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ticking time bomb. the massive security breech affecting every target store in the country. >> credit card information stolen. millions of customers could be victims. >> good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama dates in for carolyn johnson. you could be a victim. >> john alston is live at the city target in san francisco with the story. john? >> hackers picked the busiest shopping season of the year to launch their scheme. they may have hit nearly all 1800 target stores coast to coast over the past two and a half weeks. shoppers in san francisco didn't leave the target store on geary with a warm feeling after hearing about the massive security breech knowing they had used a credit card here. >> it is scary. like i said, this is the first time i have heard of that.

i am curious how that happened in the first place. >> no one is saying for sure, but they believe hackers broke into the computer network stealing data collected when customers swipe the strip on the back of the debit and credit cards. >> it lets them take that information and encode it on to a new card. essentially it will duplicate the card and use it as if it is their credit card at any store. >> come suiter security expert broke the story and said stolen was stolen from black friday until this past sunday. it did not affect on-line sales at target. it is unknown if debit card pin numbers were breached which would allow crooks to drain cash directly from atm's. it could take months for target shoppers to learn if they are the victims. >> you as a card holder are not liable for the charges, but there is a catch. you have to report it. you have to say i didn't make these transactions.

if you aren't paying attention to your statements you could miss that. >> some shoppers are thinking twice about using plastic. >> probably cash now. i do have cash to pay for what i need tonight. >> target has not responded to our request for comment. in san francisco, john alston, abc7 news. >> that's unnerving. itthe stagnant, unhealthy air hanging around for more than a week is on its way out. here is a time lapse video from our south beach camera. and now we have to deal with strong, gusty winds. meteorologist sandhya patel is here with live doppler 7hd and details on a wind advisory. >> yeah, dan, the wind is already starting to kick up and the shift in the wind is all we need to clean out our atmosphere. right now we are looking at live doppler 7hd. a few clouds out there. we are going to be watching for the potential for sprinkles or light showers for your morning commute. here are the areas going understand the wind advisory at midnight. the north bay mountains at coast and the diablo range

gusting to 60 miles an hour. and this really runs until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. look at the view from our camera . gusts right now 43 miles an hour. lower elevations are starting to gust. 30 to 35 miles an hour and it is a wind coming off the ocean that is bringing the fresher, cleaner air a in. i will have a look at the details which includes the start of winter and your holiday forecast coming up. ama? >> thank you, sandhya. hundreds of people gathered at a prayer vigil for an eighth grade girl on life support in oakland. she had her tonsils removed, but she is now brain dead after suffering serious complications. abc7 news reporter alan wang was at the prayer vigil. >> among those at tonight's prayer vigil was her younger sister. >> her mom was sick and she took overall of the mothering responsibilities. it is rough right now.

>> several hundred people were at the baptist church praying for a medical miracle. >> i want to thank everybody who came out. a lot of these people don't even know my daughter. >> 13-year-old jiha is on life support at children's hospital where doctors declared her brain dead. so far no one explained why she went into cardiac arrest after routine tonsil surgery last week. today the family's attorney issued a let torte hospital -- letter demanding her medical records. children's hospital will not released the entire medical record while the patient is admitted because the doctors are continually updating it. >> it is somewhat of a standoff. the hospital has agreed to back down. they said there is no timetable, but i have to assume a timetable is coming. >> reporter: her family will keep her on life support until she wakes up. meantime therks are preparing for what could be a long and drawn out legal battle. 234* oakland, alan wang abc7

news. a major project on the eastern span of the bay bridge was finished today over budget. the last of these saddles, the purple device that we will show you was installed on the under side of the bridge. these saddles will clamp the road deck to the bridge piers. they were supposed to do that job and 32 snapped. cal trans says the repairs cost $25 million. it is twice as much as predicted. the $318 million question tonight, who in the bay area won that mega millions jackpot. lottery investigators are doing everything they can to figure it out at this point. a ticket sold at jennie's gift in san jose and it is one of two tickets that have all six numbers worth. those two winners will split $636 million. the bay area winner has yet to come forward. lottery investigators were at jennie's gifts today searching

for clues. >> we know when the ticket was purchased. we have the date and the time. i am trying to get video if i can to see who bought the ticket at that right time and we go from there. >> the second ticket was sold in georgia. ira curry bought a ticket using family birthdays to choose her numbers. this is her facebook picture before she closed her account. the owner of the san jose store will get $1 million for selling a winning ticket. the store owner in atlanta won't get a cut because of georgia law. police, security guards guards and surveillance cameras kept watch over bingo players who turned out to support a school's music program. last week a masked gunman made off with $5,000 during the weekly event that prompted organizers to take action. >> we are satisfied that the upgrades we proposed and that

we were committed to doing tonight were going to not only provide them with peace of mind, but the patrons and the turnouts are better this week than last week. >> the on-line bingo site donated to replace the stolen money. >> and news on the wildfire burning near big sur. investigators believe it was started by an illegal campfire on a hiking trail in the loss pad degrees -- los padres national forest. it can be controlled by as early as tomorrow night. keep your fingers crossed. the fifer has destroyed -- the wildfire has destroyed 22 buildings and charred about 850 acres. a warning from san jose police about a package thief. watch a as this woman walks up to a home and stuffs a large package into an empty bag. she walks off and gets into a car and drives off. the theft happened in broad daylight. as you can see yesterday afternoon around 3:00

neighbors say it is the latest to occur on their street. homeowners called police and gave them this surveillance video. i was talking not long ago with the local postal delivery guy and he said they follow the trucks around and wait for a package to be dropped off. coming up, what was printed on a boarding pass has delta airlines apologizing. >> and up next, they may be some of the most fascinating of the year, but one star of the show "duck dynasty" is in trouble after controversial comments. >> and have you ever started to type a facebook post and then decide against it? because you hit delete doesn't mean it is gone. how they are tracking what you don't do on the site. >> and then later on jimmy kimmle. >> here is a preview of what we are up to tonight. apparently there is a situation in tim robins' dressing room. >> oh, tim.

♪ i picked it out in a snap ♪ what made it genius ♪ was the camouflage wrap ♪ that's my kind of holiday

♪ thank you grandma for the dolls. ♪ ♪ i love it! ♪ i'm ninja kicking through the halls. ♪ ♪ i love it! ♪ mom's posting pictures on your wall. ♪ ♪ that's my kind of holiday. of year kids write to santa. a school in san francisco has kids writing about the obstacles they face in their lives and there are many. vic lee is on the city academy where they are filled with despair and also filled with hope.

>> the city academy is a christian elementary school in the heart of a district with lots of drugs and mental illness. it serves the children of the tenderloin. many are from immigrant families. each kid keeps a journal. they write about their lives. >> it is hard sometimes to listen to these stories and to think this is what kids are going through. they didn't deserve it, but they are going through it. >> with the new year approaching the kids were asked to write in their journal about the challenges they faced this year. here are some excerpts. "i was in foster care and away from my mom. my dad is not in my life due to alcohol." another one, "my mom and dad were on drugs. when i was little i was homeless. i was poor." and this passage, "my father is in prison. he has now missed my fifth grade graduation, a very big part of my life. it is very hurtful." and this, "living without my dad is like living without a heart.

no emotions come through me without him." >> common theme is poverty. common theme is drugs. and death. >> some of the writings are extremely troubling. "i cut myself." "sometimes i just want to die." "my mom has said she had enough of me." "it hurts and it makes me feel worthless. because of that i cut myself." others write about hope. "sometimes i don't want to live anymore. the way i will overcome this is by forgiving. god is with me and helping me even though i don't see it." >> we don't pity their life stories. we highlight the positives in their lives and let them know of their full potential. >> they are said to use their pain as learning tools and not daggers. said one student "i thank god he brought every teacher here. they are not only teachers and staff, but they are my family." vic lee, abc7 news. >> profound what those kids have to say. if you would like to help the

school is accepting donations of school supplies or gifts for the kids. volunteers are also needed. you can send your donations to the address on your screen. i will read it to you, san francisco city academy, po box 16217, san francisco. the zip is 94116. if you don't have a pen we have a link to this information at abc7news.com under see it on tv. delta airlines is apologizing for issuing a confirmation code that reads out as an anti-gay slur. the six-digit code read hate with the number 8 and gays. he was flying from atlanta to pensacola. delta apologized for the error saying, quote, these codes are computer generated and completely random. we will make every effort to ensure a similar combination does not occur in the future. >> that may have been an accident, but then there is this. stars from the show "duck dynasty" may have been named the most fascinating on the barbara walters special, but

they are also in the headlines for less flattering reasons. the bible quoting patriarch has been suspended from the show after he made inflammatory remarks about gay people in an interview with gq magazine. he says he will appear in some episodes in the up coming 50 season. it was shot before the interview was published. his future so the series is unclear. gone, but not forgotten from facebook. the social site even keeps tabs on the things you think about spueing. when you type something and then take it off, facebook keeps track of them. they say they are not saving them, but tracking trends related to self-sensorship. facebook users in the bay area still don't like it. >> that's absolutely ridiculous. >> that bothers me because if i decide not to post-it, i am not posting it for a reason. >> they are trying to figure why people are not posting.

if i am not posting it is because i am worried facebook is keeping my information. >> they are looking at why people delete comments before posting which could help facebook come up with ways to reduce self-sensorship in the future. count down is on and you can still win $7,000 cash for helping abc7 news fight hunger in the bay area. it is easy. click give where you live on our abc7 news facebook page. we will donate $1 for bay area food banks and you are going to be entered to win $7,000 just in time for the holidays. we will announce the winner tomorrow night right here on abc7 news at 11:00. i hope you join us for that. finally a change in the weather. it should be relief for people with respiratory problems. >> it has been all of these straight spare the air days. meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the forecast. nice to see the change. >> absolutely, dan and ama. people are talking about it, and it will finally be great to be breathing some fresh air, and especially like ama

mentioned people with respiratory issues. looking at live doppler hd we are tracking low clouds along the coast and higher clouds above. so far no rain reaching the ground. as you look toward the sierra nevada we are seeing snow showers. look how limited the system is in terms of moisture. as you look at our heavenly camera looking toward heavenly, there is no snow coming down. i wouldn't wax off your skis just yet. a couple inches expected and not much more. they are dropping to the 40s. oakland, san jose, los gatos, 50 degrees and the view from the east bay hills camera, the camera is not shaking too much, but you notice the camera was shaking earlier. temperatures in the 40s from santa rosa to thap paw and vacaville 44 and 47 in livermore. it was a cooler afternoon today and the cooling isn't done yet. look at this shot from the kgo roof camera. i am not going to do the sound of a wolf.

maybe somebody over there will. let's look at the forecast. gusty overnight. a slight chance of a spreng kill or light -- sprinkle or light shower. blustery, better air quality and milder weather as winter arrives this weekend and even beyond this weekend. here is the cold front. we have colder air behind it. it is definitely going to be windy for tomorrow especially the morning and much cooler for tomorrow afternoon. here is a computer animation and could see a few sprinkles or light shower. the wee hours of the morning you may hear a few drops in the south bay. not expecting a whole lot. what you are going to be noticing is the wind. it might keep you awake at night so keep that in mind. snow showers in the sierra nevada. wind advisory for the west slopes of the sierra. here is a look at the wind. gusts to 30 miles an hour along the coast. could see the winds continuing to ramp up. the upside of the wind coming off this direction and we will be seeing cleaner air. hang on to your steering wheel for the commute.

it will be a little on the gusty side. as we look at the wind advisory one more time it does go up at midnight tonight. it runs until 10:00 a.m. the trees and the power lines may get knocked down especially with the winds ticking up to possibly 60 miles an you are ho. upper 30s to upper 40s tomorrow morning as the wind will hold your temperatures up along with the cloud cover, and don't be surprised if you run into wet roadways around the monterey bay. it is windy and sunny and cooler. the temperatures in the midto upper 50s. a look at the accu-weather seven-day forecast. cold on friday morning. we are seeing lows in the twenties. it is going to be sunny and milder. winter starts at 9:11 this saturday morning. and the temperatures are going to start to come up above average. it is right on through early to middle part of next week which includes christmas eve, christmas day. the weather cannot be better for santa, but we need the rain here. what can i say, dan and ama? >> thank you, sandhya. in sports, do we have a piece of videotape to show you.

>> larry beil with the latest edition of coaches behaving badly. >> it is fantastic. you probably never heard of hoops coach barry henson before this, but after this you will never forget him. >> my wife can score more than two buckets on 11 shots because i know my wife will at least -- >> this is one of the best rants ever. that's next in sports. [ female announcer ] here's to a whole world of happier holidays. time to enchant, delight and amaze. safeway will help you gather everyone 'round. a smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. starbucks is just $6.99, that's a cup of good cheer. get sweet clementines for $4.99, enough for everyone here. turns out this season less is really so much more. so make your holiday merrier than ever before. safeway. ingredients for life.

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monday. check out the espn studios in beautiful bristol. playing in hartford. cardinals down 10 at the half. randal attacking and fueling a 12-2 run. three and a half minutes left and high off the window. he had 22. stanford by two and seven seconds left. he misses the front end of the one and one and uconn scored 13 points the entire second half. it ends up with omar calhoun for three and the win and stanford holds uconn to 31% shooting. handing the huskies their first loss of the year 53-51 and stanford, that is a strong victory on the resume now 8-2. lebron james playing against the pacers despite a sprained ankle. real men, they laugh at pain. lebron intense and not happy with mario chalmers. you want a piece of me? let's go. they apologized, he did later. the pacers lead the entire way. ray alan gives the heat a three-point lead late.

paul george and that was for the tie and lebron pushed him in the back and no good and no foul called. heat win it 97-94. denny green did it years ago with the they are what they thought they were speech. mike single terry, i want winners. mike gundy, i'm a man. and last night's southern illinois hoops coach barry henson going off. >> our guards were awful. our three starting guards have one assist and seven turnovers. they must think it is a tax credit. it is unbelievable how our starting guards played. and let's talk about our big guys. two for 11. how can you go two for 11? my wife -- my wife can score more than two buckets on 11 shots because i know my wife will at least shot fake one guy, but those guys aren't listening. they are uncoachable right now. and for whatever reason i have a bunch of mama's boys right now. we made three turnovers where we came down and threw them

the ball. i swear i thought one time one of our players said merry christmas. i thought it was a gift. >> i would like more passion from him. abc7 sports is brought to you by riverwalk casino. he seemed upset. >> a little bit. >> thanks, larry. drones delivering a little holiday cheer. >> yeah, next on abc7 news, the aerial display that brought couples t

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