Dry, 22 out of 26 days have not seen a drop of rain. Only four days, the 2nd, the 3rd and 19th and 20th have we registered rain and i think using the word rain is pretty ambitious whether looking at the totals. Actual rain fall in San Francisco just over 0. 10 inch where we should be for this date this date is well over 3 inches. Similar in santa rosa barely tenth of an inch this month. Santa rosa should be close to 5. 5 inches of rain by this point in the month. So where does the optimism lie . Next seven days, nothing for saturday. New years eve and day chance of rain increases 40 each day. We will show you what to potentially expect in a few minutes. Look forgd it to that. Lets turn to the tragic death of officer andrew camilleri. Camilleri was 33 years old when killed in the line of duty Christmas Eve. Leaves behind a wife and three children. Camilleri and his partner were parked on i880 watching for dangerous drivers. Chp says a cadillac with a 22yearold was driving so fast the impact crushed the suv. The suspect was too badly hurt to be booked into jail at least for now. Tonight they escorted his flagdraped coffin and members paused to salute the hearst and more than two dozen chp cars that followed. Its the final journey for a young man who was trying to devote his life to make bay area highways safe for everyone else just being on the highways he patrolled cost him his life, thanks to the type of driver he was trying to stop, someone suspected the beam under the influence. Along the way firefighters, and citizens and officers paying respects to say goodbye to officer camilleri. It was one of the first things i saw often facebook it was heart breaking. Im hope opening prensents with my kids and their dads not coming home that day. The 33yearold grew up in tracey and his family still lives there. He was a young father with three children with just over one year on the job. My son who looks up to people in uniform i want him to see we must honor them once they do die. Capitals. Camilleris body was taken to a local funeral home not far from where he left his wife and kids for the last time on Christmas Eve. Abc 7 news. Tomorrow chp officers will hold a bellringing ceremony in his honor at the chp academy in sacramento it starts at 11 00 a. M. And public is invited. Transit center is up and running, it replaces the old terminal that was demolish in 2011. The new center stretches three center blocks. Planners hope cal train and high speed rail will arrive underground in total an estimated 6 billion project. Jonathan bloom went to see the calm before the storm as single bus line moved into its new digs the day after christmas. The days are open. 6th avenue. On small corner. A lot of people were off for the holiday week and didnt want to inconvenience people as we get our bearings. For muni the holiday is an opportunity. How was your christmas. Nice i worked 12 hours plus 8. Me too. Since december 6th weve been out testing different size busses to make sure they can make the appropriate turns. Now as construction remains in full swing the first paying passengers will be able to board the 5 fulton here only the gleaming new pavement. By june full service will be running out of here. Shiny new bus stop will take some by surprise but were just a block and half from where the bus used to stop at the temporary trans bay terminal. Muni ambassador at the old bus stop will help point the way. The new one is a glimpse of the future. I think its going to be cool to have fancy brand new terminal in the heart of San Francisco. One thats been a long time coming. Showing the progress of the three few structure with park on top and trains below. With all of the construction i think it will be best when its finally open. When the ac transit and sam transit and greyhound will keep passengers out of the rain. Some bus drivers are really nice. But its not a fun ride for anybody. In San FranciscoJonathan Bloom abc 7 news. Well speaking of transportation bart riders will be paying more for your commute come january 1st, minimum is 2 for adults. 70 cents more each ride, hoping to encourage people to use clipper for fair payment. Eligibility is expanding to include everyone under age of 18. Fares will go up 25 cents for vta, this is their first fare increase since 2009 but younger riders pay less. Weve put a link to all these changes on our website a abc7news. Com. A dead whale beached on shore this past week. The Mammal Center sent out to confirm its cause of death. New tonight a flight from los angeles to japan is forced to turnaround. All because a passenger who wasnt supposed to be on the plane. Big named celebrity who live tweeted the episodes. The president is back on the golf course and back on twitter taking shots at his favorite targets. And even for a place that ge new tonight a flight bound for tokyo made a uturn back to lax after an unauthorized person was discovered on board. According to police at lax officers were told they had a unit on scene when plane arrived. The return to the tokyobound flight was due to i mix up and was straightened up. Model Chrissy Tiegen sent this tweet, four hours into an elevenhour flight and were turning around because we have a passenger who isnt supposed to be on the plane he had a ticket for an entirely different airline. The president was back on twitter today taking aim at his favorite targets in 2017, the ongoing Russian Investigation and fbi. We are in West Palm Beach where the president is spending the holidays. President trump today on his Trump International golf course through the trees in his signature hat the president promised to be back at work today. He is also back on twitter swonding to the infamous dossier tweeting that it is bogus. Saying the fbi cannot verify claims of dossier and russiatrump collusion. Fbi tainted. It is unclear what role if anything the dossier has played in the broader Russian Investigation. Its a shame whats happened with the fbi. Here in mara lago taking aim at Deputy Director mccabe accusing him of bias during the campaign. The president asking on twitter how mccabe could be given 700,000 by clinton puppets. The president attacking fbi leadership. He is making a point we need to make no bias and there is serious concerns whether there was or was not. This is the bill right here were very proud of it. Trump still riding high after signing g. O. P. Tax cut into law. And this tweet tonight the president reaching a new milestone. He spent more than 100 day 24z year at one of his properties nearly a third of his presidency. Repealing obamacare does eliminate the individual mandate for those to require health care insurance. 9 million signed up this year to stabilize markets and keep the premiums from rising. West palm beach, florida. While we enjoy a mild start to winter in the bay area, much of the country is dealing with an arctic blast plummeting temperatures below zero coming after millions traveling home. Tonight with millions on the road the lake effect snow machine is grinding travel to a halt in the city of erie, pennsylvania declare snowing emergency, crews unable to keep up with four and half feet of snow that fell in 36 hours. Overnight dozens of cars spinning off the highways and dozens backed up outside of town that lakeeffect snow leaving buffalo buried. That snow is fueled by bonechilling air. Are car wrecks in kansas four people died after sliding off the road. In the north west icy roads causing pile ups. In oregon one driver injured. Lost control. Did a 360 and ended up here. Meanwhile parts of the northeast are digging out after blizzard conditions, White Knuckle travel from maine to massachusetts where there was thunder snow. Thunder snow. And winds gusted to 65 miles an hour knocking this beam off the sackimore bridge and knocking out powers to thousands. Overnight flights were delayed for hours and one almost didnt make it. We started spinning and spinning and spinning. Everythings fine we just skid on the ice. Passengers evacuated on to shuttle busses after jet blue plane spun all the way around. Thankfully no one was injured. And you can see just how cold it is here. Thats water from lake eer i e completely solid a bench covered in ice. Aaa is getting a hundred calls an hour for help. And its not over expecting another foot of snow in buffalo, new york. Thats enough to make you feel cold just looking at it. I know. I hope theyre not seeing pictures in buffalo of us down here it would make them crazy. Yeah we have some of the warmest temperatures right here in the bay area across the lower 48. Theres a cold taking hold across the midwest, thats going to stay there. Here were talking about warmer day as head and potential for rain enter into the forecast. We enjoyed a i lot of sunshine earlier today and tonight just a few clouds out there from time to time. Picture of the tamtam great visibility out there. Lighting up for the holidays. Were dipping into the 30s in a lot of spots. And were going to track pockets of fog around the bay and in the delta. On new years eve were tracking potential for a storm if everything comes together just right. Current temperatures right now, spots that are mainly dipping into the 40s at this hour. 44 in napa. 47 in oakland. 48 in mountain view. Right now fairfield, coldest spot 41 degrees. Going to be a blend of cold and stars out there. Will be some fog through the delta. Are coldest spot dropping into the mid 30s. Overnight lows drop to the mid and low 40s. Wednesday well have early pockets of fog. Temperatures in the 30s and 40s. And fog will dis ip ate by mid day and the sun really good at warming us up. In the bay and inland topping out in the 60s. Really comfortable on the way. 62 in san rafael. 64 in cloverdale. And San Francisco will see Early Morning fog giving way to sunshine at a temperature of 58 degrees. Fast forward to the weekend. We have changes to the forecast. Saturday temperatures above average into the 60s under partly cloutdy skies. New years eve and day we bring back chance of rain for potential for storm to move into our neck of the woods. Possible storm because we have two reliable computer models giving us two very different outcomes. This is the european model sunday into monday soaking the region in the north bay with over a inch of rain. The american model completely opposite. Bone dry. Not a drop of rain. Were going to fine tune this forecast but good to see a pattern could be changing with rain moving in for the second part of the weekend. Mostly sunny on wednesday. Mild thursday and friday with above average temperatures on saturday. Sunday and monday chance of potential shower moving into the forecast and timing not great for the holiday but will be so nice to see the rain come back to the forecast. We really need it. Thank you. Sure. Coming up next, a mom and cubs on the run. Why the this guy is in a hurry. Uh, i was in a hurry this morning. Barely had time for breakfast. Music sting crave van hey guys. Try my country scrambler plate, with jimmy dean sausage, homestyle potatoes and scrambled eggs mixed with bacon, ham and cheese. Part of my brunchfast menu. Come try my country scrambler plate. With juicy jimmy dean sausage, crispy homestyle potatoes and fluffy scrambled eggs mixed with bacon, ham, and cheese. Here you go. Oh, cameras. Hi mom part of the brunchfast menu. There is a grinch who stole christmas. Take a look at this video from San Ramon Police who posted this alleged burglar caught on camera. Police say he got away with thousands of dollars of electronics from a store on Christmas Eve. If you know anything call San Ramon Police. A Placer County sheriff deputy is on the tail of three bears. He is called the bear whisperer they keep showing up when he is around. Saw them first in november and saw them again this morning. The Sheriffs Office is wondering why the bears are not hibernating. This has more than 19,000 views. A pennsylvania woman stunned when an electricity showed she owed more than 240 billion with a b. At first she thought maybe because of her Christmas Lights of course it was all a mistake. They fixed the problem. The actual bill was only 284. 46. The decimal point was in the wrong spot. Today is the first day of kwanzaa and Community Leaders were on hand in San Francisco. The village kicked off with song and dance in service of unity and will continue tonight at 7 00 at the africanamerican arts and culture complex on fulton. Happy kwanzaa. We know bay area rents could be high well look at the impacts. Also here, fireworks tradition gets out of control in cuba. Live where you live, this is abc 7 news. Good evening once again. Well begin this half hour with the economy and retail roaring back this holiday season. Yearend sales up nearly 5 compared to the same period a year ago. So whats driving the surge . Tonight a muchneeded boost for big retailers, holiday sales up 4. 9 highest since 2011. Everything is on sale. Welcome gift for macys gap and toys r us all announcing store closures this year as Online Shopping is up 18 . People are feeling way better in the economy than years past and wanting to show that. 90 billion expected to go back to vendors over the holiday season. What did you return . I exchanged one bag for the other and actually got some money back. Nearly half of all americans will do some postholiday shopping. Now were seeing deals well make some purchases, yes. Consumers turning out in droves braving sub zero conditions like these shoppers in illinois looking to snag great deals. Stores such as the gap and old navy seeing discounts up to 74 . Picking up in stores after buying online could revolutionize the way we shop in the future. Abc 7 news new york. Lots of shoppers were crowding into union square. Day after christmas is usually busy for returning or exchanging gifts but tucked gwen tin there smaller businesses are almost nonexistent. A look at why so many have for lease signs. What price would you pay for this view of union square. I have a very good deal here but what i would have to pay would be three times the price right now. And ive been looking around and its outrageous. He rents office space in the heart of union square. I can see the Christmas Tree and cable car and its a pleasure to come to work every morning. The constant flow of slopers look like business booming for number of years. Been here in the building for five and half years now. And unfortunately the owner is going to retro the building. He has watched union Square Square and closed businesses have become a common sight along the highend shops that also occupy this location. And he remembers another are that left recently because of skyrocketing rents. It rose to 40,000 a month. Nearly half million a year just to say open in union square. In San Francisco, abc 7 news. Steep. Well amazon released its best selling items this christmas best selling Nonfiction Book was obama and fiction origin. Econom echo dot was the best selling device. Insta pot duo. And strong arm blaster. Americans return 90 billion worth of Holiday Gifts at the first chance they get. We were at a walmart in san jose where i small lined was forming when the doors opened at 6 00 in the morning. Most people will return on the 26th, 27th. I will wait a week and return it first or second week of january when you also see major discounts as well. Yeah get it done right away. Try returning online more than a third retailers offer free return shipping. Did you know returned gifts have a good chance to end in the landfill only half can make it back to ask store shelves others can be resold to secondary retailers or just tossed away. Not everything goes into the landfill. Recycle crews say all those cardboard bo. Boxes are starting to double their loads today. How the popularity of free delivery is generating more cardboard than before. You couldnt resist free and fast shipping, means amazon and others were sending out millions of cardboard shipping boxes. Where are they now . Stuff in recycle bins or alongside them waiting for the trucks, shoppers admit theyre accumulating too many boxes. We could probably wrap several seasons of christmass in the garage it seems to grow exponentialent marshal enly ove. This one is too large. The recycle crew will not pick it up. Mario works for the green team and says a lot of big boxes have been out. People have been buying a lot of big tvs and bikes, they have to cut those big boxes in pieces. If it doesnt fit in a bin it wont be picked up. They then go to a sorting facility. They sort the materials and cardboard is one of the main materials they will be getting and th will sell it to the highest and best use. However amazon and other online interest retailers support give back bo. Fill the ey shipping box with donated goods and charity will donate and recycle the box. 100,000 boxes were recycled this way last year. Abc 7 news. In other news four people facing criminal charges after a fist fight with a new Jersey High School teacher getting attacked bystanders did nothing except record it all and post it on social media. The teacher only wants to be called lo usc. Called lou who spotted females fighting and went to break it up and was stopped from behind by a 19yearold who had no connection to the district. In cuba people hurt after a fireworks accident. State media says the fireworks began exploding in a storage area some injured where are in serious condition including sadly six children, thousands of locals, and foreigners who attend the Christmas Eve event every year in that town. And a boy is being treated after was stuck in the ice, the boy was pulled out and brought back to shore. Stay with us. Sales of Recreational Cannabis in california become legal in less than a week. What will change and wont change when the calendar changes in 2018. 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. This is going to be enormous industry in california. Weve never seen anything like it before. Were on the brink of a major change, Recreational Cannabis sales in california. Weve looked at the law and what it is hes and we have information you need to know before you light up. On january 1st, california will become the latest state to legalize cannabis for recreational are use, expected to bring in 4 billion a year, but it also brings in a long list of new rules you need to be aware of. You know, this is not just going to be full legality without regulations. Hes with the california cannabis industry association. A lot of us have been waiting for this. New rules start with limits. 21 and older able to carry 28. 5 grams of cannabis and 8 grams of concentrated and can grow 6 plants, in a locked area, not visible from outside the property. Cannabis is still illegal on the federal level. Employers can fire you for violating drugfree workplace rules. You can buy pot from any licensed dispensaries but will only sell to those with medical need. Only 30 have past regulations to allow for pot in the new year. For those that have banded the state cant issue temperature license there. 50 of sales of cannabis will be made by company thats deliver it. Be warned local communities have the ability to ban new deliveries. The new regulations dont change law, wont be allowed to smoke in public but can smoke in private home but landlords can prohibit smoking on their appropriate. Open containers of pot unless its in the trunk can get you arrested. Were concerned this law might put more impaired drivers out there. California Highway Patrol officers have been trained to look for drivers under the influence. Todays pot is much more potent than even ten years ago and urging users to be cautious before they drive. Californians should be prepared for lots of changes to these laws as the state settles into this new normal. This is going to be many years working at the state level and localities and making it skmooj as possible. Will be enormous industry in california. Weve never seen anything like it before. Abc 7 news. So where is your closest license dispensary. Head to abc 7 news. Com and well link you to the states list. Just ahead drew tuma has an update to the pocket of there are new questions tonight about that mesmerizing moment in the Southern California sky and this new video showing a car crashing as the space x falcon 9 rocket launched illuminated the night above. It was really strange looking. We have the moment the confusion set in. Oh, my god. Tonight, new images surfacing of california going hey wire. That space x falcon 9 rocket sailing smoothly into the friday night sky. Wow what is that. Sight so mesmerizing some couldnt keep their eyes on the road. [ bleep ]. This guys not paying attention. And even after those three cars crashed the narrator in this video barely skips a beat, just keeps talking about the shape in the sky. Wow what is that. The rockets unusual whaleshaped contrail feeding a frenszy. So many were wondering. No dude what is that. So many didnt get the message that the aliens on twitter and the man who created the mess, elon musk capping if this way, Nuclear Alien ufo from north korea. We spoke to the california Highway Patrol who say they hope this time all of those motorists will keep their eyes on the road. From los angeles. That would freak you out on the highway. No kidding. So this Weather Forecast kind of bizarre but were looking at spl rain. True, drew tuma is back with the forecast. It will be really nice to see the pattern change. That chance will come over the weekend. Another quiet evening. A blend of stars and clouds. No precipitation in the forecast. Next 24 hours will dip into the 30s in livermore. Fairfield. Santa rosa napa. Bay close to mid 40s. Patchy water in the deltda and spilling into the bay. On wednesday 63 high in concord. 58 san mateo. 63 in santa rosa and so heres the 7day forecast. Mostly sunny except wednesday morning fog. Thursday, friday and saturday temperatures above average and dry. Sunday into monday a chance for potential storm right now a 1 on the impact scale. Keep you uptodate on that as we get closer. All right drew thank you. Two big lottery jackpots up for grabs the Mega Millions or power ball, their jackpots more than 600 million combined. The results from tonight. Winning numbers are these. 10, 12, 20, 38, 41, mega number 25. There are no confirmed winners so far. 337 million is on t 337 million tomorrow nights power ball draw. Forgot to get the pool going. Especially with the odds. 300 million to one. Someones bound to win it. Some controversy at the end of yesterdays basketball game, the nba admits to missing a couple big calls in yesterdays warriorscavaliers game. Could the bruins come out on top. Warriors star guard steph curry will not play in tomorrow nights game against utah but night be available against charlotte on friday. The staff checked his sprained ankle today and said hes making steady progress. Lebron james was skrcrying foul yesterday and was right, nba said he was fouled twice. Once with he lost the ball and this time when cavs down three no fouls called either time. The over turn called twice but whatever. What you going to do about it. Its part of the same play bunch of dudes on twitter probably arguing in 24 hour fitness that it wasnt a foul. They been in that position before just not on christmas at the oracle a iana they know tsds not a foul. In a radio interview, tom brady said he was thoroughly impressed with Jimmy Garoppolo and happy to see him doing so well because he worked so hard. Future looks bright for jimmy g at quarterback gone 40 as starter. This week going against wrest champion l. A. Rams. Coach Kyle Shanahan would love to end the season with fivegame winning streak. Guys like to feel good about themselves and they can relax. Then that type of stuff wont hurt you. You got guys who are not phased when people say good or bad things about you doesnt matter you just work hard as you can every single day then i think well be all right. The raiders will also finish their season against avenn l. A. Team, the chargers. Last night derek carr through a pair of interceptions. Record of 69 its been a season full of disappointments. Its come down to the end and weve not made plays, not done what we need to do to win plays, thats how the year has been, its all in the details of everyones assignment. You can always put it on me. Tomorrow night at levis stadium arizona takes on foster farms bowl tate could be Heisman Trophy candidate next season. Rosens back up got off to a great start, he hit the wide open 70 yard touchdown. Bruins longest play from scrimmage all season. They led by ten at the half but wildcats rally by 28 straight points kstate goes on to win 3517. May have been the final game for 78yearold head coach bill snyder. Dallas bowl took on West Virginia on the opening drive zack moss takes it for a careerline 58 yard touchdown finishes 158 yards touching. Utah he is tied for most bowl wins by active coach. In detroit duke was too quick for northern ill ill. Daniel jones. This one to tj. William kicked 24 yard field goal and 3 points and blue devils win it finishing 176 this year. Katie ledecky won five gold and a silver. The male athlete will be named tomorrow. This sports report has been brought to you boy toyota. Good stuff. How many go bowl games. Around 40 or so. Are there really. Yeah still got 20 more to go. Oh, my god. Thanks very much. Coming up it tonight on abc 7 news at 11 00 a new state la designed to prevent people from drinking and driving but people say its a free ride for people to over endulge. Wrong plane, wrong airline, had a celebrity taking to twitter to express her outrage as the plane returned to lax midflight on the way to tokyo. Join us for abc 7 news at 11 00 on channel 7. Great day to be out fishing with dad. Isaac caught his first fish today. The fish were biting. They reeled in a second when we were there. They told us it is one of their favorite fishing holes. Oklolike f [narrator] today, the stories of two murder cases. One in new york state, the other in houston, texas. In our first case, a beloved school superintendent