Championships coming to san jose. Also, well talk about the development of local talented skaters with San Francisco ice theatre, as well as see a live performance. But first, we will start with the great ice rink which is hosting our show today. And to tell us more about whats going around this Holiday Season, heres the general manager of the holiday ice rink, robert keith. Robert, thank you very much for being here. Robert keith thank you, robert, for being here. Isnt this great . Robert oh, its fantastic. Robert keith our 10year anniversary birthday party. I mean, it just doesnt get any better than to be right here in the heart of San Francisco amongst all of this shopping, dining, the hotels. The environment here is just splendid for such an event, and this is our tenth year, and were so happy to be here. Robert hey, howd you celebrate your birthday . Robert keith well, last week, we had our big birthday celebration, and skating was free for everybody all day. We were sold out, nat
Robert well, today, Asian Pacific america focuses on ice skating, especially with the Golden Moments show coming to san jose next week. Joining us is the cohost, Kristi Yamaguchi. Thank you for joining us. Kristi yamaguchi thank you for having me. Robert give us an idea in terms of Golden Moment, what its gonna be about, whos gonna be in it. Kristi well, Golden Moment is a benefit for the always dream foundation and our literacy efforts. Its going to host a worldclass cast of skaters. So were really thrilled to have several actually olympic hopefuls that will be representing the United States at the 2018 games around the corner, as well as some local skaters and other familiar names that youll know. Brian boitano is my cohost. Well have olympic champion Ekaterina Gordeeva here, World Champion yuka sato, and jeremy abbott, ryan bradley, to name a few, and some of the olympic hopefuls, karen chen, who is our current United States ladies champion, polina edmunds, whos another local skater
Chilly start this morning. By the afternoon, mid 80s around the east bay. Upper oughtitys in San Francisco. Mid 80s around south bay. Busy commute, crashes effecting two bridges. Bridges are critical at this point of the commute as traffic starts to shift over from the east bay to the peninsula. Overall the traffic patterns look standard. Concern over here, the hayward side of the san mateo bridge, northbound 880 theres a crash at 92. A big rig involved over on the should were the chp flashing lights and activity. Distracting the southbound side. Slowing for a time being. Well see if theres recovery. Southbound lanes are clear. Eastbound typically counter commute. Crash on the Richmond San Rafael bridge. One lane is blocked. A sig alert is issued, meaning chp thinks its going to be half hour in they clear that. Westbound, your commute is all right. Back to you. Breaking news this morning. European commission is ruling ireland gave illegal tax breaks to cupertino based apple. Apple is n
I want to show you the rest of the bay. The Speed Sensors not having any problems. South bay, 680. Around alum rock, some activity. Well check that with chp. Trivalley no problems over to the dublin interchange and the bay bridge toll plaza. Me you dont have any problems. You will have to only pause if youre paying cash. Back to you. We have breaking news to report this morning. The European Commission has ruled that ireland gave illegal tax breaks to apple. Apple is now facing fines of more than 14 billion. The eu ruled apple paid substantially lower taxes than other businesses in ireland now has to recover the losses. The most valuable company in the world by market cap, apple was paying an effective Corporate Tax rate around 1 . Ireland promises to appeal that ruling. Now our business and tech reporter scott mcgrew is looking into it. Hes going to have much more on the events of the last 24 hours coming up in 15 minutes. New this morning, Oakland Police are trying to track down thre
Town. Looking up street were showing you there is÷19z a linf police. That is the street that is where this school is located. You can see they have police here and a line of columns going up the street. Theyre allowing the public to walk up to the area there. The fire house where the kids ran to is that another large public memorial. Tonight how a California Family reached all the wayqgme t here to pay their respects and give some support to this community, again, tonight at 6 00. Live in sandy hook, abc 7 news. Thank you. Well, there will be a memorial for the victims of the tragedy tonight here in the bay area on the peninsula. A service of remembrance getting underway in burlingame. This Service Begins at 7 00 p. M. Yi . V on the church on easton krif. Shooting prompted two state agencies to review their plans for schools and work place as cross california. Nannette miranda joins us live now. Nannette . This plan just doesnt include shootings but supposed to include responses for