she was found along an unmarked trail in fall street state park located off highway 9 in felton. collins got lost while hiking alone last week. she did not have any food but told rescuers she sur vied by drinking water from a creek. a full scale search was not feasible so collins' name went looking for her and found her huddled near a downed tree. >> she had a little plastic bag in her pocket and said she would use that to drink water. sounds like she didn't eat anything during that whole time. >> collins injured her ankle while running along a path and tumbled into a radio convenient. she was unable to get out and ended up taking shelter until she was found. a 20-year-old man is in the hospital with with life-threatening injuries after being shot in the healed with an assault rifle this weekend. it happened on engel street in the bayview district. police are on the lookout for a suspect. they don't know what prompted that shooting. a nine-year-old girl spot while opening the door of her hercules home friday night is in stable condition this morning at children's hospital oakland. she is expected to make a full recovery. lisa amin gulezian reports on the search for the person who shot her. >> she looked out the little window. and that's when she was shot. >> in a matter of moments, this house on brighton street was under attack as soon as the little girl looked out the side window, the shooting started. the nine-year-old's aunt who was home at the time but did not want to be shown on camera explained what happened. >> the window, kept on shooting. shot the door. shot the walls. she got shot pretty bad. >> she was shot in the neck and the back. >> it takes a pretty cold-hearted individual to do that. >> the girl is the key witness so police say there are several others. the girl's aunt and nine children ranging in age from two to 18 live here and they think this was planned and someone in the house was a target. they run a day-care center out of the home. they disagree. >> i don't think this house is the house they wanted someone would come up and see there's a sign on the door that i was closed, child care's closed, they should have just walked away. >> they're very much the kind of people that everybody around here wishes was gone. >> this neighbor is afraid of retaliation and doesn't want to be identified. he says there have been problems here ever since the family moved in two years ago. hercules police confirm they've been to the house several times over the past nine months and about three months ago shots were fired at the same house. no one was hurt at the time and no one was ever arrested. >> i'm scared to death. like this is just not the neighborhood where we have problems like that. so it just really makes me nervous. >> police reiterate this was a planned attack and an isolated incident. still they are beefing up patrols in that area. in oakland, lisa amin gulezian, abc 7 news. >> a man charged with sexually assaulting a two-year-old girl will be back in court tomorrow morning. eugene ramos will appear in alameda county superior court to enter a plea on charges stemming from that incident last week in a union city dollar store. he grabbed the toddler after she wanded off from her family. the grandmother's screams alerted other shoppers. two men at the store blocked the suspect's exit preventing his escape. ramos is a registered sex offender. a way ward sea lion lost her way and ended up far from home. she ended up at a school outside oakland in contra costa county more than 50 miles from the ocean. amy holyfield reports. >> nanu didn't put on any kind of show but the locals were still very impressed to see her. >> it's cool! >> the local animal control officers corralled her here on the campus and then called the marine mammal center in sausalito to come and get her. while she waited for her rescue crew, they started rethinking the school mascot, the knights. >> our new mascot. aside from the novelty and excitement, nanu's situation is actually a serious one. >> he's been treated at our center before. right now he's just a little bit disoriented. he was taken back to the center. our vet and staff will take a look at him and from there we'll see what happens. >> this is nanu's third visit to the center. veterinarians treated and released her twice before. the fact she's turned up a third time is a bad sign. >> she might be suffering from chron unit poisoning. that's irreversible. >> it's caused by eating toxic algae. nanu's case is chronic. her days in the bay might be over. >> we want to give every potential opportunity for this animal to be out in the wild. at the same time we want to make sure we're doing the humane thing for that animal. >> officials at the marine mammal center say the number of way ward sea lessons is on the rise and they aren't sure why. they rescued nearly 1,000 marine mammals this year. the average is five to 600. >> there's issues such as ocean trash. they're entangled around the neck with netting and fishing lines, gunshot wounds. that's another one. >> disease is another reason. that's why nanu keeps turning up. the center will treat her and determine whether she needs to stay or can be nursed to health and released back to the wild. >> fisherman, lawmakers and scientists are urging state and federal officials to do more to protect california's dwindling salmon population. a meeting this weekend follows the cancellation of the last two commercial salmon fishing seasons off the coast of california. most of the oregon coast. a little more than 39,000 shan nuk salmon returned to spawn in the sacramento river basin last year. that compares to nearly 770,000 in 2002. many fishermen blame the decomplain on the transfer of water from the sacramento river system to farms in the san joaquin valley. >> the salmon are a resilient species. they will come back when we have clean water in our rivers and delta at the right flows and the right times of year. >> peninsula council woman sponsored a full recovery of the salmon that could spawn 94,000 new jobs and generate $5 billion in new revenue per year. if you want to do some jobs in san francisco, you may need to live in the city. the board of supervisors is expected to vote tuesday on a proposal to require contractors working on city construction projects to hire locally. the mandate would be for 50% of workers to be san francisco residents. although the local hire stipulation would be phased in over six years. the measure is an effort to counter a city unemployment rate of nearly 40% in the construction industry. tomorrow a federal appeals court panel of three judges will hear constitutional arguments for and against same sex marriage. they're reviewing a federal judge's ruling that proposition 8 is unconstitutional. judge vaughan walker also issued a stay blocking same sex marriages while the appeals court examines that case. same sex couples who want to marry have been waiting ever since. >> it's almost tangible, the way it feels not having legal recognition from the state. it feels like society's discouraging you. >> back in august two had been hoping they could tell family and friends to join them at city hall in san francisco for a legal wedding. now six months later, they are still waiting as at tomorrow's hearing the three-judge panel at the 9th circuit court of appeals wants those who oppose the marriages want to explain why they have any legal standing or say in the case. >> the united states supreme court has said if you just -- somebody who supported a law, voted for it or funded the campaign, you don't have standing to challenge -- to be involved in the challenge to that statute. >> the people vote for something and that's challenged. the people have got to have some kind of a representative to take a stand and defend what the people voted for. >> the panel will also hear constitutional arguments about same sex marriage. we will be airing this historic session live on our website starting at 10:00 tomorrow morning. eric thomas will be anchoring the live web cast on abc7news.com. abc 7's legal analyst dean johnson will join us in studio later this morning on our news at 9:00 to tell us more about the case. but coming up next, a check of this morning's world headlines. iran now says it will go ahead with plans to process its own raw uranium. and peril on the tracks in spain where a maaaaa [ female announcer ] give yourself the gift of time with the kfc festive feast. twelve pieces of the colonel's hand breaded original recipe chicken. with three sides and six biscuits for only $19.99. have a so good holiday. ♪ oh, love me ♪ oh oh oh ♪ just love me ♪ oh oh oh ♪ just hold me ♪ oh oh oh ♪ just kiss me ♪ oh oh oh ♪ just want me ♪ l-o-v-e ♪ love, love, love, love ♪ ♪ ♪ l-o-v-e ♪ love, love, love, love ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer every day thousands of people are switching from tylenol® to advil. to learn more and get your special offer, go to takeadvil.com. take action. take advil®. >> iran's nuclear chief says that country will process its own raw uranium. they understand their determination to become a nuclear power describe global opposition. iran says it's now self-sufficient over the entire nuclear fuel cycle. the uranium government is to meet over the issue. it could be an effort to get iran to freeze its nuclear work. two people have died and dozens injured after a russian airliner skidded off the end of a snow which runway during an emergency landing in moscow this weekend. the plane had just taken off from another airport in the rush than capital when two of its engines failed. a third engine failed during the emergency landing. russian officials report that plane carried at least 155 people. they say 83 of them were hurt. a surveillance camera caught a dramatic rescue inside a railway station in madrid, spain. you can see a man in the background fall on to the tracks. other passengers are waiting for an approaching train to stop just as another man leaps on to the tracks. he pulse the victim out of the train's tracks with seconds to spare. it turns out that hero was on offduty police officer. lisa argen here now with a preview of the accu-weather forecast. >> a break now in the rain. in fact, it's mild out there. 54 in san francisco but hopefully got out there to clean up or put the lights out because later on today steady rain, gusty winds and maybe a couple inches of rain in your neighborhood. your forecast is next. >> thank you, lisa. also ahead we'll update the travel situation in upper midwest where a snowstorm forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights yesterday. 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[ kids ] oooooooooooooh. toaster strudel. layers of brownie and caramel, dipped in chocolate ready to e sweet moments new from pillsbu. in the refrigerated section welcome back, everyone. time right now 5:17. this is a live look from our hd camera atop the roof here at 900 front showing you the ferry building there with the bay bridge in the background. looks very pleasant right now and, in fact, it is. it's downright mild out there. lisa argen will be along in just a few with the full accu-weather forecast. chicago's o'hare international airport is back on schedule this morning after the season's first major snowfall forced hundreds of flight cancellations yesterday. here's what it looks like in the windy city where more than 325 flights were cancelled yesterday. the flights that did make it out were delayed. about 5 inches of snow fell in the upper midwest yesterday. i have someone who's trying to make it out of chicago today but they could face delays here with the rain? >> yes. the rain's going to be a little later on today. anywhere from 2:00 on. you're right. much of the nation depending on each other for getting the air traffic under control. but as for today, right now sitting pretty good. carolyn noted with temperatures on the mild side, 54 san francisco from ballmer peak. had a little fog out there and more clouds around than anything else. and our high definition emeryville camera also pretty dark this morning but with that sun coming up later on we'll see plenty of cloud cover with a moist southwest flow for our next frontal ban that's to move in later on this afternoon. temperatures are up mainly in the 50s. 53 oakland and 51 san jose. and a couple of areas in the upper 40s. 48 livermore, 47 redwood city with low 50s from the delta towards antioch and santa rosa. so this morning we're talking some cloudy skies. a slight chance of a shower but the main rain comes in later on today after 1:00, 2:00. we'll see a couple hours of steady rain. then the passage of the cold front. with the cold front some gusty winds and a wet weather pattern really stays with us for much of next week. but this storm system today, the biggest one that we'll see all week long. our seat and radar composite shows the system pushed through anywhere from a couple hundreds to about five hundredths of an inch of rain at livermore. an area of low pressure, a pretty strong cold front. that's going to swing on through here later on today about 10:00, 1:00 tonight. with it we'll get the rain. the wind will mainly be along the coast but with it we're talking gusty southerly winds, 25 to 35, maybe gusts to 45 mph and mainly right around here, the coastal hills. so from 2:00 this afternoon to 5:00 tomorrow morning and later on today, here's when the rain's gonna hit. after 1:00 look at santa rosa, point reyes and 3:00, 4:00, the front offshore but the rain moving into the east bay and by 6:00, 7:00 everyone looking at wid spread shower activity. some heavy and pushes on through after 9:00. the showers more widely scattered with rainfall accumulations in the santa cruz mountains, anywhere from an inch to 2 inches of rain, an inch on the peninsula, lesser amounts east bay, south bay. the north bay the higher elevations maybe an inch and a half. a pretty hefty system with the wind accompanying it along the shoreline. wind weather advisory from later on today with 6 to 12 inches of snow about 7,000 feet. starting out pretty high. it's a warm system. right now looking at rain at blue canyon and the snow level lowers to lake level 3 to 6 inches by monday. temperatures upper 50s to low 60s. a mild start with the cloudy skies. the winds picking up later on today. 58 san mateo and by about 3:00 there's the rain poised offshore. 58 downtown north bay numbers. 56 cloverdale with 58 vallejo near east bay ranging from the upper 50s, richmond to 61 fremont and more upper 50s dry the beginning of the day but that's all gonna change quickly. 61 watsonville. the forecast of rain, the winds later on today through probably about 10:00 and then we'll sea a break. chance of a shower on monday. more rain comes in wednesday, thursday, and into friday. but i said before, not as hefty as what we'll see today. today the biggest one. >> let's check out sports. the pack 10 represented in the national title game as oregon goes undefeated beating cross state rival oregon state. >> good morning. championship weekend in college football yesterday. we kick off at the civil war, oregon and oregon stated. enough said. the 114th meeting between these two rivals. michael james gets the corner. he's in eight of the 134 yards, 16 at the half. in the 4th after oregon state cut it to 10, ken young varner. he runs for 133 yards and that score headed to the national championship game for the first time in school history with a 37-20 victory. auburn and south carolina and the sec title game. the title looking to front their ticket to glendale. the half 21-14. expires. fits into the hands of darvin adams. 64 yards, 28-14 tigers at the half. in the fourth newton. threw for 335 yards and four scores and ran for two more. ties the recovered with six touchdowns. will meet oregon in the national title game with the 57-17 victory. oklahoma and nebraska in the big 12 championship game. jumped out to a 17-0 lead. karl reid for the five-yard touchdown. the sooners come back. threw for 339 yards, 49 here. kenny still up by three. martinez four. broken up and oklahoma wins it 23-20. seminoles and virginia tech and the acc title game winner goes to the orange bowl. florida state up 3-0. kicked off by jaron. he'll return 24 for the score. 7-3 hoagies and tie ron taylor. he fronts david wilson. hoagies are going to the orange bowl for the 44-33 victory. yukon and south florida. time winding down in the first half. picked off by lawrence wilson. he'll race 55 yards down the side lines. 10-3 huskies. 23 seconds left in the game. tied at 16. dave throws a 52 yard field goal. yukon's first bcs game in school history. it will be the orange or probably the fiesta bowl. started off with a win in ottawa but came back to earth yesterday in montreal. coming off his first shutout with the sharks, first period. montreal on the attack. misses wide. the former shark gets the rebound. 1-0 canadians. the equalizer. top shelf. game tied at one. comes off in the slot. he finds the back of the net and the canadians go on to a 3-1 victory. billsy around the nation, the cal bears in iowa. packed in big challenge, second half. coming off the screen. nails the jumper. he had 11. under a minute ago. scoot kristofferson. gamed tied at 69. on the other end, down low. converts and won. makes it 72-69 and cal gets a big road win, 76-73 improving to 5-2. meanwhile the women tackled a&m. in transition, lays it up two for 17. aggies led 38-29 at the break. second half. lashia. the steal. gets the fast break bucket, 19 for la shia. puts the bears up two. respond with a 12-run of their own. 19 points. cals upset bid falls short. the final cal now 5-2. niners in green bay, raiders visit san diego. have the highlights at 5:00. >> up next at 5:30, the tug of war over tax cuts in washington. this morning president obama is ready to wheel and deal after republicans lost two tax cut measures yesterday. and we'll update the [ female announcer ] why settle for plain bread grands! flaky layers biscuits? the warm, light delicate layers are like nothing else. add a layer of excitement to your next meal. ♪ start with cookie dough. ♪ add frosting. 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[ female announcer ] at pillsbury.com. ♪ >> welcome back, everyone. president obama says he is open to more compromise with republicans on extending bush era tax cuts for all income groups but he tells house speaker nancy pelosi and senate democratic leader harry reid he expects republicans to commit to some democratic priorities in return. all this after senate republicans block two attempts by democrats to eliminate tax cuts for the wealthy. david curly reports from washington. >> mr. brown of massachusetts. >> democrats brought two tax cuts to the senate floor neither expecting either to win but they forced republicans to say no for continued tax breaks to a vast majority of americans in order to cut tax breaks to the wealthy. and then given a break to anyone making up to a million dollars also failed. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> no republicans voted for either measure and they were joined by democrats. the 53 votes each bill did receive would have been enough under the old senate rules to pass but with republicans threatening a filibuster no such luck for democrats today. >> this saturday session is a total waste of the american people's time. >> president obama reacted quickly. >> i am very disappointed that the senate did not pass legislation that had already passed the house of representatives to make middle class tax cuts permanent. >> the president promised to redouble his effort to reach a compromise with republicans in the coming days. >> with so much at stake, today's vote cannot be the end of the discussion. >> the president have some good news for the economy announcing the completion of a trade deal with south korea. mr. obama called it a win for american workers, farmers and arrow station electronic workers and especially the u.s. auto industry. the clock is ticking on the bush era tax cuts, still set to expire okay the 1st of january. david curly, abc news, washington. >> and later today the president and president and mrs. obama host a reception for the kennedy center honor res. >> the lawyers for one of jaycee dugard's kidnappers believe a letter sent to a friend will not hurt her defense. nancy garrido wrote the letter to a woman she befriended in the county jail. she's facing charges of kidnapping dugard and holding her captive for 18 years. the letters frequently mentioned god and her husband. garrido even describes herself and her husband as "peas in a pod." the san francisco police crime lab is facing new accusations about mishandling evidence. the san francisco chronicle reports the issue this time is with dna evidence. it has to do with a criminal trial in 2008 and a mix-up of genetic material that must have been used as evidence, a mix-up with a controlled sample of distilled water. the investigators were not as concerned by the mix-up as the way it was handled after the crime lab officials game aware of that error. during an inter face service in san francisco, local clergy members urged congress to pass the dream act. the group held a prayer service last night at the old mission basilica in support of two young people facing deportation. both came to the u.s. as children with their parents. elizabeth lee recently graduated from lowell high school and hopes to become a social worker after finishing college. the dream act would allow undocumented students who work toward college degrees or join the military to earn the opportunity to stay in the u.s. >> we view the united states as our own country. it's the only country we all know. the dream act would let us stay here and let us give back to this country that we love. >> the candlelight march also shined light on the case of this city college nursing student steve lee. senator dianne feinstein put a last-minute stop to his deportation last month. two men suffered stab wounds during a melee outside pasadena's rose bowl. two police officers also suffered minor injuries while breaking up a brawl between 50 and 75 people in the parking lot. that violence began around 4:30 yesterday afternoon about three hours before kickoff. police are after three people on suspicion of attempted murder. officers say the rivalry between the schools fueled by alcohol played a major role in that fight. paypal is severing ties with wikileaks he will eliminating a major source of donations for the online whistle blower. the palo alto-bailed payment company said it will not allow its service to be used for activities that promote or instruct others to engage in illegal activity. it is another blow for wikileaks' founder julianna assange. cables appeared in "the new york times" this weekend. one reveals that a chinese leader googled himself and found critical postings. that apparently led him to order a campaign against google's operations in china. a police investigation into arson at an islamic center in oregon led authorities to search a neighbor's home. the mosque was a place of worship for a somali-born teenager charged in connection with a christmas tree lighting terrorist plot inport land last weekend. they're investigating whether the fire may have been set in retaliation. police took body cell samples from the 24-year-old man who lives in the house next to the islamic center. the suspect pleaded innocent in connection with the bomb plot. well, a san francisco monument makes way for another. the trans bay terminal is rapidly becoming rubble in the final phase of demolition. it's going to be replaced by a new $4 billion transit center. we get more now on the takedown from abc 7's wayne friedman. >> on the theory what goes up must eventually come down, here is today's first love tap on a bay area landmark and now another right on the money. >> we're taking down a piece of history and making way for the next chapter. >> the piece of history is a ven neshl trans bay center. in 1940 some 400,000 people passed through here any given day. on this day, however, considerably fewer sit around to watch. >> some of them. i kind of avoided it. kind of smelly, disgusting building inside. >> are you feeling sentimental watching it go down brick by brick? >> nope, nope. i just love demolition. >> based on that reaction, they should have been cheering for bob sparks who wheeled the light touch of that 8,000 pound ball. >> can you put it on a spot? >> pretty much. >> who's -- who throws a tighter ball, you or tim lincecum. >> the new building they say will be an architectural wonder when it opens in 2017. imagine high-speed futuristic people. all that stands between now and then, the application of force. you look at a building like this, do you see challenge? >> no. just a lot of work. >> from the rapidly disappearing trans bay transit terminal, wayne friedman, abc 7. >> well, that temporary terminal has some complaints because it doesn't shield people from the weather like the rain we're getting ready to have. >> we had a bit of a break yesterday. not too many showers. mainly in the morning but today the opposite. we've got the break now and by later on this afternoon steady rain, gusty winds along the coast. a live look outside. high definition emeryville. still the numbers mild due to the south wind but that's going to create gusty conditions later on. i'll tell you about it coming up. >> also coming up, san >> also coming up, san francisco's union street, the - hello! - ha! why don't you try a home cooked meal... with yummy hamburger helper? oh! tada! fantastically tasty, huh? ummm, it's good. what would you guys like? hamburger helper. what?! one pound... one pan... one tasty meal! with not having enough food. that's why i've teamed up with feeding america and hamburger helper®. when you buy hamburger helper® you can help feeding america deliver a meal to a local food bank. visit this website to see how you can help. carolyn's greeted diners and shoppers along union straight. the union street association kicked off its 20th annual festival of lights. stores up and down the street are all dressed up for the holiday. the shoppers were dressed for the chilly air. it is that time of year. >> yes. you know, it hasn't been that cold though. we keep saying that because remember a week ago thanksgiving that's when we had those 20s and 30s. >> really cold. >> yes. overnight lows just in the 50s san francisco. that's a bonus. low 50s in the south bay. high definition emeryville, cloudy skies. a bit of a break in the rain now for the next couple hours but it's not over. a second cold front is on the way. this is a stronger cold front and we'll look for a steady rain, gusty winds, accumulation maybe on the order of an inch or more come later on today in the north bay. 51 in santa rosa. it's 50 in san rafael. upper 40s livermore and redwood city with 49 los gatos. our highlights, cloudy skies with slight chance of a shower early but the rain and wind old off 1:00, 2:00 sonoma county and the rest of the bay area later on late in the afternoon until about 10:00 tonight and the wet pattern stays with us for the middle of the week to the end of the week. but today's system, the strongest system that we'll see all week long. this system, only a couple hundredths as it pushed on through yesterday but cloudy and mild. the next system is much stronger. got wind associated with it. you can see how it's kind of tightly wound up here. and here's the cold front. out ahead of it we've got the gusty southerly winds and the passage of the cold front later on today. still we said. the steady rain. could see wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour mif mph along the coast. downtown area not too bad in terms of the wind. time line, dry most of the morning. by 1:00 sonoma county getting wet. by 3:00, lighter rain pushing into the east bay. after 4:00, 5:00, everyone's getting wet with heavier pockets around the bay right through 9:00. and it's not until the later evening hours we begin to see the rain become more widely scattered. about 2 inches in the santa cruz mountains. an inch and a half north bay mountains. anywhere from a half inch to an inch east bay valleys and the south bay with the peninsula and the wind as well. three-quarters of an inch to an inch of snow. upper 30s and rain now in blue canyon. the snow levels will lower but not until the passage of the cold front. talking 6 to 12 inches above 7,000 feet. not a great snow maker here. southern sierra for yosemite up to 2 feet above 7,000 feet. 59 sunnyvale. 57 half moon bay. gusty south winds here late today. 56 daly city. windy as well here but not until later on. 60 santa rosa. near east bay upper 50s san leandro and union city with 58 danville. the bulk of your afternoon dry but then get ready for some pretty good rain in santa cruz later on today. the accu-weather seven-day forecast. look at the string of 60 degree days. but with it the clouds, the chance of rain after this system comes in wednesday, thursday and friday with our little break late monday and tuesday. a little backwards there on the 7-day forecast. >> this rain is not going to help retailers. >> no. but, you know, it's sort of what we expect in december, isn't it? >> how are you doing with your shopping. >> it's early still, right? >> not really! >> i'm getting it bit by bit. >> thanks, lisa. well, the dramatic recovery of the monterey bay is the subject of a new book. and in this assignment 7 report, karina rusk shows us the success story. >> the stunning beauty of monterey bay hides a history of exploitation. one wild species after another was hunted for profit and many to near extinction. in the early 1800s, it was otters. when they were gone, the target became whales. then abalone. 1915 ushered in a relentless pursuit of sardines. >> at its worst, the bay was a smelly, polluted, empty mess. >> in the decade between 1935 and 1945, the canneries were the heart of the economy hauling in about a million pounds of sardines a day. the process waste was thrown back into the bay and the stench permeated for miles. dr. steve palumbi says the depth of the destruction makes the revival an amazing story. >> they've recreated an economy in monterey that's based not only on tourism but the health of the echo system. >> the director of hopkins marine station and just coauthored a book called the death and life of monterey bay. one of the early pioneers in protecting the bay was a marine biologist who became mayor of pacific grove in 1941. she did make five miles of shoreline off limits to commercial fishing. that single act foreshadowed what are now called marine reserves. another turning point was the creation of the monterey acare yum. it's ironic and appropriate the nonprofit is housed in an old cannery with a mission of inspiring ocean conservation. >> no one had ever grown kelp in captivity. a lot of the folks in the aquarium business told us, one, you can't do it; and, two, who wants to come see a bunch of brown seaweed anyway. >> the success of the exhibit is giving rise to a new generation of action. cindy walter is a daughter of a fisherman and local restaurant owner. she's trying to raise awareness about sustainable fishing practices. that means her menu doesn't include items like swordfish, tuna and shark. >> 70% sold in restaurants are passion fish. that makes the owner of the restaurant, it really does make them the gatekeeper to the ocean's health. >> today monterey bay has found an economic and environmental balance, one that allows nature and people to coexist. >> nobody would be allowed to take over this bay and ruin it for a single economic purpose any longer because it's our bay. it's not their bay. >> steve says individuals can make a difference in transforming something even as big as an ocean ecosystem. in the case of monterey bay, determination and patience have paid off. in monterey bay, karina rusk, abc 7 news. >> don't go away. 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