good morning, america. this morning, held hostage. it's now a race against the clock to free that american taken captive in somalia. u.s. negotiators now working to free him. after that daring rescue days ago, tensions and distrust are higher than ever. and prison break. the infamous dougherty gang, the three young siblings are caught trying to break out of jail. their audacious plot right out of "the shawshank redemption." and they almost pulled it off. desperate call. we have the dramatic 911 call. as demi moore suddenly collapses in her home. >> is she breathing normally? >> no, not so normal. more sort of shaking and convulsing to me. burning up. >> what the tapes reveal about what may have caused her

collapse. and the ultimate ripple effect. how did a cat named ripples stop this flight from taking off? an entire plane evacuated. passengers beyond annoyed. and this cat, happily hiding in the cockpit. good morning, this ripples story so divisive, so polarizing. if you like cats, you feel bad for this little guy. if you don't like cats, like somebody i know on this broadcast, then this confirms your worst suspicions. >> i'm not going there. but i do have to say for people that travel a lot, have to wait for hours on the tarmac -- cat, dog, cute kid, i would be annoyed whatever it was. >> fair enough. we have news this morning.

this is a huge weekend in florida. the crucial republican primary just days away now. newt gingrich is fighting back with one of the toughest anti-romney ads we have ever seen. this is a big turnaround from a candidate that not long ago was embracing the 11th commandment of ronald reagan, thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow republican. two more teens in upstate new york have come down with strange, unexplained symptoms including uncontrollable tics and outbursts. now the real erin brockovich is getting involved. what does she think is behind it all? we hear from her coming up. >> as you said, a huge medical mystery. they do not know what is causing that. and with eight days to go before super sunday. here it is. the first official super bowl controversy. this morning, a sneak peek at this careerbuilder.com tv ad featuring those chimps that a lot of people find very funny. now a hollywood star and a whole bunch of zoologists say this ad

is not funny at all. we'll tell you why coming up. >> an interesting controversy there. first to ron claiborne with the developing stories this morning. good morning, ron. >> good morning to you, dan and bianna. good morning, everyone. it's a race against time to try to save an american journalist being held hostage in somalia. u.s. officials are deep in negotiations to try to free the man. abc's kelly cobiella joins us with the latest. from sigonella air base in italy. good morning, kelly. >> reporter: good morning, ron. jessica buchanan is still here at sigonella air and naval base with her family, recovering from her ordeal. just four days after that dramatic rescue, u.s. officials are involved in tense negotiations today to free yet another american held hostage in somalia. he's a journalist and an author. we have blurred his face at the family's request. he was in somalia researching a book on piracy when a group of

heavily armed men kidnapped him last weekend. since buchanan's rescue, he's been moved. they've moved him at least three time. they're threatening to kill him if there's another rescue attempt. u.s. officials are talking to third parties today. they're hopeful he'll be released unharmed. but no doubt, buchanan's rescue has made it more difficult to free him. ron? >> thanks, kelly. kelly cobiella reporting from italy. and a second man convicted in a deadly home invasion in new england was sentenced to death. joshua komisarjevsky was convicted of killing jennifer hawke-petit and her daughters after tormenting them. his accomplice has also been sentenced to death. and the so called barefoot bandit was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison by a federal judge in washington state. for his two-year crime spree. colton harris moore stole planes and boats. as he made his way across north america. he apologized to his victims. he will serve his time concurrently with state prison time. and facebook could file papers to go public as early as next week. in what could be one of the

biggest ipos ever. "the wall street journal" reports that facebook could raise as much as $10 billion -- billion dollars. that would value it at $100 million. about the same as mcdonald's. kentucky's governor is promising to promptly fix a bridge after a cargo boat slammed into it. the governor is probably not going to do it by himself. leaving a 300-foot wide gap on the bridge. the ship was covered by twisted steel and asphalt after colliding with the bridge late thursday night. no injuries reported on the bridge or to the boat. and finally, a bus driver slams the media. literally. during a press conference in cincinnati, check this out. a bus hit a parked news truck. the driver jumped off the bus and made sure everybody knew who to blame. >> two were injured on the side. >> if you would have moved out of my way, i wouldn't have ran into these cars. we still have a job to do. and i understand, you all got a

job to do. but i got a job to do. i got passengers on this bus. >> all right. >> sounds like my bus driver the other day. the press conference was airing live on several television stations at the time. gave them an earful, too. >> good for her. she's got a job to do. >> he was cool about it though. >> you mean the guy at the presser? >> i don't think that guy knew what to do. all right, ron, thank you. to the latest on the road to the white house. "your voice, your vote." florida is heating up. with just three days until the critical primary there. the latest poll shows mitt romney is surging and newt gingrich stalling. gingrich is not going down without a fight, launching one of the nastiest ads yet. jon karl is in pensacola this morning. this is a tactic newt said he would avoid just a few weeks ago. so what's happened? >> reporter: this race has gotten nastier on both sides. it's also gotten volatile. just a week ago, gingrich, fresh off the landslide victory in south carolina looked like he was headed towards a win here in florida.

but now it is mitt romney who is the candidate on top. mitt romney is starting to feel like a front-runner again. >> i'm looking forward to debating barack obama. i'm not going to worry about the crowd. i'm going to make sure we tell the truth to barack obama and get him out of the white house. >> reporter: in two strong debate performances this week, romney pushed back hard against attacks from newt gingrich. >> the idea that i'm anti-immigrant is repulsive. don't use a term like that. >> reporter: in a new poll of florida republicans, romney has jumped ahead with a nine-point lead. campaigning in cape canaveral, on florida's space coast, which has been hit hard by budget cuts, he says the space program is important but wouldn't make promises to expand it. >> in the politics of the past, to get your vote in the space -- on the space coast, i would come here and promise hundreds of billions of dollars. or i would lay out. yeah, you want to hear that. yeah. >> reporter: that's a far cry from gingrich. earlier this week, he made this bold promise. >> by the end of my second term,

we'll have the first permanent base on the moon. it will be american. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: john mccain, campaigning for romney, ridiculed gingrich's plans for space. >> i think we ought to send newt gingrich to the moon and mitt romney to the white house. what do you think? >> reporter: gingrich is being pummeled by negative ads. >> sanctioned for ethics violations, newt gingrich resigned from congress in disgrace. >> reporter: and he's being outspent nearly 7 to 1 by romney in florida. gingrich is hitting back with his own harsh ad. calling romney dishonest. >> what kind of man would mislead, distort, and deceive just to win an election? this man would. mitt romney. >> reporter: late yesterday, sarah palin jumped to gingrich's defense. she said that romney's allies are trying to quote crucify gingrich and using stalinesque tactics.

to distort his record. >> are there any other big names coming to newt's defense other than sarah palin? >> reporter: the short answer is no. it's been an incredible avalanche from the republican establishment. members of congress. former republican presidential nominees like john mccain and bob dole, all attacking gingrich. defending romney. gingrich has been lonely on the other side. sarah palin his only real prominent defender out there. >> i guess the real question, is all of this nastiness and infighting starting to frustrate republican voters? we'll see in the next few days. jon, thank you. >> and make sure to watch abc's "this week" with george stephanopoulos tomorrow. newt gingrich will be a guest on the show. dan? >> meanwhile they're cheering in the white house, i would imagine. moving on now, if you're going food shopping this weekend, two big stories you need to know about. if you're buying steak or hamburger meat, get ready for rising prices. we're going to get to that in just a moment. first, lisa stark is here with new worries about orange juice. what's going on? safe to

sit down and drink your orange juice this morning, dan, according to government health officials. but there's concern. the fda has been scrambling to test our orange juice after reports of a pesticide that is illegal in the u.s., but is allowed in other countries, was showing up in some of our imported juice. that pesticide is used in brazil, for example. brazilian imports come here, they get mixed with the domestic juice and end up on the shelves. the fda has tested 40 samples. they have found that 11 of them are positive. five from brazil, six from canadian manufacturers. they've found just trace amounts. very small amounts. but this is enough to keep the shipments out of the country. >> if this pesticide is illegal, why shouldn't we be worried about drinking orange juice? >> reporter: well, what the fda is telling us the levels

they're finding are so small, trace amounts, much lower than what we would be concerned with from a health standpoint. it raises a lot of questions about the imported food supply and what we do and do not know. the fda is not done with testing. there are at least 40 samples more to go. we'll have to see what they find in those samples. >> again, the o.j. is safe to drink this morning. lisa stark, thank you for your reporting. now to the sticker shock at the meat counter. the price of beef is soaring. it's about to get worse. what can you do about it? david kerley is at the wagshal's supermarket in washington, d.c. with more. david, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. it's not the poultry or the pork here. it's the beef that is shooting up in prices. this, really, is just the beginning. it's sticker shock at the meat counter. >> it's been tremendous increase in beef prices lately. >> reporter: every month butchers are putting new price

tags on beef. >> increase in beef has been in the works for the last year and a half. >> reporter: look at this. in the past five years, the price of hamburger, ground beef, has jumped from $2.87 a pound to $3.55 a pound. a 24% increase. and if you would like a steak on the barbie, a 14% jump. from $5.29 a pound to more than 6 bucks. the reason is simple. just not enough cattle in our country anymore. in fact, you have to go all the way back to the cold war, when harry truman was president to find the last time the number of cattle in this country was this low. what happened? five years ago, feed and other costs took off. so cattlemen started cutting their herds so they could make a living. then last summer, the drought multiplied that reduction. >> it's not only caused many producers to liquidate their cattle. we're seeing a shortage of feed. therefore driving the price of producing these animals to go up. >> reporter: and there's another problem. we're not the only ones who like steak.

the rest of the world likes steak, too. exports were up 21% last year. they're expected to stay up this year. the price is only expected to go up. dan, if you like a steak or a hamburger, put some in the freezer now. even though the price is high now, it's going to get even higher. >> i think he's speechless. i'll take that. thank you, david. i'll take it from here. we're going to turn to the medical mystery in upstate new york. two more girls are now reporting simple symptoms of an illness that so many are complaining of. they're displaying symptoms similar to tour rrette's. this morning, they have a new ally, erin brockovich, who thinks she may know what's behind it all. we have more from linsey davis. >> reporter: it's a medical mystery that seems to be spreading. 14 girls and 1 boy, all from this same upstate new york high school, suddenly exhibiting odd tics, verbal outbursts, fainting spells. >> i've never heard of anything

like this. >> reporter: now a new twist. erin brockovich, the crusader famously xxx trayed by julia roberts is getting involved. >> anything less than that is a waste of our time. >> i have had an outcry of e-mails from the people of the community. >> reporter: lydia parker was the sixth teenager in this rural town to come down with the strange symptoms. throughout our interview her right arm continually jabs the air. >> i can't stand for more than about two minutes. so i'm in a wheelchair. and my vocals and -- everything gets bad at night. >> reporter: what most frustrates you? >> that i don't have any answers. i've been -- i've been doing tests and tests and tests. >> i, personally, have never seen anything like this before. >> reporter: dr. jennifer mcvige has treated most of them. she believes this is a form of mass psychogenic illness.

a rare but real disorder. brockovich has another theory. in 1970, a ton of chemicals was spilled from a train just three miles from the future high school. >> there are other people coming out reporting that they lived close to the spill site, that their family is experiencing health problems. >> reporter: lydia doesn't believe the cause is environmental or psychological. but to people who think she's faking, she points out the two bruises on her face. >> this one is from fainting. and i hit my head on my bed post. and this one, i ended up hitting myself in my face with my phone. >> reporter: as for brockovich, her team will be in new york this week to investigate the possible threat for themselves. >> when you're involved in children's health and a situation where there is a ground water contamination that agencies do not respond to for 20 years, we need to come together to try to find some answers. >> reporter: for "good morning america," linsey davis, abc news, leroy, new york. >> so strange. here's another story.

with hollywood overtones. remember the dougherty gang. the three young siblings accused of going on a violent, nationwide crime spree. they were finally busted and put in jail. now we're hearing about an audacious jailbreak attempt. abc's newest correspondent muhammad lila is here with a report. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. great to be here. this is a scene straight out of "the shawshank redemption." prison officials were able to foil this plot before it happened, thanks to a random search of dylan dougherty's jail cell. >> fired from the passenger side of the vehicle. >> reporter: it was a crime spree worthy of bonnie and clyde. now the story of the infamous dougherty gang has a new twist. an escape plan better than hollywood. [ sirens blaring ] remember this scene in "shawshank redemption" where the main character breaks out of

jail through a plumbing pipe? police say dylan dougherty was trying the same thing. when officers looked in his cell they found a plumbing pipe that was disturbed. behind the pipe the insulation was torn out. they followed the pipe to the ceiling. they found footprints all the way over to the female cells. that's where dylan's sister, lee grace, was being held. inside her cell, they found a handwritten note from dylan telling her to pack her things because he was breaking them out. he left a note to his own captors telling them -- i've enjoyed staying here. don't take this personal. >> i'm not surprised in the least. it goes to the showy immaturity. that i have seen in a number of criminals where they want to outfox everybody and they want to make it sort of grand and glorious. >> reporter: the doughertys made headlines last year. after a week-long manhunt. starting with a high-speed chase and shootout in florida. >> over 100 miles an hour at this time. >> reporter: police say they went on to rob a bank in georgia

before crashing their getaway car in another shootout with police in colorado. all three are facing attempted murder and assault charges. big brother dylan faces one more. conspiracy to escape. >> you don't get much attention locked up in a cell day in and day out. but escaping you're back in the middle. you're back in the movie, so to speak. >> police say he left another note. this one to the fbi telling them that by the time they found him, he would be long gone. if you're wondering where the doughertys are, all three are still behind bars. but dylan is now being kept in a jail 45 miles away from his other siblings. >> i liked the other note. i like staying here, don't take it personally. thank you, muhammad. >> let's check the forecast with ginger zee. good morning to you. >> good morning to both of you. good morning, everyone. one of my favorite things when i was studying meteorology was a huge snowstorm and we would get the day off. snow days. you have heard of those. how about a wind day? let's start with some video out of san bernardino. cal state canceled classes in san bernardino.

up to 75-mile-per-hour gusts. the santa ana havoc going to continue today. let me show you the wind warnings in effect. high wind warnings through the red color there. that means that fire risk is at a high point as well. let's talk about wind at a more concentrated nature. tornadoes. we have had 74 already in january. that's more than three times the average for january. one happened yesterday in florida. the first for that state this year. just a little bit of damage to show you from that. that's in south florida, near naples. and some video there from our affiliate. so thank you for that. i want to leave you with a look at the national forecast. a lot of folks are asking is this mild stuff in the northeast going to stick around forever? the answer is no.

>> yesterday was a pretty mild day along the east coast. a lot of people got into the 60s from d.c. to new york. then a front moved through. the picture from annapolis shows this well. that's a fog bank. as the front comes through, that often comes in front of it. great pics there. a lot of folks in chicago saying, hey, we miss that snow already. we wanted to give you another look. right in front of wrigley field. thank you so much. you can find me at ginger on twitter.

>> i saw a fog bank over new york. i want to get your thoughts on this next story. dan, we know what he thinks. imagine your flight is delayed for hours, the entire plane evacuated. security and maintenance everywhere. you're livid. then you find out who the culprit is. it's this guy, ripples the cat. how mad are you now? dan kloeffler has more on this feline saga. >> reporter: not weather. not mechanics. not snakes on a plane. >> let's go! >> stay here. >> reporter: but a cat in the cockpit grounded a flight from halifax to toronto. >> you're free, baby. free at last. >> reporter: after cat walking through security, debbie and 10-year-old ripples made their way on to the plane. just as the cabin door was about to close, ripples decided to make the most of his nine lives. not happy with his seat in coach, ripples darted his way to the front of the plane to see why first class is the cat's --

[ meowing ] >> reporter: security apparently left his cage partially open. letting this cat out of the bag for some hair-raising high jinx. >> some people tried to catch him up front in first class. he took off into the cockpit and nestled down. >> reporter: refusing to come out of the control panel, ripples ignored the cat calls of people trying to coax him out. >> here ripples, here ripples, here ripples. >> reporter: the tower grounded the flight. passengers were delayed by more than four hours. >> i don't want to embarrass you, lady, but that was messed up. >> reporter: crews tried to get hold of this cat-astrophe. >> they had to go inside of the plane, the electronics department, move a bunch of pieces of the plane. chase the cat out. >> reporter: everyone caught another flight and managed to land on their feet. but this high-flying feline has been grounded. >> this is his first trip. and his last. he's not flying anymore. >> reporter: for "good morning america," dan kloeffler, abc news. >> i'm siding with the cat. >> it's not the owner's fault. security left it unlocked. that cat may need to be in

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medical emergency this week at her beverly hills mansion. now that the tape of the 911 call is released, there are questions about what the troubled star was doing with her oldest daughter and her friends. tanya rivero has more. good morning tanya. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. a pretty harrowing call. it does seem to place rumer willis, her daughter, there at the scene. during the chaotic ten-minute call, several friends pass around the phone, frantically pleading for an ambulance. no one seems to have a real handle on the situation. all while moore apparently has difficulty breathing, cannot speak, and is suffering convulsions. >> is she breathing normally? >> no, not so normal. more sort of shaking, convulsing to me. but burning up. >> what did she take? >> some form of, i think, an -- and then she smoked something. i didn't really see. >> okay. >> um -- she's been having some issues lately with some other stuff. i don't know what she's been taking or not. >> reporter: the emergency call came monday night after moore hosted a party at her home where

tmz reports she inhaled nitrous oxide oxide. also known as laughing gas or whip-its. in the call, her friends say she then smoked a different, unidentified substance. >> she smoked something. not marijuana. it's similar to incense. she seems to be having convulsions. >> the kinds of substances we're talking about here aren't used alone. whether it's k 2, nitrous, spice, alcohol, stimulants. they all kind of go together. and seizure is not uncommon. >> reporter: at the beginning of the tape you hear -- >> sir, this is an emergency. you need to get here as soon as possible. >> ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, i'm trying to get the address. you're in beverly hills? >> yes what is the address, ru? >> reporter: ru could be rumer willis. demi's 23-year-old daughter. it could place her at the scene, and perhaps partying with her 49-year-old mother. >> we're seeing demi moore break down in front of our eyes. and we know that she was partying with her daughters who

are much, much younger. there are reports she was doing whip-its. it's a drug teenagers commonly use. she's not just behaving like a woman in her 30s or 20s, she's actually behaving like a teenager. >> reporter: all of this comes on the heels of the collapse of her six-year marriage to ashton kutcher, who just returned to l.a. from brazil where he was shooting a commercial and hitting the nightclubs. in the current issue of "harper's bazaar" moore shares her post-breakup fear. what scares me is that i'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that i'm not lovable. by the end of the roughly ten-minute call, the ambulance arrives. moore seems to be recovering. >> she's breathing fine. she's not convulsing. and she's breathing fine. she seems very calm. she's leaning up and started talking quiet. >> reporter: her reps say moore was hospitalized for exhaustion. doctors tell us the e.r. will not admit a patient who is exhausted. that is not a medical diagnosis.

because of her condition, moore pulled out of filming the upcoming movie, "lovelace." she was set to play the feminist icon gloria steinem. it looks like sarah jessica parker will replace her. >> disturbing tapes. you could hear her friends saying she was going through personal strife as well. very touch. tanya, thank you. let's turn to ron claiborne with the other headlines this morning. >> good morning, bianna, dan, tanya. another surge in violence in syria. at least 74 people have been killed over the last two days. government forces shelled residential buildings. a u.n. resolution is being considered calling on the president to transfer power. chrysler will reportedly announce next week it will hire more than 1,600 workers at an illinois plant. it's the beginning of a hiring blitz that will add thousands of jobs over the next three years. and twitter users are

planning a boycott today over the company's new policy that allows them to block tweets on a country by country basis. twitter, which helped spread the word of the arab spring, says it may use the feature to comply with government requests to censor some information. and finally, victoria azarenka, she beat maria sharapova this morning to win the australian open. her first grand slam title. she takes over the women's number one ranking. time now to for the weather. over to ginger zee. tough to find snow in the northeast this winter. one picture from manchester, new hampshire. i want to start with that. let's see the video there. a slushy mess. not that big of an event. they're seeing all of that move out. one other snow to talk about. just moving across. a quick clipper into parts of michigan and cleveland. also this morning in indiana. that's through. and then we say, what comes next? because it's been so mild in the northeast. new york makes it to 48 today. slightly cooler. we have one front through. minneapolis, and st. paul, a place where you have the winter carnival for the last 126 years,

have been saying, where is the cold air? it's coming. believe me, you're going to get more at the end of the weekend, the start of the week. i'll leave you with a fly-by. >> this weather report has been brought to you by ashley furniture. dan and bianna? >> thanks, ginger. coming up here on "good morning america," a lot of people love those careerbuilder super bowl ads. featuring chimpanzees. we'll give you a sneak peek of the latest ads. and tell you why some people are not laughing at all. and the famous harlem globetrotters pay us a visit. we'll meet the one they call tiny. he's the tallest basketball player in all the world. nothing tiny about him. stay with us.

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1800s. now, this new super bowl ad for careerbuilder.com is causing an uproar. ron is all over this story. >> reporter: i'm all over it, dan. they are back. those lovable, laughable chimps that have delighted tens of millions of super bowl watchers over the years. this year, animal rights advocates are raising their voices in protest against whapt they say is the dark side of primate performers in tv commercials and movies. >> you want me to go to new york with those guys? >> reporter: here's a sneak peek of the ad you're likely to see during the super bowl. >> job causing you sleepless nights. careerbuilder.com. >> reporter: pretty funny, right? wrong, say some animal advocates. they're criticizing the ads, saying they add to what is rampant abuse and exploitation of chimpanzees and other primates on television movies, and in commercials. >> what looks so funny on tv has a serious and dark side behind it.

>> having worked with actors for many years -- >> reporter: actress anjelica huston has now come out to protest the ads as well. it's a subject she's been speaking out about for years. >> i find it hard to believe that anyone has to be dragged kicking and screaming into show business. the next time you see a chimpanzee in a movie, on tv, in an ad, chances are that's exactly what happened. >> it's a monkey. >> well, sure it's a monkey. >> reporter: chimpanzees and their primate brethren have long been staples as comic relief fixtures in movies and on television. always good for a laugh. animal rights advocates say few people realize how they're captured at a young age and torn away from their mothers. how they're often trained through physical and psychological abuse. how when they're not performing, they're penned up in tiny cages. >> what happens to them when they're not on the set? what happens to the animals? how are they trained in the months prior to the shoot? where are they housed after the fact? these are important questions to

ask. when it comes to evaluating whether this practice is good for the chimps overall. >> reporter: careerbuilder, which has run a number of the popular super bowl ads, said in a statement -- during the production of our ad, we followed the strictest guide lines to ensure the chimpanzee stars were treated well. and not harmed in any way. the american humane association said there was an observer to monitor the filming. to assure that the chimps were well treated. animal rights say there's no need anymore to take animals from the wild. they can easily be replicated by computer effects. like they were in the recent movie "rise of the planet of the apes." they say animals, like these chimpanzees, belong to nature. not to a 30-second spot during a football game. still, careerbuilder says that the show, their multimillion dollar commercial featuring those chimps -- will go on. but the protesters say they're making progress. they say they've succeeded in

convincing a number of companies to stop using or not use chimps in their ads in the future. >> just like i did with ripples the cat, i'm siding with the chimpanzees. >> they make a convincing case that at least in some instances, they're kept in sad cages and abused. >> and if you can do it with computer graphics? >> it's expensive. the computer graphics. but it doesn't abuse any chimps. coming up on "gma" on this saturday morning, look who we have today. he's officially the tallest basketball player in the world. how tall? and where do you get size 20 shoes? ginger zee does not stand a chance. oes not stand a chance. but there are foods that i had no idea had so much acid in them. my dentist said that the acid in fruit, or fruit juice or fruit teas softens the enamel so that then it can potentially erode. once that enamel is gone it's gone. my dentist recommended that i use pronamel to help harden that enamel

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we were going to invite tiny back but he didn't fit on the couch. we want to thank the harlem globetrotters. thank you for watching abc. >> i'm out of here. >> you're out of here? >> we're always online on abc.com on yahoo!. watch "world news" with david muir later this evening. you know what that that's about? >> i don't know. ron's an unpredictable man. we'll be back tomorrow morning. >> good morning. i'm terry mcsweeney. let's take a look at the forecast. >> lisa: nice and clear out there. here is a view from mount tam where the sun was out just a little while ago and the numbers are still at or below freezing in the north bay. even into the east bay 34 degrees. low dew points and much drier air mass it's colder start out

there. 37 in redwood city. 46 in san francisco. once again, high pressure to our east is allowing for a light offshore flow. that is going to bring numbers up today especially in the north bay. everyone should see mid upper 60s and temperatures close to 70 degrees. changes in store for sunday afternoon increasing clouds and by sunday night maybe a little rain by 3:00 in the morning towards your morning commute a few raindrops into the east bay and by the delta then we're back to a dry weather pattern. as for today warmest day of the weekend upper 60s 67 in san jose. with 65 in livermore. san francisco in the mid-60s. everyone anywhere from 5-10 degrees above normal. 70s in santa cruz and watsonville. it will be chilly and then tomorrow more sun high and

mid-level clouds maybe a raindrops toward monday morning. partly cloudy skies next week and temperatures in the low to mid-60s. once again, dry and mild weather for february. >> terry: coming up next on at 8:00 a 15-year-old girl is murdered in the east bay. the latest on the search for the suspect. hate crimes hear from a local man singled out for his race called a terrorist and attacked. join us for the news at 8:00.