i mean, the dmv lot, the big huge parking lot, wouldn't that be great? but i also think we need a large transportation bond from the state because, as you said, on the west side, and the southeast part of the city, we need better transportation. and i absolutely think we should be pushing for a large transportation bond in the state, also. and i agree with you, thank you. >> thank you. >> i just wanted to add a brief response to the concerns you raised about the amendment. number 4, which just to restate it, it says that sb50, we should ensure that sb50 projects are required to make affordable housing contributions substantially higher than existing local affordable housing standards potentially applicable for the site. so really, this is just acknowledging the fact that the blanket of zoning, that through sb50 is going to concur significant increase in value for those properties and for developers that acquire those properties. so this amendment is just ensuring that the public and our city is able to capture some of that increased value that we're basi

people with appointments a lot better but still still telling us they spent hours outside or inside. the lines outside oakland's dmv office can still wrap around the building on a busy day. drivers say they are leaved but reserving judgment after hearing dmv has cut wait times this half. >> that's what i heard. i'll let you know when i'm done. >> reporter: she went to front of the line to get her new real id because she had an appointment. the dmv set a goal of 15 minutes or less were drivers appointment and 45 minutes for those without after statewide wait times ballooned over the past year. bay area waits are still long at many offices and we found drivers in oakland who had appointments still spending two hours to get in and out today. >> i had an appointment at 10:00 and it was 11:00 when i was finally attended to. >> reporter: john suggests adding signage at the office. he had no idea he could go to the front of the line until it was too late. >> they don't tell you whether yo n you didn't. a lot of us didn't know that. >> reporter: the agency didn't have a spokesperson in the bay area today. instead they sent

there's been a lot of talk about how autonomous vehicle testing needs to work. >> reporter: the dmv can begin approving new applications in 30 days. ian shear says the best testing requires simulating the real thing. >> what we've learned in the last few years is it requires vehicles to run cars on the road and get real world experience. >> reporter: the light duty passenger cars and mid-trucks and vans must weigh less than 10,000 pounds. they can test it with or without a safety driver leaving some people to say not so fast. >> i think it's crazy with all the bad luck they've been having, i don't think it's a good idea no. >> reporter: in march of 2018 both an uber and tesla self-driving car were involved in deadly collisions. shear says we need to learn to share the road with them and be safe. >> i would never want to share the road with a self-driving car that could run me over or hurt my kids, that's not going to happen. >> reporter: the testing without a driver must be in a controlled environment and companies must inform law enforcement where they'll be. the list is long in both s

lines at the dmv i usually seller several hours and appointments can take several months to make. a lot of people are getting around all of that waiting by spending parts of their holiday week here. >> i am cheering, i was just in there cheering. >> reporter: maybe it is a holiday spirit, or scars from dmv experiences past. people seem extremely happy to be at the dmv today. >> i got in there 10 minutes to 11. and, i'm out of here at what? 11:15 i cannot believe that. >> was easy and took less than an hour had an apartment. appointment really hard word people. >> reporter: most get the real california ids is something that people will start with the government will start requiring people to have to board a flight in 2020. the dmv had extended hours to less than wait times and as part of an effort to encourage people waiting until the last minute to get there real id. the average wait time is usually three hours or longer. today most were in and out within the hour. cannot believe it i come to dmv san francisco less than 30 minutes. >> reporter: because the lines are often so long here a

lines at the dmv are usually several hours long and appointments can take several months to make. so a lotple are getting around all of that waiting i spending parts of the holiday week here. >> i'm cheering. >> maybe if the holiday spirit or scars from dmv experiences pass, but people seemed extremely happy to be at the dmv today. >> i got in there at 10 minutes to 11, and i'm out of here at what? 11:15. i can't believe it. >> it was easy. it took less than an hour. i had an appointment. >> people are here to get the real california ids. something the federal government requires them to have in order to board flights in october 2020. the dmv added extended hours statewide this fall to lessen wait times and is part of an effort to encourage people to avoid waiting until the last minute to get the real id. the average wait time is usually three hours or longer. today most were in and out within an hour. >> i cannot believe it. i come to deviant the san francisco and less than 30 minutes. >> reporter: because the lines are so long here an appointment are difficult to make people have been pa

we are back and you said before the break heart warming dmv >>and in a few words been used in this is you can see yeah but that's exactly how a lot of folks are scribing what happened at the last oneeing the station in los angeles. we have some video here it actually shows a chp officer. >>who was called to the dmv for a disturbance when he got there he noticed yes, there was a woman who is very upset that she wasn't upsetat the way being belligerent chooses frustrate because no one could understand her. she's hearing impaired and can only communicate with american sign language any heat and henew a sign language. yes. >>how great is that so many ends up helping her. that's the thing is of all of the officers who every doesn't everybody does knosign language did that isn't that amazing. we have that problem little and happy looking percent love how long one and how her a thank-you having prize. that's that's really go i can't resign you can see she's saying tnk you so much taki a could absolutely incredible. >>fremont police officers on the search for one more g after almost dozen were stolen over the weekend. we have more i i'm

lot of smiles there. that's nice. >>> 5:25 there. good news if you plan to go to the dmv. wait times are down. but by how much? it's all coming up in a live report. >>> with thanksgiving behind us, full speed with the rest of the holidays. new overnight, flipping the switch on east bay's christmas tradition. coming up at 5:50 where you can check out this festive home. >>> look at that. look at the friends you can make at the bay bridge toll plaza. looks like the metering lights are on. we'll check in with mike inouye and kari has a look at the forecast. when are we getting a break in the rain? 5:26 right now. >>> a very good tuesday morning to you. taking a peek outside across san francisco. what a lovely sight this morning. the bay bridge all lit up. getting into the christmas spirit. a lot of buildings in the city. >> see a lot of red lights. >> illuminated. i look for the positive all the time. >> it's christmas is red lights. >> there's a little traffic, too. we'll get to that this morning. thanks for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> those are some lights. i'm scott mcgrew. >> christmas is certainly in the

in large part the dmv met that goal in the area but in the bay area and los angeles, wait times still hovered around 20 minutes and at times 58 in the l.a. area. >>> sierra getting a lot of snow. both on i-80 and highway 50. we've seen near white-out conditions around lake tahoe. caltrans said anyone driving farther than auburn needs to have tire chains. over the last seven days some areas have seen seven feet of snow. >> kirkwood was the higher elevation getting that. >> and it is just so beautiful. i wanted to start out with that and dip into a couple of our cameras in the sierra and show you what it looks like as the skies clear. that is a look at squaw valley. it is so gorgeous. let's go toward heavenly where you see people out there already skiing and enjoying the fresh powder on the ground. now as we bring it back home here is a live look outside from our oakland camera and we're seeing all clear skies here but we know that we just had some showers pass through the south bay. so looking back at how much rain we are now and where we currently stand, santa rosa benefits from the storm system and now at 95% of average for the water year measuring close to seven inc

dmv recently were automatically registered to vote. even for those who already had a party preference, some people were mistakenly changed to no party preference. >> we got 80 calls yesterday. people panic, you know, there's a lot of interest in this upcoming primary. >> reporter: the elections office in santa clara county says they received 300 calls in a short amount of time over the mistake. elections officials say it's impacting an unknown amount of registered voters of all parties across the state. >> because it's a statewide issue, it would be great if there was more coordinated centralized state effort to inform voters. >> i would think the candidates would really be up in arms about this error. >> reporter: as for jeri, she hopes others catch the problems in time. >> they get the postcards in the mail, may not know what it's about and toss it aside. >> reporter: there are 3 ways to fix the problem. do it online, mail this postcard back, or go to your local elections office. in martinez, i'm da lin, kpix 5. >> and elections officials say that even if you didn't get a postcard about your party preference, you should go to the state website to verify your status and make sure you can vote in the upcoming p

they give up a lot in the way of wages in order to get better healthcare. they know that if they get stuck in the same government dmvm at lower wages. your reaction to that? are we off base here? >> no, they will be stuck with lower wages because as of now, the healthcare benefits are tax deductible, to the employer. i should say to the employee. if you receive $500 a month of health benefits from your employer, you don't pay tax on that. you will lose that tax advantage. you're talking not just union members that are going to lose this. we're talking 164 million americans that are covered by employer health plans, the vast majority of which are people like myself, that are actually quite happy with the healthcare that we have, we're all going to be forced on to a government system, the same government that mismanages the benefits to veterans. if you talk to a veteran, ask them, how do you like your va? a lot of them that are actually in need of care, they are suffering right now. further more, look at what's going on in europe. look at the wait times in canada, the u.k., and then look at the tax burden the middle c

dmv and get a new one.>> peter greenberg in new york thank you, get those ids and everything prepared before you hit the airwaves. mary a lot of foggy spots today. >> definitely. you see how foggy it is with the salesforce tower camera and that blanket of fog looking north at the golden gate. temps running in the mid to upper 40s to the low to mid 50s at this hour. because of this dense fog there is a dense fog advisory in effect until 10 am for the san francisco bay shoreline and the east and north bay valleys all under the dense fog advisory and that is because visibility is a quarter-mile or less. right now visibility at many locations you can see how dense it is zero for visibility at half moon bay and also livermore is zero is 0 1/10 of a mile at oakland airport and 1/4 mile at sfo, half a mile in hayward and concord, zero visibility at napa and 2 miles for santa rosa. be careful. the low pressure system that dropped the strong cold front over the way our weekend past, we have a ridge of high pressure building and moving in and that will mean dry couple of days i will take it hour by hour on the future cast, looking at

dmv. people were auma vote. even for those who had a party preference some people were mistakenly changed to know party preference. >> we had 80 calls yesterday. people panic. there is a lotcoming primary. >> the election office said they received 300 calls in a short amount of time over the mistake. officials say it is affecting an unknown amount of registered voters all across the state. >> because it's a state wide issue there would be people up in arms around this error. >> they get these postcards. they may not know what it is about. they may toss it aside. >> fixed the problem online and mail the postcard back or go to your local election's office. in martinas i am da lin "kpix 5". >> election officials say even if you did not get a postcard you should go to the state website to verify your status to make sure you can vote in the presidential primary. >>> some right hailing company has released its report and investors not responding well. uber's stock value fell by $1.4 billion and shares dropped 2.7% 1 day after the company said more than 3000 sexual assaults took place during rides in 2018. after the report was released uber ceo posted on twitter that the company

lot of them standing by in the north bay. more rain is not far away. i'm cornell bernard. we'll have that story tonight at 11:00. >>> dmv finally dropping. what's driving this. >>> coming up on abc 7 at 8:00, the great christmas light fight. that's always fun. at 10:00, it's "the good doctor." stay with us for abc 7 news at 11:00. >> stick around, jimmy kimmel live comes on at 11:35. >> that's this edition of abc 7 news. look for breaking news whenever you like with the abc 7 news app. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm kristen sze. sandhya patel, chris alvarez, thanks for joining us. >> see you again tonight at 11:00. shouldn't mean a change in standards. that's why - thanks to you - we're rated number one in customer satisfaction by j.d. power. we're rated number one in customer satisfaction a lot will happen in your life. wrinkles just won't. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair's derm-proven retinol works so fast, it takes only one week to reveal younger looking skin. neutrogena® ♪ this is "jeopardy!" here are today's contestants-- a physician from bear, delaware... an attorney from boston, massachusetts... and our returning champi

lot of the social security cards and driver's licenses from different states, they look real but they're not. it's hard for an expert to tell. which is getting back to driver's licenses, that's like dmv don't know what an el salvadoran birth certificate looks like. we don't even know who these people are that come in and get these driver's licenses. david: kevin? >> hey, tom. so i guess the biggest question here is what -- are there any benefits or is there anything that can be positive that can come from this whether it's helping to track these people, because it's really, really hard to see the upside in this because we are rewarding bad behavior. >> what i would do if i was i.c.e., i would -- first of all, doj needs to sue new york because i think this law's a violation of title viii that says you can't create, no jurisdiction can create some program or policy that you prevent employees from sharing immigration information. and new york law says you can't share this information with i.c.e. so i think doj needs to sue. now, let's say they don't beat the driver's license, i.c.e. needs access to that database, and we'll use the addresses and look for them. and we'll just use that as