tv ABC 7 News KOFY August 10, 2010 10:30am-11:00am PST
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clear ♪ today marks the very sad anniversary. the disappearance of a little fremont boy one year ago. >> that's when six-year-old hasanni campbell was first reported missing. oakland police said the prime suspect is still the foster father59-year-old lewis ross. terry mcsweeney joins us from the alameda coun courthouse. police held a news conference. >> police were talking across town that this afrnoon is representative of a missing children's group mting with the d.a.'s office. police are saying there's no doubt in their mind who killed hasanni campbell but they're
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looking to the public for that one sliver of informatn that can lead to recovery of t body and conviction. >> the case is still classifi as a missin person's case but i feel he met foul play at the hands of lewis ross and remains our primary suspect. >> this case is not a who done it. it's a how do we prove it without the body of little hasanni campbell. a year to the day after the child was reported missing at the shoe ste on college avenue in oakland and after the distribution of who are than 10,000 flie with campbell alleys picture and heavy media coverage there's no trace of the boy. >> somebody has that information. we need them to come forward. >> it was august 10th ross told police he left his foster child in the car and the boy vanished. the story started changing. no one had seen the boy since this wal-mart security camera caught him and ross together january 6th.
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e-mails were found where he wanted to abandon the cerebral palsy victim at a gas station. they wld not discuss a recent interview he and f.b.i. agents conducted with the foster mother only tol say she remains a pers of interest. members of citizens for the lost society will mee with representatives of the ameda county d.a.'s office. >> we're looking for places we can search, information that we can gather that would be helpful. anything that we can do as a communitbased organization to help with the invesgation. >> that meeting is at 3:00. it will be followed by a rally here on the alameda county courthouse steps at 4:00. then mayb this case will stay away again from the public aattention. meantime hasanni's killer remain a free man. abc 7 news. >> developg news out of alaska. we're awaiting official word on
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the fate of alaskan centecity ted stevens. nasa administration an o'keefe are reported among the passengers. o'keefe's fate is still unknown. the small plane crashed during rough weather in southwestern alaska near the town of dillingham. there are report as many as five people are dead. military rescuers have arrived at the scene. three suivors were flown to the hospital. no word on their condition. >> hundreds of school teachers hope congress votes yes on a bill that could save jobs. house members were called back from vacation for a special session to vote on this $26 billion measure. it's already passed the senate. the president is waiting on this in a big way. >> a lot of political capital involved here. republican and democrats were called off their summer break. this is rare for the vote in the house. both parties are hoping voters
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remember this multibillion bill when they go to the prosute polls in november but for completely different reasons. >> school teachers from illinois and west virginia, president obama said getng teachers back in the classrooms and police and firefighrs back on the street shouldn't be a partisan issue. >> i urge members of both parties to come together and get thisdone, that i can sign this bill into law. >> speaker nancy pelosi called the house back from its august recess to vote on the jobs bill already passed by the senate last week. the $26 billion measure is aimed at saving 300,000 public sector jobs by sending money to states with deep budget deficits. $10 billion goes directly to education. >> we can't stand by and do nothing while pink slips are given to the men and women who educate our children or keep our community safe. >> 16,000 california teachers stand to benefit from the bill. san francisco unified said it could rehire so of the 300
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teachers it laid off and will cancel four planned furlough days. republicans in the house say this is all payba for teachers unions and naonal interest groups who suppordemocrats. they also say is going to add to the deficit. not true according to the president. >> this proposal is fully paid for in part by closing tax loopholes that encourage corporations to shift american jobs overseas. so it will not add to our deficit. >> the white house also points out that 45 governors backed this bill, both republican and democrats and it contains $600 million to beef up surveillance and security along the mexican border that will weh heavily on the november congressional election. expected late morning our time so could begin any minute. cheryl? >> thanks very much. right now in san francisco, a world war ii airman from oakland is being buried with full military honors 66 years after
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his death. sergeant john bonasi was part of a crew over berlin. in 1944, seven years ago investigators began excavating the crash site and disvered remains. they identied him using dna testing. today's burial will include an air force flyover. >> asking the federal to tax same sex couples the same way it taxes opposite sex couples. they aske the irs to require gay couples either married or in domestic partnerships to each report half of their community income on federal tax returns. right now california follows that rule but the federal government does not. california lawmakers say the resolution was passed in support of the equali. >> efforts to drill a relief well to permanently stop the oil
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well are on hold. officials say a temporary plug will be put into the well but they won't remove the dril or send workers back to land. crews are within about 30 feet of completing that reli well. once that's done they will seal the broken well with mud and cement and that should end the three-month oil drama once and for all. >> governor schwarzenegger has taken his budget brainstorming tour to the silicon vall this morning meeting with an elite group of business leaders for ideas solving the state's budget crisis. the governor was telling the audience that pension reform and tax cuts for businesses are critical to balancing the state's budget. theresa rcia is live outside the chamber of commerce inan jose. >> qui the gathering. no more than 50 people, mostly business leaders fro the silin valley, many who submitted questions to be asked of the governor. the topics they discusse ranged from job creation, also how to deal with education and one of the hottest topics being pension
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reform. certainlin everything the governor said at e san jose silicon valley chambe of commerce, the point he kept returning to is that reform is needed. he said it would be economic suicide to continue down the path of borrowing and increasing taxes to deal with the budget shortfall. one the biggest problems they need to revamp is the pension system. revenues grow but pension paymentsave skyrocted and the governor says he's not going to sign a budget until the legislature agrees on pension reform which could save billio of dollars to go elsewher >> i would have over $3.7 billion more in other -- for other programs. i would give some money for in-home supporve services, more money for higher education. i would have more money for communy colleges. i would have more money for k-12, more money for child care and the list es on and on and on. now i have to make cuts because
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the pension is crowding it out. >> other issues in the legislatures being dealt with are budget reform like keepin taxes for businesses to grow and hire more people. the governor commended silicon valley for its green tech job growth which has created ten times more job growth than any other sector in he last ten years. one of the topics he talked abouis the state needs a rainy day fund to deal with budget crises and hopelly it won't happen again. theresa garcia, abc 7 news. >> theresa, thank you. flying mad. still ahead, a flight attendant unleashing a tirade on a passenger and jumps out of a plane. >> and flying to fast food. watch this. a mcdald's policy sent a drive-through custom into overdrive.
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all right. take a look at this surveillance video. a woman faces vandalism and assault chars after she flew into a rage at a mcdonald's she got out of e car and hit an employee in the mouth repeatedly. got back in her car and eventually throwing something through the window. officials say she snapped after the employee told her she couldn't order -- get this -- chicken mcnuggets because it was breakfast ti. the passenger in the car says it was the employees that allowed the situation to escalate.
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>> a passenger didn't post bail at his arraignment. steven slater's attorney says a female passenger had been verbally and physically abusive to him from the beginning of the flight to the end. erica reports. >> steven slater showed no remorse when he was taken into custody on monday. he's accused of flying into a rage after a passenger hit him on the head with luggage. >> a passenger took the bag down. flight attendant approaed, told him to not do that. he called him an expletive and apparently hit him or pushed him. >> eyewitnesses say slater then used the plane's intercom to curse the passenger for the entire cabin to here. >> when this happene did he just swear at a passenger on the intercom. that never hapns. >> he announc he was quitting and kept saying i've had it,
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that's it. late inflated the emergency chute, grabbed some beer from the concession cart, slid down the tarmac and ran away. he's been wi jetblue since 2008. he was the leader of the company's uniform redesign team and a member of the in-flight values committee. he seed like a model employee but monday afternoon after landing at new york's kenned airport on a flight to pittsburgh, slater was at a breaking poi. he faces charges of criminal miss chef, trespassing and reckless endangerment. >> all over the place. steven slater was released tuesday morning after posting $2500 bail. his outrst seems to be resonating wit disgruntled employees everywhe. he now has thousands of fans on his facebook.com tribute page. >> all right. meteorologis mike nicco has the forecast. >> alright. hopefully this won't make anybody disgruntled.
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>> very calm >> that's right! cloudy around the bay as we talked about it would be at this noon hour. sunshine inland and warmer weather talk about just in time for the weekend. an updated forecast straight ahead. >> and hi ther everyone. live on the island at the san francisco zoo. there are a few new additions here on th island. they did the march of the penguins this morning. we'll take a look at it coming up.
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there is a ton of excitement at thean francisco zoo today as the annual march of the penguins parade goes through and they were quite well dressed. penguins who graduate from fish school. lee, you're right in the midd of it. >> oh, i am right in the middle of it! actually her on penguin island, you can see some of the my buddies here that actually lift on the island. you're exactly right, three little new penguin chicks introduced to this colony this morning. let me tell you something, there was so much excitement here. check this out. these little guys as they started to make their way down a little hesitant, a little wobbly, a little unsure of themselves. but, i tell ya, they are 12
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weeks old, three males, and actually they were south america at that time penguins, the crowds loved. the kids were here. they were l in awe. it has been a great day this morning. we asked some of the zookeepers just what these little chicks can expect coming up in the next 24 hours. >> so based on the past several years they could be anything from sticking in the water the next couple days and sleeping while floating or integrating into the colony and coming up on land right away. >> okay. now, you can see in the water right in front of me, these are some of the new chicks that have the white or gra heads. with the red tag. they've named one. his name is floyd. they will ea a a at about a pou herring -- there they go. they're swimming. they say they'll stay in the rather really the next 24 hours. they're hoping by tomorrow they'l start to come up on land and figure out some of these
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little burrows here with the rest of the colonies. by the way there is another feeding this afternoon at 3:30. if you don't have any plans, come on out. really a great day here. and, listen, they're talking! >> yes, they are, lee! >> wow! >> thanks for sharing the fun, lee. >> i know. they're always well-dressed. >> as you are mentioning, they are dresd for the weather. definitely a little cooler out there. so cute! travelnice. joey tried to get us to dance like that. we'll let them be the star of the show. and the star of the weather show is once again the cloud cover. look as we look from south beach northbound into downtown san francisco. cloudy conditis. and once again let's take a look from emeryville. you can see the port of oakland. a little busy this morning. a couplehips there. you see a little lighr tinge as the sun is trying to break out. the clouds are all over the bay and in the north bay and along the coast. you se the color coding in the
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green from half moon bay, north bay valley mid to upper 50s. upper 60s to near 70s in the east bay valleys. clouds departing gilroy at 64. you can see them blanketing salinas and monterey with upper 50s. highlits, the clouds around the cot, the sunshine along the bay, the cooler than average weather once again. clouds move all over the neighborhoods tonight. may need the windshield wipers once or twice, especially where you get to the coast where the drizzle may be a little thicker. a slow warming trend thursd, friday, saturday d sunday. that will take us, most of our neighborhoods. what's going on upstairs. low pressure diving down from canada once again. it is locked into this trough and it's going to actually deepen it and keep it around a as long as it lingers we'll get this sea breeze. the high pressu will take for
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about ursday for that to happen and the warmer weather to set in. until then low to mid 70s in the south bay with low 80s saratog and los gatos. south of san mateo, peninsula sunshine, low to mid-70s. slightly cloudier and a little breeze aroun millbrae. keep you around 68. the clouds keep the coast in the upper 50s, downtown south san francisco,ausalito low 60s. the farther north through the north bay valle, look at ukiah. 91 degrees today. north of oakland, mid to upper 60s. san leandro low to mid sunshine. same thing morgan hill and gilroy and the clouds stubborn around monterey bay. you can see them along the coas same at big sur. not bad at tahoe today, 74, with sunshine. the cubs at at&t park. 7:15 first pitch. cloudy. dress fo temperatures 61 to 57 degrees. tonight all of our temperatur
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like this morning will be in the low to mid-50s with cloud cover and kind of a damp start to the morning. air mass doesn't chan much tomorrow. expect our highs toe pretty much the same as today. gaining 2 degrees thursday, another 2 friday, another 2 saturday and another 2 sunday. by the weekend mid-70s around the bay but pretty cool at the coast, low 60s. >> a nice change. thanks. >> well, investigators are trying statewide, they are cracking dow kristen. >> thanks. authorities statewide are going after drivers using a cellphone without a hands free device. it's the leading source of destructive driving in california. half a million citions have been issued since it became illegal drive without a hands free device two years ago. there have been 1200 accidents direct related to cellphone use in the last two years resulting in 16 deaths and 850 injuries. >> and coming up next, a boardwalk that is catcng the
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steps in. these stories at 5:00. >> a boardwa game in new jersey is causing a controversy. >> featuring a caricare of presidt obama. >> th objective of the ga in seaset heights is knock the plate out of the target's hands and some visitors think the game is disrespectful. >> the creator plans to add caricatureof sarah palin, hillary clinton and george w. bush. >> about 2500 feet the temperatures are in the 70s right now. >> mike, thank you. and thanks
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