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are ride that court reversed sentencing for being convicted of obstruction of justice during the investigation of the use of steroids in baseball. the judges supported the probation department's recommendation and instead of 15 years in prison sentence him to two years' probation, 30 days of home confinement and to order 50 hours of community service along with a fine of $4,000. the judge said she does believe he third tried to obstruct justice but that he did not succeed. she also
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cited other sentences in steroid cases. his charitable works and how his actions were an aberration to an otherwise lawful life. prosecutors disagreed and said that bonds was well versed since misleading people. they said that bonds had engaged in conduct for years and had been on apologetic and unrelenting. the judge stuck with her sentence and put it on hold to allow his attorneys to appeal the convictions. wrongly convicted. >>reporter: his attorneys are confident. >> just as we aggressor and fought the case at trial, all we will fight to overturn that decline. if for we want him to be able to return to public life as a citizen as he had been until this case began.
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>>reporter: the appeals process could take a year and a half. in the meantime he will remain free on bail. dan kerman, kron4 news. >>catherine: lance armstrong says the sentencing was predictable. he says the church--the judge has so shown no appetite for sending athletes fit to prison and says he does believe that this case and others like it could put other athletes on notice. >> the investigation determine cell will look as ford's and forces of the sports leagues to step up and address the problem of doping in sports which really was not happening in the united states. had a great impact in that regard. if you are an elite athlete and new-line in front of the grand jury, that will put you through the wringer. at the end of
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the day, you get freezing, but a felony conviction is not a fun thing to have on your record, even if you are independently wealthy. >>grant: if the bonds' appeal is denied an he gazes on house of rest is confined to his beverly hills mansion, this is what he would be working well. there is plenty of room. six bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and plenty of outdoor options. place in basketball or tennis or maybe a swim in the pool to cool off. do not forgive the trampoline. she last five there is plenty of parking for the visitors being that he cannot sell anywhere. >>grant: house arrest
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certainly beats prison. >>catherine: ivan gold is joining us. why bother appealing? >> barry bonds does not want a felony on his rap sheet. he wants to get into the hall of fame. he thinks the only way to do that is to not have a felony and be completely exonerate if. he is paying his attorneys a lot of money. they will earn every cent of it and fight until the end. >>catherine: ordinary people are saying, prosecutors spent over eight years pursuing this to come down and spend time in your mansion for house arrest? some people are saying it is a joke. you included. khaskovo i was at the trial every day. the trial turned out to be a joke. i did not start that way. the prosecutors are asking for 15 months in prison at the sentencing. greg anderson,
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the press of rare for barry bonds would not testify, he went to jail so that he would not testify. as we saw all this a promenading evidence, doping calendars, positive steroids test, none of that could be admitted into evidence. as a result, there is nothing there. at that point, the prosecutors should have let the case go. that's prosecutors are calling this a slap on the wrist, but once the evidence was thrown out, this is the way that it would turn out. the prosecutors felt they deserved. >>catherine: bottom line, they should have thrown up the entire case? >> yes. >>catherine: barry bonds looks reasonably disney's. i would be also. >> it could very bonds through the wringer. he had
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to go for a long, expensive trial. he had to hear all of this incriminating evidence against him. in terms of his reputation, his mistresses, all of these people came to court. it was embarrassing and humiliating. bonds was the home run king here a famous san francisco giants player, short hall of famer. he will never get his reputation back or his fans back. they went after him and the thought that much from him. at the end of the day, he has a felony conviction 630 days of house arrest in his beautiful all this, is it worth it? >>catherine: most people would say is not serious >> the bottom line is, if you come into court and the like, he will face consequences for quebec is q has full discretion. >> if
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>> if you get immunity, tell the kids! >>catherine: stay with kron4 as we continue to discuss the sentencing of barry bonds on our web site, www.kron4.com as well as sweater and facebook. >>catherine: the one-year- old child shot in the head in oakland was laid to rest today. a funeral for hiram lawrence, here is a scene of the video-just here is video from the funeral today. six additional people were shot, hiram lawrence was the only one killed. haaziq madyun was in the church today when the casket arrived. >> a horse-drawn carriage brought the body to hiram lawrence to the gospel church in oakland for the funeral for the one-year-old it was held on friday. yellow flowers adorned his
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coffin as pallbearers gently is carried the casket into the church. hear, he conceded toddler's parents entering the sanctuary, a visibly trying to manage the emotions of this difficult day. six screen monitors lanes is a room to give everyone a chance to see and hear those offering comments of support. >> its he is at ease. >>haaziq: about 1000 people were touched by this tragic shooting and struggled to survive carious oakland mayor jean quan things attended the funeral as well. >>haaziq: after an 11 they struggled to survive, hiram
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lawrence was taken off of life support and died at children's hospital in oakland on december 9th, a little over two weeks away from would have been his second birthday. haaziq madyun, kron4 news. das >>catherine: to bay area tour this fall are being told to shut down. the charter school association recommended leadership height and west county community school in richmond the closed. the association says of those schools underperformed and should close. as terisa estacio reports, officials say they are not going anywhere. >> this is a west and the community high-school in richmond, it is one of tens holding recommended by the california towards school association to be closed. school officials spoke with kron4 news on friday and said that they strongly disagree with the association's recommendations and they tell kron4 news that they will do whatever they can to make sure that this school states open.
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>>maureen: this csi unless county community portal and it opened in 2007. 150 students now attend class this year. school officials say it is a safe, positive environment for many kids who live in a challenging city. bay also say that they strongly disagree with the association's findings. >> i see it as an opportunity. >> do you believe the of made strides here and >>mark: absolutely. athens
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>>reporter: coming up we will hear from a student and what he thinks the schools remain open. >>jaqueline: today's weather is a stark contrast from yesterday when we saw the rain fishing for roof. here is a look at your highs for today. coffee temperatures are 5-10 degrees warmer out there today. it was even a little warmer than that. the temperatures will start to slide fairly soon. we are going to be seeing at temperatures in the '50s to the evening into dropping to
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the '40's by 10:00 p.m.- 11:00 p.m.. let's take a look at our weather headlines. freezing cold in the north bay query it into tomorrow, sunny and mild conditions. we will see this same pattern going tonight. it looked your extended forecasts 9. inside the courtroom of the jury sandusky trial his series for >>catherine: al liked least say they shot and killed a man. today's initial offering for zynga did not go as expected. his this season for last-minute holiday shopping. we will tell you the best deals for allman shipping and weird--
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and when to send your gifts in time for christmas. >>grant: the first android phones to run the google operating system is on the market. there is a lot of new technology in this fall that we have not seen and other smart phone before. i am gabe slate, that is coming up in my tech report.
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>>grant: for the first time we are hearing from the man who says he saw jerry sandusky's sexually assaulting a young boy in a campus shower. that testimony helps the case against his former bosses at penn state. mike mccurry is considered a star witness. he says he believes he saw former defensive coordinator jerry sandusky's sexually molesting a young boy between the ages of 10 and 12 in a shower back in 2002. mccrery is an assistant coach and testified on friday that it was very clear, it looked like there was intercourse
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going on. he also said he relayed that information to to ban state administrators. friday's preliminary hearing was for curry and shultz who are accused of lying to a grand jury about what mccrery told them. mccurry said when he met with them to discuss the alleged incident, it was described as extremely sexual in nature. curley and schulz maintained their innocence but the judge overseeing today's hearing decided that there is enough evidence to bring them to trial. the two are charged with perjury and failure to report an assault of a child. >>catherine: the man accused of firing a gun at the white house is mentally fit to stand trial. he is from idaho and accused of trying to kill the president. the
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first hour or not in the white house when this passes serious investigators did find a bullet lodged in a window. six former fannie mae and freddie mac executives face securities fraud charges serious those facing charges include daniel mud and richards are run. the mortgage to finance giants played a big role in the housing market crash by keeping the cost of mortgages low theory if they received the biggest federal bailout of the financial crisis theory f. >>catherine: the maker of the flow of revenge surf that caused the worst oil disaster in u.s. history has agreed to pay for millions to be feria off the is that insurers to say one of the 70 million on that. last year an explosion and fire sank the oil rig. 11 people
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were killed and millions of barrels of will were spilled into the gulf. bp will use the money as a part of its special fund for victims. >>jaqueline: here is a live look outside as the sun goes down. cloudy but mostly clear skies. things will be clear all the way through the weekend and into most of next week. it look at your weekend forecast. possible freezing fog around santa rosa and a runner as far. temperatures in the afternoon have rebounded nicely. upper 50s and low 60s. similar conditions with no chance--a chance a light rain on sunday. temperatures will be quite cold tomorrow, it might be a good idea to sleep in. low '30's through
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livermore. mid-30s in redwood city. 37 in san francisco and concord. into the afternoon, temperatures are not quite as warm as always sought today but still pretty nice. not as chilly as will have seen in day's task. we have seen the return of our blocking patterns. in area of high pressure right here. storms are well to the north. anything that does come near the bay area will go up, are around and come back fancy if first we will see possibly some clouds dropping down tomorrow but mostly clear. here is a look at the extended forecast.
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it's cold mornings and mild afternoon, that will be the pattern for quite some time. wednesday and thursday, will have a cloud cover and cooler temperatures. stay with us, we will be back.
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>>catherine: a union city gang member who shot at and east bay police caught still spend a life in prison. he was convicted of the penn did her in oakland last august. he was serving an arrest warrant when he was shot. afterwards he stole a car and was later arrested near the mexican border. >>catherine: several san francisco groups are appealing for an environmental approval after the america's cup race. there are some groups that
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still one hell ended report including the impact on neighborhoods near the water. plans include construction of a new terminal at pier 27 and all kinds of the venues for entertainment. the america's cup race is scheduled to begin in august of 2012. more news coming up. stay with us.
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>>grant: a man shot and killed by officers in the south bay. questions remain about the situation that police say threaten their lives. housing the, the maker of farm bill and the mafia wars shocked investors plus california's unemployment report is out. we will tell you how the bay area measures up and where the mole people are still a lot of work. those stories and more are next.
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>>catherine: a san jose man was shot and killed by an officer. the man on the right, officers say he pointed a gun at them. craig skalar shows us the scene. >>craig: this is the site of an officer involved shooting. this great house. the people live here or our friends that are consoled one another after the shooting. the block was close off all night as police investigated what they say was a thriving situation that led to the shooting after a gang suppression unit tried to question a man who had an open container of alcohol.
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the man died just after midnight at an area hospital. two of a people were questioned as witnesses. police say this is the eighth officer involved shooting this year in san jose. >>catherine: it was a disappointing day for the san francisco-based company zynga. the stock flopped when it went live on nasdaq. you can see from the chart how things did. it won a briefly but then fell for up to date. zynga is the maker of games like farm bill and the mafia wars. it was one of the year's most anticipated stock options that investigators are not in a hurry to buy. tech experts cite the company's reliance on facebook and overall demand growth prospects. >> this company has gotten a lot of attention still need a lot of sepals know about a, you have all of this
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buildup and then you find out that the market is not as interested in the company as he might have thought. near is a little bit of wounded pride. the real test is going to be months down the road, when you see how well the markets react to the stock. >>catherine: zynga sold 100 million shares at the opening price to raise a billion dollars. comparing this i feel it's others tech companies for, linkedin was a fake his fat $45 a share fury if groupon also did well opening at $16 and closing at nearly $30. pandora, the oakland base internet radio co. went from $16 to $17 in mortgages sense.
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>>grant: new details on california's unemployment. fight we learned on friday that the state's unemployment rate for november was down to 11.3%. that is down from 1127% in october. as we focus in the bay area, and an islamic rates locally are down about a half a percentage point across the fourth period for contra costa, alameda and santa clara counties are all down kron4 for seventh. if the highest of limits rate is in solano county. below is is in marin. most of the new jobs came in trade, transportation and utilities. 2 million people in california are still without work. once the holiday season dies down, we receive these encouraging numbers have some staying power. >>jaqueline: temperatures
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were in the '60s and number of areas. right now and temperatures are quickly falling as the sun goes down. 50 degrees in half moon bay and nevada. 54 in hayward and 55 in livermore. temperatures continue to try to death >>jaqueline: plenty of sunshine out there. skies will be clear tonight. temperatures will rain, a 29-45 overnight. a possibility of a freezing fog in places like santa rosa, napa and runner park. into tomorrow afternoon, temperatures in the upper 50s and low 60s. we will keep a similar pattern going through our extended forecast. details on that coming up. both
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>>catherine: and egypt people have been drawn molotov cocktails. italy is a step closer to some cost- cutting. the new prime minister's plan was approved by the lower house of parliament. if he says he will not try to focus on the growth. think >>catherine: the japanese prime minister says a cold shutdown has been achieved at the fukushima nuclear power plant. they have maintained temperatures below boiling for some time. radiation levels are under control, at least they hope so. two of its reactors were damaged in the martha earth--in the march earthquake and tsunami. the
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government has still not announced when the people who were of actuated can return home. if if he still have given to buy before the holidays, you still have time left. kiberlee sakamoto has what you need to know and can tell you how to get free shipping. >> that is good news. those deep store discounts from black friday, online deals followed on cyber monday. the online retailer that does not have a catchy name but it is still a big win for consumers. >>kimberlee: said there are many retail sweetheart in free shipping date. even smaller specialty stores and a luxury retailers are in the mix. if you placed your order in the next couple of days, your gift should arrive in time for the holidays. if you are in a
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bind and really need to get something quickly, ups and fedex have you cover although it will likely be the most expensive option depending on what horse and did. will carriers say express' and overnight packages will get there the next date. to make sure this is available in your area, stop into ecstatic or ups store and of course friday packages out a few days before the deadline to try to avoid any weather-related or unexpected delays. >>catherine: the galaxy nexus android smart phone is now on the market. it is google's new flagship devices, the first to run on a new ice cream sandwich operating system. it has a new technology like a face of locking feature. gabe
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slate has more to show. cost of the phone has a slight curve which makes it a little bit easier to hold. the galaxy nexus is in my right hand. if droid razr is in my left. the curve of the galaxy as opposed to a straight line of the rates are. i hope that other manufacturers start to build their smaller forms like this. 2, the screen, user fees. no need to draw a pattern or enter it in number. take a picture to set up the face of blog feature. another curse off tried to unlocked my phone and it would not of law for them and kept asking for it
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at the severity and code. and this is the first of google flagship phone to delete button. there are no buttons on the front of this countryish
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>>catherine: here is a live look at the golden gate bridge and on the james lick, traffic is a little bit slow. stay with us, more news coming up.
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>>stanley: found disney hitting badly if. >> this is an old cadillac parked at the corner of florida and 17th street in the mission district of san francisco. it appears to be abandoned. this city is sticker confirms it has been sitting for at least 72 hours. at least the registration is kind. a few blocks away there is a police barricade with three bicycles attached. they are all rested with flat tires to. how before
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>>stanley: i spoke with some neighbors who have an told me that actually gotten better. what i saw in just a few hours, some areas are really bad. i call it a lack of civic pride. >>jaqueline: it was warmer
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out there today. cold temperatures overnight. for in the north bay, patchy fog. freezing in places like santa rosa and napa. let's take a look at the morning temperatures. 29 in fairfield. upper 30s in the south bay. a chilly start today, into the afternoon hough temperatures are mild for this time of year. upper 50s and low '60's in the north bay. a look at our
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satellite and radar detector, high pressure off short driving this for a while to the north. the weather pattern has returned but it does not look like we will see rain anytime soon. into tomorrow morning, breezy conditions are expected. sunday, much of the same but a little bit cooler. mild with no snow in sight. tomorrow morning, we will have the chilly start to the day. it looks like we could catch some cloud cover and cooler temperatures as the storm goes up, down and around.
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>>kimberlee: let's get to the first video. a woman is trapped under a transit bus near salt lake city utah. he conceded crucifix working to rescue her. both of her legs were broken. if police officers crawled under for help or until rescue crews are able to get there. she is in intensive care expected to fully recover. check out this frees the start. there are three kayakers under a 90 ft. waterfall. the three men were not injured. they caught the entire thing on camera. when they surfaced from the what secreted by both police who later let them go without filing charges. now, take a look at this.
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>>kimberlee: this light display is at home near austin texas. >>catherine: here is want freaks, 680 near the interchange. stay with us. more news coming up after the break.
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>>catherine: for council members want the city know- how to prevent future cordis are high.--there are four city council members that want oakland to prevent future disruptions at the port for. >>catherine: he is now fighting for his job, to win
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while violated procedures and approved support structures for the new bay bridge. according to reports he was fired once before for ms. using a state credit card and state issued so on. the board ruled while he made a one time lapse in judgment. stay with us, more news coming up after the brief period o.
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>>catherine: barry bonds has been sentenced fits to remain free. the analysis on his future as a hall of famer. a bay area charter school says it will fight to stay open after being told to shut down the. year is a live look outside in downtown san francisco.
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could her office afte june
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>>catherine: kron4 is live as the community comes together saying enough is enough. o >>catherine: the 49ers are then ready for one of the hardest games of this season. >>catherine: our top story at 6:00 p.m., a memorial being held for two boys killed by gunfire in oakland. hiram lawrence was shot last month in a parking lot. carlos not was hit by a stray bullet in a drive-by
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shooting on international are back in august. kay thompson >>reporter: people are starting to gather clear where hiram lawrence was shot. they are starting to light candles and release all those balloons that you see here. they want people to know that telling the police what you know in giving out if permission is ok. they want people--people are angry and frustrated. paula son was also killed in oakland.
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>> i am mad and i am angry because people in oakland not talk any more. >>catherine: we will get back to that in a moment we wanted to show you more of the scene. this is from another case, but the funeral for hiram lawrence continues in open today. he was in his father's arms when three gunmen opened fire at the crowd. this is from that day following the filming of a rap music video. there is a picture of the little boy, the funeral included an emotional period. people had a chance to share their thoughts. it >> with this guy? something is wrong and we have to correct it. >> i just want to say to the killers who are out
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there who have taken eight innocent life, give yourself it up. >> it you want to sit here and talk about the police? or we waiting on our we win for hurricane country to come through here! >>catherine: barry barnes was sentenced to house arrest and he does remain a free man in dan kerman tells us why. >>reporter: barry bonds was greeted by the cheers of fans as he left on friday knowing that he would not spend any time in prison for his obstruction of justice convictions. he could have been sentenced to 15 months behind bars for making misleading statements to a grand jury investigating the use of steroids in sports,
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the judge supported the probation department's recommendation instead, he sentenced him to two years' probation and 30 days of home confinement and 250 hours of community service and a fine of $4,000. while the judge said she believed gary barnes tried to obstruct justice and she said that he did not succeed and the public consciousness had changed about steroids. she has also said in other steroid cases, his charitable work and his work were an aberration to an otherwise lawful life. prosecutors said barry bonds had engaged in misconduct for years and that he had been unapologetic. but the judge stuck with her sentence only then to put on hold to allow barry bonds' attorneys to appeal the conviction. >> i have been doing this for 30 years now and this is
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as certainly a power for deal that i have added my time. barry bonds was asked a question on page 42 of the grand jury transcript he entered it on page 43 of the transcripts there are approximately 75 seconds between the first answer in the second no one has ever contended before that that could constitute an obstruction of justice. so, there is a basis for pure acquittal. >>reporter: right now barry bonds remains free on bail, attorneys say the appeals process could take a year- and-a-half. >>catherine: lance williams is the co-author of the book came of chattels explored the use of steroids in baseball.--coal arthur of the book game of shadows in explore the use of steroids in baseball.
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>> i talked to the former baseball commissioner about this and he thinks that the voters, the electors will not let him in right away. he thought i agree that you will only depend on how the game besides to regard this one half of the players are using steroid drugs to you want to pretend it did not happen? do you want to put them in a separate wing or do you just want to ban them outright i think the game will have to sort that out. >>catherine: balco is investigated for steroid distribution the beer bar has denied knowingly using steroids. not that he said officers were forced to open fire when the man that you see on the left pointed a gun at them, this happened after the police chased the man that you see on the right. both officers
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followed, one of them pushed into the ground and investigators say the suspect then pulled a gun from his waistband and tossed it into a bedroom. >> the individual in the room try to pick up the gun and officers threaten him not to pick up the gun, was he picked up, the officers began to shout demands for that person to drop the gun. the officers wearing san jose police vest. they were very recognizable. at this point we believe the suspect spoke english. >>catherine: both officers have been put on administrative leave. and last week's fake a reduction of this girl calls law enforcement more than $30,000. an amber alert was issued after officials say the scene--teenager send a
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text message to a family member saying that she had been held against her will. but the police found her and she said she had made it the whole thing to get sympathy from her family. she was arrested for filing a false police report and investigators are still deciding if charges will be filed. and some disturbing news for two bay area charter schools today was county community high school in richmond what you are looking at here, the charter school association recommended that this school and leadership high in san francisco be closed. they say both of them have chronically and performed-- have chronically underperformed. they argue that all test scores have been on the rise with only last year test scores showing a bit.--a dent. >> this learning
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environment is much better my middle school was pack about 46 kids per class. hear, it is much easier to concentrate. there is not a lot of kids, you have more one on one with the teacher and it is just easy for me. other schools have a lot of gang violence would one not in this school has no fights, it is kind of peaceful here. everyone get along. it is a good place to be. but apparently, i was out on facebook last month but i heard things from friends they said that the school might be closing the. i feel like this goal is a strong school and that we will be here for a while. >>catherine: they opened in 2007 officials say a lot of the young students are the first and their families to graduate from high school at
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about 20% goal college. [music] >>jacqueline: it certainly was warmer out there today, the cowhide temperatures in the '60s in a number of places. it is certainly not feeling like december there, it was 67 and napa, 64 concord, and the same in livermore and san jose. temperatures are up quite a bit in a few places mainly in the inland valleys where was 11 degrees warmer in antioch in the same thing in fairfield and warmer and in the north bay. the temperatures are already starting to cool off fairly quickly. it is already 44 degrees in fairfield, 48 navato, 48 at half moon bay. temperatures will release look out there overnight. we will look at another cold morning. we have clear skies and pleasant like santa rosa and napa. not
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into the afternoon we have sunny and mild conditions upper fifties and low 60s. similar weather to the extended forecast but we will be cooling late next week we will talk about that coming up. stay with us, will be back after this. ok, you guys wanted a space for entertaining your friends, so, open your eyes and check out your new living room!
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>>catherine: there was a workplace shooting at southern california today. police say a gunman killed two people and wounded two others before killing himself. you are looking at there, the building was on lockdown in dozens of people have to come out raising their hands. also lot down no one was injured at the school. so far there is no word on what prompted the gunfire. two former penn state officials will stand trial on perjury charges related to the sex abuse case involving a former football coach. the key witness is a another coach, he says that he saw a child
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being abused. the defense is arguing that his story does not add up. >>reporter: a former star quarterback is not a star witness. mark will query told the pennsylvania injury that he felt horrified after he believes that he saw jerry sandusky-less-a young boy--jerry sandusky molesting a young boy in the shower. sandusky faces 50 charges of abuse involving young boys. he has denied all charges of abuse. my query testified in a hearing for two university officials lying in a grand jury and failing to report abuse. the two were in charge at the time. court in friday's
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preliminary hearing was to determine if proceedings were to go forward and this is what prosecutors in the case had to say. >> michael carey told all of you an open court today what he said in house specifically what did we told it to what he believed would happen. >>reporter: the attorneys say historic justin not add up. >> mr. mccrery did not call the police. he went home. >>catherine: six former fannie mae and freddie mac executives are facing securities fraud charges the fcc says that they misrepresented their holdings of high mortgage loans. the sec wants financial penalties against
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six executives they have not yet said how much. and the maker of the blowout preventer that cause the worst spill in u.s. history has agreed to pay $250 million to bp. you are looking at the explosion from april of last year. it sank, the oil rig killed 11 people it spilled millions of oil into the gulf bp is planning to use the money in a special fund for 12 --for oil spill victims. >>jacqueline: now we have freezing temperatures in the morning, into the afternoon we have temperatures in the high fifties and low 60s. as we head out the door tomorrow morning or maybe just the end because it will be so cold, temperatures will be widespread in the 30's. 32 in napa, 31 santa rosa, 38 san raphael. for 33 over in livermore and 29 in
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fairfield. we have of the 30's for the east bayshores this would not be is that morning to sleep in. when the sun comes up that it starts to warm up and feel better out there. in the afternoon these are your current temperatures. >>jacqueline: we have seen the return of our blocking pattern, we have seen as quite a bit over the past few weeks. it keeps us and try and mild it keeps sunny conditions of the bay area. any storm passed to go all weapon come back down the backside. usually by that point we do not see much rain, we get cooler temperatures and cloud your conditions. now take a look at this weekend forecast we have sunny skies for most of the weekend and blazing for tomorrow morning. it is a
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little cooler into monday but unseasonably warm weather and unseasonably dry weather for the lake tahoe area. here is a mature extended forecast to keep this drive all the way to our extended forecast as well. we have cool temperatures to start the day in mountain to the afternoon as we head into next week we will get one of those storms coming up and around the backside of the area. this will bring cooler temperatures for wednesday, thursday and friday. >>catherine: the 49ers take on the steelers' monday to and not what ticket you will probably have to spend a lot of money to go to the game. they say ticket will cost more money for that game than any other in football this week. j.r. stone is following the story and he has more. >>reporter: the cheapest 49ers tickets on stubhub is anywhere between 200 and $250 a that is if you do not mind sitting in the nosebleed seats. they say
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right now it is cheaper to buy tickets to the 49ers first playoff game than it is to go this monday night football game. $80 for a playoff ticket over $200 for a monday night ticket. i checked craigs list and we're talking about $500 in the group priced. >>reporter: -- >> if you see this came as something nice to have it may be a good idea to wait it out a little bit and then if you see something you like go ahead and pull the trigger because i guarantee someone else will buy them before you do. >>reporter: they told me friday, going into the 49er season there were some tickets then resold for just 755. yes, 755. obviously things have changed since then.
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>>kimberlee: to compete with
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other tablets like barnes and noble nook and amazon kindle fire, apple is gearing up to launch a smaller ipad in 2012. their report that the new device will be a 7.8 in. touch screen with a much smaller price point than the other versions of the ipad. microsoft bing is slowly reaching the same status as yahoo both sites have about 15 percent of the market and they take a second place to google because they have a 65% market share. and google has been awarded a patent for driverless cars. they have been researching it for some time they suggest that the technology could be used to-four-
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tourist locations. we'll be back after this.
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>>reporter: the holiday health soul be picking up again when you can expect the highways and the sky way's to the pact. it looks like britney spears will be walking down the out again and met ronnie has a new endorsement.
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>>reporter: in oakland and memorial is being held this evening for two babies that have been shot and killed this year. in this parking lot one year old hiram lawrence was shot in november. the message here tonight is that snitching so should not have a stigma that people who have information should come forward and give it to the police so that the suspects can be caught. >>reporter: here in oakland the funeral was held for one year old hiram lawrence. the baby's casket was brought to
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the church by a horse-drawn cast is easy it was a very emotional scene. >>reporter: family members came to say their final goodbyes to the young baby in oakland. >>reporter: barry bonds remains a free man on bail. >>reporter: in san francisco women are concerned about a series of rapes that have happened along the 24th street corridor and they're taking safety into their own hands. this woman supply store has been selling out
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of pepper spray they say more than 40 personal defense pepper spray kits were sold in the last five days. police say there is an intense manhunt for the suspect and they're hoping that someone will recognize this new sketch of him. >>reporter: in san jose police department authorities are investigating a deadly officer involved shooting that happened last night. authorities say two police officers approached the 24 year-old man walking in the neighborhood drinking a beer. that man took off into a house. the officer followed and one of them knocked the man to the ground. at that point the man pulled a gun from his waistband and threw it into a bedroom. one of the officer shot and killed the 47 year-old man after feeling threatened. >>reporter: in eight other big story this is with county community high school
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in richmond. it is one of two bay area charter schools the other is an san francisco being recommended by the california charter school association for closure. the association says that the schools are chronically underperforming and that their test scores are not good enough for renewal. however, school officials tell kron4 news that they believe the test scores have shown improvement in the past couple years and they say that there is much more to educating, successfully educating students and their test scores. they vowed to fight the closure. >>reporter: in san francisco the online gaming company zinga saw its initial stock offering open to fall in prices. the makers saw their stock fall more than 7 percent after nasdaq began trading the shares this morning. that drop in stock value may have been a disappointing. they
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did raise more than $1 million before trading began. >>reporter: 4 million californians are expected to travel this holiday season, 10 million will drive to their destination 1925 cows and will be heading to the airport. nationally aaa says that 91.1 million who will travel 50 mi. or more this holiday season as a 4.1 percent increase over last year. >>gabe: in tech news, the mock---the type of global android phone is on the market. to learn more about the new technology and the
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features that this foam offers and how to get it for a really good deal tune in tonight to kron4 news at 8:00 p.m. i am gabe slate with kron4 news. >>reporter: the south carolina governor said today that she is endorsing a raunchy praise his track record in the private sector. she says that his experience is needed to get america back on track. >> it is with great pride and great respect, and great support that michael and i are very proud to say that we are endorsing gov. mit romney for president. >>reporter: he scheduled to campaign in south carolina tomorrow and heavy stamp of approval could help him in next month's primary. president obama address at the largest gathering of jewish people in north america. they are meeting at the national arbor near washington. president obama
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is the first president to speak at that conference. >> it is hard to remember a time when united states has given strong support to israel on its security. i am proud to say that no u.s. administration has done more in support of israel security. [music] >>jacqueline: dry weather is expected for the next several days to get the return of a blocking patterns i will tell you more about in a moment. we will take a look at our current conditions, we have cold mornings in the mild afternoon--and out temperatures in the afternoon. right now we have widespread 30's expected overnight. here is a look.
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>>jacqueline: for the afternoon we will rebound nicely. we have the upper fifties and low 60s. >>kimberlee: -- >>jacqueline: here is a look your extended forecast we have mouth conditions to the afternoon. >>reporter: if there was a man sell-off in san francisco today and it had nothing to do with stocks and bonds.
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>>stanley: how much? >> $1. >>stanley: so now you're putting them away so they are not for sale any more? so the sale does ended is that because of the camera? >>stanley: $1 for candice string beans, that is not even a bargain. tonight at 8:00 p.m. i will show you a food giveaway that turned into a food sell-off in the next edition of people behaving badly. >>catherine: this is happening right now in san francisco bay. this is the holiday lights in sight parade. it started about 40 minutes ago. it was being done by the fishermen the port district. stay with us, we have more news coming up.
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>>kimberlee: caught princess britney spears in unpaid for a long time for a friend-- britney spears is engaged. it is her longtime boyfriend and her producer. the two have been dating since 2009. this will be the third walk down the aisle for the 30 year old mother of two. an 81 year-old actor and director clint eastwood could appear in a new reality show in hollywood legend will appear on a series that is intended to appear on-camera e! it will focus on his wife and his two daughters as well as a previous daughter from an of the relationship. her this is reportedly being produced
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by the same company that made it bad girls clubs, real world and of the kardashian shows. [music] >>kimberlee: blues legend at the james whose health has been fading is not terminally ill. her doctor told riverside press that her chronic leukemia was declared in trouble two weeks ago. she also suffers from dementia and kidney failure. >>catherine: the 49ers are catching a break regarding the steelers. vern and is coming up to explain. ok, you guys wanted a space for entertaining your friends,
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>>vern: after being charged tried to set up the drug dealing that were--drug
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dealing network, hurd's lawyer said he never sold the drugs to any other teammates. if a potential for 40 years. apparently he has a list and he may name names. the 49ers have a one point favorite is been raucous burger going to play? the quarterback saw limited action today and he did practice. xerophilous burger was injured against the cleveland browns with a high ankle sprain. if he cannot play, 37 year-old charlie will start. and off to the defense's side of the football. rob list
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>> we are getting ready for what we have to do. >>vern: i can say, i have my own james harrison here in the studio. my brother is here. robert, that is my brother. you can see the resemblance. >>jacqueline: i did not know, hello robert. >>vern: anyway, robert is coming up in a moment. and
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they have to be tim lyons and a half to beat them to win a playoff. and running back derrick mcfadden is out again. he has a foot injury and some insiders wonder if he will play again this year. seven consecutive games that he will miss due to this foot sprain. here is the head coach hugh jackson. >> if i had no that he would be going as long as he had been you just do not have an idea about these things. what do you do with a foot? after you x-rated and they tell you not need surgery you just do not know how fast guys can heal. >>vern: now we are on the eve of the biggest fight of andre ward's courier. he is
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in atlantic city tonight. he seeks to unify with wb old champ. it is the super 6 title bout held tomorrow night. there they are staring each other down try to sell more tickets. this will be on showtime tomorrow night. here is on the reward.--here is andre ward. >> i am here to make a statement and i'm here to win this hardware saturday night. >>vern: when we come back, my brother from another mother is here. robert the icebox. coming up next. now look, look at how serious he
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looks in the camera. me and robert, my brother is coming up in a moment do not move.
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>>vern: now this is my brother, 350 lbs. he joins us here. if some of you may have seen him at the coliseum live in a security man and press delete now what is going on? a >> we are throwing on annual danon this is for him kids toys for tots is something a bit but we do. hayward >>vern: where the been held? >> at the elliott county
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fairgrounds. many fans like the roller derby fans and people from the past and if you buy a ticket, any adult buys a ticket 12 and under the >>vern: let us talk about will occur because this has been a staple in the very freely executed caught the far audience can remember watching it on to the. mom >> yes i have been around for 30 years in the game of roller derby like i said it is been tied to date. the bombers have been around. i was kicked out of the bay brown ordered as a nation--i was kicked out of the raw farmers organization and now i have the all stars. because >>vern: is part of the on skates but to roll around and knock down these guys and girls what you think? >> , brother that is in the
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studio very awesome. his brother, we go back a long ways. and >> like acid, it is a big. it used to be the number-one sport at one time and my basket i have been easy to do with it is coming that. with >>vern: even i tried it back in my golfing days. and mc qeen now i am look at that. [laughter] >>vern: i got a concussion on that went. [laughter] >> newton and who now we have lost any meat when miller, stephanie garcia.
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>>vern: so it is the all stars into bombers tomorrow night at the alameda county fairgrounds and what time do the doors open? >> though the doors open at 7:00 p.m. and the game time is 8:00 p.m.. bring toys for tots. 6z7
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"the insider" is taking you in depth on today's big celebrity headline. i'm kevin frazier. "the insider" is on. howard stern fires off on his "america's got talent" backlash. >> they start to complain that i'm some sort of weird pervert. >> shock, profanity. obscenity. is he someone that you want to hold out to america's family? >> they're in existence to get me off the air. >> who's calling the new judge a rich pervert? and could advertisers now pull out of the hit show? >> he'll have to stop the raunchy jokes. and is barbara walters really retiring? could marie osmond replace joy? >> good night, everybody. kim kardashian's first interview since ex, kris, filed to annul their marriage, citing fraud. her new crusade.

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