Man and a 69 year old wife are caring for their grandchildren when robbers break in a second floor window. The men held the couple at gunpoint for nearly 40 minutes. A terrifying ordeal. Their daughter told me. During this time, my mom was trying to rush them out of the house by saying, hey, you know, someones going to be home soon. My son in law is going to be home from work soon, so we need to hurry up and get what you need. You know, she she offered them cash and say, hey, if what youre looking for is cash, heres cash. But just take it. Please dont hurt any of us. The head of the apd robbery and felony section told the city council that most of the victims are elderly asians. 55 to 87 years old, and that the Home Invasions take place mostly between 2 and 5 a. M. Monday to friday. He broke dowthe numbers by area to take a look at area urhat has the most me invasions with 17, then ten Home Invasions each in areas one, three and five. Area two with eight, and area six with four. Theres dots all over the map, including our street and our neighborhood. There is an incident every few days on in this general vicinity. Theres a real sense of fear in this neighborhood. Absolutely. Everyones mobilized because of it. But ive never seen anything like it before. This is oakland hills. Resident doesnt want to be identified, especially after a close call with a suspect believed to have pulled off a Home Invasion on his street. He talked to police. The officers tell you that they think this guy, one guy, committed 30 Home Invasions. Thats right. And his mode of operation is to go to the front door. And if that doesnt work, go arounund the back and force entry and doesnt care if anyones home. Police told the Public Safety committee the spike in these Home Invasion robberies is attributed to a group of 2 to 4 suspects who were committing their crime spree in affluent upper scale neighborhoods. They broke down the victims by race. Asian with the most at 18 Home Invasions, followed by hispanic , black, white, other or unknown than asian indian and native american. A Police Spokesperson tells me today that an arrest has been made, but they cant release details on the suspect because its an ongoing investigation. By the way, auto theft in oakland has increased 52 over the same period last year to more than 10,000 cars so far. Im posting the latest report from the opd at abc7 news dot com. Julian omar. All rht , thank you so much, dan, appreciate it. Dan and just like dan did for this story, you can get a snapshot of Public Safety issues where you live. Just use our abc7 neighborhood safety tracker. Youll find it on our front page of abc7 news. Com. And to get in touch with the iteam, you can call this number on your screen right here or go to abc7, news. Com slash iteam, some financial help to build a better bay area. Today the california board of state and Community Corrections officially approved a plan to send millions in grant money to 55 cities and counties across the state to fight organized retail crime. Now fresno is getting the most with more than 23 million going to its Police Department. Here in the bay area, the biggest chunk is going to San Francisco. It will receive 17. 3 million in state funds. The majority of that money, 15. 3 million, will go to the citys Police Department. It will be used to hire more officers and boost Crime Prevention efforts. The rest is going to San Franciscos district attorneys office. Three other bay area district attorneys offices are each getting 2 million. Those are in alameda, santa clara and sonoma counties and three other local Law Enforcement agencies are getting money as well. 15 million to the San Mateo CountySheriffs Office, 11 million to the Santa Clara CountySheriffs Office and 8 million to the San Jose Police department. Now, one city notes absent from the list of grant recipients is oakland. State Officials Say oakland was disqualified because the city missed the deadline. A city spokesperson says the Police Department had its application materials ready. But the Citys Department of economic and Workforce Development didnt submit the application on time. The city administrator called this outcome unacceptable. San francisco, without a doubt, put its best foot forward for the dreamforce conference, which wrapped up today. So the question is, if the city can transform for visitors, why cant it be like this every day . Abc seven News Reporter suzanne fine took that question to mayor london breed to get a reaction. Suzanne joining us live now in the newsroom suzanne, so julian, mayor breed pushed back. She said the city did not go through a major transformation just for dreamforce. She says San Francisco has cleaned up for every Single Convention rather. And overall, things are Getting Better. Its the final day of dreamforce. This socalled trailblazers are still trying to get as much as possible out of their experience. A lot of i talk, i think that was the word of the day. Its been absolutely epic. Great event, less than 24 hours earlier, salesforce Ceo Marc Benioff sat down with governor gavin newsom to talk about what hes seeing in San Francisco. This is probably the cleanest ive ever seen in San Francisco. Its amazing how clean the streets are. Listen to this. Why can San Francisco not be like this every single day . The governor replied that it is possible. He said its up to the city of San Francisco and its leaders. We asked mayor london breed to respond to that and benioffs claim that dreamforce made the citys transformation possible. Its not just because of dreamforce. There are other conventions this is what we do for every convention that comes to San Francisco. Breed says conventions are key to the citys economic recovery, and she claims things have improved. So my pushback is, you know, that San Francisco is changing, things are Getting Better. The mayor admits that the city still sees challenges in the tenderloin and south of market. But part of what i am doing is not pointing the finger at anyone but rolling up my sleeves to take full responsibility and do everything we can to address those issues. Issues like drug use, homelessness and crime. And we are seeing some impacts, especially with daytime open air drug dealing, using and other issues. But we are are aggressively doing everything we can. And i think over time were going to see some significant improvements. In fact, i feel like theyre already happening back to dreamforce. I think San Francisco looks great. Caruso nori and megan aguayo live and work in San Francisco and attended this years dreamforce. They noticed a big difference in and around moscone center. But yeah, i think they did a good job cleaning up for dreamforce, to be honest. I think people like to exaggerate how bad San Francisco has gotten. Dreamforce attendees from all across the globe have had varying impressions of San Francisco. I heard things, but it was everything was fine. It is sad to see some of the things that are happening in the city, but you know, its kind of like i think its just happens everywhere, our mayor breed says Jp Morgan Chase hosted its convention in San Francisco and wrote about its incredible experiences in the city breed also says many other companies have signed on to hold their convention in San Francisco in the coming years. Live in the newsroom, suzannephan abc seven news. Certainly good news for San Franciscos economy. We appreciate it. Thank you, suzanne. New developments with the water main break that opened up a massive sinkhole in the middle of San Franciscos cow hollow neighborhood. The city now says it will take up to six weeks to repair everything. The hole opened up late sunday at the intersection of fillmore and green streets while the broken pipe is fixed and inspection has shown there are all sorts of other problems that need to be dealt with. Crews also need to replace sewer and gas pipelines. President bidens son, hunter biden, has been indicted on felony gun charges. Those criminal charges come after a plea agreement fell apart earlier this summer. Abc News Reporter faith abubey is in washington with what you need to know. President bidens son hunter, facing up to 25 years in prison after special counsel david weiss indicted him on three felony counts related to gun charges thursday. The indictment accuses hunter of making false statements in the purchase of a firearm and for false statements related to information required to be kept by federal firearms as licensed dealer. A third count accuses hunter of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance altogether. Putting the younger biden in serious legal jeopardy just months after a plea deal in the case fell apart. Obviously, the judge didnt like the plea deal and that that happened. Sometimes the judge just doesnt think that the punishment is harsh enough based on what the charges are. And looking at the new indictment, though, they look like ticky tack charges. Theyre not something that the federal government typically brings. Hunter back in july, ready to plead guilty to tax crimes to avoid prosecution and enter into a Pretrial Diversion Program on the gun charge. But the deal struck with wise unraveling in court wise, who spent five years investigated, saying hunter biden then asking attorney general Merrick Garland to give him special counsel status to continue the investigation upon considering his request as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter. I have concluded that it is in the Public Interest to appoint him as special counsel. Wise was appointed by former President Donald Trump as us attorney and was kept in that role after President Biden took office. Hunters team maintains that the diversion agreement is still binding. The president and the white house so far not commenting on the indictment and even though the younger bidens charges carry up to 25 years in prison, the special counsel notes that actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalty and that a federal judge would ultimately decide after considering all factors in washington. Faith abubey abc news. Coming up next and goodbye to a place that made movie magic happen for lucasfilm. Im meteorologist sandhya patel. Get ready to say goodbye to summer. Ill show you whats ahead. Well take a sneak peek at el nino. Plus, a look at your weekend forecast coming up. Plus, interested in a pet peacock. The story behind wingo at t Peninsula Humane Societyon every business deserves a great deal. 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Great on their own, even better together. Try cretors, handcrafted smallbatch popcorn. Industrial light and magic, founded by george lucas is going away. It currently houses 3210 studios whose owners are retiring. But one employee ul like to save the studios history and its legacy. Abc7 News Reporter cornell bernard has more from marin county. Now the creators of the biggest smash hit of all time bring you the next episode in the star wars saga. The Empire Strikes back. You might be surprised to know that classic and hundreds of other films were created inside this nondescript building on kerner boulevard in san rafael. Filmmaking and telling vision changed forever in these facility is now home to 3210 studios. This is the former campus of industrial light and magic, the special effects Company Founded by george lucas. Right after the success of star wars. George wanted to remove himself from the hollywood system, and so he moved the industrial light and magic shop, which was down in van nuys for star wars up here. Longtime employees sean house says many props and models from movies are still here. The millennium falcon, an anchor from pirates of the caribbean, even a model of chewbaccas head. Thats a paint and sample section of the trestle from the lone ranger up there. Lucas relocated his campus to the presidio in 2005, and he took the original door with him. Now, on display after a decade, the studios new owners are calling it quits. They tell us 30 to 10 is simply going out of business due to adverse business conditions, including the declining use of miniature practical effects in Film Production and also the halt in production due to the hollywood strikes. Sean house says the landlord plans to repurpose the building. Its a travesty. I mean, this is a historic place. The other part of it is its a tragedy for the bay area filmmaking community. We reached out to the buildings owner, but have not heard back. Sean house says hes launching a campaign to save the campus and continue its filmmaking legacy. We are in the process of setting up a go fund me so this is probably the coolest hidden gem of this property. This is the original theater. Its where that cool theater sound quality was born and tested. In fact, the speakers are still on the wall. Sean house hoping to preserve all the history. I would encourage if people do care about this place and they care about their film and everything to show their support of the continuation of this facility in san rafael, cornell, bernard, abc7 news. And of course disney is the Parent Company of industrial light and magic and abc7 news. All right, its time to check on our weather. We are almost to the weekend. Yes, we are always thinking about the weekend. Thats for sure. Checking in now with meteorologist sandy patel. Hey, sandy. Hi there. Yeah. And it is the final weekend of summer. Julian and aman. Its not going to feel like summer, ill tell you that much for sure. Lets look ahead beyond summer. At winter. So el nino advisory came out today by the Climate Prediction Center. El nino is a warmer than average sea surface temperatures near the equator. Theyre continuing to see this ice developing. So Climate Prediction Center is saying theres a greater than 95 chance that el nino continues through winter. The odds of a strong event has increased to 71, but they do caution that a strong el nino doesnt necessarily mean strong impacts locally. So you probably recall the 1997 98 el nino. Well have to wait and see because not any of these events are not all the same and they do develop differently as time goes by. High pressure in control of the weather. For the time being, though, and it did bring us some warm weather today. It was in the 80s inland, vacaville up to the 90s along the coast in the 60s. In the sierra, we are seeing some isolated showers and thunderstorms. Ims all quiet here in the bay area. We do have that marine layer just starting to expand and the winds are gusting onshore to 33 miles an hour in oakland, 24 out towards the delta and indio, one of the cooler weather to come from our walnut creek camera. We are just seeing lots of sunshine right now. Air quality will be good the next three days as we look at a live picture one more time, well take a look at your temperatures. 63 in San Francisco, oakland, 65 degrees, low to mid 70s from Mountain View to san jose, 61 degrees in half moon bay. But as we look towards 80, you can see the overcast skies up above. And heres a look at that fog and low cloudiness from our mount tam cam. What a pretty picture. 67 in santa rosa. It is 70 in napa, 80 degrees in fairfield. Upper 70s