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At o'hare airport for nearly eight hours on saturday. julian reed heading home to ottawa on united airlines, visiting his dad in san francisco. the airline crams him in this tiny room, tells him he has to wait and nobody from united comes to get him for the connecting flight. apparently, he was watching two movies over and over again, one of them a horror film. finally, he called his mom who got someone to put him on another plane. the airline apologized and promised to refund the boy's child care fee. boy, that's big of them. felters are getting ruffled in san francisco over pet shops and a...

That bird is going to squawk all night when they take it home or that ham stirz going to, you know, be on the wheel running all night long. that sort of thing. >> you're going to hear it. >> people make -- people make the decision then that oh, yeah, we want to have that panel, we know what it's going to be like, we still want it. then, you know, then i have absolutely no problem with them taking it home and giving it a loving home and having a loving companion. >> what about in this tough economy, you have some pet store owners pushing back saying this might ruin our business if we're not abl...

We're also, however, looking at other things, short of a ban, that might help the situation and keep animals out. our concern is at this point primarily impulse buys, you know, the i have to have the hamster, it's cute, please, can we take it home mommy and ends up not being a good fit. one thing is possibly being considered is perhaps the waiting period. maybe a voluntary waiting period. one of the nice things that came out of some of the meetings earlier in the week was, some of the pet store owners are willing to talk to some of the rescue groups about maybe giving them space to display the...

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>> that is going to be a deafening game with he comes back and steps on the court. all of the cheers will turn to years big time. i know you'll be covering that. thanks for joining us. >> have a great weekend. just so you know, california's ballot issue to legalize marijuana may be in trouble. a new poll shows 48% of californians oppose the measure and 8% undecided. san francisco is considering a law that would ban the sale of dogs and cats by pet stores. just so you know, voters in massachusetts may decide to cut the state sales tax in half. petitions for a vote this move have been submit...