your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. a horrible day on bay area freeways. the driver of a pickup lucky to be alive when a box truck

crushes it. and a messy spill on the bay bridge snarls traffic making thousands late for work. it's been a horrible day on the bay area roads as michelle mentioned. starting with this. a box truck flipped on a pickup crushing it. as many as a dozen vehicles involved in this crash outside the macarthur maze northbound 880 in oakland. only minor injuries are reported. the accident caused major backups with one lane open at the time. right now two lanes are open. chp says it will be some time before the lanes are cleared out. a liquid drywall spill forced the closure of several lanes at the end of the bay bridge in san francisco for the morning commute. kpix 5's anne makovec talked to some drivers who were steaming about all the delays. anne. >> reporter: this is one of those mornings that will make drivers reconsider using a car as a reliable mode of transportation. traffic is now moving smoothly here on the upper deck of the

bay bridge. but it was a nightmare morning commute. it was just before 4 a.m. when a truck lost its load on the upper deck of the bay bridge. 35 five gallon buckets of liquid drywall fell off a flatbed and spilled coating the roadway and several nearby cars. >> i came here, i mean, i didn't even check the news or anything. >> reporter: so leonardo ramirez was one of hundreds of drivers who found themselves stuck with all westbound lanes closed. >> about an hour in traffic. >> reporter: after an hour the chp old one lane to filtering traffic off the fremont street exit. >> it was moving a little but mostly standstill. >> reporter: the road was opened by 7 a.m. but the damage to the commute was done. those who finally made it to san francisco were already behind the curve. >> so now i'm late for work and i got to explain it to my boss. >> at least he could understand, right? >> no. >> reporter: but at least he arrived at work unlike ramirez. >> never made it to the toll plaza. >> reporter: he came all the

way from stockton and his car overheated. >> i'm going to have to turn around and go home because there's no way that i can make all the way to my work. >> reporter: the driver of the truck that lost its load is being cooperative and will eventually be charged monetary damage for the clean-up of the bridge this morning. live in san francisco, anne makovec, kpix 5. several charges have been filed against a tsa officer at the oakland airport. she is accused of using her position to allow drugs to be smuggled on planes. 28-year-old kiana clark was arrested on wednesday and is expected to appear in court sometime today. justice department says clark operated baggage screening x- ray machines and allowed coconspirators to clear checkpoints with marijuana in their luggage. smuggling went on between september 2013 until october of this year. he is the most popular man in the month of december. but at least one parent disagrees so much so a school field trip to meet santa claus was canceled.

kiet do joins us live in san jose where there are a number of parents who are none too happy. kiet. >> reporter: yeah. good afternoon. you know, as we speak, santa is here in the house at the "big e" coffee shop in san jose. the kindergarten parents completely understand where this jewish mother is coming from even though they strongly disagree with her views. their complaint is now with the administration. they want to know what exactly is the process when someone complains so that they don't go through this pain again. you are witnessing a 10-year- old tradition at sartorette elementary school. a walking field trip to go see santa that has officially been canceled. >> it's just a shame that it's come down to this. >> reporter: and yet a dozen or so parents pulled their kids out of kindergarten today and went anyway, a walkout, a protest to the school district. >> i just want to show that the district more than anything else keep these things that are important for us. >> reporter: it all started this month when this parent talia who is jewish complained to the district about the santa field trip. >> it is not an appropriate

activity in a public school! it is completely for parents to do on their own times. if they want to do it on their own time, that's great. >> reporter: talia showed us these photos from yesterday of an activity that she helped organize that featured holiday celebrations from different cultures. but she takes issue with something like this, a school activity that makes kids draw reindeer on red and green paper. >> in a sends a message to kids who do not practice christianity that i'm not as american as my peers. >> reporter: it was a packed house at the school board meeting last night. parents are asking why the board acted so swiftly to cancel this long tradition without a public discussion. >> we need to find out the truth. we need to know what happened and what the board did to allow this to happen so quickly based on one woman. >> reporter: and that's a big question. we left a message with the superintendent right around 8 a.m. still have not yet heard back. we're live in san jose, kiet

do, kpix 5. just a short time ago, president obama held his annual year end news conference in which he laid out his plan for his final year in office. he talked about the economy and terror. >> the united states continues to lead a global coalition in however mission to destroy isil which already lost 40% of the populated areas it once controlled in iraq and it's losing territory in syria. as we keep up the pressure, our air campaign will continue to hit isil harder than ever taking out their leaders, their commanders, and their forces. >> tonight the president goes to san bernardino to meet with victims in the terror attack there. after that, he and the family heads to hawaii for their annual winter vacation. and the year on capitol hill looks like it's ending peacefully. both the house and senate this morning passed a $1 trillion spending bill. it will fund the federal government through next september. president obama has promised to

sign it. scandal rocking the bernie sanders campaign for president. a staffer has been fired for assessing confi-- accessing confidential information on hillary clinton's campaign. craig boswell on all the fallout. >> reporter: bernie sanders campaign fired its national data director after he accessed confidential voter files from hillary clinton's campaign. the dnc maintains the master list of voter data and rents it out to national campaigns. it includes voter information and history including past support and donations. each campaign then adds its own proprietary information gathered from field workers and volunteers. a firewall is supposed to keep campaigns from viewing the information gathered by their opponents. but on wednesday, a software glitch caused the firewalls to come down for about a half-hour exposing voter files to all the campaigns. the bernie sanders campaign said, after discussion with the dnc, it became clear that one of our staffers accessed some

modeling data from another campaign. that behavior is unacceptable and that staffer was fired. the dnc has suspended the sanders campaign access to the database until it determines it no longer has clinton campaign information. saturday night all three democrat also have their third debate in new hampshire. the only state where sanders is strongly challenging clinton. nationally, a new poll out friday morning shows clinton with a 31-point lead over sanders. craig boswell, cbs news, the white house. >> at least four other staffers saw the data but haven't faced discipline. sanders' campaign said it never downloaded or saved any clinton campaign files but the "associated press" reports that the clinton proprietary voter data was in fact saved. the man known as the most hated man in america has resigned from the pharmaceutical company he founded. martin shkreli stepped down from the company this morning following his arrest yesterday on securities fraud charges. he rose to infamy earlier this

year when he jacked up the price of a drug by 5,000%. that new "star wars" movie has been out less than a day and it's already breaking box office records since last night. the film earned $57 million so far. that's easily breaking the previous record for a thursday night release set by harry potter and the deathly hallows. early figures suggest "the force awakens" will beat our jurassic world for the best domestic opening weekend in history. tanning beds coming under truth is any again. the tough new restrictions now being proposed. >> and autopsy results are back and we know what killed the front man for the stone temple pilots. >> the storm door is opening. we'll have details coming up. ,,,,,,,, [ dog barks ]

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scott way-land. if you at noon the autopsy report is out for bay area musician and stone temple pilots front man scott whelan. according to the medical examiner he died from a lethal combination of drugs, toxicology reports finding cocaine, alcohol and amphetamines in his system at the time of the death. 48-year-old whelan was discovered unresponsive on his tour bus earlier this month. it may soon become illegal for anyone under 18 to use tanning beds. the survey showed tanning beds are used mostly by teenaged girls. federal health officials are behind the proposed ban. it's part of an ongoing effort to reduce skin cancer caused by machines. the ban would also require tanning bed users to sign consent formsing an knowledging the danger. -- consent forms acknowledging the danger. there are about 420,000 cases of tanning bed-related cancers every year. rains and floods are causing problems for people up in oregon. a massive sinkhole swallowed up

a car parked in the home's driveway about 140 miles southwest of portland. when the firefighters arrived, the sinkhole turned into a landslide. emergency crews evacuated four homes in the area. fortunately nobody was hurt. a little closer to home set to be a record weekend on the slopes at tahoe. of course it's the weekend before the holiday and a heavy blanket of fresh powder in time to coat the sierra. resorts like sugar bowl have two feet of new snow and with el nino moisture on the way, the season is only expected to get better. more snow is on the way. brian has the forecast. we have rain that will be spreading south over the bay area today beginning first in the north bay and then it will spread south and make a mess of the evening commute tonight. not enormous amounts but nevertheless a fairly good soaking we now and early tomorrow morning, when we expect things to begin to let up. but in the meantime expect things to begin to get wet in the bay area. winter storm warnings rain turns to snow in the mountains so warnings are posted for

tonight through saturday night. snow about 5500 feet, lowering to 4500 feet by tomorrow morning. heavy snow is possible with the snowfall totaling 6 to 12 inches. travel delays, the heaviest snow falling between 4 p.m. and 4 a.m. so give yourself some extra time if you are planning on hitting the slopes. future rainfall in the next five days shows a real bull's eye around mendocino with 5 inches or more. down here about a inch by the time all is said and done. what we are expecting rain first north, then south, later in the day. showers saturday early going and then we'll clear it out. saturday should be mostly sunny but early going a lingering shower or two. overnight lows tonight sunrise tomorrow morning, 7:21 a.m., will be mostly in the mid-40s and then daytime highs tomorrow pretty close to where we usually are at this time of the year. maybe a lingering shower in the south bay and then temperatures topping out in the upper 50s

and low 60s. rain will hit the centra bay area. north bay rain and then by tomorrow morning we'll get some sunshine. rain spreading south today. wet today, showers tomorrow. sunday showers same for monday. tuesday and wednesday mostly cloudy. another system moves in on thursday. so carry an umbrella and have a good weekend. that's good advice, brian. time now for our "food for bay area families." joining us is michelle senior legal counsel and donna peace with second harvest food bank of santa clara and san mateo. thanks for coming on. all right. this is exciting. michelle, you are on the foundation grant making committee and you're also volunteering. >> yes, i am. giving back to our bay area community is so core to sandisk culture. we are pleased to present this check for $225,000 to second harvest food bank and i would

note this represents not only monetary donation from the foundation from our employees but also sandisk dollar match for over 2,000 hours of employee volunteer time for second harvest. >> that's amazing. $225,000! it goes a long way. >> it truly can. this check alone represents 450,000 meals for our families in need. and since we serve 250,000 people every month, this will go a long way towards feeding our hungry neighbors. >> so this is a big check. >> thank you. >> and thank you so much. this is great. wonderful. we have been taking pictures, too. and for more on how you can help, just go to our website, cbssf.com/give. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,

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holidays... but there are some safety tips you need to know before bogey gets a new chew toy.. here to chat is r pet expert dr. jill chase... ? lots of pets will be getting treats and toys for the holiday. here to chat about that is dr. jill chase with bogey who is making his second appearance. 40 pounds about five or six months ago? he weighs what, more than that. >> it's bode. things safe to get your dogs for the holidays. i think what i'd like to say if it's something you're giving your dog all along there's no problems that's fine. but the things to talk about if you have never done it before,

there could be a problem. so raw hides, i always recommend them but some dogs will chew them down to a size that's small enough that if they try to swallow it they can choke themselves and we have to do the heimlich. >> throw it away if they are small. >> another big problem is for whatever reason the bones that are sold at the pet stores sometimes cause severe gastrointestinal problems to the point where it can be fatal. so i would say if you have never done that before, maybe don't get that. also, i wanted to talk about balls. you saw like the different size balls? some people like to get the smaller ones. if you have a labrador and you throw it, it could get caught in the throat and they can't breathe basically. it's an emergency situation. what else do we have? >> what else? let's take a look here, dr. jill. stuffed toys. >> so stuffed toys right if your dog is going to pull them apart and get the stuffing out, you want to make sure you pull it away so they don't eat the polyester filling. it can cause an obstruction. >> most of it is edible.

if you are worried, keep it away. >> most of the stores sell things that are not toxic. bode is thinking you want to leave now. >> bode is 11 pounds, 70 pounds. he was 4 months old in may. so pretty. >> may be the most beautiful dog i have ever seen. bode, i hope you have a merry christmas. thanks so much, jill. >> merry christmas to everybody. >> thanks for bringing bode in. if you have a question for dr. jill, we answer them on friday's at noon. just email pets@kpix.com or on our facebook page, and we'll have our pet expert give you an answer every friday right here at noon. tomato season in the bay area is over. but you can still get them in the grocery stores. fresh grocer tony tantillo on the kinds that are best this time of year. >> reporter: well, today's tip of the day is going to be hothouse tomatoes. in the market now, of course your backyard tomatoes are just about gone and look how beautiful they are. they are grown in a hothouse so mother nature doesn't have a play on the growing of these tomatoes so in the hothouse

they control the atmosphere. so they can pick them when they are ripe full of sugar. so that's why you see them green at the market, don't buy it. it's a lazy grower and shipper. that's what i say. and it has to be nice and red. so when you buy them, the redder the outside the better they will be. very important. free from any shriveling whatsoever and heavy for their size. when you bring them home, always store them on the counter never in the refrigerator. hothouse tomatoes are picked with the full sugar in it so shelf life, maybe three to five days at the most on the counter. that's it. it will make a wonderful caprese salad with mozzarella, mint not basil this time of year, olive oil, salt and pepper. it's a beautiful thing. i'm tony tantillo, your fresh grocer. and always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy. all around we are seeing signs of a strengthening economy. according to the labor department, unemployment is down in almost half of u.s. states since november. the rapid hiring rates suggest

businesses are healthy enough to add employees. the economy generated 211,000 jobs last month. the u.s. unemployment rate is at 5% a seven year low > in today's jobs report, if you can speak multiple languages it can pay off. >> reporter: do family get- togethers sometimes feel you feeling like you need an interpreter? you're not alone. the government reports that demand for interpreters and translators is skyrocketing. openings in the field are expected to rise 46% by 2022. translators and interpreters are not interchangeable. interpreters typically focus on the spoken word, translators deal with the written word. this means many translators are able to work from home. the globalization of business is driving growth in the field but there are other factors at play, too. for instance, interpreters are often employed in courtrooms, hospitals, and schools. as the u.s. becomes more diverse, those professionals

who specialize in law and healthcare should have their choice of jobs. wages vary based on expertise and employer. but the average pay for both interpreters and translators in the bay area is over $47,600. one big plus to this field, it can't be fully automated. computers have made the work more efficient, but they have yet to do a better than a human being. i'm jill schlesinger for kpix 5. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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ews at noon. a new iphone you can pick one up in the bay area but there's a catch. that and more coming up. >> there's always a catch to the new iphones. it's friday. we are going to start our weekend. we have rain coming later today. >> rain coming later today so in the afternoon commute everyone wants to be careful on the roads. >> you're off for a few days. >> for two weeks. >> how does that feel? >> it feels great. >> she is retiring early. >> going to feel better on monday. >> have a great weekend. enjoy the last weekend to shop. bye. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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