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>> alan: a woman missing for six days in the santa cruz mountains has been found alive. her family and freps feared -- friends feared the worst, but today debra collins was can youd -- carried out. she was found along an unmarked trail. collins got lost while hiking alone last week. the didn't have any food but said she survived by drinking water from a cink. -- creek. collins' neighbor went look for her and found her huddled under a downed tree.

>> she had a little plastic bag in her pocket, and she would use that to drink water. didn't eat anything. >> alan: a friend of collins said she injured her ankle while running along a path and tumbled into a ravine. she took shelter under the treatment collins is recovering tonight in the hospital. a wayward sea lion ended up far from home. her name is nau and she end endt a school near coast contra costa county. >> reporter: that marine mammoth -- mammal center has a file on her. on google maps it says it's 90 miles away.

she didn't put on any kind of show today. in fact she didn't move round much at all. the locals were very impressed to see her. >> it's cool. >> reporter: the local now control officers corralled here on the element school campus and then called the marine mammal center in sausolito to get her. while she waited for her rescue crew, the students started rethinking the school mascot, the knights. >> the new knight, our new mascot. >> reporter: aside from the novemberty and the excitement of fining a sea lion miles away from the water, the situation is actually serious. >> she has been treated at our center before. right now just at bit disoriented. we'll take him back to the center. the vet and staff will take a look at him, and from there we'll see what happens. >> reporter: this is his third visit the center. he has been treated and released

twice before. the fact she turned up a their time is a bad sign. >> might be suffering from chronic poisoning and there's irreverse able. >> it's caused be eating toxic algae, if her condition is chronic, her days might be over. >> we want to make sure we are doing the remain -- hugh main thing for the animal. >> the number of wayward sea lions is on the rise and they aren't sure i would. the average is 5 to 600, they've rescued 1,000. >> ocean trash, netting and fishinglines, gun shot wounds is another one. >> reporter: disease is another one. and that might be why she keeps turning up. the center will treat her and determine whether she should

stay or be released back in the wild. >> alan: thank you, amy. two men suffered stab wounds just before the usc-ucla football game two police officers suffered minor injuries while breaking up a brawl that broke out around 4:30 this afternoon. about three hours before kickoff. police arrested three people on suspicion of attempted murder. officers say the rivalry between the schools fueled by alcohol played a major role in sparking that fight. a nine-year-old girl shot while opening the door of her hercules home is in stable condition tonight and is expected to make a full recovery, but the search for the suspect who shot her continues. more now from lisa amin gulezian. >> who would do something like this. >> she look out the little window, and that's when she -- they shot. >> reporter: in matter of

moments, this house on brighton street was under attack. someone knock on the door. as soon as the little girl looked out the side window, the shooting started. the nine-year-old reside aunt, who was home bud did not want to be shown on cam remark -- cam remarks explained what happened. >> shot the door, shot the wall. she got shot pretty bad. >> she was shot in the neck and the back. takes a cold-hearted individual to do that. >> reporter: the girl is a key witness, though police say there are several others. they spoke with them last night. the girl's aunt and nine children, ranging from 2 to 18, live here, investigators think this was planned and someone in the house was a target. the aunt who runs a day care center out of the home, disagrees. >> i believe that this house wasn't the house they wanted. somebody will see there's a sign oven the door -- sign on the

door i was closed. >> they're very much the kind of people that everybody around here wishes was gone. >> this neighbor is afraid of retaliation and doesn't want to be identified. he says there have been problems here ever since the family moved in two years ago. hercules police confirm they've been to the house several times over the past nine months, and about three amongst -- months ago, shots were fired at this house. no one was hurt and no one was arrest. >> i'm scared to death. this is not the neighbor where we have problems like that. it makes me nervous. >> reporter: police rid rid -- reiterate this was a planned attack. and they're beefing up patrols. >> alan: a lawyer for one of jaycee dugard's cappers believe

letters written to a friend won't hurt her defense. he wrote to a woman she befriended in the jail. she is facing charges for kidnapping dugard and holding her captive for 18 years. the lertz mention god and her husband and describe herself and her husband as, coat, peas in a pod. local clergy members urged congress to pass the dream act. they held a prayer service to support two young people facing deportation. both came to the u.s. as children with their parents. elizabeth lee graduated from lowell high school and hopes to become a social worker. the dream act would allow undocumented students like thor work toward college degrees or join the military and earn the town stay in the u.s. >> we view the united states as our own country. it's the only country we all know, and the dream act would

let us stay here and would let us give back to this country we love. >> alan: the candle light march shed light on the case of steve lee. paypal is serving up dies with wikileaks, eliminated a major source of donations. the payment company will not allow its services to be used for activities that promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity. it's another blow for wikileaks founder julian -- assange, who is struggling to keep the site up and rung. more leaked cables were released, one revealing a chinese leader googled himself and found critical postings, ordering a campaign against googles operations in china. >> there is rain on the way for

sunday. >> leigh: you're exactly right. we're seeing a few light showers out there right now but it will be increasing, special he tomorrow afternoon. the wind picks up as well. the forecast is coming up. >> alan: the split second decision that saved the life of man who fell into the life of an approaching drain, and congress meets in a rare saturday session to extend tax cuts for most americans. and dozens of jolly santas and dozens of jolly santas showed up for what is ["knock on wood" playing] every five minutes, chase pays for someone's eligible credit or debit card purchase.

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>> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >> alan: two people died after a russian airliner skidded off the end of a snowy runway in moscow. the plane has just taken off from another at airport betweeno of its engines failed, and a third engine failed during landing. the plane carried at least 155 people. 83 were hurt. the surveillance camera in spain caught a dramatic rescue inside a railway station in madrid. you can see a man in the background fall on the track. other passengers are waving for

the approaching train to stop just as another man leaps on the track and pulls the victim out of the train's path. the good samaritan was an off-duty police officer. tonight, president obama says he is open to more compromise with republicans, this after the us senate defeated two attempts by democrats to extend bush-era tax cuts for the middle class. more now from david curley. >> mr. brown of massachusetts. >> reporter: democrats brought two tax proposals on the near, to force the republicans to say no to continuing tax breaks for the majority of americans, in order to protect tax breaks for the wealthy. first, a proposal to make tax breaks for those making less than $200,000 permanent, failed. and then making up to $1 million, also failed. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> no republicans voted for

either measure and were joined by a few democrats. the votes each bill did receive would have been enough to pass under the old rules about with republicans threatening a filibuster, no such luck today. >> this saturday session is a total waste of the american people's time. >> i'm very disappointed the senate did not pass legislation that already passed the house of representatives. >> the president promised to redouble his efforts to make a compromise with -- republicans. >> with so minute at stake the vote cannot be the end of the discussion. >> the president announced the completion of a trade deal with south korea. mr. obama called it a win for american workers, farmers, and aerospace and electronic workers, and the auto industry. the clock is ticking on the bush era tax cuts, set to expire on the 1st of january.

abc news, washington. >> alan: google's attempt to buy groupon appears to have failed. the online custom coupon company has 35 million subscribers, making it worth 5 to $6 billion to google. not a problem for the mountain view company which had 33 billion in cash at the end of september. instead, groupon may pursue an initial public if if offering. if you thought you were seeing double or triple or more than that in san francisco today, you wont. it was a mob. a flash mob dressed up as santa claus. ho-ho, ho-ho-ho. >> this home video thes a festive band of santa claus impersonators taking a spirited ride down the ex-escalate -- escalator. organizers were calling it

santa-con 2010. the santas stopped as several bars as their made their way through shopping areas like union square. >> carolers greeted diners and shoppers at union street festival of lights. stores up and down the street are dressed for the holiday and the shoppers were dressed for the chilly air. leigh glaser is her. >> leigh: hopefully those things are nailed down because the wind is going to pick up. the live doppler 7hd picking up a few showers rotating in across the bay area. we had a pretty good downpour in the area, and light rain from morgan hill, down towards watsonville, and santa cruz as well. you can see this little batch of rain moving from south to north.

so so even san jose will be mild. temperatures right now, 55. 54 for concord. we'll continue with showers overnight. the rain will increase by tomorrow afternoon. behind the system. the wind will pick up. mainly the coastal areas. and looks like this on-again-off-again wet pattern will be with us till next week. it will be mild in the mid-to-upper 40s for the bay area, and this is what we're going through right now. this is the leading edge of a weak system. this moves through tonight. a little break, and then this is the system that's going bring us heavy rain as we head into tomorrow afternoon. nice, cool moisture here, some subtropical moisture, moving in our direction, as it gets closer to us, winds are coming in

behind it. at 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, that's when the plume of moisture will start to invade the bay area. rain heavy at times. all the way into the 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 time period overnight through tomorrow evening, and then on the back of the system when the wind will pick up. looking maybe a quarter of an inch to maybe an inch and a half in the north bay. a half to an inch in the east bay locations. higher amounts of rainfall expected in the santa cruz mountain area, and as far as the wind is concerned, that wind advisory beginning tomorrow afternoon, 2:00 until early monday morning, mainly the coastal hills, but the winds out of the south picking up from 25 to 30 miles-per-hour, possible gusts up to 45. so, here's a look at the highs for tomorrow. it is going to be wet, rain, heavy at times, temperatures upper 50s to near 60 degrees. 57 for half moon bay. redwood city, 60.

north bay, temperatures, upper 50s to near 60 degrees. do that again for oakland, 58, hercules, interior east bay, periods of heavy rain. 58 for danville, and gilroy, 62. my accuweather seven-day forecast. lingering showers monday morning, dry out monday afternoon, tuesday is dry, rain wednesday and thursday, and then dry things out friday, possibly into next weekend. >> alan: one more week of cloudiness. thank you, leigh. on to shu. the bcs championship game has been set. >> mike: it has been set. the pac-10 will represent in the national title game as oregon goes undefeated with a win over their cross-state rival, oregon

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>> mike: championship weekend in college football. we kick off with oregon and oregon state, the civil war,

enough said. the 114th meeting. second quarter, james, the nation's leading rusher, he's in. 16-7 ducks at the half. in fourth, it's barner. he fines the hole and is gone. rushed for 133-yard, and the ducks are headed to the national championship game for the first time in school history with the victory. now auburn and south carolina in the sec title game. tigers looking to punch their ticket to glendale. end of the half, 21-14, cam newton throwing the hail mary, 54 yards, 28-14 tigers. then in the fourth, newton finds blake. newton through for 335 expwrardz four scores, ties an sec title record with six touchdown. >> oklahoma and anybody and the

big 12 championship. winner headed to the fiesta bowl. cornhuskers start with the lead. but the sooners come back. jones through for 339. 49 right here to steele. sooners up by three late. martinez fourth down pass is broken up. oklahoma wins it, 23-20. >> seminals and virginia tech. winner goes to the orangele -- orange bowl. seminoles returns. taylor, in the third. finds wilson. hokies going to the orange bowl after the 44-33 victory. >> uconn and south florida. big east title game. tipped ball picked off by wilson and the huskies up 10-3. 23 second left. the 52 yarder for the win and

that sends uconn to its first bcs game in school history. probably the orange or fee assess bowl. and san jose state finishes with another lot. idaho beats the sparks. sparty winless, 0-8, and finished 1-12. we take a brief time-out. the sharkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkk

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game tied at 1. in the second. in the slot, finds the back of the net and the candiens win. >> come college hoops, cal bears in iowa taking on iowa state, part of the pac-10-big 12 challenge. the screen, nice little jumper. cal up four. under 1:00 to go. cyclones down three. this game is tied at 69. on the other end, three-point play makes it 72-69. bears get a big road win and improve to 5-2. the cal women in college station, playing texas a&m. white in transition, two of her , aggies led by nine at the half. second half. clarendon, the steal and the bucket off the fast break. 19 points for her.

14-0 cal run, the bears go up twoment but the aggies respond. adam was a force inside. cal's bid falls short, now 9-2. i say stanford is going to the orange bowl to face virginia tech. >> alan: that concludes another broad of abc-7 news. thanks for staying up late. captioned by closed captioning services inc. mmmm.

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