Are pretty clear over San Francisco just a few low clouds hanging out over the city as robin mentioned we do have some spots of dense fog for inland areas like concord where visibility is below a mile currently as you head south of concord into the tri valley and even some spots in the south bay you will encounter some dense pots of fog where visibility is low art of inland are rather bayside inner coastal areas. Are looking at much Clear Conditions that are inland areas are this morning. Skies, nice and clear across the bay once you get above that fog you wear so all we got to do is get rid of the fog and then were off to some sunshine later on 30s and 40s for your current temperatures, redwood city oakland, the concord in livermore all in the 30s that is chilly oakland, San Francisco and berkeley each of 44. Well napa below freezing at 31 fairfield in santa rosa each of 33 degrees so very frigid to start the morning were officially in winter now and it feels like it by the afternoon ahead of us it may be feeling better than this morning. But we are still going to be feeling temperatures cool enough for a jacket so keep that warm layer on all day long even a sunshine reappears later on. Robin all right. Thank you john, no major Traffic Alert arent any freeways but on city streets traveling through san ramon we do have crews investigating an accidents are and they have croak hang in close between paul and rick hang in and norris canyon, so for those of you hopping off a 5. 80 or 6 ad or if you live in that area. Theyre still working with this crash which involved several vehicles, theres no estimated time of clearing so you just want to keep that in mind. Were checking in on that 5. 80 to 38 merge because its very slow as you come out of Castro Valley merging on to 2. 30 eights other was an accident right at the split involving a big rig. And it looks like it may be leaking some oil so 5 of the west at a crawl merging on to to 38 it will pick up for you right after east 14 bay bridge traffic looking good no delays at the toll plaza its going to be wide open if need to come on into San Francisco do it now while its still a free will check more bridges and drive times coming up. Family and friends are rallying to help a blind woman who says that she was robbed while riding barred. Her phone was stolen right at the 12th street bart station in downtown oakland kron fours dan thorn has that story. 30 yearold sammy redberg may be blind but shes competent and independent. She also likes getting around. However recent experience on bart has her feeling unsafe about the transit system, im very going on by now. Because you know i didnt feel like i was protected him. Redberg says someone yanked her iphone 11 out of her hands at the 12th street station in oakland thursday afternoon, unable to see the suspect she felt helpless im just saying there with the headphones in my hand and i stood up in. Screamed help me please help me someone please help me help me redberg says she was helped by people at the station but didnt get much help or respect from bart police already feeling violated redberg couldnt understand their lack of compassion me to have a lot of here now. And moving my mike. And confidence in in in my independent. That fear is keeping redberg off of bart at least for now shell be using Ride Sharing Services like uber and lyft to get around but those rides can be costly friends and family are now coming together to help with those expenses a go fund me page has raised thousands of dollars online and she also got a replacement for her stolen iphone which can even say how much reporting in union city dan thorn kron 4 news. From oakland to the south bay where suspicious Death Investigation is underway in milpitas neighborhood. This comes after a man was shot and killed inside and all the dunn avenue home on friday you can see investigators going inside that home. Neighbors say a group of young eagles, they rented a home and sometimes they can get loud but they were not aware of any parties there. Neighbors say what happened is actually quite unusual for that particular area. Its kind of weird for his neighborhood that house has been a known to the neighborhood has trouble was it was so some Police Activity os about 3, 4 months ago 6 months ago, i believe. So far police they are not sharing any information about the victim. Well happening today 6200 children will be receiving toys books and Stocking Stuffers from sacred heart. So its been happening arent happening along south first street down in the south bay, san jose. And the goal is to distribute more than 18,000 toys for the holidays, sacred heart is partnering with bank of america also a team of volunteers too make this toy room. A dream come true. Having parents hope that the opportunity bill to choose something thats really special for their kids is a delightful thing to bill to see it is really important for families to feel that sense of connection. Were really really excited have everyone come out, but were still in need of. Volunteers and donations to come help us throh this process today and tomorrow. I feel a lot of good stuff on the shelves back there if youre interested in helping out. There are shows Still Available on Christmas Eve or you can just donate a new unwrapped toy to sacred heart and theyve been hosting this annual tradition since 1964. Take a look at this thousands of families san mateo got some help for the holidays line just wrapped around the building. The samaritan house they open their toy drive over the weekend. More than 2000 working class families they got presence of Holiday Cheer there were 22,000 toys warm coats and d d books as part of giveaway congresswoman jackie spear actually she came back from washington dc help gift wrapped and then hand out the gifts. We are the last day of our. Chris was part of our holiday toy shop and the thousands of children going through there are already thousands have gone through getting yet and warm coats and gift even that they get their parents everybody can enjoy the holiday this is how christmas starts for me every year being able to come here into what is workshop no question about it. So many families being helped by ordinary nonprofit in our county that were so fortunate to have 1500 families are going to go home with christmas underethe tree. There she is wrapping the presents a lot better than i can dont ask me to wrap the president is off volunteers made this event reality every year more than 15,000 samaritan house volunteers they help provide food, shelter and clothing for low income working families throughout san mateo throughout the year. Police are stepping up patrols around malls and Shopping Center parking lots as Holiday Shoppers are finishing up and buying those last minute the president. Kron fours rob flat or reports he shows us that police are focusing on stopping car burglaries. Its like this one here at east region other areas, shopping malls, which tend to be Fertile Ground for thieves to prey upon busy and sometimes distracted. Holiday. Shoppers says Sergeant Christian camry o were going to be highly visible. Obviously just says like were looking for these thieves are on the lookout to see if you know police are present and more than likely if we are and they do see patrol cars in the area hopefully that will deter them from doing what theyre trying to do. Inside the mall is part of a new 750,000 statefunded outreach effort called remove it or lose it free candy sweet and a reminder to shoppers about what not to new before entering the mall. A message well received. But all my in the truck and locked out. I just block of everything i try tput all my sons toys any jacket cover any valuable this when i go into work out i will. Leave my cell phone that him in locker in the eastridge to has stepped up patrols and beefed up security to keep shoppers and their cars safe. The people especially it is looking for easy opportunities. And so then since that we see are just gas being busy a lot on your mind and then leaving the vehicles on locks with shopping bags in the back seat police say thieves often watch for people stashing bags in their car before going back inside the mall. We do nothing in view say police offered a few news and donts dont leave anything visible even if you think its in significant, you know these thieves dont all theyre going to see a shopping bag you can be empty. But the smashed window and theyre going to grab it. Even something simple as a gym bag that you might just have clothes in there that they dont know whats in there thats very tempting also like i said dont leave your cell phones behind dont leave your electronics in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. From san jose to sonoma where the Sonoma County board of supervisors will be deciding how to handle the growing problem of homeless encampments currently in santa rosa, theres a large encampment near highway 12 off of the trail to trail. It is believed to be the largest encampment in santa rosa particular that area one idea being proposed is turning part of the Sonoma County fairground we know how large that area is turn that into a temporary homeless shelter. If the supervisors if they act quickly they can get something done before the end of the month and people can move in there. It is one bay area families giving back and helping others in memory of their daughters that update coming up next and then thieves or tampering with bay area gas pontiff to be really careful. Theres a warning out for drivers that are hitting the roads for the holidays. Americans are managing death better and gas prices drop as americans hit the road for christmas im jane king will have those stories coming up. And as youre getting outside this morning do throw on that extra layer, it is frigid look at oakland 39 right now 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. Take a look at this snow covering the grapevine as people try to come in and out of los angeles snow levels may drop low enough to reach the 5 freeway i 5 over the grapevine tonight it is just tricky. Any time of year, but if you add snow and sleet i yeah and the grief im getting it tonight, youre still getting into the Sierra Nevada today. At this were dry in the bay area today, those forget lots of sunshine today actually rain is coming its on the way over christmas. The agency so thats going to be the one maybe be settled it by Christmas Eve dont be traveling that night i had my first ugly sweater sport not around the way to get on the bandwagon first one. Yeah, theyre fine and you might want to put it under your jacket today thats a good it is cold guys were in the 30s and oakland to this morning still yes unite. The right now it is cold out there we are looking at some clear spots but other spots not so clear inland valleys, not looking at Visibility Like youre seeing here at timber on which is nice and sunny currently we are going to see some sunshine later today even for foggy areas. You can see that rain and snow up there in the Sierra Nevada and were just talking about snow on the grapevine yes, temperatures are cool enough that snow was falling at some pretty low elevations youre going to see it at the mid levels of the sierra today while the bay just hold on to sunshine now as we push into tomorrow youre going to see less of that sunshine and eventually tomorrow night more showers making their way through that will be light to moderate showers at first, but by the time we work into Christmas Morning on wednesday, some heavier rainfall really pushes into the bay area and that will be low enough snow line will be low enough in the bay area to start to see some of it and the blows mount diablo itself and then some some spots in the north bay, so itll be a White Christmas if you want to drive up into the mountains and see the snow for most of us will be grey and rainy though as we do make our way into the holiday on wednesday, todays daytime highs eventually rise into the 50s i mentioned oakland youre in the 30s right now you have a low 50 to look forward to later on today. Tomorrow and wednesday are expected to be even cooler days for temperatures with the evening rainfall writing tomorrow night on Christmas Eve. Lasting through wednesday morning on Christmas Day, good news though is thursday friday and saturday as you travel home from their holiday destinations looks like things are improving with lots of sunshine and dry conditions expected on those days. Rob all right. Thank you john quiet on the roads with no major hot spots working right now. If you need to get into San Francisco were calling this holiday lights normally we have a big backup spilling through the maze. Not right now its wide open 9 minutes making it into San Francisco, heres 92. Its our busiest bridge. Its a little crowded look at the drive time 15 minutes that is great to make it from hayward over to the peninsula. Were checking in on the Richmond Sandra fell and all is well here from the east bay to the north bay. Its been a nice drive all morning so 8 minutes, pretty quick right on time off to one on one. Heres a peek at traffic tracker were checking out 5. 80 maybe youre traveling from livermore to dublin thats only 11 minutes. What about 6. 80 south. Its a wide open from dublin son all and fremont know the trouble spots there but we have fog advisories stretching from san jose Towanda Creek because it was so dense on some of our inland east bay freeway. So that may be lingering a little bit. The nimitz looking good at 22 minutes from 2. 38 out to 37 or leaving milpitas on to 37 west. It is wide open its going to be a quick 7 minute trip from 8. 80 off to one oh one and sunnyvale will check out some more bridges and drive times coming up in a little bit. Well for those of you who plan on taking barts this week you may notice some minor adjustments to the train schedule all lines will run normal a normal weekday Schedule Service today. Thursday tuesday friday, however, martin will reduce some of those trains on the antioch line so thats going to be a noticeable difference and then on christmas and the trains will be running on a sunday Service Schedule so not as many trains throughout the system and then service will not start until 08 00am. For your money this morning, one thing you will not find at the stores through the year so far motorolas lot motorolas legendary razor flip phone. The launch date has been pushed back just a little bit because of higher than expected demand and limited supply motorola has not provided an update timeline for that 1500 phone that reportedly says it is not expecting a significant shift the razor came out in 2004 and went on to become the best selling phone of all time in the united states. Until of course the iphone also for your money this morning gas prices dropping for people hitting the holidays and American Airlines is adding new gender options when buying tickets. Jane king is live at the nasdaq with those stories and a lot more. Remember jane this flip phones and member used to say to friends call you back after 9 oclock yeah i do remember those that apparently theyre coming back so theres going to be interesting to see how that sells and speaking of airlines, lets just talk about going really quickly here of the ceo is being ousted that announcement made just a short time ago. He will be replaced in a small and burned by the chairman of the board of course boeing. Problems of practically all year with the 7. 37 max and here to the end of the year the ceos leaving immediately well, American Airlines adding you and x options for gender when passengers buy tickets so joining a growing number of entities recognizing choices beyond male and female united was the First Major Airline to make this adjustment earlier this year. According to experian the average credit score increase 2 points from last year to 6. 82. That is the highest since 2011 experiences. They see promising trends americans are managing credit better now course youngest to have the lowest average score 6. 41. The silent generation have the highest at 7. 31 apple may have a Top Secret Team dedicated to developing Satellite Technology that could among other things a lot out those mobile devices to communicate with each other so basically by passing the wireless carriers now bloomberg claims that apple ceo tim cook has said its a high priority in the team is made up of about a dozen engineers from aerospace and satellite to sign and the average price of regulargrade gas has dipped 0. 4 a gallon to 2 61 over the past 2 weeks, its a nationwide average. The lundberg survey says prices at the pump probably wont go down a whole lot more for the next few weeks. Now the price is 0. 18 higher than it was a year ago and San Francisco aaa says the current price is 3. 68 a gallon live from the nasdaq, im jane king back to you jane youre such a palace you can call us at any time before 9 oclock and we will accept most of my friends dont want me to call any to any time before then because i get up so early and so dont. There are special. You too. All right were taking a little peek outside checking in on the airport sfo and of course were talking about the Holiday Travel rush on for people coming home. And going home of course for the holidays, so if you plan on doing some traveling, you know what to do check with your airline carrier. Check that slide before you head over to the airport yesterday we have some p