With activity today. A former marine is sitting in jail accused of hatching the plot. We went to pier 39 today and noticed there was a Strong Security presence. Saturday holiday fun goes on at pier 39 after the fbi foiled a planned terror attack at the San Francisco destination. When i looked at my phone and it said theres a threat of this terrorist and at pier 39, im like, oh my gosh, were here. Trisha johnson was visiting pier 39 friday when she learned about the alleged plot. They say 26yearold Everitt Aaron jameson an eczeexmarine. Some visitors noticed coast guard patrols and more security staff. There are inherent things in everything we do but i trust in the security ive seen around here. According to a federal criminal complaint, jameson had radical jihaddy believes. His family members in modesto in shock. I cant explain it any other way. Online is where an fbi agent was alerted by jamesons dialogue. A big takeaway they hope others online will take notice of this kind of radicalism. Even though this was an fbi informant that alerted us, this kind of tip could have came from anybody the number. He has a hearing scheduled for january 5th. His Attorney Says his client will plead not guilty to any charges against him. In San Francisco, lonni rivera, abc 7 news. Those who nut suspect are stunned business his arrest. A former neighbor in the modesto area says the terror suspect looked like any other guy. He seemed like a normal person who lived there, young guy with his girlfriend, just never caused any problems. There wasnt any loud events or anything. Just the neighbor. Everitt jameson face dollars up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Abc 7 news was the first to send out a push alert about the arrest of the terror suspect on friday morning be sure to download our app to receive push up dates and thats free to download. Happening right now, the weather still a big story in the bay area this weekend. Not only is it cold, today and tomorrow have been declared spare the air days. Take a live look from within of our cameras in San Francisco, also one in the east bay hills overlooking mount diablo earlier today, you can see why there. That haze lingering and expected to be i round for the next few days. Now, the alert means you cant build a fire in the fireplace, you will need to find another source of heat to keep warm. Keep that yule log on hold if youre planning to burn one for the holidays. Meteorologist drew tuma explains why we cant shake this unhealthy air. We wish we had some twhand would get this haze out of our atmosphere, but unfortunately its a quiet pattern thats going to keep it with us. Spare the air day for sunday, the poorest air near the coast. Air quality goes from poor to moderate for monday. Tonight were sloped cool with clouds overhead. San francisco Still Holding at 53 degrees and tonight those numbers are going to be gradual to drop into the 30s and our coldest spots overnight tonight. 38 in concord, 39 in san jose, chilly in santa rosa at 33. Well take a look at how the afternoon is shaping up in a few minutes. Thank you. The Contra Costa CountySheriffs Office says theyve wrapped up an investigation into complaints by female federal immigration detainees being held in richmond. It says nearly all of them are unfounded including they were locked down 20 hours a day. Sheriffs office adds the detainees do have keys to their rooms as well. Contra Costa Health Services will also review a couple complaints about healthcare. Investigators say they went through hours of sclans footage and introduced hours of witnesses. A firefighter died who battled the thomas fire. Bagpipers played Amazing Grace as fallen firefighter iverson shield and American Flag were presented to his family. The Memorial Service was held in san diego where he was based. He died december 14th from burns and smoke inhalation on the front lines of the thomas fire. He leaves behind a 2yearold daughter and wife and the couple were expecting their second child. New developments with the thomas fire tonight. Its now the largest wildfire in california history. Its burned more than 273,000 acres in southern california. Containment remains at 65 right now. More than 700 homes have been destroyed since the fire started nearly three weeks ago. Evacuation orders remain in effect for some residents in ventura and assistant barbara count ties. Long time california politician bill lockier apparently has a new career thanks to prop 64. L. A. Times reports had he he and a his partner plan to become marijuana distributors. Theyll goal is to get their product into pot shops early in the year. He sees the market as a form of Public Service and as a way to help fund his kids college tuition. He has held numerous political offices including serving as the state attorney general. Out of sight, out of mind. Not so fast says one Bay Area Police department. The new warning tonight for Holiday Shoppers who think their items are safely stashed away from potential thieves. The common item thats led to violent and in some cases deadly robberies. And a Merry Christmas for this bay area family. We catch up with the military man as he sees h a warning tonight for holiday shorps from san mateo police. Theyre reporting thieves are trying to break into car trounks steal purchases. They seja happens is the crooks will watch to see what shoppers drop off and then try to pounce. This is a fairly new tactic. In the past weve heard of items being fwleeng if someone can see them. They say theyre actively patrolling busy shopping centers. Convenience stores in Central CaliforniaCentral Valley are seeing a spike. Theyre stealing cartons of cigarettes. We have the latest heist that turned into a brutal encounter for one clerk. Surveillance video shows the moment the suspect dives hunt the Cash Register, the beginning of a long tenminute struggle all for 150 cartons of cigarettes. Punched him. I him, strayed him in the face with sprays and stuff. Also had a taser. Zip tied his hands. He has noticed the most soughtout thing that people are looking for is cigarettes. Now that they raised the price, suspects know theyre a guaranteed value and easy to resell for cash. The robbers in this situation, in this incident, they never touched the Cash Register at all. Significant retss were also taken recently during a deadly mini mart robbery in mow dara. Thieves were captured on camera carting out boxes of cigarettes. The clerk never fought back but was shot and kill. Two men were arrested on charges of homicide. Despite the serious injury to the clerk in the latest cigarette theft, he was an observant witness and able to help police solve the crime. Hes described it as scary, doesnt know whats going on. But he was able to recognize voices and their body movements and stuff to help identify the people and get them caught. Detectives recovered 35 cases of cigarettes at a home just two blocks away from the liquor store. A man and a woman were arrest for the crime and the female gave police a full convetion. They believe the pair scoped out and figured out where the cigarettes were stored. The San FranciscoFire Department is answering the call during the holidays. The givaaway that had hundreds of kids grinning year to year. And drew tuma has the accuweather forecast. Ill have the bowl highlights plus the warriors were trying to ma this little home of mine, im gonna let it shine. Its Energy Saving time, im gonna reduce mine. Californians all align to let our great state shine. Let it shine, the powers ours to let it shine unplug chargers go, devices go offline. Turn thermostats down low, leds shine mighty fine. Small actions quickly grow, to let our great state shine. Energy upgrade california, will let us shine. Hello, im vincent, this is livingston, thats tangella, this is our Haunted House and every saturday night on kofy tv20 we present our show creature features, where we show wonderfully horrible films and horribly wonderful guests. Do join us, please . Hundreds of kids have new bikes to ride all over San Francisco thanks to santa claus and his helpers at the Fire Department. Abc 7 news was inside the Firefighters Toy Program warehouse when 300 new bikes and riding toys brightened young faces. Two new bike owners told us where they plan to ride. To the store. Maybe to the park or i dont know. I grew up in the mission district. I grew up in alley, didnt have a lot, single mom. So we just want to give back, make sure that every kid has toys and just, you know, fun stuff. Its awesome to see. Those kids also got free helmets and made friends with firefighters and volunteers. A holiday surprise here for one bay area family. Their father who is serving in the navy will be home for christmas. He dropped in on his kids at a restaurant in san bruno this afternoon. He had been overseas for nine months and within just the last week managed to get clearance to come home. The kids had no idea until he walked up to the table. They were like shocked at first, like whos this guy . Then they tried to process oh, its daddy. So, like, for this small one its like, oh. And then the oldest ones a little bit emotional, as always. It never gets old. Roberto is filipino and says outside of his kidss birthdays, christmas is one of the most important days of the year. And even sweeter, hell be home for a while. Now your accuweather forecast. And in accuweather is a cloudy start to the weekend. Tonight were in store for those clouds hanging on leading the way to a cool Christmas Eve tomorrow. Live 7 showing you we had a quiet pattern setting up. Theres a bit of moisture offshore but as it tries to move in it evaporates. You have a dry atmosphere overhead that were not going to see any rain unfortunately from the cloud cover tonight. What we are seeing across the country is Winter Weather advisories popping up in multiple states stretching across the midwest and up into new england. Were expect snow showers for many. Heres the snow right now falling over nebraska, that will move into chicago tomorrow and then eventually will work its way into new england. The Early Morning hours on Christmas Day, and bring a White Christmas for some there. Back at home, its all about the temperatures slowly falling at this hour. We have cloud cover overhead, kind of acts like a blanket so the cooling is process is slowed. 49 in concord, San Francisco 53, san jose and Mountain View with a temperature of 53. Well take knew Christmas Eve, the 12hour planner on your sunday its cloud cover from the getgo, chilly inwland 30s on the board. Were starting out in the 40s. Well call it filtered sunshine, some peeks and pokes in the afternoon. And 4 00 temperatures struggling to make it into the mid50s. Heres your highs on your sunday. A lot of cloud cover. 55 in oakland, the same in San Francisco, about 59. The high in san jose, 56 in san rafael, up to 57 ant okay. It is a sfar the air day again on sunday. If you are traveling on sunday, theres the snow showers working their way into chicago, the great lakes sunday afternoon. This will push off into new england late sunday and into early monday. West ward its a quiet picture from dallas over to phoenix up into denver. Its a lot of sunshine. Well have a lot of snow and raurs in the pacific northwest. Perhaps youre traveling across the state tomorrow. As you go south youll enkourt counter more sunshine warm in l. A. And palm springs set of 72. To the north more cloud cover, chico could have an isolated shower and temperatures in the mid50s. As Christmas Day approaches on monday, a lot of clouds to start off your day on monday. Temperatures in the upper 30s to lower 40s, but throwout the day we do think there will be a decrease in the cloud cover. More in the waive sunshine by 4 00 and temperatures a little bit warmer than Christmas Eve in the mid50s to lower 60s. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Its cool and cloudy on your Christmas Eve. Christmas day starts out with clouds too, some sunshine by the afternoon. But sunshine really takes hold here tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. A dry pattern prevails and by friday and saturday temperatures just slightly above average for this time of the year. Now sports from abc 7 news. Well, maybe it was a case of looking ahead to the Christmas Day rematch with the cavaliers, whatever the reason, the warriors came out flat tonight and never recovered against the nuggets. Lets go out to oracle yu have more than hamburgers and hot dogs. This was the play of the night for golden state. Draymond sets up bell for the one hand flush but he had just seven points tonight. Europe cal steps his way to the basket and gets coaching from steph who is still out with an injury. Durantlet led the warriors with 18 but golden state trailed by 12 at the half. The nuggets would never give i the lead. Nice pass to chandler who scores plus the foul. The warriors missed 23 straight pointers until young finally pops. The season worst 3 for 27 from long range. Denver never let up. Gary harris with the pullup jumper. He had a team high 19 points while joke kick put in 18. The warriors lose 9681. So theyre 11 money game win streak is over. Big game tonight at the tank as the sharks are hosting the first place l. A. Kings. Some of santas elves took a break to catch the action. This is the time for peace on earth, good will towards men. Apparently Curtis Mcdermott and brent burns did not get the memo. It was scoreless until the second period. Check this out. Two kings run into each other and Markus Sorenson takes advantage beating Jonathan Quick with the backhand. Its his third goal of the season. Hes playing well against his former team, had he 20 saves after two periods. Now midway through the third, san jose leads 20. At lambeau field, these santas werent the only ones having fun. Playing in 9 degree weather, the vikings and packers manage just one touchdown. Stefon diggs in the corner. Brent hundley subbing for Aaron Rodgers through a pair of interceptions. Green bay was 0 for 4 in fourth down attempts. This pass will go incomplete. The vikings win 160. Its their first shutout in 204 years. Army fans worked out. This is the baltimore game. It was windy and rainy. The colts had nothing to play for but hung tough. Ber set drops it off for gore who will score. The former 9ers just the Second Player in nfl history to have 12 straight seasons of 1,000 yards from the line of skraim scrimmage. The ravens led by ten, indy still had a chance, down by seven with just under three minutes to play. The colts block this punt and recover deep in baltimore territory but on fourth and ten the pass to hilton falls incomplete, the ravens win 2316. They can clinch a playoff spot with a win next week against cincinnati. Army fans got a workout at the armed forces boil had the san jose tate was driving in the Fourth Quarter when they make a great defensive play while on the ground tipping this pass to a teammate for an interception. That led to bradshaws second touchdown of the game, it was tied 208 all. San diego state was ledry penny who rushed for 221 yards and four t. D. S. This one put his team back on tomorrow. But army gets across the goal line to get lead down to one. They go for the win and get it, 4235 the final, army winds up 103. Its their most wins since 1996. And well stay down south for the dla general bowl in mobile. Appalachian state dominated toledo. Jalen moore will not be denied. He finished with 125 yards rushing and three touchdowns. He takes this one 31 yards, the mountain nears win 340. They finish 94. And at the Birmingham Bowl it was south florida by texas tech 3834. I think we have about 25 more bowls. Its exhausting. Bowl you over. Thats right, rick. Thanks a lot. Just ahead, roam respect italy wanted an ugly christmas tonight on abc 7 news at 11 00, a reason to smile for north bay families. One in particular dealing with a difficult few months. Tonight, theyre settling into a temporary home after a generous donation. And stealing water. Tonight necessarily is accused of taking too much from a california wilderness. And finally tonight, romans are jeering instead of cheering when it comes to their official christmas tree. It stands near the monument and critics call it drab and claim if looks depressed. Some consider did a side of romes decay. Well, i wouldnt go that far. They even think the roman taxpayers got ripped off because the tree cost about 60,000. A few folks like the tree and theyve even tied endearing messages to it. The tree itself came from a for fleft northe forest in northern italy. Next year come to me ill help you pick out a tree for much less than 60,000. I was going to say Charlie Brown called and wants his tree back. Maybe ill save you about 59,900 on that tree. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 59,900, think about that. Thats it for abc 7 news at 9 00. On behalf o ah. Timmy, what are you doing in my office . Oh, i just dropped a little gift on your desk, sir. Aw, youre like the fourth assistant to do that. And you wrapped it . Well, theres a new twist. Sir, while the thought had crossed my mind, this gift was in fact sent by your mother. Oh, it was . Oh, shes coming to town. Yay. I was surprised that you had a mother. I didnt imagine you coming from human flesh. Yeah, well shes more plastic than flesh now. A book, that sucks. Ah, a paintball gun. Yeah, boy i like this one. I just need something to shoot. Ooh, put this on your head. Sir, just how stupid do you think i am . Whats up, guys . Mr. Rhodes, would you please