also looking at some decent wind gusts at sfo. that was at the top of the hour. 43. inverness at 38 and foster city near the san mateo bridge, 63. that is since midnight. that's not been within the past 2 to 3 hours. look at sustained winds. 47 miles per hour? yeah. that's going to be an issue today. gusty winds, chilly temperatures, cold! here's a look at the hi-def doppler. and we do still have some light scattered showers out there especially out in the east bay. and just along the coastline. are we going to keep those light scattered showers in the forecast for the afternoon, yes. here's the satellite and radar showing the cold front as it came through and boy it meant business. heavy rainfall at times, gusty winds moving through. and back behind that we will continue to be windy through the day. and it's going to feel a little cold. that colder air mass cooling us down. for tonight it's going to be frigid. this afternoon, windy and cold. still a slight chance of showers. highs today in the lower to the mid-50s. for tonight, patchy frost expected well inland. tem

southbound 83 checking in at 43 miiles per hour at shawan road. on southbound 95, 56 miles per hour. looking at a great ride with a very smooth conditions on the major roadways. this is the beltway up lost -- at baltimore national pike. problem free there. this is the key bridge. wind warnings are in effect. take it easy as you travel across the area bridges this morning. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now let's get the latest on the buses and the trains. for that we go to kurt kronke of the mta system. >> we have a slight delay on the light rail right now. it is running about 10 minutes late. the five, 23, 36, and 91 buses are diverting at baltimore and light street. marc trains -- brunswick line 10 to 50 minutes late. the camden the penn, camden, and brunswick lines trains are on time. now back to tony pann. >> it will feel more like minnesota and maryland. wind chills running in the single digits this morning. prepare the kids. actual temperatures are in the low 20's. it is 20 important. 18 in westminster. 23 in rock hall. the wind is

variable cloudiness. 25 degrees at this hour at reagan national. the sunrise at 7:21 this morning. here's a look at the satellite and radar picture. we did see the storm system now go off onto the coast. we are watching an area of low pressure developing. it could be a coastal storm head off and miss us or it could bring serious snow possibly for the weekend. we'll talk about that more. first richard has your traffic. >> reporter: a good morning as we check out the roadways in the area, we still get the grown light. all clear, no issues on the beltway itself, inner or outer loop side. we are fairly quiet at this early hour. i-95, taking the live look at prince william parkway, a bit of a slow situation to 123 northbound all your lanes will continue open at that point. going back to the overview with the zoom on to i 66, it will be slow at that point from result 50 inbound to 123. next update coming your way in a few minutes at 5:39. >>> thank you richard. >>> despite threats to the contrary, this morning a bill to extend the bush tax cuts is now headed to the president's desk. >> t

at to 3 in. in the north bay, a little more in the santa cruz mountains, an inch and a half in the central bay and an inch and a quarter in the east and south bay kurdish their impressive rainfall totals and snowfall will be equally impressive in this era. snowfall will start at 5,000 ft. on friday but the snow levels will ramp up to 7,000 ft. on saturday back down to 6000 on sunday. if of a still fall to close up to 2 ft. below 5,000 ft. and up to 6 ft. above that 7,000 ft. elevation. if plenty of fresh snow and expected it out there this weekend. a lecture kron 4 here is a look at your 7 day around the bay around the forecast, the powerful storm will bring as a series of waves as heavy rain and gusty winds. friday will be steady but will see the winds picked up to 30 mi. an hour range. into saturday very heavy rainfall, showering and sunday, heavy rain pick up again if on monday as well as those gusty winds. desert want to stay to and we are expecting someone to the rain falls through the weeke

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at 4:30 p.m. the new audit of its police department suggests that san jose could save some money if there are fewer supervisors and more police on the street. kron 4 rob has more on the audit findings and reaction of the department. >> the ninth page audit by the city assessor is looking for ways to offset recent budget cuts and avoid layoffs in the future. former police officer pete called for the audit. >> the report clearly said as we downsize in the city of san jose due to the budget constraints, we really have to look at our supervision structure and how many people we keep in management at verses have my people would keep in the line of work to do the work. >> undefined innings their top-heavy on the management side. it's one to four sergeants to officers. >> our business model in san jose peoplebehavingbadly@kron4.co m is focused on having a lot of front line collective supervision particularly in the control force. with that your tending have i'm a larger amount of supervisors, having said

that's a look at sports. we will have full coverage at five and 6:00 of the shanahan press conference. i'm brett haber have a great day. on to the ice where the capitals have one win this month and it came on the 1st of december. sunday was the worst loss in the six-game losing streak. the caps fell 7-0 to the rangers. ovechkin got in to a fight but it didn't help matters. washington goalie similar onallowed all seven goals on just 20 shots. today, program's deal to try to preverve tax cuts faces the first big test. prepare to wait in line if you are mailing holiday packages today. it's the busiest shipping day of the year. how busy is it on the roadways? here's monica. traveling northbound on 395, the volume is picking up and word of a couple of accidents at duke street and alexandria. you want to use caution on the bridges, ramps and overpasses. give yourself extra time. coming up we will have a closer look at the virginia roads. v@ >>> welcome back to 9 news now. >>> we have monica in with traffic and tom

at 9 to 25 feet. that's a big difference. if we're going to spend half a billion dollars in the next couple years in california for water in the delta and we miss the mark between 3 feet and 25 feet, we're going to be in a world of hurt because that investment is going to look ridiculous if it's just 8 feet of sea level rise. what's the consensus on sea level rise if we're going to be designing solutions, what's the problem? . >> good question. anybody want to respond? . >> well, i think that's the challenge, is how do you plan with all this uncertainty? because if you use the lower projections and you end up spending and enormous amount of money building facilities that flood, you get fired. and if you use the higher projection and you end up spending tens of billions of dollars more than was really necessary to deal with the problem, you get fired. . >> either way, so what's the problem? . >> and i think this is really the greatest challenge that we are facing, is we are introducing into systems tha

billings, montana, pretty mild at 36. and look at that. dallas, at 75. denver down to 39. but you see the contrast between dallas and kansas city? that's where we're seeing some precipitation breaking out. and that's what we'll see in our region tomorrow. light snow tomorrow afternoon and into tomorrow evening. vic? >> thank you, bob. >>> a possible serial killer could be stalking women on new york's long island. the bodies were found decomposing. police say they were systematically dumped. along a desolate area, about 15 miles from jones beach. they believe the women were killed elsewhere and dumped at the site. and a serial killer is likely responsible. >>> police are looking for answers after shots were fired in an ann rrundle county -- anne arundel county neighborhood. after several gunshots were reported. officers conducted an extenseich search but did not turn up any suspects. and nobody was hurt. >>> a military jury finds an army doctor guilty of disobeying orders intentionally. lieutenant colonel terrence larkin did not deploy to afghanistan, because he says he bel

southbound i-95 at the exit for 195 at bwi. accident on the right side, big delays south from 32 and so stick with 295 and use as that as your alternate route. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. >>> so we've all seen this by now. this is what happened after mcnabb and the redskins offense had a late game touchdown drive to put them within the extra point of tieing the game but it just didn't happen. >> dave is back now with a look at that last play. that was -- oh, my goodness that was rough. >> tony, i feel bad for him being this at the game and i'm sure the other 70,000 plus that were there, it's tough to watch in those conditions. but this is what has happened. they never should have been in that situation. they should have been up by so much more. >> when it comes down to a kick, there are so many other things that could have happened. they missed to other field goals and plenty of opportunities to get interceptions and that didn't happen and the skip skins have found -- the skins have found another way to lose

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at&t. rethink possible. live this is kron 4 news at 6:00. our big story bay area there whether who were your jacqueline bennett we were expecting the heaviest rain to come in the next few hours the raiders' lit up right now. >> >> it is right on track heavy to the north bay right now. for the extra hours what to expect. ? >> it will push to the southward over the golden gate here in the next 20 minutes or so but let's do man and see how bad this is. rainfall rates are very impressive in certain spots. near vallejo were looking at rainfall rates of about two-thirds of an inch of rain per hour. same thing down near the 101 mill valley, also near 2/3 inch of rain per hour. let's go to san francisco right now have your range is starting to pick up. about this here just about 200 counts of an inch of rain an hour let's exciton as it gets to the east bay. it's good question the piedmont in the next 20 minutes or so. let's look at a water view picture because the storm is very impressive. it has all the right dynamics over as right down to get this

abc 7's heather ishimaru is live at the scene. >> we are at the intersection of frost drive. some scary moments here about an hour ago at the central office, scarier than usual at a dentist's office. the damage done to precious smile dental and orth done ticks was done by a car an hour ago. the driver of a chevy impala blew through e intersection heading west, barely missed a couple people on the sidewalk and plowed into the side of this dental office. there were people in it at the time. they managed to get away with just some scrapes and cuts from the flying glass. the driver tells the paramedics that he doesn't remember anything before, during or after. apparently had some kind of medical condition that they haven't been able to identify yet because he's really not that communicative. he was tranorted to the hospital as were a coupl of people inside with those minor injuries. so far poli, fire officials have no more informatio than that. they're gonna have to find out what condition th driver has. they said that his car does have out of state plates. they don't know for su

that's a look at sports. have yourself a great morning. >> thank you very much, lawrence. >>> there is some good news for the niners this morning. two of the team's players will be headed to hawaii to play in the pro bowl. patrick willis and justin smith. smith was an alternate last year. while willis will be the first 49er since ronnie lott to be named to the pro bowl in each of the four seasons, not a bad name to be paired with. as for the raiders, cornerback and frequent guest here on nbc bay area, nnamdi asomugha, defensive tackle richard seymour and punter shane lechler were chosen on the raiders team. both lechler and seymour are making their sixth pro bowl appearance. as for asomugha it's his third in a row. not bad. pretty awesome. >>> it's 5:08 right now. could be a tough commute this morning, mike? >> not so awesome there, folks. we are talking about slippery roadways. i did want to give an update because we had a tractor-trailer in lanes on 680. that has cleared over the last few minutes. northboun

as we take at look at video we saw earlier. it has a long history of flooding it has flooded 15 times since world war two. the most recent in '95 and again in 97. president clinton had a disaster declaration and we had the big flood back in '82 result of 100 your storm. coincidentally as we also take a look at the rain half an inch-inch in downtown san jose the worst flood ever was in 1955 in san jose. they called it the christmas week floods 8,000 a. of this area flooded south of downtown. and then over to all be still. we don't expect anything like that happen because there has been products going on over the last several years the one in the bay river walk and they divert water around. back to the live picture. it is starting to get windy not raining all lot but there rain is coming down sideways use when the run quick and we can show you the wind turbines you can see they are going. and then the aircraft going off to the south right now that's what's happening in san jose the switch flight patterns around on store days so t

last year at this time, it was at 19. and a family members tells us that there were electric space heaters being used inside the home. but right now, fire investigators have not officially given us a cause for this fire. reporting live in east baltimore, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> the red cross says most fires can be avoid and you probably heard this advice before. but the red cross says it's worth repeating. investigators have not determined if the family woke up to the ear piercing sound of a smock alarm but the red cross is using the tragedy as a reminder that smoke detectors increase your chance of escaping a fire by nearly half. >> a lot of the fires happen when someone is sonde asleep. you hear the smoke detector go off, and if you practiced it, it becomes second nature. you head for the window or the extra door and you know exactly where to go and what to do and how to get out. >> doug lent says only 26% of families have developed and practiced a plan to escape a house fire. christmas decorations are often a h

then berkeley at nearly 27% and emeryville at 25%. in contra costa county, pittsburg was on top, nearly 31% dropout rate. antioch at 26% and mt. diablo at 22%, which is actually down just slightly from the year before. that's the latest from here. reporting live in oakland, christie smith, "today in the bay." >>> in case you missed some of those numbers, we will read them to you again for pbay area schools. santa clara county's dropout rate increased to nearly one in six students. san mateo county's dropout rate increased 3.4%, but as she mentioned, better news for the san francisco unified school district. it saw a nearly 50% decrease in the dropout rate. the study was using numbers from the 2008-2009 school year. >>> this morning a 51-year-old east bay man is behind bars on charges of dragging a homeless woman to her death with his truck. police say the man from brentwood argued with the woman inside his pickup truck in antioch in a parking lot early in the morning on tuesday. when she got out of the truck, he allegedly accelerated,

speak up to save lives at goredforwomen.org >> per a look at downtown oakland. a prank popularized on you tube left a northern california teen seriously injured. dozens of clips were drenching fast food employees in soft drinks, but one used hot spinach. we take a look at the not so funny joke. >> what is seen here using a staple gun to stick a note on his friend. the former frankster appeared on mtv and creating this fire in the poll prank years ago. >> why do you do these pranks? >> making people leaf. >> it left david with severe burns. we spoke to david like the videos like the ones glorifying pranks. >> i find it appalling that people think it's a funny joke to pull. >> do you feel partially responsible or guilty for giving the ideas? >> sometimes i feel bad seeing when the pranks become pain and hurt people and do things like that and ruins people's lives and it's not funny anymore. >> roseville police looking for the people who pulled that prank at boston market and they could face felony assault. we were just talking about this. just bizarre. >> i don't

tied at 25. the big kill. trojans take this to even the match at 2. in the and if deciding set -- in the fifth and deciding set. trojans win, 3-2. >>> second round play at the greg norman shark shootout. a two-man team event. dustin johnson and ian poulter playing well. sticks his lead. ian poulter at 17-under. fred funk and kenny perry in the hunt. perry birdied six holes. tied for the lead was steve stricker and jerry kelly, the wind kid. kelly's tee shot, inches away from an ace. final round play tomorrow is a scramble. >>> texas defensive coach will replace urban >> alan: tonight at 11:00 texas the use of force. the oakland police department takes is through the paces. you hear from police officers how they're trained to handle a person from the con frontal addition to the use of league that-lethal force. hope to see you tonight at 11:00. good night. captioned by closed captioning services inc. the following is a paid advertisement

a distance at you approach it. not so much side by side by it. as you approach we might see movement and as you get closer that might make you slow down. that is why they are stressing to keep your eyes i had a view and not at the side of you. >> george as you take a look at this picture people will look at this and think we know the plan is a single tower says budget bridge but were looking at it and sing more's the other tower. that's what you're thinking. >> i was listening to you saying it's too tall and there's only one of them. but it's because the cable itself as a single cable not to cables like we see on the bay bridge and the golden gate. instead of being anchored in cement at the opposite bench it will actually be anchored to itself at the base of the tower. it's only one cable wrapping around the entire length of the bridge and comes back to itself. >> that's a lot for one tower. >> bear in mind there are four separate pieces to this tower. four separate columns going up bin segments and they are all ti

this was more than enough to cover the amount needed, both at his pub and at home for one year. he also grew soy beans on the banks of the rice paddies and fermented some to make miso. >> translator: it's so rewarding to eat what i have grown myself. because i grow it myself, i can feel confident that i'll never have to worry about starving. >> reporter: his downshifter lifestyle has been an inspiration to many. one of these is a regular customer at his pub. he used to work at a human resource consulting firm. >> translator: most companies fight hard for a bigger share of their market. when you're surrounded by fierce competition, you tend to focus only on personal gain. for me, it didn't seem right. >> reporter: he quit the consulting firm and launched a company in july that offers farm experience tours. although his annual income dropped by half, he finds his new career challenging and worthwhile. >> translator: before i felt like a cog in a machine. but now, i've got my life back. it feels great. >> reporter: in november, he had a harvest party at his home and invited friends

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at least the winds are light. we're not having the gusts at 25, 30 or 35. all right, satellite radar picture, still light snow up in the pittsburgh area. if you're traveling this weekend up in that area or further north -- if you're heading north of new york into new england and boston, the coastal storm -- i still believe it will still form. it is still going to trek northward. it is still going to affect new england and could be substantial amounts of snowfall. so, again, that would be probably be late into sunday, into monday. if you have plans to head up there, monitor their forecast as well. we're looking at breaks in the cloud cover. we're seeing the temperatures fall very quickly. so refreezing will occur. we're almost down to the freezing mark. 34 at reagan national. 23 in manassas. 25 gaithersburg . leesburg at the freezing mark. windchill doesn't play a role although it does feel like 9 degrees in oakland. here's the u.s. picture. much of the country is looking at unseasonably cold numbers. we're not the only ones. you have to go back to the first

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dow jones industrial closing at 11,428. while the nasdaq closed at 2,624. stocks in new york opened higher as investors were relieved to see that chinese authorities had not hiked key interest rates but shares fell as traders moved to lock in profits. analysts point out u.s. stocks are still on solid trading ground but, in the positive sentiment could also be a affecter supporting stocks here in tokyo. but the dollar/yen moves could be a factor weighing down stocks because the dollar has been slipping into the lower 83-yen level this morning after news about that credit rating agency moody's had set the u.s. decision to extend tax cuts raises a likelihood of a neglect nif outlook on the u.s. trading. the dollar is xading at the mid 83-yen level compared to the 84-yen level we've seen yesterday and last week. the euro is gaining at 111. it was trading at the 110-yen level yesterday so that's also one factor to look at. overall analysts say traders could be watching out for the statement as it is the last foc meeting for the fed this year. that's it for now,

it's 47 in miami. 45 at tampa. we were at 17. see how the coal air kind of slices into the eastern u.s. warming a little out to the west but that sets up the overrunning that will snow on us wednesday night, thursday and there is more cold air up north where all of this is coming from. see, the warm up in the plains states. so the temps will come back a little bit. we ought to be flirting with freezing by thursday only to fall back again a bit after that for the weekend. the winds are north, northwest at 8. that's a big story. they are way down. have about a third of the wind velocity we had yesterday and that takes away that windchill. look at some the lows in our weather bug network from freeport, morris, de kalb, rochelle, all below zero this morning in the suburbs. three below in minooka, sugar grove, kankakee and lowell, indiana. and it's 19 right now at o'hare headed for a 20-degree high today. only in the teens yesterday. 19 at midway airport. 21 at blue island and 15 in northwest suburban mchenry with the windchills right

at least five of those suspects are in english-origin. a look outside at traffic on the bay bridge. not a problem, so unusual. it all the lanes moving well, will be back we'll much more news to come. ♪electronic santa song ♪electronic santa song the official account of the 2010 census landed on the president's desk today. it revealed the slowest population growth of any decade since world war two. >> is the present u.s. population is 308,745,538 persons. >> republicans have a good reason to cheer, the new census results will trigger a shift in congressional representation. a least a dozen seats mainly democratic state to the east and midwest, where moving to largely republican strongholds in the southwest. washington, nevada, utah, arizona will each picked up one of seat. so will georgia and south carolina. florida will get to, texas as many as four. those losing seats are mostly urban and industrial. york and ohio will lose two seats, the others on the map one. california will not gain as see, that's only the second time that's happened since it joined the union. the golden sta

no wind at midway at this hour. very calm and that's why you are seeing that little haze hanging over the area. there is a little temperature inversion as warmer air runs up and over this cold air mass and that's the process that will contribute to some snow. this afternoon, no snow. sunshine and high clouds. much calmer, less wind. no windchill. few degrees milder than in recent days. high of 25 and light variable winds expected in the area. for tonight, temperature readings will stay warmer. 20, clouding over later tonight. snow begins toward morning. low temperatures 20 overnight. light east, northeast winds at 2 to 8. occasional snow and one to three inches. the trend on this will be for lighter amounts north and heavier amounts south and west. high temperature about 31. invariably cloudy, breezy and cooler with flurries on friday and friday's high in the 20s once again. so that's a little more -- >> getting back. >> well, i will tell you, it will get cooler. we will come back and show you the seven-day forecast

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fredericksburg is at 34 degrees at this hour. satellite-radar picture for the region shows you the cloud cover that we've got. we have a lot of clouds during the course of the day today. pretty active system here. snowfall, significant snowfall across portions of ohio, kentucky, west virginia. that is where you will get the higher amounts. it is rain moving up into portions of new england including some areas of heavy rain. for washington for today, winter weather advisory in effect until 9:00 this morning. light snow early. partly sunny this afternoon and cold with gusty winds. the winds are back blowing out of the northwest 10 to 0 miles per hour gusting up to 0 miles per hour. we are at our high temperature. we have seen our high temperature. temperature remain steady or fall a bit during the course of the day. tomorrow, cold, remember, even last week, tucker and i were telling you about this. tomorrow, we'll struggle to get to 30 degrees. look at your overnight lows. wednesday, still cold. these temperatures all below normal

at restaurants and stores, video surveillance captured two of them at one of the crime scenes. >> very vague description on who we are looking for, but black male, thin build, dark hooded sweatshirt driving a newer model toyota that was either gray or black. >> reporter: the suspect and get-away car fit the same description given by victims of friday's crime spree. in less than two hours, there were four street robberies in walnut creek and la fayette. just before 3:00 p.m., police say suspects rob add man of an ipod and briefcase at north main at parkside. 40 minutes later another man was robbed on south california boulevard near bonanza. then they robbed a woman of cash at olympic boulevard and newall avenue. their last location was in la fayette where they kicked a woman to the ground and took her purse. shoppers have reason to be concerned. >> i have my bag zipped up and tight to me. >> reporter: you're always aware. >> yeah, yeah. always looking around. >> you have to take extra precautions and make sure you don't leave valuables hanging around or anything like that. >> when we pa

at&t. rethink possible. a new audit released this week is as essential as they could receive some money. police supervisors and more officers on the street. here's more on the audit findings and reactions. >> the 89 pages of its to offset recent budget cuts and avoid layoffs in the future, a former police officers and the councilman called for the audit. >> i think the report clearly says that as we downsize in the city of santa as they do to the budget constraints call you really have to look at our supervision structure. how many people we keeping management versus how many people we keep on the light cruiser rashly do the work. >> among the audit's findings, says that there hidy top heavy on this art auction site. by comparison the rate in san francisco and dallas is what a. >> we're heavily focused on have a lot of front-line collective supervision particularly in the patrol force. with that you're tending to have a larger model supervises elsewhere. having said that, as we're moving into this next budge

terry mcsweeney is live at the toll plaza. terry, they say they can do it but it won't be easy. >> you know, it's not even easy to explain all the changes coming to the bay bridge. yeah, they're going to be opening up that new eastern span a few months ahead of schedule in 2013 instead of 2014 but some commuters are going to start noticing some changes as early as sunday. take a look at what it's gonna look like when that eastern span is completely to slightly gorgeous animation to show you this morning. again, the completion moved up four to six months to 2013. the changes begun for people driving across the bay bridge. that's when the third of five tower sections arise with two more pieces of the bridge deck. big progress. in a matter of weeks as in before christmas, the top of the tower is going to be higher thank the ba wanena island. i just mention that because if you're driving across the bridge after christmas, you're going to be noticing this. don't let it distract you too much. now, other changes. about six months fro

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we have to look at the specifics, we have to look at the legality of it. is this a marijuana grow house that was supposed to be there that was operating legally? >> the armed invasion is one in a string of crimes aimed at grow houses, pot clubs and dispenseryes. take a look at this map. last week alone, five places in the city of san jose were either broken into or robbed because of this. neighbors like mike sanders are very concerned. >> pot brings money and money brings criminals. criminals want the money. and the pot. >> now, those five places you saw on the map all were hit in a 48-hour time span. the worst was at the san jose rehab clinic where the dispensery owner was knocked out of his wheelchair and then robbed. police believe some, if not all, of these crimes are connected to the same suspects. george kitiama, nbc bay area news. >>> a breaking story we told you about at 6:00. san francisco police say a stabbing suspect has died after a police shooting in san francisco's portola neighborhood. officers responded to reports of the stabbing at a home

wyoming, least, at just over -- -- at just over 500,000. texas will gain four additional seats while california's count will had remain the same for the first time in eight decades. >>> what holiday travelers should expect at bay area airports today. >>> a little bit later, a little bit of a break from the wet weather but how long will it last. steve paulson will have your holiday forecast coming up next. >> reporter: what animal control officers are saying about a man who interveered -- intervened in a pit bull attack. >>> winter begins today and the polar bears are celebrating with snow. the san francisco ice company donated 10 tons of manufactured snow for the bears as they do every year at this time. bears were showered with gifts and a lot of edible treats. >>> the hunt is on this noon hour for two pit bulldogs that vish shushly attacked a -- viciously attacked a woman. authorities say if it weren't for the man who intervened, the dogs may have killed the woman. here's kraig debro. >> reporter: san jose animal control officers are goin

phoenix at 61. and new orleans at 54. which is a little cool for them. >>> the weekend we have been talking about a system coming across the country. well, here's some snow already. around new mexico, west texas. it's heading to the southeast. it's going to hook up with the low pressure. however, at this point, based on all of the models we have, it's going to miss us, head out to sea. the only area of impact we think will be like eastern virginia. acammack county. maybe salisbury, ocean city. west of the bay. if we get a few snow flakes on sunday, that's about all we're expecting at this point. looks like it will be too far out to sea and get this act together. too late. now, for new england, that is a different story. boston up to maine could see 4 to 8 inches of snow, second into monday. it will be colder. the weekend. and sunday for the ravens game. temperatures in the low 30s with plenty of clouds. southeast winds on the bay. light. bay temp, 39. >>> tonight, generally clear. it's partly cloudy. low around 20. averag

no major delays here at oakland. that's also the case at san jose. at san francisco's airport, they are experiencing issues as a result of that massive storm hitting the northeast. at least 20 outbound and inbound flights have been canceled and travellers can expect delays and sfo representatives don't expect flights to resume to normal until at least tomorrow. >>> we just have to come fromity l ly. it has been a mess. glad lower not headed that way. >>> airlines are working to notify performs of cancelling as and get them rebooked. it would be a good idea to call ahead or check online before heading to the airport. just to reiterate, no cancelations or major delays out of oakland. san francisco a different story. they have problems headed to and from the northeast. kimberly terry, nbc bay area news. >>> thanks for the update. >>> the 49ers are looking for a new head coach. the owner will hold a news conference at noon in santa clara to talk about the firing of mike singletary. raj mathai first told us about the move after sunday's game. he now has a

tonight at 8:00 p.m. they will begin closing willow on ramp to eastbound 80, starting to widen the under crossing in that area. that will be shut down for several weeks. in the meantime right now morning commute just seeing our usual slow downs highway 4, just beginning, some speeds even under 25 miles per hour. bottlenecks near 8th street, somersville road. seeing our usual congestion. no big hot spots to start out the morning commute. here is a live look 880, 237, cars coming around the ben milpitas. 237 and seeing top speeds out towards san jose. 62 miles per hour according to live traffic sensors. along the peninsula. moving well as you head into san francisco by lagoon everything is moving in both directions 280 moving just as well. no metering lights yet they typically turn them on 6:20 a.m. everything quiet heading into san francisco an earlier high wind advisory for the bridge that was cancelled before 4:00 a.m. this morning and mass transit after dealing with earlier bart delays, everything is ba

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that's a look at what is going on this morning. we will look at the afternoon forecast. temperatures are warming up a bit. in a few moments. and here is the traffic with elizabeth. >> are you laughing at me? >> things are heating up in the traffic department and i was thinking how cheesy i could make it sound. stalled rig northbound 101 past the 280 int change. not causing any delays yet. tracy just mentioned it is a spare the air day. we have a smog alert. as far as mass transit goes, you are encouraged to use it. it is not free. but they are running on time. >>> all of the approaches look great. no metering lights. give it another hour or so. and this camera will look a lot different. but for right now, there is no delay heading into san francisco. up here, very quiet as you pass the coliseum. you can maybe make out the taillights. that is traffic heading up to hyde street. and top speeds all the way to downtown oklahoma. we still have an accident -- oakland. we still have an accident, vacaville, on the ramp from southbound 505 to actually eastbound 80. that is the loc

a live look at 280 at the 17 overcrossing. still traffic northbound moving nicely through the downtown san jose area. for north bay commuters let's get a live look at san rafael at 101. headlights southbound out of novato making your way towards 580. the drive time from 37 to 580 a light ten minutes. if you're commuting along the east shore freeway this morning it's getting crowded. interstate 80 heading through the berkeley area. headlights move westbound. the drive time from the carquinez bridge to the maze about 25 minutes and once you reach the bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights have been turned on and a backup to that west ground overcrossing. about a 15 minute delay heading into san francisco. >> megan, thank you very much. >> the unusual treatment that appears to have cured an incurrable diseases. trading underway, a live report from the new york stock exchange straight ahead. a live look at a flat big board. the dow up about 3 points. >> and warm for the holidays. the amazing local points from chase sapphire prefer

the meeting is at 5:30 at oakland city hall. >> packages are keeping shippers busy. the fedex hub is processing and packaging more and more these days. the busiest day in company history. christie shith is live in oakland with the spike in shipments this year. christie? >>> good morning. we are seeing that spike in action this morning. this is the oakland hub for fedex. basically anything that you ship along the west coast comes through where we are standing here near the oakland airport. you have to watch your step because these workers are moving. if they are not, they are waiting for the next shipment to come in. you can see the plane in the distance that just landed and is off loaded this morning. five planes and eight of them going out. we shot new video of all those boxes just off the plane. that came in earlier was sort and put into a truck in your neighborhood later today. a lot of fedex hubs near the holiday, they hire extra help, but not here in oakland. regular workers pick up extra shifts around the holidays on this busiest day. fedex is shipping around 1

here's a look at the fog, you can see at a long 101 is down to about 1/4 mile. and some stocks like novato, you can see some thought pretty dense. current temperatures: santa rosa 35 degrees, 41, napa, down along the coast. half moon bay. 46 degrees in san francisco. afternoon highs up into the 50s, mid '50s to santa rosa, san rafael. coming in around 54 degrees. he's become a temperatures ranging from mid-upper 50s create fremont, hayward. at to 57 degrees today, and timeline of and we expect the next chance of rain late friday night we might pick up a few sprinkles to the north, it's really the afternoon that brings the heavy stuff on christmas, all this orange shows some very heavy downpours this class for several hours, pretty fast moving storm expected to push on through. quite a bit of rain 20 a snowfall in the sierra pretty heavy snow expected visibility less than a quarter mile. the afternoon as the best driving time. snow is setting in again. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. today, tomorrow dry, maybe some showers late friday night in your s

violence and vandalism at san francisco's largest park may force the gates to be closed at night. ann good morning. >> reporter: good morning. of course there are a lot of thing that is are lovely about golden gate park like this holiday tree behind me but a lot of ugly incidents as well we have logged over the past year now the mayor is talking about proposing a new bill that could enforce the rules that are already in place and tighten some of them up. now take a look at this sign that we found earlier this morning showing inconsistencies about rules in the park. it was closed from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. on the next block there was a sign saying it was closed midnight to 5:00 a.m. there are other areas where it doesn't says the closed at all the mayor wants to make rulesconsistent and increase enforcement. you may remember a pit bull attack july 1st, three people were bitten by an unleashed dog possibly owned by an overnight camper which is also illegal but often goes unenforced the new law could have campers charged with trespassing july 4th a man was stabbed to death one of s

at the moment. i think that's the fundamental divide that has entered the debate in britain and it may be what's going to happen in other countries as well. people are going to have to make a decision that if you like distinguishes between the need for fiscal consolidation but also the need to you do it you e growth and you can make the investments necessary for the future. these balanced judgments and they've got to be made. but if i'm right about the future, this is not a normal economic cycle we're about to enter this is a massive shift taking place across the world. the biggest driver of growth in the next ten years is going to be the growth of these middle-class consumers in asia, brazil, russia, and elsewhere and you can't afford to fall behind by having products that are not the technologically leaders of the world. >> rose: as you know, angela merkel and david cameron as well both say you can have growth and also have austerity and austerity is necessary in order to have the kind of economy

take a look at that. boy, those winds are whipping, up to 40 miles an hour at lake level. the higher up you go, the higher winds are. up to 8,000 feet, two feet of snowfall possible. here's high-def doppler radar. not a lot of activity right now. light rainfall moving in through sonoma, some moderate to heavy rainfall illustrated by the yellow, and more light rainfall through novato and san rafael and mill valley. light showers into vallejo and concord and we'll continue to move down to the east bay and down to parts of the south bay. and san jose picking up rainfall currently as well as sunnyvale. and more importantly, what's still off the coastline here is we do still have more rainfall that's going to be pushing into the bay area well into the afternoon. so the forecast for the afternoon, cloudy with showers, we do still have delays on arrivals at sfo. so keep that in mind if you are traveling. and temperatures for the afternoon the mid-50s to the upper 50s. for tonight, clouds, fog and still a chance of showers in the forecast overnight tonight. so here's what's happen