Somerville. And im julie heatherville. Heather holmes is at a memorial that is now growing. Reporter we watched tonight as people most of them strangers have placed candles, stuffed animals and flowers. The girl was wearing her helmet when she was struck and killed. This the af couple came to say a prayer for the life lost. We have kids that have grown up here. You know, its just, its a family in this area. Reporter police say around 8 30 this morning the girl whos name has not been released was riding her bike east. Joe roden works at the Prudential Office near by. Happened to see some commotion, looked out and realized that somebody had happened. I rushed back and get a blanket, i rushed and brought it out to try to keep her warm. Reporter the girl was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. Reporter not far away, we ran into a bicyclist who said she tries to stay safe. Its really scary. Because the people are kind of speeding by because its jefferson and they just, go really fast. Reporter police tell me speed does not appear to be a factor here and that the driver of the truck stopped and is cooperating with authorities. Its just tragic. Reporter at Washington High School tonight where the girl was a freshman the principal told me that plans are being made to assist students with their brief. She also tells me that a moment of silence will be held tomorrow morning. Im heather holmes, ktvu channel 2 news. Now to the south bay where authorities evacuated more than a dozen people after receiving reports of shortness of breath and skin irritation. This is developing news and matt keller has just learned within the hour what caused that strong odor that left so many people there feeling sick. Reporter monday nights are usually very busy at the club one here in the south san jose. But you can see there are very few cars or people here after an evacuation of womans locker room. Firefighters didnt take any chances inside using self contained breathing apparatuses. Personal trainer told me what happened right before they evacuated about 150 people from the building. One of my other clients came up to me and said, hey marlon theres something really strong in the bathroom. Really strong and burning sensation, her eyes were burning and her she was coughing right after. Reporter a firefighter told me about 45 minutes ago that the odor was caused by eucalyptus room. The symptoms dissipate about an hour and a half. All of the victims went home and not to the hospital. I just we i just went back in and talked to club staff and they told me they will close at their regular hour at 11 00 and open at 5 00 in the morning. They also told me that the locker room is back open. A sink hole opened up this afternoon swallowing the back wheels of a truck. The incident happened about 4 30 today. These pictures from a neighborhood blog show the large truck stuck in that hole. It is still unclear what caused the sinning hole or when it will be fixed. The timetable for this first round of storms and the preparations now under way for wind and rain. The city of san jose tonight held the first of four Public Meetings as it seeks input for the search of a new police chief. Residents went to the bay area for an opportunity to speak out about the qualities they would like if the citys next police chief. The current chief moore plans to step down in january almost exactly two years after he took the job. I think the community deserves a longer commitment, theres no way i can hold anybody to a commitment, i think though that will be a very important priority for me. Reporter whoever will take the job will need to overcome low moral. The u. S. Congress returned from its holiday recess and began to try to work for a deal to try to avoid the fiscal cliff. If theres no action by the new year some existing tax cuts will be filed. But finding consensus between republicans and democrats will not be easy. As president eisenhower said there will have to be compromises. And seeking compromises is the only way forward. Some gop lawmakers now say theyll have to put the pledge aside for the good of the country. On wall street the markets remained fixed. The dow dropped 42 points, the nasdaq gained nine. Tonight at 10 30, the jitters the fiscal cliff is causing on wall street and how some investors are deciding to take action now and not wait. The bay areas storm door is about to swing wide open. The first in the series of wet weather is due to arrive tomorrow morning. We start in the Weather Center with chief meteorologist bill martin. Bill. Julie, a series of storms set to affect the bay area not that atypical for this time of year. But it is going to be a wet weather pattern that is going to take us into early next week. Look at the activity in the pacific, its massive. Look at what happens when we were going to hawaii. This is streaming from the very low latitudes. Its getting pulled into this series of systems were looking at one, two, three or four of these will be very wet rain producers. As we get into the next 12 hours or so, 24 hours these clouds are going to start to thicken up quite a bit and well see increasing clouds for the day tomorrow and rain in the very near future and theres a lot of it coming our way. Ill have the latest computer model and well bring it down. Its going to start raining wednesday, and its going to be wet in the bay area through early next week. Ill have more on your weather segment, see you back here. Even so that first storm is still more than 24 hours away a lot of people are starting to gear up and Debora Villalon is joining us and shes finding out how people are getting ready. Reporter its so dry and calm its hard to believe its going to change that much and that fast. But thats why this house has bags and sand on hand. At san rafaels public works yard theyve been moving a mountain of sand into neighborhood low kaeugs. And 400 sandbags sit read locations, and 400 sandbags sit ready. If you have water coming into your house, into your garage, crossing the street where it wouldnt you can divert it with sandbags. Its an easy fix, a cheap fix. Think of the times the bay area has been pummeled, this will be right up there. The citys pumps and drains have been checked and extra help is already staging. We have contractors lined up. We are ready in case we have trees falling. We have contractors ready in case we have a landslides. Were praying for no high tide. Reporter one marin store sits on the storm surge and saw a lot of people looking for utilities. It comes straight down into the front porch right here in this big gaping hole. Reporter this family is replacing gutters. Rusting and full of holes tomorrow. An appointment they made unaware of the storm but opportune timing. If we dont do it now, the foundation of the house, other parts of the house are going to suffer because of the rain. So the gutters have to happen otherwise the whole house depreciates. Reporter to stay cozy when its howling outside, be proactive. Tomorrow is the time to check for drainage problems, and when in doubt find your local sandbag suppliers. Debora villalon. You can track the weather conditions any time, go to ktvu. Com. Opening the doors to winter shelter for the first time this year. Were going to break down the number of people in need and the number of beds now available. Also in the south bay the owner of a san jose Jewelry Store owner pulled a gun on some thieves and chased them from her store. Two men carrying guns walked into that store Wearing Masks and hooded sweatshirts. The owner chased the men if her store. No one was hurt and nothing was stolen. Police say they are still looking for those two men. Analysts are predicts todays cyber sales may reach 1. 5 billion. Online retail spending was up 26 on friday according to comscore. That is up 16 from the same time span last year. A bay area deputy accused of robbing a bank. We will prove his innocence in court. What the judge asked him to hand over today and the consequences if hes found healthy. Three bay area family autopsies are scheduled for tomorrow for the four People Killed in a collision near placerville over the weekend. Chp investigators are trying to determine why the driver of a prius crossed over four lanes of highway 50 right into the path of an oncoming mini van on sunday night. A family from placerville was riding in that mini van including a 4yearold girl that was killed. Three of the passengers in the prius were also killed. That family was from oakland. And neighbors are struggling with what happened. They came and went together, they went off to Work Together and School Together always. So just, sorry. Lovely and it just breaks my heart. Reporter they do not believe that alcohol was a factor in that crash. The chp says over all the thanksgiving weekend was far deadlier in the bay area compared to last year. 10 people died in crashes in the bay area from wednesday evening through sunday. That is compared to two that died last year. Statewide there were 44 fatalities both on local streets and highways thats up in 32 deaths during the same time period in 2011. 10 of those killed in freeway accidents were not wearing their seat belts. A sheriff deputy accused of robbing a bank made his first court appearance. What happened when he confronted the suspended deputy outside the courtroom. San francisco sheriff Deputy Phillip chung hurried into his First Court Hearing this afternoon 10 days after his arrest for robbery. The 36yearold pacifica resident is the man seen with a stack of money in this picture taken from a surveillance camera on balboa street. The video and fingerprints led to chongs arrest. Later he posted bail. Its not that unusual. We have a problem with prison overcrowding, with realigning we have more people in the jail. Unless somebody is proven to be a risk theyre going to get bail. Reporter we were not able to record chongs face as the judge a fellow deputy patted chongs shoulder as he left court. You never know what their experience is but they may have been in and out of the courtroom. They may have had prisoners in custody or interacting with the judges in some way. Reporter chong refused to speak with us outside of the courtroom. Please dont bother him. We have no comment right now. He will prove his innocence in court. Reporter chong a seven year veteran is currently due in court december 16th. David stevenson, ktvu. We learned today that a Northern California man who was a navy seal has been killed in afghanistan. Kevin evert from alkada died saturday in a mountainous area near the center of the country. Military Officials Say that the seal was based on the east coast. He was in after afghanistan while working to support what is called a wreath of roses, an American Flag and a childs note all line his grave. Stephens grew up in piedmont and attended uc hastings law school. Record spending on this cyber monday is expect to bring a surge to california. But Ken Pritchett tell us the state will likely get a lot less than many people had expected. If you need a tiki mug, a tiki statute or anything hawaii, talk to lawrence swansberg. His biggest item christmas hawaii shirts right now. We want folks to know that not out of state retailers who are doing Business Online are required to collect tax. So a camera sold on amazon would incur 60 in tax. If you dont pay sales taxes online then you owe a use tax that you must file on your state taxes which few people do. I think they need to do it nationally somehow. I think the country is missing out on a lot of sales tax. A lot of revenue. Reporter since september the state has collected less than 20 million from this so called amazon tax. And one board member said that of those who are supposed to be collecting this tax, few are doing so. On ktvu. Com you will find a cyber monday tab with information on protecting yourself whenever you shop online including the top 10 internet scams to avoid. Before the rain gets here weve got some fog to contend with. We had a bunch of fog this morning and were going to have a bunch of fog ben tomorrow fog again tomorrow morning. We have fog out toward san rafael, out toward black point area. The overnight low will get you fog as well. The recent rain and fog on the ground. The moisture now is cooling. As it cools to that dewpoint we get fog. It will impact your morning commute just as it did this morning. There was a dense fog advisory this morning just adjacent to the bay area we could see that fog again tomorrow morning. The latest computer model in that series of rainstorms that are headed our way, its going to be wet, you will want to clean the gutters, well see you back here. A paragon condor is being cared for. A family in watsonville found it. Xrays confirmed the falcon had been shot with a pellet gun. The bird is being treated with antibiotics and is now in good condition. Hundreds of job, whos hiring and how interest in postings overloaded computers. car horn paying with your smartphone instead of cash. phone rings thats a step forward. With chase quickpay, you can send money directly to anyones checking account. I guess hes a kicker. Again, again oh, no you dont take a step forward and chase what matters. Teachers in san jose board rallied outside of the school. The teachers contract expired on saturday. The main issue is hell Health Care Benefits which the district wants to cap. Jobs have been difficult to come by in recent years but if youre interested in a career in Law Enforcement now might be your chance. Paul chambers tells us whos hiring and why you need to act fast to apply. Reporter california Highway Patrol officers are the people many look to when they need help on the road but now they need your help. Were looking for people highly motivated and who are looking a job in Law Enforcement. Reporter chp will start hiring at a salary of 65,000 a year. The agency will start taking applications on december 4 but only for two days. The minimum requirements, High School Diploma or ged, 20 to 35 years old and you must live in the state. But thats just the starting requirement. You graduate to Field Training status. San Francisco Police are also hiring, today they started accepting Applications Online for Entry Level Police officers. You have from now until december 7th to apply. Were down about 300 officers from our city target mandate. And we do have more people that are planning to retire over the next several years. There was so much interest this morning that sfpds website overloaded for a few minutes. Starting salary 88,000 a year. The department doesnt have a residency retranscription or state limit. All we ask is that youre 21 years of age, california drivers license and no felony convictions and at least a High School Diploma and equivalent. Reporter now this is a big change as a few years ago companies were laying people off. San Francisco Medical Center is asking for 1. 2 million from l. A. Dodgers to pay for bryan stows medical bills. Stows family is also suing the dodgers. In humble county the coast guard today suspended its search for a 16yearold boy swept out to sea on saturday in a tragic incident that also took the lives of his parents. Officials say the 16yearold went into the water at big lagoon beach about 30 miles north of eureka trying to save the family dog. His father then went after him. The teen got out but then he and his mother returned to the water to try to save the father and unfortunately it appears all three drowned. The dog though got out on its own. The family is from just outside of arcada. The risks are the taxes are going to go up, theyre not beginning town. Uncertainty on wall street. The action investors are taking now before the year is oh, you have a Keurig Vue Brewer . Oh, its great now i can brew my coffee just the way i love it. How do you do that . Well, inside the brewer, theres this train thats powerful enough to carry more coffee and fresh water to make coffee thats stronger and bigger. And even hotter actually, i just press this button. Brew the coffee you love stronger, bigger, or hotter with the keurig vue. Well its the talk of the town, whos going to be the 49ers starting quarterback next week against st. Louis. Collin kaepernick or alex smith in coach harbaugh refused to say in todays news conference. Amber lee is live and tells us what fans are saying. Reporter were at american bull sports bar, a popular Gathering Spot for 49er fans tonight they weighed in on the quarterback controversy. Its monday night football but tonights game wasnt much of a draw for these 49er fans. But they enjoy hanging out with other like minded people who have a passion for the niners. We want to win games and head coach i think is doing a great job. Mideast hes got two good arms. Reporter the two pairs of good arms are adding up to a quarterback controversy. Coach harbaugh started kaeprenick for the second game in a row instead of alex smith after he suffered a concussion. Im really becoming fond of kaepernick because hes helping us out. I like smith, i say run smith. I am fond of montana. Reporter aging joe montana was replaced by steve young. This time many fans tell us their loyalty is neither for smith nor kaepernick. Jim harbaugh is our guy, whoever he wants to play were good with that. Reporter do you think alexs days are numbered . I hope not. I dont think hell stick around and be a second string. And hes a lot better than a lot of quarterbacks out there. Reporter others say they expect harbaugh to take it one game at a time. If he loses next sunday hes going to go back smith. Reporter some fans say they are loyal to smith but that kaepernick is red hot right now. And its all about who will get the 49ers to the super bowl. How coach harbaugh addressed the question today. His answer when asked by reporters. The fight over the funds to build the 49ers new stadium moved to sacramento today. Officials traveled to the capitol to ask the office of finance to reconsider the proposal. A spokesman said the decision would come in the next week. Yee is a democrat from San Francisco, term limits prevent him from running from the state senate again. He would be in the race to replace debra boing. The secretary of state oversees the states elections. 1million californians recently took advantage of a law yee authored enabling californians to register to vote online. Prosecutors say kinde durkee pled guilty of stealing money from her clients including senator feinstein. A phony press release was posted on pr web announcing google has purrtured ikoa for 400 million. Ikoa stock raised sharply but dropped back when the companys ceo said there was no sale. Theres no word yet if the secures and Exchange Commission will look into the matter. Concerns about the looming fiscal cliff and how that could affect state tax. Noelle walker looks at how much the average investor could pay at the beginning of the year. Reporter whraepb the bell rings, when the bell rings, it was an up and down day. How the u. S. Economy is going to be doing. Reporter one thing that kept stocks on an even keel, Holiday Retail sales are already up and many are giving themselves the gift of stockdividends this year. Why sale . Right now the capital is at 15 . Most investment experts believe thats going to jump to 23 . Through an additional 3. 8 to cover the president S Health Care plan. If congress and the president dont do anything, that jumps to 10, 20, 30, 39. 6 plus the additional 3. 8 to pay for health care. Bottom line, investors leave more on the table in 2013. Taxes are going to go up. Theyre not going down. Reporter Wells Capital management shwasburg says best look away before we cross the fiscal cliff. You dont want to think more than you really do thats when you rally run into trouble. Reporter in San Francisco, noelle walker, ktvu channel 2 news. A hewellet packered filed a lawsuit over the purchase of autonomy. The investor accused hp of knowingly making misleading statements about the deal and the 13 billion purchase of electronic data systems. Hp stock has lost half of its value this year. The lawsuit could become a Class Action Lawsuit involving all hp shareholders. Reducing the risk of pregnancy, the call to put emergency contraception into the hands of teenagers before they need it. Tracking dense valley fog right now and then were going to move on to the computer vandals defaced a vietnam war memorial in concord shortly after city workers had cleaned it up. The concord city workers said it saw an online blog about the graffiti and sent a crew to clean it up. Report it to us, we found it on a local blog. So staff noticed it. We went out and removeded the graffiti. Reporter when the crew came back a few hours later, taggers had struck that memorial again so they cleaned it up again. We are told it is Standard Practice to send pictures of the tags to the police department. In this case we have learned some of the markings have been tied to gang affiliations. A Prestigious Group released a statement urging doctors to give sexually active teenagers prescriptions for emergency contraceptive. Teens 16 or younger are currently required to have a prescription to get the emergency contraceptive. Teens 17 and older can buy the morning after pill over the counter. Nine people died and 17 hurt after a fire started in a facility that houses mentally disabled people. Firefighters are working now to determine if a reported explosion in a storeroom on the top floor caused the fire. In bengladesh, 16,000 people took to the streets demanding justice for the 12 workers who died over the weekend in a garment factory fire. When the fire alarms first went off their bosses told them to return to their sewing machines. And in mexico, funeral arrangements are now under way for a 20yearold beauty queen who was killed over the weekend in a shoot out between soldiers and suspected drug traffickers. The body of miss sinaloa was found lying near a weapon. She was traveling with the drug traffickers. Two consumer groups are asking facebook to back off proposed changes to its privacy policy. The groups say the changes would make personal Information Available to advertisers without users consent. According to the l. A. Times, those changes may not happen in europe because regulators there expect facebook to give european users the right to choose if personal info is shared. Facebook currently has more than 1 billion users. A line out the door, as shelters open for those in need plus. They turned around and told us after the 11th time, that we were going to be held up yet again. Frustration after frustration, what turned an inexpensive flight to paradise into a nightmare for passengers. A lot of rain is on the way. Bill martin pinpointing exactly when that wet weather will alive. Uz some Northern CaliforniaAirline Passengers are furious tonight calling 99 tickets to hawaii a a good deal gone wrong. Alligient air has one flight a week for the discount. When my bride is sitting here crying five or six times in one day and i cant do anything about that it makes me really upset. Reporter the company said it was arranging reimbursements for passengers and vouchers for other flights. You may hear the sound of gunshots to try and scare off birds near the runways. Most of the shots are blanks but staff can use bullets if those blanks dont scare the birds away. Flocks of birds pose a serious danger to aircraft because the birds can fly right into the intake. The food and Drug Administration used new powers today to shut down a Peanut Butter processer linked to a salmonella outbreak. The sun Land IncorporatedCompany Started recalling products in september at the start of a salmonella outbreak. Today federal agents acted under a new food safety law that gives the fda the power to suspend the companys registration when theres a reasonable probability of causing Serious Health problems. A Southern CaliforniaWeight Loss Company that claimed consumers could lose weight by sprinkling crystals over their food has settled a lawsuit. Dont blink or you will his it. Thats it. Reporter sensa advertised that losing weight with its additive had been clinically proven. However the nine california district attorneys said the study was not competent or reliability. Attorneys for sensa say the Company Stands behind its weight loss product. Hundreds of Homeless People are settling in for the night with a warm meal in their stomachs and a roof over their heads. The winter shelters are now open, caring for the homeless will not end for the season. Reporter soon after the sun went down, this armory became a winter homeless shelter and the line snaked outside the door. Everybody got a warm dinner. This woman says last night she slept outside behind a pool hall. Miserable because you have to go to the bathroom. You know, its just miserable getting up. And tonight showers, food, warm bed, compared to it,confy. Beginning tonight 275 additional winter beds at the National Guard armories. The key is housing. If we can get people into housing as quickly as possible their risk of homeless less is less. This man told us he was looking forward to the shelter and taking a break from sleeping along the banks of guadalupe creek. Its cold, no matter how many covers you put on you can feel the coldness. You know you have some kind of heater, and i dont have one of those. Reporter the county shelters traditionally open the first monday after thanksgiving and they plan to stay open until the end of march. In sunny vale, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. Tracking the clouds as they move our way right now its valley fog but by tomorrow its the high clouds and by wednesday its rain. Live Storm Tracker 2, just pinpointing the distance of this next system. This is wednesdays system. What is it 600, 700 miles out. Once that comes in, thats wednesday morning things are going to change around dramatically. Check out your end of november. Wet weather on the 28th. Twentyninth. Thirtiethand first. As we go beyond that it looks like we will have more rain as we head into the weekend. Were going to see rain with this, big surf and heavy rain. This is not atypical, this is what we get. This is what you hope you get, what we hope now is that we get breaks between these storms. Because were going to get a lot of rain, looks like we bet a good break wednesday thursday or thursday afternoon. After that the breaks arent so clear. You have the fog and low clouds tomorrow. Tomorrow is a lot like today but high clouds increasing. Wednesday it all starts and this is number one in a series of progression storms that are going to move through. And they are pretty potent. They are pretty wet. I showed you that moisture, when it comes from that far south down by the hawaii islands it really pumps up the rainfall accumulation. Especially in the coastal hills and along the river. Its going to rain everywhere. Here we are tomorrow night. Rain starts to show up. Here we go into wednesday morning. Pretty significant rainfall and you see how widely spread that is. Thats wednesday 6 00 p. M. You know you got a wet morning commute. Wednesday around lunchtime its going to start to clear out. Heres that break i talked about. Wednesday afternoon into thursday afternoon. Then you see the next system roll in. This one looks like the model changed. You see the north bay is getting a really good hit. So thats thursday. Thats the basic time. It goes behind this the timing is going to change. The wednesday storm though, i feel good about that. I feel good about wednesday morning, i think youre going to have a wet commute. I think youre going to have wet roadways and a wet afternoon. You get a little break. But the timing is way out. What i can do is hit it with rain clouds, rain clouds, rain clouds because we know that some tropical moisture has to come through here. And it will. Over the next five to six days its on its way. Sounds like were going to get hammered. Were going to get hammered but if everything goes well, were going to get what we need. The hot lava in hawaii is reaching the ocean. You can see the steam where the lava is reaching the water. The lava stream is three to 5 feet wide pouring down the side of the cliff. [ male announcer ] this december, remember you can stay in and like something. [ car alarm deactivates ]. Or you can get out there with your family and actually like something. The lexus december to remember sales event is on, offering some of our best values of the year. This is the pursuit of perfection. Those big inflatable bounce houses that kids love so much are sending more and more children to the emergency room. Thats the latest report in the journal of pediatrics. The most common injuries are falling while jumping or getting hurt stepping in or out of the bounce house. The companies that supply bounce houses say they are no more dangerous than other play equipment. Stalled talks between the Players Union and the nhl have led to a lock out and the cancellation of the first 21 2 months of regular season and the entire nhl season could be in jeopardy if the two sides cant work out a deal soon on player contracts and revenue sharing. All right mark joins us now with news about the san jose Basketball Program. Looking pretty good tonight. Of course the san jose state Basketball Program would like to follow up on what the spartans Football Team has done down there. Put the school back on the basketball map. Number 10 kansas the jay hawks 27 point underdogs. They trailed with 11 minutes left by 27. 182 run of james kenu. The spartans with the nine. Jeff with the 7footer. One of his 12 blocks lead to the vlacamore. Everybody is talking about the new kid in town and why wouldnt they. Kaepernick leading the 49ers to his second victory. Alex smith watches. Theres no word on whos going to start this sunday against the rams. But that doesnt mean coach harbaugh is shying away from this controversy. Alex smith is the starting quarterback. He has not done anything to lose his job. Collin kaepernick you cannot call him a starting quarterback because he has started games. This years quarterback position has been shared. The good thing for us we have two good guys. Monday night, turned into a pretty entertaining affair although both teams are in the dumper. Eagles panthers with michael vick watching as another pretty good quarterback. Cam newton owns the night for the panthers he passed for two and ran for two touchdowns. 3022. Panthers now 38. Meantime the Stanford Football Program alive and well to say the least postharbaugh for the second consecutive year. The man who replaced him as the man selected the coach of the year. David shaw. Of course leaving stanford to the conference championship game. They will either go to the rose bowl if they win or the alamo bowl depending on what happens again against ucla. Its good to be king, that the giants are in the baseball world. Rewarded richly for it. Each San Francisco receiving a fair share will rake in 377,000. The largest ever cash reward for winning the world world series. And in case youre wondering, milky cabr era will receive his cabrera will receive his bonus. Thats a tiny little bonus. I know, not too bad. Thank you for trusting ktvu channel two news. Well see you the next time news breaks. Well be working to learn the identity of that High School Freshman killed on her bicycle in oh, you have a Keurig Vue Brewer . Oh, its great now i can brew my coffee just the way i love it. How do you do that . Well, inside the brewer, theres this train thats powerful enough to carry more coffee and fresh water to make coffee thats stronger and bigger. And even hotter actually, i just press this button. Brew the coffee you love stronger, bigger, or hotter with the keurig vue. Im going to dream about that steak. Im going to dream about that tiramisu. What a night, huh . But, um, can the test drive be over now . Head back to the dealership . [ male announcer ] its practically yours