tom baker reporting live for us tonight, tom. thanks. an investigation is underway tonight in union city after a shooting left a man dead . it happened last night. here where you see on the map and your 7th and 8th street right across from shorty garcia park. shots were fired about 8 45 last night, and police were at the scene, collecting evidence and investigating all throughout the morning, when officers arrived here at this scene, they found a man dead in the driver's seat of a car. the vehicle been struck multiple times by bullets, as well as the male inside the vehicle. they summoned medical aid to the scene, and he was pronounced dead on scene. police have yet to release more information about the victim or the suspected shooter. in this case, they're asking anyone who has video or may have witnessed the crime to come forward. this was union city's second homicide of the year. congresswoman jackie speier today formally made an endorsement for a candidate running for her house seat. she is throwing her support behind the state assem

it was tom baker continues. our team comforts and out live from san francisco's embarcadero with an explanation, tom well, consider this poor generations. west coast revelers have seen san francisco's embarcadero as ground zero for the greatest celebration around, especially when you include all those fireworks. well. maybe next year. despite having 84% of eligible san franciscans vaccinated and 55% boosted as well. the city by the bay has called off friday nights new year's eve celebration. we ran into longtime sports marketing professional pat gallagher. maybe it's overkill. but i sort of understand what the mentality is, and i think they get people are just afraid to make a mistake. and they sort of air on the on the side of maybe being too conservative. i'm bummed. to be honest, because i feel like in san francisco. we are so cautious and everybody is taking the proper precautions. one key factors has laurie thomas of the golden gate restaurant association is that many restaurant and bar employees are quaran

yeah, i saw that sign last night when i was heading back to the city ktvu tom baker joins us now from the newsroom with details on when these tolls will take effect. well, once again, it is time to pay the piper for what voters themselves approved four years ago. as of new year's day, each and every vehicle crossing the bay area's seven state owned bridges will pay a dollar more crossing regional measures. three was approved by a majority of the voters. back in 2018, so, yeah, it was baked into the cake before the pandemic began. this is the second of three increases already approved. the first took effect new year's day 2019. the second will be on new year's day. 2022 the third in 2025. no one knew at that time, but neither depends nor the inflation that it has brought with it was coming. certainly understand the frustration that people have with the rising cost of everything. but the $4.5 billion. this increase will fund include region wide projects for bark ferries. the capitol corridor and improving the flow of goods and the supply chain specific projects tailored to specific corr

let's go to ktvu tom baker live in santa rosa with more on the problems there, tom. before we get into the main story. i want to show you something. we just drove from sonoma down to rohnert park and what i want you to look at. is these video. this is one of the few times you'll actually see a cell. there were many, many cells that came into the north bay, which is why it extended its situation up here and there's a cell that was coming along and we're underneath it now, and we're being rained upon. but it's not too often the actually see us sell like that. and i thought you might find that interesting and things important about all of this is that this is a blessing in one way because there's so much water, but in many other ways, it turns out to be a bit of a curse. look at this mid morning drive on highway one on one in sonoma county was a decidedly wet, low visibility experience as the rain kept falling harder. at sonoma county airport. the intensity of the badly needed rain became a short lived but heavy duty cloudburst monday afternoon, sonoma county officials

tom baker shares the public appeal. right very true. the interview began and ended with officer nash, cheetahs, wife and widows. same plea police only have one clue this white acura sedan. i kindly please ask if anybody was in the area in the oakland community. in the area at the time of this incident happened that that they have cell phone footage that they please, uh, give it to the oakland police departments. we're seeking to find the reasoning behind all of this until his retirement from active police duty. kevin nash's family never really knew much about his daily work life as he was a police officer. he never really talked about the dangers about it. like i guess he just never wanted us to worry what he's putting at risk every time he goes out there. but

ktvu is tom baker has a look now at the dangerous conditions and the potential impact on california's drought. trying to get to tahoe is a dangerous fools. errand with roads so snowed in passages virtually impossible and extremely dangerous for emergency crews working the roads. andrew schwartz, station manager of the uc berkeley central sierra snow, laboratory, says it's breaking all records. it's the largest december we've ever had in terms of snow lab records going all the way back to 19 seventies got here yesterday. just been stocked went through every possible route, but no luck so gotta gotta stick it out. according to caltrans, i 80 s r 20 and r 49 will remain closed today due to down trees, power lines and continued heavy snow. crews are working around the clock to get the highways reopened. chp in truck. he told me that they are so busy that even with all hands on deck they have been are and will continue to be slammed earlier, chp officer peter man told ktvu this hopefully we get a break in the weather tomorrow . and more importantly, don't hit the road until you actually he

ktvu is tom baker has more now on today's announcement from officials in san francisco. this is what those most in the nose said on wednesday about the oh macron variant coming to america using the latest technology we have, um, discovered our first case. this is the first confirmed case of covid-19. caused by the army cron variant detected in the united states. this is not a surprise for those of you have

baker joins us live from an el sereno shopping center with the very real impact of all of this for holiday shopping and beyond, tom. you know the economy is so good that the natural nasty consequence of that is losing some of your purchasing power to inflation. federal stimulus programs and increased government spending has fueled a lot of consumer spending. but with supply chain issues, causing a shortage of consumer goods spending has caused november prices to go higher by 6.8% on average compared to last year. it feels like nonsense to me gassed and went up this ridiculous going to the grocery store. doesn't a piece of candy bars. what like $23 right now, and they're just a little small signs. it's ridiculous. what a lot of people do is they go back to walter worked at walmart? i mean, i don't know. what do you do? if you can't walk, i don't know what you do. on thursday, the feds reported that layoffs reached a 52 year low nationwide . former ed director labor attorney michael bernick. she's the low layoffs this way. employers very reluctant to lay off workers positive and also employe

ktvu is tom baker explains why. even for counties not mandating mask wearing as of december 15th until january, 15th. they must wear them. marin county got to be essentially mask free because it's people earned it. through obeying the shelter in place mandates wearing masks, social distancing getting vaccinations , achieving low infection rates and having little hospitalizations. you was able to walk into. your local safeway or any local store around here without having to wear the mask here in murray county, but you go right over that bridge. it's a totally different story. marin county is justifiably relying on a proven spirit of cooperation. the majority of residents. we're already proactively continuing that indoor mask use, not 100% but a good majority, so we anticipate this will be an easy transition back for most residents. i think that's fine. you know, just i've got my i've got my mask here, and i'm happy to wear it if you know that's going to help. curb the virus. i know it helps. and i've been through a f