He says one option is to move away from our state income tax system and instead use a payroll tax system. So a persons income would be reduced by the state tax amount on the front end by an employer instead of paying taxes and deducting it later. He says in any event, we could expect a ballot measure. Chances are we may be looking to take this to the voters because i think its important for the voters to kind of opine on this particular issue. Experts have criticized californias tax system for years, so we asked as long as youre at it, why not propose a full state tax overhaul . Weve had efforts in the last 10, 15 years to look at wholesale tax reform. Its been really hard to just get off the ground. I think what were really looking at is a direct response to this tax scam and seeing if we, can you know, take some of the money that the middle class gave to corporations and bring it back to the middle class. Next now this proposed gop tax law would take effect on january 1st, 2018. Now there are plans to put billions of dollars in bonds on the ballot next year in 2018, but all that may need to be postponed if the backers of those bonds find that californians are suddenly in no mood to take on new debt and taxes. Melissa, thanks. Coming up at 6 30 well take a closer look at the last minute deals to lock up those republican votes in washington. New at 6 00 the housing crunch hits a new level. Even 2. 5 million may not buy you a home in the bay area these days. Theres been a huge drop of the number of high end homes on the market. San joses supply dropped 42 last year. Oakland and San Francisco also saw big drops. Kpix5s len ramirez is live in los gatos where the shortage of luxury homes is making it tougher for everyone. Len . Reporter all of the homes in this neighborhood are in the 3 to 6 million range and those prices are just going up and its frustrating a lot of people even with a lot of money to spend. The rich may be getting richer, but even many million naylors are not making millionaires are not making money fast enough to keep up with the surging Silicon Valley real estate market. Goes from 5. 5 million, 6. 5 million, even to 7. The least expensive house in hillsboro is 4 million. Los altos hills, we had quite a few houses for sale there. There were 18, but the lowest priced house was 5. 5 million. Reporter earlier this week we reported in santa clara and san mateo counties about one out of four people is at risk for hunger because many are spending almost all of their income on rent. Parents may be skipping meals, people cutting back on meals are having to make less healthy food choices like having cereal for dinner. Reporter now it seems even the wealthy are finding that having lots of money is not enough to get a roof overhead in some communities. The irony is Silicon Valley has become a victim of its own success. So somebody that wants a nice house, a high end house, wants to pay a lot of money for a house is very challenged. Reporter we asked realtor dave clark and his team to see whats available on the multiple listing service. While we spoke another home in Los Altos Hills was snapped up. It was 18. We pulled it up two minutes ago and now its down to 17. So Somebody Just bought another house. Five minutes from now it might be down to 15 and 13 or 12 by dinner time. Who knows . Reporter that brought up the reason this is all happening, supply and demand. Right now we have 447 properties for sale in all of Santa Clara County. In a normal market its 10,000 or more and thats part of reason why every time we have a house on the market we tend to get multiple offers and a lot of offers. Reporter and the price range is just going up. Theres virtually Nothing Available for under 500,000 in Santa Clara County right now. On the high end we saw a listing today, 68 million for a home in Los Altos Hills on 8 acres. Reporting live in los gatos, len ramirez, kpix5. The tech expansion still going strong, amazon scooping up offices for a mega campus in sunnyvale. The seattlebased company leased four buildings east of moffitt field, the most recent on 11th avenue. The offices will accommodate about 5,000 workers for amazon subsidiary companies. The tech giant is expanding its footprint all over the bay area. Besides sunnyvale its leased space in mountain view, santa clara and east palo alto. In San Francisco for the past 10 hours thousands of people have lined up to pay respects to mayor ed lee. A procession carried the mayors casket through the streets of San Francisco early this morning. He arrived at city hall one final time after 40 years of Public Service and seven as mayor. His casket was draped in a u. S. Flag. Give you a live look inside the rotunda at city hall where the mayor is lying instate. The public can visit about another hour until 7 00 tonight. Kpix5 Susie Steimle is outside city hall for us tonight. Susie . Reporter allen, if you want to know anything about the impact that mayor ed lee had on the city of San Francisco, just look at this line. It has been like this since sunrise this morning. People have been lined up around the block waiting for a chance to come into city hall to pay their respects. The people up front just told me they waited about 30 minutes to get here. Next to them its a growing tribute of flowers, candles and pictures of the mayor, everyone coming to say goodbye and they tell me it has not been easy. Whether you knew the mayor well he worked so hard all the time and he sacrificed so much. Reporter or just admired him from afar mayor ed lee was more than a politician. Reporter san franciscans from all walks of life were overwhelmed as they bid farewell to mayor ed lee today. Its important for us to remember what a blessing he was to our city, how grateful we are to mayor lee and to his family for sharing him with us. Reporter mayor lee returned to city hall for the final time this morning carried in by an honor guard made up of men who were on his security detail. His body lay instate all day friday in city halls rotunda. Seeing all these people who leave the city overcome lead the city overcome with emotion is really intense because i look to them as my leaders and mentors and its really humbling and shows the humanity in all of us. Ill just think people should remember that and i just think people should remember that and carry on his legacy. Reporter its a somber scene watching city leaders say goodbye to one of their own. Those close to him say you may have disagreed with his politics but that his humanity went unquestioned. He was very down to earth and always made jokes and i know they were his own because of how much he waited for your laughter after. He was a very decent man. He really wanted to help the city. I think hell be remembered as a good man with a good heart. Reporter earlier today i heard a staffer who worked very closely with mayor ed lee hug a Police Officer and they said to each other, we lost our friend. Thats been the sentiment throughout the day here. Many people, of course, are talking about mayor lees legacy, his work on Affordable Housing and the homeless crisis in San Francisco, but mostly people are talking about how they felt personally connected to this mayor and thats why so many people have showed up to show how much they will miss him. We just talked to staffers. They say more than 10,000 people came through city hall today. Live in San Francisco, Susie Steimle, kpix5. Again city hall is open another 50 minutes, but there will be a public celebration of life sunday at 3 p. M. At city hall. You can watch it live on www. Cbssf. Com as well as our kpix5 facebook page. Ay area. Another bad air day, today is the eighth spare the air day in a row. Our tower cam shows hazy skies around the bay area. Winds are expected to pick up in the next few hours. Thats going to help clear the air, but increase the fire danger. Kpix5s emily turner is live on mount tam in marin county with a red flag warning set to take effect in a few hours. Right, emily . Reporter yeah, veronica. Here its still still, but as you said, it will pick up here in the next couple hours in the dry conditions, high winds and combination of christmas lights, candles, fires and fire pits is not a good one when it comes to keeping things from burning. These scenes are a not so subtle reminder of what can happen on a red flag warning day. As we head into a weekend full of them, Fire Departments arent taking any chances, especially santa rosa who has already been burned once. Although the red flag warning is specifically up in the Higher Elevations were still concerned given what we experienced. We definitely dont want to let our guard down. Reporter so santa rosa fire with departments across the north bay are back in summer mode meaning wildland fire gear is back in the trucks and crews are on standby to make sure all units can respond in case of a fire. Further south novato is doing their own form of fire control in education asking folks to hold off on fires even in the fireplace or fire pit. Thats one of our biggest worries is knowing that those sparks can get out and release into the air and get caught by those heavy winds that are traveling and then land someplace else in the leaves of your eaves like weve seen last week in our own town here. Reporter there was already a burn ban in place for outdoor fires in marin county. So eliminating the Human Element will hopefully make a difference. Its been almost a month since the north bay has seen any rain and it could go up like a tinderbox if people arent careful. Although people are seeing the green grasses starting to grow following the first couple rains, our heavier fuels up in the Higher Elevations definitely didnt get the amount of rainfall that they needed and theyre still dry. Reporter to give you an how dry we are, we have had about half the rain than we had this time last year, so a significantly drier december which, of course, makes things more dangerous. Pg e is also stepping things up. They say they have crews on standby in these red flag warning areas and they also are prepared to cut off power to lines if something happens to those lines just to make sure that they mitigate the risk there as well. Emily turner, kpix5. Back in the studio at least emily is not being tossed around by strong winds, not yet anyway, but that will develop by sunrise tomorrow. Its one of the reasons why red flag warnings are, as she pointed out, going to be in effect tonight beginning at 10 00 right through sunday morning for all the area hills for winds up to 35 miles an hour. At the highest elevations these gusts could reach 50 miles an hour. Very low humidities mean high fire danger and thats why the red flag warnings are posted as well as wind advisories. These future wind casts, this is tomorrow morning at 11 00. Those bright purple colors are the stronger winds. Below we still get 25mile an hour gusts and finally things begin to ease up going towards sunday morning, but all weekend long right through sunday it will be windy, dry and that combination is not good news, but there is good news on the horizon. Well have that in the forecast in a few minutes. Thank you. A second sea lion attack in less than 24 hours, a swimmer bitten now treated for possible rabies exposure and the warning tonight, stay out of the water. Police say this bay area guy was taking credit card skimming to a whole new level, how a gas station worker thwarted his elaborate plan. Hikers paying up, how a bay area city is cashing in on a parking crackdown at this popular peak. Officials just shut it down. Afte sky drone 5 giving us an exclusive view over aquatic park in San Francisco. Officials just shut it down after a second sea lion attack in 24 hours. Li here suspect kpix5s da lin is there and spoke to witnesses who saw the whole thing unfold. Da . Reporter veronica, one attack is very unusual. Two attacks in two days, that is just unheard of. Thats why both swimmers and authorities suspect its the same sea lion responsible for both attacks, but even with this warning sign folks are still taking the risk. Even with the closure swimmers are still diving in. A second sea lion attack triggered the warning. The latest attack happened around 8 00 this morning near the aquatic park harbor entrance. The victim says a sea lion came from underneath him and bit him in the groin area. I sat back, had some coffee and heard oh oh and looked over to see a guy just right inside the entrance to the marine harbor. Slight bleeding, but being that it was cold enough because of the water it didnt start gushing. So hes in the back of the ambulance now and theyre attending to him, but he should be fine. Reporter witnesses say nearby swimmers came to the victims rescue and swam with him back to shore. This is cell phone footage of people helping the victim out of an suv into an ambulance. He came in shocked. He had a look on his face where he wanted to get to a hospital. So we called 911. Reporter family and friends identified the victim as rick melville. They say hell stay at general for at least one more day. Theyre waiting for surgery to clean out the three puncture wounds on his thigh. Reporter its the second time in two days a sea lion attacked a swimmer. A man in his 50s was bitten on his arm yesterday. Both swimmers will survey, but the question is why . Its such an infrequent event i dont think we should be that worried this is going to be a problem in the future. Reporter experts are puzzled. Maybe a young sea lion being territorial . There are also talks of it being a sick sea lion. The National Park service is shutting down the park to swimmers until monday, but we saw a handful of people ignoring the signs. Well, the swimmers here are kind of nuts. Thats why we do it. If we were like normal normal like why go in there . Reporter Authorities Say its extremely difficult to investigate this kind of attack. Thats why its unlikely for them to find out why the sea lion attacked these swimmers. They just hope the sea lion goes away and they can reopen the park to swimmers come monday. Live in San Francisco, im da lin, kpix5. Police say a thief in hayward tried taking a credit card scam to new heights. Police say he installed a skimming device on an atm keypad, but he set up an entire fake side panel complete with a camera to catch peoples pin numbers. It happened inside the chevron station at hesperian boulevard and applegateway in hayward. An employee spotted a suspicious person by the atm and called police. A crackdown in parking in one area of fremont has the city cashing in. More than 2,100 parking tickets have been issued near the mission peak trailhead, which is a popular area for hikers. The city started ticketing october last year. Residents have been complaining about hikers parking in front of their houses, blocking driveways. So far the city has raked in 120,000 in fines. Brian hackney is here today. Hey, weve got a hazy friday night underway, but things will clear out fast this weekend because the winds are going to pick up and out goes the haze. In comes the sun and fire danger as well, as we talked about earlier. High temperatures today managed only upper 50s and low 60s in the bay area. So it felt a little more like december today with numbers easing back toward average but not quite making it. Kpix5 hidef doppler shows weve got a weak and mostly dry cold front on the way from the north. It looks like theres at least according to the radar something falling, but most of that evaporates before it hits the ground. So we wont squeeze anything out of that except for the haze and clouds that we had today. Overnight lows tonight with the cloud cover, though, become a little bit warmer than they were last night. San rafael gets down to 44 degrees. Well bottom out at 49 in San Francisco, 43 in san jose, 42 in livermore. Sunup on saturday morning at 7 18 a. M. Its a big football weekend with the 9ers taking on the titans on a game that happens to be broadcast right here on channel 5 sunday at 1 25 p. M. , sunny and mild. Raiders in a game not broadcast here will be playing 5 30. It will be clear and cool sunday evening for fans that are heading out to the game. It will be about 60 degrees. Heres how it looks. The cold front sweeps through, doesnt give us rain, but it will give us wind. That low trough interacts with the High Pressure that has been nudged aside. Easterly wind shift northerly by sunday, but its in the shift that the winds pick up. It will be windier saturday and lighter winds sunday, but wind advisories are posted in the meantime. Forecast highs tomorrow, we manage slightly warmer with more sunshine, santa rosa to 67, san jose 64 degrees. In the extended forecast windy tomorrow and sunday it will begin to ease off. Monday and tuesday a few clouds. By the time we get to midweek theres that much of a hint, a microscopic hint, that may be a drop or two coming wednesday. It wont be a big deal. It will be the first rain weve seen in a while. In the meantime have a good weekend. Thank you. 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My gosh, for 3 1 2 quarters in kansas city you wondered where are these guys . Derek carr and the offense usually struggles with the chiefs but not like that. Carr threw for 69 yards through three quarters. Head coach jack del rio said he wants his offense to let it rip. Pressure on the offensive coordinator, todd downing, who responded using golf vernacular. Were just going to play with our hair on fire and let it hang out. I love to play golf. Sometimes that driver gets a little squirrely on my and ill spray one out of bounds. I think letting it rip is stepping up on that next tee box, pulling the driver out of the bag, not choking and hitting 3 wood but just swinging away. Im always out of bounds. Can the 49ers have an answer for the Tennessee Titans sunday, the current afc wildcard front runners. Sunday on kpix5 Jimmy Garoppolo home start, Kyle Shanahan on his 49ers closing 2017 with three playoff contenders. I do think its a unique challenge. Were going against three teams playing for their playoff lives. If anyone has been in that situation, you get intensity that picks up in those type of buildings. I hope we plan on being in this situation next year and id like us to feel like that now and treat it that way. Hey, front row at a warriors game, allen, got to keep your head on a swivel. This young lady got hit with a ball. Now kevin durant not only attended to this fan, gave her a little kiss just to try to make the owie feel a little bit better. Apparently she was okay. It worked. Yeah. Warriors have won eight in a row and play the lakers monday. Im coming back at the end of the show with a quarterback even i can post up on. Really. Yeah. You wont believe it. That we have to see. Coming up in our next half hour the final tax plan is out, what it took to get the hold out republicans on board. Lentless winds President Trump declares loyalty to Law Enforcement but slams the fbi as disgraceful. Relentless winds and the longest red flag warning on record, firefighters in Southern California brace for a challenging weekend. Hows it going down there . Thats good. Lica misses you. Im over it though. laughter thats fine. I miss her more than you anyway. Hey, my window is closing. Yeah thats okay. Alright miles. I love you. phone hangs up yeah i love you too. Sorry. I cant make it. Its just my eczema again, but its fine. Yeah, its fine. You ok . Eczema. Its fine. Hey hi arent you hot . Eczema again . Its fine. I saw something the other day. Eczema exposed. Your eczema could be something called atopic dermatitis, which can be caused by inflammation under your skin. Maybe you should ask your doctor . Go to eczemaexposed. Com to learn more. Youre watching kpix5 news. Republicans in c its looking more like the president will get his christmas wish, a tax cut bill. Republicans in congress now have the votes they need to pass it. The house and senate are likely to vote next week. Cbs reporter weigia jiang shows us whats in the final deal. Reporter congress has released its final language for a tax reform bill that has been decades in the making. Took a lot of hard work by a lot of people to make this day happen. Reporter texas republican kevin brady is chairman of the House Committee responsible for writing tax bills. Our lawmakers listened to their constituents, families and businesses and this tax reform reflects the priorities of the american people. Reporter it took a last minute deal with senators marco rubio and mike lee increasing the size of the refundable Child Tax Credit to make sure the republicans had enough votes to pass the bill. Its amazing what they can do when they want to do. Reporter tennessee senator bob corker surprised everyone when he announced he, too, will vote yes. Corker voted against the Senate Version of the bill because he was worried about adding to the deficit. In a statement corker said he now believes the bill could have significant positive impact on the well being of americans and help drive additional Foreign Direct Investment in tennessee. Even senators john mccain who has been in the hospital and mississippis thad cochran who is also ill are planning to vote yes on the bill. I think john mccain will be here. Reporter what about senator cochran . Im told hell be here next week. Reporter lawmakers have the weekend to read the bill before voting on the plan next week. Weigia jiang, cbs news, capitol hill. Cbs news political director John Dickerson says now that senators marco rubio and mike lee are in the yes column, the vote of two other republican senators are no longer in question. As you heard, mccain and cochran questionable because of their health. It doesnt mart. If the republicans have 50 senators and matter. If the republicans have 50 senators and have the Vice President to vote to break a tie, it looks like the bill will make it through the house and senate. Mccain and cochran are expected to be present for next weeks vote. There will be much more on the tax plan on face the nation, sunday morning. All three major stock indices hit major highs, the dow up 143 point, nasdaq jumping 80 and s p up 23. Donald trump visited the fbi Academy Today for the first time as president. He slammed the fbi while praising local Law Enforcement. I want you to deliver a message to your fellow officers. The president of the United States has your back 100 . Across the country, who just raining mr. Trump speaking to Law Enforcement personnel from across the country who just completed an fbi training program. Before leaving the white house today the president once again told the cameras what he thinks about the fbi. Co s russia its a shame whats happened with the fbi, but were going to rebuild the fbi. It will be bigger and better than ever. The visit to the fbi comes against the back drop of special counsel Robert Muellers russia investigation which has reached Top White House aides. A milestone in san jose, today the largest class in a decade graduated from the police academy. Its a sign that the force is starting to recover from chronic staff shortages. Attorneys followed a revamped reg me backed by regiment backed by chief eddie garcia which includes new rules on use of force and an emphasis on being fair and just along with protecting public safety. A long time San Jose School board member has been charged with stealing almost 30,000. The Santa Clara County d. A. Says john linder took money that was intended to support a School Bond Measure and he used it on personal experiences and travel. Linder has been released on 35,000 bail. Tonight secretary of state Rex Tillerson is backing away from talks with north korea saying the u. S. Will only negotiate if the north stops nuclear testing. The United NationsSecurity Council met today to discuss north korea and its recent missile test. Tillerson backtracked from his earlier statement that the u. S. Would be willing to start talks without preconditions. To unite the International Community, and were going to ssure as muc today he said pyongyang would have to earn its way back. Were going to lead this pressure campaign. Were going to unite the International Community and were going to keep the pressure as much as we can and increase it where possible. Ward off a u. S. Invasion to oust north koreas u. N. Ambassador responded by saying his countrys Nuclear Weapons program is defensive and needed to ward off a u. S. Invasion to oust pyongyangs leadership. Ail powerful earthquake was centered along the coast about 100 miles southwest of jakarta. The quake rattled buildings for over 20 seconds in jakarta and nearby towns striking just before midnight which means crews are still looking for survivors in collapsed buildings. So far one person has died, but that number is expected to rise in the next few hours. A solar system just like ours, the groundbreaking discovery with a little help from google. And police play santa, how bay area officers brought some christmas cheer to kids. 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. Thats when the sale of Recreational Marijuana becomes legal. Shows us this year new years day is also being called green monday. Thats when the sale of Recreational Marijuana becomes legal. Kpix5s Jessica Flores shows us one pot club that just got the new license needed to start selling january 1st. Blueberries, chocolate covered expresso beans. Heres a sample of the dried flowers that we sell. Reporter christmas came early for matt luceros business budding cannabis among the first 20 dispensaries in california to get a state license to sell Recreational Marijuana. His license number . 1. Overnight its opening up a whole new customer base. So im anticipating increased sales of about 30 starting january 1st. Reporter lucero is stocking up for new years day when Recreational Marijuana sales become legal. January 1st not quite black friday, but here certainly green monday. Our store is going to open an hour earlier than usual. Were going to have sales throughout the place and we are expecting mild chaos. Reporter the city of san jose is allowing Recreational Marijuana shops, but most cities right now ban the stores. Still state regulators are expecting a surgeful businesses to apply for business surge of businesses to apply for businesses to apply for licenses to sell Recreational Marijuana. Applications have been accepted only a week and already 200 have been received. Im very happy that california has been able to lead the way both in medical and now with recreational sales. Reporter for lucero this is just the beginning of a budding industry about to boom. In san jose, Jessica Flores, kpix5. An airport screener at sfo is marking a milestone. This is skipper. Hes an agriculture detector k 9. So what he does is he sniffs out contraband food in incoming travelers luggage. The beagle recently made his 20,000th seizure. It was a banana in a passengers carryon. Cannot do that. Christmas came a little early today in oakland. It proves its just as good to give as to receive. Oh, my goodness. I need you to come down here. Santa claus and helpers visited three homes in oakland today and delivered presents to the little ones. All their moms grew up in a foster care system and now theyre living on their own. Members of the Oakland Police department are adopting the families for the holidays. The officers who work in this unit every day they focus on death, shootings, homicides and bad people. To get a recalibration to meet people who are hard working, who are the people that we should be out here providing service for is just a reminder of why were doing what we do. The project was organized by a group called beyond emancipation that provides assistance to young people aging out of foster care. Getting back on your feet is crucial. New flareups, no end in sight, new threat to an already tough firefight in Southern California. Well have the details about some of that with wind advisories and red flag warnings and here it is a week and a half before christmas. 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Its surface temperatures are incredibly hot. The temperature surface on this planet is about 800 degrees fahrenheit, which is far too height for the possible development of life as we know it. Nasa Scientists Say the new planet is about 2,500 light years away. Do the math. It means traveling at the speed of light it would take us 2,500 years to get there. And the liftoff of the falcon 9 rocket and dragon spacecraft and another big first for spacex, it Just Launched a used rocket with a used capsule for nasa. Experts say this is a stunning feat, could drive down the cost of future launches. The capsule is hauling nearly 5,000 pounds of goods for the International Space station including dozens of mice for scientists and get this, barley seeds to make budweiser beer. The cargo should reach its final destination by sunday. Winds are expected to intensify in Southern California this weekend which could make the tough firefight harder. The thomas fire is now the fourth largest fire in state history. Its burned more than 250,000 acres in ventura and Santa Barbara counties and has destroyed more than 700 homes. Randy page shows us the fire continued to flare up today. Reporter its day 12 on the thomas fire. Sounded like a roar. Reporter and this morning flames continue to threaten homes on the fires northeastern flank near fillmore. Hear the crackle and pop and there was all these loud sounds, bangs and booms like it was right behind our house. Reporter bill edwards and his family stayed up all night looking out the window of their home as the wind howled and the flames grew closer. Its been absolutely incredible, you know. The flames shooting up so high that we were standing in the backyard and seeing them shoot up 30, 40 feet and watching it burn seemed so close that you could almost reach out and touch them. It was incredible. Reporter fire command said wind gusts more than 30 miles an hour whipped up the fire and drove it right up to the backs of homes. Linda riley said shes been resting with her eyes open on her back porch. My house said some of the avocado trees are up in flames. Reporter this huge fire has already burned about 400 square miles close to the size of the city of los angeles and as of this morning, it was only 35 contained. As you can see, were ready. Were packed up with everything that we can get, just throw the dogs in and go. Im not going to unpack, not till tomorrow. Reporter firefighters and engines are standing by near homes. The hope tonight is that the wind will not come up like it did last night and theres also concern about more wind over the weekend and that is the real concern because this has been a wind driven fire ever since the beginning. In fillmore im randy page, kpix5. Thats the story, brian, wind, wind. The winds will ramp up in the bay area. Tonight as this dry cold front, not much moisture, but there is in winds its packing, mid50s in the bay area, cooler in santa rosa looking toward the bay bridge. Because weve got this high overcast all day, an indication of a weak cold front thats on the way, so weak it wont drop rain, but the temperatures wont drop very much because that layer of high clouds acts like an insulating blanket and keeps us to a mild 47 degrees overnight in oakland. Sunup tomorrow morning 7 18. Red flag warnings uncharacteristic here in mid december. They continue until 10 00 tonight. These are offshore winds, relative humidity drops and fire danger goes up through sunday morning. Almost spinning now is getting far enough away from the parent low theres no way to squeeze anything out of it. High pressure is still knocking the breath out of it as it gets down here, but it is creating the wind. It will pick up tomorrow morning especially, mild lighter winds sunday morning. In the meantime windy enough to fly an im kite around parts of the bay an iron kite in parts of the bay area. High temperatures tomorrow, generally in the 40s. Overnight temperatures, generally in the 40s. About 64 tomorrow in, for instance, sunnyvale, 63 in san jose, 64 at morgan hill. East bay we dispense with the clouds tonight. The winds pick up tomorrow morning, gusts up to 50 miles an hour near mount diablo elevations. Down below its still plenty windy with 10 to 25mile an hour gusts. In the north bay hazy tonight, sunny tomorrow, temperatures low to mid60s. Finally you get up to around ukiah it will be a high of about 60 degrees. In the extended forecast things dont change much. It looks like it will be highs in the 60s for the most part for the next few days. Well get more sunshine for saturday and sunday. Monday and tuesday and wednesday looks like a little bit of a question mark because by wednesday it looks like we could pick up some clouds, maybe even eight drops of rain. That will be wednesday. In the meantime sunny and dry. Joining us the familiar larry sly, executive director of the food bank in contra costa and solano counties and niko a new face to us. You are with central garden and pet. Correct. Im curious about what you do because ive got a garden and ive got a pet. So what do you do . We actually sell pet and garden products across the nation and, yeah, were all over the country and are you based in the east bay . We are. Were in walnut creek, california, again all over the country and also a Small Business in the uk. Good for you well get to the check in a moment which, of course, we appreciate it. Larry, how are things going this year . How big is the need . Were doing really well. The need is huge. Thats the not well part. Were serving about 182,000 people each month and it goes up during the holiday season, but thanks to people like central garden and pet were able to get about 13 Million Pounds of Fresh Produce to people in need. Good things happen because the Community Support is there. Were about 10 days out from christmas. How do people contribute to this . People can do the food drives at whole foods. They can send us money. They can give volunteer time. People can really engage by giving us their time and energy to help us make a difference. In terms of making a difference, niko, how did you raise the money and how much did you raise . Its a corp. Gift and its 10 corporate gift and its 10,000. Wow, that is fantastic. Good for you you want to hold up the check. I guess the company contributed. The company contributed. Weve been doing this for a while. Its a great cause and very important for us to stay connected to the Community Since we are a local company. Its very, very important to us. We all appreciate this. Thank you so much for helping out to the tune of 10,000 thank you, central garden and pet. You, too, can donate at any Whole Foods Market or online at www. Cbssf. Com give. 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Wrapped up the 2a crown in the last 1 2 hour. Find High School State championship title games are tonight and tomorrow at the 6a level. We found a program thats going for it all, a huge, huge chance for a San Francisco first ever state football championship and its on the shoulders of the smallest guy on the team. It is the last football practice for galileo high school. Quick, organized, spirited. Got to let him go. Coach mark nguyen got a stingy defense anchored by line backer jimmy edwards, a six month win streak on the backs of sure handed receivers, tough linemen, but see that fellow in green . Thats the quarterback. 5 3 senior adrian booth. Thats right, 5 3. I just dont know how he does it. Im standing back there watching him. I cant see. Reporter youre the quarterback . Is it like that . Yup, all the time. Everywhere i go they ask me who are you . What team do you play . I say galileo. Whats the position . Quarterback. They go like oh. Reporter he can even see over his offensive line. Get this. Booth has been a starting quarterback at every level at galileo since the middle of his freshman year. Aggressive, doesnt give up, doesnt back down because of that when we saw that, this is the kid we want. As soon as i heard him say i get starting quarterback, i knew i cant let him down. Reporter that isnt enough. Gal lay low is on the galileo is on the cusp of a state championship. Gal against vincent memorial tomorrow, 6 p. M. On the mexico border. Good luck. Sfx tinny headphone music sfx feet shuffling life can change in an instant. Be covered when it does. With a health plan through covered california. We offer free expert help choosing the best plan for you. And all of our plans include free preventive care. Financial help is available, so check for yourself to see what savings you qualify for. For Health Insurance starting january 1st, enroll by december 15th. Because you never know when life. Will change. 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