Heard much about that closed door meeting with state regulators and uber. On the day uber announced it was launching its selfdriving car service, a cabbie shot this video of a selfdriving uber car blowing through a red light. The company hats since said that car was not in selfdrive mode, but the car bryden windmire was. During course of our trip through the street of soma it made two illegal right turns, while in selfdriving mode across a bike lane. He was invited to ride in one of ubers Autonomous Vehicles just before the Company Announced its robot car service. Christopher witnessed a different uber car run a red light. The driver did not have his hands on the wheel and was actually looking at the passenger who had his laptop open and was looking at his laptop and the two were having a conversation and they were completely shocked. Reporter as uber meets with state regulators over its Autonomous Vehicle project, one thing is clear, authorities dont know how many dangerous situations its cars may have experienced. Thats because uber is still operating without a permit from the dmv which would require reports on these glitches. Ubers robot cars have been on city streets for months, but state jumped in only after the Company Announced they would start pick up customers. Before last week uber told the dmv those vehicles were only mapping, not driving you a ton mouthsly. Mayor ed lee says hes personally talked with cofounder travis calanik. He should not be operating the Driverless Technology on our streets without the permits. 20 other companies have not had a problem getting the permits. The mayor is not sure uber police can impound the robot cars even if they are operating without a permit. Reporter and in case youre curious about what uber has to say about any of this, we are, too, and weve asked them multiple times for any kind of a comment and so far nothing this afternoon. Sergio quintana, abc 7 news. Unattended bags at three different terminals caused delays today at Los Angeles International airport on one of the busiest travel days of the year. One bag in a Screening Room was cleared but two more unattended bags were found. One under an outdoor bridge and another in a mens restroom. We just looked at the arrivals and departures log at l. A. X. Right now there are no delays. An investigation is under way after an Early Morning crash killed two theme near faire field. Sky 7 shows how little is left of those two cars after that collision. This happened on peabody road near hammond drive around 7 30 this morning. More live from fairfield with the late. Wayne . Reporter in fairfield this is the car crash that pretty much everyone knows about but theres a lot they dont know about, like who are the two victims. Fairfield police think they have clues who those drivers are based on the license plate in that vehicle but we may not know until tomorrow when the coroner makes it official. These, remains of a headon collision. The charred shells of an suv and lincoln sedan in which two people died after being burned beyond recognition. They suffered some pretty serious burns and beyond that it doesnt really doesnt really suit any purpose to describe many more. Reporter Sergeant Jeff osgood of the Fairfield Police department has spent 32 years on the job and describes this scene as being particularly disturbing. It could have been worse if not for a passerby who stopped and pulled the badly burned suv driver from the flames. Really just trying to do the right thing. A pretty selfless act and pretty here nick my view based on what i know about the situation reporter rest is still a mystery, how it happened. Which car strayed into the other lane and whether alcohol was involved and why the cars caught fire. Its pretty unusual in my view. I said, ive been a Police Officer for a long time and seen a lot of traffic collisions and never seen two cars catch fire the way these did. Reporter roughly 12 hours after the accident, peabody road reopened to traffic. No sign of what happened here except black scars on pavement. In fairfield, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. In san jose, the search is on for the driver who hit had a 3yearold boy and took off. Authorities say the boy was walking a dog with his grandfather near rowhampton avenue and Vancouver Court when the dog ran into the street. The boy chased the dog and the boy was rushed to the Santa Clara ValleyMedical Center and may have internal injuries. A mother and son are recovering after a freak accident overnight. The chp says this all happened when a 17yearold was having car trouble and pulled over next to the Center Divider on southbound 680 in san jose just before 101. He called his mom for help, and when she was approaching the scene she slammed into the pickup truck causing her car to roll over and slam into her sons. Well, all is calm and all is bright across the bay area right now but a storm is on way. Heres doppler 7 currently showing calm conditions with mainly sunny skies and heres a look at our rain chances over the next seven days. A 10 chance tomorrow, late tomorrow night and 100 chance of rain on friday with the storm ranking two on the storm impact scale so lets get right to the scale. This will be a storm on friday of moderate intensity and expected to produce threequarter of an inch to half an inch and a quarter to threequarters of an inch in most urban areas and afternoon winds will gust 30 to 40 miles per hour. Heres the forecast animation starting at noon tomorrow after a mainly sunny day. Clouds will increase in the afternoon and evening hours and then as we look not overnight hours going into friday morning its going to be a mess. Rain will arrive suddenly and with a surge around the time the morning commute begins by 8 00 friday morning, looks like all of the bay area will be covered by at least light to moderate rain, moderate to heavy in many locations. Ill give you a closer look at how long that rain will last and what christmas weekend looks like in just a few minutes. Larry . Thank you, spencer. Speaking of surge, look out for high surf if youre headed to the beach this evening. Waves as high as 20 feet are expected in some areas. A beach hazard statement has been issued for marrin, monterrey, San Francisco, sonoma counties through 6 00 and the biggest impact is Half Moon Bay rate near mavericks and to get the latest warnings and weather alerts download the abc 7 news app and enable the push alerts. A modesto man has pled guilty to stealing 500,000 worth of wine from a world renowned wine country restaurant that. Happened at the French Laundry on Christmas Day in 2014. It was closed for renovations at the time. Federal prosecutors say david acknowledged conspiring to steal the pricey wine bottles from the restaurant. Hes scheduled to be sentenced in march. San mateo police have the sketch of a suspect who shot a man several times. The gunman is a hispanic man in his late 20s or early 30s, 5 foot 10 with a mustache and beard. The shopping happened in the parking lot of the bowling alley. It appears the victim was target. Hes still hospitalized but is recovering. The Holiday Season is hey among the happiest times of the year. Turns out its also among most deadly. An Associated Press analysis found that unintentional shootings spiked during the holidays. New years day was found to be the years most likely day for accidental shootings. Among several factors contributing to this increase are alcohol, hunting season and poem who receive guns as gifts. Cities are stepping up inspections of illegal Living Spaces because of the deadly ghost ship fire in oakland that has many artists worried about evictions. Abc 7 news was in San Francisco city hall as activists delivered 10,000 petitions asking for a moratorium on unsolicited selections and to waive permit fees. The board overseeing the inspections will take up the issue next month. These departments might be a bit embarrassed because it looks like they werent doing their job, but i think theres a balance that can be struck between helping people get these buildings up to code and these buildings to be safe. While the meeting was still going on, inspectors visited this artists living space near the farmers market. Abc 1 news also got a link side. Well have react from the artists living there tonight at 6 00. Late declines in the stock market prevented the dow from topping the 20,000point mark. Health Care Companies such as merck and pfizer had the biggest losses in the dow today. Fedex fell 3 after earnings failed to meet wall street expectations. The dow overall slipped 32 points and the nasdaq also down 12. Standard poors was down five points. Icles Public Employee retirement system voted to reduce the rate of return on investment from 7. 5 207 . The move could put a bigger burden on governmental agencies who will have to shell out more in pension contributions. Governor brown says the move is more reflective of the financial returns they can expect in the future. This will make for a more sustainable system. Coming up at 4 00, a vote on repealing North Carolinas controversial bathroom bill hits a snag. Well have the late on todays political wrangling. Up next, netflix and marvel hacked. What hackers were targeting and what you need to look out for. This year i think i collected maybe about 150. Last year i collected maybe about 250. This little guy is a oneman gang in the christmas battle to give every child a toy. How this boys hard work is really paying off. And taking a live look now at our toll plaza over the bay bridge. Traffic is moving in your fast track lanes, but if you have cash, youre stuck right now. Stay with us. Were back after a qui in North Carolina the controversial bathroom bill passed into law this spring could soon be repolled but its not going well. This after the governor called for a special session to row consider the law limiting lbgt rights. So far republicans have been unable to craft legislation repealing house bill 2. Abc News ReporterElizabeth Hur has the details. Reporter a special session in North Carolina statehouse with the opponents and supporters of the socalled bathroom bill determined to let lawmakers know where they stand. We dont have a discrimination problem in this state. Most people want to use the bathroom they are comfortable with. Reporter it was back in march house bill 2 was signed into law banning people from using the bathroom of the gender they identify with. Opponents call it discrimination against the Lbgt Community while supporters of the law maintain its all about safety. What we want is protection of our women and children from sexual predators walking in on them. Reporter its a law that even cost the state some big businesses, paypal pulled hundreds of jobs out of charlotte. The nba and musicians followed suit cancelling major events. And then fast forward to this week. After charlotte lift ad local antidiscrimination law site which is actually led to the legislation. Lawmakers are being asked to consider repealing the state law. This is tarnishing our reputation as a state. We are discriminating aainop to be quite honest i think some of you now dont particularly like the bill for political reasons. Reporter whether there is enough support to fully repeal the law remains to be seen. Elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. A new campaign could end up banning marijuana billboards from all state highways. Five state lawmakers have introduced a bill which would ban the ads featuring medical and recreational marijuana. They say its an effort to prevent the marketing of mott to minors and some have already appeared here in the bay area. Hackersk over net. Icss twitter account and they claim to be testing security. They are known for taking over highprofile social media accounts. They tweeted the sam access Staff Members account. Netflix kept deleting the tweets and told the customers their company was on the problem and they are also claiming responsibility for hacking twitter accounts for some of Marvel Studios upcoming film. They named twitter handles as well as black panther, kept in the america and guardian of the galaxy franchises fell victim. Disney is Parent Company to both marvel and abc 7. A new kind of intersection made a debut. Abc 7 news was on hand as officials unveiled what they call a protected intersection. Its the first of it kind in the city, raised concrete islands were added around pike paths and walkways to slow cars down as they turn right from division on to ninth street. Before the redesign of this intersection, cars would often speed right through where were standing, cutting across the bike lane and a very long cross for pedestrians. Reporter this intersection is a major thoroughfare for cyclist in the morning rush hour. 25 of the traffic on the streets is from people on bicycles and the city is hoping to protect poverty barriers at other intersections with high collision rates. You may notice Something Different the next time you drive along van ness avenue in San Francisco. Abc 7 news was on the busy street as workers began chopping down trees in the center media. Its to make way for munis revamped Rapid Transit system which will include center lanes for buses. In all 86 trees will be cut down. The city says it will plant 200 new trees when construction is finished. A little pop quiz. Whats the most annoying word or phrase you can think of . For me its ama has the day off. But for you, according to a new poll, most people think its whatever. Whatever. Whatevs, according to the Marist College poll in a word ear says the 38 of americans and no offense is second and then they wont Say Something and the third is, you know, right . Age does matter on this one. Im surprised like like, like . Anyway, among americans under 30, i cant even came in at number one. Yeah, i guess i dont hear that one a lot. Im not in that crowd i guess. Just saying. Ama is not under 30, but looks it. Thank you. He saves himself. Whatever, whats the weather . I know, right . I cant stand that either. Im just saying its going to rain in a couple of days and its going to get wet and things are looking good. Heres the live doppler 7 and its like sunny right now. A few clouds will move into the picture late tomorrow, but weve got nice Clear Conditions for a while. Check out the western sky and the soontobe setting sun from our east bay hills camera. What a beautiful picture. 59 degrees in San Francisco and 63 at oakland and san jose and 60 in mountianview and 59 at Half Moon Bay. This is the view from our mt. Tam camera looking down on to the bay under mostly clear skies. Right now santa rosa checks in at 62 degrees. Mid to upper 50s at napa, the new york posta and 60 at concord and this is the view at the golden gate looking northward under clear skies. Clouds will move in late tomorrow. Our next storm arrives friday and its going to be a drench, and well have a chance, a late evening chance of some showers on sunday which is Christmas Day. A low temperature tonight, by the way, still spare the air day and it will be again tomorrow. Low temperatures under clear skies tonight and will drop to the mid to upper 30s in our inland valleys. Well see mainly low 40s right around the bay and then tomorrow under mostly sunny skies until Late Afternoon or early evening. Well see highs ranging from mid50s at the coast to mainly mid50s inland and around the bay all but one or two inland locations may top out at 60 degrees. For the air quality, another spare the air day as i mentioned. Wood burning sill legal on a spaur the air day. North bay will have the poorest air quality and other regions will have moderate air quality. The approaching storm coming in on friday ranking two on the storm impact scale. A storm moderate intensity producing threequarts of an inch of rain and a quarter to threequarters of an inch of rain in the winds gusty at 30 to 40 miles per hour. Heres the forecast animation starting Early Morning friday and by 5 00 a. M. As the morning commute begins. Well see at least light to moderate rain covering most of the bay area and moderate rain will blanket a lot of the bay area by midmorning and that rain will continue that pattern into the Late Afternoon hours. Finally break up into pockets of light rain and showers. Notice the cold air will produce snow in the mountains to our north and east even as the storm breaks up late friday night. We project rainfall totals will range from half an inch to throwquarters in most locations and theres snow in the sierra. We have a winter storm watch in effect furs evening into saturday evening and a warning in effect from friday morning to saturday afternoon. Look for up to a foot and a half of snow in some spots and heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Things cam down over the weekend with just slight chances of showers here hand there, but friday is the day for big rain, big rain. Oh, well. And wind. Thanks, spencer. Coming up, getting divorced is usually a somber occasion, but for one bay area couple its anything but. The unusual way they are celebrating the end of their marriage. And 4 21, a live check of the afternoon commute. This is 101 in san jose as it almost alw