lorain. >> reporter: good morning. we're at the corner of third and 22nd street in the bayview district. and you can see right behind me where the muni light rail trail collided with the police car. it happened about 6:30 this morning. we're told that two officers and the muni operator were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. right now the t line for muni is shut down, and third street northbound between 21st and 23rd streets is also shut down. southbound out here you can see that it is moving southbound but northbound you cannot get through. you'll have to find a different way to get around. meanwhile, the muni spokesperson is on his way out here right now. and we will bring you information as soon as it becomes available. for now, reporting live, lorain blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> it hasn't happened in a while but it did rain overnight. rosemary has a look at if it's going to last and what you can expect for your new year's eve. >> here's a look at the san mateo bridge, it's getting a

live in the tenderloin, lorain blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. >> all right, lorain you and i both bruins, so go bruins, thanks. >>> the hunger bowl is part of a big drive to replenish food banks. this one got a delivery in a giant shopping basket and they presented a $130,000 check to the food bank which will help hungry people throughout the area. >> we have 215 pantries around san francisco and marin. the other place it can go is like glides and st. anthony's where we have college players serving meals. >> the money and food is enough to provide 880,000 meals for people in need. >>> well it looks like something from a movie set but it was real. the search for an arsonist there. >>> we will take a look outside. still looks damp, rosemary will tell uswill last and what new year's eve will look like. >>> occupy protesters go to new heights. and you will have to look up to see the tactics. >>> cal trans crews are taking advantage of the light holiday traffic to demolish northbound lanes there. it is going to effect the north ramp as well as eastbound and westbound 42nd avenue and the south

ktvu's lorain joins us with what we know so far. lorain? >> reporter: seeing from the outside, it's hard to tell that a deadly fire happened here this morning. the only sign is a notice to keep off the property and a little smoke damage near the roof of the home out here. al a regular basis. ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a man says smoke detecters saved man's life overnight. >> i got my family and that's what counts. the house can always get repaired. >> him and his family were settling down after a big christmas celebration on river pine circle. he saw a wall of flames when he opened the garage door. he got the family and dog out of the home. fire officials say there is a lesson to be learned here. >> working smoke detecters is important. they've saved people's lives. >> one person was slightly hurt when she was trying to run from the fire. >>> we have new information about the woman that threw her son out of a 2 story window. lou pita on charges of deadly weapon and child abuse. by the time officers could break out the door, she jumped out her

good afternoon lorain. >> reporter: good afternoon. this has been a very busy day for glide.ou can see volunteers are still hard at work making sure the last few people in line get their free groceries out here. now we have been out here gathering personal stories since early this morning and when they passed out those first few hundred bags you could see and hear the exitment. >> what a season to be done wha. a season. >> kenneth brown feels nothing but joy after waiting in this winding set of barriers for 24 hours, she is finally clutching her christmas dinner. >> 'tis the season to be jolly. >> every year glide memorial church hands out thousands of groceries to the needy in san francisco tenderloin. they collect donations and gather volunteers like mike. >> tons of good stuff, everything that makes a good holiday dinner, we have got obviously the turkey. we have got bread, corn, potatoes. >> i want to show you how long this line really is. it starts behind me over there at eddie and taylor and comes up taylor, take a left there, goes down to jones, back around to ellis, w

lorain blanco is live with that story. lorain. >> reporter: good morning.an jose and union city say taking their redevelopment funds is illegal. the state high courted will decide in just about an hour. those cities joins hundreds of agencies that argue the $1.7 million at stake can't be seized violating prop 22. it bans the stat from taking that funds. one redirects property tax revenue to the state and the other new law hits the agencies stay intact if they give up funding to pay for schools. the ruling is expected to come down by 10 a.m. today. of course, we'll have an update on our noon newscast. >>> new this morning, the turkish government says turkish warplanes aiming for kurdish rebels in iraq instead killed 35 civilians. reportedly many were teenagers who were smuggling cigarettes. the government says drones had detected a group of people approaching turkey at a mountain pass that rebels have used to smuggle weapons in the past. >>> software experts predict hackers will ramp the up their attacks in the new year. mcafee says people use mobile devices

eastbound university at lorain avenue. use caution in that area. taking the beltway, right now two of your right lanes are blocked at connecticut avenue. this is just before the exit, and we're already starting to see delays as you make your way. look here, early morning right now, this is colesville road, and you can see very slowly trying to make their way to connecticut avenue. got to stick to the left to get by that accident. traveling 395 southbound at washington boulevard, two left lanes are blocked there. joe, back to you. >> thanks very much. >>> we have more on the breaking traffic news danella mentioned out of silver spring this morning where a major roadway is closed after a tree fell across it. dale drive is closed right at colesville road. news 4's angie goff is live on the scene with the latest. angie, good morning. >> good morning, joe. good to see you. danella has probably been a very busy lady. we know when the rain is pouring down, it's going to impact our traffic. take a look behind me. what we're dealing with here on the 1300 bl

i'm going to continue to get my message out from cleveland to loraine to toledo, save and create jobsd up and speak out for a spokesperson for peace, and you know, take a look at what's happening with iran right now. you'll see why it's important to have a voice like that. but i -- it doesn't have to be done at the expense of another candidate. >> let me ask you, just you brought up 2012. i want to ask you a couple of 2012 questions. do you think -- would you welcome any kind of inner party challenge to president obama? there's been lots of complaints on the left about what he's done. do you think there will be a challenge to him? >> no. i think that for president obama, sure of the nomination. this is a choice between president obama and whoever the republicans nominate. >> and i want to play you something that rick santorum had to say yesterday about one of his colleagues on the presidential campaign trail, ron paul. >> ladies and gentlemen, this is a very important vote you're casting here in iowa. on national security there's no more important. iowa needs to send a message. you wa

. >> anthony thomas is finally subdued and cuffed and taken to the lorain county jail. >> mr. thomas came into the department on a contempt-of- court charge, which is a low-grade misdemeanor. he left our department with a felony assaulting an officer charge. all when he was going to be released on a summons for the first one. >> thomas pleads not guilty to the felony assault charge. he's awaiting trial. officer whit sustains minor injuries. he's back at work on his next scheduled shift after the attack. >> we do not have time to be afraid. we react. if you want to be afraid or you want to think about the events or think about the dangers, it happens afterwards. that's when you think to yourself, wow, that could have been bad. >>> coming up, a deputy gets taken for a ride across a busy highway. >> my life was flashing before my eyes. >>> and, later, choreographed chaos in a prison yard. >> just like that. somebody gives somebody a cue, and it's people chasing other people with knives. >> when "caught on camera: inmates and outlaws" continues. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs

>>justine: lorain county is to enact a strict enforcement of smoking. it will limit how many apartments in a building can allow smoking it will allow a ban on flavored cigarette such as menthol and require vendors to get a special county license and pay a fee. not all marin county residents are too happy about this. >> i feel that this is discrimination. what if there is a live view from my living room but i cannot have that apartment because i smoke. it feels like a separate camp and i am not even welcome there. >>justine: the new ordinance will be voted on in a public hearing on january 10th. >>james: yesterday was a busy day people were standing in line all day long to get their christmas mail out in time. yesterday was the last day to ensure that packages would get to their destination using standard shipping. >> this is going to florida, and this is going to michigan to some friends of my wife. the line is going pretty fast. it was not too long. >>james: if you have not see your packages out yet, federal express says that you can still be your gues

i have spoken with police chiefs from across ohio like my city of lower rain -- lorain, ohio, who says a blue alert system would be critical to track criminals and protect law enforcement. it would be made possible by existing community oriented policing systems, the cops program, funded by the department of justice. i remember 15, 18 years when the cops program began by president clinton and the congress in the 1990's, which made such a difference in helping local communities, small towns, big cities, rural areas, suburbs to be able to staff up in a better way with community police officers. it's these types of federal investments that are so critical for communities facing significant budget shortfalls. too many communities are forced to make cutbacks in essential public services, reducing staff size, scaling back investments in safety equipment. these choices are difficult, they're made with great reluctance. that's why federal grants like the staffing for adequate fire and emergency response, so-called safer grants, are the assistance for firefighters grant, are critical to help co

brown: i go home every weekend back to northeast ohio, where i live, and and a town cd avon in lorain county. and i want to go home at christmas and i want to be with my three-year-old grandson and my daughters, three daughters and son, but i also think our obligation, as senator durbin said, as the assistant majority leader, is to stay here and get our work done. and get our work done means eextend this payroll tax cut and extend unemployment benefits. if we don't do that, ruining -- frankly, ruining the holiday season for tens of thousands -- tens and dozens of tens of thousands, if you will, ohio ains and illinoisans and north carolinians. if we don't do that, we don't deserve to be able to go home and be with our families. i'm not trying to be a march fur here but i just think it's shameful if a group of people, in order to protect the highes highest-income taxpayers in this country -- those making over a million dollars a year -- continue to block an extension, continuation, if you will, of this tax cut for -- for working families. in my state, the average tax cut that we will vo