brent, i accept your pack -- your baggage. >> congratulations. angie and brent will enjoy a romantic dinner cruise at newport beach. we'll see you next time. >> i can't wait for our date. >> as long as you keep your eyes on me and not the waitress. >> i think i can do that.

>> live from the kgo broadcast center at abc7 news. >> i am kristen sze. the search is on for a stranger who tried to kidnap a san jose toddler from her mother. it happened in east san jose yesterday on dayo court. our reporter is live at san jose police headquarters.

you talk to those whose to the victim? >> yes, kristen. the toddler will be okay. police are very concerned. they want to find the attempted kidnapping suspect. and get him off the streets. children's toys are sitting on the front page at house where a toddler was playing tuesday afternoon and a stranger tried to grab her. her mother fought back. >> she fought. >> neighbors get emotional talking about what happened. police say a strange man approached and commented about child which made the mother uneasy and she picked up the daughter but the man grabbed the child's legs. the mother pulled the child free and ran to the house to call police. the suspect took off and has not been found. >> our concern is if he is willing to be so brazen, who is to say he will not do it again and again?

>> i'm rattled. i'm okay. >> the mother's roommate and friend. >> the mother is okay. the baby is fine. i want to respect her privacy. >> neighbors are now talking to their own kids about what happened on lessons of safety. >> we say defend yourself. scream. kick. what we tell you not to do to your friends it is okay when a stranger tries to take you away. >> the suspect is hispanic man between 20 and 30. 5' 6" with a thin build. the mother says the man smelled like motor oil. she will walk with authorities today to provide them with more information for a possible sketch. >> this morning, the wife of a man found shot to death outside a home in san jose is begging people for help to find his killer. the 34-year-old was found dead

on january 6. police do nut have a motive. he leaves behind a wife and young daughter. >> it is very hard for mebos i have -- me because i have a daughter who is five. she is asking for him. i don't have answers. it is very hard. >> his wife pleaded for witnesses to come forward. it was the first homicide in san jose. police do not believe it was gang related. they are working around the clock on the case. >> with have breaking news from algeria where a group claims to hold up to seven american hostages taken at a natural gas complex owned by british petroleum. 41 were taken hostage at a b.p. gas complex near the libyan border. the state department confirms americans have been kidnapped

but will not say how many. british citizens are also among those being held. two people have been killed. secretary of state, hillary clinton is talking with the algerian prime minister. the embassy has issued an emergency message to american citizens in that region. >> bay area travelers had a morning of confusion after all boeing 787 dreamliner were grounded, an aircraft that just began servicing san jose airport. now amy is live at the airport. amy? >> kristen, people have been showing up but they are not staying. look at sfo where people have been sent. this is planes that will be doing what the dreamliner cannot: get people to japan. passengers hoping to climb abortion the new dreamliner in san jose, instead, were told the flights have been grounded.

the airlines spent time with each traveler getting them booked on other lights out of other airports including sfo. they provided shuttles to the new flights and hotel rooms, if necessary. >> we do not know what happened but problem solve. fine. >> japan airlines and ana decided to ground the new boeing 787 dreamliner after yesterday's emergency landing in western japan because of battery problems. this is one of self issues the 787's have had so the airline decides to voluntarily ground the planes. the dreamliner just started flying out of san jose on friday. jason planned a trip from south carolina to china through san jose just so he could experience a long haul trip on the new 787. >> i took this and then i heard the news yesterday. i always love boeing but it is scary.

i rayed if my safety so i don't mind taking another aircraft. >> he says that if and when the dreamliner flies again he will climb open board. officials have sent investigators to japan to look at the planes. no word on when they will start flying again. >> thank you, amy. president obama unveiled steps to reduce gun violence in america. he did so in front of schoolchildren who reached tout him in the wake of the connecticut school shooting. we have more on that story. >> last month shooting massacre in connecticut marked a turning point with 20 schoolchildren dead many americans said "enough." today, president obama announced an extensive game plan, perhaps the most sweeping push if gun control in decades. >> if there is one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there is one life that can be

saved, we have an obligation to try. >> helping the president make the case, american children who wrote to him with their suggestions such as 8-year-old grant from maryland, who says there should be a limit about how many guns a person can own. >> that could be on the president's proposal which does include universal background checks for gun purchases, a ban on lie capacity magazine clips and renewed ban on the so-called assault weapons. a new washington post/abc news poll found a majority of americans support the actions but it is congress that the president needs to convince. the white house says he is not naive about the challenges. with stricter laws looming advocates have begun an intense push back. in a video the n.r.a. goes after the president. >> it is just eat hypocrite. slamming president obama for being skeptical about armed guards in schools while his daughters have required secret service protection.

>> are the president's kids more important than yours? >> the white house called the video repugnant. the senate is going to begin working on gun legislation in the next two weeks but president obama said he could not wait. he signed 23 executive orders on gun control that do not require congressional approval. >> a gun buyback program proved to be a huge success in the bay area. 827 weapons were turned in by different people from four counties. they were given $200 a agoers ran out of money in a few hours. note oh got the most with 277 weapons and san rafael netted 223, central marin had 2306, and marin city 71. another buy back has been scheduled for next monday running from 11 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at night with weapons dropped off, no questions, at the san rafael police

departments and mill valley police department. >> a vote could bring a high profile police consultant to the city of oakland. people packed the meeting objecting to the former los angeles and new york police chief becoming consultant to the police force. he favors technique known as stop and frisk where officers stop anyone who they feel is suspicious. they voted to recommend that a consultant be hired. >> a beloved hollywood act report has passed away from the bay area of natural causeses in he was the kindly adoptive father in "different strokes" debuting in 1978 and tackled sensitive social issue such as class and race. he was 89 years old. still ahead, a deadly helicopter crash in the heart of london at

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two people are dead and dozens are injured. >> fear and panic in the heart of london. witnesses fearing the worst, another terror attack. a helicopter crashed into a korean and plunged to the ground. vehicles burned in the street. a line of fuel on fire and you can see what happened through the mist the crane has been destroyed and has fallen on the road below. >> we saw the crane falling down and everyone was running. >> dozens of fire trucks and ambulances responded. >> get out of the car. >> man was rescued from the burning car. witnesses could not believe this could happen here by parliament. >> cars on fire, people running and screaming. >> the helicopter pilot tried to

land on a hel ipad but there was a 770' crane and it is not clear if he knew of the danger. it was the height of rush hour. it is lucky more people didn't die. >> it is a miracle it was not much, much worse. >> one is lucky to be alive, the crane operator. he was late to work for the first time in years. there are a lot of unanswered questions. did the helicopter have mechanic a.m. -- mechanical lights? were there warning lights on the crane? they are trying to answer those questions right now. >> breaking news. in houston, you can see a minivan, a police chase is going on and police believe there is a robbery suspect in the minivan. the chase has been going on through most of downtown and the suspect is believed armed,

having reportedly pointed a gun at the teller during the robbery in northwest houston at a bank. something was thrown out of the passenger side window during the chase and you can see it is going through city streets with police vehicles behind it and we do not know how many inside or what they did to the car. officials put spike strips but the van is still going and we will continue to monitor the developing story. >> new video of a dramatic rescue in portland, oregon. a woman fell from a roof tomb and -- rooftop and was trapped between the walls of two building. they cut through a wall using an airbag and liquid to get her free. she was four hours wedged off the ground. can you see hero leaf when she was pulled to safety. she went to have a smoke in the middle of the night and was taken to the hospital where she is listed in "fair" condition.

>> and frances is here for mike nicco with a warmer accweather forecast? dare we ask? >> you will get it, kristen. blue skies. looking toward the bay, there is a "spare the air" alert in effect. i will tell you what to expect the next few days. >> plan says, thank you. can children actually grow out of autism? coming up, the results of a new study. >> better late than never, spark

>> walnut creek, campbell, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> researchers are offering a glimmer of hope in the battle against autism. a small and controversial new study found some children who are diagnosed early can grow out of the diagnosis order by the time they are adults. all the children in the study had a mild form of autism and slightly higher i.q. and received intensive therapy and support. skeptics say the children may have been misdiagnosed. research was funded bit national institutes of health. the san jose sharks are sharpening their skates for the delayed start of the season with individual tickets on sale today and fans were greeted at the h.p. pavilion.

the box office opened an hour ago. tickets are available online and over the phone. the sharks have their game on sunday in calgary, the first home game is on thursday. >> debatable whether it will be colder in calgary than it has been here but we are warming up. >> we will be warmer the next few days. we will show you beautiful live shots around the bay area looking south to the bay and san francisco and haziness in the air with high pressure compressing the air and that is why there is a "spare the air" alert in effect. we will take you to another like shot from the east bay hills looking out, you can see the haze and the air is trapped. that will bring us poor air quality and probably stay with us for the next few days. we will take you to live doppler 7 hd showing us clear skies all around the bay area as it sweeps

from mt. st. helena. milder temperatures than yesterday. mostly in the 40's, 48 in san francisco and 52 in half moon bay and 49 in antioch and livermore so we are a few degrees warmer compared to year at this time. that will be the trend through the weekend. milder temperatures today, and "spare the air" in effect, no would burning and a slow warming trend expects for the week end so poor air quality expected in the north bay and moderate air quality in the east bay and south bay. but the likely issue of another "spare the air" alert at 2:00, so it could be with us into the weekend and these are the preliminary numbers for this morning's lows, we had quite a few 20's still out there in napa county airport, fairfield at 27.

san francisco, 41 degrees, more moderate, but, still, chilly. mountain view was 32 and 31 in san jose. it was another cool morning. temperatures come up more compared to yesterday. we will see upper 50's, near 60 degrees in some location. 57 in san francisco. 60 in fremont and palo alto. fairfield is 56 and vallejo and 60 in santa rosa. toward monterey bay we will find temperatures in the upper 50's and up to 62 degrees for a warm spot and 59 in watsonville. we will see more 30's tonight and look for 32 in concord and still freezing and below freezing in vallejo and 43 in san francisco and 38 in san jose so we have an area of high pressure, a ridge that will stay with us bringing us a slight offshore flow, milder afternoon, the warming trend into the

weekend. as you can see with the accweather seven-day outlook, low 50's tomorrow, mid-50's saturdays and sunday so nice, sunny weekend and cooling next week. no complaints and no money back. >> we will bring you back to the breaking news from houston because there has been a development. here is the video. it looks like they have got were the man they were trying to get, the minivan driver who they believe is a bank robbery suspect. the chase has been going on through houston and downtown and on the freeways and city streets and they believe the suspect pointed a gun at a actualer during the robbery although the suspect threw something out the window but it appears to be over. don't know if they are searching for anyone else but we are streaming this on our website at abc7.com. we will tweet information, too, at abc7 bay area. look what happened when a

meteorologist discovered his computer crashed just before going on the air. i am sure frances would have done the same. andrew said he decided to draw all the weather graphics himself including the radar which showed clear skies of course. andrew knew in some color for the 8th date forecast using blue for the low temperatures and yellow for the highs and drew himself wearing a smiley face when he found out the computer was back up. still ahead, rules for life, the search for the young owner of this special notebook left

>> words to live by. a notebook full. a walmart employee wants to return this notebook to the young customer would left it behind. raymond found it in the parking lot and knew it was special. it has a long list of rules to live by jotted with a pencil in a child's handwriting. among the 150 rules do not color on people. chew with your mouth closed. don't bike the dentist. sounds like a polite young map. that does it for us here. creativity abounds. [ female announcer ] this is a special message from at&t.

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