These retail workers are late and desperate to get to union square for their shifts. We were supposed to be there at 12. Reporter whats your boss going to say . Probably not too happy since its black friday. Im frustrated i cant get there. Reporter she lives paycheck to bay check. She says its hurting the 99 especially low income workers like her who rely on public transit. Im pretty concerned because its, like, the final straw at my job today. If you dont make it, then you might get fired. Reporter folks scrambling to get to work in San Francisco had very few options. Pay 70 bucks for a taxi or take the bus. This line in downtown oakland had 150 people waiting. We werent able to get on the San Francisco bus because it was full so now we have to wait an hour for the next bus. Reporter her friend who is late was near tears and too upset to talk fearing she will lose her job. Its a stressful time i think with the holidays and people are already a little stressed and under a lot of pressure. So reporter after an hour of trying, she went home, not sure if she will have a job to go back to. They will be upset but, you know, if i can explain my case, you know, hopefully they will be understanding. Reporter a lot of people stuck at bart stations say hey, theyre behind a message of the protests but they say the protest was the wrong approach and counterproductive. Live in oakland im da lin, kpix 5. Heres Something Else thats really on our minds tonight. A live look at the evening sky which looks clear in places but this is where the saying, the calm before the storm, comes from. Well get wet and they are of getting ready in walnut creek stocking up on sandbags. This couple says better safe than sorry. And meteorologist paul deanno is tracking this storm like a leopard. Paul. I tell you what, we have some rain coming. Its going to be with us for a 120 hours, not a fiveday all day washout where heavy rain at times. The first round is in the north bay right now approaching santa rosa and sonoma and marin coastline. We have pockets of heavy rain toward Clearlake Petaluma and novato you will see rainfall before 7 p. M. For the rest of us the rain is just a couple of hours away, a big area of low pressure thats been waiting its turn offshore. Now with the ridge gone, well be talking about that rain finally moving in. It gets here overnight tonight. It will be steady to heavy, maybe waking you up. Most of that between 3 and 7 saturday morning with a little drier weather on saturday afternoon and its not just rain. We have snow in the sierra. It will be pretty high, the snow level, 6,000 feet but above that by sunday, up to a foot of new snowfall and windy at the passes, as well. So this is just the beginning. Well talk about how much rain we see over five days coming up. Thank you. Financial experts are making positive predictions as the Holiday Shopping season is getting off to a roaring start. The National Retail federation forecasts holiday sales to grow more than 4 this year. That would be the biggest jump in the last three years. Estimates say americans spent 2. 5 billion on thanksgiving day alone. Many u. S. Retailers make 20 of their annual sales during the Holiday Shopping season. And Holiday Shoppers are always looking to find the cheapest prices, the best deals. Kpix 5s consumerwatch reporter julie watts says theres an app for that along with a little help from credit card companies. Reporter for some, its a contact sport. Others, an exercise in patience. But scoring deals this Holiday Season doesnt have to be this hard. We found that 72 of people are not Price Matching and spending extra. Reporter he says a study found most americans arent taking advantage of the easiest ways to save, find an item priced lower somewhere else and most major retailers will match it. There are lots of apps that help with Price Matching some simply scanning a bar code and tell you where to find the price cheaper. Reporter scan the bar code or type the products name and the app will find the lowest price so you can ask the store to match it or purchase directly through the app. Shop savvy is similar but you can also sign up for lower price alerts and this app walks you through the stores Price Matching policy giving you extra leverage at the register. But if thats too much, let your credit card price protection do the work for you. If you find something you bought for a lower price somewhere else, they will help refund the price. Nerd wallet says discover and mastercard have price protection policies. So if you notice a price drop after the purchase, simply submit a claim and they will refund the difference. And with city rewind, you simply register the item as soon as you make the purchase and citibank searches for you. If price drops within 60 days, youre automatically reimbursed. Kind of makes this seem like a lot of work. Now, those price protection payouts are capped between 250 and 500 depending on the card and they dont make sense if you dont pay off your card every month. You will pay more in finance charges than you will save. Also, keep in mind, the Price Matching policies for retailers do vary widely. Only a handful like walmart, target and best buy will price match online competitors. Julie watts, kpix 5. The chp says tonight they know who they are looking for after a wild sideshow in oakland earlier this week. Police say that these are just a few of the arrests that will be made over the coming days. They say its not only illegal to take part in a sideshow, but also to be in the crowd. Nearly 200 people watched as drivers recklessly spun their wheels wednesday night as police moved in to the port of oakland seeing one car trying to escape with young kids inside. This same night just a short distance away, of course, police had their hands full with violent protestors swarming oakland streets over the ferguson grand jury decision. Police say that sideshow organizers may have been trying to take advantage of the timing but that backfired. It may have been a crime of opportunity and that the sideshow participants were aware that Police Presence was committed to the city of oakland. Not anticipating that Police Presence could then be divert to take care of the sideshow. More than 100 officers were quickly rerouted to the sideshow. Dozens of vehicles now have been impounded. A number of firearms have been recovered from the scene. In other bay area headlines the chp motorcycle officer was seriously injured after being hit by a car. The accident happened in sunnyvale. The driver was cited for running a red light and is not suspected of driving under the influence. When you win the world series, people are going to line up to see you. Were already talking baseball. Fans braved the cold this morning outside at t park, i think it was freezing at about 54 degrees. Single game tickets for the first half of the 2015 giants season went on sale today online and in the Ticket Office but a lot of people say they would rather do this, wait in line than pay a 4. 50 Service Charge through the internet. Makes a good christmas gift. A little girl told shes broken the rules and cant return to school. The offense that prompted administerrers to have a private investigator trail her. Little boys got by a city snowplow. Trapped for hours under hundreds of pounds of snow, how two little boys got buried by a city snowplow. Australia pounded by a powerful superstorm. The damage left by hail the size of baseballs. ,,,, was told shed get kicked of school. Because of where lived. Kpix 5s ryan takeo h a bay area second grader was told that she would get kicked out of school because of where she lived. Kpix 5s ryan takeo with the accusation and the little girl caught in the mill of in the middle of an investigation. Reporter this is 7yearold vivians room. Maybe the doll is a dead giveaway. I kind of like Justin Bieber dolls. Reporter her mom is the livein nanny for the family. She refers to my son as her younger brother. Reporter they recently moved to the Orinda Union School district but they were suspicious of where vivian lived and hired a private investigator. They think i dont live there. Reporter the second grader pinkie swears she lives in orinda during the week and only spends some weekends at her grandmothers in bay point but she said she would be kicked out of class by next friday. I told my mom if i lose the school ill be crying. Reporter she wonders if she was picked on because she is hispanic. We have students coming in who are not resident in the district. Reporter the lawyer stood by the hiring of the private investigator but said they have now decided vivian wont be kicked out. The students attorney has provided additional paperwork and the student is going to remain enrolled at this time. Im thrilled to hear the news. Im still upset that we have been put through this in the first place. Reporter vivian just wants to stay in school with the teacher she likes. Miss doyle, shes nice. Shes like the best teacher i have ever had. Reporter ryan takeo, kpix 5. By the way that orinda family says either way, they are going to give the school board an earful at the next district meeting. Two boys in new york are lucky to be alive after being buried for hours under a mound of snow. The boys are cousins and they had been building a snow fort wednesday night. A snowplow drove by and didnt see them dumping 7 feet of snow where they were playing. Neither of the boys had gloves on. Temperatures quickly dropped below freezing. Their calls for help couldnt be heard under all that snow. I was thinking that me and my brother were going to die. I was like, gasping for air. When the boys didnt arrive home by curfew, their families started searching. A dog led a team of rescuers to where they were buried. The boys were freed and taken to the hospital. They say their days of building snow forts are over. In sleepy austin, texas, a gunman fires more than 100 rounds at downtown buildings. The police headquarters, the Mexican Consulate and buildings near the popular 6th Street Entertainment district were all targeted. A Police Sergeant fired at the still unidentified man. Its still not known if the officers bullets killed him or if he killed himself. A victory for ray rice over his nfl suspension. An arbitrator says he should be allowed to play again. More than a dozen thieves become grinches in a smashand grab robbery. Why the victim says the loot he lost is just the beginning of his troubles. , bulldog bulldog oooh mattress discounters 197 mattress Sale Television announcer get a serta mattress, any size, for just 197 each piece when you buy the complete set. The 197 mattress sale. Bulldog oh boy Television Announcer . Ends sunday, thanksgiving weekend. Video punching is fiancee h won his appeal to play in t nfl again. Ray the Football Player caught on camera punching his fiancee who is now his wife has won his appeal to play in the nfl again. Ray rice argued that he was incorrectly punished twice. A judge agreed. Rice was originally given a two game suspension. The punishment was increased after video went public that showed rice punching his then fiancee. The nfl says it accepts the decision. Rice is a free agent if any team wants to sign him. The 49ers are pitiful showing against the seahawks led to a little post thanksgiving indigestion and vern glenn joins to us talk about what the 49ers learned. Can you imagine you embarrass your father the team he works for, and then your phone rings, and it says, dad on the caller id . You know youre in trouble when that happens. Win or lose seems like every week drama follows the 49ers. Now, Colin Kaepernick after the teams 1913 embarrassing loss against seattle was booed off the field after one of his worst games. Jed york unhappy with the result immediately after the game we had to, quote, this performance wasnt acceptable. I apologize for that. It didnt end there. The daughter of general manager trent baalke tweeted her thoughts on the teams offensive coordinator, quote, greg roman can take a hike the 49ers dont want you no more. Close quote. Now, moments after she hit send, as with many parentchild matter, she got a little call from her dad. It was a onesided conversation. And lets just say, the end result . The tweet was shut down and so was the whole account. But the damage was done. How many times have kids repeated what they have heard in their own home . So imagine what greg roman feels like right now after i guess true thoughts were let out of the bag there . Think before you type. Absolutely. Dont hit send unless you really mean it. Good advise under any circumstances. Thank you. See you at 6 00. Well, what youre about to see might have been the best part of yesterdays lionsbears game. Listen. And the home of the brave [ music ] wow. I just got chills. The pintsized singer quinn Davey Johnson performed the national anthem. He thrilled the crowd with his powerful rendition. He was a finalist on season nine of americas got talent. Wow. Amazing. Well, the city of san jose is looking for techies not to hire them but to lure them to live in the bay areas biggest city. Len ramirez looks at how they are rolling out the welcome mat. Reporter at a massive new highrise Apartment Building workers are literally laying the groundwork for a new kind of downtown san jose. One with thousands of new residents who are younger, hipper and more hightech than ever says mayorelect sam liccardo. We are making san jose more hip every day except its not happening from city hall. Its happening because of the creative people who live there now. We are in the access building. Reporter people like jeff a manager of a Silicon Valley hightech company who just moved here from austin. A fair amount of my coworkers live up in San Francisco and commute down. Im not a big fan of the commute. Reporter his new home has gorgeous views with restaurants, shopping, entertainment and mass transit all just steps away. Theres a lot to do especially beneficial when you get home late from work at night and you dont feel like cooking, i dont really have to worry about that. Reporter with three cranes in the air and at least six more condo and Apartment Buildings on the way, downtown san jose is the new housing hot spot for Silicon Valley. Even with rents in the 3,000s, hightech workers with comfortable paychecks will fill up the buildings fast according to one realtor causing a welcome economic Ripple Effect for other businesses. The more people you bring, the more that will follow. So well probably see a lot more activity from a retail perspective with those people here. Reporter now more than ever, san jose is selling itself as a place where people can live, play and work. Coming up at 6 00 tonight, more on the work part of it. Why companies are relocating and expanding in downtown san jose and how thats already changing the landscape. In san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. Imagine driving along in the rain and this happens. I cant imagine. This hail some of it the size of tennis balls poured down as super storms roared across the city of brisbane, australia, last night. Wind gusts up to 87 miles an hour. Tore through buildings and brought down power lines and flooded streets. It was like gunfire, it was sudden and rapid. But it was scary, large hailstones. The winds were incredible. Its very, very messy. To sum it up. [ laughter ] its the worst storm to hit there since 1985. Insurance claims have already topped 100 million. Wow. Unbelievable. Well, i dont think were going to get anything like that. No. But we are going to get a little bit of rain actually quite a bit. Its going to be a lot of rainfall. Not Severe Weather with the hail, the thunderstorms, the strong damaging winds. But we are going to be right up on the cusp of some flooding. I dont think well see that. Well see a beneficial fiveday period where it rains a lot. It will be cloudy where you are soon. Sfo 60. Santa rosa rain and 56. Oakland the warm spot, 66 degrees. Radar is getting more active. Its slowly working its way south. You can see along the marin and Sonoma County coastline thats you at bodega bay inland along 101, cloverdale, healdsburg, windsor, santa rosa, rohnert park, raining now and the rain will pick up in coverage and intensity overnight tonight. Showed you this yesterday. Updated things a bit because the flooding concern is mainly on the roads. That urban or street flooding. Thats the concern over the next five days. River flooding or widespread flooding likely wont happen. Wind will be an issue with the coast but not widespread. Its the traveling. Everybody coming home over the weekend. Its everybody driving to and from work and school next week. That will be impacted on a high level because of the series of storms. Had a ridge of High Pressure blocking all the rainfall. Thats moving out opening the back door for low pressure to move in. Storm will rotate around this like a pitching machine pitching toward the bay area. The jet stream is over us. Many storms will hop aboard that train. Not much moving on this map. The question is, is there something being pitched at us or not . And the answer is, not all the time. We are going to see breaks between the rain but there will be rain heavy at times each day for the next five days. Im stopping futurecast at 3 00 tomorrow afternoon. By then, already an inch of rainfall in napa, half inch in san rafael and look at the rainfall totals by sunday afternoon. Nearly an inch in San Francisco. More than an inch in san jose. And more than an inch for you in santa rosa. And thats just day 2 of 5. So what to expect . No one day is going to be an allday washout. There will be breaks from the rain even sunshine worked in there but there will be a lot of rain the next five days and