and kgo radio and abc 7 have a longstanding news relationship, kgo is owned by cumulus media. abc 7 owned by walt disney company. >> there is a fairly recent, but popular holiday tradition coming back tomorrow. >> best part is that it saves you money. it's a free shipping day. >> good deal. who better than michael finney to give details. >> there is 23 hundred merchants. you can hear me. the name implies we'll ship and deliver free. there is businesses like it because they say it increases sales and the one day event promises delivery by christmas eve. there is a link that you can find on our web site. go there and click on 7 on your side. one of the popular electronic ate items is the tab blet computer. sales are brisk. those who have a tab blet may be surprised. however, the price for reading materials. the price savings overprinted books narrowed and this is just a few dollars. and you can avoid high prices by gogt local library. and announced it will be lending out ee. books free. mortgage rates doipd a low. the average mortgage dropped, get this, 3.96%. that is economists

talk radio kgo will switch format monday. executives say a shrinking audience red to the change. >> we thought there would be a better opportunity to build audience by going to a semi all news format. the talk format has been wonderful for kgo but the audience hasn't stayed with it. the audience isn't there, we believe news will attract more listeners. >> kgo is owned by cumulus media and not affiliated with abc 7. the ron owens show will remain on the air as will current weekend program autos michael finney has the day off but didn't want to leave without making sure have you a dose of finney's friday free stuff. >> first in time for big holiday dinners. prilosec. >> and for hair, dove leave in smoothing cream. >> you can get this by going to abc 7 news.com ask clicking on 7 on your side or by calling. >> good stiff. >> still head up did it on our top story. >> protesters have been marching through san francisc @a >>> we want to update you now on the breaking news story. >> labor protest march blocking traffic has now arrive

. >>> legendary bay area radio station, kgo, is dismissing most of its top talent. that announcement was made a few hours ago, that many of the station's most recognizable voices will be let go. as the station switches to an all-new format between the hours of 2:00 p.m. to midnight. the strange starts monday. among those leaving, bill berns, gene gross, and bill rothman. kgo was sold to kbs media. station management says it hopes to reinvent itself with the new format. the new slug, kgo 810, the bay area news and information station. >>> when we come back, they were hungry to get here. now, they're just hungry. why a jamaican marching band is on a bay area adventure without food. and they need help tonight. >> almost 50 bucks. you can do a lot with 50 bucks. >> you've heard of layaway extended payment plans. you may not have heard of this. it's the new way to pay for presents this year. it won't cost you a thing. >>> and two bay area tech giants are looking for the next big thing. it could win you not only fame but fortune, as well. >>> and good evening. i'm chief m

. >>> kgo radio in san francisco announced a stunning shake-up. many of their popular talk show hosts are being let go. the radio is switching to an all news format from 2 p.m. to midnight. now ron owens will continue his popular show from 9 a.m. to noon. brian copeland will keep his weekend show. but talk show veterans gene burns, gill gross, ray, and john rothman are leaving. those big changes start on monday. >>> sal, i know we worked for many years with brian copeland here on mornings on 2 as a weather person and entertainment reporter. so he is still at kgo but big changes for a very big radio station, where i got my start here in the bay area. >> i know a lot of people who worked there over the years, grew up listening this them. i used to listen to you on the weekends tori, doing the news. >> uh-huh. >> before you women and a big tv star. good morning! let's go out. i like to give miss tori campbell a little grief on a friday. julys a little! let's go out and take a look at the commute now. the traffic here at the toll plaz is backed up for

kgo news showed up to witness the extraction of me and my dog. to highlight this they described an elaborate police system used to hoist me out of the creek. and there was no police system used, which by then brother-in- law was happy to replace it over and over again to anyone who came into the house. this is much better. this is a much better media event for me. i have been thinking about what it means to be a hero since i learned i would share this honor tonight. i was tremendously grateful to learn it did not involve a cape or tights. i will share deep with you what i figured out so far. -- i will share with you what i figured out so far. my goal is to entertain you. to do that i will have to rely on quotes from gondi, mother teresa, and david liberma lette no. 10, 99% of the antihero or leader is showing up. this is paraphrase from woody allen. this is at the heart of my service to indian help center. i was trying to think of a single event or thing or contribution i had made in my years of service, and there really is not one. when i did it

if you have pictures or video to share, you can e mail us at you report at kgo-.com. >> same-sex marriage ban panel heard oral arguments on whether a judge should have recused himself because he was in a same-sex relationship. that was just one of the issues on proposition 8 being argued today. >> and this first issue was where to overrule the judge's decision on the constitution yault of prop 8 on basis he's a gay man. now, those who oop yos same-sex marriage say there was a conflict of interest here because the judge did not disclose his sexual orientation and because he was in a long term relationship with a man. now, he could, therefore not be impartial in what was argued. the other side argue fd he is gay there is no basis for disclosure. this second issue is whether to release the videotape of the trial. the judge again told he could not, but did so for the sole purpose of reviewing them. he said he promised those would be sealed. and now pro poneants want them released and argue it would be in the interests to do so. this is where it gets interesting. the panel seemed to lean the o

or e-mail us at 7live@kgo-tv.com and i have to tell you, i am must haved that we missed. orange. >> who knew that. >> three of them knew. >> round of applause. we'll check you out on monday. have a great weekend. bye-bye. >>> andrew bruce catrel lead out of class at an east bay middle school. i'm carolyn johnson. dan ashley has the night off. the middle school math and science teacher is under arrest, and police say he confessed to a number of sex crimes with a student. neighbors and fellow teachers are in shock. thomas roman is at diablo middle school with the story and reaction for us. thomas? >> carolyn, last week the parents of the young woman involved in this case contacted clayton and walnut creek police regarding the suspected abuse. after a week long out they hadlice figured out they had enough evidence to arrest catrel today. at about noon, walnut creek police officers came here to diablo school. the took the scih teacher out of class. officers brought him to another room away from students and arrested him. >> he confessed to the several allegations, and at that

and you can e-mail us at 7live@kgo-tv.com we'll have more tomorrow including your opinions and reactions. check with us on facebook and on twitter, yes. >> and tomorrow, i will be here in the studio because i am headed out to los angeles for the press review and preview of new year's eve, the film. >> oh, with ashton kutcher. >> you are leaving me all of my lonely. >> i have to go interview josh and michele pfierrer. >> you are droving namings. >> lizzie will be back here on monday. i will be here and so please join me tomorrow . stick around for the news at four. have a great evening and stay out of the wind. bye-bye . >> strong winds. fan the flames in contra costa county. >> fire spread fashion but firefighters work faster. good evening. >> tonight more than 200 acres have been scorched. >> but it's under control. flames race across grass land in rural parts of contra costa county off collier canyon road and that's where lisa is live t with the latest on this. lisa. >> we are here in the valley in rural contra costa county where this grass fire is now caped and though it is still very

they dropped by kgo to tell us about a new program. >> three years ago i lost my father to brain cancer brain disease is personal to former congressman patrick kennedy. his father was the late senator, ted kennedy. he teamed up with a napa valley vitner their son recovered from a diagnosis of mental illness called schizophrenia. >> we need to put brain science on equal footing with cancer and aids research. >> they wanted to learn about the zeets so they created international mental health research organization 17 years ago. they started holding fund-raisers at the winery. the 2011 event raised $3 million. now, they and kennedy are working on a new initiative called one mind for research organization. it has a 10 year goal. >> with he said it's a call for a urgent collaboration and says the is left to call by his late uncle president kennedy to put a man on the moon and bring him home, safely. >> we chose to go to the moon not because they are easy but because they're hard. >> we're say weg need to go to inner space and understand how the neurons in our brains work in order to get to cu

kgo is owned by cumulus media. >> price tag for california's new dream act is going through the roof. the intent is to help all high school graduates go to college. and the cost to taxpayers is skyrocketing with tuition. undocumented college students can receive publicly funded financial aid in owe 2013. the legislative analyst now pegs costs at $65 million a year when implemented. nearly three times more than the estimate. it's difficult to pinpoint a number, because uc and csu tuition keeps rising. >> this says to the students that taxpayer will cover tuition so. if tuition goes up, taxpayer costs go up. >> the report found the dream act passed through the legislature as ab, 131 will hurt legal students getting a grant. >> everybody's grant will go down a little bit. you're trying to spread a fixed amount of money. >> aids say the costs are minimal and point out undocumented students who qualify are paying into the financial aid pot with their fees. >> for us, it was an he can witnesso issue saying if they're going to pay into it, they should benefit by being able to receive aid. >>

suggestion of kidneys for sale at $50,000 was a topic of debate among callers to brian coalland on kgo radio. >> a agree it should be legal. >> maybe if i was out of work, my home was in foreclosure, i'd rethink this. but 50 grand? absolutely not. >> congress banned financial incentives back in 1984. a medical ethicist opposes selling organs on a moral basis. >> out of respect for the dignity of the human body and human experience. the organs which that human body produces will be given the same rights. >> he and other critics think lifting the ban would exploit the poor who would sell to the rich and believes a well regulated system could handle that challenge. he's donating a kidney. abc 7 news. >> interesting question. coming up here a 5-year-old washing machine that has never worked. >> michael finney comes to the aid of a woman who is tired of getting soaked. [ female announcer ] martinelli's gold medal sparkling cider is the perfect choice for holiday gatherings. martinelli's is non-alcoholic, festive like champagne, and tastes great! martinelli's: since 1868. that's been wrapped

that is so kgo can go to an all news format. they own four stations in the market. including knbr. they want to be known as the bay area news and information station. commuters may spot game wardens toting tranquilizer guns. not the drivers they're after, it's the deer. happy to report that. they will track deer movements. the wardens will catch 15 deer and research them after fitting them with radio collars. they want to see how and wear the animals move along the corridor and use the information to reduce the number of collisions between drivers and the deer. >>> it is 5:19. coming up, the latest on one man's effort to save a dog the shelter said needed to be put down. >>> plus raider nation wondering whax next after a key player is arrested. >>> a new development in the north bay dog scheduled to be euthanized. the animal shelter has agreed not to euthanize him until a judge can rule on a pending lawsuit. a man sued the sheller saying the kill policy was questionable. the shelter says cash is aggressive. the man says it's not true. that cash needs a little training. supporters o

have video or pictures of breaking news just up load them to youreport or e-mail them to ureport at kgo-tv.com. >>> strong winds pushed a grass fire against homes yesterday before firefighters had a chance to knock it down. flames burned the fences of homes firefighters managed to keep the fire from reaching the homes. nearly 30 acres of wild land burned still no word on the cause of that fire. >>> police looking for a again man after a man was shot in the wal-mart parking lot the second shooting there this holiday shopping season. a man was shopping with his wife at this wal-mart on hesperian boulevard he stepped in the parking lot, got into a confrontation with someone who shot him in the leg the victim drove himself home and the shooter followed and continued shooting, but he got away the victim was taken to the hospital, he will be okay. police are looking at surveillance video and interviewing witnesses to try to determine what happened. >>> that wal-mart was also the scene of a shooting on black friday. some would be robbers confronted a group of shoppers in the parking lot and shot and

still cold here's a live look out from our roof camera, kgo tv studios looking towards the embarcaderoith lights still lit and the bay bridge, low clouds moving in onshore flow returning to us today so we have clouds from the coast. we'll take a look at those temperatures right now. here is the latest, 27 now the coolest spot in napa, livermore, fairfield, 29, 28 santa rosa. still freezing in mountain view at 32. milder, still cold 46 in san francisco, 45 in half moon bay. now here's why there isn't a freeze warning in effect, and this is proof it is a little warmer today, 24 hour change temperatures compared to yesterday at this time, 6° warmer half moon bay, 11 in novato and a few degrees warmer in other locations. but, we also see patchy fog developing visibility is limited in santa rosa down to a mile, novato down to a fourth of a mile. low clouds possibly moving in also over parts of concord and into oakland from the coast as well. for today, you can expect partly cloudy conditions so the morning is not going to start out as cold. with onshore breeze we'll see increasing clouds to

here is kgo's leeann melendez. >> reporter: there are times when even scientists have to learn the artt after one of their experiments careened through this house. >> this is the worst thing. i have kids of my own. i have a house of my own. i can't imagine how angry i would be to find it happening to it. >> reporter: cannonballs end up doing a lot of damage. the mist busters crew was on the other side of this hill experimenting with a cannon but the cannonball missed its target. instead the projectile came down the hill with extraordinary force traveling 2,800 feet before hitting the ground and shooting through the door of this home. doing damage inside then exiting through the back. the cannonball, airborne again, then crossed the road before taking out a tile on the top of this roof, and finally landing inside a minivan across the street. total traveling range, 3,300 feet. the owner of the van -- >> my husband and my son was in the car five minutes before it happens. i am so glad they are fine. >> reporter: according to the sheriff's department, the tv show has used the firing range

kgo's sue thompson reports. >> reporter: outside target's front door, some 30 mothers nursed their babies should be able to breast-feed unpublic. there is nothing wrong about it. there is nothing dirty about it. it's nourishing our children. >> reporter: nursing mothers banding together upset about what happened to michelle hickman in texas. she claims houston target workers bullied her for breast-feeding her baby while shopping and asking her to move to a private location. >> i definitely am not going to go nurse my baby in a bathroom. would you want to eat your lunch in the bathroom. >> really unhappy a mom had to go through that experience. >> reporter: around the nation, mothers and babies, openly nursed in public to send a message to target's corporate headquarters. >> so i thought i would come out here and support. and you know, show that -- feeding your baby in public is normal and natural. >> reporter: target does have a policy for moms who need to feed their babies and says it works hard to help nursing moms. >> target has the a long standing policy to embrace breast-feeding and

as members of congress kgo before the media, section 3 of the stock act could essentially bar them from publicly saying anything that may or may not move markets are stocks which really gag's them from commenting on very important legislation to the american people. do you feel section 3 violates the speech and debate clause? >> the speech and debate clause is a separate matter. that will exist in respect of what is done with respect to establishing a duty or passing legislation that prohibits insider-trading. it is something that we as the enforcement authorities have to navigate through and respect -- i'm sorry. thank you. not the best person to opine on that. i am happy to consider that. and get back to you with a response. sometimes the statute is clear and other areas it is less so. i would ask for the opportunity to get back to you on that a given more thought. >> thank-you, and i appreciate that. >> i would say that all the insider-trading laws require intense. that is the single biggest thing that protects the unwary from being trapped in a violation that inadvertently occurred.