sweet road near so cal road in santa cruz where the neighbors are still on edge after finding out an escaped prisoner, armed shot an officer with a taser and then was on the loose before being captured inside a home. now as you can see from news chopper 2, the santa cruz county sheriff's department and santa cruz police swarmed the area just before noontime today checking houses door to door, some homes were evacuated and two local schools went into lockdown during a man hunt which started after a sheriff's deputy had taken 24-year-old inmate maurice ainsworth to dominican hospital for an mri session. >> the deputy was putting the shackles on the inmate and he punched her and then fought with her within the facility, she chased him outside onto the hospital grounds where they fought again. he took her taser, tased her, then took her handgun, 40 caliber semiauto handgun, he then fired a round at a female bystander, then fled into the

neighboring area. >> reporter: anybody get hit? >> no. >> reporter: search teams tracked ainsworth down to a house off sweet road and evacuated neighbors. one told us she was relieved to get out. >> i also saw the hostages run out of the house so i'm glad that they are safe and everybody is safe and it's just the guy. >> reporter: again, the guy, maurice ainsworth was taken into custody about an hour ago. we saw him as he was being taken away. he appeared to be physically okay. investigators say ainsworth is scheduled to start a three-year state prison term soon. the sheriff's deputy is being treated for the taser shot as well as for a bike wound. live in santa cruz, robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. we are learning more tonight about an officer- involved shooting in napa. an officer has been stationed all day outside the home of the man killed yesterday, 16-year- old richard pockia. police describe him as possible suicidal. witnesses say he appeared compliant, though when he emerged from his home. it's what happened next that is

under investigation. >> i heard a scream which i believe was him from the taser and then i heard the pop right away, loud, loud pop. sounded like an m80 going off. >> police are not saying what prompted the shooting. the investigation is being handled by the napa county sheriff's department. poccia reportedly had been depend dent redespondent -- had been despondent recently. he was a nurse on disability. the three judge panel is described as a mixed ideological bag. ktvu's john fowler is in san francisco -- john sasaki is in san francisco now with the details on what's at stake and reaction. john. >> reporter: this is the ninth circuit court of appeals where a week from today that three judge panel will hear arguments over prop 8. the judges are stephen reinhardt known as the most liberal on this court. moderate former federal prosecutor michael hawkins and conservative n. randy smith who

was appointed by president george w. bush. >> we know the record of the ninth circuit and we have concerns obviously whether they will respect the views of the people. >> reporter: tom is vice chair of the state republican party. >> we obviously as a party support the values of prop 8, but we also support the value of voters having a stake instead of just some men in a black robe. >> reporter: the cast throw district -- castro district is holding its breath over the issue of gay marriage. the judge overturned it saying the ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. now the ninth circuit will decide whether to uphold that ruling. >> i think it's going to happen. i think if california finally resolves the issue, i think that many other states will eventually go that way as well. >> reporter: molly mckay is with marriage equality u.s.a. >> equality under the law and not writing exceptions into the equal protection clause is an american principle that all should be on board for. >> reporter: i talked with uc berkeley law professor jesse

chopper by phone today. >> if the ninth circuit reaches the merits and says that proposition 8 is unconstitutional, that is there's a high, high probability that the supreme court will take the case. >> reporter: chopper adds the panel first has to decide if the prop 8 supporters have legal standing to appeal this matter. if not the process might end there. live in san francisco, i'm john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. recent violence between north and south korea is bringing protesters to the streets of san francisco tonight. a demonstration is taking place right now at powell and market streets by a group supporting north korea's view. the group calling itself the answer coalition blames the escalation of recent hostilities on the united states and south korea. it claims the governments are provoking the north in an effort to bring about a regime change in pyongyang. a disturbing investigation underway tonight at an east bay elementary school. over the holiday weekend, someone interned el monte high

school elementary school in concord and killed chickens inside the locked chicken coop. janine de la vega is live in concord tonight with details. >> reporter: frank, police say somebody came onto campus in the evening or early morning hours when it was dark and broke into this coop and attacked the chickens that were inside here. children were told the sad news this afternoon. these chickens are loved by the students at el monte elementary school. the birds were raised by a group of second graders and lived in a coop on campus. but over thanksgiving weekend someone broke in. >> and every night the chickens were locked up. >> reporter: this principal says early last wednesday morning the custodian found four of the chickens running around campus, but in the coop two of the chickens named maxine and lenny were hung by their necks with a shoestring. >> somebody really took time, they would have had to climb over two fences and break open a padlocked door to the chicken

coop and literally pull it right off the hinges, and catch the chickens and then hang them. >> reporter: the chickens were kept as pets and used to educate the students. >> sad because thanksgiving just came and so why aren't you so thankful to do such a thing? >> reporter: police are taking the matter seriously and consider this case as animal cruelty and vandalism. investigators say there doesn't appear to be witnesses and they don't have any solid leads. >> it really makes me sick. i think it's a deranged individual or individuals that need to be -- need to be apprehended. >> right now in the composting stage composting stage. >> reporter: now the chickens have been moved temporarily to a teacher's home until the staff can figure out how to secure the coop. >> we are going to have to make it fort knox for chickens but we want to have the chickens here, the children shouldn't lose out on something like this

because some people have come to ruin it. >> reporter: police do not have any suspects in the case but they hope that someone comes forward. and in the last few minutes, we were told by the principal that she is offering a cash reward and parents are banding together, they are willing to donate money because they really want to find out who is responsible so they want to make sure that that cash reward keeps increasing if it leads to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible. reporting live from concord, janine de la vega, ktvu channel today for the first time we are hearing newly uncovered investigation tapes of two brothers who were attacked by a tiger at the san francisco zoo. the tapes are of police interviews with the dhaliwals. they survived the sigh senior -- siberian tiger mauling at the zoo last year. their friend, carlos sousa, jr. was killed.

police interviewed the brothers at the hospital the night of the attack. they denied provoking the deadly incident by taunting or throwing anything at the tiger. >> last year the city settled a civil suit filed by the brothers for $900,000. now to wall street where stocks staged a late rally but still ended in the red. the dow fell 39 points to close the afternoon at 11,052. the nasdaq ended up falling nine points. this is cyber monday, first day after thanksgiving weekend, a day when people are urged to do their holiday shopping online. in a survey by the national retail federation estimates 106 million people will end up doing just that and if that's the case, it would be up were 10% compared to last year. it also says it shouldn't be difficult to find bargains.

90% of all e-tailers say they are offering special sales and promotions to get you to buy online. >> shopping online saves a lot of time. when you're shopping and then you can find pretty good breaks as well. >> initial cyber monday sales figures are expected to be out tomorrow. analysts say they could top $1 billion this year. president obama today proposed a two-year pay freeze for federal workers. it's a move that would affect thousands of people here in the bay area. the president president says the proposal -- the president says the proposal would save $2 billion this fiscal year and 28 billion over five years. the freeze is in response to the massive budget hold the government finds itself in. it came as no surprise today to one man who works at the federal building in oakland. >> we understand, yeah, we do have to tighten our belts but seems like the federal employees always have to tighten their belts quicker than anybody else. >> the proposal must be approved by congress and would not apply to the military. what would you do if you were governor?

a political group aimed at reforming the state government wants to know. california forward is collecting and compiling suggestions from californians on what they think is wrong with the state and how they suggest lawmakers fix it. the group says it's dear governor website welcomes ideas from people in all political parties and can be on any government topic. >> our hope is not just that people will submit ideas but that they will read the ideas from other people and actually start a conversation among themselves about what they would do. >> the group says it wants to present some of the ideas to the new state legislature in january. former president george bush made history in the bay area today. what he did this afternoon that no other president has ever done. plus. >> it may look like a normal mri. it's not. uc san francisco's break- through technology that may ref lawsuitsize -- revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment. and right now i'm tracking pretty cold temperatures and some rain headed your way. i'll have the details back here.

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oakland city hal is a -- is showing support for world aids day which is this wednesday. city hall will be i will lawsuit nate -- illuminated red through this friday. it is one of major cities in the u.s. lighting their most distinctive landmarks in red. organizers say they hope the lightings will highlight the attainable goal of ending mother to child transmission of hiv by the year 2015. bay area doctors today unveiled new experimental imaging technology that could speed up a cancer diagnosis, improve treatment, save lives and at the same time cost less. ktvu's health and science editor john fowler is live in san francisco tonight with more on this, john. >> reporter: about one in six american men will develop

prostate cancer for the vast majority it will be a slow growing tumor beneath the bladder, not causing much of a problem. figuring out which of those tumors becomes aggressive potentially deadly has been very, very difficult, that is, until now. eight years ago doctors told jerry merck to have his prostate removed, it was cancer. >> it was very close to the operation i called up and cancelled. >> reporter: he opted not to treat but to watch and wait. he's one of four volunteers who now get experimental mri scans at uc san francisco like this one, using a unique technique, clean room technicians take a sugarlike compound called pirovate, freeze it to 470 degrees below zero and zap it with magnets. no headio activity or heavy metals, warmed and injected into the patient. >> quickly gets taken up by the cancer cells and then we can monitor it through the mri scanner. >> we are able to look at the

realtime metabolism of the cell. >> reporter: doctors say for the first time they can see tumor gross, precise aggressiveness and signs of spread all in seconds. researchers say it's superior to current imaging, can cost less and provides unprecedented detail. >> information that can help clinicians and patients make, you know, educated decisions rather than just guesses at what's going on. >> reporter: 67-year-old merck says prostate cancer runs in his family but he doesn't get biopsies. >> it is a great piece of mind, every time i get the doctor's report, i think -- >> reporter: researchers collaborating with ge say they are exploring this technique for brain and kidney cancer also to pinpoint heart disease and for diabetes. they say it is a potentially very powerful diagnostic tool. reporting live health and science editor, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. if you recently applied for a new driver's license it's going to take longer than usual to receive it.

the dmv says it's about two weeks behind in processing licensed applications across the state. it blames the delay on new licenses with enhanced security features. it's taking dmv workers more time to scrutinize them. the dmv processes 38,000 applications for new or renewed licenses every day. governor schwarzenegger called on state lawmakers to reconsider a bill that would have banned plastic bags at grocery stores statewide. it made it out of the assembly but died on the senate floor. san francisco, oakland and palo alto already have bag bans in place with san jose, fremont and other bay area cities considering similar plans. the governor says local bans are not enough and wants lawmakers to reintroduce the bill during the december special session. former president george w. bush went today where no president has ever gone before. he became the first president to conduct a live chat on facebook. the event was broadcast on facebook live, a live video

screaming channel -- screening channel. it was hosted at the cam's -- company's patality -- palo alto headquarters with mark zuckerberg leading the discussion. >> why facebook? >> because you got a lot of people paying attention to us and i'm trying to sell books. [ laughter ] >> the former president had stayed out of the president spotlight since leaving office almost two years ago until the release recently of his book "decision points." another clear, cool day around the bay area but it looks like more rain is heading our way. let's check in with bill martin in the weather center. >> we got more rain headed our way. towards the end of the week. and very cold overnight lows tonight. we will get into the 30s even upper 20s inland. a slow warmup as these clouds go into the pacific northwest but these clouds start to move in and that will start to slowly, believe it or not, warm us up because the clouds

provide insulation overnight. that starts mainly on wednesday night but cold tonight as you know, frost if you had it this morning, you'll see it again tomorrow morning. showers on the extended as julie mentioned. that gets in here, the showers on thursday night, right after the commute, all night thursday, kind of a good deal the way it looks right now. thursday night overnight into friday morning and then clearing. so looks like we are not going to have one big wet day. we are going to be an overnight event late afternoon thursday, early morning friday and that should be it but of course it's a ways out. overnight lows, 28 in fairfield, 30 in antioch, 30 in livermore. as you go tomorrow, tomorrow is basically a carbon copy of today and then you just get a little bit more warmth, we will see upper 50s tomorrow. we saw mid at best today mid- 50s. and then as we get into thursday out evening, you're going to see the showers in the bay area and snow in the mountains. that's going to change a little bit, the timing on it but right now thursday night into friday. cold start for santa rosa, easy 32 degrees at 7:00 a.m. kids heading out to school, you'll be wearing jackets and

mentioning it on the 5:00 broadcast, scraping ice, especially in the east bay, inland bay valleys. latest computer model, i'm going to update this tonight on the 10:00 broadcast so come back and i'll show you the latest on that because the timing is going to change on this. here we go, wednesday 9:00 a.m., stays north. here we go into wednesday, thursday morning, not yet. thursday afternoon, bang, right? so there's your thursday afternoon showers. maybe a little bit on the commute, overnight into friday morning. and then done. that's how it it breaks out right now. so i'll watch that closely and see how it breaks out. 55 in fairfield, 56 in antioch and the five-day forecast and that includes showers, includes cold but includes a lot of sunshine believe it or not. so back tonight at 10:00, certainly we will update the forecast see if the models have a different take on it. >> scraping ice off the cars, ay? >> yeah. >> thank you, bill. a youth football league from the east bay knows the power of giving back. the san ramon valley

thunderbirds today delivered 250 fleece fwierchths the -- blankets to the parents of trevor thompson. he was born in 1993 with severe genital heart defects and died suddenly last year at the age of 16. >> he was a life scout with the boy scouts here in walnut creek, troop were 832 and his eagle scout project he just started on was to make blankets for children's hospital. >> trevor's parents say they are trying to continue spreading what they call trevor's legacy of warmth with today's donation in the t birds, they say they will meet their goal of delivering 1000 blankets to oakland children's hospital this year. >> isn't that incredible? coming up here, it appears the giants are losing one of their key players. plus hoping for a piece of the american dream, for young people in the united states illegally.

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be. students and educators rallied if support of the dream act today at san ancisco's mission high school. congress may soon vote on the much debated proposal. it would allow a path to citizenship for young people brought to the u.s. legally as children if they have a clean record and graduate high school or join the military.

>> really important that we don't have injustice again for another innocent student to be incarcerated and deported to a country where they have no memory of. >> the dream act debate is personal for steve lee, the city college -- the city college of san francisco nursing student was brought to the u.s. by his undocumented parents and is still in danger of being deported. another big payday is coming to the world champion san francisco giants. according to figures released today by major league baseball, a full world series revenue share for the giants is worth just over $317,000. the team has voted to give full shares to 50 players and other team personnel. that is slightly less than the $350,000 earned by members of the new york yankees last seen though it is the third highest in baseball history. >> that's a nice payday. speaking of the giants sounds like they may be losing

one of their top were players. >> it looks like a done deal. the dodgers have swiped juan rebbie. he can't play in the giants for not wanting -- he he can't blame the giants for not wanting to give him a three- year, $21 million. but you can't say enough for the job this guy did when he was with the giants, one clutch hit after another, 24 homers, 85 rbis but he is now a dodger, three years, $21 million. giants need a shortstop. meantime the raiders need some victories. another bad weekend of football for them. second consecutive loss. brutal on both sides of the ball. three game win streak now seems like a distant memory. bruce getkowsky didn't have it, picked off a couple of times. he reinjured his shoulder. a perception out there that jason campbell is al davis' guy at quarterback, getkowsky gable's guy. >> they would be foolish.

during the stretch of success we have had, that's what you could see about us, we played every down like it was the absolute most important thing and i don't feel like we have done that. it's been hit or miss the last two weeks and that's not good enough. football is a contact sport but not this kind of contact as we saw yesterday. houston's andre johnson and tennessee's courtland finnigan both fined $25,000 for that little extracurricular activity. no suspensions, however and while we are talking about football, we must congratulate our own julie haener, her son jake threw the game winning touchdown pass this past weekend in the turkey bowl for 11 and 12-year-olds and they won sanran -- san ramon's t birds 6-0. >> our head coach, george garrett, it was the first time in 51 years one team has won back to back turkey bowls. congratulations to all of them. good t birds.

thanks. >> you bet. one of the pioneers in worldwide grassroots environmentism has -- environmentalism has died. you might say richard goldman may be the equivalent of alfred nobel when it comes to promoting environmental causes. a look back at his life and leg gas in -- legacy in 30 minutes on tv 36. that is our report for now. i'm frank somerville. >> i'm julie haener. good night. >> have a good evening.