karina rusk explains how one city is grappling with the issue. >> they are sounding an alarm. they released a new study on the pension problem. >> i think it's the biggest financial challenge in california. nothing is close to this. >> reporter: they evaluated the top 24 pension systems across california which includes bay area county and city funds. it concludes spending on public employee pensions has grown more than 11% a year since 1999 making retirement benefits the fastest growing costs for local governments. the study finds the plan has $135 billion in unfunded liability. >> instead of earning the money and awarding it, you award it and then you earn it in the public sector side. what happens if you don't earn it? you the taxpayers and you got to pay. >> they say local governments are having to cut essential services such as police, fire and libraries just to keep up with growing pension obligations. it highlights employee pensions which range from a low in stanislaus county of over $24,000 a year to a high in los angeles county of $46,000. retired public safety employe

more on her from karina rusk. >> tim brown is speaking out for the first time about his loss. his fiancee, 53-year-old judith see more. the san jose family requests that we not show pictures of judy but did want people to know of her deep faith and extraordinary dedication to her two grown children camilla and brie. >> she did everything for them. every decision in life and every course she took. her number one pride was her children. >> reporter: tim says he worried when knew about the shooting monday because he knew judy was in class. she already had nursing experience and was two months away from graduating and entering a profession she loved. >> she took time and patience to take care of each person individually so that she had a lot of many good stories to tell me about how the patients just loved her and really looked forward to seeing h her. >> reporter: as families across the bay area grieve, tim says h his focus is on his profound loss and not the man responsible. >> right now, myself i'm going through so much personal grief for are camilla and brian and for myself th

in monterey, karina rusk, abc 7ing news. >>> the marinedischarged withoa sergeant from san diego forriticizing president obama on facebook. the military says sergeant gary stein violated pentagon policy limiting speech of service members. stein wrote expletive deleted obama and i will not follow orders from him. stein says he was exercising his rights to free speech. the judge disagreed calling his comments struggling and that service members have had their speech limited since the civil war. the nine year veteran plans to appeal. >>> meantime the pentagon says troops.off as many as 25,000 the military is facing a half trillion dollars in spending cuts as the wars in iraq and afghanistan wind down. >>> san diego congressman wants the navy to name a ship after harvey milk. he says naming a ship after the late gay rights activist would help promote equality in the military. milling served as an officer in the 1950s. >> when you guy something with a lifetime guarantee do you think what lifetime really means. a bay area man opened a checking account that was free for life but that was be

downsize others but the historic post office in downtown palo alto is causing quite an uproar, karina rusk explains. >> palo alto's downtown post office is not only historic for many residents, it's part of their history. she has a relationship that goes back decades. >> i've had a box here since 1967. >> but now, they have a plan to save $20 billion a year. the cost cutting equation includes selling seven bay area post offices including burlingame and palo alto. the idea is to relocate operations to smaller spaces, with e-mailo the regular business, many customers understand that the government needs to downsize. >> i don't think it's necessary. >> nobody has put a price tag on the building but they aren't going to stand by and be auctioned off. >> if the city bought the building it could do consolidating of its own and just have enough room left over for tenant. >> it makes sense to lease it out for something like our development center which is a half block away and share the space with a reduced size post office. >> the idea is gaining support. for many a post office anywhere else woul

karina rusk has more. >> this is what cutting edge battery innovation looks like. super computer has told these researchers it's possible to build a car battery light enough and powerful enough to travel 500 miles on a single charge. >> this is fundamental forces is actually occurring. like sherlock holmes you have a twists and turns going on. >> reporter: the battery 500 team is unraveling a mystery how to borrow oxygen from the air and produce a chemical reaction using lithium. one key element is membrane technology. >> it has to be enough for the air to get through and have the reaction to take place. >> battery technology takes time. i.b.m. hopes the batteries are powering our cars in the next 10-15 years. so far they have been able to build a battery the size of a dime that ponksz have powers this led light for ten days. now, they want a larger battery safely and cheaply and work for many years. this machine is helping them fine-tune the formula. >> this is essentially a breathalyzer for batteries. it allows us to look at gases that are evolved from our batter

karina rusk has the details. >> reporter: the sheriff's office is navigating the murky water. they check out eight items of interest captured by a sonar device. it gives you an idea what the team is working with. the item on the right turned out to be a car. >> it may not be one image what we're looking at. it's often a combination of two or three. >> they ruled out five items of interest at chesboro reservoir. >> there was a large rock formation and a lot of wood and tree stumps. >> either object is relocated using gps and a dive of 40 to 100 feet is required this cage is dropped into the water and acts as a familiar marker of sorts. >> we'll drop a came down and see with the sonar and bring the cage closer and closer to the image we're looking for. until the diver as a short distance. >> the daylong operation follows a month of searching both on land and in water. each outing is an effort to find evidence that will bring hotel 15-year-old sierra lamar. sergeant moore has been working the case since day one. >> we're here to do a mix we focus on the mission at hand. >> report

in san jose, karina rusk, abc7 news. >> a breathalyzer for batteries? you have to love that.to love this forecast too lisa is talking about, if you like warm weather and i think many of us are ready for it. >> yeah. a brief shot at it. >> however brief. >> yeah, we are looking at coastal sea breezes to keep the beaches comfortable. this morning it's very nice out there with numbers ranging into the 50s and 60s. but 48 on our coast. this is mount damage. we will be looking at a beautiful day here with numbers probably a couple degrees warmer today. we saw 66 yesterday half moon bay. so we really did feel the effects of that westerly wind. but today the westerly wind is going to be a lot lighter. it's 48 half moon bay, 59 redwood city and 60 concord. 64 antioch. good morning, antioch, 69 for you. 66 los gatos. once again we will see some 90s inland. yesterday the warm spot was 91 in redwood city. mild to warmer on the coast and bay. by overnight tonight we will see the fog move up from the south. so the cooling will begin tomorrow. in fact, we will be out of 90s, probably come

in san jose, karina rusk, abc7 news. >> we are looking at the cameras around the bay area and everywhereorgeous golden shot. >> yeah. a lot of that today. and the only cooling you will feel will be at the coast where you go the sea breeze u you see a little bit of haze out there on the horizon. we have fog way out there. but the winds ever pretty dusty offshore. northwesterly at 25 miles an hour. but you won't feel much of a sea breeze at all unless you are right at the beach. and even there it's going to be light. out of the northwest at 5 to 10 miles an hour. because of that wind offshore it's cool half moon bay. 48 there. 57 already in the city. 59 in redwood city. and we haven't dropped out of the 60s in parts of our east bay. also fremont 63. 60 in mountain view. so the warmup gets going within the next couple of hours. so we will probably be in the 70s in many locations before noontime. so we are looking at toasty temperatures again inland with mild to warm conditions around the bay, and at our coast with numbers coming up there just a couple of degrees. the cooling will begin tomo