Action on samesex marriage cases. One of the cases californias prompt 8. California courts have ruled prompt 8 to be unconstitutional. If however they decide to hear the case that samesex marriages will remain on hold until the court makes a decision. Which may not come down until june of next year. Traffic is a little heavy this morning and at least it is dry. This will stay dry for the next 24 hours and will pick up some light rain. It is a cool start for the morning. We do have a ground fog forming an is limited. It is not until later on this evening that was saved, conditions. Heres a look get the numbers it is 45 out the door. I will look there were these are suspected to go one way return. Were keeping an eye on venesection from walnut creek it 680 south bond. An accident was reported and there was not in the lines but in the shoulder. Chp stated that they just rolled up on the same so they may get it completely cleared shortly. Is not considered a hot spot yet. The big news that we are following. Supporters of prop. 8 appealed to the Supreme Court. They will not hear the case. Then the california ruling will stand. Samesex marriage will be legal in california. There are 10 cases that are involving thesethe others involve the federal. Latency when the core meets again on friday or monday. To date cleanup is underway after the weekend storms. One big problem after the third round of storms hit is falling trees. Trees fell all over the bay area. In lafayette residents of one house came home to find a big tree had fallen in their yard sunday morning. Pg e crews did all they could to fix this. Also in lafayette, a massive sinkhole popped up from the rains. Kron 4 urs will train joins us live from moss said. This is the damage that a coles. There is no ground underneath and this is why this is as close as that will allow us to go. On the left side of your screen there is a pipe that broke and the debris snapped it. They managed to turn up the water but because this connects to several residents they are using gardening hoses to tap into many of the systems to run water into the home. On the right side this is a 12 in. Pipe and this is the big one. It has a few cracks in it. There is a part of it here and it fell on the side and not directly on top of it. It never snapped in half but this carries a million gallons of water and they still have to make repairs. Theya bullet here and as far as this street some of the crew members are Walking Around this morning. They stated that it will take a least a couple of months to make the permanent repairs. Theyre talking to pga, the mud and the cemetery areas. The cemetery district as soon as an happened on sunday morning they came on the redline and this line connects to homes that are normally rely on these pipes. This is for their toll is a kitchen sinks. Coming up a 738 and will show you the creek and what caused it. I see a hand rednecks steel is this every man . Underneath thi roadway there is there is a lot more coming down and the debris in close Different Things that blocked the pipes running underneath here and this is water that is accumulating. This is what caused this roadway to give and because it has been blocked peopl who live here have to go around instead of driving justed mahler to to connect to highway 24. This is a major inconvenience for months for people on Mountain View drive. Both sides on the fiscal cliff sings to be apart. The president once said end the bush era tax cuts for people who make 250,000 a year. Without a deal, and average middleclass family cut pay about 2,000 a year more in taxes. House Speaker John Boehner blames the stall made on the obama of ministration. He says that they are not taken republicans seriously with their plan to close loopholes and limit deductions without raising taxes. The democratic controlled senate has already voted to extend the bush does for and comes under too much of a 50,000 and letting the others expire. Moodys is predicting that there will be released a shortterm deal reached before the end of the year. Harris said live look from our roof here on van ness avenue in San Francisco. You should enjoy today because there is wet weather still on their way. We are watching wall street. It u. S. Builders boosted Construction Spending in october of the most of five months, led by housing. Strong all sales from ford and chrysler. U. S. Manufacturing shrinks to its lowest level since july of 2009, first month after a recession. This is shaving off the gains that we had. Delta airlines is in talks to buy a 49 stake in Virgin Atlantic airways. Those shares are currently owned by singapore airlines. The mold is in an effort by delta to boost its international operations. Particularly between new york and london. A number of mergers in recent years has reshaped the Airline Industry and analysts say that High Oil Prices may even lead to more takeovers in the years to come. 20 years ago today a man named Neil Papworth said the first ever text message. He used a computer terminal to send a message Merry Christmas to a colleague cell phone. Taxing is now the single most widely used application in the world. A 1 a mobile phone users send text messages. Here is a live look pitcher bay bridge approach. Traffic is low is a pretty slow. Erica was the word on whether just a bit. Here in the news room we are monitoring the flood concerns in the south bay. Residents there gathered at still bus crossing over youve discreet in gilroy to watch as the water began to rise. The water often goes over the road bear but at this point it had not yet crescent the roadway. Meanwhile a nearby levee was able to withstand the excess water. However there was flooding in other parts of gilroy that shut down some rose and sentries crashing down. Residents gathered over the weekend to watch this water get higher and higher. At this point it has not gone all the road yet. This is good news. The water will not be flowing today and this is a good day for us to clean up. We have about 24 hours of a drive break. We will see light rain early afternoon for the north bay. This is a slow mover that will pick up an intensity for wednesday morning. If you should enjoy the dry conditions while they last. Visibility is poor in the north bay and we have fall develop in the ballot. It was just 5 mi. Of visibility over and napa up. I do have live coverage and this is not a lot to keepinto the afternoon ever run will be a rough 50 degrees dreadful lets take a look at the five day rainfall total. Here are some really impressive amounts. Downtown San Francisco was set 4 in. And we did see a lot rain over the weekend. Satellite and radar system and another assistant will increase throughout the course of the day and it will pick up overnight. We do have light rain for 9 00 a. M. This will continue to drag as we head into lunchtime prayer ye. This will p in intensity over night and when people are sleeping about 9 00 a. M. On wednesday morning will be another messy one. You should allow dresser venture time for your wednesday morning commute. One day around the bay forecast is the showers for wednesday. There will be dry on thursday and we fall into a good weather pattern for the weekend. The commute at the bay bridge is not as bad as it looks. We are only looking at a 12 to 20 minted drive time. This is it your coming from 880. If your coming from the shore freeway part the san mateo bridge assess the time where it may see stop and go conditions. There drive times are still led 12 minutes. If the Golden Gate Bridge is still a smooth trip. As we up that the traffic maps it is still some slowing for 680 south and there is no longer an accident here. Were not tracking any hot spots. There is no reporter problem here and the south bay freeway looks great. There is some slowing to san antonio road. There was a stall on the shoulder. In the north bay and we are just sing slow traffic for the more ran ride. No. Marin still looks good. Three firefighters are in serious but stable condition this morning after they were involved in a weather related accident on highway 24 in 0 rendell. Fire crews were responding to a non injury accident he east of wilder road had and they were on the shoulder of the highway when a car lost control and slab into the side of the fire engine. If three firefighters and the driver of the car were injured in this crash. Here is the photo of the firefighters who were hurt. They are michael rattary, Kelley Morris and stephen rogness. They were taken to John Muir Medical Center in walnut creek. Two of the firefighters needed to have surgery. All three are expected to survive. A 14 yearold boy charged as an adult with attempted murder, Sexual Assault and kidnapping of a 65 yearold woman is scheduled to be arraigned today. He will appear in court where he is expected to be arraigned today. San jose has marked its 43rd homicide of the year. Matching a two decade high. The most recent hamas i was a 17 yearold boy who was gunned down on a residential street on friday. If the killings is believed to be gangrelated. The 43 homicides so far this year atop the 41 killings last year. The 2011 total was double the previous years number of homicides. Oakland Police Officials have made 44 percent fewer rest last year than just three years before. The plunge includes the rest from Armed Robbery case is a drug bust. To my kron site public drunkenness. Thats an average of 18th your rest per day. This year the city is facing a 23 spike in murders, muggings and other major offenses. The arrests figures raise questions about the Oakland Police department. Which is already struggling under the weight of job cuts and the demands of a federal court oversight. Nationally arrests were down 11 in the samee period. car horn paying with your smartphone instead of cash. phone rings thats a step forward. With chase q directly to anyones checking account. I guess hes a kicker. Again, again oh, no you dont take a step forward and chase what matters. This just into kron 4 pitchers out of the atlanta area. I for students and two teachers were found unconscious at a school after Carbon Monoxide poisoning. All six have since regained consciousness. Dozens of other students are sick. Firefighters said that all six have high levels of Carbon Monoxide. Air tests show that the Carbon Monoxide levels in the school was 17,000 per milliliter. The highest levels of Fire Department stated that they have ever seen. This is the scene outside and for students and two teachers are unconscious. Also making headlines. Pope benedict the 16th has officially joined the twister. Launching his own personal twitter account. It was formally announce this morning that his twitter count is atpontifex. The pope will be composing the tweets for the new account himself. The pope will press the button to send a first tweet himself. But after that, other people will send the tweets on his behalf. In june 2011 the pope said his first week from but with your account for the vatican news site. We did see the big movies over the weekend. The twilight finality and a sky fall continued to dominate the box office on a typically slow post thanksgiving weekend. Studio estimates the twilight saw the breaking down part to a head for the Third Straight weekend with 7. 4 million. 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You kids have got it too good if you ask me. [ male announcer ] now uverse high Speed Internet has more speed options, reliability and ways to connect. Rethink possible. Align we are back at 7 30 a. M. Here is the top of San Francisco dont bury it is dry and you should hold on as you take all ride out on the road. Anothe weather ion here is a look at your temperature is right now. Is 40 degrees out the door. As we take a look at the day planner it will be 60s for most of the area. If you will see a mixture of sun and clouds. Later on tonight it will be mostly cloudy. As we head into tomorrow the rain will start to approach. We do have a lot of cloud cover that is such associated. Your afternoon highs to mar will be in the 50s and 60s. We do have it changes to talk about looking ahead. Rain will be in the area for the next two days. We will give back dry on thursday. Temperatures will still be on the court cited we do have for details coming up. As we continue to monitor a fairly normal ride. We are not tracking any hot spots. The traffic is steady at the bay bridge. Is 6 is 18 minutes. There is moderate conditions for the east bay freeway. Although the peninsula is only heavy at the toit is still a reasonably lie ride. It is 7 32 a. M. We want to talk more about the cleanup over the weekend. Even though the rose are dry there are still a lot of damage is in the area. You took the words right out of my mouth. This is something that Steven Spielberg or part of the prepped for a scene. If this is a sinkhole and the street fell down and cracked this 8 in. Pipe and this disrupted water to many homes. If they had to turn the water off and now they are using garden hoses to run water into the homes. They should have some top award this morning and they dodged a major bullet. This is day 12 is waterline and this potentially carries a lot of water. This suffered a few cracks but it did not break. This would have snapped and as far as the road is concerned there is nothing underneath this section of the street and this is hollow and theyre gonna be making permanent repairs. It probably will take them a few months to get everything under control. In the meantime this is Mountain View drive it is completely blocked off. If this is a major inconvenience for people will live here. Here is a woman and her children who live around the corner. How is this impact you . This is huge and this is a major street for us. You can go here and take a left. This will cost me an extra 20 minutes of drive time. Yesterday we lost water for a few hours and last night about 9 00 p. M. There was a huge explosion and after that we lost all our power for a few hours. Did you have power this morning . Yes. This connects to 680 and theyre so many other ways for you to get around the issue will be a convenience. They stated that it with a couple must all the repairs be made. This sounds really bad. All the traffic here that id normally avoid it i will have to deal with. At least no one was hurt and will leave you with this and we will talk more bought this drop the morning. They have to make other ways for this to work and this pipes is the sanitar. With this commute and the drivito the north bay here is more footage of what it looks like an San Francisco. Theyre trying to unclog the drains on the street. Their use and a rake to try to mold some of the rain. If flooded intersections and they have been making this hard to try to. Trying to find ways to get to point a to point b. It was a difficult task. This middle school is closed in fairfax due to a Carbon Monoxide. E to mud. They stated that they have had this problem before and there is some construction that is going on at white Hill Middle School. When the rains are heavy they tend to flood and much interest a class rose. Heres one of the rooms that were affected by the mud. I think we just welcome back the timing is 7 40. Stories of heavy when the rains caused flooding of the bay area. Dickenson us the pictures of your neighborhood of our kron 4 Facebook Page monica from vallejo said in this picture of one of her neighbors someone standing in the flooded street. The water is coming up to his knees. This picture was sent from yosemite avenue near else garrido. Joanna sense this picture of power lines snapped off in the area of san raphael. That is how strong and powerful the winds are. Christie sent to this picture of a tree that fell over it antioch because of the rain and all of the rain saturating the ground. The winds came in and whipped through a lot of the trees cannot stand a chance. Send our bestyour storm pictures to breaking news at www. Kron4. Com. Good morning thank you for waking up with the kron 4 morning news. We are looking live from our roof cam. Some high clouds and the distant. No problems with visibility. A mix of sun and clouds later today 50s and 60s area we will see an increase in cloud cover. We have light rain expected tomorrow. As we look ahead we will have some heavy rain expected for wednesday morning. Quite weather into the weekend. Here is a look at your temperatures. 39 and the battle and napa. 37 vallejo. Mid 40s are antioch, oakland. 43 in sunnyvale. Into the afternoon everyone in the same vote you will not see too much of variation in the numbers. Everyone hovering around the 60 degree mark. For Fremont Milpitas san jose 63. More in palo alto. Taking it to the east bay sunny skies 62 for walnut creek in Castro Valley. Fog in the north bay. Sunshine into the afternoon. 54 na