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and a giants player will be there and steve and josh johnson from the 49ers are taking part and cheryl has for a long time and got me into it. what a great organization. you can see jennifer montana and joe montana out there to support the foundation which has been around for 20 years helping at risk children. joe man man plays sports, right? >> the reason so many of the athletes support the organization is because they turn around to support them, their charity arms like the junior giants and the 49ers foundation. a lot goes into giving kids positive activities. we will be this. join us, we have tickets with a link on the web site. >> no need to worry about rain. >> not tonight. the big show is thursday and what we are focusing on. good morning, healdsburg you have a light shower rolling law and headed right up there on 101 and toward 121 and you can see as we put this in motion the last hour, most of us are dealing with a lot of cloud cover and the radar returns well to the north which is where they will stay the better part of the day with stray showers and the rest of us are watching t

has been an incredibly successful studio. stuart: didn't something come out about medical records? cheryld to e-mails. with regards to employee medical records, children's medical record, one child with special needs has a parent who is the employee of sony these are published by hackers. this is sensitive information. stuart: the bottom line to me is nobody's e-mail, certainly anybody in the public eye, there e-mail sino longer safe, if you could get into sony. cheryl: how safe is any corporation. what about sensitive information with regard to our military. i wonder why the president's e-mail have not been expos? something that he does. stuart: the whole feeling about e-mails is changed, the best way to be private is to send a letter. and shred it when you are finished. cheryl: even cellphone calls can be tracked. that thank you drone technology for the military. stuart: a bad situation. cheryl: in sony's defense in her defense the company has done well under her leadership. stuart: the company. extremely embarrassing. it is awful. now this. drunks dressed as santa overrunning cities ac

cheryl hurd has more. [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: this man says this time his richmond neighborhood was safe. the train car that derailed on friday, right across the street from his apartment was carrying pork. neighbors swarmed, causing disruption. some of them even became violent. >> we are becoming the victims of the railroad drak. a -- track. in the neighborhood, victim of everything. >> pork isn't the only thing traveling down the tracks. every day. trains carrying materials travel through the county. the exact number not made public. the company overseas trains. dnsf. two gramz carrying crude oil comes through california once a month. >> highly flammable. the chief environmental health and hazards material, says, crews can only offload near the neighborhood in richmond and bakersfield. >> it is a concern. one thing for crude. it is going to be increased amount of crude. going to increase amount of food. increase by 25 fold. >> that's because the demand is high. >> there had been derailments. there hatch been cars. things are happening. >> the skuccompany spent $5 bil improve i

cheryl hurd has the the story. >> most of us play as freshman. on varsity from -- 2011 until now. and line -- this is our year. >> lavance warn, is the running back. and kelton reynold is the star defensive tackle. their 12-0 is 8-4. >> cif approved eligibility of one of their teammates who played in four games. then they revoked their decision. and are now retroactively taking back the wins from the team. >> the cif better known as the california interscholastic federation, got involved at the beginning of the year. when a junior quarterback from wealthy san marone transferred to a high school known for athletics and not wealth. according to court documents, a state commissioner got an anonymous tip saying even though the transfer. >> west oakland. and made the determination that, the primary residence was not the west oakland prompt. >> so the commissioner ruled him ineligible. which meant the four games he played in had to be forfeited. >> another major consideration is california interscholastic rule, you can not make a transfer primarily for athletic reasons. >> a major blow

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cheryl: jo ling kent has been on the story. is there any hope of locating this plane? >> cheryl, david, malaysian officials say the plane is probably quote, a the bottom of the ryan seacrest. second day of search efforts has not signaled any debris or where the airplane may have crashed. one of the pilots asked to fly higher to deviate from the original path because of bad weather. he weighs not given permission to because of planes in that space. minutes later the plane lost contact. the search for malaysian air -- asian airlines will continue search. this was ranked number one on budget airlines lax six years in a row. it has impeccable plane rating and transports millions of passengers a year. stocks ending mostly in the green. we're watching discount airliners and southwest in particular. the u.s. government is expected to get involved very soon. indonesian government asked for help and the navy is standing by as soon as the search is expanded into new irareas later this week. guys? >> jo ling kent, thanks very much. >>> are you saving for retirement? a new study sa

i'm cheryl jennings. >> i'm dan ashley. the council meeting hasrotesters threatened to shut it down. it's not clear if they will take to the streets. >> laura anthony finished talking with the mayor and police chief and joins us from city hall. laura? >> reporter: well, i can tell you officially the mayor and police chief in berkeley said they canceled tonight's city council meeting because it's usually held in a room that holds about 125 people. on social media, demonstrators say they planned to come to the meeting, try to shut it down, so the mayor said they were actually canceling or postponing the meeting to find a room that had larger capacity. they also admitted that they had some concerns they might be overwhelmed again by demonstrators. monday night's demonstration in berkeley was perhaps the biggest yet this week. but also arguably the most peaceful. at least compared with the vandalism of the two nights before. yet there was still a fair amount of disruption monday, especially for those driving on interstate 80. an action that resulted i

don't forget reporter cheryl atkinson has a fascinating book about her experiences and attempts at stylingeam media, the length that full white house has been willing to go to keep her silenced. herbal is called stonewall, my fight for the truth against the forces of obstruction, intimidation and harassment in obama's washington. thanks for being with us. congratulations. incredible. you want to believe there is an enemy's list tells by this administration. >> i wouldn't call it but i wouldn't quibble with you if that is what you want to call it the number of journalists and readers inside the government is speak to journalists have been singled out and identified by the administration for various things including in my case constantly calling at cbs news, working swift bloggers and social media to discredit, trying to stop stories and spin them and so on. lou: it is cleared the administration went to extraordinary lengths to stop leaks surveil reporters and doing so if you will under false colors going to judges in the instance of the justice department enacted, and serve a link journalis

cheryl hurd has more. >> next time that the raiders are going to be playing the niners, we will not be open. i don't want to jeopardize any of our staff's safety. it's not worth it. >> reporter: he's owned the old wagon saloon in downtown san jose for five years. he knew the battle of the bay would bring in big crowds, but was surprised it turned so violent. >> some people might think it's not safe to come downtown and that's a scary thought and i hope that the san jose -- city of san jose, the mayor, they would hire more police officers. >> reporter: more police officers to keep downtown safe. at around 5:00 on sunday, police say several men got into an argument and got kicked out of the pub. a man who works as security was inside the pub enjoying his day off. the brit's general manager explains what happened after the men were told to leave. >> everything shows that he was not involved in breaking up any fight inside the location, so what we see is just that him going out in the street and being in the wrong place at the wrong time and taking the bullet. >> reporter: the offduty secu

cheryl hurd has that story. >> most of us play as freshmen on varsity from 2011 till now. like, this is our year to bank. >> reporter: he's a star running back for the high school. kelton is the star defensive tackle. their 12-0 season is now 8-4. >> the cif approved the eligibility of one of their teammates who played in four games and then they revoked their decision. and are now retroactively taking back those wins from the team. >> the cif, better known as the california interscholastic federation got involved at the beginning of the year when a junior quarterback from wealthy san ramon valley transferred to a school known for athletics and not its wealth. according to court documents, a state commissioner got an anonymous tip saying that even though the transfer was appro d approved, the student did not live in the district. >> so investigators staked out both properties, the one in danville as well as the one in west oakland, and made the determination that the primary residence was not the west oakland property. >> so the commissioner ruled him ineligible, which mea

fox business's cheryl casone has markets you should be buying.as great insight into this because she has done it herself. >> i didn't quite do it myself. i found data and i will relay it to you. this comes from realtytrac. third quarter, rental property income report. so what they do, do it every quarter. kind of cool. take average amount of prices out there,1% of the population, that they cover, basically with all these, more than 500 counties. they compare that to the prices. what they found over the last year, is that prices actually, for like a three bedroom home, they compare, prices actually went up 7% year-over-year. what does this mean? it is bad if you're wanting to buy a house to be a landlord or to rent. now there is some good news in all of this. i want to press everybody. there are good markets where you can make double-digit returns. first take a look at this. rocky mountain, north carolina. gerri: yeah, north carolina. >> i was in north carolina over the weekend. beautiful state. guess what? buy property in the state. parts of it.

cheryl hurd has more. >> my concern is how hazardous is the materials and how many millions of gallons are flowing through the neighborhoods? >> reporter: he says this time his richmond neighborhood was saved. the rain car that derailed on friday right across the street from his apartment was just carrying pork. looters swarmed the neighborhood, causing a major disruption. some of them even became violent. >> other crimes, we're also a victim of that, now the victim of these railroad tracks, so we're becoming in these poor neighborhoods, a victim of everything. >> reporter: but pork isn't the only thing traveling down these tracks. almost every day trains carrying hazardous materials travel through contra costa county. the exact number is not made public. the company that oversees trains carrying all types of commodities is called b.n.s.f. they say that two trains carrying crude oil comes through california once a month. crude oil is highly flammable. contra costa chief environmental health and hazardous materials says crews can only offload in richmond and bakersfield. >> it is a conc

and it has not been the growth of the oil industry. cheryl: you made the comment when we began, many of your -- if you are an energy company and hold stock in an energy company, you are feeling the sting right now. >> most mortals own the energy stocks and at this point lot more than they would like to own because they have terrific investments as far back as you can see. i am not giving up on them. i don't know what is going on with oil, it is completely useless exercise but at the same time the value will be there. stocks, not the energy, but underlying commodity, stocks tell you when they are ready and i suspect we are closer to that point. cheryl: let me ask you something. since you checked out for 2014, thank you for coming in today, what is your worry for 2015? >> it is still oil. it will be currency, russia, and desperate what is going on. and whatever the european central bank decides to do, to play on that. that will to me be the early things i worry on and you have everything else you know nothing about on the scene. greece is in tr

here is cheryl casone has new pictures of the interior. show the interior. : we have never seen the interior or renderings until now when the website finally went live. this is the penthouse. it is at 520 park, 12,000 square feet. will go on sale after the first of the year. it will be completed in 2017. this is a 54 story tower. this is becoming what we are calling billionaires' row. 61st street, at the upper east side of manhattan. this will be up brand-new sales record in manhattan if it sells at this price. stuart: the rest of the world where the billionaires are coming from is not in very good shape. look at russia and china slowing down. do you think that price level will hold? these billionaires' might not have all the billions. cheryl: a lot of these billionaires' put their money into other assets and have hidden their assets around the world. don't care if you from saudi, or russian or even some in western europe, many of these large-scale investors, multi-billion harris, one of the top as the classes in 2014 so i do believe this and also why will sa

cheryl casone has the answer for us right after the break. ah, got it.pots we get with our xfinity internet service are all over the place. hey you can stop looking. i found one. see? what do you think a wifi hotspot smells like? i'm thinking roast beef. want to get lunch? get the fastest wifi hotspots and more coverage on the go than any other provider. xfinity, the future of awesome. in news on obamacare, enrollees, rich edson has details. peter: rich: the reason is automatically enrollment numbers are not available for most in the state there reporting out this information which much of the information the administration is putting out we heard from last week when they said 6.5 million had signed up or be enrolled in obamacare, that is the number we're getting all. lease a 600,000 consumers did select plans in still exchanges. there are two systems of exchanges. 37 states don't have their own exchanges, they had to go through healthcare.gov, 14 states and the district of columbia that have the run exchanges run and the administration says the informat

cheryl: so post-christmas holiday shopping has retailers and shoppers smiling. consumers shopped till they dropped with the money they saved on gas filling the strong holiday season retail sales picture. how well did retailers do this season? and with oil prices rising again, what are shoppers going to do in 2015? jeff flock is joining us from chicago's magnificent mile and magnificent day in chi town. >> they haven't dropped yet, cheryl. the shoppers are coming down the magnificent mile. that's michigan avenue. a nordstrom bag, nordstrom clearance, everyone has got a bag in their hands. you're right, partly driven by the declining oil and gas prices. take a look at numbers, recalculated the numbers based on the average price of a gallon of gas $2.27 over a dollar in savings compared to last year, and the average household consumes about 1200 gallons of gasoline, that means about $1200 savings. take a look at one retailer, the big winner, nordstrom, up 29%. on the bottom end of the scale, family dollar up 22%. target up over 20%. on the other side, not hard to p

cheryl: they're still doing that? i wasn't sure. >> the ball itself is 130 feet. we drop it halfway but leave it, there because the crystal is so strong, it obviously has to withstand the freezing temperatures, it can take all of that, it's fantastic. cheryl: waterford is known for being fairly expensive, high end. >> it is. cheryl: can you ballpark the cost of the new year's eve ball? >> that's a question we never ask of ourselves, never. cheryl: well, we ask you! >> that's okay. we expect that, that's perfectly okay, priceless, it's about communicating the sentiment. nothing to do with cost. we understand the question but we don't ask it of ourselves. cheryl: you're not going to tell me who paid for it. >> absolutely not. cheryl: let's talk about the other things you brought today. this is an actual replica. >> this is a replica can you have in your home. dpoe gorgeous, you have the gorgeous champagne flutes. i'm not going to sell these on the air, but on new year's eve, what better way to celebrate the beginning of a new year, push this year aside, start fresh, have champagne on the waterford crystal flutes. cheryl: they are gorgeous, the red on top, that is ver

cheryl: it has all the documentation for the show. only 16,000 miles on the odometer.condition. >> they have to get you down in their driving it. >> 1.75 million. charles: new polls, they prove very wrong. 77% plan to give gifts this year. >> mary older people. they are more likely to give you a present or a card. millennial's frank very poorly in this survey. they do not give christmas presents and they don't give cards. charles: lauren, you will not just sit there and speak out of this thing. >> i think the lead deals would rather donate to a cause. i have already re- gifted this year. >> what was it? >> a wine glass bottle. [laughter] charles: they would rather go to the soup kitchen. >> why not give a card? >> i am not sure why they don't give christmas presents. >> the survey went deeper. they said they are just not into it. >> millennial's spend more money. they are more dedicated to save money for their vacation than their home. >> people do not realize that there is some kind of new paradigm. everything else is moving in the right direction. >> i really am not

cheryl casone has the details on this next. >> the hollywood sign is gone. ♪ you don't need to thinky that makes our lives possible. because we do. we're exxonmobil and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg... isn't as simple as just boiling an egg. life takes energy. energy lives here. nicole: i have your fox business brief. the dow jones industrial average up 52 points. the s&p 500 up a. some names on the dow jones industrial average hitting highs. procter & gamble, cisco systems. kaser, the maker of phaser guns and wearable cameras. barack obama pledging. providing training after all this has happened in ferguson. royal caribbean. it will be joining the s&p 500 after the close of trading on thursday. ♪ >> take a look at apple shares right now. they were down. they are holding their own now. joining us from san francisco, one of the biggest apple tools we know. >> just a crazy day yesterday. stock that more than half of it lost. it is off today. i would be fine on a ship. it is trading at only 13 and a half of next year's trading. 22% discount from the s

lyanne melendez has the latest. >> reporter: cheryl, this is what sfpd told us. 79 people were detained on friday night. those were mainly citations. only four people were booked. clearly the headline tonight, cheryl, is the fact that 70% of those detained were not in san francisco. 15% not from california. >>> this youtube video gone viral left several offices being struck by during the protest. two officers were hurt. in all five san francisco police officers were injured. >> what went on friday night is not first amendment activity. it's criminal conduct by a fringe element that seems to embed themselves in lawful first amendment activity and then acts out past that, and we will not have that here in san francisco. >>> what was supposed to be a peaceful march eventually turned into a chaotic scene. >> some protesters broke windows and yelled at police while others threw bottles at officers. police showed us some of the items confiscated that night including stolen devices from a radio shack store. 79 people were detained. most were only cited. four were booked for assaulting an offic

that has worked out well for us this year. cheryl: all right, well, john, it is interesting to watch what is happening in the markets but, chris, at the same time we don't have it, when you look at it, especially 18,000 mark, we're having bearish predictions for 2015. what are you watching? >> we think growth will continue into the new year. we think small caps are setting up very well after a disappointing year where they underperformed the s&p 500. so again we're looking for really good top-line growth, march pin improvement in companies. those stories that will work throughout 2015. you know we spend a lot of time in the technology area. we think there are some really good tailwinds there. we think stronger dollar will help a certain group of investors out there. so we're looking for those plays right now. david: we had to wrestle trent wagner out one of the pits in the cme of trent, talk about gold if you don't mind. why the big bump in gold? was it short-covering or what? >> i would attribute it more than anything else to short-

cheryl? >> leyla, thank you so much. >> traffic has been an issue all over the the bay area. setting up flares, putting up stop signs. law enforcement busy trying to keep drivers safe. >> this may look like fun, but there is a warning. >> and for those on the bay, we have a lot more coming up for you today. >> you can track the storms where you live. where you live. >> abc 7 we're for an opens you internet for all.sing. we're for creating more innovation and competition. we're for net neutrality protection. now, here's some news you may find even more surprising. we're comcast. the only isp legally bound by full net neutrality rules. >>> strong waves caused havoc for several boaters off the san mateo coast. at least two sailboats snapped and were ran aground by the schop pi groupds in half-moon choppy grounds in half-moon bay. another boat was pushed all the way to shore and was stuck near pillar point harbor. >>> well, the he's bay also had a lot of problems from today's big storm. laura anthony is live from the the oakland hills with that part of our storm watch coverage. l

cheryl: you also have kathleen sebelius coming out and saying that she didn't know him. he hasthe center of the firestorm saying that they understand health care and now they are denying that they knew them. >> welcome i think that if she didn't know him we have a problem because we just paid $400,000 to be an architect of this program so that it would be replicated with the romney care plan that was a state program on a national level. which very few people and maybe only the president makes that much money. but in government, people should know that no one makes that on capitol hill and people don't make it in the treasury, even if you are a close adviser, you're not making that kind of money. so there's a big amount. so if he and kathleen sebelius working together, maybe that was a problem. but looking at the democrats coming out and being critical now, it's been four years and they've had two terrible elections in which they've had to defend obamacare in 2010 and 2014 and there was tiresome wants even though they kept it private. i've been hearing it for a while and now the

>>reporter: cheryl jennings abc 7 news. >> the physician book has unveiled powerful new fetch that willawill you to you find old posts. today when you search for something on facebook you get current paijts but now the search will scour every pouvingt ever viewed. search results are personalize for each you're so you can't search for all post on facebook only the with thawbs have been shared with you. interesting change. >> certainly is. it's time for our interesting change. big storm headed our way. >> well said. calm before the storm. sandhya is tracking the whole think for us. >> yes, i am. we look at significant storm as you look at live doppler 7hd pretty quiet. the only thing concerned about the fog. less than a quarter mile visibility right now in fairfield. just over two in petaluma. 3 quarters of a mile with heavy fog if santa rosa so there is a dense fog advisory for the straits and delta. this is running until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. typically the fog we see in the central valley spilling over into our area. it's going to increase your drive time for the commute tomorrow

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>>reporter: cheryl jennings abc 7 news. >> the physician book has unveiled powerful new fetch that will awill you to you find old posts. today when you search for something on facebook you get current paijts but now the search will scour every pouvingt ever viewed. search results are personalize for each you're so you can't search for all post on facebook only the with thawbs have been shared with you. interesting change. >> certainly is. it's time for our interesting change. big storm headed our way. >> well said. calm before the storm. sandhya is tracking the whole think for us. >> yes, i am. we look at significant storm as you look at live doppler 7hd pretty quiet. the only thing concerned about the fog. less than a quarter mile visibility right now in fairfield. just over two in petaluma. 3 quarters of a mile with heavy fog if santa rosa so there is a dense fog advisory for the straits and delta. this is running until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. typically the fog we see in the central valley spilling over into our area. it's going to increase your drive time for the commute tomorro

cheryl casone has the dos and don't when is it comes to buying things for people you work with.y billy paul was -- everybody was singing it. i remember. peter johnson was singing it. ♪ ♪ i have a cold with terrible chest congestion. i better take something. theraflu severe cold doesn't treat chest congestion. really? new alka-seltzer plus day powder rushes relief to your worst cold symptoms plus chest congestion. [breath of relief] oh, what a relief it is. >>> 'tis the season of giving and you're giving gifts to your co-workers. there are some things you should do and some things you should definitely avoid. for example, here to talk about that, things to save yourself from mistakes that we make, cheryl casone, from our sister network, the "fox business" network. save us. >> 52% of american workers plan to give something to their co-workers. there is a right way and there is a wrong way. and the first one is, do you play favorites at the office? >> hey, merry christmas. thank you so much. great year, great job this year. at a problem? >> kind of was. obviously i was the boss in

cheryl jennings. >> i'm dan ashley. sky 7 hd has been following this story. we will show you pictures as we can get them, where it's happening in telegraph and bancroft. that's where protests have heated up over the last couple nights. there's a lot of concern about what might happen tonight. >> abc 7 news reporter laura anthony joins us from berkeley with more. >> reporter: there is another demonstration planned for tonight. you can see folks gathering here at telegraph and bancroft and while mayor tom bates told us this afternoon he is proud of his city's rich history of demonstrations and peaceful protests, what he's seen the past two nights is quote, unacceptable. it was a destructive weekend in berkeley. two nights of demonstrations that left more than a dozen businesses with damage, mostly broken windows. >> it was really disturbing. >> reporter: mayor tom bates has seen enough. >> it turned violent. it turned violent in a way we haven't seen here for a long long time. over the weekend, over 16 various stores were trashed, not just major businesses but

>>reporter: cheryl jennings abc 7 news. >> the physician book has unveiled powerful new fetch that willwill you to you find old posts. today when you search for something on facebook you get current paijts but now the search will scour every pouvingt ever viewed. search results are personalize for each you're so you can't search for all post on facebook only the with thawbs have been shared with you. interesting change. >> certainly is. it's time for our interesting change. big storm headed our way. >> well said. calm before the storm. sandhya is tracking the whole think for us. >> yes, i am. we look at significant storm as you look at live doppler 7hd pretty quiet. the only thing concerned about the fog. less than a quarter mile visibility right now in fairfield. just over two in petaluma. 3 quarters of a mile with heavy fog if santa rosa so there is a dense fog advisory for the straits and delta. this is running until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. typically the fog we see in the central valley spilling over into our area. it's going to increase your drive time for the commute tomorrow

cheryl. that is overstatement. i'm wondering at some point who has the guts to stand up?hy he rules with an iron fist. >> he rules with iron fist are several middle eastern leaders are no longer alive or in jail. that is what could happen. this is age of social media. people with computers and handheld, they see what freedom of expression means. if putin is ruling with iron fist hand in russia, they will get sick of that especially if oil goes to 60 bucks and i think it will. if they're hungry, you forget it, there will be a revolution. i think putin could be in trouble, liz. liz: hillary, is there a play here with stocks? >> the play really is make sure you hedge yourself if the price of oil continues to drop. i like dug, it goes up this etf when the price of oil drops. doubles its strength when price of oil drops. you want to watch out the price of oil could then to infall. liz: d, u, g. we got it. maybe russia's money problems are solved in next year, prominent investor boon pickens has prediction that oil will rebound to $100 per barrel in the next year. i don't know,

abc 7 news reporter lyanne melendez has the story from the newsroom. >> hi, cheryl. 190 cities in the u.s. had rallies to demand higher wages. the campaign called the fight for $15 is backed by the service employees union. not everyone agrees with them because they say the economy is still very fragile. >> workers in oakland demanded higher minimum wages this afternoon and a chance to unionize. at this rally, they asked for $15 an hour. >> it's only $15. i used to make $13. it wasn't enough. $15 is not too much. >> san francisco voters already approved a hike. the current minimum wage is $10.74 an hour. the city will see incremental increases through july 2018 when it reaches $15 an hour. san jose and richmond also voted to increase wages. but at the state level, workers have to wait until 2016 to see it hit $10 an hour. state senator mark leno recently introduced another bill with the hopes of increasing the state's minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2017. >> when consumers, especially low-wage workers have extra money in their pocket because they're no longer paid a poverty wage, they s

i'm cheryl jennings. >> i'm dan ashley. sky 7 hd has been following this story. as we can get them, where it's happening in telegraph and bancroft. that's where protests have heated up over the last couple nights. there's a lot of concern about what might happen tonight. >> abc 7 news reporter laura anthony joins us from berkeley with more. >> reporter: there is another demonstration planned for tonight. you can see folks gathering here at telegraph and bancroft and while mayor tom bates told us

cheryl jennings. >>> i'm larry beil. dan ashley has the night off. so many problems on the roadways today in the bay area. in marin county, this driver took a chance and decided to try to drive through dangerously deep water and this guy made it. managed to make it through. another decided it was not worth the risk. you can see his car turning around. >> a look now from the driver's perspective. this is video shot in mill valley this morning on the approach to highway 101. driving right through all that water. >> earlier today, cars were stranded in flood waters on cesar chavez street in san francisco. a taxicab driver says the water rose so quickly, it was like a flash flood hit. >> we have team coverage on the storm and the problem it's causing all around the bay area. >> first we begin with abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel with a look at live doppler 7 hd right now. >> live doppler 7 hd will show you still some scattered showers around the bay area. i want to close in on the spots where we are seeing wet roadways for the evening rush. right

kelly wright has more for us with the investigation there. >> cheryl, good morning. several transportation experts focusing on the weather as being the possible cause of airasia's disappearance. shortly after departing the pilot alerted air traffic control he wanted to climb higher in altitude due to encountering intense storms. published reports indicate air traffic control gave the pilot permission to climb but reversed its decision denying the request minutes later the plane disappeared from radar. >> i think he got into a thunderstorm that few planes have gotten into and out of. i could be wrong on that but there were vie p lent thunderstorms in that area. >> he ran into severe turbulence that happens all of the time. literally all of the time. so he requested a higher altitude or a different course to get around or get over it. that is absolutely normal in these kinds of situations. what's not normal is not to hear from him again. >> there have been several weather related crashes within the past decade including a trance asia airways l 72 that crashed earlier t

has details. >>> and a look at the future of cars. we talk with cheryler trends. that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . >>> today is friday, december 12th, good morning, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm erika von tiehl. philadelphia police are investigating string of assault on college student, we're live as detective question a person of interest. >> also, new this morning, a car rolls over and over, bursting into flames, before coming to rest against a building. what eyewitnesses say happened just before that deadly crash. >>> and a live look at center city from our cbs-3 studios. we dealt with a stubborn nor'easter for days. but now we're finally clear. katie says there are some milder temperatures to follow. that and more coming up in just a bit. topping our news, developing right now, philadelphia police have a person of interest in the

with a few days to go the christmas countdown has begun but have you finished shopping or have you started? personal finance correspondent cherylson is here to give us last minute best bets to make it in time to slip the presents under the tree. it is your money, your future. is it too late to rush ship everything? >> then i would be depressed because i'm in that boat. i'm a last-minute shopper. i'm glad to say there are opportunities to get as many gifts as you want under the tree in time for christmas. you may pay a little extra and a lot of places if you are going on-line and trying to get -- >> a lot extra. >> a lot extra. what you want to do is try to find services that will get you gifts, free shipping in two days like amazon prime. yes it will cost you the $99 membership fee but you may get a free trial and take advantage of the two-day shipping. once you open the gifts you cancel the prime if don't want to pay $99. >> it is the best money i spend all year. >> there is a cheaper way to do it. there is shop runner that is giving amazon prime a run for its money. offering a similar service and retailers, as well. you have

the city has decided to relax the rules to make it easier to remove the ficus trees. >> reporter: cheryl, the cicus trees are becoming a danger all over the city. several fell here last year. now the head of the department of public works is trying to make it easier for homeowners to get rid of them. it's being taken down today and perhaps not a moment too soon. a large portion of this ficus tree fell on a cab yesterday, fortunately no one was hurt. last month a man was injured when a ficus toppled, hitting him in the branches. incidents like these over the years have convinced the city to change what's been a conservative approach for removal. >> if the tree is hell think and sustainable, we would typically not grant the removal permit. in this case i think what we recognized is while these trees may be very healthy, they are structurally compromised. >> the city has given property owners responsibility for at least 1200 ficus trees in front of their home. most were planted decades ago and are top-heavy and weak. as the trees increasingly begin to topple, the rules have been relaxed for

has gotten of the now he is benefiting from lower oil prices. so his poll numbers are going up. so he wins. david: all right. cheryly becoming a nemesis in the united states, vladmir putin, head of russia. he annexed crimea but paid a big price in 2014. cheryl: i think at the was a winner in 2014 but don't think he will be a winner in 2015. for now say staying above the fold and staying in control of the country. he was over there for the global summit. a protesters and lot of anger with vladmir putin. he is friend with our enemies and manages to survive in the country despite the bad economy, phil flynn, look what happened to oil prices and look how that has affected russia and vladmir putin's perspective in russia. >> right. i think vladmir putin wanted to bring back the glory days of the soviet union by taking over some of the old soviet bloc countries. who knew he would bring back preyed lines and unemployment with it? -- bread lines. i think that's where we're at. vladmir putin seems like he was a big winner for a while will be a big loser. there were protests in the streets of moscow the other day. the econom

nbc bay area's cheryl hurd is in san jose with how one family says the closure of the bar has actually changed their lives forever. >> reporter: that's right, raj. it was actually a group effort between san jose police, city officials, and neighbors. neighbors say that one bar brought in a big criminal element. and tonight that bar is closed. >> and in those four days our life has completely changed. >> reporter: it changed from this -- [ sirens ]. to this. a quiet peaceful san jose neighborhood. >> before, when the bar was still open, it was hell to live through. there was constant fights, shootings, stabbings, prostitution, drug use right in front of our home. >> reporter: that chaos is what prompted rico mendez and more than 20 of his neighbors to petition the city to shut the el tarasco bar down. the battle to close it started in may, but in october a security guard was shot four times in front of the bar. he was wearing a protective vest and survived. but the bar's neighbors felt they would not survive the criminal element the business brought to the neighborhood. >> we don't have

cheryl. >> wind is a big factor in all this. that means conseven fcern for ey area bridges. a warning has beener ud. san rafael bridge, wind gusts could be above 60 miles an hour. could be restrictors on rvs, tractor trailers and big trucks. golden gate being closely watched tonight. it is expected to be open tomorrow. the bridge hasn't closed due to weather since 1983. ferry service is also expecting to run without restrictions tomorrow. be ready for a slow and choppy ride. from large waves to rising creeks. sandbags are in full effect on the peninsula. 101, university, a hot spot for flooding. jean elle is there tonight. jean? >> the storm yet to arrive. some wind. no rain yet. woodland avenue in east palo alto flooded. city leaders hoping to prevent it again. take a look. there are lots of sandbags out here in places. on the peninsula. judy brought young friend to the pacifica pier to check out the weather tonight. we decided to come down and see how it was. >> really fascinating. amazing. but it is very, very dangerous. >> with big waves rolling in and the wind whipping. pacifica police closed t

has their power back on. officials are confident all power will be restored before the weekend is over. cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. stout bay safeway store won't be opening any time of in the near future. not one you, see below, two holes in the roof. caused by the storm. this is the safeway on east capital expressway, silver creek high school. it is too dangerous to enter. the roof might cave in more. today inspectors had to look from the outside. >> they can put away canoes in the north bay. downtown heelsberg is driving out. the sooner the better. business want to bounce back. here is jean elle. >> reporter: this part of the avenue was under water thursday. a lot of the water made it inside of area businesses. tonight the sandbags remain. but the water has receded. retailer want-up to know they will be open tomorrow. >> traveled through the walls. >> reporter: after the water flowed through her shop thursday. all this water, soaked several retailers on the avenue. >> there were maybe, four, five inches of standing water in the gallery. on our carpeted gallery. >> the hand

even though the rain has subsided just a little bit, expect to see more flooding for tomorrow morning's commute. cheryl, larry? >> morning and night. thanks very much. >>> well, the weather and headaches it's bringing are changing as we speak. get the updates as they happen and other breaking news with our abc 7 news app. we have more information at abc7news.com/apps. >>> coming up, we go live to southern california. mud slides causing mayhem there. live report just ahead. >>> a big decision on the future of financially troubled hospital in the east bay. that's next. >>> plus, why a soap opera producer and bay area businessman are now facing the wrath of senator john mccain. >>> we are keeping a close watch on live doppler 7 hd for the rain still falling here. stay with us. a hot chocolate? ho ho ho... we'll all have hot cocoa! ma'am, need a strong pot of joe. the all new keurig 2.0. >>> well, what started out as a trickle quickly turned into a deluge. the rains in southern california are as welcome there as they are here, but not the mud flows. evacuations are under way in the ventura county city of c