this is a look at the toll plaza here and also the venetia why richmond san rafael -- venetia richmond san rafael so keep your lights on. and disks on landing -- dixon landing road, finally an accident still being cleared and there is a lot of problems there you can see a little bit of back up and we have one hour delays at f-s-o, so check your airlines before you leave. here is steve. >>> we have hazy skies increasing clouds and it will be mostly cloudy with a break here for a while but 50s to a few mid-60s. >>> coming up on mornings on 2 from san jose, a s.w.a.t. team has moved into action, alive up date from the scene -- a live update from the scene. >>> take a live look, we have new information so stay with us.

a heavy fog advisory is in effect to venetia and dumbarton bridges.verything is looking good. 5:30 let's head back to the desk. >>> breaking news out of san jose, we have a possible police standoff at the capital village with snell avenue. we will check in with kraig debro in a live report in just a few minutes. >>> they are investigating -- chp is investigating a deadly motorcycle accident. a man on a motorcycle was killed after crashing and getting pinned underneath a van. it has been racing at speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour. the van driver suffered minor injuries in that crash. >>> also this morning investigators are looking for the cause of a fire that badly damaged two homes in the berkeley hills. the fire started on miller avenue near grizzly peak. the fire shot into the nighttime sky but nobody inside was hurt. two firefighters suffered smoke inhalation and it took several hours to get the fire under control. >> it posed a physical challenge given the curves and winding roads in the area. >> they are still watching for hot spots and it is

we have a dense fog advisory for the van nearby -- dinesh why and -- venetia and dumbarton bridges. >>> the fog has returned and coast and inland a little thick, mainly east bay and lows are mild because of the fog and cloud cover, but for a few hours we will have cloud cover and fog. reporting some in concord as well. there will be some rain in the north coast and for us we will have to wait for tonight and tomorrow but may be we will have some rainfall. 36 san jose, 31 fairfield, allow the of cloud cover, -- a lot of cloud cover, the bark may be worst than its bite a lot of high scattered clouds with increasing clouds as it begins to inch closer. this is a weak system, by tomorrow cloudy skies and again morning drizzle. light rain to the north bay. we will start off with some sun and we will have clouds increasing. mild fog near the coast, 60s on the temperatures, or upper 50s for some, extended forecast clouding to friday and it is out of here on saturday and warmer upper 60s into monday pamela. >>> we will take you to the fire scene next for the latest on the investigation into th

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. >> a family in venetia donated seats and six flags donated a portion to the officer jim capoot funds>>> president barack obama's approval ratings are getting better. they find americans still disapprove of president barack obama's handling of the economy and jobs however views of his overall performance have recovered. they now approve, and only 47% disapprove. and a shakeup among presidential contenders. coming up, who the new front- runner is coming up on january 3rd. >>> reaction is mixed about the death of kim jong il. about 100,000 koreans called the bay area home. kim jong un's father was from the -- kim jong il's father was from the north but escaped during the war. he says he blames kim jong il for keeping families apart. >> he took everything away from me, property land, the rice, food and everything. so that is why he escaped. he left-most lane of his family back in north korea. >> but a spokesperson for kim jong il said kim jong il has been unfairly misrepresented and they have led relatively normal lives. >>> you were telling us about a crash a little while ago? >> that i

last night the peace officers' alliance ran a fundraiser and in venetia they donated to officer jim capoot's family. six flags will also donate to the officer jim capoot family fun. >>> the death of kim jong il is causing mixed reaction to many who remember the leadser will -- leader with many different sides. one man says his family was affected and we will have more on that. >>> the toll plaza seems to be getting busier. >>> it is getting busier and people are not completely off, at least not everyone is. let's look at what we have. starting with the toll plaza, you can see traffic is backed up a little bit at the toll plaza with no major problems. if you are driving into the city it does get better on that upper deck and northbound 1010 getting -- 101, getting up to the san mateo split, so again if people are out there, you will see a lot of people, mostly men at this point standing in line, dads getting their jobbing done. >> this is highway 101, some and -- stop and go there. also looking good in present hill. >>> we have clear skies and we have some fog cool with mainly 50s and 60s. ma

. >> we had a donation in venetia of a victory ship anchor. >> reporter: veterans and their families navigate the woods for the first time many vet erans groups didn't knw the memorial existed. dan outson says it speaks to the merchant marines overlooked contributio contributions. >> they had the highest percentage of loss than any others military unit. they didn't give us anything. >> reporter: here in this forgotten point, at this forgotten memorial, these veterans remembered with the restored eagle as a sign that others had remembered too. >> it's nice to see it back and going and it's nice to see so many guys coming out to see it. we're all in the same boat. >> reporter: joe rosato jr. >>> aze counting the seconds until she's reunited with her father after almost a year. the emotional reunion when daddy comes home from war. this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the

no problems to the willow pass grade and no problems from the van nearby why bridge -- venetia bridge. and both directions to the coliseum look good and driving on the mcarthur freeway is looking good all the way to the mcarthur maze. and on the shoulders, we see emergency vehicles on the shoulder and traffic is not affected too much so far. let's go to steve. >>> thank you sir, and a very good morning, san jose has clouds, they are in the 40s north bay locations i was just looking coldest i can fine is polk valley and send lean in is running -- semolina is running warmer so even though it is cold under most live clear skies, we do have clouds around. we have low clouds and fog, and again i am going to extremes here. there is a system dropping down tomorrow, i think that will keep low clouds around. fog sun cool again later this afternoon. fairfield in the 20s, napa just went up to 30 and i thought i saw a low cloud deck and that 27 is now 30 for napa. 36, look at oakland, hayward, san jose, they are all running warmer, livermore yesterday was 32 and now they are 36. freeze warning ou

and if you are driving 680 from venetia bridge to walnut creek is all clear.ack to you. >>> mostly clear skies, way too dry for fog, northeasterly winds are kicking up temperatures and 10-degrees warmer where we are seeing that wind from 15 to 24 miles per hour just some hours ago. gusts have been anywhere from 20 - 30 through parts of the north bay through the delta and east bay is reporting gusty conditions at the time. santa cruz mountains is also reporting gusty conditions and it is fairly widespread. 24 miles per hour right now in areas right around napa and this is a sustained wind which means you could see anywhere from 5 to 10 miles per hour. we are looking at just a light breeze and oakland hills are reporting winds at times. this wind is just enough to mix out that air and well, we are a lot warmer because of it. 50 degrees in san jose, and the airport in oakland must be cool because it is a cool one there concord hit 32 degrees a little bit earlier but the winds picked up enough to bring back those temperatures. 90 minutes to sunrise and we typicall

we'll also look at the update for the venetia bridge. earlier sensors north on 680 across the bridge. now things are smoothing back out to the speed limit. no incidents there or for your commute coming down across the carcinas bridge. a live shot to see how things are shaping up at the bay bridge toll plaza. easy drive right now. no backups, not even more than just a few cars for the cash lanes. it looks like as we get closer to christmas and new year's, we have the lighter volume of traffic. we watch for any unexpected issues. i can tell you about them and you're expecting them. back to you. >> thank you very much, mike. 6:18 right now. we're getting a look at the first known major contributor to the governor's tax plan. the california tribal business alliance and two of its member tribes have given $275,000 to support the governor's ballot initiative. the plan would rate the state sales tax by half a percent an increase income taxes for those making more than $250,000 a year. brown says the plan would raise an estimated $7 billion in o

losing sports and are losing arts and they are losing music programs, we have a situation here in venetiabrightening and stan and mary ann are key to that. as the schools in california started to cut the budget to music programs we were able to jump in and today subsidize some of those programs that have been cut, so we offer band programs after school, they are enrichment programs. we work with the school district we have stores in and through their cooperation are able to give those kids music from programs that were cut before. so it is great. >>> we have had a number of people come into the stores and say i want my child in a band program i simply can't afford it and mary ann and look at one another and say you know we can't turn this person down, so off goes a free trumpet and we don't charge them a rental fee. >> it is good. i just want to go home and practice my guitar and stuff. >> well, he is an awesome teacher and i -- i hope that i will be able to be as good as him one day. >> i don't everybody know what it would be like if i had him -- if i didn't have anything to do with musi