Thank you for joining us. The top stories we are following this monday, december 31st. If two people are hospitalized after a 2 alarm fire in San Francisco. We will have a live report coming up. The clock is ticking until the socalled fiscal cliff. We will have details on todays the last minute negotiations. It remains cold at specially for tonight. It is a clear start for the morning and we do not have any issues with a visibility. If you are in the north bay there is a good chance that you will stay below the freezing mark. Celebrating new years eve it will be mostly clear conditions. Here is a look at the numbers currently. It is 32 degrees currently in fairfield. I will show you where these numbers are supposed to go for the course of today. We have been minors in a reported stall the upper deck of the bay bridge. It has now been cleared. It did not affect the drive time. Do not expect any Early Morning delays or normal commute patterns. New this morning, off two people are in the hospital this one after a 2 alarm fire at a residential building in San Francisco is excelsior district. The fire broke out before 1 00 this morning and crews had under control by 2 15 a. M. To get you more knows who will turn to jackie sizzle. Page dna crews remain on the same and we are expecting to see fire investigators out relatively soon. They will start looking over the debris and to find out if it was suspicious. They were able to get it under control in about an hour and eventually it led to two people being sent to the hospital. Their conditions more last lifted as non lifethreatening. This is good news. I just spoke with a pg e worker and he stated that when they arrived the fire crews were standing back because a gas line had a ruptured. They had to wait until pg e arrive so that they can turn off the gas. The good news says that you can see how close these houses are together. They are basically wall to wall. They were able to contain the fire to justice one structure. There were calling this fire suspicious and theyre waiting for the fire investigators to come out to find out what caused the fire. A men has been injured in a shooting in east oakland. Police found a man suffering from a gunshot wound whe n responding to reports of a shooting in 8700 block of birch st. If the victim is in the hospital in stable condition. Authority said two suspects were seen fleeing the area in a vehicle. One of the suspects were armed. No arrests have been made. Developing news, we are in the final hours some lawmakers to keep the nation from going over the so called fiscal cliff. Economists fear the combination of automatic spending cuts and tax increases could trigger a new recession. Andrew spencer explains how negotiations today must now overcome a major setback. Talks on briefly hit a major setback over Social Security benefits. Both sides agree to push for. I want everyone to know that im willing to get this done but i do need a dance partner. Joe biden is that person. Toplevel resources stated that the two were talking and if nothing is resolved by midnight then the taxes will increase for everyone. One mom and mexican stated that this is about 1 months of groceries. Democrats want the tax is to be raised for people making too much as 50,000 a year more. Other people want to see Government Spending put in check. The president is doing nothing about the eviction of his administration. He is the spender in chief. I offered over a trillion dollars in addition to spending cuts. This is a way that we can have increased revenue. The senate recompense at 11 00 a. M. So as americans celebrate 2013, they may wake up and state that they wish it was still 2012 when they had more money in their pockets. Secretary of state and Hillary Clinton has been hospitalized with a blood clot. Doctors say that this is a medical problem related to a concussion that she recently suffered. The blood clot was filed found yesterday door a followup medical visit. These are areas of new yorks Presbyterian Hospital where mrs. Clinton as same. If this is a fiveyear old clinton suffered a concussion several weeks ago after she fainted while recovering from a stomach virus. She was supposed to return to work this week. We will be right back. Hundred of thousands of minimumwage workers in 10 states will see a pay boost in the new year. According to the nonprofit advocate Advocacy Group the National Employment law project, rhode island workers will see the biggest paycheck increases in average of 510 a year for the average worker. The group says workers and nine other states including colorado, florida and ohio will see the minimum wage jump between 10 to 15ยข an hour. An estimated 855,000 workers will be affected by the changes. In 2013, 19 states and the district of columbia will have rates above the federal level. Lawmakers are trying the head off a possible doubling of milk prices in january. Both parties on the house and Senate Agriculture committees have agreed to oneyear extension of the 2008 farm bill that expired in october. However, Republican Leaders of not decided how they will proceed. Mill could cost as much as 7 a gallon at the government returns to the 1948 formula for calculating no prices. Ford motor co. Says two of its vehicles are the best selling in the world. The company says the focus and smaller fiesta have ranked in the most sales during 2012. Worldwide for its is there more than 737,000 focuses registered for september and the fiesta had more than 560,000. Sports is to vehicles are a drop for customers do their compact size is an Award Winning ego boost engines. Nasas newest mars rover is gearing up for a road trip but first it has to drill into a rock. The First Priority in the new year is to test out its drove. The car size rubber landed and a crater near the marsh and equator over the summer to great fanfare. Since then, it has been taking it slow. Curiosity is expected to start the dive the drive to a mountain in mid february after drilling is complete. Scientists predict it will take nine months to get [ female announcer ] no more paper coupons. No more paper lists. [ dog barking ] no more paper anything. Safeway presents just for u. Save more. Save easier. Saving more, starts now. Just for u on the safeway app. Rainey and the new year already it is 2013 down under. Sydney australia just an hour ago bringing in the new year over the harbor. If youre planning to have out tonight overnight play it safe and take Public Transportation. It will make it easy for you to get around. Many will be providing free Service Starting at 8 00 p. M. Tonight until 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Are will also remain open until 3 it tomorrow morning. The chp report said there were no fatal collisions and 123 d u i rise on chp patrolled roads in the bay area during the first two days of the new years holiday weekend. The totals are down from last year 1161 drivers or rested during the same period. Last year to people were killed. Statewide 723 people were arrested as opposed to 932 last year. It is called out there, you will certainly feel it in the 20s. It is a cold start and you will want to bundle up. Remember, we have not even your morning roads just yet. 8 00 a. M. This morning you will see all around the heart of the bay the stretch of purple that indicates where you will see be 40s. 30s for the east bay interior valleys that, of the north bay as well. And after an heights, mostly sunny skies in the early 50s. We could see some upper 40s in some areas. Conditions will be very cant similar considericomparedo what we saw yesterday. As we bring in the new year, it will be cold out there. If you are celebrating in land expect mid 30s and 40s around the bay. Afternoon highs and specifically in your neighborhood looks like napa and richmond at 52 degrees mid50s expected for oakland. Overall it will be a little chilly but we will remain dry. High clouds in the distance as we take a look at satellite and radar. This weekend there was some discussion that we may see some stray showers into new years eve, it looks like those chances have diminished. I think we will be dry and clear but it will be cold. If you are celebrating tonight, dress in layers. We will see some high clouds, low 40s by midnight. Mid30s and land and low 40s around the bay. Instead of celebrating at the party clubs, what if you are heading to tahoe there are no chain restrictions in the fact. Temperatures are topping out in the 30s for your afternoon highs and it will be a cold one for the overnight hours. Bundle up, freezing fog a factor. Sunny skies into the afternoon. 7 day around the bay shows a tranquil weather for the most part. Pretty chilly mornings in the slight potential for rain on thursday, sunny skies and warm conditions as we head into saturday and sunday. Were looking at a pretty good ride around the bay area, light traffic almost everywhere. The bay bridge is is it easy trip across the upper deck and problem free for your ride into San Francisco. This tale drive looks good with no delays 11 minutes in both directions. The golden gate is a smooth trip in either direction. East shore freeway, interstate 880 but still clear. I 20 men drive time through marin county, make it 23 from a bottle to the Golden Gate Bridge. The 20 yearold man has been found shot to death near a cove golf course in livermore. Officers responded to reports of a man down near springfield golf course yesterday. A female jogger found the body of the man with multiple gunshot wounds near a bicycle path. The victim has been identified as as Kenneth Roberts ogden. Police continue to investigate the homicide and say theres no indication it was gangrelated. The family of a missing nevado man has offered a 5,000 reward for help in finding him. Police a 23 yearold Anthony Donelson jammed into the courts a moderate creek to avoid a sobriety test and ross on christmas eve. Video shows authorities during their search for the man on thursday. Another attempt at a search has yet to be scheduled. The family members are putting up a reward to encourage help from anyone with a boat that could be used in the search. Police in richmond say the murder rate in 2012 is the lowest the city has seen in more than a decade. Police say they have been 18 murders this year. That is down from 24 last year and 45 and 47 in 2009 and 2007. Theres also been a drop in other by the crime such as assault and attempted murder. The drop in violence is largely due to richmonds increase police force. And reds recent years the department has increased from just 40 officers to 190. San Francisco Police are asking for the publics help in finding a motor they say robbed a woman and killed her dog. Police said the woman pulled their car over friday on the street in the tenderloin district of making up there and demanded money. After giving the man her money police say the moderate grab a womans dog and a probe into the street. The dog died after being taken to an emergency that hospital. We will be right back. Is season in the u. S. Is having its early start in nearly a decade and Health Officials say this season could be a bad one. The cdc said its noticed an uptick in flu activity about a month before or authorities normally see it and the primary strain has been associated in the past with more severe flu seasons. The flow often peaks in january, february or even later. Reports of will have been reported in 29 states and higher than normal reports of like ellens illnesses have been reported in 12 states. One of the most intense ensured is married meteor showers of the year will light up the skies this week. The quad rented meerschaum for will be covered by thursday and friday morning. The sour last for only a few hours but it can produce up to 40 shooting stars per hour before dawn. This hour will be the only one in the month of january and if you want to watch it faced north east after midnight. The nhl and Players Association are expect to continue negotiations today and the two sides are likely to restart official bargaining. Representatives from the lee and the Players Association met for 2 1 2 hours yesterday to continue the Information Exchange process began at a Conference Call on saturday. The leagues proposal is reportedly contingent on a 2013 regular season of at least 48 games that will start no later than january 19th. The original schedule has already been cancelled for january 14th. Its a last their 20s well and heres a look at the top apps on smart phones for the year. 2012 it is coming to an end we decided to look at the hottest acts of the year. The first one is instagram. It is important that is sold for 8 billion to facebook and had only a handful of employees at the time it sold. It is very popular but is no stranger to controversy. The Company Recently said it will allow users post to be sold to advertisers. It retracted after a mass of user backlash. The Company Really got its start during a bit of the facebook back at last. The idea was to share what matters most with the friends and family that really mattered most to you. They have it limited to 150 friends. It was created by one of facebook early employees and really started to gain an attraction this year. Next, global maps. The iphone 5 came out with apple maps and it was not an accurate. It was only a matter of time before google launched its maps app. It had 10 million down lows in just 40 hours. Also snap chat. It is a photo messaging app. It coddles and messages can disappear with in seconds so users decide how long to preview of these photo. The company has shared over a billion photos. This is something you want to look out for as we head into 2013. Looks like dow futures are headed well to the positive right now in hopes of a deal on the fiscal cliff. Well be back as the kron4 morning news continues in just two minutes. A live look at san jose, it is chilly out there and temperatures are down and the 30s and the inland spots around the bay. Traffic is very light in the traffic you are seeing is the 1 01 northbound approaching the 87 interchange. The last trading day of 2012. We saw the down dollar down last week with concerns about the fiscal cliff. There are some hopeful signs this morning that a deal was as in the works. Dow futures are up 77 points ahead of the opening bell. Lets get an update on the eve forecast with erica. Good morning and it is a cold start. A lot of your actually below the freezing point. It is clear, we have no Business Issues with visibility. New years night could be the coldest of the season thus far. And would not be surprised if a freeze warning went into affect but generally dry conditions for the remainder of the week. The exception is thursday, slight potential for some rain for some of our north bay spots. Temperatures out the door, severance is go waking up to 46 degrees. Below freezing and concord, i will show you where these numbers are expected to go and my next report. Looking at a nice and easy commute around the bay right now. Light traffic for your east bay, swordplasouth ba. Bay area bridges look good right now, no delays. 2 people and the hospital after a two alarm fire at a home and the excelsior district. It broke out on around one this morning and it was controlled about an hourandahalf later. Jackie sissel is live on the scene. looks like it is basically completely destroyed. Crews are still out here as we speak. We are waiting to see fire investigators relatively sound looking at what they call a suspicious fire. Around 1 00 this morning is when this fire broke out. When they got out here they quickly called it a second alarm. According to pg e person i spoke with he said when they got out there one of the main to going into the house had ruptured and flames were going into the house about 10 to 12 ft. In the air. Firefighters were stepping back to keep the fire from spreading. The genie was able to turn off the gas line and they were able to put out the fire. The gnp. Two people were taken the house vote was not lifethreatening injuries. Hospital and you can see this pet house is completely destroyed. A teenage boy shot and killed a 15 yearold girl and injured 814 yearold boy as they walked on line and wave your 66 ave and oakland. The victims were walking with a group of friends and family members yesterday afternoon when they were fired upon. A lone suspect approached the group on foot and allegedly started firing into the crowd. The shots struck the juvenile victims killing the girl in sending the boy to the hospital would not life threatening injuries. The suspects fled the area on foot and has not been detained. Police have identified the victims of a double homicide and oakland. 21 yearold beryl b armstrong and 19 yearold keith davis were gunned down in the 800 block of mead ave around 1 00 on friday morning. Officers found both men on a seen suffering from fatal gunshot wounds. So far there have been no arrests made in connection with a double murder and police and not determined a motive. The woman accused of killing a grandmother and a drunk driving accident at the twin peaks look out will be arraigned later today. 23 yearold gina eunice is accused of vehicular manslaughter at the you i causing injury and hit and run causing death. The accident occurred three people and killed 56 your old yuee yao who was here visiting her new grandchild from china. The jets that unisys theyll at 2 million and it should posted she must wear a scramble by said checks to make sure she does not drink alcohol and she is not allowed to drive. Officials of but continue to investigate its alarm fire at a san jose apartment complex that killed three people and injured three others. The fire broke out late saturday night with 3000 but the bridgeport court. Michael crabtree caught touchdown passes of 49 and 7 yds and finished with a career high 172 yds, leading the standards as the 49ers to a straight nfc west title with a 2713 victory over Arizona Cardinals on sunday. Collin kaepernick k overcame a slow start to throw for a career best 276 yds and two touchdowns as the niners did their part to control the postseason picture. Thanks to minnesota and talking of green bay, the 4