Anchor spencer christian, not seen playing in the snow. We should see that for whats happening right now. If we have enough snow, ill go out and play in it just for you, larry. Heres live doppler 7. We have areas of scattered light rainfall right now but well see the rain become much more widespread over the overnight hours. We have a storm coming our way which ranks 2 on the storm impact scale. Windy afternoon and evening conditions with rainfall totals likely from half an inch to 2 inches generally across the bay area. Heres a forecast animation. By 5 00 tomorrow morning as the commute gets under way, well see fairly widespread rain, light to moderate. Then it will be much more widespread throughout the day and it will be heavy by the afternoon and evening. Expect heavy downpours, ponding on roads. Winds gusting tomorrow. And rainfall potential over the next seven days is significant. If these indications, these projections hold up, san jose will get 5. 65 inches of rain over the next seven days, and that is more than onethird of san joses average annual rainfall total. Theres a lot of rain coming our way. Ill give you a closer look a little later. Thank you, spencer. The crab season in the bay area is on hold. San francisco fishermen vow to stay docked while a large west coast strike continues. All this over a price dispute. Abc 7 newser lee an melendez has more. Reporter of course now im thinking i could have bought some crab this weekend while i had a chance, right . So were talking about a 25 cents difference, 25 cents per pound. Now fishermen say that adds up and they would end up losing a lot of money. So everybody is staying in solidarity. Reporter thats the update from the Crab Boat Owners Association after phone meetings this morning with other crab fishermen up and down the coast. The strike began last wednesday after a large buyer tried to renegotiating the price per pound from 3 to 2. 75. The holidays are over and some of the bigger buyers think they got to go into the freezer with it and so they want to get it for less. Reporter pacific choice did not return our request for a statement. Even though San Francisco fishermen are still getting 3, they will stay idle while the strike continues. J. T. Bednarik is visiting from detroit. He refused to buy any crab today. Even though were Cross Country and, you know, its the difference between autos and crab, but still its the brotherhood of the union. Reporter this marin county resident thinks tourists at fishermens wharf will see a spike in the price. Some people coming in from out of state and out of the country only have a couple days, so they might pay. Reporter do you think its going to go up . I think it will until they get rid of what they have. Reporter that is if they have any left. Antonellis ran out just before new years eve. We had enough to cover orders, but the 31st people coming in all day long and there was nothing. So that hurts. Reporter he hopes the dispute ends soon. Crab season is meant to continue through june 30th. In San Francisco, lee yanne melend melendez, abc 7 news. Now to that story about the unruly passenger who threatened his seatmates and dared the flight crew to turn the plane around, which they did. The plane flew out of sydney, australia, headed to San Francisco. Somewhere over tonga the pilot announced they would turn around and head to auckland. We are live at San FranciscoInternational Airport with the story. Reporter because of the way things work when youre actually traveling the international dateline, those passengers were supposed to have arrived here yesterday but because they were diverted to new zealand and had to stay overnight, they only got here this morning. In cell phone video, you can see the man losing his temper with the flight attendant. Im not yelling at you. Reporter this was an incident that started several minutes into the flight. He was not happy about sitting between two other men. I think they were briefly talking to each other, like can you pass me the pen to fill out the paperwork or, hey, were going home finally and that was it. The guy got really upset they were talking over him. Reporter it was a full flight so the man couldnt be relocated to another section of the plane, but you can see in the video, he did switch to an aisle seat on the same row. That didnt stop him from acting out. He basically threatened the other two passengers. Told them if they say one more word, that dont say another word. Reporter thats when the flight crew intervened again. Do you want me to call the captain do you know how cool it would be to have the airplane turned around . Youre going to do that . You do that. Im going so impolite, arent i. Reporter the captain decided to turn the plane around and head to new zealand. When they landed two hours later, the man was escorted off the plane by police. A spokesperson provided a short statement. The flight was diverted due to a badly behaved passenger, a 42yearold foreign national. He was arrested on arrival in auckland and has been referred to immigration new zealand. The crew couldnt continue the flight after they landed because their work hours would have expired so united the to put the whole flight up in a hotel in new zealand overnight. Criticism of 49ers owner jed york is intensifying after yet another dismal performance by his team. Reporters grilled york today over the direction of the 49ers a day after he fired coach chip kelly and general manager trent baalke. York apologized for the niners 214 season which tied for the worst in the teams 70year history but dismissed any notion that he needs to go. I own this football team. You dont dismiss owners. Im sorry that thats the facts and thats the case, but thats the fact. And im going to do everything that i can to get this right. York says hell have help finding a new coach and general manager, but wouldnt specify who that will be. The teamest next head coach will be its fourth in four years. Down but not out, a day after their team suffered another setback. Laura anthony is joining us live at raiders headquarters. Head coach jack del rio just briefed reporters. Laura . Reporter well, hi, larry. Others may be writing off the Oakland Raiders in the wake of injuries to both derek carr and matt mcgloin, you wont hear any of that here at team headquarters. In fact head coach jack del rio told us with a void comes an opportunity. How are you doing . Ugly game yesterday, ugly game yesterday. Reporter it was a different kind of new years hangover for Oakland Raiders fans, the kind that comes with watching yet another quarterback go down. What were you thinking when you saw mcgloin go down yesterday . Oh, lord. Thats all i could say. Reporter with the injury to backup matt mcgloin, the raiders chances of winning the afc west went out the door, though third string rookie, connor cook, seemed to hold his own. The raiders and their fans are clearly feeling victimized. Now weve got to go to houston, so were not feeling too well. At least raider nation, its kind of tough. The bottom line for us is all about recovery as quick as possible. Get up off the mat, dust yourself off, get to work, get ready for the Houston Texans. Reporter thats not to say that raider nation has lost the faith. Backs against the wall and all. Its a touchdown. I guess were going to have to go with cooks. Well hope for the best. Its a hard road, but theres always hope in a raider fan. Always hope in a raider sglan i really felt yesterday, i thought, you know, when we generated that turnover right after a score, i thought here we go. Were getting ready to do it again. And it just didnt quite materialize there. But weve got a good group. Reporter in alameda, laura anthony, abc 7 news. If theres any kind of silver and black lining to saturdays playoff game, its that the raiders will be playing a team that has a bunch of quarterback issues of their own. The Houston Texans havent announced who theyll be starting at quarterback either. Brock osweiler or tom savage. Savage left yesterdays game against the titans with a concussion, and he became the texans starter only a couple of games ago when they benched osweiler because of poor play and despite an enormous contract. Neither of them has started a playoff game, so youve got two quarterbacks or two teams with quarterbacks that have major issues and the defenses have to step up. The raiders have to play a lot better and bring a lot more intensity than they did in denver. The bright side for us is you can watch the raiders kick off wild card weekend. Theyre traveling to houston to play the texans starting at 1 30 on saturday. Again, saturday playoff game right here on abc 7. Social media backlash. A woman whose kidnapping was thought to be a hoax reaches out. The online battle over what she thought was part of her past. Thats next. Plus pushing wheelbarrows, pulling out the hoses, a whole lot of cleanup one day after a water main break made a mess of 1 neighborhood in contra costa county. Plus traveling in 2017. How low will airfares go . A couple at the center of a kidnapping in vallejo that police once called a hoax are talking via social media and really for the first time. Melanie woodrow is in the newsroom with why. Melanie. Well, larry, the couple was kpap expecting to deliver victim impact statements but now Matthew Muller es sentencing h been pushed back to march, despite the fact that he pleaded guilty to the kidnapping and despite the fact police have apologized to Denise Huskins and aaron quinn in letter, the couple says they are still being harassed. Denise huskins says her past continues to haunt her. Are you that horrible lying woman who faked her own kidnapping, reads part of a strangers message huskins posted to facebook. The message threatened physical violence and is too vulgar to show in its entirety here. Vallejo police initially called it a hoax. Miss huskins has plundered valuable resources away from our community. Reporter but police got it wrong. Matthew muller pleaded guilty to huskins kidnapping. Huskins writes on facebook, all i did was survive and i was criminalized for it. We are trying to do the right thing and let the system do its job, but here we are starting our new year hoping for a more positive future, but confronted with hate and ignorance. On his page her boyfriend, aaron quinn, writes denise endured unimaginable horrors. Nevertheless she conducts herself with love and grace. Shes my favorite person and unquestionably my hero. Denise later writes we must meet hate with love, ignorance with empathy. 2017 will be a year of great changes, i feel it. According to court documents, mullers sentencing was pushed back to march because he needed additional time to prepare. In a letter to the judge, a man who says he knew muller in the marine corps writes i have always felt that Matthew Muller was a round peg struggling to fit into a square hole. Melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. Today marks one month since the deadly ghost ship fire in oakland. Abc z7 news was at the site as people continued to pass by and remember the victims. The fence around the building is filled with poinsettias and christmas decorations. Some wanted to reflect on what was lost. I feel like i almost have an obligation to push on because they didnt have a chance to, all the victims. So thats the way that i am sort of dealing with it. 36 people died in the fire on december 2nd. The Alameda CountyDistrict Attorney is still determining if any criminal charges will be filed. A broken water main has been replaced, but the cleanup is hardly over. Abc 7 news was there yesterday just after a 12inch main gave way, flooding businesses and homes. Today restoration crews and homeowners spent the day assessing the damage and cleaning up. That break was on a hill and water carrying a whole bunch of gravel flowed for over an hour before crews arrived. Here it just backed up against the back of the building and found its way through the wall and came through some of our garages. Some had more water, like this one. I had less. He still hasnt heard from anybody at east bay mud. They tell abc 7 news the water main break was likely due to Ground Movement or corrosion. A rigorous inspection of the water system gets under way tomorrow. Crews will spend the next 60 days traversing the 19mile Long Mountain tunnel, a major connector from the reservoir to the bay area. The inspection will help them decide whether the centuryold tunnel can be saved or will need to be replaced. It will be the longest the tunnel has been shut down since 1980. Bay area residents wont see any disruption in water service. Consumer news now, from car sales to home sales, a lot to talk about. Michael finney is here with all of it. Hi, michael. You know, it doesnt feel like it but airfares, the price, went down last year. Really . Substantially. Airfares went down. The price dropped about 14 to an average of 212. This year fares overseas are expected to drop even more. And more transatlantic Lowcost Airlines are coming online. Thats the reason, dropping the price for european travel by as much as half. So whats the catch . Charges for luggage, meals, seat location and all the rest, so be careful. You could end up paying more even though the actual fares are less. Existing home sales are projected to rise 2 this year. Thats down from 3. 33 last year. The National Association of realtors says rising Mortgage Rates is contributing to falling sales. Hardest hit, low and moderate income buyers who will have trouble qualifying for loans at the new prices. That said, with rent soaring in many areas, owning homes is still considered a much better deal. When auto sales figures are released wednesday, theyre expected to show sales at just more than 17. 5 million cars during 2016, a great year for the auto industry. One that was slowing down towards the end of the year. Now, that has car makers and dealers rolling out sales and special deals, making 2017 a potentially great year to buy a car. Modest priced cars are expected to get the lions share of the discounts with midlevel suvs seeing the very best deals. Luxury car sales are not expected to slack much so deals there will be much harder to come by. New and used . New is what theyre looking at here. Theyre getting paranoid because they started slowing down. They had a great year and it started slowing down so the deals are already beginning to roll out. Its going to be a great year. Thank you, michael. Batman is in custody in san jose, sort of. Overnight sheriffs deputies responded to the allen rock Transit Center following reports of a man who was in a batmanlike mask kind of acting strangely, brandishing what looked like a handgun. It took authorities more than 30 minutes to get him to surrender. When he did the handgun he was reportedly carrying turned out to be a toy. Deputies say they have had previous encounters with the suspect while he was dressed as superman. It looks like 2017 is getting off to a stormy start. Heres live doppler 7. We have Little Pockets of scattered rainfall at the moment, but its going to become much more than scattered overnight. Right now were looking at cloudy conditions over San Francisco and over our bay. Its currently 51 here in the city, oakland a cooler 47. Its 50 at Mountain View and san jose, 49 at gilroy. This is the view from the east bay hills camera. There are little breaks of brightness but clouds are getting lower and we have more temperature readings. 44 in santa rosa, 50 in napa. Novato 48, 46 at fairfield. Concord 50 and 48 at livermore. This is a view from our rooftop camera looking out over the embarcadero. Well see scattered showers tonight with snow levels coming down to about the 2500foot level. Well see heavy rainfall with windy conditions tomorrow and this unsettled pattern that begins now will continue through the week. Storm impact scale indicates that the approaching storm, the one coming in tomorrow, ranks 2 on the scale. A storm of moderate intensity will produce moderate to heavy rainfall. We expect rainfall totals ranging from half an inch to about 2 inches generally an it will be windy in the afternoon and evening which will probably make for a messy commute. Starting the forecast animation at 8 00 tonight, notice overnight well see more widespread rain developing. 5 00 tomorrow morning it will be pretty rainy across most of the bay area. At that point it will be light to moderate rain but look how the moderate heavy rain moves in by midday, continues through the afternoon and into the evening tomorrow. Its going to be drenching tomorrow and only start to taper off early wednesday morning. Even then wednesday we expect more pockets of rain or periods of rainfall. Wind gusts by 3 00 tomorrow afternoon will range between 20 and 30 Miles Per Hour. Stronger in some coastal locations. Point reyes expected to see gusts over 40 Miles Per Hour and those winds will taper off late tomorrow night. Look at projected rainfall totals. By 11 00 or so we expect rainfall totals to be over 2 inches at santa rosa, nearly 2 inches at novato, napa and fairfield. Over an inch in San Francisco. About 0. 7 in oakland and san jose so its going to be quite a wet pattern all across the bay area. Meanwhile in the sierra, Winter Weather advisories in effect until 10 00 tomorrow morning by which point we expect 5 to 10 inches of snow and a Winter Weather warning is in effect from 10 00 tomorrow morning to 4 00 a. M. Thursday. Snow will be heavy at times with who whiteout conditions. Strong gusts over the ridges and snowfall totals by 4 00 a. M. Thursday will be over 2 feet in some areas and the snow will be continuing on, so we could see 3 feet of snow in some places by friday in the sierra. Overnight today look for low temperatures in the low to mid40s. Our rain chances over the next 7 days 100 the next couple of days. Looking just a little bit farther ahead, 10 00 friday night look for another wave of rain coming in for the weekend, both days saturday and sunday, with strong gusty winds once again. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. So a storm ranking 2 on the impact scale tomorrow. Another storm ranking 1