ever... a look inside the mind of the woman accused of kidnapping you're watching cbs5 eyewitness news. notes from nancy. a look inside the mind of the woman accused of kidnapping and raping jaycee dugard. also dramatic video tonight from the moment after police say a man sexually assaulted a 2-year-old girl in a union city store. local high school basketball players hooping it up on the court. the man hoping to get some talented kids big time recognition. i'm juliette goodrich. ken and dana are off tonight. we are getting a look at the woman accused of raping and kidnapping jaycee dugard and describes her relationship with her husband. what nancy has to say. >> reporter: the letter starts dearest katherine, always happy to hear from you. at first glance you would never know these were words from a prisoner. it started in the el dorado jail and continues with nancy. nancy's love for phillip and god a constant thieve. >> phillip sends me bible studies that i enjoy. she knows they will never reunite on this earth. we have a great future in god's kingdom. phil and i keep our eyes fixed in god's kingdom. there is where our future will be together. nancy knows the only time she will ever get to see phillip is in court where they often exchange glancees. she seems hopeful at times even happy sharing details of her time behind bars. thank you for the card you made me. it is so beautiful. i'm not writing nothing in it. i'll send it to him. he will love it. by the way my birthday was 7/18. turned the big 55. i feel like 30. honestly, i continue to exercise in my cell. there are times when nancy's words might come back to haunt her in court. you'll love phillip as well because we are two peas in a pod. she later writes if phillip and i had the living god in our life 18 years ago we wouldn't be in this mess. words from a woman who clearly understands how she and phillip's last two decades will change their lives as they know them forever even acknowledging her likely future. i'm happy to hear i'll be okey- dokey there. we adapt to any given situation. it is difficult at first, katherine. our god gives me so much strength to endure my journey. >> that was laurel cole reporting. a marine sergeant from piedmont has been killed in afghanistan. he grew up with his father an stepmother and always dreamed of being a marine. he was married a had a 2-year- old son. we have dramatic surveillance video tonight from the moment after police say a sex offender sexually assaulted a 2-year-old girl in a union city store. you can see the clerk actually is distracted by commotion in the dollar tree wednesday afternoon. investigators say that is eugene ramos being chased through the store. witnesses managed to tackle the suspect outside the store and hold him until police arrived. he faced a judge in fremont today. he attacked the girl seconds after she walked away from a grandmother and aunt. >> obviously a danger to society. he grabbed a little girl and tore her diaper off and tried to rape her. >> unfortunately i have seen a lot of really bad cases but this is at the top. one of them. >> in '03 ramos was convicted of assaulting a 7-year-old girl. he faces up to 21 years in prison if convicted. a judge today denied bail for johannes mehserle. he asked for his release pending an appeal of his involuntary manslaughter conviction for killing oscar grant in 2009. the judge agreed johannes mehserle is not a flight risk or a threat to the public. to be released on bail after a felony conviction a defendant must also show he has a good chance of overturning the conviction. >> he thinks that he we have a substantial issue or issues that we have raised. he just did not feel sitting at the bench that the substantial issues would necessarily result in a reversal of the conviction. >> we are happy, of course, that he did not get let out on bail. >> we are still in pain. >> johannes mehserle will likely be released before his appeal is heard with credit for time served could be eligible for release in about seven months. not a welcome surprise. unemployment is higher than economists expected. new figures show the jobless rate rose to 9.8% in november and that's the highest in seven months. employers add evidence 39,000 jobs, economists expected 150,000 new ones. unemployment benefits are about to run out for nearly 2 million americans. retailers, and others cut back last month but there is a place where there are empty chairs. joe vazquez on an industry that is searching for talent. >> reporter: your gps got your car to the shopping mall. >> coffee and tea. okay. let's go there. >> reporter: now, ceo of the start up company has developed an app. >> it is telling us to go straight. >> reporter: to map the rest of the way. walking into the store of your choice. >> what we are trying to do is map out everything indoors. be it shopping malls, shopping plazas, airports, museums. we give you walking directions to the store. you can type in shoes on the map and it will highlight all the stores that sell shoes. >> reporter: he is building his start up with top notch engineers. >> skill set has gone up in value so much it has become harder to get those people to join your team. any good iphone developer has started their own consultant gig or products, their own applications and they are more reluctant to join a company. >> it is good for over 200,000 per second. >> reporter: kevin says good engineers who know software, hardware and chip design have always been high in demand in the silicon valley but over the last few months he has experienced -- >> an increasing intensity in finding top talent. >> we are looking for very top talent and all those people are already employed. so i'm basically stealing those from other companies. >> reporter: companies such as facebook and google which are paying top dollar. well more than six-figure salaries to try to keep their engineers in house but many still want to get on the ground floor of a potential gold mine. another contributing factor, international engineers are hard to get into the country because of visa restrictions so many companies are offshoring engineering work. >> we made an offer for an engineer last week in his current job which is in some big company. he was pigeon holed in a specific role. we saw the passion in him. we asked him to join. pretty much own a big part of our product line coming in. >> right around the corner here? >> that's right. >> there it is. > up. >> reporter: the indoor map found the coffee shop. now keep an eye out for the next big app. one that can find top notch engineers for a silicon valley in need. joe vazquez, cbs5. other news making headlines around the bay area. a gathering in oakland this evening in honor of 17-year-old raymond justice. he was gunned down in september a block away from his home. his father says raymond wanted to become someone who could help people. at tonight's gathering community organization leaders offered help for crime victims and solutions for crime prevention. a jewelry theft pulled off by several masked men. police say two diamond dealers were robbed in downtown los altos. they were about to head to the airport when four thieves stole their briefcases with the jewelry inside. the victims were not hurt. similar thefts have happened on the peninsula but police are not saying if the crimes are connected. demolition work has begun on the transbay terminal in san francisco. crews will be using the wrecking ball to smash up the old building. a $4 billion center will replace the new terminal expected to open in 2017. >> getting local high school talents and big time recognition. that's the goal of a former high school basketball player and his video camera. his work is seen by huge audiences on youtube. kiet do in fremont to explain how he puts it together. >> we are talking about a guy that has already got a full time day job but during the basketball season he is literally shooting and editing basketball videos as often as seven days a week. he does it for a little bit of cash but mostly for the love of the game. it is another night in the trenches of high school basketball where a typical match up like this would only be seen by the few dozen friends and family in the stands. but thanks to the unassuming cameraman at the end of the court it may very well be seen by hundreds of thousands of people on youtube. the maker of this video is travis. he blends high school basketball with hip-hop music. transforming it into entertainment youtube channel. it has more than 5 million views. no garth brooks here. >> it needs a beat as far as what i do. you want to hit the boom, the clap. so it is not necessarily going to have that in a slow country song. >> reporter: it is clear the magic happens in the editing. he has a degree in marketing so the video production is self- taught. >> that's how the magic is done? >> that's how it is done right there. >> reporter: a star player one of the top 100 high school recruits in the country and will play for marquette university next year. >> he helps gets players out there the recognition they deserve. we feel like east coast, l.a. get more recognition than we do so it helps us a lot. >> reporter: web 2. 0. unlikely match up of talent and technology. he does not charge the players a dime. he makes all his money off ad revenue much not quite enough to quit his day job. >> that's all right. we will see where it goes. thank you. a disaster over a restaurant food. >> like small balloons just exploded. hot grease. >> and now the case of the exploding escargot is on someone else's plate. what the judge had to say in the case of the exploding eskargot. who says celebrities don't have to follow the same rules. what josh duhamel did to get tossed off his flight. it is not a matter of is it going to rain or not, it is how much and when it is going to rain. we will have your pinpoint forecast as eyewitness news continues right here on cbs5. right now, buy a samsung intensity ii for $29.99 and get one free. or, buy a blackberry curve 3g for $49.99 and get one free. we' t the two the case of the guest versus the sea food restaurant. we told you about the two customers serving the seafood peddler. they say they were burned by hot garlic butter when their escargot exploded in their faces. the case went before a judge today. >> literally jumped 2 to 3 inches out of the plate and like small balloons just exploded. >> hot grease. >> they sat there for an hour and a half and continued on with their meal. so this scalding i can't see where they were so scalded and scared that they can sit there and endure an entire meal. >> sea food peddler said it did nothing wrong. they judge will make his decision in two weeks. a well known actor was kicked off a plane for texting. josh duhamel was taken off a plane when he refuse to turn off his blackberry. on the runway he pulled out his phone and started texting. a flight attendant asked him three separate times to stop and the plane was sent back to the gate. his rep telling people magazine the actor has said "he is sorry." do you think he texted that? or did he say that verbally? >> it is fergie's husband. so, no, that would be a big n- o. >> take a look at the camera picture. highs today from an unseasonably cool 50. 2 degrees in concord to 61 degrees in halfman bay. smattering of rain showers. a little bit of light precipitation around the northern portion of our district according to our live high-def doppler radar but that's about it. mostly cloudy skies for this friday night and overnight not as cold due to that blanket of clouds. also, we have a little bit of warmer air mass associated with this front packed into the bay area. 42 in santa rosa. to 50 degrees in san francisco. now, looks like we have this area of low pressure that is passing through but it is really disintegrating as it butts up against the lands mass. a little bit of light precipitation in the form of snow in the hig sierra. sheering apart so we will have scattered showers on our saturday. this is our pinpoint forecast and all that you're looking at is very light precipitation. 64, 65 degrees. here is a little break in the activity at 7:00 p.m. which i wanted to note it specifically because of something coming up otherwise light showers through 10:00 p.m. now, otherwise through your sunday night, we will have a second system roll in and on that second storm heavier amounts of rain. that will be the robust system on sunday. up to an inch of rain and very windy conditions. southeast winds up to 25, 30. sierra forecast heading home on sunday. that's when the heavy snowfall will fall up to a foot expected at 7000 feet. tomorrow's high 50s and low 60s. otherwise, here is your extended forecast. light random showers sunday. a vigorous system sunday afternoon through the evening hours. monday a lingering shower then turning mostly cloudy. a dry day tuesday then a risk of more rain on wednesday through thursday. so the bottom line is keep the umbrella handy. tomorrow is in and out of the rain. that means do whatever you have to do but have the umbrella with you. sunday is when the bigger storm comes in. >> i was looking for an out. >> i know you were. she has her tranquilt tran -- tran qquility run. >> i do. ♪ it comes along just once a year ♪ ♪ on winters wings, decembers rear, ahha humbug faces come and dear ♪ ♪ then appears at perfect christmas time. ♪ ♪ a tiny tree, christmas, tinsel, the lights ♪ ♪ the star that sings, top your tiny tree, yeah ♪ [ female announcer ] keurig has over 200 varieties of gourmet coffee and tea to choose from. ♪ keurig is the way to brew fresh, delicious coffee in under a minute. way to brew. [ female announcer ] so with keurig, every cup tastes like it's brewed just for you. ♪ because it is. choose. brew. enjoy. keurig. claim by something exploding: a cell phone. a man in texas says a cell phone he was using e is another injury claim by something exploding. a cell phone. a man in action said a cell phone he was using exploded in his ear. he said he was making a call on his new android 2 phone yesterday when he heard a loud pop. he needed stitch yes, sir. the phone's maker has never heard of anything like this happening. his house was being burglarized while at home. the quick action of the homeowner helped nab the burglars. >> reporter: there was a rash of burglaries so the day after thanksgiving peter chen spend $280 on a new security camera. a few days later the motion sensitive camera e-mailed him a photo at work showing a man peering around the corner of his house. then came a second photo of another guy crouching around the backyard. mr. chen called police. >> it just so happened that two motor officers were in the area on their motorcycle, heard the call come out, said we are right there. they responded. >> reporter: the officers discovered that a side door to the garage had been pried open so they went inside the house to investigate. >> they actually encountered both suspects inside the residents with property belonging to the victim. >> reporter: caught red handed the two men were arrested four burglary and taken to jail. the security system can be programmed a couple of different ways. send it to send back still images to your e-mail back once they detect somebody moving around in your house or backyard. you can also program it to send back a live picture. that's what we are looking at right now to go to your pc, laptop or mobile phone. this is one security system that is pretty hard to defeat because once you see the camera, it is already too late. your image has been captured and sent. maybe to the police. >> with the modern day use of cell phones and all the other granite peaks availability out there, we are able to respond to calls a little quicker and especially during times of budget shortfalls and things like that it allows us to maximize our efficiency. so there is just another example of how technology has assisted law enforcement agencies and the community to resolve crimes that take place and we hope this will be a beginning trend and continue in the future. >> reporter: police say this is one case where everything seemed to come together. the technology, the officers in the neighborhood and they say the homeowner did the right thing in calling officers to respond and not try to take matters into his own hands. in san jose, len ramirez, cbs5. the son of a 49ers quarterback leads his team to a cif championship. and golf's biggest champion is finally at the top of a leaderboard. that's next in sports. 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