for good deals. we give them a treat. every time a dog comes in they get a treat. reporter: it doesn t happen online. it does not. reporter: daisy s human says supporting local shops supports local jobs. if we don t go and participate and go to the local stores and buy from them, they will quickly disappear. it has proven itself out, so it is important to support locals and for your own self and the next generation. it is a good thing. reporter: shop keepers say the next few days will also let them showcase good customer service and added touches like free gift wrapping. perhaps that will entice shoppers back and not revert to doing shopping online. it will be probably our busiest weekend of the year. reporter: a leading retail group says that americans will be spending about $1,000 this holiday season on their shopping. if small stores like the ones lining this street are able to capture some of that, that could help their bottom line. in san jose, david loui
beautiful thursday morning in russia. now the opening ceremony is friday night, but there are new developments right now. janell wang is about 7,000 miles away and joins us live from sochi. it s about 11:00 a.m. on thursday. good morning. reporter: good morning. yeah, we re exactly 12 hours ahead of you in the bay area. competition has already started today. it started about an hour ago. we have three events going on today. we have woman s mogales and the slope style snowboard competition. shaun white announced he has dropped out. he made that announcement wednesday afternoon after jamming his wrist during practice on tuesday. he called the course a bit intimidating after seeing several athletes crash. he s decided to drop out and avoid risk of injury and focus on the halfpipe, which he s going for his third straight gold. the front-runner wasn t shaun white any way, it s the 26-year-old from reno. 21-year-old ryan stasle is also competing. on the woman s side, we have
lumpur headed to beijing. however, air traffic control lost communication with the jet and the crew about two hours after takeoff. the plane is believed to be somewhere in the waters off of vietnam. let s bring in chase cane. it s saturday afternoon in southeast asia. what s the latest? reporter: airline officials are saying despite the rules that the plane did crash, there are no signs of wreckage. we ve learned there were four americans on board, including a mother and her infant and now more than 12 hours have past since the plane went missing. there are military planes and ships and helicopters from three different countries searching the waters to try and find this malaysian jet. it went missing about two hours after takeoff from kuala lumpur. the airline says the plane would not have enough fuel to still be in the air. they say that no one has reported the plane landing anywhere, so it seems all indications that this plane has gone down somewhere. the airline says in
to sell the public on one idea. if anything, the public support for the warriors move to san francisco has only increased. reporter: in an exclusive kpix 5 poll conducted by survey usas 68% of san francisco residents support the move. it s overwhelming support. reporter: the real question is, where that arena should be built? and according to our poll, the leading candidate is the site the warriors have been pushing since day one. piers 30 and 32 top the survey with support at 34%. our opponents have come at us with everything they have but right now, the site that is in the lead is the site that we have been committed to for the last 18 months. if i were the warriors and i got a result like that after a year and a half of a multi- million dollar campaign i would be very disappointed and very nervous. reporter: former mayor art agnos wants a new arena in san francisco. he just thinks it s better suited for parking lot a just across mccovey cove from at&t park.
exactly the same tracks for these hazardous cars. totally unacceptable. reporter: the hazardous cars berkeley s vice mayor linda mayo is talking about could carry a highly explosive crude oil fracked from the back bakken region of south dakota. one derailed in quebec last summer. reporter: 47 people were killed a town reduced to rubble. i can t imagine if there was a major derailment and explosion right at this pharmaceutical plant. it s just it would be devastating. reporter: mayo just recently was made aware of the possible route. it s buried in a 700-page environmental impact report for a crude-by-rail terminal at a phillips 66 refinery near san luis obispo on the central coast. 80 car unit trains of bakken crude would run on union pacific railroad tracks the same tracks used by amtrak s congested capitol corridor commuter line. it goes from sacramento through richmond, el cerrito, berkeley, emeryville and oakland all the way down to san jose. phillips 66 at firs