. >>> jim bernard in the cbs 5 weather center. it looks like we're headed to the warm and wet and windy through midweek. all of the details coming are way in a few minutes. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, just been sent >>> a man convicted of torturing a tracy teen has just been sentenced to three life sentences in prison. anthony wader was found guilty in november of torture, kidnapping and false imprisonment of 16-year-old kyle ramirez at a neighbor's home. he will serve three life sentences concurrently for the crime and eligible for parole after 19 years. the other three people in that case took plea deals. they're each serving more than 30 years. >>> it has been a problem for months. backlog for the dmv trying to issue new driver's licenses. the dmv is starting to change the way it is dealing with the delays. julie watts has more. >> i just realized that you got yours on friday, the day this expired. >> yes. >> reporter: tina san juan was shocked when we pointed out her temporary i.d. expired the same day she referred the new one in the

tech gurus like jim bernard, he will sit there the entire game and he will be there with his twitter account. and it is an age thing. young people, remember they like to hit the young demographics, that's the point, the biggest purchasers who advertiser goes after and those guys will predict and they will incentivize you to take a contest and do this on your twitter page and follow this twitter link, or check this out and one of the things you have to remember too, as a parent is a lot of times they do ads that are morris kay that they don't show -- more, risque that they don't show on the super bowl but an uncut version may be on youtube so your kid may not be exposed to it because of the rules that govern broadcast television and there are no rules about that on twitter or youtube. that is another thing to be aware of. i mean look, will i go to twitter or facebook to check out what happened on the audi commercial or the doritos commercial for the million dollar lottery, no, i will not. >> no, i will not. >> jim bernard however will spend his entire day, you know, twittering. >> pro

charged particles, directed by the earth's magnetic field and makes for a spectacular show. >> jim bernard is joining us with his super bowl pick. jim. >> yeah, first northern lights usually induced by solar flairs not only does solar flairs play a big part in our weather patterns but effects magnetic fields in the atmosphere and we end up with northern lights. pretty good one at that. >>> great lights show across the bay, all sunny, near record levels, upper 70s. low 80s. cooling down near normal through the week as we look at a chance of rain increasing back into the picture by the weekend early next week as it looks like we will finally head back to a weather pattern by next week. >> all right you know what,. >> do me a favour and pick green bay and get her off my back. >> between this guy and jim, no body wants to have any fun with super bowl i am ready to get out of here have a beer and some cheese and move on. >> 49ers. >> all right. there we go >> i'm done. >> thank that's it for our weekend early edition. >> next newscast at 5:30 if you want an alternative to the super bowl half ti

jim bernard will let us kno ore >>> snow in parts to have bay area that normally don't see it. jim bernard will let us know if we have more wintery weather ahead. >>> seems like a sure fire way to reduce crime in a troubled bay area neighbourhood. some people are against it. >>> concerns this morning for four californians after pirates took over their yacht in the indian ocean. >> welcome back to weekend early edition, the time is what, 8:00 a.m. i am phil matier. >> i am ann makovec. hope your sunday is starting off well. we will have our weather forecast coming up. >> we will cover a lot of news including the issue of gang injunctions in oakland. >> cold weather conditions that brought snow to bay area hills. >> here is a live look at east san jose, mount hamilton the road remains closed east of grant ranch. across the valley, santa cruz mountains, stretch of highway 35, skyline boulevard closed south of hayward, highway 9 while crews remove snow. despite tricky road conditions people are heading to the hills to enjoy the rare winter setting. >>> marin county people hiked up

. >>> let's check weather with jim bernard. traffic with elizabeth but pretty cold, chilly start i think my car got down to 32 degrees outside. >> yes, it has been cold lately ice in north bay valley, freezing fog reported yesterday, that is some slippery stuff. we will likely stay cool through the week here another cold event headed our way for next weekend. we could see snow once again, on the local peeks here by friday -- peaks here by friday. as we look offshore another wave supposed to stay in offshore waters it will be close though. hit or miss. touch and go activity bump up against the coast leave a few light showers move south not a major event slightly warmer this morning due to increasing cloud cover, slight chance of showers will be with us on and off through day mainly on the beach otherwise we will look for cloudy and cool conditions. we will look at traffic and see what elizabeth has found. >> we are searching jim. not much going on out there. there was one earlier accident berkeley, westbound 80 near ash by, high

let's go to jim bernard. rain right now. >> there are a few light showers clearing the east bay hills. that's the remnants of round one. round 2 is coming ashore to our north and it will be arriving in the bay area later today. we'll look for the wind to pick up through the day. we are going to get warm air in front of that system. rain will develop this evening into tomorrow. more rain than yesterday. as we start the day out cloudy with a slight chance of some showers out there again, it will pick up through the day as the next round of rain moves in and colder air to follow. we'll have details coming up in a few minutes. but right now, here's elizabeth with your traffic update. >> thank you, jim. we have our first accident just coming into our newsroom with lanes blocked. this is in fremont. southbound 880 right around mission boulevard, sounds like at least one of those cars is blocking lanes. another car is in the center divide so we'll continue to watch the ride there. not seeing any slowing yet on our s

let's go to jim bernard. do we have some wind advisories this morning?nds around the bay mainly on the bridges where there's some travel advisories up as we see san mateo bridge northwesterly winds 30 to 30 to 40 miles an hour. elsewhere 17 to 20, exposed bridges on the highways and byways where we see winds gustiest this morning. winds will settle down this afternoon. it's mainly northwesterly direction which is added to some cooling across the bay this morning. we'll get a bit of a bump in the temperatures chance of rain coming next week. gianna has a traffic update. >> in one of the windy spots we have a major accident. chp has issued a sig alert eastbound 580 at portola avenue for this wreck involving a vehicle and a big rig. now, these vehicles hit a sofa in the road. the two right lanes are blocked until further notice. they are hoping to open things up within the next 45 minutes. you can see we are seeing delays here actually mostly on the westbound side because that's the commute direction. you're going to see delays approaching the scene eastbou

jim bernard and a look at our back to work forecast. good morning. >> good morning sydnie a warm weekend indeed, 24 records set in and around the bay area, pretty much everywhere, setting new records the old records heat wave was back in 1987 when most of the old records were set. down around 10 degrees from yesterday, mid-to low 50s throughout the area this time yesterday morn being in the of 0s -- morning in the 60s. we will peek out earlier, mid- to upper 60s. a few low 70s cooling trend will likely continue right on through the week as we see a chance of rain return to the forecast by next weekend. a look at the traffic update with giana. >> good morning jim your back to work monday drive not bad. construction to lookout for. road wash in effect. one way traffic -- work in effect. one way traffic control give yourself extra time they should have everything wrapped by 5:00 a.m. the rest of your drive highway 4, lots of green. problem free. over to 92, westbound 92 connector, both directions south 880, still shut down for cal trans th

jim bernard, i understand we can see a lot more of this later today. >> indeed we could, sydnie, as round two is headed our way right now looking at radar returns across the north bay. lots of clouds across the bay here this morning. and rain and wind soon to follow. the wind will be kicking up through the afternoon as we look at high definition doppler, returns showing moderate returns around santa rosa and up towards guerneville here. and again, this will automobile moving into the bay this evening with moderate to heavy precipitation expected, gusty winds out of the south, 20 to 30 miles per hour. and i believe we'll see the bulk of the rain across the bay about 10:00 tonight. so plan accordingly. >> we're waiting and we'll be ready, jim, thank you. >>> a barge ran aground in san francisco's marina district. look at this video shot just a short time ago. the barge is partially blocking the entrance to the saint francis yacht club. the u.s. coast guard said that barge was taking on water so they grounded it intentionally. there are reports the barge may have thousands of gallons of fuel

. >>> and from the ice to the frost, jim bernard has more details on this chilly saturday in the bay area, and when things might finally warm up. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,, >>> live look right now above twin peaks, a live camera up there. there was some snowfall overnight, but didn't stick to the ground. temperatures a little too warm. big story this morning is that temperatures are very chilly all around the bay area. we'll check in with jim in a minute. >>> good news first, the san jose sharks celebrating their sixth straight win over the calgary flames last night. sharks were down 3-2 and had to defend a 4-minute power play, but they got the final goal in the third period. the game went to a shootout with a score giving the sharks the advantage, 4-3. >>> the warriors last night against the hawks 95-79. they had as much as 29 points, warriors heading out on a seven- game road trip. >>> and as we've been talking about this morning, plenty of black ice obey area roadways if you are taking a road trip, be aware. that stuff sneaks up on you. >> it's called black ice. indeed, cond

jim bernard, you're looking at still warm enough... >> well, relatively speaking it's warm after looking at chicago there. a bit of snow rage going on there. i've lost track. i think they're on their 15th or 16th blizzard since the beginning of the year. we have been enjoying the opposite effect. high pressure continues across the bay, breezy and cool today, some white caps out there on the water. winds settle down in the afternoon, still cool, gusty though. winds gusting to 42. elsewhere around the bay 10 to 20 knots of northwest wind flow. cooler temperatures in the region. you could call this cold compared to last week, for the bay area, although after looking at chicago and the rest of the country it's relative. today's highs in the 60s in most locations, sunny and breezy. tonight clear skies, 30s and low 40s for most locations. winds north-northeast tomorrow, with the high and low setting up across the west. some warming, not as dramatic as last weekend, but the upper 60s through the end of the week. for today again, mid- to low- 60s for the warmer locations. upper 50s to low 60s. t

jim bernard with us to tell us how good it is out there. >> it doesn't get much better than this. as we saw, 24 records set this weekend. for record high temperatures. and still, a lot of sunshine out there. across the bay. as we look across the south bay. mostly sunny skies. and the temperatures down dramatically today. about 10-15 degrees. for most locations. and clear blue skies. the offshore winds have settled down a bit today. they will ramp up again tomorrow. and we will see a little bump, a couple of degrees, in the temperatures, through midweek. and it looks like the pattern will finally be pushing off to the eastern half of the country by the weekend. which could cause some more rapid melt problems for them. and although i'm sure they will enjoy the warmup. and take a look at today's highs, we will look for the upper 60s to low 70s. out across the interior, and everybody will be under mostly sunny skies and dry and mild, through the week, and with the pattern change on tap by the end of the week, into early next week. and again, tonight, we will look for mostly clear skie

. >> jim bernard has a look at when things will really get going around here. >> still wet around the bay this morning. some drizzle at this time with the radar returns out across the east bay and winding down but there is more on the way. we have a pause between the systems. winds develop this morning into this afternoon. a strong weather system coming into the bay area. windy and rainy this evening into earlier this morning when cold air arrives dropping the snow level down to 3,000 feet in the local mountains. it will all show up through the afternoon. we'll take a closer look at the rest of the details coming up in your forecast. right now, here's elizabeth with a quick look at traffic. >> no day of wet surfaces another day of wet surfaces. overnight roadwork on the incline from the incline to treasure island at the bay bridge and also on the approaches to the san mateo bridge. another 880 to westbound 92 the ramp roadwork for another half hour or so. traffic light across the bay area. no huge hot spots, no big accidents. if you are planning a trip to the sierra, no chain requirem

we'll start with jim bernard. we hope we see a little more sunshine but i know it's changing, the times they are achangin'. >> we have a little more sunshine for you, sydnie. we are not quite into the gloom yet, although we are seeing the cooling continuing. however, it will be brief. we are going to warm up again through the end of the week. not as dramatically as last weekend but we'll see a bit of a bump. you see the winds ramping up today. out over the hills we are looking at wind gusts around foster city around 42 miles an hour. in the high country diablo also picking up 40-mile-an-hour winds here as again we will be breezy through the day. temperatures down to near normal as we see upper 50s to low 60s prevailing outside today. that will be our daytime highs as once again the cooling trend will continue through the today, warming slightly through the end of the week before we start talking about the likelihood of rain returning by the weekend. we'll have the details coming up later on. right now a traffic up

we'll start with jim bernard and his chilly forecast. >> pretty chilly pattern the last week or so. i suppose you were up early looking for snow in the area. there were some flurries in the city, snow to the north in the mountains, snow to the south in the mountains and a lot of cold air which is now beginning to warm. we are up 10 degrees from where we were over the weekend. no more upper 20s. we set a few records this weekend but now we are back to near normal and warming with more warm rain expected this week. 43 in santa rosa, 35 in napa, temperatures up quite a bit here as clouds begin to move into the area from the north. some showers up on the north coast could reach the north bay. this afternoon they will remain light and primarily north of the greater bay area for the next day or two. by tomorrow night into wednesday, though, we'll look for rain to spread across the region here bringing with it a good chance of some measurable precipitation and it won't be frozen this time. instead, we'll look for more typical rain shower activity extending through the end of the week and a

jim bernard has the forecast. >> we have a fog advisory until 10 a.m. for the north bay valleys, we are seeing visibilities reduced to less than a quarter mile there. so caution is advised on that type a situation. fog extends patchy throughout the rest of the bay area this morning. it is not quite as dense as we see in the north bay. and it should be lifting through the morning hours. temperature-wise we are looking at upper 30s in the north bay today. a little warmer than yesterday. mid-40s to low 50s in and around the greater bay area and daytime highs today pretty close to yesterday, still pushing the upper 50s into the low 60s with warmer temperatures on the way by the end of the week. we'll take a close-up look at that coming up later on. right now, here's a look at traffic with gianna. >> good morning, jim. thank you. let's start off in the east bay. we have a fog advisory for the carquinez bridge so use caution across the span this morning. also, through solano county. around the benicia bridge foggy through here, as well. you can barely make ou

jim bernard. we get more of it later this week? it is amazing. >> you didn't have enough? >> it was all anyone could talk about all over facebook and twitter. >> pretty impressive here about 24 records set for various locations through the weekend here and no, there is not more of it on the way as we begin to cool down. 10 degrees cooler today than yesterday at this time and that trend is expected to continue through the week. we will look for highs today, in the upper 60s low 70s a good 10 degrees down from yesterday and we will hover here pretty much through the week. cooler weather pattern on tap i hope you enjoy that little brief warm up while it lasted looks like rain in sight. let's check with giana. >> thank you jim enjoy the freeways we are accident free right know, that is good news, -- right now, that is good news. traffic moving along nicely, headed south, 101, tiburon, 8 minutes from 37 to 580, on the 101 drive. ongoing road work in san francisco, central subway construction is under way. delays in and around the area, stockton, sutter and market. this is an on

. >> and cold to boot, jim bernard with a look at your winter weather pattern for the bay area this weekendoks like it will continue. snow in the local hills here. this is east of san jose. we've got snow levels down to about 2000 feet, a little lower in this picture, and most locations, there's cold air trapped down near the valley floor bringing snow down to about 1000 feet or less for many locations, but shouldn't stick very long. we'll talk more about the forecast, coming up in the at least forecast here in just a few moments. >>> breaking news overnight from oakland, a pair of shootings, the first one happened at around 1:30. police say a man and woman were killed in a shooting in east oakland, and that was at 62 and avenue and hilton street. they were found in their car, according to police. so far, no arrests in that case. there was also a double shooting at a motel just south of the oakland coliseum. two people were hurt at the la quinta hotel on enterprise avenue. that's still being investigated this morning. >>> the contra costa county district attorney's office is now in the proc

jim bernard what happened with the no show on the snow? >> well, borrowing one from willie's playbook it is because i wasn't here. the ingredients were out there, they didn't come together in the right arrangement, we did see flurries it didn't stick no accumulations to speak of although all around us there was snow collecting in the higher terrain sox you know all the parts were here just didn't quite fit to make for several inches of snow at sea level as anticipated we see skies clearing out here today and as a result temperatures are chilling out. the last of our hard freeze mornings we do have a freeze warning up through 8:00 a.m. this morning with mid-20s to low 30s expected checking highs or lows i should say this hour. we see that has validated with upper 20s in the north bay and mid-to low 30s elsewhere around the bay. already napa set a record for the low this date, and has oakland, 34, napa 27, san the rosa 28 this hour, san raphael, 22, on the water here this morning already into the low 40s again we will start to warm up here a

jim bernard a look at a chilly start to our president's day. >> good morning, a chilly start to the day. temperatures mid- to upper 30s. increasing clouds, helping to warm things up slightly. chance of showers moves into the north bay most of that will stay along the shore line as we will see a cool weather pattern continue through mid-week out the door forecast, partly cloudy, continue mild for most areas, slight chanceover showers at the beach and through the afternoon slight chance of showers probably more clouds than rain as it looks by next weekend we will be back to the wet and cold, once again, right now let's check with elizabeth and traffic. >>> all right thank you jim. mount hamilton road portions still shut down because of snow. closed at quimby. if you have friends coming back from the sierra skiing, no chains required. a live look at interstate 80 through colfax. more good news, traffic is so light across the bay area, it is a holiday not many people commuting around things are fine across the golden gate bridge. traffic down southbound 101 marin. mass transit, on a holiday

. >> i'm jim bernard in, to take a look at the fast few days of our dry weather pattern, which has been quite lovely the last month or so. but it's time to get back to normal. looks like we'll do that come beginning of the week. in the next few days, we'll continue with high and dry weather. a bit of fog showing up in the central valley this morning. lot of haze in the bay. but above it, as it spins through the afternoon, lots of blue sky, sunshine and temperatures slightly warmer than yesterday. could even set a few more records today, mid to low 70s for many locations. we've still got some gorgeous weather ahead here before the rains return, come next week. >> it is the perfect day to be outside. >> another one. >> more details coming up. thanks for that. >>> topping the news this morning, police are seek tion information in connection with an officer-involved shooting in vallejo. they are looking for a witness this morning. officers say they tried to pull over a 45-year-old man in the north end of town yesterday, but he refused to stop. during a brief chase, a passenger jumped out of

let's go to jim bernard. how's it looking right now?ll, looks like round one is continuing to wind down. still a few lingering showers here and there around the bay as you can see, the north bay is showing a few returns at this hour. we're looking for round two to arrive through the afternoon into the evening. and it promises to be wetter and windier than what we saw yesterday. so more rain on the way with much cooler air mass, as well. out the door this morning, cloudy with a slight chance of light showers. but as mentioned, that will be increasing through the day. temperatures peaking out in the upper 50s to low 60s. cooler come tomorrow as we drop into the mid-50s and rain will taper off through tomorrow afternoon. we'll take a closer look at all those timing details for you in just at a second. here's elizabeth with a look at traffic. >>> all right. thank you, jim. out towards chopper 5, they are tracking the ride now on eight a through hayward -- through 880 through hayward. crowded as the morning commute gets under way. pretty cle

here's jim bernard. >> things warming up around the bay today. all that snow talk is so yesterday.l as we see april typical winter pattern developing which will bring more warm rain to the bay area by midweek. right now it's to our north. could hit the north bay later this afternoon. but look for more likely it to come midweek. let's check in with elizabeth and get a traffic update. >> thank you, jim. a busy start to our morning commute but everything is kind of quieted down. earlier accidents have all been cleared. and here's live look at 101 traffic through san jose near the mckee exit. you can see a smooth commute towards santa clara. we do have ace train delays. we'll have more information on that. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 5:30. keep your eyes on the road. at least that's the warning from caltrans this morning as crews add the next section of the bay bridge suspension tower. >> may be tough. sharon chin says the tower will be close to 500 feet high and they are hoisting it up this week. >> good morning. caltrains saying don't be distracted along the bay bridge. the work h

let's check weather and traffic and go to jim bernard, who tells us after this fog clears, lots and lots of sunshine out there for us. >> we're headed for spring- like weather across the bay here. already looking that way with dense fog advisories up in the early-morning hours mainly in the north bay. some areas of reduced visibility down to a quarter mile or less, caution advised, of course in that type of a scenario with temperatures today headed a degree where to warmer than yesterday. still into the upper 50s to mid- 60s range for most locations. the big warmup heads our way though come the end of the week when we'll see again lots of sunshine as we have winds picking up out of the north and a warming trend that will take us right on into and through the weekend here as we'll look for those temperatures to peak out in the mid- to low-70s by next weekend. right now here's gianna with a look at traffic. >> thank you, jim. and it's a bit difficult to see the golden gate bridge this morning. let's go live right now, limited visibility across the span. no delays still light but you can ha

jim bernard will let us know if we have more wintery weather ahead. 7:30 a.m., february 20th, i am annof newtalk including the melt down in wisconsin also gang injunction in oakland drawing heat. we will talk with on of the lawers trying to some -- lawyers trying to stop it from being imposed. >> your weather forecast on the way. at the top of the news somali pirates are holding four americans on a yacht and the pirates claim it is nearing the coast of somalia, they seized qwest on friday it was heading to oman from indian. the couple who own the boat, have been sailing around the world for the past six years. two other americans are believed to be onboard. the u.s. military is

axelrod reports so if you find that hard to believe, jim axelrod reports so does madoff. >> reporter: for 26 months, since bernard madoff's multibillion-dollar ponzi scheme unraveled, one of history's great financial villains claimed he acted alone. now he's telling the "new york times" certain banks and hedge funds were complicit in his fraud, calling it willful blindness. they had to know, but the attitude was sort of, "if you're doing something wrong, we don't want to know," madoff said. >> american law treats willful blindness the same as actual knowledge. you can't shut your eyes and avoid having knowledge attributed to you that you would have known had you opened your eyes. >> it stirs up a certain level of anger for me. >> reporter: for george neirenberg, who lost his life savings with madoff, this strengthens his position about the complicity of banks. >> if they had some sort of awareness and had reported it, a lot of people would have been spared a lot of undue hardship in their lives. >> reporter: madoff didn't name specific banks or funds but said he met in prison with irving picard, a court-appointed

. >> reporter: bernard madoff may be the last guy who is going to get any benefit of the doubt when it comes to his side of the story. jimelrod, cbs news, new york. >>> burt ross lost $5 million in bernie madoff's ponzi scheme. he spoke in court movingly the day madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison. he joins us this morning. thanks for coming in. when you opened up the paper yesterday morning, you saw the headline, you read the article, you read the things that bernie madoff has said. what was your first reaction? >> well, he's back again to talking about in that article, and that was the lead article by diana henriques of "the new york times" about how years ago he had made money for people legitimately. and i still don't think he gets. i think he is so insecure that he's trying to say, and he said this at the trial also, that he really was a bright guy and could make money for people legitimately. but that's not bernie madoff's epitaph. the fact of the matter is, he couldn't make money for people without cheating. and that's what he is. he's a cheat. >> so in reading that article to you it said this guy still do