past north greenville speeds improve towards 680 and pleasanton.ntioch bridge, so far, so good. but we are seeing our usual slowing. this is our typical commute through antioch. speeds though averaging under 25 miles per hour passing a street. back to you. >> thank you. >>> tributes pouring in from around the world for one of the biggest figures in world diplomacy. coming up, family members reveal richard holbrooke's dying wish. >>> plus, smoking up just got one bay area city. why the price of medical marijuana is about to go sky high. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, a federal judge agrees with virginia's attorney general that forcing americans to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. this decision >>> a roadblock for the healthcare reform. a fudge agree that is forcing americans to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. this is the first decision against any part of the law. there were two earlier rulings in the law's favor. >> this case is not about health insurance. it is not about healthcare. it's about liberty. and the judge said as much in his order.

one through the livermore area at greenville.he cars not blocking lanes but one is on the left shoulder, one on the right shoulder. you notice as you head towards greenville, traffic a little slow, 37 mph out of the altamont pass. also westbound 580 at grand, looks like they might be in the clearing stages. not seeing slowing as you make your way through oakland. mass transit reporting no delays. we heard of a possible problem on bart but we called them and they said, nope, everything seems fine. 35 trains on time at this point. go outside and check out interstate 80 in berkeley as you make your way eastbound, there is an accident at 680 on the shoulder. right now no chain requirements on 80 in the sierra or highway 50. eric, kristen. >> frances, thank you. it's 5:10. >> the layoffs facing hundreds of yahoo workers today. >> the government ordered them taken off store shelves but is everyone complying. what an informal survey discovered. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> it's 15:13 this knowinggy tues

but, again, chp did issue that one advisory for westbound and eastbound 580 between 205 and north greenville road. bay bridge toll plaza still looks pretty good. everything so far at 4:30 this morning is running on time for bartkowicz, ace, muni and caltrains. back up to you. >> thanks very much. >>> some are calling it a border war. san francisco supervisors could decide tomorrow to just move ahead with the plan to charge people to drive into the city of from peninsula. and if that happens, politicians on the peninsula are ready to charge back. the mercury news reports city councilmembers and one supervisor from san mateo county are opposing the san francisco proposal. they're talking about charging a $12 fee to drive south out of san francisco. we're going to have more on this story. we have a reporter on it coming up at 5:00. >>> and today a budget committee will try to salvage san francisco's bid to host the 2013 america's cup yacht race. san francisco has a deadline of this coming friday to come up with an acceptable plan. you see, they're upset about changes that san francisco made to

an earlier accident around north greenville that caused a big back up out of the pass. slowing that shows up. the travel time is moved to about 15 minutes and start to increase. 18 to 20 minutes out of the pass through central livermore and over towards that dublin interchange. an updated location with eastbound 580 at seminary, the connector has lane blocked and a live look at oakland with the misty and wet conditions. we have rain coming through the area from time to time. it getz heavy at times. >> more than just heavy drizzle this morning. let's not ignore that. into the east bay hills, 880 into hayward. now starting to see the rain around the bay bridge. it's going to follow you down the sunol grade into san jose. we have rain moving into downtown. light rain for now and we think more substantial rain with stronger systems coming in later this week. today keep the umbrella with you and highs in the 50s today. not too cold, but breezy and a little damp at times into this evening. we catch a break tomorrow and then wetter and stronger systems arrive for the weekend.

there was an earlier crash westbound 580 at greenville.been cleared but there's left over slowing as you make your way out of the altamont pass into livermore. an earlier accident southbound 880 at 238 is being cleared and traffic is still flowing well through the area. if you want to take mass transit this morning, so far all systems reporting no major delays. eric, jenelle? >> frances, thank you so much. >> a global campaign to free two u.c. berkeley graduates held captive in iran returns home in the bay area. >> a hiker survives six days and nights in the santa cruz mountains. sapphire preferred are worth 25% more on travel. we're like forget florida, we're going on a safari. so we're on the serengeti, and seth finds a really big bone. we're talking huge. they dig it up, put it in the natural history museum and we get to name it. raus. sethasauraus. really. your points from chase sapphire preferred are worth 25% more on travel? means better vacations. that's incredible. believe it...with chase sapphire preferred your points are worth 25

we have that earlier accident right there right around greenville road in livermore. is now clear completely gone. i think even the tow truck left the scene by now. but our drive time still continues to increase. 18 minutes now to take you out towards the dublin interchange and 680. to the south bay we go now. everything pretty good here. we had an earlier accident much earlier this morning on highway 85 near camden. that's now gone so mostly green on our traffic sensors meaning speeds are moving well. here's a live look at 280 traffic heading out of downtown san jose. be careful this morning though if you are coming out of the santa cruz mountains. we have been talking about a lot of wet conditions, gusty conditions and in fact still a wind advisory for the bay bridge. and a quick live look along the peninsula. here's northbound traffic 101 near lagoon. everything looks good heading into san francisco. back to you. >> thank you. >>> in the next half hour their iconic rainbow flags in san francisco, this morning what the city will no longer allow in the castro distric

first is in greenville, may 5. second will be in the following year ahead of the primary. you don't have to wait that long to hear the fox all-stars talk about the omnibus bill and potential government >>> this is eerily reminiscent of last december and i believe america will have the same reaction to this bill than the healthcare bill a year ago. >> christmas is a week from saturday, i understand that. i hope the republicans understand it also. because we are going to complete our work. no matter how long it takes in the congress. we have to do the work of the american people. we stalled the whole congress. >> bret: getting weird from senate democratic aide on the senate said that the u.s. government runs out of money midnight on saturday could be shut down for a day or two according to aides because of the clock that is running in the senate and schedule of things. senator reid is supposed to bring up an am any bus spending bill -- omnibus spending bill. $1.1 billion. and many have problems with it. cane cape cane of arizona went to the floor saying there are 6400 earmar

greenville road westbound 580 may be minor injuries because the fire department department truck is there. let's go to 880 in oakland. traffic is moving well. that is southbound 880 you can see there. traffic is moving a long okay. the morning commute will be all right on the san mateo bridge. tough driving because of the wet weather. let's go toasty. >>> thank you. we have rain moving through. the heaviest rain to the north. this is a weak little system but it will produce some rain. farther south you go is just clouds. steady rain. not a big system. another cloud, cloudy day. you can see the cloud cover continuing to march a long there. it will be that way for awhile. cloudy skies coming in and rain. cloudy skies. rain for most. farther north better rain. a break wednesday and thursday. possiblely heavy rains starting to move in. the system again will take most of its energy and see how it's sliding west to east. there is a bad image in there. that flash frame you see. i'm trying to figure out how to get in it. i'm trying. it's not so much this system coming in but a lot of moisture is

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some people have found they got into a crash for example 580 at greenville. couple of cars up on the left hand shoulder talking about the insurance matters i'm sure. and then in contra costa county concord northbound a crash. you have a lot of fender benders that have been pulled off the road already. just take it easy. stopping someone cut you off and you have to stop suddenly you may not be able to. just plan on the guy in front of you doing something dumb and then you can take it that way. that's what i do. i never trust a guy over there. westbound bay bridge that traffic is okay coming in into the toll plaza area with no major problems. but again it's wet. and this mornings commute an 880 north and southbound that traffic is moving a long very nicely. here is a very good driver. it's steve paulson. >>> sometimes i think i'm the best driver out there. you know how that works. >> exactly. >> good morning. there was a little pipeline problem the national weather service had data issues. a lot of the datas have not come in on the rain totals. i had a tweet ho

but tom horn's family from greenville. >> they said they'd refund our money and we're going to come back when it's warmer weather and we don't have to deal with the snow. >> we're going to go shopping tomorrow. >> diana ross for nbc news. >> hence the song "there's no place like home for the holidays". >> what up with that? >>> some good news for the folks who have been batwatching the rr over the northeast. things are drying out. we're keeping an eye over tuesday as we had some blowing snow in philadelphia. by tuesday night, football time, should see temperatures close to 30. maybe mid 20s in the wind chill factor. this after the day we saw of snow totals, three feet in spots around new jersey and even central park picking up almost 20 inches of snow. nothing like that here in the temperatures in the 40s and 50s right now. but may see patchy fog out to nap pa and fairfield as we head to the nighttime hours tonight before the rain and the wind kick up this time tomorrow. right now, not a lot in the way of wind. things are calm right now. but we will see southerly winds pick up as we head

altamonte pass eastbound westbound 580, 205 and north greenville road. speeds are moving along okay and no delay as you head out to dublin interchange. 15 minute drive time westbound 580 stretch. live look at san mateo bridge they cleared that earlier stalled car on westbound 82 now you are good to go delay free. back up to you. >>> thank you. 5:01 a.m. violence and vandalism at san francisco's largest park. the gates may be forced to be locked at night. ann makovec has more on the folden gate park proposal. >> reporter: good morning juliette. gorgeous things about golden gate park like the holiday tree behind me but a lot of ugly incidents have occurred and mayor newsom has indicated he will make some moves to change the rules that would make these things easier to enforce in the coming year. right now there are inconsistencies about rules in the park we found this sign saying it was closed 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. but on the next block a sign said it was closed midnight to 5:00 a.m. the mayor wants to make rules consistent and then increase enforcement

remains heavy from grant line to north greenville road but then speeds improve once you hit pleasanton and the nimitz freeway 880 through oakland. this looks great past the coliseum. there we go. taillights move northbound up into downtown oakland. we'll have much more on your morning commute coming up. in the meantime, back to you. >> thank you. >>> a house under renovation explodes sending the owner flying outside in flames. sharon chin is in east oakland with what may have caused it. good morning. >> good morning, juliette. yeah. the investigation still going on trying to pinpoint how this all started. i want to show you that the explosion was so strong that the second story here of this duplex collapsed sending debris on top of a parked car below and all over the street. the owner of the duplex, a 61- year-old man who was inside, is in critical condition this morning with burns on more than 80% of his body. fire crews got a report of a fire just after 8:00 last night on 87th avenue and dowling street here. neighbors say that there was an explosion that felt like an earthquake. they

through livermore, it cleared at greenville. rob likely because of the stuff we see in sunol.er kicking up and the rain looks like it might have eased up. >> interesting slowing in livermore. we are seeing rain towards the pass and the grade as you saw. pretty mild this morning. no need for a winter coat. just the umbrella at times and gusty around the hilltops. 20 to 30 miles per hour. in the south bay, widely scattered showers and same story around santa cruz south of los gatos. you will find a little bit of rain. into dublin and livermore, light rain will continue from 580 and 680 to danville. not so much around san francisco and oakland, the ponding you are seeing due to the rain that fell overnight. most of the action moved off to the east. not seeing much rain right now. as we go hour by hour, the showers should start to head off to the east and get through tuesday's drive. wednesday morning to wednesday afternoon is when the next round of rain arrives around the bay area. high in the 60s for most places. a partly cloudy day and low to mid 60s and 50s for most. we will t

back on shore, overton prepared the day's catch for shipment back to east carolina university in greenville, north carolina. over the next several months, faculty and students will carefully sort, classify, and examine the mehnaden larvae, cataloging any damage they might find. back at e.c.u., the project has actually been underway since october, when assistant professor ed stellwag started what amounts to a small fish farm. the research team needed another species of fish larvae that could be exposed to controlled amounts of oil and dispersants in the laboratory to compare with the fish taken from the gulf. stellwag set up an array of fish tanks to spawn zebrafish-- a small, well-studied species that produces new larvae every day. >> one of the reasons it was the larvae fall to the bottom of the tanks, where marbles prevent the adults from eating them. stellwag retrieves them with a simple siphon. >> we're getting about 800 to 1,000 embryos, and then we culture them, and of course we're going to continue to grow those until we build up a large enough stock. and then we can each day look at

dens, foggy conditions between greenville and grants. the extra cautious. not the language drive time tracking 13 minutes from the altar of past 2 5/80. crosstown freeways, san francisco, conditions just a couple of cars, had led to this segment. james. >> time for people behaving badly, stanley roberts tells us about some drivers in san francisco not fallen the rules. >> san francisco, the city of the most unusual parking jobs i we are seeing . if it's a place where people will parked in one direction, then drive another. it is also known for double parkers, you can find them just about everywhere. like these two cars on mission street. was a double parts? let's take a closer look. oh, this man has a handful of lottery tickets so that's why he block the full line of traffic to get rich creek. and this blue card, unloading a tel aviv. i guess it never fed this. pastries always tastes better when you double parts. and over on chesnutt, it's a double parkers. does this winter's and attended well the drivers over here. the few minutes later she runs your car w

james is joining u from greenville, north carolina. our mocrat's line. caller: thank you for taking my call. this thing about giving this 2% tax cut. but with the loop holes that takes it down. with the tax cut that makes them pay zero taxes for ten years. they don't need another tax cut. but i agree that's a pretty good compromise. the only thing, the problem with the compromise is that you left the unemployment out. if you're going to worry about 2 million people, what about 5 million already lost the unemployment? what about those folks? you know, the thing is that the problem is greed at the top. we'll never get anything solved if we continue to think that the wealth is going to trickle down to hit the people at the bottom. that has not worked for ten years. host: your comment. guest: well, i think that, again, i think that you get back to you talk about sort of giving the wealthy money and speaking as if it's sort of a give-away for the wealthy and it's problematic because it presumes that somehow ultimately everything is the property of the state t

greenville, raleigh, again all the way back to louisville and knoxville.oads this morning. do take extra time and you could have school delays and cancellations, the whole nine yards. something to watch out for as you start your day. let's see what else is happening across the country. southwest you will see precipitation, as well in the form of snow in higher elevations places like phoenix, though, a little on the soggy side. wintry mix in higher elevations around flagstaff and sante fe heading to the mountains of the rockies you'll see significant snow. it is going to be just beautiful. but, you got to watch it driving today into tomorrow. meanwhile, around the rest of the country, what else do we have? well, we're going to dry out as we head to the pacific northwest the a will little bit of rain on the coast. you see that low and coldfront, that will begin to move eastward. as it does, that may be the birth of the next storm system, which is going to roll across the country as we head into the hole will day week. we'll watch that. that's a quick look at

greenville, raleigh, again all the way back to louisville and knoxville.e and you could have school delays and cancellations, the whole nine yards. something to watch out for as you start your day. let's see what else is happening across the country. southwest you will see precipitation, as well in the [ cheering ] >> that's your latest weather forecast. harry, inside to you. >> paul rudd is a familiar face in many of hollywood's biggest comedy hits the last decade, one of the funniest leading men around this time a troubled businessman trying to get close to reese weather ther spoon in the romantic comedy "how do you know". >> what sort of trouble are you in, george? >> simply put, currently unem ploeed my girlfriend recently broke up with me, i'll soon out of money and i'm the target of a federal investigation. >> wow. you're a real chick magnet, aren't you? i'm sorry. >> well, we'll see. >> i think the lines end up working pretty well. paul rudd is here. good morning. >> good morning. >> so, just to get this straight because i've seen the film and i'm g

a tornado rips through a small town in south carolina near greenville.d at 100 mile-an-hour. some homes ripped from their foundations, all part of a major storm system that brought rain to the northeast yesterday. jenna: janice dean is joining us with a forecast and maybe an explanation? we've got tornadoes, storms, what's happening? >> reporter: yeah, an arctic air mass just sunk southward, jenna. we had over reports of -- 20 reports of to tornadoes, and thn we saw wind gunfights here in the northeast -- gusts here in the northwest and extentive flood -- extensive flooding. feels like 0 in international falls, 10 in minneapolis, so, yes, it is december, and it is feeling like winter time. speaking of that arctic air maas, that is also causing lake effect snow downwind of erie and ontario. look at the totals, this is within the last 24 hours. just east of the buffalo area close to 2 feet of snow. i know we have video from this morning out of the buffalo area. look at this, guys, hundreds of motorists were stranded on i-90, a 10-mile stretch of i-90 shut

the greenville, ohio, mike, good morning to you. caller: just gone to talk a little bit about the money that our government seems to be able to throw around for these problems. i'm sure it was needed for the banks and so forth, but i'm also concerned about the unemployment situation. the heil has one of the strictest limits as far as -- ohio has one of the strictest limits as far as how long you are able to collect. i believe it is 96 weeks that someone is allowed to receive benefits for the duration of unemployment. i wonder if congress will extend that. what about the people who simply have not been able to find work at all, and they are not even included if the benefits are extended? host: thanks for your call. the front page of the "washington post" suggest that the gop and obama are in continued discussions about the tax cuts. some of the reporting suggests that the president is trying to use the extension of tax benefits to leverage discussion. one side gives an the other side gets. that is still in discussion with the white h

towards interstate 580 still a hot spot this westbound ride started out pour with an accident at greenvilleough it did look like it would not have any lasting impact look at this, 9:00, we should be seeing green on all of this race sensors meaning speeds above 50 mi. for our for the ride that altman passed but still slow speeds in yellows, reds below 25 mi. per hour sometimes stop and slow. the 101 red not to rate zero it is much lighter than other days of the week and lighter than usual finally seeing a little bit of a break up around the park way it will be slow before trampled in a cruise through impasse the expressway. has the 92 red as you expect then hang out, easy ride across the span, the departure was a little crowded, for san mateo bridge still little crowded due hayward and 800 perching 92 both directions. . . >> extradition hearing is taking place for this man and jeffrey scott easily he is the virginia man who was arrested in sentences, on friday for the kidnapping of brittany may smith. he was dating her mother tinsmith as she was found dead in her home. police consider her de

greenville, ohio. mike on the independent line. caller: your question as far as will medicare be here for baby boomers. seriously -- i'm sure it will be. there is so much money our government has to shuffle around, i am sure it will be there in some way, shape, or form, unless our economy gets any worse than it already is. host: it comes to that would you subscribe to changes to preserve it as far as the program is run? caller: i have thought long and hard about it, and i used to think all of these programs -- they are good, these so-called social programs. but when you really think about it -- and a lot of people believe this way -- where in our constitution doesn't say that we have a right to all of these things? really, i guess they are entitlements, right? what's wrong with people just knowing for when they start working, when they are 60, 17, 18, and they get a job -- 16, 70, 80 years ago, when they get a job and save their own money in a savings account. our country rely so much of the government for security -- if they get s

james is joining us from greenville, north carolina. our democrat's line. caller: thank you for taking my call. this thing about giving this 2% tax cut. but with the loop holes that takes it down. with the tax cut that makes them pay zero taxes for ten years. they don't need another tax cut. but i agree that's a pretty good compromise. the only thing, the problem with the compromise is that you left the unemployment out. if you're going to worry about 2 million people, what about 5 million already lost the unemployment? what about those folks? you know, the thing is that the problem is greed at the top. we'll never get anything solved if we continue to think that the wealth is going to trickle down to hit the people at the bottom. that has not worked for ten years. host: your comment. guest: well, i think that, again, i think that you get back to you talk about sort of giving the wealthy money and speaking as if it's sort of a give-away for the wealthy and it's problematic because it presumes that somehow ultimately everything is the property of the state t