Pier 14, part of the memorial was removed. Reporter those protesters were here. There was a memorrial removed by the city. Some of those protesters placed it there they said to support their stance against shank chaer cities. The city removed it because they said it violated city policy. Now, heres a look at that protest earlier this afternoon in union square. Demonstrators began their march there. They held american flags or hats supporting president trump. The group said they were protesting shank chaer city policy. They blame that policy on Kate Steinles death. Their demonstration was met with counter demonstrators. We refuse to allow these protrump racist and fascs to use the tragic death of kate steinle to justify more attacks on immigrants. This person kate steinle would have been alive today had that person been deported or better yet never thought they could cross the border and stay in this country illegally. Reporter San Francisco police were there in full force to handle crowd control, and officers did confirm there was a fight and one person was arrested. Back out here live at pier 14, the group left. They say theyre headed to a bar called pateerate bar. But this isnt the last time they say theyre coming to San Francisco to speak out against sank shear cities and speak in favor of protrump policies. Abc 7 news. All right, loni, thank you. Tonight gusty winds have increased fire danger to a critical level and causing problems across the bay area. This gust brought down a red wood tree. It crushed a car and took down power lines along the way. The oakland zoo is having issues, tweeting, due to high winds the gondola will be closed tonight. And check out this boat on its side there. Some of them broke free of their moorings. Wind speeds and low humidity have led to warnings of critical fire danger. Now, for more lets get to meteorologist drew tuma. And those winds have been gusting over 45 miles an hour and continue to be active at this hour. Right now strongest south and inland. 23 that current gust in oakland and in the hills higher than that. Cor doeda ridge, 42 miles an hour gusts. That is bringing in dryer air. Its this dry weather pattern, this windy night on the way, that red flag warning still in Effect Tomorrow morning with those winds gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour at times. That means fires can easily spread in those conditions. In the north bay the wind is causing high anxiety for people who experienced those terrifying wildfires in october. Thousands lost their homes. The return of high fire danger is bringing back painful memories and tonight Fire Departments are on high alert. C cornell . Reporter eric, its been very, very windy tonight. Im scared to death. For casey there was no ignoring the high winds at this event for victims of the wildfire. Of course im thinking again here we go. It brings up a lot of angst because its very blustery. Reporter its an all too painful reminder of similar fires months ago which chased thousands from their homes leaving neighborhoods in ashes. Everything super dry. Reporter the battalion chief says all fire stations now on alert. Some fife fighting equipment which normally would be put away for the season now back in service. Tease are 100 foot rolls, able to deploy them, charge them and send them off. Reporter between the low relative humidity and high winds, that could equate to a situation that could be dangerous and thats why the sant arosa Fire Department is on alert. The Fire Department tweeting elevated levels return. What are you doing . Be prepared. Its tough for everyone right now. Reporter this toy give away was a nice distraction from the weather. Tina and her husband collected more than 20,000 worth of toys for kids displaced by the fires. We hear time and time again how is santa going to find me . So to be able to tell them and assure them no matter where you are, santa will always find you. Reporter a Generous Community giving back this holiday. In the meantime youre looking at a tweet from the Alameda CountyFire Department where it describes how extra crews will be out on duty during a red flag warning. Also stationed a helicopter to respond quickly to any wildfires in the trivalley area. What a difference a day can make. Check out the air quality from yesterday to today. Friday was the eight day in the row of spare the air day because of the smoke from the thomas fire that expired today. The thomas fire has burned 259,000 acres and is now 40 contained but far from being controlled because of gusty winds. Abc News Reporter brian clark has more. Reporter the Massive Wildfire thats been plaguing vast areas of las vegas for 13 days is back up again. Dry brush, low humidity and winds gusting up to 60 Miles Per Hour fanning the flames. Some residents waking up in the middle of the night realizing the Third Largest fire in californias history is racing towards them. Went to sleep last night about midnight and then woke up to the roar of this fire coming to about 3 00 a. M. I got most of the stuff packed. Reporter the wildfire has scorched over 400 square miles for now, killing one firefighter. The wall of fire threatening new residential areas including the conclave of mont seato peek with mansions belonging to stars like Oprah Winfrey and ellen degenerous. In parts of california recently devastated by wildfires theyre also counting agricultural losses like this orchard in san diego. Its burned so hot. Reporter they had expected a bumper harvest but it destroyed a crop. More than 8,000 firefighters from a dozen states are working to contain the blaze. Brian clark, abc news, new york. They want to take back the streets. She would never harm or hurt or kill anybody again. And they hope to do it one again and bazooka at a time. Plus. Savannah to california. An epic journey for kitty bitty, the cat that went Cross Country in a pepsi truck. Now a family is hopeful hell be home for the holidays. A reminder available right now to download a major upgrade to the abc 7 news app. Weve rolled out new eupdates. Now you can get only the news you want delivered to your phone in realtime. If you have an iphone you will if you have an iphone you will need the latest give me. A break. Give me a break. Give me a break. Break me off a piece of that kit kat bar. Of your interests in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Gain practical experience with emerging technology and equipment that you can transfer to an exciting new field. Get a head start on your career while serving parttime and earning money to pay for college. Visit nationalguard. Com to learn about all of the stem Career Opportunities available to you in the Army National guard. All right what a story. A cat who disappeared from a home in georgia has been found in california aboard a pepsi truck. Reporter rob mcmillen from our sister station in los angeles has our story. Reporter if only we could tell what kitty bitty is saying about where hes been the past five months. What we do know is that hes resting at the Riverside CountyAnimal Shelter right now waiting to go home. But its where home is that has a lot of people scratching their heads. Its unbelievable to me. I know cats go off and come back, but savannah to california. Reporter you see, Theresa Cameron is the owner of 5yearold kitty bitty. They live in savannah, georgia. So howd he get to california . Well, it started when he disappeared on the fourth of july. We figured hed gotten afraid of the fireworks and the noise and was gone. Reporter fast forward about five months and about 2,000 miles westward to riverside. Wednesday morning one of the drivers in a pepsi delivery truck found kitty bitty in the trailer. Weve got these warehouses now out here with all these trucks and he had to have crawled up inside one of them. The cat was a little bit underweight, so you could see it probably hadnt eaten in a couple of days put very friendly when i picked it up. Reporter kitty bitty was wearing aal collar. Thats when they called the owner. They had no idea she was on the other side of the country. Folks here at the Animal Shelter are gathering up money to hopefully fly kitty bitty back to georgia on monday. I wish that he would come home so i could him a great big hug. Reporter who would have thought gone on the fourth of july, home for christmas. In riverside rob mcmillen, abc 7 news. Go back on a cocacola truck. Over whatever it pleases. Is this a christmas miracle . I think so. Well, communities across the bay area are facing fire danger tonight. So when will our usual Winter Weather return . Meteorologist drew tuma breaks down our conditions throughout down our conditions throughout the week when we come give me. A break. Give me a break. Give me a break. Break me off a piece of that kit kat bar. Well, people gave up 271 guns during a weapons buy back in San Francisco today. It didnt look like that, though. It looked more like this. Abc 7 news was on Howard Street when Police Showed off this 84 antitank weapon. Somebody turned this in on gun buy back day. Officers also collected handguns, shotguns and high powered rifles. A Community Leader believes San Francisco took a big step towards being less violent today. We got a bazooka off the streets. We got an cannonball off the streets, assault rifles. We got everything that you could name that could destroy a whole universe. And we got rid of them within hours. Also said it succeeded because of its no question ask policy for the people who surrendered those guns. And an ooka weather after a windy day today, to start off the weekend those winds will continue overnight tonight as well. Live doppler 7 along with satellite. We really want to see some action on this picture. Rain has really been missing from the december forecast. And even as you go through the next couple of days its not the rain but the winds well be tracking. The cam out tonight showing the lovely pick chur of stran. That camera is shaking right now and will continue to do eso as the winds continue overnight today. Winds over 40 miles an hour, even oakland, San Francisco and san jose wind gusts clocking anywhere from 31 to 37 miles an hour. Mainly in fairfield and oakland right now 28 and 26 Miles Per Hour right now. These winds have prompted a red flag warning here locally in the bay area. But much of california is dealing with these dry, windy conditions. In fact a red flag warning covers 9. 3 Million People from chico all the way down to los angeles and palm springs because of these critical fire conditions. These winds are typically rather chilly, but right now those winds are mild. 60 degrees, 62 in vallejo, 60 in san jose. Hour by hour we go. Future tracker wind gust and were back onair, and winds remain active out of the north. Continue to gust at 80 miles an hour at times. Well start out sunday morning with those Winds Continuing to be active. But midday well continue to see some changes. By lunchtime the winds begin to ease a little bit. And as we head into the afternoon on sunday the winds will generally begin to calm down across the region. We still have that wind advisory in effect through 10 00 in the morning for those winds still gusting over 35 miles an hour. The highest wind gusts will likely be in our hills where weve already seen trees come down. And that threat will continue through the overnight hours. Most spots will hold in the 40s in the next 12 hours. Highs on your sunday. Were going to rebound nicely. We start out windy in the morning. The winds ease midday and into the afternoon, theyre rather calm. 63 in San Francisco, 65 in oakland. Go up to about 66 in san jose. The accuweather seven day forecast, tomorrow we start out windy. The winds ease in the afternoon. Its bright and mild on monday with a few clouds on tuesday. And well track a chance of a sprinkle on wednesday. Otherwise temperatures close to average on the weekend. Well, the raiders playoff chances are slim, but they have a close eye on tonights match up between the chiefs and chargers with the winner taking sole possession of first place. Saturday night football, second quarter. Detroit up 6, finally get in the end zone. We get to see the rockets. Stafford through for 37 yards, great throw and catch. Lions win and improve their playoff hopes. They are now 8 and 6. 40 on tap, first one of the day. Hope of the two best bands in the land. Tied at 14, lamar rainer, fakes a spike, throws it 15 yards to elijah bell who catches the ball at the 3. Two plays later bernard runs it in himself. 12 and 0 with a 2114 victory. Las vegas ball taking on oregon. Threw two interceptions including this brutal throw. Second quarter, 53 yard pick 6, boise state. Blow out, right . Wrong. Two tds. And this tommy robinson, 100 yard pick six. Just like that broncos at the half. But boise statewide hang on thanks to a pair of ryan touch downs. Spins off the defender. 13 yards. Boise state your Las Vegas Bowl champs. 3828 that final. Marshal taking on colorado state. Chase britain breaks the scoreless tie. Led in two td throws. 70 thundering herd. 141 from cion davis. 68yard touch down run. Marshal wins the new mexico bowl, 3128. California High School Championship between division 2a, 29yearold td pass to evan williams. Great catch. Two minutes to go, st. Francis wins their first state title in school history. Both teams mascot, the lancers. Putting their season high eight game win streak on the line. Coby briiants jersey will be returned during the game at halftime. Averaging 35 points in the past four games becoming the lead dog on this sled. But everyones pitched in on this deep roster. The team leads the league in blocked shots. Today he talked about his leadership. Lead by example, doing your thing and play the hardest you can in your position. Thats something i think about over the years, and i always try to talk my way out of situations, try to play better and learn and get better. Bears started the game on a 120 run led by as many 15. But midway in the second half, two of his 30s. Now down three, two minutes remaining. Cavalry takes the lead. Two seconds left, banks it in to tie the game. We go to overtime, but too much in the extra frame starting on a 70 run. Misses the three but gets the rebound. We get momentum every game. Its better than starting out slow like we usually do. We still finish stronger and win. And thats what we did. We got to keep the momentum going through the next game. Dion has some guests today. Best buddies and you can go ahead and clap for my performance there. This is why you like a live studio audience. Thank you. Well, coming up, a bay area tradition that puts a smile on the fates of hundreds of kids. That story when we return. Give me. A break. Give me a break. Give me a break. Break me off a piece of that kit kat bar. Tonight on abc 7 news alt 9 00 an up roar over an alleged scientific war band at one of the nations top science agencies. And pentagons secret search for ufos tonight were learning about a classified program as the government releases video of an unexplained encounter in california. Lost of cheer for kids today in San Francisco. Merry christmas. Abc 7 news was in the tinter loin neighborhood as hundreds of volunteers handed out toys to nearly 1,200 kids in need across San Francisco. Its not just about the toys, its creating a joyful experience for the holidays. Donor funds help provide over 1,000 toys this year. Thank you for joining us for abc 7 news at 6 00. Abc 7 news at 6 00. Well see you tonight at im telling you, greta, your husband should not let you out of the house with legs like that. Ooh. Your assistants hot. Shes 63, dude i think my german nanny really screwed me up. So whats with all this stuff in your office . Oh, its that stupid time of year when my stupid coworkers stupid kids sell crap to support their stupid activities. And stupid people buy it all . I cant say no. People around here are still giving me the stink eye cause i didnt chip in marlenes getwell gift. Like flowers were gonna uncollapse her lung. I know how you feel. People are always asking me to donate money to cure some disease im never even gonna get. What about diseases they get from you