We are shocked by a 6 foot menorah just disappearing. This is a picture of the 6 foot, 100 pound menorah last year. Some time this weekend with the jewish holiday of hanukkah under way. Menorah disappeared from the park before it could be lit sunday night. Oh, my goodness. It was huge. It doesnt happen that easily. In order to install it it was a process. She showed us the similar menorah in her yard. San Francisco Police are now investigatingment even suggesting being on the look out for those attempting to sell large piece as resighingeled material. Camera from nearby business could provide clue to police once they reopen. People at the park today were outraged. Hate crime. Period. Real energy of this holiday taking these 8 days to just pierce the darkness and add as much light as we can. Idea that some one wants to take away the light from us we are not going to let it happen. We will continue bringing light to our community and not letting hate or antisemitism have its way. Reporter shes even hopeful some one may bring the menorah back. We are open to miracle during this holiday. Hanukkah is all about. In San Francisco, melanie, abc 7 news. Places investigating a possible hate crime in santa monica after some one there vandalize a synagogue. One of the rabbi showed up for service yesterday the second day of hanukkah he found a human waste in rice smeared in the entry way. Police say they are not call ate hate crime yet because its not specifically antisemite. People should feel that they want to express themselves in such a negative way. The congregation has been targeted in the past. Month ago a man stood during the service and shouted heil hitler an last year somebody left a let we are a swastika that said get out of here you jews. Investigation ongoing into what caused the fatal car crash in san jose but police say it appears alcohol may have been a factor. One car hit another head on on capitol expressway after midnight christmas morning. Impact killed the driver of one car and teenager boy riding with his parents in the other car. Sergio has the story. Street side memorial 25yearold jessica included candles. Signs. Stuffed animals and lots of booze. One of her trend came by to leave a big can of this. People are leaving things with you both side took a loss. Police say jessica crossed the Center Divide here on capitol expressway and careen head on in to a lexus. 14 yearly was killed. His parents were injured. Police say he may have been under the influence of alcohol. Her family arrived at the memorial to clean up the beer and liquor bottles. The family is no the happy about this mess. Came out theyre clean up because this isnt her. You know what i mean. All her friend. No this wasnt her. This they continue realize you know this is what took her lif life. She says she was a single mother whose 5yearold daughter is distraught after crash. Name of the 14yearold who was killed and parents have not yet been released by police. My condolence out to the family. Of the little boy she took the lie of. You know we are very sorry. It was a bad accident. She made a bad choice. She raised concerns about the had been drinking. She did snap chat and said they were giving her free divrpings. They should have been doing that and a she was already drinking. Reporter business closed today so nobody was available for comment we asked San Jose Police about this. Spokesman said they had no udates on this case. In san jose, abc 7 news. Hayward police have two suspects in custody for Christmas Eve inside a target store here. Vip was found inside the target on whipple road around 8 00 oclock on saturday. He died at the hospital. Police toylsd he was 36yearold man not released his name. Two were arrested short time after the attack. 13th homicide of the year. Transition to talk about the weather for a few minute. Temperatures in some areas drop freezing freezing. And sandhya is here with why. It is diagnose to be really cold because the skies are clear. Air mass is dry. Look at live doppler z. High cloud not going to help insulate us. As a matter of fact the high cloud are just really passing through the bay area and long gone as we head into tomorrow morning. Temperatures right now already flirting with the freezing mark in santa rosa and nap a. Many mid 30s. Fairfield livermore apartment i dont care. Look at the temperature trend tomorrow morning and san jose is down to freezing for your tuchlts average low is 42 degrees. Encouraging news especially if you dont like the cold night. We have moderating temperatures come up as we near the new years eve and new years day. How will you ring in the new year. On the wet or dry noment ill be back to let you know about a storm that is coming and another one that follows. Thank you. Speaking of which thinks pert nenlt. Sierra Avalanche Center reporting moderately dangerous avalanche conditions. Back country travelers being urged to use caution. You can see how the newer snow has broken off from a layer below. Advisory does not apply to ski area with avalanche control. Raider star quarterback said to have surgery on broken leg tomorrow and some worry the injury could mean the end of the team superbowl ambition this year they are having such a great year the team fans and man in charge isnt buying tha that. Laura has reaction from raiders headquarters. Quarterback held to the side line. Derek car broken leg broke the heart o raider fans but team say they arent necessarily out. With 12 and 3 record the die hard say the superbowl is still within reach. Theres a lot going on now. Wait and see what happens. We may still be on the track. Dont count us out. Just praying and hoping he would get up alfredo was there in the stand at the coliseum saturday afternoon when car went down and then out for the season. Still confident of the superbowl. Definitely superbowl. Ready to go feel great. Back up quarterback is sailing all the right things too but up to head coach to make sure the players his team do all the right things. About the team. About us winning and its not in any way to meant to be insensitive but the team does carry on thats what we do. Difficult al gore a difficult arizona is justin years old. He gets it. Think they can go all the way. With the raiders never give up. I mrawv picture just took a strange tivrnlt Laura Anthony abc 7 news. Much more ahead for you on this monday night. Coming up. Performer abouto be part of National Event to watch on abc performer abouto be part of National Event to watch on abc 7 also. Have returned to where they were before the drought. See how many salmon following the water back. Cold tonight. Showers later this week. Sandhya has the full up and down the Northern California coast. This mohave rain has property renewed hope for returning coho salmon. Plenty of water going out but how many salmon are following it in . Heres wayne from the creek in marin county. Perfect day of nature. Fovrmingt Roaring Creek and respectful group in the post christmas rush decided this might not be the best day to go shopping. Best place to be. That would be marin county state park on the this creek. Follow the signs. Look down. Look closely. Ritual gone on so long that it predate modern math. That red one. Male coho salmon. The winter rain have come the run off draws them back. You could walk along the creek look down and see salmon spawning almost anywhere. Now not so much. There might be 250 pair left. Which makes them all the more special. It is a native species battling for survival inches beneath the flowing water. They are already decaying. Fungus on them. Thats the Restoration Network that led today nature walk. Katie is shiitely salmon this time every year you see the video of spuning coho salmon digging the nest in a creek be bed. All hers. You had to think like assume on. Definitely. Like exhaustive salmon one born during the last trout. Hasnt eaten since being in the ocean. Reproduction on its mind and nothing else. Katie got this video plentying a camp rawnd water at the end of a 12 foot and more patient than any fisher may be. I watched it. You are thinking. Im hoping its recording. Guess we kno how this turned out. How this season is turning out. This is abc 7 news. Encouraging. Race is on to build float and bring many colorful in time for the 128 rose parade in southern calf. Some volunteer slice oranges to decorate the float that go through pasadena next monday. Others painted polished try to make everything shine. Some do whatever it takes to make next year parade a huge success. On the 31st if not done we go through the entire night until the first. Dont slichlt just get it done. I feel very excited because i have if he ever done this before. Its a a lot of work and volume up tier and we have people coming all over the world. Doing this. 2017 parade take place on january 2nd instead of the first because new years day falls on a sunday. You cant have a parade without marching bands right. One trumpet bugle corps from Silicon Valley hard to shine in front of worldwide audience in the rose parade. We have more now from santa clara. Here from 28 states in 3 country. Really like a family reunion. Some of the people havent seen in years. Its like old times. Like we never left. Not just here to hang out. Its the hardest thing i have ever done in my life. Tevr movement synchronize and precise. Oneweek to make it alll perfec perfect. Big honor. Second time doing it so this is a big thing for us. On the 55th anniversary santa clare vanguarde drum bugle corps chosen to perform here at the tournament of roses parade in pasadena. During the parade you hear everything from god america to up town funk. Um high from the touring summer program. 15 to 25. They make it look easy but its not. Have you been head with a rifle. Yes, i have. I have many stars. Musician and dancers this is far more than just performance. They eat sleep live together for preparing practicing morning to night. Very intense experience. The on day one fitted for uniform. 50 years of history when you wear this thing. 10 hours a day. 4000 calorie a day because we burn more than that. Practice strangers become friends. Make new friends basically overnight and by the end of the week they have whole new set of best friends. Leave with a new feather in the cap. Honor of marching in world famous parade. It take as lot of time and patience and practice but at the end of the day it pwments a beautiful moment in. Santa clara, john thon bloom abc 7 news. Watch the 2017 rose parade over on channel 7 starts at 8 00 a. M. Again on monday january 2nd live from pasadena. That is always the great fun. By the time we get to the new year. New weather pattern. Thats right. Interesting. Feels like the rainy season this year which is nice for a change. Sandhya is tracking more wet weather. Thats right. We have a pair of system but wont get here until later this week and both weak system. Tell you that we track them. We see a few high clouds and you look here theres a little bit more cloud coverup to our north. It gets down here eventually but not yes. So heres the live look from our 7 news exploratorium camera. That beautiful or wha what. All lit up for the hotel day. 46 right now in San Francisco. Its getting chilly out there. 40s san jose oakland. Gilroy 40 degrees and mountain tam cam beautiful view because we dont have any fog to speak of. Those temperatures are dropping fast. 33 degrees already if santa rosa. Now 34 fairfield 35 you need crank up the heat 36 in livermore. Sutro tower cam are looking at San Francisco sparkle tonight. Freezing cold with frost in the morning. We look at sunny cool for the afternoon and mild are day on top wednesday through friday. So early if you go out for a jochlingt enough to eat forth holiday ill do this. Just be aware of the fact its cold. Bundle up. 46 in santa rose. 27 fairfield. Twin in livermore. Seeing 30s around the bay and along the coast line some 40s. Now for the afternoon good recovery. The temperatures will come up a few degrees in the south bay. 59 in san jose. 60 gilroy. 58 sunnyvale peninsula mid upper 50s from redwood city to mountain view. 54 along the coast mountain bay downtown San Francisco. Sunshine mid 50s. Beautiful in the forth by. 58 in santa rosa. 56 nap a. East bay communities mid upper 50s. Oakland to free mont inland spots definitely need the sun screen. Item winter sunshine so cool day 56 agrees in livermore. 55 in concord. Now the storm impact scale comes in later on this week. Friday Night Saturday morning we have a one. Its a light system. Bring us a chance of some light showers. Less than 2 10s inch expected and breezy at times. So if you have plans dont worry about new years eve because heres the way it will play out. Hour by hour forecast. 8 00 oclock friday night. You are fine. 11 00 p. M. We start to see some signs of showers developing friday evening and while you are sleeping Early Saturday Morning we see the showers pass through. 7 00 a. M. Still going in the inland east bay then gone. So the new years eve plans are dry. New years day you start out dry 2017 but as we head into the new years day for the afternoon hours thats when things change up again. The our model not so aggressiv aggressive. Right now we keep tonight for the sunday and monday change again so stay tune. Heres a look at the monday evening and you notice some rain moving in to the north. Always down load the 7 news app to help you track not only the cold weather for tomorrow morning but also rain chance. Accuweather sunday cold tomorrow morning. Cool for the afternoon. Lots of sunshine though as we head into wednesday bump you up into low mid 60s for mildest inland vaechlt mid upper 50s. Theres the chance of some rain late friday night going into saturday and then as we head into sunday another system comes through but all these are once on the stormy packet scale and timing is everything. Timing looks good. New species discovered. What scientist from the California Alaska of science have found. If you law that changes the rules for children and car seats. That and other new law take seats. That and other new law take effect in the new year is a zoo he. Astronomer creditd with revolutionizing our concept of the universe has died. He died of Natural Causes yesterday in princeton, new jersey. She was 88. She found the galaxy dont quite rotate the some had predicted and supported the theory that some other force was in work namely dark matter which is all the rage in astronomy now. Perfect pie nearing studies earned her numerous honor including the second female elected to the u. S. National academy of sciences. Researchers at the California Academy of science discovered more than 100 new species this year. This critter is commonly known as sea shrug. Scientist found it during an expedition to the philippines. They also identified 43 new species of ants. 36 beagle. 24 fivrnlt as well as plants. Sea urchin and spider. Only 10 of the world inhabitant have been discovered so far. Think about that for a moment. As many creatures only discover 10 of them. Exciting part is so much more. Less an week remains this year which means we are less than a week away from some if you law taking fichblingt two involving alcohol you should know with. Powder alcohol officially banned in california. Making selling buying of it violation faces 500 dollar fine. Salon and barber shop legally serve customers a glass of wine or beer without permit as long as the drink is given for free. New law on january first changes the rules about children in car seats. Kids under the age of 2 will be required to use a rear facing car seat. Children who weigh more than 40 pounds or more than 40 inches tall will be, remember when you had to be 1. Thats right. New law make it illegal to handle a cell phone for any reason while driving. Drivers mount device to the windshield or dashboard. Action like tapping, swiping and using hands free device to talk are okay but the phone must be mounted. Minimum wage in many places starting january 1st. State wide it goes to continu continue. 50 an hour. Others at 12 dollars an hour starting next year. Mountain view up to 13 dollars as does sunnyvale. Oakland. San jose slightly raise wages on january 1st. And San Francisco next increase is not until july. Coming up next. George michael mysterious deat death. Tribute pouring in now for the pop star and new question about his his financial days. Also. Trump versus obama and the war of words. Donald trump fires back after president obama suggested he could have won the election. And the mother who walked 24 miles to search for help after her family got stranded in the miles to search for help after her family got stranded in the sn we begin this half hour with christmas night stunner. Pop superstar George Michael found dead at his home in england at the age of 53. The exact cause of his death is still under investigation. His manager says the singer suffered heart failure. Tribute power in for the man who rocketed to solo stardom. Terri is in london. George Michael Flood of emotion. Whole era. Today the tribute poured in around the world for the pop icon lost far too soon. Item very sad nichlts really cant believe standing here and george passed away. Outside the london home fans gather lighting candle. Some weeping. Michael was found dead in his country home christmas day. Police called to the scene called it unexplained but not suspicious. His manager says he died of heart failure. Pictures taken show his physique had changed but still so many question about his exactly what happened to this 53yearold. There will be an autopsy. George michael muse being touched so many from the bubble gum pop with wham. To this holiday ballad. He later revealed how before he was famous he work as dj and struggled with stage free. I have no idea how im available or able to sing to thousands an thousands of people when i literally just used to shutter at the thought of talking to the few people. Traveled to beijing in 1985. First active play in china before a crowd of 15,000. All over the world he became a teen favorite known for stage presence and six appeal. Song writer with 10 no. 1 hits in the u. S. George michael also struggled with stardom fateing depressio depression. Hiding the fact he was gay from fans until 1998 arrest for lewd behavior outed him. The idea that he had been this tragic old fashion stereo typical, they just loved it. His peer remember his tremendous talent and originally heart broken at t