Weakening tree roots. This tree fell in lark spur. Werej5oy concerned about stability here so, when ground becomes saturated and that can affect stability. Then, we can get mudslides. Things of that nature. So far no, problems. Its wet but its stable, they tell homeowners to keep an eye on leaning posts, telephone poles as you just saw, and trees. Those are signs that the earth is on the move. Were live in mill valley, abc 7 news. Thank you so much n East Palo AltoWater District workers are keeping an eye on the creek that flooded, causing evacuation of seven homes and a levy to leak. Officials say so far, so good. Its looking fine as long as were not getting anymore anticipation. So were just assessing damage at this point in time. Residents are annoyed and sate flooding happens all the time. City officials are ware of the frustration and hope public work project scheduled for the spring will fix things once skb for all. Going to the sierra now. R[c. รท snowfall is slowing down drivers going to, or coming from lake tahoe area. This is showing a steady stream of traffic. They hope to repeat it for new years of course. Here is a look at conditions on interstate 80. Winds are gusting up to 60 miles per hour. And you can imagine, chains are required and snow showers will continue throughout the night. Chp advising drivers to please take it slow. And stay with abc 7 news and you can get alerts from us on twitter. We have developing news right now concerning the health of former president george hw bush. Mr. Bush is now in intensive care at houstons methodist hospital. A Spokesman Says hes in guarded condition, alert, talking with medical staff, and hes surrounded by family. Hes 88 years old now. He has been in the hospitaln n for more than a month with a n fighting a strong fever that got worse this week. Doctors put him on a liquid diet this morning. Sky 7 hd over the scene in san francisco. Crews rescued a construction worker after a long fall. The victim was unconscious when firefighters arrived. The man fell 20 feet to the cuttout. A stairwell will be placed in a home, it took 10 minutes for anyone to realize what happened. The worker is hospitalized apparently in critical condition. Police in alameda investigating the christmas night stabbing that injured four people about 10 15 last night on louie starville avenue. Police say a Family Member stabbed four others after an argument broke out during a holiday gathering. A woman was taken into custody. Police say she either used a kitchen or pocketknife. We have new information tonight about the young woman accused of slamming her car into a group of6xe pedestriann twin peaks last week, killing a person. The woman wanted to become a police officer. Friends and family filed into the courtroom. The 23yearold woman is accused of being drunk, she drove her car into a group of pedestrians last week. They were enjoying breath taking views from the twin peaks outlook. A 56yearold, visiting from china, was killed. Her son and two friends, injured. Police say eunice fled, but they arrested her nearby. Shes being held on 2 million bail. Until a formal arraignment next week. The young woman may already know something about what she faces. Studying criminal justice. Should shed she be able to make bail, the judge ordered an alcohol monitoring device placed on her, and that she not be able to drive a car. In san francisco, abc 7 news. Wall street is feeling the squeeze the day after christmas on heels of a weak Holiday Shopping report. The dow jones fell 24 points to 13,114 and Light Trading today, the day after christmas, the Third Straight losing day for the dow. Bargain Shoppers Hit Stores in search of after christmas deals. Stores are hoping to turn around aym5 trying to lure people in, now. Amy hollyfield has more now. Stores opened early but clerks far outnumbed shoppers this morning. I thought there would be more people here. There aj . The clerk, i was dealing with said i was her second customer in the last hour. So its a good time to shop. I got a good parking space. Hillsdale mall opened at 8 00 instead of 10 00. There are plenty of deals greeting customers big discounts throughout the mall. Target also opened early today but shoppers didnt sound impressed. I was looking for jackets and sweaters. Didnt find that much, you know, of a bargain. On days like today, i guess my son needed a razor. They got one here thatu price. The big bargains could be found in the christmas section. They were urzz tough for some to resist. Came in for one item, ended up bying 200 worth of stuff. The last week of december is important for retailers. Research shows stores do 15 of the months sales this week. That is important this year. Nationally, people didnt spend as much this Holiday Season as hoped but locally we heard a different story. I think i spent more than in the past. You know . From my jobs have gotten better. I work, we were fortunate this year, had a good year. One store owner here tells me he is at 5 compared to last christmas and says hes seeing exchanges and people using their gift cards. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00 toyota acceleration problems and major settlements involving hundreds of lawsuits. Extreme weather. A powerful winter storm pounding the mid section and tornadoes ripping through the gulf coast. A mother protected her children from a stray bullet attending church talks to abc 7 news from the hospital. And outside we go on this wednesday, day after christmas. Looking live at the skyway now. Lefthand side of the screen heading towards the bay bridge. Folks heading to, from work, others taking a sweater back that didnt fight quite right for christmas. Stay with us. Abc 7 news at 4 00 continues in just a moment. Toyota reached a settlement in the case involving hundreds of lawsuits over acceleration problems. An Attorney Says its worth more than 1 billion, the largest settlement in u. S. History. Toyota recalled 14 million vehicles world wide, because of acceleration problems in several models and brake defect was the prius. A judge must approve this settlem despite recalls toyota said set to overtake General Motors toyota lost the top spot in 2011 when sales were hit by the earthquake and tsunami. Holidays gave less than stellar sales to retailer autos cory johnson joins with us your bloomberg after the bell report. Cory . Hi, good after the. Online brick and Mortar Companies not feeling too cheery this day after christmas. Numbers show that growth is slowing according to mastercard advisor spending pulse. Yes that is the name of the seventenths of a percent this year. Mastercard has online sales rose 8. 4 to 48 billion we havewell off last years rate of growth. Not all predictions says the sales should rise 16 this Holiday Season. That compares to 15 last year kn come core, ibm says online sales on Christmas Day grew 22 up from 60 growth rate last year. Shares of research in motion on the rebound today, rising 11 . That move comes after rim lost a quarter of the market value in the two previous sessions after Earnings Report shares tanking after the black berry maker agreed to lower payments in the future. And samsung getting back at ericson, filing a complaint the u. S. Interthagsal trade commission after the u. S. Banned import and sale of a they violate seven patents. Both product impacts and devices come about a month after ericson sued samsung for patent infringement. Stocks down and bloomberg Silicon Valley index lower, shares of apple and ebay leading declines. Microsoft ringing in the new year announcing its store locations for 2013, Software Giants says goitsing to open six new locations nest next year, including stores in miami, st. Louis and san francisco. Microsoft capping off the year and opens 51 pop up Stores IncludingFirst International outposts in canada. Back to you. Thank you so much. Regulators considering whether to make airlines reveal prices to Online Sellers such as orbits complaining its getting harder to know the prices of the air fares so they can compare it. They want to offer customized packages instead. Talking about the weather, parts of the midest already a blizzard warning now. A deadly storm continues to move across the region. People in illinois, indiana and kentucky bracing for white out conditions cause bid fierce winds. It left a mess in texas, oklahoma and arkansas. The storm is also wreaked havoc at airports. 400 flights have been cancelled nationwide. Here is a live look at snowy freeways in cleveland, ohio. You can see clouds working there. You can see lights flashing in the middle of the screen. More snow is affected. I want to go, oh, wow. Look at that tornado. That is the scary site an alabama woman saw yesterday. National Weather Service reported 34 tornadoes in texas, louisiana, mississippi and alabama. Biggest outbreak on Christmas Day. Dozens of homes were destroyed and two deaths blame frtd storm. The state of emergency has been declared in mississippi knox good time for that to happen, but Christmas Day must be the worst. Yes. Here at home, a lot better and getting better. Were seeing an improvement in weather. Weve seen foggy weather here in the bay area. Seera, resorts reporting two to almost three feet of snow here is a live look towards san francisco. Peaks of blue. Some of you may have put umbrellas away. Kiiter compared to what were dealing w looking at radar, our radar picking up storms first. Along with national Weather Service radar keeping awe head of the storms. Youll notice spotty activity. Showers showing up north of clover dale. Around the monterey bay, hit or miss showers, these are just popping up. There is instability in the air, looking at a loop youll notice showers have been skirting the coast. Sun goes down, the showers will die down. Sierra nevada chain controls on all roads leading to tahoe. We have a winter storm warning going in and temperatures now in the 50s. Here are the highlights. Showers this morning and patchy fog. Mostly sunny skies for thursday. Yes. Youll get a nice break, then rain returns late friday going into saturday. Tomorrow morning heading out of the door if you have plans make sure you bundle up. Its going to get chilly. Mid 30s in santa rosa and napa. Well see patchy fog heading into morning hours. Well have more snours t to showers to contend w it will be dry for thursday afternoon. I want to show you winter storm warnings in affect until 11 00 p. M. Tonight. Three inches of snow, i 80, highway 50, chain controls will continue likely unless snow tapers off. Sheer look at the next storm heading into friday evening. Showers in the north bay, 9 00 p. M. Youll notice snow northeast. Saturday, its not going to be a big storm this, will produce switching to showers saturday afternoon. Rainfall totals remaining under a half an inch. Tomorrow afternoon, mostly 50s for highs. kpd clear lake, temperatures in mid50s. Here is the accuweather forecast. A dry day tomorrow, rain late friday. Sunday, sunny skies. Monday, new years eve if you have plans check that out. For the first day of 2013 its going to be dry with the next storm coming throughhks. Z here n wednesday. So theyre going to get more dry days than wet days. Thank you. Coming up next here, a Million Dollar mistake. How one store clerk mix up made a family a lot of money. Later on a message in a nottel brings a man to define gifts this hmd season. Here is a look at the bridge. You can see in both directions. Traffic moving along smartly this day after christmas. Stay with us, abc 7 this is a very cool story. I love this story. A New Hampshire family became instant millionaires over the holidays because of a mistake by a cash year. The family celebrated their good fort yooun this week. They won 1. 3 million in the megabucks lottery there. It s it wasnt supposed to happen. Then twont a circle k to purchase a lucky for life ticket. The cash year pressed the wrong button. Sitting on the bus with the ticket in one hand and New Hampshire lottery web site and didnt believe it. Yeah. No kidding. The casheer says shes thrill wtd mistake. The family sthiing of giving her a reward for the lucky carelessness. Funeral arrangements moving forward now for actor jack clugman who became famous playing oscar in the odd couple. Manhattan apartment where his character supposedly lived has become a tour yaift traction. He died on Christmas Eve at age 90. He won two emmys for playing a sloppy Sports Writer living with a neat freak. Christmas day movies have people flocking to the movie autos every Christmas Day, new movies open in theaters this christmas, movie goers were all about it. With two record breakers. That is the second biggest Christmas Day opening of all time. n with 15 n making you third best Christmas Day opening and the biggest christmas opening for a rated r film. Top opening on record goes to sherlock holmes. Now to ben afleck who was rumored to run for u. S. Senate in massachusetts. The actor cleared it uch this week saying hes not running for office, afleck yerntd a spotlight last wheek spoke about setting humanitarian aid to eastern congo. Singer Jessica Simpson whats has a big announcement, shes pregnant with her second child revealing the news with a picture of her daughter maxwell next to the words big sis. For more Entertainment News go to otrc. Com. An oakland mother dives on top of her children at church to protect them from a stray bullet. She talks to abc 7 news from her hospital bed. Politics and coffee. How starbucks is taking a public stand on looming fiscal cliff. Im Michael Finney. Did you receive a new tv over the holidays . Coming up, best moneysaving options for a home theater system. ;n;n;n;n;n x church supposed dob a save haif yerngs a place to worship in peace. An east bay mother is in the hospital after protecting her children fromhc a stray bullet. Shes talking with abc 7 news about this ordeal. Nick smith joins us live with the story. Nick . Cheryl, dan, good evening. Maria is expected to survive her injuries. She expected them to learn a lesson about the christmas holidays. Instead, her children sought mother, shot, hit by a stray bullet. Maria has a frightening story to tell. Were at church with my daughter and people passed by shooting at church. She spoke to me from hervhle hospital bed, shaken by the scene of events plague out on monday night. I look back and saw a bullet coming at my sons head. I threw myself over my son. The reverend was selling telling a 4i whe when. Boom, boom. h7qsc we had to stop the sermon. Go down. I said go down. As fast as you can. Four bullets pierced through the walls into the sanctuary of the church and in the path of parishioners. Her instinct tworz turn to shield her children putting her in the path of the spray bullet. I got shot in the lung and injured my intestine and stomach. The shooting started just before 9 00 p. M. Christmas eve. The day most latinos celebrate christmas. The reverend was l with more than 100 parishioners inside, most of them spanish speeblging, many children, all in shock. I threw myself down and got a chair and put knit front of me. A bullet came here, hit the chair. A lesson that no child should ever have toii,jrn. You never know. The reverend says he has no intentions on leaving the neighborhood. Most parishioners live in that area. Police did their part but say they have no suspects but the investigation continues. Thank goodness shes okay. Thank you very much. President ob yaum and members of Congress Heading back to washington after a break but e. Avoid the fiscal cliff. Official says they dont know of any significant strides towards a compromise being made for the long christmas weekend. President obama spent part of the Christmas Day greeting thanking Service Member autos thanks for the work. Knowing there are steeper cuts and the president is giving it a last shot, cutting short his vacation, returning to washington, d. C. Tomorrow to try to hammer out a last minute deal with congressional republicans. If there is no break through, every american will be hit with higher taxes. A schoolteacher with two kids and a salary of 43,000 will face a tax hike of 3,000. The super rich like lebron james would see his tax goes up more thanhoa 2. 4 million this year. I want us to not go over the cliff. I think it hurts the country. Middle class people shouldnt have tax goes up . heq 2,000 a year, we should start making some meaningful reform on debt. Going over the fiscal cliff mean morz than higher taxes. Federal workers at risk of being furloughed and Unemployment Benefits for two Million People could expire saying the nation will fall back into a recession. There are reports hairy reed is now working on a smaller deal than the one the president negotiate yatesed with House Speaker john boehner. The package reportedly preventing tax increases on middle class families and cut some spending programs but its not clear such a plan could pass. Star bucks is using its coffee cups to jump into washington politics. The worlds biggest coffee chain asking employees and cafes to write something other than customer names on cups wanting workers to scribble words come together on cups this week as a message to lawmakers to settle this fiscal cliff issue. Jipgs president morsi signed the countrys new constitution into law today. He called on the opposition to the opposition restricted the new constitution. The parts were draft bid islamist leaders. Morsi revoked sweeping powers he granted himself last month. Saying they were in necessary to get a referendum on the consti