A tornado rips through los angeles in the wake of a powerful pacific storm. Heavy rain causing flash flooding mudslides, and water rescue rescue. Thousands are without power and theres another storm due here next week. One more rain like this and its over. We have liftoff of the united launch alliance. The launch was supposed to happen last night but it was pushed back because of a storm. Torrential rains in indonesia has caused a deadly landslide. 80 people are dead dozens injured. More than 100 homes have been swept away. The senate will be back at it today defendbating a public spending bill. This is what has been produced when you have a divided government. The stock market has been through its worst week in three years. Pope francis breaks with tradition once again this time suggesting that animals do in fact, go to heaven. All that Adrian Peterson wont be back on the field this season. He lost his appeal over Domestic Abuse charges. And a motown concert at the white house. Four t
The price of oil is down from 108 a barrel in june to 58 today, and opec says even if the price goes to 40 they will not change production levels. What that means for gas prices, likely a similar slide. The cost of a gallon is already down more than 1 since june. We have two reports starting with jericka duncan. Reporter nationally the average for a gallon of regular gas is 2. 56. Down from more than 4 average in july of 2008 when prices hit an alltime high. And places like california where drivers typically pay more for gas, the current average per gallon is 2. 88, that is down from 3. 59 in 2013. Denton monitors the i have for oil price service. How low do you think gas prices will actually go . I think by christmastime we will be below 2. 50, it will be cheapest christmas since 2008 but since there prices will continue to drop, already a dozen states that have a sub 2 price point and there is going to be more to follow. Triple a estimates us households saving 100 a month in gasoline
Massive hacking effort at Sony Entertainment and this morning the hackers are hinting at even more leaks. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for monday, december 15th, 2014. Good morning. Im Lauren Lyster in for annemarie green. Police believe a lone gunman is holding a number of hostages in a cafe. His motivation remains unclear but he has displayed a flag with arabic writing. The cafe where the hostages are being held is in central sydney. The u. S. Consulate and the opera house which are both nearby have been evacuated. Don champion has been following the developments from here in new york. Don, good morning. Good morning, lauren. Its a very fluid situation at the heart of sydney this morning. At last check five hostages were able to get out of the cafe and police warn theyre being patient with the gunman. Poli Police Officers in australia have been waiting with guns drawn. Outside several hostages emerging from the building safely. Authorities are working to make
Head out to thursday. If youre trying to get out on the road, lets go up and see what we have to see here. Traffic is doing well approaching the bridge. Has been nice. No major problems getting into San Francisco. S a looking at the commute here on interstate 880, the traffic continues to move very well as you drivethrough. Checking out the south bay commute, and all the freeways here, 85 northbound, 101, all those freeways into the silicone valley, and even out of it. All the freeways, period, are doing well. Its 5 01. Lets go back to the desk. San jose police shot and killed a man yesterday. He was accused of going into someone elses house, and the investigation in the shooting is far from over. Ktvu fox two reporter georgia mean de la vega joining news san jose where friends of the suspect say police did not have to use deadlyers. Reporter they are upset about that. Quiet in this neighborhood where this all happened. S it near downtown, near south first street and alma. Earlier poli
Up in tahoe, 56 degrees. In northern california, yes, near 90. For us, we have a few records possible today. Oakland should be really close, 70 as well. Livermore probably not. Low 7 0s. Mountainview 72. That will be close. San jose no, but still be mild, very warm for us. Speaking of oakland, starting off in the 50s, ending up at 70 degrees at the airport, the record is 69. High pressure says not everything goes up in the pacific northwest. A lot of high clouds last few days. Theyll thin out a little bit today. Overall temperatures, 40s for many, but 50s for a few. These are slightly warmer than yesterday at this time. Upper 40s, brentwood is in there. Danville sleeping in. San area moan at 45, 44, 46, lafayette. A few high clouds. That will eat be it. Low temps, warm in the south bay, parts of the peninsula as well. And temperatures way above average. Theyre going to continue this way for awhile. 70s for many today, including mid70s. All right, sal. Anything new on the traffic . 280