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KGO ABC7 News 500AM November 22, 2012

Captioned by closed captioning services, inc. Good morning. Happy thanksgiving im Terry Mcsweeney in for eric thomas. And im kristen sze nice to be here. It is a special edition thanksgiving day. We wanted to be here because you have to know what the weather is. Mike has that now. Good morning. Happy thanksgiving to you too. Looking at a clean doppler spinning not picking up returns, clear sky this morning. Visibility down to four miles napa, some fog is starting to form inland. When you step out, 10 to 20 cooler than this time yesterday, 38 napa, 40 santa rosa, everybody else in the 40s, antioch and San Francisco low to mid 50s. High clouds and sun upper 50s to mid 60s at the coast, mid to upper 60s bay, mid 60s inland. Good morning. Happy thanksgiving. All mass transit is on holiday or sunday schedule. Bart that means everything gets underway 8 00 this morning. You might want to plan your day like that. Peninsula northbound 101 at nerd in san mateo, accident at third, in san mateo accident blocking left lane. Accident eastbound 80 pinole valley road blocking a lane. Accident cotati grade north 101, clearing stages. Breaking news out of the south bay. San jose firefighters on the scene of suspicious fire at a hair salon on lundy avenue. Heres a live look. Firefighters with hoses, the ground is wet, there are a lot of stores in that strip mall. According to a dispatcher this fire was reported one hour ago they made quick work of it. We are waiting to get an update. It looks like that beauty salon is at the center of it. This morning traffic back to normal on i580 in oakland after being shutdown a couple hours last night following a gun battle between people in two cars. Sky 7 hd was overhead after lanes were closed seminary drive and edwards avenue 8 30. The gun battle ended with two cars crashing, officers found both vehicles riddled with bullets, people in the cars nowhere to be found. Nobody has shown up at area hospitals. Investigators say there is no active search underway for the people involved in that shooting. Oakland Police Investigating a homicide blocks from that freeway shooting. Police were called 9 30 last night at hilton near seminary avenue. No word on the circumstances involving the death of the victim. Police sergeant told us so far in case does not appear to be related to the freeway shooting. Volunteers up early getting ready to serve thousands of thanksgiving meals. Katie marzullo is live at glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, good morning. Reporter good morning. Happy thanksgiving to you and everybody. We are an hour from a lot of hustle and bustle in this room. You can see some of the prep has been set up for salad fixings, thats a side dish compared to everything on the menu today, 500 volunteers preparing 5,000 thanksgiving dinners. I want to introduce jean cooper a director here. Most of us can barely get one dinner on the table today. How massive of an undertaking is this . It is pretty big, we are used to it now. It is a big deal. We Start Cooking early in the month then it goes to a high pitch during the week. We are ready to go now. Reporter a lot of prep work. Oh yeah. Weve got, we start planning in august. Thanksgiving we start planning and get orders in and Start Cooking in mid month. Reporter there are thousands of families and individuals grateful for that. How important is this meal today . It is really important. There are a lot of people in San Francisco who dont have a place to go on thanksgiving. They dont have access to kitchens or healthy food. We provide a much needed service in San Francisco for this particular population. Well see all kinds of people today. Well have our regulars, and well see families and individuals from across the city who need a thanksgiving dinner today. Reporter jean, thank you for what you do and what glide does all year round, three meals a day 364 days a year only skipping new years day. About today cast of broadways lion king will be here to help serve and celebrity chef ryan scott will show up later this afternoon hes preparing more than 1700 bagged meals that are going to be handed out tomorrow. If you want to think past thanksgiving to the leftovers and tomorrow, glide is taking care of that as well. Katie marzullo, abc7 news. Organizers at other holiday Meal Services expect to be at capacity. Last night at st. Anthonys in San Francisco the police chief and other city leaders helped set up. Organizers expect to serve 4,000 people. Mayor lee said it shows how many people are hurting financially, even in cities as successful as San Francisco. Meals will be served in oakland, san jose and many other bay area communities. President obama guy thanks in his weekly address a couple of hours ago. He expressed gratitude for all we share as americans and those defending our freedom around the world. The president today we give thanks for blessings that are too rare in this world. The ability to spend time with the ones we love, to say what we want, worship as we please, to know there are brave men and women defending our freedom, to look our children in the eye and tell them here in america, no dream is too big if they are willing to work for it. The president said the nation stands with those who are less fortunate including residents in the northeast suffering from superstorm sandy. Bay area walmart workers plan to walk off the job starting 10 00 tonight in support of a nationwide strike. Upset walmart is opening 8 00 tonight for black friday they accuse the company of retailing for speaking out against the early opening. Organizers want to alert shoppers about what they call unfair work conditions. The job action should have little impact on shoppers. Dozens are waiting in line to snag some of the black friday deals this is video we just shot outside the best buy at san joses santana row shopping center. They are ready, some have been there for days. Certainly not letting this mornings cold stop them. They could comfortable. Coming up, Michael Finney will have some of the best deals to look for. New and bizarre, Berkeley Police need your help catching a serial cigarette thief. New photos hoping someone will recognize him and let police know who he is. Investigators say the suspect s the store, smashing a window and takes off with cigarettes. Starting today, travelers flying out of Oakland International can register to get up to three days of free parking. Passengers sign up at oakland airports website and download a coupon to park for free only good for tuesday, went day, thursday from now until december 20th. Officials say the three days is at the airports daily lot next to the terminals. Those who qualify can save up to 66. Lets check the forecast for those who are traveling today or in the near future. Cold this morning. We shouldnt see the airport delays we saw yesterday. I dont think so not weatherwise clear sky other than fog getting thicker around napa the rest of us have a 10 mile visibility which is unlimited. You can see napa, the fog is getting thicker there, watch out for that, will continue to get thicker through the morning. Heres the storm track while we were sleeping started at migration to the north, valley fog in the morning, almost total sunshine in the afternoon. We start off in the upper 30s to mid 40s, mid to upper 50s with mostly sunny noontime temperature sky conditions, 4 00 close to normal, upper 50s coast, mid 60s the rest of us, low to mid 50s by 7 00. Lets look at the next three days, extend through the weekend, morning fog them, slightly cooler, saturday up a couple degrees, sunday down a couple degrees. Pretty much from the low to upper 60s the next three to four days. A lot of people on the road this morning. I got on the road this morning and it was very busy for 4 00 in the morning on thanksgiving morning. Rundown of mass transit bart sunday schedule, muni holiday, caltrain sunday, ac transit, sunday schedule, vta sunday schedule. Buses for golden gate on Holiday Schedule many everybody normal skegs tomorrow. Eastbound 80 pinole valley Road Accident in the cheering phases. Northbound 680 jacqueline in milpitas water main floodingu3v offramp is shutdown. Next, black friday bargains. Michael finney looks at some of the best deals if you are hitting the stores. Huge balloons are inflated band ready to go for this mornings annual macys thanksgiving day parade. This year, theres a big bay area connection. Hello kitty i i bet the kids want to watch this. The stage is set and balloons ready for the big show in new york city, the 86th annual macys parade in new york city. Kicking off at 6 00 this morning. You are looking at a live picture with hello kitty balloon they also have papa smurf, all the rest are inflated and standing by so are the crowds. This years lineup features 16 character balloons, 40 novelty balloons, 28 floats, 1600 cheerleaders, 900 clowns and 11 marching bands, including one from the bay area. The big headliner santa. You laugh. I like the way you do this. I feel like im going to sing this. The city gave away 5,000 bleacher seats to families hit hard by superstorm sandy. The south bays own marching band and color guard is performing. Last year it was one of the 11 bands in the country chosen. The Music Department had to raise nearly 150,000 for the trip. Eve of the families had to pay 2,000 to cover flight, rooms, meals and transportation, thats a lot of commitment we wish them a lot of luck and fun. Once in a lifetime opportunity, had to do it. This year, thursday, today is the new black friday for some shoppers, a lot of stores plan to open tonight, 8 p. M. Heres Michael Finney with many so of the best deals you will find. Reporter this year walmart is offering customers a one hour instock guarantee from 10 p. M. To 11 p. M. , thank night, for only three items, 32 inch emerson highdefinition tv for 148. Lg blue ray player for 38. Apple ipad 2 with wifi for 399. You get a 75 walmart gift card as a bonus. Walmart says if the items sellout they will give customers a voucher and guarantee they can pick them up before christmas. Michael runs the website where he tracks all the black friday deals. One of his topics, kmart selling 3 inch lcdtv for 97 for a bigger set, check out this ri 40 inch toshiba Hd Television for 179. 99 at best buy. Regular price, 419, 99. Also best buy laptop for 190. If you want a more advanced low priced laptop our pick if you can spend 100 more get the dell 14 inch laptop, better processor, a little more memory. Reporter at 300 half off the regular price. You dont have to wait in line to get one, it is online only. For an inexpensive stocking stuffer, big lots selling mini digital camcorder under 13. Walmart has assortment of popular dvds for untwo bucks. Before you go shopping, under 2. Before you go shopping go to abc7news. Com, you will see all the stores and when they are going to open, all the ads so you know what is on sale. Browse all the ads at abc7news. Com, check it out under see it on tv. Im Michael Finney, 7 on your side just in time for the Holiday Shopping season google is bringing store layouts to google maps. The company is sun veiling this indoor Mapping Program to is unveiling this indoor Mapping Program to web browsers zoom in to stores, museums, airports even vegas casinos. At ikea you can see everything from furniture to bedding and where they are in the store. The feature is available to iphone use terse too if you open safari and go to google maps i am mike is here now, a a lot of people are in today getting thanksgiving ready. A lot of people are out doing who knows. I live four miles from the interstate and i saw three taxis, i dont see three cars normally. People taking taxis. Yeah. A lot of people out and about already. Looks like we are going five very nice day of weather. Good morning. You see flags flying a little, little offshore breeze in San Francisco, Ferry Building down towards the bay bridge this morning. Live doppler 7 hd satellite and you dont see that and you dont see radar returns well keep it running, going to be a while before we see rain again, could be late as late next week or a week from today. Lets take a look , running 37 in napa, everybody else mid to upper 40s, a few exceptions, fairfield, santa rosa, los gatos low 40s. Antioch and San Francisco 51. As we head towards the afternoon mid 60s across the board maybe low 60s at the coast, a few high clouds from time to time definitely a brighter and drier day than yesterday. Mid to upper 60s monterey bay upper 60s, 70 hollister and salinas, tonight you can see how cool, 30s in cloverdale and santa rosa, a lot of low to mid 40s inland valleys, low to upper 40s bay shore to the coast. Heres the setup, cold front through, trough going past us to the north, High Pressure coming in, jet stream to the north going to stay there for a long time many with so much rain, fog forming if we get the right kind of wind we could see valley fog expand into our neighborhoods through the weekend. Looks like we wake up to fog in our inland valleys the next couple of mornings, sunshine by 10 00 in the 70s in the forecast away from the coast tomorrow. It may be chilly when you step out you will lose that coat if you are shopping later on. 60s saturday through wednesday, extended period of calm weather. Happy thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving everyone. A lot of cars on the road at least forever thanksgiving morning at 5 23. Light traffic not a lot, but for 5 30 on a thursday normally it would be busier here a Holiday Light traffic san jose 87 northbound nobody coming across the Golden Gate Bridge now, light out of the waldo tunnel, no fog. Bay bridge Holiday Light, a few cars headed into San Francisco. One accident northbound 101 to the did grade at railroad in the clearing attica to the did grade at railroad our time is 5 23. Bay area man fighting cancer suffers another blow. Next how a community is pulling together to help find his be loved pet stolen as he was undergoing treatment. Headsup for facebook users why you may not have a say the next time the welcome back. 5 26. It is that is early what are we doing here . Were working. All kidding aside, great day to be here and sharing our thanks with our viewers. A lot of sun no need for the umbrella mid 60s just about everywhere today. If you are traveling lets look at what is going on across the country. Chilly around great falls and fargo mid to upper 30s warm st. Louis 70, 82 phoenix upper 40s seattle and portland. A few issues in detroit, clear air until you get to kansas city, light rain, clear on the west coast. If you are traveling southbound 101 past terra linda, freitas parkway, North San Pedro road light drive good time to get out there, very light. Wanted to run down mass transit schedules bart sunday schedule, gets underway 8 00. Muni Holiday Schedule. Sunday schedule for all of caltrain. Ac transit on sunday, vta sunday no golden gate ferries buses on a Holiday Schedule today. Facebook is considering taking away its users ability to vote on Privacy Policy changes. The way it is now the company allows users to vote on a change if it receives more than 7,000 comments. Then, if more than 30 of facebook members participate the results are official. Facebook says, with a billion members now the voting process is getting complicated and wants a system that relies solely on feedback during a seven day review and comment period. The neighbors of a disabled San Francisco man are stepping up to help find his stolen service dog. While rob was getting dialysis someone broke into his trucks window and grabbed his dog lola, leaving only her collar. Rob also suffers from Crohns Disease and was just diagnosed with cancer it she was just wonderful from the first day. Just the most affectionate, sweetest, nicest companion you could have. Neighbors are offering a 3,000 reward to help find lola. Theyve handed out missing fliers and knocked on doors looking for her. They are doing everything they can. 5 29 bargain hunters by the millions counting down hours before huge shopping. Walmart workers have a countdown of their own. Reporter dont be fooled by the quiet now, 5,000 thanksgiving dinners are on deck as has been the tradition for 30 years. Happy thanksgiving it is 5 32 thanks for joining us im kristen sze. Im Terry Mcsweeney in for eric thomas. Mike is going to tell us what it is like out there. I think the word is cold. It is cold. High pressure over top of us brought clear air and cloudfree sky, live doppler con finking that it is just kwai confirming that it is just quiet, fog around napa, 37, the rest of us in the 40s, antioch and San Francisco 51. Lighter breeze at the coast, upper 50s to mid 60s. Mid to upper 60s bay, mid 60s inland a few high clouds from time to time otherwise a very bright thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving to everyone. A couple of things on the roads. Northbound 101 at railroad the cotati grade accident in the clearing phases. Flooding northbound 680 jacqueline offramp because of water main break, closed. San jose first and brokaw, accident involving patrol car on vta track not sure what track, between karina and Metro Airport station they are working to clear that. On this thanksgiving day, a San Francisco tradition continues a meal for thousands at glide Memorial Church. Katie marzullo is there now. How are the preps going . Reporter they are going and they started a long time ago back in august. Take a look to my right, you can see mor

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