Frightened and frustrated after returning to work to find their shops vandalized over the christmas holiday. Sometime tuesday night, someone smashed windows in stores. The back wind yof a van was broken. And the operator says this type of crime is just too common in the neighborhood. If this will go on and on and on with, out being an end, then, probably ill have another thought ofric probably, you know, moving somewhere into some business. Officials say an under staffed police force is occupied with higher priority crime autos San FranciscoCity Attorney launched an effort to refund 4 million to customers of check and go. He says the pay day lender skirted state law, giving loans online with rates of up to 400 . They will work with groups to identify borrowers. Firefighters still on the scene of an Apartment Fire in oakland. Crews inspected the building which is on 83rd avenue near international boulevard. No word yet on what caused this blaze. But damage seems to be concentrated at the rear of the building. A man is in custody after a standoff in a gas station in San Francisco. Sky 7 hd over the scene when Police Responded to a report of a man with a knife acting strangely. The man locked himself into a bathroom and took an hour and a half to talk him out. The person booked for Disorderly Conduct at San FranciscoPolice Department mission station. A tow truck driver suffered injury whez crossed the center divide, hitting three oncoming cars. The driver is expected to recover. Sky 7 is overhead at the time two. Other drivers suffered injuries. The cause of the accident remains under investigation. Well we know the next weather system is on the way. Folks have just finished clean up from the last storm, trying to get ready for the next one. Not much of a break. Were live from san rafael tonight. Hi, john. San rafael got some of the heaviest rain. Several inches before that will now there is a little bit of a break and worthers are take advantage of the dry spell. Workers cleaning leaves and other debris there x this, is where all of the street runnoff ends up whenever it rains here. The water drags in tree branches. The department of public works has to keep this clear so the pumps can flush it out to the bay to prevent flooding. Im hearing wednesday, thursday next week there is another system coming in giving us the opportunity too catch up and clean the city storm drain systems to prevent problems in the future. Public works says eight, twoperson crews working around the clock. The supervisor says hes not seen this much saturation in probably 15 years. Now, theyre catching a little bit of a breather until heading into the next rain he venlt. Abc 7 news. John, thank you. As you heard, more rain is on the way after a brief, but pleasant dry spell. Yes. Spencer christian is away. Now, accuweather updates. Looking at live doppler 7 hd, clear skies, a few high, thin clouds moving through. We do have our live doppler 7 hd will be tracking a storm soon with National Weather service down in monterey bay. The storm going to be coming in from northwest. Well see affects of it as early as tomorrow evening so 4 00 p. M. Friday, you can see cloud cover increasing. Rain lines still up in cue kaia. Youll notice rain starts . P shift around coastal areas and in, locally by 11 00 p. M. Notice heaviest rain is off the coastline. The computer models not bringing in as much rain. Many areas could remain dry. Ill be back with a look at the forecast including the weekend and new years eve if you have plans ill let you know if rain will dampen them. Thank you so much. A powerful winter storm spawned tornadoes and blizzard weather is dumping lots of snow in the northeast. You can see what its like this, is what driving looks like in new york state. Bulldozers are busy clearing snow from roads. As much as two feet is expected in maine. Dozens of flights have been cancelled. The storm is causing freezing temperatures. Some amazing video from outside of a walgreens store in mobile, alabama. Debris being tossed around as a tornado approaches. The wall greens was not severely damaged. The National Weather service says tornado had winds up to 135 Miles Per Hour and being blamed for three deaths in the area. Those are incredible picture autos scary moments for paings aboard a southwest plane in long island airport. Jet getting ready for take off, veering off the runway and got stuck in the mud no. One was injured and a passenger said people stayed calm as moveable stairs were brought in to get everyone off the plane. This is the story of Holiday Giving gone wild. A group held an event to announce theyd raised 8500 to restore city park burned down by a fire in september. Pg e was there to give them another 12,5,000 just 4,000 short of meeting the goal. That is when pge stepped in to make the difference. Id like to see maybe the pq city put in a motion activated camera with some upgraded lighting. City park built in 2006 by pg e volunteers. Damage from the arson estimated at 250,000. Well still ahead here, Connecticut School shooting prompts changes in the video game industry. And look at this video out of china. What caused a shark aquarium to burst sending shoppers into panic. An Animal Rescue group trying to help an orphanned bob cat with an unusual problem. Taking a look outside, boy, it looks like holidays are over. Look at the commute going into the east bay. This is a mess, a little bit better for the peninsula you know . Youve got to be patient out there. nsns we want to show you incredible video out of china showing a 33 ton shark tank exploding in shanghai. Just a huge wave of water just stops on the onlookers. 15 people were injured. None critically. Three lemon sharks and dozens of smaller fish died. Shanghai Officials Say cold temperatures and shod yes materials made the glass so brittle. Trouble here, some scary moments for shoppers in a sacramento mall after reports of gunfire last night. People ran for safety. To started about 5 00 in the afternoon ai. Group of 20 teens pushed shoppers and knocked over things creating a lot of noise, sounding like gunfire, sending people scrambling for cover. Stores locked down, shoppers afraid of another mass shooting. Happen. Hid hinld the counter at macys. And then, i was like, we need nkt this mall was reopened but few returns. L was reopened but violent video game makers removed links to gun makers on the web sitd of its popular game. Link as loued gamers to brows and purchase some swep ons featured in the shooter games. The violentnmsdr video games hae come under increased scrutiny. Popularity of e books rising in the u. S. A survey says it nearly a quarter of americans over age ⌜cgkve identified themselves as ebook readers. A 7 jump from last year, on the other hand number of printed book readers dropped 5 . Few found that for the first time, amount of people who read ebooks and net flix gearing up the city p company waited for a bill that removes restriction on cop companies from sharing video rental history. Once it has the green light, users can share which movies they watched with friends on facebook. Stocks closing lower on concerns about the fiscal cliff. But erasing earlier losses as news of the u. S. House will discuss the budget in a special talk sunday night. Shares of oracle and cisco weighing down. Tim cook is one of the Companies Taking a 99 pay cut this year that is not too bad. Valued at 4 million but not getting stock awards last year. Last years check was 378 mill yichblt all the stock awards he got for the past decade. ,ogzm that is a good number. Yes. Even for those in the media business, not so bad. Well let you guys compare that to the calm we get in this business. That is what you call calm. He did a better year. Thank you. Well, sandhya patel in for spencer christian. More rain is coming. Todays beautiful day. Its time to get umbrellas out. Ec let me show you a live picture. I want to show you how gorgeous it looks. Looking towards Richmond Bridge skpuk see wispy clouds out there. And really a beautiful day. Here is what live doppler 7 is showing you. Mostly sunny skies across the area here. We will be tracking more rain heading into your friday night. Here are temperatures there into 50s. Nice winter day, you can see 57 in oakland. 53 san jose. There is a look at highlights. Showers for saturday morning snow level lowering friday night. Saturday morning could drop as low as 3,000 feet so rain snow mix possible over highest peaks locally. So High Pressure weakening today, you enjoy that had dry day thanks to this ridge of High Pressure there. Is a storm developing and this is not going to be your typical storm rainl4 will return by but this system womenwill skirt coastline, bringing us rain. L youll see it hereu 0, lookg at 4 00 p. M. We have clouds around. Rain beginning to approach, heading1t8d into 8 00 hour, its still just along the san mateo coast, not much inland progress there. We may see a mix of rain and snow amounting. And this storm continues to slide south, barely making it eastward towards livermore, south bay, half moon bay, saturday, 3 00 a. M. Light to moderate rain, then, rain taper to showers by 8 00 a. M. Saturday. And its pretty much done. Most of saturday afternoon looks fine, partly cloudy skies for afternoon. Rainfall totals lower than what we showed you last night. Quarter to a half inch is the highest we can find. Tenth to a quarter inch. Youll notice there is some blues showing up here. By saturday afternoon, some may escape rain drops as the system will remain off the coast. It kicks up the surf. Northwestern swell 1014 feet. Watch out for large, breaking waves thchl may be something that you decide to go check out beaches just be careful. Tomorrow morning, mid30s into coldest inland valleys. And tomorrow afternoon, temperatures into upper 40s to north, low to mid50s else wr. Increasing cloud cover sheemplt look at the acht. Saturday morning showers, then drying out for you, coiled sunday morning and a dry afternoon. New years eve, sunny skies and milder. By evening, dry. Keeping it dry for 2013. This is a start. Cant please everyone. Wednesday go,ing into thursday, well bring rain back into the forecast. There you go. Thank you very much. Coming up next, the topless ons this orphanned bob cat kitten is getting because its too nice. Actor known as mcdreamy wants to get into the Coffee Business in real life. Taking a look outside on the bay bridge toll plaza, things are moving. Wow, okay. That is better than earlier. People trying to get on the bridge. Its slow there. Do you know what . Its working. At least not raining. Its a holiday. We this little guy is cute. He is cute this, injured bob cat rescued and is getting tough lessons on hatinguxq hums before being release food the wild. Chips the bob cat look as dorable and acts it, too. Then, only weeks old, chips nuzzled up to a firefighter and won his heart. Shes in rehabilitation in an Animal Shelter getting ground up mice for food but now, shaez to catch her own. There are concerns she may in the survive because shes human friendly. Chips is paired with wild bob cats. Shell be released when she hises at humans that approach her. Making her lessujb0n adorable. Kinld of happens in the newsroom a few time autos yes. And a greys anatomy star looking to rescue a major coffee chain. Kate winslet married again. Actress kate winslet married in 1998, then in, 2003. Now, third time, tying the knot again. Her representative says she married 34yearold ned rock and roll early this month. The nephew of richard branson. The private ceremony included her two children, family and friends. There is baby news for the rock band kings of leon. The drum skbrer his wife welcome their first child yesterday in nashville. Wrote i can proud lay nouns the birth of my sweet angel violet. My heart has been stolen and grays star Patrick Dempsey hoping to save jobs of hundreds of coffee workers leading a group close to purchasing the tullys coffee shop chain filing for bankruptcy in october. He says hes excited to help worker skbz give back. Seattle, both the company and the fictional hospital are based. Im tony cabrerra in los angeles. Still ahead russia is about to ban adoptions by american sit sins. Why they will crush the hopes of many parents. And the president back in washington with four days still to go before that so called fiscal cliff arrives. Both sides trading blame today. Also here, big change coming from people who park in San Francisco. You can tell you wont like the news. If youre looking to buy a new car, now is a great time. Ill tell you why you n another day closer to falling off the fiscal cliff. And from all appearances no compromise is in sight. Today, the president returned to washington. Hes sending lawmakers a scaled down plan to avoid that fiscal cliff. Abc 7 Mark Matthews brings us up to speed on gridlock. Sticking point continues to be tax cuts z in starting to look like no deal before the january 1 deadline. This may already be too late. Five days until the fiscal cliff. Hairy reid admitted a deal seems unlikely. I have to be honest. I dont know time wise how it can happen now. Reid called john boehner a dictateor and paintin painting pointing blame on him. Were here in washington working. Wile members of the house of representatives are out watching movies and watching the kids play soccer and baseball. John boehner seems to care more about keeping his speakership. The republican leader says the democrats have failed. The only reason democrats have been trying to deflect attention on to me and my colleagues over the past few weeks is that they zront a plan of their own. The president return forward a last minute push before leaving on vacation in hawaii. He had separate phone conversations but it isnt clear talks helped. Hopefully there is time for an agreement of some kind. Washingtons failure threatens to undermine the fragile economic recovery. Americans face big tax hikes on newers day. And Treasury Department warns the dopt will be soon unable to pay bills, the treasury says were about to bump into that debt ceiling. Its not looking great. A way to calculate how much youll have to pay if we go over the cliff. The fiscal cliff tax calculator. Weve got it and will show you how to use it at 6 00. Thank you. A work work new york woman accused of trying to scam donors by posing as a relative of one of the children killed in that elementary school. Shes charged with lying to fbi agents this, is video of her leaving court. Prosecutor says she used the facebook account, telephone calls to ask for donations for what she called a funeral fund. Alba denied accusations when contacted by the fbi. 20 children and six adults were killed in december, on the 14th when a gunman opened fire in newtown. a[a6n russian president vladir putin says he will sign a bill to ban americans from adopting russian children that. Takes affect new years day. That left pro suspective adoptivetconn parents in tushl. Vladimir putin says he plans to sign a controversial new law banning u. S. Adoptions. That dashes hopes and dreams of hundreds of american whos are trying to adopt russian orphans. Many of them with special needs. Officials have said even 46 cases will be frozen. The children will be offered to russian families. American parents thought theyd be bringing a child home soon are now left wondering if thil see them again. Its a heart breaking process. Weve started to prepare our home, not remodeling or painting or buying furniture but just preparing the emotional state of our home and ourselves and oufr children for the change that is going to occur. The ban is part of russias retaliation for a set of human rights sanctions passed and signed into law this month by president obama. Russia is the third most popular country for americans to adopt. Over 60,000 have happened since the fall of the soviet union but adoptions to the u. S. Have become a political football in russia. Officials point to cases of 19 children died after being adopted by americans. The issue caught fire in 2010 when this boy was put back on a plane alone to russia by his adoptive mother in tennessee. A poll here found the majority of russians support the ban but this sparked outrage many who say this is playing politics for children. You hope its not a door shut but just, that this is an obstacle, a delay. And we do not know. And were just getting word from the ap retired u. S. General norman swartzcpf died. A much decorated combat soldier in vietnam, he was known sometimes as stormin norman. He was 78 years old. Family and friends continue to visit former president George Hw Bush in an intensive care unit of a houston hospital. Hes the oldest living former president , optized at Methodist Hospital last month with a chronic cough and just transfered to icu because of a persistent high fever. Doctors treating this disease but have not found what is caution it. The elder bush is 88 years old, suffering from vascular parkinism, making his legs immobile. A longstanding parking policy is ending and may catch many people off guard. Watch out this, is the last sunday you may be able to park for free. Well, its the end of an era. As far as that one day break from these parking meters is concerned. Td Municipal Transportation Agency says its not about the money they say, about management. Parking management. This First Parking meter installed in 1947. Since then, sundays have been sacred but that is about to come to an end. In 1940s a policy was put into place because businesses were closed now, about 70 of the businesses are open so. Makes sense to have a Parking Management in place. I like the idea 12 00 to 6 00 . Because it keeps traffic moving. Robbycurs this is not good former chants. I think the customer would is like to have a little break not to worry about metering. All 29,000 meters will operate on sundays from noon until 6 00 p. M. Sunday is supposed to be a free day. So that is going to be a very awful thing to do. All meters have been redesigned to take prepayments for up to four hours at a time. The mta hope thats will satisfy religious leade