Is one thing. Falling asleep in a theater while youre looting the place, well, thats a show stopper. It looks like the gay marriage fight could come down to just one man. One Supreme Court justice who will likely be the swing vote on whether gays and lesbians can once and for all get legally married. This is a decision that can affect america. Reporter the Supreme Court will actually decide on two issues. Doma, the federal law that prohibits recognition of same sex marriages and property 8. She texted me, omg, five exclamation points, granted. She called me and we started crying. Theyve got to solve this at a National Level because theres just too much administrative confusion right now. Who gets Health Benefits . Who can visit who in the hospital . Which marriage counts . So what happens between now and when the u. S. Supreme court makes that decision next june . We talked to legal experts to get their take. Reporter the final say in the culture war on same sex marriage is coming. And the justices decision to hear the case is historic. This is equivalent to the Supreme Court taking on one of the most divisive sort of exciting constitutional questions of this generation and deciding that they have to issue an opinion on this. And constitutional law experts believe they will decide on one of three possibilities. Reporter first, the justices could say denying marriage to any couple is unconstitutional, just like the former ban on interracial marriage. That decision could overturn any states same sex marriage ban. A second choice is a technicality. The justs can rule supporters of prop 8 are not legally entitled to defend the law. Third, they can follow the precedent set on a landmark gay rights case. The 9th circuit tried to narrow its ruling by equating it to roamer versus evans. Reporter colorado amend 2 stripped gays and lesbians the right to equal protection of discrimination. The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional, just as kennedy wrote singling out gays and lesbians was a violation. Legal analysts say the court chose the same logic in ruling against prop 8, hoping Justice Kennedy sees the similarity. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in march. The decision on whether same sex marriage will remain banned or become legal is expected in june. Thank you very much, linda. The battle over same sex marriaa unique story here in california. We were only the second state to allow it, and the only state to then ban it. It began back in 2004 here in San Francisco. Over a period of one month, San Francisco issued some 4,000 marriage licenses to same sex couples under the direction of then mayor gavin newson. The ban was later ruled unconstitutional. Same sex marriages will remain on hold until this case is finally settled by the u. S. Supreme court. For more on todays announcement and reaction, go to cbssf. Com. A mother and her young son were killed on a headon collision on the byron highway, which had just reopened. The chp says the truck driver had slowed for stopped traffic when a car coming in the opposite direction lost control and slammed in to it. The truck driver was not hurt. Police in the east bay are on the hunt for a kidnapper and rapist. Investigators say these two sketches are of the same suspect from two separate crimes. One in you know, one last month. Both attacks have happened in richmonds gavin corridor area. I was really shocked to find that out because im a parent and a single mom as well. And i had no idea we were having that issue in richmond. Investigators believe the same man tried to attack a third woman as well. Divine intervention may have helped save members of an Oakland Church youth group stranded in florida. The 24member group was on a mission to help people when they were robbed while having lunch in a Fort Lauderdale restaurant. Thieves broke in to their van, stole 12,000 in cash, their luggage, and i. D. S. The amount of money you stole, you stole dreams. You stole those things we wanted to do. And you have left many people right now without shelter, without food. The group is no longer stranded without money because today the owner of the Miami Dolphins surprised the group with a 15,000 gift. A group of thieves in pacifica may want to spend less time sleeping. Police literally caught the crooks napping. This is a place for kids and this is a community place. Reporter a childrens theater where kids as young as 7 have been hard at work rehearsing for their holiday show. Its the last place youd think thieves would target. The hallway was totally messed up. The offices, things were thrown off the desk. Reporter but thats how natalia found it ransacked and robbed. Everybody from costumes to set pieces pillaged. What employees never expected to find was the thieves themselves hiding out in the theater. Falling asleep at the scene of the crime really isnt the smartest thing to do. Reporter and yet thats exactly how luna discovered one of the thieves. Where the tubber wear lids are, thats where i saw the persons head. Reporter it appeared he had taken a nap after his rampage. A second thief was found asleep in the car outside the theater, surrounded by the items. The thieves left empty bottles of alcohol in the theater. They stole expensive keyboards that the kids needed for their performance. Police still have not found it. But this is show biz and the show will go on. Stuff happens. You got to keep going on with it. The tabloid frenzy over the royal pregnancy is just in its first trimester and its already resulted in one death. Not an illfated paparazzi car chase, but the disastrous aftermath of a radio prank. Reaction from london. Reporter a nurse dead. Her body found by police. A sut a suspected suicide. The nurse who had worked at the hospital where kate was treated for morning sickness this week, had put a call through the ward thinking the caller was the queen. But it was actually Michael Christian and mel greg, a pair of australian djs famous for hoaxes who placed the call and were gloating about it all week. Can you believe whats happened today . They were the worst accents ever. Reporter jacintha saldana was blind sided by the call. Can i speak to my granddaughter . Reporter they were put through to the ward nurse who gave the hoax callers an update on kates condition. Shes stable at the moment. Reporter the royal family o complaint. The hospital apologizes. The rd. Prince charles, kates fatherinlaw even joked about it. How do you know im not a Radio Station. Reporter and the episode, while embarrassing, seemed to be over, until the nurses body was found. The australian Radio Station has taken the offending djs off the air and offered condolences. While the police said they cant call it a suicide until after an autopsy, the hospital in its statement said it had been supporting its employee through what it called this difficult time since the hoax. The australian Radio Station had been boasting about what was the prank the world was talking about. The world is talking about it again, but its a tragedy. A quake scare for japan but nothing like what the country saw last year. Magnitude 7. 3 earthquake hit late last night off the coast of northern japan. This is what it looked like just moments after it struck. Buildings as far away as tokyo. No damage. A tsunami warning was issued but lifted in two hours. Its been more than seven decades and the numbers are dwindling. The remaining survivors of the pearl harbor attack are honoring their fallen comrades on the commemoration on the day that will live in in infamy. This is the only night of the year the beacon will shine. Pearl harbor survivors shared their first person accounts from the attack before the lighting ceremony. When that beam stands out, its a beam of remembrance across all the valley below. How many families are down there who lost family members there, grandfathers, fathers, whatever, to them, to them. It has become a ritual that they look forward to every december 7th. The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association has been doing this every year since 1964. A chilly december 7th. We have dropped in to the low 4s , almost the 30s already in santa rosa. Current temperatures, 44 for concord. Well talk about how beautiful the weekend is going to be. [ female announcer ] for those who love sweets, your season is here. Lets just call it the baking time of year. You need special ingredients. You need the staples. Thats a given. You need safeway sugar for just 1. 97. And that magic thing that makes everyone want another only 2. 99 for challenge butter. And when hands get messy, quite surely theyll say, yum wow yay what a sweeter holiday. Safeway. Ingredients for life. Boy were they wrong. The economy added 146 thoud jobs l almost everyone was expecting a lousy jobs report today, but boy, were they wrong. The economy added 146,000 jobs last months. Its not great, but its a lot better than expected. The Unemployment Rate dropped twotenths of a point to the lowest point in four years, but mostly due to the people who stopped looking for work. A bay area educator with only months to live is getting kindness. An 8th grader is trying to help one step at a time. Reporter chris mahoneys wife and son helped him battle a rare liver disease. But the principal of the Charter Learning Center is now feeling the love of his community, thanks to this 8th grader. If there was any way i could help, it would be a very good idea. Reporter the 13yearold is spearheading a walkathon with a silent auction for her principal. For her to do something this significant is kind of inspiring. Reporter mahoney says hes joined 750 patients on californias liver transplant list. The average wait is two years. Hes waited eight months and doctors say he could die in six months without a transplant. In some respects its feeling a little more desperate. Reporter they hope to raise 60,000 for mahoney. Hes trying to get on a shorter transplant list at a hospital his insurance doesnt cover. The fundraiser takes place tomorrow from 9 00 to 3 00 in britain park from san carlos. I learned a lot about how one person can truly make a difference. Everyone is pulling for me. It means so much more to me than any amount of money they can come up with. We turn to paul now. Its the weekend. Its going te nice. Its going to be one of those weekended that makes you thankful we live where we live. Were going to get some beautiful weather. Sunshine. Hawaii could do it, maybe arizoo it, but Northern California can do it nicely as well. Lets talk about where were at tonight. Its going to be chilly to get to the sunshine tomorrow. 39 for napa. 38 for fairfield. Santa rosa 39. 48 for San Francisco. San jose down to 40. Good night for figure skating. S are having a good time. Mom and dad doing a lot of watch watching. The kids going around there. Great friday night to get out and about. No rainfall. Yes, its chilly, but if youree ing, who really cares . Doppler bone dry. Well stay that way for the next at least four days. I see no rain in the forecast until wednesday at the earliest. Maybe youre going skiing. Most of the ski resorts toward tahoe have all the lifts open. 87 , thats where we are with the snow pack. Last year at this time only 36 . Youll get a lot of sunshine because of a big area of High Pressure. You can kind of tell theres an area of High Pressure when it almost looks like Mother Nature sprayed windex on southern california. Taking the storm track, shoving it up in to oregon and western washington. Not for us. That will keep us rain free all the way till the top of next week and through the week with chilly mornings. The nights are long. It is december. Youll get afternoon highs in the mid 60s by sunday and monday. Well have areas of morning fog. Were getting chilly at night. Especially in the north bay tonight. Next week toward the middle of the week were trending colder but its friday night. Lets talk about the weekend. Tomorrow, night day. Oakland, 63. San jose, 63. Santa clara, 63. Hayward, fremont, low 60s. Beautiful day in the north bay. Santa rosa, 62 off the chilly m. How about downtown San Francisco, 61 degrees tomorrow. Couple of degrees milder on sunday. Mid to upper 60s. Monday and tuesday stay drive. E got a chance of showers. Notice the temperature drop. Thats a guarantee. Its going to get chilly by thie next year. Thats your cbs 5 forecast. Thanks, paul. Coming up after the break, a fond farewell to someone were going to miss around here. Well be right back. Step away from the news fora to say the least its quite a night for us here at cbs 5. Were going to step away from the news for just a moment and say farewell to someone we simply cannot replace. Can you imagine the bay area without the 49ers . Who is that kid . That was dana king upon her arre in 1997, reading a little story about a new stadium for the 49ers. How Little Things have changed, right . This is danas last night with us before she moves on to a new chapter in her life. Shes going to become a professional truck driver. [ laughter ] coming up at 11 00 on channel 5 well look back at danas career in journalism, where shes been, what shes covered, the hair. Very important stuff. For the moment well talk a little bit. Ive got a lot of emails that have come in this week and people of course love you and they have for years. My moms been writing you. Our viewers want to know, dana, why you got to leave us . Its that simple. Its not simple. Theres a quote by a poet that wherever you stand, be the soul of that place. Ive had my feet in two different places for a while. Ive had my feet in this incredible career ive had for the last 25 years, 15 of it here. And i have my feet in the art world. Im going to stop this world and start in the art world and pursue sculpture. Theres only one world, but yeah, im going to do my artwork. A lot of people dont know, didnt know previous to whats been going on this week that you have and have had a very successful art career. Ive seen some of your paintings. Theyre wonderful. But you also do sculpture. I went back to school a while ago for painting and i wasnt very good at it actually. I took a weekend intensive with a master sculpture and i started sculpting after that. Ive pursued that. So goodbye, ken . What you dont know is ken and i share this tiny Little Office that is about the size of a closet. We call it the dorm room. And weve had an office together none of those sculptures are in the office. And that wasnt ken that was my model. [ laughter ] its going to be hard to carry on without you. Are you reading that . [ laughter ] no. I dont k there will ever be a replacement for dana king. There will be. Theres another woman out there. Weve been together since 2001 as a team. Well talk a little bit about that coming up on cbs 5 at 11 00. We want to go over your career a little bit because its fascinating the amount of travel you did for the station and the places you went and the stories you gave us were really keynote stories of the day. And i remember specifically the way that we started working together, that was september 11th, 2001. The day that most americans will not forget. And thats the day that they kind of threw you and i together. We worked at the same station but never together on the air. And we did. And that was an amazing time. Our relationship was born out of that disaster but in that moment we were able to bond and youve had my back for all these years. I really appreciate it. Youve had my back too. Im going to miss you. Now i got nobody to fight with management. Just call me. Ill come back. Weve got more on danas career at 11 00 on cbs 5. Well be right back. , car horn paying with your smartphone instead of cash. phone rings thats a step forward. With chase quickpay, you can send money directly to anyones checking account. I guess hes a kicker. Again, again oh, no you dont take a step forward and chase what matters. Home. Warriors, in blue, running with the nets. Right off the presses. Let me just give it to you. Couple of High School Playoff notes. Hold on to something. Division 1 st. Ignatius is out. North cal division 4 finals, the run of climens is over. Got the minute for you. Brooklyn native mark jackson back home. Warriors in bloom. Running with the nets and early on, joe johnson, yes, sir. A 3ball. He had 32. Brooklyn up 13. Warriors turn, clay thompson. They erase a 13point deficit. They kept on coming. Stef curry had 28. Game tied at 70. Last quarter, only david lee ger riors up 9189. Heres the dagger. Check the nolook pass. Thats beautiful. Warriors, a solid win tonight. R 102 109102 hell join Trevor Cahill in the dbacks rotation. 3. 29 e. R. A. In his two seasons with your oakland athletics. Im right on time. How about that . I heard the buzzer. What kind of prize . [ laughter ] we have the script for you. Ill take a picture of dana king. Collectors item. Its been a wonderful run here and im just so grateful to have worked with everyone behind the camera, i wish you could meet everyone that works here. Theyre amazing people. Youre all invited over. Well have a party. Byebye