Big win for the 49ers today, just one win away from going to the super bowl. After tracking a cold night tonight, more chances for wet weather on the horizon, all the timing in the accuweather forecast. Thieves stole thousands of dollars in computers weeks away from robotics competition. Abc7 news starts now. News to build a better bay area. From abc7. Tired of hearing excuses why im great. Were going to the super bowl, going to take it this time. 49ers playing with chip on their shoulders, dominate the Minnesota Vikings and wait to see who theyll play in the championship game. Eric thomas. Sports anchor Chris Alvarez is back from the game. Highlights and whats next, going to miami right . One win away. Who is joining me . Hopefully the 49ers. Byeweek did them wonders, healed bodies, three key defensive stars returned to the lineup, bad news for the Minnesota Vikings. Niners fans ready, first playoff game at levis, joe montana in the house, garoppolo to kendrick bourne, in a flash. Vikings scored on deep touchdown but defense was stout rest of the way. Richard sherman, just great. Interception there. 2710, into the red painted end zones and defense, six sacks of kirk cousins, nick bosa. 49ers win 2710. Larry beil with more. Reporter tight end George Kittle said there is no better feeling than moving a man from point a to point b against his will. Story of the game on both sides of the ball for the 49ers as they move on to the nfc championship game. Jimmy garoppolo and mr. Kittel after the game. Fans felt different, rocking out there. Screaming, loud, it was fun atmosphere. But as far as just everything, it was i dont know, treat it just like another game, go out there, field is still 100 yards long, go play football. I got 24 hours to celebrate this one, 5 00 tomorrow you can ask me about that. Im going to enjoy this one and be ready to watch football tomorrow, cant wait to play more football. Reporter 49ers in the nfc championship game which will be right here, all theyre waiting on now is finding out who opponent will be, winner of the game between green bay and seattle. At levis stadium, larry beil, abc7 sports. Lot more coming and on the website. Beat the packers once and split on the seahawks. Well see, lot of cool things happened. Kirk cousins found out its tough to throw with people wrapped around your legs all night. 49ers fans across the bay area are celebrating. City hall lit up in team colors. 49er faithful out in force at levis today, had no doubts how theyll fare next game. Cornell barnard has this story. Woo reporter a big win for the niners. Fans never had a doubt. 100 , we had the win. Whos better than us . Nobody. Were going to the super bowl, going to take it this time. Niners reporter victory battle cry seemed to ercho from every corner. Three heartbreaks, now got to make this work. Reporter Tailgate Party was goldblooded. Found wayne larson and his tesla. Tailgating in a tesla, thats a first for me. Fits a lot of stuff. When youre a fan, youre a fan. Showed how committed she is, even the dmv knows it. From saskatchewan. Brave to be here. People have been very friendly surprisingly. Warnineather, wore beach att had hat stolen three times and returned to me, how friendly the niners fans are. Reporter packing levis stadium, could hear them from blocks away, cornell barnard, abc7 news. Facebook page we have this badge, you can share to show your support for t49ers. Weigh in with favorite part or predictions for next sunday. City hall lit up in 49ers color, looked clear. Sometimes that means cold. Drew tuma is here with weather. Clear skies, calm winds, recipe for chilly january night under way. Coldest spots in the 30s, santa rosa, ukiah, fairfield. 42 in hayward, 41 in palo alto. Tomorrow morning, 6 00 a. M. , lot of us waking up to temperatures in 30s and low 40s. Cold start to sunday. And there is a chance of a shower for some. Live doppler 7 showing you a cold front now entering the Pacific Northwest, going to enter Northern California early tomorrow morning and try to bring an isolated shower. Well show you who can be affected and when in full accuweather forecast. You can always keep track of the weather conditions where you live with the abc7 news app. Track the rain on live doppler 7 and get updates from the weather team. New at 11 00, one year ago in the east bay tonight, six teenagers in a deadly crash. Two died and four survived when vehicle practically wrapped around the tree they hit. Survivors went back to reflect and heal. Whole year. Grace of god. Reporter 17yearold willie logan is walking with parents, family and friends, visiting site of the crash that almost claimed his life. Brain trauma that i have, i cant remember anything. Reporter january 11th, six teenagers crashed off lone tree way in ant antioch. Ruben and lightner were killed in the crash. Speed and slick roads likely the cause. God spared their life. Lives are forever different. Nephew was a football star, he played baseball. He lost his leg. Willies mother tearfully thanked the First Responders that helped rush willie to the hospital that night. After the crash, willie was hospitalized for 57 days. God we love you, we thank you, praise you and magnify your name. Reporter willie stood shouldertoshoulder with another crash survivor and together released balloons to honor four lives spared and two lost. Blessed were both here. What we had to go through inspire other people to raise up and do better with they lives. Also do better with ours. Reporter lauren martinez, abc7 news. Developing news, Palo Alto Police have released Security Camera footage of the three Armed Robbers who targeted a safeway twice in one night. Three men held employees at gunpoint and stole prescription drugs at safeway on middlefield road early friday morning. Came into the store hours earlier and stole food. 10,000 reward is offered to information leading to arrest. One smashed through a glass door to get to the pharmacy. Pickup truck on eastbound oregon expressway. Update on the mothers occupying a house. Offer from wedgewood corporation, saying will pay to move homeless mothers out of the house and cover two months structure. Investment group is urging group to leave voluntarily. Moved in last november. Judge gave them five Business Days to leave or be ejikted. Sheriffs Office Spokesperson saying theyre refusing to leave without confrontation. Helping students following word that Mercy High School on 19th avenue is closing, said it in email last night. Running on deficit more than two years. Would have to charge extra 5,000 in division to stay open. There had been rumors of turning into coed school but not an option. Explained the options for transfer. My sisters, my family. Thought of not being able to spend final year of high school with them is just devastating. Five juniors started a gofundme page to raise 5 million, so far reached about 4,000. Still ahead on abc7 news at 11 00. School Robotics Team is scrambling after thieves stole thousands of dollars of equipment weeks before a competition. Message lining the sails of the sydney opera you know, the happiest place on earth, but. Have you flown the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy . Or channeled your inner jedi . You gotta love that. Have you raced through radiator springs . Or struck a power pose with them . Now is the perfect time to feel like this. And this. And definitely that. Kids enjoy the magic for just 67 per child per day, with a 3day 1park per day ticket. Kids enjoy the magic for just 67 per child two bacon, two sausage, this is the two eggssuper slam. Hash browns and pancakes and now make those pancakes all you can eat for a buck. Thats where the duper comes in. 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Reporter not the first time, last year the sota built the shed on School Grounds to store equipment for the competition. December 24th, robbed. Added five locks but not enough, this time, broke in through the wall. Todays loss bigger, over 10,000 worth of equipment and code. Laptops were stolen, they need to be configured, all of our code was an that laptop, lost a lot of time. Its not its a lot of work. Reporter and time is running out. Especially going into build season, we only have about eight weeks to make these robots. Going to have to take two weeks to deal with this, quarter of our time, gone. Reporter San FranciscoPolice Officers arrived to find blood marks from alleged thieves. Parents say theyre concerned about the students safety. Kids are here all weekend, in the evening from school end to who knows what hour. Reporter starting today will be working at team members house and raising money for new equipment. The goal remains the same. They won nationals last year and in 2020 thats still the plan. What do you tell each other after this . We got to keep going. We cant stop. Weve come too far to stop now. Reporter in San Francisco, luz pena, abc7 news. If you would like to help out the cyberdragons, we have a link to the gofundme page on abc7news. Com. Celebration marked 20 years of a program that helps clean up neighborhoods. Abc7 news was at square, Community Clean team, public works largest and longest running volunteer program. Today we have other 300 volunteers here giving us extra hands we need to keep our city clean. Appropriately they cleaned up immediately after the celebration. Volunteers have logged more than 200,000 hours, painted over some 4 million square feet of graffiti and collected more than 5,000 bags of litter. And did what they did today in the sunlight. Not going to have, but may have frost. And may need umbrella later in the week. Mixed bag, drew. Yeah. Tomorrow is a cold start, rebound nicely but may be a shower for some of us in the afternoon. Live doppler 7 showing Early Morning showers today. They have since moved out, skies are cleared out, and dry night is on the way. Live look from our east bay hills camera. Great visibility. Radiational cooling on the way. Cold night, isolated showers, cold front to the north will try to trigger shower with best chance in the north bay. Stronger storm looks to linger on the horizon, especially wednesday night into thursday morning looks wet and windy across the entire bay area. Falling into 40s and 30s tonight. 49 in the city, 45 in fremont, san jose. 37 in livermore. High surf advisory in effect until 3 00 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. Active current right now, 13 to 17foot waves and could have king tide flooding. High tide at 11 54 a. M. , could see little bit of coastal flooding due to the highest tide all year long. Overnight, plenty of stars, temperatures into the 30s, 33 in santa rosa, 32 in napa. 39 along the coast in half moon bay, chilly 38 in redwood. Front early this morning. In the wake, clearing skies and cooler temperatures, watching just north, another storm system moving into the Pacific Northwest right now. Cold front is going to linger along the oregon california border, close you have to bring some of us a shower tomorrow. Future weather, 9 00 in the morning, increasing cloud cover. There you can see in parts of the north bay, around cloverdale and ukiah, isolating shower is likely. Threat extends south to santa rosa in the afternoon, thats about it. Most of us will remain dry on sunday. If youre under a shower, very light and quick moving in the north bay. Tomorrow, limited sunshine, lot of cloud cover, mainly in the 50s. About average this time of year, 56 in oakland, 57 in san jose and 54 in napa. Front just to the north. Off cold morning, chance of shower in north bay, storm rebounds away, but then another storm. Chance of evening rain across the bay area on monday. Accuweather sevenday forecast, isolated threat. Stronger storm thursday morning, could get wet and windy in the morning on thursday. Well keep it closely monitored, looks to be unsettled next couple of days. Getting interesting. Thanks. Still ahead on abc7 news at 11 00, another loss for ferry uh, fifteen minutes could save you 15 ain . Or more on car insurance. I think were gonna swap over to over seventyfive years of savings and service. What, were just gonna swap over . Yep. Pump the breaks on this, swap it over to that. Pump the breaks, and, uh, swap over . Thats right. Instead of all this that ive already . Yeah. What are we gonna do with these . Keep it at your desk, and save it for next time. Geico. Over 75 years of savings and service. A popular eatery inside San Franciscos Ferry Building is closing up shop, second in as many weeks. Brown sugar kitchen will close january 19th, second location for chef tonya holland, open less than a year. Told the chronicle its closing for business reasons, follows closure of a mexican restaurant. Anything new in sports . Chris didnt do much work right . Joke, before the emails come in. Some work, ill prove it. Niners coverage just getting started. Did you look at blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun all we needed somebody to lean on conditions are protected. Vo a broken promise. Trump repeatedly tried to undermine coverage for 134 million americans with preexisting conditions. Mike he just doesnt care if you have a preexisting condition he wants to deny you access to coverage. If he is reelected, hell keep trying to do that and i think we cant let that happen. 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Later in the first, vikings at midfield, kirk cousins up top to stefon diggs, witherspoon falls, 107. Then jimmy g. , a pancake look, fumble, but after review, deebo was down, niners drive agains and coleman punches in from short game. Running and dominant. Late in the first half, niners go to the air, jimmy g. Picked off by fresno native kendrickson. Vikings in business. Third and 11. Welcome back ford, big sack from him. Settles for field goal. 1710. Cousins picked off a richard sherman, former stanford star. And niners offense responds with eightplay drive, all runs. Statement made, coleman into the red end zone. Early fourth, cousins under duress all game long, nick bosa. Six total niners sacks, win 2710. Game plan, check, execution, check. Goal we set on monday. Believed that team with over 30 runs would win and only one team would. Complete team goal. Offense would not have been able to get that many runs if defense didnt play the way they did and special teams also. Big thing was try to get 30 runs. Had 47 or something. If we do d that, would win. Seeing them pound down the field, tire defense out. This Team Deserves it. Jimmy garoppolo played fantastic game on offense. Kyle shanahan, heck of a coach, hightower, position coaches. D line, we work hard,hard,har, every time. This team is family. Casino. You can feel theyre a family. One win away from the super bowl. Next up on abc7 news at 11 00, man carved sos in the snow after spending weeks in the alaska wilderness. To deal with the problem. Icians but they wouldnt. So we took it to the voters and forced big tobacco to pay its share of healthcare costs. We fought Oil Companies for new clean air laws and closed a billion dollar Corporate Tax loophole to fund public schools. By going directly to the people we got results. Thats not something you see a lot of from washington these days. Im tom steyer and i approve this message. Lets make change happen. 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What iran has admitted to is serious, shooting down a civilian aircraft is horrific, iran must take full responsibility. Reporter among the questions asked, why ukraines airline was not warned of the dangers and why the air space was left open. President trump defeating support. Government of iran must allow human Rights Groups to monitor and report facts from the ground on the ongoing protests from the iranian people. Those protests calling for officials involved in downing of the plane be removed from their positions. Irans foreign minister apologizing for the tragedy but placing blame on the u. S. , human error at time of crisis caused by United States adventurism caused the disaster. President trump insisted soleimani had plans for attacking the u. S. But not as specific. If those were planned, why not reveal to the American People . Wouldnt that help you . You . Reporter britains ambassador was detained and held while holding a vigil for victims that turned into a demonstration. Calling the arrest flagrant violation of the international law, iranian government at crucial moment. Earthquake that hit puerto rico this morning. Caused a massive land slide. Another 4. 6 magnitude quake detected an hour later. Most recent in quakes that left thousands without power and water. Governor newsom is sending team. Disaster specialists from california as well as the expertise in the area of seismic knowledge. So far no reports of injuries. Sydney opera house paid tribute to firefighters this evening. Crews working endlessly to battle back the deadly bush fires in australia. Iconic sails of the opera house lit up with signs of thanks. This was posted on 124 grass fires burning, 47 not contained. Royal crisis is about to get more dramatic, Queen Elizabeth is Holding Meeting to discuss the future of harry and meghan. Duke and duchess announced they would step back from royal duties. Queen elizabeth and william, philip and charles will attend. Mixed feelings about the family drama. Thanks a lot but were off, feels a little bit about kick in the teeth, rubbing salt in the wounds. You dont know whats going on behind the scenes. Couple announced the news without consulting the any change in the royals requires discussion. Man fought off freezing weather and survived weeks in the wilderness after cabin burned and killed his dog phil. Used debris and food he to survive next 20 days. Cold, didnt have socks in my boots, just wearing pajamas and a tshirt. Alaska state Police Helicopter spotted the sos message in the snow and troopers came to his rescue. Honestly i was grateful all my bullets blew up, could have been a temptation to be like im not going to make it. Rationed about 30 days of food, even ate pineapple which hes allergic to, says he had no choice. Still ahead on abc7 news at 11 00. Got on top of him, holding him down. Family of young girl jumps into action after man tried to grab her. What they had to say about the frightening experience. Meteorologist drew tuma, cold night on the way, several chances for rain. Details in accuweather forecast coming up. A special episode of tamron did you know this is where you can harness your inner jedi . And tear around radiator springs . Or get your flex on with the incredibles. Kids enjoy the magic for just 67 per child per day, with a 3day 1park per day ticket. To take care of yourself. But natures bounty has innovative ways to help you maintain balance and help keep you active and wellrested. Because hey, tomorrows coming up fast. Natures bounty. Because youre better off healthy. Lets take on the issues. Lets call out the problems. Lets face it, we have a trash issue here in San Francisco. And find real solutions. Lets have hard conversations. I feel that the community has failed people of color. And hear one another. We can use words, dont have to use our fists. Our concerns might be different but were in this together. And building a better bay area takes all of us. A pair of brothers sprang into action after a homeless man in Southern California tried to take a sixyearold girl from her family. All happened while they were at restaurant in venice last saturday. Watch closely, see the man identified by police as evan mclauren nelson in this Surveillance Video repeatedly tried to take the girl. Uncle threw him to the ground. Telling us, god told me to save her, kept coming up, trying to take her. Held him down until police arrived. Charged with attempted kidnapping and resisting an officer. Trying to determine what caused raging inferno that enveloped a building yesterday in Kings Canyon National park. Destroyed kitchen, laundry areas and restroom. Park Officials Say there is no impact to visitors. High School School in newark made out of this world discovery in internship with nasa, discovered a new planet. Spotted it looking through a telescope studying stars. Lies 1,300 light years away from us. Oh, theres something here, it was cool. But also not a single moment of discovery. Thats all, its there. Almost seven times the size of the earth, only the 13th planet of its kind. Some of the greatest names in bay area baseball headlined a special fundraiser to help make a better bay area. Two fer, helping veterans and dogs. Tony la russa and his foundation brought in bruce bochy, buster posey, mark mcgwire and other major names to sign autographs. Helped raise money to repair a leaky roof at rescue that saves about 200 dogs a month, many of the animals paired with veterans. Dan ashley was there and spoke with la russa. Sports stars raise the roof. Clever name, hope to raise half the money necessary . Raise the roof came from my daughter. I was going to say reroof but bianca said raise the roof is something people understand. Reporter perfect. We went with it, now were cool. Wouldnt be cool without her. He expects the fundraiser to bring in six figures and help with the Foundation Getting its new roof. Fundraiser was sold out. More information on abc7news. Com if you want to help out. Now the accuweather forecast with drew tuma. Were monitoring our temperatures. Cold spots into the 30s and numbers will continue to fall next hours. 39 in san ramon, same in napa. 48 though in san mateo, 49 in the city. Overnight, going to get chilly, clear skies, calm winds, widespread 30s. 35 in morgan hill. Hill. Hil 39 in san rafael. Chance of isolated showers in north bay, chance around ukiah, as far as santa rosa. Cold front is nearby, doesnt cross the region, so not widespread showers. Rainfall potential is limited in north bay. Accuweather sevenday forecast, isolated showers tomorrow. Monday night, level one storm. Stronger storm thursday morning, level two, moderate, heavy rain and windy. Last week chris was worried about the rain and game. I worked my magic, got it out in the afternoon. You owe him one. How does next sunday look . Looks dry, thankfully. I was waiting. Work your magic now. Coming up in sports, more 49ers coverage. Major upset in afc playoffs and welcome back captain america, conditions are protected. Vo a broken promise. Trump repeatedly tried to undermine coverage for 134 million americans with preexisting conditions. Mike he just doesnt care if you have a preexisting condition he wants to deny you access to coverage. If he is reelected, hell keep trying to do that and i think we cant let that happen. Vo as president , mike will lower costs, and protect americans with preexisting conditions. Mike im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. Richard sherman is one of the best cornerbacks of thiz generation. Yet the fifthround pick out of stanford still plays with chip on his shoulder. This interception of kirk cousins in the Third Quarter led to 49ers touchdown and 2410 lead. Minnesota never recovered, niners went on to win. After the game, sherman was very fired up, had this message for anybody that doesnt believe. I get tired of hearing hes a zone corner, hearing reasons while im great. I show up year in, year out, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, unless i tear achilles, doing job at high level. Get tired of excuses for why im good, oh, my god theyre playing zone, this guy, receiver slipped, why dont other people get that . Lot of other corners with the same i have. Its odd like people got frustrated i was confident early on in my career and wanted me to fail. When i didnt, how do we tear him down in other ways, rip his game apart because im too consistent year in, year out basis. Since i got in the league, every category that matters to corner, im number one, completion percentage, interceptions, touchdowns against, yards, completion percentage, passing rting. Any other corner, wouldnt be a conversation, but you know i just get tired of it. In playoffs, played in 13 games now, zero touchdowns given up, three interceptions. Show me somebody else doing it like that, then ill enjoy the argument, you know what i mean . But there isnt. I got nobody, sherm, youre the man. Baltimore hosting sixth seed tennessee. Baltimore had won 12 straight, here comes ryan tannehill. Two touchdown passes. What a catch. Tennessee. Ravens down, baltimore goes fosh it fourth and inches, day to forget for jackson. Couldnt get a couple of inches there, Derrick Henry ran for 125, lone touchdown a pass and titans upset the patriots, now the ravens. 2812, on the afc championship. 13 years in san Jose Joe Pavelski made name for himself, little joe, then the big pavelski, finally captain america. This offseason changing sweaters in free agency, signing with the dallas stars. Sharks fans giving pavelski a nice ovation, sure do miss former captain. Sharks were down, faceoff, timo meier off the skate of brent burns, burns got the goal credit. Patrick marleau gets a goal, eighth of the year. Aaron dell, solid in the net, scoring chance here, access denied. Sharks spoil the pavelski return, win 21. Two straight for the sharks. Mens hoops. This high percentage, the twohanded flush. Cardinal dominating early. Stanford up 264 early on. On. Tyrell terry, stanford up 4618. Davis, throw it down. So nice we show is twice. Put me on a poster. Stanford wins big, 142. Cal hosting washington, left, bears down two. Overtime, bradley banks it home like eric thomas used to. Cal win, 6158. Abc7 sports report is sponsored by river rock casino. I called the bank. I call a Football Game in santa clara next sunday. Sounds. Thats it for tonight. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas, for dion, drew, chris and entire news my name is eddie metcalf. I enjoworking in my yard and you know, i cant. I cant do that any more,cuz im missing most of my lung. They did a cat scan of my kidneys, no more kidney stones. Thats the good news. But, we found a spot on your lung. That frankly scared the hell out of me. I hadnt smoked in 22 years. How could this happen to me . He said, well, you know about radon gas . Well. You know, i heard about it. He said, well, the second leading cause of cancer in america is radon, 22,000 people a year die from this. I literally left the doctors office, got a test kit, put it in my house, and our result was 39. 8. The upper limit is 4. We got to get this fixed. That was on a monday, and on wednesday, our mitigation system was up and running. Well, i think everybody should have their house tested. Wed never know. Wed still be living there. I could get another tumor from it. Right now, its changing my life. john a. tonight, weve gathered 12 loving family duos ready to it all on the line. Their whole lives have been leading to this one moment of glory. music distorts both quack quack quack quack quack quack quack john h. yeah, lets hope they have a plan b. john a. fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers have teamed up to vie for 50,000 aah