in the back seat was keiko, a 15-year-old dog whose owner and best friend michael mcvey loved dearly. mcvey walked out and realized his vehicle was stolen he and his friends began looking for his dog, thinking that the thieves had no interest in the dog, that they would set her free somewhere. that search went on for four days. until police called and told mcvey they had found his suv in a parking lot walmart in san jose, and in the back seat was keiko dead from thirst and starvation. >> i could care less about the car. the dog, we'd been friends for a long time. but to leave it in a car for four days until it dies, that is probably one of the cruelest tortures you can do to an animal. >> reporter: mcvey tells us he wept for days over the death of his best friend. gilroy police say that those two men again in the surveillance camera image that they are looking for, if they are connected with this crime which they believe they are, they could face charges of not only grand theft auto, but animal cruelty as well. bob redell, "today in the bay." >> terrible story. a developing story in u

mcvey says keiko rarely barked, so it's unlikely anyone would have heard her. sot >> if anyone was put some were without food and water and not knowing why and just knowing that someone just put us there, we would suffer. >> gilroy police have released this surveillance photo of two men being called persons of interest in this case. mcvey is hoping they come forward and cooperate with authorities. sot >> she never did it is sent to them, why would somebody want to hurt a dog. >> in gilroy, philippe djegal, kron 4 news line we're tracking and drizzle. but once this most through get ready for warm conditions. we will be right back. >> welcome back. we do have some export goes outside. >> not everyone has seen this outside. when you see the gray in the north, parts of stockton and just north of san jose, we are looking at areas of really light rain. we did have more showers showing up. a ball right now, that is dry now. we're looking at basically cloudy conditions you can still sit outdoors to petaluma. we still have more showers that are moving ever. a again very

in the back seat was a 15-year-old dog keiko who was a life long companion to michael mcvey. mike mcvey spent four days looking for the dog thinking that the thieves would have let her go. unfortunately no such luck on the fourth day he received the devastating news from police that the suv, his suv, was found in a walmart parking lot in san jose with keiko still in the back seat, dead from thirst and starvation. >> would have been best if they threat dog go in the parking lot and kicked her out of the car. because she would have come and found me. i'd like to know what kind of people they are that they could torture an animal like that. >> reporter: if the police do find those two men and do charge them with a crime they not only face charges of grand theft auto but possibly animal cruelty. reporting live in gilroy, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> thank you. >> the expressway is back open. investigators cleared the scene after deadly crash around 9:00 last night police found a man on the ground. investigators say he was hit by a car. emergency crews were not able to save

nhk world's keiko aso starts us off. she has a look at what some firms are doing to keep women on the payroll. >> reporter: life can sometimes feel like a juggling act for mackico. in between housekeeping and raising a 3-year-old, she also works full time. her husband is too busy with his job to help out much. but her managers have taken notice of all the pressure. they let her work from home five days a month. that saves her two hours of commuting, and gives her more time with her daughter. >> translator: if i didn't have this flexible working arrangement, i wouldn't know how i'd be able to raise her. >> reporter: since the company introduced the measures, women have been staying there as long as men, 16 years. the nationwide average is less than 10 years. >> translator: our employees each have different working arrangements. but they still deliver results. >> reporter: most believe japanese women quit their jobs because they find it too difficult to raise children at the same time. but the new poll suggests a different

quickly a simple traffic stop turned into a rest and the man he caught that day was a man named keiko morey you. he was a member of the japanese red army which trained with libyans and many international terrorist and he was there on his way to new york to hit a navy recruiting station. this was going to be the two-year anniversary of the bombing of libya in 1986. it was only his intervention that saved that recruiting station from being bombed. in 1995 you may remember timothy mcveigh came very close to escape over the state line after bombing the oklahoma city holding. he was caught by an oklahoma highway patrolman named charles hanger. hanger noticed that he didn't have copper plates on his vehicle and he noticed it when they were passing like this on a highway at very high-speed. he swung around and he stopped mcveigh. he was a trained patrolman so whether crick way he assessed that a slide bulge within the jacket of mcveigh suggested a pistol and so they had a little talk about that. the terrorists said my sidearm is loaded and the patrolman said so is mine. after a brief standof

at yutaka and keiko hakozaki's home in naraha, the cleanup apparently worked. we took some geiger counter readings in their yard read- cesium levels were .204 microsieverts per hour- just under the government limit of .23. still, the hakozakis are unsure about returning to their home. but their feelings about nuclear power are now etched in stone. >> ( translated ): we experienced this accident firsthand, which is all the more reason we think that nuclear power plants are not suitable for this country, he said. >> reporter: right now in japan, not a single nuclear power plant is on line generating electricity. 48 nuclear reactors able to generate 30% of japan's electrical demand- idle while this country decides if the hakozakis are right or if turning the nukes back on is prudent, perhaps even mandatory to maintain japan's highly electrified lifestyle. japan is making up for the idle nuclear facilities by running their fossil fuel plants at full tilt, importing $266 billion worth of oil, gas and coal last year. in the country where the kyoto protocols were draf