flights to places like seattle and all along the pacific coast will be most affected. for the burners, three generations of women are united at least, and they will be traveling up to oregon next. but they have opted to drive rather than fly. san francisco international airport will continue with the ground delay program until about 1:00 this morning. and then of course they are going to start to push out some of the flights and assess the situation. the weather here however is not the only problem. there are also storms over chicago and denver that have snarled up air traffic across the country. reporting live in san francisco, abc7 news. >> thank you, sergio. and do stay with abc7 news. we will have weather updates on our website, abc7news.com and on the abc7 morning news at 4:30. >>> something else that could affect your morning commute tomorrow, new carpool lanes on 880 in san jose will officially open in a few hours. the north and southbound lanes between 237 in mill pea disand the 101 will have a new

and more than half of fishing ports on the pacific coast must be rebuilt. step by step they are moving forward. see their stories. every wednesday on the road ahead right here on "newsline." >> emergency workers in mumbai india why are searching for people trapped under a building that collapsed. one was kill and three others injured. part of the five-story apartment building caved in on monday evening. rescue crews rushed to the scene. they are using heavy machinery to pick through the debris. they don't know what happened, but residents have seen heavy rainfall through the start of monsoon season and reporters said they could have given away. more than 70 people were killed in april and the nearby city when an eight-story building under construction collapsed. leaders plan to build a space station by 2020. they will take another direction this week. they will send three astronauts into orbit on tuesday. the spacecraft will plast off from western china at 5:38 local time. two men and woman will take part in the 15-day mission, the longest ever by chinese a

and more than half fishing ports on the pacific coast must be rebuilt. people in northeastern japan still face challenges following the 2011 disaster, but step by step they're moving forward. see their stories every wednesday on "the road ahead" right here on "newsline." >>> chinese leaders say they want an early resumption of the six-party talks on north korea's nuclear development. this comes after a senior north korean official said wednesday that leaders in pyongyang are ready to talk. north korea's first vice foreign minister met in beijing with his chinese counterpart. he said the north koreans are willing to have dialogue with all sides and attend any kind of meeting including six-party talks. chinese foreign ministry spokesperson ying urged officials to come to the negotiating table. >> translator: we heard all parties concerned will cease opportunity presented by changes on the korean peninsula and start working out conditions for restarting the six-party talks. >> a spokesperson added that a chinese leader will soon meet kim in beijing. >>> sen

pacific coast will start to see the heavy rain along wednesday or tuesday. and that includes contour region which includes tokyo as well. they'll start to see the moderate rain starting this afternoon. the northern half of the country is dominated with the high pressure ahead which is making things very dry and hot. now seoul was really hot for the past six days with 30 degrees or even more continuing for the whole week. finally this rain will come in and ease those temperatures down to about 26 degrees. towards the south, heavier rain is here at guangdong province will see the are then shall rainfall. talking about the rain, flooding is still really not alleviated yet here in thailand. i want to show you video coming up from this district. locals and holidaymakers in phuket have had flash floods to deal with. torrential rains triggered by a strong southwest monsoon. drivers found many roads completely under water. emergency services are on stand by to help anyone in trouble. it looks like a devastating situation, but it is going to continue, unfortunately,

only a few rogue agents in ohio two weeks later we find out it's rogue agents all over in the pacific coast region clearly some people in washington d.c. as well as ohio so i don't know whether the president is just getting bad information from his advisors that could potentially be the case i not going to claim the prez. in or knew about it until i know that to be the fact what i know is what the president told us two weeks ago is not the facts as we know them today two weeks later would you think that all political organizations that has been tax relief should be questioned while what i think is that there should be room uniform standards and equal protection under the laws so absolutely we should ask the same questions of conservative groups and liberal groups and clearly that was the problem here is that they weren't some of the liberal leaning groups were getting their approval on the average of thirty to sixty days and and these three hundred conservative groups nearly two hundred of them have yet to get approval three years later and they were asked questions is as ridiculous as you

only a few rogue agents in ohio two weeks later we find out it's rogue agents all over in the pacific coast region clearly some people in washington d.c. as well as ohio so i don't know whether the president is just getting bad information from his advisors that could potentially be the case i not going to claim the present. you know or knew about it until i know that to be the fact what i know is what the president told us two weeks ago is not the facts as we know them today two weeks later would you think that all political organizations that as tax relief should be questioned. was what i think is that there should be room uniform standards and equal protection under the laws so absolutely we should ask the same questions of conservative groups and liberal groups and clearly that was the problem here is that they weren't some of the liberal leaning groups were getting their approval on the average of thirty to sixty days and and these three hundred conservative groups nearly two hundred of them have yet to get approval three years later and they were asked questions is as ridiculous as yo

the we seen rain only across the pacific coast. unfortunately dry weather for the peninsula of korea. we're expecting heavy rain around the shanghai area. and as we go into the weekend, the heaviest rain is going to be found across the southwest once again. now across the pacific we can see lots of blue and orange indicating that this is a tropical depression, and it's going to produce some heavy rain. temperatures are going to be quite the high in chongqing once again. 32 degrees for you. very hot in the korean peninsula. the 31 in seoul, but cooling down to 23 degrees in tokyo. >>> the finally in europe, then, rain has eased in central europe. but the nest system is moving into central europe by sunday. so conditions remain on the critical side. this area has been dealing with excessive conditions. in the balkan peninsula, hail is likely. temperatures are going up to 27 degrees in paris. the 22 in london, and down towards the south, 28 for new athens on friday. here's the extended forecast. >>> and that is all for this edition of

and more than half of fishing ports on the pacific coast must be rebuilt. people in northeastern japan still face challenges following the 2011 disaster, but step by step they're moving forward. see their stories every wednesday on "the road ahead," right here on "newsline." >>> a ship carrying nuclear fuel has delivered its cargo to a dock on the sea of japan coast. it's the first such shipment in two years since the accident at the fukushima daiichi plant. it is bound for the tack ka ham ma power plant. the mixture of reprocessed uranium and plutonium has powered four japanese reactors. but those facilities were idle. the operator of the plant wants to use the fuel in the number 3 reactor. it's still offline, but officials say they'll seek permission to resume operations when new safety guidelines take effect next month. engineers at the damaged nuclear plant may be able to start removing fuel rods from some reactors sooner than expect. officials with fukushima daiichi have approved a plan to speed up the process. they've revised their road map for scrapp

the rainy season front, across the pacific coast of japan, rain showers in tokyo. even by friday evening you could be seeing a pop up number or two. that will start to push off there. that is bringing heavy rainfall out there. it is bringing some reports there. west of shanghai, you're seeing about 250 millimeters. take a look at that area. that is the potential for a new tropical area developing. across the philippines we'll see flow. it could extend down there. that's a look at your temperatures, and here is your extended forecast. >> that's "newsline" for this hour, i'm gene otani in tokyo.

now at age 82, he is the production supervisor for pacific coast tv station. here teaching a lighting class to a new set of interns. >> age is a state of mind. if you don't mind, doesn't matter. >> these days the station is being innone dated by internship requests by college students and mid career professionals who need diggal r shame in taking an unpaid internship. >> they don't feel like they have all the time in the world and it is fairly clear when you watch them go about doing what they are doing. they are not playing around. they are serious. i just enjoy everything i'm doing. every time i go out that door, i learned something. >> it is even better now that he makes the paycheck. >> sometimes the long shots pay off the biggest. >> you can't just walk up to any company and ask for an internship. you need to get college credit if it's unpaid. and we do have a link to kpix.com. perhaps they need to get a job, internship. >> fix that car making all that noise. sue in san francisco, thank you. >>> you know those rare instances when you're in the right place

that's going to bring some coastal showers in and along the pacific coast of japan, even a pop-up thunderstorm on friday around the tokyo area. toward the west, this area of cloud cover moving through central china. as it does so we'll be seeing some heavy rainfall out of this. actually in southern portions of hui bay province, you could see rainfall thursday going into friday. it is going to be bringing widespread showers and precipitation just south of the river basin here. we have those two systems. mack dab in the middle for you in okinawa, you're going to be seeing showers not only in the next several days but extending out through the weekend. farther toward the west, right near the myanmar coast, northern thailand, that's the monsoonal flow we've been talking about here. widespread reports of 150 to 00 meters of rainfall. it is the time of year we see the southwest monsoon kick in. still, even though it is typical pore this time of year, there is a threat for flooding out there. temperatures, bangkok, high of 35. manila, 34. tokyo, 28. offense towards the americas, while out here severa

and more than half of fishing ports on the pacific coast must be rebuilt. people in northeastern japan still face challenges following the 2011 disaster. but step by step, they're moving forward. see their stories every wednesday on "the road ahead" right here on "newsline." >>> let's now bring in robert speta for a check of the weather. robert, we have seen more reports of severe weather in the united states. will things start getting any better for them there? >> well, shery, this is the time of year may throughout june, we do see severe weather especially the central plains even extending off towards the east. and here going through the rest of thursday, it does look like more severe weather is in the forecast. all around kansas, western oklahoma, continuing to push off here towards the east. this very slow-moving frontal boundary which is going to be bringing, well, more gusty winds, up to 100 kilometers an hour possibly, large hail, still the threat of tornadoes with it. don't expect a large outbreak, but that lingering threat will continue to be here,

and more than half the fishing ports on the pacific coast must be rebuilt. people in northeastern japan still face challenges following the 2011 disaster, but step by step, they're moving forward. see their stories every wednesday on "the road ahead" right here on "newsline." >>> nuclear regulators in japan are trying to learn from the mistakes of the past. they're introducing a set of stricter safety guidelines for plants across the country. the guidelines from japan's nuclear regulation authority owe bloej raters to take steps to deal with severe accidents. up until now, such measures have been voluntarily tear. the guidelines ask operators to draw up emergency scenarios for stronger earthquakes and tsunami. the regulators plan to start receiving applications for restarting plants on july 8th. the day the guidelines are scheduled to take effect. the operators of six plants are preparing to apply to go back online. the regulators say they'll need at least six months to screen their applications. but power company executives may have to wait longer than that

and more than half of the fishing ports on the pacific coast must be rebuilt.eople in northeastern japan still face challenges following the 2011 disaster. but step by step, they're moving forward. see their stories every wednesday on "the road ahead" right here on "newsline." >>> time now for a check on world weather. people in western japan are dealing with record-breaking amounts of rainfall. meteorologist sayaka mori tells us about the bad weather. >> yes, catherine, very heavy rain has been battering much of japan due to a seasonal frontal system. some areas have had record amounts of rain. to show you the situation, i want to show you this video. the rain was much needed, but now it has become a hazard. flooding has left several houses in itchkawa and coia ma prefectures inundated. in yamaguchi prefecture, some 300 millimeters of rain has fallen in a day which exceeds the total amount of rainfall in june. more than 200 people have evacuated from their homes because of the rising water river level. lots of floods are occurring and the ground is already sat

another low-pressure area moving across the pacific coast of japan.ging heavy rain into the region as well. you still could be seeing showers going through thursday. even into friday, after that pushes by tokyo, you'll be expecting some showers to pop up into the afternoon hours especially inland. once you get the max of that daytime heating. before pushing off east, behind it, okinawa, you're getting a break for a short time on friday. but by saturday, this low-pressure area, which is bringing rough weather across china now, will eventually work east. actually, yesterday we were talking about hubei province seeing the bulk of the precipitation. you confirmed that with about 115 millimeters of rainfall. does look like west of shanghai, that's where the rough weather's going to be going next. up to 250 millimeters could be occurring here. so the threat of flooding and even landslides is going to be accompanied with it. as far as the temperatures, well, it's into the 20s here. tokyo cooling off to 23 on friday. but the good news by the weekend, it will

and more than half the fishing ports on the pacific coast must be rebuilt. people in northeastern japan still face challenges following the 2011 disaster, but step by step they're moving forward. see their stories every wednesday on "the road ahead" right here on "newsline." >>> workers at japan's damaged nuclear plant have detected unusually high levels of a radioactive substance off the coast of the facility. plant operator tokyo electric power company isn't ruling out the possibility that contaminated ground water is seeping into the sea. tepco workers tested samples from a port near fukushima daiichi. they found the water contained ten times more radioactive tritium than previous samples. but they said the figure is still less than one-fiftieth of the government-set safety limit. workers found tritium exceeding the safety level earlier this month in water drawn from a well near one of the plant's reactors. tepco managers say they will re-examine the data from the sea and well water. they hope to determine whether polluted ground water is reaching the oce

part of next week, that tropical area very well could push off towards the north and impact the pacific coast of japan with high waves and even heavy rainfall. still long range on that. we want to continue to keep a really close eye on it. what's impacting out here now is the rainy season front. over here towards okinawa and extending west, we have seen rainfall reports out of here in the past 24 hours upwards about 250 millimeters. now as we go into saturday, some areas still very well could see another 250 millimeters. so flooding at risk here. okinawa, you got a break on friday. as that low pushes off towards the east, that's going to be bringing heavy rainfall with it. mainland japan, sunny conditions for the most part. kyoto, you're going to be getting near 33 degrees on monday. 27 typically is the average. even tokyo getting to 29, which is above average as well. things really starting to heat up. now let's take a look over towards the americas. also talking about tropical systems out here. tropical storm andrea caused some tornadoes across the florida peninsula. really weak ones, but a

that's going to shift towards the pacific coast here mainly because you have this area coming in from the south. that's going to start to pull in some moisture towards this frontal area and really you're going to see some heavy rainfall out here across the tokyo areas. now, this area though that is our tropical depression right now expecting to become a tropical storm as it pushes out to the north. not a typhoon quite yet, but it's still going to bring some gusty winds across the southern japanese islands br weakening and merging with that front. right now it's bringing heavy rainfall across much of the philippines, manila seeing about 250 millimeters of rainfall here in the next several days. some areas you're really looking at the risk of flash flooding out of this as the moisture continues to stream out of the south china sea, pulls across the philippines here. most of the heaviest rainfall along the west coast and then wraps around our tropical depression some time on tuesday will develop to a tropical storm. bangkok at 34, mainly tropics looking into the 30s, but where you are se

san pablo bay, san francisco bay and along the pacific coast. so watch out for that and also some mire waves. double the significant height that we normally see. right now as we look at our live doppler 7 hd radar satellite. clear conditions. not seeing fog at this hour. as you head out today, just maybe pack a light sweater for the early morning hours. 58 degrees will get you going. inland, 58 degrees around the bay. 54 along the coast. it will start to warm up to 76 degrees by noon. 84 degrees by 4:00 p.m. this afternoon and lots of sunshine. 76 around the bay. 60 along the coast. clouds and fog will start to roll in a little bit over the evening hours. here's a look at the golden gate bridge and we do have pretty clear conditions out here as well but also air quality, tree rag weed, gas, ozone moderate levels. high uv index. pack the sunscreen. let's look at traffic. that crash i was telling you about how cleared. that was along eastbound 24. no longer there but what we do have is plenty of construction. as we take you over to highway 4 eastb

manager, took an internship, learned the ropes and now at age 82 he's the production supervisor for pacific coast tv station here teaching a lighting klass to a new set of interns. >> age is a state of mind. >> these days, the station is being inundated by internship requests from college students and increasing number of prochgsals who need digital media experience and have no shame taking an unpaid internship. >> they don't feel like they've got all the time in the world, and it's fairly clear when you watch them go about doing what they're doing. they're not -- you know, they're not playing around. they're serious. >> i just enjoy everything i'm doing because every time i go out that door, i've learned something. >> and it's even better now that he makes a paycheck. now, it can be tricky if you're not coming out of a four-year college, if you're not a young student, you are in your mid career. you do need to still get credit perhaps your local community college if you're not getting paid. that's one of the rules. now, for more information on how to find an internship, we did put a link to inte

. >>> our "instant index" begins tonight with two breathtaking images off the pacific coast.cture going viral today, a dolphin leaping through a watery hula hoop. and this video from the same stretch of ocean. a stampede of dolphins as far as the eye can see, a mega pod, two thousand in all. it turns out southern california has the greatest concentration of dolphins on earth, more than florida, alaska and hawaii combined. >>> what a farewell for a principle in massachusetts, roger boddie, retiring after 36 years thought he was making a video about the school. watch what happened in the parking lot behind him. >> this can't be. this cannot be. >> that's right. a flash mob and the sign says it all. thank you for believing in us. >> i don't deserve this. well, when people ask me what i'm going to miss, i think i know what it is. >> but he did add that kids will do anything to get out of class. >>> speaking of flash mobs, it made the oxford english dictionary today along with the word tweet, defining it as to make a posting on the social networking service twitter. that's in addi

moderate county california is drinking water and that may be just what you get county is on the pacific coast is just one of many in california to have dodgy drinking water in the areas water problem has been boiling over since back in two thousand and eleven the county issued an advisory if you do what water safety you better drink bottled water two years later the residents faucets continue to pump out polluted water nitrates interfere with oxygen carrying capacity in the blood so access levels and drinking water can cause serious illness and even death in invents agricultural runoff has been considered the main contributor as farms in the area use nitrates as a fertilizer research has been conducted to find another water source but two years later there's been little to no progress so what are residents to do archie's correspondent linda joined me earlier to discuss this problem. monterey county is one of the largest agricultural centers the united states and it provides billions of dollars worth of food for the entire world really i mean if you eat packaged salary you look on the back it

monterey county california is drinking water and that may be just what you get the county on the pacific coast is just one of many of california's that have the dodgy drinking water and the areas water problem boiling over back in two thousand and eleven the county issued an advisory if you want safe water to drink bottled only and two years later the residents faucets continued to pump out polluted water nitrates with the oxygen carrying capacity in the blood so excessive levels of this drinking water can cause serious illness and even death an incidence agricultural runoff has been considered the main contributor as farms in the area use nitrates as a fertilizer research has been conducted to find another water source but two years later there's been little progress progress so what to residents do well with me to discuss this i'm joined now by art he's ramona koval and hi there ramon what's causing the problem this nitrate problem. sure monterey county is one of the largest agricultural centers the united states and it provides billions of dollars worth of food for the entire world really i

archaeologist is fascinated by tobacco, tracing its use among the native people in california and the pacific coast. >> tobacco use was present 8 or 10,000 years ago, and hunter good-gatherers probably figured out the special properties of the plant. >> she says the clues were burned into ancient pipes, some found in pristine condition, and another undisclose sed site in the bay area. first to document exactly what was being smoked and when, they used test pipes to burn dozens of favorite species and then compared the residues to what still remains inside the stone pipes. >> the residues inside the open spaces will preserve over thousands of years relatively unchanged. >> so when we started obtaining positive results, it was very exciting. >> still, some more accuracy she microscopic samples were analyze ed using modern technology. this is the uc davis genome center. >> you have to fragment the molecules and really identify which compound it was. >> the individual? -- the verdict? tobacco, and the evidence suggests they smoked it more than a thousand years ago and perhaps cultivated it for centers.

archaeologist is fascinated by tobacco, tracing its use among the native people in california and the pacific coast. >> tobacco use was present 8 or 10,000 years ago, and hunter good-gatherers probably figured out the special properties of the plant. >> she says the clues were burned into ancient pipes, some found in pristine condition, and another undisclose sed site in the bay area. first to document exactly what was being smoked and when, they used test pipes to burn dozens of favorite species and then compared the residues to what still remains inside the stone pipes. >> the residues inside the open spaces will preserve over thousands of years relatively unchanged. >> so when we started obtaining positive results, it was very exciting. >> still, some more accuracy she microscopic samples were analyze ed using modern technology. this is the uc davis genome center. >> you have to fragment the molecules and really identify which compound it was. >> the individual? -- the verdict? tobacco, and the evidence suggests they smoked it more than a thousand years ago and perhaps cultivated it for centers.

pacific coast region where these peopletrap were illegally targeted, asked questions, what are the contentsur members' prayers. asked them to pledge not to protest in front of planned parenthood in exchange2&es @&hc% the 501c4.89j53 we have copies of the irs stationary asking inappropriate illegal questions which proves their statement in cincinnati is completely bogus. >> this reminds me too often of what happened in my home state of illinois. chicago machine, these guys are using the muscle of government to snuff outyt#a any political opponent they say see. >> sean: we have the transcripts of interviews of employees from cincinnati. i want to go through it. the narrative they have been advancing does not appear to be true based on what the employees are saying. one of transcripts didp supervisor ever give indication of the search in any other context. he told me that washington, d.c. wanted some cases. next one, an interview with 9ñ as of april 2010, the 40 cases were held at the moment in your group, is that right? >> some were. >> how many were held? >> some went to washington, d.c.. >>

this weather system means flights to places like seattle and all along the pacific coast will be most affected. for the burners, three generations of women are united at least, and they will be traveling up to oregon next. but they have opted to drive rather than fly. san francisco international airport will continue with the ground delay program until about 1:00 this morning. and then of course they are going to start to push out some of the flights and assess the situation. the weather here however is not the only problem. there are also storms over chicago and denver that have snarled up air traffic across the country. reporting live in san francisco, abc7 news. >> thank you, sergio. and do stay with abc7 news. we will have weather updates on our website, abc7news.com and on the abc7 morning news at 4:30. >>> something else that could affect your morning commute tomorrow, new carpool lanes on 880 in san jose will officially open in a few hours. the north and southbound lanes between 237 in mill pea disand the 101 will have a new carpool lane. they will be operational between 5:00 a

glimpse of what they were up against when they arrived here in september, 2009, the sprawling pacific coast port of buenaventura, colombia. the agents got a tip to be on the lookout for cargo containers of fertilizer arriving from mexico. they were stunned by what they found. >> there it is! >> holy ( bleep ). >> logan: shrink-wrapped bundles of money. this one is $700,000 u.s. in $20 bills. as they searched through more containers, both here and in mexico, they found staggering amounts of cash. more and more money, $41 million in that first seizure alone. you'd never actually seen anything like it? >> luis sierra: no, we'd never seen containers full of cash. >> logan: luis sierra was directing the ice operation that day. he told us that, until then, tales of containers full of cash were just a myth. >> logan: how much space physically does that kind of money take up? >> sierra: $41 million is... is probably waist-deep in maritime shipping container, waist-deep of cash. >> logan: how long did it take you to count it? >> sierra: it took us 30 days to count. >> logan: teams of agents worked e

finally reach at least the astronomical definition of summer coming in late on thursday night to the pacific coast. there by the way is the low pressure you can see off the pacific northwest and as this low moves inland, it will take the low clouds with it. so we'll start with mostly sunny skies tomorrow except along the shoreline. we'll bump up the temperatures a little approaching 90 by saturday. on the other side of the country it's a different story. they are getting slammed by thunderstorms in new york and down through raleigh, north carolina. we'll just be happy with temperatures being a little warmer tomorrow. thunderstorm complexes have now moved out there to the east coast. 'tis the season as they get that warm gulf moisture still colliding with the remnants of spring coming down from canada and the results are electrifying. for us tomorrow heading out of the bay area looks good maybe a dot or two of fog at the airport. weather shouldn't slow you down if you are heading out. 66 a high at sfo. partly cloudy skies in new york, sunshine in denver and chicago. the southland looks nice, as wel

down the pacific coast highway across the golden gate bridge. they seem to be coming. would you trust them? you would have to be in the car of course but still turning the controls over and sitting there and watching this car automatically get you to your destination. i don't know. i do know, no, not for me. your calls -- back to your calls and comments on twitter in just a second. first, hear this story about identity theft. another one. this one out of massachusetts. a university up in massachusetts doesn't say which one has informed nearly 1700 individuals that their private data including social security numbers, may have been compromised when one of the computers was infected by a malicious software program. oops. identity theft possibility here it is again. you have beware of it unless you're protected against it as i am with lifelock ultimate. the most comprehensive i.d. theft protection available. but lifelock, of course, can't protect you or your bank account if you're not a member. here's what you do. visit lifelock.com and enter the promo code press 10 or ca

hurricane center in miami says cosme is to generate large swells that are affecting parts of mexico's pacific coasta: most of us are waking up too mild conditions. partly cloudy skies and temperatures currently in the '60s. san jose currently and 66. concord is at 63. following december's into the afternoon, futurecast for doing a pretty good job tracking those numbers. by 12:00 around lunchtime, expect partly cloudy sky. of those of you on the east bay. looks like we could hold onto '60s for places like santa rosa and take a look at afternoon highs, by 3:00 p.m. today, corn stars that the land. that indicates eighties. temperatures will cool yet again by later on tonight. in fact the '70s and a few lingering eighties. here is a closer look at afternoon highs for today. east bay anterior spot with antioch at a high of 85, 84 and san ramon. mostly '70s for east bay shoreline. partly cloudy conditions in mid '70s for hayward and upper '70's and union city. it will be a pretty nice day in the south bay. and take a look at san jose with a high of 81 degrees pretty warm conditions permit san francisco f

coast guard helicopter evacuating an 80-year-old fisherman. the man had fallen ten feet between decks. the crew called for help. this happened 230 miles south of san diego out in the pacific. the coast guard flew the man to san diego. >>> a graduate student from cal expressed deep remorse today, as he was sentenced to six years in prison for the drunk driving accident that killed his girlfriend and her young son. the 22-year-old and her 6-year- old son died following the accident in berkely last year. lopez had recently graduated from uc berkely. he pleaded guilty to two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. in court today, he asked forgiveness, and says every day he wishes he could change what he did. >>> a 25-year-old san jose man is under arrest tonight in connection with a homicide early sunday morning in sunnyvale. steven kraig bowie jr. is held on a no bail warrant. investigators say he shot and killed a man on fremont avenue. officers took him into custody at his home last night. >>> the san francisco fire department is facing a whopping $542 million in fines for pollution. a lawsuit by the bay area quality management district says the problem i

coast guard helicopter evacuating an 80-year-old fisherman. the man had fallen ten feet between decks. the crew called for help. this happened 230 miles south of san diego out in the pacific. the coast guard flew the man to san diego. >>> a graduate student from cal expressed deep remorse today, as he was sentenced to six years in prison for the drunk driving accident that killed his girlfriend and her young son. the 22-year-old and her 6-year- old son died following the accident in berkely last year. lopez had recently graduated from uc berkely. he pleaded guilty to two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. in court today, he asked forgiveness, and says every day he wishes he could change what he did. >>> a 25-year-old san jose man is under arrest tonight in connection with a homicide early sunday morning in sunnyvale. steven kraig bowie jr. is held on a no bail warrant. investigators say he shot and killed a man on fremont avenue. officers took him into custody at his home last night. >>> the san francisco fire department is facing a whopping $542 million in fines for pollution. a lawsuit by the bay area quality management district says the problem i

if you showers exiting south at city but more approaching city one and the pacific coast line.sula, take a look at the east bay shoreline. showering activity approaching the nimitz freeway and that is also where we are seeing some heavy traffic. aside from that, drier weather. expect scattered off and on showers through out the day. later on tonight, we could accumulate upwards of 2 in. and the north bay hills. a quarter of an edge for the east bay. we could set some rainfall records when this is all said and done. i have a full look at your future cast four coming up in my next report. >> we're in a news room following the latest with the supreme court at looks like we will have to wait one more day to get the ruling on proposition 8. the justices have three cases remaining, prop 8 and the defense of marriage act being two of them. two possible outcomes of the supreme court ruling on prop 8. this symbol is outcome is that prop 8 is declared unconstitutional which means gay marriages legal nationwide. is that scenario, prop 8 is rejected on more narrow grounds, which means that

the issue is this, ports are lifelines across the river and pacific coast in my district and they are being choked off by lack of maintainance to dredging. one of my local newspapers commented if a farmer was unable to ship his wheat because a road became impassable, the federal government would rightly fix this issue immediately. it is no different for the dire circumstances facing our nation's navigable waterways. we need to address this issue as soon as possible. as a member of the appropriations committee, i have taken the action in search of a swift solution and it included million dollar trust fund for dredging in our energy and water development appropriations bill. we must maintain our maritime ports. nd with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: are there further requests for one-minute speechs? under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2013, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. mcgovern: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate this time to ddress my colleagues about one of the mos

he says this on an ocean self-off the coast of the pacific island could be the reminisce of her planeempting to become the first-person to fly around the globe vanished off the island, the last place her monitors lost contact with her. not a trace of her or her plane have ever been found. they believe it actually went down off nikumaroro. i held up what it might look like against his new imagine. >> why do you think that matches earhart's plane? >> we know how it breaks up in a crash. we studied other crashes and we know that the center section of the airplane is the strongest part, the part that holds together. the engines tend to come off, the outer wings come off. it breaks behind the wing. so the size of the anomaly imagine matches the part that hangs together the best. >> he admits there's a chance this isn't earhart's plane. still he's trying to raise $3 million for an expedition there next year. but there's plenty of skeptics of his latest theory and of his work overall. they believe he attached himself to the idea that the remains of earhart's plane are there and they believe

oil and natural gas resources, allowing the new energy production in parts of the atlantic and pacific coast. the president's plan refuses even to let virginia develop its offshore resources until after 217 and canceled a lease sale that would have allowed them to go offshore two years ago. the republican plan supports a -- supports the bipartisan wishes of the virginia govern dwhrork congressional delegation and the public by requiring an offshore lease sale to be held. the president's plan suppresses job creation and economic growth. our plan, mr. speaker, in contrast would create 1.2 million jobs long-term and would create $1.5 billion in new revenue. this republican approach is exactly what our country and our economy needs right now. we can do better than what the president outlined yesterday that stifles american energy production and raises energy costs. i urge adoption of the rule and the underlying legislation. with that, i yield back my time to the gentleman from utah. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. the gentleman from florida is recognized. my hastings

because i have a hard time pronouncing his name, but he is now the commander of all the coast guard in the pacific, so admiral z >> mike, thank you very much and good morning, everybody. just to follow on admiral beeman's remarks, this is really all about building partnerships. and i'll go back to when i was the federal on scene coordinator for the deep water horizon oil spill with 50,000 responders, many of them military, but also faith-based. we had 35 federally recognized tribes, we had perish presidents that all have an equal voice and when you have any response this is also reality tv reality tv will try to triangulate against the first responders so it's critical you have that partnership built up front and going forward, recognizing any plan we come up with probably will not survive the first shot in any campaign. but the partnerships must endure because unity of effort and unity of command are critical in anything that we do. what better way to showcase what our united states navy and our marine corps, our sea-going services, bring to the table in an emergency response, but recognize that