after spending two weeks on vacation in hawaii. the president and first lady and daughters sasha and malia stepped off air force one at andrews air force base this morning. they were bundled up in coats and boots as they walked out into the definitely different weather there, very chilly. much different than the temperatures they were enjoying on oahu. >>> taking a page out of oprah's book and encouraging people to read more all part of the new year's challenge that mark zuckerberg has challenged. the facebook founder and ceo announced on his page that he vows to read a book every other week in 2015. he plans to choose books with an emphasis on learning about different cultures and beliefs. about 90,000 people like that page. perhaps they're taking him up on his challenge. the first book he has chosen is titled the end of power. it was out of stock today on amazon.com. so perhaps a lot of people there picking up that offer. >>> mindi bach joining us. >> new names emerging as possible head coaches for the 49ers and the raiders. the

presidential library, hawaii? chicago? new york? >> havana. >> you're getting briefer too in the knew year. julie? >> chicago, but the fact that they're having problems is shocking. i think i think they'll get the library in the end. >> what do you think steve? >> i think the real question is where does michelle obama want to run for the senate from. i think it ends up probably in illinois. they'll get their act together. it's more of a natural place for the president than new york. >> and hawaii is so long to get dignitaries out there for events and get people to visit it. but they might put some sort of presidential center out there. >> winners and losers were steve. >> my >> my loser this week is s.e.c. football. we've been hearing for years how great sec is, untouchable, and now we've seen the big ten reemerge as the strongest football in the country. it's good for the country. >> auburn, ohio state, alabama. >> wisconsin dount have any hard games. >> my >> my winner of the week is charles crowdhammer who is responsible for gett

and then get this, snow in hawaii, a blizzard warning in effect in higher elevations in hawaii until 6:00 p.m. local time tonight. this is only the third blizzard warning in hawaii since 1986. i am sure many are not expecting that. meteorologist rob mayeda says yeah it can happen. >> at this level you can be talking about snow levels on the big island. our levels here may be as low as 3 or 4,000 feet at times. not the case right now. but a lot of air pollution, you can see the hazy skies, san jose 54 degrees, san francisco, 53. really can't see much of the north bay and the same trend continues out in dublin right now. 53 degrees beyond livermore. you really can't see the pass there as the haze continues to be the issue. light winds, high pressure above. taking the ceiling down over the bay area overnight as it drops and really allows the smoke to kind of gather at the temperature inversion where it is warmer in the hills and cooler closer to sea level. the pattern really unfortunately not going anywhere. no burn night tonight. very likely will see the conditions according to the spa

the malfunction caused the plane to run let on fuel. >> after that four people in hawaii were rescued after abandoning their single engine plane 11 miles offshore that ran out of fuel. the helicopter hoisted the three adults and a child to safe all treated for injuries. the plane was flying in the hawaii isles. >> three people plunged 20' into a pack yard after a deck railing collapseed last night. a group of friends stepped on to the deck to pose for a group picture following a surprise product party stunning a man who was celebrate his birthday. >> we hoped it would be a couple of skinned knees but...people were pleading bleeding more. the paramedics arrived beginningly. >> the fire department says all victims appeared to sun non-life threatening injuries and inspectors must decide not rest of the oakland needs to be demolished. >> a coroner has identified dan ha whose bound was found in the bay in the water near alcatraz in november. he was seen leaving october 31 and a large scale search was launched and the coroner has not determined how ha died but his fame is heartbroken but re

. >> reporter: the pilot of the single-engine plane was more than 250 miles from hawaii when they ran into trouble with his fuel system. fortunately he hit a parachute on his airplane. a coast guard rescue aircraft was nearby capturing this video as the plane first plunged toward the pacific. then as the parachute fully deployed, it settled enter a more orderly dissent. the aircraft, a cirrus sr22 comes equipped with parachute for emergency use. why doesn't every plane have this in >> i don't know. >> pilot diogo rao owns and flies a cirrus. so this blows off? >> that blows off. >> reporter: what happens? >> there's a red handle you pull. it triggers a rocket which shoots out the back and launch past shoot. >> reporter: off hawaii, the parachute delivered both pilot and plane safely to the ocean. the pilot climbed enter an emergency raft and was soon picked up by the crew of a nearby holland american cruise ship. cirrus says its parachutes have been used 51 times in the past 15 years saving 104 people. it's going to be a big decision. >> it's going to be a big decision, yes. you're no

they completed their annual two-week vacation in hawaii the sixth of his presidency. it included a lot of golf and relaxing on the beach and they flew home from honolulu on saturday. >>> honolulu has a common but very serious problem at its airports. bird strikes. chip reid looks at a unique approach in fighting it. >> reporter: at honolulu airport planes take off or land every few minutes and at a military air base it adds to the mix. but in this tropical paradise there is a problem. birds, lots of birds. birds into jet engines can result in disaster. there are about 60 bird/plane collision each year in honolulu and the number might be significantly higher without the bird scarers. why do birds seem to love airports? >> you have pretty much the perfect environment. a lot of open about grace area surrounded with trees. >> reporter: darryn phelps leads a team of six. they use pyrotechnic devices from shell crackers to high-powers lasers the decoys that draw birds way from the runways. they constantly adjust their tactics because birds figure them out. >> birds are not

in route to hawaii, though something clearly went wrong. the u.s. coast guard captured this video of an sr 22 plummeting to the pacific ocean sunday afternoon. the pilot was able to get out safely after deploying the plane's emergency parachute. a passing cruise ship plucked him from the waters. >> parachute deployment went off as it was designed and saved someone from injury and difficult situation in the ocean. >> reporter: >> reporter: according to the flight academy, which owns the plane, says there was a problem with the fuel system. the pilot says there was enough fuel on board, it just wasn't get together engine. the pilot identified as lou morton pulled the chute and headed for the water. >> when we have spoken to the pilot, he is well and safe we can have more comments about what actually happened on this flight. >> reporter: the plane was equipped with a tank an auxiliary fuel tank for longer flights. >> we put in extra long-range tanks that is a gravity system without pumps or restrictions. it is bulletproof if used properly. >> reporter:

that golfer is still in hawaii. he's fine other than a very sore head and a story of abduction and robbery that has police scratching their heads. >> edge of the fairway for robert allenby. >> reporter: how did pga golfer robert allenby go from looking like this to this? the 43-year-old australian snapped this selfie hours after he believes he was kidnapped from this wine bar in hawaii and woke up battered and bruised in a public park four hours later. this morning, the father of two tells abc news i should be okay. just in a lot of pain. >> he's a bit sore, obviously. he's got a sore head. >> reporter: allenby's caddie said the attack followed a round of drinks friday night after the golfer failed to make the cut at the sony open in honolulu. >> at 10:30, i left to go to another bar. he was going to be another ten minutes behind me. when we came out, robert was gone. >> reporter: the next time they saw allenby was after an early morning knock at the door from police. >> your buddy robert's downstairs. been beaten u

he flew from california to hawaii. that was the plan. you can see the plane's propeller stop and pilot deploys special parachute made for the plane. the parachute slows the plane down so it hits water on its belly, perfect, instead of crashing nose first. that allow as pilot time to get out safely. he hops on to the wing of the plane of the as the plane starts sinking and climb into an inflatable raft where he waits to get picked up by a cruise ship and now is in good condition. this was picture-perfect. captain chuck nash retired navy captain, fox news military analyst. we saw this morning and said wow, he is lucky. where do you start? >> well, anything you can walk away from, right? here's the situation. when he realized that he wasn't going to make hawaii which a little back of the envelope tells me was probably at about 100 miles west of california about 900 miles east of hawaii, he notified the coast guard, kept drilling towards hawaii because he was past of no return, i.e., he was already past halfway where he could turn around and

the great state of hawaii gabbard joins us. >> aloha. >> why won't the president say islamic extremism? >> the first thing we have to understand, it's not just about words, it's not about semantics, it's about having a real true understanding of who our enemy is and how important that is. that we have to understand what their motivation is and what their ideology of this radical islamic ideology that's fueling them. a couple of days ago secretary kerry said in a speech that isis and al qaeda are engaging in, quote, criminal conduct rooted in alienation poverty thrill seeking and other factors. now if we really look at what he's saying and if that's really the cause, then the solution would be to give them a trophy give them a hug, give them a good paying job, $10,000 and a skateboard so they can go and get their thrills and say, okay, great. they're going to be happy and they won't be fighting anymore. that's not the case. unfortunately we have people who are living in poverty all around the world, people who have this same feeling of alienation from their government but they're not

stephanie elam, cnn, los angeles. >>> and president obama's vacation in hawaii, over tomorrow. and monday he loses the luxury of dealing with a senate controlled by democrats. we're taking a look at what 2015 looks like for the president next. >>> president obama heads home from hawaii tonight. and on monday the gop will take charge of congress. but while republicans now control both the house and the senate they also are facing challenges within their own ranks. one congressman is resigning, another is taking fire amid reports that he spoke to a white see premsupremacist group back in 2002. >> reporter: fred republicans may be saturdaytarting out the year in a weaker position than they had hoped, but they are still prepared to fight the president tooth and nail over the keystone xl pipeline. republicans in congress celebrated two months ago with sweeping victories in the midterm elections, but they'll be kicking off the new year weaker than they planned after a pair of embarrassments from two gop house members. >> i'm not familiar with who that group was. >> reporter: the numb

. >>> golfer jimmy walker won the pga sony open in hawaii for the second straight year. he finished 23 under setting a tournament record with a nine-stroke victory. but professional golfer robert allenby says he was actually knocked unconscious, kidnapped, robbed and beaten friday night in hawaii after he missed the cut at the sony open. he posted this gruesome photo to facebook showing his injuries. according to the golf channel, surveillance video shows allenby leaving this bar with a group of five or six people, but he says he's not sure if he was drugged and doesn't remember much. >> 2 hours, 2 1/2 hours later, i woke up on the street in the gutter, being thrown out of the trunk of a car. i had been robbed. >> honolulu police are reviewing surveillance footage from the night. they are investigating it as a second-degree robbery. >>> and after bouncing back from two serious knee surgeries, skier lindsey vonn is now tied for the most world cup wins in women's alpine skiing history after winning a downhill in italy. she ties the 35-year-old record with 62 career wins. >

allenby was in hawaii for the sony open where he ended up missing the cut. he's going to speak about his ordeal on the "today" show coming up later this morning. >>> happening now, icy roads are being blamed for crashes that left at east five people dead yesterday in the northeast. by far the biggest crash involved some 50 cars on interstate 76 which is outside philadelphia. one person died in that pile-up. two others died in a separate crash on a nearby interstate. meanwhile an incredible story on the west coast, where icy roads were also a problem. look at the pictures from oregon from saturday. man survived that accident, he was sandwiched by two big rigs and that mangled mess, caleb whitby was trapped in, was once a chevy silverado >> i was protected, somebody was watching out for me, i closed my eyes and held onto the wheel. it happened to be everything in the entire pickup was smashed to the bare rim. >> not only did whitby survive that crash. all he suffered were a couple of minor cuts. >> count your lucky stars on that one. >> that doesn't usually en

one, it's a lot colder in maryland than it is in hawaii. number two when that door opens, he's going to be facing a republican-controlled congress this week. so we've been discussing what is ahead, what that could mean. so as we wait for the door to open, it will be a new year and a new challenge for the president of the united states. so i guess they -- they have to pull those stairs up. >> they need to. but he's back home. back in the states. >>> so you generally hear of high powered ceos having noncompete clauses in their contracts, right? but now the same is being asked of fast food workers. a former employee is now suing sandwichmaker jimmy johns. she says a noncompetition agreement she signed while working with the company stifled her job prospects when she left. how common is this for low to middle paying companies and what impact could this have on the workforce? joining us now is ed about you towski. good to see you, ed. happy new year. >>, too. great do you see. >> what do you think about this? is this common and is this going to

hawaii, pennsylvania and new york have some of the highest. drivers also pay for transportation and shipping which is why americans living near oil refineries which turn the crude into usable gasoline will pay a lot less at the gas pump. >> if i live along the u.s. gulf coast you often find your gas prices are among the cheepest -- the cheapest in the country because about half of the united states' refining capacity is in this area. >> keep it the way and keep it going and everybody is happy. >> reporter: she spends the money she saves on other things. >> i mean i get to shop more now. >> reporter: in new york, jill wagner, cbs news. >> a new study says kids are eating too much pizza and it's making them fatter. researchers studied kids' diets over seven years and they found pizza makes up about 20% of their daily calories on the days when they eat it and pizza is the second highest source of solid fat. compounding the problem, fast food restaurants serving pizza are often clustered near schools. the researchers say marketing of pizza to kids

it's in hawaii. but look at this. this is very rare that you can get this close to lava with a camera. >> whoa! >> i hope that's not a very long pole or something. >> allowed him to get as close as possible to 2,000-degree lava. >> you can see he gets right up close and personal. and this is just so cool. it's like science. you can see, this is how hawaii became an island basically. >> yeah. >> oh, absolutely. >> you can see it landing on some lava that's under the water. and it's slowly just trying to connect. it's cold. >> what you're looking at is more expensive real estate being born. >> very true. >> this is so cool. because the earth is so spectacular. and this is a close up version of just a tiny little bit of what mother nature can do. >> this is like redecorating mother nature style. mother nature is like watch me redecorate. >> you can see like the reaction you see all that steam coming off. sometimes when the water comes, you almost feel like oh that's a bit dangerous. fortunately, everyone's okay and we ge

he said he was abducted after failing to make the cut in hawaii. we have the latest. >> how did pga golfer robert allenby go from looking like this to this? he snapped this selfie hours after he believes he was kidnapped from this wine bar in hawaii and woke up battered and bruised in a public park four hours later. this morning the father of two sells abc news, i should be okay, just in a lot of pain. his caddie, nick, said the attack followed a round of drinks with friends friday night after the golfer failed to make the cut at the sony open in honolulu. >> we went to other bar and he said -- . >> he said the next time they saw allenby was after an early morning knock on the door by police. he told australia's associated press, i didn't think i was going to survive this one. his memory of that night is foggy and honolulu police only tell abc news they are investigating this as a second degree robbery. >> we are investigating it. >> allenby said the next thing he knows a homeless work is waking his up in the park more than six miles from his hotel

he's on holiday in hawaii and decided to go scuba diving with people. went out there, on the boat coming back with dratgreat scuba diving when wait what's in the water? there's a shadow under the water. you kand see what's going on. fortunately ben as a gopro. he crosses over to the other side of the boat gets to the edge puts it under the water and -- >> get out of town! camera's amazing. >> wow. >> you can't see anything. blam there you go nat geo. >> two beautiful humpback whales. people doing the tour say nothing like this ever happened before. stop the boat. everybody's got the cameras out. come out to the front, come out to say hello. >> can i make a suggestion? instead of running around with a camera, get your gear back on. >> are you not scuba diving. >> that probably did occur. everyone's going whales! >> but you get this beautiful view. as he comes along the side. gives them a big of a wave. really really cool video. a wonderful moment you're never going to forget. >> the whales are like sorry we're late to the dive. >> make up for it. >> befo

. >>> a hawaiian airliner got nowhere near hawaii after departing oakland yesterday. it ended up across the bay at san jose international. this hawaiian airlines flight had just taken off from oakland en route to honolulu, but the pilot was rerouted to san jose after a crack developed in the windshield. a plane spotter zbot this video. you can see the plane landed safely. emergency crews were able to arrive but there was no emergency. passengers able to get on to other flights. no word on what caused that crack to form. >>> well cats may have nine lives. this dog he has two. he survived a house fire by hiding under a bed in the family home. that fire broke out yesterday near the valley fair shopping mall. family members came home to find the house on fire and they didn't know where their dog was. firefighters used a heat sensing camera to find the little dog hiding under a bed. he was not hurt but the house did have major damage. investigators say the fire was likely sparked by an electrical outlet. >> glad he's okay. >>> well up next at 11:00, shooting for the new st

. >>> president obama is wrapping up his hawaii vacation. he'll return to washington this weekend and there could be some tense times ahead. congress reconvenes next week, as fox's joel waldman reports it looks like a showdown with the president is taking shape. >> reporter: just one day after the 114th congress convenes, the senate's energy and commerce committee will hold a hearing on the $5.4 billion keystone xl pipeline. >> people want jobs, and this project will create well paying high wage jobs for our people. >> reporter: fox news has learn the house of representatives will also take up the controversial measure in the next few weeks. president obama threatening to use his veto penn against the new republican congress says there are better ways to get americans back to work. >> rebuilding our roads and bridges around the country something that congress could authorize we can probably create hundreds of thousands of jobs or million jobs. >> reporter: back in november, the senate failed to pass a keystone xl pipeline bill by just one vo

the president enjoying his vacation in hawaii. before he left he talked about the possibility of using his veto pen in the year ahead. he also tried to work with the new congress. >> i am being sincere when i say i want to work with this new congress to get things done. we are going to disagree on some things but there will be disagreements. >> the other thing is obamacare. you eluded to this republicans may try to define it as a 40-hour week decemberiscouraging employers trying to meet requirements. >> that was one of the many big concerns with that. >> that brings us to look who is talking. the new congress should start small and take on the big issues. >> they should attend to items popular. start request keystone. if the president vetoes he has declared himself. you go on to trade authority and go on to sanctions. you talk about a deadline you may have a 67 votes in the senate to force sanctions on iran and not allow them to spring string it out. then you go to the major items immigration and tax reform. do this stuff first an

. >>> president obama is back at the white house after a two-week vacation in hawaii. today, the president will meet behind closed doors with vice president biden and senior advise prps later in the week to michigan arizona, tennessee. for the first time in his presidency he's facing a republican-controlled congress. but mitch mcconnell says the much talked about bourbon summit with the president, it will happen. >>> nearly two years after the boston marathon bombing, a trial will begin for one of the accused. dzhokhar tsarnaev will go to trial. >>> the second of the new york cops will be laid to rest. nearly 30 hours to officers attended the funeral of win gin liu. he was killed two months before he was killed. >> he's my soul mate. a caring son. a loving husband. and a loyal friend. you are an amazing man. we love you. i loved you. forever. thank you. >> many of the officers attending the funeral turned their backs to a screen when new york may bill de blasio began eulogizeing liu. they had been urged not to do so. some of his comments are been said to contribute to

consumers particularly those in hawaii, alaska and puerto rico, need to pay for ships that are five times more expensive? if there was a law that long ago outlived its usefulness, if it ever had any it's the jones act. on the jones act it's time to change course today. i have a letter i would like included in the record from the american farm bureau federation which states, "the farm bureau believes that there should be no restrictions as to the quantities of vessels on which a commodity is shipped between u.s. ports. repealing the jones act would allow more competition for the movement of goods between u.s. ports, thus driving down transportation costs." i continue reading from the letter to all members of the senate from the farm bureau. "repeal of the jones act accomplishes the same purpose: a reduction in energy costs increased competition to lower costs of u.s. goods and more opportunities to transport agricultural commodities at competitive prices. due to this importance, farm bureau policy developed by our grass-roots members consisting of working farmers and ranchers explicitly su

>> hawaii 5-0. >> cracked himself up there. >> he does ask jamie, do you -- do you surf a lot? >> yeah it's my job. >> really? you get paid for that? paddle like that? >> he lost a bet to his wife. >> he has to go to the gym and work out and he has to go to the store and buy tampons. >> why the lesson here should be. >> don't mess with the wife. she'll make you pay. ♪ >>> beagle having a ball. ♪ ♪ >> if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen, man. don't gamble if you can't stand losing like this guy. >> well i lost a bet to my wife. >> it came over fund-raising a bit of charity. who could sell the movement t-shirts? $1700 raised for local charity but he was the loser. >> he has to go to the gym and work out and he has to go to the store and buy tampons and go to starbucks dressed in all of her gym gear. >> he started having women problems. >> bra's like killing me. like riding in riding in to me. i feel like a busted can of biscuits like all fat. >> there we go. starts making his way into the >> he's so manly every other day of the year and now he's that. >> he's

new details on the doomed flight that left calf und for hawaii parachute the only thing stopping it from plummeting into the pacific. >> tonight you hear from the pilot who was so convinced that this was it he called his family to say goodbye. good evening. >> the payment was planning to deliver the plane to a buyer in australia. now he picked it up in kansas then flew to tracy and had an extra fuel tank installed. >> the he headed for hawaii but crash landed off maui. with we hear from the pilot for the very first time and cornell is in the newsroom with the story. >> pilot lieu feels lucky the plane had a parachute on board but his properties says he feared the worst. >> how are you feeling after this event. >> doing good. >>reporter: pilot is remarkably calm after living true nightmare. all captured on camera by the coast guard vl his plane engine stopped cold over the pacific. hundreds of miles from any airport. suddenly the 28-year-old mort an deployed the plane emergency parachute. scary moment his older brother in san francisco was bracing for. >> we knew ahead of time that he was

amazing video of a pilot parachuting to safety after running out of fuel on a flight from tracy to hawaii? this morning, only here we hear new details about the flight in the 25-year-old pilot. he tabs of keeping cool even taking a selfie as the plane was going down. here is that report. >> watching the incredible video you could wonder what the pilot thought about the built in parachute and what is he doing? in an "good morning america" exclusive the 25-year-old pilot shows us. he want praying he was taking a selfies on way down with his gopro. with the door open, you can see the parachute over his head. the life vest away his neck. and the identification closing in. >> it was funny right before that, the gentleman, the coast guard, i do not were you have you right now. >> morton was in the air seven hours from california on the way to hawaii when he says the plane suffered some kind of malfunction in the fuel system. he called for help on his satellite phone and he called his dad. >> the hardest part was making that phone call. at that point i told him i am probably going to be ditching

. >> a remarkable rescue in the middle of the pacific ocean far off hawaii. >> the pilot of a small plane, like the one you're seeing here, radioed the coast guard that he ran out of fuel. the pilot who had taken off from california ditched the plane 250 miles off maui. the coast guard alerted a cruise ship in the area that you see there. the ship arrived a half hour later and the crew was able to bring the pilot safely aboard. >>> hours after the crash another plane plunged into the ocean off the coast of hawaii because of fuel shortage. the coast guard rescued four people including an inflant miles. passengers expected to be okay. >> an arrest warrant has been issued in a case from a missing couple in georgia. they made a 200 mile trip to see a car advertised on craig's list. the couple missing on friday. this is the man they're looking for, ronny towns. they made a call to him on a disposable phone answered by towns. four children are hospitalized near baltimore after falling through ice into a pond. two adults were able to rescues three quickly but responders had to search for the fou

people going to hawaii or europe can get up to free marking. that is a $110 free savings. the deal continues until april 15th. >> i want to go to hawaii. >>> there is one day of the year with it's not unusual to see people with pants on the subway. that is because yesterday was the 14th annual no pants subway ride. several cities across the country took part in the event. >> some of the brave participant there is. some bart riders took off their pants over the weekend. >> okay. didn't know that was going on. 4:55 is the time. another strike starts today at bay area kizer hospital. the group of workers expected to walk off the job and how it will impact patient care also. >>> a south bacon set featuring a hip hop future star ends with several people being shot. the search under way for the shooter. >> pretty calm right now out in the roads. you will have -- we don't see anything that is unusual. >> in the north bay valleys or parts in the bay there is thick fog out there. for others hardly any at all. >>> the golden gate bridge is back to business after being shut down for

the flight from tracy to hawaii that ended in a rescue at sea. an account from the rescued pilot, we will have that story and much more at 10:00 p.m. >> thank you for making ktvu channel 2 news your choice for news. we are always here for you on www.ktvu.com and you can follow us on twitter and facebook. thank you for joining us. see you tonight at 10:00 p.m. good night. >> good night. i'm in. okay, well, alex has a cello lesson at 11:00, and junior congress at noon? doesn't she also have no boys at forever? don't you have an eating disorder you need to attend to? yeah, anyway, uh, we could see the 4:00 or the 6:20. oh, actually that's no good. i'm meeting my friend denise for a drink. denise? do i know denise? yeah, you know my old girlfriend. haley: oh, my god. gross. i can't even picture you with a woman. thank you. you had a girlfriend before mom? try two. trust me. i had plenty of fun in my time. and then i met your mom. and thank you. so, uh, i guess she travels around selling makeup for a cosmetics company. she's in town for a week. you me

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landed after 3:340, hawaii time this morning -- 3:30 hawaii time this morning. >>> dangerous living conditions in a santa rosa apartment complex now leading to legal action against the property owners. the nine families who live at the apartment building in santa rosa, they've been told to leave by tomorrow morning. inspectors say the buildings are plagued with mold, rats and other unsafe conditions. the city of santa rosa notified the two property owners about the drugs conditions last january. but a year later, the problems have not been fixed. now, lawyers representing the tenants are seeking finance am damages for leaked emotional as -- as well as physical harm. >>> well, they don't know what it is. >> should be all white. this middle patch. >> something sticky is coating and even killing sea birds in the east bay. up next, the challenge facing animal rescuers. >>> and bill cosby on stage in northern california. what happened during his performance last night and his plans to perform soon in the air -- in the bay area. >>> we're looking at decent commute conditions. you can see southbound

this pilot from seattle left his airport yesterday to deliver a small plane to hawaii. he's made this flight before, but this time something went very wrong. unbelievable video taken by the u.s. coast guard of a cirrus sr-22 making a parachute landing into the pacific ocean off the coast of maui. and what's even more incredible the pilot survived. >> when everything started to go south and the u.s. coast guard and in coordination was more than impressive. they worked with the team on the water, getting me out of there and onto the boat as quickly as possible. >> a rescue that had its challenges according to the cruise ship captain who helped get him out of the water. >> once we came to a stop i created the lead for the rescue boat to safety deploy it and they were able to find the one-person raft of the pilot. >> the pilot took off from this airport with a fuel tank designed to support a long flight. >> we put in extra long-range tanks. it's a gravity feed system without problems without restrictions, so it's pretty much bulletproof if it was operated properly. >> the c

. >>> a developing story out of hawaii. this just in a baby among those rescued after two planes run out of fuel land in the ocean. this is just off the coast of hawaii. and it happened within hours of a part of each o. crs rescued four people including that infant after the small plane had crashed and before that another small plane handed in the water and we're hearing that that pilot is okay. >>> 4:37 new. still to come here, a school surprise for students headed to the university of maryland. why these people are so excited. >>> and today the weather alert today. tom kyrgios rop will let us know when you can expect rain. >>> welcome back on this weather alert day. we're keeping an eye on the road conditions this morning. right now everything looks good in maryland. and in just a few minutes, tom kierein will have your hour by hour forecast. >>> it is 4:40. we were there when a handful of local high school students got the surprise of their lives. take a look. >> that's how six high school seniors found out they were acc

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new details on the doomed flight that left calf bound for hawaii parachute the only thing stopping it from plummeting into the pacific. >> tonight you hear from the pilot who was so convinced that this was it he called his family to say goodbye. good evening. >> the payment was planning to deliver the plane to a buyer in australia. now he picked it up in kansas then flew to tracy and had an extra fuel tank installed. >> then he headed for hawaii but crash landed off maui. with we hear from the pilot for the very first time and cornell is in the newsroom with the story. >> pilot lieu feels lucky the plane had a parachute on board but his properties says he feared the worst. >> how are you feeling after this event. >> doing good. >>reporter: pilot is remarkably calm after living true nightmare. all captured on camera by the coast guard vl his plane engine stopped cold over the pacific. hundreds of miles from any airport. suddenly the 28-year-old mort an deployed the plane emergency parachute. scary moment his older brother in san francisco was bracing for. >> we knew ahead of time that

over the past 25 years, shark attacks average three a year in hawaii. while 29 attacks since 2012 meyer says it's too early to say there's an upward trend. >> to keep it in perspective, your drive to the beach is actually a far more risky activity than going surfing or snorkeling. >> reporter: meyer has also dispelled myths about shark cages, a popular tourist atrakdz. some critics believe that sharks attracted to the cages follow the boats back to shore endangering swimmers. >> when the boats leave, all they do is go from the surface to the bottom out of those particular sights. >> reporter: and the sharks that frequent the cages almost never include tiger sharks which are responsible for most attacks in hawaii. we decided to take a look for ourselves. these sharks are all friendly right? >> yeah. >> reporter: sure. glad to meet you. and in fact and their bigger cousins the gallopgoes which are fiercer looking. and when sharks do bite in the open ocean, captain matt voorhees said it's a mistake. >> most people survive. if they did like our flavor, it w

>> we had landed the night before in hawaii to go on vacation. at 4:340 in the morning hawaii time amanda alexed girlfriend love of his life so to speak, rang my phone and said tom, there was a shooting. we're at the theater. there was a shooting. i tried to wake him up but they pulled me away. i said where is alex? she said they made me leave him. they made me leave him. then we spent trying to call hospitals at 4:45 in the morning hawaii time. then we turned on the television. we could find out nothing other than seeing that thing's face and what that thing did. there wasn't anything about any victims. there was nothing. i couldn't even leave the television on because i was going to break it. that's the first time i saw his face. >> when you say thing, you're doing that on purpose. >> because he's not human. what human being would walk in and take a machine gun and start shooting people in a theater. he shot a six-year-old girl point-blank. that's a human being? if that's a human being, that's a race i don't want to belong to. >> i asked about

president barack obama signed the order while vacationing in hawaii. cnn's jim acosta reports from hawaii. >> happy new year. >> reporter: the new sanctions are being dubbed by broad and powerful. senior administration officials say they're aimed at any and all officials at the north korean government its political hierarchy, as well as the heart of pyongyang's shadowy operation and the money that finances it. specifically blocked many dealings with u.s. financial firms, rgb, conan its primary arms dealer plus a chief research and defense firm. in a letter to the house speaker john boehner the president said it asked the sanctions already in place and is not targeted at the people of north korea but rather is aimed at the government of north korea and its activities that threaten the united states and others. the president vowed to hold pyongyang responsible before leaving for his annual vacation in hawaii. >> they caused a lot of damage and we will respond. we will respond proportionally and we'll respond in a place and time and manner that we choose.

chip reid is with the president in hawaii. >> reporter: after a two-week vacation that included nine rounds of golf and joining his daughters for hawaiian shave ice, president obama plans to hit the ground running next week. speaking in michigan, arizona and tennessee the president will propose new policies on home oenship college education and jobs. white house deputy press secretary eric schultz. >> the big goal for the next few weeks is to make sure the economic progress we've seen over the past few years is enjoyed by as many americans as possible. >> reporter: the state of the union preview tour is an effort to get ahead of the new republican congress, but incoming senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and his republican allies in house have a very different agenda. >> first item up in the new senate will be the keystone xl pipeline. >> reporter: it will also take up legislation weakening the president's health care reform law. they plan to pass both bills quickly and dare the president to veto them. >> if republicans seek to take health care away from people who just got it, t

the man was flying from tracy to hawaii and something went wrong with his plane's fuel system. this story does have a happy ending thanks to the plane's emergency parachute. kpix's ann notrarangelo joins us live from the tracy airport with the story. >> both the plane and pilot were here yesterday. the plane was being retrofitted from a long range fuel tank. wait till you see how this flight ended. >> reporter: coast guard video of the cirrus srnortheast of maui shows the propeller stall and a parachute deploy. it looks a bit unnerving with the plane's nose heading for the water but you'll see the plane levels out. getting to this point was hours in the making. the pilot realized he was going to be out of fuel before reaching land. an hour spent trying to trouble shoot left only one plan. divert to a nearby cruise ship. the plan worked as intended. there is how the plane landed in the water. the pilot pops out deploys a raft and waits to be rescued. he was in the water about 40 minutes when the cruise ship showed up. the pilot is 25-year-old lou morton out of the seattle. >> [

did i hear steve paulson offer to take us all to hawaii? >> i think so. that was it. that's what i got out of that. [ laughter ] >> you heard correct. i'm taking everybody. it will be on a very slow boat but we are going. we had a couple record highs. what is new? it seems like the west coast dealing with a lot of warm temps especially california. coast and bay fog though cool

host: tim is in hawaii. caller: hello. i want to make a comment about the march and the president not being there. i understand the situation with security. that is what they have a vice president for. eric holder was over there and did not stay. the president should have maybe called hillary or maybe jimmy carter. that would have helped hillary's campaign. it looks to me like the united states is showing the world that we don't care. that is an international embarrassment to this country. that's all i have to say. host: tam is a republican in hawaii with those comments. world leaders locked -- walked arm in arm with others gathering in central paris to honor the 17 that were killed. we are getting your thoughts on that this morning. the phone lines are open. you can keep dialing in. some other news for you this morning, "the washington post" says this about the keystone pipeline. the house approved the measure with the help of 26 democrats. strike a deal we will talk about that coming up. but the senate is expected to do