This fleet week we look at an important part of military history. Taking the momentum of fleet week and bringing businesses to San Francisco. How the city wants to turn vacant into vibrant. And meet the tennis player serving up an important life lesson. Tennis is for everybody. No matter what age. From cbs news bay area. This is the prime time edition on pix plus. Good evening. These are tonights prime time headlines. We start with San Francisco police. Continuing to ramp up the fight against retail theft. This time putting 15 million towards blitz operations, the Citywide Program puts extra officers, some in plain clothes in drug and grocery stores. The Department Says just on tuesday a blitz team arrested nine thieves. During todays announcement they said it is down 10 compared to last year. Well, ousted House Speaker say hissy is not thinking of resigning from office. Mccarthy was knocked from the speakers chair earlier this week by hard line republicans and democrats. Heed he will
See what we can expect today. Property brothers scam. A warning for fans of the hit tv show. How theyre being targeted and how they could get ripped off. And would you try pink toast or mushroom coffee . The creative food options now being called trend setters. Good monday morning to you all. We begin with the countdown to an election showdown being watched around the world. Yeah, with only one day until the special election that will decide alabamas next senator, roy moore has granted a rare tv interview to address the Sexual Misconduct claims against him and President Trump has now recorded a robo call for the moore campaign. This as liberal groups across the country pour money into the get out the vote campaign. Abcs Serena Marshall joins us now with the new details on this crucial race. Good morning, serena. Reporter good morning, kendis, diane. The highstakes election just 24 hours away and is seen by many as not just a referendum on the president but on the Republican Party, whic
Another update here from our live desk. Another story im watching closely, those fires in Southern California. A lot of firefighters there exhausted in the bay area responding and are head to go the thomas fire in Santa Barbara county where three San Mateo County fire engine strike teams had been deployed and the thomas fire this morning now at 230,000 acres. It is now the fifth largest wildfire in state history and flames are going through the vegetation there that hasnt burned in 100 years near carpinteria. Residents have been ordered to evacuate. We literally jumped into our clothes, grabbed our son. I grabbed some pictures. But because i was doing that, i put my phone down and we just literally ran out the door. The thomas fire right now the only major blaze still really causing a concern this morning. The other wildfires in the state are at least 75 contained. But the containment figures for the thomas fire have actually dropped. They went from 15 to 10 . Were watching that closel
In that area and you can see right now starting to pick up a little bit more traffic there. The good news is that situation is under control. Reggie and natasha, back to you. That could have been so much worse, jessica, thank you. Welcome to this monday, december 7th. Were tracking that for you. Sue hall if for alexis smith. Well start with meteorologist nik nicco. Hi there, mike. A little bit of concern in the north bay. Live doppler 7 shows you the visibility. The temperature is 30 degrees in santa rosa. Thats my only concern as the other fog is forming in the central valley. It is a spare the air so well talk more about that coming up. Any good news . If your travels take you westbound all the way to San Francisco including this backup here, about a 45minute drive. Down near sears point, those have been fixed. Signal lights continue to flash red so traffic is bumper to red so traffic is bumper to bumper there. You can see by our green sensors all the way across. Guys . I want to sho
In santa rosa. Thats not the only problems with the roads. Sky ranger is overhead. Im stepping into your shot. Sky ranger showing you the intersection. Two major roadways off highway ten 1. You see the destruction the crash. We do see as the chopper pans around, it is very close. On the other side of the parking lot. We showed the flames. Thats why you see the barren areas, the homes are burned down. As we showed you, they must have closed off the off ramp. 101 closed in that area. Theres Kaiser Permanente right behind the sign. The roadways, aside from ten 1, are not so bad in the rest of the north by a. The other big issue is over here. South of there, across the san mateo bridge. Lets zoom over. We see slowing in boat directions. Lets look at the shot. We have from our chopper earlier. Sky ranger was overhead. The tow tuck truck was trying to clear it. We had the entire freeway blocked off. The injuries were involved so bad that they at one time called a helicopter. They did not lea