Per hour gusts in cupertino. The strong winds and dry conditions also have a fire crews on alert. Jackie ward is in brooklyn where they are dealing with downed trees. Jackie . That is for sure. We started here worked our way down to antioch and then traveled west. Where this tree fell on a car, crash through a window and really the whole east bay was windswept today. Here we are just over a week until Christmas Day and we are still in fire season. Cal fire chief says that the season is unprecedented. All of our fire stations are open and staffed. Something you never see in the beer bay area. Ive never seen a december like this before. The normally staff 15 trucks during its peak season. And only for during winter. But now they are back up to 15 units. At one. 11 of them were in Southern California battling the thomas fire there. Our forces are getting tired. With that is our job. It started for us in march, and nine months later we are still going strong. The wind was so powerful here brought down this giant cedar. He was watching football, when he saw the tree move. It was enough to shift and lift the cement around the base of it. But they do not hear or feel a thing. No noise or movement. I just saw the tree move. Probably came up off the foundation of the ground about four feet. It was so big it took down power lines with it. And the estimated it was going to take hours to safely remove. It was a similar but smaller situation in berkeley where a bear knocked on a tree as well. Eight landed on a couple of cars and nearly fell on top of this woman. We were parked right behind this car, and basically covered our entire car. So my husband could barely back out. We had to lift the tree as much as we could to get him out. Mac i was just relieved that i was not standing there two seconds earlier. That couldve been me. They say mount diablo recorded wind gusts of 63 Miles Per Hour today. And consistently they were seeing areas at high 30s to low 40s all day long. Juliet . Are they worried about staffing during this prolonged fire season . The mac they are not. They prepare for the worst they say, they say it came on in june and they work nine months at a time. Which means that they are staffed until march for a lot of these people. And they have to get a 90 day break. 90 consecutive days. But even with that break, they are not worried about the rest of this really long fire season. Back to you. Wins like this, with a fire already existing, is nightmarish. That is what is happening at the thomas fire in Ventura County state. New evacuation orders have been prompted in Santa Barbara county. 18,000 structures are threatened down there. 259,000 acres have burned. It is now 40 contained. Or than a week after the fire started dip spite the progress the danger is far from over. People that are out in this area really need to get out. Get out for your own safety and for the firefighter safety. Need to let them get in there and do their jobs. The smoke from the thomas fire has actually been captured from space. You can see the thick blanket of black smoke covering the Santa Barbara coast. We learned debris removal from the wildfires in wine country has been on hold. A subculture died subcontractor died while working a cat aloma. The army corps issued a statement expressing its sympathies saying our top priority is always safety and above all we want every team member working on the program to return home to their family when the job is done. The workers death is under investigation. During the standdown, they said contractors will review safety procedures and training. Police are dealing with a Major Staffing shortage. Darrell lynn reports on why dozens of officers are leaving the force. A crisis at the Berkeley Police department. The chief says she does not have enough officers to hit the streets. The department has already gotten rid of bicycle patrols and task force. Theyre now proposing to eliminate the Traffic Division and move investigators to patrol the streets. We need our Police Officers to be out there and be responsive. Counselor ben bartlett does not believe they will be safe. But says they need they need this talent. The Police Officers unit says that just this year, 26 officers have left the department. And more are on the way out. On the website, they blame politics and the antilaw enforcement sentiments. Officers have received a lot of criticism in recent years over the handling of the tax. But the chair of the Police Review commission does not buy that. He says it is the economics. Living is high in berkeley. Sophie person is traveling, from a distance, there is added pause for that person. The regional and National Problem here. The commission needs we work with the police chief to identify why officers are leaving and recommend solutions to the city council. In the meantime, people in berkeley say they worry about slower Police Response time. I think having fewer Police Available for the various needs is not a good thing. They had more cops 20 years ago than they have now. Right now, the department has 160 officers. In berkeley, kpix five. Off to semper cisco where a bazooka was turned out at ace police sponsored gun buyback event. The antitank weapon was dropped off this morning among one of the hundred 80 firearms that were swapped in for cash. The no questions asked buyback was organized by the Violence Prevention Group united triad. It is important because every gun that we destroy and get off of the streets is a potential gun that could have killed someone. We could destroy the entire universe is one of those guns. Organizers expect to pay out 50,000 for all of the guns. President trump expects the republic can this republican tax bill to be passed before christmas. A 500 page document mitten needs a vote of both the house and senate to go into effect in 2018. We try to break it down now. This weekend lawmakers are reading through the final version of the tax bill. A massive piece of legislation that President Trump is confident congress will pass in the coming days. This will be one of the great Christmas Gifts here. It includes seven personal tax brackets with rates dropping for almost everyone. A family earning 75,000 a year would see its marginal rate of fall from 15 down to 12 . Democrats to point out that most of the personal tax cuts would expire by 2025. In the meantime, there will be less money going to programs that Many Americans rely on. Seniors, disabled americans and veterans, all count on various tax provisions that are now on the chopping block. Effectively raising their taxes. The bill permanently flashes the Corporate Tax wage from 35 to 21 . Mister trump hopes that that will bring cash that companies are keeping offshore back to the u. S. Jobs will come pouring back into this country. Which we need very much. Nearly every Congressional Republican is expected to vote in favor of the tax cuts. They are hoping arizonas a john mccain and this is a bs cochran who have been sidelined with Health Issues will be back in the senate in time to vote for the bill. Which have they she hasnt no democratic support. Even the Vice President is delaying traveling case his vote is needed to break a tie in the senate. The trumpet ministration is banned officials at the center for Disease Control and prevention from using certain words. According to the washington post, policy analyst at the cdc were presented with a list of seven forbidden words including fetus, transgender and diversity. These words cannot be used in any of the cdcs official documents, those that are being prepare for next years bus it. Health and Human Services says the report is not accurate. Coming up, a chaotic arrest. Video of the suspect being hit and knocked to the ground sparking controversy. How police are responding tonight. Remembering those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Crowds gather to honor fallen veterans. The nationwide effort underway. 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. Scrutiny after new video surfaced of a violent arrest. And now in response to criticism the Police Department has released the officers body camera video. Reporter in Southern California, passing the police are under scrutiny after a video surfaced of a violent arrest. Now in response to criticism, the Police Department has released the officers body cam video. Reporter tom white has the latest here. Watch the beginning of this video. A man is seen grabbing a Police Officers baton, and the officers fight him off knocking him to the ground. It turns into a be down with the suspect being hit with baton and punched as the officers ultimately subdue him. This video sparked outcry from some threatening there was excessive force. Police released this of body cam video from the officers. In the body cam video, you can see the officer walk up to the suspect who is already with another officer. Soon you will see the suspect up against the cruiser and the man appears to be resisting as the officers tried to handcuff him. The officers repeatedly tell the men not to get up and to give them his hands. From the video it would appear that the man is not obeying orders. The man they arrested has been identified as 21yearold christopher bailey. A spokesperson for the city of pasadena that the police followed him to the gas station because he was missing a front license plate and his windows were illegally tented. Currently the incident is under review. There is no timeline for how long that will take. There is no conclusion as of yet. The spokesperson you heard from seth the review on that video is routine. As far as charges against the suspect, the la county Prosecutors Office says that at this point there are no plans to file any charges. Reporting for pasadena, kpix five. A public memorial for the late mayor adley is set for tomorrow at city hall. Speakers will include london boyd along with three former semper cisco mayors. Lieutenant governor deb gavin newson and his daughters will also give remarks. The celebration of life will start at 3 pm at city hall. We will stream it live on cbs fs. Com and on our facebook page. Across the country, hundreds of thousands of fallen veterans were remembered today. At golden gate naturals national cemetery, they gathered to pay their respects and place wreaths on the tombstones of military men and women. The event is part of a nationwide remembrance called weeps across america. About the 245,000 wreaths were placed on graves in national cemetery. In total, more than 1 million wreaths are expected to place on markers across 1200 locations. Sunset hits at 5 15 pm. We have a beautiful shot of the square it lit up. And we have a look toward the bay bridge and it is windy out there. That is the headline for today. The winds are gusting to over 30 Miles Per Hour in hayward. And it will be a windy night in the bay area as we look out toward toward coit tower. With alcatraz up there under the live badge. Right now they have a 60 degrees in concord. San francisco is 61 and those winds are coming in right on cue. That lowpressure trough is heading out to the east and we will expect more gusty winds overnight. A sharp ridge will replace it with northerly winds tomorrow. But it will be windy right there tomorrow morning. Wind advisories are posted especially at the higher elevations. It will be gusting over 50 Miles Per Hour. That introduces the threat as you know of downed trees and power lines. And of course the fire danger and the red flag warning still posted. The wind gust the future cast shows that things begin to ease up by midmorning on sunday. At least that is the forecast. We will remain fairly strong offshore and in fact until early monday the winds will go calm. But then they will build with those dry cant handle wins. The northerlys will be coming out of the bay area tomorrow. And heres how it works. We expect it will be breezy through early sunday, mild and sunny through tuesday, and only a slight chance of rain coming in midweek. We see a few drops in the north bay and it may not even happen. We will continue to look at some of football action here in the bay area it will be sunny and cool, or rather clear and cool when the raiders take on the cowboys tomorrow. Daytime temperature is at 60 degrees. And on our forecast on channel 5. We will be sunny and mild. With the temperature at 65 degrees. Overnight lows tonight, from 36 degrees in santa rosa and the sun up tomorrow will be at 7 14 am. For test the forecast highs tomorrow are in the mid to low 60s. Which is still well above average. The winds make it feel a little cooler, but all in all it is not a bad sunday. They will ease up tomorrow afternoon and we will also hit 64 degrees. 65 in san jose. East bay theres not a big change with the temperatures in the low to mid 60s. Up in the north, you will look at sunshine, winds and temperatures about 65 degrees in santa rosa. 64 in petaluma and 64 at the bottom. At mogen park it will be 63 degrees. In the extended forecast, theres plenty of sun ahead, with a slight chance of a drop or two of rain coming in on wednesday. We only flirt with a notion, the theoretical notion of rain falling in the bay area well north of the golden gate on wednesday. And then it turns round. High pressure comes back in and it looks dry all the way through christmas. The extended computer models show this to be one of the driest decembers ever in Northern California and it does not look like it will change between now and new years day. Theres hardly a hardly a drop in site. Yours forecast is straightahead. Nfl up top. Eve of the niners, home start for jimmy garr when you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. Visit kp. Org to learn more. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. Around nfl up top, eve of the 49ers with the home stop start for janine groff low. It is a honeymoon period with jimmy thanks to back to back wins the 49ers have ripped off three of the last four games. What is with groff below taking the field without his helmet . Tom brady does the same thing. That came up this week. Is that it olmos to tom brady . No. Ive always done that. Do you interact away that he interacts with the media . I never really paid attention to that. And the 49ers will teed off with the titans tomorrow and levi stadium. Here on kpix five. Fifth quarter post game show with unusual menu of jeremy knew mae and myself to follow. Saturday afternoon nfl, Matthew Stafford and Alliance Taking on the bears. Third quarter, 133 lions and a look at some more. A yard leaping grab and eric e braun with the lions winning the game 2010. There just a halfgame around the falcons with the final wild card spot. And this is the formation . This college bowl show gets oregon, is the las vegas bowl. How about a onehanded interception antic by arian springs. Late first quarter, Brett Griffin to cedric wilson, and going after that catch. A two touchdown lead. He goes 229 yards. Boise wins that game 38 to 28. Against cal state, pulling off the final second, Daniel Mentzer drives and he scores to tied up. They get into the overtime. He scored 26 and won the game 9589. They go up to 56 for the year. We have Mountain View appear with the division to a f grabs. Speaking about that, look at this catch. Willingham look at that, 32 yards in the Second Quarter play against brennan of cini valley. The twopoint try given the lead here, and theyre about to do it again. Scoring again. Williams went up and got it, extended their lead in the lancers one. Their first ever state title. The final score of 2213. A moment of truth time here, for one San Francisco public high school, which was boldly boldly going where no other city Football Program has ever gone. It is the last of football practice for galileo high school. Crisp, organized and spirited. Coach mark winn got a stingy defense. Anchored by jimmy edwards. A six game win streak on the shoulders of their backs, surehanded receivers, good side lineman, and ec that following green there . That is the quarterback. Thats right. I dont know how he does it. Im back to watching him and i cant figure it out. Youre the quarterback . At that height . All the time. People are asking what team you play for . And i said at the quarterback. And their like really . You cant even see over his offense of line. And get this, he ends as the starting quarterback it every level, since the middle of his freshman year. He doesnt back down. Will manso that the said this was the kid that we wanted. And hes the starting quarterback . I know i couldnt let them down. That is not enough. Galileo is on the verge of becoming the first ever cisco Public School to win a state championship. A six a title game is saturday night. And then the city championship being played was the season. It is the always pack ski and troublesome vincent memorial scots in the way. There is a 6 00 a kickoff in calexico california which is on the mexico border. They got on the bus yesterday, a nine hour bus ride to playing this game. The moving pictures here on the late show. Well be right back. San franciscos tenderloin neighborhood. This morning they got to pick up a full bag of toys. At glide memorial church. Its part of their christmas coming early for hundreds of kids in several ciscos tenderloin neighborhood. This morning, they got to pick up a full bag of toys at glide memorial church. This is part of the annual toy giveaway. Organizers say this year 1200 kids showed up. A lot of fun. That will do it for us here at 5 pm. We will see you back here at 6 pm. The weekend news is next and news updates are always on our website. We will see you at 6 pm. Captioning sponsored by cbs ninan racing to the finish line. With a tax agreement in place, Congressional Republicans promise historic votes next week. Whats inside the 500page bill . And what hurdles lie ahead . Also tonight, hollywoods new commission to fight sexual harassment. Its being run by anita hill, the law professor who once accused Supreme CourtJustice Clarence thomas. The thirdlargest wildfire in california history triggers new evacuation orders along the coast. The former reality tv star challenging putin for his job. From the stores to the internet, retailers are seeing a surge in holiday spending. You like that one . Yeah ninan and a Christmas Tree tradition rooted in kindness