Prompted precaution, sandbags and water filled barriers have been put in temporarily. And a large tree came crashing down on Joaquin Miller road. The weather brought down a power line preventing some people from getting to their home. Its the first day of winter. I guess Mother Nature, she is looking at the calendar. Yes. Big story, the winds. Theres winds gusting up to 47 miles an hour. I felt it coming into the bay bridge. Its you should always have two hands on the Steering Wheel today, especially. Its windy out there. Wind advisories posted bay wide. Rain will ease up. Weve got most of the showers beginning to push south of the bay area. Still it will be a blustery day. There will be scattered showers through the remainder of the day and boy the winds will be blowing as you can see. Most of the action now with the Santa Clara Valley and south theres a lot of low level rainfall. Just like yesterday, the radar doesnt pick up. A windy drive this morning. Blustery, showery day today. Christmas eve, the snow level is down to about 3500 feet. We could get a dusting of snow just in time. A White Christmas in the bay area, at least in the mountaintops looking a little more possible. High temperatures today will be near 60 degrees. Lets get a look at the roads. We do have wind advisories in effect. Use caution especially across the span. Quiet as far as any slowing goes. You are not seeing any delays as you work your way towards the toll plaza. But be careful as you work your way into San Francisco. Were dealing with slick surfaces out there. San mateo bridge. A 15minute ride between 880 and 101. Wind advisory is in effect for the bridge as well. As you head southbound 101, 580 to San Francisco only about a 15minute ride this morning. You want to skip the roadways. Mass transit is on time. Frank . Thank you. 4 33. All of that rain causing damage and disruptions. Last night in oakland, theres flooding at an underpass. Reporter the rain created a mess under oaklands 45th street overpass. A puddle that grew into a pond. Grab my fishing pole. Reporter some cars plowed through it. Others inched around it, creeping on the wrong side of the road. This couple hesitated. Think you are gonna go or not . Is that a dare . [laughter] reporter before taking the road less flooded. And driving wasnt the only problem. Wind and rain brought down a large trail on Joaquin Miller road forcing authorities to shut down one lane. Half a mile away, people were blocked from getting to their homes. The rain dissipated into heavy fog in the Oakland Hills by nightfall. The low visibility causing a fenderbender and slowing rush hour traffic to a crawl. Its a nightmare for travelers at sfo right now. Flights are backing up. Delays running as long as three hours on some flights, at least 35 Flights Canceled overnight. American and southwest dealing with the longest lines. This is all during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. Call ahead. Rain in the bay, means a lot of snow in the sierra and a lot of it. Heres more. Reporter heres signs that the snow is coming in sideways. Look at this sign all covered in snow. Thats blown in from the side. I tell you, the snow wasnt the biggest problem. It was the volume of traffic. We have a tremendous amount of traffic. The. Reporter caltrans says even on a sunny day, it would be bad. Add in tons of rain and snow and a bit of impatience, then things get tricky. My concern is a guy in a four wheeler and i have to dodge it. Reporter be sure not to get too frustrated. You still have the inlaws to deal with once you get where you are going. This video was shot before twin bridges. The roads icy and very slick. Chains at this hour required for all drivers if you are heading up 50 or i80 today in the sierra. A bay area map is facing charges of making threats against muslims. 55yearold William Cellis post caught the attention of investigators. They say the selfemployed plumber made posts on social media. Police are not calling him a terrorism but local muslims are. Thats terrorism. Its unamerican. A homemade bomb found inside his home was detonated. Police believe he was acting alone. Investigators are seeking hate crime charges against him. We now know the name of a man found dead at a holiday frat party. Jeffrey ingler was a former cal student according to facebook. He attended Laney College and lived in san leandro. His body was found saturday morning. Police say he died after falling from a significant height. His death was originally called suspicious but police say theres no indication of any foul play. Alcohol was likely a factor. There will be no punishment for some San FranciscoPolice Officers who sent racist and homophobic tests. Heres more. We still stand by the fact that anybody capable of these kind of tests should not be a police officer. Reporter maybe but a superior court judge said the department missed its deadline to fire the officers and ordered them back on the job. We are disappointed. Reporter at issue, a slew of racist and homophobic messages between 10 officers. The messages were uncovered as part of a federal corruption case. But the feds told the locals not to take any action. You have to let the criminal investigation play out before you go forward on the administration. Reporter by the time the feds were done with their case and the locals made their move, the statute of limitations for firing the officers had run out. That was their choice and the consequences exactly what happened here. Reporter i think people look at this and say, you know, what is happening with our system. I cant think of a place where i could put such officers inside the Police Departments. Our clients were not ever accused of banking in a racist fashion on the street when they were doing their duties. Or certainly in court where they would have any credibility at all. Tax payers are getting saddled with a huge bill. Reporter and the city could be on the hook for the officers legal fees which could be 300,000 or more plus 25,000 for every charge against the officers. In San Francisco, back to you. South bay neighbors are remembering the parents and the three kids who were killed in a plane crash this weekend. Jason price, his wife olg and their three children ages 9, 10 and 14 died when their private plane crashed over an Almond Orchard near bakersfield. The family was on its way to a Holiday Party in nevada. Neighbors and friends say they are shocked. He was fascinated with airplanes. And he would always talk to me about his airplane. When i found out i was in shock. The ntsb is investigating what caused the crash. It could be months before they figure out what went wrong. A dramatic scene played out in a San Francisco courtroom as ray shond chow took the stand in his own defense. Reporter chow testified about his early days when he ran an escort service. Not pimping, he said just management. He talked about a 1986 shootout he was convicted for. He said that was in self defense. Nobody got hurt but he was sent to prison. He also testified about another criminal conviction back in 2000. He got out after three years of a 24year sentence because he turned governments witness against another organized crime figure. Doesnt it open up for the jury who may have thought well, maybe he did. Maybe he didnt. But now hearing him testify, you hear him speak about crimes hes committed. Sure but hes already written a book. Its an outstanding book and he admits to everything. Reporter after he got out of prison in 2003, he changed, began to medicate, did Community Service and made a vow not to get involved with any more crime. His attorney asked him have you fulfilled your vow . Yes. Have you participated in any crime . No taken money for any crime in no. Reporter he only spoke once about the current criminal accusations, the ones that involve murder and the racketeering scheme that the feds say netted other defendant, including leland yee. When asked about allen wong, he raised his voice and said i did not kill allen wong. Hes expected to take the stand against first thing in the morning. A woman is being held without bond in las vegas for a deadly ram make on the strip. Police say 24yearold la Keisha Holloway deliberately used her oldsmobile to kill people on the street. Clark county sheriff doesnt think this was an act of terror but cant rule it out. As far as terrorism, we dont know what the intent was behind it. And we dont know enough of her background to make that determination. Lombardo said she came from oregon to las vegas about a week ago and was giving had her car with her 3yearold child inside an unrecall a during accident. A bay area such is robbed but in the end, he gets the last laugh. He tells us how he tracked the thieves. ,,,,,,, manages to turn the tables group of cell phone robbers. Andr as a San Francisco supervisor managed to turn the tables on a group of cell phone robbers. How he was able to outsmart the theeves. Reporter it was friday night and scott wiener was walking from his home in the castro to 16th and mission b. A. R. T. When he became a victim of the most common San Francisco street level crime. My immediate rae action was give me my phone back. Reporter the supervisor proposed a deal to get his personal iphone back . They said that they would give it back to me if i gave them money. Reporter the quick thinks supe had a plan to walk with the crew to wells fargo. I decided i was gonna go to an atm so they would get caption on videos. Reporter the three suspects made very clear that they were in charge. Showed me in a black canister and said it was mace and said if i yell out or try to pull anything. She would mace me in the face. At one point she also said that one of her friends had a gun. Reporter he got his phone back and the crooks got bk back his 200. He said this was the first time he had ever been the victim of a victim. Honestly it missed me off she and her buddy victimized me and they are probably victimizing other people people who cant stick up for themselves. Scott wiener identified the people in the lineup. Her accomplices still on the loose. Steve harvey said he misred the card given to him. I made a mistake. Instead of saying first runner up, i read the name on the card. The ratings had a more than a million fewer viewers than last year. They said they would absolutely have harvey back next year. Ratings may go up next year. Parts of the Pacific Northwest are being slammed with heavy snow and rain much like the sierra and washington state. Snow piling up in the mountains there. Conditions are so hazardous interstate 90 shut down for hours and fears of an avalanche forced crews to suspend a search for a skier who disappeared over the weekend. Were taking everything really slow, checking conditions every 30 minutes. Making sure the snow is still able for us on out there. In oregon powerful winds relentless rain forcing residents to evacuate. Kind of doing a number on the northwest, Mother Nature . Today weve got gustwy winds, wind advisories in the bay area. Get blown around. The rains are gonna ease up and then Christmas Eve more coming in. Not as much as we had today. But well get rain on Christmas Eve. In the meantime, lets head outside and look through a lens this is overlooking 880, the camera is being blown around by gusts up to 50 miles an hour in parts of the bay area. Right now, 61 at concord, 58 at oakland. 58 for livermore and San Francisco. 58 degrees. 24hour rainfall. Look at that moment at the top. Ten times as much inches im sorry. Ten times as much rains in ben lomond than san jose. These places are only 40 miles apart. But theres the enhancement, the mountains and the santa cruz mountains, more than 4 inches. A lot more rain than any of the models forecast. We got the rain right, not the amounts. North and east bay mountains, wind advisory posted today. Winds 20 miles an hour. Well get gusts up to 50 miles an hour. Heres how it looks on the future cast. Would els go to scattered showers. Plenty of clouds. Higher winds and clearing as we get into the wee hours of wednesday morning. Expect this a blustery day, a windy drive this morning and more rain coming in Christmas Eve. Again, the Christmas Eve rain, most of the day on thursday, not nearly as much as we had today. Winter storm warnings are posted for snow above 6,000 feet. High temperatures today near 60 degrees. In the extended forecast, well begin to clear it out today. Scattered showers, gusty winds, wednesday, dry it out. Thursday more rain. Friday through the weekend and right into next monday. Thats it for a while. Looks like well dry it out and remember that thing called sunshine . I like that thing called sunshine. Taking a look at the roadways, southbound 101 at cesar chavez, look out for an accident to the right shoulder. Were seeing delight delays but traffic moving okay in and out of San Francisco. Chp is doing a great job clearing those accidents out of the roadway. Were dealing with slick surfaces and windy conditions. So there are wind advisories for some of our bay area bridges, including the bay bridge this morning. Right now, traffic is very light as you work your way westbound coming out of maze. No delay, 19 minute, carquinez bridge. Do keep that in mind. No metering lights. Pretty windy, both hands on the Steering Wheel as you work your way across the span into San Francisco. Wind advisory for the san mateo bridge. You can kind of make it out there behind our wet camera. 14 minutes as far as delays go. 880 to 101 is your drive time. That looks pretty good. The Richmond San Rafael bridge also off to a very good start. Not a lot of cars on the roads but wind advisory in effect. Golden gate bridge looks good. South 101508 into San Francisco. No delays to report. We did have reports of some flooding this morning, 580 connector to 6 0, they cleared that out of the roadway. Things are open. Of course, well see delays starting to build through the altamont pass. Westbound side 80 most of that originates as you work your way east of there coming away from 205. 16 minutes for your drive time. If you have an early flight to catch at sfo, were in the green. No delays along 101 or 280. Everything looks clear off 92. Back to you guys. Thank you. Spacex sent a falcon rocket soaring in orbit and then the leftover booster landed at cape canaveral. It was set for a company striving for rocket reusability. The tenminute mission could pave the way for cheaper space cafl travel in the future. Don champion reports. Reporter cheers, and a boom signal the mission was a success. Monday night marked the first time an unmanned rocket safely returned to land vertically at cape canaveral. People who witnessed the moment were in awe. Mesmerized. I was blown away. It was unbelievable to me. I kind of want to be an astronaut. This yeaunmation shows how the rocket launched, released 11 satellites into orbit and then flipped before landing six miles from the launchpad. This is a major step in the longrange plan to reduce launch costs and he wants to do. Reporter at the companys california headquarters employees showed their excitement afterredlanding. In june, another launch ended with an explosion. Since then, the rocket was upgraded and made more powerful. After mondays landing, musk tweeted this photo of the rockets historic trip. Don champion, cbs news. Space x has two launches planned for next month. Just getting cooking on a tuesday. Its 4 52. Bay area techies are getting more than their average work incentive. ,,,,,,,,, its not cold. But its windy. Wind gusts are up to 30 miles an hour in parts of the bay area. Sfo these are sustained winds. Gusts are i whatter. What happens the rest of the day . Those bright and purple colors, the stronger winds we roll it through the day by 4 00 this afternoon. Its still windy around the bay area. So batten down the hatches. A windy day for the bay area. How about traffic . Were doing okay as far as accidents go. But that wind is causing advisories. We do have wind advisories on the bridges, dont forget two hands on the wheel and use extra caution. The man known as the most hated ceo in america has been fired. Yesterday, they announced that martin is out. Days ago he was arrested on Security Guard charges. He bought a piece of the company when he was hid of turrein pharmaceuticals. He hiked up the price of medication by 5,000 . Facebook is considering a plan to entice employees to live closer to work. And maybe even clear up some traffic congestion. Sources say that the company is offering workers anywhere from 10,000 to 15,000 to move within ten miles of its menlo park headquarters. While some critics say more highpaid tech workers in Silicon Valley will make rent prices jump. One Economist Says it could have the opposite effect. Facebooks offer combined with their offer for menlo park to build more housing and for them to support some low Income Housing is a good thing. Its a package. A facebook spokesperson said the amount of the bow nut is confidential. A new York City Police detective among the six americans killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan. Detective joseph lynn was in the country serving as a member of the u. S. National guard. The ambush happened a at a patrol outside of ba grape air force base. The Service Members were stopped while on patrol. And then a suicide bomber drove a motorcycle packed with explosives into that same group. Taliban taking credit for the attack. Bagram airfield is the largest remaining u. S. Militar