burglary that turned into a shoot out with the owner. >> theivism was able to arm himself with a fire arm and shoot the suspect three times. the suspect shot the victim one time. the suspect fled but called police claiming to have shot himself accidentally. >> i shouted for him. >> his landlord and friend had been shot in the face but his act of bravery made good on a promise he made to her. >> i said don't burry. i have -- don't worry. i have a weapon. i was the best sniper. i am good. don't worry about it. u.n., i said okay -- you know, i said okay. >> back out here live a few officers still working the scene.

police said both men were instable condition. the suspect will now be facing charges. live, eric rasmussen, ktvu channel 2 news. police stand off in san francisco turned into a cliff hanger. officers have been on scene for 24 hours. they chased a home burglar into bushes next to a cliff and the suspect stayed there for hours. coming up, rob roth tells us why police backed off and how a team and a hostage negotiator tried to end the stand off. to the race for president. major developments today involving two of the candidates who didn't do very well in the iowa caucuses. live in washington d.c. tonight and what the results mean. >> reporter: this is what the republican field looked like last night, it has now changed with one candidate getting out of the race and another one

sticking with it. all of this because of what happened in iowa was the difference, boiled down to 8 rotes. >> reporter: mitt romney won. but rick santorum's almost first place finish gives him momentum. >> game on. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you very much. >> ron paul finished third but the iowa caucuses were not so kind to others. newt gingrich, rick perry, michele bachmann and john huntsman got less than 30% of the vote combined. after her 6th place showing, michele bachmann is suspending her campaign. >> the people of iowa spoke with a very clear voice. and so i have decided to stand aside. >> reporter: now the republican field is down to six.

it looked like rick perry might make it 5. last night he said he would reassess his campaign and today he said he is in it. >> hours after mitt romney's victory, his request received a boost. arizona senator john mccain endorsed mitt romney today. john mccain lost his bed in 2008 but won the new hampshire primary that year. >> some of you haven't committed yet. i hope at the end of this appearance and you watch this mitt romney campaign that we will get an overwhelming vote that will catapult him to the white house. >> mitt romney leads the polls in new hampshire which holds the first primary next tuesday. coming up later tonight, the last top on the trail for

candidates whirl be here in california, six months from now. some think the race might be decided here. ktvu's noelle walker is talking to analysts and voters about that possibility and we will hear what she found out in 30 minutes. president obama flexed his powers by-passing the senate. >> i know what would happen if they held the nomination hostage. >> president obama made the announcement at a high school. republicans had blocked the nomination saying the new agency will be a burden to business. they later visited a ohio

couple who was victimized by a lender. >> taken advantage by a mortgage lender and as a consequence ended up buying $80,000 in debt. >> lawmakers were furious about the appointment and hinted at possible court action. >> the occupy protesters in oakland still haven't taken down their tp. the city with drew the permit it granted because protesters were storing items inside and cooking. the permit said those activities were not allowed. lawyers for the occupy d.c. group asked for a court order to keep police from removing their camp. the demonstrators do not have a permit for their comp, unlike another group, occupy washington d.c. a ruling in the matter is expected later on this month. occupy d.c. has a court order in place that requires police

to give them 24 hours notice before any raid. >> detroit is recording a surge in car sales. ktvu's consumer editor tom vacar joins us live with what you might call the great american comeback. >> car sales are really booming. >> reporter: lots of discounts comp bined with low interest rates delivered the best sales since the recession began. in november, of the 20 best selling vehicles, half were american makes. ford was up 11%. >> building better quality cars now. doing so well our warranty work trimmed down. >> reporter: gm up 13%. >> all of our smaller cars, chevy cruise is the number one

vehicle in the country. >> reporter: chrysler, 2010 sales up 26%. last month up 37. many people delayed car purchases. many are new to the market. >> we are getting more younger kids now looking at our cars. >> we are seeing younger buyers. and again seeing lot. >> i would consider buying american cars. i feel like with the economy we need to put back into the united states. >> we have to get our economy growing again. the only they that will happen if we decide, you know, to do things for our own country. >> businesses moving off shore and we need to keep our money

here. that is what i believe. >> asian and european auto makers are fierce comtitian. consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >> the city counsel will discuss its options tonight, including a possible lawsuit. actually that is tomorrow. this inpanse to facebook's new headquarters. they moved from palo alto to menlow park. right now there are 2,000 employees but facebook is asking for 3,000 workers. leaders are concerned facebook's plans could create traffic jams. yahoo hired paypal president as its new ceo. he will be the fourth ceo in

less than 5 years. a morning sell off. the dow ended up 21 points, closing at 12,418, naz nack closed at 2648. the reno air races will be held again this fall a year after a crash that killed 11 people. a panel of experts will help ensure the safety of the event. the national transportation safety board will look into the safety of air shows but for now tickets to the event are on sale. 20 pilots died in the air races since they started 47 years ago. the high cost already from the dry weather and how this

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with a swing and sasmash, demolition started that old san francisco jail. some sheriff spent much of his career trying to open a new one. crews are inside the building working on removing hazardous material. coming up at 6:00 tonight, david stevenson looks that history of the jail. facility in the east bay that helped day laborers is asking for help after someone robbed their offices. police say someone broke in to

the center over the new year's weekend. the thieves also tore opcouch in the child day care room, and vandalalized a book vending machine. >> we are dealing with the poorest people in the -- in the south hayward area, the community is despitive of us. -- supportive of us. >> he said the center is especially dependent on their computers. police continue to call for help in minding the gunman who shot and killed a 5-year-old boy last friday night. investigators say the gunman ordered foot and opened fire killing baby gabriel a funeral is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. friday at st. elizabeth church

at 1500 34th avenue in oakland. we are learning about a unusual problem caused by our lack of rain. a problem that involved cattle and a shortage of hey. ktvu's maureen naylor is live to explain what is going on. the crop should all be rows of green but because of the lack of green it just left fields and this could cost you more. >> reporter: nature is unpredictable. now some depending on rain is asking for intervention. >> we are praying for rain. lots of it. >> reporter: she is looking into how much feed they will have. hey is hard to come by these days and selling for twice the usual price. >> should be thicker and taller. okay? and it should all be green.

the lack of green left the crops short and shallow. >> she says high beef prices could go hire. some growers are taking the unusual winter step to water their crops. >> i have been doing this 40 years and this is the worst year i have seen. >> reporter: if the first time ever this farmer tried unsuccessfully to irrigate with a water truck. today he showed us dry, brown fields and says there is no way to recover the money he spent planting this crop. >> even if it rained tomorrow, some of this stuff is dead. as you can see, it is gone. >> hey makes up 75% of his business. he says the crop is a loss and too expensive to replant. she doesn't need a lot of rain,

she would be happy with a half of inch over the next few weeks. maureen naylor, ktvu channel 2 news. >> the shortage has them trying new tratagy -- strategies. he says with less hey, this year he is trying to use left over cornhusks. he hopes to give people a cheaper option. >> people are getting rid of animals because they can't afford to feed them. we understand that. that is why we are trying to bring the price down. >> one grower says hey that sells for $180 a ton is selling for $400 a ton. plea to bring back the valley. he wants to dismantle the

reservoir to return the valley to its natural state. there are many hurdles to the plan. opponents includes dianne feinstein and nancy pelosi. i was driving around today and i had to remind myself it is january. bill, no rain in sight? >> yeah. that is the buzz around town. doesn't feel like january. into winter. talking about the feed for cattle, some of the things that will occur, we will see some of our plants bloom and that will cause problems when they bloom too early, you have a freeze, there is a lot of kind of -- you know, stuff that will come from this weather. we had temperatures today in the upper 60s. south temperatures up to 70 degrees. a lot of sun light.

so the plants will react to that. you think about the agricultural, if frost comes it kills the blooms. we will look into that. here is how it looks right now. beautiful evening. looks like september to me, without the fog. tonight, we are looking for patchy fog. wasn't a big player this morning. tomorrow there will be moments of it or areas of it in the places you would expect. tomorrow is like today but more clouds and not as warm. we will go low 60s, mid-60s. bay area weekend, dry and we continue that way. long range model is forecasting rain past 10 days but it has

been doing that for a month now. we will watch it and hopefully things will break loose now. not that cold at night. not freezing. chilly but not 25 and 22 like we have been. dew points are higher. fog, patchy valley fog and visibility down to half a mile and that is to be expected. 37 napa. that is where the dew point temperatures are. dew point indicates how much moisture is in the air. that is the forecast temperature but the dew point temperature in santa rosa is 36 degrees. when it hits 36 degrees you will get fog. you get the idea. more fog in the forecast. when i come back, five-day forecast, we will look for rain and talk about your highs for thursday. see you back here. >> thank you.

russian space scientists forecasted a date when they believe a probe will fall to earth. this is video launching november 8. it did not respond to signals. most of the craft is expected to burn up as it reentered the atmosphere. some pieces could survive and no one knows where they will land. pictures of a truck fire that happened a few yards from one of our crews and whyorses were ripping down this fence what the homeowners are asking.

amazing pictures here. that is a truck full of towels burning up in menlow park this morning. north of highway 101. it pulled up yards from one of our crews in front of the new facebook headquarters. the driver made it out safely and no one was injured. homeowners claim they deserve compensation after police damaged their property

in pursuit of a suspect. >> it was scary. >> last november police ran through a neighborhood searching for the man they believe gunned down an officer. officers tore apart a fence. now they have filed claims with the city for repairs for their homes and emotional damages. but one official is questions whether police should be blamed. >> you are dealing with a prime factor. the need to capture the offender versus the cost. >> the potential safety risk outweighed the cost but he says the city should pick up the bill. officials say they are considering the claims and should have a response in a couple of weeks. the police department does not want to comment during the process. netflix's business

continues to grow. they say members stream 2 billion hours during the 4th quarter of 2011 and it has 20 million subscribers. reality star kim ard ard is the -- kim kardashian is the target of a campaign push. they single her out saying she made $12 million in 2010 and paid 1 percentage point more in income tax than someone making $47,000. san francisco police say a burglar is hiding out in this thick brush, why they won't go in and get him out. what kind of say will california voters have during

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. complete bay area news coverage continues, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. somewhere in these bush is a suspect who has been hiding from police for 24 hours. police have been talking to him but he is refusing to surrender. authorities even brought in powerful lights overnight. all of this is playing out on telegraph hill. ktvu's rob roth shows us what happened so far and what happened is going on right now -- and what is going on right now. >> reporter: take a look. police say they believe a man

burglarized an apartment inside the building with the long connection, ran outside and has been hiding in this brush for 24 hours now refusing to come out. >> police negotiators tried to coax him into coming out this morning by offering assistance. >> he is requesting that we leave. he won't tell us what kind of position he is in. >> so police left, most of them, after determining the suspect was not dangerous and that going in after him was, they backed off keeping a few officers around. >> we are not going going to do anything to create more risks for him. he created quite a bit himself. >> reporter: the ordeal began last night when an woman told police a man was stealing

jewelry. >> i chased him. telling him to drop the bag. he made a statement of i broke into the wrong apartment. >> police say the man continued running, jumped over a wall and into this hillside. more than a dozen officers responded. residents say there have been a half dozen burglaries. >> can happen anytime, anywhere. you never know. >> reporter: we are back live. and the suspect is still in that brush. police are keeping a low profile for now. and the apartment that was burglarized they found a finger print which they are checking out. rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. police are asking for the public's help in finding a man that tried to kidnap a child. he tried to abduct a 9-year-old boy.

he was playing outside when a man walked up and tried to lure him away with candy. the boy said no and ran home. the suspect is an african- american male in his 30's, 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. he has a medium complexion, short black hair and a light mustache. a bill is making its way through sacramento aimed at keeping children safe in the foster care system. it would require a review a child's death in the case of abuse or neglect and on safety practices. >> these reviews are what we need to find the problems that exists that will allow us to remedy those so children dont suffer. >> at that point not every county is required to investigate suspicious deaths of children in the foster care system. >> more coverage on election 2012. the iowa caucuses ended with a

photo finish. a handful of votes separated the top two candidates. noelle walker explains what happened next could effect the choice californians will make in june. >> reporter: by the time the candidates hit california, the primary winner is usually decided but this time, though the field will be narrowed, california voters will actually have a say on june 5. >> reporter: mitt romney emerged from iowa as the frontrunner. 8 votes separated him from rick santorum. by the time they get to california, analysts say that every vote counts theory will be put to the test.

46 states have primaries or caucuses before california. only utah goes after us. each contest narrows the field. the casualty from the iowa caucuses, michele bachmann. >> a state with a small population had a disproportionate row. >> reporter: he admits california voters will have fewer candidates but if republicans keep looking with no clear frontrunner -- >> there might be two candidates and california would have a say. >> reporter: already some of the candidates said they expect to battle out to california. >> reporter: critics say for california to have more than a symbolic primary things need to

change, the state need to move the primary up or a national primary. noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. president obama campaign's staff set the bar high for mitt romney. they said mitt romney will need to win new hampshire by 30 points to build momentum. he held a wide lead in new hampshire over his opponents but staffs for the president said his narrow win in iowa makes him a weak frontrunner. our coverage continues on our website. log on to www.ktvu.com, you will find a politics link under the news tap that will give you the latest results and new information that we are constantly updating. jimmy carter said if it weren't for square dancing he would have never been president. he says he joined a group back in 1953 and that helped him win

a close election for the georgia state senate. he later became governor and then president. he said without the support of his friends he might have lost the senate race. backers have been cleared to collect signatures to allow schools to count online attend toon get money. right now students have to be physical lafrentz at schools to get payment from the state but this would allow them to collect for students taking approved online courses. it would also allow them to get the courses online they need for university of california admissions even if their school doesn't offer them. >> why safer playgrounds are leading leading to more sedentary children. who is stepping in to keep this

shelter open and the interesting change in the number of twins being born and what may be causing it.

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open. they will get $300,000 a year to run the facility for 15 years. the city will save money. despite the shooting of congresswoman gabrielle giffords security for members of congress is being cut. they decided to cut by 6% to deal with the budget deficit and that came after a 5% cut last year. . >> there is a challenge to balance the security of the office and balance the budget. when you are coming up with new ways to secure the office it costs money. >> some members of congress say they are contacting local authorities before staging town hall meetings and police sometimes offer to provide security free of charge. >> today a warning comes after

a advisorier tried to sell fake securities. the securities and exchange commission says they offered $500 billion in bogus securities. no one bought them but this incidence could be the tip of the ice burg. you might remember the story about the florida twins born hours apart but in separate years. while that is rare, being a twin is less unusual than it used to be in the united states. the rate in 2009 was 1-30 births. in 1980 it was 1-50 births. the increase was greatest among women 35-39 because more of them are under going infertility rates. playgrounds might be why

children are more sedentary. the older playgrounds presented a greater challenge from kids. the american cancer society says the death rates from cancer continue to go down. the decline effected both genders. researchers project 1.6 million americans will be diagnosed with cancer and half a million will die from it. high temperatures today got into the upper 60s. and a couple low 70s. how warm will it be for your thursday? see you back here in 10. -dad, why are you getting that? -that's my cereal.

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zahra -- zombie bees. >> reporter: he calls it the flight of the living dead. >> honeybees. >> reporter: this video show as honeybees trying to escape being a host to maggots. these are the flies or parasites in the honeybees' stomachs. >> the magset controlling the bee. taking control of the bee behavior. maybe by altering the expression of the genes. the timing of activities. >> reporter: another reason is the bee realizes what is happening and flies out on its own to protect the hive. he found a bee on the ground.

last month they published their findings. it is a big deal. being aware of it and stopping the problem are two different things. the honeybees is a new home. >> like associated with a change in behavior of the honeybees that we think would have been noticed before. >> a discovery could be his greatest contribution to the world. in san francisco, ktvu channel 2 news. scientists say they have done a orcable thing, making an event invisible. most of us are going to have to take their word for it. they were able to create invisibility. they split light so it didn't

allow observers to see what was happening. a federal appeal's court delayed new air pollution rules. the regulations asked power plants in 27 states stooreduce sulfur dioxide emissions. the court sided with power plants and gave them more time to implement the regulations. >> significant clean air standards. they are expected to save up to 35,000 lives every year. >> supporters are overestimating the estimates of the numbers of lives they could be saved. the environmental protection agency says rising levels of pesticides have been detected in fish in the san francisco bay. anchovies collected in the harbor have high levels of ddt.

that channel and the canal were dredged in 1996 to remove tons of toxic sludge. a meteor shower that had folks staying up late or getting up early. here is what it looked like from a nasa camera in alabama. it is hard to see there without a telescope. they billed it as one of the most intense of the year. they are believed to be from a comet that broke apart several centuries ago. while our weather is warmer than usual, farmers in florida are dealing with unusually cold temperatures. last night was in the 30s. they hope to create a thin lair of ice to protect produce.

>> 70 degrees today? >> yeah. santa rosa 72 degrees today. definitely above average temperatures. 69 in oakland. 69 livermore. 65 san jose. so a really warm day. as we have been talking about, this unusual dry weather continues. high pressure nudges east and this weather system, slides up against the coast tomorrow. the main strength still up here, in green, showers north towards the seattle area. for us we will see a few more clouds increase. more clouds will result in cooler day time highs tomorrow. tomorrow 66 in santa rosa. forecasts tomorrow, wednesday, tonight, few clouds. ground fog. thursday, you see the clouds increase. that is the tail end of the

front. off shore, big storms but they are not making it here. they sit out there and generating big surf. it was real big yesterday. big on thursday -- tomorrow and again on friday. swell builds. peaks tomorrow night. drops friday and drops over the weekend and comes back up. we have a series of large swells that will move through the bay area over the next two weeks. be careful. it is a westerly swell. ocean beach faces west. variations, slight variations on west. jams right into that. those areas along the coast. most of the coast. lot of the swell, shows big because it comes straight in. patchy fog tomorrow morning. clouds and sun by noon time. these are the highes tomorrow. not as warm as today. crazy, isn't it? unusual. i keep going back to last year.

last year i wish this would end, so much rain. every week, the five-day forecast, last year, there was rain, storms, winds, snow, kept coming. weird. now it is weird the opposite. it is -- nothing is coming. long time. i have never seen a pattern like this. >> so different from last year. >> i have seen small patterns like this but this has legs. hanging on. >> who would have thought 70 in january. >> yeah. >> thank you. to the mystery that has england buzzing. the body of a woman found new year's day on the queen's estate. police are treating it as a homicide and described it as a white female, 15-2323 years old. police are trying to determine

if the victim is one of several young women missing in the area. is arnold schwarzenegger and his wife getting back together? tmz is reporting arnold schwarzenegger was seen wearing his wedding ring, his wife filed for divorce in july. after it was revealed arnold schwarzenegger fatherrered a child with their housekeeper -- fathered a child with their housekeeper.

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. two major airlines said they will raise fairs because of new rules on carbon emission. delta $6 by round trip tickets. new regulations require airlines to pay for the carbon dioxide emissions produced by their flights. there is good news tonight for the military who plan to fly. a few law that will ease their way through airport security lines. >> when they are traveling it is tough enough so for them to get through quickly i think is a huge plus. >> this week president obama

signed a bill ordering new screening procedures for members of the armed forces. the tsa has six unts to help troops on official orders and their families get through more quickly. thatthe u.s. travel association says this also will be a good time to expand the pilen program that allows travelers to speed through security faster if they go through a back ground trip. >> we have to have millions of travelers in the program. >> right now the program is only in use at 5 airports. atlanta, detroit, dallas, las vegas and minneapolis. new at 6:00, a look at the 90-year-old man who pulled a gun on a robber who broke into

his home. live in green greenbrae. and fire danger in january. the alert for fire crews and bay area residents tonight.

why this demolition is the cap of a career for a sheriff. and an armed robber was no match for a 90-year-old man from greenbrae. complete bay area news coverage starts right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00. good evening. i am frank somerville. >> i am julie haener. police say a 90-year-old man is recovering from a gun shot wound to the face tonight after fighting off a burglar. ktvu's eric rasmussen is live in greenbrae with the story of how the man fought back. >> reporter: police are still out here investigating but they say this much is clear, when a man broke into a house back here, he ran into that 90-year- old homeowner who was ready with a gun of his own. >> reporter: they say this home might be the last one a burglar would