Now, we are from the exclusive camera, this thursday morning, good morning and thank you for joining us. Looking at the bay bridge mirror down to 36 degrees in santa rosa this morning, mid 40s in concord and livermore, upper 40s oakland and san jose. This is the doppler and you can see some showers out there still, especially over Santa Cruz Mountains and the at diablo range. Snow showers over Mount Hamilton this morning and a few showers now at gilroy. Some sunshine with temperatures warming up to the mid50s for the coast and the bay. Lets check in with your commute now. Good morning if youre headed out the door early, the freeways are quiet, really the only accident on the main lines of the freeway is the in on ramp 285. I do have a problem i want to alert you to, road closure and effect, foothill road both ways between castlewood drive and burnell avenue. This happened last night, but they were still having activity in the closure is for most of the day. This is a fatal crash on some oil spillage in the roadway so it will take some time for the investigation as well as the lanes to clear. Due to cleanup so try to avoid the area if you can. The bay bridge is not bad so far, so good. A tragic accident in muir woods, falling trees killing a hiker. We spoke with the man who was in the woods when the trees came tumbling down. Initially i thought it was an earthquake or something, i had no idea. I never heard it sound like that. Reporter around 4 30 Christmas Eve when a innate stillness of the woods were shattered when five trees collapsed like dominoes. Alex shepherd visiting from new york was hiking with his mother when the trees fell. Just finishing the hike when we heard this colossal noise about 300 feet away. And watched a huge redwood fall from the hillside down to the trail below. Reporter be hiked out to the trail but didnt know that it killed a hiker. Muir woods sees 1 million visitors a day, towering redwoods, they say despite problems with people going off trail, that was not the case here. These were visitors exactly where they are allowed to be and it just seemed to be an unfortunate tragic event. Reporter rangers are not sure what caused the trees to collapse but they think the heavy rain played a role. It was a very peaceful day until that moment. It shows you how quickly things can change. We are hearing from witnesses of a Holiday Party shooting in east oakland, four people are now in the hospital and no arrests have been made. The gunfire broke out last night after 6 on 34th avenue. Three men and a woman are among the injured. One of them is in serious condition. We heard Something Like a gunshot so we ran inside. I was trying to hide my family inside. I only grabbed my brother and saw he was shot in the stomach. No word on a suspect or a motive so if you have any information, call the police. A sixyearold is doing okay after being shot during a Christmas Eve celebration in vallejo. Neighbors heard dozens of shots as bullets struck cars and houses. It all unfolded near ohio and mariposa streets. No arrests made. Taken a look at the bay area airports this morning, many travelers are headed home after the holidays. This after a bit of a hectic commute yesterday. The worst of it happened that sfo, the airport saw 281 delays for inbound and departing flights and a total of six cancellations. The same storm that affected us in slamming Southern California, interstate 5 has been shut down over the grapevine and no word on when it will reopen. Drivers there can expect rain, wind and snow in some places. The weather situation is changing rapidly. Highway 33 was closed yesterday because of blowing snow. Near whiteout conditions. The chp was escorting traffic already on 5 over the grapevine. The close it down, it gets real bad. I dont want that to happen. I want to get through it before they close it down. The weather remains wild over interstate 5. Any part of that could open or close down at any time. The california Highway Patrol is out in full force on the search for drunk holiday drivers but, not the only threat that is on the roads this morning. We have more on the chp maximum enforcement. Reporter it is a call officer Brian Hatcher response to all too often around the holidays. One vehicle facing the wrong way. Reporter this is the time of year when they see a spike in crashes, and road rage incidents. People are road raging. Reporter this is the time of year where there is an increase of drunk drivers. Is that unusual to find people driving drunk in the day . Unfortunately, no it is not. Reporter every year they conduct the maximum enforcement Time StartingChristmas Eve. When all available officers are out looking for violators. But that is not the only threat the chp is on the roads this year. In Monterey County, the chp is investigating 64 incidents of projectiles launched at cars. They have yet to make an arrest. Investigators say similar incidents have happened in san jose. It is a misdemeanor at minimum so that is something you should think about. Let the users of and a summons car and the end of crashing and get hurt you can turn that into assault which is a felony. Reporter during the enforcement last year, and 102 hours, 16 people died and nearly 350 others hurt in accidents involving impaired drivers statewide. Chp hopes the numbers are dramatically lower this holiday. Our goal is to help them get to where theyre going, safely. Reporter while everyone is at home safely you are making sure people are getting home safely. Exactly, that is the goal. It was a corporal of years ago when they mourned the loss of one of their own when a drunk driver plowed into a patrol officer. Officials in Monterey County are warning visitors at the carmel state beach after a father died while trying to rescue his daughter. The 10yearold was playing in the lagoon on an inflatable boat. Christmas eve when suddenly a protective barrier separated the ocean, eroded allowing water to russian and the girl was swept out to the ocean. Her father jumped in and try to save her. Had no signs of life , we initiated cpr and continued cpr. It is a tragedy. The people i talked to yesterday and today, after they found out, the tragedy of the father, not being rescued alive. It shook up the whole neighborhood. Weve learned the girl has been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. Meanwhile cal fire says there are no plans to close the beach to the public they want to remind everyone to be aware of your surroundings especially if you go into the water. President donald trump sent a christmas warning to california governor gavin newsom, the president tweeting out that if governor gavin newsom cannot fix californias homeless problem, the federal government will step in. The president seem to be responding to a video of governor gavin newsom from this month. In the clip the governor criticizes how the department of housing and urban development is not prioritizing the homeless problem saying the white house takes no action on the Housing First initiative. The latest attack comes a month after the president said he was doing a terrible job maintaining californias force resulting in destructive wildfires. Christmas was quieted north korea, no tests despite concerns. We have more on how forces are taking no chances. In north korea, christmas came and went without a gift for the united states. The communist nation have promised one earlier this month. It was widelys expected to be a Ballistic Missile or Nuclear Weapons test. We will find out what the surprise is that we will deal with it successfully. Reporter President Donald Trump had brushed off the threat on Christmas Eve. Maybe it is a present where he sent me a beautiful vase. As opposed to a missile test. Reporter they were not taking any chances apparently. Korean media says four surveillance planes flew over the korean peninsula. Pyongyang has threatened to take unspecified action if u. S. Sanctions are not used by the end of the years. Recent images show a new structure believed to be for manufacturing of longrange missiles. More than 28 u. S. Troops are stationed in south korea. Korea is a demanding assignment. Reporter they still found time to celebrate the holidays. It reminds me of things going on back home. Reporter kim jongun is expected to delia National Address on new years day. The u. S. Flu Surveillance Drones over the area to confirm the situation. North korea has a selfimposed moratorium on longrange and nuclear missiles, they tested short range explosives several times this year. Still ahead on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, president ial candidate under fire, accused of using prison labor to make campaign calls. How he is responding this morning. A quick peek outside president ial candidate Michael Bloomberg says his campaign has ended a relationship with a callcenter company that apparently uses prison labor to make calls on behalf of the campaign. The intercept versus porter that two call centers operated out of state prisons in oklahoma, made calls to voters in california. Bloombergs campaign release and the statement saying we didnt know about this and we never would have allowed it if we had. We dont believe in this practice and weve now ended our relationship with the subcontractor in question. Retail sales for the holidays are making a comeback this year. Plus burning and organizer suing the feds. We have those and more in money watch report. Wall street picks back up after the christmas holiday, tuesday, the dow was down 36. The nasdaq up seven of the s p 500 lost a fraction. Retail sales for the holidays were up 3. 4 compared to last year. According to Mastercard Spending poll that tracks spending. In the 20 surge in Online Shopping boosted sales during the shortened holiday season. Shopping will continue over the next three days, some Solutions Says today, friday and saturday are expected to landed in the top 10 of the busiest days for retail traffic. Shoppers will head to the stores use the gift cards and return unwanted presence. Burning man is doing the bureau of land management, the organizer of the celebration told us they have been overcharged millions of dollars in fees over the past seven years. The group is required to reimburse the government for various services and expenses. And that is your cbs money watch report. As we get another check of the forecast, at least we are dry in some spots in we get a break later on. Yes we have sunshine today, and that will continue over the next few days. High pressure building in and looking at quiet, dry weather ahead. Some stragglers, some lingering showers across the south bay in just a moment. We will take you live outside looking east you can see mostly cloudy skies and the skies will clear as we had through the day with the sunshine. Daytime highs are in the mid to upper 50s although we are starting off the day cool and in the 40s and even down to the mid30s for santa rosa so a cold start for you. Midforties concord and livermore about 50s in san francisco. Here is the doppler and for the most part we have wrapped up with the showers although for the south bay we have some showers in Santa Cruz Mountains and the diablo range. Wintry mix over Mount Hamilton, maybe a few light snow showers up there but you can see right along 101 two morgan hill, just a few light showers. Things are wrapping up quickly and we are looking at mostly cloudy skies, chili temperatures. We will see the sunshine so mostly sunny through the afternoon and that will continue as we look ahead to friday and saturday, shower chances in the forecast. We do have the beach hazard statement that has been extended until nine for the coast, 9 pm for the breakers and please use extra caution at the beach and stay safe. This lowpressure system, it did bring the Stormy Weather for Christmas Day has now pushed south and will continue to move away from us as his pressure builds and. On future caste you can see the skies are clearing, and that is the case as you look ahead to friday and for saturday. Daytime highs today, looking at 54 san francisco, 56 oakland, 55 fremont and mid50s concord. Looking ahead to next week, tuesday night as we ring in the new year, the forecast first, by minute looking at chilly temperatures but at this point, mainly clear skies. The extended forecast and what you can expect, but have sunshine friday, saturday, shower chances on sunday and then looking at partly sunny skies monday, plenty of sunshine tuesday and for the first day of 2020. Lets get a look at your commute now. If youre out and about taking the bay bridge, just a heads up, they have issued a wind advisory for the bay bridge so careful there. Fog advisory happening as well so limited visibility but as far as traffic goes, not a lot of cars yet this morning. Things are quite out of the east bay in san francisco. I want to alert you to a surf history problem and this is a closure and effect from most of the day, and accident a fatal accident both directions from castlewood drive to banal avenue. A vehicle hit a power pole. Pg e will be required to be unseen to fix a power pole and also a report of an oil spill in the roadway. So heads up and try to avoid the area if you can. Headed out this morning and youve got a flight to catch at the Oakland Airport and taken into the freeway, traffic is light with no troubles, the drivetime north 882 is only 12 minutes, no delays on 101 traffic clear both directions and taken the south bay so far so good if youre headed towards the airport. Traffic is very light this morning and the south bay drive times all in green with no delays on 280 or 85. Out of gilroy everything cleared both directions 152, checking problem free, east shore freeway between fairfield and track a mental sacramento is good. Hes been a westbound not having any troubles with no issues out of trees with no delays. Forbes has a list highlighting the highest earning musical performer of the decade. Plus how edge sharing is taking some time off. Reporter ed sheeran is taking a break. The popstar told his fans that he is going to layoff social media for a while and stop performing for a bit so you can travel, write and read. He didnt say how long the hiatus would last the promised new music when he returns. What are your intentions with my sister . Season two of the highly anticipated you is on netflix but it is a joe, a loner who obsesses about the women he meets. This season joe takes on a new identity while a woman from his past returns. Dr. Dre has topped the list of top earning musicians of the decade. The former member of the Hip Hop Group in wa post in the highestpaid celebrity. Taylor swift was number second and beyonci was third. That is your eye on entertainment. Coming up, the 49ers have to do something they havent done since 2011 to clinch the number one seed in the nfc and the warriors spoil christmas for their opponent. Taking a look outside, at San Jose International airport, mid40s in san jose. Good morning if youre headed out the door so far, so good. You should be clear through the Altamont Pass with no delays. Here is a look at the travel time is now and you can see that is 21 minutes. The hercules to the mazes 13 minutes and you are clear on highway four. The warriors are on the first win street going to Christmas Eve day, houston still has trouble beating the warriors. Thompson and curry were courtside yesterday afternoon and they were in for a christmas surprise Third Quarter. We find him who lays it in. That was the start of the Third Quarter for the warriors. The warriors were up one, they hit the floater and then moving on to the end of the quarter there or warriors were up. And then makes the basket at the buzzer. Moving onto the fourth part of the worship 13. He has a wideopen who hits the doctor the words pull off the best win of the season as they won. Lebron james and they hosted the clippers. James pulls up and heads from beyond the yard. And later in the fourth, the lakers up, he steps back and drained a threepointer to tie the game. Last chance for the lakers, down, lebron is stripped by the pesky Patrick Beverly as the clippers pulled on to win. The 49ers had the day off yesterday but they want to unwrap a win on sunday. They can clinch the number one seed which would mean they have homefield advantage in the plants but the 49ers have had trouble beating the seahawks especially in seattle. The head coach says that is no impact on the teams mentality going into the game. I dont think players get caught up much. We know the team we are going against we saw them earlier this year so we get to study them on tape. And we know it is like to play in a very tough environment and thats what is going to be. We know it will be a tough environment and what is happening in the past or the future has nothing to do with the three and half hours on sunday. Time is 4 57, still ahead, a break in the case of a stabbing death of involving the brother of a 49er. His suspect is now in custody. A group of moms who took over a vacant home are in court today. We will tell you what will happen, next. Dont forget we are streaming now on cbsn bay area and you can find us at if you see wires down, treat them all as if they are hot and energized. Stay away from any downed wire, call 911 and call pg e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. Now, and streaming on cbsn bay area, if you have Holiday Travel plans for Southern California you better book a last minute flight to major part of interstate 5 is shut down. The chp is on the lookout for drunk drivers. A freak accident in mountains, how one mans