Swing vote is obviously Anthony Kennedy from sacramento. I dont know what Justice Kennedy will do. I think hes our, hes our hope. Reporter both sides same sex marriage debate relying on the same man as the high court agrees to take up a lapped mark case. Good evening. Outcome of the case will impact gay rights in this country. Supreme Court Justices will review a suit challenging the federal defense of marriage act as well as california prop 8 which bans gay marriage. More now from mark matthews. Couple getting married here just not same sex couple. Gavin browned breaking decision overturned by california voters in 2008 when they supported prop 8 ban on gay marriage. Watching from the side rins today one half of the same sex couple elizabeth chase. You know this isnt the first time that i have watched a couple get married while talking about mawrj equality in San Francisco city hall. I have been waiting for 3 years toen joy the same privilege that these folks are currently enjoying. Also this afternoon john lewis and stewart who were married before the prop 8 ban. Over 100,000 loving committed legally married same sex couple across the nation. An thousands or more to come soon with washington and mayor listened and maine having Marriage Equality now. Reporter San FranciscoCity Attorney is part of the legal team arguing against prop 8. I am gratified and confident very confident that the Supreme Court which is now going to be taking up the civil rights issue of our time will reach the same result that the District Court did and the 9th circuit did and well find that proposition 8 unlawfully discriminates against gay lesbian couple here in the state of california. Reporter in sacramento this afternoon a spokesman for supporters of proposition 8 is confident the hay court will support the ban on same sex marriage. I expect 4 or 5 justices to uphold proposition 8. Why . Because the constitution of the United States doesnt have marriage in it. And 10th amendment says what is not in the federal powers belongs to the state. High court 0could go either way. Lawyers trying to turn over prop 8 said they will argue very broad argument before the high court that there was no justification for discrimination. We will know the High Court Decision probably next june. Reporting from city hall, abc 7 news. Major roadway in eastern Contra Costa County is still closed after 2 people died in a horrible crash. We flew above the scene on byron highway at Clifton Court just after the crash. Mid afternoon today. You are lacking at the aftermath of head open collision between big rig an another vehicle. Chp says 21yearold woman and an 8 or 9yearold boy both died in the horrible accident. Look at it. She was driving and investigators say the boy was wearing his seat belt. Truck driver saw her car swerving before they hit head on. He appears to be okay. Terrible scene in Contra Costa County. Hand so say Police Officers say the department turned ominous corner. They say the number of officers leaving the department is growing faster than train new recruit. Corrina tonight has the very latest on the saga of the incredible shrinking police force. Officer tina is one of 6 people just this week signing paperwork to walk away from a job at the San Jose Police department. After 27 years she is rae tiring with a disability and is part of unprecedented exodus. Variability is definitely toxic. Officers really cant speak their mind about what is going on. The chef doesnt listen. The mayor dont liste listen. City hall doesnt care what we have to say. Reporter City Council Member is a former San Jose Police officer who also retired open disability. He and the councilman majority supported mayor reid fiscal reform policy including pay cut an voter approved pension rae form. Its really not about the city or the mayor and the council versus the union. What its about is keeping our city afloat. Dealing with a budget situation that has just been disaster for over a decade and saying what are we going to do to fix it. Reporter Police Officers say the fix it self is a disaster and the only thing the 2 sides can seem to agree on is the Staffing Shortage here is real. The department is authorized to have more than the 1700 current officers. 44 new recruit in the pipeline but 81 says if you add up the people who have left or planned to leave since academy started, total of 53, its a numbers game the department cant we know. They are walking out. Dont have it any other way. Cant strike. Cant do job action. The only way really to send a message loud and clear is to leave. Reporter tina says no amount of recruiting will ever replace the decades of experience the city is losing in the name of fiscal reform in san jose abc 7 news. 4 year ballots over San Francisco golf course done tonight. Federal court june says the city did not vailt the endangered species act by allowing golf in the historic sharp park golf course. Judge relied on opinion from u. S. Fish Wild Life Service and found golf was not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of the california red legged frog and the San Francisco garther snake. Rate now in the south bay police try to contact owner of high end used car confinement lot who disappeared wall dozens of luxury vehicle. We first brought you the story last night at 11 00. Car owners are converging on sunnyvale motors looking for answers and their cars. Lot has been empty since at least sunday and the owner cant be found. Saint veil motorist sold considers on consignment for owner whose turned over the pink slip to expedite sales. Car worth do you think. 40,000. Reporter 40,000 . Yes. Just in disbelief. They correspondent belief they got swindled. Sad to listen to the stories. Reporter mechanic at nearby shop says many cars were towed off the sunnyvale motor lot last friday. Tow Truck Company said they were taken to auctio auction. The charges filed against sunnyvale owner at least not yet. Oakland certainly had more than its fair share of crime but what happened to a church youth grooem group seems particularly unfair. Traveled to florida and robbers made off with all the cash they brought with them to get by. More on this story from heather. Reporter group of 24 teenagers and young adults setoff yesterday with high hope for exciting fulfilling adventure. Trip from the church in oakland to christmas Youth Conference in fort lauderdale. The within hours of arrival they were crushed to find 12,000 dollars cash the, lug annual and the adult leader passport stolen out of their rental van while they had lunc lunch. We were out here many miles for help. Home with no one to reporter the group wings of Love Ministry had each brought cash to cover expenses. It was consolidated by the Group Leaders and they say they were on their way from the airport to the bank when they decided to stop for lunch. Strangers and loan from home got them through the night. Thisen today the despair turned to shook and relief when loss businessman came to their rest kichlt i have a Little Something here. I have 15,000 dollars. Wow oh, my. We kept our hopes up and we know that god used him to bring this to us thank you so much. Reporter nude that stunning gift joan treated the group to lunch at apple beat. Im a news hound so i went on my web browser and saw there was a story and read it and thought i into he had to help the people. Reporter he stepped up and helped. The group is to come home mopped nature but the adult leaders i. D. Was stolen from the van and the biggest concern right now is whether they will be able to get on the plane to make that trip home. In the newsroom, abc 7 news. We are just Getting Started this friday night. Coming up. 7 news follows up tonight on ring of thieves that have been preying on tourists. Tonight we can reveal how high tech surveillance helped nab the thieves. Plus bay area home buyers aplay for 20,000 dollar in free mortgage money. Find out whether you might qualify, too. Indeed. We have a big chill coming our way overnight tonight but afternoon warmth right around the corner. All my details in the accuweather forecast coming up. Thanks very much. After more than a century the university of california [ laughter ] [ girl ] wow, you guys have it easy. I wish i had uverse when i was your age. In my day, we didnt have these fancy wireless receivers. Blah blah blah. If i had a sleepover, i couldnt just move the tv into the playroom. No. We had to watch movies in the den because thats where the tv outlet was. And if dad was snoring on the couch, we muscled through it. Is she for real . Your generation has it made. [ male announcer ] the wireless receiver only from at t uverse. Get uverse tv for 29 a month for six months. Rethink possible. Merchant at Fisherman Wharf say the bust of massive fencing ring is proof that state of the art Security Camera are needed to prevent crime against tourist. Vick lae has the story. Hall of stolen goods fills half of the underground garage at Central Police station. There are more than 1,000 items worth up to two Million Dollars mostly taken from car breakin breakins. Cell phones. Lap tops. Digital camera. Expensive designer handbag. You name it. A lot stolen at Fisherman Wharf and embarcadero Police Arrested these 3 suspects last week. And charged them with operating a massive fencing ring. Big break came when some of the 24 state of the art Security Cameras installed at the pier 39 garage captured images of the suspects breaking in a car. Camera also shot get away carlin plate. These are very High Definition digital camera that have been installed over the years at the wharf and to the point where you can see gum on the sidewalk. In fact those Security Camera are now everywhere here at the wharf. Always a magnet for those that prey on tourist. Cannery has the mow advanced camera. Academy of art. New owner of the sprawling landmark installed 35 of them all around the complex. Now merchant here at the wharf are considering adding even more especially in light of the success of the garage camera in the recent both. We have been going through process right now of evaluating the camera and making sure we are fully covered and there are no black hole in the district. Camera are so invaluable. If we had more we would have less crime. Lieutenant was involve in the operation that led to the arrest of these suspected fences. He said the auto burglar used spotters in garages. Targeting people who parked their cars putting the the valuable in the trunk before leaving. Heres some good advice. If you are going to good to location and you are going to park, stop a couple blocks awa away. And then put your valuable in there. Reporter wharf not the only place that is planning to increase Security Cameras. The Merchant Group at union square recently approved a Pilot Program to increase this d quality Security Camera there. Vick lee, 7 news. This tense situation captured by sky 7 hd ended on embarcadero late today. Police arrested a man who climbed on a scaffolding on pier 29. He kick at least one person and then hitting whim a skate board for some reason. He climbed on to the scaffolding around 1 30 this afternoon after police searched a construction site for him. Police Hostage Negotiator came out and tried to coax the man into surrendering. Well some family in the east bay now have 20,000 dollars available to make a down payment on a home. Wells fargo hosting an event this weekend called city lift. For those who qualify today it was a life changing experience. The story from 7 News Reporter laura anthony. We got the money. Reporter Oakland Taylor celebrating the fact that she just qualified for 20,000 dollars in down payment assistance from wells fargo bank. Its the last piece she need buy a home for her family. Dream come true. Dreams do come true. They do. They do. Reporter wells fargo is reaching out to hundreds of bay area families trying to help them with 20,000 dollars toward down payment on the purchase of the home. Shawn coleman lined up at 6 00 a. M. And was one of the first to find out he qualified. Exciting day for you. Yes. Most exciting thing is better an birthday. We wish you the best. Reporter not everyone who applies will qualify. Applicant must have a consistent income and strong credit history. For those with do qualify the entire 20,000 dollars will be forgiven if the buyer stay ins the home for at least 5 years. Prorated 20 percent year of residence. Goal is to make sure we dont have people jump in and flipping property but to stay there. Reporter stewart stopped to view the home tour. Even though they just fun out they did not qualify for the down payment assistance. We were enclosures than we realize to having something that we could call our own down the line. We are close. Still have few things we still need to do but i do feel better about what is going on now than before. Reporter all day tomorrow here at the downtown marriott 10 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. Ment preregion strition is closed but walk instance are welcome. More information on our web site that is 7 news. Com. In oakland, abc 7 news. University of california is hiping up the logo. Old logo on the left. Show you that in a moment. New look on the right. Now the older more traditional symbol will still appear on official university do you mean. New with one with letter c at the bottom of the open book will appear on marketing material and web sites. School says it wanted something a bit more quur friendly. They are both good. Take youing about user friendly. Spencer is here with the weekend forecast which its also user friendly. It is going to be. Milder and mirld. Very nice weather our way and i think you will enjoyment heres our east way camera looking west across the bay on clear cool night. About to turn into a chilly to cold night for some parts of the bay area. Radar shows us mainly clear skies. Few cloud offshore. Just a few thin high broken clouds around the bay area but not many. Mostly clear and temperatures dropping. 41 degrees at fairfield. Low to mid 40s in the north bay valley. Santa rosa and napa. We have upper 40s to los right around the bay. Chilly overnight period. Move on to the forecast feature chilly overnight with patchy valley fog cold in a few spots. Sunny weekend with milder weather on sunday and cooler by midweek next week check out the low down to 35 santa rosa 36 napa 37 at fairfield not too wide spread and location is closer to the bay and coast. See low in the mid 40s overnight tonight. On we go to the satellite radar composite image that show as very large ridge of High Pressure taking control of the weather picture next several days. This will give us milder weather through the weaned and into early next wee week. Move along with our forecast animation 11 00 oclock tonight. Fog will chicken and spread through the Central Valley then spill in through the delta Carquinez Strait into pockets in our Interior Valley and east bay north bay so thats why we see some patchy fog over night. But again not wide sprae. Tomorrow afternoon mainly sunny skies. A little milder. High pressure in the south bay. In the low 60s up to 62 at santa clara. Cupertino and san jose. Peninsula. Low 60s as well. 60s millbrae. Redwood city 59 in the coast and pacifica and 60 at half man bay. Downtown San Francisco 61 degrees tomorrow. 59 the high in the sun set district up in the north bay we see mainly low 60s as well up to 63 at santa rosa and calistoga. 62 at sonoma at napa east bay we sea high around 63 at oakland and fremont 62 union city. San leandro 61 in hayward. Inland east bay same range up to 62 at antioch. Livermore and danville. 61 at walnut creek and dublin and nont ray baylow to mid 60s up to about 65 and is a leap as 64 and holster and watsonville. Accuweather 7 day forecast. Milder weather still on sunday and monday. Mid 60s on the coast. Mid 60s inland and upper 60s near 70 around the bay on sunday and monday. Temperatures dropoff just a little bit on tuesday. Chance of showers on wednesday and cooler pattern for the end of next week. All in all pretty terrific forecast. Nice looking week. Thanks very much. Coming up next. Riding high. And in style. 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