In vallejo a tree falls on a freeway and snarls traffic in both directions. Whoosh catherine homes crused in napa. Catherine bart shut down by trees on the tracks. It looks like im stuck here catherine kron four chief meteorlogist Jacqueline Bennett tracking the windstorm and watching the mercury drop. Whoosh catherine and the countdown begins. As the bay area gets ready to celebrate new years eve. Cab Companies Say they are the smart alternative to ridesharing. The price different will be huge. Catherine male announcer now, heres Stanley Roberts who found some people behaving badly. Catherine this is a full hour of your choice for prime time news. Catherine good evening im Catherine Heenan catherine strong, frigid winds have downed countless trees. Knocked out power to more than 100thousand bay area customers. Canceled more than 100flights. Catherine and its still going strong. Catherine you can see some of the damage here. Catherine hundreds of images coming into our newsroom tonight
Reporter people in alameda are scared. Reporter down trees and debris blocked bird tracks. Service between hayward has been restored since this you street came crashing down look at that. On the treat the cover the tracks and also calls a major delay on the fremont mind the daly city line is back on track as well this morning the wind blowing agreed between nobleman and the park. Reporter crews work all day yesterday to clean the fallen trees would seem to be all over the place we have no pictures ever sent in to us by viewers here is this one a huge tree down on a golf course in san ramon and happen theyre brought more and the drive. And Castro Valley a man is looking to be alive this morning of your who sent us these totals says that a tree fell on the man uc wearing the raiders jacket. The tree toppled over at the willow Park Golf Club in Castro Valley around 11 1 3 yesterday morning. Reporter new pictures descent into was notice what is selling a tree down in concord if felt now pr
Where the embattled president and his ministers have set up a base. President hadi asked new the United Nations to impose a nofly zone while accusing iran of being behind the unrest. Reporter dangerously close to the edge of civil war, that is how a you and a special advisor describes the situation in yemen , as malicious square off against loyalist troops. The president has called the gulf arab state to intervene. The foreign minister confirmed. The violence continues to escalate, and a carry on seizing territory. We will ask or foreign intervention, even military intervention. Reporter a call that saudi arabia has responded to with a pledge of support. If the sovereignty of yemen is threatened, then we will call for the application of charter 51 of the un security council. Reporter the charter allows interventions for peacekeeping purposes. Thousands of yemenis took two bc took to the streets on sunday to show their opposition to the advance of the rebels. The fight now controls part
Im in the trying to make a joke, i swear. Good morning. Bright side is, that the roads are, no major problems out there taking a look at route one in bucks count any major delays. We have early Police Activity around bridge treat but that cleared up out of the way. We could have rush hour coming along soon. Ill have a full report in a few moment. Erika. Vittoria thank you. One hundred tenant are waiting to go back to see is what left of their apartments after a four alarm fire in northeast philadelphia fire investigators hope ruins can tell them how the fire started. Eyewitness News Reporter jan carabao is live on the scene in academy road, good morning. Reporter good morning. That is right. The just about a hundred people are displaced this morning after a four alarm fire their apartment complex is still taped off and a lot of road in the the area are blocked off as well. So keep that in mind if you are traveling around northeast philadelphia this morning. In the meantime a lot of kes
Cost of tax reductions. The alternative minimum tax is 28 . If your tax rate was lowered to 25 . You still have to pay 28 . That is correct. For incomes between to london thousand dollars and 500,000, the effective tax rate is 35 . You hit the 35 rate and incomes fire lower than the income levels at which you would hit the 35 rate and regular tax. Why do they call it a patch . It is a one time year by year patch to stop the broad expansion. You could ask why they call it a cliff. They have discussed this in terms of the patch. It is a year by year increase in the exemptions. The patches nothing but the increase in the a in the exemption to prevent tens of millions of people from being forced to fill up the return you have. The only thing i would add is the package, what makes this so critical in the fiscal cliff discussion, is we are talking about the past for the 2012 taxable year. Unlike the rest of the fiscal cliff which effects rates that will apply next year. The patch applies for