At 645, the night sky provided the perfect drop for an explosion of color as thousand of light lit up the center. It brings out the spirit. It looks nice. It is a beautiful thing to see. Reporter retailers want to get people out and about to shop. In hayes valley, a gift sure though store is banking on their jewelry. The merchant says the Holiday Shopping accounts for 30 of sales for the year. We will run deals on certain items. Black friday will be a busy day for us. Reporter there is a prediction that sales will be up 3. 7 over last years period. One expert says that may be overly optimistic because the consumers are wary. Consumers have weathered a tough storm through the recession. Reporter a website advises consumers black friday is good days a good day to purchase some items but not others. Smaller discounts for clothing, furniture and jewelry there are a lot of deals already starting to happen before the black friday rest those rush brush. Reporter at a craft store there will no
According to documents from a public records request, the delays are costing the county millions of dollars in lost revenue. A walk through the Santa Clara County hospital bed building shows a project in total disarray. The Turner Construction company was picked to build it but today top county leaders acknowledge millions of dollars have been wasted and the county is losing 100,000 a day in lost revenue. Work records we obtain show the original project contract was 291 million. Turner construction requested an additional 66 million and then another 9 million. The documents show the county agreed to extend the Completion Deadline by more than a year and agreed to other change orders as well. Here is what the project looks like today, two weeks before it is supposed to open. Unfinished rooms and no beds. Im very disappointed. The progress is not where it should be for the delivery of this bed building. This is a patient room, an in tensive care unit and as you can see from top to bottom
Warmer than our usual highs. Live doppler hd shows around the region not coming up with moisture and no rain. Temperaturewise out the door, 68 and mild in fairfield compared to 48 in napa and some spots you need the light jacket as you star the day. 60 in oakland and shows is at 56. Wake up weather is mainly clear and mild temperatures in some spots and turning breezy with sunrise at 7 05 and starting temperatures in the mid60 to mid50s. Now a check on traffic. Good morning, everyone. At 5 00 am we are taking you to San Francisco first and we want to give you a heads up of open world 2014 at at the mascone center. It will cause street closings for oracle. This will an lost traffic off of 80. Be sure to find another way around or give yourself extra time. Heavy, heavy traffic. The bay bridge toll plaza shows cash paying lanes stacking up and the fast track is clear as we make it from emeryville. With the as season coming to a dramatic end all eyes turn to the giants and their attempt to
Thank you. 4 31. Developing news from Oakland Police are investigating a trio of shootings that took place in a fiveminute span and left five people wounded. Police say two people were shot before 9 00 last night on 88th avenue and then two more were shot on 60thth avenue and a third shooting at 105th left another hurt. All five are expected to be okay. Officers have not said whether the shootings are connected. A San Francisco man who says police tried to toss him out of the wheelchair will file a formal complaint all caught on video. Cornell . I am not a threat. Bill wanted to help some friends on sunday being questioned by San Francisco police after an argument. Dont go over there. The video clip shows him moving the wheelchair toward the group in hopes of intervening but officers tell him to lobby and at one point one appears to try and tip him out of the wheelchair and push him off the curb. Friends rush in to help. It looked like they were try to low you out of your chair. They w
Francisco we go and our kgo roof cam looking out at the financial district, rain just about everywhere. And finally down to the south bay Clear Conditions down there, though a live look at san jose, lisa argen picks up our storm watch coverage. Lisa . Hi there, chris. Another hour or two before we see some returns down in san jose but it has lightened up in the north bay where nearly a half inch of rain. Weve seen about a tenth in the Higher Elevations of the east bay outside our studios closing in on a quarter of an inch. So as we take a look at San Francisco, you can see the light rain here. Over into oakland as well and a little bit lighter to moderate rain from san leandro, 680, hayward down through union city. It is very slick out there. Be careful. Then you can see what happens beyond fremont. Things are quiet in sunnyvale. Light rain around mountain view, though, and san jose cloudy skies, half inch of rain up through the Santa Cruz Mountains and there is more to come. But we ar