Freshmen, a lot of these members have legal and business experience as well as in the political field and that can help them when they chair a committee so its something to think about. These arent 22yearolds going into the office. Those endorsing them, thats what they want us to look at their overall experience in life and what they bring to government. Reporter you have to look at them individually and some of them dont have experience with a committee that they were assigned to so thats why we were looking at this a little closer. Its going to be an interesting year in sacramento. Thank you. In the wake of the Connecticut School shooting, a top state lawmaker wants the white house to consider california as a model for dealing with mental illness. Senate president pro tem Darrell Steinberg wrote to Vice President joe biden urging him to use californias Mental Health services act as a model for nationwide improvements. It levies a special tax on higher earners to pay for housing, medication, therapy and preventative services. The fact is that it sometimes does take the publics attentio on the worst of worst circumstances to talk about and to act around how we improve systems that for far too long have been underfunded and ignored. Now, steinberg also wants the federal government to match every dollar the states extend on Mental Health. A Bay Area Gun Buyback Program was so successful, theres now talk of using it as a blueprint for the country. Cbs 5 reporter joe vazquez in the newsroom with details. Joe. Reporter the organizers in oakland say they plan to take this thing statewide perhaps as early as next august with the Financial Support of cannabis clubs around california and then maybe even nationwide. They gathered some 300 guns this weekend and then since then 97 more including two machine guns. I think that people really, really, really are sick of violence in oakland and i think that this is a direct response. Reporter a few of days after the gun buyback in oakland people say even more young people have come forward to sell back all sorts of weapons for 200 each. From handguns to rifles even one with a bayonet. Many are more sophisticated than what the cops carry. Among the recovered weapons, this guy, a mac 11 an uzi style machine pistol capable of going fully a. M. Another young man turned in a machine gun, as well. This is a calico 9millimeter also capable of going automatic with a choice between 50 rounds and 100 rounds magazines easily attached. When we saw the guns, we thought, oh, my god, were so glad that we kept the door open. And we kept asking for guns. Reporter the man who put more than 100,000 behind the project, keith stevens, owner of the cannabis dispensary purple heart, says he is inspired to do more. With all the partners that we have in place and individuals reaching out from across the country, now were looking at a national gun buy back day as we often have a National Night out. Reporter mayor ed lee declared San Franciscos buy back effort a success with 300 guns also recovered over this past weekend. He also announced pros posing two new gun control laws for the city. One that bans hollow point bullets, another that notifies Law Enforcement when anyone buys 500 rounds or more of any type of ammunition. Now marin county is going to do a gun buyback. The District Attorney says they will have it on Martin Luther king day in midjanuary. He says not only are they buying back weapons, but get this parents, they say you can also sell your childs ultraviolet videogames back. Clearly, you know, its really strange, holding that weapon, those machine guns in my hand like that and you can see why theyre buoyed by the success but they acknowledge there are still thousands of these firearms still on the streets and new ones being sold every day as well as videogames. Thank you. San Francisco Police are already planning another gun buyback. But cbs 5 reporter mark sayre shows us it may be impossible to keep ahead of a huge spike in gun sales. Mark. Reporter well, juliette, not only is the renewed push to restrict guns coming from washington but there are efforts coming from sacramento and all of it coming together is enough to motivate many people to come to local gun stores hearing if they wait too long, it may be too late. This hand guard is attached by a delta ring. Reporter here at the bay area gun vault in Mountain View the owner says business has been brisk. This is a one in seven barrel twist. Reporter one of the most popular sellers the ar15 semi automatic rifle. Well, this the government is wanting to the government is wanting to ban certain types of rifles and theyre very popular. And people that have been caught on the fence are buying them are pushed over to the edge where if i cant get them here quick im going to get them now. Reporter with fears of changes in federal gun laws and possible reinstatement of a federal assault weapons ban which expired in 2004 gun owners and enthusiasts are not taking any chances. So we have had a ton of new buyers, people that have never bought them before coming in to get them maybe the last chance to get them. Reporter sam from sunnyvale says anytime something bad involving guns takes place it often has negative effects on legal gu owners. Is it going to be a rough road ahead . Yes, crazy people screw it up for People Like Us who are normal. Reporter increase to the National Instant criminal back check system was at an alltime high this past november after president obamas reelection. And with reports of brisk sales across the country now, it is possible december will be another record month. We have plenty of laws in place to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. I think what needs to be made more focused is on a National Level how to secure these weapons so people cant get them. Reporter here in california a group of democrats are taking aim at the sales of ammo. The proposal on the table this week a 50 fee requiring money wants to buy ammo to get a permit, which would be valid for a year. That permit just to buy the ammunition would require a background check. Back to you. Absolutely. Mark sayre in Mountain View, thank you. New at 6 00 Vallejo Police are investigating a hitandrun crash that killed a man and his dog. Officers found them in a residential area at sutter and louisiana streets this morning. Investigators say the man was Still Holding on to the dogs leash. Police still looking for the driver. Other bay area headlines, police are investigate the shooting death of a man outside a hayward apartment complex. The man was killed this morning on Sleepy Hollow avenue near aldon gateway. There are no suspects but investigators are examining a silver jeep. South gate elementary and Martin Luther king, jr. Middle school nearby were locked down for two hours after the shooting. A japanese diplomat pleaded guilty to two Domestic Violence charges in a redwood city courtroom today. The man was accused of abusing his wife over several years. He faces up to a year in jail. He will be on probation for three years. He is the vice consul for japan in San Francisco a San Francisco firefighter suffered smoke inhalation battling an Apartment Fire in the oceanview neighborhood today. The twoalarm fire started on the second floor of the three story complex before dawn. 25 tenants had to evacuate. No word yet on a cause. All right. Dry now in san jose an across the bay area but we are on the verge of a wet few days coming. Chief meteorologist paul deanno is tracking the storm. It is almost here. It is slow to arrive. When it gets here, its going to be here for a while. We have a lot of rain coming. Lets get right to it. Highdef Doppler Radar is showing rain moving in and we are picking up light to moderate rain up 101 from santa rosa almost down to rohnert park through windsor and clearlake and tal stowing ga Hidden Valley lake and were looking at lakeport where we are picking up heavy rain now and calistoga. Wind and this rainfall, a wind advisory in effect for those of us in San Francisco and along the coast. Sustained winds overnight 35 to 50 miles an hour. The big story is the rain with us for a couple of days. Napa county, you will likely see two to five inches of new rainfall. And Contra Costa County two or three inches of rain in total by friday. So the rain is here. Just about here. We have have the christmas forecast coming up. They killed a innocent person. I mean, its retarded. And every an innocent bay area grandmother caught in the crossfire even more troubling is where it happened. A major change for the marine sanctuary in Northern California. And this could be your last night on earth if you believe the doomsdayers. The worries about the end of the world. Northern california coast. The Obama Administration wants to nearly double the of two National Marine a new plan would permanently Ban Oil Drilling off the Northern California coast. The Obama Administration wants to double the size of two National Marine sanctuaries off the sonoma and mendocino coasts. Cbs 5 reporter john ramos explains why some who make their living in those waters are concerned. Reporter its easy to see why Alfred Hitchcock picked bodega bay for the setting of his movie th birds. They are everywhere. The federal government Just Announced a plan to extend the sanctuary all the way up to Mendocino County. This area is a national treasure. It needs and it deserves permanent protection from oil and gas exploration. Reporter the fear is that any oil drilling in these waters could lead to an environmental disaster like what occurred when the oil rig blew up off the gulf coast. No one wants to see that here. And its been reported the sanctuary designation will only apply to oil exploration. But not everybody buys that. If they would stop there, we would be all right, i mean, with it. But we know it wont be stopped there. Reporter this areas economy relies heavily on fishing and despite what might be said at a press conference, some of the local fishermen are concerned about what this might mean for their livelihoods. Anything that the government has out in the water that they want for themselves stops us from fishing. Reporter the fishermen say they have never seen a marine sanctuary that didnt restrict fishing. But those sponsoring the change say it will benefit everyone here. This is a matter of economic common sense. Jobs and livelihoods hang in the balance. Reporter anytime uncle sam moves in, the locals get nervous. In bodega bay, john ramos, cbs 5. New details tonight about a former marine who posted himself outside of a Elementary School in the modesto area. He says he did it to protect students in the wake. Connecticut School Shootings but the marine corps says craig is not who he says he is. He told reporters that he was a 10year veteran who had been to iraq and afghanistan. It turns out he was in for less than a year and never left san diego. Im in shock im really in shock. Thats very bad. Because this isnt something to be playing around with. This is serious. Its scary. After the truth about p usleys Service Record came out he was asked to leave. A grandmother was killed as a result of gun violence on the streets of oakland. The woman was hit by a stray bullet at the corner of 92nd and international boulevard. Cbs 5 reporter da lin shows us it happened half a block it another highprofile murder. Reporter it started out as a gun battle across the street in front of that store between two groups of people. The clerk says she heard about 8 shots one of them striking and killing a grandmother walking on this side of international boulevard. The 49yearold grandmother collapsed in front of a city run preschool, head start. No kids were inside the building since the gun battle happened right before 7 p. M. Last night. They killed a innocent person. I mean, its retarded reporter the killing reignited anger among neighbors. Its the second highprofile killing on this block in two months. Less than 50 feet away was where someone robbed and killed a popular Business Owner inside this metro pcs in october. Last nights shooting killed ramona foreman, better known as mona. Mona, she was outrageous courageous person that would do anything for you. Loving, caring. Reporter the victim lived at this house a few blocks away from the crime scene. Friends say she was walking to a store when the stray bullet killed her. There is a woman laying on ice in the Coroners Office and her grandkids will not see her again and her kids is not gonna see her again. Reporter homicide detectives are reviewing footage taken from the two surveillance cameras mounted at the head start building. Vehicles there around the time of. Crime giving us general descriptions of individuals involved in crime, we believe that videocameras in this case may help us as well. Reporter as a family friend honored the victim to over the small makeshift memorial, police tried to reassure neighbors by stepping up Police Presence along international boulevard. The victim is oaklands 124th homicide victim of the year. No one has been arrested. In oakland, im da lin, cbs 5. If you are flying out of San Francisco tomorrow, be prepared for long lines. The airport expects 130,000 passengers to pass through the airport on what officials call the busiest travel day of the season. As we mentioned earlier, things could get ugly since we have a storm on the horizon. Meteorologist paul deanno is tracking it. Rain on the way. Its going to be a mess tomorrow. You have the rain and the wind just plan on taking some extra time to get anywhere this upcoming weekend. Its going to be soggy. Our computer forecast model is predicting in color is showing how much rain, up to 4 by saturday night. No flood watches or advisories but there will be a lot of rain. Just when your yard probably dried out, here we go again. Cbs 5 hidef doppler tracking some rain primarily north of the golden gate right now. Were talking right through the heart of sonoma county, Southern Lake county, Mendocino County and also northern napa county, santa rosa getting wet now with moderate rain. It will take about six or eight more hours for that rain to make it to San Francisco. Now, ahead of that storm system, we had some pretty gusty southerly winds. But that helped us warm up today into the low 60s after a cold morning. San francisco up to 58 but napa, oakland, redwood city in the low 60s, gilroy hit 59 and tonight, because of the cloud cover, forget about the freeze. It will be much milder. Fremont 44. Concord 46. Vallejo 49. Napa 43 degrees. Not the 20s and 30s like weve seen recently. So heres the low pressure system far away from us with the first of many fronts now piling into Northern California. This pattern is going to be stuck with us until sunday night so were wet, windy tomorrow as the first front moves through. But with low pressure not moving, there are more fronts and that storm track right towards us so it will stay wet until sunday night or Christmas Eve morning on monday. So we are going to be wet for the morning commute tomorrow. Rain moving in north and south. Rain heavy at times through sunday. The skies will clear though good news. Santa claus going to be just fine. Partly cloudy skies Christmas Eve night. 50s tomorrow, mid50s San Francisco, fremont 55. Mountain view wet 56. Fairfield concord livermore mid 50s with rain likely. Rain likely on saturday. Rain likely on sunday for you lastminute shoppers. Go buy and umbrella for yourself. Monday the rain moves out. Christmas day is dry. More rain moves in next wednesday and thursday. Thats your cbs 5 forecast. Thank you. Its not just for children anymore. How a system like the amber alert can help find the missing elderly. Maybe i shouldnt have bought that 2013 calendar . Its end of the world as we know it or is it . The roots of the rumor about doomsday. ,,,,,,, today for the missing elder. The Silver Alert Program ise the amber alert. But its for missing people 65 yearsr older with alzheimers or dementia. Starting in janua families with missing loveds the california Highway Patrol instituted a silver alert for missing people 60 or older who suffer from alzheimers or dementia, like the amber alert program. Starting in january loved ones can call police without waiting 24 hours. One big difference, no highway alerts. Overhead freeway signs, those wont be activated. And additionally, there wont be necessarily a break in broadcasting a program on tv. That has to be determined by the television station itself. California joins 30 other states that already have this program. All right. Despite assurances from nasa that the sun will rise tomorrow sun remain convinced tha