>> alan: looters break into the egyptian

>> we don't want hosni mubarak. we don't want him. >> alan: tens of thousands of people take to the streets of cairo, and they're not alone. thousands more across the united states march some support. it's morning in egypt and people are waking up where thousands defied a can curfew imposed by president mubarak. the latest from egypt where protests and looting continued throughout the day. >> reporter: tonight, buildings on fire in could i row, as a

nationwide curfew is once again defied. earlier today, police station in suez was torched. looters broke into buildings in cairo and broke into the egypt museum, breaking artifacts and tearing the heads off ancient mummies. citizen is moved in to protect the museum, forming a human chain around it. >> we wish the people all over the world that egyptian people protect the treasure. >> the death toll jumped in cairo, the body of a man killed today was carried through the crowd. these scenes are in stark contrast from other images. the army replaced the police, but they're doing nothing to break up the dem moan -- demonstrations or enforce the

curfew, they're giving them rides on tampgz. >> far less tension, and that's because there's no riot police anywhere. the military has taken over. the protestors get a lot more respect. >> attempting to pacify the masses, president hosni mubarak named a vice-president. a role that hasn't exist under him. he is egypt's powerful intelligence chief, and now mubarak's obvious successor. >> they're setting up to scene for mubarak to leave, and mubarak never had a vice-president for one reason, because if you have a vice-president, somebody can take over. >> the protestors aren't buying it. >> the people choose the president. not mubarak. mubarak can't choose for us. >> in this neighborhood and in neighborhoods across cairo,

vigilante groups have come up, in order to protect their property. the unrest is far from over. abc news, cairo. >> alan: egypt's internet and cell phone services were shut down, but slowly it's been restored to some areas. john allston has more on the impact of social media. >> at last track the internet was available for less than 10% of the population in egypt. it was shut down by all but one provider. some cell phone service is coming back online, and texting is either nonexistent or spotty. unrest in egypt. a political uprising in a world of modern technology, which means cameras seemingly everywhere. tweeting, blogging, facebook. this woman moved to cairo.

she was able to skype from a cairo hotel, one of the few places where there was still internet access. she talked about the chaos. >> we got ourselves back after not having them all day yesterday, which was wonderful, because having the entire country be called to have their final protest and nobody could communicate it. we didn't know if people were okay. it was incredibly scarey to not know. >> half a world away, this technology expert sits in his palo alto home and watches tweets from cairo. >> this one an hour ago. tookpicks of tear gas cameras -- cansters with "made in the u.s.a." >> it's how people spread the message and get international sympathy. so, certainly, social media and

texting has been an incredible crucial factor. >> it's been a factor but i don't think it's as important as many people said. >> the professor believes the bigger force behind the unrest, was the unrest in tune nasa -- tunisia and, the labor unrest. >> there have been calls for protest before that fizzled. he acknowledges the importance of word of mouth. more so than facebook and blogging because egypt has high level of illiteracy and low level of internet penetration. >> alan: here in san francisco, several hundred demonstrators showed their solidarity with the

protest glors -- protestors in egyp. speakers condemned what they see as president obama's lack of support for the uprising and called for hosni mubarak resignation. >> tried as a war criminal. >> alan: across the u.s. thousands of protestors took to the streets in cities like chicago, new york, and l.a. all supporting the egyptian uprising. >> our long january dry spell came to an end tonight as the pacific storm moved onshore. leigh glaser is here now. >> leigh: you can see the showering a different that moved in across the bay area. you can see this is the last few frames, even a few lightning strikes being reported. let me take you in closer. you can get a sense of where the

heaviest rain has been and it's starting to move from san jose down towards morgan hill, santa cruz, moderate rain, watsonwill area, all of this is moving from south to north, and will move into the gilroy area in the next 20 or 30 minutes. more rain head towards the bay area. we look at the seven-day forecast coming up. >> alan: see you then. >> the body of a popular teacher missing since thursday was discovered. debra schmitt was discovered in a creek bed. police say an initial examination of her body shows no signs of foul play. her keys and i.d. were left behind along with a message on her blackboard that read, thank you, everyone. >> san joaquin shairves --

sheriffs stopped their search. they found the vehicle longing to jose rodriguezle. the car was empty. investigators say the bodies could surface downstream. the boy's family continues to hold out hope. >> i never give up hope. i know he is alive. please come home quick. he has to show me and the world and my daughter that he really loves my grandson and bring him back. >> alan: the family thinks the suspect's friends could be helping him hide out in the central valley. police and sheriff's deputies will patrol the area along the canal but there will be no organized search efforts. police shot and killed a map in oakland's rockridge district, the city's second fatal officer-involved shooting in three days. here's more. >> reporter: until today, rockridge residents would have been hard-pressed to believe

something like this could happen around here. >> it's scary. >> reporter: a neighbor describes the shooting victim as a boyfriend of the woman who lived in this house. police had received complaints that he was reportedly patrolling up and down taft avenue, in camouflage, with what appeared to be an assault rifle that turned out to be a replica. >> it was a weapon. there was an automatic rifle. >> what did it fire? >> we don't know yet. we haven't been able to test it. report police say he entered his house with at least two people inside. one ran out. the situation escalated from there. >> the officers approached the home from the front. as they got up the stairs, a gentleman, who we have not confirmed his name yet, exited the home, and confronted the officers, armed with an automatic rifle. the officers immediately opened fire on the gentleman, which

ended his life. >> reporter: police say three officers shot simultaneously. they would not speculate yet lop the -- whether the shooting was justified. >> overy of force. i can't imagine that one couldn't have shot him in the leg and that we don't need to kill people in quiet residential neighborhoods because they're acting strange. >> reporter: but tony drop -- drop boss ski who lives across the street, said the police examiner side restraint. >> anybody else would have said, i'll.my hands up and come out. >> police searched the frontyard for what they described as physical evidence. they promised more details on the shooting by monday. >> alan: up next, the san francisco supervisor who refuses to say the pledge of aliege --

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>> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >> an art auction to raise money for two hikers detained in iran were held tonight. sarah shore organized the event. her fiancee shane and friend josh are still being held in

iran. >> what all three of them have in common is the bay area. they were all uc berkeley students, they all contributed to this community in meaningful ways, and especially since sarah's release, people have really chipped in. >> alan: the hikers were arrested by iranian authorities after the corrode an unmarked border in july of 2009. they were charged with espionage. san francisco supervisor jane kim stirred up a controversy when she refused to take the pledge of aliege january. although she stances up, she does not recite the words or place her right hand over her heart. she says it's the words "with liberty and justice for all" that she disagrees with, saying there's no explisht justice for all yet.

we talked to kim today. >> i think my constituents care more about my position on how to make muni more effective and keep ore streets clean and safe than my reasons for not reciting the pledge. >> her predecessor also objected tote the pledge. re refused to say the words "under god." >> jackie speier held a meet and greet similar to the event where congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot in tucson. she says the meetings are a vital part of the democratic process. there was a noticeable police presence at the event. speier introduced a resolution to did he go signifies -- edition it's in the first saturday in january as congress day. >> the flick, called contagion, starts damon, jude law, and it's

about prevending the spread of a deadly virus. the crew will film in self -- several places, including a stadium, coffee shop and views from chinatown. >> i want to be a star. i've got a lot of talent that hasn't been discovered yet. >> i need to be in hollywood. >> i like matt damon. >> alan: if you're interested, another audition will be held tomorrow at the embarcadero ymca from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. >> leigh glaser is here. we have had some good weather. >> leigh: nice to see the rain return. getting reports of a little lightning and thunder out there this evening as well. let's show you our high definition embarcadero roof cam. looking down on the embarcadero. we have had about two-three

weeks of dry weather. finally starting to get back to where we should be this time of year. it is still winter, folks. here's a look at live doppler 7hd. and you can see the rain bands continuing to feed inland. the cold front is making its way across the bay area right now. we'll take you in closer. my friends in berkeley and concord, san ramon, picking up pockets of moderate rain. a lot of this is light, but scattered darker greens, indicating the moderate rain. to the south of san jose now, down toward gilroy, holster, and even the watsonville area still picking up some pockets of moisture. so we'll continue with showers and a chance of a few isolated thunderstorms overnight. we'll keep that in the forecast for tomorrow morning, and back off on the shower activity by sunday afternoon. we'll see a little drying there,

and it will be school try for much of next week. here's a look at our lows tonight. the clouds overhead, temperatures in the 40s, and this is the cold front that's bringing us the rain right now, and it's going to be this area of low pressure that is going to wind in or spin in over using that will though bring us a good possibility of seeing those isolated thunderstorms overnight, simply because it's going bring in colder air, some unstable air as well. there's the cold front moving through right now, as we get into the 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 time period, that low is going to move across the bay area and could possibly see the thunderstorm activity by 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning and it will exit and by the afternoon we'll start to see clearing. maybe an inch of rain in the north bay. santa rosa, already picking up a quarter inch of rain from the first system that moved through earlier this evening. the high country, looking for close to a foot of snow above

the 7,000-foot level. lake level, three to six inches expected there here's a look at the highs for sunday. most of the rain activity tomorrow morning. start to dry things out by tomorrow. >> but going to be chillier out there. 53, napa. 55, oakland. down south, morgan hill, gilroy, few lingering late afternoon showers there. watsonville, 57, the seven-day forecast, a cool day for monday and tuesday. daytime highs in the 50s. all this week will be dry. wednesday you see a little critter there on the map. supposed to be the drowned hog. that'sground hog day. but a dry day ahead. >> alan: shu on deck with sports. >> mike: busy day in college hoops, and cal wins their third

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>> mike: college hoops. stanford men have had a rough two weeks. they lost four straight games and had president obama rooting against them when they're playing oregon state because his brother-in-law is their head coach. the beavers battle back. oregon state trailed by just one at the break. stanford pulls away in the second half. brown with the steal. and then rising for the one-handed jam. a career high 2 1. later in the half,man to owens on the alley-oop. >> to berkeley. randle on hand to watch his al a mater. cal up seven. later in the half, powers for three. cans it. cal's lead is 18. ducks rally.

seven to play. the stop and pop. oregon down one. but gutierrez with the answer. three from the corner. the back doctor cut. nice. two of his 18. bears sweep the oregon schools. wcc, st. mary's, hosted by portland, st. mary's down by two at the half. the miss. portland up 27. the gales wouldn't go down without a fight. mcconnell, three of his game-high 32. st. mary's, too little, too late. the backbreaker from deep. 85-70 loss for st. mary's. to the wac. san jose state hosting fresno state. the alley-oop. the two-hand slam there san jose up 18. the map who makes the spartans

move, oliver, had 18 in the first half. second half. more oliver. turn-around j. the victory. >> take a brief time-out. tiger woods feeling the pain in san diego. details of his day on the links i have fallen in love with making bird houses. caw caw! [ director ]what is that? that's a horrible crow. here are some things that i'll make as little portals.

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to start your two week tune up. >> mike: the pga tour at torrey pines. where phil mickelson grew up playing and tiger woods wins everytime he plays there. the par-5 13th. way right. not helping get the fans back when he hits the ball at them. shot hoff the day, hunter mahan on the par-5 18th. his sefnlgtd puts it within three feet. would eagle. one back. phil mickelson, playing very well as he usually does in his

home town. the par-3 16th. rolls to within five feet. shots 68. kim clijsters said this is her last season of professional tennis. she has never won the australian open. this is her last chance. her opponent, li na in her first finals. clijsters rallies in the second. breakpoint. watch this winner. down the line. takes the second. kim would steam roll from there that was wicked. match point. clijsters wins her fourth grand slam. >> former nfl great her herschel walker. gets kicked in the face. doesn't like it.

lets out a scream and then knocks carson to the grownt. walker wins in 3:13 by technical knockout. he is now 2-0 in his young mma career. and the bryan brothers take the australian open. both former stanford players. >> herschel walker has done ballet -- >> mike: he is 48 years old. unbelievable. >> alan: that concludes another broadcast of abc-7. thanks for watching. captioned by closed captioning services inc.