With customers . What are they saying . Will they continue to eat at his restaurants . Reporter right. We talked to a few customers, loyal customers. They say as long as the chef hallowell will change his behavior they will come back. They sale the reasoning for that is because they want to support the workers. They say they should not punish the workers over one mans behavior, especially those workers who rely on those paychecks. And support oakland, too. Da lin, thank you. The man accused of plotting a Christmas Day attack at pier 39 in San Francisco was in court today with his family. Everitt jamesons father declined to talk to reporters after his son detention hearing in frizz sons detention hearing in fresno today. The judge ordered him to remain in the county jail for the time being saying he poses a danger to the community. According to the fbi, jameson told undercover agents he chose pier 39 as a target because hed been there before and it was a place where he could inflict many casualties. According to the criminal complaint, jameson also told undercover agents he was prepared to die. A former pro baseball player will serve a lengthy prison sentence for beating his wife to death. John trasheria admits he killed his wife with a hammer last year in the gated community of black mauk. According to the east bay times two days before the murder his mistress gave him an ultimatum to move away with her or break up. He is 69 years old. He will be sent to san quentin. A man was taken into custody after crashing into a store and leading Concord Police on a chase. Police say 37yearold david gofi tried to run someone over and slammed into the farm bureau market. Benicia police have arrested three women for stealing from riteaid. An employee saw the trio 600 worth of sinus medication and baby formula. Police say they next headed to a cvs where they were tape into custody. In Mountain View a motorcyclist was killed in a crash with a google bus at the intersection of north shoreline boulevard and plymouth street yesterday. Police say the victim died at the scene. The bus was contracted by google to take employees to and from work. Lets take a live look outside right now. We are going to close out 2017 with another gorgeous sunset. Also a winter spare the air alert. Chief meteorologist paul deanno joins us now with more. Weve had a number of these because we have not had rainfall. When we get a ridge of High Pressure sitting over the bay area, we get the pollution trapped at the bottom of the atmosphere and it causes this, unhealthy air quality again for the north bay friday, saturday and sunday, right through the holiday weekend. A spare the air day which means no woodburning in that beautiful fireplace and heres the problem. With that ridge of High Pressure a lack of rainfall. This is the water year since october 1st after such a nice, promising november. What happened . Were down to 39 of average in San Francisco, 33 of average in san jose and less than half of our average rainfall in santa rosa. Coming up a change in the seven day forecast two days with a chance of rain. Well talk about that in a few minutes. Thank you. A bay area city hit with an epidemic of car breakins. They have jumped 26 in San Francisco this year despite the Police Chiefs focus on prevention. Kpix5s sharon chin is at fishermans wharf, one of the hardest hit neighborhoods. Reporter San Francisco saw 91 car burglaries every day in a single month this fall. Justin harris has been a victim. Recently a friend was, too. It was at night like seven cars were broken into at the same time. Reporter in the year ending in october car burglaries jumped from 21,000 to nearly 31,000 according to new numbers from the San FranciscoPolice Department. You think police are doing enough . Not really, no. Reporter and the crime didnt let up even after police chief bill scott disbanded a special Investigative Task force in august to focus more foot patrols on prevention. In fact, car burglaries soared 30 since august to more than 2,800 in october. Police say the increase doesnt mean the chiefs plan is failing. Between october and november the auto burglaries actually trended down by 11 . We are hammering at this as best as we can and its too soon to say whether this is a successful program. Reporter police say theyre dealing with a group of serial burglars and theyve made some arrests including 140 by Central Station in six months, but some drivers are taking matters into their own hands. Theres an sf car breakin twitter handle where victims like this taurus reported his Christmas Eve laptop and tourist reported his Christmas Eve laptop and luggage theft. Starting next week police will launch a Public Service announcement, an Educational Campaign reminding drivers not to leave anything visible in your car that would make it a target. Police will also hand out flyers starting in the ocean beach area, then working their way around the city. In San Francisco, sharon chin, kpix5. Now sharon reports that Police Officers at the Central Station made 140 arrests in six months, but we were unable to find out today how many of them were actually charged. Alabama made it official today. Democrat doug jones won and republican roy moore and accused sexual predator lost. Alabama Election Officials certificate filed the results of this months special senate election. Jones won by more than 21,000 votes. Moore who claims there was voter fraud has still not, but today he issued a statement saying he has no regrets. A live look at the white house where President Trump will meet with congressional leaders next week to talk about the 2018 agenda. This week he has been busy touting the englishments of 2017. Cbs reporter mola lenghi at the white house where hes trying to stay warm because its very chilly. You have a president ial report card for us, mola . Reporter allen, theres something to be said for consistency. For the fifth time during his holiday vacation the president visited his golf club in florida today. The white house would not say exactly what he was doing there. He appeared to be dressed for golf, so that would certainly make sense and in comes after yesterdays really only public appearance during this holiday vacation where he gave his administration somewhat of a year in review and during that review the president s numbers didnt seem to add up. We want to give these people credit for the great job they do. So thank you all very much. Reporter President Trump visited firefighters in West Palm Beach wednesday afternoon thanking them for their service. Old also paused to pat himself on the back he also paused to pat himself on the back. The country is really just a big, big beautiful ship that were turning around. We have signed more legislation than anybody. We broke the record of harry truman. Reporter a cbs News Analysis shows the president has signed more than 90 bills into law since taking office. That number is hundreds fewer than the nearly 700 pieces of legislation that one bill tracking website counts as signed by president kennedy during the same period. President bill clinton and george h. W. Bush also signed more than 200 bills into law during the same time. Mr. Trump also took to twitter taking credit for an 83 increase in arrests for members of the ms13 gang and reducing the number of isis fighters from 35,000 to 1,000 since he took office. Fresh off his legislative tax victory, President Trump plans to hold a strategy session with republican congressional leaders at camp david the first weekend in january. Spokesmen for both Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and House Speaker paul ryan confirmed they will attend. The president is hoping to notch more legislative achievements leading up to the midterm elections. Lawmakers face issues ranging from immigration to the budget when they return to washington. The white house says the president is having dinner tonight at maralago with secretary of commerce wilber ross where the two will discuss trade, job creation and the economy. End mola lenghi, kpix5, the white house. Many homeowners are rushing to pay their property taxes before the end of the year. In san jose today dozens lined up to pay the second installment of their current property tax bill. Typically it is not due until april. People are hoping to take a bigger deduction on their 2017 taxes before the new tax law takes effect in 2018. The county assessor says some people are even trying to pay next years bill. T by making its the law that says you cant pay a tax that hasnt been billed or levied yet and we dont levy those taxes. We dont levy the assessment until july 1st. Tax professionals warn not everyone will benefit by making an early payment. If you are considering it, its recommended you check with an accountant. Coming up lucky to be alive, a group of College Students helps rescue a bay area man stuck on a steep embankment. Jackknifed off the rail. Newly released 911 calls reveal the panic after an amtrak train plunged off the rails in washington state. And how to score major deals on an overseas getaway in the new year. Ge studen closed captioning for this newscast is sponsored by living spaces. A homeless man who fell off a cliff is lucky to be alive thank to a group of south bay College Students. Authorities say the man was setting up camp on the shore of Guadalupe Reservoir in los gatos overnight and fell 10 feet down the embankment. The man suffered a broken leg and several cuts and bruises. He was stranded for hours and turned on his flashlight hoping to catch someones attention. Thats when a group of friends who were home from college driving around in a tesla spotted him. Y from the road. The students called 911. Emergency crews responded and were driving down hicks road and we see a light flashing from over there. So we agree to pull over and then we get out of the car and we hear a guy moan like hes in pain. Very fortunate for them to see him flashing his lights. He was probably 150 yards away from the roadway. The students called 911. Emergency crews responded and rescued the man. He was taken to the hospital for treatment. Tonight were getting an inside look at the moments after an amtrak train derailed in washington state. Three people were killed, dozens more hurt in that crash on december the 18th. Reporter Kevin Mccarthy has the newly released 911 calls. Exactly what caused the crash. Hi. Weve got a 911 call says that the railroad crossing, a train derailed onto i5 and lot of people are dead. Are you getting any calls on this . No. Reporter the first reports were met with disbelief, but soon panic calls started pouring into 911 after amtrak 501 entered a curve near dupont traveling 50 Miles Per Hour faster than the posted speed limit and plunged off the tracks onto interstate 5 one week ago. 911. What is the location of your emergency . I am not sure. We just derailed on the amtrak train going southbound to portland. Okay. You dont know where you are along i5 . I do not. We just left the tacoma station about 10 minutes ago. Okay. Theres a train . Yeah. It jack jackknifed jackknifed off the rails. Theres people all over. Stay with your vehicle. Officers and medical personnel will be there. There are people everywhere. Please help us. Reporter the crash killed three people, injuring more than 100. Some passengers and eyewitnesses on i5 stopped to help. A little girl called 911 after her mother, a nurse, stopped her car to go provide care for the injured. Tell them your mom is a nurse. Do we know how many people are injured . Im in the car. Okay. My mom told me to stay in the car. There are a lot of people helping each other. Kevin mccarthy reporting. Investigators say it could take over a year to determine exactly what caused that crash. Cities in the bay area and around the country are stepping up security for new years eve. In new york city an estimated 1 Million People will be gathering in times square to ring in the new year. While it is a big party, its also a big target after two recent terror attacks. A truck attack on halloween killed eight people. Were putting out more dogs and more observation teams and increasing the size of the uniform detail, too. In Las Vegas National guard troops will join police and federal Law Enforcement to protect the strip. The department of Homeland Security classified this years event as a high threat, that after a gunman opened fire from the Mandalay Bay Hotel killing 58 people. F here in the bay area the San FranciscoPolice Department is offering text message alerts. To sign up you can text nyest17 to the number on your screen right there. Its 888777. You want to get away . You are not alone. More americans are planning to travel overseas next year. A recent survey Found International travel bookings jumped 44 for early 2018. Kpix5s anne makovec takes a look at the travel trends that just might save you some money in the new year. Cbs travel editor Peter Greenberg joining us now to talk about travel in 2018. Peter, lets start with the airline game. It is getting so complicated to choose a flight these days. Reporter it is, but its going to be a buyers market and ill tell you why. Were seeing so many new ultra long haul discount carriers on the International Routes coming into the u. S. Serving markets that may not have been served well before, carriers like Norwegian Air shuttle or volaris or Air Hong Kong going nonstop from los angeles to hong kong for a discount. Recently my assistant flew from los angeles to dublin for 110 on Ethiopian Air on a brandnew 737 dreamliner. All that excess capacity means in the law of supply and demand 2018 may be a very inexpensive year for us to travel somewhere overseas. What about traveling by boat . I hear theres some pretty good cruise deals these days. Reporter right now as im speaking to you, every single shipyard in the world is operating at 100 capacity. Theyre never building more cruise ships than they are now. An overwhelming number of americans have still to take a cruise and with all that excess capacity look for discounted cruises. How about places to stay . Airbnb is becoming really huge worldwide. Reporter they are. Lets look at this in terms of the Traditional Hotels like marriott since its acquisition of starwood. Theyre literally opening up one new hotel every 14 hours. Thats astounding and yet airbnb is also growing. Theyre now controlling about 7 of the room supply globally and where theyre competing is not in the number of rooms. Theyre competing in the types of experiences each is trying to offer to get you to stay there over and above a typical room. So a great opportunity to be a buyers market once again. Cbs travel editor Peter Greenberg, thanks for all the advice and happy travels in 2018. A popular sierra ski resort has been fined 750,000 for illegal dumping. E state state Officials Say kirkwood Mountain Resort dumped asphalt pieces into nearby streams and wetlands. The state says it happened when snow removal crews cleared parking lots and some of the asphalt got mixed in. Kirkwood has not admitted liability. It is currently removing the asphalt from the waterways. If you dont already, you should feel pretty lucky to live in the bay area. Bone chilling temperatures sweeping the northern half of the country, in erie, pennsylvania, they are expecting continue more inches of snow on top of the 5 feet thats fallen already. In new york state firefighters used bulldozers and shovels to rescue a woman trapped in her home by a 6foot snow wall and a bridge got stuck in green bay, wisconsin, because of the frigid temperatures. This is the grand haven river in michigan and plow drivers working around the clock struggling to make roads passable. This is probably the 10th time weve plowed this way and we just keep plowing. Its nonstop, no sleep, worked 36 hours straight. In minnesota this waterfall turned into an ice cave. Temperatures have dropped to 40 below 0 in some cases. A short time ago President Trump tweeted, in the east it could be the oldest new years eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our country but not other countries was going to pay trillions of dollars to protect against. Bundle up. Coming up at 6 00 tonight, apple saying it let its customers down, apple saying sorry for deliberately slowing down some older versions of the iphone. Were live with what apple fans are saying. Tune in monday for a kpix5 special report, the golden state green rush, what to expect when recreational pot becomes legal january 1st. That is monday at 6 30 here on kpix5. You know, theres cold and then theres wow, thats significantly cold. Were getting well into the significantly cold category, not here. Dont worry. Look back east. 13 degrees below 0 in minneapolis saturday morning, 22 degrees below 0. Warren buffett will have the heat on in his house. Im sure its a big house. He lives in omaha. Boston falling below 0. New york city going to 8 degrees. Conspicuously absent from the cold, california and the desert southwest. I know it feels chilly outside, but remember your friends back east. This is not chilly. 56 in livermore currently, 60 in san jose, 56 in santa rosa, oakland 62e did. Your lows over 62 degrees. Your lows overnight, dropping below freezing in fairfield and santa rosa, a few degrees above freezing in concord and livermore, 39 fremont, 38 redwood city. Here is the radar. Were dry once again, but there is building hope next week we may see a change. This week we will not see a change. Theres that ridge of High Pressure. If anything, compared to 24 hours ago, it is now closer, stronger and even though some cloud cover will work its way up and over the ridge we will see the precipitation continue to stay several hundred miles to our north. So the dry pattern continues. Well get some cloud cover heading toward the weekend. Futurecast tomorrow minimal fog, north bay the most likely place. Afternoon partly to mostly sunny. Saturday minimal fog in the morning, still a decent amount of sunshine in the afternoon. Watch some changes sunday, new years eve. Well start getting cloud cover. Well have clouds three days before a chance of rainfall. Well fast forward futurecast to next wednesday. Its a long way away, but its better than where we were yesterday where it looked like it would be next friday before we would see rain. This will be light spread light to moderate rainfall. Rain may return to the bay area as soon as the middle of next week. Thats wonderful news. Areas of fog tonight especially in the north bay. The dry pattern will hold through your holidays, so no need for the umbrella if youre heading out for festivities. The ridge look like it finally will move out next week, which means rain may return. Tomorrow another mild day, mid 60s san jose, 65, napa 64, the high in minneapolis tomorrow 2 degrees. 64 on saturday inland, again on sunday increasing cloud cover, but temperatures dont move at all. On the beach around 60 degrees. Theres the change next wednesday and thursday. Rain is possible. That is your kpix5 forecast. Well be right back. Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. Cityofficials tossed dozens of Christmas Trees into a wood nothing says christmas is over quite like a scene in San Francisco today. City officials topped dozens of Christmas Trees into a wood chipper outside city hall. The chips will be used for mulch or as biomass to generate electricity. The event is meant to remind people to recycle their trees. Naked trees next to your bin between january 2nd and january 12th so that we can collect them and do what we do in San Francisco best. Nothing goes to waste. Everything has a new life and these trees are no exception. Cbs ev next. Last january the city recycled nearly 500 Christmas Trees. The cbs evening news is up next. Here is the preview. Reporter good evening to you. Up next an arctic chill over much of the country wont stop increased security preparations for the new year. Also tonight imagine using just your face to board a plane. What the new tax plan could mean for nonprofit organizations. And a museum that celebrates failure coming up in a few seconds on the cbs evening news. Older versions of the thanks so much for watching at 5 00. Ahead at 6 00 for us tech giant apple apologizes for slowing down some of the older versions of the iphone. Were back with you in 30 minutes. See you then. Captioning sponsored by cbs golodryga new years alert. Unprecedented security as americans ring in 2018. This year, along with those spotters, they will be accompanied by snipers. Golodryga also tonight, the arctic blast turns deadly with frostbite warnings in much of the country. Nsll americans be more stingy to charities because of the new tax law . A huge recall after asbestos is found in childrens makeup. New technology could make boarding passes unnecessary. You can literally go from curb to plane without having to interact with a human being, if you so desire. Golodryga and, the museum that celebrates failure. Colgate wanted to get into frozen foods