season thus far the california fed remaining top of the pacific division following victory over memphis on thursday the host jumping to a twenty nine seventeen lead after the first quarter but the grizzlies opened the second with a fourteen zero run of their own cutting the difference to just one point by halftime it was then to and fro until the final few minutes trippers bench one more williams the most instrumental late on knocking off nine of his eighteen points in the final quarter his partner in crime blake griffin didn't onto his tally during the last dozen minutes but was top scorer for l.a. with twenty thousand children all ninety eight ninety one clippers finished the winners moved to nine wins two losses at home. over in european action turkish side gala tough sure i have claimed a narrow victory against olympiakos in the euro league meaning russian side remain the only on beaten side in the group e. olympiakos taking advantage of a shallow start by khaled tosh drive but at the end of the first quarter the game was tied at fifteen apiece the turkish fishers would then find th

season thus far the california night fed remaining top of the pacific division following victory over memphis on thursday the host jumping out to a twenty nine seventeen lead after the first quarter but the grizzlies opened the second with a four things here run all their own cutting the difference for just one point by half times and then to and fro into the final few minutes clippers bench men more williams but he was the most instrumental in all nine of his. eighteen points in the final slaughter his partner in crime blake griffin did in the to his tally during the last twelve minutes but it was top score for l.a. with twenty points overall ninety eight ninety one clipper type finish the winners moved to nine wins one just two losses. over european action turkish side have claimed the noro victory against olympiacos in the euro league meaning a russian side sask a moscow the are not the only unbeaten side in their group because taking advantage of a slow start by gala tough strike at the end of the first quarter of the game was tied fifteen fifteen but turkish visitors would then f

california businesses, slapped x by the feds. >>> coming up on cbs 5 eyewitness news at 6:00 tonight,alifornia businesses slapped with a rather surprising tax by the feds. why they are being forced to shell out hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for what they say is the state's mistake. >>> all right. ready for the play-offs? an inside look at the changes to candlestick park trying to prevent another national blackout embarrassment. those stories and much more 30 minutes away at 6:00 tonight. but that's it for 5:00. "cbs evening news with scott pelley" is next. >> and remember the latest news and weather are always on cbssf.com. see you in

. >>> the state lawmaker said he's fed up with california state university administrators raising tuition, and at the same time giving themselves pay raises. senator lieu is sponsoring a bill that would cap csu president's salaries at just more than $343,000. three campus presents currently make more than that, including san jose state's president. his bill would ban pay raises for presidents, if the tuition increase is pending for students. >>> there's no sugar coating, workers at an east bay licorice company say they'll walk the picket line until their posses come to the bargaining table. we're talking about red vines. workers someone the the day trying to block drive ways. they say they're working under an unfair contract with increased health care costs and only a small raise. the makers of red vines say it's offer to employees is a good one. improved retirement benefits and company paid health insurance. workers have been on strike since december 5th. >>> east palo alto city officials met today to stop facebook's new campus from being built. they're concerned about the environmental

the governor says california's being penalized by the feds for having too many parents who work fewer than 30 hours a week. critics say even well qualified workers cannot find jobs in this economy. the governor admits it's not nice but he says it is necessary to try to balance the budget. >> 4:37 now. another chilly start to our day. let's check back in with christina loren. >> good morning to you. it's a holiday so many people don't actually have to go to work. throw on an extra blanket, it's cold. thanks for waking up with us. 31 in napa, at 33 in concord. these temperatures are not too far out of what we've had last week except for fairfield. look at this, you're at 22 degrees. so, yeah, 32 as you know is freezing, 22 degrees, it's cold out there. make sure you bring in your sensitive pets and plants. your pets probably won't want to be out for longer than 10 to 15 minutes. that is quite a bit longer than i would leave my pets outside. 44 in san mateo, 48 in sunnyvale and 47 degrees in santa cruz at noon. so temperatures are going to climb all that much between now and 12:00 p.m. l

california being penalized by the feds for having too many parents who work fewer than 30 hours a week. critics say, even well-qualified workers right now struggling to find jobs in this economy. the governor admits, it's not very nice but he says it is necessary to try to balance the budget. >>> hackers hard at work this holiday. scott mcgrew tells us of not one but two hack attacks. >> zappos is the victim of a hack attack. the ceo of the company quick to say your credit card information has not been compromised but hackers may have your home address, e-mail, other details. all zappos' passwords have been reset and the company, famous for customer service, has turned off its phones because it can't handle all of the inbound calls. better not to answer the calls than leave you on the phone forever. now if your name was in the database hacked you've probably gotten an e-mail about it. if you use the same e-mail address and password for other sites, itunes, ebay, change the password on those as well. a different hacker says he has the source code for semantic's anti-virus programs and w

. >>> california businesses are getting slapped with a surprise tax from the feds. they will have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars or more for unemployment insurance this year. as sam shane explains, the businesses are paying for the state's mistake. >> side of mashed tow pay toes. >> reporter: joe thompson was hoping to hire extra help for his restaurant but a new tax affecting california employers has changed everything. >> it would stop us from bringing in a part-time person right away in january. >> reporter: the new tax could take the sizzle out of any sort of economic recovery. >> i think this is going to catch employers completely off guard. >> it represents about a 37% tax hike. >> reporter: the feds are imposing a tax hike because california's unemployment trust fund is more than $9 billion in the red. it means the state has failed to pay back a federal loan for two years in a row. so employers must now shell out more, about 21 per employee every year. joe thompson has 17 employees as a restaurant owner and caterer but now says he will put hiring on h

the governor says california is penalized by the feds for having too many parents who work fewer thanurs a week. critics say even well qualified workers are struggling to find jobs. the governor admits it's not nice but he says it is necessary to balance the budget. >> this year's consumer electronics show the biggest in the events history. new figures showing a record 153,000 people attending the convention in las vegas. this year's hottest trends, a light weight lap top, android tablets and smart phones. next year's convention could equal that attendance mark. >> several hackers hard at work attacking a well known company. scott has been on the case monitoring all of this. >> zappos says it's the victim of a hack attack. the ceo of the company quick to say your credit card information has not been compromised. but hackers may have your home address, e-mail, other details. all of the pass words have been reset and the company famous for customer service says it's turned off its phones because it can't handle all of the calls. better not to answer any calls it says than leave you on t

national standard which could force manufacturers to redesign their products once for california and then again for the feds. on the consumerwatch, julie watts cbs 5. >>> all right, pop open those umbrella, huh? >> how about that. do you even know where yours is? >> i am sure i could find one. >> next to the dust buster in the closet. >> we haven't used an umbrella not once this year. it hasn't rained once. once it starts, it's going to be a good nine days until we see sunshine again. good evening, everyone. let's go ahead and head out live. this is our cbs 5 weather camera looking towards the 580 heading east and west on this clear crisp evening. temperatures trailing off into the 40s after highs today only 50 to 56 degrees. warmest location gilroy at 56. san jose at 29 degrees, a record low. oakland 28 at the airport. tonight we have a freeze warning in effect for the santa clara valley. protect the pipes, the pets and also the plants. we're still going to be subfreezing in the tri-valley. 30 in santa rosa but increasing cloud cover so not as frigid as it was last night. but needless to say, the chill is

the governor says california is being penalized for the feds, by the feds, for having too many parent is work fewer than 30 hours a week. even well qualified workers are struggling to find jobs in this economy. the governor admits it's not nice but he says it is necessary to balance the budget. >> 5:45 now. here's one way to make a meteorologist smile on a monday. regardless what if day it is, a lot of action out there. >> it's a holiday. if you've got to get -- we had to be here at 3:30. let's talk about what's happening out there. we do have good air quality. just about everywhere except for up in the north bay. we're in the moderate range. temperatures are crisp out there. it is so cold this morning, we have a freeze warning in place for the bay area. that goes until about 8:00 a.m. after that temperatures will slowly but surely rise above that freezing mark. it's going to be cold. you'll need that jacket until at least noon. 31 in concord, you're at 35 in san mateo, 33 in santa rosa, and we continue to drop off before we hit sunrise. which is about 7:25. you can see right now just

the governor says california is being penalized by the feds for having too many parents who work fewer than 30 hours a week. critics say even well qualified workers are struggling to find jobs in this economy. the governor admits it's not nice, but he says it is necessary to balance the budget. >>> well apparently bay area drivers are risk takers, at least when it comes to the car pool lane. the bay area is home to more car pool lane cheaters than anywhere else in the state. chp officers wrote more than 200,000 car pool lane tickets between 2000 and 2010, that's more than in l.a. l.a. a distant second with about 165,000 tickets for illegally using the car pool lane. >> maybe they just don't patrol in l.a. like we do in the bay area >>> still ahead here at 6:00, it may be a holiday, but lawmakers are still getting paid. we'll explain the loophole. >>> and millions of people exposed to a popular website hacked. what shoppers should do to protect themselves. >>> could the arab spring act as a spring board to silicon valley investment? we talk to tech and political leaders. >>> and good ev

california prison. the massive riot with hundreds of inmates coming up. >> and a black eye for the u.s. military. the video the feds are calling disgusting. >>> and they help assemble popular microsoft gadgets. how a worker protest nearly turned deadly. california. the department >>> welcome back. several inmates are injured after a riot at a state prison in southern california. the department of corrections says about 300 inmates took part in yesterday's melee. this was at kern valley state prison. the injuries are stab, puncture and slash wounds mostly but none are considered life- threatening. >>> the marine corps says those involved in an inflammatory video will be held accountable. the defense department says this video is disgusting. we have blurred out much of the 39 seconds of the video t appears to show american marines in combat gear urinating on the corpses of taliban fighters and joking about it. the marines are investigating and preparing for all the fallout. >> it depicts us in the worst possible light so it's going to be a real challenge for the administration to handle this swiftly and properly and

feds. the justice department has been warning california property owners that their buildings could be seized if renters dispense cannabis near schools and parks. the state permits dispensaries to sell marijuana for medical use. >>> today a panel looking for a panel for graduation rates, several reforms, among the suggestions to the statewide board of governors, design statewide tests to determine competence in math and english and require first year students to start remedial work immediately. the goal is to improve the rates of graduation. and transfers to other universities. >>> and live in the flesh. not frozen, we have elizabeth with a look at traffic. >> hello. >> let's go. we will go out to fremont. we're still following this accident. we understand the investigators are working to clear the accident on the right shoulder and in the meantime two lanes are blocked. one lane is open. it is a free flow from the city to fremont. and southbound 880 before alvarado boulevard. watch out for that. and all right, this accident, or actually it was a car fire, on the guadalupe parkway, southbound

feds. and the justice department has been warning california property owners that their buildings could beed if renters dispense cannabis near schools and parks. >>> and 5:38. the afghan military is trying to figure out if a man who opened fire on a group of americans was actually a soldier. and an american soldier died, another was wounded in yesterday's shooting at a base about 250 miles south of kabul. the gunman was also killed. there have been similar attacks before. some by afghan soldiers who have turned on nato troops. and others by insurgents dressed in afghan uniforms. >>> in an iranian court, they have convicted an american man of working for the c.i.a. and has sentenced him to death. iran's state radio reported the verdict and sentence today. the 28-year-old defendant is from arizona. he is a former military translator. his father is a professor in michigan. says his son was just visiting relatives in iran and he was arrested. the u.s. state department has demanded his release. >>> 5:39 now. it is not even built yet, but tickets for the 49ers stadium in santa clara are already

fed up with negative attention from the cops? but detectives back in alameda county, california, did not panic.rnie probably didn't know it, but a rather enterprising police officer had put a gps tracking device on his car. >> for a majority of the time we knew where he was. >> reporter: the car and ernie's visits to dating sites led police to a number of young women he, well, met. like the one in new orleans who called the police after a strange night with a man who first told her he was writing a novel about a gambler who is a suspect in his parents' murder and who then told her his own parents had been murdered. and when she went back to his hotel room, he had rigged it with bungee cords, said if someone had come to get him he had a plan to escape. >> he was going to break the window of the hotel room and basically rappel out of the hotel room window. >> did she, quite understandably, hightail it out of there? >> no. she chose to stay. >> reporter: stay the night? >> she did. >> reporter: meanwhile, the lead detective dudek called in reenforcements and pretty soon some of the boring of all p

fed up with negative attention from the cops? but detectives back in alameda county, california, did not panic. ernie probably didn't know it, but an enterprising officer pitted his car, his deceased father's car, with a gps tracking device. >> for the majority of the time, we knew where he was. >> reporter: and the car, plus ernie's regular visits to social media dating sites led them to a number of women he, well, met. like the one in new orleans who called the police after a strange night with a man who first told her he was writing a novel about a gambler who was a suspect in his parents' murder and who then told her his own parents had been murdered. and when she went back to his hotel room, he rigged it with bungee cords, said he rigged it in case he had to escape. >> he said he was basically going to rappel out the hotel room window. >> reporter: so did she understandably high tail it out of there? >> no, she chose to stay. >> reporter: stay the night? >> she did. >> reporter: meanwhile, the lead detective called in reinforcements. and before long, some of the boring of all police work p

feds crack down on the imports. >> good evening, i'm dan ashley. cheryl jennings is off tonight. well to do in california focus of attention in sacramento again tonight. nonpartisan analysts are going through the proposed budget with a fine tooth comb. main catch point is how much taxes the wealthy should pay. abc 7's nannette miranda is in sacramento with the very. this analyst gave the proposal a thumbs up when taking a look ats the picture long term because it continues to whittle down deficits. it's a short term, he believes the governor overestimates tax revenue. >> we're concerned about capitol gains aassumptions that the administration is making is off the issue. >> tailor believes the state will take in $3 kbrinl less than what the governor predicts. the disagreement mostly over how much wealthyest californians will bring in. richest 1% pay 40% of the state total intake of personal income tax. boosted by capitol gains. brown administration believes numbers are correct. >> there is revenue forecasting that is challenging. particularly owe for those high income, high wage californians whose behavio

fed today. he said, and the fourth area what to do, is i want california he looked up the map at the time, and he did now like what he saw. he saw america over here. he wanted coast-to-coast. he did not one of war, what he was ready to take it if he had to. and so he offered mexico a substantial some money in those days for california because they said no. the regime that the time that was even discussing it with him was overturned by an armed revolt simply for a dressing the question of whether or not we do want to sell california to the americans. at the same time there was another did question brewing in 1845 kuwaiti 46 over the republic of texas which had separated but ten years earlier and wished to join the union the mix is said if the americans taken texas there will be war. again, he told sentiment emissary down to mexico city to try to smooth this over and see if they could avoid the war. that was unavoidable in this sense. the authority would nazi the american emissary. they withdrew their vassar for washington and put an army of the border. the war appeared to be inevitable. polk said,

california's wealthiest residents. if revenue does fall short, it could trigger more spending cuts, tax hikes, or borrowing. >>> the economy ended on the upside. in the latest so-called beige report, the fed pointed to an increase in consumer spending. much of it came in auto sales and travel. manufacturing also grew while inflation remained low. the fed seems to be optimistic about the new year. >>> on wall street, the stocks were mixed. the dow industrials lost 13. nasdaq was up 8 points. >>> thieves struck here at solano community college. find out how the theft could affect you. >>> back here in just ten minutes, it is going to be very cold for your thursday morning. i'll show you how cold. >>> the sign says no dogs on campus, but in pleasanton, police dogs could be the exception. what they'd be looking for. >>> new video tonight, the highway patrol says a man driving recklessly was killed in a cash in alameda county. the volkswagen went off the road, and slammed into a large concrete pillar. the chp says he was not wearing a seat belt. >>> also, new at 10:00, an investigation is underway in solano county. several dozen laptop computers were stolen from a nursing program at solano com

california's wealthiest residents. if revenue does fall short, it could trigger more spending cuts, tax hikes, or borrowing. >>> the economy ended on the upside. in the latest so-called beige report, the fed pointed to an increase in consumer spending. much of it came in auto sales and travel. manufacturing also grew while inflation remained low. the fed seems to be optimistic about the new year. >>> on wall street, the stocks were mixed. the dow industrials lost 13. nasdaq was up 8 points. >>> thieves struck here at solano community college. find out how the theft could affect you. >>> back here in just ten minutes, it is going to be very cold for your thursday morning. i'll show you how cold. >>> the sign says no dogs on campus, but in >>> new video tonight, the highway patrol says a man driving recklessly was killed in a cash in alameda county. the volkswagen went off the road, and slammed into a large concrete pillar. the chp says he was not wearing a seat belt. >>> also, new at 10:00, an investigation is underway in solano county. several dozen laptop computers were stolen from a nursing program at solano community college. amber lee is live in fairfield, with how the loss effects mo

past lucas valley if the fed staff fulfill >>darya: to highway projects are aimed at easing gridlock, the widening of highway 4 and highway 4 bypassed. this is after the california transportation commission set aside about 86 trillion dollars to do these projects. craig skalar is there with a look at how much construction will ease traffic. >>craig: this is the area we're talking about. the bottleneck backs up during rush hour. faja roof facades or or or or or or or or or or or or of current and the park with elena are no injuries. we do not have any information on a cause the other information will be coming to us very said. jackie sissel have a live report for us in a few minutes. >>mark: in decision 2012 news, five days to go into the florida primary. all the republicans can vote in this primary. tonight, candidates are debating one last time before tuesday's florida primary. the four remaining can't if, the day starts at 5:00 p.m.. lough's phosphor phase review of the dna crime scene evidence used to take free-four months but new technology in caseload shifting has improved the efficiency. the state's dna data base contains profiles of 1.8 million offenders

. >> steve: down in florida, the government, the feds have said we're going to give think money and the government said we don't want it. and californiahere is only 3 million people a year who make that flight. it becomes a question of, the vast cost versus how many people will use it. >> it must be cost effective. milwaukee is the most segregated big city and fourth poorest. the people can't get to where the jobs are. all the people on the train is such a big deal. >> steve: if there is trains, you can train people to the job. but there aren't any jobs right now. >> that's not true. there may be 3 million jobs within the reach the people. about 10,000 got jobs. they brought the jobs into the city where the people could get to them. 'cause on welfare, poverty is a big deal. 53 million are insecure. they're in poverty. poverty is on the minds. health care and even dreams. >> steve: the american dream. it's just out of the grasp of a lot of people right now because we spend all that money on the stimulus and we were told it would -- if we paid all that money, it wouldn't go above 8. >> let's get to that. gm paid its money back. chrysler

fed food that is barely edible. subjected to arbitrary authority by the guards. then you have the people who are in the segregation units, what california called special housing units. these people are held in conditions that fit the international legal definition of torture, because if you are held in one of the special housing units, or shoes you are in conditions where you are tonight human contact for days, weeks, sometimes months at a time. c., and years. and i've not just saying you don't get to have your own caller visits from your families or your lawyers or something like that. they have it set up so you don't even see the person who brings you the food every day. you don't have contact with any other human being and international law has defined that as torture and bandit were being employed against people who are in prison but there are tens of thousands of people in prisons in this country who are being treated exactly like that, being tortured exactly like that. if conditions like that that sparked the to hunger strikes that prisoners here in california it in the special housing units waged over the summer. [applause] you h