Destroyed eight units and displaced 22 people. Yeah. Weve learned some of the fire victims are also theft victims as well. Abc 7 News Reporter katie outies katie utehs is live with more. Reporter its injury on top of injury, a family had things stolen moments after becoming fire victims rather. Now, as the fire marshal investigates the cause, im here to tell you what you can do to help the fire victims. Residents of the condo complex in concord sift through rubble. A fire last week displaced 22 people. Just happy that they made it out alive. My husband had to actually wrap my doubtered and little puppy in a blanket and run through the flames. Yeah, hes my hero. Reporter medics transported Jennifer Ballard eats 5yearold daughter malia to be treated for smoke inhalation and while that happened someone swiped the familys remaining belongings, including a laptop. Not did they take it and got into it and used my account numbers and my visa online to make purchases of their own. Reporter the president of the Homeowners Association says families like jennifers need help. We still have four families that are living in motel rooms. Reporter stacks of clothing and toys have been donated. Now a gofundme page is up and running. They have lost everything and they are trying to get on their feet and they are looking for housing, and so the Gofundme Campaign is really about helping folks get what they need and get their deposits and their rents together and be able to replace Household Goods to get them back on their feet and get them out of the motel rooms first and foremost. As jennifer shows us, her daughters charred doll hanging from her balcony. Shes reminded about what most of the most. Things are things. They can be replaced but loved ones cant, so thats how im trying to keep, you know, the thought. Reporter weve posted information about the gofundme page on our website, abc7news. Com. In concord, katie utehs, abc 7 news. Graphic new cell phone video has emergeled showing former San Francisco 49er ray mcdonald in a tense domestic standoff with the mother of his child. Let me warn you, this is pretty intense. You may find it disturbing. Stop stop stop reporter thats the end of a fourminute video that appears to show mcdonald chasing the mother of his child while she was holding their then 2monthold son. The attorney for mcdonalds ex says this happened last may in santa clara. Mcdonald was arrested and charged with Domestic Violence and false imprisonment, but a grand jury declined to indict mcdonald and the charges were then dropped. The woman is now in a custody battle with mcdonald. Mcdonald was let go by the niners because of his mounting legal problems and hes currently not playing in the nfl. The Alameda CountySheriffs Office now says a murder this summer was a murder for hire involving a woman who is a selfdescribed marijuana entrepreneur. Abc 7 news Melanie Woodrow is outside the office in san leandro with how investigators put it together. Melanie . The investigators focused their attention on the victim in all of this, who they realized had ties to the marijuana Grow Business and ties to a former associate who according to deputies here wanted him out of the picture. This was the scene at blossom way in july. Deputies called the homicide an ambush. Someone shot and killed 38 years aidan kutani as he was driving his red pickup truck. Our investigators on the scene had to put it in park. And soon after Johnny Wright and chariot burks of tennessee were arrested. Like the attack was targeted. Like they knew his lifestyle. Reporter but they werent sure why a couple from tennessee would want to hurt a california man. We noticed a connection between him and a woman need takeisha upshaw. Reporter who also goes by the fame of tikisha ang. In abc 7 she cass described as a cannabis entrepreneur. I think this is a great concept for women to get together. Reporter deputies say she was in business with kutani and they had a falling out. Mr. Kutani became a target for miss upshaw. Wessley brown is facing murder charges. Mr. Brown was instrumental in organizing and getting hit team out here to california. Reporter when deputies arrested upshaw, they say they noupd a sophisticated illegal marijuana grow in her home. What they havent found to this day is the gun used to kill kutani. In san leandro, Melanie Woodrow, abc 7 news. Were looking live over the city from our sutrow camera. People in San Francisco woke up early this morning complaining of a mysterious odor. Pg e received at least 50 calls reporting smell of rotten eggs or sulfur. Nob hill and the tenderloin and mission were affected. The odor dissipated by 7 00 a. M. Officials are working with the city to determine what caused that smell. And were just soaked in sunshine on this wednesday and a nice little warmup occurred earlier today. Look at this. 24hour temperature change. All locations right now running warmer than they were this time yesterday by nine degrees in mountianview and 5 in concord and 6 degrees warmer in san jose. Its a winter beauty out there. Well take a live look from the mt. Tam cam and not a cloud to be seen with baby blue skies and evening forecast and plenty of stars out there. Youll notice were very cool to slow down and by 10 00 were still in the 40s. Not until midnight that we start to see a couple of 30s pop up inland. As we head towards the holiday weekend. A few changes to the forecast. Were seeing increases chances of showers are especially saturday so well talk about what that means for your new years eve and the best chance to see the showers coming up in the full accuWeather Forecast. Drew, thanks very much. Moderate earthquakes and a series of aftershocks hit western nevada. The usgs recorded two magnitude 5. 7 quakes hit hawthorne just after midnight. Thats about 70 miles southeast of lake tahoe. The third quake, a magnitude 5. 5, hit just after 1 00 a. M. People in the central valley, sacramento and lake tahoe area reported shaking and so did one abc 7 news viewer in San Franciscos soma neighborhood. No major damage or injuries are reported. Happening today, a former east bay drug dealer serving a 35year sentence will be released thanks to president obama. 48yearold Darryl Lamar Reed had his sentence commuted by the president in the august. Reed was 20 years old when he was found guilty of distributing crack and cocaine in 1990. He was a kingping in oaklands crack cocaine drug trade. As part of the reagan eras war on drugs reed received a stiff sentence of 35 years in prison. We talked with a former al immediatea county deputy district attorney. He said hes shocked and says reed should stay in prison. A nasty crash in san jose on 280 left two people thursday morning but really the remarkable thing is that they survived at all. It was bad. Abc 7 News Reporter matt keller has more on this wrong way crash. This looks bad, horrific, possibly tragic. Even the chp when officers arrived on the scene said it looks like a possible 1144. That means fatality, but within the crushed metal a voice gave hope to san jose firefighters. Someone inside this red chevy was alive. Well, i can tell what you one of the fire captains told me. They said when they got here and heard the lady in the red car screaming, they took that as a good sign, you know, shes screaming, shes shes you know, shes still alive. Majority of the damage was on the passenger side of the vehicle, so the the drivers compartment was pretty well intact so we had just a little bit of extrication to do on the driver and we were able to get her out of the driver. The driver, identified as a 24yearold livermore woman was taken to the hospital with major but nonlifethreatening injuries. Chp investigators blamed this crash on the driver of this cray volkswagen glove. Officers identified her as a 23yearold who lives in North Hollywood and is originally from cupertino. Officers say she was driving the wrong way, northbound, on southbound 280 around 3 30 in the morning when her car smashed into this red chevy. Then the golf was rear ended by a white bmw and the driver of the bmw wasnt seriously hurt and look at this. This is the volkswagens engine sitting in the middle lane of 280. The fact this happened is actually a good thing. That saved the driver from potentially suffering more serious injuries or even death. When pieces come out like that, it actually helps to disperse the Kinetic Energy so its actually getting rid of that energy hopefully before it gets to the driver of the passenger of the vehicle itself. The chp says the wrongway driver was arrested for felony dui. I san jose, matt keller, abc 7 news. Petaluma police are searching for a man who robbed a Sporting Goods store. The suspect was caught on the Surveillance Video on north mcdowell boulevard. An employee told police the suspect took this beretta air pistol pellet gun and left the store without paying for it. The man ran off when employees confronted him outside the store. Petaluma police want to hear anyone with information about the theft. A lot more to come on the news hat 4 00, a massive geiser flooding a california street this afternoon. What caused this gusher. Also, the search for the wouldbe burglars who slammed into a police car and damaged an east bay business. And flames devour a wellknown landmark in tahoe. Next, the investigation into what happened. 7 on your sides michael februariy is taking your questions on facebook and twitter. Just tag them with the questions ask finney. Hell answer the questions live a little bit later. And lets take you outside for a live look at the san matteo bridge on this wednesday. People trickling back to work in many cases or doing some gift returns. As you can see its moving smoothly in both directions check how the this video from los angeles. Gushing water from a water main break shot over the top of a power line and over a traffic light this. Happened this afternoon in the boil heights neighborhood which is just east of downtown l. A. Some big rig traffic managed to get through, as you see there, and can you see the treats around the area were flooded until city workers managed to shut off that water. An an bay donned uhaul, a highspeed chase and smashed up police car and damaged east bay business were all part of an overnight robbery at a motorcycle and jetski shop. This Afternoon Police are looking for three burglars. Abc 7 News ReporterAmy Hollifield has the story from heyward. It was almost 3 30 this morning when heyward police got the call that an alarm was going off at east bay motorsports that someone had broken in. When they arrived they found three men in a stolen uhaul. The suspects tried to get away and purposefully rammed one of the Police Officers in their vehicle. The officer inside the car was okay. The officers on scene did not draw their weapons. The officers didnt feel that what had happened at that moment justified the need for deadly force. They rammed the vehicle and they ran the police car and continued on. Reporter the chase ended at 12 and willow and heyward. The two passengers ran away but the driver was peacefully taken into custody. They got him when they tried to help the other two escape. They had slowed down to let one passenger leave on foot and the second pats jer and by the time driver tried to do the same the officers were there there and stopped the vehicle. Reporter Hayward Police are looking for the two passengers. The driver who they took into custody is a 20yearold oakland man now in charge being held on a number of charges including assault with a deadly weaponin and evading arrest. California drivers be sure to get a mount for your cell phone before the knew year. Starting january 1st its against the law to have a develop phone in your hand while driving. Texting and calling without a handsfree device is already banned, you know that. Expanded restrictions will now include checking gps or changing songs. You cant hold it in your hand. Cell phones must now be mounted to the Center Console or windshield without obstructing the drivers view and only splitsecond finger taps and swipes are allowed. Lots of tickets are Still Available for the bay areas only bowl game. The foster farms bowl starts in a little more this an hour. Tonight 19th ranked utah battles indiana in the foster farms bowl at levi stadium. The utes finished third in the pac12 division finishing 84. The hoosiers are playing in consecutive bowl games for the third time in school history. Kickoff is at 5 30. Well, its time, believe it or not, to start thinking about recycling your christmas tree. Abc 7 news was at Civic Center Plaza as ecology workers showed how they chop up and repurpose the trees. Folks can put the trees on the curbs during the first two weeks of january. Just remember to take off the stand obviously and all the decorations. Always hard to get all of them off but try to do that. The trees dont go in the green bin because they cant be composted. They are hard to compost because of that acidity, so better thing to do is to put it out at the curb on your regular Collection Day so that we can take it down to the transfer station and chip it. The trees chips are converted into biomass and used to generate electricity. Lake tahoe fire investigators are looking into the cause of a raging fire at a popular ski resort. The fire broke out at homewood mountain resort. Anchor kristen sze is here with dramatic pictures and new information. Kiss ten . Dan and ama, check out this picture provided by the north tahoe Fire Protection district. The blaze really devoured a ski lodge at homewood and forced the resort to turn away holiday skiers today. The fire broke out around 3 00 a. M. In the south lodge, a place where skiers to get food, hot chocolate and rest. It quickly went to two alarms and despite firefighters battling for house, the blaze burned the lodge to the ground at the small west tahoe resort. Its been a difficult building due to the size and the and the volume and loading inside of the structure. And theres no casualties or injuries. The north tahoe Fire Protection district tweeted this picture of firefighters working hard to keep the flames to just the one structure and lafayette resident greg worley sent us the video when his family was turned away from skiing. Homewoods website has a message of thanks for the firefighters saying its trying to get the resort up and running tomorrowed and in this part here, i say that skiers, they should still check the website before they dry out just in case. Dan and ama . Indeed, lets talk about the Weather Forecast as we inch closer to the new year. Thats right. Meteorologist drew tuma is in for spencer and has the forecast. Over the weekend were tracking the chance for rain. timing for the fireworks and all the festive tis coming this weekend. Live doppler 7 showing you a gorgeous day. Clear skies and tons of sunshine and you like today, youre going to love tomorrow. Out there we go. Emoryville camera showing us a beautiful sunset is under way. Were looking westward towards the city of San Francisco and barely a cloud in the sky and tomorrow once again its going to be total sunshine. You step out there right now and its rather comfortable. We have mild air overhead. 61 in hayward and 60 in san jose and 58 in San Francisco and san ramon checking in with a temperature of 60 degrees. We carved out a slice of nice. Clouds to the north and clouds to the south and were going to sit in the sweet spot once again tomorrow and a lot of sunshine on the way for your thursday. That means overnight tonight heres the call. Plenty of stars right around the immediate bay waters. Hitting close to the freezing mark. Concord and antioch dropping to 39 in san jose and 42 in San Francisco overnight and 40 in oakland and a chilly 30 degrees in santa rosa. Well bounce back nicely in the afternoon and tons of sunshine. A real nice looking afternoon. 63 in san jose and about 61 san raffaele and 59 vallejo and Half Moon Bay mild at 63 degrees. Future weather will start to see changes to our sky starting on friday. Friday morning theres a storm system to our south. Well not get any moisture from it and what it will do. It will add cloud cover to our sky on friday. Friday is not as bright of a day as it will be on thursday, but by saturday it does look like we have a chance for a few drops. Future weather picks it up Early Saturday Morning and the clouds will increase first and saturday morning does look dry. The system has limited moisture and it drops in from the north so future weather saturday afternoon. 4 00 in the afternoon and it is indicating that we could see a few drops around here and the early indication does look like this is a pretty weak and quick system. Hour by hour we go and break down new years eve. A lot of cloud cover. By 4 00 its just a slight chance and really limited moisture. The early call. Already by 8 00 and by midnight as we welcome 2017 it does look dry at this time point and temperatures falling in the 30s and 40s. Best way to do the abc 7 news app. Accuweather sevenday forecast tomorrow. Beautiful sunny and mild, partly cloudy on friday and kind of a day of transition. Saturday you notice the temperature drop and theres the chance of a shower and a chilly start to 2017 and monday, tuesday and wednesday, some spots drugling to get out of the 40s. Thanks, drew. Awaiting little chicks. A bald eagle is about to have some babies. Well take you there live. Hand not getting bang for the buck. A penny doesnt buy much but the coin is costing the u. S. Mint a fortune. Lets look