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KGO ABC7 News 500AM March 8, 2013

Line here south of the bay area so that is why we are looking at mostly dry conditions. Look for clouds, in the 40s, and 50s by noontime. Around the bay, with all the sunshine, you will warm up, upper 50s should do it by the afternoon, and, then, into the lower 60s and inland it should be nice, with upper 30s and upper 50s around the bay and it should be a nice afternoon, as well, but warming trend over the week. Sue . A nice smooth drive headed southbound on 101 through marin wood and right here beyond lucas valley road moving to the civic center at the parkway you can see everything at the limit. Now, a look at the drive from the antioch area from antioch into concord you are looking pretty good with speeds picking up and looking nice as you move from pittsburg to that area. Mass transit is checking in on time, and pardon the caltrain with no delays right now. The drive times if you are headed out, 580, 4, and 80. New this morning, police are investigating an Early Morning Home Invasion in San Francisco with investigator say two men forced their way into the house and pistolwhipped the victim after midnight on 23rd street. The suspects took the victims iphone and ipad and got away moments after the officers arrived or before, and police were able to track the suspects across the bay bridge to oakland but they lost sight of the vehicle. Two Fallen Santa Cruz Police Officers are finally resting in peace after nearly 10,000 people came together to honor them. Officers, dignitaries and friends and family filled san joses h. P. Pavillion to remember and celebrate the lives of detective Sergeant Loran butch baker and detective Elizabeth Butler. The two were shot and killed by a Sexual Assault suspect. They were the first Santa Cruz Police officers to be killed in the line of duty. Two heroes, two friends, taken far too soon at the hands of a madman. This was the touching tribute outside the h. P. Pavilion with the uniform officers raising their hands in salute at the vehicles carrying the two officers left at the memorial. New this morning, a 239yearold driver under arrest for the death of a San Francisco High School Student is scheduled to be in court today. The woman is charged with driving under the influence and killing the 17yearold and faces up to ten years in prison. Chang was walking across the boulevard at vale avenue when she was hit. She was on the track team. The teammates wore grown green ribbons at the meet. Osama bin ladens soninlaw is said to be arraigned in new york city this morning. The prosecution says he praised the september 11th attacks and warned this would be more. Abc7 News Reporter is live in washington, dc. Officials call this man a key player saying he is kind of like a part of the mob. He. Now stand trial. Another senior al qaeda terrorist has been nabbed, osama bin ladens soninlaw is in custody and will appear before a federal magistrate in new york. He faces charges including conspiracy to kill u. S. Citizens. He held a key position of al qaeda spokesman. In this video, he celebrates the help help attack on the United States. According to officials, the c. I. A. Has been tracking him for years as he moved from afghanistan to iran and then in january into turkey where he was arrested. When he left iranian territory and got in turkey where close monitoring by the u. S. Government agencies, his daze were numbered. He was transferred to jordan where the United States picked him up last week. The attorney general hold are said that no amount of distance or time will weaken our resolve to bring americas enemies to justice. Officials tell abc7 news that he has revealed key intelligence about al qaedas operation including country status, personnel, and finances. This is a man who is in the inner circle of bin Ladens Al Qaeda operations and now we have him, alive, and he is talking. Some lawmakers prefer further interrogation of him and would rather he face a military tribunal than stand trial here in the United States. We are now setting a new precedent that will come back to bite us. We are putting people like this into federal court giving them the same Constitutional Rights as an american citizen. Despite his capture, terrorism experts say there are still four major al qaeda players living inside iranian territory. Thank you so much. Quick question before you go, why is it so significant to bring him here to the United States . Because this is one of the first times that a senior al qaeda leader has been prosecuted on United States soil. President obama, when he took office, pledged to hold terror trials here in the United States. That has been very controversial. This trial, however, will go forward here on United States soil. Thank you, live from washington. Thank you. Former president clinton is doing an about face on samesex marriage calling on the Supreme Court to overturn the law he signed in 1996 that barred federal recognition of samesex marriage. He now is saying that the defense of marriage act is incompatible with the constitution. He writes in a Washington Post oped that he signed the law to avoid legislation that would have been even worse for gays. We had some rain. Certainly it has been noisy at night. But that is changing. What is next . We will check with our meteorologist. Live doppler 7 hd showing shower activity along the shoreline. We will see that continue to dissipate throughout the rest of the Morning Hours. Today will be cool and we will try to get that map back up for you. Today we will hit 50. Around the bay, under clouds in the morning, we will look if upper 50s as we get to the late part of the morning and by the afternoon we are looking at temperatures in the lower 60s if concord and a warming trend throughout the weekend and we will touch 70 by the end of the weekend and we will have a look at the sevenday outlook coming up and hopefully the wet pavement is not getting in the way of the commute this morning. Sue has the details. So far, so good, we have one incident, 80 eastbound, this is noncommute direction with first reports of an accident and left lane as i look at the live shot i do not see any delays, certainly the westbound is the major concern this morning and so far, so good there. We will follow that, again, eastbound, we have an accident first reported at the summit in the Santa Cruz Mountains, northbound, at 17, blocking a lane of traffic there and we will update that for you coming up. Kristen and katie . Next a push in sacramento to give you the power to free your cell phone. He took the bay area by storm and now at the center of a mystery los altos,ant i dont petaluma, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. , this morning a new report shows 20,000 Illegal Immigrants headed to college are applying for Financial Aid for the first time under the dream act. The new law allows students to get help regardless of their immigration status. Our media partner, the San Jose Mercury news reports the California Student Aid Commission expects to award 19. 5 million in grants to the newly eligible dream act students. San jose state has already given campus grants and waivers to 83 students. East bay has awarded 40. And cupertino college has raised fees for 139 students. Another member the bush family is showing new interest in the white house. Former Florida Governor jeb bush is sending new signals he could be interested in a president ial run in 2016. The younger brother of former president george w. Bush and son of former george h. W. Bush has long resisted pressure from supporters to run but now he is hinting to donors they should not count him out promoting a new book on Immigration Reform and urging republicans to expand their vote are base. A bay area congresswoman is proposing a bill to unlock your smartphone and let you choose a carrier. The congresswoman from palo alto oppose as new rulemaking it a crime to unlock your own phone. The rule took affect in january. It is meant to protect copyrights. However, thousands of customers complained, even president obama came out against it. The bill would free up your phone once again. Has anyone seen sutro sam . The rare San Francisco river otter that has been drawing crowds has not been seen for two weeks. He got his nickname when he suddenly appeared in the waters near the cliff house. River otters are rare here. He is the first spotted in decades. The Recreation Area has to put up barricades to keep the fan at the distance. The press wanted to get close but speakers say that sam might be looking for a companion. Can you blame him in. It is river otter mating season. Maybe he want as little privacy. He has things to do. And lisa is here for mike. You have sunshine . We had some wind and certainly in the south bay we got a little bit more last night than the rest of the bay and outside right now it is spotty but live doppler 7 hd showing precipitation way south of the bay area so we are looking at light rain, association overall, we are clearing out and elsewhere it is mild, with still the cloud cover left over, here is a look at south bay, where it is moving along pretty well and the numbers mostly in the mid40s around the bay. Livermore is 45 but dropping in the mid30s by the delta with clearing and well see the clearing first in the north bay, and napa is 36 with more mid40s out toward our inland east bay, so compared to yesterday, with the cloud cover, we are a little bit warmer and we are talking about that trend over the weekend. We do have one weak system that will keep the numbers cool at our coast throughout the next day or so, today plan on the jacket, it is still not quite spring and, in fact, a chill to the air throughout most of the Morning Hours and early afternoon. Partly cloudy and sunny and cool with a warming trending emphasizing that on sunday because saturday we are still going to see cool conditions. Here is a look at the radar and satellite, and you will notice the twist into the rain and clouds, our area of low pressure continues to sink south and closed around the grapevine, so pretty rough going travel headed into Southern California, with rain showers, san diego, los angeles, midtoupper 50s but notice the northern what of the state looking good with numbers in the 30s in the northern sierras so we are talking about temperatures in the tahoe area, cool today, with a little bit of fresh powder and sunny, 40s and 50s by the end of the weekend. Back home we are talking about high temperatures in the upper 50s, to the lower 60s, but if you are at the coast it will be cool there, low 50s and warming by sunday. We are going back, now, to berkeley eastbound 80, c. H. P. Saying there is an accident although i do not see slowing. The tail lights are headed eastbound in that direction so if there is an accident we are not seeing it on our live shot and c. H. P. May need to update their location on that. Westbound is getting busy as you make your way toward the macarthur maze and we have an accident, still, if lanes, and this is in san jose, north 880, a tow truck is on the scene, and Santa Cruz Mountains an accident nobody at the summit, and that is on the right shoulder. It is 5 18. Disney, our parent company, sees green in shack rock shamrock shakes. And Justin Bieber collapses in a rough week including a birthday with his birthday. Experts weigh in on the link between breakfast meat and death. That is ahead. Hello, we are having fun friday here today, with a hey, its me, progressive insurance. You know, from our 4,000 television commercials. Yep, there i am with flo. Hoohoo watch it [chuckles] anyhoo, 3 Million People switched to me last year, saving an average of 475. [sigh] it feels good to help people save. With great discounts like safe driver, multicar, and multipolicy. So call me today. Youll be glad you did. Cannonbox [splash ] listen up, before you dive into your breakfast, people who eat a lot of processed meat have a higher risk of premature death but how much can you eat before getting cancer . Researchers say if everyone ate no more than. 0 ounces of meat, or one strip of bacon, premature death could be prevented, and that include as slim slice of ham. And a fifth of a burger. That is disturbing. Developing business news, google says they are cutting an additional 1,200 jobs from motorola as the cell phone makers struggles to compete. The cuts come on top of the 4 ,000 jobs eliminated last summer. Google bought motorrola for 112 billion. The government is cracking down on phone spam. The federal trade commission is charging 29 with sending more than 180 million spam text promising free gift cards. The emergencies came with links inviting people to share sensitive information, or buy other things to get the free cards. The spam costs millions in higher charges on the cell phone bills. Watch for blackberrys that are new to go on sale as they try to remake itself and compete with apple touch screen products. Verizon expects to offer the same phone at end of the month. Disney hoping the man behind the curtain can be a money maker, which opens in movie theaters today after positive buzz in social media, boosting estimates for weekend ticket sales by 17 percent. A sue equal is already in the works as disney builds a new franchise off of old characters. And abc7 news is owned by disney. Ladies today is our day, International Womens day, an annual celebration of womens political, economic, and social accomplishments. Organizers say thousands of events are held throughout the world to mark the occasion. As far as the state of women in the world, there is good and bad news. Women are earning more money, running more countries, and out living men on average by 5 to 10 years. Women are still paid 10 percent to 30 percent less than men. They only 21 women c. E. O. s in the fortune 500. But that is growing. It is fitting we have lisa here for mike nicco, with the all female cast this morning on the International Womens day. Good morning, lisa. Live doppler 7 hd showing the rain continues to diminish around the bay with a few showers offshore here and the culprit is headed into Southern California. So, here is a look at our radar and satellite composite, in Southern California for the weekend, watch out because we have mountain snow, and his 5 is closed with good rain from Santa Barbara, and in the southern sierra, yosemite, low 40s the and left over snow showers along the north sierra, and despite the sunshine it will take a couple of days to remain what up so, today, we will see mid50s to lower 60s but look what happens tomorrow over the weekend, we are sometime in the 50s at the coast but midandupper 60s around the bay and sunday the warmer day on the weekend, and it does not stop, still warm, and above average into the early part of next week. And now, westbound 580 which is the commute direction, westbound 80 at the 580 merge, we have a little activity and it picks up beyond that so we will follow that now that c. H. P. Is on the scene. In san jose we still have an accident waiting for a tow truck. Northbound 880, there is a car versus an embanment and you could find slow traffic and the Santa Cruz Mountains, beyond the summit north 17, an accident on the shoulder. 5 26. Great news, officials in london say Justin Bieber will be on stage tonight although he fainted back stage last night. This is new video from the performance, bieber stopped during a song and bent over with his hands on his knees and walked off stage. A spokesman said that the 19yearold fainted from shortness of breath. He was given oxygen and took a 20minute break and ignored Doctors Orders and finished the concert and driven to the hospital after the show where he posed for the photo posted and defeated thanks for everyone pulls for me. Shirtless again. And one of the cohosts of the view is leaving, with the 70yearold saying it was the right time to leave to focus on other projects which could include writing a play or returning to stand up comedy with the last appearance in august. The view appears weekdays at 10 00 a. M. Just ahead the latest on breaking news we are following on Early Morning restaurant fire at an eastbound bay landmark, chez panisse and who will not be open for business any time soon. Abc7 news starts right now with live breaking news. The breaking news is from berkeley where a culinary landmark, chez panisse has suffered major damage in a fire. Abc7 News Reporter is live on scene with new information. Kira klapper . Good morning, to you. The acting deputy fire chief says there is not as much damage as originally thought. They are still wrapping up what the crew is doing on the scene and say just the front of the restaurant where there is a small eating area is damaged and will be closed for a few weeks. The rest of the restaurant seems to be okay. We have video after the file starts after 3 00 this morning, they are now saying that they thing the fire starts below the restaurant, below because the restaurant is raised slightly above ground. Firefighters, fortunately, responded quickly and were able to keep the fire from spreading to next door businesses. We still do not know much. Here i

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