one landing in tel aviv less than two hours ago and the israeli president and prime minister binyamin netanyahu met president obama at the airport. lots of handshaking and photo ops and a friendly scene but polls show president obama is deeply unpopular with many israelis and they want reassurances the united states is serious about their defense. here is what the president said just moments ago. >> the united states of america stands with the state of israel because it is in our fundamental national security interests to stand with israel. it makes us both stronger. it makes us both more prosperous. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you, america. thank you for what you are. thank you for what you do. >> he wants president obama to feel at home on this trip. a side note to a serious trip, the israeli embassy released this cartoon video of the meeting set to the golden girl's theme song and the lyrics say "thank you for being a friend." president obama is on the way to jerusalem if meetings with israeli leaders and he will be in the region through saturday. >> we just a knew days away from a su

the president began the day in jerusalem where he and israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu saw the dead sea scrolls and checked out an expo where small robots served the leaders matzoh. >> the state dinner is the last big event before he heads to jordan. >> thank you, katie. meteorologist, mike nicco, and the bay area forecast. is ahead with the forecast. >> as we look from too -- from sutro tower we see the sunshine and another chance of rain in the seven-day outlook. >> and what could be a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer, the results that have stunned the medical world. >> new technology that lets you check out at the store using just your iphone. where in the bay area you wil >> santa clara, san francisco, east bay, and all the bay area. this is abc7 news. >> what could be a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer, a leukemia treatment is showing promising results in a handful of patient. a patient is set to be cancer free after eight days of treatment. our medical editor explains this. >> using a patient's own immune system to fight cancer, look at this an

prime minister binyamin netanyahu told president obama he would help him with the wish to travel through israel secretly. >> we picked up a few cafes and bars in tel aviv and we have prepared a fake mustache for you. >> the white house has lowered expectation for the trip saying there will not be breakthroughs on the peace process but the president will visit the west bank and meet with palestinian leaders. protesters have already taken to the streets in gaza city burning american flags and posters of president obama. but israel has high hopes for productive presidential visit. the embassy releasing this cartoon with a subtle message. ♪ thank you for being a friend, a friend ♪ >> the president's trip hit a bump in the road. the armored limousine broke down in jerusalem as the driver filled it with gas rather than zeal but it was towed before the president arrived in israel. this is video of president obama getting into the replacement car. the president will be visiting jordan on this trip and he will be in the region until saturday. >> a new government study this morning shows the rise

the president began the day in jerusalem where he and israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu saw theead sea scrolls and checked out an expo where small robots served the leaders matzoh. >> the state dinner is the last big event before he heads to jordan. >> thank you, katie. meteorologist, mike nicco, and the bay area forecast. is ahead with the forecast. >> as we look from too -- from sutro tower we see the sunshine and another chance of rain in the seven-day outlook. >> and what could be a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer, the results that have stunned the medical world. >> new technology that lets you check out at the store using just your iphone. where in the bay area you will >> santa clara, san francisco, east bay, and all the bay area. this is abc7 news. >> what could be a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer, a leukemia treatment is showing promising results in a handful of patient. a patient is set to be cancer free after eight days of treatment. our medical editor explains this. >> using a patient's own immune system to fight cancer, look at this ani

prime minister binyamin netanyahu told president obama he would help him with the wish to travel throughsrael secretly. >> we picked up a few cafes and bars in tel aviv and we have prepared a fake mustache for you. >> the white house has lowered expectation for the trip saying there will not be breakthroughs on the peace process but the president will visit the west bank and meet with palestinian leaders. protesters have already taken to the streets in gaza city burning american flags and posters of president obama. but israel has high hopes for productive presidential visit. the embassy releasing this cartoon with a subtle message. ♪ thank you for being a friend, a friend ♪ >> the president's trip hit a bump in the road. the armored limousine broke down in jerusalem as the driver filled it with gas rather than zeal but it was towed before the president arrived in israel. this is video of president obama getting into the replacement car. the president will be visiting jordan on this trip and he will be in the region until saturday. >> a new government study this morning shows the rise in

:15 and was welcomed by several israel leaders including president peres and prime minister binyamin netanyahu. the white house says that the president is looking to reassure israelis that the united states is committed to supporting the country in the face of any threats. abc7 news, katie marzullo, will have more on what is next for the president in the middle east in the next half hour. >> caltrain authorities are investigating another fatal accident involving the train system. a train hit and killed a pedestrian in san jose yesterday. a caltrain spokesman says that the person was near a pedestrian crossing south of the station and there was only one passenger on board the train at the time and this was the 4th person killed by a train on the caltrain corridor this year. >> new this morning on the peninsula get ready if a big crackdown on distracted driving. today a police task force is hitting the streets of menlo park and redwood city looking for drivers talking on the cell phones and tempting. traffic officers from law enforcement agencies throughout san mateo county are taking part. offi

depart on wednesday for israel where he hopes to smooth over relations with the prime minister binyamin netanyahu and will visit the wet bank. he will only spend a few hours meeting with palestinians. the latest poll published by israeli newspaper finds 38 percent define president obama's attitude to israel as "hostile." only ten percent view him as favorable. >> coming up the confusion that sent a car into a north bay store. >> the parking changes along a popular san francisco street that >> a massive wildfire continues to rage this morning in tennessee in the smoky mountains destroying dozens of cabins and threatening a neighborhood. 35 cabins have burned to the ground as crews from 25 different agencies battle the 300-acre fire that broke out yesterday afternoon. cabins have been evacuated and homeowners living on the other side of a ridge have been told to prepare to evacuate. no injuries have been reportd and no estimate on when the fire could be maintained. >> f.a.a. officials are investigating the deadly crash of a private plane that slammed into a neighborhood. two of the four people were

is really prime minister binyamin netanyahu is struggling to form a government five weeks after parliamentary elections he can't get potential coalition partners to agree to stumbling block whether or not ultra religious orthodox jews should serve in the i.d.f. the religious parties are certainly beginning to understand things have changed they're going to find themselves challenged on many fronts military service is going to be one of them and as a result they will have to conserve their political capital to fight on the things they care about most most ultra religious jews have never been in the israeli army and religious political parties have never been pressed on the issue like they've been now but january's parliamentary elections saw new players coming to the fore. who needs in his coalition if he's to form a majority government but they're insisting the religious played a part. like this woman who spearheaded a campaign with other like minded israeli mothers they're fed up with what they call an injustice that the children should serve one other student to thirty now that the somethin

israel and an attempt to thaw the rocky-strained relationship he has with binyamin netanyahu. is that relationship now thawed? will it work? what about iran? joining us as always on sunday mornings, former ambassador john bolton and fox contributor. good morning, ambassador. >> good morning. glad to be with you. >> good to see you, as always. how did he do? how about the relationship between the president and the prime minister? >> i think that the president's trip always had two purposes. one was the public political aspect of the trip to try to repair the very visibly frosty relationship that he had with israel and in his first term. and i think that he largely accomplished that, photo opportunities were great. the -- they had humor, a couple of hugs. really what else could you ask for? but underneath, the second purpose of the trip, i think continues to highlight the vast differences in strategic outlook that president obama and prime minister netanyahu have. on the iranian nuclear weapons program, number one. and on dealing with the palestinians. other issues involved. but

saturday's deadline but he had to make some major compromises to do it to tough negotiations binyamin netanyahu get a long time ally out of the out of bed for the sake of keeping power at any cost. as the details a new coalition agreement has been signed and this follows weeks of suspicion and mistrust between the various political parties and also turbulent coalition negotiations now that ought to newcomers to the israeli political scene the important point to make is that neither has a lot of political experience the first in fact does not mean he is a media personality that the name of that you know that lives and he is to be the new finance minister which is a hugely important ministry for someone who has no financial background the second is a guy by the name of nothing to be bennett he represents the second movement and he has to be appointed the minister of economy and trade his number two would also be the minister of construction and housing now the importance of this is that it is going to make it harder for the prime minister netanyahu to freeze or stop settlement construction and as

minister has made clear that he is not backing down from his idea of a potential attack on tehran binyamin netanyahu told a gathering of america's most powerful pro israeli lobby that negotiations with iran are waste of time and only a direct military action threat according to him will clear rush the country's nuclear ambitions but while his message was applauded at the apec conference in washington it hasn't exactly received a warm reaction back at home policy or reports these really prime minister is at it again christian his favorite topic words alone will not stop your own sanctions alone will not stop iran sanctions must be called with a clear and credible military threat if diplomacy and sanctions feel strong statements from a leader by new group from power on yahoo voice the now you can use world public affairs committee iran is using international negotiations to buy time so it can prissy haid with its nuclear program a message he's warm to in the past. how do you stop well you have to put greater pressure and you have to upgrade the sanctions. and they have to know that if the sanctions an

actually are growing especially over the past decade and especially under the government of binyamin netanyahu what's happening around here right now we see people running we've seen fires in the back describe what's going on around you as well. what i can tell you that that ban was actually stun grenade i'm sorry it's not it's not particularly dangerous they just kind of really literally so. now we can see that the tear gas stove you call that has pulled up maybe we can turn around and you can see what's happening actually as we talk so we yeah we see the vehicles which are have tear gas dispersal units on them they're. they're trying to edge the protesters out as we as we speak the protesters are lined up on the street on the hill right above there and see they're using these special special i don't i don't know we want to call them the gadgets which with which they throw stones which are fly quite far i have to say majority of them are very young from even kids as young as ten to rather full grown men to about thirty they're not go they're not showing any signs of giving up ridiculous well

there's really a prime minister has made us feelings clearer than ever on iran binyamin netanyahu told a meeting of america's most powerful israeli lobbyists that negotiations with tehran are waste of time in that he thinks that only military action will make a difference or two of course there are reports now on the message the israeli prime minister is at it again the grease in his favorite topic words alone will not stop you. sanctions alone will not stop iran sanctions must be a couple with a clear and credible military threat if diplomacy and sanctions fail strong statements from a needed and bold and by new could come power on yahoo bornstein a complex world public affairs committee iran is using international negotiations to buy time so it can precede head with its nuclear program a message he's willing to in the past. how do you stop well you have to put greater pressure on you have to upgrade the sanctions and they have to know that if the sanctions and diplomacy fails they will face a credible military threat that's essential nothing else will do the job. and it's getting clo

decade the settlements have actually increased in number especially under the government of binyamin netanyahu the palestinians patience is really running thin and this day is that basically marked the palestinians all over the world but you can expect that here and now the west bank and here in the kalandia checkpoint which is right it should ramallah and east jerusalem the tensions are high as people are highly unhappy with what's been happening. in regards to the israeli settlements on the land that palestinians consider their own talking about to the palestinians. has there been any progress to at least a curb or settlement expansion on palestinian land. well you know you cannot say that there has been any improvement whatsoever of course last week's visit by president obama did install some hope and to people until he spoke and until his just spoken in said some words that basically led to nowhere he did of course day that the settlements are a major block to the peace process but he did not go any further than that he did not exert that pressure on the on the israeli government led by a

minister has made clear that he is not backing down from the idea of a potential attack on iran binyamin netanyahu told a gathering of america's powerful pro israeli lobby that negotiations are a waste of time and that only the threat of direct military action will crush iran's nuclear ambitions but while his message was applauded at the apec conference in washington it hasn't exactly received a very warm reaction at home or to his policy or explains the israeli prime minister is at it again addressing his favorite topic words alone will not stop iran sanctions alone will not stop iran sanctions must be coupled with a clear and credible military threat if diplomacy and sanctions fail strong statements from a leader emboldened by new could come power this one yahoo who wants the american israel public affairs committee iran is using international negotiations to buy time so it can prissy haid with its nuclear program a message he's willing to in the past how do you stop well you have to put greater pressure on you have to upgrade the sanctions and they have to know that if the sanctions and diploma

negotiations but israel's new coalition government is now being formed i'm sworn in prime minister binyamin netanyahu known as the office is to both a sense of party and a far right political grouping to take the reins because pulis leader explains next you all could compromise could soon lead to cracks in the new government. he might have perfected the role of israel's great communicator but as prime minister benjamin netanyahu enters his third term of office from nike's audience his powers of persuasion are shrinking. you need to watch the body language of how this coalition was forged it changed from aggressive to disappointed and after the disappointment the anger will come we'll see that in the open. what's already being seen in the open is that netanyahu is new partners are not the ones he wanted form a media personality out yet appeared and representative of these weighty second movement naftali bennett their everything he's not young contemporary and popular. he's panicked netanyahu realizes they are the next generation it's like a national geographic film where the young lions push the old l

president was welcomed by several israel leaders including president peres and prime minister binyamin netanyahu. the white house says the president is looking to reassure israelis that the united states is committed to supporting their country in the face of any throats. katie marzullo will have more on what is next for the president on his middle east trip coming up in the next half hour. >> the city of santa clara is doing everything it can to lure super bowl 50 to the new 49ers stadium in 2016 includes give up tax revenue. now live from santa clara to explain. >> the santa clara city council decided it can, indeed, afford to give up a variety of tax revenue, all financial demands imposed by the nfl. those demands require the city to give up 9.5 percent hotel tax on 350 rooms for nfl staff, a 10 percent ticket surcharge and 35 percent per ticket fee that funds senior and youth program and $4.54 parking fee. private donations and general super bowl windfall will make up the loss and then some. the couple sill voted unanimously to give up the millions in revenue at a special meeting lat night.

. >> in israel, president obama and israeli prime minister, binyamin netanyahu, visited the jerusalem museum home to the dead sea scrolls. they stepped by a tech expo, as well. the president runs to jerusalem later today and will give a speech to israeli young people and tonight there is a state dinner. >> developing news, police are searching for a long time bay area baseball coach wanted on an arrest warrant in contra costa county. the 52-year-old joel kaufman is wanted for molesting a teen boy and secretly filming another boy in a bathroom. some charges date back eight years. there could be other victims. joel kaufman coaches a traveling baseball team for those boys based in san jose. we will have more in the next half hour. >> in beforeally activistses calling attention to a type of building found across the bay area. the buildings are in danger of collapsing during an earthquake the. >> imagine someone saying if there is an earthquake your home is not safe. that is the message tenants getting. this apartment building is on dwight way and it is not up to code. the focus is on so-c

. >> at 6:00, rebound and israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu, enjoy matzoh served by a miniature robot but now any are working on serious affairs which is our top story thursday morning. 6:00 a.m. and thank you for joining us. >> that is going to get some attention, right? also getting attention the weather forecast turning dry, turning sunny, and mike, it will be beautiful? >> we hope everyone lies it. it is different when you step outside this morning compared to yesterday morning. it is dry. we will start our tour of bay and what is breaking down around the bay. it is mild this morning at 50 degrees under sunny skies. we will be sunny at noon in the upper 50's and hang out in the mid-60's with sunshine and it will be breezy near the bay shore in the afternoon hours and bright at 7:00 and 58 degrees. as far as what will happen inland, we are 43 degrees and mostly sunny and by noon it will be mostly sunny and 59 and breezy in the afternoon. mid-to-upper 60's and a nice sunset. we hardly have any clouds at the coast. it will be beautiful. here it will be 45 with sunny conditions

depart on wednesday for israel where he hopes to smooth over relations with prime minister binyamin netanyahu. president obama will visit the west bank and will spend just a few hours meeting with palestinians. the latest poll published by an israeli newspaper finds 38 percent of israelis believe president obama's attitude toward their country is hostile. only 10 percent view him as favorable. >> parking is a big issue in san francisco, right in we have so many stories this morning ahead, the parking fight dividing a san francisco neighborhood. >> a plane plunges to the ground and crabs -- crashes into the neighborhood. the passengers and the victims on the grounds and the investigation underway. >> he has not been mayor of san francisco for more than 20 years but this morning, you remember this face, someone is jumping a officials in indiana this morning are vetting the deadly crash of a private plane that slammed into a neighborhood. two of the four people in the plane were killed in year's crash. three more people on the ground are in the hospital. the pilot radioed he was having electrica

. >> the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has been pushing the united states to establish exactly that line. will the president's trip to the jewish state bring that closer to reality? retired lt. colonel is a fox news legal analyst and a highly decorateed veteran and joins us from washington, dc. what is the point of the trip to israel? >> it is more symbolic than anything. i don't believe anyone on this side or that side thinks anything significant is going do come out of the trip. i believe clearly the iranians will watch everything that happens. the president had a television interview two days ago in israel referring to the prime minister as if they were close friends and that sets the stage for the relationship. at the end of the day i help they have closed door sessions with serious discussions about what happens if the red line is hit. i don't think the president will tell the public what he will do. tush turk the israelis are clean to get assurance from the obama administration if the iranians get to a point we will react militarily? >>guest: we know the military has been