Boys, aged 7 and 5 and twin 1 yearold girls all living with their grandmother. The kids were taken by their parents from the grandmothers home in los angeles at 12 30 yesterday afternoon. Police say the couple is driving a darkcolored pt cruiser with paper plates and a missing hubcap. Its not clear where theyre headed. Heres pictures of the family. They were only allowed supervised visits with the kids. The father is known for violence. If you set the car or the kids youre asked to call 911. California republicans are doing some soul searching this weekend at the partys state convention. Kpix 5 is there with what key members are saying needs to change. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. [ applause ] thank you very much. Thank you. Reporter California Republicans roared their welcome for former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice kicking off the Spring Convention and setting the tone for the partys come back. We are a party in the state of california that needs some rebuilding. But we are also a country, the United States of america, that needs some rebuilding. [ applause ] reporter rice suggests rebuilding begin with the belief in individual responsibility, opportunity and freedom. And welcoming immigrants. But theyve come because they believe that it doesnt matter where you came from. It matters where youre going. We have to continue to be a place where people who want to be a part of that dream can come. Reporter also high on the agenda, keeping key republican seats in the u. S. House and busting the democrats super majority in the california legislature. You know, were a party that understands that were the minority party. This is a party that has been in decline in this state for almost a quarter of a century. But you start by setting goals and Building Back one election at a time. Reporter party chair counts two key victories in mostly democrat areas, including electing a republican mayor in san diego. Party vice chair says people dont vote for democrats because they like their policies. No, i think people are voting for democrats because, number one, the democrats have more money and money is communications in california. They have the builtin power of the labor unions to the tune of 17 million in jerry browns bank account so that keeps talented candidates from jumping into the races. Reporter republicans we talked with say they can take back the state but acknowledge it will be a long, hard grind and wont happen right away. The Convention Wraps up tomorrow. Thousands of people from across california were at the State Capitol today to protest a controversial drilling process. [ chanting ] protesters are demanding governor jerry brown put an end to fracking. Its a process that blasts huge volumes of water and sand mixed with chemicals into the ground to break up rock formations. Its done to get oil and natural gas. Weve got a very strong component of the Democratic Party against it, yet Governor Brown is still for it. Governor has the ability to stop fracking right now. He can stop this. And this is why were here today. Reporter the protesters say fracking is using vast amounts of water and threatens to pollute water supplies. Police of searching for two thieves who stole an atm in sonoma county. They pried open the door. It happened in the cover of darkness at highway 12. The suspect strapped the atm to a van and pulled it. The owners of the gas station watched the whole thing on surveillance cameras. I ran in and it was like 4 minutes, they were in and out. A lot of work for just a few thousand dollars and not worth the time and energy and risk. The suspects used a stolen kelly moore paint van in that robbery. Tomorrow marks the two Year Anniversary of the disappearance of the sierra lamar. She vanished in 2012 outside her home. The community has never given uphope. Hundreds of volunteers have dedicated tens of thousands of hours to search for the teens body. Last year 22yearold torres was charged with her kidnap and murder. To commemorate what would have been her last year at the high school, a bench will be dedicated in her honor tomorrow. As weve been telling you, kpix 5 is sponsoring the spelling bee. We held the regional finals next door at studio b. You had a lot of fun, didnt you. As one of the judges, it was fraught with peril. We are proud to announce we do have a winner who will represent our region at the National Spelling bee in may. Todays threehour competition, heres more. Good morning. Reporter 49 top spellers from all over the bay area filed into our kpix 5 studios. They came as School Champions but only one would leave with the medal. Lets have fun. Speller number one, were ready to go. Reporter thus began more than three hours of spelling. Alkaleye. F spelling. May i have the country of origin . Latin. Reporter two hours in, more than a third of the students were gone. Eaclic. Reporter and finally after more than 300 words. All right, it would appear that we are down to a round with two spellers. Vize reporter in round 12, there was only neha konokalla. Pro konokalla. Typographical. We have a winner. Its our pleasure to send you to washington, d. C. To represent the entire bay area. Reporter neha konokalla earned the return trip to the national bee. It feels like, at first i was sort of scared whether i would go or not, but now im so glad i get the opportunity to go back. Its really big thing for me. She started on her own and were proud shes made it. Reporter the 8th grader from cupertino has already begun reading the dictionary to prepare for the national competition. As sponsors of the bay area spelling bee, well send her to the washington, d. C. Spelling bee in may. New information about the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. Why they think it now disappeared from radar screens. Hours away from a crucial vote in crimea, the world is watching. Who stopped a u. N. Resolution declaring it illegal. We are looking live, near record highs today in just wait until tomorrow. Details coming up. ,,,,,,, emerged today. Still no sign after missing Malaysian Airlines plane but a new theory as to what happened emerged today. Authorities are now saying the flight veered well off its course and flew more than six hours. Two crucial Communications Systems were shut down less than an hour after takeoff. The Prime Minister says the change in direction was no accident. This movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. Police are looking into the backgrounds of the pilot and copilot. Their homes were searched overnight for clues that would suggest foul play in the planes disappearance. To the ukraine where two people were killed and more than two dozen others arrested ahead of tomorrows referendum. They will decide whether to stay with ukraine or become a part of russia. At the United Nations today u. S. Sponsored resolution declared the referendum illegal but they used the veto power causing that resolution to fail. Russia isolated and alone blocked the resolutions passage. President Obamas National Security team is meeting tonight at the white house to keep an eye on the situation in ukraine. Elk land has been without a police chief for months. Why the search is taking so long and what its going to take to get a top cop. A fun way for students to get into math and science. Where this robotics competition is taking some bay area high schoolers. , Television Announcer mattress discounters 197 mattress sale 197 mattress sale is ending sunday. Bulldog mattress discounters 197 mattress sale Television Announcer that means sunday is your last chance to get a serta mattress any size, for just 197 each piece when you buy the complete set. 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We didnt decide to do a full National Search until the end of summer and then we did a Community Process and asked people what they wanted in the next chief. So that took through pretty much the fall. And at that time, we put out the National Search. A search firm conducts background checks. The city thought they had one, but when a company didnt meet qualifications, oakland had to start over. It seems like fun and games, but students are learning valuable skills andphotojournalist takes us to fremont where High School Students are participating in a robotics competition. Its really about teaching young people in the community about robotics in general. The robots are a lot bigger and more complicated were creating and you get a really nice feeling looking at what you accomplished. This whole competition is centered around engineering principles so this whole team acts like an Engineering Group and we work together. This gives them an opportunity to go through something that just like Engineering Team does, a lot of different ideas and then you need to be able to evaluate ideas on the merits of those ideas and how effective they are rather than my idea, your idea. Part of this competition is outreach and through our outreach, weve done a lot of demonstrations at various locations demonstrating our robots and talking to kids how to get involved. Its all about raising the awareness of science, technology, engineering, mathematics. Through this experience i learned what it is to be an engineer programming, building, and its gotten me really interested and im looking to go into an Engineering College when i get to that age. Well, the rookie team you just saw has advanced to the super regional competition which will be held in Sacramento County march 20. Whats so fun about that is those students came up with an idea. They put it together. They see if it works. Its that learn by doing philosophy that made cal poly the best university on the face of the earth. Yeah. Thank you mr. Alumnus. Thats where i graduated from. Good for them. We need the scientists and engineers. Weve got fog and low clouds along the shoreline right now. This shot will be a surprise to those of you, the east bay, most of the bay area has sunshine. Right at the shore things are cooling off as the fog and low clouds move in. Right now concord 78 degrees. Oakland 69. The temperatures will tumble close to the coast. Thats why the city only has 61 degrees. Santa rosa still at 76. South bay winds out of the west northwest to about 11. Mountain view about the same. Up in the north bay things look pretty good with winds generally light. A little bit after breeze as you head out tonight. Fog at the coast but clear skies around the bay and inland around 11 00. Tomorrow afternoon still warm. Record highs, low 80s will do it inland. Around the bay upper 70s. At the coast 70 degrees tomorrow after the low clouds burn off. High pressure offshore and built in a little bit yesterdays High Pressure reading. As a result the numbers today came up from 5 to 15 degrees around the bay area. The High Pressure peaks tomorrow and well get near record highs for sunday. As the high moves inland things will cool off. Doesnt look like rain is on the way but cooler weather is on the way for monday. Heres whats next. Well be looking for, first of all, warm day tomorrow after a mild night tonight. And it will cool off for monday. And the rest of the week looks mild. 56 degrees if youre headed all the way up 1010 to eureka. Ukiah 78 degrees. 51 at cosemi yosemite. In the east bay tomorrow low 80s will do it. Pleasant hill 79. Livermore tomorrow 81 degrees. North bay, san rafael, 74 degrees. 76 santa rosa. Far north, 80 degrees at clear lake. In the extended forecast, plenty of sunshine between now and wednesday with the usual low clouds along the shoreline. As we head toward the end of the work week, well begin to pick up more fog and low clouds along the shoreline. Well cool it off on monday. Low 70s for the rest of the week. We have looked and looked. But theres no rain in sight. So well go for a mild week ahead. Weather looks good, but sports, theyre mixing it up out there. Its all about march madness isnt it. Sunday more the men, monday for the women. We lead it off with another tournament. The pac 12 tournament. ,,,,,, female announcer what will you get with your new sleep train mattress . Man im getting a camera im getting an espresso maker im getting a new smart phone female announcer during sleep trains big gift event get a 200 best buy gift card with purchase of selected beautyrest, posturepedic or tempurpedic mattresses. Or, get 24months interestfree financing. A new tv. A laptop. A game console female announcer what will you get during the big gift event . Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep top. Pac12 business. Wl learn the ncaa tournament fe of the stanford men on sund. The Conference College basketball up top. Pac 12 business, beale learn the well learn the ncaa tournament. Lets take it to vegas. Lovely ladies of ucla, game came down to the wire. Tied at 68. Jordan adams, its a go ahead 3. That a boy. Watched from the sidelines last year in a wheelchair but he was feeling it today. Arizona still with time. Gordon, he barely hits the rim. The next time nick johnson, a block party there. No. So ucla wins the pac 12 conference championship, the tournament i should say over arizona 7571. American east championship, thats where the team mascots started fighting during play. The bout was between sony brooks mascot and albany great dane. Both mascots were eventually separated and unharmed. Albany won 6960. And with march madness less than a week away, be sure to take part in the cbs local bracket challenge to play against us and others all over the country. Go to our website for more details. Baseball the as starting rotation just dropping like flies. First Jarrett Barker and now a. J. Griffin is going to miss reportedly three weeks with tendonitis in the right arm. The good news is there will be no structural damage for griffin. So with parker and griffin out, malone and chavez will be asked to practice starting rotation to start the season. Lets get down to some play here. As and Giants Cactus League play. Matt gain roughed up for seven runs. He hadnt given them a run all spring. Went to luke botts, 81 over the giants. Paralympics games. Former u. S. Marine josh sweeney right between the pipes for the second period. Heres another look. Team usa beats russia 10 for gold. Its important for us to get going right away, because weve got tough opponents coming up. Final practice before the san jose earthquake opener tonight in santa clara. 2013 after a really slow start. The hole too deep to dig out of by the time they got hot late. So they started this season with a twocup finalists. We all saw it late tonight. A defending champion kansas city. The team mvp agrees there are nocheapies. Were getting early, starting the season off hot. But its good. Thats the way you want to do it and play against the best teams. Aaron sternaman who played the jesse character on the hit show breaking bad was in town. He and director scott wild were here to promote the action movie need for speed in theaters now. A lot was shot in San Francisco but the conversation gravitated perhaps pauls first oncamera appearance 15 years ago on the price is right. Aaron sternaman. I played a character on the price is right because i knew they wanted energy, and so i went and had a big cbs Bumper Sticker on my back. I had one of my nephews tennis shoes hanging from my belt and drank like six or seven cans of red bull and acted out of my mind. And its hilarious to watch. Thats the character ive been telling you, weve got to bring that back. Aaron, what do you bid on that . 1200 bucks. I could not sit still because of the red bull. Aaron wins. Can i do my Ellen Degeneres . Sure. We go, one, two, three. Ah, the selfy shot, got to get those. Paul by the way on that show almost won a car. He overbid by 132. Missed it by that much. Well see you again at 11 00. Your latest news and weather is always on kpix. Com. Have a good evening. Good night. ,,,,,,,, announcer the following is a paid advertisement for cold plasma subd by perricone md. How old does your neck make you look . Would you like to take years off your appearance and help remove some of the signs of aging on your neck for a look that is firmer, tighter, and more youthful . Well, now you can. Introducing dr. Perricones cold plasma subd. Subd is specifically formulated for the area called the submandibular. 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