one of school autos we don't want the schools closing. that is very, very bad. >> her grandfather made another appeal to the board. >> i talk all you want to. >> we're going to move ahead to the discussion. >> the board released the school for $1.5 million over a three-year period money going to the general fund. rodney brown is an oakland teacher. >> it's going to destabilize the teacher-stupdent relationship. students and families are forced to make a decision on where they're going send their children to school. >> the board managed to vote on another controversial proposal that do co-allow another closing school to instead convert to a charter school. the vote is to consider it at the next meeting. >> the concern is that the community is at the school be kept open in whatever form and they not have to travel to another site. i think they're probably open

to a variety of solutions. >> and this district promised parents of the schools that their kids would go anywhere within the district. we found that at four of the five schools, between 93 and 90% got a first choice. now, lazere school does not do as well that is why parents are pushing for a charter. >> there is a judge assigning a new lawyer to a man accused of killing five people in san francisco. he is charged with five counts of murder with special circumstances. today a judge ruled public defender cannot represent luc because of a conflict of interest. the public defender is representing his brother that may be called as a witness in the murder case. the judge appointed a private attorney at taxpayer expense to represent luc.

next court appearance is april 5. a man trying to fly to san francisco is under arrest after trying to bring powerful fire works and flash powder on to a plane. and he was arrested in philadelphia. we're live with the story. unbelievable. >> this is alert officers saw the devices as he went through the screening area. and this is one of several bizarre incidents. not involving terrorists. and nonetheless, scary. this month a flight attendant had to be restrained by passengers when she began screaming about losing friends on september 11th. tuesday a captain carried off the plane in handcuffs after he apparently went berserk,

ranting about al qaeda and a bomb. and now, this. united flight 445 was at the gate waiting to take off. at the screening area, tsa officers discovered something suspicious in a carry on bag. >> the bag is screened and officers investigated they close check points and discovered a water bottle and m 80 fire works. skm sfo spokesman says he still broke the law. >> whether it's tensional or accidental that is not the issue. but that is up to the prosecutors in philadelphia. >> the flight 40 minutes late taking off. we spoke to some passengers when arriving here there is no idea. only a hint. >> they had to check baggage

and that was it. >> they landed and the passengers found out why they're delayed. >> people started getting texts and phone calls so some is scary. >> do they make the public nervous? most said no. >> this is odd they don't affect my day-to-day decision making on getting on a plane. >> he appeared in ourt and is charged with carrying an explosive on to a plane ztsa believes he's not a terrorist. >> and police asking for help in trying to identify a man trying to attack a girl in a school. this is a sketch of a man. police say he lunged at the 9-year-old girl. she managed to run away and

report it to her teachers and police searched the school and did not find anyone. the man described as white, heavy set in his 50s with gray hair last seen wearing a navy blue polo and gray jeans. volunteers spent another full day searching for a missing teenager sierra lamar. nearly 500 showed up in the command center focusing on more urban areas. mark klaus abducted and killed, and he says see year's disappearance has questions about the auto mated systems schools use to notify parents of student absence autos if they had phoned earlier in the day that their daughter who had a very good attendance record didn't show up, a red flag would have come up. >> the family wasn't notified until evening. a 15-year-old has not been seen since she left home for

school two weeksing ayochl a local real estate company donated $12,000 to the search center. >> changes will be coming to apple's manufacturing plant in china an audit found workers often worked excessive overtime. and the fair labor association says the plant is committed to reducing weekly work time to 49 hours and that is the legal limit. the company also prom dwroisz fix health and safety violations found in factories and experts disagree on whether changes will be lasting. >> there is a hope this will result in change. >> they will be made as an example to all of china's manufacturing facilities this activity can. >> and coming up at 5:30 diane

sawyer examines price consumers will have to pay for changes at the plant. >> republican presidential candidate rick santorum is in sal lano county tonight fr a couple fund raising events. mark matthews is there and joins with us more, mark? >> we're at the jelly belly factory in fairfield and rick santorum speaking about 10 minutes ago. and and supporters gathered here it was quite a good-sized crowd and and 45 minutes ago he walked up to the podium and looking for a place ronald reagan off loved, fond of jelly bellies and made them famous. he told supporters work for the candidate with true values. >> vast majority of americans

trying to be convinced to do thing that's are inconsistent with values and sell short because we have to win. and we need someone to pull that coalition together and has values not as one of romney staffers said in his public policy written on an etch a sketch, but someone where public policy is written on his heart. >> that draw applause but look at the polling results from primaries in wisconsin romney leads santorum. the home state is only two points ahead in connecticut romney is 23 points ahead and in california, 1 points ahead. and you can see rick santorum continuing to shake hands here and he is due in alamo in about an hour from now for a

private fund-raiser and hopes to collect more money than he has in california, collecting about half a million dollars so far total in california. his rival has collected $7 million. 14 times more than rick santorum. we have santorum hopes he can put a dent in that tonight. >> thank you very much. and coming up here at 5:00 michael finney explain yz this might be the best time to think about buying a house. >> state lawmakers ditch their suits and don hoodies for trayvon martin a teenager shot to death in florida but did they receive a same chilly reception as a member of congress? >> i'm sandhya patel. another weekend another storm. what day is turning wet and windy coming up. >> new buzz on what may be killing off honey bees. researchers now looking at something used on biggest crops.

>> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. chaos again today at this morn's university of california regents meeting. student demonstrators showed up in swimsuits and danced on chairs to protest the meeting held at mission bay campus, regents left the room after they were unable to control the rowdy crowd. three were arrested outside of the auditorium after police gave orders to disperse. the group accuses regents are trying to limit student participation. >> there are 300,000 student workers in uc system. we get 20 minutes to have a meeting during spring break. >> the meeting resumed. they considered supporting governor brown's tax

initiative preventing tuition hikes. lieutenant governor newsom encouraged regents to sue the state to restore funding for public ed oox california democratic lawmakers staked their own version of a protest over the shooting death of a black florida teak. they wore hoodies in a legislative session today thrk followed yesterday's action by a representative when wore a hoody on the house floor. and. >> i can be trayvon martin. >> led by rod wright, members from black, latino and asian caucuses are donning hoodies to protest last month's killing of trayvon martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer. normally hats are for bidden but democratic leaders allowed it. >> some people may say why are you doing this? on the senate floor? we're leaders. we must always demonstrate our

willingness to step in someone else's shoes. and understand what this must be like. >> republicans joined in the sentiment of a journe journey -- adjourning session in the memory of the 17-year-old walking into his father's home from the store. >> i hope this is an opportunity to find the truth, allow justice to be served and maybe get to the point of healing. >> the act comes as abc news obtained police security video of the gunman, the neighborhood watchman claiming self-defense, zimmerman said martin knocked him to the ground and punched him but the video show nose visible signs of a struggle. and there are pictures added to anger. >> there are no bruises visible and it did not appear he had a broken nous nose which adds to outrage many of

us feel. >> critics called actions inappropriate because not all of the facts are in, lawmakers felt it was important for californians to talk about racism and racial profiling. this chairman calling on lawmakers to change the law he says allows people to kill in cold blood with no consequences. in sacramento abc 7 news. >> there is autism rates higher than thought according to a series of new studies number of cases affecting kids in the united states is one in every 88 children higher than previous estimates. and this means it likely affects a million children in the united states and teenagers. and experts acontributit the increase to better diagnosis and more wide spread screening. >> scientists say honey bees and bumble bees are getting sick from a common class of pesticides that are used on

90% of corn crops in the united states. it is attacking the central nervous system of bees. the u.s. epa is considering banning chemicals. >> internet giant yahoo took a step towards protecting your online privacy. >> michael finney has that story. >> this is an attempt to get some control over who is spying on their activity. yahoo announced this will offer a do not track feature, and the company says that the simple to use button will tell advertisers to stop tracking your activity. it's a strong signal but there is no law saying companies must honor that request. and this is offered on new versions of internet explower, and apple safari.

demand for new fuel efficient cars led to a boom in auto sales estimating sales in march topping $1.4 million. get this. that is 16.5% increase over a year ago and 26% over last month. and that has been looser standards also helping boost the sales. motorist rates inching closer once again to lows. the average 30 year fixed rate is now at 3.99%. this is when buying and refinancing are at their highest levels since the crisis began five years ago. last month the 30-year fixed rate hit a low of 3.87% and crept back up above 4% and a lot of people think it would going to five, but dropping again, today. and surprising all of us. >> thank you. >> sure. >> and on to weather. spectacular in parts of the

bay area, it's going to change. >> there is sandhya patel joining with us that and the weekend ahead. >> weekend going to feature wet weather. if you have plans saturday, you might want to take them ininside. there is a warning it's going to be wet and windy. sheer live picture there is cloudy. low clouds, high clouds, and half moon bay reporting fog there is clock so not a lot of sun here but there is sun well south of us, if you look at live doppler 7 hd we're seeing rain up towards ukiah. there is around santa rosa there are a few sprinkles. and there is temperatures into 50s in the north bay there is

san jose did get up close to 70 degrees today so mild down towards south bay. there is windy, rainy conditions developing on saturday. there is a storm system we're seeing sprinkles in the north bay this, continues to remain in far northern end of california and this will keep in possibility of springel goesing into tomorrow. real storm gets here heading into saturday. there is a blustery storm here, wind, rain and thunderstorms. there is wet weather, could see drizzle and there is rain getting here on saturday. you can see it could be briefly heavy.

as a cold front goes through, rain continues to spread south and east around 10:00 saturday morning. behind the cold front there is showers and so is what we're looking at. rest of the sunday is looking just fine. there is winter storm watch friday night through late saturday night for sierra. there is heavy and blowing snow at times. foif 10 inches above 5,000 fchl you have travel plans you might want to wait until sunday, tomorrow morning temperatures comfortable and mild. there is low 50s and upper. >>s expected. sprinkles possible in the north bay. temperatures up to the north and mid to upper 50s there is

67 in palo alto. concord in the east bay. partly cloudy skies out this way. there is cloud cover lingering into afternoon. it's mild, morgan hill, salinas, all into low 70s, accu-weather forecast could see drops in the north bay tomorrow, windy, wet, phone shall for thunder saturday. breezy, blue sunday we'll keep it dry monday, tuesday, another chance of rain coming in on wednesday. >> okay. thank you. >> still ahead, the tender age at which dating violence begins and what is being done in california to stop it before it's too late. >> neighbors say it's an eye sore. that is not all. there is looking into what has gone wrong now in a controversial solar project. we'll be right back. cl

a study shows how early dating violence begins looking at 14007th graders, 75% said they have had a boyfriend or girlfriend and one in six say they have been physically abused and one in three say they have been a victim of psychological abuse nchl sacramento a teen dating abus prevention bill has been approved by the education committee that would fill gaps in law and teach educators how to respond to violence. the bill now goes to the appropriations committee. >> child abuse watch dogs are targeting sex traffickers. one group says it's collected enough signatures for a november ballot measure

increasing consequences include requiring convicted traffickers to provide access to internet accounts with a role. >> this is to make it difficult for anonymity to flourish and end ability to surf in an anonymous fashion. >> other proposed penalties include requiring convicted sex traffickers to register as sex offenders and increasing prison terms and fine autos moving on, coming up next... more and more, giants are not just about baseball as the season gets underway. >> what they're putting on the menu at ballparks this year.

at 6:00 we told you about the big changes come together chinese plants but a move

tipping scales towards work place reform. and the wife of ross mirkarimi goes on the offensive against domestic violence activists. >> this would be like the grand slam of the bottom of the 9th ooj testing being done by researchers that could provide hope in the treatment of autism. it's coming up at 6:00. >> and we know giants home opener is looming. and this is the team released a menu of the season's highlights. >> this includes garlic fries, curry, sweet potatoed fries and gourmet slider autos but let's be frank. it's about the game. and opener is friday, april 6th. >> that is good eating right there. >> yes. yes. >> and thanks