Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Mornings On 2 At 7am 20171130

Pretty nice outside. Outside right now looking towards the Golden Gate Bridge the marin head lands there also a nice place for an adventure. To the north of this point, up towards novato, patchy fog out there. Satellite showing you, high clouds approaching the north bay. Mainly the north coast up to eureka and cape mendocino. For us though, we have a cool start to the day. Showing you the 30s towards lake port and santa rosa. San jose, 43. And San Francisco checking in at 50 degrees. Theres the camera once again. We will show you the forecast headlines for today. More sunshine this afternoon. Tomorrow, partly sunny. Then we thicken up the clouds heading into saturday. Today, same drill as yesterday. Low to mid 60s for afternoon highs. You can see the timeline through lunchtime. The lower 60s and forecast highs this afternoon about the same as yesterday. Could be just a touch warmer. San francisco, theres a 63. Santa rose a64. And livermore, 66 degrees. Were still tracking that shower chance heading into the weekend, especially up in the north bay. We will talk about that in a few minutes. Lets check in with sal and see if our thursday morning commute continues to roll along smoothly. It is not bad. As a matter of fact, as i look at the commutes that are the busiest right now on the east shore freeway, for example, you will see the traffic is 40 minute drive. I think i have the camera turned the wrong way. Thats my fought. Once you get to the bay bridge, you will see that traffic is backed up for a 20minute delay. 40 minutes for the east shore is not bad. Any higher than that and people may get on highway 24, which is something that people do. Weve been checking with highway 24. Its not all that bad. Ill show it to you on the map in just a moment. 880 looks okay into oakland. 80 south has will not slow. We had a couple of earlier things going on. Right now the slow traffic starts just after 2 38 and extends all the way down to stevenson before it gets better. Lets talk about the east bay commute because we talked about highway 24. Its a little bit slow in lafayette. And again near the tunnel. But still not at critical levels just yet. 7 03. Lets go back to the desk. Matt lauer is publicly apologizing after being fired by nbc yesterday following complaints of Sexual Harassment. Lauer issued a statement saying, im quoting, there are no words to express my sorrow owe and regret for the pain that i have caused others by my words and actions. To the people i have hurt, i am truly sorry. Lauer said he will work to repair the damage that he has done. Lauers final appearance on the today show was tuesday. Monday night, a Network Employee and her attorney met with executives to discuss what was called inappropriate behavior in the workplace. Since then, three more women have come forward to describe their own encounters with lauer. One woman said that lauer had assaulted her in his office in 2001. She said she didnt report it because she feared losing her job. Variety reports lauer gave another woman a sex toy. The show business publication reports that he exposed himself to another woman and chastised her for not responding. The owner of a downtown martinez gym in the meantime is facing charges of performing lewd acts with a child. Benjamin owns the Martinez Athletic Club on castro street. He has been booked on four separate counts of an account with a child under the age of 14. He and his wife have two sons and are involved in fundraising for the boys and girls club as well as sports teams. He is being held on 400,000 bail. We are just hearing this morning, michigan congressman john conyers who has been accused of Sexual Harassment has been admitted to a detroit hospital for stress related illness. As doug luzader reports from washington, the allegations prompted the house to pass new rules including antiSexual Harassment training for all member snooze an attorney for embattled john conyers says he is saying put, refusing to resign amid the allegations against him. When i was assaulted in the congressional office. Reporter one of his accusers says she had no recourse. I got to protection afterwards because congressman conyers covered the whole thing up. Reporter while the house signed off on new rules yesterday, requiring that all members have antiSexual Harassment training, some wagons are circling around conyers, protecting him, including members of the congressional black caucus. One member was asked why he wasnt held to the level of other male. Men in other industries have faced similar accusations and gotten out of the way, resigned, stepped down far faster than he has. Right . You would have to give me example. Harvey weinstein, charlie rose, matt lauer. Reporter in the senate, al franken accused of harassment is trying to hold on to his job. Republicans have their own issues including Alabama Senate candidate roy moore accused of Sexual Assault. President trump has offered his support but some republicans want moore out. For democrats there is frustration about franken and conyers and one was fed up and walked out of a meeting with congressional leaders. Lets talk about the big elephant in the room. Thats why i was done with the meeting. I dont have time for conversations that are not real. Doug luzader reporting there. As far as franken and conyers are concerned, ethics committees are looking into the allegations against them. For now the two men are staying put. The time is 7 07. The driver suspected in a deadly hit and run crash on interstate 80 last night is now facing charges of murder. He also faced charges of felony hit and run and drunk driving. Now the District Attorneys Office in Contra Costa County has filed four murder charges for the deaths. Jared horn was the only survivor in his car to come out of the crash. His father, his younger brother, his uncle and cousin all died. Fred lowe drove away from the crash scene but was arrested after another crash on the freeway that same night. Legal experts say murder charges are rare in fatal traffic crashes. They say in this case, the prosecution would have to prove that lowe knew his actions could result in deaths. Lowe has previous convictions for driving under the influence. Firefighters say that burning candles likely caused an Apartment Fire in santa rosa last night. No one was home when the fire gannon stone epoint road. Crews say there was smoke coming out of the door when they arrived. The fire was limited to one unit. It did about 60,000 in damage. No one was hurt. But the tenants who lived in the apartment are now looking for somewhere else to live. The time is 7 08. If you drive in San Francisco, you may soon see new parking meter rates that go up at peak times. Surge pricing is being considered by the mta for every parking meter in San Francisco. Ktvus rob malcolm is in San Francisco now with more on the proposed plan. Good morning, rob. Reporter yeah. Good morning, dave. There are over 30,000 parking meters in San Francisco. And theyre all in demand. This is what surge pricing is all about, supply and demand. If youve ever tried to park downtown, weve all been there before, circling the block, looking for parking. Surge pricing is supposed to alleviate those problems. Here is how the plan is being kicked around by the mta and could go into effect by 2018. It means that all 30,000 parking meters would have hourly rates based on demand and also on the neighborhood and time of day. The charges would be different based on the time of day and vary of course block by block. So if youre in the restaurant district or in the traveling in the evenings or weekends, you would be expected to pay a little more. Mta says surge pricing would make more parking available because people would park for shorter periods of time. There would be less circling the block and even park further away. The agency plans to vote on this in a week on tuesday. And surge pricing we know is already in effect in about 7,000 metered spaces in the city and also in all of the parking garages in San Francisco. We spoke to a few people this morning. And the plan is not being well received. Parking is ridiculous already. Youre paying a quarter for every four minutes. I mean, i have to take a stack of quarters like this every time we go out. We avoid places because of that. We dont go there anymore. I work for mta. But a lot of what they do is pricing people out of certain places. You dont agree with the surge pricing . Theyre planning to roll this out. I think it is too expensive already. I dont think surge pricing will make that big of a difference. Reporter all right. Thats just one mans opinion. If this sounds familiar, think of ubers surge pricing. This would work in a similar way. The prime times would be 9 00 a. M. To noon, noon to 3 00 p. M. And even 3 00 to 6 00 p. M. Or possibly later. That man we spoke to, mark, he actually works for the mta. I asked if he was worried about losing his job and he said no, im an engineer. They need me. That is one guys company. Not too happy about it. He is dialed in on what theyre planning do here. Rob malcolm in San Francisco, thank you. A group of 11 children taken into custody in san jose. In minutes the crime spree that police say they are responsible for and just how young the get away driver was. A new video from north korea of this. Reportedly their latest missile launch. We will tell you how President Trump is responding. Good morning. Its getting crowded out there in many commutes. This is the peak of the commute. You can see a nice picture of the bay bridge incline and also the suspension part as you drive into San Francisco. Once you get to that point, it looks good. But there are delays at the toll plaza. And lots of nice pictures this morning, including this one looking out towards the sunrise for your thursday morning. Look at that. Most of the bay area in the clear. Some patchy fog. Shaping up to be a nice thursday afternoon. But a few changes by the weekend. Welcome back to mornings on 2. It is now 7 14. North korea just released some new video what was it says is its latest missile launch. North korea says this launch proves every major u. S. City is now within its reach. President trump is encouraging all nations, including china, to cut diplomatic ties with north korea. At the same time, there are low level talks in washington between american and chinese officials. The pentagon says the talks have been scheduled for a long time. They are supposed to focus on how china and the United States would manage a large emergency on the korean peninsula. Now, early this morning, President Trump tweeted this the chinese envoy who just returned from north korea seems to have had no impact on little rocket man. Hard to believe that his people put up with living in such horrible conditions. President trump is still rallying republicans to pass tax reform legislation. He went to saint charles, missouri yesterday to get support. The bill cleared a hurdle in the senate, allowing the debate to again. The Congressional Budget Office says many low and middle income americans would eventually be worse off under the bill while the wealthy would get the bulk of the benefits. The president denies this. This is not good for me. Me, its i have some very wealthy friends. Not so happy with me. But thats okay. I keep hearing schumer, this is for the wealthy. Well, if it is, my friends dont know about it. There is no guarantee the bill will get through the senate. The gop can only lose two votes for it to pass. Among other things, there is opposition to a republican proposal to add a trigger that would reverse certain cut its Economic Growth falls short of projections. The time is 7 16. Lets get you over to sal who is watching our commute. Is everybody cooperating with you. We were just talking about mark tamayo. What were you saying. He is putting his feet up on the desk because the forecast is much like yesterday. No, he is not. He is making the forecast as we speak. You cant take that, mark. Busted. Mark is doing a great job. Lets go ahead and take a look at the traffic pictures. You will see the weather which is really nice and clear. For the most part, fog is not an issue for our morning commute. You dont have to worry about visibility. There is one spot where you might. I will tell you about that in a minute. Not here on highway 4. It looks good. Highway 24 is moving along okay right through the lafayette area. Its not too bad. The east shore freeway, 80 westbound. Actually, i like that shot. The east shore freeway, 42 minute drive. So highway 24 that we showed you is not adversely affected by 80. This is a look at about a 25 minute delay at the bay bridge toll plaza. You can see traffic is going to be okay. Southbound 880 is slow as it normally is. Driving from hayward to fro fremont. When you get over to the peninsula, it will be okay. Northbound 101 we still have the crash i told you about near capital expressway. Causing a little bit of slow traffic. Some people may be diverting on to highway 80. Now, as we go to mark, i will say this, mark, we talked about fog, mark, and it could be a little foggy in novato as you were saying. Novato, southern petaluma area. Yeah. That is the one there isnt a lot happening weatherwise, sal. But we have been tracking that. When you have a stable pattern like this, the fog forms and you could have great conditions, Something Like this, and then all of a sudden you encounter the fog bank. Instant drop off in visibility. Beautiful start to your thursday morning. Satellite showing you the storm track up to the norm. If it were to move to the south, of course that would increase our Work Activity in the weather center. At least for today, just tracking sunshine and scattered clouds working their way into the bay area right now. Pretty chilly. 30s up towards santa rosa. San francisco, 49. San jose checking in at 43 degrees. Live camera looking towards the Golden Gate Bridge. The marin head lands there. Beautiful lighting. Cold start this morning. Lots of sunshine this afternoon. Tomorrow, partly sunny. Saturday, more clouds working their way back into the bay area. Heads upper other. It is not stormy here but a lot of storms whipping up the surf. It is still here today. Waves around 10 to 15 feet. I saw mavericks breaking yesterday as well. Be careful if youre visiting the shoreline today because theres a lot of energy hitting the bay area coastline for today. Tapers off a little bit tomorrow. This area of High Pressure in charm of the weather pattern. With that were talking about sunshine for today and lots of 60s for afternoon highs. Heading towards friday, we will cool things off a little bit. Exaggerated the intensity of the system up to the north. This will influence our weather beginning tomorrow and into the weekend. And by saturday, we do bring in a chance of scattered rain showers. Here is our forecast model this afternoon. 3 00, more sunshine out there and into friday. Partly sunny skies. As we take this into your saturday, we will thicken up the cloud cover. Notice rain showers could be approaching the north bay area. Maybe a few rain drops saturday afternoon, 4 00. Still clouds by saturday night and into sunday morning. Rainfall if youre looking for significant rainfall, and we are, were not seeing much here as we take this into next week. These numbers not moving too much. Theyre not really moving at all. It looks like december will be starting off very dry across the bay area. Forecast highs informer this afternoon, mainly in the 60s. So these numbers a little bit warmer than yesterday. Most situations, san jose, 68. And half moon bay, 62 degrees. Look ahead at your fiveday forecast. We will cool things off a little bit into saturday. We will bring in the chance of a shower by the afternoon hours. Gasia. Thank you, mark. The time is 7 20. So much for drink and be merry. Coming up, a study that shows which emotions are tied to different types of alcohol. Up next, American Airlines is telling passengers not to worry about their upcoming holiday flights even though a glitch has left thousands of scheduled trips without pilots. How the airline is handling the shortage. Good morning. Welcome back to mornings on 2. It is now 7 23. The dow surged to a new record high, 24,000 this morning. Pam cook is back in the studio with what is affecting stocks and more in todays money business. You may not like what youre hearing about the tax reform plan but wall street does. Ahead of the senate vote, the dow shot up more than 100 points this morning to cross that 24,000 level for the First Time Ever. All three of the indexes are actually up just about 50 or a half of a percent that is. I mean half of a percent for most of them. They celebrated the Tree Lighting ceremony there on the opening bell this morning. But the numbers went straight up. Right now, taking a look at the live look at the dow. Again, up more than half of a percent. 135 points. 24,079. The s p 500, brandnew record there. 2638. Up almost half of a percent. The nasdaq is at 6859. A new study says nearly 30 billion worth of bit coin have reportedly vanished from the internet. Now, the study by fortune states that 7 to 23 of the popular currency have been lost or deleted. The big question is whether the currency is actually lost or just being hoarded by certain people. Yesterday, bit coin hit an all time high, rising above 11,000 on major exchanges. Well, tesla now denying reports about alleged flaws in its manufacturing process. Routers reports that 90 of the model s and model x suvs come off of the Assembly Line with flaws that need to be faced before going to the factory. It based it on interviews with workers. In response to the report, tesla told Business Inside they are it aims with for perfection with every one of the vehicle. Well, during this busy holiday season, we have learned that American Airlines needs to find pilots for thousands of flights. A scheduling mixup has left the airline without enough captains and copilots to fly the planes. The airline is not saying how many flights are expected. But the union says 15,000 were scheduled without a captain, copie another already both. The union says the problem was caused by an error in the system that pilots use to bid for time off. One pilot said the system actually give them the option to drop flights between december 17th and december 31st and most of them did. Now, the airline provided a statement this morning. It says, quote, we are working diligently to address the issue and expect to avoid cancellations this holiday season. We are paying pilot whos pick up certain trips 150 of their hourly rate. But travel experts saying this could certainly affect flights. There could certainly be problems during the very busy holiday flying season. We will be following this story. A lot of people very nervous. We will ask you in the question of the day, would you give up your Vacation Time for time and a half pay if you were one of the pilots . Let us know what you think by voting on twitter or ktvu. Com or leave comments for us on facebook. Thats a good question. The time is now 7 26. A ruling comes down after a controversy at an east bay high school. Up next, the decision by a federal judge after students posted racial posts on social media. Reporter plus, a lot of anxious parents here in this part of san jose as one School District considers closing a number of Elementary Schools. Why a lot of students may have to be moved to other campuses. Santa clara, theyre reporting temperatures in the upper 30s. Out towards pacifica, 40s. A few neighborhoods close to the 40degree mark for atherton and menlo park. For oakland, 48 to 50 degrees. As you work your way inland, cool numbers there in the 30sand 40sment up in the north bay, san rafael, 41. Petaluma, 37. The fog seems to be lifting a little bit. You see the current visibility reports about a mile and a half in novato. Yesterday it was close to zero at this time. Golden gate bridge is in the clear for your thursday morning. Lots of sunshine for today. Partly sunny tomorrow. We will thicken up the clouds heading into the weekend. Today, lots of blue sky up there for the afternoon hours. Temperatures could be maybe a little bit warmer. But about the same as yesterdays highs. Forecast highs around 63 in San Francisco to 68 in san jose. We will update your weekend forecast in a few minutes. Lets check in with sal right now who has an update on the roadway, inspecting every roadway sensor. Is that right, sal . Thats rightment the thats right. The roadway sensors are giving us a time. The east bay freeway, you start the timer at the carquinez bridge and ends at the macarthur maze. That is a little less than an hour. But when you get to the bay bridge, you have to wait another 20 minutes. So there you go, more than an hour to get into San Francisco. More like an hour and a half driving into the city. If youre driving on 880 southbound, it looks okay, heading down towards the oakland coliseum. This is San Francisco. Northbound 101 slows from the 280 interchange and gets better after cesar chavez. In the east bay on 880, that has been filled in. And the dumbarton bridge in the last 15 or 20 minutes started getting slow from all the way across the newark side to east palo alto. No major issues on the bayshore freeway. Look at all of the south bay freeways, theyre all filled in. 7 33. Back to the desk. Thank you, sal. A federal judge ruled that Albany High School properly disciplined most of the students involved in a scandal over racial posts on social media. Nine students sued the School District because they were suspended in connection with the post. Now, the controversy started back in march, when administrators at Albany High School found out about racist images posted on the students private instagram account. They included nooses drawn around the necks of African American students. The students sued the district saying their free speech rights were violated. Yesterday the judge ruled that the School District was within its right to discipline the students because of the turmoil created at the school. 11 children arrested in san jose are facing charges for several crimes. The children, some as young as 11, might be involved in several armed robberies, carjackings and burglaries. At least three children were involved in police chases. In one case, there was an 11 yearold behind the wheel. Authorities are investigating more than a dozen crimes, part of what they say is a growing problem with youth violence. I will say that this is a trend that were seeing more and more of, groups of juveniles who commit a really large number of Violent Crimes in a very small period of time. And it is quite alarming. Authorities say theyre not sure how the crimes are connected or whether they may be gang related. But 11 children, both male and female, have been booked into the juvenile detention center. Some have been released to the custody of their parents. John bevins, is due in court today to be arraigned. U. S. Marshals captured him in san leandro last week. He was rearrested a few days after his alleged accomplice, 46yearold mcclough was captured in stockton. Bevins could get ten years in jail if convicted. A bill that would allow people out of state to carry guns in california has cleared a major hurdle. It was passed by republicans yesterday. It would require every state to recognize concealed carry permits. The time is now 7 35. A leaking gas line in San Francisco that triggered an explosion on monday has been fixed now. But the people affected by it, theyre still picking up the pieces. A gofundme account has been set up for the elderly couple whose apartment was damaged in the explosion. We just checked it. So far, more than 2,000 has been raised. Carmen and carlos had to move out while their unit is being repaired. They say their only car was also wrecked in that explosion. Along with their belongings. Now, the explosion caused moderate damage to the building. It blew out the front windows, as you can see. But no one was hurt. The cause of the leak and the explosion is still being investigated. Now to the south bay where some parents are worried this morning that their childrens schools will close due to budget problems. Ktvus alex savidge is live in san jose. Thats where cuts could be coming to the oak grove School District. Reporter yeah. Gasia, good morning to you. Schools will be closing here. It is just a question now which schools will be shut down. We are here at miner Elementary School. One of eight school thats has been put on a list. Possible school thats may have to be closed because of budget issues here. The district here in south san jose is planning to close down a number of Elementary Schools and move those students to other campuses. The goal is to save money as the oak grove School District deals with a serious budget deficit. Ultimately the district is planning to close between three and five Elementary Schools in the neighborhood. The process has left a lot of families feeling anxious, wondering where their children will wind up. Also a tough time for staff members, including Deborah Metzger who works in the cafeteria here at miner Elementary School. For them to be put out here and put out there and, you know, its going to be hard. Its going to be hard on them. And thats the main concern. These students.  reporter now, here is a map that shows you all of the eight Elementary Schools that potentially could be closed as part of this consolidation effort by the district. Anderson elementary, baldwin elementary, frost elementary, glider elementary, oak ridge elementary, Saint Theresa elementary and miner elementary, where we are this morning. Parents have had a number of opportunities to weigh in during this process about which schools they believe should remain open. There is another you can approximate lick meeting the district is holding that will happen this coming monday. Alex, i know it is early but are you getting a sense that theyre being closed due taunted performing affect under performing academics . Reporter we havent talked to the district yet. It is difficult to reach people at this hour with the School District. Not clear on the specifics of this. We know that they have had ongoing budget issues, running budget deficit that theyre trying to deal with. It sounds like theyre trying to deal with it in other ways. But ultimately they will have to consolidate some of the schools. Now theyre trying to figure out which ones they will close. And obviously it will have a huge impact on students and families when you talk about a child who may have gone to their local Elementary School that was a few blocks away. Now they may have to travel even further to get to school. Thank you, alex. The time is 7 39. The man who was severally burned in the north bay wildfires has died. Now the death toll is 44. Michelle szarian lived in santa rosa and was being treated for burns on 80 of his body. An online tributes, friends said that he was an engineer who recently moved to santa rosa from san jose. Hundreds of San Francisco Police Officers and many others attended a benefit concert last night for an officer critically injured by a fleeing suspect. The benefit concert was at the bill graham auditorium and raised money for the officer and his family. He was on bicycle patrol back on october 18th when he was hit by a car driven by a man who was racing away from police. The officer suffered a severe brain injury and is in a Rehabilitation Center currently. When theres a need, we all step up. You know, its this is just an example of it. He is incredible. He is the funniest guy ever. If he was here right now, he would be making fun of my hat and shoes. He and his wife had to take a leave of absence as a teach tore be by his side as he recovers. A gofundme account for the family has raised 100,000. We have an update for you this morning on a bike designed for students with special needs. It was stolen in danville over the holiday weekend. Well, it has been found. Police found it yesterday in an open space near walnut creek. This is a specially made tricycle. It was stolen from the continuation high school. No word yet about any arrests but we have been told the bicycle is having minor repairs before it is taken back to the school. The time is 7 40. A movement started by former 49ers quarterback kaepernick. But a pledge by the nfl to get players to stand for the National Anthem coming up at 8 00. How millions of dollars will be spent on social justice issues. We know we all can be affected by stress. It is really unhealthy for pregnant women. Now a study shows that stress can even affect the unborn baby. We will show you how. Good morning. Highway 24 westbound looks okay. It is getting a little bit more crowded as 80 starts getting crowded as well. We will update both freeways straight ahead. And in weather, the sun is up and lots of sunshine. A cool start though this morning. Look at this beautiful camera looking out towards the Richmond San Rafael bridge. A few high clouds pay us a visit. We will talk about the shower chances coming up this weekend in the outlook. Sorry. I cant make it. Its just my eczema again, but its fine. Yeah, its fine. You ok . Eczema. Its fine. Hey hi arent you hot . Eczema again . Its fine. I saw something the other day. Eczema exposed. Your eczema could be something called atopic dermatitis, which can be caused by inflammation under your skin. Maybe you should ask your doctor . Go to eczemaexposed. Com to learn more. If you got a flu shot this year, you might be disappointed by its effectiveness. It is developed in a year in advance with experts trying to predict which strains will hit. This shot was 10 effective in australia. The country saw one of the most severe flu seasons ever with a significant increase in hospitalizations and deaths. The same formula is used here in the United States. Health Officials Say that should not discourage people from getting the shot because it can make symptoms less severe if you get the flu. It can also help you building up longterm immunity. A new study from uc San Francisco saying the stress on a pregnant woman can affect her baby after birth. Researchers measured stress levels in women between three and six months pregnant. Then they compared stress levels of babies born to mothers with high stress to babies born to mothers with lower stress. The babies with the high stress mothers had higher stress levels themselves. And problems with their nervous systems. They smiled less, and they recovered from stress slower. Scientists say they dont know if that will have a longterm effect on the children. A new study says the type of alcoholic beverage you drink may be directly connected to your mood. Researchers surveyed some 30,000 young drinkers and found 60 that drank yager and red bull felt a sense of confidence and energy. One in three felt aggression. Whereas drinking white wine left people with a headache and a case of the blues. The goal of the study is to remind people of the wide range of emotion thats drinking may cause. That is interesting. I wont even bring that up to sal. We are going to focus on the commute. Thats right. Yeah. My beverage of choice right now is coffee. There you go. Lets go out and see as you head out to the roads, you might want to grab a cup of joe to go if you drink cover i it is a 51minute drive from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze. When you get to the bay bridge, you will see another 20minute delay. Youre talking about in total lets say youre driving from vallejo to San Francisco, it is taking an hour and a half which is a steep toll there. 101 San Francisco looks okay approaching the 80 split. We have seen slow traffic on the nimitz freeway. We have been checking 680 for you southbound out of the dublin interchange heading south. Slow traffic there. And also the commute in the south bay. 85 is the slowest. But all of the freeways are slow getting into that west valley. And there is 280 in san jose getting up to highway 17. Coming up next time, we will check out your approach to the Richmond Bridge which is growing in length. Now it is 7 46. Lets bring in mark tamayo. Good morning, sal. A nice start to your thursday morning. Just want to bundle up out there. Temperatures in the 30sand 40s. Love the camera looking towards the Richmond San Rafael bridge. Dave, that island in the mid portion of the span there, a little random trivia fact. We have three counties that touch that island, converge on that island. Youre kid. Marin, San Francisco and Contra Costa County. I didnt know that. Every time that you drive by think that three counties converge on that island. A neat factoid. A few high clouds around the bay area. The main storm track, it is way up to our north. Remember we had rain sunday night and into early monday morning. Our next chance of rain wont be much. Saturday up in the north bay. Current numbers, santa rose a38 degrees. San francisco, 50 degrees. San jose, 43. And livermore, checking in 40. Yesterday at this time we were tracking some real dense fog out there. Still fog patches. Lets check out novato. The number has gone down to a quarter of a mile. One of those deals that you can have excellent visibility and encounter the fog bank around novato and highway 37. Factor that into your travel for the short term f youre visiting the coast or you did yesterday, you probably saw a lot of white water. Waves 10 to 15 feet. Be careful because a lot of energy is approaching the bay area coast right now. High pressure still in command of our weather. More sunshine for today. Lots of 60s. A little bit of drop off in the numbers for friday. More cooling by the weekend. Saturday we have a chance of shower. Best chance is up in the north bay. So here we are this afternoon 4 00 p. M. We will take this into your friday. Probably just partly cloudy skies throughout the day. More clouds definitely into saturday. Wont be sunny. Mostly cloudy for saturday. And we have rain approaching the Mendocino County area, up towards ukiah and santa rosa. There is a chance of a light shower, especially up in the north bay. This fizzles out for the rest of the bay area late saturday afternoon and saturday night. And then sunday we will probably start out with clouds. In terms of significant rainfall, tomorrow we begin a new month for december. We typically could be talking about significant rain. Not the case. Were taking this all the way into next week. This forecast model keeping us for the most part dry for a good portion of the period. We have to keep an eye on saturday. Forecast highs for today mainly in the 60s. These numbers about the same as yesterday. Could be a little bit warmer in a few spots. Look ahead, your fiveday forecast. Pretty good tomorrow. Lots of clouds on saturday. The best chance of a shower will be up in the north bay saturday. Maybe a few sprinkles San Francisco to oakland. Keep that in mind if youre looking for a tree or doing holiday shopping. Thank you, mark. The time is 7 49 the warriors beat the lakers in overtime 127123. The shot clock. Somebody has got to cut. Rolling again. Setting up draymond. How pretty is that . Zaza had fun. The warriors controlled things early but the lakers came back and forced the game into overtime. Kevin durant and steph curry were back after missing games with injuries. Curry hit a clutch shot in overtime. Playing pretty well there. Hes got another one. Yeah. And he bring its back. They knew it was him. He knew. Afterwards, steph was talking about having three air balls. Anyway, curry had 28 points. The warriors won in overtime 127123. They go to orlando. They will play the magic tomorrow. The time now is 7 50. Concerns about new parking rules there. Coming up at 9 00, why neighbors fear this could cause confusion monitorrists. Plus, giving santa claus a helping hand. Here he comes. How to help kids reach old saint nick just in time for christmas. Welcome back to mornings on 2. It is 7 53. This saturday marks one year since the devastating ghost ship warehouse fire in oakland where 36 people died. We hope you will join us this weekend for a 2 investigates special report on the aftermath of that deadly night and how families are honoring their loved ones. It is saturday night, 6 30 on ktvu plus. Best selling author emma climb is being sued for plagiarism in federal court. It claim thats part of the girls was actually written by her exboyfriend. The suit says she got those sections by spying on his e mail and social media account. It also claims the publisher knew the book included plagiarism when it published the girls. She is counter suing saying the charges are ludicrous, calling them the acts of a mangal us of her success. The girls tell the story of a 14yearold involved in a 1960s cult similar to the map son family. It was published last year and spent 12 weeks on the best sellerss list. A Christmas Gift wish list for amazon is helping needy families for the holiday season. Women in jail will be able to pick out and wrap gifts for their children thanks to the wish list. Organizers say the gifts are often the only thing thats these children will get for christmas. Facebook may soon demand a selfie after finding suspicious activity on your account. Some users have seen a prompt asking them to upload a photo that clearly shows their face. It guarantees that facebook will check the picture and permanently delete it from the servers. It will help them catch suspicious activity. The time is 7 55. We met with an oakland Hip Hop Group that just earned its first grammy nomination. The category was best musical album for children. [music] let the sunshine in theyre called the alphabet rockers. They created their Grammy Nominated album at zoo labs in west oakland. The title is rise, shine, hashtag woke. The core members are three adults with collaborators that include students. The artists are thrilled with the grammy nomination. It lets them have a bigger platform to deliver their message. It is time to Start Talking about skin color and bias and how to interrupt that. It is not about one color of skin, one language. Its about how can we feel something together and how can we interrupt our pattern so we move together. I like when she says that. The alphabet rockers perform every week at schools, libraries and other venues. The next public concert will be december 9th in oakland at the social justice book fair. And then on january 28th, they will be in new york city for the grammy awards. The San Francisco post office will once again offer its secret Santa Program this year. It tries to ease traffic at the north pole and collect letters for santa at its own distribution center. Anyone who wants to be a secret santa can go from 11 00 a. M. To 1 00 p. M. Starting today through december 19th. The post office has a process for anyone who wants to send a response or a package to protect the safety and identity of the children and families involved. The time now is 7 57. A gym owner in the east bay has been arrested. We will tell you about allegations he is facing involving a minor. Also booking a flight for the holidays is hard even. Even harder for American Airlines to make sure that the flights get to where they need to go. The shortage the airline is dealing with. Disturbing new allegations against matt lauer. As more accusers start to come forward. What the disgraced today show host has to say as he issues his first apology. American Airlines Scrambling to clean up a glitch in the scheduling system. If not, how it could play a role in your Holiday Travel plans. Mornings on 2 continues now. This is ktvu mornings on 2. Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Im mike mibach. Im gasia mikaelian. We did the whole 30 days half past september. Tomorrow begins a whole new month. It doesnt feel like the end of november, beginning of december. Yeah. Especially walking outside in the afternoon. This is nice. It is nice. Exactly. It looks like another nice forecast for today with more sunshine out there. The hills starting to green up a bit. This is looking towards san rafael. The look we had a few weeks ago, at least the brownish dry look, things have changed a bit with the recent rainfall. Looking better across portions of the north bay. Also tracking fog out there as well. Lake tahoe forecast, here is the deal if youre heading there this weekend. Lots of sunshine for friday. Saturday, we will thicken up the clouds. Partly sunny skies into sunday. Base, two to three feet. They are likely making more snow as it is cold enough in the sierra. Here is our satellite showing you this. Clouds approaching the north coast of california. We just have maybe a few high clouds. Drifting overhead. As we check in on some of the current numbers we have right now, santa rosa warming up to 40 degrees. San jose, in the upper 40s. 47. I have been tracking the fog around the area as well. Lets check it out. It has improved quite a bit over the past hour or so. It looks like the fog is beginning to lift. We have been tracking that all morning long in portions of the north bay. 9 00 this morning, 40 to 52 degrees. And then into the afternoon hours, low to mid60s. Forecast highs today maybe a touch warmer compared to yesterday. These are tiny changes. Lots of sunshine for today. A few extra clouds for tomorrow. The weekend, we could be talking about more shower chances. We will have the chances coming up in a few minutes. Lets check in with sal right now. He is standing by. Youre checking on everything right up to your update. Yeah. Because sometimes things happen and, you know, you want to get it in. Yeah. Before my next traffic report, which is ten minutes away. Im not looking at anything unusual. But i am looking at slow traffic on highway 4. Were going to start there. You can see it on the maps. Highway 4 is slow and so is 680 through concord and into alamo and danville. There is where the camera is and where highway 4 what the camera sees, highway 4 coming up and over the willow pass grade. It is getting a little better now were into the 8 00 hour or it should any way. Here is a look at highway 24. That is also showing improvement here. Ill show you the traffic at the bay bridge toll plaza is backed up for 25 minutes. We have slow traffic still for about 45 minutes on the commute from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze. As we look at the east bay commute, traffic has been pretty filled in here between hayward and fremont, which is not unusual. In all of the commutes to the valley. If youre just looking for a general meter of things, traffic is slow. No major crashes here. 280 has improved through downtown. 8 03, back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Matt lauer issuing a statement following his termination from nbc because of Sexual Harassment complaints. This morning he sent out a written apology said some of what is being said about me is untrue. But there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashames. He says repairing the damage done is now his fulltime job. His final appearance on the today show was tuesday. On monday night, a Network Employee and her attorney met with nbc executives to discuss what was called inappropriate behavior in the workplace. Since then, at least three more women have come forward to describe their encounters with lauer. One woman who talked with the New York Times said that lauer had assaulted her in his office back in 2001. She said she did not report it because she feared losing her job. Variety reports that lauer gave another woman a sex toy. The show business newspaper report thats lauer exposed himself to another woman and chastised her for not responding. And Minnesota Public Radio fired the long time host of a prairie home companion for, quote, improper behavior. He departed obviously the wrong video there. He created the show and says the incident involved him putting his hands on a womans bare back while trying to console him. He verbally apologized and also apologized in an email that he and the woman remained friends until he heard from her lawyer. He says at 75 years old, he has no interest in, quote, arguing about this. All right. New at 8 00, russ i will simmonsis stepping down from his company after being accused of Sexual Assault. This follows a column in the Hollywood Reporter that accused him of forcing her to have sex with him back in 1991. This morning he released a statement saying, quote, while her evening of that her memory of that evening is different than mine, he is removing himself from the business because he does not want to be a distraction and will focus on personal growth. John conyers has been admitted to a detroit hospital for a stress related illness. The 88yearold conyers is at least one of two members being accused of sexual miss conduct. He returned to detroit this week. As doug luzader reports from washington, the allegations prompted the house to pass new rules requiring antiSexual Harassment training for all member snooze the wave of allegations has raised important questions about how society at large handles allegations of sexual misconduct. But also whether elected officials should be held to the same standard as others. An attorney for embattled michigan congressman john con years says he is refusing to resign despite the allegations against him. When i was sexually violently assaulted in the congressional office. She said she had no recourse. I got no protection afterwards because congressman conyers covered that whole thing up. Reporter and while the house did sign off on new rules yesterday requiring that all members have antiSexual Harassment training, some wagons are circling around conyers, protecting him, including members of the congressional black caucus. One member was asked why he wasnt held to the same standard as other high profile figures. Other men in other industries have faced similar accusations and gotten out of the way, resigned, stepped down far faster than he has. Right . You would have to give me examples. Harvey weinstein, charlie rose, matt lauer. Who elected them . In the senate, democrat al franken also accused of harassment is trying to hold on to his job. Republicans have their own issues, including Alabama Senate candidate roy moore accused of Sexual Assault and harassment. While President Trump has offered support, other Republican Leaders want moore out. For some democrats there is mounting frustration about conyers and franken and at least one democratic lawmaker was fed up and walked out of a meeting with congressional leaders. But lets talk about the big elephant in the room. And thats why i was done with the meeting. I dont have time for conversations that are not real. Reporter and as far as franken and conyers are concerned who are currently members of congress, ethics committees are looking into the allegations. For now, they are staying put. In washington, doug luzader, fox news. The owner of a downtown martinez gym faces charges of a lewd act on a child. He has been booked into county jail on four separate counts of lewd act on a child under the age of 14. He and his wife have two sons and are involved in fundraising for the boys and girls clubs and sports teams. He is being held on 400,000 bond. This will be day six of deliberations by the jurors in the kate steinle murder case. The jury started deliberations before the thanksgiving weekend. During the trial, prosecutors told the jury that jose ynez Garcia Zarate intentionally slot and killed kate steinle as she was walking on pier 14 in San Francisco two years ago. Defense lawyers say the shooting was an accident. Jurors are being asked to decide if jose ynez Garcia Zarate committed manslaughter, first or Second Degree murder or didnt commit a crime at all. Many Airline Passengers are worried after American Airlines announced a potential Pilot Shortage problem. A computer glitch has left thousands of flights without pilots during the upcoming holiday season. Cristina rendon has more on what it could mean for you if you have a flight. Reporter blame it on a computer glitch. Roughly 15,000 American Airline flights have no pilot assigned to them between the Christmas Holiday and the new year. A surprise to travelers at sfo. It is very hectic and unfortunate for all of us. Reporter the shortage was caused by an error in the system pilots use to bid for time off according to the allied pilots or association, the union that represents American Airlines pilots. The glitch granted time off more than allowed during december 17th and december 31st. An American Airlines captain told Yahoo Finance that the pilots were given the opportunity to drop trips during the Christmas Holiday, so most did. I think they will have to resolve this. They will figure it out. Im pretty confident about this. Reporter a spokesperson for american tells ktvu that they are offering pilots 150 of their hourly rate to pick up open trips. Part of a statement reads, we are working diligently to express the issue and hope to avoid cancellations this holiday season. Travelers hope the airline keeps its word. Just knowing that the airlines are not as good as they should be on their promises. I cant really tell if they would be. Reporter the apa has filed a grievance, saying that management did not consult with the union and created the solution in violation of the pilots contract. American airlines will work with the apa to take care of pilots and ensure that customers get to where they need to go over the holidays. Cristina rendon, ktvu fox 2 news. And our question of the day is would you give up your vacation tore time and a half pay . 32 say yes. 68 say no. Let us know what you think by voting on the ktvu twitter page or ktvu. Com. And you can also comment on the ktvu facebook page. Concerns surrounding new parking rules. The reason that many neighbors fear it could cause confusion among visitors. Surge pricing on the citys parking meters is suppose today make life easier for drivers. Some people say it rewards people with deep pockets. We will let you know just ahead. The time is 8 14. A federal judge ruled that Albany High School properly disciplined most of the students involved in a scandal over racial posts on social media. Nine students sued the School District because they were suspended in connection with the posts. The controversy started in march when administrators at albany high found out about racist images posted on a students private instagram account. They included nooses drawn around the necks of African American students. The student whos sued the district said their free speech rights had been violated. But yesterday the judge ruled that the School District was within its rights to discipline the students because of the turmoil that the posts created at school. If you drive in San Francisco, you may soon see new parking meter rates that go up at peak times. Surge pricing is being considered by the mta for every parking meter in the city. Rob malcolm is in San Francisco with more on the proposed plan. Reporter surge pricing would be a first in San Francisco and also in the u. S. And it really is all about supply and demand. If youve ever wanted to park in the city and used one of the meters, you know that parking can be a challenge. So the plan being floated around by the mta could come into effect by the year 2018. What it means is that all of the citys meters would have hourly rated based on demand and the time of day. The charges would be based on the time of day and even vary by block. If if youre in the restaurant district or traveling on the weekends and evenings, you would expected to pay more. The mta says it would make more parking available because people would choose to park for shorter amounts of time or further away if they couldnt afford to park at the meters. Surge pricing is already in effect at 7,000 metered spaces in the city and also in all of the citys parking garages. We spoke to a few people this morning and told them about the idea. And it wasnt being well received. A lot of what they do is pricing people out of going certain places. So you dont agree with the surge pricing . I mean, theyre planning on rolling this out. I think it is all too expensive already. So i dont think that surge pricing is going to make that big of a difference. I dont think it is fair. People pay a lot of money. Some people are on a budget. It is hard to its hard when you are on a budget and you cant afford everybody dont have debit and credit cards and stuff. What are we supposed to do . What do people do that dont have the money . Reporter now, if this sounds familiar, think of uber. Surge pricing works in a similar way. The prime times would be 9 00 a. M. To noon, noon to 3 00 p. M. And even 3 00 to 6 00 p. M. Or later. So the idea not very popular for some people in the city that already feel that parking is a challenge. In San Francisco, rob malcome, ktvu fox 2 news. Across the golden gate in marin county people who live near mere woods says new parking rules may cause parking confusion. Starting in january, they must have a parking reservation. Neighbors turned out to a meeting on tuesday to hear about the parking reservation system. Those that dont make reservations may end up circling their neighborhoods looking for a place to park if they are turned away from the parking lot. The Parks Service says it will allow them to meter and reduce the number of visitors to the park. Lets help you get out the door. Sal castaneda has been doing that since 4 00 a. M. Sal. Thats right. And things have changed since then, gasia. Of course at 4 00, it is pretty light. The peak of the commute is between 6 00 and 8 00 or so and then it gets better. It is now down to 38 minutes to drive from the carquinez bridge to the maze. It was up to almost an hour. Up to about 51 minutes at one point. So things are Getting Better. Yesterday, my suspicions were confirmed when i was talking to someone and she told me that her commute has been lighter this last week than it normally is. She wasnt talking about last week either. She is talking about it is lighter than most of october and september. So things might finally start to even out as we get close to the Christmas Holiday. This is a look at the westbound bay bridge. Backed up to the maze. Still a 15 to 20minute delay here. If youre driving on interstate 880 it is looking okay as you drive through. As we look at the east bay, southbound 880 is pretty slow. Northbound 880 was slow approaching the coliseum. San francisco has been uneventful. It doesnt mean there isnt any slow traffic. 101 is slow from about silver avenue to cesar chavez. 8 19. Lets bring in mark tamayo. Good morning, sal. Temperatures in the 30s and the 40s. Look towards the transamerican pyramid in San Francisco and the bay waters. We have a little bit of a breeze out there. Nothing too major for your thursday. Thinking about lake tahoe. Right now it is 24 degrees in secretary lake tahoe. Looking good for friday. A few extra clouds this weekend for saturday and sunday. The base is 20 inches at borell. But there is the ski and snow report for your thursday. The first one of the season. The first day of the season were talking about the snow in the sierra. As far as the main rain line, it is up to the north, towards oregon. Lets check in with the current numbers right now. Santa rosa, 40. Fairfield, 37. Chilly there. And concord checking in at 43. Visibles have improved dramatically over the past hour or so. We have been tracking patches of dense fog all morning long, from 4 00 this morning. But as you can pick out here, not too bad with improving visibility. In fact, great visibility looking towards the Golden Gate Bridge right now. So mostly sunny skies for today. For your friday, partly sunny. And then on saturday, we will thicken up the clouds throughout the day. We could be tracking rain chances, especially up in the north bay. At least for today, the main storm track really not here. More sunshine this afternoon. Temperatures in the 60s. A touch cooler for your friday. And then more cooling by the weekend. And by saturday, this is the day that we could be tracking a few showers working their way back into Northern California as a weak system moves in. Here we are today. Thursday, 4 00 p. M. , more sunshine. A few high clouds for friday. Partly cloudy. Then by the weekend, definitely clouds. So saturday will not be sunny. And here we go with the rain chance. This is 5 00 p. M. Highest chance is up in the north bay. This is not a lot. But this is saturday and into the evening hours. Maybe a few sprinkles working their way into San Francisco and oakland. Definitely a cloud producer across the bay area. And then we will begin to scale back on the clouds heading towards sunday. This is typically the time of year heading into december where we could be tracking significant rainfall. Were looking long range here. Keep an eye on today and taking this into next week. These numbers not moving too much. The bulk of the rainfall focused up to the north and eureka. Not a lot of rainfall. December will be starting out dry. We will see how long the dry pattern lasts. Forecasts today in the 60s for San Francisco and ante affect. Gilroy, 67. A look ahead. We will look at saturday. A shower chance, especially towards santa rosa, hillsberg, up towards ukiah as well. If youre heading up there. But what is a little bit of a concern is these models keeping us dry until even the first first half of december. First half. First couple weeks of december. Anything beyond six or seven days are pretty skeptical. But that could easily change. Were not seeing any signs of a strong storm yet. All right. Thank you, mark. With that, well be right back after the break. North korea released video that it says is from the latest missile launch. North korea says the launch proves every major u. S. City is now within its reach. President trump is encouraging all nations including china to put diplomatic ties. At the same time there are low level talks in washington between american and chinese leaders. The talks have been scheduled for a long time and are supposed to focus on how china and the United States would manage a large emergency on the korean peninsula. President trump tweeted earlier this morning that the chinese envoy that just returned from north korea seems to have had no impact on little rocket man. Hard to believe his people and the military put up with living in hoarib conditions. President trump is still rallying republicans to pass tax reform legislation. He went to saint charles, missouri yesterday to get support. It allowed the debate to begin by clearing in the senate. The Congressional Budget Office says many low and middle income americans would eventually be worse off under the bill. While the wealthy would get the bulk of benefits. The president denies that. This is not good for me. Me, its not i have some very wealthy friends. Not so happy with me. Thats okay. I keep hearing schumer, this is for the wealthy. Well, if it is, my friends dont know about it. Theres no guarantee the bill will get through the senate. The gop can only afford to lose two votes for it to pass. Among other things there, is opposition to a republican proposal to add a trigg they are would reverse certain cuts if Economic Growth falls short of projections. The dow shot up 150 points to cross the 24,000 level for the First Time Ever just this morning. Morning. Still to come, it is a movement that was started by former 49ers quarterback kaepernick. But a pledge this morning by the nfl to try to get players to stand up for the National Anthem. How millions of dollars will be spent on social justice issues. Reporter plus, theres a lot of concern among parents in this part of san jose as one School District says it is going to be forced to shut down a number of Elementary Schools. We will tell you about the schools that could be closed and why this is all happening, coming up. Good morning. You can see that we do have slowing in many areas, including highway 101. We will tell you more about the marin county commute coming up. And in weather, the sun is up and looking like a nice thursday out there with the fog already starting to lift. We will talk about the forecast highs for today and also talk about maybe some showers chances in a few days. The time is 8 30. If you had things that you wanted to get done in november, do them today. It is the last day of the month, the 30th. Im gasia mikaelian. Good morning. Im mike mibach. As we start december, a big Football Game tomorrow. Is that right. A pac12 Football Game at levis stadium. 5 00 kickoff. Very nice tomorrow. If youre planning any outdoor activities, were looking great today and tomorrow. Saturday there is a weak system that could produce a few rain showers out there. But this weekend will not be a washout. This morning is on the cool side. Temperatures starting out in the 30sand 40s. You can see on the satellite high clouds approaching the coast of Northern California. I always talk about this area because i used to work up here, towards eureka and arcata. For us, the live doppler sweeps trying to detect rainfall. Nothing for today. Nothing for tomorrow. But by saturday, saturday afternoon, we could be tracking a few showers. Current numbers, 30s still in fairfield. 37. Livermore, 43. San jose, 47. San francisco, 51 degrees. For today, a day much like yesterday, mostly sunny skies. 60 to 65. By 4 00 later today. So here is the forecast model. Essentially just showing high clouds working their way across the bay area. And temperatures this afternoon mainly in the 60s with more sunshine this afternoon. We will update your fiveday forecast in a few minutes. Sal is standing by. Sal, you were asking me about the term fair skies in weather forecast. I thought about you as i was crossing the bay bridge and i saw a few high clouds and i thought thats what i would call fair skies. Sunny but a couple of clouds. Yeah. As steve likes to say, not severe clear. Not severe clear. Right. Thank you, mark. Were going to start off with a look at the marin county commute. It was slow through central san rale. If you wait around, the traffic has been good from the 580. Driving to the Golden Gate Bridge, a nice clear shot of traffic coming out of the Robin Williams tunnel down to the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza. Looking at the commute in the east bay. Highway 4 is slow but improving quite a bit. You can see that our camera is at the willow pass grade showing us the last bit of slow traffic that shows up coming over the hill to concord. Westbound 24 however is a little slower as you drive through lafayette. When you get to the bay bridge or if youre driving on the east shore, 33 minutes. It keeps Getting Better and better. At the bay bridge toll plaza. It is about a 20minute delay. 8 32. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you, sal. There ray lot of anxious parents in san jose as a district plans to close several Elementary Schools because of budget issues. Alex savidge is live in san jose with what is being considered at the district. Alex. Reporter good morning, mike and gasia. This School District in south san jose is considering to shut down as many as three Elementary Schools. This is one of the schools that could be closed. In talking with district officials here a short time ago, they say the big issue is declining enrollment. They have a lot of empty classrooms so theyre trying to consolidate. They have identified eight school thats may have to be shut down. Miner Elementary School is one of them. The goal is to save money as the oak grove School District deals with a 12 million budget deficit. Officials say there have already been layoffs to administrative positions and nonteaching positions to try to close the gap. Ultimately the district is going to be closing three Elementary Schools in this part of san jose. The whole process has left a lot of parents feeling quite anxious, wondering where they children might wind up. I believe that its going to be a very close call. From the meetings that weve had, its were pretty number one up there. So i i feel for a lot of the parents that are not going to be able to have a car to drive them across town. Reporter and here is a map showing all eight of those Elementary Schools that could potentially be closed as part of this effort to consolidate and save money. Anderson elementary, baldwin elementary, frost elementary, grader elementary, oak ridge elementary, Santa Theresa elementary, and miner elementary, where we are this morning. Parents have had a chance to weigh in during this process. Other meeting is scheduled for this coming monday. And ultimately, mike and gasia, district officials are hoping to select the school thats will be closed by the end of this year. All right. Thank you, alex. The Oakland Alameda coliseum is meeting today to discuss the future of the coliseum complex property. The raiders lease expires at the end of next season but the stadium in vegas wont be ready until 2020. The board will discuss the proposed oakland as ballpark near Laney College and the impact that move could have on the coliseum property. New this morning, nfl players have reached an agreement with the league on a plan to address social justice issues. According to espn, the league will contribute 89 million over seven years to programs dealing with criminal Justice Reform and relations. It is a way to solve the pregame protest during the National Anthem. It does not require players to end the protests. But the league is hoping that this effort will persuade them to end the controversial movement. That was started there by former 49er quarterback kaepernick when he refused to stand for the anthem. A driver suspected in a deadly hit and run crash last saturday night is now facing murder charges. Fred lowe already faced charges of felony hit and run and drug driving. Now the District Attorneys Office has filed four murder charges for the deaths. Jared horn was the only person in his car to survive the crash. His father, younger brother, uncle and cousin all died. Fred lowe drove away from the crash scene but was arrested after another crash on the freeway that same night. Legal experts say murder charges are rare in fatal traffic collisions. They say in this case, the prosecution would have to prove that lowe knew his actions could result in deaths. Lowe has previous convictions for driving under the influence. A second young woman has now died after a thanksgiving day car crash in livermore that also killed a 16yearold girl. Family members tell us 25year old Alexis Garcia died yesterday at Eden Medical Center in castro valley. Last night her family and friends held a prayer vigil in downtown livermore. She graduated from. Nat ahigh school in 2010. 16yearold Violet Campbell of pleasanton was also killed in the crash. On monday, the 26thyearold woman believed to be driving the car that they were riding in was arrested on suspicion of felony drunk driving and Second Degree murder. 11 children arrested in san jose are facing charges for several crimes. Authorities say the children, some as young as 11, might be involved in several armed robberies, carjackings, and burglaries. At least three children were involved in police chases. In one case, there was an 11 yearold behind the wheel. Authorities are investigating more than a dozen crimes, part of what they say is a growing problem with youth violence. I will say that this is a trend that were seeing more and more of, groups of view nile whos commit a really large number of Violent Crimes in a very small period of time. And it is quite alarming. Authorities say theyre not sure how the crimes are connector whether they may be gang related. But 11 children both male and female were booked into the juvenile detention center. Several have been released to the custody of their parents. John bevins is due back in court to be arraigned. He is facing at least seven felony charges and could get ten years in jail if convicted. Remembering the victims of the deadly ghost ship warehouse fire. How the parents of one of the 36 people who died in the fire are marking one year since their beloved daughters death. Good morning. We still have slow traffic to deal with on many of the commutes. But things are improving a little bit. A little light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak. We will let you know more about it straight ahead. And in weather, lots of sunlight out there with more sunshine for your thursday afternoon forecast as well. Cool start this morning. More 60s this afternoon. Eventually were talking about shower chance thats could move in for part of the bay area this weekend. The time is 8 42. This weekend will mark one year since the ghost ship warehouse fire. Ktvus rob roth sat down with the parents of a 20yearold who died in the fire. She says the pain of losing her haunts them to this day. The clouds of grief and sadness never seem to leave kimberly and gregory for long. They think about their daughter mikaela every day and what happened to her. I try to make it day by day. It is just i try not to think about it. But it is impossible. And i just miss my daughter. It still feels like a few days. My heart still feels broken. Reporter there are pictures and memories of 20yearold mikaela throughout the home where they all lived. Her backpack is still on her bedroom chair right where she left it. She was just a happy kid. Enjoyed music. Enjoyed spending time with her boyfriend, her family. You know. A normal kid. This could have been anybody. Anybodys kid. Reporter last december 2nd, after a busy week, mikaela went out with with her boyfriend and they went to a dance party in a place called the ghost ship warehouse. 36 people died. Firefighters found the bodies of mikaela and alex. They found in each others arms. At least they died together. They were not along. Reporter a mural was painted of mikaela and alex in the mission district. It is a place that friends and family can come and visit and remember. The gregories this already daughter cremated and each keep some of her ashes on a pendant close to her hearts. The gregories said they watched closely the jailhouse interview with ghost ship manager Derick Almena on ktvu earlier this month. I wanted to see if there was any remorse. I just hear excuses on his part. Reporter they also believe more people should be held responsible but mostly their thoughts are with mikaela. She was a High School Softball far in her third year at San Francisco state university, learning how to help developmentally disabled children. She told people just be kind. Just be kind. Those were her words. Reporter in San Francisco, rob roth, ktvu fox 2 news. And we hope that you join us this weekend for a 2 investigates special report on the anniversary of the ghost ship warehouse fire. Thats saturday at 6 30 on ktvu plus. Hundreds of San Francisco Police Officers and others attended a benefit concert last night. A benefit concert the bell graham was for the officer who was on his bicycle when he was hit by a car driven by a man racing away from police. The officer is currently in a south bay Rehabilitation Center. When there is a need, we just he step up. He was the funniest guy ever. If he was here right now, he would be making fun of my hat and shoes. His wife had to take a leave of absence from her job as a teacher to be by his side as he recovers. The gofundme has raised more than 100,000. Were getting you to where you need to go, typically to work on a day like this. It is taking an hour to drive from the carquinez bridge and the mac maze. It is Getting Better. At the bay bridge, were seeing improvement as well. A 15 to 20minute delay at the toll plaza. Northbound 880 is slow from 238 into downtown oakland. And 580 is slow from about the open zoo exit out to lake shore. This is a look at 880. That is improving as well. An earlier accident 880 near mallory. It really did a number on the commute. Still slowing heading down to san jose. At 8 46, lets bring in mark tamayo with todays forecast. It has been a smooth ride out there. Weather nice as well. Still mostly clear conditions. You can see the boat traffic there. Nice day to be in the marin head lands. Go for a hike out there. Sunshine across a good portion of the area. In the summertime we talk about temperatures it could be 58 to 75 to 75 to 95. Today we will all be around 62 to 68 degrees. We have a frontal system generating clouds up towards eureka. That is the storm track. Today we have more sunshine this afternoon. Tomorrow, a few extra clouds. By saturday, theres a chance that we could have scattered showers up towards the north bay. Current numbers in the upper 30s. Mote areas in the 40s. Santa rosa checking in at 40 degrees. Forecast headlines for today, a cold start this morning. Lots of sun this afternoon. Partly sunny for tomorrow. Then saturday, we will thicken up the cloud cover throughout the day. Definitely more clouds this weekend. What has been sticking around, a northwest swell that kicked in yesterday. It will be around today, tomorrow and possibly into the weekend. So waves a good 10 to 15 feet. A lot of energy hitting the bay area coastline. Keep that in mind if youre visiting the beach today and tomorrow and into the weekend. Here we go, this area of High Pressure still in control of our weather. A touch cooler for your friday. And then we will continue to cool things off. A minor cooling trend into the weekend. There is a chance of a scattered shower by saturday afternoon up in the north bay. Here we go today. We will take this into your friday. Partly cloudy skies. And then lots of overcast for saturday. And then here we go, the system moving in from the north. Maybe a sprinkle or light shower up there. For the rest of saturday, we will gradually scale back on the clouds. Were starting december tomorrow. Typically we would be talking about significant rainfall. Not the case. At least for this december. In fact it will be a fairly quiet weather pattern with the main storm track way up to the north of the bay area. Lots of 60s out there. San jose, 68. Half moon bay, 62 degrees. Here is a look ahead. Your fiveday forecast. Still tracking clouds on saturday with a chance of a shower, especially for the north bay, mike, by the afternoon hours. But it is two different weather worlds in one day. You wake up and it is cold out there and in the afternoon it is just beautiful outside. Im hoping with the official start of winter, whenever that may be middecember. Yeah. We will start to see winter. Yeah. The forecast models will get a better handle on the details. We will see if the storm door can swing open further. Thank you, mark. We met with an oakland Hip Hop Group that just earned its first grammy nomination in the category of best musical album for children. [music] let the sunshine in shine the alphabet rockers created their Grammy Nominated album in oakland. The core members are three adults with collaborators including students. The artists are thrilled with the nominations, saying it enables them to have a larger platform to deliver their message. It is time to Start Talking about skin color and and bias and how to interrupt that. It is not about one color of skin, one language. It is about how can we feel something together and how can we interrupt our pattern so we move together. The alphabet rockers perform every week at schools, libraries and other venues. The next public concert is december 9th in oakland at the book fair. And on january 28th, they plan to be in new york city for the grammys. Up next, how one cat is bringing hope to a north bay family who thought they lost everything in the devastated wildfires last month. [baby crib musical mobile] millions are still exposed to the dangers of secondhand smoke. And some of them cant do anything about it. But you can. Protect your family. Visit tobaccofreeca. Com. When you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. Visit kp. Org to learn more. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. A man who suffered severe burns in the north bay wildfires has died. The death toll from the fires is now at 44. 41yearold michael lezarin lived in santa rosa and was being treated after suffering burns on 80 of his body. Friends say that he was an engineer who recently moved to santa rosa from san jose. Well, a month and a half after the fires, a family pet has suddenly reappeared as ktvus Frank Mallicoat reports, the coo has brought hope back to a family that lost everything. Reporter thomas the cat, oh, what a story he could tell. It is a miracle. It is life changing. It really changed the whole dynamic of our recovery. Reporter on october the 9th, the stockholm home in apartment rosas Fountain Grove neighborhood was destroyed in the fire. When the family fled, thomas was left behind. Three days later, a cats remains were found on the porch where his bed was. Devastated they said their good byes. Realizing that he was gone was terrible. Nearly 7 weeks later, an e mail arrived from park ranger shannon. When my parents told me that we got the email, i started crying because i was like no way. Like this cant be happening. If you would like, i will set the trap. Reporter spent seven weeks trapping lost cats in the fire zone. And he captured a stray just a few short blocks from the stockholms hold home. The cat was micro chipped and what do you know, it was thomas. I didnt believe it until i saw him. He was meowing and purring. He knew it was me. To see how happy they are, it is overwhelming. Reporter after 45 days on the run, thomas was tired, a little thinner and hungry but still feisty. His return has given this family renewed hope. And they are thankful for something that they did many years back. Thank gosh for the micro chipping. It is such a simple thing. If he wouldnt have been chipped and they wouldnt have contacted us, i dont think we ever would have found him. Reporter Frank Mallicoat, ktvu fox 2 news. All right. Still to come, tesla pushing back. How the company is responding to reports that as many as 90 of the vehicles have a flaw when they come right off of the Assembly Line. There are those of us who like to venture to the unexplored. Those of us who go out there with a sense of wonder. Bridging worlds,finding delights in our differences. If youre one of us, and you want to explore more of this great planet, were ready to take you there. Widen your world. Turkish Airlines Time is 8 57. If you got a if you shot this year you might be disappointed. The shot is developed a year in advance with experts trying to predict what strains will hit. This years shot was just 10 effective in australia against the most prevalent virus. That country saw one of its most severe flu seasons ever with a significant increase in hospitalizations and death. The same formula is crude here in the United States. Tesla is denying reports about alleged flaws in its manufacturing process. Reuters reports 90 of tesla molds s and model x vehicles come off the fremont Assembly Line with some flaw that these to be fixed before leaving the factory. Reuters said it based its stories on interviews with workers and unconfirmed internal figures. Tesla said it aims for perfection with every vehicle. The company sped up production to meet demand. And the former Los Angeles Mayor will be in the south bay today. This morning he is speaking is at the Silicon Valley foundation about policies affecting children and young families in palo alto. This afternoon he will take part in a question and answer session with the Stanford University democratic club. Former president bill clinton is in the bay area tomorrow. He is the featured speaker at the World Aids Day event in San Franciscos golden gate park. Organizers say the speech by the former president caps off a year of events marking more than 25 years since the memorial was created to honor those what died in the aids epidemic. The event is sold out. You can make a donation to the one warm coat program. Ktvu a proud sponsor of one warm coat, a collection drive that started 25 years ago and continues to this day. You can donate a new or gently used coat, sweater, or other winter item at several locations including bay street and emeryville, and walnut creek on ice. You can make donations at participating ups and big o tire stores. This season Many Americans are flipping for a European Christmas tree trend. Take a black at up side down tree trends. Some retailers including wal mart and target are offering the trees online. It hangs from a bracket on your ceiling. It started in eastern and central europe. Today at 9 00 we talk to a civil rights attorney as more al gigs against matt lauer are reported. And we are live with the ceo of a San Francisco company auctioning off rental properties to the highest bidder. Plus, we will preview the Jack London Square christmas Tree Lighting with my favorite, the tap dancing christmas trees, and one of the Charities Taking part. All right, on this cool looking thursday morning we start to say goodbye to the month of november, because in just about 15 hours were going to say hello to december. A live look at the great city of San Francisco, the city by the bay. I should say the most expensive city in the cub, one of them. We keep reading up