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Wood is illegal. Cooler along the coast, 57 degrees in pacifica. 58 in San Francisco. Then a little bit warmer in the south bay, 63 degrees in san jose. Again, nice, clear day but your temperatures are going to smart to climb as that sun comes up. Kenny. Emily, thank you. We are learning more about the chp officer that was killed in a tragic Christmas Eve crash on the east bay freeway and the driver that hit his patrol car. Ann makovec is live. Reporter a bouquet of flowers sitting outside the chp offices. We are learning more about the officer who passed, a father of three, 33yearold officer Andrew Camilleri had been with the chp for only about a year. He and his partner were parked in their chp suv on the sold of southbound 880 when another driver rear ended them. It happened around 11 30 on Christmas Eve. Camilleri was in the passenger seat and his partner, officer Jonathan Velasquez was behind the wheel. Velasquez was treated at the hospital and released while the camilleri family got the tragic news. Children that were expecting their father to come home and help open christmas presents but instead he chose to work today. This is not the way we wanted to celebrate Christmas Day. Reporter and investigators say the driver of the car that hit the officer was under the influence of alcohol and marijuana when he drifted out of his lane. Hes a 22yearold from heyward and investigators are not yet releasing his name. Chp is not saying when there will be a funeral for the officer who passed away but it will likely be a large affair happening later this week. Live in heyward, ann makovec, kpix 5. A vietnamese refugee who left vietnam and came to hollywood died has died. As a teenager lee escaped from a fishing boat in 1975 after the fall of saigon. Her family settled in oakland. She also opened up two restaurants, lee who had stomach cancer was just 46 years old. That time of year for package thefts and in many cases cameras catch the thieves in action but police say capturing the crime doesnt always help. In less than 20 seconds, this thief stole not one, but three packages. The homeowner watched the entire crime unfold on her front porch from her home while at work. Experts say that Online Shopping and Home Deliveries are up 17 from last year and 11 million packages were stolen in 2017, 74 of them while the homeowner was away. I think theres a common misconception if you have a camera System Installed at your house youre less likely to be a victim, and unfortunately thats not the reality. Captain gary berg of the Campbell Police Department Said package thefts are on the rise. In the city, 51 packages have been stolen this year. Compared to 35 last year and 33 the year before. Well, luckily the packages in campbell didnt contain anything valuable but thats parts of the problem. If the thieves are caught, they dont face felony charges unless the packages are worth at least 950. Cal fire catered the dinner at the firefighters base camp at the Ventura County fairgrounds. More than 281,000 acres have burned and so far it is 86 contained. Kpix 5s jamie met with the brave men and women who have been facing the flames. Reporter it is not how nearly 1600 firefighters expected to spend the holiday. Woke up on a hard, cement floor surrounded by snoring men. Reporter marquee moss is almost 700 miles away from her home in utah. This is an opportunity that doesnt come very often so im glad to be here. Reporter since december 4th, the thomas fire has destroyed over a thousand homes and buildings. At least one firefighter died and for others, weeks on the line have taken a toll. Why did you volunteer to be here on christmas . So that other people didnt have to. Merry christmas, everybody. Reporter hot shot firefighter j. P. Blair didnt have to be here. Reporter youre here for christmas and new years . And my birthday and my anniversary and my wifes birthday. Reporter scott has spent more than 80 days fighting fires. Spending time with other firefighters and reading cards from a Grateful Community Grateful Community and seeing a surprise visitors were a welcome escape. Like most here, he would rather be with his family. This may not be the only holiday firefighters spend on the fire line. They could be here through new years with flames not expected to be put out until the first week of january. Christmas is barely over and some folks are already thinking about how to dispose of their christmas trees. Starting today, people in union city can get rid of the trees free of charge. Triced Community Recycling will pick under the trees until the end of january. Many other bay area cities have similar recycling programs. Retail analysts say this Holiday Shopping season has been a very good one. Sales since november 1st are estimated at a record 598 billion. Thats 33 billion more than last year. The single biggest drive of retail sales is growth in real disposable income and when real income goes up, people have money in their pockets and theyre able to spend it. Online sales are also way up this year. Well, that became apparent when ups had to call in support from accountants and office staff to help drivers deliver things. Designating a selfdriving drone as your personal photographer, one company is doing that. Well show you the final product. And see how jack in the box is trying to jack in on legalized pot. And youre waking up with some chilly temperatures this morning. Ill tell you how long those will stick around. I might even tell you whats going to happen on new years eve. Thats coming up. If you plan on catching local transit, everything great on bay area rail ways. No delays for any bus systems. Bart is on schedule. Ill have more traffic for new a few minutes. 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A fast food chain is seizing the opportunity for marijuana marketing. You rather have spoons for hands . Or elbows for ears . Reporter the buzz around jack in the boxs ad campaign is clear. With marijuana sales becoming legal in january, expect Companies Large and small to look for ways to cash in. We expect theres going to be a lot more Mass Marketing toward the consumers of cannabis. Again, as you get more acceptance nationwide. Id rather have food. Lets make a late night foodie call. Reporter jack in the box for years has not so secretly and subtly targeted marijuana users will do so explicitly. A new munchies menu, tacos, french fries, one onions for 4. 20. Its kind of a bad look to have the whole like munchy and stoner vibe. Reporter kitty jones said shes worked more than a decade to gain recognition of the medicinal benefits of marijuana. Its not fast times attridgemont high any more. Were expect being from the start at expecting from the start at least a 30 increase in sales so weve been busiarding extra registers, hiring more people, expanding our grow operation. Reporter devin fehley, kpix 5. A lot of outdoor ice skating rinks in the area were busy and they can expect brisk business for the rest of the week. This is the rink in downtown walnut creek, now in its 13th season. Its scheduled to be open through january 15th. I got a chance to go skating this Holiday Season at the embarcadero because our company had a Skating Party there. You were not there i missed it. I missed it. I miss it every year because were always live in the 6 00, we cant get back in time but one of these days. Maybe next year. Im going. If you have a chance, go out there. Its nice. You get to see the bay bridge. Its gorgeous out there. Today is a great day to do that. Yeah, weatherwise and trafficwise, its a good time to drive into San Francisco. Good morning, everybody. No delays to and through the city at this hour. Here looking at live pictures of westbound 80 as it rolls through the albany area. No traffic delays in either direction of i80 as we move on to the 580 commute. All the bridge commutes checking in with no big delays at the toll plazas. As you plan your new years eve festivities, know there will be no Ace Train Service on new years day. New years eve, both muni and caltrain will be free and on january 1, 2018, they will be running on a sunday schedule. Bart will be offering extended Service New Years Eve until 3 a. M. New years day. Thats a look at your traffic. Heres emily. Well, if you are flying out of town, heres a live look at sfo, where things are running as planned. In fact, weve taken a look in the last five minutes or so and so far we are not reporting any delays at the major airports. If youre flying out this morning, good for you, so far, we do not show any delays. San francisco right now, 48 degrees. You are below freezing. Santa rosa 31 degrees. Its pretty clear up there so thats keeping those temperatures cold. In concord, 37 degrees, a little warmer closer to the water, oakland you are 47 degrees. This High Pressure system thats right heres, thats whats here, thats whats keeping things dry. We will have onshore winds throughout the day, some fog along the coast in and out all day. Lets time this out. Right now, everything seems mostly clear, so you can see behind me all of these low hanging clouds and that is going to start to make its way close to shore closer to shore moving into the midday hours, in and out throughout the day. High clouds in the north bay but for the most part, if youre along the coast, you can scomplekt cloudy weather expect cloudy weather. Temperatures will be mild by the afternoon hours. Later in the week, well remain dry, but our temperatures are going to start to warm up. He have a sparetheair alert today so no woodburning. Sunset tonight 4 57 p. M. Our high temperatures, 63 degrees in fairfield, 61 degrees in santa rosa. A little cooler along the coast, 57 in pacifica, 58 in San Francisco. 63 in san jose. Looking at your sevenday forecast, so a little bit sunny in the inland areas. Around the bay we might see some fog and along the coast, well have some fog and some clouds moving in and out throughout the day. Wednesday, thursday and friday, well be nice and sunny. Temperatures start to warm back up towards the end of the week. Moving into the weekend, your temperatures dip down just a little bit. Nothing too significant but it will be a cooler, still sunny weekend. As for new years eve, sunday, things look clear for the Fireworks Show and clouds move back in for the start of the year. Looks Like National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is launching a new app. Snowden is among the backers of a new surveillance app. The app is called haven. Its supposed to help guard against computer hijackings. Its designed for android phones, especially older and inexpensive models. Theres a new way to take a perfect selfie but it will cost you some bucks. The drone is called the hover passport drone. All you need to do is get it to snap a quick photo and wave your hand. It makes the thing take the photo. The drone is currently on sale for 350. A new study indicates that sitting for long periods regularly are bad for your heart. The more people sit the more they are likely to show signs of injury to cardiac muscles. Found that those that spent 10 hours or more a day sitting were more likely to have above average levels of the protein. Coming up in sports, a nba finals rematch between the warriors and the cavaliers and ends with a little bit of controversy. And a season of failing expectations for the raiders. Their struggles continue as they go into philly to face the top team in the nfc. Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. The raiders were officially knocked out of the playoffs even before their game began last night to on christmas the coaches may have been coaching to keep their jobs for 2018. Offensive coordinator todd downing on the hot seat in chilly philadelphia, possibly jack del rio as well. 2nd quarter, the raiders down seven. Derek carr finds amari cooper. Cooper strolls in for the 63 imprard touchdown. 63yard touchdown. Carr looking for cooper again but hes picked off by darby. The eagles drove down the field and jake elliott nailed the field goal so the raiders lose 1910 and the eagles clinch Home Field Advantage throughout the playoffs. To the nba, kevin durant matching up against lebron james in a battle of mvp candidates. Game tied at 39 and jordan bell finds durant who nails a three from steph curry range. 3rd quarter, the warriors go up by one. Durant running the floor and finds omri cassie with the pass. Steph curry likes what hes seeing from the bench. 4th quarter warriors clinging to a fivepoint lead. Tristan thompson is rejected by Draymond Green and the warriors push it up the court and durant throws it down but the cavs would not go away. Later in the quarter, draymond finds bell on the alleyoop. And 90 seconds to go, game tied at 92, green finds klay thompson, who drains the clutch threepointer. Final chance for lebron, he drives it to the basket and durant comes up with the block. Lebron upset with the nocall but the carriers win 9992. And steph curry was at the game. He seems close to a return but no timetable yet for his exact return. Heres the play of the day from the nfl, pittsburgh at houston. Check out this remarkable touchdown catch. Heres hilton blitzing off the slot. Oh, my goodness, did he catch that . Did he catch that . Thats the touchdown catch of the year if thats good theyre still talking about it. Theres a flag down. Yep, he caught it and threw it. Using that right hand, then the left to pull it in, what remarkable concentration by deandre hopkins. Touchdown was good after review. Unfortunately for the texans, that was their only highlight. The steelers romped to a 346 win. He was spotting scaling this high rise tower in berlin. Children watched in excitement as santa greeted them through the windows. Afterwards, he climbed inside and gave the kids their gifts, of course. Time now, 6 24. Coming up a new state law is aiming to cut down on drink driving. Drunk driving. How businesses can now afford discounted or free rides to drinkers. Reporter a chp officer, a father of three, killed in the line of duty on Christmas Eve. Coming up, how it happened and how fellow officers are remembering him. Hi, im joan lunden. One in three americans have a serious condition called prediabetes, and 90 of them dont even know it. Prediabetes puts you at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Maybe youre at risk. Joining me to discuss prediabetes is dr. Ann albright, director the cdcs division of diabetes translation, and dr. Modena wilson, Senior Vice President at the american medical association. Good to have you here. What is prediabetes . Prediabetes is a condition in which your blood sugar is higher than normal, but not yet high enough to be type 2 diabetes. It does put you at risk for type 2 diabetes and Heart Disease and stroke, and the good news is is that there is a way to prevent type 2 diabetes, and if you get engaged in a Lifestyle Program or start with good, Healthy Eating habits, then thats gonna go a long way. Cdc has established the National Diabetes Prevention Program to help people make those Healthy Lifestyle changes. Its so interesting because youre a doctor and now youre a patient and a participant in this. I am very happy to say that i am, and i have found it a very useful program for me. Im a person whos had trouble keeping at a healthy weight all my life. I tried all kinds of diets, and i would lose weight and then id gain it back. But now that ive gotten older, i realized that this could have a big impact on my own health. So, i have enrolled in the Diabetes Prevention program, and it helps me make those small changes in my lifestyle that really add up to a much healthier weight, and i feel so much better. Thank you for being here. And you can find out more about how to participate in the cdcs National Diabetes Prevention Program. Simply log on to cdc. Gov diabetestv. Well see you next time. Im joan lunden. [announcer] sponsored by nacdd, with support from the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Visit cdc. Gov diabetestv. upbeat music recreational pot. Becoming chp patrols ramped up for the Holiday Season to watch for drunk drivers, but how will they prepare for recreational pot becoming legal . 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