closed captioning by closed captioning services,inc sky 7 showed you the scene over the port of oakland earlier this morning. occupy protesters blocking the gate and delaying traffic. >> right now they are gone. the morning shift has ended. sky 7 shows you there is still a police presence. demonstrators promised to return. good morning i'm k. >> . and i'm cheryl jennings. we have live team coverage. katie marzullo has reaction. >> let's begin with amy hollyfield at the port with more. >> reporter: protesters just left within the last 30 minutes. they tell me they took off because they consider the morning a success because they

say they were able to shutdown the morning shift this is the early shift of protesters. this group marched from the west oakland bart station to the port before the sun came up. even though the mayor of oakland and some union leaders asked them not to do this. >> we are starting at 5:30, i'm excited. the power of the people is inspirational. >> reporter: the group split once it hit the port around appear ed two entrances used by trucks trying to get the -- goods to the ships. >> corporation have to deliver their goods and it has to be transported into california. by saying no, you can't give that here because we don't want corporate greed we want our jobs back. >> i'm going to lose three, four hundred dollars today. >> reporter: truck drivers say they are hurt the most. oakland's mayor and some union leaders asked the protesters to consider the wages these

divers would lose. the activists say the -- drivers will benefit from the cause. >> one day, it is rough. but they can take this one day. ultimately we want them to know we are doing in for them they are full of crap because they are not making a truck payment. me and him we all go truck payments we are losing money. >> reporter: at 8:45 the protest might be coming to an end. police in riot gear moved in and formed a line between protesters and the front gate. after a few minutes a handful of officers went throughout the gate while the rest of the police pulled back. protesters say they consider the morning a success and look forward to the action planned for later today. >> at 3:00 i wouldn't be surprised if there is 8 or 9,000 people here. >> reporter: you can see trucks sitting here not moving there are police officers at the entrance of the port no

activity in and out. protesters say that's because there are not any workers on the inside to unload the trucks because they say they shutdown the shift. they are calling this a success. they say they will be back to shutdown the night shift. i was a peaceful morning no one was hurt and -- it was a peaceful morning no one was hurt and no arrests were made. >> katie marzullo continues our coverage at office of emergency services. >> reporter: we expect an update coming soon. in the meantime this is where they are holed up being briefed on what to do out there. until we get that next briefing word here officially is, there was never any port shutdown. >> there are disruptions throughout the maritime area hurting workers and working families and slowing operations but we are operational. >> reporter: slow operations would seem better than no operations but time is money for truck drivers.

>> they want people to make money but yet they are trying to stop us. i wish they would occupy a job somewhere. >> reporter: this driver was at his breaking point at 7 a.m. when he should have been starting to unload. >> stopping me from making money. there could be little incidents out here. >> reporter: port officials say keeping the peace is a top priority. >> we want to respect first amendment rights a very fluid situation we are monitoring closely. >> reporter: we expect to hear from officials again it was going to be at 11 it has been pushed back to noon or so that will be the next update officially about what is happening at the port. we will it live for you on abc7news.com. katie marzullo, abc7 news. as we reported today was billed as an all-day protest. 3 p.m. a rally will be held near frank ogawa plaza near 14th street and broadway

followed by another march to the port. additional march at 5 p.m. from the west oakland bart station to the port. in southern california occupy l.a. protesters have ended a four hour demonstration at the port of long beach. police made one arrest as 200 gathered near a shipping terminal. demonstrators briefly blocked a major roadway, but caused no major disruptions port of long beach is the nation's second busiest behind the port of -- police arrested 39 protesters during the demonstration on campus november 9th. that same clash led the charge as police used excessive force on peaceful demonstrators. today a group called by any means necessary call on cal chancellor to drop all charges filed against protesters after the melee. >> the criminal charges are being used to chill the free

speech rights of these young heroic fighters for civil rights. >> the group also repeated its demand for his resignation claiming he condoned and tolerated the beating of peaceful protesters. he has previously issued an apology. the you have has launched three separate investigations into police tactics. responding to today's demands the d.a.'s office will review each arrest on a case-by-case basis. uc berkeley stanley hall is open for students to take their finals after being closed more than 24 hours because of a diesel fuel spill. officials have worked since saturday night to cleanup more than self seen00 gallons of spilled fueled -- 17 gallons of spilled fuel. the you have says equipment failure caused the spill. a small amount made night a nearby creek and into the bay.

the coast guard and epa say booms have contained it. divers were assessing damage and cleaning up after an oil spill from a sinking tugboat near richmond. the tug first started sinking and leaking black oil into the water yesterday. coast guard official think at least 300 gallons have leaked. they believe most of the it has been contained. they contained a boom as a precaution to pro -- protect wildlife. officials don't know what is caution the ship to sink. -- what is causing the ship to sink. that card scam has hit our nation's troops. organizers with blue star moms say the supermarket scammers have stolen at least $3,000 from their account that money was donated to send holiday care packages and help homeless sets. the group is making up the loss until it hears back from lucky and the investigators if

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let's take you back live to where i appears a handful of occupy protesters -- -- where it appears a handful of occupy protesters have returned near the west oakland bart station you see protesters and police. these are occupy folks blocking the intersection shun that is the starting point of their marches to the port today at the west oakland bart. city officials expect a news conference at the office of emergency services sometime after noon so please stay with abc7 news and get the latest on abc7news.com. a lawyer for jerry sandusky says there are no plea talks underway. the former pennsylvania state assistant football coach is charged with more than 50 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys he met through his children's charity. there are reports the key witness in the prosecution

case may have changed his story for the grand jury. assistant coach mike mcqueary told the grand jury he saw sandusky raping a 10 year polled boy in a school shower in 2002. now a local paper says a friend spoke to him on the night of the alleged incident and mcqueary said he never saw sandusky have sex with the boy. u.s. supreme court has decided to take up arizona's controversial law targeting illegal immigrants. they will review a ruling that blocked several provisions one requires police to question immigration status if stopped for something else and suspect they may be in the country illegally. the obama administration has challenged the arizona law arguing regulating immigration is the job of the federal government not individual states. there morning president obama acknowledged the iraq war sending but warned other nations not to interfere with iraq's

sovereignty. the comments came during a white house meeting with iraqi prime minister al-maliki. president obama said despite the u.s. withdrawal, america will remain a major player in the region. he called the end of the war a historic moment. he urged americans to remember the sacrifices made during nine years of war. >> the president: let us never forget those who gave us this chance. the untold number of iraqies who have given their lives. more than one million americans, military and civilian who have served in iraq. nearly 4500 fallen americans. >> nearly all the remaining u.s. troops are expected to leave the country by december 31st. 6,000 u.s. forces remain down from 170,000 at the war's peak in 2007. >> nato announced today it will withdraw all troops by the end of the month as well. republican political action committee about to launch a half million dollar cable tv ad against

president obama and his administration's with solyndra. the fremont-based solar panel maker filed for bankruptcy in september. memo by the group cross roads gps indicated three ads will hit president obama for what they call crony government spending in his administration's half billion dollar loan guarantee to solyndra. the group is associated with karl rove. lisa in for mike nicco. >> breezy, chilly, the rain is winding down. on top of mount diablo they have a rain/snow mix. definitely cool out there i'll let you know when the rain is going to end and the pros s for a little more rain coming in the seven day outlook, all next. a daring escape. now teenaged boy managed to trick a terrorist group into releasing him, five months after he was taken hostage. side effects breast cancer

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the father of a sir jury teenager is who escaped from suspected al-qaeda militants in the philippines is calling his son a hero. the 14-year-old kevin lunsmann was taken hostage while

vacationing with his mom and us sin this summer. armed men stormed their resort and kidnapped them july 12th. kevin escaped over the weekend he tricked his captors telling them he was going to take a bath in a nearby stream and made a dash for it. he wandered in the jungle barefoot for two days before finding a village. >> it was the greatest day i had just prayed and prayed god, all i want for christmas is kevin to come home. >> we missed you and been praying for you and glad you are out and can't wait to see you is >> officials say kevin survived by climbing trees for coconuts. his mother was freed two months ago after a ran -- ransom was paid. his cousin escaped last month. he's dehydrated but is expected to survive. the family is set to be back home in a week. >> what a story. glad everybody is okay. this weather, chilly.

>> wet too. >> yeah the it is. we are going to see a change. if you look outside we don't have sun, lots of from our sutro camera, a few drops still in our east bay, south bay and south beach camera you can see a hint of blue. awfully monochromatic void of color or sun. sunshine this afternoon, but leading the pakistan that rosa with sunshine 51. 45 livermore. northeast winds gusting to 22 miles an hour around hayward. breezy on top of that cool weather throughout the rest of morning. lingering shower for this afternoon. overall, we are going to see the skies begin to cheer and patchy dense fog in the north bay cold overnight. we did look like we were going to see more rain by thursday now looks like it is going to be dry. notice that we have a few

returns here most of this is just moisture this re is still spinning up moisture into the east bay. light rain still in the south bay bulk of the activity remains in southern california a winter storm warning for higher elevations of the mountains of southern california. take a look at rain airport as well this will continue throughout the day today won't be until tuesday when those folks get a break. for us, we are looking at high pressure building in tonight you can see the twists in the clouds counterclockwise rotation this will take all moisture to the south high pressure hurt builds in behind this system that is going to bring not only dry weather for the next couple of days, upstream we have another system and that's what we were hoping would bring us more rain by thursday. now it looks like it is going to weaken and split and we are not going to see rain. today showers just in the mid 50s in the south bay, chilly,

54 milpitas, millbrae the same low 50s pacifica. san francisco few peeks of sun the north bay sun and we'll see little bit more of that throughout the day 55 oakland inland east bay greater skies for you too. cool, only 53, a ways to go before you get there. tonight the skies clear out, still a chance of a shower east bay and south bay the dense fog tonight and the chilly start tomorrow. notice, once again, we are dry right on throughout weekend. >> thanks lisa. fedex expects to have its busiest day ever today. the company expects to make 17 million shipments worldwide almost double the usual daily amount. the company has hired 20,000 seasonal employees who help its 290,000 fulltime workers with all the holiday shipments. the national retail federation

predicts half of us will shop online this year. friday is the last day to mail a package that will arrive by christmas without paying extra. new evidence that drugs to treat attention deficit disorder are save for adults' hearts. kaiser permanente in oakland led the study. researchers found adults taking adhd drugs had the same number of heart attacks strokes and sudden heart related deaths as nonusers. similar to another study involving children last month. five years ago the government decided against putting a warning label of increased heart vents related to these drugs after isolated reports of problems. new stud -- new study of breast cancer survivors known as chemo train can be a side effect. breast cancer survivors can experience memory and

concentration problems, several years after treatment with radiation and/or chemotherapy. experts say there may be common i was both therapies affect mental ables and more research needed. the first lady -- the first lady jumps into the record books. >> with help from nouns of friends, including those in

today at 3:00, michael finney demonstrates fun gifts

for the holidays. then at 4:00, we are learning this bench clearing basketball brawl could lead to jail time. at 5, california athlete and lawmaker try to prevent a penn state type sex abuse scandal here. finally, something to celebrate. first lady obama now holds part of a world record. >> today the first lady announced her october 11th bid to break the record for most people doing jumping jacks in 4 hours succeeded. >> she -- in 24 hours succeeded. >> 3 -- [ unintelligible ] >> the event was part of mrs. obama's efforts to promote exercise and healthy eating for children. >> if you want to move today still chilly. >> you need to move to warm

up. high elevation rain/snow mix otherwise showers ending a little more sun this afternoon fog tonight, freezing cold in the morning we are dry throughout the rest of week. that's going to do it for us. >> who wants to be a millionaire is next. millionaire is next. bye-bye. closed captioning by closed captioning services,inc