good morning, america. we have breaking news this morning. deliberate action. malaysia's high minister now saying what happened to flight 370 was no accident. so who took control of the plane? was it a hijacker? police are also intensifying their investigation of the pilots overnight. plus, the brand-new air and sea search for the missing plane, where they are looking now. also this morning, person of interest. is a man arrested in west virginia connected to serial killings in a neighboring state? the possible break in a case that made residents afraid to even open their front doors in the d.c. suburbs. new developments in a notorious kidnapping this morning. did this woman play a role in snatching paul fronczak from a hospital in chicago 50 years ago? a fresh clue to a decades old mystery. and going ape.

a rare c-section brings this tiny baby gorilla into the world where vets are keeping a close eye on her after some medical problems. we'll tell you how she's doing right now. hey, good morning. as we come on the air, there are late breaking developments in the mystery of flight 370. malaysia's prime minister making his first comments about the plane saying the investigation has now entered a, quote, new phase. according to the prime minister, the latest information confirms that whatever happened on board was a "deliberate action." he says the aircraft communications systems were intentionally disabled, which is why investigators are looking into whether this was a hijacking on the plane carried out by passengers on the plane or perhaps the actions of a rogue pilot whose motivations at

this point remain unclear. >> initially there was word the plane had been up in the air for four hours leaving search crews with a 2400-mile radius to search. but now comes word that the plane was in the air up to eight hours greatly expanding that radius to 4,000 miles. crews are concentrating on two corridors, first the border of pakistan to northern thailand, and the second from indonesia to the southern indian ocean, clearly a huge parameter. earlier this morning in a news conference, we turn to abc's david kerley. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. this does confirm our reporting which narrows the theories of what happened to this jetliner. it now appears it was taken over either by a rogue pilot or it was hijacked, as you mentioned, and it did stay in the air much longer than we thought. it's now clear, say investigators, communication gears switched off, the changing direction of flight 370 appear to all be done on purpose by someone at the controls.

>> these movements are consistent with deliberate actions by someone on the plane. >> reporter: this is the latest, a 12:41 departure for the red-eye flight from kuala lumpur to beijing, but just past 26 minutes in, a data signaling system is shut off. then 40 minutes in at 1:21 in the morning, the 777's location transmitter also shut off, and now confirmed, the plane does turn around heading back across malaysia and is last seen on radar at 2:15 a.m., but this morning, we know because the jet was signaling a satellite each hour, it turned again, either north or south and flew for another six hours at least, 3600 miles. a source and experts tell abc news, the southern route is the most likely uncovered by radar putting the malaysian jet somewhere off australia. why, and who did this? one unnamed malaysian official is quoted as saying, "it's conclusive it's a hijacking."

the prime minister, though, did not agree. >> despite media reports that the plane was hijacked, i wish to be very clear. we are still investigating all possibilities as to what caused mh370 to deviate from its original flight path. >> reporter: and that includes the possibility that one or both of the pilots went rogue turning off that communication gear and turning around. we only know how far this plane flew because of those satellite pings and we and the world's pilots only learned a couple of days ago that that system cannot be shut off by a pilot. so the search of the south china sea, which is north of malaysia, has now been called off. no reason to look there. a new search will undoubtedly begin off australia, but even though we know when the jet last pinged the satellite, it could have flown for another hour or so, so there's still a bigger

area to search, but not as big as what it could be. dan? >> a huge area to search, and this mystery just deepens. david kerley, thank you for your continuing coverage. this new information this morning gives new urgency, of course, to the investigation into the pilots. in fact, just hours ago, malaysian police arrived at the home of the plane's captain, and abc's bob woodruff is in the malaysian capital of kuala lumpur with the latest this morning. bob, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, dan. you know, this news is just sweeping across this country of malaysia right now. this has been going on for seven days now. the people have been criticizing the police for not searching through the homes of any of the pilots or crew members. well, that's changing today. while search teams continue looking for the plane, the police here are trying to learn more about the crew members and passengers including the pilots. so far for the first time this week, they searched the home of the pilot, captain zaharie ahmad shah. abc's gloria riviera was there at his gate watching the search. >> it was just after 2:42 p.m. when an unmarked vehicle, a

white van came up to the security gates here. it was carrying two officers in plainclothes. they said they were from malaysia's police headquarters. just after that a police car with two officers in uniforms came in. they spent over two hours here. it's an upscale area. neighbors say it's a tight-knit community. >> reporter: zaharie is 53 years old. married with children. in his home he has his own flight simulator. also on the manifest is co-pilot fariq abdul hamid, he is 27 and now engaged to be married. i visited his house yesterday. no one answered the door. everyone i spoke to said nice things, especially this malaysian singer, one of his closest friends, felicia ray, who grew up in the same hometown in penang. >> he is a very nice guy, and his is truly young, so i don't think he's involved. >> reporter: as the prime minister spoke today, family members watched it closely hoping for good news. this father's 29-year-old son is on that plane. his hope now is that he is still alive.

one of the questions this morning is why did it take so much time for the government to reveal this kind of information? well, it's been told by many people that if they did, people around the world have an idea where the plane may be and they can search. they could look for any signs of it. well, today, the prime minister said that is the reason why they did finally release it today. bianna? >> a lot of people probably saying that's not good enough. all right, bob, thank you. and despite all the new information, there are still many unanswered questions about what happened on board flight 370. and for that we're going to turn to abc's pierre thomas who has more on the investigation and how it's proceeding from washington. pierre, good morning to you. does it surprise you that it took this long, eight days, for investigators to search the pilot's home? did they waste valuable time here? >> reporter: sources are saying they clearly did. that the pilots would have been focused, number one, something you needed to jump on early in the investigation and, quite frankly, this is the quandary

that u.s. law enforcement finds itself in. the fbi is not on the ground in malaysia. they have no capacity to investigate. the malaysians are in complete control. >> even though there were americans on this flight. so what is u.s. law enforcement going to urge malaysians to do now and look at? >> reporter: i expect them to have them focus on the mental health and personal lives of the pilots and crew. they are the people that had easy access to the plane, control of the plane so they want to know was there something going on in their personal lives. were there mental health issues that needed to be resolved. that would be job number one. >> as we heard the malaysian prime minister call the indianapolis depth a deliberate act, what are sources telling you on their thoughts whether or not this was was terror related. >> reporter: so far they found no evidence of terror ties for the crew or passengers or anything like that and one source pointed out actually a number. that the plane had ample opportunity. the pilots or whoever was in control of that plane had ample opportunity to hit a populated area with a plane fuel of fuel, so they're a little less concerned about that. on the other hand, they say the

fact that this plane was in the air so long and we still don't know where it is, a huge problem. >> a huge mystery and, of course, our thoughts and prayers are with the family and loved ones of all those passengers, still not knowing what happened. we appreciate your time this morning, pierre. dan. >> thanks, bianna. let's bring in abc news aviation consultant, john nance, who is a former commercial pilot and he joins us from seattle. john, good morning to you. we're now looking at a huge swath of the planet earth that needs to be searched here. even though they've narrowed it down to two corridors, we're still talking about huge, huge sections to search. how can they even begin to do this? >> you do this like eating an elephant, one bite at a time, in other words, you're going to have to basically decide what your search grid is, and they're going to have to go at it just slice by slice by slice, and the opportunity to be able to find this airplane, if it really is in the water, dan, is very, very small. >> so if it's in deep water, in some points in the ocean we're talking several miles down, how would they even -- even if they found it, how would they retrieve it? >> it's going to take a lot of special equipment.

there's not all that much of it on the planet. you're going to have to go down to 14,000, 15,000, 16,000 feet, and retrieving that is going to be quite a project. i mean, this is akin to finding the "titanic" and be able to bring some stuff up. first of all, they've got to locate it, and that's a needle in a haystack. >> let me ask you. you have been in the aviation business for decades now. does your gut tell you anything about what happened here? >> yeah, with these supposed facts, as long as they don't change, about the sequence and the shutting off of radios and so on, dan, this is an hijacking, but it's probably an internal hijacking, in other words, one of the pilots. it could be an external, but whoever was in control of the airplane after the turn knew what they were doing. they took it up to 45,000 feet. the chilling possibility there is it was for the purpose of killing the passengers. >> killing possibility, indeed, and we keep saying this, but it remains true, this is a mystery and an unprecedented one. john nance, we really appreciate your guidance. thank you. we want to check the other

headlines of the morning, and for that, as always, it's mr. ron claiborne. ron, good morning. >> hi there, dan and good morning, everyone. there were no megawinners in the huge megamillions lottery. the numbers drawn friday that no one picked were 7, 20, 40, 54, 69 and a megaball of 12. however, you still have a shot to win it big, maybe even bigger with tuesday's jackpot at an estimated $400 million. the odds of taking home all that money, one person, 1 in 259 million. and california fire crews are battling a raging wildfire that torched nearly 150 acres of bone-dry land about 50 miles northeast of los angeles. nearly 200 firefighters were called in to battle friday's blaze. that is still not under control. two super scooper planes drew water from nearby lake -- a nearby lake to keep the fire from reaching nearby ranches. luckily, no one has had to be evacuated. and take a look at this new source, surveillance video, that shows the moment that the deadly explosion leveled two apartment

buildings here in new york city. you see groceries flying off store shelves inside the store a block away. the bodies of eight people, meanwhile, who were killed in that blast have been pulled from the debris. investigators discovered natural gas underground, which supports the theory at least that the powerful explosion was caused by a gas leak. and in tennessee, these teenagers on a recent fishing trip reeled in a little more than they expected. well, a lot more. call this the catch of the day, two bags filled with $10,000 in stolen cash. the money was colored red from a dye pack that exploded in the bag. police believe that the loot was stolen during a bank heist back in december. the suspects in that robbery told investigators allegedly that they dumped the money in the lake, and that's exactly where the fishermen found and pulled up that sack of money. and finally on a personal note, just want to congratulate my colleague who sits next to me every weekend, just five feet away, dan harris, on the publication of his new book. >> oh, thank you.

>> "10% happier," but i also want to reveal that my new book is coming out later this week, as you see there, "11% happier." look, you can buy both books, but if you you only buy one, you do the math. figure it out for yourself, and for a limited time only, if you buy my book, you get this collectible mug, "i'm 11% happier." >> because of what's in the mug. >> dan, you get the first collectible mug. >> the legal papers will be arriving soon. >> amazing to witness. the covers look very similar, don't they? >> allegedly. >> yeah, allegedly. here, you give this to dan. >> oh, no. thanks. >> thank you. >> congratulations. are you going to sign it for him? >> thank you. thank you. >> i will sign it for him, yes. >> accomplished author, indeed. >> thank you, plagiarism. this morning there is a new development in a high-profile serial murder case. police are investigating whether a man in custody on a weapons charge has a connection to the series of shocking killings in alexandria, virginia. his resemblance to the man

police are looking for is uncanny. take a look at this, and abc's linzie janis is here with the details. they really do look alike in these sketches, linzie. >> reporter: they really do. good morning, bianna. these murders happened inside people's homes, and the residents of alexandria are hoping authorities have their man, but police are stressing this is still an unongoing investigation and people should still continue to be aware of their personal safety. alexandria police tell abc news while investigating the three brutal murders haunting the suburban d.c. community, anonymous tips led them to this man, charles severance, a convicted felon, severance was arrested friday in west virginia for weapons violations. >> investigators are trying to put together the pieces of the puzzle to see if they can actually directly tie mr. severance in to the murder of one of these three individuals. >> reporter: in a news release, alexandria police stressed, "it is premature to name him as the only possible suspect." but many here in this d.c. suburb are pointing out that

severance's booking photo bears a striking resemblance to this sketch of the man responsible for the shooting death of local piano teacher, ruthanne lodato. in february lodato was gunned down after opening her door to a strange man. her caretaker was also shot but survived. >> the caretaker may end up being a direct eyewitness to the case. >> reporter: in fact, it was the caretaker's description that helped police create this sketch. in a february news conference, alexandria police linked lodato's murder to the slay of ron kirby, a local transportation official, and the 2003 killing of a police chief's wife, nancy dunning. >> the similarities and unusual nature of all three shootings occurring in alexandria require the police department to consider the possibility that all the cases are linked together. >> everybody is talking about it. i mean, that's the only thing.

it's really affecting everybody, and nobody knows the facts. >> reporter: well, here are the reasons police think that the murders are connected. the victims were all involved in the community, all were shot in their homes during the day and within two miles of each other. finally, the bullets used in all three murders are similar. dan and bianna, the man that they have in custody, severance, one interesting thing about him. he ran for mayor twice in the community, so he's known to the community. >> well, if this, in fact, is closure, at least the residents can sleep better. >> but again police stressing they still not have connected him. >> linzie, thank you. >> meantime, i'm 11% happier drinking out of this mug. >> so am i. >> we are going to shift gears now away from math to a medical story involving this little girl, the tiny baby gorilla with a knitted hat on her head right there. she was a special delivery at the zoo in san diego, born by c-section, which is extremely rare in the animal kingdom, and abc's sara haines is wearing a matching dress this morning and is here with the story. good morning.

>> in honor of our baby, little girl, yes, she was a very special delivery and hard fought one at that. although c-sections account for one in three human births in the u.s., they are practically unheard of when it comes to gorillas. it's the incredible video that's captivating people around the world. the birth of this baby gorilla, a miracle in the animal kingdom. the video filmed by the san diego zoo showing an emergency c-section performed not on a human, but on a gorilla. a mommy, san diego zoo's first-time mother in labor for 12 brutal hours when unexpected complications forced doctors to take drastic measures in an attempt to save both lives. >> the c-section was the right decision. we think that the health of the fetus would have been compromised if we delayed the surgery any longer. >> reporter: c-sections may be an ordinary procedure for humans, but they are extremely rare for gorillas, and this is the first ever for san diego zoo. the baby girl gorilla barely survived and is not out of the woods yet.

just two days into her fragile life after struggling to breathe, one of her lungs collapsed. doctors rushed to save her in a grueling surgery. the procedure considered a success, but she remains in critical condition. doctors are monitoring her around the clock. >> she's extremely strong. she can grasp. she kicks. she looks around. she can hold her own head up, which is pretty amazing. >> now she's showing a lot of progress, although she's still getting oxygen to help her lungs get stronger, and she's starting to breathe. >> great story. >> she's so cute. >> absolutely, she is very cutement >> i love your matching dress. >> thank you. >> dress your story. >> i like that. >> time now for a check of the weather and welcome back erika martin from our affiliate wtnh in new haven. good morning, ericka. >> right now we are tracking a low developing in the southern states. now this is of interest. and it's been all the buzz on

social media simply because, of course, it is st. patrick's day weekend, so everybody wants to know, how is this system going to behave come monday when everybody wants to grab a cocktail or two and have a good time. now, we are seeing some rain developing in the south. but we do have some colder air in place here. so by monday or sunday into monday rather we may see some light snow moving across the mid-atlantic and then the system continues to push offshore. so really it's all about how this system will behave within the next 24 to 36 hours. otherwise, for today and tonight we are seeing some severe weather across texas including hail and some strong winds. an isolated tornado or snow. so right now tracking that severe weather, but more importantly, warmer weather across california, conditions are getting warm out there. feels more like summer than spring. that's your national outlook.

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objected to kraft's sexy content. others think the ads are sexist. >> i think it's a little bit condescending that someone thinks that women need a hot guy to lure them into buying their household products. >> reporter: okay, we are a high-brow tv show, not a toilet cleaner, and we asked jamie and chris to make a hunkvertisement. could this make more women watch? the script looks disturbing. why am i doing this to myself? our point, to grab women, it must be about more than just beefy bodies. >> make love to the camera, nick. >> reporter: i don't know. i think you need a real beefcake to make this work. >> yay! [ applause ] >> nick watt once again proving he will do anything to be on television. and you can see much more of his report on "nightline prime" which premieres tonight at 9:00, 8:00 central right here on abc. and as you know, bianna, and everybody else, this is one of my other jobs here at abc.

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oh, it's the bear who belongs in a circus. check out his spontaneous high-wire act as he tries to get a little one that was left for him. the video now going viral. i can't get enough of that. look at him. >> that's really cute. >> i've gone that far for food. >> oh, you've done that before? >> you know what that feels like? >> sara haines, always a great reaction. that's why we keep her here. thank you, sara. also coming up this half hour, a fascinating new development in a decades-long mystery that involves paul fronczak. you may have heard about this case. stolen from his mom at the hospital, this morning the new witness coming forward to say, he knows who did it, but first this morning a fresh twist in the blade runner trial playing out in a courtroom in south africa. >> yeah. we've seen an emotional oscar

pistorius cry and even get sick in court. well, now lawyers for the olympian are aiming to show the investigation into the killing of model reeva steenkamp was bungled to the max with a theft taking place right in the middle of the murder scene. abc's matt gutman is in pretoria with a wrap of what happened this week in court. matt? >> reporter: good morning, dan and bianna. every day here behind me in that courtroom dozens of people showing up just to watch oscar pistorius walk out. south african tv has called this the trial of the century, every day delivering some shocking twist or turn. but the admission by the lead investigator that his men mishandled the possible murder weapon, maybe even stole pistorius' watches could change this trial. marching out of court friday, the blade runner seemed confident for the first time in ten days of testimony. his defense team had spent the afternoon verbally bludgeoning the lead investigator in his murder trial, who, get this, admitted his team handled and

moved the murder weapon without gloves. >> i asked him, what are you doing, and then he turned his head to me and he was looking and then he realized there was no hand gloves on. >> reporter: and he even suspected his own men of stealing not one, but possibly two of pistorius' luxury watches. >> i said, i can't believe it. we were just there. how can this watch be gone? >> reporter: oscar pistorius is fighting murder charges, but all week he's been unable to fight back the emotion. nearly each time forensic photos of his blood-smeared bathroom were shown, he became physically ill. heaving in his front row bench thursday delivered this bucket on monday and almost every day covering his head and eyes with paper or just his hands. the olympian is accused of murdering his model girlfriend, reeva steenkamp, last year in his bathroom saying when he realized she wasn't an intruder, he used a cricket bat to smash down the door.

using that same bat and the same door, the prosecution has tried to demonstrate that he was lying about his version of events that night. now, that hasn't exactly worked for them, and right now what we're seeing is pistorius' defense going on the offense doing something i've never before seen happen in a trial before. they're asking the prosecution to bring to the stand the first cop on the scene who they say will reveal even more police bungling. dan, bianna. >> they clearly see an opening here. matt gutman, thank you very much for your reporting this morning. let's get another look at the morning's top stories again with ron. >> hi again, dan and bianna. good morning, everyone. in the news malaysian authorities say the disappearance of that jumbo jetliner with more than 200 people on board now missing more than a week was the result of a deliberate action and not an accident. investigators are now looking to the possibility the flight was hijacked possibly by someone on board that flight, perhaps even a rogue pilot. new information also reveals the plane flew more than seven hours after its last radio contact and

made more than one direction turn while airborne. air and sea search crews are now searching a 4,000-square-mile radius for any sign of the missing boeing 777. in ukraine, tensions are high ahead of tomorrow's referendum vote in which crimea will decide whether to break away and join russia, this after secretary of state -- u.s. secretary of state john kerry and russia's foreign minister failed to find common ground on friday during a lengthy meeting. kerry said afterward the international community will not recognize the outcome of tomorrow's vote expected to be in favor of secession. and finally, take a look at this. dramatic video of a horse being air-lifted to safety after a hiking accident in california. this after the horse and its rider fell 50 feet into a ravine at the angeles national forest. the horse was tranquilized and then hoisted, you see there, by a helicopter for the three-mile air ride. the horse suffered only cuts and bruises and vets expect him to fully recover. the rider is also going to be okay. so happy ending to that story. >> i hear the horse has quite a story to tell. >> yeah.

if only he could talk. >> right. >> he was tranquilized. >> unless he's mr. ed. you've heard of mr. ed. >> i love when you -- >> yeah, i know. from the '50s. i know. >> '60s. >> '60s. sorry. my fault. thanks, ron. >> you got it. time for another check of the weather and meteorologist erika martin from wtnh in new haven. erika? >> good morning, everyone. now, this weather report is all about st. patrick's day weekend and, or course, we want to know how cold is it going to be? is it going to be nasty out there? will we have a good chance to party? the good news at least it will be warmer for today getting colder by tomorrow and into monday, so new york city seeing 20s by monday. to start the day eventually topping out in the 30s. d.c. also seeing cooler temperatures, so a warm trend to colder air, unfortunately, and we're just five days away from springtime, so something to keep in mind, but we do also have some severe weather going on across the southern portion of the country, some rain anywhere from 2 to 3 inches locally. that is your national perspective. here is a look at your local weather.

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busy shopping area, 800 miles away in newark, new jersey. the fronczaks had their baby back, or did they? almost 50 years later, paul took a dna test to discover he really wasn't paul fronczak at all. so who was he, and what happened to the real paul snatched from his mother's arms a half century ago? abc's chief investigative reporter brian ross with the next shocking part of the story. >> reporter: do you know who stole this baby? >> yes. >> who stole the baby? >> my mother. >> reporter: his name is johnnie harbaugh, and what he told us about his mother may seem far-fetched, but it most definitely is not. his mother's name was linda taylor, a notorious figure in chicago in the 1970s and '80s, dubbed america's welfare queen and vilified by president ronald reagan. >> her name is linda taylor. the illinois legislative advisory committee on public assistance investigated, came up with 82 charges of welfare fraud, perjury and bigamy.

>> reporter: we began to look for her after our "20/20" tip line provided this clue, the baby was stolen by a lady known as the welfare queen. linda taylor died 12 years ago, but we found her son living in a chicago suburb. harbaugh said he was a teenager living in this house in chicago when he came home to discover a new baby. was your mother capable of stealing a baby? >> my mother was capable of anything, not only stealing a baby, but she could steal you. >> reporter: harbaugh said his mother was a master of disguise, could pass as white or black, puerto rican or hawaiian in her schemes to collect fraudulent welfare payments, sometimes posing as a doctor or a nurse. >> she had a room with nothing but wigs and nurse dresses and shoes. >> reporter: at the time that paul fronczak was stolen from the michael reese hospital, the police put out a sketch. >> yes. >> reporter: do you think that's your mother? >> except for the nose, but she

could do anything with her face or her hair. >> reporter: in the 1970s when linda taylor was put on trial for welfare fraud -- >> miss taylor, can we talk to you for a moment? >> reporter: -- she actually came under investigation for stealing the fronczak baby. from one newspaper account, one of her ex-husbands told agents that miss taylor appeared one day in the mid-1960s with a newborn baby, although she had not been pregnant. >> so fascinating, and i know barbara walters spent a lot of time covering this case, as well. such a mystery. >> and the story is not over. tune in to "20/20" saturday night at 10:00, 9:00 central right here on abc for much more on this fascinating story. and coming up on "good morning america," the kitten who is still learning her table manners. the unusual way she loves to chow down. up next in "pop news."

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>> ron "washboard" claiborne. >> now i'm sure you've heard the term bestie and probably used the word bathroom break but now you can hold your head a little higher knowing they are now official entries in the oxford english dictionary. also making the cut is the verb tp-ing, and in iowa we've been using that verb and the act of tp-ing for more than 20 years, also making the list, wackadoodle, do-over and scissor-kick. >> see, i thought jeggings would make the list. i'm surprised. >> no, wackadoodle was the one in that option. the last one you would have thought of. >> i know. maybe next year. >> you know what tp-ing is. right? yes. >> no i, i don't know. >> if you threw toilet paper in trees, that's not nice. >> that's a nice way of using that verb. i think it's called vandalism, not decorating. next up, the gorgeous kellen lutz has been showing off his herculean muscles while greeting the locals in thailand. here he is in the aptly named monkey bay in thailand. the hollywood heartthrob is vacationing with friends for his

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march 27th and january 4th. today's meeting which will focus on east oakland begins at 10:00 a.m. happening today, the blue angels are once again taking to the skies the u.s. navy kicks off the 2014 air show season today with a show at a naval air facility. soaring again after being grounded much of the last year due to forced spending cuts. the blue angels are scheduled for 68 performances between now and november. mandatory water restrictions in effect for more than 300,000 people in alameda county. cannot water their lawns on consecutive days, refill their pools, or use hoses without a shutoff nozzle. the district declared an emergency water shortage thursday night. all right. let's get a check of the weather now. >> good morning to you. live doppler 7 hd. it is not picking up returns.

and we're looking at a dry and warm weekend. starting out with temperatures coolest at our coast in the mid-40s. but by 9:00, you should be in the 50s. so the next couple of hours we'll continue to see warming temperatures. and by noontime, we're looking at 60s around the bay, upper 70s should do it for most inland valleys with low to mid-70s around the bayside san ramon valley, though, a little bit warmer. and at the coast, we'll be looking at comfortable readings, as well. fog free. we'll talk about the 7-day outlook and whether or not we've got rain and average temperatures in a little bit. >> thank you. up next, malaysia's prime minister calls the jet liner disappearance a deliberate act. the new clues in the search for the missing plane. and a homicide investigation in the east bay. what neighbors say happened just hours before a body was discovered. discovered. abc 7 news at 8:00 is on my journey across america, i've learned that when you ask someone in texas if they want "big" savings on car insurance,

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good morning, everyone. it's 8:00 a.m. on saturday. let's start with a quick look at the weather. here's lisa argen. >> check out this shot. it is nice and clear, but we do have patchy fog at the coast where visibility reduced to 2 miles. half moon bay, that's going to change, though. livermore is