Adjoining freeways in the area so people could try to get around the situation. As may have been mentioned the person who was on that bridge for several hours was finally taken off or convinced to come off the bridge probably in the last half hour to 45 minutes ago. At there point just be patient. Its going to take a while for this to clear out. You can see southbound and 680 backed up at least seven miles. On 101 an eightmile backup in the southbound lanes all the way to lawrence expressway. A man was on a bridge opinion they blocked off traffic. He is safe. Traffic will start flowing but its not right now. You the track traffic from the palm of your hand. A christmas caper. A grinch is stealing packages right out of a locked mail truck. That means some people may not be getting their christmas presents. That is super frustrating and very disappointing. Reporter it really is especially this time of year. The latest postal truck break in happened last wednesday in this neighborhood near kingman avenue in willow glen. 100 people in this neighborhood have received notes from the post office letting them know their packages may have been stolen. Two between thanksgiving and new years day 25 million pieces of mail are processed here. This holiday criminals are snatching some of the mail before it reaches its destination. Last wednesday someone broke into a locked truck parked here on deland avenue. The suspect stole four tubs like this one filled with small packages opinion. I am concerned. Reporter shes most worried someone took package critical to her health. I get my medicine delivered in the mail. I get packages and my bills and stuff. I dont want somebody to get it. Reporter she received a notice from the Postal Service alerting them about the theft. Last wednesdays mail theft is the 17th postal truck break this in san jose since spring. Most occurred in willow green and the neighborhood near st. James park. Whats being done to prevent these . Were doing some upgrading security. Were actively conducting investigations. These are federal offenses. These are crimes. Penalty is up to five years in federal prison and up to 250,000 fine. This is not something were taking lightly. Reporter shes been checking her mail orders but tonight she wonders if a relative may have sent her a gift she will never receive. This time they only stole packages. If you did receive a notice and you havent received something that you ordered this the mail, be sure and tell them what that item was. Thats a long shot. Thank you. Earlier this afternoon she tweeted out the image of the notice that went out to people. You can follow for any updates. A Home Invasion and brutal attack at southbound neighborhood appears santa clara deputies may have caught up with the issuspects. They were arrested a few hours ago. Robert handa joins us live. Reporter at this hour investigators are still questioning those suspects. Trying to find out more about the brutal Home Invasion that took place here early this morning. Investigators were collecting possible evidence most of the day at the plush home within los gatos where the homeowner was attacked and robbed at 4 00 this morning. The robbers fled. The victim went to a neighbors house and treated at a hospital for nonlife threatening injuries. People are very careful. Sheriff makes his rounds. What the victim told us was that multiple had come into his house and demanded valuables. The victims house was ransacked and he was physically assaulted. Reporter what the investigators did not reveal earlier today was that the victims car was also stolen which provided the key to finding them. Thats how they got out of the area. Members of our autotheft task force in collaboration with other Law Enforcement officers located the vehicle in modesto, california. We did make an arrest and recovered two firearms. Reporter at this point investigators have not said why investigators went to modesto and right now they are still hoping to get more information from the suspect from custody and the search continues for at least one suspect still on the run. Nbc bay area news. New at 6 00, an immigration Customs Enforcement vehicle broken into. Police say it happened monday but just leasing the information now. The nice spokesman said tactical gear, ammunition and lock box were taken but no weapons. So far no suspects have been named. Republicans passed massive overall to our nations tax bill. The president in celebration mode. It didnt take long for Democratic Leaders to rip it apart. Our business and tech reporter scott budman has been following. Weve been talking with bay area homeowners and home buyers who are nervous because of a new cap on mortgage Interest Deduction along with changes in state and local taxes. Earlier today after the vote was taken the president led republicans in a celebration outside the white house. No democrats voted for the bill which would lower the Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 21 . Lower individual tax rates and reduce deductions. 3. 2 trillion. Think of it in tax cuts for American Families including doubling the standard deduction and doubling the child tax credit. What does it mean the you in your life. Youre going to lose some of your deductions whether its on your mortgage. It will hurt people enormously and the services they receive from their state and local government. Many of the tax cuts contained in the bill are set to expire in 2025 which could mean the middle class pays more taxes then. Republicans today promising they will keep that from happening. The white house says the president is likely to sign the new tax bill next month. A rough night for pg e shareholders. The company shedding value after suspending its dividends. Its getting rid of the dividends that pays shareholders. Pg e shares have lost close to 10 of their value. Thats a loss of close to 3 billion. The Political Campaign to replace San Franciscos late i mayor got more crowded today. She will run to replace ed lee after his sudden death last week. Th several lesser known candidate have contacted the elections office. They are considering the race. Its rocky situation, literally. The city of San Francisco is using boulders to try to deal with one of its per ssistent problems, homelessness. Reporter we are seeing these rock formations spring up. A line of rocks on the road. Theres an entire cluster of them. The people ive spoken with said thats not going to work. People will still set up tents and the issue that city officials are trying to deal with is a vicious cycle of relocation thats not getting people off of the streets. Its a near daily occurrence. Crews from cal transmoving people from their encampments to clean up only to see them settle back this days or hours later. I was right here. I know. Ive been we had to move every other day. The boulders so me is like theyre saying screw you guys. Reporter the boulders are the latest edition to this patch of state land underneath 101 in an area known as the hairball. Its the brain child of the department of public works, department of homelessness and cal transmeant to force people to seek shelter. I dont think anybody should be on the street if we have an opportunity to place them somewhere. That would be the ultimate goal. Reporter theres a second issue, the coast of maintenance. The boulders were banked roll with 8,700 in funds. Thats about what they spent in a week cleaning the site. Will it work . I have no idea. Its something were trying. Something different. Reporter those accustomed to relocation call the boulders just another barrier. Regardless of we got nowhere to stay. Its a little rock in the road for us. Reporter just to give you some added perspective, the official we spoke with said hes spending 80 of his time cleaning up these homeless encampmen encampments as opposed to filling potholes. Thank you very much. Break ins, shooting and a murder. The gang accused of terrorizing a bay area neighborhood and how authorities caught them. A bad time for a shortage. The reason youll have trouble finding crabs for christmas. Temperatures dropping and fast. Down to 44 in walnut creek. How low it goes tomorrow morning. Thats at 6 19 tonight. If yyou need to stay downeaway from it. Call 911. Let our First Responders come out and handle it. Police and fire will respond as well as pg e. Pg e will make the scene safe. And you smell gas, your first step is to get out, travel to a safe distance until you cant smell the gas anymore, and then call 911. The First Responders will come out, and theyll make it safe for you and your community. Little bit safer tonight. Pittsburg police and the fbi. Announced they ve arrestd the page of photos is proof that the east bay is a little bit safer tonight. Pittsburg police and fbi announced they arrested eight suspects for a Violent Crime sfree. Theyre not done yet. Reporter officers say the broad day is when the group committed the crimes. Investigators say the arrest of these eight suspects put a serious dent in the broad day klap gang. They repeatedly committed Violent Crimes in pittsburgh. Burglaries, shooting in public areas, pimping across the state of california and murder that includes the shooting death of an innocent bystander. Reporter one of the men arrested is accused of that murder. Back in march boyd hid a gun under car on carpino street. He was gone when he came back. He argued with the man he thought had taken in and in broad daylight and in front of witnesses he opened fire striking and killing an innocent bystander. Lillian spencer was his friend. Him being someone well known around him and liked, it doesnt make sense. Its good to know somebody has been caught. Brazen nature shows the level of danger this gang introduced into our community with no regard to Public Safety or life. Reporter officers seized weapons, drugs and cash from the group. The suspects face multiple charges including conspiracy to commit crimes. Investigators said nearly two dozen more persons of interest. We will keep coming and keep making sure that people who decide that take over neighborhoods and think they own it, that this now stops. Reporter were told all suspects, all eight remain behind bars and that investigators expect to make more arrests. Im roz plater. Theres been more than half a dozen laser strikes at the oakland airport. Theres been seven laser strikes in the last two days. Now they are calling in help to find the suspects. In each case the laser was reported by pilots landing. It is a bay area tradition. Fresh crabs for christmas but this year the grinch may be ruining your holiday eating plans. Nbc bay area is live in San Francisco where holiday dinner is in limbo and laura, this is supposed to be the year were supposed to have the crab. Reporter thats exactly right. Usually fish market vs s have a abundance but not this year. They say if you havent already preordered your crab for your holiday feast, you might be out of luck. Fish market owner wants only one thing for christmas. Id like some more crabs but thats not going to happen. Reporter the front case in her store tells the story. This is not normal. This is more like summertime. This is not christmas. For christmas, you would not see the bottom of the tank now. Reporter Mother Nature is to pla blame. Theres a seven year sickle. Last year was a bumper crop. Telling these adults theres no crabs for their feast is getting to be a little worse. Reporter he was hoping to buy crab but ended up getting turned away. It was just to come by and check it out. This owner is paying more for the scarce crab he can find but havent passed on the cost to customers just yet. The quality is mouth watering. Its the best quality of taste and flavor that ive ever had. Fish markets here in San Francisco get crab from up north to cover any shortages but this year they theyre fishing season has been delayed. Im told the supply of crab should pick up midjanuary. Reporting live from San Francisco, laura malpert, nbc bay area use. There may not be enough crab but theres plenty of snow in the sierra. Fresh powder for the skiers. You want to start singing. Really. The sierra is a safe bet. If youre looking for a White Christmas like the ones jessica didnt used to though. We love to sing. Theres a chance of maybe a White Christmas. Not in the bay area on lake tahoe. Well have more on that extended forecast. Its all about the chill tonight. You can see 580 back in the trivalue low. Both directions seem to be moving well at the current moment. 47 degrees. Jacket tonight. Down to 39 at 1 00 a. M. Youll see here across the trivalley well go down to an average tomorrow morning. Winter officially begins tomorrow morning. Well see isolated 20s possible. Temps warm up. Its going to be more of a cool day under sunny skies. The afternoon highs 57 in morgan hills. On the extended forecast we keep it as dry weather right through sundays forecast. The biggest change this weekend will be cloud cover increasing. By christmas we have a slight chance for shower. Were dry by tuesday and wednesday. Maybe a bit of snow for a White Christmas on monday. Well have a cloetser look at your micro climate forecast. The evidence the ntsb is looking through to figure out what caused the deadly derailment in Washington State. Reality star Khloe Kardashian confirmed today that she s pregnant. She said in an Instagram Post that she and her boyfriend nba star Tristan Thompson are overjoyed. And on our homepage take a look at the list of fun Holiday Events around the bay area. They range from ice skating in walnut creek to menorah lighting in San Francisco. We ll be right back with more news. Washington state on the investigation of monday s deadly amtrak train crash. Now to the latest in Washington State on the investigation into mondays deadly amtrak train crash. In just the past 90 minutes, Washington State patrol opened some lanes of southbound i5 near the crash scene. Youre looking at chopper video over that interstate. You can see traffic is moving now. The medical Examiners Office identified the third person killed. It was man under federal custody. The two other victims train enthusists. The ntsb has not ruled an official cause but says the train engineer may have been distracted by a conductor in training. He couldnt operate the train unless he was qualified and particular with this territory. Investigators say the recovered black box shows the train was going 50 miles over the speed limit at the time of crash. Officials say 36 people remain hospitalized. The ntsb says the crash investigation will take months. Were learning more about the deadly bus crash in mexico and that driver negligence and speed was the cause. Mexicos secretary of tourism said 12 people were killed when a bus flipped over in south eastern mexico. Most of the passengers from Royal Caribbean ships. I could have been on that bus. I know i had all my friends. I live in florida. I had all my friends texting me, asking me are you okay. Are you okay. In all 20 other people were hurt. Mexican Officials Say the bus driver is facing possible vehicular manslaughter charges. A 1. 5 trillion tax cut. President trump celebrates Major Political victory. Theres another piece of government business that needs to be handled before the holidays. A 400 oil change for a mini van. Then six weeks of silence after asking for action. Not anymore. Nbc bay area responds, next. Even if no one in your home smokes, Secondhand Smoke can be closer than you think. Secondhand smoke from a neighbors apartment can enter your home through air vents, through light fixtures and even through cracks in the walls and the floors. Secondhand smoke is toxic. Especially to children. Protect your family. Visit tobaccofreeca. Com. To its name. President trump invited Congressional Republicans to today at the white house the grand old party is living up to its name. Its an important political victory. The only major legislative win republicans had this year despite controlling the white house and congress. Reporter with the hard fought tax reform race officially won, republicans beginning their victory lap at the white house. When you think you havent heard this expression but we are making America Great again. You havent heard that, have you . Reporter after successfully selling the bill in congress now begins the work of selling it to the american people. This is the largest tax cut in the history of our country. Really something special. Your tax rates are going down and your paychecks are going up. This is the kind of relief that americans deserve. Reporter for President Trump his first major legislative win delivering two Campaign Promises for the price of one. We essentially repealed obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate that was terrible. Reporter the house battling one last time over the bill that gives a permanent tax cut to corporations but no long term guarantees for the middle class. Its the classic bait and switch. Its a ponzi scheme. Reporter the measure passing for a second time after a technicality forced an embarrassing revote. The motion to rekor is laid upon the table. Reporter now looming before congress, a friday deadline to avoid a Government Shutdown but first a celebration for President Trump and his party. Just 24 approve. Republicans hope once americans see more money starting in february that will translate into votes come november. How does your tax bracket change into this new tax plan. We set up an interactive database on our website to help you find out. Nbcbayarea. Com. Call for help ends with Police Shooting a man. It happened around last night at 8 00 east of highway 101. Man came to the central marin place to report his brother was missing. Hours later the same man called back saying his brother was at the house making suicidal threats. Police say when they got there the man reached for a gun and they shot the suspect. He is suspected to survive. A fire at a homeless encampment. This is video taken around 1 00 in the morning. Santa clara firefighters quickly put out the flames. They didnt find anyone in the encampments so theyre not sure what happened. San jose police are trying to figure out if a teen escapee is to blame for a dramatic rise in carjackings. The spike happened last week all around san jose. Late last night police took someone into custody. The suspect had a warrant out for his arrest. Now they are trying to determine if the teenager is to blame. A popular Silicon Valley restaurant is about to close its doors for good. The lion and compass has been a place thats celebrated. Parking lot overflowing at lunch today with diners saying their goodbyes. Over the last two weeks ive been here three times. Im sad to see this place go. Its turned into any other big hightech city. It will be replaced by 14 three story town homes. Friday will be the restaurants last day. With 2017 almost over there were a lot of jokes in San Francisco today about the 50th anniversary celebration for the summer of love. Jokes because the celebration never happened. The permit was repeatedly rejected. Activists are not giving up. They want to hold the celebration in 2019 and every year after that. In its the soul of San Francisco. Its who we are. Were asking the voters to please let us have our original summer of love 50th year anniversary. A Mountain View driver said routine maintenance caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage to my car. He says an every day oil change did more harm than good. He asked us to make the shop pay up. This is my 2003 mazda mpv. Reporter his van is working fine now. Recently during a checkup, a mechanic discovered be oil pan was leaking and apparently had been for a while. It looks like the plug in here has stripped out the threads and youve got an oil leak. You have about one quart of oil in the vehicle. Reporter that was the problem because greg says he only allowed the professionals at this jiffy lube to change his oil. After paying mazda 413 to replace the oil pan, he turned the jiffy lube to reimburse him. I hadnt had it done anywhere else. Reporter he file add claim that went nowhere. It was a total of six weeks i waited. Six weeks . Nothing came of it. Reporter phil thomas is with the California Bureau of automotive repair. When an auto shop damages your car, theyre on the hook. Theyre responsible. They have care and custody of the vehicle until they return it to you. It will be responsible for damage incured while at the facili facility. Reporter if it happens to you, the state recommends you file an official complaint. Shops dont have to respond to you but they are required to respond to the state. The conversation that seems can get testy. Theyre not required to respond politely. Generally, they do. We do maintain some interaction with them until theres a resolution. Reporter as for greg and his van. I felt like i was get the brush off. Reporter he contacted us after his worthless six week wait. We emailed jiffy lube and got immediate results. I went home and an hour and a half later i got call saying well get a check off to you. Reporter they attributed gregs delay to a personnel change and strives to provide each with quality service. He is confident he would still be waiting for a check if he hasnt contacted nbc bay area responds. If you file an official complaint, the state says it will respond to you within ten days. You can call the state or file online. We have put the phone number and web link on our website, nbcbayarea. Com respond. You can call us if you prefer. The number is 888996tips. Kudos to greg because he saved his receipts over the years. That really helped us make the case. Thats good. Kudos to you. Kudos to greg for coming to us. Have you finished the love fest . Were done. Summer of love. Did you see anything. A familys new plea in hopes of finding the person who ran down their daughter. Abrupt end at the gates of Travis Air Force base today. This is the base. It all started early this morning as south bay police a high speed dhas came to an abrupt end. This is the base. It all started early this morning as south bay police began tracking a group of people accused of stealing lottery tickets. Fairfield Police Spotted the suspects vehicle this morning and the chase was on. It ended when the drive crashed in an open part of Travis Air Force base. Officers arrested five of men and hand them over to police. A year after a hit and run driver killed their daughter, a couple has not given up on finding the person responsible. This week marks one year since 29yearold carly flynn was run over in a crosswalk. A witness told police that a white suv slammed into the young woman and then kept going. Today carlys father pleaded for the driver to come forward. We would have thought and would have hoped that their conscience would have gotten the better of them now and they would have come forward and taken ownership of what they did. So far that hasnt happened. In a year police have only found one witness despite the holiday traffic. The family is now offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of carlys killer. Uc berkeley scientists may be on the verge of a breakthrough in treating als. Researchers say they have developed a fnew virus that delivers a gene splicing protein. While the treatment did not cure the mice, they lived 25 longer and had better motor function. The procedure was just outline inside a new study published today in science advances. Theres still time to help us feed the need this holiday season. We are partnering with safeway. We did it over thanksgiving but we need to do it now over the holidays as well. Its easy to help. Visit your local safeway and make a doe flags. At last update more than 270,000 hunger bags have been sold. Our feed the need Campaign Runs through december 26th. Its 10 for a bag. It really helps out people in need this holiday season. We kick off the campaign and still going. Still need. Take it up to the counter. They will give you something. Weather forecast starting to change. A lot colder. You can see a look on highway 101. Traffic moving well in both directions. In nearby napa its getting cold. 45 right now and down to 38 by 11 00 p. M. Well tell you how low it will go and every else in about five minutes. Im scott budman. Your Neighborhood Parks are about to get a whole lot busier because of these guys. Pokemon is coming back. We have a first look coming up. More than 800 million times on mobile phones by people of all ages. A it was monster hit downloaded more than 800 million times by people on their moe pi mobile phones opinion now theres a new version of pokemon go. This time apple is on board to make the creatures interact with you. It comes out tomorrow. We have a look. Reporter youre about to see a whole bunch of people pulling out their phones and Walking Around in parks like this one all over again because of this guy. Pokemon is coming back but this time it will use augmented reality from apple. Did i catch it . Reporter theyre coming back to a park near you. Pokemon hunters. Im close enough. Reporter with an updated way to play. We wanted to make the experience a bit more real. Reporter these creatures are powered by apples augmented reality meaning they now react to things like the weather. Which means the pokemon you encounter and the way they behave changes based on the real behavior outside. If its rainy or foggy or snow y. You remember where you were. It was the sensation. Everybody was doing it. Reporter thats apple executive who says pokemon go which has 65 Million People playing as recently as this summer is just one way august mgted reality blending the real and Digital World will soon be a bigger part of our lives. You can aim your iphone at a building and sway what is that building and the information pops up. Reporter you can interact with these guys on your phone. Have them behave and stay in place so that they really feel as if theyre there. Reporter thanks to a new version of reality. The new version of pokemon go is yours to download starting later this week. There will be a version for android phones minus ar kit. You will have a bunch of people running around where their phones like this and the little chubby thing will be cold now. It changes. Take your pokemon and go. Cold weather coming our way as we head into tomorrow morning. Need the jacket and the layers. Lets get a look another the microclimate forecast tonight. You can see a live look in france from our High Definition camera. Clear skies back to the golden gate bridge. The clear skies will allow radiational cooling. Any heating will escape into the upper sfeer upper atmosphere. That will allow temperatures to drop. Were going down to 49 at 7 00 p. M. And will keep here with 40s over the next several hours. Lets take you into tomorrow mornings forecast. Its about the cold blast continuing to dive down here all the way through central california. That will help temperatures to drop even colder as we head into your thursday morning which is also when winter officially arrives at 8 28 in the morning. Nice way to usher in winter with these chilly temps. You got to bundle up in the trivalley. Not only the heavier jacket but also dress in layers. It helps to trap heat pockets next to your beside aody and he keep you warmer. Well go down to an average of 30 in the north bay but isolated 20s. Also close to santa rosa right up towards hillsburg as well. San francisco will start with 42 degrees. We keep sunshine in the forecast. Relatively light winds and low humidity. The air will be dry. Its going to be sunny. It will be a beautiful day. Youll need a jacket through the afternoon. 57 expected in morgan hill. Throughout the east bay also sunshine with us. 58 in oakland. 57 in pleasanton and 61 here in concord. Over towards the peninsula, sunshine and 59 in palo alto. You have 59 along the marina. In w down to mill valley looking at 57 degrees. If you like this, youll like the next two days. We keep dry weather with us. Its all the way through saturdays forecast under mostly sunny skies. Clouds return on sunday. Thats advance of new system that will arrive. Not expecting much rainfall. Were looking dry for tuesday and wednesday. San franciscos morning temperatures in the 40s. For the inland valley keep your eye on the morning temperature. Were down near the freezing mark not only tomorrow morning but also friday and saturday when more isolated 20s are possible. This forecast not too bad. Its going to kind of get us into that holiday spirit. I have a few more gifts left to buy. It will give me that last push. You can wear your down parka. I might be able to give you your gift tonight too. A little exchange. The giants get a big name ballplayer but who did they have to give up to get evan longoria. Sports, next. The biggest bat available in the offseason. The giants went to plan b. Today, the team traded for al after swinging and missing on the biggest bat the giants went to ploon b. Youre looking at him. The team traded for evan longoria. Traded with the tampa bay rays. 32yearold longoria has spent his 10year career with the rays. Not related to eva longoria. Good point. They are riding a threegame winning streak. The question is can they make it four on sunday. If it comes down to late game kick, i like the chances opin n opinion. Down the middle. Its good. The 13year veteran his game winner from 45 yards out to these up rights this past sunday completed a six for six day. This is a pretty special field goal unit. To be a part of it its been a lot of fun. How many times have you had the teammates carry you off the field after a game . I think thats the only time ever. I cant remember another time. It talks to the level of comraderie. I think youre seeing that show up and help us win close games. Number ten has been willing them there. Since joining the team its been eat, sleep, study and play football. Comprehending the hysteria thats become of jimmy g. Other than hearing about it, i havent been experiencing it. It sounds like we got a good thing going. The fans are excited. The niners host jacksonville on sunday. Jessica would like to see that picture of jimmy again if we can put that back up. Today weather now. Were going to cool it down tomorrow morning. Cool it down. Going to be 20s and 30s tomorrow morning. Want to dress in layers. Wear the hats. Bring the pets inside. You may have a bit of patchy road ice where some of the wet weather from this morning may not have dried out especially in the hills. Watch out for that. Coldest time around 7 20 in the morning. Well see clouds increase and chance of a few showers on christmas for monday. Thank you very much. Thank you for watching. We hope to see you at 11 00. Bye. Extra, extra now on extra shes having a baby. Eva longorias pregnancy news confirmed weeks after rumors started swirling. I looked at pictures and i was, like, i look pregnant. I talked to eva. What shes telling me about having a baby. Working for the devil. Harvey weinsteins former personal assistant breaks her silence. He score on the life of his wife and children. The horror story she was forced to keep quiet and why shes coming forward now. Meghan markle meets her inlaws. Inside harry and meghans Buckingham Palace lunch with charles and camilla, william and kate days before christmas. And we have a winner