derek moffett/philadelphia firefighter"when you sign up for this job you sign up for a whole lot more than just a job."so what does evan think his dad would say about this christmas surprise?evan potter/son of firefighter"he has a lot of patches!" (vicki) that was alexandria hoff reporting. and to put it into perspective just how many people helped evan... out of all the boxes full of patches you saw under the tree-- there ere still eight more waiting for him at the firehouse. (ken) a christmas surprise at a coffee shop in sacramento... despite not having any snow. a snow man was delivered just in time for christmas. an employee at the old soul coffee shop says someone brought snow down from south lake tahoe-- and built the snowman. people were stopping by all day on christmas eve to take pictures with the snowman. (vicki) now lets get a check on the weather with meteorologist mabrisa rodriguez. expect chilly overnight lows because of decreasing winds tonight, clear skies and falling dew points in the bay area. temperatures will likely fall into the 30s and lower 40s. the coldest vall

he's the main one and paris moffett the ring leader. you have all these names of the perpetrators that murdered my son. what do we do about it? >> vice president mazzucco: lady information regarding the murder of him august 14, 2006, please call the police tip line. ms. brown, i know it's difficult for you to have a merry christmas after losing aubrey. you made your son proud. i don't think any mom has been diligent as you have been to keep his memory alive and seek justice for his murderer. i want you with your daughters and grandchildren have a merry christmas. any further public comment? public comment is now closed. >> commissioner hirsch: at end of last commission meeting i had a prevent conversation with the chief. i thought it will be very beneficial for all of san francisco if he were to get on the general, brief discussion of the appointments that me made. after tonight's comments i thought it will be valuable to get that on agenda as soon as possible. the commission and the department and the community understands how promotio

. >> he urged the silicone valley crowd to support his plan and then traveled to moffett field where he waved to onlookers before boarding to air force one to fly to southern california. he was californiaed to meet briefly with former president reagan. reaction has been pouring in, including four presidents, present and former. in a statement, former president george w. bush said, george hw bush was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter second for. the entire bush family is grateful for 41's life and love and for the compassion of those who have cared and prayed for dad. president trump said, disarming with an unwavering commitment to family and country, president bush inspired generations to public service, and former president obama and his wife wrote, after 73 years of marriage, george and bosh ray bush are together now, two points of light that led by example, and bill clinton said his remarkable leadership and great heart were always on full display. he is survived by 5 children, 17 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. funeral arrangements are sti

abc 7 news was at moffett field today where the nfl amni association and the wine country marines distributed hundreds of toys to the children of service people. >> we had such an outpouring. once it's out there, the community responded so generous wil i. just as -- yeah, it was crazy, and we have an overflow of toys. >> volunteers say the toys can make a big difference, especially for families who have loved ones deployed or injured during the holidays. >>> dangerous waves off the bay area coast have affected families' traditional christmas crab feasts. cmmercial crab fishermen are finding the rough waters too dangerous to take out their boats, resulting in a shortage of dungeness crab for the holidays. restaurants, stores, fish markets are all in short supply and if you can find available crab for purchase it's going to be more expensive than usual. >> it's too dangerous with the swells and the waves being so high. that affects us as we don't have any crab to supply the restaurants. i'm hoping that it ends soon as new year's is coming up and there's a high demand for dungeness crab. >> repo

and i, particularly one i know is a professor at duke, terry moffett the, who came to criminology from psychology. but she found after a number of years doing research that she didn't feel her explanations really explained what was going on. so she went back and got another ph.d. in genetics, and then she happened to get married to an israeli geneticist. and because they couldn't do the work in american prisons, they moved to new zealand to the south island, and she began doing studies in new zealand and in england of some inmate population where it was possible to do this kind of research. so he's published a number of papers now in the best scientific journals where she has, is looking at is there a role for genetics in explaining criminality. and she starts out right away there's no crime gene, it's not possible. just as you said very eloquently. there are maybe certain baers which are precursors to committing criming -- crimes. so people who are very imprinciplessive or have little self-control, she's looked at this whole human genome explanation, and there's some agreement on that

it's over moffett naval air station right now, because we have word of atali it's northbound 85 --, southboundy, so we're not seeing a lot of slowing, so once the emergency crews get on scene, that could be a different >>> no weather worries for your commute today. temperatures are going top out in the upper 50s to near 60. a dry cold front will drop our temperatures the rest of the week. >> all right, thank you, mike. we'll have another abc 7 news update in about 30 minutes. >>> hey, welcome back to "gma." award season is just around the corner and the movie "vice" is shaping up to be a major contender. it stars a completely transformed christian bale as dick cheney and adrienne, you got to sit down with him. >> it almost defies description. at times it's poignant, it's comic and tragic all inspired by dick cheney's life and time in office. bale totally transforming himself and in his words "vice" is a masterpiece. >> it's the hottest film, the controversial story of the most powerful vice president in modern history with an utterly unrecognizable christian bale playing the role of dick chene