butler hitting only 229 this spring but 3 home runs and this would be no. 3. 2 run shot in the first off barker and opened the offensive flood gates forth a's. third innings. there it goes. steven turns on fast ball. the first bomb in the cactus lead. the 3 rbi and now to zito who may not make the roster. don't have the spot for him but 4 scoreless inning. struck out 2 walk 3. now gone 11 scoreless this spring. maybe somebody else will give him a shop. a's win 14-2. >> 7 sports brought to you by toyota. >> 14-2. >> that's it for our report tonight. we are waiting again for news conference right now in san jose. san jose police chief larry is expected to speak. >> we will have details for you ahead on 7 news at 11:00 o'clock on channel 7 again. speak about the officer shot and killed tonight in san jose. that's all for now. >> for all of us here at abc 7 news, thanks for watching tonight. >> appreciate your time. 7 news continues on line on twitter facebook and all the mobile device with our abc 7 news app. >> have a great evening. see you again at 11:00 over on channel 7. then we leave with you

. >> he calls him a carnival barker. the 21-hour speech on the floor of the senate when he was trying to shutdown the government in fall of 2013 was not presidential. >>> senator rand paul is expected to announce in early april. he and ted cruz agree on most things but rand paul believes he is more electable and has a better chance of beating hillary clinton. >>> what would the ted cruz economy look like? he is the first out of the gate. we fact check his talking points. that's next. ♪ ♪ i am totally blind. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. photos are great... ...for capturing your world. and now they can transform it with the new angie's list app you can you can get projects done in a snap. take a photo of your project or just tell us what you need done... ...and angie's list will find a top-rated provider to do the job. start your project for free today. the average person will probably drink

let's get more from an testament ve barker. what's the turnout been like and how does that affect what the potential results might be? >> the turnout has been expectedly pretty low, roughly around 18p 18%. the french have shown very little interest in regional elections look you this one despite the fact that there are around 4,000 counsel ceased seats up for the takingn in 101 different districts across the country a though there hasn't been too much interest there has been still a tremendous amount of intrigue join a degree of attention towards these regional elections, intrigue on a variety of different levels. firstly, a tremendous amount of curiosity about how marine lapen and the national front party are likely to do after their historic election victory last year when they took first place in gaining 24 seats in the european parliament that sent shock ways really across france's political landscape. secondly we recently have seen the political return of the ex-president nicholas sarkosy who leads the ump party. he is exp

neave barker al jazeera, lester. >>> and 150 homeless people have been treated to a private viewing of the sistine chapel in vatican city. it's the latest gesture by pope francis to recognize the poor. the pope recently had showers installed and public toilets for the homeless close to the square. >>> and that's the news from europe back to sami in doha. >>> thanks lauren supermarkets in venezuela are introducing sweeping new measures to try to combat food shortages. people have been assigned specific days to do their shopping. virginia lopez has more from the capitol caracas. >> reporter: private supermarkets have introduced a new system to try to curb food shortages and the hour-long queues. the idea is that venezuelans can limit their shopping to just one day according to their id. on a monday people's who's id ends with a one or two, would be allowed to buy the items that have gone scarce like milk sugar or four. the government is also planning on introducing fingerprint scanners. these fingerprint scanners would control what they have called speculative shopping or hoarding. the i

seuss on the senate floor are the marks of a carnival barker not the leader of the free world." >> i just came back from new hampshire where there's snow and ice everywhere. my view actually is simple. debates on this should follow science and should follow data. and many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up. >> jerry brown, a democrat said cruz's position on global warning should be an automatic disqualifier. >> it's shocking and that makes him absolutely unfit for running for office. >> reporter: cruz has taken aim at the democratic front-runner hillary clinton, over her handling of the 2012 terror attacks in libya. >> i believe she has deliberately stone walled the american people. they deserve the truth. >> ted cruz coming out, he's the first, and obviously very controversial. not polling very high when it comes to the republican primaries. who is next? >> reporter: erin it's about to get very crowded. senator rand paul of kentucky is next we believe. his announcement is april 7th in kentucky. he's probably one of sena

>> reporter: john when game show host bob barker talked about huntington beach like you said he didn't think ten was something you still could get on today's beaches. the weather coming in behind a cold front that has dumped snow across parts of the southwest. our storm reports, you can see those accumulate in the way of several hail reports up to a quarter of an inch in diameter. snow reports started to pile up further inland in arizona just north of flagstaff, we're getting totals of snow up to 10 inches. the great news is the california mountains, finally, reporting some snowfall much needed as we move ahead with such a dry year that we just finished up. the rainfall amounts impressive too. palm springs almost a half of inch for you. and it is ice in denver. let's talk about ice. hail. that's so rare in california because those hailstones have to be tossed up in the air to build the icing, and the width of the hailstone. but ice in denver indicates we had some felting, however, colder air is coming back in fact it is coming back for all of it even in the northeast. >> that looks lik

joining me tonight wisconsin state representative peter barker. this has been a long mission put forward by the republicans for years and it's what walker has wanted. is this what the residents of wisconsin want? putting all politics aside and just the heart beat of the state, is this what the state residents want? >> well ed at the hearing that we had in the senate and the labor committee, 18 people showed up and testified and registered against the bill. only 25 in favor of the bill. i think people know it is going to lower wages. it is going to increase injuries, and it's going to take away value training at a time when we need skilled workers, but we were astonished ed because the governor when he was in a dead heat, he told a paper i'm not pushing it. he clearly deceived people. i think people in the state are in a state of shock. >> when you look at this there was not one republican that voted against it. they got their fraternity in line didn't they? >> well they have. senator petrolski, you had one republican who was very courageous in opp

some of the barker batches coming through fairfax county and the district right now. there's a lot more to come. look back to the west. we have to go through all of this moisture too. as we move on through the rest of the night, your headlines this evening, rain tonight, ending early tomorrow morning. looking really good for the day tomorrow. but the rain returns and it's going to affect your weekend. i have that forecast in just a minute. >> thanks, doug. >>> traffic now getting slowly back to normal along between washington and baltimore tonight. it wasn't that way earlier, though when a tractor-trailer crash closed the southbound lanes. closed for nearly seven hours. consider you have your tuesday all planned out. jump on the highway. and then you don't go anywhere. you sit. and then you sit for even longer. and then oh my goodness you see pat collins. my gracious. pat, i'm getting you did not find too many people too happy to see you today. >> reporter: vance, they greeted me with open arms you can imagine. one guy missed three meetings today. another guy almost r

mark barker explains. >> waffle house is serving up more than its namesake these days. a new partnership allows customers to ship just about anything from the restaurant. >> baby gifts, girl scout cookies, a full knight of armor. >> a mobile app that aims to be something like uber for package delivery. >> helping one another out by giving people a list of places they're going anywhere. >> waffle house might seem like an unlikely partner, but not for the company. >> a natural partnership with roadie because we have the location and the well lit locations where people feel safe to meet. >> there are more than 1700 waffle houses around the country open 24 hours a day. usually located close to interstates. >> roadie is not a shipping app and delivery app. it's a community of people who help each other out. >> we tested roadie out, creating what it calls a gig, a delivery request. we entered information about the pickup, delivery and a photo of the item being shipped. a roadie driver looking for a gig accepted ours and made the delivery. the box made the 32-mile trek for abo

the 11th overall pick in 2007 willis quickly became one of the best line barkers in football making 7 pro bowls in his 8 seasons but retiring still young will likely hurt his chances of making the hall of fame. >> in my head i'm already hall of fame. this -- this -- this today this closure, this, um, of this chanter to me feels like -- chapter to me feels like a hall of fame type environment to me. so if the hall of fame is anything more than this and i get to be part of it, it's been amazing. >>> frank gore is still leaving san francisco. but he is not going to philadelphia. gore had a change of heart and has agreed to a three-year deal with the colts that reportedly includes $8.5 million in guaranteed money. >>> there is some good news for 49er fans. wide receiver torrey smith has agreed to a five-year deal with san francisco. and that includes $22 million in guaranteed money. the 26-year-old caught 11 touchdowns last season with baltimore. the raiders have reportedly agreed to a deal with former seahawks linebacker malcolm smith who is best known as the mvp of super bowl xlviii. oa

seuss on the senate floor are marks of a carnival barker, not leader of the free world." i'm getting to love you again. it's st. patrick's day. plenty have called cruz nuts. here's just a sampling. >> the idea you have to prove your manliness by doing something, meaning shutting down the government to achieve something you know he's not going to achieve is quite nuts. the analogy i used in my column is cliff diving without any equipment. it's quite nuts. >> to tell american people you can defund obamacare was a fool's errand and deception to the american people. i have to say, stop, you're wrong, you're crazy. >> i have to say, ted cruz comes in, obviously so completely ignorant. ted cruz -- ah -- >> he's a train wreck. >> he is a total train wreck. >> this ted cruz, a lot of people in texas just think he's wonderful. i don't want to rain on their parade. this bomb throwing stuff and i'm the lone wolf and i'm the man in the senate, it's nonsense. >> you really want a commander in chief who thinks the way to run the government is to read dr. seuss on the senate floor and s

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remember bob barker and adam sandler duked it out in "happy gilmore" now they're reunited and the rivalry still lives on. >> you're looking chunkier than the soup. >> that was a good one. l i guess doing all those movies movies. >> couldn't be nice, could you, bobby? huh? oh! oh! it worked before and it will work again. and finally houston rockets star rolling in the the nba standings and despite a tough loss last night to the memphis grizzlies, there was one big winner on the court. they shoot for $25,000. no one has made it until that young man just did. >> always good to throw it in for 25k. isn't it? pretty nice seats to the rockets game next time around. lots more coming up on "the ed show." minnesota winters are brutal it's tough being cooped up it gets a little stale. when dad opens up the window what's the first thing he does? the tobin stance spring is in the air and pollen, dog hair... the sunshine looks like fairy dust. (doorbell) whoa! what's this? swiffer sweeper! swiffer dusters! removes up to 70% of dust and allergens. stays on there like glue wow! look at that! ew! the tob

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of an ad and for the labor movement the fact she was a communist made her a problematic subjects for barker phase so people put her aside so i felt she was little neglected and i was intrigued because she has a memoir called the rebel girl for the first 20 years of her career that is a vivid first-person account but i knew well lasted almost 60 so i was interested to find out about the rest of her life. >> but they were both very a flirtatious with the men. [laughter] so even when elizabeth gurley flynn was older as a sexy checked senate that is one of my favorite things to discover to be poland's or letters. and she definitely a captive going. -- kept it going civet they all had younger men then did 10 years period for she was a lesbian woman than there was that phase of her life as well. [laughter] >> there is another area of commonality. [laughter] i am joking. [laughter] again carol did not tell me to write about catherine beecher but a move would be representative? i thought catherine beecher was a good example because even though she is representative of women's experience some she we

title to you will be able to continue that as well ensuring not only that there is a robust competitive barker place but also that privacy is protected and the rights of the disabled are also protected that we move to ensure that those additional protections are built into the law. and i have a letter mr. chairman from 140 advocacy groups and companies who support the title to decision of the fcc and i would like unanimous consent to have this put into the record. >> without objection. >> thank you mr. chairman. i would like if you could just to talk a little bit more about title to and how in fact it was rate regulation that made it possible for the universal phone system across the country and without it and the subsidies that flew within that system that we could not have had universal service. the opposite here is the goal of the fcc in terms of your intention to use the 1993 wireless precedent as they approach in what you think is wisest. can you expand upon that again? >> i think there are two historical approaches. the first is the internet wouldn't have existed at the fcc hadn't requir

you put out a statement suggesting you likened him to a carnival barker. what did you mean? >> what i mean is that we have very complex issues facing the country. he goes out of his way to oversimplify to say that obamacare we could end obamacare by not funding it and shutting down the government is absolutely wrong. that's a wrong signal to send. we need intelligent debate in the country. he doesn't carry out an intelligent debate. he exaggerates. he basically led the republican party over the cliff in the fall of 2013. he has shown no qualifications no legislation being passed doesn't provide leadership. he has no real experience. to me, he is just a guy with a big mouth and no results. >> would you support him if he were the gop nominee? >> i hope that day never comes. i will jump off that bridge when we come to it. it would be very difficult. again, maybe can he go on the road to damascus. can he have a complete conversion. the way it is right now, it would be difficult to support ted cruz. >> when are you going to announce whether you are running? >> i will be in new ha

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>> if you don't know bob barker you have missed out a lot. >> he certainly did. >>> on that note. when we come back this morning a live report from washington on ted cruz and his official campaign for the presidency. plus starbucks ends the race together campaign but said that the effort is not over. we will tell you what howard shumgts is saying to his employees today. >>> here is a look at this day back in history. e financial noise financial noise financial noise financial noise >>> welcome back to squak"squawk box." starbucks employees are no longer being encouraged to write "race together" on the cups. the company's efrts to promote race relations is in his words, far from over it set off a ton of criticism on social media. starbucks said the part of the program that involved messages on the drinks cup was scheduled to end yesterday. it's going how they wanted. it was quoted in the new york post saying someone brings up race to me before i had my morning coffee, my head is going to explode. i don't know what to tell howard at this point. i feel bad for him. you know what i me