Good afternoon. Im tori campbell. Its a tense situation in oakland right now with protesters facing off with police officers. Protesters chained themselves together in front of Police Headquarters and have stood their ground for the past few hours. Brian flores has been monitoring the scene and joins us live. Reporter good afternoon to you. Weve been here since the demonstrations began shortly after 7 00 this morning and they continue going onto the afternoon. Were between 6th street and 7th street on broadway, right in front of oakland Police Headquarters. As you can see, a long line of police, also a long line of dreauchters remain. Ass we take as we take a look at, some blocked a busy intersection at oakland here. Hands up, dont shoot hands up, dont shoot reporter its been a message thats been chanted for weeks. Coast to coast. But instead of another night of protests this one happened in the morning. Enough is enough, we want our brothers and sisters to live. Reporter several hundred demonstrators converged in oakland right in front of Police Headquarters on backyardway between 6th and 70th. Some protesters chained themselves to the entrances of opd headquarters. One even climbed up a flagpole to display a banner that says, black lives matter. Its not okay. Black lives matert. My kids are obtaining protesters, mare offing in the street. They are raising their hands and making their kids talk about it. Reporter this man was charged with a misdemeanor. Eventually opd removed the demonstrators who blocked entrances. Organizers says this demonstration was specific to last four hours. Four hours because how long Michael Browns body was in the street. Reporter this morning, traffic had to be diverted. Westbound traffic on broadway once you got to 7th also had to be divert. Oakland police moved the group on the the group to the other side for people to convene. We have a lot of our Community Members who need Police Services and we want to make sure were able to provide those services. Reporter as we take it back out here live, there are a full demonstrators in between 7th and 8th between broadway. The rain is continuing to fall as we speak. But thats not stopping the spirit of the demonstrators. There is another demonstration planned for 5 00 p. M. Tonight around lake merritt. Several hundred people are expected to be there as well. Paul chambers will be there. Back to you. Thank you. The San Jose PoliceDepartment Says it is reviewing some controversial twitter posts by one of the officers. The posts were a reaction to the recent protest against the police kills against unarmed black men. Officer Phillip White tweeted if anyone feels they cant breathe or their lives matter, i will be at the movies tonight, off duty carrying my gun. Another tweet read, threaten me or my family and i will use my gun and right to kill you. The beets have been removed. The department is investigating the officers actions and will have more to say once the review is complete. Over the weekend, the father of Michael Brown was here in the bay area. Yesterday, he addressed a crowd at Third Baptist Church in san francisco. He flew to the bay area following saturdays march in washington, d. C. It was one of many demonstrations across the uent across the country following the death of his 18 yearold son in ferguson, missouri and eric garner in new york. He thanked the crowd for their support following the death of his son. We have a major fight going on. I have to stand up. Thats all im doing is standing up for our rights. We love all of you. Enough is enough. Brown senior says he hopes the visit will inspire people to turn their frustration into action. He said there is a way to bring about change without violence and vandalism. New details in the hostage situation pat a cafe in sydney at a cafe in sydney, australia. Police say three people are dead including the hostage taker. [ sound of gunfire ] police used flash bang devices as they moved in, ending the standoff that lasted for 16 hours. Authorities say the gunman and two of the 17 hostages were killed but police wont say whether the two dead hostages were caught in the crossfire or shot by the hostage taker. The iranian born suspect was reportedly fought on bail facing charges including Sexual Assault and accessory to murder. Hank winebloom has more. Reporter police stormed the cafe where the hostage situation unfolded. Gunshots fired after several more people fled the building. The gunman confirmed to be man haron monis, authorities in contact with him throughout the ordeal. This is a very, very well tested system of negotiation that we use. Its world class. And it might take a little bit of time but the safety is whats paramount. Reporter the siege began at the lindt calffy located in the shopping district. Two hostages holding up a fact with an islamic expression of faith written on it. Its profoundly shocking that innocent people should be held hostage by an armed person climbing political motivation. Reporter australia raising the terror level to yellow in september. Dozens arrested in Counter Terror raids that same month in several cities of a they laurened the group was planning an attack in the country. Here in the bay area, the rain is back. Already causing more problems. In fact, this was the scene on stone valley way where crews were working to remove a 75 foot oak tree. Neighbors say it came crashing down around 2 30 this morning. People who live in the 20 or so stoems on the street were confined to their homes for about five hours. Officials say the saturated ground probably caused the tree to come down. Lets check in with rosemary orose to o Rosemary Orozco to see how long this will last. We do have a front swinging through. Were picking up quite a bit of rain falling over parts of the north bay, santa rosa stretching through napa, vallejo. Anywhere from moderate to heavy rain reported in these areas. Novato you may be included around the american canyon. Well slide in over parts of the east bay and the central portion of the bay area. You can see just slight steady rain falling. San francisco, oakland, morago, san ramon and hayward. We do have heavy rather rain falling over the east bay hills. We have light to moderate rain falling oeferger the santa cruz mountains, picking up moderate to heavy rain in the santa cruz area where the rainfall rates look to be anywhere from. 25 to. 50 per hour. In is going to push through. I think the heaviest rain is moving through right now. I think after 2 00 or so, we will break away to scattered showers and then it will continue to taper off as we get into the evening hours but were not finished yet. I will time out todays storm and time out what you can expect for the week ahead and how much rain i expect coming up. Thank you. Emergency crews are out in santa rosa this noontime where power lines are draped over homes at a mobile home park. As many as two utility poles fell around 8 30 this morning at the via teresa mobile community. Its off via teresa and alan avenue near liberty high school. Live wires fell on the roof of one home and stretched across two others, the homes have been evacuated as a precaution. No one was injured. Pg e says the downed lines knocked out power to more than 500 cuss morse. No word on what customers. No word on what caused them to topple over. This wet weather is causing delays of an hour and a half at sfo. 80 canceled flights, inclimate weather often prompts sfo to implement a Ground Delay Program which results in delays and cancellations. We checked with san jose and oakland airports as well. Both say flights are departing and arriving on time today. There are grief counselors on hand at South Lake Tahoe high school today. Students there are learning about the death of one of their classmates who was struck by a fallen tree. Police say it appears 14year old dejohn smith was killed when a 50foot tree fell on him during the storm last week as he was outside playing. His body was only found on saturday. Later on in the afternoon, i looked out, there was 10, 15 people out there and theres a memorial out there. I feel so, so sad for his family. It breaks my heart. Smiths mother is a long Time Employee of the Grocery Outlet in south take tahoe. Employees are collecting donations to help pay for funeral expenses. We are getting a better idea of the cost of the storm in the bay area. Officials say damage in Sonoma County alone is estimated at 16 million and that estimate is expected to climb with more rain this week. Tomorrow Sonoma County supervisors are also expected to extend a local emergency that was declared last thursday for another 30 days. The case involving a star nfl run back and his child abuse charges is now headed to federal court. Why the Nfl Players Association is suing and well tell you about the new audio recording thats just surfaced. Today is expected to be one of the busiest days at the post office. Well show you the scene and if you are a procrastinator well tell you the last day to mail your packages in order to have them arrive in time for christmas. At least six people were shot to Death Outside of philadelphia today in an apparent domestic dispute that spanned at least three locations. According to police, a man shot and killed his wife, then gunned down other members of the family at two more sites in montgomery county, pennsylvania. Police had two homes surrounded at various times. But authorities believe the gunman is on the loose. Were learning more about imamges of images of African American lynching victims found at the uc Berkeley Campus over the with the weekend. A group of artists put up the images in response to the deaths of Michael Brown and eric garner. The artists apologized to those who might have been offended but added, for those who think these images depict crimes and attitudes too distasteful to be scene, we respectfully disagree. Our society must never forget. New details this noontime about the dispute between Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson and the nfl. The case is in federal lawsuit. The Players Association filed a lawsuit this morning on petersons behalf. It is asking the court to vacate an arbitrators decision on friday upheemedding the leagues yearlong suspension of peterson over child abuse charges. This comes as a new recording has surfaced of a top nfl executive promising peterson just a twoday suspension. Abc news obtained the phone recording of the executive telling peterson, he would miss days on consecutive weeks and said, you will be back. Peterson pleaded no contest last month for using a wooden switch to discipline his son. Bill cosby has broken his silence about the accusation of Sexual Assault against on him. He praised the love and strength of his wife through the ordeal thats jen raptsed tabloid headlines about possible generated tabloid headlines about possible headlines and also said then he told the reporter hes not supposed to talk to the media and ended the conversations. With the holidays in full swing, the rush is on to mail those presents off to friends and family. As alex savidge explain, this is the busiest day of the year for the Postal Service. Reporter they fired up the forklifts filling up trucks with packages and letters. A sure sign the holidays are here. Crews at this facility will handle a million more pieces of mail than they did on an average day. We probably brought in between 350 to 400 people just to help us through the holidays spread out. Reporter this is the busiest day of the year for the Postal Service. Ten days before christmas when people start to feel the pressure to get those presents and cards in the mail. They will be mailed out today for sure because, i just i want to make sure they get there on time. Reporter this man is shipping a whole punch of gifts for a very good cause. He was at the post office picking out the perfect boxes. There is a friend of mine who owns a homeless sheltner stockton. Were sending out a lot of gifts to them. Reporter if you are a procrastinator, you dont have to worry, you can mail a package on december 23rd and get it there by christmas although it will cost extra. Across the country, 640 million pieces of mail will pass through the friends of u. S. Postal workers just today. We always have it under control. Weve been doing it a while and its Second Nature to us. Reporter and the Postal Service will be delivering on sundays this Holiday Season and be dropping off packages on Christmas Day as well. Alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. Wet, cool, breezy for some. This is going to be what we see for the next several days. Take a look outside our doors where bealso have fog out there this morning. Visibility could be a bit tough. We have a few drops falling here on our lens as we look from emeryville across the bay. We have a wet, wet week ahead with only a few breaks expected. Take a look at some of those rain at this hour. Its picked up as the front begins to move through. Were looking at light to moderate rain over parts of the north bay in and around santa rosa. We had heavier rain falling through. Moderate rain over novato. Looks like in and around the bay, we have moderate rain falling over the bay and along the stretch between san rafael and richmond. It will be very slick out there for most of the afternoon. Weve got light to moderate rain falling over the bay, that includes the bay bridge as well as the san mateo and the dumbarton. Light to moderate rain falling in the east bay. Well do one more shift and take a look from Half Moon Bay over the santa cruz mountains. Woodside, along 280 as well as one 101, its very a very slick ride. We have snow in the sierra. We have an advisory in the sierra for today. It is a Winter Weather advisory. So its going to be tough to get over those hills. Please be careful. Make sure you have snow tires or your chains. This will last until 10 00 this evening. We continue to focus on todays system. I will take you into tuesday to show you when the next round of the heavier rain is expected to move in. Picking it up for you at this hour, i think between now and 2 00 is when well see the steady rain. Im gonna drop it at 3 00, the back end is moving into the Central Valley and the sierra. For us, we have scattered showers. I will stop it at 5 00, well take a look at the evening drive, not too bad. It will be slick out there with a few scattered showers full fall few showers falling. At 2 00 tomorrow, the next heavy rain begins to move in. It looks like we might have it for the afternoon drive tomorrow. With this system, anywhere from. 50 to 1 for the urban area. For the hilts, 1 to 2 hills, 1 to 2, maybe 3. Its windy in the hills. Its going to be a cool day. Temperatures right now in the 50s. As we get into the afternoon, more 50s. 55 in pacifica. 53 for antioch. Extended forecast here. So rain this afternoon breaking away to scattered showers. Scattered showers for the first half of tomorrow. The afternoon looks like its going to be wet. Scattered showers in the forecast for wednesday a chance on thursday. The last system moves in friday and saturday before we dry out. The temperatures are all in the 50s all across the board. Thank you. You are welcome. More than a thousand uc Berkeley Berkeley employees the valuable information that the University Says hackers gained access to. U. S. Stocks have moved lower this afternoon. The slide follows the markets biggest weekly loss in two and a half years as the price of Oil Continues a sixmonth fall. U. S. Home builders are feeling slightly less confident into the sales prospect. Taking a liking a the big board, the dow is down 64. Nasdaq is 36. S p down 7. A new york city teenager has earned millions of dollars playing the stock market. According to new york magazine. Muhammed islam is 17, still months away from high school graduation. Hes been making stock market trades during his launch breaks. Hes bought a bmw, even though he cant drive and a manhattan apartment, though his parents wont let him move out. He will get his breakers license when hes underway. an investigation is underway into a cyber attack at uc berkeley thats put some information at risk. The information includes Social Security numbers and credit card numbers. Cal says it has begun to notify 1600 currentor former campus employees that their information may have been hacked. It says it was done by someone who gained access to servers and databases in the campuss real estate division. So far, no evidence that hackers actually downloaded or used the personal information. After weeks of silence, Sony Pictures is admitting a large amount of emails and documents were stolen. Now the studio is warning news organizations to destroy any of the information that ends up in their hands. Sony says companies that make public what was supposed to be confidential information will face legal action. Legal experts, though, say any lawsuits would run counter to freedom of the press so its unlikely the legal action would hold up in court. The Golden State Warriors have extended their winning streak to 16 after an overtime win in new orleans. The warriors fought back to force overtime. Curry and the warriors look to go for 17 wins in a row tomorrow against the grizzlies in memphis.