A smidgen of the Holiday Shopping pie. The online sales during the Holiday Season was 92 billion. They are expecting that to go up 13. 8 . Somewhere in the 7 billion range. Reporter ron says count on this. You save way more than just 30 to 60 off and free shipping. Saving time, save gas, anxiety of dealing with people in the stores and the pushing and the shoving. Reporter and also be mindful if you add stuff in your Online Shopping cart tonight and dont click buy now. Opportunities will come your way all week. That makes me want to look at things online. Reporter honey and camel, camel, camel will apply the discounts so you dont miss out. Now, last year we can tell you on cyber monday, amazon customers ordered 64 million items, 740 items per second. The average amount of money that families spend on cyber monday is roughly 194 and from the couch and with my iphone i may be adding to that. Im cydney long, nbc 10 news. Im right there with you. Porch pirates are sailing through security
Todays not a holiday for the Highway Patrol but tragic loss of one of our own. 33yearold chp officer dies in line of duty after suspected drunk driver slams into his patrol car on east bay freeway. We hate to begin on Christmas Day with such a tragedy. Just before midnight in hayward, not far from interchange with highway 92, all lanes southbound closed nine hours. Live coverage on the story. Chris nguyen is in Castro Valley but start with Jonathan Bloom at alameda Coroners Office with what we know to date. Reporter weve learned that officers body was brought here after he died at scene last night. Seen chp officers come and go and crime lab as with the. Autopsy likely to be performed tomorrow. And then procession of officers will likely escort the body to funeral home. Other officer in the car was injured as was the driver. Police say that driver may face felony charges. This is not the way we wanted to celebrate Christmas Day. 33 years old. Been with the Highway Patrol a year and fou
Clearer than it was this time yesterday, gorgeous picture of the Embarcadero Center there. Lets talk about your accuweather 1 hour planner, starting off with temperatures, we do have a few 30s inland, low to mid 40s elsewhere. As we head towards noon, mid to upper 50s with a little more sunshine than yesterday, we will be in the mid 50s to near 60 by 4 00, by 7 00 maybe you can hear that new coat, 49 to 52. Will have more on that coming up next. Here is sue with a look at not too many people on the roads this morning. Lets hope we dont jinx ourselves here. We will go to the bay bridge toll plaza where things are perfect if you want to be up this morning and traveling you will have no delays at the bay bridge and into San Francisco. Green all the way around and that is how we like it. Lets take a look at some of our mass transit. Changes for this morning, if you are travel to the bridge you cannot park in any of the lots there. Muni will be free new years eve from 8 00 p. M. Until 5 00
Painted for us. That was nice. Im sure it looks great and its festive. Here we go. Move on from the awkward silence. All right. Live doppler 7, we have half mile visibility in santa rosa, petaluma up to 5, so the ebb and flow of the fog across the north bay will be one big story across the morning. Pretty quiet out there. Here is my accuweather 12 hour planner, 38 to 47 this morning, 55 to 58 about noon, 53 to 60 at 4 00 and 48 to 51. A real nice day to be outside other than the fact that its a spare the air day and there is the possibility of poor air quality. We will talk more about that next. The onesie was a big gift at our christmas yesterday at home. They are pretty cool. All right. Here we go, a lot of head lights but moving in and at the limit past Golden Gate Fields and on University Avenue and into berkeley and the berkeley curve into the macarthur maze, no delays here. Green is great, thats what were seeing all around the bay area. I have a feeling it will be that way pretty
Definitely a traumatic injury. Rescue teams say a 40year old homeless man was on foot at Guadalupe Reservoir and slipped and fell sometime before midnight last night. They say he fell some 10 feet and broke his leg. If you look carefully you can see blood on his pant leg. That man had the wherewithal to use a light to try to flag down a passing vehicle. He did not have a mobile phone and was stranded on the far side of the reservoir. Firefighters estimate he was about 150 yards away from ricks road when he used hicks road when he used that light to gather the attention of a carload of students who were driving by. They were home for the holiday when they saw the man in need. Driving down hicks road and then we see a light flashing from over there and so we agreed to pull over and then we get out of the car and we hear a guy moaning like hes in pain and we yelled back and forth asking what happened. And i guess he fell down the hill somehow and broke his knee. Reporter firefighters agai