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Cold air. First we have to deal with increasing clouds on the way. It wont rain until later tonight and into tomorrow. That is the cold air up there. It will sweep through. Were on the southern edge of it. It looks like a decent snow producer for shasta and truckee. Two and a half inches down below 4,000 feet for tahoe. That kicks in the Winter Weather advisory through 8 00 and 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Snow level up north could be 2,000 feet or lower. Fairfield is 33. And with the cloud cover coming in, it will be a day of high temps in the 50s to the north. A tenth of an inch would be nice. Thats what the forecast models are giving us overnight for the rain. 60s for some. Mid50s for others. 7 01. Alex has been busy. Anything that you want to get to right away . Yeah. It hasnt stopped unfortunately steve. Okay. Want to let people know about a problem in berkeley. This is off of the freeways here. Still a major thoroughfare in berkeley shut down in both directions. That would be san pablo avenue. Closed just south of ashby avenue this morning. Thats because police there in berkeley are investigating a crash involving a pedestrian. A woman was hit by a car. A woman walking along the street was hit by a car there. So they have both directions of san pablo shut down just south of ashby avenue for this investigation. We will keep an eye on it and let you know when the streets in the area do reopen after that investigation. We will move on here and go south from there. And show you a live look at interstate 880. And traffic is still surprisingly enough moving along quite nicely in both directions past oracle arena this morning. You may see a little slowing heading further north from there into downtown oakland. Nothing too bad for this time of morning. Here is a live look at highway 4. And you can see you have some slow traffic. The slowing starts at bailey road. And it continues up and over the hill as you make your way westbound on highway 4 into concord. 7 02 is the time. Gasia, back over to you. Thank you, alex. A San Francisco Police Officer took his own life in the parking lot of an east bay Shopping Mall after being stopped by an officer from another department. San Francisco Police say the officer was the target of an investigation. Allie rasmus is here now. So tell us what we know. Good morning. Reporter well, good morning. According to San Francisco police, this was a nineyear veteran of the sfpd and also the subject of an investigation involving multiple jurisdictions but sfpd would not elaborate what he was being investigated for. He was a resident of richmond. Around 1 30 yesterday afternoon, Richmond Police pulled him over in front of the jc penney in the parking lot. After pulling over the vehicle, the officer heard a gunshot from inside of the car. He quickly retreated back to the police car and waited for help. Once help arrived, they werent able to see the interior of the car. Because the car had window tint all throughout the vehicle. It was difficult to see inside. So they ended up using bean bag ammunition to break the glass. Reporter and at that point, when Richmond Police approached the vehicle, they discovered that the driver, the man inside that sfpd officer, had died from his injuries. Even though Richmond Police never fired their weapons and it is apparent that the Police Officer shot himself, police are still investigating the circumstances surrounding this. They recovered a handgun within the officers car. The Contra Costa County d. A. s office is investigating as well. We are waiting for more information to learn what this sfpd officer, a nineyear veteran of the force, was being investigated for when he took his own life. Back to you guys. Thank you, allie. Federal investigators say excessive speed was one factor in the derailment of the train up in Washington State. At least three died, many more were hurt when the train came off of the tracks in the town of dupont. Many ended up on interstate 5 and others flipped over along the embankment on the freeway. Witnesses quickly jumped out of the cars to help the train passengers. So the trains, a lot of them were tipped over on their side. Some of them the roof had been ripped off or collapsed in. So first two trains that went through, fine. We just walked in. Second train, the wall had collapsed in. We had to actually belly crawl through whatever was there, glass, rebar, whatever was there. Made it through. And it i dont know. It is dark and eerie because there was some deceased people. So i dont know. It was like it sort of felt like war. Wow. There is still confusion over how many people died and how many are hurt. Authorities are still in the early phase of the investigation. It may be months before a final report is issued. In the meantime the nearby city of lakewood tried to stop the train line where the deadly train crash happened. A judge rejected the arguments and the project was allowed to move forward. Today some local Officials Say the idea of a train derailing was never raised. Amtrak operates all over the country, as you know. That includes several routes right here in california. That includes the capital corridor trains that run several days between the Silicon Valley and the sacramento area. A lot of people bimonthly commuter passes. Most of the people that we talked to at the Jack London Square in oakland say they feel safe on amtrak. Ive been riding it for 14 years. Nothing like that has happened. I dont feel anxious about that. You have to think about it. It has to be in the back of your mind all the time when youre traveling anywhere nowadays. The train is safer than driving to work or other means of transportation. Federal investigators looking into a crash last night involving an amtrak train and a semitruck in texas. Union pacific that owns the train tracks says it happened in san marcos. There were 150 passengers on the train going from chicago to san antonio when it hit the truck. A preliminary report from amtrak says no one was hurt. San Marcos Police are investigating. It is possible that the truck became stuck on the train tracks and the driver got out before the collision. It took almost two hours to clear the truck from those tracks. The republican tax overhaul will begin making its way through the house this morning. It is possible the senate could give its final approval early today, perhaps early tomorrow. Doug luzader has more from capitol smile with a few days to spare, it looks like republicans in congress will meet their christmas deadline to deliver tax reform. On the eve of the vote, one of the key architects of the bill was surrounded by cameras. What it means for americans is that april 15th will be this will be the last time that they have to file under this horrible broken tax code. Reporter the process begins in the house where there is some expected Republican Opposition because of the impact on high tax states. Later today it should shift over to the senate where democrats can slow it down but that may be about it. My republican friends are squandering their socalled once in a Generation Opportunity for tax reform on a massive Corporate Bailout paid for by middle class tax increases. When a shame. Reporter senator john mccain will not be here for a vote following brain cancer treatments. That could leave the senate with an odd number, but mike pence will precede over the senate to provide a tie breaking vote if it comes to that. President trump will be poised with his pen to sign it into law in the coming days when he may finally deliver on a legislative achievement. This is certainly a big era to put in their quiver. Half of california voters dont like the tax bill. The poll finds that 51 of california voters oppose the bill. 30 support it. Most people said, quote, only corporations and the super rich will benefit from the changes in the tax system. Our question of the day is how do you think the tax reform bill will affect you . Will you be better off . Worse off . Or are you not sure . Let us know by voting on twitter or ktvu. Com. Also leave comments for us. You can do that on the ktvu facebook page. The time is now 7 09. After a reversal of a 20year ban on pepper spray, uc berkeley may see more changes. The push on pepper spray and the way that police handle violent protests. Do you prefer a window seat over an aisle seat . How to avoid a surprise on your next flight. Slow traffic in many areas around the bay area. One of them would be right here at the bay bridge toll plaza. We will talk about the commute getting into San Francisco and i will tell you about the ride down in san jose as well. The time is 7 12. New this morning, Berkeley Police are at the scene of an accident. The hit and run happened between san pablo and folgers avenue. A woman was hit by a car and taken to the hospital with serious injuries. There is a lot of Police Activity in the area. The intersection remains closed as the Investigation Continues. Tonight the Berkeley City Council will vote on whether to repel a law that allows Police Officers to use pepper spray. The City Council Approved the use of pepper spray by Berkeley Police back in september in response to several violent clashes by extremist groups in the city. But the citys Police Review Commission Says it is concerned that the spray could have, quote, severe and longlasting health effects. Both berkeleys mayor and police chief support the use of pepper spray. The white house took down a website that hosts petitions to the federal government so that website can be revised. And they say it will be back up late last month. The we the people website was launched by president obama in 2011. The white house says all of the existing petitions will be restored when the website is back up. The government is supposed to respond to any petitions that get more than 100,000 signatures. So far, the Trump Administration has not responded to any of them. The white house says it will start responding to the petitions once that website is relaunched. Well, President Trump has removed Climate Change from the list of worldwide threats. Russia and china are identified as rivals in constant competition with the u. S. But made no mention of what Scientists Say are the dangers posed by Climate Change. That is a big change from the Obama Administration that called Climate Change an urgent threat to our national security. Happening today, the Alameda City Council will develop a new redevelopment project. The term knowledge site on the north shore of alameda was used to store shipping containers and it overlooks the oakland he estuary. They have parks and retail space planned in the area. Sal is off today. But we have alex savidge watching the toll plaza and everything else. Alex. Good morning to you. The east bay ride has gotten tough all of a sudden here. I want to show you the ride here at the toll plaza, the backup, i should say at the toll plaza. It is significant. Its backed up well through the maze at this point. So at least 20 to 25 minutes trying get through the pay gates. Let me put up the maps. Ill show you the east bay. Just trying to get over to the maze, westbound 80 is backed up solid from about richmond all the way over to the toll plaza itself. Fortunately once you get past the pay gates and on to the span, the bay bridge, the ride across the bay bridge actually looking pretty good getting into San Francisco. Finally we will head south here and show you a live look at the san mateo bridge where there is very slow traffic in the westbound direction just when you get past the toll plaza, its going to be bogged down all the way over to about the highrise. And then it frees up over towards the peninsula. 7 16 is the time. Steve is here. And going to be another cold one. It is indeed. But at least we have rain on the way. Not much. It looks better for snow than rain. Another reinforcement of cold air coming in. With the days short now, it is tough to warm up. Especially with the cloud covers in with the lows. You see the increasing clouds. Nationally not much is going on right now. I mean i know it is 30s and 20s and 40s. Even 50s and 60s to the south. The main message though is a huge drop on these temps. Christmas eve, Christmas Day throughout much of the great lakes. In fact, windchills from 30 to 50 below. Many areas been getting above zero. If you are traveling in that direction, be advised it will be brutally cold. There is rain coming through texas and the deep south. The system that is visiting us, once it moves across the country will be a huge snow producer. San francisco had. 02 on the 2nd. Were close to the average. 73 the record lie in 1999. We could use rain. San francisco is now 46 for the water year. Oakland, 56 . San jose at 39 , with only an inch and a half. The sierra snow water equivalent is not much better. 29 percent. Is there any good news . Yes. We will get a little bit of rain. They will get okay amounts of snow. This is a rather vigorous system. The bulk staying to the north of us. Cold air slides in behind the system. The sierra is looking for two to six inches of snow. Snow level down to 4,000 feet. Up above the passes, 6 to 10. Even snow levels will be to the north. Winter weather advisory starts at 8 00 tonight and goes through 1 00 tomorrow. For the shasta area towards the oregon border there is a winter storm warning. 30s on the temps. Fairfield is 33. 35 in sunnyvale. Livermore at 35. With the increasing clouds coming in from the north, there will be some locations that wont get above 54, 55 today. 38 for napa and american canyon. 16 in truckee. 36 in sacramento and ukiah. One system kicks out and another one is on its way. Thats the one were focusing on for tonight. Increasing clouds throughout the day. Cloudy by this afternoon. Late tonight, early tomorrow, we will get light rain here. Then the cold air comes in wednesday night and thursday. About a tenth of an inch. Forecast models has been consistent on this. We will take whatever we can get rainrise now. After christmas, there are hints of things changing a little bit. And gasia, rain finally. A little bit. Not much. Tomorrow morning, we will have some. And then get ready for cold. Okay. Well set our alarms ten minutes early tonight. Thank you, steve. Is your phone number on the national do not call list . If youre getting more and more spam calls lately, youre not alone. Where you will find the most complaints. Also, could apple be slowing down old iphones when a new phone goes on sale . We will show you what happens when you replace your old phone with a new battery. For mildtomoderate eczema . It can be used almost everywhere on almost everybody. The arm of an arm wrestler . The back of a quarterback . The face of a fairy . Prescription eucrisa is a nose to toes eczema ointment. It blocks overactive pde4 enzymes within your skin. And its steroidfree. Do not use if you are allergic to eucrisa or its ingredients. Allergic reactions may occur at or near the application site. The most common side effect is application site pain. Ask your doctor about eucrisa. If youre getting ready to take a flight this holiday season, dont assume that youre getting a window with your window seat booking. The airlines are now revealing why that is a case. A recent blog explains specific window seats on certain planes dont have a window because of the air conditioning system. The airline says to avoid seat 9a on its boeing 737 800 planes and seat 39a on the air bus 330 200s. This phenomena has fawned the hashtag where is my window on social media. They should call it something else. They probably will. Alarming findings about why your old iphone may be slowing down. Pam cook is back with the money business. Pam. Good morning again. Who will benefit from the new tax overhaul, wall street likes the plan that could be finalize this had week. It has been quite a rally. One stock to watch when the bell rang this morning, regulators are looking at met life after the Insurance Company admitted to not paying pensions to thousands of retirey s retirees. The dow jones is get being very close to 25,000. Today, a little bit of a downside there. Live look. Do you jones down about 20 points to 24,774. The nasdaq and s p 500 slipping a little bit as well. Analysts believe that the nasdaq could test the 7,000 mark for a little bit. The dow has already done something that it has never done before. The dow jones has lined more than 5,000 points in a calendar year. Analysts say the boost is certainly being powered by wall streets reaction to the republican tax overhaul plan which cuts the top Corporate Tax rate from 35 down to 21 . Well, if you think the number of spam phone calls you have received have increased, you are correct. They have almost doubled across the country. According to the ftc, this year there have been more than 7 million complaints about violations to the u. S. Do not call registry. That is double the number of complaints in 2015. New jersey has the most, followed by delaware and florida. California is 26th on the list with more than 824,000 violation complaints. Well, a new report suggests that apple reduces the speed of old iphones as batteries wear out. A Company Collected information from test runs on thousands of iphones and it determined that replacing the battery in an old phone will not only make the phone last longer on a charge, it may also boost its speed. This plays into the Conspiracy Theory that apple slows down old phones to encourage customers to buy new iphones. So very interesting. I hear a lot of people kind of thinking that when you all of these updates that we do as well slows down the phone. Some people thinking it is conspiracy. Some people say the phone is now more full than what your memory can handle. Interesting. It is very interesting. I think we will hear more about this. We will look into it. Thank you, pam. Thank you, pam. The ntsb confirming now that amtrak train in Washington State was going well over the speed limit when it derailed yesterday. Coming up, we will take you back to the scene and get an update on the investigation and find out why a piece of Safety Technology was not being used. Reporter we will tell you how a city on the highway 4 corridor will be using cameras to track down freeway shooters. That story is coming up. And were seeing lots of slow traffic around the bay area this morning. And a couple of crashes were keeping an eye on for you that could impact your commute. We will tell you about the ride into San Francisco and also the commute in the south bay as well when we come back. Well, a nice sunrise here with increasing clouds. I dont think we will see the sunset. It will be too cloudy because of actual rain. Yeah. Rain is on the way late tonight. At least three of the 85 people on board the train died. Many others were hurt. Caroline shively is near the crash scene in washington to tell us what investigators will be looking for today. Reporter hi. The first thing they found was the black box in the back of the train. Thats how they knew about the 80 Miles Per Hour speed that the train was going, in a 30 Miles Per Hour area. They need to do crew members interviews. 80 people they want to talk to them. What did they feel . Was there in i swaying to the left and right . Did it feel like they hit something . So many questions that they will be asking them as well as eyewitnesses from below. No one was killed on i5 southbound but they certainly saw this train crash. In fact, they jumped from their cars with their emergency kits and helped patch up the people who were kicks through windows, prying open doors, trying to get to safety. Caroline, this crash has reopened the debate over automatic speed governors on trains. Is that being talked about there where you are . Reporter absolutely. The ntsb has been hitting this one for years. The technology has actually been out there for 45 years, gasia. Since 2015, thats when it was supposed to be made federally mandated. Congress put it in place. The railroads pushed back. This will be 22 billion over 20 years. We simply cannot afford it. They pushed it back a couple years. Now it is supposed to be implemented in 2018. The ntsb after an enormous crash in 2015 says it could have been prevented if we had one of the speed governors. Were going to be in the same spot. Fatalities were caused because the speed indicator was not in place. Was that the case here . It is too soon to tell but it is one of the questions that theyre asking this morning. There is confusion about how many people died and were hurt. Can you give light on that . Reporter you got it, dave. This was a big question yesterday. I think the mistake came out. That number jumped to six in the afternoon, that six people were killed. That was a person who was briefed on the information. Came out yesterday afternoon. It appears that that number was wrong. They rolled back the number to three. Most people were hurt so badly that they were hospitalized. Some are in serious condition, in critical condition. I am afraid to say that we could see the death toll go up. It is certainly too soon to tell. Caroline, i know it was raining hard at the time of the crash early yesterday morning. It may be raining there now. Is there any chance that weather played a factor in this . Reporter thats a great question. Thats one of the things that theyre looking at. Its rainy seattle. Rainy tacoma. Theyre used to a lot of water on the tracks. It doesnt appear that way. It couldnt have been standing water because the dress l is elevated. It is definitely making the cleanup and the investigation much harder. The rain is coming down hard, sometimes sideways. You can occasionally see the folks. You can see them on the tressle. They are trying to piece this together. It is being slowed down by the horrible rainstorm. Thank you for the update. Caroline shively in Washington State at the crash scene. Thank you. 7 33. Were expecting rain of our own. Nothing to that degree. At this point, we will take anything that we can get. She said it is raining hard here. We havent seen that in a bit. Yeah. We have some on the way later tonight and early tomorrow morning. Not much but we will take what we can get. Someone named allie rasmus. Ive heard of her. She wont leave me alone. A nice young lady. Good morning, richmond. Clouds on the horizon. A sign of something to come . My plants need rain. I think everybody does. Not this morning but later tonight as the system moves in. Cold air associated with it. It will be wednesday night and thursday. The wind will pick up. The big news is it looks like an okay snow producer. Not great. Not a couple feet but at least two to six inches of snow. So Winter Weather advisory is out until 1 00 tomorrow. It starts at 8 00 p. M. Different scenario and different story near shasta. 30s on the temps. 40s. With the increasing clouds, we will be hard pressed to warm up much here. Upper 30s, mid30s for some, to even low 30s. I would not be surprised if some stay in the low 50s for highs today. One system is moving out and the next system is moving in. That will give us rain but not until late tonight. Highs in the 60s on the temps for a few but 50s for others. Get ready for rain late tonight and into tomorrow morning. All right, alex. You know, steve. You have been busy. We have been busy. And the commute in the east bay has been a tough one, especially along 80 this morning. It still continues to be a slow ride. I want to show you a live picture of the camera that shows the east shore freeway coming through berkeley. Still slow traffic through berkeley. In the westbound direction interstate 80 is backed up all the way to richmond to cutting boulevard. Im not showing any crashes along that stretch of freeway right now. A lot of people making that drive trying to get towards the maze. We will show you now a live look at highway 24 where im seeing things ease up just a bit. A lot of people hit the road about an hour ago headed westbound into the walnut creek area. Now things are easing up a bit. You will see a pocket of slowing coming through orinda. Finally in the south bay, this is a live look at the big picture down there. You can see slow traffic northbound 101 leaving downtown san jose and up into the sunnyvale area. Also the chp is working on a crash on westbound 237, right at matilda. An accident involving a motorcycle there. That could potentially slow you down this morning if you are heading into sunnyvale. 7 36 is the time right now. Gasia, back to you. Thank you, alex. After a series of freeway shootings, the chp will get a new tool that may help them from happening in Contra Costa County. Christien kafton, these cameras are aimed at catching the freeway shooters. Reporter thats right. The City Council Unanimously approved the cameras. People around here that we talked to say they like the idea. They should. Especially going through highway 4, theres a lot of theres a lot of shootings. You know. So we should get more cameras, more more Police Presence here. Reporter the system is aimed at providing officers realtime information as shootings occur. By late spring, early summer of next year, the new system should be up and running on interstate 80 and highway 4 here in Contra Costa County. Now, you may well remember that there have been dozens of shootings in the past few years. In all, eight people have been killed. The system will be installed along interstate 80 and highway 4 from Richmond Hercules and all the way to antioch. When a shot is spotted on the freeway, the camera will turn in the direction of the gunfire. And then shot spotter will send an alert to our task force commander. Reporter so as you can tell, theyre looking at an integrated system involving lots of different systems. The project received 3 and a half Million Dollars from the state to get started. Now supporters will be looking at grants to keep the program going. Thank you. Christien. We know the name of a Police Sergeant accused of firing a gun at a hotel over the weekend. We learned that Sergeant Phillip sanchez, a nineyear sanchez is accused of firing numerous shots inside of the hotel 5 00 sunday morning. The sergeant wandered around and spoke of spirits. He later surrendered peacefully. His Attorney Says the sergeant had a Mental Health episode. Sanchez was taken to a hospital to be evaluated and has since posted bail. He is facing four felony charges, including discharging a firearm. I believe the officer is doing okay. Considering what occurred. And were just happy or glad that relieved actually were relieved that no one was hurt in the incident. A former coworker and the sergeants attorney tell ktvu that the incident is out of character for him. He has received awards during his career. He could Face Criminal Charges in San Francisco and disciplinary action by Richmond Police. The time is 7 38. We have an update to a story from san ramon. Four teenagers were arrested on the suspicion of firing flare guns at homes and cars over the weekend. Homeowners gave Surveillance Video to police of some of the incidents. Right there. The four suspects are between 15 and 16 years old. They were booked into Juvenile Hall in martinez for identifying into occupied homes. Investigators also found a car used during the attacks and the 12 flare guns were inside. In the meantime 20 suspicious fires all of them along interstate 680 in san jose during the past week are under investigation. Authorities suspect arson. Almost all of the fires broke out in the corridor along interstate 680. On sunday, a shopping cart was set on fire, right near the capitol offramp. Witnesses saw someone on a bike carrying a torch. Police detained someone but that person was later release. San jose police are investigating a robbery at a walgreens store that ended with a security shooting a man inside of the store. This happened at the walgreens on south first street at santa clara street just before 8 30 last night. Police were called to the store after the guard fired his gun. When they arrived, they found a man on the ground with a potentially life threatening injury. He was taken to the hospital. Theyre not releasing his name or any information about his condition at this time. Police say the Security Guard is cooperating with the investigation. A teacher at a school in the south bay is facing even more allegations of sexual abuse. Coming up at 8 00, what we may find out today when another former student is expected to come forward. And the warriors spoil kobe bryants special night. His halftime ceremony and the exciting finish in overtime. It was a great finish. Good morning to you. Keeping an eye on the roadways this morning for you. We are seeing a lot of slow traffic, especially in the east bay along interstate 80. We will tell you how this commute looks as you try to make your way into San Francisco this morning. A little bit of morning sun. Also increasing clouds throughout the day. It finally looks like rain will make it here. More importantly, snow up in the mountains. More on that coming up. 7 43. Were following breaking news in concord. We will bring you a live picture of a two alarm house fire. Fire crews are there. Authorities just confirmed to us that one person has died in the fire. This is the scene near clayton road. You can see a number of emergency vehicles. You can also see smoke rising from the scene. We do have a crew at the scene to bring you these live pictures and working on getting us more information on how the fire started and hoar about the one more about the one person who is confirmed to have been killed in the fire this morning. As soon as we get it, we will bring it to you. San franciscos Asian Community planning its own tribute thursday night to honor the late mayor ed lee. It will be held at 5 00 p. M. Thursday night at the square in chinatown. In the mean type, the San Francisco medical examiner confirms now that mayor lee died of a heart attack. He collapsed a week ago while shopping at a Safeway Store and later died at San Francisco general hospital. Ed lee was San Franciscos first asianamerican mayor. He was honored on sunday at a public memorial at city hall. His family, friends and colleagues described him as humble and full of integrity. A special election to finish out mayor lees term in office is set for june 5th. Ranting mayor london breed has not announced if she will run for mayor. If she does, she will be following mayor lees footsteps. He was first appointed mayor when mayor newsom game Lieutenant Governor. He went on to win two elections. Among the six candidates so far, two are considered household names. Mark leno and angela aleaodo took out paperwork to run. The winner of the june special election then serves out the rest of the term which ends in january 2020. The time is 7 45. The lakers retired not one but two of kobe bryants jerseys last night during halftime in the game against the warriors. He won five nba championships. He wore the number 8 but changed to 24 before the 2006 season. Kobes family and franchise favorites there celebrating the future hall of famer. Here is what kobe said at halftime. Hopefully what you get from tonight is the understanding that those times when you get up early and you work hard, those times that you stay up late and you work hard, those times that you dont feel like youre working, youre too tired and you dont want to do it but you do it anyway. That is actually the dream. Thats the dream. It is not the destination. It is the journey. Thank you, guys, so much. I love you. There were nine retired jerseys of lakers in the rafters. Now kobe makes it 10 and 11. As for the game itself, the warriors and lakers needed overtime to decide the winner. Here is ingram. Blocked and then tossing ingraham while laying on the ground. Jordan bell had a monster block and ingraham went to the locker room with an injury but came back. They were up by four points but the lakers tied the game and sent it into overtime. Thats when kevin durant steps up with the gamewinner. Durant. Durant wants all the screens to go away. Got it. Y. Got it. Kevin durant had 36 points. Ball would get a shot off at the end but west blocked it at the last second. The warriors won 116114. Theyre coming home and will host the Memphis Grizzlies tomorrow night, that is the most insincere sorry kobe that i have heard alex savidge say earlier. That is true. Sorry. Not sorry. Right. You know, boy, kd did his best kobe impression at the end of the game. That was paying tribute to kobe. A fantastic player. But we certainly are not sorry around these parts that the warriors came out with the w last night. All right. The traffic situation for you, you know what, youre not winning necessarily. If this is you sitting here in this backup at the bay bridge toll plaza right now. Its been a tough ride getting from the east bay and into San Francisco. You have a severe backup all the way through the maze and the backup is extends all the way to richmond, interstate 80 at this point. This is one of the big trouble spots here in the bay area this morning. Beyond that, were doing relatively well. Ill show you the drive on the san mateo bridge where you are going to see a bit of slow traffic headed westbound across the span just past the toll plaza. It frees up about halfway across the bridge. Finally here is a live look at our maps. Check out the maps right there. The driver through the livermore valley, it is a pretty good one. Youre going to be slowing down just a bit coming over the altamont pass. Headed west on 580, no issues coming through livermore or dublin here at 7 49 in the morning. Steve. Yes, sir. Once again good morning to you. Yes, sir. For the uppteenth time. Chloe has outdone herself here. 35 in clearlake under mostly cloudy skies. Yes. Increasing clouds coming in. You will get raid on the way. Maybe even this evening up there. Thank you, chloe, for that. Today 59. What is average . 57. Pretty close. The record 73 in 1999. Oh, we could use rain. Are we going to get some . Yes. A little bit late tonight and tomorrow. San francisco 46 for the water year. San jose is only 39 . We will add a little bit to this. The sierra as well could use precip. Not much. In fact, the southern sierra is only 8 of normal. Some snow looks to be a better opportunity for them than rain for us. We will still get rain. A lot of cloud cover on the way throughout the day. Increasing clouds and more morning sun. By this afternoon, it will be cloudy. A strong system, rather dynamic with a lot of cold air with it. The forecast for snow isnt too bad. Two to six inches at lake level down to the 4,000foot level. The pass, 7 to 10 inches of snow. The Winter Weather advisory is out. Winter storm warning, winter storm watch for some. Snow level 2,000 feet or lower near the oregon border. That is a much colder system for them. When the days are short, it is tough to warm up when the cloud cover comes in. Thats why the 30s will give way to 50s at best. You see the system coming out of new mexico, producing good rain in texas. Our system is on the way. Look for a cloudy to mostly cloudy day today. Rain develops late tonight. Overnight into early tomorrow morning. By a. M. Tomorrow, it 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow, it will be gone. Then the colder air comes in wednesday night to thursday morning. The forecast model has been consistent on that. Lets hope it holds because nothing until later next week. Upper 50s to low 60s for most. It looks like a pattern where we get one and done. But watch the cold air coming in. Thank you, steve. Youre welcome. The time is 7 51. Have you mailed your holiday packages yet . Coming up at 8 00, why the deadline clock is ticking and why many Delivery Services are having a hard timekeeping up with the demand. A bay Area Business owner just got punished for selling illegal fur. We will tell you her plea deal and her explanation of what happened. My wish was a clubhouse, but we call it the wish house. People visit National Parks from all over the world. Food tastes better when you dont have to cook it. He was just supposed to be my dog. I dont know why. vo were proud that, on behalf of our owners, the subaru share the love event will have donated over one hundred fifteen Million Dollars in just ten years. Get 0 financing for 63 months on select models. Plus well donate 250 to charity. 7 54. We want do get you up to speed on breaking news were following. A deadly house fire in concord. Crews are at the scene of a two alarm fire. One person has died. This is the scene here. Still active on coventry road near clayton road. You can see a number of crews have essentially blocked the street. We see smoke rising near the center of your screen. And were going to stay on top of the story. There are so many questions, including, number one, how did the fire start. And certainly were working to learn more about the person who died in the fire and perhaps if anyone else was inside of the home that was able to get out safely. We will have more for you in the 8 00 hour. Down south to the thomas fire. It has now covered 424 square miles. It grew by another square mile overnight. It is inching to becoming the biggest fire in modern california history. The record 427 square mile. It is now 50 contained. It could take almost three more weeks to completely contain the flames. Firefighters say today will be a critical day because strong santa ana winds and the sundowner winds are expected to kick up again tomorrow. There could be new aid for the victims of the wildfires, including those in the north bay. Republican leaders in the house unveiled a new 81 billion disaster aid measure. Most of the money would help fire survivors and their families as well as victims of the hurricanes in florida, texas and the caribbean. Some of that would also go to prevent disasters, including flooding from even occurring. The owner of a San Francisco vintage Clothing Store has entered a plea deal for selling the fur of endangered animals. She pleaded no contest and was sentenced to three years probation. Back in march, undercover wardens seized clothing made from endangered animals. Every Single Agency wrote me a positive letter and said im not one of the bad guys here. And if anything, this is just ignorance of the law, change in the law, and unintentional. Hanson says she was not aware of a state law that went into effect last year that made the sale of any endangered animal parts illegal, even on items made before 1973 which were previously okay to sell. Our time is now 7 57. Were following developing news in berkeley. We will tell what you were finding out about a crash that involved a vehicle and a pedestrian and it shut down the roadway. Reporter a San Francisco Police Officer takes his own life during a traffic stop in the east bay. Now Police Confirm that the officer was the subject of an investigation. What we know about the case coming up. Well its a perfect nespresso hold on a second. Orge. Mmm. [mel torme sings comin home baby] hey there. Want a lift . Where are we going . No dont tell me. Let me guess. Have a nice ride. How far would you go for coffee thats a cup above . I brought you nespresso. Nespresso. What else . A pedestrian is rushed to the hospital after being hit by a car in berkeley this morning. What were learning about the Investigation Underway and the search for the driver. We will have the latest on the deadly Train Derailment in Washington State. And how much speed played a factor in the crash. Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to mornings on 2. It is tuesday, december 19th. Im mike mibach. Im gasia mikaelian. More on the breaking news out of concord. A deadly house fire this morning. Crews are at the scene of a home in the 1400 block of coventry road, close to clayton road. One person has died in the fire. We are looking into the circumstances of the fire and anything that we can learn about the victim. We are bringing you the live pictures. It is a congested scene. There is smoke rising from the home. We dont see any active orange flames but the investigation is just beginning as we get more information on this deadly house fire in concord, we will bring it to you throughout the morning. Federal safety investigators say speed was a factor in the deadly Train Derailment in Washington State. At least three people of the 85 on board the train died. Many others were injured. Caroline shively is live in dupont, washington near the crash scene this morning. Caroline. Reporter hi there, gasia and mike. You can see the difference between both sides of the i5. This has been humming northbound overnight. On this side, it is still shut down. We have seen a little bit of movement. The crane moved at least one of the train cars since we have been here over the last hour. They are trying to get i5 back open but they also want to get to the bottom of why the train derailed early yesterday morning. Caroline, can you tell me i see the traffic is flowing on 5. What is the rail corridor situation there in Washington State . Reporter you can see this is thats a great question for the rest of the state. They have the this is a new chunk of it. The rest of it goes by puget sound. The older slower way is still open. This was a reroute around it. That is an old train up there. It had been retrofitted for the heavier trains, the speedier trains. They are not traveling through this chunk of railway right now. I have a couple of questions. One about the train engineer. Has that individual been interviewed by federal investigators . If not, maybe how injured the train engineer is . And that could be a possible reason for the delay in being interviewed. Two, when airplanes crash, we talk about the black box. Has there been a data recorder retrieved from the crash site there . Reporter also great questions. The ntsb when, i interviewed them this morning, as of two hours ago, they had not talked to any crew members. There were five crew members there on board. They hadnt talked to the engineer yet. Big question, was he was he trying to decelerate . Was he accelerating . We know that the speed was 80 Miles Per Hour at the time of impact, when the train derailed. 50 Miles Per Hour faster than the speed limit on the curve. They hadnt talked to him as of two hours ago. I dont know if it is because of injuries or why that had not taken place. I would think that you would ask him questions immediately. There were two black boxes on the train. They were able to get to one in the back of the train on the locomotive that had not derailed. You can see movement behind me as we speak, guys, some of the bigger engines, the bigger trains coming backwards on the southbound lanes. Were not sure where theyre headed out. But as we speak, the black boxes, one has been recovered. Thats where we found out about the speed. The second black box is on the front of the speed. As of this morning, they had not pulled that one out yet. I sat next to the man who is in charm of looking at the data recorders. He said there is much to be learned once he gets his hands on the data and he can learn more on what assed the derailment. Thank de he can more learn on what caused the derailment. That was Caroline Shively in Washington State. Looking forward to a high in the mid50s today. High 50s to many in the north. We will get some rain out of this. Not a lot. Maybe a tenth out of it. That is it. Up into tahoe, snow will be coming down and down. Down to lake level, down to 4,000. Winter weather advisory starts at 8 00 p. M. Tonight. If you have to travel, earlier you go the better so you dont have to deal with it. 30sand 40s on the temps. When you get the cloud cover coming in this time of year, there is not a lot coming in. It is hard. Could be a little more to the north. 50s on some of the temps to the north. Upper 50s, low 60s to the south. 8 05. Man has been busy since the 5 30 hour. It has been a busy morning, steve. Thank you. I want to give you an update on a crash we told you earlier on mornings on 2 that happened on surface streets in berkeley. Officers investigating a hit and run crash involving a pedestrian. It happened at san pablo avenue and folgers avenues south of ashby. A woman was struck by a car and had to be rushed to the hospital with very serious injuries. Police are now looking for the driver who hit the woman. That person left the scene here. That road we can tell you san pablo avenue, that is, it was reopened after being closed for a number of hours this morning. Both directions of san pablo aof are now back open to traffic. We should also point out that ac transit buses are no longer being detoured through the area. We will move on and show you a live picture of interstate 880 in oakland where traffic is beginning to build. Especially in the northbound direction. This is a shot right next to oracle arena. Slow traffic from this area. Right about hagan burger northbound to 27th avenue or so. Then it frees up into downtown oakland. Here is a live look at the south bay, interstate 280. It is moving along nicely, both northbound and southbound moving through the downtown san jose area. No problems across the south bay. 8 07 is the time. Gasia, over to you. Thank you, alex. A San Francisco Police Officer took his own life in the parking lot of an east bay Shopping Mall after being shopped by an officer from another department. San Francisco Police say the officer was the target of an investigation. Sources tell us his name is antonio. Ktvus allie rasmus explain whats we know about what happened. Reporter well, according to San Francisco police, the man was a nineyear veteran of the sfpd. Police also confirm that he was being investigated by multiple jurisdictions. Although San Francisco police would not elaborate on what this officer was being investigated for. However, he was also a resident of richmond, which is why 1 30 in the afternoon yesterday, Richmond Police pulled the man over in front of the jc penney store in the parking lot. After stopping his vehicle, Richmond Police heard a gunshot go off from inside of the car. They were not able to see the interior of the car. The car had window tint all throughout the vehicle. It was difficult to see inside. They ended up using bean bag ammunition to break the glass. Reporter at that point, when Richmond Police approached the vehicle, they were able to see that the man inside had died from a selfinflicted gunshot wound. Even though Richmond Police did not fire their weapons and it appears that the officer shot himself, police are still investigating the circumstances surrounding this. They recovered a handgun within the vehicle. Contra costa County District Attorneys Office is investigating as well. We are waiting for more information about what this man, this sfpd officer, nine year veteran of the force, was being investigated for. Again, Police Confirmed he was the target of an investigation involving multiple jurisdictions. Allie rasmus, ktvu fox 2 news. Well, republicans in Congress Just hours away from a big vote. The gop tax overhaul will make its way through the house this morning. It is possible that the senate could give its final signoff today or tomorrow. Doug luzader has the story from capitol hill. Reporter the house should start voting on this in just a few hours. The senate will be the critical test for republicans. With a few days to spare, it looks like republicans in congress will meet their christmas deadline to deliver tax reform. On the eve of the vote, one of the key architects, brady of texas, was surrounded by cameras. What it means for americans is that april 15th will be this will be the last time that they will have to file under this horrible broken tax code. Reporter the process begins in the house where there is some expected Republican Opposition because of the impact on high tax states. But later today, it should shift over to the senate where democrats can slow it down but that may be about it. My republican friends are squandering their socalled once in a Generation Opportunity for tax reform on a massive Corporate Bailout, paid for by middle class tax increases. What a shame. Reporter senator john mccain will not be here for the vote following brain cancer treatments. That could leave the senate with a odd number, making a tie impossible. Just in case, mike pence is expected to precede over the senate to provide a tie breaking vote if it comes to that. And President Trump will be poised with his pen to sign it into law in the coming days when he may finally deliver on a major legislative achievement. It may not save them in 2018 but it is better than having nothing there. This is a big arrow. Reporter republicans and democrats agree on one thing, both think that this tax reform plan will be a big issue in next years mid term elections. In washington, doug luzader, fox news. A new poll shows just more than half of california voters do not like the arepublican tax billow owe do not like the republican tax bill. Many a that only corporations and the super rich will benefit from the tax changes. How do you think that the tax reform bill will affect you . 15 say i will be better off. 50 say i will be worse off. 34 say youre not sure yet. Let us know what you think by voting on twitter or ktvu. Com and you can also comment on the ktvu facebook page. New at 8 00, the mother of a former student at a San Jose High School is coming forward to discuss the alleged sexual abuse of her daughter at the school. She was a student back in 2014 at the school. She and other former students at the all Girls Catholic School were encouraged by the etoo movement. The school has not commented on any of the alleged sexual abuse by teachers or staff. More security cameras coming to two east bay freeways. At 830c how several cities are teaming up following an increase in the number of freeway shootings across the bay area. Have you sent out your holiday packages yet . Why many Delivery Services are having trouble keeping up with this years demand. [ splash ] [ horn sounds ] dang ok, i gotta run. Hey, wait, theres something i need to tell you dang. Dang dang dang. Dang. See zero in a whole new way. 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Ktvus jessie gary has a look at behind the scenes work happening at the Main Post Office in north san jose. Reporter with a week to go, it is crunch time for taping, weighing, mailing packages for the holidays. I think it is the end of the year season. At this time there are a lot of people sending gifts to loved one snooze how do packages and parcels get from here to there . I just think it goes like this and this. Reporter actually its a lot more complicated than that. Postal spokesman took us behind the proverbial curtain to show us the rampedup operation. It handles all the mail down to king city. Reporter it covers the area of four football fields. Most of the time riding through it is faster than walking. From thanksgiving to new years, this facility processes 250 million pieces of mail using this automated packaging processing system. We know christmas very well. And the customers know we know it well. It is a tradition. Reporter the scramble made possible by technology and 238 employees working in shifts, including monday night. Package sort era amanda has a warriors touch. Make sure that the right package gets in the right bin and makes it to the right destination. It is exhausting but this is what we do and were used to it. Reporter 7 million pieces of mail will be processed at this facility monday night. Postal Officials Say this Automated System helps to service added volume from online purchases. It gets packed, especially during this time. The later, the longer the lines are. Reporter jessie gary, ktvu fox 2 news. All right. Here is a look at the important shipping dates you need to know. The post office says today is the deadline for first class mail to make it by christmas. Tomorrow is the deadline for priority mail. Friday for express mail which will be delivered by Christmas Day. Tomorrow is the deadline for fedex twoday delivery. And ups second day air. Thursday, the final day to ship via fedex overnight and ups next day air. It looks like it is not christmas cards im sending, it is new years cards. Right, alex . It is a gray area. Thats what im going to call it. My new years card. Right. Enjoy the new year. We got the cards out. By we, i mean mostly my wife. We got it taken care of. Were going to talk about the traffic. In oakland, not far away from the studios here at Jack London Square, this is on 880 southbound. A new crash popped up right at oak street. That is causing a backup. You can see it on the maps right there. The backup extends past the 980 interchange southbound on 880 here in the downtown oakland area. Welt show you we will show you the bay bridge toll plaza where things are lightening up a bit. The backup not quite as severe as we saw it earlier in the morning. Now maybe just a 15minute delay or so. About to the maze. At this point. But still sluggish traffic westbound along the east shore freeway. Finally this is a live look here at highway 101. This is what things look like getting into and out of the downtown San Francisco area. Relatively problem free coming up the peninsula and making your way into the city. Here is steve. And he is talking about a little rain and more more snow than rain. Yeah. It looks like a better snow opportunity than rain opportunity. First lets look nationally. It is not too bad right now. Just in case if you are traveling certainly around i would say the 24th, 23rd and heading to the great lakes, it is going to be brutally cold. I have seen some minus 25s and minus 30s on the projections. Some of that cold air could work its way back to the west. Most of it towards the great lakes. Miami is 80 today. Talk about warm down there. The system that is coming in now will be a big snow producer over the next couple of days. This system has tapped into low level moisture. It is more of a rainer. Speaking of rain, we could use that. We need it. 56 for oakland. 46 for San Francisco. 36 of normal for the water year in san jose. In the southern sierra, 8 . Well, we do have good news. By the way, for what it is worth, the european model is actually pretty wet for the first week of january for southern and central california. Maybe there is good news on the way. With toe wait a bit before it gets here. Light rain coming in later tonight. Not a lot. There will be a good surge of cold air. There it is. It will sweep in late wednesday, early thursday. Shasta looks good. Snow level will be down to 4,000 feet there. 2,000 feet or lower to the north of. Winter weather advisory starts 8 00 tonight and goes through 1 00 tomorrow. 1 00 p. M. Either a winter storm watch or warning for most of the county. Very low snow levels there. 2,000 and below. The days are short. With the cloud cover coming in and you get these kind of lows, it is hard to warm up much. 35 in atherton. Woodside is 34. There is the low bringing the rain into texas. Were on the southern and western edge of it. We will get a little bit of rain. A tenth of an inch. It is a better opportunity to get snow than rain. It kind of feels like and looks like the pattern is changing as we go forward. Hopefully things will improve in the rain category over the next ten days to two weeks. After the light rain by wednesday morning, friday morning, get ready. It will be cold out there. 28. Yeah. In the inland areas. Thank you, steve. Still to come, closed off to swimmers until at least thursday. Two sea lion attacks in San Francisco. Well its a perfect nespresso hold on a second. Orge. Mmm. [mel torme sings comin home baby] hey there. Want a lift . Where are we going . No dont tell me. Let me guess. Have a nice ride. How far would you go for coffee thats a cup above . I brought you nespresso. Nespresso. What else . Patrols are being added up at twin peaks after a robbery over the weekend. The suspect took off with a mans camera, wallet and cell phone. The victim was not hurt and the two suspects are still at large. Back in july, a photographer was shot and killed while taking pictures at the twin peaks outlook. A 19yearold and 20yearold man are facing murder charges in that case. Debris was found at the crash scene that came from a black saab. It could be the car that hit and killed the victim. It would be a year 20042007 model years. Damage to the front passenger side and the front bumper and passenger side mirror. R. San franciscos aquatic park will stay closed to swimmers until thursday following two sea lion attacks last week. Two men were bitten while swimming in the bay. One attack happened thursday. The second the very next morning. Marine mammal experts say it is possible that the same sea lion is responsible for both incidents. There is an outbreak of a highly contagious respiratory disease at an east bay high school. They have had more than ten cases of whooping cough. Last year there were 77 cases of whooping cough reported in all of alameda county. Nearly 2,000 reported across our state. It has been fairly rare here in california until 2010. Thats when there were nearly 10,000 cases across the state. Federal investigators remain at the scene of a deadly Train Derailment in Washington State. Investigators are focusing in on a number of factors, including the speed of the train. Reporter we will tell you which city on the highway 4 corridor is looking for cameras to keep the freeways safe. And keeping an eye on the traffic around the bay area. Relatively doing relatively well this morning. Better than we were earlier in the morning. We will tell you about a few pockets that you will encounter, especially in oakland. It will be cloudy by tonight. Any rain . Yeah. Some is on the way late tonight. At 8 29. We have new information on breaking news we have been reporting from concord. Crews are at the scene of iodatedly house deadly house fire. This is very close to clayton road. Firefighters now tell us that the roof of the home collapsed, making it very difficult for firefighters to fight the fire or to get inside. Crews at the scene also tell us it appears that the person inside of the home did try to escape but was unable to make it out. Were still working to learn more about the person who died in this Early Morning house fire and what may have started the fire itself. Again, we see a number of crews are on the scene. The streets are essentially blocked off by emergency vehicles. We will bring more information to you as soon as we get it. Welcome brack to mornings on 2. Im gasia mikaelian. And im mike mibach. We will check in with traffic in just a bit. First, high clouds starting to make their way in, steve. They are. Late tonight, rain, you two. We will take anything in this dry december. There are positive signs looking towards next week and early january that maybe we will get rain. Wont be much tonight but we will take something. Pretty close to average. 73 is the record high in 1999. 36 way back in 1908. The system will bring in increasing clouds throughout the day. Mostly cloudy. Certainly to the north. System has a ways to go. It has pretty good cold air with it and better dynamic north and east which translates into better snow than rain for us. Snow levels going to go down pretty far here. Winter weather advisory starts at 8 00 p. M. Tonight and goes through 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Starts at 1 00 p. M. Towards shasta if youre headed in that direction. With the cloud cover coming in, it is hard to warm up there. 32 in boulder creek. 33 santa clara. Campbell at 39 degrees now. One system coming in that will give us a lot of cloud cover. Late tonight and early tomorrow, maybe tenth of an inch. I tend to believe the forecast models on this. 8 31. Alex, any improvement out there . We have slow spots here even at the 8 00 hour. More people out there than i necessarily thought there would be. I thought people would be enjoying time off for the holiday season. Not necessarily. Lots of folks on the roadways. Here is one slow spot were tracking. This is a look at 680 at the sunol grade area. The traffic on the righthand side is 680 southbound heading slowly up to the 238 interchange because of a crash in that area involving a couple of cars. So if thats your commute, youre trying to get down into the san jose area this morning, from dublin, its going to be a slow ride for you. Let me show you here a live look at the san mateo bridge. Traffic is improving across the span. Westbound direction. Youre going to have a lot of company. But no major slowdowns here at this hour. Finally in the east bay, things are slowly starting to improve. The east bay commute, especially the ride along 80 this morning was a tough one. Were not showing red right now on the maps anymore. That is certainly good news. And the backup at the toll plaza is not that bad this morning. 8 32 is the time. Mike and gasia, back to you. Thank you, alex. The Investigation Continues into the Train Derailment in Washington State. Caroline shively is live in dupont, washington near the crash scene to bring us more. Caroline. Reporter hi there, mike and gasia. The ntsb investigators are making some headway. The cause of the crash right now the best theory is excessive speed. Survivors of the crash describing a chaotic scene as the amtrak commuter train careened off of an overpass in pierce county, about 40 miles south of seattle and fell on to a busy highway below. The train just started to it seemed like go off on its side and then and then all of a sudden it went dark and stuff started flying around. Reporter First Responders immediately rushed to the scene, including at least one soldier from a nearby military base, eventually pulling more than 70 people from the wreckage, many seriously wounded and still hospitalized. It was wet, it it was cold. We had downed power lines. Our responders were climbing up and down the hill trying to get to the victim snooze the crash happened during the Maiden Voyage of a new route which amtrak touted as more reliable. The ntsb says they recovered the data recorder there the rear locomotive showing that the train was going 50 Miles Per Hour above the speed limit when it derailed. The preliminary information shows it was going 80 Miles Per Hour. We dont know exactly why that is happening yet. Reporter one of the things that the investigators are battling is the terrible weather. It is just above freezing and driving rain very tough to continue their investigation. Mike and gasia, back to you. Caroline, thank you. Here at home this morning, civil rights Attorney John Burris will hold a News Conference to demand criminal charges be filed against a San Francisco Police Officer who shot and killed a carjacking suspect earlier in month. Police have released body cam video of the incident itself. Thats what were showing you now. The officer who fired the shot had been on the force for four days when he fatally shot 42 yearold oneil following a chase. Police say oneil had shoved a state lottery worker to the ground before he grabbed her keys and stole her minivan. Burris is holding the News Conference this morning in San Francisco. To the south bay where San Jose Police are investigating a robbery at a walgreens store that ended with a Security Guard shooting a man inside of the store. This happened at the walgreens on south first street at santa clara street just before 8 30 last night. Police say they were called to the store after the guard fired his gun. When they arrived, they found a man on the ground with a potentially life threatening injury. Police are not releasing his name or anything about his condition. The Security Guard is cooperating with the investigation. The Highway Patrol will be getting a new tool to help prevent freeway shootings in Contra Costa County. Christien kafton has more from pittsburgh where a plan has been approved to add a network of cameras. Reporter pittsburgh City Council Approved the use of the freeway cameras. It is an idea that people here in pittsburgh like. It is a great idea. Yeah. Why is that . Yeah. It will help stop criminals, you know, from doing bad things, you know, and shooting people. Reporter pittsburghs City Council Unanimously approved the network aimed to provide realtime information as shootings occur. By late spring or early summer of next year, the system should be up and running along interstate 80 and highway 4 in Contra Costa County. As you well may remember, there have been dozens of shootings in the past few years. In all, eight people have been killed. The cameras will be installed all the way to antioch. Im ecstatic that finally we will have tool thats help the chp. It is a deterrent. We cant expect Law Enforcement to be everywhere. But these cameras now will allow the chp and otherrings to agencies to get a picture of what is occurring. Reporter many other communities are participating in this threeyear pilot project. Supporters hope to get grants to keep the project going. In pittsburgh, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. Tonight the Berkeley City Council will vote on whether to repel a law that allows Police Officers to use pepper spray. The City Council Approved the use of pepper spray by Berkeley Police in september in response to several violent clashes by extremist groups in the city. The Police Review Commission Says it is concerned that the spray could have severe and longlasting health effects. Both berkeleys mayor and police chief support allowing officers to use the pepper spray. San franciscos Asian Community is holding a special tribute to the late mayor ed lee. The vigil will be held at 5 00 thursday night in chinatown. Now the San Francisco medical Examiners Office has confirmed that mayor lee died of a heart attack. The 65yearold collapsed at a Safeway Store one week ago and later died at San Francisco general hospital. Mayor lee was the citys first asianamerican mayor and remembered at a public memorial at city hall on sunday. Friends and colleagues described him as humble and full of integrity. A special election to finish out mayor lees term in office is set for june 5th. Acting merlon dan breed has not announced if she will run. If she does, she will follow mayor lees footsteps. He was first appointed to the position when then mayor gavin newsom left to become Lieutenant Governor in 201. Lee went on to win two mayoral elections. Two of the six candidates so far are considered household names. Mark leno along with angela. You will remember she served two terms as a San Francisco supervisor and has now taken out papers with the election department. Her father joe was mayor from the late 60s to early 70s. The winner of the special election will serve out the term that ends in january of 2020. Get that shopping done as soon as you can. Just six days to go. Up next, the lastminute bargains that are out there if you know where to look. And good morning to you. If youre heading out the door, off to work or maybe to do some of that Holiday Shopping, quell tell you what the we will tell you what the roadways are looking like this morning. We will tell you about slow spots that were tracking. And it is a bargain if we get a little bit of rain. Thats what is on the way late tonight and tomorrow. And a better opportunity for snow up in the mountains. Welcome back. This Holiday Shopping season underway right now may not be enough to save toys r us. It is an important time for retailers. We will bring in pam cook to explain in this mornings money business. We have been watching toys r us, analysts in particular, because it has filed for bankruptcy. I will talk more about the details in a moment. The stock is down this monk. Not doing as well as expected for the holidays. Another day of optimism on wall street. The republican tax plan cuts the top Corporate Tax rate from 35 down to 21 . A lot of people are not happy about that but it has been well received on wall street. After testing high numbers, as you watched yesterday with the dow jones soaring more than 200 points, right off the bat it is down about 36 right now. 24,755. The nasdaq tested at 7,000 mark yesterday. Traded above that for the first time ever. It has now slipped a little bit. S p 500 down a little bit. It will be an important couple of weeks to end the year. Toys r us having a hard time competing with online retailers. There are reports that the chain could close 100 to 200 of its stores. No further details on when the stores would close, which stores or how many jobs are at stake. Toys r us filed for bankruptcy in december. It was hoping to see a bump in sales during the Holiday Shopping season but it actually saw a 15 decline in sales during the very important shopping season. Good news for those that have not finished their Holiday Shopping yet. Lastminute deals could mean big savings. Retail analysts say stores will offer discounts during the week as customers shift from Online Shopping, heading into the stores. Shoppers can expect markdowns on jewelry, fragrances and accessories, targeting the last minute male shoppers. Since Christmas Eve is on a sunday, saturday could bring in most of the lastminute sales. And instagram rolling out new tools just in time for the holidays. It is encouraging use users to be creative with face filters, stickers. Three new features have a glass effect as you can see. Add stuff to your face. Digital confetti. Users can choose from christmas sounds to pair with the super effects. Instagrams Sticker Library has expanded to include a range of holiday stickers paying homage to hanukkah and kwanzaa. Now that more adults are getting on instagram, it is less cool for the kids. They used to be all about the filters and now i have ruined it for my kids. Followed in your footsteps their footsteps and they quickly run away. Lets get you out the door. Alex savidge has been doing that since 4 00 a. M. , in for sal castaneda. Yeah. We will look at the unfiltered look at traffic around the bay area. We have made a lot of improvement moving towards 9 00. We had tough times this morning. A lot of crashes and very slow traffic. Have a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Were actually doing pretty well there. Youre only seeing about a 10 to 15minute backup at this point. It was really bad earlier in the morning. So not too bad trying to get into San Francisco either to work or to shop, whatever whatever youre doing. Not a bad time to make your way into the city. Now here is a live look at highway 4. Boy, things have really eased up getting out of antioch and pittsburgh this morning, heading westbound on highway 4. No problems whatsoever there. I will take you to oakland here on the maps and show you that weve had slow traffic tracker i can on 880. You will experience slow traffic northbound northbound from san leandro to davis street north up to freight vail. And also showing a crash in the southbound direction on 880 right at oak street that will slow you down coming past the downtown area. 8 46 is the time. Steve. Alex. Alex. Have a good one, man. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. We will get to it. We have had a december that has been very, very dry, as you know. Hardly any snow or rain. We are expecting some late tonight and tomorrow. They could use it in the sierra. Look at the southern sierra. Only 8 of normal. And rainfall around here is 339 to 61 of norm 39 to 61 of normal. We are behind there. It looks like a bigger system for snow than rain for sure. Certainly farther north better opportunity. There will be a reinforcement of cold air coming in behind that. Two to six inches of snow around lake level, down to maybe 4,000 feet. More than that up on the passes. Winter weather advisory 8 00 tonight for tahoe and sierra nevada. Up in shasta, up towards there, that starts at 1 00. That snow level will be below 2,000 feet for some. There will be low snow levels there. 30s and 40s on the temps. When you get the lows this cold and the cloud cover comes in, were hard pressed to warm up much. There will be low 50s to the north with the cloud cover in. The rain holds off late tonight and tomorrow. Lets hope we get a tenth of an inch. One and done is the way it looks right now. Mid50s for some to the north. It will be a cool day for many. And then tonight we get light rain in here. It will turn windy on thursday. And, mike, it will be a three dog night or a three cat night on friday. Just so you know. Okay. Perfect. Thank you, steve. Yeah. An east Bay Community still celebrating this morning. More on the big win for the High School Football team. And we also want to remind you that we have our one warm coat collection drive going on right now. Donate a new or gently used coat or sweater or weather item at several bay area locations. You can also make clothing donations at participating ups and big o tire stores. Were back right after the break. 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. Witnesses told police they saw someone on a bike carrying a torch and police did detain someone but that person was later released. The thomas fire burning in Santa Barbara and ventura counties continues to grow. It has now covered 427 miles after it grew another square mile overnight. Inching towards become the largest in modern state history. The record, 427 square miles. Fire crews have it 50 contained. But it could take three more weeks to completely circle this fire. Firefighters say today is a critical day in fight because of the santa ana winds that will kick up again tomorrow. There could be new federal aid for all of the victims of the wildfires in california, including those in the north bay. There was an 81 billion disaster approved. Some of it would also go to disaster prevention projects. Well, students at Oaklands High School have something to celebrate following the big win at the state championship. This is the second state championship for the win. Why these wins are so important for the student athletes. Reporter stop us if you have heard this before but mcclellan High School Football team were state champions once again. They carried the two trophies through the school to prove it. When the warriors won the division 5aa championship saturday night, the win capped a perfect 140 record and sealed the second straight state championship no oakland Public High School has ever done before. Not bad for a school with less than 400 students. The quarterback says the second championship is somehow sweeter. Everybody thought last year was a fluke or wasnt supposed to happen. We did it again. Thats the best thing that i ever did in my life. I never thought i had it in me. I thought football was it for me. I found my talent. Reporter these champ ships are especially rewarding when you consider al of the student athletes had to overcome things growing up on the rough streets of west oakland. A lot of violence and poverty. A lot of homeless, you know, housing problems. Theres a lot of stuff going on in the community. But we managed to overcome that. You hear all of the bad things in west oakland. You know, the last few years there have been great things coming out of west oakland. Were on the other side of the fence right now. Reporter after the last championship, oakland threw the team a party. A lot of kids in the area dont come to the high school. But now they have a reason to come. Reporter plans for another parade next month are already in the works. In oakland, rob roth, ktvu fox 2 news. Congrats to the football team. Still to come, dropping off picking up someone at the airport for the holidays . We will tell you about the new free service being offered at San Francisco international. 8 57 here. We know the name of the richland Police Sergeant accused of opening fire at a hotel over the weekend. We have learned that phillip sanchez, a nineyear veteran is accused of firing numerous shots inside. He wandered around and spoke of spirits. He surrendered peacefully later on. His Attorney Says that he had a men al health episode. He was taken to a hospital for evaluation and has since posted bail. He is facing four felony charges. The owner of a San Francisco vintage Clothing Store has entered a plea deal for selling the fur of endangered animals. She pleaded no contest and was sentence today three years probation. In march undercover wardinns seized the fur. Hanson says she was not aware of a change in state law that made the sale of animal parts illegal, even on items made before 1973 which were previously okay to sale. The Alameda City Council will consider a redevelopment project. The terminal site was used to store shipping containers. It is located on the north shore of alameda overlooking the oakland estuary. They have proposed 600 Housing Units and retail and commercial space as well as parks. During this travel season, sfo wants to make it easier for pickups and dropoffs. They have short term garages that are free for stays 30 minutes and less. They will be open through january 8th and available in both International Parking garages. President trump joins the hall of president s at disney world today. I donald trump do solemner that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. The attraction has been closed since january because of a renovation project. And for work on the version of President Trump. The president recorded dialogue for the android double. The president s since the 90s have recorded their voices for the hall of president s. Disney says there is new technology to make the statues more lifelike. Kobe bryant spent his entire career with the lakers and won five nba championships. There were nine retired jerseys of former lakers hanging in the rafters. Now kobe makes it 10 and 11. As for the game, the warriors beat the lakers in overtime. Kobe, kobe, kobe. All of this talk about kobe bryant. Lets not forget about the warriors. A fantastic win on the road in a hostile environment in overtime. Kd shining in the lights of l. A. I just wanted to get that out. Look at that live shot at san jose international. The travel season underway out there on this