Reporter yeah, good morning. Yeah. 24 hours a day even on christmas, its surprising. But yeah, people are coming in. And if you can believe it around midnight all of the registers here were staffed and there was about a line of 30 people. Were not kidding. Manager says people were buying everything from gift cards to Stocking Stuffers and, of course, you got to package it all up so wrapping paper of course was flying off the shelves, as well. As you can imagine some frantic shoppers trying to get a last minute gift. Employees here had to lend the occasional helping hand. What would you get . I was like i get that one, you know, and like okay, you know, like reporter people were asking your opinion. Would you like that . Got that for christmas would you like that, i was like yeah, thats pretty cool. Reporter so yeah, the procrastinators can come here to walgreens 24 hours a day. They are open here on christmas. These things here, gift cards, a lot of them going off the shelves, as well.
Ring each year are some of our better spots. Reporter but many stores asked the Salvation Army to pull their bell ringers because they feared for their safety. We cut our days short at some of the stores because we wanted to get our kettle workers out of the area before the demonstrations would start. [ screaming ] reporter the Salvation Army in oakland saw the lowest donations in its Red Kettle Campaign ever. They are down 67,000 compared to last year. Thats a 55 drop. It will affect our our, um, shelter and the programs right here in this building. Reporter the saligot hit especially hard when people the Salvation Army got hit especially hard when people demonstrated at the oakland and san leandro walmarts on black friday and that weekend, the Salvation Army got hit especially hard. Those are huge days. We make 500 to 600 at the kettle at each site each day which would be a huge loss for us. Reporter during the six weeks of the Red Kettle Campaign, there were roughly 20 protests in t
Take him out. Quite a roller coaster for the release of this comedy u. S. Believes north korea is behind the cyber attack on sony which responded by canceling its planned Christmas Day release in 3,000 theaters only to then reverse course with a limited 300 theater run. The movie also now streaming on x bock video, youtube and good gel play. None of us really know the back story but im glad that they pulled it together and im glad theyre still showing i i hope they make lost money. Reporter after all of this, will it make us laugh . I think its going to be a funny move 52, yes. Reporter this Movie Theater plays i max movies and traditional movies. Talk to the owner a short time ago who tells me that this could be the highest grossing of all noni max movies in while. In other words its doing really well each theater fills up about 300 seats and people are coming in for these five shows. What do people real it of that us this movie as they were cull out earlier we talked to them and well
Sony pictures. Its all ahead on the ktvu channel 2 morning news. Good morning. Merry christmas. We are live in San Francisco this morning. Volunteers putting the finishing touches on thousands of Christmas Meals. Thats a lot of work. A lot of work. These will be delivered to people who cannot leave their home. So theyll not be only cooking all of this but delivering all the food. And we are out there this morning at the Salvation Army. And were going to have more on the volunteer efforts coming up in a couple minutes. Fantastic. Good morning everybody. It is Christmas Day. Yes, it is. Thursday, december 25th. Good morning. Im pam cook. I want to say good morning and Merry Christmas to my mom because she moved down to Southern California but gets up and watches us online. Hi mom. Love you. We miss you. Had to say it because i know shes up. One of the few people up by christmas. And i bet shes talking back at you. Im sure she is. Merry christmas. And Merry Christmas to all of you. Are yo
The red and green. Bruce stringstein santa claus is coming to town. Brian and i were singing this earlier. Yes, we were. Look at that. A beautiful sunrise. Pretty, pretty pink. Thank you for joining us on mornings on 2. I am pam cook. Being told to guess the Christmas Songs this morning. I am not the doing too well. We are doing okay. I am brian flores. Tori and dave are off today. Gets let your Christmas Day started this morning. Rosemary in for steve. The picture is great. Its pretty. Its cold throw. We have some chilly weather behind that system that pulled through. A little bit of rain yesterday. Now we have High Pressure Building Back in. You may have seen atop that Tribune Tower building that we have the flag flapping around. The winds are blowing this morning. Because of it we are drying out. We dont have much fog to speak of. A little bit of rain just here on the north corner of california. But for us we are mostly clear and we are dry for today. On the back side of this system