Dch. Spencer. All right dan. This is what makes bay area weather so exciting. We have got live doppler 7hd manly showing mostly clear sky right now and today we not only had sunny skies we had record High Pressure in many locations check out the number in yellow with the asterisk from san rafael to richmond to San Francisco, oakland, sfo move i itfeld, san jose and livermore at 70 degrees all record High Pressure for this date in those locations. So it was almost more like a breath of summer than spring. Right now things changing. Heres our forecas s0 oclock tomorrow morning. Cloudy tomorrow. Much cooler and by afternoon we see rain developing up in the north bay. Swing down to the central part of the bay i cant remember by mid afternoon right on dup to the south bay by late afternoo afternoon. Meanwhile as we get rape here snow will be falling in the sierra. Winter weather advicefully effect from noon tomorrow to 8 00 p. M. For the central sierra. 3 to 6 inches of snow above 4,000 feet. Chain requirements travel 38 likely. What is next . I have the accuweather 7 day forecast in a few minutes. Thanks very much. Developing news tonight in texas. Former president hw bush transported to houston Methodist Hospital after he experienced shortness of breathment former president 90 will be held for observation. Sony pictures reversing course and decided today it will release the interview on Christmas Day. About face comes despite threats of another hack and even violence. Heres carolyn tyler. Reporter sony says it if he ever gave up on releasing the film. Comedy about plot to assassinate kim jongun pulled from major theater chains. After threats of violence from a group believed associated with north korea but obs of small independent theaters like the nonprofit that mark runs started campaign encouraging sony to allow them to screen the film. Rather than give in to intimidation. If any one of these entity called us and said im sorry you captain show that film. You know. That would be just that to us to get these to the fore front of the audience. Reporter hes the executive director of the calf Film Institute says he got calls from people wanting his smith theatre to show the controversial comedy. People we talked to said they will go just to make a statement. Might walk out of the movie made with the crowd but yes, now probably because of the whole stir i would good see it. Reporter president obama had criticized sony last week when the movie was cancelled. Today the white house relessed a statement applauding the company. We are a country that believes in free speech and the right of artistic expression. Week before the controversy the enter have you had a premier at the castro theater. Organized by the San Francisco film society. The film like the interview would in the normally play independent cinema. Its a big hotel wad comedy but in this case just because of the strj circumstances, all these wonderful small theaters all across america are actually going to have a chance to play the film probably the Box Office Winner of the season. So contained of a victory for the little guy. Reporter in san rafael, carry listen tyler abc 7 news. Heres a list of bay area theatres agree to show the interview starting Christmas Day. Rialto cinema elm wood in berkeley. Camera 3 san jose and cinema west theatres in martinez, livermore fairfax petaluma, sonoma and sacramento and new parkway m oakland. And theater owners say sony also planning to rae least film to video on demand Christmas Day. Owners not pleased with the decision but one owner said in this case all better are off. North korea Internet Service down again today for about 31 minutes. It was down yesterday for 10 hours. North korea Internet Access comes through china but its not clear who is behind the outages. Police in the east bay are still looking for the people who gun down an oakland english teacher 4 weeks ago. David was on afternoon walk two days before thanksgiving in the preserve in the Oakland Hills when shot and killed. This Morning Police added to the incentive for someone to turn in the killers. We are increasing the reward from 10,000 dollars to 25,000 dollars. For any information that ladies to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for this homicide. Reporter Family Friends join police in making nounlts. They say the pingt month has just been awful. Im devastated. Family devastated. You think that 4 we can down the road this is maybe going to start to soften up and it just gets worse. Police continue to search for these 2 men they say are persons of interest in the case. Fbi says robbery happen far more frequently during the Holiday Season. We put vick leon the story and heres what he found. Hes one of the 2 serial bank robbers they catched last week. Undercover officers arrested him after he robbed the pharmacy on van nichlts hes actually responsible for 15 incidents. Some of them here in San Francisco as well as some in san mateo county. Reporter other serial bank Robber Police say caught after he left the bank on irving straechlt dubbed the chuck taylor bandit because of the snacker he wore. Police say he robbed 10 bank that they know of. There has been a huge number of bank robbery in the past month. 19 to be exact. Always seems to be upswing during the Holiday Season. Over all this year we are actually down from last year. But within the last month november was very big month and december so far has been a big month as well. Bandit may need money to buy drugs. These may be hard times for them. Or they may simply be submiten with the holiday spirit. Might be motivated by detroit tiger care for the loved ones. Trying to purchase Something Special for them. Thats why police see so many santa at banks exploratorium police are lacking for this one. Who robbed a bank during the santa con event several weeks ago. Holiday pub crawl where hundreds dressed as santa a. The different santa clause with a gun told the teller. He needed the money to pay his elves. Fbi says in 2011 the last year they compiled statistics 5000 banks other Financial Institution were his robbed. Bandit took 38 Million Dollars in all. You may be wondering of the 38 Million Dollars that was stolen from banks in 2011 how much of it was recovered . Answer, only about 20 percent. Vic lee abc 7 news. Vandal a group of people who decapitated large an jelly at the Christmas Display in the hills here. Happened about 11 00 oclock sunday night. This display has a rich history too. Im grant from india first created the display 60 years ago. It features 150 hand made folk art creation. Volunteer revive the tradition three years after the death in two,000 2. Group says the vandal captured open camera. We have the video 4 on 7 news at 11 00. If she just hit our car. Pushing us off the road. Kind of laugh bit now because it was such a crazy experience but in the moment absolutely terrified. She and her friend scary experience on i 80 is all caught on camera. The pair were driving in the community of dutch flat saturday when woman cut them off. Driver slammed on the brake forcing them to stop. She present 10ed to be an officer trying to arrest the 2 young women. They didnt believe a word she said and took off again then called the police. Go to the officer good to the officer. Okay. Okay. Please. Make sure he helps us please. Help us. And once police step in they arrested 50yearold woman of santa clara a. The bam she flashed was from a Company Providing senior assistance. She had gotp out of jail when this all happened. Also suspected in hit and run in roseville justless week. There is much mr. Ahead this tuesday night. Coming up. Why police use all this map power in simple case of theft. Why the muscle man who lives here call it Excessive Force. Also some very young Central American refugee now had the first case of christmas in america. What is it about this nativity scene one town wants sz you. N get the door open just pull. Show of force in south bay theft investigation. Heres how they left the place after searching for a stolen camera. Santa clara police are in the cross hairs tonight accused by a man of using Excessive Force and targeting him because hes muslim. Accuser federal Homeland Security agent police deny any wrongdoing. Abc 7 News Reporter david louie. At least a dozen officers seen moving in on the santa clara home. You see an assault weapon. Service guns drawn. Short time later you see a battering ram drot in 0to bust down the front door. Look like a drug bust but officers looking for a 300 dollar dashboard camera. This is a pretty traumatic experience for our family. 26yearold mohammad is a federal home lapped security agent accused of stealing a relative camera. The photo he provided indicate police looked all over the house for it but never found it. We have been resident of santa clara the past 20 years and we were, everybody was shocked. About what happened. Reporter judge dismissed the the case but its not over. The Attorney Says the police used Excessive Force and targeted him because hes muslim. Its a question of the over use of police power against a person in part because of his religion and because of their assumption about the connection between that religion and terrorism. Reporter Santa Clara Police say the use of force was appropriate and him being muslim was irrelevant. This response was in our procedures in investigating Law Enforcement officers especially in this case being a federal Law Enforcement officer we have the public trust in this case and we believe you know the public held us to the higher standard and theft in this case is pretty serious. Reporter hes still facing an internal investigation by Homeland Security. While that plays out his gun has been taken away and he has been assigned to a desk job. In Santa Clara David louie abc 7 news. We have developing story in San Francisco. Accident on the east bound direction of the bridge has caused a big traffic back up tonight. Van spun out at about 7 45. Accident was cleared. But the driver locked his keys in the van. Thats why we still have this big back up. No one was hurt however in the accident. Community is rae responding in a big way to help the family of a window washer who fell from the roof of San Francisco building. Perez survived 11 story fall month ago landing on a car. He is talking and eating but still has a long recovery ahead. Family wants to help pay expense ns and since it launched they raised more than 58,000 dollars much of that in the past 24 hours. If you would like to help visit our web site. 2 Central American children who em gritted to the bay area without their parents got first taste of christmas in the united states. 5yearold eric cruz and 3yearold sister ashland got stuffed bear and 100 dollar gift card from the group hispanic in philanthropy. Children arrived in the states earlier this year with the father who was deported to honduras. They were able to stay with their aunt in sap leandro and now she is seeking guardianship. She has the legal power to bring them to doctor upon thement, enroll them in school tashtion them to the dentist. Reporter well the children are hoping for christmas miracle that june rules they dont have to return to honduras and can applies for immigrant legal status. Thats what the adults caring for them hope for. We brought you the story thanks to our aliens with union vision 14. All right time to turn our attention to the weather and as we approach the holiday. Nice dry spell spencer grit news forth big skate board i get on christmas. Use it right away. Relatively mild. Not as mild as today. Record warmth. Cooler tomorrow. A little bit of the shower activity Christmas Eve then dry spell. Perfect. Heres live doppler 7hd. Mainly mostly clear sky right now after what was lovely sunny day but we do have patches of fog mainly over the area of the delta and carquinez straits. Visibility down to quarter mile as the fog is dense there up in santa rosa just 4 miles and most locations are reporting normal visibility around 10 miles or. So you see the fog moving in from the Central Valley through the delta carquinez strait. Advisory in effect for the area until 9 00 oclock tomorrow morning. And then we see the fog begin to dissipate. Okay rate now looking at temperature readings of 52 san mateo o. 49 newspaper nap a. 48 fairfield. 52 at concord basically upper 40s to low 50s all around the bay area. Live view from the exploratorium camera looking back at part of the sky line of San Francisco. Forecast feature. Cooler tomorrow with afternoon showers. Sunny cool on thursday Christmas Day then dry pattern that develops on thursday continues all the way in through the new year. Satellite radar composite image shows High Pressure held on for one more day brought us record warmth today but her comes the next rain maker. Bring quick burst of showers tomorrow and some cooler air behind it so lets start the forecast animation at 10 00 oclock tomorrow morning at which point its mostly cloudy across the bay area. Then right around noon we see rain developing up in the north bay. Then during the early mid afternoon hours it swing south ward through the central part of the by why are and then Late Afternoon 4 00 p. M. And beyond we see the front moving out here. Its dry behind the front breezy and cooler. Rainfall estimate are for total no greater quarter inch than higher el vision and maybe up to continueth inch in lower elevation but many locations 7 just a couple of 100 thats bit. Not major rainstorm fours. Over tonight cloudy skies and some 80s of foggy especially out to the delta the straits low pressure in the Early Morning hours in the upper freeways low 50s. And then tomorrow High Pressure in the south bay under partly shower conditions right around or just above 60 agrees over in the peninsula upper 50s around 60. Mid upper 50s on the coast. 58 degrees downtown San Francisco tomorrow with some showers. Up in the north bay we expect wet east weather to be. High only in the 50s. East bay high up to 60 at oakland and union city and in the inland east bay high in the mid upper 50s accuweather 7 day forecast. Dry cool breezy day on thursda thursday. Christmas day. Dry pat he were continues through the weekend into next week right into the beginning of 2015. Sustained pattern of dryness. All right. Which is great but we need more wet pattern still. Yes we do the. More snow pack also. Rain helped but more beneficial to the drought now is snow pack in the sierra. We hope for that. Next. Tevsh gets books. Coming up. We go hyped the scenes of a last minute friendy. To get some toy the Holiday Season is here, which means its time for the volkswagen signthendrive event. For practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a germanengineered volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta. And the 2015 motor trend car of the year allnew golf. If youre wishing for a new volkswagen this season. Just about all you need is a finely tuned. Pen. Get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on select new volkswagen models. Do you recognize these people a. Have your found the camera in the bay area an wants to return it to the rightful owner. Camera has photo of pretty special moments including a family visit to a pumpkin patch. Beautiful shot. Beautiful family. Heres another moment standing on the side line at met life stadium in new jersey. If you recognize the folk in the pictures or maybe you. Please contact us through our 7 News Facebook page. Help get the camera back to whom it belongs. Thats right. With christmas just a couple days away. Hundreds of San Francisco family getting a little help putting Something Special untree. San francisco Firefighters Toy Program is in full swing now. Toy Program Headquarters was packed this morning as family line up to pick out presents. Program run by the San FranciscoFirefighters Union local 7 98 serves more than 4 40,000 disadvantage family year round and especially busy around the holidays. This is why we do it the smiles on their face and give back to the community. There are still 1,000 family on the waiting list for to. Even though gifts already being distributed for the holiday donation are still welcome. Still needed out there. Another half hour of 7 news at 9 00 is next. Coming. Government eases the rules on who can give blood. Tonight supporters of the Gay Community are calling it a disappointing first step. If you details about a gun trafficking ring. How Authorities Say