Tree. Ive never seen anything like that. Reporter sharon and her husband were the first to see the crash which happened on the street behind their house. They immediately called 911. I could make out that the car was pinned against the tree, roof first. It was on its side, bent as a cshape around the tree with the underside of the car being what you could see. And it doesnt look good. They were opening Christmas Present when is they heard the crash. Its a loud impact. It shook the house. It was loud. Reporter the crash happened on foothill road in pleasanton. All five people were teenagers, two of the victims killed were brothers. We had 8 or 9 people die here. This is the most recent. Its a tragedy. Reporter tom coleman didnt see the accident but says foothill is a dark windy road and notorious for racing. Its particularly bad. Last year its been especially bad. I dont know, im not sure. Just maybe this road got rediscovered as a place to drag race. But its not a good situation. Reporter now back out here live, crews were hoping to be done by 4 00 p. M. They need a little more time. We are waiting for details about what caused the accident. We do know that two of the survivors were ejected from the vehicle. They remain hospitalized with major injuries. Thank you. We have new details about the four people shot at a Holiday Party in Oakland Christmas day. The shooting happened on 34th avenue near foothill boulevard. All four were taken to hospitals and police say they are all now in stable condition. A winter storm has shutdown freeways in Southern California. Look at this. This is video from ka hone pass in San Bernardino county. The freeway was shut down early this morning because conditions were so bad. At least 120 cars got stuck in snow and ice on i 5 in Los Angeles County last night. I 5 through grapevine is closed. A driver was found dead inside a big rig on the freeway. Thats according to the chp. A cause of death is not determined. A lot of people are flying or driving to their destinations. Nearly 3 million passengers are expected to fly. Wait times at chicagos Ohare Airport are predicted to be twice as long as normal. Triple a estimates nearly 106 million americans will hit the road for their holiday destination, almost 4 more than last year. It will be a record setting Holiday Travel season with more than 115 million americans on the move. Triple a says thats the most in nearly 20 years. Lets get a check of bay area traffic right now. On the left you can see interstate 80 from the emeryville camera. In the middle is the bay bridge. And on the right is 280 through san jose. Now from the camera on mount tam. Drew tuma is here with the forecast. Its a gorgeous day out there. The storm has moved, sunshine has returned, and the sun will stick around for a couple of days. We are dry. The rain has moved out. A mix of rain and snow in the Higher Elevations of socal just getting slammed by this system. Winter storm warning over the grapevine, i 5, until 6 00 p. M. Still seeing accumulating snow there. Back here at home, live look at sut sutro tower. Nice looking day after the storm cleansed the air. Anything from. 1 to. 6 of an inch of rain. All about the temperatures now under clear skies. Were going to quickly cool off into the 40s by 8 00 and the coldest spots will drop into the 30s by midnight. It is a cool start to the day tomorrow. Nice finish. Well have the forecast in a few minutes. Dangerous waves are hitting the bay area. This is how it looked at pacifica pier this morning. That did not deter sight seers who came to experience the wild water. A beach hazard warning is in place until 9 00 tonight. Zblts in the north bay a popular tourist attraction turned deadly. One of the famed redwoods fell on a man killing him. Abc 7 News Reporter kate larson has the story. On Christmas Eve around 4 30 in the afternoon while the park was open to visitors, a group of people were hiking on a trail in muir woods. Without warning a tree fell on hillside trail where the three were walking. A man was pinned down by the free and killed. A woman was hurt and take ton the hospital and a third man escaped uninjured. The marin county responders found the man unconscious and lifeless on the ground beneath a redwood tree. He lived in minnesota. In a statement, the Golden Gate NationalRecreation Area said the hillside trail and part of the main trail remain closed until the trunk and branches are removed by the park tree crew after the holiday weekend. The tree fell of natural, unknown causes, following a persistent series of winter storms over the last week and a half prior to this incident. Its a freak accident, so you never know when things like that are going to happen. Its just kind of one of those things youve got to take life as it comes. We met brian and taylor who despite the deadly incident were hoping to visit muir woods today. Im sure they do a lot of preservation and clean up on the trail, but to have a tree naturally fall from age and being weathered over the years is wrong place at the wrong time. This years incident was isolated event. Aging trees are common in the bay area. Im kate larson, abc 7 news. An Oakland Court has postponed a decision on whether a group of mothers occupying a vacant home can challenge an eviction order. The group moms for housing moved into the home with their children last month to draw attention to the crisis. A judge has ordered them to leave but hes giving them a chance to make their case for staying. A group of supporters spoke out this morning. This is a chance for us to put our bodies on the line, putting our bodies in between the sheriffs and the mom. Thats a beautiful thing. Even taking an arrest, even going to jail. Wedgewood wants to sell the home a first time home buyer. The case has been continued until december 30th. Oakland police say its an epidemic, the Sexual Exploitation of young people. Up next, investigators detail a recent arrest and talk about why Human Trafficking is prevalent in the bay area. More criticism of nancy pelosi by President Trump. Mark deson yea with his reaction. Taking a live look at our traffic through walnut creek. This is 680 moving in broegoth directions. Stay with us. Back after this. Wihefty hefty hefty n. Hey ladies. Buy hefty® ultra strong™ at a low price. Dada i wish. Get hefty® ultra strong™ costs less than glad® forceflex where sold head to head. In the east bay a 37yearold man has pleaded guilty to Human Trafficking case out of oakland. The victim was a 14yearold girl. Abc 7 news anchor eric thomas reports its one victory in a neverending war against the Sexual Exploitation of young people. Unfortunately it is an epidemic. Reporter lieutenant james beer heads the special victims detail. They found the victim back in march during an undercover sting along the international boulevard. Further investigation led to a suspect named joshua johnson. He was charged for rape, child molestation, pandering, Human Trafficking. Reporter folks who live along international boulevard say they see prostitutes of all ages working day and night. I guess they should have more patrols. Reporter the fbi says if you include monitoring in the bay area, its the third busiest trafficking corridor. The position on the west coast makes it an ideal hub to bring in children from overseas. It wears on police psychologically. After experiencing a number of these investigations, its a traumatic experience for the officers as well as obviously the victims. Reporter police say in this case they found Text Messages implicating johnson in Human Trafficking. He pled no contest, was sentenced to 8 years in prison, and will have to register as a sex offender. In oakland, eric thomas, abc 7 news. A candlelight vigil will be held tonight for the niemann Police Officer killed in the line of duty one year ago today while making a traffic stop of a reported drunk driver. The town of niemann will hold a vigil and walk tonight and there will also be a balloon release tonight. He left behind a wife and young son. Mendoza has pleaded not guilty. A preliminary hearing to determine whether theres enough evidence for a trial has been postponed and will happen in march. Yesterday the niemann police k 9 association delivered his sons own patrol car for christmas. The Organization Posted a video on facebook. An anonymous resident even changed the stickers to model after his dad. It was all very touching. According to the facebook post, he is going to grow up to be a Police Officer. The car will be get his training started very early. Isnt that so tweet . That is wonderful. Yeah, that is. Four bay area end froms are showing us that anyone can be a hero. Its true. Abc 7 Justin Dorsey followed them as they brought joy to dozens of children. Its a fann tasic moment when you see their eyes brightening up. Just to see them is just amazing. Its just an amazing feeling. When you walk into a room and you see a patients face light up, it is just something that makes your heart bigger. Dade watkins may seem like a normal guy but he has a secret. Let me get my best announcer voice here. By day, hes a mild mannered cashier but at christmas time he and his friends are super heros to the children of the bay area. You feel like youre on an island sometimes. And just to have people who understand and want to come visit your kid especially in this situation theyre in is pretty special. Im still having people come in is pretty cool. Gets my mind hopeful. We live in a dark world, and when you see a child smile, when you hand them a teddy bear, a light shines right and that light shines in the entire room and school were in. To see that is incredible. Im dave watkins, and im batman. 2016 i was involved in a car accident, and they found cancer within me, stage 3 aggressive cancer. Had no symptoms of it. When i came out of it in all of that, after four weeks of recooperating, we were doing these bears at work. The bears were to go to either the customer or left around. I would say we cant have these bears left around. What should we do with them . Someone said why not take them to the hospital. I said if were going to go to a hospital, were going to go in style. We started off with Santa Clara Kaiser permanente with 43 teddy bears and began going to other places as well. I had a lady help out. She took over about 50 or so. Then we started to go to sacred heart, toyo elementary, and various other places as well. We started off at 43, then a little around 200. Then last year alone was 600. Add that up with the 400 or so that weve done this year, youre looking at well over 1,000. How you doing, buddy . Wow. We want to do this because we want to help them, and we get to. Were able to bring them joy by giving them bears, a little bit of christmas to them, our mission is accomplished. Merry christmas. Its a big deal to have somebody come in and say hi and to cheer you up. But when youre a kid and your super hero comes in, i think its even a little more special. One of the first people we met, this one girl smiled and the mother said to us, look, my daughters smiling. She hasnt smiled in weeks. And that to us meant everything. My daughter once said to me, with love, daddy, anyone can be a super hero. Even my friends can be a super hero to a child. Super heroes can be more than what you see in comic books and movies and tv shows. All it takes is love and a teddy bear does that. It helps out in some way or form. Great looking stuff going on. You can check out more Great Stories at localish. Com and facebook and instagram. We got a nice little break from the rain, a little sunshine postchristmas. Theres not like the day after a storm. I know, right . Its so nice. The sunshine was out today. Weve got a good stretch coming our way. The next storm is not until a couple days away. Live doppler 7 showing you any rain we did have yesterday is out of here. Well take you to the beach. Why not on the day after christmas. Live look at the santa cruz camera. Youve got folks enjoying the sites along the water. We have a beach hazard tonight. Well show you that in one second. What were tracking, under clear skies its a cold night on the way. Most cities will drop well into the 30s. Over the next 12 hours. But tomorrow and into saturday its real nice, sunny stretch. Dry weather continues and our next storm which ranks a one on the storm impact scale will not arrive here until the nighttime hours on sunday. So, much of the weekend will be dry. Its a really nice final weekend to 2019. Believe it or not were almost in the new year. Its a comfortable evening, 56 in the city, 61 in navarro, 55 in san jose, 57 in oakland and concord one of the mild spots coming in at 60 degrees. Heres live doppler 7 along with satellite. You can see our storm which affected us yesterday is down well to our south. It actually spawned confirmed tornado in Ventura County earlier this morning. We see i 5 is closed over the grapevine because of snow. That is exiting Southern California over the next six hours. Beach hazard status is still in effect, risk of rip currents and sneaker waves. 10 to 15 feet high. They will subside over the next 24 hours as the weather becomes calmer. Overnight tonight, calm winds. Thats a recipe for a cold night. Many spots dropping into the 30s and well find patchy fog first thing in the morn. Be aware of that before the sun gets up on a friday morning. 12hour day planner looking nice for you. That cold morning to start out with. Bundle up. First thing were starting with the 30s. Sun efficient at warming us up. By the afternoon mainly sunny skies and temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. 56 in the city in oakland tomorrow, 57 in san jose, 59 in santa rosa after the cold start, 56 in concord, 55 the high in livermore. High pressure is in control tomorrow. Brings us sunshine in the afternoon. You can see the storm affecting Southern California right now well off to the east. If you have to travel tomorrow across california at all, no weather worries. Well see a lot of sunshine and dry conditions. What were tracking on saturday, well start with sunshine, bring in cloud cover in the afternoon and that is our next front. This cold front will move through the bay area late sunday night. The accuweather seven day forecast, mostly sunny tomorrow evening into saturday. Theres the chance sunday and its at night. Much of sunday is fine. 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Americans have spent more money online in the weeks leading up to christmas this year than ever before. Michael finney has more. Even though its a shorter shopping season. We didnt have as much time but we still bought ea lot of stuff on the internet. Sales hit high according to spending polls. Online spending from november 1st to december 24th was just shy of 19 more than last year. Clothing, accessories, electronics were the mostbought items during the ecommerce boom. And nearly a quarter a quarter of all shopping during the holiday took place on just one day, cyber monday. And along with that recordbreaking Holiday Shopping season, ups is expecting a Record Number of returns. The Company Expects to process 1. 9 million return packages on january 2nd. Thats up 26 from the year before, nearly 26 . The returns would mark the 7th in a row record as shoppers shift from shopping in store to online. Starbucks is giving customers another reason to celebrate the end of the decade from now until december 31st, select locations will host pop up parties and give away free tall espresso drinks for customers between 1 00 and 2 00 p. M. The deal includes seasonal drinks like peppermint mocha and the carmela today. Locations of the parties change daily. You can check the locations online at abc7news. Com. Tonight at 6 00 were going to have advice for when youre returning items, what you can expect a