signed an inmates bill of rhts. one supre court judge that brown appointed waso liberal... he voted to stop the death palty 64 times. we know the real story on jerrbrown. now you do too. ♪ harsh criticism is comin from the santa clara poce chief afr one of his officers is arrested. >> that officer is accused of giving confential information to a member of the hell's angels he is in jail with william betaourt. >> was anybody hurt because of this informatn release? >> good question. they've all been informed but no crime known with that

information. the chef -- chief said it's an isolatedincident. >> a difficu day for our department, members. a difficult day for ours profession. >> police chief steven lodge say he and the department are appalled with hills relationip with the hell's angels biker beguning >> he had passed along confidential infortion that he accessed thugh computers at the police department. >> they arrested the veteran officer for felony conspiracy to commit a crime. he's accuse of givi private dmv data to william betancourt, a live oak resident.

>> what was his true relationship between himself and william betancot. >> he passed that information to a san jose woman wh has also been arrested for felony conspiracy. chief lodge says all police officers know that accessing the dmv database is for law enfoement purposes only. >> this is a severe breach of the public trust. every police oicer knows that. what would motivate someone who is otherwise doing well in the p profession to break t law like this, we're not sure. >> they found in his posseion the dmv data which was tracked back to officer row ahaus. >> thi was a very intensive investigation and conclude it's limited to this one employee who made very bad decisions that amounted to criminal conduct.

>> rowhaus is out on $250,000 bail. he's expected to be arraied monday. if he and vinnian rodriguez are convicted, they face up to five years in prison. live in santa clara, theresa garcia, abc 7 news. >> theresa, thank you. a homeless man was hit and killed i atherton. he was originally from nevada. he was walking across the street when he wa struck 6:15. the crash occurred near menlo college. it closed the road for much of the morning. >> san francisco pice are asking for the public's help finding the two suspect who beat and robbed a man and woma on a date in august. they released a pictur of one of the suspects. they say this man and another approached the two victims in

the early morning of august 21st. the man suffered a broken jaw. he was punched with a pair of glass knuckles. burglars are looting churchest an alarming rate. nearly a dozen burglars with six churches were reported mid augu and mid september. these are the four locations. saint frances has had the most break-ins, five since august. only a few seem to be connected to the same person. some are the result of homeless outreach efforts at the church. >> a final round of campaigning in several key race aware 18 days to go. former president bill clinton arrives the bay area tomorrow. >> with republics threatening to take over congress, democrats

are not taking any chances. both sides are bringing in the power players since november 2nd. president obama is in delaware rallying to keep biden's old senate seat. it wl sent obama and other heavy hitters coast to coast. >> forme president bi clinton is stopping by california for thredays including his former rival in the 1992 presidential primary jerry brown. >> you've had 11 years and you're here trying to appeal. >> the two will be rallying in los anges today and san jose on sunday. president barack obama who is traveling across the country campaigning for democrats will stop by california to support brown. as well as senator barbara boxer for the third time this year. first lady michelle obama will be spending three days in

california later this month. for the republicans, senate hopeful and former hp ceo karl little fiorina will have senator campaign. >> sarah palin is in town rallying for the republicans. but gubernatorial candidate meg whitman is nowhere in sigh >> why did you decide not to join forces with sarah palin in califoia? >> we've got a whole series of events scheduled. it's been scheduled for quite some time. what i need to do is be out in the communities meeting voters. >> abc 7 political alyst bruce cane sayless the candidate's absence is understandable. >> you don't really want to show up wit sarah palin in california if you're trying to win middle of the road voters. she is not going to be a draw for democrats for certain and probably also not for independents. >> this week a field poll found

a majority would be less inclining to vote for a candidate endorsed by palin which led to speculation she's here for another reason. possibly a run for the white house in 2012. >> former vice president al gore is also to head to california before election day on november 2nd. if you haven't registered yet, you have until monday to do so. we hav more information at our website abc7news.com. >> the federal government is strongly opposing california's proposition 19. that's the most ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana. the justice departmen will enforce its mariana laws in californ even if the measure is approved. he says legalizing recreational pot hurts the government's joint effort with state and local law enforcement target drug traffickers. california would become e first to legalize and regulate

recreatial pot use. california already allows medical marijuana. >> the broken san mateo bridge still isn't fixed. it was discovered during a scheduled bridge inspection and caltran thought they could get it fixed by this morning. now we can't reach caltran to find out when 's going to b fixed. terry, what do we call commuters and. >> you can tell them it's furlough friday. that's why caltran isn't work and help son the way. a short time ago they stopped by to tell news crews that a part that's needed to continue with repairs is on the way. that's wt people are it with aing for. down there, they're not waiting on the job for any of this. they are waiting wherever they wait but there's nobody here now. the part is crucial enough to keep this lane shut down for a third day. just underneath the bridge is a wishbone shaped steel beam with a crack 10 inches long but

that's desigd to allow the bring to sway in the event of a earthquake. if that gives way, ron davis of vallejo wants to be somewhere else. >> if you didn't thi about it, nothing to really worry about. but since i know about it, i started to go across the dumbarton. i think i was going acro the dumbton. >> crews brought out stee plates. the part still needed and holding up the work remains a mystery as caltran observes a furlough friday, the spokesman is not able to answer questions. this morning they seemed to have forgotten about the closed number 3 lane in the westbound direction just before the rise. >> yesterday on traff kept on saying there's a man on the san mateo. everybody's rn around and today didn't care. >> they didn't care. >> they came anyway?

>> that's right. >> and they paid a bit of a price? >> well, time consumpti, that's what it is. >> the last esmate we got from caltn as of yesterday is that this bridge is going to reopen hopefully sometime today. that's the estimatee have. we're going t stick with it. live in the san mateo bridge, terry mcsweeney, abc 7 news. >> thank you. >> a recall of thousands of car booster seats after they failed a crash test. a crash test. >> starting

meg whitman's homewn newspaper said it best: "meg whitman has demonstrated a loose relationsh with the truth" "a poor understanding ofovernment" "pat solutions for problems whose deh and complexity clearly ele her" "she utterly lacks the qualifications to be governor" jerry brown ffers california exactly what it needs" "good ideas, strong inciples, a reputation for telling the truth" and the ability to "get things done sacramento" meg whitman's hometown newspaper and newspapers across the state have endorsed jerry brown fogovernor.

>> right now we have breaking news in sunnyvale. sky 7 hd showing the scene at the first natiol credit union where there are report of shots fired. officers down there. police an't saying whether it's part of a robbery can he credit union but we know there was also so sort of chase involved there. you can see there's quite a large response from that earlier picture and we're gonna pull down, you can see more officers investiging and people milling around. they have a lot of that area blocked off, that road in front of the credit unio we'll stay on top of it and have an update at 5:00. >> thousands of california gas stations must remove the pump nozzle laches that let's you gas up hands free. the jude rejected arequest to

block that new rule. stations could be fined or even shut down. fire official say at least 13 cases the laches have failed spewing gas on the grou and people. they are manactured by an ohio-based technologies they are wrapping up production of a new nozzle. >> one of the largest infers of baby and child gear is voluntarily recalng one of its boosteseats because of a crack that developed in tests. it involves 14,000 even flow maestro seat made through april of this year. "consumer reports" ss the reca comes after its tests show the seat can crack and it failed in a simulated crash test. it affects models numrs starting with 310. no injuries are reported. the company offs parents a free repair kit.

we have it under our website, abc7news.com. >> a picture worth a thousand words. this one's worth one, maybe two. fog and cooler. from ballmer peak back to what's barely visible at the golden gate bridge. an update for sunday. looks like some sprinkles are possible. >> the giants get ready for philadelphia, game one of the national league championship series. the big challenge facing the giants.

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the creation of a rail network connecting all corners o europe. >> gotta love the bay area. when change comes, it comes quickly, mike. >> just look behind us. the flags flying and the treeless moving. mount tamalpais, still 8 approximate 3 degrees. the se breeze back. only about 15 to 20 mph on the golden gate bridge. 25 to 30 mph on angel island. so it's definitely the strong sea breeze we expect and the free air conditioning is coming back. let's talk about temperatures. you see it's still only 61 in san francisco. mid to upper 60s oakland, redwood city, sanafael and napa. low to mid-70s the north bay valleys. 80 fairfield, not quit cool there yet but look at half moon bay at 54. clouds stub burn around the montereyay and salinas valley. 61 salinas, sunshine and about

70 in gilroy. we'll see sunshine today but the cooling trend contins. we'll have more cooling, more clouds this weekend, then the big change, put in a few sprinkles in the forest for sunday. again, just sprinkles, nothing to change any plans over. a couple drops, i didn't want you be surprised. concord, cooler than yesterday. we'll start in the south bay, sunnyvale, milpitas. on the peninsula low to mid-80s most neighborhoodbut san mateo upper 70s. struggleo low to mid-60s because of the cloud cover. sausalito low to mid-70s, possibly 77 soh san francisco. so a little warmer there. 80 san rafael bu mid to upper 80s could squeak out a record high at napa, 87. mid to upper 70s, richmond,

berkeley, oakland. into the east bay valley, sea breeze doesn't make it. concord could jump to 88. could be a record high. morgan hill, gilroy, hollister, low to mid-70s around most of the monterey bay. keeping temperatures mid to upper 50s. near 50 half moon bay. upper 40s for santa rosa and napa. let's jump to sunday. 7:00 in the morning. pretty quiet but as we head into the afternoon hours, especially from noon to about 3 to 4:00, you see scattered showers develop. the be area the east bay and into the south bay but notice up in the sierras are going to rain and snow from about saturday all the way through sunday. if you're heading up there watch for the temperature to drop tahoe from the mid 60s to mid to upper 60s sunday. accu-weather seven-day forecast, with the increasing clouds and the chance of rain on sunday, we'll see temperatures drop nearly 10 to 15 degre.

still pretty cool monday and more sunshine and a slit warming trend for tuesday, wednesday and thursday. it could get warm again late next week. not quite as warm as we've had but it will be above average. >> me, thanks. >> you bet. >> when the san francisco giants meet the philadelphia phillies, their biggest worry may not be the phillies' heavy-hitting lineup rather maybe the healt of tim lincecum. he is dealing with a blister on hi pitching hand. lincecum says it's no big deal and he'll be read to go for game one tomorrow night. first pitc in philadelphia scheduled for 4:57. if he says he's good, no problem. >> michael will be back to introduce uso spike. force force ♪

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