Arrested because transporting cannabis is not legal until january 1st. What is correct about this statement is a recreation license is needed to operate in a recreational market on january 1st. That is a correct statement, but the industry has existed legally in a medicinal way for years before january 1st, 2018. Seymour says olki is licensed to transport medicinal products, so that should be legal even today and the drivers showed that documentation to chp officers who took the van anyway. That was last friday. Its been a week and still no word on the van or marijuana which could be destroyed by the chp or left to rot. So i can understand where theres a gap in the education. What i dont understand at this point is why a week later were still dealing with this situation. We reached out to the chp and after numerous phone calls they said they couldnt comment because the mendocino d. A. Is reviewing the matter, but the d. A. s office said they have not received the file from chp. Isnt it a little odd . Theyve got almost a ton of marijuana in this truck here and get the equivalent of a traffic ticket . Exactly. One would think if the chp really thought that this marijuana was illegal, there it would be a huge penalty for having literally a ton of it. It may just reflect that the officers werent sure what to do, but were told it did allow the employees to be home for christmas by giving them a citation and not charging them with a larger crime. So mr. Seymour says he was not complaining and to be clear, he says the company is paying all the fines and taking care of the criminal defense of their employees. More to come in the new year, what changes. Thank you. New at 6 00 as weve pointed out, Recreational Marijuana becomes legal here in california in just three days. Tonight were seeing long lines before the tax on medical pot gets higher. Kpix5s Christin Ayers shows us the line at a clinic in oakland has been out the door. Reporter it has. Marijuana dispensaries all over the bay area are seeing a big boom in business ahead of the new year. The long lines that we saw earlier today at Harborside Health center in oakland wrapped all around the building, outside the building and around hundreds of people coming out today. Thats because the price of pot is about to jump due to those new taxes and regulations that legalization will bring. The amount of marijuana a person can buy is going to drop from 2 ounces a day down to 1. Officials at harborside medical marijuana said medical marijuana will be available for those with cards at a lower rate, but for those who want to use marijuana recreationally, they said the rules will be a double edged sword. Generally were letting peoplement they can expect 10 to 30 people know they can expect 10 to 30 higher prices, but they can also expect not to go to prison for cannabis. Reporter with the higher prices looming they could be looking at an evens by why are january 1st. They say washington and colorado saw two to three times the number of customers after legalization. They say californias numbers could be even higher. Reporting live in oakland, Christin Ayers, kpix5. We appreciate it, thank you. Tune in monday for a special report. Well take an in depth look at when to expect when recreational pot becomes legal january 1st, monday at 6 30 here on kpix5. New at 6 00 sounds like a fantasy, a home in the bay area for less than 500,000 . Shows us that seems especially out of reach when the median home price hit 787,000 last month, but kpix5s da lin shows us there are still some bargains if you know where to look. Reporter the average house sells for 872,000 in alameda county. So to find one under half a million, tough but not impossible. Youre looking at limited cities and in many cases fixer upper. In san leandro and hayward less than 10 houses are under that price. I found a few ready to move in like this one in san leandro, two bedrooms, 1,200 square feet. Lets take a short drive north. There are more options in oakland and not just in some areas with a bad ram. I found this house for half a mill rap. I found this house for half a Million Dollars in the fruitvale district in a good working class neighborhood. I want to pick up realtor tim ambrose before i hit the next place. How do you increase your chance of the seller accepting the offer . I encourage my buyers to submit what i call a love letter. I encourage them to send a photo of themselves. Its basically telling the seller how much you notice pride of ownership, what theyve done with the home and how you can see yourself growing older and making that your home because now the seller can get a true idea of who is buying their home. Reporter the last area where you can find houses under half a mill and still close to San Francisco is in west contra costa county. The Bay East Association realtors reports the average price here is 573,000. Were looking at four cities, pinole, san pablo, richmond and el sobrante. This house is a three bedroom house in a very nice neighborhood for 400,000. Its pending. Not too far away in san pablo this house is listed for half a Million Dollars, four bedrooms and ready to move in. Even in this crazy expensive market there are still places where homeownership isnt just a pie in the sky. Im da lin, kpix5. We should point out da used every camera available here at kpix5. That was a great story. Realtors say oftentimes that listed price, of course, its not the final price, depending on competition, the properties can go for much, much more. One more real estate note tonight, the ceo of redfin is predicting an exodus of Tech Companies from the bay area because living here is just so expensive. On cnbc earlier this week realtor Glenn Kellman said housing prices and rents in Silicon Valley are too high, even for google employees. He predicts Tech Companies will head to cheaper cities such as dallas, denver, san antonio and houston. If you are going out on new years eve, you may be able to catch a free ride in the bay area. Muni offers free rides starting at 8 00 sunday night through monday morning. You can also hop on any az transit, vta bus at no cost, but b. A. R. T. Will not offer free rides new years eve. They will have extended service, though, until 3 a. M. After that thwarted terror plot on San Franciscos pier 39 officials are taking extra steps to keep people safe this new years eve. Kpix5s andria borba shows us what to expect. Reporter its the busiest night of the year in San Francisco and not just for new years eve revelers. While everyone else is having a good time, this city, our amazing people in the various city departments, theyll be working overtime to make sure residents and visitors are safe. Reporter the city will activate its Emergency Operation center for the night of parties. This year there is heightened awareness of a possible terrorist attack. A man arrested just last week for planning a christmas attack on pier 39. We want the public to know there are no credible threats. Its important to see officers out there, but there will be officers you will not see because we will have a plain clothes presence there as well. Reporter no one in sfpd is getting time off december 31st. Chief scott said hell see more officers on the embarcadero for the fireworks, pier 39, palace of fine arts and union street. In addition to that, the Fire Department will be cracking down on private fireworks in the city, which are illegal. If you want to see fireworks, go to the show along the embarcadero and leave it to the professionals. Reporter andria borba, kpix5. To get alerts on the security situation in San Francisco, you can text nyess17 to 888777. So the question tonight is will we be able to see the fireworks on new years off . From the video its likely going to be hazy eve . From the video its likely going to be hazy. Here to tell us about it is paul deanno. The short answer is yes. The spare the air alerts will stay through the weekend. So wood burning in the fireplace is a no no. Unhealthy air quality anyway in the bay today. Overnight lows will not be as chilly sunday night because cloud cover is moving in. It will not be a perfectly clear sky for the fireworks but milder because of the cloud cover. Tonight 30s and 40s and sunday night 40s and 50s overnight lows, even 50 in San Francisco. This is the best news i can bring you. The Climate Prediction Center outlook for the middle of next week and beyond is trending weather. This is the first time ive seen this for the entire state of california since around thanksgiving. So next week a change coming, some rain and mountain snowfall returning to the bay area. Well talk specifics about when coming up in a few minutes. A developing story, one person shot and killed, another wounded after a gunman opened fire at a law office in long beach. You can see dozens of police cars surrounding the building. The shooting started around 2 30. Police say the gunman is also dead in what appears to be a workplace killing. The person who was wounded is in stable condition. Tonight San Jose Police are investigating the citys second homicide in just two days. The latest victim is a 7 teen yearold boy stabbed to death in the street a 17yearold boy stabbed to death in the street about midnight. The teenagers name was not released, but the mercury news reports he was a senior at pegasus high school. Before that he attended independence high school. His killer is still on the loose. At 6 00 a faster way to deliver a life saving material. The cutting edge Bay Area Medical Center trying to take blood deliveries to new heights. Plus a deadly fall on an airport escalator caught on camera, why the victims family is now suing a major airline. In our next half hour californias flu season becoming deadly very early, the advice from doctors tonight so you dont get hit with the aggressive strain. A new concepd Medical Center is pursuing. Kpix 5s devin fehley shows us new at 6 00 drones delivering blood, a new concept sanford Medical Center is pursuing. Kpix5s devin fehely shows us the endeavor could save lives. Reporter no matter how bad the traffic is on the ground, the drone can make the 2 1 2 mile flight from stanfords blood center to the hospital in under five minutes and for doctors and nurses with a critical patient with a critical need for blood that might just be the different between living and dying. In that situation it behooves us to move the product as quickly as possible from here to the hospital and if we have something parked here ready to go and ready on fly out at a moments notice, that would cut down time tremendously. Reporter the blood center partnered with drone manufacturer matter net and city of palo alto to ask permission from the city to launch a Pilot Program testing the use of drones to fly supplies like blood and test samples. The approval from the faa, it needs to show you wont be introducing harm to people on the ground or increasing risk for others in the airspace. Reporter for anyone concerned the drone might someday fall out of the sky onto your head or windshield, there is a fail final shave. It would eject the parachutes and make sure that it descends to the ground without harming anybody. Reporter the partners say they can see a not too distant future where most hospitals are connected by a network of drones delivering life saving supplies, an idea that right now still needs faa approval to get off the ground. In palo alto, devin fehely, kpix5. A washington family is suing Alaska Airlines tonight. Their great grandmother tumbled down an airport escalator in a wheelchair and later died. Reporter Adrianna Diaz has the surveillance footage. We want to warn you the video might be disturbing. Reporter Bernice Kekona was coming home from a Family Vacation in maui. She landed in portland and the familys attorney said they requested a Wheelchair Assistance Service to escort her to a connecting flight, but Surveillance Video shows her wandering the terminal alone. Attorney brooke cunningham. She was provided assistance off the airplane into her wheelchair by alaskas company that they contract with, huntley, and then she was left there and she became confused and that led to the fall. Reporter kekona appeared to confuse the escalator for an elevator. She fell down head first while others tried to help her. The attorney took video statements from family members. I was so devastated. Reporter kekona suffered multiple injuries. She was in constant pain. Reporter a wound on her right foot became infected leading to amputation below the knee. A day after that surgery kekona died. All they needed was somebody to get her off the plane, use the Escort Service that theyre required by law to provide. She would have been home perfectly fine. Reporter Alaska Airlines said in a statement, it appears that ms. Kekona declined ongoing assistance in the terminal and decided to proceed on her own to her connecting flight. The airline also noted her reservation did not note any cognitive, visual or auditory impairment. Adrianna diaz tonight. The familys wrongful death complaint does not specify any monetary damages, but it does say the medical bills totaled nearly 300,000. Well are going to have to wait to see we are going to have to wait to see new b. A. R. T. Cars on the tracks. The rollout has been delayed again. The Transit Agency says it is still waiting on state regulators to inspect 10 new railcars. B. A. R. T. Failed a Safety Inspection last month. Since then Officials Say they have made hardware and software upgrades, no word yet when the final state inspection will take place. A lot of last Minute Travel plans to the bay area because our area is so good and the warm temperatures here, you couldnt blame anyone for buying the last ticket on a flight out of chicago or minneapolis. Wine country sounds good. Its beautiful and its a whole lot warmer than the majority of the country. Lets look at our weather first. These were the highs today. Santa clara valley, gilroy 70. Lets go to the beach, santa cruz 70 degrees, woodland hills, socal 89 degrees, record high, nearly 90 in southern california. We were cooler in and around San Francisco and points north, San Francisco 59, san rafael 58. Lets use cooler as a relative term because the high tomorrow in omaha will be 5 below. The high in cincinnati wont even make it to 20 degrees, new york city 19 degrees for a high, memphis only 26 and dallas, texas, 35 degrees, new years night dallas dropping to 14 degrees. Now were under the ridge of High Pressure which is helping cause all of that mass of cold back east. Were under the ridge, though. We cant even buy any cold or buy any snowfall. Snowpack 27 of average. In the south sierra its down to 23 of average. Thankfully this ridge of High Pressure will move and the storm track will work its way farther south ending the cold back east and also ending our dry weather, but that will not happen until the middle of next week. For now the ridge is here. The storm track is here. Its messy up north, freezing rain, wind, ice, flooding rainfall in and around seattle and portland and hood river. All that will begin to work its way south toward us, not the frozen precipitation, but the storm track will be back in the bay area by the middle of next week. Tomorrow morning we start sunny. Tomorrow evening, though, we see some cloud cover begin to move in. This is why the nights wont be as chilly because sunday morning were cloudy. All new years eve long were mostly cloudy but dry. When the fireworks are firing off around midnight sunday night into monday, we stay dry, albeit mostly cloudy. Your highs tomorrow despite the cloud cover moving in will be above average, concord 61, livermore 63, redwood city 61, santa rosa 62. Cloudy and dry is the theme through tuesday. Wednesday the storm track finally returns and we will not only get one chance of rain. If you look way out there, we may see several rain chances which would be completely normal for early january, but its been absent the past couple weeks. It looks like next week the rain finally returns. Thats your forecast. Thank you. In our next half hour the bay area inmates caught with mail dipped in meth. Plus what the Trump Administration just axed that could open the door to much more oil fracking here in the west. In sports the 49ers enter their final week of the nfl regular season and ruben foster shares what its like in the locker room now compared to those 09 days. The warriors hope to be a game away from having steph curry back on the court and it looks like he wont skip a beat when he returns coming up next. Court tonight. Dub nation. All the word fans want to know. When is steph curry coming back . This team is doing pretty fine without him, but we still want him. The warriors playing back to back games and steph curry probably would return on the court tonight. All indications at practice are he looks fully rested and theres very little left to his shooting stroke. The warriors are expected to have steph curry back tomorrow who has been out since december 4th with an ankle injury. Golden state is getting back their biggest weapon on offense his teammates say. Any time steph curry is in the building hes a threat. So just to have that option, have thatweapon again, you know, its like having a nuclear missile, you know, like for real for our country because he can go off at any time. A nuke, maybe not politically correct. To football, from 09 to possibly ending the season with five straight wins it feels like weve had tw