Storm since about the 4 00 hour. It seems like someone just cranked up the faucet here. These are big fat rain drops. You can see traffic moving along pretty good. We shot video in the past hour. Its been coming down hard and hasnt changed much all morning long. Not too bad of a situation, no accidents as of yet. We caught up with one man heading into work this morning. You have to be careful driving in the rain from hydro planes. So just slow down. This is one of the heaviest rains weve had this season. Roberta, how is that nice warm dry studio. I couldnt hear you from the rain drops. Very funny. Im sorry, kit. You pulled the short straw on this one. Its been years since weve seen this. Areas of highlighted in red like right there. Its very treacherous at this hour. Very wet at the Golden Gate Bridge as well. Bringing you into the city of San Francisco everybody under the gun, heavy downpour. This subtropical moisture is gives ugh these big fat rain drops. Winds will blow up to 25, 30 miles an hour. Temperatures in the 60s. Going to feel muggy with this subtropical moisture. By thursday morning up to six inches of rain in the santa cruz area and five inches in the north bay and another system on friday. 48 accidents are being reported across bay area roadways and ponding, deep water standing across roadways this morning. Willow road, slow through pittsburgh into the concord area. We have crashes affecting the san matao bridge. Over on your approach to the dumb barton bridge an accident affecting the left hand lane. Just take it nice and easy out there. Thats your kcbs traffic. The north bay getting drench just like all of us. Ryan is up in laxerburg. Take it away. All of us, not you. Hey frank. Its been raining consistently all morning. We saw a couple of expeyton mannings where example of hydro planing areas. From San Francisco cross the Golden Gate Bridge, this must have been before that car hydro planed on the Golden Gate Bridge. We took it very slow, about 30 miles an hour and we made it here. Here at the Ferry Terminal, plenty of the commuters said they didnt want to mess with driving across that bridge s it makes it very nice. Its a much more civilized commute even when its dry and sunny out. If im on a bike and i can take a reliable transit, thats how i get around. . Yep, more civilized. Its going be much easier for them. They can sit back and relax and dont have to worry about the morning commute. Meat that was slammed on the sidewalk did not get served to customer. A video that has the Health Departments attention. Thats horrible what im seeing right now . A you tube video shows a cook being used as a meat tender riser. The sidewalk full of gum, cigarette butts and trash. The owner claimed over the phone that the meat was thrown away and the cook has been fired. It doesnt look very appealing the last surprised inspection earned lucky river a score of 48. One mentioned there was a boiled caterpillar in the greens. Extra protein, i guess. I wont eat there again. I will not eat there at all. No word if this video will change their food handling. Lucky river restaurant was open last night for dinner allegations of Sexual Assault from bill cosby. Hes been on the member of temples Trustees Board for more than 30 years. A bay area state senator is launching a plan to raise the states minimum wage to 11dollar an hour in 2015 and 15 an hour in 2017. Leno introduced a bill earlier this year, but it died in committee. People ets. Happening today,contra costa county supervisors vote on a plan to save a hospital from being closed. Doctors Medical Center in s pablo has been on life suppt since it filed for bankruptn 2010. Now supervisors are considering a move to delay hospitals three million dor property tax bill, and givet other breaks. Supervisor are considering the move to delay the hospitals 3 million tax bill and give it other breaks as well. Stopping bike cycles on the walk way of the sidewalks is being looked into. 5 00 in San Francisco a Christmas Tree lighting featuring singer phillip phillips. The 83 capitol Christmas Tree lighting is set at 5 00 this evening. Its a 53foot white fur from shah at that county. The shopping holiday are not over yet. How giving tuesday is helping you spend for a good cause. And why frosty the snowman might have to find a new home by this afternoon if youre leaving your home, youll want to watch the weather. Ill highlight off the rough patches out there with kpix traffic in just a minute. ,,,,,,,,,,, find options to fit your budget. Nah, nah, insurance, nah, nah, nah, discount. My names flo, you want to go out with me . No. Uhhuhhuh charities want us to donate today. On whats being cad giving tuesday. As you take a look at the Golden Gate Bridge, we see moderate to heavy downpours. Well tell you when the rain will ease upcoming up. Thanks roberta. Charities want us to donate today on whats being called donate tuesday. Before you donate, you can check out who youre giving to at Charity Navigator. It rates charities on one to four stars and tells tells you how the money is used. And cyber monday sales were up. Some merchants were throwing in free shipping. Sales were up 8 percent from last year. Kit is bummed out being inside yesterday as opposed to now. How are we doing out there . The roads are slick. No matter where youre heading youll see hydro planing. This accident at eastbound highway 4 being cleared up from the two right hand lanes. The westbound commute direction all red. Because of the pour weather conditions, were getting reports of down trees. This one has shut down wood side road in both directions. This tree may have knocked down some power polls in the process. We do have phone called placed to pg ande. Well let you know if theres a power outage in that area. . Were not looking at any major delays. Thats a look at kcbs traffic. Now to roberta. Never before i have seen such widespread rain fall attributes all at once. This is subtropical moisture lifting from the south to the north. Everybody is getting pounded right now. Were zipping on in. Were zooming into pleasant hill, very heavy rain. Rich shocked ever monday and san pad blow heavy rain as well. Very treacherous morning commute due to the precipitation. Everybody at this time big fat heavy rain fall. This is subtropical moisture and it will increase before it tapers off this afternoon. Winds will increase up to 20 and 25 miles an hour. Stronger gust expected during the afternoon. Let me explain exactly whats going on. We are not the only one affected by this huge storm. Southern california and the Central Coast as well. This is an area of low pressure. This is tapping into that and this is what were experiencing right now. Tomorrow this area of low pressure is going to move over the bay area and open up, so well get hit with a second punch. You can walk through your day by taking a look at your clock, lunch hour very heavy rain fall in our highest elevations. Evening commute just as wet and then it looks like more rain fall tomorrow morning. San francisco approaching an inch of rain. Santa cruz approaching two inches, but by thursday morning six inches of rain near bolder creek. Winter storm warn not guilty the syria storm warning in the sierra mountains. We have a chance of a new system on friday, but sun shine comes back over the weekend. Visit us at kpix at the app store and you can download the bay area weather app and you can check out the weather wherever you need to go. Frosty the snowman is a jolly happy snow, but some are trying to melt frosty or at least deflate it. This inflatable frosty moved to a new location in the city and he got a visit from mr. Scrouge. We have to have a citation because we dont allow inflatable. I was shocked. Frostys owner was left with a hefty ticket for 250 bucks. The owner said hes thinking about paying the fine anyway to keep frosty up. Were not the only one dealing with wet weather. Why this heavy rain is a big threat down in southern california. What is cool about your school. You can email your nominations to us. We may come and feature your school on the show. ,,, a remote that lives on your phone. More wifi in more places. A Movie Library you can take wherever you go. Internet speeds that have gotten faster 13 times in 12 years. The innovators and inventors at comcast labs are creating more possibilities for more people every day. Comcast. Bringing media and Technology Together for you. Were saying thanks with two of your favorite sixinch sandwiches for 2 each the meatball marinara and the cold cut combo. Join our Customer Appreciation celebration today. Subway. Eat fresh. Dolphins and jets in new je. The jets were on a fourth good morning. Jim hairball dodged questions about him leaving the 49ers after the season. He focused instead on finding the right things to do for the football season. I want to get this right. Were going to get it right. A couple of days ago, hairball was reported to be traded to the raiders next season. Yesterday afternoon hairball would not play ball. I really dont worry about my future. I havent participated in any of that speculation, and i just think i have a recessive gene for worrying about my own future. Do you really want my answer or are you asking for your own pleasure. I want your answer. I want to attack this week and get it right josh donaldson, the new blue jays first baseman told us how he found out he was going to canada. I was playing playstation and one of my buddies texted me blue jays question mark and then my agent texted me. I put two and two together they was being traded. The latest on the trading soap opera tonight at 6 00. Dolphin at the jets. Nobody was there, and the jets were up and then they were down. Here in a Fourth Quarter come back, rashad jones put his team in the playoff hump. The dolphins win it 1613. Thats your play of the day. 6 26 the rain has not stopped in the bay area right now. The mountains are covered in a fresh blanket of snow. Live in the santa cruz mountains, its wet. We are drenched. We have the forecast coming up after the break. Plan ,,,,,,,,,,, the batt live, this is kpix 5 news. A messy commute this morning. Well show you what it looks like out on the road coming up. The proposed fees that could help taxi cab drivers compete. Ill highlight all the traffic hotspots ahead the entire bay area is being hammered with very heavy rain at this time. One of the hardest hit areas is the santa cruz mountains. Well go to kit doe. We have fog out here on the summit in the santa cruz mountains. Traffic is starting to pick up. With all this precipitation falling its slowing traffic down a bit. The cc has a couple of clears set up on the northbound side to remind drivers to take it easy as they go through these curvy mown mountain roads. In the 4 00 hour there was a lot of rain coming down. We talked to a woman who came from bolder creek. She is telling everyone to slow down. This is just nothing. Its a warmup. Everybody just needs to slow down. She lives along the sann lorenzo river. They typically get flooding any time they see rain fall. This is one of the heaviest rain falls weve seen in years. I believe it. Im drenched. I think kit is a believe. Hes got on latex gloves out there. We believe you too roberta. I cant imagine kit standing out there that long like he has. Its a very heavy rain fall. What is so extraordinary about this is its so widespread from the north bay to san jose, all the way to stockton. Its been raining like this for the past two hours. Where kit is standing its moderate to heavy and we know that by this orange on the map. Your temperatures are very mild because of the subtropical moistures in the 50s. Later today into the 60s with winds up to 25 miles an hour. Rain continuing through wednesday and another system on thursday. Ryan, we want to see how bad it is in the north bay. Well, its been raining consistently. Theres been instances of standing water. Lisa was saying earlier there are dozens of crashes out there. We saw that on the drive up here northbound. I shot this video about 4 00 as we crossed the Golden Gate Bridge. It goes to show you every once in awhile we would come into patches of standing water and we would need to slow down. We were going about 30 miles an hour. Thats how fast we felt comfortable going. A lot of commuters are coming here to take the ferry into San Francisco and dont want to mess with all this rain. It makes it very nice. Its a much more sifflized commute even when its dry and sunny out. That guy is heading into the city. He normally takes the ferry. He says this is a good expeyton manning if youve never taken the ferry, this is a good day to try. Chp reporting close to 100 incidents across the bay area with accidents, flooding across the bay area. At highway 87, accidents involving cars hydro planing facing the wrong way onto the righthand side. Once you get to pleasanton an accident off to the righthand shoulder. Traffic is stacked up solid with a one hour delay leaving oakland heading into the city. Joe vasquez shows us what cabbies are doing to stick it to their competition. S you might have seen this Bumper Sticker, dont get hammered, take a taxi. He says it refers to the criminal case where an uber driver got upset and ordered passengers out of the car. The driver hit his passengerzero into the car. Who made the Bumper Sticker, its not clear. The driver said they were handing them out at the protest at ofo. Another Bumper Sticker said didnt your mother tell you not to ride with strangers. They dont have to do a background check like cab drivers. Cab drivers are coming up with ways to vent their frustrations and show the public were following the rules, but were getting the bad end of the stick. The board meets today to talk about reducing fees so they can compete with uber. A disorderly conduct, neighbors Video Shows Police cars and police dog. My son did not attack the police. He dont have the brain. We dont have the time to figure out who this person is when a person is struggling with our officers happening today full negotiations between west coast potter and the dockers working union they have been working since july without a contract. Retailers say most holiday goods are safely through the port. People living in a large home less camp are getting warned to move out of a space called the jungle. 250 people are said to be living inside that camp. It will be bulldozed by saturday afternoon because of crime and unsanitary conditions. In ventura county, a mud slide. Some emergency crews are preparing their swift water rescue teams in case people get caught in the flood waters. Take a look at this video, time lapse of a snow measuring station. North star has a foot of snow. There are no chain requirements on interstate 80 or u. S. 50, but that will likely change as the storm progress. Well get an update from jason brooks right after the break. We want you pet lovers to sent us your questions. Well have a pet expert give you an answer every friday at noon right here. There it is. This is where i met your grandpa. Right under this tree. man some things are Worth Holding onto. Theyre hugging the tree. man thats why we got a subaru. Or was it that tree . man introducing the allnew subaru outback. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Here now is kcbs radios financial reporter jason br. Good morning, as youre getting ready, stop and take a look at this, this is why sfo has three hour and 46 minute delays on some arriving flights 6 44 right now. Cyber monday apparently didnt meet expectations yesterday. Jason brooks looks like its more of a cyber month. Sales not as strong as this year. Cyber monday sales were up 8. 1 percent over last year. Mobile is making up more of that traffic, people buying things on their phones. They made up traffic compared to last year. Core logic is reporting home prices 1. 6 points. The price logic is looking for a gain of 5. 1 percent over the next 12 percent. Stock market dropped yesterday. Today the market is coming back a little bit. Lets take a look, the dough up about 40 points. The smp is up by four points thanks jason. Retail pricing are holding steady. Pnc Wealth Management says each verse would cost about 27,600. Thats up one percent from last year. You know, if you shop around you can get geese pretty cheap. Its the five golden rings that get you. Anyway, traffic is going to get you too today. 100 accidents. It could be reports of flooding, a stalled car or an accident. Chp is telling us theyre very busy. A new accident right inside the bay bridge blocking the two righthand lanes. Keep that in mind as you drive thru the bay area this morning. Over at the wet bay bridge, traffic is backed up onto highway 24. Those metering lights are slowing down to keep folks nice and safe out on the bridge. Traffic at San Francisco piled up. Heading toward the Golden Gate Bridge, we had a car that slammed into one of the toll booth. Its been cleared up. Thats a look at kcbs traffic. Roberta, its a wet one. It is more than wet. It is down right doing rouse. Look at the high def radar. Before we had widespread yellow, orange and reds all over. Now were mixing in some of the green which means some of the heavy rains are lightning up. Your 680 commute, tried valley, moderate to heavy downpours. Seeing more green around the peninsula, but sfo, the damage is done with delays in flights. Temperatures are into the 50s. The winds are rotating to the east to about 12 miles an hour. They will be at the times 20 miles an hour with gusts up to 25 and 30. Well have to keep that possibility of an isolated thunderstorm in the forecast. We have aplomb of moisture affecting the entire state of california. Then whats happening is this area of low pressure will push on shore tomorrow and that will push up over the bay area and that will be round two. Were looking at round one punching the bay area. During the morning tomorrow the low itself pushes on shore and by that time we should see over the next 24 hours an inch of rain, approaching an inch in San Francisco. We have two and a quarter by thursday morning. Six inches santa cruz mountains. Most of us an inch and a half. Two feet of snow for the syria rashado mountains. The extended forecast calls for the lingering showers through thursday with another possible storm on friday and clear skies for the weekend. Tech gifts people want. What would you expect the highest item to get would be . I would think a phone, but its not. The most popular gift people want to receive is a tablet. 30 percent of people we talked to said they planned to give one. You would expect smart watches are the top of the list, but only 27 percent of c net respond dents said they want a smart watch. Theyre still quite new they are and theyre still getting the glitches worked out. When you give a phone, its like a Gift Certificate because you have to go down and transfer the stuff. You have to think about the carrier and how much data they want, so it does get more complicated. My husband got me a phone and my phone i use got canceled. So he had to give me the phone ahead of time because my phone wasnt working. Would you want that phone delivered to you by drones. That would be kind of cool. 53 percent said they wanted their gift delivered via drone if they could. This isnt something available yet, but its something amazon is working on. It will never work. Can you imagine all the packages flying around. You used the probe last week. I did. I used the Meat Thermometer on my turkey, and it worked well. I did not have undercooked turkey for my thanksgiving dinner time now is 6 52. The biggest storm of the season is rolling in. Coming up, where you can expect the most rain fall. Its affecting your morning commute. There are more than 100 incidents across the bay area. ,,,,,, did you get chips for the party . Nope. ding cheese plate . Cheese plate. No, i made something better. You used the oven . Boom. Pillsbury crescents. Make the holidays pop. He loves me, he loves me not he loves me, he loves me not he loves me warm and flaky in fifteen. Everyone loves pillsbury grands. Make dinner pop. By switching to progressive. That was me, mom. [ laugh ] i thought you said, that was me, mom. [ laughter ] damaging some power lines in woodside. This is at woodside and canada kanya roads. Right now, woodside road is closed in both directions at the scene. I not clear when it will reo a large tree has fallen atwood side road. It is closed in both directions at the scene. Its not clear when it will reopen. Heavy rain is continuing to fall in that area. President obama has proposed a 250 million package for police, including body cameras nationwide. Cyber monday may be over, but on line shopping has just hit its stride. Yesterdays shopping was only up 8 percent. Its giving tuesday today. It was created to help Charity Organizations check out Charity Navigator web site. It rates charities and tells you how the charity uses the money before you give. Emergency water southerns are getting their swift water rescues ready. Were here at the Ferry Terminal where folks are coming here. Its gotten a lot busier here in the last hour. Its tough out there on the roadway. At 4 00 this morning, a lot of water on roadways, and when we came through 101 we saw plenty of incidents of standing water. 87 incidents across the bay area. Some folks are coming here to the Ferry Terminal because they dont want to have to deal with the rain. Its very nice. Its a much more sifflized commute. If im on a bike and i can take a city reliable tans sit, thats how i get around transzit, thats how i get around. Web bound 24 has one lane of traffic backed up. We are looking at very long the delays this morning. Bay bridge jackson is still in the clearing stages. Im going to keep up our radar so you can get a good look at it and keep an eye on this storm. The heaviest precipitations is beginning to move out of the bay area. We will continue to see periods of heavy rains throughout the day today increasing winds up to 25 and 30 miles an hour. All right. Just be careful out there. Thanks for watch everyone. Enjoy your day and if you can work from home, good for you. Well see you at 5 00. Good morning to our viewers in the west. It is tuesday, december 2nd, 2014. Welcome to cbs this morning. Ferguson protests have moved from the streets to the floor of congress. President obama warns change. And a cyber weapon could be ready to attack. An urgent warning. A surprise concert makes history in times square. Two superstars step up to replace one injured bono. But we begin with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This is not a problem just in ferguson. This is a national problem