a lot of people already have, right, roberta? >> reporter: absolutely. in fact, we are here right now at the hurricane relief fund telethon. i'm going to be here today from right now all the way to 7:00 tonight so you're going to get to know me a little bit here. but i can't do anything without your help. over here we have liam mayclem from "eye on the bay" and he has plenty of pledges already. and then we have from the san jose sharks, the voice of the sharks, mr. randy hahn who has several pledges over here as well because they have been working since 6:00 this morning. so let me see. ramona, calling up from san jose donating $100. cecilia from san francisco, $1,000. we thank you so much. harry $200. and then we have this particular one, this is aaron who called from long island, new york watching us by satellite. if you can't donate money, donate blankets and coats at the american red cross and make that donation because currently temperatures are in the 30s. many people are still without electricity. it's been over 10 days wi

roberta gonzales is heading up our annual "food for bay area families" drive. hi, roberta. >> reporter: not just any whole foods. this is a brand spanking new whole foods. you can eat off the floor here, you really can, because this is off ocean avenue, there's about 6 whole foods located in the san francisco area. roughly over three dozen san francisco bay area-wide. we have several guest, judy, son aden, ethan, paul ash executive director for the marin and san francisco food banks and over here mike from sutter health and you and judy together came from sutter health. you have some things to say? >> sutter health is to enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve, for the poorest in our communities meaning food. this check i'm about to present for over $32,000 represents a portion of sutter health quarter of a million-dollar evident this winter to support the food banks throughout all of our communities. >> reporter: i got to see this. maybe i can get little aden and ethan here to give me a hand. what does this check say? can you tell? $32,50

roberta gonzales with how you can help.had some fun earlier. >> reporter: we have had a lot of fun all day long. it's been truly a blessed day right here at nbc 5 as we have held hands with our cbs radio stations and also with cw and all together we have collectively come together to ask all of you at home to help the people on the east coast after that devastating natural disaster that happened in new york and new jersey. we have invited harold brooks here. he is a ceo of american red cross. and we have had quite a day today. >> it's been amazing. the team that you have here at kpix, roberta, your viewers are just amazing. we're getting towards $100,000 raised. that's just fantastic. we're so grateful. >> reporter: we're grateful. we're doing our part and i have been very proud of all of our employees here at cbs for volunteering their time and efforts. but it's the people at home. the east coast has had quite a blow. it could happen here with earthquakes. >> we have had children who have had their lemonade stands brought

hi, roberta. >> reporter: hi there, frank. hi, michelle.oesn't you just hate it when you see people watering their lawns when it's raining outside or perhaps watering their lawns and it's really windy and all the water goes up into the atmosphere and evaporates? that's waste. that's why the campbell middle school has called on hydropoint's ceo chris spain here to tell us how hydropoint has made a difference here at campbell middle school. >> well, thanks, roberta. i think it's really simple what we do is we eliminate waste by making sure the controller irrigates the right amount of water at the right time. the way we do that is have a feature called weather track which replaces the existing irrigation controller with a computer. and the computer calculates exactly how much water and when. >> reporter: you're using the same computer models we use at cbs 5 to forecast our weather. so dave, you are facility supervisor here at the school. how has it worked for you? >> since the installation of the hydropoint smart irrigation controllers, we hav

that can entail building a mock up sample. >> roberta and mark have no problem spending hours or days getting those designs right because it helps manage work later. >> much easier to erase on a piece of paper. >> i want includes customer oversight. >> if it's something we're afraid they may not be 100% sure of we definitely invite them to come and look at it and see the progress that we're making as it goes along. >> people like annette can give a thumbs up or thumbs down before work continues. >> much easier for them to change something on their table out there to cut something out, to reweld something. much easier to change it at that point. >> so why go to all this trouble? the truth is that having customers input every step of the way saves msw money. >> if i was putting a monetary number on it, it might save anywhere from 10 to 30%. >> while the figures vary the difference is significant enough that roberta and mark would like more clients to follow suit. >> it's definitely something i encourage we do. we get pretty involved. i usually have their cell number in my cell phone whe

. >>> cbs 5's roberta roberta is at whole foods market in san francisco with more on how you can help families in need. >> reporter: i'm so proud, cbs 5 is now entering their 10th annual "food for bay area families" food drive, 10th annual, guys is that correct, sir pretty exciting? >> is that exciting? >> yeah! >> reporter: the executive director for the marin in san francisco food bank. paul every year i ask you, how great is the immediate? this year i saw traffic jams getting into paragon mall. has the economy improved? >> good observation. this recovery is not bringing everyone out. the stock market may be up but our service levels are longer. we have as many people waiting for food as two years ago waiting for food assistance. >> reporter: including children. so we are working hand in hand with this brand-new whole foods on ocean avenue. chanel is making it so simple? >> so easy with our grab and give program customers can donate breakfast, lunch, dinner, a whole day of meals for a family of four at any register at any whole foods market in the bay area. >> reporter: just take th

roberta gonzales is somewhere where earlier this week, roberta, they had a mud slide without any raineporter: take a good look at this because this right here this is the only piece of machinery that's left from daly city workers who have feverishly been working around the although to be shore up this neighborhood. let me tale take you back. it was early tuesday morning when a main water break sent 45,000 gallons of water mixed with sand and mud slides into this daly city neighborhood. coming up at 6:00 i went ahead and took to the streets to this neighborhood. i walked up and down this road here. i found a neighborsays he is still scared. another mud slide could occur in the wake of days of rain in the forecast. we'll talk to him coming up at 6:00. reporting from daly city, roberta gonzales, cbs 5. >>> thank you. they don't want to see the rainfall. but they are going to get up to 1.5" between now and sunday. roberta will keep an eye on that and report at 6:00. >> thank you. >>> the best black friday deals may not come on black friday. cbs 5 consumerwatch reporter julie watts with th

roberta, there's still a lot more work to be done now, huh? >> reporter: the telethon officially closes down at 7:00 but that doesn't mean you need to stop giving. we want your support even after 7:00 tonight. this just happens to be cbs 5, all our radio stations owned by cbs and also the cw, who have come together collectively to join forces with the american red cross to be sure we get the money we're raising here to new york, new jersey, philadelphia and connecticut. who can tell us more about that than ceo of the american red cross mr. harold brooks. thank you so much for joining us here it evening. >> thank you. >> reporter: while i have been manning the phones people ask if i make a donation, $1, $10, $500, $1,000, does every penny go to the american red cross? >> it does. and we are going to see to it that it's there to take care of the many needs of the people who are suffering as a result of this terrible disaster. >> reporter: when you see these phones or hear these phones and see these people working nonstop around the clock, are yo

roberta roberta is seeing how they do that, how to keep it fresh. >> reporter: i'm at a brand-new facility with all the dry goods. over here in the refrigerator, linda mckeever executive director of open heart kitchen and perhaps we have a little surprise in the freezer. let's see. oh, scott haggerty supervisor district one, hi, scott. >> had you are you? >> are you a little cold? >> a little cold in there. >> yes, you are. we are here today at the very special day in pleasanton open heart kitchen with some facilitating people in dublin, livermore and pleasanton feeding those in need for years. but a big problem we have had is no place to sort donations so today, voila, brand-new grand opening. linda, tell us about it. >> well, we have collaborated with the city of pleasanton, dublin and livermore and safeway to bring this all to a new storage facility for many, many nonprofits in our area. >> scott today a special day for the district. >> we have traditionally since 2007 needed this space and to come together with the cities and safeway, it's been a great experience. it shows what happens

roberta is following that storm for us. it's headed this way. >> it's a cold front slicing through the bay area right now. so we'll see the heaviest rainfall at this hour all the way until midnight in the san jose area. and it looks like at this particular time we should see up to about .4" of rain on top of the 2" of rain that already fell in the bay area. seven-day forecast, rain tapers off after midnight to scattered showers and during tomorrow morning. and then dry skies each and every day through thanksgiving. >> that's good news for everybody. >> yeah. >> thank you. >>> that's it for this edition of eyewitness news. see you at 10:00 and 11:00. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com , ,, [ female announcer ] welcome one and all to a tastier festive feast. so much to sip and savor, a feeding frenzy to say the least. a turkey from safeway will have everyone raving. there's fresh, natural, frozen, whatever you're craving. spend 25 dollars and a frozen safeway turkey is 59 cents a pound. or spend 25 dol

(((roberta live tease))) (((roberta live tease))) (((roberta live teas >>> airbags deploying for no apparent reason. why the feds said the issue did not need a fix. >> no joke, it snowed in the bay area today. we'll show you where as eyewitness news continues. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, chrysler is recalling more n 900-thousand s-u-vs worldwie because the airbags can sudy deploy while people are dri. the >>> chrysler is recalling suvs because of airbags that suddenly deploy while people are driving. the national highway traffic safety administration says the reason is a failed part in the airbag control computer. it affects early 2000 model jeep grand cherokees an liberties. >>> not just jeeps. cbs 5 consumerwatch reporter julie watts has been working on a story about a brave driver who had a similar airbag problem in another type of vehicle, a bay area driver. >> reporter: it may have looked like chelsea's car has been in a crash but the teen says these airbags in her 2001 ford focus deployed for no reason. it happened as she was driving out of this parking lot at 10 miles an hour. >> there was a lo

but first let's check in with roberta gonzales in the east bay where floodwaters are rising. roberta. >> reporter: it's not just the rivers that are rising across the bay area, michelle. no, we are here in pleasanton. besides our el nino year of 1997, 1998, i have never seen such widespread flooding. i brought this tape to see how deep it is here and it's over a foot and a half of ponding on this road. this is crazy. i have to tell you, i started hearing the raindrops off my rooftop right after midnight and this rain has not let up all cause by the low pressure to the west causing a training effect. the rain just keeps steadily moving in as lawrence was alluding to, we have more rain coming sow what are they doing here in the bay area? they are turning on the drains and starting to try to get all of this water out of this particular parking lot before more water moves back in. now, if you want to just see how much more rain is going to be moving into your neighborhood, it's easy. check out our live high-def doppler radar at cbssf.com/weather. you can even maneuver the radar a

. >> roberta said to me we can create something beautiful. >> rita, lauri and annette are the definitionf satisfied customers. >> i had confidence that they knew exactly what to do. >> they each turned to memphis, tennessee's metal fabricators better known as msw for work at their homes. >> they built a covering for our porch. >> they did the front gates with the entire perimeter fenced. they did the balconies and my favorite the iron gates in the wine cellar. >> annette is build agnew house and wanted an original railing for a staircase. >> came here because i wanted options. >> while their needs may have been different the customer experience they got was the exact same. >> they wanted input from us, of course and we're welcoming it. >> msw's owners pride themselves on make being their business more personal than others like it. >> it's something we always offered to people. you have customers that want to take a very active part. you want them to be involved and happy in the decisions they are making now i want goes beyond just answering phone calls or suggesting designs for residenti

but roberta gonzales is out givg us a closer look at how air quality officials monitor te air.. roberta.. is it a co d process? thanks, lawrence. coming up.. can november 6th come fast enough?? not for s little girl.. " i'm tired of bronco bama d mitt romney" november 6 come fast enough? apparently not for had little girl. [ crying ] >> tired of barack obama and mitt romney. [ sobbing ] >> that's why you're crying? oh. it will be over soon, abby... okay? ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, serving in afghanistan. >>> it started with a simple c.a.r.e. package sent to a marine captain servin in afghanistan. but it was turned into a pipeline of support for servicemembers overseas. kate kelly reports. >> they were asking for tourniquettes, medical scissors, flashlights. >> reporter: it's not unusual for aaron negherbon to go calls at all hours of the day from the front is lines in afghanistan like the call he got from a marine corps major needing help. >> he said we just got into our base here in afghanistan and half of my unit is coming down ill because there's some type of virus or bacteria. he

speaking of the holidays, we have roberta roberta out with a big countdown on a sign that san francisco celebrate with roberta gonzales. >> reporter: it's the 26th annual of the lighting. embarcadero center. we are ready for the official countdown. 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. whoo! ,, with over 200 varieties, keurig makes brewing a delicious cup of coffee simple. how does it brew such great coffee? well... inside the brewer are these green fields of coffee, and if you travel up this mountain, there's this huge coffee grinder. and then the coffee lands in this cup and water rushes through. actually, i just press this button. good evening everybody... an upset in basketball... ...jt in! streaming video from hawaii. ...4th ranked stanford ylor, 71-69 >>> good evening. let's hit you with an upset in basketball this one just in. streaming video from hawaii! stanford beat baylor 71-69 in a rematch of last year's women's final four. the cardinal stopped the bears'42 game win streak at a hawaii tournament. cardinal now 3-0. >>> today the bluejays signed free agent melky cabrera two years, $16 milli

from concord, roberta gonzales, allen? >> yeah.oberta, i'm sure volunteers would be welcome too because it looks like you could have used an extra set of hands to hold the bag open to shovel the sand in a it. >> reporter: it's not that bag. 25 bags per person and you don't have to fill them all the way up. but it's a good core workout. >> always looking for the workout, roberta. thanks so much. >>> two women saved from a burning rv in san jose have an alert passer by to thank. the man was walking on santiago avenue this morning when he spotted smoke coming from that camper. then he heard screams from inside. he was able to pry open the door and pull those women to safety. investigators think an unattended candle may have sparked the fire as the women slept. >> it's just one of those things during the holidays and around the cold time that would burn candles and have heaters on. you have to be cognizant of making sure we're wake and only having those things on when we're able to tend to them. >> both women suffered minor injuries. o

reporting from napa, roberta gonzales cbs 5. >>> thank you. one north bay community is always on alert during heavy rains. san anselmo has seen some very serious flooding over the years. but some businesses there tell cbs 5's mike sugerman, there is no need to make a big production out of it. >> reporter: well, allen, at san anselmo it is raining now and i'm by the creek and it's actually a beautiful sight. but it would take coming up to about here to actually flood and a lot of people are saying, i don't think that's going to really happen. it's november in san anselmo and here comes the rain. residents know when that happens, the news comes up to cover it. >> a big pain in the ass, kind of like vultures. >> reporter: san anselmo has had floods in 1982 and 2005. it was under water, $100 million in damage last time. people who live here get nervous when it rains. >> the news media has made it scary to come to san anselmo. >> reporter: susan's business is down this week over past years. >> every time it sprinkles in san anselmo, all the news tr

take it away roberta. >> reporter: every pilot handbook is going to be broken for flugtag. you have to ask, what is that. well, we're going to go straight to the source. here's brandon drew. he's one of the pilots o of this particular aircraft here. high brandon. >> how are you doing today. >> reporter: what's the name of your team. >> team delta bravo, for us team 10. >> reporter: tell us about the unicorn. >> it's made of rainbows, sparkles magic and glitter. >> reporter: and why a unicorn. >> because everybody loves unicorns and they're american. what better way to spend veterans day. >> reporter: and we hope unicorns can fly but you get a team of five together. carlo tell me about your team, what is the name of it. >> reporter: we are the pet terrebonne ss. >> >> reporter: what's the purpose of the home maid aircrafts. one person piloting, four people push it up a 30-foot ramp into the cover. and one person is going into the water. >> that's laura right here. >> reporter: and you know the water temperature is 54 degrees. >> well, i surf, so. >> reporter: and you're doin

little bit more seasonal conditions. >> that is your pinpoint forecast. >> thanks roberta. well, people in the bay area are pitching in to help those affected by superstorm sandy. how bay area red cross volunteers are helping those who need it most. >> reporter: after the pounding sandy left on the east coast and 2 million still without power comes some relief from the bay area. >> so far we've had quite a few cash donations. >> reporter: farmers markets in san bruno and oakland are accepting donations of money going straight to the red cross. >> people seem to be pretty responsive and generous. >> reporter: volunteers many leave today driving a truck all the way to new york. pringle has done this before. >> katrina, new york, florida. >> reporter: bringing hem to those in need. >> providing supplies to the clients and getting around will be difficult. >> reporter: this is mike's first big trip to a disaster. >> when i get to new york i'll check in, contact my point of contact and get an assignment. >> reporter: which is simple shelter and feed those who need it. as they pa

. >>> if you like the sun, roberta has got that. if you like the rain, roberta has got that. >> and if you like the cooler temperatures, you're gonna like it. we have that in the forecast also. let's go ahead and go on outside right now. we have clear skies and we're even able to see this evening the 77% moon. you can see the glow, the shine of the moon on the bay waters, which are relatively flat. we topped off at 76 degrees. fairfield, low 70's. and san jose tonight. dipping down between 48 and 55. we will see some areas of patchy fog developing right around the seashore and into the north bay valleys. otherwise, sunny and warmer. and you can count on some record-high temperatures on both monday and tuesday, because we have this huge dome diverting that storm track into vancouver island. as this high pressure ridge strengthens, we will be experiencing unseasonably warm weather all the way through election day. it tells us that this is an offshore flow. we have the winds are the inland areas transporting that warmer air mass all th

>> all right, roberta.thank you for that. >>> it's a $23 million blessing for a southern california family. the winning ticket to a jackpot had been sitting in a victorville woman's car without her even knowing it. today the mystery winner came forward and collected her prize. the mother of 7 children including 2 adopted special needs boys has a dozen grandchildren and is struggling to support everyone. she says she still can't believe it was her daughter the lottery was looking for. >> she said, i'm going to text you a picture and you tell me who it is. so i put my 99-cent dollars glasses and i have put two pairs to see and it was charlene. and i thought she robbed a bank. [ laughter ] >> most of the $17.8 million will be used to care for her two special needs boys. but first, she is taking them to disneyland. >>> overcharged at the supermarket time and time again. but are you getting the freebies the store is legally required to give you? an exclusive undercover consumerwatch investigation next. >> and co

roberta, thank you. >>> dark and i saw this like figure? and then it made a weird noise like a grunting noise. >> even its name baltimore is sinister in nature. coming up, you'll never believe what kept this kid cornered for more than an hour. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> a real-life "baltimore" chased a paperboy up a tree. his owners are harry potter fans. he is a really good lawnmower, but this week the goat got off his chain, and 14-year-old boy was chased headbutted by the goat and he climbed a tree. his friends won't let him forget about it. >> hey, goat boy. hey, guys. people are like why are you scared of goats? that was a freaky goat. i think it's possessed or something. >> he looks scary. police were called when jackson didn't come home. they found him up the tree with the goat nearby. got the goat away, got him down the tree and now he has a goat story to tell. >> stay with us. we'll be right back. >>> well, today's tip of the day is going to be is pomegranites. they come from california. the season is peaking. there are so many out the

. >> roberta gonzales is at the airport for us now with more. how long are we talking? >> reporter: right now the rain has stopped. we have a little reprieve but winds have been problematic gusting up to 37 miles an hour. behind me is an empty runway. this is something that you should not be seeing at this time of the day. it should be filled with arriving and departure flights. right now we have one cancellation of an international plane but we have so many cancellations of arriving flights for monterey, from orange county, from santa barbara. and earlier today we had over 4 hour delays on arriving flights. i just went inside the terminal and took another look. it looks like we are still seeing delays up to 2 hours and 24 minutes on arriving flights. what the duty manager says is that even if we begin to pick up some of these rates of departing flights we'll still have problems now on arrivals because it takes a while to get these planes turned around after such a huge delay. so word of advice, if you are coming to sfo, it's advisable to call ahead because this is goin

from san anselmo, roberta gonzales. >> thank you. >>> on the bay area watch now, a manhunt is under way for a masked intruder in palo alto. police say a masked man got inside a woman's apartment. she woke up when he was in her bed. she screamed and he took o she feels not injured. no description of the suspect yet. >>> in san jose a fire broke out inside a home garage that may have held a pot growing operation. firefighters got the fire under control in an hour. no word on what started the fire. police did find a marijuana growing facility inside but have not confirmed yet whether it was legal or not. >>> a controversial vote at the u.n. today is certain to win u.n. recognition of a palestinian state to recognize palestine's 1967 borders before israel took parts of the palestinian land. israel doesn't recognize those borders and says today's vote won't change a thing. they are against the push to give nonmember observer status in the u.n. it's been four years since israel and palestine have been negotiating. >>> with 33 days left to the "fiscal cliff" deadline, president obama sent his

. >> a few months ago roberta lou went on facebook and saw an ad about a fat buster. >> if you can takeills a day, you are in. >> reporter: online she found a ton of them for sale. >> so i clicked on it and i ordered it. >> reporter: without changing her diet or adding exercise. >> i lost my belly fat and ten pounds in two months without even trying. >> reporter: what is she taking? green coffee extract. green coffee extract comes from unroasted or green coffee beans. what is in them? >> caffeine, a well-known stimulant, but the beans also contain chloro genic acid, a substance believed to help boost your metabolism of fats and carbs. 16 subjects lost more than 10% of their body weight in five months, but some experts are voicing strong concerns. >> i worry that we don't even know the right dose to take of coffee extract. >> reporter: dr. mark hellerstein is a scientist at uc berkeley and said the study is too small to draw any conclusions and warns of consequences. >> people want to take it now, i would be careful. we don't know if -- about toxicity. >> or what is in them. they don't e

roberta says there's more rain on the way. roberta. >> we're firing up our live high-def doppler radar. we are beginning to see the leading edge of this second system as it plows into the northern portion of our district. you can see by the shades of yellow this is a higher concentration of moderate rainfall that we're seeing around highway 101 through winthrop at this particular time. from you in santa rosa these cells will be -- if you are in santa rosa these cells will be moving into your neighborhood in the next 30 minutes. high-def doppler radar picking up light rain around fairfield and sears point around highway 37. it looks like all this activity is moving northeast. this is the beginning of storm number 2 rolling in tonight. live cbs 5 weather camera looking out at san jose where it is not raining at this time but we'll tell you when to expect raindrops on your rooftops across the santa clara valley coming up with our pinpoint forecast. >> to track the rain in your enabled anytime of day, you can find the cbs 5 hi-def

roberta gonzales from mount diablo. >>> it has been a dismal week on wall street. today's slight gain wasn't much to recoup the losses from the market's worst two-day slide in a year. wall street is sending a message to washington, d.c. find a way to fix the "fiscal cliff." cbs reporter grace lee with how both sides are taking note of this. >> reporter: we all know the long they are drags out, the more wall street is likely to suffer. if you want to know just how important dealing with a "fiscal cliff" is, consider this. it is the very first thing the president talked about publicly post-election. and today there are new signals of communication between the president and the house speaker john boehner. >> i'm not wedded to every detail of my plan. i'm open to compromise. i'm open to new ideas. >> everyone wants to get our economy moving again. everyone wants to get more americans back to work again. >> reporter: could this be washington code for a real compromise? political science expert max neimann says that's exactly what it is. >> and there's a kind of dance ta

thanks, roberta. >>> untreated high blood pressure can take a real toll on the heart. but now california researchers have shown how it can also damage the brain. and get this. in people as young as 40! dr. kim joins with us more. >>> reporter: well, what's bad for your heart is bad for your brain. this is sobering news. researchers at uc-davis have shown for the first time that high blood pressure speeds up the aging process in the brain. what's more, they found brain damage even among young people with prehypertension. >>> reporter: high blood pressure has been linked to brain atrophy, cognitive decline and dementia later in life but this is the first time scientists have detected brain injury in running whyer patients with the condition. the concern -- in younger patients, with the condition. the concern it could lead to earlier dementia. the good news bay area experts say you can influence your brain health later in life by knowing and treating high blood pressure and by knowing risk factors you can change. >> for example, for young people, weight gain being overwei

. >> roberta gonzales is in the call center. those phones keep ringing. >> reporter: i am here in the hurricane relief fund telethon. we started at 6:00 this morning. we're going strong all the way until 7 p.m. i'm going to become your very personal friend over the next several hours because i'm not going anywhere. i need your help. i need you to help people on the east coast. it's west coast joining east coast. together we can make it better for everyone because 53,000 people still cannot go home because of the wrath of superstorm sandy. also, people are still without electricity and top that off with a second storm a nor'easter that raced through new york and new jersey yesterday dumping record amounts of snow. emily white is here with the american red cross. >> thank you so much for helping. >> reporter: tell us how great the need is. >> it's enormous and it's growing every day. this is ramping up to be one of our largest responses in the past five years. we have tons of volunteers out there right now working with local gover

roberta gonzales is reporting live from napa. not every rainstorm not every big storm is created the same. >> reporter: light rain on and off again all day winds south at 15 miles per hour. the last time i was standing right here reporting on that river, the napa river was new year's eve 1997 and new year's day 1998. this flooded local businesses. that was due to el nino. even though we are expecting a foot of rain here in napa between today and sunday night, coming up at 6:00 i'll tell you why we don't anticipate the same kind of flooding. that's tonight at 6:00 right here on cbs 5. reporting from napa, roberta gonzales cbs 5. >>> and as you just heard, the north bay is going to get hammered but one spot in particular really needs to watch out. in the past, heavy rains have flooded san anselmo creek inundating the downtown with water. voters approved a tax for prevention projects five years ago. but the money has been tied up in court most of the time. now there's about $10 million waiting to be spent. >> there are efforts that

reporting from concord, roberta gonzales, cbs 5. >>> much more on our stormy weather coming up including the typing of the next round of rain and this reminder, you can use our live hi-def doppler on our website to zero in on your neighborhood. we also have a list of places where you can pick up sandbags. just go to our website, cbssf.com and click on weather. >>> new at 5:00 we are getting our first look at a smash-and- grab robbery that happened at a south bay jewelry store. security cameras were rolling as two men armed with semi- automatic weapons burst into a jewelry store in los gatos. they held employees at gunpoint and then look at them go to work. one used a hammer to smash glass display cases and then they filled a bag with jewelry, police say the theft was well planned. the suspects apparently made use of two getaway cars. >> two women saved from a burning rv in san jose have an alert passerby to thank. the man was walking on santiago avenue this morning when he spotted smoke coming from the camper and heard screams from inside. he was able to pry open the door and pull the wo

. >> chris: at age 73, roberta flak is indeed still here.udiences, with her magical voice, and music. ♪ >> chris: it started, so easily. ♪ >> chris: back in 1973, she won the grammys for record and song of the year, for "first time ever i saw your face." >> chris: what was it like to hit it big? >> scary, overwhelming, frightening, unbelievable. there's one. is this me? >> chris: then a year later, she won the grammys again, for "killing me softly" ♪ ♪ >> chris: two years in a row, song of the year and record of the year and did you think it would go on forever? >> yes, you always do. why not. >> chris: she suddenly stopped recording and gave few concerts. >> chris: three years, you didn't release an album. you didn't... >> why didn't i release an album? i don't know. i didn't have anything to say. >> chris: she had serious throat problems but as she said, she's still here. now, 40 years after her big break, she released an album of beatles songs, inspired by living next-door to john lennon, when he was writing "imagine." >> in my computer r

roberta flack is still here. still cap elevate go audiences with her magical voice and music. easily. back in 1973 she won the grammies for song of the year first time ever, i saw your face. >> chris: what was that like to hit it big? >> scary, frightening and unbelievable. is this me? >> chris: year later she won the grammies again for "killing me softly." two years in row roe you have the song of the year and record of the year did you think it's going on forever? >> you always do, why not? >> chris: she stopped recording. three years you didn't release an album. >> i don't think i had anything to say. >> chris: she had serious throat problems but as she says, she is still here. 40 years after her big break she has released beatle songs, inspired by living next to john lennon. >> the a wall of my computer room was the wall of his computer room. >> it's hard to imagine hard to imagine her journey. she grew up in northern virginia but started piano lessons at age nine. six years later she had a music scholarship to howard university. >> what are you doing in college at the age

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from daly city, with mobile weather, i'm roberta gonzales. paul? >> let's talk about the forecast. we don't want that much rain for daly city. obviously it would be a concern. some of you saying week, can use some rainfall we're below normal and we'll get it whether you like it or not. hi-def doppler is tracking the rainfall toward daly city and all the bay area. one spot that will see most of the rain, north of the golden gate towards clear lake and healdsburg. you're likely going to see about 2" of rain between now and sunday evening. temperatures outside right now upper 50s, low 60s. oakland at 61. cloudy in livermore 61 degrees. and san jose 62. the cloud cover will limit the cooling tonight because the clouds will act like a blanket. so we are going to see waves of rainfall low pressure off to the west of for the next three days. the first wave tonight and early tomorrow. things sloppy on the roads. the last wave of rainfall won't move out until sunday evening about three days. friday, saturday, sunday that we'll see a solid rain chance. next few days steady rain at times, som

how about it, roberta? >> it is so cold that we now have from the national weather service a frost advisory posted for the blue highlighted areas which is the north bay valleys where we will have overnight lows into the upper 20s and low 30s. frost advisory until 8:00 tomorrow morning. how cold will be it? 32 in santa rosa, rio visita, temperatures in the upper 20s. low 40s in san jose and mid-40s around the peninsula. we'll talk about other neighborhoods and how they'll be affected. also after the cold comes the rain, later in our forecast. >>> two people living in a placer county assisted living community are dead after eating soup made with foraged wild mushrooms. why it's usually a mistake to eat wild mushrooms. >> reporter: beautiful wild placer county land surrounds this care home. a care giver here picked mushrooms found growing on the property and used them to make a soup and fed it to residents. two are dead, and four others, including the care giver are sick. >> we have no comment. >> can you tell

roberta has a watch the place for us. >> today we had temperatures averaging a good ten degrees belowge for this time of year. good evening everybody. head outside and make sure you have your jacket. this is the scene today as the sun officially went down at 5:01 and by then, we had highs that banked between 56 in san francisco, nine degrees below average. to 62 for the warmest location in santa cruz. this is the scene looking out to the 586 and 80 corridor in the eastern portion of the bay area. see dublin. otherwise right now in livermore at 52 but notice santa rosa already down to 49 degrees at this early evening thundershower. thus we have a -- hour. thus we have a frost advisory in place for the north bay valleys. as temperatures dip to right around that freezing point. but some valleys could even drop to the upper 20s where you see the red headlighted areas that's the interior of the county and also the north coast. temps tonight. 32 santa rosa. 35 in napa. could see cooler temperatures however in sonoma and glen allen. across the central bay into the mid 40s and low 40s santa c

. >> our very own roberta gonzales was the keynote speaker. she was the first person among her siblings to go to college. the conference's goal to encourage students to learn more about higher education. >>> the new ipad mini is on sale finally today at apple stores all around the world but lines have been shorter than previous rollouts probably because of the price than other products on the market from amazon and google. today only the wi-fi version of the ipad mini is on sale. the cell model will be available next month. >> what do you think? >> i like it. but i haven't bought one. >> yeah. do you have an ipad? >> i do not but i thought those were cool. i don't like the real big ones. that seems funny when you see people taking pictures holding up these big screens. i was down at the tech museum of innovation today and they are having a science festival so we were doing the whole flew tog thing. that wasn't too bad. you can make your own down there and learn all about the arts and crafts down there making innovative new things. if it doesn'

. >> my guess, roberta gonzales is asleep. she went straight through 13 hours including at the end. >> great job. >> a lot of generous people. we say thanks. >>> it is 4:40 now. navy seals in a lot of trouble with the department of defense. what they did with the videogame that's causing a lot of security concerns. >> plus, something fishy about a uc-davis sorority prank. why police don't think it's too funny. >> and it looks like something out of a movie here. bandits, motorcycles pull off a brazen heist inside a mall that's packed with people. it's coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, it looks like something outa james bond movie. six men, dressed in black, wearing helmets >>> a brazen heist at a mall in north london looks like something out of a james bond really. six men dressed in black ride into the mall on motorcycles. they then smash the display window at a jewelry store and ride off with $3 million worth of jewels and rolex and cartier watches. police are still looking for them. they were able to get away. >> that is a little cr

roberta gonzales has a look at the radar. >> picking up scattered showers as this cold front is slicing through the bay area, quickly falling apart at the seams. we have moderate rain falling on highway 92 on the approach toward hayward. light rain right now. otherwise, we have a cell that seems to want to develop and expand across the santa clara valley. here is that corridor, very slippery when wet. you see 680 heading north and south, pretty much light to moderate rainfall as it spills in from blackhawk to san ramon into dublin. here's the cell that fell just in the past few minutes, around the palo alto area. we've had some hefty rain in the santa cruz mountains. we're tracking this latest cold front. we'll tell you when the rain will end and how it effects the raider game, coming up. >>> in dairy city, it will be a long night, just days after their neighborhood was buried in mud, rain is once again a threat to a crumbling hillside. >> reporter: fortunately, right now, ann, it is not raining. it is very calm here, but folks are concerned because they've seen what can happen. this hi

here's roberta gonzales. >> good evening een. in fact, today -- everybody 679 in fact today we were averaging temperatures up to ten degrees below normal and many of the neighborhoods only topping off in the mid 50s and tonight once the sun officially set the temperatures went downward very quickly. in fact the national weather service has now issued a frost advisory in effect for the blue highlighted areas there. that's the north bay valleys where temperatures will dip into the upper 20s and low 30s for a few hours. so be sure to protect your plants and pets. in fact let's pinpoint the temperatures, 32 degrees, freezing in santa rosa. it means the upper 20s for you and otherwise 35 degrees in napa and mid 30s throughout the trivalley. we'll be talking rain again and we'll pinpoint the days coming up straight ahead and a little bit later in this newscast. >>> a man suspected of murdering his wife in san jose was found dead late this afternoon. the body of 50-year-old troy nosenzo was found in his car in the county. police believe

and of course roberta was in the middle of it all and we had great preliminary numbers but you have some numbers? >> i just heard today so far when you count in the numbers that texted in the donation as well. drum roll please? ♪ $177,000. >> wow. [ applause ] that's great. >> how about that? we thank you so much for your generous contributions. and you can still contribute to the american red cross by visiting us online, cbssf.com. >>> what a day across the bay area today. unseasonably cool conditions. even though the sun was bright. and it looks like tonight, because of the cool air mass settling in it is going to be a frigid night all the way down to the freezing point. the current weather conditions conditions in and around the microclimbs and there you have the 685 and 80 corridor where numbers are stacking up in the 50s. and san francisco, it's 53 degrees so if you have a night out on the town tonight, you might want to make sure you have that jacket. now meanwhile looking out from the transamerica building the golden gate bridge would be in the distance. you can tell the coast is