the leader was a short scruffy guy, a habitual small-time criminal named manson. charles manson.he cops, to their surprise, discovered manson and several of his followers were already in custody. not for murder, but for car theft. >> manson was a life-long criminal who never could go more than a day or two of his free life without breaking some law. >> and the people with him young, mostly women, were barely more than half his age. >> they're easily influenced. they came from broken homes or they were bullied at school, they didn't fit in. and he was able to tap into all of that. ♪ >> police began to interview these women. one was 18-year-old barbara hoyt, who spoke about life inside the family and what attracted her to charles manson. >> he was very loving. he was very much a father figure. >> how did it make you feel when he was nice to you like that? >> made me feel special. felt like we were all fingers on one hand, like we were the digits and charlie was the hand. >> police spoke with other manson women, too. and learned that in the fall of '67, manson moved to los angeles,

times next morning, "manson guilty nixon declares." manson got ahold of the paper. stands up in front of the jury with a silly little smile on his face and he shows the jury the headline. >> a tight ring of security surrounds the hall of justice today as the manson jury deliberates. meanwhile, members of the manson clan continue their vigil outside of the hall of justice. they have been there since the start of the trial. >> if charlie were convicted of these charges, what happens to the rest of the members of the family? >> there's no if. charlie will get out. all of the people in jail will get out and we'll all go to the desert together. >> the jury hearing the charges against charles manson and three girl members of his so-called family brought in its verdict this afternoon. >> outside the court, manson's girl followers got the news by radio. >> they have convicted these people and you are next. all of you. there's a revolution coming very soon. >> today the judge formally passed sentence on charles manson and his girls. the death penalty he said for seven sensel

she is an accomplice of cult killer charles manson.elped kill 7 people and has been denied parole 13 times already. >>> san francisco police looking for the robbers who attacked a man and stole a briefcase containing about $400,000 in gold and diamonds. the 17-year-old man was delivering the jewels to a market in soma yesterday when the suspects punched him and stole the case. >>> two million people expected to pack times square in new york city to welcome in the new year. 65 garbage trucks filled with sand will be parked in the area. that's of course in response to recent attacks in germany and france where trucks were used to plow through crowds. >>> i'm maria medina live in san francisco. on the embarcadero, tomorrow thousands will be celebrating new year's eve but police have a warning for you. do not drink and drive. now, this is video from last year's celebration. this year, police say they are going to have dozens of officers on the embarcadero ahead of the midnight fireworks show. they are also going to be focusing their effort

that information reportedly involves allegations that patricia kernwinkle was abused by charles mansonshe was accused of killing with manson. >> bail denied for convicted killer and podcast serial a judge refusing to release saeed. he has been in jail for 17 years serving a life sentence for a murder he claims he didn't commit. earlier this year judge ordered a retrial after finding he didn't get a fair one back in 2000. adn >> thousands recalled because their seats are a safety hazard. >> cheryl, what can you tell us? >> this is the honda odyssey. the recall is affecting 64,000 vehicles. i want too start with there are no injuries reported but the second row of seats in the vehicle can shift unexpectedly. that can be a problem if there's an accident. this is out of abundance of caution. no injuries reported. 2011 to 2015 models affected. >>> up next, amazon, they have unveiled this drone delivery. >> they filed a patent. a analyst discovered it. take a look at this. you see the flip. it is a blip. it will contain all of the drones and they would be delivering things down to the ground

california supreme court weighs in on the case of a charles manson follower. plus, the prime suspect in the berlin terror attack, tanasian refugee, igniting the fire storm over germany liberal immigration policies. we will take an in-depth look at the political backlash there next. jon: right now new infoi -- info in crime. truck was found on tuesday. to california now where jurors recommended a death sentence for steven gordon, sex offender convicted of kidnapping and murdering children. many happened while wearing gps device for prior offenses. charles manson follower, a hearing in the parole case after jerry brown overturned parole board. she was sentenced to life in prisons back in 1969. jenna: breaking now in the investigation in the deadly berlin terror attack and the international manhunt for the tanasian suspect. berlin christmas market attack and the likely political backlash where he addressed angela merkel's open-door immigration policies writing this. good intentions are not in and of itself sufficient in politics specially in parilis times such as

she was the youngest follower of charles manson, she is now 66 years old, she was convicted in the killings of two people but she did not take part in the murders of actress sharon tate and four others. >>> three law enforcement agencies investigating a deadly shooting from stockton last night. a deputy opened fire on a man who was carrying a knife. >> this woman heard the shots fired after a deputy shot a man who had a knife. she does not want tshow her face because she is afraid. >> four gunshots. they said don't go outside. >> the sheriff's department said they got a call about a man with a knife on waterloo road around 6:30 last night, the man was shot shortly after deputies arrived. the shooting happened over here, a man had a knife in his hand and the deputy opened fire after he was threatened.>> we heard maybe four or five gunshots. but we didn't see nothing a couple minutes later we heard sirens and ambulances. >> the suspect later died in hospital. streets were blocked off as the district attorney office, sheriff's department and doj investigated. people who live and work in the ar

. >>> a former charles manson follower and convicted killer is seeking parole. 69-year-old is the longest female inmate in the state of california. she's already been denied parole 13 times since being convicted in the 1969 slayings of sharon tate and six others. parole officials postponed a decision after her attorney made new claims she may have possibly been the victim of abuse by manson. a source with knowledge of the case tells "the los angeles times" the claim was akin to battered spouse syndrome, which has been used by a legal defense for women charged with killing their husbands. >>> let's turn to business now where e-commerce giant amazon has been granted a patent for what can be described as a flying warehouse for drone deliveries. nancy hungerford joins us from london. okay, you have my attention. amazon already has prime, its prime now memberships which guarantees deliveries from two days to as little as two hours, but the company is now saying drone deliveries with a new warehouse patent could cut delivery time down to minutes? >> that's right, chris. they want to get these p

. >> dean has written a letter to charles manson in hopes of starting a friendship. >> i, unlike most people, are not disturbed by people in your type of situations. i think you're one hell of a person to manipulate the minds of so many. that's like a god to me. i know what he did is a crappy thing, but anyone who can do stuff like that, you have to be a different kind of person. >> have you ever thought of the victims in any of these cases? >> no. so i'll keep this short and sweet. just let you know there's someone on your side and still thinking of you. i'm in a county right now, in a crappy bull [ bleep ] situation but i'll be out soon and i hope to keep in touch. >> think charles manson is going to write you back? >> i would hope so. probably not. you never know. stranger things have happened. hopefully he will write back. it will make my life. >> jason flores is fighting for his life or at least to get a decade off his 25-year prison sentence for home invasion robbery and attempted murder. he is due in court in less than 24 hours. >> i mean, yeah, i'm a little anxious, but i'm no

they say they've been unable to prevent high-security inmates like charles manson from repeatedly getting cell phones. >>> just in time for the holiday , gas prices are going up. according to the latest survey of gas prices the average price at the pump has gone up six cents every the last two weeks to $2.26 a gallon here in california the average is higher at two dollars and 66 a gallon. the hike is due to an agreement with major oil-producing companies 2/output. a look at prices. serpico drivers take an average of 281 a gallon and in san jose and oakland it's causing $2.67 a gallon. >>> merriam-webster released their word of the year and many say it perfectly sums up 2016, the work is surreal. the means reality of a dream or unbelievable. the words real comes after several big news stories including the attacks in brussels and france and so much more. it also says there's an increase in lookups in november when donald trump was elected president. surreal joins oxfords post- truth and dictionary.com, xenophobia as words of the year. >>> 4:47 am, let's check in for a check on traffic. i t

officials say they have been unable to prevent high-security inmates like charles manson from repeatedly getting a hold of those devices. >>> now to the trump transition. the former head of the clinton campaign would use the strongest word yet in linking the trump campaign with russian operatives who allegedly hacked dmc e-mails, interfering with the presidential election. >> i think really not what mr. trump would do, but what he would eat. was he in touch with russia? those are open questions. the electors have the right to know what the answers are. if the u.s. government has those answers before the election. >> now a bipartisan group of senators are urging mitch mcconnell to create a new cyber attack committee to investigate the cia findings of russia interference. elizabeth fran has more from washington. >> reporter: four senators are calling for a bipartisan panel to investigate russia and other foreign countries after the fbi and cia claimed russian hackers intervened in the 2016 campaign. speaking out for the first time since the election loss. saying in part, "the russian inter

it is a fictional fictional re-creation of the manson murders although what i found most interesting about it was the exploration of adolescent female psychology. >> why do you avoid reading contemporary fiction when writing on a book? >> i am always afraid -- i'm a bit of a mimic and always afraid i will inadvertently steal something. >> if you read tolstoy it is okay? >> if i steal something from tolstoy, i am going to be happy with that result. especially the beginning and end of the novel writing process i tend to switch gears to nonfiction which is not my usual diet. >> on your long trip to miami -- >> a lot of time to read in traffic. i was terrified by what the panel was. and immerse myself in crap, and always afraid, reading marcel proust, not sure how to say proust. and discovered him late, charles portis, was true grit, i am sad because he only wrote five books, the masters of atlantis, dog of the south, and one of the funniest writers i ever read, he is still alive, not doing well but he is the most deadpan humor writer i ever read, and never know when he is being funny an

it is a fictional fictional re-creation of the manson murders although what i found most interesting about it was the exploration of adolescent female psychology. >> why do you avoid reading contemporary fiction when writing on a book? >> i am always afraid -- i'm a bit of a mimic and always afraid i will inadvertently steal something. >> if you read tolstoy it is okay? >> if i steal something from tolstoy, i am going to be happy with that result. especially the beginning and end of the novel writing process i tend to switch gears to nonfiction which is not my usual diet. >> on your long trip to miami -- >> a lot of time to read in traffic. i was terrified by what the panel was. and immerse myself in crap, and always afraid, reading marcel proust, not sure how to say proust. and discovered him late, charles portis, was true grit, i am sad because he only wrote five books, the masters of atlantis, dog of the south, and one of the funniest writers i ever read, he is still alive, not doing well but he is the most deadpan humor writer i ever read, and never know when he is being funny an

. >> and marilyn manson. >> his back is -- his act is getting old.an only take him in short bursts. >> being the devil does p age well: the devil has a potbelly? >> kid rock could rock it out. >> the oak ridge boys will be there. how many republican conventions have we heard? every single one. >> those republicans always get pat boone. he is always involved with the republicans. they bring him out to sing god and america and the pie. >> he is still watching the show and he can hear everything with his magic ear. >> maybe that's why he is talking to mitt romney. >> moving on, on saturday -- i don't know what you are laughing at. a pastor named david grisham headed to a mall to spread the spirit of christmas to some young children. >> my name is pastor david and i want to tell that you there is no such thing as santa claus. santa claus does not exist. >> the man you are going to see today is a man in a suit dressed like santa, but santa does not exist. >> there are no flying reindeer and there is no workshop at the north pole. there are no elves making

they had the dive bombers and and the manson horizontal bombers that we couldn't reach. i saw the nevada get hit and the west virginia get hit. after the oklahoma capsize. we had the fireball. somewhere.g to get we were burning alive. , the the initial explosion decks were so hot you couldn't touch them or lean them. . you were just tried to get someplace. andere caught off guard somehow we survived just trying to still keep surviving. >> my battle station was changed from the distribution room to the active repair party which was what saved my life because of i been in the distribution gang i would still be there. chief petty officer came running down and said the japanese are attacking. man u battle stations. . for a minute we froze. we ran to our battle stations and mine was about four decks down by the number three gun and also the radioshack. the first man there was supposed to get the headset on and make contact with the engine room, that is our control center. i did that but i could not raise anybody. so i stood there with the headset on for a few minutes and whet

maximum security prison that has housed some of the nation's most infamous criminals including charles manson and the founder of the mexican mafia. despite its reputation, violence doesn't come naturally to everyone at corcoran. >> i don't see myself as being like many of the people here. what i saw the longer i was here is there really is a thin line between them and me. >> before he was an inmate, stefan parro was a librarian. >> i'm here basically because i'm an alcoholic and i've done a lot of drugs, too. drugs are part of my story. >> parro's drug use resulted in a six-year sentence for crimes including burglary. >> at that time i had been married not very long. my wife was pregnant. the fact i couldn't stop drinking and i couldn't stop using, it was difficult to deal with the shame and guilt of all that. >> parro and his wife eventually separated, but he landed in prison for breaking into her home and stealing her credit cards to pay for drugs. >> i readily admitted to it. that was one of the problems in my defense. i had no defense. i said, yeah, i did go in and take the credit cards.

. >>> a manson follower will have to wait awhile longer to see if she is granted parole.wo-member panel postponed it on thursday saying they heard information that requires more investigation. the 69-year-old has served 47 years in prison for her role in the murder of actress sharon tate and others in 1972. >>> honda is recalling more than 600,000 odysseys because second row seats could move unexpectedly. they have a lever that moves the seat forward to allow access to the third row seat, and if left in an unlocked position could allow the second row seats to move on their own. the recall involves model years from 2011 to 2016. >>> the nikkei index inched lower on the final trading day of the year, but managed to finish the year with a small gain. .40 of one percent. i'm patricia stark and now back to "red eye." for all of your headlines log on to foxnews.com. >> with me now is the gavin mcinnes show. gavin, we have some stories. they want teenagers to stop having illegal sleep overs in their stores. there have been 10 incidents across the globe of what they call nonspons

. >> mass murderer charles manson set to wed behind bars to a 26-year-old woman. >> eric's wife beganorrespondence with him after watching the first trial on television. >> scott peterson convicted of killing his pregnant wife has received hundreds of letters from women while sitting on death row in california. >> to go behind the wall and look beyond the cliches and you might find a love story as genuine as it is unconventional. >> i have never believed in love at first sight, but it was love at first sight. i think my purpose in this life is to be with her. >> at the pendleton correctional facility, a maximum security prison in central indiana, 48-year-old jerome is nearly a decade into his sentence, serving time for burglary. >> is this your cell in the corner? >> this is where i'm at. >> and yearning for his long-time love, taquita. >> look at all the photos. >> oh, yeah. this is what i look at daily. it gives me joy to look at her face. >> she is a wonderful woman. does it ever make you sad to look at these photos? >> no. this is where i receive my joy. when i'm having a sad day,

officials say they've been unable to prevent even high security inmates like charles manson from repeatedlyng ahold of the devices. >>> still ahead, the oakland raiders now headed for the playoffs for the first time in 14 years. after the break, our sports anchor, jason applebalm will be here. he wants to talk about the big win and what it means going forward. >>> one thing we know for sure, we are on our way. we just punched our ticket to the playoffs, baby. [ cheers and applause ]. >> get you excited just listening to that. long playoff drought for the 49ers is over. >> the chargers clenched their first playoff birth in 14 years. joining us to talk about the big win, our sports anchor, jason. >> derek carr, their pro bowl quarterback, 11 years old the last time the raiders made the playoffs. it was kind of fitting they clenched on the same field they last played in the playoff game, super bowl back in 2002. so raider fans have waited a long time for this, and well deserved trip to the playoffs at least a wild card game, but they have their sights set on much more. just a huge turnout of r

. >> a parole hearing was held for an police of charles manson involved in the killing of sharon tate and six other people in '69. she is 69 years old arched been denied -- and been denied parole 13 times. at her last parole hearing, twinwinkle says she is a changed woman and earned a bachelor's degree, taught reading to illiterate inmates and trained service dogs for disabled people. >> an uber driver is being hailed as saving a young girl from sex trafficking. an older woman seemed to be coaching a young girl who wasscantily dressed on how to prostitute herself. >> she had on a really short skirt so you could see all her legs. it struck me as odd because she was so young and she was dressing like that. >> after he dropped the women off, avila called police. as a result, investigators investigated and -- officers investigated and arrested two women. >> they are trying to identifyremains. they don't know how old they are or how long they've been. >> the picturesque beauty of big oak flat tainted by a grisly find. >> i can't believe somebody found a body in a mine shaft. >> police were

simpson, robert downey jr., and serial killers like charles manson all have chain walked through theseoors. but whether you're a vip offender or a petty thief, you enter l.a.'s custody system the same way. through the inmate reception center, or irc. >> you guys ready? let's run it. >> it's 6:00 p.m., and deputy teixeira's shift is just getting started. >> bend over, touch your toes. while you're down there, peel off your socks, turn it inside out slowly. three, two, one. place your hands on the lower window ledge. do not touch the glass. >> tonight he and his fellow deputies will search about 400 incoming inmates for drugs or weapons. >> all right. spread your feet a little for me. >> a lot of them, they've been through the system before, so they know what's up. >> your left shoulder on the wall. go. >> others, it's the first time they've ever seen the inside of a jail. it can be overwhelming for them. we are the first people they're going to see on the worst day of their lives. >> last year alone, the irc had over 100,000 bookings. more than any other jail in the nation. and with arr

officials say they were unable to prevent even high-security inmates like charles manson from getting a hold of those devices. >>> checking in on those freezing, literally freezing temperatures around the bay area. >> yeah, sub-freezing temperatures. in fact it will be scraping the ice off the windshield or the cars tomorrow morning. temperatures are dropping off rapidly. and still they will do it again once again for your monday morning. around the bay in the low to mid-30s. down to the 20s right around 25 to 30 degrees. a cool north wind in place as you can feel it out there and see those cold numbers right now. freezing in santa rosa at 32 degrees for the most recent observation. san jose under a freeze warning that would begin for midnight and san francisco currently checking in at 34 degrees. it is actually clear and beautiful as you can see it's crisp with a live look at our camera towards the san francisco em embarcadero out there. a lot of 20s to talk about. 25 degrees, sonoma in the 20s as well and fairfield down to 26. some more neighborhoods right around the rim of the bay.

brand new information that reportedly involves allegations patricia kren winkle was abused by charles mansonr someone else. she was found guilty of helping manson murder seven people nearly five decades ago. >>> and drexel university is defending its professor who tweeted "all i want for christmas is white genocide." in a statement, the school supports the rights of its faculty members to freely express their opinions calling the professor's tweet protected speech. they protect that, but not other forms i guess. >>> many celebrities have proudly announced they want nothing to do with president-elect trump's swearing in celebrations. something he says he doesn't care about. >> in a recent tweet trump said the so-called a-list celebrities want has -- look what they did for hillary. >> performed for thugs, dictators with literal outrage. author of con job and editor of black chick.com crystal wright. crystal, good morning to you. >> good morning, abby. >> good morning, ed sneemt let's show you a list of celebrities who have declined to perform at the inauguration, elton john, gene simmons, andr

. >> i've seen has been different that how manson madison and hamilton thought -- they really thought you would side with your institution. but in some of the budget fights we had congress passed unified budget for the first time in 15 years, last year, 2015. we started appropriation bills in the house. it got to the senate. harry reid would filibuster the bill brought up. basically no agencies funded. go all the way to the deadline and force some kind of omnibus or continued resolution. what they were doing, you had a minority in the senate siding with the executive branch over a core power. i think we weren't able -- weren't able to figure that one out. that is not, i think, what we should have been doing. they should have been standing with the house to try to reign in the president i think is how it was originally designed. >> i would add -- i'm a madisonian scholar. it's hard for me to say he got anything wrong. the one thing i think he would have been astonished by is the state of the union the congressman was talking about. as a scholar, i was in disbelief the president said be

protect and restore california's 21 historic missions and led the effort in the senate to create the manson-moore national historic site. senator boxer's concerns for the environment hasn't been just a parochial interest. no one -- no one has fought harder to defend and improve our nation's landmark environmental laws such as the clean air act, or the clean water act. she has fought to remove arsenic from drinking wawrkts the air we breathe rng the food we eat are better because of senator boxer p. senator boxer's environmental bonafides are well-known, but she has been sub-verbally effective lerlg on so many other issues. she has championed women. in 1991 she led a group of women members to the judiciary committee to demand that the committee, which was all male and all commit at the time, take anita hill's charges seriously. senator boxer has defended women's reproductive health choices and privacy. she was involved in passing the freedom of access to clinical entrances act and the violence against women's act. she is a senior member of the foreign relations committee where she chairs the first