roberta gonzales with how you can help. we had some fun earlier. >> reporter: we have had a lot of fun all day long. it's been truly a blessed day right here at nbc 5 as we have held hands with our cbs radio stations and also with cw and all together we have collectively come together to ask all of you at home to help the people on the east coast after that devastating natural disaster that happened in new york and new jersey. we have invited harold brooks here. he is a ceo of american red cross. and we have had quite a day today. >> it's been amazing. the team that you have here at kpix, roberta, your viewers are just amazing. we're getting towards $100,000 raised. that's just fantastic. we're so grateful. >> reporter: we're grateful. we're doing our part and i have been very proud of all of our employees here at cbs for volunteering their time and efforts. but it's the people at home. the east coast has had quite a blow. it could happen here with earthquakes. >> we have had children who have had their lemonade stands brou

cbs 5's roberta gonzales explains how you can help. those phones are busy. >> reporter: the phones are ringing off the hook. another tour! just for this last half hour i have been saying to folks if you call up with a $250 donation to the american red cross, i would personally give you a tour of our cbs 5 studios for four people and also you can be my guests on the cbs 5 newscast and let me see. who just called in? steve jones from san leandro. $270. thank you, sir. thanks to all of you who have been calling up and giving so generously. to give you an idea, we want to put a face on the american red cross. we have emily white to join us. just how dire is this situation? >> well, it's a serious situation and the need keeps growing. so we really appreciate all the support. the bay area community has been overwhelming in the support they have been able to give. thank you. >> reporter: i think everybody here in the bay area who we are a generous community but they want to know where does this money go? we are sending it to the east coast fo

roberta gonzales is heading up our annual "food for bay area families" drive. hi, roberta. >> reporter: not just any whole foods. this is a brand spanking new whole foods. you can eat off the floor here, you really can, because this is off ocean avenue, there's about 6 whole foods located in the san francisco area. roughly over three dozen san francisco bay area-wide. we have several guest, judy, son aden, ethan, paul ash executive director for the marin and san francisco food banks and over here mike from sutter health and you and judy together came from sutter health. you have some things to say? >> sutter health is to enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve, for the poorest in our communities meaning food. this check i'm about to present for over $32,000 represents a portion of sutter health quarter of a million-dollar evident this winter to support the food banks throughout all of our communities. >> reporter: i got to see this. maybe i can get little aden and ethan here to give me a hand. what does this check say? can you tell? $32,50

. >> roberta gonzales is at the airport for us now with more. how long are we talking? >> reporter: right now the rain has stopped. we have a little reprieve but winds have been problematic gusting up to 37 miles an hour. behind me is an empty runway. this is something that you should not be seeing at this time of the day. it should be filled with arriving and departure flights. right now we have one cancellation of an international plane but we have so many cancellations of arriving flights for monterey, from orange county, from santa barbara. and earlier today we had over 4 hour delays on arriving flights. i just went inside the terminal and took another look. it looks like we are still seeing delays up to 2 hours and 24 minutes on arriving flights. what the duty manager says is that even if we begin to pick up some of these rates of departing flights we'll still have problems now on arrivals because it takes a while to get these planes turned around after such a huge delay. so word of advice, if you are coming to sfo, it's advisable to call ahead because this is goin

roberta gonzales is somewhere where earlier this week, roberta, they had a mud slide without any rain. >> reporter: take a good look at this because this right here this is the only piece of machinery that's left from daly city workers who have feverishly been working around the although to be shore up this neighborhood. let me tale take you back. it was early tuesday morning when a main water break sent 45,000 gallons of water mixed with sand and mud slides into this daly city neighborhood. coming up at 6:00 i went ahead and took to the streets to this neighborhood. i walked up and down this road here. i found a neighborsays he is still scared. another mud slide could occur in the wake of days of rain in the forecast. we'll talk to him coming up at 6:00. reporting from daly city, roberta gonzales, cbs 5. >>> thank you. they don't want to see the rainfall. but they are going to get up to 1.5" between now and sunday. roberta will keep an eye on that and report at 6:00. >> thank you. >>> the best black friday deals may not come on black friday. cbs 5 consumerwatch reporter julie watts w

from san anselmo, roberta gonzales. >> thank you. >>> on the bay area watch now, a manhunt is under way for a masked intruder in palo alto. police say a masked man got inside a woman's apartment. she woke up when he was in her bed. she screamed and he took o she feels not injured. no description of the suspect yet. >>> in san jose a fire broke out inside a home garage that may have held a pot growing operation. firefighters got the fire under control in an hour. no word on what started the fire. police did find a marijuana growing facility inside but have not confirmed yet whether it was legal or not. >>> a controversial vote at the u.n. today is certain to win u.n. recognition of a palestinian state to recognize palestine's 1967 borders before israel took parts of the palestinian land. israel doesn't recognize those borders and says today's vote won't change a thing. they are against the push to give nonmember observer status in the u.n. it's been four years since israel and palestine have been negotiating. >>> with 33 days left to the "fiscal cliff" deadline, president obama sent his

cbs 5's roberta gonzales live down in campbell with the smarter sprinklers. hi, roberta. >> reporter: hi there, frank. hi, michelle. doesn't you just hate it when you see people watering their lawns when it's raining outside or perhaps watering their lawns and it's really windy and all the water goes up into the atmosphere and evaporates? that's waste. that's why the campbell middle school has called on hydropoint's ceo chris spain here to tell us how hydropoint has made a difference here at campbell middle school. >> well, thanks, roberta. i think it's really simple what we do is we eliminate waste by making sure the controller irrigates the right amount of water at the right time. the way we do that is have a feature called weather track which replaces the existing irrigation controller with a computer. and the computer calculates exactly how much water and when. >> reporter: you're using the same computer models we use at cbs 5 to forecast our weather. so dave, you are facility supervisor here at the school. how has it worked for you? >> since the installa

roberta gonzales from mount diablo. >>> it has been a dismal week on wall street. today's slight gain wasn't much to recoup the losses from the market's worst two-day slide in a year. wall street is sending a message to washington, d.c. find a way to fix the "fiscal cliff." cbs reporter grace lee with how both sides are taking note of this. >> reporter: we all know the long they are drags out, the more wall street is likely to suffer. if you want to know just how important dealing with a "fiscal cliff" is, consider this. it is the very first thing the president talked about publicly post-election. and today there are new signals of communication between the president and the house speaker john boehner. >> i'm not wedded to every detail of my plan. i'm open to compromise. i'm open to new ideas. >> everyone wants to get our economy moving again. everyone wants to get more americans back to work again. >> reporter: could this be washington code for a real compromise? political science expert max neimann says that's exactly what it is. >> and there's a kind of dance ta

roberta gonzales is reporting live from napa. not every rainstorm not every big storm is created the same. >> reporter: light rain on and off again all day winds south at 15 miles per hour. the last time i was standing right here reporting on that river, the napa river was new year's eve 1997 and new year's day 1998. this flooded local businesses. that was due to el nino. even though we are expecting a foot of rain here in napa between today and sunday night, coming up at 6:00 i'll tell you why we don't anticipate the same kind of flooding. that's tonight at 6:00 right here on cbs 5. reporting from napa, roberta gonzales cbs 5. >>> and as you just heard, the north bay is going to get hammered but one spot in particular really needs to watch out. in the past, heavy rains have flooded san anselmo creek inundating the downtown with water. voters approved a tax for prevention projects five years ago. but the money has been tied up in court most of the time. now there's about $10 million waiting to be spent. >> there are efforts that

reporting from concord, roberta gonzales, cbs 5. >>> much more on our stormy weather coming up including the typing of the next round of rain and this reminder, you can use our live hi-def doppler on our website to zero in on your neighborhood. we also have a list of places where you can pick up sandbags. just go to our website, cbssf.com and click on weather. >>> new at 5:00 we are getting our first look at a smash-and- grab robbery that happened at a south bay jewelry store. security cameras were rolling as two men armed with semi- automatic weapons burst into a jewelry store in los gatos. they held employees at gunpoint and then look at them go to work. one used a hammer to smash glass display cases and then they filled a bag with jewelry, police say the theft was well planned. the suspects apparently made use of two getaway cars. >> two women saved from a burning rv in san jose have an alert passerby to thank. the man was walking on santiago avenue this morning when he spotted smoke coming from the camper and heard screams from inside. he was able to pry open the door and pull the wo

roberta gonzales is live tonight at whole foods for an amazing cause and roberta you have been doing this for 10 years, right? >> reporter: i have been here every year for 10 years. this is a new location on ocean avenue in san francisco, whole foods. joining me this year, steve seymour, managing director with federal express! and i have to ask you, what have you been up to? it's been a year since i've seen you. >> well hopefully i'll pull my first ironman this year. >> oh, good. okay. >> but on behalf of fedex i'll real happy to be here to let you know all that we're doing in the community across country we're helping out with the super storm on the east coast and here in the bay area, we're donating $30,000 of matching grants -- >> whoa! >> to the san francisco food bank. >> whoo! [ applause and cheers ] >> $30,000! paul ash, $30,000. >> this is fantastic! steve, we will do good things with it along with our pantry coordinators and feed a lot of people this holiday season. >> now, over here, guys, join me here. this woman and her mother have an interesting story. tell me about gian

but roberta gonzales is out givg us a closer look at how air quality officials monitor te air.. roberta.. is it a co d process? thanks, lawrence. coming up.. can november 6th come fast enough?? not for s little girl.. " i'm tired of bronco bama d mitt romney" november 6 come fast enough? apparently not for had little girl. [ crying ] >> tired of barack obama and mitt romney. [ sobbing ] >> that's why you're crying? oh. it will be over soon, abby... okay? ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, serving in afghanistan. >>> it started with a simple c.a.r.e. package sent to a marine captain servin in afghanistan. but it was turned into a pipeline of support for servicemembers overseas. kate kelly reports. >> they were asking for tourniquettes, medical scissors, flashlights. >> reporter: it's not unusual for aaron negherbon to go calls at all hours of the day from the front is lines in afghanistan like the call he got from a marine corps major needing help. >> he said we just got into our base here in afghanistan and half of my unit is coming down ill because there's some type of virus or bacteria. he

. >>> good evening, roberta gonzales live at the university of california in berkeley home of your cal bears. a very late arriving crowd tonight. we'll talk about why they are so tardy as eyewitness news continues right here on cbs 5. ,,,,,,,,,, this is hayden. ,,,,,,,,,, that's elizabeth. and that's skyler... and his mom, nancy. they're just a few of the californians who took it on themselves to send you a message about what they need to restore years of cuts to their schools. prop thirty-eight. thirty-eight raises billions in new revenue - bypasses sacramento and sends every k through 12 dollar straight to our local schools... every school. for them. for all of us. vote yes on thirty-eight. a popular desk toy won't be rolling off the assembly lie any longer. as >>> a popular desk toy won't be rolling off the assembly line any longer. >> as cbs 5 consumerwatch reporter julie watts tells us buckyballs are going buh-bye. >> reporter: after a long hard fight the maker of buckyballs is giving in and discontinuing production of these little magnetic balls. the government has been after the

roberta gonzales has been womaning the phones since before sunrise. roberta, there's still a lot more work to be done now, huh? >> reporter: the telethon officially closes down at 7:00 but that doesn't mean you need to stop giving. we want your support even after 7:00 tonight. this just happens to be cbs 5, all our radio stations owned by cbs and also the cw, who have come together collectively to join forces with the american red cross to be sure we get the money we're raising here to new york, new jersey, philadelphia and connecticut. who can tell us more about that than ceo of the american red cross mr. harold brooks. thank you so much for joining us here it evening. >> thank you. >> reporter: while i have been manning the phones people ask if i make a donation, $1, $10, $500, $1,000, does every penny go to the american red cross? >> it does. and we are going to see to it that it's there to take care of the many needs of the people who are suffering as a result of this terrible disaster. >> reporter: when you see these phones or hear these phones a

reporting from napa, roberta gonzales cbs 5. >>> thank you. one north bay community is always on alert during heavy rains. san anselmo has seen some very serious flooding over the years. but some businesses there tell cbs 5's mike sugerman, there is no need to make a big production out of it. >> reporter: well, allen, at san anselmo it is raining now and i'm by the creek and it's actually a beautiful sight. but it would take coming up to about here to actually flood and a lot of people are saying, i don't think that's going to really happen. it's november in san anselmo and here comes the rain. residents know when that happens, the news comes up to cover it. >> a big pain in the ass, kind of like vultures. >> reporter: san anselmo has had floods in 1982 and 2005. it was under water, $100 million in damage last time. people who live here get nervous when it rains. >> the news media has made it scary to come to san anselmo. >> reporter: susan's business is down this week over past years. >> every time it sprinkles in san anselmo, all the news tr

roberta gonzales has a countdown to one of the sure signs of holidays in san francisco. good evening. >> reporter: paul, i have to tell you, i have been doing the antirain dance right here with aloha spirit -- [overlapping speakers] >> it's working. >> reporter: the rain has stopped. >> it has stopped. >> reporter: we are here for the 26th annual countdown at the embarcadero building lighting. what does this mean to you? >> hawaii and san francisco have had a long love affair for years so it's a natural fit for hawaiian airlines to be part of this tradition. we are going on our fourth year here. it really connects us. it's all about community family tradition. >> you have cold weather and rain like this in hawaii. >> we have some rain but not quite as cold. it's a nice treat. >> reporter: besides the dancing we have a wonderful festivity here with people gathering and i have to tell you as soon as we have this gathering each and every year, this is my 15th year involved with this this kicks off the holiday season in san francisco. coming up, the next time around about 6:

from concord, roberta gonzales, allen? >> yeah. roberta, i'm sure volunteers would be welcome too because it looks like you could have used an extra set of hands to hold the bag open to shovel the sand in a it. >> reporter: it's not that bag. 25 bags per person and you don't have to fill them all the way up. but it's a good core workout. >> always looking for the workout, roberta. thanks so much. >>> two women saved from a burning rv in san jose have an alert passer by to thank. the man was walking on santiago avenue this morning when he spotted smoke coming from that camper. then he heard screams from inside. he was able to pry open the door and pull those women to safety. investigators think an unattended candle may have sparked the fire as the women slept. >> it's just one of those things during the holidays and around the cold time that would burn candles and have heaters on. you have to be cognizant of making sure we're wake and only having those things on when we're able to tend to them. >> both women suffered minor injuries.

reporting from mount diablo, i'm roberta gonzales, eyewitness news will continue. we'll be right back. we're not going anywhere. warriors take the court tont at staples center for a runh a laker team... ...that just showed their head coach the door >>> nba tonight the warriors take the court at the staples center for a run with a lakers team that just showed their coach the door. a one in four start wasn't good enough and now there's turmoil in laker land. head coach mike brown has been fired just five games into the season. many feel he wasn't given enough time but in the win now era, the pressure is just so great. after acquiring steve nash and dwight howard this off season simply saying you're right kobe every night wasn't enough. assistant coach bernie bickerstaff will take over as interim coach tonight against the warriors. >>> the raiders are up against it this sunday at the ravens. the top two running backs are banged up! oakland will be without darren mcfadden, seen here injuring his ankle last sunday against tampa bay. he and backup runningback mike goodso

from daly city, with mobile weather, i'm roberta gonzales. paul? >> let's talk about the forecast. we don't want that much rain for daly city. obviously it would be a concern. some of you saying week, can use some rainfall we're below normal and we'll get it whether you like it or not. hi-def doppler is tracking the rainfall toward daly city and all the bay area. one spot that will see most of the rain, north of the golden gate towards clear lake and healdsburg. you're likely going to see about 2" of rain between now and sunday evening. temperatures outside right now upper 50s, low 60s. oakland at 61. cloudy in livermore 61 degrees. and san jose 62. the cloud cover will limit the cooling tonight because the clouds will act like a blanket. so we are going to see waves of rainfall low pressure off to the west of for the next three days. the first wave tonight and early tomorrow. things sloppy on the roads. the last wave of rainfall won't move out until sunday evening about three days. friday, saturday, sunday that we'll see a solid rain chance. next few days steady rain at times, som

but first let's check in with roberta gonzales in the east bay where floodwaters are rising. roberta. >> reporter: it's not just the rivers that are rising across the bay area, michelle. no, we are here in pleasanton. besides our el nino year of 1997, 1998, i have never seen such widespread flooding. i brought this tape to see how deep it is here and it's over a foot and a half of ponding on this road. this is crazy. i have to tell you, i started hearing the raindrops off my rooftop right after midnight and this rain has not let up all cause by the low pressure to the west causing a training effect. the rain just keeps steadily moving in as lawrence was alluding to, we have more rain coming sow what are they doing here in the bay area? they are turning on the drains and starting to try to get all of this water out of this particular parking lot before more water moves back in. now, if you want to just see how much more rain is going to be moving into your neighborhood, it's easy. check out our live high-def doppler radar at cbssf.com/weather. you can even maneuver the radar a

. >> our very own roberta gonzales was the keynote speaker. she was the first person among her siblings to go to college. the conference's goal to encourage students to learn more about higher education. >>> the new ipad mini is on sale finally today at apple stores all around the world but lines have been shorter than previous rollouts probably because of the price than other products on the market from amazon and google. today only the wi-fi version of the ipad mini is on sale. the cell model will be available next month. >> what do you think? >> i like it. but i haven't bought one. >> yeah. do you have an ipad? >> i do not but i thought those were cool. i don't like the real big ones. that seems funny when you see people taking pictures holding up these big screens. i was down at the tech museum of innovation today and they are having a science festival so we were doing the whole flew tog thing. that wasn't too bad. you can make your own down there and learn all about the arts and crafts down there making innovative new things. if it doesn'

cbs 5's roberta gonzales in berkeley tonight where spirited cal fans are entering memorial stadium. how's it looking? >> we are here at the university of california berkeley home of the cal barnes. it's the first friday night light game. people have been streaming in especially in the past 45 minutes. but i have been doing this random poll asking everybody, how did you get here? [ screaming ] >> reporter: and they said the number one reason that they're here is bart. because all these roads are closed behind me here. you cannot enter except by foot. we drove all the way around memorial stadium. it took us a good 45 minutes and we had press parking passes to get here. but we still could not park. so coming up at 6:00 tonight, we're going to talk about the madness behind all the parking. the big-time problems. but we're also going to bring you exciting things going on here too, as well. reporting from cal berkeley, go, bears! ken? >> all right, roberta. thank you for that. >>> it's a $23 million blessing for a southern california family. the winning ticket to a jackpot had been sittin

roberta gonzales is going to help us. she is already on the ice. >> reporter: i think i'm dizzy! so i'm going to call on rosie here. rosie and brad and we'll take it away. we are at the 26th annual holiday carnival here at justin herman plaza and this is the official lighting, thank you so much -- of the embarcadero center. so 26th annual lighting is always so much fun. it officially kicks off the holiday season here in the bay area. steve colvin, i feel like it's been a good year since i have see you. >> welcome back. >> reporter: tell me what to expect? >> today we have the winter carnival which starts at 4 p.m. of the and that's a family oriented event. we have pony rides, face painters, santa, and everything in between 4 to 6 today and then we have the disney on ice show 6 to 7 p.m. and culminates with the building lighting ceremony. >> reporter: the building light something at 6:00 and tell me about that. >> so tonight we'll light the lights of the great buildings. 17,000 lights. we are going to have a special guest who i'm not going to mention right now. we are going to do

here's roberta gonzales. >> good evening een. in fact, today -- everybody 679 in fact today we were averaging temperatures up to ten degrees below normal and many of the neighborhoods only topping off in the mid 50s and tonight once the sun officially set the temperatures went downward very quickly. in fact the national weather service has now issued a frost advisory in effect for the blue highlighted areas there. that's the north bay valleys where temperatures will dip into the upper 20s and low 30s for a few hours. so be sure to protect your plants and pets. in fact let's pinpoint the temperatures, 32 degrees, freezing in santa rosa. it means the upper 20s for you and otherwise 35 degrees in napa and mid 30s throughout the trivalley. we'll be talking rain again and we'll pinpoint the days coming up straight ahead and a little bit later in this newscast. >>> a man suspected of murdering his wife in san jose was found dead late this afternoon. the body of 50-year-old troy nosenzo was found in his car in the county. police believe

roberta gonzales has a look at the radar. >> picking up scattered showers as this cold front is slicing through the bay area, quickly falling apart at the seams. we have moderate rain falling on highway 92 on the approach toward hayward. light rain right now. otherwise, we have a cell that seems to want to develop and expand across the santa clara valley. here is that corridor, very slippery when wet. you see 680 heading north and south, pretty much light to moderate rainfall as it spills in from blackhawk to san ramon into dublin. here's the cell that fell just in the past few minutes, around the palo alto area. we've had some hefty rain in the santa cruz mountains. we're tracking this latest cold front. we'll tell you when the rain will end and how it effects the raider game, coming up. >>> in dairy city, it will be a long night, just days after their neighborhood was buried in mud, rain is once again a threat to a crumbling hillside. >> reporter: fortunately, right now, ann, it is not raining. it is very calm here, but folks are concerned because they've seen what can happen. this hi

. >> my guess, roberta gonzales is asleep. she went straight through 13 hours including at the end. >> great job. >> a lot of generous people. we say thanks. >>> it is 4:40 now. navy seals in a lot of trouble with the department of defense. what they did with the videogame that's causing a lot of security concerns. >> plus, something fishy about a uc-davis sorority prank. why police don't think it's too funny. >> and it looks like something out of a movie here. bandits, motorcycles pull off a brazen heist inside a mall that's packed with people. it's coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, it looks like something outa james bond movie. six men, dressed in black, wearing helmets >>> a brazen heist at a mall in north london looks like something out of a james bond really. six men dressed in black ride into the mall on motorcycles. they then smash the display window at a jewelry store and ride off with $3 million worth of jewels and rolex and cartier watches. police are still looking for them. they were able to get away. >> that is a little cr

with more on that, roberta gonzales is live tonight. >> reporter: today is the first day of winter "spare the air" day. i converted from gas. my son suffers from asthma. i just love this. i took out the wood and put in candles. and this is another way that you can still light up during those winter "spare the air" days. if you don't abide by the very new rules and regulations in place, you could end up at smoke school. we'll talk about that tonight at 6:00 right here on cbs 5. >> all right. thanks, roberta. >>> untreated high blood pressure can take a real toll on the heart. but now california researchers have shown how it can also damage the brain. and get this. in people as young as 40! dr. kim joins with us more. >>> reporter: well, what's bad for your heart is bad for your brain. this is sobering news. researchers at uc-davis have shown for the first time that high blood pressure speeds up the aging process in the brain. what's more, they found brain damage even among young people with prehypertension. >>> reporter: high blood pressure has been linked to brain atrophy, cognitive decli

. >> roberta gonzales is in the call center. those phones keep ringing. >> reporter: i am here in the hurricane relief fund telethon. we started at 6:00 this morning. we're going strong all the way until 7 p.m. i'm going to become your very personal friend over the next several hours because i'm not going anywhere. i need your help. i need you to help people on the east coast. it's west coast joining east coast. together we can make it better for everyone because 53,000 people still cannot go home because of the wrath of superstorm sandy. also, people are still without electricity and top that off with a second storm a nor'easter that raced through new york and new jersey yesterday dumping record amounts of snow. emily white is here with the american red cross. >> thank you so much for helping. >> reporter: tell us how great the need is. >> it's enormous and it's growing every day. this is ramping up to be one of our largest responses in the past five years. we have tons of volunteers out there right now working with local gover

gonzales live tonight. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, paul. i have to tell you for 26 years, this party has been going strong. it is the annual embarcadero center building lighting ceremony. i have been here now for the past 15 years. rain or shine, it goes on. we are going to light up these buildings and talk more about it. steve is here with boston properties. how many lights are going to be lit up tonight? >> you'll see 17,000 two watt bulbs light up four buildings here at embarcadero center. >> what i love is i drive across the bay bridge even at 2a these lights light up the city. >> they will be lit until the end of the year so the 31st at new year's we'll shut them down. >> i have to tell you every time i see the embarcadero center lit up, for me, it means the holidays have begun. >> it's absolutely the kickoff. holiday season here in the bay area and you're going to have a spectacular show here tonight. >> reporter: a big show going on here tonight. and honestly, this is the night in which

it's wintertime now for "spare the air" and roberta gonzales has more on that. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, paul. it is a very first day of the winter "spare the air" day and in fact it runs all the way through february 28th. and this is my own fireplace here that 15 years ago i converted on over to gas because my son suffers from terrible asthma so i was trying to clean up the air. this fireplace here, take a look. i converted this wood-burning fireplace into candles. and again, i'm just trying do my part to make it a healthier environment for my son but if you have wood-burning fireplaces, there's a new law you need to know about or you can end up in smoke school. in 2008, the bay area air quality district launched its first winter "spare the air" program. staff meteorologists were diligently compiling information to determine if an alert should be issued. today is not a winter "spare the air" day here throughout the tri-valley and it's pretty obvious. the sky is blue and the clouds are big and puffy. but if it was a winter "spare the air" day, thi

roberta gonzales doing yeoman's work all day. our parent company cbs matched almost $18,000 in employee donations. and you can still contribute if you would like. go to our website, cbssf.com. >> very generous people in the bay area. >> absolutely. >> so much money. so that's great. >>> time now 6:11. sudden snow catching drivers by surprise in the sierra. we'll have a live report. >> is it creepy or natural? the breast-feeding baby doll that has some parents a little upset. >> and be sure to check your chocolate milk. the powder recall over salmonella concerns. ,, [ laughter ] [ girl ] wow, you guys have it easy. i wish i had u-verse when i was your age. in my day, we didn't have these fancy wireless receivers. blah blah blah. if i had a sleepover, i couldn't just move the tv into the playroom. no. we had to watch movies in the den because that's where the tv outlet was. and if dad was snoring on the couch, we muscled through it. is she for real? your generation has it made. [ male announcer ] the wireless receiver only from at&

our own roberta gonzales is the marathon woman who worked 13 hours and did a terrific job. thanks to your generosity we raised nearly $135,000. it's all going to the red cross for the folks on the east coast. our parent company cbs matched almost $18,000 in employee donations. and you can still contribute if you would like to. just go to cbssf.com. >>> in just a few hours, president obama is set to deliver a speech about preventing the u.s. from falling off the "fiscal cliff." if congressional democrats and republicans don't reach a budget deal by year's end, bush- era tax cuts will expire and deep across-the-board cuts will kick in. well, for now, vice president joe biden and many others in washington are expressing confidence that can be avoided. >> we're not going over the cliff. we're determined not to go over the cliff. i think better heads will prevail. >> the non-partisan congressional budget office predicts the "fiscal cliff" would send the unemployment rates skyrocketing above 9% next year. >>> worries about the "fiscal cliff" sent stocks plunging again. ashley mor