douglas mcarthur, general of the army, an historic figure in an historic speech before a joint meeting of congress. >> i'm closing my 52 years of military service. when i joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. the world has turned over many times since i took the oath on the plane at west point. >> indeed, much has happened to the world since douglas mcarthur took the oath at west point and in the periods of peace since, he's been a central and dramatic figure. the beginning of an extraordinary career, young douglas with his father, arthur mcarthur, boy colonel of the civil war and veteran of the campaign in the spanish american war. one day when the son was 13 years old, his father is said to have remarked, i think there are the material of a soldier in that boy. a truth that was soon made clear. entering west point he showed extraordinary brilliance in his studies, attaining an average that was the high nest a quarter century and he won the coveted a in athletics as well. he was to lead the american team in the

general mcarthur, number one on my picture cards, wrote his own communiques. his communiques were all false. he never really told anything that happened accurately. he said that they drove off the japanese invasion force which they hadn't. he said that they were able, they were holding manila, and by the time he -- the newspapers got the story that he was holding manila, manila had been evacuated and veppedded to the -- surrendered to the japanese, and mcarthur was in manila bay holed up until he could get out of there. and the her eauism -- heroism of the back, atan peninsula became very prevalent then. and later on mcarthur would name his private plane which he had in australia after he was evacuated there the batan. and he called his own, his own group of cronies who were part of his office taffe the batan gang. he was on batan once for one hour in his whole career. but he was the hero of batan. that's what we faced in the beginning of world war ii at christmas time. and yet christmas went on as if there wasn't with much change. people lit their christmas t

this happened at about 7:00 at the mcarthur bart station and service was disrupted for two hours.ul play is not suspected and the only eyewitness was the train operator. >> usc berkeley operator found rude drivers are more likely to drive more expensive cars. it happened a four way stop in downtown berkeley. they notice the makes, condition of the cars and whether they waited their turns. according to the study, the people driving the most expensive cars were four times more likely to go when it was not their turn or cut off pedestrians. >>> it will go on as planned and america's cup organizers have eliminated a major part of their deal with the city involving some prime waterfront property. they are dropping plans to overhaul two rundown piers near the bay bridge. >> piers 30 and 32 will no longer be leased for this event immediate discussions for development... >> race organizers had planned to spend $45 million to spruce up the piers but the group is dropping those plans due to growing financial risks. they are now scheduled to photo on the final plan with within the next few w

no major problem heading out to the mcarthur maze and let's go back to the desk. >>> one police officer and one suspects are in the hospital after a police shooting in caster valley. it happened near the busy intersection of centre street and grove way. news chopper 2 was the first on the scene. the trouble began when two detectives from berkeley in an unmarked car pulled over the driver of that red mercury. >> we decided to take that person into custody and during that time the police officer was pinned between the unmarked vehicle and the suspect car. >> he was wanted on a warrant and no word on his condition at this time. the police officer who was pinned suffered serious injuries. >>> overnight, underground electrical problems kept pg&e crews very busy. at least two explosionswere reported about an hour and a half apart at 10th and add line. when they got there smoke was reported. power was knocked out to 37 customers. it caused an explosion and that power outage is still under investigation. >>> chuck reid delivers his state of address and tara moriarty has a preview from the mayor

traffic is backed up around the corner of the mcarthur maze and as you can see let's go to alive shot plaza and it does appear traffic is moving through. yesterday looked at -- yesterday we looked at this shot and it appeared to be at a standstill. it does seem to be a little improved. if you notice cars are moving through at least in the fast lanes they are. the other cars are not moving through quite as quickly. let's look at the south bay commute. we are off to a decent start here. there are really not a lot of incidents so if you are a valley computer, take advantage -- computer da come outer -- commuteer take advantage now. >>> you can see a big old ridge of high pressure with high clouds and high clouds in the morning, 40 to 60 on the low, it is really 48 to 62 and most of those high clouds should be out of the picture sunny and breezy by this afternoon. temperatures yesterday, santa rosa was one. 66 in san francisco, 73 concord, 71 san jose, and the wind is already picking up in mt. diablo. the national weather service is issuing a wind advisory tomorrow. that will start thursd

maze and traffic is moving along well as you drive through here all the way out to the mcarthur maze. also the morning commute looks good at the bay bridge toll plaza and just to remind you, they will close the bay bridge in the evening and keep it closed westbound the entire long weekend and they will open at 5:00 a.m. of course we will be all over that story if you ever want an update go to our website or any of our newscasts, i guarantee they will have that story. >>> and getting up to highway 17 no major problems continuing to the valley, at 5:08 let's go to steve. >>> very good morning to you all, it is cold out there although the breeze makes it in the 30s and 40s and 50s and i expect these temperatures to drop off but there is still 30 to 50 miles per hour. breezy and cold out there, fair breezy sunny and warmer a few high clouds drifting over us, i think they will loose ground fizzle out and wash away, 36 at concord, if you have a weather app and you live near concord, it says flurries. for some reason, it gives a problem on observation and that's not the case, it is just col

right now it looks normal despite the rain as you drive out to the mcarthur maze. and to the bay bridge toll plaza, that looks good, there are no major problems on the bridge driving into san francisco and between san francisco and oakland, it is a nice drive. northbound 280, it is fine, getting up to highway 17, it might be a little bit tricky driving through the mountains because of the wet roads. 5:08 let's go to steve. >>> yes, it is good we are getting the rain but we get this southeast wind. san jose is cloudy and some of this is good yes, but you have pockets that will pick up in intensity. we will take a look at this system and we are not going to get the low, we will get the front that is coming through right now and this is a very warm system. it is 59 in livermore and san jose and san jose says cloudy. you can see the dry slot right there and that's what we are dealing with. sometimes in the direction of that wind, some areas around danville, looks like san ramon are getting hit with pockets of rain and then not much at all. it will decrease throughout t

. >> traffic is moving along well in the bay area, as we start up heading to the mcarthur maze. also the commute looks good right in front of the coliseum and if you are driving in san francisco, that is a nice drive approaching the 880 split, let's go to palm. >>> we have some developing news, an art gallery caught fire just about an hour ago and it is located just a few blocks from interstate 880. alex savage is there to see what looked first. >>> nobody was hurt in this fire. it started just a short time ago inside this house that also houses an art gallery. the fire broke out at 3:30 this morning and we should probably explain the video we are showing to you. what appears to be an airplane coming out of that roof is actually a piece of art. he has a sculpture on the property and he believes this started in the storage unit. to be cleave, it was not a plane crash that happened this morning. he and others who live on the property all managed to escape unhurt. >> somebody raping the bell and if you look at the window you can see the plants. so i ran outside and turned on the ga

it happened inside the mcarthur bart station. a spokesperson said foul play was not possible and the only person who witnessed it was a train operator. >>> police say joanna died of blunt force drama after a fight with an 11-year-old girl that lasted less than a minute. she underwent surgery for a blood clot on the brain. they witnessed the fight but they have not made any arrests. >>> and san francisco sheriff sheriff ross mirkarimi, last night he lost a crucial court battle. live with more on what is happening, allie? >> reporter: it is over a 50 second video of sheriff ross mirkarimi's wife, and in this video you can see lopez crying and showing a bruise she received which was recorded by the neighbor, the day after she was allegedly abused. he ruled this video can be used in the trial because even though it was recorded the day after the incident took place lopez seemed sincere distraught and nothing about this was distraught. they wanted to show the jury in the sheriff ross mirkarimi domestic violence trial and his attorney

traffic is moving along well on 880 westbound on the mcarthur maze and some of the road work is in the countercommute direction and it means it will not cause any big slow downs, but of course we will be watching it for you. let's move along and look at the westbound bay bridge, it is just a few days away from the big closures for the upper deck bay bridge. and this morning's commute, that traffic looks good getting up to highway 17. hello there steve ,a very good morning. >>> our breezy cold conditions continue and a weak system is moving into the north, overall we are mostly sunny and still breezy and we are getting 20 to 25 miles per hour. this system will not do much but it will start to move and as it does, it relaxes the pressure and winds will tail off and they are blustery for some of the higher elevations. 40s to 50s and napa airport has 21 miles per hour. so 52, 43 in santa rosa, these temperatures will plummet. low 40s for some. concord is at 38 degrees. so some temperatures cold, the breeze makes it cold, some 30s, 40s and 50s, a weak system don't worry about that, some col

westbound 80 heading out to the mcarthur maze and we did have believe it or not every once in a while some accidents and we had an accident in the non- concord direction. the shoulder lane is blocked. let's move along and take a look at northbound 280 and san jose. that traffic is off to a nice start. it is 4:40 let's go to steve. >>> all right, i like that one. good morning everybody, a lot of cloud cover coming in, mostly cloudy, it does look like rain will make it in tomorrow. probably one and done, we will take everything we can get, some low clouds, a lot of high clouds above, and rerun -- and we runner runs and chores. so far the wind is northerly and it is calm everywhere else. i expect that to turn southerly and that can be a warm pattern especially when you get a system coming up from lower latitudes. so some of that south wind will push some temperatures up into the milder warmer category. i expect that to pick up later on but 60 and 68. 66, concord, san rafael, we will go 63 in oakland. santa cruz gilroy, almost tempted to go 70 and it will still be mild to warm. all in the

la estaciÓn po aquel la calle 24, y coliseo de oakland, concord, este, y el ce wrilt del norte, mcarthuroy a tomar el bar con la otra gente. >>> lo sabe el puente bay bridge estarÁ cerrando en direcciÓn oeste a parte del viernes y abrirÁ el martes a las 5 de la maÑana para mÁs informaciÓn vaya al la direcciÓn en pantalla. >>> gracias ramÓn. >>> el presidente barack obama vino hoy a san francisco para participar en una serie de actividades dirigidas a recaudar fondos para su acompaÑa de reelecciÓn, asistiÓ a un evento hoy al que tambiÉn asistieron como invitados especiales 15 adolescentes que del club de san francisco, decenas de personas aprovecharon la ocasiÓn para manifestarse en contra de las polÍticas del presidente. >>> para protestar en contra de la aseguranza barack obama que quiere nosotros catÓlicoss debemos pagar por anticonceptivos. >>> bueno mÁs temprano el presidente hizo una visita sorpresa a un restaurante del barrio chino, comprÓ comida, saludÓ a la gente y fue muy bien recibido a juzgar por esta foto, mire la mano de la seÑora, para ver la foto galerÍa completa, univisiÓ

there is the wisconsin primary which mcarthur should win and opportunity. he loses it to harold statussen which elevates stassen. he's an outsider, he's a boy wonder. in 1938 he had been elected governor of minnesota, he was the youngest golf of any -- governor of any state ever. then he quits, he's reelected, and he says i'm going to quit and cointo the navy, and he's still so popular he's reelected. imagine being elected with a platform like that. he comes out, he's an internationalist. you've got the debates still going on of internationalism versus isolationism. stassen is on the extreme end of the pri divide at that point. he's feisty, he's a real outsider. he wins in wisconsin, he wins in nebraska, and he's poised to take the front runner status away from thomas e. dewey as the campaign heads into oregon. now, again, know this -- i've only named four states. these were about the only four important primaries there are. most of these things are still being done in party conventions which means in the back room either in places like albany or columbus o

that's the intersection of mcarthur boulevard near adams street in oakland. now, main lines of the nimitz 880 passing by the coliseum looks great. you can see it's a little difficult to see driving conditions out there right now because i guess the mist or rain drizzle on our -- we'll talk more about weather with lawrence coming up. that's our camera right there near the coliseum. so you can better see those headlights making their way southbound towards oakland airport and a quick check of the south bay. 101 roadwork where you see the question mark between capitol expressway and story road, that's picked up. 280 and 101 in san jose run to speed. with more on your weather, let's go to lawrence with that. >> finally some precipitation to talk about. clouds rolling through a weak cold front dying as it moves on by but still, we are seeing some precipitation out there either some drizzle or light showers around the bay area from our san francisco camera. looking out over the bay we can see some showers on the lens there. and it looks like some more of that conti

. >> reporter: we stopped near 73rd and mcarthur where some business owners and other people declinedto talk fearing they could be targeted. >> all you have here to look at is a few guys that have nice cars because they are selling drugs, so there's no role models. >> reporter: this man does security for a tax services office. >> something definitely can be done if all this political stops and we take care of our house. >> we know there's a link to two rival groups in east oakland and west oakland. we need the community to stop forward with information on these acts of violence. >> police acknowledged that the occupy movement has diverted much needed resources, they also released the names and photos of oakland's four most wanted. live in oakland, i'm john sasaki. >>> three people pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the death of a 21-year-old woman from concord. prosecutors say 23-year-old donald waldercer, 17-year-old jonathan heriald and rodney bele was staying with johns when she was killed. a motive for her attack has not been determined. >>> in a few hours, the walnut creek l

a man was struck and killed at the mcarthur station about 7:00 tonight. the decision is under investigation, but no wrong doing is suspected. >>> he's not your average purse snatcher. police are looking for a man who rammed a woman's car and took off with her purse. this is the sketch just released of the attacker. the woman says he rear ended her, then beat her up and stole her purse. the incident happened last sunday. >>> an ex-girlfriend of san francisco sheriff may take the stand against him. the judge presiding over the domestic abuse trial plans to interview the ex. the judge also decided jurors will be allowed to see a video of her recorded 18 hours after being reportedly abused by her husband on new year's eve. >>> a couple were walking to dinner back in august of 2010 when they were caught in the middle of a gun battle between the suspects. she died in her husband's arms. >>> the state capitol is quiet after a clash between protest groups turned violent against police. occupy demonstrators clashed with a white sup remmist group. members of the gr

: this piece of crime scene tape is the only indication saturday night the town square market on mcarthurc. police. the owner, dan ki kim showed here in a 9 news now investigative report was arrested. kim was charged with selling alcohol to a 17-year-old arlington high school student who was using someone else's identification. >> you would have to be some kind of doofus to not see before you someone underage. >> reporter: police officers were surveilling the store last night in part because of a 9 news now investigative series about the town market. it had become a place where high school students could buy booze with little scrutiny of the i.d.'s they were using. kim denied these allegations during the original 9 news now piece. >> mr. kim? >> no, he's not here. >> reporter: sunday, family members said kim wasn't mom when we tried to get his explanation about last night's arrest. the store will be back in business monday and liquor will continue to be on sale. >> i tell you, once the sting operation gets you, if you continue, you continue at your own peril, because they're back. and the

. >>> getting out to the mcarthur maze, no major problems, morning commute is looking good approaching the bay bridge, that traffic is fine. there is roadway flooding, some cars are already high row plained in this area and i think you should use 101 instead. let's go back to the desk. >>> it was a violent weekend, eight people were shot in one 12 hour period and right now oakland police are on the scene of a deadly gunfire that happened just hours ago. tara moriarty has the latest on this story, tara? >> reporter: the past 14 hours has been hectic and we are here at the latest shooting in international boulevard and a half way down the street is where police were. they are just getting ready to leave and it's in front of a home they surrounded at 1:30 this morning. with guns drawn, they are only calling him a person of interest at this point. witnesses say a man shot him in the stomach and we have just been told police are clearing the scene at the moment and they were going to be sifting through some homes and we believe some of these houses may be abandonedden and it looks as if the

. >> of course things can change testify it is a very nice drive heading out to the mcarthur maze withms on the bridge and you will start to see signs of a little bit of slowing in some of those lanes but another 15 or 20 minutes you will see a much different story. if you are driving in the south bay, so far so good. however northbound 280 near the lawrence expressway there is word of an accident. let's go to receive. >>> a lot of high clouds will be in between systems and that's the system that arrives, mostly cloudy here in the morning, partly sunny skies continued cool and we'll see those clouds roll back in. for a change, some of the cooler temperatures are south and not north. gilroy, scott valley, also felton 32. sanford is checking in at 34 and mill valley also at 37 still santa rosa, napa, redwood city san jose all showing 30s as well. breeze is beginning to kick up, which is wear a win advisory is kicking up. we will have a break until the next system comes in here and that will give us some rain, rain develops breezy to windy and we will have morning rain. it starts at 10:00

we understand that this crowd may be about 100 pel or so west on mcarthur past webster. they have been marching for some time, but there is a live look at this march that is happen of. we can tell you it all started around 9:00. protesters appear to be make this way to oakland police headquarters bub they were blocked by a line of officers around 8th street and suddenly turned arund. the march has remained peaceful and i can tell you there have been chants of nonviolence. however, i should say it did not start that way tonight when three or four people with their faces covered threw a bottle of urine and a piece of wood at another news tractor-trailer. soon others came over to apologize and here is what one of the protesters had to say. >> we had no idea, whatever happened here was not part of the major group of people that was over there right now. none of us knew what happened, and from my own personal opinion, from what these guys said it's messed up. >> reporter: and yet even within the occupy movement there appears to be disagreement about what the message should be

back up heading into san francisco stretched well into mcarthur maze, traffic did pick up once drivers got behind lights. caltrans says there was a perfect storm of problems. >> we see high volume along the holiday and had a thaw in one lane and a ladder. then later in the morning we had an electric issue with metering lights causing them to cycle slower. >> and not all sensors operate on the same system. some pull through the metering lights and others were at a stand still. workers had to operate lights with problem metering system was fixed. >> at 6:30 tonight an exclusive. going take you into a factory where your ipad was made. david louie offers a unique perspective there. >> and also, high-priced campaign strategy mitt romney is using to knock down opponents. we'll show you the money. >> and is it a giant smart phone? or a tiny tablet? it left experts at a loss for words. you can see >>> good evening, once again, apple has given abc news access to its contractor assembly lines in china that is the result of mounting criticism conditions there. over the years david louie visited s

. >>> westbound interstate 880 looks good coming out to the mcarthur maze, with more crowded conditions for sure as you head to the bay bridge toll plaza and when you get there, the traffic is not bad, north and southbound, 6:00 and at 6:01 let's go back to the desk. >>> a grim search tied at two serial killers will enter a new phase, she is near the town of linden right outside of stockton. >>> authorities plan on lowering a camera down into that well to make sure they have not missed anything and they believe they have retrieved all of the victims remains. over the past five days, they have excavated and sifted through 1,000 bones and bone fragments from this abandoned well and ranch hand. scott smith reported for the record and two maps that wesley howard shermantine buried his victims. and over the weekend, they allowed smith into the dig site near linden. >> it was the most horrific thing i had ever seen. it made me want to when. >> reporter: smith said wesley howard shermantine revealed the sites because he did not want loren joseph herzog to go free. his parole would end last mon

the back up heading into san francisco stretched well past mcarthur maze, and the jam disappeared beyond metering lights, caltrans says several things contributed, people getting back from a long holiday weekend, there is a stall and an electrical issue all added up to gridlock. >> cause of the cycle, slower than we would have had seeing that much traffic. we had to take lights and put them on manual to get traffic cleared faster. >> caltrans says the problem with the lights had been fixed and at least should not contribute to any back up problems during the morn's commute but it is an adjustment coming through that area, you're used to seeing a wide expanse that is narrow now. >> it and was gorgeous out there once fog moved out this morning. >> warm and sunny skies. here is spencer christian. >> the fog lifted and warmed up nicely. warming has just begun this, evening, mostly clear skies, and there will be fog developing near the coast. low temperatures, mid evening temperatures upper 40s to upper 50s. and bright sunshine above low temperatures ranging from about 4040 in coolest spots t

parts of peninsular and san francisco but the east bay usually gets the slowest as you drive to the mcarthurgh it is not stop and go, there are some spots. bay bridge, still not a big delay and meeterring lights don't come on. now metering lights are automated and there is a certain amount of lights that come on because of road sensors. on tuesday we know they were not working properly and yesterday we don't know what happened. it was slow but it was not as slow as tuesday so we'll see. on the peninsular it looks good if you are driving to san jose a long 101 or 280 and 17 so far so good. speaking of so far so good, steve, the weather has been amazing. >> 58 foggy and cold. >> i bet you. >> yes, it is unbelievable. 79 warm degrees. 79 livermore and santa cruz those were all record highs for the date, sometimes when you get record highs you go back to 1850 and most of these were not that long ago. 1985 and 2002, i mean yes, they are records but it is not like it has not happened in a long, long time but in fact it has happened rather frequently. today it will be very close again, santa rosa,

so and now we have a backup and we'll see how long it takes for people to use 580 to get to the mcarthur maze which was the big problem yesterday, 880 was not as bad. moving to the south bay we keep checking 101 and we have a problem at 101 at 13th street. a crash two cars on the shoulder and traffic may be slowing down to take a look. let's go to steve. >>> well, here is our offshore breeze, we could say if we were in kansas i could say there was dust in the wind but mainly an offshore breeze, it goes into the direction the wind is from. no clouds are found and there was a little bit of patchiness on the coast but that's gone. it is 25 plus in the santa cruz mountains and a north wind continues for many. north of vacville, fso was northwest at 7 but now it is calm. that northwesterly breeze is collapsing. 51 at san rafael downtown oakland 52 with an east wind coming off the oakland berkeley hills. high pressure will be our fair weather friend and it's definitely large and in charge coast bay and inland record highs and that advisory will go until 6:00 tonight. a few isolated 60s along t

mcarthur and high street, police find a bullet riddled van tonight, nobody in it.a victim's mom calls an ambulance for her injured son. h he will live, unlike one of the people shot in this jaguar. or a man left dead on the street thursday evening. no sooner does one crime tape goes down, seems like another goes up. >> i was raised in oakland, but seems like things are getting worse. >> it's crazy, it's the wild wild west. >> reporter: a man in his 20s was shot several times. >> it happens every month, every week, it happens a lot here. >> reporter: it's a war zone. >> we are just here, we have to make a living. we have to be here, we have no choice. >> oakland is just completely out of control. >> yeah. >> nobody showing no respect for nobody. >> you want to shoot a gun go to the army. that's how i feel. a real man handles his business without a gun. >> reporter: but at this business, owners are arming themselves. as the shootings add up they become a blur for police. stretched thin. >> i had one guy here since i think tuesday night and he hasn't been home. it's b

. >>> traffic is moving well heading out to the mcarthur maze with no major problems getting to the bay bridge which by the way is open and incase you are just waking up you may not have heard lanes are open. at 6:01 let's go back to the desk. >>> police in oakland are investigating an officer involved shooting. it happened late last night on 62nd avenue in east oakland. officers confronted two suspects while investigating a street robbery. an officer shot and wounded one suspect during that confrontation and the other suspect got away. no police officers were hurt but it is still not clear what led up to the gunfire. allie rasmus will have an update coming up at 6:30. >> just about a block away from the officer involved shooting a man was killed which happened on seminary avenue near haze street. the man was shot on the street and stumbled into his mother's house, collapsed and died. it was one of two shootings in oakland and no arrests have been made in either case. >>> they are investigating a distress call and where it came from bucks one that sparked a massive search, the mayday ca

up to the willow pass grade no major problems, and this morning it looks good coming out to the mcarthuraze, let's go back to the desk. >>> alameda police have confirmed they are handling a homicide investigation. as christian captain tells us, one person was killed, christian has the story. >> reporter: yes, we did speak with a sergeant with the alameda police this morning who confirmed yes, they are investigating that homicide this morning but so farther very tight-lipped. let's show you, we are at the intersection of alameda and walnut. that is next to alameda high school, this incident did not happen here but it happened somewhere here on the 2100 block of walnut here. witnesses said the incident involved a woman being shot in a domestic violence incident and that's reported by the patch. they reported hearing a number of shots fired and when police arrived they found a woman dead and a man critically injured and that man was taken to an area hospital. alameda police are not commenting on this story and the furthest they have come is tweeting and facebooking. there was an active inve

mcarthur and high street, police find a bullet riddled van tonight, nobody in it.a victim's mom calls an ambulance for her injured son. h he will live, unlike one of the people shot in this jaguar. or a man left dead on the street thursday evening. no sooner does one crime tape goes down, seems like another goes up. >> i was raised in oakland, but seems like things are getting worse. >> it's crazy, it's the wild wild west. >> reporter: a man in his 20s was shot several times. >> it happens every month, every week, it happens a lot here. >> reporter: it's a war zone. >> we are just here, we have to make a living. we have to be here, we have no choice. >> oakland is just completely out of control. >> yeah. >> nobody showing no respect for nobody. >> you want to shoot a gun go to the army. that's how i feel. a real man handles his business without a gun. >> reporter: but at this business, owners are arming themselves. as the shootings add up they become a blur for police. stretched thin. >> i had one guy here since i think tuesday night and he hasn't been home. it's b

at the worst the back up heading into san francisco stretched well past the mcarthur maze. some get testy and others ran out of gas during the wait. cal-trans says the grid lock was from people getting back from long holiday weekend just crowded out there. stall. and electrical issue with the metering lights. >> cause them to cycle slower than we normally would have had seeing that much traffic so we had to take a meter light and put them on manual to get traffic cleared a little bit faster. >>reporter: cal-trans says the problem with the metering lights is now fixed. should not ab problem in the morning. >>> stanford university think tank says unfunded public pensions at the local level are just out of control. l corina reports from one bay area city grappling with the very issue. >>reporter: donation of stanford institute for economic policy research is sounding an alarm. just rae leased a new study on the pension problem. >> i think without question it's the biggest financial challenge we have in californi california. bigger than anything else. nothing is even close to t

country's leading concussion researchers and the recipient of a prestigious half million dollar mcarthurgrant to study head injuries. >> i'm going to ask when you leave this field that you never again use the term "ding" or "bell ringer." if you hear anyone say that, you say, you mean brain injury? >> he travels the country educating everyone on how to prevent head injuries. >> so it's helmets impacts telemetry. >> it's collecting the data and all communicated through this receiver here. this would be set up on the sideline. >> let's try this. and i'm going to give it a moderate hit here and see what happens. so. >> so, yep, it's recorded up here at 23.6 gs of acceleration. >> he showed me how hard these hits really are. >> he's going to withstand an impact of 157 gs. >> oh, wow. >> what we see is impacts to the crown of the head are over three times more likely to result in an impact greater than 80 gs. >> wow. and again, that's similar to a car accident. >> right. the question becomes, how many of those big impacts, and the subconcussive ones, can a player withstand over a season or th

and someone opened fire on a mini van and wounded two people on mcarthur boulevard and high street after six last night. six bullets went through the van's door. no arrests have been made in any of the three shootings in oakland. >>> four fremont homes remain evacuated after water gushed from the pipeline system after midnight and into a neighborhood by 680. a fireman tells abc a pipe valve was left open or lose, allowing the water to leak out when the water was put back in service. it went across the interstate and went into six properties in the warm springs area. nobody was injured. the water was shut off about 30 minutes after the first fire trucks arrived. the fremont fire tells us the damage is mostly in garages and yards but water may have seeped into some homes. >>> a bay area medical drama is playing out involving an undocumented immigrant who needs a kidney transplant and may have a donor. he claims a san francisco hospital has refused to perform the life saving operation. abc7 has the story and the hospital's response. >> 35-year-old oakland resident spends 9 hours a day hooke

in 1951 world war ii military hero and icon general douglas mcarthur and march 1st, 1962, the mercury program,s john glenn, celebrating his moon orbit. these are images that you can't get out of your mind and then in 1990 future south african president nelson is mandela newly freed after 27 years in captivity. indelible images. some are asking for similar parades to honor veterans of the iraq war, heroes, but with soldiers still serving overseas in afghanistan, the pentagon says it doesn't feel that's appropriate right now and on sunday's "meet the press" mayor mike bloomberg said he agrees with that. >> i think the military is sensitive. they're the ones that are out there. they're the ones that have been in combat themselves. i'll defer to the leader shship. >> a former u.s. army major and iraq war vet and the chairman of bothvets.org. obviously there's a lot to talk about when we talk about what's taking place with our returning heroes. one here in new york city. >> i think the smaller communities want to have parades, i don't personally have a problem with that. actually i find it

and someone opened fire on a mini van and wounded two people on mcarthur boulevard and high street after six last night. six bullets went through the van's door. no arrests have been made in any of the three shootings in oakland. >>> four fremont homes remain evacuated after water gushed from the pipeline system after midnight and into a neighborhood by 680. a fireman tells abc a pipe valve was left open or lose, allowing the water to leak out when the water was put back in service. it went across the interstate and went into six properties in the warm springs area. nobody was injured. the water was shut off about 30 minutes after the first fire trucks arrived. the fremont fire tells us the damage is mostly in garages and yards but water may have seeped into some homes. >>> a bay area medical drama is playing out involving an undocumented immigrant who needs a kidney transplant and may have a donor. he claims a san francisco hospital has refused to perform the life saving operation. abc7's has the story and the hospital's response. >> 35-year-old oakland resident spends 9 hours a day hoo

featured on the program, who lives here in the washington area she won what is called a genius grant, mcarthurrant $500,000 her focus is on prevention you want the hear what she has to say about this whole issue that is why we won the grant. >> that episode airs this sunday morning, maryland public tv now you have another episode, you must be very interesting to you, new career. >> i can just sort of check off things that interest me and that is what we are doing on the show. it is great. encore careers. >> i like that name. >> yeah,. >> and we realize you are not just going the work for one company stay there 50 years and get the gold watch that isn't the model any more but for many people how do you make at that change, we discovered, at least experts tell us this is one woman who got some help with coaching for she is now coaching young singers this was her second career. okay. so we need help in trying to figure that out and one of the big barriers of course is medical insurance if you leave one job, health insurance we will talk to someone who says having your strategy for how to get to t

that jammed up all the way to the mcarthur mays and that's because the berkeley curve is closed.those three lanes are shut down and thus all that traffic had to merge over and that backed up into richmond. so far that ride is looking good as well. b.a.r.t. just started the 8:00 hour which means sunday service has started. all stations are now open and training are running about 20 minutes apart so b.a.r.t. is a great way to get over to san francisco. >> yeah, i would agree. b.a.r.t. is a great way to get here to the city. mitch thompson. kcbs traffic. thank you so much. stay right here with cbs 5 and cbssf.com and kcbs radio, all the information you will need to get around the closure this holiday weekend. >>> copper wire thefts from street lights in tree month. it's a growing problem. the city says in the past seven months repairs have cost nearly a half a million dollars and the thefts continue it could end up spending $800,000 for the current fiscal year. b.a.r.t. has also been targeted in late 2010. >>> time running out to capita look at the famed battleship -- catch a look a

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these mcarthur-like words, "that won't happen." alex, that sets the stakes for michigan.. in other words, the universe can't allow it. and it can't. or what happens if it does happen? >> oh, lawrence, he's carpet bombing the state with $2 million worth of negative ads, where santorum's spending $42,000. romney believes in that old saying, it's the money, honey. and i think he believes what he did with gingrich will work with santorum. michigan is blue-collar. you have auto workers, romney's position in 2008 on the auto bailout. you have rick santorum who appeals to blue-collar, working class voters, and is much more authentic in the minds of the american public. >> i think the killer argument that santorum has against mitt romney is not just that he wrote the famous -- the now-famous op-ed, let detroit go bankrupt. he opposed the auto deal, but he supported t.a.r.p. and santorum, there's a clip of that basically saying, this guy wanted the $800 billion to bailout the banks -- >> wall street. >> he wants to bailout wall street, but when this entire region, the entire econo

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