Me and he said why put up a broke pit . Ill get you one. He did. Reporter currently the city spends about 250 million a year on housing and programs for the homeless like this new navigation center. Still, the number on the streets continues to whoever at about 6600. These individuals are being pushed into the neighborhoods. Reporter another challenge, almost half of the homeless have Serious Mental Health problems. Their health is disintegrating much quicker. They stand out much more as being homeless. We have to do a ton more if the city if we are going to be serious. I put it up here. I have to move like every two sundays. You know, not too far but just, you know, have to relocate from one side of the street to the other. Reporter now with the weather coming in and el nino and the prospect of longer and colder rains hitting the bay area, officials in San Francisco and elsewhere are scrambling once again to come up with even emergency shelters to try to get the people off the streets and at least safe for the winter. In San Francisco, phil matier, kpix 5. It could be the most controversial present under the christmas tree. Holiday gun sales are soaring in some cities. New at 6 00 kpix 5s maria medina looks at whats happening here in the bay area. Grasp the pistol, come straight up. Now sights on target fingers on the trigger. Reporter brian wang is just one of several south by firearms instructors who says business is up this morning. That tends to happen after every highprofile shooting. Reporter he says ever since the San Bernardino shooting that killed 14 people, his phone has been ringing. For a lot of people its not about guns. Its about a feeling of safety versus a feeling of, um, you know, vulnerability. Reporter most Gun Store Owners in the south bay also told kpix 5 they are seeing a spike in gun sales since the attack. The sales this month not just because its a hot holiday item. The California Department of justice reports thousands more in gun sales in the days after the shooting. Speed is very important. Reporter wayne says many of the people who call him are people who have never owned a gun in their lives. Some are afraid of finding themselves in an active shooter situation. Our focus is on when you are allowed to use deadly force or lethal force. Reporter as a firearms instructor wang says he hopes people who do buy guns protect themselves and learn how to use them properly. Once you are armed and once you own firearms you have a responsibility to all those people around you. Reporter in san jose, maria medina, kpix 5. The department of justice says roughly one to 2 of gun sales in california get denied for various reasons including criminal histories. Star nba athlete is making National Headlines but its not for what he is doing on the court. I heard about a shooting involving a 3yearold girl over the summer. My daughter riley is that age. Warriors guard steph curry and other basketball superstars in the nba are teaming up in a series of Public Service announcements to begin airing christmas day. The ads featuring nba players specifically focus on gun violence. But never mention gun control. The ads also feature families who have had gun violence. I have lost friends. Ive lost people close to my family. I think this is a great thing that the nba is doing. The ads are funded by every town for gun safety, a group that advocates for gun control. It was founded by former new york mayor Michael Bloomberg in an effort to provide a counterweight to the powerful nra. A flight from oakland to chicago was anything but routine for more than 100 passengers. It should have been a fourhour flight. But an equipment malfunction changed all that. Passengers saw sparks fly when the pilot tried to retract the landing gear after takeoff around 6 a. M. He declared an emergency and started burning fuel over san joaquin county. The boeing 737 circled for four hours burning off fuel. Finally with the lighter plane, it landedded in oakland safely. We were all clapping and crying. When the pilots kept coming out of the cockpit that was alarming. Oh, i thought i was going to die. So people were really scared. Some passengers say that they had had enough flying for one day and returned to their bay area homes. Others boarded different planes and continued to their destinations. Black lives matter protests disrupts Christmas Plans here and at other locations across the country. People trying to get to sfo came upon this. Protestors linking arms and blocking traffic on the connector ramp from 101 into the airport. They held banners saying justice for mario woods. He is the man San Francisco police shot and killed three weeks ago. It took the chp about 10 minutes to remove those protestors. Nine were arrested. The same protest stopped traffic on l. A. s 405 freeway and blocked air travelers in minneapolis before moving to the mall of america where they stopped shopping in its tracks. A story out of San Francisco. Two firefighters got shot by a sole shocked by a solar panel this afternoon while putting out a fire on the roof of a home on hollister in the bayview. The Fire Department says thats when they were shocked by the panels. Theres no word on the firefighters injuries. The fire was put out in 30 minutes. The pilot killed in that plane crash near Castro Valley had a state appointment from the governor. John saccos piper p. A. 32 went down in bad weather yesterday slamming into a steep wooded hillside near the sunol ridge south of pleasanton. He radioed that he was having engine trouble, recovery teams had to use special atvs just to get to the crash site. The ntsb arrived today to lead the investigation. Today my goal is to document the wreckage as it came to rest. Ill be taking some photos, getting latitude and longitude measurements and things like that. Were going to wait to do a more thorough examination of the wreckage once its actually recovered. He was a consultant and safetyier from rockland and a member of the cal osha board. A beautiful break from the rain today around the bay area. Blue skies in San Francisco earlier and just a few clouds overhead in san jose. But enjoy it while you can because we are in for a wet Christmas Eve. One more round of rainfall before we hit christmas. Not on the radar now it. You would know nothing of it if we just use a tight shot. Lets look to the north. Crossing the oregoncalifornia border rain and mountain snowfall as low as 3,000 feet right now in the siskiyous of far Northern California. The impact tomorrow we are not expecting any flooding. Mountain snow fall into the sierra over the next 24 to 36 hours. I have highlighted that as potential impact because if you are on the roads getting from point a to point b wont be slower even though its not your typical monday through friday commute tomorrow being Christmas Eve. Things will be slow because of the rain. Lets talk about the snow because most of the moisture is heading into the mountains. Where we like it. At pass level, anywhere from 12 to 24 inches of new snowfall and even a winter storm warning for Mendocino County north of ukiah the snow level dropping low enough even mount tam may have some snow on top of it come Christmas Morning. Well talk more about specific rainfall totals and go hour by hour through your day tomorrow coming up. See you then, thanks. First thanks and now christmas. The bay area crab season remains on hold officially tonight. But if you want dungeness, you are going to have to pay the price. Kpix 5s Mike Sugerman found out that local fishermen are really feeling the crunch tonight. Mikes in pacifica. Mike . Reporter yeah, they are, kenny. You know, crab is a San Francisco tradition for christmas. But not this year. The season continues to be postponed, which is why the crab traps are not at the bottom of the ocean floor. Instead, they are piling up on suburban lawns like the one here in pacifica also piling up, bills. Playing with your dog and watching a movie sounds like a good way to spend the afternoon christmas week but its not what ian wood is used to doing. I would be going crabbing. Reporter thats something no one is doing this season. And when the last two months of the year make up most of your income, its a hard, hard hit. 170,000. About 140 new crab pots. 300 a pot and then all the line and buoys sitting here at 400 a month. Reporter thats bad. And it only gets worse. Then my car gets stolen. Reporter his nissan quest had all his clothes and identification in it. Hasnt the guy suffered enough . Forget that he cant make his house payments, either. My house is going to go bye bye, im sure. Im not even worried about it right at the moment. I got divorced so i dont care if she has a place to live anymore. Reporter there are hundreds of stories like his out there these days. Postponement of the season due to bad algae has its claws in every aspect of the fishery. Crab is a 60 million industry in california. Its where most of the money is to be made. We have 25 of our normal orders. Thats all we have. Reporter angel was born into the business. Has been around Fishermans Wharf all her life. She says she has never seen anything like this. Oh, normally there would be so much foot traffic out there. There would be a buzz. There would be a high energy excitement. You know, once crab season comes its almost like a festival every day. Reporter the crab she sells are now from washington where the domoic acid isnt affecting sea life. Even though its been judged safe, people just arent buying. She isnt selling. Fishermen arent making nor spending money and a lot of people are suffering. The crab is Still Available its out of water. 15 a pound. Thats double what you would normally pay. Tests came back yesterday. The poison algae is only getting worse. In pacifica, Mike Sugerman, kpix 5. Coming up, the change in Airport Security that might come as a surprise on screening. Old meets new on taxis. How one company is replacing its oldfashioned meters. Plus, salmon trapped in Northern California canals. Whats keeping them there . And the effort to get them back where they belong. Announcer get beautyrest, posturepedic, even tempurpedic mattress sets at low clearance prices save even more on floor samples, demonstrators, and closeout inventory the year end Clearance Sale is on now at sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep heres a live look at minetn jose airport. Its been bustling all day, but so far todays one of the busiest travel days of of the year. Heres a live look at mineta san jose airport. Its been bustling all day. No delays so far. There are troubles in the east and midwest because of the perfect. 38Million People are expected to fly between now and the 1st. They will be subject to a new tsa policy. Agents can now order people to go through a fullbody scan even if they opt out. Tsa said they changed the 30le is toy make it easier to find hidden liquids and weapons that arent made of metal. Lets take a live look right now outside at what the drivers in the bay area are dealing with. Freeway will be jammed for the next several days. We are looking at 580 right now. It is definitely slow going. Aaa predicts more than 100 Million People will travel 50 miles or more during the holidays. Daily Fantasy Sports websites are coming under scrutiny here in california. Marin county assemblyman mark levine sent a letter to attorney general Kamala Harris calling on her to shut down sites like fanduel and draftkings. New york state has gone to court to try to close down daily Fantasy Sports websites. The state says that they are a form of illegal gambling. San franciscos oldest can Company Joining the 21st century. Flywheel formerly desoto is replacing those oldfashioned meters where cloudbased technology. It allows passengers to hail a can and even split fares with a smartphone. It is the companys way of competing with uber and lyft. Rescue under way right now to save several large salmon that have become trapped in drainage canals on the way to find spawning grounds. Its going on at yolo county about 10 miles northeast of the town of woodland. Kpix 5 reporter don ford has the latest on the efforts to save them. Reporter hundreds of salmon took a wrong turn and instead of a clear Running Stream ended up here in a muddy irrigation ditch. The department of fish and wildlife is doing its best to rescue as many as they can. Its literally life or death. If we didnt do this, these giant 35, 36 fish would be gone and dead. Reporter the wrong turn started 30 miles away in the delta, 30 miles of drainage ditches shallow irrigation canals running through farming fields. State biologists dug a trap to hold them in a special pen, the endangered fall salmon. Each day dozens are rescued, studied and tag. 92. Reporter then place need a special holding tank trailer to be released back into the sacramento river. Biologists say the drought makes this rescue operation critical for the survival of these endangered salmon because back in the delta the water flows are so low the fish are having a hard time figuring out which is the right way to go. These canals seem like creeks to the fish but theres no spawning habitats, theres no gravel. The fish cant spawn in mud. Then they end up all the way up here in woodland, which is wow. You know, 30 miles from where they should be. Reporter so far, more than 450 fall run chinook salmon have been saved. The operation will continue daily until the start of winter storms. In the yolo bypass, don ford, kpix 5. Which are really just around the corner now those winter storms. They are here. Something coming maybe tonight, tomorrow night. Tonight and tomorrow morning some rainfall and all eyes are on the beginning of the year when hopefully really el nino hits its stride and we get a lot of rain. Were almost there. Gosh, we have been talking about it for a year. We are right on the cusp of finally hitting january when the pattern typically materializes. Its a beautiful evening outside now and nearly full moon over the bay bridge and San Francisco bay. You can see it reflecting off the water. Highs today chilly. Of note, San Francisco only 54 degrees today. One year ago today, San Francisco hit a record high of 68. Today, 14 degrees cooler. A few spots at 60. Fremont is one of them. Concord, high today 59. Napa sunshine 59. Morgan hill 58 degrees. Sunshine no more. Look to the north. That will get here as soon as overnight tonight. You wake up tomorrow morning it will be showery. We have rain moving through and the rain may last all the way until the start of the raiders final home game of the year. We hope not beyond. It will be right here on the kpix 5 so tune in 5 00 tomorrow. Raiders chargers, it will be a little wet at the beginning of the game. Heres why. Quick moving system is diving out of the gulf of alaska where everything has been originating over the past several weeks. You can see is right there. Here it comes. Its moved about 200 miles in the past three hours. Its racing here quick in and quick out. Tomorrow night its done but the next storm is on approach. Since its moving so quickly and wont hang out for so long rainfall totals are not that crazy. We have seen up to 2 this week earlier. At most well add a quarter inch in san jose, perhaps even less for San Francisco. The stoweddiest rainfall will be in Mendocino County where the stead yost rainfall will be in Mendocino County where it will be snow above 2,000 feet. Otherwise tomorrow morning will be wet tapering off to showers. Well have 50s through this time next week. Livermore tomorrow 53. Chilly shopping in redwood city, 54. San rafael 54. Napa tomorrow 52 degrees. We are dry on christmas day. 52 will be the high inland. Mid50s near the bay. Well stay brisk through the weekend. Another round of quick moving showers sunday night. Aside from that, a temporary break from the rainfall even if we did not receive one more drop of rain in San Francisco for the rest of the month, we would be wetter than normal. Good news. Good start. Yeah. We need more but its a good start. Thank you. Still ahead, grinches stealing the music. The prized possessions taken from a band trying to spread christmas cheer. Plus, even the feds got involved in a custody battle over this bay area duck. We were there for the frenzy as juanita returned home. ,,,,,,,, a thief broke into his car. Sanford went to a big band musician wants his music and instruments back after a thief broke into his car. Jeff sanford went to the beach chalet in San Francisco last night after giving a concert at the va. While he was grabbing dinner, the burglars struck. Jeff says the crook took not only his music, but a saxophone from 1945 and his clarinet. I lost a little bit of vocal arrangements from my big band class, um, things that are handwritten, um, and all the music, all the christmas music. Its just, um, i really feel violated. Jeff thinks only one person is responsible for the breakin because he or she left behind another saxophone that he had in the car. And we are hearing more and more about car breakins all around the bay area and it turns out one business in the east bay did something about it. Da lin is in Pleasant Hill with some blunt signs that have been quite effective. Da. Reporter yeah, veronica. The Restaurant Owner says he has seen a lot fewer car break