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hours" tonight, only cbs.on this program is provided as an independent service of captionmax, which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions, are not responsible for the accuracy, or completeness of any transcription, or for any errors in transcription. closed captioning provided by cbs sports division >> clark: give kansas credit. they've done a nice job taking away the primary option for ohio state which is the leading scorer for the buckeyes, deshaun thompson. >> tim: blocked away beautifully by mclemore who has just been everywhere. he and withey have been the two players that ohio state simply could not account for. >> clark: it won't just be ohio state that won't be able to account for those two. a migraine match-up for just about every team they face. >> tim: the feathery j time out taken by thad matta. alright, if you're thinkin about gettin' a new truck, you're probably thin

live in lafayette, christin ayers, cbs 5. >>> all right. the race is on. the last big push for holiday shopping. >> and after the success of black friday, macy's and toys r us are staying up 24 hours a day from now until christmas. so this is the scene right now. let's take a look at the toys r us in san jose. the parking lot has been packed all night. the extended hours are actually pushing holiday shopping to a new extreme, but parents don't seem to mind. >> i think it's a great opportunity. i mean, for the parents to come out when the kids are sleeping, and spend more money, it's great for the economy as well. >> and it should help procrastinators. a recent survey found that 68% of americans haven't finished their shopping yet. >> if you're shopping this weekend, you'll be doing it in the rain, but hey, you know what? we need the water! >> yes, we do. and the snow. that's right. >> yes. >>> it makes the skiers happy. fill the reservoirs. the negative outlook is it's going to be miserable when you're shopping this weekend. pretty miserable outside right

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor. syrian rebels tonight are ramping up their on damascus and alleppo the country's largest city. the u.n. peace envoy met with u.n. and russian diplomats trying to broker a cease-fire. at the same time there is growing concern tonight over al qaeda's influence in the rebel ranks. david martin is at the pentagon. >> reporter: video said to show the aftermath of a syrian air strike provides graphic evidence of a life-and-death battle which high level diplomats say is bad and getting worse. despite its air power the assad regime appears increasingly on the defensive against rebel forces which according to israel's ambassador to the u.s. include a growing number of radical islamist. >> the jihadi presence is big and getting bigger. and the longer the conflict goes on there, the bigger it will get. >> the jihadies are an offshoot of al qaeda in iraq which ones fought a no holds bar battle against american troops. according to jeffrey white a former analyst for the defense intelligence

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> good evening. jim axelrod is off tonight. i'm rebecca jarvis. with just two days left, senate leaders are still struggling to put together a last minute bp deal ahead of monday's midnight deadline for the fiscal cliff. failure could kick the country back into a recession. wyatt andrews is on capitol hill. >> reporter: today the halls of the senate were almost empty, as proposals got traded in private and over the phone. senate minority leader much mcconnell tried to sound upbeat. going to get a deal today sir? >> hope. so. >> reporter: house speaker boehner came to the capitol but left without comment. issue number one in the talks is amending the bush era tax cuts, which if unchanged will expire and raise taxes on all americans. starting tuesday, the average tax hike will be three to 5% per person. >> let's keep taxes exactly where they are on the first $250,000 of everybody's income. >> reporter: the president campaigned to increase taxes only on families making more than $250,000 per year. almos

live in oakland, da lin, cbs 5. >>> gassing up not so painful lately. what driving down gas prices and why they could even go lower. >> it's the human that has to work the technology to make sure that we don't leave our tools inside of patients. >> and surgical instruments left inside patients? how technology is being used to stop those mistakes. challenges tonight after tw its most popular vehicles received poor ratings on crh tests. safety experts say the cam's ar off, the airbags did not deploy. and the prius -v- hybrid wan di - it >>> toyota received poor ratings on crash test. the camry's steering was pushed so far off the air bag didn't deploy. and the prius v hybrid wagon didn't perform any better and earned a poor rating. honda accord sedan and suzuki got "good" in the crash test. >>> tough to fill up the tank and we have seen this for weeks and we could see it for months. gas prices have fallen hovering about 3.50 average statewide. that's 25 cents less than last month. cbs 5 reporter don ford tells us the lower gas prices is a trend that could

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cbs reporter teresa garcia reports. >> reporter: skid marks, line the texas roadway where police say dallas cowboy josh brent lost control of his car killing a team mitt. >> it appears as if he was traveling at a high rate of speed at which time his vehicle touched or impacted the outside curb of the service road causing his vehicle to flip at least one time. >> reporter: police say brent was driving drunk when he crashed his 2007 mercedes early saturday morning. the defensive lineman is charged with intoxication manslaughter for the death of 25-year-old jerry brown a member of the team's practice squad. investigators say brown was unresponsive when they arrived. >> when our officers arrived on scene, mr. brent was removing -- or dragging mr. brown from the vehicle. >> reporter: brent and brown were college teammates at the university of illinois. the two were reunited in october when the cowboys signed brown after the indianapolis colts released him. in a statement, cowboys' owner jerry jones said -- >> reporter: news of the deadly accident stunned cowboys' fans. >> man, that's sad

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> good evening. i'm rebecca jarvis. people in northern california just can't catch a break. the third big storm in four days is baring down on the region tonight. rivers in the area have a history of dangerous flash flooding as those who live along their banks know all too well. carter evans begins our coverage. >> reporter: the ground is soaked, creeks are full and rivers are on the rise. >> i've never seen it that high even during the spring. >> reporter: a storm drain near sacramento wasn't cleared fast enough to save the home of michael jimenez. in california's wine country, when the water gets this high along the russian river, people get worried. >> it's happened so many timeses and it does come, like, clockwork. >> reporter: victoria daly and her family know how dangerous this water can be. the russian river has seen severe flooding in the past. the worst in 1986, when the entire town was under several feet of water. daly said her home is always one of the first to flood. >> we've done it so many times, we're pre

cbs 5 joe vazquez in santa cruz county. joe, i have word the storm claimed a life? >> reporter: that's right. a man died from this storm here in santa cruz county. it happened in the sokel creek in capitola that's going to be just southeast of santa cruz. our sister station kion said the man drowned. here in the santa cruz mountains a steady rain continues. the folks here, they are used to this. maybe a little too used to. in fact, we saw some folks who may have risked their lives clearing a road. take a look. the san lorenzo river is rushing fast. in fact, carol says it appears to be rising more dramatically than in years. she says only a day and a half ago it was so dry here, you could walk across the bottom at this spot near downtown boulder creek. >> pretty outrageous and if it keeps raining it's probably going to go over the dam. >> reporter: as the heavy rain keeps falling in the santa cruz mountains so do many trees an eventually electrical wires. highway 9 was blocked in several places including this tangled mess in ben lomond for much of the morning. pg&e s

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." ews." maurice s: good evening, i'm maurice dubois. we begin tonight in egypt where the chaos on the streets appears o have forthed the president's hand. he has revoked last month's emergency decree, giving up the power that essentially placed him above the law, but he is insisting next seas referendum on a new constitution goes ahead direanned. alan pizzey is in cairo tonight. >> reporter: partial climb-down came after a day-long meeting that had been called for all parties that the opposition boycotted. it followed a dire warning from the military that anything other than dialogue among the political parties would "force us into a dark tunnel with disastrous consequences." but the bickering is likely to go on. morsi still needs to form a but sadly seetion, says khalid is not acting as a president. >> reporter: the muslim brotherhood's head office was wrecked by opposition supporters an act former is supreme leader mahdy akef called criminal. "what is happening in egypt is not egypt" he sai

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cbs 5 reporter christin ayers is there. chris christin. >> that's correct we have a massive scene out here along sixth street. a long scene. you can see multiple cruisers. this area encompassing about six blocks where we're being told shootings happened and multiple people involved in the shootings. multiple victims from what we're hearing right now. four people shot. one person according to authorities is in critical condition at this moment. we don't know the conditions of the other four currently. and information just coming in at this moment. i talked to a couple neighbors in this area that heard the gunfire a short time ago before we arrived on scene. they described hearing maybe a dozen shots and coming out and seeing people laying in the street. we're hearing four victim so far in this east oakland neighborhoods. a very large presence in east oakland. no word on whether authorities have been able to track down the shooters. christin ayers cbs 5. >> a bay area handyman held hostage beaten and forced to make repairs. w

hours" tonight, only cbs.tioning on this program is provided as an independent service of captionmax, which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions, are not responsible for the accuracy, or completeness of any transcription, or for any errors in transcription. closed captioning provided by cbs sports division >> clark: give kansas credit. they've done a nice job taking away the primary option for ohio state which is the leading scorer for the buckeyes, deshaun thompson. >> tim: blocked away beautifully by mclemore who has just been everywhere. he and withey have been the two players that ohio state simply could not account for. >> clark: it won't just be ohio state that won't be able to account for those two. a migraine match-up for just about every team they face. >> tim: the feathery j, time out taken by thad matta. alright, if you're thinkin about gettin' a new truck, you're prob

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as cbs reporter danielle nottingham says progress is slow. president obama cut short his holiday vacation and returned to the white house to work on a deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff." before flying home from hawaii, the president called congressional leaders nancy pelosi, john boehner, mitch mcconnell and harry reid to reach agreements before tax hikes and spending cuts kick in january 1. >> we have been asking the president and the democrats to work with us on a bipartisan agreement for months. >> i don't know time wise how it can happen now. >> reporter: the senate majority leader wants house republicans to return from their vacations to approve a democratic senate plan that extends tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 a year. >> that's the only option that is viable escape route. >> reporter: but republican leaders say it's up to democrats who control the senate and white house to avert the "fiscal cliff." >> republicans aren't about to write a blank check for anything senate democrats put forward just because we find ourselves

i'm very excited. >> reporter: reporting from emeryville, patrick sedillo cbs 5. >>> and from the cbs 5 weather center, good evening, it's back, it's our live high-def doppler radar. it's tracking the incoming rain with your pinpoint forecast. dennis? >> the 49ers lose another football player for the rest of the year. and the personal battle of a transgender shot at a new life on the court and off. coming up. ,,,, well, inside the brewer, there's a giant staircase. and the room is filled with all these different kinds of coffee. actually, i just press this button. (((weather))) presenter: mike hannigan, president of give somethingk office supplies suzan bateson, >>> fire up the radar, roberta. the rain's acomin'. >> all right! va room! >> i'm really excited about that because we have a very active ten-day weather pattern, in fact leading us all the way into new year's eve. good evening, everybody. it is, it's live, it's high-def doppler radar and we are now picking up the green on the screen. can you see it there? just anchored to the west of santa rosa. you see the leading edge of an

the "cbs evening news with scott pelley" is coming up next. remember, the latest news and weather are always on cbssf.com. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> pelley: tonight, the president faces a train wreck. >> nobody gets 100% of what they want. everybody's got to give a little bit. >> pelley: with big tax increases days away, republicans revolt. major garrett with s with the president. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. a moment of remembrance for newtown and the n.r.a. weighs in with its solution. >> the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> pelley: elaine quijano and chip reid report. storms slow the holiday rush. dean reynolds on where the trouble lies. and steve hartman "on the road" finds the loss of a child has

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♪ captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: good evening, everyone, i'm jefflor. the company that calls itself the world's largest arms supplier says in three days it sold over three years worth of ar-15 ammunition magazines. the company brownell apologized on-line for delays in shipping the orders. the ar-15 is the nation's most popular semiautomatic rifle, similar to the weapon used in the newtown shootings. in washington, meanwhile, the gun control debate ramped up. on "face the nation" bob schieffer spoke with national rifle association president david keane, the first time the toup has spoken since making a statement on friday. >> scheiffer: when you came on television at this news conference friday you seemed to blame the mentally ill. you seemed to blame hollywood. you seemed to blame the media, the video game manufacturers. you did not seem to think that your policies have had anything at all to do with this. o> well, we don't think they eave. >> scheiffer: you see no responsibility. >> you know, we're living in a country, a free country which ntryle h

captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for monday, december 17th, 2012. and good morning, everybody. good to be with you on this monday. i'm terrell brown. the funerals of the first victims will be held today. 20 children were kids and six adults in a shooting rampage that lasted ten minutes and authorities say it could have been worse. the gunman adam lanza carried hundreds of rounds of especially deadly ammunition. last night president obama met privately with families in newtown and then spoke at a memorial service. the president said, quote, we can't tolerate this anymore. we must change. he ended his remarks by reading the names of the 20 child victims. >> charlotte, daniel, olivia, josephine, ana, dylan, madeleine, catherine, chase, jesse, james, grace, emilie, jack, noah, caroline, jessica, benjamin, avielle, allison. god has called them all home. >> erica ferrari is in newtown this morning. erica, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, terrell. behind closed doors, the president reportedly told connecticut's governor that friday was the s

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in san jose, cate caugiran, cbs 5. >>> all right. meteorologist paul deanno is here now and we have some rain on the way. >> you know what, it's going to get us all in the holiday spirit. >> really? >> maybe, get the fireplace going, wrap the gifts, enjoy the times indoors with the family. it's going to be a mess outside for the next couple of days if you are traveling. it's going to be tricky. first up will be rain and wind overnight tonight. already was breezy today. sustained winds overnight tonight for the city and the coast up to 35 miles per hour with gusts up to 40, 45, even 50 miles an hour. us this, the wind advisory. now to the rain. almost into the bay area, north bay showers right now some moderate rain up and down 101 close to santa rosa. calistoga and clearlake and almost to saint helena. we'll zoom out and show you the entire bay area. much of it is dry. once the rain gets here it we'll be stuck with it through monday morning. outside livermore down to 28 degrees this morning, concord too. san jose 55. warmer tonight b

join us for cbs 5 eyewitness news this morning...eginng at 4:30. ,, ,, >>> here's a look at the weather in some cities around the country. washington, afternoon showers, 60. mostly sunny in atlanta, 51. partly sunny in st. louis, 56. mostly cloudy in denver, 38. showers in seattle, 40 degrees. >>> the newtown school shooting has parents and teachers all across the country concerned about the safety of their classrooms. and as mark strassmann reports this morning, many schools are reviewing and improving their security procedures. >> reporter: dekalb county's briar lake elementary was different today. an armed school police officer patrolled outside, and the principal ordered teachers to lock all classroom doors on the hallway side. lillian gobas, the district's spokeswoman, took us inside. all of dekalb's 138 schools have at least 32 secured cameras, installed in 1999 after the columbine shooting. >> what's new is the sense of awareness and the dialogue that's happening among our staff members and our families and the students who we

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and that is your cbs 5 forecast. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, hook" elementary in newtown, connecticut this morning. 20 of those were children. >>> 26 people were killed at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut this morning. 20 of those were children. the triggerman has been identified as 20-year-old adam lanza. he is also dead. but lanza also killed his mother at their home before going to the school where she was a kindergarten teacher. this is the deadliest shooting rampage at an elementary school in u.s. history. >>> ken bastida with mobile5 and ken, the horror of what happened in connecticut certainly striking a chord around the country and here in the bay area. >> reporter: yeah, no question about it, allen. i mean, when something of this magnitude hits this country, it gets plastered all over the newspapers, all over television and radio. you can't avoid it. and it has an emotional impact on a lot of people. and tonight, you know, just talking to folks going home, there's sort of a mixtur

captioning funded by cbs >>> welcome to "cbs this morning." there are 22 days left to the fiscal cliff deadline. there is no deal yet, but the two leading players are now talking face to face. >> and some republicans m congress are pushing their leaders to be a little bit more flexible. major garrett is at the white house. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and norah. the white house meeting yesterday between president obama and speaker boehner occurred after the president extended that invitation to boehner quite quietly on friday. after the meeting, both were described as hopeful. even so, a followup meeting between white house staff and republican congressional staff on underlying details of a fiscal cliff deal apparently achieved little progress. the president met with boehner after huddling friday with house minority leader nancy pelosi and telephoning senate majority leader harry reid. both democrats wanted to make sure president obama will not freeze them out of fiscal cliff negotiations. far from frozen, some set o

. >> you're watching cbs 5 eyewitness news on the cw. >> from the russian river to the santa cruz mountains and just about everywhere in between a mass and this storm is not over. >> one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the bay area now the scene of a murder history. how the weather could complicate the investigation. and 1,491 days after you voted for prop eight. will the supreme court finally step in and resolve the issue of same sex marriage. >> swollen rivers. flooded streets. fallen trees and people in the dark. this a little november storm just gave the bay area a nasty beating and the second round in the fight is not over yet. paul deanno, it's not over yet. >>> cbs 5 high definition doppler is still showing some rainfall. we had widespread rainfall rates about a half inch of rain per hour. tonight scattered showers out there with very small pocket of moderate rainfall. one of those pockets is right over the top of heelsburg. some scattered showers around paulo alto. and walnut creeks. the break between these soakers round two and round three that continues tonight. there will

captioning funded by cbs >>> welcome to cbs thmthm. syria, signs deepings, but signs of a breakthrough. the united states detected signs that syrian's government is preparing chemical weapons for possible use. >> meanwhile, secretary of state hillary clinton is holding an unscheduled meeting in ireland with russia's foreign minister and the u.n. special envoy to syria. a sign russia may be switching sides to put pressure on syria to stop the fighting. in dublin covering talks, margaret, good morning. do you think this is a sign of a diplomatic breakthrough? >> reporter: norah, the sign of a possible diplomatic breakthrough. flying here to dublin for a last-minute meeting with secretary of state hillary clinton and the russian foreign minister. it may signal that russia is finally willing to take u.n. action to send a message to bashar al assad to stop the killing. one of april saud's few remaining allies and so faro posed action to intervene the crisis that killed nearly 40,000 people. >> margaret, charlie rose here. has the report tha

in san francisco, elissa harrington, cbs 5. >> thank you. >>> we want to go back to cbs 5 reporter linda yee who asked what can legendary lawman william bratton do for the city of oakland? here's her story. >> reporter: he's riding into oakland with his legendary reputation of being the country's toughest crime fighter. every year, bill bratton was the chief of los angeles police, violent crime was reduced. his changes started with the officers in his own department. >> some saturday nights there were no gang units work in the city. that's going to end. >> reporter: bratton put his sights on the most crime-ridden areas of the city flooding them with hundreds of officers and conducted regular street sweeps. oakland wants him to build an anticrime road map here. >> he is going to have free rein. >> reporter: city leaders admit crime south of control. within hours of yesterday's announcement, three more people were killed. city leaders admit crime is out of chrome. oakland is still working to hire a court ordered director to oversee the police department. its troubles date back to the rider

captioning funded by cbs e to cbs >>> welcome to "cbs this morning." headline out of washington, a lot of talk. not a lot of action. not surprisingly, the white house and congress remain far from any deal to prevent automatic tax hikes and spending cuts. >> with just 27 days to go, republicans are not talking with the obama administration and the president is only talking on tv. major garrett is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and norah. yesterday at the white house there were vague references to conversations about the the fiscal cliff with congress iion republicans. i can confirm this morning through my sources here at the white house and on capitol hill that there were no substantive conversations or negotiations yesterday at all. no formal e-mails, to conversations, nothing. house speaker boehner's countdown led to the lighting of the capitol hill christmas tree last night. >> three, two, one. >> reporter: but washington is counting down this month to the dark unknown of the fiscal cliff. >> thanks for having me

cbs 5 reporter anne makovec shows us the close call. >> i was asleep. i woke up. and there was a tree in my house. >> reporter: it was much worse than the alarm clock at 7:30 this morning. the 100-foot cypress tree snapped and fell on the home in russian hill crashing through the roof of the master bedroom. >> 4 feet plus my bed and i wouldn't be standing here talking to you right now. so i'm blessed. >> reporter: neighbor lisa got a rude awakening too. >> i just heard the most massive crash that you could ever imagine. >> reporter: and then, she looked out of her window. >> then i saw a wall like water i guess that came off the tree after it hit the house. >> reporter: the tree also ripped down a power line. >> it's dangerous. >> reporter: a neighbor is part of a neighborhood group that's been campaigning for six months to get all utility lines in the area moved underground. >> this demonstrates -- this is extremely unfortunate event for many individuals on the hill. >> reporter: for no one more so than scott, who feels fortunate today. just two days ago he moved

don ford, cbs 5. >>> other bay area headlines. richmond's homicide rate is down and the city is no longer on the most dangerous list. this year 18 people were killed. that is a drop from 45 just three years ago. it is the lowest number the stelazine since 2001. >>> in san francisco, the business improvement district is trying to deal with pushy panhandlers. they are interviewing people glove to the panhandlers. the idea is coming up with concrete ideas to finally stop what has been a problem for years. >>> thousands of bay area nurses walked off the job. this 24 hour strike is the latest in the series of strikes by the california nurses association. as usual, the hospital brought in replacement nurses. union leaders and manages still ateds over benefits and staffing. >>> right now, odds are you finished with your shopping if you are watching our newscast, right? cbs 5 reporter mike sugerman has the annual story of last minute annual shoppers. how busy are those stores? >> reporter: these are the people who in high school waited un

roberta gonzales for cbs 5.umors of departure from louisiana tech. " " turns out the dope smokers knew >>> before he got the cal johnson job, sonny dykes was shooting down the rumor. >> some 19-year-old kid smoking pot in his dorm room likely. a lot of those guys live on the west coast. it is legal out there you know. >> it turns out that dope smokers knew what they were talking about. dykes and his wife left monroe, louisiana, in a private jet bound for berkeley. he was introduced as the new head football coach of the cal bears today and it sounds like he wants everyone on his staff except jeff. >> i think putting the staff together is about young people, old people, optimistic people, mess mystic people. i think you want a lot of those bases covered. so old grouchy guys and young optimistic guys have an ability to work very well together. >> he is really excited. this is a job that he has wanted and really sees the future that it can be and so as the days went on, we get a little nervous and antsy but we're ju

captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, december 14, 2012. maybe congress should give that a try. good morning, everybody. i'm terrell morning. president obama and speaker john boehner have met trying to hammer out a deal on the fiscal cliff. the discussion was described as frank. the president is apparently holding firm on taxing the wealthy and there are signs of dissension among the republican ranks. susan mcginnis starts us off this morning. susan, good morning to you. >> hi. good morning, terrell. the two men met for less than an hour, and that's not an encouraging sign. neither of them spoke during the meeting but what we heard before and after is neither side is budging on their core decisions, this as time to make a deal grows shorter. house speaker john boehner made the short trip up pennsylvania avenue to the white house thursday to talk to president obama about the fiscal cliff. the tax hikes and spending cuts set to kick in january 1st. they met for nearly an hour. both sides describe the discussion as frank. >> i think speaker bo

our cbs 5 exclusive high-def doppler radar. can see right now the heavy- to-moderate rainfall over parts of the bay area. so it continues throughout the day. you'll need and umbrella throughout the afternoon. we had heavier cells looks like moving right now over the south bay. so clicking past this we'll go to our highs later on this afternoon in the low to mid-50s for the most part across the bay area. and then tomorrow, we get a brief dry break with more rain showers turning friday into saturday morning and then we dry out sunday through new year's day. >>> let's hit the roads and talk traffic. we are getting word of a couple of different accidents in the south bay including one northbound 680 approaching the mckee road exit. but first i want to mention these caltrain delays. bad delays southbound, with some sort of signal issue, caltrain is back to a regular schedule this morning by the way. in fact, all mass transit bart, as, muni and ferries, no longer on those holiday schedules. elsewhere, the roadways so far for the most

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good eveningey've never said it quite like this: the president's treasury secretary made it clear there is no room for compromise. republicans must accept an increase in tax rates for upper- income americans. negotiations on a budget deal haven't gone very far and there are just 27 days before that so- called fiscal cliff. that's the package of tax increases for most americans and budget cuts that will hit automatically unless the white house and congress find a gentler way to solve the crisis in the federal budget. here's how treasury secretary tim geithner put it on cnbc. >> is the administration prepared to go over the fiscal cliff? >> absolutely. again there is no prospect to an agreement that doesn't involve those rates going up on the top 2% of the wealthiest americans. remember, it's only 2%. >> pelley: by top 2%, he means individuals making more than $200,000 and couples taking in $250,000 or more. republicans say rates shouldn't be increased on anyone. with no agreement, going over the fi

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our cbs cbs 5 hi-def doppler radar is picking up on the rain in the north bay.ot the main cold front. just sot scout showers out ahead of the main cold front. if you're headed anywhere around the bay area be prepared you got a stormy middle of the day and toward the afternoon. that rain will be on the increase even the possibility of lightning and it looks like some rain and wind continuing throughout the afternoon hours and some unsettled weather ahead. even tomorrow more showers but the storm going to pack a punch that's moving into the bay area right now. we're going to watch the winds picking up through the middle of the day and then by the afternoon it looks like thumped pretty good. around the state more thunderstorms into the central valley the sierra nevada watch out there. winter storm warnings on the west slopes. across the high country another couple of feet of snow. by the middle of the day it moves on through and by 5:00 or coontie the south bay heavy -- so around the south bay some heavier amounts of rainfallment right into wednesday as well i thin