an alert mcdonald's employee may have helped solve a murder mystery that captured the attention of millions across the nation. police are now interviewing a person of interest in the killing of unitedhealthcare ceo. good afternoon. i'm karina nova.

police sources tell abc news a witness spotted that person of interest at a mcdonald's in altoona, pennsylvania, after recognizing him from pictures circulated by police. that man, 26 year old luigi mangione, has ties to the bay area. abc reporter reena roy tells us he's now in custody and being questioned. >> a person in custody on unrelated charges now being questioned today in connection with the murder of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. a mcdonald's worker in altoona, pennsylvania, recognized the suspect from the images. police have been circulating around the world. >> he matches the description of the identification. we've been looking for. he's also in possession of several items that we believe will connect him to this incident. >> police in pennsylvania finding 26 year old luigi mangione at that mcdonald's with a gun, consistent with the weapon used in last week's murder on the streets of midtown manhattan. they say they also

found a fake new jersey driver's license that matches the one the nypd said the suspect used to check into a manhattan hospital before the shooting, as well as a handwritten document they say speaks to both his motivation and mindset. >> we don't think that there's any specific threats to other people mentioned in that document, but it does seem that he has some some ill will toward corporate america. >> the suspect is being held in pennsylvania on a weapons charge. the nypd today dispatching detectives to altoona, less than 300 miles from new york. abc news obtained video today showing the gunman lying in wait moments before last week's shooting. when the killer spots his mark. he runs across the street and opens fire. police say mangione was born and raised in maryland and has no prior arrest history in new york. as police search for a motive now that they have their suspect. reena roy abc news, new york. >> now to luigi mangione, bay area connection. for four months in the summer of 2019, stanford university confirms mangione worked there as a head counselor in the pre-collegiate studies program. he wrote on his

linkedin that he taught artificial intelligence to gifted high school students. his facebook page included several photos of him enjoying the sights around the bay area. our media partner, the san francisco standard, says. public records show mangione may have relatives in the city. truecar is also listed as his current employer. that's an online car buying company based in santa monica. the abc7 i-team is digging into this story and learning more about his background. we'll have much more coming up at four. happening now, oakland city leaders are meeting to discuss significant cuts to help balance the budget. the city is facing a $129 million deficit. it's possible that up to half a dozen oakland fire stations could be shuttered over the next seven months. the police union says it's facing a $25 million cut over time of overtime, and they're also planning to cancel two future police academies, a quarterly finance report states. if the proposed budget cuts don't work, the city will have

to declare a fiscal emergency. oakland city council is not expected to vote on the cuts until its next scheduled meeting on december 17th. tomorrow, san francisco school leaders will talk through potential budget cuts as the district looks to balance the budget and deal with a massive deficit. school closures are not up for consideration currently for san francisco unified, but plenty of other cuts are a district representation lays out possible early retirement offers for long term staff, layoffs for central office staff and teachers may also happen, with the first notices going out in march. now to the accuweather forecast. and much of the bay area will be wet by the weekend. abc seven news meteorologist drew tuma has the timing of the rain that's coming our way. >> drew, we still have some haze in our atmosphere, so the air quality remains moderate. better air quality. midweek arrives with rain wednesday night into thursday morning. that's our next storm. and then the pattern

gets pretty progressive. we're tracking another storm coming our way on saturday. saturday looks pretty soggy out there and on the heels of this one, probably another storm early next week. so the storm door is beginning to come back open. here's a look at the forecast today. lots of sunshine inland. we'll have temperatures 50s and 60s will keep clear skies all evening long. a similar story around the bay shoreline and along the coast. breezy from time to time and temperatures today more than five degrees above average. so we'll add another day this month where the temperatures are warmer than normal. 63 in vallejo will hit 64. in the city, 68 in san jose, about 62. in livermore. lakeport. very pleasant after a chilly start this morning. a daytime high of 61 degrees. now tonight it does get frosty once again we have frost advisories posted. so first thing tomorrow morning, our coldest areas mid and low 30s to get you going on tuesday. so the air is going to feel pretty brisk tomorrow morning with that frost advisory. you may find some

patchy frost on your car windshield, maybe even on your grass first thing tomorrow morning. then future weather shows you tomorrow evening the clouds will be on the increase. the rain waits until wednesday evening. so here's 7 p.m. we'll find that rain first arriving in the north bay light to moderate. and then it spreads south and east throughout the evening. this is wednesday night at 11 p.m. this system quickly exits thursday morning, and then another one arrives here on saturday. here's future weather. this could be a bit stronger, a bit wetter here saturday, and it looks to linger all day long. so saturday looks pretty soggy. get a break sunday and then another storm comes here monday. so one week from today will likely be tracking more rain. so those numbers will add up over the next seven days. you can see the heaviest rain likely just to our north, but we could see several inches of rain here locally starting wednesday night into early next week. so here's the accuweather seven day forecast. bright and breezy today. late day clouds tomorrow. rain at night here to on wednesday. some

morning drizzle on thursday. and then we'll track that rainy start to the weekend. on saturday. >> thanks, drew. now to developing news. a blistering response from jay-z after he was accused of sexually assaulting a 13 year old girl. more than two decades ago. the billionaire hip hop mogul was added to an existing civil lawsuit against sean diddy combs. abc news reporter zohreen shah has details on the accusations and jay-z's response. >> reporter it's a bombshell accusation against one of the most powerful people in the music world. a newly amended civil lawsuit alleging music mogul jay-z sexually assaulted a then 13 year old girl with rapper sean diddy combs after the video music awards, 14 years ago. the civil lawsuit originally filed in october, amended over the weekend to include jay-z's name and says jay-z and diddy drugged and raped a 13 year old girl at an after party, and that another celebrity stood by and watched as combs and carter took turns assaulting the minor. combs and carter attended the vmas that

year. the rapper, filing to dismiss the lawsuit, denying the claims, calling them idiotic and saying it was a blackmail attempt, taking direct aim at the plaintiff's attorney, stating what he had calculated was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle. jay-z, the father of three, writes, my wife and i will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims. jay-z, now daring the lawyer to change the civil lawsuit to criminal complaint and have the jane doe name herself. the plaintiff's attorney, tony buzbee, responding to jay-z's statement, writing, i won't be bullied or intimidated. people will see through this effort to discredit me and my clients and the truth will be revealed. i also won't allow anyone to scare my clients into silence. >> we already saw a judge address similar issues when sean combs raised this issue back in

october and november, when the lawsuit first came out and the judge then said because of the age of the victim at the time and the facts that they had, that the jane doe can remain as a jane doe. i would suspect even jay-z doing this himself a second time. the facts and arguments will remain the same, and the judge may still allow this person to remain a jane doe. >> sean diddy combs lawyer, is also out with a new statement, writing in court, the truth will prevail and that he never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone. zohreen shah, abc news, los angeles. >> attorney general rob bonta and a peninsula lawmaker are taking aim on social media's impact on children this morning in san francisco. bonta unveiled a bill by portola valley assembly member rebecca bauer-kahan. the legislation would require social media to come with warning labels about the mental health risks associated with their platform. bonta says companies have long known the dangers of their platforms, but have refused to act. >> they've had ample time to make the right choice. they've had time to address the

devastating toll their products are having on our families. time is up. it's time we stepped in and demanded change. >> if signed into law, social media companies would have to show all users, regardless of age, a black box warning when they first log on and then once a week after that, an update on efforts to fix a list of problems that california's employment development department. changes were made at the edd after issues with fraud, but are they working? we get answers ♪ home sweet home ♪ there's no place like the road home. receive a $5,500 bonus on a new 2024 audi q5 plug-in hybrid during the season of audi sales event. san francisco ballet's nutcracker, a cherished tradition set in 1915 san francisco.

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issues plaguing california's employment development department. now, a new article says that despite e-d-d hiring a payment contractor, the system is still fraught with fraud. we want to know why and what can be done about it. we're getting some answers today from lauren halper, investigative reporter at the nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization cal matters, who wrote the article. lauren, thank you so much for being here today. >> thanks for having me. >> your article features the story of a woman receiving disability benefits from edd, who became the victim of fraud. can you briefly tell us about her story? what happened? >> yeah. so this is the story of kim tanner. she was a marketing consultant from carlsbad, near san diego, and in her case, she started getting disability payments. just this past summer. and one day in july, she logged in to the online account for her edd debit card, which is now run by a georgia company called money network, and found that more than $3,000 was missing.

this kind of launched her into a really unexpected scenario, where she basically became kind of like an amateur fraud detective. she complained to the financial company, to the edd and ultimately to more than a half dozen government agencies to try to get her money back. >> that is so frustrating and exhausting, to try to get ahold of someone and get the problem fixed. so how has the edd been trying to fix the problem of fraud? it's happened so many times. >> right. so one of the big things to point out here is that there was the fraud that happened during the pandemic, which a lot of that focused on these big emergency federal programs where they tried to quickly extend unemployment benefits to workers like freelancers who aren't usually eligible. and in that case, you had a mix of global hackers, folks who were in prisons, all kinds of scammers that were trying to get at that money. and what we're talking about now seems to be issues that are more concentrated in the payment

program with these debit cards, like kim tanner experienced. but one of the things that's tricky here is that the edd and its contractors like money network, don't like to talk about fraud, so we don't really know the scale of this. and all that's being done to correct the issues. >> let's talk about that new payment contractor that's now in place. money network. has there been any improvements since the switch? as you mentioned, they don't like to talk about fraud, but has it gotten better in any way? >> yeah. so money network was hired after the edd's old debit card contractor, bank of america, bowed out. they said, we don't want anything to do with this business of paying out government benefits anymore. and money network was hired just this past winter. and one thing that seems to have improved in recent months is that the edd and money network finally rolled out a direct deposit option, so that gives people the opportunity to, you know, skip debit cards altogether. but the tricky thing is we don't know.

the edd couldn't tell me how many people ultimately still have these debit cards, how secure they are. we know that at least 74 people have filed complaints this year, so it definitely doesn't seem to be a case of you know, 1 or 2 people that had a bad experience. so this is definitely something to watch moving forward. >> what are some of the big decisions california has to make about the future of the state's job safety net? >> yeah. so in addition to these fraud risks that are also facing different state programs like food assistance, college financial aid also is having to think a lot more about fraud with the unemployment system. there's also this major kind of financial cliff. california is still $20 billion in debt to the federal government for all the money that we had to borrow to keep paying out claims during the pandemic, and that's costing taxpayers $1 billion a year in interest alone. and just for context, that's like more than we spend on child welfare. so we need to decide to get out of

that debt. and because the system is still losing money going forward, like we're looking at losing about $2 billion more per year for the foreseeable future, whether we're willing to look at raising taxes to cover that difference, or if there are other ways to change the program, because right now, the system is just kind of bleeding money and there isn't a clear path forward. >> and real quick before you go, if someone is a victim of ed, fraud is there a simple place for them to go to get help? >> the first one is to call the number on the back of a debit card. if you have one, you can also google ed fraud. they have a way to report online and if you're still having issues, you can go to your state representative, state senator, or a federal regulator like the consumer financial protection bureau. >> wonderful, lauren, thank you so much for your time today. a lot of great information. thank you. if you want to host friends and family for the holidays and think you can't afford it, we're

going to learn about some money saving, entertaining tips. and some of san francisco's famous parents have flown the coop where they are

preliminary information that we're getting. is that a 5.7 magnitude earthquake just hit near carson city. here is a map of that location. and the usgs does have more information on this. we are working to get more details. find out if there was any damage or anyone injured, but we will bring that to you as we get those new updates into our newsroom. so stick around. we'll have much more for you today on abc seven news at four. some of those beloved parrots that commonly flock to san francisco's embarcadero have a new home. the birds are now roosting in a park near the transamerica pyramid, moving away from the trees along the embarcadero again. and this is video from a few years back. the

parrots arrived in san francisco back in the 90s, gaining fame in the documentary the wild parrots of telegraph hill, the head of a parrot rescue group told the chronicle she noticed the move last march, calling it surprising since parrots are usually very predictable. happening tonight, the world's largest origami tree will shine bright once again at grace cathedral in san francisco. the world tree of hope. tree lighting ceremony will kick off the 19th anniversary of the display. the tree is adorned with more than 17,000 wishes. >> unlike christmas trees in general, this one is decorated literally in wishes and hopes and dreams from people all over the world, folded into thousands of origami cranes. >> the origami crane is a symbol of world peace. every origami crane on the tree has someone's wish for the future on it.

>> blessings and wishes that are really meant to take flight, and to see the whole tree filled with them is really inspiring. it's to shine light against the darkness in the world. >> you can visit it at grace cathedral in san francisco until january 4th. you can also still add your wish to the tree, either in person or by visiting world tree of hope. dot org. tis the season for holiday entertaining, but hosting a holiday gathering can be expensive. abc news reporter alison kosik shares some valuable tips to make the season memorable without breaking the bank. >> it's a wonderful time of year to get together with loved ones, but if you're hosting for the holidays, putting together those charcuterie boards and cooking up all those delicious dishes can leave your bank account dry and bland. shopping expert trey bodge says you don't have to overspend to throw a great party. she says going generic at the grocery store can help you save. >> store brands are often made

in the same factories as the name brand. just make sure that you're comparing the ingredient list to make sure it's identical. >> so can planning your menu around good deals. >> so for example, if chicken's on sale but pork is not, maybe you make a chicken dish instead. >> prepared foods may seem like a good time saver, but may cost you more. >> so if something is chopped pre-prepared, you're paying for that labor. and so it might be worth, you know, grabbing your teenager and having them help you or another family member rather than paying extra for that pre-chopped food. >> you can also unlock exclusive offers using retailer apps and loyalty rewards programs. >> there is an external app that i really like called flash food. they partner with grocery stores around the country to help them move through merchandise. that's perhaps nearing its best by date, or it's in surplus and you can save up to 50%. >> save even more by having a potluck. >> people love to participate and bring their special mac and cheese or their famous cookies,

and that lightens the burden for you significantly. >> or scheduling your party between lunch and dinner have it sort of in the late afternoon, and that way you can just serve snacks and you don't have to feed everyone. bodge adds that setting an end time can also reduce costs because the longer people stay, the more expensive your gathering is. finally, consider setting limits when it comes to gifts. >> reach out to your people and just say, hey, why don't we do a white elephant this year? or why don't we set a spending cap? or with family, you can say, let's just buy for the kids and the elders this year, or draw names. >> alison kosik, abc news, new york. >> a special treat for some bay area kids. the san francisco symphony hosted thousands of children for a free deck the hall community day at davies symphony hall. symphony musicians performed with special guests like students from the san francisco ballet school, the young women's choral projects of san francisco, the san francisco boys chorus, and more. they're

hoping to inspire students who may not have access to this type of professional performance. each performance ended with an audience sing along so kids could take part in the show to hiring. pros say many workers feel stuck in their careers right now and will have a job market update by hiring in the u.s. jumped in november, but labor economists see trouble brewing beneath the surface. we invite you to join us for monday night football tonight starting at 5 p.m, followed by after the game at nine. catch world news tonight, then jeopardy! and wheel of fortune, then at 1030, it's a special edition of abc seven news, followed by

followed by after the game and at nine. catch world news tonight. then jeopardy! and wheel of fortune. so you'll want to tune in for that this evening. later on, after our newscasts. well, the latest jobs report in the u.s. shows job growth surged in november, adding 227,000 jobs. the rebound was expected after hurricanes and striking workers heavily distorted october's report. reporter ivan rodriguez explains what these numbers mean heading into next year. >> looking beyond the pendulum swings of the last few months, the u.s. labor market remains stable but is cooling. it also hasn't shaken off any concerns that there could be a greater weakening in the future. despite rebounding strongly from an october jobs report heavily impacted by natural disasters and workers on the picket line, daniel zhao, lead economist with glassdoor, says there's evidence the job market is softening. >> it's just not quite as hot as it was. maybe a year or two ago.

>> zhao says one of the big trends he's observed over the last couple of years is the contributions of certain sectors toward job growth, health care, education and government are a major driver of jobs growth, and that continued in november, especially as you see a lot of local and state governments try to catch up on some of the hiring that they missed out earlier on in the recovery. the november unemployment rate also ticked up to 4.2% from 4.1%, marking the first time since 2021 it's been above 4% for six consecutive months. unemployment among black and hispanic workers also rose from october, coming in at 6.4% and 5.3%, respectively. in many cases, zhao says, employers are trying to get more done with less. >> that means they're putting a lot of pressure on managers, on workers to try to get more done. and whether that means return to office, whether that means just raising the bar on some of their targets, leaving some employees

feeling unfulfilled. a lot of workers feel very hesitant to leave a job in order to try to find something better in the market right now. and unfortunately, that is creating a situation where many workers feel stuck in their careers right now. >> overall, the labor market is entering 2025 on solid footing, but where it goes from here remains a question mark. there are certain factors that could cause it to either rev up and stall out, or even crash, economists say. in atlanta, i'm ivan rodriguez. >> and we want to thank you for joining us. we're going to see you back here at 4:00 with the latest tonight, breaking news. the arrest in the murder of a ceo in new york city. tonight, the new images just in of the young man police are now calling a person of interest now in custody. police apprehending him at a mcdonald's in altoona, pennsylvania. an employee recognizing him and calling authorities. tonight, what authorities are