They are working on her right now. Well have them seated in a couple minutes and shownfully on the deck in knife. Reporter fisher rose to stardom as Princess Leia in the original star wars series and is also known for being outspoken about her struggles in hollywood and her Mental Health issues. Fishers star wars costars took to social immediate could show their support. Mark hamill tweeted a it is 2016 couldnt get worse. Sending all our love to Carrie Fisher and peter mayhew wrote thoughts hand prayers for our friend and everyones favorite princess right now. Carrie fisher. Fisher recently published an autobiography titled the princies di pararist. Larry, ama . Thanks so much, dan. Turning to our weather now. Get ready for a cold and wet weekend. This is a live look at mt. Tam where you can see the wind is blowing right now. Heavy rains fell all across the bay area most of the day. Driving conditions slick and windy, especially while crossing the bridges. You can see a tree there that fell on pershing drive in san leandro and if its raining here thats got to mean snow in the mountains. Check out this live look at heavenly money than resort where the snow continues to fall and a winter storm advisory is in effect through tomorrow morning. We have Team Coverage for you. Abc 1 News ReporterWayne Freedman will be joining us live in the north bay and we start with meteorologist drew tuma and a look at the income. Drew . Larry and ama. What an active morning we had and still at this hour showers dotting the landscape. Lets thank you right down the street level into the south bay we go. Live doppler 7 showing for the most mafrmt we see light greens on the screen. East palo alto approaching sun evale around san jose and this is light rain and the leftovers naff soaking that we got this morning. Its moved into the Higher Elevation around tahoe. We have the snow showers and full effect and its bringing a fresh bring et just in time for the holiday weekend. Earlier this morning it was a 2 and right now its a light storm. We have scattered showers and the chance there of an isolated thundershower popping that up could have some hail. Future weather as we go throughout evening. We do notice you stay rather unsettled. Approaching 8 00, 9 00 and the chance there for a shower. Wont be widespread and dont be surprised if you see a downpour later on this evening. Take a look at the allimportant holiday forecast coming up. Thank you so much, drew. Lets get to abc 7 News Reporter live in the north bear where they are cleaning up after tonights storm. Wayne. Good afternoon, ama. From what we hear from experts like drew in the north day, had had a bit more than half an inch of rain and you might call that topoff rain and in this region areas have received up to 200 the normal amount of rain from for this time of year and yet would you believe that water officials are still concerned. In the north bay today drip, drip, drip, umbrellas part of a brighter water outlook that we can see and hear with our ears in places like heeldsburg where the Russian River is living up to its fame again. Ever seen it like this . Yeah. Plenty of times. Spoken like a woman who has been here through 36 rainy seasons. However, those who observed professionally remain somewhat less hospital mystic. Ever seen anything like this before . Yeah. The difference that when nathan basket in Sonoma County water agency looks at rainfalls he sees numbers, trends and histories and this is an expert who still keep College Textbooks on his office shelves, used textbooks. The last time nathan saw a winter like this was december of 2012. Hand then what happened. And then we followed with one of the driest calendar years 2013. In short, the recent drought began after a december just like the one were having now. Well that in mind, the Sonoma County water agency has asked the army corps of engineers to stand back on its Flood Control releases. Its to stand water in lake mendecino to have additional water nextal. Imagine that. The day the drought officially ends the water begins to worry about the next one. From the north bay, Wayne Freedman, abc 7 news. You can keep track of the weather with the abc 7 news app. Live doppler 7 on the app and make sure you enable push alerts to get weather advisories on your phone or tablets. This is a very busy day on the road for travelers. More than 100 Million People across the country. They are headed somewhere during this holiday weekend. Lets take a live look through walnut creek 680. Southbound is looking better than northbound. And thats the slower traffic and thats northbound. How about a live look through the bay bridge toll plaza. Looks like a lot of people left early or didnt go to work at all and they are cruising across the bay bridge which was much more congested about a couple hours ago. I can attest to that. How about the san mateo blige and seems to be moving in both directions and perhaps a little bit heavier on your westbound traffic heading to the peninsula on the righthand side, nah, pretty much about the same. Its even. Well call it even. Well have dramatic video of an attempted Armed Robbery of a hayward Convenience Store and in this case the robber got a lot more than they bargained for. Eric thomas outside that store and tell us exactly what happened. Snairk. The royal market here, well, its a neighborhood institution the past 15 years, its a clean wellrun establishment run by nice people and thats why what happened here monday night is such a shock. The gunman enters the store with his pistol already drawn and in no time he has it to the back of the clerks head and take a close look at Security Camera video. Hes so fixated on getting to the cash hes completely unaware that the clerks brother is sneaking up behind him. In a flash he drabs the gunman and wrestled him to the floor. During the struggle the gun goes off at least once and possibly twice. From another angle you could actually see the gunfire. One brother is wounded in the hip and the other suffers a hand injury but they manage to take the gun away from the wouldbe robber and pummel him with it. Neither brother is seriously hurt and the only damage was a bullet hole in a nearby space heater. The owner of the store did not want to be interviewed but he says nothing like this has ever happened in the 15 years hes been in operation. He says his employees are heros and this neighbor agrees. You know, im very, very pleased that they are okay and amazed that they had the xoesh tour do what they did. Deputies tell us the 16yearold suspect is booked into juvenile hall. Both clerks were treated and released from local hospitals and one is already back to work this afternoon. In hayward. Eric thomas, abc 7 news. The first lawsuits were filed tailed in connection with the ghost ship fire that killed 36 people in oakland. Abc 7 news was at Alameda County superior court as the parents of 20yearold Mikayla Gregory filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the list of people. They included the primary tenant and the event promoter and performers and a business next door shared its electricity with the building. They allowed people to live there and to come, these young people to come to an event where there was no fire alarms no, sprinklers, no good egress no, way to exit. We will never see them again and we just want justice. We just want justice. Ch. The family of 23yearold Griffin Madden filed a similar lawsuit today. An east bay family escaped out the back door in their bare feet during a ferocious fire in the Oakland Hills late last night this. Happened on alhambra lane and the family of five is okay and they are now staying with friends and their cars and much of the home was destroyed. Neighbors say they were scared the flames might spread. Robert whistler lives right next door and the fire was so hot it blew out his windows. I heard a pop sound and it wasnt very loud, and i didnt know what it was so i just walked up and i was sitting in that chair there and i walked out here and i looked out there hand the whole house wasnt on fire. Its really burning. Even the readwood trees next to the home began to burn. That spitfire still under investigation. Christmas shoppers heading to San Franciscos union square had to deal one expected delays this morning abc 7 news was on montgomery and sutter streets at pg e cruise looked for the source of smoke coming out of a manhole. It was caused by a fire in an underground vault. Firefighters quickly put it out but the streets remain closed for hours while utility crews made repairs. Crews in San Francisco repaired a broken water main through the night and the 81yearold main broke around 9 00 this morning and took crews about 30 minutes to turn it off and the damage had already been done. Sky 7 gives us a look at the mavis flooding that was caused by the water main. This is the area between third street and 280 evans avenue and remains closed. A Southern California woman escaped serious injury when she made a wrong turn and saw a train coming towards her. Happened last night in the town of santa fe springs. Watch as the train plows into the car leaving behind a kral of car parts across an intersection. The driver said she was in the area to visit a friend and mistakenly drove on to the tracks. A boy in utah underwent a terrifying ordeal. He got stuck on a ski lift. Ow the poor kid colleague up there. Got in caught by his backpack trying to get off the lift. The traps began cutting into his arms and he was just dangling there n. Tremendous pain. A witness feared for the boys safety. I was afraid he would keep kicking and fall and do some damage and break his leg. The ski patrol got a big lalder and pulled him to safety. The boy is okay. Lift operators generally strongly encourage skiers and boarders to take off their backpacks. Coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00, its a big day for air travel and there are weather redays across the country. What you can expect if youre heading out. And the rush for last minute gifts is on. Take you thrive a bay area mall where theres not just gifts and sante narks high demand. Later the race to the white house, that actually does not look that bad there at San Francisco sglarpt for the moment. For the moment. Thanks change rapidly. Abc 7 News Reporter matt keller was at sfo earlier today where he caught up harried Holiday Travelers. The weather outside sfo was frightful, and inside the arrival departure board and security lines were definitely not delightful for travelers. Were here at end of the security line. How do you feel about if. Im in shock actually. Got here early to try to beat in. Today is the busiest travel day for the weekend. 166,000 passengers will go in and out of sfo. Thats about 45,000 more than had a normal day and add in the rain and its the perfect storm for dozens and dozens of delays and cancellations. Delays two hours. What are you going to do . I hope that it doesnt happen what happened last year which meant we to catch a flight the next day. Airport officials knew there,would be a stressful time so they brought in singer mika marks to help people feel in the holiday spirit. Reporter can you sing a Little Something so i feel less stressed. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas i think seven calm now. The skies werent calm above sfo during the morning rush and huge puddles on the road and people hurrying to get inside and however not everyone was expecting the rain. Its starting to rain now and not expecting the weather. Im going to have to tell our meteorologist mike niko you werent watching yesterday. Didnt let me know. Got to send it to my phone. Were trying, were trying. Have you seen our news app. Ill tell you about it, all right. This is from mike and everyone olds out there. Its reese easy to download the abc 7 news app. Once do you that youll have access to all of our news and weather including line doppler 7 hd. You can see where the vein headed next. Matt keller, abc 7 news. Matt keller just became managements favorite with that. Yeah. He worked it in perfectly. What can i say . Airports can be very stressful if youre traveling during the holiday season, if you know, but passengers are heading to their destination through sacramento and may in for a welcome surprise this year. Laugh, look at these guys. Airport authorities recently began a program called boarding area relax as corps. Do they have an app . I dont think so. Not to be outdone. San Francisco International has its own answer to stress and this is a small spotted juliana pig that helps calm travelers at sfo. Leila is cute. Shes the first nondog member of the wag brigade. Part of the San Francisco spcas Animal Assisted Therapy Program and sfo did provide us with this very cute video. Starting tomorrow through new day parking lots at both ends of the Golden Gate Bridge will be closed. Its move to ease the traffic backups that help when drivers line up trying to find a place to park. Bridge officials find passengers fly in the overflow lot and grab Public Transportation to visit the golden gate. The rush is on the day before Christmas Eve and shoppes are out in force today. Jonathan bloom is live at Valley Fair Mall and youre in the parking space. There is one and i think someone is coming around the corner to dive into if and other than that the parking lots are full and so are the stores. Still some shoppers are saying its not as bad as they worried it would be. Seems like the biggest crowd in the entire mall is the spot right in the center, the spot where folks go every year to have a conversation with a jolly old guy and red suit. Santas little helplers try anything to get a smile. But if the little ones faces look extra grumpy theres a reason. About an hour and 30 minutes. Today you wait that had long. Yes. The line to take pictures with santa claus seemed to stretch from here to the north sgloel 50 minut pole. 50 minutes. 50. Well see at end where we get in a picture with focus. Getting lots of kids a lot of time. And im going ask for a pokemon booster box. And parents start getting createive. We figure well start taking pictures now while my brother is waiting in line. Despite their best efforts it seems like the only one getting smiles around here is pepper. Who is pepper . The robot. Give me a big smile, please. Pepper makes smiling a competition and could be stiff competition for santas helpers. Of course the family is feeling really good about themselves is the one you saw santa weeks ago. And he already did that in sgloef what did you ask santa for . Stuff. What did you ask him for . What did you ask for . Apparently a secret. And whats not a secret is this family likes to get in and out. I want to get out and out and out and out. Youre done with shopping . I hate shopping. Of course, we should point out the second longest line in the whole place was the Chinese Restaurant right next to where santa hangs out, shopping and smiling both very hard work that can work up an aptitude. Now the crowd here could actually continue to get thicker, because as we know folks are getting off fwhork an hour and will come down here to get the lastminute presents so well lock it down here and keep you posted in a couple of hours. Jonathan bloom in san jose for san jose news. See you later on in the sglanch that pot is still open. Jonathan can probably make some money during this work shift. Drew tuma is back no. Rain to worry about or the raiders game tomorrow. Perfect, just cold. The rain is out of here, and the cold temperatures will be moving n. Will feel like christmas, especially in the morning. It was active this morning and whats left over is just widely scattered showers and getting a little tighter inland. Live doppler 7. Between san rammer, and livermore. Light showers and even light showers as you go to street level around daly city and south San Francisco and pacifica and much of the heavy rain that we had this morning is moving out. Widespread feels a little chilly there. 51 currently in San Francisco and 52 in oakland and about 49 in vallejo and 519 current number in antioch. Currently this morning the storm was a 2. Heavy downpours and now thats weakening and exiting it gets downgraded to a 1. Light system and scattered showers and through there the chance is there for an isolated thundershower. Future weather will go hour by hour for you. The theme really stays unsettled through the next 6 to 12 hours. You do know a couple of showers dotting it the landscape and not the shield of moisture like we had earlier this morning. The activity is really going to quiet down especially as we purse the midnight hour and early on saturday and take a look at the overnight lows. Were drying out and a couple of chilly spots like santa rosa and 38 antioch and San Francisco 43 and 42 oakland and 41 the high in san jose. Christmas eve. Future tracker temperatures will show you midday. A lot of sunshine and youll need the sxwrakt. Temperatures mainly in the 40s as cooler air moves into the region and a mixture of sun and clouds and warmer spots only in the low 50s. Traveling on saturday i5 north to reading. I5 south to l. A. Over the grapevine use caution tomorrow afternoon. Well see have snow showers moving through and delays there. 580 east of the central valley. Heading to tahoe just careful. Morning lows take a look at this. Christmas morning is going to be cold out there. 29 in petaluma and 38 oakland and 39 San Francisco and 37 san jose and the freezing fenway park fairfi