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>> what you need to do. katy? >> reporter: the more connected you are, the more exposed you are. but tech experts say this hack might not be as sophisticated as you think. it's likely due to passwords and past data breaches. a texas couple woke to sounds coming from the can baby monitor in their four month old's room. >> we heard sexual expletives being said in his room. he turned the camera on and said turn off the light. i'm in your baby's room. i'm going to kidnap your baby. > they ran in and discovered they'd been hacked. >> webcams are vulnerable because they are on the internet and anything on the internet is vulnerable, especially if you're not being really careful with

your pass wrord. jur >> unique passwords are important. the hackers will try to use it on all your devices and services. >> they see how parents could easily fall victim. >> we have two pavrds for everything. if they the know one, they're done. >> it's not just baby monitors. other smart home devices could be compromised without proper from precautions. >> alexa are you spying on us? >> i only send audio back if i hear the "wake" word. >> reporter: make sure your wireless router is secure. change your passwords and change them often.

>> all great tips. if you'd like to find out if your online data or passwords have been compromised we've linked a very helpful tool to our website. >> scattered showers across the north bay. >> take a look at the view from several skycams. the north bay, east bay, and san francisco were all socked in at some point. >> the fog caused lengthy delays at the san francisco international airports. delays averaging close to two hours. let's get to the weather. >> fog and showers may cause delays again tomorrow at sfo. weak front coming through, not a lot of moisture with it.

belmont, fost every city starting to see sprinkles. street level radar and also some showers out towardsants ok, concord. showers tonight and early tomorrow morning. a trace to .15 with storms across the eastern circuit board in new york. d.c. 62, boston 63. likely the places where you will encounter delays. fargo 29, miami, 72 degrees. i'll be back with a closer look at another storm has coming that could impact your holiday plans locally. >> thank you very much. remember, you can check the weather conditions in your area any time with the at-bats news app. it's free to download. >> president trump's demand for $5 billion for his border wall

has brought the house close to a shutdown. kenneth has the latest from washington. >> reporter: a shutdown cliff-hanger. passing a short term spending bill with more an $5 million for a border wall. >> the president is doing everything he can to shut the government down. >> we need the wall. the democrats know it. everybody knows it. >> reporter: it appears the president was willing to keep the government running until february but now -- >> looks like he just caved. this is going to be one of the worst things to happen to this administration. >> mr. president, we're going to back you up. >> trump in a last-minute mood sum moned people to the white house. >> he informed us he will not sign the bill that came up last

evening because of his legitimate concerns about board security. >> democrats are not backing down. >> president trump is plunging the country into chaos, throwing a temper tantrum and creating the trump shutdown of the government. >> with changes made to the spending bill, the ball is back in the senate's court friday. >> locally, the shutdown would have the most substantial impact on people wanting to go to our parks over the holidays. muir woods and point reyes would be closed. alcatraz island may remain open but a private ferry service reduc s the holidays looming, our executive staff and crew are on stand biand we're going to wait for further instruction.

>> the presidio trust says they'll fill the positions left by staff workers. >> james mattis is leaving his post in february. he told primp he should have a secretary of defense whose views are better alined with his own. this came a day after the president made the announcement that u.s. troops will be withdrawn from syria. >> to some, it means new jobs. for others rising renlts. payment processing company square announced an expansion in oakland. >> the tech company is taking over uptown station, the old sears building. >> abc news reporter kate larsson has the story. >> reporter: the up town building will have a new tenant, square. it will be the largest tech

business in oakland. people have to live somewhere, which gives rise to concern about how this real estate trance action wik transaction. show used to shop at up stati w was sears. she's worried what tech will do to the neighborhood. >> rents will go up. individuals won't be able to really live here. >> reporter: winston's fears aren't misplaced. >> the tech expansion is one of the drivers for gent triification and displacement in the region. we're happy to see an expansion of employment opportunities. >> the maybe is optimistic that tech and current local residents can co-exist.

>> we have housing under construction right now. to the extent that new workers are going to be moving into oakland, there are new housing units for them to move into. so they don't displace the people who are here right now. >> square is expected to move into up town station next year. >> square's leasing of uptown station is just one of the major tech-related deals in the bay area. uber is currently building a new campus next to the futurexpecte 2020. facebook is working on a massive expansion on his headquarters in menlo park. the willow village will include housing and office space with room for a grocery store and hotel. in san jose, google is on a buying spree. the tech company plans to transform nearly 50 acres of land into a mixed use expansion.

it's scheduled to include 10,000 homes and apartments. use the hashtag better bay area to read about it. >> sending racist texts. >> the effort that's going nationwide to help fire victims. >> it's being called ale

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the san mateo dea charged him with elder abuse claiming that he pulled as much as $24,000 from a neighbor's account over 30 trips to a.t.m.s. he was also named as one of the officers involved in the sfpd racist text scandal back in 2011. >> breweries from coast to coast are raising a toast to help camp fire victims. abc 7 news is live in berkeley with more. theerles geing behind t they've put a blurb on the menu and it seems like it's working. the bartenders have been serving up resilience beerin it becae ey know it's for a

good cause. >> anything we can do to help. >> reporter: some of the employees lost their homes. to help fire victims, the craft beer specialist created butte county proud i.p.a. the proceeds go to charity. >> we were think of how we could help. as soon as we got the e-mail, we jumped on it. >> it's nice they stepped forward to do something for the community. >> reporter: they started selling the beer yushl. they're raising awareness on the menu. >> i wrote the story this year and went straight ahead and ordered it. >> reporter: suppliers donated the ingredients and now bay area breweries are serving up the rest. >> w into our brew schedule and wanted to get it out as quick as possible. >> reporter: sales are strong i've been so far. they hope to raise $10 million

with the campaign. >> sounds good. thank you so much. for a full list of locations serving the brew, go to our website. >> what a fun idea. >> a great effort. >> although a little hot chocolate might be good. >> that's true. >> it's the time of year hot chocolate sounds good. let me show you the radar. there are some spotty showers around the region. so far what i've picked up is a couple of hundredths of an inch. street level radar, petaluma avenue, you're seeing some wet roadways. light around the brentwood, oakley, deer valley road. discovery bay seeing some showers and a few showers from dublin headed intolivermor, pleasanton, hayward, union city. it is turning to snow in thet, .

this is just light stuff. the next storm coming in on christmas eve is going to dump in the mountains quite a bit of snow. all right, temperatures right now 40s, 50s, the clouds keeping us insulated. widespread fog this morning. we do have some still armed but it's patchy. definitely use caution tomorrow morning. it will be a combination of fog and showers that will slow down your commute and will likely create nor delays at the airport. they've been experiencing delays due to fog most of the day. right now no delays due to weather. t i just checked. winter begins tomorrow and a colder storm arrives on christmas eve. level one system tonight through tomorrow morning. continuing to bring us scattered showers. the highest totals in the north bae. at midnight, the showers from the north bay across parts of

the bay area at 5:00 a.m., very spottily, very light you will notice at 8:00 a.m. not everyone will see the showers but definitely count on at least needing the wierps as you're driving across the bay area. if you're doing some holiday shopping in the morning, keep that in mind. then skies open up. we'll see plenty of sun. we need the rain. up to a tenth of an inch in calistoga. we'll take any moisture we can get. first thing tomorrow morning, fog and showers. 40s, 50s in terms of temperatures. tomorrow afternoon, numbers in the 50s and 60s. nice way to end the workweek and start the holiday weekend. i want to remind you, king tides are coming up this weekend both saturday and sunday rnings. almost seven feet both days. low lying areas flood around here, especially around marshes, sloughs, if you're running, keep

that in mind. sunday night we'll get a few light showers. monday's system will bring more rain. that one looks stronger, still a level one but it will certainly bring some mountain snow, so if you are traveling, get out of town in the next couple of days if you're headed to the mountains pause a winter storm watch is going up above 5,000 people. 25 inches expected at the highest peaks. it's going to be great to see some snow. 15 inchers, on thor. 15 inches kirkwood. just in time for a white christmas. winter starts tomorrow afternoon. a few showers in the afternoon, dry saturday. sunday night, light showers, wet christmas eve, breezy, level one. christmas day is dry and cold on wednesday morning. so definitely little bit of everything for everyone. >> yeah. thanks very much. >> all right. the hershey's kiss controversy,

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. it's the christmas mystery. there's something wrong with hershey's kisses. do you spot it? bakers are upset because the trademark tips have been missing from batches around the country. they've taken to social media to complain about the stunted tops. at first, the company said it was dlib rats so that the trips wouldn't fall off in transit. but now hersheyo it. we had some upstairs and the tips were missing. >> yeah. >> i'm not sure i would have

noticed but i just want chocolates. >> this is terrifying. >> everybody wants a kiss. >> the sharks with a statement win tonight.

. good evening. welcome to teal night. the sharks had every chance to beat the best in the west, the winnipeg jets and they didn't get it done. santa is in the house. beard working for him.

first period, puck takes a weird mourchs. martin jones, the goalie. uh-oh! ethnic lie ellers says thank you very much. that was easy. 2-2 game. third period tied at three. jones is out of the net again. blake wheeler behind the net. feeds eelers. 4-3 jets. jones, the extra attacker. eelers had a path to the net. was hooked by joe pavelski. in the nhl that's an automatic goal. nba news, the rockets have gotten hot. one of them right there just got shot down. chris paul pulled his hammy again. he went down in game six of the playoffs last year. cb3 by the way signed a huge deal this past summer and the rockets lost to the heat. nobody knows where the raiders

will play next year and that includes the raiders players. they're getting mentally prepared for the possibility that the christmas eve game with denver which you can watch right here on abc 7, might be the final. not ready to say goodbye to the coliseum. >> i played on this dirt. i got a bunch of blood, sweat and tear, broke bones, played some games, have some memories. i don't want it to be the last game. i know our fans don't. with the fact that it could possibly be, i think it's going to be a great atmosphere. >> all right. nothing says college football bowl season like bad boys, mowe, gasparilla bowl, whatever that is. jackson and south florida. maybe you think we have too many bowl games, eh? marshall wins 38-20. ugly sweater night.

this fan shaved his chest hair into number 6 6. that was not -- >> that's what that is? >> that is his hair. >> oh, no. >> this is all kinds of disturbing, everybody! does anybody bo. abc 7 sports sponsored by river rock casino. i want to apologize to you. >> thank you, larry. >> you as well.

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