track it can rain thapts moved in to the bay area. what areas are hit the hardest right now and when the main vent will arrive. good morning. welcome to mornings on 2 i'm dave clark. >> i'm tori campbell. it is friday, december 17th. we are on storm watch this friday morning. rain is falling in most areas. bay area is bracing for the wettest weekend in years. steve paulson joins us with details. >> we started light rain, stood not too much. at least not this monning. we are expecting this to get stronger. enhancement of the clouds off the coast. right now it's if you took a paint brush and went from the county and oakland, straight across that's what we are looking at. there is rain for everybody

after everything is said and done. the green turns to white. northern lake counties. around the 5000-foot level turns to snow in the sierra. winter storm warning posted. projected between now and middle of next week for unbelievable amount of snow. peninsula south bay had rain. we will see this pick up in intensity later on. heavier rain. now it's light rain b. careful. there is plenty on the way. palo alto police are looking at a fatal accident. they are investigating. this is san antonio on and off ramp. they are closed on the bored of mountain view. this happened earlier. it shut down and going to be shut down for a while. they issued an alert saying san antonio avenue on and off ramps will be closed in both directions due to the activity.

negative freeway closure, the freeway is open but the off ramps are closed. we have a crew on the way. not causing big problem on the freeway. this is a look at the east shore freeway westbound. traffic is moving along okay to lighter than usual toll play plaza. the wet weather we are having now probably played a role in very serious overnight accidents. moments ago, look at this, the chp cleared the scene of a crash on southbound highway 101 this is near the golden gate bridge. this happened at 4:00 a.m. investigators say a fast moving car flipped over on the freeway. it tumbled 100 feet down a ravine. the driver escaped the crash with just minor injuries. we will bring you a live report from the scene in just a couple of minutes. rain may have been a factor in

a serious big rig accident in antioch this morning. this one happened after midnight on the westbound highway 4 bypass, right near lone tree way. the driver swerved off the highway and plunged down embankment in the pouring rain. the driver was rushed to the hospital, we don't have any word of his condition right now. all over the bay area, people are preparing for the storms. in the south bay the santa clara water district is moving debris from creeks. they will be monitoring gauges that measure water flows. people are warned to prepare homes because of the water expected. we saw many people in the santa cruz mountains stocking up on supplies including sandbags. if you need some sandbags we have a list of locations where you can pick them up. click on ktvu.com. early morning fire displaced 6 people in oak land

this morning. a fire broke out inside of a home. this happened 4:00 this morning on 82nd avenue. a woman and her two young kids were among those inside the house at the time. everybody got out safely. this fire broke out in the front room of the house there. red cross is out there now. the exact cause of what started the fire, that is still under investigation. police patrolling an area around a neighborhood bar that was the scene of an overnight stabbing. there is more crime and plans for fewer police officers in this particular city. tara moriarty joins us live in antioch with the latest. >> reporter: we are at cruisers saloon. we seen a lot of people coming here to pick up the parked cars or driving by but no one willing to talk to us. the only person that we were able to talk to was a police officer who has been patrolling the area all morning.

he expressed concern that the department maybe laying off officers. talk of cutting jobs comes as a particularly troublesome time. just last night three people were stabbed during a fight at cruiser sass s saloon. one is serious. this marks the 5th violent crime since last week t police department maybe forced to cut back the force because of budget problems. >> i think we need to keep the police staffed. i want to be protected and my daughter to be protected. >> reporter: a woman us a dragged to her death and two men were injured in separate shootings, one across the street from cruisers. so far this year apt i don't care recorded 10 homicides double what it was last year. layoffs could be stayed off if they can renegotiate the contract.

a shooting hours ago in richmond is under investigation, police found a man shot several times on harver way about 3:00 this morning. the man was rushed to the hospital. no word on his condition. so far there are no suspects and no arrests have been made. in oakland two people were found shot before 10:30 last night. it happened on richie street near bancroft. one of the victims was slumped over the wheel of the car. victims, the conditions are not known. right now hundreds of people are lined up in the rain outside glide memorial church in san francisco. they started showing up around 3:00 this morning braving the cold wet weather with the hope of getting a bag of groceries. hundreds of helpers have been bagging up poultry, vegetables and bread over the last couple of hours, they will hand them out within the next few minutes. more than 6000 bags will be handed out. we will check with a life

report at 7:30. you saw the pictures, it's rain, it's wet and a lot of crashes on the roads this morning. >> you want to take your cup of coffee or tea to go. give yourself extra time this morning if you can. you should slow down really, that's what chp tells us in these conditions. i want to show you on the maps, the accident i told you about last time is not affecting highway 101. san antonio road past charleston road at leg horn. there is a fatal accident on san antonio road. 101 is not affected. if you take san antonio road, a lot of people do through palo alto it's affected by this. the police want you to stay away from the area if you can. moving the map down, in fact we will come back to the map in a second. there is a new injury crash, northbound 101 at tulely, see

it there on the right. we can go to the toll plaza. traffic is lighter than usual. normally a back up to at least the 880 onramp. this morning that's not the case. the morning commute is going to be slow in marin where the earlier accident near marin city, that's been cleared finally. southbound can be tough driving. let's go to steve. good morning. happy friday. rain started. started last night. we had sunshine there for a while. we got clouds, peinins will south bay picked up rain. now mainly the north bay. eureka or sand yay yay go, moisture from hawaii. looks like you take it from san francisco up to straight across. there is not much south or

north of. that some of the green turns to white. just traveling peninsula south bay, more clouds. steady rain, nothing too heavy yet. quick forecast, cloudy, cool, fog, light rain and picking up later on. the weekend looks like sunday will be the bigger day for the rain. saturday a lot of clouds, breezy to windy. next tuesday, wednesday, could be a strong system. so far though the rain has been light. quarter of a inch. hayward dublin 12, 100s. 10á9 in parts of the north bay. but the most rain was to the south. 40s, cloudy, cold, rainy, 40s. cloudy, light rain freemont. target forecast, 47. 50 at noon. 53, and clouds and rain off and on all day long. cloud cover continues looking

there, that's enhanced system. colder the tops the more energy coming across. this is developing, that low which is spinning near the gulf of alaska as long as that sits there it is like spokes in the wheel. the jet stream or the core of the river could go south over the next couple of days and right back. we are in for a lot of rain and snow in the sierra. projections for 15 inches of liquid, precipitation between now and wednesday. if that's the case, we will measure snow in feet. winter storm warning starting at 10:00 a.m. snow level could fluctuate. 4500 feet up to 65 and back to four. now it's around five. for us 40s, right rain, clouds, foggy. by noon the rain picks up. upper 40s, low 50s. we will continue that theme of rain later on. rainy, cloudy, foggy, cool day with 40s and 50s.

the five day looks to me if i had to stick my neck out, friday night, sunday, tuesday will be the main rain days. rain off and on on saturday and monday. more fallout after the deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno. the new requirements for pge involving two largest pipelines in the east bay. some passengers being too sick to fly are getting on planes anyway. how much does this happen and how does this affect everybody else? what republicans are saying saying this morning about the tax cut deal passed by congress.

traffic is going to be busy if you are driving southbound 101,

you can see the weather will play a role in this morning's commute. we had a few different crashs in marin county and several crashes around the bay area. drive carefully, extended traffic update is straight ahead. good morning rain is moving through with snow up in the mountains. winter storm warnings started there. most is in the north bay. it's going to be all over the place. heavier rain moving through from marin to napa county and in the sanoma. rain will pick up later on today. in an effort to reduce the risk of flooding with the approaching storms the flood gates have been opened at two northern california dams. the gates are releasing millions of gallons of water in anticipation of all the rain. water official says this large of a release in december is unusual. >> it's been a few years. this is the second year where conditions improved, where four years prior we were in drought

situation. >> this leaves room for the run off of snow pack at 125% of normal for december. pge has orders to reduce the pressure natural gas flowing through two of the largest pipelines in the east bay. the publics utilities commission gave orders after the preliminary report on the san bruno explosion which raised doubts about the inspection activities. they will reduce the gas pressure in 2, 30-inch pipelines. critics say the utility needs to do more. >> the board of directors of pge needs to step in, needs to bring in new management that has a record and history of commitment to customers and putting customers first.

>> pge says residential customers will not be affected by the pressure reduction. newry new report is showing the federal do not board list failed three times to stop travelers from flying with serious diseases this year. centers for disease control cease all three travelers had tuberculosis, no one was sickened a as result of flying with them. the list is designed to protect the traveling public. it did stop six travelers who tried to get on board planes. earlier this year one tuberculosis patient was mistakenly allowed to take a u.s. airways flight from philadelphia to san francisco. after a midnight vote in the house, president obama will sign a deal in to law today to extend bush era tax cuts for two more years. allison burns is live. >> reporter: good morning. ats

it that for a while yesterday it looked like this tax deal might be going down but in the end the final vote was overwhelming. >> on this vote the yays are 277, the nays are 148. the motion is adopted. >> reporter: the house okayed the $857 billion deal to extend bush era tax cuts even though many democrats did not like the tax rates for the wealthy. house speaker nancy pelosi said republicans held democrats hostage in the deal. this morning republican leaders are celebrating the win. >> republicans fought hard for this legislation up until last week most democrats resisted. in the end, the american people were heard. that's a welcome change, mr. president from the last two years. >> reporter: almost the entire bay area delegation voted against it.

east bay congressman jerry voted yes. nancy pelosi did not vote. president obama will sign the deal in to law in just about five hours, his message today is that while he didn't like everything in the deal, he believes it's going to be good for the economy overall. >> i'm curious do we know why nancy pelosi did not vote on the package? >> reporter: torey, it's become sort of i guess the tradition that this house speaker usually doesn't vote. in this case it was interesting because she obviously was expressing a lot of concerns about it. but in the end she didn't vote. four people with ties to a mountain view company have been arrested for insider trading. the government says the tech executives consulted for primary global research, the justice department says the consultants sold information

about popular consumer products such as apple's iphone for hundreds of thousands of dollars. sources say the government is still trying to gather evidence against bigger wall street players including major hedge funds. this is a farewell ceremony for a bay area national guard unit headed for afghanistan. the 870th military police company will fly to fort bliss texas tomorrow for six weeks of training then deploy to afghanistan to spends a year performing security force operations. that unit has 160 troops. famed bay area comedian robin williams, he is among the performers entertaining troops in afghanistan and in iraq for the annual u.s. o holiday tour. robin williams is joined by lance armstrong. the cycling champ. telling jokes at a military base in kabul. they are joining several other comedians and musicians for

performances over the next 7 days. this is the 6th u.s. o tour for robin mill yams. second one for lance armstrong. today, students in elementary school in marin will load up 500 pounds of candy to be shipped to u.s. troops in iraq and afghanistan for the holidays. the students at basic el mary in kentfield gave up halloween candy for the care packages. dhl is providing free shipping. >> we are proud of them. misunderstanding right in the middle of chaos, helpful employee turns off the sprinkler system when firefighters need it the most. a movement to change the

time bart train's run maybe gaining momentum. good morning traffic is slow on 237 as you drive in the rainy weather. coming up we might be lucky as to when the rain hit this time of the year. i will tell you why coming up.

surprising information that $55 million fire at the westfield mall in october there is a new report that claims a maintenance worker turned off the sprinkler system. he was told by the police officer and a ups driver that the authorities wanted the sprinklers turned off he says. investigators say they can't confirm that. they say there had been talk of briefly turning the system off so they could send in a robot to photograph a man who was

barricaded inside who started the fire. police released new details about a home invasion robbery that left a 72 year-old man severely beaten. this happened three months ago in a house on fi fill lis avenue. they stole high powered gun and cash. the man's live in nurse is considered a person of interest in this case. the police are hoping that releasing this new information may lead to an arrest. san jose police are investigating a string of pop club robberies in several days. 4 pop clubs and one medical marijuana grower have been hit by burglars or armed robbers since monday. the incidents began hours after they voted to impose a tax. some or all of the crimes are connected with the same gang or group of suspects. bart officials looking in to whether service should be

extended later in to saturday night or sunday morning. passengers complained about saturday midnight ending times for years. bart's director says he wants his managers to prepare a report on the pros and cons of later hours. once the report is completed the public would be invited to weigh in. bart officials say if trains are to run later on saturday they might have to start service later on weekdays to work in scheduled maintenance. we got a busy commute this morning with wet roads. sal said there is a bad crash in palo alto. >> a fatal accident on the san antonio road. these are live pictures that we have of it that we are showing you. this car badly damaged in an accident with a tree here. they are doing an investigation. at first it was reported it was

near the freeway but it's on san antonio near leg horn. as we pull back here i can see that there is not too much of a traffic jam in the area. part of the road is going to be blocked here. this car ran off the roadway and hit a tree and the person inside was killed in the accident. so we are going to have at least one direction of san antonio roadblocked off. one direction is getting through. it's a goodyear to avoid. this may have been caused by the wet roads. we don't know in the driver was going too fast but the roads may have factored in to this. let's go to the toll plaza. it is wet out. there i'm not your driver's ed teacher but just slow down out there. let's go to highway 101, san francisco. northbound 101 is a little bit foggy. the traffic is doing well. 237 westbound, stop and go traffic there.

let's go to steve. thank you. do slow down this is the first of many systems to come through, started last night. yesterday we had sun for a while and clouded up. now we are getting light rain, foggy, cool, only in the 40s. overnight lows come up. look at enhancement taking place off the coast. this is going to be unbelievably active between now and christmas. most locations stay cloudy on the peninsula. most of them stay cloudy. san jose light rain. fairfield, napa, bands of steady rain starting to pick up a little bit in intensity. it's only in the 40s. if you don't want to get out of bed, i don't blame you. a yucky day. look at the cloud cover across coming around the low down the gulf of alaska. from eureka to san diego between now and christmas, there could be a lot of rain. winter storm warning is out.

they will measure the snow in feet. it's 4500 to 5000 snow level. it could go down and back up. light snow blue canyon, tahoe and truckee. the wind will pick up today with 40s and 50s. friday afternoon, sun, and tuesday are the main weather days but saturday and monday have fair share of clouds and rain. we'll be right back.

wet weather may have played a role in an accident where a driver lost control and hit a tree in palo alton. san antonio near leg horn, westbound san antonio, going away from 101 is blocked and towards 101, eastbound that's open. this is westbound san antonio road there. see more police officers arriving to block off the scene where fatal accident took the life of one person here in palo alto. good morning rain has been falling nothing too heavy but rather steady. temperatures were in the 40s. if you don't have rain and it's cloudy with fog, we will see rain off and on picking up

today. the heaviest is in the north bay and east bay. look for that to pick up later on. back to news. you heard sal, the wet weather is making this a treacherous morning commute. kraig debro joining us in san francisco, he has been following a very serious crash it happened near the golden gate bridge. >> reporter: good morning dave. there is no conclusion right now that wet weather played a role in the crash. the chp is looking in to it. we heard steve talk about the weather. it is cold, wet and windy. behind me, to the left anyway, see the waters of the bay not too choppy. surf the moving quickly. the golden gate bridge, see how foggy it is. the accident happened around 3:00 a.m. this morning. you are looking at 101 southbound, 2 or 300 yards

north of the waldo grade, card is being winched out of the ditch. this chevrolet went in to the ditch earlier in the morning t driver said he saw a deer go in from of the car and lost control and not able to regain control and slid off of the roadway. it slid down the hill 75 yards, 100 feet down. the driver was able to call 911. if he hasn't have been, his life would have been in danger. >> as far down off the roadway as he was, he was not visible from the road. this kind of weather, we rarely are going to be able to see him from the air. if injuries were more serious or could have become more serious we have cold weather out. we have those issues. luckily he was able to get out of his car and use his cell phone. >> reporter: luckily he was able to -- he was conscious and

could find his cell phone. police basically put out flairs on the roadway and shut down two lanes, the second lane was shut down for 50 yards. the traffic backed up. the scene was clear a half hour ago and we assume all the well. if you look in the distance, see the headlights of cars coming southbound 101, down from the waldo grade. tbifs you idea of how foggy it is. wet weather, cold weather and foggy conditions this morning. police say watch out for those and slow down a little bit. despite all the rain people are lining up now braving the weather at san francisco glide memorial church hoping to get the makings for a holiday meal. paul chambers is there where volunteers have been bagging groceries for hours for the annual give away. >> reporter: the give away has

begun. this is a heavy bird, we have canned goods and pasta. the give away began 15 minutes ago. people are lining up, grabbing their items and getting the items that are given away by the volunteers. reverend williams you have been doing this for a while. how is it doing this year? >> this year we certainly have more people, there is an increase of course of the demand for more people because we have people who have lost jobs. we have people who have not been able to make ends meet. we have people who have been in line and out of line for a long time. >> i know you plan to give 5000 bags. you usually give 6000. >> the donations have not been as fulfilling as we hoped they would be. we are down on donations.

that's hurt us very much so. we are down 30% on donations. >> so that means what we have to do is when we run out, that's it, it's over you see. we hope we won't run out. we are going to be around until 1:00 or 1:30 and perhaps at that time we will completely given out 5000 bags of good groceries for people so they won go hungry in the bay area. >> reporter: thank you very much reverend williams. people have been lined up since 3:00 grabbing items. glide said they were down on volunteers. they have enough now, but throughout the year they need volunteers and donations of new and unwrapped gifts. they are giving toys away next week. we will bring you the latest. there are a will the of people lined up for people in needs. it's going smoothly. live in san francisco, paul

chambers, ktvu channel 2 news. in palo alto, there were two robberys that happened as residents pulled in to driveways. the most recent happened at 9:00 last night in marion avenue. a gunman robbed two people stealing cash and credit cards while still sitting inside their car. on saturday a woman's purse was stolen while she was in her driveway on el cajon way. police are investigating will the robberies are related. police in newark are searching for suspects in the deadly stabbing of a young football star from newark. last night hundreds of family members, friends and classmates took part in the candlelight vigil for justice. they gathereder in the bus stop where two men fatally stabbed him wednesday. his girlfriend still shaken by

his last words. he called her on his cell phone as he was bleeding in the streets. >> he just called me and all he said was they stabbed me, they stabbed me. i said where are you. he wasn't talking to me anymore. i was yelling his name. i was like where are you? he wasn't talking. >> police are investigating whether his death was in retaliation to an incident at a teen party just two months ago, the football star came to the aid of a cheerleader who was being beaten by two men who crashed the party. new details about a man accused of sexually assaulting a child inside a wal-mart store. 29-year-old carlisle told police he had previously had quote thoughts and fantasies about doing such an attack. he is charged with three felonies after inappropriately touching the 8-year-old at the store last week. he wrote a letter of apology to

the girl's parents after he was arrested. prosecutors say he was seen on wal-mart surveillance cameras walking around the store more than a half hour before the assault possibly looking for a victim. he will be back in court next month to enter a plea. the mother of a 2-year-old girl who was killed while they crossed a street will not be able to go to her daughter's memorial service sundays. she remains in the hospital in serious condition after the accident that claimed the life of her daughter. the 18 year old driver of the car that hit them is charged with vehicular manslaughter and told the police she was texting at the time of the crash. the police are investigating, they could turn this case over to the sanoma county district attorney as early as today. a santa rosa man will spend six months in jail after sentenced for his 19th dui

offense. william biel has a record of drunk driving convictions dating back to 1966. prosecutors wanted biel to spend two years in prison for his latest offense. the judge noted he had been sober for 8 years until the most recent incident. this weekend police agencies across the bay area are beginning their holiday crack down on drunk drivers. officers are warning drivers to keep the party off the road and remain sober and drug free. they will be testing drivers, if they are impaired, they will be arrested. the legal complications, financial complications of a dui are extensive. the roads are wet this morning. >> everybody has to be careful. >> a good idea just stay home and relax and don't go anywhere. you don't have to drive. let look at the commute. traffic is going to be affected by a fatal crash in san antonio

road in palo alto. this crash happened this morning where driver lost control of the vehicle and ran in to a tree. police say it's a serious situation. police are doing an ex tensive investigation. eastbound san antonio road is getting by the scene. let's go to the toll plaza, it is lighter than usual, westbound coming up to the toll plaza, it is going to be okay in to san francisco. you can see the wet weather is going to be affecting the commute. i want to show you 101, we have problem northbound 101, it's a lighter volume. we are getting lucky. we are going to start seeing if not today then next week, the holiday affect coming in as fewer people will be going to work because they will take the holiday time off. let's go to steve. good morning. plenty going on, we see light rain, it's tapering off a

little bit. it will pick up later on. it's cold, cloudy and foggy. a pattern that's very active and very wet for a long time. core of it is an area of low pressure dropping down there. it's taking moisture north of the hawaiian islands. you can see a little bit of enhancement taking place off of us. where it sets up matters if you get a lot of rain or not much. your eureka crescent city may not get a lot of rain. this comes back north, suffice to say the next few days maybe 7 to 10 days could be active around here. a lot of snow, the rain will stack up. nothing too heavy yet. it is beginning to move in and you get the enhancement right off of the coast and that means the rain will keep going and going and going. so far, look at the peninsula south bay. a little bit. we are in between right now.

the tweaks in between. 40s on the temps. that's the good news compared to yesterday morning. we had 20s and 30s. highs reason aren't going to go much about 49. little bit of a break but a lot of clouds over us. the forecast, cloudy, cool, light rain and rain picks up this evening. rain and wind in to the weekend. higher elevations in the cost seen 20, 25 miles per hour but at the surface not bad yet. rainfall 10th of an inch. that's a start. we will see inches in rain here and feet of snow, see that low take that moisture and then race it towards us. that's what we are dealing with. sierra, taking enhancement, taking the moisture and lift and cool it and condense it. heavy snowfall, winter storm warning is out this morning through sunday afternoon. sunday evening. snow level around 4500 feet. could go all over the place in the next few days.

today rain, cloudy, cool, breezy and windy. upper 40s, low 50s. fairfield, napa, santa rosa 49. city 53. 50s for many. livermore 52. cloudy, rain today. friday, sunday and tuesday the main rain days but off and on rate saturday and monday. hooters in hot water again. the latest complaint could change the way the controversial restaurant chain does business in california. lawmakers overseas give new meaning to the term political battle.

winter storm bringing rain is going to be dumping a lot of snow in the sierra. some parts could see accumulations of up to 10 feet. brian is in hickey, you were in a enclosure. >> reporter: my newsroom. check this out, the christmas lights i put the lights in there three years ago and never taken them down and they continue to work. i can't get the lights on my house to work that well. here at blue canyon, 2 inches of snow so far. started snowing at 3:00 this morning. not a huge accumulation, this is expected to be a major

sierra storm. this is interstate 80, 5000 feet. chain controls at baxter over to truckee. definitely getting snowy up here. this is just the beginning. this is nothing of what we were expecting later in the weekend. up to 10 feet of snow k you believe it? that can come from 12 inches of precipitation and that precipitation is expected to be heavy and wet. national weather service issuing a warning this could lead to damaging conditions up here with the snow being heavy and wet could bring down power lines and trees. that is what one thing that officials are urging folks to keep an eye on to be prepared for in the sierra. if you have plans to drive through, go earlier than later. the conditions will change and get very wintery if you will say with 10 feet of snow coming over the sierra. that's the latest. snowy interstate 80. if you are a skier or snow

border or haven't been yet, wax them in up now. next week it will be a different ball game in the sierra. winter starts tuesday. it is looking wintery up there. it is appropriate for this time of year. thank you, brian. stay warm. now that he is free on bailiwick can i leaks bail, wikileaks is talking. >> something is wrong in the united states, such investigation against me and against my organization and in deed now serious calls against the new york time as well. all that is conducted in secret. >> assange is under house arrest at a mansion in the british countryside that's owned by a supporter. he has to wear an electronic tag and report to police in person everyday. he is not restricted from using the internet.

assange is fighting sweden's attempt to extradite him on rape and molestation. this isn't a barroom brawl. lawmakers in the ukrainian parliament used fist and furniture to settle differences on the floor of the ukrainian parliament. they began beating members of the opposition party. violent scuffles are not uncommon. this is the third fight they had this year. our time now 7:50. here is an update on the story we have been following for weeks. the dmv employee who sent a personal letter to a trans gender woman resigned. the trans gender woman showed ktvu a letter that warned her she would be condemned to

eternal damnation after having the sex change operation. dmv said the actions were unacceptable. hooters restaurant chain is always avoided employment discrimination by saying it i is an adult entertainment business. that defense is getting it in to another kind of trouble this morning. chapter of the national organization for women says according to san francisco law adult businesses cannot serve minors. hooters has a kids menu even sells t-shirts for children. >> each time hooters claims they are not a restaurant they are vicarious sexual entertainment. their workers are not food servers or waitresses, thatry sexual entertainers. this is sad and that's against the law in california. >> so far hooters has not responded to our request for

comments by ktvu. retired man written a 10,000-dollar check to california. what happened 46 years ago that inspired him to give back to the state. america's freeways maybe playing a role in the growing medical crisis. this involves mothers and their babies.

stocks are mixed. trading opened quietly today. the dow and sp. the sign is economy is improving the conference board rose 1.1% in november. of course investors keeping a close eye on $850 billion tax cut package that passed last

night. dow is down 37 almost 38. nasdaq is up about 3. retired man from south carolina has handed california a check for $10,000. 74 year-old dennis ferguson made the do donation as payment for unemployment pen fits he received 46 years ago. the money helped him go back to school and become successful. state treasurer says the money will go towards education. time now, 7:55, word about another possible cause of autism. new report says children born to mothers who live close to freeways have twice the risk of autism. that's according to a study by children's hospital in los angeles. research everys say this is the latest evidence suggesting environmental hazards like air pollution may play a role in causing autism in some children. we want to check in with sal. he is keeping a eye on the

commute this morning. little lighter than normal friday. people getting ready to leave for the holidays. rain is causing problems. >> we have been lucky because the rain started on a day when it was lighter traffic volume and we are going to see a little bit of a benefit to traffic and next week more people start taking holiday timeoff. it will be lighter than usual especially as we get towards the end of the week. as we look at a live picture of 280, we had traffic accident this morning in palo alto on san antonio road. a person lost control and slammed in to a tree. this turned in to a fatal collision. westbound san antonio is blocked near leg horn, less than a mile away from 101, it will be blocking the westbound direction of san antonio for the time to come as they investigate the crash. the commute on the freeway, new accident southbound 880 at 92. a non-injury crash, south bay

looking okay for the most part with northbound 85 slow in sunny dale. looking at the five day outlooks for rain. from here to the see rare, sierra, pro projections for 8 inches of rain. there could be problems with the burn areas there. there is going to be an awful lot of snow in the sierra, manatee, depends on where the core of jet takeses aim. see the enhancement offshore. going to be off and on rain. picking up later today, looks like friday, sundays, tuesday, wednesday could be really big systems. quick forecast we have cloudy cool conditions, light rain, rain and wind. some wind higher elevations in the coast. we could get a power house of a system tuesday or wednesday. the conditions are going to

deteriorate. nice email from somebody, scott in the santa cruz mountains w four wheel drive this could be a situation where you could get stuck, it's going to be a heavy wet snow, 40s on your temperatures. oakland san jose 12/100s. see the merchandise enhancing. that's a strong jet stream enhancing the clouds. that means heavy rain or snow. north of it not so much. south not to much but migrating all over the state. snowfall extremely heavy, if you have to travel the sooner you go the better. it's going to get dicey fast. snow level 4500 feet. 40s and 50s your honor temperatures. cool today and most of your weekend. this evening heavier rain, rain on saturday but not as heavy,

sunday looks solid. break monday and a strong system tuesday and wednesday. we will continue our live team coverage of the storm watch during our 8:00 hour, the wet weather, look at this live picture it is causing problems on the roadways, we are hearing delays at bay area airports. a fire in one bay area city sends 6 people including a mother and two young children in to the streets overnight. >> i'm tara moriarty live in antioch, police have now made an arrest regarding a triple stabbing that happened at a bar. we will bring you the latest when mornings on 2 continues.

i'm tori campbell. >> i'm dave clark. it is friday december 17th.

a wet friday. >> we are on storm watch with light rain this morning but more powerful storms on the way. steve paulson joins us with details. cloudy skies, light rain. there is plenty more coming down the pipeline. it's turned to snow. look at the dividing line. rain in to the mother load. for us, it's clouds and fog than light rain. there is drizzle and light rain continuing. see the enhancement of the clouds. low dropping, bad image, wouldn't you know it. you will have to trust me on this. it's all coming in. your forecast, we are looking at today is rain. cloudy, cool, light rain picking up later on and a weekend of wind and rain. looks like next week more of the same from eureka to san diego and now it's over us. this morning we had a couple of serious crashes, one of them has been fatal. this crash this morning in palo

alto where a car ran in to a tree on westbound san antonio road near leg horn, which is a little bit less than a mile away from highway 101, the car ran in to the tree this morning. westbound san antonio in palo alto is shutdown. eastbound traffic heading over to 101 is open. to the east shore freeway, things dried off a little bit helping us out for the commute and lighter volume. we have traffic troubles, we will tell you more about that during the next traffic report minutes away. back to the desk. kraig debro is on the storm watch for you this morning. he is watching the highways on this wet friday morning. craig joins us live from san francisco with the latest. >> reporter: good morning. wet rainy and cold, we are at the marina. choppiness of the bay, not so bad. above that you can see the

golden gate bridge, see the conditions foggy out. there less foggy than a half hour ago, still could be cause for concern earlier this morning we saw example of what the weather could do for people as they are driving to work. 2 to 300 yards north of waldo grade. chp says the car flew off the road at 3:00 down in to a ditch 100 feet off the road. the person inside turned out he survived the crash but he told police that as he was driving to work southbound this morning a deer dashed in front of his car. he swerved to miss the deer and could not gain control. he was conscious when he got to the bottom of the hill. the police tell us if he hasn't called 911 himself, nobody would have seen him. >> as far down off the roadway as he was, he was not visible from the road. this kind of weather we rarely

are going to be able to see him from the air with a helicopter or airplane. if his injuries were more serious or could have become more serious we have coal weather out, we have those issues we could have been dealing with as well. luckily he was able to get out and use a cell phone. >> reporter: since he was able to get out of his car he is okay. he was taken to the hospital for observation. police had to shut down two lanes of southbound 101 for the waldo grade. the second lane was shut down for 50 yards. not too much of a backup, police were able the clean up things by 7:00. it was 3 hours from the accident time to the time they cleared up the highway but they got everybody out of there before it became a serious problem. next week a lot of kids have school off. possibility that not a lot of people will be out there this morning anyway. might have dodged a problem on that. rainy conditions, the cold not so much but the rain and the

wind continuing to cause problems this morning. kraig debro, ktvu channel 2 news. if you need sand bags, our channel 2 web site, ktvu.com, has a list of locations where you can pick them up. click on the web links section. we are following a mayor new development in an overnight stabbing at an antioch bar. we learned an arrest has been made. tara moriarty joins us with the update. >> reporter: good morning. people have been driving by cruisers all morning long. some picking up their parked car which is were here from overnight. others driving by checking out the scene but not willing to talk to us. we are not sure if they were witnesses. according to the contra costa county times, police arrested a 33 year old. last week if you look across my shoulder you can see there was

a shooting caddy corner from where we are standing near the traffic light and gas station. we have noticed an officer patrolling the area. he expressed concern that the department maybe laying off officers. talk of cutting jobs comes at a troublesome time. last night three people were stabbed during the fight at cruisers on a-street. authorities say the 33 year old stabbed a person in the face, chest and back. the victim has urn gone surgery and expected to survive. this marks the 5th violent crime since last week and the police department maybe forced to cut back its force because of budget problems. >> people are going to know there is not cops around and be more liable to do bad things. crime rate will increase. >> growing up i never had to worry about security doors now everybody is talking about putting a security door. >> reporter: a woman was dragged to her death last week and two men were injured in

separate shootings. so far this year antioch recorded ten homicides that's double what it was last year. these layoffs could be skated off in the city is able to renegotiate the contracts by the end of the year. 6 people having to find a place to stay after a fire broke out inside an oakland home a few hours ago. it happened around 4:00 this morning on 82nd avenue. a woman and her two children were among those insides. she did not want to be shown on camera. her quick action helped get everybody out safely. >> i got the kids. we took them across the street to the neighbors. >> we are trying to do the investigation to see what part of the house the fire originated. >> the red cross has been on the scene all morning helping the family find another place

to stay. the exact cause of the fire is under investigation. we got to get you to where you need to go. sal is watching your commute a wet commute. >> it is wet. fortunately we have had a little bit of a setelling down in the last 30 minutes. we had a lot of accidents earlier this morning, now things are drying off and getting better out there. let's take a look at 880. it's slow on 880 northbound, driving past the colosseum. nothing unusual as you get up to the brick wall it gets better. when you get to the toll plaza it is a little bit lighter than usual. even though it's wet we don't have a bad commute. that's because on fridays we have a lighter than usual commute mostly. we are getting lucky on that regard. san francisco heavy rain. leaving the house, a little bit early, that way you avoid problems.

could be windy as well. let's go to steve. cloudy sky, rain off and on. light rain. nothing too heavy yet. cold though, 40s. snow in the mountain t rain today and in to christmas. we are almost on the backside. rain focusing parts of energy towards the north bay. that's where the focus will be when the jet stream drops south. 45, 46. san jose is the warmest at 49. watch the enhancement. that's going to be moderate the he to heavy rain. city 18/100s. oakland san jose 1200 so far. look at the moisture, stacking

up, we see the enhancement of the clouds offshore, wide ter tops the colder the tops the more intense. as long as the low sits there, it will take things and funnel them at us. looks like by early next week late in the weekend some of that will head south towards southern california and come back towards us by the middle of next week. winter storm warning in the mountains. it's friday 10:00 a.m. until sunday 4:00 p.m. heavy wet snow, sierra cement. you may have a difficult time snow levels around 4500 feet. it will be go up and come down over the next three to five days. cloudy and cool. breezy to windy on the coast and higher elevations. the wind will crank up for us later on. 40s and 50s on the highs. low and maybe a couple of low mid-50s i should say. a lot of upper 40s and low 50s at best.

friday night, sundays night, sunday afternoon, tuesday, there will be rain but a little bit of a break saturday and monday. it is 8:11, pge is ordered to take action on its two largest natural gas pipelines in the east bay. what they are doing for the lines. airline passengers being too sick to fly are getting on board anyway. find out about a holiday freebie, but the offer is only good today.

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good morning. our tree in walnut creek, said i'm going to hunker down it's going to rain. we have fog, rain, light rain, occasionally giving way to moderate heavy rain later on. windy, gusts 35 in the higher elevations expect this pattern to continue well in to next week with a lot of snow in the mountains. they are opening the flood gates at two northern california dams to lower the risk of flooding as the storms move in to the bay area. millions of gallons of water are released, water officials say a release this large in december is very unusual. >> it's been a few years. this is the second year where conditions improved where three, four years prior we were in drought situation. >> releasing water now leaves

room for the eventual runoff of the snow pack. it's at 125% of normal for december. pge has orders to reduce the pressure rised natural gas floing through two largest pipelines in the east bay. public utilities commission gave orders after the preliminary ntsb report on the san bruno explosion in september which raised doubts about pge's ipspection activities. they will reduce the gas pressure in two, 30-inch pipelines, one runs to free month. the other from freemont to oak land. the utility needs to do even more some say. >> the board of directors of pge needs to step in and bring in new management that has a record and history of commitment to customers and putting customers first. >> pge says residential customers won't be affected by

the pressure reduction. . new report shows the federal do not board list for airline passengers failed at least 3 times to stop travelers from flying with serious diseases this year. the centers for disease control says all three of the travelers had tuberculosis but say no other passengers got sick. the list is designed to protect the public and did stop six other travelers who tried to board planes. one tuberculosis patient was mistakenly allowed to take a u.s. airways flight from philadelphia to san francisco. this afternoon, president obama will sign a deal that will have a big impact on your bottom line. midnight vote in the house sealed the deal on your tax rates. allison burns joins us live from the washington dc newsroom with the details. >> reporter: good morning to you dave. the bottom line is that tax rates for most americans will not be going up next year.

there is even a 2% payroll tax break in the bill. you might see increase in your paycheck. in the end the vote was bipartisan and overwhelming. 277 to 148. extends tax rates for two years and long-term unemployment benefits for millions who are out of work. many democrats did not like the tax rates for the wealthy. nancy pelosi took to the floor to rail against a $23 billion estate tax provision. she says only benefits the richest americans. >> think of what we could do with the $23 billion. we could give a $7000 raise to every public school teacher in america. we could create investing in new technology, 780,000 jobs. 780,000 jobs. >> almost the entire bay area

delegation voted against it only east bay congressman jerry voted yes. speaker pelosi did not vote. president obama is going to sign it this afternoon. republicans are praising this win for them this morning, they say it's good for the economy and they stay american people have been heard. reporting live from washington dc, allison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. four people with connections to a mountain view company have been arrested for insider trading. the government says they consulted for primary global research. the justice department says they sole information about popular consumer products like apple's iphone for hundreds of thousands of dollars. sources are saying the government is still trying to pull together evidence against bigger wall street players including major hedge funds. there will be a farewell ceremony in concord for a

national guard unit headed for afghanistan. the 870th military police company will fly to fort bliss texas tomorrow for 6 weeks of training and deploy to afghanistan for a year to perform security force operations. the unit has 160 troops. bay area comedian robin williams is among the performers entertaining troops in afghanistan and iraq for the annual u.s. o holiday tour. williams and lance armstrong were telling jokes. this is the 6th uso tour for williams and the second for armstrong. today you can get a good

deal on shipping gifts if you order from one of 1700 on line merchants all over the country. this is the third annual free shipping day. a thousand web sites will not charge for shipping any items ordered today with the rest requiring a minimum purchase for free shipping. they guarantee delivery by christmas if they have the items in stock today. we are learning details about a home invasion robbery in mountain view that left an elderly man severely beaten. what police are now revealing about the case. $55 million in damages here. why a sprinkler system was shut off in the middle of a shopping mall fire. it's wet on the golden gate bridge. we had the crashes around the bay area as a result of the wet weather. we will tell you about that coming up.

sacramento, surprising information about this $55 million fire at the westfield mall in october. a new report claims a maintenance worker turned off the sprinkler system. the employee says he was told by a police officer and a ups driver that authorities wanted the sprinklers turned off. authorities say there was talk

of briefly turning off the system so a robot could photograph a man barricaded in the mall who allegedly started the fire. mountain view police released new details about a home invasion robbery that left a 72-year-old man severely beaten. it happened three months ago at a home on fill is avenue. police say the roers who entered through a unlocked door stole a large sum of cash and a pair of rare high powered guns. the man's live in nurse is considered a person of interest in the case. police hope releasing the information will lead to an arrest. your time is 8:25. san jose police are investigating several pop club robberies lately. four clubs and one medical marijuana grower hit by burglars or armed robbers since monday. the incident started hours afthe counsel voted to impose a extra tax on the businesses. the police believe some or all of the crimes are connected

with the same gang or group of suspects. let's check in with sal to see how things are moving on this friday. rainy morning. >> it's been rainy and hard to tell people ask me, well, do you think the rain caused these accidents. it's hard to know. someone going too fast may have caused the accident. the rain could have been a factor. be careful out. there let's take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza westbound on. little bit dach there at the toll plaza. on the freeway, southbound 880. a little bit busy as you drive from hayward to free month. in the south bay the heaviest is 85 northbound. . we are getting a little bit of a break. this might be window before more rain comes in this afternoon goes right in to the weekend. a lot of fog, it's cold, 40s for many. plenty of moisture. the low which is dropping down is showing every sign of

digging in over us and that enhancement taking place on the clouds offshore is going to play in to our weather not only today but all the way in to the weekend and early next week as well. the snow is on the go up in the sierra nevada it is going the stack up. roads packed up 4500 feet. satellite image gives way to the tracker live storm tracker two. there is a back edge. north bay taking most of the rain. there is plenty of drizzle. cloudy skies. foggy and 40s with the temperatures. watch how the cloud cover enhances. that's the core of the jet taking aim at us. a little bit of a break for an hour or two, then everything comes in. the rain will pick up in intensity. sierra, unbelievable amount of snow next five to seven days. winter storm warning through sup afternoon evening. snowfall will be heavy. today rain, cloudy cool. breezy to windy.

gusts to 35. higher elevations and lighthouse, gustses up to 35. highs in the 40s for many. low 50s, the temperatures aren't really the main story it's the rain and how much rain we will get looks like friday evening after noon evening, sunday and evening . the wet roads rarely caused problems for the morning commute. we will show you where all the trouble spots are right now. live outside memorial, people are whiting to have a great memorial. also would you believe bart past midnight? a movement to change the time of bart trains running could be gaining momentum. y a

car going very fast flipped over on the freeway and tumbled down 100 feet down a ravine. this was 4:00 this morning. drive escaped the crash with just minor injuries. rain may have been a factor in a very serious big rig accident in antioch this morning. it happened after midnight on the westbound highway 4 bypass near lone tree way. the driver swerved off the highway then plunged down an embankment in the pouring rain. the driver was rushed to the hospital. we don't know his condition. some bay area travelers

experiencing delays now because of the weather. according to the faa flights coming in to fso are delayed average of 2 hours this are also many delays as a result for outgoing flights all over the bay area people are preparing for the storms. the water district has been moving debris from creeks. they will be monitoring gauges that measure water flows and people are warned to prepare their homes because of all the water that is expected. . >> homeowners need to check the drains, making sure a new neighbor didn't move in above them and change the landscaping. that can change the know of the water. -- flow of the water. >> we saw many people stocking up on supplies including sandbags. time is now 8:33, hundreds of people are outside braving the cold wet weather this morning. glide memorial church, they are hoping to get the makings for a

delicious holiday meal. the volunteers are handing out bags and bags of groceries and they've been working real hard. >> i got a chance to look in the grab bags , there is a 15- pound turkey. all the nice items in there to make a good holiday. there are people, people started lining up since about 3:00 this morning. they have been out here for several hours trying to get a lot of important things. this is glide's 21st year of doing it. >> i wouldn't have a good holiday this year. having a good holiday helps lift your spirits. >> hundreds of volunteers have been here since 4:00 this morning filling bags of potatos and turkeys. there has been an increase and need of people coming out this year but donations are down 15% this year so the number of --

so are the number of volunteers. they tha will not prevent glide from helping those in need. it's something they need. >> we going to get 5000. we probably will run out. we know that. we didn't have enough to put it together where we could have 6000. >> today mean as lot for a lot of different people besides the people receiving the items, there is a person a special volunteer i talked to today who said this is his first tune opportunity to give back to the community. you will hear his story on the noon news cast. i'm paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 news. richmond police are investigating a early morning shooting. police found a man who had been shot several times on harper way around 3:00 this morning. the man was taken to the

hospital. there is no word on his condition. so far there are no suspects and no arrests have been made. in oakland two people were found shot before 10:30 last night. this happened on richie near bancroft. one of the victims was slumped over the wheel of a car. the condition of the victims is not known. palo alto, at least two robberies that happened as residents pulled in to their driveways. one happened at 9:00 on marion avenue. a gunman robbed two people stealing cash and credit cards while they were still sitting inside their car. on saturday a purse was stolen while she was in the driveway. police are investigating whether the robberies are related. the mother of a 2 year-old girl killed while a crossed a street will not be able to attend the memorial service this sunday. murray remains hospitalized in

serious condition after the accident that claimed the life of her daughter. the 18 year old driver of the car that hit them is charged with vehicular manslaughter, the sanoma freshman told police she was texting at the time of the crash. police are still investigating and could turn the case over to the district attorney as early as today. a santa rosa man will spend 6 months in jail after sentenced for his 19th dui arrest. 65-year-old william biel has a record of drunken driving convictions dating back to 1966. prosecutors wanted biel to spend two years in prison for his latest offense. during sentencing the judge noted biel was sober for 8 years until the most recent incident. this weekend police agencies across the bay area are beginning their holiday crack down on drunk driving. officers are warning drivers to keep the party off the road and

remain sober and drug free. they will be testing drivers at sobriety check points. if drivers are impaired they will be arrested. part bart officials are looking in to whether service could be extended in to saturday night or technically sunday morning. passengers complained about sad's midnightenedding time for years. bart's director says he wants his managers to prepare a report on pros and cons of later hours. once the report is finished the public would be invited to weigh in on it. officials say trains that run late i on saturday might have to start service later than 4:00 a.m. weekdays to work in scheduled maintenance. 8:38, bart is probably not a bad thing to think about today and this weekend also because of the weather. let's check in with sal. bart has delays of 20 minutes or more because of insulation on the tracks. let me pull up the latest.

i want to see what is going on. bart has 20 minute delays on all training through the lake marriott station because of the debris. that's according to bart central. they are trying to get it back on track. bart is a good option for you if you don't want to drive. it's wet out there. let's go to the toll plaza. you knew that wouldn't be able to stay light for so long with the wet weather people driving slowly. it has a chain reaction on when it comes to these things. morning commute is going to be slow on 237 still crossing 880. slow traffic on 85 slow t road sensors are picking up slow traffic on 17 and 880. let's go to steve. people have been tweeting me, sp weather or emailing, can i go to the sierra, you might get a window tomorrow but it's

going get progressively worse. this system will take the core aimed at us. we are getting a little break now. that's taking aim at us later today. low responsible is going to drop south here. that drops south and take this look at this this is just expanding rapidly and send it towards southern california. we will be in line for rain as this low gets closer to rotate back in. next week it will come towards us. today is our day i think. saturday could be the betweener day. right now though we are seeing a little bit on the backside of the system, fog, clouds, 40s. 45 santa rosa. 46 palo alto. it's going to start picking up once this is a strong jet stream. it's taking aim at us as it

funnels it. that's towards us. rain will pick up. its expanding. everybody is in line for a pretty good rain. quick forecast cloudy, foggy, rainy, and windy at times. winds is picking up higher elevations in the coast. 28/100. first of many rain totals. san francisco 18/100s. oak lands san jose 14. tom near boston hills had 2/10th. trust me on this one, when you see enhancement like that it's like a funnel. as this coming over us. that's a lot of rain. snow levels around 4500 feet on 50 and 80. winter storm warning out. snowfall heavy. i seen projections by the big boys of 15 inches of liquid precipitation between now and

wednesday from mammoth up to tahoe and truckee. if that verifys, there will be all sorts of issues. snow level down and up and probably coming back down next week. today rain, off and on, we are seeing a little bit of a break. cloudy, cool and foggy. breezy and windy. upper 40s for some. low 5s for others. cloudy, rain picks up today and tonight in to saturday. the winds will crank up, we get a break saturday and sunday, the next system a break monday and there are signs of a very strong system tuesday, wednesday. hooters is in hot water again. the latest complaint to change the way the controversial restaurant chain does business. christmas for hundreds of needy families in the san santa cruz mountains could be in jeopardy.

traffic in to san francisco slow. if you take bart in to san francisco, there is major delay because of a problem on the tracks at the lake mareet station. most people are coming in to

the city. give yourself extra 20 minutes for that. up to date on the other top story wes are following for you now. a lot of trouble on the very slick and wet bay area highways during this morning's rain. this is a live picture of a bad accident that happened in palo alto, police are investigating, it was a deadly car crash it happened 6:00 a.m. also an arrest has been made by antioch police after an overnight fight outside of a bar where three people were stabbed. violent confrontation happened outside of the cruisers saloon on a street. we are expecting to see wet weather through the entire weekend. live pictures of the wind and the rain ruffling steve's tree out there. it's going to stick around through most of the week. the winter storm that's bringing rain to the bay area,

that's going to dump a lot of snow in the sierra. this is a live picture of i-80 in truckee where the snow is already coming down. the heaviest snow should occur tonight and continue through sunday morning. higher elevations could see accumulations of up to 10 feet. if you have plans to travel to the sierra over the weekend, really want to carry chains and also be prepared for potential road closures. the storms could threaten a big holiday program in th santa cruz mountains. valley church united christmas project provides gift packages to more than 500 familys that need it. the workers say the wind and the rain may change their plans. >> volunteers may not be able to get in. others step up to the plate. donors may not be able to get in. we may not be able to get supplies we need. >> residence have been stocking up on sand bags and other

supplies. the salvation army is making a last minute plea for donations. bell ringers have collected $45,000 so far this season, that's well short of the 75,000 needed to pay for year around programs. so they are telling us they are looking 3000 toys forgive away on monday in nevada. that event provides toys for 600 needy families in marin county. the dmv employee who allegedly sent a personal let tore a trans gender woman resigned. the employee identified had been suspended from the dmv office in san francisco. last week trans gender woman showed ktvu the letter that warned that she would be condemned to eternal damnation after having a sex change operation. dmv said the actions were

unacceptable. hooters restaurant chain has always avoided employment discrimination complaints by saying it's a adult entertainment business. the california chapter of the national organization for women is filing police complaints against the san francisco hooters and others in several california cities. the group says according to san francisco law adult businesses cannot serve minors and hooters has a kids menu and sells t- shirts for children. >> each and every time hooters claims they are not a restaurant, their workers are not food servers or waitresss, they are sexual entertainers. this says hooters girl in the making. that's saying sexual entertainer in the making. that's sad and that is against law in california. >> hooters has not responded to

requests for comment by ktvu. wikileaks founder julian assange has a lot to say. >> something is wrong in the united states that such an investigation against me and against my organization and in deed now serious calls against the new york times as well. all that is to be conducted in secret. >> he is under house arrest right there at a mansion in the british countryside. he has to wear electronic tag and bracelet and report to the police in person everyday but he is not restricted from using the internet. he is fighting sweden's attempt to extradite him on rape and molestation. facebook will generate $2 billion in revenue this year according to bloomberg this

morning. earlier reports predicted revenue of 1.5 billion dollars which would have been twice whatet made last year appears the facebook will reach $2 billion in sales faster than yahoo and at almost the same pace as google. yahoo may eliminate services as a result of the layoffs we told you about earlier this week. sources inside the company say the content sharing site delicious is likely to be eliminated. other posh casualties are my blog log, yahoo buzz, picks and bookmarks. the company confirms it will makers is vis cuts but would not be more specific. associated press just announced its pick for the biggest sports story of the year and would you believe its tiger woods. from his 13 minute televised confession of infidelity in february to going winless tiger winless, on the pga tour for the first time in his career,

news about tiger dominated sports coverage this year. coming in second place on the survey was new orleans saints winning the first super bowl and of course san francisco giants world series win original to them it was 5th place but according to torey and everybody else here, it was number one. it is 9 minutes before 9:00. coming up, what happened 46 years ago that inspired a south carolina man to write a 1240u dollars check to california. and flying teddy bears. why the hockey fans tossed 23,000 teddy bears off of the ice.

stocks are mixed after indexes hit a two year high and the tax package was passed. the dow is down 25. nasdaq is up 7. sp down a half point. retired man from south carolina has handed california a check for $10,000. 74 year-old dennis ferguson made the donation as repayment for unemployment benefits he received 46 years ago. he says the money helped him go back to school and become successful. state treasurer says the money will go towards education. the movie the fighter was

just nominated for six golden globe awards this weekend. it's a true story of boxer mickey ward, he has been taught everything he knows by his older half brother. he is a former boxer who fell from grace after a big loss. the stars of the fighter, mark wallberg and christian bail talked to us. >> mickey was easier to be around. dickey had to see a lot of the bad choices that he made and those things being depicted. he realized despite the crap i went through i'm inspiring people. that meant a lot to him. >> happy he was happy with me playing him. the guy is the kind of -- could have shut down production if he didn't like what was going on. >> they were nominated for

golden globes for performances. the movie is a contender for best drama. it's rated r. some hockey fans go crazy with teddy bear as annual holiday tradition you got to see. this is called the teddy bear toss. every year around christmas time, fans flow teddy bears to the ice after the team scores the first goal. 23,000 bears ended up on the rake. the bears will be taken to childrens charitys. let's check in with sal, major bart delays. >> electrical problem. system wide delays on bart if you are taking bart give yourself extra time. you may want to consider giving your friend a ride to the city. san francisco traffic doesn't look too bad. drive in to the city. bart is not doing well. let's go to steve.

little bit of a break, cloudy, cool, maybe light rain or drizzle. we are in between. a band went through last night. another one this morning. stronger ones later today and taking us in to saturday. this will go from us to southern california and lift back up early next week. chemothe umbrella handy. that will do it for us, thank you for joining us have great weekend.