To make is to keep more experienced officers at the main jail longer. Tonight at 5 and 6 find out the actions the sheriff plans to keeping plr experienced officers at the main jail longer instead of letting them transfer to minimum security after about ten years. Tonight at 5 00 and 6 00 find out the actions the sheriff plans to take. Robert handa will be there. Hell be updating between now and the time of the press at 5 00 as well. Hell have his full report later tonight ncht meanwhile, San Francisco leaders are getting ready to decide whether to build a jail there. The price tag roughly 244 million. The mayor wants the jail, but the top Law Enforcement official in the city, the d. A. , doesnt. Nbc bay areas Stephanie Chuang is live inside city hall where a finance and Budget Committee is going on right now. Stephanie, at stake here also 80 million in state funding as well you say. Reporter thats right, kris and scott. Its an opportunity people like the mayor say shouldnt go to waste. Now, this has drawn a lot of interest and opposition. I spoke earlier with the sheriffs sergeant who says the word is there might be roughly 50, 75 people here to disrupt the actual hearing thats going on. And there is, he says, extra security maybe triple the usual about 12 officers or so. The meeting is going on right now in the chambers. It started an hour ago, but were not quite there at the new jail funding issue yet. Now, the new jail would replace both jails three and four inside the hall of justice, the maximum security jails which have been deemed seismically deficient. The mayor says spending about 244 million is necessary because the current building isnt safe. And he also doesnt want to waste the 80 million in state funding that would help build this new jail. The District Attorney though says the current jail population in the city is at 50 , adding the citys money should be spent on alternatives to incarceration, namely Mental Health services. We spoke with supervisor mark farrell today, hes the chair of todays committee. He expressed support for the new jail funding saying its not an attractive topic but its critical for a city as big as San Francisco. I understand the perspective of the opponents dont want to see a new jail being built, want to see more rehabilitation facilities, i also want to see that as well. I also think its naive in terms of population, a city where a crime rate thats grown as well that were not going to need a jail at all moving forward. To me thats ignorance and really political bantering. But i dont think its thinking about the future of San Francisco. And its not the responsible thing to do as a city. Reporter now, d. A. Gascon also saying he believe kind of a political play, needs to Clear Funding before district three seat is taken over. That could happen soon and would likely shift the votes against the jail funding. The mayor says thats not the case and supervisor farrell says the deadline at the end of the year for this 80 million of state funding thats the re real timeline here. I spoke with one of the three supervisors on this committee and says hes more aligned with the Community Groups here. Its pretty split it seems. Ive not been able to speak with supervisor tang. If it passes the committee, it will go to the board of supervisors regular meeting next week for the first reading. It will go for a second reading you can see theres still a couple steps before this can become a reality. For now live in city hall, Stephanie Chuang, nbc bay area news. Steph, thanks. A landmark vote in San Francisco, today the Police Commission will decide on rules for how officers use their body worn cameras. A working group made up of representatives from the police union, the public defenders office, aclu and Citizen Committee came up with multiple recommendations. A major point of contention though is whether or not officers should be allowed to view the video that they take with those bodyameras following an officerinvolved shooting or in custody death before writing their reports. Setting these officers up for the gotcha moment on the stand, and thats not doing the officers any good. Its not serving the public in the best interest. Officers are often witnesses. And they may consciously or unconsciously alter whats in their reports to fit the video. The Police Officers union says if the final vote goes through barring officers from watching body camera videos, it will advise officers to stop giving voluntary statements during investigations. A wild chase through the streets of san jose ended in gunfire and a suspect attempting to hideout and blend in at a toys r us. It began around 1 00 yesterday afternoon when police say the suspect stole a car and sped off. That chase ended about ten miles away near blossom hill road. Police say the suspect rammed his stolen chevy suburban into at least two cars and a patrol car. At that point police opened fire at the suv, four bullet marks on the suv on the drivers side door. The suspect didnt stop there, began racing through the toys r us parking lot and then jumped out, ran into the toy store. The police were actually swarming the whole parking lot. They were coming in out of every angle you could think of. They were everywhere. He had a black bag around him. And we didnt know he could have been armed. You know, a lot of things could have happened. He could have, you know, took us for hostage. The man changed into a blue toys r us tshirt. Police quickly spotted him though and arrested him inside. He was taken to the hospital. Police arent saying if he was hit by the bullets. And we havent gotten a name yet either. Happening today, a man accused of stabbing his exgirlfriend to death is scheduled to be in court. Anthony arrested monday night after Police Tracked him to his parents home in redwood city. Investigators say he killed 34yearold colleen straw in her home on saturday in san mateo. He was released from jail just days before he allegedly killed her. And he pled no contest to a Domestic Violence charge for attacking her. He was sentenced to 120 days but only served the 60. And he had a restraining order preventing him from being near her. The socalled hot cop in the castro has been charged with two counts of felony hitandrun. Hell be in court today just after noon. Christopher kohrs is accused of hitting two men with his car very early sunday morning in north beach. San Francisco Police say kohrs had two people with him in the car. They say kohrs but his passengers stayed at the scene. Kohrs eventually turned himself in about ten hours later. The police chief points out thats long after a sobriety test would have been able to tell if kohrs were drunk. Both men who were hit remain in the hospital. The man accused of killing seven in a shooting rampage at Oaklands University heads to court today. 47yearold juan go will be in court for a hearing to determine whether hes mentally competent to stand trial. Hes charged with seven counts of murder as well as other charges with special circumstances. And that could make him eligible for the death penalty. Doctors at Napa State Hospital say they think goh is competent to stand trial, but a judge already once ruled that hes not. A divided Berkeley City Council late last night approved a set of laws clamping down on the homeless. In a chaotic meeting the Council Voted 63 to limit where the homeless can sleep, how long they can stand in front of a business or home and how much space they can take up. Thats a law that would in effect restrict how many things a homeless can carry with them. The new laws also clarify an existing ordinance of urination and defecation in public. Those ordinances will not go into effect until lockers can be installed for the homeless. The Storage Units are going to take a while. We have to locate a place, we have to have hearings about that because we just cant we have to have a public process. But we have started. Weve started something that we just were really struggling with how we were going to deal with the encampments and weve been able to get started. Police were asked to protect Council Members as they left the meeting. It was really that contentious. In san jose the city council there voted 91 to okay tent cities against the mayors wishes. As early as next month the city could provide approved locations across san jose for Homeless People to gather and sleep. Council member kara told us last night its not a perfect solution but does give many thousands of Homeless People in san jose a safe place to stay, especially the el nino winter. Also last night san jose approved a second motel to be used as a temporary shelter for the homeless. The santa clara inn on the alameda will be transformed into a homeless shelter. Back in september san jose made the plaza hotel into temporary apartments for the homeless for five years. A warning this morning for a neighborhood in the south bay where dozens of people are being told to boil their water amid fears of contamination. The boil water advisory impacts People Living in the yellow portion of this map, that is on fallen leaf lane between morton avenue, holt avenue and homes on penny way and lantis lane also being told to boil their water for the time being. About 40 families effected there. A contractor hit a water main line and a waste water line yesterday. And the concern is that the water line may have been exposed to fe kal chloroform and e. Coli bacteria, crews are working to fix the problem. They anticipate it will be done by tomorrow. Up next at 11 00, could we be seeing the end of yahoo being yahoo . An identity crisis for a major Silicon Valley company. Reporter and im bob redell. Were going to take you live inside San Franciscos city hall where there he is the jolly old elf santa himself making an early visit, special early visit for young boys and girls here in the city. Well tell you what its all about coming up in a live report. Im meteorologist kari hall. A lot of clouds across the bay area, but the sun will start to peek out. And it will be a milder day. But get ready for some rain, its coming up in the microclimate forecast. Got a tip for nbc bay areas Investigative Unit . Call 1888996tips or email theunit nbcbayarea. Com. Nbc bay area, we investigate. Just about a quarter after 11 00 right now. We are headed to the scene of breaking news. The smoke there that you see in the distance is in palo alto on brian street near jls middle school where there is a twoalarm fire. At this point it appears that it is a house fire and has nothing to do with the school. We just give you that for reference so you know where it is. You can see there chopper is headed there and the smoke is still billowing so crews are still working it. We will give you updates on this fire, this breaking news in palo alto, as we get it. Scott. To the markets, kris, where everythings moving a bit lower. Oil prices are way down. The market does not like low oil prices. Lots to talk about tomorrow morning about the fed and possible Interest Rate hikes, but well leave it there for now. Some of yahoos shareholders are pushing the company to split off its Internet Properties like flikr and mail and tumblr and keep alibaba. Yah yahoos board gets together this week in a regularly scheduled meeting to discuss that idea. Yahoo will in fact discuss basically not being yahoo. Its kind of a weird plan. This will be like a car dealer noticing that it makes a lot more money repairing cars than selling them and gave up being a car dealer. The very thing that described their identity for years. Now, yahoo insiders do tell our sister blog that Board Members still have faith in yahoos ceo marissa mayer. Despite several news reports speculating about her future, she will stay. Mark zuckerberg and his wife announced the birth of their daughter tuesday. And thats not all. Zuckerberg says he and his wife will give away most of their fortune to charity over their lifetimes. Its so much money they had to set up a new charity and file papers with the securities and exchange commission. Zuckerberg says in the end they will have given away 99 of their Facebook Holdings to fight disease and improve education. Zuckerbergs already given away hundreds of millions. But this is an entirely new scale of giving. Back in the envelope math if he gave it all away now it would be about 45 billion and thats bigger than the gates foundation. Remember bill gates had help from warren buffett. Also, thats if zuckerberg gave it all away right now. Which hes not going to do. If we assume Facebook Stock increases over the years, and it should, then the 45 billion number is actually a really low end number. Its going to be much bigger. Well, do you remember goldie blocks . Created by a young engineer from stanford for girls to try out engineering concepts. The company was the darling of the media when it launches, got into a little trouble with of all people the beasty boys and then kind of dropped off the radar. Its back with a new commercial showing young women in very recognizable roles. Hillarys in the house. Notorio notorious, abby womback. Coach jen, i see you, nicki, i see you beyonce. I also wanted to point out the engineer in San Francisco who started the i look like an engineer movement, its cool she got a shoutout there. Indeed. And we are still talking about it, but i bet a lot of the girls are not anymore. I mean, we ask them about things that are big social changes for us and often they go i dont know what youre talking about. Oh, yeah. I mean, you can be anything you want to be, and theyre like, i know, right, of course. Yeah. Duh. Which is great. Including the pilot. Exactly. You can be a pilot. No flying experience. No problem. Jetblue wants you. The airline wants to recruit two dozen people with no prior flying experience then train them to become pilots. Jetblue says it wants to navigate candidates from the moment they show interest in flying. The airline says applicants still have to meet minimum requirements including 1,500 hours in the cockpit before operating one of its planes. Jetblues request is now in the hands of federal officials. And if you look around those holiday lights theyre starting to pop up, probably on your neighbors house, maybe on yours. Heres a note from the grinch, holiday lights might interfere with your wifi network, according to British Government officials. They say the wiring in the lights can add to the radiofrequency interference in your home. And many internet providers say they see complaints spiking around the holidays. So whats the solution . Move the lights as far away from your router as possible. But it looks so nice when you decorate the router. Boy, that is a sure sign of christmas when the routers been sparkling with lights. Did you hear santa claus is in town . Hes at San Francisco city hall. Nbc bay areas bob redell is there also hopefully being nice and not naughty, teaming up with the mayor and firefighters to hand out presents to children. How are you doing, bob . Reporter kris and scott, im obviously upstairs in the city hall trying to avoid santa so he doesnt remember how naughty ive been. And maybe ill do well christmas morning. Anyway, you can see santa and his elves on a bit of a break right now waiting for a next wave of kids to come in. Theyve been handing out gifts to young boys and girls who otherwise might not receive much. A necklace, bracelets. Oh, wow. Friendship bracelet. Yeah reporter that was a young girl who is here in the city finding out what she just received this morning. The San FranciscoFirefighters Toy Program is the group thats handing out these toys to at least 1,200 children this morning. Each child receives one toy whether its a board game or leapfrog pad or something else. And then they get to have their picture taken with santa. These are kids from some of the roughest and toughest neighborhoods in San Francisco. We get them from the projects, we get them from bay view, hunters point, kids in the manipulation, all over where, you know, the economy really hasnt lifted all boats. And these kids need a toy for christmas. And the firefighters and the san francis cans are there for them. Its amazing. Because for the unfortunate family thats not able to go out and buy the stuff for the kids, this way they at least have something. Its good for the kids to see them smile and happy. Reporter firefighters collect these toys from citizens here in the city throughout the year. Theyre in red barrels at the different fire houses. Thats where the collection points are. Year round they hand out toys to over 200,000 kids, not just at christmas. Whenever theres a disaster like the valley fire this summer in the north bay. The program, this is interesting, started back in 1949. So its been going on, let me do the math, 66 years. Back in 49 when San Francisco firefighters repaired and gave out bicycles to kids in need. So even though the Christmas Season is upon us, if you live here in the city, you know where your local fire house is, you can look for one of those red barrels they are still looking for toys like those toys right there that they have on the steps of the city hall rotunda. reporting live here in San Francisco city hall, bob redell, nbc bay area news. Do be careful because right over your shoulder is the grinch. Theres no grinch. That was a lovely wo