his funeral today comes before the new year. and i m going to ask to you look at your name and smile. charles was always smiling. i don t know if you know that or not, he was always smiling, gold teeth and all. look at the person on the left and smile at them. my name is charles. in butler s liver went to a fellow church member who was gravely ill. his pancreas and kidney are helping to make another family in the bay area s wish come true even as his own family spends the holiday without him. we don t want to just get a t-shirt that says rest in peace and the next day things are normal. we want to address the violence on the street, providing options for individuals who have decide they don t care about their life or,s. reporter: while everyone waited for the funeral to get started here, there was a shooting a block away down the street. charles cousin said it s an unfortunate example of why she was handing out the fliers at his funeral, to start a memorial
[ singing ] ho, ho, ho, hello, merry christmas, hello. merry christmas. give me a high-five. now i want to introduce you to a very special friend. this is thomas. thomas is five years old. that is my favorite number. and thomas, you see, he has leukemia. but i am happy to tell you that just relm his leukemia has gone into remission. isn t that wonderful? thank you santa. and i know that it would be your wish to go and see as many of the big cats as you can. is that right? in here? here? yeah. your wish to go to sand diego and see the big cats, that wish is being granted by the make a wish foundation. [ cheers ] i been good and thank you santa. tell him what it says. children having that time of hope and looking forward to receiving something and that is why we are so happy to be a part of the make a wish foundation. and to be a part of granting wonderful wishes. i had swans and a doggy in my letter. shelby, when she was 4, had lymphoma. it was shat
entertainment. early this friday morning, entertainment. early this friday morning, december 30th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning, everyone. on this last day of the workweek. last friday of 2011. 2011 was weird. i like 2012 better. it has a good ring to it. good morning, everyone. i m jeff glor. i m rebecca jarvis. in just four days, iowa republicans will be the first to vote in the 2012 presidential campaign. still a tight race in the iowa caucuses and that means a busy weekend coming up for the candidates and those covering them. chief political correspondent jan crawford is in west des moines, iowa, this morning. jan, good morning. good morning, guys. that s right, as these candidates make their final push across iowa, one thing that is striking, mitt romney is on the rise and that alone makes this campaign very different than the one four years ago. mitt romney s machine is powering through iowa, handing out yard signs and shaking hands andasking
potentially brain injury. less than a year, after bryan stow was attacked in l.a., a 16-year-old girl said she was struck in the head at last night s sharks/canucks game. and this is a girl who already suffers from a brain tumor. she received taunts from sharks fans after she was knocked out. reporter: it was a terrible day for a bay family. they are die-hard canucks fans. they wore these sweatshirts to last night s game at the tank. they knew they would get attention when they put on the jerseys. but they didn t think they would be attacked by a sharks fan. this ordeal was really scary. four years ago, she had a brain tumor removed while living in canada. her sister scraped together money to get tickets for last night s game as a present. the canucks are her favorite team because members of that team came to visit her when she was in the hospital in canada. one woman just took things way too far. it was the second period when they scored their second goal. and i felt som
bit later. you just haven t worked enough over the holidays. this is the end of the stretch. let s take a live look from our roof cam. filling in on weather this week. you can see it is a little foggy outside. not as foggy this morning as yesterday. but you will need your windshield wipers in some parts of the bay area, as well. it s a little drizzly out there. later on this afternoon, we have a chance of some heavier showers. again, you can see that rain line there moving its way into northern california bringing us mostly mist, cloud out there now. but our rain chances improve to about 20 to 30% by later on this afternoon so we ll be talking much more about this coming up. in the meantime, we are going to hit the roads with gianna. it s better than yesterday. we saw fog advisories for three bridges on the peninsula, dumbarton, bay bridge. you can see the fog on the san mateo bridge this morning. we ll update you in just a few minutes. happy friday. thursday. [ lau