Caltrans closed two lanes to prepare the road, but Officials Say the freeway could be shut down if it continues to erode. Also in southern california, the grapevine is open after being closed for nearly 12 hours because of heavy snow. The area was forecast to see 3 to 6 inches, while it is clear now snow showers are expected throughout the night. All right. Hre is a look at the caltrans camera in the sierra king veil and here is one at donners summit off 80. Plenty of snow but traffic is flowing. No chain controls on interstate 80 or highway 50. Our meteorologists rely on live doppler 7 to track the weather, and you can do it as well and access it all through our abc7 news app. Happening now, stores already open for shoppers, and they dont have to wait for black friday to score some good deals. Laura anthony joins us now from san leandro. Laura, whats going on . Well, hi, kristen. Im at a target store. It opened at 5 00. These brick and Mortar Stores doing everything they can to get people in the door. For one thing, being open on thanksgiving. For another offering deep discounts on offerings like this. 65inch tvs here at target for a mere 280. Its not all about the turkey for those who opted to spend at least part of their thanksgiving shopping. What did you get . Two, one for my niece and nephew. The original price is 29. 99, and it was on sale for 18. Reporter walmart in san leandro one of a few stores that opened early and stayed that way. The newest grandkid. Reporter convenient for those looking to get a jump on the deep discount holiday gift buying. We just get to walmart in the last minute. Youre kind of early. Its only thanksgiving. We want to go ahead before it happens. Too many people out here. Might as well take advantage of it right now. Reporter at best buy in emeryville, Bobby Sanchez staked out his place in line at 2 00 a. M. A full 15 hours before the stores opening. I had a few people drive up, and they just kept going. But im im doing my part, and im saying out here so i can be first in line. If youre not first, youre last. Reporter for many thanksgiving remains a day to stay away from the stores and the hysteria thats looming. Are you one of those guys that is going to go out on black friday and try to get in line and do all that . Nope. Ive already done all my shopping for christmas . Where . Online. So the brick and Mortar Stores again doing everything they can to get people in here. Looks like theyre doing a pretty good job. Black friday not just one day anymore. Its really like five days from today all the way through cyber monday. Holiday shopping projected to be up this year as much as 5 , perhaps topping the 1 trillion mark, dion and kristen, for the first time ever. Live in san leandro, laura anthony, abc7 news. Wow. All right, laura, happy thanksgiving to you, and happy shopping. And the major retailers are opening up for a weekend of holiday shopping. Kohls opened at 5 00 today and will stay open through black friday, closing at midnight. Walmart will have regula store hours, but their instore black friday deals started at 6 00 tonight. Target, where laura was opened its doors at 5 00 tonight. And the stores will remain open until 1al. Theyll reopen for black friday at 7 00. Best buy opened at 5 00 tonight and will reopen at 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. There was a rush on the roads this morning, but not the usual rush hour. This rush was made up of runners taking part in the annual San Francisco turkey trot. Hundreds of participants young and old stretched out their drumstickswhat what winding through Golden Gate Park and while running might not be for everyone, the race has become something of a holiday tradition. Because i need an excuse to sit around the rest of the day, drink beer, watch football, have some turkey dinner. Its great for kids. And its on day when most people have the day off. Whats the funnest part about the day . Getting candy. She knows where its at. Although the skies stayed dried, the finish line at the polo field was about the consistency of, wait for it, thick gravy. Yeah. This year was the 15th for the Applied MaterialsSilicon Valley turkey trot. Organizers hope to raise a Million Dollars for five charities. Participants chose a 5k or a 10k course through downtown san jose. In oakland, almost 4,000 runners took part in the third annual oakland turkey trot this morning around lake merritt. The run benefits the Alameda County food bank and oakland public schools. Good job to everyone who ran. For many families in the south bay, heading out to cut down a fresh Christmas Tree in the Santa Cruz Mountains is the priority before preparing thanksgiving dinner. David louie joined a saratoga family as they search food that are perfect tree thinking could be the year that lilly picks out the tree and not mommy and daddy. Reporter this is the third time chris and victoria carney have come to patch tree farm to cut down for their home. Lilliana is 2 1 2. Lincoln is 5 months old that. One has a good shape to it. Its nice and full. Its not too big, not too fall. Dad got busy cutting down a douglas fir after searching five minutes for the perfect tree. What people like about this tree farm, when they cut down a tree, theyre not actually killing itt in place. New sprouts come up and that will create a whole new generation of Christmas Trees. The carneys chose a smaller kids size for 80. In the past weve gone a bit taller. But having them being able to reach a little higher up and put the ornaments on will be fun this year. A small patch will be attached to the stoump keep the tree fresh longer after its been cut. It keeps trying moisture from the roots. That draws air bubbles into the xylum, clogs it and now it cant drink water. This prevents that. A crew of local students will wrap the tree in negotiate and load it to help get it home. Customers can come out to dry d drink cider. There is yet again a christmas shortage this year. You can find out why by heading to our website, abc7news. Com. And while youre there, check out the most popular story on our site, grandma who invited the wrong teen to thanksgiving shares a fourth holiday with him. Its become a real tradition for them, and i think we all celebrate when we see their photos. A bay area greatgrandmother is back with her family this thanksgiving. She and her two grandchildren went missing on monday. Abc7 News ReporterWayne Freedman has the happy conclusion to the case. Reporter if youre going get a happy ending to a crisis, what better day than thanksgiving . That was going through my mind we got to friends and family of sandra young had no idea where she or her two great grandchildren had gone. A 90minute drive from vallej to fairfield that extended for three days. Today they turned up in this gas station. Im not positive, but i think its her. Barbie lyden works behind the cash register. This morning she saw this, a localized danger and missing alert. The system relies on freeway cameras that read license plates. Chp which is our emergency and Tactical Alert Center monitored several license plates and activated the wireless Emergency Alert system on behalf of Fairfield Police department this morning, and they just sent that out within a 2. 5 radius. This shell station fell inside that alert area. Barbie had seen the notice. She just seemed like they were traveling, just using the rest room. They didnt the kids didnt seem like they were bother order nothing. Barbie called pinol police. Im glad theyre safe and good. Sandra and her family are safe at home with their family. They want their privacy on this thanksgiving. Did ask sandras cyst whatever happened. They dont know for sense, only that she drove around for three days and may have gotten lost. In pinol, Wayne Freedman, abc7 news. Okay. Youve heard the story of the grinch who stole christmas, right . Of course. In the south bay, a Neighborhood Work together to bring back the Christmas Spirit better than before. That story is is coming up nex say yes for less to gifts storewide. At 20 to 60 off Department Store prices. Most stores are open thanksgiving, 6pm to midnight. Reopening friday at 7am. With extended hours saturday and sunday. Yes for less. It looks like this. Rs for Heart Failure look like . The beat goes on entresto is a Heart Failure pill that helps improve your hearts ability to pump blood to the body. Dont take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. 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New at 6 00, San Francisco police are investigating after two statues near lake merced were defaced with red paint. Take a look. Vandals wrote this is stolen land. The stand yous are juan batista deanza and carlos iii. They were moved to lake merced from what is now known as Embarcadero Plaza when that area was redesigned. In the south bay, a familys terminally ill son gets so much joy out of their christmas decorations. Unfortunately, they were stolen. But dont worry, because the story takes a major turn for the better. Abc7 news jobina fortson has the story new at 6 00. Welcome to vernon avenue. Ive been decorating for years. Shelly jimenez is what you would call a festive lady, but she decorates her yard for her son christopher. Christopher was born disabled. One thing he has always loved of growing up is looking at bright, color lights. It means so much because hes been sick his whole life. 24yearold christopher has a terminal lung condition and started losing his eyesight this past summer. He can only see a tiny, tiny area in the corner by the tear duct. So the lights need to be big and bright. About two weeks ago, someone took that away, stealing the familys decorations. It was heartbreaking the day it happened, and i think we were just determined not to let that happen. Neighbors started a gofundme. It raised nearly 4,000, and the director from christmas in the park found out and the store manager at home depot on blossom hill donated all of the props. Okay, chris, were going go outside, okay . Step one. Okay, good job. These look great. Do you like the lights . You do . Yeah. Yeah. Since so much money was raised the jimenez family insisted on decorating the whole street. Why did you come out here . I like the decorations, so i just wanted to help. I really didnt know a lot of the neighbors on the block. And after all of this we are like family now. Reporting in san jose jobina fortson, abc7 news. The holiday spirit is alive and well. Yeah, i love that kind of story on thanksgiving. Excellent. Beautiful. All right. Thanksgiving is indeed a day to be thankful for what you have. Yeah. Its also a day to it was pretty windy in new york for the macys thanksgiving day parade. Balloons had to fly lower than normal. Somebody trying to corral the nutcracker got hit by the massive balloon. She was okay. Now this Ronald Mcdonald balloon partially deflatd because of a threeinch gash in one of its legislation. A thanksgiving day prize. President trump flew to afghanistan to spend some time with u. S. Troops. Here he is helping serve the soldiers food. The president and first lady made a similar trip last year to iraq on christmas night. Check out San Francisco city hall. Pretty, right . All lit up in the harvest colors, mainly orange in honor of thanksgiving. And dont let the pretty picture fool you. It is cold out there. And abc7 news sandhya patel has more on your forecast. Sandhya . Its only going to get colder by morning, dion and kristen. Let me show you doppler 7 right now. It is pretty quiet here in the bay area. Well did have a few oisolated showers earlier. Isolated is the key for tonight going into tomorrow. It has been really storming in southern california, the sierra still seeing some snow. So if you have travel plans, be prepared. Carry those chains because there have been chain requirements going on right now. Winter weather advisory for the sierra additional up to 10 inches of snow expected for the highest peaks until noon tomorrow. Reduced visibility and tough travel. Winter storm watch saturday morning to sunday morning. Very heavy, blowing snow expected. And the snow level will be rising, especially towards sunday, possible road closures in the forecast. From our emeryville camera, were look at a beautiful view as we look across the bay. Temperatures right now as dion mentioned, it is cold outside. 30s, 40s at this hour and it is going to get very cold by morning. Subfreezing for some of the north bay valleys. You will notice mid to upper 20s womb. Er going to see near freezing in the inland east bay in places like concord. 41 San Francisco. 33 san jose. Bundle up in the morning. As you take a look at the hourbyhour forecast for tomorrow, well have some clouds, some sunshine. A lot like today. Occasional showers not out of the question. Really isolated for the afternoon and the evening hours. So its not a game changer, but just keep those umbrellas handy. Highs for your friday will look like this. In the 40s, 50, definitely a chill in the air like today. It is well below average. Here is your saturday storm. It is going to dump some heavy rain across parts of the bay area at times some gusty winds. More mountain snow in the sierra, and the wet weather continues into sunday and even beyond that as we continue to see a steady stream of moisture with an Atmospheric River aimed at the monterey bay. Accuweather sevenday forecast, very cold morning for tomorrow. Level 2 for saturday. Sunday is a 1. 1 monday through wednesday with that same storm and thursday another storm comes in here. So when all is said and done, saturday through tuesday, were talking about several inches for the hills, and a couple of inches for the lower elevations. So dont be surprised if you see some minor flooding on the roadways and some possible damage from the wind. All right, thanks a lot. Do you need a cough drop and some hot water . Its just allergies. Thank you. Tearing up because of the rain. Is that what it is . Thats all. Well, today is a day where we take a time to give thanks to others, and here at abc7, we wanted to give thanks to those working on this holiday. Reporter Laura Martinez went out to spread the love. We are thanking people who are working today for thanksgiving. So thank you. Youre welcome. Whats the best part about working on a holiday . Watching the kids have fun. Make sure everyone is following the rules, make sure the kids and the parents are safe. What would you guys say is the best part about working on a holiday . I think just being able to see how many people have actually come out and skate. Yeah, whats the best part about working on a holiday . Well we get to see families and get to take pictures of them. Thats what we do. We photograph. So its fun to capture those memories. So what are you doing today . So today we always take pictures of the guests that always come here. So what would you say is the best part about it . Best part, to be honest, getting time and a half. Come on, folks, dont worry you dont have to say anything. So these are the folks at station 13 today. We are were firefighters are on duty 24 7. Others are with their family. These folks are with their second family. Thank you so much. All right. Get in there. Come on youre wasting your time. In there. Cook, cook aww. Very nice. And guess what . Hey thanks to you, chris alvarez. Were so glad youre were sports today. What about me and sandhya . I already thanked you guys. No, thank you. And coming up in sports, thank you, turkey day equals plenty of that nfl football. Highlights from the action. And the niners hit the road to take on the ravens. Well hear from coach but you dont feel good. With polycythemia vera, pv, symptoms can change so slowly over time you might not notice. But new or changing symptoms can mean your pv is changing. Lets change the way we see pv. You track and discuss blood counts with your doctor. But its just as vital to discuss changing symptoms as well. Take notice and take action. Discuss counts and symptoms with your doctor. Visit takeactionpv. Com discuss counts and symptoms with your doctor. 6, 7, 8 big dreams start with small steps. But dedication can get you there. So just start small. Start saving. Easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. Chase. Make more of whats yours®. Now sports from abc7 news. The last time the 49ers reached a super bowl, 2012 season when San Francisco lost to baltimore in super bowl xlvii. Seven years later, those same two teams could be on a collision course once sundays match between 101 San Francisco, 92 baltimore could be a super bowl preview later this year. The niners defense has been ut mobile quarterbacks russell wilson, kyler murray, theyve given them trouble. This weeksvp candidate and dual threat lamar jackson. Hes just different in that he is a running back when he has the ball. The other two guys, they can make a lot of plays with their legs and stuff. Bt eventually theyre going to slide and things like that. This guy, he is a aruba out there and a quarterback when he is throwing. But he can run hard. You got to bring him down. He can take the hits. And he also can deliver them. Sunday 10 00 for that game. Cowboys hosting the bills. Anxious times for cowboys fans. Game tied at 7. Buffalo a double reverse prass, john brown with devon singletary. Its bills 137. The pride of firebaugh, california, shows off the mobility and goes to the house. A pass td. 43 yards rushing. The bills beat the cowboys 2615. The first day of the game featured the lions and the bears from the motor city. First quarter, undrafted rookie quarterback david blaauw. 75 yards to kenny holiday. Hell never forget that play. Late fourth quarter, bears down three. Mitch trubisky finds David Montgomery for the go ahead score. 2420 chicago at that point. And last chance for the lions. Fourth and 22. Got to heave it up there. And Eddie Jackson picks it off. Da bears win 2420. Did you see this . Check out this tweet from burk last year. He joke head is allowed two a year. Now he is down to one. A clipboard shard cut his hand, but no stitches required. Is that when hes upset . Happy throws . All right. Be careful. Thanks, chris. Well, join us tonight for abc7 news at 11 00. If you arent into black friday, maybe try green friday. The incentives for you to get outside in the east bay tomorrow. And a dying man and his son get a holiday wish. The special sneak preview theyll good getting on the upcoming star wars movie. Coming up next, catch foodie call few which followed by jeopardy and wheel of fortune. At 8 00, the Wonderful World of disney magical holiday celebration. Thats followed at 10 00 by the goldbergs and modern family, and then stay tuned for abc7 news at 11 00. And stick around for jimmy kimmel live. That comes on right at 11 35. Thats it for this edition of abc7 news. What are you all thankful for this year . All of you guys . Friends, families, its all good. Even though were here, its all good. How about you, chris . Im thankful for everything. And im hungry. Were hearing that the Boston Market if youre following us on twitter, we should be getting a Boston Market feast. Theyve had a slight delay. We think its here. Thank you for making that right. We appreciate it. Well seattle. Allegedly. Tough customer. Two fritters, one fast egg. Two fritters, one fast egg. You would be surprised on how many cultures influence the food on your plate, and you could actually taste them and see them. The food on maui is a collaboration of cultures, and the local produce is what makes it uniquely maui. Mahalo, joshua. Mahalo. Ohana means family. So its all about the individual preparing the food, because ohana is what makes maui, so its definitely the human that puts the love into the food. And then you eat it, youre like, oh, boy, this is just phenomenal. Its about breaking bread. Food, to me, is the center of my world and my culture and reaching out and connecting with people. So when people come here and they get to try the old traditional food and then whatever the modern chefs like us are creating, it updates everything. This is maui as it is today. Its food prepared with a story, and it makes people just feel connected and that the food is being connected with things that surround us. So i propagate, like, the pineapple tops and got some coconuts sprouting up. Nice. Theres a coconut shoot right here. Yep. Were moving in a direction where everyone is getting back into farming, and people want to know where their foods coming from, how its being grown, whos harvesting it. Yeah, its good grass, huh . [ chuckles ] yeah, they really like the roots, too. So, i grew up in piiholo, which is at the top of olinda road, upcountry, and its the agricultural section of makawao. Our hometown motto is keep it paniolo, which is the hawaiian cowboy. So we have a lot of influence from ranchland and acreage and agriculture. So at a young age, i was really, really exposed to people growing food and seeing cattle ranches and pineapple and things like that. Oh, thats beautiful. And this one is taro, or kalo, right . [ speaks indistinctly ] mmhmm. Yeah, thats superdense. Its closer to. Like, two, three . I bet you that ones closer to, like, four or five. Yeah, its like a its pretty big. I mean, its definitely dense, you know, like the meat itself is almost like coconut meat. Its like pure carbie deliciousness. So we use these parts for the risotto in the restaurant, which are the leaves, which not a lot of people use. Like, people will fold them into fish and wrap them and steam them and things like that. Its one of my favorites, why i like to use it a lot. But we use specifically the leaves. So we cut these, and we boil them down in hawaiian sea salt and water and a little bit of baking soda till theyre completely cooked, and then we puree it, and it gives it, like, this nice, earthy, masculine almost root flavor to it, but its got a nice aromatic finish to it, and thats what finishes it, gives this nice, stewed flavor. It goes great with cheese, and its great for rice, too, you know. Beautiful plates, guys. The first roasted veg. Push em all in. For me, i get really, really excited about food, where i want to do all these crazy things, and i want to try all this stuff, and the one thing i have to remind myself is that i have to set boundaries and i have to say, okay, like, this is what im trying to say. This is what im trying to do. This is what im trying to showcase. And, you know, to balance the creativity is first you have to showcase the product. The story that i always try and tell is what happened to that ingredient. And thats a breadfruit, or ulu tree. And weve used that in the past for a bunch of different things, but thats one of the most popular ingredients in hawaii right now. Everyones trying to use that for something. For the most part, produce is the thing that inspires me the most, cause its always going to have a point in its life, just like a protein, too, where its going to be its most beautiful. And then its going to taper off, and its gonna have a short life, and its up to us as chefs to make sure we get it at the right time to showcase it. The thing i think that most people think of when they hear hawaii is pineapple, sweet potato, coconut, passion fruit. You know, you think of hawaii as the community of a lot of different cultures that came together to make something happen. As a collective, i have a lot of chefs that also give inspiration from their childhoods, from growing up here, too. We have other dishes, like the eggplant with the miso glaze on it. That was me as a kid, i hated eggplant. But if you put some saltysweet miso on it and burned it a little, i really liked it. Theres someone here whos cooking it and trying to make it something thats approachable. And were trying to showcase on having very little to no waste and showcasing a product thats in our area to support our local community and our economy, as well. Lopes family farms. These guys are awesome. We get pigs from them, as well, and a little bit of beef. Ive known them since i was probably 10. So theyre really, really awesome people. Weve honored the old ways on starting from scratch and making the food. And theres an artisan and a craftsman behind everything that youre eating today. I think the Food Movement is all going back to the beginning of what food actually was. Food was made to nurture people, and you were supposed to put time into make a product truly delicious for someone where they can appreciate it. Food in the maui scene, at one time it was called hawaiian regional cuisine. And that was where a lot of foods from the local waters and the farms and the ranches here, chefs went, and they took those items, and they created food. But now they are going to go and take that another step further, and also adding a story. And just with that, whatever you prepare, because you have a story behind it, its captivating, being connecting with culture. Were being connected. The food is being connected with things that surround us. My food tells the story of, in a way, my life and my upbringing and my value of food and the lifestyle im trying to promote. I think doughnuts have always been the underdog of pastry. But i really wanted to elevate the doughnut and the idea of food and treats in general. We create brioche doughnuts. Everythings made from scratch. We specialize in brioche, and we do different styles of brioche. We make poi brioche, cinnamon brioche, a sourdough. Brioche has always been regarded as the cadillac of dos, if you will. And ive always thought doughnuts are like the most humble pastry. And i thought i wanted to bring together the luxurious brioche and the humble doughnut. So i thought it makes perfect sense. Make it approachable but make it nice. Three more. We can get three more. Yeah. I have a doughnut with miso. Like the soup . I was like, the ingredients that you use for the soup, but it wont taste anything like the soup that you know. One of the more popular flavors locally would be the molokai sweet potato poi brioche. Theres poi in the dough itself, which makes the brioche very tender and airy. The molokai sweet potato is cooked in coconut milk that is reminiscent of a snack i used to eat a lot when i was a kid. We use vanilla bean in our vanilla bean brioche. So its in the dough, its in the glaze, and we make our own handmade vanilla bean powder that we put on top. We have the real mccoy, which has a lilikoi glaze macadamia nut thats frosted with coffee. I also have a lilikoi caramel