Rendon is live along the embarcadero where hundreds of thousands are expected to gather tonight. Reporter the embarcadero looks a lot more crowded than it did earlier today. Its a beautiful night to see those fireworks were told the barge is already in the water. The crowds are out. Happy new year. Reporter and partys are just beginning. You know hopefully we make some new friends tonight. Reporter as San Francisco gets ready to ring in 2014. We kind of wanted a low key new years eve. We thought why not spend it with people who mean the most and spend it with them. Reporter thats how many people are expected to be at the embarcadero for the new years eve. We go to the same particular place that we go to so theres not many people. Reporter the same company that did the Golden Gate Bridge 75th anniversary is doing the new years so were pumped. Were excited. Reporter inside sinbads restaurant friends are celebrating the new year. Looks like a lot of time. Were staying at the hotel. We don
Wilder celebrations. Fire works are regulated except for days before new years eve. Berliners stocked up on 115 million worth. Many people leave the city because of the noise and the danger. Here is a look at amsterdam. Many folks head to celebrate. There is a huge fire works display on the popular water front area and a massive show. The show is really controlled in sync with a sound track created for tonight. We have to Keep Computers on the barge running in sync with music on shore. I do that through radio communications. That sound track is for tonight. Organizers expecting huge crowds because of the fine weather were going to have. Should be clear. If caught with a drink you will be ticketed. Wayne freedman is live along embarcadero with a look. This would be ground 0 were expecting a large crowd. Take a look. Potties. We can also tell you partying began early. Its beginning to look and sound like new years eve. Do you have plans . Were traveling on the cable cars and going on lom
Ly normally this time of year we have several inches of rain and have green grass that wouldnt be able to burn. Reporter arson investigators are looking at whether the fire began in this abandoned car. Sheriffs deputies confirm it was stolen and have been investigating cases of stolen cars dumped here off mt. Hamilton road. Neighbors say its a big problem. Honda civics, accords. Theyll crash them all over the place coming up the mountain purposely, doing tricks and doughnuts and everything. By the time theyre finished with them, they break the windshields and usually dump them off the edge of the clip. Reporter for now a small team of firefighters plan to ring in new year out here to make sure there are no flareups. Sheriffs deputies say when they contacted the owners of two vehicles that they found near the fire, the owners had not even realized yet their vehicles were missing. Reporting live in san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Air quality in the south bay has been poor fo
Are about to get underway. Big crowds expected along santa goes waterfront where huge Fireworks Show will be set off at the stroke of midnight. Christina is life where it will be him much different story in just a few hours. If you take the look here, you can see the barricade set up the couple of hours ago for the big crowds police are expecting. So far so good, but that will change as we inch closer to midnight. He did catch up with several people inside restaurants and bars and they basically want to spend your evening having good meal and ringing in the new year with great food and good company. A lot of people say they will eat and then go home but by the fireworks because they dont want to miss anything as far as the fireworks on television. We are very happy we are at another new years. We do want to wish everyone out there remarkable and sane new years. For the other people we talk to that are trying to see the fireworks here, they are setting up shop along the sidewalk here. W
Thank you. Fog is there. Yesterday from san jose, to the peninsula. Now its on the sonoma and marin coast. San mateo coast and santa cruz coast. Fog is there but its favoring the coast. 20s, a few locations. Patchy fog, mainly near the coast, clear and cold. A lot of sun. A little warmer inland. Temperatures running above average. 27, napa. 28, santa rosa. Fairfield, 29. Livermore is 32. Im sure not far away you can find colder than that. Concord 33. Three dog night here. 19 up in tahoe. 32 sacramento. Colder air, very still, calm conditions except for the fog and maybe occasionally a higher fog. It will be warmer inland, especially Santa Clara Valley over toward santa cruz, upper 60s to near 70. Back to the desk. Thank you, steve. Developing news. A suspected drunk driver is accused of causing a serious crash in hayward. Ktvus Tara Moriarty joins us from the scene to show us the extensive damage. Good morning, tara. Reporter good morning. This looks like a deadly crash but miraculousl