Welcome. One more hour. I have been working for the weekend. You have worked a little bit over. New years eve is is always fun its always fun to hit a concert. We could go back and forth on what we did on new years eve. A lot of people will be celebrating. Security will be high. Its fun to go to the waterfront. We are in San Francisco with more on plans to help everyone celebrate safely. Does reporter big crowds will be here come sunday night. San Francisco Police will also be out in force. They will be on high alert especially after the Christmas Day terror plot that was uncovered and aimed at pier 39. Every Police Officer will be on duty. They will pack the waterfront sunday night. There could be 200,000 people who take part in the celebrations here. They will be on hand to watch the Fireworks Show on sunday night. To try to make sure that all those people are safe, there is an emergency at evacuation center. There is an increased focus on security this year in light of the foiled Christmas Day terror attack on pier 39. A former marine, Everett Jamison is behind bars accused of planning an attack. That was thwarted. That plot is certainly unnerving. It should not stop people from celebrating on new years eve. We were down at pier 39 yesterday. We would just try to be as safe as possible and still enjoy living in this nice, beautiful area. Planning to join the party in San Francisco on new years eve, there is a new way that you can stay informed about emergencies that may pop up. You contacts text and you will be sent safety alerts directly to your phone. That is only for new years eve. You can stay apprised of what is going on in San Francisco during these celebrations. Police are pointing out that they have no Credible Threats directed at the new years eve festivities here in the city. With that being said, they want everyone in San Francisco to keep an eye out for anything that appears out of place. You need to report those things immediately to police or the authorities. Copy that. Oakland police are reminding people to celebrate safely. Possession of illegal fireworks could result in a 10,000 fine. Shooting jones is illegal and could land you in jail. People in new york are getting ready for the new year by getting rid of the bad memories. It is good riddance day in time square. A mobile shredding truck is brought into allow people to shred the good, bad and heartbreaking memories of 2017. They can smash symbolic items from this year how do you plan to ring in 2018. 18 are going to a party and 8 have to work. 60 six percent say they dont have any plans. There he is some conversation going on on facebook. Mark says he will spend a quiet night at home. We call it amateur night. We also wish that people would go watch professional fireworks. It is too dangerous to do it at home. Most people say they are staying home. Im with you on that one. We are just three days away from having legal marijuana. What happens if you take that to the airport . The targets of airport authorities. Reporter marijuana enthusiasts are going to stock up on their favorite flour. Like alcohol, there are levels to this. There are limits thats limits to how much booze you can prune bring to the airport and the same thing goes for marijuana. Most of the time we dont do anything with it. Heres how the process works. Once the tsa discovers pot, they will call law enforcement. They cant confiscate any items or arrest you. Is up to the officer to determine whether you are violating the law. The Sheriffs Office says if you have less than one ounce in the Oakland International airport, youre probably in the clear. We are looking for people that are exploiting the industry to traffic in large amounts of marijuana. These are pictures of some of the marijuana confiscated this year were talking about pounds and pounds of pot. That will get you thrown in jail for trafficking. 171 pounds were confiscated in october, just over 1100 pounds this month. Were talking about one point six Million Dollars in street value. Despite the new law, travelers seems sick best skeptical. People have to figure that out. It is new to everyone. You need to think about where you are when you have it. Back to you. One wrecker mosh Recreational Marijuana is legal, it can be delivered to you. Delivery companies have to be licensed by the state and some companies are ready to roll. We will find tone tune our system. At least one company has state permission and a fleet of vehicles ready to go. Lining up to pay your property taxes . Tax collectors have been contacting homeowners to make sure they know about their option to pay property taxes before the end of the year. It could allow you to avoid problems from the new overhaul plan which takes effect the first of the year. State and local taxes are capped at 10,000. The irs warned that these prepayments may not be tax deductible. It depends on where you are. A full deduction depends on whether the taxpayer makes a payment this year, whether the taxes are assessed prior to 2018 and other factors. The owner and chef of three popular restaurants apologized yesterday. He promised better working conditions for women. The owner of pizzaiolo and 2024 and penrose has been charged with Sexual Harassment. It hits home here. I live in this neighborhood. I felt like these people work beyond reproach. I thought they thought the same as me. It is shocking to find out Something Like this. And independent outside in attorney has been hired. The company is also working with an hr consultant to implement new policies at all the restaurants to create a safe environment. You can see the full open letter at ktvu. Com. A member of the board of regents is accused of making an inappropriate comment. Heather mcdonald posted a podcast of him making inappropriate comments about her body. He later apologized and said it was a joke. His Resignation Letter came in and did not mention the Sexual Harassment allegations. Coming up, what we have learned about the death of a 17 yearold young man. Makeup from a popular score is being recalled. All that and more coming up after the break. Stay tuned, well be right back. We want to check in on wall street. What a year it has been. This is the last trading day of the year. Just to tell you, the dow gained 5000 points up 25 . The s p 500 is up 20 for the year and dad that is up 30 for the year. The dow is looking good. Surveillance video has been released from a gas station attack. The attacker leaped across the counter and started punching a store clerk. He tried to steal money from the Cash Register but broke the machine. He jumped and he suddenly pushed me. Then he hit me and pushed me into the wall. Surveillance cameras recorded the man. The Police Department is concerned about the violent nature of this attack. The store clerk is looking for another job. Nine women adamant are accused of trying to smuggle drugs into a jail. Arrests were made after spending one month investigating. Five women already in jail now faced new drug charges. Mail was intercepted at the maple street detention center. They are still looking to arrest for other women in this case. Security agents have confiscated nearly 4000 guns. Tsa screeners expect to find even more weapons this week since the final week of the year is one of the busiest travel times. Dallasfort worth, jackson in atlanta and george bush intercontinental were the highest is where the highest amount of weapons were found. Some guns were in stuffed animals and potted plants. You can use your drivers license or id passport to get on a plane until october 2020. After that, drivers licenses will not be a valid form of id at airports and federal buildings. You can use your passport, military id and then you dont need a real id. A company that sells cosmetics to teenagers is recalling makeup because of concerns about asbestos. Claires announced this recall after her mother tested her daughters makeup. Asbestos was found in cosmetics in other parts of the country. They have cleared where the shelves of this makeup. Bay area home prices set another record. This is a big story for the year. A new report says the median price for singlefamily bay area home was 825,000. That is up 15 from the same time last year. It is the biggest increase since they started tracking prices. The number of available homes is down. That adds to the rising price. 5123 houses were sold. That is down 2 from the same time last year. Higher housing costs may be driving tech workers out of the area. Skyrocketing costs will lead to companies being going to more affordable cities. Seattle is a city that could benefit. Tech workers should be moving to the pacific northwest. Coming up next, flooring the world of virtual currencies. That is bit going. We answer some of the biggest questions about how it works. All that and more coming up after the break. Stay tuned, well be right back. crunching dude, your crunchings scaring the fish. Dude, theyre just jealous. Kelloggs raisin bran crunch. With crunchy clusters and the taste of. Apples and strawberries. I got one i guess were having cereal for dinner. Deliciously hearthealthy kelloggs raisin bran crunch. Unstop right there im about to pop a cap of mmm fresh in that washer. With unstopables inwash scent boosters by downy. And if you want, pour a little more. Ah, its so fresh. And its going to last from wash to. Wear for up to 12 weeks. Right, freshness for weeks unstopables by downy. For a fresh too feisty to quit. Big coring, what is it . It is crypto currency and a Payment System that works without a central bank or administrator. The currency has been in the headline as its value stored. It is raising questions such as how does it work and how do you buy it . For the answers, we are joined to get more information. First of all, it seems like it is like a foreign currency. There is an exchange rate. There is no central bank behind it, like a country. What is the difference . It is a crypto currency. It is secure and decentralized database that stores a ledger of transactions transactions. It is fast and cheap. It is kind of how you talk about huber. People only know about big coring because it is the one that is in the media. There are 1300 different kinds out there. Is in the media because it is saying an unprecedented activity. We are trying to figure out if it will still skyrocket. I cant seem to put my finger on it. Some people are buying into futures and saying this as wheels and legs and it will keep going and going. What is your take on this . A big coring used to be . 10. If you type in what is big coin. Com you will see. The more people that own them, the higher it will go. I heard that there are only 1000 people that own 40 . Its Something Like that. Dont quote me. It seems like the people that control the prices. It has no real intrinsic value. The board dumping gold for bit going. Is it easier to steal or hack in . I do advise that you dont keep your money on the exchanges. You could have cold storage. Storage offline. Then, when you sign up to download an authenticator, you can have a code to plugin before you enter your password. That way no one can ever get it. It sounds complicated. There are people at home, they may be a casual trader. Back to the theory of the bit coin implosion. Would that affect the market of the people at home who just trade date today . Is it that powerful . There was one company that added bit coin and it rose 500 . The name is such a buzz buzzword right now that that could affect markets. I dont really Pay Attention to that. The volatility is insane. Things go up 100 in a day. There are 1400 different currencies. There are claims that go up 100 or 200 weekly. We have gold and we have apple pay google pay. Is this the money of the future . Is that why it is a good investment . There are so many other types of currency being built to solve this problem. This was supposed to be a peer to payer peer to peer payment service. I have a friend who is trying to sell his house for big coring. Nobody is taking those officer offers. Do you think there needs to be more on the regulatory front . People are working on that. There are currencies that work but these are untracked double. They say this is easier for drug dealing and weapons because it is an trackable. I had a friend who said he did not want to touch it but it has been changing over time. It is revolutionary. It is about the technology more so than the crypto currency. In the early days, you could exchange back and forth across countries. You could get drugs. Honestly, it is easier and faster and a safer i guess people are trying to trust it. It will be integrated into a system and revolutionary. In the next five years, most people will have a crypto currency. Who knows what 2018 holds . I think it will be a bigger year. Okay. Thank you. We appreciate your time. Coming up next, we are checking in with wine country two months after the northbay fires. All that and more coming up after the break. Stay tuned, well be right back. Back. We are only a couple of days away from 2018. Cities are getting ready. How are you planning to ring in 2018 . 19 say they are going to a party. 8 say they have to work. 65 say they dont have any plans at all. We got a lot of feedback. Most people say they want to stay home. Pam says at 9 pm i will be awake to wish my family on the east coast. Brandon says he will celebrate with friends at the marina. Thank you for your responses. It should be a fairly nice evening. Sunday night there is a chance of rain but it looks like it has backed off. There is dry weather for new years eve. If you want to get out, my schedule will be aligned with pams. Here is a live look at across the bay. It is a spare the air day. We are waking up with freezing temperatures for our inland cities. Visibility is improving. Over the northbay we have some dense fog north of santa rosa. We had patchy and dense fog north of highway 101. The airport has good visibility for the moment. Heres a look at the temperatures. Now that the sun is up we will see a rebound in numbers. It is 40 degrees in livermore. Upper 40s in oakland and 51 in San Francisco. Afternoon highs for today, low to mid and upper 60s. 61 for San Francisco and 66th in morgan hill. You cant see santa cruz but they are expected to get to 69 degrees. We have good weather coming our way. Not much change into new years eve and even the first day of january. We will see clouds increasing and then we have rain on tuesday. Were still several days out but hopefully we will see some wet weather returning. We need it. Good morning. Some headlines that we have been working on. Lets say hello today. All right. Here are some of your top stories. The 17yearold boy is being investigated. This happened just before midnight on sunset avenue. The victim suffered a serious chest wound and died at the hospital. Investigators are asking for help to find the killer. A Memorial Service will be held tomorrow morning for an officer who was killed Christmas Eve when a suspected drunk driver crashed into his patrol car. The service will begin at 8 30 am. It will be open to the public. The driver who crashed into the patrol car is still in the hospital. Investigators say a 3year old boy in new york city playing with a stove caused a deadly deadly apartment house fire that killed 12 people. One child was 11 only one years old. His mother did not know he had turned on the stove until she heard him scream. She grabbed him and her other child and got out of the building. The flames spread quickly through the building. This was the deadliest fire in new york city and more than 25 years. Those are just a couple of your morning headlines. I will send it back to you. The legalization of marijuana on january 1 creates new issues for employers and employees. We have moral the impact on the workplace. Reporter a hazy cloud could obscure the clear vision between dues and donts at the workplace. Both companies and municipalities are reexamining employee use of marijuana during the workday. We have dealt with this for a few years. The recreationals have to have a different set of rules. Ricky doyle is the city attorney. They are subject to federal law. As such, the citys drugfree workplace policy states it is unlawful for the possession or use of a controlled substance by city employees. Violation of the policy can result in dismissal. The city adopted a strict no drug policy in the 1990s. You cant use any drugs. That includes alcohol. Marijuana . It is a drug. Any drugs. So alcohol and marijuana, you cant use those during the workday. That is a policy that has been on the books for number of years. It is incumbent upon the city to get that out and clarify it so everyone knows the rules. The drug test for employees in some occupations will continue. Santa clara county officials use a similar approach while tackling the same question about marijuana use. We are trying to make sure that people understand this is not a freeforall. Reporter the county is telling employees to treat marijuana use as they would beer or wine. If you cant be on your job in an altered state and under the influence of drugs. That includes marijuana x yes. That is right. People must be sober and alert. The conflict between state and federal law could be an issue. Under the trump administration, the d. O. G doj says greater enforcement could come in the nottoo distant future. The city of San Francisco has launched a Public Awareness campaign about the risks of marijuana. It will launch next year on social media. The campaign will stress the fact that the drug is illegal for those under the age of 21. Marijuana use in San Francisco is lower than the national average. A study showed that 71 of City High School students have never used marijuana. That compares to 59 of students nationwide. Oil is at the center of tensions. A Hong Kong Flagged vessel was success suspected of i