Flag warning. Ktvu meteorologist mark tamayo faces the areas with the most danger and we begin with debora villone on this unseasonable alert. Reporter ken, this fire station is lit up for the holidays, but santa is not all that is red. The warning issued this evening lasts overnight and into midmorning. This was some wind will burn crazy. Reporter this chief doesnt recall a red flag warning ever this late for northern california. But what matters are the conditions; not the calendar. I should see green grass, but its still brown and with the drop in relative humidity, it can quickly grow into larger fires. Reporter like two fires last month. In napa and sonoma counties. Fires taking hold at a time most folks were planning for thanksgiving and not clearing fire breaks. When the inversion is really strong, you can really see it stratify. Reporter because of winds gusting along ridge tops and canyons. Redflag doesnt change operations much for local departments around the bay area, but calfire has ended its season and scaled back, sending temporary crews home, parking engines and grounding aircrafts until next spring. Southern california with its yearround staff keeps more in take the, but a big fire to the north might find agencies making due with less calfire muscle than they are used to and to think during december last year a series of storms had bay area fire crews scrambling on calls for flooding and power outages. Now instead of sandbags its redflags. Alameda county is under a redflag warning until tomorrow morning. Reporter it was a fire season that started early and ended late, and the numbers reflect it. Calfire tallied 7100 wildland fires, that is 2300 more than last year. Reporting live in castro valley, debora villalon, ktvu channel 2 news. One of the largest of the wildland fires broke out in Contra Costa County in september, the morgan fire burn more than 3,000 acres off Morgan Territory road outside of the clayton at the base of mount diablo. Investigators determined that the fire was started when someone was target shooting on their property. No charges were file. Our Team Coverage continues with meteorologist mark tamayo. Ken it felt strange making the fire danger maps, but its our riality, with the winds stronger in the higher terrians. The current wind gusts, mount tam 23 Miles Per Hour and fairfield 26 Miles Per Hour. So that redflag warning in place right now for the north bay hills and east bay hills and this by the way, was a picture snapped up at mount tam earlier today. In terms of the details of the redflag warning, as i mentioned in place until 10 00 tomorrow morning. We had the northerly winds kicking in and typically we have the winds october, september and october, but winds could be gusting to 35 Miles Per Hour and very low humidity. Right around 15 . As a result fire danger a concern increasing over next few hours across the bare, coming up at 10 35 35, well take a look at areas near 70. That another is component with our forecast, the warm temperatures and i will let you know if we have any rain chances for the rest of 2013. The unusual weather in the bay area is prompting air quality managers to issue spare the air alerts on almost a daily basis. The one scheduled for tomorrow is the 7th consecutive alert and the 22nd since november. The alert makes the use of fire pits, woodstoves or manufactured fire logs illegal. Violators could be fined up to 500. Ahead at 10 30 a piece of california history revealed because of low water levels of how a lack of rainfall has led to a fascinating discovery at folsom lake. The family of jahi mcmath is moving forward with man to take the 13yearold girl out of oaklands Children Hospital to keep her on life support. As tom vacar told us that the family is facing the monday deadline when the hospital has the legal right to take her off the ventilate error. Childrens hospital is the scene of conflict over deep beliefs science versus the power of prayer. The courtordered monday deadline is approaching quickly. Im optimistic in my faith that god is going to make another way for us. She is making little movements. Its time to find peace in this very tragic situation and move on. Reporter but the family hoping for a miracle recover using Group Funding site go fund me is trying to raise 20,000 to transport jahi to a longterm care facility, because the family says the Insurance Company wont pay. There is a place in los angeles and a place in new york, which is the reason for the fund and the po box. Box. The Childrens Hospital director tried to have a discussion with the facility that the family would like to move jahi to. Reporter nonetheless jahis mother remains determined. Thanks to everybody out there who has been sending their prayers and sending their cards and their letters. She reads every last one of them and that gives her strength to keep going further. I dont think its a a responsible decision. That is my opinion, but its up to the babys mother and her family to make the final decision on that. We declare her brainalive. Reporter a conflict of believes where life may or may not be happening in the balance. Tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. Jahi mcmaths family released a statement saying, we believe in this country a parent has the right to make the decision concerning the existence of a child, not a doctor who looks at only lines on a pair, were working every minute to preserve our rights in jahis existence and its our fundamental constitution right, as it would be yours if this horror every befell you. You can see almost 6,000 has been raised since the page was launched yesterday. The family is hoping to raise 20,000 before monday when Childrens Hospital can legally take her off life support. Patients oballegiant air were stuck for almost 1 hours at Oakland Airport after the airline delayed their flight. Flight to eugene, oregon was supposed to leave at 7 00 a. M. It finally got on the ground at of 40 this evening. Inga spokesperson says the passengers were put on another plane as soon as pob, but that wasnt enough for some passengers. They told us if we didnt get a refund we could get another flight with them in the future, but after an experience like this, i dont know if i would want to. A group of passengers banded together to decide to rent a car and drive to eugene, include a talladega boy and his father, a College Student and a 19yearold woman and pregnant woman. Investigators are trying to fig out what caused a house fire in oakland. Crews got the call for a single alarm fire at a twostory home on hanover avenue near lake merritt. Firefighters say the flames started on the first floor and they managed to contain the fire before they spread. No one was home at time and there are no reports of injuries. A man hosting a Birthday Party for a friend was fatally shot last night in oakland. It happened just after 11 00 p. M. On 96th on and off near bankcroft avenue. Police say the victim was standing outside of his friends east oakland participant building when someone opened fire. The victim was taken to the hospital, where he later died. So far police dont have a motive and have not made any arrests. The killing was oaklands 88th homicide of the year. Six people have been arrested in connection with a series of Christmas Eve burglaries in newark. On thursday, we told you about armada torres and her two children who woke up find Christmas Morning to find the gift understands the tree gone. Police and firefighters scrambled to raise money for new gifts fort family. Police have not said the that if the suspects who hit the torres house are the same ones, but say that the suspects were involved in several burglaries that night around newark. Christmas may be over, but there is a warning from police that thieves could still be targeting your house for new and expensive gifts. Your curbside trash could be telling thieves exactly what to look for. New at 10 00s ktvus Noelle Walker is live in San Francisco with what you need to know before you put out your garage. Reporter ken, the days between christmas and new years eve were still basking in the holiday glow, but that could be dimmed pretty quickly if you leave your gift boxes out on the curb and leave yourselves open to thieves. Christmas trees are getting their last days under the lights and some have already been stripped and tossed to the curb, along with the boxes that were ripped open with despite just days ago. We have a pile of boxes continuously out of the house are 00 tomorrows trash could be tomorrows treasure. The San FranciscoPolice Officer carlos says that big box on the curb is like announcing to thieves what you got for christmas. If you have a bigticket item like a nice Cardboard Box displayed in front of your house for pickup, you are basically telling the suspect hey, here is my 55 flat screen tv. We saw it before christmas with grinches stealing packages. Police suggest taking items to the recycling center yourself, or waiting until just before pickup time to put them out. Were asking our customers to break down the boxes, stare them up, so they fit inside the recycling bin. Reporter and its best to break down and invert boxes left on the curbs, so the produce logo is hidden. If they see something that they like, they are willing to take that risk. And if its your neighbor, next week it might be you. Reporter the officer says be vigilancant and if you see someone walking or driving in your neighborhood who doesnt belong or seems suspicious call police, because having a patrol car drive up and down your street can be a good deterrent too. Live in San Francisco knowle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. Today marks the end line for unemployment benefits. What it means for more than a million americans. And the tips juror jesus strikes again in arizona and how the unsuspecting bartender split. Today 1. 3 million americans are lose their safety net which came in the form of longterm unemployment benefits. As Sunlen Serfaty reports it sets off the beginning of a new round of fighting on capitol hill. Reporter this is what the last six months have been like for paul hallasy. I have answered over 500 want ad. At 52 he has been out of boric in educational publishing and another another blow. He one is of 1. 3 million americans losing unemployment benefits. On average they have been getting 300 each week, hallasys check wasnt nearly enough to cover the 1100 rent on his new york apartment and now it will stop coming. I wont be able to buy food. I wont be able to paypy bills. Reporter are congress failed to pass an sequence, teeing up a nasty fight for the new year. Its going to be classic messy washington politics over an issue where the two parties don have a united view. This is one of the issues that the right flank wants to fight on. Reporter some republicans say its time to end the program all together. When you extend benefits to 73 weeks or 99 weeks, it encourages some people to stay unemployed too long, and that makes it increasingly hard for them to get back into the workforce. Reporter democrats say benefit checks are spent right away, spending that is necessary to boost the economic recovery. This is what these people need in order just to get by and its what the economy needs in order to keep its momentum. Reporter but the political blamegame doesnt help paul hallasys new reality. Its extremely stressful. Reporter Sunlen Serfaty, washington. In california, 213,000 people are losing their benefits today. The current Unemployment Rate is at 8. 5 according to the state department, 26 have been out of work for a year or longer. Alameda police are hoping that the plus, can help themloc a 68yearold woman who suffers from the early stages of alzheimers disease. She is about 5 tall, way wage about 110 pounds. Holbrook may be with her lab. She is actually 55. The Obama Administration reports that the federal Health Care Website is working as it should. The white house said a team of experts continued to work throe the holidays on any continuing glitches. The site handled 83,000 users at atime. Meanwhile Republican Leaders continue to predict problems with the Affordable Care act. When coverage begins january 1st. Folks in obamacare and the Affordable Care act believe that they have purchased something that they havent really purchased they have a Health Care Coverage with fewer doctors, with fewer hospitals, with fewer clinics being able to see them. Americans can sign up for coverage through march 31st. There is still confusion about the basics. A panhandle Young Democrats found fewer supports obamacare than the Affordable Care act, which of course are the same thing. The latest figures from states website show 428,000 people have signed up here in california. Covered california says those who have applied need to pay the first months premium. Police officers will not take effect unless the Insurance Company receives payment by january 6th. Its too late to finish an Application Online to get coverage that starts with the new year. If you have an incomplete application you must call or go to a certified agent. A New York Times investigation about benghazi, libya, concludes the attack on the u. S. Embassy was not the work of aqaed. The attack on september 11th, 2012 killed ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other americans. According to the times, months of investigates found no planned attack by alqaeda and any other organized terror and appears to be as the Obama Administration said by an anti islamist video in the u. S. That went viral. A republican congressman has blasted todays report calling it misleading. Reports of military Sexual Assault have jumped more than 50 this fiscal year. The Associated Press found that more than 5,000 reports were filed by september 30th. Compared to about 3300 the year before. Military Officials Say the higher rates suggest more victims are willing to come forward and that they have more confidence in the system. Congress has been pressuring the pentagon to increase prosecutions since a string of highprofile accusations and arrests. The starts of 2014 brings with it a major change for the boy scouts of america, with the organization poised to accept openly gay young people. The new policy follows a may vote when 60 of the scouts 1400 Member NationalCouncil Approved the change. There had been concerns that theip collusion of openly gay scouts might spark massive defections. However, most major sponsors including the romeab Catholic Church and mormon churches are continuing to work with the scouts. A chinese ice breaking ship sent to antarctica to rescue a trapped Research Ship is now stopped by thick ice. The snow dragon is about seven miles from the Russian Research vessel. The captain. Snow dragon says the vessel is not trapped, but cant move forward. It was the second icebreaker sent to get the rusein crew. Now a third and even larger icebreaker is on its way to the scene. The russian ship got stuck Christmas Eve, 15 days into its research mission. Post Holiday Shoppers hitting stores around the bay area on the first saturday after christmas. There was a steady stream of traffic at emeryville. We spoke to shoppers who were either returning Christmas Gifts that werent quite right or looking for postholiday bargains. I would expect all of the stuff they didnt sell during christmas to be on sale, so i can get it on. You see 50 off victoria secret. When do you see that . During the season. According to a report by spending polls, jewelry was the clear winner in holidayrelated shopping categories. Clothing retailers saw modest growth over last year and sale for luxury electronics were flat. A new york plan is celebrating after waiting almost all of 2013 to collect his lottery winnings. Marvan rosales was cleaning up greensboro from Hurricane Sandy in october, 2012 when he found a ticket in a pile of leaves. The ticket was worth 1 million, but he wouldnt prove he was the Rightful Owner and under new york law he had to wait a year to see if others claimed the ticket. No one did and today, rosales finely got to take his after tax money home, a pay out of about 780,000. An engage ring lost just a month before the wedding has been found six and a half years later in the back of a friends car. It happened in south carolina, the ring was lost in 2007. Adam tiller and his then fianci leslie were riding back from a friends wedding in other friends car when leslie took off her ring. I had taken it off and i was trying to clean. It i thought it fell into my lap and thought when we pull in the driveway ill find it. But the ring wasnt found until their friend who was still driving the same car took it into get services. A technician discovered it when he removed the backseat to do some work. An aelderly woman fends off a robbery attempt, thanks to some advice from a salesman. Plus a deadly train