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sheriff's deputies believed that gunman has left the area so they are allowing people to go back into their apartments. we are learning more tonight about a deadly crossing in the east bay, it happened when a freight train struck and kill a 17-year-old girl. rob roth is in antioch where he is talking with the teens' friends about why she was near the tracks. rob. >> reporter: julia a sad scene near l street just up the tracks past the crosswalk a teenage girl was struck and killed by a freight train. this is the second young woman killed by a train in this area in recent months and we are being told the two victims had been good santa fe freight train was a mile long, after 9:00 one witness said he heard the squeal of a train's brakes and the speed limit is 60 miles per hour. >> i was thinking and hope that no one got hit. >> the right side of the train would be the body of a woman. >> the coroner has identified the victim as 17-year-old samantha p reco. a group of young people said she was their friend. >> she was happy and no problems. >> william is the brother of 20- year-old jessie ma lord morris struck and kill by an amtrak train while riding a bicycle two months ago. jessie and samantha were close and she often came here to visit the area where she was kill. >> she always visited here and she would say i am at jessie's spot. >> samantha's friends says she was attending summer school at prospect high a few hundred meters where she decide. an investigation could take week. reporting live in antioch. rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. questions about the crime data behind the mayor's plan crime. she says it was based on "incorrect data" carol lou live in oakland with the developing story where the mayor's admission received an angry reaction from a fellow city leader. cara. >> reporter: quite a bit of controversy surrounding the statistics and we have been asking questions about them for months now. i can tell you we got very short notice for our press conference this afternoon at oakland city hall. for months mayor jean quan has been talking about the one hundred blocks initiative and says 90% of violent crime happens within one hundred block and that statistic is flat out wrong and today the mayor herself admitted to the mistake saying that data was flawed. as mayor i should have taken more time to analyze the data and read it myself. i didn't. so i will take full responsibility for the error. >> mayor jean quan was in brazil when a top aid disclosed the mistake. today was the first time we seen the mayor admit to the flawed statistic. the mayor defends her strategy to focus on key neighborhoods where the highest incident of high crime. she has the right team for the job and critics include councilman larry read and walked out of the press conference visibly frustrated and says the mayor's crime plan does not work and believes that the mayor owes it to the people to say she is sorry. >> i believe she owes it to the city to have an apology. >> do you think that was enough. >> no, political bs to cover my rear-end. >> we have crews working the angles. we talked to another councilmember that has a step to help reduce violent crime here in the city. we will of course have that story for you tonight on the 10:00 news. for now we are live in oakland. ktvu news went to one of the blocks identified as a crime hot spot on bank crot and 96th avenue. we have asked folks if they have seen any changes. >> it is not getting no better. it is getting worse, little kids are worser, carrying guns and fighting each other and everybody killing each other. >> it is kind of changing. >> for the better or worse. >> for the better. yeah. we are getting there. >> the mayor had said in the past that she didn't want to identify blocks such as this one to avoid stigmatizing them. upleapt sant hill man is under arrest accused of stabbing his 16-year-old daughter, patricia drive is where it happened after the girl turned up with stab wounds at a hospital. robert from was suffering from self-inflicted stab wounds. he was taken to the hospital and will be booked once released. the girl is expected to survive. a jury has found a fairfield mother was sane when she killed her 3-year-old twins. 29-year-old monica mccarera was found guilty earlier this month of killing her daughters with a samurai sword in october of 2010. investigators say that mccarera kill her girls before trying to take her own life and setting their apartment on fire. tip from the public led to the arrest of two men and a seizure of hundreds of pounds of illegal fireworks from two homes in pa checko. officers were there from the costa county fire and sheriff's office along with cal fire raided the homes. 45-year-old richard tapa and 19- year-old cara pain were arrested. authorities found 400 pounds of illegal fireworks and explosives. nearby neighbors were stunned by the bust. you never know. what if they went off in the middle of the night and started a fire or something like that. that would be horrible. >> both men were arrested on suspicion of possessing illegal firework and explosives. >> fire crews will on the scene of a wildfire in napa county. it started near highway 29 north of callasomethinga at 1:30 this afternoon. cal fire says it was threatening homes and outbuildings before it was retained. locally road was shut down at 4:00. 65 firefighters were on the fire lines and about five acres burned. new and disturbing information about diesel exhaust. it may be more harmful than you might think. health and science editor john valor is live in costa county where the problem is bad. john. >> reporter: we are along highway 680 near monument boulevard. experts say that diesel pollution is a significant problem. not only from trucks along the freeway but just a block away, warehouses and retail stores surround this neighborhood where asthma is common. >> i have noticed that where we are by the freeway i notice it more. >> diesel soot sticks in lungs more than anyone thought. >> it is not good news because have you a lot of commercial trucks and the delivery vehicles are diesel powered. >> researchers published these micro graphs of diesel particles. >> it is diesel particles that are not soluble unwater. >> robert harley suggests that half of diesel particles stay in the body more likely to get into the blood stream. >> they can get into your heart and brain and to other organs, vital organs. diesel soot particles are ten times smaller than bacteria and linked to asthma, heart disease and cancer. today's study is a significant step towards proving how diesel particulates cause illness. california has an aggressive program aimed at reducing diesel pollutants. uc berkeley is installing new sensors to detect pollution. researchers say the censors will help measure the effectiveness of programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. a new assembly bill could make it more difficult for parents to opt out of vaccinations for their children. shots are required for school admission. currently all parents do to opt out is sign a form. parent would need a form signed by a health care professional that the parent was told the benefits and risks of the health care vaccination. >> the person has to talk to a health care provider. they are more likely to get the shot. the bill by sacramento assembly man richard pan passed in the assembly and is being heard in the state senate. the legislation is on the verge of passing measures meant to keep people from losing their homes to foreclosure. attorney general connie hando was on hand. there were servicers to allow people to open an application for loan modification at the same time that foreclosure is going forward. >> our hearts tell us that this is the right thing to do. this is our time. this is our moment. >> the other bill gives homeowners a right to sue banks under certain conditions. the measure goes to the senate and assembly for final vote os monday. also in sacramento, all eyes on governor jerry brown as the time to sign the state budget looms a few hours. ken prichard in the state capital with the cuts and relief for higher education. ken. >> reporter: frank, i just got off of the phone with the governor's office and no word on whether or not they have received the bill. the governor has until midnight to sign the budget. the democrats have a deal with the governor and the republicans were essentially out they say. >> what a way to run a railroad. >> that was the sentiment of republicans that voted no on 21 bills, the final pieces of bunt that closes a $15.7 million gap. democrats look relieved to have the vote on the trailer bills an elimination of the healthy family program, 800,000 children will be shifted to med ca cal and school days will be shifted if the plan fails but if it passes, one of the bills passed today eliminate tuition hikes at csu and uc. democrats say the budget is balanced and for several years with a surplus for four years. we are making cuts that i wouldn't want to make in any other circumstance especially on the healthcare side, the assistance to work side. cal grant, college scholarships for students at private schools. the budget has a number of items that some see as efforts to help the governor pass the tax plan in november, enticements including deeper cuts to education and the promise of no higher education tuition increases this year. for those reasons many believe that governor will sign the budget by the midnight deadline, last year governor brown surprised lawmakers by vetoing the budget. the wife of marei macki wants her plane ticket to be bought. she is in venezuela caring for her father. her attorney filed a declaration detailing the story. lopez believed conversations with her neighbor were protected under attorney-client privilege but madison is not an attorney. madison made the video of lopez showing a bruise on lopez's arm following a domestic dispute with mirk a mimi. the san francisco ethics hearings will resume tomorrow with crucial testimony expected. ross carimi will testify tomorrow night. his attorneys say there should be no surprises. mayor carimi takes responsibility for his actions. on friday the commission is scheduled to hear from san francisco mayor ed lee, the commission will eventually make a recommendation to the board of supervisors on whether ross minka mimi should be able to keep his job. the couple accused of robbing a women were arraigned. they are accused of trying to steal a victim's laptop after the train left concord. police say police say when the victim refused to give up the laptop she was punched. the couple will enter a plea on july 5th. some military veterans can't wait any longer for help with medical plans. veterans administration officials were asked to fast track the claims that have exposure to agent orange. many of the vets are over the age of 70. congressman spare and lee held a hearing last month over concerns that it takes as long as a year for bay area veterans to have their claims processed. the antioch police department have won a federal grant to bring five new officers to the force. the justice department award antioch the maximum, is $.5 million grant for the police orienting fund. the antioch department and heyward police received grants. transit employees have raised $12,000 for suicide collection. we were there as cal tran collected the donations for the fundraiser. the district says the money was donated that it raised. union carpenters demonstrated in san francisco. the local 180 has petitioned new homes. company that has production facilities has refused to recognize them. it supports workers overseen by independent arm of the federal government. the national labors relations board will respectfully honor any result. google unveiled a small tablet computer seen as direct challenge to amazon's kindle fire. the unveiling took place this morning at a center in san francisco. the nexus 7 is designed specifically for google play. the online store that sells movies, music and books and apse. the nexus 7 will ship for $199, the same price as the kindle fire. the tablet was not the only thing introduced. there was a photo type of glasses that connect taught internet. allow folks to do video chat and take a picture and actually buy thing on line all while you are walking around. the device is called project glass. available to people attending the three day conference. the $1500 glassless ship next year. there was a truck that caught fire on interstate 80. the truck burst into flames on the market street off ramp. the cab of the truck burned while the rest of the truck was spared. a fire storm of epic proportions as thousands flee the fires in colorado springs. 32,000 people have evacuated. the flames jumped fire lines and burned more than 24,000 square miles. fire crews are battling unpredictable weather. >> thunderstorms present a unique problem for us in that the wind can come in any direction from those with strong gusts. officials say the fire is only about five percent contained and it is unclear how many homes have been destroyed. the white house announced that president obama will tour the fire ravished region on friday. president obama continued offer the support of federal firefighting resources. and warmer today but still not hot. check out the temperatures in the inland bay valley and talking 89 in sacramento. i'd expect 93 this time of year. as we go to santa rosa, 82 degrees and 76 in napa and a little bit of wind on the bay and gusts are 28 miles per hour. the forecast highs for tomorrow are going to look just like these. these are the highs. the highs will be about the same. not cool but not hot either. 88 in antioch and we will be cooler on the coast with more fog. the fog is trying to reestablish itself. even though it has not done much at the coast in terms of being around, we'll see plenty of sunshine but look for fog the next couple of days. for the weekend mile weather appearance, and that is good news. fog late tonight, the model brings it in aggressively and that's how it will go down, a little more fog towards stenson beach. tomorrow, fog to mid-morning and along the coast and it burns off and you can see the model it does away with it and the temperatures in the 80s and a lot of 80s around the bay. a nice-looking day. the bay area climates, just like today. a carbon copy of today for tomorrow except more fog in the morning especially in pacifica and san francisco and it will burn off and you will get sunshine. mid-80s for antioch and low rot as you get that way. tomorrow just like today and the warmest two days. temperatures will slide down as we go into your friday. here is how it goes for tomorrow. mostly sunny and the cooler temperatures along the coast and the fog just offshore to start to be more after precedence for the weekend. here on friday the low pressure dropping south and tomorrow is like today. friday it starts to cool off because of the low pressure center. that is kind of where we go on saturday. will you see that in the five- day forecast. the highs, 86 in fairfield and the five-day forecast. you see it right there, temperatures warm a little bit on sunday and monday back in the 90s. really-- i have to say, i like this weather pattern. it is not too hot or cold. like the three bears, just right and we are not getting the fire conditions like in colorado. thank you, bill. a san francisco ice cream shop has been named one of the top five in the country. u.s. news and world report says buy right creamery in the mission district scores points for making their toppings including marshmallows on-site. number one is jenny's splendid ice cream in columbus and another one in cam brim, massachusetts given coming up at 7, on tv 36, the new budget in california is nearly a done deal but it will leave one million families in a health care pickle. a ray of hope for california high school students. today's encouraging news about drop out rates. join us for these stories and more at 7:00 on tv 36. the olympic dream is alive and well in san jose. gymnasts prepare to summerrer somersault their way to london. closed captioning brought to you by lazy boy red, white and blue sale. save 20% or get month special financing. the excitement is building in san jose where the u.s. olympic trials began tomorrow at hp pavilion, by sunday night five men and women will be chosen for the u.s. gymnastics team and one trampolinists and there is a hometown hero. josh dixon a gymnast from san jose. >> there's a lot of support from my gyms and the guys at stanford, a lot of my friends there. it will be exciting. a lot of people. the competition begins tomorrow with men's gymnastics. this baseball season just got really interesting and what a series against the dodgers. never happened before in san francisco giant history, three straight shut outs against the dodgers, say hello to the first place giants tied with la and while you are at it, welcome back tim lincecum. chad billingsly tries to score and the dodgers denied and lincecum you will see blocks the plate. at this point it is scoreless, that is until the 3rd when melky cabrera to left and bobby brayo tries to fake it and no go and a run scores and here is your defensive play of the game, hector sanchez with a beautiful diving catch for lincecum, 7 shut out innings, 8 strikeouts. does it seem like every time the a's and mariners play each other, someone loses by that score. jarrett parker looking good, he is giving up two runs in 20 innings and he gets the win and struck out nine and johan sus best provides a winner and the cup in spain, 4-2 over rival portugal. that's the sporting life for an early wednesdayevening. we are following news in oakland where mayor jean quan has admitted her one hundred blocks plan has flawed data. and as always, thank you for trusting ktvu, channel 2 news.

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