1 million for information that will lead to his capture. The Los Angeles Police chief announced that the 2007 firing case would be reopened. He was fired after he accused the Training Officer of kicking a mentally ill man in the face during an arrest. Stay with abc news for the latest developments in the driver donor manhunt with instant updates of developments on twitter as well as on our website at abc7news. Com. Happening now, clean up is underway after a massive tornado ripped through hattiesburg, miss, with the twister injuring thin and tore up homes and the campus of the university of southern mississippi. It caused damage in two neighboring counties. So far, no deaths have been reported. Stunning, consider what we see in home videos of the tornado. In the northeast, travel is easing in new england where a blizzard dumped 3 feet of snow over the week, with bans lifted as plows clear the highways. 500,000 people were without power at one point. That is down to under 200,000 customers, mostly in massachusetts. Many schools and businesses remain closed today because people have not been able to get there. Check this out, a tv station in the hartford, connecticut area, captured every second of the blizzard. As you can see in this timelapse video of the snow, it rose from ankle high to more than waist high. The Highway Patrol hopes to interview the driver of a car who veered off the road and into a steep ravine yesterday afternoon a mile east of clayton road. A corvette went 150 down the embankment after losing control. The driver was trapped inside. The passenger was able to get out on his own and call 911. A team of 25 Emergency Personnel spent two hours using ropes and pulleys to bring the driver to safety. It took a lot of personnel, a lot of hauling, just extent, pulling him up using pulleys and things like that. It is steep embankment. The driver was air lifted to the hospital. There are no signs alcohol was involved but they say speed was likely a factor. Two men are under arrest this morning after taking police on a brief chase and crashing in to another car in San Francisco. Officers spot add car reported stolen at 7 30 last night. Police tried to pull the driver over and he tooked off. After crashing, two young men rap off but they were caught a short distance away. This morning, police are looking for the person who d tires on dozens of vehicles, a picture posted on the video shows the damage, all four tires were slashed. About 60 vehicles were damaged and they everyone parked in the area at bellaire. Police believe it 457ed it happened early yesterday morning. Santa clara Sheriff Deputies want to learn more of a shooting that killed one and sent another to a hospital near highway 85 and union avenue in san jose. Neighbors called 911 after hearing shots at 3 45 in the afternoon. Police found a man dead at the scene and the other person who was shot walked to a hospital emergency room a short time later and he is expected to survive. Two burley claw students charged with killing an exotic bird at a hotel are due back in las vegas today for court arraignment. The two students both 24, were arrested last october phoebe heading an exotic bird. They chase add 14yearold bird into trees at the hotels Wildlife Habitat and came out with a body of the bird and a severed head. He faces federally and a misdemeanor involving the killing of wildlife. Bart wants feedback of a new law that allows the agency to ban repeat offenders from the train. Community meetings begins today to discuss implementation of the law and allows bart to seek restraining orders against cheats and protesters who are cited for violations three or more times in 60 days. Todays Community Meeting is set for 6 00 p. M. At the bart board room at the Kaiser Center in oakland. A high profile web posting opens a new office today in the bay area, in the first Silicon Valley office in sunnyvale. The arizona based company wanted an office in the bay area to attract more hightech talent and is leasing 8,000 square feet at the Sunnyvale CenterOffice Center complex and hosts websites and registers domain names, and plans to fill positions locally by recruiting Top Technology talent to double their current Silicon Valley workforce. For recruiting they can whip out the Super Bowl Ad from a couple of years ago. They get more risque each year. Mike . You may notice how clear it is when you step outside this morning. No fog to worry about. A few clouds around half moon bay. Visibility is down to three miles so when the sun comes up we get all of it and it warms us quickly from the midtoupper 30s at 7 00 to lowtomid 50s at lunch. Through the afternoon, no need for a coats upper 50s to low 60s but the breezes are faster at the beach. We have midtoupper 40s around the bay and to the coast. The next couple of days, slow baby steps in this warming trend. We will hit the lowtomid 60s tomorrow. Lowtomid 60s on wednesday with a few high clouds. Valentines day, it will be lovely weather, 62 at coast and midtoupper 60s for the rest of us. I didnt see many cars on the way to work. Sue . It is light. Especially for 4 38 on monday morning. We have one problem spot through the hayward area. North 880 at 92, two right lanes are blocked with an accident here. C. H. P. Is getting on the scene and when they do we will have more information. Right now the road centers do not look like there is much slowing in the area. We will keep following that as the commute is underway. The only other road work is Maintenance Work at the richmond and san rafael bridge toll plaza, three left lanes for 20 minutes there and a live look at 80 through berkeley, light this morning and crowding around the 580 merge, otherwise it is picking up all the way into the macarthur maze and the first look at the bay bridge this morning, light and no issues here. Kristen and eric . Next, stuck at sea, the effort underway right new to get a stranded cruise ship and thousands of passengers moving again. Reaching out to the community, Oakland Police lay out the new strategy they implement to stop a surge in crime. But, first, the tech bytes. Apples next mobile device could be a wrist watch performing some of the same functions as a smartphone including messages and payment. How about a game that is not shooting or space ships, users called it the most brainy game in a lodge time. 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He will be the first pontiff to do this in 600 years emphasizing that caring out the duties of pope require strength in body, strength of mind, and he can no longer do it. Amy has local reaction to the news and she will have more in the next hour. We will have new developments in the breaking news story and on our website at abc7news. Com. More than 4,000 passengers and crew are stranded on a Carnival Cruise ship in the middle of the gulf of mexico. A fire in the engine room caused a power outage sending the ship adrift. This is the shift before the port in texas on thursday. A backup generator is providing limited electricity and a tugboat steams to the ship and it will be towed to the nearest port in mexico. Report commissioned by joe petrinos family contradicts families of the investigation by penn state into the sex abuse scandal regarding sandusky. The familys review says paterno did not attempt to hide investigation contrary to former f. B. I. Directors report for the school which said there was more concern about protecting the Football Program than protecting children. In an exclusive interview to air today, sue paterno tells katie how she feels. Lives of our children and making them better, not hurting them. So, it is vile is the best word i can think of. Penn state says the School Investigation was intended to fix shortcomings and to make sure failures dont happen again. You can watch the exclusive with katie with his wife, sue paterno, today, at 3 00 p. M. Today only on abc7. Oaklands newly hired Crime FightingConsultant Team has introduced the first in a series of strategies for police to use which were discussed before a packed house at the first of several Public Meetings last night. Robert is the chairman of the Strategic Policy partnership. The detailed power point presentation was the main focus of the meeting, and a strategy he proposed will be dividing the city into five geographic community districts. It is the most important thing this department can do to improve the quality of the policing if the neighborhoods. Absent from the meeting was former lapd chief and lead consultant, bill brat were, bill bratton because of stop and frisk he has taken a lower profile role in the process. But robert addressed the controversy. It is a valid and accepted practice under the constitution. It works fine with no controversy if officers are respectful of everyone who they step. Capacity crowd filled the 400 seats of the center for the performing arts. Community policing is an idea that seemed well accepted if residents get to see more police resources. Our police are basically, well, actually, our policeman we have one. Adding to the force was a popular issue. There is a goal 900 officers and the chief mentioned 1,000. What is your hope . Closer to the chief. I like his approach. I have always enjoyed listening to him. Not everyone was sold on the new strategy and hopes for police. Appealing to the youth. The youth commit the crimes. That is who we need to reach out not adding more police so when the crime happens happens theres someone who can respond faster. Plans to begin geographic Community Policing in oakland will begin as a Pilot Program in two districts at the end of next month and rolled out citywide after that. The San Francisco giants opened spring straining in scottsdale, arizona, with pitchers and catchers reporting tomorrow and a full squad on friday. There will be a new look among members of the defending world series champion, with a long side burns for buster, and romo got rid of the beard that wilson made popular and going with a goatee and look at this. He now has short hair with glasses of the nonprescription type. He looks like a Silicon Valley programmer. Are you sure that is tim . How can you tell . I didnt go to fanfest, unfortunately, but wanted to go and i could not make it. The glasses remind you of wild thing the Charlie Sheen character, he could not pitch so he got glasses and suddenly he is nailing everyone. What are you saying . Now, do we need sunglasses today . That is the question. Hopefully we get the old tim back. Rather, young tim. Here we are looking at clear conditions, we have a changing of air mass. The good news is warmer weather is on the way if you dont like the cold and along with that, our air will stay clean. Right now 5day forecast for spare the air shows our way will stay below threshhold so we will keep an eye on that. Here is a look at what is going on with live doppler 7 hd and the view we saw from emeryville to San Francisco reinforced the doppler with no radar and no clouds right now. We are off to a chilly start with temperatures warmer than they were this time yesterday. Still a lot of midtoupper 30s but fairfield and oakland and San Francisco in the 40s and in the monterey bay, a gorgeous weekend. Could you see the gulf . Was it picture perfect . The envy of the rest of the country in the northeast this past weekend. 32 in gilroy. Midtoupper 30s for everyone else. Now, what will happen with the cycle. Sunshine. Mild temperatures this afternoon. Going to be clear and coup and chilly during the overnight hour because the dry air that warmed quickly in the daytime will fall back quickly at night. No strong storms on the horizon. Why see any snow or significant wet weather coming our way for a couple of weeks. Today the big story is 24 hour temperature change, three degrees warmer in fremont and san jose, and a degree in concord and oakland, and same in santa rosa and San Francisco could be the same, maybe a degree cooler. That puts us in the lowtomid 60 but long the coast in the San Francisco area where we will have midtoupper 50s. 57 in monterey. Lowtomid 60s for the rest of the bay and inland. Tonight, we have midtoupper 30s i land and midtoupper 30s around the bay and closer to San Francisco, oakland and san mateo, we will have lowtomid 40s. By the time the warmth is here 56 valentines day we could be near 70 and warmerthanaverage saturday and sunday this weekend . Now, back to hayward, the only democratic on the roadways, northbound 880 at 92, two right lanes remain blocked. It is early enough i do not see significant slow downs with c. H. P. On the scene getting a tow truck to get the cars out of the way. Otherwise, the drive out of the ebay east bay, antioch, looks great. And same from the Central Valley with no delays and good and over the Altamont Pass for this time of the morning, and, now, a look at san mateo bridge, the first look this morning, the tail lights headed to foster city on the flat selection, everyone is moving nicely up and over on the highrise and the other direction toward highway 880 and everyone is looking good. Kristen and eric . President obama is preparing the state of the Union Address which he will deliver to a joint session of Congress Tomorrow night and raising several key issues in the second term including jobs, the federal budget, gun control, immigration, and climate change. The white house says the president will be focusing on social media to outline the proposals with 100 people invited to participate in an online panel when he wrapped up. Florida senator rub eye will give the republican response to the president s address, and you can watch the state of the Union Address live here on abc7 and at abc7news. Com tomorrow going at 6 00 p. M. Did you fill up your tank over the weekend . Coming up, the sticker shock felt by the bay area drivers. The number one dog show is underway this morning and we will look at the unusual k if loving you is wrong i dont wanna be right [ record scratch ] what . its not bad for you. It just tastes that way. [ female announcer ] honey nut cheerios cereal hearthealthy, whole grain oats. You cant go wrong loving it. Bee happy. Bee healthy. With clusts of flakes and os. Oh, ho ho. Its the honey sweetness. I. I mean, you. Love. A former Staff Sergeant in the army receives the highest military army for actions during one of the deadliest attacks against forces in afghanistan. President obama will bestow the medal honor to Sergeant Clinton romatio for conspicuous gallant try fighting to save his life and the fellow soldiers in a 2009 battle in afghanistan. He will be the 4th living recipient to be awarded the medal of honor for actions in iraq or afghanistan. A report this morning says gas prices jumped 25 cents nationwide the last two weeks. The survey says a gallon of regular averages 3. 59 across the country. Californias acknowledge is up more at 37 cents to 3. 95 gallon. Los angeles drivers pay more than the bay area at 4. 10 a gallon. The cheapest gas in the state is found in sacramento at 3. 82. You may want to walk. It would be cheaper. And good exercise. Now, we will final out if it is walking weather. We will have a good day. You can see how much quiet iter is, with small nuggets of rain if the high desert in the Southern California area and headed away from those areas. We will look at what is happening headed in the afternoon, we will have temperatures mostly in the lowtomid 60s throughout the Central Valley and 50s along the coast and 39 in tahoe and 44 in yosemite and upper 50s to mid60s in san diego and palm springs and los angeles. Highway is the commute . Good morning, mike, we have good news, in hayward, nobody, 880, an accident in the two right lanes, c. H. P. Informing us that it is all clear with the all clear signal and the tow truck has cars out of lanes now, so traffic should be flowing nicely to the colisieum and beyond from the hayward and san mateo bridge. Two left lanes remain close at the toll plaza to the Richmond San Rafael bridge due to road maintenance and you can see slowing in the westbound direction as you make your way over to the san rafael area and we will take a look at san rafael speaking of which, southbound, 101, beyond lucas valley road and into central san rafael, light traffic conditions and a quick look at san jose, this is 87 in the northbound direction the headlights headed beyond the h. P. Pavilion and this is the julian exit. The super bowl of dog shows is happening right new in new york city. Pampered pooches have been preparing for the dog show when they arrived in new york. Cute k9s are pampered more than the vast majority of people, getting washed and dried and fluffed and exercised and they will strut their best stuff to the judges today going with hounds, toy, and herding bodies this morning and the toy airs tonight in prime time on two u. S. Cable networks. Today is the second day of the new year and the buzz in china is celine, a performance in mandarin on a chinese show. inaudible lyrics . The first performance was a chinese folk song. Beautiful when she sang with chinese soprano and she performed my heart will go on from the music which made her a household name in china. She sang great. There is no tone with mandarin and that makes it so difficult. There is no tone. No tone. We have breaking news making history this morning from the vatican where the spoke is stepping down. Still no sight of the most wanted man in america, former wanted man in america, former lapd cop with a price tag on [ male announcer ] with citibank its easy for jay to deposit checks from anywhere. [ wind howling ] easier than actually going to the bank. Mobile check deposit. Easier banking. Standard at citibank. Makes it easy for anne to manage her finances when shes on the go. Even when shes not going anywhere. Citibank for ipad. Easier banking. Standard at citibank. Abc7 news starts right now with live breaking news. The breaking news is from the vatican this morning, the pope is stepping down in three weeks. You are looking at live pictures of the vatican which surprised the world by announcing that Pope Benedict will resign. The 85yearold announced his decision in latin that his health is the problem. Abc is in washington and joins us live with more. Good morning. Good morning, it is rare for a pope to resign. Today, Pope Benedict announced he is stepping aside because of health concerns. In a shocking announcement, Pope Benedict announced today he will resign at end of the month. The 85yearold pope said he came to the decision after realizing he is not as strong as he used to be because of his