Help the Small Business. On abc 7 news well see if Small Business saturday is bringing a boost to areas that could really use it in the north bay fire zone. And im meteorologist drew tuma starting the weekend off on a warm note but were tracking downpours on your sunday. The details ahead on the accuweather forecast. Whos in charge . Depends on who you ask. The Government Agency in a tug of war and leadership fight. Abc 7 news starts now. Announcer live where you live, this is abc 7 news. A plea to shop small today with a lot at stake for business in the north bay. Good afternoon and thanks for joining us. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. We begin with a look at Small Business saturday, happening now in an area where it can make a big difference. Abc 7 News ReporterCornell Barnard is live in Sonoma County where businesses have been in need of customers, and today those wishes were answered. Business pretty brisk in sonoma today, cornell . Reporter yeah, eric and dion, you wouldnt believe it. Town plaza very busy place today. Took us forever to find a parking space. What a difference from the days and weeks after the wildfires when the plaza was pretty much deserted. Small business saturday marking a comeback for this region. Theres holiday music in the air and lots of customers in the stores. The sonoma plaza was crowded on this Small Business saturday. Is it good to see a lot of people on the street today . Of course. The more the better. Were grateful. Reporter the candlestick shop owner dan galison says its an early Christmas Gift to see customers returning since the wildfires. People got an impression that we were devastated, and were not. We want to let everybody know that were up and running. Reporter margo voss vows to do all of her Holiday Shopping locally. I think the Small Businesses are the heart of america. Reporter walt pinot noir tasting room is open. This is marvelous to see all these people out, people coming and supporting us. Its great. Reporter in downtown sapt rosa the streets werent quite as crowded but many like dinah and her friend gale are doing their part. I always feel strongly about supporting local businesses anyway, but with the fire even more. Reporter the Metro Chamber of commerce is offering this Holiday Shopping passport filled with downtown discounts. Longtime florist shiraz moe says she needs help. My business is very, very bad because i lost lots of customer around the Fountain Grove area. Reporter some customers relocated after the fire, but many are slowly returning. We want you to come back downtown and fall in love with it all over again. Reporter sonoma strong. Now and through the holidays. In Sonoma County, Cornell Barnard, abc 7 news. On to weather now, were getting . Record warmth before the rain arrives. Abc 7 news meetrailogist drew tuma tracking the timing. Drew . Yeah, eric, today earlier in the afternoon san jose hit a record high of 80 degrees. So its certainly a mild start to our weekend. Current numbers out there right now a lot of 60s and 70s on the board. 66 in mountain view, 68 in santa rosa, 64 in cannot cord, but changes are coming. Live doppler 7 along with satellite rain already arriving in the Pacific Northwest and the showers will move south on our sunday. On the storm impact scale this is going to be a moderate storm. A 2 sunday into early monday with some showers heavy at times. So well time out tonight for you. Future weather showing you no worries with precipitation. Just clouds late tonight. Its tomorrow morning by jp in the morning thats when the rain begins to arrive in the north bay. Hour by hour on future weather, time out the rest of your sunday into your travel forecast. Accuweather in a few minutes, guys. Drew, thank you very much. Keep track of the rain where you live with the free abc 7 accuweather app. Youll get updates from our weather team and check the forecast on the go. A man in novato faces charges of attempted murder tonight the arrest log at the Marin County Sheriffs Office has 79yearold William Bradley being taken into custody this morning. He was arrested at this location on vineyard road you see here. We are waiting for a call back from the Sheriffs Office now for more details. Three men are in jail tonight accused of kpthd a woman during a wild series of crimes in mendocino county. The Sheriffs Office says it all started monday afternoon in laytonville with the report of a burglary. Investigators say the trio of men you see right here went to a home and when a woman answered the door they point aid gun at her and demanded money and drugs. The woman told deputies the men pistol whipped her several times after she told them she had neither of those things. When a Family Member arrived at the house the three men ran off to an suv. That vehicle was spotted a short time later in willlets, and police pulled it over and arrested the three men. B. A. R. T. Is reporting at least four cell phone thefts at stations or on trains yesterday. Two people at oaklands coliseum station say a group of teenagers snatched their phones. Officers detained a group in the parking lot including a 14yearold and located the stolen phones. Another phone robbery happened in San Francisco at the 16th street station where a man reports two men stole his phone. At the union city station b. A. R. T. Reports someone snatched a phone out of its owners hands. And at the Fruitvale Station b. A. R. T. Says a wouldbe robber knocked the victim to the floor of a train in an attempt to steal the victims cell phone. Another homeless encampment has caught on fire. Abc 7 news was in oakland this morning as flames shot into the air over 26th and wood streets. The fire put up a lot of smoke, and as you can see there could be seen by the macarthur maze. It came in at about 8 00 to 8 15 and firefighters had it under control within 45 minutes. No one was hurt, and the cause is under investigation tonight. Initial reports indicate the fire might have started in an rv. A spear fisherman is expected to make a full recovery following a shark attack. The attack happened yesterday in Stillwater Cove off pebble beach. Witnesses reported seeing the shark come up from behind and bite the man on the leg. Swam to the surface to tell his dad what hed seen. And when he was at the surface the shark actually attacked him. The wetsuit was inside the zodiac, and it was pretty shredded. There was a lot of blood. There are signs posted warning people about the shark attack. The Monterey CountySheriffs Office says it looks like it was a great white that bit the fisherman. The agency that has one of the biggest impacts on helping you safeguard your finances is in a state of flux tonight. Theres no certainty on who will replace the outgoing director of the Consumer Financial protection bureau. And as of now it depends on who you ask. Reporter Kim Hutcherson explains. Reporter dueling appointments are sparking confusion saturday over who is leading the top u. S. Consumer watchdog agency. At the stroke of midnight richard cordray, the man heading the Consumer Financial protection bureau, stepped down. Cordray, an obama appoint yeah, named his chief of staff, leandra english, as his succes successor, which essentially makes her the acting director for now. However, President Trump also named his own interim chief friday. White house budget director mick mulvaney. The appointments of two officials to the same post sets up a political clash. The question now, who is in charge when employees return to work monday. Massachusetts senator elizabeth warren, who helped create the cfpb, tweeted the doddfrank act is clear. If theres a cfpb director vacancy the Deputy Director becomes acting director. Trump, she says, cant override that. A senior white house official defended trumps pick by citing another federal law, the vacancies reform act, saying mulvaneys appointment is a typical routine move. The president will ultimately nominate a permanent director who will need to be confirmed by the senate. With a confirmation the Trump Administration will have a chance to overhaul the bureau, which republicans have said has too much power and not enough oversight. The cfpb was created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect consumers. Im Kim Hutcherson, abc 7 news. An effort is under way to keep an east bay mans holiday legacy alive. It may look like some dirt in an empty space. But this area will be transformed into a holiday wonderland. Thanks to one mans vision and a communitys determination. 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That display will be up this year from december 10th to the 26th and will be lit up every night from 5 00 until 10 00. Visitors to a piedmont lot had some interesting entertainment this year as they look for the perfect Christmas Tree. Abc 7 news was there as people went shopping at the boy scout lot on moraga avenue. This year they added something new. The tap dancing Christmas Trees put on a performance. And for those kernds about the lot running out of trees organizers say dont were. So far were still expecting a few more hundred trees but weve gotten the vast majority of the order right now. Lot is open every day until december 21st, or when all the trees are sold. Accuweather certainly doesnt feel like a month until christmas. Temperatures today anywhere from 10 to nearly 20 degrees above normal. Some mild air certainly on the menu today. Live doppler 7 along with satellite showing you weve kind of had filtered sunshine today. A veil of high clouds sitting over us right now that will eventually bring us some showers starting tomorrow morning. The picture outside today a live look from our emeryville camera pointed at the beautiful city of oakland right now. Were dry, we have the clouds upstairs and a lot of spots are sitting in the 60s if not 70s at this hour. Currently 72 in hayward. San jose earlier this afternoon hit 80 degrees. Down to 73 right now. Warm in the south bay, 68 in santa rosa and San Francisco just one degree shy of 7307 currently coming at you with a temperature of 69 degrees. Tonight were going to hang on to a lot of this mild air. Same with the cloud cover. Overcast skies. Its a mild night. Temperatures in the 50s if not very close to 6 2kr50egz in some spots the next 12 hours. You do notice future weather starting to pick up on those showers beginning to move through first in the north bay in the Early Morning hours on sunday. So the storm impact scale we use exclusively here at abc 7, we rank our storms to 1 to 5 light to severe, it gives you a better idea of what to examine. And the system moving in the next 24 hours, it does rank a 2 00 a moderate storm on the storm impact scale. So well have a band of showers moving through. Heavy downpours at times. About a quarter to 3 46 an inch of rain of in most areas. But higher amounts in our hills. And the winds will be gusting at times 10 to about 25 Miles Per Hour. So plan out the next 24 hours. Future weather tonight, 11 00 on your saturday night. We are dry. The rain is not with us just yet. Its cloudy skies and mild temperatures. Early in the morning on sunday 6 00 in the morning this is when we begin to see the rain first moving through the north bay, close to santa rosa at this hour, and the pops of yellow and orange on your screen, thats the heavier rain moving through. We do expect by 9 00 on sunday morning this bachbd showers moving through the heart of the region, San Francisco, san ma o mateo, oakland, but you also notice its a really narrow band of heavy rain. You will notice the downpours. By 11 00 sunday morning its beginning to move through the south bay so, san jose right around that lunchtime hour we do expect downpours. Behind that front you notice its a peppering of showers in the afternoon. Were going to have to watch for an isolated thunderstorm to potentially pop up in the second half of our sunday but this systems kind of a onetwo punch because another round of showers will move through late sunday into early monday morning. By monday midnight early in the morning another round of heavy rain is going to move through. The accuweather sevenday forecast. As we plan our next seven days for you, tomorrow its rain in the morning, isolated showers in the afternoon. The very early on your monday its those heavy showers again really before sunrise. Much of your monday once that sun gets up we are dry. And once were dry monday afternoon we kind of stay that way. Its a steady pattern tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. Before cooler air enters the picture within week from today. But tomorrow a lot of people traveling. Its going to be much slower than it was on wednesday before the holiday. Hey, all i notice is that for golf thursday it looks to be okay. I know. If you can get it in before monday afternoon. But i also heard a faint oh, no from over here. Monday. Never can please you. Rivalry weekend. College football. Theres a lot of rivalries. Colleges. Drew and shu. There you go. There were some good ones today. Floridaflorida state. Alabamaauburn. And of course ohio state and the fighting harbaughs where jim and his wolverines have yet to defeat urban meyers buckeyes in this matchup. This matchup. 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For all the things that keep you up at night, Anthem Blue Cross has a solution. Topranked alabama hosted by auburn with a lot on the line in this years version of the iron bowl. Winner gets georgia in next weeks s. E. C. Title game and maybe a shot at the final four. Auburn heisman winner bo jackson in the house. Tigers up 2014 in the third. Bama driving. Jalen hurt scrambling, tosses it to the end zone. Batted around. Hinchess makes the catch. Hits the ground, though. Considered no catch. Next play bama going for the field goal. Bobbled snap, tigers cant do anything with it. Tigers pumped. Another failed field goal at auburn for nick saban. Jared stedham. 16 yards. Tigers up 12. 2614. And that would be your final score. Auburn upsets the topranked team in the nation as they storm jordan hare stadium. 100th Consecutive Year ohio state and michigan have met. 114year rivalries. Buckeyes had negative six yards in the fourth quarter, down 140 until j. T. Barrett took over third and nine, 24yard dash. Wolverines still up seven. Next possession barrett 25yard dart to marc ball. 1414. You might want to cover him. Barrett only 30 yards passing in the game. Because before the game a cameraman apparently ran into barretts knee. It buckled here. Forcing him out of the game in the third. Freshman Dwayne Haskins would come in six for seven, 94 yards, 28 rushing yards. 22 here. Down to the one. That would set up the gamewinning touchdown. Now three minutes remaining. Michigan with the ball down four. Quarterback john ocorn misreads the coverage. Bad pass picked off. Buckeyes have won 13 of the last 14. 3120 the final. Buckeyes get fifthranked wisconsin in the big ten title game. Florida hosting florida state. Seminoles trying to keep the longest con seblthive bowl appearance streak alive at 36 years. noles defense four turnovers on the day. First quarter franks hit as he throws 37 jacob pugh 16 yards. 70 good guys. Frank also threw three interceptions. Late in the second picked off by lavontae taylor. Fourth quarter franks picked off again by matthew thomas. 29 yards the other way. But while showboating he falls down at the one. Ball did not cross the plane. Seminoles would score and win 3822. Fifth straight win over the gators. A win next week and the bowl streaks alive at 36 straight. Stanford a