So dad slayed the problemt with puffs plus lotion, instead. With lotion to soothe and softness to please. A nose in need deserves puffs, indeed. With china. All because of one phone call. Good evening, im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. Just a short time ago. Chinas foreign minister called it. A small trick by taiwan. In a break with nearly 4decades a short time ago, the China Foreign minister called it a small trick by taiwan in a break with for decades of us policy, the president elect spoke with the president of taiwan by phone and that moved struck a a nerve with beijing. It is believed no us president or president elect has spoken directly with the leader of taiwan since the United States severed ties in 1979 and the Transition Team said so that they talked about the close ties between taiwan and the United States and he congratulated president elect trump as picked for his victory. The us broke formal relations with taiwan in 1979 as part of the washington one china policy. The notion that the United States in the incoming might be supporting a pro independent agenda. Mr. Trump has ignored briefing opportunities before speaking with world leaders. The white house says united state United States difference are willing to offer him advice. And the us cells taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but should not accept such a call. How can democrats work with trump . We asked about that and will air that on face the nation this weekend. We saw a lot of people bundled up at union square. And just wait, temperatures are about to plunge into the 30s. Paul has more on that upcoming cold snap. It is still on schedule to arrive next week and between now and then, it will actually get warmer, st. Helena is our example. 70 degrees is the forecast tomorrow. Look at the changes. The overnight low will be down to 29. Away from the water and big cities, we see the overnight low. And we will talk about how long that will stick around when the front arrives. Apple bandits, they stormed in when a San Francisco store was full of holiday shoppers, there are four locations that were hit in the last few weeks and sometimes more than once. Our reporter is outside of a a store that has already been hit twice. Reporter weve seen guards posted outside different locations and we also know the Law Enforcement in berkeley plan to meet with the tech company to come up with a new security plan. Less than 15 seconds, thats how long it took to storm in and run out with a fortune in apple products. They grabbed everything they could get their hands on inside this apple store on chestnut as the customers stood and just watched. We identified some of the people involved in. We made some arrests but this is a new target. Days later the same seems same store was hit again. One employee escorted customers out of the way while other workers told those thieves to scan to scram. The eight recent robberies all show the same thing. The apple store has been robbed three times in one month and this one stands out as this suspect got violent and pushed security guards. They are not long there. It is a property crime. We are we are still working with apple. To the apple store in berkeley was hit three times as well and area Law Enforcement currently work on plans to come up with better ways to keep employees and shoppers safe. The robbers typically come in during the evening rush hour when employees are distracted or when they are busy. Police say a man wrapped a girl up in the park and dragged her across the street and tried to pull her into a car. It happened at 3 00 this afternoon. That girl managed to get away. So far, no arrests. A College Professor is dead after being stabbed this afternoon. Police arrested a student in that killing. The suspect had a personal dispute with the man who taught psychology at that school for 15 years. Lori perez has more from that school. Witnesses described the student journalist. A frantic seen as police converged and took that man in handcuffs and out of the building. He was escorted out by police. He was in his middle 20s and he was very sketchy looking. He had a glass he had a glassy eyed look on his face. Tonight the University President released a memo identifying the victim as a psychology professor, a faculty member since 2001 and an expert in expert in vision, vision loss and restoration. They could not verify if the suspect was a student. There were reports of a man with multiple stab wounds inside that building. Firefighters arrived to find that professor dead inside of the science center. And an alert when out telling students this Police Related incident was in progress. There is a danger to the community, stay away from the area. Tonight, a possible connection between the student suspect. It is pretty scary. It could have easily been me. Today was the last day of classes, finals Begin Next Week and there is no indication it will change. A University Service is in the works to honor that professor. We learned High School Students in the east bay had to go to the hospital after eating hot edibles on campus. The principal of the school says a total of six students eight the edibles. The students who got sick are both expected to be okay. The Berkeley HighSchool Principal says the investigation is ongoing and it does involve cooperation with local Law Enforcement. They were born sharing a body. Next week a special pair of sisters get a chance at separate lives. Ondrea has more on how they area insurgents are preparing for a a bay area operation. The surgery is being carefully orchestrated. When those girls every piece of equipment will be color coded according to which twin it is assigned to a. Ava and erika came together into the world as a tiny bundle, on august 10th, 2014. On tuesday, surgeons believe it will take about 18 hours in order to separate those now 2 yearold girls from one another. The process to go from one bundle to separate lives has been slow and painful. Ava and erika are connected from the lower chest and the upper abdomen down. The girls have separate hearts, hearts, lungs, and stomachs, but they only have three legs. And the digestive track is intertwined and shared. This summer, summer, the lead surgeon put in tissue expanders to stretch their skin and in short each of them has enough skin to cover wounds after surgery. A team of 50 people works on 3 d models like these of ava and erika, to come up with a plan. Ava, erika, and their mom live in palo alto to be closer to the doctors before the surgery. When the girls become separate, they will go through hours of Reconstructive Surgery and for the first time will have different operating rooms. A bay area store cheated customers out of millions. Tonight we take you inside a life of luxury built on friday. Propane profane posters popped up in bar areas this weekend, where did they come from . To tonight, how the cops tracked down a thief using costumes,,,,, on monday. Police in campbell say they now have the woman. Shown in surveillance video. Who took a little girls Christmas Present from a front porch. A break in a rash of thefts, they now have the woman shown in surveillance videos took a girls Christmas Present present. She admitted to the theft in campbell and two other similar crimes. Police put out that video in an effort to publicize the use of beta packages by putting in gps trackers. Tomorrow, the empire one man built on a ponzi scheme goes up for auction. One thing is not for sale. Reporter a peek inside the wine office of premier krill, a glimpse into a luxury life run by friday. He admitted he was running a pop a wine ponzi scheme. Traces of his lifestyle go on auction. Court records show that he admitted that he sold or attended to sell 40 million worth of phantom wine that he never purchased and he used the profits to purchase corvettes, ferraris, a maserati and mercedesbenz. And an auctioneer discovered evidence of his exotic taste in cars in the wine where heart warehouse. You can see i might bid on these. The outfit in the office, a full gym and a pricey golf simulator. And this is the highend wine vault that was accessible only through thumbprint scanner. It has a 1248 one bottle capacity. There is no wine for auction. Trustees sold the bottles discovered here over nearly 4 million. Whats next, collectors items. And the cases once a held high end wine like screaming eagle. He went astray with personal things, not as the spirit selling and never buying for people, that people, that is where the waste went. A man whose house slid down the hill in San Francisco, it, it was demolished and he is getting a settlement from the city. He was getting ready to move in when a crack came down on the driveway. Inspectors recommended tearing it down and bulldozers soon swept in. A leak in an underground water main cause the problem. An empty lot, locked off by metal barricades, the chronicle reports the city is going to pay the owner 5 million to rebuild and to protect the road and the sewer line. And tearing down some rogue posters which had pastors doing double takes. The Transit Agency plans to keep the message going, minus the word that im not allowed to say on tv. It looks like an official sign with a logo on top, telling passengers racism, sexism, homophobia, trends will trans phobia and xenophobia are prohibited at all times but it finishes with a word that we cannot say on tv. It says get your stuff together. It is a little brand a little bit blunt but we are all needing that a little bit right now. Get your stuff together, it is not so mean in this current situation. There have been nearly 900 reports of hate crimes in the 10 days following the election. Almost 100 places in california. They can say anything they want. The leader is now allowed to see anything offensive. Bart says they did not make the signs and did not sign off on it. They took down posters found on the millbrae line. We can all get our stuff together and just get along. They said they cannot have it prohibit free speech but fritz will not be tolerated. The will post processing signs on the train soon that are free of profanity. And a local pharmacy took measures to nab crooks. Tonight we have learned the efforts have paid off. Police arrested these men who were behind several pharmacy burglaries in orange county. The target was cough syrup. A as he caught on, putting a gps tracker on a bottle of cough syrup. The tracker led the police straight to the suspects. If you ever skipped a trip to the ballot box, veronica tells us you clearly have not met the newest member of the Albany School board. She was clearing her table when she got the official word that she had one her razor thin race by just one vote. And she ran for the second of two spots on the board. And the vote that put her over the top. A a friend of mine sat down with her stepson. He was 20 and he never voted before and she said no, you need to vote. He voted for me and he said he had not before because he it did not matter and was not going to change anything. But it does matter. The teachable moment is not lost on this educator, she hopes that the next time it is an effort that comes to the civic selection. And a huge mess left behind after clearing a fridge and pantry of this home, a pair has broken into 50 homes last week. The bear can find a weak spot. And they will read the refrigerators and pantries in the home. They recommend securing doors and windows as well. Those are bad news bears. I think everyone agrees. [ laughing ] the bear is thinking go out and hunt or just open the refrigerator . They chose the latter. [ laughing ] okay, where you are, it is rain free and will be for the next several days and the big story is the cold. Nothing on the radar tonight and nor will there be over the next several days. All the way back down to capitola, we are rain free. Post sunset, we see some planes landing, oakland and San Francisco, mild with mid 50s. Center is at 42 degrees. Tonight, 30s, 40s, tomorrow, the mildest weather that we will see for at least the next week and perhaps for the rest of the year as we see isolated 70s. North and northeast northeast wind, temperatures ranging up to 7 degrees above average but not as breezy tomorrow compared to today. A 60 mileperhour wind gusts, nothing like that coming up tomorrow. This is the center of the huge ridge of High Pressure bringing us offshore wind tomorrow. We take the next storm system and it goes well to the north. The rain chances not going to happen, we get the front and the cold air but no rainfall and no snowfall in the area. A great day to come into San Francisco tomorrow, they were to middle fifties, sunshine, it is december and it will be beautiful all throughout the bay area tomorrow. Picking the town closest to you, napa at seventy, fremont at sixtytwo, Mountain View at 62, center is at 69 degrees, livermore at 69 degrees, cooler, cloudier, and coming up on sunday, no more rain. And no rain on monday. Our cold is different from everybody else, how cold is he going to be . Lower to lower to middle if 50s for the high temperatures. We will likely see some freezing temperatures in the middle. Tuesday night, night, wednesday night, the cold nights. And a widespread rain chance next friday. For us, it is going to be cold. Cold for us. I like its. Thank you. We have never seen a booking photo quite like this one, one, tonight, the story behind this mug shot. Yes,,,, coughs that cough doesnt sound so good. Well i think you sound great. Move over. Easy booger man. Take mucinex dm. Itll take care of your cough. Fine ill text you in 4 hours when your cough returns. One pill lasts 12 hours, so. Looks like im good all night ah david, please, listen. Still not coughing. Not fair you guys waffles are my favorite ah some cough medicines only last 4 hours. But just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Lets end this. Starring. Two jailbirds. This booking photo is go this has to be one of the most interesting mugshots weve ever seen. It stars jill birds, a booking photo that is going viral tonight after an oregon man brought a surprise pet bird to his court appearance. He did not realize that he would be arrested, so while he waited for a friend to pick up the bird, deputies decided to when it. They allowed the suspect to take a photo with his little friend. This is his pet, he had this bird since it was hatched. That bird is four years old. I could just tell he was so concerned when he went into custody, the bird was so special to him. If being photogenic was a crime. It would serve hard time. [ laughing ] we will find out more tomorrow. We dont know if they are happy about it. Aubrey is joining us now. What a great a transition. Okay, coming up in sports, a battle of firstplace teams. And a title up ,,, washington and colorado battled for the pac 12 title. Barring a big surprise. The huskies should get into the 4 team playoff with a win. Football hopes on the line as washington and colorado battle for the title, the huskies should get it should be able to get into the playoffs with a victory. And its probably for the first time this season. On the opening drive, colorado would go in with the 3yard touchdown and the game would fall apart in the second half. The he tried to play through the ankle sprain and in the first playback his pass to 10 for the pick six. Huskies take the 217 lead. Washington is trying to put this game away. Jake avoids the sack. He finds his number one receiver, john ross, and he comes down with a ridiculous onehanded catch. And most likely they booked the tickets to the playoffs with the 4110 victory. To the ice on this star wars night, the sharks take on the montrial canadians. They find brent burns and he throws it right by them. They go on with the final of 2 1. San jose has not lost to montrial at home since 1999. And on the links, tiger woods in the bahamas finishing a rounded under three hours, looking at his first bogey of the afternoon on the 16th, he saves it with a flat six. And it has been a while since we have seen that, a bogey under three, 765. We have a chance to see the warriors rebound. The fist pump. I havent seen it. We will see if tiger is back or if this wa,,,, the late show is next. 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