The faa is now investigating this crash. Were also told two Alameda County firefighters were injured during the search effort but theyre expected to be okay. Have you been able to learn anything about the pilot . We know the pilot was from lincoln. The plane took off from lincoln and Placer County this morning. The pilots daughter had written on facebook, she had written a post asking for prayers. She said her father was headed to work. Unfortunately this is a tragic end tonight. And his name has not been released yet . It has not been officially released just yet. Thank you. Now to our chief meteorologist bill martin. You saw those pictures from where the plane crashed. Pretty cloudy up there. Cloudy and drizzly during that time when the accident occurred. That was a problem because a lot of rain had fallen in the area. It was tough to get the trucks in there. They couldnt fly helicopters because of the cloud cover. Interesting to see the drones being used in that application. Thats actually a great application for drones to get in under the flight restrictions. Outside now weve got some clouds. Were heading in to a period of dry. Tomorrow were going to get dry weather but not before areas in the bay area. Im focusing mainly on the coastal hills. Mt. Tan, 6 inches in two days. Santa cruz mountains, 6 inches of rain. Most of the rest of us 2 to 3 inches of rain over two days. Theres more rain coming as we head in to your bay area thursday. Were going to see wet commutes. The mountains over the last 24 hours saw up to 3 feet of snow. When i come back well deal all that in and ill see you back here in a couple breaks. The weather caused major delays for a second straight day at international airport. Dozens of flights are delayed and at least 20 flights have been out right canceled. Yesterday 100 were delayed and 70 canceled. This comes unfortunately during one of the busiest times of the year. They are averaging about 60 minutes right now. Its primarily affecting short and medium haul flights but the best advice, if youre traveling out of sfo, check with your airline to verify the status of your flight. A handful of flights were delayed. Our weather coverage continues. At 6 15 well take you to the sierra where the snow has started to turn in to slush. New developments in a string of hitandrun crashes in the south bay that left one man dead. Tonight a young man is in cust ody. The 19yearold suspect was driving drunk. Tonight Carlos Villalobos is behind bars on charges of dui and hitandrun. As ktvus Cristina Rendon reports, he could face even more charges. Reporter it was a reckless route on san jose streets. Behind the wheel, 19yearold Carlos Villalobos suspected of driving drunk. His car came to a stop following the fatal crash at the intersection of singleton and center road monday night. We got lucky too because in car he kept going through the house. Reporter upset neighbors brought holiday flowers and a cross where police say villalobos hit and killed another driver, Marcos Torres of san jose. Terrible. Drink and driving, the guy should have known better. He took away a life so young. Reporter the out of control drive started near this dennys on capital expressway. Villalobos reportedly kept driving, hitting two parked cars before making a uturn and heading toward singleton. Police say villalobos ran a red light and hit the victims yellow volkswagon beetle and another car at the same intersection. He should have never been behind the wheel. When he left dennys and had that first accident, he should have been wise enough to stop then. Reporter in all, six cars were hit and four different locations, leaving this Community Mourning for the man woo die the man who died because of a suspected drunk driver. I feel the pain for his family. Its very sad. Villalobos is being held in jail on dui and hitandrun charges. He could appear in court as early as tomorrow and could possibly face a vehicular manslaughter charge. Cristina rendon, ktvu fox 2 news. A federal jury has awarded a san jose man more than 11 million in what is the largest jury award in the history of the San Jose Police department. 36yearold was shot by police in january of 2014. Outside of his home during an apparent suicidal episode. Witnesses say lam was pressing a knife in to his own stomach and never used it to threaten anyone else. Despite that, an officer who arrived at the scene shot lam twice in the back when he refused to drop the knife. Lam is now a paraplegic. He is vietnamese and spoke to reporters through a translator. For privacy reasons he qussed his face not be shown. I cannot stand up to cook. I can not ride a bike to school. I cannot drive. The jury awarded lam 8. 3 million in financial damages and additional 3 million for emotional stress. No word on if the city plans to challenge the decision. Reputed chinatown gangster shrimp boy chow spent a second day on the stand. It covered topics from drugs to Money Laundering to expensive steak dinners. Noelle walker reports on todays developments. Reporter they say truth is stranger than fiction. Never has that been more true than at the federal courthouse on the 17th floor where chinatown gangster Raymond Shrimp Boy Chow is on trial for allegedly running a criminal Organization Racketeering and soliciting murders. My client has committed no murder. Hes committed probably every other crime in the book but he hasnt committed a murder. Reporter defense attorney tony sar a guided his client on the stand letting the jury know hes no angel. Obviously the prosecution would have gone in to that. So we in essence want to bring forth directly so the jury knows were not shielding him. Reporter the federal undercover sting has already brought down other notables in San Francisco including former state senator leland yee. Under oath chow said undercover agents offered him expensive gifts of wine and liquor, even took him out to a 42 an ounce steak dinner. He said, quote, if i was involved in illegal activity i wouldnt be broke, expletive, struggling in this city. Oh, my god. This case here here my client committed no crime. This case wreaks of entrapment. Reporter sara said his client had an epiphany in 2003 with stop his life of crime. He said he doesnt hurt or kill people. Quote, before i changed my life, i a professional criminal. Im proud today to tell everyone im a changed man. Shrimp boy chow is one of an estimated 30 witnesses defense is expected to call. Noelle walker, ktvu fox 2 news. New at 6 00, some children at a hospital in santa clara got a little superhero encouragement today. Volunteers from the heroes for Hope Organization dressed up as batman and other comic book characters as captain america. They paid a visit to kids it at the Kaiser Permanente hospital. They say theyre making the rounds to bring Christmas Spirit to kids who unfortunately have to spend the holiday in the hospital. We decided to bring some holiday cheer. Are you interested in presents . Yes. Here you go, just for you. Thank you. Its bat girl. The heroes for Hope Organization encourages kids to be strong and to be their own heroes. Another holiday surprise just days before christmas. Gifts placed on layaway paid for in full. The program that made it possible and the bay area celebrity on hand for this surprise. Plus a package thief caught in the act days before christmas. Well give you a closer look at this evidence that could hopefully lead to an arrest. As we head down the road here in to the 5day forecast were going to see some more wet commutes. Ill let you know how wet theyll be and well talk about the holiday weekend. Ok, weheres dad. Mom. The twins. Aunt alice. You didnt tell me aunt alice was coming. Of course. Dont forget grandpa. Can the test drive be over now . Maybe just head back to the dealership . Dont you want to meet my family . Yep, totally. Its practically yours, but we still need your signature. The volkswagen sign then drive event. Zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on a new jetta and other select models. Mountain view police are looking for a man seen in a Surveillance Video taking two packages from a front porch. The theft happened on december 16th at 1 40 in the afternoon on hamilton avenue. The man was driving a dark four door sedan. A group of alleged gang members was arraigned in court today. Theyre charged with burglarizing homes in san jose, union city and hillsborough, dating back to 2012. An Investigation Called operation grirch led to the arrest operation grinch led to the arrest of 29 suspects. We will not stand by while criminals victimize our community. The allege gang members were all being charged with felonies and if theyre convicted they could face long prison terms. Christmas came early for some lucky kmart shoppers today in hayward. Merry christmas. The nonprofit pay away the layaway teamed up with boxer olympic Gold Medalist andre ward. They surprised shoppers today by paying off their layaway balances. Its been hard this year. I just start ed a new job a couple weeks ago. Im excited that she gets what she wants and she has no idea its coming. The nonprofit is now traveling across the country paying off layaway balances and so far volunteers have visited k marts in more than a dozen cities including brooklyn, phoenix, dallas, and atlanta. Back to the weather now. In the sierra a combination of rain and snow made for some slushy conditions today. Right now the water content in the sierra snow pack is actually above 100 of normal. Theres hope this trend will continue through the winter. Today we found rain on top of snow which of course meant roadways even more slippery than usual and we found a lot of people taking advantage of the calm before the storm when it comes to traffic and crowds. Reporter three days before christmas and theres an accumulation, several feet of snow in the ground in the sierra. This is the serene lakes neighborhood in nevada county, elevation 7,000 feet. Tim burks is having to scrape snow off his windshield. Five years ago it looked a lot bigger. Were looking for somewhere in the middle. Reporter at elevations lower than this there was mostly rain today helping create this slush. I wish it would have snowed instead of the rain. But we need the rain. The water content is 111 of normal, a number that everybody is hoping will hold true the rest of the season. I think good news. Hopefully it continues because we have a long way to go. People up here just for the day may have saved themselves a traffic headache. Later this week its except today get busier up here, bigger crowds as we get closer to Christmas Day and more snow in the forecast. She looks cold. It is cold up there. A little warmer because it turned to slush. Lets go back to bill in the Weather Center to find out more about the weather for the holiday week. Do you remember doing those reports on 50 and 80 back in the snow days . I remember being so cold my mouth wouldnt work. I can remember it would be snowing and theyd say should we send a reporter to the snow . Blue canyon. It is tough. Spend hours driving up. Its interesting to see the kids up there now. We usually start out the younger reporters because theyre a little more resilient. As we head outside youve got some clouds. Turning out to be a pretty nice evening after what we saw last evening. A beautiful shot there. You can see the bay bridge, pretty night. If you look on the far left side you can see the new tower which is kind of neat. Big change right over here and you see the big dog leg as it goes through the island. You can also see this massive plume of some tropical moisture. Subtropical plume. This is going to trigger Severe Weather in the southern ohio and mississippi valleys over the next day and a half so if you have travel plans, certainly atlanta and memphis, youre going to see problems certainly tomorrow. Tornados are possible. That will impact local airports because you get the ripple effect. Tomorrow its going to be a pretty stormy day out there, more like a spring kind of situation. Very warm air. Its 70 degrees in memphis today. Cold air comes in behind that and explosion occurs. Showers tomorrow morning in oakland. Maybe like late tonight, early tomorrow morning but for the most part oakland is going to look pretty clear tomorrow. This is the forecast model saying here we are, mostly clear. Scattered showers by point reyes. Tomorrow is going to be a beautiful day. Mostly sunny conditions. Tomorrow afternoon, valley fog. I think in the north bay youll see a little bit of fog. Theres wind tonight. Valley fog comes back. Then watch what happens with your thursday morning commute. This will be formidable because its definitely going to hit around 6 00, 7 00, 8 00. Rainfall rate should be high with this. Pooling water and big slowdowns as you travel in to work thursday. Hope you dont have to go to work thursday. Maybe the boss will let you off based on this. By lunchtime, scattered showers, then clears out. Thursday, not tomorrow morning. Tomorrow will be great. Thursday morning looks wet and in the mountains that will trigger a winter storm warning and youll see another two feet of snow up there. Travel plans to the mountains all day thursday, not going to be easy. Friday is not going to be a bad day. Thursday wont be an easy travel day. Friday, there you go. As we head past friday afternoon, you see clear skies. The sierra storm, winter storm warning will be issued on thursday morning and it will last through thursday evening. The forecast highs tomorrow then, 55 in brentwood. 55 in antioch. Look at all the 55s. 55 in morgue in morgan hill. The 5day forecast. Theres your rain. There will be breaks. The main event is going to be in the morning. Theres your break on saturday and another chance of showers late sunday. Just a great forecast. This is the perfect scenario for the weather that we need. Its interesting how this seems so abnormal and yet its normal. This is what a normal winter should look like but given what weve had, it seems almost abnormal. Are we way above average . No. San jose is about 88 of rainfall average so were still a little below average. But were way ahead of where we were last year. This is what its supposed to be like. Looks like we get a little rain then some nice breaks. I personally like the breaks. Adds to the adjustment kind of thing. Wears you down, a couple days of rain. Bay area children had a handson lurpg experience today that they wont learning experience today that they wont soon forget. I never pet a clydesdale before. So sweet. The children who are all visually impaired went behind the scenes at odysseo, the equestrian extravaganza showing under the big white top in at t park in San Francisco. The field trip was organized by vista center for the blind, a nonprofit based in palo alto. The children were led on a sensory tour of the show. For many of the kids it was their first time to get up close and personal with the horse. Our students are sometimes quite fearful of the things they cant see so handson opportunities like this really make it easier for them. Vista center for the blind serves about 2400 adults and 200 children in the bay area. Odysseo is showing in San Francisco through january 17th. Players from both the raiders and 49ers received pro bowl selections today. Time to check in with keba for fox 2 news at 7 00. A new comment and a new controversy involving republican president ial candidate donald trump. Tonight Hillary Clintons campaign is firing back calling trumps crude comment degrading to women. Also, not everyone is blaming steve harvey for the Miss Universe fiasco. The contestants who are directing their anger at someone else. We just showed steve kerr at practice. Hes moving along in the right direction and actually was force fed some extra duty you might say today because luke walton has been acting as interim coach basically calling in sick today. He had to go home. Looking pretty healthy. Hes feeling a little bit better taking over the practice. Although he says hes making practice, hes expected to be back fulltime sometime after the first of the year, but id describe him as cautiously optimistic. Ive got to continue to build on the last week and build my strength and resilience and all i can say is im hoping to be back soon. The warriors certainly getting to that point where it wouldnt be back to have him back healthy. He says energy is the main thing hes lacking right now. You figure with the way the Pro Football Team are in the area, the 49ers and raiders gone, not too good on the pro bowl stuff, but actually real good. Charles woodson, what a way to go out. His ninth pro bowl selection today. What a season for the 39yearold in his 18th season in the nfl. Khalil mack here stacking the Denver Broncos quarterback five times a couple weeks ago, adding one more. Leaves the nfl in sacks with 15. That will be his first pro bowl and the 49ers, the woe is me 49ers, they even had two men selected. Navarro bowman, what a story there. His third pro bowl selection coming back from a very serious knee injury leading the team in tackles. Third pro bowl of his career. Always seeming to be on the list, joe staley as well. Hell be on his fifth pro bowl so even though the team is not going in the direction they want him to, not happening. Thats mike leake holding up a st. Louis cardinals uniform. The former giant pitcher pitched at the end of the year with San Francisco. Fiveyear deal worth 80 million and id call him a good pitcher, not great pitcher. Boy, if youre a good pitcher, youre making 80. Not bad. Thanks for joining us tonight. Have a nice night. Well be back tonight at 10 00. Its also a story about canals and the tificial heart, doers. Electric guitars and rockets to the moon. In other words, this is the story of america land of the doers. Doin it. Did it. Done. Hardworking doers and smartworking doers. Olds changed the way we put things together. And keepinem together . That was wters doin. Doers built this country. They built the dams and the railroads. John henry was a steel drivin man hmm, catchy. They built the golden gates d the empire states. Doers tu nothing into something. And something into something else. Doin got this nation done. Along with the hula hoop, blue jeans and that little thing we call the interstate highway system. And all this doin . It takes energy, no matter whos doin. Theres all kinds of doin up in here. Or what theyre doin. What the hecks he doin . Energy got us here. And its our job to make sure theres enough energy to keep doers doin the stuff doers do. To keep us all doin what we do. Good morning, almost husband. Good morning, almost oh, no no oh oh pepper oh, calm down. This cant be the first time youve woken up with other men in your bedroom. Happy wedding day [ laughs ] what are you doing here . You pay for a fullservice wedding, you get our full packages. Ohh. Close, honey. So close. And were crossing. Were crossing. And trays down. And trays down. Napkins. Relax. Enjoy. The car will pick you up at 4 00 to whisk you away to your beautiful hilltop wedding. Hows the weather . I had a dream it rained on everyone. Dry as a bone. The only thing it will be raining tonight is men. We really need it. Mm. Has anyone heard from sal . No. And i will never understand why you asked that boozy ushag to officiate your wedding