Good afternoon. I am kenny choi. And i am michelle griego. The train derailed on to i5 in tacoma, washington, south of seattle. Authorities say at least 77 people have been taken to local hospitals. Meg oliver reports on this developing story. Reporter amtrak train 501 was making its inaugural run out of a new station in tacoma, washington, when it suddenly jumped the tracks monday morning, about 40miles south of seattle. Adrian thompson was on his way to visit his mother, working on his computer when the disaster struck. I heard a lot of turning and rocking of the train all of sudden. I grabbed onto the train in front of me. My laptop went flying, phone went flying. People were screaming. It was crazy. Reporter the derailment left cars dangling off the bridge and on i5 below. Dramatic images show cars crumpled on top of each other on the road below the track. We had to kick out the emergency window. The emergency doors were not functioning. There were multiple people injured. Luckily i didnt see anything too graphic or traumatic effect just remember seeing it was sad because a lot of older people were hurt, bleeding and everything. Reporter the Pierce CountySheriffs Office reports most of the injuries and fatalities happened on board the train, not the highway below. The state department of transportation says the south side of the interstate will remain closed indefinitely. Meg oliver, cbs news. President trump had this to say about the accident. Let me begin by expressing our deepest sympathies and most heartfelt prayers for the victims of the Train Derailment in washington state. We are closely monitoring the situation and coordinating with local authorities. It is all the more reason why we must start immediately fixing the infrastructure of the united states. Washington states governor has issue ad state of emergency following the crash. A prominent federal judge in San Francisco is step down after more than a dozen accusations against him of Sexual Harassment surfacing this month. Kpix 5 news Jessica Flores has more. Reporter judge alex cosign ski has served here on the 9 kozinski has served on the 9th court of appeal in fran for 32 years and retired today immediately amid a cloud of Sexual Misconduct allegations. Women have called judge Alex Kozinski says he harassed them. He left a statement saying. The allegations span decades. Heidi bomb was a clerk for the judge from 2006 to 2007 and said he called her into his office several times and pulled up pornography on his computer asking if she thought wit was photoshopped or aroused her sexually. And another woman said in a social conversation the judge said she should work out naked. He said it wasnt just clear he was imagining me naked but my fellow colleagues to do so, as well. That is what was humiliating about it. A conduct investigation was launched last week and the Second Circuit court of appeals is now handling the investigation. It is unclear if they will continue to look into the matter now that the judge is stepping down. In San Francisco, Jessica Flores, kpix 5 news. Turning now to the raging thomas fire causing more devastation in southern california. Parts of the affluentmontcy Doe Community in Santa Barbara affluent Montecito Community in Santa Barbara has been reduced to issue. Thousands of people in and around montecito have been forced to evacuate. It is hard. We had our moments. We have been crying. Words cant explain. The thomas fire claimed two lives including 42yearold firefighter cory iverson. Firefighters and other mourners honored him yesterday by lining the streets for the funeral procession. Strong winds are expected to return on wednesday. President trump delivered a speech today outlining his National Security strategy. Remarks were made at the Ronald Reagan building. The president laid out his America First policy, quoting National Security advisor h. R. Mcmaster and says the plan focuses on u. S. Military and economic strength overseas and President Trump also mentioned the gop tax plan. We are days away from passing historic tax cuts for American Families and businesses. It will be the biggest tax cut and tax reform in the history of our country. The president s strategy focuses on four main thing, protecting the homeland, promoting american prosperity, demonstrating peace through strength and advancing american influence in an ever competitive world. Republican senator john mccain is back home in arizona today after spending several days in a maryland hospital. The 81yearold is fighting brain cancer. He will spend the holidays with his family and will not be on hand for the final vote of the gop tax bill expect this had week. As the deadline for the tax vote approach, lawmakers are speaking out in a last ditch effort to garner support either for or against the plan. Senators say there is no downside to the plan to decrease personal taxes and shrink the Corporate Tax rate but democrats and independence like bernie standers point out the tax rates that benefit the middle class will expire in 2025. Because the benefits for the middle class are temporary while the Corporate Benefits are permanent. At the end of the decade over half the middle class will be paying more in taxes. The treasury secret Steve Mnuchin says he has no doubt the Gopled Congress will pass the bill this week and most americans will see their take home pay grow by early next year. At last count the National Debt was at 20 trillion. Weijia jiang tells us one of the Transition Team lawyers in the Robert Mueller case says mr. Mueller improperly on taked the emails. Reporter President Trump hinted he may agree with one of his lawyers that claimed Robert Muellers special lawyer investigators obtained unauthorized access to tens of thousands of the Transition Team emails. It is not looking good. It is quite sad to see that. My people are very upset about it. Reporter muellers team issue ad rare public denial saying all emails have been obtained with either the owners consent or through the appropriate criminal process. President trump says the emails wont show any collusion with russia and insists he does not plan to fire mueller. No, i am not. No. What else . What, are you surprised . Reporter democrats say the president is trying to discredit muellers investigation into russias possible interference in the 2016 election. You see a concerted effort out of the white house to undermine the investigation. I really hope our republican colleagues will not join in subvert that process. Reporter capitol hill republicans say they will subpoena two former members of muellers team, fbi Counter Intelligence agent peter struck was taken off the investigation after mueller learned he had texted with a senior fbi lawyer lisa paige, then criticizing President Trump throughout the campaign. Weijia jiang, cbs news, the white house. Agent struck led the investigation into Hillary Clintons use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Mispaige completed her details to the mueller team before the office became aware of the allegations. Thousands of Airline Passengers are stuck in atlanta after a massive power outage shut down the worlds busiest airport. An electrical fire knocked out power for nearly 11 hours yesterday at hartsfieldjackson international airport. Power was restored just before midnight, but for much of the day this is what the inside looked like. Thousands of passengers stranded while hundreds more were stuck inside planes waiting for a gate. We were literally carrying old people down the escalators and up escalators and carrying wheelchairs. My heart was racing because i am scared for these peeples lives. We peoples lives. Power outage hit delta the hardest. Atlanta is its main hub. The airport restarted operations this morning with more than 400 Flights Canceled. And the flights are effecting airports right here in the bay area, as well. Kpix 5 news anne makovec spoke with a passenger heading to georgia. Reporter there were five Flights Canceled here at San Jose International art between yesterday and today, but as of this afternoon everything is pretty much back to normal. I feel lucky about it. I think they are doing the best they can. Reporter she is headed to savannah, georgia, through atlanta. When she heard about the power problem there she got nervous. We called in this morning to make sure our flights were not delayed. Reporter San Jose International airport spokesperson says while the impact was minimal, we are lucky this didnt happen closer to christmas. This is sort of the kickoff of the busy Holiday Season and it will get busier and busier as we go. Reporter anne makovec, kpix 5 news. A pair of sealions attack human swimmers, forcing a Bay Area Park to close. When part of the San Francisco bay will reopen. Plus, porch pirates. Thieves stealing packages in broad daylight. How people are fighting back to prevent future thefts. And we are starting the week much like how we will end it, nice and sunny. But in between, days of sunshine. I will tell you about that, coming up. Right outside your front door. Now authorities across the country including here in the bay area are stepping up efforts to prevent these thefts. Theyre setting up bait packages. With gps tracking devices inside. But some people are taking matters into their own hands. One person rigged a box that scares off thieves with a harmless bang. Another placed a special gift from her pets inside a box for would be thieves. Welcome back. In the wake of the Holiday Season and the heightening number of pams being stolen from peoples porches, one woman came up with an idea to frustrate those thieves. I want them to get so frustrated all these boxes they are picking up have poo in them. You can have them delivered to work, a neighbor or amazon lock box in your area if you dont want to resort to those measures. Good idea. The National Park service says it will reopen today after a second swimmer was attack bid a sealion. Both victims are expected to recover. Danger signs are still posted in the area like this one. Still, we spotted swimmers that did not heed the warnings. I do not know what got into the mind of that particular sealion, but i am assuming he is not still around. In any case, i will take it a little more carefully and stay close to the shore. It is unusual for Marine Mammals to attack swimmers there. Marine life experts are working to determine why the animal or animals attacked. That guy didnt even have a wet suit on. That water is cold. He is graduation. But at least it is sunny. It is chilly but at least it is sunny to warm him up. There is a live look at the ocean beach. You can see the sun shining down in San Francisco right now. 55 degrees in santa rosa. San jose 60 degrees. Concord 59 degrees. The satellite and radar shows us why we have this beautiful weather, this High Pressure system sitting here keeping everything nice and stable. But then all these clouds will be falling in line and heading across the coast here shortly, then the low pressure system behind it will bring moisture. We have that ahead. Looking at the futurecast, nice and clear for the afternoon and evening hours. Same thing. By tomorrow morning clouds are starting to get closer in. They start to fill in in the afternoon sky. By wednesday at 2 00 in the morning, give or take the Early Morning hours the showers will start move from north to south. A quick moving shower, though. Then look at this. By tomorrow excuse me wednesday afternoon, the skies will be nice and clear yet again and it will be sunny and beautiful. We will not have a lot of rain. It will be a fast moving storm that will not drop a lot of precipitation, so some things you need to remember, mainly sunny. Highs will remain mild. On tuesday a suncloud mix and a little cooler. Wednesday Early Morning showers and a little breezy weather right behind it because that front will have moved through. Again, just to give you a recap, it will be sunny and beautiful today. Clouds will start to move in tomorrow. Then in overnight hour, early wednesday morning, the rain moves in. You may have a wet commute. Be careful. Sunny thursday and friday. Saturday clouds return to the forecast. Om basic american foods. And we have more information for you today. We are here with a bay area family, food for a bay area family. We have really exciting news. Joining me, brian, jessica and larry from the food bank of contra costa and solano. You have really excising things. What do you have . We are here to represent basic american foods and the contributions we have made to the food bank in the past year. Our president , brian reese, can share the things we have done. All right, brian. Tell us about it. One of our values is called making things better which is the simple concept of giving back to the communities where we work and live. We give everybody one paid day off to go and serve our communities. You can see that adds up over the years. Over the past five years that has added up to over 600 hour, 2. 3 million of monetary and food donations and a million andahalf pounds of food to theme need. We are very proud of it. Reporter when it comes down to it, what Better Company than a food company donating food for bay area families. When it comes to the things you donated, is there anything specific or are you giving it all a. We produce a variety of products. So dehydrated potato, hashed browns and beans. We make a lentilbased pasta. We make them over the course of the year. We had larry from the Contra Costa Food Bank come to a lunch at our offices and told us all about the food bank so that made it one of our favorites. We spend a lot of time and effort there. Perfect. I know you are glad to be giving the contributions as well as the volunteer hours. You can donate any time, at any Whole Foods Market or online. We will be right back after this. Is on. For gifts and holiday this week for gifts and holiday shopping. But as sherry hu shares, for students who face tremendous challenges in their lives, their gifts may not come from the mall, but from the heart. All right, we know the rush is on to stores for Holiday Gifts and shopping. But for this group their gift may not come from the mall, but from the heart. It is a flurry of wrapping paper, scotch tape and bows. Yes, the Holiday Season has arrived. If you live with challenges as these students, rising above scholars, have, you will understand how their spirit of giving is anchored in the heart. I would rather see other people happy than me. I want to give back any way i can. Reporter giving back is exactly what they are doing on this afternoon. Employees from Charles River associates pitched in to buy presents for six families living in an oakland shelter. There is a lot of love and emotion behind it. Reporter the sra students took charge of the next steps and in short time wrapped more than 100 gifts big and small. I know it is hard for them to get what they want, so we are making that happen. I feel good about it. Being able to help others is one of the best things you can do. Reporter teenagers being teenager, they do think about presents, especially when they are wrapping so many. What they want doesnt necessarily come in a box. I dont want or expensive anything. As long as it comes from the heart, this is what you want to give me, that is all that matters to me. My mom makes sure that i know that the holidays are mostly about the love aspect of it, not only just about the gifts and things like that. And with that thought in mind these sra students and graduates give to you their gift for the holidays. I really wish for everyone to get their wishes during the holidays. Learn more about sra and its stories of inspiration by going to our website at cvsf. Com sra. For students rising above, i am sherry hu. Ling time of the year. That story and more at five. All right. We are week out from christmas. How the Postal Service is handling the most hectic miling time of the year. That story and much more at 5 00. And Kensington Palace shared a new family photo. This holiday photograph includes Prince George and princess charlotte. This Time Next Year they will be a family of five. They really are a beautiful family. Pictureperfect, right . They are color coordinated, i dont think you can improve upon it at all. You really cant. Too glut and now the family is focused on the too cute. And now the family is focused on the wedding for next year for harry. You got it. It continues. Have a good day. You could save energy by weaving your own shoes. Out of flax. Or simply adjust your thermostat. Do your thing, with Energy Upgrade california. Liam oh, my god. Were pregnant. Were having a baby. [ laughs ] steffy [ laughs ] congratulations. Ill give you two a moment. Liam thank you. Steffy thank you liam thank you so much steffy this is incredible. This is incredible. Liam im gonna be a father. Im gonna be a dad steffy i i didnt really know i didnt think this would ever happen for us, ever. Liam and yet its happening. Its really happening like, we made a we made a baby like a little baby, like a little new spencer, a precious little baby. 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