Prices. She a Community Worker in downtown oakland. She said the business boom is great but not for everyone. I am concerned about this placement. There is such a rich culture. It is hard to survive out there right now. Lifelong oaklander isnt sure if he will be able to stay here much longer. Everyone all my friends from the city want to come here now but i want to be able to live here too. Hopefully they can do some something about it and keep us all here. I asked the mayor about this. We know that we have got to bring jobs to this region so our residents can afford the high price of living. It is all part of making sure that oakland is affordable. Not just for the new people but also for our long term residents. The mayor is optimistic. My oakland in two years looks safer and cleaner. It looks vibrant but still interesting. For wendy it is more of a nightmare than a dream. I am really afraid to see what that looks like. Back to you. Well super bowl is just a few weeks away. Maria is live at the soccer park which happens to be right at the center of a big fight. Maria . They thought the park would be used for one thing and then they found out it would be used by thousands of members of the media. They want to make it clear they welcome the super bowl, they just dont want their field to be damaged. We feel we have been kept in the dark. The president says they asked for month whats they plan to do with the soccer park. After all they have known since 2013 the park would be used for the super bowl. The answer he says he got, the same every time. And the answer was a consistent we dont know. He said city leaders finally revealed details last week. The park would be transformed into a media village for about 6,000 people. Leaving hundreds of kids no where to play. Unacceptable. She said she couldnt get an answer for months. Who do you think held this answer from you guys for so long . I can only point to our mayor and city manager. We were told mayor and city manager were in meetings all all afternoon. It is a special soccer ground. Once it is put in it will probably take months before the kids will be able to play on it. Obviously the soccer community doesnt trust what they say. The real losers in this game they are say are the kids. He said she said they may have to forfeit a few games if they cant find a field to play on. A city spokesperson coldnt tell me when they decided they would use the park for the media. A 49ers spokesperson also pointed out they offered the city 3 million so the league could find another place to play but the Council Member told me today there were strings attached. A lot of blaming and a lot of finger pointing in this fight. Back to you. Well we have just confirmed the pilot of a small plane that crashed is dead. The man was headed to oakland when his plane went down. Julia on the early clues as to what went wrong. Julia in. Crews had to go in for the rescue on the ground late this afternoon. The plane was found around 4 00 and it quickly went from a rescue effort to a recovery effort. You can see smoke coming from a heavily wooded area ton hillside. The plane was reported missing just east of oakland. Air Traffic Control lost contact with the pilot around 1130 time time this morning 11 time time 1 he did report he has was he did report he was having engine trouble. We learned the pilot on board was from rock land. He was flying his single engine plane. There has been low visibility throughout the entire day with rain and low fog in the area. There are a lot of trees, oak trees. It be areas very steep. It is muddy from rain in the last 24 hours. So the search by ground has been quite challenging. The Alameda Fire Department got reports of the down plane around noon today. And john saccos family telling us he was an avid flyer. In fact he lives in rocklin but he was flying to the bay area today. The faa also recognized him for his high level skills as a pilot. Rain may be over for now but there is plenty of clean up for this mornings storms. The seasonal high tides will be with us all week long. Low lying areas will sew a see a surge of bay and ocean water. The wind was too much if this tree that came crashing down. It cut off traffic for a couple of hours on highway 1. Nobody got hurt there. At this horse park in Sonoma County strong winds and rain brought tree crashing down onto a stable overnight. When crews arrived this morning they found one of the horses inside was dead. In all eight trees fell over bay area reservoirs are beginning to creep up with the rain we have been having lately. Even though the level slowly rising, you can see it is still very low. We are told it is 80 of capacity for this time of year. It has so much water it is spilling over into the creek there. It is good news in the sierra where we get most of our water. Tonight the snow pack is 11 of average for this time of year 111 of average for this time of year. They said there is about twice as much than there was a year ago. That also has to be said in the context of five year drought. We are three months into a fifth year drought. It will take even much precipitation this winter to even give us shot at getting out of the drought. Promising news for us, the wet trend could continue into the new year. Here is paul with the outlook. Paul . January, february, march still looking wetter than average. That would be a big change from the past several years where we did have a few wet decembers. Then the rainfall totals fell off the cliff once we hit january. We are hoping for a different story this year. The outlook for the next three months is calling for wetter than average weather. Few scattered showers continue but we are seeing a much dryer radar picture this evening, tonight and also tomorrow. Our drought report card, locally we are up 12 over the past few weeks. That is good. Reservoirs are been creeping up. Just up that is all wonderful news. Take a look at some of those snowfall totals. Kirkwood reporting 37 inches of snow yesterday. Mount rose a nice two feet of snowfall. We may see some snow in a few specific spots just before christmas. We will have that coming up in about ten minutes. If you are packing up and getting ready to head to lake tahoe tonight give yourself after little extra time. You can see those lanes are open but they are wet and slick. Be careful. Here is a look at i80. A little more dreary there but blustery conditions on the roadway. These pictures were Frank A Caltrans camera at castle peak. For those of you leaving town for christmas, if you are flying out of sfo you may have to wait a while. Stranded travelers are already biting their time till they can learn if their flight will be canceled or if they are lucky, just delayed. Flights have been delayed one hour and 26 minutes on average. Still ahead, accused of helping a terrorist group. An east bay man appears in federal court. Why his lawyer said it was all a misunderstanding. Unqualified drivers is just part of a new report on the Tour Bus Company involved in this massive crash. Plus where the wind to day was Strong Enough to topple big rigs. , descriptions of a fremont m accused of aiding a terror p overseas. Kpix 5s joe vazquez tells u in federal court today two different descriptions of fremont man accused of aiding a terrorist group overseas. The mans lawyer says this was all about a charity trip. Joe . Ken about three dozen supporters showed up in this hearing in federal court this afternoon as this young man from fremont and his attorney tried to ask the judge to reduce his bail. The feds say 22yearold adam shafi was providing support for a terrorist group. According to Court Documents he denies that. He told fbi agent hes just wanted to help syrian refugees. He did not support them. He did not meet with anybody. He did not do anything wrong. All he did was Say Something is not proper about the way things are going. He doesnt like the way things are going. Maybe he doesnt like the way muslims are [ indiscernible ] today prosecutors worry his vow to shed blood and possibly die if for the group makes him too much of a flight risking. The judge agreed and ordered him to remain the jail with no bail obviously we are disappointed but we will appeal it. According to Court Documents he traveled with his family in 2014 to egipt to visit relatives. He then does appeared on a trip to turkey. His father called the u. S. Embassy telling them quote he was afraid that adam had been recruited. He was arrested in july of 2015 as he was headed back to turkey. The feds said he was trying to get to syria eventually to help the terrorists. His lawyer said talk does not always translate into action and didnt in this case. Back to you. San franciscos Planning Commission has reject add plan to bring a medical Marijuana Dispensary to fishermans wharf. They wanted to open it on a busy stretch of Taylor Street but the Commission Voted 52 against it after hearing concerns from business owners. They feared it could attract wrong crowd. Earlier today raymond chow took to the witness stand for the second day in a row. Today he was cross examined by the prosecution. He said under cover agents tried to drag him into conversations and force money on him. His lawyers argue government agents entrapped him. He said in two words i would have never taken any money fit was connected to any criminal activity. He said love and respect. A government agent posing as an east coast mob member has already testify against chow saying chow gladly accepted lavish bribes authorities have identified a drunk driving suspects. 19yearold Carlos Villalobos is accused of crashing into multiple cars last night. Police say he collided with one car when leaving a restaurant and another as he was headed towards capitol express way. He reportedly then hit several other vehicles before crashing into a yellow beetle. Investigators say drive or the driver of that car was killed. [ indiscernible ] of federal control. The state Inspector General describes unsanitary condition and poor Record Keeping at the prison. The Inspector General previously found medical care inadequate at several other prisons dirt bike riders have been tearing through the streets of San Francisco for months now putting peoples lives in danger. Tonight petty tracks down the alleged leader of the group. These guys do a illegal stunts throughout city and boast about it on social media. Tonight we will track down leader of the group. It turns out he is a Law Enforcement officer himself. This is video of the group that he leads. They blow through stop signs, do wheelies and drive their bikes up and downstairs. Sometimes as part of game. We also know you are part of Law Enforcement, is that true . That is not true. I am sorry will not talk to you. We have more on that coming tonight at 11 00 p. M. Officials closed parts of at least two california highways today after high winds toppled several big rig trucks. They report that more than 17 trucks overturned. 15 roll overs. Wow. That is amazing. Yeah. The wind gets under and literally picks them up. We have received nearly 5 inches of rain in San Francisco sofa far this month so far this month. Today a little bit mild. We didnt see much sunshine till the afternoon. We made it to the 6 ohs in 60s in most places. They are working their way south here. You can tell you right where the bay shore freeway and the san mateo bridge come together, right over the city of san mateo and foster city is exactly where it is raining right now. We have a Football Game here on Christmas Eve. Home game, last one for the season against the chargers there will be tailgate showers. We showed you this showed you this map yesterday. All Mother Nature is doing over the next 36 hours is reloading. There are more storms coming. At least one more that will be coming. We are talking about the pattern continues of storm the next couple of days. Just a few drips throughout over the next 24 hours. The majority of next day will be dry. Watch the numbers change. By Christmas Eve night rudolph is rocking the skies above us. Concord another half of an innen inch of rainfall for you. That happens thursday. The snow level 2,500 feet thursday night. We could see a White Christmas at the tap of some of our highest peaks christmas morning. Tomorrow we are are going going into to the be sunny in the afternoon and rain free. Rain primarily thursday morning. By Christmas Eve night the rain is over. Sunny saturday. A little cloudier sunday. We are not done yet. I love that santa is waving in the forecast. Always waving. He is looking out and checking who is naughty and nice. [ laughter ] tough job. Still ahead, a long time bay area diner about to shut their doors. What is going up in its place and how far some people travelled for one last meal. ,,,,,,, dungeness crab at your chris dinner this year. The latest tests of crab in northern c you wont be able to serve up the crab at your christmas dinner this year. The latest test shows levels of a toxin. They have not dropped to safe levels. The crab season has been on hold since november because of the high levels and could open sometime in january. Determined shoppers should be able to find some out of state crab in the bay area. Welcome christmas San Franciscos will have one last place to order pancakes after midnight. Another 24 hour diner is shutting its doors so that more condos can take over. New at 6 00 mike tells us this time the city is losing its lucky penny. Mike . [ laughter ] kenny i know you have been here. I can guarantee you have had pancakes after midnight here at some point. As you say, lucky pennys luck has run out. This iconic 24 hour diner where you can get pancakes, 2, 2 00, 2 00, 3 00, 4 00 in the morning is closing on Christmas Eve. It is good. Everything. Are you done with those in. Go ahead. [ laughter ] but lucky penny is one of those places. I have been here like at 1 00 in the morning and 2 00 a. M. And seen somebody eating breakfast and than they plate of spaghetti and a piece of pie to themselves. It is fabulous. This wasnt the first top of the even fog evening for many people. I am usually here when i am hung over. Or when i am drunk. How is that . Good. I better go with a burger. It is a better choice. I am a native San Francisco but i drove all the down from stockton today. Hi to come see lucky penny before they go. She said she came here one night many years ago and decided to get her life back on track over dinner. That is terrific. Lucky penny had something to do with it . I would say their food had a lot to do with it. [ laughter ] alfred has owned this greecy spoon since 1992. It was born copper penny in 1970 but he changed the first name. The land law has to [ indiscernible ] about time for us to go. An Apartment Building is set to be part of the future here replacing another piece of San Franciscos past. Are weather are you where are you going to go after this . Sfwle we have to find new place. We dont know. Back to you. Coming up, new information on the Tour Bus Company involved in last months massive crash in San Francisco. What officials now say wasnt right about the buses or the drivers. Plus release by mistake. The error that has set thousands of prisoners free for years. Accused of trying to join a terrorist group appeared in federal court today. He was arrested this summer tryingo board a plane to turkey. The mans lawyers a 22yearold fremont man accused of trying to join a terrorist group appeared in federal court today. He was arrested this summer trying to board a fleen fleen turk plane to turkey. Officials said he was fly oakland when he sent out a distress call. Good news for the snow pack in the sierra. It is 111 percent of normal for this time of year. [ indiscernible ] new details tonight ability the Tour Bus Company involved in that crash in San Franciscos union square. Well 21 people were injured, seven critically when the bus careened out of control last month. Tonight a new report is out showing the company had an unfavorable Safety Record and had hired unqualified drivers. Andrea is in the newsroom and she has more. Andrea . Well the report was release thirddegree released this afternoon by the Highway Patrol. After this accident, the california Highway Patrol inspected the entire fleet of buses. Brake lights not functioning. Emergency exits not functioning. We had one steering issues. Of the six buses inspected he pulled four out of service. That earned them an unsat ice factory rating. Robert cartwright is the attorney for the bus driver involved in the union square crash. They said the findings dont surprise him. It just shows in general the way that the Company Operates and they operate in a way that cuts corners when it comes to safety. Among other findings, some of their bus drivers didnt have the proper license to even be operating the bus. Maybe the company has had difficulty finding drivers to work for a certain amount of money that were properly licensed and would be willing to work long hours day after day, week after week as these driver dose for this drivers do this for for this company. [ indiscernible ] we have instituted operational charges to our internal processes. Now we ask mr. Cartwright about whether his cloi end was properly licensed to drive a tour bus and he told us yes. Back to you. Well tonight we are learning that one of the First Openly Gay Service members in the u. S. Military was killed in afghanistan. Air force major, the woman on the right, was on a security foot patrol monday. That is when a motorcyclist carrying explosives rammed his bike into the group and detonated. She also leaves behind a young son. Fugitive real estate heir has been [ indiscernible ] he is accused of killing his sdprendz friend and former spokesperson. He said he is anxious to prove his innocence. He was been in a new orleans jail since march on unrelated weapons charges. He is expected to be extradited next summer tonight more troubles for the secret service. A gun, handcuffs, and thumb drive were stolen from his unattended car. What is worse, the car was parked blocks from the white house. This is the latest in a strong of embarrassing scandals involving secret service agents. More than 300 prisoners have been mistakenly released. They were wrongly calculating sentences. It turns out this had been going on since 2002; is 2002. They are trying to gain voters support. Mark shows us two candidates in particular are focussing their attacks on each other. That that is just Hillary Clinton is not backing off her claim that trumps plan to keep muslims from entering the u. S. Is helping isis recruit followers. It is playing into the hands of the violent jihadists. She a liar. Monday night trump said the claims are not true and used a slang word to describe her loss of the democratic nomination to obama in 2008. [ indiscernible ] most of the other candidates hit the campaign on tuesday trying to get in a few appearances before the christmas holiday. When i am president we will repeal obama care and have the votes to do it. Marco rubio spoke veterans in New Hampshire where he is currently polling in first place. Chris christie also campaigned in the state. He has more than doubled his support there. The new poll leader in iowa, ted cruz, celebrating his birthday with rallies in tennessee. Iowa will be the first state to weigh in on the president ial race in less than six weeks. Back to you. Still ahead, it might not be your typical gift but some people are shopping for guns this holiday season. What you need to know if it is on your wish list. Plus down to the wire. How amazon is getting some gifts delivered in just hours. ,,,,,,,, after the San Bernardino shooting. Bu thinking about gun sales are up in california after the San Bernardino shooting but if you are thinking about getting a gun for someone as gift for christmas, it is going to be a late gift. Reporter randy page explains why. Michael says he is buying a gift for himself today. He has been waiting a long time for this moment. Since i turned 21 on saturday so i just came in here to pick up my firsthand gun jeff says lately his fun store is full of customers in the wake of the mass murder in San Bernardino. I say about 20 of our customers are new gun owners. Some of those new guns are wrapped up as holiday presents. Anyone i give a gun to as a christmas press lent have to go through a background check. In california every time a gun changes hands, it has to be brought to a gun store where the new owner will fill out paperwork [ indiscernible ] which is the parent lines. If you hand to her gun before it is legally registered to the new own your can committing a crime. Case in point, he is facing up to 30 year s in prison. Federal investigators say he bought the two rifles they used to kill 14 people and wound 21 others in the San Bernardino terror attack. He broke few primary laws. He bought the firearm for somebody who believes he could not legally pass a background check. It is the one holiday gift which can be unwrapped but not taken home until it spends at least ten days in a gun store so it can legally be registered to its new owner. Back to you. Amazon helping Holiday Shoppers send presents to their loved ones at the last minute. Customers can use the prime now app and have items delivered they say within two hours until midnight on Christmas Eve. Once an order arrives it is processed and bagged. Well a new poll shows half of u. S. Voters would be embarrassed if donald trump takes office. Tonight we are asking you what you think. Head to our page vote in our poll. With. Numbers on the graphic behind me have not happened at all in the year 2015. Didnt happen at all in the year 2014. We will have to go back to the year 2013 the last time we had this. That is the snow pack which is above average. It is promising news we are looking good and more snow is coming. We will talk about it next. Coming up in sport no, things sports, things are moving in the right direction. That was my one rule i wasnt doing. Plus we will tell you who is heading to hawaii as a pro bowl selection. We will see you in a few minutes. ,,,,,,,,,,, aquarium wondered why an otr was sticking close to the centers tide pool. Turns out it was all becaus she had a bun in the oven. Well todays now for days now they have been wondering why he was sticking close to the pool. It was because they she had a bun in the oven. They saw she had a newborn on her just belly belly still ateached. It is calm and a great place for her to give birth and put on a little show for everybody. [ laughter ] awe. The aquarium says otters were once hunted to near extension but now the population is thriving with about 3,000 of the animals. [ indiscernible ] weather watcher es we are checking the temperatures. Antioch will check at 56. It is mostly cloudy. Jerry says a little breezy. Northwest wind 10 miles per hour. We get closer to the city and it is 55. It is all of 1 degree different. 55 in darls backyard. North we will take you to napa. 55 degrees there as well. Rainfall likely 26 inches. Lets take you outside. That is the san jose airport. The run way is looking good. Visibility is much better than there than it was at sfo right now. Sfo 55 degrees. Livermore 54. We will we still sew an isolated shower or two see an isolated shower or two. A sprinkle or two is possible but for most of us the rain is done for about 36 hours. We talked about the snow pack before the commercial break. Look at these numbers, fantastic. Another 38 inches of snowfall. As low as 2,500 feet. At past level we could see an additional two feet of snow. We just want to pile that know and we will. Fremont 43. San jose 42. Ridge of High Pressure still in the perfect spot. The absolute perfect spot to have moisture go up and over the ridge and slide right into northern california. It is amazing how Mother Nature can use the same thing to do entirely two different results. We are seeing a different result so far this year at least. Rain is gone. Rain will be gone throughout the day tomorrow. Thursday morning another round of rainfall. Another half inch of rainfall. The snow leave lel be pretty low here level will be pretty low here too. We get a dry break tomorrow. Rain moves back in Christmas Eve. That is the final rain chance for a while. 50s tomorrow. Fremont tomorrow 57 for a high. We are wet thursday. Primarily before lunchtime. We dry out by thursday night. Christmas day looking dry. Saturday and sunday also looking dry. Notice highs all the way across the board. No 6s on there. Nobody hits 60 for the six days. The next six days. [ indiscernible ] i love these huge checks because they also have huge numbers on them. Please tell us about your companys commitment to the food bane and can this huge bank and this huge number on this check. They have been dedicated to our communities for the past ten years now. We have been really honored to support the Community Food bank by way of there are many kaiser employees that volunteer there and kaiser has also given several grants to the food bank. The mission of the two lineup real nicely. They this will go this will go a long way. Yes. It would translate to about 160,000 meals. That is so important as we are now serving one in five Alameda County residents. It is so expensive to live hear that again put a roof over peoples heads that food sometimes is a challenge. Not enough left over to pay bills and to nourish your family in a healthy and wonderful way. Well thank you guys for coming in. Thank you to kaiser for that donation. You want to help out head to our website kpix. Com. We have sports next. ,,,,,,,,,, today that proved to be tru. At 26 and 1 it sounds fun dwroi y puny to say they are in the middle funny to say they are in the middle of coaching care soul. Coach took a leave of ab stones absence today. No, hes sick. [ laughter ] he will coach tomorrow again. It was a step in the right direction for kerr who is still dealing with migraine headaches. He said he will travel with the team later this month but isnt sure when he will return permanently. He isnt sure about how much progress he has made since the beginning of that season. 27. 4 . [ laughter ] i still have somewhat of a sense of humor so that is good. Unbelievable by frustrating. Coming off a time xl being able to coach these players with their talent and chemistry, to not be coaching is just probably the most frustrating thing i gone there through. He nailed the part except for two things. Did you practice at all . I didnt give him any. That was my one rule i wasnt doing. [ laughter ] you didnt like stuff a belly either . Yeah, i mean [ laughter ] i went so many years with a stuffed belly i wanted to stay away from that. [ laughter ] he has come a long way since injuring his knee two years ago. Thinking about if i was going to be able to play this game again knowing i felt my whole knee go out the right side of my leg. He returned from that awful injury in the nfc championship game. He was announced as a pro bowler this afternoon. As for the raiders a day after renouncing his retirement charles was named to his ninth pro bowl. Just as a reminder, Christmas Eve the raiders and the chargers. Coverage starts at 5 30. Well how is this for a [ indiscernible ] he is the first player to receive the award and not the heisman in six years. He will still play in the rose bowl after the giants signed them, it seemed unlikely mike would return to San Francisco. Today the cardinals announced they have signed him to a fiveyear deal worth 80 million. He was just 25 after he joined last season. Finally tonight president obama playing golf in hawaii. [ cheering and applause ] of course it went in. Judging by his reaction. That is top secret information. Yeah. [ laughter ] speak of hawaii i will volunteer to coverer cover the proball. If you dont have the forecast, what to you have . [ laughter ] for news throughout the evening the latest always including hawaii kpix. Com. Join us at 10 00 and 11 00. See you then. Whoo with thankful strangers. The neighbor. Who shares the season with another. You inspire us to do everything we do. For goodness sake. Announcer its time to play family feud. 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