Focussed here, the true christmas miracle seems to be happening here at the house across the street with no lights. I call it a miracle. Look closely. The miracle frank is talking about, the only decorations on his lawn, a couple of ceramic gnomes that mean the world to him and his wife janet, daughter caroline made them when she was four. She died in a motorcycle accident two years ago. Right after halloween, a grinch made off with them. I really didnt think theyd come back. Still, he put up this sign asking the thieves to return them, and Christmas Eve morning, right on the front lawn. There sat the gnomes, and i i just couldnt believe it, you know. I mean, i know miracles happen, but it was happening to me. It seems the crooks conscience kicked in. I would just like to say thank you to whoever brought them back because they mean so much to us. They brought the gnomes indoors tonight and gave them a new home safe on the fireplace. Outside they replaced a sign with this one, thank you. Our faith in humanity is restored. In concord, christin ayers, kpix 5. Now, when they spoke to us about the stolen gnomes weeks ago, they said theyd have no hard feelings for the person who took the gnomes if theyd just return them. They stand by that to be the. Theyre just happy to have them back. New details tonight. Police say three of the vehicles recently stolen from Car Dealerships were found today in oakland. A little more than a week, at least nine vehicles vanished while waiting to be serviced or detailed. Police are looking at Surveillance Video to try and identify the thieves. Police say some thieves acted like real life grinches in san jose creeping through multiple homes in a single night. Betty yu on how the suspects allegedly got in and what residents are now doing to prevent anymore intrusions. I was here asleep in this bed. Scott had no idea he was just a few feet away from some christmas time krooks when they ransacked his West San Jose home and stole presents from others in the middle of the night last week. I was lucky. Im sure if i would have woken up, id be scared to death. He says they stole a clock, two watches and cuff links police later recovered. Officers arrested them the night they broke into about 6,000 houszs. The thieves came in through the window, the garage or right through an unlocked front door. I just make sure i lock my front door now. That evening, taking cold medicine. I sat on my couch. I was watching tv. I had taken cold medicine. I kind of passed out. Woke up, it was time to go to bed. It was an alert neighbor. The pair didnt get far with the stolen christmas presents and valuables. Police found their car nearby with most of the goods inside. One of my first points of coffin fusion is the fact they picked this neighborhood to do it because its mostly a working klass neighborhood, not a bunch of jewelry, artwork, easy money to take. Whatever the reason a few neighbors have since installed alarm systems. Other are mindful of what they put under the tree. Neighbors tell us that San Jose Police may be looking for a third person involved with this crime. Meanwhile the two suspects will be spending christmas in jail. Theyre facing charges of burglary, conspiracy and possession of burglary tools. The woman faces an additional count of resisting arrest. In san jose, betty yu, kpix 5. A community is saving christmas tonight for a Union City Family burned out of their home. Chopper 5 captured the after math of the fire yesterday. What you cannot see is the damage inside. The fire destroyed everything, including all their Christmas Gifts. The Alameda CountyFire Department and total strangers decided something needed to be done. Just helping out and paying it forward, always trying to do the right thing. 16 people were displaced by that fire. Fortunately, though, no one was hurt. Procrastinators may be scrambling to get those lastminute gifts, but it wont be enough to salvage this Holiday Shopping season. Early numbers show retail sales failed in stores while they sailed on the internet. Online, theyre up 37 . By tonight it was a bit late to do any Holiday Shopping, but our patrick found a few who tried. It was the night before christmas. Wait, where is everyone . I thought, well, ill just come out on Christmas Eve because they hold the stores open for guys, dont they . I think this is the one shopping day specifically for guys. Do you agree . I agree a hundred percent, yeah. When they invented guy ts, this day showed up. By 6 00 p. M. Tonight just about every store was closed but that didnt deter a few lastminute hopefuls. Chris calhoun admitted he waited. Yes. Got busted, but you know what, everybody should be happy with everything. These two found themselves almost out of luck but were quick with another option. Money. Money . Gift cards. Thats right. Were not empty handed. Oh, no. These late comers went home with empty bags and long stories. Their husbands dont know we havent bought them a thing yet. A coupon gift card. Yeah. Go to safeway. But the most important Lesson Learned was that its the thought that counts, and being with loved ones on the holidays is the best gift of all. Merry christmas. If you just didnt make it on tienl, rest assured, the stores will be open again the day after christmas where you can get some really good deals, then you can say i meant to do that. Reporting from walnut creek, kpix 5. The mall is not the only spots crowded with frantic shoppers. Grocery stores also packed with people picking up those lastminute items for that christmas feast. Whole foods was dealing with double its usual business. Its hottest item . Crab. New tonight at 11 00, some of santas veteran helpers working all night to collect toys for needy children in the 13th annual Christmas Eve toy drive in union square at San Francisco continues right now. Carollers, sonoma sheens, setting the mood. A short time ago we learned volunteers have already met their goal to collect 10,000 toys. We give them to the Fire Department. The Firefighters Toy Program to distribute, and we also have partnerships with the San FranciscoPolice Department and the pal and other organizations that whereby we can get those toys out to all the kids. A lot of toys there. The toy drive started at 5 00 this morning, will last until 2 00 a. M. You got another three hours. Checking bay area headlines, the puppy rescued from a recycling plant in San Francisco sparked dozens of offers from adoption. Three month old gem was stuffed inside a garbage bag and heading down the Conveyor Belt saturday when a worker stopped the machine. Gem will be nursed back to health and assessed for temperament before being placed in a new home. Street reyesing is being blamed for a crash that sent a man to the hospital. Speeding down in san jose this morning when a third car pulled into their path. The gto careened into a house causing major structural damage. The driver of that car suffered minor injuries, and no one in the home was hurt. And San Jose Police are looking for help in their investigation of this incident. Last easter, a man drove his car into the Walmart Store and then started attacking customers. The driver was arrested. Police released this Surveillance Video today in hopes of identifying witnesses and victims. An oakland family is spending this Christmas Eve at their daughters bedside while they pray for a miracle. Today a judge ruled jahi mcmath can be removed from life support, more than two weeks after suffering complications from a tonsillectomy. Joe vazquez with the emotional response from her family. She meets all the criteria for brain damage. The two pediatric neurologists testified they did extensive tests. And what did you see in reviewing the eeg for jahi mcmath on december 11th, 2013 . There was no brain activity. Both concluded 13yearold jahi mcmath didnt have any clinical signs of life. Im going to have to there have deny your petition. The judge ruled against jahis family. While he did not say the hospital should pull the plug, what he did say is he would give for the family to decide what to do. After that barring an appeal, the hospital would be allowed to remove jahi from life support. Our hope is that the family between now and december 30th finds peace and comes to grips with the judges decision and reaches the conclusion that jahi mcmath is deceased and the family is able to take steps toward that. With the decision, its heartbreaking to hear that, of course. Our faith is still strong. Its Christmas Eve. Theres still time for a miracle. We still havent given up there. Its just a judge ruling. Will they appeal the judges ruling . Jahis family says they need time to think about it, and they have a message for other families. For everybody, love your children with all your heart. If you havent told them today that you love them, go home right now, call them, call them on the phone, and tell them how much they mean to you and how much you louf them. Make sure you hold them a little bit tighter this christmas. And jahis family says they will spend their christmas by her side praying as they try and decide what to do next. In the news room, Joe Vazquez Kpix 5. As to what went wrong with the surgery, that remains under investigation. Something old and something new in the popes first christmas. It was a first one of its kind encounter at the vatican. Finishing up critical repairs ahead of christmas day, the work aboard the International Space station that included international cooperation. And rewarded for his honesty. 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Hundreds tried to capture an image of the new pontiff during his first Christmas Eve mass. The pontiff may be a celebrity but his emphasis remains on the place of the poor. During his homily, he noted jesus humble beginnings. You are rich, and you made yourself poor. This Christmas Eve provides another first for the church. Having two folks leving at the vatican at the same time on a holier day. People have come from around the world to be part of franciss first christmas as pope and those that couldnt get inside the basilica have gathered here at st. Peters square. Boston resident michelle brought her daughter here. What he believes and the barriers hes breaking, its just something i want to believe in again. Pope francis has built a reputation for doing things his own way such as riding in a simple car or being more accessible to the people than other popes, but this where i say mas eve, the catholic churches kept with the traditions carried out by popes for hundreds of years. At the vatican, alfonso van marsh, kpix 5. And large crowds are expected tomorrow, as well, when the pope will deliver his christmas message from the basilicas central balcony overlooking st. Peters square. No rest for the weary this Christmas Eve, even in space. Astronauts are busy making more emergency repairs to the International Space station. Two american astronauts successfully completed their Christmas Eve mission, floating out into space to fix the International Space stations cooling system. You said you got yourself. Astronauts rick and mike hopkins spent more than 7 hours outside the station installing a new ammonia pump. This was their second space walk in four days. The astronauts removed the faulty pump saturday after one of the space stations two external cooling lines shut down. The crew was not at risk, but the astronauts had to turn off all nonsheshl equipment including experiments. The work to install the new pump was scheduled for monday but delayed after he accidentally got water in his suit at the end of saturdays walk. He needed time to assemble a new suit. They have to work. This is an extremely hostile environment, and obviously you want a space thats in good shape for that. The astronauts didnt encount ernie major problems, but ammonia flakes floated from the replacement pump onto their suits requiring decontamination as they reentered the station. Merry christmas to everybody. It took a couple of licks to get her done, but we got it. The Christmas Eve mission was an international effort. A japanese astronaut and russian helped the two americans complete the walk. Now, this is the second Christmas Eve space walk in nasa history. The first happened 14 years ago when astronauts repaired the hubble telescope. Well, we certainly got an early Christmas Gift with the mild weather here in the bay area. But for much of the country, its definitely winter. Saevens like this in case in point an icy weather caused a 28car pileup on ohio inther state. Snow and bitter cold are blamed for more than a dozen deaths, and tonight across the northeast, half a million homes and businesses are still without power. The worse worst part, more know is in the forecast. No weather worries tonight for santa, however, tracking his progress around the world tonight delivering presence to all the good girls and boys, gives them places like australia are already ripping over those pack ajs. Right now he is in north dakotas and making his way west. You can also track santa for yourself. Seeing visions of wrapping paper flying through the air, mass hysteria. This is the one week where its tough to get everything in the recycling bin. Its so much more fun but taking up so much more space. Weve got a great forecast. It might hit 70 greegs tomorrow. Not a record, but pretty close. It is rare territory that we are in. These are highs today Christmas Eve. Lastminute shoppers, shorts, tank tops maybe. Fremont 72 greece your high today. Vacaville 71. Pittsburgh 70. Whats going on . Ill explain that in a second. First twoont talk about where were going tonight. Lots of upper 30s for you when you wake up tomorrow morning. Livermore 37. Fremont 39. In San Francisco you wake up to 47 degrees on christmas morning. Sunrise tomorrow 7 23. Lets take you to union square. Earlier this evening folks enjoying this fantastic weather out and about walking with their cig nif quantity others beautiful trees, lots of shoppers, and nice bether to boot. The one will be the air quality. Unhealthy air quality top to bottom from the north bay all the way to santa clara valley, and it will be a bigger issue in the south bay where that pollution likes to collect kind of the bottom of the bowl, if you will. Very unhealthy air quality coming up tomorrow. It will be another spare the air day. Thats the catalyst for the warm weather and sunny weather and also the stagnant air until this moves the forecast isnt going to change that much. We need something to move through a storm system to mix up the atmosphere. I dont see it. Rain chance, i dont see that. What i do see is strong and stubborn ridge, really not moving. So the weather that you had today, whether you injoyed it or not, will be the weather you get tomorrow for christmas likely all the way until next year. Plenty of places in the country will get the rain fall, just not here. The storm track staying away until that ridge moves. I dont see it moving for awhile. Tomorrow if youre going to the beach, watch out for rough surf. Otherwise its all about the sunshine and dry weather. Look at these highs. Close to 70 for livermore and san jose. You will hit 70 in camp bill. Close in palo alto. Sunshine in Pleasant Hill 67. Mrez saventon livermore 68. Sunny warm day in ukiah for christmas with a high of 67 degrees. Thursday, friday, saturday sunday, the weather doesnt change. The days keep changing, but its all about the sunshine. Sunny, dry, mild, 60s for the next seven days. Beautiful. Yeah. Really nice to get outside. Good stuff. Thanks, paul. Thanks. Honesty pays for a vegas cabby. How,,,,,, a surprising discovery. A ended up with a reward for s a taxi driver in Las Vegas Made surprising discovery and ended up with a reward for his honesty. He stopped at the bellagio yesterday morning and a valet handed him a brown paper bag left in the backseat. He peaked inside and found six bundles of hundreddollar bills amounting to about 300,000. After dropping off a passenger, he drove the money straight to the cab company office. All i want to do, just return this money to company. I want to give the city of las vegas a good reputation for the cab drivers. 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