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KGO ABC7 News 600PM January 22, 2013

In santa clara. Sergio . Well, larry said it. Its historic. But for 49ers organization and fans of course, this is another chance to bring home another championship trophy. The moment the 49ers game was over, the family hatched a plan for a road trip. We wanted to go last night. The destination is in the store in San Francisco. Intention, droves of others buying jerseys. This is a trip that started early today. We woke up at 8 00 in the morning to come from sacramento just to come to the store. Throughout the bay area, 49ers red is the color of the day, even if youre too young to know why. Fans are savoring this trip to the super bowl. Just win, win. Its been a long time coming. We need one more. The last time they brought a trophy was 18 years ago. Coach hopes to add another to the collection saying this super bowl match up against his big brother, John Harbaugh is a blessing and a curse. That is my brothers team. And also, person that played for ravens, Great Respect for the organization. The rivalry is making this a match up. Prices are skyrocketing to more than 3,000 a piece. For those staying closer to home, the Super Bowl House Party planning is in progress. Were still making plan was other toddlers and families and babies. For those looking to go to new orleans to turn this into a weekend, i checked in the official travel partner. They have package thats have round trip air fare, through tlee nights ain a hotel and a cheap ticket going for about 6,000 per person. Not cheap. Boy, better be a good game for 6,000. For kaepernik, its Central Valley hometown, friends and family are beyond excited. Hes from turlock. A small town on the map in a very big way. Abc 7 news is there live. Hes such a great story. This is downtown looked like red and gold. When they want to honor a hero, they like to do it with food. The owners for these are coming in from all over Northern California to turlocks old time pace tri autos well be ready. Were making all day long. Its a cookie designed to honor collin kaeperin this case. Nick. Is this sneshl hes in it and fl here . Yeah. It is. Its hometown, were excited. Yuft a wonderful kid, a neighborhood kid. Played basketball, football, and baseball with all kids in the neighborhood. Just a wonderful young man. Downtown at main street theyre turning out kaep specials, a hot dog topped with chili and something called secret sauce. So far, its getting rave reviews. Its very hot. The dog is very hot. Is it good . Yes. Its good. Not only hungry but proud . I think there are a lot of people proud. Theyre all in the kaepernick fever it seems kaepernick fever caught on. Hes been playing awesome showing we do have players in this area that need to be taken a look at. He does this thing after he scores. Do you know what that is . Can you show me . What is he doing . Kissing his muscles. Now, the kaepernicks live up the road in modesto. Collin kaepernick went to middle school here and he was a star at his high school, pitman high school. You can bet theyll celebrate him for many years still to come. Hes done a great job. Thank you very much. Abc 7 news will be following 49ers to new orleans for the big game. Look for live reports all next week. Surfer got more than he bargained for today after getting caught up in rip tides off San Francisco ocean beach. Sky 7 was overhead as the surfer sat on seal rock waiting to be rescued. He sat there. Coast guard tried to approach the rock. They thought about a helicopter rescue. He explains they settled on a different aapproach. Firefighters on surf boards came up close to me, told me to jump in. Its the right time. Jumped n we paddled into the bay. Further than i thought was possible. They picked us up and drove us here. The boat then took him to the pier. He was checked out as you can see, just heard him speak, hes doing just fine. The trial started in one of the worst work place killings in silicon valley. Three executives of a start up company shot and killed four years ago. And now an attorney as a unique defense from his client. The attorney for the defendant says his client was insane. Let me put the m mike on before i start. Okay. The Attorney Says his client was insane when he shot and killed his three victims. Now, the insanity defense is not unique. What is difference is what the Attorney Says caused this insanity. Brutality of the chinese cultural revolution decades ago. A potential beautiful oriental vass from inception had a crack. That is what he calls the client. Saying the 52yearold experienced a break down down, when he shot and killed three executives. His head filled with flash backs he said from brutal abuse suffered during cultural revolution in china. They were considered traitors spit on and forced into hard labor. They never had enough food. Murders happened november 14th. Wu had been fired that morning. Supposed to come back the next week to see if he can work instead as a consultant. Police say he returned and shot the three in a meeting. Sarah says he intended to shoot himself in front of boss autos they charged him. That is to disarm him. He doesnt remember pulling the trigger. Prosecutors say it was revenge and that he planned murders and they say he bought a hundred bullets hours before gung down victims. Sarah says his client is mentally ill and recurrent images of the horror suffered at the hands of the red guards. Other children abused him, bullied him. They grag draged him to a pond attempting to drown him. Dean johnson says there is a unique defense but its go tok a hard sell n circumstances like this, someone has a motive to commit a killing, then, they claim insanity, juries are sus spish spishus. Prosecutors said in court wu threatened a victim, the one that fired him saying youll pay for this. Sea port was bought by intel two years ago. Court resumes tomorrow. Thank you very much. Still ahead tonight officials attempt another gun buy back. Youm see how they did without offering money. Were going to report on president obamas agenda on the second term. This is video. There you can see the first couple dancing. A car comes back with a piece missing. What happened . Im michael finney. 7 on your side is coming up. Well see another mild day, winder like day two of a buy back program had a surprising number of people turning in guns for nothing because there is no money left to buy back the firearms meaning its just a Gun Surrender Program today. Wayne freedman shows us why many turned in their guns anyway. In mill valley a previously uncontemplated equation. The higher the income level, fewer, finer gun autos wed tlik see more turned in today. I think were off to a good start. Weapons range from bebe gun to a semi automatic rifle. To this piece, turned in, still loaded. This belonged to my stepfather. I think hed want me to do this. And i, im not a gun person. Nor arks apparently are many residents as lng as there is money involved. The District Attorney began last week with 43,000ses today give away as n incentive, receiving 827 firearm thats day. There are so many, the county began issuing vouchers, today no, promises except a clean conscience. I dont want any money for it. The county spends 67,000, money it hopes to pay within 30 days. Donations coming in to makeup the difference. One person gave 26. There is a dollar for each of the lives lost. Baby steps to a safer world. They say yes. If we can save one person, its worth it. It used to be people who owned guns said weapons gave them piece of mind, security. Now, it seems to be the other way around. What if someone tries to steal from your place, what are you going to defend yourself with . Our killer cat. Several events held in the bay area to commemorate the birthday of dr. Martin luther king. What billed as oldest continuous king celebration in the east bay kicked off this morning. Themes associated with dr. King, people found it special to celebrate on the second inauguration of the nations first black president. San francisco commemoration took place at Yerba Buena Center for the arts today. Common message, how much further there is to go. Reverend Carolyn Scott calls it dream almost fulfilled. We are more united. Were more caring. And more transparent. However. We do still need to continue the growth. Leaders from different faiths read from the writings. Right there in alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brother autos the reverend brings more than the average connection to this regular gassy. His mother was a young schoolteacher in alabama. Today, its an emotional one for her. Its just overwhelming to see how far weve come. What weve accomplished. We have a ways to go. There is still injustice and prejudice in work force areas. And there is as long as were still playing catch up. They couldnt agree more in this rally. Maddy scott lost her son 16 years ago. Were here. To say enough is enough. We want to drive for peace and celebrate and honor dr. Kings birthday for nonviolence. Scott wishes we can take guns out of hands and replace them with books. Something king would champion were he here, today. And how nice it was a Beautiful Day for the celebration. It was gorgeous. Thank you very much. Yes. Yes. As fi had something to do with it. Its a Beautiful Day continuing to be a nice evening around the bay area. Looking westward we do have high clouds in the sky but its clear. You can see here on doppler 7 clouds have been lurking off shore. Mainly clear at the moment. Readings into the 50s. So chilly in the bay area, well see clouds increasing late tomorrow. Showers developing in the north bay early wednesday. Well have much cooler weather by the end of the week continuing throughout the weekend. Overnight tonight lows dropping down to 31 degrees in napa. 27, santa rosa. North bay valleys will be cold. Chilly there as well. Well see mid to upper 30s around the bay. Low of 45 here. Here is active weather and moisture meaning well see light showers in the north bay. Well start at 4 00 wednesday morning. You can draw a line from southwest to northeast there. And you dont see rainfall moving east ask south of the line. Tomorrow no, brain. Just clouds. Mainly sunny skies. Hazy conditions mild, mainly into mid to upper 60s, cooler, low to mid60s there. Clouds will thicken early. Well see low to mid60s as well. Farther south near monterey bay, highs at or above 70 degrees in most of those locations. Here is the accuweather forecast. Showers, dry, cooler thursday. Inland highs into mid50s and upper 50s around the bay. Not a lot in the way of rainfall. Thank you. Coming up next a unique perspective on the surf contest. Yes want to show you a live picture of president and mrs. Obama dancing in washington this evening. Theyre dancing to lets Stay Together i believe. You can see the gorgeous dress by jason wu. A lot of talk about her new hair style. Its amazing to see people taking pictures of this event. Yes. Exciting times in washington tonight. Coming back here a daring nest a hayward. The owner of auto world says four men broke into the lot and forced open the gate then broke into the office and took the keys to several car asks drove away. The owner says cars worth about 200,000. Authorities plan to review the video taken from several cameras on the lot. Police looking for this spekd who terrorized employees in an attempted Armed Robbery saturday night. The robber charged into the store pointing a gun, and demanded money. When employees scrambled the guy narrowly missed one worker then ran from the store. Game over for atari, filing for bankruptcy protection. The move is aimed at escaping a massive debt facing a atari Parent Company in france. Blockbuster anonsed not enough people rent movies on dvd but a folksman says the Company Continues to see fal val in the brand. Southwest airlines guarantees youll be one of the first in line to board the flight. Does it not put nut first 15. New, you can get that, right . Yes. Coming up next four more years, the president making a plea for unity. But he puts a number of devicive issues on the agenda. The role social media is playing. The president sending tweets today from church. My fellow americans were made for this moment. We will see that so long as we see this together. President obama issuing a call for unity as he spells out aan agenda on devicive issues on day one of the next four years. In a dave ceremony, dramatically scaled back from the first inauguration, barack obama was sworn in today to a second term as president of the united states. The president and mrs. Obama made a brief appearance a short time ago at one of the two big inaugural balls being held tonight. Two major ones taking plate plais right now. After leaving capitol hill the president and first lady walked several several locks to blocks to the white house to thousands of cheering people, he called on the country to support his agenda on a number of controversial issues. Abc 7 nuts is here now with more on that part for us. Just heard the president talking about seizing the moment. He seized an opportunity today to speak to a Huge National audience and bypass opponents in congress. The president says sed hard work, is part of the countrys character but so is working together. No Single Person can train all of the math and science teachers we need tototeach our children for the future. Repeating the phrase we the people, he outlined priority autos we will rye respond to the threat of climate change. Knowing that the failure to do so would detray our children and future generations. Reaction from the seer wherea club . Its important time for him to be leading on this issue. Also talked about championing gay rights. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone uls els under the law. If were truly created equal the love for one another must be equal as well. The head of the National Center for lesbian rights said she was close to tear autos we felt we werent in a back room maybe hell talk to fuss no one is watching. The impact on republican whos fear any compromise to lead to a challenge from within their own ranks. Saying change will depend less on president and democrats and more on moderate republican autos jeb bushes of the republican party, lamar alexander, on the podium with the president today. Murphy says hes seeing signs the deep freeze may be thawing. There is a sort of thing of hey we try that had and it didnt work. And maybe we want to win. The director of the Leo Mccarthy Center said he was at a conference where jeb bush was challenge bid a mer conservative republican from utah saying the push back is polite, but pointed. Thank you. You bet. Many of you watched this morning but for Many Americans more than ever brrk television was one of two screens they were watching. More of the growing role of social media. When president obama took the oath of office, it wasnt the first time he added aegs dressed the public he had the president tweeting several times, once from church this morning. Say what you want about his faith telling us plenty were tweeting from paul ryan to senator mckaskills informal tweet of Justice Scalias hat. There is Sarah Hatfield tweeted she was unable to tweet live. Networks strained and twitter counted 1. 1 million tweets and reaching a peak. We cannot mistake absolutism for principles or substitute spectacle for politics or treat name calling as reasoned debate. But the mosttweeted moment . Bee yons n yeah, then, the parade. The armed forces had their own app letting spectateors track during realtime. This is the first time weve had phone aapps available. And people are getting opportunities to learn more about the military role in the inauguration. Were using twitter. If he talk to you talk to teenagers theyre using inst instagram. Stay with us. Michael finney is coming up next. And tonight helping a woman who cam kx;x;x;x;x u this is individual yof a fire burning out of control 50 miles north of sacramento. We understand fire crews are battling the blaze there. One person has been rescued from the that building. One firefighter is injured. This space employs about 4,000 people. Now, taking your car to the shop can be a strain on your nerves and wallet. That is what one woman found out. Her car came back a piece missing. The shop claimed it was missing when she brought the car n she says its not true and taking your car in for repairs shouldnt mean losing pieces of it. Judy is meticulous about maintaining her 2003 lexus, take being it to the shop for slight problem autos visor was loose. It was owned by judys mom, theyve kept every record in 10 years that is why its perplexing the car came back with a missing part. This is significant piece missing off the back of the car. Judy had taken the car to lexus of concord with a list of minor problems including a rattling noise. The technician told her they had to tighten the roof rack. They must have taken off the back end. I came back, it a piece was missing. She asked where the piece was. She said theyd look in the car wash. They said it wasnt there. Lexus told her it was missing when she drove into the center. There is no way. I take good care of the car. Judys mom followed judy to drop off the car. Absolutely positive that that part was not missing it would have been so obvious. Lexus said it had video of her driving in with it missing. They couldnt show me in the film bringing knit. However, judy could not prove the piece was there when show drove in, either. Lexus no longer makes this 10yearold part. Judy wont be able to replace it. He said ill look at salvage yards. We contacted lexus corporate offices and the Company Search fofrd a new part and a day later judy got a call. She said ive got good news we have the part. I said what . Here sismt the part snapped back in, matching her color perfectly. Lexus of concord gave us a statement saying thank you very much. By calling you were able to facilitate getting us a replacement part to satisfy the customer. Bat rathel is gone. The car is beautiful. Im a happy girl. Sweet that. Is whaits all about. The tech should do a walk around making sure there arent any dents or dings that way, you know what is there. Looks like when you rent a car. Yes. You can tell she took care of the auto

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