Camera. It is quite chilly. Look at our current temperatures especially in the north bay. 43 for richmond. Ford currently in oakland. The 42 currently in hayward. Satellite and radar imagery shows clear skies with barely any clouds. Even in the pacific theyre dying to get to the California Coastal we are in great shape. That will dominate. Mike, i think thats for days in a runoff for our spare the air. Cold mornings and more days throughout the weekend. 674 mountain view. San francisco should reach 64 degrees. Your 7 day on the bay forecast a little sunshine and store. No rain and the forecast. We are said to have the driest calendar year on record here in california. A lot of sunshine with very mild temperatures. We can turn our attention to trafficking see the bay bridge toll plaza or things. Sampras if you look at the cemetery of bridge. Golden gate bridge moving well in both directions as well. The problems there at this hour. Anny alison calls it has more on what to buy and when. youve been shopping for everybody else to make their christmas dreams come true. Now its time to get selfish and shopped for yourself as the discount get even deeper. The best after christmas sales are close. Website deals say expect huge markdown from banana republic, club monaco, capp and french connection. New years day is the best time to buy furniture. Its become a tradition for people to shop for furniture that day. New furniture lines, in february so there is old products to move. Its also the second or third biggest a Firm Mattress sales. Mattress companies have caught on to the furniture transit and piggybacked with major sales. Want a big screen tv with a few more weeks. Femur says its the perfect storm. New models did announce the super bowl was an early february and retailers are looking forward to moving out the old stuff. How about a new car . December 31st is the day to buy. Dealers and auto makers want to make here and goals. Kelly blue book says consumers will get the best possible deal on a new car of the last day of the year and maybe until january 2nd at some dealerships. I mouse and caustic in new york. santa slate didnt make it on time for christmas to to shipping problems and heat it ups and fedex. The delays were blamed on poor weather earlier in the week as well as overloaded systems. Neither company says how many packages were delayed and says it was a small percentage of overall holiday shipment. They did not make any deliveries or pickups yesterday but the plan to resume normal service today. Amazon credit alert customers to what they call amazon now offering to refund shipping charges and also about 20 gift cards. Firefighters in San Francisco spent part of their christmas fight battling a to a large fire in golden gate park. Night. Firearm baker street just before 9 00 last night. Two people were injured and the blaze in a twostory victorian building. Two others were displaced. They had just finished about two years of renovations. Liking Million Dollars worth of just gorgeous restoration. And looks like thats all run because we could hear them breaking windows and pulling out this fall. Its pretty sad. Anny we dont know the conditions of the two people were injured and his fire. Firefighters stayed at the same last night in case of any flare ups is tsk the family of jahi mcmath, the teen girl declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy is going to discuss their next move today. They could decide whether or not to appeal a judges decision allowing children to hospital oakland to remove her from life support. The judge issued the ruling to tuesday, but gave the family until 5 00 p. M. On december 30th to file an appeal. Jahis family says they believe she is still alive. They spent the Christmas Holiday at jahis bedside with a Christmas Tree and presents for her and her siblings. Anny while many this holiday open the gets and spends time with families and friends, one family in livermore spend their first christmas without her daughter. 21 yearold Kristina Chesterton and aspiring Nursing Student, was killed in september by a drunk driver in chico. The family continues to struggle with her death, but kristina gave the gift of life this christmas. Last night, family and friends remembered her and the organs she donated to save another life. Her parents talked about spending this christmas without her. we just think about the great memories carry it anny as a thankyou for donating part of her kidney, the family of a baby named j. Then sent a letter to the family. Jaden. Well be right back after this break the time now is 408. From the thai some rattled philippines to conflict toward syria to the stable gathered in st. Petersburg state and rome. All very different places the similar wishes of hold on Christmas Day. In his first Christmas Day address as leader of the Catholic Church pope francis spoke of world peace. trapeze is not a lovely facade which conceals conflict and division. Peace calls for daily commitment. About and the United Kingdom and message from Queen Elisabeth called for quiet reflection. for christians as for all people of faith, reflect and meditation and prayer helps us renew ourselves and got to love. As we strive daily to become better people and and the u. S. The beaches of hawaii and maybe where santa up paddled in for rest. Its also where the first family has been enjoying a holiday vacation. The white house released a christmas message from the president and first lady encourage americans to embrace the spirit so many people across the country are helping out as soup kitchens, buying gifts for children in need are organizing food and clothing drives for neighbors. For families like ours, that service is a chance to celebrate the birth of christ and about what he taught us. But it also praised the men and women serving in the military and their families here at home. In washington, im karen k. Fog. Coming up on the kron4 morning news, a look at your forecast. When we come back, and other mild 13 alleging a how long those conditions are sticking around. Theres a lot from our mount tam camera. Clear skies on this day after christmas. The time now is 412. Coup morning and welcome back. Thousands of people hit by a note recent ice storm in the midwest and east coast may not get power back on for another day. Tens of thousands of homes in michigan and maine have been without electricity since saturday. The storm is also being blamed for at least 27 deaths in the us and canada. The conditions could worsen as more snow is expected to fall, keeping ice from melting off power lines and tree branches, posing new hit lets see what are on forecast and national is. Heres rubin. staff and at least delay consideration as you are traveling this day after christmas. Arlo delays are nil. Nonetheless for asphalt oakland salmon at all in good shape. The reason for that we have clear skies over and california. Very strong bridge of High Pressure sending over the entire state. Thats going to bring some pretty nice conditions. Current conditions 47 and San Francisco right now we are at 34 degrees out in concord. Air afternoon highs quite a bit warmer. 60s davenport. For your east bay highs looking for work it 64 and alameda. But kron 47 day around the bay or salmon to high seventies off through the week. We will stay out of the 33 is a very nice conditions. You could hear east bay forecast looks pretty good. We have not delays westbound. Expecting tolls and a light day. Hopefully i didnt chang said. With a look at the san mateo bridge. 88092 no delays. Eastbound a process that we are in good shape as well and the nets also in good shape. Golden gate bridge 101 no problem. No. On or softbound. Were in good shape in and out of San Francisco. Light holiday traffic. We like that thanks to dan for it anny a new year and a new attitude for Many Americans in 2014. A new Associated Press poll shows a majority of people are ready to start the new year with a sense of optimism. On the whole, americans rate their own experience in 2013 more positively than negatively. But the poll also finds when it comes to the world at large, their opinions turn sour. 20 percent say 2013 was worse than 2012 and about half say the past two years were about the same. New information on the target credit card data breach. The hackers who compromised nearly 40 million credit and debit cards also got a hold of encrypted pin numbers, according to an executive familiar with the situation. One Major Us Bank believes hit the theives would be able to crack the encryption code and make fraudulent withdrawals from Consumer Bank accounts. A target spokesperson says no unencrypted pin data was accessed and there was no evidence any pin data was compromised. The target data breach is believed to be the second largest in us retail history. A christmas message coming from a very unlikely person. Nsa leaker edward snowden. He addressed the british people and the world on a london based tv network. It is an alternative message that accompanies the one the queen gives. The Us Intelligence leaker warned people everywhere. Your government may be watching. Snowden spent the holiday in russia where hes been granted temporary asylum. He fled there after releasing thousands of classified documents detailing the us governments extensive spying network that monitors its own people and foreign leaders. Pellet gunfire rang out in southeast washington on Christmas Eve. And sadly, the target appeared to be a man dressed in a santa suit. It happened while he was delivering toys. Nikki burdine caught up with the volunteer and reports on how hes doing. Not police say it was a poet of right side and fired shots and all saint nicks mac. From that of china and what else got hurt. But he was delivering presents to kids so it is tough past eight years as that at all toy drive. Hotjudge give away. He was taken to George Washington hospital were they removed the pellets and sent him on his way. We caught up with santa also known as it is a beer hall cans after he was released. But i think there were targeting santa directly. He was most upset. He couldnt finish the job. Memo meanwhile back at barry farms but even that could stop people here in barry farms from celebrating christmas and getting into the Christmas Spirit of picking up our staff to left off of course. Delivering the christmas toys to all the good boys and girls. And we are happy to report to the center is doing just fine. Good news for bay area children who otherwise may not get any presents for christmas. A San Francisco toy drive exceeded its goal. Lefty odouls last minute what toy drive collected more than 10 thousand new and unwrapped toys. It was the 13th year for the toy drive. Final numbers came in at 11thousand 200 toys. The event started early Tuesday Morning and ended Christmas Morning. With police and firefighters distributing the toys to children. The success of the toy drive has organizers thinking of expanding its partnership with city organizations and Tech Companies next year. Whatdid you end up with a gift thats not exactly a perfect fit . Make sure to know those that store return policies. Many retailers have adopted stiffer return policies. Return fraud can be costly for stores. According to the National Retail federation, stores will lose an estimated 3 point3 billion dollars just during the Holiday Season. So. To make sure both stores and customers remain happy. Remember. Make sure you know the length of the return window, and whether Holiday Gifts get an extension. Certain items carry a restocking fee, common for electronics. Ahead video games and movies cant be returned once opened. Shoppers should also bring their stateissued id to the store. A retailer may ask for it, especially if you dont have the receipt. A las vegas cabbie had no not come back. And Las Vegas Cady had noa las v egas cabbie had no second thoughts about whatdollars cash he found in his taxi this week. Aaron drawhorn has the story. note he dropped a passenger off at palms place. What did he know he was dropping off a professional poker player who had a gooda good night. But he gave me 5 tip. the guy got out of the catch at thomas place leave and a brown paper bag behind read it was discovered at 8 shorttime from the doorman of the biological originally thought is was chocolate in the back. This assists canal and the blush hill with his next his passenger left chocolate. He was in store for a sweet surprise. i want to know what kind of chocolate it was. it was big 100 bills. About 300,000 of coal tar crash. 300,000 of thats just cold hard cash. And he did the right thing by turning the money over. Soon the 28 yearold passenger shot up here looking for his 300,000 bucks for it and he wanted to shoot himself and the head. He was devastated. The taxi company, to police to do a full investigation to determine the money belonged to the man of the person who lost it. darya he is. Ims worldwide poker player. for his integrity he was named driver of the year and received a dinner of two for a high in steakhouse and a thousand dollar reward from yellow checker star. i hope that goes a long way for christmas. it will. Thank you. and he hopes on a still go a long way. Anny coming up on the kron4 morning news, many stores are just 30 minutes away from opening for post Christmas Shopping for it will have live reports. I want to know all those bills. And heres a live look outside at the james lick freeway camera. We are Holiday Schedule as far as the morning commute coast. Dan will be keeping us posted on that. Welcome back. The time now is 430. Now that all the presents have been unwrapped. Its time for people to go out and spend most haute gift cards. My guess live vote with updates. Daysmike live in livermore with an update. it almost feels like black christmasblack friday once again as stores are trying to get people lined up to spend as much money as they can. It but stores are opening up earlier today. Theyre offering big discounts in some stores you can find discounts as much as 70 off selected items. If youre shopping today facebook us and let us know what kind of deals you are fighting to weaken share with all of our viewers. Kent also a popular dayas it is also a popular day to return items that you know youre never 12 where perhaps it and spain gift cards. With all the deals stores are hoping he will spend even more on other items that they have. Us thank you mike. Anny i always end up spending more note that i plan to the today marks the 4th consecutive spare the air day for the bay area. Getthat means no wood burning indoors or outdoors for 24 hours. The only exception is for homes that depend on wood pet burning as their only source of heat. The dry, mild weather this week has built up pollutants that make the air unhealthy to breathe. People who violate the ban can face a 100 dollar fine or be forced to take a wood Smoke Awareness class. But still in court as Early Morning. We have 47 car San Francisco. 45 for daly city. 46 and san mateo. 41 curley and the sunnyvale and 42 is an attempt to right now in fremont. If such a skies will dominate our mild temperatures for friday to report will experience some cool mornings. Anny fog or clotting mess we have is going to burn off early afternoon. Nice day today. At afternoon hayeks 67 for mountain view. 7 day in los gatos we had a record high temperatures and oakland yesterday. Quick check the rest of the east bay and see that 65 will be are high and san leandro 66 and union city. 65 for castro valley. Also in pleasanton. North bay and peninsula correct financial district reaching 64. Kron47 day around the bay forecast, a lot of sunshine. A lot of mild temperatures and for the most part, stain above the freezing zone. Approaching having a year. 2014, we are in great shape. We can turn our attention to traffic and take a look of the bay bridge toll plaza to see that things are moving pretty well in the westbound direction. It is expected to be a rather light traffic week but we will see if that proves to be true. San mateo bridge 88092 no problem here. Chp not reporting a single accident for our entire bay area region. Not even eight stall or debris. Its a good time to head the roadways if you have to print print anny thankyou dan furyk San Jose Police are asking but for help tracking down a man that has been missing since late tuesday night. 79yearold Howard Kupfer was reported missing by his family on wednesday. We was last seen in morgan hill. Officials say his credit cards were reported being used in Monterey County on wednesday. They say he has no known medical problems. And was last seen driving his 2002 silver honda accord. With the california license plate but number 4wse1 36. In antioch, two men were injured in separate shootings on Christmas Day. Both of them happened within two hours. The first shooting happened just before 2 yesterday afternoon. A 19 year old was shot in the chest in an attempted robbery on rock island drive near deer valley road. The second shooting occurred ha around 3 o clock on west 19th street near the Contra Costa County fairgrounds. A 26 year old man was shot in the leg in an apparent driveby. So far, no suspects have been arrested in either if ha hoss not get the grinch nearly spoiled christmas for one east bay family but some generous Police Officers have made everything better. Two new work children will Christmas Morning to find all the gifts under the Christmas Tree gone. Newark. Police say burglar entered the home on Cherry Street through an open window during the night and made off with the toys. Officers who investigated the crime decided to donate money for the family. Each cheek stand for a total of 100, matched by another hundred from the Newark Police association. A Homeless Center in San Francisco has closed its doors, leaving young people with one less place to go for help. The Homeless Youth alliance in the citys ice Haight Ashbury neighborhood provides muchneeded medical services and counseling for thousands of Homeless Youth. The Nonprofit Group has to leave its space because the building needs seismic retrofitting. They also could not raise the millions of dollars needed to relocate. And despite pleas and a petition to stay, the alliance closed for good last night. They were hoping for a christmas miracle. But it never came. A Homeless Youth center in San Francisco is now closed. After it got kicked out of its building today. New details this morning about the hepatitis a warning for customers of a north beach restaurant you can get a preemptive shot to protect you if youve been exposed to the highly contageous disease. The food handler at the comstock saloon on columbus avenue who was diagnosed with hepa has been restricted from work until they are no longer contageous. And while Health Officials say the risk of infection is low. Anyone who ate or drank at comstock december 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th or 19th. Should see their doctor. If youve been vaccinated already, you should be ok. If not. You can get a vaccine that can protect you within 14 days of exposure. That means if you were at the comstock on the 12th. Today is the last day that vaccine will work. Happening today. Formal charges for paul ciancia. The man accused of a shooting spree at lax november first. This will be the first time ciancia will appear before a judge, since a federal grand jury issued indictments for murder, and attempted murder against him. Calling the shooting an act of terrorism. The 23year old is accused of planning the shooting. Before killing a tsa agent. And targeting two others. If convicted, ciancia could get the death penalty. The grace period ends friday if you want to get Health Insurance that starts january first, 2014. Frustrated trying to sign up for obamacare. There is a chance the grace period could be extended beyond friday, especially if the system continues to have trouble. But that decision will be made only after covered california officials consult with Insurance Companies and brokers who are trying to help people sign up. A former nba player says he wants to build a onepoint three billion dollar arena on the las vegas strip. Vegas strip arena Jackie Robinson announced the project this week. Its tentatively called the all net arena and resort. It would be built on the site of a former water park near the renovated Sls Las Vegas hotelcasino and the fontainebleau tower. Robinson says the project is privately funded. He says construction could begin next spring and be completed in 2016. The 22 thousand seat stadium would be the second new arena in vegas. Now time for the kron4 tech report which gave a slate. if you need repairs up to your home that can be very hard task finding the right person for it how you know how much the job will cost, how you know what price of doubt you once they show up and who you trust. Theres a new app that makes it very easy to get repairs or services down and your home. Its called local, a free app to use. If you need work done, you sign up but a two hour window for our arrival time and choose your service. Usually you can get sameday service. it showed exactly where the guy was, is to me pictures. I knew he was the right person for the job. and for needed new baseboards put dan. He used local to book the job. officials agree to know youre getting some of qualify. The rest prescreening their employees. Im real happy with a knowing what im paying upfront. weve got every negotiated all of the prices. It will cost the same no matter where you live in a matter which service prelude we send. If you have an assistant for our price is very consistent you pay directorate you can either write a check or you could slide your credit card on the ipad that the tech has with them and use what the card, with your finger. Its so easy to restore all year warranties, receipts and invoices online for it gave a slate kron 4 anny welcome back. The time now is 447. I know dan. Its been my old and probably mild for the rest of the year. Any changes at all . The morning dan. and patted pretty mellow morning. Not just about me its about you and we have great pictures here from mount tam cam. A very nice bay area on the day after christmas. Satellite and radar imagery shows that will continue. A very strong high ridge of pressure permit camping out of the states but not going anywhere for the next few days. We will be in great shape. Great shape as a vote for it only 41 in sunnyvale. 42 in hayward. For the in oakland where we so i i get to 69. Thats a new record that might even approach record territory today 367 expected for mountain view. 69 for campbell. Perkins 70 in the ultimate valley and 68 in san jose. East bay, were looking at 64 and walnut creek. 654 hayward. 65 for san leandro. 63 for concord and 65 for pleasanton. North bay and peninsula 64 and center to discuss financial district. 65 will be afternoon high and a bottle. Your kron 47 day around the bay forecast shows a lot of sunshine and a lot of temperatures approaching 70 degrees. We may not have seen the record highs for the and this week. We have clear skies and the forecast. Maybe chile but for late mild conditions for the rest of 2013 grid was take a look at traffic now. Westbound toll plaza looking very good. No metering lights for now. And really no incidents reported byso we ae both in and out of San Francisco. We can take a look at the golden gate bridge. Nonetheless, wafer oaklandjudge 101 in either direction bridge 92 san mateo bridge and the problems either. 84 also looking couple the eastbound and westbound at this time anny 2013 was the year of stock market highs, fast food worker protests, bitcoin and jeff bezos. Cnns Christine Romans and Richard Quest count down the top 10 business stories of the year. and no. 10 the amahs and chief executive taking on media. Bay to under 50 million for the washington post. Hes investing in a cutting edge technology. And number nine at marin saw fire. One whole year on the job so now we can see what kind of leadership is antioch hope. Our goal to make yahoo cool again. Her strategy a shopping spree. 1. 1 billion for the blocking website tumbler admire picked up former evening news kidderas katie couric. Seven. Tackle winners. A yearandahalf after Facebook Face plant ikea. Twitter launched a New York Stock Exchange may get some of its cofounders very very wealthy. But neither facebook nor to enter can match google pershare price for it they topped 1,000 a year. No. 6. And the coin we trust. Vic coin shows the world it is real. Some say a safehaven investment. Despite mass of volatility on the way the Virtual Currency that could have surged. It was up 14 at the beginning of the year. It closed around 1,200 at the end of november. No. 5. Yours always. American airlines. Butu. S. Airways and american airlines. The merger creating the Largest Airline for it for the Justice Department says that will bring get lowcost carriers and help travelers with ticket prices on the rise. Consumers may still lose out. No. For the government shut down for i the shutdown lasted 16 days. Government offices, National Parks close, 800,000 workers sent home for it final cost of the economy around 24 billion. No. 3 health care. Gov with the president initially called glitches turned into a major catastrophe. Decide has picked up but its still hard to predict whether the website will be in full factory no. 2 jp morgan americas biggest bank will pay 13 billion for civil charges and misled investors about the quality of the mortgages is sold leading up to the financial crisis. It is the biggest settlement to date. The Justice Department says it wont be the last three and one. Stock market to record. The federal reserves pumping so much money into the economy, stocks lost new highs. Main street isnt feeling so good. Fastfood workers across the country on strike, protesting what they say property wages calling for a 15 minimum wage. Thats a debate that wont end with a new year. Remember to join us for kron 4s new years live presented by nissan. The only local and live new years eve show. Gary radnich and Catherine Heenan will make sure you have a front row seat to the best fireworks and parties. Thats new years eve live right after the news at 11. Take a look at this. Santa claus has been showing up all over the u. S. Sometimes in the most unlikely of places. Hes ditched this led numerous times this season ringing the opening bell on wall street, hitching a ride on the racetrack and enjoying the water as much as the snow. And san diego, he shot by water jet packhe showed up. And board shorts and suspenders and then took pictures with kids and their families on a 6 ft. Model wave. Even water skied the automatic river near washington d. C. All while trying to avoid a jet skiing branch. Grinch. Potomac river newar washington, d. C. President obama and the first lady continued their annual tradition of meeting with troops in hawaii on Christmas Day. Mr. And mrs. Obama joined marines and their families at Marine Corps Base hawaii to thank them for their service. Earlier, the white house says the president called military Members Around the world. Coming up on the kron4 morning news, many Stores Opening in just a moment for the post Christmas Shopping frenzy. Were standing by with a live report. In a threealarm fire on Christmas Evening pleased to San Francisco resident injured. We will have an update. And the family of jahi mcmath could decide to file a court appeal today to keep the team on life support. Those details coming up. Top stories we are following on this thursday december 26th. A busy day for shoppers as many of you are heading out to spend those gift cards. Well break down the deals. Plus. A threealarm fire on christmas injures two people in San Francisco. We have an update. A gorgeous picture from our mount tam cam out. We have very clear conditions. We have 47 right now and San Francisco. 37 and oakland. I will talk about those high temperatures coming up and a bit. And now we turn our attention to george with traffic. George we are expecting those of you who are heading back to work. We will continue to see how they like conditions. Heres your quick commute check. Like condition still for highway 4. For interstate 580 through the east bay and peninsula south and north bay ride also look good so far. Today is one of the busiest shopping days of the year. With many Stores Opening as early as 5 am so shoppers can get those postchristmas deals. Joining us live is kron4s mike pelton at the close door in livermore were stores have just opened. the manager just unlocked the doors. You can see the lights behind me. They have not seen anyone go in the stores just the abacos is one of the biggest retailers to open this morning. Retell stores are really try to encourage shoppers to get inside today. As retailers are trying to make up for a disappointing Holiday Season retailers are hoping today is a big sales day. i think we are going to hit macys first. And then probably sacks. Maybe saks first and then macys. we came up earlier today to map our game plan for it as you come back out here live. You could see calls is open. they have some items of to 70 off. The manager tells me a lot of these extended hours bart to accommodate those returning things this morning. If you are out shopping this morning or later this afternoon, tweet was or facebook us and let us know where you are finding some of the best deals. And that mike pelton live in livermore. Thank you. santa slate didnt make it in time for some people do to delays at ups and fedex. The delays were blamed on poor weather earlier in the week. As well as overloaded systems. Neither company said how many packages were delayed. But said it was a small percentage of overall holiday shipments. Ups did not make any pickups or deliveries yesterday, but they plan to resume normal service today. This all has had an impact on companies too. Amazon alerted customers to what it called a failure in the ups transportation network. Amazon is offering to refund shipping charges and give out 20dollar gift cards. Firefighters in San Francisco spent part of their christmas night battling a two alarm fire near golden gate park. Take a look at the video. Crews were called to the fire on baker street just before 9 o clock last night. Two people were injured in the blaze at a threestory victorian building. Two others were displaced. The conditions of the two people injured are not known this morning. Firefighters stayed at the scene last night checking for any flareups. The family of jahi mcmath, the teen girl declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy, is going to discuss their next move today. They could decide whether or not to appeal a judges decision allowing Childrens Hospital oakland to remove jahi from life support. The judge issued the ruling tuesday, but gave the family until 5 pm on december 30th to file an appeal. Jahis family says they believe she is still alive. They spent the Christmas Holiday at jahis bedside. With a Christmas Tree and presents for her and her siblings. While many this holiday opened gifts and spent time with families and friends, one family in livermore spent their first christmas without their daughter. 21yearold Kristina Chesterman an aspiring Nursing Student was killed in september by a drunk driver in chico. The family continues to struggle with her death, but kristina gave the gift of life this christmas. Last night, family and friends remembered christina and the organs she donated to save another life. To save another life. Her parents talked check it out. Learnings fun now. Yeah, back in our day, we didnt have uverse high Speed Internet to play and learn online. All we had was that franklin fuzzypants. Ah, the educational toy bear. Remember when the battery went out . [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abcs. All i learned was a new definition of fear. 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The weeklong, non religious holiday was first observed in 1966. It celebrates African American cultures and sfor seven days, kwanzaa calls on all of us to focus on seven principles unity, selfdetermination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith. Kwanzaa runs through january first. Yesterday was a day marked by deep tradition, family gatherings, and calls for peace. Karin caifa takes a look at celebrations and holiday messages from around the world on Christmas Day. Good. Good answer. Check it out. Learnings fun now. Yeah, back in our day, we didnt have uverse high Speed Internet to play and learn online. All we had was that franklin fuzzypants. Ah, the educational toy bear. Remember when the battery went out . [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abcs. All i learned was a new definition of fear. I need some pudding. Yeah, theres one left. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high Speed Internet. Rethink possible. Thousands of people hit by a recent ice storm in the midwest and east coast may not get power back on for another day. Tens of thousands of homes in michigan and maine have been without electricity since saturday. The storm is also being blamed for at least 27 deaths in the us and canada. The conditions could worsen as more snow is expected to fall, keeping ice from melting off power lines and tree branches, posing new risks for outages. Very heavy snowfall in some areas and also a heavy rainfall and the southeast. The South Carolina and North Carolina feeling it. Nothing to be afraid of. Oakland and san jose mineta in good shape if youre traveling from those areas of at least. And if we are looking for San Francisco, youll see some very clear conditions. A gorgeous shot from our roof tam camera. 46 for san mateo, 37 in oakland. 33 in concord. 41 their Current Conditions in hayward. Here afternoon highs. We are looking for at 67 in mountain view. 68 in santa clara. Rear east bay temperatures, we are looking at mid60s for the most part. 65 for hayward. 64 and walnut creek. 65 for danville 61 out by ocean beach. Very nice day and napa. We have lots of sunshine in the forecast. New years eve forecast and new years day looking great. No one burning all today as the spare the air is still in effect. It was take a look at traffic. George i think we will see pretty light traffic around the bay. From the e shore freeway from 580 and 24 and for the nimitz freeway northbound. Heres a look at your ride on interstate 80 in shore freeway. Its possible we may see a little congestion sometime this morning through the odd lot pastorate right now the drive time is running 21 to 23 minutes. South a few modesto completely clear and soldier north bay ride for when all one and the southbound direction. The delays at the 1192 or 1184 interchanges. Anny time now is 5193a new year and a new attitude for Many Americans in 2014. A new Associated Press poll shows a majority of people are ready to start the new year with a sense of optimism. On the whole, americans rate their own experience in 2013 more positively than negatively. But the poll also finds when it comes to the world at large, their opinions turn sour. 20 percent say 2013 was worse than 2012 and about half say the past two years were about the same. A christmas message coming from a very unlikely person. Nsa leaker edward snowden. He addressed the british people and the world on a london based tv network. It is an alternative message queen gives. The Us Intelligence leaker warned people everywhere. Your government may be watching. Together we can find a better balance and mass surveillance and remind the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always better cheaper than spying. For everyone out there listening thankyou and merry christmas. Snowden spent the holiday in russia where hes been granted temporary asylum. And releasing thousands of classified documents detailing the us governments extensive spying network that monitors its own people and foreign leaders. Pellet gunfire rang out in southeast washington on Christmas Eve. And sadly, the target appeared to be a man dressed in a santa suit. It happened while he was delivering toys. Nikki burdine caught up with the volunteer and reports on time now is 522. Kron4 will be back after this break. [ male announcer ] some things are simply better at home. Like the enticing aroma and distinctive taste of nespresso. Elegant capsules meet masterfully crafted machines, and one touch creates the perfect coffee, cappuccino, and latte. Tempt all your senses with one extraordinary coffee. [ Penelope Cruz ] nespresso. What else . [ male announcer ] available at these fine retailers and nespressous. Com. Welcome back. The time now is 525. Gerardo Tambo was behind the will of the cash gavin didnt know it. when i picked up the back the guy who wanted to go and he was carrying a brown bag. Who knows was in there. he dropped the passenger off the palms place. Little did he know he was dropping off a professional poker player who had a big night. That he did me a 5 to. the guy got out of the car and left the ground back behind. It was discovered a short time later from a doorman at the law shall into this pole thought it was in the bag was chocolate. i dont even know. I know there was money in my back seat. Now of a logical was his next fare believe in his previous passenger left behind chocolate he was in store for a sweet surprise. I wanted to know what kind of chocolate was in there. They were this big 100 bills. 300,000 in cold hard cash. i said you see your my witness. I didnt touch anything care. he did the right thing and turn the money over. Some, the 28 yearold passenger shot up here looking for his 300,000 box 3 the he wanted to shoot himself in the head. He was devastated. the Texas Company called metro police to do a full investigation to determine the money belonged to the man who lost it. He didit did. a very famous worldwide poker player. for his integrity he was named driver of the year and received a dinner for two at a high and steakhouse and 1,000 reward from yellow checkjudge yellow checker starker it he hopes his honesty goes a long hot i hope that angell sees me. A subaru. Are the hands that do good things for the whole community the environment, seniors, kids, and animals. Thats why we created the share the love event. By the end of this year, the total donated by subaru could reach 35 Million Dollars. You get a great deal on a new subaru. Well donate 250 dollars to a choice of charities that benefit your community. It feels good to be a helping hand. That put you on their gift list . Well say hello to aio at aio wireless you can get an android smartphone free with activation. Free Android Phone . . yes please. Plus, aio has a reliable nationwide network and no annual contracts. Its like the presents just keep coming a Wireless Company that puts me at the top of their list . Im in stop by your neighborhood aio store or visit aiowireless. Com. Aio, a new way to wireless. Welcome back. We will not let jeff know how weather is shaping up. I have now started my Christmas Shopping online. We have a great conditions on the day after christmas. There are very mild temperatures. Mid high 60s. It is not too bad. It is currently before the degrees in sunnyvale. It is a little bit of a chilly start off for the firstfor the most part will talk about that. It is an easy ride around the bay this morning and we have continued Holiday Light traffic expected. This is certainly in evidence at the bay bridge toll plaza. There is a little bit more traffic today than what we saw yesterday. At present, it is still light for the north bay, east bay, and the peninsula. Now that all the president s have been on wrapped. It is now time for people to go out and spend their Christmas Money and there gift cards. The stores are now ready for the crowds this morning. Joining us live is kron4 mike pelton. He is live and more a in livermt kohls. They are offering discounts of some 50 . These discounts are similar to what was sought other stores. They opened up a 5 00 a. M. , best buy and macys are also set to open road. You go find a lot of the discounts today. Especially you will find its own clothes. Some stores are only doing this just for a few hours to drive and customers. I spoke took a few people just a few minutes ago. Who does not love shopping . What are you looking for . Just some good deals, Early Morning specials. Are people missing out . Yes. Will you come out, you concede this is a quiet i spoke with the manager and he stated that is tough to say how many people will come out and take advantage of these hours apart of them offering is extended hours is to accommodate customers. A lot of people go back to return items that they did not want. So far, i have not seen people coming with shopping bags, i have only seen people leave with shopping bags. Some of them stated that will hit the stores to rob the morning. I asked them what they were looking for, they just stated that just once more deals. The and you so much mike. San jose police are asking for help to track down a man that has been missing since late tuesday night. 79 yearold Howard Kupfer was reported missing by his family on wednesday. Officials say that his credit cards were reported to have been used in Monterey County. They say that he has no known medical problems. He was last seen driving his 2002 silver honda accord. The california license plate number is 4w se136. In antioch, 2 men were injured in separate shootings on Christmas Day. Most of them happened within 2 hours. The first shooting happened just before 2 00 p. M. Yesterday. A 19 year old was shot in the chest in an attempted robbery. The second shooting occurred around 3 00 p. M. On west 19th street. A 26 your man was shot in the leg and an apparent driveby. So far, no suspects have been arrested. The unclench whegrinch very y spode christmas for a one east bay family, but some generous Police Officers have made everything better. To newark children woke up Christmas Morning to find their gifts under the tree were gone. Police say that a burglar entered the home on Cherry Street to open window. Officers who investigated the crime decided to donate money for the family. They each kit then for a total 100, matched by a another 100 from their police association. And a Homeless Center in San Francisco has closed its doors, leaving the young people with one less place to go for help. The Homeless Youth alliance in the citys highest ashbury neighborhood provides much needed medical services and counseling for thousands of Homeless Youth. The Nonprofit Group has to leave its base because the building needs to be retrofitted. They also could raise the money needed to relocate. There is some good news, with an officials placed a call home, organizers hope to set up a mobile unit to continue to help Homeless Youth in the city. A superior court judge is expected to hear arguments today on two separate bids and that keeping the city college of San Francisco accredited. To injunction requests were submitted by City AttorneyDenis Herrera and the California Federation of teachers union. City college faces losing its accreditation after an order by the accrediting commission for community and junior colleges. Herrera and the union filed lawsuits to challenge the commissions decision. The lawsuits contend the commissions procedures violated the states unfair competition law. New details this morning about hepatitis a. You can get 8 free pre and tough shot to protect you if youve been exposed. The food handler at the com stock saloon on columbus avenue who was diagnosed with the hepatitis a has been restricted from work until they are no longer contagious. While Health Officials said that the risk of infection is low. Anyone who ate or drink at this place on december 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th war the 19 should see their doctor. If you have been vaccinated already, you should be okay. Its not, you can get a vaccine that can protect you within 14 days of exposure. That means if you were at this place on december 12th, today is the last date that this vaccine will work. We will be right back. The grace. Will end friday if you want to get Health Insurance that will start on january 1st. Many consumers were frustrated trying to sign up for obama care. There is a chance that the grace period could be extended beyond friday, especially if the system continues to have trouble. That decision will be made only after covered california officials consult with Insurance Companies and brokers who are trying to help people sign up. A former nba player says that he wants to build a 1. 3 billion a reno, las vegas strip. Jackie robinson announced the project this week. It is a tenant to be called the all nectarine and resort. It could be built on the side of a former war park near the renovated sls loss vegas hotelcasinos in the fountainebleau tower. Robinson says the project is privately funded. He says the construction could begin next spring and be completed in 2016. The 22 gazans seat stadium would be the second new orleans and a loss vegas. We will be right back. Good. Good answer. Check it out. Learnings fun now. Yeah, back in our day, we didnt have uverse high Speed Internet to play and learn online. All we had was that franklin fuzzypants. Ah, the educational toy bear. Remember when the battery went out . [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abcs. All i learned was a new definition of fear. I need some pudding. Yeah, theres one left. [ male announcer ] connect all your wifienabled devices with uverse high Speed Internet. Rethink possible. Welcome back. Just an actor kron4, the number of americans applying for Unemployment Benefits has dropped by 42,000 last week. This is of the biggest drop since november 2012. Hiring has been healthy the past four months. The economy added an average of 200,000 jobs every month from august through november. Today marks the fourth consecutive spare the air day for the bay area. That means no and wood morning indoors or outdoors for 24 hours. The only exception is for holmes that depend on wood to burn. The dry, mild weather this week has built up pollutants that make the air unhealthy to breathe. People who violate the ban can face a 100 fine or be forced to take a wood small awareness class. Were on track for the driest year on record. The son, we could actually use summering. Then we have sunny skies and the forecast with mild temperatures. It will be very warm and sunny. Today, the afternoon should talk out as 67 degrees. 69 degrees for campbell and 68 for cupertino. Similar conditions are rounded east 65 for san leandro and the same for hayward. 65 degrees for pleasanton. The north bay is looking nice and we actually had some of the coldest weather. 66 will be for petaluma. 67 of the fell. For sn rafael. Temperatures will stay out of the 30s with the exception of the north. However, we will have a high of 60s for most of the bay area. New years eve will be pretty nice. It is not too bad this morning while the volume is up over the Christmas Holiday so far i think we will see Holiday Light traffic. It has increased the volume over Christmas Day but no problems. We have been incident. The bay bridge but also on the san mateo bridge and the golden gate as well. The chp is attracting very little problems. There are no hot spots. Interstate 80, hercules to berkeley is about 40 minutes. There is an easy trip to san ramon is 16 minutes. We are problem free in the south at coyote valley. Northbound is at 14 to 16 minutes from the capitol expressway to the montague expressway. So is the ride through marin on 1 01 southbound. Most of the Transit Services are back on normal schedule. This means the return of a strain. Happening today. Formal charges for paul ciancia, the man accused of shooting at a lax airport november 1st. This will be the first time that he will appear before a judge, since a federal grand jury issue indictments for murder, and attempted murder against him. They are calling the shooting an act of terrorism. The 23 yearold is accused of planning and the shooting. Before he killed and the tsa agent, he also targeted to others. If convicted, he could get the death penalty. The u. S. Forest service has announced plans to hold a meeting today for people affected by the big sur fire. The fire damaged 34 homes before it was contained last friday. 100 people were evacuated and were allowed back to their homes on monday. The Committee Meeting is set 10 30 a. M. This morning. 2013 was not an especially great year for lawmakers in washington. Congress Approval Rating is an alltime low. It is the worst year ever dana bash reports. Nearly threequarters of people stated that they have lived a long life and there 50 years of age or older. Some people stated that congress has not done anything to address problems. The Approval Rating and commerce is still very low. What they see every day on television, is dead locked. What you do not see every day, is a large group of republicans and democrats coming together. One thing that is a bipartisan is the blame. They do not trust neither party. Most of them want to move the country in the wrong direction she will like americans to have hope. I hope that American People will realize the there are some of us who want to build bridges and bring people together. A lot of us do want to solve problems. Several senators stated that they have people coming over thanking them for being reasonable. One told me that it was a nice complement but then he realized it was a low bar. New this morning, pope francis is urging people to speak out against the persecution of christians who he likened to the church as a first martyrs. The pope says the more christians are suffering from discrimination and violence now compare to christianity in early times. He says the some countries to guarantee human rights on paper but not in practice. In the United Kingdom today, it is a boxing and day. No it is not after the sport, but the day after christmas when people take a box and loaded up with a gift to give to the less fortunate. Here is video today out of london where shoppers were busy at the mall. Boxing day is much like black friday here in the United States were Stores Open Early and offer discounts. The day is also a chance for bosses and employers to serve their workers and to give them gifts. Will will be right back. During sleep trains huge year efor a limited time,dels save hundreds on tempurpedic mattresses. Get the most highlyrecommended bed in america at closeout prices. Plus, get interestfree financing and free sameday delivery. Why wait for the new models . Sleep trains year end clearance is on now. 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A three alarm fire on Christmas Eve least two San Francisco residents injured. We will have an update. The family of jahi mcmath could decide to file a court appeal to that to keep the team on a life supporen online support. Those keep the team on a life supporen online support. Those de[ male announcer ] some things are simply better at home. Like the enticing aroma and distinctive taste of nespresso. Elegant capsules meet masterfully crafted machines, and one touch creates the perfect coffee, cappuccino, and latte. Tempt all your senses with one extraordinary coffee. [ Penelope Cruz ] nespresso. What else . [ male announcer ] available at these fine retailers and nespressous. Com. Top stories we are following on this thursday december 26th. A busy day for shoppers as many of you are heading out to spend those gift cards. And possibly return some gifts. We have a live report. Plus. A threealarm fire on christmas injures two people in San Francisco. We have an update. To start things off. It here is dan with the forecast. We are seeing a mild start from the Rainy Weather that we saw. Cold temperatures, and we have mild temperatures. We have clear conditions. It should be a very nice day. We are looking for 39 degrees for