Good morning on the christmas eve. We are taking a live look outside from our roof camera here on van ness avenue. Looking back at San Francisco city hall. Around 36 people have returned home this morning after flooding forced them into an Evacuation Center. The shelter was in place for residents of East Palo Alto flooding. Residents living near the San Francisquito creek were areas along the borders of palo alto, menlo park, and at last check, six homes Officials Say the napa river. North of napa near st. Helena. Is currently at 26andahalf. Thats a the National Weather warning remains in effect on rest of the day today. Residents and businesses in the area were advised to monitor river levels receding. The city has closed Veterans Memorial park, the Preserve Park and trancas crossing park until further notice. Thousands of nurses will nine bay area hospitals. Negotiated labor contracts and improvements in patient care protections. Such as staffing levels, Health Officials want to redu
Massacre, critics are taking aim at the controversial plan to put armed guards in schools. The head of the powerful group is sticking to its guns on the explosive issue. One Congress Wont be able to do anything about until sometime next month. Brian mooar has details. Reporter in his first interview after the connecticut shooting tragedy, nra chief Wayne Lapierre was defiant. Look, a gun is a tool. The problem is the criminal. Reporter the powerful gun lobby and its allies insist gun laws arent the answer. They want more guns in the hands of good guys. If its crazy to call for putting police and Armed Security in our schools to protect our children, then call me crazy. People resisted having weapons on airplanes. But i oversaw the federal air marshals, and its a deterrent. Reporter legislation will have to waited for the new congress to get settled in, but the debate is already underway. Trying to prevent School Shootings . Schools without talking about guns is like stopping lung cance
We incurred the fans to get out there early. We will make it real nice. This sunday will be a huge night for the redskins. One victory away from clinching the nfc east. Greg controversial decision on wheel of fortune has some viewers hence spinning. A contest against the right word but was told she had lost. All that coming up. Good morning washington at 5 00 a. M. Starts now. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. Good morning, washington. It is monday, december 24. I am scott thuman. I am natasha barrett. We will get to meteorologist adam caskey. Are you warm . I will fire up the yule log in about nine minutes. First lets start with whats happening outside. We will have a light wintry mix today, but nothing to panic about. Just enough to put us in the spirit of the season. Is a look at our satellite and radar. Areas of rain migrating through southwestern virginia. That will continue to push our way and bring us in light wintry mix about lunchtime. 26 in a coun
Theres also the possibility some of this is not really reaching the ground out there as we still have fairly dry low levels, but eventually it will and we will get snow around here for just about everybody by overnight tonight. If youre south and east of the city, kind of that line of i 95, then chances are youre probably going to get maybe a little light snow and then it will be going over to rain. Look, for us this is not a big storm. Its going to become a fairly substantial storm once it gets offshore tomorrow evening and tomorrow night. Its going to bring a lot of snow to new england specifically, the coastal areas there really going to get hammered tomorrow evening and tomorrow night. Our snow will arrive before sun rise. It starts coming overnight tonight. It is trending now. The new stuff is suggesting maybe a little less snow for d. C. , looks like it may get a little more mix with rain by late morning tomorrow morning, early in the afternoon before it shuts off. Most of the ac
Said trying to prevent shootings in schools without talking about guns is like talking about lung cancer without talking about cigarettes. The company which calls itself the Worlds Largest arm supplier said it sold three and a half years worth of ammunition magazines in just three days. The ar15 is the nations most popular semiautomatic rifle similar to the models used in the newtown shootings. With time running out to avoid the fiscal cliff, democrats and republicans have left the capital for home. For the majority of the country, that means we are going over that cliff. President obama is in hawaii for christmas with his family. Before he left he urged congress to adopt a stopgap measure to prevent taxes from rising on people who make less than 250,000 a year. He also asked for a plan to keep providing benefits to unemployed workers. House Speaker John Boehner is home in cincinnati. He failed to get members of his own party to support his plan b proposal for ending the crisis. Speake