>> we begin with developing news. a father and six passengers he been taken to a hospital after this crash. >> the bus is owned by a company called first transit but no word where is specific bus was heads. a hospital spokesperson says none of the injuries appears to be life threating. the bus was makg a left turn when a honda sideswiped it. >> the bus rolled over and partially landed on top of a parked vehicle. bay area waiting to find out about test results on local dungeness crabs. >> the commercial crabbing season was supposed to open today but instead a sizeable concern may prevent you from

getting the famous delicacy on your thanksgiving day table. >> terry with more. >> certainly a legitimate concern for consumers. these are the crabbers wondering when they can make a living. don't judge a crabby its shell. these were caught off the san francisco coast and this batch, one fromalf moon bay, and the other from bodega, are sent to a processi plant in santa rosa. there they will be cooked and opened to see if there's enough mussel inside those shell or if they need time to muscle up. >> it takes a little while for the shells to fill full of meat and we don't want to fish on a crab until they're the finest most luscious crab that you can eat until they take their final hot tub. >> the season coulbe delayed a

day or a few weeks. all results on the meat of the crab. any delay is a hit in the pocketbook. >> we have no her income anymore. our salmon season's gone so we all depend on this crab fishing. we know the crabs are really, really nice out there so probably a day or two we'll be fishing. >> the lack of local crab is a big disappointment for the customers but not a back breaker. >> it could have an impact where it keeps people away from the area. yes. will it impact our business? not so much. we'rgoing to do what we do best. >> for mike and jill from canada, last night's dinner was a most disappointing occasion. >> saw a menu that said dungeness crab from van cover, british columbia. i wouldn't want to come here for crab from back up in canada. >> what i heard from the crabbers and restaurant owners is what california needs to level out when the harvest of the crabs is made. to stretch out theeason so you

have fresh crab coming in. they need a law limiting the number of crab pots a boat can bring ou to do the crabbing. govern schwarzenegger twice vetoed a bill. they're hoping governor brown is a different story. >> terry, thanks very much. alameda county police in newark need your help catching armed gunmen that reached a new low in crime. they forced their way into a chuck e. cheese friday night. they forced 40 people into a storeroom. >> cheryl, wt was supposed to be a fun night has turned into a horrifying nightmare while parents and children were eating pizza and playing games. three masked gunmen robbed the place. police have no suspects and very few leads. this whole thing unfolded saturday night just befo 10 p.m. at this chuck e. cheese

about one hour before closing time. thre masked gunmen put everyone into a storeroom. from inside, parents and employees called 9-1-1 to report the robbery in progress and stayed on the phone with dispatchers while police officers surrounded the place. they had no idea if the gunmen were still inside the restaurant since they were placed inside that storeroom. when police finally went into chuck e. chse they realized the suspect had already taken off. they can't believe a robbery happened to such a friendly family place. >> i have two boys. we used to go over there once in a while. but now, kind of -- i mean, when people just get in and have no respect r kids, you have to really think about it. >> at this point there is some surveillance video that investigators are looking at for the quality of it. at this point we're trying to enhance that vdeo or find somebody that can do that enhancement for us.

obviously looking for anything of evintiary value. >> police say the quality of that surveillance video is not very good but they're hoping after enhancing it they could get at least a license plate number of the susct vehicle. during the robbery nearby chevy's restaurant went into lockdown. employees and customers we told to stay inside until the area was secured. fortunately no one was hurt and police are not saying what, if anything, was taken inside this check e. cheese's. if you know anying, call warwick police. >> san fraisco police are trying to find a motive for a stabbing attack on a cable car operator. he remains in critical condition. it took place near chinatn on the powell mason line. nobody else was on board. the operator was stabbed multiple times. they followed a trail of blood from the scene to the suspect's home. there police found and arrested

32-year-old george wong for attempted murder. three ofhe suspects' relatives were arrested on chars of interfing with officers. the antioch man accused of bringing the westbound bay bridge commute to a standstill last trsday pleaded not guilty in court this morning. a judge set bail for craig carlos valentino. he resisted arrest, kidnapping andhild endangerment. the chp says he threatened to kill himself and blow up the bay bridge because of marital problems. he had his teen daughter with him but she escaped during the standoff. >> an early morning chase ended in a messy crash involving a police car. the suspect was dring a stol car out of san leandro. he crashed into a stop sign and that's what started the chase. during the chase the suspect hit a street line, then crashed along the side of the road.

the police car also crashed into a barrier but the officer was not hurt. >> looked up and saw the car that hit the traffic signal a block away at bay vista. as the car passed them, they chased it. the driver fled. they chased him through downtown tiburon back out through tiburon boulevard almost the same location where he lost control of his car. >> police believe today suspect may be responsible for an incident last monday. it started with stolen car chase in belvedere before ending in tiburon where the suspect ran out of one stolen car before stealing another. >> facebook.com, the world's biggest social net working website is about to become the world's biggest e-mail prider as well. the found and ceo announced that that site would now offer its 500,000 active users ace new facebookom.com e-mail address. he unveiled the product in san francisco this morning saying he wanted to make e-mail more social.

the new feature will include what the company called seamless messages to both e-mail address and instant messages services. the company will roll out the e-ma service gradually on an invitation basis the next several months. >> parts of the bay area could reach record temperatures. wait a minute, this is november. >> but it doesn't feel like it. mike? >> it doesn't. check out the current conditions and it's only 11:00. we're looking at temperatures that are already in napa at 81 degrees. in other areas we're in the 70s. even a few of us still holng on to the 60s but upper 60s around los gatos, oakland and antioch. i mean, we're getting very close. let's ke a look at some of those record high temperatures. everywhere you see an asterisk, that's where i'm focasting the high. 15 degrees warmer, concord, san jose 16. 18 san francis, santa rosa and 19 sunset to 4:58. if your family has to work, not

going to get a chance to enjoy it. here's krist and cheryl. >> thanks a lot. a california man refuses a body scan and a patdown. next the recording he made of his airport experience. >> the government defes its new airpt security procedures that some travelers compin are too intimate. >> and congress's new freshman class repos to work today. save $523! 16 minutes could save you 16%!

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>> new york's congressman charles wrangle walked out of hisseth things trial after t panel denie his request for a delay. he pleaded for a delay arguing he h run out of money to pay his previous lawyer who quit a few weeks bag. rangel claims it will be unfair to contie the trial without giving him a chance to find new council. the panel declined his request and the trial went forward withouhim. rangel is accused of 13 counts of financiaand fund-raising miscondu that violated house rules. freshman lawmakers, mostly republicans, are arring in washington d.c. they joined democrats who lost many seats in the november election. john hendrik has the story. >> one by one they come. capitohill's largest freshman class two decades as the lame duck congress arrives today, so do these proud political amateurs of the next congress coming for orientation, 109 newcomers, 35 never held

elected office. >> washington lost complete touch with us, the little guy. >> to washington! >> many ne lawmakers elected to rule back president obama's agenda are on a collision course with a weaker commander and chief now calling apolotically for cooperation. >> in that focus on polits, i neglected some things that matter a lot to people and rightly so. >> the president said that to reporters but his words were really intended for newly empowered republicans who bring an agenda of their own. >> i don't think there's any room to negotte on raising taxes, particularly on smaller businesses. i hope we can get a permanent extensn. >> medicare and medicd and find bipartisan agreements for retirement before it's too late. >> lifting the "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gay servic members voting on a steakic

russian middle >> democrats are also embattled among themselves. they expect to keep nancy pelosi but some, conservative blue dog democrats rejected them at the polls with the wrong message. >> janet napolitano is defending the psa's new anti-terrorism procedes at america's airports. napolitano says the nebody scanne and enhanced patdown procedures are needed to prevent terr attacks. travellers hav complained the scanners are unsafe and overly invasive. the patdowns which include touching traveller's inner thighs are just too personal. >> we're not doing it just to do it. we do it to keep powder and gels off flits. >> it came after a man got in a

disput in san diego this weeken after refusing to undergo a body scan. he recorded the incident on his cellphone. check it out. >> we're doing a groin check. that means i'm going to place my hand on your hips, hand on your side. go up like this. >> okay. >> two times in the front and two times in the back. >> you do that here but you touch my junk'm going to have you arrested. >> i told them i don't think so. >> john tyner milled his flight and was threatened with a $10,000 fine because he refused a scannepatdown. he posted the stint -- incident on the internet. they refunded the price of his ticket. >> mike nicco ahead with this unusual forecast. >> anytime you talk record temperatures, it is unusual. a little breezy this morning. a look from ballmer peak. those breezes that kept our temperatures up and gave us a

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a 13 year sold central valley boy told not to fly an american flag on his bike got an unusual ride to school this morning. cody rode with dozens of veterans, some from out of state,' as he went to the middle school and they all carried american flags on their bikes to show support. last week he was told he should not put the stars and stripes on his bike because some students were offended. they have since apologized. >> here's e bottom line. i'm the superintendent in their unified school district. this shouldn't have happened. >> they said some students were complaining and it was veterans week so i was kind of confused. i mean, flying your country's flag to support veterans and on veterans week they told me i couldn'tly it. >> well, cody says he pull put the flag on his bike a couple months ago and never had a problem until recently.

>> les check with mike to talk about the unusually warm weather in the middle of november. >> yeah. the records that fall, some are only two or three years old. it seems to be this date in november where we've been warm lately. show you one of the reasons why as we look at winds on mount tamalpais this morning and the way they've chased away any resemblance of the marine layer. one last picture to show you. this is south beh looking back at the port of oakland. you e the long shadows of november but it doesn't matter when we get that offshore wind. check out how much warmer we are now than 24 hours ago. the only place that's not, half moon bay where we're the same in novato. but napa 10 degrees warmer. san francisco 70s. higher peninsula 6, down to 5 in san jose and concord and 2 oakland and fremont. pretty impressive considering we set three record highs yesterday and threaten more today. 81 napa. the cool spot if you will, 64 in

half moon bay and that's even warmer than average. a lot of our lows this morning were warmer than our high temperatures this time of year. monterey and inland mid to upper 70s. clear, brey and mild again overnight. we'll be in the 50s and and a few 60s. limited 40s. should be the 30s and 40s overall. cooler weather by friday, saturday and sunday. fall back then. let's go to a possible record high. san jose about 83. come maybe a few degrees short. upper 70s to low 80s there. upper 70s to near 80 on the peniula. low to mid-70s pacifica and half moon bay, sunset, daly cy and south san francisco. downtown will hit 81 today. from sausalito around the beaches,id to upper 70s. low to mid-80s in the north bay valleys. same thing,ow to mid-80s along the east bay shore with upper 70s to mid-80s in the east bay valleys.

concord there 83 degrees. livermore a record high. monterey, 73. 80 watnville and inland, hollister 81. that would be a record high temperure. it's mild everywhere. 62 eureka, 57 tahoe. look at all the0s and 80s throughout the state today. tonight temperatures will be all over the scale once again. napa, santa rosa, the mid to upper 40s all the way to about 62 in san francisco. most of us 50s tomorrow morning. the high over the ocean keeping the storm track well to the north. let's jump ahead to 7:00 thursday morning. this cold front's going to crash this ridge, come straight from alaska and look at all the wet and frozen weather it's bringing with it. we'll zoom in and show you how most of thursy will be dry but that's when the onshe flow returns d we get cool. friday the rain taking over and the much needed snow in the sierra. snow all weekend in the sierra while we get rain and

temperatures 30 degrees cooler than today. tomorrow warm once again. probab not a record. wednesday and thursday you can see temperatures will transition ever so slowly. >> mike, thanks. the financially strapped university of california's system is recruiting more out of state and international students to help with budget problems. each out of statstudent pays $23,000 in tuion while residence fees are just over $11,000. u.c. propose to raise undergraduate fees. most of the nine u.c. campuses have sent admission officials to high schools, coege fairs and other events outside the state and country in response to the state budget crisis. >> a california u.s. senator wants an investigation whether the reusable grocery bags designed to solve one environmental prlem may create another. they found lead in reusable bags bought at five stores including

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