>> from cameras to cell phones, more than $2 million in stolen loot is recovered. now the hunt is on to find out who it belongs to. >> one man's emotional >> joe biden in the bay area. get ready for quite a few presidential candidates to make their way here. high tides in the bay area. we could be in for a lot more of this unsettled weather. this rain has all but eliminated the threat of drought. >> on the bus and dreaming of victory, the local high schoolers hoping to bring home a championship. >> now, news to build a better

bay area from abc 7. >> you rarely see this amount of stolen stuff at any one time. it's all worth about $2 million. the criminals were breaking into cars, homes, and stores to get it. authorities label this effort operation low focus lens. it's their third big bust. >> the others were called operation tangled web this past october and operation wrecking ball last december. >> good evening i'm dan ashley. >> laptops, cameras, phones, and purses were just some of the stolen items authorities displayed in san francisco today. >> melanie woodrow is live in union square where some of the items are believed to have been stolen. melanie. >> reporter: that's right. this is retail theft, package theft, and of course in san francisco car break ins. here's one of the things that these criminals were supposedly doing. they were taking stolen cell phones and then wrapping them in

alumin aluminum foil in an attempt to block the signal and avoid detection. that didn't work. tables of electronics, home care items, and womens' hand bags all stolen according to sfpd and all now recovered from law enforcement. operation focus lens disrupted a large scale pence fencing operation. the total price tag of the items, more than $2 million. >> it breaks your heart. >> heartbreaking because nearly all of it belongs to someone. >> just the way that rely on digital devices now having a lot of our personal things on there, having that taken away just is devastating. >> noel knows the feeling.ng. she's had her phone stolen twice. now. >> i can just tuck it up in here. no one can get close enough to me to get my phone and if they do, i'll kick them. >> criminals took apart phones and laptops for parts to sell online.

>> what creates incentive to break into cars and homes is if you can quickly turn whatever you stole into money. >> reporter: one location investigators honed in on consistly mounts a high number of packages out of state. it's not unusual to see car break ins in san francisco but the stolen goods were also coming from retail stores. officers raided a storage facility that belonged to one suspect that found $750,000 worth of tagged clothing. arrests were made but they're not ready to share that information yet. and of course what investigators really want to do is get all of these stolen items back to the people who they long to. in order to do that, they say they need to hear from you. if you've had a phone stolen, laptop, tablet, anything you saw in that video, they're asking you to get in touch with them. it's super helpful if you have the serial number but but but bt

not, they will try to get the stuff back to the rightful owners. a stolen camera at the streets of brentwood mall has an arizona man making a public plea for its return tonight. it contains hundreds of family photos and he's willing to buy it back from the thief that too% it if that's what it takes. it's not replaceable. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live in brentwood with the story tonight. >> hi dan. like many -- >> our car was broken into when we took our daughter to go see "frozen 2." >> they're back in rz aarz but reeling from their road trip through the bay area. that's after their digital camera with hundreds of family photos was stolen from their suv sunday evening while they are inside a brentwood movie theater. he stashed the sony a-6000 under

the seat because he knew he couldn't bring a camera into the movie. this is his daughter harley holding the camera before it was stolen. >> we've got the last 3 1/2 months is what was on the card inside. now we've got all of that gone. that's almost half of my infant son's life and a lot of big family moments from halloween and all the way through the big trip we took at thanksgiving. >> i want the pictures back. it's got the little kids in it from halloween on. >> jason son's mother lives in the east bay. >> we have pictures of relatives, through thanksgiving and cannon beach. you can't replace those things. they're priceless. >> reporter: jacobson had these photos on his phone but the sd card contains many more of his young kids, a reunion and their ordeal during

the typhoon storm. he's offering $450 for the camera and the sd card or 150 for just the card, no questions asked. >> now, jacobson does is are the serial number for his camera. he also made a police report so he doesn't think the camera will be easily sold. his holiday wish is simply to have a chance to get that sd card back. live in brentwood, laura anthony abc 7 news. >> laura. thanks so much. we want to shift gears now because there is a earn can right now for high tides. abc 7 news was at san francisco's ocean beach as the strong waves pounded the beach. >> we're going to take a look outside with our tower cam. you can see the skies are gray and unsettled despite the beautiful orange with the sun. let's get to abc 7 news meteorologist sandy patel with what's happening now. we've got a little peek of sun but mostly gray. >> yeah, it's been mostly gray.

spotty showers and drizzle out there. i'll take you where we are seeing wet roadways, right around patterson pass. you will notice right around flynn drive, also flynn road. just very spotty, very light. i would hang on to the umbrellas because you're going to run into wet roadways. as you step out of your car, you'll need them. wider perspective, the moist flow continuing and that's keeping the showers and drizzle around. very spotty in nature like i said. but this system is really kicking up the surf. high surf advisory. 13 foot waves now. the northwest swell 12 to 14. breakers 16 to 22 feet possible. and that means rip current risk is high. i'll be back with hour by hour timeline of the next round of rain. >> thank you so much. of course all this rain is adding up. take a look at the maps from the u.s. drought monitor. on the left showing the state last week, 85% abnormally dry.

on this right, this week, only 4% now abnormally dry. how did we get here? the rainy season started in october. we had just two days of rain. in november we had five days in a row. now in december, so far only one day without rain. >> well, happening now, democratic presidential candidate joe biden is in the bay area. he began his day at a fund-raiser in palo alto. he was joined by diyan he was joined by diyan feinstein, alec si pelosi, and you know when you go to ross for a few gifts and realize... oh yeah! you should've gotten a cart? that's yes for less. get gifts for everyone on your list and save 20 to 60 percent off department store prices. at ross. yes for less.

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tonight at a private event. you see all the chairs gathered on the lawn. he's in san francisco right now. and cornell barnard is there live where another event is taking place tonight. >> reporter: yeah, we are on the look out for joe biden, scheduled to arrive here just any moment. take a look. lots of security all around right now. he is scheduled to make an appearance at a democratic fund-raiser hosted by san francisco attorney. we saw libby shaft arrive just a few moments ago. sky 7 was overhead at a home in palo alto where biden was attending a fund-raiser fe home of sarah and greg sands, venture capital fund. we apologize there is a fire truck passing by. fund-rais fund-raiser events, part of aggressive in-person and online

fund-raiser push since october. biden is likely trying to access funding from supporters of former candidate kamala harris. biden is also scheduled to attend another bay area fund-raiser hosted by dianne feinstein. this is the third trip to the bay area by joe biden for fundraising. he has yet though to hold a public campaign event. we're live in san francisco tonight, cornell barnard, abc 7 news. >> thanks so much. biden is one of many candidates making their way through the bay area this week and next. tom steyer was in walnut creek yesterday and napa tonight for a town hall. michael bloomberg visited san francisco yesterday. coming up corey booker has a fund-raiser in palo alto december 14th. pete buttigieg is there december 16th for an event. that same day, michael bennet will be in san francisco. >> on the peninsula, an elderly woman is dead after a bus hit her during the morning rush in

redwood city. abc 7 news reporter chris rhea spoke to residents sounding the alarm about what they're calling a dangerous intersection. >> i was on my way to school taking the 274 up and we got blocked right here. >> this is sky 7 over the crash involving a bus and a pedestrian. police confirming that a 70-year-old woman was hit and killed around 9:00 a.m. the bus was traveling southbound when it happened. four people were on board. no one else was injured. >> we've got a ton of congestion from parents picking up kids and there's no left-hand turn ciggal na. >> residents who live around here tell me they've been worried about this intersection for a while, that they've had their own close calls. this september, a pedestrian was hit by a police car and take ton the hospital in serious condition at this very same cross street, james avenue and el camino royal. the pedestrian was hit by a

police unit responding to an armed home invasion about 4:00 a.m. this resident witnessed another close call also at this intersection. >> i heard it . i came up and helped her out of the car. it was just -- it's ridiculous. >> reporter: police block the intersection all morning. the bus was traveling its regular route. no word on the condition of the bus driver or if any charges are pending. >> i would say to the district to maybe find a different way to merge into the main stream traffic. it's just a hard place to maneuver during especially rush hour. >> reporter: chris rhea, abc 7 news. the san mateo district attorney's office is dropping charges against a witness in a high profile case. olivia adella was supposed to be the prosecution's star witness in the case against tiffany lee. the couple stood trial for

killing tree killing keith green. the jury found lee not guilty last month. prosecutors say he violated his plea agreement by contacting a defense witness. he's expected to be sentenced to time served next month for disposing of green's body. oakland mills college is in such dire financial straits it's selling a rare copy of a collection of shakespeare in an effort to ease budget deficit. we talking about shakespeare's first folio. it was published in 1623 and changed the future of english literature. it's believed to be one of 235 copies remaining. experts say the first folio is expected to jant milliogeneratef dollars at an auction. mil mills acquired the gift in 1977.

mills declared financial emergency and laid off 11 professors, many of them tenured. >> very sad to let it go but at least it will be preserved. let's turn to the weather forecast. >> going to be a while before we dry out. >> we'll get a break this weekend but it's not going to happen immediately. i want to show you live doppler 7. most of you are seeing clouds, fog. there are a couple of spots where the roadways are going to be a little slippery around boys hot springs. you would notice a little bit of drizzle. temperatures right now in the 50s. 60s. this afternoon it was milder. most of you in the low to upper 6 # 0s although san jose did manage to get up to 70 degrees. yeah. it was pretty mild. golden gate bridge camera, it is pretty soupy out there. watch out for the fog. visibility is low. spotty drizzle tonight. foggy areas in the morning. we're looking at dry and cool starting on sunday and another storm arrives the middle of next week. it's a level one for tomorrow

afternoon going into saturday. scattered showers up to a third of an inch of rain expected. so, tomorrow morning you will see plenty of cloud cover around 8:00 a.m. and fog as we head into 1:00 p.m. rain moves into the north bay, a few showers can't be ruled out in the east bay. but as we go into 3:00 p.m. you see widespread showers across the region, 10:00 p.m. more coming through. and then we hours of saturday mrning around 4:00 a.m. you will notice spotty returns, mainly east bay, peninsula, north bay you're starting to see sun. you get a break most of saturday until saturday night when the next round of showers comes through here. we're not expecting a lot of rain with this. this is just going to be up to a third of an inch in the wettest spots in the north bay. most of you it's going to be anywhere from about .1 of an inch to .015 of an inch of rain from tomorrow through saturday.

winter weather advisory until saturday in the sierra. expecting up to 15 inches for the peaks. prepare for possible difficulty. take the chains if you are going to head up to the mountains for this weekend. first thing in the morning, 40s, 50s, fog will be around. dense in patches again so watch out. you're looking at temperatures in the 50s, 60s, not as mild as today. will need the rain gear as we are expecting showers across the region. the accuweather 7 day forecast, level one for friday and saturday, morning fog, afternoon rain w. very the scattered showers for saturday. and then sunday/monday, you get a break. most of tuesday you're fine as well. but tuesday night we have a chance of showers and the next storm really gets in here wednesday going into thursday. that one looks a little stronger and definitely colder. so, that'll definitely drop more snow in the sierra nevada midweek. >> thanks sandy, very much. >> from tvs to cubes to bars.

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>> fuinally, the football team f oakland hopes to accomplish something only one other bay area high school team has ever done before. >> the warriors boarded a bus bound for southern california

where we'they're looking to win their third straight championship. coach michael peters says his payers are ready. >> we worked all season. we worked all off season hard. went through a great season. some of the guys first time going to the state game. and some guys we got one kid on the bus that played in all three state games. it means a lot for us. >> the only bay area team to win four straight state titles is also playing this weekend. that is of course the prison y'all power house of concord. six other local teams are going for titles this weekend. sarah of san mateo, clayton valley charter. >> milpitas, and l milpitas, ana good luck to all. >> i'm so excited for them because that's a once in a lifetime opportunity. they will never forget whatever the outcome. >> you can see it on their faces

is important. "world news tonight" is next. >> all of us here, thanks for joining us.

tonight, breaking news from the hill right now. the fiery debate. the house judiciary committee set to vote on two articles of impeachment against president trump this evening. setting up a full house vote next. tonight, republicans in the house united. some democrats wavering. mary bruce asking, why are you undecided? and tonight, the response. the horrific murder here in new york city. the young college student walking through a city park. authorities say she was attacked and died after she staggered up these stairs for help. what authorities are now revealing tonight. a new turn in the deadly attack outside new york city. authorities now calling it domestic terrorism. and the question, was this an isolated incident? and new tonight, why authorities are now asking for the public's help. the dangerous and delicate