Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20171214

Back in the mid 50s and mid 60s, rather, by this afternoon. So i will talk more about that and what to expect this weekend coming up. Jean nay, youve been tracking a couple issues out there early happening on the roads. We have a couple issues but basically they look to be very minor. If we take an overall look at the bay area you can see everything is green for go, not seeing too much activity out there but in the south bay this crash did pop up earlier, it was along southbound 280 at seventh street, as of right now it looks like its not causing major delays. A minor fenderbender. The cars are off to the side. You could see a couple hazards as you drive by this area so dont expect to see any delays out of there. This one also just popped up, too, chp is reporting a crash along eastbound 580 at high street. It appears that right hand shoulder is blocked. Im not seeing major slowing just yet, but if that doesnt get cleared out within the next 20 minutes we know how quickly that can build up. Also seeing a couple slow areas along eastbound and southbound in the 580 livermore area but looks like that has also cleared out quite nicely. As of right now not dealing with any major headaches out on the roads. Back to you. And developing this morning, finally over, a 15hour standoff ends in the south bay coming to an end about 15 about an hour ago, actually, with an explosive bag. Now, this is happening in san jose in the neighborhood near loss lagos golf course. Today in the bay kris sanchez is live with the overnight updates. Kris . Reporter hi there, marcus. Yeah, San Jose Police did take down this man in dramatic fashion, it happened on the street behind me and the scene is starting to clear, but we have video of how the officers took him down with nonlethal force. You can see the s. W. A. T. Bear cat backing into the home and what appears to be smoke. We know that officers fired those nonlethal shots which you and i would call a beanbag. Then you can hear the k9 going in. The suspect did manage to stave off arrest for 15 hours. At some points jumping fences in this neighborhood trying to get away, but eventually he was cornered. This all started when a Patrol Officer spotted that man who has a felony warrant for burglary and possible connections with other crimes. During the 15hour standoff some neighbors were forced out of their homes and into the cold, dark night. So everyone was kind of worried. We were like, are we safe here or should we go . They just told us we cant be inside our house. Im getting tired of being out in the cold. Its not too nice to be out here. Reporter so hopefully those folks will be able to go home soon because the scene is starting to clear. We know that officers are still gathering evidence at that home where that suspect was taken into custody behind us, but now the threat is dissipated and hopefully things will get back to normal in this neighborhood after a very long and cold night. In san Jose Kris Sanchez today in the bay. It certainly is a shocking time for a lot of those families out there. Glad they will be able to go back home soon. It is 5 03. Developing story from washington this morning, republicans have agreed on that sweeping tax plan. We could get details on what it says today. Voting could begin next week. Of course, changes to tax policy could hit california harder than other states if property Tax Deductions go away. Today in the bays tracie potts is live in washington with a look at how this plan could affect your wallet. Tracie . Reporter thats going to be a big deal in california. Looks like if this plan passes they wont go away but they will be limited and how this plan affects your wallet really depends on what you earn and what you deduct. For American Families and for american reporter President Trump calls it a gift. A giant tax cut for christmas and when i say giant, i mean giant. Reporter democrats call it a charade. What you have is a sham of a conference committee. Reporter here is what the new tax plan looks like according to multiple republican sources. The top tax rate for the wealthiest american drops to 37 , corporate taxes drop to 21 , slightly higher than republicans wanted. Popular deductions remain with limits. State and local taxes up to 10,000, Home Mortgage interest up to 750,000 and no requirement to buy health insurance. The Affordable Care act mandate, overturned. The republican tax bill is one that ebenezer scrooge would love. Those that dont agree, you will have a chance to vote on it. You can vote no. Reporter democrats claim the middle class gets the shaft, but they dont have the votes to stop it. No vote on the republican tax scam until doug jones takes his seat in the senate. Reporter Senate Republicans have no incentive to delay the vote for alabamas new democrat. They may already be one vote short. John mccain is in the hospital. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. 5 05 now. New this morning senator Dianne Feinstein is reportedly calling for a closer look at the conditions for female immigration detainees in contra costa county. The county has a 6 million deal to house detainees in the jail in richmond. Some detainees say their civil rights were being violated. Feinstein sent a letter to the director of ice asking for an investigation. The east bay congressman says that the u. S. Attorney General Office is investigating. They should. And the California Attorney general is also looking into the allegations. At 5 06 this morning, a live look in San Francisco where a new Pilot Program for workers will take effect in february. It will cover the mission district. Local Health Clinic will staff a van providing sex workers access to Health Services trying to make it easier to report if theyre victims of crimes as well. The van will operate between midnight and 5 00 a. M. New this morning peta says that netflix is the 2017 company of the year. Peta says the tech giant helped expose animal right abuses and promote vegan lifestyles, making movies and documentaries widely available to millions, specifically they cite the movie forks over knives. Later this morning the today show says goodbye to its puppy with a purpose. Its charlie, final show. Do you remember when charlie was that small . Be sure to tune in after today in the bay to see whats next for our fourlegged friend. Look how big he is now. Just adorable. Just adorable. Well, its cold as ice out there. It is dark, too, right . We are approaching 5 08 right now. We know that its been really warm during the afternoon hours so whats normal for this time of year . Well, the forecast for santa rosa today is 63 degrees but on average for middecember we are at 56 degrees. Concord 65 is the forecast today, but we should be at 55. San francisco 63, normal is 57. And oakland today 61. A lot of these areas running up to ten degrees above normal. So as you head out jogging in San Francisco its such a cold start, but we will have a very warm afternoon. Already by noon we are at 57 degrees so maybe if you can hold out until then before you head out for that run. We will talk about whats ahead for san jose looking at our temperature trend coming up in a few minutes. Vianey you have a few of those slow spots on the road. When you look at how we are ten degrees warmer in some spots you makes you realize, wait, we could be colder . I guess we are okay with the temperatures we are at now. If we look at the wide look at the bay area, we were tracking that crash along 580, we have two crashes, one at high street, it is starting to cause a couple delays, we also had that minor fenderbender along seventh street and 280. The your bridge drive times those metering lights are on on the bay bridge. Westbound 80 towards the bay bridge about eight minutes and westbound 92 towards the san mateo bridge about 12 minutes. I havent seen any buildup on the san mateo bridge but thats pretty typical, especially for a thursday morning. I will send things back to you. 5 09. Coming up, breaking news, a new 52 billion mega merger announced this morning, the way it could affect the movies you watch. And a new housing coming to the south bay. The number of Bay Area College students who could benefit. And the words that women want to see in want ads, all that is ahead on today in the bay. Buy 1, get 1 40 off all star wars Action Figures and more. Now thru saturday. Toysrus. Today we play. Mikeaf it is 5 12 now on this thursday morning. Another very cold start. As we take a live look outside in san jose, maybe if you head out early you will be able to see a few meteor streaking across the sky. Meteor shower going on and some very chilly temperatures even at 9 00 we will be at 43 degrees but it quickly warms up into the mid 60s today. More of this weather heading into the weekend. We will talk about when this all changes coming up in five minutes. Remember those two minor crashes we were tracking along 580 . It looks like its finally catching up to the drive times, westbound 580 to the 680 you are at looking at 20 it just changed 25 minutes. Westbound 84 to 680 you are looking at 12 minutes. I will have an update on those crashes coming up in just a bit. 5 13 now. New this morning, a tragic death in the north bay, a santa rosa woman is dead after a car crash. Police say that that driver initially left but then came back about 20 minutes later. It happened just after 5 30 on wednesday near wright road and highway 12. 56yearold Barbara Jones was walking when a minivan hit here. The driver says he did not see her in the crosswalk. A Sacramento Man accused of driving drunk and killing four people heads to court. Police say fred lowe caused a Chain Reaction crash this on interstate 80 in san pablo. He is expected to enter a plea today in court. The new year will lead to fare changes for some of the bay areas busiest transit systems and that includes vta in the south bay. As of january 1st adult fares will increase 25 cents to 2. 25 per ride, youth fares will drop 75 cents to a dollar. The vta is trying to get that word out now. Today an Outreach Team will be located at the sunnyvale Transit Center through noon. New details now on the victim of the deadly accident involving a vta light rail train. Authorities have identified the man who was hit and killed while walking as 78yearold due vaughn of san jose. That crash happened on tuesday night. The train shut down about 100 passengers were removed and transferred on to another train. No one else was hurt. All new this morning a housing complex specifically for students in downtown san jose is a step closer to reality. Thats the word from the mercury news this morning. The paper cites project developers who say that they have now over 132 million in funding for the development named the graduate. Student housing and retail mixed use tower is set to go up on Second Street near san jose state university. The paper writes nor than 1,000 students could live there. There will also be 15,000 square feet of space for stores and restaurants. Breaking businesses recovering this morning with a 52 billion price tag. Disney is buying most but not all of the fox empire. Scott mcgrew has been examining this big deal. Good morning to you. Fox is about to get a lot smaller. It will keep fox News Business in this deal, its local television stations as well, its sports and sell off its movie studios and overseas interests like sky to disney. Disney gets the 20th century fox movie studio so the big six in hollywood become the big five. Disney gets the various franchises that fox owns this morning. For example, disney owns marvel, fox owns x men, wolverine and avengers can finally meet. Bob eyeinger will be on cnbc in a minute, we will make sure to tell you what he says. The fed hiked Interest Rates on wednesday, promised to do it again later this year. The other super important story is Net Neutrality. Today the fcc will vote to strike down rules that protect data on the internet requiring all data to be treated equally. The head of the fcc claims millions of americans sent in emails and letters encouraging them to do this today. The attorney general of new york said yesterday his investigation found 2 million of those documents were fake. Internet ever providers like at t and comcast which own this tv station swear they will keep following Net Neutrality rules even if the it fcc gets rid of those rules which may be true. Though the critics say im not going to rob a liquor store but lets make it legal but im not going to rob it. Interesting article in the wall strewall street Journal Companies in Silicon Valley are rewriting their want ads to remove words and phrases that women may not like. That will hopefully encourage more women to apply. Some of the words theyre getting rid of, whatever it takes, tackle, High Performance and work hard, play hard. A San Francisco Company Changed a phrase from driving innovation which they spelled correctly but i did not, to dreaming up Innovative New features. What do you think . Did they ask women about this . Or was it men making the decision . Because men know what women want. Sometimes. Sometimes. How big of a glass of wine do you want . There is a new study that says the size of your wine glass may play a role in how much you drink. Researchers in england looked at how the size of wine glasses has evolved over the past 300 years. Since the year 1700 the capacity of goblets has increased seven times with a big uptick starting in the 1990s. Researchers say this appears to coincide with an increase in wine consumption. I believe that because i have some antique wine glasses from the 50s and theyre petite, theyre beautiful, theyre cute. But the plates have also gotten bigger, right . Mxk plateno carrierringringconnn with our temperatures only in the lower 30s in the north bay, but then as we go into this afternoon its going to be really nice and comfortable. We have had some beautiful afternoons, a lot of sunshine, we still have a lot of sun in that sevenday forecast at the bottom of the screen, but first you see some changes on farther down the line. So starting out this morning in oakland heading to school its only going to be in the low 40s as you go out the door and then throughout the day our temperatures making it into the upper 50s by early afternoon. And then maybe later on this evening you will head out to christmas in the park, going ice skating in downtown san jose and look at how warm it will be, 67 degrees at 3 00 and by this evening at 6 00 we will be at 58 degrees. So make sure youre wearing extra layers. As we go throughout the next several days it stays dry but then we take the timeline through next wednesday when we start to see some rain moving in. It will be our highest chance in Northern California, just a little bit farther to the north of the bay area and then we will have a couple of waves of some rain chances and sierra snow moving in. Just in time for christmas. Coming up in about 20 minutes a little bit less than 20 minutes i will have the weekend forecast, follow me karihallweather. Let me know what youre doing this weekend. It will be windy, especially on saturday. Kicking up in San Francisco with highs in the mid 60s for the inland areas, almost to 70 degrees and that continues into the first part of next week. Vianey tracking a few slow spots. The metering lights are on and were tracking a cummins dents out of the trivalley area. If you take an overall look you can see the trivalley dealing with a couple hot spots and we were monitoring a couple of accidents in the south bay, but if i take you over towards the east bay now, chp isnt reporting any accidents along 880 but you can see definitely a lot of slowing near embarcadero all the way to 12th street and even down towards foothill boulevard we are seeing some of those delays. I havent seen any reports, it looks like it could just be that Early Morning buildup. I will keep a close eye on that area because anytime there is an accident there we know how crazy it can get and how quickly that traffic buildings up. Now, in the trivalley we are still seeing some slowing along eastbound 580 at high street. The reason for that is that right hand shoulder was blocked, but just behind it we are also dealing with another crash along eastbound its actually not on the freeway, u. S. Just off to the side at altamonte pass and grant line road. Whenever there is an accident, looks like a car might be turned over on its side a lot of people slow down and look. You can already see how its building up some delays. Try to keep it moving, be safe out on the roads. A quick look in palo alto where were seeing an overall smooth commute. You can definitely see a lot of cars are ready to hit the road. Coming up its back to the bay area for one baseball star. The Family Reason he wanted to return to his east bay hometown. A road in the Oakland Hills is shut down indefinitely. Happening now, a road used by many in the Oakland Hills is shut down indefinitely. Officials say a section of snake road is closed because of this weeks fires. We have highlighted the spot on your screen and you see this there. Mondays blaze damaged the roadway, the closure doesnt block access to any homes but may require route changes. Experts are evaluating that area before deciding what they can do next. This weekend on our emmy award documentary series focuses on marijuana. We tell the stories of local pioneers that pave the way for legalization of pot in california. Th this woman fought for three decades for the right to transport medical marijuana, she never gave up and a state law is now named after her. Somebody had to get somewhere. Someone was going to win it and it may as well be me or the next person after me who could benefit from what i had argued. Recreational use of pot will be legal beginning january 1st. Our series bay area revelations the cannabis rush airs this sunday at 10 00 p. M. Happening tonight, thursday night football airs right here on nbc bay area, the Denver Broncos play the colts in indianapolis. Coverage starts at 4 30. The game is set for 5 20. The news right after the game. The oakland as latest offseason trade goes beyond the box score. This one may be emotional for some to hear. The as have acquired outfielder steven miss cotty from the st. Louis cardinals. He attended high school in pleasanton, then went on to stanford. His mother, however, was diagnosed with als this year and the cardinals agreed to trade him to oakland in part so he could be near his ailing mother. A formal announcement is expected later today. Thats lovely. Coming up, budget cuts at oakland schools, the impacts the move will have and what we know about the future for programs and Staff Members. A new law in 2018 will protect a group of parents hoping to spend more time with their kids. I will explain who they are and how that law is going to work. A live look at the warm springs bart station. It s a chilly start tohe good morning. It is thursday for you. As we take a live look now at bart station. A chilly start to the day. If you werent expect to go grab that coat, make sure you put it on you before you walk out the door. Good morning. I am marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Lets get a look at the forecast right now with kari. Were kind of getting used to these chilly mornings, you are keeping the coat very handy. Its something we have had to get used to not only with that but the sunglasses and the really dry weather, the umbrella is collecting some dust right now but hopefully that will change. As you head out we are feeling some freezing temperatures in the north bay, oakland is at 38 degrees and 41 degrees now in san jose. If youre going out to the menorah lighting this evening in union square, it is going to only be in the upper 50s and then dropping down into the lower 50s as the night goes on. Lets check out all of our High Temperatures today. Going to see the highs in the south bay, san jose up to 67 degrees and mostly some 60s all around the bay area. We will talk about that weekend forecast coming up in seven minutes. Vianey has been tracking a few slow spots especially in the trivalley, right . Yeah, the trivalley still looking fairly slow. We had one accident on high stre street, thats been cleared off. We are still seeing the accident along altamonte pass. It is off to the right hand shoulder. This is the one im really concerned about in the south bay, it just popped up and its already showing some slowing, two crashes along southbound 680, one along scott creek road. There is a lane blocked in that area, you can see its already causing some delays. It appears to be an accident involving multiple vehicles. Chp hasnt reported any injuries but we will be looking into that. We also had one just up ahead at jacquelyn and we are also seeing some slowing near that area. So all in all if you can try to get off before scott street boulevard because you can see thats already starting to cause major delays out of that area. 5 31 right now. Developing this morning, finally over, a 15hour stand offin the south bay comes to an end after nearly two hours with an explosive bang. Kris sanchez joins us live with some of the overnight updates. Good morning, kris. Reporter i have lieutenant todd trar here from the San Diego Police dealt. The suspect was taken into custody, this is the home where he was holed up. Can you talk about that . The subject went into a strangers home and wouldnt come out after the demands from the police department. Fortunately our merge unit and other tactical teams were here to rescue one subject that was inside the house, a citizen that was unrelated to this whole thing, and then hours later the subject was taken into custody. Now, this was a rescue because this man was not considered a hostage, he just couldnt leave on his own. That is correct. Thats the best information that we are right now. It was a pretty dramatic takedown, i understand, a lot of nonlethal force, though, used. Yeah, that is correct. So the suspect is in custody he is known to have a felony warrant at this point so he will be behind bars for a while while he is processed, right . He is an outstanding warrant for his arrest and then today of course incurred some additional charges. Thank you very much, lieutenant for talking to us about that information. At this point it appears that almost anybody can come home, there are a couple houses that have to be cleared. The home behind us where that suspect was taken into custody also has to be repaired because in the arrest of the suspect there was a bit of damage to that home, but these folks were out of their homes for a very long and cold night, so they are fortunately going back home this morning. We will bring you some more information coming up in the next happen hour. In san jose, kris sanchez, today in the bay. Thousands of people are expected at San Francisco city hall tomorrow. They will be there to honor mayor ed lee after his sudden death. Here is details to his memorial, a public viewing will be held from 8 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. As the mayor will lie in repose in city hall rotunda. Sunday a celebration of life is scheduled for 3 00 p. M. At city hall. There has been a growing memorial on the steps of city hall as you can see right here as we take a live look there, steady stream of people have been dropping off those flowers and cards since his death. The 65yearold mayor collapsed at a glen park safeway and soon died after. Jigds returns to court today in San Francisco, the First Time Since a jury found him him guilty of being in possession of the begun of killing kate steinle. Not a sentencing hearing but we are expecting to have a sedate that have be set for that. A jury said Garcia Zarate was not guilty of murder or manslaughter charges. Steinle was killed on pier 14 in 2015. We have exclusive interviews with a juror and alternate juror you can watch on nbcbayarea. Com. 5 34. A new law in 2018 will mean more time at home for new moms and dads, but there are some requirements that parents will have to meet. Today in the bays pete suratos is investigating the new law. Good morning, pete. Reporter good morning to you, marcus. A lot of these protections already in place for Larger Companies where theres 50 or more employees, but senate bill 53 also known as the parent leave act is going to extend to millions of workers that work for smaller companies. Now, here is how its all going to work. We are talking about senate bill 63, the parent leave act, its going to help out about 2. 7 million california parents who are working for these Small Companies. When we say Small Companies we are talking about 20 to 49 employees. They are going to have to work for those companies for at least 12 months or just above 1,200 hours. Employers are required to give employees up to 12 weeks of parental leave to bond with their newborn child within one year of birth, adoption or foster care placement. I want to point out these 12 weeks are unpaid leave, but at least it protects these employees from losing their jobs. We had a chance to speak with some parents who say this is still a good thing for families. As a mom that would mean so much that i get to spend more time with our children versus the first six weeks isnt enough at all for any mom. So 12 weeks, that would be really great. I think that anything that can be done that makes it easier for a family to live a normal good life, i think thats great. Now, as expected the chamber of commerce which represents businesses are opposed to this saying it puts a burden on employers, but once again this is unpaid leave for 12 weeks, which just means employers can hire permanent replacements while those employees are on leave. Were live in San Francisco, pete suratos for today in the bay. After months and months of anger and frustration the vote is in. Oakland unified school board will go ahead with drastic budget cuts. Last night the board voted 61 in favor of cutting 9 million. The original number they were considering was 15 million. Its undecided which programs or Staff Members will be cut but parents, teachers and staff want the impact to students to be minimal. So just like at the last meeting i have questions about what you discussed back there. Did you discuss the fact that this school board called out the police at last weeks meeting so the community was not allowed access to the meeting . The budget cuts are the result of five years of increased spending. Protesters say the district should first start by cutting at the top. Good morning. It is 5 37. If youre heading into the south bay from the east bay you may run into a couple of issues. Now, before i get to that i want to show you an overall wide look. We are still seeing that slowing along altamonte pass. That accident now off to the shoulder but if i zoom in this is what im talking about. If youre driving in from the fremont area this is what youre going to encounter along southbound 680 at scott creek road. There is a lane blocked and this has gone from green to yellow to now red. You can definitely see heavy delays there. We are also seeing another unrelated accident up ahead. If you can try to get off before scott street, take some of the surface streets there so you dont get caught up in any of this. Chp is reporting that they are already working to clear that accident out of the way so hopefully that gets cleared but definitely seeing some slowing there. A quick check right now, also we were seeing major slowing but this is pretty typical for the southbound 880 side along embarcadero, its backed up all the way towards the interchange between 260 but you can see definitely a lot of major slowing there. Unfortunately, though, thats just regular Early Morning traffic. We are not seeing any accidents. A quick check of your bridge drive times. Westbound 580 toward the richmond drive, 8 minutes, westbound 80 towards the bay bridge, 15 minutes and westbound 92 towards the san mateo bridge about 12 minutes. You see that the bay bridge has the slowest drive time right now. Were already starting to see the backup along the bay bridge. Those metering lights have now been on for about 45 minutes. That backup is there, thats for sure. Those cars looking for the weekend. Unfortunately they are not watching right now unless theyre streaming on line while carpooling. It is going to be a cold morning. We are looking forward to some warmer temperatures, but as we go into the weekend those High Temperatures will be on par with what we will feel today, but more of those cool mornings expected. On sunday more of the same, highs in the upper 60s, morning temperatures for the inland areas in the 40s. If you are going out ice skating in walnut creek it is going to be fairly mild during the middle of the day and that may be the best time to get out there. As we go late into the night those temperatures dropping off into the upper 40s so you do have to wear an extra layer if you are going to be out there ice skating or enjoying a lot of time outside. Fantasy of lights going on in los gatos and its going to be at 59 degrees when they flip on the switch for those lights. A mostly clear sky, a few clouds in the mix and its going to be breezy, too, dropping down into the low 50s. So heater on inside the car. It if you are going down to los angeles its going to be in the upper 70s on friday. For the weekend temperatures near 70 degrees and sunshine, miur woods fairly mild with mid 60s during the middle of the day although it will be cool during those morning hours. If you are going to go early for a sunrise hike make sure you do have on the boots and also lots of extra layers. You will also need layers if you are going to the sierra this weekend, its going to be blustery. Look at this High Temperature on saturday in kirkwood. No snow but its only going to be up to 34 degrees. Also very chilly on sunday as well. Maybe conserving some of that snow that we do have on the ground. Let me know what youre doing this weekend. Auto like my facebook page, meteorologist kari hall, let me know what youre doing and you may see it featured right here coming up at 6 38 or tomorrow morning at this time. I will have a look at todays temperature trend for san jose coming up in about three minutes. Coming up, the me too movement has reached the nfl. The new steps the commissioner says he will take amid accusations of misconduct at the nfl network. We are very close now to that tax bill. It means tax cuts for some, tax hikes for others. We will take a look when today in the bay continues. It is 5 43. Layer up for a cold morning and a warm afternoon. Lets go to the neighborhood of santa theresa, we will be at 49 degrees at 9 00, low 60s in time for noon and upper 60s later on today. We are going to see more weather like this over the next few days, a look at that and also when this pattern changes coming up in five minutes. We have a quick look at your peninsula drive times. Southbound 101 you are looking at 11 minutes, sfo to highway 92, five minutes and southbound 101 from highway 92 to bowers avenue about 18 minutes. No delays for now in the peninsula. New this morning the National Football league is launching its own internal investigation into the wake of Sexual Harassment claims at the nfl network. The employees are all commissioner Roger Goodell said that the league is taking the claims seriously and will act quickly to find answers. Firefighters making more progress fighting the thomas wildfire. This morning that fire is 30 contained but it continues to threaten thousands of homes in Santa Barbara county. It has burned more than 370 square miles and at least 700 homes since it started more than a week ago in neighboring ventura county. The search continues for a suspect who painted racial slurs on another mans suv. Steven wilson says he was shopping in fairfield yesterday when he came out of a Grocery Store and found this. Fate messages plastered all over his car in large black letters. Dt was painted on one side and wilson believes that stands for donald trump. He believes this is all the result of an argument he had with a man over a parking spot. Wilson says the money to fix his car will be tough to come by. Its going to cost 1,000 for the shop and a 500 deductible for me. Where do i get that from . For all the hateful people out there, stop being hateful. You know, start loving each other. In the state of the world today we cant take anything like this lightly and with racial epithets being used its very concerning to us. We dont like that in our community. Thats an officer from the Fairfield Police department who says they are treating this as a hate crime. Wilson says police are looking at Surveillance Video but they have no suspects as of yet. 5 45 right now and the president says hes ready to sign a big tax cut bill. Scott mcgrew, congress is almost ready to sent it. Thats right. They need to hurry, though, laura. The new tax year is coming january 1st. They could make it retroactive but they would prefer not to. The two sides of congress the house and Senate Passed different tax bills so they had to get together and find Common Ground and they have accomplished that. We have not seen the actual text of the bill and we probably will not until friday. Now, here in california we have two major questions, number one, what about property taxes . Will we still be able to deduct what we pay in property taxes . We are almost certain the amount is yes up to a limit, same for mortgage interest rate. Then salt, state and local taxes, salt, will we be able to deduct what we pay to california from our federal taxes . For many families this is a thousand dollars many thousands of dollar question that we are talking about. The republicans in the senate want to hurry and make sure they pass that tax cut before doug jones takes his seat. Jones is a democrat so when he takes office in january republicans will have one fewer senator on their side. Jones of course the man who won big in alabama this week. Every election is a combination of your message as well as your opponents and in this race there is no question we had the wind at our back. We felt like that our message was getting across. Jones will be on the today show coming up. Meanwhile, his opponent, judge roy moore, the republican, still hasnt conceded. At this point even the person in charge of elections in alabama and the president of the United States have acknowledged that moore lost, but the election has not yet been certified. We are always interested in what you think is going on in washington and your reaction to it. You can contact me on twitter im scottmcgrew. As we take a look right now we want to go out to dublin this morning, a live look at interstate 580. Very soon holiday travelers will be hitting the same road. All new overnight, a record breaking prediction from aaa. The company says more than 107 million americans will leave their homes for the holidays and its a 3 increase over last year. Those travelers will be driving so expect peak congestion on december 20th and 21st. So not on the sleigh, over the river and through the words. Aaa didnt have those numbers. I think theres probably already that meaning people out around the bay area this morning on the roads. Traffic is building. Its been pretty busy. So we dont need the sleigh, we dont have the snow. We might get some. Thats the good news as we head closer to christmas. Even as we head out the door now it feels like its cold enough to snow in parts of the bay area but there is absolutely no moisture in the area. Its 41 degrees in the peninsula and the south bay, 36 in the trivalley, north bay now at 32 degrees and 48, a very cold start as well in San Francisco. And we are feeling such warm weather during the afternoon hours we are thinking, okay, whats normal for middecember . Well, the forecast today for santa rosa is 63 degrees, but where we should be, 56 degrees and of course normally were getting a lot more rain, too, right . So in San Francisco forecast is 63, normal is 57 and in san jose 67 is the forecast high today, but we should be at only 58 degrees and a lot of areas well love normal. So this is where were headed, up to 64 degrees in palo alto, 63 in San Francisco, also 63 in antioch today. As youre Getting Started its such a cold start, you do need to layer up. That means wear layers that you can kind of shed as the day goes along because it will be very chilly to start, a jacket needed, also the sunglasses with all of that sunshine warming things up later today and it will be comfortable wearing a light tshirt and maybe some pants or some jeans. And then as we go into the rest of the forecast we are also going to have more dry weather but we talked about that chance of some snow in time for christmas. This takes us through next wednesday. And we start to see a change in the pattern. That will allow for some cold fronts and some areas of low pressure to move in and some snow to start happening in the cascades as well as the sierra. For the bay area it looks like its going to still be fairly dry, still some slight chances of rain in the forecast, but at least we will work on this High Pressure and get it out of here and that will give us a chance of some rain. Very windy for the weekend, especially in San Francisco inland areas and the hills its going to be gusty and staying very warm through at least wednesday of next week. Vianey getting us out there with a look at this mornings commute. Were still dealing with kind of a headache now along 680. You can see an overall look at the bay area, everything is looking pretty decent but then when we zoom into that accident that ive been following all morning long along 680 at scott creek road it looks like its backed up even further. We are seeing that a lane is blocked. Chp is reporting possibly multiple vehicles involved. It looks like one maybe sitting off to the side but thats also causing a road hazard as people it end to slow down and look. Dont be that person, you might end up causing another accident. As you head out this morning try to get on the freeway possibly after scott creek road, maybe take some surface streets and hop back on after scott creek road. You may want to take some extra time out there. Of course, we are still seeing a lot of that slowing along the 880 and it looks like were going to continue to see this. This is very typical Early Morning commute. Why dont we go ahead and head out towards that life cam along oakland 880. Both directions we are seeing a smooth flow, no stents to report along 880, just a couple more cars out there out on this thursday morning. Back to you. Coming up, a special Christmas Tree in california. The reason this almond tree means so much. Beautiful there. But first happening now, a developing story, u. S. Bought weapons and some ended up in the hands of isis. A report report found 40,000 weapons recovered from war zones, they include antitank weapons. Plus the Worlds Largest generic drug maker laying off 14,000 workers, about 25 of its global workforce. Stock has skidded nearly 60 this year. The man accused of driving a car through a crowd of 5 55 now. Happening today, the man accused of driving a car through a crowd of people in charlottesville, virginia is due in court. Four men including james alex fields jr. Will attend a preliminary hearing today. The hearings are all connected to the violence that took place during the White Nationalist a rally in august. One woman was killed and 19 others were injured. New this morning another state lawmaker is accused of inappropriate behavior, this time it is former Republican Assembly woman linda halder man. Says los angeles state senator bob hertz berg, she says the unwanted hug began in 2011 when she met hertz berg at a training for rookie legislators. She said the hugs continued for two months and she asked him to stop. I said im not a hugger, im not comfortable with these kinds of hugs. He grabbed me anyway. He then pressed my lower body against his groin with the bakt of his hand or the front of his hand pushed against the small of my back. Halderhand says she complained to the chief Administrative Officer at the time. There was no other unwanted contact after that complaint. Hertzberg released a statement saying all of my life i have greeted my friends and colleagues with a hug. It has been to foster a warm human connection. I apologize to anyone who may have ever felt uncomfortable. Senator hertzberg is now the fourth state lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct. 5 56. I want you to stop what youre doing an listen to this story. Children may be the best at explaining surgeries to patients. Researchers found that patient information pamphlets about surgery tend to be too complicated for the average person so they recruited kids between the ages of 8 and 10 to help revise those leaflets on hip surgeries. But the kids did not sugar coat a thing, explaining that patients hips had become old and rotten. Yeah. Now, while that might not be in the pamphlet or those real surgical pamphlets there the researchers also found the kids were able to better explain potential complications in easy to understand language. If you missed fridays stampede there is still some time to take advantage of seasonal sales. Shipping companies are feeling that pressure. Industry insiders say today is the best da i to buy tools and hardware. Tomorrow the best da i to buy video games as well as apparel, shoes and kitchen appliances. Saturday is the best way to buy toys and jewelry will be on sale. I say jewelry will be on sale for the rest of the month. In the lead up to christmas you will see some retailers with special offers and promotions that they have been saving for the last minute shopper. Once again, jewelry on sale until the end of the month. The sooner you buy the better. If youre mailing what you buy today is the last day you can send it by ground shipping in time for christmas, otherwise you will have to spend more for priority postage. A Northern California family really touching a lot of people across the globe. The reason behind that is the holiday tradition created out of loss. Last night nbc nightly news aired a family about a family and their special Christmas Tree. Danielle once saved this almond tree from being cut down, she called it her Charlie Brown tree and decorated it for christmas. It ended up becoming a Family Tradition and she and her dad would go out and decorate it every year. Es in the sad part. In 2005 danielle was killed in a car accident but the Community Came together to turn that tree now into a special tribute. The year we lost her that christmas we dont know who, we suspect a neighbor made homemade origami ornaments and put them on her tree and that started it. People understand what the tree is about now and they want to be part of it, just like this lady that just drove from greyson. I put her name and i put rest in peace and god bless you. Isnt it nice that people come and decorate it for them. The family created a nonprofit in danielles honor, its called danielles gift and it helps children and young adults in crisis. Beautiful right there. It really is. Right now at 6 00 developing a 15hour standoff in the south bay finally comes to an end with a suspect in custody. The dramatic ending and how police were able to make an arrest. Plus whats next now that republicans have reached a new deal on their tax bill and how the changes could impact your bottom line. And were off to another cold and frosty start in the bay area with temperatures in the 30s in some spots. Beautiful live look outside. Good morning and thanks for joining us. I m laura garcia. And i m marcus washington. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. As we help get you started on this cold thursday morning, thursday, thursday, friday eve. Friday eve. We are looking forward to that weekend forecast which pretty much continues on like the weather we have had recently. Cold mornings and warm afternoons. We also today have a spare the air alert again. So if you can, plan early, make sure you catch the bus or the train or carpool. Here is a live look outside in San Francisco with the spare the air alert and where the air will be most unhealthy today in the north bay and the peninsula. As we get a look at those temperatures now i wouldnt be surprised to see more upper 20s in some of the north bay valleys, 40 now in san jose and palo alto. As we get you out the d