[instrumental music] live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Freeway. We have breaking news tonight, interstate 80 shut down both directions in berkeley over two hours as protesters take over the freeway. Right now east bound lanes are still closed, but we are told they will reopen any minute. While the freeway was closed a woman went into labor. We just heard from the fire department. They found her and took her to the hospital. Christin ayers is next to i80. Whats going on . Reporter these protests started around 5 00 this evening and are still going strong tonight. You can still see video from chopper 5 of several dozen protesters still taking to the streets in berkeley tonight, a small group. It was much larger earlier today, up to 1,500 people, dwindled down to 1,000. At one point protesters took over interstate 80 walking several miles down the freeway. You can see lots of brake lights on i80 tonight all because those protesters decided to shut down the freeway. Protesters locked arms blocking both lanes of interstate 80 in berkeley preparing to march toward the bay bridge on the Third Straight day of protesters that have fanned across the city of berkeley. Officers were quick to respond blocking off a footbridge over the freeway. [ sirens ] reporter for a brief moment our cameras were caught between the protesters and the squirmish line. Officers using their batons to push hundreds of protesters back. A short distance away protesters actually stop an amtrak train from moving. Several protesters have slid themselves directly onto the tracks here putting their hands up and standing in the way of the train continuing here. As officers in riot gear block the freeway on ramp, we watched as 1 truck tried to drive on. Officers drew their guns. There was conflict over how to handle this protest after other marches over the weekend went to broken windows and arrests. This time around protesters staged peaceful sitins outside the Berkeley Police department. To the chagrin of some who wanted to do more. If we cant march in the streets, we support our ways on the streets peacefully and let them police us how three been. Reporter interstate 80 remains slowed down at this point. Again, some protesters have moved into emeryville, but thats still impacting traffic out here. We have seen agencies coming from Vacaville Police and joining help stop these protests. Right now we dont know exactly how many people were arrested. We do know tonight this evening was not marked by as many vandalisms as we saw before, but again these larger actions of shutting down the freeway and stopping trains are what distinguished this night from others. Back to you. Christin ayers in berkeley now. Well check in with andria borba at the toll plaza in oakland where the chp is defending the bay bridge. At theyre up reporter earlier tonight some of those protesters hopped the fence and made their way onto the bike path. As of right now, the chp is staged here east of the toll plaza at the bay bridge. I am told if the protesters try to take the bay bridge, they will stack their cars end to end, stop traffic and make their stands here, their skirmish line here at the bay bridge. You can see a bunch of them standing around. They are prepared for the possibility those protesters we saw in emeryville and berkeley blocking interstate 80 will try to make their way over to the bay bridge and they are prepared to stop them at that point. At this point, though, do you see any protesters in the area at all . Is there anybody within visual sight . Reporter no. We havent seen anybody within visual sight. At one point we saw the eastbound lanes of interstate 80 coming off the bay bridge. They appeared to slow down a bit. Traffic is moving again. We dont know if protesters had made their way onto the eastbound lanes. Thank you. This is what theyre up against. One of the protesters tweeted this picture. You can see the crowd trying to get through Police Barricades earlier tonight. Berkeleyprotests is trending on twitter tonight. Were seeing a lot of the commute chaos unfold in tweet like this one. The protests have brought i80 to a stop. Berkeley side tweeted photos of protesters chanting as a woman parked her truck on addison and essex to block the train and from trucks to actual people, this picture of the taken of protesters lying on the tracks staging a diein. So far we havent seen a repeat of last nights violence. This man was hit in the head with a hammer trying to keep demonstrators from breaking windows at a radioshack on shattuck avenue last night. Others came to his aid and wrapped his head in gauze before he was taken to the hospital. He is expected to be okay. Weve seen nfl players do it and tonight in new york nba stars showed their support as well. Lebron james and some other nba players wore protest shirts while they warmed up for the nets cavs game. I cant breathe were the words eric garner said before he died. James said that he wore the shirt as a shout out to garners family. If you got a lot of rain last week, just wait. The strongest storm in at least six years is headed our way now. The strongest when you combine the rain and wind which we will be coming up thursday. A flood watch already in effect thursday and friday for the entire bay area. Soil is saturated from last weeks rainfall. So any additional heavy rainfall which we will have may exacerbate a flooding problem and the highest risk will be in the north bay hills. You could see up to 8 inches of rain over two days. The bigger concern to me . The wind. A high wind watch is in effect for the entire bay area. Everybody with wind gusts 35 to 45 miles per hour, up to 60 along the coast and in the hills the wind gusts may hit 70 miles per hour. So a high impact for flooding, a high impact for wind and a very high impact for the commute. We are red across the board. The storm is still about 1,000 miles away, but its getting its act together and the latest computer model information i have right here suggests very strong winds and very heavy rainfall thursday. Well break down the rain region by region and talk more about the storm coming up. Tonight we have video you can always get up to the minute storm information on our website www. Kpix5. Com storm. Tonight we have video of Police Taking down a fan at le at levi stadium as the crowd screams at them to stop. Reporter this video does not show how it all started. Police say the fan was frustrated about waiting in a long line to get onto the main concourse during halftime here at levi stadium. So he vented to a stadium employee while he was drunk, used profanity and things started to get out of hand and police intervened. Dnt ll phone vide i need you to [ bleep ]. You need to back down. Reporter the man in the white pullover repeatedly tells an officer not to touch him as cops try to move him along through a crowd of fans. This happened at the pac12 championship friday. Seconds later one officer starts swinging his baton at the back of the mans leg. Another puts his hand around the guys neck as the crowd chances. One of the batons break during the takedown. Police eventually arrested 44 yearold mark wydon of eugene, oregon, for resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer. He was intoxicated. He was belligerent toward the officers and would not follow any of their directions. So the officers decided to eject him and he refused to be ejected. When they tried to escort him out, he pushed one of the officers. Thats what Santa Clara Police say you dont see in this cell phone video captured by a fan. Take off the sound and just watch the video without the sound. You will see that mr. Wyden is actively resisting officers and hes not complying with officers to be arrested. Reporter did your officers do everything by the book . Well, obviously our officers did enough what they felt they had to do to take him into custody. Reporter and police could not speak to whether those officers used Excessive Force because they say this case is still under review by the department. The fan suffered minor injuries and has been released from jail 10 days for his arraignment due in court in january. Betty yu, kpix5. Meanwhile nearly 100 fans were kicked out of yesterdays big raiders 9ers game because of behavior like this. Rival fans were throwing punches, throwing drinks in the stand. In all 93 people were ejected. 31 were arrested. Socalled torture report outlining the cias brutal interrogation tactics is set to be released tomorrow. Mark kelly tells us there fear tonight that it could put u. S. Embassies in harms way. Ken, this report has been held up for years now and on the eve of its release its being called practically an indictment of the cia. Ure report 2 17 8 josh earne, White House Press secretary been from the the report, 480 pages, expose an agency that since the september 11th attacks turned to torture to get alqaeda prisoners to talk. The white house has been from the beginning pushing for the release of this report and pushing for as much content as possible to be released. Reporter even so, the white house is aware lifting the veil on more than a decade of cia torture techniques could unlock a pandoras box of unrest for the american military. I think its critical that the American People and rest of the world know whats been going on. Reporter dean of Golden Gate Law School rachel van cleve supports releasing the report but not tomorrow. These are people already in harms way protecting the democratic ideals that we value and to exacerbate any potential harm to them is deeply troubling. Reporter sources tell cbs news the Senate Report argues the cia could have found bin laden without using some of the harsh tactics which included sleep deprivation, stress positions and the most extreme measure, waterboarding. Month. Benew senator Dianne Feinstein making sure to release the papers this month because in the new year a republican senator will chair the Senate Intelligence committee and in all likelihood this report would not see the light of day in that situation. Mark kelly, kpix5. Night how they bad girls, bad girls caught on camera ripping off Designer Stores in the bay area. Tonight how they managed to stay one step ahead of the police. Plus californias worse drought in 1,200 years. Tonight the feds say they know whats causing it and its lips are your thinnest skin. They need special attention, day and night. New chapstick dualended hydration lock provides 24hour care. Spf protects by day. Natural oils replenish by night. Chapstick. Over a million californians have out of reach for far too long. Health insurance. How . They enrolled through covered california. Its the Health Insurance marketplace where youll find a range of plans from leading Health Insurance companies that offer you the best combination of quality, rates and benefits. And, through covered california, you may get financial help to pay for coverage. To have Health Insurance starting january 1st, you need to enroll by december 15th. Protestors have cleared interstate 80 in berkeley east bound lanes are still updating that breaking news for you, protesters have cleared i80 in berkeley, but eastbound lanes are still closed. The chp is scanning the road bed to make sure there is no debris. The lanes are expected to be reopened any time now. Earlier a woman went into labor stuck in that traffic and weve just learned another man had a heart attack and another had a stroke. Of a person threatening to tonight southbound 680 is still shut down at alum rock avenue in san jose because of a person threatening to jump from the overpass. Police have been negotiating with that person since 3 00 this afternoon. Both sides of the freeway were closed all through the commute backing up traffic for miles. Northbound lanes finally reopened around 9 00. Os union square. Police call them the rainbow girls, a gang of thieves behind a series of high end heists in San Franciscos union square. Andria borba tonight on why it may be nearly impossible to stop them. Egin their retail plunder. Two of ast a rack of organized retail crime is a good description for this. Reporter in an instant four rainbow girls entered this store, scatter and begin their retail plunder. Two girls passed a rack of shoes, grabbed high end handbags and high tail it to the exit brushing off security and sales clerks. Theyre not the only ones involved. Reporter on another camera two more rainbow girls stuffing more handbags in their own. At the door theres an attempt to stop them, but its too late. By the struggle theyre outside with the merchandise. According to former fbi agent rick smith, the girls arent stealing the bags for their own use. A puppet master is fencing the designer wares. Probably within two or three minutes of when they steal the goods. Reporter two years ago these rainbow girls were cuffed. The key to shutting down the operation according to smith is finding the mastermind putting the teens to work. Theres more people involved in this. Reporter sources tell kpix5 there is a dedicated sfpd detective trailing the rainbow girls, but the problem is when the girls hit 18, they age out of the ring and then the brightly dressed theyve get new members to join their colorful gang of robbers. They want to be noticed in a way. Its kind of a shock and awe type thing. Here we are. Were going to steal something. The quick hits can be incredibly profitable. In 1 case the rainbow girls stole 29,000 worth of merchandise from Neiman Marcus in a single swoop. Tonight california is honoring a bay area woman who crusaded for more people to become organ donors. Cate cauguiran on they are priceless contributions even after her on her priceless contributions even after her death. I received a double Lung Transplant in 2000 and a second in 2007. My sister and i were dying and at the end. Our lives when family said yes to donations. Reporter anna traveled, hiked, rain marathons, made the most of her second and third chances until she died last year from cancer. The double donor recipient never forgot what others gave her, so she donated what she, could her eyes. Thanks to annas donation two people in maryland were able to get the gift of sight again. She loved to travel and see the world and so im really blown away that two other people in the world can now see out of her eyes. Reporter tonight at Lucile PackardChildrens Hospital her family and friends decorated this portrait. Anna was chosen along with other donors to be honored at next years rose parade in southern california. Her picture will be placed on the donate life float. I loved ann in very much and to see anna very much and to see shes honored this way and so many of her friends and co workers have been here, its great. People feel like they cant be donors and rule themselves out. Im here to tell you anna is a prime example of someone who didnt rule themself out. Reporter one organ donor can help save up to 60 people and for her family it means anna still lives on. To be able to recognize what she did at the end of her life makes me feel like there was meaning in her death. Reporter in palo alto cate cauguiran, kpix5. We first met anna and her twin sister two years ago. They were kpix5 jefferson Award Winners for their work with organ donation. Tonight the feds are telling us dont blame Global Warming for californias drought. A new report out from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concludes a natural variation in the weather pattern has been the big driver behind scenes like this. Thats right, its nature, not manmade greenhouse gases. Critics argue the study fails to take record warmth into account. Boy, come later on this week were going to forget what it was like to have florian. Its going to be crazy. Weve no rain. Its going to be crazy. Weve really filmed the switch in december. This is a flipped the switch in december. This is a big time issue. This may be a storm as significant as any weve seen over the past 6 years, perhaps 16 years if this computer forecast is verified. Well see a powerful storm moving in wednesday night lasting through at least thursday afternoon. Fog, cloud cover tonight but no rain. Weve seen more than 1 2foot in san rafael of rain, nearly 5 inches in sonoma, South San Francisco coming up on 4inch of rainfall and kimber Hills Academy in fremont 4 inches of rain. We may double some of those numbers by the end of this week. All coastal locations starting tomorrow. That strong storm will begin firing off swells near the coastline. Sea ofs could be running 15 to 20 feet right along the coastline as soon as tomorrow. A bit of good news for the storm, too, aside from the rain, mountain snowfall above 7,000 feet, 18 to 36 inches of new snow. A winter storm watch is posted for the western slopes of of the sierra. The storm itself will be much stronger and make a very close pass to the bay area. That guy there missed us. Most of us didnt see rainfall today. Its still about two days away. Tomorrow, wednesday, a weak ridge of High Pressure keeps us dry, a little sunshine. If you hit 70 today, youll be close to that tomorrow. Wednesday night into thursday this guy will slow down, strengthen and slide right by to the north leading to very strong winds and very heavy rainfall. Lets focus on the rain now, over a twoday span and most of it thursday, but some of it friday, 3 to 7 inches of rain in the north bay, even more in the mountains. Santa cruz mountains 4 to 8 inches of rainfall, San Francisco, San Mateo County 2 to 3 more inches of rain, a little less for the east bay, rainfall, lots of rain, lots of wind. We will likely see power outage issues. Rain continuing into friday. The wind is finished by thursday afternoon. 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