Rough surf. You can see the heaviest is starting to move towards the east. If you go back in time, you can see all the lightning bolts peppering the monterey bay. I even saw a bolt of lightning coming into work. It was like, whoa, exciting. I wouldnt be surprised if you found small hail and snow mixed together. My forecast for the rest of the day, heaviest this morning through 7 00, a little lull around noon and then a refiring of scattered showers this afternoon but most will be over by 7 00. Police are seinvestigating a deadly shooting. A 29yearold man was shot and killed. A 23yearold woman who was also shot was taken to the hospital. She is expected to be okay. Another man suffered some kind of head injury. He was treated at the scene. Police are still trying to figure out what led up to the shooting. A 6yearold was shot during a family holida gathering. It happened around 6 30 last night where Police Responded but did not initially find a vi detectives are still looking for information. So far police have not announced any arrests. A reminder to be careful on the road this Christmas Day. A speed driver died after hitting in tree in east antiokay. The driver was going 80 miles an hour in a 45 mileanhour zone. A witness said she saw him trying to weave in and out of traffic when he started to fishtail. Police say the driver crashed into a tree. He was the only driver in a vehicle. It is christmas and today people will start delivering meals to thousans who cannot leave their home. At the Salvation Army kitchen, work is well under way this morning. Good morning, amy. Merry christmas to you. Hi, good morning. Merry christmas to you, too look behind me. Ive got santas elves here. These are santas volunteers. Theyre preparing fresh meals. They got here at 5 00 this morning and theyre going to deliver these meals. It is very early but the Salvation Army says this makes a huge difference to people on Christmas Day. Hundreds of people will be delivering 4,000 meals for basically people who condition get out today. For most of those people, a Salvation Army person is the only person theyre going to see today that is going to bring them a warm meal. In meal is healthy and hearty and packed with love. This is for people who cant get out. I asked the volunteers why theyre here. It is early. They say its a little hard to get out of bed but they tell me theyre blessed and so they want to share. Reporting live in San Francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 abc 7 in the south bay donations are pouring into church after thieves stole thousands of the needy. I never thought that someone would just come in and pretend to be part of the assembly and leave. The church surpassed an initial donation goal in just three hours. Police are still looking for those thieves. Only on 7, San Francisco police are trying to track down thieves were expensive tastes. The crooks hit up at least two highend stores in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. Police are sharing video with police and melanie woodrow. Reporter thousands worth of clothing and handbags stolen. Ive had shoplifters before but not as good as this time. Shoplifters said they are visiting from paris. Theyre stuffing jackets worth thousands under their outerwear. The pros are so good. They can do it in front of you and youd never know you were being picked. The crooks according to employees were quite engaging. Employees couldnt tell anything was missing until they were gone. It does make me ill. The next day two of the three hit up sweden spark, which sells vintage jewelry, scarfing from estate sales. Weve never had an issue in the past. As this woman looked at scarves, she held up a bunch of them in front of my coworkers face. The rare snatched a rare 6,800 purse and stuffed it up his jacket. This is a picture of the handbachan handbag. He actually shook my coworkers hand when he left. Reporter police are vebting whether the people in both videos are the same. San Francisco Police say that since the end of november, theres actually been a slight decrease in thefts and robberies citywide. In San Francisco, abc news. Pope francis celebrates traditional midnight mass. His message of love to the world. And mike, wet start to this Christmas Day. Yeah, light up like a Christmas Tree as you like to say. In all seriousness, this is some heavy rain coming down, the lets go southbound, avenue, probably standing water right now because nobody is out there. 680 to 880, all the way down to san jose downtown, we have heavier rain falling there. And also alamo, danville, diablo, walnut creek up towards concord and clayton. A heavy shower there. These could be producing ponding on the roadways and small hail. Temperatures are in the 40s right now. Were not going to warm much, only basically up into the low 50s. So you can see the heaviest of the rain is moving through the east bay and the south bay. About an hour from now, that will be over and well transition to scattered showers. That thunder was something this morning driving in for sure. As tempting it may be, they are asking homeowners to avoid burning wood over the holiday to prevent unhealthy air. Wood smoke contains fine ine in articl part calls. And burning wrapping paper is illegal. Tons people gathered to watch the pope give his Christmas Day blessing. He offered open against darkness saying that the light of christ is greater. Earlier the hope celebrated Christmas Eve mass in a packed st. Basilica. He said, quote, god does not love you because you think and act the right way. He loves you plain and simple. His love is unconditional. Troops are taking time to celebrate christmas as well. In syria a military ca carols to service members. Troops dropped off stockings stuffed with gifts at five bases in the eastern part of the country. All right. A cat gets stuck up a tree in the east bay. The rookie firefighter who put his rescue skills to the test. While many of us are sell willing into the holiday, some are looking at the road. [ drathis holiday. Ahhhhh ahhhhh a distant friend returns. Elliott. You came back and while lots of things have changed. Wooooah woah its called the internet. Some things havent. Get ready for a reunion 3 million light years in the making. Woohoo yeah we have some breaking news we want to tell but now. One person is dead after a crash in berkeley. You can see here highway 80 westbound lanes of gillman are blocked. This is from our emeryville camera. Witnesses say the crash involves at least two cars. One of them caught fire. Again, it is raining, the roads are slippery. Please take it slow on the ro s roads. This sad to report one person has died this christmas morning. Well bring you more news as it comes in. A lot of people in the bay area may be dreaming of a white kre christmas and packing of the car and heading to ski areas. They will are in for a welcome surprise when they get there. Can you feel the end just a little bit . Can you wiggle your toes at all . Thats perfect. Theres lots of boots fittings going on at Sports Basement in walnut creek. Were taking the girls skiing at squaw. Brandon is taking his three daughters. Theyve got a lot of energy and loved our camera. The two older ones went last year and this year were taking everybody out. The lu family is gearing up for tahoe 2. Well try to make this a family tradition. The ski rent al office has been slapped this weekend. Everybody is so excited for the season. Powder is up there. Heres the payoff, a Winter Wonderland. This is northstar resort where its been snowing most of the week, near perfect conditions for skiing, boarding and even tubing. Everyones really excited about the fresh 13 inches that weve gotten from the storm on sunday night. So it leads our snow totals up to 11 1 2 feet up for the season. Were really excited. Give yourself plenty of time to get where youre going. If youre going to the mountains, carry chains. Just because your cars are allwheel drive doesnt mean that always wheels stop. Take it slow. And people see that traffic and go, nope, not going up there. Not doing it. That is me. Ran into a little bit of that just trying to get into the east bay yesterday afternoon. A lot of people trying to leave then. Lets look at live doppler 7. You can see the western slope there and also into tahoe, it is snowing right now. These why we have to be you see where the red is heading. You can see the spray coming up from the cars there. Weve got some early thunderstorms today and scattered showers for the remainder of this Christmas Day. Freezing in our north bay valleys tonight, patchy fog out there as the clouds start to clear out and a slight chance of rain sunday. Heres a look at our high temperatures today, in the 40s in lakeport and san jose about 55 degrees. Tonight the freezing temperatures in the north bay valley, fog forms, we could have the same situation we had yesterday with freezing fog. Clouds keep the rest of us to the upper 30s to mid 40s. It will not be raining tonight. The pink means a wintry mix is falling right now at 3,849 feet. And hamilton, we go to pink to purple to white. That is all snow, possibly a couple of inches on hamilton. Heres that second storm we talked about yesterday. You can see plenty of thunder and lightning on this one and that will make things miserable for them later today and tomorrow. Back at home can you see the heaviest of the rain on future radar. That little bit of a break they talked about at noon, peeks of sunshine and then you can see by 3 00 into about 8 00 a slight chance of scattered showers and thats it. Check out my accwaccw forecast. A few cloud saturday, tuesday dry also. Liz . East bay firefighters are congratulating a rookie firefighter on his first cat resc rescue. They received a call about a cat stuck in the tree. The firefighter climbed up the ladder and safely brought the cat back to its owners. That is a tall ladder there. The firefighters ended up treating them to a tour of the fire engine. Good work, mike. Oh, thats some good news. Next, the unusual Christmas Day offer to you from the owners of an east bay laundromat. And customers of a hair salon get an unwanted holiday surprise. And a lot of kids probably waking up now telling parents to get up, get up lets open the presents. You can see the rain drops on our camera there, beautiful shot of the city. Stick with us well be right back. Lets take a look at live doppler 7. Street level where weve got foothill road, 680. Snow gray about to have some standing water. Almeida getting a soaking right now just to the north of harbor bay parkway. Thats going to head over to mcarthur boulevard and through o oakland and san leandro. The heaviest stuff is in the either bay and south bay and moving away from us in the next hour, hour and a half. Thats good news. Workers got a christmas rush that lets say they were not expecting. A tesla crashed into this salon in danville yesterday. A witness heard a loud screech and saw the tesla crashed through the glass doors. Chp is looking into what caused it. An east bay laundroundroundum offering free drying today. They posted this ad letting customers know they can dry their clothes for free theyll offer the same deal on new years day. And San Francisco offers free parking on Christmas Day. Its one of the free holidays during the year that meters are not enforced. The others are new years day and thanksgiving. Next at 6 30, we are live with a massive effort to feed hundreds of people in need. Also, raising the stakes in a fight over a vacant home in oakland occupied by a homeless moms. And we catch up with a santa who decided [ dramatic music ]ing ] ahhhh ahhhh elliott. You came back it helps to have someone in your corner. Thats why theres covered california. Were the only place where you can get financial help to pay for your health insurance. New this year, almost a Million People could receive additional financial help from the state to help lower the cost of health insurance. More for those already getting it, and new help for many who havent gotten help before. So check to see how much you could save. It only takes 5 minutes. The last day to enroll is january 31st. So get covered today. News to build a better bay area. This is abc 7 mornings. The bay area is waking up to a wet christmas gift. Live doppler 7 shows us the rain hitting us right now. Mike says that is going to change, though, in the next few hours. Merry christmas to all of you. Thanks for daying yo with us. Mike, merry christmas. Merry christmas. Take a look. This was my dash cam video driving into the city, right before the Golden Gate Bridge on highway 101if youre thinking what im thinking, i was like White Christmas . It looks like snow. Its sort of snow. Its sort of snow. Its hail with snow clinging on to it. Its called grappo, its like hail. Thunderstorms are moving from the east bay into the south bay where were could see the same situations but in the mountains its all going to be snow. You did get a White Christmas. I did that for you. Thank you. I appreciate that. I would tell anyone driving on this, it was a little slippery so White Christmas, yay. Youre lying why arent you as excited as i was . I am, whoo i saw lightning. Im excited. Ci early thunderstorms, then showers scattered today, locally heavy and brey today gra grapo, and you can see near antioch and out towards discovery bay. From union city heading towards pleasanton snow. You can see fremont boulevard there back towards santa clara, thats where were seeing heavier showers right now. Look up stream, out over the ocean, its pretty quiet. Well is a period of we et weath quiet weather today. Showers will be over by 7 00. We continue to follow breaking news in the east bay this morning where we learned one person is dead after a crash in berkeley. Some of the weekend lanes of 80 at gillman are blocked. You can see the backup that this is causing. Now we are told from witnesses that the crash involves at least two cars. One caught fire. Again, we will stay on top of this breaking news, this crash in the east bay in berkeley. Well give you more information as we get it and as it comes in this morning. Some drivers on 80 may be heading to the sierra. Caltran says if youre planning to go up to lake tahoe or the mountains, being prepared. Right now interstate 50 and 80 are open and you do not need to use chains but you may have to use chains later this week. And flyers taking lastminute flights this christmas, my family, some of them flying in today. There are no delays at sfo now. Lets check in at the Salvation Army central kitchen where volunteers are packing thousands of meals to deliver to people who cannot leave their homes today. Good morning, amy. Hi. These volunteers got here at 5 00 this morning to start preparing these meals. 4,000 meals, they will be delivered to people in San Francisco who cant get out and also need a visitor. Weve been talking to the volunteers about being here. There is a family here, including relatives visiting from boston. They decided not to Exchange Gifts this year and instead to come here and give their time. Just, you know, its a huge Family Reunion so we decided to just do eating. We take turns treating each other so thats our gift. It frees up so much time and if theres no gift, no gift opening and we can come. I asked another volunteer why she is doing this. She said because we are blessed and want to share. The Salvation Army said this is also about connecting. The kvolunteer who delivers the food may be the only person the recipient sees this Christmas Day. Volunteers say it warms their hearts, too, that they also get a lot out of this. Reporting live in San Francisco where the Christmas Spirit is alive and well. Amy hollyfield. Liz, back to you. That really warms my heart to see that. Thank you so much, amy. The Contra Costa Office the clerk got up and shot andrew killing him. A second robber got away. A man accused of stabbing a passenger on the platform last year. He was charged with murder in the stabbing death of 18yearld wilson and was charged with attempted murder for trying to stab his sister. New developments in the story of an oakland mothers fight over a vacant home. The group moms for housing is challenging an eviction order. Our media partner reports oakland may consider seizing the property if the owners do not work out a deal with the women. The Real Estate InvestmentCompany Calls the threat a reckless disregard of lawsuit. Ride share passengers in the south bay are coming across a familiar base. Santa is getting behind the wheel in san jose to spread holiday cheer. We went along for a ride. Reporter move over rudolph. Santa is choosing ride share. Hes making seven trips, checking his sights. Youre on my nice list didnt think you were getting ubered by santa, did you . He had the goal of bringing holiday cheer. In the drivers seat, flores delivered. Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle all the way flores posted to a Facebook Community group and said it costed him nothing to create lasting memories for people who spotted him behind the wheel. Everybody was santa, santa, santa. Everyone had that memory as a child because you were good. He wanted to keep the imagine being alive. I dont know how long it will be so magical for him. For flores, the fiveminute trip. The memories made priceless. Flores says hell be logging off uber and leaving Christmas Day to kris kringle. Thats fun. From a day tat the beach, to solemn religious services, how people are celebrating christmas around the world. Lets get another check of i dont are way. Hey, mike. There i have another thunderstorm down in the monterey bay. It was a little closer to places like santa cruz earlier. You