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KTVU Mornings On 2 December 25, 2012

Reporter were live in campbell where more than 60 firefighters are on the scene of a fire at a commercial building. Well have the latest on what is happening at this hour. A new storm is knocking on our door. Ill have what we can expect for Christmas Day coming up. Stormy weather caused some big trouble sunday night. Todays rain is raising new concerns about flooding on the peninsula. Reporter something warm to eat and something warm to wear. The preparations underway for a big giveaway in San Francisco this morning. Mornings on 2 starts now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im brian flores. Dave clark has the morning off. Good morning. Im pack cook. Tori campbell is off today. Its im pam cook. It it Tori Campbell is off today. A Christmas Morning fire in the south bay. It started a few hours ago. Janine de la vega is on the scene and joins us from campbell. How does it look out there, janine . Reporter well, the fire is out here at this commercial building on del avenue. Firefighters are still putting water on it. You can actually see the smoke still rising in the air coming from that building. Now, originally we were told that the firefighters had not entered the building yet for safety precautions. Lets go to some video. Here you can see some flames shooting from the roof. We were told they were 50 feet up in the air at one point. Firefighters were called to the scene just before 5 00 a. M. They immediately started to attack it from the outside. The fire then grew to three alarms. Firefighters put up three aerial ladders to spray on the scene. We can see theres an engineering. In the back is where the fire was at. Were not sure what is inside, what type of businesses. Reporter one of the businesses is called mccalman engineering. The other were told is a startup tech firm. Its unclear the extent of the damage. But in the last few minutes, i did see the Business Owners pulling out. They were firefighters were pulling out electronic equipment from inside the building and handle it over to their Business Owners. We know that 60 firefighters are still out here on the scene from Santa Clara County fire and san jose fire is assisting as well. Police are os here on the scene blocking police are also here on the scene blocking off the fire. Reporting live from campbell, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you, janine. Were back on stormwatch. More rain is moving in today. It will soak the already saturated soil. Because were getting wind, too, we could see trees topple over. Rosemary is here with what we can expect today. Yes, good morning to you. The main event coming in this afternoon but already ahead of the main event, seeing some scattered showers. Falling over parts of the north bay. Shifting east. Take a look at santa rosa. Definitely moderate enough to actually hit the ground. The lighter returns we saw earlier this morning, now becoming heavier over winds ooh, santa rosa, glen ellen. If its not hitting the ground in your area, its priming the atmosphere to do so. Pittsburg, antioch, clayton, walnut creek. Mainly cloudy conditions overhead. Now were looking at rain clouds. The big system will be in time for the second half of your day, including moderate to heavy rain, winds and the possibility of isolated storms. I will break it down for you in a little bit. Crews spent Christmas Eve shoring up a levee along san fran sisco creek francisco creek. The sand bags are expected to hold back water until the project to rebuild the levee begins next wall. The drivers involved in a headon collision have been taken to the hospital. The chp says a car going on the wrong way slammed into an approaching car. That happened on 101 right at the dump. Thats just north of san rafael. Upon arrival on our scene, we found two vehicles, one on the right shoulder. One in the center divide, both with manger frontend damage. Investigators believe that alcohol did play a factor in that crash. All lanes have reopened on 880 near fruitvale in oakland. At least three vehicles were involved in the crash there. That happened at just about 5 30 this morning. All lanes were blocked for about an hour while crews worked to clean that up. So far, no word of injuries. 7 05 now. Happening now, a little bit of good news. A holiday meal filled with kindness and good cheer. For the past 90 minutes, volunteers have been preparing the annual christmas feast at st. Anthonys and thats where allie rasmus is live. Reporter good morning. Everyone who comes in for a holiday meal is also going to get a Little Christmas gift. Were standing in the hobby of the st. Anthonys foundation where you can see volunteers here putting together gift bags. They are expecting 4,000 people to walk through these doors today for a christmas meal and everyone coming in will get a gift bag filled with toiletries and a handknit scarf. St. Anthonys put owl calls to volunteers and members of the country. You can see theres lot of work that these volunteers have already done and theres still much more to go. Next to this is the kitchen. This is the kitchen where they are preparing the holiday meal. Its a little busy. We dont want to distract them. Lets show you the video. People in the community donated 400 hams that will be cooked this morning along with all of the other trimmings for the traditional christmas meal. In and helping them serve the meal will be coaches and members of the military team. For these guys to have the military team here, its a real connection. Reporter this is just the first round of volunteers packing up these gift bags. This isnt even all of the scarfs and hats that they have. There is an entire truckload of bags like this outside waiting to be brought in. But the volunteers are still working on putting these gift bags together. Again, 4,000 of them will go out to all of the 4,000 people expected to get a christmas meal. The Navy Football players in town for the caste bowl will help out the volunteers by cooking the Christmas Meals who come in today. Live in San Francisco, allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. Looks very busy. Netflix says many customers are still experiencing problems with its video streaming service. On the twitter feed, networks calls it terrible timing since so many people spend holidays watching movies with family and friends. They are trying to fix the problem but it apparently is from amazon. Theres no time line when it can be fixed. Terrible timing, yeah. Ill say. A lot of people counting on watching movies. A lot of people maybe are up now, 7 00 a. M. And headed off to grandmas house or aunties house. Lets check in with tara. See how the roads look. They are looking pretty good. Just got a tweet from john. He said why are you working . Theres never any traffic on christmas. But there is. And we have drunk drivers. We dent expect a whole lot of we dont expect a whole lot of traffic throughout the day. Lets take a look live at the bay bridge toll plaza. You can see traffic moving nice into San Francisco at this hour. At the going bridge sort of the same story of the sun coming up here. Smooth sailing. Down 680 at the sunol grade this is the fremont area, you can see that traffic is moving very well in both directions. 7 09. Rosemary, how is it going . Good morning well, the gray skies are becoming thicker and now embedded within those gray skies. We have some rain. A few spotty showers in the forecast for some Morning Hours and now the model wants to bring a little bit of a steady rain, a little bit sooner. Well take a look at that in just a moment. We have all of the Doppler Radars working for you. This is where im seeing a line of light to moderate rain. You can see hit or miss around the area. Some of this not hitting the ground. Were talking about virga here. But it will. This line, definitely a possibility along highway 101 between healdsburg and santa rosa, it will get worse as the morning afternoon progresses. If you do need to be traveling today, this is definitely the better bet. Tough for me to get that out. There you can. We shift to the east a little bit to antioch, bay point, clayton, perhaps a few light showers here and then mill pete, sunnyvale, reporting rain milpitas, sunnyvale, reporting rain showers. Earlier in the morning, the models kept the rain out, until noontime. It was hitting santa rosa. Now it looks like closer to 9 00. See this here . 9 00 over the north bay sliding into in and around san jose perhaps by about noontime. So this is going to come ahead of the main event. Light showers, a possibility now through the Morning Hours, early half of the afternoon. By 1 00, the front is moving through the north bay. Had is when well see the gustiest this is when well see the gustiest winds. 2 00, 3 00, its now shifting. By 4 00 into the south bay. 5 00 were all wet and then scattered showers will remain for your christmas night. Hate to be the bearer of bad news especially if you are getting a bike this year. It may be tough to get outdoors and ride. Your extended forecast. Rain and wind with us. We do have sierra snow. A winter storm warning. Morning showers tomorrow. Finally going to break away to some dry weather and its going to last more than a day. Increasing clouds friday into saturday. The models may bring us a shower or want to bring us a shower or saturday morning. I will be tracking that for you. All in all, definitely a drier forecast once we get past this storm. Back to you. Snowshoers, forced to spend two chilly nights in the wilderness recall the moment they saw rescuers. They were like angels down the road. They were. I really thought we were done. Well have more details on how they made it out alive. And hang onto your phone. What were learning about a rash of smartphone thefts on muni buses in San Francisco. Happy holidays to you. Our quiet weather turning quite active into the afternoon. Moderate rain expected along with breezy conditions and the possibility of isolated thunderstorms. A group of snowshoers is home safe after getting lost in oregons mount hood. The group had to san jose a makeshift shelter and call for help. Laura rios was there. Reporter welcomed sight this Christmas Eve. Carrying three snowshoers back to their families after two nights in the elements on mount hood. Mark kelsey, margarita its strada and Debra Schindler set out on know shoes saturday morning with plans to camp in a hut that night for one of their birthdays. Instead, they found the trail will washed out during the summer from flooding. The reality with that, the trail doesnt exist. We had to make our trail and thats what kept us out there longer, kept us pushing harder. We were across streams. Reporter cell phone was spotty but the group was able to call 911 sunday afternoon and give their gps coordinates. Search teams set out that day but had to turn back because of bad weather. So the trio, all experienced, spent the night in a makeshift shelter near a tree. Members of the group were moved to tears when talking about the moment rescuers found them four miles down the canyon from the highway. They were like angels coming down the road. They were because i really thought we were done. We had no more propane. Very little food and just one chance to make one call. And thank god we got through. The irony, is i put in 18 years with mountain rescue and i get to deal with the fact that mountain rescue rescued me, came to help our group out. I can work with the irony of that later. Reporter for now, the focus is on making up lost time on their families. Hes usually so punctual. The moment he didnt come home when he was supposed to, i was yes i was so upset with him. I never hear the end if i dont tell him where i am all of the time. Im gonna milk it for as much as i can. Im happy hes back. Good ending to that story there. Crews in marin county, called off the search for a drunk driving suspect. We were telling you about that yesterday, the one who jumped into corte madera creek. After several thundershowers, authorities found no sign of the suspect seen swimming away from the officers. Ross police say he ran from them when he ran from a field sobriety test. The man jumped into the creek. An officer followed him in the water and lost sight of him in the dark. A family of a teenager killed by a zoo will hold a special ceremony for him. Carlos souza, was killed by that tiger, tatiana. The zhu has settleled lawsuits with the family and his two friends. The exhibit is new a glass enclosure. A woman has been charged with manslaughter. Prosecutors say she was intoxicated last thursday when she drove a group into four pedestrians pushing them down a sleep slope. A 57yearold died from the injuries. Two other people are injured but are expected to survive. Uc berkeley are investigating after shots were fired on campus. No one was hurt but the incident happened around 7 30 on monday night. Campus police say a group of young people, they were arguing when one person fired three shots. The group ran from the scene but some of them were later taught. Now, police say they also recovered a gun. A warning this morning about a rash of cell phone thefts on muni buses in San Francisco. Police say three people reported their phones stolen in recent days, while riding muni and getting off the bus. Officers say a woman on the sunset blues was talking on her phone bus talking on her phone when a man grabbed it from her. And this happened to other people on san bruno avenue. And then a teen was robbed on another bus near san bruno avenue. Firefighter departments in Contra Costa County have received a new state of the art live safing tool. 72 heart monitors were given thanks to a grant by fema and. The Technology Allows firefighters in the field to detect heart attacks and communicate with hospitals to prepare for immediate assistance. Firefighters will begin using the systems in the field on january 1st. Governor jerry brown gave dozens of former inmates a holiday gift. On Christmas Eve, he pardoned 79 people who competed their sentences and had not reoffended within the last decade. Most of those pardons were low level offenses. They will be pardoned to serve on juries an in some cases own firearms. Under the revised three strikes law, in november, voters approved prop 36 which requires that a life sentence only be given for a third felony if its a serious or violent crime. About 3700 prisoners may qualify for resentencing hearings and some inmates have already won their release. A Christmas Eve storm is headed our way. Rosemary will be back to tell us where and when the rain will hit. And how San Jose Police officers are helping to spread christmas cheer. Here is a look at the senate bridge. You can see san mateo bridge. You can see traffic is moving nicely. Well tell you about some free parking in San Francisco coming up. Welcome back. San jose police are helping to make this christmas a little brighter for some children. Officers loaded up their patrol cars yesterday with dozens of gift bags filled with toys. The gifts were given specifically to children who really need the Holiday Cheer. Were seeing people at their worst a lot of times. A lot of Domestic Violence, a lot of disturbances around the holidays. A lot of times we see frightened children caught in the middle. The gift bags were donated by Dollar Tree Stores for Police Officers to distribute to families. Later this morning, the city of San Francisco has a suggestion for families looking for something to do after opening presents. Some popular destinations are open. The bow tan call gardens features more than 8,000 plants and flowers and you can went a boat at stow lake. President obama iss. He may avoid president obama is in hawaii. He may come home early to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff. A plan includes proposed projects to attract state i havers visitors. 7 23. Moving along in the day right now, tara, you know we talked about going to the Golden Gate Park today. There is another gift that people should know about. There is a perk. Free parking. Yay in San Francisco today. Yeah, free metered parking everywhere along a including along the embarcadero and Fishermans Wharf. No street sweeping unless that sign says seven days a week of the including holidays. Thats the good news a week, including holidays. Thats the good news. You can see traffic is moving well along all directions. We have, really not a whole lot of people out there. Hopefully everybody is opening their presents right now. Down in the south bay, 237, milpitas, usually we see a lot of westbound traffic on the righthand side of your screen but really own what . Three cars right now. So thats great. Heres rosemary. We have a new storm rolling in in, in time for your Christmas Day. It looks like it could be wet and windy by the afternoon this is part of the bay area where we continue with the mostly gray skies and the mostly dry conditions, although picking up some light rain in santa rosa. Lets head in a little bit closer here where we have the Doppler Radar going for you. Look at the north bay. A line of light to moderate rain. Santa rosa, rohnert park, petaluma, saint he lone na, snow st. Helena, sonoma. Weve been watching of onand off showers all morning long. Palo alto, los altos. Dumbarton bridge. Some of this not shutting the ground just yet. San jose, campbell. We will continue to track this for you throughout the Morning Hours as well as the afternoon. Bill martin will be in here later today. A winter storm warning above 3500 feet starts at noontime. If you plan to go to the sierra, go now. Here is a look at what you can expect by the end of the day. The rain anywhere from. 50 to 1 over the north bay. 25 to an 1 over the south bay. It will be windy t will be a quick mover windy. It will be a quick mover. Scattered showers tonight, scattere

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