To the owners to the nfl tomorrow for that deadline. Now, i will tell you that here in oakland and all across the country, there is increased optimism that in fact the raiders will stay in oakland. Why . Not because of any great plan they have here. But because the two other teams, st. Louis and san diego, that want to move to l. A. , have a much better plan in place for stadiums there and thats why the raiders may be the odd team out. Because the bay area has the strongest economy in the nation right now. And they dont want to leave that economy with the corporate sponsors and all that who have you behind just to leave to l. A. Reporter so theres still talk about the raiders sharing the stadium with the 49ers. 49ers dont want to do that but thats in the air, as well. And there is increased optimism, again, no new stadium moment but the fact l. A. Might not want the raiders, they might want st. Louis or the san diego chargers. Thats the optimism in oakland at the moment. In oakland, mike sugerman, kpix 5. The nfl owners are supposed to vote on whether any team moves to los angeles during their meeting next month in houston. Business is booming at the port of oakland. That port is seeing a surge in imports to end the year. Things started slowly because of a labor dispute. Imports are now up almost half a percent compared to last year. The port is also going to expand cranes to hand bigger cargo ships. In fact, one of those ships is come in on thursday called the benjamin franklin, it is 1300 feet long. And that is 50 feet longer than the Empire State Building is tall. Its the largest container ship to ever visit the united states. Breaking news right now out of Southern California. The area just saw an earthquake. Preliminary magnitude 4. 3 centered in fontana in San Bernardino county. Our colleagues at kcbs which has a newsroom in studio city in the San Fernando Valley says they felt it. A lot of people are tweeting about it online right now. One guy says, he felt a sharp sway to the south and sharp sway back to the north. Well keep an eye on it and bring you any new information as we get it. Once again a 4. 3 quake in Southern California centered in fontana. Another tweet, huge earthquake just now, the whole house shook and creeked. Patricia arquette is known for speaking up about the gender wage gap in hollywood and beyond. Today she continued to fight. Dave lopez tells us how things are about to change in the new year. On january 1, we will have implemented the strongest equal pay bill in the nation for the people of california. Yeah, whoo [ applause ] reporter no more can men make more money than their female counterparts just because. And lawmakers say this was the moment that inspired this bill. Its our time to have Wage Equality once and for all and equal rights. Reporter Patricia Arquette giving her acceptance speech after winning an oscar last year. We need an unnatural readjustment to look at the new reality of america. Reporter miss arquette was there today as leaders of sacramento came to North Hollywood to announce this equal pay bill becomes law in three days. Women will be able to ask what their male coworkers are actually being paid without the fear of being retaliated against. Reporter some examples, a female clerk at a Grocery Store finds out her male coworker who does the same job is making more money. She can challenge it. A house maid at a Hotel Cleaning rooms find out that the male janitor who cleans the lobby is making more money. She can challenge it. And what about an actress who finds out that the leading man in the movie is making 20 million and she is making 5 . Look, if you can show some business reason of why youre doing that, that the reality is, they are not going to be able to show that. I take it your agent is drooling over your next role due to equal pay . I dont know. I mean, really, this is never about me. Reporter the new law requires that employers show that differences in wages are due to factors other than gender that the factor is job related and reasonable and that these factors rather than discrimination, account for the difference in pay. In pay gap has thrived in secrecy. Reporter now no more secrets. From North Hollywood, dave lopez, kpix 5. New fares for bart riders starting on friday. Its about 3 or a dime. The increase is because of a formula system adopted more than a decade ago. Fares go up every even year through 2020. Bart uses it to generate revenue to repair and pay for new equipment. Meanwhile, theres about to be one less option for commuters. Sidecar is calling it quits. In a blog post today sidecars cofounders say its the end of the road for its rideshare operations. Instead they are going to focus on finding the next big thing. The move takes effect at 2 p. M. On thursday. Since its launch in 2012, sidecar struggled to compete with big name rivals uber and lyft. The bomb squad was called out to an unusual location in san jose today. A fire station. Kpix 5s cate caugiran on the scary moments caused by an innocent mistake. Reporter san jose bomb squad determined the materials were black powder and shotgun caps for the purpose of making shotgun shells. But in the hour that investigators were working, san jose fire went door to door asking families within 300 feet of fire station 11 to evacuate their homes. Just before 10 a. M. , someone dropped off two milk crate sized boxes here at the station. A captain with san jose fire tells me this person was cleaning out a storage unit when he found a box with questionable material and didnt know how to properly dispose of them. They were cleaning out an old storage unit found this product and were, like, that doesnt look safe i think brought it appropriately to the fire station. We would ask people in the future to not transport the material, to basically call us to the scene that we could evaluate it there. Reporter at first glance teams thought it was blasting caps and black powder so they moved cautiously and quickly to try to secure the small area near the villages parkway and give everyone the all clear. And as the captain mentioned, if you find yourself in a similar situation, please call police and fire and do not transport those materials yourself. In san jose, cate caugiran, kpix 5. Also in the south bay, knuckle tatoos led to the arrest of a wouldbe gun store burglar. Sunnyvale police say they identified suspect jerod wold by the ink on his fingers reading, hate cops. Police say he used a stolen car to push a dumpster through the back door of u. S. Firearms on mary street and stole a second door get away. Police got him with a spike strip. Three french tourists were robbed in broad daylight at a Popular San Francisco park. It happened on twin peaks about noon yesterday. The suspect took off with passports, cameras and money. One of the victims was an 81 yearold man who was knocked unconscious and had to be taken to a nearby hospital. A pregnant 900pound seal who we have nicknamed sea thump is on the way back to the wild after causing a commotion. Emily turner has more from highway 37 where it ended a couple of hours ago. Reporter it finished up about 4 15. She is well on the way to Point Reyes National seashore where they are fixing to put her out back into the ocean. While she has a happy ending, theres still a lot happening here. It was a long day and theres a long backup behind it. Reporter its an ungainly end to the twoday standoff between the Marine Mammal centers rescue crew and a 900 pound female elephant seal. They are large and stubborn. So she did not obey us. Reporter she planted herself in san pablo bay, tried to cross highway 37 yesterday causing all sorts of traffic backups. And she refused all attempts to guide her out nicely. If it was up to us we would have pushed her back out to the bay and let her swim away. But yes, she was not taking any directions from us. And we had to, unfortunately, sedate her and capture and her load her into the truck. Reporter so when she swam under the highway this afternoon, marine biologists saw their chance. She was tranquilized and a crew of 15 rather ungratefully escorted her safely asleep on to the back of a rented flatbed traffic. Sedated her and got her in the truck drew some blood so well take the blood home to make sure she appears to be healthy. Doesnt have any other secondary problems. Reporter the Marine Mammal center isnt sure why she ended up here or how but they have her on the way to Point Reyes National seashore where they will release her. Live in sonoma, emily turner, kpix 5. California is seeing a statewide surge in norovirus infections. The Health Department says it has seen 32 cases since october 1. Its higher than this time last year when there were only 9 cases. 6 outbreaks were reported in marin county. Part of the reason of the increase, apparently greater a wearness of. Health experts have dubbed it the winter vomiting disease. Santa clara county about to do what no county has done before, raise the legal age to buy cigarettes. On friday, you have to be 21 to buy smokes in the unincorporated areas of the county. Only 17 retailers are affected but supporters are hoping this move will spread. She is an Aspiring Police officer who says she was racially profiles. A bay area woman calls out the store she says singled her out for just doing her job. The young woman who has overcome incredible odds gets a shot at a future she only dreamed about. How a Community Rallied to give her a priceless Christmas Gift. Two snowmobilers rescued after a freezing night in a canyon. The tool they carried to help crews find them fast. In the Weather Department the big chill continues in the bay area. And the small shower. Theres at least a chance. The details coming up after a break. ,,,,,,,, Castro Valley woman whose antimuslim rant has gone v. You are very deceived by a judge has grand a re granted a restraining order against a Castro Valley woman whose antimuslim rant has gone viral. You are deceived by satan. You are brainwashed. Denise slater is charged with a hate crime for allegedly throwing coffee on a muslim man who was praying with friends at lake chabot regional park. Today, a judge ordered the state worker to stay 200 yards away from the man and the park. Slater is to return to Court Next Week to enter a plea. That is raw bacon wrapped on the door handles of a las vegas mosque. Police there are now searching for the man who did it. He was caught on Surveillance Video. Worshippers found it on sunday just before morning prayers. Muslims consider pork unclean. A woman went to a Sporting Goods store in fremont asking about buying some ammunition. What happened next has her claiming she was racially profiled. Then the police got involved and kpix 5s devin fehely is here to tell us why she thinks she was singled out. Reporter the Fremont PoliceDepartment Says that the store employee thought the woman was acting suspiciously but that woman says there was nothing suspicious about her behavior and what she believes truly trying heard that phone call to the police was mistaken information about her race and ethnicity. As a certified firearms instructor and Aspiring Police officer, [ nonenglish language ] didnt think twice about asking to boy hundreds of rounds of ammunition to buy hundreds of roundsof ammunition at a Dicks Sporting Good store. I said is there something i did wrong . And he said, no, no. But somebody has reported that you look suspicious. And i said, what what do you mean i look suspicious . Reporter troubled by the incident she posted on facebook that the store employee who reported her to police had, quote, racially profiled me and violated my civil liberties. The indianamerican and a sikh believes she may have been misidentified as muslim and a potential terrorist. I did nothing out of the ordinary. I wasnt nervous. I have been around firearms my whole life. And, um, being around firearms doesnt make me nervous. I have actually worked at a gun store before as well. Reporter a spokesman for the Fremont PoliceDepartment Says they had an obligation to investigate the report but they add it was quickly cleared up once they learned she was a firearms instructor. Dicks Sporting Good didnt respond to repeated requests for comment about their handling of the case. The woman says she considered a lawsuit but feared it would only trigger a backlash rather than promote Greater Cultural understanding and tolerance. I feel like they need to be educated so thats my main goal is i want to educate people on who sikhs are and, um, what were about. Reporter she had nothing but praise for the decorum and sensitivity of the Police Officers who responded to her home. The Fremont PoliceDepartment Says they are in a bit of a bind because they say they dont want to discourage the public from reaching out to them with their concerns because they say thats the idea that animates their see something Say SomethingAnti Terrorism campaign. Until fremont, im devin fehely, kpix 5 in fremont, im devin fehely, kpix 5. Other bay area headlines right now a cat was the only victim of a twoalarm fire in the inner sunset. Chopper 5 was overhead as crews checked for hot spots on the roof of the threestory building on Fourth Avenue near lincoln way. The flames apparently started in a second floor apartment and spread to the unit above. Crews rescued a cat but it later died. Pg e crews are still unable to get into the home of 1100 customers to restore gas service. 4800 have gotten their gas restored. 150 pg e workers are still on the scene working to get gas service back on. Two men are back home after nearly freezing to death in the snowy sierra. Chp officers found them sunday morning near ebbets pass in al people county. The two men from El Dorado County had been exploring the area on snowmobiles saturday but got stuck separately in the deep snow. Luckily, they had a family radio system that helped them find each other. Then after spending saturday night in a tree well, they were located by a helicopter crew the next day. We have reported how the drought has taken a toll on trees. Now researchers are saying it could be even worse than first thought. The report by the Carnegie Institution for science says as many as 58 Million Trees in california face what they call severe danger. What about our expected el nino rain . Well, that probably wont help. A stanford scientist involved in the report says that the drought has put the forest in tremendous peril. Not good news. Years and years of that. Well, well see what happens. We do have some rain on the way. Perhaps the storm door opens next week. We have cold conditions tonight and slightly wet tomorrow morning. Hidef doppler not picking up much now. It is all dried up. First theres this energy thats coming in off the pacific northwest. So you can see the old system which is down here in Southern Californiale that one leaves this one approaches and its a chunk of energy thats moving in over northern california. It sinks south and will give us a chance of rain when it comes in tonight and tomorrow morning and just that much of a chance and just that much rain, too. Not much with this. Theres a slight chance. On the futurecast we get clouds over the bay area tomorrow in advance of this. And theres not much energy. Theres not much moisture. That could be some widely scattered light showers tomorrow. The clouds begin to evaporate tomorrow night leading to a cleaned of the week. So increasing clouds tonight. A slight chance of a few showers and then dry through new years day. Overnight lows tonight, still chilly. 35 in vallejo. 35 for napa. And 32 degrees in fairfield. 31 for livermore. Daytime highs tomorrow, well manage just mid50s for the most part. How about new years eve . Around midnight its hanging good clear, chilly, no rain then. But it will be cold. Clear thursday through saturday. Sunday possible rain. Cloudy skies monday and tuesday. So yeah, i know, this is no big rainmaker. The big story continues to be the cold weather at night and thats going to continue all the way through the weekend. Thats nice this time of the year, though, right . Crisp. It is. Thank you. It is winter, after all. Thank you. A pair of bay area shoplifters with an eye for highend specs. The strategy they used to make sure no one saw them coming. And its a gift she thought she could never afford. The christmas surprise that will give a young woman with a rare disease a chance to a chance to thrive. ,, life. Just when you think you know where its going, it takes you someplace else. Covered california is here to help californians who need Health Insurance get it. Because its more than just health care. Its life care. Raised tens of thousands of do st they are calling it the christmas miracle from watsonville. A community raised money for a woman. Reporter with the robotic arm attached to her wheelchair brenda is discovering the freedom of doing things she could never do before. Its the first thing i did, um, was get on my computer and then the light switch. Reporter the jayco robotter arm a 50,000 Christmas Gift from her community in watsonville and santa