The rain comes. Live look from exploratorium camera, drew tuma. Rain for most of us, couple of hours away but storm on approach. Live doppler 7 sweeping entire region, one rogue shower in the south bay ahead of the cold front. Light showers moving through san jose next couple of minutes or so, diving south towards willow glen and evergreen. Disorganized storm is moving in tonight and will linger tomorrow. Level one light tonight into Christmas Day itself. Light to moderate rain, tenth to quarter inch. Dusting of snow maybe, best bet, mt. Hamilton. Mainly dry through 7 00 p. M. , showers around 9 00 and then more widespread. Well go hour by hour and time out the storm, show you when it exits and we dry out in full accuweather forecast. Clock is ticking for lastminute errands, spotted people all over the bay area getting what they need. Lauren martinez is live in union square, brave to battle the crowds out there. Lauren. Reporter dan and dion, its beautiful and brisk out here, Christmas Tree behind me looks great. Theres a second candle Lighting Ceremony for the menorah happening in less than an hour. Theres a lot of shoppers, not alone, mad dash to get lastminute errands done before stores close for christmas. Since we got here this morning, cars lined up down the pier. Been busy since we got here. Delancey street Christmas Trees were busy trimming and wrapping trees for free. Christmas eve, everybody deserves a tree. Were here for them. Shopping center in colma, cars didnt fill the parking lot but customers filled the honey baked store. One came back because Christmas Eve morning line was too long. Two blocks down. Cold, we decided to come back. Thats what we did. This isnt bad and they move it good, they really do. Reporter traditional meal people say is worth the wait. We do it every year, wasnt bad last year. This time its like bad. Reporter for a lot of people, didnt their own stop. I still have to go to costco, go buy my cake. Yep. And yeah. Lastminute shopping. Honey baked ham, now on the way to Mission Street to do more shopping, just out here enjoying the holidays. Reporter by this afternoon some people were lucky they could escape the rush. All done. I am going home. Reporter if you still need shopping to do, dont feel bad, about 6 of the population is going to shop today. Im part of that 6 . Reporting live, lauren martinez, abc7 news. We went to kohls in colma to catch up with customers. Open nonstop since friday and is open tonight until 6 00. One person hit the store before dawn to buy gifts for secret santa. Lucky to have it open. Reporter what did you get . Secret gifts i cant disclose, somebody sees it on tv, im in trouble. Very true. Most stores are closed tomorrow but after christmas sales get going thursday. We have a list of stores open through tonight, abc7news. Com. Look at traffic out there. T. People either finish up lastminute errands or travel for Christmas Eve. Walnut creek, Golden Gate Bridge and all moving smartly. Many dreaming of white christmas, packing up car for snowy tahoe. See what traffic is like in interstate 80 in the sierra 90 minutes ago. Cornell barnard is live in berkeley tonight. Reporter hey, if youre heading out of the bay area, weve said it before, pack your patience for sure. Check it out. Seen brake lights on interstate 80 most of the day. Heading to high country, were told the trip is totally worth it. Can you feel the end . These are your toes, and this is the end, can you feel it . Wiggle your toes . Perfect. Reporter boot fittings at Sports Basement in walnut creek. Heading to tahoe to take the girls skiing in squaw. Reporter taking his three daughters with a lot of energy, loved our camera. Two older ones got to go last year. First time having everybody out. Take off my shoes . Yep. Reporter gearing up for tahoe too. Trying to make it into family tradition. Reporter ski rental department has been slammed. So excited for the season, powder is up there, all the good stuff. Reporter payoff, winter wonderland. North star resort near truckee, snowing most of the week, perfect for skiing, boarding, even tubing. Excited about the fresh 13 inches weve gotten from storm on sunday night, snow totes up to 11 1 2 feet for the season, were really, really excited. Reporter just got off the phone with chp, they urged travelers to take it slow this week, give yourself lots of time to get to sierra. Carry your chains. Even if you have allwheel drive on the car, that doesnt mean all wheels stop. Take it easy, have a great holiday, live in berkeley, live look at sfo, news. Lastminute travelers taking off to reach destinations by tomorrow morning. Weather not too much of a factor. 136 delays, 7 cancellations, not bad. Could be a different story when wet weather moves in that drew was talking about. Latest on the rains arrival with live doppler 7 on our website and abc7 news app. Track by clicking blue live bar top of the app. Santa might know when youre sleeping or awake, but we also know where santa is right now. Because drew is tracking them. Drew . Were watching santa, over europe, left iceland, delivered more than 4 billion presents so far today. Headed to the azores, be there about four minutes, circling europe next couple of hours, then makes way across the atlantic. Well see when he arrives in the u. S. Likely around 8 00 9 00 local0 l time. Busy buy. Will be at your house soon. Holidays can be tough for lot of people. New Research Showing certain holiday movies could help those with dementia. Helping two lost dogs find way home. Alert bus driver made sure they were safe. Plus im glad youre here. In fact im glad im here too. The Contra Costa Sheriffs Office has identified man, Michael Andrew of merced, pistol whipping the clerk multiple times during struggle at register. Clerk got up and shot him as he tried to escape, killing him. Second robber got away. Search continues. Major development for man suspected of fatally stabbing a teen at oakland b. A. R. T. Station last year. Ruled that the suspect is mentally competent to stand trial. John lee cowell charged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing mia wilson and her sister. Evaluated by several psychiatrists, judge ordered another evaluation before the trial in january. Big change at uber, founder Travis Kalanick is cutting all ties with the company. Former ceo resigning from the board of directors next week. Sold more than 2 billion worth of shares and will sell remaining. Forced to resign amid accusations of discrimination, Sexual Harassment and user policy violations. Four at 4 00. Stories to let you know about today. Its a wonderful life may help people with dementia. May not remember the movies but listening to or singing along may stir up memories. Hustle and bustle of the holidays can be chaotic and emotional connection to a movie can help patients feel connected had in festivities with friends and family. Its nostalgic, even those without dementia, and those with embedded, maybe can bring out. Marathon of a christmas story, get the good emotions back, think of the fun you had. Maybe jog your memory. Comforting, probably. Little bits. If youre fan of friends get the Binge Watching in now, january 1st the hit show will disappear from netflix, also 235 episodes will be off all streaming services until may, fivemonth drought, until added to hbo max platform. So popular the platform paid 100 million when the license was up last year, amazing. How much money they must make off it. And been out of production what, 20 years . Yes. Yes our producer loves that show. Crazy about it. Made this english trifle, christmas treat thats super disgusting. Lady fingers and meat and peas. Theres meat in it . Iconic dish. We talked about seinfeld. Made it recently, surprisingly not terrible. Its a good show. Ill pass on the trifle. Take her word for it. Holidays, finding way home. Two lost dogs in milwaukee found their way thinks to bus driver, spotted two dogs wandering the streets last month. Worried about safety, ushered the dogs into the bus. Waited with the doberman and pit bull until a Police Officer could take them to manl control. Same day the owners were searching for pets. After getting news, drove them to happy reunion. Awfully street. Meet a dog on the street you have to be careful but have compassion, never know where they came from. And one of jamies concerns, temperatures in milwaukee, so cold and can get run over. Attacked by other wild animals. Never know. For her to act quickly. I think she waived the bus fare too. Dogs have paypal. The modern dog. Finally for four at 4 00, are you done with christmas shopping, looking at you guys . Almost there. Not done wrapping. Me neither. Thats what i have to do. Not so bad. 150 Million People went to the mall Super Saturday for lastminute Christmas Gifts and plenty pounding pavement on fillmore street today. Shopping streak not over. 6 6 still have gifts to buy on Christmas Eve. Box stores are open like barnes noble, bloomingdales, but act fast, running out. Lastminute sales maybe. I went out saturday, it was crazy. Why . Its called online. I didnt think about it. Nuts. But after christmas can buy wrapping paper. Everything on discount. I vote for discount shopping after. If youre out there last minute or going before the shows close, look to the weather. Most of the day its dry. Late the rain moves in heavy at times. Live doppler 7 is showing you storm along the coastline, one shower in the south bay, now another popped up in north bay. Marin county is down 101 to novato and lucas valley, san rafael, light drops now. Rain heaviest tomorrow morning. San jose camera, isolated shower. Drops on the lens now in south bay. Thats moved out but thats the theme next 24 hours. Showers develop this evening and scattered next 24 hours. Christmas day in the morning, rather rainy start to the holiday. Second half of the day tomorrow looks to have drier conditions as storm exists. Cool out there, 48 in vallejo, 42 in the city, 52 in oakland, 41 in san jose. Live doppler 7. Along with satellite. Front beginning to move onshore into northern california, not a ton of rain with it. Moving quickly. Wont stick around that long, more timing annoying, coming tomorrow morning. Once the system moves through, dry weather prevails for much of the sevenday forecast. Beach hazard, risk of rip currents and sneaker waves. Current rather rough, six to eight feet. Storm impact scale, level one, light to moderate rain. Tenth to 3 4 inch rain. Time out the storm. 5 00 p. M. , lot of cloud cover, isolated shower. 11 00 p. M. , more scattered showers along the coastline and moving inland. Early tomorrow morning, steadiest rain. Its not raining entire day, on and off showers through the morning. Then in the afternoon storm going south. 6 00, 7 00 in the evening rain moves out, much of the cloud cover is going to linger. Overnight, showers developing. Heaviest in the morning tomorrow. Temperaturewise, upper 30s to mid40s. Well track scattered showers in the morning and rain will taper into the evening. Col holiday, Christmas Day topping out mid40s to mid50s entire region. Accuweather sevenday forecast, rain heaviest in the morning, but then a nice pattern, sunshine thursday, friday, saturday. Next chance of rain is sunday, slight chance. All indications that new years eve is fog, sun, drive. Lttle wet stuff today. Santa is bringing the sun. And can fly through everything, dont worry. No problem. Tis the momental les. San matio bridge is busy, not 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 [ dramatic music ]ing ] ahhhh ahhhh elliott. You came back santa doesnt just ride in a sleigh, this morning rode around in a police car. Abc7 news caught up with oakland Police Officers loading up toys and christmas dinners to deliver to low income families. About 70 families received gifts. Families in need identified by the officers patrolling the city. Turning in forms, wrapping presents, collecting presents. All the presents come from the association, the officers themselves. Police Officers Union organized the getaway, even got santa to join them dropping off gifts. Didnt stay long, busy tonight. Memorial church hosted prime rib luncheon today. House of prime rib donatednatend pounds. Serves three meals every day of the year, close to 800,000 meals and looking for volunteers year round, not just during the holidays. Move over christmas ham, season for eating tamales, and not just among latino families. This eatery can barely kp up with demand, cant just buy them today, you have to preorder your tamales. Meantime similar seen in south San Francisco. La Tapatia Mexican del ka ka kaa issen, made up late orders. Looks good. History of us, abc7 news. How San Franciscos iconic sutro tower played a major role first broadcast. Continue keeping eye on santa, moving through europe, look at norad tracker, checking in all evening long. Wihefty hefty hefty n. Hey ladies. Buy hefty® ultra strong™ at a low price. Dada i wish. Get hefty® ultra strong™ costs less than glad® forceflex where sold head to head. Now news to build a better bay area from abc7. Drew tuma with abc7 news, im 1,600 feet above sea level atop sutro tower in San Francisco. Love it or hate it, its an icon. 300 antennas, signals for television, radio, Wireless Communications and First Responders. But in 1949, just one antenna for brand new channel 7 operating out of old mansion way down there. Four, three, two, one, up on one, cue music. Stand by. Super two, cue narrator. Nar. These steps are whats left of the mansion where kgo tv, channel 7, was born. Abc paid 125,000 for this six acre property and house that used to be here, directly underneath where sutro tower is right now. Mansion built by adolf sutro, grandson of the pioneering mayor of the same name. Kgo had to leave the house standing, so massive mansion was turned into tv station. What seems hard to imagine now, these guys were just making it up as they went along. Nobody knew anything about television except what we read in a few books. It was a novelty. Thats the late harry jacobs, 40 years after he was named channel 7s director of engineering. His job to put kgo on the air. Tower consists of lot of pieces of steel and Big Foundation we had to put in. First thing that shows up for the whole project is package about four feet long and foot square, beacon light for top of the tower. That we need, you know. Original tower, 508 feet tall, took a year to finish and transformed inside of the house into what for the time was stateoftheart tv station. Filled with technical equipment, announcers booth in the crossest, engineering in master bedroom and studio built in the great room. Wonder how we do it . Frankly ladies and gentlemen, many times we wonder ourselves. Finally signed on at 6 45, may 5th, 1949. Dedication ceremony first at sutro mansion. But main event was right here, live tv show in golden gate theater. Newspapers at time called it hollywood type premiere featuring dancing, singing and roller skating act. We found a program from that night saying its here, kgo channel 7, new way to look at life. Emcee was gary moore, radio star, no local tv stars yet. All the local shows were done live. At first kgo broadcast five days a week and when the crew had to break for lunch or dinner, the station went off the air. Every day you came to work, it was fun because something new was happening every day and you never knew what in the world was going to happen. Everything went on the air cold, nothing was rehearsed. One of the early celebrities to make a name for herself was evangeline baker, some people called first lady of San Francisco radio and television. How well i remember the night kgo television was dedicated. Looked into the future with wonderful plans about things we were going to do. Would take a while. 70 years ago mass production of tv sets was just starting. Only two television stations in bay area, kgo and kprx. Only about 5,000 residents had a television. Most could only watch at local bar or window of furniture store. Those who did get a look saw a lot of variety shows with local acts, heavy dose of cowboy bands like vaudeville headliner duke martin and roundup game or clark, who recited poetry he wrote himself. I always admired by for because the words he spoke was true. Ill tell you now, bravest of the brave at art of taking a straight razor and giving hisself a shave. First cook show, chef guard eveny, credited with creating caesar salad. A popular childrens show and animal of the week. Mexican jumping beans, some are more active than the others. Movement is dependent on the amount of heat present. Did broadcast abc network programs, one called the standard hour was produced in San Francisco but most from the east coast. Explained many of the shows were sports. Simple reason, major primetime performers were wrestlers, boxers and roller skating gladiators, Sports Coverage was cheap those days and fledgling abc7 network was poor. Satellites, transcontinental cable, Network Sports were in the mail a couple of days after the game was over. Started covering local sports live. Crews piled cameras and heavy cables into the one remote truck and headed to bay area baseball and football stadiums. Professional games at always muddy kees muddy kesar to all the pageantry that went along. One of the most successful early shows starred jack lalanne, a fitness buff, caused a sensation for this bay area stunt. After 42 minutes finally surfaces. Onetime mr. America the first person in the world to swim the golden gate under water. After several years on the air, channel 7 was still broadcasting from the mansion a lot of staff called the haunted house. Considered by some to be so spooky it was used as backdrop of a mystery movie. Medieval with stone walls and things. Inside was wonderful. Sconces that held torches on the walls. Really cool. But too small to take the station into the future. Driven here so the workmen can go in and start us all up. In a live tv special the abc brass announced the network as renovating building on golden avenue to be new home for kgo television and grand plan took place in about a year. Signed on hugely popular radio deejay, don sherwood, to start San Francisco tonight forerunner to late night talk shows. Even got his own orchestra. He was a superstar, never heard that word those days but he was. Cult show, cult following, had ratings. Tried to get a ticket, had to wait six months to see it. On the air 3 1 2 hours a night, five nights a week. By the mid50s Offering High quality program, including this series that followed the building of disneyland leading up to the opening. First episode, showing the lot, scale model of the entrance of the heartland of america. Oldfashioned main street, hometown usa just after the turn of the century. Success story big. Saga of great industrial plants. Crews traveled to factories for productions promoting american ingenuity. This early hover craft in palo alto. Most of the shows were shot live. This business featured is channel 7 itself. Explaining what it took to get Live Television on the air from remote location. 150,000 worth of television equipment, microphones, lights, electronic devices, immensely valuable cameras and literally miles of heavy cable. Also a sprinkling of the exotic. A Program Based on the universal language of music. Our pleasure to present to you korla. Had a lot of closeups, never spoke a word. Heading into the 60s, adolescent industry still lacked a certain dignity. But as hair got bigger, some production got slicker. 1964, channel 7s the dick stewart show featured guest celebrities and one of the first bay area programs with africanamerican woman as regular, singer mcmar. Some struggled to be hip. There was still a big audience for hokey. A little more hair, then a twist and a turn. What do you know, its tennessee en. Thats tennessee ernie ford, a successful country singer, moved to bay area and hosted National Program from the channel 7 studio. His sidekick was jim lang, long time San Francisco radio and tv personality. 745 shows weve already done. Youve got to be sick of us. Good morning. This is the 1966 First Episode of channel 7s first morning talk show, called a. M. With jim dunbar from kgo radio and former miss America Nancy fleming. Shot in black and white but soon the first to broadcast in color. This production of beauty and the beast by the San Francisco ballet. Just in case you thought the stations had come to high brow culture. Wise cracking former stripper was ready to set you straight. All this time channel 7 was still sending out signal from mt. Sutro, but the bay area was growing and needed a taller tower to reach the far suburbs. Modern sutro tower finished in 1973 to be shared by most of the local television stations. Old mansion was declared a fire trap and torn down but the crew saved one stained glass window now on the wall at sutro tower office. What a great look back at 70 years of abc7. Were all very proud to be part of that continuing legacy. Its so fascinating too. There is more, part two will air tonight on abc7 news at 6 00 and part three on new years eve. Also watch the a Southern California mail carrier did his best to save christmas after delivery truck caught fire. Delivering in Jurupa Valley when his truck broke down. Waiting for tow, burst into flames. Carrier wasnt injured, rescued as many packages as he could before it was fully engulfed. Firefighters put out the fire. Elementary students are giving back to their local First Responders this holiday season. Santa monica students raised money in fundraiser. Meant to go to the school but students decided to donate to the firefighters instead. Theyre epitome of bravy, so brave, amazing, got to be recognized. Theyre great. Donation came less than two months after getty wildfire, burned a number of homes in brentwood. Firefighters say the money will go to new gear to keep them safe next season. To be young and realize they need to be recognized. Its great. Weve been tracking santa, lets get another check with drew and father christmas. Last time he was in europe. Hes crossed the atlantic into south america, just delivered gifts to brazil and is headed south into antarctica. 4. 3 billion gifts delivered so far. Slowly making his way to the u. S. Next couple of hours. What were dealing with in sky is light brain. Live doppler 7 is tracking slow moving line of light showers, 15 Miles Per Hour to northeast. Light showers through San Francisco around 6 00 p. M. If it stays together, concord around 11 30, slow moving showers. Storm impact scale, into Christmas Day, light to moderate rain and rough surf. Overnight temperatures slowly falling, mostly cloudy skies. Rain moving through. Christmas day, best chance of rain where you live is in the morning. We see showers in afternoon and evening departing and getting out of here. Finish on a high note. Accuweather sevenday forecast, heaviest rain in the morning on Christmas Day. Brighter skies, thursday, friday, saturday, will be nice to get out and maybe use the toys you get tomorrow. Nice and warm. President trump sends holiday greetings to u. S. Troops do you recall, not long ago we would walk on the sidewalk all around the wind blows we would only hold on to let go blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun we needed somebody to lean on all we need is someone to lean on it looks like this. 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. Ladiladidah dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if youve had angioedema with an ace or arb. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. Ask your doctor about entresto. The beat goes on yeah today thousands of people flocked to west bank town of bethlehem to celebrate Christmas Eve in birthplace of jesus. Parade filled main square with tourists. Archbishop of the holy hand shook hands with parade goers down the square. President trump spoke to members of all five branches of the military this Christmas Eve thanking them for their service. More now from washington. Reporter from mounted web camera on the eve of the Christmas HolidayPresident Trump spoke via video teleconference to military around the world from his resort in florida. Wish you amazing christmas and happy new years. Reporter praising them and thanking them for their service to this country. Because of your brave and Selfless Service americans can celebrate christmas in safety and peace. We all appreciate what you do so much and thank you very much. Reporter at one point he took questions from the service members. One army soldier in kuwait asking him what he got First Lady Melania Trump for christmas. Im still working on the christmas present. Is that okay . Theres a little time left, not too much. Reporter back in washington, military officials are on high alert over north koreas threat of a quote Christmas Gift in form of possible longrange missile test, the president downplaying concerns, suggesting he may like the surprise. Maybe its a nice present, sends me a beautiful vase as opposed to a missile test, right . Reporter abc news, washington. Members of the military swapped out santas sleigh and reindeer for helicopter today. Members got delivery, holiday express. Stockings stuffed with gifts in eastern part of the country bases. Military band spreading cheer to those on atbative duty. Far away from home on the holiday. World war ii veteran swindled. Happy ending thanks to kindless of strangers. Church struck by heartless crime, money stolen saved for families in need. Clues police are using. Expensive clothing purses swiped from stores. How the grinches are getting away. Plus iphone 11. And ipad and kindle. Top christmas wishes from most reliable of sources. Those stories and more on abc7 news at 5 00. Weve been tracking santa all hour long through norad, hes headed to argentina now, will continue tracking santa through the evening, should be over the bay area in a few more hours. Hang on kids. Tonight on abc7, 8 00, santa claus is coming to town, followed by cma country christmas, and back with us at 11 00. World war ii veteran scammed by acquaintance. People rallied to help him. Fresno sister station with the story. You brought a lovely lady with you, hot diggety. Reporter wouldnt know from his attitude. Glad youre here, in fact glad im here too. Reporter lost huge amount of Retirement Savings to a man who after wife died. Claimed in real financial trouble, floyd loaned him about 10,000 and never got it back. Lot of you saw the story, 374 people made donations. Wanted to present this to you. Oh, my goodness, look at this, 12,472. 62, look at at att reporter floyd served in navy as world war ii came to close. Wants to go back to the beach with his new wife. So many good people in this world. Reporter hotel also donated a stay for he and his wife and bell tone is donating brand new hearing aids in january. He acknowledges its not his ears but mouth can get him in trouble. God has his arm around my shoulders and his hand over my mouth. Sure does. Reporter but for this wonderful occasion, he burst out in a little song for newest love in his life. If you should run into a 52 covered in furs, Diamond Rings and all those things reporter new check in hand, love by his side, leaves us with words of wisdom. Smile and world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone. Delight. Precious. Want to give him a hug. Private detectives working on leads to track the suspect down, hopefully a good ending. But at least got money back. Nice man. Abc7 news app has enhanced video features, push alerts to get more of the news you want in realtime. Thanks for [ dramatic music ]ing ] ahhhh ahhhh elliott. You came back now at 5 00, a Bay Area Church hit with crime. Thieves take money for the needy in middle of mass. Some still getting trees for christmas. How the bay area is getting ready even on Christmas Eve. Expert criminals targeting multiple bay area beaoutiques, w the grinches are stealing christmas. And tracking santa as he makes way to the usa. Meteorologist drew tuma, new storm moving in, the forecast