♪ the mystery continues ov the cause of a health scare at a san francisco hotel. >> carbon moxide fumes sickened four flight attendants at the marriott sending them to the hospital. terry mcsweeney joins us now. >> earlr this morning the san francisco fire department said that the carbon moxide was getting into the hotel through the heating system. then they backed off that idea. now they're saying it appears it may have gotten in through car exhaust through the ventilation system. they don know. but here's what they do know. they've been out here three times this week for the exact

same problem in the exact same rooms. four people took sick at the marriott just before 11:00 last night all with dizziness and nausea. it showe carbon monoxide poisoning but firefighters believe they know. >> the thinking now is it came in through -- >> through the air intake system and just basically sucks the outside air in and goes through their ventilation system. >> it's the thi time this week fire crews have been outside for carbon monoxide problems. >> january 4 we responded to two similar calls at two separate times to those two same rooms. >> the affected rooms are right above stevenson street where trucks and cars park sometimes leaving their engines running. it's possible the exhaust is what got into the four rooms. but no other rooms are affected, not last time, not this time. it's still a mystery and

disturbing one to some hotel guests. >> i'm nervous but i talked to the guy at t desk and said they're getting calls and checking the whole hotel. he tried to reassure me but i'm going to ask again when i come back. >> they said it was contained to the fourth floor, all contained for now. >> you're pretty good witit? >> i'm fine >> the response from the marriott hotel is this: the situation continues to be under investigation and we are waiting further information regarding the source of the carbon monoxide exposure. meanwhile the four guest rooms will remain out of inventory until the situation has been resolved. as for the fr flight attendan attendants who were sickened, two treated at the hospital, two on the scene, all expected to be okay. there are no carbomonoxide detectors in the hotel and no law saying they should be. they do say the san francisco fire department new construction is going to require carbon monoxide detectors.

mindy tells me if you're going to a hotel that doesn't have one, bring one with you. live in san francisco, terry mcsweeney, abc 7 news. >> all righ terry, thanks very much authorities in alameda county arrest a domestic violence suspect afte he jumped out of a third story windown hayward. it all began shortly after midnight. sheriffs deputies answered a call and confrted the man inside his aptment unit on maddox road near foothill boulevar that's when the suspect pulled out a gun. >> the deputies ted to get in the apartment, the suspect spun around with a gun according to the deputy and the deputy fired at the suspect. the suspect then fled the apartment by jumping out of a third story building. >> the man hid in bushes a block away. authorities sealed off the area for two hours, called in a s.w.a.t. team and a helicopr before the man surrenred. officials say the man is being checked out but does not appear to be seriously injured. >> a new beginng today for an

army veteran found no guilty by reason of insanity in connecti with an armedcase. today a judge declar sergeant mcgregor binkly legally sane for one count of assault with a gun in san mateo county. a jury found him not guil by reason of insanity in 2009 based on mental conditions that stem from his experience in the army. he underwent treatment at a state hospital and had most recently been living at home under hous arrest. >> a power outage in alameda early this morning that affected 6800 customers began when a power line fell on the street and started a fire. power has since been restored. power officials say the affected customers from the ameda town center to the open estuary. the cause of that fire is still under investigation. the government released a very disappointing jobs report today showing employers only added 103,000 jobs in december.

the slightly encouraging news is that the unemployment rate fell a little from 9.8% to 9.4% but the federal reserve chairma says it could take five years for unemploynt to recover. jenelle wang is here with details. >> chairman ben bernke said 40% of those unemployed now have been out of a job at least six months. we're going to take a look ho wall street is reacting to the jobs report. the dow down over 51 points. actually been down all day. bernanke says the country still has a long road ahead of them. >> this rate of improvement it could take four to five more years for the job market to normlize fully. >> it wasn't all doom and gloom as ben bernanke spoke before congress over two hours this morning. he said consumers are continuing to spell money. as for the housing market? >> the housing market remains depressed as the overhang of basi houses weighs heavilily

against construction and non-residential construction is also quite weak. >> the president gave a more optimistic forecast in maryland even thoh he admits the country is recoring from a brutal recession. 8 million jobs lost in 2008 and 2009. last year the u.s. gained just over a millio back. >> we know these numbers can bounce around from month to month. but the trend is clear we saw 12 straight months of prive sector job growth. that's the first time that's been true since 2006. >> this morning the president also named washington veteran gene sperling from the clinton era to head his national economic council. he says sperling halls a record of turning budget deficits into surpluses. >> a moody's report says the tech industry in calirnia is seeing stronger performances but is being overshowed by the slow revery of construction, financial services and the real

estate indusy. kristen? >> jenelle, thank you. the republican push to repeal the healthcare reform law has keyed a key procedural hurdle in the house. 236 to 281 to begin moving toward on up or down vote next week the vote is seen largely as symbolic since republicans don't have thvotes in the senate to overturn it or override a presidential veto. republicans have promised to repeal the law if necessary. it gives health insurance coverage to 30 million uninsured americans. the gop wants to start over and create a more reform bill or i should say just create a reform bill that's smaller. >> governor jerry brown appears ready to keep his promise to cut the size of the executive branch. he plans to eliminate the secretary of education post. analysts says that post is unnecessary since there's a state board superintendent.

governor schwarzenegger's educatio secretary had a budget of nearly $2 million and a staff of more than a dozen. >> this afternoon san francisco's board of supervisors will try aga to pick an intem mayor to replace lieutenant governo elect gan newsom. previously ed lee was considered the leading candidate but today the san francisco chronicle reports city public utilities commission chief ed harrington has apparentlil been adde to the list of possibly candidas along with san francisco chef michael hennessey. however, any vote the supervisors take today may not matter at all. tomoow mayor newsom will swear in a new board and they will make t final decision. if lee is approved, he will be the city's first asian american mayor. >> the denver broncos are no longer aggressively pursuing stanford coachjim harbow. he says he believes harbow wants to stay at stanfor he is going to retn for

anothe year of scho rather than turn pro. the dolpns dropped their offer. meanti the san francisco 49ers are still very interested. espn is reporting san francisco is offering harbow $6 million a year. >> still head, the mexican food item in your fridge that you might wanto throw away. >> and, ladies, if you cry in front of your man, you may not get much lovin'. the smell of tears has on a man's x drive. [ female announcer ] why watcregular tv when you can experience

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for more you can go to our website abc7news.com. >> ladies, if you shed tears in front of your man you may get sympathy but perhaps n romance. men are physical logically turned off by a weapony woman. dan harris explains. >> we've known for a long time some men are not fans of chick flicks like steel magnolias. men get annoyed when women in their life become emotional, like tom hanks in a league of your own. >> there's no crying in baseball! >> now we're learning this male aversion to female crying may have a basis in sciee. a new study done in israel found men exposed to women's tears tears th were extraed incidentallyy having those women watch sad movies, they had lowe testosterone levels and the parts of their brain that registers sexual arousel were

inactive. we left jessa here in a gym in new york city and had her cr on demand. this guy admitted he didn't like it. >> if there' something wrong and i know it, i'll feel bad. you've been in a relationship a while and it's just for a reason, i can't comprehend, i'll be slightly annoyed. >> this guy said there are some circumstances which crying can work in a woman's favor. >> if she is starts crying -- >> the legendary sex therapist says she's a little worried by this study. >> i thought to myself now there's scienc behind my argument when my wife cries i get annoyed. >> that's wh i came on television. i don't want you to get of the hook by saying if she cries i can just ignore it. that would make me tell her don't have sex with me for the next month. (laughter) >> dr. ruth! >> that s dan harris reporting. don't know abo the tears but i know the tears don't get you out

of traffic tickets >> doesn't work there either. >> then what do you need to get out -- we'l talk about that later. talk abouthe weather. >> a correlation here. >> big news! let's talk about t fog. i'm in trouble. it's going to hang around and keep temperatures down today but we have more in store for the weekend and a couple chances of rain for the forecast. >> an up close hello from one of san francisco's newest and largest residents. >> and two sisters who were serving life sentences are free today with just one condition. one of them has to save the life of the other. a wipe is a wipe

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♪ all right, folks. we look at one shot, it looks gray. anothe mike, and it'blue. >> right. >> you wanna clear that up for us. >> we can take a look at different shots and show you what's going on because it's different around the bay. temperatures warmer the east bay shore than most places. fog thick enough sll flight arrival delays into sfo, nearly 42 minutes. check out our flight tracker at abc7news.com. visible satellite you can se the offshore wind and how it real pushed all that tulie fog into most of the bay and now

we've got a northerly westerly wind developing and notice how it's pushing the fog to the south through the santa clara valley. that will eventually take ay all the fog as we head into the weekend. let's take a look at those visilities. you can see all of us above a mile, santa rosa at a mile but well below the unlimited which would be a ten in this respect. you can see fog just about everywhere except oakland. there's a little pocket p developing along the east bay shore. oakland warmer at 46. mainly low 40s the bay shore to upper 40s along the coast. you can see inland upp 30s to low 40s where the fog is most stubborn. near 50 degree temperatures into salinas. gilroy coer at 41. we'll have foggy and chilly valleys. i think we'll have a briger warmer bay and coast during the afternoon hours. less fotonight and through the weekend. won't be quite as cold as it has been so we don't have to worry about freezg, fog or any kinds

of frt. wet weather, we have a possibility of a wednesday, looks more likely for thursday's forecast. today san jose 5 degrees blow average, 3 napa, 6 to 10 in san francisco and livermore. give you an idea how that fog and low sun angle this time of year takes away any of the warming wee getting. low 50s today, 62 san jose. up on the peninsula we'll also have low 50s. anywhere from 50 millbrae to 52 menlo park. 58 one of the warm spots, half moon bay today. low to mid-50s downtown, south san francisco and out to the coast. 40 degree temperatures s rafael, sausalito and valle. that's all due to the fog. the rest of the north bay 50. low to mid-50s the east bay shore. hercules 48 beuse of the fog and you hit the fog and its dominance in the east bay valleys with 40s just about everywhere. we'll be near 60 santa cruz,

watsonville an salinas. everyone else upper 50s around the monterey bay. tonight this is cloud cover but a different type. it's not fog, it's stratus and it will keep outemperatures up. upper 30s inland low 40s around the bay. heading to the sierra this weekend, no new snow. temperatures mid-30s tahoe. for us increase in sunshine by sunday, mid to upper 30s throughout the forecasfor highs. the rain wednesday mainly the north bay, for the rest of us on thursday. >> mike, thank you. >> you bet. >> two sisters were released from a mississippi prison on the condition one donates her kidney to the other. they spent 16 years in prison, for an armed robbery for only $11. the governor suspended their sentence but only if one would agree donate her kidney to save the life of the another kidmy. the tatments were costing the state of mississip nearly $200,000 a year.

the sisters are still not sure we're going to get them to medical facilities where treatment for jamie is going to take place immediately. then the doctors have to tell us how long it takes to test. we're not absolutely sure but we don't expect it to take a long time. >> the sistersre headed to florida where they have family but still stay under supervision. >> san francisco zoo has a large new resident. this male hippopotamus met the public for the first time. the 3700 pound hippo arrived wednesday from topeka, kansas. he was in need of a new home. >> he came from topeka, kansas. they had a help poe birth over there and didn't have enoug room for him and we had an exhibit that needed a hippo so it was a per efct marriage. >> this is the first hippo in san francisco for three years because the exhibit was being renovated.

the animal doesn'have a name yet. they plan to have the public pick one in the near future. >> a much smaller animal is our perfect pet today. >> mike nicco will be back

>> today at 3:00 on 7 live, the tweets, they claim former senator john edwards is engaged. at 5:00, the state's computer upgrade project that's four years behind schedule is in trouble again. we're going to look how this

only adds to our fcal crisis. and what made people sick at a san francisco hotel. those stories and more lat today at 5:00. >> right now friday's perfect pet. >> mike nicco s a new friend, a tiny one. >> from the oakland spca. happy new year to you. >> happy new year. >> tell us about this ferocious man, pouncer. >> i appreciate how everyone here is covering up their terror of this ferocious being. this is pouncer. pouncer is about four years old and is he mostly chihuahua. weighs a grand total of about 5 pounds. >> wow! does he come with a matching handbag? >> you wouldt need a very big handbag for this litt guy, would you. >> no! >> kind of shy at first but once he warmings up he is very friendly. likes other dogs. very playful. he thinks squirrels are out there for him to go after although i imagine a squirrel could beat him up if he really

wanted to. >> what about cats? >> i think probably most cats i know could wipe up the floor with pouncer to tell y the truth. >> make sure your cat gets along with the little guy. >> we don't recomme for families with young children, say under eight or so because he's a little small for that. but other than that, he'll be great in anybody's home and a lot of fun to play with. >> he's wonderful because he's been in here. thanks for bringing him in. >> if you're interested in any of the animals call: >> back to you guys. >> pouncer is so mellow, too, with all the stress of the cameras moving around. >> i know. the name pouncer is great but maybe something else. >> thanks for joining us. >> "who wants to be a millionaire" i coming up next. millionaire" i coming up next. >> have a great

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