Angry about Oil Companies in town expanding facilities hits the streets today to educate the public. Mark kelly reports the so called toxic tour is the first step toward illustrating what organizers call the harm looming over pittsburg. Highly explosive materials. Reporter this is no scenic leisurely tour of pittsburg. Its called the toxic tour and it has people fired. What are we doing to make sure were being conscious and mindful of the environment . It only takes one mistake to blow up or one spill into the drinking table and its bad. Reporter they fear the Oil Companies are expanding in their backyards and will refine dirtier crude oil harming the Publics Health and the environment. People were here first not the street. Reporter a mix of people drove to several locations on saturday they say pollution can destroy. A lot of environmental groups have come forward to say enough is enough. This stuff is toxic. Its poisonous, next to homes. Reporter there are several largescale projects on the horizon for pittsburg. They include installing rail at the valero refinery in benicia, upgrading the wespac oil terminal in pittsburg, and modernizing the chevron refinery in richmond. The Companies Say demands for oil and upgrading facilities were the incentives for project. The companies have tried to put the public fears to rest. Chevron says the project will replace older equipment, reduce air emissions overall, and create 100 local construction jobs. More jobs has labor unions lining up behind the project. But for folks on board the toxic tour, there are plenty of unanswered questions. How are we going to reduce pollution levels by revitalizing a plant out of commission . Mark kelly, kpix 5. Chevron said it must make some of these changes because of the states strict environmental regulations. Federal investigators are expected to release a final report monday on last years fire at chevrons richmond refinery. It will wrap up the investigation and include recommendations to prevent future problems. The fire sent a plume of smoke into the air causing thousands to seek medical treatment resulting in chevron closing for months. Richmond filed a lawsuit over the fire. Four people dead following a police chase and crash in compton. Take a look at whats left of the car. Sheriffs deputies believed it was involved in a driveby shooting and tried to stop it. The driver sped through a red light and slammed into another car which flipped, hit a wall and burst into flames killing the three men inside. A woman who was driving the other car was also killed. Another deadly end to a police chase in los angeles. Officers shot and killed a suspected drunk driver. They tried to pull him over for reckless driving. He sped off in his corvette. It ended after an hour. He was shot after stumbling out of a car after a crash. No reason is given for why police shot him to death. A plan will be considered next week for pedestrians safety and other improvements at the marin county civic center. It comes after a fatal accident this week. A 79yearold man was killed crossing a street near the Farmers Market on tuesday. By coincidence, that same day the board of supervisors was set to study a plan for improvement in the center. The plan includes a roundabout near the spot where the accident that happened that might prevent such accidents. There has been a Record Number of electric cars sold in the u. S. This year. 15million. Experts say its a sign of the improving economy that car and truck sales are up overall but while sales of electric vehicles are up, they are growing slowly as drivers get used to the new technology. The 17 models on the market, the top selling electric cars are the nissan leaf, the tesla s, and hybrid chevy volt. El cerrito police are warning shoppers about a scam where women target elderly men. There have been three reports of the city shop center so far and in each case a woman approached a man and claimed that he had hit her with his car. The woman and an accomplice demand money for medical treatment and when the man refuses the suspects run away. Anyone with information should call police. A string of robberies near the ucberkeley campus has police and students on alert. There have been five thefts in the area recently. The thieves were armed and three of them. Police say they have increased foot patrols in the area and are working with Berkeley Police on a joint robbery suppression team. Uc Officials Say robberies on campus are actually down from last year. Health experts are considering an unlicensed vaccine to prevent the spread of meningitis at ucsanta barbara. Four students were diagnosed with bacterial meningitis last month. Three recovered. The fourth had both feet amputated. Government and School Officials are trying to determine if the vaccine bexsero would be effective against the illness. Princeton University Got permission to use it after eight students there got sick. Nelson mandelas funeral gets under way in just a few hours. How South Africans are now looking to the future. And much of the midwest and northeast covered in snow and ice. Nearly 1,000 Flights Canceled but not everyone was stopped in his tracks. Stay with me in course not here sunshine record high in santa rosa today but this High Pressure is a problem. Eight Straight Days once we count tomorrow with a spare the air day unhealthy air quality in the east bay and the south bay. Coming up, well talk about any prospects for rainfall. Heres a live look outside. Your forecast next. Sofa. Desk. You know what . Why dont you go get some frozen yogurt. I got this. Youre so sweet. You got this, right . I do got this. From the shelf, and to your home. Sofa. Desk. You know what . Why dont you go get some frozen yogurt. I got this. Youre so sweet. You got this, right . I do got this. From the shelf, and to your home. Starting at 99. Flown to his hometown in soh africa. People cheered as the hearse carrying his bod made its way through the ets, for tonight Nelson Mandelas body flown to his hometown in south africa. People lined the streets cheering as the hearse carrying his body went through the streets for the funeral. Danielle nottingham on how mandelas legacy touched so many lives. Reporter military officers carried Nelson Mandelas flag draped coffin as the leaders two wives held each other for support. A police motorcade escorted the hearse on the 20mile trip from the airport to the family compound. Qunu residents welcomed the man they called tata back to his home village. He did many things for us as children of south africa. Reporter once inside, tribal leaders draped his coffin in lion skin, a cultural tradition. As South Africans accept their countrys hero is gone, villages like this one are finding ways to preserve his legacy. [ indiscernible ] reporter lily is teaching dancers who live in the community outside pretoria about where they come from. Their eyes have been glued to this weeks tv coverage. Mandela brought us this [ indiscernible ] unified [ indiscernible ] reporter she hopes what kids see out of qunu on sunday will inspire them to live his lessons and pass them on. Danielle nottingham, cbs news, pretoria, south africa. And well have Live Streaming coverage of the funeral on our website beginning at midnight tonight at 10 00. See it at kpix. Com. A new poll shows senator Dianne FeinsteinsApproval Rating at its lowest level in years. 43 , thats a sharp drop from a year ago when it was 53 . Meanwhile senator barbara boxers Approval Rating has improved to its highest level in more than three years. As for congress, californias dont like the job they are doing. Their approval level is at 11 . Im freezing. Terrible. Its brutal. I dont like it. And some areas in the east can see up a foot of snow but its not stopping everyone from having fun. Bar hopping santas, a day frivolity. The annual santacon. [[man] its nothing but tape. [woman] its a block. Were havin a baby [laughter in background] [woman screams] are we havin a baby . [ambient crying and laughter] nearly half the country. More than 1200 Flights Canceled today because of a snow to remember blanketing nearly half the country. The storm is stretching 1,000 miles dumping snow and ice. This is crown point, indiana, up to 6 are expected in chicago. New york could see as much as 8 and up to a foot is expected along the coast of maine. Winter still may be officially one week away but by the looks of whats coming down this weekend you might think otherwise. I was home and this started coming down so this has been constant all day, yeah. The back roads are snow and ice and just makes it hard to drive on and everything. Reporter in chicago, the conditions have been downright frigid, dipping to below freezing for days. Now this 1,000mile storm is on the move with tens of millions in the northeast about to get shellacked by large swaths of snow and ice. Some places could see more than a foot of snow. Im freezing. Its terrible. Brutal i dont like it. Reporter this wicked weather didnt deter everyone. In mount kisco, new york, the Christmas Parade went on as planned with santa braving the elements. Still, Utility Companies and airports are on high alert as are emergency crews who overnight had a battle through bitter conditions and thick ice to fight this fire in new hampshire. Winter storm warnings and watches are in effect for large portions of the northeast and everyone is bracing for what could be a miserable 24 hours. And Utility Companies are bracing for Power Outages and road crews are on high aer will. A ban on burning wood issued for an 8th straight day tomorrow. The air quality district declared another winter spare the air day. The weather pattern is trapping pollution close to the ground and that means woodburning indoors and out is illegal except in cases where it is the only source of heat. Paul deanno joining us now. Any indication weather we might see spare the air days lift . We need the wind direction to change. Its offshore so rather than the Pacific Ocean breeze clearing us out we have the opposite even the Central Valley that pollution is over top of us, too. Its unprecedented. This has been once we hit 6 Straight Days there was a record and now we are looking at eight Straight Days and likely im looking at the pattern not changing until after 11 straight spare the air days but we have coming up tomorrow. Outside two things jump out at you. One the high temperatures in the 60s but if you are a fan of traffic and not a fan of sitting in a car waiting to get into San Francisco, you see whats in the background. An epic traffic jam. Santa rosa record 64 degrees. Morgan hill hit 63. San carlos 62 degrees today and danville 60. Everybody was around 59, a lot of you in the 60s. More of you will be there tomorrow. Kpix 5 hidef doppler looking, scanning, searching, coming up dry. Nothing on the radar and that drought picture is getting worse and worse. Almost the entire state of california is now in a severe drought. But one level up from that is an extreme drought and its encroaching on the bay area. It is just to our south. It is much of the sacramento and San Joaquin River valleys and in another month or so if we dont change something soon we likely will be included in that extreme drought a place that frankly we dont want to go but we very well may. Overnight tonight 30s and 40s. Fremont 39. Napa 35. So it will be chilly outside but i am not forecasting a freeze. Slight chance of some fog along the coastline of San Francisco. And also san mateo county. Heres the culprit for dry and pollution. A big ridge of High Pressure, a blocking ridge. There is no chance of any storm to get through it. It has to go up around and over it and thats not happening. It goes up around and over for idaho and montana, not for us. Hazy because of the ridge. Not rainy also because of the ridge. And its not moving until the end of next week. When it does the low pressure system will stay offshore. It will change the wind direction giving us better air quality and cooler weather next thursday. So more spare the air days are coming. Well remain 8 to 15 degrees warmer than normal with no rain in sight. These are your sunday highs. San francisco 62. South bay widespread mid60s including milpitas and 65. Campbell 66. San ramon and pillsburg low to mid60s. Alameda 64. Rohnert park 62. Ukiah sunshine on a sunday for you, high of 64 degrees. It gets warmer monday and tuesday. We are going to be close to 70. I dont think we get there but close enough. Thats significant. Its middecember. We begin cooling off wednesday. More so on thursday with highs back down to the 50s. And then friday and saturday, right around 60 degrees. Longrange computer forecast models go out 16 days almost to the end of 2013. A few of them say zero rainfall between now and the end of the year. Thats trouble. This is beyond abnormal. Its borderline crazy how dry we have been recently and still. Thanks, paul. Some of San Franciscos neediest citizens will sleep a little more warmly tonight. Members of the bay areas Sikh Community handed out 650 new blankets at glide today. The group has been collecting blanket for the past few weeks just in time for the cold weather. The event is just one of several giveaways at glide including groceries and toys between now and christmas. If you walk the streets of San Francisco at all today, you probably noticed an abundance of st. Nick impersonators. [ screaming ] what better way to warm up for christmas. Santacon as its become known is an annual tradition now. People dressed up in a lot of different costumes mainly santa claus and they hit the local bars. How this gets pulled off remains a mystery since there is no official leader or tickets or signup sheets. Word just apparently gets out at the last possible moment. And they are out by noon. Theyre out. If you are lucky or unlucky you might see a naked santa claus Walking Around like i did today. Watch out for that. Oh, boy. Dave lewis in tonight. Last year john man sell became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy. Would another first year player take home the prize . The answer next in sports. Because we know how much you do to make the holidays just right. From ornaments to ottomans, memories are made with ikea. And why can you move the tv out here . 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Jamessies winston of 19 years 342 days the youngest Heisman Trophy winner ever folly johnnie manziels win last year. Alabama was a distant second and jordan lynch third. Winstons candidacy and freedom were in jeopardy but was cleared of Sexual Assault accusations. I trusted in the process of the [ indiscernible ] and delivered a positive outcome because after all the things that i been through this past month, i remember what my daddy trusted in the process and he risked his job [ pause ] and was jobless three years ago. This heisman isnt just for jamessies winston. Its for Florida State. Left on the outside looking in, Navy QuarterbackKeenan Reynolds who may have put himself on the map for next years Heisman Trophy race. Setting an ncaa record for touchdown runs for a quartek with 29. It was the largest margin of victory in the se in five years. Navy rolls7 with the commander and chief winners improving to 84. Under Rich Ellerson ends the year at 39. Coach harbaugh is probably staying put but mack brown is on hiy out. The legend [ inaudible ] trying to be funny . Coach harbaugh probably staying but the legendary texas coach will resign. Brown will coach against oregon in the alamobowl and then leave. Brown is second all time wins in texas but the alum has been grumbling in recent years. John dunning stanford Volleyball Team looking for an upstate against penn state. Cardinals Kelsey Humphries a big block, 96 cardinal but from then on penn state outscored the cardinal 929 rest of the way. Penn state with the kill. Cardinal lose a heartbreaker in five, and eliminated from the tournament. Mike montgomery hosting fresno state. The bears in control the