giving westboro a lot of coverage is what the mainstream media does.e soon treated to this inspiring image of the local firefighters prepared to make a human wall blocking the westboro fake christians from any mourners. sadly, westboro baptist church aren't the only american christians trying to exploit the tragedy for their own decidedly nonchristian goals. former governor and former human being, mike huckabee went on his fox show this week and said this... >> we ask why there's violence in our schools but we systemically remove god from our schools. should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage? >> john: now, mike this massacre was not caused by take god out of the schools or a lack of government-sponsored nativity scenes or as you mentioned later in the interview taxpayer funded abortion pills which actually don't exist. here's a tip for our fundamentalist christian friends. if you believe god is everywhere, it is impossible to remove him from our schools. when you say not having god in public schools leads to massacres like

north 280 at westboro that accident slowing things up the peninsula towards san francisco.ve times not bad over the altamont pass into pleasanton, 101 out of santa rosa into novato less than 20 minutes, 92 san mateo bridge from hayward towards san mateo, 15 minutes. >>> ahead, five things to know before you go. >>> the news that returns in 60 seconds, stay with us. . aro know before you go: number one, retailers are hoping for a busy day as shoppers take advantage of day after christmas deals. some stores are opening early like old navy in san mateo opened almost two hours ago. the season was disand ing for many retailers. >>> number -- number two, wet christmas has left much of the bay area saturated and part of it sliding. people in the santa cruz mountains are dealing with mud and rock slides. crews are scrambling to keep roads clear. >> number three, three people were killed, many more injured after 34 possible tornadoesf>h1m hit the south yesterday. we have video that shows a tornado hitting mobile, alabama that storm is expecp8,. to create problems for people trying

it asks the obama administration to recognize westboro baptist church as a hate group for targeting homosexuals, the military and other religions. it's now the single most supported petition ever on whitehouse.gov. >>> 4:39. toyota will pay more than $1 billion to settle a class action lawsuit over unintended acceleration in some of its vehicles. the settlement is one of the largest of its type in automotive history. drivers sued toyota because floor mats were stuck causing the vehicle to accelerate. under the agreement toyota will install a brake override system and other special safety features on more than three million cars. >> for consumers it means that two major defects in toyota vehicles are going to get fixed. so the bad news, well, how many more defects are there? how many more recalls are there going to be? i mean, after all, toyota in the last three years has recalled over 10 million vehicles. >> if it's approved by a federal judge, toyota will make cash payments to owners who sold their cars at a reduced price due to the bad publicity. the settlement, however, does not resolve clai

signed an online petition on the white house website asking the obama administration to recognize the westboro baptist church as a heat group. the signatures makes it the most supported single petition ever on the white house site. the church is primarily made up of members from one family. >>> parking is about to get a lot more expensive in one u.s. city. >> yeah, you're going to find out where it's going to cost you much more to cost for just one hour of parking in 2013. >> all right also ahead this morning, we have heard it before. be careful what you post online because it could come back to haunt you. and now one local college wants to make sure that their students have tasteful online profiles. we're going to tell you what they're doing to help their graduates get ready. >> and good morning, aisle mike masco. this is the abc2 app and again you can get this on the itunes store and the google play store. we have storm shield also and our interactive radar on this is showing a snowstorm possibly by the weekend. we'll talk about that coming up after this. >>> 6:38. thank you for joining us o

the petition is on the white house website and it's asking the administration to recognize the westboro baptist church as a hate group. it reads that the group targets gays, the military and other religions. >>> things don't look good for a new york city while found on a beach. it's the second largest species of whale is alive and appears to be injured. police have been playing water on -- spraying water on it so it can breathe. they don't expect it to survive much longer. they may have to euthanize it in what would be called a humane death. this is the second largest species of whale on the new york city beach. >>> here's a story about paying it forward twice. an iowa woman won $30,000 last year in the lottery a week before christmas. michelle bristol spent a gad chunk of the money helping other people. she helped pay off several layaway accounts and paid for gifts for three families in need. well, her good deeds touched a dental care company. they decided to give bristol a beautiful smile at no charge. >> she gave away so much money and you just don't see that very often. it's very in

hate mongers it is with great displeasure for me to announce that today every single member of the westboro baptist church is a villain in case the name doesn't ring a bell it's the same moronic group that picket soldiers' funerals with bizarre colored signs that read quote god hates fags this vile family travels all around the country with their brainwashed children holding insanely offensive signs in front of mourning families while they're stepping up their game because tomorrow they're planning to picket at the funeral of the principal from the tragic sandy hook massacre but you know what let's give them a chance to explain why they're doing this check out the why from their website they said the dead children of sandy hook are better off dead than to continue being raised for such great wrath and destruction as you brought to this land there's no hope for any child of this nation blah blah blah blah you have a duty to teach your children to fear god or else leave them to desolation darkness and destruction of wow really hard to get there. visceral garbage but wait there's more. god is

and finally, a law aimed directly at the controversial westboro baptist church, it will now be a crimen 300 feet of a funeral one hour before, during the funeral and one hour after. >> that is only in california? >> only in california. >> you think that will stop them? >> they say that they are going to abide by the law for now but they are also gearing up for a lawsuit alleging that this is a violation of their first amendment rights. >> can i say this one last time? "fiscal cliff"? [ laughter ] >> that's it. >> never going to say it again. >> no more. >> there's it for 2012. >> are they going to get it done? >> reporter: i used to think they were but then when boehner couldn't get the votes for plan b i thought oh, my god, we're in trouble. >> do your job. >> we'll see what happens. >> melissa, thank you so much. >>> remember, you can find more of melissa's segments on cbssf.com/mornings. >>> time for a look at what's coming up later on "cbs this morning." norah o'donnell joins us now live in new york with the license on the big show. good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning to y

accident southbound 280 peninsula westboro, slow through pacifica. >> we'll check in with meteorologist steadier rain from bodega bay towards rohnert park towards cloverdale and sea ranch. the rest of us will have mostly cloudy conditions and sprinkles. mainly low to mid 50s on our way to upper ♪ ♪ hark the herald angels sing glory to the newborn king ♪ >>> wow. if that doesn't get you in the holiday spirit, nothing will. that's katherine jenkins. we're going to hear more from you this morning. that is great, isn't it? >> i'm in the mood, now, for christmas. >> you have to wait for lara. she's out in front of buckingham palace this morning. been there all morning long. great to hear all of the reports from london this morning. >>> we have plenty of star power in our studio this morning. we have jessica biel, starring in not one, but two movies. she's going to tell us all about both of them opening on friday. she also is a newlywed. we'll talk about married life, as well. that's she and her hubby. a very talented guy named justin. >> gorgeous lady. >>> it's amazing to stand this close to

southbound 101 at sfo accident blocking left lane stall in south san francisco southbound 280 at westboroound o>+os% 280 towars pacifica. >>> the news continues now >>> the news continues now with "good mwith my keurig vue brewer, i can brew my coffee just the way i love it. how do you do that? inside the brewer, there's this train that makes coffee stronger, bigger, and hotter! actually, i just press this button. brew what you love with the keurig vue. [ cheers and applause ] >>> we do love our robin. at home watching. hopefully not braving the weather out there. but let me tell you, that audience, they're getting the spirit award today. the elements not kind. but that audience, rocking here in times square, as we bid you all, a good morning, america. george, robin, lara, all at home with their families. it's wonderful to have amy robach, paula faris and rachel smith, all here. >> and so wonderful to be here, josh. >>> also, we have the revealing, rockin' photos of superstar jennifer aniston on her holiday getaway. >> all right. >> with fiance justin thoreau. -- theroux. i usually don't