san francisco wayne freedman abc 7 news. >> and we have breaking news right now in southern california just off shore of the orange county and san diego county lines take a look at this whale rescue attempt in progress. this is off laguna beach. you can see it's dragging a buoy ask a net behind it. and there is an entanglement on the way to try to help it before it gets into too much trouble. and other news now biologists in marin county are. >> seeing an unusual number of under nourished baby seals coming in. there are twice as many compared to last season. and there is 70 seals being nourished at the center. >> we try hard not to get attached. the goal is to teach them and send them back from whence they came. >> we're expected to go through 40,000 pounds of herring this year. and with so many animals coming in i think the number is going to go higher. >> the center needs medicine and could use volunteer autos mothers against drunk driving says parents are the likely key to ending what the group says is a national epidemic of under aged drinking. m.a.d.d.president says more than half of the teen-aged drinkers get alcohol from adults

. >> it speaks to the issue of a loophole that resulted in crystal harris of san diego county having to pay her abuser. it just didn't make sense. >> that abuser was the woman's husband. currently they cannot allow for alimony or other benefits. the legislation passed today will add violent sexual felonies to that restriction. >> we told you about the toxic chemicals found in some nail polishes. now, the report concerns so called gel man yi cure autos there are question about not the polish but drying lens. the gel man yours are gaining popularity for gleaming colors and how long they last. however, it dries under uv lampes. and doctors will tell you this can cause skin cancer. >> this white box contains same light as in tanning beds that have been associated with mel la gnomea. >> have you to know they're not like tanning beds. >> for now until this is sorted out wear sun screen on hands if you get a gel manicure that is my advice. a survey adds advises users and the cards used by some as a convenience and others have ril voice owe since they don't have bingeing or accounts. the car

of a bloody san diego beach and san diego county. we will keep you posted.re than just an annoyance that dru-that could kill the animal f they cannot get rid of that fishline. we will keep you posted. >> a judge in sacramento has ordered a release she was raped and locked up for three weeks now the judge is apologizing. >> i am truly sorry for what you're been true. >> catherine: they have no choice because she did not show up for two different court appearances. she said the issue was too afraid to testify against her alleged attacker. >> i do believe that it should not have happened in the first place. i do believe that there were less extreme measures to obtain her statement. >> catherine: the teenager will be tracked with gps and this trial for the man is scheduled to begin next week. >> catherine: san diego authorities have found a body and riverside during the search for a missing military wife. the body has not been positively identified as 22 year-old brittany kilgore. also a woman has been arrested in the suspicion of murder. she was seen friday nig

resort to desperate, back last november, we were asked to vote to make four indian casinos in san diego county pony up money. i thought this was a joke. they voted to do it. now, the governor proposes to borrow against future revenues. how did they deal with these social problems when the economic problems were far worse than what we can imagine today? this is from larry halprin's. and it has these quotes from roosevelt on the wall. he said in one of his talks to the people, "the test is not whether we have more, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little". it's a different philosophy than that which we have become used to. what i am going to show you is a lost civilization. it's a strange place. and yet, it becomes oddly familiar after a while because we built it and use it every day without knowing it. it has been buried. the living new deal project is like an archaeological dig. we are going after the new deal in california, but hope to extend throughout the united states. i thought that i am, photographer robert dosson could photo. it's gradually become a collaborative p

rescue that gray whale you see right there, it is tangled in a fishing line off the coast of san diego countyey managed to losen the line before it got too dark outside and they attached some large buoys to try and help them locate it this morning. >>> they are having reports of that infamous pepper spray incident. she takes full responsibility for the pepper spraying and she is vowing to do everything possible to make sure it never happens again. they blame a communication breakdown between administrators and police for the incident that has received worldwide attention. >>> oscar grant's family is meeting to make a movie about the controversial shooting. she won for best actress in the help. she is now in talks to star as the mother in the film to be called fruit veil. they will cover his final hours after he was shot and killed at the fruit station and filming is set to begin in july. >>> let's check in with sal, sal? >>> good morning, traffic is moving along better today than yesterday which is not hard to do considering we had terrible commute and 808 you will see some -- 880 you will se

. >>> a drama played off for hours today in san diego county as rescuers tried to free that grey whalentangled in a fishing line. we showed you live coverage during our 5:00 and 6:00 newscast. the rescuers got some of the line untangled before it was too dark to continue. this is the third time in a month that a gray whale in that area has gotten tied up in a fishing line. >>> a truck is becoming all kind of controversy because of what's pictured on it and where it's often parked. >> reporter: san francisco supervisor eric marr says he's had enough. >> me and my constituents are tired of this and we just want it out. >> in the neighborhood where there's school kids, you know five, 10 you know kids. it's really wrong. >> it has pictures of women and a stripper pole in it. >> it's not like the kids are going to be like, that's a good idea. let's go to the hustler club. >> reporter: his problem with the truck is its lack of safety for the dancers. the vehicle is always outside the adult club where he works on the weekend. he goes on to say the club should have expected this kind of contro

. >>> a drama played off for hours today in san diego county as rescuers tried to free that grey whale entangled in a fishing line. we showed you live coverage during our 5:00 and 6:00 newscast. the rescuers got some of the line untangled before it was too dark to continue. this is the third time in a month that a gray whale in that area has gotten tied up in a fishing line. >>> a truck is becoming all kind of controversy because of what's pictured on it and where it's often parked. >> reporter: san francisco supervisor eric marr says he's had enough. >> me and my constituents are tired of this and we just want it out. >> in the neighborhood where there's school kids, you know five, 10 you know kids. it's really wrong. >> it has pictures of women and a stripper pole in it. >> it's not like the kids are going to be like, that's a good idea. let's go to the hustler club. >> reporter: his problem with the truck is its lack of safety for the dancers. the vehicle is always outside the adult club where he works on the weekend. he goes on to say the club should have expected this kind of cont

it's just north of san diego county. so it's a way aways from us.t looked up in the archives here and apparently there was a similar rescue off the southern california coast here at the end of march. but at this point, this rescue is still ongoing. it looks like the gray whale is a number of feet ahead of this boat. but there are people on the boat trying to free this whale from the fishing line. we'll keep an eye on this rescue attempt and we'll let you know what's happening here on channel 2 news at 5:00 and coming up at 6:00. >>> a bill aimed at stopping sexual relationships between california teachers and students we defeated today in sacramento. assembly bill 1861 would have made it a felony for any elementary or high school employee to have a relationship with a student or send inappropriate communications regardless of that student's age. public school teachers convicted under the law would lose their pensions. >> can be victimized in school just because of the loophole in the law that says that an employee can woo them while they're a minor

just after i got off the air with you a few moments ago, i got a call from the san diego county sheriff'st and they tell me that the san diego coroner has positively identified the body that was found yesterday in riverside county as that of brittany killgore, age 22. her husband, several days ago, was contacted on duty in afghanistan. he's with an artillery unit. he was placed on emergency leave, started the process of heading back to the united states. when he started that process, it was a missing persons case. now even before he's arrived back in the united states, his estranged wife is confirmed to be dead. one person is in custody on murder charges, a woman, 22-year-old jessica lopez. another potential suspect, arraigned today, that is 45-year-old louis perez. he has pled not guilty to unrelated charges, but sheriff's investigators say they are continuing their investigation into the circumstances of brittany killgore's death. erin. >> thank you very much to casey wian. >>> next, the latest on the trayvon martin case. the judge has made a decision today and we're going to explain. t

this person vanished on sunday leaving friends to explore mud caves in eastern san diego county.hone. authorities believe that man could still be alive but possibly incapacitated. >> possibly he's fallen and broken a leg. he hasn't been able to get us to that way. but the terrain is such that it's making it a tough search. >> that man's name, guillermo pino. until now, temperatures there have been mild, but today's forecast calls for much chillier conditions and even some wet weather on top of that. >>> this next story makes you think about the next time you order an omelet. new safety questions about one major producer of the eggs that make their way to so many of our breakfast tables. the conditions at one of that producer's farms is being called, quote, deplorable and intolerable. abc's brian ross investigates. >> reporter: in its promotional videos, kreider farms points to his pennsylvania dutch heritage and says its huge egg-producing facilities use state of the art equipment that can spot even a speck of dirt on a single egg. >> we have egg-xacting standards. >> reporter: t

bill: adam housley live in san diego county. what is next.ombshell in a government scandal this morning. jaw dropping new allegations. videos mocking taxpayers, which we have seen, and the former head of the gsa under the bush administration joins us to take a look at all of this. bill: there is new dramatic 911 doll911 calls made from inside the hotel the night whitney houston died. >> you don't know if she is breathing or not. >> apparently she was not breathing. >> she is not breathing? >> yes. >> but she is breathing now. >> i don't know. the first person that called me was irate and i couldn't get much out of her. we have security going there now.  if you have copd like i do, you know how hard it can be to breathe and what that feels like. copd iludes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiva helps corol my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open a full 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that does both. and it's steroid-free spiriva does not replace fast-acting in

to roll the is behind bars accused of stealing a car from a family in san diego and driving it back to the bay area. san mateo county sheriff's deputies arrested thomas baker last night on highway 92 in half moon bay. >>> they say few days earlier at a san diego hotel he told the family that he suffered a stroke and was wheelchair-bound. he then convince them to take him to see world with them. >>> as the world the family gave him the car keys after he said he needed to retrieve something from the car. >>> and that is where investigators say the suspect disappeared drove roughly 500 mi. north to have monday the deputies pulled him over while responding to reports of possible drunk driver. >>> to supervisors for is that of the secret service in the wake of the prostitution scandal is now identified. the virginia retired under pressure while greg stokes expects to be fired. tonight crazily with more on the woman at the center of this firestorm. >>> it is our first glimpse of the woman who is reportedly at the heart of the secret service scandal york daily news claims this 24 year-old colombian known as don young raise

a california mother is suing san diego county for the autopsy photos of her 6-year-old son this.in a huge, bizarre murder case -- well not murder case, rick, i'm getting ahead of myself. some thought it was murder, some thought it was suicide. to catch us up to date with where we are today in this mansion in coronado where these two deaths happened. >> reporter: we covered it extensively last summer. 56-year-old tumbles over a railing at his father's mansion in southern california. the dad's girlfriend, rebecca, was baby sitting young max at the time. days later her naked body is found hanging from a balcony inside that same mansion. the boy would die from his injuries after that fall and her death would eventually be ruled a suicide. investigators say she killed herself because she was distraught after max's death. buts you i will lewde you alluded to, jenna they don't believe she killed herself, they don't believe she killed herself. the father is an executive. he wasn't home for his son's fall or her death. the mom has gone to court to get copies of autopsy pictures, perhaps a

wilma wooten is san diego county's public health officer. >> this entire process resulted in exposures of almost 1,000 individuals-- 90 individuals having no proof of immunization, 73 were quarantined, 12 additional actual cases of measles in san diego. >> narrator: public health officials determined that what allowed measles to enter the community was the number of vaccine-hesitant parents who took advantage of the personal belief exemption allowed by california. school principals find themselves caught on the frontlines. >> the fact is that some families choose not to immunize their children. and then there are families who have children who are particularly medically sensitive, and they're in jeopardy because they could get sick from unimmunized children. so it's a very emotional issue on both sides. >> narrator: a vast public health infrastructure is committed to preventing such outbreaks. the national institutes of health, the food and drug administration, the centers for disease control and prevention, large vaccine manufacturers. the mainstream medical establishment speaks with

san diego. good morning. >> caller: i have a question. i'm and an avid backpacker and there's a trail that starts here in san diego county and runs all the way to the canadian border called pacific crest trail. it crosses multiple types of domains, meaning state parks. it goes through counties, goes through national land. and the reason i am kind of worried about your bill trying to get through and how it protects people hiking here at my brother was shot in the head with 50 pellets from a guy hunting quail back in the 70s and sammartino mountains locally here. this annex county or two. herbicides and sammartino and an affair with lots of trails. if you're just a hiker, how do you know you are in shooting for quail? are not going to get shot by yahoo! sukhoi affair, like my brother did and he died a year later. they couldn't launch them all out in the spring. i am a fisherman myself. so i'm back i cannot tell i.e. i catch a fish and usually either now or later. sometimes do because i don't have refrigeration. i am all for that. this means there's going to be out these yahoos coming out of places that i'm hiking now? thanks. >> guest: i w

the plant is located in san diego county and the head of the nuclear regulatory commission toured themain offline until it's determined why tubes are wearing out in steam generators. san i know fray's reactors were shut down more than two months ago when the problem was discovered. officials warn this could lead to rolling blackouts in its service area. >>> a judge lifting stay-away orders for two more occupy cal protesters. a group of demonstrators rallied at uc berkeley last november. the daily cal reports stay-away orders were issued to 12 people. they could only step on campus to attend class and work on school jobs. the two protesters still face charges of resisting arrest and remaining at the scene of a riot. four occupiers had their orders overturned last week. >>> so protesters are demanding that uc berkeley admit more minority students. >> integration now! >> about 20 students from cal and area high schools, as well as activists from the group by any means necessary staged a sit-in yesterday at the uc berkeley registrar's office. organizers say minority students comprise abou

san diego. good morning. caller: i am an avid backpacker. there is a trail that starts here in san diego county and go through the canadian border. it crosses multiple types of domains, meaning state parks, counties, national land, and the reason i am worried about the bill you're trying to get through and how we protect people hiking, my brother was shot in the head with 50 yaulettes' -- pellets of a gu hunting quail in a mountainous area. if you are just a hiker, how would you know that all of a sudden you are in shooting season for quayle to get shot by these yahoos -- season for quail > i am a fisherman. that is how i eat as a backpacker. i fish and eat within one hour or two, so i am all for that, but with all of these yahoos? i don't know. guest: most of the public lands are presently open. this is designed to essentially ensure that they stay open and fix that issue. obviously, safety is always a concern. anyone who goes out into the woods and fields with a fire arm is always extraordinarily conscious of that. the only advice i could offer someone like the caller would be to find out wha

american population, asian-americans are growing fastest in places like sacramento, kostka, san diego county parents about asian-american counties los angeles and from cisco continue to grow, those peripheral for urban center is grow a much faster rate. >> historically growth in this means that disproportionate numbers of asian-americans are the only group whose populations are majority by comparison 39% of latinos and 20% of pacific islanders were born outside the united states. in concept, only 10% of native americans, 9% and 6% of african-americans were foreign-born. okay, asian-americans are ethnically diverse. so while americans together make up roughly half of all asian-americans living in california or the asian-american has a multitude of ethnic groups with dozens of languages. while the rates of growth are high with nearly every ethnic group, with indian pakistanis, sri lankans and growing dramatically. >> with the ethnic diversity, social and economic diversity as many indicators what this chart looking for the ses data. philip ennio in tokyo in indian japanese american of poverty

dallas, orange county, san diego and tarrant county. this article in "usa today." george mcgovern hospitalized in florida. he has been hospitalized in florida. his daughter said. host: that is in "usa today." in "financial times" u.s. jobs figures to signal resilience in recovery. the u.s. is expected to show a another solid month of jobs growth. host: that is a report in "financial times." susan on our democrats' line. good morning. what are your thoughts? caller: i have plenty of them. the republicans always talk about individual freedoms, but then everything they come up with, they want to take over every aspect of our lives and direct a we think and do. the supreme court, by their own actions the last few years, have set themselves up as part of the republican party. the equal pay for women and men , the strip searches, the citizens united case where corporations are people. it is set up in corporate papers about the issue of people so that stockholders and owners could not be sued. the corporation can be sued. they have turned it around that there actual peopl

parolees is behind bars san mateo county sheriff's deputies arrested thomas baker last night on highway 92 in half moon bay about 500 mi. away. a few days earlier at a san diego hotel and he told a family he had suffered a stroke and is wheelchair-bound and then he convinced them to take him to see world with them once they got their baker allegedly said he needed to go back and his medicine from the car to the family given the keys and that is when investigators say the suspect disappeared and drove roughly 500 mi. to have monday deputies pulled him over while responding to reports and a possible drunk driver. you've heard before they say one person is jump to someone else's treasure now in one-of-a-kind chinese fishing vessel that was slated to be scrapped is on a journey into a permanent new home. today the chinese junk was carefully wrapped and driven from a double island of charge to antioch before it will be sent on to taiwan sharon shannon on a one woman's voyage to save a piece of history. there's a story. there is documentation. >>> after a long mission tianjin's issue is finally found a way to say the central chinese still love it. >>> it is one of

san mateo county sheriff's deputies say they arrested a wanted parolee outside of the family at their san diego, claiming that he was wheelchair-bound. the victims say they agree to take him to the theme park and there, he asked to borrow the car keys to get his medicine but never came back. investigators say they captured him in a stolen car on highway 92 driving recklessly. they also say he gave a fake name and complained of chest pains. he was taken to hospital and then to jail. we will be right back. >>pam: we will show you why people are saying all baby on a popular east a trail. that is ahead. bay area ! here's big news from verizon wireless and xfinity from comcast. now get the xfinity triple play and verizon wireless together. call 855-704-7400 to sign up and get a free smartphone. choose one of our hottest phones. verizon wireless and xfinity. tv, home phone, internet and wireless together. >>pam: we are exactly one week away from the weekend shutdown of the doe will drive. that is the main approach to the golden gate bridge in san francisco. today, we got our first look at a high-tech

one or two rain showers may move into the napa county mountains snow showers along the sierra, 34 tahoe, 46 yosemite. 80s palm springs, 82 today. 64 san diego 71 in los angeles. tonight a lot of 30s, mid 30s to near 40 inland, upper 30s to mid 40s around the bay shore out to the coast. here's what is happening, one more small chunk of energy in this northwesterly flow that could kickoff that stray shower in the north bay otherwise we are stuck in this cool, breezy air mass for at least one more afternoon. we'll focus our attention on the north during the morning. as the afternoon unfolds and evening watch how storms develop, napa county mountains snow up to the north and sierra won't be much if you get caught under a stray shower. tomorrow no chance at all high pressure two to four degrees warmer tomorrow, another two to four saturday and sunday, sunday evening chance of light rain in the north bay everybody is going to get rain next week. have a great day. here's frances. >>> good morning. truck fire reported eastbound 24 past the caldecott tunnel. it is on the right at this point, not causing delays. traffic still flowing well in both dir

other eight bay area counties, and also we look at half a dozen cities across the country of a similar size or larger, including chicago, los angeles, seattle, new york city, san diego, and columbus, ohio. we focused on three main areas. one was case management and referral-type services. the second area was transportation. the third was access to shelter or how reservations are made. we did not find examples of peer to peer network models, so that is research we still need to do. in the relationship to case management, the programs that provided case management services seemed to be either focused on very specific shelters that had companion treatment programs, such as clean and sober programs, programs that were for domestic violence and so forth. shelters in general that offered case management, it was often related to availability or assistance around housing. new york city uses an interesting model where everybody entering the shelter system is assessed, and an individual living plan is developed, and that plan helps guide services, and seems to be also one of the requirements for being in shelter is pursuing your plan. they have quite an extensive shelter syst

san diego neighborhood back in december 2008. that crash killed four people, including two children. back at home, we're following breaking news from prince george's county, where several busy streets have been shut down and hours preventing residents from reaching their homes. this is happening at university parkway and 23rd street and langley park. richard reeve is live at the scene. >> it is still a very active scene. that is one reason. behind me, riggs road and the university boulevard several police cars blocking part of university boulevard. the authorities are in a plaza and a building behind that, looking for a gun man in what began as an attempted robbery. for most of the evening this clause of university boulevard has remained close, sealed off by the police. >> we have never seen nothing like this. >> around 5:00 p.m., an armed, possibly masked man walked into a temp agency and announced a robbery. he fired one shot. >> nobody saw the individual leave the building. at about an hour later five, six people came running out of the building. they said the building is surrounded by cops. >> the police dismissed earlier reports that people were bei

who recently resigned from the alameda county board of supervisors after revolutions of an extramarital affair and substance abuse problems. we'll go live to san diego to find out what the coast guard is saying about the crash and the suspended search. >>> the southern california yacht crash comes two weeks after the crash in the bay area that killed two people. this afternoon, the giants will hold a public memorial for one of the victims. 26-year-old alexis bush was the first batgirl in major league baseball. she was with the giants between 1999 and 2002. her father is a former giants ex-executive vice president. today's memorial is -- is at 1:00 at at&t park. >>> in yuba county, deputies arrested a man they say rape and held a woman captive inside her own home. deputies say for three days she was held at gunpoint and repeatedly rained and assaulted. deputies -- raped and assaulted. the suspect is identified as tyrone dyson. >> scares me to death. i don't -- i can't even believe it's happened here. >> neighbors say the woman moved onto street about a month ago and said they had seen the suspect and victim together and thought they were having a rel

county that have functionally declared bankruptcy since 2008. and if you look at the list of cities that are on the brink, there are some major players here. san diegolong with detroit, yonkers, scranton, providence. so this is a growing problem. so, will, my question is, we've got the economy improving, and yet we're seeing more and more states at the brink. is this a sign that the stimulus bill, to some extent, was a band-aid on local budgets? >> yeah, the stimulus bill delayed many cities from dealing with the core problem. one of core problems are these lavish pension benefits from -- for their employees. and the stimulus put off the day of reckoning to deal with that. you see, when the good times were here, in the boom days, these cities didn't just build minor league ballparks, they gave away big, big contracts to the pensions and you can't maintain that in an economic downturn. >> mayor, and both of y'all, as will just said, the pension obligations, it's true. and salaries for private sector unions -- >> but also property taxes. >> exactly right. you've got property taxes eroding, decreased funding from state and federal governments. >> that

san diego. two girls who were injured testified at his trial. he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. but last month a jury convicted him of attempted murder and ruled that he was sane. >>> los angeles county officials have ruled that curve commentator died of heart failure that stemmed from coronary disease. the negligible amount of alcohol was found in his system, but no drugs either prescription or illegal were found. the 43-year-old conservative died lasts month in southern california. a coroner says foul play is not suspected. >>> this morning former house speaker nancy pelosi will be honored for the aids them she helped create. in 1996, she was instrumental in establishing the national aids memorial grove in golden gate park. today as part of a community volunteer day she will help plant trees, flowers, and shrubs. she will also be honored for her 25 years in congress. a section of the that grove will be named the nancy pelosi leadership pathway. >>> today is uc berkeley as open house. this is video from last year. some 40,000 people are expected to tour the campus today. museums, labs, and performance halls will all be open free of charge. the football team will also hold public pra

you can get here, but down in san diego, they're putting some pretty interesting things on their desserts. check it out. i'll just take this to the car. here in san diego countyowers are all around us to enjoy, to smell, and now even to eat. anyone who has received a bouquet of flowers will tell you the magnificent qualities about them aren't just limited to their awe-inspiring beauty or to their sweet floral scent. they can offer so much more. just ask john clemons, a flower farmer for more than 20 years now. you can step onto his farm in the town of jamul; indeed, it looks similar to the other dozens of flower farms in san diego county, but look a little closer and you'll discover a sweet surprise. >> in the mid-nineties, i was looking through a book, came across a recipe for crystallized violets. and i thought, hmm, egg whites, dip the flower in, throw it in sugar, roll it around, put it down. it dries, and you have something crunchy that's non-perishable because it's completely dried, and it's sugar-coated. and i thought, oh, my god. cold food aside, they could use them on desserts. i've got to figure out how to do this. >> imagine your favorite flowers t