i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. cities across the bay area are trying to figure out more ways to get people out and shopping downtown. consumers have been lured by sales and popup markets and there is an added focus on safety and shopping local. the night market in alameda was a way to boost that economy. >> reporter: i'm in downtown alameda. you can see the holidays are in full swing as they are coming up with different ways to promote local businesses like this winter market. it's the right place to be if you want to go holiday shopping in alameda. >> it's a great opportunity. the alameda park street vendor association gives all vendors a boost. >> reporter: chris has owned the store selling alameda prime merchandise ten years. >> we started making city pride clothes for babies when my kids were young. now they are old. so it evolved. now we sell to all kinds of stores. >> reporter: one of dozens of vendors offering products and services this saturday during the winter market. >> it is great for small businesses.

. >>> live from the cbs studios in san francisco, i'm brian hackney. >> and i'm andrea nakano. we begin in san francisco. >> that dog trainer gained a huge following on social media. he's being accused of dog abuse and cruelty by fellow dog trainers. he held a training event this afternoon and was met by protesters and our da lin. >> reporter: there are no regulations when it comes to dog training. no license, no oversight. some dog trainers claim one man is abusing the system and dogs. 6-year-old mikey is a german shepherd husky mix. his dog mom is worried about his behavior. >> i have a vicious dog here. so, well, that's why we want to just try it,

. >>> i'm andrea nakano, brian hackney is off tonight. our top story tonight is the weather.could be in line for a very wet week. let's get right to first alert meteorologist darren peck with the timing of all these storms and what we can expect this week. >> the timing is the challenge. so what i want to do, andrea, is start out with the big picture and show you where we have more confidence -- where we have a high degree of confidence. the amount of rain coming our way between monday and thursday. and that's really the timeframe on this. most of it on monday morning, and then another system through wednesday. when you look at the whole period, monday through wednesday, we could pick up about maybe 2 inches

brian hackney is off tonight. well make that five wins in a row for the 49ers today.old beat the seahawks for the second time in three weeks 28-16 at levi's stadium. sports director, vern glenn, will break down the highlights in just a moment. but first let's get out to betty yu in santa clara. betty, the 49ers faithful feeling pretty good at this hour, right, betty? >> reporter: and you can tell how good they felt just by seeing all the smiles. in fact, with minutes left on the clock, andrea, there were many celebrations breaking out all around levi's stadium. and tonight's win really strengthened the niner's position in the race for the no. 1 in the nfc.

good evening, i'm andrea nakano, brian hackney is off tonight. it's christmas eve and many stores are already closed, giving last-minute shop ors fewer choices at this hour, but there are a few stores that have not closed quite yet. it didn't take long for our reporter, da lin, to find people who were starting their christmas shopping today. >> yeah, shoe palace to buy some pairs of shoes for christmas. >> reporter: shopper robert rigs is on a mission with a tight deadline. >> i procrastinate every year. i wait until the last minute to shop. i'm always the same time. one day before christmas. >> reporter: robert began his christmas shopping on sunday morning. >> they'll be mad, we'll give them nothing. >> reporter: i followed them as they make the first stop at the shoe palace in emeryville's bay street shopping center. he was looking for a specific pair of retro nike shoes. >> wow, we have no seven and a halfs. sold out? >> yeah. >> what other colors do you have similar to this one? >> reporter: nothing left in the size he needed. >> the shoes t

brian hackney visited a monarch butterfly sanctuary in monterey bay were there closely watching thist >> people turned out in droves of the weekend to take a look at monarch clustering like leaves in their monterey bay sanctuaries. but the monarchs themselves have not returned in droves >> i have seen them in the past two . >> there really going there, wow. plea this years, monarchs are filtering and all the way from their summer home in the sierra. >> instead of getting the freezing to death and buried under snow, they say , take our chances, we are coming west. >> if you don't think monarchs can move that far that quickly. >> yes they can. they will rise up 1500 feet and coast 200 miles in a day. >> paul is one of the volunteers at one of the 169 monarch sites on the west coast where citizen scientist total of their numbers annually as part of the thanksgiving count. we we are pretty confident that we are getting six and 7000 here that is down from last year, so what do we do? there is nothing we can do except conserve this growth and preach. and i do mean preach. >> the population

good evening, i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. we've seen cities across the bay area try to find different ways to address homelessness from constructing tiny homes to converting hotels into shelters. solutions have been hard to come by. >> and palo alto has a safe parking program that they're trying to expand. but as betty yu shows us, the big challenge is getting people to use it. >> reporter: in the shadow of a pickle ball court, four designated spaces for people who live in their cars. the city of palo alto invited churches to open their parking lots to people living in their cars about three years ago. the safe, paing pilot program was meant to help tackle the city's homeless problem. on this night, we visited the four participating locations and only found one person, taking advantage of the space. >> and some of the awareness, that i think some people just want to have the freedom. sometimes people know there are some requirements that you need to have a caseworker. >> reporter: the program helped fund 25 households from ja

live from the cbs studios in san francisco this sunday evening, i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakanosco where the drama surrounding vendors in the mission district continues with a new twist. banning vendors on mission street for 90 days. it's because the city is concerned about criminals who sell stolen goods are mixed in with the mom and pop vendors. that the vendors say does not have enough room. >> but this weekend, some of the small business vendors left that indoor facility to set up shop on 24th street between cap and south van ness. da lin has the report. >> reporter: about half a dozen vendors set up their tents on the sidewalk. they tell me this is the first weekend here. some neighbors worried this will get out of hand fast. >> i do feel

good evening, i'm andrea nakano, brian hackney is off tonight.osed, giving last-minute shop ors fewer choices at this hour, but there are a few stores that have not closed quite yet. it didn't take long for our reporter, da lin, to find people who were starting their christmas shopping today. >> yeah, shoe palace to buy some pairs of shoes for christmas. >> reporter: shopper robert rigs is on a mission with a tight deadline. >> i procrastinate every year. i wait until the last minute to shop. i'm always the same time. one day before christmas. >> reporter: robert began his christmas shopping on sunday morning. >> they'll be mad, we'll give them nothing. >> reporter: i followed them as they make the first stop at the shoe palace in emeryville's bay street shopping center. he was looking for a specific pair of retro nike shoes. >> wow, we have no

as brian hackney explains, this could cause serious disruptions on earth. >> reporter: getting pointedof focusing. >> that's professor jeff matthews. >> what are you seeing there? >> it is not the sun, is it? >> it is the sun. >> it is? [ laughter ] >> that's the only thing bright enough to get through the filter is the sun itself. >> reporter: andrea zabala is not the only one excited about what's happening to the sun. late in november, sun spots rotated into the view around the sun's northeastern lens. under the watchful eye of stanford student ethan lopes. >> we get to see these fairly dark spots, in which are a large magnitude. several earth's large for each little dot we see. >> as the sun rotates, it is bringing these things to bare on us. and then we hold our breaths. >> reporter: as the 11-year cycle of solar activity approaches the peak, the number of sun spots is increasing. . >> so as more activity is ramping up, we are seeing more of those solar flares and mass ejections that basically just big eruptions on the sun. >> reporter: that part isn't unusual. >> this is one of th

live from the cbs studios in san francisco this sunday evening, i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. we start in san francisco where the drama surrounding vendors in the mission district continues with a new twist. banning vendors on mission street for 90 days. it's because the city is concerned about criminals who sell stolen goods are mixed in with the mom and pop vendors. that the vendors say does not have enough room. >> but this weekend, some of the small business vendors left that indoor facility to set up shop on 24th street between cap and south van ness. da lin has the report. >> reporter: about half a dozen vendors set up their tents on the sidewalk. they tell me this is the first weekend here. some neighbors worried this will get out of hand fast. >> i do feel the street is much narrower. i mean we are just two people walking. but if there is another person walking down here, they would probably have an issue. >> reporter: neighbors say access is the biggest issue right now. the vendors have taken up half of the sidewalk on one side of 24th street. >> there is not enough

brian hackney is off tonight. well make that five wins in a row for the 49ers today. the red and gold beat the seahawks for the second time in three weeks 28-16 at levi's stadium. sports director, vern glenn, will break down the highlights in just a moment. but first let's get out to betty yu in santa clara. betty, the 49ers faithful feeling pretty good at this hour, right, betty? >> reporter: and you can tell how good they felt just by seeing all the smiles. in fact, with minutes left on the clock, andrea, there were many celebrations breaking out all around levi's stadium. and tonight's win really strengthened the niner's position in the race for the no. 1 in the nfc. [ cheering ] >> reporter: eric crawford flew from hawaii to witness the niners take on the seahawks for the second time since thanksgiving night. and once again the 49ers crushed their division rival. sunday's 28-16 victory set the sea of red and gold into another frenzy. >> it feels really good that the 49ers are on top. >> reporter: today's win only strengthened the niners' push for the top seed in t

. >>> live from the cbs studios in san francisco, i'm brian hackney. >> and i'm andrea nakano. we begin in san francisco. >> that dog trainer gained a huge following on social media. he's being accused of dog abuse and cruelty by fellow dog trainers. he held a training event this afternoon and was met by protesters and our da lin. >> reporter: there are no regulations when it comes to dog training. no license, no oversight. some dog trainers claim one man is abusing the system and dogs. 6-year-old mikey is a german shepherd husky mix. his dog mom is worried about his behavior. >> i have a vicious dog here. so, well, that's why we want to just try it, if it would help. >> reporter: she tried different trainers and even a boarding school. she hopes a four-hour session with this trainer will provide some positive changes in his behavior. she's met with peaceful protesters in front of the san francisco building on saturday afternoon. >> each one of us has own opinion, but for me, if it would help my dog, why not. >> reporter: many of the protesters are professional dog trainers. th

it's something that our brian hackney reported last week could happen, solar flares with the potentialic power grids.he has an updated report. >> getting pointed right at the sun with a little bit of focusing. >> reporter: that's professor jeff matthews. >> close one eye. keep your other eye open and take a look down there. >> oh, my god. >> so what are you seeing? >> i think it would be -- it's not the sun? >> it is the sun. >> it is? ah! >> that is the only thing bright enough to get through this filter is the sun itself. >> reporter: and andrea isn't the only one excited about what's happening on the sun lately. >> wow! >> reporter: late in november, what's called an archpaligo of sun spots rotated around the sun's northeastern limb, and under the watchful eye of stanford student ethan lope. >> we get to see these very dark spots which are very large magnitude which means they are like several earths large for each dot that we see. >> as the sun rotates, it's bringing these things to bear on us, and then we may hold our breath. >> reporter: as the 11-year cycle of solar activity app

but as brian hackney explains, this could cause serious disruptions here on earth. >> getting pointedessor jeff matthews. >> close one eye, keep the other eye open and take a look down. >> oh, my god. >> so what are you seeing? >> i think it would be -- it's not the sun, is it? >> it is the sun. >> it is? that is the only thing bright enough to get through this filter is the sun itself. >> reporter: andrea isn't the only one excited about what's happening on the sun lately. >> wow! >> reporter: late in november, what's called an archpalego of sun spots rotated around the sun's view of the northeastern limb and under the watchful eye of student ethan. >> on the sun right now we get to see these fairly dark spots which are fairly large magnitude, which means there are several earths large for every spot that we see. >> as the sun rotates, it's bringing these things to bear on us, and then may hold our breath. >> reporter: as the 11-year cycle of solar activity approaches its peak, the number of sun spots is increasing, so -- >> as more activity is ramping up, we're seeing more of those

. >>> i'm andrea nakano, brian hackney is off tonight. our top story tonight is the weather. we could be in line for a very wet week. let's get right to first alert meteorologist darren peck with the timing of all these storms and what we can expect this week. >> the timing is the challenge. so what i want to do, andrea, is start out with the big picture and show you where we have more confidence -- where we have a high degree of confidence. the amount of rain coming our way between monday and thursday. and that's really the timeframe on this. most of it on monday morning, and then another system through wednesday. when you look at the whole period, monday through wednesday, we could pick up about maybe 2 inches of rain, 2 to 2.5. some models say closer to 3. if we get that, that would be more rain in four days than we've had for the whole year so far. shouldn't be a flooding scenario, but the most impressive rain yet. it's two systems. we've got the first one out here. we're going look at the specifics in one second. but once that one passes on tuesday, watch another one dev

it's something that our brian hackney reported last week could happen.disrupt communication and electric power grids. here's his updated report. >> getting pointed right at the sun with a little bit of focusing. >> reporter: that's professor jeff matthews. >> close one eye. keep your other eye open and take a look down there. >> oh, my god. >> so what are you seeing? >> i think it would be -- it's not the sun? >> it is the sun. >> it is? ah! >> that is the only thing bright enough to get through this filter is the sun itself. >> reporter: and andrea isn't the only one excited about what's happening on the sun lately. >> wow! >> reporter: late in november, what's called an archpalego of sun spots rotated around the sun's northeastern limb, and under the watchful eye of stanford student ethan lope. >> we get to see these very dark spots which are very large magnitude which means they are like several earths large for each dot that we see. >> as the sun rotates, it's bringing these things to bear on us, and then we may hold our breath. >> reporter: as the 1