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Selling prescription medicine. Ucsf has announced today that it has fired Christopher Dean owens a popular vascular surgeon at the va hospital. Arrested on narcotics related charges but his troubles go back further. Christopher dean owen a vascular surgeon at the Va Medical Center now sits in jail. Police arrested him last night and booked him on 99 counts related to the prescription and sale of opioids. Owens has been on investigatory leave since june 3rd and has not engaged in clinical activity since then. Two days before that owens girlfriend 35 yearold danielle pateeto turned up dead in a home that they shared together. Owens was never charged with a crime a source tells ktvu that she died an an overdose from the drug gsb commonly known as the date rape drug. Im shocked. An. George works at a deli near the couples home and he did not hear about that until today. He did remember pateeo fondly. Calm and just mild and would say have a good day, bye. Normal. Investigators are now Digging Deeper into pateeos death since owens arrest. Most of the charges are for the transportation, sale and giving away of a controlled substance. Ucsf says owens was placed on unpaid leave and after an investigation his privileges were revoked october 31st. Usf said they take this case seriously and urges its entire clinical staff including nurses and other care providers to be on alert for signs of opioid misuse and to report any suspicions confidentially. Now we asked owens for an interview but he declined that request. His bail is set at close to 2 milliondollars. He will be arraigned at the beginning of next week. Live in San Francisco, im tara moriarty, ktvu fox 2 news. A major announcement today by the contra costa District Attorney in the Bay Area Police station sex abuse scandal. Ment da says one retired Oakland Police captain accused of having sexual relations will face a misdemeanor charge of soliciting prostitution. The 81yearold has not been identified. The da says no other charges will be filed in Contra Costa County against officers from oakland, richmond and San Francisco as well as alameda Sheriff Deputies based on interviews investigators did. All of the sexual interactions that she had with those officers occurred when she was over 18. All of her actions, interacts with these officers were consensual. All of her interactions with these officers were not done for money or anything of value. Therefore, accordingly there were no crimes. He believes Police Wanted to get her help and treatment. This is a story that our Crime Reporter henry lee has been following. The da was given several cases involving former and Current Police officers. You only have the one that is going to be charged. This came down to a lack of evidence. He says that he carefully reviewed the evidence and took into consideration a dozen statements and he says he has to abide by the law and make sure he can prove evidence beyond a reasonble doubt. And i want to read people at home something else. He said it is troubling and unfortunate that we want to file charges but just because it is illadvised that is our not our job but painted the industry in a bad light. And thats what Police Officials have been saying. Some of the officers may have acted immorally or unethically they did not commit crimes but four officers face firings and we have repercussions in other places. They sent her to florida for rehab. Not to help her but to get rid of her and that actually is the allegation that her attorneys alleged while picking her up in florida. No evidence of that. The d asays they truthfully have seen her as a prior victim and they wanted to get her help. Thats what the da concluded. And, of course, other people are still voicing some suspicions over that but they are saying we didnt send her out of the state to hide her because she is back and we have the evidence no matter where she is. All right. To wrap it up. The only arrest, an 81yearold retired Police Officer, all other Law Enforcement officers not going to be facing charges. Thank you and appreciate it. We will stay on top of the story and we will have more coming up later at five. Stick around because coming up in 30 minutes we will speak with the legal analyst michael cardoza. Homicide investigators are trying to figure out who killed a teenager from cathati missing last month. The young mans body was discovered on Sonoma State University. And we talked to those that knew the victim and how devastated they are. Search and rescue volunteers began to scour the area on the University Campus and looking for any physical evidence connected to the killing of 18 yearold Kirk Kimberly whose body was found partially here wednesday. Anything stands out and may be left behind. Any bit of evidence, weapons and instruments and clothing and anything that might be left behind. Authorities are not revealing kimberlys exact cause of death. The teenager lived with his parents in cathati and had been reported missing on october 17th. Last seen riding his bike to a friends house. Kimberly had just graduated from Rancho High School back in june and students that knew him are stunned by what happened. It is pretty devastating because he is only 18 and he literally just graduated. And it is pretty sad. My mom found out because she turned to the parents and pretty devastating. I was just really saddened. There are grief counselors to help students and staff during this difficult time. The school has also brought on substitute teachers. Because you know the teacher had this student and it is going to be a hard day. Hard to get through the day and they may need a break and we are here to support our staff. Kimberly was not a student at Sonoma State University and the Sheriffs Office is trying to figure out how his body wound up on campus whether he was killed here or brought here every year. Authorities say that kimberly had some sort of a dispute with his parents before he disappeared. Investigators now are trying to piece together a timeline to figure out where he was and who he was with before he was killed. Alex savage, ktvu fox 2 news. Crews searching for clues in a cold case homicide in oakland. We brought the news of these developments yesterday as Oakland Police and the f. B. I. Begin digging near the port of oakland for the body of a woman killed 12 years ago. For the second day officials used heavy equipment to dig in the wooded area at 7th and maritime streets and police wont say much that the victim was a woman from the oakland area and investigators have not said if evidence or clothing or dna would be recovered here or what spurred this new surge. Also in oakland we are following developing news in the last half hour. Officials announced arrests after a burning body was found in a park. We are learning the identity of the victim. Those remains were found yesterday near the entrance of a royal veo park in east oakland. Lee martinez join us with how the police made the connect and who killed her. The crime has been described as brutal. They have two people in custody and upstairs interrogated by detectives. A man and a woman from oakland and we are told that woman was a friend of darla rameriz and that the motive was personal. Darla rameriz disappeared wednesday after dropping a close friendly family off in san leandro at ten p. M. Her car was spotted around 12 30 a. M. At the intersection of happy land and 8th street. She fail to return home and her sisterinlaw reported her missing to police at two a. M. Shortly before noon on thursday Oakland Police discovered the burned remains of a woman outside of a roya v apark. Police say she had bluntforce trauma and was stabbed multiple times and set on fire. Whenever you decide to inflict harm on somebody when something as personal as stabbing them, coming to that persons, close personal space. Actually having to utilize a knife and push it through and do physical harm and push it through that persons skin. That is very personal. The Alameda County coroner identified her by fingerprints. Detects believe it was personal and not related to her job as a mentor at the sheriff deputy Explorer Program. Now the Oakland Police were able to solve this crime very quickly and they say they are confident that they have the right people in custody because right after the remains were found in the park they went through the missing persons report and discovered the missing persons report in Alameda County Sheriffs Office and coordinating with the two Law Enforcement. Lee, it is sad but nothing else about possible motive. They did say that the woman was in custody was a friend and that the man in custody, they did not know the relationship, possible acquaintance but they do not believe that she had worked for the Explorer Program for four years and at this point at age 21 she was a mentor and helping the younger children go through the program but they did not believe that was motive for her murder that this was something personal between the three. With the clock ticking down towards leak day each president ial candidate focusing on those all important swing states. Plus a massive water main break on the east coast, the stunning pictures as hundreds of thousands of gallons of water pour out around the shopping center. A beautiful friday across the bay area. And lots of sunshine and temperatures have been warming up nicely and a few changes coming up for saturday and for one part of the weekend we could be tracking a few showers. Water main break in north philadelphia stranded dozens of shoppers this afternoon. The parking lot of the Shop Rite Shopping Center in Huntington Park was flooded when a 48inch main broke submerging park cars. This is the 3rd time a water main has broken in recent years causing flooding. The last time there was a break was about a year ago. What a mess. Well, with four days now remaining before the election, the president ial candidates and their surrogates are blanking battleground states to try to get out the vote. Lauren has more on the candidates closing arguments. Reporter you cannot be president of the United States if you dont know when to shut up. It doesnt look like the 2016 campaign will change its negative tune anytime between now and tuesday. Hillary clinton supporter mark cuban lashing out at donald trump on the trail today. With only four days left, the candidates are focusing on their rivals weaknesses instead of touting their own strengths. Clinton in pennsylvania labeling trump as a dangerous choice. Imagine how easily it could be that donald trump could start a twitter war at 3 00 in the morning. Donald trump says the new renewed f. B. I. Investigation of clintons emails will be able to not keep her from governing effectively. The f. B. I. s october surprise is boosting Donald Trumps standing. The newest electoral scorecard shows a tough path for trump but good news for the gop as ohio moves from a tossup to leaning republican state and trump has tightened his hold on missouri and indiana. While typically democratic New Hampshire could go either way. Although there are concerns of election day hacking attempts, a Senior Administration official tells fox they remain confident in the system and believe it would be extremely difficult for anyone to alter election results. Lauren blandard. Fox news. And be sure to stay right here with ktvu and ktvu plus on election day. We will have live expanded coverage of the local races and those statewide propositions that matter to you all starting on election day at 4 00. What a great day it was outside today. Around the bay area. Mark, thank you. Had everything to do with it. Lots of sunshine today and it was beautiful, a perfect day to go outside for a walk or run and still nice as you wrapup the friday afternoon live towards San Francisco bay and the city and we have relatively clear skies and the nice mild friday afternoon. Remember last week we were talking about rainstorms. Not the case this week. On the satellite there is a weather system that will impact part part of your weakened forecast. In the clear with the help of, you can see the winds out of the north, a bit of a northerly wind and thats warming and temperatures responded nicely and napa showing 81 degrees and the airport 73 and across the entire board from santa rosa and hayward and fremont and santa fe reporting 75 degrees. A live camera. A nice friday afternoon will set the stage for a nice friday evening as well and we are talking about the four points today. A big splash and swell out there yesterday and today. High surf advisory expired at 3 00 this afternoon and taking a look at the buoy right now and you can see the waves. Wherever it is up there. A long period here and you could have a calm period of quiet surf and you get a set wave and that could change things instantly. Another big well, bigger than todays swell could be approaching Northern California coastline. That could be for next week and tuesday and into wednesday. For tomorrow, San Francisco partly cloudy skies 54 degrees and by the afternoon 12 00 a suncloud mix, 64 and wrapping up the afternoon hours at 4 00 and increasing clouds. 67 degrees and talking about showers as we head towards late saturday night, and into a sunday morning. Highs in the north bay. Here is the future cast. 10 00 and we are still dry in the bay area and keep an eye out to the north because the rain band approaching the north coast and by saturday ten p. M. And we will be talking about a few scattered showers in the north bay and the showers could linger to sunday morning. Coming up. We will take a close look at the highs because we are expected a cool down and then we will take a look at the five day forecast and more changes setting up for next week. Enjoy the sunshine. That is shining brightly. Thanks, mark. Coming up. Hundreds of people lining up in need for the holidays. I will tell you about the event under way in the south bay and how you can contribute. San jose state students tried to gain a better understanding of the homeless problem and they will do it tonight. All part of an event called poverty under the stars. And Santa Clara County it is estimated that 6600 people are homeless right now and many shelters are at capacity. City leaders and Community Activists and hospital employees address the students and talked to them about the issues of homelessness and how it impacts the entire community. It kind of emerses us in this their world actually. And personally i feel more moved and a little more motivated to want to help them because they do this every day. County supervisor spoke to students and encouraged them to vote for major a 950 Million Dollars bond. It needs a 2 3 majority to pass. In san jose people spent the night lined up to get help for the holidays. Families were there to sign up for sacred heart holiday food and food program. Hundreds of people in line here at Sacred Heart Community service. Some of the people in line lost their jobs and others are single parents. But the first person in line arrived here at the nonprofit yesterday at 12 30 in the afternoon. She and many others spent the night outside huddled in blankets and wanted to make sure to get on the list to receive a free holiday food box and pick out free toys for their families. I want this and i want that and sometimes it breaks my heart not to have it to give it to them because sometimes i dont have the money to give it to him so im blessed with this, that they have the opportunity to give our kids something. It may not be what they want but at least something is a little give. The need is great and the line snaked down the street and was three blocks long. Sacred heart serving 7400 turkeys as part of the food program. They are looking people to donate food and toys and the Nonprofit Needs to collect 18,000 toys and gifts to give to lowincome families. We have 27 of the people that make 50,000 or less so that tells you there is enough money to be able to afford rent plus all of the extra food especially around the holidays to keep up with those traditions. Parents will be able to pick up the holiday items in mid december. If you would like to help donate go to our website at kutv. Com and click on web links on our home page. A College Athlete is sentenced to prison for his part in an on campus rape. How long the former College Player will spend behind bars. In new york, a Police Officer has been killed after responding to a robbery. The 4 on 2 will be right back. Some developing and sad news to tell you about out of new york. One officer has been shot and killed and another one was injured while responding to a report of a robbery late this afternoon in new york. The officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect in a section of the bronx. The suspect was killed. The officers were responding to a Home Invasion that turned into a chase. When the suspect fled from the scene. Meanwhile two people stabbed on the campus of Rutgers Business School in north carolina. Police say the suspect is in custody. School Officials Say the campus went on lock down at 2 30 this afternoon when Campus Police received reports of a stabbing in the 5th floor of a classroom building at the business school. Police say that they have arrested the suspect and they did so an hour later. The lock down was lifted. No word on where the two victims or a motive and the attacker was apparently hurt. There are more stunning developments in the case of a missing woman that was found chained in a metal container in south carolina. The rescued woman tells investigators she saw the suspect shoot and kill her boyfriend. She is alive and well and she is obviously traumatized and she told us that she had been locked in that container for two months. And she is alive by gods graces. In two months the woman disappeared along with her boyfriend in august and a tip led authorities to this property in woodruff where they heard banging and screaming coming from a 30x50 chamber and where they found the victim inside with a chain around her neck. The Property Owner was charged, 45yearold todd copeliff a a register sex offender. A body has been found. We found a body in a shallow graver at 10 00 this morning. We have absolutely right now no way of knowing how this person deceased, whether it is male or female or any of those kinds of things. Now the sheriff says that they fear as many as four bodies may be found based on what the victim said. And the family says that couple was lured to the company to do cleanup. A former Football Player at vanderbilt has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. He was convicted for the rape of a woman and handing out condoms and encouraging other players to rape the woman who had passed out in his dorm room. At his sentencing vanderburg blamed alcohol for his behavior saying he was ashamed of what he had done. Well it was a gorgeous day outside. All week it was beautiful after rain and storms brought storm and welcome schmo to the sierra especially if you are a skier. Preparing for the opening of the 2016 season and have already started to make a little bit of snow. What do you do in a situation like this . Do you head out for the first time of the season . You are looking good. You guys are looking good down there. I know. I got this view right here. It is kind of cool. That mountain is nice to see out there. We are doing good. Temperatures warmed up and definitely in the 40s and low 50s. Just about 44 degrees at the bay and 7800 feet and on the upper elevations inverted and at the upper summit and looking at an illusion push that High Pressure and we should see temperatures dropping normal in the next few days and the two largest snow making system on the west coast at heavenly and over at northstar resort. On the natural which is mother natures natural. Confident on november 18th coming out and just two weeks away. The temperatures should relax and on that 14 day forecast pushing eastward and that will allow the storm door to open and get ready for a normal season, 450inches a year that should be fantastic. Thanks, coop. Good to see him. It is. I love this time of year. Thanks so much. Coming up. Continuing coverage of the bay area sex scandal involving several Law Enforcement agencies what the decision to not charge several Police Officers and we will speak of our legal analyst coming up next. Lots of sunshine. It is nice and you can see the hills turning green with that october rainfall we had. We are tracking the track of a few showers and part of the weekend and bigger changes showing up in the five day. All right. It is friday and that means of course the verdict. Michael cardoza. Our legal analyst is here as always and lets start and talk about a couple of things. Lets start about the decision by the prosecutor d. A. Not to file charges in the bay area sex police scandal. He said the evidence was not there especially after talking to a buslin. Im listening to Mark Peterson and told five different stories and she said she did not have sex and if she did she was over 18. Said we cant trust her veracity and we at contra costa are not going to prosecute the officers. That speaks volumes to me and i turned to Alameda County and says why is there a difference . Why do you believe her. She has told a bunch of different stories and thinks she will make a bunches of money. You are representing one of the officers in the scenario. Can you use this to your advantage if you got to a point to go to trial or with the plea barg . I am anxious to see. There will be no plea bargain. We are going all the way. They dismiss it or they got themselves a trial. In this case what we will look to are the jury instructions that talk about the credibility and the veracity of witnesses. We will look to see what she told the contra costa investigators because remember there were two parallel investigations going on. Alameda county and contra costa. She says something and we now want to get what she told those contra costa investigators to see how they square up, if they square up at all. We will mention the one person charged, an 81yearold. Right. Come on. ExPolice Officer and where he made his mistake, he said i did have sex with her. She was over 18 and i paid her and thats what they are charging him. Where are the other johns and customers of prostitutes or sex workers why are they arresting this one x Police Officer, 81 years old. I smile at that. Going to a hooker at 81. This is a family show. Okay. Move onto the other case and that is down in los angeles. The d. A. Charged an ex playboy model for body shaming a 70 yearold woman at the gym. She took a photo of this gym and shared it on social media and it was despicable. And she there you see it. She says if you cant if you cant unsee it, you cant either and sent it to friend on snap chat and making fun of the person. You have an expectation of privacy in the locker room. Absolutely. And kudo to the d. A. s office for prosecuting this because this is one of the type of misdemeanor crimes that could fall between the cracks. They are going after her and i think they should come after her. How do people feel when you hear this. You are in the gym and working out and taking a shower and a young woman who is in shape looks at an older person and good luck when she gets older and lets take a look at her. Awful what she did and it is going to be interesting to see what the judge does because they let it go with this person saying gosh i am sorry and i did this and i am off facebook and i dont do it. You wont get away with this. She gets a short blast of jail time to sort of socialize her or give her a lot of hours of Community Service to say this is not something you do. Better she punch that lady and she would get over that punching faster than she is going to get over this deep emotional scar that this woman caused her. I think she should be punished and punished good. Mark tamayo. What do you have for our weekend . We do have a few showers in the forecast for parts of the bay area as we head in the weekend and thats the biggest change that we can expect by saturday night. Looking out towards San Francisco bay. A few high clouds and temperatures in the 70s for today and tomorrow we begin to cool things off on average about 3 to 5 degrees and more pronounced cooling for the second half of the week before we have this guy, this cold front approaching Northern California and this will be the source of more cloud cover by tomorrow and more rain showers as well. Especially to the north of the bay area. Right now we have traced in the surface winds. Still a northerly wind in place and we have mostly clear skies and take a look at the numbers. Very nice. One censor in napa showing 80s and widespread 70s for San Francisco, oakland and fremont and san jose in the mid70s, 75. Another live camera in oakland still in the clear. It will set the stage for a very nice friday evening. The first thing tomorrow morning partly cloudy skies and not only the valley fog a few patches and quite a bit of fog bump up to the coastline tomorrow and temperatures for your saturday will be in the 40s and to the low 50s and its the time of year we change the clock. Before you go to bed saturday night and sunday morning we fall back one hour and take a look at that sunday sunset time. It will be 5 05. That time of year and dont forget as we head to your weekend. The next system set to move in late saturday and also into early sunday morning. You will notice the bulk of the rain to the north and of the bay area and thats where the numbers do reflect that towards eureka and men na siddo. 6. 9inches and those amounts taper off towards the south bay and maybe just trace amounts and a couple hundredths of an inch. Here is the next system next saturday and sunday morning and the next system upstream and the flow. Tomorrow cooling and a chance of a few showers on saturday night. Mainly up in the north bay and then into sunday the chance of a lingering shower. Early sunday morning and maybe 6 or 7 00 and a sun cloud mix for the remainder of the day on sunday and breezy out there as well. Here is the deal with the forecast tomorrow morning. Showing you a return of some fog and coast side and the afternoon and partly cloudy and up to the north and taking this into saturday night and this is saturday, late saturday into early sunday morning and rain showers developing up in the north bay and then kind of breaking up a bit but still a possibility of a few showers. First things sunday morning and even at 8 00 the sunday morning the chance of a sprinkle and partly cloudy by sunday 3 00 p. M. Temperatures for tomorrow. 60s to low 70s and santa rosa 70 and San Francisco 67 and concord 70 and the High Surf Advisory expired and and a big swell for tuesday and wednesday and we will be watching that offshore. Onland the chance of a shower first thing saturday and into sunday morning. Partly sunny skies and into monday and next week looks quiet as we start things up and going to start off the day and 60s and 70s and i always remind people to change the clocks. The person who forgets is always me. So we get that extra hours sleep. I love this week. All right. And the weather will be great. If you are looking for something fun to do. There are events featuring crafts and sciences and a lot of other things. Rosemary has this edition of week watch. Into the first week of november and if you are looking for something to into San Francisco, the bay area science festival extravaganza helping at at t park. There will be hundreds of hands off activities with fun and Educational Entertainment and the free event from ten to four. In redwood city. The day of the dead. This free event a procession down broadway and food and crafts and this celebration on sunday from five to nine and at the Courthouse Square and the san mateo history museum. In the east bay the patchwork show will take over the square and show case local emerging artists and designers alongside artists and food and diy craft workshops and gourmet food trucks and music and patchwork shows free to attend and vendors to include clothing and jewelry and art and home goods and more. If you like being spooked and wish for one last chance through a Haunted House fear overload the park at the final weekend of live horror entertainment at the center in san leandro. In sports, raiders and 9ers and sharks play at home and warriors away. Im Rosemary Orozco and that is your weekend watch. I told you lots of ideas. Thanks rosemary. We will speak with bay area teachers about how they are using this years contentious election to teach students. T h is election is presenting a challenge for teachers as students come to school asking about what they see and hear from the candidates and from the adults in their lives. Claudine wong sat down with one group of teachers. A group from walnut creek schools to talk about how the election is portrayed in the classroom. As a history teacher there are many teachable moments with the election. It is about the conversation itself. Not necessarily the candidates because i think one of the things that we have seen in this lakeeffect election is that they are flawed. Putting this into a context that middle School Students can understand. I won tell you who i am voting for but i will tell you what i dont stand for even with a president ial candidate. I have never done that before an. Usually im completely mum about it and i dont say anything. I sort of got torn between my desire to be objective versus the lessons of history which is you cant stay on the sidelines when you have intolerance. Donald trump is calling for a total and complete shut down of moslems entering the United States. The rhetoric had to be called out. Is this the first time that you have actually made your position known . The only other time in 25 years i ever gave my opinion was proposition 8. The points that i tried to focus on with the president ial election is integrity and looking at the two different candidates and how integrity goes along way. And the disturbing stories just keep coming. I would say this election has had plenty of cringing moments but the students are paying attention. Do they bring a lot of what they hear at home into the classroom and how do you teach without teaching them maybe something that conflicts with what they are hearing at home . I think it is a delicate balance as a teacher to not put your politics in the classroom but if you are teaching tolerance it is not one side but i think you are teaching open minedness and critical thinking. Because he would rather have a puppet as president. No puppets. And it is clear. We had a preschool teacher that said 3yearolds are coming in saying i heard that in this case donald trump is a bully and the preschool teacher is trying to figure out how to manage that. What we have come to accept as educators is that it is coming to school regardless. Whether what do you say. They are parenting their opinions and we keep trying to bring back to behaviors rather than to characteristic. If they want to release more tapes saying inappropriate things. We will continue to talk about bill and hillary doing inappropriate things. There is a lot of slander and things that are coming up from peoples past. You did this a couple of years. You said this in this interview. And you did this with this email and that is how you handled the information and i have been focusing on the integrity part and students building integrity and how that can lead to your future. Have you gotten any push back from parents saying i dont want you to say this to my kids. I dont name names. After you come in for a debate you come in and worked up in your own ways and how you keep that from fingering your class in a way that you dont want it to affect your classes. As educators we come together to disagree and voice our opinions and ideas to one another and do it in a way that is not threatening and it is conversational and even if we dont agree it is okay. There is no issue that separates the two of you more than the issue of immigration. Actually there are a lot of issues that separate the two of you. The benefit of this election is some that middle schoolers can more easily grapple with, is the United States a nation of immigrants and welcome immigrants. Thats a big concept where as taxes and tax rates is confusing to them. One of the lessons in every election i try to make sure i get and this is what our society has lost is that the people that disagree with you arent evil and they may not be wrong. It is okay to civilly disagree. There is things that we still need to have conversations about that we still arent having conversations about and hopefully this election because it is so polarizing to put this in a position to have that conversation. We will hear more from the teachers when Claudine Wong hoss bay area people. National security is at a alltime high. The recent threats made to three specific states made by the terror group of the islamic terror group. The four on 2 will be right back. Stay with us. More problems for samsung, this time for washing machines that affect 3 million machines sol since march of 2011. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the tops of the samsung washers can detach during use. There are reports of 730 of them blowing off. Nine injuries have been reported including one broken jaw. Samsung is offering to repair the problems. Stand alone home speaker called google home and google answers to echo. Google home allows to play music and ask questions and do the same things you do on your smart phone. It sells for 129 compared to the 179 echo. Law enforcement officials on high alert in three states. This comes as federal investigators are looking into information that there could be issues around election time involving the terror group al qaeda. Rob smith has more. A potential threat of attacks in the u. S. From al qaeda taking place around election day. Thats what federal authorities are warning local agencies of and in virginia. Reportedly identifying those states as possible targets. Right now the way that the nypd is looking at it we are in a state of village lens. That is after what is being called an unspecific threat by the militant group. New york Police Agencies are pledging high levels of patrol at area airports and tunnels. And this is something that i was briefed on several days ago that is at this moment we are still developing information on the level of credibility and not clear and it is definitely not a specific threat. The threat of information coming at a time when new york is preparing to host the citys annual marathon. As well as both president ial campaigns. We want to urge clearly everybody go about your business and a lot of nypd folks to protect you. The Texas Governor says the governor is monitoring the situation and asking people to remain vigilant and to say they will be able to vote safely and taking necessary steps to protect the american people. A senior Law Enforcement source tells fox that reports of an attack are based on low credibility. In new york, rob smith fox news. Ktvu fox 2 news at five starts now. Tonight Oakland Police announce they have suspects in custody. After a burning body was found in a park. Good evening. Im heather homes in for julie. And im frank somerville. Over an hour ago police announced that the victim was a woman that had not been seen since wednesday night. Her name is Carlos Rameriz segoviano. A volunteer for the Alameda County Sheriffs Office. Her remains were found near the entrance of a royal viejo park. At 77th and crouse in oakland. Last seen dropping off a friend in san leandro. We are outside of the Oakland Police department where we got an update. Lee. Frank, they do have two people in custody for her death. They are interrogated in the upstairs room. They have not yet been arrested but detectives say they will be making arrests and calling her murder absolutely brutal. And one of them happens to be a friend of the victim. Now karla rameriz segoviano disappeared at ten p. M