. >> alan: good afternoon. another round of cold and rainy weather is making its way into the bay area, and it could get colder. the rain is producing several inches of snow in the sierra. it's going to fall as low as -- is falling as low as 3,000 feet, and in the bay area we could get a dusting on the mountains in the area. looking forward over to mount tam, you can see the front coming in, completely blocking up our camera. usually you can see a really nice shot of the bay. and looking east from the -- or from the east bay, emeryville, it's coming in, getting a little cloudy, but not quite as wet. for a better look at the storm and where it's going, let's go to leigh glaser. >> leigh: we actually had a cold front move through this morning. we have an area of low pressure to the north and that's going to bring more rain. in the north bay, numerous lightning strikes as colder air is pushing in behind the system. petaluma, novato, moderate rain. lightning strikes just near where the cell is. you can see it just

>> alan: wet and windy, november's fir storm blows through, bringing hope for water watchers watchers and winter enthusiasts. it was a stealth storm, sneaking in at night and the worst gone by daybreak this is a must-carry day for umbrellas. in the sierra, the precipitation turn to snow, but only at the hiest elevations where as much as two feet was expected. the road to tahoe remains clear on interstate 80 as you can see in this caltrans camera. chains are required on all vehicles except four-wheel drive vehiclesver donner summit. and the chp issued a wind advisory for bridges. caers and trailers are advised not to use the span. >>> for a better look at where the front is, we talk to leigh glaser. >> leigh: you' exactly right. much of that cold front has moved on towards the east of the bay area and to the south of us. the live doppler 7hd picking up rotating light shane -- rain shers. ben niche should with -- benecia with a brief shower and you can see another branch of moisture heading towards the peninsula. this will be -- most of the rain, i should say, will be winding down tonig

. >> alan: there's been delaces at bay area airports. at san francisco, delays of 30-60 minutes are being put on all departures and arrivals. cecelia vega is at fort mason. >> reporter: this rain today was a headache for so men people in the bay area. not for this crowd here. it's a sign of the good things to come. it was a good day to take a lease -- leisurely walk if you had an umbrella, a bad day to wait for the bus. it wasn't much butter for drivers. rain falling from the skies meant headache on the roadways. there was a high wind advisory on the bay bridge. >> they need to slow down still. we're still getting accidents out there. >> reporter: the roads were more than just wet. in some parts they were a mess. this tree split. and downed power lines briefly affect muni service. the final round of the charles schwab cup championship at harding park was put on hold for two hours because of a rain delay. these tourists lost part of their vacation to the weather, not to mention the view of the city skyline. >> we were headed to the oaklan

more coming up in the newscast. >> alan: thank you very much, shu. coming up in our next half hour, the tiger attack police tape, the brothers attack at the san francisco zoo, what they claim happened. the woman who went through airport security on the busiest travel day of the year in her bikini. today she explains the message she was trying to send out. >> alan: we have some newly released audio, a police interview of the brothers who survived a tiger attack at the zoo three years ago. the san francisco examiner obtained tapes of the interview right after the tiger escaped its enclosure and killed the brothers' friend. throughout the interview, they insist they did nothing to provoke the tiger. >> did you do anything to try to get the tiger's attention? no we were just looking for a minute, and then we were walking away, and the tiger jumped at us. >> you didn't talk to the tiger and try to get its attention? sometimes the animals are just kind of laying there. so you might want to get their attention, you know. see them move around and that type o

maybe some 70 svmentz. >> alan: let's go to shu.llege football scores. >> mike: catch you up on the college action, and zenyatta going for her 20th and final win today at the breeders' cup. we had a photo finish. i inherited my father's '69 norton commando. it's been a dream of mine to restore it. and it's my dream for him to finish it. frank has something great to save up for. this is my dad. isn't that cool? and a very understanding girlfriend. i showed him a wells fargo savings account with my savings plan. [ frank ] and what it does is it takes a little bit of my money and puts it towards my goal. i want to get all the original parts and do it right. for my dad. there's a couple months in between parts. so, one at a time. [ male announcer ] wells fargo. with you when it's time to save. ♪ >> mike: the cal bears have been a tough team to follow this season. they're 4-0 at home. 0-4 on the road. today in pullman, last call for a road victory. the quarterback getting his first start as a cal bear. a pristine game for football on the

>> alan: fears spirits -- spirits are high for fishermap tonight. at midnight the boats begin hauling crab in a fishery that stretches from point arena to point conception. we're live at fisherman's wharf where they're anticipating the biggest catch in four years. >> reporter: commercial crab season is seven hours away. there are lots of crab boats just waiting to go out and begin a harvest they believe will be a bumper harvest this year. they're also waiting for a test of the first catch to make sure it meets their quality standards. the sound of crab being cracked and served is heard throughout the area. san francisco known for the delicacy and locals and tourists come here to feast. >> i'm a crab addict for sure. if i lived in san francisco i would be here every day. >> reporter: these fishermap are ready to supply the needs of nip who wants fresh crab for thanksgiving. boats are beginning to fill the docks and piers. crab season launches at 12:01 a.m. the recent they're -- reason they're docked is due to the weather. >> they're giving them day b

. >> alan: good evening. i'm acknowledge wang.eople spent much of the day getting soaked as a soggy fall continues. umbrellas provided some protection for these people this afternoon. drivers have been dealing with slick conditions an local streets and highways, and when it rains in the bay area, that usually means snow falls in the sear. a here's -- sierra. here's a look from earlier today. >> leigh: we knew it was coming during the first part of our sunday, and it moved through rapidly. live doppler 7 hd still picking up a few lingering showers put much of the heaviest rain has moved out. so picking up a light shower in napa, vallejo, richmond right now, brief shower. tracy, french camp as well, picking up shower activity. all of this has moved from north to south, and will continue to press towards the southern portions of the region. rainfall totals quite impressive. san francisco, over an inch. close to an inch in mill valley. a little over -- a quarter inch in oakland. lesser amounts towards san jose. >> alan: one travel not

some sunshine. >> alan: on to shu. couple of winning streaks came to an end mike mike already. >> mike: they were ugly. ed the raiders' three game win streak came to an end in ♪ [ female announcer ] keurig has over 200 varieties of gourmet coffee and tea to choose from. ♪ keurig is the way to brew fresh, delicious coffee in under a minute. way to brew. [ female announcer ] so with keurig, every cup tastes like it's brewed just forou. ♪ because it is. choose. brew. enjoy. keurig. >> mike: the raiders' three game win streak came to a screeching halt in pittsburgh. second quarter, 3-0 raiders. first and gol, mendenhall powers his way in. 7-3 steelers. then pittsburgh on the move. roethlisberger rolling left. all sorts of room. stevey brown, right there, lungs to the end zone, 14-3 steelers. the rout is on. jason campbell to murphy, but murph fumblesle one of three oakland turnovers, sets up ben roethlisberger to sanders. 21-3. big ben threw for 2 270 yards and also did a little talking. richard see more takes evening, pun

funny things can happen in these. >> alan: thanks a lot. coming up, a fairy tale princess gives harry potter a run for his money at the box office. >> alan: harry potter's movie is still number one, taking in more than $51 million. i it was closely followed by tangled. the latest disney cartoon musical delivering the second biggest thanksgiving day debut behind toy story 3. megamind took in a mediocre $13 million. that's it for abc 7 news. that's it for now. and we hope to see you at 11:00. you can connect 24/7 at abc7news.com. good fortunate. captioned by closed captioning services inc.

>> alan: less than 90 minutes ago map stabbed a cable car operator in chinatown. we're near the scene with the latest. >> reporter: we're he on pacific and mason, and this bus is blocking our view, but if you can take a look up the street, th cable car is stopped between pacific and jackson. it will be closed for some time. this is earlier. police tell us that 4:20 this afternoon, a cable car conductor on the mason street line was stabbed. now, the incident occurred in the car while it wag traveling between pacific and jackson here in chinatown. let's go to when police actuly start conducting what we believe is an arrest. >> help us! video cameras. >> reporter: we don't know exactly whether or not the two women the police took into custody there are actually suspected in the incident, but we do know that police actually folled a blood trail leading away fm the cable car up pacific, and they arrested a male suspect. now, they arrested the male spect minutes after the incident. we weren't told exactly who the suspect was but police have the he individual in custody.

with you when it's time to save. ♪ >> alan: good evening.oen more fall yut from the johannes mehserle sentencing tonight. the supporters of oscar grant spent the evening discussing new ways to suppress -- express their outrage of the sentence. >> they're so upset at the june, they're thinking about doing something that would be extremely difficult if not impossible. tossing the judge off the bench. another saturday night strategy session. every week since the oscar grant killing, his family and supporters have gathered at the baptist church, this time plotting their next move after the johannes mehserle two-year prison sentence. >> we're fighting these charges. we don't accept them. just like we don't accept the decision by the judge to give mehserle a slap on the wrist. >> the judge tossed out a firearm conviction and gave mehserle the minimum prison term after doing he did not intend to kill oscar grant with his service weapon. >> taking a look at the procedures to have a judge removed or reprimanded. >> mehserle's attorney was quick to re

>> alan: good evening. the manhunt continues for a far meeld man accused of shooting two people to death. the search has expanded to the u.s. mexico border. ricardo deheon killed his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. >> reporter: the coroner just released the name of the victim. she is 45-year-old maria teronez. he died at 2:00 this morning. the name of the other victim has not been released. they do believe that the killer is the ex-boyfriend of the woman and he is still though run tonight. fairfield police say ricardo martinez was waiting for his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend, and ambushed them as the walked through her apartment complex parking lot. >> i heard her screaming, that's when i told my husband, he just killed whoever. and he did. he killed her. right outside my door, and her new boyfriend. >> residents had seen martinez before and knew the victim had a restraining order against him. somed a even heard him threaten her. >> he told her he would kill her if he wouldn't leave with her. >> rep

. >> alan: we have some breaking news from san francisco. a police chase ended in a crash at page and laguna street. police spotted a robbery suspect and gave chase. a short pursuit -- after a short pursuit the car crashed into another car. one person in that car was hurt. police arrested the driver and n -- in the suspect's car. they're looking for the passenger who they say escaped from custody earlier this week. >>> san francisco's 32nd 32nd annual milk moss scope -- moscone started off. milk and moscone were killed by former supervisor dan white over an argument over his seat on the board of supervisors. >> every year on november 27th november 27th the community gathers to commemorate and to remember what supervisor harvey milk meant to the queer community. he is our king martin luther king. >> alan: this year0s start was -- march was shorter than usual. >>> bar gap hunters -- bargain hunters crowded stores but spent only slightly more than last year. retail spending rose just .3 of a%. the firm says that's still a record for the day. th

>> alan: good evening. u.s. government leaders are in damage control mode tonight following the release of about a quarter million secret documents by wikileaks. the web site turned over the documents to five major news agencies. some of the topics include curbing iranys nuclear program, washington's attempts to remove enriched our rain from from pakistan, and discussions between the u.s. and south korea on the possible collapse of north core arch leading to a unified company, and incentives u.s. offered to foreign governments to persuade them to take prisonerrers from guantanamo bay. a chinese contact told the american embassy in beijing said the attack on googles system in general was generated by the chinese government. goggle says it is not able to comment. john hendron has more reaction. >> one foreign minister called it the september 11th of world dip employment -- diplomacy. on sunday, news organizations posted cables online. the white house and the pentagon immediately condemned the actions as reckless a

. >> alan: it appears political pressure has postponed the deportation of a san francisco city college nursing student who was set to be deported tomorrow. the san francisco chronicle is reporting that steve lee's attorney says federal immigration authorities will not send him back to peru. senator dianne feinstein and house speaker nancy pelosi have been asking officials to delay their plan. he is being held at a federal facility in arizona. he came to the u.s. at age 12 and didn't know about his illegal immigration status until recently. the decision could still be reverted. >>> a 35-year-old woman was found on an oakland street, injured, unconscious, and tonight she is still unknown. she was found a block from lake merritt at grand rapids avenue and -- grand avenue and perkins street. >> reporter: due to the seriousness of the injury, the homicide division was called in to investigate. the man was found here on perkins street in front of this corner grocery story around 10:00 p.m. when police found the man he was unconscious and suffering from what appeared to be blunt-force trauma

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. >> alan: good afternoon. s.w.a.t.me of a double-homicide suspect in fairfield. a manhunt has been going on since this morning for ricardo martinez deleon after his girlfriend and her boyfriend were found deed. we're live at the scene. >> reporter: we're here not far from the suspect's house. fairfield s.w.a.t. team went into the house and searched the place. they first launched a flash bang into the house. after that, they got no response and went in fully armed with weapons drawn and shields up. they found no sign of the suspect, however. a lieutenant just told me the house is empty. they're now in the process of searching it. the suspect is ricardo martinez deheon. he police say he hot and killed his ex-golf -- ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. she moved in after she ended her six month old relationship. she has restraining order out against him which for some reason has not been served. the complex neighbors say he stalked the ex-girlfriend and then threatened her. >> i knew when i heard her screaming, and i tol

>> good evening, alan.e driving conditions are not good and the reasons are here, up 0 two feet of snow. a solid foot of snow here at the cannan. caltrans crews have been trying remove the snow but not good enough. you can barely make out where the road is versus the shoulder. people pulling off the roads themselves. here's some video we shot a few moments ago. we're heading eastbound on i-80, and you can't really see anything. it's 30 miles-per-hour and that's gusty. a lot of people pulling off the road. some of them finding shelter at area gas stations, trying to wait it out before they take the risk to head on back down the hill again. >> you can't see very well. you can't see where the end -- the berm is over here or there, so you have to stay in the middle and go straight down the middle. >> coming over the summit this way, the snow is coming down strong, and at king vail, one over the normal chainup places, and we could see equipment moving in like they were going to close the road. >> so far there ar

and always. >> alan: up next, a magical weekend at the box office.d-breaking debut of this weekend's top movie. >> absolutely not. >> you take it well. >> if you think i'm going to let everyone -- >> harry potter at the box office this weekend. they conjured up $121 million. broke the franchise's record for the biggest opening weekend. the previous weekend's number one mega mind fell to number two. and rounding out the top three, the thriller, unstoppable, at 13.1 million. stanford has a new rhodes scholar. the 21-year-old, along with 31 other american students, will enter oxford university next order. he is a senior majoring in physics and international relations, the chair of the undergraduate senate and captain of his indian dance team. the scholarship is worth $50,000 a year and were announced this morning. they were awarded on the basis of high academic achievement and leadership o'pen potential. hope to see you tonight at 11:00.

and then there's christine plesic and alan duke. alan, i want to start with you. walk us through what happened. she's driving down sunset, she's going to turn on whitaker. then what happened? >> well, she turns -- she's in a turning lane at a light. sunset at whittier, three blocks from the famous beverly hills hotel. she takes the left and just about maybe 100 yards or less down the road, she hits a light pole. from that intersection to there, she was shot -- either at the intersection or just before she hit the light pole. i just coincidently drove that route today at lunchtime. and i saw how it would be possible that she would have been shot at that intersection, still been alive and drove herself down. there was glass found at the intersection. they don't know where she was shot. it's a very residential area and it's only about a quarter of a mile from where michael jackson died just last year. >> alan, people heard from her minutes before she died. apparently she maid made some phone calls. her window was partially rolled down which leads police to think some

presindente de perú, alan garcía,. >>>.eza incas que están en manos de. >>> el el presindente de perú, alan garcía, quiero tener de regreso en casa la piezas antes de termine su gestión, cuando además de cumplen 100 año de machupicchu. >>> consideran importante porque fueron encontradas en la ciudadela inca. >>> la piezas viajaron con autorización de gobierno peruano, el grupo decidió resolver el tema de tribunales éñ estima de la autoridades no podrán devolverla en cuento tenga una orden para devolverlo. >>> no estaba en condición de pedir que la devolvieran. >>> pero el gobierno parece no creerlo así. >>> dijimos que vamos a seguir en nuestra propósito, sino me lo grabamos a acudir ante el tribunal del país. >>> además de marchar por la calle el mandatario, ha pedido ayuda de figuras internacionales. >>> Él pidió la ayuda de otros presidentes. >>> el investigador en su monto y recientemente la nacional geográfico, se ha pronunciado que la piezas regresen a perú. >>> mucha atención, a partir de mañana doming en cualquier d

>> alan: new developin the controversy over airport security versus personal prices. privacy, the tsa is standing behind it's aggressive patdown proceduresle. 're live at sfo. >> reporr: the head of the tsa seems to have soften his procedures. since th month's launch of full-body scanners and aggressive patdowns, trsportation security administration chief remains firm in his positio the new procedures are here to stay, despite protests from the public and lawmakers. but today he appeared to give ground. issug a statement the agey uld make screening efforts to be as minimally invasive at possible. it grave no timetable but the statement came hours after he appeared on cnn, where he said the tsa wasn't changing its policies. >> we're not changing the policies because of tha because of the risks that are -- have been identified becaus of th current threat. have a trav advisory to euro. there are determin people who are trying to kill not only americs but innocent people around the world. >> reporter: it's unclear why he bad-pedaled, but until changes are made, many stl p

also joining us, alan blinder, professor of economics at princeton university and former vice chair of the federal reserve. welcome to the program. >> thank you, good to be here. >> susie: you believe with this money. the other, we get too much inflation and it debases the dollar. >> let's get alan into the conversation. you wrote under the title "in defense of ben bernanke." give us a counterargument. >> i think the coming up next on argument is pride simple. we have a an economy growing much too slowly. the unemployment rate is very high and not coming down, and on central forecast is not going to come down for a while. fiscal policies completely paralyzed or worse. so if anything is going to push this wagon forward, this big economy forward, it is going to be the federal reserve. i think that's the way the fed thinks about it. not that it has this super powerful weapon, qe-2, but it is doing what it can to push the economy forward, and i think they should. >> susie: if you're worried that this plan, though, could push up inflation, but isn't a little bit of inflation a good thing. i

give us the background to what has taken place here. >> alan shadrake wrote a book called "once a jollyangman." a detailed cases that says it justice has been denied. he is very critical of the singapore government for using the death penalty, and he goes into the innermost details of several cases there. he says -- that judiciary has come back and said this is an insult and that he has been acting in contempt of court. >> he has this jail sentence and he has been fined, so singapore is taking this seriously. could it go further than this? >> the singapore government has a habit of taking this kind of criticism very seriously. it has previously prosecuted journalists and news organizations. it has imposed heavy fines. it says it needs to take this kind of approach to ensure that it can rule effectively. but, of course come out human- rights groups would say that the singapore government uses criminal definition clause as a way to silence dissent heard >> is there any truth in what this author, alan shadrake, has been saying in his book? >> i think that would be very difficult for any of

it's not what alan and i... >> rose: so this is what you want.nt to get out front and say this is what i believe, this is what i do. >> she's recognized that we have to do something. people see this and they say how do you raise corporate taxes or how do you do this at this point in time? that's tough to do. >> rose: okay, so paul ryan said to me last night alice rivlin and i plan on putting out our own plan on health care hopefully this week. she and i are still talking about it so i don't want to get ahead of things. so you welcome that, too? on the table.and alice are goino come forward tomorrow with a premium support plan that we look forward to seeing. we haven't seen it yet and we look forward to seeing it. >> rose: the american people are looking at what in their future? >> they're looking at people who have decided to be patriots instead of getting reelected. >> rose: i'm asking what are they... okay. that's... does your political experience suggest to you that people are going to go that direction at this time? >> i think with what's hap

against fraud she was shocked to learn that alan greenspan told her over lunch that he believes the markets are better at regulating fraud and he is against it so now he's saying oops when he safely away with his pension fully intact yet he's working for over there pepco with bill gross advising pimco a notorious front runner an insider trader so you guys make good money doing fraudulent activities while in office out of office you probably don't go to the bathroom without committing some fraudulent activity thankfully my final note here this was sent in by a viewer of the show who actually is using one of these mac's kaiser gold coins here's a picture of oh i sent an email to demanded evidence and put my picture on the new russian global gold coin not haven't heard anything back yet then finally max you know those gold coins as max keiser gold coins might come in useful for the final savers versus speculators dead or versus creditor bubble of all jeremy grantham the fed is creating its last bubble. so he said to have maria. what i worry about most is the fed's activity. q e two is

well alan greenspan is a dork and a face a terrorist he should be up on war crimes but basically all the problems that the result of the fed's artificially keeping interest rates low have resulted in the growth of fraud in other words you need to distance center vies fraud you need to make the cost of money high enough so that the risks associated with borrowing to start your fraudulent activities are diminished if you make the price of fraud so cheap that any goombah can borrow billions and start anything crazy scheme that they can concoct in their diseased mind like a bernie madoff and then if they get caught they either go to some celebrity country club jail or pay a small civil fine or get put on the cover of some time magazine then you're not going to stop the flow noria well importantly earlier in the year we covered the fact that brooksley. bourne was fired forced out of government by alan greenspan and larry summers because she wanted to regulate against fraud she was shocked to learn that alan greenspan told her over lunch that he believes the markets are better at regulatin

alan wang is live at the chuck-e-cheese in newark. and they released disturbing video of masked gunmen robbing and terrorizing these families. >> carolyn, they are trying to get people with information to come forward. tonight chuck-e-cheese's was back up on again after a crime that may be considered appalling by other criminals. it was just before 10:00 on saturday night when three gunmen took over the chuck-e-cheese's restaurant in newark. in this surveillance video released today, one points a gun to the head of a young employee who stayed curled up on the floor. >> just let them run around at chuck-e-cheese and you let your kids play. wow, very shocked. >> they wounded up the rest of the employees and several families with chirp,-- children, about 40 people in all. then they put them in a store room as they emptied the cash register. not knowing if they were still in the restaurant the victims decided to call 9-1-1. by the time the police arrived, the suspects were gone. >> what ind could of person would do that? >> somebody who i

alan wang is live in berkeley where a soccer game just wrapped up. alan? >> yeah, the lights go out at 11:00 on the dot. but these guys still don't want to stop. it is 42 degrees out here right now, but we have a strong chill of on the bay. even with goalie gloves, it feels like your hands are about to shatter. earlier we went out to see how this cold weather is affecting the east bay. it is perfect weather for santa claus who is making an early appearance at the merry go round where the carousel is celebrating its 100th anniversary. >> it is an early start this year. it is never too early if you are going in the stores these days and you see christmas. so santa has to get with the program. >> but these temperatures are not so perfect for families. >> i think the weather is keeping everyone away. we have to bundle up. >> at the little farm in tilden, pa, the small animals took shelter in the barnes. but those animals suited for this weather stayed outside. still the cows prefer to huddle under their shelter. local nurseries spent the day sheltering their i

alan greenspan, dr. greenspan, let me begin with you.we on our search for jobs and on our overall economic outlook? >> well, our search for jobs is still -- not doing too well. 10% unemployment rate is the consequence of the fact that this economy is not picking up the way it ordinarily would out of a recession. and the basic reason is that unlike previous recoveries when, for example, we would be getting very significant pick ups in building, residential, nonresidenti nonresidential, we're not getting that today. it's a big hole in the economy. and the reason, essentially, as far as the business sector is concerned is that business is highly uncertain about the future in a way which i've never seen it before and a way in which the data suggests has never, in fact, been so depressed. and unless and until we can begin to lift that uncertainty, it is very difficult to see people reaching out into the longer term. let us remember, buildings are 20, 30-year investments. >> right. >> what the data show is that extremely high risk aversion in