Compared to 24 hours ago, the front has moved through and we are 2 to 14 degrees cooler. Its a chilly morning with the widespread 30s. And more frosty mornings are in your future. Ill detail that for you and have your christmas and hanukkah forecast coming up. Thanks, lisa. This morningstar wars actress Carrie Fisher is in the hospital suffering from cardiac arrest. She was rushed to the hospital. Shes in Critical Condition and on a ventilator this morning. Abc7 News Reporter serge quinn has the details. Carrie fishers brother, todd, tells our sister station she sufferd a heart attack aboard her United Airlines flight from london as they approached lax. We have a nonresponsive passenger. Actors started tweeting what they saw. Dont now how else to process this but Carrie Fisher stopped breathing on the flight home. Hope shell be okay. The pilot called for help from any medical professionals aboard. Carrie fisher is an accomplished author but is best the known aspirin star wars. She could be in the next movie, the 8th movie. Its sad. Shes been like the number one woman throughout this whole saga. Its very sad, and i wish her very well. Tweets of support have flooded in from fans and fellow actors, including costar marham he will who wrote as if 2016 couldnt get any worse. Send being all our love to Carrie Fisher. Abc7 news. Star wars is a production of lucas films, which is owned by disney. Disney is also the Parents Company of abc7. If you are heading to lake tahoe, chains are required this morning on interstate 80 from nyak to truck tee. Take a look at the road conditions. This turned to slurb in the streets as the snow turned to rain. And a reminder, stay on top. The weather where you live with the a. Bc7 news app. Download the app for free and get breaking news updates as they happen. The first lawsuits in the ghost ship warehouse fire. Yesterday two families filed suits naming the buildings owner, landlord and others connected to the ghost ship stating it was a death trap. We will never see them again. And we just want justice. The attorneys for the two families also filed lawsuits against oakland and the county. The attorneys to the landlord did not respond to the request gore comment. In an interview only on abc7 news, tony chaplin vows he will support the man who got the new chief. Bill scott was named the new chief earlier this week. We have the exclusive interview with the outgoing interim chief. It is really a tough job. You know, you go from incredible highs to incredible lows and back up again. Its been seven months since tony chaplin was tapped by the mayor edwards lee to be interim police chief. A 26 year veteran, a police cop who rows through the ranks. In his tenure as top cop, he was instrumental in getting the use of force reform policy enacted. There have been no scandals under his watch. Along stalemate with an armed man barricaded in this chinatown apartment ended without bloodshed. Again, in july, police using less lethal force to take down to teen armed with a knife. Chaplin set the guidelines, but he gives all the credit to the rank and file. De escalation and creating time and distance. Basically the sanctity of human life. They have done a wonderful job. Chaplin was thrust into the job when the thenchief greg suhr retired after a series of Controversial Police shootings. Its been incredible. I met a lot of people and appreciate the support behind me during troubling times. And the the department navigated out of troubled water thanks to the community partnering with us. Now that theres a new chief, bill scott, chaplin said he will do everything to support him. But it has nothing to do with his job. Going back to living. Abc news. There is a jailbreak that sparked a huge manhunt. Two broke out of the santa clara jail last month. They were all eventually captured. Our media partner, the mercury news, reports a former Police Officer snowa winchester tipped off jail guards about suspicious sounds he heard from a nearby jail cell. Winchester is in jail facing unrelated sex charges. In a statement, they did not regard guards were tipped off about the noises but he said there was no evidence anyone helped them break out. She said internal affairs is investigating. If you havent finished your christmas shopping, you still have today. Last night bay area mauls were packed with people buying the last minute gifts. Abc7 News ReporterKatie Marzullo has the story. For the most part, its pretty smooth. You just have a mission in mind what you want to do and get in and get out. He was taking a break on a mall ben. He admits he left a lot of shopping for the last minute. It happens. You get busy with work and by the time you realize it the day is upon us. Westfield oak ridge mall was packed. It started in the parking lot. Alexis came to help her dad with his last minute shopping. We have to try to find them and theres nothing left. I think he learned his lesson. The inventory may be picked over but there can be benefits to procrastinating. You can see if they do have any real good deals, the last minute shopping. A consumer psychologist said while some procrastinators are bad planners, others actually care too much. They want to do a good job and they get freaked out about making mistakes so they keep putting it off because being late is better an excuse than looking like you dont care, believe it or not. Theres nothing wrong with a gift card or cash. You know you will find a hard time parking, you know there will be lines. You cant get upset about it. You have to kind of stay in a positive mind frame. A good attitude goes a long way n san jose, Katie Marzullo, abc7 news. Happening today in San Francisco, the firsthand he will on the lit. Tonights ceremony starts at 7 00 at union square. Bundle un, right, lisa . Yes. We have monday night is probably the coldest night. It will get chillier and chillier as the cold air settles in. Its very festive. In the mid40s in San Francisco. Plenty of 30s and 20s are in our future. We have it all for you in just a few minutes. Also next, turning the tables on an attacker. He didnt see whats coming but its all caught on video. And what the raiders fans will be doing today to convince the nfl the silver and black should stay in taste the many sides of brookside. Smooth dark chocolate outside. Exotic fruit flavor inside. Brookside. For all your sides. P good morning. An Armed Robbery started out like many others but the suspect didnt get away. Two clerks were hurt but one was back last night. A teenager accused of trying to rob them is in police rustdy with a lesson he will never forget. We have the story from hayward. Royal market is a local institution. Thats why neighbors are so disturbed about what happened tuesday night. We are thrilled they are okay. The robbery attempt was captured on store surveillance video. He comes in with the piston drawn and has it in the back of the clerks head. But take a close look at the video. Hes so fixated on getting to the cash hes completely unaware the clerks brother is sneaking up behind him. He grabs him and wrestles him to the floor. During the struggle the gun goes off once and possibly twice. From another angle you could see the gunfire. One brother is wounded in the hip. The other suffers a hand injury, but they managed to take the gun away from the wouldbe robber and pummel him with it. Either broth wares 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 said nothing like this has ever happened in the 15 years hes been in operation. He said his employees are heroes, and this neighbor agrees. You know, im very, very pleased they are okay and amazed they had the composure to do what they did. The 16yearold suspect was treated for his injuries and booked into juvenile haul. The two clerks were treated and released from the hospital and one of them is already back to work tonight. In hayward, eric thomas, abc7 news. All right. We will check out the arsenal the police found in the north bay. They sent us this picture showing 8 knives, a couple rivals a throwing star and a medieval weapon called a mace. All the attempts were on a man they arrested thursday night who tried to break in into a plant nursery on highway 116. He was accused of shooting the lock on the building. Hes in jail this morning. A truckload of uber selfdriving cars paw rayed through the streets of phoenix last night giving the governor another chance to take a shot at california. They arrived thursday a day. They said uber may want you and he said his state is everything is california is not. I think this is a sign of arizona being a welcoming place, not only to people but businesses. We are a low tax, light regulation involvement state. Plus we try harder. We want to grow our economy. Uber stopped itself driving fleet in San Francisco wednesday after the dmv said the cars were not properly registered. A new law starting on january 1st changes the rules about children and car seats. Kids under age 2 will be required to use a rearfacing car seat. The law, signed by Governor Brown earlier this year, stems from the results of a 2007 study showing the rear facing car seats reduced the hikery hood of injury in a car accident. When a child is placed in a rear facing child safety seat, its the much safer than having the child facing forward. If you have a collision that child is less likely to fly forward inside of your vehicle. And children who weigh more than 40 pounds or who are more than 40 inches tall will be exempted from the new rule. Starting today parking lots at both end of the Golden Gate Bridge will be closed. On on weekends drivers line up trying to find a place to park. Bridge officials recommended this. All right. Headsup if you ride bart. Trains are on a Holiday Schedule from now to january 2nd. That means all next week instead of running trains on the pittsburgh bayport line every 5 minutes, they will run every 10 to 15 minutes the. And happening today state officials will open more of the california northern coast to commercial crab fishing between south point and the sonoma men seen no line will open today. And along with a stretch to humboldt county. They were closed because of unsafe toxin levels. What a difference a year makes, right . Fresh be and affordable crab is flying off the shelves in San Francisco. Abc7 news was on california street where they were busy filling orders all day yesterday. He said crab is so plentiful this year, the price is 10 do 49 a pound, lower than previous years. Last year was a disaster algae and weather causing a dismal seson. Happening today raiders fans will distribute houses of these post cards to keep the silver and black it in oakland. 5,000 addressed to will be signed at the game. That will be before todays game against the colts. Kickoff at 1 05. Now your accuweather forecast with lisa argen. Good morning. The front has moved through, but behind it we have cold, unstable air. Heres a look at doppler 7. You notice the shower activity is over the water and it is moving from northwest to southeast. So we are looking at a view stray showers around mont the ray. You see santa cruz. But the cold air is spilling in behind the system and thats the why the National Weather service has issued a Winter Weather advisory for the mountains of santa cruz around boulder creek, and also down around big sur. So through 6 00 tonight snow levels down to 2,000 feet. Certainly could see maybe a White Christmas there. As we look at lake tahoe, still some snow. 19 degrees in blue canyon. Avalanche warning here for the greater lake tahoe area. Thats in red. And through 10 00 we are still looking at some very icy roads and perhaps anywhere from 1 to. It has been pretty treacherous there. But after this morning things really begin to quiet down and the cold air settles in once again. A live look from emeryville this morning where it is still in the 40s. Oakland, San Francisco. 43 mountain view. Gilroy 38. Good morning, half moon bay. In the 40s at the coast. This will be the balmiest morning as we get colder for Christmas Day and the day after. Temperatures barely making it to 50 degrees for high. Looking at 33 right now. Santa rosa 34. Napa, and more 30s through the inland valley. A cold morning with low snow levels. Chilly for christmas. A dry weather pat intern next week. So check out the morning lows christmas morning. Wear looking below freezing around livermore, fairfield, right around freezing concord. 29 in clear lake. Sausalito should be 39 and into monday morning i think we will see cooler temperatures. But by tuesday just a slight bump up. Be prepared for some chilly afternoon readings and Early Morning lows. If you are traveling today, 29 in the sierra nevada. Looking at 57. Still leftover showers in the mountains of southern california. But the good news is marin county, the peninsula, out of the drought. With all of these storms our Drought Monitor is showing the conditions have improved with concord and hayward still in a moderate drought. Weve made some big inroads here. Highs today under mostly sunny skies, just in the low 50s. Be a cool one. Overnight lows as you wake up on christmas, we could even see some 20s. We are looking at chilly sunshine today. Cold mornings for Christmas Day, the day after, and looking at slightly warm he temperatures each and every day. But notice still in the 50s until next week. Yeah, we are dry and, you know, of course, we would like more snow and rain. But we are going to take what we get. I may dress like santa just to stay warm. That will being the idea, right . Ahha. Thanks, lisa. A holiday gift guaranteed to keep you awake. How you a lot of us dread the bills following the holidays. Heres Michael Finney with good news about the credit card use. Buying a gift and using a credit card to complete the purchase. A common experience. Especially this time of year. Are you guys using your credit cards . Yeah. Too much. Is that right . [laughter] why do you ask . Good question. Im asking shoppers about credit cards because i have some good news. You guys using credit cards today . Of course. [laughter] is there anything but . [laughter] most people dont know that the best reason for use their credit card is not the chance to buy now and pay later. And its not racking up miles either. You said protection . There are protections. For instance, 81 of the cards out there have an extended warranty that comes when you use your credit card. You are shaking your head. Did you know that . No, i didnt know that. A warranty . Right. It will add two years to your warranty. Not bad for just using a credit card. Credit cards. Com has just put together a report on credit card consumer protections. What we found there are an awful lot of pretty valuable perks lurking in your fine print of your credit card agreement that lots and lots of people dont know about. Matt found about half the credit cards offer price protection. If you buy something with your credit card and the price drops in the next few weeks after you bought it, you can get refund of the difference back on to your credit card. Two more perks you need to know about, a quarter of all card will allow you to return the item even if the retailers doesnt and half the cards will replace an item if its lost or stolen within the first 90 days. Im Michael Finney. 7 on your side. Heres good news this morning. Starbucks is offering a holiday gift to customers. Free coffee to the next 8 days. They will offer free 8ounce espresso beverages on certain items. Its good for only an hour each day. You need to check in online at starbuckscheer. Com to see which stores are participating. One Christmas Tree is enough for most families, but not for a couple in new york. Take a look inside joe and ruths home. They have 110 Christmas Trees. Some a few inches tall, others nine feet tall. They started the tradition 46 years ago when they got an angel ornament for a wedding gift. Now they have thousands of ornaments. Theres always a new tree. I have a lot more decorations that still arent out. I still has trees that arent up. And the main tree alone has 600 ornaments. It takes six weeks to get them all set up. This is in upstate new york. The holiday spirit is alive and well at San Franciscos lefty odoul. We were outside the student as people dropped off gifts for the annual christmas street in oakland drive. A truck drove up and unloaded 35 toys. Last year they collected 15,000 toys. The toy drive continues today from 7 00 a. M. To 11 00 p. M. Still to come on abc7 morning, warning about an fbi hit list. And the rush for last minute gifts is on. We will take you to a bay area mall where its not just wow, shes sure making a splash in that designer dress and with a thicker, more fabulous formula, shes not splashing. You can wear anything and pour bleach. And her whiter whites, just dazzling. Clorox splashless bleach. Also try crystals and packs. This is abc7 mornings. Good morning. We are starting this halfhour with a look at the weather. Heres meteorologist lisa argen. Everybody wants to know how is it looking for christmas weekend . You know what . We could see a little snow in the higher elevations, matt. We have a few leftover showers around monterey, big sur. And thats where some of that lingering moisture could paint some of the local mountains here white. We have a Winter Weather advisory for the mountains. And also around santa cruz. Thats where it is highlight notice purple until 6 00 tonight. So the moisture is down south. The cold air filtering in behind it. 35 fairfield, 33 santa rosa and napa. 41 fremont. Good morning los gatos, 46 for you and temperatures compared to 24 hours ago, 2 to 15 degrees colder. Look at san jose. Just in the 30s. Your forecast this morning, 30s and 40s. Still in the 40s by noontime. We are dry. It will be sunny and cool today. But the mornings, oh, boy, they will get even