. >> reporter: that's what scares neighbor lindsay barlow the most. palo alto police are looking for a man who broke into this apartment at 2:00 this morning, then attempted to rape a woman asleep inside. >> they exchanged some words. he pushed her on the bed. and she sustained a minor injury to her wrist. >> she did a good job of stopping him and getting away from the crime. she fought him off physically. she was loud. she yelled. and she called 911 as fast as she could. >> reporter: even more troubling, this morning's attempted sexual assault happened in the same area where three separate women were groped in the past few months. no arrests have been made in those cases. and investigators are looking into whether there's a connection between all the attacks. >> it's a concern. we're going to pull out all the stops. look at our past accidents that may be related. >> reporter: the victim is in her 20s and lives alone. lindsay barlow says having her husband next to her makes a difference. >> i think i would be a lot more nervous and a lot more shaken u

that is setting the barlow. but still the nicest day of the week. here is the weather cam. temperatures are in the 40s. even downtown they are in the upper 40s. dewpoint, low 30s. winds out of the west at 7. humidity not bad. it is still recovering from sandy. okay. radar, notice we see some mixed precipitation north of 70 and showers up for pittsburgh. this is going to rotate through tonight. the best chance of a sprinkle or shower is north of town, up toward hag errs town. you might see some snowflakes. you may see crowds and no precipitation and by 6:30, clouds, and no precipitation. by mid morning, a couple sprinkles. by noon, we begin to clear out. finally, we are looking at sunshine by 7:00 and by 7:00 tomorrow, most of the showers will shut off in western maryland. western maryland had 24 to 30- inches. gatlinburg, tennessee, had 34- inches with sandy. that is impressive. all right. headlines. gold star, maybe a morning sprinkle north of town. a jacket required, a good idea for both you and the kids, a breezy to windy tomorrow. we'll see kinds winds in excess of 25 m

barlow says it could lead to further research. >> you know, we're in the district. >> rica lives in halfon bay, making the list of the area was higher rates. she was diagnosed six years ago. >> when woe see certain areas have risks it leads to us ask why? >> having a lot of breast tissue is associated with higher risk of breast cancer, dense breast tissue and a tumor appear white. so doctors have to notify women in whiting -- writing if they have high density. the law goes into affect april 1, 2013. dan? >> yes. thank you. >> coming up here next michael finney with the high tech gift that can't keep up with demands this holiday season. >> also, a sheriff goes back to school to tackle a serious subject. parents concerns over a registered sex offender allowed to volume lun near a school. >> and apple sends a big message to customers about quality control. a product that got a manager fired. stay with us. >>> here is a live look at the campus of oikos university. the school community holding a concert and dedicating a garden this evening to victims of that shooting rampage on the campus in

gave for my history with enron with my friend it was very interesting because this was john kerry barlow who used to you know manage and write lyrics for the grateful dead and then at some point he started working with enron and what he told me was that not only that he jinxed the cooling but he created the laid it all g. for himself that protected him from seeing anything it was going wrong and i think from my experience people in the financial industry are basically doing the creating of the nearer of theory around it presents them to do so and their close friends as the hero of the colony called them right from their perspective everything that they're doing is in the service of the world the world would not have been such a good wonderful place without we would have been in the dark ages we should be thankful for wall street derivative trading high frequency trading without death there more than society would just not exist in its current form and people need it right they need this just if it can be justified in salary their position especially in the last few years with all these a

. >> reporter: barlow and public health institute researchers said they study did not find a common cause. lifestyle, better screening, delayed childbirth, hormone therapy have all been proposed. >> but if it's all over the bay area i think the important thing to look into is environmental causes. >> reporter: activists say this study should trigger cause for action from local public health agencies. researchers say they have ruled out socio economic factors, it has to be something else. john fowler ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we now know the name of the fourth person who died at a sacramento county nursing home after eating poisonous mushrooms. the sheriff's office identified the latest victim at 92-year- old dorothy heart. three other seniors died from the poisonous mushrooms. sheriff investigators say the caretaker who picked those mushrooms did not know they were poisonous. >>> b.a.r.t. officials are teaming up for a modernization. a new service would include additional cars and more frequent service which could accommodate 50% more riders. it's still unclear how the modernization would

. >> reporter: barlow and public health institute researchers said they study did not find a common causeyle, better screening, delayed childbirth, hormone therapy have all been proposed. >> but if it's all over the bay area i think the important thing to look into is environmental causes. >> reporter: activists say this study should trigger cause for action from local public health agencies. researchers say they have ruled out socio economic factors, it has to be something else. john fowler ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we now know the name of the fourth person who died at a sacramento county nursing home after eating poisonous mushrooms. the sheriff's office identified the latest victim at 92-year- old dorothy heart. three other seniors died from the poisonous mushrooms. sheriff investigators say the caretaker who picked those mushrooms did not know they were poisonous. >>> b.a.r.t. officials are teaming up for a modernization. a new service would include additional cars and more frequent service which could accommodate 50% more riders. it's still unclear how the modernization would be funde

. >> reporter: barlow and researchers say they did not find a common cause. delayed childbirth, bottled water have all been proposed for the elevated risk. >> if it's all over the bay area the important thing is to look at environmental causes. >> reporter: activists say this new study should trigger cause for action by local health agencies. researchers say, they have ruled out a social economic factors. it has to be something else. reporting live in walnut creek, john fowler, channel 2 news. >>> a new study suggests controversial u.s. mammogram guidelines could lead to a drop in breast cancer prevention. the task force recommended against routine mammograms for many women. now the study of older women on medicare find mammography tests dropped after that recommendation came out. screenings fell. some women may have dropped out of the mammogram screening all together. >>> we could receive local flu forecasts much like we receive weather predictions. scientists say they have formulated a technique to generate local forecasts of seasonal flu outbreaks. the tec

. >> phil barlow first met mitt romney at church in 1979., he already knew the romney name but not the romney work ethic. >> a person that busy and successful might tend to pull out their pocketbook rather than take their time. and he did both. >> for more than a decade, romney was part of the leadership of the mormon church in his hometown. the church has no paid clergy. so at the age of 34, romney was asked to lead his congregation. >> talk about a growing up experience and a learning experience. >> it is a time he rarely talks about but was surprisingly open with us. >> i was like the pastor. that meant if someone was in the hospital, i needed to see them. and if someone lost their job and couldn't afford to meet their rent payments, i was responsible for helping get them the financial aid they needed. if there was someone contemplating a divorce and they wanted counseling, they'd come to me. >> mitt romney was literally hands-on. >> one woman in the ward, single woman, had some storm damage and there might be leakage and he turned to us

. >> phil barlow first met mitt romney at church in 1979.church, he already knew the romney name but not the romney work ethic. >> a person that busy and successful might tend to pull out their pocketbook rather than take their time. and he did both. >> for more than a decade, romney was part of the leadership of the mormon church in his hometown. the church has no paid clergy. so at the age of 34, romney was asked to lead his congregation. >> talk about a growing up experience and a learning experience. >> it is a time he rarely talks about but was surprisingly open with us. >> i was like the pastor. that meant if someone was in the hospital, i needed to see them. and if someone lost their job and couldn't afford to meet their rent payments, i was responsible for helping get them the financial aid they needed. if there was someone contemplating a divorce and they wanted counseling, they'd come to me. >> one of the toughest times for the church came in 1984. led by romney, the congregation was building a new meetinghouse in belmont. for year

. >> phil barlow first met mitt romney at church in 1979. in the church, he already knew the romney name but not the romney work ethic. >> a person that busy and successful might tend to pull out their pocketbook rather than take their time. and he did both. >> for more than a decade, romney was part of the leadership of the mormon church in his hometown. the church has no paid clergy. so at the age of 34, romney was asked to lead his congregation. >> talk about a growing up experience and a learning experience. >> it is a time he rarely talks about but was surprisingly open with us. >> i was like the pastor. that meant if someone was in the hospital, i needed to see them. and if someone lost their job and couldn't afford to meet their rent payments, i was responsible for helping get them the financial aid they needed. if there was someone contemplating a divorce and they wanted counseling, they'd come to me. >> one of the toughest times for the church came in 1984. led by romney, the congregation was building a new meetinghouse in belmont.