feet. abc 7 live in san jose with the latest on the search. cecelia. >> the driver just took off down this street here fontain and now police have very few leads about what happened out here yesterday morning. family members say the skid marks that stretch for hundreds of feet show just how far erica was dragged. walking in the neighborhood with her boyfriend around 2:30 sunday morning crossing fontain road. some members say the boyfriend saw the speeding car and tried to get the driver to slow down. the car struck erica and never stopped. 18-year-old girl is now in critical condition. san jose police say so far no one has come forward with the detailed description of the car or the driver with few ladies to go on, erica family spent the afternoon knocking on doors handing out fliers and talking to neighbors hoping someone might know something about what happened. >> my little sister she got hit right here. and dragged all the way down to the other, the opposite block all the way down the pwlochblingt a couple hundred feet. >> i believe somebody saw something. and somebody could have heard something. and whoever that is please come forward and help us out. please. >> the only information that we have is that we are looking for a gray sport utility vehicle with possible damage to the front end. >>reporter: gray suv or possibly a minivan. boyfriend says. as for erica condition she's not yet able to talk. 2 surgery so far. extensive very painful damage to her hip leg muscle and pelvis. family says she's lucky to be alive but unclear whet she will be able to walk again. now erica family is offering a 2,000 dollar reward in this case. money that they pulled together themselves and crime stoppers added up to 1,000 dollars more for 3000 dollar reward. anyone with information should call san jose police department. abc 7 news. >> okay. thanks very much. >> 12 day after being arrested by egyptian police google executive is set free. he says he is behind a facebook page that helped spark the revolution. despite his ordea ordeal, he's not done yet protesting against the egyptian government. he told an egyptian television reporter that this is the revolution of the university of the internet his words. we have more on the incredible drama. >> within a few hours of being released by the egyptian authorities, he was back on the streets protesting. he spoke briefly with egyptian tv. >> don't focus your camera on me. i'm not a hero. the real hero are the youth behind the revolution. by god will we'll clean the country of the rubbish. >>reporter: he first announced his release through twitter. freedom is a bless that deserv deserves fighting for it. one of the cousin is a student at santa clara university. >> him getting released is exciting but i'm pretty sure the first thing he did after he was released was good to the square again. he's not in it for the fame. he's in it to get his mess many acknowledge across. >>reporter: 30-year-old executive father of 2 is based in dubai working for google as marketing executive. he had been running social networking sites criticizing the egyptian president. it was believed this you tube video showed him being taken into custody by police during a demonstration in cairo on january 28 but he says it happened much more privately in annualy where 4 men suddenly surrounded him. for days his where about the were unknown. members of an egyptian opposition group met with vice president fop ask for his release. this morning a google spokesperson issued this statement. it is a huge relief that he has been released. we send our best wishes to him and his family. greg of mountain view is a former colleague of his. >> i don't think there's any question that twitter and facebook were huge in this whole last couple week series of events. >>reporter: this is his cousin who spoke to us from our sister station in philadelphia. >> it is a mixed feeling that these protest although it might of course impact the departure of mubarak but also helping the country longer it takes to have a stable solution for egypt. >>reporter: now he told us that he has been in contact with had wife and on twitter he he went to cairo against his family wishes. in the newsroo newsroom, abc 7 news. some welcome news tonight if you have children headed for college next year. state college and university will not seek fee increase according to the chancellor at the uc and california state university systems. and head of california community colleges who spoke at the state capitol today. they say there is a condition. california need to degree to governor brown tax extension in order to prevent fees from going up again. >> first time in history the fees are larger than collected from the student and 7 from the state of california. we are not the cops mat public good apparently that we once were. i think that's tragic. >>reporter: governor brown want to extend temporary income, sales and vehicle tax for 5 more years to help bridge the state 25 billion dollar budget gap. well, you may be in for unwelcome surprise when you file your taxes in a couple of months. may owe more than you thought because of key change in the health care law. benefit that helps young people but may cost their parent. capitol correspondent annette reports on an effort to change that in sacramento. is. >>reporter: the federal health care reformula brought relief for thousands of california parents last fall. it meant they could continue providing health insurance for their adult children up to the age of 26. silicon valley person enrolled her 25-year-old daughter on to her husband health plan even though it cost more to add an extra person. >> we are not rich. but our children need health insurance. what are we supposeded to do. >>reporter: but as californians are preparing their income tax return many of though parent are learning they now have a bigger tax bill. the state considers employer contribution to the health benefit of non-dmend interest as income. 4000 dollar benefit pushed them into a higher bracket and increase their tax liability. >> our taxes are highs as it is. and we can't even claim our daughter on our taxes. >>reporter: assemblyman is championing a a proposal to exempt income just as federal tax. similar proposal failed last year. >> we want to make sure a parent continue to work hard you know. continue to have their children ons a dependent that they are covered and not taxed that. not penalize. >>reporter: there is no formal opposition to proposal yet but parents have to pay more taxes the financially struggling state would get a 12 million dollar windfall. family like this hope the legislature passes the exemption as soon as possible. otherwise they might be forced to make a difficult decision. >> we were totally shocked. and they were giving us a choice of taking her off the health plan. >>reporter: in sacramento, abc 7 news. smoke billow from a grease fire inside the buck horn grill on locust street in downtown walnut creek this afternoon. start ad round 2:15 after lunch time and firefighters spent 45 minute putting it out. no one was hurt but the flames damaged an attic storage area above the restaurant and several other businesses were evacuated for short time as precaution. it will reopen on wednesday. >> also walnut creek electrical switching gear ignited this morning at pumping station. neighbors say it sounded like a plane crashed that intense and loud. explosion knocked out power to several homes nearby. but the pumps at the facility were not damaged evidently and east bay mud says the the blast will have no impact on water service. much more to get to for you this monday night here. one east bay city wants to ban bounce houses from public places. we have that story. >> and bay area hay school experiment showing signs of life in space. plus inside the cold cotton el. 24-7 project to ease traffic congestion for tens of thousands of east bay commuter commuters. >> accu-weather forecast center. you can say goodbye to record warmth for awhile. show you the big changes coming your way in my accu-weather forecast you the big changes coming your way in my accu-weather forecast coming up. >> and one of the most popular commercial the during the superbowl you may have seen it. tonight uncovering the boy superbowl you may have seen it. tonight uncovering the boy behind that >> popular edition to children party will be out lawed in another east bay city. bounce houses and tonight walnut creek voted to ban them. at the heart of the debate is the permit process. here's heathe heather. >>reporter: the kid party bounce house is now allowed in only 4 of walnut creek 17 public park on hard surfaces only not on the grass with 40 dollar permit. budget cut mean no longer enough people to handle the permit application. 42 permit have been issued since they started being required two years ago. park department director gord open says the city decided permits were necessary after park grass was damaged and when the city realized vendors needed liability insurance. won the inflatable was taken down, spikes would be left behind. where the kidsould go to the bouncey house the turf would be trod down because a lot of people were going back and forth. >>reporter: peninsula comic jump owner says other cities get around the permitting hassle by limiting inflatable use in parks to a list of pre-qualified vendors. >> our industry there is a split. people do this full-time and few other company in the bay area and there is the people that just do it on the weekends. >>reporter: allen wilder brings his son to the park because they live in an apartment. >> i liked them when i was a kid and nothing bad ever happened to me or my friends. >> i don't think it would affect us because we have a big back yard and we just would put it back there. >> i don't think they should need a permit any way. we have enough government. we pay our taxes. get to use the park big deal if there's a 20 foot by 20 foot bad spot in the s for a week or so. big deal. >> plenty of opportunity for kids to enjoy our park and enjoy our facility. and have great family gatherings. >>reporter: again the commission voted tonight to ban bounce houses at all city park parks. in walnut creek. >> update on problem the i team helped he can pose on 2 south bay college campuses. state panel has ordered san jose city college and evergreen valley college to fix the problem with finances, planning and other areas within two years or risk losing their accreditation. 2 schools serve more than 20,000 student. as recorded two years ago the district former chance lor took 39 trips on her 4 years on the job. grand jury said that that violated several policies and called her travel excessive. news from space tonight. experiment designed by group of high school students in san jose is now under way on board the international space statio station. david louie shows us the very first video and phot photos. >>reporter: student at valley christian high school get the first glimpse from space that the experiment is under way. team of 22 students designed and built an experiment to see if plants can grow in space to feed astronauts on lengthy missions. self contained cube arrived at the international space station 10 days ago. it was switched on friday. >> we are getting pictures i don't know about 85 pictures a day so we have got plenty of data and image coming from the station. >>reporter: students are part of the school aplayed math science engineering institute. >> everything that we spent hours in the lab and hours designing is actually coming out to be something that advertise really successful. >>reporter: photo will document the sprouting of the plant from seed in zero graft. temperature and humidity readings verify the conditions are ripe for germ nation. >> the plants are in the little cylinder. stored and when the water is pushed through it will reach them faster. >>reporter: additional photo and data transmitted to earth three times a week. they were especially thrilled to see video of space station commander scott kelly checking out their cube. one of the student advisors is dan who put 89 satellite into space. he says the students did remarkable work on the circuit boards. >> they designed the boards. 99 dollars a piece. for 3 of them. when they put them all together not one error. that to me was incredible. i have 97 seen that done before. >>reporter: what goes up new eventually come back down. that's true of the student experiment. the cube will be put on russian rocket heading back to earth the middle of next month. at valley christian high school in san jose, david louie 7 money scop scope. >> all right. not yet enjoy this spectacular weather you have not missed the boat entirely but not quite as warm. spencer here but still lovely out 30. that's true. day of record warmth now over after 3 in a row i might add but still lots of lovely weather coming our way. live view of lovely conditions right now in san francisco from our high definition roof top camera at abc 7. embarcadero clear mild evening here across the bay area but let's look back at new record high and couple tie today. santa rosa with high of 76. san rafael and gilroy 73 degrees each set new record high for this date february 7 and 2 records were tied oakland at 72 degrees at kent field at 71 so you can see pretty mild day following very warm weekend with record high a well. right now looking at pretty mild condition too. temperatures generally in the 50's 2 location dropped that the 40's. napa current reading of 46 degrees and los gatos 49 degrees but february standards that's mild. cooler tomorrow. locally gusty wind will could he have. cold mornings wednesday through friday then just a slight chance of rain on sunday. possibly even on monday. satellite radar area moving inland and big strong ridge of high pressure continue to build offshore and will be the dominant feature and animation 7:00 o'clock this evening the center of high pressure beginning to build over and into tomorrow to the our north that will set up a wind with locally heavy winds for us beginning overnight tonight and continuing through the day tomorrow. as a matter of fact we have a wind advisory in effect for the straits and delta. 9:00 o'clock tomorrow morning until 7:00 o'clock tomorrow evening. generally winds out of the north at 15 to 30 miles per hour. we may see gust up to 45 miles per hour. even with the breezy gusty condition we see a few locations experiencing pretty chilly weather overnight tonight. over nature low concord 39 degrees inin livermoe 38 degrees in also down to 38 at napa and santa rosa most other locations will see low temperature above 40 degrees. tomorrow another lovely day but not a record setting one in terms of high pressure with pretty pleasant in the south bay. high pressure in the mid 60's, 64 at campbell, san jose and saratoga on the pen la low 60's, 62 at menlo park, palo alto upper 60's on the coast and pacifica half moon bay and the high downtown san francisco tomorrow 58 in the sun set district up to the north bay we go where we see mid 60's at santa rosa and calistoga. only 58 though at clear lake. nearest bay high 62 at oakland. schools at union city and fremont inland valley of the east bay we see low to mid 60's up to 64 and pleasant ton and monterey baylow 60's at the bay and low to mid 60's inland. here's the 7 day forecast certainly p.m. 5 or 6 rain free day coming our way thursday through saturday. cold in the morning on wednesday, thursday through saturday. cold in the the afternoon. but get a few extra clouds in on sunday monday and just slight chance of rain both days and take a closer look at that later in the week. >> cold by california standards not that cold by chicago. >> not at all. >> thanks. >> all right coming up next. inside look at the caldecott tunnel. >> not an easy jochbility it could 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bolt drilled in for support and another 6 inches of shot finish the process. righted 24 hours a day. when it is finished the tunnel fourth bore will be 4000 feet long. but each day the miners only advance 10 to 15 feet hall out 1,000 plus tons of mud. so farther almost a third of the way through. every day poses new challenges. this is considered a gasy tunnel meaning a cell phone a spark could turn it into a deadly fire ball. >> it's about safety. not an easy job. it could be dangerous if you are not smart. >>reporter: process called brassing in and out is mandatory. of all the safety precaution and warning sign on construction site this is a sign only on a tunnel project. brass tag identify who is in and out of the bore. in the early days of the tunnel the graph was used because of a melting point at 1700 degrees. >> any event there's a fire that won't melt. it will survive the fire and the identifying imprint will still exist. >>reporter: methane gas is also poisonous so the giant duct are constantly blasting air into the tunnel. >> so if there was a pocket of methane or poisonous gas, it would be diluted before it even got to the sen ors. >>reporter: as the crew tunnel through the formation in gray and into the clairemont formation in brown, geologist expect to find larger pocket of georgia, more dangerous rock formation. >> blocks can fall down. break out and that make it dangerous for the miners. >>reporter: he's the geologist hired to oversee the construction company geologist. despite the redundant in safety measures, head of sobering moment last november when a large chunk of it broke off and injured 2 miners. >> it was about 5 foot long and probably about 6 or 8 inches thick and probably 3 foot in length. >> the second level and jumped on too quick. it uses hadn't cured. >> about if you work inside of the tunnel something can happen because you never can measure everything. >>reporter: was that something you foresaw. >> no. >>reporter: with all of his geological technology he says he could not have predicted the temperatures affect on the quality of shot crete and shape of ridiculous or where exactly the water was leaking. just another dangerous unknown the craw faces a they mine their which through the mountain. reporting from the fourth bore of the caldecott tunnel. >> when we continues tonight. war and remembrance. >> no one asked, no one polled is this the right decision. >>reporter: coming up. political insider and his personal account of the battle over baghdad. >> president obama says united states will recognize the world newest nation but with one condition. >> story behind the picture why bringing so much sadness to >> story behind the picture why bringing so much sadness to south america >> good evening once again. here's a look at the headlines we are following for you tonight. san jose family pos posting fliers hoping, hoping that someone will come forward with information about a silver minivan or perhaps an suv that hit 18-year-old erica luna. she broke her pelvis and doctors are not sure that she will ever be able to walk again. her family offering a 2,000 dollar reward and crime stoppers adds another 1,000 dollars leading to an arrest. >> egyptian authority about freed google executive after 12 day in captivity. he's the man behind a facebook page that helped organize protestors and his arrest became a rallying point in lip ration square in cairo 30-year-old executive father of 2 says his captors treated him with respect and did not torture him. >> bounce houses are banned from park and playground. not stuff staff to deal with the permit process as well as damage to the park. head licenses tonight. >> more than 4 years after he left public life former sbingt of defense donald rumsfeld is talking about a lot. he's perhaps best known for being the architect of the 2003 invasion. but he also has a certain legacy for his style of speaking. donald rumsfeld spoke exclusively with diane sawyer. >> i have answered that question 15 times. i don't have any idea who said she said or said i'm quite you are sure. >> formidable. combative. title of donald rumsfeld memoir known and unknown is based on one of his famous lectures to a confounded press. >> as we know there are known known. things we know we know. we also know there are known unknown. that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. also unknown unknown. the ones we don't know we don't know. >> you were on "saturday night live". >> no i wasn't. >> well, >> not physically. >> remember what i spwaid your question the other day? >> that it was idiotic? >> that's right. >> i thought he was funny. >> 69-year-old secretary had been at the pentagon just 9 months on september 11, 2001. 10 years litter a central question. >> why introduce iraq after 9/11? on that very day about. >> people were trying to figure out what happened. who did it. what was going on. it was their responsibility to raise the question. >> did you drive iraq. >> no. >> into it. >> no absolutely not. >> he says it was the president himself who asked for updated war plans on iraq. because iraq had been taunting the u.s. and defying the un on weapons. and after the president request the book paint the move toward war a a kind of current gaining momentum. >> too late for sadz to remain in power. >> president and i had many discussion about war preparations. i do not recall his ever asking me l if it was the right decision. no one asked. no one polled the room saying is this the right decision. >> the president talked about it. people talked, discussed it with him. element of it and i didn't hear people feeling strongly that he should or shouldn't. colin powell was again it but i never saw that. >>reporter: sadz and had regime are concealing their effort to produce more weapons of mass destruction. >> you believe absolutely about categorically that sadz had weapons of mass destruction. >> i don't do a lot of things categorically. anyone who has been around intelligence gathering knows it can be wron wrong. colin powell has been around for longer than anybody in terms of. >>reporter: he said he was devastated. >> of course he was. everyone was. but my lord he's the guy who had more person than anyone else. he worked hard with george and rice and prepared his speech. went up to the un. he made his case. he wasn't lying. the idea that he was lying or duped is nonsense. he believed it. our military believed it. our military got chemical weapons total protect them. hillary clinton. john kerry. french intelligence. british intelligence. german intelligence. it was uniform across the board that it was reason to assume that he had chemical and biological weapon weapons. >> you were wrong my goodness the intelligence was certainly wrong. >>reporter: if you had known you did not have. >> i didn't know. >>reporter: if you had. >> i didn't. >>reporter: if you had. >> i have no idea. i have no idea. what you know today can help you on things you are thinking about tomorrow. can't help with you things were you thinking about back then. back then there was reason confidence that had he these weapons. i also will say that if president bush and i both pressed to have him leave the country at the end and he wouldn't. i wanted to avoid a war and so did the president. >>reporter: not long after sadz had been toppled iraq began to unravel. in his book rumsfield lays the blame on too many hands on the steering wheel. no coordinated plan. first the president right hand advisor in the white house condoleeza rice. >> she never served in a senior administration position. she had been an academic. a lot of academic like to have meetings. every time a big issue got before the president he was perfectly willing to make a decision. >>reporter: secretary powell? >> he did not in my view do a good job of managing the people under him. there was a lot of the leaking out of the state department and the president knew it. and it was unhelpful. most of it ended up making the state department look good. >>reporter: rumsfeld insist the generals in the field dictated the number of troops they needed. we pushed again telling him that george w. bush himself had written cutting troops as failure. >> i don't have enough confidence to say that's right. i think it is possible. i think the world is a better place with sadz gone and with the taliban gone and the al qaeda out of afghanistan. >>reporter: former defense secretary donald rumsfeld. >> president obama evoke the memory of franklin roosevelt and jchl john f. kennedy and urge businessess to do more to help the nation economy reboun rebound. he called on american executives to get in the game when he spoke to the u.s. chamber of commerce today. the chamber disagreed with with obama on several issues including the health care bill. but the president believes government and private firms share a responsibility to invest in america. >> i'm hoping that all of your thinking what you can do for america. ask yourselves what you can do to hire more american workers. what you can do to support the american economy and invest in this nation. >>reporter: the president also pointed to how fdr cooperation with corporate america help the u.s. win world war ii. and helped the middle class prosper afterward. >> president obama says the united states will welcome southern sued an to the international community in jul july. referendum shows 98 percent of resident of southern sudan voted for independent. people there had been cheering all day and all night. about so the united states will begin the process of removing sudan from the list of states that sponsor terrorism. but in return the sudan president has pledged to is accept the outcome of the vote. for decades they have been ravaged by civ war. largest nation will take place in july. >> carnival in rio is about a month away and there is some bad news. large fire destroyed a collection of warehouses where costumes and floats for the event are being made. people were seen rushing into the burning complex in an effort to salvage some of the elaborate floats as some 70 firefighters battled the blazes as bess best they co-carnival steadied for march 8. there are now concerns it simply can not go forward because of the fire. up to receive00,000 tourist attend carnival each year. >> still ahead here tonight. why employers may want to think twice before restricting workers from talking about their job and bosses on facebook. >> and redevelopment. does it stimulate the economy or waste >> and redevelopment. does it stimulate the economy or waste of your tax money. one bay >> woman who was fired for blasting her boss on facebook has reached a settlement with the ambulance company that fired her. she was let go because of a policy that prohibit workers from making disparaging comment about the company or it supervisors on line. now we don't have any details on the settlement but we could know that national labor relations board has ruled the policies overly broad. expert say this might prompt many employers to revisit the existing policies about social media that is expanding so rapidly. >> another business note tonight. aol announced today it is taking over the huffington post. one of the top 10 on line news sites. founder huffington gets 315 million dollars for her trouble. takes over management of all aol content. city of pit burg in the east bay has one of -- has one of 18 redevelopment agencies in california being reviewed now by the state controller office. governor brown has proposed eliminating redevelopment agencies all together because although they can spur mainly improvement they also siphon tax money away from schools and other public service. that attracted this overflow crowd to hearing in sacramento today and tonight laura reports on what is at stake in pittsburgh? >>reporter: build it and they will come or will they? 61,000 people pittsburgh had a one of the largest redevelopment agencies in california with an annual budget of 36 million dollars. >> i think we are about 13 or 14 in the state. on per cap to basis we are in the top 5. >>reporter: pit burg was aggressive putting 80 percent of the land independent the redevelopment zone. now long time resident cocker was early critic of redevelopment. >> i saw it. definite satelliteing. poor neighborhood. i saw them doing some very unfair things to people and reducing the stock of modest housing. >>reporter: today the focus is on the historic downtown. for the first time in 30 years pittsburgh has a bank here with a rent subsidy from the agency. senior housing project under way. there's a new elementary school. historic theaters getting a facelift. popular new mechanic ka remodelled and expanded and even a caviar store. >> people from outside the city are so envious of what is happening in pittsburgh. they come all the way to see what is happening next. >> there are critic at the do redevelopment effort. the millions spent on these project could have been better spent somewhere else. some project run into trouble despite nearly 1 million dollars in loans the owner of the restaurant here closed its doors in january. in 2008 developer defaulted on 27 million dollar bank loan. and the mix use project went into foreclosure. now all but 5 condo sold. much of the retail still empty expect for nonprofit book store. >> what you have is a moderate egg that isn't sustaining. program is where do you get demand. >> can't fight economic and government thinking they can. this is tack pair association says pittsburgh is an example of why redevelopment agency should be eliminated. >> now we have something like 88 billion dollars in debt across the state. diverting 5 billion dollars in property tax a year this could be going to schools. counties. special district. >>reporter: pittsburgh city manager says success of redevelopment can't just be measured in dollars. >> image of pittsburgh. the positive attitude people have that's a major child. >> image impressive. still not clear if anyone will come. 7 news. >> all right. ratings were super. commercials? up next. advertisers who got their money's worth. >> but some [ female announcer ] to get fresh-baked rich, indulgent chocolaty brownies you don't have to open your oven... just the refrigerator. ready-to-eat pillsbury sweet moments. find them in the refrigerated section of your store. with cinnabon cinnamon have such a sweet and delicious aroma that my family can't wait to get their hands on them. enjoy cinnabon cinnamon... now in all pillsbury cinnamon rolls. >> warm weather continues. although modifying agent bit. spencer back to update the forecast. >> last time hear me saying this for awhile. third consecutive day of record warmth. lack at the high including the new record for this date. 76 degrees in santa rosa. 73 in san rafael. 72 in oakland actually a tie for all time record for this, i shouldn't say all time. record high this date. time lapse view this afternoon from suit are camera looking at the setting sun. the sun set time this afternoon at 5:40 p.m. and days are getting longer. winds getting stronger. overnight tonight wind gusting between 25 and 30 miles per hour and into tomorrow 25 to 35 miles per hour generally as cross the bay area and then the wind will diminish a bit in the milt of the week. here's the 7 day forecast. we have a dry week come up sunny one but it is quite chilly in the morning hours on wednesday thursday and friday and temperatures will moderate a bit on saturday. few extra clouds gather on sunday and then a slight chance of rain yes rain. we haven't heard or seen that for awhile. >> wins of a chance. >> superbowl seat new record and most watched television program in u.s. history. preliminary numbers show that more than two-thirds of all u.s. households tuned in to see the game. that's 111 million people. 5 million more than last year. new orleans indianapolis game which held the previous record. and that means superbowl advertisers got their money worth. at least they hope they did. 3 million dollars for 30 second ad. one company is actually being booed over its controversial spot. arts entertainment reporter don sanchez has a look. pass pa. >> this ad tied for no. 1 according to usa ad meter chosen by viewers. >> hi guys. about. >> dog also starred in the other top commercial for bud light. >> you show up at the big game. you have to entertain. now entertain could be provocative and poignant or funny and range of humor. >> ad agency was talking superbowl ads on the owens show on kg o radio. he proud the audi ad 2 men escaping from a prison and received positive response. when it comes to sawp bowl commercials have mreing. >> -- leg. >> no other time to place an ad really good and give it the credit and attention and buzz that you get from the superbow superbowl. >> she's talking about it in the marketing classroom today. >> he even when at party and you watch them out of the corner of your eye. >> method had changed. >> gone are the day big marquis in the superbowl and done. >> you work it before and after the game commercial success is not limited by just the appearance in the game. all of them are on line now. and the appearance in the game. all of them are on line now. and the best one have staying power. go to you tube or other sites and there's the little darth volkswagen ad which topped the spot poll. chrysler 2 minute epic made in detroit was a show stopper. >> might go on line and check out a couple of them. i think the commercials are a big part of the entertainment. >>reporter: generally bad buzz over the group ad with people in tibet and ended up in a restaurant. viewers favorite spot was for snickers. based on tivo who rewound to watch it again. it was a knock out. abc 7 news. >> l how do it feel in the ad everyone is talking about today? >> well, i mean, it's huge. the kid with the force from the vw ad 6-year-old actor born with a john 10 tall heart defect but max page is okay. busy stealing a lot of hearts with the commercial. really was so cute. he moved just lake darth. we have been walking around the newsroom all day today. ever chance we get. >> he's really cute little guy. >> nice job. larry here. >> fantastic. thank you. i'm overwhelmed by the powers. this was the day after for aaron rodgers. talk about a man with power. visit to disney world and celebration ♪ [ female announcer ] why choose between delicious or 100 calories? ♪ with yoplait delights, now you can finally have both. ♪ it's the perfect parfait, with two indulgently rich layers of chocolate and raspberry yogurt and only 100 calories. yoplait delights. get rid of the "or." ing. >> coming up tonight at 11:00. power play in washington over creating an emergency off switch for the internet. and taking google under water. those stories and more in one hour on 7 news at 11:00 over on channel 7. >> we leaf the superbowl and already talking basketball. >> well for the moment. we'll talk a lot of superbowl also. warriors took a 3 game winning streak with phoenix. on steve nash birthday the warriors gave him a nice president. dash present. no defense. warriors can't do much early. hustle from david lee. he has hop but phoenix sticking the shots. fry for 3 of the 19 point. suns were up by 16 after 1 quarter. search to find some warrior highlight. with authority. there's 1. still the warriors down 17 at the break. nash turned 37 today. still do this. happy birthday to steve. 14 point. 15 assis assist. warriors finally wake up late. strong to the cup. he had 21. now 10 point game then curry driving. tear drochlt 8 point game. warriors would cut it down to 5. nash says that's close enough. pull up 3. phoenix with 13, 3 on the night and they whip it. lack luster warrior effort 10 104-92. what a journey for aaron rodgers. from a guy recruited to cal by accident superbowl mvp. pinpoint passing returned the trophy to title town leading the packers to 31-25 win over the steelers yesterday. first order of business for the mvp. fly to disney world. wave to adoring fans and hang out with micky. rest of the packers back at green bay. like a national holiday there official celebration is coming up tomorrow but tens of thousands of fans greeted the new superbowl champions celebrating their first championship sin 1997. now to put rodgers situation in perspective. you have to flash back to college day we are talking junior college. cal coach was looking at tight end at butte community college when he discovered rogers flat out fling it. then there was the draft disaster in 05. no land and 49 ers decide no this rompers guy he's too cocky for you. rodgers waited for hours and hours to hear had name called. eventually the 24th pick by green bay. >> i can learn from the greatest quarterback of our day right now and aim excited to get in the green room and back to the green and gold in green bay. >> as of this afternoon rompers still had not heard from farve not even a congratulations text message. that's okay. became obvious superbowl grave the packer made the right move in trusting the cha franchise to rodgers threw for 30 4 yards. 3 touch down. he could have had a lieutenant more if not for a bunch of dropped passes. 2 were td pass in their hands. the kid from chico talked about his path to the top. >> kind of been my career there. make the most of it opportunity t.high school junior college division i being a back up getting overlooked on draft day three years as back up. finally an opportunity. i had to make the most of it. >>reporter: he ever. local connection. joan out of san jose. three years at san jose state spartan. 5 catches. he and bishop out of cal recover the key fourth quarter fumble help the packers win the fourth superbowl. becoming tradition at the open in san jose. pete crops in for exhibition match on opening night. the facing about gale. that's my new facebook profile pick. dan once i get on the internet it's all over that thing. don't worry. look at pete here. vintage serve and volley. up 6-5 in the first set. rally. ultimate coverage stretching out and downtown line. match point here. winner 7-6 and 6-4. as if the tournament wasn't long enough. bad weather force the phoenix open into a monday finish and end up in sudden death play off. taking off the gloves and sun screen on. in the 60's today. hope it was water proof because that's where this ball is ending up. tee shot went in the water and so does this chip. triple bogey. meanwhile on 16. is 2 back of the lead. 35 footer. for bird aev. 17 to finish at main us 18. he and wilson head to play off. ahead of the second play off hole. wilson for the win. birdie. good tonight game over drive home safely. second pga tour win of the young season. worth over 1 million dollars. >> text from brett nice forecast. >> probably text me before he text rompers is that speaks volume. >> 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