And some moderate to heavy rainfall right along 680 into san ramon and heavy rain right now for the south bay. Sunnyvale right over san jose and down 101 into morgan hill. Tracking this rain for you with the storm system with rainfall rates almost 3 4 of an inch per hour. As we head through the day we are looking at mostly cloudy skies and widespread heavy rain tapering off to light scattered showers with mostly cloudy skies. Even catching some sun breaks as well. Delete the heaviest rain right now and tapering off as we go through the afternoon. Drier air sunny weather ahead tomorrow through saturday. We will time and all out for you on futurecast coming up. The Salvation Army is kicking off Christmas Day with some community service. Important Service Today and they are delivering mail to people who cannot leave their homes in San Francisco. Our jackie ward is live this morning at the Salvation Army kitchen with the plans for the day. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Merry christmas. There are 4000 people who really need this meal. And there are hundreds of volunteers showing up bright and early, 5 00 this morning, Christmas Morning, and william is one of those people. What are you doing right now . Unpacking ham. To finish off the process. You guys have a lot going on the is probably dwindling but were getting there. Why are you here Christmas Morning . I am here from sydney, australia, and i couldnt make it back home so i thought i might as well do something useful. Reporter getting up this early on Christmas Morning wouldnt you rather be like in jammies Drinking Coffee or Something Like that . Is a better feeling giving something back. Whats a few hours of work. Reporter are you surprised this many people need these meals in San Francisco . Yes, i am. Were going to the streets is very different here. I thought it would be good to get back to everybody. Know what your perspective on the situation in San Francisco and what we are going to . Its very different. Its a bit of a shock to me. Thats all i can really say. Reporter i need to let you get back to work because you have a lot stacking up. We have spinach and potatoes and green beans. Carrots. Youve got to get back to work. Thank you. Reporter thank you so much, williams. So all of these meals, they are hot and fresh and being delivered in just a couple hours. So, they will be getting hand delivered to the people across San Francisco. Its a really beautiful morning here. Live in San Francisco, jackie ward, kpix 5. That is wonderful. Of course organizations across the bay area will reach out to help those in need today. Glide church is holding its annual Christmas Celebration and free holiday feast in San Francisco today. The church has a primary village mayor london breed joined volunteers dishing out the food yesterday for people in the. Glide serves free meals every day of the year. The church teamed up with prime rib as they do every year to provide the special Christmas Eve these. Around the world millions have been gathering this morning to celebrate the arrival of christmas. Summer ringing in the holiday in traditional fashion while others have their own local flavor on the day. Our reporter Mark Lieberman explains. Reporter from st. Peters basilica in the vatican to bethlehems manger square, christians around the world flock to historic locations for midnight mass. Ushering in christmas. Buckingham palace shared video of Queen Elizabeth preparing christmas putting with her son Prince Charles and Prince William and prince george. Back here stateside, the president and first lady attended a Christmas Eve service in West Palm Beach near his maralago resort. Up north the residence in and politicians in d. C. Gathered at the National Cathedral and in new york state, several tourist had to celebrate outside the church not realizing to reserve a spot ahead they had to submit their name in a letter in september. Were going to get something to eat and try to come back. Reporter elsewhere local traditions kicked off the holiday. Bonfires in garrido, louisiana, with the wait for the occasion father christmas. This year artist created this massive wooden alligator instead of we started doing unique bonfires. Reporter the handsdown winner for the most out of this world celebration has an unfair advantage. The crew of the International Space station. Happy holidays. Reporter Mark Lieberman, cbs news, new york. That iss crews Christmas Care package from earth includes smoked salmon, and hot apple cider. Which i hope they are being very careful with. I think they are. And are having fun. Good to see that. The bay area has its own way to celebrate the holiday plus shopping. Holiday shopping set a record over the weekend. Super saturday sales reach 35 billion. Revenues were boosted by mega retailers including costco, walmart, and amazon. Some supper say lastminute Shopping Trips help them find the perfect gift. Lastminute is more fun because you find things you normally may not be looking for. The National Retail federation predicts nearly 70 of shoppers will be back in stores of the week after christmas. A lot of the making returns. It is 6 06 now. As if the Holiday Travel season wasnt stressful enough passengers at five airports have to worry about possible exposure to the measles. And some lastminute shoppers receiving an early gift at one northern cat mall. While we will introduce you to a grinch who has made it his mission to brighten the holidays. It is an active christmas for us across the area. This morning tracking heavy rain, as well as some isolated thunderstorms kerrygold has a taste so rich it can take you to irelands lush, green pastures. Where grassfed cows produce rich, creamy milk for a truly delicious taste. Kerrygold. The taste that takes you there. Good morning. A thank you for waking up with us on this Christmas Morning. Tracking the rain on hidef doppler taking you to the east bay. You can see light to moderate rain over walnut creek and down 680 in san ramon. Also antioch, brentwood, as well as the byron catching the letter to the day. San jose right now is getting some heavy rainfall right over you this morning. Allen park neighborhood, 70s, campbell, left ghettos, the light to moderate rain as we start your day. We will talk about what you can respect to taking you through the afternoon and how long this wet weather will last coming up. Nurses in Santa Clara County apparently will not be going on strike after a. The Union Representing 3000 nurses has reached a tentative deal with the county. The terms have not been disclosed but nurses have been asking for higher wages and better working conditions. To passengers at five u. S. Airports are being warned about possible exposure to the measles. According to Health Officials and other than the person believed to have been track the disease in europe visited the International Airport in austin, texas, last week, and that same person may have exposed travelers at ohare in chicago, and richmond International Airport in virginia. Doctors say this should be a reminder to everyone to get vaccinated. It is important to remember that measles can be a deadly disease. Immunization remains the best protection against measles and other vaccine preventable diseases. In a separate case unvaccinated children from new zealand likely exposed travelers at l. A. X. And denver International Airport. That happened on december 11. Bad weather is preventing Airline Passengers from reaching their holiday destinations. In chicago officials issued a ground stop for all inbound flights at ohare and midway. Airport yesterday do to freezing fog advisory. And if you are hitting the roads after the holiday brace yourself. Aaa predicts drivers will see the heaviest traffic tomorrow. The rain hitting the bay area today could add to the headaches as the storm pushes east. 6 12 and some volunteers in livermore are hoping they can spread you on this holiday with their annual like this by. Deacon daves Christmas Display has been a staple in the neighborhood for the last 37 years. This year the show features over 600,000 lights and is considered the largest like display in the bay area. It even has a section dubbed proposal bridge. We have had 72 wedding proposals over the years on that bridge. And we have one as recently as four nights ago. Which brought the total to 72. There was supposed to be another one but maybe he chickened out. I dont know. That happens. Each year that display has a different theme of this year it is poinsettia village. To lastminute shoppers at a mall in stockton ended up getting a thoroughly christmas gift. A man in a grinch she showed up and started tossing around bags of cash. Reporter mall madness. Video shows two men one just up as a grinch running around the center court at the mall. I came to the mall on the wrong day but thats amazing. You see some guy with a grinch costume on. Reporter as the family was waiting in line for pictures with santa. There was a lot of money. Reporter carlos does not know who the men are. But started recording. The crowd goes wild for the cash. You can imagine money being thrown around but it was going crazy. Reporter his kids got in on the action. A lot of people went to go get a. Reporter word spread quickly about the mystery grinch and is holiday magic. Video went viral. You dont expect that to happen. Who do you think this grinch is and why is he doing this . Maybe because its to make a christmas more fun. Reporter the man behind the mask is revealing himself. Its me. I was the guy who did it. With a couple of my friends. And we just want to see the smile on your all spaces. Reporter his goal is to make everyones christmas braider. I hope it inspires others to do the same. Get back. Heres he says this is the second year has done this and the cash goes a long way. One family was able to pay for the entire photo shoot with santa last night with the money that they grabbed. We love it. Terry, we love you. Thats awesome. If everyone can just do their part to spread a little magic this season it would be awesome. For sure. Well, were tracking the rain, santa had to deal with that as he came into town last night and we are looking at the wet weather. We have the storm system bringing the rain, heavy rain at times, and you can see some isolated thunderstorms that did drop some small hail. So an active start to our christmas. On hidef doppler you can see some light rain pushing across the bay bridge as well as the east bay, oakland, san leandro, youre getting that wet start as well as walnut creek. 680 and any are getting light to moderate rain, brentwood, byron, and across union city. Fremont and right now the heaviest rain for the san jose area allen park neighborhood, you can see that moderate to heavy rainfall. The orange and red colors indicating that intense rainfall there. Checking rainfall rates, in this area, almost an inch and a half per hour looking at light rain in san jose as well as los gatos and campbell. Theres a live look with our bay bridge camera. You can see the raindrops on our life camera. Temps are running in the mid 40s as we start off the day. Definitely a rainy start with the isolated storms and as we head through the day we will see the widespread rain taper off. The worst of it this morning and then looking at mostly cloudy skies and could see some sun breaks and a few light showers. Dry air, sunny weather ahead tomorrow through saturday. Daytime highs as we head throughout christmas afternoon looking at low to mid 50s. Cool and below average for this time of year once again. There is a low pressure system bringing the rep weather for us. Let timing it out for you on futurecast taking you hourby hour. Even by 8 am we will start to see a few showers so really that rain will start to diminish for us. At 8 am and here we go in the afternoon. Looking at a few isolated showers possible as we head throughout are afternoon and for tomorrow looking at plenty of sunshine for your thursday. Friday as well as for saturday as High Pressure builds in and we will see sunny weather aheasunrise at 7 23 today and her sunsets at 4 56. Daytime highs looking at 52 in San Francisco, 53 in oakland, with the five in san jose, and 52 were conquered as well as livermore and for san rafael. Looking ahead to next week, tuesday night, new years eve, the forecast as we ring in the new year looking at chile temps. Partly cloudy to mostly clear skies. We will see if we catch some fog once again i know that was an issue last year but right now looking at partly cloudy to mostly clear skies as we ring in 2020. Here is the extended forecast. Looking at drier weather thursday, friday, and saturday with the sunshine and another chance for showers will be at the end of the weekend on sunday. And looking at partly sunny to mostly sunny skies next monday and for next tuesday. Now here is andrea with sports. Reporter Draymond Green all he wants for christmas is the warriors to continue their winning streak and so does seattle as they make their way back to the pacific northwest. How much of an impact will Marchand Lynch have on sundays game between the 49ers and the seahawks . Its all coming up. Taking a live look from our to good morning and Merry Christmas to you. Were tracking that rain pushing across the bay area on hidef doppler. You can see for the south bay, were tracking heavy rain from the allen park san jose neighborhood and catching heavy rain right now as well as campbell and then down through 101 into morgan hill. Moderate to heavy rainfall. Here is the wider view putting this into motion. You can see earlier this morning has several lightning strikes across the north bay and that is why we had some small hail for the north day and as we watch a prestigious you can see it weakening a bit. We will talk about what you can expect taking you through your afternoon on futurecast coming up. The news of Marchand Lynch signing with the seahawks have the attention of the 49ers and even they are anxious to see what he has left in the tank. I was kind of strategizing. Hes a heii of a player picked was a real. He was playing and we will see what hes got. Lynch remains consistent in one area and did not speak with the media in seattle today. But did addresses come back in a video posted to his own youtube channel. You know, at my age, you know what i mean, you know, its a great opportunity to come in and help when needed. To my little thing and get out. Hopefully be able to help them go ahead and get to the super bowl. He is ready to cash in on his return. Then he wasted no Time Offering up back in action hoodie for 70 and Unfinished Business t shirts forecast 40. In case youre wondering i dont have my 24 jersey underneath my sweatshirt. Do you want to think you do you think you want to continue playing . Do you know what he wants . I dont. I dont have a clue. The warriors hope the rockets kpix post the rockets and there is not quite the same buildup but golden state is going for their Third Straight win. We win one tomorrow, that is called the winning streak. It has happened before. How sad is this. They beat minnesota last night to win consecutive games for the first time all season. A far cry from the group that won three titles in five years but still satisfying to Draymond Green. Winning a couple games is good for the soul. I never thought i would be so excited for two consecutive wins in my life. For highlight that the game join us on kpix 5 tv later tonight. The invitation from one church is Christmas Morning ring your bible and your dog. Take a look. There is a good boy. He is extending a church invitation that they call pups in the pews. The church is the goal is to encourage more people to stop by the service. We have folks who we have never seen before who will show up with their two teacup yorkies dressing christmas sweaters with ribbons in their hair tucked under each arm and singing a hymn and its just a great sense of joy. Reporter they say it happens on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. All dogs are welcome. Great and small. Yes. Surveillance video catches thieves stealing a donation box matures. How the community is stepping up in a big way after the heart was crying. To hundreds of volunteers are up before the sun on Christmas Morning. They want to make sure 4000 people get a nice ham christmas dinner. A live look outside at the bay bridge toll plaza this morning. You can see the rain drops on our camera there. And not much traffic to speak of. Is a quiet ch live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. A rainy start to Christmas Morning in the bay area. Taking a live look outside at the embarcadero. From our camera on top of the Salesforce Tower cam it is pretty. You can see the light shining in the rain on the lens. Mary will let us know when the weather is going to move out. Plus, how ataxia was trying to make sure students in one Bay Area School district dont go hungry. Good morning. It is wednesday, december 25 Merry Christmas. Im kenny choi. And im anne makovec. It is six already and lets head right over to mary lee for a look at when the rain might let up. Already starting to see that rain taper off a bit after a very active start to our day. We had several thunderstorms that rolled across the north bay dropping small hail, heavy downpours and you can see on hi def doppler some locations still getting that wet weather. It will be a closer look at hi def doppler and you can see some light rain pushing across the east bay over alameda emeryville and oakland. Right now as well as any awk and brentwood. Firing, light rain pushing through. Down 680 into san ramon looking at union city, light to moderate rain pushing into milpitas and also for the south bay. Some light rain over sunnyvale and the san jose area. Allen rock and also some snow showers over the diablo range over Mount Hamilton this morning. As we take you through the afternoon we are looking at mostly cloudy skies. Sun breaks are possible with the light scattered shower as we go through our afternoon. Daytime highs below average in the low to mid 50s. Will time off you taking you hourbyhour on futurecast on your Christmas Day coming up. We have sun breaking news in berkeley right now. Multiple lanes of i80 are shut down following a deadly crash in the westbound lane. This is a live look from a caltrans camera in that area. You can see traffic crawling along and several emergency vehicles are at work. The crash happened just before 5 30 this morning so about an hour ago. Just east of the gilman street exit on 80 and the chp says at least one person died in this crash but no word yet on what led to the collision. A sixyearold boy is in Critical Condition after a Christmas Eve shooting that happened in vallejo. This happened around 6 30 last night near ohio and mariposa streets. We are told that the boy was outside with his family at the time and someone had already driven him to the hospital in a private vehicle by the time Police Arrived at the shooting scene. We are still waiting for more details on the suspects or a motor. In sacramento a mysteries center around the ups truck and even the shipping company the confused. The truck was loaded with packages and sat unlocked for days on the north end of town. According to ups the vehicle is essentially a mobile Distribution Center where drivers can pick up packages without going back to a warehouse. Thats kind of strange to tell you the truth. I mean like, i would not leave a ups truck stopped and that you. It should be locked and there should be a seal on their. Ups says that particular truck is not for use for residential deliveries but so far it has not why it was left unlocked for days. Sin is a church is getting a huge show of support from the community after thieves stole money meant to help children in need. Take a look at the Surveillance Video from saturday at our lady of one lupe. Two people in hoodies and sunglasses walked right in and walked right out with a donation box and nearly 2000 inside the box. The money was meant to buy toys for needy kids. They need god in their lives and they clearly like are wrong in the head. The church set up a gofundme account and more than 8500 has been raised in less than a day. That is far more than what was stolen. Bay area tech ceo once to make sure students in oakland dont go hungry. He has donated 15,000 to cover student lunch that. He says he also hopes to inspire other Tech Companies to contribute to education. In the fall the governor signed a law mandating that alls duties are entitled to lunch at school whether or not they can pay for. Also in oakland a decadesold holiday tradition on Christmas Eve. Police officers loaded up their cars with presence to hand out in the neighborhood they patrol. About 70 families got a special delivery and the officers themselves chose the recipients. You see a lot of children and a lot of families who are less fortunate than others so we say, hey, are you doing Christmas Gifts this year and they say absolutely because we always want to think about the community and children. So they can have a brighter christmas. All of the toys are donated by the officers and the Police Officers association. Im jackie ward live inside the Salvation Army and there are hundreds of volunteers preparing meals, christmas dinner, ham dinners also, a good meal, and packaging them up in these boxes right here. They are getting ready to go and be distributed to all the people across San Francisco today. Look at all these volunteers. Robert came from alameda. He is one of the volunteers. Robert, why are you here on Christmas Morning . Sacrificing the time you could be at home . Well, there are more than a few people without a fresh meal today so just felt like we wanted to do our part. What time did you get here . We got here just before 5 00. Reporter do you usually wake up that time of day in the morning . Not every day. Reporter so what is it about being here that you enjoy so much. Obviously youre not alone by any means. I think it just makes me feel a lot better about Christmas Day. Reporter does it surprise you how much there is across the bay area . Were such an affluent area but there are so many of us who still really need this kind of heii. I know. There is so much more we could do. Absolutely. Reporter how often do you get to do this . Is this an annual thing you do . Or do you come as often as you can throughout the year . I do this once or twice a year. My first Christmas Morning, and it really feels good. Reporter would you encourage other people to do this . Why is that . I think that rather than sleeping in, maybe come out here do your part and you can go home and open your presence. Reporter hopefully you enjoy the rest of your day with friends and family. Merry christmas. Thank you so much. So these are just about all packed up and in an hour or so they will be distributed to various places all across the city. It is pretty impressive because these people have been up basically since weve been awake and we are getting paid for this and they are not pick its really impressive. It is. Helping out everyone. We also have to keep in mind these charities need help we hundred 65 days a year. We can all take a little inspiration from this. Jackie you have shown us some really wonderful volunteers this morning. We appreciated. 6 37. This morning some bay area residents christmas would not be the same for them to complete without a stop at a small shop in san jose. I reporter shows us the tamale factory and hawaii has become a holiday favor. Reporter steaming hot and fresh out of the kitchen, tamales you can almost taste, the tamale factorys tiny storefront in East San Jose has become a big part of many peoples holiday tradition. People come from different towns. Not to san jose. All over. Ive been coming for many, many years and theyre good. Reporter the trick is to preorder pick people lined up early this morning to buy a smaller supply of tamales and quickly sold out. By Late Afternoon people without preorders left empty handed and disappointed. A mistake that donna was not going to make two years in a row. I came over here and they sold out and i was disappointed so this year i got ahead of it and i made an order so here i am. Picking up my order. Reporter back in the kitchen, workers kept churning out french basket of tamales to keep up with the weights of customers coming to pick up their orders. Including first timers like a ralph. There are a lot of good commute tamales in this area but im looking forward to these. Reporter mouthwatering tamales, happy customers and the holidays and the tamale factorys recipe for success. Devin fehely, kpix 5. Heres the good news, if you still want to pick up some of those tamales the shop is open for a few hours today. We dont know how the lines will be the. The tamale factory opens at 9 00 and will stay open until 1 00 this afternoon. This morning some bay area seniors are getting a big helping hand from complete strangers this Holiday Season. How a new program is making sure they get what they truly need. Southern california neighborhood is left with a dazzling display for christmas. White that has you mightve heard that thunder and sena lightning strikes and may have woken you up this morning. With those thunderstorms especially for the north bay getting some small hail. This is one photo from the san rafael hill sent in by a viewer pick he said it will come up to hear the thunder and lightning strikes. Here is hidef doppler and you can see this is the loop. There are several lightning strikes across the north bay earlier this morning. We see lightning strikes there in santa cruz area as well. All of this continues to push off to the east and you can see it weakening and diminishing their pick we will talk about on futurecast what you can expect taking you through the rest of our christmas coming up. A huge force fire near a port city in chile cut celebration sort. Townspeople were evacuated from their homes and a popular Tourist Destination this morning. This was the scene about paris so where the fire started in the nearby hills about 60 miles from the chilean capital of santiago. Officials at least 120 homes have been destroyed and about 90,000 people lost power in the port residential areas. The governor has signed an executive order to protect people affected by the wildfires. The order will band price gouging for another year. That means businesses can only raise prices up to 10 above market rate for a variety of things that includes rent, in nessus is like food, medical and emergency supplies, gasoline, and services from contractors to repair or rebuild damaged buildings. The new rules cover mass and sonoma counties in addition to mendocino and butte countys where there also recovering from a recent fire. A Southern California street filled with Christmas Lights drawing big crowds to marvel at its beauty but some neighbors are getting fed up. The wakefield Winter Wonderland in Santa Clarita draws cal so large that traffic slows to a crawl. Some People Living there and becoming frustrated by the trash that is left behind and they think the attraction is even becoming a safety hazard. People jaywalk. Its really dangerous but you cannot see them pick their winter clothing. You know . One woman was hit by a car and killed last week are causing neighbors to urge the city to do more. Some bay area seniors are getting the christmas wishes granted thanks to the generosity of strangers. It is called the be accepted to a senior program. Kpix 5s jackie ward shows us what its all about. Reporter this is how everyone should deal on Christmas Morning. Childlike with joy and thankful for those who care about them. This is what they strive for. And they teamed up with cvs to help seniors in need who they cant restate today. This year diane evans is one senior who is feeling extra love. I was sleeping in the car and reporter diane says she left new orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit. Then she ended up here. If it wasnt for kerry i would be on the street with a lot of these folks. They have people who have been on the street for 15 years. Reporter Victoria Black is a director of care management. Today she gets to be an elf for the morning. Delivering gifts to seniors like diane truly in need. Missing is a really icily. We dont think about the fact that they are sort of the forgotten part of our population. Reporter this is why trees like this have been at various cvs locations across the city. Decorated with ornaments filled out with request from seniors. What was on dianes list . Baby wipes. I want baby wipes. Thats what we need. Baby wipes. Toilet paper. Toothpaste. Simple things. Christmas time they want to give you hat and gloves, and i have so many hat and gloves. Just getting toilet paper and toothpaste, things we take for granted that we dont realize cost money and are hard to come by. That is such a joy to see that is what is bringing them so much happiness at this time. Reporter for a lot of us it is so easy to be a part of this program. If you want to help next year, heres something to keep in mind. Earrings are nice, but the soap to clean my ears is wonderful. Reporter in San Francisco, jackie ward, kpix 5. The things we take for granted. In the 15 years since the program has been around they estimate more than to make gifts have been handed out to 750,000 people. So, rain is moving in but it was coming down for a while overnight. It was. Several lightning strikes and small hail and heavy downpours. The worst is over so we are watching the rain pushed out and as we head throughout were afternoon looking at a few showers but also catching mostly cloudy skies and some sun breaks later today. You can see on hidef doppler a big difference compared to earlier this morning. Still, tracking some light to moderate jane rain and you can see in the east bay some light showers pushing right over oakland, alameda, down 580, 880 into san leandro as well as that light rain over antioch and brentwood. San ramon this morning, the tri valley, dublin, livermore, milpitas, getting that wet start to the day and a light shower over the east foothills, the hour neighborhood in san jose, and we are talking about a little bit of snow over the diablo range. Diablo getting a wintry mix if not a little bit of light snow showers this morning. Here is a beautiful live look at our Salesforce Tower camera looking east at the bay bridge. You can see the clouds this morning and temperatures are running generally in the mid 40s as we start off the day. Here is a live look at the bay bridge camera, with the raindrops and our rainfall so far, almost an inch of rain in mill valley at 0. 90 as well as a quarter of an inch in berkeley, alameda, 0. 17 in San Francisco and 0. 04 in san jose with the storm system. We have had a rainy morning with isolated storms and small hail especially for the north bay. We had several lightning strikes and thunderstorms pursue your area earlier this morning. As we head through the afternoon looking at mostly cloudy skies and catching some sun breaks. We will see a chance for some light scattered showers as we head through the day but drier, sunnier weather is ahead tomorrow through saturday. Your christmas afternoon forecast, we are looking at daytime highs in the low to mid 80s. Another cool day with below average temps for this time of year. Because of this low pressure system, bringing the wet weather for us, again we are watching things diminish and taper off so as we go hourby hour on futurecast by 8 am a few isolated showers there. As we head through 3 pm we will keep the chance for a few more showers for us but otherwise looking at mostly cloudy skies. Then as we head through tomorrow drier weather with sunshine. For today in the afternoon 52 in San Francisco, 53 fremont, and 52 for concord. Well, looking ahead to next week, tuesday night, new years eve, and your new years forecast first, we will bring in the new years with chili temps. At this point we are looking at partly cloudy skies to mostly clear skies. We will have a better idea as we get closer to it. Thats how it looks at this point. Drier quiet weather thursday, friday, saturday with sunshine and are next chance for showers on sunday. 6 50. During this Holiday Season two families are receiving the gas supply. Kenneth crag explains how the same stranger change their lives forever. Reporter joe doesnt think of himself as a hero. But few people have ever done what he did. Recently donating two organs to two strangers any. Next to becoming a dad, this is the best thing ive ever done. Reporter thats a pretty big statement. It is but its an opportunity that i wish more people had. Reporter joe who lives in maryland wasnt even a registered organ donor when he read a desperate plea for a kidney in an online prayer group. He was so moved he offered one of his to the stranger in new york. Fred who is suffering from Kidney Disease and running out of time. Im kind of overwhelmed. Reporter the donation saved his life. He thinks of joe now as a brother. I never thought that this would happen. Could never have dreamt it. Could never have made the story of. Reporter but the story does not end there. I told people afterwards if i could do it again i would. Reporter and he did. A year after donating his kidney he gave part of his liver to an infant in ohio who was struggling to survive. Rick geist daughter kaitlyn. I thought it was amazing that a person would do that for somebody they dont even know. Reporter they have had the opportunity to thank him in person after the surgery. He has a really, really, really good heart. And his family now. To the transplant was done at Cleveland Clinic using a minimally invasive technique. The doctor helps the medical advances encourage more people to consider donating. You can increase the safety of the living donors and i think that is a very important for the healthy person was thinking about organ donation. Reporter joe is now one of less than 50 people in the u. S. Who have given twice as a living donor. I have connections to people i would not have had any other way. I feel like i got to be part of something so good. Reporter giving the grandfather more time to spend with his family and a little girl the chance to grow up. Kenneth crag, cbs news, maryland. That is amazing. Right now in the u. S. Or than 100,000 people are in need of a lifesaving organ transplant. Taking a live look outside before we head to break. Taking a to jackie ward live in sentences go inside the Salvation Army where there are hundreds of people getting a christmas bill ready. We will take a lot down here. Its tight quarters for we are skipping mashed potatoes and shoveling carrots, corn, peas and green beans. Look like spinach or green there. Weve got hand and then the final deal. Quite an operation. I think they may get a sticker as well. All of these dinners are being put into boxes to be delivered to various locations all across the city of San Francisco. There are 4000 of these dinners being prepare. 3000 prepared yesterday. These are the final ones. Everything is super fresh. They will be delivered to the people across the city. One in four people in San Francisco has food insecurity. Of course that is a 365 day a your problem. So today there are lots of volunteers helping and getting in the spirit of giving back. The Salvation Army was ramming my people that this is something that needs to be brought attention has attention and every single day. If you want to come in and volunteer please come by any day of the year. In San Francisco, jackie ward, kpix 5. It is 6 57 and a time for a look at the other stores. Glide is also doing his part to bring Holiday Cheer in San Francisco. Hundreds of volunteers are going to serve thousands of low income and homeless guest today. They will start up with reckless in about half an hour followed by a big celebration and the christmas feel starts at 1 00 this afternoon. Light also serves primary dinners last night for Christmas Eve. Pope francis offered a blessing for the vatican for christmas mass. He call for and ease of tensions around the world and offered a prayer of hope for human conflicts between countries and within hearts. Breaking news in berkeley right now. Multiple lanes on i 80 are shut down following a deadly crash in the westbound lane. The crash happened just before 5 30 east of gilman street. The chp says one person has died. And drivers could encounter treacherous conditions in the sierra. There warning drivers about the roadways and lane closures. Last night troopers had to hold traffic near soda springs after several cars spun out. With an active start to our day, earlier this morning we had the rain and is tapering off. On hidef doppler we had several lightning strikes and you may have heard the thunder. Especially for the north bay earlier this morning. Now you can see some light showers across the east bay. And for the south bay. Even a little bit of snow up across the diablo range. Over mount diablo. As we head to our afternoon, looking at a few light showers otherwise mostly cloudy skies and maybe catching some sun breaks low to mid 80s. Daytime highs below average. 52 in San Francisco, 53 oakland, 55 san jose, and 52 for concord. The worst of it has already happened and now we are just looking at a few showers possible as you head through the day. Drier weather thursday, friday with the sunshine on saturday and are next chance for showers is on sunday. Thank you. Hope you are enjoying your holiday this morning. Thank you for watching kpix 5 this morning. Was glad you started off your Christmas Morning with us. Cbs this morning is coming good morning to you, its good morning to you. Its Christmas Day. Welcome to cbs this morning. Im gayle king with Anthony Mason and tony dokoupil. Joy to the world. Well show you how 0 people all over the world are celebrating christmas from the holy land to vatican and home. Michael curry visitss studio 57 with the message of hope, faith and goodness of humanity. Country legend vince gail talks about his career and favorite holiday. Singer talks to gayle abou her new christmasal bull. Its good, too. Its wednesday, december 25th on this Christmas Day, 2019. Heres todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds