they are spending some time at yahoo. they are going in there and reading news and they're checking sports and checking their stock quotes, things like that. but that's not as profitable. they don't have the unique set of information. they don't have the ability to get the higher rated advertising. >> reporter: now, we did receive a statement from yahoo a short time ago that says, quoting now, yahoo is always evaluating expenses to align with the company's financial goals. beyond that we don't comment on rumors or speculation. again, reports in the "new york times" saying that yahoo could lay off 600 to 700 people starting today. >> thank you, mark sayre in sunnyvale. >>> 6:35. we have showers across the bay area. and tracy is going to fill us in now in the weather center. >> good morning. we have scattered showers out there this morning so here we go. light activity outside of danville, more light showers through sunnyvale and palo alto. moving into fremont and also just outside livermore. scattered showers through the e

yahoo is completely different. it's like apples and oranges. >> yahoo's official statement is this, they are evaluating expenses to align with the company's financial goals. beyond that we don't comment on rumors or speculation. this is no longer rumor or speculation, been confirmed by people at yahoo. in fairness to her, there was 1600 layoffs before she came on in 2009 and she worked in intel and also at sun microsystems, so holding into a one dimensional player seems to be off the mark. as far as stock market reaction, shares of stock of yahoo are down just three cents, to $16.67. we are hearing there is a lot of talk, speculation about aol taking over yahoo and we are also told that the folks being laid off did receive what is being described as a pretty good severance package. >>> virginia man accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl has decided to waive extradition that means he has agreed to return to virginia. they will take him back to the roanoke, virginia in the next 48 hours. he is was with britney mae

yahoo is completely different. it's like apples and oranges. >> yahoo's official statement is this, they are evaluating expenses to align with the company's finaial goals. beyond tha we don't comment on rumors or speculation. this is no longer rumor or specation, been confirm by people at yahoo. in fairns to her, there was 1600 layoffs before she came on in 2009 and she worked in intel and also at sun microsystems, so holding into a one dimensional player see to be off the mark. as far as stock market reactio, shares o stock of yahoo are down just three cents, to $16.67. we are hearing there is a lot of talk, speculation about aol taking over yahoo and we are also told that the folks being laid off did receive what is being scribed as a pretty good severance packe. >>> virginia man accused of kidnapng a 12-year-old girl has decided to waive extration that means he has agreed to return t virginia. they will take him back to the roanoke, virginia in the next 48 hours. he is was with britney mae smith when he was arre

now according to the new york times yahoo's chief executives has been trying to reinvigorate yahoo that has suffered from years of bureaucracy. they have been unable to capitalize on social networking and has lost its dominance in the search network. >>> time now 5:02. just hours ago dozens of police officers rushed in to control the wild and out of control barroom fight in sonoma county. this broke out at 1:00 a.m. at the rocks bar and lounge in petaluma. a fight that started inside that bar spilled out on to the streets. witnesses say one police car accidentally ran into a pedestrian crossing the street outside the bar. that pedestrian is recovering at petaluma valley hospital. at least one person was arrested. >>> a man suspected of molesting a an 8-year-old girl at a walmart store is due in court today. 29-year-old carlisle villazon was arrested a the the store wednesday night. he wondered away and came back crying and pointing at him saying he touched her inappropriately. two men grabbed the suspect and held him until the police arrived. >> the mother he put his hands on my little

so if indeed the layoffs happen at yahoo beginning today, clearly a dark day for yahoo and some tough workers here in silicon valley. >>> a deal to sell 11 state buildings including several in the bay area is on hold. an appeals court judge has issued a stay temporarily blocking the sale to private investors. the sale was expected to close wednesday and bring in 2.$3 billion. the property would be rented back to the state. opponents though say that would cost california taxpayers $6 billion over 50 years. >> what is being alleged is that the sale of the transaction constitutes a waste of taxpayer dollars for the simple reason that it's using long-term debt to plug a short- term hole in the budget. >> the court has invited both sides to smith briefs before the end of the year. >>> today, san francisco supervisors will vote on whether to continue studying a possible toll of $3 on rush hour drivers from the peninsula. the goal is to raise money and promote public transit. but san mateo county says that toll would severely affect people living there. and it's considering a retaliation wit

yahoo has kind of get in, get out. i go to yahoo to look at stock news, sports, ap, reuters, tech news but you don't spend time there. >> reporter: according to the "new york times," layoffs would be centered in yahoo's u.s. product group responsible for designing and building consumer and advertising services and magid says advertising revenue is a weak spot. >> the biggest shortfall is they can't get highly targeted advertising. sure, they can get ads built around looking at stocks and sports. but google can get very, very precise in their ads as can facebook because they have a lot of information about you. yahoo gets some of that but not enough of that to make the kind of revenue that you can do if have a targeted advertising base. >> reporter: we received a stakes. it says yahoo is always evaluating expenses to align with the company's financial goals, beyond that, we don't comment on rumors or speculation. mark sayre, cbs 5. >>> a warning: your safety is at risk. why there is a fear today that things might very s

up to 700 pink slips coming outs of yahoo before christmas. joining me live is rob he is a tech analyst. this is a real lousy time of the year for this to happen. >> it is. folks are not hiring right now. they are not interviewing. you send them home at christmas the most stressful time of the year. >> what is the problem here? >> a lack of leadership. carroll bark is ranked as the highest paid worker. she is struggling with what yahoo should be when they recover. >> so they just can't compete. i know in the search engine arena they no longer exist. social networking missed the boat. >> that is it. they really should have owned social networking. that was the space they dominated in before facebook and my space and the rest of them came up. that wasn't carroll barts fault. they are trying to retist cover their roots and the end result is lots and lots of layoffs. >> reporter: thank you so much for joining us live. we appreciate you getting up this early in the morning for us. there has been talk of a takeover bid. some kind of merger with aol.

it's the most recent of several rounds of layoffs at yahoo! over the last few years. yahoo!'s news did not move the stock price. it didn't affect the investors who sent the prices higher. auto desk rgin on news of a stock buyback. loosking ahead to 6:00, we know where yahoo! rival google is putting some of its money. a first look at a google-backed startup that wants to make freeways less crowded. we'll show you how they plan to do it tonight at 6:00. >>> pg&e is under scrutiny in a spy scandal and smart meters are at the center of it all. the san jose mercury news reports that court documents reveal a series of e-mails exchanged showing pg&e sent someone to monitor and photograph a demonstration in sonoma county against its smart meters. earlier, pg&e reported the executive acted alone, but the papers make it clear other employees knew about his actions. >>> a senate vote is expected this evening on a tax package negotiated by president obama, and republican lawmakers in the senate. the bill could be passed and sent to the house for approval. among other things, the package

that would be about 5% of yahoo's 14,000 workers. and it would be yahoo's fourth major layoff in three years. this round of cuts is expected to be concentrated in yahoo's u.s. products division. >>> an east bay city could go on record tonight as hailing the man believed to be behind wiki-leaks information. the berkeley city council is considering a resolution to declare army private first class bradley manning a hero. manning is accused of providing classified military documents to the wiki-leaks web site. the berkeley city council meets at 7:00 tonight. >>> and wiki-leaks founder julian assange will be in court today in london. trying to fight his extradition to sweden on sexual assault charges. assange is wanted for questioning after two swedish women accused him of sexual misconduct. he has been in a british prison cell for a week. today, his lawyers intend to seek assange's release on bail, and supporters are planning a protest outside the court. >>> the tax cut compromise could get final approval in the u.s. senate today. the se

no official word from yahoo! yet on these pending layoffs but we've been told by an inside source that we could see people with pink slips starting to walk out of the building in about two or three hours. security has been beefed up around the grounds here. this will be swift. the insiders tell us that all of the managers went layoff t raining yesterday. let's take a look at some video we shot. these are folks getting off the bus. they are in the products division. our products say people in that department have been on edge. that's because most of the s pending job cuts are, this the fourth round of layoffs. >> this is a very time of year. people go home without a job. people aren't hiring. most people are on vacation. you are treating people like equipment a that you get rid o f -- equipment that you get rid of at the end of the year. >> reporter: analysts say they handed the search engine over to microsoft. some had said that ceo carol b artz is not the right fit for yahoo!, others, including bartz, says turni

yahoo!, the news continues to be negative. today a source inside the sunnyville based company says they plan to lay off 600 work e. yahoo! has been struggling for a while and has seen layoffs in the past couple years. >> it's yahoo! dying slowly and by steps it comes down to they got the wrong ceo to run the company and they're being bled out by that ceo. >> that ceo is carol bart who was brought in to rescue yahoo!. she came from a different culture of the search engine business and has failed to solve the problems. >>> workers around the campus will not talk on camera but have known about the layoffs for two months now. >>> it's a battle over borders and fees on the peninsula. leaders are needing serious opposition to a plan to help with congestion tolls. a look at how state leaders responded and and why supervisors are now changing their tune just ahead on kron 4 news. our points from chase sapphire preferred are worth 25% more on travel. we're like forget florida, we're going on a safari

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. >> and you might turn to yahoo!nds expert pamela woo. >>> it's that time of the year when we dig through the data and roll out our top ten list. and at yahoo! that's quite a big dig with over 631 million users a month. that translates into billions of searches. some you might expect. some surprises as well. so let's start with the top overall search of 2010. number one on that list is the bp oil spill. the nation's biggest ever. and really a story that's far from over. a horrible disaster. but you know, in a way it's good to see so many people showing interest. all right. number two, the world cup. huge buzz about the cup this year. the search engines here were humming like so many vuvuzelas. now, when it comes to celebrities, lady gaga is actually not number one. the top searched celebrity for 2010 -- miley cyrus. not really so much for her music or her movies but really it's about watching this teen idol have to deal with some very grownup issues. all right. now on to yahoo's most searched music lyrics of 2010. it

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it's the fourth mass lay-off in three years at yahoo. one analyst says it comes at the worst possible time. >> it's horrible. christmas, go home without jobs and of course, none of the companies are hire. you're not treating people like people, you're treating them like equipment. >> yahoo issued this statement saying, quote, today's personnel changes are part of the ongoing strategy to best position yahoo for revenue growth and support our strategy to deliver products to the marketplace. for more financial coverage any thyme, go online to our website. >>> the unified school district is facing tough choices to want as it tries to find ways to make ends meet, pay its bills and avoid bankruptcy. the agenda includes discussion of cuts to employee benefits and salaries. the district used to save more than $4 million this year year and another $17 million next year. for the meantime, the recommendation to close three schools is expected next month as a looks for ways to cut cost. >>> a mother loading her 2-year- old son into a car was killed

what could this mean for the future of yahoo. are they in trouble? >> if you are a shareholder, you definitely hope this is going to turn around the stock price, shep. yahoo shares just over the past couple years, i should say, have lost about half of their value. so, you know, the company is saying that these layoffs are part of its big turn around plan of cutting the fat and boosting revenues. but at the end of the day they face fierce competition from the likes of facebook and google and carol parts who has been at the helm two years. she has a big task of turning this company around. >> really what yahoo has done has been in stark contrast to what competitors have done. >> certainly because we heard google announce all 23,000 of its employees are going to get 10% raises in january. other tech companies are managing to thrive in this environment. yahoo is not keeping up. they face that fierce competition. facebook, of course, is private. but we know that they are very successful. even in this environment. so yahoo has a lot of catching up to do. >

more job cuts are coming to yahoo!. the source inside of the company says as many as 700 people will be laid off. this will be yahoo!'s fourth round of layoffs in the last three years. we're know learning that supporters of july liian assange put up bail for him temperature nothing. movie michael -- moviemaker michael moore offered to put up bail. now, in addition to wearing a bracelet tab, he has to report to police every morning. >>> the man accused of kidnapping the virginia girl and bringing her to san francisco will be in court for an extradition hearing. he was spotted with the girl on friday by a popper -- shopper at the safeway near ocean beach. >>> he's suspected of killing the girl's mother. >> it happened in an alley near florida state. police say they were forced to shoot and kill 34-year-old guy j aroe after he threatened them with a gun. "the vallejo times herald" reports he was a hurricane katrina refugee. his friends say he wanted to help troubled teenagers here in the bay area. >>> alameda police say a

compared to yahoo!'s 630 million. the only category yahoo! beat facebook in was u.s. visitors. facebook increased its net worth by 56% since july of 2010. while smaller than google or amazon, facebook was the fastest growing economy this yeek. >>> julian assange is writing a book to help pay his legal fees connected to the assault charges in sweden. assange signed a deal with a u.s. publisher for $800 and a british publisher. he is fighting extradition to sweden where he faces charge that is he sexually assaulted ma woman. >>> we'll be right back with a new list of the most admired men and women. >>> the president suffered big setbacks, but a new poll shows he's still very popular. the admired poll of men shows barack obama at number one followed by former president george w. bush. bill clinton came in at number three and rounding out the top five, nelson mandela and bill gates. the most popular women are secretary of state hillary clinton. she came in at number one. sarah palin was number two. then oprah winfrey came in ahead of michelle obama and condoleezza rice, who finishe

. >> for yahoo the news continues to be negative. today a source inside the sunnyvale based company says they expect to lay off 600 workers possibly starting today that's 4 percent of the work force. he also has been struggling for years and has seen numerous layoffs in the past several years. high-tech analyst said in its example a failed leadership >> yahoo is dying slowly comes down to the fact they have the wrong ceo to run the company and the firm is slowly dying a slow death by being what out by that ceo. >> that ceos carol barts was brought to rescue yahoo she said she came from a different corporate culture from the search engine business and he said she felt as salvi all those problems. workers run the company campus will not talk on camera but they say they've known about the layoffs for about two months now. one engineer said it did not affect them but it is heading the project managers hard. developing news tonight, other loading her to year-old child into an s u b has been killed. five others were wounded in a gunbattle

there is hundreds of yahoo employees got the axe today. the company handed out 600 layoff notices, roughly 4% of the work force this, is the fourth time in three years yahoo cult jobs. the struggles raised questions whether the ceo will lose her job. >> she came in from a company that sold engineering software to engineers and yahoo couldn't be more different. it's a web company based on ad revenue, they do portals. it's like apples and oranges. like hiring an oral high againist to do surgery on an elephant. >> today's move didn't come as a surprise. revenues were up less than% over nine months of the year, google saw its revenues jump 23%. >> governor elect jerry brown is warning education leaders to fasten their seat belts. during a briefing in los angeles brown would not offer specifics but said the fiscal crisis is worse than he thought. >> i can't promise there won't be more cuts because there will be. there is a deficit z it could be higher and lower but that is the magnitude. and we're going have to do-to-do everything we can to bri

and one of our guests was ann toth of yahoo!. and she talked about what yahoo! does for, to insure privacy. >> guest: uh-huh. >> well, browsers, you know, technology on the internet has a lot to do with browsers and delivering pages to specific users, and it is fairly technical. we go into it in some detail in our privacy policy and talk to consumers about the very specific types of data that's being transmitted by your browser to our servers. that's the kind of data that our data retention policy deletes in the 90 days so it's not kept in perpetuity. but what we're trying to do is looking for different ways to really make this kind of information a lot more understandable, to simplify it, to really speak to consumers in a language they can understand, and we're looking for symbols, we're looking for shortcuts to get consumers really actionable privacy information that they don't have to dig around and look for that's really readily available to them in the product interaction. >> guest: well, i mean, i think that's exactly right. and, you know, yahoo! has a won

you can start a yahoo group and add one e mail at a time. i would be happy to share with you on how we started our yahoo group. we didn't start with 600 people we started with 5. our yahoo group has grown by 200 people in the last year primarily because we made it easy for people to sign up and we have been promoting the neighborhood association we have flyers up. we are doing a lot of value added activities for the neighborhood including parties. what cheryl said about finding daniel holmesy. do you know daniel holmesy? >> i know other people that are my husband is on the treasure island advisary committee. treasure island's an area the city is investing in. i think you can leverage resources. >> if i can briefly answer becky's question. this is for everybody. number one, stay positive. >> number 2, listen to your constituency that's important and i think the key to the whole thing is find somebody in if it's department of public works or any organization sfpuc whom ever and get a liaison and invite them to the meeting. don't just have a co

help because yahoo is worth $21 billion.hat's 10 times the value of aol. yahoo itself has also been struggling in the competition for display ad dollars so this is something that could provide interest to a lot of investors out there. at this point, though, the reports say aol is just considering this, hasn't approached yahoo with any potential offer to do so. they would have to sell off the dial-up division to merge the content site with yahoo. one deal not going through is google buying groupon. reports say groupon has decided to spurn google's potentially $6 billion offer and is considering an ipo. a lot of interest in the local merchant e-commerce dealings that we are seeing online. amazon investing a lot of money in living social last week and ebay by palo alto startup milo.com last week. big change at the top of pfizer. one of the biggest companies in the country. its ceo is stepping down. it's a surprise. it wasn't expected. he says he is burned-out. it's a big business to run including a $68 billion takeover of wyeth

we have the news letter and yahoo groups and website and wiky site. we fliers for all our meetings at our cafes and merchants. you can read about the events in the neighborhood. there is word of mouth that's the best way i think. talking to people is the best way to build communality. we do organize a lot of activities in our neighborhood. the reason why we are successful in organizing all the activities is we have a large shared leadership organization. all of us our volunteers and 11 board members we have over 60 volunteers in our neighborhood distributing on a parent's group or safety team. they are helping with marketing and pr. they are helping us with reaching out and setting up meetings with the mayor. we also set up meetings with the mayor and our city representatives. so, through those organization and volunteers and the committees we get a lot of community building everybody knows somebody else the classic network model. we do have meetings general meetings for the neighborhood and those are we communicate those meetings through the news let

yahoo expected to cut as many as 600 people today.oon on the bush era tax cuts. brent and laura, they voted yesterday where where they said enough of the debate. we'll go with up and down votes. the senate meeting at 7:00 our time to hear about where this goes from here. the wall street is very interested in what happens with the extension of the bush era tax cuts. >> got to get it done. time is running out. >> the berkeley city council has a hut button issue whether it make a hero out of the man accuse of leaking the do you means and a war video in the wikileaks case. today in the bay has the story. >>> there is no question. it is a controversial topic. the question is, is army first class bradley manning a traitor or hero? the 22-year-old from oklahoma is in solitary confinement as the suspect accused of leaking classified military documents and a war video known as collateral murder shows an army helicopter attack in which 11 civilians were killed. if convicted, he faces 52 years in prison. in a 7-4 vote, the berkeley peace and jus

that amounts to 4% of yahoo's total work force.e company issued a statement saying the personnel changes are part of a strategy to improve revenue. most of the lay offs are in its consumer product groups. one analyst criticized yahoo for laying people off right before christmas. >> you're not really treating people like people you're treating them like equipment that you're getting rid of at the end of the year. >>> today's news wasn't good enough to help yahoo's stock. >>> on wall street, the mayor index has edged higher. the dow industrial was up two. the momentum was tempered by the state of the u.s. economy. still this should be a good year for the markets. nasdaq has been on a run and is now up more than 15% year to date. as for the dow the blue chips finished the day with the highest close in more than two years. >>> some homeless people in redwood city got a chance to put aside their daily struggles tonight. they were entertained by a comedian who knows firsthand how to hit rock bottom. lloyd lacuesta has the live report. >>

yahoo is expected to lay off between 600 to 700 workers starting today.hat's about 5% of the company's work force. the job cuts won't come as a shock. news of the looms layoffs was first reported by two popular technology blogs. this is the second round of layoffs under ceo harold bartz who was hired to turning the company around. yahoo continues to struggle with weak financial growth, a stagnant stock price and recent management defections. the business times reporting wells fargo is closing its wholesale mortgage center and concord eliminating 137 jobs. it will do its best to find those workers another position somewhere within the company. >> removing caffinated alcohol beverages from store shelves nationwide began yesterday. but several liquor stores in the city were still selling them. the food and drug has declared the alcoholic energy drinks unsafe because the mix of caffeine and alcohol left many users in a prolonged state being wide awake drunk. retailers could face misdemeanor criminal charges as well as fines and possible suspension of their li

units of yahoo. those let go will be notified tomorrow.there represents 5 percent of the workforce forced mass layoffs in three years it is expected to be concentrated in the u.s. products group. the first nine months of their revenue growth has paled in comparison to google and facebook. >> fedex is expecting a busy holiday rush which is just getting under way will trend is live inside the facility at oakland. the place we don't normally get to see. will. >> i am far to be here because there's so much activity going on. 1400 employees working around- the-clock planes coming and going. as they move all of this shipment all over america and the bay area. joining me is it robyn he's an operations manager. to talk about how you make this work for people to get the shipment they been waiting for? >> we plan in the summer get ready for each big season we get our aircraft folks, we need to have them set up the number of trucks, the number of people. we put all the planning to work for two weeks. >> let's talk about people want to know devastates

that amounts to 4% of yahoo's total work force.e company issued a statement saying the personnel changes are part of a strategy to improve revenue. most of the lay offs are in its consumer product groups. one analyst criticized yahoo for laying people off right before christmas. >> you're not really treating people like people you're treating them like equipment that you're getting rid of at the end of the year. >>> today's news wasn't good enough to help yahoo's stock. >>> on wall street, the mayor index has edged higher. the dow industrial was up two. the momentum was tempered by the state of the u.s. economy. still this should be a good year for the markets. nasdaq has been on a run and is now up more than 15% year to date. as for the dow the blue chips finished the day with the highest close in more than two years. >>> some homeless people in redwood city got a chance to put aside their daily struggles tonight. they were entertained by a comedian who knows firsthand how to hit rock bottom. lloyd lacuesta has the live report. >>

most of the cuts made in yahoo's u.s. products group. and shaky leadership. >> they've never been able to recover and brought on board a ceo ranked as most highly paid, under performing ceo in this market. >> and there is a yahoo statement saying today's chaempks are part of our ongoing strategy to best position yahoo for revenue growth and support our stroot ji to deliver products to the marketplace. end of statement. >> now torkts investigation of the san bruno pipeline disaster. inspector as announced they found no evidence of corrosion into a 30 inch gas main. eight people died, 37 homes destroyed in the fire that followed. abc 7 is here now with details of that report. >> there is inspectors say pipes show nod damage, no corrosion inside or out. and no evidence of a explosion leak what. they did find is a surprise to pg&e. that is raising a new batch of questions. since the explosion pacific pass and electric maintained it was seamless but found it was riddled with welds smchl seams welded only on outside of the pipe. and this jacki

yahoo plans to get 5% of their work force laid off.st effort to streamline operations and cut costs. shares of yahoo this morning actively trading here today. trading just slightly higher. virtually unchanged. check out retail. we've been doing some shopping. holiday shopping did get underway. but the news not so good over at best buy. the third quarter profit missed analyst estimates. sales dropped more than expected. the shares dropping here. weaker demands for tv's and entertainment products. we have the fed meeting here today. we're going to watch if a and ahead of that decision, we've got slightly higher markets so far in the bloomberg silicon valley unchanged at the moment. guess which state topped the list of the 11 highest number of the ultrawealth individuals. it gives that honor to california. california has more than 9800 people with more than $30 million living in the state coming in new york, 7300 what they call ultrawealthy people. texas coming in number three. the top 11 states counts for more than 65% of the ultrawealth

--donde tambien esta la cosa que arde en en "yahoo".rmo que despedira a 600 empleados.--el gigante del internet, con sede en 'sunnyvale" informo que esto es parte de una estrategia en curso que busca aumentar sus margenes de ganancia.--los afectados pertenecen al area de productos al consumidor de la compania.--el total de desocupados representa el 4 por ciento de su fuerza laboral.--esta es la cuarta ronda de despidos de los ultimos tres aÑos al interior de "yahoo". --el año aun no termina pero el servicio de rentas internas recomienda que los contribuyentes que van declarar impuestos, comiencen a recolectar 'a la de ya' todos los documentos necesarios, pues esto podria traerles innumerables beneficios.maria rosa lucchini no explica. --despues de una candente discusion el concilio de san jose aprobo una ordenanza con la que las bolsas de plastico quedaran prohibidas en tiendas de aquella ciudad.--la medida ademas obligaria a los establecimientos a cobrar 10 centavos por cada bolsa de papel que den al cliente. --la ley municipal entrara

and she talked about what yahoo does to ensure privacy. >> the technology on the internet has a lot to do with browsers and delivering pages to specific users, and it is fairly technical. we go into in detail talking to consumers about the specific data transmitted by your browsers to our servicer. that's the data that the data retention policy deletes after 90 days so it's not kept, but what we're trying to do rather than rely on a privacy policy, we are looking for ways to make this kind of information a lot more understandable, so simple fie it, and talk to consumers in a language they can understand, and we're looking for symbols, shortcuts to get consumers really actionable privacy information that they don't have to dig around and look for, but it's ready for them in the product interaction. >> well, i mean, i think that's exactly right, and, you know, yahoo has a wonderful and very evolved data retention policy. they only keep the data, i think, as anne mentioned, for 90 days, and one of the things we say in the report is data should only be kept as long as necessary, and so

all they had to do was make yahoo their home page and give a vote to one of our projects. so we had a couple hundred kids vote. and yahoo was gracious and funded our project. >> reporter: the students are grateful for the support. and just as thankful to have a teacher like mr. c. >> it's a reflection of how hard we work, to be honest. we have a lot of strenuous rehearsals. >> is that a hint at your teacher? >> exactly. we know it's time to work when we come in. we have to make an effort to get it right. >> he's a really great teacher. he knows what to do. he puts you on the spot but in a good way. he makes you work for what you want to do. >> reporter: yahoo plans to give away close to $350,000 through its home pages for home rooms program. if you would like to make a donation of some kind to a project here or a school throughout the chicagoland area, do it through donors choose. the website is donorschoose.org. wgn news. >>> in tomorrow's chicago tribune, the obama administration and walgreens announcing a partnership to provide vouchers for flu shots for uninsured ameri

. >> new, yahoo is preparing to lay -- layoff up to 700 employees tomorrow. the cut back represents 5% of the company's work force and will mark its fourth mass layoff in three years. this round of reductionicize expected to be concentrated in the u.s. products group. yahoo's revenue growth pailed in comparison to other companies. >>> new tonight, the san jose city counsel imposed a hefty sales tax on medical marijuana and they drew a line to end the proliferation of any new pot clubs. the city counsel stopped short of a outright band. >> reporter: it was business as usual monday evening here at the pain management institute. the city's actions will keep his and others on the road to legitimacy. >> we don't think medical marijuana should be taxed at a broad spectrum. if it mines legitimization i am for it. >> reporter: in response to the passage of measure u the city counsel imposed a 7% tax and stopped the issuing of license to any new clubs, capping the number at 98. >> reporter: the collectives must submit to an audit of their books and the city will step

users. >> yahoo! searches, normally every year since 2001 when they released this list, it's been celebrities and popular tv shows have been all of the top lists. but this year the top search for 2010, drum roll please, bp oil spill. yahoo! says it's the first time a news story has ever topped the list. okay, after that everything gets back to normal. number two is the world cup. i know you will talk more about the world cup in a few minutes. then it's time for celebrities. miley cyrus, kim kardashian and lady gaga. the iphone, by the way, comes in number six. >>> google is tipping its cap this morning to rosa parks. if you go to google you'll see an image of a rainbow of kids and a bus. it's 55 years to the day since ms. parks refused to move to the back of the bus. that's not the first time it had ever been done. in fact there had been a supreme court fight about an earlier case. but parks' refusal led to the famous montgomery bus boycott and that was one of the first major civil rights actions of t

. >> victor is the accessibility project manager at yahoo. he tries to come up with solutions but it's not that simple. >> i've been a computer user for years and it works for other people, but i don't want to people to judge this based on what i think. >> he has succeeded in doing is getting colleagues making accessibility part of any project and service at yahoo. >> it will make me understand, it's unfortunate that people won't use it so you shouldn't be happy putting it out unless everybody can use it. >> and there is something that goes beyond public benefit. they are focused on the issue for 30 years says the 60 million disabled in the u.s. have a disposable income of $220 billion. >> most companies come in and see as customers, we have a hard time standing here if it was different. >> we visited the school of the deaf. they rely on mobile phones for texting. one deficiency they would like address second-degree slow speeds that make visibility poor. >> it looks like a ghost trail when people are signing. you can see the travel of the sig

yahoo had more than a dozen executives leave. we booked interviews with vice presidents to have them leave a day or so before our appointment. the "wall street journal" said this morning another 400 to 600 could be gone from yahoo. the good news is as you know there other companies that are just hiring like mad. google has been hiring like crazy. there is a premium on talent. google has very, very high levels that they are looking for. ph.d.s and that kind of thing. there a lost jobs out there. a lot of these other companies are doing pretty well. >> interesting. >> shift from one place to another. >> if you are lucky. >> inmates are not exactly santa's elves. they are definitely on the naughty list. they make hundreds of toys for needy kids. inmates from the correctional facility in santa clara county plan to property the marines with 400 toys for the toys for tots program. they made them by hand in a wood shop class. >> the army striking back against a pesky enemy. they dropped most fried foods and desserts and soda. for breakf

. >>> and yahoo is announcing service cuts. yahoo confirmed it is cutting investments in under performing products. the sunny vale company says it will provide more details when appropriate. >>> and here in the bay the co lowest jobless rate in the state are marin and san mateo county. both have rates under the 9% mark. solano county have the largest number with mo than 12% of its work force. over all nine bay area counties managed to stay below the state average. >>> trading was tame on wall street today, investors layed low. signals hope that a recovery is near in the u.s. the nasdaq gained more than five. >>> left empty-handed. why there wasn't enough to go around at the food give away today. >>> and we're going to meet some of the east bay high school students that are making sure hundreds of needy kids enjoy a merry christmas. >>> things are looking up for california's water supply. just how much water cities can expect to get. >>> thousands were helped but hundreds were turned away empty- handed. some people lined up at 3

yahoo!g for online this christmas. looking good, pamela. >> good morning and good tidings we bring to you. i wore my purple santa coat just for you guys. you know that second verse in "we wish you a merry christmas." it kind of goes like -- ♪ oh bring us a figgy pudding, oh bring us a figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer." that must be some pretty good pudding but what the heck is it? yahoo! users not only want to know what it is, they want to know how to make it. now searches for the ingredients are up nearly 700% right now. problem is, there are literally hundreds of figgy pudding recipes handed down since the 15th century. and you've never heard of it, it's a lot like a carrot cake blended with custard with figs mixed in. very traditional english dessert. even bob cratchit had figgy pudding at his table in "a christmas carol." now, the secret is in how it's cooked. it's cooked slowly and evenly for hours. if pudding isn't your thing how about cookies? people are combing the internet for