♪ oakland list are warning people bng lured by ads for cars on the craigsli website. >> some of those so called sellers are really bad guys who rob and beat their victims. >> oakland pice told me 45 minutes ago this is one of their top priorities to solve this crime, these why they're offering a $10,000 reward to find these guys. luring car buys to the east bay with i promise of a high-end car at a super low price. there's no car, just crime. they sell evething on

craigsli and that's, criminal place their ads. unsuspects buyers with cash meet the end in residential areas of north and east oakland, not anymore specific than that and discover there's no high-en vehicle the. the suspects take the money. they're becomi more and more violent. >> the concerning thing is the that suspects are getting more bold and brazen. >> police are offering the following advice: don't meet sellers in secluded or reisdential areas. don'ts carry large sums of cash. if you are being robbed, hand over wt is it is they want and try to get out of their alive. a descriptio of the suspects is not much, a grp of black men

between twent and years of age. the reward, you can findut more going to abc7news.com. we have linked you to the crime stoppers number. live in oakland, terry mcsweeney, abc 7 news. >> good advice. san francisco police are trying to find several young men who say they say shot a teenager boy. witnesses say the victim was arguing with four or five other young men when someone opened fire on him. the victim was shot in the leg. he is expected to survive and there's word on a description of his attacker >> this morning airlines are reminding thousan of stranded travels it might take several december to get to destinations after the northeast addition out of a massive blizzard. new jersey with several other airports along the eastern seaboard. airports in the new york ci area and boston resumed partial

service with more flights taking off and landing accounts today. >> i think they've added a lot of flights to th airlines to accommodate for yesterday's misses. that's what we've heard. >> michael bloomberg respded his city's response to the blizzard. merchants complained that cities didn't clear streets quickly enough. the mar blamed stranded cars. one more positive sign, the nation' largest commuter railway resumed service after shutting down for 24 hours. ar for air travel, thousands of passengers are still waiting and sue thompson is live at san francisco international airport with some of those stranded trafcers. sue? >> that's right. the situationere this morning at sfo is improving slowly. in fact, some fligh did take off this morning for jfk, laguara and newark. they're leaving out of here late. if you need to come to the airport, be prepared. there are some very long lines

at the ticket counter. this is a contintal airlines counter at passengers arrived hope to catch a flight out to newark at 11:25 this morning. the latest word on that flight is that it has been delayed a couple hours but people are hopeful many of these travels have been stuck days due to those snowstorm and airport closures back east. it is a hopeful sign because you see not as many canceltions today. little by little flights back east are takin off. they're leaving late but th are getting out of here. but it has been a long and tough couple of days here for a lot of stranded people. and some this morning are hopeful. others are still worried. >> on time, on time, on time until 15 minutes before departure when they say cancelled without any explanation and saying the next flight would be jaary 1st. >> i feel we're in a better situation since we had this flight confirmed so far in

advance but i'm feeling bad about everybody else that's been here a couple days. >> passengers are still going to need another dose of patience because even though flights are taking off it could take days to get things back to normal here at sfo. one continental passenger did tell me their frustraon is that it is nearly impossible to get any updated flight information because the phone lines have been jammednd they havet been able to change their flights or get flight updates online. a lot of passengers are having to physically driv to sfo if they have a flight back east that's scheduled to try to get some information. they say that has been a huge frusation to them but with flights beginning to take off here out of sfo, they're hoping that frustration will be over very soon. live from sfo this morning, sue thompson, abc 7 news. >> and for up to the minute information, take a look at our flight tracker on the front page of our website c7news.com. just scro to the bottom of the page and you will see the flight

tracker box. >> here in the bay area another storm system is moving in. there's already been a little light in this morning but it's expected to get heavier later today. >> several weather warnings have been issued. a live picture from emeryville you can see the cloud cover over the bay area. let's check in with christine hanson now from our weather center. >> we have seen a little bit of light rain as you mentioned but the real story is what's ahead and what's to come later this afternoon. we have a system that is stalling off the coast drawing up subtropical moisture and heavier amounts of rain excted as a result. right now just light rain, a lot of cloud cover around the bay area. marin, napa, sonoma companies for urban and small ream floods possle as the storm system moves in this evening. up to 1 inch an hour possible from that storm system. win advisoes have been issued for tonight through early tomorrow morning for the enti san francisco, monterey bay.

there's a winter storm warning in effect for up to 2 feet of snow at higher elevations. we'll have your complete forecast coming up. >> thanks, christine. the california department of water resources is about to conducits first snow surv of the new winter season. the survey helps determine what the water supply wl be for the coming year. today's survey will b the first of five months of measurements to help water supply planners estimate how much snow melt will flow into resevoi in the spring. officials say three years of drought could be over if we continue to see at least avere snowfall in the sierra. now, encouraging news there. the bad news here, home prices, the standard and poors case sheller index,s fell more than 1% in october. the prices are expected to

continue to fall through next year as fewer people purcha homes and millionof foreclosures hit the market. san francisco did a little bit better than most but all cities reported price declines. the last time that happened was february of last year. the report says this year is on pace to finish as the worst year for home sales in more than a decade. >> still ahead, find out what a man's hand can tell them about their cancer risk. but first the pilot that disclosed problems is defending his controversial video. why he's going public and what the airport is saying aboutis accusation. >> beware of the tools used to deal with the snow. the incredible video that offers the good reminder of t t

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. >> the american airlines pilot behind that controversial youtube.com video that highlights what he said about security problems at airports it defending himsf on national television. he spoke with reporter george warren from our abc affiliate in sacramento and this morning "good morning america. >> i don't think i was jeopardizing the safety. >> sacramentpilot chris lou defended the video he posed on youtube.com highlighting what he calls security flaws at the nation's airport. >> why didn't did you t the tsa with this? why did you put it out online for all to see? >> well, there have been

numerous articles written about this security problem. and i just wanted to address it. i didn't really think that anybody was watching youtube.com. so i didn't reall think much of it. >> well, the tsa did watch it and sent agentso his house to confiscateis handgun. the pilot has been suspended, accused of revealing security secrets but lou's atrney said he didn' reveal passengers could see on their own. >> it was a surprise that tsa has time watch youtube.com. really the issu is why aren't they securg our airports and doing a better job of screening the ground crews. >> lou says just a card flight can get ground crews on the airline field and access to planes at sfo while upstrs passenger and pilots have to go through security and metal detectors. a spokesperson says that door leads to a lunch room.

>> the door is irrelevant because i've been through hundreds of airports and they're basically the same. >> lou says he's speaking openly now to bring all sides together to talk about improving aport security and make su the flying public is safe. >> sfo says the video presents false and misleading information on the program and many cases exceeds federal security requiremts. sfo feels employees must first be sponsored by an employer and pass a ten year fbi backgund check. as for chris lou, he has a website and just wants to return to the cockpit. at least six peop have been injured aer a chair lift derailed at maine's tallest ski mountain sending skiers plumbing to 30 feet. the one of the ski lift derailed and five chairs came crashing down. winds were about 40 mph at th

time and 220 people were on the lift. most of those injuries appear to be minor. >> if you want to pull a stk snowplow out, watch this. here's what not to do. oops! there goes the bumper and camera video. a -- theret goes again. workers tried to free it using a tow truck. it just gets worse. you can see the ford explor got caught right in the middl >> lifted up the explorer. rear bumper. i can hear the guy screaming there. that stuck plow eventually got free. >> man. i think we're going to need an insurance claim later. we're talking abousome big weather for us back here on the west coast. new storm headed our direction. you can see a live picture of hd

at the san francisco airport but the storm could affect flights coming and going later this evening. your complete accu-weather 7 forecast coming up. >> well, yoda and luke skywalker are be preserved. the movies making their way into a historic national archive. >> apple's most popular products have rile lating their user's privacy every day.

♪ the moves, saturday night fever among the 25 films selected for preservion this year by the library of congress. the 1977 disco that starred john at tha travolta. all the president's men, the empire strikes back, the pink panther, airple and malcol x. there are 550 films in the registry. it's goal it to preser films with arstic or historical significance. >> i don't know about airline, what's the cultural

significance. >> have to rerent that movie. those moves with john travolta. it's been a while. >> let's go up to the sierra where a lotf people are enjoying skiing this week with record snow pack. you can see heavenly valley and live pictu and right now we have temperatures in the 30s. a little light snow. even a little light rain. here at home a little light rain. a live picture from emeryville. looking as you can see out to the bay and calls overhead and light rain, most of that in the north bay. this is the big picture of the state. this is where we're watching for overnight picking up subtropical moisture. for us light rain thi morning. most in the north bay. we've seen about a 10th already today. it will turn very windy as well this afternoon. and the rain will be heavy at times. right now other temperatures are

in the low 50s around the bay. we have 40s with the cloud cover, 48 liver more, 49 santa rosa. here's how the storm system looks. first of all that's a weak band. like saturday it's going to come in, produce heavy ra by 5:00. and then overnight we'll start to see heavr rain and some really good downpours which is why we have some flash flood watches in effect nor the north bay. everything moves throug the bay area by tomorrow morning into central and sohern california where it picks up some of the heavier rain. this is what we can expect as far as rainfall totals. up to 3, maybe 4 inches of rain in the north bay with 1 to 2 inches in the east bay around the peninsula. still heavy amounts in the santa cruz mountains. all of this has prompte nation weather service flood advice, or watches for marin, napa and sonoma counties. this means that we can see flash

flooding with 2 to 4 inche of rain befe this moves through tomorrow and turns to showers. wind advisory for the entire bay area wit winds out of the southwt. 20 to 30 mph. gusts to 45. area ponding likely as a result of the storm system as it moves through this evening. winter storm warnings. we will see no level to 5,000 feet. lower by wednesd and thursday night down to 3,000 feet. strong gusty winds. 1 to 2 feet of snow. so it just continues. the winter of 2010. and this is what we're expecting, the heavy rain and gusty wis to continue through tomorrow. then we'll see very cold air foll the storm system and that will bring the snow level do in the sierra. could see a dusting of snow perhaps in some of those showers wednesday intohursday on bay area hills. new year's eve day righ now looks dry but then some showers on saturday. so it just continues and we'll keep you updated in our 5, 6 and

11:00 newscast. >> evidence to what all these wet days have done to the roads. they're plugging a giant pothole on a busy ramp leading to interstate 80 in contra costa county. the road is closed as workers still this pothole. it's 12 feet long, 4 feet wide and 8 inches deep. packing loose concrete and dirt. expects the ramp open by 3:30 this afternoon. traffic is being directed. apple is facing new privacy concerns about its two hottest selling products. a new lawsuit claims applications for the company's i-phone and i-pad are transmitting approximate users person information without the customers consint. the suit filed contends that i-phones and i-pads are encoded with deves that track what app

user download. >> well, this next story could have us staring at men's hands. men's who is index finger is longer than his index finger will have a lower risk of prosta cancer. they wer33% less likely to come down with prostate cancer. men 60 were 87% less likely to develop the december. publicer confirms the musician elton john is a parent by a surrogate mother. this is the first child for the couple who married back in 2005. the identit of the surrogate is not being revealed but said to be a california woman. >> and we'll be right ck.

>> today on oprah at 4:00, reality tv stars. more an security flaws at sfo and how those flaws re repeatedly revealed long before the american airnes pilot blue the whistle. we'll have those stories and more later today at 5:00. >> another storm is moving in, final check of the fecast. >> let's look at that storm system. you can see it on our live

doppler 7 hd. it's off northern califnia but moving in our direction. like saturday we'll have some very heavy rain for a short amount of time. that will turn to showers by tomorrow. meantime we have watches in effect wind advisories, flash flood wahes and sierra storm warnings. >> we just have as to be extra careful. >> froall of us thanks for joining us today. "who wants tbe a millionaire" is coming up next. >> have a great day, everybody. captioned by: closed captioning servicesinc.

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