Cranes brought in earlier today. Theyre working on disassembling everything. In a race against the clock a major effort under way to clear a 60 ton crane. That over turned in san jose. Bang bang. It was so loud. She lives a mile away and was woken up by the crash. I lived here 19 years. I have never seen this. Never before. Never. 6 00 this morning the crane traveling west opt highway swerved to avoid traffic. Lost control and landed in the eastbound lane. Its a miracle nobody got hurt. We were able to get traffic shut down and stopped. Quickly on the eastbound sound. And start moving the vehicles that became stuck in the area here. The crane crash caused another collision moments later between a shuttle bus and pickup truck. The drivers suffered minor injuries. Be patient. We are working as quickly as welcome. A large number of personnel. Whats the hold up and why is it taking so long to clear the scene . Result of the crash, 100 gallons of fuel and oil spilled out onto the highway. Westbound lanes were closed to alo u crews easy access to the crash site. The back up ha begun on begug friday afternoon. This is north first street. Drivers using this road behind me to cut over across north san jose. Most of the vehicles that you can see are trying to make their way east. Away from many of the Tech Companies that are in the area. No word yet on whether the highway will reopen to traffic. Drive time traffic map. Lots of red right there. This means its closed in both directions. This will be a mess for quite sometime. Another live look. This is highway 237 near first street in san jose. This crane toppled. Stay with us for the latest on when the freeway is expected to be cleared. As you can see, it will take a while. Its not just accidents slowing down traffic. As people head out for christmas, fog and rain could cause problems as well. A live look. The bay bridge toll plaza and the bridge. What can we expect this weekend . All right. Ill show you part of what will happen. Ill start with current conditions. More views from the tower camera. Over San Francisco. Cloudy skies and temperatures in the upper 50s. Another view. Just a hit of sunlight trying to burn through the high clouds. Temperatures mainly in the mid to upper 50s. This is whats coming our way tomorrow. Starting at 10 00 tomorrow morning storm beginning to push into the northern most part of the viewing area. Early evening hours rain developing. Some quite heavy. And it will be accompanied by strong winds. And later tomorrow night and over night into sunday a wide area of moderate to heavy rainfall. Sweeping through the bay area as a matter of fact. Well begin sunday with some stormy weather. A closer look at this storm and christmas week weather ahead. Thousands of people are flooding into the departure and arrival areas of the busy airports. For the holiday. We spent day at sfo and sharing heartwarming reunions. Always fun to see. Of course. They traveled miles to share the moment. For some folks its not good enough their relative or friend takes bart or a bus. Or gets picked up curb side. They parked and went in. Father and son reunion is beautiful to watch. Hes two years old. Sure there are crowds with luggage and navigating delays. The heart is family. Its a beautiful feeling. Im yearning to see them. And hug them. They waited an hour outside clutching a balloon to give to their son and grandson from india. He scanned the crowd in airport mode. Nothing, nothing was going to stop him on the quest to find his beloved family in this holiday chaos. And they were shocked to see him. With news crew in tow. Austin, san diego, washington dc. All staying in dublin. Its a lot of arranging for the beds and towels and cleaning. Youll have 11 flying from india to toronto to the bay area. Is it worth it . Its worth it because i get to spend quality time with them. And they put a smile on my face always. Its always a joy. Pure happiness. Very happy to be home. Im really thrilled. These are blessings beyond measure. If you want to capture the holiday imagine ek come to an airport and watch people meet and greet those they love. Nice to have a heartwarming story at the airport. It can be frustrating and stressful. Its all worth it. It is a busy day at Oakland Airport as well. Taking a live look outside. The airport expects 25,000 departures today alone. Until january 5. They dont expect weather to impact flights but are prepared. A look at san jose airport. Quiet. It is one of the busiest days followed by sunday. They expect 850,000 passengers this season. That is 8 increase from last year. So which airlines should you be flying and which should you avoid . According to a passenger survey, American Airlines is the worst for long haul flights. British isnt far behind. The best is singapore airlines. The reviews are based on customer service, seat comfort, food and drink quality. And whether flights are on time. California population is under 40 million. Which is a lot obviously. It would be higher if people were not moouing out of the state. The department of finance pegs the population at 39 Million People. Through july 1 of this year. The state added a total of 141,000 people over a one year period. Thats misleading. An increase in the number of people leaving the migration loss is 39,000. The Northern Commercial crab season will kick off december 31. Up to this point crab samples had shown low meat content. Today state officials announce the most recent tests meat the minimum guideline. Crab season south opened last weekend. It was delayed due to the risk of whales getting tangled. Caught in the act. How one neighbor stops a porch pirate in the act. Helping hand. Some bay area food banks in need this Holiday Season. How you can help. Gifts for video captures the moment when two cruise ships collide in mexico. Win ship was trying to dock when it hit the oh and a mangled stern. The company is taking a look at the damage. But says the ships should be fine despite the collision. At least six passengers were hurt. Injuries are considered minor. Boeing attempt to catch up to space x didnt go as planned. It star liner launched this morning from florida. In the first test flight. That part went fine. About 30 minutes after lift off boeing reported the capsule didnt get into the right orbit. Burned too much fl and wouldnt be docking. It will orbit the earth for a few days and will land in new mexico over the weekend. Bay area food banks are working to build a better bay area feeding the hungry this Holiday Season. This year theyre falling short. The food bank, is short by 2. 5 million. And the San Francisco food bank is short 4 million. Live now at a Distribution Center with a look at the need. It sounds to be great. It is. Thats the reason were at the quaker church. Showing the good works of the food bank. This is a big time of year. As you can imagine. Fulfilling need and raising money for what the need will be in projected to be next year. So, the Community Food bank in oakland supplies are good. They can always yusz more. It is fund raising actual cash donations. The food bank has a goal of raising twothirds of the operating funds. 6 million. Before the first of january. With just 11 days to go they are 2 million short. They get most of the money from small private donations and in order to keep helping people in need they require assistance. Were serving one in five county residents and were not reaching everybody who needs help. Were really looking to grow services. Provide for to the community. And make life easier for our neighbors. I dont have enough money to buy the food. So therefore with this program right here, with the money that i have. It just makes the whole thing come in a whole circle together. We met up with deborah at the berkeley food bank. At the quaker church. She was one of two dozen people seeking assistance here. In the food they keep for the holiday. Monday wednesday and friday from 2 to 4 00. Monday is the last chance for folks to peck up food before the christmas holiday. They get supplies from the food bank. The need is great. You can go online to the web site. And find out how to donate. There are other food banks in need as well. Their web sites can tell you how to help out. Important message. Thank you. We want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. You can share them joining our group on facebook. In the south bay we have been following joey over the years. He has been collecting toys to donate. And hes at it again this year. We caught up with the 14 yearold today. Where he had an entire vehicle filled. He estimates 300 toys inside. E puts everything he picked up in a room and packed. He keeps count and says there are 1,400 toys in there. He plans to pick 500 more next week. Add that to the haul and he will collect well over 2,000. He plans to get more organized when he does it again in 2020. I count each individual toy. Its gotten to the point where next year i plan on sorting and each box will be designated for a certain toy. Unbelievable. Such a sweet thing to do. Had gets help from volunteers. Mainly his parents. Well done. San francisco woman is stepping up in the search for her stolen dog. She will be at pinhole coffee in San Francisco at 10 00 tomorrow morning with fliers and tape. For people to post. Today she hired a plane to fly a banner over San Francisco. And oakland. With her dogs information on it. This is the second time shes done it this week. Jackson was taken from outside the good life Grocery Store last saturday. Get him back where he belongs. Onto the weather forecast. Looks like we have some active weather coming our way. It will be a wet christmas. I was scrolling through my forecast animation here. Im trying to fast forward to the very end. Stay with this camera. Ill stop and start my show all over again. My clicker is not getting where i want to go. Right now we have nothing happening outside except increasing clouds. Right now on live doppler 7. A couple more outside views. This is looking down opt city. You can see bright spots in the sky. Clouds building there. Currently 58 in the city. We have 60 san jose. 55 halfmoon bay. A view from west. A little bit of soon to be setting sun. 57 degrees. 56 fair field. 51 concord. As looking at the golden gate. The sky looks bright. That is the direction for which the next storm is coming. The next storm will arrive tomorrow night. It will Start Building up in the north bay in the late daytime hours sweeping into the rest of the bay area during the night tile. Winter arrives tomorrow evening. This wet pattern that begins tomorrow will continue through most of the next week. Including Christmas Day. Increasing clouds over night. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. Tomorrow highs around 59 or 60. A little bit milder in the south bay. Highs around 62. The rain will begin to develop in the north bay tomorrow in the daytime. It will start sweeping south ward in the evening hours. Starting 10 00 tomorrow morning notice by 6 30 p. M. Wet weather covering much of the north bay. Accompanied by strong winds. That area of moderate to heavy rain will continue east ward. Into the over night hours into sunday morning. By midmorning sunday snowfall in the sierra. Snow is likely in parts of lake county. And continue falling in the bay area. Well get a break into sunday evening. And more rain likely on monday morning. Heres a look at wind gusts animation. A very gusty weekend. This storm will be quite impress i have. Gusts 30 to 40 miles per hour. This gusty pattern will continue. Through sunday. The wind will start to taper off a bit into sunday afternoon. We have a Winter Weather advisory in effect. For the mountains of lake county. From 10 00 p. M. Saturday and sunday. For all of the sierra from 7 00 a. M. To 10 p. M. Sunday. Quite a bit of snowfalling in the higher elevation. 7day forecast. The only day we get a break from the wet unsettled weather will be tuesday. With the lingering clouds it could be a spotty shower or two. The stormiest day will be sunday. Over night saturday. Even Christmas Day looks like dreaming of a rainy christmas. Maybe youre dreaming o of a clicker that will not be faulty. Its working now. We got through it. A porch pirate caught on camera. What the suspected thief did next. For ten years thousands of kids in oaklan had the opportunity to catch the nutcracker. Im with the excited kids. Who are ready to get inspired. I. The change that can help ease caught on camera. It happened this morning in glen dale. She noticed a car pull up near the home. Two men got out and one grabbed a package off the neighbors porch she confronted him. As you can see the suspect returned the package and walked away. Police were called but didnt find this guy. That woman was not having any of it. Thats rare he returned it. Millions of facebook users had private information posted online for all to see. And the place where cyber criminals posted the data a web site for hackers. Some troubling details on yet another privacy breech. 276 million. Wow. Were talking some numbers here. Thats how many users had private information posted to the hacker forum last week. Most of them were american users. The data base has been taken offline. After the tech web site reported it. The information included names, facebook profiles and id and phone numbers. A security researcher believes criminals and vietnam abused the app programming interface to leech the data from unsuspecting users. Then they made it public. A bill that would require cable providers to be more transparent about fees is on the way to the president s desk for his signature. Consumer groups backing the bill known as the Television Viewer protection act. Requiring companies to disclose the full monthly charge for their services. Including itemized charges and fees. Customers will have a 24 hour window to cancel. Afterreceiving the break down of the costs. Until 6 00 p. M. Christmas eve. This is a seventh year coals offered 24 hour shopping for the final stretch of the Holiday Shopping season. Many retailers have extended store hours to cater to late shoppers. Koels took it to another level. Offering in store pick up until 3 00 p. M. On Christmas Eve. For eligible items. Wow. Thanks. If youre still looking for the perfect gift, we have some great choices for the gamer on your list. There are so many great Christmas Lights to see around the bay area. If you have to pick one, we have a great option. 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You track and discuss blood counts with your doctor. But its just as vital to discuss changing symptoms as well. Take notice and take action. Discuscounts and symptoms with your doctor. Visit takeactionpv. Com every year Holiday Lights come to life in south bay. At fantasy of lights the event put on by the parks is a twinkling treasure tucked away. We give you a glimpse into the light show. Reporter grab your dancing santa hat, Holiday Light up necklace and most festive jammys. Time for the festival of lights. All the kids come through. Theyre singing Christmas Carols and having fun. Hot cocoa with mom and dad. Its a blast for everyone. How could you not have blast . Crank up the holiday music in the car and marvel as half a million lights and 3 d glasses make it even more spectacular. They have snow men and the glasses on it. It made it the snow man even bigger. Things come alive in the dinosaur den. Its more than a fun night out. Its a cherished tradition for so many families. We look forward to it. We plan it. We have pizza night before. The fantasy of lights is sure to delight. Seven things to know pfr you go. On now through december 30. 6 to 10 00 p. M. Closed christmas. Youre trying to get to lark and university. Take 17 exit lark and follow the event sign. You cannot buy your ticket here. All e folks got a prepaid ticket online for a specific date and time. Lucky for us the cheer is rain or shine. Of course youre going to be snuggling and warm inside your vehicle. Unless its unsafe outside for any reason your ticket will b refunded. Rules of the road amapply. There will restrooms. Only at the entrance and exit. Timing is everything. It will take about 25 minutes to get through the entire course. You can also be waiting in line just to get in. So if you have a little baby in the car seat. Make sure theyre fed and changed. I can tell you from experience its no fun having a screaming baby in the car. Merry christmas happy holidays to all of you at home. That is a fun assignment. For a closer look at lights or where you can catch other displays you can head to the web site. Check that out. We have a lot of information. That looked like great fun. Christmas lights are beautiful. If lights from a video game are your style we have some ideas for the gamer on your list. Today we have a bit of hep to understand whats going on. Thanks for coming in. I was like a palm then donkey kong guy. Theres a lot to choose from for 2019. You want to focus on whats suitable for kids and family. And play together. The first one that comes to mind is the nintendo switch. Its a whimsical game. Hes like going through the haunted mansion. Its light hearted. And the neat thing is theres coop play. Two people playing at the same time. Taking care of the same task. Together. Sort of playing together. Its great for that. Its seamless. You can play with your kid or brother or sister. Fun bonding experience. Especially staying in touch with young people. 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