commute in the east bay. >> it's just going to get worse. >> right. talking more about our weather, fog, check this out. what an amazing shot, though. it blanketed the bay area. our cameras captured it just about everywhere. >> drew tuma is here. drew, is this a one-day phenomenon or are we expecting more? >> likely again tomrowor pretty wild out there this morning. that one area, you saw clear skies, then bam, you hit thick fog and visibility dropped. we'll do that again for the wednesday morning commute unfortunately. right now visibility, that fog is out of here and visibility is unlimited. changes come overnight tonight. so future weather visibility, you're looking at miles on your screen right now. that's how far you can see ahead of you. so we're down to 1 to 2 miles by 2:00 in the morning and then it just gets worse. by 6:00 in the morning, look at that, antioch, san ramon, concord, you've down to 1 if not 0 miles of visibility, so that

is very thick fog first thing tomorrow morning. once again it looks like the hardest-hit areas on the wednesday morning commute will be the south bay and east bay valleys. ands. drive with your high ea dribiitty will b be reduced. 30s and 40s out the door tomoow hickmoing. fog tomorrow, we are tracking a pair of storms again. we'll detail that in the full accuweather forecast. i'll see you in a few minutes. >> remember, you can check the weather conditions in your area any time on the abc 7 news app. the abc 7 news app, free to download. new developments today in the ghost ship warehouse fire case. attorneys filed the request to have the properties, landlords and 11 city officialsreedheyhe on who are responsible for the deadly december 2016 fire. the 11 city officials named include a building inspector, cps agent, six members of the fire department and three from the police department.

the defendants claim those named visited, spent time and attended parties at the ghost ship and were well aware of the dangerous living conditions, including fire hazards, but took no action. >> all contributing factors are relevant to whether or not there's culpability. we want to bring all of that out. we want justice. we don't want to be scapegoated. >> max harris' defense attorney, curtis briggs, added those named needed to be arrested and brought to trial with their clients, which is set toineg in april. they face 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. the d.a.'s office had no comment about the request. it is now official, the city of oakland suing the raiders and the nfl over the team's proposed move to las vegas. the lawsuit filed by city attorney barbara parker calls the move to vegas illegal. in her statement, parker claims the team and the league, ly

which they boycotted oakland as a host city. they wanted approval to move to vegas in 2017. it was a 31-1 vote. we reached out for comment but have not heard back. raiders plan to move to vegas for the 2020 season. it's unknown where they'll play next year. owner mark davis previously threatened to leave oakland after this season if the city did indeed file suit. there is no good obvious choice. some have suggested going down to the niners stadium and playing at levi's, but mark davis said in the past he didn't want to play there. if the raiders decide not to use the coliseum next season, then 13 days from now, the christmas eve game against the broncos, would be their final game in oakland. now to a very public confrontation that took place today at the oval office between president trump and democratic leaders over the border wall. >> this could be a preview of the new power dynamic in washington. abc news reporter stephanie ramos has more on the exchange.

>> reporter: in a dramatic oval office confrontation -- >> this has spiraled downward. >> reporter: democratic leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, together with the president, clashed big-time over border wall funding. >> we may not have an agreement today, we probably won't. but we have an agreement on other things that are really good. >> reporter: with a december 21st deadline to avoid a government shutdown, the clock is ticking. the president wants at least $5 billion for the wall. democrats are offering $1.3 billion as part of the overall funding package. >> the fact is we do not have the votes in the house. >> nancy, i do. nancy, nancy, we need border security. >> reporter: democrats saying they want to work off of the same set of facts. >> "the washington post" today gave you a whole lot of pinnochios because they say you constantly misstate how much of the wall is built. >> we didn't want to contradict the president when he was putting forth figures that had

no reality to them, no basis in fact. >> reporter: pelosi says the government is not worth shutting down over a border wall fight, but president trump isn't budging. >> i am proud to shut down the government for border security. >> that was a one of a kind meeting, to have the president and the democratic leaders negotiating out there in the open. the president to make that kind of concession, he has given a whole lot of negotiating advantage away to the democrats and made the possibility of a government shutdown much more likely. >> reporter: leaders schumer and pelosi say they offered the president two options to keep the government open as they work this out. they say each option would get a majority of the vote in the house, 60 votes in the senate and will avoid a government shutdown. in washington, stephanie ramos, abc news. google's ceo testified on capitol hill today. he faced lawmakers' burning questions. it comes after a controversial move earlier this year in which he declined an invitation to a senate panel to testify about foreign manipulation on the 2016

presidential campaign. abc 7 news anchor jessica castro has the details. >> do you swear that the testimony that you are about to give shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. >> thank you. >> reporter: google's ceo wen fore the house judiciaryt committee in a hearing on transparency and accountability. today he told lawmakers he was and is capable of leading the mountain view company without any political leaning. >> i lead this company without political bias and work to ensure that our products continue to operate that way. to do otherwise would be against our core principles and our business interests. >> reporter: the tech giant faces criticism about a perceived bias against conservative viewpoints. he also answered questions about the cost of political ads. >> so the result is different than in other markets, like television or radio, where every candidate is entitled to the lowest rate that that television station or radio station offers

to any political candidate for office? >> we -- you know, there could be variations based on the time of the day, the key words you're choosing to go for, you know, the geographies that you are advertising in, but it's decided by the system and it's a process we have done for over 20 years. let me assure you, anything to do with our civic process, we make sure we do so in a nonpartisan way. it's really important for us. >> he reassured congressmen that his company has no plans as of right now to launch a censored search engine in china. he said if google's position changes, he'll be fully transparent about it. he became ceo of google in 2015 and has previously expressed interest in serving chinese users. i'm jessica castro for abc 7 news. >> so those were some of the highlights. joining us now to talk about the testimony today is "washington post" technology columnist, jeffrey fowler.

first, what is your general reaction to what he had to say today? >> he didn't screw up. >> okay. >> he seemed more knowledgeable about google's actual practices and products than mark zuckerberg did when he went through this firing line a couple of months ago. that said, it was a giant missed opportunity by these members of congress to really pin down google about what needs to change about their behavior so we can move forward and get something as consumers that protects our privacy better. >> what do you think they should have done? what do you think they should have asked? >> a lot of time was wasted on this republicans versus democrats fight about whether google is biased and hiding the opinions of conservative news outlets. there's no proof really on either side. instead what they could have done is said, hey, google, let's find a way to open up the black box that is your search algorithm and let some experts in so we can really understand that better. that's one idea that never came up today. >> okay. so he himself didn't really make any missteps today. >> correct.

>> okay. what about -- i mean google is such a huge mpcoy. a lot about facebook, privacy. what do you think about what he had to say about privacy today? >> i think he pulled out some lines from the facebook playbook, which are, hey, we have a lot of data, but we give you -- we're transparent about it, we give you choices as consumers, we give you control over your data. the truth is if we had control over our data, they would have had no reason to have this hearing today. and yet again and again facebook used that line, google is using that line and they get away with it in this particular format where members of congress have five minutes. they ask weak follow-up questions and never get to really dig in. what i'm hoping for is we saw some glimmers that despite the fight about republicans and democrats about bias, we saw some signs that it was kind of a bipais iesn dng something about privacy. that's a good thing. now, the question is can they actually do something about it and do something smart about it that google's 200 lobbyists in

washington won't come in and weaken to the point of being pointless. >> it's so frustrating for users because we feel like we don't have really many options but to use these services and you've just got to click agree on that massive do you accept our terms and services. it's like you don't have a choice. >> totally. google controls 90% of the search market on the internet. you can't avoid it. it's like a monopoly. in fact there was a person in the audience dressed like the monopoly man. i think we as consumers need to hold google to account when its ceo says, and he said it again today, they're going to keep making those tools to understand what data is being collected and what control you have over it clearer. they really need to do that and we need to force them to move veoxpcitl agr toorld where we oout. ta ther t a members thatoi today. that w thing. they weren't all completely

stupid on this topic like they got the reputation for in the zuckerberg hearing. >> thanks for coming in. coming up, does steph curry really think that the moon landing was fake? we talk to scientists and their reaction to the warrior's player's conspiracy theory. plus christmas songs, festive fun ♪thisi'm gonna let it shine. ♪ it's energy saving time, ♪ i'm gonna reduce mine. ♪ californians all align ♪ to let our great state shine. ♪ let it shine, ♪ the power's ours to let it shine! ♪

ste kph curry is making headlines off the court for seeming to question whether humans ever really landed on the moon. it was a comment he made on a

podcast. >> you get fr nbala pye orsn a podcast aound you never know wh you're going to get. everyone from nasa to men who actually did walk on the moon -- maybe -- are chiming in. >> or so they say. >> abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow has the story. >> the surface appears to be vey, very fine grain. >> reporter: warriors player stephen curry creating quite the stir, questioning whether we've really ever been to the moon. >> have we ever been to the moon? >> no, no. >> they're going to come get us. >> you don't think so? >> hmm-mm. >> reporter: at the space and science center, there's no shortage of exhibits dedicated to moon exploration, perhaps none greater than this moon rock apollo 15 astronauts brought back to earth in 1971. >> when you take a sample of moon rock and put it under analysis, you find that it's lacking in water. >> reporter: staff astronomer ben burress has one question for curry. >> why do you believe we didn't

go to the moon? >> reporter: he even played a role in the program. >> rachel was used during the apollo fram program as an optic tracking observe store. >> reporter: scott kelly tweeing steph, so much respect for you, but regarding the moon landing thing, let's talk. dm me. after i asked nasa engineer as the mohawk guy what he thought, he tweeted back send him over. even curry tweeted a cool-looking smile emoji wearing sunglasses, along with a cnn article that nasa had offered to give him a tour of one of its lunar labs. astronomers here say nasa probably has more to show steph curry, but he's welcome to come here any time he likes and check out their moon rock and telescope. in oakland, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. >> first, was he serious? >> it reminds me of kyrie irving

two years ago when i was covering the all-star game and he said the earth was flat. all the reporters were running around going do i really have to ask? i knew he was clowning everybody. so i think they're halfway, but i remember as a little boy watching the lunar landing with my grandmother. she was born in 1901, and she said that's a fake. i'm a little kid. she was there for the horse and buggy days. it was inconceivable. but we have science now. >> do we? is that rock legit that we saw? >> that could have come from somebody's backyard. but the cool thing is, you're steph curry, you mention one thing and suddenly nasa is ready to jump in. >> let me show you what we have. >> elon musk will give you a trip if you want. steph curry, like that. >> thanks, larry, for your insight. well, amazon is cracking down on some scams by sellers just pr tbefore the last-minute holiday blitz. several amazon workers have been fired in the u.s. and india for

allegedly giving company data to independent sellers linked to scams. the report says the company deleted thousands of product reviews suspected of being fake. the crackdown follows the firing of an amazon employee in october who allegedly sold customers' e-mail addresses to a third-party seller. drivers of older cars beware. a new report says your headlights probably are not doing the job. a study by aaa says the typical vehicle on the road right now is 11 years old and its headlights generate only 22% of the light they did when the cars were new. researchers blame this problem on a coating applied to the plastic casings on headlights meant to protect them from sunlight. however, that coating wears off and causes the casing to get a cloudy look, limiting the amount of light that the bulbs emit. so to make matters worse you have many drivers not really noticing this issue since their lights degrade gradually over time. unless you're paying attention, you've not aware. >> or you happen to notice the car next to you that's new and

those lights are so bright. >> as drew rejoins us, especially the concern given the fog that we have. >> exactly. your first instinct is to turn butur that just reflects off and blinds you. so low beams are key and slow down. visibility this morning dropped very low and will do so again tomorrow morning. live doppler 7 giving you that sweep across the region. we are dry right now. outside we go, a live look from our beautiful emeryville camera showing you some sunshine, some high clouds streaming in, but really it's a quiet picture this evening. quite a different story this morning. a lot of you were sending us pictures on twitter, facebook, instagram. this one coming in from david, the morning fog. he was a passenger on the beige. this is one of the columns of the bridge. you can barely see it. once again, that visibility will be reduced tomorrow morning. if you take pictures of anything you take, we'd love to share

them on we're 55 in oakland and 59 in san jose. overnight tonight the story once again will be the fog developing, dense in spots. i think our biggest problem areas will be the inland, east bay and south bay where that fog settles in the most. otherwise we'll see that fog slowly burn off tomorrow morning. here's the bigger picture. live doppler 7 along with satellite. there is a weak cold front just to our north that will mainly stay to our north. it could bring us a little bit of coastal drizzle tomorrow morning but high pressure still firmly in control so that's going to keep any moisture really to our north around oregon and washington. so tomorrow the big story once again, it's going to be that fog in the morning. 7:00 in the morning, areas of dense fog first thing. it will be very slow to clear so by midday we'll still have pockets of it. by 4:00 it's mostly sunny, temperatures in the mid-50s to low 60s. tomorrow afternoon pretty much a carbon copy temperaturewise.

60 in san jose, 58 in oakland, 61 in santa rosa and concord up to 62 degrees. thursday is dry but we're still tracking showers returning to the forecast on friday. the storm impact scale, we bring it back for friday evening. still a level 1 light system, light to moderate showers. right now it does look like the highest rainfall once again will be in the north bay and along the coast and it does turn a bit breezy. let's time this system out for you, future weather. by 4:00 or 5:00 friday, we're beginning to see showers move into the bay area. i think the steadiest rain will hold off until after the evening commute late friday night. so we're likely tracking those light to steady showers across the region. ten it just fizzles out as you go into saturday morning. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast. morning fog tomorrow, could do it again on thursday. then light showers return on friday. then we're tracking a soaking in the evening on sunday with a storm of level 2 intensity. could see some lingering showers

on monday. once again guys, tomorrow that fog is going to be thick in spots. >> thanks, drew. an army veteran says he's sick, wasting away and doesn't have to be. why he says the va is to blame. plus everyone has a christmas song they love and one thy love to hate. oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (vo) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? (vo) and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds? (vo) a two-year study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, or death. oh! no increased risk? ♪ ozempic®! ♪ ozempic® should not be the first medicine for treating diabetes,

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to keep me moving the way i was made to. it nourishes and strengthens my joints for the long-term. osteo bi-flex because i'm made to move. now that the christmas song "baby it's cold outside" is back on the playlist of koit and our national nightmare is over, other holiday classics are now raising eyebrows. >> oh, yeah. so morbarit? kst s kristen, what's going on? >> well, what's going on, larry, it's not over. >> not mariah carey.

>> here's itunes christmas chart topper. the number one most downloaded, mariah carey, "all i want for christmas is you." number two driven by the recent controversy, dean martin's, "baby it's cold outside." bay area radio station koit has put the song back on the air after pulling it a few days. the program director says listeners are e-mailing their approval but also questioning the lyrics of other christmas songs now. >> santa baby, because of the sexiness, are you going to ban "i saw mommy kissing santa claus" because mommy is cheating on daddy with santa? >> he says the vast majority is not asking the radio station to stop playing any of these songs, yet it appearsoutside." its number of air plays is down this past week. we asked you on twitter which sock you finding most annoying,

the chipmunks christmas song and others. the clear winner with 41%, chipmunks christmas song. or should we say, loser. our twitter poll is still up so you can weigh in through our twitter handle @abc7newsbayarea. i bet you have something to say about this? >> i would have put "grandma got run over by a reindeer." >> once the chipmunk song is in your head -- >> oh, it's from. >> it's there for a long time. coming up, a new lawsuit says san francisco's district attorney fibbed about carrying a weapon on flights. we'll take a look at the lawsuit and what it could mean for d.a. george gas

here are the stories making headlines at 4:30. google's ceo faced questions from lawmakers for the first time ever on capitol hill today. republicans on the house judiciary committee grilled him about a perceived bias against conservatives across google's platforms. democrats wanted to know about russian efforts to influence u.s. elections. lawmakers also inquired about protecting your privacy online. matt keller tweeted a picture of firefighters urging drivers to be extra careful on highway 17

in the santa cruz mountains. crashes have spiked along 17 during the past few years. matt will have more in a live report on abc 7 news at 5:00. abc's world news tweeted video following a terrorist attack in france. a gunman killed four people when he opened fire near a christmas marketplace. the suspect escaped after soldiers returned fire and wounded him. san francisco's district attorney, george gascon, is being sued. the city's top prosecutor faces accusations of lying about carrying a loaded gun onboard commercial air flights. vic lee joins us live from the newsroom with more. >> well, this is the lawsuit that the former district attorney's investigator filed charging wrongful termination of the whistleblower. and tonight we're learning more about this federal investigation that was launched as a result of the allegations b former d.a. investigators. >> that is a violation of federal law, and if so, that

casts a big shadow over the district attorney's office. >> the lawyer represents former senior district attorney investigator henry mckenzie. he's suing his boss, d.a. george gascon, saying he was the target of retaliation and harassment and was fired in october of last year because gasconhea heard th he and other investigators were blowing the whistle on him. >> the union had grave concerns about this allegation that the district attorney had been flying while armed in violation sace officers can legally carry a firearm onto a plane and only under strict circumstances. >> the district attorney is not a peace officer, number one. number two, there is no reason why he would need to carry a weapon on a flight. >> even as a former police chief of san francisco, gascon is not eligible to carry a gun while

flying. peace officers who are eligible have to fill out tsa forms stating that they're on official business, have had firearms training, and passed a special armed while flying program. at least one investigator did go to the tsa with the allegation that gascon had violated the law not once,ut regularly. >> this was not a one-time event. it happened multiple, multiple times even after there were warnings in the department against doing so. >> months after the tsa was notified, mckenzie and most of the investigators were punished or fired. homeland security and the tsa launched an investigation. >> i have confirmed that there is a federal investigation and it's my understanding that now the investigation is with the assistant united states attorney. >> now, sources with knowledge of this case tell abc 7 news that the focus of the homeland security investigation was

whether or not d.a. gascon perjured himself on forms that he had to sign. homeland security, tsa and the district attorney's office all declined to comment. a spokesman for the san francisco city attorney issued a written statement which says in part this case has no merit and we intend to vigorously defend against it. vic lee, abc 7 news. a texas judge is being criticized for accepting a controversial plea deal involving a baylor university student who was accused of rape. the judge sentenced jacob anderson yesterday to three years probation and a $400 fine after he pleaded no contest to a lesser charge. anderson's family members shove tried to shield him from cameras as he left the courtroom. the former fraternity president was originally indicted on four counts of sexual assault after a

19-year-old sophomore accused him of raping her at a party in 2016. the victim sobbed out in court, later telling the judge that she was devastated by the decision to let my rapist go. the prosecutors defended the sentence claiming it was the best outcome because conflicting evidence and statements made it difficult to prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt. now, the reaction to this plea deal is similar to what we saw in the case o stanford swimmer brock turner. in 2016 a jury convicted him of sexual assaulting a woman and the judge sentenced him to six months in jail rather than a lengthy prisonerm prosecutors wanted. turner served only three months. an army veteran says he's withering away because the government is denying him proper medical care. he tells us many veterans face the same critical situation. a warning, some people might find some images in this story unpleasant. >> reporter: after nine years of suffering, army veteran brandon donovan says he feels forgotten by the va. >> look like skin and bones.

i feel like skin and bones. i see it every day. and it chips away at the mental armor. >> reporter: thaf himself to facebook. you can counted the bones of his rib cage, his face is gaunt, a far cry from the man deployed to iraq in 2009. >> i have no energy, i'm in pain all the time. >> reporter: because of that pain, brandon says he can hardly eat. after almost a decade of tests at the va that produced few results, he said he sought outside care from dr. richard hsu, who suggested one more test. >> i went to the va with that. >> reporter: after doing the test, dr. hsu said he could fix brandon's pain and a physician's assistant also sent a letter saying it is medically necessary that mr. donovan be able to work with dr. hsu in pursuit of surgical treatment. even senator wyden got involved. but the surgery was denied,

twice, by va administrators. >> like someone that's not a doctor confirms or denies those things. >> reporter: the first denial, the va said that they have their own vascular surgeons and didn't need dr. hsu. the second denial says that they did not have a billing code. >> i felt hopeless and it was kind of just like, all right, i have no clue what to do. >> reporter: brandon provided us with these detailed medical logs he says he got from the va. they document every phone call and checkup he's had since 2013 and in here not only does the va doctor suggest that brandon could have had a treatable disease back in 2014, but he also documents every single phone call that brandon made to the va requesting an appointment or just trying to get information. now brandon and his family are trying to pay for the surgery on >> they try their hardest to get you the care, but they don't follow through with it. and you will be forgotten if you

don't advocate for yourself. >> reporter: after fighting in iraq for our country, brandon is now fighting the very system meant to help him get the care he needs. >> poor guy. san francisco police are looking for two young women caught on camera trashing a restaurant during santa con on saturday. cell phone video captured one woman smashing the front door with a chair. there's also video of a second woman inside the eatery seen throwing a sugar jar at an employee. police say she also punched a worker. the women were angry about an order and appeared to be drunk. police need help in identifying the vandals. >> we haven't received any tips. we are waiting for anybody who can identify these two suspects. >> the women are in their early 20s and could face charges of vandalism and battery. merchants have complained in the past about drunkenness and public your nation during santa

con. for the first time "time" magazine selected someone who is no longer alive as the person of the year. "time" picked a group it called the guardians. these are journalists targeted for doing their job against an ongoing war against the truth. among them is jamal khashoggi who was brutally killed in turkey, journalist maria russia was also honored. she has been targeted by president duterte for reporting on his deadly war on drugs. >> there is probably no better time to be a journalist, because this is when we live our values and we live our mission. >> two burmese journalists jailed in myanmar were also recognized, as was the staff of the "capital gazette" where a gunman opened fire last june and killed five journalists. an olympic swimmer here in the bay area leading the charge lawsuit. change his live look outside, a

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three olympic swimmers are taking on the international governing body of the sport. they filed an agent trust lawsuit in san francisco, and one of them is with us, a 2016 olympic gold medalist, tom shields, went to cal,medal to p right there.

so tell us about this lawsuit and what your goal is. >> ultimately we want to open up the marketplace. fina has been pretty dominant in their control. i've been a great benefactor of that control, but i think opening up the opportunity and the competition for other people to come into organized meets could only mean more meets for the spectators, for us and that ultimately means a better product. >> just so people understand, there is no professional swimming league. this all stemmed from an organization you guys were trying to hold an event in italy and the governing body of the sport of swimming stepped in and said, no, no, no, no, no, you guys can't do that and that's how this all started. you're trying to establish a new league or a new organization. >> yeah, exactly. i'm -- the main organizer's son is on the cal swim team with me and we kind of tried to put this together. i don't know the exact specifics, but through procedural gaming, finas kind of

nixed it. then i got involved with the lawsuit. >> i didn't realize that there was so much money to be made because we tending to think of the olympic sports, we see michael phelps or whatever, every four years we watch the olympics and swimming. i was reading an article that said the governing body earns $118 million in a two-year period from sponsoring swimming events. that's a lot of money to divvy up. >> yeah, it's a big sport. it would be great to expand it, obviously, and it would be great to just have atle bit more l transparency around what's actually happening. >> could you actually put together a rival league? >> i believe so. >> but the infrastructure is not in place. >> i think the interest is there and i think the infrastructure is definitely there. i think we have the athletes for the first time ever. enough of them in a critical mass of people interested in making it happen. >> let me just read what the governing body, fina, did. they're focusing on the current world championships.

fina will continue developing appropriate business platforms to provide an attractive calendar of events with the participation of the best athletes. moreover we continue welcoming any positive approach by a partner or sponsor to improve the discipline. what's your response? >> i know some of the people that are involved in that. i've heard it's a frustrating process. obviously i didn't want it necessar come to isth thei ter.o but, you know, we feel within he organization is an as athletes want this opportunity specifically to move forward. you know, that's really all i have to say. >> aside from getting on a wheaties box and endorsements if you make it big, big, big, how much money could a swimmer make if you were to put together this rival league and get events going? >> i mean that's all to be seen, but i think one thing that this can do is it can organize it like clubs and money can come through individual teams which don't really happen.

we pay, most of us pay our coaches and we get money through grant funding, through this is just another opportunity to make more prize money but also make partnerships which don't really exist within organizations like that. like you said, i was on a kellogg's box actually -- sorry, i hit my mike. yeah, outside of that, there's not much out there. >> how long do you think this will take to unfold with the lawsuit and all? >> no idea. >> who knows. tom, thanks for coming in. >> thanks, guys. >> we don't get too many gold medalists sharing here. >> thanks for having me. >> we'll keep everybody posted as the lawsuit continues. the big story tonight will be that fog ng of coastal drizz as well. upper 30s to mid-40s. what you're looking at right now, a visibility map in terms of miles. how far you can see once that fog descends on us. at 2:00 early tomorrow morning, you can see inland, you see

those numbers down to one, maybe two miles of visibility. and that fog will just thicken as we go towards sunrise. by 6:00, 7:00 in the morning as the morning commute is under way, you can see inland, san ramon, concord, antioch, we're down to zero miles of visibility. likely 10:00, 11:00 in the morning, the fog will lift so it will stick around for much of the morning commute tomorrow. after that fog leaves, sunshine on the way. so wednesday highs, upper 50s to low 60s. 61 for san rafael, 60 in san jose. accuweather seven-day, fog tomorrow. kind of doing it again on thursday as well. showers return friday evening but we're tracking a much stronger storm coming on sunday and an evening soaking toinishi storm. >> thank you, drew. coming up, we went along today with some kids as they got to go on a holiday shopping spree with contra costa county sheriff's deputies. i'm michael finney. i'm michael finney. i have some help for disaster

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it's always a good idea to be prepared for a natural disaster, especially a wildfire. >> but there's so much to think about, so where do you even start? 7 on your side's michael finney is joining us live in the studio

with more. >> with devastating wildfires becoming the new norm in california, how can you prepare for the next natural disaster? look, i received a letter from a guy named george in alameda. he wrote to me, may i suggest you write a how-to book covering what the homeowners and renters must do to restore their property and lives. it's a great idea, i thought. then a day later i sent an e-mail from the international law firm morris and forester based here in san francisco and they had put together the guide george asked me to write. so joining me now is one of the writers and editor, james scherz from morris and forester. great job. obviously a lot of work went into it. why? why is an international law firm writing this? >> well, i think a lot of us know that we're not in a position to assist the way first responders do, but we have concrete knowledge that cifferey people live their lives, so we're happy to help. >> what's the most important part here, do yothink?

you break it down into multiple categories. >> so there are 18 chapters. i think the first thing for o get registered with fema, the federal emergency management agency, as the ability to participate in all of their programs is predicated upon y so the first advice we give to people is reach out, get signed up with fema, and see which of the programs you potentially qualify for. >> now, most of the people up there were not business owners, but a bunch of them you guides spending a l a lot o on that. you talk about business interruption. are small business owners ready for this change in their lives? >> most people aren't. homeowners, renters, small business owners are similarly positioned. the hope is, is that by resourc seeing the types of resources that are available to small

business owners from the small business administration, for renti renters as well as homeowners, you can make a material difference. >> the temporary housing seems to be a big deal to me. we tend to think how do we get all of the money back for our home through insurance, and yet you've got to live for months, years before that's even the deal. >> yeah. this is a recovery that is going to be measured in years as opposed to months. and there are different programs for different time periods. so we are already through the first time period and now we're looking at the second long-term stage. but there's going to be substantial displacement. we have 52,000 people who were evacuated, 14,000 homes destroyed. so this is going to be a >> i notice that you've o ag a ctims have to learn a lot of legal because they have to get fema, there's a lot they have to do and learn. >> well, the hope is, is this is written in a way that people can

understand it. it's really an entry point. it's a gateway to understanding the resources that are available to them. so our hope is, is that we wrote it in a fashion that i pt and i it. >> great job. you couldn't have done any better. james schurz from morris and forester, how do people find this book? because it's free, that's the important part. where do you get it? >> if you go to mofo.com, you will find copies of this. if you need it in hard copy, send us an e-mail and we can send you a hard copy. but it's all available. it's available in spanish as well as english. >> excellent, good job. >> and we encourage people to share it on facebook and other social media. >> perfect. thank you very much for your time. back to you. >> thank you. >>ha tyo michael. a special treat for kids in contra c holiday shopping spree with sheriff's deputies.

5:00.d dan is here with newsha dan. >> thanks very much. coming up tonight we have a lot of news to get to and we'll bring that to you. homelessness we know is a huge issue in the bay area. new data shows it may be worse than we thought. point reyes is home to the only natural park for elk but some on capitol hill say may be too much. t if you're trying to bring holiday cheer to that gadget ver you

tonight in primetime on abc 7, 8:00 catch "the conners" followed by a "tid k right." blackish and splitting up together. then the rookie and abc 7 news at 11:00. if the holiday season is all about giving, then 25 kids got quite a lesson as contra costa sheriff's deputies took them out shopping for their families.

>> abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley went along. >> reporter: 7-year-old junior went crazy in the toy department at this walmart store. he was squealing and running with delight on a shopping spree with his new best friend, lieutenant o'mary. >> what kind of dinosaur is that? >> baby dinosaur. >> reporter: he lit up like a christmas tree. >> he did, he did. that's why i just couldn't say no. he just wanted everything he saw. we got as much as we could for him. he's a very well deserving kid. you saw his face. that's priceless. >> reporter: most of the deputies kicked in their own money on top of the allotted donation budget to make dreams come true for 25 deserving richmond kids. >> what do you think of all these deputies coming out to go shopping with you guys? >> when i first got here, it was like, i don't know what to do. and then now i've kind of got used to them. >> reporter: what is it about having the deputies actually go out with the kids? >> so part of the plan is that the young people actually buy for family members and parents and we help them do that so that

they learn the spirit of giving a gift as well. >> reporter: kids rode away from the store in patrol cars, perhaps the best gift of all. >> he loved riding in the cop car. >> yeah. >> why? >> because of the sirens and stuff. >> reporter: then came the gift wrapping and a party. to create this wonderland took just $3,000 in donations from the community and law enforcement organizations. so much bang for the buck to create this much holiday joy. >> what made it fun? did it feelsor gd your family? >> yes. >> why? what kind of feeling did you get today? >> happiness. >> reporter: happiness. in richmond, i'm leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> so much joy. >> it's also really cool for the kids to see the police. >> in a different light. >> right. as members o aeth part of and not a threat in any way. >> right. not on opposing sides. >>yeah. >> thank you for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00.

i'm ama daetz. >> i'm larry beil. abc 7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> essentially said to the city of oakland, unless you cough up three-quarters of a million s,ar oakree'land s outays the r the nfl boycotted the city. now city officials wanting payback. another crash on highway 17. firefighters say this is happening more and more often. the new push to clean up what bo ed talley. congressional scrutiny of big tech intensifies. google's ceo gets grilled. he's even asked why googling idiot turns up pictures of tr p trump. and odds are you saw pictures of today's dense fog, but it's not going away, not just yet. oakland fighting back. tonight the city announced it il recover damages from the team's moveasvegas. good evenining,ing us. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'mlaim ksenst that oakl never had a chance, despite

bending over backwards to try to convince raiders owner mark davis to stay. >> it's a big step. lyanne melendez is live at city hall with details tonight. >> reporter: well, let's make it clear, the team is gone and most fans will tell you, you know, we don't know even want them back. now it's a matter of oakland getting back what they think they deserve. when the raiders leave oakland, the city will lose revenue and taxpayers will be left with an $80 million stadium debt from 1995, back when the team moved from los angeles. >> the city of oakland has made a huge investment in the raiders over the years and we're gngge t investment back. >> reporter: the suit argues the nfl and team owners acted in concert with raiders owner mark davis to disregard the city's effort to keep the team inha f forever oakland have argued. >> oakland never had a chance.