:b closed captioning by closed captioning services,inc +e . good morning, i'm cheryl jennings. and i'm kristen sze. one of the new baby bisons injured after an encounter with dogs. don sanchez is live in golden gate park. >> reporter: this is the bison paddock. that bison injured either hit the steps or some other object inside the paddock building gash frightened by dogs. these bison have been around for a long time. in early december they were

joined by seven baby bison in the video you can see the babies barely on the other side of the tall fence. the friend of a dog owner tells us what happened. three dogs got into the paddock crawling under a hole in the fence. >> a dog walker had several dogs off leash. two dogs got under the fence and started hurting the bison. this went on for a while until a ranger and police came and they were able to get the dogs out. it went on and on. >> reporter: for as long as half hour. the dog watcher was cited by police as this sign indicates you have to keep your dogs on a leash in this area. they obviously did spoken as quickly as possible. we can neither confirm nor deny the severity of the injuries of bison. the san francisco zoo is keeping a closed mouth.

it is not a state secret, but at this point -- i'm just getting wore the zoo just issued a -- word the zoo just issued a release and says the baby bison has died. don sanchez, live in golden gate park. right now about 7,000 people in san francisco are without electricity. people in the western addition in laurel heights lost power an hour ago. pg&e says it was caused by a third party digging on mcallister street. crews hope to have all power restored by 1:00. it looks as though a suspected burglar has given police the slip in san francisco. the man slid down a steep cliff in the telegraph hill 10:00 last night after spending more than 24 hours hiding in the dense brush. officers spent all day yesterday trying to find him, could never pinpoint his location they gave up 7:00 last night deciding the risk

trying to arrest him wind worth it. they are trying to identify him using fingerprints lived from one of the homes. president obama made a rare appearance at the pentagon this morning to announce a new military strategy in the face of huge budget cuts. >> reporter: if in this case it is not just less equipment, it is fewer troops. the pentagon is looking at half a billion to one trillion in cuts over the next 10 years. this morning the president said the cuts are not just about the bottom line they will be part of a new military strategy >> the president: our military will be leaner, but the world must now, the united states going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats. >> reporter: the specifics as to how much lean are the military will be will come out

in the coming weeks, but it will be smaller and refocused, namely the asia pacific. >> unlike past draw-downs when often times the threats the country was facing went away, the fact is, there remain a number of challenges. the destabilizing behavior of nations like iran and north korea. the rise of new powers across asia. >> reporter: general democracy chairman of the joint chiefs of -- general dempsey chairman of the joint chiefs of staffs reiteratd it is not a blow to7 military strength. >> it has real bite among our leadership. this is not the strategy of a military in decline. >> reporter: president obama calls this a transition. he says the military budget grew at an extraordinary pace after 9/11. now things are different. >> the president: over the next 10 years, the growth in the defense budget will slow,

but the fact of the matter is this, it will still grow. >> reporter: the president says he's ready for people to criticize the cuts as too severe. he says the defense budget is larger than the military budgets were roughly the next 10 -- three airmen will be award the purple heart for injuries during deployment in afghanistan. the men are members of the 60th civil engineer squadron wounded by ied's during combat missions. >> in oakland occupy protest are back outside city hall after a run-in with police last night that sent several to jail. terry mcsweeney is there. a new plan today? >> reporter: you never know it looking at frank ogawa plaza you just got a few people

sitting around. the plan is that they are going to occupy city hall this afternoon at 2:00. before i show you what lead to their occupies of city hall take a look at the teepee at the center of last night's controversy set up by demonstrators with the city's approval in november. recently police noted they were selling food or giving away food out of the teepee, storing things in the teepee, both in vials of the regulation as loud by the -- in violation of the regulations allowed by the permitting process. that lead to last night. >> you have to leave or go to jail, this is our zone. >> reporter: oakland miss tell me a total of 12 were arrest -- police tell me a total of 12 were arrested. some were taken to santa rita jail, a number out here tell me police did issue a warning.

most people decided to leave this area where the teepee was. obviously, 12 people decided not to. little while ago i had a chance to talk to a woman who was out here last night and got her perspective. >> 12 to 14 they took again last night for nothing, for sitting here. for sitting here. with signs, not even protesting, not being loud, feeding one another and being a family they are arresting occupy oakland. trying to take everyone down one by one. >> reporter: jessica spent time writing in chalk on the sidewalktell -- [ unintelligible ] getting back to today, 2:00, we are told demonstrators are going to be putting up a table where that teepee was then proceed into city hall and occupy the offices of mayor jean quan and the city

administrator. we'll have that tonight at 4:00, 5 and 6:00, if in fact it happens. 6:00 terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. jobs report is positive sign for hiring. labor department says the number getting unemployment benefits fell 15,000 last week to 372,000 the fourth drop in five weeks. officials say when applications fall below 375,000 consistently it signals hiring is strong enough to reduce the unemployment rate. the december jobs report comes out tomorrow. still ahead, general motors plans to make changes to the chevy bolt electric cars. it is back! concord residents say it disgusting and making them sick. +e/

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concord residents suffering through nasty smelling air again like rotten eggs from a pipeline leaking last november owned by conoco phillips. >> reporter: the rotten egg smell hit again this week in concord, not as bad as it was in november but it felt like a setback. some started thinking about how to escape it, again. >> with five kids, we only went to the hotel once and that was two months ago. it is hard to uproot my family to go to a hotel. when it came back, i just thought it was disheartening.

>> reporter: county officials said the smell is , but nothing to worry about. it is not a sign of a new oil leak. crews returning from the holiday break lifted up tarps and unleashed the smell. residual effect from the leak in november. >> it is encouraging, i know it has been going on a lot. this is good news if it is fixed. >> reporter: the pipeline on the former concord naval weapons station. the pipe belongs to conoco phillips and was leaking crude oil through a pencil-sized hole that crews are working to repair and cleanup with >> it is a case of removing the tarp. i just hope -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: county officials have been told crews will be here another two to three weeks. there is a chance residents will smell the odor again. but say it will probably never be as intense as wait was --

as it was in november. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> we've made calls to conoco phillips, but they've not returned them yet. general motors prepared to ask chevy bolt owners to bring them in after three batteries caught fire several days after side impact crash tests. the government blames the fires on a coolant leak that caused electrical short. no fires have broken out in real world crashes. gm will contact the owners and have them return to dealers for several structural repairs dealers will add steel to a plate that protects the battery. another day full of sunshine probably not record high temperatures. clouds off the coast and a little bit of cooling on the way, we'll talk about that. getting around the bay with help from your friends. abc7's new traffic tool that

promises to make you, your commute easier. she has undergone dozens of surgeries. the gift she gave her little girl to get to follow her foot

step crews in san francisco are busy getting chinatown ready for the lunar new year celebration.

they began a full scale cleanup operation bright and early today.shed the sidewalks d facades and removed graffiti. as always, the celebrations will end in the traditional lunar new year parade february 11 eventh. 2012 is the -- year of the dragon. >> it comes early this year, january 23rd. after selling one new year, get ready for another. weather looks dry. >> usually worried about rain during the parade. the way things are going now, we could use rain, hopefully not falling then. looks hazy out there, no need to worry, not a spare the air day. good morning. 11:18. southbound from mount tamalpais this morning. another look east downtown oakland from south beach in san francisco, barely see the top of mount diablo by the --

let's take a look at visible sat late you can see how clear it is. a few high clouds moved through that's about all we'll have in the form of any adverse weather today. we may have winds pick up a little the -- during the afternoon. 60 san jose, 60 in los gatos. around the monterey bay inland temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. mostly sunny and mild today not the record setter we saw yesterday. dangerous surf develops later this evening through tomorrow could be slightly cooler tomorrow, before another warm burst sunday to tuesday into next week. as far as what is going to happen today, low to mid 60s in most neighborhoods with high clouds mixing with sun richmond, san francisco, half moon bay 60, 6 san rafael, san mateo and vallejo --

everybody else in the mid 60s may get to 67 in livermore. 62 monterey, rest of the bay inland mid to upper 60s. around the state we do not set a yesterday in tahoe, 58 close and still very warm for this time of the year. low to mid 60s through the central valley and big sur a string of 80s in los angeles this entire week near that in palm springs. tonight we may see a now more clouds mid to upper 30s inland valleys with fremont and palo alto. here's that cold front falling apart doesn't have much moisture but it is pushing the warmer air mass away. high pressure behind it once again steering the next several storms that you see are active on the jetz,,njut(s % up into the pacific northwest. angry, we'll say. 6:00 this evening to noon

tomorrow northwest swells 13 to 16 feet right now 12, strong rip currents, even minor beach erosion on the northwest facing beaches. breezes pick up this afternoon will be faster tomorrow, probably the coolest day tomorrow more widespread 50s calmer with a lot of sun saturday through wednesday, temperatures back in the low to mid 60s. here's something fun to think about, monday you will see us debut a new technology exclusively here with when we do our traffic reports. it is called waze aimed at helping you find ways to avoid traffic jams. >> reporter: frank commutes everyday to palo alto. >> usually 30 minutes door-to-door with little traffic. on a bad day as much as an hour and 10 minutes. >> reporter: to cut down on bad days frank has been using

a from app called waze. it tells you where the traffic jams are and how to get around them by gathering real-time gps data from millions of users, as they drive. >> we have a community of 10 million drivers that are responsible for helping us collect that information. it is all driven and created by the crowd. >> reporter: the creator thinks of it as a win-win. a free turn by turn navigation service gets more accurate as more use it. >> it is a 100% community all they do is open the application and drive and contributing to the information that everybody gets. >> reporter: waze works on any newer smartphone tablet or gps receiver, android, newer models of the blackberry, iphone and 3g models of the ipad. frank uses waze on an iphone mounted in a suction cup

holder so he can keep both hands on the wheel. you should never type while driving, waze won't let you. if you are parking or a passenger frank showed how you can report problems. >> i can say moderate traffic and send now it has put an alert there. >> reporter: those alerts help other drives and abc7 news traffic give you the most detailed reports. >> heavy traffic telling you on octavia street. >> reporter: city streets and back roads have always been a college for reporters. frances dinglasan is using waze to report missing information. >> right now the thing i'm most excited about is just taking the driver to the street level, especially if there's an incident. >> reporter: incident reports on waze are up to the second. >> there's the truckism >> reporter: frank can acknowledge he has seen it too. >> thumbs up. and there you go. >> reporter: if you join the

abc7 news traffic spotters group on waze we'll mention you on air when your report helps us out. >> that verifies the slow speeds on the central freeway. >> reporter: you can download the waze app by going to abc7news.com/waze or the. teen store or android marketplace then join our traffic spotters' group. >> more abc7 news traffic spotters we have the more relike the information will be. >> reporter: jonathan bloom, abc7 news. >> easy to sign up and it is free. >> listen to this story, a little shocking. most parents of 7-year-old girls may give them art supplies, legos or dolls for christmas. not one british mother whose nickname is the human barbie. the 51-year-old gave her daughter an unusual stocking stuffer, a voucher for liposuction worth $11,000 this follows her birthday present a voucher for breast augmentation redeemable when

she turns 16. the mom has had a million dollars worth of cosmetic surgery to look like barbie. >> okay. well (speaking in international language) and he said unto them go ye into all of the world and preach the gospel preach the gospel  ♪very creature in the world.

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