land's end sits on a historic deep seated bedrock landslide so the placement of this week's slide isn't unusual. but the timing is. bad rock slides tend to happen in very wet years. and despite recent rains, we are in a dry period. warning signs and caution tape along the path aren't keeping some people from the edge. >> she broke every traffic rule in the book today just getting over here. that was nothing. that was nothing. >> it is great to be here. this is my favorite spot in san francisco. >> reporter: like the call of the siren risking the danger of an ever changing land's end to experience the beauty of it. so i talked to someone from the u.s. geological survey. he said if this slide continues to move, the solution might have to include moving the

footpath. reporting live in san francisco, noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thanks noelle. well, if you are heading to the sierra tonight, bring your chains. some heavy snow has been falling and there are driving restrictions on i-80 and 50 headed to south lake tahoe. once you get to your destination, can skiing and snow boarding is pretty great. and a little rain we saw in the bay area this afternoon moved quickly and left us with this beautiful bright orange sunset and hopefully, it stays dry throughout the holiday tomorrow. >> chief meteorologist bill martin joins us now with panel early look at this forecast. it is looking better. >> things are looking pretty good. that thing moved through barely dropping any rain. the rainfall accumulation, let's take a look at it. mostly under a tenth of an inch of rain. san rafael is the exception. they got two tenths of an inch which is not unusual for that north bay area to get a little more rain.

oakland got 1 1/10s of an inch. it is really light stuff. so they will track it back. you see the speed with which it goes through. very different from last week's weather system. look at the time clock. that is at about lunchtime. see the showers in santa rosa. scattered showers 1:00. now it is in the heart of the bay area. 1:30, 2:00, 3:00, it is gone. so different from the last storms that we had that lingered for what, two weeks? basically? there's the system. it is moving off into southern california now. we do see some activity in behind the front here. so some showers are possible that they could slide over the area as we head into the next six hours or so. but the main story as we head into tonight is how cold it will get. overnight lows after this frontal passage, things have cooled off. lows will get into the freezing levels as we go into friday morning and saturday morning.

when i come back, we will detail the weekend. a jet is on its way to hawaii after being diverted to oakland because of a mechanical problem. here is the boeing 767 when it landed this morning at oakland airport. officials say flight number 19 took off from san francisco around 9:30 this morning headed for honolulu, but the cockpit crew had a mechanical issue and the captain diverted to oakland. a screen shot from flightaware.com shows the plane circled over the pacific a few times before landing in oakland. passengers got on their way and they are expected to arrive in honolulu in about two hours. protesters call for an end to police violence in san francisco. they marched with the message black lives matter.

>> there were more than 100 of the lgbt community that held a die-in at the castro street intersection and the octavia boulevard off ramp from highway 101 and held a moment of silence from authorities who were killed by police officers. >> the solid front to apply the pressure. it could be an immediate end to police brutality. >> it follows the decisions of grand juries not to indict police officers for the death of michael brown in missouri and in new york. christian kafton is in union city where volunteers are working to make a christmas miracle for the deserving kids. >> reporter: they are absolutely in the giving spirit here. if you take a look here, you can see they have the barrels out here. this is where they are doing their curb side donation.

they are hoping to gather 10,000 toys in time for christmas morning. they hope no child wakes up without a toy under the tree. all day cars have been rolling up and dropping off gifts for kids in need. >> the kids need gifts. why not? this is so easy. it is so fun! >> reporter: this is the 14th year lee housekeepers organized the toy drive with a simple purpose. >> our goal is to make sure not one kid in san francisco wakes it without a toll. >> reporter: with a litten help from santa an a u-haul, they brought barrels of toys in the city's bay view district. row after row of kids lined up and dug through the piles of toys including six-year-old brandy who found a doll and ... >> my little pony.

>> you like them? >> yeah. >> reporter: the parents say they are happy to share the joy of the season with their children. >> it lets them know what it is really about and to give the kids the toys they needed it it is truly a blessing. >> reporter: so they will be out here collecting toys until last call. that is about 2:00 in the morning. so, they say that even those last minute gifts, the ones that arrive at 2:00 in the morning will wind up under a tree. >> that is good to hear. so if someone wants to drop something off, what kind of gifts are they looking for, christian? >> reporter: well, they have a lot of gifts like teddy bears and spider man. they need toys like teens and betweens. that is where they don't get many gifts. gift cards and cash would work out. they can use that to buy gifts for those kids. >> thanks christian kafton. inspections got underway at

an east san jose fire station. it was shut down earlier this week because of a potential mold problem. we went there where air tests were being conducted. firefighters from that location were moved to neighboring locations as a precaution. in an effort to make sure the neighborhood is adequately covered, they will be in the lot behind the station during peak hours and plan to patrol in the area. new details from sony tonight on the controversial movie the interview. it is being released online and you can now download the movie on youtube, google play, and a special sony website. it will be in about 300 theaters tomorrow including some in the bay area. it comes weeks after north korea allegedly hacked sony and threatened the theaters showing it. >> reporter: it is a movie the

lawmakers and the president are happy is being released. the interview will make its way to hundreds of theaters nationwide christmas day. here in washington, some members of congress urging turfer sanctions against north korea. they say they were responsible for the hack attack on sony. >> we will shut down the hard currency they need not only for their weapons program and for this dictator to pay his generals, but it would cut off funding to bureau 121, their 3,000 cyber agents. let's get serous about our response here. >> reporter: the comedy is about an assassination plot about north korea's leader kim jong un. it was going to run on 3,000 screens. houston's alamo draft house cinema is one that is stepping up to show the flick. >> we are excited to spotlight this movie. >> reporter: north korea's own internet went dark ten hours

monday. service is back up and running but said to be spotty triggering speculation that maybe the u.s. is responsible. >> it is important that we not jump to conclusions on who is behind this. >> reporter: republican senator david vitter of louisiana has sent president obama a letter requesting a white house screening of the interview. he wants members of congress invited so there can be a serious discussion on how to deal with cyber attacks. joe waldman, fox news. a selfless answer. when his mom asked what he wanted for christmas, one bay area boy's inspiring work to help the homeless. >> hardly anybody is kind to me out here. >> plus ... trains carrying crude. we detail the explosive risk when you mix old tanker cars with a specific type of oil. >> and next, they come from all around to hang their wishes from the branches. >> it is going to give me permission to wish for something. >> the woman behind the wishing tree and the reason she started the tradition.

>> we want to take a look at the santa tracker as santa makes his way around the world. we understand he is leaving argentina headed for santiago chile. if that is correct, those mountains would be the andes as he heads from the east to the west. i guess he will make his way up south america and go through mexico and be here in the united states. norad has tracked santa for more than 50 years. the tradition happened in 1955 when the sears roebuck misprinted the number for kid to call santa and accidentally posted the number for norad. at least thousands of

christian pilgrims from all over the world filled manger square in the west bank city of bethlehem. the biblical birthplace of jesus. there was a midnight mass at the church of the nativity. there were some clashes between palestinian protesters and israeli forces. ♪ [ music ] >> at the vatican, pope francis led the traditional christmas eve midnight mass at saint peter's basilica. thousands of people filled the huge basilica while thousands more watched from big screens outside. pope francis called for an end to the "increasingly unacceptable palestinian israeli conflict." neighbors in san francisco are finding a sense of community thanks to a tree. since 2011, people have been posting their holiday wishes on the tree branches. david stevenson joins us now with the woman whoa started

this project. she is surprised with how big it has grown. >> reporter: she is. this is not a huge tree, but it has become a place of hope and inspiration for hundreds of people. this victorian tree is in bloom. >> it is a nice touch to the neighborhood. >> reporter: the wishing tree bears the hopes, dreams, and wishes of hundreds of strangers an friends young and old. >> i'm thinking it is great so many people do it. >> reporter: three years ago during an unhappy time in her life, therapist vanessa began posting her wishes on the tree outside the home. she invited others to do so as well. >> i thought i would get some joke wishes and people wouldn't take it seriously. but people did take it seriously. i think it is a place for people to just sit and be with themselves and listen to their hearts. >> i have paper and i have pen. >> i don't know how to write. >> you can draw. >> reporter: for neighborhood children, the tree is a place

to request something as simple as a new toy for christmas or share their anxieties about the wilder world. >> to be happy and not have a world war 3. >> have a good year. >> reporter: the first year, 200 wishes were posted to the tree. so far this holiday season, there have been 650 and she expects even more over the next few days. she says the project has helped her heal and open her heart to strangers and the neighbors around her. >> i had kind of closed my heart for many years and it is just every year, it breaks open a little bit more. >> reporter: sabarise posts the wishes from november through january 1, but leaves them up as much as a month longer. she finds it difficult to take down all these wishes once the holidays are over. >> and david, wishing trees have a long cultural history don't they? >> reporter: they do, the japanese tatabata festival is like this with wishes posted to

bamboo trees. there are trees all around the world that sprung up after hers gained some attention here. >> pretty amazing. thank you very much. >> san francisco's largest and the nation's oldest toy give away program was at it away this christmas eve. hundreds of families came out for the annual firefighters give away. kids receive new toys and bikes and visited with santa. organizers say the demand is so high this year, they are collecting toys and fire houses around the city to distribute. >> because of the economy and toys being so expensive, they are just not available to the average family. >> nothing like giving a bike to a kid to put a smile on their face in the holidays. >> the san francisco firefighters toy program has been around since 1949. its firefighters and volunteers distribute more than 200,000 toys to deserving children year around. good to see. >> and hopefully, it is going to be a beautiful day tomorrow for the holiday forecast.

we want to know what we are going to wake up to christmas morning. >> it will be colder than it has been. the overnight lows have been in the 40s but tomorrow morning, we are going to see some upper 30s and temperatures around freezing in the north bay. much cooler. you may notice it outside right now. temperatures are just in the 50s . yesterday, we had record warmth. today? not that warm. lots of upper 50s and low 06s at best. there is the weather system that moved through area. working its way into southern california where it will bring a little drizzle to them. for us right now, temperatures are on the mild to cool side. so if you are out and about, jackets are mandatory i think. it will soon be upper 40s in the inland bay valleys. if you have dinner plans or are out and about, it will be a little warmer than normal. kind of breezy out there tomorrow. that will help with the fog production. we are not going to see as much fog because of the winds but they will be a little bit of

patchy fog. so the breezy conditions kind of continue as the front moves out. rain is headed south. breezy into the day tomorrow. not as windy as when the front went through. breezy. light breeze. so overnight low is 38 in santa rosa. 49 napa. tomorrow morning. when you get into friday morning, numbers will be around the 32, 33 degrees. you may go upper 20s . it will be much cooler. freezing and frost in some areas. let's go through the day tomorrow. here we are now. let's go through the day tomorrow. looks good right? not bad. can't really see cold. but it is. it will be cool in the morning, mild during the day. low 60s , upper 50s , now let's go through the day friday. so the jet stream is way up here again. jet streams rebuild. it stays well up north of us for really through the new year. so we are going to be dry after an incredibly wet period. as we move through the forecast here, we look at forecast highs

tomorrow, 59 concord, 59 walnut creek. lots of 58s and maybe a few low 60s . pretty mild for the most part. and along the coast, there is no fog to speak of. it will be a nice thursday. the thing to note, it will be cooler in the mornings and that valley fog which was around this morning in the central valley will reform and start showing up again on friday morning and saturday morning. so, that will concern yourself. you may have to concern yourself with some travel concerns there. but dry for the most part. and it was quite the rain period there the last three weeks or so. with some areas getting 500 or 600% of their normal rainfall for just december. >> weld it is something else. thank you bill. a white police officer shoots and kills a young black man just a few miles from ferguson, missouri. the death sparked an angry response from a crowd overnight but city officials say this is not a repeat of ferguson. see why, coming up. >> then, coming up at 6:00, a

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>> violent protests broke out following a deadly shooting in berkeley, missouri, a city neighboring ferguson, missouri. a white officer opened fire after an african-american teen pointed a loaded gun at him. as reporter rick leventhol shows us, the video shows the officer was in imminent danger. >> reporter: another police officer kills another 18-year- old black man in missouri. drawing an angry cloud of 200 to 300 people throwing bricks and explosives. but despite being a few miles from ferguson, local authorities say there is no comparison between this incident and the death of michael brown. >> when i got there, we were all saying the same thing. here is a white policeman killing a black young man. so, when does this stop? and i can assure you that did not happen last night. >> reporter: advance cameras captured the moment that

antonio martin and another man approached the officer responding to a call. he stepped back, took out a nine millimeter handgun and pointed it at the officer who pulls out his own gun. martin falls back and the other man runs from the scene. >> our hearts go out to the family of the deceased family. but bad choices were made. we didn't have the opportunity that this individual could have come plied with the officers. but the officer, i'm sorry, he could have run away. he could have dropped the gun. all sorts of things couldn't happen. >> reporter: at least four people were arrested for assaulting police officers after the shooting. some police cars were damaged and windows were broken at a gas station across the street. antonio martin's mother says as far as she knew, her son didn't own a gun. >> he was going to try to get

up and run. when he tried to get up and run, they started shooting him. >> reporter: but police say martin had been arrested numerous times on assault and armed robbery and the officer was in fear for his life. missouri's governor released a statement saying the events in berkeley are a reminder that law enforcement officers have a difficult and dangerous job in protecting themselves and law- abiding citizens. >> reporter: the mayor of berkeley is black. he says the majority of his police officers are african- american. the widow of an antioch man killed after a deadly confrontation with police says this is prompting her to speak out. she is suing the city of antioch for excessive force. denny gonzalez is seen waving his arms an returning to the garage before being shot by officers. his widow andrea gonzalez says

her husband never fired the weapon and never should have been killed. the district attorney says a frame by frame video as he turned away. jordan is confirming one of the pilots has been captured by islamic state militants. a jordani pilot was taken hostage after his plane crashed in syria. isis claims that they shot down the aircraft, however, u.s. military rejects that claim. jordan is holding them responsible for the pilot's safety. spreading holiday cheer one card at a time. >> this is one of the sweetest things i have ever received. >> the story behind this bay area ten-year-old's christmas wish to help those in need. >> coming up in 30 minutes. 2 investigating the safety

concerns of trains carrying crude oil into the bay area. >> plus, music carried to travelers during a stressful time of the year. >> and we are looking at the santa tracker working his way around the world. he was in south america, he is likely headed to north america. we will be tracking him soon. 0!ockñ?çóxo?ñ=çñññçvxqx?ñññ?óioy

>> this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. >> people are sending me gift cards in the mail. >> gift cards for those with less so they can get a meal this holiday season. it is not often you can learn lessons from a 10-year-old. a boy from palo alto is showingtous true meaning of the season. ann rubin is live. >> reporter: well, ben is spreading holiday cheer one gift card at a time. he has been walking up and down the streets here in palo alto handing them out to the homeless. much to his mother's surprise, what ben laroy wanted for christmas was to do this. >> here you go. >> oh boy, is that for me? a christmas card? >> happy holidays. >> reporter: he is handing out good cheer and gift cards to the homeless. most are to restaurants and all come with a handwritten note. >> dear neighbor, love your

friends in the city of palo alto. >> reporter: it was a recent controversy about the homeless being allowed to live in their cars that flagged his interest. ben's mother had done legal work on the matter and it made an impression. >> i kept it to myself for a while. then we had a dinner discussion. we decided we should do something for them. >> reporter: so instead of asking for gifts for himself this year, ben asked family and friends to hand over their unused gift cards. >> i thought what is he going to ask me for? it does surprise me. but he is such a great kid. he inspires me. i'm so impressed by his interest in caring about other people. >> reporter: he has collected nearly 80 gift cards so far and more keep coming. >> people are sending them in the mail. subway? happy holidays. >> reporter: he has been walking up and down university avenue to hand them out. >> this is one of the sweetest things i have ever received. hardly anybody is kind to me out here.

>> reporter: ben hopes to spread as much joy and kindness as he can this christmas. >> i hope that other people that holidays are not about getting but about giving. >> reporter: ben plans to be back handing out more gift cards tomorrow and hopes to continue the project into next year. ken? >> all right, what a trooperment thank you ann. well, it wouldn't be christmas eve without the annual prime rib lunch. volunteers handed out trays to about 3,000 guests with prime rib and all the fixingsment the 2200 pounds of meat cooked up was brought by joe bess of joe's prime rib. >> we take for granted how well we eat sometimes. for for these folks, it is not an automatic. when you give something, it really feels good. i love to do it.

>> this is the 23rd year he has made prime rib lunch possible. you know, there is no place like home for the holidays but sometimes, getting there can be stressful. >> absolutely. flight delays, quick connections, long lines, it's enough to wear just about anybody down, but as greg shows us, one bay area teenager is helping melt away that stress at the oakland airport. ♪ [ music ] [ it's the most wonderful time of the year on the piano ] >> i am loving every minute of this. my dad works at the airport. he told me there was a new performing arts program going

on. >> every time i see him perform, i feel pride as a father of course. and just as a big fan of music, what i feel good about is he is doing his part to keep the spirit of live music alive. in oakland. and of all places, at the airport. thousands of people coming in out of this airport each day. and this gave me the opportunity to make their day. and how could i pass that up? >> that is cool man. >> he has been a really awesome addition. we have had a lot of complements from the associates. >> i love his music. >> it is wonderful for the holidays. very calming. good for the customers to listen to. i love it. >> it puts people in a great mood. >> my girlfriend is moving here. she is going to love it. she will be surprised. >> hen i play, i get to work

out all that stress and it goes away. i get to make their day. i get to make them feel better. i get to move them. >> thank you. thank you! >> it means to world to me. >> and this is his favorite time. you feel it in the air. >> if you hear the muse nick the background, it gets you in a better feeling. >> everything is from ear, that is what astounded me. >> let's hear journey. don't stop believing. my son was deployed in afghanistan for nine months. so now that he is coming home for christmas, most of the family is here to just see him arrive and say welcome home. ♪ [ music ] >> there he is! >> oh, welcome home!

>> we were so happy that he came home for christmas. i'm glad that they were going to have all my grand kids there. all our family. >> all these passengers have stressful days and it gives me a chance to make it better with the power of music right from the heart. >> that is great. it is like a sound track to family homecomings. turning sadness into happiness for thousands of people in the bay area. the loves one that one family lost inspired them to turn their home into a christmas destination for the whole bay area. plus, the former president spent a second night in a hospital. what is ailing president bush and how is he doing tonight?

>> okay kids, it is gets closer and closer to christmas. here is santa already spotted at work. he is making his way around the world. he is still in south america. ken and i were talking. we think he is working pretty fast. he has already delivered millions of presents we are told. pretty cool. former president george h. w. bush is spending a second night in the hospital after experiencing shortness of breath yesterday. he was admitted yesterday as a

precaution. two years ago, the 90-year-old bush spent two months at the same houston hospital where he was treated for bronchitis. president obama was informed of mr. bush's condition and sent good wishes to the former president and his family. president obama is spending the holidays in hawaii. the weather was nice enough yesterday for the president to go on a hike with malia and friends. they climbed point white house trails which offers sweeping views. they are staying until the new year. at least four people are dead after bad weather tore through the house in mississippi. at least 50 people were injured. the powerful winds damaged some buildings and knocked out power to thousands of customers. one man trying to drive away from a tornado pulled into a gas station for safety. >> it pulled this tank on top of our vehicle. it was shaking our car.

thankfully, it doesn't burst the fuel loose from the piping. it could have been a lot worse. thankfully, we are all alive. tornadoes were also reported in southern georgia and in eastern louisiana. oil production in north dakota and montana has been skyrocketing but with no pipeline to the bay area. much of that oil has to be shipped on trains. coming up, 2 investigates the safety of those rail cars rolling through bay area neighborhoods. >> and thousands of people drive to this house to see the holiday light display each year. up next, the story of how the homeowner took their sadness and grief and turned it into happiness for countless others. >> a few showers around here, but they moved out rapidly. i'm going to take the computer and role it all the way through new year's for you. so you can get an idea of what to expect for the holiday week. female announcer: it's time to make room for the new mattress models!

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>> here at ktvu channel 2 news, we have scoured the bay area these past few weeks to find homes all decked out for the holidays. we asked you our viewers to nominate and vote for our favorite. one home in vallejo won by a landslide with 4500 likes. as jared moriarty explains, it is the story behind the lights that tugs at the heart strings. >> reporter: we would like to congratulate you as the winners for our all decked out. you guys get bragging rights!

>> thank you, wow! okay! >> reporter: bob and linda taylor got top honors for their christmas lights displays. >> this is beautiful. >> reporter: thousands of people flock to the home each year to check out the best lights in vallejo on old cove road. >> it is like a winter wonder land. >> we have never counted the lights. i tell every we have thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of them. >> reporter: the taylor's labor stemmed from love. in 1999, bob's daughter debbie died in a plane crash. in honor of her, they decided to deck the home. it started off small. >> this is 15 years later. now you see what we have done. i tell everybody, i want this to be big enough and bright enough that you can see it from heaven. >> reporter: each year, more sparkle and shine was added including a merry go round and ferris wheel. santa and mrs. claus greet the

children and ... >> last year, we gave away over 16,000 candy canes. >> very happy. every time we see the kids smiling and the people are enjoying it. we give them the good spirit. >> reporter: if you wonder how much it cost for the taylors to put on a spectacular light display. last december, just for that month, it was $3,000. thanks to led lights, this year, they have been able to knock off nearly a thousand dollars but they do accept donations. >> i have been coming here every year the last five years. i heard about the story. and they deserve it. >> reporter: bob, a retired electrician maintains the extensive electrical system. >> we try to make everybody happy and we took our sorrow and turned it into happiness for thousands of people. for them to turn around and acknowledge us, that is wonderful. >> reporter: in vallejo, tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >> it is pretty. >> it is amazing to see the

lights. >> light up the whole night. let's check in with bill martin. you said the storm that blew through here was going to go through and be gone. >> it did what we thought it would do. it was tracked right on through. i go back to that guy's lights. i couldn't hang with that utility bill. i imagine that thing spinning an spinning. that is a lot of work. so, we go outside, you know what happened. we had the rain today. it slid through pretty quick. accumulations less than a tenth of an inch. it is a little breezy. valley fog, not a big issue as it was this morning. and as it had been the last few mornings, but it will be cool. the cold front slid through here. and in the breeze, the wind is well. it will bring in cooler air from this low pressure center. the cool air filters in. the rain moves out. breezy as we head into thursday, too. cool overnight. so a lot of upper and mid 30s in the coolest spots tomorrow.

and then significantly colder. this is thursday morning, but friday morning, saturday morning, overnight lows, freezing temperatures easily in the north bay. you will find frost on some bay area yards. we will go through a bunch of days. that is wednesday afternoon. we had a chance of showers wednesday. friday, north. sunday, monday, i think it will be a nice holiday. i hope you have it off. thewet her be great. tuesday, coming up new year's eve. there is new year's eve right there. fortunately, we have so much rain. if i saw this pattern an we were going into this pattern without some rain in the buckets, i would be nervous because it is going to be dry for a little while. that is how it appears. 58 tomorrow in danville. there is snow in the mountains. i hope you have the time off. you can go skiing.

the weather will be great throughout the bay area. maybe relatives are in town. and it really is fun to show off what we got when the weather is like this. i love it when out of towners come in and they see the bay area. nothing like it in this kind of weather. so when i come back, you guys,ly see you at 6:00 and we will update the forecast. >> thanks bill. well, north america's domestic oil production is growing. much of it delivered by train. coming up next, 2 investigates the safety concerns posed by a number overtrains carrying crude to the bay area. >> and bad behavior in the state capitol. fraud and theft by state workers. also ahead ... >> left, right, kick, kick, up. >> this dance class isn't just about giving these teens skills. what they are learning to face the challenges they go back to everyday in their neighborhoods. these stories and more coming up at 6:00.

>> another update on the santa tracker. this may be some breaks news christina. >> i think it is. >> the last report, he was coming up through south america. he was in argentina. chile. we tracked him to french guiana. now he is in greenland which is

way off course. >> he still has a couple of hours to make it to us. >> maybe he hits some jet stream winds that blew him off course. north america's domestic oil production is growing and most of it is going by train. the oil is coming from the oil fields across north dakota, montana, and canada. >> but without a pipeline to california, supplying bay area refineries means more trains on the tracks. the growing concerns that all the tanker cars are an accident waiting to happen. >> hey! hey! >> reporter: the sound of a catastrophic explosion. quebec, 2013, a 74 car train carrying crude oil derailed resulting in the destruction of half of a town and the loss of 42 lives. the train was carrying backen

crude. moan to be more volatile. it is transported by rail. this is the video of the richmond rail term terminal which is the destination of the trains. each train is 100 cars. each carl landry res over 28,000 gallons of crude oil. a scene that will become a common site in california. >> that is a common train full of a much more volatile type of crude oil than we typically see on rail. >> reporter: kelly houston with the government's office of emergency services says california must prepare for a dramatic increase of oil by rail shipment. in 2012, millions of barrels of oil came by rail. that number jobbed to 6.3 million-barrels. by 2016, that number could jump to 150 million-barrels accounting for 25% of all oil imported into california coming

by rail. >> this is a massive, massive catastrophe. >> reporter: and, as oil by rail shipments increase, so do the accidents. the number of accidents increase from several per year prior to 2010 to 155 accidents in 2013. with a similar trend in california but on a smaller scale. >> it is extremely alarming and the public should be concerned. >> reporter: devora with the sierra club has multiple concerns about these crude shipments coming to california and refineries in the bay area. in particular, how it is transported. >> it is being carried in rail cars that are unsafe. they were designed to the 1960s . they were not meant to transport highly volatile crude. >> reporter: the federal government has recommended that old style oil tanker cars be retired but that won't happen for years. many oil tanker cars on the rails today are of the outdated variety.

but this train at the richmond term terminal is using cars with updated safety features according to richmond fire officials. >> the crudes coming down oregon through some of the high risk areas and down into sacramento, down to stockton, over into the bay area right now. >> reporter: kelly houston says the high risk areas are in some of the the most remote areas where the backan crude trains meander through the sierra along pristine rivers. >> if you get one of those trains derail and that stuff goes into the river, that could affect an entire population's water supplies which is worse than having a derailment in a population center. >> reporter: in these remote areas n is a lack of first responders to handle a crude oil derailenment or explosion. those do exist in the bay area.

joe baitman led a seminar where they simulated a leak. the refinery is seeking a permit to bring in crude by rail shipments to richmond and a planned oil by rail refinery that would be supplied by crude carrying trains traveling through the bay area. >> i understand the public is concerned by that. but if you look at some of the other rail cars that are already on the tracks today, we have been shipping commodities for a long time. >> reporter: for first responders arriving at a chaotic accident scene, these tankers will look the same. that red placard there stands for liquefied petroleum gas. the number for crude oil is 1267. what that placard doesn't tell first responders is exactly what kind of oil is in the tank car and whether it is the more volatile variety. one of the biggest concerns is

that they receive very little information and none realtime on when these backen crude trains are coming and going. >> just like you would know what an amtrak train and whether it is late to a station. we should know that about volatile substances coming across our rare lines. >> reporter: california officials want more information, more training, and improved rare car designs which may happen. but likely not before these trains become an increasingly common sight. burlington, northern, santa fe is the only area bringing it into california. they dispute the state estimate that shows an imcrease by 2016. now at 6:00, a picture perfect piece of san francisco is losing ground. the storm damage that is closing a popular visitor's spot. san rafael is busy collecting gifts for children in need. we will take you to one spot

that has been busy all day and promises to keep going until early christmas morning. >> and state employees are committing fraud, even out right stealing. the investigation that uncovered the bad behavior at the state capital. complete bay area coverage starts now. this is ktvu channel 2 news news at 6:00. >> recent rains are compromising a piece of san francisco's most picturesque spots. >> portions of land's end started gives way earlier this week blocking a popular trail there. noelle walker shows us what is limiting the access. >> reporter: this place where the ocean meets the land, this is the picture postcard of san francisco. >> this is why we live in california right? >> reporter: it is called land's end. a place where the land's end is

a moving target. >> reporter: the landslide and the geography that it changed and all of the trees that have fallen. >> reporter: a landslide yesterday took out trees and exposed the roots like a threadbare sweater that ripped open a gaping hole. >> the earth is really wet. so it doesn't take much for it to slide. and there's a lot of trees that have gone down. it is how the geography changes with the landscape. >> in fact, landslides here have changed the landscape throughout history. adolf sutro had a rail line that went through land's end until a landslide stopped the train in its tracks. the u.s. geological survey says land's end sits on a historic deep seated landslide. so the placement is not unusual, but the timing is. bedrock slides tend to happen in very wet years and despite recent rains, we are in a