thank you, kera. if you are looking to lend a hand this holiday season, we invite you to be part of the abc7 share your holiday food drive. it's on december 12th. we are going it be taking your donations for local food banks. for more information and the location nearest you, just go to our website. abc7 news.com/community. >> in other news, fog out there may have played a role in a fiery fatal collision near the carkenas bridge. the crash shut down the westbound lanes in crockett just before 2:30 this morning. the car caught fire with a person trapped inside. other motorists tried to help put out that fire. the alert has been cancelled but visibility is still very low in the area due to fog. >> the chp is investigating a fatal accident on highway last night backed up traffic for hours last night near the airport. it happened near south airport boulevard just after 1:00. a pedestrian was struck by cars and killed. the chp immediately closed all the northbound lanes between grand avenue and oyster poin

reporting live, abc7 news. >> thank you, kera. tomorrow is sooner monday, the online portion of black friday when internet bargains are design to boost online retail sales. but today small business owners hope their registers keep ringing in the afterglow of small business saturday yesterday. yesterday president obama and his daughter, sasha and malia took part by shopping at a back store in arlington, virginia." bay area merchants are also seeing more traffic as some shoppers make a point of supporting local merchants. >> you want people to invest back in their community, which you feel like they do when they shop small. >> this is that store's second year participating in small business saturday. a nationwide effort started in 2010 to celebrate and support small businesses and all they do for their communities. >>> black friday shoppers did not spend as much as they did last year, according to super shopper track. consumers spent just over $11 billion. that's down 1.8% from last year. home shoppers may make up the difference. on

abc7 news reporter kera clapper is live at police headquarters. she has the latest.> good morning, carolyn. police here in menlo park are still looking for those two men who, as you mentioned, shot and killed another man on ivy street last night. we do have video from the scene. it was pouring rain. that's when calls started coming in to 911 about 6:30 last night. people living near 101 and 84 reported hearing several gunshots another call came in that someone was lying in the streets. when menlo park list arrived to that 300 block of ivy drive they did indeed find an injured man lying in the middle of the road. the 40-year-old was shot numerous times. he was pronounced dead there at the crime scene. police say he is not from menlo park but they aren't really releasing any other information about him yet this morning. still his shooters were last seen running away in different directions. >> after the incident occurred, witnesses indicated that they had heard shots and saw two males running from the scene. the only description of the males are two tall males wearing

abc7 news reporter kera clapper is live at police headquarters. what's the latest?atest is that menlo park police are still looking for those two men and shot and killed another man in his car early last evening. we have this scene. it was a very rainy night. 911 calls began pouring in about 6:30 in the evening. people living near highway 101 and 84 reported hearing several gunshots in their neighborhood. another call came in that someone was lying in the street. menlo park police arrived to the 300 block of ivy drive where an injured man was lying in the middle of the road. the 40-year-old was shot numerous times. he was pronounced dead at the scene. police say the victim is not from menlo park. they are not releasing any other information about him. his shooters, however, were last seen running away in different directions. >> after the incident occurred, witnesses indicated that they had heard shots and saw two males running from the scene. the only description of the males are two tall males wearing dark-colored hooded sweatshirts. one was seen northbound on ivy

good morning, kera. >> good morning, terry. unfortunately no stores are open yet but as lisa and you mentioned, it will be a beautiful day to support your local businesses. this street is so cute and this is just one of many bay area streets where shopkeepers are hoping people will come out, mingle with their neighbors, perhaps avoid the kay as of big boxes stores. of course, it's happening all over the bay area. we have video from albany where stores are promoting the fact they are indeed local. shop owners hope that fact will bring in customers even though they can't offer the deep discounts that a big box store can. we spoke with one shop keep who are tells us why supporting local businesses is so important to a community as a whole. >>> speaking for this business in particular, the owner has values that i really respect and she investors a lot in the community, in the local schools and sometimes partners with other local businesses so it's kind kind of a per pet situation of success and reinvestment in the community that i

abc7 news reporter kera clapper is live at police headquarters. she has the latest. good morning. >> good morning, carolyn. >> the latest this morning is more than twelve hours after two men shot and killed another man in his car, police are still looking for those two men. we have the scene last evening on ivy, as you mentioned. 911 calls poured in about 6:30 in the evening. people living near 101 and 84 reported hearing several gunshots another call came in that someone was lying in the street. when menlo park police arrived to the 300 block of ivy drive they found an injured man lying in the middle of the road. the 40-year-old was shot numerous times. paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. police say he's not from menlo park or the other areas but they aren't releasing any other information about him. shooters were last seen running away in opposite directions. >> after the incident occurred, witnesses indicated that they had heard shots and saw two males running from the scene. the only description of the males are two tall males wearing dark-colored hooded

. >> rose: how many times have you worked with kera tnightly. >> two films and one commercial. >> roseain that to me. >> i don't know. i guess keira, when i first met keira, she was 17 and she was kind of a goofy kid, and i was determined that whoever played elizabeth bennett should be the age that jane austen wrote the character, and then we progressed quite swiftly on to atonement, and then i hadn't seen her for a couple of years, after atonement, and she went through some kind of self-examination, i think, she went through a kind of a dark phase, and she did some theatre, and she didn't -- she chose not to go into the kind of big films, but made more independent films. and then i met one her again on the second chanel commercial we did together, and i found that she changed quite a lot. >> rose: how had she changed? >> she was stronger and more confident, more definite, rather, in her intellectual abilities and her creative abilities and then her sexuality and she was a proper woman. and -- >> who had lived a bit more. >> the tradition of writing for theatre, writing movie scripts,

abc7 news reporter kera clapper joins us live from the scene with the latest. good morning. >> good morning, carolyn. as you mentioned, it was too late. the california highway patrol said one person died in the crash. it happened about 2:20 this morning. this is the scene right any on westbound 80. actually the two left lanes, the fast lane and the middle lane, reopened within the last three minutes. reports are, as i mentioned, that the accident happened just now nearly about three hours ago. a passerby called to report the collision and soon after the unusual-four sedan caught fired. good samaritans, a couple motorists stopped to extinguish it. it is not clear if anyone else was in the car but one person did die. they are aren't estimating when the slow lane will be reopened, mainly when the flares burn out. that's the latest from row dare row, abc7 news. >>> thank you. coming up next, a tragic fire in bangladesh kills more than 100 people. also, we will tell you when the u.s. supreme court might rule on same-sex marriage. and natural players still -- nhl pla

here's kera with more. >> that's right, terry. good morning.r gunshot victims remain in the hospital here in morning, in addition to the one you mentioned in critical condition, one is in serious condition. we have video from the scene last night. police received reports of gunshots just after 8:00 at ivy drive. video from the scene shows crime scene tape blocking off the area, in addition to shell casings collected aft people were shot. there is no known motive for the drive by. >> we do have shootings here, and we do have gaining activity in this area, but we don't know if that's connected at this time. >> the victims were having a get together in the front of the house. they were just hanging out when the shooting occurred. >> police are looking for a black honda and black acura. both were seen driving away from the scene of the shooting. live at stanford hospital, abc7 news. >> thanks very much. >>> a little-no one form of therapy is gaining attention from its portrayal in a new film called "the sessions." it involves the use of surrogate p

those victims were taken to stanford hospital and that's where abc7 news reporter kera is here with more. >> good morning, terry. those four men are still here at stanford hospital. as you mention the, one in critical condition. one in serious condition. the other two reportedly are in good condition. let's get to you the video we have that last night. it happened just after 8:00 that police received multiple 911 calls of shots fired. that's near bell haven elementary school. video we have from the drive by shooting scene shows the aftermath shell casings and the residential street blocked off after those four men were hit. commander tells abc7 news there is no known motive for the shooting. >> we do have shootings here, and we do have gang activity in this area but we don't know if that's connected at this time. the victims were having a get together in the front of the house. they were just hanging out when the shooting occurred. >> police have not released a description of the shooters. they are, however, look for a black honda and black abc news extra. those two cars were seen drivin

live in fremont, kera, abc7 news. >> thank you.r being injured battling a fire that damaged four businesses in richmond last night. fire began around 8:00 behind a business complex at mcdonald's avenue and marine away. the flames quickly spread, forcing evacuation of an aa meeting taking place there. the building was completely on fire when they first arrived so they called in extra help. it took about a an hour and a half to bring things under control. injured firefighter hurt his back. >>> and look at this apartment fire in san rafael yesterday with flames shooting through the roof and out the window of an upper floor apartment. you can so a barge crew that was dredging nearby san rafael creek go to wonk first they tried shoveling water and mud on the fire but couldn't quite reach it. then the operator pulled the barge closer and another worker sprayed water on the flames until fire crews arrived. neighbors and firefighters thanked the barge crew for their quick action. nobody was injured. >>> a livermore art teacher has been arr