Unacceptable. Fbi investigating an attack against a chinese consulate in San Francisco. Someone poured gasoline on the front door, then set it on fire. Good evening, everyone. No one was hurt in this fire that charred the buildings doorway but now the Chinese Government is calling for better protection in the united states. No one claimed responsibility this, is the main entrance to the chinese consulate. You can see charred doors and damage was contained to the outside. Today, business as usual, but they couldnt miss fire canalling. Many had strong opinions about what happened. Terrorism. Right . Its terror. Its the nature should be the same as any group attack, u. S. Embassy consulate 9 35 raft last night a camera mounted on an Apartment Building shows a van stopping and moments later fire broke out. A witness says she saw two men inside of the kons slit. Investigators say they poured two buckets of gasoline on to the front door the press called the act despicable. This is a Violent Crime in the united states. Posing a Severe Damage to the consulate facilities. State Department Says its deeply concerned. We take this very seriously. Bureau of Diplomatic Security working with the fbi and local authorities to investigate. The fbi doesnt not believe its an act of terrorism. Our assessment is that this appears to be a criminal matter opposed to National Security matter. But just in case, San Francisco police assigned a unit to the res dense. In 2008 a group poured a flammable liquid on a gate outside of the building. Investigators believe it mae have had something to do with the crack down in tibet. A source sneen a video says one of the arsonist saz man appearing to be asian, wearing glasses and jeans. A santa rosa neighborhood vows to rebuild a memorial honoring andy lopez shot and killed by a puty in october. The memorial went up in flames this morning around 8 00 in this video shows the aftermath here. Investigators are trying to figure out if this fire was an accident or intentionally set. The teen was walking through his neighborhood with a air soft bebe gun police made an arrest in the shocking murder of a Northern California priest, taken into custody today police say he surrendered in gasherville investigators believe he killed the priest after he broke in yesterday morning. There does appear to be blunt force trauma. The investigation, homicide revealed forced entry was made into the parsonage. And a violent struggle ensued. Police say he had been in and out of the custody and stoent a hospital because of the he raltic behaviors. Father freed had close ties to San Francisco. On the third sunday of every month, he said mass in San Francisco to members of the japanese catholic society. A shan jose man has been arrested after a crash that injured a pregnant woman. Police say the 23yearold hit another car with his mazda, and that other driver is pregnant. Officers say he drove way, crashed and then took off running. Police caught up with him, arresting him for the fifth dui. A driver with uber is out of jail tonight. Arrested following a new years eve accident that killed a 6yearold girl and injured her mother and brother. Carolyn. Its part of what is known as the sharing economy. Tonight, question about who shares potential legal liability in tragedies like this, conthe corner, there is a small memorial to a small child. 6yearold sophia lu. Police identified the driver today. He faces charges of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and failure to lead. Today, saying they have deactivated his account. This is not the first time an uber driver has been involved in a pedestrian accident. In march this, geyser occurred after a driver and another car crashed, shearing off a hydrant. These pictures provided by attorney Doug Atkinson who says the client, a 25yearold, a passerby was hit by the hydrant. She broke her leg and underwent leg surgery. She may require back surgery. In september, the California PublicUtilities Commission took the first steps in regulating what it calls Transportation Network companies. Including requiring background checks for drivers and a minimum 1 million per incident of coverage. The Attorney Says uber is not stepping up in this case there is still denial theyre included in the lawsuit properly and have responsibilities for the negligence of the driver. We asked uber to respond, but the company declined. In San Francisco, abc7 news. Chp arrested 437 people conducting check points from 6 00 p. M new years eve until midnight, new years day. There were four fatalities across the state. A court order in the battle over a brain dead oakland girl being kept on a vent later. Representatives of Childrens Hospital and family of jahi mcmath be being ordered to meet tomorrow. Its been quiet and we do sdpoekt seat family tomorrow rnoon along with attorneys from the hospital for a hearing in court on one of the many motions filed on behalf of jahi mcmath. This case attracted international attention. This morning there was a lone demonstrator supporting the family of jahi mcmath the balance battle over her fate moves to court. Friday a judge will preside over a settlement conference between the family and Childrens Hospital. The family wants two procedures the family refuses to perform on the 13yearold the family and attorney say they cant move her without those procedures. On monday a judge extended a temporary restraining order preventing the hospital from removing jahi from a vent later until january 7th. Lack of rainfall is starting to make bay area wine growers nervous. Some are voicing their concerns. Wayne . Wine makers will tell you there are pros and cons the Positive Side it gives a good, strong red. On the down side, we dont know what we have in store. Wine makers tell us theyre concerned. Here is a concept when clear skies and good weather become a problem. Wine industry viewing it that way. Beautiful weather. It bad weather at this point . A little bit concerning. Humans seek balance, so do vines. Napa county sefz 25 inches of p rain. Last year, just four. If we didnt see a drop of rain, these vienz would still produce grapes. Its what they do. Larger question is how a potential drought would affect quantity and importantly, quality. If we have earlier bud break there is a longer time to mature she and others worry about frost and having little water to protect against it. Or heavy rains. Its not just lack of rain. The rain comes at the wrong time, it can hurt us as well. That is the reason we love rain, now. Tom dave yeez warns in a worse Case Scenario with smaller yield we might see a 5 or 10 price increase. This is my 35th vintage coming up. The driest ive seen it. So dry, hills are barren of yellow mustard seed. That the grass is barely visible. It depends on allocations of water. My guess is that theyll able to get by another year or two. We can see drought. We have seen both before the wines will adapt to weather and growers to the vines. In napa county, Wayne Freedman abc7 news. So when might we see a chance of rain . Spencer christian has that for us. It may happen into the week ahead well take a look at the slight chance of rain water worry sxtz city asking residents to cut back because of the low lake levels. And a move to gutierrez dents to ditch bags so successful one city giving shoppers a break for female announcer female announcer get beautyrest, posturepedic, even tempurpedic mattress sets, at low clearance prices. Save even more on floor samples, demonstrators and closeout inventory. The year end Clearance Sale is on now at sleep train. Your ticket to a better nights sleep or how to find big savings on the things you need. 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Good decision. Its important. Do you ever for get . On occasion but not often. So does that remind you . Yes. Definitely. I was in campbell. That is one of the things i have trouble remembering. I got over the city. Shoppers face a fee starting january 27th. This broker failed to get 3,000 valid signatures but will continue to collect them. So have other issues whether well be taxed on those, that is just another form of tax. Facebook is being sued for allegedly using private messages to trigger ads it says private facebook possessages being intercepted to learn the contents of user communications. This is awill yous face book to profit from it by sharing information with third parties. Folsom dam operators dealing with a problem of unprecedented lack of water in the state. When theyd usually start thinking about leaving space for winter flood control, operators are trying to save every drop of water they possibly can. We started planning for potential Drought Conditions in may after first five months operators having to prepare for something that the designers apparently never dreamed of. What you cant see is where that door is mni is the fight that supplies water to the city of roseville the city of folsom in that direction. A full reservoir stands at 480 feet. Center inside of the dam is 317 feet water level today is 363 feet just 46 feet above intake. Its uncharted territory. One idea being considered is flowing a barge. Right . To protect habitat there is four time as much water leaving the dam than is flowing in. Operators will be asking if this year fish might be okay with a little less. Those are things that needed balance is flows down american river. George warren abc news. Yes. Serious conditions. Getting drier by the day. A hint of a little rain in just a moment. Showing mainly clear skies with high clouds we have had record warmth today. 66 degrees in Moffett Field ask oakland downtown Oakland Museum 69 degrees a new record high for that location. On we go looking over San Francisco. Tomorrow will be the fourth spare the air day. 26th since november 1st. Now a live view of the district in downtown San Francisco from roof top camera. 60 degrees in San Francisco. And one more live view with silver of the moon in the western sky looking from emeryville. 45 in napa. One final live view of the Ferry Building in chilly some locations and this pattern continues into next week perhaps a slight interruption. Hazy sunshine tomorrow and next couple days actually. Storm going to move north. However, starting at 10 00 next Tuesday Morning by tuesday night there is a slight chance of rain fall. The storm grazing the coastline pushing south ward. Not likely to bring in water to the bay area. If that materializes looking like a light rainfall. Tonight clear skies and low 40s around the bay. Highs into mid to upper 60s around the bay and inland z once again, declining air quality. Here is the accuweather forecast. This mild pattern through monday. Just a slight cool down. Highs 60 degrees inland. Still not looking at much of a pattern. Yes. Storms. Yes. We do. Thank you. Still ahead an unusual merchandising deal. The family behind duck dynasty launches its own line of guns. Bulldog the red tags mean the red tags mean save up to 40 on clearance mattresses. Get up to 300 off serta, posturepedic, even tempurpedic. Puppy i found a red tag hahaha bulldog mattress discounters year end Clearance Sale ends soon. Frol being breaking news in San Francisco. There has been yet another serious Traffic Accident involving a pedestrian. Youre looking at a live picture of the scene. Police say the pedestrian is a man in his 20s. No word yet on who is at fault weechlt learned he was outside of the crosswalk. The driver remained at the scene. This is the fourth serious pedestrian accident in the city in three days. Tonight stocks started on a decline with s and p 500 on the year down the dow fell 135 points and p and p fell 16 points. Duck dynasty family producing a line of guns. Partnering with gun maker to produce nine different guns the pistol scombun rifle will have military style designs with large capacity magazines. There is more still to come including a big winter storm hitting the east coast. Hack tack n snap chat exposing thousands of names and phone numbers. What tech experts ever saying about privacy. Personal stories [ superfan ] were hitting the road to help america discover the new helpep. Youve got to try this sweet sour chicken helper. I didnt know they made chicken. Crunchy taco or four cheese lasagna . Can i get another one of those actually . [ superfan ] hey, america, were here to help. Tomato florentine soup, it took a little time to get it just right. [ ding ] but finally, it happened. Perfection. At progresso, weve got a passion for quality, because youve got a passion for taste. A huge winter storm forced airlines to cancel or delay flights because of weather conditions there are delays for flights from chicago. In San Jose International airport one flight to boston has been cancelled and there are delays for flights to, and from chicago and boston. No flights from oakland have been affected so far. This is a live look, you can see snow coming down in washington, d. C. More now from the powerful blasts hitting there uk see snow coming down here in new york city. And tremendous snowfall. More than 100 million americans are in the path of this fierce winter storm. In north dakota 13 inches have fallen. I just cleared the car off. About three and a half, four inches. Piling up quickly. Yesterday morning and evening, here we are again. Under four inches isnt bad a above 4, 5, 6, this just becomes harder. New england, the worst expected to blow in. Here in the new york area, commuters rying to get home before the Port Authority warned the storm may shut down area airports. 8300 flights have been delayed or cancelled. Some ways, traveling by car is worse. Roads starting to get icy. Nerve wracking. So i guess were going to extend the holiday. But for School Children snow and cancel jagsz are just good news. And word that long island expressway will be closed down. Id love to be with you in that weather, ive got to say its still beautiful out here in new york. It is beautiful. Thank you very much. And just dozens of passengers aboard a Russian Research ship since last week have been evacuated now. This video posted by a passenger. The scientists and tourists taken to an australian ice breaker to get them home. 22 crew members will stay on board. Snap chat gain add tenning as an app that is a teen sense yachlgs now, its getting a different type of attention after exposing names of more than four and a half million users and what it means for snap chat, and you. Its a simple idea snap chat lets you send photos and videos. Reality is more complex. This is a sign they neat need to take their act together. A nirm australia warned them four months ago when it never responded the firm published the weakness online. Hackers saw it and used it to build a Computer Program impersonating the mobile app, up loading a dummy aggress dres book and servers respond with a list of user names they blacked out last two differentits of every number. Their beef is with the company. There are certainly loss of anom anymore ti. If a parent n wants to see, they can probably look that up. The breech is mainly a wake up call for people who use snap chat. This is proof its not a good deal at all. He worries this wont be the last scary thing is that a lot of them are teenagers, right . He points out snap chat is a Small Company and says this wont have happened with google or facebook this is focused on viral growth. And just focused on gaining more customers. Coming up new hope for hundreds of pet owners after a long time veterinary hospital long time veterinary hospital sudd overmany discounts to thine customers [old english accent] safe driver, multicar, paid in full a most fulsome bounty indeed, lord jamie. Thou cometh and we thy saveth what are you doing . We doth offer so many discounts, we have some to spare. Oh, you have any of those homeowners discounts . Here we go. Thank you. He took my shield, my lady. These are troubling times in the kingdom. More discounts than we knoweth what to do with. Now thats progressive. Weve told you about 40 years in oakland animal was out care or medical records Michael Finney is here to explain what happened. Weve been keeping track of this. Lake veterinary hospital served generations of animals and pet owners in the east bay. Tonight the hospital is in bankruptcy the former owner facing charges of embezzlement. However, now there is a ray of hope. This is what pet owners found in oakland. I came