Looking for a postal thief. Reporter ken three attempts the past week before her exam finally work that the Novato Post Office and now parcels are gone and the search is on for the burglar in a blue uniform. At the busiest time of their year, bay area postal carriers have a new distraction. A thief who blends in with them. Arriving for work in the morning. If you dont know them, ask for id. That advice from a supervisor at this richmond facility, where the woman in a postal uniform got inside, claiming she was a new employee, but when asked for id, she pulled out pepperspray and ran out. We dont want to go after her because she may have a gun. You never know. Reporter the following monday another try, this time at a facility in el cerrito. Where the impostor got into the backdoor, but was confronted by someone and escaped. There is obviously a level of comfort to come in and attempt to get inside a post office. Reporter it is a former employee . A employees friend or relative . Investigators dont know but she is determined. Yesterday morning she slipped into san rafaels main post office, but after being challenged head north to novato, where she finally succeeded. She was able to get a number of parcels, the number that were tanner were still trying to determine what was taken. Translator parcels destined for delivery that day, now missing. Its a federal offense and standing 00,000 reward. Reporter a serious crime carrying up to five years in prison and a 250,000 fine. The suspect is described as a heavyset africanamerican woman. There are surveillance images of her, but investigators dont want those out to the public just yet. Richmond, employees believe she may be the same person who slipped in previously and stole a carriers purse from an employee area. So it appears mail isnt all she is a. Reporting live in novato, debora villone, ktvu channel 2 news. Happening now, police are holding checkpoints in at least three places around the bay area. You are looking at live pictures now of one of those checkpoints. This one is in san carlos. Officers are urging partygoers to choose a designated driver to stay sober and give others a ride home. If you see a drunk driver you are asked to call 911. So far this holiday period one bay area county is reporting a dramatic increase, Alameda County says enforcement Law Enforcement says it arrested 285 drivers since december 13th. That is up almost 65 from 2012. It Santa Clara County reports a total of 189 arrests during the same period. Last weekend, that county also showed an increase in drunk driving arrests compared to last year. The 17yearold victim in the Arapahoe High School shooting last week in colorado has died. Claire davis has shot in the head by a gunman at her high school in colorado eight days ago. She passed away today, surrounded by her family at a hospital. The Arapahoe County sheriff says it appears 18yearold karl pierson shot her at random. Officials believe that pierson was targeting a librarian who disciplined him weeks ago. A heartwrenching letter from the mother of a 13 yearold girl has been released. Nailah winkfield, the mother of jahi mcmath asked for prayers on behalf of her daughter. The family went to court to keep jahi on life support. Yesterday a judge ruled in favor of the family and scheduled a hearing for monday, to appoint a neurologist to further examine the girl and determine her condition winkfield wrote many part pray for me mothers that my love can bring her life once more. To read the full letter going to ktvu. Com. The hospital responded it would be unfair to give false hope that the teen would come back to life. A man suspected in a bar fight that left another man dead has surrendered to police. A 24yearold man from pittsburg faces homicide charges. The fight happened at delta bowl on delta fair boulevard. A 41yearold vallejo man was found dead. Police in two cities are searching for the gunmen in a pair of unrelated shootings at busy shopping malls. San Leandro Police say two men were arguing in the parking lot of bay fair mall. One man was hurt, but his wounds are not life threatening. A guard says security personnel chased the gunman, but decided since the map had a gun, it was safer to avoid a confrontation and the man got away. Tracy police responned to an incident at the west valley mall. Someone there opened fire outside of the mall and bullets hit one of the mall entrances. Police say no one was hurt and a s. W. A. T. Team went car to car looking for the gunman, but came up empty. The mall remained open the rest of the night. Jpmorgan chase announced its limiting the use of debit cards for customers at risk in the hacking breach at target stores. On thursday, the retailer said that 40 million customers debit and credit cards might have been compromised by hackers. The Security Breach occurred between november 27th and december 15th at brick andmortar target stores. As an added precaution, chase is temporarily limiting atm debit withdrawal for potential victims to just 100 a day and purchases are limited to 300 a day. The bank is also automatically reissuing all affected debit cards. Its the last weekend before christmas and shoppers are out in droves, picking out the last remaining items on their lists. Thanksgiving came late this year, making the Christmas Shopping season six days shorter many stores are also staying open late to attract shoppers. Developing news tonight about Severe Weather in the south and midwest, blamed for the deaths of two people. In arkansas, meteorologist say it appears two tornadoes touched down damaging 20 homes and injuring five people. In mississippi, two men died as storms pushed across that state. One man was killed when his trailer home was blown over and another when his car slammed into a fallen tree. Four u. S. Service members were injured when smallarms fire hit their plane aste tried to evacuate american citizens in south sudan. They came under attack the mission was aborted afterwards. There are reports of heavy fighting in the area after south sudanese groups try to retake the city that they lost earlier this week. The information administer say bodies are littered all over town. There are reports of very heavy fighting and of course, reports of many, many civilians taken refuneral, refuge in u. S. Compounds. There have concerns that it could ignite a fullblown civil war. Ethnic tensions climbed as the president blamed the former Vice President for attempting a coup. Family members of the victims of bombing ofan yam flight 103 and three nations vowed to bring those responsible to justice. Friends and family members of the victims attended a service at Arlington National cemetery. The names of all those who died were read, including 259 people aboard the 747 and 11 People Killed on the ground. Well always remember the devastation and pain that was e. Ed into our collective memory, 21st of does, 21st, of december, 1988. Jane schultz was among those attending the ceremony in lockerbie in memory of her son who was a student at syracuse university. I wanted to come here not only to honor tomas, but the other 269 victims and i wanted to stand in the place where my son took his last breath. And say a small prayer. Only one man a former libyan intelligence official was also convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Scottish authorities released him on humanitarian grounds in 2009 when he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. The 1988 bombing remains the deadliest act of terrorism ever on british soil. At least two of the victims were from the bay area, including one flight attendant, paul garett from napa and Barry Valentino of San Francisco. We hopefully, finally have a resolution to something that should have been resolved many months ago. A sigh of relief for bay area commuters after word of a deal between bart and its unions of at 10 309 compromise that ended a long standoff. And a father calls this training, and others call it torture. The controversial surrounding this video that is making the rounds on facebook. First a doortodoor campaign for health care, the deadline pushing these Bay Area College students to get residents signed up for insurance, the 10 00 news continues in 90 seconds. Around the bay area volunteers made a lastminute push to sign people up for Health Care Coverage under the also known as and anyone who wants to start insurance by the first of the year needs to enroll by monday. Reporter a team of cal students walked the streets of this West Berkeley neighborhood this afternoon, going doortodoor, and spreading the word about the Affordable Care act the key deadline coming monday. About a dozen student volunteers took part in what they call the covered berkeley brigade. Andrew wong is in charge of this grassroots campaign. Their goal is to knock on several hundred doors today and make it easy for the uninsured to get covered. We know that people are busy and people have a lot of obligations and were bringing it to them. We know that health care is really important for everyone and we want to bring them the opportunity to enroll at their door. Everybody needs to be covered. Reporter and today inside the Vallejo Community center, they sat down with volunteers. This event was put on by Health Care Workers from seiu. This is the best way to have them come in and find out what options we have and what they can afford. Reporter Rachel Jackson came down because her parttime job doesnt provide benefits and for this mother of two, health care is critical, because she has lived with hodgkins lymphoma. I need to make sure they cast it early. Come january i will be able to make an appointment. Im so excited about thatment covered california is seeing a surge of applicants ahead of mondays deadline. The latest figures show well over 50,000 people have enrolled in health plans in just the past week. In berkeley, alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. San josi police are saebing for sunsets from a suspects from a double shooting near san joaquin university at least two males were shot one with critical injuries remains from the hospital tonight. Other had minor injuries. 17 people are without a place to live of a twoalarm fire ripped through their homes this afternoon. The fire was reported around 4 30 at a sixunit building near hall avenue in the willow glen neighborhood. No one was injured. The red cross has been called in to assist displaced residents. The cause of the fire is under investigation. A redwood city metal recyclinger the scene of two fires has been told to keep a closer eye on that facility. The city manager has asked them to keep three Staff Members on site 24 hours a day for 60 days starting monday. One Security Guard was at the yard when a fire broke out early tuesday. A shelterinplace advisory was issued for for three bay area counties due to heavy smoke from the fire. Police arrested a former massage therapist from menlo park on allegations that he sexually assaulted clients. Rajesh turned himself in after he was charged with misdemeanor sexual battery. In 2012 a woman reported that he assaulted her during an appointment at the labelle spa in palo alto. Vashist is out on bail. It all started on friday when a 19yearold woman was reported missing from her Sonoma County home and last seen in fremont with 32year old William Tweedie a wanted felony. Sheriffs deputies tracked tweedy tweedie down to a home in guerneville. Investigators say the woman had gone with tweedie involvery and was unharmed. At the Womens Resource Center across the street from the San Francisco jail, there are hundreds of toys waiting to be given to children whose mom or dad is in jail. Parents told deputies what their kids wanted for christmas and a gift was purchased for that child. Organizers say having a present under the tree from a parent who is incarcerated helps both the child and adult cope during this difficult time. The moms and the dads have signed up and then the caregivers can come ovhere and get the presents. We have wrapping available. So it can be under the tree and from their incarcerated parent. 100 children received toys today. Republican senators still angry over the elimination of filibusters for president ial appointments, the senate recessed yesterday without confirming nominees to San Franciscos Federal District court. The district is considered in a state of crisis with three vacancies. The nominees are vince chhabria, a deputy City Attorney in San Francisco, beth freeman a San Mateo County judge and james donato an antitrust lawyer in San Francisco of senates action means that president obama will have to resubmit the nominations in january. President obama and the first family are winding up their first day of christmas vacation in hawaii. The president has no Public Events scheduled during his two week visit to his home state. Last year, the president was forced to cut his holiday short to address the fiscal crisis in washington the day after christmas. Heading east for the holiday . Be prepared, well show you the areas hit hardest by the winter storms and that could put a damper on holiday travel. Plus tough love or terrible participanting . The controversy surrendering this video a 4yearold and his father. The holiday week is coming up and i will show you which days will be the warmest as we move into next week. 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[ anthony ] i use the explorer card to earn miles in order to go visit my family, which means a lot to me. There wasnt much to see from the air, just two yellow shapes and a white square. That is what australian rescuers saw what they found two fishermen clinging to a cooler off New South Wales this morning. The two called for help when their cabin cruiser took on water yesterday. After spending 15 hours in the water, the men were said to be exhausted, but they are okay. They were taken to the hospital for medical checks. If you are flying east for christmas, or expecting guests from there, a major snowstorm may put you in a grimy mood. It promises to deliver a foot of snow to the north and more ice and freezing rain to the south. Hundreds of flights were canceled today, with the best bet for travel probably the holiday itself. The best day to fly, if can you work is to fly on christmas day. I know i have done it myself to save a few dollar and a lot time there is good availability and the fares are lower. People in green bay, wisconsin, enjoyed the windy weather by shoveling snow at packers stadium so its ready for tomorrows. A father in texas is catching more flack than pigskin. This is how we train for football. Daddy drives and you run. Get your little ass in shape. Brandon yates posted this video of i training his 4 yearold son. In it he frequently curses as he makes the little boy run and even refusing to help the boy when he clench his stomach. Yates has received opinions from all over the world, including death threats. Its a playful moment from a dad who got back from watching the cowboys get beat again and him having aspirations to play football. Clay has his own football gear and his parents say the boy loves game. The run was partly a punishment for repeatedly unbulking his safe. Overstock. Com says it plans to stop accepting bitcoins. It does ova billion dollars of revenue,. Nativeamerican chants and drums were part of an appreciation ceremony today at lake merritt in oakland. The ceremony honored a 150 yearold eucalyptus tree fall as winds hit the area at 60 miles per hour. The Public Works Department decided to hold the ceremony because many people have expressed their sadness at the loss of the big tree. The city is planning to save a round of the tree to make an historical timeline on it, showing significant dates in oaklands history. The city has not yet decided where the tree round will be displayed. Bay area commuters breathing a lot easier tonight. Ac transit and bart come to contract resolutions within hours of each other. What it means for riders. A reallife nativity scene in the bay area, the display celebrating the story of christmas and its drawing hundreds of people tonight. Happening now we want to show you police are holding checkpoints in at least three places in the bay area. Police are asking us not to tell you exactly where this checkpoint is. Could be on the alameda. Could be on el camino, could be on holy street. We dont know. Officers are asking partygoers to choose a designateddriver to stay sober and give others a ride home. If you see others who appear to be drunk on the road, call 911. So far this holiday period, one Bay Area Committee is reporting a dramatic increase in dui arrests. That is santa clara and actually alameda counties. Two major bay area transit systems reached contract agreements with their unions within hours of each other. As ktvus john sasaki it comes at great relief of the passengers of bart and ac transit. Reporter ac transit bus drivers who werent on the routes this morning, met at their Oakland Union headquarters to hear the details of their new agreement. I just know that i dont like it. I think the fight is over, you know what i mean in you have to throw towel in sometime. Reporter Union President says the deal including a raise of 9. 5 over three years and 120 per Month Health Care contribution. Its a good deal, because we definitely want to make sure that if we can to keep the service on the streets and make sure that our riding public is not inconvenienced in any way. Reporter bart and its unions reached a deal around 2 00 a. M. And Union Leaders are hopeful it closes the doors on talk of a third strike. We ended up being able to resolve some of these issues. Reporter seius president this resolves the family leave issue, but eliminating the six weeks in disputed contract and instead allowing workers to take up to 12 weeks of family leave using vacation or sickleave, which they couldnt previously do. It will be a bit of a benefit of the members and the district. We hopefully have a resolution to what should have been resolved many years ago. Riders are relieved. Its nice to know in the morning i can take the usual route to work. Were going through so many things with government and what not and i think its a good thing. Now its up to the agencies and unions to each approve the deals which could happen for ac transit late next week and for bart a week after that. John sasaki. Ktvu channel 2 news. Protesters rallied today at a nearby staples store. Demonstrators sang an carried signs into front of the store on shattuck on and off. The u. S. Postal service is partnering with staples to offer services of the protesters say the trend puts workers atrisk, moving them to lowpaying jobs from good paying jobs with benefits. A lot of these jobs are held by minority, africanamericans, and latino people. Working people from all across the country. Staples did not respond to our calls for comment. Recently the Berkeley City Council restricted the use of the Berkeley Post Office to public uses if it is sold. Some east bay children who might not have had a Merry Christmas got muchneeded help from police and fire volunteers today. But as ktvus allie rasmus explains it was the volunteers who needed help to make it happen. Reporter the line stretched outside of the ywca in richmond this morning. Bundled up against the cold parents and their kids waited anxiously in line for christmas to come a few days early. The toys, to give my kids some toys and they give out food too, so it helps out a lot inside the gym, volunteers formed an assembly line, hauling up and handing out bags of gifts the Fire Departments and police have hosted this event for years. In previous years the organization had given away toys to as much a2,000 families and this year they had to cut the number in half. Because until just a few days ago they had say shortage of donations. Five days ago we put out a request to the public to help us make our goal and 5700 was raised by online donation by people giving 20, 30 here and there. Reporter another 10,000 came through with chevron offering to match it. This bike raffle provide an extra miracle for some in line. Organize only had 400 bikes for the one thousand families and kimmy curry drew one of the winning tickets. This is wonderful. I appreciate it. Curry says its been a tough year financially and she prepared her daughter for the possibility of a christmas without presents. My daughter was like, mommy, if i dont get anything for christmas, im happy i have my family and that made me very, very happy. So now she gets a bike. So everything works out. Reporter thanks to donations, volunteers and the hard work of the people who organize this event, all of these parents and kids went home with smiles on their faces. In richmond, allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. San leader was the scene for a big bike giveaway. The Police Department raised more than 20,000 to purchase 450 bikes for its bikes for takes program. The giveaway helps to provide new bicycles to lowincome families and underprivileged children. Ky with anize club also donated bicycle helmets. A living nativity draw hundreds to San Franciscos north beach tonight. [ music ] in story and song, actors played out the birth of jesus. It was back in 1223 that st. Francis of assisi first came up with the idea of a living nativity. For the last several years the knights of st. Francis of assisi will be hold thinking own. People walk up and get tearyeyed and sing the songs and they are happy again of its like, you know, everybody remembers these scenes from their childhood. No matter what religion. The nativity scene was held on a small chapel on grant. Former supervisor alioto says the knights of st. Francis of assisi plan to bring it back next year and promises it will be even bigger then. A soldier back from afghanistan, and a community pitching in to make sure that the spirit of the holiday was not lost. Corporal petrossians house was burglaried monday and the thieves made off with about 5,000 of gifts. Pet rossain just came back from afghanistan and when people in lodi heard what happened, they stepped in and replaced almost everything that was taken. I have lived here my lifetime and complete strange versus come together. Despite what happened, 4 yearold cookie says she got the best present already, her daddy is back home. A sweet way of saying farewell to the stick. How one bay Area Business is paying tribute to Candlestick Park days before what could be the 49ers last game at the stadium. Taking a live look at San Franciscos union square, with the giant christmas tree, meteorologist bill martin is here with the saturday forecast and will have our forecast for sunday and monday next. 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Look at the jet stream, its just jacked up this way over the top of us. And sends everything into the plains and across the continental United States and keeps us dry and does this not just this week and not just in in fiveday period, but probably the next fiveday period. Very dry pattern. Not good if you are going skiing or watching the reservoirs. Low 30s, around freezing in napa and in the outskirts of napa, temperatures below freezing. Most of issue upper 30smid 30s. Patchy fog, there might be a little bit showing up tonight. Its patchy and will be gone tomorrow. Jack london square, beautiful, temperatures in the upper 40s and 50s. We look at the extended forecast and that pattern i just showed you on the satellite, this is the computer model going out. It keeps us up there. That is how i know well be dry through this fiveday and this pattern wants to exist the next five days. So High Pressure is pretty dominant. Its going to stay dominant through the next 45 days. Temperatures warm up coast and inland and you see mid60s on the first day of the winter and you see mid60s on the second, third and fourth day of the winter. 65 in santa rosa. I suspect tomorrow will be slighter warmer than today. In the rest of the week, the numbers fluctuate a couple of degrees up and down, but on the warm side. 64 in pleasanton. The fiveday forecast, with no rain to show in this fiveday period. A few patches of fog showing up. Christmas shows up here, in between you have no rain. If i taped another fiveday on the backend of that one, it would show pretty much the same thing, pretty dry. Low end of the temperatures, you will see freezing in the inland bay valleys. Inland valleys. Top numbers those are your warmest spots in the bay area. Bottom numbers the coldest spot in the bay area, usually the inland bay valleys. What are you going to do . Go out to the beach and the san mateo coastline. Were not going get rain and this pattern just favors the coast. You know that. Get some raw oysters at point reyes and sit by the bay. Perfect thing to do and temperatures out there in the mid60. S. Thank you, bill. A restaurant in San Francisco has created a tasty replica of the candle stick to honor what could be the last 49ers game. Tonight water bar showed up the gingerbread and candy verse of the stick. Pretty impressive, featuring doubledecker stands with 49er fans and tiny gingerbread men on the field. Pastpastry chef salvatore directed the efforts. It was a group effort. Beautiful. Salvatore says the restaurant hopes to auction off the candy creation for charity, but will stay at water bar until at least new years day. You can say farewell to the stick by sharing our facebook badge and tell us your favorite candlestick memory. You can also treat it to us with the hashtag farewell candlestick. Coming up in sportswrap , de la salle put its win streak on the line in tonights football championship. Sportswrap is next lockerbie. Toyota sportswrap, brought to you by your local toyota dealer. Toyota, lets go places. Good evening everyone and welcome to this saturday Night Edition of sportswrap. Warriors today trying to prove who they are who we thought they would be when the season fan and with that in mind they should expect to win at home against the defeated lakers. Andrew bogut, the defense was good all game. Bogut forces the play here and to klay thompson, one of 4 threepointers for thompson. Steph curry lobs to bogut and lakers managed just 15 points in the 3rd quarter. The warriors keeping their lead around 20 points and it worked before and why not again . Stef to bogut glen. The stanford Basketball Team had a chance to make a statement. Cardinals meeting michigan at the Barclay Center in brooklyn. Stanford trailed by 4. After an exchange of freethrows it was michigan still by 2. Glenn robinson iii make its a 4 point game, but the cardinal quickly hustles up the floor to the hoop. He will go for 18 on the night and made the freethrow and it was 6665