Plus, a mysterious dell luge of amazon deliveries that wont stop. Youll meet one family that keeps getting packages it didnt order. How it could be part of an online scam to get positive product reviews. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. A late night, isnt it, guys . It was important that we got our work done. Congress votes to end an overnight shutdown. A night and an Early Morning drama. The massive budget deal went to the president s desk and he signed it. We all could have done better. The white house struggling to explain why a top aide rob porter was allowed to stay on the job despite Domestic Violence allegations. Should chief of staff john kelly keep his job . Absolutely not, absolutely not. Investors are bracing for another possible rocky day on wall street following the dows 1,000point plunge. A fierce snowstorm blew into the upper midwest. Chicago and detroit are expected to be the hardest hit. I was haunted by tweets every
All headed to the north. Point reyes, a strong cell moved over your neck of the woods. Just 15 minutes ago you can see the spotty cells, those are thunderstorms. Fair game for that today, but the heavy batch of rain we have headed our way doesnt come in until tonight. Tracking this between 3 00 and 7 00, then were really going to be in the thick of it throughout the night, so you do want to keep that in mind. The heavy rain will return later on today. Showers linger into tomorrow. Then throughout your thursday, a bit of a dry break, good looking for travel, but then we have a potent system on friday. This is the one im trying to gauge. Ill bring you information in moments. Count on some active weather for the rest of day, into tomorrow. Dry break on thursday, then a big one comes through on friday. More in moments. Back to you, scott, laura, and the rest of the top stories of the day. We are talking about the overnight rains in the north bay. It led to some flooding. According to the m
Into a reservoir where she drowned. Reporter many drivers tell me they use their gps devices as a guide because they are not always right. I was in hayward recently and it asked me to turn left towards the downtown but that would have taken me right into a oneway street. Reporter yeah. The firefighters say they are especially concerned now because the younger folks they simply have not read a map and dont know how to read a map. So you have a lot of young people who simply follow the little red line on their gps devices instead of their eyes and that seems to be the case here according to firefighters. Veronica . All right, da lin, thank you. More and more Bay Area Police departments are using body cameras on their officers. In oakland, city leaders say its a big reason why use of force cases are plummeting. Kpix 5s ryan takeo dug into the numbers and found out theres more than meets the eye. Ryan. Reporter well, both the outgoing and the incoming mayors agree that body cams are a big
Last few cities in america in the running to host the olympics. Were getting very close here but theres one thing that could be holding us back. Were going to talk about what that is. Its rather large, believe it or not. A lot of people sit in it and it gets a lot of attention. First a look at the weather. Were having a drizzly morning all around the bay area. You might notice that if you head out this morning. Your windshield wiper action. Live look at the golden gate bridge, temperatures relatively speaking warm in the upper 50s now. If you like dry weather, we are going to see it next week. Good for travel. Cloudy this afternoon, dry and mild days ahead. Well look at the 7day forecast coming up in a few minutes. Two new York City Police officers are dead after a gunman opened fire in broad daylight. Ambushing them as they sat in a patrol car. Hundreds of officers saluted ambulances carrying the bodies from a hospital in brooklyn. Police say the suspect Ismaayil Brinsley shot the two
Pam now at eight reporter a dip in degrees will have you cranking up the heat and hiding under the covers tonight. Well show you how long its going to last. Reporter new details tonight in the search for a bay area pilot and passengers whose plane disappeared from radar. Why one family is scared half to death over their 13 yearold daughter. Now police are involved too. Reporter a big spender dropping big tips at two San Francisco restaurants. Giving new meaning to happy holidays. And the pope reveals something about his past that has some parishioners saying how cool male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Pam now at 8 pam a cold snap is hitting the bay area the bay area is expected to get its first frost of the season tonight. And a freeze watch has been upgraded to a freeze warning for the evening. This is video from the north bay. Cold, windy weather there today. Pam we have Team Coverage tonight. Kron 4s Justine Waldman is braving the chill in San