a heavy fog advisory is in effect to venetia and dumbarton bridges.verything is looking good. 5:30 let's head back to the desk. >>> breaking news out of san jose, we have a possible police standoff at the capital village with snell avenue. we will check in with kraig debro in a live report in just a few minutes. >>> they are investigating -- chp is investigating a deadly motorcycle accident. a man on a motorcycle was killed after crashing and getting pinned underneath a van. it has been racing at speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour. the van driver suffered minor injuries in that crash. >>> also this morning investigators are looking for the cause of a fire that badly damaged two homes in the berkeley hills. the fire started on miller avenue near grizzly peak. the fire shot into the nighttime sky but nobody inside was hurt. two firefighters suffered smoke inhalation and it took several hours to get the fire under control. >> it posed a physical challenge given the curves and winding roads in the area. >> they are still watching for hot spots and it is

we'll have a live look at the dumbarton bridge coming up.ack to you. >> thank you. >>> it is a new fee just to pay your bill. >> the new charge for a popular cell phone provider. also ahead. >>> bay area police have their ears open for this sound on new year's eve. the high-tech way they are tracking down party crashers. >>> and the tricky rescue for a man and man's best friend. how this pair ended up with such a dangerous position and how they got out. all coming up. guns into the air to celebrate the new year. >>> law officers all over california are meeting with people not to fire their guns into the air to celebrate the new year. east palo alto's using special equipment designed to find anyone who does fire a shot. it may be the only city in the country to have its entire city covered by this shotspotter system. it can detect the exact location of gunfire. >> shotspotter triangulates and tell us us where the gunfire came from, records it for prosecution later on. >> a conviction for negligent discharge of a firearm could mean up to three

we have a heavy fog advisory in effect and we also have heavy fog advisories issued for the dumbarton bridges so make sure you take it slowly this morning. your drive is looking good in both directions, 4:30 let's head back to the desk. >>> investigators are looking for the cause of a fire that caused two homes in the berkeley hills. joining us from the fire scene, good morning, paul. >> reporter: good morning, pam, i was just told they will not be here until the 8:00 hour but there is a crew out here in case there is any possible hot spots. if you see that house, crews just told me it is possible it started on the second or third level because the bottom has minor damage mostly from water. firefighters got the call just after 8:30 last night which quickly spread to the next door home. it took 35 firefighters a little more than two hours to get things under control but the fire was not the only danger crews had to deal with. it was up in the hills so it was hard to navigate the roads and a power line dropped across. >> the power line dropped across an engine so we had to bail off and

dumbarton bridge also experiencing heavy fog. let's check in with rosemary. >>> pockets of fog and dense fog. we have slick roads out there this morning. we have a few sprinkles here. this will be the case all day. at least for the northern sections of the bay area. we are talking right about noontime, 1:00 looking at a little bit of rain. it looks like it will take into the evening hours before the tail end of the front sweeps through. we will not see a lot, but it could be a little soggy for some areas. most of your friday we are not seeing much above the radar there. you can see the radar not showing us a whole lot. we have a little bit of drizzle out there. we have cloud cover packing in. plenty of moisture. that is what we are expecting for your friday. i wish i could show you more on the radar. 53- degrees in fairfield. 54 until concord. our temperatures not bad at all. getting outside it doesn't feel too bad. about noontime i stop it here. down in santa rosa and areas near the bay seeing a little bit of rain. your forecast

here's a live look as you work your way across the dumbarton bridge.nts to report in the area. earlier wreck on 880 cleared near montague. we'll get live look at the san mateo bridge. much better than just about 45 minutes ago. 13 minutes to go between 880 and 101. the bay bridge no delays at the toll plaza just some extra volume up the incline. we'll check the south bay next. right now over to you. >> thank you. >>> 5:35. a teenager who had brain surgery four years ago got hit in the head at a sharks game earlier this week. the girl was wearing a vancouver canucks jersey and she said the drunken fan smacked her. gil diaz is in san jose where police are investigating fan violence. good morning, gil. >> reporter: hi, grace. good morning. yeah. very disturbing story this morning about that teenager. it happened wednesday night. it was a game between the sharks and the vancouver canucks. as you mentioned, grace, that teenaged girl was a loyal canucks fan. she attended that game with her sister. they are wearing their canucks jerseys and that's where all t

the turnoff for the dumbarton french. for southbound traffic is slow from 92 leading down from a new work but again it resembles an ordinary commute day. hawks the northbound side is definitely heavier than usual. bell at about c minutes your drive time. not really a good alternate. his theory in boulevard you will not save you any time southbound. here is a bridge check as we look at your ride on the a bridge. the metering lights are not active. it is a light and easy ride. this is more indicative of what the nimitz should look like. your ride on the ascendancy of bridges problem free and the late freight carried a 13 minute drive time. the golden gate bridge, an easy ride here is a check on whether with james. >>james: a beautiful started this thursday morning. here's a view from san francisco--here is a view of san francisco from our roof. it is a breezy. cotton and we have 26 mild are sustained winds in fairfield, 13 as sfo. the majority of the winds have been around the north bay hills and east bay hills. this is a n

here's a live look at the dumbarton bridge. now, the bad news is we have a couple of accidents brewing out there. as we jump to our maps right now, we have this one westbound 24 at the caldecott tunnel. it was blocking the right lane. they have now moved it over to the right shoulder. so traffic is up to speed there. new wreck though northbound 101 at 380. also very foggy in this area. we'll check the south bay in just a few minutes. grace? >> thank you. >>> 6:09 now. it is the final push. how gop candidates are fighting for the undecided votes. >> plus a win for the state, a big loss for some cities. the projects on the chopping block to help balance the budget. >>> and a discovery like no other. what nasa has found in the red sea. final push... ahead of the iowa caucuses next week. ( possible adlib this is a live pciture from des m ey and governor chri >>> this morning gop candidates are making their final push ahead of the iowa caucuses next week. we have some live pictures. this is at an assembly a little rally for mitt rom

fog advisory for the dumbarton and san mateo bridges. this is what we saw yesterday and tuesday i believe. make sure that you drive slowly. finally 280 near san jose you normally don't see fog here but you are seeing fog here. it is 4:40 let's head back over to pam. >> all right. steve paulson is off today. we have rosemary will be here in a moment. cloudy skies are expected today with patchy fog after light drizzle in the morning. the highs for the day will be in the upper 50s. mostly cloudy skies expected this evening with patchy fog as well. lows in the mid 40s. just about what we have been seeing the past couple of weeks really. mostly cloudy weather is expected tomorrow as well before becoming partly cloudy as well. we could also see more fog tomorrow morning. highs likely to be around 60 tomorrow that is. >>> police are investigating whether armed robberies at two mcdonalds restaurants are related. investigators tell the times harold two young men robbed the mcdonalds on springs road. they made off with an undisclosed amount of cas

the san mateo bridge no roadwork but lanes blocked on the dumbarton bridge both directions approaching the high- rise as well as the nimitz, 880 through oakland, southbound at high street you can see it if you look closely at the top of this camera there is a little bit of roadwork blocking lanes across that stretch just north of the coliseum. bart all on time. bart, ace, muni and caltrain and your ferries all on time. >>> there is a frost advisory in the east bay right now. gil diaz is in pleasanton watching the temperature continue to fall. gil, good morning. >> reporter: hi, good morning, a very chilly morning. you know it's chilly when you can see the -- my breath coming out of my mouth. i'm wearing also my dandy earmuffs here. we're it is mission plaza shopping center on santa rita road. focusing on this huge temperature gauge at the shopping plaza. it is 39 degrees. as the sunrises the temperatures should climb. if you have a green thumb, make sure you protect your sensitive plants. cover them so they doesn't get damaged this morning. while you're covering your plants, make sure

fog advisory on the dumbarton bridge as well as the carquinez bridge and the benicia bridge.65 miles per hour through there so traffic moving at an okay speed. we'll check mass transit next. back to you. >> thank you. >>>genentech will probably not try to get avastin approved for use against advanced ovarian cancer here in the u.s. two studies find avastin does not improve survival rates for most patients. it did keep the disease from getting worse for a few months. but it had a lot of side effects. last month the fda revoked approval for avastin for breast cancer treatment. >>> mothers launched a nurse-in at target stores. it started last month when target employees in texas asked a woman to go in a dressing room to breast-feed her baby instead of being out in the store. yesterday, women gathered at the retailer stores including this one in san jose to nurse their babies in support of that woman in texas. target insists that it has always been a family store and its policy officially does not restrict women where they can breast-feed. >>> it is 4:55 now. his evening began wi

and at the venetia and dumbarton bridges as well. and bay bridge as well, this is a look at the toll plaza where the lights are out on the eastern part of the bridge. we will bring you an update on cal trans coming up. >>> police say a man armed with a machete is barricaded inside an apartment building. kraig debro is live at the scene where police are starting to evacuate other apartments. >> reporter: this is where everything is taking place and we were there a second ago police just put this line here where we were able to walk down passed where these police cars are on a to the right and that's where the action is going on. -- police cars are and to the right and that's where the action is going on. somebody who works here complained the and in 514 was armed with a machete. police later found out he was armed with a machete. you can see all the squad cars that are here. i walked into the apartment complex moments ago to find out what i could and i learned police are beginning to evacuate a portion of the apartments and they are g

the same story of dumbarton and bay bridges. coming up we'll tell you about accidents in the east bay. let's head back to the desk. >>> occupy protestors are taking their cause to new heights instead of camping out they are sitting in. ktvu noelle walker is in downtown with the new occupation. noelle. >> reporter: yeah your worst night of sleep has to be better than the people that are sleeping up in that tree. as we take you around to the other side. you can get a better look in at them. they went back up in the trees last night. they came down after the protest. now they have regrouped and going to be up there for the duration. protestors set up basically tents back up at frank ogawa plaza or a tent on the edge of the plaza. they set it up and police promptly took that tent down. protestors have not gone very far. this morning they are on the other side of frank ogawa plaza. about two dozen of them are in sleeping bags. they say they are not sleeping because technically they are not supposed to be sleeping there. there are sle

this is a look at westbound 92 as you head out to the san mateo and dumbarton bridge. a little bit of slow traffic here and there. nothing major. now let's go to steve. >>> sal, thank you. nothing major in our weather pattern either. it's pretty much what we have had for the longest time. it will continue. areas of fog though. hazy sunshine. if you have to head up to the mountains it's nine at truckee this morning. 17 at tahoe. they will get very gusty conditions over the passes tonight and tomorrow. a lot of 20s i was just looking. napa numerous 20s. palo alto, menlo park all around 30, 31. a lot of 32s livermore enneagon ford. high pressure continues to build in in. systems dive in and intensify either in southern california or four corners. leving us with just the wind. it will tail off. fog to the east highs. otherwise some low to mid 60s. really mild pattern and temperatures will continue to be this way. now the wind will crank up tomorrow for house. we your week all in view. >>> honda says it will revamp its latest version of the civic. they won't say if the car

moving nicely and there are no visibility problems on any of the bay area bridgeels including the dumbarton or san mateo, it is a very nice drive and no major problems. bart, 21 trains running on time now with no problems there. >>> if you are driving in hayward city, just a little bit of slow traffic approaching 192 and no major problems on westbound 192 all across to 101 everything is moving nicely. heading southbound on 680 and the bridge, i guess we will ask steve about this, there is a report of a little bit of fog on the bridge between toll plaza and willow. we have to double check with steve -- oh it may have been, there there is some -- there is some fog showing up -- >> oh good, it was unusual, let's go to steve. >>> thanks, sal. we have a pattern which is dry and it has changed a little bit and there is a weak system coming in and mostly clear skies, lows again are in the 20s and 30s. our dry december continues and there are some hints next week a system may drop in and i still think it will go towards the sierra but this pattern is not showing any signs for me. patchy fog is back

but had still in effect for the dumbarton bridge. speeds okay there though.major snags between the 101 freeway through there. looks like traffic not too bad as you work your way along the eastshore freeway but there is fog there as well as at the carquinez bridge to the maze and the benicia bridge but you can see traffic clocking in around 64 miles per hour so not slowing you down just yet but again limit visibility so use caution this morning. bart, ace, muni and caltrain and your ferries all on time. south bay, northbound 280 problem-free. haven't heard of any fog advisories in the south bay. traffic is moving nicely along 880 and 101. live look at conditions on 101, our photographer standing by near alum rock and you can see still light. in fact, i would even say "holiday light" at this point through that portion at least in both directions and 101 clear as you work your way along the peninsula. remember kcbs once you do hit the roads. they're our radio partners. and you can find them at 740-am and 106.9-fm. for more on the fog, here's elizabeth. >> thanks

the dumbarton bridge, there is shower activity tracking to the north. in the south bay, light rain. san jose near the airport, light rain. we are seeing barely any accumulation at all. other than that, of the roads are jammed. for the current hour, we have light rain activity and the peninsula in the north bay. by 10:00 a.m. we will look for clearing and a gradual drying throughout the remainder of the date. here is where temperatures are this afternoon. forties and fifties. as you can see across the north bay, the same temperature range. 55- 57 in just about every community. as the 7 day our on the bay shows you, you have a slight chance of rain on thursday. very light in nature. >>erica: the metering lights have been activated. slowly but surely traffic is stacking up in the cash lane. a steady volume of traffic on the right-hand side of your screen. it is a smooth and easy ride. on the traffic maps was down 580 speeds are averaging 30 mi. an hour. right now we are not seeing too many delays along the nimitz in either direction of. >>mark: front runners mitt romney and meet gingri

we mentioned at the san mateo bridge and the dumbarton bridges under a fog advisory. the chp has units drive across the bridges and that is how they determine whether or not advisories are needed. there is advising that has been issued for the cockiness bridge and the venetian as well. we have pretty smooth conditions here is the ride on interstate 80. to drive time is running about 12 minutes from hercules. you can see that this is a very easy ride down to the berkeley curve. no problems 101 in the northbound direction 85 out to the west valley looks good. and the marin ride 1 01 south bound is delay free from the model to the golden gate bridge. >>justine: san jose woman accused of throwing her 22 month old son out of its second-floor window will now not be charged with attempted murder. this happened on christmas morning. her first court appearance will be made to date. will tran has a preview. >>reporter: this by tossing the bay for more than 20 ft. above the ground and they landed on a small dirt paths between the sidewalk and the fans. prosecutors decided would

sunnyvale is seeing a light rain and some portions of the dumbarton.re is the system on the wide view. this is a distracting for northern california as it continues to push through the south. you will be dealing with pleasant conditions. it will be in upper 50s kind of day. into the weekend, sunny and mild. temperatures are mild and the north bay. they have been at freezing or below freezing for the better part of the week. this morning, mid-40s. welcome relief for those tired of subfreezing temperatures. this afternoon, upper 50s. antioch will only get up to about 53 degrees. 57 in san jose. as we look towards oakland, 57. downtown san francisco, 55. mid-50s is the theme for the north bay. here is your 7 day around the bay as a lookout towards friday into the weekend. it will be breezy but saturday and sunday, it is looking pretty good with plenty of sunshine. it looks like we will stay dry and mild through the first half of next week. we could be mild and dry all the way through christmas. a very lackluster december as far as weather. >>erica: the tr

dumbarton bridge. it also looks good on the bay bridge if you are trying to get across the bay in san francisco. and it looks pretty good on the san mateo bridge heading out to the high-rise. northbound 101 in san francisco is at the speed limit as you approach the 80 split and no major problems coming in on 280 extension. coming up on 4:30 let's go back to the desk. >>> the occupy protest movement touched on fire works late last night. and a resolution to present future port did not go to a vote. >> reporter: for once the excitement was inside council chambers. over the past few months we have seen a lot of things happen here. last night inside the council chambers we had exciting happenings going on there. they basically voted. it was 4-4. it was very anticlimatic. they were voting on an urgency resolution that said they were going to provide all the support and resources necessary to the city administrator to prevent the port of oakland from being shut down. the port has been shut down twice over th

. >> the area near facebook is already jammed with traffic because it leads to the dumbarton bridge. a final decision on the environmental impact report is expected by the middle of next year. >>> right now 4:52. a southern california sheriffs office hit by two moll to have cocktails. the reward being offered to catch the person responsible. @ >>> the fbi is offering a $5,000 reward to help find the person responsible for fire bombing a santa barbara sheriffs office. this is video from last month that shows someone walking up to the building and throwing two molitof cocktails. no one was hurt but the building and patrol car outside were damaged. >>> 4:55 is the time. let's check in with sal. >> we have a problem with a construction area not opening. traffic on 880 is at a standstill. it's just not moving. we want to give you an alert. don't use the nimitz freeway driving up to high street. we don't know what is going on southbound if that is effected at all. this is a traffic alert for you. use 580 instead. we will let you know when this opens. this is a big traffic for you driving u

a fog adviser for the dumbarton bridge as well. data looking at the right on the golden gate can never is no official advisory but there is some fault on the stand. it is a little better in this view that it was the last time we checked it about 12 minutes ago. no delays reported through marin county for 101 southbound. the drive time is running at about 22 minutes. >>mark: police have identified the man with the machete who barricaded himself inside of the san jose apartment for nearly five hours as scarred william mckinney. the standoff started around 2:45 a.m. after he if became confrontational when he was approached by his desk-when he was approached about who cloud music that was fleeing. for a k-9 officer released a dog on to him. he was injured by the dolphin and taken to santa clara valley medical center for treatment. he is now seeing healthy without bail. >>caller: 19 year-old man pleaded not guilty to the shooting of an afghanistan war veteran. he was arraigned yesterday in san bernardino county and remains in custody on

there is some roadwork by the way on the dumbarton bridge. back to you. >> thank you. >>> a jury has cleared johannes mehserle and four other bart police officers of using excessive force against a passenger three years ago. the passenger said mehserle and the others kicked an punched him and arrested him. the incident took place weeks before mehserle fatally shot oscar grant on new year's day. bart says the verdict shows its officers acted properly. >>> bart is now the first public transit agency in the country to place limits on blackouts of cell phone service. the board voted yesterday to prohibit blackouts unless there is a quote extraordinary threat that woken danger passenger safety. bart sparked outrage when it killed cell service in august at 4 san francisco stations because of a planned protest. >>> it's the battle of the french fries. burger king is revamping its recipe for the first time since 1998. the new fries will be a little thicker just a tad wider than a number 2 pencil have 20% less sodium and will be crisper and stay hotte

high wind advice -- we do have those high wind advisories in effect overnight for the bay bridge, dumbarton bridge, san mateo bridge, and the golden gate bridge. even the antioch bridge. so just about every bridge in the bay area you got a wind advisory this morning. here's a live look at traffic from marin across the golden gate heading into san francisco. overnight a traffic alert in sunnyvale northbound 101 is cleared so all lanes are open. so 101 and 280 both fine through palo alto, redwood city. you see all green on all of our traffic sensors. and everything is on time for bart, ace, muni and caltrain and your ferries. that's traffic. back to you. >> in the green. >> in the green. >> all right. thanks, elizabeth. 4:41 now. some bay area mcdonald's are going to start charging for toys today. >> they are. and now there's another fast food giant jumping on the toy bandwagon, as well. >> we realize that ultimately we have no privacy. >> secret software on millions of smart phones. how one developer claims it is tracking every move you make. >>> and the outrage over faculty salaries reachin

fogged advisers have been canceled for the dumbarton. traffic is moving smoothly in both directions. faithfully we're looking at lighter than usual traffic around the bay area. on the golden gate, still quite a bit of fall. here is a look in your communities bay. you will see that it is a smooth ride on interstate 80 with no delays. no delays for the south bay freeways for the traffic is green on all of the roadway sensors. the north bay ride still looks good. in the easy ride all the way down to central san rafael. the drive time is coming in at just 23 minutes to the toll plaza. >>erica: we are following six fog around the bay area. a lot of cloud cover this morning. we will see an improvement with breaks in sunshine. the national weather service has issued a dense fog devices. we have the potential for rain in the north bay. that is on tap for tomorrow. as we take a look at the maps we have a dense fog in advisory in effect until 9:00 a.m.. this is affecting the san francisco bay area as well as north the valleys. visibility is down t

on the bridge, and between hayward and fremont, a nice drive and you can have a nice drive on the dumbarton bridge. >>> we have a little system going by and december has been awful, this is a puff of a season and you can see it's on its way to southern california. it is giving us some very light rain. 40s to 50s here in the morning, am cloudy clouse. there is like one here and another one there. maybe some sun clouds cool 52 to 56 degrees. this coming up occasion nayly there is no rain on the satellite or the radar so this tells us it is really light stuff and by noon most of this stuff is gone. we will keep mostly cloud disin the forecast and it will give us fog by tomorrow morning and that's mountain view they run too long. more rain, this system standed into system moisture and as it slides by it print in a few light showers, 55 livermore 55 redwood city, 55 san after -- san rafael. another system gives us light rain thursday morning and after that it is gone with your weekend always in view, back to clear and dry. >>> and protesters are trying to shut down the port of oakland as well as

and this morning on the san mateo and dumbarton bridge we are off to a nice start, and at 5:18, we wille more weather with steve. >>> we have a little change and it has been dry and clear and this should bring the lows up a little bit, not a lot and still some of that fog is showing up, some patchy fog south bay and east bay, visibility a quarter mile and we had it 8 or 9 days ago, it may be thickening up and you go to 101 and it is about 36. a little bit of a north breeze and kentwood and danville 29 and 32 for palo alto and also loss go the toss in other areas. we will have more as the high pressure sticks around and we are not changing much except increasing some of that fog. san jose 60 and a lot of 58s and 60s, not much of a difference. a very quiet pattern, overnight lows should come up with an increase in fog, maybe partly cloudy next tuesday and wednesday but we will still be dry. >>> investors around the world, french president nicolas sarkozy and german president are trying down man the expectations. there are only some of the nations which may reach an agreement before the en

if you are driving northbound 101 that looks good coming up to the split and on the dumbarton, no majorays and the winds has not been a probably him as it -- problem as it has been over the past few days. >>> 20 minutes until the official sunrise and we will finally see some of our temperatures turnaround. it is a shimmering start out there, below freezing in our north bay valley in some locations, napa 31 but that is a is reporting a very light breeze and outside it feels more like 27 december grease. >>> concord -- -- feels more like 27 degrees. 37 in red wood city and in palo alto 35 degrees, clear calm skies, and great conditions for frost advisories. frost advisories are through the east bay until 9:00 and freeze warnings through 9:00 this morning. we'll see temperatures turn around and it will be a gradual warmup. upper 50s lower 60s, pleasant afternoon in store. 61 in danville as well as pleasantville and as we check in with san bruno 59 in the city, san mateo upper 50s and 60s for the coast, winds will be light, sunny skies overhead. extended forecast, you can see we could use t

richmond bridge also the san mateo, dumbarton and golden gate spans looking good.if you are plan is to take a bridge, you have clear sailing bargain anything that would happen between now and the time you get there. now let's go to steve. >> thank you. and temperatures today will be warming up although they're cold this morning. even over in the city. i just saw a 41 in the presidio. that's cold! some upper 30s in golden gate park and also near outer sunset. so there's some cold numbers all over the place not just inland but also close to the coast and around the bay. it's going to be sunny. we have patchy fog out there but that's not going to last long. 30s already. fairfield gone from 50 to 37 to 39. just depends on the wind. livermore at 45. mountainview at 49. otherwise you're in the 30s including redwood city and san rafael 34. mill valley 34. large and just not moving. budging high pressure will hang around for a while. so windy up in the hills. gusts 30 to 60 miles per hour. mainly north and east bay so far. but anybody in the higher elevations could be in l

the fog advisory has been cancelled for the san mateo bridge and the dumbarton bridge and bay bridgee last half hour you can see why, it is much clearer. also an accident in san mateo east 92 to north 101 not causing a problem. there is still a lot of thick fog along highway 1 in pacifica that's where you want to be careful. with the slightly damp roads a few minor accidents elsewhere. >>> still ahead, the game of fetch that got a 19-year-old and his dog in a precarious predicament. >> have your children outgrown their booster seats? the california car seat safety law is about [ female announcer ] they've been off limits to dieters since time began. not anymore. fiber one is bringing brownies back. at 90 calories, the only thing between you and chocolaty brownies... ♪ ...is a nicely designed package. ♪ you can have brownies again. fiber one 90 calorie brownies. in the granola bar aisle. caramel...pretzel 90 calorie bar. ♪ can i have the definition? swapportunity: the opportunity to swap a higher calorie snack for a yoplait light. can you use it in a sentence? mmm. swapping a 300 calo

bay bridge, the golden gate bridge, the richmond/san rafael bridge and the antioch bridge and the dumbartonridge. east bay drive times, so far we all in the green. top speeds up and down the nimitz, 580, 24th and walnut creek and the eastshore freeway. that's traffic. back to you. >> thank you. >>> we just got this into our newsroom. the new jobless report for november is actually not bad. it's a welcome surprise. the national unemployment rate dropped to 8.6%. that is the lowest rate that we have seen in this country in 2.5 years. 8.6%! economists were expecting the rate to stay at 9%. >>> new life as well as hundreds of new jobs coming to the historic tribune tower in downtown oakland. the "oakland tribune" reports that call socket an international call center company paid $8 million for it. the company plans to use nearly half of the 83,000-square-foot landmark building. the 23-story tower opened for business in 1924. >>> it is 5:38 now. a church controversy brewing. why one couple has received a lifetime ban coming up. >> bay area credit card numbers sent to russia. a grocery chain hack

thick fog across the dumbarton bridge and richmond-san rafael bridge right now.gh the 101 and 880 interchange, headlights northbound 101. >>> our time is 5:54. >>> bp may be about to face criminal charges over the gulf oil spill. >> here's jane king with the bloomberg business report. >>> good morning. bp employees may be about to face criminal charges for that huge gulf of mexico oil spill. the 2010 accident killed 11 and caused the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history. now the "wall street journal" says prosecutors are focused on several engineers and one supervisor. employees may have provided false information to regulators while drilling was in progress. it is not unusual for prosecutors to threaten criminal charges to get people to cooperate with investigations. bad news if you think you are saving by eating eight lot of peanut butter and jelly. weather has reduced production and sent peanut drops 12% smaller this year. farmers have planted the second smallest crop since 1915. >>> the government will pay nearly 18 million dollars to a san diego family t

this mornings drive ons san mateo and dumbarton bridge looks good. let's go to steve. >> sal, thank you. a very good morning. it's cold out there. baby it's cold out there. temperatures 20s and 30s. no rain in sight. just the pattern is blocked. the whole upper air pattern changes. i mean globally i don't think we will see any changes. 30s for many. there are a lot of 20s out there. really? yeah really. cost owe 27 degrees. that is the department of public works. petaluma 29. napa 29. danville is in there as well. woodside 29. i five or six 30, 31s. so you are close. temperatures today will continue to just i mean the days are very, very short. we are hard pressed without that north, northeast wind. to get above 59 or 60 is tough to do. it's quite content to hang out on the west coast here. all the systems go way up and over. they dive down toward nevada and give us wind. that may happen again next week. areas of frost and cold mornings. high clouds that is about it. 50s on the temps. they are not going to go far today. mid 50s to upper 50s. hazy ski

and this morning across the san mateo or dumbarton bridges we have not found anything that is worth slowing down for. there is a little bit of slowing on highway 4 westbound through antioch but it gets much better by pittsburgh and bay point. 5:48 let's go to steve. >>> thank you i sir. well just a few sprinkles going through this morningen it won't do much for us. this morning looks good to what we have had. the rain on 11th and 12th wasn't much. last thursday might be it for the month. this looks for a very, very quiet week. fog, clouds, a few sprinkles here this morning. after that clearing skies and no rain forecast. things can change fast. none of the long range models show anything of significance before if anything it continues the pattern that has been stuck for awhile. little system right there southern california is doing a lot better than we are. 30s for some. a lot of 40s here due to the cloud cover. low and higher clouds. the higher clouds will clear out pretty fast. that is producing a very few very, very light showers. again snies will give us -- this won't give us much more

now if you are driving on the san mateo or dumbarton bridge it's also a nice drive.n the east shore freeway we have had pretty good traffic. a couple minor things go on there. nothing major if you are driving on 80 between pinole and richmond there won't be any slow downs yet. now let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sal. it's cold out there for some the breeze has kicked in. clear sailing here. no rain in sight for awhile. unless you are heading down to southern california where they will get some. our system yesterday there it goes all the way down to southern california. they will give san diego or palm springs some rain. it's giving us a easterly breeze. north five at oakland. nothing yet san jose or santa rosa. kind of a different trend at sfo. but that puts the windshield at 35 degrows. fairfield was 50 last hour. now they are at 42 because of the breeze livermore has held up. you can find a lot of 30s. santa rosa is 28. napa anywhere from 33 to 53. any breeze upper 40s and 50s. pleasant hill is 32. gilroy in it for 30. pleasantton 34. mill valley 35. southern cal

if it makes sense for you i would definitely recommend the dumbarton bridge. i want to take a look at the peninsula, because of that earlier accident, it was right about here, look at 101 northbound of getting to the highway 92 interchange, it is roughly the jams. of the northbound 101 ride out of san jose has cleared up quite nicely. of the golden gate bridge is a picture of duty right now. of the right coming out of nevada of, we do still have slowed traffic until you get to about san rafael. >>darya: filling up your car will deal less painful this morning if afc averaged prices dropped 95. $3.29 the average across the nation. jackie sissel is taking a look and prices this morning. of >>jackie: i am here in emeryville. if gas here were $3.29, that would be of the real story. in the day we are at $3.64. that is down 205 over the last month. it has to do with supply and demand. drivers are using less gas right now in part because of the economic turndown and also we are driving more fuel- efficient cars. the supply remains up in the demand is down so the price

the other four bridges martinez, benicia, dumbarton bridge and, of course, the bay bridge, we have been talking about all morning. the bay bridge right here we are on the foot of the bay bridge toll plaza on the embarcadero side and yeah, heavy fog surrounding the bay bridge right now. as gianna said, not only is it heavy fog on the bridge but on the eastbound lanes, the lights from treasure island all the way to the end of eastbound lanes are out on the lower deck. so please be very careful heading eastbound on the bay bridge. the westbound lights seem to be okay. so yeah, heading out to the airport, oakland airport not reporting delays in their flights so that's good news but i'm also surprised because we were there in the sfo area and it was foggy there. but it's patchy fog and that's probably one good word to describe this morning's fog is that it's patchy. you will encounter heavy thick fog on the highway an all of a sudden it's clear again and then heavy fog again. chp just issued a heavy fog advisory for the richmond/san rafael bridge. so please be very careful. give yourself som

if you are taking the dumbarton this morning, we have a strong wind advisory issued for that particularbridge but fortunately there are no slowdowns to report. >>mark: the band starts today for kids to ways in the fast-food meals. starting today at mcdonald's you will have to date 105 for the extra toy. mcdonald's will be using the money to build a ronald mcdonald house at the ucsf medical center at mission bay. turkey has not decided what to do with their extra proceeds. >>darya: potential college students have received a letter in the mail from penn state that says a pleased to continue--please continue to consider joining, that comes after sandusky faces charges of raping young boys over a 15 year period of time. the penn state held a town hall meeting yesterday saying that the university will raise the visibility of ethics to a new levy a-just to a new level amid the sex scandal. >>mark: we are continuing to watch windy conditions around the bay area. send us your weather pictures. we will post a month facebook and show them on the air. we will be right back. and a but >>mark: we ar

you saw the san mateo bridge for yourself, if you are taking the dumbarton bridge, all of that greenndicate speeds over 50 mph. we have no delays on our transit systems this morning. >>justine: thank you erica, and the occupy protesters are trying to bring the shelters to them the this is a idea that the police are not warm up to. >>reporter: group of the temperature is dropping and here's this wooden structure built in the middle of a park. police say this structure was a safety concern. protesters perched on top to prevent crews from tearing it down. they ended up being forced off by officers on a cherry pick. in all, at least 31 people were arrested drop today. in the end, the structure was torn down. that kind of confrontation has not been a problem in buffalo n.y.. occupy protesters put up a tone that was donated by a supporter. >> this was someone at that felt strongly about the movement and one to make sure we stay warm. >> we are doing everything we can to combat the elements. we have a lot of our occupy participants getting creative. they have created what is called the hot

the dumbarton is move in both directions. >>darya: in the national news, jerry sandusky is facing an alleged sex abuse victim in court. his arrest came last week when two new victims came forward bring the total number to 10. he is looking at a total of 50 charges in the sex abuse scandal, this after a grand jury report what the public detailing dozens of charges of child rape and molestation. >>darya: 5:50 a.m., we're back with more and a couple of minutes. they are headed to the port of oakland trying to shut it down. >>mark: a cold day in the mid '50s with morning fog tomorrow. a slight chance of rain expected on thursday. a fairly quiet week. clouds, a son scanned a chance of showers. >>darya: hollywood has stumbled through its worst to weekends at the box office. normally around this time of year business starts picking up. babbitt new year's eve was the number- one movie but only made a 13 million. that is not a huge debut. this has and hilary swank, halle berry, ashton kutcher, sarah jessica parker and the kitchen sink

if you are taking the dumbarton it is a problem free with no heavy fall.raffic is moving at the limit >>darya: in national news the charges were dropped in the syracuse scandal, but one of the man who accused four former basketball coach of molestation is slated to sue him. his lawyers are expected to announce today that they are filing a civil lawsuit against bernie fine. he recently publicly accused fine of fondling him and eight hits for a hotel room when he was just 13 years old. authorities are investigating those allegations. this is the third man to come forward in this case. >>mark: two more boys have come forward accusing sandusky of sexual assaults. >> we will be prepared for whatever comes down the road. >>mark: sandusky claims that he is not a pedophile. he sits in jail, unable to pay its $250,000 bail. >>darya: of former illinois gov. robb leavitt has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. he was convicted of 17 public corruption charges related to his attempt to sell president obama as vacated senate seats. he purports to prison within 90 days

it is backing hall went out into hayward and passed the dumbarton bridge. very slow and go conditions. you will probably want to tack on an extra 20-25 minutes for your ride along the nimitz. other than that, we are good to go. the san mateo bridge is moving well in all directions of '92. a quick look at the golden gate, southbound 101 shows a lot of space between arts. the time right now is in 908 west and we're back with more. if fifth of the live in of ring flash will linkedin new v from faugh " pachmann >>darya: we are continuing live team coverage of the occupy san francisco movement broken up this morning if it at around 2:00 a.m.. there you see a line of police, about 100 of them in new-line its year surprising protesters. for the most part, about 70 or so protesters were peacefully arrested as they were removed from the plaza and then the the crews went in to clean up. we are live on the scene and we will continue team coverage in just a couple of minutes. >>mark: there are concerns that no deal will be reached by the end of the week as european lea

a quick reminder, if you are taking the dumbarton bridge, a high windy advisory this hour. >>justine: new this morning, the labor department issued new numbers about unemployment. the unemployment rate fell to 8 1/6%. that is the lowest since march of 2009. employers added 120,000 jobs last month. employers have stepped up hiring in response to the improving economy, but i am also reading that more than half of the jobs added in november were by retailers, restaurants and bars. a sign that holiday hiring has kicked in. another reason for the drop in unemployment, roughly 350,000 people gave up looking for work and were no longer counted in the unemployment numbers. >>darya: the kids love zynga. now, zynga is planning to go public with a 150 million shares. they make games like mafia wars and a farm bill. the plan to sell shares for up to $10 a share. >>mark: we are watching windy conditions out maxxam. >>darya: the winds have died down. now it is all about cleanup. fijian the crews are still working on getting power back to south they customers. nearly 200,000 people are st

if you are coming across the dumbarton, there is a high wind advisory in effect.>mark: another reminder, if you have any pictures of damage, send them to us at www.kron4.com. >>darya: if you think hour wind was that, in southern california, los angeles county has been declared a state of emergency area because of the windstorm. you can see the damage that they have to deal with. hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the area have no power curious in some areas it will not have the power until sunday. >>justine: we're hearing that the unemployment rate is now at 8.6%. that is the lowest in two and a half years. for >>mark: we will be right back as the kron4 this continues. here is a live look at the golden gate bridge. a beautiful and clear morning see if >>mark: in indiana, chilly emergency radio calls being released with this deadly state blast at the indiana state fair. this is the first time that they fully it looks about 30 minutes or less that the weather comes in. all units, off a thunderstorm warning, use your best judgment. >> the speakers have

we do not have any reports of any delays whatsoever for the dumbarton bridge this morning. >>justine: thank you erica. now it is, shoppers will have to start bringing their own backs not just at the supermarket but to the mall. >>reporter: at san jose's shopping mecca, the crowds are huge and they are there to shop. they are carrying bags, lots of them filled with merchandise and he could not seem too happy about the plastic bags ben that starts on january 1st clear and her--that starts on january 1st. >>reporter: lead to this affect thousands of stores, small and national retailers will not be able to use plastic, bought a plastic is not an option, paper will cost 105 per bag. shoppers will have to remember to bring the reusable plastic bags with them or pay the price. outside a supermarket shoppers are divided. >>reporter: will you pay? >> i do not really have a choice i guess, i cannot carry the groceries in my hands myself. >>reporter: while paperbacks cost 105 now that is only for the next two years, and then it will climb to 255 per bag. >>justine: national news now i

we have light rain as out of the dumbarton that could move itself on top of this ban in the next 15-20 minutes. the delta has been seeing a light rain. a small section of highway 4 is seeing light rain. in the south, that is the direction that these kids and pieces of rainfall headed to. for the beer is a winter storm warning in effect for some of the higher peaks in l.a. and ventura county. fifth your troubles into l.a., if you are on interstate 5 going over the grapevine we are seeing some nasty weather. if it could get cold enough to see snow accumulation. they were calling for 8-14 in. of snow accumulation. the careful if you're headed that way. temperatures are still on the mild side. mid-upper 40's just about everywhere else. this afternoon a 10 degree bombed in current temperatures. mid-upper 50s through much of the afternoon. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. so far so good for tuesday and wednesday. temperatures are warming up into the upper 50s and low 60s. let's get an update on the commute. >>erica: traffic remains heavy up the incline and across the upper deck.

that does not let up until you test the dumbarton bridge. northbound tv has been a slow ride that was impeded by a couple of earlier accidents that are now long gone but obviously the delays are not. in the north bay the delays are not gone. off slow coming out of nevada. that should let up before the 580 interchange. >>mark: a developing story we have been falling, if you shop at lucky supermarkets, check your bank account immediately. dozens of customers had credit-card and debit card information stolen. the sec 23 stores. the task took place in october and november. will tran anh was at a lucky store in fremont earlier today. >> approximately 80 victims had no idea. victims also include employees. they want to get groceries, they used to the self check out line swiping their debit and credit cards. they punched in their information thinking that this war was getting the information but instead the thieves were as well. they went shopping but the customers got the bill. this happened during a two month span of time. nonetheless, a lot of p

same thing for the bum darrsh -- dumbarton bridge. road sensors are turning more red now as you move across the bay, 8 0 is backed up from near to 288 and northbound 82, at the shoulder, there is a crash. >> okay. thank you, steve. cloudy, mostly cloudy. a weak little system. what's different this system is going down to the coast. there's signs that christmas eve and christmas day looks very wet. we'll see. we'll see. some of that light rain continues to work its way in. william out in vallejo, .02. vallejo picked up .43. a little breeze out there and it's cold, cold out there. there's very little here. our cloud and rain forecast has some morning light rain and then -- like that, it's gone. most of it will be gone by noon and then we'll have to deal with mostly cloudy skies. i did -- i do think if the wind picks up -- with all that moisture, i think we'll be dealing with fog. temperatures in the 50s. more fog tomorrow. sun, clouds, the weekend looks really quiet. the next hint of rain would be on thursday morning and that's looking

. >>> san mateo bridge, westbound 92, that looks good if you are driving on westbound 4, the dumbartonalso moves well. >> when you get to the pill, there's slow traffic for you on highway 101. concord to pleasant hill and walnut creek, stop-and-go traffic, we had an earlier crash in danville. 680 is a little bit slow. as we move the maps to dag dag -- maps to -- san jose has the slowest traffic heading north up to cupertino. let's go to steve. >> thank you, sal. >>> for tomorrow it's sunny. temperatures are beginning to warm up a little bit. we've had a lot of 20s, upper 20, 30s now. more 30s. it's cold out there. 44 in the city. san jose was 37. now they are 40 42 you but -- they are 42. very quiet. just not much going on. there will be a system approaching us sunday and monday. i think it will give us an increase in the low clouds and maybe some partly cloudy skies but today and tomorrow, cold mornings. fog is on the increase. patterns are changing a little bit. mild days, hazy sun. dry pattern continues through sunday. could be a hint of something early next weekend. your extended f

the san mateo bridge looks good and so does the dumbarton bridge after a delay. 7:40.et's go to steve. >>> all right. thank you, sal. a very good morning. i believe we're at the alameda village. it looks -- sailing out there. one boat out there that i've been on. we do have very cold warnings but we can't find any rain. maybe around 22nd, 23rd, maybe. cold morning, mostly sunny. quiet pattern as we go into the weekend. i think we get another round of wind next monday and tuesday. today there is a little low sitting off cape mendocino, all it's doing is bringing higher clouds and that's it. it might have helped keep the lows you. it was colder yesterday morning. we had crystal clear skies. december's been a very dry month. we've had a lot of wind. we haven't had much in the way of rain. next week does not look promising, maybe the week afterwards. it's a pattern that's stuck. everything kind of has to rearrange itself. so far i don't see anything. a lot of upper 30s, a few 20s. there is the little guy. he's not doing much. jet stream stays way to the north. dives down t

dumb dumbarton bridge is an alternate.oliseum in oakland, wind picking up a bit. it will affect these trucks but not the other cars. jon, back to you. >> thank you all for joining us. another local news update in one half hour from right now. there. and safeway select appetizers help you rise to every occasion. ♪ from delectable to amazing. there are over 20 affordable safeway select appetizers ♪ to make all of your gatherings just as merry as can be. ♪ only at safeway. ingredients for life. ♪ >> the king of pop, michael jackson, loved by millions of fans and now you can own items from jackson's home that he shared with his kids in his final days. furniture and other items going on the auction block. before they do, we're going to have some of them here wednesday on "today." >> all right. also coming up, we're all about the holiday planning this half hour and we will start with a celebrity gift guide. jill martin is here with the hottest jewelry, gadgets and accessories that all the stars are buying up, but guess what, the