it sparked criticism when it appeared a salary for san diego state's new president. four more presidents are set to retire within the next year. >> we have seen the outstanding candidates. we couldn't bring to the pool for consideration, during a surge, given they were making too much elsewhere today. >> the chair wants to see the states' performance standards. >>> google is on a spending spree over seas. it is building three data centers in hong kong, taiwan and singapore at $200 million. it will be the first google owned facilities in asia. >>> unemployments fell last month. though job growth overall remains at a stand still. 237 cities saw the rates fall in august. in california yuba fell from 18.6% to 17%. modesto dropped to 16%. stocks ended a winning streak with a sell off today fueled by concern over european debt. dow dropped 180 points to close at 11,010. >>> a group of six masked armed robbers opened fire at a gas station this morning. happened at valero around 330. they got away with cash and items from the store. one robber shot at a customer but missed.

she graduated from san diego state university with a degree in criminal justice. thank you. and finally, ms. carmen malik was a legal conflict officer. she graduated from uc-berkeley with a double major in peace studies and english, go bears. she attended michigan state university law school. thank you. now they'v occ has three journal level investigators. we do have our charter mandated minimum of one investigator for every 150 police officers. it is wonderful news. thank you. that concludes my report. president mazzucco: congratulations and welcome to the new investigators. it will be an interesting read. the commission favors mediation. we appreciate your hard work. where are firm believers this strong and incredible occ makes for a strong and in kabul police department. poa joins in on that wit twoh steve johnson. any questions? >> item 3c. thepresident mazzucc>> the commg in the community. i would like to thank capt. sandford for his presentation and for officer broke the -- brophy. i said we are going to try to do more publicity to get more of the community there. i pr

recent studies by ucla and san diego state show that self checkout machines make it easier for minors and intoxicated persons to get alcohol. a study showed machines used in stores that have self check out failed to stop one transaction in five. that is 20% failure rate. the machines are easily fooled by customers and i know young people can game the system. that is apparent. minors are sharing methods to beat checkout machines. scanning one item and bagging the alcohol or holding a non alcoholic item so the alcohol is not scan. people will cover the bar codes or replace it with something else as well from my understanding of how the system can be manipulated. one cashier can be forced to monitor up to a dozen machines allowing the machines to be easily been when the worker is nbusy. public safety groups are strongly supportive of our measure because they know the tragic consequences of alcohol ending up in the wrong hands. that is why our ordinance and others are supported by mothers against drunk driving. the california police chiefs association, california council on alcohol proble

facebook page and learned it here in the united states born in new mexico went to colorado state, san diego stateal citizenship. close to three of the 9/11 hijackers. he was tied to the gunman in the fort hood shooting in 2009 where died. connected to the attempt to bring down a jetliner over detroit. here's awlaki from a "washington post" profile. >> never unstatement the power of fear especially when the enemy of allah hears allahu akbar. >> he talked in american vernacular with arguments they understood. >> reporter: president obama approved his killing last year making him the third u.s. citizen place odd the cia target list. last year it was announced he was kill. this time u.s. officials are confirming, -- they got their man. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >>> it is 5:31. motorcycle gang member accused of gunning down the president of the san jose chapter of the hells angels in custody in san francisco. the 53-year-old is being detained in connection with the fatal shooting of jeffrey pettigrew last friday. gonzales is allegedly a member of the vagos motorcycle club. parked near follow some an

i had a physical education requirement at san diego state, surfer 101. an eight-foot board, waxed it down, of course i got an a because it was a challenge. the hardest part was getting into the cold water. awesome to see those swells there. now, let's take you outdoors here locally. inland we have the abundance of sunshine. currently we had a high temperature today of 98 degrees in livermore. as i was alluding to currently, right there what you looking at? we have temperatures still flirting with 90 degrees. now compare that with this. this is our coast in comparison to what they're experiencing in southern california. yes it's a return of the marine air. the marine clouds and let's go ahead and take a look at the current conditions because of the marine clouds. we now sit at 57 in pacifica, 60 san francisco. but inland away from the influence of that cooler air mass we have numbers into the low 90s. we do have something you need to know about as we're sliding in towards your holiday. summertime weather pattern returns to the bay area which means we have

1991 and attended colleges in the united states, getting degrees at colorado state university, san diego state, george washington university. now the 40-year-old was nope as the bin laden of the internet for his use of youtube to recruit wannabe terrorists. in fact, last year, youtube removed several clips of al lack can i for trying to incite violence. u.s. officials say that he helped recruit the alleged underwear bomber, abdulmutallab, charged with trying to blow up a u.s. flight to detroit on christmas day. they say he also exchanged e-mails with accused fort hood shooter, major nidal hasan. he had ties as well to three of the september 11th hijackers. joining me from istanbul is cnn's mohammed jamjoon. we know you are trying to find out exactly how he was killed. what is the likely scenario? >> reporter: well, suzanne, more details emerging from yemeni government officials. just a few minutes ago, i spoke with an official who told me, in fact, yemeni intelligence had located the hideout, a house in yemen where anwar awlaki was found and that it was a yemeni/u.s. joint intelligence-gatheri

here we have a guy who is american born, went to colorado state, san diego state, born in new mexico. the fact that he was american-born, did that make him any more dangerous? >> yeah, definitely. he speaks english or he spoke english with a flat american accent. he's charismatic. he doesn't have the veneer of a foreigner. he speaks as an american. and he has had a tremendous, tremendous influence in almost every single case of alleged home-grown terrorism here in the united states. there is either a direct or indirect tie to anwar al awlaki. i was just testifying in a trial this week down in north carolina, involving recordings of anwar al awlaki. >> he didn't have to use subtitles on his videos on the internet. >> no. they're all in english. that's the other thing. this is a guy who is taking al qaeda training manuals from saudi arabia, from yemen, and was translating them into english and making them available to an american audience. an audience that's not a large audience, but that went after this material with great gusto. >> bin laden gone, awlaki gone, abdul rahman, al qaeda's

in california news, a bad accident that happened on the water during a qualifying heat for the san diego state the boat broke apart on the water. it was going 150 mi. an hour. the driver has been hospitalized. suddenly the driver lost control. the bill excluded is splintered on the water. the driver was rushed to the hospital and it suffered a minor concussion. he is recovering in fair condition. >> the latest out of reno, the investigation continuing in the nation's deadliest air disaster. new video to show you as the plane dives into the ground. there you see the plane disintegrated. incredibly the fuel tank did not catch on fire. abc investigators are trying to figure out what caused the plane to pitch sharply into the crowd. memory cards that could include a video have been recovered. the plane headed video that face forward and was equipped with device the recorded velocity and other engine information. take a look at another video that shows the crash from another angle. and larsen was sitting near the area where the plane crashed. he was knocked unconscious and suffered head wounds and

. >> he was also pursuing a masters at san diego state university. >> he spent a lot of time learningink in a society. >> it was in san diego, that al-awlaki met an associate of this blind cleric, in prison for plotting to destroy u.s. landmarks. >> it's too much of a coincidence that the successor to al-qaeda idea logically was connected to two of the individuals that planned the worst terrorist attacks that we have ever seen. >> there's no evidence he knew of the 9/11 plot, but al-awlaki's neighbor remembers his ominous good-bye. august 2001, he comes and says, we're leaving. what was the conversation? >> he said i'm going back to virginia and shortly after that, to yemen. i said, well, i do hope you'll be coming back to san diego soon. and he said, no, he said, i won't be coming back. he said in a little while, you'll understand why. >> traveling across-country, al-awlaki become prominent in a church in virginia. one of the hijackers followed him there. he said about pursuing a phd in at washington university. an imam who arrived after he left said the cleric preys on its followers

in 1991, getting degrees at colorado state university, san diego state and george washington universityhe bin laden of the internet for his use of youtube to recruit want to be terrorists and last year, youtube actually removed multiple clips of awlaki trying to incite violence. >> it was an opening, his -- was victory. >> anwar al-awlaki. the radical, yemen based preacher seen here online. his followers say he's like osama bin laden. >> he reminds me of for example osama bin laden and also zawahiri. soft spoken and the knowledge they have, the foundations they have. >> he said, hand me over your scrolls. >> this is the same awlaki who exchanged e-mails with nadal hasan. after the killings, he praised hasan on his website, calling him a hero. why awlaki is so influential is of upbringing. his father was a minister in the yemeni government. he is smart and privileged. he preached in virginia. he doesn't agree with awlaki's extreme views and denounces the killings at ft. hood, but it was here awlaki met major hasan as well as two of the 9/11 bombers. the 9/11 commission reports that even

. >>> and san diego state, opening a new institute, dedicated to hanging -- looking at the global surfing industry. how about a master's in surfing? >> bill: i think they picked the right place, too, san diego. >>> he is 23 years old and today he receives the nation's highest military award for bravery, retired marine dakota meyer saved 36 lives on a battlefield in afghanistan. meyer ran toward the gunfire, pulling both americans and afghan soldiers to safety. mike tobin sat down with this young american from the state of kentucky. mike, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, bill. although dakota meyer understands the magnitude of receiving the congressional medal of honor he does not care for all of this attention. in fact he says he can only celebrate this recognition if every member of his team survived that ambush. >> from the battlefields of afghanistan, one marine's courage under fire earned him the nation's highest military honor, recognition dakota meyer does not feel he deserves. >> definitely not a hero. that's the furthest thing from the truth. >> gangeau valley, september 8

>> i represent san diego state university. my question is in 2008 as one of the voting groups that got obama elected was college students and do you think he deserves their vote again? >> the enthusiasm that. what does this president need to do to gay these folks who supported him to do so next year? >> it is not just an enthusiasm that about politics for president obama. this country has lost the spring in its step and confidence. we have been through a difficult time. we are fighting two wars. we have been averted deepest recession since the great depression. the day barack obama became president we lost 670,000 jobs alone that month. he was handed a very difficult economy. very difficult circumstance. i like barack obama. i think he has done as much as he can do to get bipartisan health and has he made the right decisions? no. i do think this country and the minority party owes him more than they have given him to try to help work through these problems. back to mitch mcconnell's statement, his highest objective is to see b

san diego. that is the first time america's cup will come to the united states, so that will be interesting to watch as that unfolds down in san diego. that is it for september, october -- september/october. >> all right, last on the parade is bag alicia -- the parade is alicia johnson, the most recent to our department of emergency management. about one month on the job now, and she has hit the ground running. >> thank you. we have two events coming up. one on october 17 in commemoration of the loma prieta earthquake in 1989. the department of emergency management is partnering managementkqed -- partnering with kqed to present a symposium that will feature a keynote from fema's deputy administrators and will additionally include a panelist discussion and question and answer session from the audience regarding the aspect of whole community preparedness and disaster recovery itself. that will take place beginning at 8:30 on the 17th, as i mentioned before, here in city hall, and it is by invitation only. the second event we also have coming up is the fourth annual great california shake out, the drop

state farm. tonight in san diego...start the clock! br . >> every game is a must win game for the giants starting tonight in san diego. giving pablo the day off to have him avoid hitting against right handers. it's his first major league at bat. what did he do? two run jack. first giant deep in 1986. 3-3 game in the 5th. smashes an rbi. giants take the lead. 11 for 15 with 6 runs since friday. giants won 6 to 4. troy goes deep. three run jack and they beat up on arizona. so the giants are 6 out. second ining gives up a homer to hozmer. goes deep, back to back home runs and you know what happens. 49ers newest weapon is edwards. he's not going to be forced to sit out. the nfl fined him $50,000 for dui when he was a member of the jets. good news. >> giants back by 6. here we go. ,,

san diego. that is the first time america's cup will come to the united states, so that will be interesting to watch as that unfolds down in san diego. that is it for september, october -- september/october. >> all right, last on the parade is bag alicia

san diego. heading to tahoe, 74 degrees. >>> state education officials are slamming the federal government for placingditional california schools on a failing list. latest index shows 49% of california public schools met or surpassed state education levels that is still a 3% increase from last year but officials say 913 more schools could face sanctions for dropping below standards. >> bipartisan agreement to leave behind no child left behind. leave it behind, they let the money behind and let us figure it out here in california as a state with our local communities and local school districts. >>> nearly 3900 schools in california are now required to improve test scores. we have a link to the academic performance index results for bay area schools on our website your kids school at abc7news.com. >>> this morning, we're getting a specific look at some of the bizarre fee that has airlines are charging. >> bloomberg reporter is live with more on that and latest on early trading. >>> good morning. you know how the department of transportation, is looking at what airlines charge us. some are pretty ridicul

area, not far from san diego into southeastern corner of the state active weather because of unstable conditions in the atmosphere produce fwhid low which is producing unstable conditions around the state of california. you can see on our water vapor image and now there is another change coming into our direction that. is a big air mass bringing us a cooling trend. tonight low temperatures into same range we've seen all summer long. mid to upper 50s, maybe around 60 in ant yk. it's a warm spot and tomorrow, there is another pleasant day and cooling down. we'll see highs mainly into mid to upper 7 ows in place of 80s. and there is upper 50s on the keft. downtown there is a high of 63 tomorrow. 59 into the sunset district. and there are highs ranging from 70s to near 84. east bay highs upper 60s to low east bay. no upper 80s, either. and there are 60s near the bay and 80s inland. take a look at the cool down thursday and friday and saturday. highs upper 70s to about 80 for three days. and upper 60s around the bay. we'll warm up sunday, monday and tuesday. lovely and interesting weather

much excitement about desalinization all over the state, yet a single project has not been built in the last 20 years. the carlsbad project in san diego has been approved, but has not been built. i think there is only one facility in the united states, in florida, which was hampered by cost overruns and was four years late. that is the example in this country. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is eric brooks. i am with grass-roots group our city, and the chair for the san francisco green party. i will reiterate what i have said before. just as building fossil fuel power plants is an aggressive industrial greenhouse gas producing and expensive method of dealing with its effects, like water impact, building an expensive high energy use desalinization plant represents the same approach. we are building a major industrial facility that belongs in the 20th century when we should be using local approaches to localize our water savings and water supply to our communities, doing things like installing permeable pavement, putting in bio soils, water collection, and gray water piping all over the city. we are talkin

." >> from san diego to watsonville and dozens of places in between, the golden state is the undisputed king of this little berry that packs a huge combination of having great taste, beauty, and nutrition. did you know that california is the only state to produce strawberries all year round? which is exactly why farmers are coming up with brand-new ideas on how to use one of our vorite fruits. drive past the strawberry fields in santa maria this time of the year, and you'll be treated to the fragrance and color of fruit fit for a king. a naturally cool climate mixed with the balmy pacific winds insulate this area from getting too hot or too cold, making california one of the absolute best places in the entire world to grow strawberries--not that you have to tell daren gee that. >> how much doou need? what do you need, a boor two boxes? >> i'm just going to get a flat, at least, a flat, so. >> a flat? >> $5,000. but for you-- [laughs] >> we'll reduce the price. >> a good deal, huh? [laughs] >> daren is founder of daren's berries, aka db specialty farms, where they grow 4 varieties of str

san diego county and pebble beach. he will not be appearing at the state republican convention in los angeles this weekend.of his owe upon thes will be at the c even including michele bachmann who is the keynote speaker there. she attended bay area fundraisers yesterday. she told reporters in san rafael tea party activists are getting a bad rap. >> to state the notion that the tea party are right wing radical fringe, red, white and blue all the time and come down from the hills of appalachia. >> might be must be said as president she would repeal president barack obama's health care program, reinforcement federal tax code, and shrink the federal government. >>> it went down to the wire. the soft senate has avoided another partial shutdown of the faa. the senate yesterday beat the deadline to approve a stopgap transportation bill, so that extends the fa arc's operating authority through january. >>> defense secretary leon panett arc has a warning for cree about what might happen if it fails to agree on a long term debt ceiling plan. he said such a failure would trigger month more than $1 trillion in cuts to

if you are heading around the state today, 77 with sunshine in tahoe but thunderstorms down around l.a., palm springs and san diego. still goto be warm outside of those thunderstorms. 106 in palm springs. i don't think we'll see as much cloud cover, the bay itself will be cover in clouds. temperatures in the 50s. looking into the future, right light offshore wind but tomorrow and wednesday as temperatures jump nearly four to six degrees. it holds steady on wednesday and slow tapering on thursday until they bottom over the weekend. sunday will probably be the coolest. >>> some graduates of the california culinary academy may be getting some of their tuition money back. the students are part of a $40 million settlement with the school stemming from a class action lawsuit. it accuses the academy of making misleading statement about their programs to lure students in. once they graduated students found themselves struggling to pay back thousands of dollars back in loans. >>> they participate in the annual euro race. the routes take them past several states including the abc7 studios. the race begin way back in 1975 an

state. --- after three sharks were been spotte >>> here we go. swimmers in san diegore on edge after three sharks were spotted in the last two weeks. check out the tail fin there. in the beach town here, the great white was caught on camera. you can clearly see the tail fin there. experts identified it as a 10-12-foot great white. but despite a series of shark sightings, beaches were all reopened today. >>> meanwhile, massive waves are pounding the california coast, triggered by a winter storm all the way down in new zealand. some of the waves in southern california are 20-feet high. joy benedict is in new port beach where the high surf has become i guess quite the spectator sport and i guess a little dangerous, too, right, joy? >> reporter: it is very dangerous. but it is awesome to watch. and it is awesome to see. it is just mother nature at its best, so to speak. but the water today certainly is for the experienced. the expert surfer. they're not wanting anybody who is not experienced with surfing in the water right now. but take a look at all of these spectators o

jerry brown told a crowd in sacramento today the state could use help from washington to speed the economic recovery. tomorrow he is headed to san diego to meet with business leaders. he is proposing $1 billion in tax breaks to businesses that create jobs in california. >> locals are hoping a wall of shame will get neighbors to do the right thing. richard sharp has the story. >> reporter: it's the number one attraction for bears here in lake tahoe. garbage. mark smith wanted to do something about the problem. >> best trash ordinance in the state but the worst enforcement. >> reporter: so he created the wall of shame page on facebook. where you can post pictures of those not disposing of garbage correctly. >> 700 posts yesterday. >> reporter: it can save a bear's life, by keeping them away from garbage. a fed bear, is a dead bear. >> we moved in here, if you put your trash out, you attract them. >> some feel it is unfairly blaming them. >> we all share it. >> reporter: sips it is so popular the trash collector tells me he has been flooded with phone calls about problems like this. whether you like or hate it, it is creating awareness o

if you are heading around the state today, 77 with sunshine in tahoe but thunderstorms down around l.a., palm springs and san diego to be warm outside of those thunderstorms. 106 in palm springs. i don't think we'll see as much cloud cover, the bay itself will be cover in clouds. temperatures in the 50s. looking into the future, right light offshore wind but tomorrow and wednesday as temperatures jump nearly four to six degrees. it holds steady on wednesday and slow tapering on thursday until they bottom over the weekend. sunday will probably be the coolest. >>> some graduates of the california culinary academy may be getting some of their tuition money back. the students are part of a $40 million settlement with the school stemming from a class action lawsuit. it accuses the academy of making misleading statement about their programs to lure students in. once they graduated students found themselves struggling to pay back thousands of dollars back in loans. >>> they participate in the annual euro race. the routes take them past several states including the abc7 studios. the race begin way back in 1975 and moved t

virtually no spillover violence from what is going on in mexico into the united states as witness to the fact killed casseaux and san diego are among the safest cities in terms of crime in the united states. nevertheless, of course there's a very difficult battle going on in mexico that is being courageously faced by president calderon and in the institutional reforms that he has put into place to to be able to easily defeat and eliminate the powerful drug cartels of mexico, and i know that the commissioner bersin and cdp as well as other agencies to the united states government are playing a collaborative role in supporting the mexican government to achieve that objective and in fact much better progress has been made by the calderon government against the they're beginning to have serious impact in destabilizing and eroding the power and the influence and the grip of the cartel's over the legitimate institutions of the mexican government in my opinion. islamic i would like to say we can't lose sight of the fact the the border patrol is fighting a vicious battle down there as witnessed recently with the death of the agen

event, and they are vers gating that, and in a major metropolitan area like san diego, and an area stretching into the state of arizona and across the border, it's vulnerable with only two sources of power coming into the area, they were completely knocked out yesterday. the good news is, overnight san diego and gas electric officials worked tirelessly to restore power. they were telling people to expect power to be out all day today and into the weekend perhaps, and now all power back to their customers. restaurants were forced to shut down. there was a big football came last night and they were counting on that to generate business. they had to throw out thousands and thousands of food that was spoiled, and traffic is back to normal. yesterday it was an absolute nightmare. the investigation is going to continue. we may not know the answer to your initial question, t. j., for weeks and even perhaps months. >> sounds like one guy knocked out the power to some 5 million out there. there has to be a crack in the system. that should not happen. we appreciate you, as always. >>> let's turn to the trouble for th

. >>> governor brown will travel today to san diego to talk to business leaders about a plan to boost jobs in the state. >> the jobs first program would offer more than $1 billion a year in tax relief for companies that create jobs in california and close a loop hope that benefits corporations that sell goods in california but don't employ people here. >>> president obama in the meantime is putting the final touches on his latest plan to create jobs before a speech on capitol hill thursday evening. yesterday the president spoke about the need for more jobs during a labor day address to union supporters in detroit. the president calls for infrastructure projects across the country and urged lawmakers to act quickly. >> we have more than 1 million unemployed construction workers ready to get dirty now. we have private companies... >> the president's latest jobs plan is expected to include a payroll tax cut, tax credits for businesses that hire new workers, and job training for the unemployed. some republican challengers criticized the president's jobs record in south carolina yesterday. one of them, form

traveling the state, -- comfortable through the central valley. 6 tahoe. look at that sunshine around big sur clouds l.a., san diegoally this morning. 98 in palm springs. back home, we'll talk about what is going on tonight. clouds mainly at the coast everybody else clear, 50s, could be around 49 in clover dale. temperatures continuing to warm about 3 to 6° everyday from tuesday into wednesday. warm thursday. cooler trend hits friday, saturday. it will be cool again sunday. have a great day. >>> 4:55. bart's police department will come unscrutiny when san francisco assemblyman opens an oversight hearing tomorrow. the hearing on public safety will focus on the training policies and procedures of bart's police force. demonstrators have been holding frequent protests calling for the disbanding of bart police since officers shot and killed a man at the civic center station in san francisco. bart's general manager, police chief and auditor are scheduled to attend tomorrow's hearing. >>> relations toon the u.s. and pakistan could be taking a turn for the worse. yesterday senator graham said the united states should consi

. >>> governor brown travels to san diego today to talk to business leaders about jobs in the state. the jobs first program would offer more than $1 billion a year in tax relief for companies that create jobs in california. the plan would also close a tax loophole that benefits corporations that sell goods in california but don't employ many people here. >>> president obama is putting the final touches on his latest plans to create jobs before unveiling details on capitol hill thursday night. the president is calling for infrastructure projects across the country and urging lawmakers to act quickly. >> we have more than one million unemployed construction workers ready to get dirty right now. >> the president's latest jobs plan is expected to include a payroll tax cut, tax credit for businesses who hire new workers and jobs training for the unemployed. the former bay state governor mitt romney plans to unveil his jobs plan in nevada. >>> a lot of people going back to work today getting met by fog. >> but then extreme heat. >> that's right. high pressure ridge sitting on top of the cl

san diego county. russ ama dah was found unresponsive in the ocean at san onofre state beach. >>> forecasters predict hurricane major hurricane by tomorrow. she's weakened sitely date dash weakened slightly this morning. but it's still a category 2 storm. she's currently in the atlantic ocean. a forecast map projects the storm will head north in the middle of the week. >>> the storm known as lee is losing steam this morning. it's been downgraded to a tropical depression. sustained winds have fallen to 35 miles an hour. but look at the damage. it is not more than -- it's dumped more than a foot of rain in louisiana. while the levees and new orleans are holding. parts of the city and state have been damaged. >> we had a foam mattress in there. when it tipped over, the bottom folded up. i couldn't move my arms. >> now, rip currents caught three agoers -- tasers in gulf shores alabama. two -- teenagers in gulf shores, become b. two made it. a 15-year-old boy was swept away. in the next couple of days, it will go across alabama and tennessee. it should reach the appalachians by the end. week. >>> from one natural d

a section of the overhang on the united states side of the san ysidro crossing collapsed this morning. that's the main crossing from san diego. two or three vehicles were under the canopy at the secondary inspection point when a section about 50 by 50 feet came crashing down. one person was hurt and taken to a hospital. vehicles can still go south into mexico, but there is no traffic coming across from tijuana today. it's not clear yet at this point what caused the accident. >>> get ready for some sneezing if you haven't already, it's coming. fall allergy season is coming to the bay area a little early this year. the reason, the unusually high rainfall late in the season now causing a spike in the fall allergy triggers. there's an abundance of pollen in the air. the biggest culprits, elm, cedar and pine tree pollens making people fairly miserable. >> a lot of patients are coming in. they're having more sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes. the common allergy symptoms. and some of the patients, their asthma symptoms are more active, they're triggered now. >> okay, to minimize your exposure, doctors recommend you avoid going outdo

warm just about everywhere across the state mid 90s through the central valley. 103 palm springs. 71 san diego l.a.. sunny and 79 big sur. 80 tahoe. >>> this morning michael jackson's personal physician will be back in the los angeles courtroom for the second dave his trial into the pop star's death. -- second day of his trial into the pop star's death. diana avellar followed every dramatic moment. >> reporter: the first witness to take the stand, choreographer, kenny ortega. he testified that he told dr. murray he was concerned about his friend's health in the days leading up to his death. >> he said i should stop trying to be an amateur doctor and psychologist and be the director and allow michael's health to him. >> reporter: earlier prosecutors pained -- painted murray as a cash greedy man. >> dr. murray's repeated, incompetent and unskilled acts lead to mr. jackson's death. >> reporter: prosecutors played an audio they said they phone on jackson's phone. [ unintelligible ] >> reporter: they say it the superstar talking about his upcoming tour while the of powerful drugs they say were give

virtually no spillover violence from what is going on in mexico into the united states as witness to the fact killed casseaux and san diego are among the safest cities in terms of crime in the united states. nevertheless, of course there's a very difficult battle going on in mexico that is being courageously faced by president calderon and in the institutional reforms that he has put into place to to be able to easily defeat and eliminate the powerful drug cartels of mexico, and i know that the commissioner bersin and cdp as well as other agencies to the united states government are playing a collaborative role in supporting the mexican government to achieve that objective and in fact much better progress has been made by the calderon government against the they're beginning to have serious impact in destabilizing and eroding the power and the influence and the grip of the cartel's over the legitimate institutions of the mexican government in my opinion. islamic i would like to say we can't lose sight of the fact the the border patrol is fighting a vicious battle down there as witnessed recently with the death of the agen

states border into northern mexico. this was the scene last night in san diego. crews worked through the night to restore power and tonight nearly everybody has their power back on. today officials urge people to save since some of the power plants in the area are still off line. >> our system is still fragile though everybody has power back, not all of the power plants are operating today. some of them took a pretty tough hit when the lights went out yesterday. >> the outage also led to flights being canceled caused delays in the bay area. arizona officials now say they believe it was a worker who was switching out a small piece of whichment that triggered it and they are trying to determine why it wasn't contained its thought the power outage cost the state about 100 million time for government workers cost up to $20 million and the cost of spoiled food was $18 million. the national university system released those figures. >> another friday sell off on wall street. >> and a new vehicle recall is bo it feels like help is never far away. it feels like you're pro