finally able to smile tonight after an amber alert leads to the recovery of her newborn baby at a border crossing. good evening, everyone. i'm frank somerville. >> i'm julie haener. a young father is in custody and a young mother awaiting the return of her newborn baby after a kidnapping ordeal in the desert southwest. we get new information from ktvu's ken wayne live in sunnyvale where he spoke to the mother tonight after our 6:00 news. >> reporter: there is a very relieved mother tonight, but she's still waiting to find out when she'll see her baby boy again. surrounded by loved ones, patricia romero said through an interpreter tonight the last 24 hours have been very hard. translator: i was really afraid i wouldn't be able to see him again. i was really scared. >> reporter: her 2-week-old son henry was allegedly

the father has allegedly threatened to harm himself and his newborn baby boy in the past. e also told the baby's mom during this argument yesterday that he was going to take the baby out of state. law enforcement issued the amber alert. they are asking you to be on the lookout for a brown, 2004, gmc envoy, which has a picture, as i mentioned, of an american eagle in its rear window. reporting live here in sunnyvale, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> of course, we'll bring you all the very latest updates on this amber alert online and on air. you can always head to nbc bay area.com and search amber alert. >>> new this morning, investigators on the scene of a shooting in san francisco. this happened just before 5:00 this morning at third and bryant streets. that's only a few blocks away from at&t park. we are being told the victim was shot more than one time and is now suffering with life threatening injuries. police at this point have not told us what they believe led to the shooting or at this point if they have any suspects. >> time to take a live look outside as we give

. >> she took the diaper bag with the baby away from the mother. she handed the newborn over to the neighbors adult daughter. there --he got down door andocked the called police. residents heard the mother allegedly yelling she was going to kill the child. this is crazy. the babynts tell us was taken by child protective services. the mother was taken to the hospital to be evaluated. charges, it will all depend on their investigation after the mother is evaluated. reporting live from damascus. >> let's move on to the weather. we have a cooldown headed here. there.o area, thers to the second part comes in tomorrow night. let's get you started. temperatures are still in the 50's. over the next few hours, there could be a few more showers. one.is cold front number we think it will clear out pretty quickly overnight. 59 at reagan national, 55 in frederick. there is the front. the at the numbers near canadian border, very cold. that is heading in our direction. skies, 36-45.udy >> we will check back in with you in just a bit. local teenagers who were trying to set a good examp

a newborn baby boy has just been rushed into neonatal intensive care unit known as the "nicu". >> weighing just over 2 pounds he's 14 weeks premature it means he was only in the womb for less than six months. >> he's really retracting. you see his blood pressure? very low. >> they're right now trying to get urgent care to the baby that's just been born here literally within the last couple of hours. and right now getting respiration assistance, and an intravenous drip inserted. this is the kind of scenario that happens all the time on this ward. >> medical advances have dramatically improved the odds of survival for premature babies, but they haven't changed one aspect of this crisis. almost all of the babies in this ward are black. >> just under 40 percent of the babies born are african american but they contribute to 70 percent of the babies who die in the first year of life. so there's this huge, huge disparity and that's kind of business as usual. it's been going on for decades. >> baby tyrione is just hours old, but he's on a life-support machine. the nurses are worried about his chan

newborn. he took the boy during an argument with the baby's mom. the mom and police are worried because he not only told her he was taking her son out of state but because in the past, he has threatened to harm himself and the baby boy fuchlt are wondering why you didn't receive a text alert as we have in previous abductions, we posed that question to chp earlier this morning. they are still trying to figure that one out for themselves. reporting live here in sunnyvale, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> something to look into. thanks so much, bob. >>> a decision that 2013 voters landing their city out in the national spotlight. this coming after approving controversial new gun restrictions. "today in the bay's" marla tallez in the newsroom with a look at that and other results. >> we told you about the extremely controversial measure "c" in sunnyvale last week. we explained that if it passed, which it has, the national rifle association said it would sue the city of sunnyvale. posting this statement on its website. i believe we have this to show y

we are starting with a statewide amber alert to find a newborn baby taken from an apartment in sunnyvale. claudine wong is in the south bay right now where police say the suspect is the baby's father. claudine. >> good morning, dave. we are getting a better picture at this hour of time frame of where the father was and where he may have been going. he is apparently or was about six hours ago in the san diego area. we will get to that in a moment. i want to show you where we are. we are in sunnyvale on helen avenue. this is where the suspect lived with the baby's mother and the newborn baby henry. he was last heard from at 4:00 yesterday. we just found out his cell phone was pinged in the san diego area about midnight. its unclear what his connection is to that area. or where he might be headed from there. what we do know is police believe his two week old son is in danger. let me show you pictures of the father. we got these photos from his facebook pain this morning-- facebook page this morning. his facebook wall actually filled with pictures of baby henry over the last two weeks. it ap

just 20 minutes of exercise three times a week can enhance the brain development of a newborn baby. researchers say the head start could have an impact on the child's entire life. >>> a new study finds the average cost of having a baby in a u.s. hospital, $21,000. the cost of having twin skyrockets to $105,000. pregnancies with triplets or more cost 20 times as much. bills add up because with women with twins or more may have more preexisting conditions. hospital stays are typically longer. >>> be sure to check back in with eyewitness news at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00 for scenes of unimaginable destruction. thousands feared dead after typhoon haiyan in the philippines. the gas prices are dropping again. how low will they go? join us for these stories and all the breaking news at 4:00 right after dr. phil. >>> please stay with us, your five day forecast is next. ,,,,,, >>> welcome back to eyewitness news at noon. let me put these numbers into perspective for you. 15 below norm tomorrow. a bunch more every day it's going to be cold for a couple days before it gets milder for a november weeke

enroll now at coveredca.com. >>> a newborn baby boy taken from an apartment complex in sunny veil. the chp issuing a statewide amber alert. this happened overnight. we have just learned police say they now have a better idea of where the suspect is thanks to his cell phone. thanks for joining us. >> i'm jon kelley. >> i'm laura gar kia cannon. the baby was taken from a complex near helen avenue. bob redell is live outside the complex. >> new information from law enforcement coming from the san diego police department. they tell us they pinged the father's cell phone last night. the man accused of abducting his baby son from their apartment here in sunny vevale. the cell phone indicated he was in the in the area. it is not clear if he is still in the area. yesterday afternoon, he abducted his baby son from his apartment

the newborn baby is said to be in good condition and in the custody of arizona child protective services. the boy's mother says he vanished tuesday night after the couple had a fight over moving out of state. >>> they expect to take a suspect wanted for rape into custody sometime soon. a female student came forward yesterday to report she was sexually assaulted early monday afternoon in a campus restroom and she knew her attacker. she was taken to the hospital, treated, and released. the college police department is calling this an isolated incident. >>> a san jose cop will soon be headed to jail himself. tony pleaded guilty today to exchanging pornographic pictures with a teenage girl. it happened while he was a detective for the sexual assault investigation unit in 2011. he will be sentenced in february and faces a minimum of six months in jail. the judge will decide if he has to register as a sex offender. >>> a follow-up now on those budget cuts hitting a south bay college. it appears the university has found some extra money. today university president mohammed issued a statement sa

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her newborn baby isn't breathing. o respirator or electricity to power the machine to save this 2-day-old baby's life. her mother pumps oxygen by hand. the baby is just one of 27 newborns here, storm babies you could call them. all born after the typhoon. they are in a hospital chapel that was converted into a maternity ward after the storm destroyed this city. these tiny babies are in what doctors are calling the icu, the neonatal intensive care unit. it's improvised and have been put here because their health situation is unstable. doctors say six infants have died in this chapel in the last six days. dr. leslie says some infants are too unstable to be med evaced to a better hospital out of the storm zone. what do you need for the babies right now, most? >> mostly now, suction machine, incubato incubators. >> reporter: tiny, fragile cocoons. this little girl was born just a few hours ago and she's six weeks premature. during our visit, some good news. this little baby's health stabilized and he graduates from the icu

is one in which a newborn baby injures the world supplied with prepackaged grievances against other babies born on the same day. >> guest: yes, yes. this idea that you can redress history which we have seen in specific contexts in this country, it's around the world. the czechs after the world war one of the goals they had was to address the injustices of the 17th century. nobody from the 17th century was alive that they end of the first world war. they tried to take this out by having policies that would favor the germans and so on and they set in motion a chain of events in which the czechs and the germans were worse off than they have ever been before and both were victims of tragedy trying to undo what happened to people who were now long dead. >> host: do we have policies in this country that are formed in the same way? >> guest: oh yes. affirmative action, the demand for reparations and so on. one of the sad things is that we talk in this country as if slavery was something unique to the united states or to blacks and whites and in fact slavery was one of the oldest institutions amon

area mother is finally able to smile tonight after an amber alert leads to the recovery of her newborn baby at a border crossing. good evening, everyone. i'm frank somerville. >> i'm julie haener. a young father is in custody and a young mother awaiting the return of her newborn baby after a kidnapping ordeal in the desert southwest. we get new information from ktvu's ken wayne live in sunnyvale where he spoke to the mother tonight after our 6:00 news. >> reporter: there is a very relieved mother tonight, but she's still waiting to find out when she'll see her baby boy again. surrounded by loved ones, patricia romero said through an interpreter tonight the last 24 hours have been very hard. translator: i was really afraid i wouldn't be able to see him again. i was really scared. >> reporter: her 2-week-old son henry was allegedly abducted by the boy's father 20- year-old mesut guler. after several reported sightings in the san diego area guler and his son were found in mexico. >> we're currently waiting for the mexican authorities to turn over the suspect and the child over to u.s. border a

. >>> a bay area mother is anxiously awaiting a reunion with her newborn baby. the father is accused of kidnapping the boy from his sunnyvale home last night. mesut guler made it all the way to mexico. he was stopped on the mexican side of the border at a checkpoint this afternoon. the baby, unharmed. at this point it's not clear why guler took off with his son. the baby's mother told us through a translator tonight, that's not what's important. >> i'm only really worried about my son and thinking about him and aim sure he knows what he did and the actions he took and that there's going to be consequences to them. >> at this point it's unclear when the baby will be reunited with his mom. >>> oakland police are looking for two people they say put the flames out after a bus passenger was lit on fire. the victim, 18-year-old luke fleischmann was asleep. a 16-year-old boy set him on fire causing severe burns to his legs. that suspect has been arrested. the two didn't know each other. police say luke was wearing a skirt when it happened and they're looking into wheth

also on friday, germany became the first european country to allow a third gender option for newborn babies. under the new law, babies born with characteristics of both sexes will no longer have to be registered as male or female. many intersex people have welcomed the move, saying it means parents will no longer be pressured into a quick decision on surgery to assign a gender to that child. and

. >> reporter: an amber alert now in effect for a newborn baby taken from sunnyvale.ve the details coming up next. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, [ telephone rings ] good evening, this is flo. [laughs] yes, i'm that flo. aren't you sweet! licensed phone-ups available 24/7. call 1-800-progressive. election night in parts of e country. in new jersey, governor chris christie cru >>> 5 things to know at the :55 now. two governors races highlighted election night in parts of the country. new jersey governor chris christie cruised to re-election with bipartisan support helping boost his profile as a potential presidential candidate in 2016. and in virginia, democrat terry mcauliffe narrowly beat ken cuccinelli. >>> new york city voters elected a democrat to be their mayor for the first time since 1989. bill de blasio cruised to an easy victory over republican joe lhota. de blasio campaigned on issues of income equality. >>> toronto mayor rob ford admitted to smoking crack cocaine. the police chief last week obtained video allegedly showing the mayor smoking the drug. ford says

there are newborn babies. there are the elderly. there is no aid from the government.hey wait, still believing in hope and a dire. where even the priest is losing faith. >> food, medicines, water. no aid coming from our government yet. >> reporter: the church is yards of what was a busy hospital. they can do nothing for the living now. the dead are left lying at the entrance. along the road, streets of shattered shops, soldiers looking for looters, days of desperation. almost a week waiting for the aid that's needed. while tiny yolanda sleeps, thankfully unaware of the nightmare she's been born into. >> elsewhere overseas, in afghanistan six people killed and dozens wounded after a car packed with explosives rammed into another vehicle. 3,000 tribal elders will meet next week to consider a security plan to allow u.s. troops to remain in afghanistan beyond next year. in this country, during his weekly radio address, president obama said the economy is benefiting from the energy outlook. >> just this week, we learned for the first time in nearly two decades, the united s

confirm whether such a program exists >> police were called shoes at the hospital visiting her newborn baby. when she approached him he put the hand gun and ran. police shot him in the wrist before arresting him. airline passengers rallied around a blind man and his guide dog who were kicked off of a flight after a heated exchange with a flight attendant. a volunteer in agreed to take the dog. the dog was up and about during a delay that lasted several hours. the flight attendant escorted them off of the plane. the other passengers demand that the flight attendant be removed. the pilot cancel the flight when he realized how offset the passengers were. >> a charitable organization >> fighting leukemia since he was a year old. he told the make a wish foundation that there is one thing that they want. to be batman. >> a professional boxer found dead. the latest in a shooting. >> we are getting tips on healthy better but not good enough. the postal service increased cut its annual loss by more than two- thirds. the postal service's say they only have enough cash to cover nine davis of operating

is aimed at removing pressure on parents to make quick decisions on sex assignment surgery for newborn babies. it's thought to one in every 2,000 people have characteristics of both sexes. they are known as intersex. that's because they have a mixture of male and female chromosomes or genitalia which has characterization of both gender. and german passports which lists the holder's sexes m for male or f for female will soon have a third designation, it will be x for intersex holders. well, i'm joined by a policy .irector at ilga europe thanks for joining us. does this new move by germany go far enough? >> no, it doesn't. actually, it doesn't go as far as you just mentioned. so no passports will be changed. it's just a birth certificate. and it is the obligatory on parents to introduce this for their children. what we don't like about this law is that why on the one hand it has provided a lot of visibility of intersex issues and that's welcomed. it does not address the surgery asks the medical of intersex. there has to be an amendment to this law. >> let me press you there on the politics of t

his facebook page filled with a lot of pictures of his newborn baby. they got into an argument yesterday afternoon and it was during that argument that the father took the child and told the mother he was leaving the state. police say the father has made previous threats to harm himself and their baby. their whereabouts are unknown but last contact was made at 4:00 yesterday. this amber alert wasn't issued until this morning because police didn't find out about this until 10:30 last night when they got a call and told what happened. that is why this amber alert was issued this morning. he is 22 years old. he is turkish, has brown hair, brown eyes, six feet tall and weighs 120 pounds. the baby is named henry. and again just two weeks old. we are continuing to collect autoa lot of this information for you. we've been keeping in contact with you. we do have a car description. its an envoy. it aparticipantly has a big eagle on the back and amber alert signs are activated. again he said he was going to be leaving the state. we will stay on this and keep you

the father and newborn baby boy found across the border. >> reporting to us that the suspect had been arrested in mexico and the child had been recovered safe. we are currently waiting for the mexican authorities to turn over the suspect and the child over to u.s. border agents at the lukeville, arizona, border crossing. >> the baby is in the car with the dad, they were together when they were found? >> they were together. >> he made it across the border? >> yes, he was stopped at a checkpoint in mexico and the mexican authorities interviewed him at the checkpoint and based on the interview they had with him they contacted the u.s. border patrol at the lukeville substation, provided his name to those authorities and discovered that he had a million dollar arrest warrant that we had obtained this afternoon as a result of the investigation. >> what is the baby's condition? >> we're told that the baby is fine, but, again, we're still waiting for confirmation from the border patrol. they don't have custody of either one of them yet. the mexican authorities need to-do their paperwork to tu

the baby is just one of 27 newborns here. storm babies you can call them.ll born after the typhoon. they're in a hospital chapel that was converted into a maternity ward, after the storm destroyed the city. these tiny babies are in what doctors are calling the icu. it's clearly improvized. and they've been put here because their health situation is frighteningly unstable. in fact, doctors say six infants have died in this chapel in the last six days. dr. rosario says some of these infants are too unstable to be medevaced to a hospital out of the storm zone. what do you need for these babies right now most? >> mostly now, a ventilator, and suction machine. incubat incubators. >> reporter: tiny, fragile cocoons. this little girl was born just a few hours ago, and she's six weeks premature. during our visit, some good news. little james' health has stabilize and he graduating from the icu to rejoin his mother. is this your first son? >> yes. >> reporter: how do you feel? >> happy. >> reporter: doctors say most of the newborns here are healthy. but during what

placing the newborn baby on the woman's stomach. a little girl delivered unaware of the devastation around her. larry jacobs, abc news, new york. >> there's been a massive outpouring of tears and prayers from filipinos living here in the united states. >> church goers seen here in sacramento and across the country are scrambling to send money and supplies to help the countless victims of the typhoon. many of them are trying to reach friends and families in the hardest hit area of the philippines. >> the last time i talked to them, their house was -- the roof just blew off. >> aid agencies on the ground are getting a firsthand look at how dire the situation is. i spoke to richard gordon, the chair of the red cross in the philippines. about the desperate need for emergency sup plipliesupplies. >> we're able to get into the area that has been affected. heavily affected. because of that, we can provide medicine, food, a little bit of temporary shelters and of course, water. for 25,000 people. almost 10,000 tins of ready-to-eat meals. so

officers now looking for this man and his newborn baby boy. the fear is they're already hundreds of miles away from home. good morning. thank you very much for joining us. i'm jon kelley. >> i'm marla tellez. this child last seen at an apartment complex on helen avenue in sunnyvale. today in the bay christie smith is in sunnyvale. this started with a fight about moving the child out of state. >> that's exactly right. the mother is it still here this morning at the family apartment. what investigators are telling us is that the mother and the father got into a disagreement yesterday because because the father wanted to move the baby back east with him. the mom said no. the latest sightings we have is that he may have been spotted around 9:20 this morning in central sentenan diego, the fat. they have notified the border police. he is suspected of taking his baby boy from the apartment that he shared with the family here in sunnyvale yesterday afternoon around 4:00. after that argument police say guler texted the mom saying he was leaving with th

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the baby is just one of 27 newborns here. storm baby, you could call them.verted into a maternity ward after the storm destroyed this city. these tiny babies are in what doctors are calling the icu, the neonatal intensive care unit. it's clearly improvised, and they've been put here because their health situation is frighteningly unstable. in fact, doctors say six infants have died in this chapel in the last six days. >> dr. leslie rosario says some of the infants are too unstable to be medevac'd to a better hospital out of the storm zone. >> what do you need for these sick babies right now most? >> mostly now, incubators. >> tiny fragile cocoons. this little girl was born just a few hours ago, and she's six weeks premature. during our visit, some good news. little sian james health has stabilized and he graduates from the icu to rejoin his mother. >> is this your first son? yes. >> how do you feel? >> happy. >> doctors say most of the newborns here are healthy. but during what should be a moment of joy, parents also face uncertainty. many have seen their ho

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as little as 20 minutes of exercise three times a week can enhance the brain development of a newborn baby. the head start could have an impact on the child's entire life. >>> babies are not cheap as parents already know. a new study finds the average cost of having a baby in the united states such as getting their life started $21,000. the cost of having twins skyrockets to $105,000 and triplets costs nearly 20 times as much. the bills add up because women with twins or more may have more pre-existing conditions and hospital stays are usually much longer. >>> question of the morning for the first time now. it's 4:54. according to a survey, 44% of men say this celebrity would make their best wing man. >> okay. is it a, ryan gosling, b, seth rogan or c, drake. we'll share some of your answers in >>> we're looking at 30s and 40s this morning. you need the heavier coats. as we head toward 9:00, low to mid-40s. still chilly. lunch time 54. winds out of the southwest at about 10. so cool but we can certainly manage this and for the afternoon, partly to mostly sunny, mid- to upper 50s, perhaps 6

modifications that give perspective parents the opportunity to choose the traits they'd like to see in a newborn baby. a bay area company already holds the patent, the notion of designer babies, raises a number of ethical questions. >> reporter: want to make a more perfect baby? what about eye color, or disease risk? >> still, the a little bit playing with fate and future. i don't know how i feel 100% about that. >> reporter: bio technology may now give parents unprecedented choices. >> our understanding of genetics has really exploded. >> reporter: fertility clinics use pgd to select traits for some invitro babies. but intentional manipulation might create ethical nightmares, such as in the sci- fi film gatica. >> a world of haves and have nots. >> reporter: you may know the bay area's 23 and me for its $99 genetics test. what you may not know is they have been awarded a patent to pick the genetic traits of your next child. we investigate how close that science fiction promise is to reality. >> right now, people are using genetics when they think about having a child. >> reporter: emily connolly say

modifications that give perspective parents the opportunity to choose the traits they'd like to see in a newborn baby. a bay area company already holds the patent, the notion of designer babies, raises a number of ethical questions. >> reporter: want to make a more perfect baby? what about eye color, or disease risk? >> still, the a little bit playing with fate and future. i don't know how i feel 100% about that. >> reporter: bio technology may now give parents unprecedented choices. >> our understanding of genetics has really exploded. >> reporter: fertility clinics use pgd to select traits for some invitro babies. but intentional manipulation might create ethical nightmares, such as in the sci- fi film gatica. >> a world of haves and have nots. >> reporter: you may know the bay area's 23 and me for its $99 genetics test. what you may not know is they have been awarded a patent to pick the genetic traits of your next child. we investigate how close that science fiction promise is to reality. >> right now, people are using genetics when they think about having a child. >> reporter: emily connolly say

reporter: as little as 20 minutes of exercise 3 times a week can enhance the brain development of a newborn babyhers at the university of montreal said the head start could have an impact on the child's entire life. a new study finds the average cost of having a baby in the u.s. is $21,000. the cost of having twins skyrockets to 105,000, and pregnancies with triplets or more cost 20 times as much. philadelphia researchers found bills add up, because women with twins or more may have more preexisting conditions, and hospital stays are usually longer. new research at the dana farver cancer institute in boston finds poor women are more likely to delay seeing a doctor after finding a breast abnormality. researchers hope their findings will put a new focus on lowering copayments and costs for patients, including fees and child-care expenses. that's a look at some of the day's top health stories. cbs news, new york. >>> coming up next, lady gaga taking her wardrobe to new heights literally. the grand entrance at her album release party. >>> and all work and no play. the vital skill these pandas are le

a doctor is there to help placing the newborn baby on the woman's stomach. larry jacobs, abc news, new york. >> a massive relief effort is underway and much of the help is coming from here in the bay area. lilian kim is live in the newsroom with that part of the story. lilian? >> ama, many people we have talked to say we have had difficulty reaching loved ones and they are getting bits and pieces. one way of dealing with the frustration is keeping busy and doing what they can to help. >> a small and determined group of philippine though-americans were in the market pleading for help. they are members of the filipino community center and for them reaching out is better than watching the devastation on television. >> the communication lines are down. there is no way to get into the other areas. so for us being so far away and as much as we want to help this is our way of helping. >> farther south in san bruno another relief effort for victims of the typhoon. food donations were accepted in place of cash. the collection boxes were full after two hours. >> i bro

a doctor is there to help placing the newborn baby on the woman's stomach. larry jacobs, abc news, new york. >> a massive relief effort is underway and much of the help is coming from here in the bay area. lilian kim is live in the newsroom with that part of the story. lilian? >> ama, many people we have talked to say we have had difficulty reaching loved ones and they are getting bits and pieces. one way of dealing with the frustration is keeping busy and doing what they can to help. >> a small and determined group of philippine though-americans were in the market pleading for help. they are members of the filipino community center and for them reaching out is better than watching the devastation on television. >> the communication lines are down. there is no way to get into the other areas. so for us being so far away and as much as we want to help this is our way of helping. >> farther south in san bruno another relief effort for victims of the typhoon. food donations were accepted in place of cash. the collection boxes were full after two hours. >> i bro

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. >> about the newborn babies, did you get the impression that doctors, nurses and medicine are arriving or are they waiting for that help still? >> well, here at the air force base we have seen many teams of doctors and nurses waiting for available flights to come in. that's part of the problem, finding transportation to get them to the most-needed areas, particularly into some of the remote areas like bantayan island where we were. the problem on some of those islands are not so bad because they didn't get the tidal surge that leyte did. they got the winds that devastated 95% of the islands. nonetheless they are experiencing problems. because they are so far away some of the problems will become critical on the ground in the epicentre. it's a problem, i'm hearing reports. they are doing operations by candle lights. we saw a doctor a day or so ago fly back into cebu to buy sutures and medical equipment because he was stitching up people with a pair of appliers found in a tool kit from a house destroyed in the storm. there are doctors and nurses trying to get to the areas. transportation

. >> america is like a newborn baby now with war veterans because they made such a mistake with vietnam, they are trying to recoup rate from that experience. >> today they let veterans know about what is available and offer help with things like filing medical claims. if of those offering assistance are veterans themselves. >> it has been a rough road to get here. >> definitely was because i was sleeping under the bridge for awhile. >> those who have figured out life post military pay it forward. their commitment to verse never ends. >> i would especially like to help those that are just coming out so they don't get stuck in that rut like i did. >> rut caused by the torment of ptsd. but for every star who showed upped to, there are many more fighting personal ballets on the street. one estimate is one in four homeless is a veteran. no help. they don't see our gratituded to or any day. but after serving our country, we must answer the call to serve them. in richmond, ann notarangelo, kpix 5. >> ann tells us about 100 veterans sought help at the seminar today. the organization say they wi

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placing the newborn baby on the woman's stomach. a little girl unaware of the devastation around her. larry jacobs, abc news. >> a muched weakened haiyan hits china today, but powerful winds are making an impact before it was set to make landfall. it pushed two ships closer to the shores off of southern china. they weigh 300 tons. each lost control of their anchors as the waves surged. rescuers managed to secure the ships and evacuate the 12 crew members. haiyan came on shore this morning in vietnam as a tropical storm, but winds were gust ing at 100 miles an hour. about 600,000 people were evacuated ahead of the storm and some cities are bracing for widespread flooding. six people have died so far. all schools in hanoi are closed an the army has been mobilized. >>> among the american rescue efforts is a group in el segundo where members of the team rubicon have the tools needed to help people in haiyan. final preparations are underway where a team of volunteers is ready to fly to the philippines. members of the team have special sk

winners came from around the world and they include a san francisco company that is helping to cure newborn babiesice. and increasing their chances of surviving their first year of life. >> before they had photo therapy and 20% were dying. >> another local award winner berkeley nonprofit agency called potential energy. it creates and sells specialty stoves to in refugee camps. >>> coming up next in our 6:00 hour. the new bart contracts in danger of falling apart. new reports of am move to throw out the contracts. the controversial issue now threatening the deal and how both sides are reacting. >>> the big day has arrived for a five-year-old batman fan. how san francisco is being transformed into gotham city to make that child's dream come true. >>> good morning. northbound 101 san francisco looks good approaching the 80 split with no major problems. i'll tell you more about the morning commute and the bay area weather. >>> skies are mostly clear. yesterday was all fog city at this time but that is all gone because of a system to the north that will equal a cooler friday forecast. >>> good morning

the global world is changing so much. 7 billion people and every three seconds there's a newborn babyis is a big factor that will drive commodity prices. they're not going to collapse. they'll have short-term, big corrections but long term they have to go up. >> what about oil? we keep hearing about the change in balance of power around the world as u.s. becomes a much greater oil producer but yet prices remain higher. we're still above $120 on wti, above $100 on brent. where do you see that going? >> i just traveled. i just came back from india and i was in singapore and hong k g kong. what i find fascinating is that the price of fuel is so much more expensive in the u.s. i also find reside are packed with cars so activity remains robust. the other factor, that's key for america, low energy cost is a huge benefit to the chemical companies and manufacturing that we're exporting to emerging markets, a higher end product whereas european chemical companies can't compete because they're paying over $10 ncf. the input cost to that manufacturing sector and energy costs as an overall compon

at children's hospital in philadelphia, says swan's findings line up with what he's seeing in newborn babys-- an alarming increase in deformed sex organs. >> lie him down, and let me just examine him. >> dr. snyder operated on one-year-old griffin to correct something called hypospadias, a birth defect that causes problems in urination. but he's good now, right? >> he's a healthy little guy, who's, i think, going to get through the rest of life just aiming without any difficulty at all. >> that's great. >> we hear that there are more and more and more cases of hypospadias. are you seeing a lot? >> 30, 40 years ago, the best data we had then was that hypospadias occurred in about one in every 300 live male births. it's up to now about one in 100, so there's been a three-fold increase. >> there's also been a two-fold increase in another abnormality--undescended testicles. snyder says something seems to be interfering in the womb with the production of testosterone causing the male organs to form improperly, and he suspects it may be phthalates. you're moving in on these chemicals; you don't

we have a newborn baby in the year. i make about $12,000 a year. i'm a part-time employee.ss the country, throughout our organization, is wages that they pay us. they pay us poverty wages. even you see a full-time employee can also make poverty wages as well. >> can you tell us -- if you're not making enough -- congratulations on the baby. >> thank you. >> if you're not making enough from your walmart wages, what other things are you having to do in order to make up for that? >> so there's other things that i find myself doing, you know, to put food on the table. just to put food on the table i find myself standing at food banks. just this month we qualified for food stamps. we got a little -- like, $300 of food stamps. i was able to buy the turkey for our thanksgiving meal. i'm not going to -- i'm not even going to be able to be there. i'll have to be at work. but i have to do things like participate in clinical trials. you know, to put food on the table. to put gas in our tank. i have to -- i have to do things like get payday loans. i don't live check to check. you know,

officers now looking for this man and his newborn baby boy.ie smith is in sunnyvale. this started with a fight about moving the child out of state. >> that's exactly right. the mother is it still here this morning at the family apartment. what investigators are telling us is that the mother and the father got into

they are handling newborn beakss aand some babies were born just before they were evacuated. >> many children have lost their entire families and have been found wandering aimlessly on their own. that 45 has become a major probm here. they are looking at setting up orphanages where they will be given special care an treatment. >> they face a v very long road ahead of them craig live in the fill phoenix, thank you fo euror time todayo in colorado a mine accident hurt two workers and and killed two more. the explosion was blamed on noxious casts. castgases all but two of of the workers have been released from hospital. >>> officials are trying to figure out why a drone malfunctioned. two sailor suffered major burns off the california coast. >> they are using the drone to test the training system and it dakotaed the ship that is back at port for repairs. >> bronco's interim coach is on the move. >> including yesterday's stun you go ustunning upset win u. ufc have won five are o of six games he wille competition if he h would like o remove the tag. del rio is leading the problem keys whi

newborn. speaker through an interpreter, the baby's mother tells us she's very grateful. >> i'm really happy, and i'm really thankful for the police and the people that helped me to find my baby. he was really afraid that i wouldn't be able to find him again or see him again. i was really scared. >> very happy finish to a scary, scary day. that baby, we're happy to report, is safe, and now in custody of arizona's child protective services. the mother is now flying to arizona to reunite with her bouncing baby boy. >> the woman accused of drunk driving and killing a couple in menlo park is expected to enter a plea today. marjorie ritzell is charged with gross vehicular manslaughter. prosecutors say her blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit when she hit and killed the couple as they walked their dog last month. meanwhile, police are trying to track down a potential witness. there are reports a man driving a white ford explorer may have seen the crash and they would like to speak to him. >>> a san jose firefighter recovering this morning after a rough night getting burned during