well liked in this neighborhood, and he was a world war ii veteran. >> very active with the -- his world war ii investigate the investigation. inth facts i think -- i think he -- in fact, i think he was still doing their websites, website work for them. >> we initiated a quick search, located the victim upstairs. we put the fire out relatively quickly. it wasn't a large fire. the cause of the fire and the cause of death are under investigation. >> reporter: the victim's i.d. has not been released. neighbors have given us his name but we're holding off on that until relatives can be notified. neighbors say this victim has lived here for more than 40 years. he's believed to be about 90 years old. we're also told that a cat that was in the house also died in

this fire. as heard from the battalion chief, the cause of the fire and the cause of death are still under investigation. live in walnut creek, ken wayne, ktvu channel 2 news. a deep freeze that blanketed much of the east coast and, from virginia to massachusetts, to boston, to philadelphia, people have been digging out of that blizzard all day. but the big impact really has been on airline passengers that were left stranded by the storm. several major airports shut down causing a ripple effect causing the -- as could the country and delaying flights here. bill martin is in the weather center with the latest from the east coast. but first, rob roth, live at san francisco international airport to tell us how that storm is hurting bay area travelers. rob? >> reporter: gasia, the lines for security at the american airlines terminal have begun to taper off, storms have wreaked havoc on thousands of p

assengers. at least 20 cancelled coming from the east coast and 34 flights going out. this flight was heading to newark. not today. >> i was in my hotel on the fisher'sman's wharf. they said everything was fine. i came out here and boom! i got burned. >> the next flight that they think they will be able too get out is on friday which is kind of a while. mean, it looks like we won't be able to go. >> reporter: the snow is having a snowball effect on the a irlines' schedule. most flights are booked solid this time of year. >> if you have flights running at capacity but you have flights that are cancelled, those passengers are trying to get in the limited seats,

whereas before 9/11, they would send out all of their airplanes. >> reporter: the storm caused 34 flights to be diverted and -- diverted and flights were d elayed. >> i'm gonna miss my connecting fight. >> reporter: what happens then? >> i'm gonna go to to them and figure -- go talk to to them and figure something o ut. >> reporter: united has a flight to jfk that's scheduled to d epart tonight. the best advice to passengers, is to call the airlines before coming out. rob rowland ktvu channel 2 news snafu east east coast blizzard affected flights at all three -- that east coast blizzard a effected flights at all three airports in the bay area. jetblue cancelled flights from

san jose to new york today. but there are no other significant flight delays right now. over at oakland international. two jetblue flights have been canceled, including one that was supposed to have left around 9 :30. oakland is also seeing some system wide delays of about 30 minutes. now to to the east coast where the big digout is underway in the wake of the paralyzing snowstorm that left so many travelers stranded. >> my wife is behider is hef. i work -- my wife is decide herself. i worked until 4:30 this m orning, came out here at 6:00, to get on a plane. now i have to drive to atlanta. >> new jersey was really the hardest hit here with some towns bury under 30 inches of new s now. in manhattan, mayor bloomberg

said that road clearing crews had a tough time keeping um with the blizzard. >> the snowfall was so heavy and so fast but crews were concentrating on plowing highwayses and think of them as streets that mta buses were on. >> boston anticipate logan airport should down -- shut down and officials there said even when flights resume, some travelers may not get to board a plane until friday. there's some good news for travelers tonight. we've learned that amtrack has restored service between new york city and boston this afternoon. the forecast calls for sunny skies and warmer weather this week, maybing -- making the big digout a little bit better. bill martin is tracking those storms back east. is it fair to stay the -- say the worst is over. you heard was via say it -- you heard gasia say it. we go to the live stormtracker.

you see in seattle, and out in portland, you have rain there. out in chicago you have cold, cold weather. icy conditions. 13degrees. that airport should be getting better. the trouble started out here in the east. that nor'easter is representing snow on the radar. snow beginning to move off to the northeast. it actually goes off in this

direction. rains here in the bay area are triggering concerns about mudslides. this has led to unstable earth. patti lee today drove around the area with the fire captain looking for possible slide locations. we'll have that report for you coming up at 5:30. and of course, bill will have new information for you in just a minute. but if you want to follow the weather in your neighborhood at any time, go to our website and click the weather tab. so where do they go from here now that the 49ers have fired 9ers head coach, mike singletary. 49ers president jed york talked about the team, the decision and who will catch the next time. and mark ibanez is here now. it's really -- turning how fast mike singletary's star has f allen. >> there are a lot of reasons this happened today. the only thing that ensures the long tvy of the head coach --

longevity of the head coach in the nfl is winning. simply put, mike singletary did not possess enough attributes to keep his job. >> here's the other side. >> verbal sparring matches on the sideline are commonplace in the nfl but sunday's ugly incident between singletary and troy smith looked like the final straw. clearly a change is kneaded a nd -- needed and the team president and jed york did fire singletary after the team a rrived home late last night. the only question -- win. >> i thought about it. but i think we had a chance to be a playoff team this year. i didn't think that making that change would have been the right decision for the team.

maybe in hindsight that was the wrong decision. >> the organization has let it be known that job one will be hiring a general manager and then the coach will be selected by the general manager. york will confer with several people-a -- before a decision is reached but at the top of the list, mr. ed day debartilo. >> i think my uncle is the person i will talk with and get the most advice from. >> with one game left on the schedule, 49ers find themselves in a familiar season, have having their season end at the regular schedule. >> all of the guys, even myself, we still respect him, you know, for everything he's done here and for the man that he is.

>> i apologize to like jay rice, and to come out like a record like this, it's like we're d isrespecting them because we're the guys that -- because they are the guys that -- they are the guys that started the franchise. >> jim tomsula is going to be the interim coach. >> and the 49ers still owe mike singletary money, right? >> he has $5 million coming to him. he had two unfill -- unfulfilled years on his contract. and if you want to watch more clips from the 49ers press conference go to our website at ktvu.com. cling on the bay area sports t ab. police today identified a woman who was found dead in the oakland hills on christmas eve. investigators say she was a 40-

year-old woman from richmond named jill marie abbott. a passenger discovered the body at an entrance to a bike path. police say it's likely she died elsewhere and somebody broad h er -- brought her body to the hills. police have released the name of the man shot from purge. police say the man is wanted in the death of arnold muckleroy. he was found fatally wounded in antioch. he died two days later. investigators say the suspect is known to frequent the bay area and sacramento and anyone with the information on his whereabouts is asked to contact authorities. tonight, thousands of people here in the bay area are hitting the mall shopping for t hemselves. tom vacar live in walnut creek where people are armed with c ash, gift cards and some

presents they don't want. >> reporter: well, these toys the coin of the rome is not so much the credit card as it is the gift card and cold, hard cash , at the mall in milpitas -- >> actually the post christmas sales can be just as strong as christmas sales in a lot of w ays. >> the general manager revealed this second season shopping surprise. sometimes this is actually new merchandise being brought in for clearance purposes. it's not the leftoverrings. you have to have enough merchandise in the store in order to gain sales. if you heavily discount it. they will come. >> like 50% off and more. >> that's a good time to shop, for me. >> i heard there's gonna be sales today here. i'm coming here. >> yesterday, i tried going to

another mall and it was s upercrowded. i'm hoping for deals too, better deals after -- after- christmas deals. >> i feel like people buy stuff that they didn't get for christmas or stuff they d idn't -- weren't able to give their kids for christmas. >> even in walnut creek's higher end stores discounts rule? >> good prices? >> yeah. 50% off, 75% off. >> a lot of things were on steal and that still -- on sale and that aelectric the customers -- and that attracted the c ustomers. >> i very rarely exchange. unless it's damaged or there is a fault in it, then that's different. i will have more on that at 6:0 0. the late -- the latest report shows sales will be up 3% just above the all-time reached tree years ago before

the recession. and online sales this year, up a mopping 15%. reporting live -- whopping 15%. reporting live, tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. stocks closed mixed on the first day of trading on a s hortened holiday week. >> the blizzard in the northeast we have been telling you about made for a light day of trading. analysts say an an an an announcement that china rates could slide -- tear a -- take a look at this. this garbage has officials c rying foul. and new information in the heath of a sea lion shot in the head.

in san lorenzo, all they want to do is play baseball but some people are using that field for a dump. john sasaki is live in san lorenzo with more on this. john? >> reporter: if you take a look around out here, you can see this dumped refrigerator, that wall of graffiti and all of that and more is leaving this place from a field of dreams. >> the ashland little league is celebrates -- celebrating it's 50th year of operation behind the middle school in san l orenzo. >> we find condoms, used c ondoms. we find hypodermic needles. we find garbage, we find alcohol bottles. >> reporter: just a week and a half ago someone set fire to one of the dugouts. >> there's still some people that want to come out and ruin it for the good people that are in the community.

it's a real shame, you have young kids that want to play baseball and have a nice facility. some people won't let that happen. >> reporter: graffiti pops up here constantly. >> say, you um come here saturday and you -- say you come here saturday and you come here and repaint and by sunday morning. it's all graffiti again. >> reporter: for people like this 12-year-old, this kind of damage just hurts the bottom line. >> this is all for the kids. but taking us -- taking the field away from us. >> reporter: and while the league has had to spend more and more of its funds on cleaning the graffiti, donations were not the first thing league officials asked for from the community. just watch out and keep your e yes open. if you see something, call the police. nobody should be back here. that's trespassing. >> one bit of positive news is that community center is currently under construction. once it opens, many programs

for residents will mean high volume of traffic and addish nal l ighting -- additional traffic. vets at the marin mammal center said the examination of the sea lion silent knight shows the animal is -- silent night shows the animal is blind. they will start to look for a home in a zoo or aquarium. he was found on the beach suffering from shot gun guns. we've been showing you pictures of the east coast of the blizzard. we want to show you a p hotographer's camera on a picnic bench. overnight, the bench and umbrella became obliterated by the snow. some people in new jersey woke up to 30 inches of snow. really remarkable, the pictures from the back east. to see this entire time lapse clip, you can go to ktvu.com

and scroll down to top stories. you certainly won't be n eeding a yardstick for the rain we're expecting. >> it will be more rain in the forecast, as i look at that video time lapse. it's a simple idea, isn't it. definite-- definitely snowing out there, they are getting a break on the east coast. rain back in the forecast, snow in the mountains, a winter storm warning will go into effect in the mountains. the rain is north as you would expect. the rain up around eureka will be slow to move south, once it moves closer to us, though, say, tomorrow midmorning, some sprinkles will develop. it's tomorrow night that we're looking at rain. i think there will be wind with this. right now you do see some returns. that's just brown clutter and just bad reflectivity from obstacles out there. that's the wind mills out by

rio vista. we will see rain soon enough. when it gets here, are looking for a pretty significant amount of rain. i think what we'll see here tomorrow night, tomorrow afternoon is gonna be similar to what we saw on saturday. it was raining a lot. it kept going. we we have a little more rain. tomorrow it's called p.m. rain. there will be sprinkles around but the easterning it will be going. the long-range forecast, this fluid, sort of unsettled weathercast kind of goes on and off. day on, day off. the commuter model breaks down like this -- there's the -- computer model breaks down like this, there's the computer m odel. what's different and why we're expecting some more rain it are from this, you have a lot of, lot of cold air dropping down from the polar regions. this looks like something in

february. 42degrees in napa. 44 in vallejo. there will be a few sprinkles tonight. no big deal, by mid moving, the rain will start up in the north bay and then by the afternoon, we'll have showers south and then by 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, it will start to rain. when i come back, i have the computer model ready to go. feeling good about this model. we'll look at it and we'll also look at the five-day forecast. i will see you back here. see you then, thank you, bill. >> two projects to restore east bay marshland just received a financial shot in the arm. the restoration projects will receive a portion of $5 million in federal grant money. the east bay federal park direct says the money will be used to restore marsh and grassland in the bruener marsh area along the north richmond shoreline. the funding comes from the federal government national coastal wetlands conservation grant program. one of the wealthiest man in the bay area is recovering

from heart surgery. take a look at this new video released by north korea today. who is on this video and what it means -- next. here at home, it's not politics, it's personal. big news today from gavin n ewsom.

the pakistani -- the pakistani navy launched three missiles in a secret location in a southern province of pakistan. all three reportedly hit their targets. pakistani officials say the weapons will strengthen the n avy's ground-based air defense and give them more flexibility in their use of arms. north korea released new video of kim jong-il and his youngest son. analysts say this newly- released video is likely being used by them to hold the -- >> they want to make his son look as powerful as possible and have north korea look as pour as possible. we're likely to see some tough days ahead. >> reporter: meantime the tensions between north and south korea are intensifying tonight. south korea just wrapped up

several days of preplanned regular exercises. the country's president pledged to get tough against his communist neighbor and stressed he's not afraid of a war. >> translator: we've now been awakened to the realization that war can be prevented and peace assured only when such prove cakeses are met with a -- provocations are met with a strong response. the region has been on edge since november. the south says they will use air strikes if they are hit again. the north has threatened nuclear weapons if targeted. jennifer newsom and gavin newsom are expecting their second baby, a boy due in june. the couple already have a 15- month-old daughter named montana. gavin newsom is scheduled to be sworn in as lieutenant-governor early next month. the family will reportedly remain in their san francisco home while newsom commutes to

his new job in san francisco. charles schwab is recovering from heart surgery. the 73-year-old had successful hart valve replacement surgery last friday. he's expected to remain in the hospital a few more days. he created the brokerhouse and then a few years later, he s hifted it to a lower discount model. the company has more than 300 offices with 8 million accounts. a mudslide warn something issued for marin county. we'll show you how crews and residents are preparing for the worst. >> reporter: i'm heather childers live at liberty international airport. there's chaos in there. i will take you there -- coming up next. w t ileororr li irore

let's go to patti lee live in mill valley. >> reporter: we're live off panoramic highway. the heavy equipment was gassed up. it's ready to start to clear some major mudslides. these efforts some are calling a warmup for what is to come if this weather gets worse. >> there's another spot right there that looks sloughed off. >> reporter: fire captain mark glen is using today's break in the rain so spot splits in the

earth that could -- to spot splits in the educate that could become a mudslide. >> you might start to see a split. >> reporter: mill valley's fire, police and public works department are working to identify future problem spots in the city while cleaning up current ones. long-time marin residents say they expect this kind of inconvenience. a. >> a lot of the area is u ndeveloped. like you see right here on monta vista, when we get a lot of r ain, there will be slides. >> reporter: but emergency responders say the problem with slides, they are unpredictable and what could start small could become a major problem. >> so this whole area was unstable and they did a lot o f -- well, they repaired it basically. >> reporter: captain glen says the problem with a proactive approach is you can spot them but you can't stop them once they start. >> its it's the reality state

parkers are also dealing with. >> we are proactive. we do tree hazards and take down trees that are potential h azards. but in storm situations you just try to keep up with it. >> reporter: the state issued a general slide warning for marin county this weekend but there's no official tally of mudslide incidents because response teams can involve city, county or state agencies. reporting live on mount tam, patti lee, ktvu channel 2 news. and from patti let's go straight out to bill martin with when the rain is coming in. it's not so much when the rain is coming in. this is just the gee -- gee joe graphy -- geography. beneath the hills there is a certain type of clay and that clay gets wet -- and that clay expand when it gets wet. this is nothing new. we're just starting the rainy

season. every time we get rain out here, 130%, 120% average of rainfall, the clay expands. here is the cloud cover moving in. it gets out here tomorrow afternoon. it has some subtropical m oisture, maybe an inch, inch and a half of rain kind of similar to what we saw on saturday. i will have specifics with the computer model. it's the geography of the bay area. we get a lot of rain. we're used to it. i will be back here in a little bit. >> we'll see you then. now to the east coast where the big digout really got underway. a strong storm dropped up to 30 inches in some parts. that's causing all kinds of problems, especially at a irports. heather childers is live in newark new jersey tonight. she says there's chaos inside

the airport. >> reporter: good evening. that's not the only place there's chaos. it's out here as well. we can tell you there's good news for travelers heading through this area across the northeast. the three major airports i ncluding here at newark they've started resuming flights that happened earlier this evening, not too long ago. here at newark, la guardia and j.f.k. take a look at the scene out here. this is going on all across the northeast. people digging out, trying to get to where they need to go, a lot of people waited 27 hours, 30 hours and they finally d ecided to go along and it looks like that fellow back there may be stuck for a little while, may not be going far any time soon. it looks like this mess will last for days to come. a power winter storm still p ounding parts of the northeast. heavy snow and strong winds cut power to nearly 40,,000 homes and businesses. and officials at boston's logan airport say some stranded passengers may not be able to r

ebook their flights until friday. up to 16 inches of new snow is expected in new england before the new snow moved out. newyorkcity rocked by the same store. recorded 20 inches on staten island. 18.5 in washington heights. 18.5 on woodside. 15 in the bronx. in other words, a lot of snow every place. >> reporter: all of the city's three major airports have been shut down. the storm forcing airports to cancel 2,000 flights. delta airlines alone cancelled about 700 flights. while u.s. airways cancelled more. >> kids trying. my wife beseed herself. worked until -- beside herself. i worked until 4:30, came out at 6:00, getting on a plane and now i have to drive like 18 hours to atlanta. >> reporter: new jersey is also one of the hardest-hit areas.

parts of the state getting almost 30 inches of snow. meanwhile amtrack has restore ed service between new york city and boston this afternoon. we've been out here since about 9:00 this morning. i can tell you that as the sun dropped, the conditions have deteriorated and what forecasters are saying one of the big problems that we'll be experiencing now are these gusty winds with some of those gusts being estimated to be up to 50 miles per hour. they say that that will last for several days. heather tildes reporting live from -- childers reporting live, ktvu channel 2 news. >> and we're keeping an eye on the bay area airports, m onitoring flight delays and cancellations. coming up at 6:00, the latest on the delays and how passengers are coping. the new laws include a new rating system from the nursing home. this is the first of its kind in the country.

nursing homes will have to post federal ratings. these laws are designed to make it easy to make it easy to care facility. owners of plug-in hybrid vehicles will be able to display a bumper sticker to be driven in hov lanes with a single o ccupant. the new law extends the current lun to be driven in those diamond lanes. it was set to expire but it b eing extended until july 1st. we'll have more on other laws set to take place next week. car dealers across the area bracing for action. gas prices on the move. the sales of one of the hottest tech gadgets to hit the market in years are heading higher. how many millions of them are b eing sold around the world.

experts stay many dealerships often get up to 70% of their december sales between christmas an new year's. jd powerrer with and associate outs is predicting a good month overall with a 14% increase in sales compared to last year.

prices at the gas pump are on the way up, reaching their highest point in two years now. according to triple-a, the garage price of a gallon of gas is now up 76% from two years ago. in oakland, it's about 3.31, in san francisco it comes in at 3.37. anna siss say the -- analysts say the increase is probably due too the price of oil. the company that estimates the value of companies, facebook is work about $41 billion. that's about double the value of yahoo!. the report says facebook's value is up by 52% by the middle of the year. apple is shipping more of its iphones overseas. it plans to ship more than 21

million in the first quarter. apple originally planned to ship 19 million iphones. that's up from the 15.5 million in the fourth quarter. apple will have shift 47 million iphones around the world. a new report finds a dramatic increase in the number of flu cases in the u.k. according to the european center for disease prevention and control, so far this flu season, 27 people have died -- died from - -- from b-virus and the flu virus in the u.k. some say an flu influenza would be looming. now what you have the new device for christmas, what do you do with the old one? that story is still here.

this is a busy time when it comes to recycling e waste. millions of computer games, t vs cell phones and computers are being replaced withnier models that folks receive for christmas. but there are some things that you need to know to protect yourself and john fowler is live tonight in santa clara to explain. john? >> reporter: we're at ecs r efining. it's the biggest bay area electronic cycler. they go like this 24/7. i want to show you a tiny fraction of 150 tons of televisions. computers and electronic games, cell phones, things that they will smash, shift through and in some cases salvage just

today. this is the busiest time of the year in the e waste business. >> people are buying things for christmas, getting rid of their old things. it's probably a 10% to 15% u ptick over normal months. >> reporter: in the bay area alone this month, people will throw away about 110 million tons of waste. landfills no longer take this stuff. we are in truth electronics, consumers. >> i've got computer, printer, tvs. >> we have a wii, we have a psb. plasmas. >> reporter: best buy stores o ffer a $10 coupon if you return old electronics for recycling. >> we're getting a new one we are gonna research where to recycle it. >> reporter: 75% of the waste ends up in asia and africa where it's responsible for air and water pollution and where

the data on those hard drives and disks can be collected by identity thieves 0 spammers. >> a lot of the spam we get today is because people have allowed their data to end up overseas. >> reporter: they guarantee all information is destroyed and the metals and materials are reduced in the -- are reused in the state. tag art has this station for people considering recycling their electronics. >> if they are persist ent in asking what happens to their material, they can help assure it gets handled properly. >> reporter: we're back live. the consumer electronics says the average american home has 25 electronic devices. there are safe ways to dispose of these unwanted devices. for more go to our website, k tvu.com. click on web links. reporting live in santa clara, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 n ews. the whole foods grocery

store chain is recalling gingerbread houses because of contamination. the store says that ginger bread may have packages that can cause food poisoning. the ginger bread was sold in 23 states but not here in california. coming up next at 6:00, a number of new laws take effect as of january 1st. tonight a look at the key changes you need to be aware of. also, a large pot -- pothole still causing major backups tonight. crews have been trying to repair it for hours. what they are saying about what it -- about when it will be f ixed. tonight, how many flights were cancelled at bay area airports. and what travelers have to look forward tonight and tomorrow. and refunds and exchanges are getting more difficult. those stories and more coming up next at 6:00. right now, back to our weather because more rain on the way, bill, but not until a

couple of hours from now, at least. it's a ways off. it's supposed to rain. this is the time of year we're in winter. none of this is unusual. this next storm is a n ice- looking one. it's a fast mover. it reminds me of what we will see and what we did see on saturday. accumulation will be about 1.50 in the coastal hills. the rain is north of us and then the rain will slip south t onight. not until tomorrow afternoon will you see showers in the dollar valley. tomorrow morning, it's cool, mostly cloudy. lunchtime you might be seeing some showers, especially from san francisco north. these are light showers and then by late in the day, it's r aining. it-- it rained through 6:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. overnight les are cool. the-- overknight lows are cool. remember the friday morning you woke up and how bad it was, if

you had it friday morning you will see it again. not widespread but patchy. dew points are high, high temperatures are low. so font it -- so tonight is kind of mild. there is the system as it moves in. there will be wind with the system. gusts could go up 50 miles an hour into higher elevations. there's not a wind advisory but tomorrow night there could very easily be. gusts of 50 miles an hour top mount diablo. here is the computer model. tuesday at 9:00 a.m. a look at a little horseshoe -- a look at a little horseshoe. there's lunchtime, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 p.m. it's starting to rain up in bodega bay. you see at the line. it's getting here. here's tuesday night. that's real rain. come back here tomorrow night and the 10: 10:00 news we'll be t alking about. this is when the wind will bic tacking about -- the wind will be -- this is the wind we've been talking about.

santacruz mountains got h ammered on saturday. looks like they want to get sam -- want to get hammered again. overnight, things start to clear out, it's 3:00 a.m. on w ednesday. might be some scattered showers as we head late into wednesday and you see the snow going off in the mountains. a winter storm warning will be in effect through -- through wednesday -- through tuesday night through wednesday afternoon. so we'll watch that for you. there's your forecast and a winter storm warning 4::00 tuesday to 4:00 p.m. wednesday. we are looking at a five-day forecast. it's a wet one for a couple of days. it dries off on and 0 off. from my point of view you can't ask for a better setup. that mudslide thing that happens every year, could be a lot w orse. we're doing well. another fluid week. >> yes. >> okay. thanks, bill. >> that's the message from city

leaders. see how they are converting tree mulch into fuel.

music fans could find concert ticket prices are cheaper this year. attendance dropped by 10%. concert promoters now plan to make their shows more a ffordable. other merchandise can make you

the difference in revenue. the average ticket price was $ 55. san francisco officials are urging residents to recycle their christmas trees instead of throwing them in the trash. the cities council of the environment kicked off the c rushside recycling program. trees will be picked up for free and put in a tree chipper. that mulch will then be t ransferred to tracy where it will serve as biomass fuel in a waste to energy facility. >> these trees are gonna be c hipped and mostly used for boiler fuel which is a biomass to make energy, make e lectricity. the curbside tree pickup begins next week. the week of january 3rd, and runs through january 14th just put your tree out on the curb on your regular trash collection day. stay with us. ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00 is necessary.

major delays on a bay area freeway. we'll tell you where the backup is and how long it's expected to last.

it's going to be a bumpy ride. why it is so important to fix it now. good evening. i'm gasia mikaelian. >> i'm frank somerville. new at 6:00, a big pothole c ausing big problems on highway 101, crews have been trying to fix that whole all day. they are still working on it right now and the traffic backup has been huge. ktvu achristen kafton live tonight in rohnert park with more on the repairs and those traffic problems. >> reporter: yeah, frank, a lot of frustrated drivers out here. crews are still working on a pothole repair. let's give you a look so you