we're in the lobby of the fairmont hotel. a much smaller scale. >> another round of rain and showers falling over the bay area this morning. i'll late out your sunday pattern coming up. >> the challenges some people could face when they hit the road or even the sky. >> complete bay area news coverage starts right now. this is ktvu mornings on 2. well d you hear it?

i know i did. rain continues to fall throughout the bay area. it's a much needed storm but also causing flooding and spinouts out there on bay area roadways. good morning. >> good morning to you. let's start you off with a look at the weather. when you decided to leave the house since you saw this was a big storm. >> for many of us most of day was dry. of course, when i get to union square, it decide television going rain. that's why i had my rain jacket handy. we'll need is once again for today. the rain continues to fall. heavier in some part but a beautiful view there. pointing to the east coast. the sun is rising. not a lot of sun to see at this hour. we're looking at plenty of light scattered showers and i want to point you off the santa

cruz coastline. thunderstorms all this lightning firing off. hasn't reached ashore just yet. we're going have this for this morning. weave light rain falling over the peninsula. slick roads. 101. we go to the east bay where we have scattered showers in the forecast. oakland, hayward, fremont and into the east bay areas. let's stop -- right here as we get into the north bank. you've got light rain falling and it stretches into areas like napa and farther east into areas like fairfield. so the rain moving through. i think it'll be heaviest this morning as we get intoed afternoon. going see some breaks. we have more rain in the extended forecast. the futurecast model -- coming up. >> all right. thanks. we're going to start off

talking about travel. it doesn't matter what the weather is. people have to get home from the holidays and today is expected to be one of the busiest travel days of year. very, very nice out there. pretty clear during the thanksgiving holiday. holiday season through tomorrow. that airport is predicting that 1.3 million travelers will pass through. it is a nearly 3% increase. now let's take over to -- also looking good out there. officials are estimating that 350,000 travelers will pass through. over in oakland 350,000 people expected. that's up from last year. a 6% from the thanksgiving flying period in 2013. now, even more californians will be on the road today. 5.6million people are traveling 60 mys or more.

why are so many people hitting the road? low gas priebs prices. maximum enforcement period does end tonight. >> they could find themselves going extra slow. let's take a look on this beautiful sunday morning up there. several inch of snow has fallen since friday night. by early e yesterday morning, 9 inches of new snow. and snow is on the way today. >> we're having a blast went we're freezing many we want hot chocolate. ski resorts say television very welcome. they receive enough of that new powder to turn off their know making seasons. >> we're definitely relying on the snow gods and mother nature. she's just pulling through for

us. we checked the requirements this morning and chains are not required right now. but, of course, that could quickly change and therefore cal train recommends you carry chains in your vehicle. >> starting tomorrow night the san jose non-profit group. there'll be a hundred beds and -- visitors will receive there two males and a hot shower. more than 7600 homeless people in santa clara county. time now is 7:05. let's turn to some other news. a well-liked writer in the oakland writers. we've been following this case. he was found shot to death

tuesday at a park trail. they heard gunshots and saw two men running away. they've released -- >> so much pain for people. they don't know the pain they've created for families and friends. just the confidence of going on a hike. >> nay believe robbery -- they believe robbery was the motive. he taught english and journalism at danville. a memorial is being planned for next month. darren wilson has been on administrative leave since the august 9th shooting. he hopes it'll allow the community to heal, it follows the grand jury decision not to pursue criminal charges for the

shooting. >> he got away with murder. he's free. he's gone live his life and do whatever he wants to do. >> i figure it was a given. no way he can work in law enforcement again. >> he told jurors he feared for his life. the decision to not brig bring charges and several businesses are cleaning up the -- as protesters damaged some union square businesses. several businesses were also -- >> hit with traffic barricades right there. 78 people were arrested. six officers were hurt. the most serious of which suffered a deep cut to the face when he was hit with a bottle. >> all right. your time is 7:07. i want to talk about this hold tradition. it's been happening for more than a century.

it's hard workinging elves have been working hard. >> this is right behind us. let's give you a look at this life-sized gingerbread house shvment the lobby of the fairmont hotel. you can see from some of the piping that they have at the top of the plexus glass windows. you can walk through it. let's do that and take you inside and see this gingerbread arch way and off to my right a stand that's workshop that they've society up here with is toys and paint and a lot of letters spilling out of that

mailbox here in santa's workshop. she's one of the creators. tell us how much planning is involved >> . we start the process back in august. when everyone else is hanging out, we're -- we have several meetings between the culinary department, the hotel management and the engineer department. we might have big ideas. >> we want to point out this is this made a gingerbread but there's a wood structure. we can show this is a wooden beam. we face it with masonite so we can attach all of our edible product to it. >> what's the edible product? >> we have about 8 ,000 gingerbread bricks. they're attached with royal icing. 2,000 pounds of royal icing to

attach the bricks. then we atash about a thousand pounds of candy. >> all homemade gingerbread. we make the icing in giant batches. then we put a lot of time and effort into it. >> if we walk through to the other side of the gingerbread house. we have the splices to make our own ginger bread house obviously on a much, much smaller scale. some tips about the best way to construct a gingerbread house. >> we could use some tips. >> i'll pay for the cab ride if she wants to come over. we've been looking at this and -- no directions we're a little lost but it's always exciting to try new adventures. at home it's a mother-son tradition in my family. i don't get too involved in it.

>> don't get out of it. >> did you do it growing up a lot? >> you do it in school. >> i don't remember that. >> we can't figure out which is the top, the bottom and the roof. [ laughter ] >> we have a patio here. >> patio. i think i'll figure it out. he already told me he's going to take direction. that's his way of -- >> that's 22-feet high. >> they have an engineering department. we'll do better. >> this is not going to be 22 feet high. about 5-6 inches. >> that's the front. i've figured it out. >> folks can e-mail in their directions. >> if folks are watching, it's not the icing we're going to use. i blame our producer, chelsea who -- we have to make it said i'll buy you some. >> we're going to work on it for the next hour and a half. you can follow us as this

lovely gingerbread house or tepee begins to take shape. >> what you can expect for tomorrow's cyber monday and what you can do to keep your credit card information safe. >> we wanted to take that experience and keep it relevant. >> going digital with santa. the unique experience one company is offering at malls across the nation. >> it's a soggy start to the morning with moderate to heavy rain moving toward the coast. the radar and the model. what you can expect for your sunday coming up.

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black friday spending results are in and stores may have contributed to fewer friday sales according to

shopper track. americans spent $9.1 billion. that's a 7% drop compared to last year. in store sales on thanksgiving however increased by 24% to $3.2 billion. they expect sales for the last two months of year to hit nearly $617 billion. the amazon distribution center is gearing up for a pretty busy day tomorrow. they're expected to take full advantage of the cyber monday sales. last year they ordered nearly 37 million items worldwide. that breaks down to 346 items per second. cyber monday is the busiest day of the day of the year. it takes thousands of employees. yesterday was small

business saturday. and tomorrow that holiday shopping weekend craziness continues with cyber monday. it's this time of year that security becomes a big issue. we talked to internet security expert who has some tips for people hitting online shores. >> that's right. it's the busiest shopping days of the year. over half of americans are going to be spending most of their money online versus going into stores. what can we do to keep you safe? >> let's say i'm shopping for something my wife would like for christmas. so i placed it in my shopping cart and i want to complete my transaction. when i go to check out, one thing is they ask you for a password or to set up a password. there's some good things you can do. like pick a password that's going it be 8 characters or longer. mix upper and lower case. if you can, on different sites use different passwords.

so if somebody gets your password on one site, they don't have password on other sites. let me log in quickly. when we sign in, there's some things you want to look for that are hallmarks of keeping you safe. trust indicators. first thing is here on the address bar look to the left of the www or whatever the address and instead of looking for ht ttp look for https. it's encrypted. nobody else can see what's going on. you can assume s means safe. this site in particular shows this green element which means that not only is everything encrypted but also that site

has been validated as a legitimate business. if you look on the right, this website uses a trust seal. about two-thirds of americans know and trust. there's others that talk about the security of the company or viruses or privacy. these are all symbols to look to make sure that you're safe when shopping online. that's a legitimate site, a legitimate business. stay safe online. happy holidays back to you guys. >> all right. thanks. >> good tips. are you shopping tomorrow? >> no. >> got other things going on. >> i think i would -- i'm always planning on. i don't always get to it. it might be good to get some christmas shopping out of way. >> i know. i'm already behind. >> i am behind. >> you're not behind. >> you have the schedule. i bet your wife has it. >> patience. it's not even december.

>> if i start to auto early i spend more. because i find more people to buy for. >> including yourself. >> i find better deels and take what i bought back to the store to find something else. it turns into a mess. i'll see you there. >> o.k. i'll be there. >> giving you a live look f. you are thinking about doing some shopping this morning, you may need that umbrella. a live look at san jose where we have gray skies. a few light showers here but off the coast i'm tracking some mad rat moderate to heavy rain. notice what is going on off the coastline near santa cruz. take a look at that. this is going to be swinging through over the next half hour or so. notice just now beginning to enter the coastline. so moderate to heavy rain in this area. especially santa cruz up the coast as well as pacifica a

quarter inch to three tenths of an inch per hour. this is going it be shifting through. we may pick this up in an hour but the key is it's going be moderate to heavy. we may see some spinouts. take it easy if you're heading on the highways. light rain on the peninsula. shift into the east bay. reporting some light rain at this time. we have several towns in the light showers. napa. still falling in and around -- it looks like the snow level right about 6, 7,000 feet. picked up a whopping foot of snow yesterday morning tiny continues to fall. most of ski resorts have reported anywhere from 4 to 8 inches. as we get into the second half

of your day, this rain is going to taper off. i'm going to start it at this hour. if we get to the 8:00 hour it's going to be more wide spread. we've got just steady rain falling over the rain area. really not enough to call it isolated showers. a little bit better. a few peaks of sunshine there and we have scattered showers. and it continues again to taper off was get into the second half of day. i think the second half of the day is the better time to be outdoors. meanwhile we take care of this system today. we have more rain coming in on tuesday as well as sierra snow. upper 50s, low 60s. a lot look yesterday. it wasn't too bad if you had a light jacket on. it felt kind of nice. the extended forecast as we get into the workweek ahead.

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the oakland raiders are going for the second win of -- they will not have murray. he's out with a concussion. george atkinson the third who played high school ball in livermore is taking murray's place. today on ktvu a game that could play a role if they head to the playoffs. division-leading arizona cardinals take on the atlanta

falcons. while the 49ers are off today, they will take on the raiders in the battle of the bay at the coliseum next sunday. >> a 3,000-year-old rhinossuren -- into to the museum website or submit the idea in person. it has to be in before the end of december. and san it going high-tech by offering children and parents a virl trip to santa's workshop. it's only happening at a few places. the mall in washington, d.c. it's called santa's headquarters. it takes people through a virtual world what an -- it

does include a chance to get on a digital naughty or nice list. it can be found at 10 other malls. >> you can't see and feel santa in our pajamas at home. >> so it's not clear if more malls are going to jump on this but malls that do appear to have that -- do have it appeared to be getting a good response. by the way, err time we do this stories where can i go? we did check if you want and the closest is modesto. it can take 20 minutes. >> the drive can take a little longer. if you're ready and willing, go

for it. just have to go. >> we did it. >> we've been working o tn. >> we. >> that's right. >> my wall is up. >> claudia's been good. the heavy's stuff been coming in. >> it looks like an actual house. don't knock it down. it doesn't go like that. >> gentle >> it goes up on the thing. >> lock at that, folks? how about that? thank you very much. >> there we go. >> as claudia continues to work on it. coming up 15,000 pounds of icing not here the size of a cow and what was used to make this gingerbread house in san francisco where you can do this holiday tradition. pouring over the bay area this morning. i'm tracking where it is heaviest and what you can expect for your neighborhood coming up.

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all right. let's get you updated on some of top stories. a ferguson police officer who shot and killed 18 year old michael brown has resigned. in his resignation letter, darren wilson hopes it'll allow the community to heel. ferson officials plan to address the resignation later today. and the sunday after thanksgiving is one of the busiest travel days of year. people are heading back home by

plane, train and automobile. they're going to drive. # # ,000 are going to fly. 200,000 will take trains, boats or other types of transportation. >> it may be a slow trek home because of the rain in the bay area. northern california continues to be hit by some storms this holiday weekend. some parts of tahoe reporting up to 9 inches of new snow and more to come. welcome back to mornings on 2. >> good morning to you. let's get you start started on this sunday morning. >> wednesday's the day? >> another wave through the day this morning. you're right. we do have another system that will come in tuesday into wednesday. that'll bring wind with it as well. we'll be tracking that for you down the road. a live look into san francisco. you can see the bay bridge there in site. so very slick out there this morning. please take it easily.

especially if you're going to be near the coastline along highway 1 or the peninsula. let's zoom in and get a closer look. we have isolated thunder and lightning reported and very moderate to even heavy rain at times. if we squeeze into santa cruz heavy to moderate rain. twin lakes, it's coming down for you as well. sliding a little bit north up to areas like pacifica. light to moderate rain falling here as well. the peninsula seeing light rain for the most part. the bridge getting -- going be wet, don barrton into the east bay. from the east bay shoreline into areas like antidock. the light rain comets to failing. we've seen pretty good amounts. i'll show you that -- i'll update those numbers coming up.

i'll have a look at our temperatures. back to you. >> thanks. we've been building a gingerbread house this morning. you do need a lot of flour, sugar, seasoning and that's just the start of it. there are many other ingredients. major if you're bidding the taj mahal -- live at the san francisco fairmont hotel. >> this is a gingerbread house. it's the largest one in the state of california. we're in the lobby of fairmont hotel. this is a two-storial gingerbread house. it takes the people months. they start planning to build this back in august and they start constructing it at a wear house. part of novelty is you can walk right through it. if you look inside you can see a -- santa's workshop that they got set up here. the entire frame of this

gingerbread is made from wood. they bring engineers and carpenters in to construct the frame and then they bake the bricks themselves and they start tiling. there it is. this is actual gingerbread. don't want to try to eat it or lick t. they purposely keep the bread out and use it as bricks and tiles for this house. they've got about a thousand pounds of candy. if we come through to the other side the house, you'll see -- we've got some supplies set up. kimberly is the executive pastry chef. she's helping us make our own. so what's the secret to -- we want to talk about the icing here. that's one of the secrets. >> the main secret would be the icing and you always want to use royal icing. >> what's royal icing?

>> it's basically just powdered sugar and egg whites. it's like a glue and it'll be soft when you put it on but it'll dry hard so it'll hold everything together. >> we initially bought this and she told it's not going to get harden. >> it'll probably just fall apart. >> if you use the royal icing you can change the consistency? >> you can make it thinner or thicker depending on how hard you want it to dry. you can use a much thicker to do something like that where you can cement something together. >> we used really, really thick royal icing to attach the bricks. you go ahead and take a trowel and use the spacer and space it out just like real brick and real tile. >> when you come and watch the introduction of it they get confused. >> we're using cement or something like that because of the manner in which we're putting it on but it's the most

efficient way of doing it and we're going to come back with a little bit thinner icing that we for in between the bricks. >> so for the base and the frame, definitely want royal icing. what else do you have to keep in mind? anything special at gingerbread. >> it works better when it's kind of stale. it's actually a good idea to hep it up and let your gingerbread sit off. it'll bend and you can break it a little bit easier but the glue attaches better, the royal icing attaches better. >> we're going to continue to working o this and i think we -- she's doing the brunt of work. but we're going to check back with you in about half an hour. but i'm -- >> that royal icing. >> i don't think the secret -- >> we'll see. >> you do have the secret ingredient and we have nonsecret experience. >> we don't have that.

we do have the store--bought icing. >> we're making a huge mess in the studio which is making a lot of people happy. >> it's funny when the chef was talking about the candy that's put on there. i go to the fairmont with the family every year and my son -- he swings by and very tempted or has been tempted and we've caught him in the act but he's lurking. >> how many people have touched that? >> it's tempting when you're 4- years old. we go to the christmas care i remember as a kid in san francisco. >> if ninos how to get -- these little things -- turn it on the front. we have all this stuff on the top but nothing on the front. it just rolls off. not royal icing. >> but look at it. it's standing up. >> yeah. because it's got -- we bought one with slots on the bottom.

>> earthquake around here. >> we'll continue work thong but we're going to take a break really quickly but when we come back talk about some holiday travel because you talk about how many people-140,000 people. what you can expect if you're headed back home from the long holiday weekend. >> we got scared. how they survived being trapped under the snow for 7 hours. >> the wet weather to join us. snow still falling in the sierra. some parts getten drenched this morning. coming up.

we got scared. there was a big block of ice on my check. >> i tried to punch it to break it. it was about to fall and he said that it was coming -- going to land on his face. >> amazing. that's 11-year-old elijah and his cousin who both say they're grateful to be alive after they were buried under 5 feet of snow. the new york cousins were building a snow fort when a snowplow went by the fort. it took police more than 7 hours to get them out. they were a bit shaken up but they look good and are expected to be o.k. a 13-year-old boy is now back home safe after being found hidden behind a wall. [ sobbing ]

lots of emotion here. four years ago her son went to visit his father and never returned. she says she reported him missing but didn't call authorities because she didn't know how to handle the situation. he sent his mother a text saying he was being abused. >> i saw him and asked him to come forward and he was horrified. he was frozen with fear. >> he was hidden behind a wall panel in georgia after his father denied the boy was there. police say the five people who were in the home are faces charges that include false imprisonment and cruelty to children. children. they're looking for a man who exposed himself. the victim was running on bean creek road near crystal oaks drive when she spotted man. he exposed him to the woman who

ran and notified police. he's a white male in his 20s, early 30 was blond buzz cut. 5' 9' or 10''. the vehicle was possibly a jeep or toyota suv. while he was -- let's say the face of ktvu for decades he hardly needs an introduction. >> many have been wondering what he's been up to. >> the no. 1 prime time newscast in the country. >> good evening. >> dennis richmond spent 40 years at ktvu. 30 as can chance of rain. he didn't set tout be a newsman. >> i was working as a -- an ad. >> associated director? >> behind the camera. >> he worked hi way at a time when the bay area was exploded

with social unrest and when most reporters and they bosses were white men. >> that didn't dawn on me that much. it didn't matter that it was dominated by white men. >> by 1976 he was the main anchor at ktvu. he says being in the studio didn't shield him from the emotional drama that sometimes unfolded outside. such as the '91 oakland hills fire storm glevment we are on the air constantly throughout the day. and into the evening. and the news director told me to go home and get some rest. you can't rest in situations like that. i went home, showered. laid there and i said, what the hell am i doing here? i got up and went back to week. >> this man projected a stoic calmness on the air but sometimes inside his art would

bleed. >> the -- hit a house and some young children in there screaming and their father had one little girl by the hand and the little girl ripped the girl out of his hand. somebody was going to do a remote from the scene. and we lost power so they had to do it from the studio. i had to do. it was very emotional because -- just about the time we went out they found the little girl's body and it's still emotional. >> there were fun stories too. he flew with the thunder birds and blue angels. >> he went into like a -- a 4- degree turn and i was gasping, you know? it was killing me. and then he straightened up. sorry about that. are you all right? and i said, yep.

i'm fine. and i thought to myself, if i knew how to fly this plane i'd probably strangle him right now. >> one thing they didn't know is he suffers from the hiccups. he takes medication for you. >> you were always worried about getting the hiccups on the air. did that ever happen? >> once. once. it was just one little hick. >> no up. >> no up. and the other person who noticed it was my daughter. she called it right after the show. >> one hiccup in 30 years and four coan chorus starting coanchors. >> we were together for years. and she was a great coanchor. she was all business. she knew what she was talking about. leslie griffith. she was good as what she was doing. julie who was just wonderful.

she's -- yeah. we love her. oui been on the air for five straight hours. >> october 17, 1989. >> good evening. >> i reached over and put my hand on her. i went to a media training seminar after that and they used that clip of elaine and i on how you can personalize the news. >> one night they were taping a new tease. this never got on air. >> good evening. an estimated 34 million people survived a -- [ laughter ] >> dennis is making me do this now. >> i didn't do nothing. >> that happens every now and then. and the harder you try to stop it, the harder it is it stop.

>> what do you account for your longevity? how did you survive so long? >> i had a bigger stick. no. i don't know. you know, when i did the news i can the news. i just did the story, did the news and moves on. and i was very busy-like and i stayed that way. >> there's no more deadlines but he's always a newsman. >> he's all news. he gets his newspaper and comes back and if his newspaper isn't there, this is not a good thing. >> no. >> laid back ins his running suit, life looks good for the man who's recognized as an icon. >> how do i say good-bye to job i love? >> the last time was his last day at ktvu. >> you wore a tie for a long time. we have the old 70s stuff with

the big knot scwhrs. the knot was so big that it covered the shirt. [ laughter ] that's when i had the of a row. the big hair. >> that look is coming back, by the way. >> not for me. [ laughter ] not for me. i don't be back into that. >> it looked great. you wore it well. >> that was good then. but it's all over now. >> just a class act. stoic. an honor to work with him and so many stories and spoocially the part where he's talking about it's all business but when you're covering the emotional story, as an reporter, an chance of rain you feel it inside and when we go home, that's when we kind of realize what he just worked on. for him to do it for all those decades. >> never leave it at the door. certainly. i worked mornings for ten years. there's a lot of people that

work different shifts. he would come in every day and say, claudia, now i much wad what you did today and i'm like -- >> he'd come in early too. >> pass through and giving his stories. we'd talk about it but yeah. just a news ghie and class act. we miss him around year but we're glad he's enjoying himself. he started as an ad. ultimate respect for dennis richmond. is >> absolutely. >> it's stormy in some areas. zap that cruz seeing quite a big rainfall it miranda warning. if you're going be traveling today i think the second half of the action noon may be the better schois. i'll show you why coming up

here in just a moment. off the coastline. slowly work its way in to areas like santa cruz and stretching up. a lot of thunderer thunder and lightening. but nothing like what we were seeing off the coastline. santa cruz, twin lakes, highway 1 is getting a drenching this morning and at this hour -- half of the bay into -- it stretches into the peninsula. and it moves all the way to the east bay. but notice most of the pay area seeing just light rain. it's a light rain over the north bay as well as the east bay. walnut creek seeing some light showers. we had spinouts earlier this morning and spinouts along highway 1. this rain is going to work its way across the bay

area. as we get into the 8:00 hour. it's weakening a little bit but in any case some pretty good rain coming our way. 8:00. by 9:00 already beginning to break up. just a little bit. still be very wide, scattered with the showers. a little bit more. now we're into the line up much hour. breaks here even perhaps a few peaks of sunshine by the second half of the afternoon a lot like yesterday afternoon. we're not in the clear but a little bit of sunshine. take a look at some of these little toes thus far. picked up .8. an inch and a half reported over the santa cruz mountains. central portions, oakland, they looked concord and livermore. we have more to come. so we'll see what happens there. as we get into your numbers notice a lot of 50s out there.

not too cool am light jacket. make it a water-proof one. a lot like yesterday. the extended forecast here with the second half of your forecast in view. on and off showers for the afternoon. mainly dry on monday. a few sprinkles but not a big deal. the next storm moves in tuesday and lasts until wednesday. >> all right. >> thanks. >> you got it. >> owning a piece of royal history. the items hitting the auction block including a dress worn by princess diana.

a spokeswoman is coming under fire for comments she made about the first daughter. elizabeth lawton wrote that they looked bored they attend. she went on to say then again they don't respect their

positions very much much or the nation. >> she has since deleted the comment and apologize. there's a campaign calling for her to be fired. a part of the royal family could be coming to a place near you thanks to an auction. the event will feature dressing worn by princess diana. >> we still -- where we were when she passed away. >> a piece of kate's wedding -- entire auction between 2 and $300,000. >> a win their in. the calvin benjamin bears looking to become bowl eligible this weekend but the -- the byu

cow goor guards. the bottom of your screen. and you can see how that one worked out. 73 yards and the lead. warys respond. shotgun in the fade route. left side. trevor davis. the young man for martinez. nice grab. in the end it's the bears defense. looking lost. that was always taught don't get beat deep. find by everyone get again for the score and the byu end. two scores on the day. a couple of shots to tie it. it was byu4 42. >> let's talk about gingerbread. >> i like it. >> the enormous gingerbread house and check back in with her in a little bit but we've -- going to be out of candy

soon because rosemary was here eating candy >> . i'm hungry. >> eating all the m & ms. >> i've been trying to do that that. >> i fixed it. >> the contractor called in. >> i care. do you do these at home? >> no. >> you should do it at home. >> sorry. >> what? >> you put this in front so people can't see our creation. will et me get a look at this. i'm actually a little impressed. >> it's so good. you're coming over here to eat. >> your right. anymore chocolate? >> no because you ate it it all. we're going to work on this. we're going to be right back. focus. focus. my side look good. >> see you in a couple minutes.

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gingerbread house on a smaller scale. >> outside the wet weather continues this morning giving you a live look there where the wet weather continuing. i'm tracking the rain and the impact to your sunday. >> we have the latest number on how many other folks could be joining our that trip home. mornings at 2 continues now. all right. check it out. that's the inside of a pretty awesome gingerbread house that stands 22-feet hall. holding up 1500 pounds of icing. you can see how massive this structure is. now standing in the lobby in san francisco. and from pretty awesome to this here in front of us right now. ours. >> it's very cute. i'm not sure why there's a man

-- >> that was my creation. >> on the side of roof. >> he's hanging up the christmas lights. >> excellent. >> i told him to do it. >> thank you, mike. very creative idea, i know. welcome back to mornings on 2. it's sunday, november 30l1 th. >> 30th. we've been having a go ahead time out here. rosemary has been joining us on our gingerbread creation. >> eat a little bit of candy. >> pushed it out of my reach. >> going to keep finishing it over here many tell us about all the rain. people trying to get hom >> it'll be a tough one. fairly light but fairly steady for most of bay area. some moderate to heavy rain pull off the coast or should i say enter the coast from the

pacific. earlier this morning and we'll check in on that. we'll get to that right now. let's turn it over to storm tracker two and show you whation happening this morning. this is what we were looking at and this is what it's going to continue to move ashore. so in the last hour or so, we have watched it move into the santa cruz mowkses. we've watched it move into areas of pacifica. light to moderate rain falling. it continues to move toward the east. this is going to be sweeping across the east bay. it's going weaken as it does. it's already weakened some coming on shore but south san francisco and into san francisco we've got some pretty good rain reported. it's generally light along the peninsula. maybe a steady drizzle. maybe just a light rain. over the north bay we have several with light showers at times. i think with this wave this is right now. the heaviest and the steady

rain. in the second half of your afternoon, it's going to begin to break up. i'm going to show you that coming up. >> all right. so holiday traditions all over and tomorrow is the first day of december. we are getting into the spirit here at ktvu. >> we've been working hard on our own gingerbread house and we're not the only ones. experts who have created a gingerbread house way too big for us to handle here. >> this ginger bread house doesn't you you in spirit, i don't know what will. it's a two-story gingerbread house. it's baked right here. this is the lobby of the fairmont hotel. santa's workshop here and the toy train going around it.

the novelty is you can walk through this gingerbread house and take you through the archway here and give you a closer look at the construction. this is actually a compostable -- they lay the tile on top of it. this is not something you want to eat. you can see from the sign there. the candy here and the gingerbread is actually a few months old. they start baking it baa in september. they purposely leave out for a while so it hardens so it's easy to put on the gingerbread house. now as we come through here to the other side, we've been showing you all morning our attempt on a much smaller scale. execkive pastry chef is helping us with it. this is it. we've been working on it quite a bit. what did we do here? tell us about the frotsing. that's a secret. >> use royal icing. as your frosting.

and that's basically powder sugar and egg whites. you want to use a thicker frosting. >> that's exactly what you guys used to put your house? >> everything is attach ready royal icing t. will dry very hard so your house won't fall apart. >> it's as good as glue or cement. >> i'm going to try to add some of the finishing touches on this gingerbread house. we're going to put some of these on there. >> these are nerd ropes. they're only available at christmas time. it's a special-order product. and it's basically like a jelly roll center. it's a very hot item this time of year. >> how much icing should i put on this? >> that's just about right. >> okay. so not too much. >> just leave -- like a tube of tooth paste. a nice little -- go ahead. stick those right on. >> this is about as involved

that i've been in the gingerbread house i have to admit. kimberly is taking the reigns here. then we do it on the other side here and this is royal icing. it's made with powdered sugar and egg whites. that's what gives us that thick, pasty consistency. you were telling me if you're doing this you got do be careful. >> wipe it up. you want to wipe it up right away before it dries. if you dent to it quick enough and it does dry really hard, you can soften it up again with waters with very hotels and then clean it up. >> this ginger bread house is on the display until january 2nd. what happens after that? >> so we have a really strong commitment to sustain bility. the entire facade comes off and

compostable. >> nothing end in the landfill? >> it's disassembled and put in storage. >> thank you so much. the fairmonth hotel. i want tissue this time lapse video that the hotel got. can show it to you. it started back in november 1st until now. it's the video of the pros. it's constructing in the lobby the planning and the construction for it offis set begins in august. this is almost half your long project to the kitchen -- we're going to check back with you more one time before the end of the show. it's pretty much done. weed ad the nerd ropes here. we're going to check in with you one more time. >> thanks. >> we don't have special order -- nerd ropes. >> we're not at the fairmont.

>> but i did nice that their christmas temporary avoided the snow fall because the rest had snow all over it. >> that's why they had enough. i think their frosterring is a -- >> a little bit better. >> well, today's traditional one of the busiest travel days of the year. they'll travel 50-miles or more from home this holiday weekend. 600,000 flying. 2 # 0,000 by train or boat and 8 plan to drive. that's -- an increase from last year's to -- a combined 2 million people will pass through the airport. if you're getting ready to hit the road. you'll with greeted with gas prices. $3.06 for regular unled. in oakland going to go to

$3.08. drivers are paying $3 clnt 06 with some prices as low as $2.72. >> i filled up under $3 a gallon. >> stores opening up early may have contributed to few refried sales. >> they spent $9.1 billion at stores on black friday but that's a 7% drop compared to last year. in store sales on thanksgiving increased however. they expect sales for the last two months of year to hit nearly $617 billion. and the amazon distribution sphr is -- online shoppers are expected to take full advantage of cyber monday. they ordered nearly 70 million items worldwide. that breaks down to 426 items per second. that's very busy internet

highway. it's their busiest day of the year so to fulfill it all the orders it will take those employees -- massive automated shipping and packaging machines. he resigned. in his resignation he wrotes hi leave will allow the community to heal. the move follows the grand jury's decision not to pursue criminal charges. he told jurors he feared for his life. ferguson officials plan to address his resignation later today. a catch is covering a ever beingless chid from being rescued. they find him inside -- light pole that was just laying there outdoor in the storage area. he was wedge sod tight it could

not move the limbs. it's now being cared for by the east county animal shelter. nice recovery there. >> poor baby. congrats and good work. santa's workshop is going high- tech. tell you where you can find a virl naughty or nice list and where you can take a is selfie. where it's heaviest at this time and i'll layout what you can expect for this sunday coming up. ♪ na na na na... female announcer: it's a great big world and it can all be yours. here and only here. ♪ come and get it.

several bay area businesses are cleaning up after a series of riots. things turned violent as they -- police officers being hit with thrown traffic barricades. in all, 78 people were arrested. >> i was nervous. i was scared. because i wasn't sure where -- what direction they were going to take. it was so random and there was so much anger. >> six officers were hurt the most serious suffered a deep cut to the face when he was hit with a bottle. >> tomorrow -- the national aids moarm yal grove will mark the occasion it with two days of -- the light in the grove ceremony. the grove will exhibit personal tributes, photographs and other

momentos. tomorrow's soarms beginning at noon. the 80's show who's the boss will receive a reward. >> another wet morning out this. the last day of november. see who's getting hit the hardest. >> fairly widespread but probably around the santa cruz area. the gloomy start from san francisco looking out over the bay. in i guess to the wet weather, the gray skies, the fog again this morning. take it easy if you're jumping on to the roadways. it's a slick one. even -- over parts of north way bay. with dweef got even thunderstorms reported off the coastline over the pacific. as it moves in it's weakening considerably. we will start in areas near santa cruz where light to moderate raib continues to

fall. we did have light rain over portions of santa cruz this morning. san francisco in through half- moon bay light to moderate rain. a little bit of drizzle. a little bit of light rain. spreads into the east bay. we have reports of light rain and into the north bay we go where we continue to see light rain here as well. the stead -- going to show you what i mean here in just a moment. snow level right about 6,000 feet or so. we've seen several inches fall in the last 36 hours. a foot of snow yesterday and we're expecting another six inches or so by the end of this afternoon. that is great news. lest talk about what's happening here at home. if you're going it be traveling today or out shopping, the second half of the day is the better idea. as we get into 9:00 it's fairly widespread. light but steady. 10:00 begins to taper off just a tad. about 11:00 and into the lunch

hour where we begin to see the breaks. the scattered showers begin to -- the second half -- sun and cloud even and a few scattered showers remaining in the forecast. it's 4:00 in the afternoon it begins to break away. we are going to be dry. mainly dry for monday. we're not going to leave the unsettled weather all together but monday will be a dry day with another storm on tuesday. let's take a look at some of the rainfall totals since late fried night. .8 in santa rosa. just .05. an inch and a half. even a little bit more than that so far. temperatures outside our door right now, not too bad. it's cloudy. it's going to feel cool. 50s in the forecast at the moment. upper 50s, low 60s for the extended forecast we have dry day for tomorrow. welt weather returning to the

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the world's largest floating christmas tree was debuted last night. 3.1million lights. and it's lighting is the third biggest e. after carnival and new year's eve. >> santa is going high-tech. a virtual trip. one of his headquarters in washington d.c. a digital naughty or nice list. selfies with virtual elves. similar headquarters can be found at 10 other malls. >> you can't experience santa at home. we wanted to that experience and expand on it. >> and it's unclear whether or

not even more malls will start to feature a more digital santa experience. right now the closest mall is in madesto. >> one toy company is putting an extra special spin. it's a florida-based company that can turn basically anything into a stuffed toy. they're specialty is drawings done by children and picture of actual people. but you better hurry. it takes about 5 weeks. it's already too late. >> happy new year. >> but it's a really cool idea. maybe for birthdays or -- >> yep. all right. well a rhino is in need of a name. up next, the suggestions some of you are sending us on our ktvu facebook page.

asking the public for a little help to help them name a rhino. the rare piece, there it is, it's 12 inches high and 18 inches long. anyone who wants to submit a name can go to the website or submit the idea in person. just do it before the end of december. they're going to take the top three and put them up for a vote in january.

we did ask you what you would name that rhino. here's so responses. >> chad renee or alec and boo- boo. and john brown is keeping it simple with the nice little bob. what about bob. that was a really good movie. >> boo-boo, bob. chad. >> that's your name for him? >> i think maybe it should be -- that was a cute one. >> what would you say? >> i have no idea. i don't know. all the pressure. i don't know. >> the pressure. let's talk about your gingerbread house. >> i'm actually -- i hate to admit but i'm impressed. you did a great job. >> you hate to admit it? you can admit it. >> she didn't -- did you do this a lot groiing up? >> no. i thought we were going to get

to eat it. >> we got allie -- and allie took the same kit she did although she was standing next to the pastry chef who may or may not have had a role in that. >> i don't know if we can do that. >> look at the tree there. the tree is not decorated with snow. >> look at how perfect the sides are. it looked like -- put the candy on the side of ours. >> but did she remember to put the man on the side of the house? special order nerd rope. i think they brought out like the big guns. >> you get what you want out there. >> they do -- the reason we're doing all this because they have the 22-foot high like life- sized gingerbreat house.

>> i'm going on tuesday. it's an annual going to the city with the family. we'll spin up there and we'll enjoy it. >> you're going to need that umbrella. we have the wet weather this morning. scattered showers in the afternoon and the next storm will move in on tuesday and last through at least most of wednesday. >> all right. sounds good. well, thanks for joining us this morning. we've had a good time. >> stay tunes for the sports weekend show with joe finzy. thanks for watching us create this magical gingerbread house. see you around.

with 4 weeks left the 49ers look for a spot to stay in the playoffs. mercedes benz sports weekend starts now. hello again, everyone. welcome to the ktvu mercedes benz sports weekend. coming up on today's show, a very busy 5 days for the 49ers