street from the iconic painted ladies. abc7 news learned those bones are from a child. >> many of the neighbors also found that out today. the bones discovered at an apartment at mcallister and steiner street just a block from ala mo state park. >> the bones were found in two apartment buildings across the street. police are not talking about the case but trying to find out how old the bones are and who they belong to. >> reporter: this is where her neighbor, who lives across the hall, found the bone, in a planter box next to the front door. >> the piece i saw was a section that looked like a jaw bone. >> police thought it was a human bone and there may be more. >> that seems strange and odd. what kind of bone? >> reporter: police put up crime tape to preserve the dirt and sidewalk in front of the building. they gravitated towards the apartment next door. police also reportedly found another bone here. days later, police set up this makeshift lab, a team of specialists were brought in. this neighbor who did not want to be identified watched it unfold. >> i saw the workers sifting through dirt. >> the archaeologist made a discovery the bones belong to a child. the bones may have been put here a long time ago. >> i have lived here seven years and never noticed plad in the b >> vic lee, abc7 news. >> tonight, police are asking for help in el cerrito looking for this woman, suspected of murdering her mother. officers found her mother's remain at her daughter's former home. an autopsy confirmed she'd been shot to death. >> it was a detached garage, she was found inside of a garbage can inside of the garage. looked like she'd been there 3 or four months. >> she told maybes she was thinking about traveling to arizona, maybe southern california. police want people not to approach her because she can be armed. police cuffed and took into custody a man in silicon valley. officers were able to talk him into surrendering peacefully. san francisco police officers are working with the chief and mayor to equip the department with tasers after officers shot mario woods in the bay view district this month. abc7 news is live outside union head quarter was the developments in this story tonight. carolyn? >> reporter: the head of the police officer association said 20,000 law enforcement agencies are equipped with tasers and he believes it's time for san francisco. >> let's move on this now. >> reporter: the head of the san francisco police officer association believes time for talking about tasers is over. now, the mayor is on board, calling for a pilot project. this follows the officer involved shooting of mario woods. police say the 26-year-old man had a knife when they repeatedly fired on him. the public outrage has been relentless, leading to consideration of protective shields that have been handed out. >> there is no training in place. >> he says the tools are not the answer, and he's the spokesperson for the woods family. >> there is more than just tasers, handguns and body cameras. understand the community. >> in the wake of the shooting another development, a police department bulletin has been issued requiring officers who point guns but don't shoot to file a use of force report. the union leader is concerned officers may hesitate to fire when they need to. as for the fatal shooting of mario woods, they continue to stand by officers but wishes they had another choice that day. >> i think if tasers were available, there could have been a different outcome. >> mario woods family is preparing for his funeral tomorrow. >> in san francisco, abc7 news. a search is on for a killer in san francisco who beat a well known sketch artist to death. the 74-year-old sketched portraits in north beach. police say someone hit him in the head december 5th. he fell to the ground, hit his head and taken off life support saturday. inspections under way on hundreds of muni buses after two caught fire last week. the fire started where buses connect with wires. muni pinned the problem with a metal connector on top of the trolley buses. it's replaced dozens of connectors. muni is adjusting schedules as a result of the fires. >> one change is in the 6,000 mile check. we'll disassemble the bar and look inside. >> replacing the connectors on the neat will take three months. muni will shuffle buses around for delays. >> classes have been cancelled at one school because there is no heat. the superintendent says that underground gas leaks knocked out heat so the school has been using space heaters all week but the electrical system can't support the heaters needed to keep every classroom warm. >> unfortunately this week, it's been difficult to get classrooms to a condition where people were feeling comfortable to stay focused and learn. >> the principal promises the heat will be working by the time students return to school january 4th. >> thieves have been caught stealing holiday packages from porchs but how about someone taking christmas lights? we're live where the family they wants the lights back. lyanne? >> reporter: don't you wish you can be santa claus to make people happy? this family was not thrilled when discovering someone had stolen their lights. now, the culprit is out there and you may know her. >> how much of a scrooge do you have to be to steal decorations? >> the laser lights were stolen by a real grinch. this woman walks with a star shower light in hand, she's focused on stealing a second one. she looks around a few times. nothing seems to deter her, not even a pedestrian. she leaves with two lights in hand. this happened after 10:00 sunday night while bob and teresa were home getting ready to go to bed. >> i went out to the front window, closed the blinds and noticed the front yard was dark. >> the surveillance system caught it all. they hope someone will identify the woman, perhaps recognize clothing or the glasses she was wearing. >> very distinctive outfit. i mean a lot of girls wear that clothing but someone should recognize her. >> the nicolesons posted pictures of the woman on a stop sign on the home. >> people are walking by. we wanted to get the picture out there. who knows? maybe she's seen it. >> here is a before picture of the house with the lights display. a popular item that sold for $40. >> i tried to replace them. the only place i can find them is amazon, going for $100 plus. >> it's not the lights we care about, more as who does that kind of thing? >> reporter: call her the mystery woman who stole christmas. in novato, abc7 news. we found out from a neighbor who messaged us on facebook. you can reach us through facebook. new at 6:00, police say a woman accused of a violent robbery has turned herself in. you may remember these pictures of tasha dowell, accused of hitting a 15-year-old girl in the face, knocking her out and stealing her phone. police say the 18-year-old took these selfies not realizing they upload to cloud storage. the victim called police. a high school water polo team faces charges for injuring another player on a team. the 15-year-old is charged with assault and battery. the teammates say filing criminal charges is unfair. we're learning of a road rage incident that turned violent in oakland, started yesterday afternoon, both cars stopped near st. stevens drive in orinda. the drivers pulled knifes out and one driver stabbed the other driver. that man was arrested for assault. crews are working tonight to clean up the mess after 12 containers fell off a cargo ship off the san francisco coast. so far, only two have been recovered. officials have received a report of debris but couldn't find anything. >> as we continue tonight, california dmv puts brakes on self driving cars. why some are worried a ruling could drive the industry out of california. journey to a galaxy far, far away. one system so good, pixar got one. >> i'll have the timing in the accu-weather forecast. >> thanks a lot, drew. excited otters. and their snow day in san f the california dmv issued a draft of regulations potentially putting brakes on driverless cars so the question is, what happens next? chris? >> some believe the rules could halt progress made on self driving vehicles. others say it's about keeping the public safe. in the next two years, you can see people behind the wheel of self driving vehicles. >> i have one that woo with okay to operate. >> today, they released a set of guidelines. a licensed driver would need to sit in the seat and would be held liable for violations on the road. and manufacturers would have to apply for permits. >> there is a driver behind the wheel ready to take over. >> he says it could lead to better research along self driving vehicles. >> you know, in every day driving, what it is people are going to do. that is really important to understand how self driving cars are safe for everybody. >> many have questions about the technology is it smart enough to detect certain accidents or traffic alerts? or someone jumped into the road? so a little bit iffy about it. >> google saying in part, quote, we're graphly disappointed that california is putting a ceiling on self driving cars that help all of us who live here. in palo alto, chris nguyen, abc7 news. >> hackers tried to steal information at two safeway stores. employees found a skimming device inside of a store in walnut creek. >> no customer data was compromised but you want to check your statement for transaction that you can't identify. >> i checked it this morning. and this afternoon, will be again. >> safeway tells ugs store employees receive training on how to detect fraud. a park funding program is a getting a temporary lifeline. it the 50-year-old program expired in september but a compromise will now be considered in all of the years. >> customs inspectors found this giant african snail and dozens of dead snail eggs from american samoa. the snails measured three inches. they can eat 500 plants and stucco off of homes and carry a parasite that causes meningitis. >> the aquarium of the bay kicked off festivities. look at that. how cute. a thousand pounds were added today. it runs through december 28th. >> good time out there. >> it's a good time out here here. >> it is. sunday not going to be as breezy. we have an evening planned up there. it's all about the numbers right now because we're cooling rapidly. in napa, we're at 46 degrees. so there is the fblth, calling for not a chilly night tonight. clouds on the increase, we're going to act like a blanket to insulate us more than last night. this will bring about a chance of sprinkles in the north bay for thursday. so overnight, clouds on the increase and 46 in san francisco. and 39 in san jose. tomorrow, most of us will be partly to mostly cloudy skies. the warm front sets up over the north bay. that can act as a focal point but most areas will remain dry. so 7:00 mid-30s to mid-40s by afternoon. so highs 59 in san mateo. and 59 the high for antioch. so friday, our next storm is light. showers early saturday. future weather will time by 3:00 friday afternoon, showers around san rosa. and is moving into the south bay. so in terms of total rainfall, most spots going to see healthy amount of rain where the front lingers along us could come close to an inch of rain. so the accu-weather forecast shows a partly to mostly cloudy day. friday, a rainy afternoon and evening. sunday, could have a little bit more wind with it. tuesday, wednesday, we're still seeing a chance of rain. >> when abc7 news continues, results to get specialized licen one local artist is excited for the new movie "the force awakens". a giant painting that is worth $200,000. we asked about his inspiration. >> star wars toys were so important to the generation of the world. you know? men between ages of 30-55 seem to have a good memory of these toys and i'm no different. >> coming up, jonathan bloom looks at one place you should go if you want to see an especially high-quality showing of the movie. >> if you're a die hard peanuts fan, you'll be able to show your love for snoopy on your car. if you preorder by friday, you'll get one time discounts and free admission to 85 pr tis pating museums for a year. >> two marines played the role of santa's helpers today, picking up boxes packed with toys. they will go to the toys for tots program. >> a high school choir in santa rosa will sing the national anthem at this year's foster farms bowl. the group competed in a hiv audition today against nine other finalists. good for them. >> they sound great. >> next a story you'll only see right here. do you remember the tour bus that crashed into scaffolding? >> the section of other buses. >> winter storms still to come, how you can file damages for spoiled food. at 6:00, meet the families for whom christmas came come on in pop pop. happy birthday. i just had a heart attack... and now i have a choice. for her. for them. and him. a choice to take brilinta. a prescription for people who've been hospitalized for a heart attack. i take brilinta with a baby aspirin ...no more than 100 mg. as it affects how well it works. it's such an important thing to do to help protect against another heart attack. brilinta worked better than plavix. and even reduced the chances of dying from another one. don't stop taking brilinta without talking to doctor. since stopping it too soon increases your risk of clots in your stent, heart attack, stroke, and even death. brilinta may cause bruising or bleeding more easily or serious, sometimes fatal bleeding. don't take brilinta if you have bleeding, like stomach ulcers. a history of bleeding in the brain, or severe liver problems. tell your doctor about bleeding, new or unexpected shortness of breath, any planned surgery and all medicines you take. i will take brilinta today. tomorrow. and every day for as long as my doctor tells me. don't miss a day of brilinta. aduring sleep train's ur latriple choice sale.ig for a limited time, you can choose up to 48 months interest-free financing on a huge selection of tempur-pedic models, or choose to save $300 on beautyrest and posturepedic mattress sets. you can even choose $300 in free gifts with sleep train's most popular stearns & foster mattresses. the triple choice sale ends sunday at sleep train. ♪ sleep train [train horn] ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ you look at the brakes, tires, engine components. >> results are in from a chp inspection following the union square bus crash. the inspection looked at a handful of vehicles other than the one that crashed. >> the results are not public yet, but abc7 news learned details on this. >> chp inspectors hikely delivered results to city sight seeing's ceo. a source close to the investigation says there are violations. we could know as early as monday whether these are serious enough to pull some buses out of service. after the crash, chp conducted an investigation for six buss. >> tease are big vehicles. >> findings are in, but officer hill can't talk about this because results are not public yet. violations could range from a broken taillight to brake failures. according to the source, inspectors found paper work violations. >> do you want to know if they've gotten a dui? in november the driver says the brakes failed. in this video, you can see the bus hit scaffolding. the california public utilities commission says the bus was never registered with cpuc, something he was required to do. >> why wasn't it registered with the public utilities commission? >> chp says it never inspected the bus. city sight seeing will have a chance to respond before the findings are made public. in san francisco, abc7 news. >> there is no settlement between the parents of a sunnyvale boy and their neighbors. the neighbors say the boy attacked their children. they filed because they say his parents couldn't control him. the family moved out of the neighborhood, calling accusations offensive. commercial flights between the u.s. and cuba are a step closer to negotiating with the cuban government. it's not clear when the first flights would begin. >> president obama will visit families of the victims of the san bernardino shooting rampage friday. it's been two weeks and investigators say syed farook and tashfeen malik had a mutual commitment to jihad, holy war. there is a new national terrorism advisory that includes bulletins and alerts. homeland security got rid of the color coded systems in 2010. >> hillary clinton is holding a huge national lead on senator bernie sanders. sanders is at 26%. this saturday, world news tonight anchor david muir will moderate the debate in new hampshire. live coverage starts at 5:00 p.m. saturday, right here on abc7 news. i like jimmy. i like him a lot. i'm going out of my way to do it. >> that is donald trump after yesterday's g.o.p. debate talking about his appearance tonight on abc7. trump is kimmel's only guest tonight. the federal reserve is raising rates. rates have been nearly 0 since december, 2008 when the u.s. housing market collapsed. today, the fed announced an increase. a power outage left a san jose woman with a refrigerator filled with spoiled food. >> one woman determined to do more than just cry over spilled milk. >> she was. a lot of people don't know this, but state regulation as lou homeowners to file claims against pg and e or other utility for food spoiled as a result of a power outage. in this case, the utility was slow to admit fault. cory opens her refrigerator. that is how much food was in there september 11th when an outage left her without power 14 hours. >> cheese was melted together. and bad lettuce. >> everything smelt bad and was warm, moldy. >> under rules and tariffs, customers can file claims by any outage of more than two hours but the utility denied the claim. in it's rejection, wrote the cause of the electrical problem was due to the cable company digging into our lines and damaging our facilities. that company is cable cop which doesn't provide cable service but lays down lines needed for telecommunications. it, too, denied the claim, saying pg and e didn't label lines properly. wrote pg and e failed to provide markings that have resulted in the system incurring damage. >> it felt kind of childish and back and forth and i couldn't believe a major company was operating in a childish way. >> pg and e sent cory a check for half of the check but she refused and said she turned to 7 on your side. we contacted pg and e. it agreed to pay the claim. it told us when we learned of this dissatisfaction we provided a full reimbursement. we apologize. >> they made progress. thank you very much. for a link go to abc7news.com and select 7 on your side. >> thank you. >> sure. >> well, want to see the new star wars movie in the best way? >> all you have to do is go to one of the oldest theaters in the country. it's right here in the bay area. >> that is next on abc7 news, we'll show you the system inside oakland's grand lakes the well, the force awakens and one of the best places to see the film is here in the bay area at oakland's grand lakes theater. abc7 news was there as the marqu marquis went up for star wears today. jonathan bloom shows how it works. the giant letters were on everyone's mind. some shows are sold out but if you can get tickets there is one question. this is irresistible for some, but not everyone. >> it's too much stimulation so i end up with horrible headaches. >> we've gone back to the way it's shown in the 50s with two projection units. >> they used these projectors but now, this movie palace has two new projectors. >> one giant for each eye ball. >> wow. >> it's the only theater showing star wars in two projector 3 d. if you can't stand 3 d, they say because you have not seen one like this. >> some people say it's not bright enough. the owner says most theaters use a single projector for 3 d that flips more than 100 times per second. these don't need to do that. >> most without flickering or interruption. it's a wonderful system. >> it requires a projectionist to align two machines every day. maybe why the only one is at pixar's screening room. he hopes they give it a dry. >> this 5-year-old in me is super stoked. >> the city is warning drivers about traffic delays and warned officials to try to take public transportation and to use the force. >> well, we're in single digits now counting down to christmas day. the holiday came early for folks. >> next, four families have new cars to drive thanks to an antioch announcer: sunday's your last chance to save big during sleep train's triple choice sale. for a limited time, you can choose up to 48 months interest-free financing on a huge selection of tempur-pedic models, or choose to save $300 on beautyrest and posturepedic mattress sets. you can even choose $300 in free gifts with sleep train's most popular stearns & foster mattresses. the triple choice sale ends sunday at sleep train. ♪ sleep train [train horn] ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ there is a special story coming just once per year in antioch, every december. >> it's been happening 15 years now and wayne freedman has been following from the beginning. >> yes. he shows you what happened when some workers play santa. this event put on by mike's auto body a give away of previously totalled cars to people in need. today, they handed out their 59th set of keys in 15 years. >> it puts them in a position where they can go to work and get their kids to school. >> each year they vote from a long list of applicants. >> just being able to help someone that needs help. >> people like nicole and her husband. they support four kids by working four jobs often by force of will. >> how do you get to work? >> public transportation and bicycle. >> but we never met a recipient like tammy. in 1998 her then husband held off s.w.a.t. teams almost two days before taking his own life and also those of their two young daughters. since then, tammy traveled a long, winding sometimes dark road. today, like a beam of light. >> never give up because miracles happen every day. >> thank you. thank you. >> bye. >> at this event, miracles happen every year. such a great gesture, christmas came early for five families that now have new bicycles by the bay alarm company. one employee cooks lunch in exchange for a donation. this year's donations added up to give away 83 bikes, the most, ever, in 28 years she's been doing this. many families will be getting bikes incoming days. >> it's going to be dry and a chance of showers in the north bay. that is going to act like a blanket. 46 in san francisco. 39 san jose. thursday, upper 50s in spots and rain chances here in san francisco, a good chance tomorrow, and friday, rainy afternoon, warm, and tracking showers in much of the second half of the seven-day forecast. >> after a few days off, warriors back home tonight, the warriors beat phoenix last night. >> now warriors are back home, focused on getting better. and tonight, the warriors going to host the phoenix suns. if you can remember, steph curry had 41 points. doves with 22 threes in that game. and andrew bogut says he wants a different game. >> we have to make sure we're busy in phoenix. we don't want to have to shoot the ball again tonight. >> some key in the deal, clay thompson's brother, trace will go to l.a. trace called up last year with five home runs. raiders defensive end named defensive player of the week. mack had nine tackles against denver. a match up of aaron rogers versus the man james jones labelled baby a-rod, derek carr. he watched and tried to learn from rogers, as one of the very best in the game. >> he was one of my favorites, you know? and so i definitely see the style and those kinds of things. >> 49ers season has been a disaster in every pay possible. saying one thing he's proud of is the way the niners stayed together and kept fighting to try to win. >> when you go through a season like this, you get stretched at the seams and that is what ends up happening in newspapers and internets, the seems pop and you get chaos. >> you are to watch the internet. it's going to be a battle of the back ups. and blaine gabbert trying to play for collin kaepernick. >> if you're at a steelers game, i want to show the guys they can depend on me and i'm here and ready to play. >> it's my jobs to rally the troops and provide the spark this week. >> christian mccaffrey named all american first team, racking up more total guardage than anyone in history. and that is a man who is going to make a lot of money playing on sundays. >> thank you so much, larry. >> join us tonight at 9:00 we're going to have details on two men pulled from a plane in houston. at 9:00. >> and we're 24 hours away from the showing of star wars the force awakens. >> and tonight, the middle airs at 8:00, followed by goldbergs, modern family and blackish. after that, nashville followed by abc7 news at 11:00. >> and donald trump will be the only guest jimmy kimmel tonight. >> that is this edition of abc7 news. we appreciate your time. >> thanks for joining us this evening. blp announcer: through sunday at sleep train, get up to 48 months interest-free financing on tempur-pedic, save $300 on beautyrest and posturepedic, or choose $300 in free gifts with stearns & foster. the triple choice sale ends sunday at sleep train. - aah! - got you! broken arm! boom! boom boom! broken nose! boom boom boom! broken nose! boom! ha! gonna flip you! - once a year, dwight holds a seminar, updating us on the newest developments in the world of karate, because, as we all know, the one thing that thousand-year-old martial arts do all the time is change. - someone attack me. kevin, go! - no way. last time, you pulled my pants down,

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