There are thousands of robots doing much of the grunt work. Thanks largely to these guys, your cyber monday orders can travel from your desk top to your doorstep in as little as half a day. It could be picked and on the truck in as little as 15 minutes. Reporter its called kivas, amazon has hundreds of these floor hug gers on hand in this building the size of 29 football fields. The robots basically pick up and hand off products to human workers who take it from there. Their job is to bring inventory that customers have purchased over to these pickers so they can pick them and send them outbound for the holiday. Reporter on this day, the busiest Cyber Shopping day of the year, amazon expects to fill as many as 700,000 orders at this center alone, one of 50 the company has in the united states. Cyber monday last year was our busiest day all year. We were seeing orders at the rate of 426 items per second, and we think this day is going to be even bigger. Reporter while the rebots do much of the work, there are still thousands of people working here to make sure amazons millions of customers get the right item in the right box right in time for the holidays. In tracy laura anthony, abc 7 news. For a list of the best seib ir monday deals available go to abc7news. Com. It appears americans were not in a spending mood over the long holiday weekend. The National Retail federation says sales actually tumbled 11 over last years numbers and more than 6 million fewer shoppers showed up. It showed shoppers are confident enough to skip the rush. It proves its a marathon and not a sprint. We are getting a bit of a break from the rain today. It looks a little ominous in the distance there. Mostly cloudy around the third storm in four days that is expected to make for a messy commute. Spencer christian has our update. A few wildly scattered showers. Tomorrows late commute will be an ugly one. Here is live doppler 7hd. We dont have much in the way of rainfall. Light scattered shows confined to a small portion of the east bay, san ramon and livermore. A big and powerful storm is moving in our direction coming from our southwest. A huge mass of moisture. Storm risk calls for medium chance of urban flooding, wind damage and Power Outages tomorrow, and there may even be some thunderstorms, a slight chance of thunderstorms. This system could produce up to five inches of rain in the bay area mountains over the next few days. Our forecast at 5 00 this afternoon, notice for most of the evening well see clouds and maybe some isolated showers. But during the overnight hours, beginning of the morning commute, tomorrow about 5 00 a. M. , rain begins to push in. It will quickly intensify during the morning commute. By 00 tomorrow morning, looking at widespread areas of rainfall. Much of it locally heavy. That pattern will continue through the day tomorrow, producing what ill refer to as ugly afternoon commute tomorrow. Ill have a complete look at the accuweather sevenday forecast, ama and cheryl. You can see whats showing up on live doppler 7hd with the abc 7 news weather app. We have more information at abc7news. Com slash apps. Weather conditions may have caused a large oak tree to fall in atherton, blocking traffic, damaging a car, knocking out power lines on palmer lane. Luckily nobody was hurt in the car that was hit with the tree when it came down. So the loss of the tree is one thing. Were just very glad nobody got hurt. It looks like the tree, due to some oak root fungus was weakened, the wet ground caused the tree to fall over. Lovely oak will be much missed. 71 homes lost power. Pg ande hopes to restore electricity by this evening. Every time it rains we see a different kind of tree falling in San Francisco. It seems like it. The city has decided to relax the rules to make it easier to remove the ficus trees. Reporter cheryl, the cicus trees are becoming a danger all over the city. Several fell here last year. Now the head of the department of public works is trying to make it easier for homeowners to get rid of them. Its being taken down today and perhaps not a moment too soon. A large portion of this ficus tree fell on a cab yesterday, fortunately no one was hurt. Last month a man was injured when a ficus toppled, hitting him in the branches. Incidents like these over the years have convinced the city to change whats been a conservative approach for removal. If the tree is hell think and sustainable, we would typically not grant the removal permit. In this case i think what we recognized is while these trees may be very healthy, they are structurally compromised. The city has given Property Owners responsibility for at least 1200 ficus trees in front of their home. Most were planted decades ago and are topheavy and weak. As the trees increasingly begin to topple, the rules have been relaxed for those who want permission to get rid of them. New guidelines include if the tree is at least 50 feet tall, two or more trunks or near street lights or power lines. A permit is not guaranteed, but approval is more likely. Removing these trees is going to be a challenge for us. Public safety is our paramount concern. Reporter the nonprofit friends of the urban forest has been working with the city to find a suitable alternative for the ficus which makes up a significant portion of San Francisco street trees. We think the importance of low water and reducing wind speeds in San Francisco and being tolerant of the microclimates we have. Reporter the removal permit will cost 339. Any ficus removed has to be replaced with another species. In San Francisco, carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. An aislemile stretch of the pacific highway remains closed after heavy rains triggered rock rocks and mudslides yesterday. Its closed about a mile north of the Los Angeles City line to point mugu. Two cars were caught in the debris yesterday. No one was hurt. It occurred in the same area as the may 2013 springs fire which burned 24 how acres. We have no word on when the highway will reopen. The wind is causing delays at San Francisco airport. According to flight aware, delays are an average of 30 to 40 minutes. Thats not helping passengers trying to get home from the thanksgiving holiday. Abc reporter nick smith has more from sfo. I have no choice. I have to get there no matter what. Angela samoa says her weekend of fun is over. Im traveling for work. We have an annual user conference thats always the week after thanksgiving. Fortunately for her, traveling today is a major improvement over yesterday. On sunday nasty weather forced widespread delays of up to four hours and the cancellation of dozens of flights. Today were expecting about 125,000. Reporter successfully getting passengers in and out of sfo on time is the goal. The rain has stopped departure and ap rival boards are clear. Travelers are finding the tsa lines manageable. Just like those moving there sfo, he and his team are beholding to San Franciscos fluctuating weather that will change on a dime. Conditions are clearing. We may see delays locally, 30 to 45 minutes. Reporter after a tearful goodbye with mom and dad, jasmine anticipated the possibility of weekend travel delays, she booked months in advance. I checked in last night. Now im currently planning on coming back for christmas. So thats another my next homework. Reporter according to flight aware, flight delays across the country continue. The hardest hit airports on the east coast. It didnt seem like a big deal. Everything seems to be fine. Glad it worked out. The spokesperson here at sfo says weather will continue to be an issue for the next two days. All they can advise is they call ahead before you leave home. At sfo, nick smith, abc 7 news. Students and pleas at stanford walked out of class to protest the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in ferguson, missouri. The Group Gathering on campus marched to palo alto and tied up traffic near el camino real. In San Francisco today there is still visible damage to businesses impacted on friday when a ferguson protest turned violent. Vandals smashed windows and spray painted buildings from union square to the mission district. Right now the department is debriefing Leanne Melendez on their clashes and how many people were arrested. Shes going to tell you what police have to say and how businesses are coping at 5 00 p. M. A san jose firefighter is recovering after sustaining minor injuries from falling debris while battling a house fire in campbell. Sky 7 hd was overhead as santa clara and san jose firefighters worked to knock it down. A man passing by noticed smoke coming from a home on villarita drive and banged on the homeowners door. I ran back in. We checked the garage. I said im not going to try to open it up because its going to add more oxygen in there. Grabbed her and got out. The homeowners did get out with their dog unarmed. Firefighters evacuated nearby residents. It took crews more than an hour to get that fire under control. Investigators are still searching for its cause. A large homeless camp in san jose is set to be closed for good. City officials want to permanently disable the homeless encampment known as the jungle. City workers will taking down the makeshift homes and cleaning up all that trash on thursday. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, jim harbaugh responds to reports his days with the 9 rs are numbered and the raiders may be trying to trade for him. An else receipt toe canine sniffing out a bag of cocaine. Police describe the conditions where they found a 13yearold boy hidden behind a false wall in a georgia home. 7 on your sides Michael Finney is taking your questions on twitter. You can contact him at facebook. Com michaelfinney abc7. Checking your sky way traffic in San Francisco as we approach 4 13 on your monday, it is slow going in both directions on the righthand side, traffic heading toward 101 south. Lefthand side approaching the lower deck of the bay bridge over to the east bay, not 9ers country about the future of coach jim harbaugh. First the owner tweeted an apology for the teeps performance. Now there are reports harbaugh could be traded across the bay. Abc 7 News ReporterSergio Quintana joins us with more about harbaughs response. Reporter after the big loss on thanksgiving day and the long holiday weekend, there was lots of time for people to pose the questions about the direction the team will have to take for the rest of the season, harbaughs leadership and his future with the team. After such a dismal performance by the 49ers thanksgiving day, coach harbaugh faced a line of questions that went beyond the scope of strategy, reporting by espn this weekend that the raiders and the new york jets would consider harbaughs trade at the end of the see sorngs racing questions about his leadership. Do you think your future is in question here beyond the season . I really i dont worry about my future. Reporter many of these questions were prompted by a tweet from 49ers president jed york apologizing for the turkey day performance. As he talked with jed, passed along his feelings about what happened . To me thats not significant. Has management or ownership asked you to do anything with your Coaching Staff or make any changes . No. Reporter harbaugh said theyre trying to move forward and practicing for a win against their cross bay rivals, the oakland raiders. For fans, theyre disappointed for the thanksgiving day loss but still support for harbaugh. If it wasnt for harbaugh we wouldnt be in this position. I think we need a new offensive coordinator. These things i read in the media about harbaugh being traded or leaving the team, i think three winning seasons he deserves to be our head coach. Reporter he spent most of the News Conference deflecting a suggestion of the future with the raiders. An else receipt toe police dog is back on duty after running into a problem on the job. Take a look at coda. Last weekend he had to be taken to an emergency veterinarian clinic after he located cocaine in a car that was pulled over. Coda tested positive. The driver was arrested and coda was better the next day. Oakland merit restaurant and bakery has plans to set up shop at the quickway. The owner is selling the property to an unnamed developer who plans to build an Apartment Building with ground floor retail. The shortterm agreement is to satisfy the communes concerns. For the First Time EverGirl Scout Cookies will be sold online. Skauts will sell cookies through a National Platform called digital cookie. Customers wont be able to order the cookies online unless you get an invitation from the girl scouts. A mobile app including credit card processing and online shipping. It launches december 12th. Lets get a check on our weather with spencer christian. Im going to get traded to buffalo for a morning anchor and two draft picks. We have mostly cloudy skas around the bay area. Light rain confined mainly to a small portion of the east bay. This is exactly what were seeing the last hour or so. Its the heavier rain thats not here yet that were really concerned about. Here is a live view from emoriville. The sky is colorful with lots of clouds in the pre sunset minutes. Temperatures are 61 to 65 across the entire bay area. From San Francisco, oakland, san diego, morgan hill and half moon bay. Another view of the western sky with the tower in in foreground. 61 to 64 degrees. One more live view of the northwestern sky from our sutro tower camera. Here are the forecast features, wet and windy tomorrow. Minor urban flooding is possible with the waves of heavy rain that we do expect to happen tomorrow. Winter storm is likely over the sierra passes. Weve got a lot going on here. Here is our satellite radar composite image. Notice the surge of subtropical moisture. This combination of factors will bring us the Stormy Weather we expect over the next couple days with periods of heavy rain, strong gusty winds. Here is our forecast animation beginning at 5 00 tomorrow morning as the morning rush begins, the rain will be intensifying and spreading already. Throughout the day that pattern will continue with waves or periods of heavy wind. Localized street flooding is possible. By 38 00 tomorrow night, well see a little break as the system tarts to lose intensity. Early wednesday morning it starts up a again with more waves of heavy rain moving onshore at just about the beginning of our wednesday morning rush. That will continue on wednesday and into the afternoon. By 4 00 wednesday afternoon, we could be looking at rainfall totals as high as three to five inches in the north bay mountains. Two to four inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I talked about the winds. The winds will intensify overnight into tomorrow. Strongest gusts early tomorrow will be near the coast, certainly into the afternoon hours. Over 40 Miles Per Hour at sfo, up to 40 Miles Per Hour at half moon bay. 30 Miles Per Hour at oakland. Later in the evening hours, tomorrow well see a strong gust moving inland. Still over 20, 25mileperhour gust also be widespread tomorrow evening across the bay area. In the sierra, a winter storm warning is in effect at noon tomorrow. We could see 12 to 18 inches of snow above 7,000 feet. Two to three feet in thigher peaks. In the bay area, low temperatures in the low to mid 50s. Tomorrows highs only just around 60 degrees under rainy, windy conditions. Two stormy days coming our way, maybe even a couple isolated thunderstorms. Finally, partly cloudy and dry saturday, sunday and monday. Muchneeded rain is coming our way and its coming in a brief period of time. Ama and cheryl . Up next, the special tribute today that had actress judith light in the bay area. Later, a pop quiz for his son in front of all the cameras. Son in front of all the cameras. At and the doctor saw a i weblemish on my cheek. Ter, he told me it was skin cancer. I was in shock. I wasnt covered with any Health Insurance. But once i got covered through covered california, i was able to go get the surgery that i needed. And it was a lifesaver. In the country through covered california. S im living proof that Health Insurance works. Im in, because im getting the best care around. You too can enjoy Quality Health coverage. To enroll, or find free inperson help, go to coveredca. Com actress judith light was honored in San Francisco today during a special ceremony to mark world aids day. She became involved in the epidemic in 1980s and later filmed the movie about ryan white, the teenager infected with aids and later died. My friends were dying. I considered them my family. They were being vilified, and there was a level of divisiveness toward the community and a homophobic response that people werent talking about. The ceremony took place during the aids Memorial Grove at golden gate park. People stopped by to look at the names of the victims inscribed at the memorial. Nearly 20,000 people died in San Francisco from the epidemic. Bruce springsteen and cold plays chris martin fills in for bono when u2 plays in new york city. It benefits world aids day. Bono was injured in a bike accident in central park. Comedian and self proclaimed diva Kathy Griffin will replace the late joan rivers on the E Networks Fashion police. The show will return with Golden Globes red carpet. The network released a statement saying her tell it like it is personality will do the series justice. The winner of a half Million DollarMega Millions prize has been found. Jaylene matched every number except for one. It went unclaime