♪ animal control takes action this morning against a pitbull that savagely mauled a ten-year-old vallejo boy. its owner is speccing out. terry mcsweeney is liv with the new development. >> the attack happened here on springs road. the dog was captured a mile away where its owner had taken it. the boy had was bitten monday afternoon had going to have to go in for surgery. the dog is going to be put down but the question that remains is will the neighbors on springs road be able to get past this traumatic event. >> this vage animal control officer has to battle not only a

pitbull but the owner that does not want to give him up. the dog named savage is off the streets for the last time. the attack happenedat 2:30. >> my friends had the dog on the leash and dropped the leash. it ran off and he -- i was walking up on me. >> the drawing raced towards ten-year-old ray who lives a couple blocks away. the first encounter saw the animal bite his shoes. >> he got me and ripped off. i was like ah! >> he has had 16 rab by shots and more are anticipated but the dog has paperwork that shows it's current. >> most likely the dog will be euthanized and put down. >> the couple upstairs with the focus of angry neighbors.

>> told me they were going to burn down the house. >> i don't believe hem. i'd be mad but the thing is i had nothing to do with it. >> the ten-year-old is already feeling better. >> they good and protected. i don't know what to do. >> ten-year-old is hoping that because the dog is current on his rabies shots that perhaps he can stop the rab by shots he has been getting. he is going in for surgery next thursday at oakland's children's hospital. terry mcsweeney, abc 7 news. >> terry, thank you. president obama is on his way to arizona right now to attend tonight's memorial service for the victims of saturday mass shooting in tucson. the white house says the president will honor the victims in personal terms and in remind those in grief an entire nation is with them. this is video of the president and first lady during a moment

of silence monday. 6 were killed, 13 others wounded including arizona congress woman gabriela giffords. the president ais to meet privately with the victims. members passed a resolution condemning the attack while paying tribute to the giffords and the other victims. >> our hearts are broken. but our spirit is not. this is a time for the house to lock arms in prayer for the fallen and the wounded and resolve to carry on a dialogue of democracy. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi signed a book of condolence today in the capital rotunda. members of public and staff are all welcome to sign it. meanwhile there are new details on the alleged gunman.

arizona authorities say a wildlife officer pulled over jared loughner just three hours before the shooting rampage for running a red light. the officer found no outstanding warrants, warned him and let him go. we're hearing for the first time from a close friend of the suspect. >> zack was jared loughner's high school friend yet he doesn't recognize the alleged killer in this mug shot eye can't look at that. it scares me. i wish i could help but -- >> it's hard to look at the picture of him. it looks like a monster. >> investigators say they found a profanity-laced note at the loughner's home, apparently refer to the congresswoman. on the morning of the shootings his father saw him take a black bag out of the car trunk and

jared took off running and his father chased him in his car. overnight a pair of church services for the victims including a mass at this catholic church. nine-year-old christina green one of the six killed saturday was baptized and made her first communion here. her mother was at the service. and we are getting our first look inside congresswoman gifford's hospital room. these pictures show mark kellie holding his wife's hand. >> we have decreed the amount of teddation and as a result of that she's becoming more and more spontaneous all the time. >> president obama traveling with the attorney general and the homeland security secretary will meet with the victim's family before the memorial service on the university of arizona campus. >> sarah palin lashed out this morning in a video posted on her blog. she ripped into people who

blamed heated political pundants. >> congresswoman giffords and her constituents were exercising their right to exchange ideas that day to celebrate a republican's core values and peaceful assemble to petition our government. it's inexcusable, incomprehensible why a single evil man took the lives of peaceful citizens that day. >> investigators have not given any sign political rhetoric may have been linked to the shooting. palin was called into the discussion because she used gun hair controls hairs during midterms elections. it was districts where the tea party should focus their efforts. >> oakland police are looking for a suspect in a high-speed chase. 8:00 officers tried to stop a

car on 84 avenue in east oakland but it took off. police finally stopped it in the parking lot of a safeway store. this is the scene shot from sky 7 hd. two people were taken into custody. a third man, a suspected parolee, ran off. the order press is reporting that former governor schwarzenegger has sent the letter to the family of a murder victim apologizing for not giving them notice before commuting the sentence of a man involved in the killing. in one of his final moves as governor where schwarzenegger reduced the sentence of nunez from 16 years to 7 years. he is the son of former assembly speaker. he had pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and assault in connection with the 2008 killing of louise santos from concord. governor schwarzenegger called the sentence excessive because he had no prior criminal record.

santos' father said he is considering a lawsuit. >> a fire overnight caused damage and renewed questions about the legal status of pot clubs in san jose. amy? >> kristen, police are involved. they saw the law around these pot clubs is very gray. investigators at the fire department are also involved wildfire we've seen them here. moments ago they were focusing on the porch. they aren't saying what possibly started this fire. they got the call 3:00 this morning. the victorian house was on fire. it was leased to a company called herb appeal, a pot dispensary. firefighters say there was merchandise inside but they weren't growing any plants in there. the fire was so big, the next-door neighbors had to evacuate. >> my son came and got me, got my grandson up, got me up and

said put a jacket son because we gotta get out of the house. and i saw the flames coming up and it went through the roof and everything. >> police say they will document what occurred and they will send a report to investigators. they say it's very difficult to determine if these dispensaries are operating within the law. they say aside from dealing with federal and state law, they also have a municipal code here in san jose that's up in the air. they say here in san jose, the pot clubs are being debated. police are watching the whole thing. they're watching this situation. they say they're going to document and just forward it on to investigators. no one was hurt in this fire and, again, firefighters haven't said yet what they think caused the fire. abc 7 news. >> all right, amy. thank you. a fourth year medical student has died from a brain injury he suffered during a nightclub bral in san francisco last weekend. he died yesterday. the city medical examiner says

he was taken off life support and his organs were donated. police were called to the temple night club near first street shortly after 1:00 sunday morning. they say he was hit in the head during one of two fights in the club. two other men were stabbed. the city's entertainment commission has ordered the club's owners to improve security. in san jose a club owner's debt may have been the motive behind a nightclub shooting that left three people dead on friday. they believe it happened during an attempt to kidnap one of the club's owners. two killed were suspects, the third person worked at the club. police are still looking for another gunman and a get away driver. >> the quake that made for a rude wake-up call for some in santa clara county. and rebuilding haiti. a look where things stand one year after a devastating earthquake that leveled much of the island nation.

>> oakland's new mayor is taking on an unofficial adviser who may not be popular with the city's police department. he's a vocal critic of the police and critical of the injunctions police use to keep gang members out of certain neighborhoods. siegel won't draw a salary and expects to talk about the budget and marijuana farms and policing.

siegel and quan were classmates back in the '60s. today is the one-year anniversary of the earthquake in haiti that killed 230,000 people. much of port of prince was left after the quake. meanwhile supporters are demands accepted up recovery efforts. a year later only 5% of the rubble removed. more than a million people still live under tarps and diseases is spreading. it's relieve efforts focus on immediate needs. >> emergency shelter, water, sanitation. food for a million people. a vaccination campaign, keeping hospitals open and now focusing primarily on trying to move into a recovery phase and getting people out of camps and into homes. >> the red cross has spent about a quarter billion on haiti quake relieve efforts, about half what the organization received from american donors.

the series of small earthquakes ralted the south bay overnight. they started just before 1:00 this morning. it was centered about eight miles southwest of hollister. several aftershocks were felt in the same area across the next hour. the strongest measure 3.4. a photographer felt the effects. >> i woke up, my bed was shaking and i heard the lamp on my nightstand was rolling back and forth. i kind of got up and the house was still actually moving. also i could hear the dishes in the kitchen rattling in my house. >> up a little early. got to work a little early no doubt. no reports of serious injuries or damage. we slept right through it, didn't we? >> yeah. thanks to that. mike is up next. >> let's take a look outside. show you some of the sunshine that we talked about this morning is coming back but it will be short lived.

more rain on the way and i'll shoal you pictures-all the snow from new england. >> and facebook.com is getting a new friend today, one that can save hundreds of children's lives. the new star of the travolta family. the first pictures of the their baby boy.

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you may get amber alerts when you check your facebook.com page. today facebook.com is announcing a partnership with the department of justice and the national center for missing and exploited children. the site will create amber alert pages for each state and the district of columbus. facebook.com users will be able to decide whether to receive alerts when a missing child report triggers an amber alert. facebook.com has a similar program up and running in canada. our weather is quiet calm and pleasant today but not the case on the east coast. buried in snow? >> absolutely. we used my family yesterday for pictures. today we use frances's family and some of her friends. a beautiful picture of rockefeller university there on york avenue in manhattan. doesn't covered in snow. even though they had 6 to 8 inches. check out the bus, they did go to school. that's one of the first areas

because of the cornell medical center right around the corner. connecticut even more snow. this is julius montana and check out this picture. greenwich, i'm sorry. and this was by louise lopez from connecticut. her four-year-old son almost completely buried by the snow. nice pictures. thanks to frances and her family and friends. you can send some in, too. if you have family and friends have them send them to us. we get to see it from afar. tahoe, may have snow headed that way also with the light rain that's coming in tomorrow for us. right now we are looking at partly cloudy sky from south beach looking to the north. over downtown san francisco. absolutely gorgeous there. let's talk about the snow cover real quick. i forgot this map. this is showing 71% of the u.s. is covered in snow and the only state without snowfall on the ground or snow coverage is florida.

that does include hawaii, by the way. let's talk about temperatures. you can see we're still pretty much in the upper 40s to low 50s. same thing armed the monterey bay. our destination warmer this afternoon thanks to the pockets of sunshining and the dry air. rain tomorrow, most likely that will accumulate in the north bay and sunshine and warmer than average weather for the weekend. i 60 san jose. 58 morgan hill. the monterey bay and inland low to mid-60s. cloud cover tonight mild when you step outside tomorrow. possibly even a little drizzle. mid-40s inland, upper 40s to near 50 along the bay shore. about 47 out around half moon bay and also in santa cruz. cold front went through last night. fell apart. small area of high pressure punching holes in thecloud. next system with clouds tonight and then scattered rain for

tomorrow. here we are at noon. you can see the clouds opening across the bay. by 6::they're starting to return overtaking all our neighborhoods tonight. you see the patchy drizzle developing. even light rain northern sonoma county during the 7:00 hour. scattered light rain during the midmorning to mid afternoon hours. by 6:00 just some clouds and watch the wind shifts start to blow those out to the coast on friday. rainfall amounts about a fifth to 1500ths tomorrow and you can see the increasing sunshine friday and the low to mid-60s for saturday, sunday, monday and tuesday. looks like a pretty extended period of dry weather and rain. >> pretty soon we'll start asking where's the rain. >> and where's the snow. >> federal health officials say the asthma rate in the u.s. is up a little bit. the centers for diseases control

say one in 12 million have the disease or just over 8%. the rate had been holding steady at a little under 8% for the previous four years. cdc officials sat better diagnostic efforts could be part of the reason for the increase. they say treatment has been improving. with fewer patients saying they suffered an attack in the previous year. >> still ahead where we'll have the first pictures of the new member of the travolhave been ag

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>> today at 3:00 on 7 live, weighing in on sarah palin's political rhetoric, is it fair to blame pundants fosh the tucson shooting rampage. the harlem globetrotters the special guests. parents and students in one school district are not about to accept school closures without a rallying call to fight back. and intel announces semifinalists today. which bay area schools they attend and check in on a former win he to see how she's putting her science expertise to use with a local company after getting degrees from harvard and stanford. those stories at 5:00. finally we are getting our first public pictures of the newest member of the travolta family. meet baby benjamin. the travolta family son the cover of the newest issue of "people magazine." john travolta and wife kellie preston say it's nothing less than a miracle. it was two years ago their

teenager son jett died from a seizure during a family vacation in the bahamas. travolta says the new baby has given their home a new spirit and purpose. what has been their best moments so far? benjamin's first smile. and those poopy diapers, i bet they don't mind it one bit. congratulations to them. >> really. >> that's going to do it for all of us here. thank you for joining us but we don't want to go without a final word on the weather forecast. >> temperatures could reach 60 in the south bay. definitely get to the 60s this definitely get to the 60s this weekend. were prese >>

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