jcpenney and massies have been open one hour appear new spray revealed that 2017 will be the first year american consumers spend more of the holiday budget online than in brick and mortar stores. krb 7 news reporter has the story from livermore where a mall opened in stores at 3:00 p.m. today. >> reporter: the lines don't lie. online sales may have taken a big bite out of holiday shopping receipts. but a hefty percentage of americans still prefer the in had been store experience. so much so some of these folks decided to ditch the turkey and hit the stores early. >> why are you here so early. >> the crowd -- interests always a crowd superlate have to get here early. >> i like seeing things, trying them on. i like walking around and just exploring especially outline malls with the fresh air. >> reporter: that said it's still a challenging time time for brick and mortar retailers luring in shoppers. that's why so many offer deep, deep discounts. the stores still have one advantage. many shoppers desire to touch and feel before they buy. >> they are ditch when you see see them online versus in store you might not like the fabric or might not fit you right. >> especially with clothes you can never tell the size online. it's nicing to in person and try it out. >> here at livermore outlet mall the strategy is to combine the good deals with being first. by opening a couple of hours earlier than most other stores. >> what do you speck in how you going to keep one these people. >> i don't wish, you know i took my vitamin, b 12, got plenty of sleep ready to go. >> you guy haves a good one. >> >> reporter: in livermore lori anthony abc 7 news. >> ijts happening now triple a lawmakers the tipsy toe program helping drivers get oem safely. anyone can you will 1-800 aa for help for a free ride and toe up to ten miles. available to everyone. even if you are not a triple a member. and that service running until 6 in the morning. thanksgiving is about tradition new and old. jessica castro from abc 7 mornings introduces us to people who experienced both today in san francisco. >> reporter: the thanksgiving day started early like it does every year at glide memoria. >> i think it's a great thing to help out and give food to the homeless. >> reporter: the familiar scene rows of volunteers carving turkey and ham. >> it's welcoming and cheerful. music. >> reporter: plenty of first he is glide has a new president and ceo at the helm. it's her first holiday season here. >> it's incredible. i'm overcome by the generosity. >> reporter: today they made more than 5,000 meals. >> issues of hunger and homelessness are getting worse in san francisco. >> reporter: another familiar group also tackling the issues just down the street, the salvation army where we met a few first-time vormts. >> i'm out here because my family isn't oh the east coast. and i wanted to do something helpful for the community this morning. >> it felt like the right thing to do. my for a second fiance weren't doing do anything for nifg. >> happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving. >> reporter: the boxes go out to more than 4,000 people in need. hand delivered by the friendly faces we met today. in san francisco jessica castro, abc 7 news. the rockettes always great to see. more than 3 million spectators watched the thanksgiving day parade amid heightens security. marching bands and huge balloons through the streets of manhattan. the tight security didn't dampen spirits and the 9191st continued the tradition without mishappens. former san francisco 49er colin kaepernick joined the indigenous people's sunrise gather he is in alcatraz. he woeted the attendance was in solidarity with those celebrating their culture. he wanted to pay respect to the group of native americans who occupied alcatraz from 1969 to 1971, six years after the prison closed. the group claimed the island as the land of all tribes not the u.s. government. kaepernick told the group that fighting for justice and freedom makes us more powerful. turkey stuffing and football may be a tradition for many. folks in san francisco had their unique ways to celebrate. abc 7 was he at the sun fatsea than 1500 pounds of crab are sold for thifrg alone. customers could be found buying all kind of seafood for the big meals. >> pretty much worked every holiday since my family is from belgium. no longer working in a firehouse but adopted by the new hampshire family and their tradition is having lobster. so my contribution tonight is to bring the lobster. >>ky go for that tradition. >> wow, yeah. golden gate parks desserts first is a tradition for the family from the urng yierng. and there is always the binna vista cafe >> we need the bac i'm the guy. >> you're getting the look at the crowd and chowder at the blue mere made restaurant they thar share the restaurant and look for the story on abc 7 news.com. volunteers help serve up turkey dinner at churches and shelters across the bay area this thanksgiving. but the team in san jose put something extra on the holiday menu aba free foot wash and donated shoes professional bashers are and stylists cutting hair at no cost. >> you know how good a haircut feels for a female or man you feel 100%, great. be able to the cut hair for enemy is humbling. great experience for all parties here. >> city teams group of volunteers and doaners helping the san jose community the last 60 years. and today it served nearly 2,000 thanksgiving meals to those in need and will do the same at christmas and easter ifrmgt we saw people giving back in different ways tad in the north bay fire zones community members came together to celebrate, many remaining thankful despite losing so much. abc 7 news reporter wayne friedman has the story from sonoma county. >> neighborhoods of big yellow machineries working on nabtds. still clutter body the remnants that by now have become so familiar. clearly in the north bay fire zone this is not thifrg anyone expected. yet it's the one they're dealing with. every person, in his or her own individual way. this morning pat and her family took what would have been just another walk through coffey park until much of it disappeared. >> it can very close. but, yeah, thankfully the house was saved. >> reporter: you may mark her down as thankful person in number one. meantime not far away number two. from the look of brian's duplex is might be hard to tell. when you hear about the underinsured trying to recover he is part of that rank. >> they estimated $4,030 a square foot. i'm getting 199 a square foot tory build. >> that explains the sweat equity still people must eat and sonoma county where so many lost so much, the giving keeps coming. john opened his santa rosa restaurant to anyone and everyone today, he will have served hundreds by ton, enter deb by, thankful person number 3. >> we wouldn't have had dinner literally or food for the day. >> reporter: the pleasure says john is all his. >> thanks for coming. thanks for being here and letting us provide something for you. >> what do you get out of it. >>y just to help people. >> reporter: and that's thankful person number four did he rfg the region concept in a region mp abc 7 news. >> if you're able to give where you live this thanksgiving. text the word feed to 90077. and your automatic $10 donation will benefit food banks. hundreds of people on the east bay burned a lot of calories before the thanksgiving feast at the first ever oakland turkey trot. participants got up early this morning to run or walk the 5 k course around the lake. the funds will benefit the food bank and oakland education fund. well handful of people plunged in the pool at the hayward recreation and park district for the 16th annual karen gordon turkey swim. she was a life guard and swim instructor before a a car crash killed her. the event takes place to benefit at scholarship fund in her name. coming up next on abc 7 news at 6:00 a special view inside a special summer camp. 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with cancer. it's called camp ohizu and it's in the sierra foothills. >> cool to be on tv. >> nearly 10,000 children have sfent time at this camp in the 35 years since founded to help children and families living with canser. >> i had acute luke eemia. >> atumor. >> i hodgkin's. >> including dr. john bell and mike moua a bone marrow specialist and the late doctor who who who passed away in 2017. you can see his and his wife's name on a plaque in the lodge where they eat lunch. she was a pioneer in the treatment of childhood cancer working at children's hop. he volunteered at this camp since 1981. >> not only saved a lot of the kids from the disease but also helped get them through the program. and been part of it all that time. >> reporter: here kids can just be kids. having a good time not thinking about their illness. but the trauma they endure from cancer and treatments affects them drastically, physically and mentally. >> i had brain cancer and the tumor grew in my optic nerve, the thing connecting your eye to your brain. they had to cut the optic nerve out to get the tumor out. >> we first met isaac a couple of years ago. sadly then and now he has been the target of cruel comments when he is not camp. >> do you get bullied at all when you're not here. >> we all do. everybody here did at least once and if they didn't they're lucky. >> i think all of them during the time they're on active treatment if they had no hair or gain a lot of weight from the drugs or lose weight lose they're throwing up they look different. so during the active treatment part probably most of them get bullied. >> campers here learn quickly that this is a safe place. >> the real core value of what we do was expressed very eloquently by a dad of a family that had been participating in the program for several years. and the way he put it was we go to the hospital to get rid of the cancer and we come to okizu to heal. >> young people cannot only many heal but thrive and learn leadership skills. >> i'll be a teacher and getting my masters as well i'll be teaching and have summers off to come back. >> we first met flier when she was a dishy washing dishes a after meals. and her quest to become a junior counselors. now he is a camp counselor. >> i had infant leukemia which i i don't remember. i had thigh radio cancer in high school appear and one of the kids was like you had cancer. it's nice to connect on the levels. >> a lot of parents are concerned about sending kids to camp the first time because they have been through so much. but they don't need to worry because there are doctors and nurse on duty right here 24/7. >> stick your tongue out. >> brought me why i went into medicine and pediatric on college. >> on the hospital they are reserved. and here they are like normal kids. >> what do you think about the camp. >> i think that it's like fun and everybody is kind of like a big family because we all know what each other has been through. >> i think it's a really fun place where no one judges you. everyone has fun together. and you all can just do whatever you want to do without feeling like you're different. >> i think it's a really good place for those who have had a bit of sadness in their life. it's amazing, and everybody here is supercaring and ♪ >> that's always a tradition, the uptown girls skong. the camp said more parents could get to camp with help the gas cards. that's a request. if you'd like more information or on sending a kid to camp or make a donation or volunteer. >> they provide so much, right. >> we'll be back with another check of the thanksgiving forecast and a look at the for mild-to-moderate eczema? it can be used almost everywhere on almost everybody. the arm of an arm wrestler? the back of a quarterback? the face of a fairy? prescription eucrisa is a nose to toes eczema ointment. it blocks overactive pde4 enzymes within your skin. and it's steroid-free. do not use if you are allergic to eucrisa or its ingredients. allergic reactions may occur at or near the application site. the most common side effect is application site pain. ask your doctor about eucrisa. on this thanksgiving we're thankful for beautiful weather which we get to enjoy here in the bay area. and thankful for the viewers sharing pictures with us by using the hashtag abc 7 now so we can find the pictures and post them online. >> keep them coming. abc 7 news anchor weather is here. >> nice mild thanksgiving day. and nice mild nifg evening. a look to it live doppler 7 we have clouds. but it's still mild out there not rainy. there's been a sprinkle or two. just like light, widely scattered isolated, but generally we call it dry. this is the view from our east bay hills camera looking westward across the bay area. temperatures in the low to mid-sivertson at san francisco, oakland, mountain view, san jose, gilroy, 59 at half moon bay. across the bay from emeryville and further temperature readings 59 at napa with low to mid-60s at novato and and a live sfru the roof top camera at abc 7 looking along the embarcadero. dry and pleasant conditions for black friday shoppers. rain arrives late saturday. continue noose sunday. wet and breezy overnight into sunday. and it will be cooler and drier early next week. overnight with clouds lingering look for low temperatures mainly in the mid-50s. relatively mild overnight across the entire region. here the forecast animation starting at 5:00 tomorrow morning. notice the clouds break up and move away giving us mainly sunny day. although a few anyone high clouds still moving over the bay area in the afternoon hours tomorrow. and high touchstone will range from mid-60s at the coast to upper 60s and low sefrts around the bay. low 70s inald. let's talk about the approaching storm. ranks 1 on the impact stale coming in saturday night into sunday. maybe winds gusting 25 mirror higher at times. the forecast zms for that storm by 9:00 friday night we see the first wave of rain arriving in the north bay. covers virtualry all the north bay by 11:00. then continue overnight into sunday through the day on sunday and into sunday night timely winding down early monday morning. we are projecting rainfall total attention by 11:00 sunday night ranging from .29 of an inch toefr pensly to over half inch in many north bay iks locations. after that rain moves out of here sunday night monday morning. starts to clare off monday afternoon. and then we'll have sunny days tuesday, wednesday and thursday and cooler crisper more autumn like weather. >> spencer, thank you so much. >> all right anthony flores is in today. wouldn't be thanksgiving without the football. >> it's a great day to sit back and relax on the couch and check out the nfl. football it's a big part of the frags. the vikings gathered in detroit to celebrate the holiday like most of us. everybody gather around would they celebrate the really? really? really? really? really? see zero in a whole new way. get zero down, zero deposit, zero first month's payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. now with the people first warranty. it's a day of turkey but down in sew cal another big bird spreading wings. the gayles of ft. mar ys. taking on havre. check this out emmett finds land dale for the huge finish and the foul. this would be a theme st. marys leading by 10 early. still the first half gail up 16. didn't we just see that? nar to lan dale for the jam 29-11 gail second half lead down to single digits. lan dale pumping iron. he had 26 points st. mary wins 89-71. on a day when most are headed back for second, the nfl is serving up three helping of the main course, yeah that would be some thanksgiving pig skin and big d nice helm turkey, 9-0 kmarjers. flil phillip rivers finds travis benjamin reaching up for the snag. a 27 yard touchdown. 16-0 l.a. now 16-6 in the fourkt. rivers seen keen and allen cutting kroosz the field. carving up the dallas defense. it's pennsylvania 42 yard touchdown 22-6 after the missed extra point. the oukds struggling to put up points. dak is picked off by desmond king. good to be the king. takes it back to thehouse. 90 yards for the touchdown. the chargers blow out the cowboys 28-6 is your final. fans getting fessest in droint lyanne haves a 4 game winning keech. case keenum calls his own number right call at 9yard touchdown. time to gather the family around for end zone. flies in with the turkey. second quarter lyannes trying to get on the board. check out everson he makes the sack and reveals i just had a baby boy what should i name him how about sack np viking up 27-10. matthew stafford what a catch by marvin jones 43 yards for the touchdown. the lyannes make it interesting. then in the fourth 7-point game but stafford picked off by the rhodes the vikings win. >> and the washington game scoreless. abc 7 sports report brought to you by river rock. a little basketball coming up tonight at laurk. >> thank you. and please join us tonight for 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