case constitutes more than 2 decades of failures by 3 separate governmental entity that was supposed to supervisor this man. philip garrido. john paulson is in the newsroom with details. >> the report is extraordinary. the chief u.s. district june in the bay area listing numerous ways that federal paroleg did what they were supposed to, j.c. be might have been rescued sooner. next month will mark 2 full years of freedom for j.c. dugard. she and her mother will never forget the phone call that came at the end of 18 years of captivity. >> i remember you shouting. we found her. my daughter. and i was crying. when you cray you can't speak. oh. i just said come quick. i remember saying come quick. >> and i remember tell you i'm come baby i'm coming. and the rest is a blur. >> yes. >> now two days before her exclusive abc news television appearance the chief u.s. district judge in san francisco has rae lessed a confidential 45 page report detailing how federal parole officers repeatedly botched the supervision of dugard kidnapper philip garrido. he had been on federal parole from 1988 to 1999. during which time he kidnapped young dugard from lake tahoe. judge james ware said even though he was a high risk sex offender home contact by federal parole officers were rare. >> normally you can't sue the state or federal government because of immunity. federal tort claim act under certain circumstances the federal government allows you to sue them. >>reporter: report says officers never verified if garrido had registered as sex offender. and failed to notify state and federal authorities about garrido failed drug test. former san francisco prosecutors jim hammer says there will be large hurdle if dugard decides to sue the federal government. she already has a 20 million dollar settlement with california because state agent failed to the thoroughly monitor philip georgia reed oychlt i think the federal government didn't drop the ball. they are partly responsible for the girl being held captive so long. >>reporter: we tried to reach the attorney representing j.c. but did not hear back from them. there's 2 year statute of limitation for negligence which would prawm bring expire after august 26, the date that philip and nancy were arrested two years ago. live in the newsroom, abc 7 news. thank you john. >> we are hearing from some survivors of that deadly fishing boat incident in the gulf of california. some on board are pinning responsibility on what happened to the captain and crew. this is joyed from the mexican navy of the rescue. some passengers say not only did the crew not help them as the boat was sinking they offered them no life vest. and actually pushed them away from the few small boats available. that's the claim from some. story tonight from laura anthony. >> i asked them i said have you called the coast guard. he didn't say anything. he just kept scaring at me. >>reporter: fishing boat survivor says the captain of the eric made no effort to notify authorities or fellow passengers that the boat was sinking in stormy water. hanson had his own flotation device. grabbed an ice chest and dove into the water. >> i started swimming away from the ship and the top edge of the ship started coming down at me and hit the cooler that i was trying to drag out. it didn't rollover like they say it d.it just l had the bow sticking up in the air. within 30 seconds it went straight down out of sight. gone. >>reporter: 15 hours later sunburn and exhausted hanson was pulled from the water by a passing motorboat. other survivors made it to an island and were eventually rescued and given medical treatment as shown in the cell phone image provided to abc 7 by the mexican navy. >> the captain was inept. at least to say. he should be prosecuted to an accident. >>reporter: he made it to one of the small boats that was on the eric. >> there was never any warning to us. normal was no may day. we didn't do a beacon. no flare. beacon you throw in the water. gps picks it up immediately. >>reporter: lee also survived. he's worried about those who haven't been found. >> him if they are all good people. >>reporter: barbara's neighbor bruce returned to his walnut creek home late thursday night. >> it's going to be a difficult thing i would imagine. losing friends and not knowing their whereabouts today especially. >>reporter: while survivors recover, several bay area families still wait for word on missing loved ones. >> we have to face the fact that, you know, this outcome may not end up being the way we want. so for us one place that we know for a fact hasn't been searched is inside the boat. >>reporter: so far 2200 square miles have been searched. they will be back out there tomorrow. as for how long the search will continue, the coast guard spokesman told me they will take it day by day. this is 7 news. >> dramatic fvl way to leave the scene of a rescue. menu see clinging to the rope here are trained rescuers called to help a teenager who slipped down the cliff while hiking with friend. teenager is okay. officials say he was taken to a nearby kaiser medical facility to be treated for minor injuries. this happened tonight in marin count and rescuers say they were just getting a lift back to the beach it happened red rock beach late this afternoon early this evening. >> now to the latest in a story that we first reported last night. small plane crash in watsonville. we learn today that 4 members of a santa cruz family died in that crash. there's a photo of the family taken couple years ago. david and his wife deand 2 sons luke and ryan. more now from lisa who is live in watsonville. everybody who knows this family just absolutely devastated. >>reporter: that is very true. the plane crashed in the medical office building behind me yesterday at around 7:30 p.m. today ntsb investigators were here whale family and friends mourned. hears some shots taken a little while ago. little boy who brought flowers here tonight. he was in the boy scouts with luke and ryan. the boys and parents died instantly after the moon am 20 f skidded across with the sonville community hospital parking lot and then slammed into the building. it happened soon after take off. the family of 4 was heading to grossville, california near yosemite to meet up with rest of the family when the plane crashed. >> looking at all the component that are associated with the aircraft making sure they are all here. if they are not here why they are not here. things like the weather. things like air traffic control. >> bad enough to see one of them get injured let alone die. let alone have the whole family down in one shot like this. >> david and deowned a scuba and environmental clean up company in santa cruz. they have flown with their sons several times on cross country trips and to mexico. back here live now the ntsb says it will rae lease a preliminary report in the next 10 days. but it could take up to a year for the final findings to be published. live in watsonville, l abc 7 news. all right lisa thank you. >> major league baseball said today it is shocked and sad about the death of fan at last tonight a's rangers game. and pledge to continue to ensure safe environment at big league ballpark around the country. shannon stone was reaching to grab a ball thrown to him by ranger outfielder josh hamilton when he tumbled over a railing and fell 20 feet open to the create below. it happened right in front of his 6-year-old son. 39-year-old firefighters died at the hospital short time later. the ranger have placed a tarp over the area where he fell. >> we are doing it out of respect to the family so there would be the be tl pictures taken of that area and we don't have a long range strategy on if anything is going to be done there at this point in time. >> stone and his son had again to the game hoping to catch a foul ball. they had even stopped to buy a new glove on the way to the game. >> the seats were in the left field stands just shouting distance from the favorite player, american league mvp josh hamilton. tonight hamilton is speaking about what will happened at that game. sports anchor collin is here with that story. unbelievable. >> you see it dozens of times per game. players and coaches tossing baseball that the stands souvenir. this sort of tragedy would mess with anyone head let alone with the past of josh hamilton. he isn't just any other player. you mention he's the al mvp. he's also a recovering drug addict. enter view before tonight's game with the a's hamilton told reporters what he did after shannon stone fell from the stands. >> went over to the side and asked how he was. they said he has a couple hurt arm and head but he was talking asking about his son so immediately i thought he was going to be. pl but then found out after the game that he had passed on so just a shock. i can't immanuel how l stone family is feeling. my heart and my sympathy and my prayers go out to them. >>reporter: later in sports hamilton explains why he decided to throw a ball to the stone. it was no coincidence which from hamilton perspective makes this that much harder i would think to comprehend. >> can't blame him. freak accident. what a horrible thing. thank you very much. see you later on with more. >> much more to bring you here this friday night. coming up. at least 40 percent of all teenagers are victims of it and new state law that says perpetrator can now be punishe punished. >> plus the life legacy of betty. >> and major change in the military today. fichlt i'm in the accu-weather forecast center. long awaited cooling trend is here.i'll show you how low our temperatures will go in my forecast coming up. >> 2, 1, zero, lift off. >> for the final time, the shuttle makes history. bay area people who worked on the program and what nasa plans to do now. stay with us. news at program and what nasa plans to do now. stay with us. news at finance:00 continues / >> former first lady betty ford died at the age of 93. soccer mom to 4 children. professional dancer. congressional wife and mold. but it was her work on addiction and candor about breast cancer that shaped her legacy. president obama says her courage and compassion was inspiration to millions. here's ann. he once said he was indebted to no man. only one woman his wife betty ford. as first lady she combine grace with candor. candor that was tested just months after she moved into the white house when doctors discovered she had breast cancer. and performed mastectomy her frank discussion is credited. >> women no longer are ashamed of having surgery. they talk about it. and i think this has made great progress and i feel in i have saved many lives. >>reporter: she grew up in michigan. betty bloomer as known then dreamed of become ago dancer. but in 1948 she married gerry her second marriage. he was elected to congress. moved to washington and had 4 children. when he became vice president and then president betty ford became an advocate for women's rights. after leaving the white house the former first lady shocked the nation by checking herself into a treatment facility to battle a long addiction to pain pills and alcohol. soon after she founded the betty ford center in california desert. and became a tireless advocate for those struggling with substance abuse. >> today i am a very grateful recovering alcoholic. and i know firsthand the that treatment does work. >> the center is betty ford's greatest legacy. tl she was honored by 3 former first ladies on its 20th anniversary. >> betty ford. >>reporter: and honored by the nation with a presidential medal of freedom. she had a quiet dignity on display even during the most difficult time, the passing of her husband in 2006. while the country mourned the president, she mourned her true love and partner of 58 years. looking back on her life betty ford once said it has been a great trip. abc news washington. >> pl bay area roingt another soldier in the line of duty. sergeant nick amber the fourth of san jose died in afghanista afghanistan. sergeant was killed by a rocket propelled grenade on tuesday. his father told us that he died defending his men. he was married with two young sons. amber was career soldier. he joined the military when just 20. sergeant amber was 36 years ol old. he leaves behind a wife and 2 young i sons. >> meanwhile pentagon announced today it will immediately start accepting applications from openly gay recruit and will stop enforcing the don't ask don't tell policy. today moratorium follow as ruling wednesday by the 9th circuit court of appeals in san francisco ordering the defense department to stop enforcing that law. court said that prohibiting openly gay troops is unconstitutional because it treats gay americans differently. >> and new state law says electronic cyberbullying will not be tolerated. cyberbullying prevention bill allows school officials to suspend students who post abusive message on social networking site. prior to this state anti-bullying law didn't expressly include those kinds of messages. bill author san jose assembly woman campos says cyberbullying can lead to depression and suicide and hopes this law will prevent those tragedies. recent statistics by the way show that 43 percent, 43 percent of children have experienced signer bullying. >> move to spencer. weekend is upon us and looks quite nice but different the last couple days. >> we started cooling down finally. talking about it all we can long and cooling has arrived and is going to get whole lot cooler. live view from the high definition roof top camera. we look back at the transamerica building and other buildings in downtown san francisco. you can see that we have some low clouds in the sk sky. near the coast here out over the bay but mainly clear inland. l this afternoon we had fog clinging to the coast line but sunny skies inland. high pressure did manage to get back into the mid 90's in some inland location today. mid 90's in the inland east bay. mid 90's down at morgan hill and 90 degrees even up at clover dale. 67 was the high in san francisco and 61 half moon bay. right now much cooler conditions than we have been seeing at this hour earlier in the week. 78 greets in antioch. 70 at livermore. 50's mainly around the bay although 73 at redwood city. these are the highlights. see foggy conditions on the coast and over the bay tonight. cooler area wide tomorrow and temperatures bottom out midweek next week. overnight tonight. it's mild again but we won't see low up in the 60's as we have seen in some inland east bay locations this week. mainly mid upper 50's but again still pretty mild overnight. now satellite image water vapor satellite image jet stream dipping south ward a little bit of a trough developing so our cooler pattern is developing now and is going to intensify over the next several days. 5:00 o'clock tomorrow morning we see some fog having pushed across the bay but burn back quickly to the coast line and we have that nice on shore breeze cooling sea breeze so high pressure tomorrow on the coast will be mainly in the upper 50's, 60's generally around the bay and only 80's in the warmest inland location. no 90's likely tomorrow. maybe 1 or 2 in the far north but not in the central part of our viewing area. south bay high mainly in the upper 70's to mid 80's tomorrow. 83 campbell. 85 at los gatos. peninsula we see 72 degrees. san mateo 75. redwood city 77 down at mountain view and only upper 50's on the coast. 57 at pacifica. 59 at half moon bay. downtown san francisco high of 63. 58 in the sun set district. north bay high will range from 75 at san rafael to 79 at sonoma. 84 calistoga. 90 at clear lake. 92 in ukiah a-2 location near 90 tomorrow and east bay 68 at oakland. 71 san leandro. 74 in castro valley. inland east bay high in the 80's. 82 at dublin. 84 concord danville. yaiv at pittsburgh and near monterey bay high of 67 in watsonville. 71 santa cruz and then warmer inland. gilroy 84. morgan hill 86. accu-weather 7 day forecast it will just keep on cooling down midweek next week. by wednesday thursday inland high will reach only into the mid upper 70's. upper 60's around the bay and upper 50's on the coast then at the end of the week around friday we start to warm-up just a tad, graduate warm-up as it's a graduate cool down. >> awfully comfortable. >> looks pretty good. >> thanks very much gentleman more to come tonight. space shuttle atlanta advertise is on its which to the international space station. >> and on its which to history. tonight the empty space in the heart of many bay area residents. >> also tonight. working the cat walk on new bay bridge. explain what the steeply angled ramp the orange things you are looking at are used for. l. >> and one of san francisco most popular play grounds is back open for business. stay with us. news at 9:00 back open for business. stay with us. news at 9:00 continue >> lift off. final lift off of atlantis. >>reporter: atlantis blasting off this morning at cape canaveral. launch of our nasa 135th and final shuttle mission. 4 person crew on 12 day trip to restock the international space station with spare parts and provision provisions. nearly 1 million people were on hand to witness the launch in person in florida today. tl to feel connected with the program this is certainly a bitter sweet mission. pride of course accomplishment but also some sadness. wayne reports from nasa pl in mountain view. >>reporter: when the shuttle lifted off safely this morning it was most literally the beginning of the end. [applause] this may have been the next best place to watch among friends in space freak. >> i think it's arguably the last time that i may see an american l fly into space sponsored by the u.s. government. >>reporter: if you kept count there have been 135 shuttle missions since the first in 1981. here jack boyd knew the number. he came hear in 1947. put men m space with every program since mercury. >> there is going to be risk in anything you do that is worth doing. so we have to accept a certain risk. >>reporter: but the shuttle felt different. during the life time they cost twice as much money as predicted. 2 disaster cost 14 lives and yet one legacy of the orbiter is during the 30 years our perception of space flight changed from miraculous to almost mundane. even though it never was. when will you breathe your last sigh of relichlt when the shuttle is on the ground. >>reporter: frank runs the wind tunnel at nasa aims. when engineers learned how foam damaged the heat pile on one flight this is the man who took a model into the tunnel who made a potentially life or death call. >> within 24 hours we brought sample of the tile here from florida, prepared for the test. ran it test conditions that the shuttle would encounter and atmospheric entry and certified that it would survive. >>reporter: it was like that but not here not after 135 missions. 21,000 orbits and 500 37 million miles traveled and still counting. from nasa aims in mountain view, 7 news. >> and nasa aims will escape the job cut hitting other nasa centers because of the end of the shuttle program. it estimates that 9,000 jobs will be lost in all. nasa says for the next few years it will leave the business of flying rocket to private companies. meanwhile it will turn its next to sending human to asteroid by 2025. abc 7 continues tonight. british scandal reaches no. 10 downing street. >> right and proper to establish a full public inquirey to get to the bottom of what happened. >> british prime minister and high profile arrest and growing scan scandal over tabloid newspaper. >> we still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do. >>reporter: president obama and today's dismal unemployment report. washington tries to find reasons for the bleak numbers, one bay area businessman says the solution