Back in the mid 50s and mid 60s, rather, by this afternoon. So i will talk more about that and what to expect this weekend coming up. Jean nay, youve been tracking a couple issues out there early happening on the roads. We have a couple issues but basically they look to be very minor. If we take an overall look at the bay area you can see everything is green for go, not seeing too much activity out there but in the south bay this crash did pop up earlier, it was along southbound 280 at seventh street, as of right now it looks like its not causing major delays. A minor fenderbender. The cars are off to the side. You could see a couple hazards as you drive by this area so dont expect to see any delays out of there. This one also just popped up, too, chp is reporting a crash along eastbound 580 at high street. It appears that right hand shoulder is blocked. Im not seeing major slowing just yet, but if that doesnt get cleared out within the next 20 minutes we know how quickly that can build up. Also seeing a couple slow areas along eastbound and southbound in the 580 livermore area but looks like that has also cleared out quite nicely. As of right now not dealing with any major headaches out on the roads. Back to you. And developing this morning, finally over, a 15hour standoff ends in the south bay coming to an end about 15 about an hour ago, actually, with an explosive bag. Now, this is happening in san jose in the neighborhood near loss lagos golf course. Today in the bay kris sanchez is live with the overnight updates. Kris . Reporter hi there, marcus. Yeah, San Jose Police did take down this man in dramatic fashion, it happened on the street behind me and the scene is starting to clear, but we have video of how the officers took him down with nonlethal force. You can see the s. W. A. T. Bear cat backing into the home and what appears to be smoke. We know that officers fired those nonlethal shots which you and i would call a beanbag. Then you can hear the k9 going in. The suspect did manage to stave off arrest for 15 hours. At some points jumping fences in this neighborhood trying to get away, but eventually he was cornered. This all started when a Patrol Officer spotted that man who has a felony warrant for burglary and possible connections with other crimes. During the 15hour standoff some neighbors were forced out of their homes and into the cold, dark night. So everyone was kind of worried. We were like, are we safe here or should we go . They just told us we cant be inside our house. Im getting tired of being out in the cold. Its not too nice to be out here. Reporter so hopefully those folks will be able to go home soon because the scene is starting to clear. We know that officers are still gathering evidence at that home where that suspect was taken into custody behind us, but now the threat is dissipated and hopefully things will get back to normal in this neighborhood after a very long and cold night. In san Jose Kris Sanchez today in the bay. It certainly is a shocking time for a lot of those families out there. Glad they will be able to go back home soon. It is 5 03. Developing story from washington this morning, republicans have agreed on that sweeping tax plan. We could get details on what it says today. Voting could begin next week. Of course, changes to tax policy could hit california harder than other states if property Tax Deductions go away. Today in the bays tracie potts is live in washington with a look at how this plan could affect your wallet. Tracie . Reporter thats going to be a big deal in california. Looks like if this plan passes they wont go away but they will be limited and how this plan affects your wallet really depends on what you earn and what you deduct. For American Families and for american reporter President Trump calls it a gift. A giant tax cut for christmas and when i say giant, i mean giant. Reporter democrats call it a charade. What you have is a sham of a conference committee. Reporter here is what the new tax plan looks like according to multiple republican sources. The top tax rate for the wealthiest american drops to 37 , corporate taxes drop to 21 , slightly higher than republicans wanted. Popular deductions remain with limits. State and local taxes up to 10,000, Home Mortgage interest up to 750,000 and no requirement to buy health insurance. The Affordable Care act mandate, overturned. The republican tax bill is one that ebenezer scrooge would love. Those that dont agree, you will have a chance to vote on it. You can vote no. Reporter democrats claim the middle class gets the shaft, but they dont have the votes to stop it. No vote on the republican tax scam until doug jones takes his seat in the senate. Reporter Senate Republicans have no incentive to delay the vote for alabamas new democrat. They may already be one vote short. John mccain is in the hospital. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. 5 05 now. New this morning senator Dianne Feinstein is reportedly calling for a closer look at the conditions for female immigration detainees in contra costa county. The county has a 6 million deal to house detainees in the jail in richmond. Some detainees say their civil rights were being violated. Feinstein sent a letter to the director of ice asking for an investigation. The east bay congressman says that the u. S. Attorney General Office is investigating. They should. And the California Attorney general is also looking into the allegations. At 5 06 this morning, a live look in San Francisco where a new Pilot Program for workers will take effect in february. It will cover the mission district. Local Health Clinic will staff a van providing sex workers access to Health Services trying to make it easier to report if theyre victims of crimes as well. The van will operate between midnight and 5 00 a. M. New this morning peta says that netflix is the 2017 company of the year. Peta says the tech giant helped expose animal right abuses and promote vegan lifestyles, making movies and documentaries widely available to millions, specifically they cite the movie forks over knives. Later this morning the today show says goodbye to its puppy with a purpose. Its charlie, final show. Do you remember when charlie was that small . Be sure to tune in after today in the bay to see whats next for our fourlegged friend. Look how big he is now. Just adorable. Just adorable. Well, its cold as ice out there. It is dark, too, right . We are approaching 5 08 right now. We know that its been really warm during the afternoon hours so whats normal for this time of year . Well, the forecast for santa rosa today is 63 degrees but on average for middecember we are at 56 degrees. Concord 65 is the forecast today, but we should be at 55. San francisco 63, normal is 57. And oakland today 61. A lot of these areas running up to ten degrees above normal. So as you head out jogging in San Francisco its such a cold start, but we will have a very warm afternoon. Already by noon we are at 57 degrees so maybe if you can hold out until then before you head out for that run. We will talk about whats ahead for san jose looking at our temperature trend coming up in a few minutes. Vianey you have a few of those slow spots on the road. When you look at how we are ten degrees warmer in some spots you makes you realize, wait, we could be colder . I guess we are okay with the temperatures we are at now. If we look at the wide look at the bay area, we were tracking that crash along 580, we have two crashes, one at high street, it is starting to cause a couple delays, we also had that minor fenderbender along seventh street and 280. The your bridge drive times those metering lights are on on the bay bridge. Westbound 80 towards the bay bridge about eight minutes and westbound 92 towards the san mateo bridge about 12 minutes. I havent seen any buildup on the san mateo bridge but thats pretty typical, especially for a thursday morning. I will send things back to you. 5 09. Coming up, breaking news, a new 52 billion mega merger announced this morning, the way it could affect the movies you watch. And a new housing coming to the south bay. The number of Bay Area College students who could benefit. And the words that women want to see in want ads, all that is ahead on today in the bay. Buy 1, get 1 40 off all star wars Action Figures and more. Now thru saturday. Toysrus. Today we play. Mikeaf it is 5 12 now on this thursday morning. Another very cold start. As we take a live look outside in san jose, maybe if you head out early you will be able to see a few meteor streaking across the sky. Meteor shower going on and some very chilly temperatures even at 9 00 we will be at 43 degrees but it quickly warms up into the mid 60s today. More of this weather heading into the weekend. We will talk about when this all changes coming up in five minutes. Remember those two minor crashes we were tracking along 580 . It looks like its finally catching up to the drive times, westbound 580 to the 680 you are at looking at 20 it just changed 25 minutes. Westbound 84 to 680 you are looking at 12 minutes. I will have an update on those crashes coming up in just a bit. 5 13 now. New this morning, a tragic death in the north bay, a santa rosa woman is dead after a car crash. Police say that that driver initially left but then came back about 20 minutes later. It happened just after 5 30 on wednesday near wright road and highway 12. 56yearold Barbara Jones was walking when a minivan hit here. The driver says he did not see her in the crosswalk. A Sacramento Man accused of driving drunk and killing four people heads to court. Police say fred lowe caused a Chain Reaction crash this on interstate 80 in san pablo. He is expected to enter a plea today in court. The new year will lead to fare changes for some of the bay areas busiest transit systems and that includes vta in the south bay. As of january 1st adult fares will increase 25 cents to 2. 25 per ride, youth fares will drop 75 cents to a dollar. The vta is trying to get that word out now. Today an Outreach Team will be located at the sunnyvale Transit Center through noon. New details now on the victim of the deadly accident involving a vta light rail train. Authorities have identified the man who was hit and killed while walking as 78yearold due vaughn of san jose. That crash happened on tuesday night. The train shut down about 100 passengers were removed and transferred on to another train. No one else was hurt. All new this morning a housing complex specifically for students in downtown san jose is a step closer to reality. Thats the word from the mercury news this morning. The paper cites project developers who say that they have now over 132 million in funding for the development named the graduate. Student housing and retail mixed use tower is set to go up on Second Street near san jose state university. The paper writes nor than 1,000 students could live there. There will also be 15,000 square feet of space for stores and restaurants. Breaking businesses recovering this morning with a 52 billion price tag. Disney is buying most but not all of the fox empire. Scott mcgrew has been examining this big deal. Good morning to you. Fox is about to get a lot smaller. It will keep fox News Business in this deal, its local television stations as well, its sports and sell off its movie studios and overseas interests like sky to disney. Disney gets the 20th century fox movie studio so the big six in hollywood become the big five. Disney gets the various franchises that fox owns this morning. For example, disney owns marvel, fox owns x men, wolverine and avengers can finally meet. Bob eyeinger will be on cnbc in a minute, we will make sure to tell you what he says. The fed hiked Interest Rates on wednesday, promised to do it again later this year. The other super important story is Net Neutrality. Today the fcc will vote to strike down rules that protect data on the internet requiring all data to be treated equally. The head of the fcc claims millions of americans sent in emails and letters encouraging them to do this today. The attorney general of new york said yesterday his investigation found 2 million of those documents were fake. Internet ever providers like at t and comcast which own this tv station swear they will keep following Net Neutrality rules even if the it fcc gets rid of those rules which may be true. Though the critics say im not going to rob a liquor store but lets make it legal but im not going to rob it. Interesting article in the wall strewall street Journal Companies in Silicon Valley are rewriting their want ads to remove words and phrases that women may not like. That will hopefully encourage more women to apply. Some of the words theyre getting rid of, whatever it takes, tackle, High Performance and work hard, play hard. A San FranciscoCompany Changed a phrase from driving innovation which they spelled correctly but i did not, to dreaming up Innovative New features. What do you think . Did they ask women about this . Or was it men making the decision . Because men know what women want. Sometimes. Sometimes. How big of a glass of wine do you want . There is a new study that says the size of your wine glass may play a role in how much you drink. Researchers in england looked at how the size of wine glasses has evolved over the past 300 years. Since the year 1700 the capacity of goblets has increased seven times with a big uptick starting in the 1990s. Researchers say this appears to coincide with an increase in wine consumption. I believe that because i have some antique wine glasses from the 50s and theyre petite, theyre beautiful, theyre cute. But the plates have also gotten bigger, right . Mxk plateno carrierringringconnn with our temperatures only in the lower 30s in the north bay, but then as we go into this afternoon its going to be really nice and comfortable. We have had some beautiful afternoons, a lot of sunshine, we still have a lot of sun in that sevenday forecast at the bottom of the screen, but first you see some changes on farther down the line. So starting out this morning in oakland heading to school its only going to be in the low 40s as you go out the door and then throughout the day our temperatures making it into the upper 50s by early afternoon. And then maybe later on this evening you will head out to christmas in the park, going ice skating in downtown san jose and look at how warm it will be, 67 degrees at 3 00 and by this evening at 6 00 we will be at 58 degrees. So make sure youre wearing extra layers. As we go throughout the next several days it stays dry but then we take the timeline through next wednesday when we start to see some rain moving in. It will be our highest chance in Northern California, just a little bit farther to the north of the bay area and then we will have a couple of waves of some rain chances and sierra snow moving in. Just in time for christmas. Coming up in about 20 minutes a little bit less than 20 minutes i will have the weekend forecast, follow me karihallweather. Let me know what youre doing this weekend. It will be windy, especially on saturday. Kicking up in San Francisco with highs in the mid 60s for the inland areas, almost to 70 degrees and that continues into the first part of next week. Vianey tracking a few slow spots. The metering lights are on and were tracking a cummins dents out of the trivalley area. If you take an overall look you can see the trivalley dealing with a couple hot spots and we were monitoring a couple of accidents in the south bay, but if i take you over towards the east bay now, chp isnt reporting any accidents along 880 but you can see definitely a lot of slowing near embarcadero all the way to 12th street and even down towards foothill boulevard we are seeing some of those delays. I havent seen any reports, it looks like it could just be that Early Morning buildup. I will keep a close eye on that area because anytime there is an accident there we know how crazy it can get and how quickly that traffic buildings up. Now, in the trivalley we are still seeing some slowing along eastbound 580 at high street. The reason for that is that right hand shoulder was blocked, but just behind it we are also dealing with another crash along eastbound its actually not on the freeway, u. S. Just off to the side at altamonte pass and grant line road. Whenever there is an accident, looks like a car might be turned over on its side a lot of people slow down and look. You can already see how its building up some delays. Try to keep it moving, be safe out on the roads. A quick look in palo alto where were seeing an overall smooth commute. You can definitely see a lot of cars are ready to hit the road. Coming up its back to the bay area for one baseball star. The Family Reason he wanted to return to his east bay hometown. A road in the Oakland Hills is shut down indefinitely. Happening now, a road used by many in the Oakland Hills is shut down indefinitely. Officials say a section of snake road is closed because of this weeks fires. We have highlighted the spot on your screen and you see this there. Mondays blaze damaged the roadway, the closure doesnt block access to any homes but may require route changes. Experts are evaluating that area before deciding what they can do next. This weekend on our emmy award documentary series focuses on marijuana. We tell the stories of local pioneers that pave the way for legalization of pot in california. Th this woman fought for three decades for the right to transport medical marijuana, she never gave up and a s