There are a lot of charities worrying you may not be quite so generous. Right now on and the kpix5 news at 7 and streaming on cbsn bay area, christmas will never be the same for two Alameda County families after a horrific crash. That evening. Three teenagers are dead including twin brothers. Da lin has what went wrong. Reporter chp investigators are investigating how a car lost control and ended up hitting this tree. Three teenagers were trapped and died in the car. Chp says a boy and a girl rejected it. The victims family members confirm the 16yearold twins died in the crash. Their names, mark and michael urista. Family friends in the third boy is javier ramirez. All three teenagers attended dublin high school. Mark and michaels cousin survived the crash. Chp says he and a teenage girl suffered from major injuries. It was a loud impact. It shook the house. It was loud. Reporter the accident happened around 10 00 christmas night. Behind sharon and steves house. They called 911. The ca
Hi, everyone. Here is live doppler 7 were looking at cloudy skies and the rain well to the north, but theres a cold front lurking offshore and it will bring in rain throughout the bay area today. It is a level one on our storm impact scale. The rain early tomorrow at times could be light to moderate. We have a cold front and area of low pressure that will work through the bay area. Look how mild the temperatures are, 40s and 50s this morning compared to yesterday, 10 to 16 degrees milder. Im sure you feel it out there. As we go through the day the clouds will give way to midafternoon rain. The temperatures will be in the 40s and 50s, tracking the rain for you in a few minutes. Amanda . Thanks so much, lisa. Live doppler 7 is one of the most popular stories on our website and the abc 7 news app. If you want to track the rain, just click the blue live bar at the top of the app. In the south bay, six people are displaced after a duplex be fire in san jose. The fire closed several roads fo
Tomorrow that brj barge is going to be maybe a thousand feet in the bay. Before the big show, tons of preparation going to make San Franciscos skylight up. Well start loading the shells. Theyll fill it full of fireworks. Then we attach the fireworks to the network which is attached to the computer, and then at midnight, we pull the trigger. And when he says trigger, he really means it. This is a dead mans switch. One of these crewmembers will be given the responsibility to keep San Franciscos show going. If they let go, the show is over. 15 minutes, 25 seconds. Its actually longer than that because there is a preroll. Its actually 16 25. And boy does that thumb get tired. He promises this years show will be different with new designs and fireworks that will reach up to 1800 feet in the air. Were also using some equipment that we havent used on this display before. So weve got much more angles that we can play with. Along the embarcadero, the barricades are ready and so are San Francisc
Show, and these crew members of working to bring San Francisco the best one yet. Its going to be a bunch of big shells and theyre going to look like theyre right on top of you. Reporter this years show is extra special to pat diaz. Tomorrow he will lead San Franciscos new years show. San francisco has seen jeff thomas displays on the fourth of july and on new years eve many year for many years. Jeffrey tired this year and the torch has been passed to me and my colleague, matt. Congratulations. Well, thank you. Reporter and he hopes to continue this legacy with a bang and a trigger in hand. Yes, you heard right, a trigger. You have to hold this button down. Its called the dead man. And this button allows the system to shoot fireworks. If something goes wrong, then all that has to be done to stop the fireworks is to let go of that button. Reporter while this crew loads up the shells for the fireworks, San Francisco Police Officers are also prepping for the big show. No discretionary time
Announcer now news to build a better bay area from abc7. A wild round of weather in the bay area led to a close call for a family in the north bay. Good evening, im dan ashley. A bolt of lightning this morning splintered a 100foot tall tree in mill valley at water view drive and lcd court. Some neighbors say it sounded like a bomb going off. Abc7 News Reporter Lauren Martinez is here with a story youll see only on 7. Lauren. Dan, the strike split the tree in two and would fall on the home below. They evacuated the family making for a very unusual Christmas Morning. It was like a bomb went off. It was right behind the house. Reporter residents of water view drive in mill valley were woken up just after 4 00 christmas morn when a strong force of lightningit pl s redwood tree. It exploded into shards where it sent part of the tree on top of our house, on top of our car, on top of the power pole. Reporter the Fire Department evacuated the lobos family for three hours. They live just below.