Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News On KOFY 7PM 20131207 : compar

Transcripts For KOFY ABC7 News On KOFY 7PM 20131207

State news agency announced the country deported merrill newman. Authorities arrested him october 26th. Last week north korea released a video claiming newman apologized for climb krooims committed during the korean war. Newman belonged to a secret military group and aided guerrillas during the war. No word when he is returning in the United States but he is leaving north korea. Good evening. Well talk about the weather. The next wave of weather was enough moisture and freezing air to turn mountain tops white with snow. Here you can see that snow has accumulated today along highway 29 where the plows have been dispatched there is more still to come. The cold front moves south. North, highway 101 has been closed because of snow and estimated time so far on when it might reopen. And here you can see the plates that forms on a windshield. Here is video sent to you report showing how some species thrive in this weather. A humming bird taking a very cold shower. Take a look at whats happening now with spencer christian. A new winter storm alert just issued. Snow levels down to 1500 feet. Sheer look at live doppler seven hd. You can see weve got a wintery mix. Raining in areas and snow now coming down a bit to middle of the elevations. Taking a look at our Winter Weather advisory now, were going to have snow not just 2500 feet but 1500 feet in bay area mountains talking about Santa Cruz Mountains and now, north bay mountains are included. 2 to 4 inches of snow accumulation for 1 00 a. M to 10 00 a. M tomorrow you can tell snow arrived head of schedule wech may get more. Ama . Thank you. The celled snap led to the deaths of four people in the south bay from hypotherm hypothermia. Reporter Health Officials dont want to lose more people due to cold weather which is why theyll be reaching out to the homeless, since november 28, 4 homeless men died from hypothermia in santa clara county. One in an off garage and three others at lincoln avenue under a freeway, another under a bridge at highway 87 and a 3 at kurtner avenue. In response, three emergency shelters will be open and there will be more beds. They say workers will be more of an effort. Many of you know homeless right now. Theyre by your churches tell them to come inside. This is very serious. Outreach workers know many will insist on staying outside. Live in san jose, abc7 news. Abc7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman is live again tonight. The heaters are going out, too. This is about the things this, is about things we take for granted in life. Coming home its cold inside of the houchls you think first, you think im going to go to my thermostat and turn on a heater. You hit a bull butt onand again, what if it doesnt work . Especially on a night like this . Many parts of the world a morning in 30s will see balmy. And perfect for, say, buying a christmas tree. This idea of cold could be a matter of conditioning. Do you like cold . Yes. Yes. Its fun . Yes. Do you answer questions together . Yes. Yes. Theyve been calling repairmen like this heating expert fixing problems like this. That is it. Its not magic. Its like murphys law. In this case, an expansion tank. In others insulation problems and in this world, issues with a fourstair heating system. You wait until it breaks, then, you call. Then make sense of mind bending explanations. You replace the board. When parts work hard yes, stuff goes wrong. Then, when you get a heat wave, what happens . Air conditioning goes up. And a power outage sent some residents into a deep freeze. Power restored to all but a few dozen folks at this point. But 4100 customers lost electricity this morning including three skoochls they had to move students to sunniest and warmest classrooms. Its probably about 25 degrees in there. Because i know its about just shy of 30 here. And in there, its colder. This is a cement. Also calling a Financial Hardship for businesses like huckel berrys cafe. This is painful. Yes. Friday is a big day. So this is painful. And our hours are only 7 00 to 3 00. Its going to be a bad day for us. Tough break. Pg e says its caused by failure of an underground cable. Hard freeze is threatening our citrus crop. Growers have been spending the night in orchards and launching an aerial attack. Says you can see right there. Can you see . Peter anderson points out leaves now brown from the cold. We spoke to the grower he had been awake keeping an eye on his citrus. That looks good he hopes this will pay off after the area fell victim to freezing temperatures last night, for the first time in years anderson deployed this helicopter on stand by to act as a flying wind machine. I have Radio Communication with helicopters. Telling him, hey, do you see . Come here. Make a few passes yeah. Hell fly there. It will jump to 30 degrees. I move and work the areas. About 15 feet up, sometimes, lower. The helicopter spreads warm air above frees. In his career he says hes only using the helicopter a handful of times. When temperatures hit low numbers he pays closer attention to lemons and says sugar acts as antifreeze. So less you vshgs the likely sit to get freeze damage. This is high dollar lemons this year has been a great lemon year, so far. We want to keep it that way. You snow he ask sd not expect to fly tonight but does tomorrow night when temperatures are forecast to get cloe. Still, another all nighter for him, tonight. Weather caused problems for searchers in id. Theyve scaled back a search for a missing Silicon Valley pilot and family. The plane went down on a plane going to butte, montana. Some ground crews were still searching for the plane today but their operations have been limited. Mittsing are dale smith with his son, daughter, daughter in law and daughters fiancee. 25 to 30 friends have gathered and some are helping in this search. Weather forced relocation of the annual pearl harbor day. The beacon lit every year to commemorate at tack they shut it off during world war ii so it wont atrack attack planes because of the threat of snow it will be lit during an event to be held at concord campus tomorrow at 3 45 p. M. And dont wait until the storm passed to get the weather app. Still ahead here tonight at the way your children are learning in school. Youre going to meet people behind this revolution. A man grabs a suitcase after a long bus trip, leaving his own behind. A doctor helping omg, jack. Have you ever checked out these new product ideaeas people post on your page . Theyre kind of amaze. Ing. Yeah thats where i got the ideas for my new fajita ranch melt. Seasoned chicken with a gooey blend of pepper jack cheese, roasted peppers and onions, on toasted sourdough for just 3. 99. Is that where you also got the idea for that clock bracelet you always wear . My watch . No. These were invented a long time ago. Like in the 80s . Most of us had to adopt to the internet. Its all young people have known. But schools are racing to find education modern and connected and this week, efforts got a boost from two of the influential names in tech. Here is abc7 News Reporter jonathan bloom. When mike goes over trouble spots, take a rubber stylus, equalling a classroom full of kids paying attention. This engages kids. You can see their eyes open. When seeing this on the big screen these kids are Digital Natives and this is their world. But never mind ipads. One of the important ingredients is one you cant see. A blazingly fast internet connection. A luxury half of the schoolses in the county dont have. They have 500 in the case of this school over 800 kids. Even is the head of the education super highway. Out to change that with serious hip help. I think what theyve realized is that were at a Tipping Point now. Marchwell envisions a world where dozen was stream individual yeet once using world events as teachable moments but the super highway has to find which schools need an upgrade, connect with grand money and give help spending it in the best way possible. Saying investing is good for Silicon Valley. If theyre going to have the work force we need to be investing in our web site schools. Oning girls quincenera dream got a boost today the 14yearold from daily city is battling salivary cancer the cancer is life threatening. Shes been busy going to treatments and couldnt plan for the birdie. She got a dress and shoes, too. Its a very warm feeling that people there are there to make other people feel better. The campaign raised 6. 5 million to grant wishes to children. I will be hosting an event tomorrow called braft bay. And the mini caped crusader bat kid will be there. Miles scott a 5yearold cancer survivor. Tomorrow miles will reunite with the police chief for that fundraiser so other kids will see their wishes come true. That is great nice to have bat kid back, too. An injured bird released back into the wild today the bird is a california gull, found emaciated in august. And the center from Silicon Valley discovered it had a federal identification band on its leg. And was bagged in Mountain View 28 years ago. Remarkable. So spencer is here to tell us more about the rain. Yes. Yes. So i can tell you about snow first. Taking a look at live doppler seven hd. Highway 101 closed to north bay traffic. So Higher Elevation as above 2000 feet were seeing snow and rain. Pushing south ward. Here is a live view from our sutro tower camera. 49 degrees now in San Francisco. Los gatos and half moon bay. Another live view from our camera looking westward you can see clouds moving in. And some rainfall. Mid 40s in livermore. And a live view, interesting with what looked like rain drops. Looking out towards bay bridge, these feature as cross the region, snow levels down to about 1500 feet. So here is an image of the cold rain. Starting at 9 00, 6 00 this evening. And rain already here. And into 9 00 more wide spread rainfall and of course snow will with lowering as well into elevations of 1500 to 2500 feet. By 11 00 rain beginning to taper off. I want to get to morning so rain will be out of here. By morning a wider area of a break that is confined to the north bay. That changes rain to snow by mid day, well see clearing, partial clearing sunny skies into afternoon. But will be chilly talking about our Winter Weather advisory in effect now until 6 00 tomorrow morning also from 2 to 4 inches of accumulating snow. A winter storm warning from Mountain View into sierra. Its going to be a major winter storm for areas. Low temperatures upper 30s to around 40. Highs maybe up to 50 in oakland. Cold warnings continuing throughout monday. Temperatures moderating into next week. Look for snow. You might see it. Thank you. Coming up here next an important snap shot of the jobs picture in this country. Signs u. S hey, thats the last crescent oh, did you want it . Yeah. Well split it. [ female announcer ] made fresh, so light, buttery and flakey. Thats half. Thats not half guys, i have more. Thanks, mom. [ female announcer ] do you have enough pillsbury crescents . Guys. [ female announcer ] pillsbury cinnamon rolls, with cinnabon cinnamon, are an irresistible sunday morning idea. Nothing calls them to the table faster. Make breakfast pop employers added 200,000 people to payrolls driving the Unemployment Rate down to 7 . That is a five year low and a sign the economy is now beginning to ramp up after the Great Recession in a long, sluggish recovery. Other signs, nearly a quarter of the november job growth came in manufacturing and construction. Those are good paying jobs, too. And hourly pay sup. Average wage earner making 24. 15 per hour, working 34. 5 hours per week. Down side is that 4 Million People have been out of work six months or longer and percentage of adults working or looking for jobs is near a 35 year low. Nasdaq is up almost 30 and google up to a alltime high. Apple demanding more money tonight, a jury concluded apple owes for stealing patented features, apple asked a judge for an extra 22 million for legal fees and other costs. And barns and noble disclosed the government is looking at its books arcs kting books the investigation from an employee allegation of an improper allocation of expenses between barns and noble retail segment and unit that makes the nook e reader. Coming up next tonights breaking news. A bay area man now relesioned from north korea. Youre going to hear from i love watching tv outside. And why can you move the tv out here . The wireless receiver. I got that when i switched to uverse. But why . Because its so much better than cable. Its got more hd channels, more dvr space. Yeah, but i mean, how did you know . I researched. No, ii told you. No. Yeah no. The important part is that youre happy now. And i got you this visor. You made a visor yes that ill never wear. Ohh. [ male announcer ] get uverse tv for just 19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. Rethink possible. The elderly palo alto veteran detained in noshg has been released. Merrill newman was freed on humanitarian reasons and because he apologized last week, pyongyang released video of that video. North Korean Police arrested him for what they said were war crimes. He reportedly tried to contact members of the unit on his trip. No word yet when he will arrive back in the United States but left north korea. As the contribute United States continue to pour in tonight from around the world and n. Praise of Nelson Mandela, details of the funeral have been released flowers and candles piled up outside of his home. Sunday is a national day of prayer. Tuesday, a memorial will be held. President eastbound yauma and former president bush will fly together to south africa. In spring 1985 students led a protest that will bring change to south africa. Two students helped divestment against apartheid. A few students thought its time for their university to follow. They did. So did other universities. These papers typed by students with a plan. The year was 1985. Nancy skinner was the leader of the committee. Student leaders and Community Leaders did initiatives. So there is this activism. There were daily rallies students began camping out until police staged a raid arcs resting dozens. One of the leaders of the demonstrations was student body president who spoke to us via skiep. All that is left of the future is now. The movement gained a lot of attention and interest of lawmakers. And pro fessors. Ask a question what the hell is the university of california doing making process of a slave system in 1986 . Then willie brown addressed the crowd helping convince regents to help withdraw the university in businesses strayed treyeding with south africa. And first vet was a regent vote that caused california to become the identifiable capitol of the movement to kill apartheid. Former california George George duekmedjian decided it was a good political move to support divestment. Now, a memorial will take place in the rotunda at city hall on wednesday. Thank you. The reverend Cecil Williams is speaking tonight about Nelson Mandela among a host of leader whos met mandela. Five years earlier he had been arrested on the berkeley campus. He made it work. Well, he is the kind of person that may have spoken softly, he was able to be a statesman and bring people together. Stay with us for a special edition of 2020 tonight at 10 00 still to come megabus offers cheap tickets to los angeles but what about Customer Service . Michael finney talked to a man who d seven on your side told you about the megabus. Michael finney is here with the story. The ride is terrific. Terrific. A double decker bus, wifi. The problem is what happened when he got off. You may have seen them on the roads. Megabusz whisking passengers to cities across north america. Fernando from San Francisco says its easier to hop a bus than fly to los angeles only 60ss today l. A. And back. I was tired. Handlers unloaded the suitcases like they always do. I just wanted off. He grabbed a suitcase from the side walk and headed home. There is a bunch of girls things in there. He picked thup bag. Looking like his own. Someone out there missing her stuff, what about sniz. I called megabus within minutes to let them know. He offered to run back and make the switch but no a clerk told him to send an e mail to lost and found in new jersey. Is there anyway to move faster . He said this is the protocol. No one would say whose bag he had. There were pictures that i had gotten. And that meant something to me. Chamberlain says an agent mixed up bag descriptions saying this bag would have been driven back to l. A. Next thing got the call. They said we found your luggage. Its here. People picks up the wrong suitcase. Kit happen. Its easy to do. Here is his bag. Here is the one grabbed by mistake. Its owner still unknown. Fernando is glad to have the stuff back. Like christmas. Not only did the company pay to ship back to him but offer aid free trip to los angeles. Company says tag your bags okay. Thank you. Coming up next a doctor helping researchers develop a helping researchers develop a new soon, californians from to salinas to san diego will have equal access to Quality Health insurance. 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