5:00 on this thursday. i m kristen sze. and i m katie marzullo in for eric thomas. occupation continues, albeit without tents. two dozen protest are holding their ground at justin herman plaza, after some tense moments with police overnight. terry mcsweeney live at the plaza. what is going on out there now? reporter: if you hadn t known the recent history you would think it is another morning here in san francisco. here at the site where the tents were set up for two months, you can see some sleeping on the side there, police not hassling them, because they don t have tents. tents seem to be the symbol of the day. video from just a few hours ago, protesters tried to set up a symbolic 10 in the middle of the area where they were evict symbolic tent in the middle of the area where they were evicted from yesterday morning. they ran police in pursuit, police ended up grabbing that tent and taking it away from the demonstrators. most demonstratorses have moved to market st
hour. bundle up, especially kids before they head off to school this morning. 5:00 thanks for joining us i m kristen sze. i m eric thomas. police warning thieves could bring your next train ride to a halt. thieves cutting cables along the tracks to get at copper not letting trains stop them. katie marzullo is live with more. reporter: good morning. we are just learning there has been a confirmed case of copper theft just in morning. within the last hour or so. we know it was in the oakland area not clear if it was at a bart station or somewhere else along the tracks. that makes three since last friday. two recent incidents police are investigating. within friday, sun sunday. sunday a bart driver [ inaudible ] saw a man on the tracks he yelled at the man the guy was again before police arrived so he got away. these thieves are cutting cables they are doing this on the tracks in some cases. that poses the danger that they could get hit by a train. also an issue within t
some peninsula, some south bay, details coming up. good morning. 4:31 a.m.. my lips will work soon. they were frozen. deep freeze out there. you bet. thanks for joining us our top story a crime on the rise causing a huge problem for bart. thieves going after copper are endangering righters and them service. katie marzullo is live at the oakland station to explain. reporter: this is so dangerous on so many fronts the copper thieves are on the tracks while the trains are operating. this is an ongoing situation there have been two incidents one last friday and one sunday. authorities are not revealing at which stations these happened. we know that sunday a bart train driver looked out his window and saw a man on the tracks. he called police, he yelled for the nan to leave, called police but he was gone when authorities did arrive the thieves are cutting the cables the , the negative return cables which means there s incredible fire hazard an society and the damage
bay. also the north bay will have the freezing temperatures tonight and frost in the east bay valleys too. starting to see a back up at the bay bridge toll plaza. no major accidents around the bay area. slow spots with drive times, coming up. good monday morning. early on a monday, chilly too. 6:01. i m eric thomas. and i mm=4 kristen sze. expect a slow down in the postal service delivery of your holiday cards and mail rental dvd s. the agency is set to announce painful cuts it can impose on itself as congress debates further reductions. katie marzullo is live with the latest. reporter: i just talked with the spokesman for the san francisco division of the postal service. he will be able to sort through this with us after 8:30 when the official word is coming down about changes and cuts. some of the generalities at this hour include slower mail the first time that service standards have changed since the early 70s no more next day mail for first class mail right now
it is thanksgiving day and i m thankful i m in for eric thomas. i m thankful you are in for eric thomas as well. i m kristen sze, thank you for joining us. our top story before the first turkey has been carved, definitely already people lined up waiting and ready to get a jump on shopping. abandoning the traditional meal in favor of waiting for the deals. right now you want to know how the weather is going to be. here s live doppler, it looks healthy, rain coming in, in two segments showers ahead of the initial line moving down into the south bay now. then the cold front moving through the north bay right now. that is going to push additional rain into our forecast. because the system split the strongest and heaviest rain has been across the extreme north bay moving into the central valley towards sacramento. if you are heading east, north you are going to run into rain. heading south hopefully you can out-race it. we ll talk about how much to expect, coming up. despite