a ban also exists of the british columbia coast. alberta energy minister said absent new parklands, the greatest risk is that by 2020 we will be landlocked. one argument we will hear today is legitimate. the project would produce several thousand short-term construction jobs. it is on the minds of us and our witnesses today. people need jobs, particularly in the hard-hit construction industry. with this project, we will be paying a very high price over a long time for some short-term benefits. instead we should be focusing on good, clean energy jobs that are going to last. there's going to be $38 trillion investment in new infrastructure of the next 20 years. our new economic growth and national security will be determined by whether we succeed in building these new industries. i support the administration decision to take additional time to do a thorough evaluation of the climate and other environmental impacts of the proposed pipeline. it is imperative we start to move to a clean energy economy now. keystone xl would take us in th

. >>> "crime and punishment" tonight, authorities in british columbia believe they may have the youngestial killer in custody, sitting in jail for more than a year with no trial date in sight. for those who grew up with him he's the most unlikely suspect they can imagine. tom foreman has the story. >> reporter: this is a story that begins and ends near what locals call the highway of tears. with a pickup lurching out of a snowy logging road late at night as an officer of the royal canadian mounted police was passing. he pulled the driver over and suspected poaching, but when authorities followed the vehicle's tracks, they found something in the woods no one expected. least of all doug leslie, who was soon at the scene begging to be allowed down the road. what did you think? >> didn't no he what to think, you know. i knew it was lauren, but they couldn't tell me it was lauren, you know. >> reporter: because at that moment it was an ongoing murder investigation? >> that's right. that's right. >> reporter: earlier that day, his daughter, lauren leslie, only 15 and legally blind, had vanishe

it will go up through british columbia, and the frontal boundary and the northern jet stream, paralleloss the country, through the northwest. that will keep the flow a little more active and moisture stream from the pacific over washington state. and a good chance of rain over the next couple of days. as far as forecast in seattle goes, chance of rain in the forecast with mild temperatures all week long, that is the case for areas like portland, california looks s hard to comp. arizona and california, you look great. for the northwest, a numerous number of storms to deal with. but none of them blockbusters. >> it's been bizarre weatherwise. >> very unusual start to winter. >>> just ahead, a look at how u.s. service members spent the christmas holiday overseas and mission accomplished for tom cruise this holiday weekend. >>> coming up, the nba unwraps a new season and aaron rodgers spreads christmas cheer throughout green bay. you're watching "early today." >>> well, good morning. welcome back to "early today." i'm veronica de la cruz. here are top headlines this morning. police in texa

come up and over the ridge, up to areas of british columbia and down to the middle of the u.s. avoiding all areas of the west. looks like a dry forecast. we'll continue even through the weekend. look at seattle. temperatures, mid 40s and no rain in sight. how rare is that? the forecast for today out there, san francisco, 57 and sunny. looks good. l.a., nice warmup for you this afternoon. phoenix, partly cloudy, 64. i think even skiers in the west would like a little more snow for the upcoming holiday. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> coming up, unemployment dives, stocks rise. and just what the heck happened on quadruple witching day? we'll tell you. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> his first official foray into prime time television is already creating excitement and criticism. >>> coming up, the falcons soar and the new jersey nets owner wants to run the largest country in the world. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry and here are some of your top headlines this morning. >>> the russian cu

hasn't happened a lot of big storms in british columbia. many areas of arkansas, washington sta oregon and washington state. one of the bigger winter storms we've had. blizzard warnings from kansas to colorado. oklahoma and texas. so as that storm pivots and heads out. high pressure builds in its wake. no weather concerns out there. anyone traveling from arizona to mexico. rough, especially around santa fe and higher elevations outside skweshg. g albuquerque. we won't see a lot of wet weather. a little fog in a few spots. watch for little freezing fog near the medford area. above freezing in most areas. cool side from vegas to san francisco to l.a. a while since you warmed up. i don't see the weather pattern changing any time soon. for today's forecast. partly cloudy up here in the pacific northwest. not bad. highs in the mid 40s. that's a look at departing stor. high elevations did pick up significant snow. for much of this week as we get ready for the holidays, pretty quiet in the west. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> the death of north kore

for the pacific northwest it's british columbia that will be dealing with cold rain, freezing rain even as well as upper elevation snow. highs on tuesday looking at 3 in winnipeg and same in denver. 2 only in oklahoma city. that's going to be a big drop compared to monday. then east coast, 7 in new york. 9 in d.c. and reaching 17 degrees in atlanta. lastly, a look at europe. it is going to be a largely unsettled picture across the region. we do have scattered showers and thunderstorms for areas in the southern italy as well as the balkan peninsula while this long frontal system is looking to set into continental europe. it is bringing a round of showers and snow for upper elevations. the alpine area in particular will want to watch out for the possibility of heavy snowfall. for the british isles, once again new showers coming in off the west. so ireland then scotland, too, looking at icy weather. highs on tuesday 8 for london. same also in paris. 2 only in vienna. things looking colder here. not above freezing in moscow. here's a look at your three-day outlook. >>> and that wraps up thi

supporters in anchorage, alaska, and vancouver, british columbia are planning similar actions in solidarity with this movement. >> it is 4:34 now. the man who sur survived a shooting is sharing his story. 21-year-old chris marillo has a long scar on his neck and a cane. he was shot outside a wal-mart on november 25th. san leandro police arrested the suspected shooter yesterday. they are visibly shaken and grateful he survived. >> it's something a car doesn't show that will really affect me and my family. not just me. >> it's amazing how something like this can change your life. i have my christmas gift. i have my christmas for the rest of my life right here, my family, my son. >> mario has nerve damage in his arm and hand. his mother is hoping the good samaritan who applied pressure to her son's neck after the shooting will come forward so they the thank her. >>> bart police think they found a man responsible for snatching copper wire from train tracks. police arresting 52-year-old dennis mcguire from san francisco. they say he recently stole the wire from bart tracks. police arrested him i

. >>> "crime and punishment" tonight, authorities in british columbia believe they may have the youngestn jail for more than a year with no trial date in sight. for those who grew up with him he's the most unlikely suspect they can imagine. tom foreman has the story. >> reporter: this is a story that begins and ends near what locals call the highway of tears. with a pickup lurching out of a snowy logging road late at night as an officer of the royal canadian mounted police was passing. he pulled the driver over and suspected poaching, but when authorities followed the vehicle's tracks, they found something in the woods no one expected. least of all doug leslie, who was soon at the scene begging to be allowed down the road. what did you think? >> didn't no he what to think, you know. i knew it was lauren, but they couldn't tell me it was lauren, you know. >> reporter: because at that moment it was an ongoing murder investigation? >> that's right. that's right. >> reporter: earlier that day, his daughter, lauren leslie, only 15 and legally blind, had vanished, texting that she was going fo

tom foreman, cnn, vanderhoof, british columbia. >> more insight on the >> more insight on the investigationed on a lot of profile cases. the unabomber, the smart kidnapping case, i spoke with her earlier. mary ellen you say the age of the suspect is really stunning in this case. why? >> well, he's so young, to have committed these murders. normally we see serial sexual killers starting to act out, maybe their mid to late 20s and are apprehended maybe into their 30s, but when you see this kind of behavior, as a teenager, he really is unique in that way. >> authorities are saying that he didn't have any sort of record with police. does that surprise you, if in fact he's guilty? >> it doesn't surprise me, and here's why. he is very young, but the absence of a formal criminal record does not mean that criminal behavior is absent. as a matter of fact, you don't just go one day being a normal regular person and the next day snapping into a serial killer. so there would have been behaviors along the way that he engaged in that were criminal. he just did not get identified and apprehended for them.

in british columbia, the canadian province where jassi's family lives, the administration of criminal attorney general. >> the confidence in the criminal justice system, then matters have to be investigated and prosecuted, if necessary, in a timely manner. >> there are phone records showing 147 calls between the cell phones of the alleged killers in india and the house in maple ridge. >> unlike the american system, where their district attorneys get involved in the investigative stage and very often go with the police to crime scenes, we don't do that in this country. >>> coming up -- with so few official answers in canada, we track down the one person who can address those accusations, once and for all. >> mr. badesha, can i have a word with you, sir? ♪ he was a 21st century global nomad ♪ ♪ home was an airport lounge and an ipad ♪ ♪ made sure his credit score did not go bad ♪ ♪ with a free-credit-score-dot-com ♪ ♪ app that he had ♪ ♪ downloaded it in the himalayas ♪ ♪ while meditating like a true playa ♪ ♪ now when he's surfing down in chile'a ♪ ♪ he can see when his score is in dan

. >>> a black bear turned up on top of a garbage truck in downtown vancouver, british columbia.his is earlier this week. it's not an act. it's believed that bear hitched a ride on the city truck. the bear was spotted during a -- he was tranquilized, not hurt and released into the wild. >>> the rentals keep rolling out. we look at netflix' top rentals for 2011. better yet, we look at the all-time best rentals and there's a baltimore tie. and a prestigious california university thinking of more tuition costs for students. we come back live now to iraq, a live look, leon panetta at the podium now, attending the ceremony ending the operations in iraq. after we conclude almost nine years of war. we'll be right back. >>> newstime 5:24. in consumer news, more americans are planning to hit the road for the holiday season. aaa estimates close to 92 million people are going to travel 50 or more miles from home. this is the second highest rate in the past 10 years and 1.4% increase from 2010. the majority of people are going to be going by car with only 6% saying they are going to fly. >>>

for the pacific northwest as well, british columbia will look at cold rain as well as snow and freezing rain coming in on monday. highs look like this for monday. 7 in seattle, minus 2 in denver and 11 degrees in oklahoma city. things are starting to get pretty chilly in parts of areas. and finally a look at europe. here it is going to be once again unsettled. we have a low developing through the scandanavian region and thundershowers for the northern tip of italy and unsettled weather through the british isles there will be a high chance of snow for the higher elevations. things are going to look colder for the workweek. highs on monday looking in the low single digits for the majority of cities here. a 3 in vienna. and 4 degrees in berlin. that's a look at your weather conditions for now. up next is your three-day outlook. >>> that's all for this edition of "newsline." do stay with us.

pressure system is approaching the west coast, and that will bring cold precipitation across the british columbia area, vancouver will see snow wednesday. we are expecting 3 degrees here and 6 in seattle. across the eastern u.s., we're going to see a significant warmup. 11 in chicago, and 18 in oklahoma city, and getting up to 25 in houston. finally, to europe. the northwestern portions of europe are still dealing with inclement weather. a series of low pressure systems will continue to bring fierce winds and heavy precipitation. particularly, here near the center of low pressure in northern ireland, winds could exceed 150 kilometers per hour, and winds are creating on the area here. rain and snow could become heavy at times in northern europe, and scattered heavy showers will continue across most of western continental europe. temperature wise, we are not doing too badly across many areas. expecting 6 degrees in london, 5 in vienna, up to 7 in kiev. i will leave you now with the extended forecast. >>> our lead story this hour, scientists at a european research institute say they made a big step

western canada, this will be bringing showers into coastal british columbia but bringing snow on the mountains, too. it is going to be a windy system bringing warmer air across central canada ahead of the system. temperatures rising to give you an idea. winnipeg's highs about minus 7 today, and as we head into friday, it's going to be above the freezing mark, up to about 2 degrees. still a very chilly day if you ask me. down into the four corners we have another winter system here. this one also a windy one. blowing snow, snowdrifts and low visibility and icy roads are also being said to think about if you are going to be in the vicinity of the storm. in fact, further out towards the west where it's going to be a drier affair, you're still going to have to deal with those strong er winds which could affect driving and also the low humidity could be a good recipe for fire weather as well. towards the east a few snow showers dashing across the great lakes region. elsewhere looking fine and calm. here's your temperatures for thursday. 15 in atlanta. 11 in d.c. just 9 in new york city. 7

also for british columbia, more rain coming off of the pacific and things will be looking wetter over next few days. out towards the east some slight snow may develop in the great lakes area across eastern canada as well and for the florida peninsula the southeast corner of the u.s., too, may see a couple of showers form. 10 is your high in atlanta, single digits for d.c., as well as new york and toronto expecting a high of 5 degrees on monday. and lastly getting a look at europe here, things are not too bad out towards the east, fairly calm skies for the moment. we've got this area of high pressure in place, but from the west, things are going to start looking a lot wetter. we've got this frontal system first looking set to move right over continental europe, bringing in rain as well as snowfall for the scandinavian peninsula. as for the central mediterranean we could be talking about thundershower activity here, and then that's really going to be followed once again by another round of wet weather, that's really going to spread across the british isles first, on throughout monday, f

across the west another round of coastal rain and mountain snow is moving into british columbia. temperature-wise we expect 6 degrees in vancouver and 8 in seattle dipping into the single digits and in toronto and warmer than average in new york and washington, d.c. let's go over to europe. a powerful low pressure system is moving through western europe bringing hefty showers. as the system moves eastward, precipitation spreading across most yourian countries in the next 24 hours. thunderstorms and hail are possible, and winds are a major concern as well. we have lots of warnings against the winds in effect across these original areas. gusts could top 100 kilometers per hour in many areas, and winds are creating very high waves aacross the coast of france as well as the iberian peninsula. even the western mediterranean is starting to see the conditions today, so if you're near a coast, watch out for flooding as well as the dangerous surf throughout friday. we expect 19 in lisbon, and still warmer than average in moscow with 4 degrees and 6 degre degrees with kiev. i'll leave you

and across the west, another round of coastal rain as well as mountain snow is moving into british columbia. temperatures are looking like this, we're expecting 6 degrees in vancouver and 8 in seattle, and dipping down into the single digits in chicago, with 2 in toronto and slightly warmer than average in new york and washington, d.c. finally, let's go over to europe, western europe is still bracing for the impact of another powerful low pressure system, it's producing very heavy rain, strong winds, as well as severe thunderstorms across the southern british isles, and western continental europe. the system will move eastward and affect most of european countries in the next 24 hours. temperature wise we're expecting 4 degrees in london and 11 degrees in madrid. all right, i will leave you now with your extended forecast. clear >>> our lead story this hour, the government of japan about to set a milestone on the road to recovery. prime minister yoshihiko noda is expected to announce that the crippled reactors are in a state of cold shut down. the government and tokyo electric power company

potentially dangerous debris from japan has been washing up on the shores of washington state and british columbia in canada. cans of air freshener, water bottles, a large black drum likely ended up on this side of the world following the tsunami in japan back in march. scientists warn that some of the debris could be contaminated with radiation from the nuclear plant that sustained catastrophic damage in that tsunami. >> when something fell from the sky in arlington last night, people on the ground new something was wrong. turns out it was a dangerous stunt. new at 11:00, we're hearing from an eyewitness. shomari stone joins us live. >> reporter: well, doreen, the police say they've never seen anything like this before. that eyewitness watched the woman jump from the tower. >> i saw this big, black, shadowy thing coming out of the sky. >> reporter: david goodman can't believe the woman jumped from the 500 foot weta tower. police say around 10:30 wednesday night a group of five people scaled the to youer to base jump, a thrill seeking sport. the first jumper was a 48-year-old woman from connecticu

debris may be making its way across the pacific and has been washing ashore near vancouver, british columbia. fishermen say they found a lot of bottles and writings with asian on them. it could have made its way here and experts don't expect we'll see it in north america 2013. >>> a black bear on a garbage truck. it's believed he hitched a ride to the city doing pickup. conservation officers tranquilized the bear, he's not hurt. he's estimated to be 18 months old and was released back to the wild. >>> a university of vermont fraternity is in big trouble after allegations about rape. i'll explain coming up. disturbing new numbers on sexual assaults in the u.s. how many say they've been arrested. and more, straight ahead on this thursday, december 15th. i'm charley crowson. let's get to the weather. lynette charles in for justin berk. always bright and shiny, cute as pie. >> i need the sparkles. we need to get that in here for the sparkles to bounce off my teeth. satellite and radar, you were talking about sunshine. we're not going to be seeing much of that today. the satellite and radar compo

across the west a new system is moving into british columbia as well as the pacific northwest, bringingain and strong winds. but it's not a potent storm, so it should dissipate on thursday. minus 10 degrees in winnipeg and 7 in seattle, but across the east lots of warm areas coming in, pushing up temperatures. we're expecting 12 in toronto, which is about ten degrees higher than average and 19 in atlanta. finally, let's go over to europe. it's wet and windy again across most of the european countries. several atlantic systems will continue to bring heave veriy rain as well as snow and strong winds. particularly windy in the areas like france, germany, as well as poland. in northern germany winds could hit 115 kilometers per hour and strong winds are creating high waves along the coast off the iberian peninsula. waves could reach seven meters on the west coast. as for precipitation, a mix of rain and snow. mix of rain and snow will develop over a wide area of the british isles as well as the scandinavian peninsula. and much of continental europe. and heavy snow is expected in the norther

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so we're six years old, came out as a research project from the university of british columbia, and there'sduct before this, and we did a pivot, i came on as an adviser about two years ago. and we did a pivot about a year and a half ago from the old product, and what's great with having that years of research was we were able to create the interesting technology that had lots of applications. the ipad came out, we had the great personalization technology and you marry the two together and you have a great product. >> cnn happens to be owned by a company which publishes a lot of magazines, time, time warner. cnn is not necessarily known as a place you go to read. it's a place you go to view video, to see news rather than to read news. why is cnn a better home for you, than time inc. would be? >> well, cnn is an extremely innovative company. they've changed the way that news was delivered on cable. they realized that in order to be relevant in the new millennium, they continue to change and they see this as something revolutionary and they want to see us move along. another thing to remember

been corroborated by findings of deaths of particularly of children younger than one year in british columbia which is one of the first places where the radiation would hit so you so younger than one year is that. in fact i thought that the birth the death rate for children that age actually been declining in the united states until the fukushima if we had it had it had been and then and then the death rate went up another was thousands died why i just under one year and what does this have to do with church and noble. well this is the same findings we found after chernobyl and i'm the editor of the book and i hold it up here on chernobyl catastrophe for people in the environment and what we found was that immediate children because their immune systems are not fully formed and because their detoxification systems are not functioning fully and because they you know you're talking about a child maybe five six six seven eight ten pounds and which is they receive a proportionally much higher dose than does an adult who weighs one hundred fifty or more pounds so when after focus happened one of t

following this a big announcement tomorrow i want to move on to a new study out by the university of british columbia and this is one of the first of its kind this explores the sentiments regarding atheism so it turns out atheists are among the lease trusted people less than christians less than muslims less than gay men even feminists in fact the only group distrusted to a comparable degree were wait for it right this. yeah it's surprising but let me show you this clip this is piers morgan asking ricky gervais. who is also an atheist talking about god. if you're a believer in god if you're a christian as many tens of millions in america are all. poking fun the religion when someone finds gault i don't find it. all right so there's a lot of people in this country who identify themselves as atheist what's going on here i don't buy i don't even buy this because it came out of canada and i trust canadians less and less mean gay men and atheists you know all of them yeah. i put somewhere between like pirates and carnival parties i guess but yeah comedians and they're always up to no good yeah i mean it's

los angeles and oakland in california portland oregon seattle and tacoma washington vancouver british columbia and anchorage in alaska and the protesters said they were meaning the actions to be in solidarity with poor workers but cracks might be showing as the unions including the international longshore and workers' union refused to take part another target today conveniently happen to be goldman sachs which owns a number of transportation and shipping companies so in solidarity protesters in new york today marched on goldman's offices where once again we saw heavy police presence and once again a negative relationship with the press. he really did that so now let's find out how some of the actions on the west coast have gone down today joining me from our studio in los angeles is our two producer among the window and from oakland is journalist and cartoonist susie cagle thank you both for joining me tonight and suzy i'm going to start with you i want to know what it was that went down in oakland i know they got a really early start this morning and you know had that panned out and we also s

just bring it to a terminal in vancouver and put it together also to try to do good but the british columbia got a government said you can't do that you can't bring that i think i think the fact the matter is that the texas texas has an oil industry that's where people go to school for oil and this and that's where all the engineers are that's where all the companies are i mean if you want to meet you know if you want to meet people in the oil industry you go to texas and i think we know why the home of the green why is it over that neighborhood why why grover norquist gave house republicans a pass saying that if you want the tax cut expire doesn't count as a tax increase because you have competing interests and they're planning on holding the tax cut hostage until you can get a day that's a wild connection and if you know piers the lobbying on both parties and you know prove that and you've just been actually speaking of the economy eight states are going to be raising their minimum wage to begin in the next year and san francisco has kicked it up to ten bucks which is three dollars above t

maggie and her sister grew up in british columbia cheering for the canucks.stead, it turned into a painful nightmare. >> as soon as they scored everybody stood up. and then, i just felt two hands comewn

high temperatures cold air to the north temperatures are subzero but that this demarcation to british columbia through iowa and downstate illinois to the carolinas is the arctic air pacificare mild on the other thunder bay ontario is at 0 following international falls at 21 degrees the boundary shifting eastward getting into that war and tomorrow mid-40s around here 16 degree increase what we saw today. while we are five degrees cooler than 24 hours ago temperature drops to the west giving you an idea of the extent of the warm front, and tamara why the rainfall is developing warm air rising over this cool air mass. humidity is 81 percent with a 2 point at 22. mike get ice pellets developing of the operative cooling. started the day at the coolest will close since december 12th to 18 days ago harbored-kenosha schaumburg tonight 27 degrees at o'hare recover to 30 degrees today but that was not warm one of the few subnormal temperature is all season. look at some of the big chill across the metropolitan area pretty chilly the forecast is for warming to take place tomorrow and 40's to return not o

high temperature at midnight it was 32 degrees the warm air of the pacific making its way into british columbiaxt week first tonight going down to 16 degrees in the city is single digits in the suburbs 20s tomorrow and tomorrow night temperatures pretty steady rise in into the thirties we think the low 40's is possible on sunday sent thing on monday the model says 38 degrees we think 32 degrees is more like it. isobars are packed the wind from the pacific look at how the gulf moisture screams to the north cloudy west of us we still have some sot it turned cloudy during the day could have showered by tuesday night later next week low developing and colorado watch how this thing ... no. work the brand to blows from the south into our area it is going to really or wednesday-thursday pumping the temperatures up. before that think pulls much colder air for next weekend. the ball up in a letter next week still at our area. popping up all of a sudden we did not see them yet. might have if you ice pellets extent. tuesday. falling temperatures at friday at 41 degrees optimistic going to get called a bad

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british columbia brumes i'm sending best wishes and happy christmas to my family out in maryland. my mom, brother, sister-in-law, all the other siblings, love you guys, see you soon. terrifying new images of a shooting spree in hollywood. a 26-year-old randomly firing at passing cars along a street friday. in the video, you can also hear the man filming the scene shouting at the gunman, apparently trying to distract him. three people were hurt. >>> the occupy wall street movement shifted its target today. thousands of protesters gathered along ports along the west coast. >> reporter: a line of blue faced off against protesters at the long beach cargo port in southern california. it is the latest tactic in the occupy wall street movement. a call to block ports along the west connect from alaska -- west coast from alaska to california. >>> >> we think this is about labor across the board. >>> the long beach port is the second busiest in the u.s. it generates billions of dollars each year and supports over a million jobs. and the union that represents dock workers here says it doesn'

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block will spin energy up there and lose moisture in the higher elevations along the coast up in british columbiaanada. let's talk about what is going on at home. i think slightly cooler tomorrow, warming trend saturday, sunday, cooler monday, tuesday, wednesday, especially with the chance of rain still in the forecast tuesday and once day. >> have a great day. >>> -- >> live look at san mateo bridge, so far problem-free taillights headed westbound towards foster city up the highrise there you can see no delays between 880 and 101. live shot of san rafael out of novato through marin, past the parkway headed towards north san pedro headed by the civic center, no delays into central san rafael to the golden gate bridge. public transit, i checked in with bart, muni, cal train, all buses on time, drive times light as we head out through marin, altamont pass 680 through benicia. abc7news.com/traffic for the latest before you leave the house. >>> now 5:20. >>> here's a story for when your family gathers this holiday season. the awkward conversations some health experts say you ought to have with your f

researchers at the university of british columbia discovered people will lie 31% more via text versusing it to your face. experts believe it's because there's no body language so people find it easier to lie. >>> next at 6:30, the new nebs out this morning showing vincent gray's approval rating. gray's approval rating. >>> the research il, any luck f? not yet. i want to buy used but how do you know what you're really getting. check out carmax. all their used cars are guaranteed. that's where henderson found the one for him. way to go, henderson. finding the perfect car is easy at carmax because each car is carefully selected, inspected, thoroughly reconditioned and backed with a five-day money back guarantee so come find the one for you today, at carmax. way to go, neil. >>> good morning and welcome back to news 4 today. i'm joe krebs. >> and i'm angry goss. we are waking up to a mild morning. thank you, tom. >> you're welcome. my present will be under my tree, i'm sure. >> working on that now. >> this morning, though, winter lovers are going, where is winter? hang on, it's going to b

this is all part of demonstration at west coast ports stretching from vancouver british columbia southo los angeles and san diego. a day of action. allen wong is live with the protestors at the port of oakland tonight. allen? >>reporter: the crowd has shrink significantly here at bert 55 and 56 and group committed to blocking the port until 3:00 a.m. when the next shift is scheduled to come in. around 6:00 o'clock this evening 2000 protestors march from frank ogawa plaza to the port of oakland and block the 7:00 p.m. shift and shortly after arrival terminal officials cancel the shift based on safety concerns. that meant between 1 and 200 long shore workers did not come to work tonight. officially the international long shore warehouse union says it's against the blockade but several union members were part of the march tonight. meanwhile several non-union truckers remain stuck in front of the gate since 9:00 a.m. >> how much have you lost in a day wages. >> about 1700 dollars. >>reporter: are you going to wait here until you get in there. >> i captain get out here right now if i wanted

it blocks incoming storms sends them up to british columbia.essure we get inside sliders that stay too far to the east of us taend to stay dry giving us more wind than rain. future cast showing you that high which is right here not really letting anything get through. few systems try to weaken the ridge and bring showers on the north coast but expecting dry conditions all the way through this week and very likely into next weekend. that is next sunday morning you're looking at there with not much rain showing up. temperatures today for areas around san jose south low 60s, mid-50s around san francisco. heading up to the north bay and as you head over towards sacramento you'll continue to see foggy conditions. mid-40s by daytime but in the teens overnight. so we can't get the natural snow but still cold enough for the machine groom snow in the sierra. there's snow up there. you want that natural powder to come on down. not adding to it there. there's enough cold temperatures there that they got most of the ski runs open. you just don't have the i

it unfolds in vancouver, british columbia, july 31st, 1985. >> are you willing?-year-old richard gaudry taunts police by dangling his 2-year-old son out a third-story window, holding him with just one hand. >> he was shaking the baby by the ankle, moving around. the baby was crying. once we were there, we didn't really want to look at him. >> in his other hand, the desperate dad holds a knife to his 2-year-old's throat. >> he had a knife in his hand. the knife was at the baby, and threat ping to drop the baby. it was pretty horrific. >> it all begins about an hour earlier, after the father, upset over losing custody of his son, grabs the baby from his mother and begins using him as a pawn while he vents his rage. the police and fire departments respond. officers stay calm and try to talk to the knife-wielding man. >> he would lean over, wave the knife at me, and he was threatening to kill the baby. i was just talking to him, trying to keep him calm, trying to keep things so that they didn't explode and get worse than what they were. >> sharpshooters take up posit

. >> on the fateful day in british columbia, will and his crew find a location and begin to ski, occasionallyes amid the pristine snow. >> we were skiing the run, jumping or doing whatever. when the avalanche started, we pointed and would outrun the avalanche. i mean, that was definitely reckless in a sense, but we also, you know, had the ability and the skills to kind of outrun it. we were pushing the limits, for sure, and after, you know, a couple hours we had set off, basically, like three or four little avalanches and decided that it just wasn't worth it. >> the group moves to a new location. will watches as another skier makes a clean run nearby. >> when nothing happened, there was no instability, no avalanches, no sloughing or anything like that, i decided, okay, well, this is probably good to go. i took off and i made, like, three beautiful turns, great snow, and i remember, i think, it was a left-hand turn and just above me like eight or nine feet there was a big fracture line. everything starts to move and the first thing you want to do is just turn your skis downhill and get on it a

if pipeline projects to the british columbia echostar build, they are likely to be utilized. this is because of the relatively short distances to major northeast asia markets. and future economic growth. and because of increasing ownership interests by chinese companies especially in the oil sands production such increased capacity would alter the trade patterns. canadian crude would be, quote, lost from the usa going instead to asia. there they would displace the world's balancing crude oil, middle eastern and african predominantly which would move to the usa. the net effect would be substantially higher u.s. dependency on crude oil from those sources versus the scenarios where the capacity to move canadian crude to asia was limited. so, we have. and i would ask you do you share this analysis that the canadian oil in these words could be lost to china? that is there quote. >> that is a concern, and again from our broad concern has to be can we better control our energy future and the resources we have available to us from canada? it is one of the critical paths we have to ta

pipeline from canada down to texas for exporting gas and oil verses and not exporting through british columbia, seattle, what are the pros and cons of that pipeline? >> i have had lengthy conversations with the canadiens and the governments that represents that. i have been a proponent of that pipeline. energy independence should be a goal for this country. that is the reason why i do not think we ought to shut out any type of legitimate energy source. i am not for giving tax credits, but i am for developing and removing regulatory hurdles, and what we have got today, that oil is going to go one of two directions. it is going to go west and the chinese will bite, or it will go south for the united states consumption. every barrel of oil but goes out is 1 barrel of oil we will not have to import from foreign countries, some of which are hostile to this country. i look forward to the day when we can tell mr. hugo chavez, no thank you, we do not need any venezuelan all oil, but that pipeline creates a lot of jobs, and i am talking about in the development of the pipeline, in the building of the p