You can see that there are some raindrops on the camera. So thats probably left over from the showers. Everything is going to clear up as the sun comes up this morning. Our temperatures right now in san jose, 48 degrees. Cooler in the north bay where those clouds have moved through and theres no longer that cover to keep things warm. 40 degrees there. Concord 47. Oakland the warmest right now at 51 degrees. Your headlines are a few light showers, a breezy cool afternoon and ill tell you when more rain is on the way. Jaclyn. Well, 4 has been the hot spot this morning. We have tracked a number of separate incidents along this stretch of highway causing delays for many drivers so well begin with the newest one that were tracking along the bypass of highway 4 there, this is right near laurel road, a rollover crash blocking one lane creating a backup. Speeds drop below 35 Miles Per Hour. Your ride a bit sluggish out of antioch and then continues to be slow through pittsburg. That crash near bailey cleared but its still about a 20 minute ride out of antioch to 680. This accident we have been tracking since the beginning of the morning commute, this is westbound 4 just past mcewan. Car wrapped around a tree there. One lane is blocked, 20 minutes from 680 to interstate 80. Your ride along the eastshore freeway starting to slow down. This is right near ashby, 25 minutes from highway 4 to the maze and reports of a new accident on 580 as you approach highway 24. Heres a look just past the scene of the crash. The 580 approach over towards the bay bridge toll plaza, its a slow one, please factor that into your morning commute. Hats a check of your traffic; over to you. Thank you. President trump may be just hours away from his first major legislative victory. The tax plan has cleared the senate and is on the way back to the house today. It could be signed by President Trump by the end of the day. The tax cuts and jobs act is passed. The senate overnight gave noted to the republican tax reform bill in a vote along party lines. Moments later, President Trump tweeted in part, the United StatesSenate Just Passed the biggest in history tax cut and reform bill. We now add comprehensive tax form, major middle class tax relief and making our businesses both large and small more competitive around the world. Reporter independent studies find that most taxpayers will save 60 to 51,000 next year. That depends on your income. By 2027, 53 of taxpayers will pay more than before. Savings for the very wealthy continue to rise. Republicans say future Congress Also prevent those tax hikes. Democrats on the senate floor spent tuesday arguing it should be this Congress Making that choice. What has been sold is a middle class miracle, will instead deliver a hefty windfall to the wealthy. The far right architects of this tax plan are going to be coming for your Social Security and medicare before you take your Christmas Tree down the house voted to pass the bill yesterday but afterwards three changes had to be made to provisions that violate senate rules. House lawmakers plan to take up the legislation again today before sending it to the president. President trump says if the house passes the measure, he will hold a News Conference at the white house today. A handful of lawsuits against President Trumps decision to end deferred action for childhood arrivals, or daca, face a Court Hearing today in the bay area. Kpix 5s jackie ward explains. Reporter this morning, a judge will consider five lawsuits that challenge the Trump Administrations plan to revoke daca. Groups join Santa Clara County a couple of months ago. A union says many of their members are Daca Recipients or have family members who are. There may be 23,000 daca eligible People Living in Santa Clara County. Back in september seemed like progress was being made toward a solution. Not looking at citizenship. Were not looking at amnesty. We are looking at allowing people to stay. Reporter as far as any potential progress being made in washington, regarding daca, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said it wont come up this week. Congress has plenty of time to talk about starting next year. Republican arizona senator jeff flake is tweeting out his prediction saying, a bill will be on the senate floor in january. And democratic california senator Kamala Harris says lag of the United States. We cant send them back to countries they dont know. Todays hearing is happening in just e hours at 8 am at the federal courthouse in San Francisco. The vatican has confirmed the isgraced forme todays hearing is happening in just a couple of hours at 8 a. M. At the federal courthouse in San Francisco. The vatican has confirmed the death of archbishop Cardinal Bernard law at the center of the sexual abuse scandal. In a statement, it says he passed away wednesday rome after a long illness. He was 86. President trump is expected to watch a vote in the United NationsGeneral Assembly closely tomorrow. It is intended to show a United Nations unified around getting mr. Trump to withdraw his administrations recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. Nikki haley said the u. S. Will be taking names during the vote. A riverside woman is filing a lawsuit alleging that she was unlawfully detained by local authorities and federal immigration agents despite her protest that she was a u. S. Citizen. The 60yearold hairstylest filed a lawsuit in federal court in riverside. Guadalupe placencia has been a citizen for more than 20 years. She said it was hours before she was allowed to call her family and then have them bring proof of her citizenship. Nobody let me talking. Nobody let me esplain. Its like you dont have a rights, and, um, im feel very, very sad. Her Attorney Says this case will force Law Enforcement to have probable cause before detaining anyone. Now to the fires in wine country. Pg e is close to restoring temporary overhead power lines to coffey park in santa rosa. The west side of coffey park now has power and the east side is expected to be energized by tomorrow. The lines will eventually be replaced by an under ground electric system that existed in coffey park before the fire. Sonoma county has set up a new Government Office as the area looks to bounce back from the devastating wildfires. Its being housed within the county administrators office. Happening today, the family of a peninsula woman who will renew calls for answers after she was killed in a hitand run. 29yearold carly flynn of san bruno was struck on december 19th last year. Parents and police will again ask the community for their help. Her family says she was in a crosswalk on san bruno avenue when she was hit by a white suv. San bruno police say that the investigation is ongoing and nearly 32,000 has been raised to help find carlys killer. Berkeley Council Members have decided to continue city policy of allowing police to use pepper spray if necessary for crowd control. The Council First allowed officers restricted use of pepper spray three months ago after clashes between protestors. Some Law Enforcement critics object to the policy. But police chief Andrew Greenwood says pepper spray can sometimes be a valuable tool. Officers are allowed to use it on individual violent protestors. Its not to be sprayed indiscriminately to disperse crowds. We are following some breaking news this morning in the south bay where police are investigating a robbery earlier this morning. Youre looking live at the scene. Police were called to red berry drive in los gatos around 4 a. M. Details are very scarce right now. We are going to bring you new information as soon as it becomes available. The cannabis summit starts today in the east bay. Its hosted by the Alameda County board of supervisors. They say that the goal is to bring Key Stakeholders together to address the challenges and opportunities related to critical cannabis policy implementation. Recreational marijuana becomes legal in california on january 1st. The summit starts at 9 a. M. At the board of supervisors chambers in oakland. [ music ] today could be the busiest travel day of the season to hit the roads. Well break it down coming up. Plus, in our tech report, the warning about iphone batteries being issued this morning. And its a wet start to your morning but that rain isnt sticking around. Ill tell you when its going to make its way out of the area and whats behind it coming up. And we are tracking some residual delays due to some earlier problems. 880 out of san lorenzo. How long will it take drivers to get into hayward . 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Aaa says gas prices are 28 cents a gallon higher on average this year than at this same time last year. But they say a stronger economy means more people are willing to hit the roads. Starting on thursday, i think it will be pretty busy. Try to get on the road early, fight the crowds, you know. Reporter part of the reason for the early start to the Holiday Travel season is because christmas is on a monday this year. Aaa says the worst time to travel, possibly this afternoon and into this evening since this could be one of the busiest travel days. They are recommending if you are heading out of town on the freeways, head out midmorning and make sure that you leave plenty of time to get where youre going, especially with this mornings wet roads. Back to you. Thank you. Excellent advice, you dont want to be on the roads between 3 30 and 5 p. M. , but we all know well past 5 00 is the afternoon commute. Reality though. Okay. If you are hitting the roads for your wednesday morning commute, san lorenzo 30 minutes to the dumbarton from 238. Westbound 237, this is near lawrence expressway, traffic starting to build up. A crash is blocking a lane near matilda. So slowdown approaching 101. And the dumbarton dealing with some minor slowdowns. Rightsan mateo bridge in the yellow 20 minutes across the span. Eastshore freeway 80 at carlson more brake lights for drivers making their way westbound towards the bay bridge toll plaza about 25 minutes the toll plaza in the red for about the last 45 minutes. 32 minutes into San Francisco. Richmond san rafael bridge, still okay. Thank you so much. Most rain is out of the area. And it will start to clear up going into the day. Taking a look at our hidef doppler, you can see a little bit of green in the south bay in the far south bay. Lets zoom in and see where thats happening. We have some mixed precipitation here. You can see its probably sleet at Mount Hamilton about 3,000 feet elevation so a little bit cooler up there. But for the most part the showers are out. You can see some scattered showers behind that but for the most part we are in the middle of a clearing trend. Taking a live look out to the bay bridge, you can see its clear in San Francisco at the moment. Our temperatures in San Francisco 48 degrees. San jose 48. 47 in concord. A low Pressure Center is moving through right now at the base end of it the front, the precipitation and the rain that we have seen moving south along the coast out of the area. Right now, some scattered showers in the south bay, cloud cover in the north bay, but thats going to be out with a few showers behind it as it moves south. Today, this afternoon, just a few clouds here and there but mostly clear. Then into tomorrow, things should be clear for the next several days. A few morning showers, breezy and cool afternoon. Behind that mainly dry with some chilly nights and mild days. Long term, beautiful sunny skies but rain chances to follow possibly on christmas. Sunrise today 7 21. Sunset 4 53 p. M. Your high temperatures today will be moderate. 50s in the area. The sevenday forecast shows the rain were seeing this morning here. Thursday, friday, saturday nice, sunday clouds, monday rain. It appears apple is purposely slowing down old iphones but not for the reason you may think. People have long speculated that apple slows old phones to boost sales on its newer models but a report from a tech website finds as the phones batteries get older, the processor slows down. No response from apple. Starting in february, Google Chrome will be blocking auto play and full page popup ads. The tech giant will also block ads that fall short of new industry standards. The standards were proposed by the coalition for better ads. Google will block ads from website that fall short of the standards for more than 30 days. Sites will have the option of appealing but must first remove all ads that break the guidelines. Facebook is adding new features to help prevent unwanted contact like friend requests and messages when someone you blocked sets up a new account. There will be an option to ignore a message or conversation without having to block the sender. The social media giant is also rolling out a new facial recognition feature that allows you to see photos of yourself that others have posted even if youre not tagged. We are going to show you a moment between two nba legends that might bring you to tears. Im dennis odonnell. The warriors have some news on steph curry. But let me put it this way. He is not coming down your fireplace on christmas morning. Whats cool about your school . We may come and feature your school on the show. Steph curry will miss at least one more week with his sprained right ankle. He will not play on Christmas Day against the cavs. Its not going to move the lunatic fringe needle at all but nick hundley has a oneyear deal with the giants. The backup catchers nine home runs last season was 7th on the team. He got the willie mac award in september. More people have seen bigfoot than tim lincecum since he left baseball until now. A picture of the freak working out with a freaklike physique according to the person who runs the Baseball Academy where this photo was snapped. Timoney lincecum is attempting a comeback. Once upon a time nba legends Magic Johnson and Isaiah Thomas were best friends until their rivalry on the court tore them apart. Last night, a dramatic apology changed all that. But you are my brother. Let me apologize to you if i hurt you [ voice breaking ] that we havent been together and god is good to bring us back together. Am i right . [ pause ] i know, man. It hurt me, too, [ voice breaking ] come here, man. [ pause ] great moment on nba tv last night. And this time of year when all families get together, some families do not, a good lesson to be learned from two nba legends. Im dennis odonnell. See you tonight. Heres the play of the day from the nba. Cleveland and milwaukee. I think he got away with a little bit of a walk. Oh you forget about how athletic this guy is. Showing the hops and the nice strong finish. The bucks eric bledsoe helping milwaukee to beat the cavaliers, 119116. It is 6 25. This morning, we are on fire watch as flames from the thomas fire tear through southern california. How long the firefight is expected to take. And the former 49er player thats being accused of rape in a new lawsuit. Plus, the fate of Daca Recipients remain unclear as there is no deal yet. They have until march. The historic tax bill passes the house then a hiccup. The problems forcing a revote today. The American People place their trust in us to do this work for them. And a deadly amtrak crash brings renewed calls for all trains to be upgraded. We have to treat this as a wakeup call. Its not acceptable that we are involved in these kinds of accidents. The bay area rail system that already has the potentially lifesaving technology. Plus, battling fastmoving flames. When the second largest wildfire in california is expected to be out. But first, the Trump Administration is facing push back against its stance on deferred action for childhood arrivals, also known as daca. It is wednesday, december 20th. Im kenny choi. Im michelle griego. Kpix 5s jackie ward joins us now with more on the handful of lawsuits being heard in federal court today in