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good morning, everyone. i'm carolyn tyler. thanks for joining us on sundayo december 10. let's start with the weather with lisa argen. >> live doppler 7, we're still looking at this big dome of high pressure not going anywhere, protecting us along the storm track to ride to the north and as a result our stagnant air continues. another spare-the-air alert today with air quality declining in the north bay, the coast, and central bay with moderate air quality elsewhere. and it is illegal to burn today. 31 in santa rosa, 32 in novato and san ramon with 33 in livermore and 64 at the coast. once again, the offshore winds at the shoreline keeping us mild
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there, elsewhere 30s and 40s through 7:00. by noontime, some hazy sunshine, plenty of 60s and by the afternoon, anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees above normal again today. looking at another spare-the-air alert for monday. isle have a look at your accuweather seven-day forecast coming up. a decades-old cold case involving a north bay kidnapping is one step closer to being solved pap suspect in the case was flown into san francisco overnight. in a story you'll see only on abc7 news. the suspect is accused of kid nalling a 9-year-old hillsboro girl back in 1995 and hiding from authorities for 22 years. abc7 news reporter lonni rivera has the details. >> reporter: back in degs 9-year-old christine chu was kidnapped as she walked to her home across the street. the kidnappers demanded a ransom
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from her family and held her captive for nine hours. they gave up and lesioned her when they learned her parents were away in taiwan. fast forward 20 years later, detectives arrested one of three people suspected in the kidnapping in southern california. that suspect, kevin lynn, brought back to the bay area. hillsboro police took him into custody in l.a. you can see in the inmate locator page here he's being held on a $5 million bail. lonni rivera, abc7 news. >> so what led authorities to kevin lin? he recently applied far passport under his rail name. the state department was able to match his photo with a wanted picture issued by hillsboro police back in 1995. they notified thouauthorities ie bay area, asking if officials were still looking for him. yes, they were and federal officials placed a hold on him. developing news out of southern california this
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morning. the region may have finally caught a break with those wildfires. a fire broke out in the hills of the city of monrovia, but firefighters managed to hold the damage to just five acres. the flames surrounded a water reservoir at the top of a hill. the fire has since been fully contained but crews have been watching for hotspots. this morning firefighters are gaining control of six other wildfires in southern california. some evacuees have returned to their homes but there's concern the fires could flare up genl today. one personal is dead and nearly 800 homes have been destroyed. the fires have burned more than 175,000 acres from ventura to san diego counties. >> we're fortunate. we have family close by. we have other options. and, you know, it's material stuff. other pool have so much more tragedy in their life that we have nothing to complain about. and you have to just focus on
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that. the rest is easier to deal with. >> governor jerry brown toured the damage in ventura county yesterday. he called the fires our new normal. smoke from the wildfires in southern california has reached all the way here to the bay area. a spare-the-air alert is in effect through today and that means you should stay indoors, especially if you have asthma. sky 7 shot these pictures of smoke on the horizon. remember, no wood burning during spare-the-air days. victims of the north bay wimps face an important deadline tomorrow. monday is the last day to send up for federal disaster relief. people can apply for fema to cover losses that are not covered by their insurance policies. businesses and nonprofits can apply to the small business administration for low-interest loans. you can find more information on our website, abc7news.com. this morning we are hearing
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from the husband of that toll worker killed on the bay bridge last saturday. it's now been more than a week since cc hahn died after a suspected drunk driver ran into her tollbooth. she leafs behind a husband and young daughter. he spoke with abc7 news reporter. >> it's very wonderful that we meet when i was 15. >> reporter: it was love at first sight for ryan when he met sisi hahn back in burma in 1991. >> i was very lucky then. i married her. >> reporter: but it took ten long years to finally start a life together in san lorenzo and once their daughter was born their life felt complete. everything changed at 5:10 a.m. saturday, december 2nd. he'd just dropped his wife off for her shift when police say a drunk driver in a box truck slammed into her tollbooth. >> i didn't believe that. i tried to call her cell phone
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too hoping that, you know, she's still conscious or something like that. it just went straight to the voice mail. >> reporter: si si died instantly. the life they so lovingly built was gone. yesterday hahn's friends and family gathered for her funeral and to say good-bye, but now the 41-year-old widower is struggling to survive without her. >> i like to do whatever she want me to do and then she very happy, and i'm happy too. >> reporter: the couple's mothers are helping to care for their daughter for now and a go fund me page has been created. the suspect, daniel burke, faces dui and vehicular manslaughter charges. lisa amin gulezian, abc7 news. san francisco police are questioning a driver who struck and killed a pedestrian. abc7 news was in the sunset district at 19th avenue and
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quin quintara street where an elderly woman was hit crossing the street arnold 4:30 yesterday afternoon. the woman driving the car stayed on the scene and is cooperating with police. at this point it's unclear who was at fault. 3,000 city workers who walked off the job in oakland last week planned to strike through tomorrow, but an end may be in sight. last night the union and the city agree on a mediator. they plan to meet tomorrow. rec centers and libraries are closed because of the trike. streets are not being cleaned. we of heard from some people garbage is starting to pile up. happening today, the san francisco human rights commission is holding a reception at the war memorial building to celebrate human rights day. actor, humanitarian, and san francisco native danny glovrp will be a special guest at the event. he's well respected for his
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wide-reaching philanthropic efforts. the u.n. adopted the declaration of human rights on this day in 1948. it is the first document to establish an individual's right. president trump is facing backlash this morning from the head of the naacp and several federal lawmakers. the controversy the president's visit to jackson, mississippi, for the opening of a civil rights museum. his appearance yesterday drew protesters outside the museum, many upset with how he responded to the violent white nationalist march in charlottesville, virginia, earlier this year. in his speech the president acknowledged the historic role mississippi has played in the civil rights movement. >> the civil rights museum records the oppression, cruelty, and injustice inflicted on the african-american community, the fight to end slavery, to break down jim crow, to end segregation, to gain the right
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to vote, and to achieve the sacred birthright of equality. >> civil rights icon and georgia congressman john lewis was scheduled to be one of the main speakers. he boycotted the ceremony to protest president trump. this morning much of the u.s. is digging out of the snow of the nation's first major snowfall of the season blanketing 20 states from texas to new england. 90 million americans are feeling the chill. many driving along icy roads and dealing with delayed flights and power outages. abc news senior meteorologist rob marciano has the details. >> the south digging out as the first winter storm bears down on the northeast. from texas to florida, the usually mild south still frozen. >> we don't know what the weather's going to do. hopefully turn for the best. >> reporter: weather delaying air force one, finally land ong a snowy runway in jackson, mississippi. the storm there the biggest to hit in three decades.
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parts of alabama buried under a foot of snow. >> i didn't mean to to make the news. >> reporter: cars stuck and spinning all the way to the carolina coast. >> some guy in a truck slid off the road and hit a car. >> reporter: right now 160,000 without power from mississippi to maine. airline traffic snarled for a second day. the storm forcing the cancellation of over 2,000 flights, delaying 3,000 more. and in new jersey, crews working to keep the roads clear. the salt is doing the trick for this storm. farther north, enough snow on the roads to cause these wrecks in new york state. more like slush in the city, but some spots could freeze over as the snow keeps coming down and new yorkers struggle to 1/2 gait this winter mess. >> that is quite a mess. rob marciano reporting. nearly a foot of snow fell in georgia northwest of atlanta yesterday, about 4 to 6 inches of snow fell in the northeast and the storm is not over yet. another cold blast of air is on
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the way. most of my siblings are in atlanta and they are complaining. >> and we're locked into this pattern. we have high pressure, stagnant weather pattern on the west and the cold in the east and lit stay that way for a while, unfortunately. a live look outside from our east bay hills camera where the numbers range this morning, ready for this, 31 to 64. all due to a little wind out there. isle be back with a look at our accuweather seven-day forecast next. less than a week until the new "star wars" movie comes out in theaters but some fanses go got a preview at
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just believe. >> well, well-connected "star wars" fans were surely out of breath last night among the first the world to see t the'ingerly anticipated "star wars: the last jedi." our sister station in los angeles was at the premiere in hollywood. >> reporter: "star wars: the last jedi" is expected to storm box office with projected opening weekend in the $200 million range. a parade of storm troopers and other characters from the last jedi helped open the red carpet at the film's world premiere. the people involved with this movie think you're in for quite a ride. it picks up right where the force awakens left off. >> everybody in the movie kind of starts at 100 and it doesn't get less from there, you know,
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for the next 2 1/2 hours. >> i love how many emotions are in this movie. it's funny. it's suspenseful, all the things you want in a "star wars" movie but also a lot of surprises. >> it's quite political, but it's also very intimate and very emotional, and i think the emotion of this film will take you by surprise. >> reporter: it also marks the late carrie fisher's final appearance in the franchise. >> she did a great job with this film and, you know, if you're going to go out it's a great way to go out as princess leia and doing such a fine job. >> reporter: for daisy ridley, the film's leading lady, making this movie was different from her experience on "the force awakens." >> you're going through this whole thing and everything was happening so quickly that -- i was more aware of everything this time so i felt more nervous. >> the first movie i ever saw in the theater was "star wars" when i was 6 years old. never forget it. i of been a huge fan ever since. >> it makes you want to come out-the theater and go home and
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play with your "star wars" toys. makes you feel like a little kid again and inspires you the way a good "star wars" movie should inspire you. >> reporter: "star wars: the last jedi" will officially be on-in theaters on friday but there will be sneak peeks all over town on thursday night. in los angeles, abc7 eyewitness news. happening today it taos largest single day for toy drive many the bay area. court si of the salvation army. the dig deep program is made up of local young professionals who raise tens of thousands of dollar rs and use the money to buy gifts for kids in need. this is video from a previous event. today the gifts will be loaded on salvation army trucks, the toys i districted december 20th at the salvation army's toys and joy shop on turk street in san francisco. also happening today, kids affected by the north bay wildfires will be able to pick up a brand-new free bike. the marin county fire department will deliver the bikes to a
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warehouse run by the highway 12 winery. bikes were donated for fire victvic victims by the nonprofit turning wheels for kids. we told you about this last week. the giveaway begins at 10:00 this morning. the highway 12 winery's warehouse is located on 8th street in sonoma. now your accuweather forecast with lisa argen. >> good sunday morning. our persistent ridge of high pressure is still with us and you look at the entire state of california and you notice really very quiet here. as we go into southern california again, our extreme fire danger continues through tonight. but we are looking at the winds really beginning to slide back later on tonight. so if we look at the wind profile right now, we're 29 to 35 miles an hour just about and you still see these oranges right here. but as we go through the rest of the day, you can see the yellows take over, 25 to 35 miles an hour so maybe just a little
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better for the firefighters. so air quality today not great. once again, you may notice the haze out there, so another spare-the-air alert. temperatures right now running from the low 30s in the north bay, 31 in santa rosa, 32 in novato. 40s around the bay, 39 in mountain view. right on the coast we have three different read wegs look at for half moon bay. 54, 55, and 64 right now. no matter how you look at it, it's much milder at the shoreline with that 29 in fairfield. 32 san ramon, 33 in livermore. so this morning we are a couple degrees cooler than we were yesterday except we remain pretty mild here at the shoreline. forecast highlights today calling for more air quality that is less than desirable. looking at chilly and cold temperatures overnight and we will look for this dry pattern to continue. how long, i know, is the big question. looks like right now could see it into christmas holiday. so we're look at maybe another
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14 days or more. highs today underneath the persistent ridge of high pressure, a little hazy, a few high clouds and you'll notice the air quality at the surface not looking great. mid-60s from san francisco and oakland, but as you get down towards the peninsula and the south bay, how about some upper 60s to near 70 once again, fanld you're even further south along the central coast you're anywhere from about 15 degrees above average. so if we look at the outlook right through the next 14 days or so, you'll notice we are looking at drier than normal for northern california, a 50% chance of that. and the rest of the state looking at still possibility of being drier than normal. that's what we call an el nino year, but, you know, still early in the season, december, so things could certainly turn around as we get into next year. overnight lows once again in the protected valleys in the low 30s and around the bay mid-40s, 48 in santa cruz and the accuweather seven-day forecast looking at a string of sunny and
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mild afternoons, chilly mornings and temperatures fairly uniform from the mid to upper 60s around the coast e and bay to about 70 inland right on through the middle of the week. then we'll see just a slight dip on wednesday. you can download our accuweather app and keep track of these pretty wild temperatures we've been getting throughout the overnight hours. but it's going to stay rather cold right on through the 9:00 hour. kind of got this down pat. >> too bad about the dry weather, though. >> like to mix it up. >> all right. thank you, lisa. just ahead, a go-to spot for adventures now closed for business. why this
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to those little square credit card readers countless inventions were born at the techie playground known as tech shop. just a couple weeks ago, tech shop shut down. abc7 news reporter jonathan bloom explains the confusion surrounding that closure and the makers who are now left out in the cold this holiday season. >> let's do this. >> reporter: before logan riley wound up on "shark tank." >> this is rock book. >> reporter: he started out here. >> tech shop gave access to all sorts of machinery that i actually used to build my first prototype. >> reporter: tights maker space where zany labs and foaling canoes are born and the one where mark roth laser cut his way out of homelessness and taught others to do the same, earning the trip to the white house. >> mark roth from san francisco. >> reporter: you can imagine his surprise. >> i didn't know they were going >> reporter: when tech shop shut
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down. >> it was so abrupt. it wasn't we're closing next week or the next day. it's we're closed. >> you have people whose income derived from tools they could use here. >> reporter: the timing couldn't be worse. >> with the christmas rush we have 100 small businesses in here. they of already done sales, already taken money, already bought raw materials and had them shipped here and they're sitting in that building locked up. >> reporter: things have gotten more confusing, from talk of a where you want si filing to talking of reopening under new ownership, all the while the doors stay closed. >> our priority has been helping these businesses find ways to get inside. >> reporter: the office of workforce develop says it leafs hole in the city's economy. >> think about steve jobs making his first computer in his parents' garage. we don't have garages. a maker space the garage for san francisco. >> reporter: people trying to change the world and their own lives like curtis. >> working on 3d printing. >> reporter: his prototypes and his print rer locked up inside. >> no way to get a hold of
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anybody. >> reporter: tech shop declined to be interviewed but wrote an open letter detailing years of money problems. >> at this point we of missed the window of saving christmas. >> reporter: roth hopes just like logan riley -- >> i'm going to say yes to that right now. >> reporter: tech shop can reach a deal. jonathan bloom, abc7 news. an injured sea turtle has chance for a better life thanks to 3d printing technology. the logger head turtle was found partly paralyzed four years ago with a large gap in his shell. that gap became a serious problem as the turtle grew. researchers in san diego teamed up with a digital media lab to build the turt al brace using 3d printers. that brace is made of plastics and precisely fits the turtle's shell. officials say the turt ll need another brace when fully grown. still to come here on "abc7 mornings," the final push for alabama senate seat.
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>> good morning to you, carolyn. we're starting out once again very cold in the protected valleys. a little bit of wind allowing for cowes to stay mild. right now numbers ranging from 29 in the delta, 32 san ramon, novato, 31 in santa rosa, 33 in livermore with upper 30s in morgan hill and san jose. certainly a cold start but at the coast, half moon bay 50s and 60s, another spare-the-air alert today with air quality declining not only in the north bay but the coast and central bay. some of the wind bringing up that smoke into the atmosphere so if you have asthma, if you're sensitive out there, you certainly may notice it. 9:00 we're in the 50s except for a few inland valleys and by 2:00 in afternoon mild numbers, upper 50s to mid to upper 60s. a wide range but then by 6:00 tonight the numbers will drop through the 50s and we'll be all pretty uniform by about 9:00 tonight with more 50s. do we need to shake things up?
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i'll let you know if that's in the offing coming up. we are learning more this morning about a terrifying bus crash in san francisco friday night. it sent 29 passengers to the hospital. one of the passengers is talking to abc7 news about the frightening moments when the bus flipped over on highway 101. here's abc7 news reporter cornell barnard. >> these moments you never understand what is happening. >> reporter: marco was just released from the hospital with a bad head wound. he suffered when the private charter bus he was riding on crashed on southbound 101 friday night. >> really on the road and then we fall on one side. but then i forget -- forgot everything. >> reporter: he e says the bus was taking a group from san francisco to palo alto for a holiday party. but at a curve, the bus started fishtailing, hit the center divider, and bounced back across four lanes. the bus flipped over?
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>> on my side. very lucky. >> reporter: lucky indeed. he escaped the bus. all 29 passengers and the driver were taken to local hospitals. >> the driver was not impaired at the time of the collision. >> reporter: the saism towed the wrecked bus to this evidence yard where it will bement inned for possible mechanical failure. >> we'll look at everything we've got including any sort of driver input or speed if you will that may have caused this. >> reporter: how fast was the bus going? do you know? >> no, because we were -- there was a great mood, we were talking to each other so, you know, nobody was careful to what was happening. >> reporter: the california public utilities commission which oversees charter buses shows the company is licensed and insured. we reached out to charter brothers for comment but have not heard back. cornell barnard, abc7 news. developing news now from the fire zone in southern california. firefighters are beginning to get the upper hand on those
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major wildfires burning from ojai to oceanside. this morning more than 790 stretch structures have been destroyed with 175,000 acres burned. governor jerry brown visited the site of the thomas fire in ventura and said wildfires in california are, quote, the new normal. the thomas fire, the largest of the wildfires, at 155,000 acres, has jumped from ventura into santa barbara county. some of the military's newest technology is helping fight those wildfires in california. drones like this one from the air national guard give officials another look at the flames from the sky. the drones hover twice as hipg as most helicopters. special sensors can see through the smoke and deliver live rid video fees to commanders on the ground. alabama's gop candidate for the u.s. senate is getting new support from president trump.
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today roy moore's campaign is sending out ut robocalls featuring the president's voice. it's a last-minute push before the special election which is tuesday. abc news reporter linda lopez reports on a battle for the senate seat. >> reporter: alabama democratic senate nominee doug jones is crisscrossing the state ahead of tuesday's election. >> people are ready for a change. people are -- know that we have a unique opportunity in the state of alabama. >> reporter: jones' long shot odds of winning the republican-held senate seat increased after multiple accusations of sexual misconduct surfaced against his opponent, roy moore, who has denied them. at an earlier rally in selma saturday afternoon, jones accused moore of limiting his availability to the press. >> we're here. we're going to have other availabilities. i can't remember what day we're in now, where roy smoor in hiding. he comes out only to be seen, like the ground hog, comes out every so off on the see whether
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or not he can see his shadow. >> reporter: moore did not campaign today but his e lk to recall quest got a shot in the arm from prumpl who addressed alabama voters from nearby pensacola, florida, at rally friday night. >> we can't aford to have a liberal democrat who is completely controlled by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. we can't do it. his name is jones and he's their total puppet. >> reporter: in the few days left before the election, alabama voters can expect a phone call from president trump urging them to support moore. abc news has confirmed the president has recorded a robocall which goes statewide on sunday. news, new york. there will be more about the roy moore campaign on "this week" with george stephanopoulos. they'll talk tact outlook for tuesday's crucial election. you can see "this week" at 8:00 followed by abc7 news at 9:00. new details about a shooting
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spree that left five people dead. the sheriff has issued a final report stating the gunman shot himself and acted alone. the report found no officers exchanged gunfire with kevin neal. police say neal killed his wife back on november 13th and went on a shooting rampage the next % day killing four others. now to a in addition wide call to end gun violence. yesterday was the fifth anniversary of the mass shooting at sandy hook elementary school. abc7 news was inside st. dominic catholic church in san francisco where how else minority leader nancy pelosi spoke to a group called moms demand action. the group is organized about 200 interfaith vigils nationwide calling for tougher gun laws. >> when 20 little children and their exceptional teachers were gunned down, you would think
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that that would be the limit. >> 20 students, six teachers died in the sandy hook mass shooting. still ahead here on "abc7 mornings," a local charity is on a mission to help children growing up in poverty. how schools are benefitting from the program and how you can contribute this holiday season. and here is a live look from our emeryville camera. very cold start to the morning.
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happening today, you might want to head over the telegraph avenue street fair in berkeley. it is going to look a lot like this. abc7 news was at the fair last year located on teledpraf between dwight and bancroft right next to the cal campus. 200 artists will have their best wares out for sale from jewelry to sculptures. the fair is also open the next two weekends. it's beginning to look a lot like the holidays. so cold out there. the layers and the socks. good morning, everyone. we're looking at another mainly chilly morning except if you're on the coast. right now the golden gate bridge, you can see it looks pretty good, not a lot of fog to speak of. 49 in san francisco. in fact, visibility good all
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over the bay area. it's freezing in parts of the east bay and north bay with more mild numbers to come this afternoon. yur accuweather forecast is straight ahead. also ahead, the 83rd heisman trophy was awarded in new york last night. find out which college football standout took home the big prize.
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in sports, 49ers fans are looking forward to seeing quarterback jimmy g. make his second start for the team. the niners take on the texans at nrg stadium in houston. the raiders play a huge game at arrow head stadium against the chiefs with first place in the afc west on the line. both games kick off at 10:00 this morning. tonight the sharks try to win their third straight game when they take the ice at sap center against the minnesota wild. the puck drops at 6:00. last night, san jose skated to an easy victory over ottawa.
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good morning. we face off on the ice with the sharks hosting ottawa. san jose played perhaps their best game of the season with five goals in a shutout. these two doing the math. pten shark goals in the past tw games. kevin le bank with a sweet pass to logan couture scores his 15th of the year. sharks get two more in the second. mark edward blasting one time. straight in past greg anderson. 2-0. joe thornton bounced it off the wall to joe pavelski who feeds carlson in front. his fifth of the year. sharks 50 shots on goal. aaron dell had 25 saves, picks up his third career shutout. the 83rd heisman trophy handed out yesterday in new york with the three finalists include two quarterbacks and a running back. baker mayfield from oklahoma, stanford's bryce love and last year's winner quarterback lamar jackson of louisville. and the winner is?
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baker mayfield of the university of oklahoma. >> oklahoma senior quarterback baker mayfield, a rare senior to stick around for his entire career. leading the sooners to a final four this season. he's the first former walk-on to win the award. had 41 td passes against only five interceptions for over 4,000 yards. he got 78.8% of the first-place votes. >> this is unbelievable for me. you know, being up here among these greats, it's something that words can't even describe. first i'd lake to say congratulations to bryce. good season, man. heck of a year. i mean, you played well. getting to know your family as well, heck of a family. no wonder you turned out great, man. >> all right. great story down on the coast. half moon bay high school's football team plays in the central coast section or ccs
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hosting sacramento sutter last night. the cougars get the victory and for the first time in school history they're going on to the state final and division iii to face san diego's steel canyon. athletes. community supporting first quarter, quarterback gavin with a pass and a sprint past the defense. 7-0 cougars. chase hoffman, the huge game, blocks the field goal attempt here. cougars led 14-0 at the half. chase also scored two touchdowns. check this one out, carries the defender on his back. half moon bay wins it 28-7 advancing to their first state title game in school history. >> happy for them. they earned it. i've known these guys since they were young and they've earned every bit of this. >> i feel great. you can't explain how much i love these guys and how great this feeling is. this whole town feels great. everyone's out here supporting us and putting in work to come
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and support us and we're just trying to have a great time doing it. >> what a great story. that's the way the ball bounces. niners in houston to face the texans. raiders and chiefs in kansas city. we'll have those highlights tonight at 5:00 p.m. i'm mike shumann. have a great day. good sunday morning to you. temperatures are just hovering right arnold freezing for some of our coldest inland valleys. looking live in our east bay hills camera where once again it's a little breezy up top but ble v below in the protected valleys, boy, is it chimly out there. in fact, we're look at numbers mildest on the coast, 55 half moon bay but 31 at gilroy. look at the 30s from san jose to mown table view, 40 in oakland. yesterday you were 38, so almost as cold, 49 in san francisco and more 30s from santa rosa to napa, novato sitting at 36 as well as the delta and numbers in the low to mid-30s from concord to livermore. chilly start, a mild afternoon
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on the way and a live look outside where san francisco looking at good visibility as well as the north bay. so fog is not a problem here but heading over the east, sacramento valley, there is some mist and drizzle. huge dome of high pressure protecting us or really keeping the storm systems apt bay. so we're looking at a dry pattern once again but with the extreme fire danger here throughout the day. so the national weather service has this um until tonight, the red-flag warning. you'll notice as we go through the next several hours the winds are still anywhere from 29 to about 36 and even 40 miles an hour at some times. the higher the wind, the darker the color. so we go from yellow to oranges here and as the winds move from the valleys to the coast here, they really funnel and get even stronger. usually in the early morning hours. as we go through 10:00 tonight, very little change, from 29 to 30 miles an hour. so we'll see if this is extended into tomorrow. so the winds are moving around
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stagnant area of high pressure bringing some of that smoke up into the bay area, as a result, poor air quality in the north bay, the coast and central bay. it's illegal to burn with the spare-the-air alert today in effect. so a live look from our tower camera, the visibility looks good here and we're looking at chilly conditions throughout the morning hours. but then once again, 35 to 10 degrees above average here and down further along the central coast they're in the 80s around san luis obispo. dry and mild for the foreseeable future. we need something to break, undercut this ridge to move it away so we can get some of the systems like we did in the november. but in the next 14 14 days it looks like the only rain we'll see is in extreme northern california. in the south bay today number ranging from the upper 60s in santa clara, 70 for san jose, 67 menlo park, san francisco in the mid-60s, a bit hazy, mid-60s in
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novato, 63 vallejo. san leandro, union city and fremont, concord and pittsburgh are about 64, pleasanton checking in at 66, about 3:00 this afternoon. so the accuweather seven-day forecast, a string of sunny, dry, mild afternoons, chilly overnight, hovering right around freezing and the poor air quality today, we'll see if the air quality management extend that into tomorrow. but probably as we were stuck in that pattern in october with the dry conditions. it looks like nothing really was going to make this budge in the foreseeable future. >> and i have asthma and i can really feel it today. >> yeah. >> definitely. thank you, lisa. a local charity is kicking off its annual toy drive many burlingame today. the group is called moms against povrp ti. its mission for past ten years has been to help children to who live in some of the most difficult circumstances you can even imagine. abc7's cheryl jennings shows us
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how the group is helping children in the bay area and worldwide. >> reporter: how many young people have you hemmed over the ten years? >> we estimate at 50,000. >> reporter: she helped found moms against poverty with other moms after a haunting and emotional experience. it burned a need into her heart to help children. years ago, she and her husband were in the process of adopting a third child from iran. a little girl who was 11 at the time. when that girl's friend at the orphanage also asked to be adopted. it was heartbreaking. >> he said why not me? why can't i be had? and i made a comment to her i'm not going to allow myself and i'm not going to allow any other people forget her. there are some children are born in the life of comfort and privilege and some children have to suffer all throughout their childhood. >> reporter: so mom against poverty was born in an orphanage to ease the suffering of
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children. it has grown into a global organization that provides orphan care, education, and hunger relief. >> how this works is once a month we are able to submit an order to m.a.t. and safeway delivers our food. >> reporter: several schools in oakland school district are beneficiaries. >> they provided a deep freeze for us, which is really exciting and you'll see an assortment of healthy proteins and frozen vegetables. >> reporter: jamie volley is the community school manager at fricke impact academy. she says the hunger relief program is structured in a way that a loy,s low-income parents to retain their dignity. there's side entrance. no one ever has to know. moms against poverty started the oakland relationship five years ago with the help of city councilwoman brooks. >> they wanted to come into oakland and they had had some difficulty and so i told them i could help them work that out. they have adopted six locations in my district. one rec center and the rest schools. >> reporter: easing hunger is just one of the ways moms
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against poverty is helping. >> this washer dryer is a godsend. it's a blessing for our school site. >> reporter: there's the hygiene program for school uniforms and p.e. clothes. >> we of been taking all of these home so, a staff member, every one in this front office has taken clothes home to wash over the weekend. >> we need to do what we can to support and ratz um these children. >> reporter: the liaison for mom against povrp ti and the schools. she also adopted a child from iran. >> help them be positive citizens in their community and to feel good about themselves. >> i just feel extremely, extremely blessed and honored to work with the women. it's changed our community and i'm excited to expand and grow. >> one of the things that has been really special is they don't want to do anything out of charity. everything they do is out of a sense of what's right. >> reporter: they all agree it makes a huge difference when the
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basic needs of children are met. then they can focus only education. >> if you laelly really give them that gift, they can bring themselves out of the poverty. all they need is the tools. they all have the potential. >> reporter: cheryl jennings, abc7 news. >> mom against poverty collects gift cards and new doe napted toys over the holidays and gives them to school principals to goif parents. for information on how you can help, go to our website, abc7news.com.parents. for information on how you can help, go to our website, abc7news.com. coming up, an unusual site in san francisco's castro district. why hundreds of people will be running in their underwear today.
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nobody picked all six numbers. wednesday night's jackpot grows to $229 million. and the winning numbers from last night's $38 million super lotto plus, 8, 19, 34, 41, 45, the mega number 21. no one got all six in that draw either so wednesday's jackpot jumps to $39 million. finally, happening today a very san francisco event. the santa sciffys run. the name says it all. participants strip down to their skivvies and run through the castro in a festive romp. all proceeds go to the san francisco aids foundation. the fun begins at 11:00. they wind through the castro and end up back at the lookout. it definitely will not be wet like it was last year. up next on "abc7 mornings" at 6:00, a breakthrough in a decades-old kidnapping case. we'll tell you about the man flown back to the bay area to
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good morning, everyone. i'm carolyn tyler. thanks for joining us on this sunday, december 10th. let's get a look at the weather with our meteorologist lisa argen. >> hi, everyone. horse's here's a look at live doppler 7 where california is in a holding pattern with a persistent ridge of high pressure. to cool temperatures with the sky, 30 in santa rosa. good morning to you. 32 in san ramon while it's 39, the south end of the bay. in between we of got some low 40s from hayward, 44 in vallejo, on the coast, 64 degrees. half moon bay. so a spare-the-air alert today for poor air quality, illegal
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