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abc7 news. once the bullets started flying.police say the suspect took off. shortly after the shooting.the suspect's mustang was found abandoned in daly city. later that night.the suspect.50-year old jeffery ruano.was spotted across the bay. .in richmond. >> reporter:officers there tried to pull him over.but he wouldn't stop. two women were also in the suspect's mercedes.and a high speed chase went south through the east bay.into san jose. >> reporter: the question now remains who shot him?
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>> reporter: blood that he shot one acclaim through his arm and has not been found. if investigators have been searching for it to know what the associated press showed up. no weapon associated has shown up. no 38 mount caissons have been found. so >> for the only weapon we can put at the scene and or casings that were discharged the loan to the passenger officer. belong to the passenger officer.
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board. >> catherine: three days and still no sign of a malaise and airliner with a 239 people on boardthe plane disappeared friday night -- and over the weekend we learned that two of the passengers were not who they claimed to be, >> catherine: the u=s navy has contributed two warships to the search. >> catherine: 34 aircraft and 40 ships from ten nations are combing flight 370 disappeared two hours after leaving kuala lumpur for beijing. >>if the plane broke apart midair, whether it be from an explosion or from something mechanical - losing control or losing a structural member - then you would expect to see a very wide debris field. >> catherine: vietnamese searchers thought they spotted a door from the airliner, but it wasn't. a plane spotted an oil slick. another false lead. it was not airline fuel. >>"unfortunately, ladies and gentlemen, we have not found anything that appear to be objects from the aircraft, so today the search area was >> catherine: expanded. as far as the andaman sea on the other side of the malaysian peninsula. >> catherine: adding to the
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mystery. the discovery that two passengers. both men. were traveling with stolen european passports. >> catherine: the malaysian government says surveillance cameras at kuala lumpur airport show the two men do not appear to be asian it has forwarded pictures descriptions of the men to the u=s to determine if they have terrorist ties. in beijing, relatives of the passengers wait in vain for news. >> know what happened. we've lost loved ones and they need to answer our questions. when are you going to tell us and what are you going to do? we still don't know if they are alive or dead." >>"still no information and still waiting. i am not happy with the airline's arrangements so far." >> catherine: about half of the passengers on the plane were chinese. three americans are also among the missing. >> pam: spring training getting a little more interesting. with the return of barry bonds to baseball. the former slugger is suiting up. to help the club, tutor players on hitting the ball. >> pam: the move is somewhat controversial. since there were allegations that bonds used performance enhancing drugs. and he was convicted of perjury. >> pam: tonight -- our sports director gary radnich is here. we'll get his take on all
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this in a moment. but first -- kron 4's j-r stone is live in scottsdale, arizona. where barry bonds answered some questions today. j.r.? >> reporter: that is where we have to start we have to get to know each other. i have circumstances that i am phillip but now that things have calmed down or are coming down we are talking. everyone respects what he has accomplished here. we have teammates this illegal play when you're nice. but that the forest so it worked. it went back and forth but it worked. i could
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still be crazy but i calmed down a little bit. and to help you be better which already are but not sure how much more accurate title tel. time will tell >> reporter: taking it one day at a time bonds would not respond your answer to some of those responses to knight at 6:00. live in scottsdale j.r. stone, kron 4 news >> gary: funds has too much
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money in the bank to do things that he does not want to do. bonds >> gary: way that this broken-down the bonds had not been in uniform since 2007. he served the house or rest for 30 days and has done that in moving back to the bay area from beverly hills. i think this is a good opportunity for people to see him with a smile on his face to the heat this guy is really not such a bad guy off committee will give him as second thought for the hall of fame. >> gary: pulled the tape and
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i will tell you the story. >> gary: the guy's cool to the princess's father will that help him question what the croesus only if he can punch. the priest says only if you can punch. >> gary: bonds says he likes to go back for a short time basis. both g is as if he's rolling his eyes as i want to thank both ceviche. bolcji >> gary: this will did his
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nine slowly but surely back into good graces and the hall of fame may be. >> pam: think keelhaul gary spot mr. sports director. thank you kron four sports director gary radnich is here with to baseball.working with the giants. >> pam: coming up at 5:15. >> pam: we'll take you to the south bay. where an arsonist targetted several locations frequented by children >> pam: then at 5:30. >> pam: "he wishes his son was never born." that stunning quote and >> pam: other revelations tonight. from the father of the sandy hook shooter. and next. >> pam: from seemingly evasive. to just plain rude. new video of justin bieber. being grilled by an attorney. you won't want to miss it.
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instrumental in his own career - but the slip of tongue - detrimental to his career - works too. >> reporter:the deposition went on for more than four hours. pam? >> pam: still ahead. >> pam: a scary mid-air collision -- caught on camera. we'll show the moment an airplane hit a sky-diver. then -- a high school act goes horribly wrong. we'll show you what happened next. leaving several kids hurt.
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>> pam: happening now in fremont. police are trying to get to the bottom of three suspicious fires. all of them were started this morning. and in all the cases -- school chilredn are feeling the impact. as kron four's terisa estacio reports >> reporter: ryder officials say the received a call that the fire alarm had been triggered crews discovered
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the fire at the little league shed and the netherlands and the bastogne all of three locations within a mile of in another. >> reporter: >> will operate the program as normal as possible ken and a different location in breach of safety and innocence of a school environment is very disturbing. >> reporter: this is not the first time the ship has been damaged it was a grunt a month ago and just rebuilt. >> this just happened a couple of months ago and we just rebuild it two weeks ago and now this happened
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again. this is pretty upset. >> reporter: reframe not kron4 news. teresa estaciao kron 4 news >> reporter: the distance from the coast is the main reason it was not damage or injury. people definitely felt it. up in to oregon as well more than 20 aftershocks there is a 5 percent chance of a larger north a larger or earthquake there was never a threat of the tsunami with this earthquake.
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cboe it's not the kind of >> catherine: accident you hear about often. in florida this weekend -- a cessna collided with a parachute. the plane cut the cords on the chute - and the skydiver fell 75 feet. >> catherine: and video from a high school play that ended badly. the big finale called for dozens and dozens of students to pile up onto the stage. and you can probably guess what's coming. >> catherine:
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>> bad timing of >> catherine: both male walked away from the seed with minor injuries. >> i'm happy that neither one of them were seriously injured. >> reporter: >> catherine: and we have video from haskell stageroughly 200 girls were jumping and dancing. when the front section of the stage collapsed. this was at a school in anaheim, california saturday night. >> catherine: more than two dozen students were loaded onto gurneys and into ambulances. the injuries are described as minor to moderate --
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including some broken bones. >> catherine: everyone will recover. investigators are looking into the cause of the collapse. >> jacqueline: temperatures on the mild side. we did his seventh teased out there today. seventies out there today. we are in the fifties at the coastline. still indistinct and a number of places in 20 mi. an hour range and half moon bay. 14 in redwood city, 13 in
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oakland. a little chilly in spots. as we look ahead to a lot more into the weekend. >> pam: next. >> pam: we have the results from a new study. on how a spouse. working overtime, affects husbands and wives. >> pam: then. [ sports announcer ] here's another one, alyson dudek. hales corners, wisconsin. nice pass by alyson dudek. can she hang on to that spot? and she does! [ male announcer ] with the u-verse wireless receiver, your tv goes where you take it, allowing inspiration to follow. ♪ [ dad ] looks pretty good, right?
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healthier his wife will be. >> reporter:at least that's according to a new study looking at nearly 4,000 men and women where husbands who worked more than a 40 hour work week are evidently doing their wives a favor. >> reporter:it found that husbands working particularly long schedules were associated with their wives being in better health. >> reporter:bringing home more money had something to do with it. but the researchers didn't find it worked the other way around. the husbands' health didn't improve when wives put in longer hours. in fact, the husbands' health actually suffered when wives worked even moderately longer hours. researchers believe it's because husbands had more chores around the house and less time to hit the gym. pam? >> pam: coming up at 5:30. he calls his son 'evil". we have more of the stunning revelations from the father the great american novel. so you can happily let life get in the way, while planning for tomorrow.
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(male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. (male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >> pam: now at 5:30. >> pam: the father of the man behind one of the deadliest school shootings in history. is making some frightening revelations about what led up the tragedy in newtown. catherine heenan is here
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with interview. >> catherine: peter lanza says he wishes that his son had never been born. he's talking about adam lanza - the 20-year-old who killed 20 first graders and 6 teachers at a colorado grade school. it's the first time his father has broken his silence on the tragedy. >> catherine: the father of shooter adam lanza is talking about the tragedy of sandy hook. saying "with hindsight, i know adam would have killed me in an heartbeat, if he had the chance." in his first interview since the shooting in newtown, connecticut nearly 15 months ago.he tells the new yorker magazine that he has met with two families of his son's victims, saying >>"a victim's family member told me that they forgave adam after we spent three hours talking. i didn't even know how to respond." >> catherine: lanza says when he realized what happened, he called his wife at work, telling her >> catherine: over and over -- "i think it's adam. it's
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adam." he says he hadn't seen his son in two years when the shooting happened. and tells stories of a boy who had behaved strangely since early childhood. he says he knew there were problems but adam was difficult to treat. >> catherine: saying "he did not want to talk about problems and didn't even admit he had asperbger's." authorities later found that adam had holed up in his room.the windows covered by black garbage bags. peter lanza says things got worse when adam's mother nancy - his ex-wife - became the primary person who took care of him. >> catherine: in his words "she wanted everyone to think everything was ok." >> catherine: and says she wasn't afraid of adam.a big mistake. >> catherine: he says "she slept with her bedroom door unlocked, and she kept guns in the house.which she would not have done if she were frightened." these photos released late last year by the connecticut state police show an open gun locker. several guns.
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>> catherine: and lots of ammunition.inside the house. >> catherine: peter lanza says he is haunted by his son. and dreams of him every night. in one nightmare, he says he's being hunted, like one of his son's victims. >> catherine: peter lanza says what his son did 'couldn't get more evil.' and believes he could have been schizophrenic. adam also killed his mother the day of the shooting.and later killed himself >> reporter:next month marks the one year anniversary of the deadly boston marathon bombing. and officials say they're amping up security measures for this year's race. this is video of last year's marathon. where three were killed and more than 260 others were injured when two bombs exploded near the finish line. food >> reporter:authorities have been meeting for months to race. at least 35-hundred police officers will be spread along the route. which runs through eight cities and towns. officers say spectators with backpacks and other large items may be searched.
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and encourage people to carry belongings in clear plastic bags instead. the race is scheduled for april 21-st >> pam: in ukraine. crimea is set to hold a referendum next sunday on whether it should secede and rejoin russia. but as cnn's anna coren reports. russian troops are already marking new territorial borders across chongar. >> reporter:parked along the highway linking crimea to ukraine. a convoy of russian military trucks and armored personnel carriers. >> reporter:we're approaching a checkpoint - flying the russian flag -- where troops are searching cars, targeting media crews and confiscating equipment. >> reporter:we hide our cameras as soldiers inspect the van. one of them is spotted - it's taken and turned off. this is now effectively part of russia. and they don't
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want us filming the evidence. >> reporter:the local soldier in charge - who's sworn allegiance to russia -- agrees to an interview. >>"we're defending our people", he tells me. "this is not about russia but about protecting our homeland." >> reporter:as we drive through the checkpoint, we see the "new border" that's being erected along this windswept plain. >> reporter:once out of view from russian troops, we stop the car and resume filming. >>while russia says it has no military presence here on the crimean peninsular, well here is your proof. russian troops have dug in armed personnel carriers, rolled out barbed wire and dug holes for fence posts and there are also signs that indicate there are landmines in the area. >> reporter:a local resident says they aren't just signs - this is a minefield. >>"one of my neighbors dogs ran in there and was blown
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up", he tells me. "why are the russians laying landmines? why are they being so aggressive?" >> reporter:for those living here. the military build-up on their doorstep is alarming. >>"i'm frightened about the future", this grandmother tells me. "we don't want a war. we just want to work, live peacefully and feed our families." >> reporter:several kilometers up the road --- the ukrainian checkpoint appears. >> reporter:they too are digging in, setting up camp - well aware this standoff could turn bloody. >>"we are warriors, following the orders of the people of ukraine. if they want us to defend crimea then we will do this and we're willing to die." >> reporter:a sacrifice they're prepared to make for the sovereignty of ukraine. anna coren, cnn, chongar on the crimean peninsula. >> pam: president obama plans to meet with ukraine's interim prime minister wednesday to talk about the crisis in crimea. >> pam: pro-russian forces
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are consolidating their hold on ukraine's crimean peninsula days before a referendum on whether crimea should join russia. the white house says ukraine >> pam: has president obama's full support. >> pam: ukraine's interim prime minister assumed the role after ukrainian president viktor yanukovych was ousted last month amid protests. >> pam: russian officials call the ouster an illegitimate coup and refuse to recognize the new ukrainian authorities. >> pam: a new poll found that 48 percent of people approve of how president obama is handling the crisis in ukraine. the c-n-n/o-r-c international survey also found that 59 percent support economic sanctions against russia. >> pam: obama's administration laid the groundwork for sanctions last week. numbers also suggest americans aren't eager to get involved with foreign conflicts -- with about 70 percent saying the u-s should focus on safety at home. >> pam: coming up at 5:45. >> pam: an epic spelling bee rematch. we'll show you the scene.
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>> reporter:alzheimer's affects at least five million americans - robbing people of their memories and even their lives. >> reporter:now researchers say they have a new blood test that predicts if a person will develop this debilitating illness at an earlier age. >> reporter:researchers from georgetown medical say the blood test can predict with
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greater than 90 percent accuracy if a healthy person will develop alzheimer's disease within three years. >> reporter:not only would patients be able to know if they will develop the illness, the test could eventually be used to design new treatments for the disease. the test identifies 10 lipids, or fats, in the blood that could predict disease onset. right now it's in the test phase. it expected to be ready for use in clinical trials in a few years. vicki liviakis kron 4 news.
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>> pam: after more than 90 rounds, a marathon spelling bee in missouri is over. >> pam: you may remember, superspellers 11-year-old sophia hoffman and 13-year- old kush sharma went so many rounds last month - organizers had to stop the competition. saturday.they had a rematch. >> pam: george howell has the story >> reporter: 13 year old at 11 year-old steel were
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unstoppable. spelling bee which ended in a tie. the two were competitive on stage but on the couch, much more pleasant. >>we are friends. >>also, exciting. >> reporter: 2 mud nearly 30 rems. schofield was stifled on the word stifling. if sophia. faugh >> reporter: your final word came down to a definition. were you surprised that that was sure final word? >> i was caught off guard by
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the level of difficulty i just thought that it should have been an harder word. they had already selected the word so there's nothing else to be done. >> no time for your place station or t b, facebook or what ever you do if you want to win dedicate every single minute you have to studying. >> reporter: the very definition of focus. >> catherine: a man saved from a submerged colorado flooding. is now suing his rescuers. he wants half a million spee dollars.saying they took "too long" to free him. >> catherine: this was the scene at the colorado river last september. roy ortiz was trapped in his car for two hours after heavy rain washed it off the road. >> catherine: he says he's
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filing the claim very reluctantly - but he needs help with his medical bills. >> catherine: he also says the rescuers took a long time getting to him, despite pleas from his family. ortiz says the road should have been closed or at least marked - during the rains. ortiz nearly died - and hung on by finding a small air bubble inside the car. >> pam: opening arguments will begin next month before a san francisco federal appeals court regarding nevada's gay marriage ban. >> pam: eight gay couples are challenging a constitutional amendment passed by voters in 2002. which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. >> pam: a reno federal judge upheld the law in 2012. prompting the appeal. >> pam: the coalition for protection of marriage is the sole defendant in the case. >> jacqueline: pretty much
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the extent over the bay area right now here is a look at temperatures from this afternoon. there were a little cooler than yesterday's we did hit seven t l m + 10, 66 downtown center francisco and 62 and half moon bay. temperatures up a little bit and a couple of places down 12 degrees in san jose. for the greens cooler in richmond at 5 degrees cooler in san mateo. pish the storm system to award east. with crystal clear skies come ian known rain in sight. a lot of 40 starting tomorrow as we move into the afternoon. winds
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will be clamor so here is a look the temperatures out the door with a little chilly 41 in livermore, 43 in sunnyvale and 48 in san francisco. 74 in san jose, 74 in santa clara and inland valleys quite a few low 70's. 70 in pleasanton and union city, he worked as well. at the close behind in the '60s to mount. warm weather to my
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>> pam: it's a reality many parents and students know well--- the cost of college is rising. there's help available-- scholarships and grants. but many people don't even bother applying. alison kosik in at the new york stock exchange. >> reporter:millions of americans are leaving money on the table. >> reporter:2-million students could have gotten some college money from the government. but they didn't even apply for it. >> reporter:we're talking about the pell grant. >> reporter:it's worth about 56-hunred dollars for this school year. not everyone gets that maximum amount. but of the 2-million people who missed out, more than one-million would have gotten the full, 56-hundred dollars. >> reporter:that's enough to cover about 30-percent of college costs, at a public, in-state school. so why are people leaving so much money on the table? many don't think they qualify, so they don't bother applying. issue is, the pell grant goes predominantly to lower- income americans.
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>> r shotbut income is only one factor in the equation. >> reporter:the government also considers the cost of college, whether or not the family has more than one child in college, and if the student is full-time or part-time. >> reporter:another issue. >> reporter:many people don't apply because they don't want to take on more debt. but the pell grant is just that. a grant. it's not a loan. it doesn't need to be paid back. so go ahead, fill out the 'free application for federal student aid,' or 'fafsa,' as it's known. the worst the government can tell you is 'no.' i'm alison kosik in new york. >> pam: pizza chain suh- barro has filed for bankruptcy. it comes less than three weeks after it was forced to close more than 40 percent of its u-s locations. the company says the bankruptcy filling was part of a reorganization plan with creditors that hold 98 percent of their debt. >> pam: they expect the bankruptcy to help shed an estimated 140 million dollars of debt and help the
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company move forward. this is the second bankruptcy filing in less than three years by the pizza chain. >> reporter: first of one to introduce you to a new mobile app. delivered to you in timmins for people who want half food. i w this redblisry,ugly loong rh d i lt ts horribleainon one se . l i ew w it hurt. i di'knowow ias going to bableo dohese shows.
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>> you can see at the end of the app where the driver is. >> reporter: stomach's growling >> stomachs growling and you order your at future app how convenient is that. >> really good food. it just how on their and ordered him within five to two men that spirit >> reporter: i or the macaroni and cheese and green beans and pulled was good this was a pretty good service. i cannot complain. gabe slate kron4 news. >> pam: we will have the
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latest on the missing malaysian airline air the search for clues on happen to a plane that seemed to disappear. more [ sports announcer ] here's another one, alyson dudek. hales corners, wisconsin. nice pass by alyson dudek. can she hang on to that spot? and she does! [ male announcer ] with the u-verse wireless receiver, your tv goes where you take it, allowing inspiration to follow. ♪
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(male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >> pam: at six. the search for a missing malaysian airliner intensifies. search and rescue crews are out scouring the sea. and there is a new focus on an area far from the plane's last known location >> pam: before it vanished three days ago. kron 4's catherine heenan is here to tell us about the twin mysteries of the plane. and two of its passengers. catherine? >> catherine: not a single sign of the malaysian airliner that disappeared friday night with 239 people on board. learned that two of the passengers were not who they claimed to be, >> catherine: the u=s navy
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has contributed two warships to the search. >> catherine: 34 aircraft and 40 ships from ten nations are combing the sea where malaysia air flight 370 disappeared two lumpur for beijing. >>if the plane broke apart midair, whether it be from an explosion or from something mechanical - losing control or losing a structural member - then you would expect to see a very wide debris field. >>vietnamese searchers thought they spotted a door from the airliner, but it wasn't. >> catherine: a plane spotted an oil slick. another false lead. it was not airline fuel. >>"unfortunately, ladies and gentlemen, we have not found anything that appear to be objects from the aircraft, >> catherine: so today the search area was expanded. as far as the andaman sea on the other side of the malaysian peninsula. >> catherine: adding to the mystery. the discovery that two passengers. both men. were traveling with stolen european passports. >>tonight investigators say is that the tickets were purchased from this travel agency in thailand by a frequent customer, an iranian businessman known as "mr ali." that the tickets were one=way and paid for in cash, both red flags for terrorist investigators. but the travel agent who
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booked the flight says she doubts the motive was terrorism. and security experts say there's reason to be suspicious. >>clearly they had some goal, some illegal goal to achieve. whether it is immigration, illegal immigration, committed a crime and were trying to protect their identities. >> catherine: the malaysian government says surveillance cameras at kuala lumpur airport show the two men do not appear to be asian it has forwarded pictures descriptions of the men to the u=s to determine if they have terrorist ties. >> reporter:tonight, the fbi has thumbprints from the two passengers taken at a malaysian aiport checkpoint. >> reporter:but american security experts also say that there has been none of the internet chatter that normally precedes a terror attack, and no credible claims of responsibility. >> reporter:this uncertaintry is agonizing for family and friends of people on board. today.many arrived in kuala lumpur.most were coming from beijing. meanwhile, we're learning more about one of the americans who was on the plane.
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philip wood.is one of three americans who's now missing. >> reporter:wood raised his family in north texas before mosing to east asia. the 50-year old was a i-b-m executive who recently visited friends and family in the u-s. his brother.is coping as best he can. >> >> reporter:1. malaysia airlines is working closely with the government of china to expedite the issuance of passports for the families intending to travel to malaysia, as well as with the immigration of malaysia on the issuance of their visas into malaysia. 2. malaysia airlines is deploying an additional aircraft to bring the families from beijing to kuala lumpur on 11 march 2014. 3. when the aircraft is located, a response coordination centre will be established within the vicinity to support the has been communicated specifically to the families. 4. once the response coordination centre is operational, we will provide transport and accommodation to the designated areas for the family members. 5. our oneworld partners have been engaged to help bring family members in other countries aside from china into kuala lumpur.
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>> pam: this isn't the first time a modern airliner has disappeared. air france flight 447. crashed en route from rio de janeiro to paris. back in 2009. killing all 228 people on board. >> pam: it took two- years to find the main wreckage of the jet. 12=thousand feet below the atlantic. the search area for the malaysian airliner is much shallower, only a few hundred feet. >> pam: we'll continue to follow this developing story. when we are not on air. you can find the latest developments on the missing airliner online. at kron 4 dot com. just click on the news tab. >>now to a high-profile cold case we're following in the south bay. she was killed for money. that's what prosecutors say was the motive in the murder of cathy zimmer almost 25 years ago in san jose. >> pam: and it turns out. now, d-n-a evidence, not the quilt her strangled body was covered with, is the key piece of evidence in the case. >> pam: as kron four's rob fladeboe reports. one of two men accused in the crime. appeared in court today. >> reporter:almost 25 years to the day murdered, 66-year-old david zimmer, of half moon bay, hand-cuffed
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at the waist, entered a plea of not guilty to charges he, along with his brother robert, are to blame. >> reporter:cathy zimmer and her husband were estranged when her body was found in her car at the airport in march of 1989,strangled and hidden beneath a colorfull quilt that prosecutors used to re-open the case last month. court documents that david zimmer's brother, robert zimmer, also in custody, was linked to the crime after his d-n-a was found in intimate areas of her clothing. the court records also allege that the motive for the killing was profit. cardoza is questioning why a grand jury looking at the evidence did not indict zimmer, who showed no emotion during his brief court >> he sold the house a couple on minutes couple of weeks later that is hardly ended the interest and should be drawn. >> reporter:appearance. it's possible he and his brother could betogether when they
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return to court next month. in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 >> pam: san francisco police say they still can't rule out whether or not the officer shot on saturday was wounded as a result of friendly fire. >> pam: officer adam shaw's left bicep was pierced by a bullet during a traffic stop in the mission. you can see the crime scene
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here in video from our helicopter partnership with abc-7 news. >> pam: his partner opened fire when the suspect allegedly tried to run over the shaw. the bullet that hit shaw has not been found.and no gun was found on the suspect when he was arrested sunday morning. >> pam: police say.38 caliber ammunition was found on jeffery ruano.but only police issued 40 caliber shell casings were found at the crime scene. >> pam: the chief says unless the bullet is found they may never definitely know what happened. >>by the vehicle >> pam: ruano, a convicted felon, has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon. >> pam: the weapon in this case being the car police say he used to try and run over the officer. >> pam: he is also facing several other felonies after allegedly leading police on a high speed case saturday night trying to evade capture >> jacqueline: 62 and half moon bay we are looking at
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normal weather and that would tell you how long the warm weather will last, coming up! >> pam: another work please add accident to the hospital . coming up. >> pam: former giants player -- barry bonds returns to baseball. his new role on the giants team. salesperson #1: the real deal's the passat tdi clean diesel
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>> pam: petaluma police are looking for a driver who stole money at mcdonald's drive-thru window. police released this surveillance photo of the driver. who pulled up to the gateway shopping center mcdonald's drive thru around 2 a-m this morning. >> pam: the driver was able to reach over and open cash register and steal 200 dollars. police say employees were cleaning other parts of the restaurant at the time. >> pam: in today's high-tech world -- the future looks bright. house lights and kitchen appliances -- work without you having to lift a finger. is soon becoming reality. plus -- barbie back in the spotlight -- dolled up or working how barbie crush girls' career dreams. dreams.
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>> reporter:barry bonds is back in baseball.after years ofit's the first time he donned a giants uniform -- since his final major league game as a player in 2007. kron4's j-r stone is live in arizona. where he spoke about his new job as a giants spring training instructor. j-r? >> of more than the court and that's where i will lead. i do not want to get into this current >> reporter: coming up at 645 with gary radnich each.
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>> reporter:two workers were sh hospitalized after sulfuric acid spilled on them at the tesoro refinery in martinez this morning, a contra costa county hazardous materials official said. >> reporter:contra costa health services' division of hazardous materials received a report at 10:49 a.m. that two workers had been exposed to sulfuric acid at the refinery, located at 150 solano way, hazardous materials specialist maria duazo said. the workers were wearing protective clothing at the time of the incident, duazo said. she injuries but said they were taken to a hospital by ambulance. hazmat crews were notified of the incident but did not end up because it was determined pse any further threat, duazo said.
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two workers were also burned by sulfuric acid in a separate spill that occurred on feb. 12. in that incident, the workers suffered first- and second-degree burns and were taken to a hospital, but were released later that day. the u.s. chemical safety board sent a letter to tesoro later in february criticizing the company for barring thethe spill. tesoro officials countered that they allowed the csb refinery on multiple occasions and had made refinery employees available a spokesperson for the available to incident. dazo said today's spill is not believed to be related to the one last month. "our understanding is, it is the same chemical involved but it was not the same process however -- a work badge is worker. >> reporter:a tuolumne county man was convicted today for the attempted murder of four c-h-p officers. >> reporter: east bay mud said the electronics that
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has been deactivated so no one off can get access. the complete i had not contain any information or sensitive affirmations of the bottom line is if someone come to the door wearing any of these items you should ask for their work be a call access to their aideed. and the film's clever boy and always call the police. as reported in oakland kron4 net loss on highway 5-80 in oakland. >> reporter:new at six. barbie is the all american icon doll. but is barbie a great role model for girls who play with it? >> reporter:girls who play with barbie dolls tend to see fewer career options available to them compared
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with the options available to boys. >> reporter:that's according to a new study by researchers from uc santa cruz. the researchers found it didn't matter if girls played with a fashion barbie or a doctor barbie >> reporter:the girls who played with a barbie doll - whether it was dressed as a fashionista or a professional - saw themselves in fewer occupations than are possible for boys. now. remember mr. potato head? >> reporter: well, girls who played with mrs. potato head reported nearly as many career options available for themselves as for boys. catherine? >> catherine: a new police report released today says the woman who drove a minivan carrying her three young children into the ocean off florida had been abused by her husband. the report says a daytona >> catherine: beach safety officer asked ebony wilkerson if she was injured after she drove the van into the atlantic last week. >> catherine: that's when she accused her husband of abuse.
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the woman remains in jail - with bail set at 1.2 million dollars. she's facing criminal charges including three counts of first-degree murder. >> catherine: the people who rescued her children that day -- said the mother was doing everything she could to keep them away - and prevent the rescue. >> pam: it's week two of the oscar pistorius trial in south africa. and the testimony is becoming graphic. today he broke down in court - and threw up - as he listened to a pathologist detail the gunshot injuries to his girlfriend. pistorius shot and killed her last year on valentine's day - but claims he thought she was an intruder. today - a security guard testified about what happened the night reeva steenkamp was murdered.and how the athlete had tried to assure him everything was ok. >> jacqueline: 66 in san jose and 67 and concord. still a little breezing 16 mullin our half moon bay we
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are going to see that the up at the end of the week. for years to studying a lot of 70 degree temperatures and to look ahead it will be warmer as we head into the weekend. 40 in santa rosa 41 in livermore and sunnyvale. and to the afternoon 70 degree temperatures with san jose and cupertino. at the coast line temperatures in the upper 60s to moscow with 67 at ocean beach and 68 for downtown san francisco thrift los 70's and sunny skies but warming
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up more into the weekend by the '80s by sunday. >> pam: , officers could catch the bad guys without leaving the comfort of their police cars. female narrator: for over 60,000 california female narrator: for over 60,000 california foster children a pair of shoes is a small but important gift. my shoes have a hole in them. i can barely fit in these anymore. i hope no one would notice. they hurt my feet. i never had new shoes before. to help, sleep train is collecting new shoes of all sizes. bring your gift to any sleep train, and they'll be given to a local foster child in need. not everyone can be a foster parent... but anyone can help a foster child.
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>> reporter: plus, what ammunition was found on the suspect after he was arrested son saturday morning and no gun was recovered. they may never know definitively who shot shot. shaw, >> reporter: 66 year old david zimmerman of half moon bay entered a plea of not guilty to murdering his estranged wife over 20 years ago. bumped in her car then strangled. the motive in killing was the proceeds of her life insurance and real estate holdings. dimmers brother robert as also charged in her murder. rubbers the the nsa was
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found on her clothing. rob fladeboe. robert's dna was found on her clothing. >> reporter: another fire was here at this park in the women's bathroom. they were shocked that someone would do such a thing. >> reporter: warning people to be on a look out for someone imitating an employee of an east bay mud a vehicle still missing the uniform items such as rankled and pants as well as an employee id badge. they may try to impersonate the
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east bay mud employee to get access to homes or businesses. he should check their id called the business no. or police. >> reporter: since been no rest has been made in the mold off for the attack. state senator is requiring to take further steps to protect valuable infrastructure. the nation's power grid remains vulnerable to the domestic terrorism. >> reporter: watching seismic activity off the coast for the past 24 hours magnitude 6.8 about 48 mi.
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west of eureka california there has been an aftershock all day that the aftershock will continue for at least two more weeks. could this quick be a pre cursor to one happening right here in the bay area. scott rates crawford day >> jacqueline: looking up at the '60s and '70s for the afternoon. this is what it will look like at the old store appearances aside and allowed a bit warmer in san francisco and daly city. 43 and napa un unfortunately away from the coastline to mull morning. los 70's through the east bay to the
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east bay shoreline. here's a look attractive forecast. as we head into the weekend a big warmup patrick quite a few committees across the board. (male announcer): now, here's stanley roberts who found some people behaving badly. >> reporter:i am standing right outside the conservatory of flowers in golden gate park in san francisco and no there is no one behaving badly here, but i am standing here for a reason >> reporter:on the ground it reads no skating no bicycles, but this is not a story about people riding their bikes or skating on the sidewalk, >> reporter:this is a segment about perception. this a bicycle rental stand for a vendor sactioned by the dept of rec and park >> reporter:here is a photo taken from almost the exact same spot, do you see anything wrong? well here is answer this photo shows the bicylist behaving badly'
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>> reporter:how you say, well because they are riding on the sidewalk where it is illegal to do so this photo is a fail so is this photo where they are riding on the sidewalk outside the deyoung museam . fail >> reporter:why sould any one care >> reporter:well the fact parkwide is the official rental company of the san francisco parks department makes it a double fail >> reporter:if the city is going to back a private vendor it might just be a little important to make sure the images they put out don't show people breaking city ordanaces just my little thought for the day in golden gate park stanley roberts kron 4 news >> pam: coming up. >> pam: drones drumming up new controversy. how it works. and how it could be used to fight crime -- >> pam: more news after the break. >> reporter: coming up in my tech report at 8 tonight i will introduce you to know
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>> pam: american airlines and jetblue are ending a ticketing agreement that allowed travelers to rack up >> pam: the companies say they're eliminating the option for travelers to add connections to trips on each other's planes. that goes into effect this monday. >> pam: another program that's ending. a reciprocal frequent flyer program that let people earn points on eligible routes run by the other airline. >>the shared frequent flyer program will go through april 1-st. all american airlines miles or jet blue points already earned.will be credited to customers' accounts.
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>> reporter:fugitive n-s-a leaker edward snowden made a rare public appearance monday via the web. he spoke via satellite to an audience of thousands at the south by southwest interactive festival in austin. snowden urged participants to help "fix" the government's surveillance program. >>the nsa, the sort of global mass surveillance that's happening in all these countries not just the u. s. and it is important to note that this is a global issue. they're setting fire to the future of the internet; and the people who are in this room now you guys are all the firefighters and we need you to help us fix this. >> reporter: snowden has addressed people in the united states since he fled the country last june with thousands of secret documents. >> reporter:it's an aerial drone that may just be the future of crime fighting. this drone --named cupid --- is designed to hunt down criminals and "detain" them using a stun gun. that's right.this drone can jolt you with up to 80- thousand volts of electricity. the company --- chaotic moon studios debuted their drone ---with a live demonstration
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salesperson #1: the real deal's the passat tdi clean diesel gets up to 795 highway miles per tank. salesperson #2: actually, we're throwing in a $1,000 fuel reward card. we've never done that. that's why there's never been a better time to buy a passat tdi clean diesel. husband: so it's like two deals in one? avo: during the salesperson #2: first ever exactly. volkswagen tdi clean diesel event, get a great deal on a passat tdi, that gets up to 795 highway miles per tank. and get a $1000 dollar fuel reward card. it's like two deals in one.
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(male announcer): it's now time for gary radnich from the jack in the box sports desk. >> gary:good evening! >> gary: first we have heard from barry bonds and six and a half years. >>that is my answer,,, i need to get through the seven days first. (laughter) >>a little nervous about this side than the other side, time to slow down
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>> reporter: >> i do not know what that is the lead can help you to a little bit better to what you are already. >> gary: he is a smart guy. but away and the heck he could be in the worst moved but you want to get yourself back in the game after this much time has gone past number one he is too smart with this money so he's not one is looking for money and
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no. 2 and he cannot say he would not help someone but is not number one on his list at the key misses the game. >> pam: yes, i think he misses the game. >> gary: if you love the game like he did and good as he was ostracized and you feel like you belong in the hall of fame this is a the way back. sho >> gary: >> pam: it is not necessarily that contrived is it? >> gary: is also who smart.
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letting time slowly stretched out a little bit. >> gary: eventually he will get into the hall of fame in what may take a long time but i believe is the week he will get encourage >> gary: mike feels the same way. >> gary: >> pam: i thought that it was good. >> pam: (laughter) >> gary: little gain going against the chicago cubs
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today, matt cain retired all hitters. >> gary: sandoval will do his business here. >> gary: some of the key players came >> gary: will watch it will where teenage men and ninja turtle being uniforms. will be auctioned off after the game. >> gary: august 2nd. a man not even be alive by august 2nd the make plans now and get ready for the teenage men and ninja turtles. this is courts to be different.
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this is going to be different >> gary: 15 has sold almost 3300 bacon had bacon hats >> gary: and nfl salary cap caught up with carlos he was let go to that saving more than $6 billion against the cap. he will look around if he does not find another a better offer is to apply for the forty-niners. we do not want anything to do with you. the cap number was too high and he does not want to accept a pay cut.
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>> gary: dallas will be in oakland tomorrow night. after the beating phoenix last night a season at 16 games over 500. staff curry bothered by history strained quadricep. bothered by his >> gary: >> recipe for the ply recipe for a good plan. >> gary: father and son from spring training in florida next
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(male announcer): it's now time for gary radnich from the jack in the box sports desk. >> gary: chris young watch as that goes for the ball beaufort it's about the boy in the wagon. there goes the wagon. the boy the deck grabs it and right before it hit the skids. a double hero he save this child after almost blowing it. it is funny how people will lose their mind. , as are those balls? $10 how much $10 >> pam: it is an impulse reaction. >> gary: never put your children in danger for a
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hales corners, wisconsin. nice pass by alyson dudek. can she hang on to that spot? and she does! [ male announcer ] with the u-verse wireless receiver, your tv goes where you take it, allowing inspiration to follow. ♪ [ dad ] looks pretty good, right? [ girl ] yeah. [ male announcer ] switch to u-verse and add a wireless receiver today. ♪
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"the insider" with perspective on today's top-trending stories. >> don't ask me again. >> don't ask me about her again. don't ask me about her again. >> justin bieber's stormoff over selena. and the reunion this weekend. >> we break down the deposition. does it prove that he is a brat? >> one of the worst things you can do is to be disrespectful. that plays into the prosecutor's hands. >> yes and no are pretty [ expletive ] different. >> plus lindsay's oprah premiere. is her sober coach an enabler. >> he was supporting her behavior, not pushing her. >> nia long's son, her new co-star. >> that was, like -- >> and is "divergent" the next twilight. we're with the stars and look who is getting flirty. >> and we're hanging with the long island medium reading fans live on tv. she has a special new message for skeptic michael yo. >> skeptic? he was afraid of me. >> i'm coming for you.
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>> now the latest celebrity news delivered to you 24/7. it's "the insider" together with yahoo. bieber's deposition video leaked. hi, everyone. i'm thea andrews. >> i'm kevin frazier. welcome to "the insider." world meets the real justin bieber and the kid we have known for years, but will a miami jury be as amused as we are and our breakdown of bieber's delicious deposition. >> can't you just be a belieber? roll the tape. >> i don't have to listen to anything you have to say. >> don't ask me about her again. >> don't ask me about her again. >> guess what? [ indiscernible ] >> justin bieber uncooperative and arrogant. >> yes and no are [ bleep ] pretty different. >> the pop star sat through a four and a half hour deposition last week. the footage obtained by the website tmz, part of the lawsuit that justin allegedly ordered his bodyguard to beat up a photographer.
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