top stories we're following oakland police searching for a fourth suspect in an officer involved shootings beutel said. >> with your traveling all over the world have back. we are tracking delays. >> california will find out if it gains a seat in the house of representatives. >> before we give you the news about other people storm submits track our home. looking a lot of our roof in san francisco we are seeing a bit of rain. some two storm is coming this one and then one this weekend. >> the one in time for christmas this morning to spotty showers mostly dry this morning across the bay. clear conditions a from

a camera over albany. first day of winter today it will be the shortest day of the year the longest night of the year. scatter charts for this morning rain expected for tonight and into tomorrow as well. here's a look at storm trucker for showing us what's going on. spotty showers might not much of anything trying out spotty showers open to the north bay and the delta as well. peninsula has stayed dry. the temperatures in the upper 40's 50 degrees for malcolm view also san jose 42 for livermore. as we take you to the afternoon staying in the '50s today 56 san rosa, 54 novato, 57 in through richmond and temperatures in the south bay upper 50s. same goes for the east bay as well. fisher satellite radar showing you what's going on a couple of waves the first one pushing to

the south hammering southern california are at this hour with heavy rain. up to the north bring showers three we get your rica. and the bay area a few sprinkles this morning expect showers back up tonight turning to rain later tonight. by 6:00 a.m. the chance of showers but by 9:00 p.m. all the yellow and orange in the north bay shows heavier downpours that are expected to continue in your early morning hours tomorrow. chance of rain for towards commute but it should drive towards the later part of the day. 7 day around the bay catching a break on thursday and friday partly sunny conditions but the rain moves back in full force on christmas day. >> tracking a hot spot through san mateo on 92 westbound off of this san mateo bridge of this san mateo bridge and onto 101. the ram there is maybe almost

completely blocked. chp has been then but word from a number of yours who objected to say things are pretty congested. traffic backed up to a foster city boulevard we have been trying to see if they're going to issue a travel traffic the advisory. it was multi vehicle crash one of the vehicles in flames and was engulfed. they have to get a flat bed to get that vehicle way it was too far kron in order to just simply tell it. they have to bring a flat bed out. the number of the other vehicles involved as well. so far no impact on 1 01 north but traffic is backed up for three-quarters of a mile coming off of this san mateo bridge and onto 1 01 northbound. the toll plaza of the bridge still no impact here but you see the changeable

message signed on the right-hand side of the screen is eliminated with information about that accident. if i had the choice i would probably go south to the dutch art bridge and avoid the mess. for the bay bridge if your goal is north on 101 because it is light traffic here. snow back up or delay yesterday the meter lights were not activated until the 7:00 hour even at that it was turned off at the end of the compute. the ride on 92 on 1 01 hot spot this morning with an accident on the connecting ramp. better news for the southbound to 80 creche in san francisco. it is that here. the accident is off the roadway and a minor delay. >> there's a hot spot at sfo a lot of people traveling for the holidays jackie sizzle is live at the airport. tracking flight

delays and to see how busy it is. >> you can see all is well so far you can start to see security line is starting to grow. we will talk about it all week. we've been talking about it for the last month the holiday season long lines this is that the ticket counter about an hour ago you can see long lines. it is the huge amount of holiday travel in fact sfo expects a 4% increase of travelers this year. you combine that with the bad weather we've had not only on the west coast but the midwest chicago specifically. they are expecting heavy snow and blizzard conditions. they are expecting big delays coming in and out of o'hare. as of that and our boat

all the flights to chicago from united were on time. there are lots of families traveling with small children. lots of people in general bad weather. if you're traveling today out of any airport the best thing to do is call ahead picture your carrier's on-time and give yourself plenty of time the lines are long and they are slope. security check here seems like it's slower than normal. if you're traveling give yourself time. >> it makes no whole experience pleasant when you're not interactions and fearful that you will miss your flight. >> we have live pictures coming out of las vegas right now under a flash flood warning. there's some flash flooding taking place right now vary heavier rain over last 24 hours with more rain expected as a are storms pose

and the southern california. >> oakland police are searching for a fourth suspect in net officer involved shootings it happened after four people led police on a chase yesterday afternoon in the 3000 block of 13th avenue of the chase went on for 3 mi.. the driver crashed the car for people jumped out and police opened fire one suspect was killed, two other investigate the fourth is some loose. this is the sixth officer involved shootings this year. >> police are looking for a man officers responded to a section of rocks burn way it down a man lying in the street. investigators say the victim drove to the area to meet with people who work in an a very dirty 19 '90s green ford escort.

as soon as he got in the car shots were heard he was shot from the car and the suspects took off. >> a developing story in italy just breaking last half hour they have found an explosive device on a subway in rome. it sounded inside a train during a stop on the outskirts of rome the area was cleared and they had bomb disposal experts when an. they are examining that right now the device had been left in a grocery bag under a seat and it was spotted by the conductor. >> we will be back as the news continues. [ female announcer ] safeway talks gift ideas.

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video crews were trying to clear up this year with the busy travel of the holidays cars living and sliding off the road.

forecasters predict 10 ft. of snow on the mountains or next couple of days. the southern california's mammoth lakes has all seeing 9 ft. of snow in 24 hours. illus place you don't have a chain sissonne 80. chains are required on 58 and 88 as you had to talk of today. >> calling of later toyota and agreeing to pay the government millions of dollars in fines of how the automatic her deal with the recalls. >> 648 a and last-minute shoppers one toy store says it will be open 88 hours straight. at 6:50 a.m. a very strange reason why all was evacuated last night. stay tuned as this continues.

6:15 a.m. toronto dominion bank has agreed to buy chrysler financial. the old lending arm from cerberus capital for $6.3 billion they acquired it when they bought most of the automaker in 2007 and lost control of chrysler when they almost ran out of cash. td bank expects jury brand chrysler financial under the team van. >> her new details in the recall toyota will pay $32.4 million in extra funds for civil penalties will settle investigations into how they dealt with recalls in over recall petals and stick steering relay rods. this latest settlement is on top of $60 million fine that toyota paid later earlier on an investigation so the total

penalties levied on toyota $48 million toyota does not say they have done anything wrong. not much change on wall street christmas with light trading is down 14. yesterday. business stories we're following wells fargo agreeing to modify it adjustable-rate loans that were made to 15,000 californians by lenders. the bank will pay $32 million to thousands of followers who lost their homes in foreclosure. it deals with pay option and trash of adjustable rate options. a judge of proving a bankruptcy plan for the inquires publisher american media the publications and account for one-fifth of the new stance sought protection last month with 879 million in debt.

>> senses rewrote will release their results from the latest count expected to show the population growth to drop in to the lowest level in seven decades. the figures will be used to reapportion the house states. republican are expected to gain. the treasury department wants to go paper less. they settled on the day when millions of people will be able to get their benefit checks by mail. new recipients of benefits will have to get paperless payments starting may 1st of next year. as three months of our earlier then proposed. those already on social security will have toll march 2013 to switch to debit dordrecht deposit. >> watching the snow and tahoe joining us now was officer tony with chp. >> could morning mark. we have

clear roads right now so anyone is planning to come up believe are not we do not have a chain of control in place. just remember always bring chains because we are expecting some snow today. i don't also have a chain of control a lot. i would be prepared for have a set make sure they fit the car. make sure you have extra washer fluid don't come up with an empty tank of gas. planned in this case you do bring down remember if you have billable full dial 9118 goes directly to the california highway patrol. if you have a new or fall with gps activated it actually will put your latitude and longitude onscreen in front of our dispatcher so we can find out where you are a did you call. >> we spoke to on friday as people were getting ready to head up high in the weekend

all? >> believe it or not we had what we consider a fairly uneventful weekend we had several accidents. very few injury accidents which is what we strive for. our goal would be the zero accidents but i think is to be expected we are one have incidents on heavy snow weekends. the titular early when traffic volume goes up 3-4 times when it normally is. >> thanks for your time on to weather. less find out about that storms. fell off a light- shot a this snow fall lawn 80 but 50 looks to be clear. all the moisture to or no. however what we see is spotty showers drifting far enough south to bring us isolated showers this morning. we will take you to the bay area mostly clear conditions what we have seen as isolated

shop sells running through. for the most part we are actually drive. it will be the second part of your day the princess of been more wet weather. front temperatures over four days of the north bay 49 for san francisco, 50 in san francisco i mean mountainview, the fda has bring us into the 50s. 54 novato, 56 san francisco, as we head toward the afternoon temperatures in the south bay ranging from mid to upper 50s, 68 over oakland today. future cast 4 shows you what is going on hit or miss showers throughout the day. the later part of the day brings a better chance for debt heavy downpours over night tonight into tomorrow morning as well. by this every day tomorrow we should dry out. we will stay dry for thursday and friday. maybe some circles

in the late evening. saturday there rain returned with full force. >> better news for hot spot in san mateo it's affecting the right off san mateo bridge its westbound just before the connecting ramp that will give vehicle accident occurred one vehicle erupting in flames. the fire has been extinguished selling emergency vehicles already departing the scene and a rand is opened. you can get on to 1 01 north or sorry 1 01 south. because of the hazard is backing up traffic beyond foster city boulevard. it's affecting your ride off the bridge. we will resume out and you can see traffic slows right off the bridge here as soon as you inland in just a little pass as you move through foster city out toward foster fashion island.

you will however be able to get to the ramp and while they did have three lanes shutdown now only 2 lanes are closed. they opened up an extra lane in the westbound direction this accident is likely to be out there for a while longer. believing this is traffic is light enough so far this morning that it hasn't yet backed up the traffic on the bridge. things are getting heavier here in this westbound direction and they still have the changeable message signed activated on the right side of the toll plaza for traffic on to this band. slow traffic really doesn't begin until after a get below the high rise and on the flat section out at the west end. interstate 80 fortunately still lighter than usual traffic for most of the bay area and no delays or problems reported in iran. in the westbound through the s curve looks great and the bay bridge still low back up or

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this just in to kron 4. we are continuing to follow the situation at heathrow airport workers are trying to clear the runway as you can say there has been delays because of the whether. they got so much snow there right now they promised they will have a second runway at the airport open within hours. it can see all this snow covering the runway. major delays and cancellations today at all european airports. more

than half of the flights a europe's busiest hubs were expected to be canceled. >> heathrow only having one airline open so they're sending in troops. >> we've been telling you about the ripple effects here at s f o you will want a check head. >> we will be back as a morning news continues in two minutes.

welcome back opening bell on wall street stock futures pointing higher. we will keep an eye on the numbers but it looks like a positive day on this light trading week. >> the latest in our developing story, and out of italy. it was an explosive device. it was found under subway car seat in the room. they examined it where there was a terror attack and

this device did. it did have wires pipes an explosive powder there has been concerned around holiday season attacks following the suicide ed tempt at sweden. we will continue to follow more throughout this period back and the bay area traffic as people had to the airport thousands of people moving through sfo tens of thousands. delays and other parts of the nation which showed june london big delays in europe things are crowded at s f o jack is a single live at s at all. >> i'm at american airlines security checkpoint the line is not too bad into a pan over and you see it wraps around the corner. i walked over to the

ticket corner and just as long of a line over there. this is the time and the season thousands of travelers in fact sfo expected 4 percent increase over this holiday season but then you combine it with the weather expected on the west coast and the midwest. over and while europe and east coast it will make things slow today. lots of families traveling with small children everything slows down a bit. most of the flights are on time from an american airlines i spoke with one traveler who had a very long day ahead of him. >> so far so good i guess i should of been prepared. >> bad weather the holiday season you didn't expect this?

>> know that this hour in the morning. i guess everybody is trying to get here early. >> that is the key get here early as i said earlier there are people traveling with small children the weather, the big crowds in general give yourself plenty of time. call your carrier make sure your flight is on time. give yourself lots of time that's the key. >> with many flights coming in from chicago's o'hare of airport the delays were two hours backing off a bit down to an hour-and-a-half. bay area weather right now loewy's that has more on the storms. >> san mateo bridge this morning and officially it is the first day of winter today, 338. scattered showers and rain expected tonight and tomorrow morning. radar shows you what's going on we have heavy rain well to the north of us. a few

stragglers just a few cells rooming down into the bay area bringing very light showers right now we are in the dry in the north bay and the peninsula. a few cells are purging the shoreline. here's your current temperatures in the '40's and 50 degrees for oakland 49 san francisco 50 down in mountain view and san jose as well. your highs in the '50s 56 for san rosa, 55 for napa, vallejo 56 in san francisco today the south bay temperatures and to the upper 50s 58 for san jose st. for redwood city and along the coast. his shirt future cast 4 showing you what's going on as you head through the day just hit or miss showers. mostly dry and it really is the evening that brings us a better chance of heavy rain late in the evening and early tomorrow morning. but the second review date more we should actually start to dry out and keep dry

weather for the end of the week. it's christmas eve could be a dry one. christmas certainly not to be dry. a very what they expected for christmas. >> we have been tracking a hot spot in san mateo near the connecting ramp highway 92 on 21 01 north. will tran has had a chance to look at what's going on. he joins us now on the kron 4 i believe. maybe we did have the wrong button pressure. well are you with us? sadly we dropped his call. i will tell you what we do know the accident that was blocking the connecting ramp is no longer. there are two lanes opened here the accident occurring just in front of the connecting ramp. using so get on 1 01 north course 1 01 south from westbound highway 92.

continue on 92 but all of the traffic coming off of the bridge is affected. it is now backed up actually the the news's it has stayed consistent. the back up to the west end of this ban. as of yet it has not affected traffic on the bridge itself. take a look at the toll plaza shot and traffic is still moving at about the same rate heading out toward highway 1 01. they have the changeable message on inactivated here saying the right lane is blocked in the westbound direction. this san francisco for the ride on crosstown freeways still very light here on the inbounds central freeway no back up or congestion word joins the skyway. darya. >> san jose police warning residents of two pit bulls that

attacked a woman in front of her house last night. 630 last night in the 3000 block of white sand drive. neighbors called police say two pupils were attacking a woman. she suffered major injuries and expecting to survive. the dogs have not been captured the have clipped years and light gray spots. >> a judge will expected toa contra costa county judge will decide tuesday which of the seven defendants in the richmond high gang rape case will go to trial and on what charges.whether there isyear-old cody ray smith, of san pablo, to trial, and the state of evidence of elvis torrentes, 23, of richmond.20-year-old richmond resident manuel ortega, the purported ringleader of the assault, would likely face trial.caskey ruled monday that smith's police interview is inadmissible as evidence because sgt. lori curran ignored smith's miranda rights, his rights were violated when he was questioned two days. he suggests evidence against the other five would be enough to bring them to trial.

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welcome back wall street likes mergers and acquisitions. stocks are up dow up 29 nasdaq up 7. >> last-minute shoppers toys are arrests nationwide is going to be open 88 consecutive hours this week. it started at 6:00 a.m. this morning it will be open until 10:00 p.m. on christmas eve. the company says it will be the first time the stores are open for all of those hours. >> the employees will love that. pfizer's recalling 19,000 bottles of let the door because of complaints of an older the latest announcement is the fourth recall since august sit over similar issues. these

bottles were supplies by a outside manufacturer they were mailed out and send out before they were able to make changes to the bottles. the number of california's who smoke continued to drop according to the california department of public health 13.1 percent of adult californians were smokers in 2009. down to 10th of a percent from all eight in 26 percent since from 1985. the other numbers here san francisco is about the same as the number of california smokers but the bay area in alameda and santa clara well below what we are looking at 10 per cent smokers in alameda 8% smokers and california over all is terrific only utah has a lower percentage of smokers.

>> we will be back as the news continues after the break. golden gate bridge still dark we had showers popping up and light sprinkle and the north bay.

following a storm may be your wet all ready if not you can see where the rain is right now in sacramento. >> we are seeing spotty showers the bulk of the weather well to the north. " we are dealing with this isolated showers it's going to world into our area we are watching cells sitting offshore couple approaching the north bay. san rosa may pick a few up in the next hours of very light rain. not the case in southern california. there rain pushed

southward lhasa angeles getting pummeled with very heavy rain. snow in the high country winter storm warnings, flash flood warnings in effect and we will continue to see wet weather hammered the southern portion of the state. current temperatures are sitting in the 40's is in francisco in the north bay. 50 in mountain view and san jose and drafted in highest bringing temperatures in the '50s 56 san rosa 55 napa and vallejos well. around the bay in the '50s. we will continue to see a chance of rain scattered showers through the morning. mostly dry. towards evening better chance of rain in the picture and over night as well. wednesday morning we might pick up heavy showers them we clear towards the later part of your day. 7 day around the bay what it shows us is rain on and

off we will have rain and chance of thunderstorms tomorrow. try for thursday, friday then rain on saturday. >> we are still tracking a hot spot in san mateo affecting ride off of this san mateo bridge on 21 01 in the northbound direction. will tran want to check out the accident joins us now on the phone. well how much progress making getting this out of the way? >> they cleared of five minutes ago we are waiting for more more joke trucks to are rife. lane 4 and 5 are clear. all five lanes are moving and it looks like traffic is catching up although i'm pulled over looking back at foster city i can say cars are bumper-to-bumper. but there's more wiggle room. this

send one person to the hospital with minor injuries. i will have a video coming up at 7:00 a.m.. >> the lanes are clear traffic is open. traffic is backed up towards the west end of the bridge but it never backed up across a span. now that it is cleared the back up will clear up pretty quickly. >from here to san francisco look at the right through the city were reported a accident earlier southbound turns out they still have a couple of lanes blocked only one was originally blocks but then more emergency vehicles showed up. we will give you a look at the bay bridge toll plaza there has not been a back up there but in the meantime check san jose light traffic here for 1 01 north and

the connecting ramp from the guadalupe parkway. darya. >> 6:49 a.m. no preferred southern california another storm expected to hit tomorrow 12 in. of rain have fallen in parts of the mountains in the south. homes have been evacuated roadways are slippery. cnn has more on the part of the highway that has been shut down. >> in california 20 mi. stretch of the pacific coast highway remains closed. we watched caltrans crews all my working to remove boulders and debris because of the mud slide. elsewhere throughout the state of california a significant impact from this major rainstorm. community of mcfarlane the central part of the state 2000 residents evacuated from their home after the big creek overflowed crews were able to get debris of the creek and allow them to return

back to their homes kern county record amounts of rainfall. sierra nevada is an incredible amount of snow 9 ft. of snow in 24. the highest elevation the peaks wind speeds of up to 150 mi. an hour. back here at sea level the major impact has been on traffic throughout southern california. chp in lhasa angeles county reporting 100 and fees surged 175 accident between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. that is a three-time the normal amount of accidents that they would expect. swift water rescue crews have been deployed throughout california and had some rescues. and people trying to cross will increase in their vehicles 20,000 residents of california have been without power

sporadically and we are expecting much higher volume of rain over the next 204024-48 hours. so far the hillsides have been holding up fairly well. we will see what happens as it moves through the state. >> other weather across the nation video flooding in las vegas from this morning right behind the hard rock cafe a flash flood in fact through this afternoon. flood warning issued for parts so southern nevada until tomorrow night. >> in masters massachusetts more than half a foot of snow fell it was so much that had been forecast that made firm and the commute. that is a really cute hat. several accidents were reported. public get that hat. but nothing major. they still

had the winds so the wind chill was horrible. >> it's been a tough week weather wise. but let's look from 80 separate snow showers and a reminder chain requirements on 50 and 88.

gil look at the 7 day around bay for tests get ready for another punch off and on showers today 59 for the eye this afternoon and understory the brain continues to hold tomorrow wisdom of the break that will hit us thursday and friday so sunshine and just before christmas day which is a washout. it looks like the weekend storm is going to be bigger than the one dot from today and tomorrow. there roseville galleria was evacuated after 5000 cable show doppler

4/mob. the performance drew a huge crowd there was reports of fund bashan moving and creaking which spurred the evacuation the singers planned to perform outside. >> amazing report of last night sky of the total eclipse of the moon. it started around 1030 last night the earth passing directly between the sun and moon casting is a giant shadow providing different kinds of color as it happened. on the very same day of winter solstice it's the first time since 1638. >> we will be back in two minutes as the news continues until 11:00 a.m. hon. we will see some sunlight today. but a big story bay area weather and weather across the nation holiday travel, lot more coming up in two minutes.

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