her to a different facility but argue the move should not include new treatment. an undisclosed medical care facility is offering to cake in 13-year-old jahi mcmath but they are requiring she have a surgically implanted feeding tube and a medical procedure that the insurance is willing to pay for. children's hospital oakland is refusing to do this. she suffered complications after what the family describes as routine tonsillectomy that left her brain dead and on a ventilator. last tuesday, a superior court judge ruled jahi mcmath was deceased and children's hospital oakland only needed to maintain her current level of care until further testing could be performed. >> you don't want her, that is fine, we have a place that wants her and wants to keep her alive. help us get her out of your hospital so we can take her somewhere elsewhere someone wants to help us keep her alive. >> the judge did not authorize or order surgical procedures or

transfers to another felt. children's hospital oakland does not believe performing surgal procedures on the body of a deceased person is an appropriate medical situation. >> the attorney for fed dead -- for jahi mcmath says the next move is to go to court to ask the judge do issue aned to have the procedure done but they have to move quickly the judge issued an order to keep jahi mcmath on a ventilator only until monday at 5:00 p.m. >> the nonprofit group consumer watch dog is using jahi mcmath case to raise money to fight lift the $250,000 for hospital mistakes. now the hospitals have an incentive to let the children die because the hops let malpractice victims die to avoid paying for a lifetime of care. children's hospital responded saying that hospital finds it

reprehensible that they are take advantage of the transition death of jahi mcmath to raise funds. >> fremont police are asking for witnesses to come forward to an accident involving a fire department vehicle that shut down the intersection of the parkway for six hours last night. police say an s.u.v. being driven by a chief hit with another vehicle at the intersection. the chief was responding to an emergency call. both drivers were treated for injuries and released. the intersection did not re-open until before 11:00 last night. >> this morning, authorities are warning anyone headed to bay area beaches to walk out for sneaker waves and strong riptides, with a coastal hazard for beaches from sonoma county to monterey. this is a shot of conditions right now at the pier with particular concern today because the unusually warn weather and the holiday week are drawing a lot people to the beach. the coast guard says many beachgoers do not realize how quickly large waves can sweep

in. >> in pacifica the coast guard fear as sneaker wave could have pulled a surfer to sea. the coast guard and local crews searched the area in pacifica yesterday afternoon after getting calls of a surfer in trouble. this was the scene. : crews accepted until dark but never found the surfer. >> the search if a missing navy veteran begins at 8:30 in san francisco this morning. he vanished after being released from a san francisco hospital during a holiday visit with friends. ama spoke with family and friend whose say it is fought like him to disappear. >> i will not leave san francisco until....i have turned this place upside down. >> jeffrey is looking for his 30-year-old navy veteran william sells. no one has heard from sells. >> not to let anyone, me or his

closest friends know he needs time is unusual. >> they worry the volunteer work could be taking a toll on him. they november tear in disaster zones. >> he worked on the east coast with sandy. he, worked the tornadoes in illinois in april and may. he, worked the oklahoma tornado in may. >> sells came to the bay area to visit a friend thanksgiving day weekend while on break from college in poverty land. the friends say he wasn't acting lime himself and one them took him to san francisco general hospital on the 15th. he stayed for two days, was released and checked out and hasn't been seen since. at 8:30, the search for sells begins. >> we will split the city up into a number of zones and the goal is to take search teams and assign them to the zones in the city. >> flyers have gone up describing sells as 6', 200

pounds with blue eyes with a scar on his forehead. the group needs more details. if you would like to join the effort we have contact information at abc7news.com under "see it on tv." >> developing news from fresno where investigators are expected to start going through the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in the front yard of a home. it went down. killing a man and young boy on board the plane. fire official say the pilot was trying to land when the plane clipped a tall tree. he tried to regain control but went down in a neighborhood about 800' from the runway. the boy was the pilot's nephew and the family was waiting to him at the airport. >> officials say the health insurance website for the state is up and running after being down for three hours yesterday after an audit discovered some irregularities. officials will not say what the

"irregularities" are but it was not an attempted hacker attack. they extended the sign up for january 1 coverage, again, and now you have until monday to complete the process if you want coverage starting new year's day. >> a bay area bank has issued thousands of new credit cars because of the 9 broach at target. the bay area federal credit union has given new cards to 5,000 customers among the 40 million people affected by the target breach. other banks are considering a similar move. target says this morning they have added more support staff to their call centers, tripling the number of people that deal with concerned shoppers. >> happening today, the pittsburg high school marching band is leaving for england at the new year's day celebration seen around the world this is video posted on youtube. the "contra costa times" reports that students raised $80,000 to

pay for the eight-day trip which is $10,000 a day and not the first time the pittsburg marching band has been. invited to play in a world class city. in 2009 they performed in the macy's thanksgiving day parade in new york. >> the band in san jose is headed for london for the parade, and this is video great their performance there in 2010. early this month, we reported a thief stole $5,000 from a weekly bingo game. that is their biggest fundraiser. it was later donated by an online bingo website. >> byu in washington meet at at&t park in the 12th annual fight hunger goal the first bowl game ever to have two female officials on the field. the two teams met at st. francis hotel yesterday for lunch with our news anchor hosting. this is a contrast from wednesday when both teams served christmas to the homeless. for each ticket told the bowl

donates meals for those in need providing 300,000 meals to date starting at 6:30 on espn our sister network. >> what will it be like weather-wise this last weekend? >> great weather tonight, grab a hootedy and -- hoodie, that is all you need falling only into the low 50's. the big concern is number 20 how many spay spare day we have had this winter. authority bay and central coast, and central bay, and the santa clara valley, most like throw have poor air quality on the 5 the consecutive day. right now san pablo and oakland and san jose have the worst air quality. now, breaking down the weather, high clouds are arriving ahead of the weak cold front with mid-40's around the bay and 50 at coast and in the mid-50's to low 60's with a high clouds increasing rapidly during the morning hours and they will be thickest from noon to four and shave a few degree off the high

temperatures and upper 50's to low 60's at 4:00. clouds will decrease in the evening and temperatures are in the upper 40's to low 50's. as we move through the weekend, we will still be in the low pressure 60's on saturday and record highs are possible mid-to-upper 60's on sunday and low pressure 60's with a few high clouds on monday. now, the commute or travel or whatever you are doing on the road this morning. >> fur on the road hopefully you are in a vehicle, some type of vehicle. there are not too many those because it is light traffic, but, still, holiday light and we have areas of construction, and we have here, though, a little bit of debris which is northbound 101 if you make the move away from sfo you could find it and c.h.p. is coming out there to clear it out with southbound traffic from san francisco looking cheer. if you are headed to sfo, from san francisco, that is 11 minutes on 101. 238 to the maze is 13 minutes

from highway 85 to the san jose airport is 11 minutes and outside this is a look at the toll plaza, coming away from the maze all is quiet and calm and no traffic to report. the metering lights not on just yet. >> thank you, leyla at 4:40. should barbie have a full are figure? the grow debate over a plus-sized version of the doll and the problem a nutritionist has with either version. >> an annual new year's tradition is underway, the rush to put the finishing touches on the rose parade floats by next week. >> a man hops the fence of a major east coast airport, with questions raised about millions in

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a ship trapped in frozen ice inant architect can with a chinese barge 15 miles arm but it is moving slowly. 74 scientists tourists and crew are on board. they are safe with plannive provisions. three ice breakers have been trying to reach the christmas since christmas eve when it was blocked in the ice. authorities at newark airport in new jersey are reexamining their new multimillion dollar security system after a man hopped a from ensure and made it to an airline terminal before being stopped. the 24-year-old man climbed over a chain link fence along the new jersey turnpike before making it on to the airport prosecute. he was dressed as a woman. the eight says that the new high-tech security system works as it should have but they are looking into whether human error is to blame. >> the image of a plus-sized barbie posted on social media is

sparking debate. this photo was posted on facebook to pose the question: should toy companies make plus-sized barbie dolls. >> 40,000 like the idea but not the image. >> there should be a variety sizes of barbie. >> a good idea? >> yeah, i like it. >> the double chin is not necessary. >> i would prefer a barbie that does not have a triple chin. a dietitian calls plus-sized barbie obese and says she doesn't like either. there needs to be middle ground depicting an average girl. no word yet. what do you think? should barbie come in a plus size? go to our facebook page and join the conversation. >> with less than a week to go the rush is on to finish the floats for the rose parade. yesterday was the first day volunteers were allowed to decorate the massive floats if new year's day.

our reporter the shows us what it takes to bring the creations to live. >> it is day one of decorateing week as hundreds of volunteers begin the task bringing the threats to life the. >> everything is in detail, from the rice to the oatmeal to the seeds. we made roses out of sun flower seeds. it is crazy. >> never thought about how much work is put into the floats and how much time it takes and how many working on it. >> the countdown is on, they must be covered from top-to-bottom with mother nature's offering. >> all the throats, well over a million flowers, all 13 floats, and some floats are heavier on the rose end versus the tropical flowers. >> whether they are new to the parade or long time favorite, the floats all compacted with

creativity. >> people are ingenious, the artists who come up with the ideas. it is great. great. it is just beyond imagination. >> from k-9 to kill are whales to bears and birds the floats sights and sounds will amaze. >> the theme is "dreams come true," it will be amazing to see the creativity as 40 floats in all take center stage will new year's day. until then, certainly there is a lot of work on get done. don't mess live coverage of the rose par road in pasadena anchored by "good morning america" anchor and espn anchor next wednesday new year's day starting at 8:00 a.m. right here on abc7. >> what a contrast between the macy's parade in new york city on thanksgiving day and the rose parade, it looks like it will be nice there. >> they have been running temperatures in the 80's and we will see if that says through

until next week. they had a red flag warning yesterday because of high fire danger. you can see the high clouds starting to encroach upon our sky as you look from live doppler 7 hd and these are going to be mid-and high level clouds that do not carry enough moisture for rain. right now it is freezing cold in petaluma and guerneville at 32 degrees and close in american canyon at 33. 34 in napa. 55 in bodega bay. novato is in the upper 40's along with mill valley. 51 in san francisco. low-to-mid 40's around newark and alameda and san carlos and redwood city and half moon bay. 40 in santa hose, 36 in cupertino and 38 in san ramon. we have everyone this. from the roof camera, you can see the embarcadero center lights still on and more clouds today that will keep our temperatures a little bit cooler than yesterday, just not so

warm. poor air could stop this weekend. the weather pattern will not shift but we have been looking at the air quality management district and they have below unhealthy levels for saturday and sunday. it will be sunny and warm, though, into the new year and they do not see rain until possibly the end of the first week of january. thickening high clouds today and temperatures are hang out in the low-to-mid 60's in most areas and 62 in san francisco and half moon bay and we will hit 66 in santa rosa and napa, and fremont, oakland, san jose, and warmer in morgan hill at 68 and santa cruz at 70 degrees. if you are headed down there, we have beach hazard and sneaker waves are going to be out there again. lower to upper 30's inland and upper 30's to low 40's around the bay tonight. beach hazard will move through the afternoon hours and it should go away for the weekend. a couple of areas of high produce are getting squeezed by low clouds or by an area of low

pressure that is pushing in some high clouds for today. that is why we will see a slit dip in temperatures with clouds going away tomorrow and we are back in the low pressure 60's and mid-to-upper 60's is our warmest day on sunday and into monday we will have low-to-mid 60's as we transition to the new year temperatures will still be well above average in the low-to-mid 60's with no rain through thursday. leyla gulen? >> we have a few projects being worked on by the caltran trues as we head back to san pablo and richmond. westbound kuwait from highway 4 from hurricane lease, all the way down to the hoffman split we will have three lanes blocked off and the cones will be picked up in the next ten minutes with crews out there right now so make sure you are came. the drive coming across four headed out of antioch into pittsburg you can see green at top speeds up to concord and the drive will only take you 14 minutes. here is a look at drive time traffic, richmond-san rafael is six minutes and san mateo bridge

is 13 minutes and dumbarton bridge is 11 minutes. san jose, 280 away from seven, one car in the northbound direction and 17, that drive is moving along just fine. matt? >> thank you, leyla. a search is underway if possible victims of a deadly mall fire and explosion in southwest china. authorities say four people were killed and at least 35 other people were injured. a natural gas explosion is to blame for the explosion that ripped through the shopping mall. a bus station and two taxicabs were also damaged. in new york, the massive fire at a commercial building in yonkers forced 100 residents to evacuate their homes. it burned through a dollar store legged inside the two-story building. flammable materials caused the fire to spread quickly. flames shot through the roof and ones. a few file fires suffered injuries. one was seriously injured.

a fiery crash caught on camera, and the must see video of strangers jumping out of the their cars and into the fire to save the driver. danger underwater, families are attacked by something they di

want to see heros in action? there are they during the fiery crack in los angeles on christmas day, all caught on video, a 72-year-old man driving a black mercedes lost control of the car and smashed into the center divider on the 405 freeway, a 26-year veteran of the bomb squad on the way to work rushed in to help with an off-duty firefighter and they pulled the unconscious driver out. the bomb squad officer suffered minor burns. >> twitter is reaching new heights, with shares closing at all time high of $73.31.

analysts are skeptical calling it overvalued for a company that never turned a profit. others point to the potential to make more money from online advertise. >> larger ipad could be on the way, the website says that a 13" version will debut next october. sources say the largest ipad will target the not american educational market. apple isn't commenting. in a memo to employees, a c.e.o. promised "big plans next year." >> a lot big plans for the weekend. how is the weather, mike? >> looking good. we will have nice sunshine for raids gape at 1:45 on sunday and it will be total sunshine and low-to-mid 60's and a few upper 50's as you tailgate. we have high clouds and you can see them moving in but no radar runs, anywhere, around

california. if you are traveling today you can see the high clouds taking over the central part of the state with low-to-mid 60's in chico and sacramento and up more 60's around fresno, and headed up to tahoe, mid-60's and pushing 80 in los angeles. safely travels? >> 80's in los angeles! >> my goodness. we have a project that will be wrapping up and it is currently in the clearing process. eastbound and westbound side of 80, powell street and buchanan. be careful if you are traveling along 680, walnut creek, into dublin, it is 15 minutes, 101 southbound from santa rosa to san francisco, 50 minutes through the santa cruz mountains is 15 minutes. from emeryville camera, this is the bay bridge with traffic light making it away from the east bay into san francisco. >> thank you, it is 4:55. the battle over same-sex marriage in utah will head to the supreme court today. the state attorney general will

ask the high court to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples while the case makes its way through the court. last week, a judge ruled a state ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and an appeals court denies a request for a stay. county clerks say they will continue to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples until they are ordered to stop. >> an attack by a fish in argentina river has left 70 swimmers injured. it attacked people who were cooling off in the river on christmas day. seven children lost parts of their fingers or toes and others complained of bite marks. swimmer kept going into the river after the attack to cool off from the 100-degree heat. >> surgery performed 700,000 times a year at a cost of $4 billion may not be needed. a study has doctors performed real and fake knee surgeries on

patients where symptoms of a their, the cartilage of the knee that cushions and stabilizes the knee. a year later both groups had similar levels of pain or happiness with the results of their surgeries and this is published in the new england journal of medicine. >> a man vanishes after check out of a san francisco hospital. next, we have the latest on the search for a missing navy veteran. >> also, workers vote on a new contract today and some them are ready to reject the deal for the third time. >> a new poll pits oak mayor against her challengers with a survey showing who would win if the election were held today.

live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> it is 5:00 a.m. on friday morning the last one of 2013 and we will send it out in style. >> i am matt keller with the weekend ahead of us and the fight hunger bowl tonight. a lot is happening in the bay area. we will check with mike nicco and a look at the weather photograph. how does it look? >> great for football. if you like mild temperatures, maybe the low 60's to start, upper 50's by the end of the game, no rain, in snow, kind of my football. maybe a little bore in that respect. now, live doppler 7 hd shows the clouds are starting to roll in and we will have increasing high and mid-level clouds but not enough moisture to get any type of rain out of it. it will drop our temperatures by a couple of degrees and we are still warmer-than-average with most of us in the low-to-mid 60's today. leyla gulen? >> as we look at san jose,