Where the train came to a stop. Witnesses describe hearing 2 thump and then seeing sparks shooting out from underneath the taken. Trains transbay tube had to be backed up to the embarcadero station in San Francisco where hundreds of people as you can see waited on the platform. On our way to west Oakland Fremont train and debris on the track so they literally turned the train around and we are all stranded here. No lines. Just a sea of people. Just standing around. For myself i had appointmen appointment. Now that appointment cancelled so thats mess up my well day. Service return to normal after about an hour but you can see there were a lot of people waiting at the embarcadero station. However bart is still investigating exactly how and why this happened. Reporting continues right now open twitter. Follow us at 7 news bay area and more on this on 7 news at 11 00 over on channel 7. Good evening. Thanks for being here. Ferocious storm system with very bad timing is creating all kinds of trouble with one of the busiest travel days of the year just hours away now. This is a live look at sfo. If you travel today there were no delay to report but that could change dramatically. 20 states are in the storm path and many families are wondering whether they will make it home for thanksgiving. Heres devon. On the east coast today a wet winter sloing to thanksgiving day. Biggest snor storm we have seen in quite some time along the east coast and happening on the busiest travel week of the year. Snow ice made travel treacherous in western pennsylvania parts of new york while soaking rain snarling traffic from florida to new jersey. Its all going to last for one more day. This storm is a triple threat. As far as travel concerns. Rain. Snow. Ice. Mainly delay. At the airport fliers are bracing for the worst. Some willing to pay more to make sure they get hom home. It was many hundreds of dollars to change our ticket but we had family plans in chicago that we cant miss. 25 million americans will get on a plane this week. Ja jamming Major Airline hub all across the country. Those crowded runway made worse by the weather. With ripple effects felt coast to coast. Weather fine here i dont know whats going on over there so we are here nice and early and hope to get out. Headed to the airport take the travel tip with you. Check the airline web site to see if they allow flight changes for free. Seen up for the app for the latest on any delay. By thursday the storm will be gon gone. But strong winds hyped it could spoil an 87 year tradition. Those giant balloo balloons macy thanksgiving day parade could be grounded. Tonight 15 states have Winter Weather advisory here in the nation capitol we wont see any snow but it is beginning to feel like christmas. White house tremendous areeves on friday. Now if flying delta u. S. Airways united and jet blue will waive any change fee for people who pet stuck for the flight get cancelled. Its its likely that more air lens will do the same as this storm hits. In december San FranciscoInternational Airport will bring in train dog like toby to help passengers who are feeling a little stressed. The dog will be deployed at all Term National thanks to the spca and animal assisted therapy progra program. They are easy to fine. Dog will wear red vest that say pet me. We may need dog like toby comfort dog at the airport in the next couple days because when this storm hits it causes problems all over the country. Check in now with spencer and life doppler 7 hd. Spencer this is a doozy. It is dan. Travel delay all over the country because of all the popular destination and points of origin on the east coast. You can see here. No troublesome weather in the bay year but east coast its quite troublesome and will be for the next 24 hours so heres how it looks right now. Showers and thunderstorms surging up the Atlantic Coast and farther inland. Cold air hitting the moisture and producing snow over wide area. Lets follow the forecast animation starting 11 00 oclock tonight. Center of the storm is over South Carolina right now. Over the next 12 hours or so. Manufacture north up over virginia. By early tomorrow not even 12 hours. Early tomorrow morning 5 00 oclock centered over virginia. Washington, d. C. Then the early afternoon it will be up over parts of new england just rapidly moving storm but produce heavy rainfall thunderstorms and strong gusty winds locally and snow behind the storm in parts of the great lakes near the valley and tomorrow night it left on out in Northern Canada and conditions will be clearer and dryer for thanksgiving day but strong gusty winds behind the storm so travel to and from miami coast is problematic the next couple days. Seems certain thanks very much spencer. Police in San Francisco are lacking for a mask man who used a tire iron to shatter a jewelry case and then ran away with batch of diamonds. The smash and grab robbery happened at Jewelry StoreNear Union Square last night at around effective 15. Police say the man just walked in to the continental Jewelry Store l. Didnt Pay Attention to the employee and concentrated at the job on hand. Nobody hurt good news. Not known how much the diamonds that he stole are worth. This is the time of year where this sort of things seems to happen. Black friday cybermonday just around the corner San FranciscoDistrict Attorney issued consumer alert to help protect you and your money during the Holiday Shopping season. Carolyn tyler is in union square. Still calm out there right now. So before the Holiday Shopping frenzy begins how about refresher course on do and dont to avoid getting ripped off. This is really a time of the year when we see an increase number of scam going on. Reporter San FranciscoDistrict Attorney george tip to prevent being victimized include using a credit card rather than debit t. Savvy shoppers know why. If anything goes wrong you have recourse to two back to your credit card company. Reporter thats right. Theres better fraud protectio protection. If you shop on line stick with trusted web sites. They usually have Security Officials yes you will see the symbol htt p f in the url. Watch out for too good to be true deal and watch out for yourself. Dont get distracted on the cell phone and be aware of your surroundings. Use common sense. Basically just put the stuff in the trunk of the car. Make sure parked in a safe area. Reporter all the tips are just common sense. But before this civilize scene turns into chaos District Attorney says we could all use the reminder. We have to keep thinking about it. Frankly when im going through this its helpful personally for me because i was going through this is stuff i need to be doing. Reporter me too. In San Francisco, carolyn tyler, abc 7 news. We all do. This warning from 7 on your side Michael Finney tonight about hacker targeting cybermonday shoppers. Internet Security Company report ago big spike in fishing schemes. Phoney email claim to be from ups or fedex saying the package is ready. Wendy burch those. Others claim to be from retai retailers offering special dea deal. They ask you to click a link but that really allows them to take over your compute computer. Dont open any link that you are not expecting. Thats the best piece of advice. Police San Francisco are lacking tonight for for man who drowned 2 cats. According to animal control the woman had the cats in this carrier as she was walking along the embarcadero near the Ferry Building when man grabbed the belongings and threw them into the bay. Cats did not survive. We have more on this story coming up on 7 news at 11 00 over on channel 7. Tonight call for mercy from the parents of crime victim. Its a stunning twist really in the case of a juvenile charged as an adult for setting an ac transit bus rider on fire. Sasha flesh man family wants prosecutors to ease up and try 16yearold Richard Thomas as a juvenile t. Laura anthony has the story. They are correct. Reporter attorney for 16yearold Richard Thomas says he welcomes words from the family of Sasha Fleishman they would prefer thomas tried as juvenile. Last month the alameda continue District Attorney charged thomas as an adult with felony assault and mayhem. For setting 18yearold fleishman skirt on fire on ac transit bus. Each charge also carries a hate crime enhance many. Fleishman suffered second third agree burns to lower body and expected to be released from the hospital tomorrow. Sasha father Karl Fleishman told us quote sasha recovery is going very well. She expects to be home before thanksgiving. What sasha most looking forward to is getting about a being to school and being with friends. Thomas Attorney Says his client actions were a prank and that he never intended to harm fleishman what did he think was going to happen. He thought a puff of smoke is and everybody would laugh and it would be over. He was horrified to see flames shooting up the way they addition the da disagrees. Citing Police Interview where thomas said he lit the skirt on fair because thomas is quote homophobe ick. Sasha fleishman parents said teen does not identify as either male or female. Judge will hear thomas motion to be tried as a juvenile next month. In oakland, Laura Anthony abc 7 news. Of. Stay with us more ahead on 7 news at 9 00. Up next. John mcphee back in trouble. Why an apartment manager is having him evicted. Also. Huge crowd of people who came out to honor a man most knew as grandpa. And the gay waitress. Restaurant investigating her claims that she was denied a tip because of for over 60,000 california foster children, the holidays can be an especially diicult time. Everythings different now. Sometimes i feel all alone. Christmas used to be my favorite. I just dont expect anything. What if santa cant find me . To help, sleep train is holding a secret santa toy drive. Bring your gift to any sleep train, and help keep the spirit of the holidays alive. Not everyone can be a foster parent, but anyone can help a foster child. Antivirus Software Entrepreneur john mcphee back in the news this time for getting evict from portland, oregon apartment and having civil stalking complaint filed against him. Mack if he was evicted last week from the port land luxury apartment that he had been living in. Abtd building manager filed a protective order against him. The manager claims mc afee threaten his life. Mack fee says thats not true and insist he plans to file a civil complaint. Mc afee remember arrived in portland early this year after leaving belize where he was wanted for questioning in a murder case. Mcfee denies any involvement in that killin killing. Failed romance helped lead 2 arrest to cold indicates dating back 23 years. Cheryl irvin and former husband are charged in the stabbing death of irwin other exhusband in castro valley. Investigators say the couple killed steve rutger in the home he shared with your ban. 2 recently divorced at the time now Officials Say money was the motel he have for this but would not give detail details. According to the arrest brought long awaited relief for the family. Had he not been the way he was we would never be as strong as we have been to get through this case. I tell you what after 22 years pl you guys can just imagine how hard it is. Reporter grace urban and her married shortly before the murdered new divorced. They implicated each other. Dna evidence also led to the big break after more than 2 decade decades. There was a vigil in fremont in memory of beloved coach. 76yearold john web was football coach. Teacher. And Athletic Director at john f. Kennedy high. He was fatally hit by car saturday morning on 6 80 as he tried to direct traffic around a fender bender. He was being a good samaritan. Web had been Athletic Director football coach all these years he taught math english wood shop and took over the chinese club when nobody else was available. John web was at that school for 25 years. His smile can brighten anybody day. Like coach is here. Kind of goes with the school. Going to be different. Empty. From the first day he showed me a lot of respect and a lot of courtesy when i first moved here so he actual hi helped me the kids lose in this in this situation because he was a remarkable remarkable man. We have heard so many great things about this man. School is planning a more formal memorial. School Officials Say he has 4 children. They have flown in to the bay area to help plan the family service. This saturday applications for university of california schools are due and at some campus the chance of getting in may ab bit better this year. Sadly its because the number of High School Graduate nationwide is shrink which means smaller pool of qualified applicant however admission to highly selective schools including stanford uc berkeley and ucla will still be competitive but you might get a bit easier break this time. 76 percent of nation colleges an universities report actually being concerned abouten rolling enough freshmen its come to. That justin percent have no concerns whatsoever. All right lets go back and talk about the weather. Spencer hear and really beautiful 1 million nature around the bay area tonight and spencer back filled with the holiday spirit because did you something fun. I did indeed. Down at west field center in San Francisco on market street. Market Street Association west field center put on the light ovingt snow flake. Dont they melt when you lit them. These are special snow flak flake. Dont medical at all. All the which through the holiday season. Many Public Officials were there supervisor jane kim and dancing flow flake there from the valley school. Lit the snow flake kicked off the season and connected off weather. Live live doppler 7hd snow flake dancing on the radar screen at the moment but we have some includes moving through the area. Very mild night as dan pointed out. Pleasant evening around the bay area. West ward across the bay. Current temperature readings 56 in San Francisco 50 in oakland 51 red wad city 53 san jose 14 los gatos and 50 half man bay. Looking at coyote tower from our kg o l roof top camera at abc 7 and temperature readings of 46 in santa rosa. In fact mid upper 40s from santa rosa to napa novato, 51 at livermore and another live view from our east bay hills camera looking across the bay on this lovely evening. Forecast feature l cloud i hope crease tomorrow and rain is unlikely for thanksgivinger in the bay year. Good news heres pacific satellite image showing a couple frontal system one fizzle and second one that has the potential or had the potential to bring us written fall but turning south ward and will start our forecast animation at 11 00 oclock tonight. Notice at this time dive south ward and all the rain associated with the system will stay offshore and pull away from the bay area giving us a dry forecast for thanksgiving. So we lick. That we do however have a beach hazard in effect for thanksgiving day. Expect the swell possibly sneaker wave strong rip currents all possible for north bay coast peninsula coast and monterey bay. Stay away from the coast lane. Good idea to did that until things calm down. Over tonight tonight partly to mostly cloudy sky was low pressure generally in the mid 40s. Chilly at some spots north bay valley drop down to 40 at santa rosa. Tomorrow we see partly sunny skies with periods of increasing clouds. You High Pressure on the mild side wins again mainly in the mid to upper 60s from the bay to inland areas and low 60s on the coast. And here is the accuweather 7 day forecast. So for thanksgiving day we see clouds but it is very unlikely any rainfall. There could be some far to the south then on friday partly to mostly sunny day. Is in for shopping if you are into. That pleasant mild weekend but then we start to get cooler breezy weather on monday by next tuesday sharply cooler with chance of reap. In that case we hope for some substantial written fall. Sure we need it. Miss the holiday e. Friday good for shopping. Thursday looks good for east. Absolutely. Shaping up nicely. Ready for that now. Okay. Still to kilometer on 7 new at 9 00. Video become that caught minimum heat star that caught minimum heat star lee need Third Quarter to kind of set the found diagnosis for victory. Oh. Was that a cart wheel . The heat d wade video bombing apartmente with cart wheel during james post game interview on monday. 2 time defending nba champion are known for the photo bomb. Lebron reaction. Cart wheel may the most creative yet. Pretty fun. Mild weather but tons of snow still today outside San Francisco academy of sciences. Check this out. There was enough white stuff to make snow men. 20 ton of snow put there to kick off the annual season for science exhibit. The reindeer also back this year. This time they made a grand entrance through the academy front door. Check them out. Reindeer exhibit 10s until january 5th. The snow probably will melt away some time by tomorrow. Well see. But fun while it lasts. Coming up next at 9 00. Dan noyes confronts serial killer with evidence that he refs to accept. Its a story you see only on