be that alternative delivery services could use the mailbox? >> yeah. and it's funny, back in the old days, back in the '70s, people thought that would destroy the post office because you would get first class mail which was such a great thing to have. but doesn't seem like first class mail is that profitable anymore. i doubt fedex or u.p.s. would deliver it for 47 cents to tell you the truth. so i don't know that it changes anything other than it would solidify and codify the idea that private property is private property and that the individual has the right to exercise how >> here's part of the problem that i see with this. you're viewing it from the point of private property, but i think the effect of the passage of this amendment would be to further hurt, maybe cripple, the finances of the post office because one result would be that private operations which in some sense are trying to supplant the postal service could basically cherry pick the most lucrative routes and services and deprive the postal service which is bound by this constit

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investigators released this photo of a car leaving the scene, cars and mailboxes were damaged. nine incidents have been reported. saturday, between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. sa. bc 7 is live with the follow up. laura? >> i'm at vineyard high school. you can see where two windows were smashed and rocked launched over the weekend. police believe these attacks were random and dangerous. >> this is no prank to this young mother. in the middle of the night a rock crashed through the window of her baby daughter's bedroom, narrowly missing the crib and embedding into the wall about 20 feet from the window. luckily they weren't home at the time. >> this went almost went through laundry room wall and covered glass all over my daughter's room, she's really young. and her crib just had a blinkit of glass in it police believe this is just one example of what happened at nine locations where vandals used some kind of launcher to propel the rocks into homes, mailboxes and cars. and windows and there are so many barriers. dual payne windows going 20 feet into a wall, and going at that speed they're

some hitting mailboxes in maryland. if you get one, you shouldn't just blindly write a check. >> ask them to provide proof that you owe the debt and you want to make sure you are paying for other additional fees. >> reporter: that's happened in the past. several months ago the collection company was hit with a court order forcing them to stop adding fees to the debt and stop reporting people who didn't pay to the credit bureaus. >> the government is making sure no credit ratings are damaged by the action of the third party vendor. >> reporter: going forward , the collection agency can't tack on its own fees and play tough guy as it works for hollywood video. that's a role left on the cutting room floor. >>> if you have questions, contact the attorneygeneral's office, go to abc2news.com, up top, finds the money tab. scam alerts will take you to the page and there we will have this story posted later with tips to get around scammers trying to get their hands on your money. >>> after weeks of unseasonably warm weather, bit

credit card offers in your mailbox. ms.s one a week and each week she makes sure they go in here. >> i shred it and i know it's been disposed of. >> that way thieves can't possibly get a hold of one and try to obtain a credit card in her name, except now she can't be sure of that. >> i just noticed that the name and address on the application wasn't me. >> marlene received the citibank credit card offer with they're -- their name and address on the envelope, but inside the flicks was preprinted with the name and address of a complete stranger, someone named belle. it said that woman's name and address would appear on her new credit card. now marlene is worried. if she has belle's application, who has hers? >> since mine went to someone else presumably, i have no idea what they did with it, whether they shredded it, tossed it out or were trying to do something nepharious with it. >> once more it lets customers change the address on the account, which marlene found even more scary. >> someone could try to get a credit card se

credit card offers in your mailbox.week and each week she makes sure they go in here. >> i shred it and i know it's been disposed of. >> that way thieves can't possibly get a hold of one and try to obtain a credit card in her name, except now she can't be sure of that. >> i just noticed that the name and address on the application wasn't me. >> marlene received the citibank credit card offer with they're name and address on the envelope, but inside the application was preprinted with the name and address of a complete stranger. someone named belle. it said that woman's name and address would appear on her new credit card. now marlene is worried. if she has belle's application, who has hers? >> since mine went to someone else presume establishes i have no idea what they did with it, whether they shredded it, tossed it out or were trying to do something they have fairious with it. >> once more it lets customers change the address on the account, which marlene found even more scary. >> someone could try to get a credit car

it's a white suv or station wagon that drove by just after a rock sailed into a mailbox. >> i hope they get caught and get what they deserve. because i hope i never come across them this, is my daughter this, is my house. i'm not going to have that. >> and at this point police believe these are random attacks. the woman did not think this was an innocent prank, police are asking anyone with information to contact livermore police. and you can also find it on our web site. abc 7 news. >> and a distress call reported to boats koliting was a hoax. the coast guard receive that had call at 11:00. the caller said his boat was sempking. coast guard responded and after spending night and morning searching this area, couldn't find anything and later determined it was a hoax. under law, any person making a false distress call is liable for all search costs as well as jail time of up to six years. >> a northern california woman is among the survivors of yesterday's deadly aftera lampblg near a washington state ski resort. and april air bag kept her from being buried in the snow. it inflates and gi

someone opened her mailbox, stolen a $500 check made out to her, then endorsed to it someone else, her bank assumed it was wendy that endorsed this check. >> first signature on the back is not mine. waits -- a forged signature paid to the order of a gentleman. >> it was a refund from bank of america for an overpayment to the credit card. bank of america told her she'd need to file a fraud report. >> really scary. i went down, got a p.o.box. so now mail goes to p.o.box autos mail theft is a federal offense. it's punishable with up to five year in prison, $250,000 in mine fines. reward for aest rf a mail thief is $10,000. once a thief gets a hold of a check they can mover quickly. >> doesn't take that much. just chemicals. they change amount and who it's going to. the same thing for counterfeiting. just a few pieces of technology and you're able to do counterfeiting. >> wendy says it took four months after filing to tell her there was nothing it could do. >> i wasn't going to take that for an answer. i had been working and falling -- calling them three four times per week, getting no wrc

livermore police are looking for a group of people they say are launching large rocks at homes, cars and mailboxes. so far all the attacks happened in a neighborhood off of south bassco road. lauren returned home to see a hole in the window of her daughter's nursery. a rock punched a hole in her wall and she said if the little girl had not been at her grandparent's house the outcome would have been devastating. >> she would have died, it came in 100 plus miles per hour. >> this is surveillance video from another of the homes a beinged. this white car could be involved in the vandalism. extra patrols are being blamed for that area. they do hope to include it before the next rock hits a person. >>> and on out bail after being arrested for driving under the influence and leaving his young son at the scene. he sideswiped a car in the early morning in oak dale. one of the airbags deployed. they were end hadding a child out of the car when white suddenly ran off. he was held down until police arrived and there is pressure for white to resign. >>> well it could soon be on people's dinner plates, methadon

whoever is responsible used rocks to smash windows and mailboxes. some sort of device is being used to launch the rocks. one victim says she was stunned by what she saw in her daughter's nursery. >> pretty scary. the crib had glass all over it. and she wasn't home. thank you gad. >> there is -- thank god. >>> rickrick santorum is -- rick santorum is in hot water tonight. john fowler joins us live with the quote that sparked controversy. >> reporter: prenatal testing is the standard of care but rick santorum now says insurers should not be forced to provide it. >> reporter: every parent we spoke to felt the same way. >> one of the great advances is prenatal testing. >> reporter: she learned her six-year-old son had a genetic disorder. >> prepared me as a mother for the conditions, what i needed to provide for my child and what i needed to do. >> reporter: amniocenteses is most often done when there is genetic risk. >> prenatal testing, amniocenteses does result more often than not in this country in abortion. that is a fact. >> reporter: doctors say

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. >> the mailbox is inappropriate for the window and then the carriage lamps are also out of character. >> and then the numbers out of it. >> is there a way to conceal that gas meter? >> you could put it behind something, put it inside the house with a glass partner where the meter itself is. >> here is another brand new building with no gas meter. these guys have figured it out. >> unless they have no heating. >> right, no gas. no heat. i wish i remembered the street name, except for the light over the garage, which is totally out of scale. >> too high. >> and too little. it's really quite beautiful. the narrowest building in san francisco, 9'11.75", does somebody remember? >> i was sitting there and then watching somebody buy this piece--this tiny strip of land and then this came about. >> it's actually an interesting building. there is no other way other than putting a giant steel frame in. >> once you have stairs into had a 9' building, 8 feet inside and still have room? >> maybe we can do a special session. >> question on that? is there a lot size? >> the lot size is, i guess, ten

we've placed a news reporter inside a mailbox with the news a celebrity they love is dying.tch what happens when they try to mail a letter. (laughter) actually, the whitney houston coverage was pretty much the only news i saw over the break. i tried to keep away from the politics news. besides, nothing that was really happening but another string of primary victories for old front-runner mittington romney. >> huge night for rick santorum. >> a clean sweep across the board for rick santorum. >> republican presidential candidate took home a huge win in all three state, missouri, minnesota, and colorado. >> jon: what the hell? (laughter) america, i leave you alone for one week. (laughter) one week! i expect you tow go a little crazy, maybe have a party, invite mexico over, draw a penis on canada's head while it's sleeping. (laughter) maybe grab a camera crew, walk around informing individuals someone they love died. but making this guy the front-runner? oh, man! now we're going to start fighting about religion and public policy again, aren't we? all right. >> last month, the ob

she counts the 10 sign posts. 5 stop signs and 2 mailboxes to our destination. she moves her lips as if remembering. before i came here, i had a name. 4 palm trees faced us when we landed loomed like guardians to pass the golden gate we tell them what they wanted to hear. on this island of desperate dreams we shed our skins and wore new once. we burned our parents name and let our past curl into smoke. no longer my father's daughter. no longer my husband's wife. only the sea gulls know who i really am. for months we were held in separate rooms the dampness went through the bunks and gnawed our bones the wales of ghosts kept us awake. 32 steps to my father's house. 4 windows facing north. 24 steps to my uncle's house, 2 doors facing south. i have 3 sisters, 2 brothers, 4 cousins on my father's side. now i store the memory in a drawer along with bitter herbs and rhinoceros horns we dine at restaurants on the better side of towns with pink table cloths and real flowers in the vases. we hardly go to china town. before i came here, i held his hand. now my heart is a

police are searching for vandals who used a launching device to hurl big rocks at homes, cars and mailboxes, nine incidents were reported. all the attacks happened saturday between the hours of 1 and 2:00 in the morning in one case a rock ended up in a wall next to a child's crib, fortunately, nobody was injured. police released a picture of a car leaving a scene of a vandalized home. if you have seen the car you are asked to call the livermore police. with we have their number on our website under see it on tv. >>> federal and local authorities are trying to determine what lead to a midair collision near the contra costa county border. luckily the pilots suffered no serious injuries. this happened after 7:00 last night a helicopter and plane collided in the air above the rio vista airport. the helicopter landed hard in a field near sherman island. the pilot of the plane attempted to make it to the airport and crashed short of the runway. both pilots walked way from the crash. >>> in san jose investigators trying figure out what caused a fire that heavily damaged a tattoo parlor this mornin

they plan to have mailboxes at the corner that will add two further congestion. wisconsin street is the only street in the surrounding neighborhood that will be impacted this way. i do not understand why it has to take the brunt of this development. at the very least, there should be a step down for the new units that will be on wisconsin street. the current plan only takes into consideration typography but in the area and does not seem to consider the houses on the street or on the ups -- of hillside. [tone] does that mean that i have to leave? i will tell you one quick thing. we expect proper transportation, adequate parking, true mixed income housing, increase safety -- supervisor cohen: thank you. that was a lot of extra things. >> she cover almost everything. i am currently the president of park view heights, the mayor's office of housing for low to middle income, built in 1984 with 180 homes. it is now low, middle, and market rate. it has been true mix of san francisco, ethnically, socially, economically. it worked fantastically. i was thinking of this more

when i put a piece in the mailbox, it may get there in two days, three days, maybe even five days. when you begin to do that you're at the start of a debt spiral for the post office. [ applause ] because who is going to use the post office if the strongest attribute of speedy delivery no longer exists? now one of the things we have worked on is i had a very strong fear that what the post office wanted to do is ramrod the cuts before the post office could act. it doesn't matter if they don't have the time to dole with the comprehensive legislation. we agreed to a five-month moratorium on cuts. the importance on that is when we return to washington in january, at the end of january, one of the first orders of business in the senate will be comprehensive postal reform. . what is disappointing about the postal presentation, i really have a hard time understanding you, it is absolutely true. first class mail service is out. but one of the great financial problems facing the post office in addition to the decline in first class mail, in addition to the recession is the absolutely unfair

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police are searching for vandals who used a launching device to hurl big rocks at homes, cars and mailboxes, nine incidents were reported. all the attacks happened saturday between the hours of 1 and 2:00 in the morning in one case a rock ended up in a wall next to a child's crib, fortunately, nobody was injured. police released a picture of a car leaving a scene of a vandalized home. if you have seen the car you are asked to call the livermore police. with we have their number on our website under see it on tv. >>> federal and local authorities are trying to determine what lead to a midair collision near the contra costa county border. luckily the pilots suffered no serious injuries. this happened after 7:00 last night a helicopter and plane collided in the air above the rio vista airport. the helicopter landed hard in a field near sherman island. the pilot of the plane attempted to make it to the airport and crashed short of the runway. both pilots walked way from the crash. >>> in san jose investigators trying figure out what caused a fire that heavily damaged a tattoo parlor this mornin

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>> it probably -- how do they know there is not like a car under there or mailbox or a -- >> they trustedt. >> i have no idea where that went. >> so there you go. two guys jumping off the roof. >> what else are you going to do, right, when you are buried under all the snow? i've had enough of this snow. foiled again. >> i have some footage from the coast guard. this is off the coast of maine more specifically. kennebunkport, maine. looking at this boat. it's a fishing boat called plan b, and if you notice it's listing a little bit to the right. now, about 7:30 in the morning this ship sent out a distress signal. it was taking on water. they had evidently had a ruptured pipe, so the two crew members sent out a distress signal, but oddly, before the coast guard got there, another ship, the cameras lee, turned the distressed call and they came and got the two fishermen off of this ship before the coast guard ever came close, so as this video picks up, the ship has nobody aboard, and watch what happens. this is a completely different view of a ship taking water at sea. >> the water is bubblin

. >>> five teenage boys have been arrested for throwing rocks at homes, cars and mailboxes in livermore. they face vandalism charges. police say the boys admitted to throwing the rocks from a car driving at high speed last saturday. in one instance, a large rock went through a house and hit a wall next to a child's crib. no one was hurt in any of the incidents. >>> 27,000 vehicles on the road could be at risk. and today, good year announced a tire recall. the recall covers roughly 40,000 tires designed for trucks, vans, and suvs. the company says the tread on six versions of its wrangler silent armored tires can separate and potentially cause accidents. free replacement of the defective tires will begin before march 22nd. >>> working for the boys of summer in the minor leagues. where hundreds turned out for about 80 summer jobs. . >>> and we went from spring-like temperatures back to winter today. temperatures will dip even more later on tonight. plus, we have a couple storm systems heading our way. we're timing out the rain showers for you, right after the break. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, tonig

officers arrested five teenage boys accused of hurling river rocks at homes, cars and mailboxes in livermore. police say the boys admitted to throwing the rocks from a car driving at a high speed last saturday. in one instance, a large rock hit a wall next to a child's crib. no one was hurt in any of the incidents. >>> your wallet and what you're shelling out for gas has become fuel for presidential candidates. republicans blame the president. the president says there's no immediate solution, and still, we're using less and paying more. don knapp explains why. >> reporter: gas prices are climbing daily, and nobody likes it. >> i buy gas all over the bay area, so we try to shop all we can. >> reporter: what's behind it? after all, u.s. demand is down. every week for the last 48 weeks, according to the associated press, demand has dropped. it's now 5.7% below last year at this time, yet prices are up. >> i've been price shopping gas for days and i forgot to get it this morning, so now i'm stuck getting it here. >> reporter: republicans, sensing an advantage, blame the obama administration. >>

does each tenant in the building get a notice in their mailbox or how does that work? >> good question. there are two for processes. the various process is owners within 300 feet. we get the owner information from the assessor's office. it goes to their proper mailing address. for the section 312 notice, it goes to owners within 150 feet as well as occupants. four occupants, it says occupant and has the apartment number or whatever it may be. vice president hwang: so each unit would get its own notification. when did that one go out? >> that was for the full month of march. >> mr. duffy of. -- mr. duffy. >> i would like to echo mr. sanchez regarding the commissioner goh's departure. congratulations. on this case, i looked at it today. dba would not have done any notifications whenever the permit was issued because it was not determined to be a structural addition to the building nor a demolition or a new construction. in section 106 of the building code, there are times we do it posting when the permit is issued or renewed -- or we notify neighbors of the adjacent prop

also on maybe your mailboxes out there. all in all it's a event that is over but we will start to see some more snow moving into the picture. the satellite and radar not having it for today though. we're mainly dealing with clear skies now, lots of sunshine as we go into the afternoon. we are going to have some snow moving in here as we go into the weekend. i'm going to detail that, when it moves in and how the temperatures are really going to drop. >>> let's check traffic with angela. we have the ice and patchy fog still. >> still got patchy fog in areas reported. also be prepared for black ice as you head out. you could run into that as well. the big story now, a couple incidents on major roadways. southbound 895 approaching the harbor tunnel, accident there. on the beltway, not looking bad at the bw parkway but once you get to the west side, that is where things are going to be pretty dicey for you, passing liberty road here. plenty of brake lights and backup that opens up after you get to frederick road. that's where th

houses, cars, even mailboxes were targeted this weekend on arlene way,terl way, felicia way and almond avenue. police say this picture take friend a home surveillance camera shows that getaway car, the vandals drove in one of the incidents. it is a light colored suv or station wagon. >>> this morning a goose is being blamed for sparking a small fire after flying into a power line. the goose is being treated for burns at the marin county humane society after being found injured near the airport in the mira monte marina. they rescued the bird after trudging on foot to put out the flames. >>> christina loren here to tell us about presidents' day and the look ahead. it's going to be pretty nice. >> yeah, it's cool and cloudy out there now. but we have a major warm-up on the way. temperatures touching on the low 80s in -- i said it -- low 80s in some cities as we hit thursday. it's still winter but we're going to warm up. 55 in livermore. 59 in sunny vail. we're not going to warm up much more with limited sunshine out there. but it become sunny mostly by 4:00 p.m. tonight, clear conditions,

the thing, the very poor have entered into a deal where they said if i can go to my mailbox twice a month get paid the sament amount i would get paid at a low paying job i'm not going to take it. in return you can have my vote, but give me some political cover. here this this country, think about it. we don't criticize the people that suck up the lions share of government service, government aid, police department service, fire department services, we're crucifying the people that pay the lion's share of taxes and worked out great from that particular point, but the problem, we have generational poverty in this country shouldn't exist. >> neil: dagen. >> i think there's so much focus on those in the middle class, and half of this country pays no federal income taxes net and those people are not paying for our defense. and that raises a very, very tough issues about spreading it out and broadening the base, as they say and that's something that politicians don't want to talk about. if you talk about lower, lower income americans, and the poor, in this country. and that should be the focus.

they left a trail of damaging debris behind breaking windows, walls, mailboxes. what they didn't count on? surveillance video. witnesses recognized the suburu seen here and tipped off police. the teenagers say they are sorry for their actions. >>> check this out. you're looking at six pounds of marijuana that will never make it to bay-area streets. the coast guard seized the pot from a sailboat in the strait last night. we're told the witness noticed the vessel sailing erratically and reported it. a 53-year-old man is in custody. >> san francisco sheriff is back in court on monday. but, tonight, we have those controversial images at the center of the domestic abuse allegations against him. nbc bay area news obatained thee still videos. you can see the bruise there on her right arm. now, today was day one of this high-profile trial. the attorneys are asking that the video be thrown out. the video shows her bruise and shows her crying. lopez has publicly denounced the case against her husband. >> first it was the cops, now it's the firefighters. several cities are

one is virtual mailboxes. a lot of ideas that the postal service needs to consider. it makes sense. when they do those things, we can't just get in the way. there is an ad campaign with home depot. you can do it. we can help. we have a good idea of what needs to be done. we need to able to help. the last thing i want to say is this. we have tried, the four of us, working on this with our staffs. all of you have tried to abide by the golden rule. how would we want to be treated if we are the business customers? how do we want to be treated as residential customers? how would we want to be treated if we worked for the postal service? we tried to keep that in mind. i think we have -- can this bill be improved? sure it can. it will be improved in the next couple of hours. everything i do, i know i can do better. that is true for the legislation. as we move this markup and move to the floor, we need to make sure at the end of the day and end of the year, we haven't just kicked the can down the road for the postal service. we have given them the tools to solve a problem and restore the co

we got outside our room and different -- all the other people had some paperwork in their mailbox and my husband happened to ask our state room attendant, what is going on? why do they have the paper why do we don't? and she said because it's a nonstop cruise and so for the people other room, it's their last day and they're disembarking in savannah, but since you

letter-sized mail, is never really touched by human hands until the letter carrier puts it in the mailbox. our productivity has increased dramatically since 2000. in fact, we deliver roughly the same amount of volume we delivered in 1992 with about 170,000 fewer employees. the result of cultivating the mindset of a postal service that records profits and losses, operates efficiently, like a business, and competes for customers, we've got to go much farther down that path. if we do so, i'm convinced that the postal service can have a very bright future. we can continue to provide the nation with secure, reliable, affordable delivery platform. we can be profitable and be self-sustaining. we can continue to innovate and change to meet the mailing and shipping needs of the american public for generations to come. we can also be thought of differently as a successful business enterprise that performs a vital national function. it will only happen if congress develops a single, simple, straight-forward piece of legislation that provides key areas of flexibility -- the ability to determine our o