Orbit. How this may be descending humans to mars. Good morning. Were live in San Francisco this morning. Work still being done. The clock is ticking to try to fix that big sinkhole ahead of the next storm thats moving in right now. Ktvus alex savidge is out there in the city this morning. Hes keeping an eye on that repair work. Hes also checking a number of places across the bay area that are still trying to recover from flooding caused by the last big storm and coming up in a couple of minutes well check in with him. He will tell us whats being done to try to prevent the rain from making bad situations even worse. Keep your headlights on this morning. Steve is not fooling around. Were gonna get some more rain. Well get some rain today. Maybe sunday afternoon, evening. But. Cloudy skies, only light rain right now. It will pick up. A good cell over highway 50. Snow level is pretty high. There might be a couple of breaks later on. Cloudy right now. Rain beginning to pick up for a few. Its light. Nothing too heavy but light amounts along the coast trying to get its act together. It looks like more around the noon hour. Coming out of the Santa Cruz Mountains, there continues to be light rain. It doesnt matter if its light. They can get it and it can add up. Might be some thunderstorm activity. It looks active into tonight. Even saturday morning. 50s on the temps. With a south wind kind of a mild air mass. Thats why the temperatures will go up. Look for this to continue probably into early saturday. Rainfall projections will be heavier to the north. San jose down to monterey, well get rain. Santa rosa up to ukiah. By sunday this system comes right back in. There is a couple on the way here. Cloudy with some rain. It picks up into the noon hour, the heaviest will be to the north and the 60s. Sal theyve touched on that. Rain lights have to be none. Absolutely your headlights have to be on when your wild shield wipers are in full operation your windshield wipers are in full operation. You can be cited for that. Just remember that. This is a look at westbound 80 from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze. That traffic is okay. Average speed 53 miles an hour. Not too bad. This has stayed kind of nice for the morning. But as steve mentioned, it is gonna rain for the commute. You will be stuck in traffic this afternoon if you are bringing your car to the city. Right now its taking 30 minutes. Let me move this to the livermore valley. Unusual for it to be so good on 580 through dublin and livermore. Well take it, thank you. 680 southbound at you drive to the walnut creek interchange. Its not too bad. There are traffic lights on highway 37 at lakeville. Its causing a big traffic jam for westbound 37. At 7 0 had. Back to the desk. Work crews are speeding up efforts to fix that massive sinkhole in San Francisco before the next storm moves which is later today. Ktvus alex savidge joins us now from the city with more on that project and some other ways the bay area is bracing for todays rain. Good morning, alex. Reporter good morning. Its a bit of a race against the clock to try to get as much of this repair work done before more rain arrives later on. Almost right on cue here. They cranked up the heavy machinery. Were seeing more activity right now. Work crews out here trying to get some of this repair work done. We are learning more about how this huge sinkhole opened up here in San Francisco. It was apparently caused by a broken storm drain. All of that water eroded to sand under the sand and led to the collapse. This is a 20foot by 20foot crater that opened up in the richmond district. This sinkhole runs about 9 feet deep late yesterday gats and Water Service was restored to this neighborhood. Crews will be spending today trying to fix sewer lines in this area. Were told it may take until early next week possibly to finish all of the repairs related to this huge sinkhole. In the meantime, theres quite a bit of storm damage up in marin county. This is Surveillance Video showing floodwaters seeping through the front door of the champagne salon and day spa in tiburon. Several stores were flooded and will are to be repaired as well. A lot of people trying out and cleaning up from that series of storms earlier on this week. Of course, now, its time for everyone to get prepared for even more rain. This morning, i reached out to a representative from the Public Utilities commission to get a better sense when the repair work will be done on the sinkhole. Well let you know when we get back from him. Alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. See how much rain we get. 7 06 is the time. For that information, stay with us, ktvu channel 2, all throughout the morning and afternoon and evening as the storm moves in. You can get conditions any time of day at ktvu. Com, our mobile app and facebook and twitter. 7 06. New this morning, well, they did it. Nasa has launched the orion spacecraft and were tracking it. 3, 2, 1. And liftoff at dawn, the dawn of orion and a new era of American Space exploration. Thats what happened this morning. Orion lifted off at 4 05 this morning pacific kime. Its orbiting the earth right now as im speaking to you. The four and a halfhour unmanned test flight will end with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean south of san diego. Its scheduled for 8 28 a. M. The engineers at thats ames helped out at nasa ames helped out and they are hoping this will lead to manned missions to mars in about 20 years. Back here its beginning to look like the holidays around the prayer. Tara moriarty is on a while tour of fun events this weekend in San Francisco the last hour, tara was in union square but now, tara, youve moved inside the fairmont with a look at a giant Gingerbread House. Reporter yes, it smells like freshly baked jenger bread inside this lobby. Its absolutely amazing. We want to show you the biggest Gingerbread House in San Francisco. There is. Just just kidding. Thats the doghouse. Thats for the dog. Well show you the real thing. Look at this. Its concocted of more than a ton of icing and canny candy, gumdrops, marshmallows, candy canes. Absolutely beautiful. The person who oversaw this project is the top chef here at the fairmont. In of pastries . The expect chef. Reporter the executive chef. This is andrew. Good morning. Reporter this is a work of art. How long did it take . Three weeks to put it all together. Just under 400 hours for pastry chefs and 200 hours for engineering. Its a wood frame and then we use icing to glue all of the ginger bred gingerbread bricks. Reporter it scts asks that you not remove the candy. A marshmallow was taken up here. That had to be an adult, or the kid was gigantic. Reporter we ask that everybody respects the Gingerbread House. But, you know, as its christmas, all of the big kids and little kids all get carried away. We do come up every morning and evening to fix any little bits of damage. Reporter youve been doing this for eight years and grew. Every year it grows a little bit more. We add Different Things, details. This we are we have the new clock up above us and we have the carousel with the nut crackers. The train track is longer and weve added a village on the outside. Reporter do you bake these big sheets of gingerbread and glue the pieces on the wood frame . We use the pastry sheets. We cut them and bake them. 7700 pieces of bricks. Reporter how do you feel now that its all done . A little relieved. Its great to see all of the kids, like big kids, small kids. The smell of the gingerbread walks all the way through the lobby of the hotel and Everybody Loves it. Reporter thank you. If you would like to come down here to get a lid of this fantastic Gingerbread House. Its here all of the time. You can come come at any time. They have an afternoon tea thats popular. A lot of the reservations for the weekends have booked up. If you would like to come during the week, that could be an option for you and you could show the kids this beautiful Gingerbread House. You can actually smell the gingerbread . Reporter the smell is see overpowering. I think thats why a lot of people start to pick at it because you get kind of hungry standing here. I im looking for a little egg nog this morning. I know you have problems hearing us. But why dont you take your buddy why didnt you take your buddy dave clark with you . Reporter well have finger sandwicheses and a lot of sandwiches and a lot of pastries. If you have never been here for that, its quite the event. Everything comes out and lift theirs pinky finger. Its an experience, one that you can really only have here at the fairmont in San Francisco. Thank you for taking us on the tour. Thank you. 7 12. Well, sundays big game between the raiders and the 49ers, soldout. That means fans not going to the Oakland Coliseum, you can watch the battle of the bay right here on ktvu channel 2. The kickoff, 1 25 sunday afternoon. Sundays game is the First Time Since 2002 the raiders have hosted the 49ers at the coliseum. That was the same year the raiders moved onto the super bowl. Meantime, u. S. Senators from both parties say the nfl should end the blackout rule. The lawmakers want the nfl to allow home games to be televised in the local market even if the game is not sold out. The senators say the blackout rule is just not fair to fans. Now, if the fan does not end the blackout rule. Congress may step in to force the nfl to lift that ban. 7 13 is the time. B. A. R. T. Hoping to put a halt to a growing problem. Coming up in 20 minute, the plan to keep thieves from taking off with riders bikes. An attack on sony. Up next, the reason tens of thousands of workers may also be at risk. Good morning. Right now, were looking at a commute that is still a little bit slow in some areas. We just saw the bridge lights being turned off there. Traffic looks good as you head town to the toll plaza of the golden gate. Cloudy skies, light rain, even some fog out there, but the rain is holding off until later. The morning commute should be okay. Well have that and your weekend forecast. This Holiday Season, subway is celebrating you its Customer Appreciation and were saying thanks by offering two alltime favorite sixinch sandwiches for 2 each the tremendously tasty meatball marinara, and cold cut combo. Always made fresh from the bread up with whatever your taste buds wish. So let subway treat you with these two delicious 2 sandwiches this Holiday Season during our Customer Appreciation celebration. Subway. Eat fresh. Were learning new details on a cyber attack on sony. The files include personal employees of employees, unreleased tv scripts. The hacking started in the days leading up to thanksgiving. In the first leak, the hackers released video file of films that were not yet in theaters that include fury, annie and mr. Turner. Employees were forced to use paper and pen because those hackers shut down their computers. Theres speculation someone with the company may be involved. Sony is working with the fbi trying to investigate this cyber attack. 7 16 and we want to check in with sal. Hopefully no problems on this friday morning. Its a little lighter than usual. Lets take a look. You can see the traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza. Its not too bad. Its moving along nicely getting up into the city. About a 25minute delay as you drive through. There was an accident. Now there is an accident, but theres also some signal lights not working properly. Highway 37 at lakeville road and this area is a mess. If you are driving from vallejo over to novato, please give yourself a lot of extra time and also give yourself just a little bit of patience. People have been honking their horns and stuff. Not a great way to start a friday. Southbound 101 as you drive into san rafael looks good. And across the bay, you can see that the 80 freeway from vallejo all the way to richmond, a couple of slow spots, nothing that major. 280 in san jose, northbound, that looks good getting into the cupertino area. Steve said it had been raining a little bit in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Lets ask limb about him about that and other things. Theres a few pockets around, heemedsburg, the east bay, coming out of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Its cloudy to mostly cloudy. Its not a strong system. But it will give us some rain. Nothing too heavy. There will be heavier amounts from the golden gate northward. This does not look like a big system at all. But a cloudy morning with a little bit of light rain. Friday afternoon and evening rain, maybe into saturday morning. Next system is racing right along. It will be here sunday afternoon and evening in the north bay and then overnight into monday, there are hints of a pretty good system maybe strong next thursday. Well see. That would be colder. Well get friday rain. Light rain. Heavier for the afternoon commute into tonight. Cloudy, mild, light rain. But the rain picks up. Possibility of thundershower activity. A lot of moisture activity. It wants to hang out on highway 50. A little bit of rain there. 50 in the mountains the we get a little cloud cover and a little bit of rain. There is a cell parking itself right there. Thats about all i can find. There might be rain underneath it. The radar is not picking it up. Also around marinwood near novato. That looks really light. Little pockets of it around clayton out to bay pointe, pittsburg, walnut creek, if you are getting light rain, this is very light. Also coming out of the Santa Cruz Mountains. But again, that can be deceptive. Even though its drizzle. It can be steady and add up there. Some of that cloud cover coming in well have to focus right there, the Little Development taking place. That could give us brief, heavy rain and maybe thundershowers. 50s on the temperatures to 60s. 57 ukiah, sacramento. Still 31 in tahoe. There are no warnings or watches. The snow level goes up. This is a mild system. It will give us a cloudy to mostly cloudy day. Heavier rain is back here. So that really wont arrive until the noon hour. South not too much. Maybe San Francisco, oakland, southward, peninsula to monterey, lesser amounts. There will be some moderate to heavy amounts not only this system but the same one sunday night. Thats painting heavy rain up into Mendocino County. Cloudy, rain, rain picks up later. The heaviest will be north bay. It may take a while to get to the south bay. 60s on the temps. The breeze is not too bad. Cloudy, mainly in the morning, and then rain. Take us into saturday. A break saturday afternoon into sunday morning. By sunday afternoon, for everyone on monday. A break tuesday wednesday. Next thursday thats a colder system if it makes it. Decent rain over the next few days. Especially north bay, yes. Thank you. 7 20 is the time right now. And hundreds were arrested in protests over the use of deadly force by police. Coming up in 20 minutes, the demonstrations still taking place across the country and changes ordered by new york citys mayor on how they will train officers going forward. This is no joke. 73 years ago, he survived the japanese attack on pearl harbor. 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You are looking at the philippines bracing for another major storm. Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes this morning as a typhoon moves towards the fill when beans. The sloerm was philippines. The storm was slightly downgraded. Waves are expected up to 45 feet. The storm is also headed for the same area devastated by supertyphoon last year. While this storm is not supposed to be as strong as haian, many people are still recover erg. One family from sunnyvale said her family survived the last storm but she worries about their safety this time of around. If it is going to hit as hard or how close it was to hian, they will suffer again. Bay area organizations are monitoring the storm and preparing to help. They are looking at ways that they can send money, food an other items to families in need. 7 24. This weekend market 73 years since the japanese attacked pearl harbor. A teenaged sailor from hayward survived that bombing raid and mike mibach talked to him. The veteran is now 92 years old and says he wasnt scared that day. He was just trying to survive. Reporter curious about his crops, hes a proud man walking his land. Whats your favorite thing to eat that you grow . Almost anything but apricots. Here is a big one. Reporter hes quite the character. Look at the size of that sucker. Reporter a gardener. Peppers. Reporter a story teller who pat 92 years old and living in hayward takes us back to when he was 19 and at pearl harbor. December 7th, 1941. This is no joke reporter back row, right with the mustache, he was an electrician on the u. S. S. San francisco. She was just off battleship row preparing for repairs when the japanese attacked. Right here. Reporter 3500 americans were killed or wounded. What the hell am i gonna do . I had one choice. They are gonna let me out hour sink me. What do you want . Well, i want to go out. Reporter and he also finally served