Issue. In antioch, phil matier, back to you. San jose is asking for help in chosing the next police chief. There is meeting going on as we speak. But len ramirez learned that the city may have narrowed the field to a handful of front runners. Reporter any time there is a job as important as the chief of police comes open, a lot of names come out. All of the names unofficial as the nationwide search begins. The fact that affective january 31st of next year ill be retiring as chief. The surprise announcement after two years of chief of police comes at a critical time in san jose. Crime is up and morale is low. Our Police Department is falling apart. We have more people leaving. I think we have another two going to los gatos and three that went to redwood and three or four that went so santa cruz. A steady stream of officers quitting the department tops a long list of issues that will confront whoever is hired as the next chief. A lot of things is causing them to drop the morale beyond control and it is coming from city hall and not the police chief. Reporter names are starting to surface. Fresno chief jerry dire and rick brazil have been mentioned as likely candidates. We went through the process two years ago and i think what came out of that is residents wanted the chief to be a superman or superwoman. And one City Council Member argued to dump the nationwide search and appoint a police captain. I think we have people that we should take a look at and forego the process and i think retired captain gary kir by would be an outstanding selection. But the decision isnt his. It belongs to the city manager deb fagony who said there is no shortcuts. This is critical for the city of san jose. It is one of the most visible appointments we have and important for the city manager that appoints that and we want to make sure to listen to the community and validated that we heard before and adjust evaluation based on what we hear now. Reporter and so officially san jose said the process is just beginning. There is no short list or long list officially but you can bet, dana, they do have some people in mind they would like to hire. A lot of people know about san jose and it has a good reputation still and a lot of people will be applying. This process will take a couple of months. It should be by the end of january, we should have a new police chief by the time chief more retires. In san jose, len ramirez, thank you. Experts think today could be the biggest cyber monday ever. Retail analysts say so far sales are up more than 24 compared to last year and of course you still have about six hours left in the day. Experts predict americans will snap up 1. 5 billion in online merchandise. Across the board, holiday sales are off to a great start thanks to a major shift in retail strategy. On the consumer watch, julie watts explains how everything has changed this Holiday Shopping season. Reporter what a difference a year makes. Sights and sound of black friday have gone from this to this. As an estimated 41 Million People started shopping on thanksgiving this year, the traditional black friday early birds had little company. We avoid the crazy lines. Were not the midnight people. Were the 4 30 a. M. People so were in between the craziness and the fun. Reporter but no matter what time they hit the store, the estimated 89 Million People that went shopping this black friday and 3 million more than last year and according to the National Retail federation, most spent more money. That adds up to about 59 billion in spending this year compared to 52 billion last year. But the big shopping is not waiting until cyber monday. Internet shopping topped 1 billion for the first time with amazon leading the pack. We have information where customers have amounts of information at their finger tips whether it is a smart phone or tablet computer. So customers are able to go where ever they need and check prices, sizes and availability. Reporter and another big change this year, the use of mobile devices have doubled. One in four shoppers used apps to find the best deal and add more brick and mortars offering online Price Matching and retailers are finding more shoppers like this who find big ticket items online but buy in store to to bring it home right away. I have been looking online but i feel like you spend forever researching. Many will buy big on monday. Remember, dont click on unknown links, dont use passwords that you use for other accounts. Do use a secured Wireless Connection and do use your credit card instead of your debit card. Credit cards come with more protection. And log on to cbssf. Com to find the best sites for cyber monday deals. Thanks, julie. Well other bay area headlines. A San Francisco sheriffs deputy accused of holding up a bank pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors say fingerprints and Surveillance Video lead philip tong to the heist at bank of america on balboa street. Investigators say tong was deeply in debt and recently filed for bankruptcy. No word on whether a driver killed in a fiery crash near crockett was impaired. His bmw burst into flames after smashing into the back of a big rig on westbound 80 yesterday morning. The 23yearold man died at the scene. His 21yearold passenger badly hurt. The trucker was not injured. 14 people were taken to the hospital with symptoms of Carbon Monoxide poisoning at a home in San Francisco last night after the alarm went off. Doctors found co2 in their bloodstreams but testing found no Carbon Monoxide leak in the house. Officials say elevated levels of Carbon Monoxide can sometimes show up in blood tests for smokers and they believe that cigarettes set off the smoke alarm. Well we are on the verge of getting soaked. Well find out when it will hit us. It is not here yet. It was fog. Right now the cbs high def doppler is dry but after a dry day on monday this may be the wettest week in the bay area in more than a year. There is a pretty significant setup. Let me explain it to you. First off, tropical moisture is not uncommon and sitting out in the pacific. There is a ploom of tropical moisture from hawaii about 500 miles off shore. What is significant is that low pressure going in the perfect spot to take that tropical moisture and fire it right toward the bay area and then it will stick for several days. So there is the potential for heavy rainfall starting on wednesday. So we still have about 36 more hours. First wave of rainfall that moves through will likely bring rainfall totals in the north bay up to 2 inches and that is the first of several waves of low pressure to move through. So bottom line, heavy rainfall moving through the bay area later on this week. Ill time it out for you with your full sevenday forecast coming up in 10 minutes. I was just sitting there looking down at my phone and then somebody grabbed it. Set up and take fed up and taking a stand. The tact eck in a bay area neighborhood in response to a rash of thefts. Fears that development will bring danger to the neighborhood. The plan for a hunk of sand near the site of this mudslide and why there is so much concern over a flower. It is important that we keep talented executives in our city. Bay area bosses take note. How a bay area city manager is going above and beyond to keep his top employees on the job. ,,,,,,, along with his mother and father. The coast guard has called off the search for a 16year old boy who was swept away along with his mother and father. Family was on a beach north of eureka when their dog got stuck in the high surf. All three were overcome by waves as high as 10 feet in an effort to save the dog. The couples daughter called 911. The dog eventually managed to escape the water on his own. Well, a pair of Armed Robbers who took aim at a san jose Jewelry Store didnt get a gem but they did get more than they bargained for from the woman who owned the place. One of the men shot at her shortly after ending the store near story and king this morning. She fired right back at them. Nobody was hitch the robbers took off. Last seen speeding away in a black suv. A San Francisco business is fed up with thieves targeting customers. So it is taking action. Linda yee is in the russian hill neighborhood where one business has posted a warning. Linda . Reporter dana, that warning, too many people Walking Around with their smart phones here on the street and not paying attention to the surroundings and getting robbed. So one Neighborhood Store here on polk street decided they will post a sign to warn their customers to take care. They are talking and they are texting. As they walk down the street, or sit at a sidewalk cafe. Police call these folks easy targets for thieves. Mindy was a victim on polk street in russian hill recently. I was just sitting there looking down at my phone and somebody grabbed it and it was like a phone wallet combo. I started chasing after them. But then i realized there was two of them and so i was like, what am i going to do . Reporter that was enough for her boss and coworkers at this beauty store nearby. They put up this sign warning customers, thieves are getting more aggressive, grabbing phones easily but sometimes using pepper spray, even a gun to steal the phones. Especially from women who are distracted by their phones. This used to be a safe neighborhood. It usually is. It is just i feel like people take advantage of that and they take advantage of feeling so safe and so they just you let your guard down. Reporter it was just last year when a taxi cab surveillance camera caught this woman walking in the same neighborhood. Watch the man next to her, in seconds he grabs her phone and runs off. It is not too hard to do. Do you know how easy it is to grab it like this. Susie was standing around with the iphone in her hand. You forget to look around and see what is going on. Reporter police say on the black market a thief can get 100 for a stolenich phone. Shopping mall kiosks are even more convenient. A good iphone can much 160. One man recently dumped a bunch of them here at the westfield mall in downtown San Francisco. John tucker saw him. He had probably about five or six phones and he was just putting them in there, just like they were quarters in a candy machine, and getting money for them. And so at one point he shook his jacket to make sure he didnt have any more phones on him. Police say no matter what neighborhood you are in, if you are going to put the cell phone to your ear and walk down the street, you might as well be waving around a 100 bill because thats what thieves see. And in the first eight months of this year, there were 2300 street robberies and half of them for cell phones. Wow. An easy haul it sounds like. Good advice, linda. Thank you. Two bay area officials are getting a boost to the six figure salorys salerys. Mike sugarman on keeping the top people from leaving town and why it is worth it. This is a story you want to email to your boss right now. It is important that we keep talented executives in our city. Reporter so san leandro city manager chris zapata, not even on the job a year, made sure his two got raises by cutting his salary. I think it is worth it from the standpoint of the community and more important than money. Reporter the assistant city marshall who didnt want to go on camera, will get a 10,000 range because the city manager cut his salery by 20,000. They get bumped up and he will get backed back 20,000. My children are grown. My daughters wedding is paid for and so i believe it is a small gesture. I talked to the leader of the Largest Union of city workers in san leandro by phone and she said this is a feel good story, but what about us . We havent had a raise in five years . Were going into negotiation and youre pleading poverty and now the top salaries in the city are going up . I understand these are difficult Financial Times we find ourselves in but i understand the realities of the market. Reporter and good city administrators and Police Chiefs are hot, hot, hot, he said. I think it is much more common than people think. This professor said there are all kinds of bosses. Some people in positions of power have motivations that are directed toward themselves and some people in positions of power have motivations that are directed toward the good of the whole and the community. Reporter and when you do e mail this story to your boss, ask him, which one are you . Mike sugarman, cbs 5. Im not going to ask that . No. Good news about the storm is we dont have to water our plants right now. And if you havent put up the holiday or christmas decorations, get outside tonight is late, but do it tomorrow. Because we are looking at a washout through the weekend. Here is a peek outside. The weather issue as issued the Weather Agency has issued a warning. The potential is there for several days with heavy rainfall, especially in the foothills because the moisture slams into the mountain and thats where we see the highest rainfall totalsch that is a beautiful monday night. Embarcadero lit up for the holidays. San francisco downtown hit 58 and did half moon bay. Napa 65. Concord 63 degrees. Cbs 5 high def doppler dry for now. I do believe by this time tomorrow night well see rain building off shore with rain arriving after midnight and into wednesday morning. So why are we talking about so much rain . Because we get fronts moving through and rain moving through. This is reality. What we dont see that often is this river of moisture. We call it the Pineapple Express because of its origin, down toward hawaii. Where it sets up shop and when it sets up shop, over one spot and then doesnt move, that becomes a problem. And it may become a problem for us later on this week. Low pressure is building from the gulf of alaska. When these two come together, all of this moisture hitting the wall in the atmosphere and then getting shoved to the east, guess where it will end up. All indications are that it will end up in Northern California and that could be a problem with too much rain. So enjoy the dry tomorrow, because after tomorrow well be wet for a while, perhaps up to a week. San francisco tomorrow 62. Livermore 65. Put up lights in san jose, partly sunny tomorrow 64 degrees. I dont think well see as much fog tomorrow as we did this morning and it was widespread around the bay. Redwood city, high of 64. Rain begins on wednesday. A little bit of a break on thursday with scattered showers and then the heavy stuff moves in friday, saturday, sunday and even the top of next week. It looks like were going to be wet and wet for a while and it starts on wednesday morning. So enjoy the dry while we have it. That is your cbs 5 forecast. Thank you, paul. Bay area sand dunes at the center of a development dispute. Why so much of the fighting is over a flower. And why more workers at an area airport could be carrying guns on runway. ,,, [ crickets chirping ] [ traffic passing ] [ music box lullaby ] [ man on tv, indistinct ] [ lullaby continues ] [ baby coos ] [ man announcing ] millions are still exposed to the dangers. Of Secondhand Smoke. And some of them cant do anything about it. [ continues ] [ gasping ] settlement with a weight los motes its sp several bay area district attorneys have reached a settlement with a Weight Loss Company that promotes a sprinkle diet. Now Sensa Products and the Patient Company will pay more than 900,000 to settle a false advertising lawsuit. They claimed the diet was clinically proven to work. Sensa admits no fault and said they stand behind its product. And now a sand do you know dilemma. Environmentalists and those who live in daly city are battling over a big sand do you know near hillside park. And as joe vasquez shows us, a wear flower is blossoming into a point of contention. I dont think building houses up here is progress. Environmentalist ken mcentire with San Bruno Mountain watch shows me a rare flower in bloom. This is the endangered plant, about 50 of the total World Population of this plant is on these dunes. The rest is in a studio in San Francisco. The ancient sifting dunes above daly city, on a hillside above a neighborhood that just experienced a frightening mudslide, a major pipe burst sending 48,000 gallons of water and sand charging down the hill, burying more than a dozen cars and narrowly missing the houses. Now some neighbors are worried the hillside might be compromised so theyre paying attention to a development at the top. The plan is to build eight homes on just under one acre in the midst of the dunes. Even before the mudslide, ken mcintyre had been negotiating with the developer to try to change his mind. We hope to purchase it. We would like daly city to back our effort to purchase it and then accept it into their park system. We have to do all we can to make sure we maintain open space at San Bruno Mountain. Reporter daly city councilman said they will need approval. You have to make sure that any decision you make, that the residents down below are safe and you can be assured im going to make sure that happens. Reporter we tried to get ahold of the developer and didnt get a return phone call. This is still a proposal. It has to go through planning and city council before it is a done deal. In daly city, joe vasquez, cbs 5. And the cliff. Coming up in the next half hour, avoiding the fiscal cliff. Congress back at work after the holiday break and shifting view op tax on tax reform and their demand from democrats. And why more workers at a bay area airport could be allowed to carry firearms. A Bay Area College launches a new recruiting strategy. 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