Loudly as a big fireworks display over the river thames lights up the sky. You are looking live at london, england as they ring in 2015 in spectacular style. I love it. Maybe i wont have to stay up until midnight. I feel like i have seen it now. I can get some rest. It will be unusually cold here in San Francisco on this new years eve tonight. A live look for you at the embarcadero, where hundreds of thousands of people are expected along the waterfront. So definitely bundle up if you are heading out. Spencer christian is live outside with your fireworks forecast. Happy new year spencer. Happy new year to you. Things are looking really great so far. Clear skies all over the bay area but it will be pretty cold. Lets take a look at Current Conditions with live doppler 7 hd. Sunny skies a few high clouds around and notice the winds have dropped off significantly from those powerful gusts we had yesterday and last night. Right now we dont see any gusty conditions at all. Lets move along to a live view from mount tam looking down on the bay. These are current temperature readings. 57 in San Francisco, oakland 56 55 san carlos, 54 apiece at san Jose Morgan Hill and half moon bay. Beautiful view of the western sky from the east bay camera in emeryville. 62 right now 62 in santa rosa. Upper 50s at napa novato concord, livermore. 50 in fairfield. Heres our midnight event planner midnight forecast for new years eve. Our fireworks forecast is what im trying to say. It will be cold tonight clear skies, good viewing for the fireworks. At 10 00 p. M. In San Francisco, pier 14 is where the fireworks display will occur. It will be 46 degrees. By midnight, down to 44 degrees. I would advise bundling up and i would advise not relying on your beverage of choice to keep you warm. We have freeze warnings i will show you a little bit later. My beverage of choice is hot chocolate tonight. There you go. Thanks very much. Sounds like a good choice to me. The cold snap has people around the bay area taking precautions. Plants and pipes, of course, the biggest concern when the temperature drops this low. Abc 7 News ReporterLaura Anthony is live in walnut creek with a look. Reporter well you would think people would avoid cold places like this on a day like this but as you can see, this rink is brimming with skaters. It has been all afternoon. In many other places here in Contra Costa County we found the cold weather is seen as more of a hazard. Gardiner bert morningstar has his hands full this new years eve going from one clients house to the next, spraying their citrus trees and other plants with a protective coating of pine oil just in time for the cold snap. It will penetrate the leaves and give you about five degrees difference during the morning frost. Of course, its always a good idea if you cut it even, put a sheet over it and take the sheet off the next morning. Its a nice evergreen but the frost will nip this pretty badly. Reporter the oil can also be used to protect gardenias, and ferns, among other vulnerable species. When the temperatures plunge below freezing. Across town normally open only during the day the Trinity Center is open as a warming shelter for overnight stays but there are only 12 spaces and they are already taken. Thats why the Trinity Center is appealing to other facilities, including churches, to help provide space. It needs to be an easily accessible location but warm a floor, folks will sleep on the floor in sleeping bags. They dont need much. Just a warm place to sleep. Reporter for those who must stay outside, county outreach workers are going out at night offering blankets, gift cards and information about Available Services in the cold weather. Laura anthony, abc 7 news. Sky 7 hd shows you some of the damage caused by the wind at the golf course in alameda. Look at these trees. At least five of them fell near the three golf courses. They just came toppling down making a huge mess. Giant trees. Thats just north of the international airport. Another tree damaged vehicles parked along the perimeter of the golf complex. It was actually old farmland so nothing really happens out here. This is pretty exciting for this area. Every high wind storm that we have, we lose a tree, at least one. The course is so old and these trees are just ready to go, they are so tall. Despite the damage many golfers do what they often do. They just played on. Four homes remain redtagged or off limits in napa. This comes after part of a large redwoodlanded on one of them. Another part of the same tree is in danger of falling on to the other three homes. Residents have been displaced from their homes since the tree first fell yesterday afternoon. The red cross is helping them until they are able to get back inside the houses. Thousands of people lost power because of the wind and pg e crews are continuing tonight to work to fix Power Outages all over the bay area. More than 800 people in san jose are waiting for the power to return. Abc 7 News ReporterElissa Harrington looks at the cleanup there. The tree come down with the wires, with the flames and the whole nine yards. Reporter arshia ali says preschoolers were inside the building yesterday when the gusty winds took down a tree outside which toppled a power pole and started a small fire. We do fire drills and safety drills all the time so you tell the kids stay safe stay with the teachers and listen and follow instructions. Reporter today, power is still out. She posted signs at the school letting parents know its closed. Many neighbors spent the night in the cold, like patricia martinez. A big house and it gets very cold. I started putting candles on. I didnt know what else to do because i dont have another type of heater to turn on. Reporter her power came back on early this morning. She made coffee for one of the workers who spent the night directing traffic in the blistering cold. I saw one of the workers standing out there freezing so i opened my window and asked her do you want a cup of coffee. She said yes. Reporter crews have been working nonstop. The biggest problem they are seeing toppled trees falling on power lines. Durell, who already lost power twice since yesterday, considered canceling his new years eve plans. Well, we were going to have a Party Tonight and then we said oh, the partys off. Reporter his power is back on now and so is the party. But he is not confident he will ring in 2015 with electricity. We are hoping that the power stays on today. But we can just hope. Reporter this project is going to take awhile because pg e has to replace eight power poles and they expect to have power back on at that preschool by tomorrow morning. They also have out additional crews at work also on standby in case the winds today cause more problems. Elissa harrington, abc 7 news. Look at this wild scene at the rose bowl in pasadena this afternoon. Four people are hurt after strong winds picked up a tent and tossed it around into the air. Look at this thing. The National Weather service says these winds are more than 60 miles an hour. People ran frantically as the tent landed on some cars. A couple other tents got tossed around as well. A video shows one of the larger tents going nupup in the air from another angle. Someone else posted the chaos from farther away on instagram. Glad to say as bad as it was, no injuries are serious. Scary to watch. High winds are believed responsible for the deaths of two men overnight on Santa Catalina island. Officials say a Harbor Patrol officer was killed after being pinned between a boat and a rock around 11 00 last night. Then another mans body was found floating in the water nearby just off green pleasure pier. Its unclear if the two deaths are related. Winds topping more than 40 miles an hour hit the island kicking up the water and beaching several boats. The blustery storm dropped snow in lower elevations across Southern California stranding dozens of motorists on mountain highways. Firefighters rescued more than 140 people whose vehicles got stuck in about a foot of snow along highway 138 in San Bernardino county. Another 50 people had to be rescued near mount baldy. Its already 2015 in most of the world and millions rang in the new year in spectacular fashion. Dazzling fireworks lit up the sky in sydney harbor in australia before a crowd of more than a Million People. The celebration went off without a hitch despite terrorism concerns. Five four three, two, one happy new year happy new year so fun to watch. A colorful celebration outside in beijing. The Chinese Government moved the event to olympic park to highlight its bid for the 2022 winter olympics. And in taiwan, fireworks exploded from the landmark skyscraper taipei 101 before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people. That is pretty impressive. Very. People protesting against Police Brutality will be along the embarcadero tonight. Police have increased the number of patrols to keep it as safe as possible. Abc 7 News ReporterLyanne Melendez is live along the embarcadero with the story. Reporter police say they always have a number of officers or extra officers out here on a night like tonight. Now, they have many threats against several Police Departments around the nation over the internet, atlanta new york, Cleveland San Jose and San Francisco all know about these threats. Sfpd says their officers have been told, warned, to be aware of their surroundings. Demonstrators have made it a habit to protest on major holidays to bring attention to what they say is widespread Police Brutality. Our new years resolution is to increase and extend these powerful beautiful demonstrations which this country has not seen in decades. Reporter today a few of them met in front of San Franciscos hall of justice to announce they would be out tonight on Market Street along the embarcadero. We want those people to realize that this is a movement and we are going to continue to fight and they need to join us. Reporter but in the past, some of these protesters have not been welcomed like the night after thanksgiving when families and demonstrators collided at union square. Tonight, police say they will help facilitate the demonstrations as long as they are peaceful and dont interrupt the celebrations. Police are also aware of the threats made against Police Officers around the nation. Officers have been warned and told to remain vigilant. Restaurants along the embarcadero say they arent concerned about the protests. No concerns for us. It gets jampacked down here regardless, so we just try to give the people that are here a great night. Reporter police are reminding party goers that tonights celebration along the waterfront is an alcoholfree event. We are asking people not to bring alcohol. If they do they need to be asked to pour it out dispose of it and possibly be cited. Reporter police have also added patrols in the Marina District and in the south of market area. Lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, fire guts a wellknown San Francisco sausage factory. Investigators already have a line on how it started. Also, the end of the line for a popular chinese food restaurant, closing after nearly 50 years in business. And new at 4 30 authorities on alert nationwide on new years eve. Its not just a Terror Threat they are preparing for. 7 on your sides Michael Finney is taking your questions on twitter and facebook. He will answer them here live a little later. Contact him at facebook. Com michaelfinneyabc7 and on twitter m finney. A live look at the San Francisco skyway for all of these people in their cars, its the final commute of 2014. Cars coming at you are trying to get on the bay bridge, little bit slow. Female announcer when you see this truck, it means another neighbor is going to sleep better tonight. Because they went to sleep trains ticket to tempurpedic event. Choose from a huge selection of tempurpedic models including the new tempurchoice, with headtotoe customization. Plus, get 36 months interestfree financing, two free pillows and free sameday delivery. Are you next . Make sleep train your ticket to tempurpedic. Your ticket to a better nights sleep you are looking at cell phone video of a fire at a sausage factory in San Francisco. A neighbor of evergood fine foods shot these images as flames shot from the roof of the building in the bayview district. Firefighters quickly doused the flames but there was extensive damage to the kitchen area, where the sausages are smoked. One of the ducts evidently caught fire and it ignited and the top of the roof above where the smokehouse area is went up just like that. All the workers escaped the building. No one was hurt. Evergood is a family run business that has been making sausages in San Francisco since 1932. The owners say they will wait until friday to take a closer look at the damage and determine how their business will be affected. The countdown to midnight is also the countdown until a San Francisco institution closes its doors. The empress of China Restaurant which opened in 1966 closes its doors for good tonight. The chinatown restaurant is a favorite among locals and celebrities, famous for intricate atwork and rooftop views. The restaurants problems began when the buildings owner put it up for sale and did not offer the empress a longterm lease. The traditions are changing. We should keep this place open. This is a San Francisco landmark. Very sad. Because its like an icon of San Francisco. To lose this is true memory. The building is being marketed to High Tech Companies and being priced at 25 million. That has chinatown residents worried about the gentrification of their neighborhood. The surf contest will be harder to watch next time. There are reports there will not be a day of festival on the beach. The festival was canceled for liability reasons. Several area bars and restaurants will offer live coverage of the event. The surf contest window opens tomorrow and runs through march 31st. Got to wait for the waves. The surfers are unbelievable. Crazy. If you thought only kids enjoyed the first snowfall take a look at how these otters reacted. It was nonstop fun rolling on the ice for these three river otters at the aquarium by the bay at pier 39. The aquarium puts about 70 pounds of snow in the otter encloseure a few times a year. They love frollicking. Luckily, their thick skin keeps them from getting cold. We needed thick skin. It would be nice. It is chilly out there again today but not quite as windy. Spencer christian with todays accuweather forecast. Its a cool clear crisp, nongusty new years eve. This is how we like it. Lets take a look at live doppler 7 hd. Sunny skies except for a few thin high clouds across the bay area right now. Temperatures are going to drop tonight. It will be very cold tonight. Another freeze warning in effect from midnight to 9 00 a. M. For all the bay area except the coastline and the bay shoreline including San Francisco, by the way. Early morning lows will drop into the mid 20s in some inland locations. Freeze damage to sensitive plants is a possibility. Stress on outdoor pets and livestock also a possibility. We have a frost advisory in effect from midnight to 9 00 a. M. Early morning lows in the low to mid 30s along the shoreline. Damage to sensitive plants is also a possibility. On we go to overnight lows. Look for temperatures dropping down to 29 degrees in santa rosa. Napa, 30. Livermore, 31. Fairfield and morgan hill, low to mid 30s in many locations right around the bay. Heres the live view of the Golden Gate Bridge right now. Traffic flowing nicely right now. Forecast features are these. Freeze warnings for new years. Sunny days will continue into the weekend and we will see a milder pattern beginning on sunday. Heres our pacific satellite view. You can see High Pressure the dominant feature centered to our north. The circulation around that area of High Pressure bringing us a cold dry flow of air down from the great basin. That ridge of High Pressure is forming a blocking pattern keeping the jet stream flowing well to our north. Any rain thats moving generally in our direction will hold up for at least another week. Lets talk about calendar year rainfall here in San Francisco. We end the year on a rainy note. Not that its going to rain today but we had a lot of rain this year compared to last year. Almost 25 inches for the calendar year compared to just over 5 1 2 inches last year. You can see that we are above the average for the calendar year. So thats good news for the drought situation. On we go to tomorrow. New years day following a very, very cold early new years morning. Afternoon will be sunny and cool with highs mainly in the low to mid 50s. We will see 55 to 56 degrees in many locations around the bay and inland and low to mid 50s on the coast. Heres a look at our sevenday forecast, taking us into the first week of the new year. Dont forget, we will see freezing and frosty conditions the next two mornings, but we will have sunny afternoons and mainly sunny afternoons all the way