thank-you anny it we are watching wall street the consumer confidence reading has come out they have jumped to their highest level since february of 2008. consumer spending is two-thirds of the u. s economy. >> wall street the dow down 14 points the dow sitting at 12,00952. >> the time is 7:08 a.m. we will be back with more in a couple of minutes. we have a camera at the james lick it shows you the heavy traffic and not as heavy fog as yesterday but some fog. will be right back. [ male announcer ] this december, remember -- what starts with adding a friend... ♪ ♪ ...could end with adding a close friend. ♪ the lexus december to remember sales event is on, offering some of our best values of the year. this is the pursuit new research this week suggest to bay area regions have substantially higher rates of evasive breast cancer. the higher rate areas and all the western half contra costa county, the northernmost part of alameda county, at a swath running around the southern end of the bay for alameda, santa clara and san mateo counties. for its cancer rates in the four regions were 10 to 20% higher than the state average and researchers still do not know why. the food and drug admin