. >> i don't even know nothing about -- >> were you driving a white expedition at any time? no. >> around that time period? >> no. >> you never took off running? you're saying none of that happened? >> none of that happened. >> all right. then i'll let the state know that you're going to not accept the proposal that was offered to resolve your case. >> aaron's complete denial of all wrongdoing puts a troubling new twist on the situation. >> i'm willing to plead guilty to this but i want to assure i can get back here -- >> you just told me you weren't involved in in any of this? >> i know, that's what i told them, i told them i didn't do it. >> i can't have you go ahead and make an admission. >> with aaron denying the charges against him, the attorney will now tell the prosecutor's office they are rejecting the final plea agreement. aaron will have to take his chances that the state will be unable to prove its case against him. >> it's an uphill climb. right? so you know. okay? >> i understand. >> okay. i'll be in touch. >> with so much at stake, residential supervisor jamie

expedite my release. >> i have reached out to contacts both at the white house and state department and we are waiting tor back from them but repeatedly the white house has said they do not negotiate with terrorists. justin gray ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> time now 5:15 and it was nine years ago today that a powerful tsunami killed several people and they were wiped out by the giant wave spawned by the earthquake one of the strongest ever. it destroyed more than 2 million homes. >>> well, this is a bittersweet holiday for souper storm sandy and it may be the last time families celebrate christmas in their ocean breeze holiday inn oakland. they are offering buy outs to 129 homeowners and the land will be turned into a buffer zone for other communities incase there is a super storm. they have raised 8 children in their house and moving away will be one of the hardest things they have ever done. >> this is where all the kids were raised and it breaks my heart. >> not everybody is going along with the governor's plan. several homeowners have signs on them saying we are staying. >>> they are looking for

expedite my release. >> this is the second video released by al-qaida showing wienstein asking the president for help. the white house has not commented on this new video, but in the past it says the u.s. will not negotiate with al- qaida. >>> today the young man accused of walking into a los angeles airport terminal and opening fire will face a judge. authorities say 23-year-old paul ciancia shot four people last month at l.a.x., killing a tsa officer. today ciancia will be arraigned in federal court. if convicted, he faces the death penalty. >>> five people have been arrested after a christmas melee broke out at a movie theater parking lot in florida. authorities say it started after a group of young adults rushed the building and tried to force their way inside. an officer used pepper spray on the group and they left. at the same time they say a fight started outside the theater and grew to a large brawl involving about 600 teenagers, jumping and fighting -- fighting and jumping on cars. there were no serious injuries reported. the five people arrested are all under the age of 20 and now face misdemeanor cha

a picture by the expedition leader shows it on the horizon there just above a group of penguins. ko im reports. >> reporter: a view of the research ship is a big white lie. while it appears that the boat is sitting high and dry on a snowy field, it is, in fact, on the ocean, the frozen antarctic ocean. 74 scientists, journalists, and crew are aboard the ship which left new zealand last month. the mission was to retrace the 1911 journey of an australian explorer douglas mawson. they were exploring and stopped cold on tuesday. it's very cold in the southern hemisphere, but when you're this far south, blizzards are a year-round threat. temperatures are well below zero. scientist chris tierney is tracking this expedition. >> we have wind speeds on average of 50 kilometers an hour reaching in excess of 70 kilometers an hour. the vessel hasn't moved for the last two days. >> reporter: three ice breaker ships are making their way to the ice-locked vessel, but tearily told cbs news via skype the passengers are prepared. >> we've got a couple of weeks of fresh food and on top of that if things get really bad, we've got three weeks of glorious hydrated food.

expedition ship will be evacuated if the weather cooperates. that ship has been stuck in ice. everybody on board is oscar. >>> here at home a milestone for the affordable care act. the white house now saying more than 1 million people have signed up for insurance on healthcare.gov. added up to others on state sponsored websites, the amount has risen to 2 million. >>> the federal aviation administration choosing six states as drone test sites. they are alaska, nevada, new york, texas and virginia. companies like amazon and.com noaa's pizza want to use drones for deliveries. commercial drones by the end of 2015. >>> next on al jazeera america, a california family dealing with what could be the last days of life for their daughter. many worry that the gains made in education will not stick in the future. aljazeera's jane ferguson takes us to a school in kandahar city that was long considered a success and is now facing closure. >> it's a place offering more than these girls know, a quality education in real tangible skills, a path away from positivity and early marriage and towards university and a career. since 2002, the modern stud has been teaching women languages, like m

in white-collar government, i try to roll out a couple of popular ask permission to i try to test a couple of popular expedition. if you're just as someone honestly why you think think there are so few working-class people in political office, you're often going to get one of two different types of answers. one answer that often when i talk to people about this research is that aren't very many working-class people in political office because that's what voters want. this is a democracy and if working people are not getting to congress is because they aren't winning elections. so this is really about voters preferring white-collar professionals. the other argument i often hear is there just aren't very many qualified working-class people out there. if they had what it takes politically, that would be great but there aren't very many sort of blue-collar workers with the raw qualifications, raw skills that you need to be a successful politician. in the book i take both those arguments safely out of just look at the data. i find that neither one really lines up with what we actually know about u.s. politics. there

expedite my release. >> reporter: i reached out to both the state department and the white house. coming up in the next hour, working to get reaction from them for you. the white house has repeatedly said they do not negotiate with terrorists. live in washington, justin grey, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> it is 7:16. just a short time ago the leaders of kenya and ethiopia arrived in south sudan. this is new video from cnn. the two african leaders are trying to mediate the bitter dispute between south sudan's president and his political rivals. the president has been saying they are trying to develop a coup. >>> well, it was nine years ago today that a powerful susan mcginnis killed more than 200,000 people in southeast asia. communities from sri lanka were wiped out by the drive spawned by a 9.3 earthquake. the tsunami caused millions of dollars in damage and destroyed more than 2 million homes. >>> livermore police are searching for two men who burglarized a walmart on christmas morning. it happened at the walmart on loss posidas road. police say two men smashed a window and stole ele