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breaking news out of washington, d.c., a guilty verdict in the chandra levy murder trial. >> a short time ago they found the suspect guilty of two coun of first-degree murder for killing the modesto native back in 2001. levy's mother says it doe not relieve her sadness. >> i'm not sure it's a sense of peace but i tell you it's closure. i have a feeling that my daughter i with me and i can speak her voice --
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>> her disappearance made national headlines after she was go linked to gary condit. police arrested the suspect who is suspected of attacking two other women in the same park. his cellmate told authorities that he confessed about the killing. >> they evaluating the tough new security. either by virtual scanng machines and terry mcsweeney joins us from san francisco international airpt. >> the word out here this morning, the additional secuty measures are slowing things down for some. it's kind of interestg that
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the protests of those security measures could slow things down for everybody. >> for them, the additional security this thanksgiving vit with his 91-year-old mother in memphis has been postponed because of lent think pat down. >> he took al the gloves and changed the gloves a few times. and pat me down inappropriely. it was pretty discouraging and very disruptive. >> the patdown search and body scan are drawing complaints from some. they are both part of the beefed up security procedes which came in response the underwear bomber that hid a explosive dece last christmas day. the complaints have caught the tsa administratowho is hinting at a change of strategy. >> we're constantlyvoflg to address the latest dlets to intelligence. if it means that we need to
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adjust those procedures, i'm open to that. >> if ther is no change in tsa procedures, a group of travelers is calling for wedsday the day before having that, to be opt-out day. they want travelers to opt out of a body scan and insist on a pat down leading to long lines. >> the people choose opt out because they are trying to slow down the procs, you might fl bad for the people wanting to get home for the delays. >> almost all the travelers we spoke with the new measures are not much diffent than the old security measures. >> we didn't have a pat down or anything like that. so it was easy to take our shoes off and that was it. no special anythg. >> it's going to be intesting to see what happens as a result of the planned demonstration on wednesday. i can guarantee it's going to be busy out here with or witho any demonstration.
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this is an airport that is coming off of the busiest month, busiest octob it has ever ha last month. many complaints continue to roll in about the new policy at the airports. a retired teacher from michigan says he was had you mile yiatd on a recent trip after be a encounter with airport screener detroit. tom sawyer says the bag that holds his urine burst while during a pat down. >> he didn't apogize for anything. i justthink he was train or he didn't know what a bag was. these ople need to be trained on medical conditions and emotional conditions of some patients. this was shot by travelers using a cell phone. it shows a shirtless little boy at salt lake city airport on friday going through the pat
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down to. travelers waiting on line were outraged but a tsa spokesperson says he set off a metal detecr and the boy's fathetook the shirt off himself. >> showers are moving through the bay area ahead of a cold snap. >> we had some wild thunderstorms saturday night. lightning bolt striking the bay brid caltrans says it struck two towers siltaneously. >> and it brought snow to the highest peaks, this is what mount hamilton -- there we go, we missed that but we do know that at least two feet fell in the erra. this is video from the caltrans traffic camera. >> showing highway 50 at myers and chains are required on both 80 and 50. >> we're watching scattered showers, let me get out of way so you can see all of live doppler, heading down to hayward you can see marina boulevard, he
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is pairian boulevard, some light rain fallingight now. it's all sliding to the southeast and move through the east bay hills and towards pleasanton and into union city, fremont, possibly mount hamilton over the next hour or so. we have more showers developing up around sonoma county. these are going to slide do to the southwest. we have scattered showers in today's frequent. a heavy shor tonight and the possibility of freing temperatures in your forecast. a toddler has died after falling 50 feet from the downtown staples center luxury suite shortly after the lakers basketball game. the boy is believed to be tw or three years old. he died earlier today at a los angeles hospital. the boy fell fr the top tier of the suites.
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it's not clear how he fell over the wall. >> in east oakland, police are investigating a shooting that killed an 18-year-oldoy and injured three others. all four victims were shot neither 12th avee. each was taken to a local hospitaln private vehicles. 18-year-old person of oakland was pronounced dead on riv. the other three victims are expected to survive. it was the third shooting in oakland in less than six hours. in total there have been 74 fatal shootings in oakland this year. last year it was 93 deaths. despite the drop ts in homicides. oakland remains on the list of the misdangers cities. st. louis toppled the list. oakland round out the top five. it's been ranked sixth for the second straight year the second was the city of new york.
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>> police believe a man wanted for t home invasion rape of a young girl in berkeley over the weekend is no lger in the bay area and may be head fomexico. an arres warrant has been issued for omar sosa. they say he entered a bedro and assaulted a young girl. they credit the victim for giving the information they needed to identify the suspect. >> it's because of a very courageous victim. she ha been very cooperative in assisting us and we put the pieces together with her help >> police say sosa may have injured his hand during the incident. he is believed to be driving a gray fort ranger with a double cab and white camper shell. >> oakland wil begin decing who will receive one of four permits to run massive medical marijuana farms in the city. they expect the permits to go to the wealthiest owners, each
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permit will cost $211,000 each year. city records about 200 groups have expressed interested in the licenses. oakland will be the first city in the nation to license wholesale pot cult vague. >> live and well in south bay how volunteers are helping th growing need this season. >> and we'll go live to the mountains if
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you're free to be happy and healthy. making the thanksgiving holiday little bit better f the less for the national. need is very great. the line started out the door before the giveaway begin. >> it's more than we ever tried to do. we see folks lined u around the corner and hear the stories that the economy is turning a corner but from those lines i don't believe it. >> the need is great but donations are way down across the bay area. to give you an idea, second harvest food bank it's only collected about 10% of the holiday fund-raising goal. >> if you are headed to sierra for the thanksgiving holiday, a
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check shows a snowy scene as showers move through after this weekend's storm that left people without wer and gas. live in colfax to show us what is happing. >> this is about 2400 feet elevation and it's raining here but uple miles up, it was a diffent world, up to five feet of snow is in and around blue canyon. this what you look is 5,000 feet elevation where drivers are forced to slow down to 25 miles per hour in a 65 zone. obviously ls than half the speed they would normall be going. snow is taking a toll on area gas stations, electricity is out in several spots, that means no juice for the pumps and no gas can be had for 20 miles. some tow truck workers have been pullin out people for the past
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two daysnd some say it's the worst storm they have seen >> i haven't seen a storm like this. this is onef the worst ones i've seen, thi quick in time, three days and we're snowed in. >> it could get worse. a spinoutbeing the major concern, a lot of pele going off the road and to get back on the road to be towed, average cost is $300 and average cost for chains is about $100. so it's easier to buy them down below at $30. make sure your four-wheel drive is working. a lot of people finding out they don't. thanks a lot. >> definitely got to gagsp and bring your chains. >> it is getting colder up there. as is our fecast and we have
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showers to track not only today and tonight. once that passes we'll talk aboufog for thanksgiving. >> and also first in the nation, new measuren nation that have drug companies sa that all us wouldave to pay more for prescription drugs. >> and barbara bush has harsh criticism fosarah palin. l use a
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we're talking about all the snow we' seeing. >> look at that. >> no, not yet but there be se tonight but at higher elevations as it is in the sierra. show you what is going on in heavenly. this is beautiful shot, 5800 feet, beautiful picture of all the snow. two and a half feet of snow and another feet to two feet on the way for tonight. congratulations for the ski resorts and for the opening soon. this is the storm we needed. bring it back home, some of the sunshine and some of the cumulus clouds thaare trying to develop. some of those will build to a great enough depth and have enough moisture to drop a little rainfall. any other picture where that is
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happening, that would be live doppler hd, guerneville, all the way up to sea ranch and a few scattered showers in the north bay. but with the prevailing wind out of northwest, those are going to slide down to the south and east across the bay. still going to be a day full of wet weather from time to time. here we are up i the sierra an you can see the snow showers continuing. those will only pick up in intensity during the evening and overnight hours. low to mid-50s in most areas with pley of cloud cover, 46 in los gatos and monterey bay andnland, mostly cloudy sky. scattered showers will continue today but heavier and more wideread as we get our last push of wet weather. coldest lows will be thursday and friday, may set records where we're going to keep an eye on frost developing. warmer afternoons trsday, friday and saturday. anything would be warmer than this. mid to upper 50s, 7-9 degrees
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below average mixture of sunshine and clouds and occasional shors from time to time. look at the radar and much greater in scope. that is why we're going to see the heavierain tonight. snow i would say mount hamilton for sure. as we into motion, some smaller scattered shows, cold front is coming from the arctic and you can e the rain increase through tomorrow morning's commute. that going to be a tough one. by 1:00, it's out of he, temperatures won't be any warmer this afternoon. thuray, friday and saturday, once the high pressur sunshine will modify the air mass and it won't be quite as cool as it was today. as far as rainfall amounts, quarter to half an inch out of this system but out of sierra, one to two feet above 7,000 feet.
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8-14 inches at lake level through 4:00 tomorrow. that would be in the afternoon. seven-day forecast, temperatures on wednesd afternoon will be the cooles some of us will be in the 40s, some of us in the low 50s and then modify tha arctic air mass on friday. thursday and friday we'll be near 50 and chce of showers rolls into saturda night and into sunday but nothing like we just saw, the lightning show over the weekend. netflix is raising its prices, they say netflix monthly fee will increase a dollar in january to und $10. that is for current members, new members will be charged the higher price right away. they say they will be switching the focus of mail delivery to dvds to streaming video because more people are watching movies online. wall street liked it. netflix surged by 7% today. >> san francisco city
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supervisors will considera proposal that drug companies would pay for disposeill of unwanted drugs. they offered the proposal saying that right now most drugs are flushed down the toilet and tossed in the garbage. drug companies are fightin the plan. if it is approved it could mean much higher prices on medication for all consumers. similar programs have been attempted in all states but had he all failed un from pharmaceutical companies. >> barbara bush doesn't think much of sarah palin's white house aspiratis. in an interview scduled tonight. she says she likes palin but she says the former governor should stick to her home state. >> i sat next to her once, i thought she was beautiful and i think she is very happy in alas. i hope she stays there. >> in an terview last week
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with barbara walte, palin says she could beat president obama if she decided to run for president in 2012. >> coming up next, will they be wearing spandex. >> the debut fade weigh the stars and what the first performance will be like.
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