it will be hosted by ceo meg whitman. santorum will be in the bay area this week. he will attend a fund-raiser on thursday in alamo. a new poll finds mitt romney has the greatest support out of california raps with 42% of registered voters. santorum is trailing by 19 points with 23% and newt gingrich and ron paul are distant third and fourth. >> labor activists have launched a campaign to encourage companies not to send jobs overseas. locally they have targeted the bay bridge. members of the alliance for american manufacturing paid for two billboards, should be made in america. they have placed those signs off of 880 in oakland and near the bay bridge toll plaza. they say similar ads wi be placed nationwide around dozens of projects so that federal and state leaders can see them. >> kristen: we're enjoying a brief break from the rain but another storm is coming in. >>> looks like we have things, very dry and wet and cold since spring started. good morning. you see it's very quiet around our neighborhood. as we head to the north, few radar returns around lake county

the event is being hosted by meg whitman. rick santorum won 49% of the vote and half of louisiana '20 delegates. romney garnered 2% of the vote and five delegates. a bay area fund-raiser will be held on thursday at a private home. tickets for that event range from $125 to $2500. >> there's more outrage across the -- >>> there's more outrage over the shooting of trayvon martin. a lot of people showed up for a rally led by jesse jackson and al sharpton. members of the aclu attended. the 17-year-old was shot a month ago today by george zimmerman. he said he was acting in self- defense and his lawyer denies any racial motivation for the shooting. >>> a total screamout here is set to support this hour to show support for the slain teenager. christien kafton is live with more. >> reporter: that screamout now underway. organizers started showing up just about a half an hour ago. they pinged the hall -- picked the hall of justice. they say that they are also complacent when it comes to the death of young men of color. they say they a

it will be hosted by ceo meg whitman. santorum will be in the bay area this week. he will attend a fund-raiser on thursday in alamo. a new poll finds mitt romney has the greatest support out of california raps with 42% of registered voters. santorum is trailing by 19 points with 23% and newt gingrich and ron paul are distant third and fourth. >> labor activists have launched a campaign to encourage companies not to send jobs overseas. locally they have targeted the bay bridge. members of the alliance for american manufacturing paid for two billboards, should be made in america. they have placed those signs off of 880 in oakland and near the bay bridge toll plaza. they say similar ads will be placed nationwide around dozens of projects so that federal and state leaders can see them. >> kristen: we're enjoying a brief break from the rain but another storm is coming in. >>> looks like we have things, very dry and wet and cold since spring started. good morning. you see it's very quiet around our neighborhood. as we head to the north, few radar returns around lake coun

hewlett-packard ceo meg whitman will host romney at a dinner and it will cost $5,000 to have dinner and for that you also get a photograph with a presidential hopeful. nor o'donnell interviews the winner of the primary in louisiana on face the nation. rick santorum joints are on the show. that is on face the nation at 830 on cbs five. >> new developments in a shooting rampage in afghanistan that involved an american soldier. >> what happens to suspended sherrif ross mirkarimi. our political insiders sound off on that one. >> paul benedict on tour in mexico. his message to one of the largest catholic populations in the world. >> we have got another rainy day on tap and then it lo,,,, ♪ [ male announcer ] no success is overnight. ♪ it's about working harder. ♪ and smarter. ♪ it's the culmination of a million decisions. it's where you see yourself going and how you choose to get there. the all-new 2013 gs. our boldest response ever. there's no going back. ♪ >> the victims of a shooting spree by an american soldier in afghanistan and received thousands in compensation. staff sergeant robert

now meg whitman is combining them. it's whitman's first major move since she became c.e.o. six months ago. the strategy might work, but so far investors are not buying it. shares sold off today and are down almost 9% this year, making h.p. the biggest loser in the dow. joining us now to talk more about the outlook for hewlett packard: abhey lamba, senior technology analyst at mizuho securities. >> susie: we've been speaking >> if you look at the services, the organizations. we are seeing structures. tablets are taking more of our dollars, and more wallet share out of pcs. and it has been a service, and in printing there's headwinds. that's where hp needs to ramp business. there's a lot of business where hp needs to dom pete with the competition, and cloud computing and a lot of things are i.t. spending is flowing. >> susie: and some people are suggested that hp get into mobile computering. it doesn't really have anything in that area, but it needs to do so to be relevant. do you agree with that? >> yes, i think on the tablet side, we need to have a play over there. and the

it is actually a tactic that sounds like made whitman -- meg whitman. more from less? stop that. president yee: are you speaking, or not? otherwise, i'm going to end this part. >> good evening. executive board, united educators of san francisco. i wanted to point out some data. since we are no longer teaching from a creative bag of tricks, we are not pursuing the art of education anymore. i do have some data for you. here, there are 63% economically disadvantaged students. it is part of the zone. at sanchez, it is 92.6% disadvantaged students. where is the data-driven policy here that this administration seems to be so enamored of? malcolm x -- at muir, there is 689 -- they scored 689 on the api. not an ex is 790, in the zone. -- malcolm x is 790, in the zone. muir is 689, in the zone. webster is not in the zone at 672. o'connell in the zone, 594. jordan, which unfortunately falls out of the zone -- i guess those students are not part of the data. somehow, they are less human and less eligible for the special consideration of the superintendent's zone. president yee: thank you fo

>> hp ceo meg whitman raised this private fund-raiser. his critics showed up as well. putting on a show for mitt romney supporters. he leaves a private fund-raiser at the hotel sofitel. supporters spent anywhere from 1,000 to $25,000 to hear the republican presidential hopeful speak. some had trouble getting into the event when protesters blocked an entrance to the hotel. activists put on some political theater for the candidate they call mr. 1%. the raging granny, union members and occupy redwood city made their presence known mocking romney and his supporters. >> we know you support him because you want fewer taxes, mitt has said the poor of just fine, i'm not worried about them. >> reporter: romney took a jab at president obama for telling russia's president the rules change after the election. >> this is my election, i can be more flexible when the election is over. when the president of the united states is speaking with the leader of russia saying he could be more flexible after the election, that is an alarming and troubling development. >> back on the peninsula

meg whitman plans to combine the tech giant's printing and personal computer groups as part of her efforts to turn h-p around. one of whitman's first acts as c.e.o. was to reverse a decision by former c.e.o. leo apotheker to dump the p.c. business all together. combining printers and p.c.s would help h-p cut costs and could result in significant job cuts. h-p's not commenting. but investors were. hp shares fell slightly, down about 1.5% to just under $24. >> tom: in fact this is the first time h. p. has closed below $24 since last fall. some selling pressure taking hold there for h. p.. let's get you updated with the rest of tonight's market focus. the worries about china's economy cooling squarely hit the u.s. stock sectors that have been fueling that growth. while the selling pressure came right at the opening bell, the downward pressure on stock prices waned throughout the session, with the s&p 500 closing down just a fraction and down from its post-recession high yesterday. the sectors most closely tied to the global market saw the brunt of the selling. the energy and industrial sector

. >>> meg whitman hosted the private event. tonight, romney is scheduled to appear on nbc's "tonight show" with jay leno. >>> good news heading into the spring home-buying season, for that and more before the bell, we turn to courtney reagan. good morning, courtney. >> hi, good morning to you, john. well, futures are higher this morning, but we've lost some steam. the markets will look to build on yesterday's rally. we saw stocks jump on comments from chairman ben bernanke. he says the fed remains committed to keep interest rates low to support the economy and could do more if necessary. helped erase the losses in a single session. we get data on home prices and consumer confidence. the dow posted 160-point gain monday, the nasdaq closed up 54 points to close at 3,122, the highest close since november 13th of 2000. >>> well, the federal trade commission is pushing internet companies to adopt a do not track system that would give consumers more control over how their personal data is used online. the ftc is also urging congress

meg whitman gave him a big fund-raiser in redwood city. i mean it looks to be going his way, but i tell you, i also was there at the jelly belly factory in fairfield where rick santorum looked very defiant this week, surrounded by hundreds of conservatives and said i am not giving up. we're taking this all wait to the convention floor. seems adamant about that. whether or not that's going to happen, it's certainly, california is the place where they've got to pick up the campaign money and they're looking for a share of those 172 delegates, because by congressional district, winner take all by congressional district. >> they're dividing their time between here and los angeles and, david, you have a question down here? sh, carla, i know wh republican candidates are coming, a big pile of money. what do they want in return? do they have a wish list they're hoping to send to washington? >> california republicans, david, this is one of the things we saw this week. the california republican party is in flux. we saw that with the defection of nat

the top gop candidate will appear at an event in redwood city hosted by meg whitman. tickets start at $1,000 and run as high as $25,000. romney heads to stockton on tuesday then moves on to southern california. campaign officials say romney has spent more than he expected at this point in the campaign. he's down to about $7 million in cash but still has more than $40 million in his super pack. rick santorum will follow romney to california for a fundraiser on thursday. the founder on online marketplace mark pine will host the event at his home in alamo. the big difference between his fundraiser and romney is the cost of ticket. for santorum they will start at $125. almost $900 less than romney and only goes as high as $1,200. >>> for a limited number of tickets to hear arguments on the health law challenge, most of those in line are paid line sitters. some of whom have been camping out now since friday. the court expects to hand out about 50 free seats tomorrow morning on a first come first serve basis. over the next three days, the court will hear arguments on issues

it is being hoftd by meg whitman. and and they are talking about today was health care. >> promising to repeal and replace the affordable health care act. >> they said would it cost the cost of health insurance. it's increased the cost. >> this morning the battle over the law reached the supreme court. but the session was spent on whether a tax law would prevent it from going forward. >> congress is nominating it as a penalty. >> i don't think that is restraining the collection of attacks. it's restraining pamt of attacks. >> the session gets to the heart of the challenge. the controversial insurance mandate requiring americans to purchase health insurance by to 14 or pay a penalty. today the super pack released this video going after president obama. for flip flopping on the mandate issue in the plan asking everyone for taking responsibility, everybody. >> this is a solution, we can mand rate by mandating everybody to buy a house. >> with his opposition when running against hillary clinton. >> what are you going to d

. >> meg whitman, former governor candidate and ceo of hp alex spanose the owner of the chargers, markczech ceo, netscape founder. it's a lot of goldman saks people. >> so santorum really here on a whim and a prayer. [ laughter ] >> yeah a biggest stat for the santorum fund raiser tickets start at $125. >> that's a democratic party -- >> exactly. >> california republicans determine their delegates by congressional district. romney may be ahead, but i think santorum has a shot to capture some of those conservative central valley conservative seats and build up his delegate account to boost his chances for vp. >> he better be careful what he is saying about romney. >> right. >> there was another poll that was out today, and i'm going to show the viewers a screen of this, and it was related to the war, and in -- in that -- if i can -- >> remarkable isn't it? >> the cbs poll found that 69% think that the united states should not be at war any longer in afghanistan and that has moved considerably very quickly. the political play on this is somewhat interesting, because the republicans are t

the host is meg whitman and sun micro systems founder and shutter fly's ceo on the event committee list. mitt romney was talking health care. standing in front of a sign saying repeal and replace ob yauchla care mitt romney dove tailed his hesage with a supreme court hearing and accused of president of going back on promise autos then, they said it would cut the cost of health insurance. >> critics hit him with flip flopping on health care. >> that is what we did in mismassachusetts. >> ob yaum yair is bad news, if i'm president i will repeel it. >> and the super pac released this video going after the president for flip flopping on the mandates. >> there is a plan and everybody taking responsibility for meeting this problem. >> we can try that to solve homelessness mandating everybody buy a house. >> the ad juxtaposes his support with the mandate to w.his opposition to the mandate when running against hillary clinton. >> what are you going to do about it? are you going to fine them? garnish their wages? >> and the president of course did reverse his position on the individual mandate.

ceo meg whitman attempting a turn around at the world's largest pc maker which has been struggling fromclining sales and profits. amazon is trying to drive traffic to its site. the solution? say hell grow daily deal for today only was selling $10 gift cards at $5. it got buyers flocking to this site and pulling big numbers selling more than 900,000 of the cards. revenues from this deal will be over $4.5 million but that means they'll lose and this is available to shoppers checking out amazon local.com. the site for local merchants competing with groupon in sales and apparent fully racking up losses. skm some stock losses to tell you about. red arrows and this ended a three-day winning streak. and there are gains of about half a percent. cisco and yahoo helped push index higher, elsewhere "new york times" raising its online pay wall higher saying starting next month people who don't pay will only be able to read 10 free stories per month down from 20. and they can restore it after going past the limit. hoping to increase prescriptions. and lastly oprah winfrey's struggling cable network

co-hosted by meg whitman. he is spending three days in california. $66 million on the primary. >> kristen: jamba juice is reaching out to unemployed young adults looking for a summer job and a career. they are hiring 2500 people at treasure island culinary arts program. they want to fast track themselves to leadership jobs dr. . >> we have hired young people. we found a treasure trove here at treasure island. >> kristen: some of the student in the job corps program tell us they hadn't finished high school. james white says the effort by the job corps and jobs program is a win-win for all involved. more than 400 jobs available at abc 7 here in san francisco. sales associates to firefighters to medical director. hire event job fair organized with our partners will take place from noon to 4:00 on market street in san francisco. you can get more information by calling 1-888 thejobs. or visit abc7news.com/jobs. there is information on participating companies and available positions. >> eric: if you want to go to that event, take your umbrellas. >> it's go

rain from 1000 to $25,000 enron is expected to hobnob with some type giants like hewlett-packard meg whitman and microsystems ceo scott mcnealy and if you talk to political analyst many say that romney really needs is infusion of money with four gop candidates still competing for that nomination. >>> governor romney and santorum but the longer they stay and raise the more they will raise more. romney has had a surgery california and the latest u.s. the l.a. times poll 42 percent of registered republicans say they would support rahm emmanuel 23% say they would support for santorum and california is really a cash cow for all the candidates up with no losses under santorum is expected to be here in the bay area on thursday for his own fund-raiser as from irani continues from here to stockton to be with the developer in san diego chargers owner alex spanos then obviously and l.a. for even more money. it was apparently ordered out of the country into thousand six actor robin restaurant immigration officials had to let them go because his native vietnam wouldn't take him back 35 year- old then typ

the top gop candidate will appear in redwood city hosted by silicon valley executive meg whitman. on tuesday he continues fundraising in stockton and moves ton southern california. a republican party official says romney spent more on the primary season than he expected. he is down to about $7 million in cash, but has more than l40 million to tap in his superpack. >>> coming up we'll have more on that developing news on the arrest made in the killings of five people in san francisco. >>> also the amway arena in orlando comes crashing down. how a person two blocks way from that explosion ended up is getting injured. >>> president obama spend his first full day in south korea. his response to north korea's plan to launch a long-range rocket. >>> also showing support, how france is coming together in the wake of that deadly school shooting. -dad, why are you getting that? -that's my cereal. is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. is it a robot? no. is it a jet plane? nope. is it a dinosaur? [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] inside every box of heart healthy cheerios ar

you are betting that meg whitman has the pedigree to do it. can you be in it before that value gets lucky? i think you are better off since this is fast money. they are combining the printing business. does this seem like a change to make? that will truly unlock and ahead of the printer division left. he left. what do they have to do? they merged it. big deal. >> the cost side of the business is proven to be at least making headway. i think these guys basically kitchen sinked it. very little people can expect and they have taken it off and managed cost. how are they growing the top line? nobody knows. you are a distressed player and buying something. this is under six times earnings. >> i'm curious to see if the options kits indicate bullish or bearish activity. >> there used to be call buying. open interest in the calls about four or five months ago get up to a million contracts. it's lower than that now. today's activity was bearish. the april 22 puts were the most active. the market if it is speculating has taken a bearish tone here. >> let

we have seen very well financed canned dairkts all the mon nethe world did not buy meg whitman an office. i think the same can be said for the presidency. >> gregg: i wouldn't rule out the president not blaming his predecessor -- >> of course. >> gregg: all right. great to see you, as always. >> jamie: great to see you. newt gingrich winning his home state of georgia, this super tuesday. and a large number of delegates come with that. we have a live report and our political panel weighs in on how gingrich's win impacts the race for the g.o.p. nomination and they have a lot more to say than that. we'll be right back. i wouldn't do that. pay the check? no, i wouldn't use that single miles credit card. hey, aren't you... shhh. i'm researchg a role. today's special... the capital one venture card. you earn double miles on every purchase. impressive. chalk is a lost medium. if you're not earning double miles... you're settling for half. was that really necessary? [ male announcer ] get the venture card at capitalone.com and earn double miles on every purchase every day. what's in your wallet?

that was true with meg whitman. she didn't rely on the party structure for her candidacy and with president levels and superpacks and the like, it isn't the rnc guys. there are only 148 of us in the country, anyway. we don't make the decisions. the candidates do. >> ron paul seem to be barely in the party. >> absolutely. it is a good something that he exists and is bringing new energy to the table that, kind of thing. but, no, it is largely outside the party. >> what we have is -- i get two messages from the republican rank and file. one is that they are excited about the opportunity this time to not be taps down by the establishment. they have real values here, they say, and want the do more than just elect a winner, somebody that will win at whatever the cost. we did that with bush and weren't happy with the turnout what, we got. but the other half is saying enough of the debating and fighting. let's try to pick a winner. how do you resolve that? >> through the primary process and it is not a very clean solution.

we have seen very well financed canned dairkts all the mon nethe world did not buy meg whitman an office. i think the same can be said for the presidency. >> gregg: i wouldn't rule out the president not blaming his predecessor -- >> of course. >> gregg: all right. great to see you, as always. >> jamie: great to see you. newt gingrich winning his home state of georgia, this super tuesday. and a large number of delegates come with that. we have a live report and our political panel weighs in on how gingrich's win impacts the race for the g.o.p. nomination and they have a lot more to say than that. we'll be right back. [♪...] >> announcer: bank robbery certainly is a frightening crime. after all, bank robbers stole $43 million in one year. but identity thieves? try 37 billion! and guess how identity thieves are getting some of that money. by taking over our bank accounts. they may not even need your social security number anymore. all an identity thief may need are a couple of simple pieces of information, like your mother's maiden name or the city you were born in, and they could add their

on the call last quarter, meg whitman talked about revenue growth being several quarters out. clear if they have their handle yet on cost-cutting issue. you also have to consider that they are in the midst of massive changes because of moeb built in the pc business and in the printer business. so it will be quite a challenge on several fronts. >> all right. we will leave it there. richard, jon, good to talk to you. tonight we'll keep watching the hugh let and oracle story. let's bring in keith, good haven fund who owns hp, google, and microsoft in his portfolio. adam parker from morgan stanley. let me talk to you about hul you're take on it. >> we were not there for the first five or six disappointsmentments. we bought a sustainable cash flow. todd bradley is a very respected guy and probably makes sense to combine these divisions. >> that's a great point, particularly at the level thaw actually entered the stock, which is obviously a much better scenario in terms of the next -- >> well, price does make a difference. >> and you love tech. tell us what is behind this vibrancy i

is this part of meg whitman's plan to give the company a makeover? welcome to the program. >> i don't think it's a bad move. it just doesn't address the big structural issues that hp has. >> aren't both of those businesses slowing? >> yes. pcs are slowing structurally, the pc market is slowing. if you look at the printing market, consumer printing is in full-blown decline. combining two declining businesses to me is not necessarily a way of fixing them. it's trying to cut head count and costs. if you look at hp, they've got to do a lot more than that. >> if you look at consumer printing and commercial printing, and it doesn't help at all. again, if you look at it, enterprise and into services, shifting a few things and rehorg there or re-org there doesn't address the situation and it's a real structural situation to have to fix. it makes one think that hp doesn't get how big the problems are. >> steve grasso? >> rob, you're actually mirroring what i'm going to say and there's nothing that drivers traffic through the stores. is it basically that we're

that's basically who we are as a law firm in the case of meg whitman, we represented the house keeper wanted to speak out. that was also an employment case. and we felt that that was an important issue, a public interest and concern. and we also went ahead, by the way, and recovered wages she was due from ms. whitman. in the case of herman cain, we had a woman who wanted to speak out. so we helped to empower her. helped her to have a voice to speak out. and to speak the truth. i do think the truth matters. and it may make some people uncomfortable. >> should having an affair preclude a man from running for office? >> i think that if -- >> if that was the case, then there would be no jfk, no bill clinton, there is no newt gingrich. i mean there are lots of people who have been top of american political life and would never have careers. so where do you draw the line? >> well, i think that politicians, if they are going to seek the highest office in our land, the presidency of the united states of america, they need to be honest with the american public and put it all out there. and not

women like meg whitman who was referred to by jerry brown what about saying she is a w word? i don't even want to say it? how about people referring to jerry thompson, fred thompson's wife she belongs on a stripper pole in things that have been said about michelle malkin. >> i'm saying any offensive talk that is inappropriate. >> laura: right, jennifer. >> we're going back in time. >> laura: i understand your point and point of view. my question is, if what a radio host said on his show is evidence of a, quote, war on women, then where was the commentary about the war on women being waged over the last several years when very derogatory things were said by left wing people i don't condone that on my radio show and other places rush limbaugh is a dear friend of mine and wonderful person. i think he made a mistake and wishes he didn't say thand think he is really story for what he said. the war on women narrative was never raised when think of these things were said by liberals, ever. >> but there is a lot of discussion now with the upcoming election. there is a lot of discours

the ceo meg whitman today says she is reorganizing the company to make it more efficient.ossible layoffs. hp shares dropped 2% today. for yahoo it's not enough to deal with layoff rumors. as of tonight the dot-com company has a board challenge on its hands from major shareholder hedge fund. it says it will revolt if yahoo! does not give the fund seats on its board of directors. and the u.s. housing market is coming back citing a 13% jump in sales from last year. good news, yes, but if you dig a little deeper you'll see that u.s. home sales actually dipped for the month of february, still a bit early, perhaps, to call this a comeback. jessica and garvin? >> one can only home. >> thank you very much, scott. >>> let's turn things over to jeff ranieri in the weather center. so you say we're going to get a little bit of rain. >>> yes. a few showers here as we head throughout the night and then a stronger storm coming as we head into this upcoming weekend. we want to share video, a whale of a sight this afternoon. we've been talking about about this major shift under the golden

some silicon valley big-wigs will scheduled to be there including meg whitman and the sun microsystemsofounder. >> i'm looking at lawrence right now. he is stretching and getting ready for his big weathercast. >> light stuff pushing through as the cold front is moving by. wind advisories in effect at noon today. expecting strong gusty winds, maybe 45 to 55 miles per hour near the coast and over the mountaintops. down below winds 25 to 35 miles per hour. a cold day in the bay area. temperatures at the coast only low to mid-50s. 50s elsewhere around the bay area. next couple of days more sunshine and warmer weather. less wind. offshore winds going to blow. cooling down and cloudy. that's it for weather. here's elizabeth with traffic. >> thanks. awe have several wind advisories at the bay bridge. we have new wind advisories in effect for the san mateo bridge and the benicia bridge and the dumbarton bridge. so be extra careful. a lot of east/west bridges you will find gusty conditions across the decks. outside, here's live look at the nimitz. 880 through oakland passing the coliseum. 16 mi