starting tomorrow, he'll anchor and produce a ten-minute segment called the ron owens report that's part of a cost cutting move of kgo radio cumulus media. owens insists he's not retiring. >>> never more than seven minutes away from the accuweather forecast. here's meteorologist mike nicco. >> they've been trying to get me on the show for years. it never really worked because of our schedules. unfortunately, it's never going to happen now. that's too bad. hi everybody. a look from the east bay hills. you can see it's very hazy out there on this spare the air day. no wood burning today. we're going to go from fog to clouds today and some showers develop in the north bay. my highlight for tonight, we have a better chance of receiving some light showers as they move from north to south and several weak storms will hit us this week. highs today, will be pretty comfortable. upper 50s to low 60s until you get in the south bay. san jose south where we've got mid 60s. you can see green out there and yellow. you may have a moderate shower. temperatures run from the upper 40s to the low 50s. maybe

ron owens has hosted his show for 42 years. owens will no longer age cover his three-hour talk show, instead producing ten-minute segments, part of a cost-cutting report by kgo owners cumulus media. owens insists he's not retiring. >>> tomorrow is your chance to get a free pass to one of california's 40 redwood state parks. starting 8:00 a.m., you'll get passes for free admission for saturday, february 10th. the save the redwoods league says it is to celebrate 100 years of saving california's iconic redwood forests. if you want more information how to get a free pass, go to abc7news.com. >>> many people enjoyed art on display in downtown san francisco. abc news was on spear street to check out the east cut art fair. four bay area galleries collaborated to display a variety of paintings and photographs and sculptures. >> this has been art week and art weekend in san francisco. and so it was a way to be part of that. >> the fair even featured artwork made from shredded-up money. organizers of the show say they'd like to host simi

prize-winning journalist ron suskind frequently writes about around american presidents and national affairs. tonight, a more personal subject. suskind speaks honestly about his son, owen. >> fall of 1993, we arrived in d.c., my wife and i, cornelia and two lovely kids and i'm the senior national affairs reporter for the wall street journal. so i've got to kill people to get-- i killed ten guys to get the job, fabulous job. the moment i arrived, we found out our son, our little guy, is autistic. he vanishes on us, that we-- we hae no way to talk to him, and it crushes us. when we first heard the word autism, we were stunned. i said, you mean like rain man? like dustin hoffman in that movie? and the doctor says, "well maybe, but you know he speaks and some of them never get their speech back." and that's the last thing i heard in that appointment. how could that be, that can't be my son. it was and our education was about to begin. there's no way to talk to him, he can't even make his needs known, we just watched him. then all of a sudden, it dawns in us, "what's he doing, he's doing what we all do, story." he's watching the disney animated movies. all the ones you know