Screaming. Dramatic images show cars toppled on top of each other on the ground below the tracks. President trump offered his sympathies to those involved. We are closely monitoring the situation and coordinating with local authorities. The Pierce CountySheriffs Office reports most of the injuries and fatalities happened on board the train and not on the highway below. The state department of transportation says the south side of the interstate will remain closed indefinitely. 20 investigators from the ntsb are now rushing to the scene. Among the key questions that theyll be asking, how fast was the train going . Was there something wrong with the track and did the crew make some sort of mistake . Theyll interview the engineer and conductor among others. Liz, back to you. New details on an unusual driveby shooting in san ramon, the weapon . A flare gunfired at more than half a dozen homes. Kpix5s Juliette Goodrich with the group of teenagers who are now in big trouble. Juliette . Reporter well, a lot of these neighbors in the san ramon neighborhood were uneasy knowing some of these homes were targeted by flare guns, this very festive neighborhood here. Tonight they can rest assured that these teens have been arrested. All right. Ready go. Urveil ured the teens driving reporter flare guns as seen in this Youtube Video are supposed to be fired off into the sky as a rescue or distress signal. They are not supposed to be used as a weapon, but San Ramon Police say over the weekend a group of teenagers was shooting the flare guns directly at homes. Flare guns stolen from a nearby walmart. Its really scary. It doesnt happen around here. The first one went through the glass in their front room. Reporter several homeowners Surveillance Video captured the teens driving around residential streets firing at homes, seven homes to be exact. Some had broken glass. Others had burn marks. A few parked cars were also targeted. Would it do serious damage . Absolutely. If somebody got hit in the face or eye, its a fire used for emergencies. It burns at a high intensity heat. Reporter police say it was a combination of Surveillance Video and the citizens view Camera Registry Program that helped land four teens, three from san ramon, 1 from danville, in Juvenile Hall, all between 15 to 16 years old. If we have crime occurrence, we can call up those citizens and ask if they have footage. In this case it worked out for our benefit. Reporter one of the flares hit the window only a few feet from where mike king was sitting. It was a dual pane window. It broke through one pane of glass, kind of a streak here where it burned down and burned a hole in the glass here. Reporter the teens are behind bars and just one week before christmas they could be there over the holidays. Depending on what the parents want to do. They can post them and get them out before the holidays or they can stay in there. Reporter as you might imagine, a lot of rattled nerves, but fortunately no one was injured despite the property damage. They did pretty quick detective work id have to say. Three teens were arrested last night and the fourth one arrested today. What about these kids parents . Have they shown up to Juvenile Hall yet . Have they contacted police, any word where they are . Reporter absolutely. The parents have been notified because these teens are under 18 years old and pretty quick detective work like i said thanks to that Surveillance Video. Police were able to track down the drivers license plates, gets these teens through the evidence and all of them will be having a discussion, im sure, very soon. As they should. Thank you. Well, its case closed for a federal judge on a San Franciscobased court. He is now being forced to step down amid allegations of Sexual Harassment. Kpix5s political reporter melissa caen on the judges dramatic fall. Melissa . Reporter ken, were here at the 9th Circuit Court of appeals where judge Alex Kaczynski served as a judge since 1985, but today he abruptly announced hes retiring saying that he cant be an effective judge and deal with an investigation into Sexual Misconduct. Ucharest romania and he speaks five languages, your date, Alex Kozinski [run to show aggresive kiss] that episode of the dating game was in 19xx. Now 15 women claim that judge inapprop as you could tell, he had a slight accent. Hes from bucharest, romania, and he speaks five languages, your date Alex Kaczynski. Reporter one clerk said he called her into his office and showed her a photograph and asked her if it was photoshopped. There have been other instances of judges where Sexual Misconduct came to late and they, too, resigned, but to have these kind of public allegations against so prominent a judge and then his resignation, weve never seen that before. Reporter the dean of the law school at berkeley says the federal court judges are appointed for life and difficult to remove. Which. Which means the federal judge has his which means the federal judge has his or her job unless the person dies, resigns, or is impeached or removed by the United States congress. Reporter kaczynski was originally reported by Ronald Reagan and now another republican gets to choose his replacement. Alex kaczynski was overall conservative but voted on issues liberally like freedom of speech. Its quite possible whoever President Trump picks will be a bit more conservative. Reporter we asked the dean whether or not any of the judges rulings could be reexamined, for example, a Sexual Harassment ruling that someone would like to relitigate in light of these accusations, but the dean assures us that thats not possible. He said the judges rulings are final and cannot relitigated. Live in San Francisco, melissa caen, kpix5. President trump is unveiling his National Security strategy. Its one that sticks closely to promises he made on the campaign trail. Cbs reporter weigia jiang is at the white house with more on the president s plan. Reporter President Trump spoke just under 30 minutes and using tough talk he vowed the u. S. Would do whatever it takes to defend its sovereignty and then he made the case that the key to doing that is making sure theres a strong economy. Cision every action we are now putting America First th the homela President Trump unveiled his plan to keep the country safe stressing one central idea. Ts allies we will to achi with every decision and every action we are now putting America First. Only relationships reporter the president plans to protect the homeland with stronger borders and by targeting jihadist terrorists and transnational criminal organizations. Hes also shoring up defenses against rogue regimes including north korea. America and its allies will take all necessary steps to achieve a denuclearization and insure that this regime cannot threaten the world. Reporter the president argues effective National Security starts with the strong u. S. Economy. That means only having relationships with countries that contribute a fair share in trade deals and other international agreements, especially when it comes to defense spending. The Obama White House declared Climate Change a growing threat to National Security, but President Trumps document removes that idea. President trump is calling out russia and china as revisionist powers attempting to erode American Security and prosperity. We will stand up for ourselves and we will stand up for our country like we have never stood up before. Reporter his plan calls for the u. S. To use its interest in the u. S. American interest and as a positive force for peace and prosperity in the world. President trump also talked about the need for cyber security, but he did not bring up the Ongoing Investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. Instead he talked about terrorists and all the ways they could launch attacks online. The president also spoke about the role of immigration to maintain National Security. What did he say about that specifically . Reporter first he really blamed politicians from the past for leaving the borders open, as he put it, and thenhe used a line weve heard many times before, that a nation without borders is not a nation. Again he called for the border wall to be built along the u. S. mexico border and said all the loopholes have to be closed when it comes to enforcement. Thank you. Both houses of congress are expected to take a final vote tomorrow on a tax reform bill and send it to President Trump. Here are some of the highlights of that bill. The Corporate Tax rate will decrease from 35 to 21 . The standard deduction will increase to 12,000 for individuals and 24,000 for couples. Homeowners with new mortgages can only deduct interest on the first 750,000. Care mandate i the Child Tax Credit will increase from 1,000 to 2,000 and the individual healthcare mandate is eliminated. House gop leaders plan to hold a floor vote tomorrow afternoon. The senate will then vote later in the day. Well, it brought life to a quiet downtown. Coming up big changes for san joses Fairmont Hotel. Plus taking on the most hectic mailing time of the year, the Postal Services plan to get packages delivered in time for christmas. And they want in, the bay area athletes jumping at the chance to own an nfl franchise. Closed captioning for this newscast is sponsored by living spaces. Kpix5s maria medina is nt hotel on a san jose landmark about to sell for a quarter of a billion dollars, kpix5s maria medina live outside the San Jose Fairmont Hotel on south Market Street with more on the hotel changing hands. Maria . Reporter the fairmont was the first luxury hotel in silicon valley. At one point it almost went into foreclosure. Now its selling for 250 million. The Fairmont Hotel on Market Streets even had a direct view of historic moments. Right outside its doors. But more than three decades ago scott 1443 city hall had abandoned downtown the mercury news had moved ntown. Was jus today its surrounded by a vibrant environment. Pment era 31 that was in 1987. Fast forward exactly 30 years and now the fairmont is set to be ars next y seasonal events, bustling restaurants and businesses, the Fairmont Hotel on Market Street even had a direct view of historic moments right outside its doors, but more than three decades ago city hall had abandoned downtown. The mercury news had moved out. Reporter a bustling downtown was just a dream for city and business leaders. The Fairmont Hotel was their first hope it could happen. The Fairmont Hotel was the first real building of the redevelopment era. Reporter that was in 1987. Fast forward exactly 30 years and now the fairmont is set to be sold for 250 million next year. According to principal owner louis wolfe. The buyer Real Estate FirmEagle Canyon Capital in san ramon. Were looking forward to getting to know the new owners and seeing what theyre going to bring to san jose. Reporter Downtown Association executive director scott nees says part of the fair possibilitys success is more than just being a fairmonts success is more than just being a four star hotel. We hope that the new owners are going to be just as involved in the community as the wolves have been. Reporter the as the wolffs have been. Reporter theres a lot of real estate moves downtown right now with the hyatt and westin also selling this year. Aquatic park in San Francisco is still closed and wont reopen until wednesday. It was closed friday after a second swimmer was attacked by a sea lion in just two days. Both victims are expected to recover. Danger signs are still posted in area. Still we spotted swimmers who did not heed the warnings. People dont know how we call it the best kept secret, this wonderful and fun secret to the water. Marine life experts are still working to determine why the swimmers were attacked. Now faci the Richmond Police officer accused of firing a gun inside San Franciscos Four Seasons Hotel is now facing a number of charges. The shooting happened early sunday morning. Hotel guests were told to shelter in place. Offduty Police SergeantPhillip Sanchez was booked for neglect discharge of a firearm, vandalism of 400 or more, assault with a firearm and shooting in an inhabited dwelling. No word of any motive for all this and nobody was injured. San francisco has a second confirmed candidate for mayor. Angela alioto was a supervisor in the 80s and 90s. Today she said shes taken out papers to run in the special election in june following the death of ed lee last week. Alioto ran for mayor once before in 2003. So far there is one other confirmed candidate, state senator mark leno. Acting mayor london breed is also considering a run next year. It could take days for the airlines to completely recover from yesterdays big shutdown of atlantas airport. Power was finally restored at atlantas hartsfieldjackson airport late last night after an 11 hour blackout that forced the cancellation of nearly 1,200 flights. Tsa checkpoints reopened at 3 30 a. M. Passengers stuck inside the airport during the power outage say it was nothing short of chaos. Ort we were literally carrying old people down the escalators and up escalators and carrying wheelchairs and my heart was like racing because im scared for these peoples lives. At least 400 more flights out of the worlds Busiest Airport canceled today as airlines struggled to reduce the backlog from yesterday. Atlantas mayor says a fire in an underground electrical facility caused the outage. The fire also damaged the airports backup power system. Or new at 5 00 the Postal Service is dealing with an extra heavy load of holiday deliveries, john ramos on the busiest week of the year for mail carriers. To friends in reporter the line at concords Main Post Office was predictably long on this busiest mailing day of the year. All those gifts bought over the weekend hit the road today. Mark pachupo of sending chocolate from the philippines to friends in utah. Hidden behind that stack of boxes is kathy omarosa. Once this is over you get to start enjoying the holidays . Yes. I get to relax a little the minute i get back in the car. Reporter the pressure is on to get the perfect gift to loved ones on time and thats only possible because of what they do here in oaklands processing and distribution center. Today were expecting132,000 packages going out this evening. Reporter and thats just this evening. Packages from all over the bay area are processed, sent down these conveyor belts to yellow bins that are loaded into airplanes and sent to every corner of the country. Add to that an expected 1 million letters, half of which are christmas cards, and you have one busy night here. Its an amazing feat that most of us take for granted. Our carriers are out on the streets at 5 a. M. Delivering packages. You guys will see that now. You open your door and have two or three packages at your door. Its like wow, how did this come . Reporter the next time youre grousing about government inefficiency or laughing at snail mail, remember who it was that made it possible for you to enjoy that philippine chocolate on christmas day. In concord, john ramos, kpix5. Carolina panthers will be up for sale following the 2017 season and potential buyers are coming forward already including sean diddy combs, Colin Kaepernick and steph curry. Coples sent a video explaining why he combs sent a video explaining why he would be the best nfl owner. Combs said if he gets the team, hell immediately hire kaepernick as the quarterback who also took to twitter saying he wanted in, not as a player necessarily, but as an owner. This all comes after the current panthers owner Jerry Richardson announced plans to sell the team the end of the season. Richardson is facing allegations of workplace misconduct. I have some good news in the forecast. It is going to rain this week. I also have some not so good news in the forecast. Actually there are several items in that category, so ill wait a couple minutes, hang on for weather. Well talk about that coming up. Coming up at 6 00 tonight a financial mess for San Franciscos struggling taxi industry, cab drivers deep in debt, only on 5 how the city could be on the hook. Did you say the r word . You