Coastline during the overnight hours. We have shower activity around the Santa Cruz Mountains. Not much more expected to happen tonight. Well look at Christmas Day and beyond in a few minutes. Thanks a lot. If this seems familiar, its because its the fourth storm of the week bringing rain to the bay area dumping snow in the sierra. A live look shows thelingering rain that spencer spoke about. And rain factor and the socalled king tides. No major problems with the higher than usual tide but hassles, certainly. Abcs Wayne Friedman is live in mill valley. Wayne . Reporter dan, we had them in the north bay. The king tides werent the highest weve ever seen roughly seven feet. But this spot here at 10 00 this morning, it was under water. For those of us who try to catch rainbows, today would have been a good day to do. It they popped up like candy along the north bay sky but not without a price. If you didnt look closely you might assume this video was shot from a boat, and you would be wrong. Another king tide at its peak in mill valley, rising seas and a microcosm. This traffic island almost disappeared in water that ignored the rules about crossing double yellow lines. Are we looking at an optical illusion or a shoreline version of being there . I think what we have to do is get used to this happening more often. Reporter the lovely happened where we found it at cascade falls. More water than weve seen in a long time. Plus, sun, rain and mist. Sometimes all at once. I like to come after the rain and see the water coming down the waterfall. Its a very spiritual place. Reporter for the more pragmatic, lets talk about plants and possibly freezing temperatures. You want to protect citrus cacti, succulents subtropicals. Reporter at Garden Supply kevin has been reassuring customers all day saying in most cases waters and wet soil will serve to insulate your plants from damage. Some winter hazards easier to guard against than others. Here is the strangest question how do you protect a plant from a king tide . Maybe put it on a raft . Reporter turns out the water in the soil is an old gardening trick. Its counter intusetiveitiventuitive. The roots dont freeze. Keeps your green thumb from becoming brown. In mill valley, Wayne Friedman abc7 news. Thank you very much. Snow is falling in lake county today. Take a look at this picture posted on instagram by a viewer using the hash tag abc7now. The snow coming down in the sierra big clumps near interstate 80 at gold run today. The heaviest snow fell earlier. At one point, total whiteout conditions for chp to close 80 in both directions. Its open now, but you warned youre going to need chains. From Road Conditions to the latest forecast, trust the abc7 news app. Download it for free at abc7news. Com. Enable push alerts. A babysitter faced a judge but did not enter a plea in the death a young boy she was caring for. Its believed that gina bailey violently shook and dropped the 18monthold boy inside her home. He died last week of severe brain injury. Bailey cared for several children. One of her clients believes shes innocent. She loved our child and every child that she had with all her heart. Reporter do you believe she did this . Absolutely not. Absolutely nothing good can come from Something Like this. Its any time of year Something Like this, it would be horrible to happen. A judge ordered her held on 50,000 bail. San Francisco Police want your help to solve a deadly hitandrun case thats almost a week old now. Take a look. This is a picture of the car officers are looking for. Its a black fourdoor sedan, likely a honda or nissan. The cars front end or windshield may be damaged. Police think the car hit a person who was walking on mission near 26th street early friday morning last week. That victim died. In the Deadly Police shooting of mario woods more protest. Today 134r7b 00 converged on city hall to call on the mayor to fire the police chief. They accused him of lying about the Police Shooting to protect officers. The group is planning to strike in may to protest the Police Killings of plaque men. A family in gill of black men. A family in gilroy overpaid their property taxes for ten years, and they werent the only ones. More now this multimilliondollar mix upandhow many families were affect mixup and how many families were affected. Ill pay. It. Reporter for years they overpaid their taxes because the property in the neighborhood of gilroy was over assessed. They had purchased their home at below market rate, and even assisted in the construction as part of a Sweat Equity Program for lowincome buyers. We worked in the rain. We worked in 106degree weather on aluminum ladders whether it was hot. Sweat pouring down. Reporter the Nonprofit Agency coordinating the sale as well as the city of gilroy never filed the proper paperwork with the county causing their home to be taxed at full market view. She discovered the mixup last spring when her mortgage bill went up. She alerted neighbors who might have been affected and went to the county. Its unreal. It took a long time, but it came about. Its a big answer to prayer. Reporter she got the documentation needed to prove the case. The county Assessors Office immediately spring into action. The government makes a mistake, we have an obligation to make it right. Its not always easy to do that. Reporter today she received a check for nearly 28,000. Her refund plus interest. Neighbors say theyre grateful for her tenacity. A lot of years gone by that we have had a struggle. I mean we make it at the end of the day. Like i said, were grateful. Reporter a total of 3. 3 million in refunds will be distributed to more than 160 homeowners. From gilroy, abc7 news. Its been a stormy week, but not all part of the bay area got the same level of soaking. Coming up well tour south bay reservoirs and find out why the rain has not made much improvement on water levels. A live look at the lastminute shoppers in San Franciscos union square. Well get a live update from our reporter on scene next along with a look at the deals that some shoppers scored. Oh boy. Time is really running out finishing up christmas shopping. Lastminute shopping may be a tradition for some. Those who waited to find deals and discounts it paid off. Cornell bernard is live among the crowds if union square. Deep discounts and kind of a treasure haunt out there. Reporter yeah, for sure, dan. Queue the holiday frenzy. Union square is bustling. Take a look. Shoppers are out in force. Seeing some serious traffic for the last couple of hours. Certainly festive, though. Shoppers are a mission. A San Francisco fire truck was playing carols around union square maybe to calm the nerves of lastminute Holiday Shoppers like alex and her uncle. I got my mom lipstick and i got her jewelry. Reporter ruth just made it to the finish line. Its a jungle out there. We just wanted to be in the holiday spirit and be in the crowd. I needed one present for one of my sons, and that was it. Ive already done. That. Reporter lastminute shoppers may have the last laugh. Theyre discovering deals of 50 to 75 off. Buy one get one half off, sometimes buy one, get one free. In the basket reporter the annual Christmas Eve toy drive in full swing. New, unwrapped toys donated to needy kids. Amanda and tim wouldnt miss the chance to give. Something for the holidays makes you feel good. 8yearold boys. Reporter up the block the San FranciscoFire Departments annual toy giveaway was making lots of kids like mariana pretty happy. She just got a doll for christmas. Her mom is grateful to the firefighters. Its very nice. I appreciate everything that theyre doing. You know very nice that they are doing it for the community for the children. Reporter back live here on geary street. Volunteers continue to collect drooib driveboy donations of toys outside leftie odouls. If you come by and see snow, it is falling but its not real. Its coming down compliments of a bubble machine a soap machine. Live in union square, happy holidays, everybody. Looks and feels like snow from here. Workers at one east bay restaurant have been working to keep a Christmas Holiday tradition going. Cinco de mayo in martinez has been making tamales for christmas for about ten years. They sell about 700 each year. That takes a lot of hard work as you can imagine. The restaurant says all its workers put in long hours to get them made. One woman especially. Does a good job of helping us do tamales. Especially her she stays at night with my brother, armando. To try to get them ready. Theyve got a production line. The tamales come in all sort of flavors chicken, pork, beef. For those with a sweet tooth, how about pineapple, strawberry, and cinnamon raisin . Yum. A Christmas Eve tradition continued in San Francisco today. One woman had a good excuse to drive with her top down on her convertible despite the rain today. Funny. Yeah. The only way she could squeeze a free Christmas Tree or a few actually into her car. The delancy Street Foundation gave away trees at its lot along the embarcadero. Delancy street has sold trees for decades to support its work of helping people including many exconvicts overcome addiction. Were back on the storm watch. Hail fell in petaluma today. The storm brought rain and snow, as well. It depends on where exactly you were. Check this out a rainbow. Look to the side of the screen. It appeared a few hours ago at the Golden Gate Bridge and captured by our news camera. Maybe that rainbow is a sign of a different Christmas Morning in terms of weather. Spencer its been a mixed bag today. It really has. A very unusual day. Wintry all around. Coldhaily . Haily . Been a hail of a day. Even now live doppler 7 h. D. , pockets of showers. Widely scattered. Lets talk about whats happening in the higher elevations. The Santa Cruz Mountains, showers going on. In the higher elevations, a dusting of snow. Not at the summit because thats not quite high enough. But in elevations above the summit, patches of snow are falling now. And lets look at the current temperatures in the mountain tops down to 31 at mt. Diablo. 29 at mt. Hamilton. And we dont have enough moisture in the area really to encourage the thought of widespread snowfall. Pockets of movie should travel over those elevations at those temperatures. Some snow could fall. Temperatures at bay level in the 40s. Down to 40 degrees exactly in napa and santa rosa which will fall into the 30s. You get the picture. A cold night. A full moon at 3 11 over the bay. Its full of itself. A chance of rain or snow. Bright and chilly. A freezing cold weekend night coming our way. Heres the forecast animation starting at 7 00 this evening. Notice the showers will become more widely spread as we get into the late night and overnight hours. After midnight, its possible that a pocket of showers or two could swing down along the coastline, maybe move over the peninsula, Santa Cruz Mountains. But by 10 00 tomorrow morning should be all over. A partly to mostly sunny Christmas Day but chilly. A cold snap will be with us for several days. A freeze watch in effect for saturday and sunday mornings over the interior north bay and east bay Santa Clara Valley and east bay mountains. Lows could drop into the mid 20s to low 30s. Well use santa rosa as our indicator of lows. 31 in santa rosa saturday. 29 on sunday morning. And many inland valley locations will see that kind of low temperature range. Meanwhile, overnight generally under the full moon at 3 11 a. M. , low temperatures dropping down to about 33 at napa. 34 at santa rosa. 34 at fairfield. Mid to upper 30s in the inland east bay and subway. So chilly all around. And then tomorrow, Christmas Day, should be a partly to mostly sunny day. A chilly one with highs reaching only into the low 50s in most locations. Heres the sevenday forecast a bright sunny Christmas Day. Mainly for the weekend, as well. Clouds will arrive late sunday with a chance of light rain sunday giving way to maybe steadier rain into late monday. Well call this a one on the impact scale of one to five. A storm of light intensity. And we dont expect really much except for wet spots. It might downgrade below a one. Tuesday, wednesday, thursday mainly sunny skies. A gradual increase in temperatures. Thats the key word gradual. Very gradual. Thank you very much. Storms and Severe Weather have caused problems across the country. Conditions caused airlines to cancel more than 500 flights and delayed thousands more really a hassle for so many trying to get home for the holidays. In the southeast, 11 people have died because of the weather including a child, sadly. More than two dozen tornadoes touched down across seven states. In mississippi, tennessee and arkansas among them. In alabama ten inches of rain have flooded parts of the state causing some roads to literally collapse. Tonight, the raiders may play their final game in oakland if the nfl decides move the team next year. See how fans are making tonights game count. Plus 91 pardons issued by the Governors Office. One going to actor Robert Downey jr. Youll hear from a legal expert about that pardoning process. The abc7 news app. On the go on your schedule, on one screen. All the weather, traffic, announcer its time to make room for the new mattress models during sleep trains huge year end Clearance Sale. Get beautyrest, posturepedic even tempurpedic mattress sets at low clearance prices save even more on floor samples demonstrators, and closeout inventory plus, sameday delivery, setup and removal of your old set. Why wait for the new models . Sleep trains year end Clearance Sale is on now superior service best selection, lowest price guaranteed your ticket to a better nights sleep california governor jerry brown pardoned Robert Downey jr. For a drug conviction that sent him to prison. He was one of 21 that receive a pardon in what has become a Christmas Eve tradition for the governor. We have more from los angeles. Reporter Robert Downeyer j received the gift of clemency Robert Downey jr. Received the gift of clemency from Governor Brown who granted a full and unconditional pardon to downey and 21 others. His legal troubles began in 1996 and continued until he was sentenced to prison here in 1999. Now ive found myself like youve said so honestly, manipulative. I know how to comply. What i havent been able to do is surrender until very recently. Reporter he wound up serving more than a year in jail. Nearly three more on probation, and another two on parole. Hes since turned his life around and become one of the worlds biggest movie stars starring as Sherlock Holmes and ironman. According to the Governors Office downey jr. Like all of those pardoned served their sentences and have gone more than a decade without further criminal activity. His pardon reads, since his release from custody, he has lived an honest and upright life exhibited good morale character, and conducted himself as a lawabiding citizen. Its an honor that isnt easily obtained. Its exceptionally difficult. Governor brown granted 91 pardons this round. One of those was Robert Downey jr. Another one was a client of mine. Its huge. Its a huge lifechanging event for all of these people. No Holiday Cheer at this longtime San Francisco restaurant. The lucky penny which had been open for more than 50 years at masonic and geary closed for good today. The restaurant was popular among latenight diners and was one of the few 24hour eateryies. It will be replaced with condos and retail space. They say nothing escapes a black hole, not even light. But for the raiders, their lease expires this season. The mayor is confident the city can keep the team in oakland. But among raider fans tailgating before the game, there were mixed feelings. Some think a deal to keep them here is a long way off. Others in the Christmas Spirit think a deal can get done. The city hasnt come up with a plan to keep them. Im very worried. Were staying in oakland. Were staying raider pride. Were a family. Were a nation. Were head to spread the love because its Christmas Eve, baby. The raiders were playing the San Diego Chargers who are also in the mix for a move to los angeles. The city plans to present an updated proposal to the nfl next week. Tomorrow the warriors play right here on nbc 7 in an nbc finals rematch you shouldnt miss. Theyll face lebron james and the cavaliers. Coverage begins at 2 00 p. M. Tomorrow for the special Christmas Day game. You know the u. S. Postal service is delivering 15 more packages this year than last year. Yeah. Moving that much mail requires some serious effort. Well look at the lasers and robots that help get your packages delivered on time. Also its been a stormy week, but the south bay received the least rain from these storms. Coming up, find out why local rainfall is not the best way to judge the water supply. Stay with us. Ring in 2016 with abc 7. Dick clarks new years rockin eve and the then the news showing how were counting down to the new year. Stay with us. Well be right back. Ok, were here. Heres dad. Mom. The twins. Aunt alice. You didnt tell me aunt alice was coming. Of course. Dont forget grandpa. Can the test drive be over now . Maybe just head back to the dealership . Dont you want to meet my family . Yep, totally. Its practically yours, but we still need your signature. The volkswagen sign then drive event. Zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on a new jetta and other select models. The grandmother. Who patiently teaches how a feast comes to life. The family. Who spends their holiday dinner with thankful strangers. The neighbor. Who shares the season with another. You inspire us to do everything we do. For goodness sake. An update now on our breaking news. We are tracking this hour a Tornado Warning has been lifted for parts of El Dorado County east of sacramento after this tornado touched down and traveled an estimated eight miles in el dorado and will amador counties. And another angel eel it truly was frightening for everyone watching and taking video on their cell phones. As the tornado moved east toward the foothills. And the National Weather service is investigating damage that may be from a second tornado in modesto. Were getting reports of damage to homes and buildings in both areas. Fortunately, no reports of any injuries. This rain in san jose just a small sample of what weve seen across the bay area today. Really bringing up a bigger question are we seeing enough wet their to make an impact on our drought enough wet weather to make an impact on our drought. Were looking at reservoir levels and why they dont seem to be rising. Reporter its not as simple as fillationing a bathtub. The reservoir can store 18,000 feet of water, but its only at 13 of capacity. The rainfall weve had is getting absorbed by the droughtparched soil, not releasing much runoff. The chair of the Water District board says rainfall across the state is crucial since only a fraction of the supply is captured and stored here. Its stored in san luis reservoir. A lot of it stored in shasta dam and orrville dam. Its small because of the seismic wishes anderson. We cant store as much water as wed like. Reporter Water Supplies can also be deceiving when you look at levels of perklation ponds u. S. As this at Los Gatos Creek park. Water is moved to recharge underground storage. I think it comes out of lexington. They started refilling it about midsummer to recharge the groundwater occupier. Reporter the prospects of rain and runoff has steve holmes optimistic that in time there will be chinook salmon and steelheads spawning again. They had to truck the chinook salmon fry down to San Pablo Bay and deposit roughly over 40 million of the fish to the waterway. They went out into the ocean and will return in three years. Reporter the south Bay Clean Creeks Coalition organized 92 cleanups and removed 1 6 tons of 126 tons of trash to restore the spawning habitat. Abc7 news. Look at the snow coming down in tahoe this morning. Next week the department of Water Resources will conduct their first manual snow survey. Electronic readings put the snow packs water content at 112 of average. For comparison on, january 1st of this year, that number was 47 . The melting snow pack accounts for about onethird of californias water supply. So its critical. Abc 7s Spencer Christian will be back with the full forecast less than 15 minutes. Stay here. Theres a vigil underway for the 17yearold grandson of Council Member lynette mcelaney. Hughes was one of five people shot in the city that day within a twohour span. Police found he was suffering from a gunshot wound on mandela parkway near 10th street around 1 30 in the afternoon. Oakland p. D. Has not released any information about any motive or suspects in his death. We will bring you the vigil tonight on abc7 news at 11 00. Exactly one week left to file a claim to get a refund for mobile cramming charges. That story tops tonights bay Area Business watch. Verizon and sprint worked out a settlement with the ftc over thirdparty charges. Phone companies are required to get customer approval before charges can apply. [ bell ] just a half day on wall street today. The dow dipped by 50 points to close at 17552. The nasdaq gained two points, the s p is up by 89. Women have suspected this for a long time its true. A study shows women pay more than men for essentially the same products carding to the department of consumer affairs. Found womens products cost 7 more than men products on average. These are items like clothing, toys and personal care products. Usually its just the packages thats different. In 1995, the state of california passed a bill that made it illegal for a business to charge more based on a persons gender. The u. S. Postal service processes more than 6,000 pieces of mail every second. That was the average rate last year. We know the Holiday Season makes it even bigger. Cool. Next, see what it takes to get your fraej pointpackage from point a to point b in time for christmas. Stay with us. This is the time of year ribbon takes center stage. Announcer get beautyrest, posturepedic even tempurpedic mattress sets at low clearance prices save even more on floor samples demonstrators, and closeout inventory the year end Clearance Sale is on now at sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep when wrapping those lastminute presents, there are two things that are absolutely necessary cant do without them wrapping paper and ribbon. In the bay area, were pretty fancy. You do not have to settle for the runofthemill ribbon. Michael finney introduces you to a local creator. Reporter if theres one thing we all agree on during the holidays, it is this ribbon. Ribbon is found on packages, tied to street posts, and in store windows. A lot of store windows. But this store has all the others beat whether it comes to ribbon. Here tucked away on sacramento street in San Francisco is the ribbonerie. I thought Something Like this. You want it that tiny reporter the proprietor Paulette Knight knows a thing or two about ribbon. Shes been selling it for more than 30 years. Whats a definition of ribbon . Wow. Its tiny fabrics, if you will. Its just miniature fabrics that are used as an embellishment. Reporter and here, women stow the oldfashioned way a yard at a time. The cost 10 cents to 48 cents a yard. Have you ever seen a selection like this . No. Nowhere. All the big box chains, things like that nothing. Nothing like this. Reporter Juliet Henderson and her mom lisa on the other hand, have been coming here for years. I like it. Theres so many different ribbons. Its so pretty. A holiday tradition for us. I have two drinking water. They like the dresses with ribbons which i make every year. We come here to do the sashes. I absolutely love what i do. I never get tired of the oohs and ahhs. Reporter im told rib son in demand year around. Im michael finney, 7 on your side. I want to see the one almost 50 a yard. You feel guilty throwing that away. Santa is almost ready for a sleigh ride over the rooftops. Were tracking him with nor ad santa tracking. Hes had more help than ever from the Postal Service. As Jonathan Bloom explains, there are big changes afoot at the post office because of the big changes in how we shop for the holidays. Hi. With the Postal Service for 21 years but christmas is different. Ive never remembered the season being this busy. Reporter in the back of the truck, not christmas cards but piles of presents. About onethird come from amazon. Reporter amazon is now one of the Postal Services biggest customers. Holiday shipments are up 15 over last year. Thank you. Youre welcome. Reporter even as postcards and letters declined. That mail has gone away, and its never going to come back. Its being replaced by Something Else something that takes up more space. The Postal Service is racing to ship. From carrying letters to carrying packages. A large part of the success is the ability to handle the large capacity because of machinery like this. Giant laser scanners find the address and sort packages on machines the size of a football field. At least for now, all the technology in the world cant get the packages all the way to your door in time for christmas. The last mile still depends on the goodold postal carrier, and theyve been awfully busy. I have a package for pat. Reporter for gutierrez this is the second run of the day. This december weve started delivering packages at 7 00 in the morning. Reporter for pat garcia, its just in the nick of time. I had over half of my shopping on line. Really . Ten grandchildren. And nothing was stolen. Reporter thats no miracle. Gutierrez has gotten creative in outsmarting package thieves. Or as the Postal Service calls them porch pirates. Reporter the new cloudconnected scanners let you know as soon as your package arrives. Theyre even designing bigger mailboxes and roomier trucks to meet demands. No sweaters here. The mail theyre sort regular flyers for those afterchristmas sales. In san jose, Jonathan Bloom, abc7 news. I like that until someone can figure out how to email a sweater, well deliver it. As we get into the last week of the year, we look back at a lot of firsts. Like the warriors first this is a story about doers. Its also a story about canals and the artificial heart electric guitars and rockets to the moon. In other words, this is the story of america land of the doers. Doin it. Did it. Done. Hardworking doers and smartworking doers. Olds changed the way we put things together. And keepinem together . That was walters doin. Doers built this country. They built the dams and the railroads. John henry was a steel drivin man hmm, catchy. They built the golden gates and the empire states. Doers turn nothing into something. And something into Something Else. Doin got this nation done. Along with the hula hoop, blue jeans and that little thing we call the interstate highway system. And all this doin . It takes energy, no matter whos doin. Theres all kinds of doin up in here. Or what theyre doin. What the hecks he doin . Energy got us here. And its our job to make sure theres enough energy to keep doers doin the stuff doers do. To keep us all doin what we do. Welcome back. 2015 was a busy year in sports. Yeah. Abc News Reporter ryan smith has the highlights. Reporter deflategate became part of the national dialogue. Revered Quarterback Tom Brady was accused of tampering with the air pressure in the footballs during the patriots route of the colts in the afc championship game. I didnt alter the game in any way. Reporter he wasnt distracted. His mvp performance in super bowl 49 against the seahawks was helped by malcolm butlers gamesaving interception which preserved the patriots comeback 2824 win. The nfl investigation led to team sanctions and a fourgame suspension for the star quarterback. After multiple deals a federal judge overturned the suspension in time for brady and the patriots to win ten straight to start the season. The Kansas City Royals defeated the new york mets in five games to win their first world series in 30 years. The mets used their own heroics and hitting to get there for the first time in 15 years. Yes he did Stephen Curry and the warriors hoisted the nba championship trophy for the First Time Since 1975 spoiling Lebron James Cleveland homecoming. The warriors picked up where they left off with the longest winning streak in nba history it start the season. American pharoah galloped into history, becoming the 12th horse to win the trowel, ending a 37year drought. American pharoah has won the triple crown reporter 21 yield Jordan Spieth set the golf world on hour with a dominant masters performance tying tiger woods 18 underscoring record and becoming the second youngest winner ever. After winning two majors, his per suit of the grand slam ended when he lost the playoff round by one stroke. Serena williams had her own grand slam shakes. She dominated her way through the first three majors but was tripped up by an unknown italian, Roberta Vinci who pulled off the remarkable upset. Today is my day. Sorry, guys. Reporter ohio state defeated topranked alabama and oregon to claim the firstever College FootballPlayoff National championship. Flight attendant may weather finally fought manny pacquiao, but it didnt live up to the hype. Rhonda rousy suffered a stunning upset, and holly holmes delivered a secondround knockout. I know that my career has come full circle. Reporter jeff gordon circled the track one last time i was at peace with it. Reporter kobe bryant announced this would be his final season of his storied 20year nba career. In the nfl, sara thomas became the first fulltime female referee. The cardinal hired the first female assistant coach. In the nba summer league, Becky Hammond led the spurs to a title. In the womens world cup carly lloyd turned in the greatest individual performance never a final, scoring a hat trick 16 minutes into the game. Hat trick reporter the first world cup triumph in 16 years. Thats the year in sports for 2015. Boy it was busy when you look at it. I know especially when you set it to a baseline like that. Lets look forward now. Spencer has an update on the forecast. It is cold, spencer. So cold. Looking forward, its going to remain cold. Not a lot of precipitation around the bay area now. We have some areas of showers down in the Santa Cruz Mountain and the subway. Even a little spot of snow in the higher elevations. The rainfall totals the last 24 hours, generally from. 15 inch to. 3 inch. Tomorrow mainly dry and cool Christmas Day. Highs in the low 50s. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. The next little storm coming in on monday. Looks like it will be a relatively weak one. The seven days ahead look dry. A nice change. A lot of storms blowing through. Im tired of my umbrella blowing away. And now larry . Christmas presents. The nbas given us the gift, stefversus lebron. A rematch is it a big deal or good evening. Its only wunl game, one of 82 on the schedule in the regular season. You know that both the warriors and the cavaliers have had an eye on this game. An nba final rematch tomorrow at oracle. You can watch it here at 2 00 on abc 7. First meeting between the warriors and cavs. Game six of the nba finals. The warriors, of course raised the larry obrian trove oh clevelands home court. They won 31 straight games at oracle arena. Cavs six and six on the road. Actually being the road team on Christmas Day may be an advantage for cleveland. Being able to focus on the game around the other things going on throughout the day should be a fun challenge. I think its going to be exciting. You know, the crowds going to be loud. Ill have family in town. You know the competition will be at the highest level that there is. And its always fun to be part of. Im looking forward to the experience of coaching on it. The media and everyone will put so much on it because of the Christmas Day game. At the end of the day, its another one of 82 for us to get better. The media. The nba loves having the warriors play Christmas Day. This will mark the Third Straight year and the fifth time in six years the doves have played on christmas. Steph curry knows its a big deal to be one of ten teams selected to play on december 25th. He welcomes actually working on the holiday. You ask whats on his christmas list, and hes at a loss for words. Thats a great question. Actually a nice homecooked meal which is going to happen tonight. Pretty excited about that. Other than that thats tough. I dont have a christmas list this year. I need to think of something. Christmas came a day early for daniel murphy. The second baseman is leaving the mets on sign with the washington nationals. A threeyear deal worth 37. 5 million. Murphy homered in a record six straight postseason games and voted mvp in the mets National Championship series win over the cubs. The 49ers so many decisions coming this off season. Among them, to change head coaches, what do you do with quarterback. Gabbard will lead detroit this sunday. Is he the bridge quarterback that get you through next season while you rebuild the offensive line and draft a quarterback for the future . If he wants to start in 2016 hes got to start moving the chains. The last two games, the 49ers were a dreadful 4 of 27 on third down conversions. I think everybody realizes it. We just have to do a better job on focusing on second down and not tampa bayking penalties there. We have to focus on higher level. Were in third manageable. Reporter the raiders are hosting the chargers in what might be their final game in oakland. Coming up, 1710 chargers. Complete highlights and reaction at 9 00 and 11 00. Before getting on his sleigh tonight, santa was in the bahamas. The bahamas bowl. Middle tennessee and western michigan. Check out corey davis. Makes the catch, then spins this guy is like shot out of a cannon. 80 yards. Tied at 17 after just one quarter of play. In the third fourth and one from the 45. Western Mission Going for it. Good call. Look at this little guy go spartan size chugging along. He had four touchdowns. Western michigan wins the first bowl game in history 4531. Speaking of college bowl games, check out espn on new years eve. Leading up to the National Championship game, that is january is 1th on espn january 11th on espn. Abc sports brought to you by bank of the west. Thank you very much. Join us at 9 00 on kofy cable channel 13 and abc news. Well have continuing coverage of the tornado activity and damage left behind. Snow on mt. Hamilton. Were tracking the cold weather across the bay area and how people are coping. Thats coming up at 9 00 and 11 00. Hope you can join us then. Finally tonight, a few thoughts about what really matters. tis the night before christmas. The stores are closed, and santas on his way. I picked up the last couple of items on my wells after the late news last night thanks to a chain store that was still open. The Holiday Shopping crush is so stressful, all the pushing shoving. I hope i didnt hurt anyone. An old joke i stole from rhoda on the Mary Tyler Moore show. This is a wonderful time of year, but theres uneasiness about how we are supposed to act and what were supposed to say is Merry Christmas too exclusive, is happy holidays too generic . Of course christmas is a christian holiday. Part of what makes it so special and so uniers areverseal has nothing to do with a specific faith. After all, peace on earth goodwill toward men transcends any one religious belief. Christmas is a magical time of year when people tend to be a little bit kinder and gentler with one another generosity abounds, and we can delight in the excitement it brings to children. Nothing lake their faces during this time of year. Many important ways, what really matters is the spirit of the season. So in that spirit, to everyone of awful backgrounds and faiths Merry Christmas. Id love it hear from you. Follow me on twitter and facebook at danashleyabc7. Thats it on this edition of abc7 news. Look for breaking news on twitter. Thanks for being with us. For Spencer Christian, all of us, we appreciate your time. Look at this beautiful sight on this Christmas Eve. This is jeopardy here are todays contestants a fundraising professional and consultant from chicago, illinois. A database developer and stayathome dad from dighton, massachusetts. And our returning champion a housewife from atlanta, georgia. Whose 1day cash winnings total. And now here is the host of jeopardy alex trebek thank you, johnny. And welcome, ladies and gentlemen. twas the day or night before christmas and all through chandreyis house there are a lot of happy moments going on becauss most impressive on yesterdays program. Very quiet but very solid, winning over 34,000. How will markus and christina fare against her today . We wont know until we begin. So good luck. Lets get started. Here are the categories in the jeopardy round. First. Each correct response will be a word that can be made up of the letters that you will find in germany. Thats followed by. Then. And finally, because its Christmas Eve. And those letters, santa, will come up in each correct response. Chandreyi, start. Ill take found in germany for 200. Markus. What is a year . Yes. Germany for 400, please