Good morning. Thank you for joining us on this friday morning, december 14th im pam cook. And im dave clark. Lets check weather, traffic. Steve you have pam wearing a sweater. It was cold yesterday. All day i was cold. Its cloudy out there right now. We had clear skies for awhile. A lot of that cold air is trapped. A little system coming down the coast. Could be a little mixed presip. Highs today very cool. Mainly low 50s. Here is sal. Good morning. Right now traffic on interstate 680 looks pretty good let me turn that radio down. 680 looks good as you pass mission boulevard. Also this mornings commute is looking good on the san mateo bridge. Its clear and cold. But no traffic problems. Lets go back to dave and pac. At 5 00 we are starting with developing news coming in now. There was a big earthquake just off the Southern California coast. It was a magnitude 6. 3. This hit about 2 30 this morning. About 163 miles south, southwest of avlon, california. No tsunami warning has been issued. No word yet of any injuries or damage. Also new developments in fremont where that huge fire destroyed a machine shop but the owners say they will be back and quickly resume operations. Ktvu Lorraine Blanco is right outside cnh enterprises. I know dozens of employees want to know if they will still have a job lorraine. Reporter yeah they do want to know that this morning. And management will meet to try to figure out how they will move forward. Right now a fire crew is on scene here. You can still see smoke coming out of cnh. Its difficult to make out that smoke in the dark but you can definitely smell it it here. The three alarm fire started around 1 45 yesterday afternoon. The flames and smoke were so heavy and the chemicals inside that machine shop were so combustible firefighters had to battle it from the outside. All 80 or so she employees got out safely but the building was destroyed. Management will meet to figure out how to go forward and at this point the director of operations tells us employees are the top priority. We just need to work with the Insurance Company find a place we can either temporarily get set up or permanently and start bringing new machines in. Reporter he estimates millions of dollars in damage. The family own business. Employees will be taken care of during the holiday season. That is good news. They will continue to be paid while management figures out what to do next. Lorraine blanco ktvu channel 2 news. Pg e is rechecking more than 1500 sections of under ground Electrical Equipment because of inspections that may not have happened. According to the San Francisco chronicle the company suspects some workers lied about completing the inspections. Eight employees have been fired or suspended. Pg e has hired 48 additional inspectors and they hope to have all the equipment checked by the end of the year. Most of it is in southern Alameda County and the south bay. Vallejo police are warning of a scam of a popular holiday gift. Fake ipad sold on the street. Tara moriarty joins us live. Reporter police say they found a stash of fake ipad boxes inside of a car. And they dont know exactly how much the person was intending to sell them for but they believe it was cheaper than what ipads normally go for which is between 300 and 800. Inside of those boxes there was a replica ipad that was made out of a picture frame. It was wrapped with duct tape to mimic the back of similar ipad models. And to throw them off more it was wrapped in bubble wrap to hide its true feature. Its unknown where they were going to be sold. We are not sure if this was part of a larger ring. So just remember to open up every product and inspect it before purchasing it. While customers are doing their christmas shopping, police say they are going to be stepping up patrols in vallejo around Shopping Centers and in the downtown area. Live from vallejo im tara moriarty. Sentencing today for a San FranciscoSchool Cafeteria worker convicted of several sexual assaults. He was convicted of attacking three women in the Mission District last year. One of the victims was beaten unconscious. Dozer could get life in prison. The fifth suspect charge is scheduled to face a judge today. The victims were found bagged and gagged in the middle of brases l street. The victims and suspects knew each other. The final suspect 19yearold tyler miller is facing charges of accessories to murder and destroying evidence. Barry bonds goes back to court in february. He will be appealing his obstruction of justice conviction. Back in april 2011 barry bonds was convicted of one felony obstruction count for giving an evasive rambling answer in front of a grand jury when he was asked if he received drugs that required a syringe. New this morning there is more fallout from that royal phone hoax. About a dozen workers at the australian Radio Station behind the prank call have been moved to safe houses. Ten radio executives now have around the clock bodyguards due to death threats. Meanwhile british investigators are disclosing new information about the three suicide notes left by the nurse. Two were found in the room while the other was among her personal possessions. One dealt with a phone call. Another focused on her funeral. While the third criticized hospital coworkers. President obama and House Speaker john boehner met at the white house to talk about the end of year fiscal cliff. No progress to report. Coming up at 5 15 the new strategy our washington, d. C. Newsroom is hairing about that involve that is hearing about that involves sending the country over the fiscal cliff. Sal is back. Hes ready to tell us about our friday morning. You know it actually is off to a very nice start. We were look at some of that road work. Its been picked up in many areas if that is very good news. Also checking in with public transportation. So lets go outside and take a look at 80 westbound as you head out to the mccarthur maze. No major problems here and it looks good from vallejo all the way to berkeley and the bay bridge toll plaza and. And a lot of people want to know what the toll plaza looks like. San jose and the Santa Clara Valley northbound 101 and 280 doing very well. Northbound 17 traffic also looks very well. It is 5 07 lets go to steve. Sal. I just had my first tweet from cal hollow. Really . Well i love getting information from the city. All the little neighborhoods. Always tweet me sp weather if its raining or cloudy. We have a system coming in. Very weak system. Again its just going to go parallel to the coast. It will give us a lot of cloud cover and very little rain. In fact, those near the coast i think most will stay offshore. In this kind of pattern it looks good. But we can still see read starting to pick up. There could be a little bit postal areas. But again these systems when they split and when the low goes parallel to the coast its really, really tough to generate rain. 30s on the temps. You can see i just think the cloud cover will stop cooling of the atmosphere now. Still though a lot of that cold air is trapped. So its going to be a tough day to warm up past upper 40s or low 50s. Our system is splitting. You can see as it comes in watch as it backs off. That all take a lot of that rain away from us. That close. Its that close. Cloudy, cool. Light rain very, very chilly hay temps today. In fact, i dont think they travel very high. Unless you are right by the bay. Then you might get mid 50s. Otherwise its upper 40s and low 50s. Mostly cloudy with your weekend in view. Usually confidence level is a plus or something. Its a b minus year. So mostly cloudy. Cloudy cool. Off and on rain is possible into sunday. Things look a little more promising for rain. Time now 5 09. Ocean waters spread into the low lying communities along the coast yesterday and were expecting another day when usually high king tides. The high water is always out of how the sun, moon, and earth line up. This time the water levels are very high. The king tide pushed water levels above seven feet. Parts of the bay trail were completely under water. The birds it effects the trail as you can see the trail has been indated. And so this is something that doesnt happen very even every year. The high tide is expected to hit us again today between 11 00 and 12 30 this afternoon. Right now its 5 09. And a Southern California judge is in hot water this morning. 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Troops at an air base in turkey. 400 u. S. Troops will be assigned to the missiles. There is a new twist in the fiscal cliff negotiation in washington, d. C. As ktvu Kilah Campbell reports, going over that cliff may be the only way to reach a deal. Reporter dave, House Speaker john boehner plans to head home today to ohio with no fiscal cliff deal in sight. The two met again at the white house last night but there is no deal on the table. And insiders say there may not be one until january. And heres why. Democrats are sticking to their plan to raise taxes on the wealthy. Republicans arent backing down from extending their current tax rates and slashing spending. If neither side budges our company will tumble over the fiscal cliff until january 1st. They can all tell their constituents we tried and it didnt work but now everyones taxes have gone up and we must compromise. A move like that irresponsible and the markets are already reacting to the possibility. More than that in my next update. Live in washington kyla campbell. Heres a story only on two. Oughtness accident of package theft here in the bay area. This is home Surveillance Video sent to us by a viewer in san jose. A woman just walks up to the front door takes a package that had been delivered just a few minutes earlier and then she walks back to a baby stroller and leaves. Our viewer says the package was a box of kids dvds worth a couple hundred dollars. Just yesterday morning we told you about daily reports of package thefts in fremont. A San FranciscoApparel Company promises to phase out hazardous chemicals to produce its companies. Levis plans to stop discharging Chemical Waste watt i. Environmentalists have been protesting at levis and the groups says levis is setting an important example for other Clothing Companies to follow. Outside San Francisco newly renovated Grand Hyatt Hotel protest sos protestors shouted about the long labor dispute between its workers. Now an organization named someone like me is demanding the Hyatt Corporation put a hotel worker on its board of directors. Workers complained about working conditions and low pay. Yesterdays protest parallels other protests happening at other hyatt hotels. A pending strike at one of the nations Busiest Airport may effect holiday travel. Coming up where and why some Security Officers will be walking off the job in a couple of days. The Oakland Raiders have been given an extension to try to avoid a local television blackout this sunday. The team has until noon to meet the deadline to sell out at least 85 of its tickets. Sundays game is the home finale against the kansas chiefs. They are 32. The chiefs are 2 11. Oakland has lost six straight. Time now 5 17. Sal is back. You have everything under control . I dont have the raiders under control. Well, you and dave you will come together and fix it all. We are going to try. Good morning. Dave is our director here who is is a big raider fan. Right now highway 4 is getting busier and it always i dont know why it surprises me. People are on the road early on highway 4 this morning is no exception. Bay point area is a little crowded. 680 looks good. And 24 is looking good right now between walnut creek and oakland. Also the morning commute looks good in oakland itself. This is interstate 880 north and southbound you can see from our live picture the traffic looking good. If you are driving into Santa Clara Valley northbound 101 and 280 some of that road work is gone and the freeways are off to a decent start. Here is steve. Its amazing. We were talking about this the amount of traffic at 4 35. Yeah. A lot of people are going places. I agree. Ten years ago you didnt see that. We do have a weak little system going along the coast. There could be very light rain. Closer to the coast you might get rain. Mainly cloudy and cool to cold. This cold air is trapped. Light rain. But there is not a lot here. Couple systems will continue to come in over the weekend giving us a lot of clouds and a little bit of rain. There is just not much in this. Maybe next week. But i just have zero faith in the forecast models right now. They are just they are not handling this very well. You can see on satellite radar there is return showing up. We could get light rain out of this. Again there is not a lot. Most of the energy is going off the coast. As long as the low stays off the coast. Everything showing signs of just being cloudy and cool to cold. Two up in tahoe. This will not be a system up in the sierra nevada. Some of that cold air is definitely trapped. It will be a cold, cloudy, chilly day. Cloudy, cool, light rain. Forecasted highs struggling. Upper 40s or very low 50s. Warmest temps will be close to the bay. I think upper 40s to low 50s. Over the weekend a total broad brush. Tuesday right now looks promising. For rain. Thank you, steve. Weaker than expected click reports in europe is sending the regions markets down. Overnight the shanghai scored more than 4 . A Strong Manufacturing report there boosted confidence in the worlds second largest economy. That helped hong kong maybe a small gain. Taiwan and south korea all ended their trading session overnight with losses. The futures indicate another mixed opening with dow gaining ground. But it did drop almost 75 points yesterday. Were going to talk about more about the fiscal cliff and how its effecting the markets. The nasdaq starting just below the 3,000 mark today. And keep an eye on Adobe Systems when it opens. Share prices jumped in premarket trading after the Company Reported better than expected results. Adobe earned 220 million for the quarter that ended last month. That is up 49 million from last year. Revenue is plat flat. 2013 will be a pivotal year for the transition to a Subscription Based Service including the creative cloud. Time now 5 20. You ever think about what other people are searching for online . The most popular things searched on google this year and big part the bay area played in it. Plus a rocky wakeup for a california family. Welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news. Amazing video a san diego family escaped this boulder came loose during a rainstorm. It rolled 200 feet down a hill. It hit a gas line. Crews did manage to quickly cap that leak. The homes living area fortunately not damaged so the family will not have to move out 37 a candle is being blamed for a fire that forced three people from their home in berkeley. The fire started shortly after 4 00 yesterday afternoon. It happened on da lieu is a avenue. Fire Officials Say a candle sparked the fire in the kitchen. Bay area travelers may face problems in the new york area over the holidays. Nonunionized Security Officers at jfk airport have voted to go on strike. About 100 employees voted yesterday to authorize the strike for next thursday. A grown up of workers at another company will hold a vote today. The workers direct traffic right in front of the terminals and make sure tarmacs are secure. They say they need more training and better equipment. They plan to speak to employees about their concerns in the next few days. The crab boats are making their way back to shore and were told they caught a lot of crab. Now most of the crabs came into halfmoon bay docks were big