and it ended a nine-day strike at the west sacramento-based raley's stores. >>pam: san francisco recreation and parks department began demolition of the fleishhaker pool building today. the san francisco landmark on the great highway had been closed for years before it became victim of fire on december first. days later architecture experts determined the building to be unsafe and required demolition. >> temperatures are cool. 30's in fairfield. san francisco, in his 46 degrees. it is dry and clear. and 46 degrees with a freeze warnings for the north bay valley. frost advisory for most of the bay area. that will be in effect until 3:00 a.m. certainly bundle up. do not be surprised if you see frost and there could be an active storm. thursday for the north bay. wet weather will continue on friday with showers and rain chances for the weekend full details on what to expect what the next report. >> coming up, this is stolen christmas tree in vallejo is a random act of kindness in the next edition of people behaving badly. >>pam: it is all clear given at the san

two-year deal includes and benefit concessions for t 7,000 workers, inclu >>> union workers for the raley's grocery chain have ratified their contract. the contract includes wage and benefits. the union went on strike before thanksgiving. it was the first strike in the chain's 77-year history. >>> berkeley police have a new cell phone warning tonight. they say thieves are approaching people and asking to borrow their phone to make an emergency call to a sick relative. when people hand over the phone, the thief takes off. police advise never lending a phone or even taking it out to give somebody the time. there's been a rash of thefts using that approach. >>> and there could be another tax hike on the horizon for california smokers. papers have been filed for a 2014 ballot initiative to increase the cigarette tax by another $1 a pack. that would raise about $800 million for the university of california system. among the supporters, lieutenant governor newsome. after nearly two months since superstorm sandy devastated the east coast, thousands of people are still trying to rebuild. days befor

the water was about a foot and a half deep in this parking lot outside the raley's shopping center in pleasanton near sunol boulevard. the lot was passible only by suvs with large enough tires. it was just one of dozens of spots in the east bay where there is just too much water. cbs 5 reporter da lin is on grizzly peak with more. >> reporter: still moisture in the berkeley hills. the rain for the most part pretty much gone now but just the fog you can see the heavy fog rolling in here visibility is very low. let's show some video we shot earlier today in berkeley. a large treetopled over and fell on to a van. you can see right there the rooftop quite a bit of damage inside the van as well. there were people inside at the time. we believe they were driving this van when the tree came down on them. luckily, no one was hurt in this incident here. also, that pleasanton shopping center you can see the flooding right there in that parking lot. the heavy rain coming down at the same time in the middle of that. large pool of water. that's why it was causing that much water in the flooding si

this is the raley's parking lot in pleasanton which accumulated up to a half foot of water because ofl on a mercedes on pine street in the lower pacific heights neighborhood in safe san francisco no injuries. >> a tree landed in a van in the berkeley hill. two people were in the van. the windows were blown out the roof bent. the two people in the van weren't hurt. >>> fast water flows are causing worries on the santa cruz river in santa cruz county. clean-up crews had their hands full clearing downed trees from roads and restoring power. >> we have reporters covering the storm all over the bay area. let's begin with chief meteorologist paul deanno with a look at our hi-def doppler. >> hi-def doppler is paining an excellent picture right now because we need a break and hi- def doppler is showing that break. right now. there's very little rainfall out there. there will be scattered showers but not that widespread heavy rainfall that we saw this morning. the bull's eye for those heavier showers the mountains of marin county and on highway 101 we are seeing heavier showers, as well. so he

respects to officer tuv rexeraa -- >> there's word uniteon superworkers have approved a contract with raley's stores. the sacramento bee reports members of the united food and commercial workers union announced the vote friday. they agreed to ann concessions yous the contract covers workers at bel air. >>> details of the hostess baking companies bankruptcy are becoming public. investment bankers revealed they expect to sell off each brand separately over the coming months. chief executive officer is being paid $125,000 as a restructuring expert. about 18,000 people lost their jobs in the bankruptcy which hostess blamed on unions although the company made more than $2 billion a year. >> the results of egypt's controversial constitutional election. >>> record breaking cold weather blankets part of eastern europe. the rescue effort to find hundreds trapped. >> arrests are made in an explosion in indianapolis that killed two people and leveled dozens of homes. how a scheme to get out of debt led to the deadly blast. >> and i'm still tracking some downpours on live storm tracker 2 radar. our next

while they may be somewhat smaller raley numbers, they're far more effective on the ground and it isause for concern in the situation in syria continues to deteriorate. the u.s. has decided or looks like they will designate the front as a terrorist organization. in that way, that may put some controls on the funding going into this organization and isolated from the other rebel groups on the ground. fact of the matter is in an environment as volatile as the one in syria, without a major presence on the ground, it's quite difficult to deal with an organization like this one. host: this photograph gives you just one neighborhood back in may in damascus with the broader question of what life is like in damascus in syria overall for these people. guest: i have not been in damascus or aleppo, but there is a catastrophe unfolding and this is the second winter under the uprising. life in damascus has become extremely difficult and the insurgency is very much on the edges of the central part of damascus and there are reports likening this the baghdad riddled with checkpoints and what not wit

the best produce, and there's nobody better to tell us about that than my friend greg corrigan of raley's, vice-president of produce and floral here. so first of all, tomatoes. how do you pk the best tomato? >> well, tomatoes here, one of our best sellers is the tomato on the vine, as you're seeing right here. so they're grown actually indoors, so most of the time, all you gotta look for is make sure there's no blemishes, no cuts, no scars. but generally they're consistent, good tomatoes. >> ok. >> and one thing that's commonly misunderstood is people tend to put tomatoes in the refrigerator. >> yeah, i do that. that's not good? >> you don't want to do that. and actually, anything below 55 degrees causds them to break down. they get mealy. they actually lose their flavor. >> ohh. >> so you don't want to do that. and you want to keep them out on your counter. you notice this, as it's growing, the riper ones are towards the top where the plant grows. >> right. >> so those are the 2 tomatoes you want to use first. >> ok. >> so as you work through the week, you'll pick those 2 top ones first,