for 14 years, he was the head chef for randy parary restaurants in sacramento. today, he's traded in his chef's hat to promote, educate, and even celebrate produce with other chefs. >> i use email. i use the phone. but the best thing to do is to be able to go into a restaurant, to go into the kitchen, to find the person cooking the food, and say, "hey, what can i get you? what are you looking for?" >> i would just be doing seed production if it weren't for jim driving in here and refusing to drive away and sayin "no, i really want this stuff. no, you don't understand, i really do want to buy this stuff." and "i really want this, and i really want it now, and i really want some, and i wnt samples," and you know, so forth and so on despite my best efforts to get rid of him. >> as chef michael tuohy starts preparing meals with the greens, he admits his job would be so much more difficult if it were not for produce experts like jim mills. >> jim fills a need here that nobody else does, and that is he--his company and him, particularly, works with several small farms

. >>> a two-year-old girl snatched in sacramento. the prime suspect, her father. why the pair may now be in the bay area. >>> this may have been the window and that window is now closed. >> wild week on wall street. investors sense scrambling. how the dramatic ups and downs are impacting silicon valley. good evening, i'm ken. >> and i'm elizabeth cook. police in the north bay arrested three of four suspects in a home invasion robbery. let's get to don knapp. he is live with late developments in the search for the fourth suspect. don. >> reporter: elizabeth, i think they are going to rely on the other three suspects to get that fourth suspect because they shut down operations for the night. this follows a home invasion operation, a home invasion robbery that was described as a violent affair. just about 5:30 this evening, san rafael police officers thought they saw a suspect car, they made an arrest. police spokeswoman margo takes it from there. >> when they pulled over, they jumped out of the car. two of them were in custody. one of them we believe may be hiding i

sacramento...nd what they're now ca a crime scene... . >>> breaking news in the search for a 2-year-old girl. what police have found near sacramento and what they are now calling a crime scene. >>> tragedy at a state fair caught on camera. what happened after that stage collapsed on the music fans in indianapolis. >> found it very interesting and trying to deflect responsibility. we aren't the ones that created a crisis. >>> a twitter crank by a popular rapper. what he did that has police threatening to press charges. i'm anne makovec. ann notarangelo has the night off. breaking news on that state wide amber alert for a 2-year- old sacramento girl. police have found the car belonging to the father and the fbi confirms to cbs5 the bodies of the man and his young daughter are inside. he is suspected of killing madeline fay last weekend after losing joint custody. but today that car was found near the remote town of somerset east of sacramento. it is a crime scene and amber alert messages on freeway s

>>> an amber alert for a 2-year-old girl abducted in sacramento. the bay area connection to the case. >>> swat teams called to a north bay neighborhood. a major response to a home invasion robbery and the search for a suspect. >>> in less than an hour, stumping for presidential support in iowa. hear from the republican who's not on the campaign trail but steal a lot of the limelight. >>> thanks for joining us, today, the hunt continues for a man connected to a home invasion robbery in the north bay. police say he may be armed and dangerous. swat teams from three different agencies responded to the incident last night. a woman said that several men, at least one of them, armed, forced their way into her home. later an officer saw four men in the car matching those descriptions. two were caught immediately, another at 8:00 last night. >> he was actually found at the end of the block in the parking lot of the apartment complex hiding under a car. >> about 50 officers took part in the hunt for the suspect. a chp helicopter also combed the area. the sea

several cities have filed suit in sacramento to stop the project. the coalition that includes palo alto, african and menlo parks says the estimates on ridership and traffic impacts are flawed. the judge is going to rule in the next 90 days. >>> it is always nice to have a clean driving record but to do it for decades and more than a million miles, that's impressive. the postal workers honored for reaching that milestone now. >> reporter: he is doing what he has done for the last 31 years as a letter carrier. but he has something special sitting inside his mail truck. an award for safety. >> i am proud of myself. >> reporter: yun is one of the 22 postal carriers that achieved hitting 1 million miles on their mail route without getting in any kind of an accident. the bay valley district honored them with the 13th annual million mile club ceremony. >> and for my kids, my wife, my family, i'm proud of it. >> you take things like that for granted sometimes but what an accomplishment. i'm proud of that. >> reporter: it would be equal to driving around the

sacramento fbi issued this amber alert yesterday.mily members have not seen madeline samaan and her father for days now. the mother waited a couple days after he didn't return to call miss for help, then the amber alert went out yesterday. the signs are up on the highways across the bay area. they are still up this morning. madeline and her parents liver in sacramento, but authorities say the toddler's father has some bay area ties and they think this is one of several places he may be headed if he hasn't fled the country already. >> he wasn't using a cell phone or any credit cards. and considering a child of tinder years of two years of age, we thought it was necessary to issue an endangered missing advisory that went out to over 600 different agencies through the state of california. >> here's a description of the vehicle he may be driving. anyone who recognizes this vehicle is asked to give the california highway patrol a call. ali rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> and stay with ktvu for continuing coverage of the search for madeli

. >> a two-year-old girl snatched in sacramento. who police believe took her. >> this may be their window and that window is now closed. >> the wild week on wall street. wasn't just scary for your 401k. what it means for the silicon valley. >> dana is off tonight. i'm elizabeth cook. a statewide amber alert is still on tonight. >> that alert was issued today. even though the girl was reported missing earlier this week and there is reason to believe that the pair may be here in the bay area. robert on why that child may be in danger. instead, you're looking at the last recorded images of samen and his two-year-old daughter, madeleine, at a raley's grocery checkout in sacramento. that was last saturday morning. it's also the same day the fbi tells cbs 5samen was notified he lost custody of his daughter. the girl's mother did not report her missing until tuesday, telling the fbi it was not uncommon for her ex-husband to return the girl late following a visit. but after three days of searching his home in this upscale sacramento neighbo

i know folks out in sacramento are enjoying the mid-80s. often it's so hot in sacramento and davis that it's difficult to move around in the mid-afternoon hours. not last week, not this coming week after this. 67 in san bruno tomorrow. 73 in san mateo. your forecast looks like this and i definitely do sound like a broken record. somebody the other day e-mailed in, he said there's your weekend always in view. he said you know how much times you say fog. it was a lot. i counted it up. that's my main weather feature and that's been the way it's been. >> it's better than record high temperatures. people having to go to cooling centers things we are seeing in other parts of the country. >> it's pretty great. think about how much the electrical costs have gone down. >> thanks, bill. >>> the nfl has become the first major u.s. professional league to test the players for human growth hormone. the players ratified a contract that includes that provision. the goal is to start testing by the first week of the regular season this year. an official anno

. >>> and still to come at 11:00, a sacramento couple is behind bars tonight in the bay area. accused of forcing three teenagers into prostitution. we'll show you what tipped off police to the operation. >>> plus, they're called kids of courage. we'll show you all it took to give 150 kids with cancer a cross-country vacation. >>> and the first memorial on the national mall dedicated to someone who did not serve as president opens tomorrow. we'll give you a tour. turn left. you have arrived. sweet belt. e-reader for textbooks. gps. hd video cam for lectures. game pad. have you considered this by motorola ? it's got all that and more than 200,000 apps. technology to learn and play on-the-go. only at verizon. get the latest smartphones like the more powerful than ever droid x2 by motorola. buy one for $199.99, get another one free. >>> a sacramento couple is behind bars tonight on charges of forcing three teenaged girls into prostitution in south san francisco. south san francisco police arrested the couple yesterday at a hotel. officers would only say the hotel was near highway

one report of an illness and one death in sacramento.was processed at the cargill arkansas plant. the investigators found a link between cargill product and the illness. 36 million pounds is being pulled. one of the biggest recall in u.s. history. here is what you need to look for. turkey was sold under a number of brands including safeway. cargill honeysuckle white. fit and active. riverside and growinger. sold at safeway, winco, kroger, food for less and food company store. it includes the code: "est. p-963." you can find it on the label. the federal government says you can safely eat contaminated turkey if you cook it thoroughly. they recommend ten minutes. get it to 160 degrees. if you have question or concerns just throw it away. you want to be safe rather than sorry. the other top story in marin county. abc7's terry mcsweeney is there. it looks cold out there. >> it is cold but a warm story. at the marine mammal center. today they will release the 10,000th patient, the 10,000th sea lion. this is jim, the spokesperson for the marin

embassy and fbi agents are now working to find weinstein. >>> raging waters in sacramento remain closed after a chlorine leak sent 20 people to the hospital. it caused a high concentration of chlorine to be released into the wave pool. 9 of the 20 people were children and people were complaining of respiratory problem and burning eyes and throats. >> i felt like i had to get out. >> there was bubbling and it started smelling everywhere and head to evacuate the pools. >> they are investigating and all the people are expected to recover. park officials have not decided to reopen the park but the wave pool will remain closed until that investigation is complete. >>> in politics, president barack obama begins the second day of his bus tour in iowa. he held town hall meetings and encouraged people to help jump start the economy. today the president will meet with farmers and small business owners and president obama wraps up his bus tour tomorrow. >>> 10 candidates in san francisco will take part in a debate. the debate is at the university at the mission day conference center and ed lee and

how that will change your weather for tomorrow coming up. ,, sacramento have been evacuated sacramento remain out of their homes... as fire crews struggle with a burning railroa >>> thousands of families near sacramento are out of their homes tonight. fire crews are struggling to deal with a burning railroad tanker car that's loaded with propane fuel. maria medina is live with a closer look at the impact and what they plan to do. >>> reporter: the fire has been going on for nearly 30 hours and actually any second any minute now, we expect the sky here behind me to change. right now fire crews should be starting to siphon 29,000 gallons of propane from the tank and burning it off in a makeshift pond created today. it will cause huge plumes of smoke but that's normal. a group of specialists from texas flew in to assist in the operation. the goal is to have the fire out by tomorrow morning. 4800 homes and businesses are evacuated. we spoke to some of those people and here's what they had to say today. >> it's hard because i'm missing school, too. and it's just hard right now. >> it's sort

even when sacramento cuts their funds. problem is, parents in some communities can afford a lot more than parents in others. we bring in kris sanchez who joins us live from san jose with what this means for kids. >> reporter: hi there, raj. i'm here at galarza hammer schools in san jose. here last year the p.t.a. raised $18,000. not the kind of fundraising our moms did through bake sales when we were kids. a public education -- public education funding is supposed to come from the state in an effort to make sure all of it is fair across the board. when sacramento cuts, parents step in. some parents have more to give than others. >> we have a great school here. it's a small school, but it's an awesome school. we're proud of it. >> reporter: the 450 students at almaden school are making academic progress. while they're hard at work in the classroom, many of their parent are hard at work fundraising to pay for extra programs. >> more assemblies, more fun art projects that we can do, you know, family craft nights, we do a lot

was a quotation about 80 full-time reporters and editors in sacramento in 1999. by 2010, there were only 35. he said, "this is a state with more than $1 trillion economy, 250,000 state employees, 10,000 schools, the biggest prison system in the country. there is a lot to cover, a lot of room for waste, fraud, and corruption, with just 35 reporters covering state government, it is very hard to keep up." let me ask you, what are politicians getting away with right now? [laughter] >> i do not know if we get away with this, but i do agree that the state of california, the people of california are not served well when we do not have a robust media. the fact is that oftentimes, you have reporters who are not as experienced, may not have as many sources, and as a result, they end up being rather superficial in some of their ridings, and that is not a good thing. it is extremely important to have a robust media to hold all of us accountable. part of the solution is what you hear here, which is a catalyst of individuals in new media, different types of media, and i think

southern sacramento valley. as the pacifica digs in clearer that will -- i think we had our window of opportunity but we are closing it. 60s and 70s in is redwood city. southwest 23. i focus on this because it tells me almost everything i need to know. if the low clouds are there and concord, fairfield, vacaville are getting a west, southwest wind there is not change in our pattern. big system for this time of year digging in. and that will settle in on the west coast and probably hang out there. it's the betweener. the high pressure system which tried to flex its muscle last week. and then just got knocked out. we'll continue to get pushed off back toward the east as that system settles in. cool to the coast. mild inland. fox sun breezy. sunshine a little coastal passions. and again when you look out seven days and don't have much of a difference it tells you you're stuck. maybe warmer on tuesday or wednesday. it looks like a continuation of what you see is what you get. >> okay, thank you. >>> 5:10. gaining gr

much washington has looked like sacramento in the last few weeks. partisan fighting, the gridlock, the inability to have a compromise. so you have this supercommittee you talked about that now is going to have a lot of say so, a lot of power over what the federal government spends. you can absolutely bet that californians are going to be watching that closely. we have a member on that commission from southern california. but california really needs federal help. i mean, this has been a very big thing for us. the budget is predicated on certain dollars that come from the federal government. if the feds decide they can't spend that money, then there are also back at the negotiating table of what to do. >> belva: john, thank you for this warning message tonight for sacramento as well as from the nation's capitol. >>> bank of america, the largest bank in the bay area was already struggling to recover from the missteps in the foreclosure crisis. early this week, its stock dropped 20%. mark calvey, explain what happened at bank of america. >> they took on

some bay area supermarkets like that one right there posted about the recall, somebody in sacramentoed after eating the tainted meat. more than 70 people were sickened across the country including one person in san francisco. the symptoms can show up after 72 hours of eating this contaminated product. >> usually vomiting diarrhea and can be quite severe with the very young and very old and those with immune deficiency problems. >> the meat will be safe if it is handled properly before cooking and we posted all the details on our channel 2 website just look for the recall tab on the front page. >>> stamford university gets an "a" plus. they came in as number five on top forbes list and number one massachusetts followed by princeton west point and they are based on great career prospects, graduation rates and low levels of debts incurred by students. >>> an unusual mugging, a very unusual item the robber stole. >>> they know where they are staying, home sweet home has live room service. >>> good morning traffic on the san mateo bridge is moving along nicely but you may feel windy condi

one person in the sacramento area has died. six others californians have gotten sick.ll of this is linked to salmonella in the turkey. that recall involves 36 million pounds of turkey fresh and frozen. it was produced between february 20th and this past tuesday. and all those recalled products are printed with a code, est p- 963. that turkey is sold under multiple brand names. the most prominent, honeysuckle white, also look for safeway, shady brook farms, and kroger. >> are you a turkey fan? >> i am not as big as you, though. >> my wife loves it. as i mentioned yesterday, we were biting in a turkey burger as the national news said, oh- oh! of course, she is not eating it right now. >> understandably. >> for a while anyway. >>> who is ganging up on google? why the search giant has scathing accusations against its biggest competitors. >> from comedy to cooking, liam mayclem will join us to tell us what's going on over the weekend. >>> and the market opened just about 9 minutes ago, the numbers are way down. dow down 141 points. >>> we'll be right back. ♪ [ woman ] sam b

the surveillance photos show the pair at a grocery store in the sacramento area. when he failed to return the girl home to her mother, an amber alert was issued. the fbi believes the two could be in the bay area. >> the toll readers are checked for tolls in the state of california, and the interpol notices stop people at the airport. >> alan: born in egypt. also speaks fluent spanish. this is samaan clean-shaven. authorities believe his daughter could be in dangers because the court just awarded the girl's mother sole custody when the father and daughter disappeared last sunday. he was last seen in sacramento driving a green toyota forerunner with california license plates 3xrm111. >> just ahead, why keeping tahoe blue is becoming a tougher job. also, how drug smugglers tried to hide a massive drug tunnel stretching from tijuana to california. >> leigh: hi there, i'm leigh glaser. a lot of heat towards the east bay right now. temperatures this hour in the mode to low 90s. those numbers in a bit. take a look ahead to the next seven days. the warmup that's going to

in sacramento, cbs5. >> summer box office.hy one come-from-behind winner isn't complaining about the lack of competition. >>> a possible sequel to another box office blockbuster. what police found stashed in the luggage of a crowded bus. >>> i'm dennis o'donnell. coming up in just a couple minutes on "game day." very special guest in the studio. giants outfielder brandon belt. brandon, the confidence factor right now in the giants clubhouse? >> still high. a hill bit down about today but we will come back strong tomorrow. >> . great story. also called a baby giraffe. the story coming up in a couple minutes on "game day." ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, row. and >>> are you in there? you are fired. >>> "the help" led the box office for a second week in a row and the acclaimed film is on track to hit the $100 million mark this week. this week "the help" earned more than $14 million. number 2 with more than $10 million. "don't be afraid of the dark." "our idiot brother." analysts say earnings were down 15 to 20% this weekend because of hurric

a person in sacramento county. cases have been reported in 26 states.the government is still trying to figure out the exact source of the salmonella. >> that was on the national news last night. i told you this off camera as we were biting into our turkey burgers. oh, no, my wife said. >> did you finish it? >> i did. >> hopefully we're all okay. >>> 5:21. he has tackled the debt crisis. another big milestone ahead for president obama. >> and it's like costco for kids i guess. why a bay area toy store has become members only. ,,,,,,,,,, [ mom ] can a little bowl of cereal change your life? i think it can. one of the challenges for kayla being gluten-free is actually finding choices the whole family will love. then we discovered chex cereals. five flavors of chex are gluten-free, including the honey nut flavor, and that's amazing to a mom like me. as a parent you don't want to have to tell your kids "no" all the time. it's nice for me to be able to say "yes" to something that they want to eat. [ male announcer ] chex cereal. five flavors. gluten free. [ m

many are also volunteering and fund raising to backfill what sacramento cut. peggy volunteers 20 to 40 hours a week of president of william wins foundation. >> we raised over $300,000 last year and paid for over 5 special teachers, art teachers, technology teacher at williams and that's what makes it the great school that it is. >> reporter: for that, she's grateful, even as she fears midyear cuts could undercut what she, her parents, and students are working for. >> i'm a little concerned about sacramento that i can't do anything about that specifically. and that that could actually affect the learning of my children. >> that was kris sanchez reporting. >>> in other news today, a series of burglaries at palo alto school is forcing people to rethink security measures. it's the third time that the school has been broken in to since june. this time we're told the bandit took four digital cameras. the suspects entered the school through the same boarded up window that was smashed during an earlier burglary. today, police officials say installing large scale alarm

. >> un residente de sacramento murió por comer pavo con salmonella, , .er cocida cuidadosamente . >> que el pollo no tenga nada de sanbgre . >> valido para evitar enfermedades autoridades hablan de la muerte de una persona por salmonella . >> ay 67 caso en el país, 6 en california, dos en sacramento uno fallecio . >> por los estudios, estas personas lo contrajeron por cane molida de pavo mal cocida . >> es importangte medir la temperatura para ver cuando sesta cocida y debe decir 65 grados frarenheti . >> si , para arriba para que la carne no este contaminada . >> vive en el instestino y pude crecer en vegetales por eso es importante cocinar bien. >> la mayor parte comienza con bvotmitos diarrea fiebre . >> es necesario ir al doctor inmediatamente . >> el gobierno de estados unidos presento una demanda por la ley de alabaama un estado no puede ir en contra de la federal . >> permite que la policía indage de las personas y llevar un registro de los niños extranjeros . >> (♪ ♪) . >> (♪ ♪) . >> la comisión de derechos humanos propuso que méxico diera visas ,

as this discussion was playing out at the capitol in sacramento, in the mayor's office, we were developing the mayor's budget proposal and looking at some of the proposed cuts that were on the table and ultimately made the decision that the uncertainty about what was going to happen in sacramento and what the implications of that work for the city which were unacceptable and we did not want to wait and see what happened, we wanted to take matters into our own hands. as a result, the mayor has proposed the measure that is before you. essentially, what it would do is that it would replace half of the 1% reduction in the sales tax rate with a local sales tax. again, our sales tax have just decline from 9.5% to 8.5%. we would still see a reduction in our sales tax rate compared to where we have been over the past couple of years. at the same time, that will enable us to bring in some revenue that we can use to protect the city and protect the city's budget against the cuts we have been seeing over the past several years and we anticipate seeing over the past -- over the next several years. the

they were delivering the sacramento bee. shots rang out from a neighbouring mobile home. the women quickly drove away and the shots kept coming. the car was riddled with bullet holes. fortunately the women were not hurt. >> very fort. this vehicle was hit nine times. so considering they had the two occupants and person that delivers the paper they are very lucky not to be injured. >> police found six weapons, motion sensors and two dozen pot plants. >>> the lawyers for two cal grads jailed in iran has filed an appeal. they each received eight year prison sentences. they were accused with illegally crossing the border from iran to iraq. a third hiker was released almost a year ago. >>> four decades of immersioning humself in education a cal superintendent says he is financially secure enough to take a more than $200,000 a year pay cut. fresno county superintendent larry powell currently makes $290,000 a year. now, with this new deal his salary will be slashed to $32,000. >> i will be doing the same job but i will be doing it for a few dollars less. >> the restructured deal

. >>> still no trace of a sacramento girl who officers say was abducted by her own father. an amber alert was issued yesterday for 2-year-old madelin fay. her father never returned the girl to her mother after a visit last weekend. this is some surveillance video from a sacramento grocery store on saturday showing the father and his daughter. that same day he learn that he had lost joint custody. and since then he has not used his cell phone or credit cards and the fbi is afraid for the girl's safety. >>> a b.a.r.t. board member said she is shocked that b.a.r.t. officials decided to cut cell phone service to thwart a planned protest. b.a.r.t. does admit turning off power to antennas thursday evening in downtown san fransisco. civil rights and legal experts are now questioning that move. the protestor was over the shooting of a man at the civic center station. >>> copper thieves struck a stretch of mcarthur boulevard in san leandro leaving it in the dark. thieves stole about 10,000 feet of underground copper wire on mcarthur boulevard. the theft leaves about one third of a m

that is east of sacramento. the fbi is treating the forerunner and the area around it as a crime scene right now and that is all agents are saying at this hour. no word yet about the two-year- old girl or her father. that amber alert was issued yesterday for madeleine. her father never returned the girl to her mother after a visit last weekend. they were last seen here in a sacramento grocery store on saturday. that surveillance video, that is the day that he found out he was losing joint custody of his daughter. since then he has not used his cell phone or credit cards. >> at least four people are confirmed dead after a stage collapsed tonight during a storm at the indiana state fair. watch here as the drama unfolds. you can see people after the stage collapsed, they begin to panic and the wind comes up. part of the stage as you see there comes crashing down on fans. at least two dozen people were injured. many of them trapped under that stage wall you see there. the opening act had just finished and the crowd