Still have sales from what had been the busiest day of the year. Matt keller found great discounts but not the same crowds as in past years. Shoppers feasted on the sales starting at 8 00 thanksgiving night into Early Morning friday. Its like 3 00, you got people Walking Around. Like, what . Do you know what i mean . Its crazy. The great mall staying open 26 hours straight. Is black friday losing some financial pop . Making it what some are calling great friday. The crowds got call smauler. The parking lot is empty. Almost. So i guess later on theyre going to come out and, you know, shop. Retailers faced a backlash for opening up on thanksgiving day. No shopping yesterday. Spent family time. That is important . You werent going to hit mauls . No. No. Were doing too much cooking. Shopping may be the new modern tradition with young people going to multiple shopping malls for the experience. I have been to southland, stanford shopping center. Now, im here. But youre not holding packages where are the packages . I we came out for something to do. Great mall scheduled to close at 10 00 tonight im told sales goring to last until then. Matt keller abc7 news. Police are out at union square on n. Mass, warning shoppers to be vigilant against smart phone robbers. Were live at union square with the story. Hey, vic . Im im sorry. I was distracted by my iphone. Oblivious to the world, potential target of a mugger. The holidays, frenzied shoppers, distracted by bargains and smart phones. Everybody is looking down, not paying attention. And its easy bait for bad guys. Reporter take a look at this Surveillance Video for a woman being mugged and robbed of her cell phone. Muni is a popular spot for robbers, passengers feel safe and as they ride, robbers snatch phones and run. Theyre Walking Around with a device that can be worth 500ss today 500 in their hands. If i have it in my hand, i can watch who is around if i lose the phone, im okay. But not my wallet. Especially when people resist. That is when they usually step it up to another level, they can push them down, punch them. So please, put away the phone before you become a victim they one of the officers was dragged around a parking lot when he got his arm stuck in a door. A second officer opened fire, hitting the driver several time the officer and driver went to the hospital and shoplifters went to jail. Police say a thief caught a robber. Investigators say the thief shot into the air and took the television but the victim went after the get away car trying to get the tv back. That is when the robber shot the victim in the leg. He is expected to be okay. Turning to weather today is another spare the air day. So is tomorrow. That means no wood burning. Spencer christian is here now but air quality has been declining. Spare the nar affect today, throughout midnight, then a second spare the air day tomorrow. Here is a will being at live doppler seven. You can see weve got clear skies. You can see that is tomorrows air quality measure tomorrow. We expect poor air quality, up in the north bay, medium at best over the remainder of the bay area. No wood burning during spare the air day. Sheer live view from our camera looking over the bay, blue skies and temperatures 62 degrees in San Francisco and oakland. Mid to upper 60s in redwood city. 54 half moon bachlt bay. Temperatures upper 60s now in santa rosa, fairfield and novato. Around the bay area, its mild our forecast is like this. Clear skies and mild tonight. Well see temperatures in the evening hours from 5462. Mild with highs near 70 inland. And ill have a further look into the forecast future later. Breaking news overseas. A Police Helicopter crashed into a pub in glasgow scotland we do know people are trapped inside of the pub. Well bring more developments as we get them. Breaking news continues now on twitter. You can follow us on abc7 news bay area. Homes in foster city evacuated after a gas line broke. Ro this was reported just after noon near edge water park. Neighbors smelled natural gas evacuations were precaution nary. Works to get it fixed, firefighters arrived in a fire into the attic of this building the cause is under investigation. A group of Truck Drivers in the port of oakland walked off the job today. Sky seven hd was over the port this morning when members of the port of oakland Trucker Association picketed in front of one of the terminals theyre demanding better way, shorter wait times, more time to comply with new rules requiring older trucks in state to be replaced or undergo expensive modifications. Im paying about 2600 a month just to be able to come to work. That is what people pay rent, that live in their homes monthly. Its what very to pay to come to work to try to take home something. The association represents 25 of the truckers at the port. The port of oakland says theyve been holding talks to find a resolution. Tomorrow is the big deadline for the Governments Health care. Gov web site. Officials promised the web site will be quote, optimally functional by the end of tomorrow. The improvements could come two months after the troubled roll out. Teams including some from Silicon Valley have been working on hardware, software fixes. American whos want to purchase a plan now have three weeks to sign up. Applications must be complete by the december 23rd. State lawmakers about to get a pay raise on sunday. A dozen are refusing to accept it. Its a 5. 3 increase, legislatures will go from 90,000ses today 95,000 smchlt say they wont take the raise because they just increased taxes on californians the governor plans to accept his, governor browns salary jumped from 165,000ses today nearly 174,000 a year. A panel approved changes in june. Still ahead on abc7 news at 4 00 new friends at sfo. Maybe taking some of the stress out of Holiday Travel. Plus. How did small stores do . Ill have a live report coming up. And new at 4 30 an abc7 news follow up. A strangers kindness giving this Football Team their big opportunity. And seven on your sides Michael Finney taking your questions and will answer them here, live in, just a few minutes. You can contact michael on facebook. Com and on twitter. And taking a look at the San Francisco skyway, its delightful. Traffic moving smoothly in both directions. Headlights just breezing on to the lower deck malls are trying out attractive ideas for shoppers. Check out how westfield teamed up with ebay to create these Interactive Store frovenlts fronts. You dont have to type out your card number in front of everyone. And at stone town in galleria theyre offering same day delivery schlts shoppers can drop off packages, delivery drivers are then alerted by smart phone, they pick up packages and drop them off later in the day. Stone town says it can be useful for people who want to hide gifts from Family Members they can have purchases delivered when kids or spouses are not home. Today the service was freechlt it usually costs 5s sxdz up depending on the size of packages involved. Neat ideas out there. Walmarts black friday troubles and recordbreaking sales. Cory johnson has the after the bell report. Good afternoon, walmart. Com, a small number of customers voiced their frustration wtz site yesterday on twitter. Complaining about difficulties checking out. The Company TellsBloomberg Television it has quote record breaking results. Ocz technology announced the chapter 11 bankruptcy after lenders seized the bank akchlts not the First Company not the companys first brush with legal trouble n 2011 bloomberg reported occs then ceo rand peterson had a fell felony conviction. Ocz proposed selling viefring assets. Microsoft narrowed its short list of candidates, leaning towards currentford ceo. Stocks closing mixed today. S and p and dow selling off on behalf of the shortened trading session. Your bloomberg Silicon Valley closed higher today, three unpublished short stories by jd salinger were leaked online the works by the fiercely private author were previously only available for academic study. Apparently no secrets on the web from. Bloomberg studios in San Francisco, im cory johnson. Larry, carolyn, back to you. Thank you, cory. And most of the attention usually focuses on malls and bigbox stores. Turns out mom and pop stores are offering great deals because theyve got to do something to compete. Laura anthony joins us live now on main street. Laura . What better place, main street here in pleasanton the small stores here appeared to do well, without a lot of door busters. This black friday, instead of this, many opted for this. The experienced shopping in small stores in their neighborhood. They have things here you dont find in other places. And i like to give back to had my town because i live here. Liz galette owns berry patch. It has toys, jewelry and crafts made by local artisans and good prices. Im not trying to make a killing just make a living and provide a service for pleasanton. This is fun here. Were shopping here today. Thoughts about hitting malls later . No. One thing small stores have in common, sales between thanksgiving and christmas can make or break the entire year. And fantastic shopping weather. It was clear blue skies. Did you go shop something yes. It was exhausting. Continues to be nice. Sunny skies across the bay area right now. Declining air quality, wood burning matter into the atmosphere. We have another spare the air day tomorrow, looking along embarcadero, spare the air again tomorrow, so no wood burning remember that. We have changes coming up next week, cooler and breezier we might get rain. Some muchneeded rain. A disturbance moved into southern california. Its cloudy down near los angeles. The state is under sunny skies a nice mild weekend here at the bay area for us. Start agent 5 00 in the morning we might see high clouds sweeping through into Early Morning hours but afternoon tomorrow and sunday will be sunny skies and mild before changes arrive next week. Overnight tonight, looking for clear skies, chilly conditions again, up into north bay valleys, low temperatures dropping into mid to upper 30s and fairfield, also, upper 30s and a livermore, low of 39. Other locations well see lows into low to mid40s overnight. Then, tomorrow, sunny skies and mild to warm again. South bay, highs upper 60. 67 san jose. 69 morgan hill. Mid to upper 60s on the peninsula. On the coast, mid60s at pacifica and half moon bay. Downtown 65 degrees tomorrow. 63 in the sunset district. North bay, low to mid60s on the coast. Inland valley 68 in santa rosa tomorrow. 68 napa. 68 in sonoma. Highs of 68 in oakland. 66 newark. 68 fremont. And inland east bay will have highs up to 68 in walnut creek and livermore and antioch and fairfield here is the accuweather forecast. It will be mild on monday, but cooler than weekend. Temperatures dropping off and well see cloudy conditions on tuesday with, a slight chance of rain any day during mid week tuesday, wednesday, or thursday. Doesnt look like a major rainproducing system the change next week will be a drop in temperatures. Notice wednesday, thursday, highs into low to mid50s today, highs around 70. Yes, gorgeous weekend coming up. Enjoy and do more shopping. Yes. Absolutely. Thank you. Up next, meet inspirational fan that caught katy per eyes heart. Tired of a cluttered wallet . A gadget allowing to purt all cards in one place. Looking at traffic, 4 20 in the afternoon. Its black friday i guess . I dont know. Looks heavy. It does look heavy. We give you a view from interstate 80 in berkeley. Righthand side heading to berkeley. Left side, cars coming to thoseworried. Ited. 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 be denied because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com. This music video did not win the contest but won the singers heart. The 18yearold is a High School Cheerleader overcoming the challenges of Downs Syndrome to star in the video. Katy invited her to be her date to the American Music awards last week. Hi, finally i get to meet you. Do you know that that video was so important not only to me, but thousands of people that watched it . Katy posed for pictures and helped the teen get ready by offering a few tips and reminding her shes already a star. Megan sat behind lady gaga it and was an evening she will never forget. How sweet. How cool is that . Really good. Youre going to see something new at the San Francisco airport to make your Holiday Travel experience more enjoyable. Sfo and San Francisco spca announced new Wag Brigade Program today. Volunteers will be visiting terminals with certified therapy dogs. The dogs have been carefully selected for temperment and airport suitability, will wear personalized vests that read pet me. Very cute. Still ahead on abc7 news at 4 00, take a look. Faces, young faces are about to get a surprise from a stranger. News received today. Plus, caught on video. Smooth criminal. A thief took over a high end store and got away with a recordbreaking job. And a surprise hero after a car crashes into a house but why some are criticizing his efforts. To thsuffered in silence. Hoped. And lived in a state of fear. 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 be denied because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com. Weve received responses to a story we told you yesterday. Bay city bull dogs have a chance at the championship if only they can get there. Wayne freedman is here with the story. Reporter we aired the story, back it up on twitter and facebook. Viewers responded with 1800s ndz donations the team is still 20,000 short. 20,000 is a lot of money. We showed you bay city bull dogs we struck a nerve. Theyre an elite Pop Warner Team that just qualify Forward National championship in florida. One problem, as of yesterday they were 22,000 short for the weekend go, no go deadline. They tried hard to raise money, it hadnt come. One comment from patrick expressed their frustration. Some people just dont get it. People dont believe us they think were a bunch of teenagers just trying to get money. What are you . Were football players. Reporter but a viewer named zach nelson was paying attention. He is the ceo of net suite. The young man was talking about people thought theyre just kids trying to scam a buck that was, that got to me. Reporter today the boys had an Emergency Team meeting a last attempt to raise money. They were told. When coaches gathered them together, the team and parents expected bad news. Instead. Last night, we received an e mail from a donor that wanted to donate 20,000. We made it. We made it. Its a gift from a stranger. The guy who played a little football. 20,000 with a stroke of the pen of they call them their angel now, the bay city bull dogs are on the way to florida. How can you not smile after that . Ive never been called an angel before. Its a first. Now we have a new definition for black friday. Football players are big tough guys they rarely shed tears. We saw tears today after working hard theyre tears of joy. In the newsroom Wayne Freedman abc7 news. Kudos to zach nelson. Yes. Great job. One of mitt romneys son heched rescue several people injured in a Traffic Accident in utah. The family inside was not hurt, thankfully. An investigation is now underway. Josh romney says he was driving home from thanksgiving dinner and saw the accident and tweeted this picture with a caption was first on the scene to big accident, lifting four people out to safety. All okay. Thankful. But some people on social media have mixed reviews because they didnt think was appropriate to be smiling with wreckage behind him. In georgia walmart workers tried to warn customers to back away the workers got caught in a crush of shoppers determined to get their hands on a computer. One said employees were wheeling out a palette, then chaos just broke out. Big screen tvs had shoppers in North Carolina worked up last night. You can see people shoving and shouting the man took this video claims walmart employees kicked him out of the store. It was only hours into the black friday shopping sales when hash tag walmart fights began trending on twitter. You wonder why i dont do this . Youve got to be prepared if youre going to that. Yes. Black friday is different this year. More retailers opened up last night. Yes this, decision was controversial. But shoppers showed up and did a lot of buying. Look at this parking lot looks like it should be 4 00 in the afternoon but its 4 00 a. M ment people here pulled an all nighter. I do come shopping for black friday. I have younger children. There are deals for the kids they just are. You cant beat them. 06 and 50 off. Being open means people have to come m and work. It was hectic. I mean opening at 8 00, and we, it was pretty busy from then in. Just died down now. The mall was packed and crazy. Some say they havent needed to shop on thanksgiving but deals were too good to resist. It pulls people away from families however, it was just something the kids wanted to do. So i fell into it. We came. Some shoppers did wait until after thanksgiving. Barely. I wanted thanksgiving traditionally with family, and just wait until morning. We need to be slower, too. Yeah. Everyone said crowds werent too bad. Lines were fine they felt they got good deals so looked like black friday may turn into gray friday. Days of waiting until friday to open appear to be over. In concord amy hollyfield, abc7 news. We have video of a heist in a luxury jewelry store. Took place during star studded cannes film festival. First images of the biggest and brazen robbery looked like they can be a scene out of the pink panther movie. Watch as the thief enters the jewelry exhibition of the Carlton Hotel in july. In the same setting to catch a thief. He walks around brandishing a gun and unarmed security guards who cower for cover. Swiping 123 million worth of rings, earrings and pendants, placing them in a bag in just 30 seconds. And then, walking out and escaping with no struggle, without being confronted this morning French Police are still hoping to catch this thief. French police are desperate to find that man they have no idea who he is the jewels have yet to turn up, anywhere. Coming up a bishops operation to teach a church a lesson in kindness. Im Michael Finney. Im still taking your questions on twitter and facebook, which means you can contact me on facebook. Com and on twitter at m finney. Ill answer questions here in just a little bit. Im Spencer Christian looking into the bay. A clear day, a finger of fog slipping through the golden gate. The weekend forecast is coming up. Taking a look at traffic this is the bay bridge toll mraz yachl the back up cause by the folk whos dont have fast track trying to make their way into the city f do you have it, youre able to sail through but its going to be a long wait for the drivers. Abc7 news at 4 00 continues to thoseworried. Ited. 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 be denied because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com. This holiday abc7 is teeming up with local food banks. Take the pledge to give where you live. Each pledge well donate one in your honor to the bay area feeding america food banks. That is up to 75,000 your good deal could be rewarded. Everyone who takes the pledge will be entered to win 7,000 cash. The winner announced december 19th. So spread the love. Help us give where you live. Well, a Washington State man left a fortune worth 187 million to charity after spending his life keeping his wealth a secret. Jack mcdonald died in september at age 98, he clipped coupons and clothes had holes he rode the bus and lived in a modest apartment. He worked as an attorney investing money inherited from his family mcdonalds fortune going to three organization was the most headed to seattle childrens hospital. Remarkable. A bishop in utah taught his church the ultimate lesson in charity. He walked around outside of his chuchlt he said there were mixed reviews. However one Church Member did ask him to leave the property. He says what hell remember is the warm welcome from children. He says its a good reminder to be kind to all people not just at the holidays. Interesting experiment. Yes. Lets check on the forecast now. Yes. Here is Spencer Chris chivenlt looks liking clear, mild across the bay area, we have a little patch of fog near the coast. Not church to report there. Nationally tomorrow, a nice, sunny, mainly dry weather picture for 48 contiguous states a bit cold in the upper mid west but dry tomorrow, and across the state of california, sunny skies and mild high temperatures upper 60s in chico and sacramento. 7234 los angeles here in the bay area another mild to warm day. Mainly sunny skies, high temperatures low to mid60s on the coast to upper 60s around the bay and inland dont forget tomorrow is our second spare the air day. Looks like it will be poor in the north bay tomorrow and medium at best over remainder of the bay area. No wood burning permitted during the alert. Tomorrow is in effect until midnight. Abc7 pier 39 and Disneyland Resort brings you a special presentation of the tree lighting, that will be on abc7 at 4 30 sunday afternoon. I mced the event. It was fantastic. Check out the program. It will be great. Coming up youve got to see the clumsiest clerk, ever on video. Police had no trouble catching this guy. One Shopping Service turned into a huge problem. There is a lesson for all of us. Im answering your questions about black friday, including how you know youre getting best to thsuffered in silence. Hoped. And lived in a state of fear. 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 be denied because of a preexisting condition. Enroll now at coveredca. Com. Some Holiday Cheer at the white house the first lady and daughters and two dogs welcomed the White House Christmas tree. This 18 and a half foot douglas fir arrived by horse drawn carriage, grown in pennsylvania the tree will be decorateed and on display in the blue room throughout the holidays. The first family is speaking out about life at the white house in an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters mrs. Obama says she tries not to tell her husband what to do because quote, hes got enough people in his ear. She the say spending time with malia and sasha is getting tougher. Theyll say, oh, daddy i love you but im going to be leaving. They give me a little portion of the attention. That is enough, daddy. That is what you get. You can watch the rest of the interview tonight at 10 00 right here on abc7. You got to see this guy. Clumsy robber. Check out what happened yesterday morning he tried to rob a miami gas station. You can see the robber, he runs and points a gun at the face. The clerk did not panic. He stalls the robber until police can come by and try to help him out. Listen to what he does, here. I gave him the money. He started taking money. I was like let me bag it for you so we start bagging it i was like do you know what . Lets double bag it. You know . Here is when the fun starts. The man says get beer and candy. He heads out, he drops the gun. Everything gets too heavy. He exits and everything tumbles out. And he stops to pick it up. Instead of running away, guess who know shows up . Yes. That would be him. Now, under arrest. Look at the trail of cash. Worst criminal, ever. Cyber monday is fast approaching. A couple in salt lake city, utah shopped online during the holidays, buying Christmas Gifts on the web site in 2008. The palmers say items never arriveed and transaction was cancelled after calls to find out what happened, jen palmer posted a negative review of the company on rippoff report. Com. Three and a half years later the palmers received an e mail saying they had been fined 3500 if it was not taken down. Were shocked anyone would turn around try to extort us like this. The e mail cites fine print on the web site prohibiting any action in a that negatively affects the company. The palmer dz try to take down the rescrew but couldnt. The bill reported unpaid and turned over to a collections agency. The palmers taking fight to court. Sounds like a i case for Michael Finney. Absolutely. We have a few other cases for Michael Finney here. First from la sean who writes if i buy something from another state do i have to pay taxes . Yes. You do. Here is the deal f they have stores, a post office box in california they have to charge you taxes if youre shopping in a store only have outlet in new york they dont have to collect the taxes, however, by law you have to pay taxes they call them use tax rather than sales tax. You wait until the end of the year, then, on your state tax form it asks, do you owe money . Very few people do this, there have, however, been instances now where the state says you bought a big screen tv. You owe tax on 3,000 theyre tracking more. Well, mel asks this question. Where can i find which stores are open until when tonight . Thank you for asking this. Did a Family Member call this in to me . I think carolyn did. Go to abc7 news. Com look under black friday resources a bunch of information there go, check it out. And angela asks how do i know if im getting a good deal . Yeah. I know. Make sure you bring a smart phone with you. You might want to check out red laser. Its a good way to see and compare. Nifty is a good one. Huckster is a good one. And lets see, deal news, deal news, we talk to those guys all the time. Between those, check 1 or 2. And you ought to end up with best deal possible. Did you get that . I buy it and then, return it if i find it less. Sometimes i forget to return stuff. Very two of it. It doesnt work out so well. Yes. Thank you, michael. Up next, all in one card how to combine cards into one place, how the coin works coming up at 5 00 breaking news in the bart negotiations the unions make their next move. Also, International Ramifications from a bay area woman Spending Black to those whove been waiting welcome to covered california. The place to find quality, affordable coverage, and nobody can be denied because of a preexisting condition. Enroll today at coveredca. Com. How about sport highlights . Spartans upsetting 16th ranked fresno state, six the first half. Defense optional in this game for both teams. Number 6, 19 yards to chandler jones. The defense got a couple stops and hold bull dogs to just 11. 62 to 52 the final. Six touchdowns and most importantly, san jose state with their sixth one of the year becoming bowl eligible. Exciting and crazy game. Having a fat wallet might sound like a good problem to have but were talking about a lot of different credit cards jammed in there. Now, there is one card promising to be the only one youll ever need, again. Reporter how many cards do you have in your wallet now . Eight. Around eight. Together they make for some large wallets. It may explain why a video has gotten 5 million views in four days. All of the cards are inside. Preselling for 50 this one card to rule them all crashed through its Fund Raising Goal of a thousand preorders. It works like a regular card. But beforehanding it over, you push to pick which you want coin to impersonate the stripe changes to become your work card, personal charactered gas card. Push the button. The screen displays the card youre using. The cop only has seven employees here is the software department. Russ is the software team, ben, our marketing team. But they have high profile investors. Earliest prototypes are white, the final version will come in any color you want, as long as it black. It turns out making this takes time. The coin team had to build this robot that swipes the card to make sure it works at every speed and angle. Different swipes, fast one is called bartender. The parts so small they have to soldier under a microscope oochl how thick is it . 84 millimeters. Theyve had to make sure you can only add your own cards and deactivate when away from the phone too long. The founder says that hasnt been an issue. Of youve never had someone say i cant accept this . No. Never. They plan to ship next summer. Here is an update on an ought yes dealerships black friday context a handful of the vehicles were secretly priced at 1 today. This 15yearold is the owner of this car the teens mom also took home a 1 car. Hes going to be awaiting his 16th birthday. Thanks for joining us at 4 00. Abc7 news at 5 00 begins right now. Breaking news out of bart. Unions are taking bart to court over that botched settlement. Also, this i love this the year. Im Spencer Christian. November fades into december, gets milder but next week will bring changes ill have the accuweather forecast. A lot of buying. I got slippers. We had 40 and 50 off. Ive been to valley fair. Its hectic. It went smooth. First 24 hours of the season all but over, and most would agree its crowded but calm. Good evening. We have Team Coverage on retailers large and small. We begin with david louie in san jose. There is no question there is a doubt whether black friday is going to be as important as in the past. Also, have you to factor in these devices. Yesterday we did a billion dollars in online sales, a record, on thanksgiving day. Yes there were lines to get into parking lots. Once inside, yes, malls were teeming with shoppers but having the opportunity to start shopping on thanksgiving at many locations, consumers notice it wasnt as crowded as theyd expected it to be. That afforded everybody the opportunity to come earlier and get a jump start. There are less crowds this time around. There are crowds but not as much as i think there could be. There are one day only discounts being spread out pressure lessoned to do bargain hunting on black friday. People are spreading out and shopping over a few days. Instead of concentrated on black friday. There are sales that are going to go on tomorrow, too. Reporter but the importance of black friday may be diminishing. Many have been bombarding customers with deep discounts since november z there has been a sharp rise in orders being made on tablets and smart phones, up 49 thanksgiving day compare toed a year ago to cording to ibm digital. A