Today. One of the biggest was at the corner of 17th in potrero. Heres john alston with maine information. People have been stopping to take pictures. This has been sitting like this since this afternoon when a strong rainstorm blew through. Nobody was hurt. This could have been much worst when the canopy crumbled at the 76 station. A San Francisco public works crew removed branches from a ficus tree that crashed through the back window of a park car. Thank god. She was in the car last night. So im thanking god up in of us got killed sitting in the car. We were sitting in the car last night. The square metal post that held up the covering snapped this afternoon. The Fire Department thinks it crashed down after a branch from the tree landed on top of the metal structure. The gas station clerk hit the shut qualify valve and cut electrical power. I heard something, and i some trees fell down, tree hit this can and i canopy go down. Trouble in the Oakland Hills when a tree made a lansing on powerlines on scout road. 1500 customers went dark for a little over an hour. It was bad timing for this family who had gathered for an early christmas dinner. White weapon the roast had come out of the ovep, and the power shut down, so we started d trying to find candles and light. The Christmas Tree went dark and the oven went cold right after the apple pie went in. This neighborhood is set to get underground utilities in the next few years. Were used to Power Outages here because we have had a lot of issues with tree branches hitting lines. So every year theres one or two major power outans that comes from trees falling down. Back live. An employee at the public works depth says it appears the canopy blew into the tree. That will have to be sorted out by the insurance companies. The city plans to come here and brace the structure until its finally removed in the next day or so. Live in San Francisco, abc7 news. Ama there was intermittent rain throughout the day today. The storm moved in this morning with heavy rain and gusty winds. It was pouring earlier today in san mateo. And its not just the wind and rain. You can see the swells at ocean beach in some wears waves up to 16 feet are expected. Forecasters are urging people walking along beaches or jetties to watch for large breaking waves snierk air travelers of having problems. Unsettled weather and scattered showers through the bay area brought a change in wind direction, causing air Traffic Control at sfo to redirect landing and takeoff patterns. And it other he him in nateed a few flights, and backed up flights. We have an hour delay. And were leaving at 3. Supposed to fly into chicago. Well have ten minutes minutes o connect to our flight. Ama with more rain on the way, delays are expected to continue. 100,000 people traveled through sfo today. Drivers are dealing with challenging conditions in the sierra. I80 was closed for three hours. Caltrans held traffic from colfax to the nevada state line because spinouts. Going to be chain controls the next two days at least going into christmas. It was slow go on i80 in mass sir county. Where chain control started. While the weather is making for treacherous driving ski resorts are reporting excellent condition. In san jose a driver going too fast skidded across five lanes of number 280. Hitting another car. One went down ended up on its side, the other one on its side. No one was hurt. We have full resources how to stay safe during the rainy season or any natural disaster. Check our web site, under see it on tv. And stay with abc7 news for continuing storm watch coverage. Well have the full forecast in a few minutes and well be back tomorrow at 5 00 for the abc7 morning news. And you can check live doppler 7hd anytime on abc7 news dom. Now to Newtown School tragedy. The shooting tragedy is pushing gun reform on top of the national agenda. Reporter the funeral for Emilie Parker was held in ogden, utah, the only victim of the massacre buried outside of connecticut. She has become an example to the world about purity, innocence, tragedy, and forgiveness. Reporter earlier services were held for escrows teen gay. And anna mar westgreene was buried, her coffin carried in a horse drawn carriage. The massacre has triggered action to reduce gun violence and save lives. Rich raised over 100,000 this week in the gun buyback. Even if you get one off the street, its one less has the potential to get into the wrong hand. The National Debate ring noticed with a proposal of the National Rival Association leaders to station armed guards in every school in the country. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Several School Districts already have armed officers in their schools. Abc news, new york. In San Francisco, street theater was used to call for stricter gun laws. Participants dressed in black and laid down for 20 minutes. Organizers then read the names of each of the victims. San Francisco Police are marking the norse of anniversary of one of their open. The 28yearold was one of several officers searching for a 33yearold man. West ran through a garage when. When police went to move in he opened fire, hitting the officer, who died at the hospital the next day. People can pay respect tuesday the Community Room indiana after named after him. The family of steve jobs has lost the fight over his dream yacht. The designer has image pounded the vessel over an unpaid bill. This is what the white yacht commissioned by jobs, called the vaccine new york looks like. The bbc is reporting the designer claims jobs heirs owe him 4 million of his 12 million fee. The yacht cat 1 28 million to build. In britain, prosecutor ares are deciding whether to charge the deejays who made the prank call nate have caused a nurse to commit homicide. They called the hospital, pretending to be the queen, and the nurse who put the call through was later found dead in her room. The allmail iowa state stream accurate ruled that a woman can be fired for being too atracktive. His assistant, a married mother who worked at the office for ten years, claims she wouldnt have been fired if she were male. The court ruled she was fire because she posed a threat to the dentists marriage. The dentists lawyer called the decision a home run for family values. System to come. Its super saturday. The day that just might beat black friday. Im at the mall for last minute christmas shopping. Seven swans aswimming. The wheel of misfortunate, the big blowup after this not quite right answer. Were tracking their storms on live doppler 7hd. Leigh glaser will have the full f [ female announcer ] now get high Speed Internet at home on our newly expanded advanced Digital Network, a connection you can count on. 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It is super saturday, the day shortstops make the lastminute dash to stores a few days before christmas, and lots of stores are still open testimony lillian kim is live with a shopping frenzy. Reporter the mall closed ten minutes ago but macys will remain open overnight. Parking will be easier, something shoppers had a tough time with earlier today. The hardest part was finding a parking spot. At the shoppinger in . San mateo, shopperrers drove around in circles. Crazy. Parking is horrible. Reporter inside there was more craziness, at least in stores like brookstone where customers had to wait in long lines. Christmastime is when this gift store does the bulk of its business. Its the hot item right now. Usually the helicopters over there. The helicopters that fly around and youcrash them. We have a lot of cool ipad stuff like keyboards and cases. Reporter when this shopping day began Consumer Reports said twothirds of americans have not finished their Holiday Shopping and 14 had not started. Beings at work and not being able to get anything done. I have someone take care of my kids while i go out. But good things do come to those who wait. Many stores are offering big discounts. At jamboree, regular priced items are half off. There are some sales out. Last minute shoppers get the benefit of extended hours. For the first time on the west coast, macys his staying open for a continuous 48 hours this weekend. Dolly may make an Early Morning run to department storm. I dont know about the late night, but it would be nice to not have to feel the crowds for parking and stuff. Reporter also open around the clock, toys r us, open 24 hours until 10 00 p. M. Christmas eve. Abc7 news. Still looking for that perfect holiday gift at an affordable price, we have a story about Price Matching. The Holiday Season is not just about buying gut also about gig. St. Anthonys is holding is curbside donation drive. Today people dropped off clogs and food by the bagfuls, donated handknitted scarfs and shocks for those in need. The drive continues through monday. San franciscos glide Memorial Church handed out almost ten thousand toys today. The San Francisco giants partnered with glide to make sure each child got pag full of toys. The giants mascot was on handto greet the families. 25 years, and look at the faces of the children, remindses you what the ohio are what the holidays are about. And the need is there. Many families have to choose between toys and food. This toy giveaway is all some children get for christmas. The San Francisco zoo broke new ground tonight for the holidays. For the First Time Ever the zoo has a highlights display. Tonight what this premiere and kids and adults loved the sight. The lights lined the zoos pathways and outlined the trees. The lights will be on until december 30th. Lets get to leigh glaser. Leigh live doppler 7hd getting rather active right now. You can see very moderate rain from san rafael, heading up towards the napa and Sonoma Valley areas. Heres a look at a closer viewpoint from san rafael points north, east to novato. Nap park moderate rain moving in actually kind of squeezed in between Airport Boulevard and Browns Valley road. You can see the yellows illuminated on highway 121, Airport Boulevard also seeing moderate rain, and you can see it just starting to move over the bay there this particular area is going to move over towards the richmond parkway, san pablo so all of this is pushing off towards the east. Hercules starting to see some effect. Rain picking up, and in 10 or 15 minutes youll see more. Between alameda and san leandro, light rain. Hayward, light rain, and the moderate band of way making its way toward the east, morgan hill, monterey, picking up moderate rain. And temperatures right now, a mild system. Were all in the upper 40s to low 50s. Heres a look at our forecast. Were going to go with heavy rain, increasing overnight. The heaviest will be tomorrow morning. The good news it moves in and moves out and were looking for clearing by sunday night and looks like Christmas Eve for the whole day will be dry. Heres a look at the system that moved through this morning. Is has since moved off towards the expees you can see the plume of moisture stretch to the west of the bay area and this is poised to move in overnight to bring us heavy rain and also some very strong winds. Here is a look at the timing. This is 3 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. You can see the moderate rain already starting to move in. 5 00 a. M. , much of the bay area will be seeing some very heavy rainfall amounts, heaviest wind will be along the leading edge of this front. This is 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Check out the oranges and the yellows. And its very moderate rain. 1 00, should start to pass south of San Francisco. Much of the he of heaviest rain to the south and you can get a sense of clearing in the north bay. Thats how rapidly this front should move through, and by 4 00, 5 00, 6 00 tomorrow afternoon that front has moved towards the south, and well start to see clearing. Speaking of wind, right now not too bad. 12 at oakland, calm in the north bay but were an anticipating very strong wind, so north bay, until 1 00 tomorrow afternoon, the rest of the bay area, its up until 3 00 tomorrow afternoon, expecting south winds, 2030 milesperhour, with possible wind gusts. Especially the higher terrain, near the 50 milesperhour wind speed range, how much rainfall . Up to three inches expected north bay, mountains, santa cruz mountains, elsewhere one, maybe as much as two inches around here, and the storm warning is up for the sierra until 10 00 sunday. Two to five feet of snow, reduced visibility, expected there, tricky travel to the high country. Temperatures tomorrow, clearing from north bay to south bay. Pretty much all going to be in the midto up er 50s, near 60 degrees, and heres a look at the accuweather sevenday forecast. The rain, heavy tomorrow morning, and then well see some afternoon clearing. Partly cloudy, dry day for Christmas Eve day, and then rain on christmas day, and then thursday and friday, well start to dry out. Lisa will be here first thing tomorrow morning, abc7 morning news not ama shu hires with sports and a real game. Mike the lakers put on the holiday show tonight at oracle like no other. Went up and down more times than santa does in chimneys on Christmas Mike the warriors and lakers put own quite a show. It went back and forth more times than i did christmas shopping. Went to overtime. Here we go. Steve nash back in the lineup. Lakers storm back. Nash for three. Lakers up one. Golden state answers. 14103 warriors. But kobe, got it. Lakers back on top, 1. David lee, another double double. 20 points, 11 boards, gives his team the lead. Metta world peace, the three. And jack answers for golden state. Tied. We good to overtime. Kobe took over. Falls down. Still makes the bucket. 34 for bryant. Warriors one last chance to tie. Curry for three, misses, warriors gave away the rebound. What a finish but the warriors lose an absolute heartbreaker, 118115 your final. Sitting in the office to wait to go speak to them and im watching nba tv and they throw up steve nash, and what you guys need to too . Steve nash said we need to play with the spirit the warriors play with. Theyre unselfish, they play for one another. And im not going to lose sight of that. Mike college hoops, stanford hosted by longtime rival tennessee and the Lady Cardinal had too much game. Pat summit on hand and thinking what everyone else does, how can be stop Chiney Ogwumike. Then the miss but you know who was there to put it back, ogwumike, a doubledouble, 19 points, ten rebounds. Stanford if we though victory. The men hosting prairie view a m. Game wasnt even close. Cobb two of his 14. You know its coming. The jam. They shot 50 from the field and win it 8553. Well take a brief timeout geoff jerry rice time to catch his breath asking me gratron breaks jerry rices record for receiving yards in atlanta. Mike the falcons beat the lions, clinching top spot and homefield advantage. The side bar, Calvin Johnson broke jerry rices single season receiving record sit in 1995. Its all detroit fans had to cheer about. Matt ryan threw for 279ars and four touchdowns. Watch this catch by all joe jones. Falcons led 216 at the half. Megatron needed 182 yards to break the record. Four yards shy of the record, he would get in the fourth quarter, on this 26yarder, Calvin Johnson has the most receiving yards in a single season. He set an nfl record falcons win big. When youre in the game, you know its youre still in the moment, still on the play that just happened. I was still focused on my zone. I dont even think i said anything to my dad when i gave him the ball. I gave him a hug. Still has a game left. Could break 2,000. In the leaves bowl. Boise state and washington. Boise with trickery. Washington cuts into the lead with sankey. Ran for 209 yards. Huskies down one at the half. Uw led with 1. 22 left but mess seen mess seen mcino, game winning field goal. Um later, the 49erschicago preview. Ama still to come at 11 00, wheel of fort tune controversy. A slip of the tongue cost a woman 4,000. Moneysaving tips for last minute shoppers with michael finney. Wel ama good evening, im ama daetz in tonights headlines were keeping track of the happen storm, and a canopy at a gas station fell. Nobody was hurt. In the Oakland Hills a tree fell and took powerlines with it. 1500 people were without electricity for an hour. There are just a few hours left to finish your Holiday Shopping. Many stores are offering deep discounts and