to the moment she ended at the house, that s a period of time we don t know what happened. reporter: police issued an iowa amber alert and in the time following, he threatened violence and assaulted her daughter and then ended up at a town home where police saw him through the window with his left arm wrapped around the girl, this knife in his left hand and this pistol in his right. the s.w.a.t. team moved through and when the suspect started to fire, they moved in. as he fired at officers, they moved forward not knowing that suspect was firing blanks. the stairwell was narrow. not a lot of room to move. that shows you the skill with which the s.w.a.t. team operates. if the bullets hadn t been blanks, it would have ended differently. we would have had multiple officers shot. no question. reporter: the department had plans to speak to the 11-year-old girl today. they wanted her to have time to decompress but they say they want to know what she has to say about those
this afternoon gingrich fired back. it s such bologna. now it used to be pious bologna but now it s just desperate. reporter: a preview of tonight s face-off on nbc. the debate at south florida university in tampa. tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. on the stage will be rick santorum polling a weak third in florida and ron paul focused on other states. but one candidate s campaign may be on the line. florida is make it or break it for mitt romney. reporter: a big, diverse state where a win by newt gingrich could prove his electability. you remember before the last debate in south carolina the second of two and romney was pressed hard to release his tax returns that incidentally he says he is going to do tomorrow? gingrich asked about his returns, says he released them five minutes before. tonight we ve just learned gingrich will release his company s contract with freddie mac. no telling what it will reveal but it shows gingrich is nimble. we learned in south carolina deba
flooded roads and knocked out power to a number of bay area cities. we turn to jim bernard now for the latest on the system. are we getting a little break here, jim? a brief break setting up here at least through this morning, as rain turns to showers across the area. we will look for more rain to arrive by tomorrow. we see skies partly cloudy right now. scattered showers in and around the area, with, again, rainfall amounts yesterday in the 2 to 4-inch range. 1 to 3 inches across the greater bay area. biggest thing is the wind, heavy winds yesterday, 30 to 50 miles per hour. we ll get another system in the area tomorrow. rainfall and wind gusts should be less than what we saw, as we see the next round of rain will arrive just about in time for game time showing up tomorrow, as once again, we can expect not as much flooding as we see today across the north bay. ponding on highways and biways. traveling was a mess yesterday into last night. mill valley looking at flooding an
reporter: is the girl safe? yes. reporter: at the home on taffey court where it began this morning, family were in a rush but relieved. police say le burst into the home at 1 a.m., firing shots and kidnapping the 11-year-old girl and driving away in a minivan. a statewide amber alert was issued. police had an apartment on surveillance and spotted suspect at 1 a.m. neighbors at the scene say a nearby school was placed on code blue lockdown while officers made their move. they were hiding behind the apartments like you could say taking cover, guns drawn. but that s their job, they have to protect and serve. reporter: officers did protect one life while taking another. this is the first officer involved fatal shooting this year. last year there were four. police are saying little bit relationship between the suspect and victim but we have been told by relatives that the suspect was at the house looking for the girl s mother not finding the mother there, he took the gir
sportsmanship at the stick. he also said wear red, get loud. cheer us on and definitely be respectful. reporter: last week s nail- biting win had many 49er fans cheering. whoo! 9ers! reporter: but security cameras and undercover police officers will be in place to catch any abusive fans this weekend. we re just going to add one more twist to it that littered about candlestick park on sunday will be san francisco police officers on duty dressed as new york giants fans. so treat em right. reporter: and already, the pre-game smack talk has begun. we spank them in november. and the saints spanked them in november. so they feel they got the upper hand that they want to come over here and prove something that they can come with a win. it ain t gonna happen. reporter: there you go. as for ticket sales, allen, 49ers headquarters say watch out for the counterfeits. watch out for tickets being sold on ebay and also craigslist. they said really go with the nfl ticket ex