windsor area north 101 windsor river road high winds on all bridges extra caution late traffic cominginto san francisco still two lanes in the southbound direction they will reconfigure that as the commute getsomw)r underway light trafficxpiq! 87 in san jose past hp pavilion i wanted you to see some of the drive times up and over the altamont pass, highway 4 westbound east shore freeway from the car seen -- carquinez bridge into the macarthur maze under 20 minutes.$+k patience and persistence that's what you will need flying out of the bay area today rain here could cause delays at sfo bad weathergpá back east will make thingszíñ z worse. amy hollyfield is live at sfo with more. >> reporter: i just spoke with the duty manager here and i've got surprisingly good news no cancellations here at sfo as of yet there are a couple of delays no cancellations. here's what is causing//>ó concern and has people wondering if the day could get rock check out the weather in chicago there are delays and cancellations at o'hare. this weather is causing problems throughout the midwest l there are delay

what could happen here, the windsor versus the united states case, keep in mind, edith windsor is legally married. she was legally married in canada. she lives in new york for marriage equality where it's legal. her suit against the united states isn't asking to be legally married. it's to have the federal government recognize her legal marriage. >> right. >> vis-a-vis the internal revenue service. because when her partner of 42 years died, she owed $363,000 in federal estate taxes that she would not have to pay if her spouse had been a man. >> and that's a great point because she was legally married in canada, lived in a state that marriage equality is legal. so we're not asking in this case for them to affirm the marriage. it's just for them to affirm where she is legally married that the federal government has to respect that, rich around. >> yes, that's true. but i think that the big picture we want to emphasize today is that we are at the beginning of the end of this struggle perhaps.

flooding in windsor area north 101 at windsor river road.580 towards the maze or 880 from the north or towards the north i should say 80 west headed into the this hour. antioch and highway 4z=eh westbound towards pittsburg good ride at this hour no delays no roadwork out there this morning. out of the central valley up and over the altamont everythingpccq moving nicely at( the limit under 20 minutes from the altamont to 680 junction roadwork in the city north 280 san jose avenue until 5:00. >>> 4:48. new this morning, north korea says itoppx has detained an american citizen after he confessed to committing unspecified crimes. state media identified the man they say he's from washington state and known there as kenneth bay. officials say crimes were proven through evidence but didn't elaborate. media reports say he was taken into custody after entering the country in early november as part of a tour. >>> congress headed into the holiday recess with the nation still teetering on the edge of the fiscal cliff. boehner was forced to call off a vo

we have our own radar on mount saint helena and it is tracking moderate to heavy rain around the windsor area. sweetwater springs road. as you can see highway 101 here. as we head up, we are getting light to moderate rain there. this was worrisome because it will only get worse. and that is why a flood warning has been issued for the russian river until 6:00 p.m. on monday. the russian river and it is also under a flood warning. that is until 8:00 p.m. on sunday night. let me show you some of the other areas seeing showers in the north bay. around santa rosa light to moderate rate. the showers #r* quickly developing -- the showers are quickly developing spotty in nature. east, southeast of the morgan hill area, rain shower totals are impressive, over eight and a half inches, the santa cruz mountains and almost nine inches. almost an inch and a half and almost three inches san rafael. oakland to san jose an inch and a third. livermore 1.86. 86 miles an hour and golden gate bridge with 60 miles an hour. we have a flash flood watch through sunday evening. smaller streams may over flow their

her spouse left her entire estate to edie windsor. because of the defense of marriage act edie windsor was left with almost a 400,000 dollar federal estate tax that someone who was the spouse of an opposite sex coup weill not have had to pay. so their defense of marriage act can being challenged as violating the equal protection guarantee in the fifth amendment. >> warner: and how sweeping, if the ruling were in favor of edie windsor, how widely would that apply nationwide? >> well, the challenge here to doma really is that only this provision in doma is unconstitutional as applied to legally married same-sex couples. the argument is that that provision discriminates against them by treating them differently from legally married opposite sex couple its. so if the court found in favor of edie windsor as the lower federal appellate court here did t would not affect any state's law that prohibits same-sex marriage so this is more of a yes or so no question, there aren't as many options as there are with the california prop 8 case for the

we have our own radar on mount saint helena and it is tracking moderate to heavy rain around the windsor area. sweetwater springs road. as you can see highway 101 here. as we head up, we are getting light to moderate rain there. this was worrisome because it will only get worse. and that is why a flood warning has been issued for the russian river until 6:00 p.m. on monday. the russian river and it is also under a flood warning. that is until 8:00 p.m. on sunday night. let me show you some of the eeing showers in the north bay. around santa rosa light to moderate rate. the showers #r* quickly developing -- the showers are quickly developing spotty in nature. east, southeast of the morgan hill area, rain shower totals are impressive, over eight and a half inches, the santa cruz mountains and almost nine inches. almost an inch and a half and almost three inches san rafael. oakland to san jose an inch and a third. livermore 1.86. 86 miles an hour and golden gate bridge with 60 miles an hour. we have a flash flood watch through sunday evening. smaller streams may over flow their banks. here

we have our own radar on mount saint helena and it is tracking moderate to heavy rain around the windsor area. sweetwater springs road. as you can see highway 101 here. as we head up, we are getting light to moderate rain there. this was worrisome because it will only get worse. and that is why a flood warning has been issued for the russian river until 6:00 p.m. on monday. the russian river and it is also under a flood warning. that is until 8:00 p.m. on sunday night. let me show you some of the other areas seeing showers in the north bay. around santa rosa light to moderate rate. the showers #r* quickly developing -- the showers are quickly developing spotty in nature. east, southeast of the morgan hill area, rain shower totals are impressive, over eight and a half inches, the santa cruz mountains and almost nine inches. almost an inch and a half and almost three inches san rafael. oakland to san jose an inch and a third. livermore 1.86. 86 miles an hour and golden gate bridge with 60 miles an hour. we have a flash flood watch through sunday evening. smaller streams may over flow their

right to the red and this is where it is draped from the sacramento valley back to clear lake and windsor and santa rosa. the back edge has been pushing through ukiah and with it the very gusty winds preceding the gusts. we have wind gusts up to 51 miles an hour at the airport, 38 miles an hour winds from hayward. a little lighter but still at the higher elevations you are seeing 63 miles an hour wind gusts down to about 2,000 feet down in the south bay. here's the north bay. look at the heavy rain from richmond, martinez and berkeley, now pushing into the east bay. and 580 and back westward. 280 in san francisco. not only looking it he rain but gusty winds. lighter rains into fremont and union city and the south bay. this will all continue to increase throughout the day. the first half of the day looking much, much different than the second half. carolyn. >> lisa, you are the key person

edie windsor, 83 years old, is a widow now. but she had 42 happy years with the love of her life -- thea spyer. >> she was beautiful. she was smart as hell. and she was wonderful altogether. >> reporter: edie and thea were married but when thea died in 2009, edie got socked by the irs with $363,000 in estate taxes, which no widow in a straight marriage would have to pay. today, the supreme court decided to hear edie's case challenging the law she says discriminates against couples like her and thea. the defense of marriage act, which defines marriage under federal law as the union of one man and one woman. the justices will also decide whether states have the power to ban gay marriage. and 30 states have laws that do just that. it's been a breathtaking year of change on the issue. president obama, in a switch from 2008, announced his support for gay marriage in a may interview with abc's robin roberts. >> for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same sex couples should be able to get married

forestville, all there having light to moderate rain possibly pockets of heavy rainj towards windsor riff road,ée7vÑ santa rosa where we had-r6 flooding -- earlier this morning, healthy storm around since this is moving northeast this entire line is going to start sinking south in the heart of the bay by 7:00, probably in the south bay by >>>?>óÑ one of the busiest travl days of the year now in san jose 87 flowing nicely no delays towards 101 northbound past hp pavilion and julian avenue that's the off-ramp, bridget section brake lights towards the highrise up and over towards foster city hayward no significant delays eastbound moving nicely towards hayward. 680 corridor from 580 to 24 northbound over 15 minutes. 580 into castro valley from pleasanton over the dublin minutes.jlpu 87 northbound towards 101 moving at the limit. >>> today's storm<%ih comes ase christmas travelz"yáqjz kicks intonbú1s high gear. amy hollyfield joins us live from afo. delays are just starting to because of the low ceiling that we have with the clouds, they are going to start delaying us. they areí:avñ g

(laughter) >> jon: apparently the duchess of windsor has been flinging her biscuits, as they say.ile morning sickness may be all right for commoners, the royals puke fancy. >> she is is suffering from what is called hyperemesis. >> hyperemesis gravidarum. >> isn't that the spell that us ed to defeat voldemort. >> hyper, mesis gravidarum. blah. >> hyperemesis gravidarum. >> not cool, hermione. >> luckily kates had now recovered from the vomiting and with all the speculation about whether she's pregnant finally behind us, perhaps we can get down to more serious speculation. >> the book makers are already running bets on, you know, is it a boy or a girl. >> 8 to 1 the hair color will be ginger. >> what will the royal baby look like. >> where will it go to skl. >> 8 to 1 it is the baby is born a girl, elizabeth. >> boy maybe, maybe charles, maybe george. >> the wagering begins. >> a child will be born unto us. and he shall cease upon it for o amusement from the get-go. it does raise the philosophical question does loss of privacy again at conception? let's hope. for our-- for our ente

prince william's full name is -- >> william arthur phillip louis mountbaton windsor. >> okay. he and harry use wales in the military, because that's where they live, i guess. >> no their father is prince of wales. >> well, why is that your last name? if you are the prince of wales -- >> hoda thinks it should be hoda egypt. >> going to stay in sync with that, you could be kathie lee france. >> i love it. all right. so, here is the thing. as soon as the queen's children and grandchildren are titled, they take the title -- their title as their surname. >> here is the question. now, there's a good chance that the baby or babies that kate, you know, is having may be twins because a lot of women who have -- >> this condition. very, very serious morning sickness. >> have twins. >> the good news. >> the question if there are twins and there is a c-section who will be the first born? 'cause that's the whole -- the money right there. the first born and the heir and the spare, they say. >> believe that kind of in the inner recesses of his brain, harry's kind of glad he doesn't have to be

highway 101 we watched over windsor in the last half hour. calistoga has seen it pretty good at times. pacific satellite view a broader view this is the apparent system. storm number one coming through this morning. leaving us with periods of rain for the afternoon. storm number two saturday morning. storm number three on sunday. here we are this morning. we get through the 7:00 hour. it's slowly shifting south. look how long it takes. 8:00 hour we are still dealing with dry conditions over pleasanton and san jose. by 8:00 and 9:00 it shifts into san jose. and then by 9:00 steady light rain continuing. tapers off scattered showers. you know what that means. an own off mostly cloudy throughout the day. if you have evening plans tonight, prepare with an umbrella. tomorrow morning while e we're sleeping it's really coming down. by 9:00, 10:00 we are doing holiday shopping and we have scattered showers in the forecast. saturday looks pretty good. maybe a few scattered showers. mostly cloudy. sunday morning we wake up, more rain on the way. that i

reports of wind damage in windsor. it's right here. there's a flooding in windsor.sor. debris flow is a big deal. that means the rain was coming down. that's how we knew this morning it was happening. it was game on. an actual observer of there. they've got a flood. significant rainfall events throughout the bay area right now. let's check out one more just up here by oakland. we are kind of by the richmond area. let's see what's happening in san ramon. a debris flow. that's new. i haven't seen that one. 7:59. what does that mean? i picture those critics starting to run, branches coming down, the whole bit. this is real-time information coming in from trained observers. what you're seeing right now some of the heaviest rain moving through the bay area. i will bring rosemary in right now if i can. we've been watching it all morning. the thing that strikes me is how few cars are out on the road. people are heeding advice and not going out. >> heard you say before that, of course, but to poverty around the bay area, we are equipped to take on a lot of rain. that area i

a windsor resident said he pulled three cars out of a flooded part of the road. the russian river, meanwhile, is expected to reach its capacity, but not surpass that throughout this weekend. but residents we've spoken with say they are focused on tomorrow. both their preparations and concerns for tomorrow's storm. reporting live in petaluma, abc7 news. >> and we see she has taken off her hood in the last half-hour so a break for folks in petaluma right now. people in the santa cruz mountains not getting a break. they are still without power and highway 9 is still shut down because of downed power lines. we have more from santa cruz county. >> pg&e crews are working to get power restored. this has been cut away by power crews and up the road only one building has electricity. >> you try to get ahead of the ballgame. a lot of us have small generators around here. >> his generator is humming along at his general store but some of his neighbors are having to settle with tiki lamps and candles to get through the night and the trouble caused by the storm. >> this is ou

. >> we were coming from windsor and going to the small. and we were taking the back roads by sack rosa. >> samuel and his friends said they saw the flood warning signs but tried to cross anyway. >> once we got to the water you could see the car just like smoke started coming out and they tried to turn the car off and turn it back on. didn't work. so we opened the doors and all the water just came in. >> everybody thinks they can come through it, and they don't make it. >> nicholas william, who lives nearby, said he pulled three cars out of this flooded park of west mark station road. >> when they do that to their car, what happens? >> they ruin it. costs them with $5,000 to replace the motor. >> so far the storms have done relatively little damage up hear in the north bay but the ground is pretty well saturated. and we have another wave of rain coming at us. reporting in santa rosa, i'm allen wong, abc7 news. >>> a couple hundred people in the santa cruz mountains are still without power this morning and hay way 9 is still shut down becaus

downed wires on liberty, windsor mill. watchout for that. looking at the time saver traffic drive times, no delays on the east side. an 11 minute ride on the outer loop from 95, all the way up to 83. 95, great shape, through white marsh, a quick four minutes to travel from route 43 down to the beltway. >>> less than 24 hours away from going over the fiscal cliff. lawmakers are no closer to a deal wrangling over the last minute legislation to avert the cliff and president barack obama called for immediate action that there was no vote in the senate. majority leader, harry reid says lawmakers negotiated through the night and expected to come together around 11:00. if congress doesn't agree, spending cuts will go in to effect and we will pay more taxes. the impact is more than $3400 in a year. >>> she was supposed to return to work this week, instead, secretary of state, hilary clinton is in the hospital. treated for a blood clot that resulted after a fall earlier this month. >> reporter: hilary clinton was admitted to new york presbyterian hos

edith windsor and her partner were married in toronto, canada in 2007. spire died in 2009 in new york at a time when new york recognized same-sex marriages that had been performed outside the side. when spire died windsor was required to pay $363,000 in federal estate taxes on her inheritance that she would not have had to pay if federal law had given their relationship the same status that opposite sex marriages get, so a pretty clean case here, an even the obama administration has already said it doesn't think the constitutionality of the defense of marriage act can withstand a legal attack. >>> the second case the court decided to take on is proposition 8, the california ballot initiative adding a state constitutional amendment in 2008 that said only marriage between a man or woman is valid or recognized in california. it overturned a court ruling that said same-sex couples have a right to marry. the cases are likely to be heard in march and decided some time in june. randi? >> joe johns, thank you very much for that. we'll be right back. >>> some are

concealing the public's business under an e-mail account in her name for that account was richard windsor. no freedom of information act request had until we discovered that account, had they ever searched her private e-mail accounts that she was using for public business. essentially he is was evading federal law -- she was evading federal law by concealing what should be open and transparent deliberations overall these extremely expensive rules that the epa has been firsting on our economy. tom: nobody likes washington covering up anything but there are published wants that maybe he is is not the first baby -- she is not the first, and maybe carroll browner was involved in this, this may have gone on in bush administration, bush 43. is this -- do you know anything about these accusations or reports? >> it was said during the clinton administration that carroll brander did not use e-mail. but we discovered, my colleague horner discovered that carroll brander did, when the clinton administration left they destroyed hardwares that the e-mail was contained owe can't look back at shenanigans

it is called windsor against the united states. windsor and her partner who is named tea spire. these are two women with long 40-year relationship. they were married in toronto, canada, in 2007 and spire died in 2009 in new york at a time when new york recognized same sex marriages that had been performed out of the state. so spire dies. and then edie windsor, the woman whose name is on the case, was required to pay $363,000 in federal estate taxes on the inheritance. and this is money that she would not have had to pay if federal law had given their relationship the same status that opposite sex marriages get. so this is a pretty clean case right here for the court to decide whether they decide it on benefits, whether they decide it on the issue of equal protection. the obama administration has already said, it doesn't think the constitutionality of the defense of marriage act can really withhold this kind of a legal attack. so we'll see, but i think the question you raised, deborah, is the question that is before all of us right

a windsor resident he pulled out three cars. it forced the closure of route 12 and highway 121 but it happened all across the bay area. i shared a tweet. from sonoma news telling the followers to avoid it unless you are driving a boat. that was for the routed 12 and 121 closure. today as lisa mentioned a respite in the storm but they are using today to brace for tomorrow. reporting live, "abc 7 news". >> katie: on the accident we told you eight to ten car pile-up northbound 280. the are tweeting that all lanes of northbound 280 have reopened in san francisco. >>> also california emergency management agency is reminding people as the store comes and goes, it's a good reminder to make sure you are ready for the rainy sciences or any type of natural hazard. you should have items like radios and flashlights. three-day of food and water for everyone in the family and manual can opener. for developing an emergency plan for your family is posted at abc7news.com. >> in the sierra truckee width is expected to overflow the banks beginning

hitting parts of the north bay heavy rain with along ukiah on 101 moving towards healdsburg then windsor and santa rosa later this morning. it is going to hit rest of us by lunchtime when it gets to the golden gate bridge. around the bay around 7:00 cloudy if you need to do anything outdoors now is a good time. by noon chance of rain moving in, heavy rain this afternoon, lunchtime low 50s, breezy as well this afternoon. inland valleys, same, cloudy in the morning the chance of the rain moves in lunch heavy and breezy this afternoon, showers taper tonight into tomorrow and i'll have your seven day forecast in my longer report. >> all right francis may seem francis dinglasan and i'm doing traffic. stay with abc7 news for continuing coverage. storm hitting the the bay area today. you can track that storm with live doppler. delays eastbound 580 foothill there was an accident there blocking one or more lanes traffic was being diverted on to high street. mass transit on holiday schedule, it is christmas day, except ace, no service today. drive times on the major freeways this morning, very few

this is what i'm talking about, cloverdale down to windsor, santa rosa picking up showers. rohnert park and adobe road and petaluma. to the west you'll find light showers. this is what is going to with us off and on this evening. temperature-wise, it is still cool out there, temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. here is a look at forecast. cold showers overnight. scattered showers off and on for sunday. a little bit of a break and look for more rain to develop as we head into sunday night and monday and off-and-on rain showers expected for much of next week. lows tonight will be in the mid to low 30s, snow levels, higher peaks could see one-four inches of snow. elsewhere, look for temperatures in the 40s. this is satellite radar composite. this is the system that moved through earlier in the day. weak cold front, it has pushed into southern california. this a little bit of break we're in right now but we still have quite a bit of moisture. this is going to slide south. overnight and definitely throughout the day tomorrow. saturday night, you can see some of the light shower

. >> reporter: 37-year-old clarence cepheus taylor of windsor mill is facing three counts of felony sexual abuse of children. police say the attacks happened between 2008 and 2010 when he worked as an aide at the dorm. taylor is accused of fondling at least three girls over a two-year period. it came to light a few days ago after one of the girls came forward after several years. >> one of the girls realized she may not have been the suspect's only victim. she went to a teacher and reported this had occurred. at that point we launched an investigation and identified two additional victims. >> reporter: they're asking anyone who may have been harmed by taylor to contact the police. taylor remains in custody. >>> in harford county, charging documents show that a 22-year-old edgewood man is accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl last month. officials say the girl was taken to the child advocacy center where she told investigators ryan gram, a man who was helping a father on a remodeling project touched her inappropriately. he is charged with second and third degree sex offenses. >>>

probably the most serious standing questions are on the doma case and windsor case. the cases being defended by a group of republican members and it is not clear that they have actual standing to bring the case. so if the court says you don't have standing, then the e lower court would prevail and windsor would prevail. >> how would the court's ruling affect marriage equality? >> it couldn't be more important. that case came for african-americans in 1954, i believe. this could be that moment. we're all hoping that it is. this country is an imperfect union by mere fact that we have not recognized the right of people in love to be married. there are 120,000 couples in this country that are directly -- have their interests directly at stake. but it's not just them. the question is will this country embrace this fundamental human right? and i don't believe kennedy wants to be on the wrong side of history on that. >> this is the latest challenge to the constitutionty. is doma doomed? >> i think it is. there are four district courts saying it violated the rights of gay and

cloverdale down toward canyon road, healdsburg, windsor, mist and drizzle, forestville and king ridged rain is picking up. most of the rain from the next storm system is to the north of us. crescent city, eureka over towards this area, seeing the cold front moving in. all of this will be moving in early tomorrow morning. here is a look at current readings in the 50s across much of the bay area. san francisco 55. livermore, 57 degrees. rain increases as cold front moves across the bay area tomorrow morning. it will be wet for the morning commute and as we look out towards the rest of our workweek stormy conditions. thursday, big storm into friday and possibly into saturday. here is a look at that cold front right here is the leading edge. a lot of cold air, once this moves in, all this cold air will move in and we're talking freeze as we head into tuesday morning. wednesday morning. this is how it is for 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. front will spread rain across the bay area while you sleep tonight. 5:00 a.m. commute time, wet pavement across much of the bay area. as we head into the 9:

it happened around 9 near the corner of windsor mill road and meadowview drive. police came to the scene and found the boy bleeding with a gunshot wound to his chest. he has been released from the hospital. the victim told police two men wearing dark clothes robbed and shot him. officers searched the area and didn't find any of the suspects. >>> the killing of a man who was pushed in front of a new york city subway train is called a hate crime. police say the suspect told them she hated muslims since 9/11 and thought the victim was muslim. erica menden ease has been charged with murder -- menendez has been charged in the death. the man who was hindu was crushed by a train on thursday night. he is the second man to be died after being pushed in front of a subway in new york. >>> a family in florida got awakeup that sent them scrambling for cover. a car came barreling into the bedroom at 5:30 in the morning. it started a fire which damaged the home. the homeowner ended up with cuts and scrapes and the driver of the car was airlifted to the hospital with serious inj

woodside heavier rain headed your way traveling across 92, here's our next stretch, windsor forestville those are areas that had flooding yesterday or this morning and now we are starting to see smaller showers develop in your neighborhood this is the waves of showers we talked about that are going to continue coming up from this moist flow out southwest to mid and upper parts of the atmosphere. zeroes from concord, oakland, redwood city south you are going to get your rain just a matter of time santa rosa inch and a half nearly six inches in -- that feeds into the russian river everything is okay as far as flooding there. showers today, heavy at times, we'll get heavier rain tonight the only day i'm not forecasting rain is monday. cold front heavier showers to the south one batch falls apart behind it as it moves across,eyfñ more green and yells through the evening hours, on and off rain heavy at times, here we are at 2:00 in the morning, moderate rain moving through the north bay could get heavy at times, 4:00 as it moves through the bay, 6:00 through the south bay, by 9:00, gone ther

vanguard windsor fund investor shares up about 20% in 2012. ty?nd dad oe fund that used to be run by john neff. let's get into it guyes. buying back 20 million shares of stock from the u.s. treasury. that's all of us. the government needs to sell 300 million shares it still holds at $70 a piece to break even on the 49.5 billion bail yut. we asked you, viewers, whether you thought the bailout was worth it. here is what you said. it saved gm and industry a lot of jobs. 32% say that. no, it cost taxpayers billions. and 23% say we have turned into a bailout nation. what do you think, boys? >> i think, look, what is the cost of this? i think $49 billion. they are obviously losing money if they sell it at $27. the break even was 50-something if they sold all the shares. they will lose money. what is the cost of letting a million jobs go? i don't know. john, what do you think? >> i think this is surprising for a lot of people. we are definitely losing money on this deal. we are losing anywhere from 9 billion to 13 billion. but if you think about how much

some light showers continuing near santa rosa, highway 101, windsor.nd towards concord, some rainfall earlier but it has been pressing to the east. taking a look of the satellite and radar we are continuing to see the northern california for this hour we are continuing to see this thumb of moisture. this band of march of a disturbing for northern california. we are still warm to see these showers. this low system with a branch off here bringing plenty of rainfall to the coastline. here is what we can expect with a spotty showers and mainly dry conditions on/off. it will be steady but much lighter than what we saw today. towards the sunday, heavy rainfall, gusting wind. you will time it out on futurecast with rainfall totals coming up in just a bit. >>pam: the north bay has been the hardest hit area so far... kron 4's dan kerman has more on damage ... this round of rain left behind. >> in the mill valley on friday night public works crews were still at it cleaning up the fallen leaves on the sycamore avenue. the fear that they would gather at this catch

>> reporter: more than ever at christmas she remains a symbol of longevity and tradition as the windsors look forward to kate's first child and heir to the throne and next year's christmas reunion. nbc news, london. >>> if you plan to head to the movie, you better make sure you have a little ex-tra time becaue many season's blockbusters are clocking in at almost three hours. a report from hollywood. >> reporter: they are ep ic productions, earning oscar buzz. >> shall we stop this bleeding? >> reporter: this year's blockbusters have something else in common. you better block out three hours if you want to see one. as we approach the end of the year, holl's heavyweights are posting hefty run times. spielberg's lincoln clocks in at 2 1/2 hourz. le lay miss her les mis is almost three hours. >> one word of advice, go to the toilet before the movie started. >> reporter: why try to hold the moviegoers attention so long. many say blame it on oscar. there's a feeling in hollywood the academy won't take a best picture contender seriously if it's under two hours. this time of year, studios are ra

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woodside heavier rain headed your way traveling across 92, here's our next stretch, windsor forestvillehose are areas that had flooding yesterday or this morning and now we are starting to see smaller showers develop in your neighborhood this is the waves of showers we talked about that are going to continue coming up from this moist flow out southwest to mid and upper parts of the atmosphere. zeroes from concord, oakland, redwood city south you are going to get your rain just a matter of time santa rosa inch and a half nearly six inches in -- that feeds into the russian river everything is okay as far as flooding there. showers today, heavy at times, we'll get heavier rain tonight the only day i'm not forecasting rain is monday. cold front heavier showers to the south one batch falls apart behind it as it moves across,eyfñ more green and yells through the evening hours, on and off rain heavy at times, here we are at 2:00 in the morning, moderate rain moving through the north bay could get heavy at times, 4:00 as it moves through the bay, 6:00 through the south bay, by 9:00, gone there'

even old landmar like the queeelizabethotel and windsor statio now show their compliance with these lawstheir battle with the english-speaking minority. but it is quebec's rapidly growing immigrant population that currently presents an even greater challenge to the québécois. in this immigration office, a poster announces that french is the key to success in quebec. and to ensure that these newcomers agree... ( people speaking french enthusiastically ) narrator: the government pays them. oui. oui. non. ( teacher speaking french ) narrator: immigrant families can receive up to 200 canadian dollars per week to be taught by the government how to assimilate into french-speaking society. ( class interacting cheerfully ) monique daigle works with quebec's ministry of iigration. on sut comprl'importance... translator: we have certainly come to understand the portance of integrating this immigrant population into our majority frcophone society, if we want to ensure the continuation of the french reality. i don't like the idea of having to send my childre to a french public school and not being a