. >>> the local united way in connecticut is asking people to actually stop sending toys to newtown. today children in the community got to choose from hundreds of toys that have come pouring in since the tragedy. donors from around the country have given $2.6 million to a memorial fund. the united way says the best way to help the community now is to do charitable work or make a donation in the victims' names. >>> still ahead tonight, just days before christmas, the pope pardons someone who betrayed him. >>> plus, some kids in montgomery county getting to hey, look! a shooting star! make a wish! i wish we could lie here forever. i wish this test drive was over, so we could head back to the dealership. [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. test drive! but we still need your signature. volkswagen sign then drive is back. and it's never been easier to get a jetta. that's the power of german engineering. get $0 down, $0 due at signing, $0 deposit, and $0 first month's payment on any new volkswagen. visit vwdealer.com today. >>> two resignations today in egypt as millions vote in th

the local united way is asking people all over to stop sending toys and do charitable work or make a donation in the victims names. meantime, funeral services for two more young shooting victims ended a week of gut-wrenching farewells. 7-year-old and 6-year-old were laid to rest today in newtown. yesterday family and friends attended a funeral service for a 6-year-old emily parker in utah. her family had just recently moved to newtown. police have not yet established a motive for adam lanza who killed 20 students and 6 female staffers on december 14th. he also killed his mother. all this before taking his own life. >>> tonight, police are looking for a motive in the shooting spree in a rural pennsylvania community that left four people dead, including the gunman. that violence broke out when a man with a gunshot three people in frankstown township 100 miles east of pittsburgh. it's jeffery lee michael, 44, who was killed in a shoot-out with state troopers as he tried to flee in a pickup truck. neighbors say two of the victims lived near the gunman and were about to go christmas shopp

the local united way says its donation fund has already reached the $2.8 million mark. president obama enjoyed the first day of his annual hawaii an vacation with a round of golf. later he had dinner with family and friends and he is expected at a memorial service for the late hawaii an senator. he promises to be back after the holiday for the fiscal cliff talks. and some gratuitous baby animal video courtesey of the san diego zoo. too cute, too cute. the zoo's panda cub had a blast with this new toy during the latest health exam. the zookeepers gave him that ball to test his coordination. just as cute as can be. so what could going over the fiscal cliff mean for you and for your investments? joining us are a husband and wife team of financial advisors. a highly respected team. founder of ettleman services and author of rescue your money. and joining us is gene ettleman. welcome to you both. a lot of people are scared for this fiscal cliff and what it means for their investment. what should people be concerned about before the end of the year? >> in a few rare cases peo

of time such as landowner philip merrick's who lives near little cheney caught wind farm the locals were united against it every single democratically local organization that's the councils were against it but of course the developers very careful they dished out a lot of money to locals and of course that bought a bit of support amazingly wind farms have got a p.r. . campaign behind them but people do think seem to think that they're helpful to the environment which of course they're not this one's been open since two thousand and eight and during that time output has improved but it's coming from a pretty low base but only twenty one and a half percent capacity in its first year to just twenty six percent last year there are twenty six wind turbines behind me each one of which costs in the region of two million pounds to erect according to locals we've come on a good day all the wind turbines are currently working usually they say that's not the case and a lot of the time they're just standing there. and that's the rub people need electricity twenty four seven not just when the wind is blowin

those folks were taken to a burn unit at a local hospital. the fire started at around 9:00 this evening, here in greenbelt. the fire spread from the first floor to the attic. firefighters say this was tough to fight, because the homes here are built so close together. after talking to many neighbors all of them said that when one of their neighbors is dead. >> i came outside. there was a guy lying on the ground. and the nurse who was there. >> we understand police investigators are on the scene. anytime there is a fatality, the have to investigate to make sure everything is ok. back to you. >> return to the weather. storms headed this way. when will it start, and what will it bring? for those answers we turn to our senior meteorologist. >> it is going to be a quick mover. here is what is going on. you see the area of to our north, a bit of light snow. here is the other. that is the area that will become a more significant storm off the coast of north carolina but then racing out to the east as we get into tomorrow afternoon. all of this week,

>> well, this is a disaster for state and local units of government. order of effect is that the cost of infrastructure becomes much, much higher. costs of financing go up. the availability of investors declines. interest rates rise for municipal issuers. and so what happens to all that higher tax-exempt interest cost that issuers have to bear? it's ultimately borne by the taxpayer themselves. so really, this is just a transference of the taxes and subsidy back onto the shoulders of the regular property tax and income taxpayer at the local level. >> wow. a lot to keep track of. chris, thanks for giving us your thoughts this morning. >> thank yhankery much. >>> gas prices at the lowest level we've seen in more than a year. what does 2013 hold for energy. find out after the break. [ male announcer ] how do you trade? with scottrader streaming quotes, any way you want. fully customize it for your trading process -- from thought to trade, on every screen. and all in real time. which makes it just like having your own trading floor, right at your fingertips

local warehouses. on the upside united way says the fund has grown to 3 1/2 million dollars.d3÷ if you can still donate a link on abc7news.com. -- to that fund there's a link onj@s÷ abc7news.com. >>> mike keeping an eye on things, quiet for once in a long time. >> quiet commute for folks afternoon. from mount tamalpais this morning, sausalito, tiburon to san francisco and points south air is clean, clouds on live doppler 7 hd, we are not seeing anything in the way of rainfall, checking out all of the major airports across the country, on time, except fought. -- and ft. lauderdale. thanks for sending us pictures. this was sent in by charlie from martinez, nice rainbow over martinez, beautiful, beautifulhwók picture, thank you charlie. we'll have more in the next half hour. dress for 39 fairfield, everybody else in the 40s until you get to half moon bay at 50. 50 monterey, everybody else around the monterey bay inland low to mid 40s. brighter and dry today. light rain back in the forecast, light rain for tomorrow and showers for saturday, extended dry period, three days this time instead of one. here's t

the union unite here local 2850 has been working without a contract since july 1st. earliest they would go on strike is costs and a proposed wage freeze. the union says there have been promising conversations with airport food and beverage provider hms host but so far no contract. >>> a japanese diplomat pleaded no contest to domestic violence charges. 33-year-old yoshiaki nafaya is a vice council for japan working in san francisco. prosecutors say he allegedly used a screwdriver to stab his wife in the hand, knocked out one of her teeth and kicked her multiple times. nagaya faces a year in jail as part of a plea deal. his sentencing is scheduled for january 1st. >>> craig foosley showed up yesterday at houston elementary school. he said he wanted to protect the children following the school massacre following the massacre at newtown connecticut. he told the modesto bee he was a sergeant and had been deployed to iraq and afghanistan. now the u.s. marine corp. says poosely never charged overseas and was discharged as a private. >>> the grant was announced today by con

if not, those agents could, instead, fall into the hands of local militant groups. the unitedand nato have warned they will take action if syria uses those deadly weapons on its own people but officials are not getting into any specifics here. former state department undersecretary joins us currently professor of the practice of diplomacy and international politics at harvard's kennedy school of government. sir, it is good to see you. what does this do talking about the fighting spilling into lebanon, what does it do to regional stability? >>guest: well, syria is centrally located in the heart of the arab world. should this civil war go on much longer, it could very well fundamentally have a negative impact on both lebanon and jordan as well as iraq. what happens there has tremendous regional consequences. what we see happening on the streets is the rebel armies are making significant advances in aleppo and damascus. they are fighting very close to the stronghold of president assad and he is using significant force including air power and artillery against civilian neighborhoo

the union unite here local 2850 has been working without a contract since july 1st.the group says the earliest they would go on strike is saturday morning. at issue, medical insurance costs and a proposed wage freeze. the union says there have been promising conversations with airport food and beverage provider hms host but so far no contract. >>> a japanese diplomat pleaded no contest to domestic violence charges. 33-year-old yoshiaki nafaya is a vice council for japan working in san francisco. prosecutors say he allegedly used a screwdriver to stab his wife in the hand, knocked out one of her teeth and kicked her multiple times. nagaya faces a year in jail as part of a plea deal. his sentencing is scheduled for january 1st. >>> craig foosley showed up yesterday at houston elementary school. he said he wanted to protect the children following the school massacre following the massacre at newtown connecticut. he told the modesto bee he was a sergeant and had been deployed to iraq and afghanistan. now the u.s. marine corp. says poosely never charged overseas and was d

local folk sources. -- and the whole issue of how the united states became motivated to get involved is interesting. you know, again, i go back to the issue of intelligence and what people did know about would be and what assumptions people are making. it seemed like washington, everybody had a different idea of what should be done, and there were advocates on both sides, are ready group of individuals who wanted to up look for an opportunity to implement irresponsible protect some area that would succeed. so that is the whole section. this section again as to the how we came to intervene and why that was actually good idea. the next question, of course, is the one everyone is talking about now on which will leave more for questions. where is libya headed next. you know, i think with regard to what happened in and gusty, it is still -- i think everyone needs to take, regardless of all the chaos that is happening, step back, go up several thousand feet and looked at this process over a much longer not the time. we are still a year into this revolution. no one really expects. the many expected that th

units. >> translator: today is the day we celebrate the great success of the local automobile industry. i believe we will be back celebrating production of 3 million units in the very near future. >> translator: we could recover from the floods in a very short period. since the recovery we have received many bookings and now we are operating at full capacity. still, with many back orders waiting. >> reporter: the floods of 11 are a bad memory for the industry. auto makers and their suppliers were severely impacted. many plants were forced to close. thailand status as an important production base hasn't changed. the industry has quickly got back on track. the thai government tax break for first time car buyers has also helped. >> translator: it helps us to make a decision to buy a car more easily. we can get a tax rebate up to about 3,000 u.s. dollars. >> we'll buy on eco car because it saves energy and not so expensive and covered by the tax rebate program. >> reporter: japanese auto makers plan to boost production in thailand. the country is one of the most important manufacturing hubs.

united states. >> listen to this. localrchers find a gene that could lead to a pill this-to-fight fat. >> and a judge decides whether golfers can still tee off on a golf course at the jernt of a battle. >> abc 7 news is live from the roof of the kgotv broadcast center. it's getting chilly. we have milder weather coming up for the weekend making you wonder if we're two weeks from winter. we'll take a look at temperatures coming up. >> and thanking our vets with gift of wheels. a fitting honor this pearl harbor day. stay with us. the news continues in just a [ female announcer ] martinelli's gold medal sparkling cider is the perfect choice for holiday gatherings. martinelli's is non-alcoholic, festive like champagne, and tastes great! martinelli's: since 1868. >>> police asking for help finding a serial rapist targeting young woman walking alone at night this, person changed his appearance since the assault on june 6th. police say he struck again november 20th. a night later an attempted assault. witnesses say he's driving a

local sources. the -- and the whole issue of how the united states became motivated to get involved is interesting,and, again, i go back to the issue of intelligence and what people didn't know about libya and what assumptions people were making. you know, it seemed like washington, between the the white house and state department, everybody had an idea of what should be done, advocatings on both sides, a ready group of the individuals, the power, and given rise to those looking for an opportunity to implement a responsibility to protect scenario that would succeed so that's a whole, you know, that's a whole section, again, as to what -- how did we come to intervene, and why was that actually a good idea? the next question, of course, is the one that everybody's talking about now, which i'll leave teem for questions, which is where is libya headed next? you know, with regards to what happens this benghazi, i think one needs to take -- regardless of all of the chaos that's happening, step back, go up several thousand feet, and look at the process over a microphone longer period of time. this is, you

a local hospital is working to build a new unit

. >> from intensive-care unit, i was transferred to a local rehab center in baltimore, maryland, and from there i pretty much learned how to be independent again. >> now fully recovered, brian is a man with a mission. >> i joined the american red cross in 2007 because i thought it was very important for me as a former intensive-care patient, massive blood recipient, to go out and say, "thank you," and just show the appreciation and just do what i could to pay that appreciation and gratitude forward. >> he's rolled up his sleeves, literally. >> i have donated three times, so i don't just talk the talk. i have to walk the walk, so i donate myself, as well. >> to donate blood, you have to be at least 17 years old or 16 with permission from your parents, but if you're too young, or you just don't like needles, there are other ways you can help. >> one of the things that you can do is set up a blood drive. you can contact 1-800-red-cross, and we'll send you some information to set up the drive. >> the red cross will help you plan your blood drive, and they'll bring all the equipment and s

the officer a seven-year veteran part of the motorcycle unit, died at a local hospital. authorities are respectfully asking for the community's prayers' during this difficult time. this area is quite a large area. this is a shutdown. -- this area is shut down so authorities can conduct a thorough investigation. a motorcycle officer has died in a line of duty. we're live then bristow. >> it is going to be of very chilly new year's eve. steve is in the weather center with a first check of the forecast. >> temperatures this evening as the wind down 2012, temperatures outside not so bad. 40 degrees over at reagan national airport. 35 at dulles. satellite and radar, clouds across the area right now. we will keep clouds and a forecast of a the next day or so. even though we see a little bit of a breeze over the washington area, the atmosphere is so dry at this time nothing is able to reach the ground. here is our forecast for new year's eve. temperatures will fall through the 30's. we had a big batch of colder air on the way. >> i am going to say something that no one in their

. >> we have several units from local county, state, city, federal agencies helping us methodically clearme wounded, and do a thorough search to make sure everything is safe. again, at this point, this is no longer an active shooter t shooter has been neutralized. we are securing the mall, securing the scene and treating the wounded. >> how many people have been shot? >> i don't have the exact number of patients. we have multiple ems units here, the fire department, amr and life flight and we have several ems units on scene to treat the wounded. we know there are multiple wounded. life flight has landed to treat at least one of those wounded. we are set up to treat them as we find them as we search the mall. >> we have been hearing there are confirmed dead. can you tell us that? >> there are confirmed dead. i don't have any numbers or details about that. >> when you say neutralized, has he surrendered, been taken into custody, shot and killed? >> i don't have any details in regards to that. i will get those details and release them soon but there's no longer any shooting going on. he has

if you have a local militia that's decided to take on the united states government.en be able to take on a small contingent of navy s.e.a.l.s, much less the rest of the government with nuclear weapons and stealth fighters and bombers and cruise missiles, the array of weaponry that this government possesses and most developed governments possess, there's to way any group of citizens can put together enough of their bushmasters and glocks and sig sauers to take on a government any more. >> tom fuentes, thank you very much. >> thank you, don. >>> in times of tragedy, remembering moments of goodness. as a nation grieves, we're going to look at stories of inspiration. hey sis, it's so great to see you. you, too! oh, cloudy glasses. you didn't have to come over! actually, honey, i think i did... oh? you did? whoa, ladies, easy. hi. cascade kitchen counselor. we can help avoid this with cascade complete pacs. see, over time, cascade complete pacs fight film buildup two times better than finish quantum. to help leave glasses sparkling shiny! too bad it doesn't work on window

if there will be experts from united states the prices you know the states will go up there is no reason for american government do increase local prices because it will be the corpse of their poor self-induced the united states the return of factories to united states they don't want to do it and that is why i absolutely sure that they will not give permission to increase seriously increase their expert but to tell us the us federal regulators must know these arguments as well that if they go ahead if they given the green light to european gas exports would that mean that it does make economic sense not necessarily again the same answer and simply because you seem addition to economics that you and i may be used to talking about here and business there also the politics and it mainly the geopolitical interests that no doubt play a major role in statements like these the united states and numerous occasions criticized russia for using gas as a political tool and as soon as it discovers shale gas what does senator lugar want to to do what it wants to turn around and use gas as a political weapon gas to gas competition is a strang

landmark announcement to make, and that is that an agreement has been reached with unite here, which represents -- which is localnted by mike casey who is here today. and he'll go into a lot of detail with rick welch of the warriors. but generally speaking, not only are we creating jobs, but now we have agreement that these are going to be good-paying jobs because they're going to be union jobs, inside the arena as well as outside the arena. this is important. many of us often talk about labor peace, but i am, i think in these days, talking more about labor confidence and labor happiness because labor peace often says there's a dispute going on. here we're going way beyond dispute. we're actually making some assurances that our people who work the jobs in and outside of the arena will get the respect that they deserve. this is oftentimes -- if we lay that out early, and i think this is what the warriors are doing, they're breeding confidence in our labor force. not only do you have peace, but you can have confidence that you can have families around you supported by the jobs that we're creating here because they

united states into world war ii. more than 2,000 people are expected to attend a ceremony at pearl harbor today actually moment of silence is planned for 7:55:00 a.m. localrking the moment the bombing began. >>> the united states is sending ships to the korean peninsula to monitor any rocket launch by north korea. but they will have to extra time. new satellite images show snow may have slowed the launch preparations. north korea has promised to test ate rocket sometime in the next company of weeks. >>> the details of this next story are disturbing. in massachusetts, a horrific case of child sexual abuse at a day care. the day care owner's husband is accused of sexually assaulting dozens of children at that day care center. 49-year-old john burbine is accused of abusing the children, ages eight days old to three years old. police say they found hours of video of him committing the crimes. they also say he has a history of sexually abusing children. so far, 13 victims have been identified by police. >>> coming up, go to bed earlier. that is the message for some metro drivers. we'll have details of that coming up next. >>> plus a spectacular gem has a new

united states. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," new details about the gunman from the mallout the fiscal cler. we'll hear new details from jim demint. >>> and a warning about the hidden fees in your hotel bill. how to spot them. that and more a little later on "cbs this morning." for now, though, that is the news for this thursday morning. i always appreciate you watching. i'm terrell brown in new york. thank you everybody. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com and i'm michelle griego. tis 4:-- the san mateo bridge gianna franco is in the >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> good morning. it's thursday, december 13. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego. >>> we have an accident, a fatal accident that started off as basically a routine call from chp on the san mateo bridge westbound side of the bridge on the peninsula side. it was a two-vehicle accident and one person died at the scene. so the coroner is called out. the right lane is blocked. they expect to have this shut down for the next hour or so. this is west 92 just as you head

into harm's way and i think that that's probably a good thing at this stage that local over dad in spending is seeing the united states hurdle towards a fiscal cliff that will trigger a widespread tax rises and government cuts on new year's day to tackle the fast approaching deadline congress members have gone on holiday where we are finished been out to find anyone who thinks they deserve the break. as many hard working americans look forward to taking a break from the grind so does congress did they deserve a holiday this week let's talk about that we're talking today about congress because there's that take their break right now you're already rolling your eyes i've only just said the word awful it's awful what you can do they don't do anything and they're taking a break well yeah because that's what they do they don't do anything and they're going to do you think that they have been working hard enough to deserve a holiday never and i won't say anymore because it'll be a bad word of those going to go in kick the can down the road a little bit for the next year yeah and nothing's going to change something ma

jordan's neighborhood community building activities and he reviedd in the upstairs unit for nearly 50 years. jordan was known locally as the mayor of butcher town, which was the historic name for the area immediately surrounding the bar. his efforts to establish a place of community and legacy within the bayview area continues for which he is known to this day. the bar continues to be operated by the jordan family, who are here today, who support the land mark designation. this concludes my presentation, if you have any questions. >> thank you. supervisor cohen? >> i think that's it. >> let's open this up for public comment. did you want to acknowledge the family members? >> yes. >> let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> i went to the chase bank to give me a lollipop. >> sam jordan's bar, there's a new bar and it's gonna be a land mark, gonna give it a good big start, gonna have a big lolli pop heart. lollipop, oh, land mark, city landmark. and drink, drink, let the toasts start. drink, drink, to this landmark. drink, drink, drink and we're gonna have a gr

and we can report tonight that the two wounded officers are in the intensive care unit of a local hospitaln rochester, new york. they are said to be in stable condition and expected to make a recovery. jamie? >> jamie: still, what a way to spend christmas. david lee, thank you for the report. a lot of people paying it forward this christmas. police from communities all around connecticut are doing just that they volunteered to work in newtown today so officers there could have a much-needed day off. this is in the wake of the shooting at sandy hook elementary. they have all been working overtime. that shooting killed 6 women and 20 children. a number of these villain officers even went further don't napght for charities for newtown survivors. heart warming news. for a community that has seen far too much pain. pope benedict delivering a very special message of peace on this christmas day for regions torn apart by war. speaking from his balcony at the vatican st. peters square. the pope paid for an end to the bloody war in syria which has stretched on for nearly two years. >> yes. may peace

want international law, in their words, to interfere with domestic laws in the united states, whether federal law, state, or local and one of the most recent major reasons why they rejected this treaty, these republicans by in large voted again ratifying this treaty was because of the powerful words that rick santorum, the former republican presidential candidate said. as you know, he has a severely disabled child, a little girl. he said, i don't want international lawyers, i don't want the united nations and new york and foreign countries telling me and our local officials what they can or cannot do as far as treatment for little bella, his daughter. and that was a powerful factor in convincing a lot of these republicans to reject this treaty. they didn't see that they needed the international community, in effect, to get involved in what was going on here in the united states. the counterargument, of course, is we want to bring, by ratifying this treaty, to bring the rest of the world up to the u.s. standards in hoping those with disabilities but that obviously didn't resonate, at least not enough, to get the 6

than probably the way we've operated where, as a board of supervisors, we're not the united states be senate. we are a localgovernment entity, and we deal with the day-to-day challenges of a city, and of neighborhoods. and some of those are monumental and some of thosegqjatç are very mundane. and as a district supervisor, you can only imagine if i, or any of us were saying i'm having trouble getting this pothole filled in front of my house, can you please help me. and if you responded and said well let's see, if i have to fix muni and get all the help for all the mentally ill people in our city and close the achievement gap and help all the small businesses that are struggling in this city, do all of those things, and then when i'm done, i'll get to your pothole to be filled. i have a feeling your constituent probably wouldn't respond very positively to that. the fact is that we deal with a whole gamut of issues at this board,>(( úñ large to small, and the large are not to the exclusion of the small. the fact is that this is a real issue. and i think, colleagues, you'll know that you can love or hate the le