it was for unused vacation time and sick time. city officials say the timing is a coincidence.lion deficit at this time. >>> they are trying to save lives. live christmas trees in apartment building lobbies are being removed by the fdny. the trees are a fire hazard. upset residents say the lobbies are part of their homes and removing the trees kills the holiday spirit. >> developments overnight in the battle to avoid the fiscal cliff which is less than two weeks away. house republicans voted not to vote on a plan b doug luzader is live in washington. >> i hope we still have the christmas spirit in washington. it is about to become a ghost town because everybody is heading out of town with no deal on the fiscal cliff. house republicans left the meeting last night with their leadership. they called it the plan b because it didn't have enough gop support in the past. others drew a line. in fact... >> that's the same 40, 50 chuckle heads all year starting with hr 1 has screwed this place up. he has done everything in his power to make nice with them to bring them along and make the

they wail tend classes in an unused middle school in monroe.hat school hzn't been used since june, 2011. crews and workers have been making% g< safe for their return. the school will be run by donna page, a retired sandy hook principal. the rft of the students return to class yesterday. parents say at this point they just want to try to return to normalcy. >> i just naturally would love to keep my kids in a bubble. you can't live that way. >> connecticut lead medical examiner wants to look into the dna of adam lanza and asked wants to determine if there are identifiable diseases associated with this violent debehaifor autos school buses are back on the streets in newtown, connecticut. there are also funeral processions. >> abc news is there with the story. >> yet another funeral of a young victim. firefighters were at the memorial for daniel, who dreamed of becoming a new york city firefighter like his uncle and cousin. >> our son had so much love to give to this world. and he was supposed to have a lifetime of bringing that light to the world.

doesn't mean the design specks, it all looks great, if you try to put boats into those berths, they're unusable, those berths are rendered impassable for a boat unless you're going out at high tide or going out in low tide, you can only go in or out, you're limited, you can legally charge a 35% increase in rent only when the renovation is complete. i think the other part the commission needs to come clear on and be succinct about is the security issue, right now, i don't believe that there will be adequate fences, gates to prevent homeless people from walking on the docks and decide to take up residents in whatever boat they choose to live on or steal things from it, it's paramount that also be addressed and if it's not complete, that there be firm commitments and some binding means by which -- that will be done by a certain date because frankly, we're paying a lot of money. this is one of the few park facilities that you have in your general management that is a profit center, the money being taken in under the harbor trust dictates that money's supposed to stay in there and it's supposed to b

americans frequentenly sell unused or unneeded items when they need money.ever, some complain that is a foreign concept to our government. correspondent william la jeunesse explains the push for national yard sale. >> amtrak to vacant buildings like these in california many wonder if the federal government should sell what it doesn't need. >> so instead of raising taxes that takes money out of the economy and loafers activity, we should look to sell federal assets. >> empty v.a. hospital in los angeles for $5 billion or part of the water front former military base in san francisco. both cases, politicians said no. they want to make sure they are taken care of. sometimes it gets in way of what is best for the nation. >> federal government is america biggest landlord. selling 20% of the empty or underperforming buildings would save $2 billion. you go through and clear it out. it's a matter of scale. defense refused to sell valuable public land adjacent to fast-growing city. without charging royalties like we do for oil and natural gas. selling amtrak could net

in the neighboring town of monroe volunteers continue preparing an unused middle school for sandy hook students to attend. >> we want to give the children the opportunity to see their new school and at to be as comfortable as they possibly can. >> promote investigation proceeds as a board is look through every inch of adam lanza's life. -- authoritiesthe investigation proceeds. his mother trained him to use a dangerous weapon at a time whenshe knew that he suffered from mental illness. >> it was an extremely poor decision on her part. we're talking about a psychological switzer that i think got turned on for him with access to and weapon and ready availability. >> the gunman had not seen his father or brother in two years. although he visited gun ranges, it's not clear if he practiced shooting in preparation for the massacre. tahman bradley abc news, connecticut. >> the mother of a georgetown university student was among those killed in the connecticut school shooting. school psychologist mary sherlock was the mother of katy. she and the principle have been praised for trying to stop t

a trooper retires with a pension of $175,000 a year thanks to unused sick days.fender phil diane support that? he'll be with us. e-mail us right now, and at varney@foxbusiness.com. and we'll start with oracle, the software company, profits up, selling more software and yes, the stock is up a buck. not a bad gain for oracle. general mills makes cereals like lucky charms, sales in the last 13 week period, virtually unchanged for the company's stock. fedex, disappointing forecast, took a hit because of sandy, the storm. none of less up two bucks higher. plx technology, the sec is trying to block the proposed takeover. and say the deal would create a near monopoly for circuits, and not a clue what they do. delphi automotive, added to the s&p 500, good news for the stock because the fund managers now have to buy it. and this company went into bankruptcy protection and emerged in '09 and because of the u.k. it's up. health net enrollment for health plans in corporations next year, it's down. pfizer cutting 600 jobs and 20% of the sales force that is. sales for lipitor

. >> hundreds of workers are prepping the unused building to open so that school can resume we're working to try to be respectful and try to resume what normalcy we can. >> investigators are still serging for clues to what motivated lanza to first kill his mother in her home before going on a rampage in the school we did seize significant evidence at the residence. >> the school massacre has reignited the debate about gun control and gun rights. duringa memorial service sunday night, president obama vowed to help end the recent string of mass murders. >> these tragedies must end and to end them, we must change. . >> today state police revealed that there were two adult survivors of the school massacre. they were both shot many the lower body. reportinglive,tv with abc2 news. >> most of us have been crying since we heard the news on e friday and today was very tough to send your child off to school. it's human nature to worry. here's a mom. >> jamie, it took us all a little longer to let go today and that's because it takes a lot. the schools are required in maryland to have safety plans a

had several more clips unused a couple with of handguns and unspent bullets as police were closing in. here is what we heard from lieutenant paul vance yesterday. >> the weapon utilized most of the time in this horrific crime was identified as bushmaster. ar-15 assault type weapon. it had high capacity magazines. in addition to that the subject had in his possession a glock 10 millimeter, a sigg sauer 9mm, all weapons had multiple magazines and additional ammunition. >> reporter: police told us when they were closing in, when they arrived at the school and were closing in on adam lanza, that is when he used one of the handguns to put a bullet in his own head, bill. bill: there were hundreds of rounds of ammunition found inside the school that were left, either on his person or in that classroom that went unused. now, police have been very cautious on these press conferences. a lot of information frankly went out on friday and saturday that has not proven to be true and a lot of that information was pulled back. i thought the information they gave out last night was precious and few. w

sometimes someone we didn't know would put something under the mattress, making the cot unusable for several days. someone would come by and take the hardware away in a shopping bag and that would be it for a week or so. there was often a black photographer who would come to the shop with an empty shopping bag. when he left, he with leave in a zigzag and eventually get on a bus going south. >> i wanted to read a poem that was sent by the poet that i invited to the recent san francisco international poetry festival from iraq i've been in touch with for more than a year and a half. after the united states would not give him his visa, i asked him -- i told him about mutanabbi street and he wrote a poem and he wrote it in english, though he writes in, of course, in arabic. but this one he wrote in english. so i'll read it. one figure in the poem you should know, humbaba, which is an ogre, a monster of immemorial age. that was a special big garden, a forest, where all types of trees and flowers grew. the trees bending down gently flinging branches. our orchard grew like a crown on the sun

security cameras sat unused because no one knew hoto install them. >> the buildings did not meet department standards for office buildings in high-threat areas. and in a sense they fell through the cracks. >> reporter: it was not reasonable for hillary clinton, he said, to have knowledge of the specific security arrangements in benghazi. second clinton released a letter saying she accepted all of the panel's 29 recommendations. following the benghazi attacks, she has already sent hundreds of marine guards to u.s. poefrts and is requesting -- posts and is requesting more funding from congress. >> reporter: two of clinton's deputies will answer questions from congress about the review board's findings. secretary clinton is at home recovering from a concussion and stomach illness. lawmakers say they still want her to testify in january. >>> san jose city college is using a security scare as a learning experience. a report of a gunman on campus prompted a huge police response and a 3-hour lockdown yesterday. no gunman was found, but officials say they did find room for improvement in their lock

daily city police say that he stashed bags of mail in his home to find unused credit cards, caught using the cards and is accused of giving others to friends. he faces up to seven years for identity theft and possession of stolen property. >> a work worker is in critical condition. sky 7 hd over the scene to bring us these pictures. this worker fell 20 feet through a cuttout. crews add a tough time getting to that man. >> we had to take scaffolding to get down to them. there was a little problem getting to him. but we got to him we're able to have the workers open up a safe for them to take them out on the scaffold. >> the man was lying there before anyone realized he was fallen. >>> a san francisco woman charged with killing a pedestrian during a hilt and run was studying to be a police officer. she was arraigned today, and is charged with du. ai. and gross gros vehicular manslaughter. she hit four pedestrians and kept driving. a woman died the scene. she must have an alcohol detecting device on her body and not drive if she makes bail. >> the health of former president george hw bush i

. >> with the school remaining a crime scene, sandy hook students will be attending an unused middleschool in a neighboring town. . >> so, how do you get a break from the heart break? you take your kids to the mall just like when you were young. >> tonight, let them be kids, let them sit on santa's lap. let them watch the trains and make a wish list. >> i think i want a gum ball machine. >> a race car. >> a doll. >> let butterflies float in their stomach as excitement builds over the next eight days for the last four have been very tough. kids can read you like a page from good knight moon. letthem think they live in a perfecting world. >> i want a chair that's purple and that says connor. >> a toy helicopter. >> let them turn away from what's been on tv for it's hard enough for adults to understand. >> i'm a grandparent so i haven't really brought it up with my graund daughter. >> he knows what happened in a place that is far away to these little ones. >> i certainly don't want to be the first one who brings it up. >> tonight, let them be kids. >> you want a garbage truck? tell him.

investigators say the 20-year- old had hundreds of unused bullets on him and used a high- powered rifle to shoot all the victims in one hallway and two classrooms. >> to pick on six and seven- year-olds is just -- it's beyond horrific. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news the massacre may have gone on longer but lanza it shot himself in the head with one of his handguns when he heard police coming. >> reporter: for family members, one of the hardest parts is yet to come. funerals and services for some of the victims begin tomorrow. >> i read about one mom who lives in the newtown area. her children attend a different school but she said it feels like people need to get back to normal. so what happens tomorrow in the community? >> reporter: well, school for the children that went to sandy hook will begin, they hope on wednesday, but at another school, it at a place that would be a temporary campus, perhaps, because authorities aren't even sure if they will ever have those kids return to that school. but you can imagine for some people they're not sure if they would want to return to that s

they say lanza still had a lot of unused ammunition friday when he killed himself as police approached. school officials soon have to decide when classes should resume and where they should be held. to get the latest, cbs news reporter erica ferrari joins us live from newtown, connecticut, with the latest on president obama's appearance. erica. >> reporter: behind closed doors, the president reportedly told the governor of connecticut that friday was the single most difficult day of his presidency. >> charlotte, daniel, olivia... >> reporter: the tears flowed freely as the people of newtown, connecticut, remembered those gunned down at sandy hook elementary school. >> we gather here in memory of 20 beautiful children and six remarkable adults. >> reporter: president obama said he brought with him the love and prayers of the nation. >> i am very mindful that mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow nor can they heal your wounded hearts. >> reporter: the next painful step in the grieving process begins today when the first two funerals will be held here in newtown. >> they were

been modernized, that's an excessive amount of rent to be paying for something that effectively is unusable, there are a lot of berths at low tide, that needs to be addressed and taken care of. the second item i'm going to bring is in regards to park and rec taking money and in some respects jumping the gun and not being good about returning money and specifically in moving boats out of berths out of renovation or the gas house cove, there was a decision made that those boats should not be playing the longer berth fee and that money should be returned to the berth holders, park and rec has not acknowledged credit for that or handled it, i sent a letter to you regarding the premature increase of rent for west space and berth holders dated august 1, park and rec is in violation of their own park code 12-20 in terms of how they applied cpi without meeting the dead -- deadlines by your own code. i think a response needs to be made. would you like the letter? >> yes, i would. >> next. >> next speaker. >> testing, 1, 2, 3, testing, 1, 2, 3, thank you. frank, seiu1021 with members and staff here s

and in seattle these unused mall parking fields, transformed from dirt into thornton place, a residential community with a park, movie theatre and a bus station nearby. >> bert gregory's firm designed thornton place to be more green and less dependent on cars. >> you can walk to get your services. you can walk to the transit stop. you're actually using physical activity to move around. >> reporter: while there are still more than 1500 enclosed malls in the u.s., only two new ones have been built since 2009. >> an opportunity for designers, architects and planners to be innovative again. >> june williamson an architecture professor at the city university of new york has written two books about our changing landscape. >> it comes down to making the suburban spaces pore livable for everyone, more walkable, pore vital, more economically productive and more environmentally sound and resilient. >> take voorhees, new jersey. a philadelphia suburb that was home to an underperforming mall. the developer demolished half of it. built 400 apartments and created this street. the town's offices moved i

its exercise is on a unused portion of the track. you may see police and fire truck was lightens and sirens, there is no disruption to traffic or train service. >> turning to weather it'll be chilly and wet. >> mark and mark, it's cold. >> it is off to a cold start. a few neighborhoods starting off in the upper 20s. we want to bundle up at least in the short term and get ready for more rain showers approaching the bay area. right now we have cloud cover out there but still breaks in the clouds as well. you can see this early saturday morning, taking a look right now at live storm tracker 2. you can pick out the live deputy letter sweeps and the current radar pattern, most of the activity is up to the north. up along the north coast, around the cape and this will be drifting a bit more to the south. this will be the source of more rainfall as we head toward the latter portions of the morning and into the afternoon hours. as far as the temperatures they are very cold. fairfield has warmed up one degree. 30 out at fairfield. napa35, san

investigators say the 20-year- old had hundreds of unused bullets on him and used a high- powered rifle to it shoot all the victims in one hallway and two classrooms. >> to pick on six and seven- year-olds is just -- it's beyond horrific. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news the massacre may have gone on longer but lanza shot himself in the head when he heard police coming. for the families of the victims, one of the hardest parts is yet to come. funeral services begin this weekend. >> the president said he was offering the love of the nation to those grieving. but he also said there has to be change to prevent these tragedies. so how are people reacting to the memorial service? >> reporter: we spoke to some of the people that were in the vigil. they said that they felt very encouraged. they kept saying that we need to come together as a community, as a nation, and that we need to do more to protect our children. that was the overwhelming feeling that people told me as they were coming out of the vigil. >> thank you. >>> for continuing coverage of this story visit our website, cbssf.com.

a booster pump to increase water pressure, improve irrigation system layout and design, replace unusable turf with drought tolerant plantings, where appropriate in park design, and install a weather-based smart irrigation controller. with this project complete our estimated water reduction would be one-third reduction or $2,545,192 gallons annually, which is very substantive. that being the project that we proposed, the puc has made available this money for the project. it is available to the end of fiscal year 13-14. their grant funding covers 57% of the total project costs. remaining 43% of the alamo square cost would be subsidized by the department's capital budget in the amount not to exceed 1 million. if you would approve the mou today and once it is executed, the department must complete this particular project within two years or forfeit the grant receipts unless otherwise agreed. so the proposed mou before you is attached to your package outlines and describes the requirements of this particular project that it would govern. the time line, if you were to approve, would be the fol

when they open tomorrow n.app emergency meeting tonight we agreed to let survivors attend classes at unused middle school. >> 2 funeral are scheduled for tomorrow for 6-year-old james matt and jessica rak o s. fight line up next absence and cynthia explore new details about the shatter his mother and the weapons he used in the attack. >> stay tawn for that on "nightline". coming up medley that's our report tonight. >> for all of us sandy and all of us here. we your time. 4:30 am and always available on our web site. on facebook and twitter at abc 7 news bay area. twitter at abc 7 news bay area. >> good night. . >>> tonight online lion a day of heartache in connecticut the first of the victims of the school shooting are laid to rest and a nation grieves with this small town. >>> plus the investigation, new details about the shooter, his mother, and his weapons as those who knew him come forward. >> she asked me to always keep an eye on him and never turn my back on

students at sandy hook elementary will return to class but if they do they will go to an unused school. that school will be ready by wednesday but no date has been set for the children to resume class. and police will be stationed outside that school. one official says he doubts students will ever attend sandy hook elementary again. >>> a local church is planning an interface service tonight to reflect on last weeks mass killings. the service will be at 7:00 at first presbyterian church in burlingame. local religious leaders and public school trustees will all attend the service which will include prayers, readings, and expressions of remembrance and hope. >>> six fishermen were rescued after their boat started to sink. they called 911 after their boat started taking on water. they wouldn't be able to reach the men for about a hour so santa cruz harbor patrol deputies took off in their own boat and reached the men in 40 minutes. no one was hurt. >>> house speaker john boehner is accepting a tax increase on people making more than $1 million a year. that falls short of president obama's

. >>> a neighboring town, monroe, seven miles away, offered up an unused school to the more than 400 sandy hook students. officials say the school will be head are -- school will be ready by wednesday but it's not clear when classes will resume for sandy hook students. they are not back at school today. as for the sandy hook school building, one police official says he doubts students will ever attend that school again. >>> 7:18. there are some signs of progress in the fiscal cliff debate. house speaker john boehner now willing to accept a tax hike on those people who make more than a million dollars a year. that's less than what president obama wants. he wants to raise the taxes on those who make $250,000 a year. boehner is angering some of those in his party who are against this. others say we need to support him. >> he's our speaker and leader. we're never gonna get the perfect deal. i'm confident john will get the best deal we can consistent with the principles. >> boehner offering to raise taxes includes cutting an unspecified rise in the eligibility age raise for medicare. >>>

and in seattle these unused parking fields transformed from dirt into thornton place, a residential communityand a bus station nearby. burt gregory's firm designed thornton place to be more green and less dependent on cars. >> you can walk to get your services. you can walk to the transit stop. you're actually using physical activity to move around. >> reporter: while there are still more than 1,500 enclosed malls in the u.s., only two new ones have been built since 2009. >> an opportunity for designers, architects, and planners to be innovative again. >> reporter: june williamson, an architecture professor at the university of new york has written two books about our changing landscapes. >> it comes down to making living spaces more liveable for everyone, more walkable, economically productive and more environmentally sound and resilient. >> reporter: take this philadelphia suburb that was home for an underdeveloping mall. the developer demolished half of it, built 400 apartments and created this street. the town's offices moved inside what's left of the mall helping bring foot traffic to re

to san francisco and i believe this is a good use of the portland and otherwise the land would be unused and good for business and in the area and give our city more revenues and tax dollars for the services that we need and i hope that you will support this project and thank you. >> rachel o shay and henry -- i am sorry if i butchered your name. >> hello commissioners. [inaudible] basketball but this project is much more than basketball. [inaudible] culturally. right now chinese pop star who come to the bay area like ya ming. he cannot come to san francisco. he must go to oakland or san jose. i would like san francisco to have the same opportunity that the other cities do have the type of music and culturally that make the city so great. it is the best place we can celebrate the diversity of san francisco. please support this project. thank you. >> thank you. henry and after henry ja hol. >> evening commissioners. i am the president of the san francisco council district merchant associations. we have a golden opportunity to have the warriors move back to san francisco. for years the pie

her contract but called again late this afternoon to say they are considering compensation for her unusableata. sprint won't comment about how long they have known about the issue or how many people are affected. if you have a complaint, email us. she just wants out of the contract. >> thank you. >>> coming up, remembering a jazz legend. with bay area roots. >> a look back at the life and career of dave brubeck. death of a jazz pioneer. ,, and a bay area native. and y area native. dave his 92-nd bi ask. >>> the music world is mourning the disof jazz pioneer and a bay area native. dave brubeck died this morning one day shy of his 92nd birthday. cbs 5 reporter mike sugerman has a look back at his life and legend. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: if dave brubeck was the high priest of west coast jazz, this was his temple. the blackhawk nightclub corner of turk and ellis in san francisco he was tenderloin. today, the tenderloin is -- well, it's the tenderloin. back in the day when dave brubeck held court -- >> the blackhawk was -- was in reality a dive. >> reporter: toby gleason remembers going to the

could have made thirty billion so it's actually making very little money and next year all of the unused quotes as we'll have basically burned off just two percent will be left over itself so what happens now in the world. well if there is no other organization now turning to the kyoto protocol developed then then i guess yes but russia's ministry of environment protection has actually said that is suggesting its own treaty with an ambitious goal of around twenty percent less carbon emissions to one thousand one hundred but it's actually being quite cheeky here because russia was already complying with these targets well most other countries in the world. for russia will be the only game in here but we've also talked to be on long bird is a professor at copenhagen business school and he says basically these kind of organisations like the kyoto protocol just won't work. fundamentally we ask nations to implement policies that are costly for them now well we've had very tiny an impact on your views down below there are always going to be a very very hard sell and so what we've really seen p

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some parking spaces were unusable because of the standing water. people that came seemed ub daunted undaunted by the rain. >> russian river has risen 14 feet in the past 24 hours with all of the run off from the downpours, people were visiting johnson beach to watch the river rise. fences are disappearing a long with the parking lot that is going under water. >> right across the river here there is -- there is a dam and the dam is totally under water. so it is abuff the dam. >> take a look at this. while the crew was reporting on river road this morning they were able to watch as the floodwaters began to rise from the local creek there. >>> the heavy rain threatened homes at a mobile home park it this morning after the lake in the center of the complex overflowed. the manager of the complex said flooding is t uncommon during flooding rain and forces them to purchase water out. he was not the only one getting wet. they were knee-deep in water trying to cheer the clogged storm drains. >> -- clear the clogged storm drains. >> they were clearing the oa

sbp has taken an unused parcel of land and turned it into the city's first solar research location. the manufacturing company provide it had thousands of panels which can generate enough electricity to power more than two dozen homes. >>> well, we're with rosemary now and we obviously have some more weather coming in. any comparison to what we saw last weekend because that was heavy. not going to be enough. >> enough to get us wet. we have watched those showers fall over the north bay on and off throughout the afternoon really staying north of the golden gate but you can see plenty more as you take a look at northwest areas of california have seen that rain continue. i want to slide into some of the moderate rain we're seeing just come up off the coastline there. occidental, gern vil perhaps seeing some light to moderate rain and along i-80 fairfield into vacaville. light to moderate rain reported there. in and out of martinez a few scattered showers at this point and over san francisco we've got some light rainfalling over the richmond district, the mission district. it looks like

remaining a crime scene, perhaps for months, police said today, 75 to 100 volunteers are now fixing up an unused middle school in the next town over. >> we want to have them come in and feel that they are safe and secure. >> reporter: the national outpouring is being felt keenly here, from the president, visiting with families sunday night -- >> i can only hope it helps for you to know that you're not alone in your grief. >> reporter: to the local florist, where they are overwhelmed with people from all over the country are calling to order flowers. back now at the makeshift memorial, where a marching band is playing, school officials haven't announced when classes will start up again for the students. the rest of the schools here in newtown will reopen tomorrow, which could be tricky for some parents who may not want to let their kids out of their sight. diane? >> thank you so much, dan. and all across this country, in other states and other communities, as we said, it was an anxious monday, about something everyone has taken for granted. millions of children returning to classrooms and some sc