Griego. Im frank mallicoat. Lets get you outside right now. Kpix 5s cate caugiran is outside School Headquarters with the very latest. Cate. Reporter frank and michelle, San FranciscoUnified School District just told us that they received threats similar to the ones in l. A. And new york but we do want to stress schools are still open because they are saying that they dont believe that this threat is credible. Now, we are told the district immediately conducted facility inspections and coordinated with local and federal agencies to see if there was a risk. Nothing was suspicious was found. The district has increased Police Presence around schools. The district says a threat was similar to ones received across the country in new york, florida and l. A. And earlier this week, the l. A. Unified School District shut down because of this threat. And there was criticism they overreacted. New york kept its schools open. But in both cases, officials went public and shared information about the threat. The question we have for the district today, when did they get the threat and why are parent just hearing about it now . Im told that district leaders are in a meeting right now so we hope to have those answers for you tonight. And ill keep you posted as we get more developments. All this just coming to light in the last couple of hours, right . Reporter yeah. That is correct, frank. We did receive a press release within the past hour from the School District and were also hearing that parents right now are getting automated calls. We are hearing that from reporters in our own newsroom who have kids in the district. It is scary news to get but we again want to stress that the schools are open and then this is a threat that the feds and sfpd have looked into and they have determined that there is no threat. All right, cate caugiran live for us in San Francisco, cate, thanks. In the wake of recent terror attacks, disney theme parks are adding metal detectors for the Holiday Season. The detectors were installed at the orlando and anaheim theme park today. Disney also said it will stop selling toy guns in its parks. Universal studios and seaworld parks have also added the detectors. Federal prosecutors are expected to bring criminal charges as soon as today against a friend and former neighbor of San Bernardino gunman syed farook. Investigators have said Enrique Marquez bought two assault rifles three years ago. They say those weapons were used in the mass shooting that killed 14 people earlier this month. A Castro Valley woman has been charged with a hate crime for her rant against two muslims praying in the park. You are very deceived by satan your mind has been taken over, brainwashed and you have nothing but hate, nothing but hate one of the men recorded the woman ranting and throwing coffee at him at Chabot Regional Park this month. Denise slater is now facing two misdemeanor charges of battery on park property and violations of civil rights, a hate crime. She is scheduled to appear in court in hayward next month. And a judge has ruled the Oikos University shooting suspect is still mentally unfit to stand trial. One goh is charged with serve counts of murder for the rampage in oakland in 2012. Prosecutes say goh had dropped out of oikos month before and was prosecutors say goh had dropped out of oikos months before and was targeting someone there. He is schizophrenic. The use of force policy in San Francisco is under scrutiny. Anne makovec spoke to loved ones of mario woods, and they Say Something has to change after he was killed by police. Reporter many people believe that if the sfpd carried tasters we wouldnt be here to cover a funeral today. This one started at 11 a. M. Just pray for marios family and his friends. Reporter he was shot by police. Today he is being remembered. Its heartache. Knowing someone so young and then, you know, his life had to end this way. Reporter the moment leading up to mario woods death are documented in several cell phone videos. Woods was wielding a kitchen knife he is accuse of using in a stabbing earlier that day. He is confronted by five officers who together fired at least 15 shots after they say he came at one of them with the knife. That incident prompted changes within the sfpd including a new rule that holds officers accountable for any use of force. Anytime that an officer point his gun at somebody, he has to document that and write a report as to why. Reporter the shooting has chief greg suhr and other city leaders calling for the police to be armed with tasers in the near future. Whats the alternative . We have 30 have more than just the Lethal Weapon response to someone carrying a knife. Reporter those gathering here today Say Something has to change. Officers in the video were cowards. Thats all i saw, cowards. Reporter there are three separate investigations going on right now into the officers conduct that day. We will have more from inside the funeral home tonight on kpix 5 at 5 00 and 6 00. Right now live in San Francisco, anne makevoc, kpix 5. The sister of two children found dead in a redding storage unit is speaking out wondering how this could have happened. An autopsy reveals 3yearold and 6yearold were killed around thanksgiving in monterey county. They were in the custody of the cousin tami joy huntsman. She and Gonzalo Curiel have been arrested in the case. Precious aponte is the sister of the children. They share the same mother, who died in a car accident. Completely tore me apart. You know . I mean, you see these children. They are so innocent, so young. You think, why would anybody want to hurt them . The childrens 9yearold sister is in the hospital recovering from severe abuse. Huntsman was reported to Child Protective Services 4 times in the last area for neglect. The children were not removed from the home. A fewer house ago a suspect accused of opening fire on a busy oklahoma highway surrendered to police. The shooting spree last night left two dead. Police say he shot so many cars he didnt know his victims. Police havent released his identity. He is being held on a preliminary complaint of driving under the influence. More charges are expected later today. Prosecutors headed back to court this morning a day after a mistrial was declared in the trial of a Baltimore Police officer William Porter one of six officers charged in the april death of freddie gray. Gray suffered a severe spinal cord injury while in police custody. The jury in the case was deadlocked on manslaughter and other charges. While prosecutors are weighing their options, the community is keeping an open mind. Overnight demonstrations were peaceful. A decision is expected sometime today. Meantime, a grand jury has indicted a chicago Police Officer in the shooting death of a teenager. Officer Jason Van Dyke is charged with firstdegree murder and official misconduct. The indictment alleges van dyke shot 17yearold Laquan Mcdonald knowing it could cause, quote, death or great bodily harm. Mcdonald was walking down the street and was carrying a knife last year when he was shot 16 times. Defense secretary ash carter under fire after the pentagon acknowledged he used his private emails to conduct workrelated business. In an exclusive interview with cbs news, carter admitted he should never have used his personal email for work. His admission comes after the New York Times used the freedom of information act to obtain 72 workrelated emails that carter sent or received back in april. He has been called the most hide man in america for his huge price hike on a life saving drug. The force awakens tonight from ethic movie marathons to lightsaber duels, how bay area fans are getting excited for star wars. And from the kpix 5 weather center, good afternoon, everybody it is fired up. Its ready to go. Its hidef doppler radar. Well track the incoming storms together as the news continues on kpix 5. ,,,,,,, want to do Something Special this Holiday Season . Support i have a dream foundation. Help a child achieve the dream of a higher education. Cbs cares. Star wars the force awakens hits theaters tonight. Ane gala reporter kiet do well, the most anticipated movie of the year finally has made it. Star wars the force awakens hitting theaters tonight and the galaxy as you might imagine is buzzing. Reporter San Jose Police asked them not to allow anyone to line up until 6 00 6 30 a. M. To keep the sidewalks clear. Right at the stroke of 6 30, they came now, the theater at the tech in downtown san jose is the only venue showing it in 70 millimeter imax on the west coast. And here is the film itself. It is nine miles long and it weighs 1200 pounds. Theater Operations ManagerMichelle Duncan had to watch the movie to make sure it was okay yesterday. She said it was an Emotional Experience almost made her cry. Its indescribable it just it starts you on a journey on your own a lot of imagination. Some were raised on it. Something important to a lot of people. Its going to be something that we all kind of share reporter meanwhile at a theater far, far away in San Francisco, they have already started like up at the amc van ness. Yes, they brought their light sabres and, yeah, they battled it out. The First Showing is at 7 p. M. Tonight at the vtech. They have sold out until next thursday. Check with the theater policy, they are not allowing any head coverings or replica weapons, light sabres and blasters included. In downtown san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. In dublin, diehard star wars fans are entering hour 8 of a franchise marathon. The regal cinema will show every star wars movie ever made leading up to the premiere of the force awakens at 7 00. The force strong in these fans to see the marathon as a rite of passage can you actually sit through six straight movies just to get to the next movie . Im looking at it as a test if were worthy. Star wars is projected to have the highest grossing opening day ever. Healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente plans to start it own medical school in southern california. The l. A. Times reports the oakland based Nonprofit Health system has not selected a site yet. Head of kaiser says he wants to take the Companys Technology had been driven model of care to train young doctors. Classes set to begin in 2019. Options the pharmaceutical ceo was arrested on securities fraud. Mar kin sker really Martin Shkreli is accused of plundering a Biopharmaceutical Company he useed to run for personal game. His legal team declined comment breaking news. Word of an earthquake shaking southern mexico. It had a magnitude of 6. 6. It was centered near the town of [ nonenglish language ] not far from the border of guatemala. It was near the coast but no threat of a tsunami for them time for weather now. Lets go to roberta and find out how were doing. We have a significant change in our weather beginning with today. Heres what you need to know after a cool start to our day. It wasnt as chilly this morning as it has been in recent mornings. We have a cool afternoon slated with a few north bay sprinkles and rain moves in tomorrow. Heres the deal. This is the leading edge of a front thats now pressing up against the northwestern section of the state of california. Lets go ahead and track this together with our futurecast. And you can see how the clouds thicken across the bay area as the afternoon progresses into the evening. A bit of a break across the Santa Clara Valley but look upstream. Look to the north. By 9 00 on friday morning, then we begin to see this quickly move through the north bay by the afternoon hours. Across the central bay and into the Santa Clara Valley by 9 00 so obviously our evening commute on friday is going to be adversely affected by rain showers. The front pushes through, the core of the center of the area of low pressure, bringing more rain showers for our saturday morning. And then we get a bit of a break on saturday afternoon. Sunday will be mainly cloudy and dry and then we have a secondary system for sunday night. We should see up to an in of an inch of rain throughout many locations away from the bay. Statewide today in the Central Valley into 50s. 41 in greater lake tahoe area. Alpine meadows more snow this weekend. Sugar bowl has more snow on saturday all the way through monday. Our temperatures today in the 50s. Otherwise the extended forecast does call for a secondary storm on sunday into your monday morning commute. A daily chance of rain on tuesday and wednesday. Make it a great thursday. Well do that. Time for our food for bay area families. The holidays approaching us. The Vice President and head of Corporate Responsibility for visa and leslie from the San Francisco marin food bank. Welcome. Thank you. Doug, you guys have done a lot of work with the food bank over the years. Why is it so important to give back . Thank you for having us. And whether here in our campus at home or around the world, visa is committed to making sure our neighborhoods are healthy and vibrant. We have a longstanding history with the food bank and outstanding groups like them and we have given nearly 400,000 in recent years volunteer hours, too, over 2,000 man hours our employees love working in the warehouse. If you are interested in volunteering, its a great place to volunteer you brought a visa debit card. Drum roll. We have 100,000 gift for the Sf Marin Food Bank outstanding. Thats fantastic. And leslie, who and how many will that feed . Well, this will provide enough for to us provide food for 100,000 meals im sorry, 300,000 meals this Holiday Season which is really important for all the families and seniors and individuals we serve right here in San Francisco and marin its a season to give. Thank you so much, doug, leslie, thank you so much. And you can give too if you would like more information on how to help out the food bank. Go to cbssf. Com give. Well be right back. ,,,,,,,,,, so today were adding even e color. With purple asparag. Tony tantillo tells us the way to prepare it. Today we talked about the green and white and today we are adding more color with purple asparagus. Tony tantillo tells us the best way to prepare it reporter well, todays tip of the day is going to be is purple asparagus. For some reason in the wintertime asparagus is great. And in the spring it becomes locally grown but right now, its being imported in. Very minimal very few are locally grown right now. So when you see purple asparagus, thats important, fairly expensive. Selection and storage to enjoy it. One thing about purple asparagus, when you overcook it, it turns green. So what i like to do, quick selection, purple from top to bottom, a lot of times, youre going to find purple asparagus with the white trunk. Thats how it is. You dont have to get rid of that white part. Just shave it down a little bit. So what i do when i but purple asparagus, i shave with the peeler halfway all the way down so you got purple and green after you shave it, white at the end. Then i just steam it and not too long. All the colors are vibrant. Add lemon juice and the colors are nice and vibrant. And delicious looking. You will love it. When you mix it with the white and green, asparagus salad hot or cold. And im tony tantillo, your fresh grocer. And always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy. This weeks jefferson award winner is spending her so called retirement working harder than ever. Allen martin explains how she is bringing some holiday joy to tens of thousands of kids in San Francisco. If we find some more boys stuff because were getting low on boys stuff i noticed. Reporter 12 years ago Sally Casazza walked away from her fulltime job with a Big Corporation only to find herself running something much bigger. I took an early retirement, came here as a volunteer and was able to take over the position when it became available and its the best job i have ever had. I love it. Everything thats on that table needs to get in a bag. Reporter sally chairs the San FranciscoFirefighters Toy Program. The holiday toy drive started in 1949 with a bunch of firefighters fixing bikes in the basement of the fire station on bush street. Merry christmas reporter last christmas, 31,000 kids had well, a christmas thanks to sally and hundreds of volunteers who collect, sort and hand out thousands upon thousands of toys. Each child gets four toys. They get an age and sex appropriate toy, probably an arts and crafts item or sports item, maybe a book or a game and whatever else is donated. Reporter sally says the need for certain toys changes year to year but for some reason, this year they really need sports toys for kids. Basketballs, soccer balls, baseballs, volleyballs. Reporter this is the first year Nicole Holmes and her daughter have received toys from the firefighters. To get Different Things regarding what they use every day like a toothbrush, theyre excited about that, like oh, my gosh i got a new toothbrush and just the different toys that they got is very i love it. Reporter retired deputy chief pat gardner has been volunteering since 1981 and has witnessed sallys dedication. For her its not just seasonal. Its all year long. She does this she is always setting up for next year. And as soon as this year ends, she is already working on next year. You know, thats what the holidays are about, kids need toys. Reporter so for making sure tens of thousands of children experience the joy of toys for christmas, this weeks jefferson award in the bay area goes to Sally Casazza. Allen martin, kpix 5. Find a a link to the Firefighters Toy Program online at cbssf. Com hero if you like to donate to the San FranciscoFirefighters Toy Program theres an app for that. Uber will help you do it. Users can request to have an uber sleigh pick up new unw rapped toys without charge. An uber elf will deliver the toys to the Firefighters Toy Program. 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Why parents are calling one mother a grinch tha an tonight on kpix 5 news at 5 00 a local school cancels an annual field trip to visit santa claus. Why parents are calling one mother a grinch. That and more at 5 00. And thats it for kpix 5 news at noon. Whats tomorrow . Friday we love friday captions by caption colorado comments captioncolorado. Com , steffy youre arresting me . Lt. Baker you broke the temporary restraining order. Liam she was only trying to make things right with ivy. Steffy i wanted she and i to talk reasonably. Lt. Baker i understand thats what you wanted, but thats not it worked out, now is it . Steffy its just a little bump on her head. Lt. Baker which never would have happened if you had obeyed the court order and stayed away. Steffy ivy. Ivy, you have to listen to me. This isnt gonna solve anything. You dont have to be scared of me. Ivy well, thats not how it feels for me. Look, you may not get this, but a judge does. Rules are rules. You cant just ignore them because youre steffy forrester. Rick glad you stopped by. We havent seen much of you since thanksgiving. Maya is everything okay . Julius your mother had an interview at the dmv. Vivienne yeah, it went very well. Were waiting to hear back from