sacramento county hired blanco rum field as a response investigator. despite the state investigating allegations, she abused her foster children. the sacramento town reports that one of her foster children told the county she was unfit. bumfield was fired in july. they cited the investigation which accused her and her husband of locking churn in the garage without food and water. she is accused of driving a government vehicle for her private use. she has denied some of the

sacramento and ward streets where they intersect in berkeley, light to moderate rain for the better partthe last two hours be prepared as you head out. live doppler 7 hd, you can see that wall of light to moderate rain moving through the heart of the bay and moreover the coast ready to move across the peninsula and -- head towards the east bay shore this is going to taper but this morning you've got to be careful this is when the heaviest of the rain scattered showers and low to mid 60s this afternoon next three days drying trend slightly cooler but you will love the sunshine. >>> report released overnight predicting impact of prop 30 on the state's economy. katie marzullo is live in the newsroom with that and the housing news. >> reporter: the new economic forecast from ucla has lukewarm predictions for california jobs and personal income will suffer under prop 30's tax hikes. housing improvements will help the state, california will continue to grow but not as much as it iced to. the forecast says the new tax -- tax revenues under prop 30 will slow economic growth but will not derail r

this is our fourth system, berkeley this morning, sacramento and ward streets, you can see it is comingdown at a moderate clip there make sure you have the wet weather gear there. might be good to work from home hopefully you have classes later in the day. it will taper later. live doppler 7 hd, what we are going to see is heaviest and best returns in contra costa county moving into the eastern sections of concord, treat boulevard, ignacio valley road, walnut creek, willow pass road starting to see heavy bailey road heading to bay point, pittsburg towards antioch be prepared, highway 4 corridor is going to be a tough go. san rafael, larkspur, tiburon, mill valley, heavy rain starting to move back into your neighborhoods. a lot of yellow even orange lurking offshore not only in san francisco but marin county coast coming in for the morning commute that's the wave we talked about yesterday going to hook-up with the front and intensify the rain during the morning commute, it is just about on schedule i am you know how often that happens weather-wise this is coming -- at us through the morn

even down to big sur 63,60 sacramento, 46 tahoe. wet -- weather never making it to so cal. 70 l.a., 82 palm springs. you do not need chains yet, winter weather advisory for lake tahoe, three to eight inches of snow above 6500 feet. >>> trucks are -- [ inaudible ] no chains required at this time. highway 80 past university afternoon into the macarthur maze light traffic this morning, roads are wet, water is splashing off the ground traffic seems to be moving nicely. golden gate bridge wet, still having two lanes each direction they have not reconfigured for your morning drive. westbound 580 accident at oakland, two lanes blocked, person trapped in a car, chp on scene. >>> the city of san carlos will hold a community meeting tomorrow to see how people feel about a possible plastic bag ordinance. if it goes through it would take effect in april. yesterday mountain view joined 24 other cities in banning single use plastic bags the ban affects retail businesses that sell clothing, food or personal items directly to customers. restaurants

>> why hasn't that translated into a political force in sacramento over the years? >> i think we do reach a tipping point at some point. but again, not to get anyone nervous, no one is suggesting that we should be adjusting how residential property taxes-- >> no, but they are suggesting about commercial property. >> correct. >> commercial properties often don't get sold outright. they get transferred when companies sell each, get bought and sold. >> which means they are not reassessed, which means those commercial properties are not paying higher taxes. they are paying the same taxes they were 40 years ago. and the -- this is the most dramatic view of it. in 1978, 60% of all property taxes in the state were paid by commercial property owners. 40% by residential. it's now flipped. we residential owners are paying 60% and the commercial 40. and so we're subsidizing very large corporations who are not paying their fair share. >> now, changing that rule is changing the language, could be done by the legislature, redefining what transfer is. >> there are a couple of ways

he was a victim of bullying in sacramento, california. these kinds of summits are interesting it me because i'm boots on the ground. i am in the trenches every single day and i live in sacramento so i'm at the capitol and we use the word bullying which softens the behavior. this is abuse. it is peer abuse. and our children are crying for help. and the adults who are charged with their well-being turn a blind and deaf ear to it and here's my comment. there are no consequences for failure to comply. nothing with teeth. and i have a dead child who broke under horrendous circumstances where in one of the best schools in sacramento, meraloma, breaks every record going. it is the best. and my son was perceived to be gay and the idea that you could scream out every horrendous word in front of god and everyone and no one did anything, and michael followed policy to a t tomorrow is his birthday. i should be celebrating his 21st birthday. instead, my husband and i, we mourn 4 years. we are no further along. none of our laws, they are not working. t

i think that there is an opportunity for us to inform the staff in sacramento. they are just kind of guessing to a certain degree, because they are not on the ground here, how it should the lines be redrawn? >> would it be possible to make them to the land? >> to the what? >> that the recycle has to be maintained there? >> i'm not sure. i was thinking whether san francisco, for instance, could pass an ordinance that took the existing bottle bill and put stronger rules in it? i thought we could do that, but i was told by someone that we're superseding state law and the stores would argue that you can't do that. so i'm not sure. i can't really answer that? >> i think the best way to go about it is to petition the state to carve out something for san francisco? is that our best approach? >> i wish i would say there was -- there is an existing collaborative process. it's pretty much you say things to the state and they kind of respond. it would be ideal to have a slightly more collaborative approach and actually, i think where we, the greater extent that we come up

so just, in sum, we have sacramento's intention, ladies and gentlemen, we are waiting for the pope -- i mean the governor it -- to sign these bills. it's a very mechanical things but anything you can do to encourage the govern rr to sign the bills that deal with this issue. unfortunately they are a drop in the bucket, they don't bring seth back or your son or your daughter. we are quite aware of that and i think that's a thought that we always are going to hold in our minds because that will help influence further legislation. this is a good segue, probably, to mr. torres. we work very well with his department and he's extremely receptive and action-oriented. >> i think that's great that we have so much cooperation with departments in sacramento. that's great to her. go ahead, expand on that. >> thank you to the u.s. attorney for gathering us to the. we have come a long way but as the parents expressed so poignantly, we have so much farther to go. we can pass laws but how do they get enforced, how do they get actualized, how do we have the accountability? more than that, as tony smith

ellos y a el alguacil quiere una polÍtica en relaciÓn a los indocumentados. >>> el alguacil de sacramento sÍ noticias 19, ti debido que estÁ de una de las cÁrceles paso graentss del paÍdel paÍs, >>> la meta era de proveer seguridad pÚblica deportando a criminales indocumentados considerados peligrosos >>> la persona de la comunidads e llama a este programa, de ip seguro cciÓn ocio en california una 26 mil personas fueron deportadas por delitos graves, pero fueron mÁs de 50 mil quienes fueron deportadas quienes no cometieron delitos mayores. jones scombexpresÓ que no respa por comÚn seguras. planea im meten tar una esta persona se le darÁ libertad como cualquier persona, y no podrÁ ser detenida por 48 horas. >>> nos informÓ pamela dÍaz y cambiando de tema, la suprema corte de la justicia aceptÓ estudiar la proposiciÓn 8 la cual prohÍbe el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo. y la decisiÓn llegarÁ en el mes de junio. >>> una joven y un niÑo murieron cuando el auto en que viajaban chocÓ contra un camion en la carretera bayron, de acuerdo con la patrulla de camino la conductora perdiÓ el

blanca ---pero hoy, en el primer dia de sesiones legislativas en el capitolio de sacramento.....el asambleista por san francisco, tom ammiano present una version actualizada de la llamada "ley de la confianza", la cual pide invalidar gran parte de las provisiones del programa "comunidades seguras". ---pilar niÑo nos tiene mas sobre esta noticia... take pkg 0:01 0:19 0:41 0:58 1:46 take pkg el conteo no para....ya son 85 mil los deportados en california por el programa comunidades seguras. esto segun la oficina del asambleista estatal tom ammiano que ha intentado detenerlo con un proyecto de ley que fue vetado por el gobernador hace dos meses, pero que vuelve a introducir hoy en el primer dia de la nueva legislatura. kimberly alvarenga/of. asambleista tom ammiano la estamos reintroduciendo hoy porque no podemos esperar otro dia, mientras esperamos miles de familias estan siendo separadas madres y padres estan siendo deportados diariamente la llamada acta de la confianza es la esperanza para que no se repitan historias como las que ha visto sandra en su grupo de mujeres, cuando in

. >>> business as usual for shoppers when the doors open this morning at are den fair mall in sacramentoas unlock down yesterday after a fight broke out in the food court. you can see people running. police say the fight involved about 20 who took off running through the mall knocking over signs and shoppers. in the confusion some thought kagan gunman was firing shots, -- that was not the case. >> i imagined someone with a gun or just someone coming to the store and threatening us. >> we hid behind the jewelry i was like we need to get out. i'm not about to get shot. >> sacramento police say they arrested four people, nobody was hurt. >>> happening now, president obama is in the air right now on his way back to washington from hawaii to try to reach a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. he boarded air force one overnight and will be arriving in maryland around 8:45 this morning. the president cut short his vacation. democrats and republicans have just four days to reach a deal before mandatory budget cuts and tax increases kick in january 1st. >>> new senator representing hawaii wi

and sacramento at 36 degrees. cloud cover will continue to increase. these are a tricky little system. they come right to the coast and go parallel to it. so we'll put in a lot of cloud cover and some rain. favors some areas to the north and coast as well. it tends to be very, very cool. upper 40s and low 50s on the temps. extended outlook i think the pattern is changing. each one of the systems coming in looks a little weaker to me. saturday cold, cold air coming in. cold and breezy sunday. fast moving system on monday. tuesday looks okay. >>> it's been two weeks since the mass shooting at a connecticut elementary school and the shooters motive is still unknown. what scientists will be doing in the hopes of getting insight into a killer. >>> what san francisco police plan to do to keep pedestrians safe in the new year. >>> highway 237 near milpitas traffic looking good. we'll take a look at your other bay area roadways coming up. it's time to change the way we clean. it's time to free ourselves from the smell and harshness of bleach. and free ourselve

they found her body near sacramento and ward streets.er family and friends are in mourning. leslie brinkley is at the imerkly -- is at the berkeley police department for us. leslie? >> reporter: that's right, carolyn. police tonight identify the victim as tift-year-old pam mullins of berkeley. she died at about this hour last night as she road her boy sickle. >> we got a call of possibly a bicyclist in an injury collision. >> reporter: that was 11:30 on tuesday night. when police arrived they found a woman on the sidewalk in front of longfellow middle school. her family said she had been shot once in the head as she road her bike. and she died on the sidewalk and and they were one block away on sacramento street. candles spelled out her name as relatives stood here stunned to see her die. >> we wish she was sill here. >> she said she road her bicycle to jobs in the neighborhood as a caregiver to senior citizen >> she was a loving person. she wept to work and came home. why would someone want to do something like this to her? >> her broth

that arrest comes a day after williams was caught on tape slap anglo at a target store near sacramento. days before that katt williams also had a run in with police in downtown sacramento after he almost hit five pedestrians. he was also arrested recently in oakland and had a very public meltdown on stage last month. >>> new this morning secretary of state hillary of clinton warning there is a red line for the united states if syria uses chemical weapons from its several war. >> i'm not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of credible evidence that the assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people. >> secretary clinton delivered that warning to a visit to a the czech republic. this all follows intelligence reports that the syrian military has been moving chemical weapons. >>> the victim of a purse snatching attempt fought off her attacker and chased her down the street. a man attacked the woman as she walked down homer avenue listening to head phones at about 1:00 a.m. yesterday. he pushed her down and tried to steal her purse

they found her body near sacramento and ward streets. tonight her family and friends are in mourning. leslie brinkley is at the imerkly -- is at the berkeley police department for us. leslie? >> reporter: that's right, carolyn. police tonight identify the victim as tift-year-old pam mullins of berkeley. she died at about this hour last night as she road her boy sickle. >> we got a call of possibly a bicyclist in an injury collision. >> reporter: that was 11:30 on tuesday night. when police arrived they found a woman on the sidewalk in front of longfellow middle school. her family said she had been shot once in the head as she road her bike. and she died on the sidewalk and and they were one block away on sacramento street. candles spelled out her name as relatives stood here stunned to see her die. >> we wish she was sill here. >> she said she road her bicycle to jobs in the neighborhood as a caregiver to senior citizens. >> she was a loving person. she wept to work and came home. why would someone want to do something like this to her?

this sacramento game last night, taking on the knicks and james johnson with a buzzer beater.was his first three- pointer of the season and it couldn't have come at a better time. the final the kings win it 106- 105. have a good day. >> the warriors host the boston celtics this evening and there's plenty of college basketball action. slaryk on the road at duke, san jose state at san antonio state. in college football a cornucopia of bowl games today, including the kraft fight hunger bowl in san francisco. that features navy and arizona state. >>> portugal can be a nutty kind of place. they have a celebration not to be missed as eyewitness news continues. stories: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, there are positive sig morning the >>> here's a look at this morning's top stories. with just three days to go, there are some positive signs this morning that the country may not go over the so-called fiscal cliff. senate democratic and republican leaders are working on a package now that could be voted on monday. any plan, however, must be approved by the republican-run house. >>> a man and a bo

police are trying to figure out who shot a woman on a bicycle outside a middle school overnight near sacramento and war streets where amy hollyfield joins --

they found her body near sacramento and ward streets.onight her family and friends are in mourning. leslie brinkley is at the imerkly -- is at the berkeley police department for us. leslie? >> reporter: that's right, carolyn. police tonight identify the victim as tift-year-old pam mullins of berkeley. she died at about this hour last night as she road her boy sickle. >> we got a call of possibly a bicyclist in an injury collision. >> reporter: that was 11:30 on tuesday night. when police arrived they found a woman on the sidewalk in front of longfellow middle school. her family said she had been shot once in the head as she road her bike. and she died on the sidewalk and and they were one block away on sacramento street. candles spelled out her name as relatives stood here stunned to see her die. >> we wish she was sill here. >> she said she road her bicycle to jobs in the neighborhood as a caregiver to senior citizens. >> she was a loving person. she wept to work and came home. why would someone want to do something like this to her? >>

>> to the sacramento kings.s hit the road for one night and the pesky sacramento kings always give them fits. tonight is no different. it didn't matter. details next in sports. [ singing christmas carols in background ] aunt sally's singing again. it's a tradition, honey. [ singing christmas carols ] mmmm. [ female announcer ] make new traditions with pillsbury grands! cinnamon rolls. [ female announcer ] holiday cookies are a big job. everything has to be just right. perfection is in the details. ♪ get to holiday fun faster with pillsbury cookie dough. from their longest trip with a franchise record six wins in seven tries. they were the hottest team until they ran into the kings. plenty of warriors fans made the trip to sacramento to support their team. david leigh continued his hot play. he passed the ball to lee and goes the distance. and yes he can. to fur debt and -- furdett. it is the fourth quarter and 13-point deficit. it is part of a 28-.7 board. it is a 112-111 lead. he fouled out with 32 points. the

>> to the sacramento kings. warriors hit the road for one night and the pesky sacramento kings always give them fits. tonight is no different. it didn't matter. details next in sports. >>> the warriors return home from their longest trip with a franchise record six wins in seven tries. they were the hottest team until they ran into the kings. plenty of warriors fans made the trip to sacramento to support their team. david leigh continued his hot play. he passed the ball to lee and goes the distance. and yes he can. to fur debt and -- furdett. it is the fourth quarter and 13-point deficit. it is part of a 28-.7 board. it is a 112-111 lead. he fouled out with 32 points. the kings pull away with curry on the bench. bottom and they beat it for the second time this season. 121-137 the final. they can clinch with a win over the seahawks sunday night in seattle. this could be a trap game. the defense will have their hands full with running back lynch. the cal bears are the lead dog on this ground offensive sled. he get

california political watchdog agency has fined the mayor of sacramento for failing to report donations he solicited for charitable organizations. the fair political practices commission found 25 cases in which mayor kevin johnson failed to file timely reports on donations to non- profit made at the request of elected officials. johnson has been fined $37,500. the mayor has raised more than $4 million from national organization's local companies and individual donors for his city and this is an the nonprofit he supports. >> and oakland medical marijuana dispensary has won the first round in its legal fight to stay open amid a federal crackdown. a judge ruled last week that the landlord for harborside health centers cannot evict the shop despite the u.s. attorney's threat to seize the property. the landlord claims she has costa kick

deputy say she and roderick clifton went off road after leaving sacramento on thursday to try out the new 4 wheel drive jeep then the storms hit and they got stuck in the snow. he left cart to find help when he didn't return after a few days paula set out on her own. officials search crew could not find them so her brother started looking on his own. >> last night when my brother called i took the call and to hear him say i found her i

>> to the sacramento kings.hit the road for one night and the pesky sacramento kings always give them fits. tonight is no different. it didn't matter. details next in sports. >>> the warriors return home from their longest trip with a franchise record six wins in seven tries. they were the hottest team until they ran into the kings. plenty of warriors fans made the trip to sacramento to support their team. david leigh continued his hot play. he passed the ball to lee and goes the distance. and yes he can. to fur debt and -- furdett. it is the fourth quarter and 13-point deficit. it is part of a 28-.7 board. it is a 112-111 lead. he fouled out with 32 points. the kings pull away with curry on the bench. bottom and they beat it for the second time this season. 121-137 the final. they can clinch with a win over the seahawks sunday night in seattle. this could be a trap game. the defense will have their hands full with running back lynch. the cal bears are the lead dog on this ground offensive sled. he gets into bea

your eye goes right to the red and this is where it is draped from the sacramento valley back to clear lake and windsor and santa rosa. the back edge has been pushing through ukiah and with it the very gusty winds preceding the gusts. we have wind gusts up to 51 miles an hour at the airport, 38 miles an hour winds from hayward. a little lighter but still at the higher elevations you are seeing 63 miles an hour wind gusts down to about 2,000 feet down in the south bay. here's the north bay. look at the heavy rain from richmond, martinez and berkeley, now pushing into the east bay. and 580 and back westward. 280 in san francisco. not only looking it he rain but gusty winds. lighter rains into fremont and union city and the south bay. this will all continue to increase throughout the day. the first half of the day looking much, much different than the second half. carolyn. >> lisa, you are the key person

tree in sacramento and we had rain and all the way throughout the central valley.ening, everybody. let's go ahead and head to sacramento where the governor was on hand -- that's not the governor but the governor was on hand with a lot of great festivities and the tree is officially lit as the rain subsides and the clouds begin to part right there in sacramento. 'tis the season for rainfall. high-def doppler radar indicating we have a little bit of leftover green on the screen in the form of light to moderate rainfall. it's now moving dues east of highway 101 over morgan hill and gilroy now traversing east as this area of low pressure is out of here but leaving in its wake some very impressive rainfall totals. today alone over an inch in san francisco. a third of an inch in san jose. oakland approaching nine-tenths of an inch of rain and nearly an inch of rain in the gauge in santa rosa. tonight with a blanket of clouds overnight temperatures into the 40s and 50s. winds have pretty much died down, therefore we have some pockets of fog developing, as well. so be mind

from kern to los angeles county, monterey to sacramento. >> we don't have an exact number of how many wells in the state are fracture stimulated. >> you don't know? >> we don't know each individual well. >> reporter: tom kusik is the top oil and gas supervisor at california's division of oil, gas and geothermal resources.

in sacramento, the state senator tabled the item and promised in 2013 there would be a collaborative effort to review c-e-q-a. on november 1st there was a spur and business association sponsored bus tour in san francisco with state senator michael rubio in an attempt to introduce different parts of our community to some of the issues of c-e-q-a by visiting projects which had some c-e-q-a problems. and with the acknowledgment that all the stakeholders would be brought to the table to review the issues and collaborate and come up with some mutually agreeable changes. but in reality as an architect having worked on large major projects and programs like the candlestick park renovations or youth guidance center renovationses or airport projects or muni railway projects, and as you have seen on any project that comes before you, there is a very detailed critical path scheduled that's developed by project managers and architects to anticipate all the parks [speaker not understood] in the project. and they all have to be met and they usually are. and c-e-q-a is only a very small part of tha

in sacramento, the state senator tabled the item and promised in 2013 there would be a collaborative effort to review c-e-q-a. on november 1st there was a spur and business association sponsored bus tour in san francisco with state

she and roderick clifton went off road after leaving sacramento to try out his new jeep. the storms hit and they got stuck in the snow. clifton left the car to find help. when he didn't return after a few days, paula set out on her on. search crews couldn't find them her brother started looking on his own. >> last night, when my brother called, i took the call, and to hear him say, i found her. i can explain it for you. >> paula survived by taking shelter in a hallow tree and snow and tomatoes she had in her car. deputies say clifton drove around a locked gate on a closed dirt road off highway 89. >>> traffic and weather together, next. live look outside right now this is san jose, traffic moving very well on this highway which is 84. >> 87 i think. do you know the way to san jose? >> i do, 101 and 880. meteorologist mike nicco will have full forecast, sue will track traffic on 87. >> sue will check them all. witnesses calling it chaos, an escalator suddenly collapses, aftermath at a >>> live doppler i think you are going like what you see it is dry no radar returns no ra