Are out watching movies and watching the kids play soccer and basketball and doing all kinds of things. They should be here. I told the president we would be happy to look at wah he proposes but the truth is we are coming up against a hard deadline and as i said this is a conversation we should have had months ago. Reporter democrats want to extend the bushera tax cuts to everyone except those americans making 250,000 or more a year. Many republicans are against any tax increases. Most americans just want something to be done. People are just tired of partisanship and they want everyone to come together. Reporter if lawmakers dont reach a deal by january 1, many economists are concerned it could eventually lead to another recession. Im ed payne reporting. President obama appears to have more backing from the public in budget negotiations. A gallup tracking poll released wednesday gives mr. Obama 54 support compared to 26 for House Speaker john boehner. 5 02. A looming dock worker strike threatens to hurt the economy, as well. Longshoremen are locked in negotiations with shipping companies over royalties paid to workers for each ton of cargo they move. A shutdown would impact 15 ports along the east coast and the gulf and officials estimate it will cost 1 billion a day. 5 03. Lets check traffic and weather. We had a break yesterday but i guess rain is coming back. Its all gone. Hello. It didnt last very long. We got rain heading towards the bay area and you can see that low. Its right there. So it hasnt quite hit the bay area yet. But by later on this afternoon, thats when were going to see light showers and its going to quickly spread all across the bay area, continuing to tomorrow morning. So its on approach right now and you can see those showers. Bring an umbrella if you are heading outside at all today. So again you wont need it for this morning. The only thing were talking about are all these cold temperatures. Very chilly. Fairfield 34 degrees. San francisco in the 40s. Its going to be a cold day this afternoon. Temperatures sightly below what we saw yesterday, 54 in oakland, 51 in san rafael, 52 in santa rosa. So you got the idea. Just a cold rainy day on tap. It looks like its going to continue through tomorrow clearing out sunday and a chance of rain on new years eve. The night looks clear. Tuesday, wednesday unsettled, clearing thursday a mixed bag for next week. In the meantime the roads are still pretty much free and clear. You can see its looking good toward the bay bridge. This is usually our best indicator of how things are moving across the bay area. Everything is flowing nicely towards doyle drive. More lanes open towards southbound 101 heading into San Francisco. If you are traveling the nimitz, various lanes are blocked approaching embarcadero. Scheduled only until about 5 00 this morning. So not too much longer. Eastbound through livermore various lanes blocked according to caltrans until 9 00 this morning. South bay drive times are all still at the limit. We never saw any delays in the south bay yesterday on the guadalupe parkway or 101. Mass transit on time. Muni we mentioned it all morning. 100th anniversary free rides all day and new years eve night, as well. Thats a check of traffic and weather. Back to you guys. On this mornings bay area watch, a shooting is under investigation at an east bay bart station. The 18yearold victim is expected to recover. He was shot in the parking lot of the pittsburgbay point station just before 7 00 last night. At this time there are no suspects. The shooting and investigation caused major delays for bart riders. As did reports of a man with a gun outside the concord bart station. This is just after the pittsburg incident last night. But police say it was not related. No word if a suspect was ever found by officers. Trains are running again this morning. It is 5 06. Gunfire from police hits a suspect at an el cerrito gas station. It happened last night just after 6 30. Police say they came across a man pistol whipping a woman at a chevron station on san pablo and potrero avenues. Two officers opened fire. They hit the suspect. He is now in critical condition. Contra costa county d. A. s office is investigating the shooting along with the police. We have the identity of a man killed by the police in walnut creek. He was 22yearold anthony banta. Police got a 911 call from a screaming woman at the diablo point apartments yesterday morning. When officers arrived they said they were confronted by banta who was armed but so far they have declined to describe what kind of weapon he had. Fairfield Police Want Help identifying two Armed Robbers caught by a surveillance camera. The video shows what happened when a 7eleven clerk opened the Cash Register sunday night. One of the men pulled a gun and robbed the store. No word on how much money they got. Police think this robbery was related to another one in the same area at about the same time. A bay area cop lost two guns to burglars who hit his home in antioch. The officer who works for an undisclosed Bay Area Agency returned home wednesday night to find three burglars in his house. When he went in they ran out the back and apparently used one of the stolen guns to keep the officer from catching him. He did give chase and the one of the suspects did drop some of the property that was stolen. At the same time, one of the suspects fired a shot in the air and at that point, the resident ceased giving chase. Last month in brentwood another officers home was hit. That officer shot and wounded one of the suspects. Oakland is hiring some new help as it tries to cut down on crime in the city. Legendary lawman bill bratton will become a consultant for the Oakland Police department. He helped reduce Violent Crime when headed up the new york and l. A. Pds but some residents arent sure a new consultant is a good solution to the city of oakland. The Oakland City Council by the way votes next month on the plan to hire bratton. Its going to cost 250,000 to use him as a consultant. A milestone today for San Franciscos muni. The Public Transit system is turning 100 years old and theres a celebration designed to benefit everyone. Cbs 5 reporter cate caugiran is in San Francisco to give us some history. Reporter 100 years ago the first muni line started running from geary to 33rd avenue. Today, muni railway serves about 200 million passengers a year. It has a network of 63 bus routes a historic light rail system, streetcars and three cable car lines. But before muni even existed, the citys Public Transit system involved horsedrawn buggies. To celebrate, service on all Muni Services including the cable car line will be free starting right now until 5 a. M. Tomorrow. Originally muni was planning to charge riders a 5cent fare because that was the original cost about 100 years ago. But instead, they decided to go with free, which im sure riders wont disagree with and it wont be the last time well see free fares on muni. They will do it again on new years eve as they have for the past 13 years. In San Francisco, cate caugiran, cbs 5. Thats a bonus, good to hear on a cable car thats six bucks a ride. You got a family of four . 24 bucks. Even if you dont have kids, just do it because its free. Hop on time now 5 09. Coming up, a major roadblock for some families hoping to adopt. Why orphans in one country could be off limits for adoption back here in the united states. Pretty sure she wasnt invited. Why florida officials had to kill a snake after it slithered into a picnic area. Thats a big snake ,,,,,,,,,, you a family got quite the scare with a 17foot python slithered into their picnicn florida. Imagine this guy sneaking up behind you. A family got a scare, big fella, too. 70foot python slithered into the picnic area in florida and said hello park rangers were called this and had to kill the python. Florida is trying to control and expand be python population which is killing off cats, bobcats, rabbits and other animals. Next year the state is offering 1,500 to the person who kills the most pythons and 1,000 to the person who kills the longest. Doesnt seem right even though pythons are a little scary. They have to live, too. I dont know what the segue is to traffic, liz but we are going to throw it over to you. Pythons are living things, too. Thats right. I know. Poor pythons. Thank you, guys. Lets go out live. We have Traffic Cameras all over the bay area covering a lot of nothing. Its really quiet. Its been quiet all week so you can see how nicely things are flowing now across the san mateo bridge. No major hot spots out there. We sent our photographer to the peninsula to show you how great it looks along the peninsula in palo alto. This is near the University Exit northbound and southbound both moving top speeds. This is a live look at the Golden Gate Bridge. They just did some lane changes. You may have seen them in an earlier traffic hit so everything is quiet now getting into San Francisco. As soon as still roadwork in lanes northbound 880 approaching the embarcadero. If you are heading towards Oakland Airport, these headlights are making their way southbound and everything is actually great all the way down continuing into hayward westbound 580 fine. Eastbound 580 through livermore there is some roadwork scheduled until 9 00. So slight delays there. Were watching a low pressure system and its getting very close to the bay area. Its going to brings light rain as soon as as this afternoon. 12 00 rain showers will move n right now cold temperatures are on tap. Chance of rain continues into the weekend through at least the first half of saturday. So this is the low on approach once again you will need to grab that umbrella out of the closet. Things are more unsettled around lunchtime shortly after. Starts in the north bay, then continues to move farther south. Really scattered stuff so were talking light rain. But there are some pockets of heavier cells. You may have seen a few flashes of yellow in there at sfo today not expecting any delays. No delays so far this morning. Rain highs about 53 degrees low overnight 46. And checking some airports around the country, rain, thundershowers in houston. Chicago snow. Had temperatures by this afternoon, chilly low to mid 50s across the bay area. And then that chance of rain continues once again into saturday clearing for sunday another slight chance of rain for monday. Discouraging news for parents wanting to adopt russian children. President Vladimir Putin is banning all adoptions by russian parents. Cbs 5 reporter grace lee on the youngest victims of an International Tug of war. Our children are very much so excited for having a baby brother. We is the up his room together. Reporter the fong family spent the holidays with their two biological children nathan amend cameron and their siberian adoptee from two years ago and they were hoping for another addition for the family from russia in the coming year. This is our crib for our son. Reporter they are just one of hundreds caught in a International Political showdown. President Vladimir Putin was defiantly saying he planned to sign the ban on adoptions to the u. S. The countrys legislative branch had just passed the bill unanimously. This was russias response to president obamas anticorruption law that denies russian officials from getting u. S. Visas if they were associated with human rights violations. Its very tragic that these children are potentially going to fall victim to really the senseless politics. Reporter lauren koch with the National Council for adoption says, with 700,000 russian orphans, the kids are the ones caught in the political web. Most of them have been matched with children. They consider these children part of their families already. They have introduced, you know, them via pictures and other methods to their siblings here in the united states. And its really heartbreaking. Bring it over here so we can see it. Reporter a heartbreak that could become a reality for the fong family who can do nothing but wait, watch and hope. Were the fong family. We want to provide a home to just at least one boy from russia and, you know, we have a home, we have a lovely family, were hoping that all this can move forward and this will be the last christmas hes alone. Reporter in reference to this ban, the u. S. State Department Spokesman said, quote, it is misguided to link the feat of children to unrelated Political Considerations and said 60,000 russian children have been adopted into American Homes in just the past two decades. If this ban is signed into law in russia, it could affect thousands more. In the newsroom, grace lee, cbs 5. Thank you. The holidays put us all in more of a hurry as we all know but lets take a minute to slow down a little bit. Dr. Kim tells us why one bay area city actually launched a campaign this week to try and keep pedestrians safe. Reporter step off the curb and you take your life in your hands. The cars and trucks, the motorcycles, the bikes. The latest threat . All those little gadgets. Definitely pretty dangerous, yeah. Reporter new Research Shows how almost one in three pedestrians is distracted by mobile devices. And texting is particularly risky. Texters took 18 longer to cross the intersection and were four times more likely to ignore the lights. All the time everywhere. I have seen people launch get run over. [ laughter ] reporter but its no laughing matter especially in San Francisco one of the worst cities for pedestrians in the country. We have more pedestrian crashes than cities like chicago, seattle and boston. Reporter as chief of surgery at San Francisco general hospital, dr. Peggy knudson sees pedestrian injuries almost every day. You could get hit by a vehicle, youre going to get hurt. If you are an adult, the way that youre struck by cars, you likely to have pelvic fractures, lower extremity fractures, rib fractures. If you are a child, youre going to get tossed and youre most likely to have a severe head injury. Reporter and in San Francisco, two pedestrians are hit on average every, single day. With 17 deaths each year costing the public more than 15 million. Thats got the attention of mayor ed lee. We pick this day and this time and this area here to make this announcement that we have a pedestrian strategy thats going on a serious one. Reporter a citywide effort targeting hot spots urging drivers to slow down and pedestrians to pay attention, a challenge when some feel texting is just not that dangerous. Not if you are with a group of people. Reporter dr. Kim mulvihill, cbs 5. We walk down battery street to get coffee and everyones head is down as you walk by them. We have to start paying attention. Were all guilty of it. Guilty as charged. All right. Its 5 21 right now. When we come back, who is the fastest weiner dog in california . Always wondered. Plus the san jose spartans finish off the season but could they tie a record set more than 70 years ago . We are going to fill you in coming up. And if you want to do any skiing up in the sierra, this is a great weekend to do it. We have plenty of packed powder expect more snow on saturday at Alpine Meadows well have more traffic and weather coming up. ,,,,,,,,,, 11 wins in one season. Thed a chance to do it again yesterday. At the militaryl in washington, d. C. Its been more than 70 years since the san jose spartans had 11 wins in one season and they had a chance to do it again yesterday at the military bowl in washington, d. C. Spartans going up against Bowling Green in red. David fales number one in the country for completions percentage 3rd quarter spartans down by one and we get our play of the day. Watch. Fales on third down. He has a first down inside the 5, hes in what play by taylor Jones Chandler Jones with a sideline dive with the extra point that puts san jose on top and they go on to win the game 2920. They end the season at 112. Way to go, san jose state. Thousands gathered in san diego with a fair that goes to the dog. Support of san diego big day balloon parade began with a dog race. This is the 16th annual Weiner Schnitzle weiner nationals. 8 dack as you understand competed on the 56foot track for 1,000 prize. Oscar a brown weiner dog from tucson, arizona, would edge out his rivals in a nose to nose race to the finish appropriately named oscar. I was going to say only fitting that a weiner dog named oscar would win. Cute dogs apparently fast. 5 26. Urgent meeting the 11th hour budget push to avert the fiscal cliff. Plus a Police Officer comes home to a burglary in progress. What the thieves took and why that officer couldnt stop the thieves. Happy birthday muni. Well tell you how the group is planning to celebrate their zen teniam. Centennial. ,,, welcome se my lcret d you are . Air. An your Worst Nightmare mr. Box. Since you foolishly brought back your bonus jack i have copied your two pure beef patties, lettuce, melting cheese, pickles, and middle bun, plus fries and a drink for 4. 49. And now you will tell me what is in your secret sauce uh, i think i know. We all know, pretty obvious. You couldnt tell me when i handed out the wienerdog lasers . growing up, we didnt have uverse. We couldnt record four shows at the same time. In my day, you were lucky if you could record two shows. And if mom was recording her dumb show and dad was recording his dumb show then, by george, thats all we watched. And we liked it todays kids got it so good. [ male announcer ] get uverse tv with a total home dvr included free for life. Only 29 a month for six months. Your realtime captioner linda Marie Macdonald good morning, everyone. Its friday, december