reason that adam was heading to turkey. it is an interview you'll only see on nbc bay area. cheryl hurd says the attorney says adam is innocent. >> reporter: if anything the attorney says he is guilty of caring for others. >> adam is innocent. >> reporter: that is the bottom line from the attorney who says his client is not a terrorist. >> there is no statement he is intending to join a terrorist group or go to syria at all. >>. >> reporter: that is contrary to the federal indictment that says a federal grand jury is accusing the 22-year-old fremont web developer with one count of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. >> this is a case unfortunately in which an act of humanitarian aid is being interpreted as one with terrorist intent. >> reporter: his client traveled to turkey last year to help refugees. but according to the indictment he was in cairo on a family trip in july 2014. his father reported his missing and told u.s. embassy officials he was afraid that adam was recruited and it was important to find him quickly to prevent him from doing harm to himself or others. adam's father was concerned his son may have been following extreme imams online and there is a one-way ticket booked from cairo to istanbul. >> this is a case that shows that governments around the world have let a humanitarian crisis fester to the point that people feel they have to do something on their own to help out. >> reporter: all this comes at a time when terrorism is on the minds of many people following the recent attack in san bernardino. steven clark says that the government has a lot to prove in this case. >> the government needs to show the second he got on that airplane he was intending to give terrorist group and give aid to that terrorist group. that may be difficult for the government to prove. >> reporter: the family says their son works with the homeless here in the bay area. a bail hearing is set for next week. reporting live in fremont i'm cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. you can read the family statement and the statement from the attorney in full along with the indictment on our website. all you have to do is head to www.nbcbayarea.com. that story is on the front page. highway drama in san pablo after shutting down westbound i-80, the chp found the victim of a shooting at a nearby denny's. the victim was in an suv with other people when someone opened fire at them. the suv struck another car, causing minor damage. the suspect took off and so did the victim, abandoning the suv on the side of the freeway. the man who was shot ran into the denny's and employees called police. he wasn't seriously hurt. the victim and the shooter did know each other and the public is not in any danger. not a drop of rain in the sky above the bay area tonight but that is about to change. jeff ranieri has been tracking a system headed our way. and it depends on where you are how much rain you are going to get. >> that's right. the storm system is producing heavier rainfall near the colorado and oregon border. tomorrow morning spotty areas of showers and a cloudy start. we expect the rainfall by 1:00 in the afternoon impacting santa rosa, napa, wet weather in san francisco. the bottom line in the morning, not bad of a commute. the heaviest rainfall from 1:00 to 5:00 on your friday right on the afternoon as a lot of us get out of town early for that christmas break. winds gusty 15 to 25 miles an hour. and we will let you know about major snow totals in 15 minutes. a tsa officer is accused of letting drug smugglers get past security at oakland airport. investigators say that clark cleared drug smugglers some time between september 2013 and last october. clark is fashioning five years in prison and $250,000 fine. she is expected in a federal court in oakland tomorrow. santa sacked. a cancelled field trip has parents taking on the school board tonight and threatening a classroom walkout tomorrow. the tradition scrapped after a jewish parent complained. peggy bunker is live at the meeting and some parents say the superintendent took the happy out of the holiday for their kids. >> reporter: we are just watching some of the school board members leave the building after a very long night and school board meeting where they got an earful from parents. parents who showed up to speak out about santa. >> asking for forgiveness after a decision affecting so many of our kids is unacceptable. and parents have a right to be angry. >> concerned parents confronted the school district tonight in san jose after the superintendent cancelled a decade old tradition of writing letters to sandra and delivering them on a school field trip to a coffee shop. >> you are setting up a -- >> a parent who is jewish sent a four-page letter to the school district asking for the event to be cancelled. the letter says that we want the dear santa letters and field trip cancelled because it is not inclusive of all students. >> we had a person come in last week in my son's kindergarten class to speak about hanukkah. that is like saying you can't enter the classroom because i don't my son around that or learn about that. >> reporter: parents are planning to stage a walkout. >> i'm staging a protest. do not bring your children to school and meet us on the corner of wood ford and hallmark at 10:00 a.m. >> parents are upset they were not consulted by the school board. the superintendent told me that a communication breakdown on a personnel level was at the root of the decision. parents want their children to be exposed to all religions and traditions. >> when people want to say merry christmas even though you don't believe in christmas, say happy hanukkah to me. you are wishing me well, basically. >> reporter: wishing you well basically. many parents say that has been their experience and they found the classrooms to be inclusive and many parents will be participating in the walkout tomorrow and going to see santa at 10:00 a.m. the arena controversy is headed to court. opponents of the warriors mission bay arena filed a lawsuit today saying that the chancellor overstepped his authority giving away property rights that belong to all californians. the warriors arena is set to be a block from the ucsf medical center. the project has faced issues from the start saying that it would create dangerous traffic for people trying to get to the hospital during an emergency. the tragic and sudden death of a kidney donor at ucsf could mean longer waits for patients waiting for a kidney. the hospital has suspended all living donor surgeries for now. it left a san francisco teacher and her student in limbo when her plans to donate her kidney were cancelled. now they are scrambling for a workaround for the situation. >> reporter: they are. kelvin sanders planned to be here for life-saving kidney transplant tomorrow. the hospital cancelled the surgery but tonight sanders has hope. from i see her on campus. >> reporter: kelvin knows this woman from his school days in san francisco. >> he was exceptionally polite. i remember him in his football uniform. >> reporter: a year after graduation he was diagnosed with a deadly illness. >> i have end-stage renal disease. >> reporter: the 20-year-old is on daily dialysis. his family created a kidney for kelvin facebook page. buhl signed up for testing. >> i couldn't believe someone i knew to be so healthy and so young could need a kidney. >> reporter: as beull passed tests, the surgery was scheduled. but the donor got sick. but beull was a match too. >> i could do it for anybody but how great i can do it for someone i have a connection with. >> reporter: as the pair prepared for surgery, ucsf delivered another twist suspending the living kidney donor program because a donor died in november and the case is under investigation. >> another pill to swallow but god has a plan, so. leave it up to him. >> reporter: the plan is to move forward. the donor surgery can happen at another hospital. >> it doesn't scare me. it really doesn't. if it's meant to be, it's meant to be. all these steps along the way seem like it was meant to be. so let's just keep going. >> reporter: they're going to move forward. they have a new surgery date on tuesday. beull will be at another hospital and her kidney will be brought here to sanders. my wife is being held hostage. >> this south bay man had an imposter racking up huge medical bills and putting his life at risk. how it prompted an arrest and put the victim of medical i.d. theft face to face with someone from his past. she wished for christmas cards but see how she received so much. which is bigger, the line for "star wars" or the hype? some nerve-wracking moments at a los angles theater as hundreds of fans line up for the new star wars movie. the theater was evacuated after some nerve-wracking moments at a los angeles theater as hundreds of fans line up for the new "star wars" movie. theater had to be evacuated after someone pulled the fire alarm tonight. there was no fire or any threat against theater. it is back open and the "star wars" movie will be going on as planned. you are looking at live pictures of die hard "star wars" fans who are waiting patiently since about 8:00 tonight. the showing was sold out all the way back in october. the movie will be shown through a rare 70 millimeter i-max film projector. the next closest theater showing this form is in a galaxy far, far away. he has been talking to the fbi for daying but tonight he is in jail on terror charges. he is accused of conspiring to give material to support jihadists. enrique marquez bought the assault rifles that syed farook and his wife used in the shooting two weeks ago. marquez is accused of plotting terrorist attacks with farook that were later scrapped. an arrest of a man accused of stealing a man's medical identity is facing felony charges. vicky nguyen has an update. >> reporter: the news bring relief to a san jose resident who is a victim of medical identity theft and he turned to us for help after years trying to clear his name. and now authorities have his long-lost brother in custody. an emotional ronnie facing his older brother gary in person for the first time in 20 years in a santa clara county courthouse. prosecutors charged gary with ten felony counts of false impersonation for wracking up medical bills and criminal arrest using ronnie's identity. >> relief but sadness as well. >> reporter: for five years, gary has been using his name, social security number and insurance for medical treatment. >> every time i would pull up my cred history there are more and more things on there. >> reporter: there was a laundry list of hospital bills from florida to tennessee, colorado and washington. >> unpaid bills that are in the thousands of dollars. >> reporter: the investigative unit tracked down gary in washington state. he was under arrest in 2014 for being drunk in public. gary gave the renton police department are on's name and vital information. >> reporter: our report spurred an interstate search for gary. >> it's a very, very serious crime. >> reporter: it took eight months to bring gary to santa clara county. >> a lot of credit to roni and your news agency as well. every step along the way, there are investigators here and in washington that could see the real harm that this crime posed. >> reporter: ronny says that gary was still using his identity and hospitals remember calling about the unpaid charges. he has been fighting the bills. >> for me to go to my mailbox and not have a bill, a citation or something else on my credit is like a kid in a candy store for me. >> reporter: medical experts say it's a serious crime that can have life or death consequences. if a thief's medical information is mixed up with yours. >> you can be misdiagnosed or mistreated. >> reporter: ann patterson leads the medical i.d. fraud alliance. medical identity threat rose 21% and you can't just get a new account. >> your medical identity includes your date of birth, social security number, health plan, those are things you cannot shut down. >> we used to tell people it is a mart idea to check your credit report every year. now it's a good idea to look at your medical records as well. >> reporter: gary faces up to nine years in prison if convicted. >> never let anyone tell you there is nothing you can do about this. i am positive proof that you can take on these people and find a way to fight and get through it. >> reporter: gary declined our interview requests. the medical i.d. fraud study found one in four people have their medical idea stolen by a friend or relative. the advice here, guard your insurance and social security information carefully. vicky nguyen, nbc bay area news. now if you have a tip for vicky or anyone in the investigative unit give us a call or send us an e-mail. time to check in with chief meteorologist jeff ranieri again. we're talking about that storm and it's on track. >> it definitely is. tomorrow morning the best chance of scattered rainfall to start in your commute is the north bay and san francisco. and also in the south bay as well. the good news, it does not look like the morning commute will be the worst. you will get to your destination on time. but for the heaviest rain, pay close attention to the futurecast. that begins to arrive by 10:30 in the morning. santa rosa, napa, it will hang in the north bay through 1:00 in the afternoon. that's why we might have isolated flooding concerns coming up on some of the roadways through tomorrow afternoon right up into the north bay. maybe a spotty shower towards san francisco. most of the bay area not getting in on the heavier rainfall until 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 at night, possibly embedded thunderstorms and maybe small hail with how cold this air is aloft. in the evening hours, still a possibility of lingering showers through 11:00 p.m. maybe spotty activity through 6:00 a.m. on saturday. but through most of saturday we are dry and we'll also see that most of sunday. we'll see that second system arrive by sunday evening a quarter inch from this one as well. looking at the rainfall total from friday and sunday's storm. a half inch in terms of the totals for the south bay, looks like that for pleasanton as well. on your micro climate forecast for friday the heaviest rainfall is in the marina, 56 for the high. for the peninsula, rainfall and temps in the upper 50s. in the south bay you may have sun breaks throughout parts of the day. and for the north bay east bay and tri-valley, heaviest rainfall potential is in napa and santa rosa. jacket weather all around with the temperatures in the upper 50s. a chance of snow on friday, saturday, and sunday. in squaw valley or alpine meadows 74 runs open at squaw valley and 68 at alpine meadows and a seven-day snow total from friday through christmas eve could hit not 10 inches but maybe 24 inches for those higher elevations. so as we leave tonight we had that rain chance throughout tomorrow on friday. a chance of rain on sunday evening and potentially a christmas eve storm coming our way. that's how we see it right now on thursday night. up next, technology that could have you surfing the web faster than before. we have bruce springsteen tonight. plus jeffrey tambor and tonight show hashtag. it's a great show. do not change the channel. the wave of the future is being called "li-fi" =vo= a start-up company in estonia, says they've created the wave of the future is being called lifi. a startup company has created a technology to change the internet. it would run the internet 100 times faster than wi-fi. it is based on light communication as opposed to wireless communication. there are drawbacks. right now it can be influenced by sun beams. the technology is being tested in labs. snoopy is raking up bucks for museums. the snoopy themed license plates have been preordered by 7500 drivers. the special plates cost $50 and drivers who buy one will earn a free pass to more than 85 museums across the state. the sharks come back in an overtime thriller north of the border. we have the highlights coming up in sports. ♪ (vo) some call it giving back. we call it share the love. during our share the love event, get a new subaru, and we'll donate $250 to those in need. bringing our total donations to over sixty-five million dollars. and bringing love where it's needed most. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. here in vineland, new jersey, home of progresso, we know the secret ingredient to a great minestrone dirt. california dirt with the rich blend of nutrients that produces amazingly flavorful tomatoes. the best vegetables, like those we use here in vineland, come right from the earth. so if you're not going to make the minestrone yourself tonight, do what we do... make it progresso. good evening, geraud moncure here in the comcast sportsnet studios. there is something about being on the road for the sharks. coming into tonight's game in toronto. the maple leafs gave san jose all it could handle. in o.t. tied at 4. joe thornton to burns. and passed the goalie for the winner. he lifts the sharks to a 5-4 o.t. victory. it did not take the champs long to get their groove back in their rout of the suns. but the focus returns to the rematch with loud-talking milwaukee. the bucks too happy after snapping the dub's win streak last week. >> we felt disrespected a little bit. i have no problem with them celebrating a win but there is a couple of things that felt like -- they looked really cocky. >> reporter: johnny cueto turned down an early free agent offer from the diamondbacks and it paid off to the tune of $130 million over six years with a giants team that has recent championship history. >> translator: i want to say thank you for the opportunity to wear the giants uniform and to be here. take care of the numbers. when i step on the field. i know my agent and brice and bobby talked and that made it possible to sign with the giants. i like the team. it's a team of champions. can you imagine when steph curry and his wife and drake strolled in. the trio was tagged on instagram in a hurry. i'm a customer relationship i'm roy gmanager.ith pg&e. anderson valley brewing company is definitely a leader in the adoption of energy efficiency. pg&e is a strong supporter of solar energy. we focus on helping our customers understand it and be able to apply it in the best way possible. not only is it good for the environment, it's good for the businesses' bottom line. these are our neighbors. these are the people that we work with. that matters to me. i have three children that are going to grow up here and i want them to be able to enjoy all the things that i was able to enjoy. together, we're building a better california. new york girl, who lost her entire family in a fire, recieves an incredible act of kindness. this is the true 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