Agent about his plan. He was arrested last week and charged with trying to supply provide support to a terror group. A chef in the bay area scene is stepping away from his businesses. It comes in the wake of Sexual Harassment allegations made by some of his former employees. Reporter that chef and owner of three restaurants is charlie hollowell. He attended the meeting at penrose behind us this afternoon. We spoke with one of his former employees. She says that he had very inappropriate behavior in the past. She told him he cannot talk to women that way and he responded with a derogatory comment about her sexuality. He is apologizing in light of the recent Sexual Harassment allegations made against him. Hollowell is the chef and owner of boot and shoe service penrose in oakland. All three popular restaurants. He started the businesses after working in berkeley. This afternoon while his restaurants were still closed employees had a staff meeting held inside of penrose. Hollowell addressed the Sexual Harassment allegations against him made by 17 former female employees. As reported by the San Francisco chronicle. The allegations included inappropriate behavior indecent propositions in sexually explicit language. Hollowell declined to comment on camera to us and he left the meeting. He referred us to a statement and some customers are disappointed. I was totally shocked. Although given everything that has been going on in our society and the other allegations against roy moore maybe i should not be. I think it is a representative of our society as a whole. Reporter we received a statement an open letter to his coworkers in the east bay community. He apologized for what he calls and participating and allowing an uncomfortable workplace for women. Part of it reads we have come to a reckoning point in history of male bosses behaving badly. I believe in this reckoning and i stand behind it. A very long letter. It says he takes full responsibility for his actions. We tried to speak with employees when they left the meeting this afternoon. None of them wanted to comment. One man told me offcamera hollowell gave a very heartfelt apology. Oakland police say a man arrested on child pornography charges had more than 100,000 images on his computer. 55yearold David Wayne Hudson was arrested at his home november 7. With the help from the fbi. The Alameda County das office has charged him with multiple counts of possession and distribution of child pornography. Car breakins are on the rise a shocking 20 said 26 since last year. It comes despite the efforts teresa. We focus resources to prevent the problem. Reaction to these numbers. Reporter San Francisco police say auto burglaries went down 11 from october to november. Out the fall season the numbers have climbed up despite the chief efforts. They are out. We are still having to deal with this. We are dealing with serial criminals. Some of these people we are going after with a centralized investigative approach. Reporter the Crime Statistics show more than 25,000 vehicles were broken into by november 2017. 5000 more than 2016. In august the police chief disbanded an Investigative Unit focused on car breakins. Instead he doubled the numbers of officers on foot patrol to prevent burglaries. Each month car breakins had gone up. Local say they have not seen more Police Patrolling on foot and most of the breakins happen at night. They get broken in at night. A lot of them get broken in in garage is parking spaces. You cannot patrol that. Reporter one factor is the people committing the crimes are an organized group of serial auto burglaries. There are crimes of opportunity in a large city. Supervisors are also devising a plan to put his Specialized Group to investigate property crimes at each of the police stations throughout the city. The Police Department is going to be putting out a psa to the public about auto burglaries throughout the city. Concorde a suspected drunk driver under arrest after a rollover crash last night. It happened on clayton road and grand street. Pictures were posted on the Police Department aced the page. There were no major injuries. You can see the vehicle was seriously damage facebook page. The drivers identity has not been released. Driving under the influence comes with a maximum fine of at least 3500 for the first offense. Mountain view investigation after a deadly crash involving a google bus. It happened before 7 pm on shoreline boulevard. A motorcyclist hit the side of the bus at that intersection. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A woman driving behind the bus pulled over and called 911. Very upset. When i was on the phone with 9011 i said people are running over to the individual and trying to help him. At that point someone tried to turn them over. There was a scream. Reporter it is not clear who is at fault. A spokeswoman from google released in statement. We are saddened to learn of this tragic incident and our thoughts are with those affected at this tragedy. San jose Police Investigating a shooting in east san jose. Officers call to aptitude academy. On van winkle lane just before 9 pm. Police found the body of a man who had been shot at least once. They are still looking for a motive. And suspect in the shooting. So far they have not released the mans name. A man from redwood city shot his dog to death after it attacked him out for a walk. It happened yesterday afternoon on elmer street. San mateo county Sheriff Deputies say is 76yearold man told them he was walking with his mastiff when it started biting him. The man pulled out a handgun and shot and killed the dog. The man was taken to the hospital with a dog bite wound to his leg. He will recover. The Humane Society said the dog had been reported for abiding in the past. With the sale of Recreational Marijuana days away what you need to know depending on what city you live in. Dangers of hypothermia and frostbite. A look at the recordbreaking Winter Weather across the northeast and midwest. It is cold across the country. We had temperatures in the 60s. We have some rain down the road. We will see you back here. Four days the sale of Recreational Marijuana will be legal to adults over the age of 21 in california. As each city works to finalize regulations there is confusion in the rules across the pay bay area. The cannabis editor for the chronicle joins us on the phone. Thank you for being here. For most bay area cities it will be a gradual start to all of this. The best analogy wet and dry counties at the end of alcohol prohibition. We will have wet and dry counties for cannabis. It might get complicated. Each city has the right to ban it or late restrictions on it. What you might be able to do in berkeley you might not be able to do in walnut creek. There is more than 400 cities and counties in california. We started tracking their lulls on our website. Lets talk about how these cities and other municipalities will come up with regulations. Some of them have put moratoriums in place saying we need to make sure we have this thought out and have a plan in place. How do they go about rules and regulations . Now that the state has issued their own regulations any other local cities and counties can look to the state for guidance and begin to implement local rules that mirrors state rules. To this point it has been berkeley and oakland setting the curve in the nation for what medical cannabis regulation and adult use cannabis regulations would look like. Why has it taken so long . We have known a year ago pot would be legal new years day 2018. Why havent they come out with laws so other cities can figure out what they want to do . The state was behind the curve and terms of doing homework. Medical marijuana has been legal for 21 years. We just regulated medical cannabis for the first time in 2015. Those rules were beginning to take effect. Recreational meadow wine. The whole thing will take a while to get going. Colorado and nevada which have fully functioning medical systems. Nevada even though they legalized it at the same time they started in july of this year. That is compared to maine and massachusetts which also legalized at the same time as california. They are further behind and they are locked in battles and political debates over what it will look like in those states. Talk to us about the challenges that remain. They are multiple. A 10 billion Agricultural Sector in california. State senator mark mcguire said it was the biggest industry to ever come into the light of the regulated market. In modern california history. We are talking about a tracking system that needs to be stepped up. Background checks for the operators. Licensing. Business licenses. Tax licenses. 2000 pound weights of the modern california bureaucratic system is now being dropped on these cannabis operators for the first time. A lot of them are just beginning to come up to speed. How about law enforcement. They have to come up to snuff with the laws just kind of respect they are trying to figure out exactly what cities and towns can and cannot do. This will be a filling out the. Feeling out process. We have seen a number of cases where permitted operators to have their local and state license still get by police that are not on the same page as the cities and counties. We see that happen at the local level and the state level. There is a lot of bureaucratic inertia around prohibition. It will take years to unwind a lot of natural habits and embrace new ones that come with the legalization and regulation. I have to last you about the black market. Asked you. The black market has to generation head start on what is happening in the legal market. Its survival is predicated on how high taxes are in the legal market. Will looking at paying eight dollars more for your usual 50 bag of cannabis in the new year. That is compared to 35 on the black market. We are talking a difference between 35 for your local dealer and 58 in a store. The difference starts to narrow more and more people will leave the black market. Consumers rather go legal. They would rather have the convenience. In the interim they will pay a premium. We will learn together. It starts new years day. Cannabis editor with the chronicle. Thank you for joining us. Bill martin is tracking the weather picture. Some parts of the country really dealing with severe Winter Weather. Temperatures record low in parts of the north plains. Out to the east coast and the northeast in rhode island. As far south as atlanta below average temperatures. A lot of cold air has filtered down. Under here we are warm. This whole area out here has been chilled. Theyre having some flight delays based on weather issues. Mostly cold air. We do have a flight delay out there in chicago right now. Everybody else looks pretty good. With this weather. Cold weather flight delays have been a minimum. Yesterday we had a delay at sfo. So traveling this is the travel week or last week was. It has been pretty easy. 12 degrees chicago. If they are moving everyone else is moving back chicago has a delay. Not as moderate. New york newark has a delay. Everybody else is running green. Which is a good sign. As we look to the north some shower activity. That is a precursor to what is coming our way moving into the middle of next week. A little bit of rain in the forecast which will be nice. You can see the green to the north. This is a ridge of high pressure. As it breaks down the rain moves down. A pattern is more than just a one weather event. It could be a few events in a row. This is next week. Tomorrow will look like today with temperatures in the low 60s. We will look at the longrange model and talk about that. Extreme recordbreaking and dangerous want to weather is making for a miserable frigid reality across the northeast and the midwest. Mike with the conditions that bill was talking about. More on the miserable forecast in many of those areas. Reporter from broken pipes to spikes in medical calls a wave of lifethreatening cold weather is causing problems across the northern u. S. This morning it was 40. Reporter some people are trying to have fun it is also triggering hypothermia and frostbite warnings. It feels like your skin is going to be on fire. It hurts after you are out for a little while. Reporter delivering windchill alerts and temperatures as low as 37 below zero. A new record low in minnesota on thursday. I was hoping my vehicle would not start so i can pay home. Reporter on new hampshires Mount Washington thursday it was so cold Weather Observers poured boiling water into the air and it immediately turned to snow as the temperature hit 34. Chicago it has been tough for first responders. A car hit a fire hydrant triggering a flood in an icy mess spanning several blocks. A fire truck got stuck in the eyes responding to a house fire. Officials are urging people to stay indoors and check on the elderly during this cold. It is more than an inconvenience. It is a lifethreatening event. Reporter the weather is affecting half the country. Upstate new York Firefighters had to use a to rescue a woman trapped in her home by six feet of snow. Roy moore is reacting to todays finalized Election Results out of alabama. In a brief statement he said experts agree the election was fraudulent. Earlier the Alabama State board officially declared the Democrat Doug Jones the winner of the election. Rory moore said he stood for the truth and has no regrets roy moore. Two months since the wildfires. Here we are and there are more pleas for tourist to return to wine country. [ splash ] [ horn sounds ] dang ok, i gotta run. Hey, wait, theres something i need to tell you dang. Dang dang dang. Dang. See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. County tax collectors reaching out to homeowners to make sure they know about their option to pay property taxes for the end of the year. It allows them to avoid drawbacks from the new republican tax plan that takes effect new years day. It caps local and state Tax Deduction at 10,000 which affects those who write off their property taxes. By paying now some homeowners could save hundreds or thousands. I heard about it on the news of course. I decided i would be better off to do this then not. It is quite possible it will save me on my taxes. We wont be able to claim the real estate taxes anymore. It is going to hurt a lot of people. Republican leaders argue the 10,000 is offset by lower rates. The irs said the prepayments might be taxdeductible under certain circumstances. If youre considering making prepayments it is best to First Consult with a tax professional. Thousand of homeowners and businesses working to recover and rebuild from the devastating fires in october. And napa some wineries want to get the word out they are up and running and ready for tourist to visit and enjoy. Reporter the thomas fire. The largest in the state history. The most destructive fires are the ones that broke out in Northern California in october destroying 9000 structures. Many of them homes. We stood here as cinderella winery behind me this is what is left of the winery. It has been cleared. They hope to rebuild and have the new tasting room open in two years. Check out the scene compared to october 9 the morning after the fire burned through parts of napa. The rubble from cinderella winery was extensive. The entire building was destroyed. When you take into account and napa and sonoma there are 700 wineries and only 22 were damaged or destroyed. It gives you the idea wine country is not in a desperate situation when it comes to location. It is becoming more desperate situation when it comes to terrorism. The tourist dollar pushes the economy here. A lot of people have not come to wine country after two weeks of solid coverage of the fires in october. Locals say they need to come back and enjoy wine country. They would not notice where the damage was located. Most people are very surprised. They are expecting to see charred and burned areas. They are few and far between. Reporter some wineries are reaching out to visitors to encourage them to come back. Up the hill were cinderella burned they cannot taste wine for the next couple years. They can go to peoples homes and taste wine reaching out doing the experience at home. Doing what they can to keep their market up as they recover. There was concerned about the rebuilding process. Government might get in the way. That has been streamlined. A winery from concept to completion used to be six years. In napa it is two years to rebuild. Apple is apologizing and offering a special Battery Replacement bit deal. For customers with older phones that operate slowly. It is led to several lawsuits accusing apple of purposely slowing the iphone so users will buy new ones. Asher the problem has to do with older batteries. That have degraded over time. And no longer work at optimal levels. It is offering to replace the batteries for just 29. A 50 discount. As part of the apology apple said our Customers Trust remains everything to us. We will never stop working to earn and maintain it. We are looking at the new state laws that go in the fact in 2018. Parental leave and employees of Small Businesses maintained more for car registration. We will tell you what changes you can expect come new years day. Two top stories including the florida peer 39 terror plot and the deadly crash that killed a chp officer. The legal ramifications. The suspects in those two stories space with our legal analyst michael cardoza. Time for the verdict with our legal analyst michael cardoza. Lets talk about that terrible tragedy that happened on christmas eve. Chp officer killed in a dui crash parked on the side of the road. A drunk. A high driver slammed into the car. You would hardly