now at 11:00. a travel miracle for a family stranded i the bay area right as our cameras were rolling.

from kpix this is the late news on cbs news bay area. we do have breaking news right at the top tonight. the alleged stockton serial killer facing even more charges now. the san joaquin county district attorney is naming four more charges including two more righ here in the bay area. facing charges for the murders of two men in alameda county. he was arrested back in octobe for shooting ask killing six people. we will keep an eye on this story and update you as soon as we learn more. now to our top story. peopl caught up in the southwest airlines meltdown are probably losing track of the days at thi point. a lot of them are still stuck here in the bay area. people have been getting creative to try to make their way home. they have been 74 flight cancellations in and out of sfo today. 160 in san jose. hundreds more flights delayed. the vast majority of these have been on

southwest. the luggage has been piling up and piling up. reuniting people with their bag is almost impossible for southwest right now. this is baggage claim at oakland and sa jose airports today. some peopl say they waited for hours to find their bag to only find out it was not even there. we have been working on it all day. lauren, i know you talked to a family at the airport who had a little bit of good news, nice t hear in all of this. >> sara, one lucky family at the oakland airport today had a bit of a miracle. >> reporter: what is supposed to be the most wonderful time o the year turned into the most stressful time of the year as families like this one try to make their way home after being stranded in the oakland airport from canceled flights. >> now we are finding out there is no trains in order to get home. so, we are trying to figure out where we are going t sleep tonight. and how we are

going to finish this journey over the next two or three days to get ourselves home and back to work. >> the family is on their way back from a visit with their so in hawaii. now facing weather hurdles as they make it home to north tahoe. >> the impending storm is going to dump snow on to donor pass and we will not be able to get across. >> reporter: thousands of bags are waiting to be retrieved as passengers scramble to find a way to get to their destination they were able to secure a rental car. they have no idea i their efforts will pay off by the morning. >> we drove 1,750 miles to try to catch our bags, no bags, we leave for hawaii tomorrow, thes are the clothes we bought at walmart two days ago outside of or outside yesterday in new mexico. quite an adventure. we would just love to get our bags back.

>> miracles are hard to come by at the oakland airport one man was in the right place at the right time for the family. >> i just flew in from honolul and i over heard them saying they are goes close to wreu where i was going so i offered them a ride. because of him the will make it home. >> i got a big truck to make it through the snow. i got to go home any way, might as well fil it up and do more christmas goo deeds. >> that is so nice first of all i know you spent a lot of time at different airports and passengers stranded to the poin they are sleeping on the floor of the airport for days. >> sara we learned that even santa is immune to the worst of the travel woes, our videoographer stumbled upon santa sleeping on the floor. he was visiting manhattan beach of duty after the holiday of course, when his flight to portland was canceled. he explained he hopped on the

first flight to get closer and found out the next flight north would not be until january 1st. >> i have been sleeping on the floor in the airport. what has that been like? >> it is miserable. not a place for santa on christmas weekend. >> no. >> i feel like there was a money-making opportunity there to entertain the kids. any way, we heard a lot of the alternate options are sold out as well. i there any chance that he can ge there any time sooner? >> he was able to snag a rental car and plans to make the 10 hour drive up to portland tomorrow. his only other option would be amtrak and a greyhound taking more than 20 hours. even most of those options are fully booked as well. >> my goodness, lawrence, thank you for braving it for me. appreciate it. >> to help with the stress of all of the lost luggages and th messed up travel plans therapy

animals visited the airport thi evening to help out stressed ou travelers to relax. that was in san jose. a lot of people are taking their frustrations to twitter. one tweeted the airpor was a disaster, she waited eigh hours to get her bags and drove all of the way back from oregon where she flew in from. gordon said his flight was canceled three times and now he is stuck in san jose until the 31st. to give you some perspective 87% of all of domestic flight cancellations today were southwest. and more flights could be canceled still what is causing all of this mess? one southwest pilot says you can blame the company's outdated software and poor planning. >> this was very much -- united airlines went through the same weather system as we did and they did not cancel as many flights and their recovery is faster vs us, we are still

recovering. >> another problem, southwest has a tighter turn around time between flights than most airlines making it more difficult to shovel their schedule around. the airline's ceo apologized today. >> we are doing everything we can to return to a normal operation. and please also hear that i am truly sorry. our plan for the next few days is to fly a reduced schedule and reposition our people and manie and we are making headway and w are optimist toeubg -- optimistic to be back on track. so, transportation secretary pete buttigieg is holding them accountable leading to a federa >> southwest can not locate where their own crews are and passengers and baggage. so, i conveyed to the ceo our expectation that they are going to go above and beyond to take care of passengers and to address this. >> with so bet the second

busiest spot, the rental car agency. people waited in long lines in san jose. demand for cars is through the roof. we talked to a traveler who gave up on flying home and rented a car to drive back to austin, texas. >> if i wait and risk getting rebooked and get pushed out another two or three days, i already missed three days of work and so has my wife. >> even the people who were thinking ahead had trouble. some people is that had reservations showed up and said sorry, no cars left because of several people that were supposed to return their rentals kept them longer after their flights were canceled. we had quite the storm roll in last night and into this morning. all of that wind and all of that rain did this. this big 5 sporting good had its roof cave in. fortunately this happened when the store was closed. nobody was inside and nobody got hurt. city inspectors tell us a beam snapped and it took the

sprinkler system down with it. the extra waterflooded a rite aid next door. >> it is rare. don't see it too often. been here for 20 years now and this is the first collapse that i have seen. >> down south on the peninsula, people in north selinas was stuck in knee-deep water. first alert meteorologist has been tracking all of this for us. pretty much as billed. >> yeah. >> the rain came in when it was supposed to and i was up listening to it late into the night and into the morning. it was loud. it sounded like a lot. >> does the wind wake you up. >> >> the rain, it was so intense. >> it was a combination of the two. we got two days over the next seven-days that don't have rain on them in the forecast. all of the rest of them do. some days will be more impressive than others. tomorrow, by the way, one of the days that does not have rain on it. we are taking a look at the doplar radar and there is light flurries falling, it is quiet now relatively speaking across the state. here is tomorrow. a lot

of tule fog in the central valley. more blue skies. make the most of tomorrow. th e clouds show up late tomorrow night and then by thursday the showers come back. if we watch the timing on this it is thursday afternoon and evening when the more widespread rain shows up there is storm number one. the one coming in after this, for friday night into saturday, that is the impressive one. that looks pretty good here for thursday. the one friday night and saturday is the one that we will focus a lot of our attention on. you can see the first system coming to an end. look at the sierra. a narrow sliver of snow. one of the overriding themes of this storm, the one that we had today and the one coming after this one. it is very high snow levels in the sierra. we have more to talk about on this. i will see you all for the rest of the forecast in a few minutes. >> thank you very much. coming up, thieves smash a store front and grab a safe. a

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welcome back. the police are trying to figure out the motive behind a shooting that left a woman dead. it

happened just after 2:00 this afternoon. when officers got there they found a woman shot in the head. she died at the hospital. the detectives found the gun and they are hoping witnesses and some video could help them figure out exactly what happened. >> having a broken into is expensive and disruptive and can take a toll on the workers there. imagine how workers at this bakery feel? it happened to them six times. we talked to staff who have to deal with it over and over again. >> i don't understand why they had to trash the place also. i don't get it. everything here was a mess. >> reporter: for the staff here, the morning consisted of all of the normal tasks and the added job of putting the bakery back together. burglars effectively ransacked the sales counter, stealing ipads and ripping out cables. >> it is not, it is not our first rodeo, you know.

>> reporter: this is the bakery's sixth break in. the most recent just about a month ago and also stolen this time around, a set of gifts that had been collected for the staff and the restaurant's industrial safe hauled out of the basement. >> it was screwed to the floor. i don't know how they got it unscrewed from the floor. yeah. >> reporter: the business owners are currently out of town but they took to social media tagging the mayor, the governor, even speaker pelosi saying small businesses deserve better. >> it just breaks my heart. these people are the best. i live across the street. >> reporter: neighbors, regulars express similar frustrations at the site of another shattered door front. >> all of the leaders of the city need to pitch in. you can not keep having businesses getting broken into. where are the police? >> it is sad. everyone puts their effort into this place and we try to make it nice. and

they -- it happens over and over again. >> reporter: that is something we heard from businesses before. it is not just that they are becoming victims of this crime it is that it is happening again and again. and cleanups like there one are becoming routine. >> they have done it over and over again. but the day after christmas? >> reporter: no comment from the police but the foreman said they may get rid of the glass door in hopes of preventing another break in. on top of the lost property and gifts, there was also plenty of lost business. >> it does not impact just, again, the owner, it impacts everyone, u know. so, i don't know. taking a look outside the bay area tonight. live pictures here. a lot clearer after the showers wrapped up this afternoon. we got plenty of rain last night and into this morning. so, darren, how about this? this is heavenly earlier

today. nice. >> okay. so there it is. there is the snow. strong winds, though, making things difficult there. cr ews were trying to groom it with plows, they needed the heavy-duty equipment this time. the resort said they got four inches of snow. the winds were gusting. >> when the storm comes in with the conveyer belt of winds the sierra feels it the most. they are also not the best storms for making snow in the mountains because they are relatively warm, they are sloppy, they are really windy and there is a lot more of those coming. most of the storms over the next couple of days will be of this variety. here is the way it will play out. i showed you the timing on the rain for the first storm. it is coming on thursday. we know tomorrow, no rain. more sunshine than anything else. thursday, we get rain. mostly in the afternoon and evening. here is the rainfall totals for that one. not bad for a modest storm. we are going to pick up about half an inch of in in the

getting an inch of out of this one and you get a quarter of an inch in the south bay. that is just thursday. now, let's look at the next storm as we bring that one in. this one will be the rainfall totals for friday and saturday. now, those are a lot more impressive. these numbers are actually almost identical to what we actually got this morning. in other words there is another storm coming in for the last two days of the year. primarily focused on the last day of the year. saturday, new year's eve day. the majority of this is likely going to fall. fo r right now. both days are grouped into this particular storm. it will be busy around here again. here is the comparison. new year's eve day storms driven in by another atmospheric river. that is what today looks like. the one here on saturday is not as impressive. just in terms of the amount of water. when you put together the other factors of the storm it has the ability to produce a descent amount of rain. it is

just the second one in a train of several. the big picture at look out in the pacific shows us we got that long trail of moisture out there. i am going to let it play well into the first week of january and we will see. here is the storm there. we know that one is coming in. there are others that come after it all of the way through like january 5th. we see this on-again, off-again pattern. it will be busy around here. we are doing good so far on rain. even at that, the official rain gauge in san francisco that sits a little over six inches taking into account all of today's rain. it is pretty good. we are still below average for this time of the year for the water year. we start the water year on october 1st. we missed out on october and the second half of november that is why we are below average. if you look at december, just the month of december we are above average. i know it feels like we have been getting a lot of rain, we have. for december, we have done well. even at that we are only ve

mentioned earlieinnewsca, two d have rain is the st lookyes,ne 2nd we are back in an active pattern. much to discus. coming up in sports, what made the warriors bench react like this, golden state looking to build off of its big home win. we will have that after the break. chances are you never had a dance battle with your teacher. the students who were shocked after seeing

we are so lucky to have you back on the night shift with us. le t's talk warriors. obviously the home games have been pretty good. can we pull that momentum through a little bit when they are on the road? >> i know, that is what we would like to see. see what they are doing at chase on the road. that is not the case. the warriors struggled all season on the road, at home it is a complete 180. looking to build

off of a big win over memphis on christmas day. curry, however, remained sideline with the visiting hornets in town. his fellow flash brother, klay thompson, warms up, in transition, scored 14 in the first quarter. just before the half, klay gets fouled. throws one up, somehow it goes in. let's take another luke. incredible effort and steph could not believe what he saw. hornets played it interesting. ball hits the triple here, ties it up to 98. five minutes to go. the final minute, poole, drives to the pucket and dishes it, finishing with a slam over mason. he finishes with with 24 points, six assists, 14 points and warriors win 110-105. golden state picking up another home win before they host utah tomorrow. >> we went with him for his defense. he was playing really well defensively. and, he was guarding ball. he was rewarded

that that defensive effort. i thought that he was just brilliant. >> without his effort we would not have saw it. he is coming into his own. heading to the ice, sharks in vancouver, taking on the canucks. putting one on the net. right place, right time, actually, first of two goals on the flight for meyer. it was all vancouver from there. finding the back of the net, sharks host the flyers on thursday. there was mavericks guard luka doncic. today, dallas down two in the final seconds, luka misses the free throw. dallas won the game and he finishes with a career high, get this, 60 points, 21 rebounds and 10 assists. it is the first time it has been done in nba

history. here is luka after the game. >> 60 points, 20 boards, never happened, baby, how does it feel right now? >> i am tired as hell. [ laughter ] >> you can rest later, you are young. >> i need a recovery beer. >> i need a recovery beer tphrao and the cowboy outfit is all he needed. >> i thought he looked nice. >> it worked. >> it was a nice touch. >> okay, thank you very much. up next, you might love him, you might hate him

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celebrity chef guy fieri spent a good amount of time checking out diners and restaurants across the country. that is his thing. out of the thousands of restaurants there is one that sits high on the list of best spots t happens to

be right here in the bay area. so, his favorite spot is dwarfs tavern, south of half-moon bay. it is 128 years old and keeps its portuguese roots. it is low key, cozy, and the unofficial mayor of flavor town's favorite meal? that, it looks pretty good. classic san francisco dish. all kinds of seafood in it and whatever pie that is. it looks pretty good, too. guy eri grew up in humbol know, they only serve on the weekends but you can get a slice of pie any time. >> > speaking of food, a new docu-series is highlights two poplar san francisco restaurants and the family that runs them. chef dynasty house of fang, the name of the series, reinvolves around chinatown's restaurants. they

are run by the fang family. peter fang and his daughter, chef kathy fang. it has been operating for awhile. they opened back in 1988 and their poplar dishes that people seem to love. the sesame chicken and noodles. next, a student challenges their teacher to a dance battle. they probably did not expect this. [ music]

okay. so, would you have a dance battle with a study -- with a student in front of the whole school? let's be real. no, me either. it happen inside florida. let's check it out. [music] >> okay. that was the student, obviously. challenged the teacher to this dance off between exams on december 23rd. >> he is good, really good. >> he went into dance battle mode, she had a little something for him. the students went crazy. this is going viral all over the internet. i saw it on tiktok. a lot of people were saying even though she did a great job, they felt like she held back just a little bit for the sake of the children. the assistant

principal recorded the whole thing. >> she got some moves. >> our executive producer says why don't you dance at the end effort show. absolutely not, unless adult beverages are provided and they are nowhere to be found. >> i don't see any. >> that will not happen now or ever on this broadcast. wishful thinking. [ laughter ] >> any way, thank you very much for watching. the late show with stephen colbert is next and the news continues streaming on cbs news bay area, good night - [narrator] the following is a paid commercial program for better bladder. sponsored by trusted therabotanics. are you always checking out the location of the nearest bathroom? do you have trouble sitting through a movie without a bathroom break? are you afraid you'll have an accident when you sneeze or laugh in public? are you constantly getting up throughout the night because you have to go?

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