The retailer said they fixed the problem that allows hackers to access the information but the damage could be done already. Merry christmas. Check your credit and debit card statements. Hackers are plague the modernday version of the grinch after accessing personal information of 40 million shoppers at the target stores in the bay area and all across the United States. This is shocking. You do not think someone would go that far and you also wonder, what are they going to do with it . It is shocking. Right new i want do check my bank account and make sure everything is good to go. Unauthorized action set was made to Customer Credit and debit car data between november 27, the day before thanksgiving, through black friday welcome, all the way until this past sunday, december 15th. Company Officials Say the breached information came from the source, not online. It included customer name, credit or debit card number, the card Expiration Date and the three digit security code. Financial Security Experts say the thieves could use the information to create a duplicate credit or debit card to use as they please. This could be a bad sign, target set up a hotline to call if they believe they are a victim. We called it several times over an hour and a half this morning and could not get through. Many target shoppers were not surprised by the news. They said being vulnerable to hackers is the price we pay for modern conveniences. I check frequently and make sure my transactions are the ones that i actually have used. It doesnt stop anyone. In this world of electronics, you have that and it is fact of life. Financial experts say that the best of advise is to make sure you are checking the debit and credit card statements at least for the next couple of months to make sure no one is stealing from you. Reporting in san jose for abc7 news. If you think you are affected there is a 15 number to help customers. 86685558666. Pg e could be hit with a massive fine over failing to disclose faulty pipeline records in san carlos. Some say that situation could have led to another disaster like the san bruno pipeline explosion in 2010. Our reporter is in San Francisco with the latest on that story. It is the last meeting of the year for the California PublicUtilities Commission and underway right new in the ought term right here. The commissioners need to decide how exactly to punish pg e and they arerring a fine more than 14 manage against the utility. The utility charged with not closing a faulty pipeline back in october of 2012 and then quietly changing the records a year later. The mayor of san bruno talked with me best meeting was underway and they are angry with pg e and hoping the commission levels the stiffest penalty possible. The mayor because what happens today could indicate how they will rule on fines regarding his city, of course, they are talking about the deadly pipeline explosion. We talking about a chronic, repeated pattern of pg e not being trustworthy when it comes to pipeline inspection or pipeline safety. Yes, we are really concern about that. My feeling is, throw the back at pg e for what they did in san carlos. I hope the book is substantial and nut full of feathers. The mayor of san carlos took to the podium and up during Public Comment at the meeting and no fiery accusations from him. He is asking the commission to continue this issue until january or february, and he says he feels the process has so far been rushed. I mentioned the high end of this fine we are looking at 14 and up to 16 million, but the commission could also level a fine as small as just over 6 million. We should find out today. People were forced from their apartments in oakland twice this morning after a chase ended with a suspect drunk driver crashing into a gas station and the driver hit two gas pumps, sparking a fire at the station at 98th and neighbors at a complex were evacuated and the sheriff deputy who was trying to pull over the driver rescued the man and pulled him from his car with a broken leg. Residents were let back in but evacuated a second time when crews detected a gas leak. They were let back in a short time later when the crews had the situation handled. tis the season to purse snatchers but one case has left a victim with lifethreatening injuries. The three and the 71yearold woman struggled near city hall over the purse. The thief punched the woman in the face. She has brain pleading and is being treated at San Francisco general hospital. Police stress to never fight with robbers for your own safety. Today, the bart board is equitied to address and vote on the new contract issue that has surfaced. The problem involves a third Smaller Union representing 220 midlevel managers and it comes in the form of a mistaken date when a new policy on Health Insurance is effective. They are not interested in change it. The board will vote on the contract today. Talks between the agency and the two big of the unions drag on over a disputed family leave clause that bart says was accidentally signed in the new agreement the. Developing news in oakland the family of a 13yearold girl on life support is bracing for a long legal battle with Childrens Hospital. Last night hundreds gathered at a vigil for jahi mcmath to support the family and pray for a miracle. The girl is brain dead after suffering serious complications while having her tonsils removed. The her mother is not giving up hope she will cover. I cant wait to go back to the hospital and tell her how many people came and prayed for her and they believe that she will get up and although they may not be able to speak she will be happy. The family has a lot of questions about what happened and they have asked Childrens Hospital for the medical records. The hospital says it will not release them because jahi mcmath is a current patient and her records of constantly being updated. Batkid turned the spotlight to wonder girl pulling out the stops for the latest dream come true. Tenyearold could be a cancer paint but this morning, monika romo is a super hero. Amy . They wrapped up a ceremony for her on the steps of city hall and off to the next location. Here she was greeted we santa claus, local dignitaries, the whole city has pulled together the it is a surprise. She did not know it was coming but it is the least they could do for a strong little girl. The Community Think she is a hero but when tenyearold monika were opened the door she had now idea they would be a super hero for the day. Surprise with that, she was whisked away with a Police Escort took her to the Elementary School and she was greeted with students with a sign, a lot to take in for a tenyearold. I could not believe it. They even did a flash mob dance to celebrate their hero. She was diagnosed with plume keepia in april and now is in remission and believes support like this makes her stronger. It is hard when the child is going through Something Like this, they know there are going to be changes in their body and to have the support of the kids and of the teachers, that is really helping. This is the idea of the Nonprofit Group that wanted it do something for a child suffering from cancer. It turns out she is the only child cancer patient in vallejo. We asked if she needed a Disney Princess but she doesnt like Disney Princesses and she likes wonder girl so we decided we would do wonder girl in vallejo. They said she needed to write an essay if a contest of how super hero could save vallejo that has struggled financially and against crime. She read the essay to her school, proving why she really is a hero. The evil attacking my body but i used to have a smile on my face. This is a different day from batkids day and will not run around saving people from villains, she wants to be a teacher so they will focus on teaching, she made honorary teacher and went from school to school and will teach different groups from the essay, about fightingville lanes from within. Love that story. Still to come, president of one superpower nation revealed why he is envious of rebound. The suspension of a reality show star, many are crying foul. The intimate voice mail between Prince William and kate exposed because of the british hacking scandal. Now, outside, to check on the weather and the wind this midday. Of happier holidays. Time to enchant, delight and amaze. Safeway will help you gather everyone round. A smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. Starbucks is just 6. 99, thats a cup of good cheer. Get sweet clementines for 4. 99, enough for everyone here. Turns out this season less is really so much more. So make your holiday merrier than ever before. Safeway. Ingredients for life. So make your holiday [s[man] no one told her,right . A. [son]hi [mom screams] fans of duck dynasty are rallying behind the biggest star after being kicked off the show for making antigay comments with gq magazine. Phil robinson has been suspended for calling gay people sinners and comparing them to terrorists in the upcoming interview. Robertson will occur in upcoming episodes shot before the interview. Last night facebook supporting robertson popped up calling boycott a e until phil robert son is put back on. There are 200,000 new likes in the past few hours. Tell us what you think on facebook at abc7news. Com abc7 news. Out of london, the prosecution says kates phone was hacked before she became the duchess of cambridge. It is part of the trial of the british tabloid news of the world. Private emails, voice mails, between kate and Prince William from 2006 when they were dating were played in court. In one the prince calls her baby kins and says he nearly got shot with blank rounds during a military exercise. Seven are on trial for their actions over the shutdown newspaper. Putin told downlives he envies president obama because he can spy on his allies without any consequences. He made that statement when he asked how his relationship with the United States has changed following the snow scandal and praised snow saying he was working for a noble cause. New Research Shows cameras can sigh on users without warning on the when. Advocates have been concerned about remotely web camera without the warning light coming on. Researchers at Johns Hopkins concerned this can be done on math books and more recent computers. They found cameras can be reprogrammed to allow the wanting light and the camera to operate independently. Our meteorologist, mike nicco, will give us warn, for example, like the winds we are seeing. They are gusting, and they will continue into the afternoon. We will have a timetable on when they will let up and be strongest and until then, how clean the air is. On tuesday we could not see past the bay bridge and well will talk about how long this will stay around. There is a warming trend in the sevenday outlook. Trouble in toy land, the bay Area Organization making a last minute plea for toys to make christmas merry for the little covering santa rosa, berkeley, san jose, and all the pay area, this is abc7 news. The city of oakland is giving out a holiday gift to driver whose got a parking ticket, and overpaid their fines. An audit determined 2. 3 million is owed to citizen whose parked on city streets between 2008 and 2010. Until now those who overpaid did not get their money back because oakland did not notify them as required by state law. The city says it will begin notifying the drivers next month. This morning we launched a mystery on facebook posting childhood photo of members of the morning team. Take a look and see if you recognize these two. Who is it . Yes, leyla gulen telling santa all she wanted for christmas. Who is that . Mike nicco. Go to our facebook and like it. I think mike is adorable. Thank you, mike, for posting that. I know it took a lot of guts. Really . Sorry, kid. Somebody had fund fun with it. I thank my sister. I was five or something. Your mom loved it, too. A face only a mother would love. Come on we will talk about the weather before this gets anymore embarrassing, i will show you the better side, the back of my head, all way back to mount hamilton. It is really clean out here this morning. Hope you get a chance to go out and enjoy it. If you do, take the sunglasses, you may need a heavier coast than yesterday. The air is drier and the winds are blowing and these are the country gusts at our reporting stations. 32 at fairfield and the colors to the not of that, and the winds are faster as you head to sacramento and gilroy is 25 and Half Moon Bay is 22 miles per hour, and 13 in san jose and up in elevation, you can see they are gusting around 30 at calaveras road and from the north, this morning, it was coming from the west and it was just hitting straight on everyone trying to get in from tracy. Notice the fastest gusts at 42 and mountain temperature at 29. The Higher Elevations is what we have to worry about the wind gusts sustained at 35 to 40 and gusts are 45 to 60 and remote possibility, the worstcasescenario, trues and power lines could come down until about 6 00. Now we will talk about what is going on as far as the forecast, they are going to pick up in the next couple hours and we will be around 15 to 25 in the lower will vases but it is the Higher Elevation and over the ocean where we have the fastest wind. By 12 00 dont the winds will decouple as the atmosphere starts to stabilize after the heating of the day cools down and by tomorrow morning, we are calm in many areas but over the ocean and that will lead to a cooler night and the air is have dry and there is a possibility if frost. Radar satellite, the clouds are chased away with a passing cloud or two rolling in from the sierra and even up there the latest radar runs are coming up dry. Most of us snow was up to 6 see San Francisco today. No spare the air day. It is healthy and get outside if you can and get a walk in the sunshine with breezy conditions and seasonal temperatures. Cooler and calmer tonight, and, then, winter starts on saturday but it look like we will see significantly warmer weather. Here is the front rolling through, the cold front is in and it will be breezy and cooler today and tonight we have the low 30s inland, with mid40s around the bay and mid50s to 60 and then the lowtomid 60s saturday, during the winter solstice all the way through christmas east and Christmas Day with aboveaverage temperatures great for getting around and great for shopping. Hard to wear an ugly sweater with those temperatures. Energy the weather. Thank you, mike. Happening now organizers of a the give away is tomorrow. They need toys, especially gifts for teens and books. You can give cash, 6,000 parents are scheduled to stop by tomorrow. Three choose presents for each child so they have something to open on christmas. Back in that put you on their gift list . Well say hello to aio at aio wireless you can get an android smartphone free with activation. Free Android Phone . . yes please. Plus, aio has a reliable nationwide network contracts. Its like the presents just keep coming a Wireless Company that puts me at the top of their list . Im in stop by your neighborhood aio store or visit aiowireless. Com. Aio, a new way to wireless. Or visit aiowireless. Com. To those whove encountered welcome to covered california. New, Affordable Health plans so you can be ready for whatever comes your way. Enroll today at coveredca. Com. And a cofounder of microsoft and the secret santa. We told you about the massive data breach at target, and at 5 00, 7 on your side Michael Finney on what you should do if you think your information is stolen. By the way, you could win 7,000 cash today for helping us fight hunger in the bay area. Just click give where you live on our facebook page. You have not very much time, until 11 59 this morning to do it. We will donate a dollar to bay area food banks for you and you will be entered to win 7,000 just in time for the holidays. We will announce the winner tonight at 11 00 but you must be entered by 11 59 a. M. Today so that is half an hour to go. We do need your help. Who wants to be a millionaire is next. We leave you with a gorgeous picture dreaming of a White Christmas if lake tahoe. To those whoworried. Poked and prodded. Taken risks. And lived in a state of what if . Welcome to a new state. Of health. Welcome to covered california. The place to find quality, affordable coverage. Financial help for those in need. And nobody can bdeed because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com or call 18007526631. [cheers and applause] yeah. Whoo hey, whats up . Whats up . All right. All right, lets go. Lets go. All right, good. Hi, honey. How are you . Good. How are you . Get in here. Come on. [cheers and applause] yeah hello. I am cedric the entertainer. And welcome to millionaire. [cheers and applause] our first contestant today is a librarian. She works at a all boys school and goes out of her way to make sure the boys read. Please welcome, from metuchen, new jersey, erinn black. Whats up, erinn . How ya doin . Good. Youre welcome. Erinn, you go out of your way