a year requiring insurance companies in california to cover homeowners in areas with high fire danger. what the changes could mean for your insurance bill. >> plus, keeping the roads safe as we welcome in 2025. it is all hands on deck for the chp as people head out to celebrate new year's eve. the chp joins us live to talk about the maximum enforcement effort, which is now underway from ktvu. [music] >> fox two news. this is the ford. >> the california insurance commissioner has released his long awaited emergency regulations, designed to help address the state's home insurance crisis. welcome, everyone to the four this afternoon. i'm alex savage, and i'm claudine wong. >> commissioner ricardo lara says they are rules designed to bring home insurers back into the state and end that drought of insurance available. ktvu tom vacar joins us live from the newsroom with what's ahead.

>> tom, what could go wrong? well, plenty. a move to resolve the home insurance crisis in california, much of it done in secret, may actually cause more delay. this is what the deputy insurance commissioner told ktvu on december 12th about the new emergency insurance regulations. essentially effective immediately. >> under the reforms, we're putting in place, insurance companies, in order to utilize these risk tools like like modeling, they have to write more policies. that's the change and will enforce that through our rate authority. >> the promise was that the regulations would force insurers to sell policies equivalent to 85% of their statewide market share, including in wildfire areas. >> we think that long term, this is going to help stabilize rates, because right now people are experiencing balloon premiums and rate spikes, but they're not getting the benefit

of increased competition. >> consumer watchdog, the major consumer advocacy group overseeing the department of insurance, counters with this. >> if we look at what happened in other states in north carolina and florida, we're going to see rates go up 40%. >> the group says the regulations are seriously flawed. >> there is no legally binding commitment in this document that they have to cover more people. but we're all going to be paying more. there is nothing in all of these like, you know, 70 pages of regulations and explanation about the cost impact on consumers added to rates going forward will be the cost of so-called reinsurance policies insurance companies buy to protect themselves for massive losses, like we saw during california's worst wildfires. >> another danger pagan california home insurance rate increases, in part to the worldwide catastrophe bond market. >> we will be paying for the risks of hurricanes in malaysia.

>> independent insurance agent carl sussman, who stands between what policies the insurers will provide him to sell and the customers who must be able to afford them. he says whatever happens will not likely cause massive additional spikes. >> it is going to make it infinitely easier not only to obtain coverage, but to get competitive bids from more than one company. when there are more options, there's more competitiveness in the marketplace and prices will tend to go down. i think we've seen the worst of it as far as the prices go. >> now, consumer watchdog says it will sue in court either to block implementation of, or have new regulations that are just issued. set aside tom vacar, ktvu, fox two news. >> tom, it sounds like earthquake insurance that people don't get because it's just too expensive to get, even though they might want it in terms of a timeline, because people are complaining about not getting covered and not being able to afford the coverage. when could

we see any movement, whether it's in setting aside these regulations or finding maybe better ones? >> well, we could as early as the second start seeing some insurance companies filing to sell insurance again or to increase the insurance that they sell. we could see that happen. but what the prices are still have to be calculated. and that's where these algorithms that so many people were concerned about, where they kind of project, what your individual rates are going to be, have been so controversial. so as a result, we really don't know. it could happen within a few weeks. it will see some very solid prices. it could happen in a few months. it could happen, you know, down the road several years. we really just don't know. but any kind of delay is going to require that more thought be put into this. and at this point in time, consumer watchdog has just 1st may be involved in that. the other thing is that the rest of the business world may have objections to this because of all of this. and as a result, they could come into this as

well, still very much up in the air. yeah. >> and we will continue to track the impact of these new regulations moving forward. tom vacar live in the newsroom, tom. thank you. >> well, people all across the bay area head out to say goodbye to 2024 and welcome in 2025. the chp will be making sure all hands are on deck during this statewide crackdown. >> more officers will be on patrol looking out for impaired drivers or those who are driving recklessly. starting at 6:00 tonight, the chp will launch its maximum enforcement period, and it will continue through tomorrow at midnight. last year, during the new year's holiday period, the chp arrested 892 drivers on suspicion of dui. statewide. >> all right. let's welcome to the show, chp officer andrew barclay, to talk more about the effort underway to keep the roadways safe. thanks so much for joining us. you know, we talk about this every year and saying, listen, make sure you're safe. and yet hundreds and hundreds of people, you guys

catch on the roadway not doing that. i know your enforcement period starts at six, but really when do you see the most problematic time of night? i'm guessing it's after the ball drops after midnight. >> yeah. you raise you raise a great point. even though we start at six, you know, really, that's just the beginning of this for us. typically we're going to see our busiest time between about the midnight and 4 a.m. timeframe. so that is why our maximum enforcement period runs from six all the way through midnight tomorrow night. so even going beyond that busy time, so to speak, we will have additional officers out on the road all through new year's day. >> all right. so obviously people right now are sort of putting the finishing touches on their plans for new year's eve and the celebrations. what is your message to people who are watching this right now as they make those plans to ring in the new year, and how to do it safely? >> well, first of all, if you're going to be leaving your house, have a plan in place before the partying starts. you know, if

you know you're going to be going to a party, you're going to be celebrating. have a plan for a designated driver ahead of time. have a plan for how you're going to get home ahead of time. don't don't wait for that time to come. if you go out and you are, you know, drinking or consuming any substance that's going to impair your ability to drive, don't risk it. find find a ride home. do not get behind the wheel of a vehicle. it is not worth it. whether it's the financial ramifications or even worse, the loss of life that we see as a result of impaired drivers, it's just not worth it. >> yeah, there's so many options out there. mocktails rideshares lots of options out there. i want to ask you, though, in terms of staffing, i mean, certainly we talk a lot about that in this time. you guys say you've got, you know, all your available officers out there, but you guys are not just doing the roadways. lately. you've been patrolling oakland. you've been helping in vallejo. and so i'm wondering because certainly those cities see a lot of different issues on new year's eve as well. are you guys going

to stick, you know, kind of to the roadways during this maximum enforcement period, or will we see more of the chp officers out on the city streets as well? >> well, really, our maximum enforcement period is going to be within chp jurisdictions. our our goal is to be out there on our major freeway systems and in, you know, unincorporated roadways where we are responsible for patrolling, to look for impaired drivers. when we're talking about our operations in oakland or, you know, our patrols that are in vallejo. typically those are done by certain groups of people, certain times of certain days. so our maximum enforcement period really is focused on being out on our major roadways and not just reducing or finding impaired drivers and removing them from the road, but also just being there to help people who are are out traveling. we want to make sure that we have those resources there so that if something happens, there's going to be a chp officer there quickly. >> yeah. we talk obviously about how this continues to be an issue. impaired driving, reckless driving, especially during the holidays. i was looking at some of your numbers because obviously you do a maximum enforcement period over the christmas holiday time

period as well. and during that time period, chp officers statewide made an average of one dui arrest every six minutes. when you sort of wrap your head around a statistic like that, how frustrating is it for you from a public safety standpoint? do you do you feel like the message is just not getting through to enough people? >> you know, it's a great question. i mean, i think that the research into finding out why people still choose to drive impaired when there are so many options out there for safe rides, you know, it. it can be frustrating. but ultimately, at the end of the day, what we have to remember is we will continue to go out, we will continue to do our job and find impaired drivers and remove them from the roads before they have an opportunity to hurt somebody. and i think it just goes to really stress what we talked about earlier, which is just don't risk it. there is no reason to get behind the wheel of a vehicle if you're impaired. >> and certainly for everyone else on the roads. i've done a

lot of, you know, middle of the night driving, working morning shifts and not and know that there's all sorts of people on the road with me. i have not hesitated to call. we were just talking about this, you know, all the time i'm like, yeah, i think you might want to check out over here. and that's exactly what you want people to do. are your dispatch centers getting enough calls from people who are also keeping an eye out for you? >> yes. i mean, our dispatch centers during these times where we are asking the public for that increased vigilance, they do get a lot of calls. and it is a great point to talk about, which is, you know, people think that there's this big secret on how we can find impaired drivers. you know, those signs you just talked about them, you know, as, as a regular person out driving, when you see that person that is swerving or fluctuating speeds, something isn't normal. and it's worth picking up that phone and calling 911. and very often, some of those calls that we get from citizens out driving end up being, you know, people who are horribly impaired. so please never hesitate to call 911.

>> yeah, obviously it can really make a huge difference and potentially save lives. all right. we appreciate your time as always. chp officer andrew barclay. happy new year to you. be safe tonight. thank you. >> thank you both. happy new year. >> happy new year. all right. well, public transportation agencies including vta, caltrain, muni, all offering free rides starting at 8 p.m. tonight until 5 a.m. tomorrow morning. samtrans is also going to offer free rides from 8 p.m. until 3 a.m, so you've got some free options there. and bart, while it's not offering free transit, it is going to provide extended service on its orange, yellow and blue lines until one in the morning. >> all right, let's talk about the weather we will have as we wrap up 2024 here the final few hours of the year. and this is a live look over the oakland estuary, looking off toward san francisco here. and we are in the clear, at least rain wise here for folks who are heading out tonight for celebrations. but meteorologist mark tamayo tells us that you are going to want to bring a couple of layers

and maybe a heavy jacket if you're heading out, especially to the city tonight. >> yeah, that would be a good call, guys. yeah. temperatures. another frost advisory in fact posted for parts of the bay area tonight. so that chill will continue to pay us a visit as we do wrap up the year and head into 2025. so here is your forecast for this evening. not much in the way of fog, just some high clouds drifting in from the north. so with that we'll have partly to mostly cloudy skies, but not to worry about dense fog having an impact on visibility, as most of that high cloud cover will be way up in the sky, up above 15, up above 20,000ft. so we are expecting those temperatures to cool off quite a bit. and by midnight in san francisco, those readings could be back down into the upper 40s as we greet 2025. now, we had a frost advisory this morning. now another frost advisory tomorrow morning as well. in fact, this begins 10:00 tonight until 9 a.m. wednesday for parts of the north bay, the inland valleys, and the santa clara valley. another round of low to mid 30s expected first thing tomorrow morning. here's the satellite and the radar. and obviously lots of clouds

drifting into northern california. a little bit of some green on the radar. and there's not not out of the question. we could have a few sprinkles approaching the north bay, especially the coastline of the north bay, mendocino county and sonoma county. so maybe a few sprinkles up there. but for the rest of the bay area, we are expecting just the clouds to drift in current numbers for the 4:00 hour. san jose 57 napa, 58 degrees livermore, mid 50s and concord 57. here's our live camera looking out toward the golden gate bridge this afternoon with just some high clouds drifting in, you probably notice those high clouds increasing over the past few hours. so we have that frost advisory tomorrow morning, those high clouds paying us a visit. in fact, here's that forecast model 9:00 tonight showing you mostly cloudy skies. maybe breaking up a bit as we do head into early tomorrow morning for your wednesday and then throughout the day tomorrow. most of the cloud cover will be focused on the up to the north. and tomorrow, once again, there's a slight chance of a few sprinkles approaching the north bay, especially to the coastline for tomorrow afternoon, but the main action is up to our north, so no significant rain in our

forecast. in fact, more sunshine as you work your way closer to the south bay for san jose, morgan hill and gilroy. now there's one rain cloud showing up on our five day. we'll have more on that coming up in just a few minutes. >> okay. thank you. mark. we'll say goodbye to former president jimmy carter. >> up next on the four this afternoon. we'll have the details on the nine days of private and public ceremonies that will begin tomorrow in his home state of georgia, and also be held in

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the loss of jimmy carter, they will have multiple opportunities to say good-bye to the 39th president. >> for the first three days, the family will gather in carter's hometown of plains, georgia, where he was born, married his wife of 77 years, rosalynn carter, and returned after his presidency on january 4th. he will be moved to the carter center, the headquarters of the humanitarian organization founded by the former first couple in 1982. following a short ceremony. his body will lie in repose until january 7th. >> i think his career outside of the presidency outweighs the outweighs his time in the white house. >> the late president will be taken back to washington, d.c. for the final time on january 7th. the funeral procession will pause at the navy memorial before heading to the capitol, where there will be a service with members of congress. carter's body will lie in state in the rotunda until a state funeral at washington national cathedral on january 9th. after his memorial, the late president

will be flown back to georgia one final time to be buried in plains, where his life began 100 years ago. >> it was really kind of a good thing for him to live so long in hospice so that he could hear the vote of thanks that he had from so many people before he passed away. >> president carter's final resting place will be near willow tree, on the property right next to his wife, rosalynn, and their home, which is deeded to the national park service, will become a museum. in atlanta, caroline elliott, fox news. >> ukraine claiming it's downed a russian helicopter in crimea. the ukrainian military releasing the video, saying it downed the mi eight helicopter using a missile from its naval drone. it marked the first time an aerial target has been destroyed by an uncrewed vessel in that conflict. another russian helicopter was damaged but managed to reach an airfield. >> billionaire elon musk wants drastic changes to america's tax code as we head into the second

trump presidency. musk on social media posted a comment saying the current tax code has more than 73,000 pages, and he feels the federal government must take immediate action to, quote, make it easier and less stressful for americans to pay their taxes. president elect trump has given musk a major role in creating new government policies, especially when it comes to taxes. coming up here on the four this afternoon, a bay area man who is on the autism spectrum struggled to find work. up next, more on his life changing opportunity with the san francisco sheriff's department and how he's tryi to b

autism spectrum often have difficulty finding employment. >> a bay area man is now trying to highlight that issue in the hopes of changing it. as ktvu andre senior shows us, he received a major assist in his efforts from the sheriff of san francisco. >> i say give it about 30s. >> weeks after life changing opportunity, adam sherman is contemplating next steps for a man who few have been on so far, he's fresh off the opportunity of a lifetime, serving as campaign manager for paul miyamoto's reelection bid for san francisco sheriff. >> make sure you just get out and vote. >> it's a multifaceted role. everything from helping to organize fundraising to putting out media blurbs and other forms of publicity. >> but in an election season filled with many campaigns and

the people who had them, sherman situation is different because he is on the autism spectrum, something he's proud to talk about, but one that's kept his ambitions tempered. and he's not the only one. >> there are 5.5 million autistics in america who are at that age where they can be working and professionals, and yet barely one fifth of them are professionally employed. the rest are either unemployed or chronically underemployed. >> and sherman was no exception. graduating from san francisco state university with a degree in environmental studies with a special concentration in social justice, he found himself unable to find a job in his chosen field, so he took a job stocking shelves at trader joe's. but while he couldn't get the job he wanted, he donated his time volunteering with various community organizations. it was that effort that got him noticed by miyamoto's team. >> he was actually on one of the teams that were doing safety patrols in chinatown, and so his commitment to the community was already evidenced by that

volunteer work. >> that commitment and a reputation that preceded him, landed sherman that coveted job, leading miyamoto's critical reelection bid, helping the incumbent snag more than 80% of the votes. entrusting your election campaign to anyone is a big deal. but miyamoto told me sherman's autism was never a factor in his decision. >> i don't think i even asked any questions about whether or not he'd be able to do things. >> the autism society and advocacy group hopes more companies and organizations actually adopt sheriff miyamoto's thinking, because they see hiring someone on the spectrum is actually good for the bottom line. >> we look at different ways of information processing and different ways of executive function. we might have folks who think in a very systemized way, but we might have folks who think from a bottom up sort of perspective, and that can bring a lot of creativity and other pieces. >> the organization cites research that shows companies that embrace neurodiversity are likely to have a competitive advantage, and businesses employing autistic individuals report increased innovation and

problem solving capabilities. >> i think the idea that when we're open to bringing in neurodiverse and autistic talent to a workplace, understand that there's sometimes let's figure out where the best fit could be. let's talk to the individual. where do you think your strengths are? >> it's a conversation that sherman wants to grow in public discourse, dealing with the struggles in this book, living beyond normal an autistic autobiography, i really want to bridge the divide between the neurotypical or normal brained people of society with the neurodivergent or autistic people like myself. andre senior, ktvu, fox two news. >> well, the u.s. treasury, hit by hackers and china is denying any involvement. this latest attack just one of many types of threats, as cybersecurity experts say, 2024 wraps up as the worst year on record for ransomware attacks. next, an expert joins us to talk about at we should

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and phone conversations of an unknown number of americans. the u.s. is investigating the most recent event as a major cybersecurity incident, and it's not the only 1 or 2 that we've seen this year, as cyber attacks in various forms continue. in fact, 2024 is projected to finish as the worst year on record for ransomware attacks. >> and concerns are growing about 2025. for more, let's bring in james tergel, the vp of cyber risk and strategy at optiv. let's talk more about the threats, the trends and how everyone can protect themselves. appreciate the time, james. we'll talk about that treasury attack a little more detail in just a moment. but but first we hear that 2024 it was is slated to be the worst year on record for ransomware attacks. and obviously, this is basically when a hacker sort of holds a company or a government entity hostage to get them to, to pay to access their own system. why was this the worst year on record for that particular type of attack? >> well, thanks for having me,

alex. so artificial intelligence, right? machine learning, it allows especially ai generated ransomware to become faster, to become more aggressive, and actually allows a number if a pre ai, ransomware group or threat actor would be able to use that type of technology against maybe 5 or 10 different different companies. ai allows them to use it at scale. so. so 2024 will absolutely be more and more likely to be the worst that we've seen in history, right? increase in the number of attacks, which means more businesses are at risk. and it's also being able threat actors are using ai to actually understand better what the technical stack is or the technology stack within a company is, and then using ai to actually figure out what those vulnerabilities are, which allows them to launch more aggressive and faster attacks

against our companies and our government. >> so if that's ransomware and ai is giving the assist to kind of ramping that up, when you're talking about all the ways that people and businesses and governments and companies can be attacked, is that also helping in things like we're seeing with the treasury department? that's a hack to get information and get into a system and kind of come out with it. where does that stand in terms of when you're looking at threat level and frequency, and how new technology is aiding that? >> yeah. great question. so the whole concept of ai, there's now a market out there on the dark web, on the black market of ai agents. right. and that's actually just it's software. it's tools out there that are being used. there's like fraud gpt and there's other like gpt that have been designed by threat actors. it's also enhancing the ability of a threat actor. even a low level organized crime group was was utilizing phishing or deepfake technology. imagine that ai can

allow that that phishing technology to be 100,000 times better, right? you're going to hit a thousand more companies the actual material and of the phishing emails, they look real, right? the pictures look real. the deepfake videos embedded within them look real. so it really enhances their ability to launch attacks. >> all right. so we talk about these recent cyber attacks here on the treasury department and also on the telecommunications companies in this country. what can every other government entity and major corporation learn from these attacks to, to sort of shore up the security and try to keep these cyber criminals out moving forward? >> so certainly with the most recent ones, right, the typhoon, the typhoon, you know, china is the largest existential cyber threat that we have. clearly the other the other issue that i think really needs to be talked about is like the treasury

attack was a third party attack. so threat actors in china are actually utilizing the third parties, whether it's a different firm that sells them, a different vendor, any type of vendor at all that has access to that particular victim's technical stack or technology stack. right. they're utilizing these third parties to actually gain access to the victims. and so companies need to understand need to identify who are all your third party vendors out there. do they hold themselves to the same cybersecurity acuity and training? and do they do the basics? do they do the blocking and tackling that has to be done? do they they have resilience backups? do they have, you know, systems that are containerized for their backups? do they actually have backup systems and the ability to action those those are critical elements that need to be taken for all companies. >> and are we keeping up with it on the security side, on the stopping it side? certainly. you

talked about the ramp up on the criminal side. is it matching? i mean, do we have enough kind of weapons in the arsenal to make sure that the blocking and the stopping happens as we head into 2025? >> yeah, no, it's a great question. and so just on the on the defensive side. right. so artificial intelligence machine learning is being used on the defensive side for predictive analysis. behavioral analysis. it's actually being utilized by companies from a from a threat actor view point of view. so what i mean by that is they're actually coming in with different tools out there to scan their systems, using ai to scan the vulnerabilities within a particular company's system. so they're closing those gaps much faster, much quicker and at a higher rate. >> all right. well we appreciate your perspective here. james churchill vp of cyber risk and strategy at optiv. thank you for the outlook here. obviously, a lot of concerns with ai and the impact it's going to have on on

cybersecurity questions moving forward into the new year. appreciate the time. happy new year. >> thank you. thanks for having me. happy new year. >> well, we are hours away from the start of the new year, but some holiday celebrations have already begun in san francisco. >> ktvu james torres was at thrive city, where a lot of people gathered today for a kwanzaa event. >> just outside the home arena for the golden state warriors, the sparkling juice is poured and holiday decorations are still up. >> we're just here to enjoy the holidays, enjoy the festivities, and just really be together to bring in the new year. >> it all started as early as 9 a.m. as a recognition of kwanzaa, a holiday celebration of african culture. >> i want to celebrate not only for myself, but to teach other children of other nationalities about kwanzaa with crafts, live music, and a balloon station. >> it brought out different student groups. i know i can, i know i can't be what i want to be, be what i want to be. like

this group from the western addition. >> what it is, is just being together and being happy and being able to sustain a lot of things. that goes on in the inner city where kids are, some kids are struggling, and this dance team, i would just say is just a blessing to be together before this new year kind of ends out. >> the celebration ended with a new york style ball drop at noon. reporting from thrive city, i'm james torres, ktvu, fox two news. [music] >> well, barry weather fairly quiet pattern setting up as we do approach new year's eve for tonight. just some scattered high clouds increasing. but we do have one rain loud in our

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as the sun begins to set on 2024 here, and we have some nice conditions setting up for folks who are heading out to ring in the new year tonight. but a word of advice. meteorologist mark tamayo urging everybody bring several layers if you're heading out tonight, because it is going to get really chilly and be very cold and very poetic as the sun sets on 2024. >> i like that. i like how you appreciate that. up for us. yeah. yeah. weather wise? yeah. no, no umbrellas needed for tonight. maybe a few sprinkles up in portions of the north bay near the coastline. but for the most part, we're just expecting some high clouds for tonight. another cold evening after another cold start this morning.

take a look at some of these lows in the 30s. 32 to 33. 35 to 38 degrees. so we do have that chilly forecast once again. first thing tomorrow morning. and frost advisories posted for parts of the north bay as well. but here is your forecast for january 1st as we say hello to a new year. we are expecting a cold start tomorrow morning. frost advisories tomorrow. more clouds expected up in the north bay and fair skies to the south. after that cold start. temperatures will be in the 50s to the lower 60s. here's the satellite where you can see some high clouds already streaming into the pacific northwest and also into northern california. not out of the question. we could have a few sprinkles up in portions of the north bay closer to the coastline, but definitely the clouds will be the key change for this evening. it's not going to be completely clear for this evening. and most of this activity on the radar really not reaching the surface just yet, but something we'll be watching closely over the next few hours. current numbers. we have lots of 50s out there. san jose 57 degrees, santa rosa 56. half moon bay out toward the coastline 52. and here is our

live camera looking out toward the golden gate bridge. so for the fireworks in the city for tonight, it's a completely different story. you know, it seems like we always talk about the fog for the 4th of july, and that's the time of year we pick up the fog out toward the coast and right around the bay. this time of year, our main threat would be some rain clouds. and it looks like that looks like the rain will not be a threat for this evening. take a look at the overnight numbers once again tomorrow morning. a cold start, 30s and some 40s. frost advisories for the north bay, the inland valleys and the santa clara valley first thing tomorrow morning. so in the short term this evening, increasing high clouds streaming in from the pacific. as we expand the view, we'll show you the jet stream here. and another storm is developing out here with the jet stream and way out here in the pacific. this could be a factor, as we do head into friday, as we do bump up the rain chances back into the bay area forecast. we have a few days to prepare for that possible rain event, but for right now, this is midnight for new years and we are expecting the clouds to drift into the bay area. could either be partly cloudy or mostly cloudy and then

into your wednesday morning. notice. the main rain is up to the north of the region, but the chance of a few sprinkles drifting closer to the north bay, especially the coastline and mendocino county. maybe a sonoma county as well. this is tomorrow afternoon at 4:00, and then on thursday we'll probably just have partly cloudy skies paying us a visit. so beyond friday though, you can see this is friday, 9:00. some action, some action offshore in the pacific. and that will be approaching our coastline. so with that we could bump up the rainfall potential throughout the day on friday. highs for tomorrow. after that cold start you can see temperatures back up into the 50s and the lower 60s. so some frost first thing tomorrow morning to start off 2025 and then a sun cloud mix. partly sunny on thursday. we'll keep an eye on this rainfall potential into friday. looks like the first weekend of the year should be a dry as well. partly sunny skies and some nice conditions as we head into saturday and sunday. so just some high clouds for all the festivities tonight as we say hello to a new year. >> all right, sounds good. thanks, mark. well, 2025 will start in a very special way for

a california couple who is now a family of three and the incredible gift of their first born child is all thanks to a south bay woman who agreed to become their surrogate. it was a first for her, and she sat down with me to talk about the decision and why she wanted to take on that life changing commitment. >> leanna ortega says she wasn't sure what to expect when she began a two year journey that began late one night when she was scrolling on her phone. >> i was scrolling on tiktok super late at night, and i seen this girl talking about her experience with surrogacy. she actually went through the company that i went through with surrogacy first, and so she was talking about it. she i think she was like eight months pregnant and she was just telling her experience. >> the post convinced ortega to get online and fill out an application. >> i don't really know if it was really her story. i think it was more so me just wanting to have like some type of purpose or something. >> ortega is a single mother of

two and describes her pregnancies as fairly easy, and she's pretty sure she's done having kids. so she says surrogacy was an opportunity to give another family a baby of their own. couples who may be struggling with infertility, which is a journey jeffrey hu and his wife know well. >> we went to four different countries, and eventually we were able to have our children through surrogacy. so i always called them like million dollar babies because literally it took us half a decade. and, you know, dozen, half dozen rounds of ivf before we were able to pursue surrogacy, to start a family. >> today, this is his family thanks to surrogacy. it is a journey that prompted them to create the company known as surrogate first. he says since 2018, they've had an estimated 300 live births. and while finding surrogates is a challenge, the journey can be more fulfilling than some realize. >> so for us in most agencies, there's probably a 3 to 5% qualification rate at the end of

the day of someone that becomes a surrogate. she's had four surrogacies, three of them with the same family. they're based in china. they've brought her entire family over for a one month trip, stayed at their house. >> it took a few weeks for ortega to be approved. but then the process began. and while the company will ask many questions to find a match on issues like termination, covid vaccination and how a surrogate feels about international or same sex couples, for ortega, the process of picking the family she would work with was fairly simple. >> to be honest, i only got sent one family. once i got sent that one family, i was like, yeah, i'll do it for them. >> the process after that involves hormone shots and the implantation of the couple's embryo. but the first attempt took and once again, she says the pregnancy was fairly easy. but there was one very important difference for like from the very beginning, i like mentally prepared myself. >> like, i'm like, this isn't my baby, it's somebody else. it's going to be somebody else's baby

because i didn't know i was going to work with them. so i just knew that, like, it was never my baby. >> she says her kids knew she was doing it to help people, and she got support from her family. but as her belly grew, people started asking questions. >> i'm like telling them like, oh, like i'm a surrogate, i'm going to have a baby. and then everybody's concern is, well, aren't you going to feel like attached? you're giving away a baby. >> she says she told the baby often that it was loved but never got attached. and as far as compensation, she prefers to keep that information private. but who says on average, in addition to medical expenses that are covered, there is a base compensation for surrogates that is paid over the entire pregnancy. >> so for base compensation, i think the average is probably about 50 to 55,000. but that can also go all the way up to 80 to 100,000, depending on the intended parent, what state you're in and you know, are you a repeat surrogate, etc. i would like to break one of the stereotypes, which is the number one reason by far, that the surrogates pursue surrogacy is to help another family in need.

>> ortega says that is what motivated her, and she describes the moment that the baby she carried entered the world and met their parents. she says even in that moment, she knew she was delivering a baby that belonged to someone else. >> the parents are just sitting there and they're like, okay, so like, what's going on? i'm like, you guys should probably stand up. like, we're about to have the baby right now. they're like, oh, okay. you could tell they were going to like get emotional. but then they were like smiling like, oh my goodness, my child was just born. i feel like it's kind of like a full circle moment. it's kind of just like fulfilling for me. >> and as we sat with her just three days after giving birth, she was recovering in record time and already pondering the possibility of giving that same gift again. >> why would i do it again? i don't know, i just, i just, i don't know, i just think that it was it's very fulfilling internally for me, a gift of family. >> she has just given one couple just in time for the holidays in san jose. claudine wong, ktvu,

fox two news. >> yeah, it is a priceless gift. great story claudine, thanks for thanks for bringing that to us. all right. >> we're going to talk about our traffic here around the bay area here as we head toward new year's eve, and it's busy along the east shore freeway stacked up, esp lly hea d

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colorado shut down. now, following this rockslide that covered the intersection between those two roadways. the slide happened in several phases. >> good thing i called this in. i knew it was going to be a bad one. here we go, here we go, here we go. bam bam bam bam bam boom. we're done for this highway. >> only a state geologist says the rockslide was likely the result of fractures in the rock from snow melt. the area where this rockslide happened is about 70 miles southwest of colorado springs. >> well, we are now in the final countdown to the 2025 rose parade in southern california. and that parade provides a big boost to the city of pasadena. hundreds of thousands of people, including tourists from all over the world, are expected to attend tomorrow's tournament of roses parade festivities and football game. pasadena's mayor says the event has brought in millions to the city's economy every year, going all the way back to the first rose parade in 1890 and the parade started.

>> it started as an economic development tool. you know, pasadena is a small city, but it's a small city that manages to demand a world stage. >> the rose parade begins at 8:00 tomorrow morning. >> a belgian woman could soon secure the guinness book world record as the first woman to run a marathon every single day of the year. hilda dawson crossed her 366 finish line for 2024 just this morning. over the course of the past year, dawson ran more than 9500 miles and raised over $62,000 for breast cancer research. dawson shared just how much preparation goes into running a marathon every day. >> it's not just the running. it's also even one hour before you start running, you have to prepare. then one hour after, you have to take care of myself. and it's also the social media i post the posts on, on social media every day, and i have to keep administration for guinness

world records. so i took photos and movies every day. >> now, if guinness approves the world record, hilda will stand at the pinnacle, surpassing the previous record holder, who ran a marathon every day for 150 days. >> well, for parents who didn't want to have their small children stay up until midnight, there were several events today called noon year events. the chabot space and science center in oakland rang in the new year with balloon drops at noon, three and four celebrating midnight around the world. that event started in 2000 to allow for children who couldn't make it to midnight, a chance to ring the n year,

life with an event that will definitely wake you up. the annual polar plunge is happening tomorrow. it's the 10th one held at ocean beach in san francisco. the world naked bike ride also is happening tomorrow. if you're wondering why the images were blurred there. the plunge starts at 1030 in the morning tomorrow. bikers will meet at the intersection of taraval and the great highway. the event is free and open to the public. >> well, that's a that's a lot. >> that's a it's a lot, a lot happening there. >> a lot to in terms of what you might do one over the other in terms of which, which event

would you like to take part in if you had to choose? >> so it's the nude bike ride and the polar plunge. >> oh, you want to do both? >> no, no, i don't know that either of them are really my speed necessarily. especially not the polar plunge. >> oh wait, i was thinking that you were going to have. okay, well, i mean, just cold, cold water is just not. >> it's not my thing. >> well, new year, let's talk about the new year. >> you move on for me. >> all right. yes. it can be time for a fresh start, but sticking to those resolutions. yes, those can be challenging. >> yeah, no doubt about it. fox's kevin jarecki sat down with a psychology expert to talk about why small adjustments may lead to bigger success in the new year. >> the excitement surrounding the new year can put folks in a tizzy as they craft resolutions they hope to achieve. but creating new habits takes time. you've heard the saying rome wasn't built in a day, and we know that consistency and some time. >> so doing that new habit

regularly for the first month will really help it become a part of your life. >> that's why some psychologists suggest aiming for lifestyle adjustments instead of resolutions to really help cement the changes you seek. >> so rather than a resolution, which is something you're you're kind of holding as this thing, you must achieve a lifestyle goal is something that you incorporate into your life. so it becomes part of what you do. >> so where do you start? >> it's important to think of where are you now and what are some small steps towards what your ideal is? >> then you'll want to take a slow and steady approach and look to accomplish realistic tasks instead of lofty ambitions. >> if it's getting a 15 minutes more sleep every day, or going to bed a few minutes early, if you want to start meditating, it may not be committing to an hour long meditation session. it might be two minutes every morning just to try this new

habit. >> and as you work towards making lifestyle changes, mental health experts say you should be kind to yourself. if you stumble along the way, there will be errors and it's through those errors and challenges we can learn. >> we try again. >> kevin uretsky, fox news. >> ktvu fox two news at five starts now. three. two. >> the world rings in 2025. and that is a look from about an hour ago in london, where people lined up the river thames to welcome in this new year. it will be a similar look in san francisco tonight. in about seven hours from now, people are already making their way into the city to celebrate the new year. good evening and thanks for joining us on this tuesday night, i'm cristina rendon. we are just hours away from 2025, with people filling the embarcadero and san francisco to take in tonight's fireworks show. ktvu christien kafton joins us live from the city now.

and christian people there in san francisco always say that the celebrations make for plenty of fun. >> oh, yeah. absolutely. christina, we are here on the embarcadero. embarcadero right now. this is going to be prime real estate in just a couple of hours. as everybody checks out the amazing fireworks extravaganza that's set to go tonight. san francisco is counting down to the new year, and many people are looking to the skies, hoping for clear weather. >> yeah. blue skies. we have blue skies. it's going to be amazing. >> by midnight, these daytime crowds will be replaced by nighttime visitors watching the annual fireworks extravaganza. >> i have friends and family that i'll be with, and we'll be watching the their barges on the bay with fireworks on those barges, and at midnight they'll be blasting them up sky high. >> tucked under the bay bridge, high dive may have one of the best views of the night's entertainment. >> the fireworks barge is