Anger over the policy was bubbling up. Pay pal agreed to consider making changes. The same time our story aired elliott stocks wrote a scathing blog about this issue titled good riddance, pay pal. Pay pal new president posted a response, there is a massive culture change happening at pay pal right now, he wrote f we suck at something, we face exit do something about it. Pay pal immediately offered to reinstate the account. The new president of pay pal has been on record as stating that theyve gotten the message from our lawsuit and from consumer complaints. That is jeff leon of the complex Litigation Group filing a class action suit on behalf of users who say accounts have been frozen longer than 21 days. He says accounts of thousands of customers have been frozen six months. That is something pay pal denied back in september to 7 on your side sh but now, admits happened on rare occasions when its in the process of closing someones account. Thousands upon thousands of instances where sellers have been flagged as somehow being associated with fraud. Have many thousands of dollars in theirboxyr accounts frozen fr six months. And were told werent told why. A settlement agreed to by both sides and awaiting approval by a judge. Much of the policies are buried in users agreements. Abc 7 legal analyst says its a good settlement. Its a good settlement in the sense that its better than no settlement. That is what class actions do. Both amiano and Consumers Union say they wont be fats saths fied until the times are shortened. Its something we want pay pal to look at, carefully. Pay pal says its reviewing the issue ask declined to comment on camera but sent us this e mail as we continue with our efforts to improve our products and services i expect additional changes. We have nothing furtherer to announce about this right now. Consumer union says its had two meetings of pay pal since our story first aireduco and ss changes should not be taken this long to implement. No new meetings are scheduled at this time. Thank you. And an accused killer faces a judge for the First Time Since arrest charged in a crime spree that left one man dead. Were live with the story tonight in san5ic;k q. Right. Jonathan willbanks walked into court with head down and shoulders hunched and did not enter a plea to numerous charges against him. Jonathan willbanks stood before a judge just 60 seconds. Police say the deadly crime spree friday night lasted 90 minutes. The family and friends of the murder victim rory park pettiford will live with pain forever. I say state of mind is remorseful. Does he realize seriousness of the charges . I dont have anything else to say. Five days of the death a memorial continues to grow in a 711 parking lot n addition to murder with special circumstances willbanks faces several other felony counts including attempted murder of a peace officer, assault with a firearm on an officer, four counts of robbery and receiving a stolen vehicle. The murder charge could make this a possible Death Penalty case. The District Attorney will make that decision later. It would be nice if he was remorseful. I cant comment one way or another. All i can say is that the officer that was fired upon had round after round raining down on him. The police force is still shaken because a second suspect is out there. There is efforts and a 20,000 reward for the man you can see in this sketch, a man police say was will banks partner in crime. Hopefully, it ends at this point. The second suspect gets apprehended before anyone else gets hurt. The 26yearold is scheduled to enter a plea on december 5th. A Memorial Service for a 22yearold park pettiford is scheduled for saturday. Thank you. Family and friends have buried a n marine shot and killed by police. He was honored during a service at Cedar Lawn Cemetery today. He died november 10th. Fellow marines joined the service. He served in the marines in afghanistan. His enlistment would have a labor protest on one of the busiest travel days of the year snarled traffic today at Los Angeles International airport. A march by mun hundreds of Union Members blocked the main entrance to the airport this afternoon. Service Employee Union took aim at a company for breaking its contract. Police moved in and aested several protestors who refused to leave when the permits expired. If youre still planning to travel for the thanksgiving holiday, looks like clear sailing is ahead. Here is a live picture of interstate 80. The freeway thick with last minute travelers but traffic appears to be moving well now. 60,000 people expected to pass through San Francisco international airport. There have been no major delays and some flights arrived early. The weather cooperating. And the weather is working in your favor as well, the storm hitting last night moved out now, it should be clear through sunday. Spencer will have the forecast. First, lets go to abc 7 news Laura Anthony reporting from the snow in truckee tonight. Its beginning to look like winter. Up in lake tahoe. North star families took to the ice rink perhaps working up an appetite for thursdays big thanksgiving dinner. It was a storm that made it easy on those trying to get to the mountains as snow levels stayed awell 8,000 feet. On slopes that wasnt so good. Producing just an inch or so of new snow making the stuff at bottom slushy. I was shredding hard. And it was fun. Its getting slushy as the day goes on. Its a good day. At north star runs were open were crowded as skiers tune up for some thanksgiving turns. Did you think youd be seeing before thanksgiving . No. No way. The earliest we thought would be january, february. My favorite part is going up with the chairs. Like when you come down. You can go as fast as you want. Then as slow as you want, when you want. By tomorrow, north star plns to make sure more people can go up and down, opening yr a lit going up to the top of mount pluto. Opening here, meaning theyll be ski together top of the mountain so skiers can expect eight more trails to o theyre all intermediate and advanced. More trails to come. Those that dont feel like sking can go shopping. This is got a wagon. Store yorns say theyre ready for the first big crowds of the winter season. Usually if it snows really hard, its hard to get people up here this, weather has been perfect. Theyre still coming up. Yeah. For sure. It 6. V a big week. Yes. Its huge. Were live up here at truckee. There has been a steady stream of cars coming into town. People in stores and restaurants. Looks like there will be a good crowd. There is a lot of talk about stores being open on thanksgiving night. Here in truckee, that gal that weve just talked to said hes shes going to be open all day tomorrow to serve those with last minute cooking needs for tomorrow nights big dinner. Shell have business, i suspect. Thank you very much. What is in store for next four days . Spencer next with the accuweather holiday forecast. Here is a clue. Look at live doppler 7 hd it wont be raining and youll not be cold into afternoons. Ill have the accuweather forecast coming up shortly. Later tonight, death, taxes. Well, pardon me, Holiday Shoppers last minute frenzy at supermarket chaotic because of a power shortage. Then, that story on death ask taxes what you can do to avoid turning over half of your childrens inheritance to the government. Here tonight abc 7 news obtains footage from a deep sea expedition to protect the port of oakland was a zoo today, truckers and shippers trying to catch up on the backlog. Explains that back up lasted most of the day. Big rig gridlock with thousands of truckers waiting to pick up or drop off what they could not yesterday because of the fdiu strike. How did yesterdays strike affect you . Bad, really bad. You know . S long lines and port there. They were closed and yeah. You know . We need to work to make money for living you know . The Union Representing 200 maintenance workers blocked entrarnss yesterday effectively shutting it down. He says he was stuck in traffic just getting off the freeway for a half hour this morning taking a hit with yesterday, and the thanksgiving holiday, in the same week. So they said it was wasted and today, again. Tomorrow, thanksgiving. So its a long, long weekend. The port says thousands of trucks service the trucks every day. It doesnt know how much money they lost. Number one impof port here is machinery followed by Electronics Top experts, dried fruits, nuts and meats. So on a normal thanksgiving week, were going to have long lines with disruption of yesterday were seeing longer lines. Today i usually do two loads. You know . So its going to be a lot. Fdiu hopes the truckers can see the value of union action. At the end of the day when youre back is against the wall, youre a group of workers labor is the only thing youre going have to withhold. That is the purpose of the strike. Because our goal is settlement. Not more strike ootz port says its difficult to estimate loss, the port represents 8 million of impact for the region. There is perception that the port is not a good place to do business. Tonight it took seven hours to restore power to the x marinea. Only that store was affected. Now, a blown trance former forced chefs to do shopping, you can see, in the dark. Were live now, not easy navigating aisle was out lights. Imagine this. Customer needed flashlights. That behind me is a beautiful thing. The lights are on here at the marina safeway. out this, is cell phone video. People had to navigate throughout the aisles. Its really dark. People can find things on shelfs. Dark. Very dark. I could hardly find m of the stuff. So there is everything i wanted. The power outage required after the transformer blew. Cash registers were still working. I have never been trying to find things. Someone helped me. It worked out okay. Everywhere. At this store, people had to wait a long time to pick up their items. My feet, theyre barking like woof, woof, standing in this line. Its so hot in there. Half an hour . Worth it j . Yes. My family loves it. Now, right now there are a lot of people shopping inside of the safeway. You can tell the lot is full. And tomorrow many of the stores will be open. I just remembered myself very to buy cheese and bread so i guess im one of those people, too. At least youre close to a market. I guess most of those are one of those people. The storm system colored out. Its true. Thanksgiving eve is a clue, its going to be spectacular. Over San Francisco, looking eastward, clear skies it will be getting cooler this evening and overnight. Skies are clear as you can see here. Clouds around today, they became thinner, scarcer as the day went on. What about rainfall totals . Its 48 hours were drenched in places over four and a half inches and well over an inch in San Francisco over an inch. Other generous amounts but lower so rain reached all of us, lets talk about rainfall. Well above average here in San Francisco. Close to average in other locations except san jose. Only 63 of normal. Its early in the season. There is more rain still to come wevyn n hope that will brig south bay up to normal levels. Temperatures 56 degrees in San Francisco. 61 across the bay. Mid to upper 50s in other locations, these are the forecast features, clear and chilly conditions overnight, patches of fog developing and it will be sunny, mild thanksgiving day, tomorrow, satellite shows the passage of the frontal system brought us rain last couple days, High Pressure building in behind it. 9pp dry pattern throughout the week. A mild one, temperatures up around 70 degrees over the next couple afternoons. Tonight as you follow time line, youll see fog developing. And that fog will expand this weekend through the delta. So some inland valleys can see fog developing over the next three overnight periods. Weve got a nice night coming our way. Weve got patches of fog sh low temperatures on the low 40s in the north bay valleys. Then, tomorrow, thanksgiving day, mild conditions and maybe cooler with pleasant by afternoon. High temperatures ranging from low 60s on the coast to mid60s and a bit to our south, milder near some of the monterey bay locations up to 70 degrees tomorrow. Upper 60s near the bay. Here is the accuweather forecast. Friday, high temperatures around the bay and inland locations up to about 70 degrees midz 60s on the coast. Upper 60s inland, saturday. Going to be a spectacular thanksgiving weekend then cooling down just a little bit into next week. Perfect. Thank you. Okay. Coming up next the senseless and mean spirited theft of the mans best friend. The dog missin a burglar went on a wild, violent camp yaij police say the thief kicked down doorsgj and windows and stole items from cars and broke into several apartments. The burglar threw a suitcase full of loot and tried to get aby. Blood everywhere. Two units are ransacked. A lot of damage to the building as far as windows and frames. That is why there is so much blood. One Police Officer cut arms trying to grab the burglar through a window no. Drentsz were hurt. The suspected burglar taken to the hospital with cuts and bruises. An alameda man pleaded guilty to a burglar spree that included a break in to the home of steve jobs. The 35yearold admitted to breaking into several other homes in marin, and alameda counties and took hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of properties, much he stashed in the storage locker. He could spend seven and a heart break for one man, he was just diagnosed with cancer and is on dialysis, his companion a little york shire terrier, now, lola is missing. Someone broke the car window, snatching the dog. Its very difficult without her. Shes very, very important to me. And i live alone. I have very good friends but shes my companion. Rob doesnt have pictures of lola but says she hooks lola is four years old, weighing about 10 pounds. Friends and neighbors have come to the rescue putting up signs and offering a 3,000 reward. Still to come here on abc 7 news, cease fire in gaza. Youll hear from a woman in gaza describing how violence affected the children there. Here at home, investigating a bay area oyster farm. New uncertainty over death and taxes. Tonight israel and hamas claiming victory the cease fire deal. Palestinians flooded streets of gaza city to celebrate the agreement brokered by egypt and the united states. Under the deal hamas stop firing rockets into israel and israelies have abried to open border crossings into gaza. Secretary of state clinton says the cease fire is an important first step. People of the region deserve the chance to live free from fear, and violence. And todays agreement is a step in the right direction we should build on. Abc 7 news spoke with a palestinian doctor in gaza that is with the middle east children alliance, a group helping children traumatized by violence. In five minutes from my home to my office, i could see destruction and the i can see the zried homes. The worst part of this, of the after tack against gaza ais the affect on the children. And they have been this time, well find out the disorder. Pqjv said in israel. A bomb exploded in tel aviv. A militant group claimed presponsibility for that. Back at home, after years of debate were closer now to finding out the fate of a popular north bay oyster farm. Today the secretary of the interior heard from both sides of the contentious debate in Point Reyes National sea shore. They have been commercially harvesting oisers at the side of the Company Since 1934 but that may end. Its lease to operate will expire at the end of the month. How are you . Were honored and thank you. Thank you nice to meet you nice to meet you. The interior secretary will make the final decision salazar toured the farm talking to workers. You know. Seeing how the farm works. He is hoping he will be estimating it produces 40 of the harvest. Would not be here, frankly if this is not a important decision. The first and only chance to sit down with the secretary and explain why he should be allowed to stay. I feltkjk understanding whats happening, meeting with kevin, and his family. From the oyster farm and workers. That is important because there are consequences i will make. Its been a long process. Secretary says he will announce the decision by the end of next week, well let you know. Perhaps a trillion dollars being transfered from parents to children as this year draws to a close. There is very little said bit. Abc 7 is here now with an anticipate td change in the structure and that is causing a frenzy. State planners saying theyve never seen anything like this, youll see in just a moment. First i want to start with a head start day care program. These are the children of working class and working poor families. Mission head start serves 380 preschoolers. There is special needs services. What they dont have is a uwn lot of money. Funding has been. In the offices of estate planners and tax attorneys there is a river of money flowing to more fortunate children. There is no comparison this, is the busiest year ive seen and trying not to hyper vent late. The Senior Vice President with bank of marin. Biggest flurry of year end activity ive seen. This Financial Advisor describes calls from his clients. Concerned about losing Family Business or family farm. Or real estate. Because of taxes. These tax and estate experts are all talking about a provision of a fiscal cliff next year if congress does not act the tax increases from 35 to 55 , and the amount you can give tax free to children will drop from 10 million this year to 2 million next year. Talking about a significant tax hike. The tax Attorney Says if couples dont take advantage, heirs will pay, dearly. So your so million estate is now worth . Six, roughly. So families with more than a couple million are rushing to gift their children before yearslwn end. Our business is up 30 to 40 now. The managing directorb of mfv. Weve seen a lot of anxiety. A lot of angst to try to move well for the next generation. Everyone says its big. It could be big enough to have a t behind the number, as back at the Day Care Center where money is tight, door he lowers says 10 million exemption should be qlor but estat