And president elect donald trump just released this statement. He said that its time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. Nevertheless in the interest of our country and its people i will meet with leaders of the Intelligence Community next week. U. S. Retaliation against russia cyber attack. The Obama Administration naming names and kicking 35 russian operatives out of the u. S. The sanctions were aggressive and bold and theyre designed to send a message to russia that this type of behavior is unacceptable. Reporter president obama still on vacation in hawaii but he gave the green light to punish russia and its president Vladimir Putin for trying to interfere in the u. S. Election. There were sanctions against several russian services, top military officers and companies accused of providing support. Russia continues to deny involvement saying if washington takes hostile steps then it will get a response. Do i think in reality it will change how russia is doing business in the cyber world . The answer is no. Reporter russias goal was to help president elect donald trump who continues to question the findings. I think we ought to get on with our lives. Reporter House Speaker paul ryan slammed the Obama Administration calling the sanctions overdue. It is a threat to the fundamentals of democracy. Reporter the white house and congress are waiting on that broad Intelligence Community review of russian hacking. President obama hinted to covert actions against the country, but with three weeks to Inauguration Day it will be up to President Trump to take action against russia. Abc 7 news. Thank you so much. Its unclear how many Russian Diplomats at San Franciscos general will be among those forced to leave. The state Department Said theyre being forced to leave because of how u. S. Diplomats in russia are being treated. Political analysts say this wont change the results of the election, but could serve as a deterrent during future elections. The seriousness of the matter that we did have a Foreign Government interfering in our election, i believe the president feels he has an obligation to make some kind of response even when that may be largely symbolic. The other diplomats being expelled are from the embassy in washington, d. C. Those in seattle, houston and new york havent been touched. Two brothers accused of stabbing are due back in court. The family and relatives of the victim showed up and pointed blame. Reporter todays hearing was continued yet again for a third time as attorneys gather all the information in this case, the families on both sides are committed to seeing justice served in this very emotional case. Were going to be here every day to make sure that justice is served. I dont want my husbands life to be in vain. Reporter nicole is the widow of the slain man. He was with his young san in a target store and griffin asked these two men to turn down their loud music with vulgar language just before he was stabbed to death. They were two on one. They stabbed my husband. Reporter the two suspects are a 22yearold man and his 25yearold brother. Their family says it was an act of self defense. They felt threatened. This is what it is. They felt threatened and they had to protect themselves. It was a self defense matter. Reporter surveillance camera might have captured what happened, but police have not released the footage. Well see when the video gets out here. I dont believe he would have started that with my son being there. Were here to support our family. Just like theyre here supporting their family. Reporter the arraignment is scheduled for next friday. Abc 7 news. Lanes of interstate 88 were blocked this morning after a container of scrap metal fell off the truck along the southbound lanes near the great mall exit. Workers cleaned up the spill to get the left lane reopened. A forklift was used to raise the container on a flatbed truck. The east bay municipal utility district says water is not the reason why there is elevated levels have lead in childrens water. The children had elevated levels of led in their blood higher than the National Average of 2. 5 . Today east bay mud says the likely source of contamination came from paint and soil, not the water. The rate in okakland than the rate found in flint, michigan during the water crisis. Today a mild day, but soak it in while you can. This will be the warmest day we have in the next seven. Its all downhill from here. Outside we go. A live like from our camera showing changes already happening. Sunshine giving way to high clouds and those high clouds will help us to stay mild overnight tonight. Overnight 30s and 40s on the board. Enjoy this because we are tracking some arctic air on the way. The wider picture will show you that air arriving over much of the lower 48, that cold arctic air will move into the bay areas. That means we have frigid days on the way. You go the to have some storms for the cold air. Our chances for rain in the next seven days go up dramatically monday and tuesday. Well talk about what you can expect with that rain and the important new years eve forecast coming up. Big changes coming up. Three people were hurt today when a big rig rear ended a Greyhound Bus traveling to San Francisco before 5 00 a. M. Officers say the trucks driver lost control, hit the bus and flipped on its side losing some of its haul. The impact forced the bus with 46 passengers on board up an embankment. An investigating officer evaluated the driver. It sounds like an unfortunate accident and not a lot of people were hurt. None of the injuries are life threateni threatening. The driver may have fallen asleep but alcohol was not involved. Police are reviewing footage from surveillance cameras trying to identify the people involved in the shootout of a parking lot at a hyatt place hotel. 15 shots were exchanged between two cars. Police found shell casings and shattered glass in the lot. The shooting happened after 9 00 last night. The mother of a fallen soldier was killed in combat in afghanistan nine years ago is crushed after a theft. Someone broke into the to steel a gold ring. It has the familys crest engraved on it and johns father gave it to him before he was deployed. The ring was discovered missing from a display space when she visited her son on christmas day. For someone who served his country and sacrificed his life, its uncon shunable. She wants the ring back. She lost her husband last year off a long illness and is crushed someone would steal something so valuable. Remembering Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. What i do is keep a smile on my face to make sure my family and friend are all right. A brave man going through a difficult time gets a welcomed distraction, but first. Its broke, its broke, its broke. Were hearing new audio of the moments after raiders quarterback season ending injury. Taking a live look at our traffic across the Golden Gate Bridge is moving in mother daughter duo dying just one day apart. Abc reporter looks at their sometimes complicated relationship. Reporter there was no denying. Manic depressive. She was born that way. Reporter the close bond between Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. I wanted to be like my mom. Reporter the duo dying just one day apart. Fisher died on tuesday at 60 and nearly 24 hours later. She said she missed her daughter. She wanted to see her again. Reporter reynolds suffered a stroke while helping to plan her daughters funeral. She loved taking care of my sister more than anything. Reporter while they were close now, reynolds and fishers relationship wasnt always so warm. The highs and lows documented in fishers book and movie postcards from the edge. At one point they were estranged as fisher battled Substance Abuse and mental illness. She didnt talk to me for probably ten years so that was the most difficult time of all. Reporter eventually mending their relationship the two became closer than ever. They lived next door to one another as seen in the upcoming hbo documentary bright lights. Fisher is survived by her daughter. Funeral arrangements for both are still being prepared. Abc news los angeles. And tributes continue to pour in from celebrities, artists and fans. We have a look with the latest reaction. Reporter fans arrived in droves today to place flowers at debbie r debbie ren old star on the hollywood walk of fame. Vigils had been planned for fisher. Some fans honored fisher wearing their hair in Princess Leia buns. Im her neighbor. Its one way i get to see my daughter is i moved right next door. Reporter where did your mother live. Right next door. Reporter and right next door is how artists are depicting the two fallen stars. Ren o reynolds son tweeted famous a artist. Sharing may extend to their funeral. Hollywood sources say loved ones are considering a joint funeral, possibly a small private ceremony plus a larger memorial service. Thank you. Tomorrow 20 20 will hour a special one hour edition dedicated to their lives, their lives, careers and relationship with each other. Thats at 10 00 on abc 7. A woman who survived a car crash last year helped save the lives of three men whose truck ov overturned into a canal. Two College Roommates were driving to visit a friend when they looked in the Rearview Mirror and saw the truck drifting across lanes. I had been in a car crash myself so the moment i saw it i just remembered the people that helped me. As i was sprinting, i was just thinking this is one of the moments that i was created for. A truck crushed sydney in a tbone accident last year. She survived and became a lifeguard and was ready to give cpr to the driver. The men are recovering in the hospital. Something to remarkable to share with you. Oakland raiders quarterback knew he broke his leg in the Christmas Eve game according to game audio released today by the nfl. Listen. Its broke. Its broke. Its broke. Its broke. Its broke. Its broke. Finish it off. I know you do. I know you do. Okay. Come on. Amazing. He knew that quickly. The video is not easy for raiders fans to watch. He took a moment to wish the backup quarterback well as he was carted off the field. He underwent surgery on tuesday. He will miss the rest of the season. The top drop off location for lift in San Francisco is sfo, but what tops the list in Silicon Valley. We got a lift to find out. Reporter we started our venture with lift at the most visited transit stop in the Silicon Valley. There are six, seven lift cars around us right now. Reporter the Transportation NetworkCompany Revealed their local lift awards for the most popular drop off locations. We needed an Expert Opinion so we requested a driver and karl drove up in his white toyota. This is my photographephotog reporter karls has been driving for about a year. The latter is the winner of the only Silicon Valley lifty award. They want to get their picture taken with the thumbs up, come from all over the world just to do that. Reporter with so many sharks games and concerts, its no surprise the sap center wins the award for the most visited ve e venue, but night san jose is the place to go. Sp 2 is the most visited restaurant, but its not always the destination, but the journey thats more valuable. I learn about our culture, our country, something every day. Become a little more tolerant and understand people, where theyre coming from just a little more. Its good for me. Reporter one more lifty award to talk about. Were at a spot called roots and rye and this one for trending destination. Abc 7 news. It is a Winter Wonderland in yosemite this afternoon. They got 18 inches of snow and more could be on the way next week. A cold blast of air is heading our way. Lets give you more information on what thats going to look like. You know what, today is going to feel like a heat wave compared to what is coming next week. Arctic air is going to settle in. Well talk about when it arrives and how cold it will get. Enjoy the mild air while we have it. Clear skies and no precipitation at the moment. The camera at pier 15, high clouds are streaming in thanks to a system from the south. That system is pumping in comfortable air. 50s and 60s this afternoon. 64 at half moon bay, 56 in oakland and were tracking a temperature of 54 degrees. Hello, camera. How are you doing . Well move on and show you highs on friday. A comfortable end to the week. A lot of sunshine, upper 50s to lower 60s, but over the weekend were tracking changes. Saturday morning out there 7 00 in the morning theres some spotty showers. It will not be widespread and its light in nature and its out by the early afternoon. Thats good news. Well go hour by hour showing you heres that slight chance of some showers by noon. You notice thats the only chance we have. By 4 00 we have clouds decreasing and then 8 00 you have clear skies and were not too cold by midnight. You need the heavier jacket. Well be precipitation free and a lot of stars out there as we welcome 2017. Then were tracking a storm monday night into tuesday. Light scattered showers, but the bigger story, what this storm will do, its going to allow arctic air to settle in early next week. Monday afternoon here is a slight chance of a light sprinkle in the north bay, but late monday night, early Tuesday Morning thats the best chance of light showers moving through. Perhaps one will linger in the south bay Tuesday Morning, but then the system is out of here by tuesday afternoon. Watch tuesday night into wednesday morning. Temperatures widespread 20s. I think there will be some areas that will drop into the teens overnight into wednesday morning and thats going to lead the way for a very chilly day on the way wednesday afternoon. Temperatures showing we are going to be stuck in the 40s for your afternoon highs and this is not just going to last one day. This is going to last several days. Here is the sevenday forecast. Enjoy tomorrow. Its a comfortable day. Theres that early chance of a shower on saturday at least to a cool start to 2017 on sunday and theres that storm system that brings us light showers, but really brings that cold air tuesday, wednesday, thursday and the chill will continue on friday. So its going to be a long stretch of cold weather next week. Thanks. Sure. Coming up, eagle anticipation, thousands are tuned in right now waiting for a pair of eaglets to be born. Rescuers in michigan risk their lives to save a dog just in the nick of time. Wow. Here it is, a live look from the southwest florida eagle cam of harriet what has been waiting for the offspring. The eaglets seemed ready to enter the world this morning as you see the eggs cracking, but it didnt happen. Harriet and her partners nest is peched a top a tree in florida. The male has been mia the last couple of days hunting for food. Were going to keep an eagle eye out for the eaglets throughout our newscast. Its awful. Go to abc 7 news. Com for a link to the live eagle cam. Its neat. Rescuers in michigan risked their lives to save a dog moments before it was too late. Look. This golden retrooefr fell through ice and firefighters arrived to find the dog struggling to climb out of the water but unable to pull itself out. The dog was barking, but was still in the hole. He started to become a little bit more lee tharjic due to the water temperature so we knew we had to get out there. Rescuers crawled to the dog and pulled him out with a rope. They warmed him up with blanket address and brought him safely to shore. Poor guy. Astronomers using a space telescope have captured a galaxy discovered more than two centuries ago. The galaxy was first observed in 1789. This new image Shows Incredible detail not seen before. Nasa classifies the galaxy as a spiral. The blue smidges are recently formed stars. Amazing he discovered it so long ago. Coming up, numerous complaints come in after another day of mysterious smells in San Francisco. What the city thinks may be to blame. Plus. You wear the same size as me. Granting his wish, steph, clay and here are the stories making headlines at 4 30. President obama is retaliating for russias interference in the u. S. President ial election. The state department kicked out 35 Russian Diplomats here in San Francisco and its embassy in washington giving them and their families 72 hours to leave the United States. Russian officials deny any hacking or involvement in the election. Now coming up at 5 00 we are outside the con suh late general in San Francisco where an unknown voice told reporters over the intercom to please leave this territory. Also at 5 00 disturbing new pictures from the exfiancee ray mcdonald. We talk with her about allegations that mcdonald abused her as she fights for custody of their son. A live look at San Francisco from our camera. Some people have noticed a bad o odor over the city the last few days. They are trying to sniff out whats causing it. Reporter well, this agency and several others are in on the hunt, including pg e and the fire department. Theres something in the air in San Francisco, but its the smell that sent fire trucks to the fairmont last night after guests at the luxury hotel made a stink about a stink. We were like winking. Reporter what did it smell like . Not a pleasant smell. Rotten eggs. Reporter thats the most common description officials have heard from the dozens of calls in people in neighborhoods throughout the city over the last two days, that rotten egg smell