| 00:00:03 | From the canal in laus county.
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| 00:00:09 | Memorial.
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| 00:00:09 | ♪ [ Music ] ♪
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| 00:00:10 | >> Reporter: For two weeks, the
small town of patterson searched together,
hoped
together, and tonight they
grieved together
even know.
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| 00:00:26 | To me, you are all my brothers
and sisters, and it's always
been that way with me.
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| 00:00:33 | >>Reporter: THE CARDINAS
Family didn't plan on showing
up, but arrived in the last
minute, to pray for the little
boy, we know now as our
giuliani.
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| 00:00:55 | Crews discovered the body at
7:30 this morning.
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| 00:01:00 | The 4-year-old allegedly
kidnapped january 18 by jose
rodriguez.
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| 00:01:05 | Snatched from the arms of his
grandmother.
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| 00:01:12 | >> I didn't need my baby to go
to love you all.
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| 00:01:15 | Because I love all kinds of
people.
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| 00:01:19 | It doesn't matter the color, or
their race.
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| 00:01:21 | I love you all.
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| 00:01:23 | >> Reporter: The sheriff
believes rodriguez's body is
still somewhere in the delta
mendota canal.
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| 00:01:28 | >> Unless we find jose alive,
we may never know what his true
was.
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| 00:01:34 | >> Reporter: The suspect's
uncle apologized to the
cardinas family.
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| 00:01:39 | >> Really sorry.
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| 00:01:43 | I don't know why he'd do that.
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| 00:01:50 | I'm sorry.
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| 00:01:50 | Only god know why he did it.
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| 00:01:53 | He took his secret with him.
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| 00:01:55 | I don't know why.
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| 00:01:56 | >> Reporter: The cardinas
family says donations are not
necessary.
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| 00:02:00 | But if you feel the need to
give, you can do so at bank of
the west.
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| 00:02:10 | >> A lot of pain night.
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| 00:02:14 | All right, thank you.
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| 00:02:15 | >>> Also this evening, a
memorial for a murdered union
leader.
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| 00:02:25 | Friends say that elderly
bingham was known as the
community dad.
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| 00:02:37 | Please are not saying how he
died, but they're treating the
death as a homicide.
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| 00:02:42 | >>> After more than a week of
protest, egypt's president says
he will step down in september
after he serves out the
remainder of his term.
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| 00:02:54 | >> To restore the salt of this
cont -- stability of this
country, in order to ensure a
peaceful transfer of power.
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| 00:03:04 | >> The announcement that he
would not seekreelection
angered many who filled cairo's
liberation square today.
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| 00:03:17 | They wanted him out now.
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| 00:03:19 | Today, president obama seemed to echo that.
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| 00:03:21 | >> What is clear, and what i
indicated tonight to president
mubarak, is that I believe an
ordinarily transformation must
be orderly, peaceful, and must
begin now.
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| 00:03:36 | >> Reporter: He sent the former
ambassador to egypt, to
cairo to ask that mubarak not
run for reelection.
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| 00:03:51 | President obama also had a
message for egypt, he said we
hear your voices.
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| 00:03:56 | >> Reporter: They're hoping to
rewrite egyptian history.
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| 00:04:01 | Revolutionaries like the three
McGEE SISTERS.Y IS TODAY DIFFERENT?
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| 00:04:06 | >> Now or never.
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| 00:04:07 | >> It's now or never, we have
to stand up.
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| 00:04:09 | >> Reporter: Stand up and be
counted at the mass rally.
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| 00:04:18 | She says crowd size matters.
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| 00:04:25 | >> Morally it matters.
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| 00:04:25 | [ Inaudible ]
>> Reporter: By and large, the
faces of this revolt are
political, and religious
moderates, not professional
protesters, but in many cases,
educated secular first time
activists.
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| 00:04:42 | Fed up, but fired up too.
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| 00:04:46 | Different generations, same
dream.
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| 00:04:51 | An end to what he calls living
in darkness.
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| 00:04:54 | >> We don't care who is going
to be the next president, as
long as there's going to be
democracy.
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| 00:05:03 | >> I'm happy that I live until
I see it.
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| 00:05:05 | >> Reporter: They're trying to
oust the president with
peaceful, but persistent
protest.
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| 00:05:21 | >> Reporter: As the security
here, soldiers have been
calming, not controlling.
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| 00:05:26 | >> You feel safe here?
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| 00:05:31 | >> Yes.
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| 00:05:31 | >> Reporter: He feels less
secure about his future, the
longer mubarak stays.
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| 00:05:36 | >> I can have a good life.
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| 00:05:39 | Can have a good apartment, and
get married one day.
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| 00:05:44 | >> Reporter: The average dreams
of average people in live
ration square.
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| 00:05:53 | >>> Blue shield of california
is changing its tune.
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| 00:05:57 | Protesters marched in front of
the company's san francisco
office today in response to its
refusal to delay rate hikes.
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| 00:06:03 | The company released a
statement after the
demonstration saying that it
would delay hikes by 60 days in
accordance with the request
from the state insurance
commissioner.
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| 00:06:16 | The insure had planned to raise
premiums on nearly 200,000
californians by as much as 59%
starting march 1.
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| 00:06:29 | >>> This sounds like the plot
of an odd ball sitcom, but
tonight, a bay area crew
launched a rescue operation to
save a sheep named peter pan,
and a dog named sparkles.
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| 00:06:42 | They got stuck on a cliff near
richmond near canal boulevard.
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| 00:06:47 | How the animals wound up there
in the first place.
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| 00:06:49 | >> Reporter: If you can believe
it, the story actually gets
even better.
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| 00:06:55 | Peter ban belongs to the butts.
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| 00:06:58 | That's right, shirley butt has
a small farm nearby and thinks
sparkles couldn't resist
causing a little trouble.
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| 00:07:05 | It was a chase that ended with
a very unusual rescue.
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| 00:07:09 | It's a tale of two animals.
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| 00:07:12 | The dog named sparkles
allegedly chased peter pan, the
sheep, and got them both
trapped on a cliff, 220 feet
above richmond.
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| 00:07:22 | >> It's a cliff that's very
unstable.
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| 00:07:26 | Has a lot of large loose rocks.
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| 00:07:27 | >> Reporter: Firefighters took
over, when the dog walker tried
to rescue the pair from their
precarious position.
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| 00:07:35 | It did more than a dozen
richmond fires in a dare devil
operation.
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| 00:07:42 | The labrador mix apparently
could not wait to be rescued.
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| 00:07:48 | >> She a little bit
mischievous?
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| 00:07:49 | >> That I did not pick up on.
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| 00:07:51 | She was extremely compliant.
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| 00:07:52 | >> Reporter: For peter pan, it
was a different story.
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| 00:07:55 | Even though there was not much
space, the sheep skidded away
from its rescuers multiple
times.
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| 00:08:02 | >> Mainly, it was just afraid.
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| 00:08:04 | It would try to get away.
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| 00:08:05 | And the best thing you could do
was to try to tackle it.
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| 00:08:09 | I think he did.
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| 00:08:10 | >> We were lukey to -- lucky to
get him into a corner, we just
pinned him into that corner and
leaned on him, and kept him
pinned down.
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| 00:08:22 | >> Ridiculous that it's a
sheep, but I'm glad it's not,
I'm glad nobody got hurt, and
that it's wonderful that they
are so professional, and so
organized.
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| 00:08:31 | >> Reporter: Peter pan seemed a
bit disoriented after the
ordeal.
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| 00:08:34 | He a cut on his nose, but
otherwise seemed all right.
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| 00:08:37 | After all, he did leave in a
cadillac escalade.
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| 00:08:41 | >> He has an appetite, he can
have all the alfalfa he wants.
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| 00:08:47 | >> Reporter: Apparently, that's
peter pan's favorite food.
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| 00:08:50 | Animal services says while they
have talked to sparkles owner,
they can't release the dog just
yet.
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| 00:08:57 | Animal rescue insides to make
sure that sparkles didn't do
the cut on peter pan's nose.
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| 00:09:02 | So far, the evidence shows that
the dog may be guilty of
getting them trapped, but
probably didn't bite peter pan.
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| 00:09:15 | >> That was a very expensive
rescue.
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| 00:09:17 | >> Reporter: And the owner of
the escalade has no idea peter
pan was in the back.
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| 00:09:22 | Hear not going to tell her.
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| 00:09:24 | -- They're not going to tell
her.
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| 00:09:30 | >> Hopefully, that person is
not watching the news.
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| 00:09:32 | >> But the good news is that
sparkle butt is home.
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| 00:09:36 | >> We must talk to the dog and
see how this went down.
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| 00:09:41 | >>> Fun assignment.
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| 00:09:42 | >>> Coming up, the decision in
the hottest issue to hit the
curb side.
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| 00:09:47 | Will they, or won't they.
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| 00:09:49 | The fate of nanny parking
decided.
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| 00:09:50 | >>> They did the work, they
took the task, and me they --
they may not have anything to
show for it coming this fall.
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| 00:09:58 | The case of the missing test
score.
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| 00:10:00 | >>> And probably more patients
than you or I will ever have.
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| 00:10:06 | An artist who uses toothpicks
as his medium, his latest
creation, using just one stick.
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| 00:10:14 | >>> Today was not even the
warmest.
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| 00:10:17 | We'll pinpoint that day as
eyewitness news continues, on
the cw.
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| 00:10:20 | ♪ [ Music ] ♪
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| 00:11:26 | someone tried to put it out
>>> kind of a tough day for the
owner of this car that erupted
00 this
afternoon.
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| 00:11:34 | Someone tried to put it out,
using a fire extinguisher, but
it didn't really do much good.
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| 00:11:41 | A few minutes later,
firefighters showed up and they
put it out.
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| 00:11:46 | >>> This week, the feds are
trying out less invasive
airport body scanners.
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| 00:11:52 | The tsa unveiled the new
software today.
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| 00:11:55 | It lets passengers see the same
images that security scanners
see.
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| 00:12:05 | It also uses a more generic
body image.
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| 00:12:12 | >>> Some muni employees are
going to have to start to pay
to park at work.
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| 00:12:19 | Those permits cost $80 a month.
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| 00:12:22 | Some union contracts exempt
employees from paying for
parking, so they'll be able to
park for free for the time
being.
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| 00:12:29 | >>> The board agreed to move
forward with a plan to give
residential parking permits to
nannies.
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| 00:12:35 | Childcare providers said they
need to be able to park for
several hours at a time, so
they don't leave kids
unattended while they move the
car.
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| 00:12:47 | Street parking is already
difficult.
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| 00:12:52 | The city has not unveiled the
plan.
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| 00:12:56 | >>> Entrance exam scores got
lost.
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| 00:12:58 | 101 Students at open technical
high school found out two weeks
ago that their a.c.t.
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| 00:13:08 | Answer sheets were damaged.
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| 00:13:09 | It happened outside of its
control, but that is little
comfort to the students
scrambling to get into a
school.
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| 00:13:21 | >> I was panicking, like can i
retake it?
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| 00:13:25 | Will the scores get sent in
time?
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| 00:13:28 | has told students they
can retake the tests this
month, and their registration
fees will be refunded.
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| 00:13:34 | But some schools told students
they will not accommodate late
scores.
|
| 00:13:39 | >>> A bay area artist has made
what he believes to be the
world's smallest replica of the
white house out of a single
toothpick.
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| 00:13:50 | Steven backman says it took him
several days to make it.
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| 00:13:55 | He's done all sorts of
landmarks and many cable cars
as well.
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| 00:14:00 | He used a razor blade to shave
the many pieces of wood.
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| 00:14:05 | >> I use a needle nose plyers
to bend the toothpick like
that.
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| 00:14:10 | It takes many hours to create
these sculptures.
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| 00:14:13 | >> He got his start with
toothpick art at the age of 5.
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| 00:14:17 | The first thing he made was a
dna molecule from toothpicks
and beads.
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| 00:14:26 | >>> It may seem like spring has
sprung in the bay area, we're
in the middle of winter.
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| 00:14:32 | Thank your lucky stars, you
live here.
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| 00:14:35 | Because the storm is dumping
ice across 2,000-mile stretch
of the country.
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| 00:14:41 | In chicago, the storm is
expected to get worse
overnight.
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| 00:14:45 | This could be the worst storm
to hit the windy city in 50
years.
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| 00:14:50 | Airlines are already canceled
about 10,000 flights in and out
of places like chicago,
cleveland, philadelphia, new
york, boston, and cucamonga.
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| 00:15:03 | >>> It's crazy.
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| 00:15:04 | Roberto loaves this kind of
stuff though.
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| 00:15:07 | I was talking with my friends
in chicago.
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| 00:15:10 | My favorite thing I ever
experienced in chicago was
thunder snowstorms.
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| 00:15:17 | You see the lightning and here
the thunder, it's just amazing.
|
| 00:15:19 | When people in chicago say the
weather is bad, you'to
believe them.
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| 00:15:23 | That's the case tonight.
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| 00:15:24 | Mean while, this is our scene,
with clear skies.
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| 00:15:27 | The only problem has been the
wind.
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| 00:15:29 | Becae of the wind, I made an
adjustment in our forecast.
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| 00:15:33 | IN THE 40s AND 50s STILL AT
This hour.
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| 00:15:36 | That's because the winds are
still blowing offshore, up to
12 to 15 miles an hour.
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| 00:15:43 | 40Degrees in liver moore,
instead of near freezing.
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| 00:15:46 | 43Degrees in santa rosa.
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| 00:15:47 | Same story to the south and low
TO MID-40s ACROSS THE CENTRAL
Bay.
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| 00:15:51 | Tomorrow morning's commute, you
may be able to see that set up,
officially at 7:14.
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| 00:15:56 | The stormtrack still to the
snort of the bay area.
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| 00:15:59 | Our computer models are eluding
to the fact that we will not
see any kind of changing, at
least until mid-february.
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| 00:16:07 | That's perhaps two weeks away.
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| 00:16:09 | Ground hog day is tomorrow.
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| 00:16:10 | That means absolutely nothing
to us.
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| 00:16:11 | We have nothing but sunshine in
the forecast.
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| 00:16:15 | Because of the unseasonably ld to warm conditions,
a lot
of people are already suffering
from pollen.
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| 00:16:28 | That's because the alder,
juniper counts are already in
medium high.
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| 00:16:34 | 10 To 20 during y.
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| 00:16:35 | Warmest day of the workweek
will be on friday.
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| 00:16:39 | But over the weekend, even
warmer conditions.
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| 00:16:42 | Our inland areas could flirt
with record highs again all the
way through tuesday.
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| 00:16:49 | Well they're bundled up in the
east coast, we hawest coast
fun.
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| 00:16:56 | Thanks for sending the pictures
to my pix.
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| 00:17:02 | >>> One of former president
bush's twin daughters has made
a video in support of same-sex
marriage.
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| 00:17:10 | Barbara bush made the ad for a
gay rights advocacy group in
new york, where she now lives.
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| 00:17:16 | She has worked th a.i.d.s.
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| 00:17:20 | Groups in africa.
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| 00:17:20 | Her mother laura also came out
in support for same-sex
marriage.
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| 00:17:30 | >>> Actor, and oscar nominee,
and oscar host, james franco is
now the subject of a college
course.
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| 00:17:44 | Students will create a
documently on james's life and
career.
|
| 00:17:49 | He will also be honored in the
class.
|
| 00:17:51 | He is providing the footage.
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| 00:17:58 | Much of it from behind the
scenes.
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| 00:18:01 | >>> Before digital files, there
were cds, and before cds, music
came on res, do you
remember that?
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| 00:18:07 | What could you do with a record
that can't carry a tune?
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| 00:18:14 | Ken is going to sing it for us.
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