getting so much attention. complete bay area news starts right now, this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. good morning everyone, it is august 22nd, i am heather holmes in for pam cook. >> once again, good morning. >> yes, you want to bundle and it is the typical pattern at least for the morning hours, clouds this morning and drizzle eventually clearing back to the shore line this afternoon. temperatures have been trending down and that trend continues for today. the range right around coast side, inland 80s to right around 90 degrees sal has an update on traffic. getting up to highway 17, that looks good no major problems as you drive down to the bottom of the hill. also if you are driving on westbound 24, it is getting more crowded let's go back to dave and heather. hundreds of students have evacuated their dorms after a gas leak forced them out into the cold. a car forced them out into channing on berkeley. sal, you know all the details, so what happened. dave this is a car crash near the uc berkeley campus. you can see the air to marks that were left here in the dirt and this car then slammed into a gas line rupturing it. it sent gas leaking into the air and this entire dorm building had to be evacuated. everything started at 2:45 this morning. they manually activated the alarms and several hundred students made their way out of the building for more than an hour. some students said they heard screeching and then the building shook. but we spoke to a sergeant who said this was an orderly evacuation. >> the fire alarm went on and it was scary because we had to be evacuated. we were running down here and we could smell the gas and it was just like right there. >> uc berkeley police have been detain had but police don't have a sense of why he lost control in the first place. >> reporter: this particular gas leak will remain shut off as pg&e continues to do repair work to again repair this gas line ruptured in a car crash early this morning. live this morning in berkeley, alex savage ktvu channel 2 morning news. thanks for that information, alex. down to san jose, police there are considering whether to ask chp for help due to the recent increase in crimes. tara moriarty is there to investigate the 31st homicide and tara, it happened right where you are standing inside that safe way. >> this is information, asking him to use chp for help. that is to combat the violence program and the most recent is happening here at this safe way. it happened at 8:30 near story road. they received reports for a man in his 20s near the produce aisle and when they arrived they realized they had been stabbed in the chest. he died at the scene. police classified the death of a man found saturday as a homicide. authorities said the past eight days have been some of the most violent, six killings, 10 shootings and 8 officers hurt. police say their staffing levels are simply too low. >> it is difficult to continue running at this level. we are at a position where we will welcome some help. >> that is where they will come in regarding chp but he wants to talk to his own officers and find out what he wants. he took 17 of them for backbone checks but that is just a political thing and they do agree something needs to be done to stop the violence. tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 morning news. just about an hour from now a coast guard cutter will arrive for a search of what is called an unknown object. right now a plane is searching the waters 60 miles southwest of the golden gate bridge. around midnight a report came in from a ship which looked like a plane with its wings on fire. so far they say nothing unusual has been found. well that spark is now 40% contained but is still threating who is. this one is burned -- has burned more than 21,000 acres and destroyed more than 50 structures. evacuation orders are still in place in many areas. this is going to be the worst year for wildfires. the old record was set in 2006 and that's when 9. 8 million acres burned. according to the fire setter, 2012 will probably surpass that number because of all of the drought conditions. former military members as well as cia members, they have launched a television attack against president barack obama. the group accuses the president of taking too much personal credit for the raid that killed him. and the care map of the u.s. joints chiefs of staff calls it disappointing. >> if somebody uses their uniform for partisan politics, i am disappointed by that because it does erode the trust we have with the american people. >> we feel we are doing the right thing. >> the group claims it is nonpartisan but a number of its members have republican ties. meantime, todd aiken is vowing to continue his bid for the u.s. senate. but support continues to fade among his own party. we will go back live to the washington dv bureau and how the information is causing them republicans. how are we doing right now? >> as you mentioned, we have seen a lot more as schools get back in and we are generally easing into it and you can certainly tell, there has been an affect on traffic and let's go and take a look. now the back to school code, most of them are not on the road this early and 6:30 is when you start seeing a spike in the commute. highway 4 looks good as you come to the pittsburgh area and it is slow in antioch. also this morning's commute looks good and there is a crowd in some of the cash lanes. if you are driving on 580 livermore, that traffic is already, -- all right my map failed so let's go to mark. we have a little bit of a cooling trend as we head to tomorrow afternoon and that has been the headlines for today. clouds cover for the shoreline tomorrow, just a little bit cooler and we are warming up inland. as far as the fog pattern we are right now covering the coast and also cost side. if you are heading out those readingsare in the 50s. san jose in the upper 50s and 58. here is the forecast for today, you may notice upper 50s to right around 60 coast side and our temperatures are going up and it is not that extreme heat inland mainly to upper 80s and 90s inland this afternoon. 9:00 clearing back to the coast into the afternoon hours definitely some left over patches right around san francisco, there will not be a complete clearing and it links up right around the 90-degree mark. with a look ahead with your weekend always in view, slightly cooler for thursday and we will warm things up slightly by friday. we will look at the bay conditions for america's cup qualifying this afternoon. thank you, mark, a turtle has ended up in a tree. this disturbing case of animal abuse, we will tell you about it and it is now under investigation in southern california. plus a lawyer from right here in the bay area said he may have been arrested for police misconduct in oakland. and we will show you the messages and also a photo sent from the two victims just before they died. . two combing students were killed during a train -- two college students were killed during a train derailment. the two college students were sitting on the edge of a bridge railing and they had their backs to the train when the derailment happened. just before the derailment, one posted live tating and one said looking down on the city on top of the old sign. they were trying to investigate thinking somehow the two contributed to the accident or maybe it was just a horrible coincidence. and the government is now open to talk about the resignation of president -- resignation to the president in syria. he said that you states may intervene if syria uses chemical weapons. he said the chemical weapons are a redline for the united states. and presidential hopeful paul ryan is campaigning in virginia. this is a live look, they are in the city of rope knowing. gip why of course leaves mitt romney and paul ryan 51 to 44% among registered voters. and new comments from republican congressman todd aiken. he is rejecting republican calls to drop his bid for the u.s. senate. >> reporter: heather, republicans are dropping him, mitt romney wants him out but aiken said this morning, party bosses cannot undo the will of party voters. >> i know that the party voters take a look at our hearts, understood who we were and had a chance to meet us in many ways and made a decision. >> reporter: republicans are concerned over aiken's rape comments promised to overthrow it and it has opinion a new look. it calls for a constitutional amendment banning abortion with no exceptions for rape origin set of even though mitt romney supports those exceptions. what aiken said about whether he will be at the gop convention during my next update will be in an hour. reporting live allison burns ktvu channel 2 morning news. time now 6:16 a lawyer for martian lynch claims race may have been a factor when he was arrested. they arrested lynch and they suggested their racial differences may have played a role. he said he had been swerving all over the road and he believes the reason there is no dash-cam video is because police turned off their camera. he said the camera was just not working properly and martian pled not guilty. wilfredo reyes was arrested last month. he is charged with twee three counts of murder -- three counts of murder for his case in the murder of tony balogna and his sons michael and matthew bologna. he was the trigger man. a disturbing case of animal abuse. somebody duct taped a poor turtle to a bunch of balloons and sent it into the air. those balloons got caught in a free and neighbors saw what was going on and tried to help the turtle. >> tangling back and forth. >> they tried to get the fire department but it took an hour for the firefighters to show up. >> once they showed up, the managed to cut the turtle free and he is now in the care of the humane society. hockey season scheduled to be detained. the nfl is warningit will lock out the players if there is no deal in place. they will go back to the negotiating table today and we are told there is a wide gap in their negotiations so who knows. >> let's check in now with sal and there is a lot of people getting ready for work and the possible first day of school, how are things looking now? >> there are no major problems if you are driving westbound 80 and bay bridge, so let's look at 280 northbound as you get up to highway 17 and traffic is moving well. we did have a problem on westbound 237 and we don't have that picture now but there is a crash reported in the vicinity of for the first street and i wanted to tell you that. now metering lights have been turned on and you can see there is a much bigger crowd than even five minutes ago. and from walnut to concord, it is moving well, let's go to mark. we are looking outside at oakland and we have overcast with some drizzle and the fog is regrouping becoming locally dense down to a quarter mile of visibility. here forecast models show clouds are out there and we will keep things clearing towards the coast and want to bundle up. inland more sunshine and reaching around 0 to 90 degrees and these are about the same a few neighborhoods down slightly. pleasanton 86 degrees, and with a look ahead, a little more cooling for thursday and some minor warming for friday and saturday, fog in the morning clearing to the overall face and that will be the pattern. they are taking steps to find out if they can attract some new customers. the wireless company will offer a plan with unlimited data and text messages starting next month. customers will pay between 70 and $90 a month. they don't charge for over its fees for people who did over data limits making it difficult. and the popular video service is called face type and they could be violating fcc rules. they say internet providing cannot block anything that compete with their services. they will require services to sign up if they want to use face time. time now 6:21, you should pay attention if your car is trying to talk to you. how new 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[ female announcer ] for more information or to find a retailer near you, visit tempurpedic.com. s. pioneer is on wall street, a couple of things, existing home sales will be released and later in the day everyone shifts their attention to the release of the federal reserve minutes from the last meeting and a lot of people will be looking to see if the feds showed any signs to look at other ways to stimulate the economy and we will have much more coming up. good morning everyone, thanks so much for joining us, it is wednesday august 22nd and i am heather holmes in for dave and pam, time now 6:31. and we are following what is happening in berkeley, it has caused a gas leak and forced some evac wakes there. this is -- evacuations there. this is on the edge of cal campus and alex savage joins us live to tell us what is going on and if the evacuation order is still in place. >> reporter: the evacuation order is no longer in place. but hurley this morning, a car -- early this morning a car slammed into a gas line rupturing it. this accident sent gas leaking into the air this was around 2:45 a.m., this was right on the corner of channel hall. they manually activated fire alarms and several hundred students were forced out for more than an hour while pg&e is here and one of the students said she felt the building shake from the accident. >> all of a sudden we heard a big noise and we ran out to see what was going on and we heard people screaming and yelling and it was chaotic. >> reporter: a sergeant out here tells us this gas line leads to a boiler in the building and the gas line will remain off as crews make repairs. chp says the driver of the car has been detaped and at this point they are trying to figure out why this person crashed this morning. live in berkeley, ktvu channel 2 morning news. >> more violence to tell you about, it happened inside a safe way, they were told a man appeared to have had a seizure but when they arrived they realized he had been stabbed in the chest. authorities may be called in to help san jose to help the rise in crime. new details about a shooting that came out of a preseason football game which happened last friday in the parking lot right near the university of phoenix stadium in glendale a arizona. now he is still in the hospital and had been shot in the face. the suspected gunman, a cardinals fan. he has not been arrested as of yet. they are trying to figure out what sparked the shooting and both of those men are residents of arizona. and in just a few hours, they will be affected by the chevron refinery fire. it is affected near the north heritage on fred jackson way. it starts a 9:00 a.m. and you will be able to do that. and at the community center, it will remain open, but chevron said this saturday it will be the last day to consider a claim and in the meantime they will consider phone in claims. they operate the telephone emergency notification system and that's after delays were two hours there in richmond. there ahead of the communities community watch system, says it should take 30 minutes after the system to notify 20,000 people. and looking beyond at&t cell phone towers as a possible source of the police radio problems. now the city found signals from certain at&t towers had been interfering and they shut down some of those frequencies. now police are still having problems which means other cell phone towers may possibly be to blame. they are now testing specific locations. well a washington state man is being charged with with making threats against president barack obama. they tracked the 30-year-old to 'apartment building but when he went to the door he was develop wally arrested. they are not giving any details only that it was sent to a general fbi address. and in election news mitt romney has not received much of a bounce from his vice presidential selection. 47% plan to back president barack obama and vice-president joseph biden in november compared to 46% who say they favor mitt romney and ryan. that is after a poll before the congressman was added to the gop ticket. meantime they are on high alert at the national convention and they are keeping a close eye on the tropical storm which could hit the tampa area next week. that is when 50,000 will be in town and the convention runs from monday to thursday, they are with state agencies incase of an imagine i. >> it is time for the world series and what the races will be like out there, good morning, lorraine. >> reporter: good morning, dave, well these are match races. you can think of it is a match race on the water with one cata moran fighting another. if you look over there, you can see a vessel, which is 45 feet long smaller than the 72-foot boats in the america's cup. what is going on is the america's cup world series and they work as a practice round for the big event next year and that will also take place. this should be very exciting when you consider how fast can did but it is all about skill. >> when you are in a certain situation, you can't get out of it or it may cause your boat to capsize so i think there will be some collisions out there. >> reporter: one team was caused to flip over. one team member was taken to the hospital. no injuries reported from that and the best place to watch is on the marina and it is free and starts exactly 2:05 p.m. reporting live in san francisco, ktvu channel 2 morning news. let's get on with traffic and see how things are shipping up, and on the bay bridge things are starting to build. >> you are absolutely right, this is the peak and every school really. let's look at the westbound bay bridge. you can see it is backed up around 10 to 12 minute delay and it is not especially bad and once you make it on to the bridge delays are moderate. a little bit of cloud cover just as mark has mentioned. planes at fso not especially delayed but we will check to see if they will be delayed. usually they don't, we will check with all three just to be sure. and this morning's commute, already some slowed traffic, we are seeing some slowed traffic there and 680 still looks good. 6:39 let's go to mark. >> this is a beautiful shot, you can't see here, some low clouds and dave appreciates that as well. a round of applause already, some higher clouds moving in and with daylight, we have earlier darkness, it is based on observations and some cloud cover out there. also the winds, we are talking about all the activity and a small craft advisory kicks in. once again, you will see a lot of white caps on the ocean surface later this afternoon. and right around santa rosa visibility is down a quarter of a mile there. san jose 57 and livermore, 56 degrees at last check. this area of low pressure has been cooling off over the past few days and remains in place. with that the coast on the cool side clearing skies and inland spots, mostly clear skies will be on the warm side. here we are 8:00 this morning clouds hugging the coast we will take this into the coast not a lot of clearing here, cool for the beaches, inland on track, a few neighborhoods right around the 90 degrees mark. this numbers could be a little cooler, 88 and 89, fremont right around 74 and san francisco 53 degrees. here is a look ahead, with your weekend always in view, just minor changes to the overall pattern by saturday and sunday. time now 6:41, who will win the fight, apple or samsung. and there was a legal battle over pat tents. and -- er patents. and we will tell you where they are urging the police chief to go. and it is getting crowded and we will tell you more about the other bridges and the morning commute, stay tuned for more news weather and traffic. favorite soup, salad and hot, hearty sub. like the toasty big hot pastrami melt. get to your local subway for some dinnertime deliciousness tonight. subway. eat fresh. . good wednesday morning, time now 6:44, clearing back to the shore line, temperatures low 60s and low 90s. good morning to you, here is a quick look at some of the top stories we are following at 6:44 hundreds of students were evacuated at berkeley just hours ago. a car caused a crash and gas leak. police detained him while crucifixioned the leak and students went back to their -- while crews fixed the gas leak. it started saturday and is still threatening 200 homes. and this morning chevron will open a second claim center at the heritage senior apartments on fred jackson way. some of the people affected by the refinery fire can file claims there as well as the community center location. it is 6:45, short staffed and overwhelmed, san jose police say they are dealing with one of the most violent periods in historian now they want to ask for help, a man was stabbed to death just last night, tara? >> reporter: we have already seen people trickling in most of them were not on shift when the brazen happened last night inside the store. but they are certainly talking about it. it happened off capital expressway. a man in his 20s was stabbed in the chest at the produce aisle and died near the scene. and another man was found dead in a park and was classified a homicide. there have been 6 killings, 10 shootings and eight officers hurt. >> san jose statistically again is one of the sayest -- safest, however if you are part of that violent crime, that statement means nothing to you. >> they have edged help from the highway patrol. he wants to his open of others to find out what they need. it is simply not enough to fight crime in a city of 1 million people. live in san jose, tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 morning news. and these are live pictures of a very noisy protest which is taking place in san francisco. the demonstration is aimed at helping a homeowner save his property. he filed for a loan modification with a bank but the bank sold the property out from under him and he said it all happened even though he never missed a payment. he faces eviction and that is supposed to happen today. members and other activists are now here in the area of san francisco and they are now vowing to block this. and they are expecting deliberations between the legal battle of apple and samsung. each claimed they infringed and they have 2 billion in damages while apple owes it $421 million. an independent auditor says the biggest supplier is upgrading working conditions at three of its factories in china. they have made 91 improvements due by the end of may. fox conn is ahead of schedule on improvements that are dubai next -- due by next july. let's get another check on the traffic situation. i understand things may be happening on the east shore freeway. >> and this is the time when the commute really gets deep in some areas and you can see, especially if you look at the top of your screen, a lot of schools are back in and they have already started to change, for example san shows state, this is packed up and over crossing is not all that bad psychs that ramp coming in on the bottom of the toll plaza but it might get more crowded and in contra coster it is getting more crowded and 80 itself, we looked at the lower part of the east shore and it is slower in funnel and -- panola and richmond. now back to mark. once again we have a regrouping in fog and some overcast looking out towards the bay and some breaks in the clouds even a little bit of drizzle. as far as visibility sonoma county airport, oakland, san jose reporting partly cloudy skies. current numbers you want to bundle up only in the mid-50s and you could be starting out especially in parts of the north bay. the area of low pressure is not going anywhere. put today on the cool side, cheering skies but precisian temperatures on the warm side -- temperatures on the warm side. you can see as we head into monday next week, possibly a category 1 hurricane and this is a possibility but something we will be watching over the next few days. in the lower 50s near 60 degrees, a bit of a breeze by 3:00 after fog and drizzle and temperatures today about the same could be a little cooler in a few spots. inland neighborhoods, 85 and right around 90 degrees this afternoon. and we will check in right about 3:00, san rafael 77 and mountain view 73 degrees. a touch cooler for thursday and some minor warming, upper 80s by saturday for the inland spots. another weather check in a few minutes. and lists and social media, they have to be in an antisocial move, especial hi face back. right now stock is selling at less than 2% of its ipo dollars. and another just went into effect, united added more to fly foreman 500 miles. earlier they added southwest added $8 for shorter flights and that's when those bigger carriers matched those prices. celebrating petaluma little legal win in the world series. >> i understand what you are saying... >> they did a run and it's safe! >> cool, what is happening back in their home town where these young stars are happy to miss. and we have a warning to tell you about some people living in san francisco, how this, a piece of blue tape could be a sign that you are being targeted by criminals. . taking a live look at the board, as you can see the dow jones industrial average is down and they have stayed in negative territory, and the dalles are just about -- dow jones industrial average is just about 3 and s&p 500 is also down as well as the nasdaq, investors are keeping their eyes open when the federal reserve releases minutes from the last meeting and they want to know if they are going to do anything else to stimulate the economy. blue painters tape, some residents had blue tape across the bottom part of the front door and they say it is not illegal but it could also be a sign that a crime is going to take place. some could be watching to see if that tape is moved to find out if residents are away. police hope by getting the word out, maybe crimes can be prevented. a new pole shows a majority of san francisco people want sheriff ross mirkarimi permanently removed from office. 6 5% said yes, sheriff ross mirkarimi should go and 30% said no. a board could vote on removing sheriff ross mirkarimi and the board of supervisors that is as early as next month. they are about to send the rover out on this testdrive. now they have already tested the rover steering system and today curiosity will move 10 feet from its lapping position and go back to a nearby position. one of cure karates winds sensors but the other one should be able to do what is needed. they are now one win away from the u.s. championship game from the little legal world series. >> he brings the infielder in, goes deep to center field, it goes over the wall. >> shortstop smith smacked a three run homer as petaluma shuts out 5-0 yesterday and back home as you see here, they packed movie theaters to help cheer the team to victory. tomorrow's game is 5:00 p.m. pacific time. how are the roads and bridges doing? >> well, we are looking at highway 4 and it is moving along well, and it is crowded here in bay point and 83 in richmond, that is also getting crowded and we will have more coming up in a few moments. right around the bayside communities, today a little cooler upper 80s to right around 90 degrees. slightly cooler thursday, some minor warming by friday. coming up on mornings on 2, the big news we have been following all morning from berkeley. we have stories since 4:00 a.m. and the evacuation has forced the evacuation of a uc dorm. >> it could be tricky out here stay right here with us. x