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probably $100,000 plus range. >> reporter: mostly jewelry but other evidence revealed the burglar's motive. >> we found drugs, syringes. most all of them were addicted to oxyxcotin. >> reporter: the addiction to oxy isn't new. six months ago one pill went for $40. today the same pill goes for over $100. why? because the manufacturer of oxycotin is trying to stop people from abusing it. people wanting an oxy high crush up the tablets and snort it. like we saw a few months ago when we went undercover on a drug infested san francisco street. >> he is snorting it. he just snorted it. >> ...

no reports of any injuries or cars damaged at this point anyway. but as i say, the commute was just a nightmare. all of the city streets that were feeding onto the bay bridge, everything became a parking lot and that, as i say, started about 2:15 p.m. the lanes were opened at 4:50 p.m. now we can see at the 6:00 p.m. hour that we are told the traffic is moving once again. >> keep an eye on that as well. moving on. it is a graveyard, a dumping spot and a source of drinking water. day after day we reported on the crews pulling one car right after another out of the delta- mendota can...

you're at harrison street the on-ramp trying to get onto the bay bridge. so really if these people are stuck there, they're kind of sunk because there is real nowhere to go. they can't turn around and go somewhere else. >> reporter: yeah. if you have committed, you're stuck here. people are turning around anyway. maybe they went to a bar or restaurant because it's going to be a long time, might as well wait it out. >> i'm sure some people tried to head south to the san mateo bridge, too. all right, joe vazquez -- >> reporter: and that's also jammed. >> i was going to say between goin...

protestors get around the internet blackout and stay connected. simon perez shows us what they came up with. >> reporter: allan, cairo is 7500 miles from san francisco but a couple of bay area companies are helping get the word out to egypt. google and twitter are giving a voice to the protestors. >> we need mubarek to leave the country. >> reporter: that is the voice of an egyptian protestor talking over the internet even though the internet has been shut down in egypt for days. google has set up a bypass for this. >> people in egypt can call on a land line, make a voice recording a...

governor. but they say any serious progress on this deficit needs to be made with real spending cuts. their belief to the recovery is the job recovery is the key and that's what the republicans want to head here. >> mark sayr thank you very much. phil meter joins us with his take on the speech and analysis from a couple of people who know their way around sacramento. >> that's right, dana. we have elizabeth bergman from california east bay who studies government. we have former state assembly speaker willy brown whose government she sometimes studies, as well as the others. welcome t...