raines-hewes police determined it was no accident. >> as far as the motive it will not make sense. it will not make sense when a grandmother drown her four year old grandson. we are trying to develop the best picture based on the information we have. >> we still do not have a motive. police would not comment on her mental state. she was watching two other grandchild, a one and six-year-old. they were not hurt. >> we have developing news in the south bay san jose police are sending for the people responsible for a vicious attack. a man and woman were stabbed at a fast food restaurant on south white last night. the couple was buying food at a karls and men confront the them. suspects took off in a gray car. we check with our reporter to show us why the victims were headed in drift detections. >> two men assaulted and robbed a muni passengers. we can now see the surveillance

video. this happened back november 3rd when the bus at 6th and mission had two men approach a 5-year-old passenger and hit him several times. victim said he suspected foul play and confronted the two men before this happened. he was hospitalized with head injuries. if you recognize either attackers call the police. >> oakland mayor schaaf will not make an nfl deadline and now the raiders ownership is saying she is not trying hard enough to keep them. the mayor said she expected a sit down and negotiate with the football team. soon. the city letter did not give firm detail on how the stadium would be continued but schaaf said it would not include any public money. she said the nfl never expected oakland to have a form am new stadium proposal by today. the raiders owner received a draft investigation of letter early in the day and he said it appear the city isn't serious about reaching a deal with them. the raiders are one of three considering a move to los

angeles. >> this morning, 500 customers in eastern contra costa county are still without gas service. pg&e has been to all of the homes and businesses and restored service to 5,000 customers. that is 90 percent of the people out. the outage happened in discovery bay on sunday and the remaining customers were not home or gas was not accessible to the crews. customers not home can call the company. >> a quick and violent cop prepare station toledo a deadly police shooting on christmas day much the department said the entire incident only lasted 19 seconds. police say a man called 9-1-1 to report a fake emergency at mental health residential center he lived in the when officers arrived they repeatedly told him to drop a 9" knife. he i mored and ran directly at the officers screaming and waving the knife. >> a suicide by cops scenario is

something our investigators are absolutely pursue. >> an officer fired a taser but two officers fired begin. the father said he thinks his son was the victim of police using excessive force. >> all police veteran toos will keep logs of all force, including peace officers who shoot civilians, civilians who shoot officers and any use of for the by civilians or force that result in serious injury or death. the information will submitted to the department of justice the warriors open a two game road trip in texas against dallas. steph curry may miss both of those games. according to our media partner, the san jose mercury news. yesterday, the interim coach woman tan said he received treatment for a sore calf and did not practice. he will be a game-time decision. he hurt his level calf in the

win over the kips on monday night. >> tip-off against the mavericks happened at 5:30. >> it would be nice to ring in the new year with big money? the powerball jackpot is soaring $300 million! with that much money you could buy the most expensive house in america and still have more than $100 million left. the second time in three months it has hit $300 million mark, $2 to play and the draw is tonight at 7:59. >> do you have a winning ticket for me. >> player's luck and neither of us will be here. >> i have a couple of my own tickets. >> we will see what happened. i share, though, that is good karma. >> good morning, everyone, we look at a weak weather system to the north and you can notice the white up here, at lake county where we have rain-snow mix and

it will slide to the society. when we get rain this is a chance but, overall, you will notice the increasing cloud cover this afternoon and this morning you are feeling the chill, again, with 37 in san mateo, and hayward and upper 20s from santa rosa and napa and 34 in fremont and 36 in san jose and just as cold and maybe colder in spots than year at this time. landing director day, we are freezing this morning, increasing clouds, and by afternoon a slight chance of showers and light rain. if you see anything at you will, we will look at a dry couple of of day as we get into the end the year, and, the holiday weekend. sue? >> yes, going back to berkeley with this major accident involving five vehicles with an overturn. one lane, the very far right lane, is getting by and this is right at university. traffic, now, is stack up behind this as you can ma'am to university or pardon me the maze may of the spot delays. if you exit at but well, take bernie sanders pablo avenue. the bay bridge toll plaza shows

light here as i expected, and as it has been most of the week to holiday week. we will have an update on this accident and an accident in petaluma. >> we track breaking news, a house fire in concord, power lines are down. the fire could be out. our reporter is on the scene for us. that is the latest update? >> the call came in after 2:30 this morning and it is happening down this block here on third street in concord with several fire engines on the scene as they try to knock down what is left of the fire, but, check out the video showing what the structure looked like, and just an hour ago, when the flames were, really, burning hot. it is up clear yet if someone lives in the home or it is abandoned but more importantly, no one is believed to be inside that structure. firefighters say that the house is a total loss. as they continue to work on cleaning up this mess out hire, challenge, terribly, were the

multiple downed power lines creating another hazard for crews approaching with caution. there was a gas leak that has been fixed. pg&e is on the scene to help and has shut down the power. we are hoping to gear more information right now, but, obviously, crews are busy trying to get the situation under control. there is no word yet on cause of the fire. >> the golden gate bridge is trying something new, they want to ease commutes now by not changing lanes as often. here is a picture of the bridge, right now, the lane configuration changes every day during both commutes. starting monday, they are only going to reconfigure the lanes device a week. >> drivers will backup, they will have to wait. what we are trying to do to share the wait as equally as possible considering the respective amount of traffic on each side. what does it mean? >> monday through wednesday, there are three lanes each going northbound and southbound. on thursday and friday

afternoon, from 4:30 to 5:30, which is the hest commuter the weekend, bridge patrol will change the lanes to have four northbound and two southbound. you follow this? it will alleviate congestion on the bridge if you drive out of the city. we will see. all the largest cargo ship ever to visit the united states is expected to arrive at the port of oakland tomorrow morning. the it is 1,300' long the 10th larger container ship in the world and arrives in port of los angeles over the weekend after the launch last month in china. oakland is one of only a handful of united states ports large enough to accommodate one of the so-called mega ships, which. stay until the sunday afternoon until monday morning at the port. >> more on story of everyone's tongues, affluenza teen given probation for a drink driving crash that killed four people. wait until you hear how police

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>> daly city, dublin, los gatos and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> the season for country singer craig strickland continues after going duck helping on sunday during the severe storm.

29-year-old is a singer in "black road anthem," his friend's body was discovered on monday where they went hunting in the lake and his dog was found alive. >> headaches from the massive wets system that brought ice, snow and rain is still not over. more than 18 million machines cross the central united states are now dealing with historic flooding. we get more. >> an army of volunteers armed with sand bags are fighting a tough fight. >> parts of a town near st. louis are already flooded. in union, missouri, mcdonald's is nearly submerged, a gas station underwater and a sewage treatment plant competed capacity. many rivers have not crested yet. water is already touching the seal on this bridge on historic route 66 with 500 roads closed. the missouri governor is calling in the national guard.

>> we have an incredible amount of water coming at yous almost ten pervert california feet of moving water. >> flooding is blamed for 18 deaths in the area and across the country snowstorms are also proving deadly. in new york a crash between a fedex and a black sedan killed the car's 22-year-old driver. white out conditions from the northeast to the midwest made travel nearly impossible. by road. or by air. 850 cots were set up at o'hare overnight and thousands of passengers across the country are stranded. >> trying to get home. a pretty long difficult. today could be the 4th straight day of misery for holiday travelers. yesterday, a thousand flights were canceled. more than 6,000 were delayed. >> 18-year-old affluenza teen and his mother captured in mexico on monday after fleeing

the united states are scheduled to be returned to houston today. couple couch was detained in puerto vallarta when they ordered a pizza by cell phone. he wassens? ed to ten years prohibition after leading guilty to killing four people in a drunk drive accident in 2013. his attorneys claimed ethan couch suffered from affluenza and was too spoiled to know right from wrong. he and his 48-year-old mother went missing three weeks ago. there was a video of a him at a booze party that went environmental. >> if he proceeded in juvenile court the maximum sentence is four months confinement. that in my opinion is not a sufficient punishment for the taking of four lives. >> authorities are requesting that his case be moved to adult court. >> former "glee," star is facing charges for possess of child

pornography. the 33-year-old was arrest on tuesday after police reportedly found thousands of pornographic immas in his he. he is known nor playing "puck," and he is out on bail with a january 22nd court date. there has been no response from his representatives. >> shocking. >> so many people watch that show and cannot believe he with be involved in something like that. >> new a traffic situation we have been monitoring in berkeley, sue, i understand there is a change in the past couple of minutes? >> all lanes open, reggie. you can see the shot with traffic very half through university and berkeley but all lanes are open from this early accident. it had all but one lane shut down for a good part of the last 45 minutes to an hour the you can see the traffic is moving, it is thick but it will disapayment elsewhere, we have an accident at northbound 101 off the road. but the tow trucks are there. they could be blocking a lane

remark and i am see things getting by nicely and it is holiday light. we will check in our next report to see if the accident has cleared. lisa? >> we, we are check out this very weak weather system that continues to slide to the south and it not only had cold air reinforceing the bay area for the day today, but, perhaps, a little bit of light rain. outside, we have clear and freezing temperatures and our numbers are below 32 decks in spot -- 32 degrees in spot and 43 in san francisco and colder in the not bay with visibility from sutro tower at 29 in santa rosa and 28 in napa and 30 in novato and 28 in baseball, and above freezing in concord and livermore is 29 degrees. another day of frosty conditions. by the afternoon, in fact, later in the morning, you will notice the increasing clouds and maybe a few sprinkles, and it will be dry for the weekend of the holiday weekend.

and new year's eve. we go through the day hour by hour with the clouds this morning, and by noon, we are all cloudy and very, very slight springers are possible and met of you will not see anything at all. as a result, the cool conditions are 54 in san jose, and 53 in palo alto and low 50s in the city and only upper 40s in santa rosa and the seven-day forecast shows sunny skies tomorrow, new year's eve and new year's day with low-to-mid 50s and still, a try weekend for the first day of the new year increasing clouds by sunday and next the weather system looks to be decent interest next tuesday with the rain showers. natasha and reggie? >> good news on the persistent pregnant elephant seal would refused to lebanon a busy fork bay highway. she is named after the waterway she was in. and year, the massive mom to be was finally safely removed from the mud flats near highways 37 and 121 and is safely released in the point reyes area.

alan wang has more on the challenges she faces. >> the 900 pound elephant seal was release in the hopes of not disturbing the others on the protected beach, a male seal calmed a bull was heard lurking in night. >> big bulls are a risk, and dangerous to people, absolutely, and they hear the noise and they wanted to know who it was that was out there, lying to find out who was in their territory. all the marine mammal experts expect a second day prevent the determined elephant seal from crossing highway 37 near the highway 121 split the. >> elephant seals in general are stubborn. you have to use twice as were treasure or more effort than other animals. >> she had crawl on the highway the day before causing a huge traffic jam. >> we push her back in the water and hoped she would go back out with the tide last night but unfortunately show was still ear in the morning. finally the elephant seal found

a culvert and swam down the creek, under highway 37 and plopped down in the field she was trying to reach. mammal experts quickly tranquilized her and performed an ultrasound. >> we saw a feet us and he is pregnant and it will be great to get her back so committee have her pup on the beach where she should. now, she son beach at point reyes where she can avoid the remark and have her pup in the north bay. >> physician bit users are fire up and a problem that is driving them crazy. >> an airplane land that has f.a.a. officials scratching their head but, first the tech bytes. >> today, twitter is going after hateful behavior. >> they have been underfire for not dough enough to thwart isis propaganda efforts. twitter will not tolerate

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>> donald trump said he spend $2 million a week in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina the first these states that vote or caucus and is continuing attacks on hillary clinton and her husband, the former president. he said that bib pick has a "tell record of woke abuse," reviving memories ofly affair with a white house intern and will join his wife on the trail in new hampshire. >> the g.o.p. is now less crowded, former new york governor george pat tack is drop out the run for president. if addition to fundraising problems, pataki has barely registered in state or natural polls and has never made it on

to a main debate stage. >> physician bit users are upset after an update caused battery rates to stay charged only little bit, about three hours. it used to last three days. the company said it can be five days but battery life varies. >> the f.a.a. is have thing how an alaskan airline plane end up not land on the runway landing a plane on a taxi way, instead. this happened in seattle on december 19. before landing it seemed line air traffic control and the pilot were on the same page but it took off from chicago and scheduled to lend on the runway right there open right and the crew accepted it the pilot landed on the area in between two runways. all the dapping certificate

fought land on a long strip of concrete but the danger is this someone else could be on the taxi way. >> alaska airlines trying to figure out what went wrong here. fortunately, no one was hurt. >> thank goodness, it was supposed be to a safe zone and someone could have opinion there, including another plane. >> how would you maybe that mistake? >> but anyone was hurt. lisa, it is cold? >> yes. >> absolutely. it is cold all week long and that doesn't change but we are going to get extra should cover throughout the afternoon. it will keep us on the chilly side and maybe a new light sprinkles. you can see weak weather system to the north and part of this will slide to the south and maybe providing a light shower, but, really, you are feeling the chill with 32 in concord and 30 in livermore and no changes this, so, increasing clouds, possible shower, highs in the low 50s after this we are dry and we will be looking at a

slightly warmer weekend. sue? >> good morning, everyone, better news from berkeley we on the last three reports, accident eastbound at university is nowerred out of the lanes with month senator delays. westbound, it is getting busy, and we have not had many delays. because of the holiday week. now, the toll thomas eric duncan, a minor stackup, with the folks paying cash. otherwise we are looking good. overall, a general look at the traffic scene, green is good with no delays, and the south bay commute in the next report. >> ready for new year positive eve? new york city is ready. the mayor and f.b.i. and new york police department have outlineed security guideline saying it will be one of the safest places you can ring in 2016 and types square is packed and there will be nor to use the bathrooms. organizers conduct the first step to make sure that nearly

12,000 pound ball will drop correctly. thank you is your first thought? >> yes, where can i eat? where can i use a bathroom? if neither is provided i not be there. that is why i am celebrateing at home. you, can, too rockin' new year's eve at 8:00 and then abc7 news at 11 and continuing at 11:30 with rockin' new year's eve. we have a new survey, can you see the most popular resolution by state. >> pretty cool. a common theme in many places enjoy life to the fullest in 2016 the topic in california. and north of you, in organize, people went to live healthier, in the south the top resolution in alabama is to save more and respond less money. on east coast, knockers want it all, lose weight, live healthy

and enjoy life more. >> and more bathrooms. >> at 5:00 a.m., punishment handed down and what happened to a woman who threw coffee in the face of a man dug an antimuslim rant. >> we will have more on the >> we will have more on the

who helped make slea difference last yearose for thousands of local foster kids. thank you for helping foster kids. thank you for the school supplies. thank you for the new shoes. thank you, secret santa. and thank you for donating money. announcer: your generosity proves that while not everyone can be a foster parent, anyone can help a foster child. thank you. thank you. gracias por su ayuda. [baby coos] thank you. live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good morning. i am reggie aqui. >> i am natasha zouves. >> glad you are waking up with us dark and early at 5:00 a.m. lisa? >> good morning to you. we start out chilly again. temperatures are below freezing inland valleys. weak weather system to the north provides increasing clouds.