Ready for volunteers to carve. We had a blast in for what we were doing. It makes me feel needed. Sorry, my mascara is running. I was cutting onions. Reporter the man behind this meal is reverend cecil williams. He says theres always a need to help the needy. What are some of the challenges every year . Some of the challenges have to do with how we can say to the world how hunger can be eliminated and it takes all of us and not just a few to say we are going to turn this upside down and here we are. Reporter the mayor and only ed lee also showed up to volunteer. He says there is a lot to be thankful for this holiday season. Thank you for joining over 1000 volunteers who are expressing their love for the city and the people. Painful we have a strong economy. Reporter how big was this even . It serves 2500 people. It is by far its biggest task of the year. This is will tran, kron 4 news. Today is a day of annual traditions. Starting early this morning volunteers showed up to help cut 34,000 meals delivered to those in need. Some of volunteers for kids who braved the cold temperatures to help out for a good cause. Reporter this group of volunteers, up extra early so they could help package up meals for those in need. Some of these kids are part of a basketball team. They should with neither that on white it was worthwhile to be down here. What time did you get up . 6 00. Reporter there is a lot of kids who stayed inside and hang out. What do you feel about coming out here . I feel like i am part of helping each other and its time to give thanks for what we have and we show others how we show our gratitude. Reporter you could be asleep again. I could but i wanted to help. It feels good to help others on a special holiday like today. And to not take everything for granted. Reporter the parents said it wasnt that tough to motivate these kids this morning. How hard was it . It was very easy. Everyone was very willing to come out on thanksgiving morning. Happy thanksgiving. Reporter teresa strasser, kron 4 news. A thanksgiving mission of mercy is underway with another call tonight a new effort to help those living on the streets stay warm at night. Reporter to you and me its a motorhome but to the Homeless People who congregate at st. James park it is a mercy mobile. They are handing out blankets and sleeping bags to the homeless. The mercy mobile is to go for no one has gone before and mobilize them. It has multi purposes. Reporter with the temperatures expected to dip back into 30s those sleeping in the sandbox see the mercy mobile arrived just in time. It gives us a better chance of surviving in the wintertime. Reporter the next stop was a large homeless camp Police Highway 97 were hats and gloves were delivered to people like llama g who has been homeless for a year. You couldnt have blessed me any more than that. I was called. I was cold. I was freezing. Reporter they are warning that what could happen in camps like this if and when the driven rainstorms, to pass. I opened my shoulder in 1998 and i will never forget how many people came there because the treacherous rains whether affected peoples lives. I couldnt believe how much it rained that your. Year. Reporter on any given night here in santa clara there is between six and 7000 People Living on the streets. During a cold snap two years ago for people died overnight. This is kron 4 news. Low rider car club teamed up with a Soccer Program to donate food to the needy. Here is where. Reporter these low riders are not just hitting switches making their cars half in celebration of things giving. Its the annual food drive. Reporter became to team up with the Soccer Program in richmond to help feed the needy this holiday. Diego garcia is the lead organizer. Its a collaboration of different organizations. As soon as i said what we were doing they did not hesitate one time. The shine of their cars and bring the food and come here. Reporter one of the regulations involved is the day laborer program. With their help over 200 banks of food are being donated to day laborers like rodriguez. Translator so happy to be here. Thank god this is happening. I think its important because not everybody is fortunate enough to have a meal. Reporter all the food is donated from people throughout the community. They also put on a car show to help raise funds to purchase food. You see a back from a local grocery store. They are hoping next year those bags might be donated to make it involved to help this effort to feed people here during thanksgiving. Kron 4 news. What a nice story. You could is a thursday is the new black friday. This is a picture in dublin where the doors opened just a few minutes ago. People have been lined up for hours waiting to get in. Best buy is one of several Stores Opening up. Target will open in an hour. Felipe . Reporter happy thanksgiving , pam. It is chile out here but that hasnt stopped these choppers shoppers from showing up. An hour ago theres only one person in line but now it has turned into several dozen waiting outside for the doorbuster deals they have been waiting for all year long. That is not just here in walnut creek. Ive been told its also busy in concorde. If you look across the entire United States people are cheering as they walk into walmart and the same goes for best buy. It seems since five years ago these stores that used to open at midnight have no group that opening time a little closer and now it is 6 pm at this target in walnut creeks. This target is not going to be closing until midnight tomorrow so it will be open 30 hours with people standing in line they got to enjoy their thanksgiving turkey but they are in line now for the deals and plan on shopping for quite some time. We had a nice turkey dinner and now we are trying to beat the crowds. There will be plenty of shopping tonight. Probably not going to get any sleep. Reporter he had a great attitude. He did not bring his family with him but he lives in Pleasant Hills and he said he was scouting the stores to see which had the shortest line. He was the only person standing in line at here for a good half hour but the trick is there is a small line building downstairs because people were waiting for the television. Some of the tvs go for 200. You have to stand in line to get a token to get a television but if you need more advice on how to survive black friday and thanksgiving shopping then check out our mobile app and news. Kron4. Com. In walnut creek this is felipe with news. Kron4. Com kron 4. There is much more ahead tonight. Another Security Breach at the white house while the first family was celebrating thanksgiving. New video of a Controversial Police shooting in chicago coming up. Video of a tort attack forest attack tours attack. Ono offdays, or downtime. Ason. 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He strutted headed straight into the group of individuals and the mugging happened quick. You can see the man running away but everything happens in the blink of an a guy. I eye. This was helped to kron 4 in hopes someone could identify the muggers. The mugging was captured on definition cameras during the evening hours in the union square. It appears one of the muggers was injured in the attack. It happened in october and police just released a video excerpt of the two kron 4 news. His injuries are so severe he had to have Reconstructive Surgery all over a phone. One of the main players involved was wearing a baseball cap. The man was wearing a green shirt. While arrests were made this was an excellent example what you should always be aware of your surroundings and dont be distracted by your phone. Stanley roberts, kron 4 news. A key tool was the hightech security cameras in union square put in place to keep people safe as they shop. When we first told you about these cameras last friday during our 8 00 newscast. They are much more clear than the older cameras in efforts to keep shoppers say. The Improvement District has installed more than 150 camels cameras. A man was shot from behind on monday night while waiting to pay for parking in San Francisco. It happened on Mission Street at 630 at 6 30 pm yesterday evening. The man was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. They say it appears the suspect knew the victim. The white house had to go on lockdown today after a man jumped the fence of the north lawn. He was wearing a blue shirt wrapped in an American Flag holding a binder. Dozens of officers rushed in and arrested him. It happened just before 3 00 and the Washington Post said the mans name is joseph caputo. It is unclear how he made it past the security measures. President barack obama his wife and daughters were celebrating thanksgiving inside the white house. No one was injured. In chicago new dash cam video out today of the moments leading up to the deadly interaction with chicago police. The video was collected from police cars. It shows the officers pursuing mcdonald before the shooting and you can see him running in the street in front of one of they patrol cars. Van dyck is charged with firstdegree murder. Some very good news for travelers heading to ski resorts. There is fresh snow from the storm with some resorts getting up to 17 inches and resort officials made the announcement there will be more terrain opening up. In some areas up to 5 feet has fallen and with the effects of el nino more snow should be on the way. It is pretty to look at that is for sure. Is a nice night to throw a log on the fireplace. Or just keep eating food. That keeps you warm. Then you take a nap. There you go. We have frost increase advisories in effect. For those braving the cold bundle up because it will be freezing. Light camera issuing clear skies with barely any clouds in the sky. Temperatures right now are 52 for antioch and 53 in santa rosa. San jose is 51. What to expect tonight and tomorrow 7 pm partly cloudy skies and 10 pm frost advisory will kick in. By 10 pm youll notice chilly temperatures 36 for the valley locations and tomorrow morning mostly sunny skies. Satellite radar image shows no rain in the forecast but we do have the low pressure system chilling us down quite a bit. We have chilly temperatures into your overnight hours which will last until 10 in the morning. The winds are at nine miles per hour. Afternoon highs tomorrow is 52 degrees for the valley and 58 for the east bay. For the next few days as you can see the temperatures are barely making the 50s for the valley. Sunday we will have mostly sunny skies as well but are dealing with cooler temperatures. We will have the full forecast coming up in a few minutes. The french president forms a grand coalition to fight isis. He was in moscow today meeting with vladimir putin. They say the incident was regrettable and putin says russia is ready to cooperate with the u. S. Led Coalition Fighting isis but president putin lashed out at the u. S. About the shooting saying the u. S. Should have prevented its Coalition Ally from making such a move. In the wake of a turkey shooting russia has deployed a long range antiaircraft missiles at its airbase in syria 30 miles from the turkish border. The missiles are capable of striking targets within a range with deadly precision. Do you think your children spend too much time on their tablets . The app that is time together leisure and learning. Kron 4 getting you ready for el nino. How the bay area is preparing for the storm just ahead. A lot of parents are expressing concerns that their children spend too much time using their tablets. A new app was discovered which periodically walks children out of their devices until they met answer a math question. I think its a great idea to balance the screen time with educational activities for the kids. Reporter the new app forces kids to do some learning while passing time on the tablet or phone. Learning to unlock. I love it. The period parents said how many questions the children have to answer. It could be every five minutes or every two hours. They also assign the apps the children have access to so they cannot get into your adult apps. The questions pop up and they are trivia and math. They are based on the grade level of the children so its stuff they should figure out. Janessas kids dont mind the interruption. Doing their normal screen time in the questions pop up. They thought it was a fun game and they were excited when they got the questions correct. You cannot not let them have electronics as part of their life so having that peace of mind of having the education as well as what they want to do help created that balance. This winters effects for el nino predicted to be epic. Kron 4 brings coverage as debate area the bay area expects aim winter. On this thanksgiving evening lets look outside. This is the Golden Gate Bridge. Not much traffic tonight. Here comes the forecast. Clear skies tonight but we will drop in temperatures down to chile chilly. We are talking low 30s. 48 livermore, 54 napa, San Francisco stays in the upper 40s. Overnight lows is a couple upper 20s in the valley with 29 in pleasanton and 39 for oakland. It will be a chilly start and then if youre headed out for some shopping you had better bundle up because we have frost and freeze advisory. We are talking east bay shoreline cities with san mateo and not San Francisco but along the north bay. The dark pink indicates a freeze advisory. This is in until tomorrow morning and bundle up. I will have a full forecast for you in your next forecast. The predictions are all unanimous. A record el nino is going on in the Pacific Ocean. The warm mass of water is pushing the jet stream north. Kron 4 is committed to covering el nino and how you can prepare. We will bring to complete coverage as we get ready for the stormy winter ahead. The Current Conditions are similar to the strongest el nino ever recorded. Going back to 1998 the year of the super el nino. Reporter the bay area recorded its wettest winter in 120 years. In San Francisco almost 15 inches of rain fell in february alone. Last los angeles got more. For big storms got a record 13. 6 inches of rain in the sierra the snowpack doubled in size. Skewers were the only things moving downhill. Waterlogged hillsides gateway to the santa cruz mountains. You can still see the scar from the 98 storms. More than 20 million rocks tumbled from mission peak. Nearly sweeping away hammer time the hilltop mansion built for mc hammer. Dramatic images as clips crumbled into the sea. Houses priced for their panoramic views and it up as debris scattered along the beach. Adding to the misery in san jose People Living in coyote creek escaped with the clothes on their back. In lake county they reached the highest level since 19 they reached the highest level since 1909. In that the systems persist where liquor virus tremendous mark preset we have to be will maintain full control as well. And hoping for cold weather lots of snow in the mountains of it and keep water flowing into this reservoir through next summer. Pam businesses around the bay area are getting ready to light during a late shows of how one severances goat Business Owner authority working on a project he hopes will keep his property dry if this year reporter the pounding of the drill somewhat reminiscent of hounding train people in this neighborhood have learned to dread a worry now being compound it by the rain expected during this upcoming amino sofa and video shows the same part in what looks like last year in december after a big storm. Along sonata mechanic doesnt show the damage done to several customers cars the water you see this in just rain is also mixed with fact flow from the city sued system cant handle a big. The work today as trend and prevent a repeat of what happened over and over. Construction crews that will raise the level of the parking lot 36 in. The Business Owners hoping that will not only keep his customers cars out of harms way but also prevent flooding to the businesses and homes the border his property when is the stable cafe you seen this video from 2012 they have had a close some times that month that time to clean up biohazard left behind. Last today in stolidly is removal steel floodgates of other building of the water still came into the back and this work should solve that after years of paying for cleanup after these flood the city is now reimbursing Business Owners kron 4 oft worked the way of flood prevention the way the floodwaters out of homes and businesses and the citys costs down. Pam many people around the bay area at getting their homes ready for el nino a. Had a 545 pairs one family is making to their home right now. And flooding in the north bay is always a concern it could be worse but the rain expected with on the new next how marin county is getting ready no. Pam date is no stranger after flooding in the winter months because clifford shows us how people marin are getting ready for all the expected range. Reporter after really big storms flooding can reach Dangerous Levels putting lives and property a risk. As ruth very real chance the storms could bring above average moisture the Emergency Respond