cull desack in danville. the house is connected with people who own a medical marijuana dispensary in newark which was also raided today. leslie brinkley is live at that home in danville tonight. >> reporter: the latest from the attorney general's offense is that when they searched this house late this afternoon and well into the evening here they found inside an assault rifle, ammunition, a shotgun, 20-pounds of processed marijuana and $40,000 in cash. at 2:20 wednesday aftertwa s.w.a.t. teams and agents stormed on to the cull desack off of old back hawk road and surrounded this house. neighbors cowered in their homes as they watched officer first to call for any one in the house to come out with their hands in the air. >> they shot at the door, blew up in the window and they had one of those robots with a camera go in and then that came out and then they reviewed the video of that and sent in a dog and the dug went in on a long leash and came back out and looked like 8 of them went in and searched the house from that and we watched it all from your window. >> reporter: a woman who drove up in a black suv was promptly handcuffed, whisked away and taken away from newark police. it was in newark that simultaneously a raid was underway i at the happiness wellness medical marijuana dispensary. an investigation was launched into the disis penceary at the request of newark city officials who say it was operating criminally claiming that those who ran it was pocketing a six figure income per month when it was supposed to be not for are profit. >> it was completely a nonprofit. nobody is making that kind of money. the collective is providing medication to its patients who are sick california residents with cancer. they are growing the medicine for them, prohe riding it to them and just being reimbursed for costs and expenses and all of this is just pure harassment. >> reporter: officials say the arrest warrants are for conspiracy along with possession and sales of marijuana. and officials say they are still searching for three men, one of them is a convicted felon. in danville, leslie brinkley, kb go and abc 7 news. >> people living near the site of two violent sexual assaults in san francisco are meeting with city officials tonight to discuss how to help with the investigation and make their neighborhood safer. both women were attacked on 24th street in the mission. one last thursday morning, the other in november. the san francisco police department released this video of the attacker. he is described as a black male in his mid 30s between 59-point and 6 feet tall and medium build and wearing a black hoody and dark pants. alarming statistics about rape from the centers for disease control and prevention. the agency says one in five women will be raped in the course of her lifetime. 80% of the incidents happen before a woman is 25. one in six women is stalked usual live hia text message, social networking sites or unwanted phone calls. roughly one in seven men experience violence at the hands of an intimate partner at one point in their lives. thieves made off with a box of cash. inside, hundreds of dollars of donations for the music program at franklin middle school. here is joh jonathan blum. >> pictures and trophies line the walls of the bandroom where jeff dickey taught a generation of youngsters to play. >> we do fundraisers all year long. we won't get help from the district. >> as the band played its biggest fundraiser concert of the year tuesday night a pair of thieves descended on the parents raising money in the lobby and snatched a box containing more than $700. >> it is discouraging when two people can come in and take something away that is so needed. >> we were shocked by the incident and disheartened. >> the school district turned over surveillance video to police who are looking for at least one juvenile suspect. meantime, the district will have extra security on campus but with the thieves still on the loose the principal had to make another tough decision. she he canceled friday night's winter dance which was also a fundraiser for the school band. >> we can't take any chances. our kids' safety is the most important for us right now, not money. >> the students continue to practice their drums and marching routines but their teacher can tell they are hurting on the inside. >> they ever feeling kind of low. they worked so hard to put the program on knowing it would help raise money for us. they are feeling really down that a big part of that was taken from them. >> reporter: school district officials say while the investigation continues the middle school band is accepting donations to make up for the loss. parents who want to donate can send money straight to the school. jonathan blum, abc 7 news. in oakland, angry parents are hoping to call five school board members who voted to close five elementary school there's. >> we feel that the school board has lost its connection to the community. >> the board is meeting tonight and a group called the concerned parent and community coalition is providing hundreds of signatures to launch a recall effort. the board members say several factors played into decisions to close the schools. >> here in oakland our budget has decreased by about a third over the last three years which is one of the factors driving this decision to close schools. >> today's move is only a first step. the signatures on the recall petition need to be verified by the county elections offense to get on to next year's ballot. board memberare elected officials. thousands of middle class students at uc berkeley will get a financial break beginning next year. the first for a public university. lyanne melendez explains how it works. >> attending uc berkeley has a price tag of more than $32,000 a year that is with room and board. while 40% of students get help from the state and federal government, the middle class is having trouble affording cal. >> we don't want challenging economic times to be a barrier to access to what we believe is one of the nation's premier public universities. >> reporter: enter mcap which stands for middle class access plan. families earning between $80,000 and $140,000 qualify. here is how you it works. say a family makes $100,000 a year. the most they will pay is 15%. in other words, $15,000. their son or daughter will also have to contribute by taking out loans or using some of their savings. berkeley will then make up the difference. the university will rely on philanthropic donations to fund the program. >> out-of-state students pay higher fees and some of the revenue from that is going be used to provide resources for middle class access. >> reporter: the university says a quarter or close to 6,000 middle class students will benefit from the program. >> there is an opportunity to financial aid that will make my life a lot easier in terms of affording college. >> my parents are trying to pay for are my education and my brother's and my sister's so hopefully this plan will help us out. >> the program is being offered only at cal for now. parents must fill out an application. the deadline is march 1. in the newsroom, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. homeless for the holidays. bay area veterans get evicted now from a building that is slated for demolition two years from now. plus -- all the cost of, you know, what we have done here and it is finished. >> an end to an historic chapter of the american military. president obama and the first lady pay tribute to u.s. troops. >> i'm spencer christian in the accuweather forecast center. a little rain headed our way. the operative word here is little. a close up look in my accuweather forecast, coming up. also ahead, a major california freeway shut down af [ female announcer ] at jcpenney... ...the countdown to christmas is on! so don't miss night and day giftbusters this friday and saturday for all your holiday gifts. save 50% off liz claiborne apparel. 55 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veterans emergency facility in menlo park. they rebuilt their lives, escaped from addiction and found jobs. 28-year-old eric is a navy veteran. >> i went from a falling down drunk on the street to living in a house now with a job and a car and, yolks you know you knk account. >> the build willing be demolished because it is seismically unsafe. they have extended the eviction deadline numerous times over several years. residents have been relocated to shelters and temporary housing. >> when we issued the notice of closure we made a promise that no one would be on street and we have been able to live up to that. >> reporter: many worry without each other's support and the safety of the facility they may, once again slide into the dark side. >> not everybody is a veteran. there are people using. and that is the big difference. here it is like a little family. >> and john is going to -- >> reporter: a former homeless veteran. er started the shelter, partnering with the v.a. which provided the building and grant money. goodwin says there is still hope the former residents reunite under one roof. he is talking to another owner of a building he would like to lease. >> we could house 200 veterans in the new facility. >> reporter: it is too early in the negotiations process to say he can get fat silt but you he is hopeful -- get the new facility but he is hopeful. what a wonderful christmas present it would be if he could seal the deal. vic lee, abc 7 news. a historic day for american troops. you may remember 8 years ago, president bush stood beneath a banner proclaiming mission accomplished. today his successor president obama said those words are now you true and he thanked the one million troops and support forces who served in iraq. martha raddatz tonight on their achievements and what happens now. >> reporter: to the last american troops preparing to make the final journey out of iraq and to the more than one million who have served in this war, president obama said today the coming days will end one of the most extraordinary chapters in military history. >> we knew this day would come. we have known it for some time. but still there is something profound about the end of a war that has lasted so long. >> reporter: at this sprawling former u.s. headquarters in baghdad, victory base, it is a military ghost town now. the iraqis have all taken over. >> the screens used to display live feeds of drones and other satellite information. >> the screens and desks just part of the $350 million worth of equipment the u.s. is leaving behind. too expensive to ship back home. but the iraqis need more than equipment. they have no sophisticated intelligence gathering, no air force and a 700,000 strong groundforce that is not fully trained, not fully trust. >> i'm not happy because the military of leaving now. >> you you are nervous about the future? >> yes, i'm nervous about the future. >> reporter: for good reason. sectarian violence is also simmering and threats from the outside. outgoing u.s. commander general lloyd austin told us tonight there is more fighting to come. >> i think there is a new phase here that we are entering and, you know, we can expect to see violence in the future. we know that al-qaeda is going to do what they have always done, and they are going to continue to try to focus on the government and the iraqi security forces. >> what are your greatest concerns about the iraqi security forces? >> they don't have much of a capability at all to defend against an external threat. >> reporter: and iraq with its vast oil reserves sits in one of the nastiest and most unstable neighborhoods in the world, iran especially is trying to fill the vacuum the americans will leave behind. tomorrow there will be a ceremony marking the official goodbye to u.s. troops in baghdad after nearly nine years of war. we have given the iraqis opportunity and lives that can never be replaced. martha raddatz, abc news, baghdad. we seem to be in a bit of a steady weather pattern here. cool, crisp temperatures. no rain. >> and so dry. here we are at the midway point in december and it is dry as a bone out there. a little rain on its way tonight but not going amount to much, though, won't change the dry situation very much. a live view from the high outnition camera looking ought over san francisco on a partly cloudy, mainly clear tonight. clouds increasing overnight. as we look at live doppler 7 hd, rainfall up to the north. well, to the north at the moment just beginning to push into northern mendocino county. approaching us during the overnight hours. spritz or sprinkle out of it during the early morning hours but not nearly enough. 39 degrees in napa. low 40s in inland locations. and mid up toker 40s around the bay and near the coastline. skies becoming cloudy overnight. chance of showers tomorrow morning, pretty early in the morning as well. dry and mild through the week end. starting with clearing tomorrow afternoon. overnight tonight look for clouds increasing. some light rainfall developing up in the north baby early morning and low temperatures drop to upper 30s napa and santa rosa over a fairfield a low of 36, 37 at livermore. upper 30s in san jose, morgan hill and santa cruz. 39 in fremont as well. 40s mainly right around the bay and this is still a spare the air kay until midnight tonight. satellite radar composite image shows the approaching frontal system. a weak one but it is bringing some moisture with it and some rain to the north at the moment. forecast animation at 11:00 tonight. clouds continuing to increase overnight and by about 5:00 tomorrow morning the official start of our rush hour we will see some light rain or showers moving into northern sonoma county, perhaps parts of coastal marin county. during the continuing the following early morning hours we will see the front sweeping south a little bit and rain will reach other parts of the bay area. by mid to late morning, 11:00 or so the front out of here, so will the rainfall. partial clearing in the late morning hours and mostly sunny skies in the afternoon. now, how much rainfall can we expect? our projection for rainfall totals are way on the light side from just no measurable rainfall at all to about maybe 5/100-inch in the wettest locations. this is not going be much of a rainfall event for us. speak of rain, let's take a look at percentage of average rainfall for the season to date. you can see that every location is well below the average. only 44% of the average in santa rosa. 41 san jose. 50 san francisco. we need rainfall badly. high temperatures tomorrow. once things clear out we reach into the mid to upper 50s. a narrow range, 54 to 57 for most of the bay area. a degree or two milder near monterey bay. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. mild weather through the weekend into early next week. sunny and dry. and that is the pattern as you pointed out earlier, not much change in the pattern 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the latest, washington post poll shows unfavorable views of barack obama inched to their liest level of his presidency. democrats have to make the president's opponents appear even less favorable so they are seeking to discredit him including ever since his surge, newt gingrich. the president has tried to seem above the fray but top obama campaign advisor david axelrod say this "just remember, the highary monkey climbs on the pole, the more you can see his butt so the speaker is high on the pole right now and we will see how people like the view." the obama campaign is inviting supporters to get in on the act, asking them to make donations to the obama campaign slowe name of vocal kirt conservative colleagues. it will drive them nuts the campaign promises. dead birds still being found all over southern utah after thousands crashed into a wal-mart parking lot and other areas they apparently thought were pools of water. these are among the countless birds that survived the bizarre incident. they were picked up and released back in nearby wildways. storm clouds interacted in the city lights in such a way to make parking lots and football field appear like flat bodies of water. overseas now, where police in indonesia's most conservative promise raided a concert buzzing off mohawks and stripping off piercings. chains were taken from the concert goers before they were thrown into pools of wash for spiritual cleansing. each person was then handed a tooth brush and forced to use it. time magazine has announced its person of the year and this time it is many persons. time has chosen the protester. from the arab spring to the occupy demonstrations across this country, this has been a year of upheaval. reaction tonight from abc 7 political reporter mark matthews. >> in the video time magazine made to ex-be plain its choice list tonight reason. >> not only did protest come back in this big globally contagious way this year but, you know, we are two regimes down and counting. >> reporter: pretty clear times contributor is talking about the arab spring. compared to the competition, the 1%, the 99%, any number of political candidates, diplomats, billionaires, the protester won out. >> anybody know who the person of the year is? >> who. >> at the occupy berkeley encampment no one yet had seen the announcement. >> mike check. mike check. >> the protester. that's awesome. >> reporter: chris sullivan was happy about it but some others here didn't want any mainstream media attention. >> time magazine is propaganda for the empire. >> we speak to ourselves and communicate social media. that is why the people of the year are are the people because we have the technology. >> protesters around the world use you tube, facebook and twitter but the occupy protesters are not the same as those in the streets of the middle east. >> there are people in the middle east who regard the comparison as ludicrous. >> the arab spring protesters represent a much larger segment of their societies with a great deal more at stake. >> the people who were protesting in libya and egypt were really putting their lives on the line. >> at link tv producers scanning the middle east news networks saw no reaction to the time magazine announcement. >> talk about the main developments today in egypt the second round of elections kick off. >> the producer tells me the talk was of dozens killed in syria and a massive protest in bahrain. there is very little to compare with the occupy protesters who aren't as organized and whose goals aren't nearly as clear. our political analyst says the protest letts continue until there is a significant turn around in the economy. time's 2011 person of the year could be a strong contender in 2012. in the newsroom, mark matthews, abc 7 news. cross country shopping spree. coming up, a teacher and a pair legal steal thousands to fly on a private jet coast-to-coast. a private jet coast-to-coast. how police g [ monica ] i'm away on a movie shoot and it hasn't been going exactly as planned. cut. cut! 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[ male announcer ] the new wireless receiver, only from at&t. now get u-verse with dvr at the lowest price ever. at&t. traffic backed up for miles today after a burning gasoline tanker closed a southern california freeway in both directions. the big rig caught fire underneath an overpass on interstate 60, ten miles southeast of downtown lax. the fire was so hot it caused the overpass concrete to explode. firefighters took about an hour to douse the flame with foam. the driver and a passenger both managed to get out safely. the freeway and this section of it may be closed for days. in the east bay, the renewal of the tradition that has given away 37 cars in the past 11 years. a program that brightens holidays and changes lives and as wayne freedman reports this holiday season is no different. >> reporter: are it is the nature of traditions that they become more important with every passing year are and that applies to what happened in antioch today. for 11 straight years, insurance companies and the automotive repair industry have given away cars to needy people at christmas. five cars this time around, a record. >> it has grown tremendously. >> saul contreras coordinates the program. it began with one resip went who returned today to talk about the difference it made for her. >> the happiest most exciting day of my life. >> that the cars look this good are minor miracles. each was technically totaled at least on paper but recoverable with a little bit of elbow grease. >> with donated parts and labor. cameron lewis worked on the red chevy cobalt that went to del berta miller. each team reads the letter and chooses the recipient. >> takes people that don't have vehicle and can't get around and i help them out. >> the sweetest story may have been nancy whose husband joshua spent last year in afghanistan with the california national guard. >> my car are is actually on its last leg. >> not any more. nancy received a ford focus today, typically she showed the most emotion when santa claus appeared with toys for her kids. >> i just always keep on doing the best thing i can do and support everybody else and i wear my heart on my sleeve and i'm always there to help everybody else in need. >> reporter: well, somebody helped you. >> they sure did, very much so. >> and now when h her husband returns home from the war in a few days she will be picking him up in a new car. from antioch, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. what a wonderful tradition. all right. let's go back and get one last check of the forecast with spencer christian. >> start with the time lapse view from the high definition mount tam camera. the presunset sky. the clouds getting a little thicker right now. live doppler 7 h hed d shows the rainfall well to the north but getting closer. probably have a little bit falling by 5:00 tomorrow morning when we start the forecast animation. it the quickly sweep through the bay area. won't get much out of it but a little taste of wet weather is better than nothing at all. in the afternoon, mainly sunny skies. high temperatures in the mid 50s for the most part. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. we will have a string of mild dry days after tomorrow. right on into next wednesday the dry weather, the mild weather in mid december just continues. it might be a mild christmas. >> looking that way. >> certainly is. >> thanks, sensor. larry beil here with a preview of sports for us and warrior news. >> and one of my favorite subjects after gilbert arenas. the story that he got $62 million to leave. a former warrior gets $28 million not to play. >> how are they getting glees they have to have talent. 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