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Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 600AM 20130302

They took on Police Services for a few days. Some welcomed the return to service. The citizens here have been so supportive that its nice to get back and serve them again. Its been a rough couple days but we were all antsy to get back. Investigators are still piecing together the events that led to jeremy opening fire on the two detectives. The Sheriffs Department is now looking for Theresa Johnson. Investigators say she is not a suspect burks they want to talk to her because she may have associated with goulet in the last few weeks. Investigators say Theresa Johnson may also go by theresa lamb. They believe she is homeless and they are hoping anyone that noise her will have her contact the santa cruz Sheriffs Department. Abc news. The memorial for the detect he have butler and detective baker will be held thursday at noon at hp pavilion in san jose. Also a Scholarship Fund has been established in honor the officers. Officers have already committed 125,000 to the fund. If you want to make a donation, go to our website and click on see it on tv at the top of our home page. Dealing news out of washington. Across the board federal budget cuts known as the sequester are here. Last night the president signed billions of dollars of cuts and dollars of cuts and people are bracing for the impact. We have the details. Before president obama signed the order to start 85 billion in automatic spending cuts, people across the country prepared for the worst. At Mount Rushmore national memorial, that means no hiring for the busy Summer Season and no more traveling for park staffers either. At fort bragg, spending cuttings are already in place and thousands of workers in Central Texas will feel the most pain from the budget cuts. Our employees have been, you know, really confused and shattered by what could happen. And along with worries, people seem annoyed and frustrated. Everybody recognizes that weve got to do something different, but it seems to me they could be adult. Lawmakers appear to understand the frustration. Shouldnt be making a series of dumb, arbitrary cuts to things that businesses depend on and workers depend on. For the nearly 4 million americans who have been receiving Unemployment Benefits for more than 26 weeks, the budget cuts could mean 9 less in their checks. 144 a month is one week of groceries for myself and my two daughters. The pain for most of these cuts wont be felt until next month. Flyers may face longer delays because of fewer airtraffic controllers and civilian Defense Department staff forced to take one day furlough every week. But for all its not bad news. It will not delay tax refunds, in fact, it may mean fewer audits. Abc news, new york. We are learning more about the marin county man who was shot and killed by police in sonoma county. Police say he had been smoking marijuana with a woman all night before he kidnapped her. Officers shot the 27yearold man after he crashed his car during a police chase in gurnville. This picture is from his facebook page. His car was towed away yesterday. Thursday night a woman in the car began texting a friend saying she was kidnapped and asking the friend to call police. The victim claim he began acting strangely after they smoked. This morning Santa Clara County is planning for what they hope to be the bay areas biggest gun buyback event. So many turned out at this event in marin county, authorities ran out of cash. Todays event will be held from ten to two in the Santa Clara County fairgrounds in san jose. They will pay up to 100 for each shotgun, handgun and rifle and 200 for assault weapons. It was a much different evening in oakland. The evening art festival has been scaled back after a teenager was killed last months he event. Abc7 News Reporter allen wong gives it a second look. Suzie guerin decided to leave oaklands first friday event early because she said its no longer the art scene it used. Be. In the last few months i havent been coming because its been morph a party scene. It got to the point it was so crowded you couldnt walk joan anymore. 8 00 crowds began funneling in and it took on a circuslike atmosphere but Oakland Police were going to maintain control. The city let it be known. The city makes it very clear from our intentions are. John, who owned the beer garden, was reminded not to allow patrons to walk on to the street with beer. Weve had to increase the number of security guards i have to keep the alcohol from coming in and going out. The city is clamping down after 18yearold was shot and killed after last months first friday event. But the crowds still game despite the new rules. Show support. Cant be scared. People want a safe place to come out and be a part of a community. People are tired of being at home. This time they hired extra security and decided to close the event early. It cost the city about 16,000 to hole the event. This is the police staging area but we didnt see anyone arrested. Reporting in oakland, im allen wong, abc7 news. The Oakland Police department now has an overseer but we dont know who it is. According to our media partner, a federal judge will the notice release the name of the director until the Officials Salary is set. The overseers will have sweeping powers to ensure the department satisfies reforms that were supposed to be completed five years ago. Today the family of a hayward woman missing for more than a week now will search for her. 29yearold samantha was last seen leaving her home on havanah avenue february 19th. Police say they have not found any indications of criminal activity. Her family is offering a 3,000 reward for information leading to her safe return. A ceremony in vallejo this morning will welcome home 20 Army Reserve Soldiers who were returning from afghanistan. It begins at 8 00 at the maritime academy. The reservist who served with the 721st engineer company, which is a heavy construction unit, will each be presented with an American Flag and lapel pin to thank them for their service. We will be there. Its 6 10 this saturday morning. What are we look at for weather. High clouds. A pretty sunrise. The view from mt. Tam, isnt this gorgeous, 6 49 the official sunrise. More in the way of clouds. Take out the umbrellas. Ill have the forecast next. Also next, new concerns about a sinkhole that swallowed up part of a house in louisiana. What the engineers are now saying about the danger this morning. And plus a bay area lawmaker resigns, admitting that he spent resigns, admitting that he spent with so much competition, finding the right job is never easy. But with the nations largest alumni network, including those in key hiring positions, university of phoenix can help connect you to a world of opportunity. Welcome back. Stop what you are doing and look at the tv. How gorgeous is this as we watch the sun come up over the bay bridge. If you look closely, you can see the light, the art installation on the bay bridge they have been testing recently. Its up and running. So you have the twinkling lights, the horizon over the bay. A gorgeous day. Looking at temperatures in the mid50s. Get outside and do what you need to do while it is still dry because rain is in the forecast. Rescuers say a giant sinkhole is too unstable for them to recover a man who fell into it after the sinkhole opened up thursday night. The victim, jeff bush, is now presumed dead. His brother tried to save him. We heard a loud crash. I ran in there. I heard somebody screaming, my brother screaming, and i ran in there and all you could see was this big hole and all i could see was the top of his bed. As i told the family earlier, the only thing that would be worse than what they are feeling now for their loss would be to experience additional human loss. Engineers worry the sinkhole will grow and consume more of the house that teeters on top of it. 115 catholic cardinals gather in rome on monday to choose a date for picking the next pope. They were officially summoned by the vatican yesterday. Once together, they will decide the actual start of the conclave at the vatican. Meanwhile benedict xvi from here on known as pope emeritus or your holiness spent his first day in retirement. Some say he showed clear signs of exhaustion. You only have to look at him to see how sick he looks or how weak. Hes deteriorated even in the last couple of months. His apartment will remain sealed until a new pope has been appointed. Even his twitter accounts has been cleansed, all tweets wiped out for the next pope. Santa clara county supervisor George Shirakawa jr. Is apologizing for what he did to feed his addiction. Abc7 News Reporter has the story. Mr. Shirakawa violated the law and the faith that the residents of Santa Clara County had placed in him. Santa clara County District attorney jeff rosen announced criminal charges against county supervisor George Shirakawa jr. Four felony counts of perjury, one felony count of misappropriating public money, and seven misdemeanors for failing to file accurate campaign reports. Investigators say shirakawa used taxpayer and Campaign Donation money as his own and some of it went to support his gambling addiction which shirakawa admitted to when he resigned in response to the charges. He said he also suffers from depression and he apologizes for his actions. This is an extraordinary situation and it called for extraordinary measures and right now the extraordinary measures is that hes resigning. The san jose residents we spoke to say it was the right move. I think it is the right thing. Theres a lot of controversy missappropriation of funds and campaign funds. It was like the icing on the cake. Overall its best that he step down. In addition to that he admits to plead guilty to the charges. He faces jail time. He must also pay 50,000 in state penalties and approximately 14,000 in restitution to the county. He has already paid back about half that amount. Shirakawa was booked and releeed on his own reconnaissance. He has a Court Appearance in two weeks. Abc67 news. A noun taken lie on has been spotted in san ramon. A viewer called and said she saw the mountain near the Medical Center this week. She sent us pictures showing the animal in the bushes. San ramon police have been in contact with the people who spotted that mountain lion. Looks like a scene right out of the jungle. And thats somebodys backyard. Yeah. Anyway, we are looking at changes. Mild out there right now with numbers in the 50s. So really pleasant, and a gorgeous sunrise. In fact we are looking at a few high and midlevel clouds and that makes for a pretty start to the day. Live doppler 7hd is very quiet. We will be looking at a few returns being pick up later on tonight and tomorrow and thats because a weak weather system will arrive and that will bring just a couple of sprinkles, maybe a light shower, but that sets the stage for not the storm door, but another system, a more significant one, heading our way tuesday and wednesday. So we do have some nice shots for you. Isnt this beautiful from our roof camera. Numbers this morning are mild with a few clouds around. 53 in San Francisco with 50 in oakland, 51 in san jose. Good morning half moon bay. 46 for you and 51 in santa cruz. So we had 70s and 80s yesterday. It will still be mild around San Benito County and south bay but with the cloud cover we will be cooler especially in sports near or coast. And with the wind shift we are really going to cool down dramatically as we begin the work week. 48 in livermore. Its 50 in fremont. 46 santa rosa. And up towards petaluma where the little kids are getting ready to play, in the low 40s. Should be a nice afternoon with the 60s on the way for the late afternoon. So heres a look at your forecast. Fair and mild this morning. So we have the cloud cover out there. Thats what is keeping the temperatures up. We will call it mostly cloudy today and chance of light showers headed our way through the overnight hours and in particular on sunday. So very mild this morning. Much milder than yesterday. We had the fog in spots and temperatures have been cool all week long. But right now we are five to seven degrees milder from santa rosa to livermore. A little cooler at our coast. A large swells off the coast with breaks and high waves anywhere from five to eight feet, allowing for dangerous sneaker waves from the north coast, the peninsula and all the way down to the monterey bay right on through the evening hours. Higher clouds are entering the sky, and that is due to a shift in the jet stream and a ridge of High Pressure that will eventually slide to the east. So thats the big picture. We still have High Pressure in control and that will allow for another dry day today. But eventually a little piece of energy will head our way, and that will allow for the ridge to really give way and allow for more significant system come tuesday. But today its just thicken clouds out there and the computer animation shows that throughout the rest of the day today. But into tomorrow you will notice a little built of green showing up here. That should bring maybe a light shower and certainly the numbers continuing to trend downward. 71 in sacramento today with 80 in fresno. 83 in los angeles. So not much cooling there. Upper 60s from san mateo, palo alto. 68 in the north bay. Heres the look ahead. You notice much cooler weather as we begin the work week. Then the rain comes. Sear snow is in the forecast as well and drying out the end of the work week. We are another great weather resource for you. Follow live doppler hd on twitter for the eight latest bay area weather conditions and get spare the air alerts, power outage information and weather tweets from your favorite weather team. It will be an active week ahead. Good thing. Thank you, lisa. Coming up next, a piece of hollywood is up for grabs. The unique history behind this mansion, and how many dollars you would need to get into it. [ female announcer ] at yoplait, we want you to feel even better about your favorite flavors. So when you call, tweet, and post, we listen. Thats why yoplait light and yoplait original are now made with no high fructose corn syrup. And why we use only natural colors and Natural Flavors in yoplait original. So, anything else we can do for you, let us know. But youll keep it to yogurt, right . cause we shouldnt really help with your love life. Yoplait. It is so good good morning, dan. He is live from Good Morning America. Good morning. America under the knife. Overnight the president signing into effect 85 billion in spending cuts, the cult of an ongoing budget battle with the republicans. The question this morning, how bad will the cuts really be and who is to blame. And what did the president say that had scifi fans abuzz. And the giant sinkhole that opened up under a home in florida. It wall load one man in his bed in his sleep. He is presumed dead and the house could come crashing downey moment. We will have a live report from the scene. And what items are getting the boot from the mcdonalds menu . We will tell you. And on a lighter note its the modern family emergency kind of. Several cast members from modern family got stuck in an elevator overnight. How long were they there and how did they get them out . We will give you the breaking details coming up on this Good Morning America on saturday morning. They probably entertained themselves. Thanks so much. Facebook is set to unavailable their retooled news feed next thursday. No word on what the changes will look like. The last Time Facebook held an event like this, the company was unveiling its graph search. Looking for a new home away from home . Well, theres a place in Southern California if you have enough cash. It the a Beverly Hillman son is up for grabs. It was once owned by William Randolph hearst and used by jfk and jackie during their honeymoon. And it was also used in the film the bodyguard. Its 600,000 a month to rent it or 115 million to buy it. Coming up, after a less than perfect launch we will tell you when the spaceflight is set to ron view with the International Space station. And its Little League opening day. Im live in petaluma, which happens to be the home of the allstars who made it to the National Championships last year. Coming up, id like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain cheerios my bowl, my spoons mom, are those my jeans . [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who dont. Multigrain cheerios has whole grain and 110 delicious calories. More grains. Less you multigrain cheerios in multigrain cheerios peanut butter. Welcome back. We are starting this halfhour with a quick look at the weather. This doesnt do it justice. Wait until you see what lisa argen has for us. Look at that. 6 39. Another mine minutes the official sunrise and isnt this pretty with the lower clouds and high clouds around the bay. We are talking about a beautiful start to the day with temperatures in the 40s and 50s. So its pretty mild out there. In fact, we look for highs today in and around the 70degree mark. Even with the mostly cloudy conditions. Up in petaluma numbers in the low 40s right now. The world champs or third place champs are getting ready to play at 8 30 and they will get underway with numbers in the 40s with a few clouds around. By the afternoon 50s and 60s. So a slow rise this temperatures with increasing clouds. And they are hanging out, you have folks up in the north bay throughout the rest of the afternoon. Highs come in about 4 00

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