>> abc7 news begins with breaking news. the breaking buzz is from dubai. just as people were ready to watch the new year celebration, an enormous fire took over a 63-story willing. this is the address downtown building a hotel and an apartment complex in the heart of the city. we are told the fire break out on the 20th floor. moments ago we heard from a reporter who is near the hotel. >> a lot of children wereñi crying, they were scared. the parents did future know what to do because there was a lot of confusion. if you were not outside in the

prominent but were in the mall you saw authorities rushing in from the mall, storming outside and people were scared. >> who can blame them? the fire started at 10:00 p.m. dubai time and we do not know how many people were if the building or how many were able make it out okay. >> to happened best fireworks display. look at this map you can see how close the burning address is in relation to the hall of the skyscraper in the world and huge crowds are gathering. they are asked to leave and there is chaos in the streets. we have developments during the program and open twit at thistet twitter@abc7newsbayarea. >> it is a calmer new year's here with the countdown on for the fire woulds dislay to ring ins with dis. not too crowded right new but it will not last.

>> barges are loaded up ahead of the party that will draw about 200,000 people to the bay. our reporter has been monitoring the progress for us at bi50 and is joining us. you are not jumping in? >> the barge is nearly stopped. take a look at this barge. some of the fire works are a couple of pounds but these massive ones are the show stoppers and launch fireworks 1,000 feet into the air. during daylight it is hard to think of them as anything other than metal canisters and crates. tonight, though, the devices will slowed into spectacular colors and shapes like this and this and this. >> admit night we will shoot 15 minute display to ring in 2016. we have 5,000 devices and a few ton of fire works to shoot off. it sounds like it will be clear skies and we look forward to a beautiful evening and ringing in

the new year. >> this is the man behind the mack ice -- magic rung the show for 15 years. despite terrorist attacks security is like any others. >> we always have precaution with security at 24/7 and always at a heighted awareness so in is no...no increased sensitivity. >> it takes 20 people, two days to set up the dislay and it takes another four hours to dismantle it after the show. while you are heading home at 12:15, they will be here until 4:00 a.m. this year's spectators can expect more variety and new color combinations. >> this is always a challenge to make the show bigger and better. >> it sounds like a resolution to me. here is to the policy of a bigger and brighter and betters with dis. >> reggie, to answer your

question, no i will not jump into the water it is too chilly today. you certainly want to dress warmly tonight. they expect 200,000 people for the show and i remind you, watch the free fire welcomes; don't set off your own. >> it is just for thes with disfashion. san francisco fire officials remind you, fireworks are any kind of illegal in the city. it does not always stop people from set off their own. firefighters stress that fireworks are a major burn hazard even sparklers are not 100 percent safe. extra officers are on patrol and anyone setting off the illegal firewoods or firing gunshots and can will be arrested the bought cities will have extra patrols in san francisco every available officer will be onçó theñr stre. some in planed clothes and

others monitor the roads for drunk driving the. >> san francisco bay will be packed with bets but the coast guard will enforce the safety citizen an the plaza from 11:59 until 12:30 tomorrow morning extending a thousand feet off the ferry build plaza and pier 14 so avoid that area. >> or can you do what a lot of us do: watch from the comfort of your hope, you can watch the live stream on abc7news.com, with a list of events and transportation openingses. all the second best thing to seeing it in person. our great view. >> we are watching the forecast because we want to know, will we have clear skies? >> meteorologist mikeour meteors with how it will be before midnight? lisa? >> it is freezing but it is sunny and clear. 37 in san rafael to 48 right here in san francisco and we have low dew points and a dry

northeast wind keeping a bite in the air. tonight in san francisco a milder location in the 40s after midnight at 42 and the temperatures, then, will continue to drop into the 30s in downtown san francisco with the rest of you enjoy new year's eve in the neighborhood and it will be freezing cold in 20 in santa rosa and napa and livermore and i would not be surprised if the national weather service issues a freeze warning tonight. we have more to talk about for the when, saturday we are dry for new year and rain is moving in, and this is just the first wave. i will dedetail this in a few minutes. >> take a look at this, clearing the golden gate bridge the largest cargo ship ever to visit the united states and now it is officially here in the bay area. our reporter, jonathan bloom, is at the port where the brand new mega ship just docked last half

hour. what are you seeing? >> it is quite a sight of the it rounds the corner and it was like seeing a large island pulling into the port. you can see the ship evermy shoulder, i will step out of the way to look at it, right now, barely clearing the tops of the biggest cranes of the port of oakland the largest vessel ever to have pulled into the oakland s tooary passing the golden gate bridge at 9:00 a.m. after lowering the electronic antennas, it made bit 20 foot few to spare. it is quarter of a mile long, so if you stood on the shore and watch it sail past alcatraz it wrote cover all but the tip of the island. these tips are common on the route teen asia and europe, witd over all they cost less to operate and pollute less but for the ports that receive the ships, handling something this big requires some effort. >> it is a highly orchestrateed almost like a ballet.

you need to take containers off the vessel. they are imports. and you load the exports on the vessel. you need to get the containers staged so the trucks can get them in and out ofe1 the port. >> there has never been to an american port and the port of oakland has been preparing for years, with the bart pilots practice navigating a ship this big on similarities in the east bay, multiple tugboats newspapering from every end and had to get taller trains and dredge out channels and the likelihood more ships will follow. that is what it is pore the port: a test to see if they are ready for the next generation of container ships. so far they believe they are passing the test with flying colors. >> jonathan, just fascinating. we will turn, now, to a judge in san jose who=/%çó is hearing the of a soccer league suing the

city of santa clara. soccer folks are frying to keep their fields away from super bowl 50 and matt keller is at santa clara superior court. matt? >> yes, reggie, the judge said he would make a ruralling on the temporary restraining order we at noon so in 50 minutes. we told that he actually is leaning toward ruling "no," but no matter what he decides, both sides will be back in the courthouse next week. in a twist, the attorneys for the santa clara youth soccer leagueñi said áhey could add the nfl to the request for a preliminary injures. santa clara youth soccer was scheduled to lose access to the fields on monday and will not get them back until 30 days after super bowl 50. the nfl is taking them over. they will be used for media, staging, half time and security. they were promised alternate soccer fields but the looking said they only get two fields, monday through friday and no weekends meaning 1,500 kids have

no place to play. >> we would go home tomorrow if someone would promise you have a good place to play, a field that suits the caliber of players you have, we would go home. >> we believe we have provided adequate fields and made that argument to the judge in the chambers. >> another big concern by league officials is what condition will the fields be in after the super bowl? the nfl agreed to repair the fields but there is nothing in writing and it would delay the games indefinitely. we will find out about the judge's decision at noon and a hearing is held next when on the preliminary injunction. >> and a sinkhole in san francisco's noe valley is causing traffic delays and impacting muni service right now. percentage repair crew is at church and 24th to fix the sewer line failure that led to the sinkhole with traffic

between jersey and 24th closed on church until further notice. the j church muni line will schultz around that sinkhole and officials believe the repairs are made bit end of today. >> the fate of a mother accused of helping her son on the run. developments about affluenza teen's mom. >> a serial gas station robber in the bay area strikes again. what police want you to know to stop the criminal in his tracks.

>> the mother of a fugitive texas teen then for usingallal defense is nowening held in a los angeles jail. you can see tonya couch in handcuffs escorted by the marshals through l.a.x. she now formally charged with the hindering of the apprehension of her 18-year-old son, ethan couch. >> what would you do if you are a parent with a son who is the most hated boy in america? what would do you to protect him? >> the team is in mexico awaiting extradition and he avoided jail time in a drunk driving crash that killed four people in 2013. police say three and his mom were on run after he violateed his probation by attending a peter with alcohol. haunting today the fairfield grandmother who confessed to intentionally drowning her four-year-old grandson is expected to face a judge this afternoon. dawn diana raines-hewes confessed to grouping the boy in the bat tub identifyied at

richard, the son of her daughter. police have not been either to find either parent. >> serial robber in the bay area has struck again hitting gas stations. surveillance video shows the man walking into the store with a bandanna and a gun. police say this man has struck seven times in just the last ten days. most of the robberies have happened between 3:30 and 5:30 in the morning and it is believed he also robbed a walnut creek gas station yesterday. >> this new surveillance video is picture of two machine accused of robbing this local me back station and it magazine clerk with the victim talking to a suspect. the map on the left side in the long white sleeve shirt is the one that the deputyrd looking for, and we will bring you a chores look. the robbers walked into the store early on sunday morning and one or both of them beat the cashier, stole the items from

the store and took off in an older white s.u.v. and the cashier was treated at the hospital. >> we will tack abut the weekend weather which has changed in store and meteorologist mike nicco is ahead with the forecast. >> you can see the sunshine out here but despite it, it is cold. i will tell you when we will we switch out the frigid deaths for warmer weather and more breezy weather in a few minutes. >> one last chance to make a difference in 2015 and you can lend a hand to

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this is abc7 news. >> this is new video in this morning showing the significant ice on highway one south of west marin which contributeed to a van driving into the bay there. authorities say he took the curve too fast and slid right into the water, rolled over and landed on the wheels in 4' of water. the driver made it out. he was picked up by a passing car and taken to the hospital. >> and now, a beautiful shot behind us of the golden gate bridge and i love what it looks like but lisa is actually outside. it is cold. >> it is cold. in another hour or two you will get an hour or two hours of warm sunshine and then, boy, we has the heat quickly with dry air. shear live doppler hd, we lost the fog if santa rosa, finally, you have been freezing all morning long. and right nows you are in the 30.

and san francisco is 46 and oakland is the warmest at 50, and upper 40s in mountain view and san jose and winds up to 26 miles per hour. another pretty shot where you notice the temperatures on this panel are cooler at 38 in novato and 40 in santa rosa and the delta winds are gusting to over 20 miles per hour and 20-0 gusts and offshore wind indicating very, very dry air and low dew point we will be freezing tonight and temperatures will drop quicker at the action sunset and sunny and cool and new year's eve self operation tonight and rain arrived by sunday afternoon so we are cloudy on saturday, and at 10:00 on sunday morning, we are dry, and in the afternoon, did you sigh the light rain over the bay and we found this in the atmosphere for what is to come, showers continue into the busy sunday afternoon and evening folks coming back to town and you get a break or monday, but,

rainfall with the first system looks to be anywhere from about .2" to love half an inch in san carlos and oakland which are early rainfall estimates it could change. the next system looks more interesting. this is coming in on tuesday and when and we are talking over 1-2" of rain finally, tuesday into wednesday with a break and 509 wave of rain by wednesday afternoon. there is more beyond that will set we will keep our fingers crossed and bring in the sierra air but, first, often sunday it is not coming into a line that was a forecast model. it will be chilly and freezing in the north bay, the east bay, and at freezing. the peninsula. the south bay. tomorrow, with sunshine and clouds increasing and the storm impact center will give us the must be and one system on sunday, showers into monday and a trunker system on tuesday

which will continue into wednesday. happy new year, everyone, bundle up tonight it is going to be really cold again. we should be used to this. >> i need to get you a thicker coat, lisa, you are going to need a thicker one if you are out tonight. >> cal quarterback is headed to the nfl and in a news conference just held the junior from novato declared for the nfl gravity and's he passed for six touchdowns in a big way in the armed for bowl this week and projected to be one of the first two quarterbacks taken in the 2016 nfl draft. >> next, it is never too late to do something great in 2016 with a mayor ton to he

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at this point, we have not heard of any reports of injuries, dubai officials say the new year's eve celebration for the city go on as landed which is surprising given how big of a deal the fire is but it looks like the fireworks are going on. today on abc news, plastic bags to minimum wage with new laws in affect tomorrow across the bay area. to the rescue, on abc7 at 5:00, a forth bay sheriff helped a southern california boy save his future. >> we are running out of time to donate to goodwill with the donate-a-thon today and we were in the mission district in san francisco as volunteered loaded up supplies. they said today alone they will receive 100 times more donation that a typical day the. >> today is an exciting day, our third donate-a-thon and we will fill 100 trucks with donated goods from our generous donors

and the goal to get as much as we can to put people to work. our you have until 5 o'clock p.m. today to day nature. >> happy new year's eve and thank you for joining.

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