Well have to wait until christmas. Theres still that chance. Well start with your storm impact scale which is still a 1, light, for rain that will become showers this morning, less than a tenth of an inch. You can see the steadier rain moving through the south bay right now with a little bit of light rain still lingering back to the san mateo bridge. You can see a clearing taking place across the north bay but then the showers and the breezy conditions are just to your north and those are going to move in over the next couple of hours. A look at the light rain on 101 and 880 in san jose. Your accuweather 12hour planner, isolated at 7 00. Milder. It will be quite mild at noon, 50s. But those breezes will kick in and make it feel cooler than the mid50s like at 4 00, and then well see stars at 7 00. 45 to 48 degrees. Well take a look at your activity planner coming up next, here is sue. Last we check there was a stalled ac transit bus blocking the two left commuter lanes there and that has now since moved on. Traffic is flowing nicely there. A couple of cars stacked up to pay cash, otherwise no metering lights and you look good. Slow traffic over to the altamont, nothing new there. Thought wed point out the red, the obvious red on our screen, and we do have a refrigerator in lane number four so cars are swerving to avoid it. Hopefully that will not result in an accident. Chp may have to do a quick traffic break to get that out of lanes. This keeps happening and needs to stop. Police are investigating a string of incidents in the east bay, people pointing lasers at planes. Four incidents just last night. Reporter Amy Hollyfield is there for us live. Amy . Reporter hi, reggie. This has happened to cargo planes and small private planes, not to passenger flights, and it has happened to planes right around the oakland airport. A pilot of a fedex plane reported that he was hit with a laser that was two miles from the oakland airport. A southbound cessna pilot said he was a victim. Chp did a sweep last night looking for the people doing this. Investigators say they have good information about where the lasers are located. We can tell what street youre on, your exact gps coordinates so you can run but you cant hide. We know where you are. Reporter at this point no arrests have been made. The chp says this is extremely dangerous. The lasers can cause blindness or temporary loss of vision and can cause the pilot to lose control of the aircraft. This is a federal crime. You can be fined up to 11,000 per strike. Live in oakland, Amy Hollyfield, abc 7 news. Senate republicans have passed the gops tax bill moving one step closer to achieving their first legislative victory under President Trump. But polls show the bill is unpopular with americans. In fact, this morning on gma House Speaker paul ryan says americans will come around. Take a listen. When they see the with holding tables changing and more money in their paychecks, the Economic Growth that will result from historic tax reform, i think minds are going to change and people will change their view on this but theyve been hit on tv with so many different, confusing messages theres no wonder theres a little confusion surrounding this. Democrats disagree, though. Senator harris tweeted the republican tax bill that passed the senate is a travesty. It gives even more tax breaks to the top 1 and permanently cuts Corporate Tax rates at the expense of middle class families. This isnt what americans wanted, and its up to us to fight back at the ballot box in 2018. Meanwhile, let me show you that tweet from senator dianne feinstein. She tweeted Senate Republicans just gave corporations and the richest americans an early Christmas Present at the expense of middleclass families. Meanwhile, today the house will have to vote again on a revised version of the bill and President Trump plans to hold a News Conference at the white house after the house passes the bill. Back to you. Jessica, thank you. Berkeley Police Officers will be allowed to keep their pepper spray. Thats the ruling from last nights city council meeting. There were concerns that wind and volatile crowds could prevent officers from pepper spraying one specific person and accidentally spray an unintended target. The city overturned a 20yearold ban on pepper spray in september in response to a series of political protest that is turned violent. Now to developing news, salvage crews are working around the clock to clean up the scene of mondays deadly amtrak train derailment. Large cranes are helping put the cars onto flat bed trucks. The ntsb is giving more details. Safety investigators say a second conductor was learning the new route at the time of the crash. The board did not say whether the engineer operating the train was distracted by the conductor. Investigators said the engineer had previously operate that had route before as part of his training. At least two of the three People Killed were rail enthusiasts. Friends say it was no surprise they were on the trains maiden voyage. Zach and jim often to me, i thought of them more as a pair than as individuals. I think jim and zach would want to make sure this was used as an opportunity to learn about the safety issues. The train involved in the collision was equipped with the positive train control Safety System but wasnt in use at the time. Its designed to prevent human error by taking control when it senses danger. Caltrain is in the process of testing and installing it now. They hope to have it fully operational by next year. One neighborhood will have electricity soon for the First Time Since the fire ravaged in october. Ash and debris covered coffey park. Flames destroyed about 1,000 homes. Pg e worked to restore power on the west side yesterday and will energize the east side on friday. Crews have installed temporary poles and transformers. The thomas fire burning in Southern California is the second largest in our states history. Progress has been positive but heavy winds are expected to start up again today. Nearly 270,000 acres have been burned, 424 square miles or nine times the size of San Francisco. Its expected to be fully controlled by the end of the first week of january. Take a look at this, a special tribute to the firefighters at the arlington theater in santa barbara. The latest star wars movie is playing there now so employees put this on the marquee. Firefighters, may the force be with you. Lets take a look at the east bay, the Altamont Pass still getting wet. A little east of Discovery Bay and more towards stockton. You can see showers right around the dublin grade. Also notice that right there. That is a wintry mix on top of mt. Diablo 3,800 feet. Thats coming in behind it. Right now our steadiest rain is still moving through the south bay. Morgan hill, gilroy, watsonville, over to santa cruz and monterey and that extends back to highway 237. Dressing this morning upper 40s to low 50s. It is milder out there. You can see 42 in santa rosa where we have some clearing right now. 54 degrees right now in albany and 50 in concord f. Youre on the bay today it will be breezy. If youre exercising dress warmer. If youre out and about wet this morning but dry this afternoon. High temperatures right around 56 to 59 degrees. But only 52 around ukiah and clear lake. 47 in San Francisco at 8 00. Look at this, low 50s for the better part of the day. 53 at 2 00. Remember, breezy this entire day so it will feel even cooler than that and in the south bay, 53 at 10 00. 55 from noon to 4 00. Already back to 49 by 8 00. We come back and will take an hourbyhour look whats left of the storm as it heads through the south bay and look ahead to rain on Christmas Day. Snowing up in the sierra as expected. Chains. We have chain requirements which is a good thing at baxter on 80 heading to truckee. Great if you want to get some skiing in over the holiday. Up and over the Altamont Pass, the bay bridge. We will look at b. A. R. T. 42 trains on time. The 8 45 and 9 15 larkpur ferries are departing five minutes later. If you want to take ace train to avoid the altamont backup, ace train 1 and 3 getting set to run on schedule. Sue, thank you. Just as comeback, people are setting up tracks. Katie marzullo has the story. Reporter steve holmes has dedicated to keeping san jose creeks clear for salmon. People loaded rocks into the channel. Reporter the rocks are an illegal salmon trap. The fish are unable to make it over these walls. Reporter they get trapped in the shallow ponds and poached. The California Department of fish and wildlife is investigating. There seems to be some crude, makeshift dams constructed there by the homeless population. Reporter volunteers with the south Bay Clean Creeks Coalition have found actual nets. But fish and wildlife said issuing tickets wont solve the problem. Theres larger societal issues were working with in the city of san jose to address holistically. Reporter the salmon have only recently reappeared. Advocates dont want to lose any to illegal fishing. I think its a selfish behavior and is shortsighted. You see these trends where you see animals in decline. Were trying to change that. Reporter they hold regular cleanup events and are always looking for volunteers. Go to our website, abc7news. Com. In san jose, katie marzullo, abc 7 news. It is 5 11. New flying rules are being put into place. Into place. Lemurs look cute. My wish was a clubhouse, but we call it the wish house. People visit National Parks from all over the world. Food tastes better when you dont have to cook it. He was just supposed to be my dog. I dont know why. vo were proud that, on behalf of our owners, the subaru share the love event will have donated over one hundred fifteen Million Dollars in just ten years. Get 0 financing for 63 months on select models. Plus well donate 250 to charity. The abc 7 storm impact scale. Todays storm is level one. That means light rain, so keep an umbrella handy and drive safely. Track todays storm anytime on the abc 7 news app. Download it now. Its 5 14. A chance of rain today, another chance on Christmas Day and coming back well take a look at live doppler 7 and greater detail hour by hour with these two storms. From the live desk this morning, the former boston archbishop who became the symbol of the sex abuse scandal inside the Catholic Church has died. The vatican confirmed bernard law died. Officials say law died in rome where he was serving as arch priest of the basilica. Hes infamously known in the United States after the boston globe revealed in 2002 that law and other bishops had covered for pedophile priests. Law was forced to resign as archbishop. The vatican says he died after battling a long illness. He was 86 years old. Thank you, jessica. In todays gma first look 12 people were killed when a bus went off the road in mexico. Heres abc News Reporter kendis gibson. Reporter authorities investigating a deadly bus crash killing a dozen people including five americans on their way from a cruise vacation to an adventurous excursion in mexico. The whole windshield is gone and the side smashed. It had fallen sideways. Reporter the celebrity equinox and the serenade of the seas was en route to the mayan ruins from where it docked on the yucatan peninsula. Our hearts go out to all those involved. We are doing all we can to care for our guests including assists with medical care and transportation. The weather was clear and witnesses report no other vehicles in the area. Well have more on this coming up at 7 00 a. M. It is 5 16 now. This next story may affect many of us who fly out of the bay area. Starting january 15th, all Major Airlines plan to make passengers remove lithium ion batteries from their bags. The airline will not let the bag get near the plane if theyre not removable. The faa says they present an unacceptable risk. Blue smart, the company that claims to be the worlds first smart connected carryon claims its in talks with the government to get the decision reversed. Most San Francisco voters want the city to repair its roads and beef up Public Transportation including b. A. R. T. And muni. Voters feel Companies Like uber and lyft should pay for those repairs. A survey by San FranciscoTransportation Authority says 70 of voters support imposing a new tax on ride hailing and food delivery services. U. P. S. Announced the largest public preorder for tesla trucks yet, 125. Pepsi reserved 100 last week. The week before anheuserbusch wants 40. Walmart reserved 15. Tesla, which has headquarters in palo alto, unveiled the new electric semi last month. Production is scheduled to start in 2019. Two of the newest residents at the oakland zoo. Crown lemurs are on exhibit. Theyre both teenagers. The gray is a girl, the other a boy and theyre very mischievous especially the boy. Most cant swim but that little guy can. Its one of the reasons the pair ended up here at the oakland zoo because its more secure and he cant escape like he did before by swimming away. Okay. Cute. All right. Somewhere out there in the dark abyss theres a humongous asteroid named after a bay area college. It used to have a not so great name. 25164. Now itll be known as sonoma state. Its between jupiter and mars. Its not seen here. Well, you never know t. Cou. It could fly across the state. Its named for Space Missions and s. T. E. M. Teacher education. Thats pretty cool. Very nice. Somewhere bruce willis is probably riding that one. I dont even know what that means. Its an old movie. Is it a die hard reference . He saves the world. That movie where he saves the world. Lets move on. I have the exploratorium camera showing up right there. Armageddon. P. M. , chilly breezes. Your accuweather highlights. Freezing cold valleys the next few nights. Youre going to have to protect the plants, the pets, and possibly the pipes. Christmas storm starting to fade just a little bit. Theres still a chance. Well show that to you in half an hour. You can still see a few pockets of light drizzle around the san mateo bridge and heading through the dublin grade or 238 if you will. Sue moll granol grade, light ra the south bay. San jose, willow glenn all the way down to down to the south and this should be out of here by about 7 00 like we talk about yesterday. 7 00, gilroy south of where the steadiest rain is. The rest of us will break out in some sunshine at about 7 20 and you can see the scattered showers up to the north. Theyll hug the north bay through 9 00. Then theyll hug the coast from 9 00 to noon as they head south and then theyll clear out and leave us with a mostly sunny and breezy afternoon. The winds will start kicking up around 20 miles an hour this morning to 25 during lunch to about 15 to 25 at 5 00. But overnight they could get up to around 25 to 35 Miles Per Hour. And that will be the big story for tomorrow mornings commute. The valleys will be freezing. Breezy and freezing cold in a lot more places friday morning. Temperatures pretty mild, upper 50s through the weekend and then well take a look at the chance of rain on christmas. Heres sue. We had some red sensors. I thought wed take a live look and we can see traffic is flowing nicely but you are in a lot of company on the upper deck. And were just getting reports of an accident behind the toll plaza. Im looking at the live shot. I dont see the accident there but the metering lights have been turned on and its slow, stop and go there anyway. If we do get some emergency crews on scene well be able to check back in that direction. No real avoiding that because traffic is already stacked up now to the mcarthur maze. As you can see slow out of tracy. Slow into San Francisco. We do have this accident highway 84 westbound near ruby hills. A car on its roof and traffic is now slowing from 580 on 84. Well take a look at your drive times in a few. An injury didnt sideline a holiday tradition started by Oakland Raiders tackle donald penn. Marshall newhouse took kids on a shopping spree. Penn couldnt go following a serious foot injury during sundays game. Each child received a gift card for walmart and san leandro. Wide receivers and raiderettes gave bikes with helmets and locks. Its become an annual tradition. It is great to see the teams giving back. Next, the seven things you need to know as you start your day. If someone you know has some bad breath, there may be no hope to fix it. How does another toll increase sound . When you can make your voice heard about paying more to cross our bay area bridges. And get but on the inside, i feel like chronic, widespread pain. Fibromyalgia may be invisible to others, but my pain is real. Fibromyalgia is ought to be caused by overactive nerves. Lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. Im glad my doctor prescribed lyric for moderate to even severe fibromyalgia pain. Ef and improves function. Lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions, suicidal thoughts or actions tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worse depression, unusual changes in mood or behavior, swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling, or blurry vision. Common side effects dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain, swelling of hands, legs and feet. Dont drink alcohol while taking lyrica. Dont drive or use machinery until you know how lyrica affects you. Those whove had a drug or alcohol problem may be more likely to misuse lyrica. With ls pain, i can do more with my family. May be more likely to talk to your doctor today. See if lyrica can help. Its 5 24. Good morning. Whether youre just joining us or heading out the door, here are seven things to know before you go. We are on storm wat