Mccarthur maze. Up next we are looking at the toll plaza. Clear sailing. 280 down to san jose same story. 4 30 lets head back to the desk. For the third year in a row the San Francisco 49ers are heading to the nfc championship game. Our cameras were theren last night as the team arrived back in the bay area. The niners charter buses arrived at 49ers facility after flying into san jose from charlotte, north carolina. The 49ers will prepare for a rematch with the seattle sea hawks. The last time they met the niners won. Joe fonzi has more on what the team faces this weekend. Reporter todays win was quite an accomplishment but it is well short of the lofty goal the 49ers set when the season began. This is a steppingstone. We are obviously very happy we won. Reporter the challenge of seattle is its a very good challenge. What they said about going there. The good thing is its not our first rodeo up there. We are excited about the opportunity. This will be the rubber match. What a better team to goal against. Reporter cant help feeling this team is playing its best football. Definitely think we are peaking at the right time. We have a couple key guys back and offense is jelling. Defense is playing ball. Reporter no matter what happens sunday in seattle, the 49er organization has made quite a statement. A team that hadnt been to the post season in nine straight years will now make its Third Straight appearance in the nfc championship game. In Charlotte Joe fonzi. Our coverage continues online. Just go to ktvu. Com and click on the images tab. We have a slide show of all the 49er fans showing off their team spirit. A lot of team spirit. The sea hawks are making it very tough for them no get the big game in seattle. The sea hawks have announced they will not be selling tickets to the nfc championship game to anyone. Alex savidge is joining us live. Reporter good morning. The sea hawks making it clear 49ers fans not welcome at next sundays game. The team is limiting ticket sales to people in just six states and you guessed it california is not on that list. So if you want to buy a face value ticket, your credit card billing address must be in washington, oregon, montana, idaho, alaska, hawaii, or canada. This move is intended to give preference to sea hawk fans. Even though century link field is already one of the toughest places in the nfl, it seems as though the sea hawks want to improve upon that decisive home field advantage. It seems as though the sea hawks are trying to make it as difficult as possible for them to make it to the game. The 49ers faithful will be forced to buy tickets on the secondary market whop then they do that they will have to shell out serious cash. Are they afraid of the niners nation . Now stub hub is offering more than 6,000 tickets to the nfc championship game in seattle. The cheap u. S. One we saw as 420. For their part the sea hawks say the reason they are excluding california fans to avoid ticket scalping. Live this morning in San Francisco alex savidge ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you very much. But you can watch sundays big game right here on ktvu channel 2. Kickoff for the nfc championship game is at 3 30 p. M. And the winner heads to new york for the super bowl. State lawmakers will take up the issue of banning transit strikes. Bart strikes forced 400,000 people to find another way to get around. Republican leader bob huff announced a bill in december to ban such strikes. Ever the Committee Hearing take place at the capitol in sacramento. That long and bitter battle is finally expected to end today. The final Union Workers are expected to approve the new contract. Voting begins at 8 00 this morning. Barts Union Workers have ratified a deal back in november but a bart board rejected the contract after discovering a costly Family Leave Program had been mistakenly included. Task force will meet to discuss the deadly force by police. It was put together after the Fatal Shooting of andy lopez by a sheriffs deputy in october. The task force will be expected to meet once a week and come up with recommendations. They include procedures for office involvement, and the separation of the coroners job from the sheriffs department. A National Program credited with helping bring hundreds of Children Home safely is being recognized today. That is because today is nationalamber alert awareness day. According to the california highway patrol, the states system has been activated 218 times. The program is named for nine yearold amber who was kidnapped in texas back in 1996 and later found murdered. Alaysha was at a friends house in july when someone knocked on the front door and opened fire. They were targeting the father of alayshas friend. York had shot and killed a friend of williams and carroll in berkeley that same day. Overnight people in san jose neighborhoods being targeted by an arsonist worked in shifts as lookouts. They there have been 13 fires set during the middle of the night. Most have been small. But downtown people are alarmed enough to stay awake and watch for the arsonist to strike again. We dont want anyone to apprehend this individual. We dont know how dangerous he could be. We want people to be safe but vigilant. There are several surveillance videos from the past five days showing a young dark hair man. There is a sketch of a person of interest. There is also a 10,000 reward for information lead together arsonists arrest and conviction. Yesterday fire investigators returned to the scene of a deadly house fire. The investigation into fridays fire was delayed because the structure was considered unstable. Firefighters found the bodies of two people inside that home on embarcadero road. Their names have not been released. Funeral services are being held today for former israeli Prime Minister sr. Shah roan. He died eight years after being in a coma. He called the former Prime Minister a complex man who lived in complex times in a very complex neighborhood. The usda ordered plant shut down last week after cock roaches were found. The chicken was not sold in Retail Stores but shipped across the country for institutional use. 71st annual Golden Globes brought the stars of film and television together. Besides the winners, losers, and fashion there were a few mishaps. The show got off to a soggy start after a water pipe burst. That happened just a couple hours before the stars were set to arrive. Quite a mess. There was reports that a sprinkler had malfunctioned. The Fire Department was called in to stop the water and the wet parts of the carpet were replaced. Later in the show they faced technical problems. Im not going to lie to you right now they put up the wrong stuff on the teleprompter. Weve never had that happen to us before. No. They were announcing sr. Stars of wolf of wall street. Luckily someone came out with a script. Some of the biggest winners include matthew mcconaughey. Leonardo dicaprio took home his second globe. Other top awards went to 12 years of slave for best drama. American hustle for best movie comedy. Jennifer lawrence won for their roles in American Hustle as well. Last nights winners said to be top contenders for the academy awards. More movies i have yet to see. I know. There is quite a few on my list. Recovering after a major cyber attack at target. The new promise from the companys ceo. And new details we are learning about how information was stolen. Desperate times call for desperate measures. And your bay area roadways looking good at this hour. Lets take a look here at the san mateo bridge. Well have more traffic straight ahead. Old man went her be vacationing right here. It looks like it will be sunny and warm. Well tell you how warm. Maybe even record setting warm. Happening now thousands of antigovernment protestors in thailand are blocking key intersections in bangkok in an effort to shut down the city. The protestors want to force the countrys Prime Minister from power. Time is 4 45. Former nba star Dennis Rodman has wrapped up his latest controversial trip to north korea. Rodman and some other former nba players were in north korea to play a game celebrating the birthday of Korean Leader kim jong un. Rodman says he cant understand why this has angered so many people in the u. S. [ inaudible ] i come to this country and actually have fun and smile for one day. Rodman also says he is sorry for not being able to help an american missionary who has been detained in north korea for more than a year. Rodman also apologized. The faa is looking into why Southwest Airlines jet landed at the wrong airport in missouri. The flight left chicago. Was headed to the city of branson but landed seven miles away. That runway is about as half as long as the ones at branson. United airlines preparing to welcome travelers when new boarding area in San FranciscoInternational Airport later this month. The its in terminal three and will have a view of the airfield. They almost also be able to use a yoga room. A work area with 375 power outlets, and interactive kids zone. It opens january 28th. Nice. Time is 4 47. Lets go to tara. She is in for sal. There is a traffic hazard in marin. Yes. We have a dead deer in the roadway. Cal tran is trying to get it removed quickly. Right now we will take a look at our maps. Highway 4 in antioch is all clear. 880 near the Oakland Coliseum you can see the traffic is moving nicely here. Although my camera is shaking here. That is because there is a little bit of wind out there. Finally as we head south this is a look at the san mateo bridge. Traffic on the right hand side of your screen there. 4 47. Steve, what is up with the wind . Tara keep talking. Im just going to talk about those niners. If you try top get to the super market after the game it was a nightmare. It was like everybody the flood gates opened. Okay. I agree with you. I within to two of them and it was packed. Yeah the lines were horrendous. Good morning. Boy it was saturday it was nice we had drizzle. [ laughter ] we had a little bit of rain. Kind of nice. We were out on my friends sailboat on the bay it almost felt like winter. And now we are back to dry. In fact record heat is possible. Very dry forecast. The forecast models have backed off completely on what we thought might happen. Remember we talked about how the three and five day models might pick up. Red flag warnings are out. Increasing breeze. Gusts 3540 miles an hour. But that breeze will also make it to the coast and the bay which mean there is is no fog. Which means temperatures coming up looking at 65 today. 40s and 50s. Walnut creek 53 today. Its all wind driven. A lot of lows are way up because of this. Storm track is way to the north. High pressure is here for awhile. 35 ukiah. Monterey 44. 50s southern california. But for us it looks really quiet here this week. Sunny and breezy. Windy in spots. We are back to a dry forecast for awhile. Highs. There might be one or two record highs today. But tomorrow it looks more likely. And in fact, very dry conditions here. 60s to near 70 degrees. And temperatures will continue to warm up. Look at that. Its just going to be sunny and warm. Feels very spring like. A little cooler friday or saturday. But no big deal. It looks quiet and dry for a long time. Thank you very much. As steve mentioned it continues to be dry. A group of people in Northern California came together this weekend to pray for rain. Nearly 100 people from Muslim Community in folsom gathered to pray. They united together. Members from the group say they had to come out to fulfill their obligation in asking for the rain. The rain did come in the middle of their prayers. You can see a few drops of water start to fall. Experts say significant rainfall is needed in the next four to six weeks for some california counties to avoid a water emergency. Its 4 50. A 13yearold girl from atlanta says she is being bullied by her friends. How she is fighting back and how it could help other teenagers. Boosting the image for some San Francisco neighborhoods. The project designed to paint the city in a different light. Welcome back to the morning news. Robert gates says he stands by everything he wrote in his book. Gates writes about serving in the administrations of both president bush and president obama. He says he does not think that president obama did enough to convict the servicemen and women in afghanistan. President bush did that with the troops when i was secretary. I did not see president obama do that. And i said as i write in the book it was this absence of passion. This absence of a conviction of the importance of success that disturbed me. Some people criticizing gates for releasing the book while there is still u. S. Troops in afghanistan and while president obama is still in office. Time is 4 53. A couple in indiana that a bill in indiana that would allow voters to more than 100 people showed up at an Interfaith Church to pray state lawmakers will see things their way. Some members in the group say they are in a fierce battle for their civil rights and no one should be allowed to vote on their families. We have the same needs, wants, desires as everyone else. And for someone to be allowed to come in and vote on that is wrong. The Indiana Family Institute however disagrees. In a statement it released yesterday, the group said the future of marriage in indiana should be up to the voters. The states legislative committee is scheduled to vote on the issue today. A teenage girl is using her voice to fight back against bullies. 13yearold madison e lease wrote the song crazy crazy after her friends started saying hurtful thicks to her. She loves music and needed an outlet. This song is special because i had begun through many things in just finding myself and dealing with depression and every day struggle of being a teenager. Her parents say they were worried when they heard the song. Two men in washington are capitalizing on the Marijuana Industry in buying up related internet domain names. They have already bought more than 200 marijuana domain names. Some such as justmarijuana. Com are praised at more than 1 million. A mall developer plans to change the way of a shopping district in milpitas. The 100 million project is expected to include a 240 room hotel, under ground parking garage, and as many as 300 small shops. The pacific mall Silicon Valley will open in 2017. A post Guard Program is hoping to combat the citys stereotypes. It includes those to fill out a postcard sharing positive stories about their community. People are much more similar than they realize if they take the time to listen to each others stories. Frank created the project while working in the Mayors Office of innovations. Six last spring 334 postcards have been sent in San Francisco. The project massachusetts even spread to the east coast and across International Waters making its way to sydney australia. Coming up next a south bay neighborhood living on edge. What they are doing in hopes of catching a suspected arsonist accused of setting more than a dozen fires. The lines are growing at pharmacies and doctor offices while worries about the flu continues to grow. 880 is looking pretty good at this hour. Well have more bay area traffic coming up. Bouncing around a little bit that camera because the north breeze or easterly breeze is in place. That means possibility of record highs. The 49ers heading to the nfc championship this saturday b but fans that want to see it in person could be having trouble getting a ticket. A south bay neighborhood continues to live on edge. What they are doing in hopes of catching a suspected arsonist who is accused of setting more than a dozen fires so far. The attempt to stop transit strikes across california. The hearing today that could ease the minds of many bart riders. Plus trying to repair a broken reputation. The new message target ceo has for its customers. All ahead on the ktvu channel 2 morning news. Good morning. Thank you for joining us monday morning january 13th im pam cook. I was trying to fix my glass. I can see that. Good morning, im dave clark. Can i ask steve about the forecast . Please do. Steve, how about the forecast . Sunny and warmer. But january. I know. Well in june i will be saying its foggy and cold. Clear skies. Temperatures will start to warm up pretty fast because we have an offshore. My old girlfriend is back in town. Offsholo