissioner is optimistic, he is also optimistic. the holidays can be difficult for families who have loved ones behind bars. not only are they separated, but often the families outside can't afford to get gifts for their kids. and anne makovec shows us a program that provides family celebrations complete with presents. >> who are you guys coming to visit today? >> daddy. >> reporter: but their dad is one of many locked up in the san francisco county jail. creating a new kind of holiday celebration. >> christmas is about giving. sharing. giving love. and that's -- we want to make some kids happy who may not get a gift at christmas time this year. >> reporter: for the past 13 years a local church has set up a party outside the jail's gate in san bruno to greet people

coming and going from jailhouse visits. complete with holiday music, and cookies, and of course, presents. >> what are you hoping are in those boxes? >> presents. >> that's really sweet. that's nice they do this. i'm surprised the jailhouse lets them do it here. >> reporter: the church of the highlands in san bruno made the announcement in mid november they were collecting gifts and more than 200 came in. >> we don't know what is inside. we can feel maybe it is a toy but otherwise we don't know. >> reporter: they rely on the tags left by the giver. if it is for a boy or a girl, and the appropriate age. from the looks on these kid's faces, it was a success. >> i love it. >> reporter: 8-year-old daven got a rubik's cube. >> i think it is going to be used, i will be playing with it. >> reporter: which takes a little pressure off the guys in jail. >> the family members that are in there, like missing them, and like usually they buy some stuff too and they're helpings

out. >> reporter: this man is a volunteer with the program but not before he spent years of christmas as a prisoner. >> it is horrible. you are locked up. you're all alone. you want them to come visit me but i told my relatives not to come because i don't want them to go through the hassle of being searched. >> reporter: for these families, it was the only way to celebrate christmas eve. >> merry christmas. >> reporter: christmas made a little merrier outside of the gates. >> i was happy. i was happy. >> i was grateful, too. >> i was grateful, too. >> reporter: in san bruno, anne makovec, cbs 5. coming up, first, an explosion. then a fire. how the holiday weekend started in one city. on a tragic an unusual note. and they are accused of preying on the elderly. to steal a million dollars. how a bay area couple's alleged scheme ended with a bit of bad luck. and the extraordinary gifts locked into a bay area

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county. a home exploded leaving one woman dead and a man badly burned. this is in san bernardino county. firefighters pulled the man from the burning duplex and later found the body of the woman who may be the man's wife inside. >> we haven't been able to confirm the relationship between the burn victim and the deceased. basically everything is very preliminary at this point. we're working in coordination with the fire inspectors and our detectives at this point. >> reporter: the man is hospitalized with burns to more than half of his body. he is expected to survive. the cause of that explosion though is still under investigation. a bay area bank manager and her husband are accused of stealing almost a million dollars from a 96-year-old man. san jose police say christina and jimmy brai plet the victim at the bank where christina worked and they convinced him that she was a distant relative. they withdrew cashier's checks and cash and got things like a time share property, a mercedes, and even cosmetic

surgery. the victim's relatives eventually notified police. and while detectives were talking to the victim, the couple showed up at his house, and police arrested them. on some other bay area headlines lefty odouls and santa are collecting toys for san francisco's neediest children tonight. the toy drive ends at 2:00 tomorrow morning. santa's workers will take the toys and walk around the streets and look for needy kids and give out the gifts. thousands of hungry san franciscoens dug into prime rib. at the hall in the tenderloin. the house of prime rib donated 2,000 pounds of prime rib for today's lunch and they will have a christmas day turkey dinner tomorrow. an act of generosity this holiday season. what someone in the bay area put into a salvation army kettle. you might be surprised. and will santa deliver warmer weather?

stick around for christmas day. we have your forecast coming up.

the u-s. that's accordin santa has crossed the atlantic. he is headed for the u.s. that's according to norad which tracks santa's journey every christmas eve. tradition.

he is ready leaving gifts for boys and girls in africa, asia and europe and very busy. this year santa broke a record with volunteers at the north american aerospace defense command and took 8,000 calls per hour and as you can see, his next stop, grand falls windsor, newfoundland canada. and the facebook page getting a lot of visits. more than 960,000 so far. try to stay off the naughty list. down to the wire here. it lands on the same day every year. and every time, there are people who wait until christmas eve to do their holiday shopping. so we decided to tag along with the crowd at the hillsdale mall in san mateo. some shoppers say they were forced out and others say they like the last-minute pressure and in the end the shopper selection may not matter because the national retail federation says people are expected to return more than $46 billion in gifts. it was a lot more than loose change that was dropped into two salvation army kettles on the peninsula this week. some very big bucks. on friday, someone dropped a

check for $10,000. into the kettle. and outside a safeway store in menlo park. and three days earlier, the bell ringer at a redwood city safeway received a $5,000 donation. and these big donations come at a time when the redwood city salvation army is having some serious budget problems. >> when i came to pick up the kettle around 2:30, 3:00, show told me, boy, are you going to be happy. it is a lot. it is a whole lot. and we're pretty excited about it. >> the salvation army says that the money will provide motel vouchers and food for hundreds of homeless families. all right. this is how they suck you in. the jackpot is still up for grabs. there were a few winners in last night's mega millions drawing. five tickets matched five numbers pulled last night. here are the numbers. the next mega millions d esday. that >> the five winners will each

get $155,663. the next mega millions drawing is going to be on tuesday. and the jackpot for that, $206 million. i think we will have to put a little more than a buck in this time, liz. >> i know. i guess if we had won, we would have gotten the call already from ken. >> we wouldn't be here right now. >> we could buy a lot of christmas gifts. >> thanks, grace. good weather story today. how cold will it get overnight tonight? hopefully you can stay indoors and bundle up behind a blanket. we have a freeze warning in effect. much of the bay area. especially in our inland valleys. east and south bay valleys. also portions of the north bay. those temperatures are going to dip. so how low? lostly in the mid-20s to low 30s. protect plant and pets. don't keep them outside tonight. we will get even colder. mostly in the 40s and 50s right now. we're seeing a few colder spots in fairfield, coming in now at 38 degrees. and again, that freeze warning in effect, from 11:00 tonight, until 9:00 tomorrow morning. and so it is really our inland valleys, we're really seeing

the cold patchy frost. only a low there of 25 degrees. and so what you saw overnight, and last night, we're expecting that again. and for tonight, i know for tomorrow, we're going to warm things up. it looks like in the upper 50s, low 60s. across most parts and sun and clouds. a mix. if you're watching our newscast earlier, there is another spare the air alert for tomorrow. for christmas day. so no wood burning. that whole chestnuts roasting on an open fire, thing. not going to happen through the holiday weekend. here is a look at the satellite and radar picture. notice the system here just to the west of us. it is going to bring a few high clouds. and tomorrow, and monday. but the bottom line is we are staying dry. so that is goods news. for santa. and his sleigh and his reindeer. lows overnight, pretty cold again. freeze warning in effect. 25 in fairfield. that's definitely one of the colder spots and 26 in concord and 27 in livermore. also 27 in santa rosa. so if you're doing a little traveling for the holiday, a pretty sunny day. mostly to partly sunny skies across northern california and

for closer to home, across the bay area, again upper 50s, to low 60s. across many parts of the bay area. and so checking the next several days, once again we are staying dry tomorrow and on into monday. a few more clouds roll in. but look at the middle of the week. that is when we are seeing a chance of rain. it looks like late tuesday night. and into wednesday. and that chance of rain, lingers throughout the remainder of the week. so this is not going to be a huge rainmaker. just some light sprinkles but again we haven't seen rain in a while. quickly a look at the christmas forecast. chilly in the morning. and then that freeze warning is set to expire around 9:00 and then sun and clouds. temperatures mostly in the upper 50s to low 60s. that's your weather. let's go over to gary for a check of sports. >> elizabeth, thanks. the 49ers battle for a first round bye. the riders fight for their playoff lives. it is so exciting. everyone is flipping out at the possibility of both local teams in the playoffs. sports is next. ok, you guys wanted a space for entertaining your friends,

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we raiders had no room fo after a heart breaking loss to the detroit lions last week, the raiders had no room for error. they had to just win, baby. it started today in kansas city. a place they had won four straight. romeo cornell, the head coach of the chiefs, kc knocked off the packers in the debut last week sot raiders should be a piece of cake, right? no, i don't think so. third quarter, carson palmer aired it out to the rookie moore, who hauled it in. 68-yard touchdown pass. he will take it.

10-3 raiders. palmer had two interceptions to go along with the touchdown. 13-6 oakland. with under two minutes to go in the game. kyle orton, to dexter mcclust ner the back field. a perfectly designed play. look at all of the blocking. he keeps going. picked up 49 yards. the longest play of his career. takes it down all the way down there to the three. and a play later, orton to duane bo for the short touchdown to tie the game up at 13. same score now, five seconds to go, who is lining up? ryan sukup tried the 50-yard field goal. blocked. and the raiders get the ball first in overtime. what do they do? the first play, palmer went deep and found hayward. he gets it and goes by the sideline. a gain of 53. that set up an easy 36-yard chipper for sebastian janikowski. that is your final. raiders with win 16-13. >> how good does it feel to be playing this meaningful

football this late in december and still having a shot to get the raiders in the playoffs? >> it feels good to me. like this before, they never played for nothing. it feels wonderful. going into the locker room and you can see the playoff birth at lome. if you can't bring your a-game next week, what are you holding it for? we are going to be ready to play next week. >> everything that me and coach davis have been talking about, those things are true. and it is still alive. i mean i'm going to stay this, an i believe it in my whole heart, i've never said this to anybody else but the man told me, he said we are winning in the end. and i believe that. >> a hold. it is blocked. the raiders are alive. they will go to overtime. >> how about richard seymour with the two blocked field goals? you think where it could have been had he not blocked the two. >> that's great. he is the leader of our defense. he is the heart and soul of it. and i'm thankful as much as anything ha he was able to

block that kick. >> big thanks to richard seymour. thank you, rich. merry christmas. >> you too. merry christmas. >> that was kim coil. and no fourth quarter magic for team tebow and the broncos. and there were two tebow interceptions. a career high four picks. buffalo snapped a four-game losing streak as they blew out denver 40-14. the raiders and broncos are tied for the division lead and for the raiders to win the division they need to beat san diego at home next sunday and have the broncos lose to the chiefs. best play of the day. if not the year. bengals had a 23-0 lead against the cars and jerome simpson jumped here and the gymnastics girls have nothing on him. stuck the lands. the 49ers needed a win against the seahawks. to keep new orleans from stealing that first round bye in the playoffs.

and this one, from seattle. seahawks try to stay in the playoff hunt. winners of five of their last six. third quarter, frank gore, plowed in for the four-yard touchdown. game tied at 10. gore had 83 yards on 23 carries. later in the fourth, 16-10 san francisco. andy lee's punt is blocked for farewell. the seahawks got the ball at the 4-yard line. look at that. they scoop it up. it had to end. marshawn lynch scored and the 49ers streak of not allowing a rushing touchdown at 15 is over. it happened right there. lynch went over 100 yards. the first time san francisco has allowed a 100-yard rusher in many games. and and the niners respond. crab tree for a gain of 41 yards. no problem. there is he is. 14 of 26. and for 179 yards for crabtree. that set up a david acres 39- yard field goal. the nfl record setting 41st connect of the season. san francisco wins 19-17 and they clinch a first round bye with a saints loss this monday night against the falcons.

there you go. >> kim coil is very busy on the road. this late in the season. >> thanks, gary. the people on this guest list may not want to know where the presents are really from. while many are getting something new, the dumpster diver finds what is used and the high end gifts he gets for free just for being willing to get his hands dirty. that story and much more tonight at 10:00 and 11:00. apparently santa is in canada heading for prince edward island. cold tonight. he will have to watch it once he gets to the bay area. bundle up. and the reindeer. map

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