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renewable sugarcane to fuel cars. let's broaden the world's energy mix, let's go. police clash with protesters tonight in berkeley. several people are arrested during a march against police brutality. but it was not all violence, and some protesters tried to step in to prevent looting and damage in the city. we have a live look for you. this is the scene from sky 7 hd, and police still blocking protesters from getting to certain areas, but still a handful of protesters with their arms up, which has been the rally cry, if you will, of the ferguson, missouri, incident. this is from 30 minutes ago, this is the moment police began

using smoke bombs and tear-gas to disperse the protesters. at least twice we did watch demonstrators throw those canisters back at the police officers. abc 7 news reporter on the ground for us tonight in berkeley with a look at some of the damage that was done. >> this demonstration started going sideways when the large group made its way to berkeley police headquarters, and officers tried to keep them clear of the building. one officer was injured by an object tossed from the crowd, and some tried to keep it nonviolent. >> no violence! >> one group made their way to a nearby trader joe's, and then protesters hit a radio shack. >> that window started breaking

and these two windows broke. >> it was like he was going to light the store on fire. a guy with a crowbar comes in and stars to steal stuff. >> one looter, as they rushed him out the backdoor, another looter attacked with a skateboard. >> i don't know why they have white people coming in and shoving black people, you should not be in this protest if you have white skin. >> outside, neighbors help to sweep up the scattered glass. >> i'm cleaning here. >> reporter: as the night unravelled, some demonstrators tried to stop the looting and vandalism. >> you shouldn't be taking things from the stores. >> after a few hours, one small group finally made its way back to the campus, and that's when the police made several arrests.

i am being told by berkeley police that the arrests are continuing. we are live over at that trader joe's where there was a lot of that vandalism going on, and the crews are trying to board up a lot of the windows that were busted out. also in the process of a lot of these demonstrations, there was a group that also tried to make their way out to the freeway, to i-80. they did not make it out to the freeway, i am hold highway patrol officers managed to keep them from shutting down the freeway. reporting live from berkeley, abc 7 news. >> that's something, at least. we want to take another look for you right now live from sky 7 hd. you can see police and protesters still there in the streets. no sign of tear-gas or smoke canisters at this exact moment, and not any smoke in the air there, but protesters and police still facing off protesters with their hands in the air, and some

cars trapped there in the middle of all of it, and no signs that this is ending anytime soon. smaller crowds, though, at this hour than we saw earlier in the night. downtown and north berkeley transportation was shut down but are not now. phrr arrested a dozen protesters in san francisco. they shut down traffic at market street near the b.a.r.t. station for about an hour. officers took in and took several into custody. >> we are asking for police to be accountable. we give them power and need to be held accountable for that power. >> our goal is to see that we all have to unite to oppose racist police brutality, because anybody can be a victim. >> last night in oakland,

protests turned violent. they arrested at least five people, but not before several shots were damaged. today you can see the damage left behind. a bank and a footlocker and shoe repair shop were among the vandalized businesses. the owner of a wine shop was beaten when he tried to prevent protesters from turning in shop protesters. wednesday and thursday, demonstrations remained peaceful. oakland police say a suicidal man did not die from being tasered by police officers today, that he died from self inflicted wounds. police were called to congress to find a man with a knife, and they say he had several self inflicted stab wounds and cuts to his wrist. police say he became arrested and tased him and disarmed him, and a medical crew treated him and he died a short time later. an autopsy will confirm the cause of death.

in richmond tonight, a suspected robber was shot. it happened just before 6:30. police say the suspect allegedly stole something from the home's yard and the resident opened fire. the suspect is in critical condition. turning to weather, we have a live look for you outside. no rain after seven straight days of rain, but more is on the way, so let's head to abc 7 meteorologist, and a first check of the weather. >> it was a mild december day across the region. we will show you dry skies, and tonight we will have overcast skies and patchy fog with temperatures falling in the mid-50s, but we are watching the neck storm approaching and we will let you know when that one will arrive. several trees have come crashing down in the bay area because of the rain. a huge tree uprooted earlier this morning in marine county.

it was across the roadblocking traffic until crews could remove it. a massive oak tree crashed into several buildings. lisa. >> reporter: it came down in the courtyard of the apartment complex. the tree itself was huge, and way taller than the building behind me, about 40 feet tall, actually, and 200 to 300 years old. >> i woke up thinking there was an earthquake, and i saw the wall shaking and then i heard this rumble, and then a crack. >> it was the sound of this giant oak tree falling on to a home in a four-unit building and it destroyed a tkpwau saeb and furniture. >> the branch went through the window, and he would have been hit if he was any closer. >> luckily, nobody was hurt but

renters in two of the ten units won't be coming home this weekend. utility workers tried restoring service to everybody tonight but couldn't. some residents who were allowed to return home worried it's still not safe. >> some of the tenants here saw it coming but just didn't know when. >> meantime a. family was shot when a tree crashed into the side of their home. >> there was a massive tree right behind our house where the roots were in a creek that fell and blew through the fence behind our house. >> also in san mateo county the heavy rain caused this mudslide. it caused major traffic delays. crews spent hours clearing the road. in san mateo county, 7 news.

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we want to take you back live to berkeley. this is the view from sky 7 hd. you are looking at the intersection at 66th street between shaddic and telegraph. you can see just a handful of protesters in this specific vantage point and view, but a line of police there keeping

them from going any further in both directions as we pull out, and you can see police keeping the protesters in a square section. we continue to keep an eye on the situation. the protests in berkeley have turned violent and there have been different arrests and police officers have suffered minor injuries after being hit with objects protesters are throwing at them. and then a high risk u.s.-led raid to free him. the predawn raid was the second rescue attempts to free luke somers, a 33-year-old freelance photographer and editor kidnapped just over a year ago. michelle franson has the details. >> reporter: and acting on intelligence made the decision to launch the rescue mission to save american journalist, look summers, as the clock ticked

down. an al qaeda group threatened to execute the 33-year-old kidnapped 14 months ago sometime after sunup on saturday. >> it was a dangerous and complicated mission. >> forced to act by the enemy's timeline, the mission was launched about 1:00 a.m. local time. 40 members of the elite s.e.a.l. team 6 landed miles away from the hideout to avoid being detected by aircraft noise. and the feet made its way within 100 feet of the objective, when one of the al qaeda guards who had gone outside to relieve himself spotted the team. a fierce 10-minute gun battle ensued in which most but not all of the guards were killed. one of the attackers was seen racing inside th

one died from the wounds, and somers is from san francisccram california. >> i am certain my life is in danger. more u.s. troops than originally planned will be staying in afghanistan. and chuck hagel made the announcement, and he said 1,000 more troops will stay to fill a temporary nato troop gap. more than 1,000 holiday care packages from the bay area are headed to the troops tonight. volunteers with operation with love from home packed boxes to ship to troops that can't be with their families. a storage unit with boxes just like these collapsed

napnap napa earthquake. >> we had a natural disaster that would have shut it down potentially. >> it's not just the socks, but they get a card, something that was touched by a human being. >> or organizers say they exceeded their goal to fill and ship 1,000 packages. cyber monday sales were up 8.5% and that's leading to delays with shippers. there are small delays but they hired 100,000 seasonal workers this year. they are not predicting the same problems we saw last year just before christmas. the rain has caused a

problem of its own out there. let's check in withdrew. >> we're tracking a break in the rain. live doppler 7 hd, showing we are dry, and we will take you outside on this saturday evening. we will have overcast skies, and it has been an incredible december around here in december. the first six days specifically at san francisco international airport, we picked up almost four inches of rain, and compare that to the entire year of 2013, and more rain is coming on the horizon. current temperatures out there, a south wind continues to keep it on the mild side. 69 in san francisco. and 57, san jose. half moon bay, mild with a temperature of 54 degrees. high pressure just to our south, and it's giving us that break in the rain, and also peaks of sunshine, and that will be the

trend. we will have lights amounts of rain. tomorrow morning, you will wake up with peeks of sunshine by 8:00 a.m., and the dry conditions will continue into the afternoon. so the game forecast, the 49ers, mild and dry with a kickoff temperature around 64 degrees. highs across the bay area, 65 in vallejo. and 69 for san jose. and 65 for san francisco. we'll advance the clock into early monday morning. this is when the front moves in. light showers and very scattered in nature around the north bay, and by 6:00 a.m., there could be isolated drizzle for the monday morning rush. but not the soaking showers we saw early last week. moving into wednesday morning of next week, and this is the

bigger storm we are talking about. by wednesday night, you notice the rain mainly to the north, and by thursday afternoon, heavy showers across the bay area, and once again, we could see widespread, 1 to 3 inches of rain. and the accuweather 7-day forecast, peeks of sunshine here and there, and a late day shower moves in on sunday evening into early monday morning, and the only completely dry day we have is tuesday, and then we track the stronger storm on wednesday night, and lasting into friday as well, and once again, could bring not only soaking showers, but the gusting winds once again. >> yeah, great stuff. thank you, drew. trying to set a new franchise

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the night belonged to green. a career high of seven threes. and 33-22 in the fourth, and green, a little give-and-go. the exclamation point. franchise record, straight 12th win. thornton headed to calgary. and a slap shot from 56 feet away, and then the flames even it out 30 seconds into the second. a backhander, and then it's a 1, 1 game. now it's tied at two. and then the fourth win in a row with a 3-2 victory. and then we will check on the final conference games.

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to college football. florida staten defeated and won 28 straight games and still ranked fourth in the playoff rankings. no respect. early at bank of america stadium in charlotte, north carolina. winston drops back, and 46 yards and we are tied at 7. the game now tied at 14 in the second. yellow jackets take the lead. back and forth we go. now tied at 21. winston, a perfect strike to greene. and florida up in the fourth. and then tripped up at the 20, and cooke, 151 yards, a beast, and a score and sets up a field

goal attempt. and mr. automatic, and they go on to win the acc championship. and then ohio state and wisconsin, and the quarterback on the sidelines injured. all he can do is watch his backup, jones. the buckeyes -- excuse me, we are at alabama. my bad. alabama and missouri in the fcc taoeulgtsz game, and ranked number one and probably going to stay that way. 42-13, that final. now the big 10 title game. and all you can do is watch jones and he finds smith, and 7-0, ohio state. and then most of those right here on the 81-yarder, all buckeyes, and they go on to win 58-0. third ranked tcu looking to win big and make a statement against

iowa state. and then porter throws it back, and he has got a convoy. and then never stops rolling. and then baylor fans against kansas state, and baylor up in the third quarter. and then 42 yards, and he takes it the rest of the way, and bears win big. and then the playoffs will be announced tomorrow. >> very good. we are following pwraebreak news out of berkeley. we will s

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good evening. in tonight's headlines, right now police and protesters are in a standoff in berkeley at telegraph avenue and channing way. there's a few hundred people still in the streets. you can see them splintered off in different groups. police are standing in a line and keeping them from get into different areas within berkeley. a couple hundred people now, and that is down from more than 1,000 tonight. several people have been arrested already, and officers used smoke bombs and tear-gas to break up the clouds earlier. and fights broke out between looters and other protesters

trying to top that. one officer was injured by something thrown by a protesters. in san francisco this afternoon, about a dozen protesters were arrested and they shut down traffic on market street for about an hour. protests taking place across the nation. it's the ninth night of demonstrations over the decision not to indict the white police officer whose choke hold killed an unarmed black man. >> reporter: a so-called die-in in new york city grand terminal. >> don't shoot! >> in a rally, garner's mother said she is comforted by the outpouring. >> she is so awesome to see how crowds are out there.

>> garner's family says they intend to file a civil lawsuit. >> the evidence is there to show excessive force and wrongful death by these officers on eric garner. >> the officer had been sued before and earlier this year, in two incidents of alleged wrongful arrest and one case was settled. one case is still pending. 27 new york police officers are field testing body cameras that can reduce force of use incidents. in california, all 70 uniformed officers now wear body cams, and complaints fell 84%. skeptics like eric garner's mother says bystanders had cameras rolling when her son was

arrested. >> richmond police officers will start using body cameras early next year, and the department received 125 of the cameras this week, paid for with a federal grant. officers will have to manually turn on the cameras before any interaction with the public. overseas to the philippines where a typhoon is baring down. it's one of the strongest storms this year. power has been knocked out. thousands have fled to safety. >> reporter: as it pushes its way along the coast like, it really packs a punch. this is the first time we are seeing the storm reach land here in the philippines. winds are starting to pickup, and the water is surging in as well. and we are taken by the locals to see the damage. we have not seen the rest of the

typhoon yet, and i think it's going to be a tough night for the properties. 500,000 people are already in emergency shelters like this, and that figure could go hit 2.5 million, and in each of the classroo classrooms, 12 families will see out the storm, we hope in safety. the threat to this city is not just the wind, there's possible flooding and landslides and storm surges and an active volcano next door. the governor says they are ready. >> a relief group based in san francisco is ready to respond. the national alliance for filipino concerns raised more than 1 million last year, and they reacted their response program today and will set up collection centers to take in donations and supplies. a group that is expected to hit many of the same areas hit earlier.

the body of one of 43 missing students in mexico has been identified. the students disappeared september 26th after a confrontation with a mayor and police. the family of alexander mora says forensic experts identified him among charred mariremains. the incident has led to protests and promises of reform from the president. president obama underwent tests and doctors found the cause of his sore throat. his symptoms are consistent with soft tissue swelling related to acid reflux. he will have to stop smoking for a while and cut down on alcohol and change his diet and if that doesn't work, he may have to go on medication.

then kids were transported to meet santa today. they landed at a special gate. santa and mrs. claus greeted the children with gifts. they host events in more than 40 cities worldwide. and kids are celebrating with legos. it's the exhibit and it features a working train and santa and his elves. the goal is to show kids what is possible with legos so they can invent something themselves. harry potter fans will see their own 12 days of christmas this holiday season. starting friday, the official harry potter website. it will release a surprise every

day through december 23rd. the first day will be a short story about potter's thanyplace asis. why hershey wants to put more in your chocolate. it was a mild and mainly dry saturday across the bay area. a live look outside, and we are tracking more showers on the

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could you use a little calming influence in your life? a new device developed here in the bay area is designed to put you in a less stressful place. >> many that practice yoga will tell you about how it can balance you, and a bay area startup believes it can help workers find the same nirvana through their smartphone. >> it's being aware of their state of mind. at the end of the day, breathe something just a tool. >> he is the creator of a smartphone app that focuses on their breathing as a way to tap into your emotional state. first, users snap a censor on a

pwrau or snap. >> purple represents focus, and we use blue for relaxed and red for tense. >> the program is designed to detect patterns that detect stress, and alerts can prompt users to take a breath or start walk. the goal for most people is to stay in a middle zone. >> what is most interesting, we find at work, you don't want to be relaxed or tense, and what do you want? focus. >> and then they give users a look at what portions of their day is spent being stressed out versus mellowed out. and they believe users will be able to control the tempo of their breathing and their state of mind. >> if you are aware of your state of mind and able to control your state of mind, and that means you are able to focus on what you need to do. >> and maybe, just maybe,

breathe a little easier, as you face the day. the price of a more peaceful breathing is about $150 according to the company's website. hershey could be kicking corn syrup to the curb. the chief research and development officer says they are moving more towards sugar. there is more timeframe from when a transition may occur. classic hershey bars are made with all sugar. a little girl who started a dance party on a new york city subway platform. initially, just one woman was getting down with her, and then others joined in. the bluegrass duo was playing a cover of the grateful dead song "me and my uncle" and the video

caught fire after it caught on the youtube video. the video has been viewed nearly 3 million times since it was posted just on thursday. i watched the whole thing through. it's so fun. it was contagious. . somebody is doing the rain dance certainly, and we have seen days of rain, and we are going to see more rain. it's a quiet saturday evening, but we are dealing with fog out there, especially in the north bay right now. santa rosa down to 2 miles, and there will be patches of dense fog overnight tonight across the region. nationwide forecasters, the east coast is nice and cool but sunny. 45 in d.c., and middle part of the country dealing with showers, and back in california just mainly a cloudy day ahead

of a front that will move in late tomorrow night. 70, fresno. and then in the bay area, we will top out in the mid andup 60s. s 65, the high for vallejo. the 7-day forecast shows we have dry times for sunday, and the only completely dry day we have is on tuesday. we will track a midweek storm that moves in, and this could bring soaking showers. and with the soaking rains, the winds are going to pick up, so we will keep an eye on that as it gets closer. we will be back with sports and college sports. >> you have your football and hoops and baseball, and how about this, ♪

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and this is the competitive version televised on espn. the logging sport. that's right. i said logging sport. it's gaining popularity across the country. there's even a team at uc berkeley. we caught up with them at a recent practice. >> we come out here on sunday and basically blow off steam and cut wood or chainsaw or axes. >> there's tree climbing and water sports, like the water where you run on the log in the water. and it's fun, like, who doesn't want to chop wood. >> most of this team's members are women, something that sets cal's team apart. >> we have more women and people notice that and they know berkeley is coming again, with 10 women and one guy. >> the men don't seem to mind. >> it's not a bad thing. the woman flourished here.

it used to be totally male dominated. >> and the professor here, he says the logging club has been nearly around as the department itself. the logging team reflects the demographics of the forestry major. two-thirds are female, the opposite of most other programs. >> it's an interesting group, because we have a forestry major and a minor, and there's people that have neither but join the club anyway. >> and a number of the women led their events. logging looks dangerous, but there are relatively few injuries. regardless of who is swinging the axe, it's about more than just winning. >> you get out your aggression in a really fun way. it's a great wait, since we are

at berkeley, this is a great way to get the country while going to school in the city. >> who we have thought? and the warriors set a franchise record winning their 12th straight game, and led by green. and then big man gets it started. look at the seven-footer go coast-to-coast with a nice finger roll. and then he will slow it down. just getting started. and the bulls battle back. brooks, a little transition, and then all of a sudden the bulls are up by one. and then thompson, an open three year, and he will drill that. and then the night belonged to green. a career high, and lighting it up for a career 31.

and warriors win it, and a franchise record 12th win and a seventh straight win on the road. hockey, thornton head into calgary. watch this slap shot from 56 feet. finds the back of the net, and 1-0, flames. sharks even it up. and justin braun, his first of the year. we are now tied at two in the third period. and they hold on for their fourth win in a row. and then tiger woods, after a four-month layoff, he had the flu. and rolls all the way back to his feet. he is not happy. tiger woods redeems himself. he shoots a 360, even

and it will be a big year. tiger in last place. and then the niners raiders tomorrow. that's it for tonight. abc 7 news continues tomorrow morning at 5:00. thank you so much for joining us. the news does continue now online on twitter, facebook and all your mobile devices with our abc 7 app.

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