Neighborhood. The california conservation corps joined city crews inputting bags in place to prevent flooding. Some homes were evacuated after water seeped through the levee. We have to leave everything behind. We had a bad christmas so he is ready to let it go. Move on. Theres still one home thats vacant because water got into some electrical outlets. East palo alto is work on a longterm fix that will include the croaks capacity to carry water. And were seeing much more snow in the sierra and how. The California Department of Water Resources reports that snow levels now are at 140 of average. Last year they were like just 30 percent of average. While not everybody at this time felt Like Fighting traffic and chain controls to get up there plenty of bay area residents wanted to see a White Christmas. And they did. Some families decided to head out after opening presents and to play in the first snow they found. So lets get an update. Isnt it fun to play in the snow . Uhm, yeah. [ laught
The store shelves. Im returning some things that i dont need. Reporter shopper track reported shoppers spent 7. 1 billion the day after christmas in 2011. But a recent report says this years holiday sales are below expected numbers. Now retailers hope post christmas incentives can save the worst Holiday Shopping in four years. The retailers have deals going on in store anywhere from 30 to 60 off so thats amazing savings throughout the mall. And you know, shoppers have some money to spend. Gift cards to spend. Reporter retailers say they see the boost from procrastinating Holiday Shoppers and people using those gift cards and exchanges to spend on themselves. Black friday is our number one shopping day and this is number 2. Theres going to be a tremendous amount of people out today looking to get special sales and discounts and to make their exchanges and spend their gift cards. Reporter now, according to a 2011 Consumer Reports poll, one in 7 adults will be exchanging gifts. So theres
We had to leave everything behind. We had a bad christmas so were ready to move on. There is one home thats still vacant because water do into electrical outlets making it too dangerous to occupy. East palo alto is working to fix it including increasing the creek as capacity to carry water. And that rain continues this morning, right . Elizabet . Hidef doppler is busy. We are not away from the wet weather yet. We have been seeing a couple of different new accidents coming in because we have these heavier cells. We are going to zoom in with our hidef doppler and show you whats going on. You can see that yellow moving over parts of what looks like South San Francisco now hayward hit with moderate rain at least. And check out areas in vallejo if you are traveling interstate 80. Chp also issued a high wind advisory for the carquinez bridge right where that wet weather is hitting right now. So yeah, its a treacherous morning out there. Hopefully theres not as much commuters as typical. Were
Sides. Its like we have one foot over the cliff already. Did you give thought to the fiscal cliff when doing your Christmas Shopping . Many americans did because cbs 5 reporter Mike Sugerman tells us retail numbers werent good. Reporter im at union square which is mobbed. Its swinging. I spent the day here and it didnt get active until a couple of hours ago and as i look around, i dont see a lot of people with bags. Im not sure theyre shopping. But the retailers really hope they will because because they are in a lot of hurt. Susan wanted to buy toys for her grandchildren but couldnt manage to go to a toy store. Visions of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre were in her head. I couldnt take the shopping and seeing all the little kids 5yearolds, 6yearolds, particularly saddens me. Reporter she bought gift cards instead and none of the extra stuff she might have been found being in stores. December retail is a bummer in the news and stores. This is not at all a good Holiday Season
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