. >> reporter: as police ask news helicopters to back off and as the cabin went up in flames, social with users like this one crying conspiracy. so u.s. authorities have burned someone to death in a cabin and let it burn through the basement so no body is left. another using referring to reports that dorner's i.d. was found, come on, people, how in the world is dorner body burned beyond recognition if they found his license he just so happened to be carrying? another theory, i think dorner probably killed someone and left that body in that fire while he escaped. others blasted the police. >> we're going to go forward with the plan with the burn. >> reporter: blaming them for the cabin fire. lapd was prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner yesterday. they burned him alive. apparently burning people alive is now considered appropriate behavior for the police. from the very beginning, dorner found plenty of sympathizers. >> i just want to start off by saying i perfectly support 100% what christopher dorner is doing. >> i read this manifesto and i basically believe him. >> reporter: on f

as many as in new york city. we wondered, why the difference. so we asked our senior correspondent, john miller, who is a former deputy commissioner of the new york city police department, to join us from new orleans tonight. john, why is new york city enjoying record-low violence when the violence is so high in chicago, philadelphia, or new orleans? >> reporter: well, you look at new orleans. there's a celebration going on around here. but part of the reality is, this is one of the cities that leads the nation in murder, and the disparity, according to a police executive research forum study that brought all the police chiefs together, was it's what happens to the arrests after they get to court. now, take new york. they have a three- to five-year mandatory minimum. that means that if a gun charge ends up in front of a judge, you're almost certain to go to jail for three years. in chicago, you've got a 50-50 chance that you're not going to do any jail time almost. 33% of those cases are dismissed outright. >> pelley: so if you're caught with a gun in new york, whether you have used it in a crime or not, you're going to jail for three to five years, but not

news in santa cruz. as we told you just minutes ago two police officers who are shot this afternoon have died along with the suspect. >> abc 7 news reporter just received an update askain with what she's learned. lisa? >> police just told us some troubling news. they have confirmed two police officers from the santa cruz police department as well as suspect are dead. they will not tell us any information about the officers including their names, ranks or genders they're saying they're still being sensitive. it's a hard time. they're not fiing nextr.oí of k. right now, though, because of everything that is happening santa cruz county sheriff is taking over this investigation but deputies will take over patrols for the city tonight. investigators do not think the public is in danger right now. they do not think that there are more suspects out there. as far as children and teachers there have been several schools on lock down. children and students and teachers are going to tart to get bused to county offices so they're loved ones can start to pick them up after 7:00 p.m. as for this scene it will stay up several more hours. i am told fbi is also on the scene. and tha

asked her, she would have gladly turned them off. new police are involveed and investigating the letter as a case of intimidation. in the meantime, she and her mom are just trying to make sense of the situation. >> my goodness, what is this person's state of mind. would they hurt someone over something like this? my goodness. >> reporter: rosemary was planning to take the lights down in march and show no longer keeps them turned on all night long. as for the person who wrote the letter, yes, she was upset, but she's not going let them steal her joy n. elyria, susan strat fod, fox news. >>> the 1986 atlanta olympic bomber published a book from prison. eric rudolph is serving a life sentence for two separate bombings, one at the summer olympics and another at an abortion clinic in alabama. he released an autobiography behind bars. since federal law bars criminals from making money, he will not see a dime from his book sales. >>> a new york city elementary school teacher is under fire after giving her nine-year-old students math problems about the killing and beating of slaves. fox's linda schmidt asked some parents

asked to call maryland state police at 4432603700. nearly a week after a police chief was shot, a new director has been named as the department director of education and training. classroom training resumed. the commissioner said the police training that was saw by an instructor is making better progress than expected. he is not out of the woods yet. the incident was called a major procedural breakdown. major smith replaces maj russell, who was placed on administrative expansion -- a minister in suspension. -- administrative suspension. he shot a trainee in the head. he is on medical leave. >> if you live in the north or western side of baltimore, it is likely that you see not only rain but snow as well. we are seeing a lot of green, which represents the rain. the purple represents the frozen for to a petition on this end of the storm system. temperatures above the freezing mark at this point, which is keeping the roads mostly what. 39 degrees at the airport. rain is being reported. look at rain-snow line. be careful if you are travelling in northern areas. it is mostly of rain event in the afternoon. >> new details this afternoon in

. >>> we have breaking news out of southern california, police in your vine -- ervin, that information came in about 15 minutes ago, it came as they were asking to call for -- he was trying to call for help. now he implicated himself in a 20 page manifesto. we are following this story and we will bring you new information as soon as it becomes available. >>> developing news in san jose, firefighters are on the scene of a fire that destroyed a home early this morning. a traffic camera caught that fire 130 in the rose garden neighborhood. janine de la vega is there with what neighbors are saying, jeanine? >> pam, you can still smell smoke watching over the house, there is a firefighter in there watching sort of inspecting all the damage inside and you can see it is black everywhere inside those windows and firefighters tell us it even burned holes inside the floor. there is video taken by somebody at the scene and it happened at this vacant house. firefighters initially did not know if anybody lived inside but neighbors told them that the house was vacant. they pulled out in time and it took firefighters about an hour and a half to get it under

news. >> san francisco police are asking for the public's help in finding additional dan therrien, the man kron 4 first identified as a suspect in the disappearance. of kevin collins in 19-84. kron 4's grant lodes explains what we have learned so far. dan therrien - has a history of kidnapping and sexual assault involving children. in 1981, therrien was arrested in the fisherman's wharf area for kidnapping and lewd acts on a child. he was bailed out, then did not show up for his court date. that outstanding warrant, and pleaded giulty to felony lewd acts on a child. probation. wanted in canada for a 1973 incident. sexually assaulted 2 children. therrien was initially arrested and charged. fled canada. and 19-56 stewart. wayne jackson. contact them. if they ever of these names. san francisco's police chief greg suhr says the kevin haunted both him and his department. spoke with kron-4's terisa estacio about the latest at a news conference just hours ago, police revealed why therrien refered to by authorities as jackson - an alias is the primary disappearance. >> you can imagine what our initial response was. a bit of

. >>> new at 10:00, police in san pablo are asking for help as they look for several armed robbers who. a robbery last night is the second of two recent robberies. this is surveillance video obtained by ktvu. you can see one man taking cash and cigarettes. police say a second man with a gun ordered an employee and customer on the floor and then shot each of them in the leg. the other incident took place on january 27th: the gunman ordered an employee to the floor while the other two stole cigarettes and money. no one was hurt in this incident. police say the mo is similar and in both robberies the stolen cigarettes were newport's. >>> the bay area's toll authority has released their budget to mark the opening of the new eastern span of the bay. the agency plans to spend 5-1/2 million dollars to pay for allowing the public to walk a across the new bridge. the money will go toward shuttle buses, barricades and private security. the plan is to allow 300,000 people to walk from oakland to san francisco. private funding will pay for other planned events including a fireworks show. >>> the p

. >>> new at 10:00, police in san pablo are asking for help as they look for several armed robbers who might be getting more violent. a robbery last night is the second of two recent robberies. this is surveillance video obtained by ktvu. you can see one man taking cash and cigarettes. police say a second man with a gun ordered an employee and customer on the floor and then shot each of them in the leg. the other incident took place on january 27th: the gunman ordered an employee to the floor while the other two stole cigarettes and money. no one was hurt in this incident. police say the mo is similar and in both robberies the stolen cigarettes were newport's. >>> the bay area's toll authority has released their budget to mark the opening of the new eastern span of the bay. the agency plans to spend 5-1/2 million dollars to pay for allowing the public to walk a across the new bridge. the money will go toward shuttle buses, barricades and private security. the plan is to allow 300,000 people to walk from oakland to san francisco. private funding will pay for other planned events includi

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as to who this person was. >> the victim is a white male, 40 to 60 years old. anyone with information is asked to call baltimore county police. from middle river tim williams wjz eyewitness news. >>> if you can he help identify the man call police at (410)307- 2020. >>> passengers are releasing more shocking images from the days they spent trapped aboard that concern vol cruise ship triumph. this is tent city on the deck of the cruise ship. that's where many of the 4,000 vacationers ended up sleeping. in hallways or lounge chairs. those are snapshots of some of the sanitation problems, pictures showing a woman scooping urine into the shower describe and sewage dripping down the walls on that ship. >>> people in russia are still talking about and cleaning up after that enormous meteor explosion. the fire ball was said to be as strong as 20 hiroshima atomic bombs. it could cost $30 million. nearly 1200 people are injured by shock waves from that explosion. >>> this sounds like a lot of fun, hundreds of people in minnesota are trying to make the biggest lite bright mural ever recorded. it was made out of more than a half a million of those glowing little pegs. it took five days

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police illegally forced a confession from him. the incompetent attorney appealed the decision. >> new developments in the case around a millionaire. later this morning, prosecutors asking a judge to add raven dixon's name as a co-defendant in the murder trial. three men ready to stand trial for the murder of rob by kumra. prosecutors say dixon gave the men information to allow them to break into the estate. kumra a was robbed and killed. his wife was beaten. >> it is 4:34. redwood city schools are plang safety drills in the wake of the newtown, connecticut school shooting. the police department announced this week it wants to send daily patrol offers to visit schools and plans to run a drill for the schools in the fall. the drill would simulate a lockdown with an active shooter on campus including loud speaker announcements, barricading doorss and covering windows. some schools are conducting such drills. this is what happened at a modesto school this week. in this simulation, two gun men opened fire on students. they lie on the ground covered in fake blood. officers shot one suspect while another hid in a classroom. s.w.a.t. team members went room to room searching. it drew criticism saying the newtown,

: the police say they had a close eye on jones, keeping him under 24-hour surveillance since identifying him as a suspect. >> we are asking for the service from 7:30. >> reporter: carter says news of the arrest brings some relief. >> my family lives over here. i have an 11-year-old granddaughter that plays around here. and, geez. just that close. that close. >> reporter: now, late this afternoon, about two hours ago, the fbi agents removed several boxes, envelopes and computers from a home listed in jones name. the police have not released the name on the charges he has faced but he has been expected to be arraigned on wednesday. back out here live, you will see the vigil has no sign of ending soon as they gather to remember the 13-year-old's death. my colleague is in the crowd and will have more tonight. >>> now to our continuing coverage of the bay area terror plot. he set off a powerful car bomb at an oakland bank is behind bars. the target of this building on hagenberger road. the complaint described how the 28-year-old arrived at the bank last night, driving an suv he believed was wired to explode. the investigators say he spent weeks building the phony bomb with a man he

yesterday as those events were unfolding the police urged the news media to stop sending tweets about the swat team actions. ironically the san bernardino asked them to stop tweeting immediately. >>> a bomb was detonated over night. janine de la vega is in the neighborhood with details on this ongoing investigation. janine. >> reporter: the california highway patrol has been here all night guarding over this house that you see behind me. you can see the front yard is in complete disi-- disarray. that is because last night officers found explosives inside that house. they brought them outside. put all the sandbags on top of them so no debris would fly everywhere to make sure that bomb was detonated safely. we are told the man who lives at this home made a threat to a public official. the chp assessment team out of sal castaneda has been watching him and got a search warrant on his home and when officers came here yesterday they found a home made bomb and bomb making materials inside the property. the bomb squad dug a hole in the yard. buried the material and detonated it safely. people in the neighborhood had to evacuate. others were told to s

police are asking them to call as the number of victims could be huge. reporting from city police head quarters i'm mike schuh. >>> stay with wjz 13, maryland's news stationreflect on the sudden resignation of pope benedict xvi [ anouncer ] ihop is in time square to compare new griddle-melts to your usual breakfast sandwich. a lot more flavor. [ anouncer ] ihop's new griddle melts... made fresh and hot! hand crafted just for you. it's like a sexy sandwich. [ anouncer ] compare new griddle melts yourself. just $4.99. it's an epic breakfast sandwich. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." oscar pistorius tells a court that he did shoot his girlfriend. we'll show you his statement from the bail hearing in his murder case. >>> and with roman catholic cardinals preparing to elect a new pope we'll ask frank lutz what counselors are telling him about the pope and their church. >>> first, here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> law enforcement sources tell cbs news that adam lanza was motivated by violent video games and a strong personal desire to kill more people than another infamous mass murderer. >> we're getting a clearer picture of what w

news chopper 2 is over head. police shut down several blocks as they continue to do this investigation. at this point there is no motive, they are still investigating. we asked if the victim could have been a gang member, they told us they are investigating that but that can't be confirmed at this point. you can see the emotion on the face of the family, having a tough time as they learn about the death. we will bring you more throughout our newscast. live in san jose, maureen naylor, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> oakland police are looking for two men in connection with a fatal shooting. a man was found about 2:30 p.m. this afternoon and died 20 minutes later. police have yet to give a description of the suspect. >> new information about former los angeles police department officer chris dorner who is accused of killing four people. police say the final moments were like a war zone. ktvu's rob roth is in the news room with late information on what authorities just said. rob? >> reporter: frank, in a press briefing that just ended the san bernardino sheriff's department said they believe the body in the cabin is that of chris dorner but a positive identification

asked to call crimestoppers. >>> more fallout after a police trainee is shot by a police instructor. today, a city police commissioner, anthony batts is naming joseph smith as the new department of education training section. last week, a training officer, william scott kern, shot a trainee in the head. the trainee remains in critical condition at shock trauma. state police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting. >>> toddler slapped. an angry man with a crying baby is arrested for hitting the child in the face. anna marie green reports for wjz on the incident that is causing widespread outrage. >> reporter: the trouble started brewing almost immediately, when jessica bennett and her 2-year-old adopted son jonah took their seats next to joe humbly on a flight from minneapolis to atlanta, earlier this month. >> i said, oh, we're sitting next to you. and he just basically rolled his eyes and growled at us. >> reporter: hunley allegedly began to complain that jonah was too big to sit on his mother's lap, becoming more outspoken as the flight continued. >> he was annoyed with his comments. he would turn my light back on after i would turn it off. a

police scanners have gone silent on this. i think they may have switched to another frequency so that we can't hear what they're doing. as knbc was reporting, they've asked the news helicopters to move out and the faa has put in restrictions over the area. they say, the sheriff's department says that's for the protection of the news crews, but i think you also saw one of the reasons why they would like the tv choppers out in those pictures of what was going up the road to that cabin, some armored vehicles, some -- it looked like an armored vehicle with snow tracks on it that could maneuver in the snow. it's entirely possible if there is power in that cabin that dorner is watching all of this, and they don't want him to know what they're doing. they don't want him to know what they're doing outside the cabin beyond his view. they don't want him to know what equipment is being moved up there. we are sort of losing some information. we have been learning though that there were three schools in the area that had been on lockdown. parents were being advised not to go pick up their kids. it's now about 2:30 here in los angeles. that lockdown has been lifted at two of t

new details this morning in the kevin collins case. san francisco police are asking for public help in finding additional information about the man dan therrien, the man kron for first identified as in the disappearance of kevin collins in 1984. >> he was a hishas a history of kidnapping and sexual assault involving children. >> in 1981 he was arrested and the fisherman's wharf area for kidnapping and lewd acts on a child. he bailed out, there was a no show at his court date. >> in 1982 he was arrested on the outstanding warrant, then pleaded guilty to felony live acts on a child. he was sentenced to six months in jail and three years probation. >> therrein was also wanted in canada for crime in 1973. police say kidnapped and sexually assaulted two children. he was arrested and charged, but once it was released, he fled canada. police say was never caught because, in part, he used so many different names. >> san francisco police steve graham suhr says the kevin collins case as long haunted him and his department. he says he remembers when colin went missing. he was relatively new on the for the time. suhr also attended the same school as kevin. he talked about what it was like sp

ask your dermatologist about humira, today. clearer skin is possible. >> now, from abc7 news. >> as you know we have rain out there. we also have some news. uc santa cruz policeomeone recognizes the sketch of a man wanted for campus rape that kurd during broad daylight over the weekend, 200-pound stocky white man in his 30's with black hair and green eyes and goatee at 5' 10". students are receiving text alerts about the attack. the 21-year-old victim said he beat and assaulted her as she walk on a campus trail near the amphitheater. >> bad accident in daly city north 280, c.h.p. has a sig-alert with traffic backed toward northbound 280 according to our app. the other problem spot is walnut creek overcast with an accident before highway 24 and the damage is done. >> when we come back our meteorologis ought scout showers are falling apart and barely anything showing up on radar so a light sprinkling with more showers develop over the santa cruz mountains and over the mountains with sprinkles the next hour or so but the organized wet weather is developing to the north from 8:00 until >>> check out julian neumann. he's only 11 years old. but watch this right her

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as a simple programpilgrim. at 11:00 he will officially resigned and will not be head of the roman catholic church. >> process will begin to let the new pope. >> thank you james. police are askingopped off at an elementary school in san leandro. >> myles oliverz was dropped off at that is the relevance score on juniper street. he never returned to his foster home at the end of the school day. san leandro police believe that he may have been with his birth mother, michelle oliverez. who has been tried tontrying to reunite with him since their separation. the mother does not have no address, but is known to frequent berkeley, richmond and oakland. we will be right back with more on the you can't move the tv there. yuh-huh. we have a wireless receiver. listen. back in my day, there was no u-verse wireless receiver that let you move the tv away from the tv outlet. we can move it to the kitchen, the patio, the closet and almost anywhere. why would you want a tv in the closet? [ both laugh ] ♪ ♪ [ fancy voice ] brilliant idea, darling. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] the wireless receiver. get u-verse tv for just $19 a month for 1 year when you bundle tv and internet. rethink possible. >> i

new details this morning in the kevin collins case. san francisco police are asking for your help in finding additional information about this man. then therrien, the man kron 4 first identified aspect in the 1984 disappearance of kevin collins. therrien has a history of kidnapping and sexual assault involving children. in 1981 he was arrested in a fisherman's area for kidnapping and lewd acts on a child. he bailed out, then he was a no show at his court date. in 1982 he was arrested on that outstanding warrant, then he pleaded guilty to felony lou tax on a child. he was sentenced to six months in jail and three years' probation. >> therrien was also wanted in canada for a crime in 1973. police said they he kidnapped and sexually assaulting two children. if he was arrested and charged, but once he was released, he fled canada. if police say he was never caught because, in part, he used so many different names. >> send francisco's chief grewg suhr says that kevin collins case has long haunted him and his department. he says that he remembers one collins went missing. he was rose of the new on the force at the time. he also attended the same school as kevin. he talked about what i

police are asking that you call them right away. >> immediately. immediately. >>> and in other news this morning, we're learning new details about ray routh, the man charged with killing a former military sniper asdeaths. his attorneys are asking for a psychiatric evaluation to determine if routh is, in fact, competent to stand trial. thousands of mourners are expected to attend a public memorial for sniper chris kyle. that will take place monday at cowboys stadium. >>> also the president's choice for the next head of the cia defended the use of drones against terror suspects during his hearing yesterday on capitol hill. john brennan said such strikes are rarely used and only against targets who are planning to attack the u.s. however, the head of the intelligence committee, senator dianne feinstein, is calling for even more openness about that drone program. >>> outgoing defense secretary dee leon panetta has revealed for the first time that there was a plan in place to support rebels in syria. but that plan was eventually vetoed by president obama because of worries that the weapons might actually fall into the wrong hands. more than 60,000 people have died in syria's civil war. there's really

ask your doctor about celebrex. for a body in motion. >> steve: we have a fox news alert for you. thousands of police officers pulling out all of the stops this hour asoing door to door telling people to stay in their houses. this as a snow storm is hindering the manhunt. william lajeunesse has the latest from lapd headquarters. william, it's not going to snow where you are, but out in the mountains where he ditched the truck, that's the problem. >> yeah. that's the question, steve. did he get off big bear mountain yesterday before police closed in or is he hiding up there in some vacation cabin? we done know. what we do know is he is well trained and well armed. he's ex-naval intelligence and l.a. p. he knows not to use his credit card or cell phone. the question is, where and when will he surface? the latest is this, as you said, heavy weather moving in to big bear mountain. the ski resort east of los angeles where he dumped his nissan truck yesterday. we have about 120 state federal, local cops up there going door to door, spending the last 18 hours on foot. helicopter, looking for this guy. so far no sign of the suspect. >> i can't tell you wheth