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rubbing their eyes this disbelieve. our reporter, amy hollyfield, is in san francisco with the story. amy? >> yes, we are learning they have found the a.t.m. machine and the van they drove away with. they have not made any arrests. look at the scene, this is incredible to see. this pillar used to have an a.t.m. machine and it was bolted into concrete and now it is gone. quite an effort here, lots of debris including the receipt tape that was inside the machine. the pillar has been ruined. this is at the mayflower market at jackson and fillmore. the market is fine. they just wanted the tam machine. this happened at 3:45 this morning. at one point the suspects were on the bay bridge trying to get away and when they hit treasure i'd they were spotted so investigators say they turned around and started going the wrong way on the bay bridge back

into the city. when they got off the bridge the police started to pursue them and they did locate that van at 7th and missouri and they did fine the tam machine inside but they have not caught the two men inside the van. we do not know if there is any money in the a.t.m. machine or if they managed to get it out. they are trying to get those answers. it is an active investigation in the city. right now, police are canvassing the neighborhood looking to see if the stores in the area have surveillance camera so they can get video of the guys and how necessity pulled this off. >> now, here is leyla gulen. >> good morning, everyone, we do have cooler air that is going to be coming in, cooler weather,

and it is starting today, but it is stagnant which is causing the "spare the air" day again the 1 the 11th consecutive "spare the air" day. inland it will be 56 degrees tomorrow. it will be 58 around the bay. it will be 54 along the coast. saturday, the first day of winter, temperatures are warming up but it will not feel like it. more on that in a minute. traffic, though, shows areas of construction that will slow you down. in oakland we have a project in the woulds until 6:00 this morning northbound 880 from 16th to plod way we have the lanes blocked off. slow if the cone zone. as we continue to the maze you are at top speeds and locking clear. drive time traffic 80 from albany to the maze is a short four-minute commute along the nimitz, southbound, from fremont to san jose. 15 minutes and to 80's

northbound from 101 to cupertino, and through the north bay, southbound 101 use make it from central san rafael to san francisco not going to take you very long. >> somebody in the bay area's largest city is a new multi-millionaire where one of two winning tickets were sold for the huge mega millions jackpot. and in san jose, matt? >> the second biggest mega millions jackpot ever and one of the two winning tickets was sold here in san jose at this gift shop. we do know who one big winner is, the owner of jenny's gift shot getting $1 million for selling the winning ticket. the winner here will split the jackpot with a winner in georgia. lottery official say they will

get $318 million each overtime or $170 million each in cash. one owner was heavy the winner's go fortune -- good fortune. hopefully someone will be rich of the. >> if you did not hit the big prize you will want to check the ticket. officials say 20 people won $1 million last night. around $800 million each year goes unclaimed. here are the numbers. 8, 14, 17, 20, 39. mega number is 7. if you did not win the next mega millions drawing is on friday with the jackpot at $15 million. we hope to learn later today who the winner is. >> berkeley leaders are diagnose -- are considering raising the minimum wage $3 an hour from $8

to $10.74 an hour. if the remain employer doesn't offer medical benefits they add another $2.20 an hour to cover that. the allowance opposes this. >> investigators hope surveillance video will help figure out what start add fire at a recycling plant in redwood city. we were on the scene at sims metal management bringing you coverage all morning yesterday. the fire broke out after midnight and created a huge cloud of smoke for hours and triggered a health warning if those with breathing issues to stay indoors. firefighters watched for flare-ups in the afternoon and evening. this was the second fire at the plant in just five weeks. >> an elementary school in san francisco's richmond will see increased patrols after an internet hoax was viral. the principal put out this let we on the web site to set the

record straight on fictitious we story that said a 4th grader was suspended for saying merry christmas to his home room teacher. the "san francisco chronicle" reports the witness named the boy, the boy's mother and the teacher, none of whom exist. that did not stop dozens from across the country to call and make nasty complaints. >> bart plans to give holiday riders the get of safety. it will provide security escorts at three stations tomorrow night, to help people doing holiday shopping get to the cars safely. escorts watch with passengers to within three blocks west oakland, fruitvale and on duty from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. >> a change in the weather head our way? >> and much needed, with wind that will be visiting us, and that is exactly what we need because as we look from our san jose bureau camera it is hazy out there, another "spare the

air" day with poor air quality and if you have to be outside you want to be careful it will be hazardous to color health and certainly it was momentous because this is the worst "spare the air" stretch if -- in our history. cooler and breezy tomorrow. that will clear it out. our gusts are calm across the bay and five miles per hour in santa rosa and up to six miles per hour in napa. the next 12 hours we have high clouds and patchy fog and different areas including san jose at 40 degrees inland and 46 around the bay and 46 along the coast and it warms up to 62 degrees this afternoon and 58 degrees around the bay and 56 along the coast with more clouds coming to overnight and possibly bringing us a slight chance of showers in some areas.

bart, muni, and caltrain all running on time and our traffic 580 loan the richmond and san rafael bridge is looking good, and the dumbarton is 11 minute drive. now, outside, we will see what is happening and this is cross the san mateo bridge, over to the peninsula, across the water, only going to take you 12 minutes from hayward to foster city. >> you can get someone else to pay to ship your packages today. we will explain in the bloomberg business report. >> a laboratory -- plan to protect deers and drivers. >> more weapons than ever before seized at the airports, and federal agents reveal who is trying to get them on b

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covering petaluma and los altos and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> on this wednesday morning, this is a look at the bay bridge, this was the scene of a bizarre chase after an a.t.m. robbery. amy hollyfield value more on that. >> if you have christmas shopping, who doesn't, there is when day that is better than others to beat the crowd. jane king joins us from the new york stock exchange with the bloomberg business report.

i have my pencil ready. when is that? >> this is news you can use, right? the malls and shopping areas could be about to be flooded with last minute shoppers. consumers have only completed about 44 percent of their holiday shopping. they unlikely to spend much and items are deeply discounted. starbucks says tomorrow and december 23rd are the two biggest gift card-selling days of the year and a reminder, today is the last day with retailer to get free shipping to be delivered by christmas. getting someone a pet as a exist for the holidays is a bad rap from animal rights groups but it may not be so bad as thought. a survey shows that 86 percent of those who got pets as a gift said the pet remains with the family until the animal passed away the same rate as pets obtained in other ways.

chocolate lovers, the price could go up with global demand outstripping supplies. wholesale prices may go up 15 percent. a slightly positive start to wall street with the wrapping up of a two day meeting and lots of speculation of what they will do with stimulus and what they will say. we talked about the best difficults to shop and this is progressive insurance doing a fay, and tuesdays and sundays have the least amount of crowds and this coming sunday will be one of best days to run on the last minute errands because there is not so much traffic congestion. from the new york stock exchange i am jane king for bloomberg business report. >> a new study calls for building a long fence on a 22-mile stretch of interstate 280 in san mateo county in hopes of preventing crashes between cars and deer. the accidents are deadly for the animals and costly and dangerously for drivers.

40 to 50 dee are hit by vehicles each year. a study found that 8' tall fence would cut back on the accidents and cost $4 million to build. caltran now is reviewing that plan. tesla is getting a boost from california to, expands production, and giving the appeal-based electric carmaker a $35 million tax break on new manufacturing equipment to help then double the number of sedans they build at the fremont factory to 35,000 a year. tesla has plans to roll out a lower priced $40,000 vehicle by 2016 with the start price now at $69,000. >> the number of guns confiscated at airports is rising discovered in bags, or checked, triple compared to

2005. the t.s.a. says it polled 1,700 bags from conveyer belts with many loaded firearms. 650 guns remain discovered in 2008. >> scam victims are getting some money back because of a $100 million settlement from the money transfer company. the postal inspectors accused corrupt agents with targeting tens of thousands cross the country with a variety of get rich quick schemes. the con artists use counterfeit checks and secret shoppers and employment scams and false emergency scam and guaranteed loans. bottom line there is a never-ending number of fraudulent schemes. >> many of the scams deend maaed cash upfront before any prize money would be paid and the settlement is the largest in the hit of the postal inspection service and agents warn if an offer sounds too good to be true it reasonable is.

>> hotel in houston is showing off santa like you have never seen him before. the downtown hilton has unveiled the half ton mouth watering masterpiece part dark chocolate and part chocolate dough. it took 400 hours to create but were more time to, would it off. it has an estimated 2.4 million calories. >> looks delicious. >> is that a bite mark? >> it was! >> we have wind, we have the 11th consecutive "spare the air" day, the 15th in the season. radar satellite shows high clouds and patchy fog along the coast and in san jose and the north bay and we will see a cool down but not before a no burn day once again. we have pretty poor air quality

especially in the santa clara valley and, in fact, san jose recorded three times the federal pollution level than normal. it was extremely bad air quality yesterday that contributed to the sims fire in redwood city so the wind blew all the soot and dust if their direction. with that we have good news on the horizon with a tropical depression coming in and cooling things down and bringing us gusty conditions starting tonight into tomorrow. it is followed by high pressure which brings our temperatures up for the first day of winter on saturday so a warming weekend ahead. we have a big sur fire not too much containment at this hour but, again, stagnant air here. however. the bad news is the windy conditions we will get will pick up near big sur and that is not good news. an the bay area we will be in the upper 50's to lower 60's for

the bay area and the lows are not going to see freezing conditions and 37 degrees in napa is the low if tonight. and 41 degree at half moon bay and inend what, 38, and 38 in livermore. "spare the air" today with no wood burning which sill legal. a chance of showersor night and a slight chance of a cool down on friday and then it starts to warm up and we have christmas on the horizon, as well, next week. >> as far as traffic is concerned, on trashes to report, clear conditions, and we have areas of slow traffic but we have congestion out there so we have 38 miles per hour from tracy away from 205 into livermore at 57 miles per hour at highway 84 in the westbound direction you are looking at a great drive as we get to the dublin interchange and it slows down again. drive five traffic from walnut creek to dublin is thin minutes and 101 southbound from santa rosa to san francisco is 15 minutes and highway 17 through

the santa cruz mountains is 23-minute commute up to los gatos outside we go and a look at the drive through san jose so hazy out this and we have a "spare the air" day and clear conditions on the roadways and not teach traffic. >> 5:20. aheads seven things to know use start your day. >> get out the skates, where you can go ice skating for free today. >> putting the

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>> here are seven things to know. the breaking news in san francisco where police discovered a stolen a.t.m. that was bowled into concrete and ripped from a yard at at a market at ma it -- at market and fill more. well have more in a few moments. >> two winning tickets for the mega millions draw, one sold as a san jose gift store on tully road. the other was sold in atlanta. last night's jackpot was worth $636 million. >> the family of a 13-year-old oakland girl who has been

declared brain dead is holding a prayer vigil tonight. jahi mcmath remains on life support after a family attorney served children's hospital with a cease and desist order yesterday. she went into cardiac arrest after having her son it wills out. >> police are trying to figure what prompted a gunman to kill one person and critically wound two others at a reno hospital. the gunman then turned the gun on himself. investigators say the shooting does not appear to be random. >> study shows that 60 percent of 12th graders do not view pot smoke as harm will. one in four say they smoked marijuana in the past month. the upside? the use of synthetic marijuana and bat salts and alcohol and cocaine has again down. >> six, another "spare the air" day and the 11th consecutive poor air quality and unhealthy conditions for santa clara valley but we have a wind advisory scheduled for tomorrow in some parts of the bay area that will clean our air.

>> seven, as we look behind me, that is the bay bridge toll plaza if you have traffic coming in from oakland into san francisco, however, pretty quiet to get us going with construction and i will tell you where that is coming up. today is a great day to going skating because it is free all day today. celebrity cruises are picking up the tab as part a promotion from 10:00 a.m. until 11:30 tonight with john admission usually $11. >> newly completed section of a road in texas met up with a new corvette that made for a high speed test run that hit 200 miles per hour! the state troopers chocked the 600 horse power corvette at 200.6 miles per hour to test the toll system on a closed portion of the new freeway. the "san francisco chronicle" reports that the people involved say the road was very smooth and the corvette was easy to drive

at that speed. the cameras on the toll were able to get clear images of the license late even at 200 miles per hour. the toll rod will be open on saturday where motorists get a tick soviet they go over the posted speed limit. even if you go 200 miles per hour, you will still get your license plate picture taken. >> straight ahead the top stories. next an annual holiday tradition. >> thousands of families will be helped this morning. >> gator bait, a florida man hoped to get in return for his

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groundhog day. people know what kind of day we are having the. >> "spare the air" day. leyla gulen? ♪ put your hands in mine >> live doppler 7 hd shows high clouds but stagnant air. that is trapping in the pollutants we have spended. this is the continueth "spare the air" day of the season but the 11th consecutive with no wood burning. it is illegal. in san jose we have the worst air quality along with santa clara. if you are headed out with poor health, that is extremely polluting to our system. it is going to clear up starting today with more wind coming in to the bay area and not going to see it clean until tomorrow afternoon. for the next 12 hours this is what you need to know headed to

work or school. it will be chilly, 46 around the bay and 46 along the coast and it warms to the lower 60's and upper 50's. our traffic shows congestion in senator parts over the altamont pass with the most congestion and we have a hit-and-run accident cleared on the shoulder southbound 101 at holly street but not affecting the traffic. we down to 36 miles per hour with much pas slow -- patches of slowing and it cools at pittsburg. southbound 680 to the 24 junction it is bunching up closer to the interchange. if you live in the south bay you may know a brand new millionaire one of the two winning tickets

in the $636 mega million jackpot was purchased in san jose. >> a lot of excitement. we want to know who is the big mega millions jackpot winner. the ticket was sold here at this store at actually and king road. this winner will split $636 million jackpot with another winner in georgia each getting $318. or $1 significant million in cash. we know who won big, the owner of jenny's who gets $1 million for selling the winning ticket. he smoke with the san jose mercury news last night. >> no idea. no idea who it is. >> thank you. >> thanks again.

>> he was excited and this is a rare win. mega millions changed the rules in october to increase the jackpots by lowering the odds of winning and now the odds are 1 in 259 million. it used to be 1 in 176 million. winners are nudged to hold a news conference. we do not know who the person is. everyone in san jose is checking their ticket. thank you, matt. this is an attempt at money in i will -- ill begot were ways with suspects driving away with an a.t.m. member at fillmore and jackson street and this is the aftermath. the suspects led police on a chase including going the wrong way on the bay bridge. the van was recovered a short time later but no sign of the

robbers. amy hollyfield is on the scene gather if you details. she will join us at the top of the tour. with spay spare continuing those with breathing issues, it could be a tough day. haze in the sky was noticeable in many areas of the bay area and people complained of stale order on the peninsula and santa clara county combining with a fire at a recycling center and the fire in big sur was to blame for the bad air quality. the health department issued an alert suggesting children, elderly and those with breting problems stay indoors. not a day to train for a marathon or to run around outside a lot if you don't need to. >> we have talked to the residents to let them know it is not so safe as normal outside. go out at your own risk. >> administrators opted to keep students inside today.

>> firefighters have the big sur fire 20 percent contained but gusty winds are expected. the 800 acre wildfire that break out has destroyed 17 homes including the fire chief's house. five other structures have been destroyed and 300 families remain evacuated. crews say the fire will grow in the next day or so with the winds expected to gust up to 30 miles per hour. the family of a 13-year-old girl who is brain dead after surgery is holding a rare vigil. katie marzullo is in the newsroom. >> jahi mcmath's family is holding the vigil in oakland from 6:00 to 7:00 and they are asking for worldwide prayer. the family has had one prayer answered when children's hospital agreed to keep the 13-year-old on life support a few hours after the family's attorney served the hospital with a cease and desist order. the family says the hospital was going to take her off the ventilator after her latest eeg

showed no brain act it. jahi mcmath went into cardiac arrest after having her tonsils removed. they want more time. >> we are not on doctor's time but we are god's time. this provide us more time to get together and pray. >> the hospital claims under california law it has the legal right to remove the girl from life support because of her condition. the family attorney says those laws were designed to prevent people from taking their family members off life support not keep them on it. the girl's heart is beating and the family has requested nutritional support and antibiotics. oakland police were investigating a deadly accident involving a bicyclist and a big rig. miss say a 62-year-old woman riding the bicycle at 5th and mark oat streets was killed and they believe the back side of

the big rig trailer may have clipped her as the drive was turning a republican and she was dragged down 5th street. a witness called police. the officers caught up with the driver several blocks later. >> bart will resume talks with a federal mediator meeting twice last week to reach a final agreement over a dispute involving the since weeks of paid family leave in the contract that ended the strike in october. bart directors say the provision was left in by mistake after both sides agreed to take it off the table. the bart board accepted the contract minus that part which results in the union filing a lawsuit. >> richmond city council voted to move forward with a plan to rescue underwater mortgages and prevent foreclosures. what of richmond homeowners have mortgages that are higher in value than their homes. the san francisco chronicle reports that the city council voted 4-2 to is the up guidelines how they could use the power of imminent domain to seize and restructure those

mortgages. it agreed to priority ties neighbors hit hardest by the crisis. the city council member whose disagree fear it could on the city to crippling legal liability. >> volunteers will be busy preparing 5,000 grocery bags do give arrest the tenderloin charity headquarters. the annual grocery bag give away begins at 7:30 this morning. the less fortunate line up to get a bag containing turkey or chicken and potatoes and bread and pasta and rice and beans and vegetables. they get everything they need to prepare a home cooked holiday meal. another 700 bags are delivered tomorrow to those who can not leave their homes. >> the push to get smartphone owners in san francisco to protect their devices from theft could be paying off. a certify by the district attorney finds that 78 percent of iphone owners have the find my help phone app activated tracking a stolen iphone to make it inoperable and is the latest move by the d.a. in his

crusade to make the kill switch mondaytory saying the study proves that people would use the anti-theft technology. cell gone makers though, have rejected the call for include a "kill" switch. >> it is trade in time, and we would like to trade the alaska, fairbanks day. >> i wish the i wish. so far we have another "spare the air" day the 11th consecutive day of unhealthy air in santa clara valley. if you have health problems you may not want to step out. our air is stagnant. we have winds at three miles per hour in san jose where we had the worst air pollutions three times the fell level at 15 miles per hour in livermore and five miles per hour in santa rosa. as we look from our mount tamalpais camera, toward bay bridge, we have twinkling lights

but it is going to be very murky today under all of that. the conditions are 51 degrees in san francisco and 42 in oakland and 47 in san jose. 46 degrees in los gatos. here is the day planner for the next 12 hours and it will be on the cooler side but we will warm up to 62 degrees with high clouds, possible chance of showers with the low trough on the way overnight. we are looking at top speeds for most of the bay area as we head over to the east bay. coming off the dumbarton make transition to southbound 880 which will be closed off until 6:00 with detours in place and drive time traffic coming from sausalito into san francisco is eight minutes across the bay bridge and eight minutes and the san mateo bridge is a short

12-minute drive and this is the commute up to the oakland maze with a few extra cars but everything at top speeds. >> boom. boom. did that get you rid of the hiccups? >> toronto mayor rob ford has a new spring in his step after admitting to smoking crack. >> move over batkid, here comes wonder gill, a n

covering los altos and antioch and petaluma, this is abc7 news. >> new this morning, teens heeding the message to stay away from hard drugs and designer drugs but as far as marijuana, not so much. the survey released by the national institute of drug use shows 60 percent of high schools do not think regular use of marijuana is harm will. 63 percent admit using marijuana and 6.5 percent of seniors say

they use marijuana each day. the rate of teens who smoke, drink, and take painkillers is declining. >> investigators in nevada are trying to determine what led to a deadly shooting in a reno hospital. two people remain in critical condition and a third was killed before the gunman took his life. police say this was insult a random act but they do not have a motive. the shooter opened fire at a urology office in the nevada medical building at the medical center northern nevada's largest hospital. >> a sheriff in colorado says that the high school student would critically wounds a classmate before killing himself on friday may have a land to attack five rooms inside the school. the sheriff in arapahoe said the suspect had numbers on his arm that corresponded to the library and four other choose rooms and

a phrase "the dye has been cast." >> a dispatcher is accused of using information she received at health to help hell's angels get by with crime. there were several charges over bribery. >> the white house says president obama has asked the high level delegation led by uc president and former homeland security secretary napolitano attend to represent the united states at the winter olympics and billy general king will join the delegation headed to some for the games. king is openly gay and a long-term gay rights advocates. groups have urges the obama administration to use the delegation selection to make a point about some's treatment of gays and lesbians. bay area gold skater has been

invited, as well. >> astronauts will perform the first spacewalk on saturday to make repairs to a faulty valve that made the cooling line unstable and another spacewalk happens on monday and a third is needed could take place christmas day. the problem forces the? s to turn off nonessential equipment and suspend some of the scientific experiments. >> base yourself if wonder girl, a cancer paint is getting ready to become a super hero if a day. the announcement is a month after batkid saved the city of san francisco with the help of make-a-wish foundation and another group is on a mission to make a vallejo girl's dream come true. a local community group called vallejo together wants to help a girl who battling cancer become won door girl. the group will reveal her secret

identity. that was so much fun. it was great. and they are both local. can you clear up the air? as we hook at live doppler 7 hd we have high clouds and patchy fog around the bay area but moisture, as well. we had showers spotted in the not bay mostly moved to the east. later this evening, and overnight, thursday into friday, we have poor air quality which is the big story today. if you have health problems, be careful outside. santa clara valley has poor air quality and san jose has problems partly because of the sims fire. what will help move out of the viewing area is the high

pressure with the first low pressure blowing out the bad air and behind it is warm air pressure but first it will get cooler before it warms up. in big sur with the gusts we will see winds kicking up in big sur with only 20 percent containment and, hopefully, they will get more containment later today. highs today are in the upper 50's to lower 60's and 62 in livermore and 57 in san mateo and 62 in santa rosa and overnight, chilly but not so cold as we have seen. 37 degrees in napa, our coolest temperatures and 42 in rip monday and 42 in san mateo and 38 in livermore. the seven-day forecast shows bad air quality today. very unhealthy. slight chance of showers overnight. real cool down on friday. the first day of winter is on saturday.

we have a mild pattern that will last through next week and we have a nice christmas on the horizon. now, we will talk about traffic and see what is happening with a couple of accidents and a vehicle and a big rig on northbound 880 is causing traffic jams. northbound side along 880 at oak street want out for that. we are not seeing backups. westbound from tracy to dublin is 40 minutes and highway 4 westbound from at job to concord is 15 minutes and 101 southbound into san francisco is 17 minutes. here is the walnut creek commute as you make the drive to the 24 junction with extra cars and we are looking at 12 minutes in the southbound direction. >> next a local connection to the rose bowl connection on new year's and copy of a playground

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cameras captured sheets of ice dropping from the building near the dallas-ft. worth airport with a one suffering minor injuries when flying ice

broke the windshield. she said it flew off the roof of an s.u.v. in the lane next to her. >> concord teen is ready to travel to southern california to take part in the tournament of rows parade. the 17-year-old who suffers from israel palsy was selected to ride on the lion's club international note, a copy of a real life playground located in concord. it was built by a couple if honor of their late son. both women will be honored for creating a may ground accessible to all children. >> now the weather. leyla? >> you may want to think about heading to a may ground because of the 11th consecutive "spare the air" day. it looks clear but it is very pool air quality. the next 12 hours we have

scattered clouds and patchy fog in the bay area and it will warm up to the lower 60's inland and upper 50's around the bay and 56 degrees along the coast. it will certainly warm up over the weekend for the first day winter not beginning to feel hike it with more on that if a little bit the right now we have a major accident in traffic in the east bay along the nimitz and all lanes are currently blocked in the northbound direction. it is involving two vehicles and a big rig at oak street. you can see the traffic it is causing so get off the freeway, use the alternate routes and maybe use 580 instead and no word when the accident will clear. we have road that a party is trapped. over the altamont pass, you can see we have areas where it is shaded in green and blue where there are possible areas of rain. coming from tracy to dublin you dutch to 17 miles per hour and it is slow with more traffic

building. outside, this is the drive in the north bay southbound 101 from central san rafael to san francisco it is 15 minutes. >> you remember the harvard university student accused of making bomb threats on monday? he has the first hearing in federal court this morning. the prosecution in boston say the 20-year-old psychology major sent hoax e-mails to get out of taking the final exam. the e-mails warned bombs were in four harvard buildings including one where he was about to stat an exam. police evacuated the buildings and egypt the campus before determining there were no explosives. harvard says they have "saddened" by the allegations. >> if you want to reduce your chance of depression or heart attack, take a trip. a study by the travel association suggests that travel benefits the mind and body. for example, the authors say women would travel twice a year have a much lower risk of heart attack than those who went

years. men who do not travel each year have a 30 percent higher risk dieing from heart disease. 89 percent of vacationers notice stress reduction a day or two of getting out of the line and getting to their destination. >> toronto mayor rob ford could be good enough to be a candidate for "dancing with the stars" showing off moves dug a break in yesterday's city council meeting when bob marley music started playing he start getting down. >> he didn't? >> he d he admitted to smoking crack cocaine and he used the meeting to apologize to a toronto reporter who he called a pedophile after the reporter threatened to sue. he is just thing perhaps he has the chops for "dancing with the stars" although he could hurt someone. >> from florida shows how far a

man goes for a bother. a 64-year-old was caught trying to trade his live 4' gator...for some beer. he told the clerk he just trapped the gator and wanted to find someone who would trade him for a few cold brews but he left after being cited by police the i guess that was a "no." >> a 4' gator is only worth a six-pack. that is the problem the. >> the newest big millionaire in the south bay. someone bought a mega millions ticket worth more then $300 million. >> we have breaking news in super bowl where thieves try to steal an a.t.m. and lead police on a

live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good wednesday morning at clearly 6:00. leyla gulen is doing double duty starting off with the weather. >> good morning, everyone, at 6:00 we are waking up to high clouds and patchy fog around the bay area with live doppler 7 hd radar satellite showing reports of drizzle in the north bay. most of the wet weather has moved to the east but not so say it will not return overnight. the big news is another "spare the air" and now 11 times before, this is the 11 the consecutive "spare the air" with the poorest air quality in santa clara valley, the 15th of the season, and san jose is one of the worst areas for air quality. as we look from our mount tamalpais camera it is clear and i can assure you it is going to be smoggy this afternoon and that will change, though, and we are waking up to cooler temperatures and 50 degrees in san francisco and 39