yard at 94th avenue, police say the man walked up, lifted the girl and inappropriately touched her as he carried her away. the girl screamed, drawing atension. a family and neighbors who chased the man away. police say the girl wasçó notóoy physically hurt but may takezv a >> she's shaken up this, is a traumatic experience. our home is a place we feel safe z we have a violateor coming into our home, on our property, and does an agreejis act. >> police are going explain why they suspect the same man may have tried a kidnapping just months ago. >> an 8-year-old girl is expecteddedded to survive after being shot with an arrow.lp investigators collected evidence. the girl is outside on this plaza during a field trip around 10:00 in the morning sitting on a replica of a

whale. the arrow suddenly struck her in the leg. >> someone yelled the little girl had been shot with an arrow. regular arrow. about 28 inches. and stayed stuck in her leg. >> investigators are still not sure where it came from. >> police are looking for a woman wanted for kidnapping after stealing an suv with an 11-month-old baby inside. she's described as hispanic, five five, weighing about 160 pounds, dark complexion and dark nair a low bun. she was wearing a dark fitted jacket and dark pants. the little girl was found unharmed. and an amber alert was issued. investigators are processing evidence and asking anyone with information to please, immediately call the san jose police department. >> a bay area department of homeland security agents left court today without entering a

plea on child pornography charges. the 37-year-old has been under investigation almost two years. the customs agent was rearrested after investigators and u.s. attorney sent the case back to court. the judge reduced bail from $250,000 to $80,000 citing lack of evidence that lamb distributed images. >> accusations of spiking toddler sippy cup was sleeping pills. a 59-year-old deborah gratz was fired from the kiddie academy but parents don't think losing her job is enough. >> you know to me probation is not good enough. she needs to do time. anything could happen out there. my daughter could have passed out and fell, hitw3 her head. could have seizures now, who knows? >> a fellow teacher says she saw something being put into sippy cups.

gratz is scheduled to be back in court next month. >> nation traigs ak snojs pg&e is having maximum allowable pressure validation for pipelines pipes in all areas will be validated by the end of april. clearance procedures must be done before work is perform skptd public awareness plan that makes people aware ofç important gaps in information. ptsb says they have confirmed seven of the 12 recommendation autos two tunnels are now open. >> they open just instime for morning commute. sky 7 was overhead as some cars drove through. the tunnels allow drivers to bypass devil's slide. this is vulnerable to closure

autos golden gate bridge collectors checked in for a last shift at work today. the bridge goes all electronic toll collection system meaning all 28 booth jobs are being eliminated this, change will save the district $2 million per year. some stopped to take a picture. >> i am drained and i have had many breakdowns in the lanes over the last couple weeks because they're hurt we're being taken from them. >> here is a live look at the golden gate bridge toll plaza you can see traffic coming into the cityht is slow this, is it. their jobs are gone. many are leaving with happy memories but not a smile on their face. it's a tough day. >> it is. they had a gorgeous goodbye party at the bridge it was a

nice day. spencer christian is here lots of clouds in the sky. you can see many clouds have cleared away. you can probably see that on the view of the golden gate bridge. no precipitation is in the area at the moment. there are spots of moisture at the moment. no reports of rainfall. a live view of mainly clear skies from our camera looking over san francisco. skies cleared out. temperatures cleared out 63 in oakland. 63 sanñi jose.d8 another live view from our camera in emoriville looking towards the golden gate. mainly blue skies, temperatures 64 in sabt santa rosa and napa. this is a forecast. partly cloudy skies this evening, temperaturesu! upper 40s to mid-50s, clouds with

sprinkles developing overnight, temperatures ranging from 44 to9wx 52. partly sunny skies in the afternoon. a mix of sun and clouds. it will not be a wet day. it will be mild inland highs into upper 60s, i'll show what you is coming up next in just aw3 few minutes. >> we'll seejf you shortly. >> breaking news now in morgan hill./ñ police from severalç agenciesxd are in a standolfñ with a parole that they believe is armed. traffic blocked there in both directions. abc 7 news is live there with the very latest on this.jf david? >> a lot of activity here there have been nine flash bangs atç the motel. there is a 29-year-old man inside of a second floor room. they've been trying to get him to surrender but so far no,

deal. they know he has a criminal record, out on parole for assault with a deadly weapon. and he a woman checked in last night. police noticed his car hadzv two plates. the man moved furniture to block the door. despite negotiations the man has not given up since the incident started this morning.÷: >> the male subject is on parole what. brought him to morgan hill, i don't know. he has a connection to san jose area. >>q so he is at large?w3 >> light right. what happened is that he reported for the first month, i believe providing a dirty test. and had not shown up since then. >> the woman given the

opportunity leave. police say she's deciding to stay. together they've made several requests including a request for food. the s.w.a.t. team is on scene but for obvious reasons we're not going to be revealing their movements. he may have a television inside of the room. and as i just said there have been nine flash bangs therefore they're attempting to distract the suspect or perhaps make some other move. police said they found stolen goods, things theyed considered stolen inside of the parking lot so there seems to be a lot more to this story. david, thank you. >> still head tonight at 4:00 meet one of the newest employees at yahoo. guess what? he's still in high school. what he p?á:s

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he says he's going to try to test out working at yahoo's london office. >> i think he'll work it out. >> i'm sure. >> good for him. >> t-mobile adding iphone 5 to the smart phone line up. facebook has seen major growth in gaming division.

hi, emily. >> and good afternoon. if you've been holding off on buying an iphone, t-mobile usa will start selling i've he yon 5 april 12th for $99.99 down, then $20 a month 24 months. the phone will be available with a no contract $50 a month plan for talk, text, and web. $70 a month for unlimited. t-mobile reached a distribution deal with apple in 2012. more people are way paiing to play games on facebook. facebook says the number of paying gamers rose 24% from a year ago. and facebook says more than 100 developers generated $1 million in revenue on facebook last year. twitter says it will unveil

exciting features at a developer event on tuesday. that will focus on integrating twitter into the mobile experience. it's closed to the press. positive data on durable goods orders sent stocks higher today. uber is expanding. the company just launched it's first apps for windows phones and black berries. black berry app work was older model and not on the new phones. uber updated it's an droid app. at bloomberg studios in san francisco, carolyn, dan, back to you. >> thank you. california's unemployment rate remains just below 10% but that may remain lower b a thousand jobs being offered at the california job journal.

14 companies were there looking for workers. next job journal abc 7 event will be on april 23 in silicon valley. and go from noon until 4:00 at embassy suites in milpitas. more information on abc 7 news.com so check that out. >> we have a lovely spring day out there. >> maybe inching towards record temperatures today. >> started off on the cool side. temperatures take a look at live doppler 7. you can see mainly clear skies now. almost nudging in the way of precipitation. but we do have spots of moisture showing up well north there. north of clover dale.

it's possible there could be a chance of sprinkles overnight tonight, and tomorrow. and looks like a good chance of rain. the blow thought us clouds overnight has pushed inland now. it continues eastward push you notice clear skies this afternoon. but won't remain totally clear there is a series of weak disturbances bringing us intervals of clouds and sun and possibility of showers. skies becoming cloudy overnight. there will be a chance of sprinkles accompanying clouds moving through overnight. 5:00 in the morning, there could be damp spots scattered about the bay area. getting into afternoon hours we'll see a chance of

scattered sprinkles. how dry sit now compared to average at the time of the year we have seven inches of rain in santa rosa and six inches in many locations and not likely to get that rainfall this late into the season. so year here probably going head into late spring and summer and clouds and pockets of moisture. high temperatures, low temperatures into upper 40s and low 50s so mild overnight. 65 in san jose. we'll see low to mid-60s on the peninsula. in and around san francisco, 58 in the sunset district. near east bay highs mid-60s

inland east bay highs into upper 60s, 68 in antioch. and here is the accu-weather forecast. chance of showers on thursday, partly cloudy, milder friday. highs into mid-70s inland. chance of showers saturday and sunday. starting to dry out monday and tuesday. so a little bit of rain is needed. >> thank you very much. >> coming up next grammy award winning singer deon warwick is broke. how much debt she's in. >> then, are you having a hard time cleaning out pet hair? 7 on your side helps you pick the right vacuum. >> taking a look at the san mateo bridge. >> heavy for drivers on the left side of the screen heading east but moving nicely there on the bridge. stay with us. abc 7 news at 4:00 continues right after this.

singer deon warwick filed for bankruptcy citing more than $10 million in tax debt. the 72-year-old is just 25,000s ndz assets. warwick lists about 21,000s ndz income, her expenses about the same amount.

her publicist says the singer paid taxes she owd but not penalties and interest accumulated over the years. >> more celebrity news, angelina jolie's latest duties with the united nations and a big honor for robin roberts. >> the entertainment world is joining sports world in congratulating robin roberts. espn announced it will give the arthur ash courage award. she kept viewer involved in treatments before moving to abc, roberts worked on espn. on twitter wrote my humble thanks to espn on naming me as the recipient of the arthur ash award. and now, to eastern congo, angelina jolie is trying to raise awareness about sexual violence during war time.

>> this is due time, it's been going on every war, every crisis. >> she's a special envoy for the un reviewy -- refugee agency. >> last night, dorothy hamil struggled with an injured ankle. >> i feel sorry. i don't want to let my partner down. >> see who goes on tonight at 9:00 and for interviews for stars go to otrc.com. >> still ahead, residents react to the day at the supreme court we'll have a live report up next. >> former cia director is making his first public speech since resigning. why he says he's a different man, now. >> extortion plot uncovered. a family founded a popular mall jewelry chain is the

victim of a black mail scheme. >> america's newest multi millionaire. what he plans to buy with his big winnings.

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justices heard arguments in california's same-sex marriage debate. the court released audio just hours after it ended. to let anyone interested in it listen to questions and answers on both sides. >> would you have thought a lot of people would be glued and listening to this hearing. leanne? >> yes. you know i think because there is a lot of people deciding to just read about it in the newspapers and and we did find people here that dove right in. >> as soon as bailey got off work she salt sath down to listen to the supreme court justices raise questions about proposition 8. >> this is something that you know, everyone is following. i've been seeing on the interknit and twitter, people

sharing this same picture. the red equality sign saying you know, equality for all. >> the arguments were and they say they're interested in the final outcome of the watt voter approved ban on same-sex marriage. >> i thought arguments had merit. i do believe it's it's the right to have equal rights for all. >> both sides won't predict how the high court will vote. but chris stow likes when justice kennedy introduced the issue of same-sex marriages and how they are affected. >> sympathy are not in the direction of holding prop 8 but he also expressed some skepticism about whether now is the right time for the supreme court to address this. >> bill may is with catholics for the common good, pleased by what he heard. >> they felt for the first time that, they got a fair

hearing before a fair panel of judges. a lot of people here in the castro tonight. we'll bring you that live tonight. live in the castro, abc 7 news. >> thank you. >> this is a fascinating most in history. >> we're joined now but a law professor at santa clara university. thanks for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. >> what did you find most interesting about arguments today? >> this is interesting is that several justices indicate that had perhaps the court should not have taken this case in the first place. >> how so? what gave you that sense? >> a few times justice kenneed yedy asked the question perhaps we shouldn't have taken. several other justices

including roberts and ginzberg grilled both attorneys as to whether parties presenting arguments in favor of proposition 8 should have legal standings, eligibility to be in court. >> is there predicted value? any questions heard today? >> it's always difficult to try to read tea leaves with the court. one thing that appears certain is that it's going to be hard for there to be five votes for any position seemed like all positions were highly contested. if there is one position that started to have perhaps four or five justices it's likely the position courts should not be hearing this case. >> people don't have the legal stand something. >> right. >> what about doma? >> so it presents common, but different questions about federal law. how marriage is defined for federal benefits. also has a standing question in it so i think we're going

hear about that. it's hard to sell tel how tomorrow's is going to go. it's conceiveable that it's more likely that it will reach it in that case. >> what do you tell your law students to watch? what do they learn? what can all of us learn? >> this is a historic moment. one of the things we try to focus on is the process of adjudication. questions of standing which most people don't think about. can up end up having deep affects on the substance of peoples' rights. it's a historic moment for california. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> rainbow flags flying over city hall in a number of bay area cities today this, is

video of a flag going up this morning in berkeley. many cities have raised their pride flags. city leaders wanted to show support during the hearing autos maybe you've seen this today a lot of people are changing their facebook pictures. the lgbt rights organization is encouraging people to use this to show support as the court hearing begins. the usual logo is a yellow equal sign over a blue background as you can see. carolyn tileler was inskpid going to join us for abc 7 news at 5:00 with some key players from the bay area in, washington today for this hearing including lieutenant governor newsom who started this when he was mayor and aloud same-sex marriage in

city hall. carolyn is also tweeting updates. >> so more is still to come alt 5:00 and 6:00. police in florida releasing audio recordings of a sting operation that nabbed a woman accused of black mailing owners of a popular chain. the suspect is camille brown, a 32-year-old daughter of the schaeffer's household made whom the couple fired in september. police say she wanted mb in exchange for a stack of leters written by schaeffer, leters included embarrassing family secrets. >> $3 million? >> no. no. >> brown's lawyer says the letters were given to her legally. she faces up to 15 years if convicted. >> well, new at 4:00 abc 7

news learned a follower of charles manson will be in court next month charged with trying to smuggle a cell phone inside of the california prison where the convicted mass murderer is housed. state department of corrections says craig hammond was arrested on sunday for investigation of conspiracy. he posted bail. manson has been caught with smuggled cell phone twice in the mast four years. >> former cia director david petraeus is making a first public speech tonight since resigning. the retired general scheduled to speak at a usc event. a prepared text of his speech indicates ill e.will apologize for the affair he had with his biographer. his affair discovered during an fbi investigation into e mail that's broadwell sent to

another woman. >> coming up here next don't blame it on film. a defense for the famous groundhog. >> and lucky find one man and a dog discovered on a hike in the mountain autos blue skies over the bay area right now. clouds are on the way. will they bring rain? >> live outside, bay bridge toll plaza cars on the right trying to get on to the bridge. on the left heading into another direction are slow. abc 7 news at 4:00 continues in just a moment.

a hiker in riverside spent several days trapped between two boulders. >> he ows a rescue to a dog, mole. mole pulled him off the trail towards big rocks. he found a man stuck between boeld boulders. >> the hiker said he'd been trapped four to six days. after giving the man water ramos found others to call rescue workers. >> authorities say the section of the mountain is not well traveled. the stranded hiker is in good condition but after several days like that, he's lucky. >> no kidding. >> punxsutawney fill is off the hook. >> good news.

a prosecutor light heartedly filed a criminal indictment against that groundhog is dropping the charge he wanted to charge phil with fraudulently predicting an early spring. the animal's handler is taking the blame. >> moser issued the indictment with winter like weather as spring began. you worry this could have a chilling affect on groundhog that's depree dikt weather. >> we're seeing signs of spring. >> let's take a look at our radar image. it's dry around the bay area. up north, patches of moisture there could be a spring ol or two. a quiet map, patches of precipitation some rain.

here in the state of california a mixed bag and mild. highs of 70s in los angeles. notice areas of shower activity moving through northern two thirds of the state including the bay area. a chance of spring yelz lingering tomorrow so, look for rather extensive cloud cover tomorrow. breaks of sun and high temperatures will be like today, mainly low to mid-60s around the bay. mid to upper 60s inland. and this is just a prelude to what may happen on thursday. so still unsettled weather pattern. >> thank you. >> coming up next health news tweeting varicose vains. -- veins. >> and a stranger kindness. a california woman makes a

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here is a look at tonight's prime time line up. at 8:00 is and body of proof airs at 10. and a northern california family fighting to keep a pet deer but state department of fish and wildlife says it must confiscate. they found her huddling next to her dead mother. it now lives on the family ranch north of sacramento. >> we chase her a lot. very sad. because they're going to take her awaichl i'll never see her again. >> we raised her since she's probably seven days old. >> the state says the family can apply for a permit but those permits are granted for

educational purposes. >> a looks like a 19 hour day behind a deli counter will be soon history for one man. he won the fourth biggest jackpot in power ball history $338 million. he's taking home about $152 million. he's an immigrant from the dominican republic, the father of five works at the family dell yeechl he says his family will reap benefits and the first purchase san easy choice. >> is there something you'd like to purchase? yes. a good car. >> when asked what he drives now he says my feet. what a wonderful way to spend those initial millions. thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. abc 7 news at 5:00 begins right now. >> thank you. the hunt to find who is behind

an arrow attack that injured a girl on a field trip to a museum. >> a monumental day for a battle over same-sex marriage in california. we're live with reaction from one of the people at the very centser of the debate. >> live from the roof of the broad center it's bright and sunny now. you may be dodging rocks soon. i'll have details coming up. >> this is a live picture of a vigil in support of same-sex marriage taking place on the steps of state supreme court right now. it follows historic hearing today at u.s. supreme court over california's ban on same-sex marriage. good evening. >> the question today does the constitution guarantee you right to marry whomever you choose regardless of gender? abc 7 news carolyn tyler was

in the courtroom and joins us live now from washington, d.c. this, is a an emotional argument for both sides. >> slightly. i was in the courtroom. i can tell you those justices seemed to have real problem was this case for example, justice kennedy asking if it was in his words, proper that the case was sent their way. both sides of the issue were out in front of the supreme court. >> i'm a gay man. we have her. we were married in california but not married at federal level. >> god made man and woman complementry to each other fill fort lauderdalely. and -- physically. he call that had marriage that. is what i think we need to up hold. >> nine justices began by asking if the backers of prop

8 had standing on the legal right to challenge the state skourt ruling. >> the attorney charles cooper went on to say california's governor and attorney general has refused to step in. on the question of whether prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying is unconstitutional, justice scalia grilled attorney ted olsen representing less bee skbrin gay couples seeking to overturn prop 8 there is no date and time. >> how am i supposed to decide a case. >> the case started in 2004 with san francisco then mayor gavin newsom ordering the city

clerk to order marriage licenses. it's clear where this is going in this respect. >> and tonight people are still here outside of the supreme court. partly because tomorrow the court takes up another issue signed into law by then president bill clinton. this month, he resaid he regretted signing that act into law. i'll be in the courtroom tomorrow and will be bringing you live reports. >> fascinating and important day. thank you very much. san francisco city attorney is assisting with the lawsuit. today in washington he told abc 7 news it's been a long fight and today's hearing feels rewarding.