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Look at napa airport, a cool, brisk very falllike 48 degrees, 60s for some including gilroy and san jose stated fremont 52 and saratoga checks in at 48. There is not much but it is not that impressive and the winds will pick up as the system gets closer and it is still a day away after some patchy low clouds, near normal temperatures which is 70s around the bay and some lowto mid 80s, here is sal. If you are driving in the east bay, westbound 24, only 8 minutes to the tunnel, it doesnt get better than that, you can see for yourself, crowded in lafayette and i will tell you it is more crowded but still not putting a damper on this commute and there is a backup of about 25 minutes or we are expect it being more traffic. Keyed a couple of minor starts and an extra ten minutes would be good. If you are getting on by way of pittsburgh or concord its not that bad but give yourself some extra time in antioch. It could slow down the entire bay bridge commute not only San Francisco but ktvus alex savage is at the bay bridge, alex, how is it going out there . Reporter it is a bit crowded and it will only get more crowded and it might be a good idea and once you come off the off and because of that to folsom street, it will remain closed and it will remain closed for the next six months because of this construction project which got underway last night. They are trying to make it safer for the growing number of people who walked through this area and we want to give you an idea of what it looks likes ones it is done. Essentially it will run parallel to the folsom sweet and they are hoping to find alternate routes to ease some of the congestion. It is our hope with these lanes which are in use they will be able to handle the traffic volumes and there is also harrison. And another reason this project is being done is to remove the folsom street off lane ramps, they sit to allow for future Residential Development here in this area and as for options around the area, you can stick with this particular exit and and another option, take the harrison street exit, ktvu channel 2 morning news alex savage. And a sprinkler broke and flooded the road. It looks like it just rained. This happened before 2 00 a. M. And the chp says the source of the flood was located and crews were called in to shut off the water. They went in before reopening the road but its not clear how that sprinkler lane broke. Now they are asking mayor to take action. Reporter they drafted it around 9 00 and some time today they will be delivering that letter to mayor ed lee. According to sources within the Fire Department they lost faith in joanne haze white. Several have banned together and the groups are expressing a crisis in confidence and leadership and direction in the San Francisco Fire Department. This comes in the wake of london who voted no confidence last week. Firefighters are frustrated in the ambulance poor Response Time and they worry lives could be put on the line. It as problem which has been well documented and it hits a critical stage this spring the the transport unit is where they are delaying, it is providing care and treatment within minutes of being dispatched. Now we can focus on arriving at additional staffing for the ambulances. Firefighters say the issues are getting patients to the hospital especially during life threatening situations or code three call. They are tell more than 20 times the city has had to request mutual aid since august 30th. So who is hyped this letter to the mare. Behind this letter to the mayor . They have roughly 1,400 firefighters and they will be checking in with the chief office and we will let you know if we hear back. I am Tara Moriarty, ktvu channel 2 morning news. Time now 6 07 a 3,500 reward is being offered to anybody vandalizing stores, cover and los gatos and financial consulting, they were also vandalized. They should pay for the damage and face a little humiliation. I want them to wear a sandwich board that says i am the idiot who has been vandalize being downtown los gatos and i want them to walk up and down los gatos. The mayor of los gatos offer add 2,500 reward and long time resident added another 1,000 and he said if everybody chips in they are expected to fight his plans in a critical rate setting case. They were fired and a top aid to the p uc chief resigned. Time now 608, students are expected back in class today after flooding and flees cans and standing flooded water was found in main areas and several classrooms. After they fumigated to get rid of flees which were first spotted wednesday and several teachers were bit end by flees. We were scratching, just earn always and they just wanted to help make sure the flee problem was from am eliminated. They are offering incentives to the new willie brown middle school. It is on the Bay View District which was torn down two years and the William Brown middle school will cost 50 million to build. And drivers who drive across the bay bridge, carma will refund them the cost of their toll when they take two other carma users across the bridge to a carpool lane. Carpool users pay a toll compared to the 6 toll and they could charge they are riders. Coming up, when we will expect to hear from president barack obama, that is coming up next. And a look at this chaos during the cardinals game led to this violent fight in the stands. Good morning, we are looking at the east bay commute and looking at highway four. We have something coming out of the north, this will eventually get here and we will talk about timing today, stay tuned. Its halloween time my and disneyland is ours going down boo with haunted mansion holiday. Space mountain ghost galaxy, and wicked fun in both parks, the Disneyland Resort just got spookier visit disneyland. Com halloween trick or treat. Welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news, just look at your screen from the port of los angeles, a dock caught fire, two nearby buildings had to be evacuated. They hid out from air and on ground. It took two hours to get them under control and metal kohls made the fire metal coils made the fire difficult to put out. It was reported just after 4 00 yesterday afternoon. There are the pictures. When they got there, the boat was fully engulfed in flames. Many were notified just to be on the safe side but there is no information they were notified. He shot and killed a teenage boy and they want him taken off street duty. The task force was formed shortly after the shooting death of andy lopez. He returned to full work ten months after and they did not file charges against him but having him on the patrol duty sends the wrong message to the community. It broke out in the in stands during a yard unless game. People were fighting here, punches were thrown, they are going down the stadium stairs, they were called in to help just trying to get this under control. They had verbal confrontationels, it was over somebody that said something and and somebody considered it rude. Two people were arrested with assault, one from Southern California and other fans were kicked out of the stadium. That he had 130 win over the dodgers. Brandon belt added a 2 run double, it is the giants went tonight and San Francisco will clench at least a wildcard spot. As have a lead over the kansas city royals, ates bee then it has been a struggle. He stayed up watching the giants game. It was a pleasant surprise when i woke up and found out they had won. I had to call it at some point. Good morning everybody, lets go and take a look. I want to take a look at highway 4, actually this is the wrong one and we will go back to that in just at the moment. Lets go to eastbound highway and there is a little bit of an accident in that areas well. We have a 25 minute delay coming into San Francisco. No major problems. And the morning commute is going to be okay on the Livermore Valley but already some slow traffic as you drive to the interchange, 680. And we have cool air arriving on friday and we have the forecast coming up and it is starting late tonight and tomorrow night and there will be some really good rain on the north coast. It will move away from the energy source. It will eventually make it but friday is our best bet. There could be three inches of rain between tonight into tomorrow morning. Start off San Francisco, 62 and a high of 72, san jose starting off at 59 and we go 79 and we are within a couple of degrees, 49 napa airport, first day of fall. 57 halfmoon bay, temperatures are running cooler. And and any breeze, not that much but some. 64 bodega bay, even down to afternoon bay bodega bay there are signs we have a northwest wind behind that but not until friday and saturday. A few high clouds to the north, patchy clouds 38 up in tahoe and it looks like a big wind producer, 53 in ukiah, a little cool up there as well. Tomorrow is when we start to see a few high cloud. We will pick pick it up, early thursday morning and the tail lend not show you, i have see 1. 5 to 3. Maybe about a quarter of an inch to the north bay. Patchy low clouds to washp it is night than did you. Cloudsp rain to the north and friday it will be cool and if you will notice it fsunny and nice as you head to the weaken and. E. Fyi o, the dead leap for feel is december 31l1stl0 so far several have been received and several have been denied. They are being fined 5 million and the s. E. C. Failed to stop an employee for using something. And on board a terrifying incident happened in the sky, coming up in 25 minutes, what happened on the flight to california which prompted Police Action and an emergency lapping. But first the controversy surveillance simple ask the da systems. What prompted a lapping. More than 100 protesters were arrested in new york as they blocked part of wall street. Now they are protesting what they see as the role of institutions in Global Climate change. They scheduled a meeting for a un summit on climate change. They may need to protect the mission bay neighborhood. They face a real danger of flooding due to rapidly rising sea levels. Mission bay is one of the Biggest Development areas with agreeing number of homes and businesses and the new campus with the basketball arena are also being built in that part of the city. Some are calling it a new high tech warfare with electronic surveillance which is stepping ahead of criminals. Some local Law Enforcement agencies are called the stingray and it has already been connected to fraud cases. Many are concerned about being nine feet away. This is a particular street which will be caught in this drag net because of where they happen to be. And what about all that information which is collected is pretty much unknown. They are trying to buy upgrade called pail storm and that is the first decline. The federal prison population for about 2 15,000 inmates. For the First Time Since 1980 has declined during the course of a fiscal year. An amazing rescue as an suv lands in a river. Oh, my gd look at that. Coming up in 25 minutes, you get to see how strange years rallied together to save the lives of three teens inside. Hive where they hit a high end dealership and how police say they did it and we will tell what you is causing a slow down. Testimony will start with rainfall projections. It makes me happy to go on the computer. I like feeling smart. Internet essentials from comcast has brought lowcost Internet Access to over 1. 4 million lowincome people at home. Internet essentials helped me progress in my schoolwork. It helped my grades move higher. Today its the largest Broadband Adoption program in america. It helped me a lot. Comcast. Helping to bridge the digital divide. Well welcome back, good morning to you live at San Francisco city hall, firefighters may deliver a letter expressing a confidence in the Fire Department leadership. We have more coming up in just two minutes and we will tell you why firefighters say they are frustrated and how the Fire Chiefs Office is responding no, good morning, channel 2 morning news, it is already tuesday pam. Steve said an interesting looking system is coming in. Well, you were taking pictures of it. I was i am trying to tweet it out. There are patchy low clouds and it looks nice, 60s and 70s and 80s near normal temperatures, for those of you listening, there you are, not too shabby and i have see about a quarter of an inch and only about a 10th, we have low clouds and temperatures are starting off oakland 61 and there is not a big fog bank yet, a high of 60, that is the spirit, santa rosa 48 an f s o 65 fso 60, pittsburgh and brentwood, and including lafayette and san ramon 57. A few high clouds overall looks nice and we will haven crease beingp poles a few molts, here is sal. We are going to go right to highway 4, you can see loan tree way and remember it is a short distaps and the average speed got my attention, 22mile perhour to do that stretch, it is pretty slow and we had some earlier problems on antioch and a lot of people are behind and this is not shaping up to do that commute at all and it is packed up and here is a live look inside San Francisco. Its not closed for the next six month we will have more and there is free p. M. Mop street, lets go back to the desk. We have an update on a 2 investigates story we have been following for the last two months. The San Francisco Fire Department are now turning on their own fire chief and they are asking the mare, they have been talking to firefighters live with a message, you say fierce will i can talking aboutp it. Reporter we believe they are going to be delivering that to the mayor. It outlines the reasons why they have lost faith in joanne haze white. In the letter the union and firefighters associations are expressing a confidence in leadership and direction of the San Francisco Fire Department. This comes on the heels of supervisor london breeze vote nod confidence in the chief last week, they that it could hit a critical stage this past spring. Now the chief office put out its own press release. I am very pleased to see the medical call volume tips to rise and the stops times are i am darn end my are still the maximum time around is 10 minutes. The slight improvement happened after the private Ambulance Companies stepped in. The city has yet to request mutual aid to handle this sense august 30th. So who is hype the letter to the mayor, this is the list of all the organizations including local 798 representing 1,400 firefighters, we have reaped out, Tara Moriarty ktvu channel 2 morning news. We are getting information about the king fire, the one that is burning, and during a short time ago, one firefighters had minor injury and a gusty winds snapped a big concern today. This fire has burned the size of las vegas. Last week 10 homes were destroyed above poll lick pipes and they are pollic pines and they are still under mandatory evacuations. And janine de la vega joins us live from belmont to talk about the area that was talked about. Reporter this is off of highway 101 and we are seeing row after row of mercedes benzs. Sometime between 1 00 and 3 00 a. M. Sunday, once on property, the suspect grabbed a bunch of car keys and used them to steal at the dealership or reand apple be using surveillance videos to see the suspects on camera and they are asking anybody with information to give them a call. Janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 morning news. Time is now 6 36 happening now thousands of commuters are driving into the area, it will and we will have more happen to and what transit leaders are tell drivers. Good morning, alex. Reporter it may be a good idea to avoid this off ramp in San Francisco, let me give you a sense of where we are, we are standing at the bottom of this off interest ramp from the east side and because of this construction project, the lanes to folsom are closed and will stay closed for the next 6 months. They are bracing for some serious backup, the work here is being done to realign the entire off ramp to make it safe for the growing number of people south of market. They are running par are par parallel. They want to make it parallel to wind up with a tee meaning fremont street than will give them a traffic signal which does not exist. And pedestrian walkways and housing will go um and looking down towards Market Street am am see the folks from the transportation officials here with the San Francisco counties are urging people to take the harrison street exit as they come across the bay bridge and it may be a good idea, and it may be a bit on average, ktvu channel 2 morning news. And it happened together. They tell ktvu channel 2 morning news that the 62year old died from his injuries late yesterday afternoon. This tragic accident is raising safety concerns among people in the area. I love biking but i am a driver and pedestrian and i try to cross these streets with my childrenner day. The 63yearold stopped immediately and is cooperate willing with investigators. They are looking and car hit both a motorcycleist before speed being and a bicyclist before speeding off. Witnesses tried to get a description of the car. President barack obama is expecting to talk about the beginning of u. S. Air strikes against islamic targets in syria. Now the u. S. And allies launched in the city of rocker, that is where the terror group is set up with its capital. They have set up five targets. It is very significant that we have four arab muslim countries attack being a sunni based organization. And that did not come easy. Now the advance of isis in north sir into senatetive countries. They are joining the thousands seeking refuge inside of turkey. They have several attacks on businesses, the new effort to track down the vandals. And we have a little bit of damage control, coming up. The advertisement sent to customers which is raising eyebrow and you can you can see we will talking about the closure coming up. Upper 40s towards santa rosa and napa, we have a first full day of fog and we are looking to focus our attention on some possible rain coming up. Welcome back, it is 6 45 an airport which Services Areas is apologizing for an ad that many called distaste full. Here is more on what the ad said that has people so upset, brian . Reporter good morning, as you can imagine many people were upset about the ad which was sent to customers and now they want to give travelers best deals and doing a little bit of damage control. A little bit of back story and a 55yearold man was found dead at Chicago Ohare Airport and following his death, the Airport Parking resident vague reservations said, can Airport Parking kill . Can was it was due to the aggravation and it then goes on to talk about how Airport Parking can help with the stress and a 5 off coupon for parking. Several hours later, after customers complained it sent out this letter, we would like to sincerely apologize for the last Marketing Strategy which has caused those to feel disrespected by it. The company spent a lot of time apologizing on twitter. They guided a promotional e mail from using a mans death as pro mow material we are extremely offended. We are trying to increase business by taking advantage of a mans death at ohare. This is absolutely disgusting and shameful indeed. We will try to talk with travelers who use offsite parking. Brian flores, ktvu channel 2 morning news. All right, brian thank you. A plane heading from boston to los angeles made an Emergency Landing allegedly tried to open a door on the plane in midflight. You are looking at video of doug adams being escorted by police after he made the unscheduled stop in nebraska omaha after they rescraped him until the family landed. They are blaming drugs for what happened and that flight did move on. And as you mentioned, awhile ago, they are scheduled to speak at the top of the hour at the beginning of the u. S. Air strikes on islamic air strikes in syria. We would like to learn more about the specific targets. The new miss america is facing some really harsh allegations, what she is accused of doing which prompted her to be kicked out of her sir recordty. Is your recordty. Sorority. Hey, you have the chopper working with you now . That is right, we are getting our first aerial look at the folsom ramp being closed and it does not look like it is causing a huge back up but as you can see, it is following it around and they can take the fremont exit but it is coned off and pretty soon they will be closed as they put up sturdier barriers and there are all of my colleagues from television news. You cannot use that street until march. Bay bridge, moderate. I thought it would be a little bit slower but so far it looks good, so if you are driving in the east bay, highway 4 because of earlier frog levels, on the floor from antioch to concord, lets go to steve. There is not a lot of them, we are looking at advisories, a good looking system, it is moving in the picture, as we say there are Copious Amounts of rain and hey, that is like the old times. Today looks good, some patchy low clouds, we will have it waiting for the system to move in on the way towards ukiah. There are advisories out this is for a red flag warning and from a king fire and this is a flashflood watch from burn areas and there will be one to two inches. We will go 72 starting off in san jose and we will start you off at 69 some of the lows are running cooler, it is running cooler than in the 60s, the system will start moving in tonight and tomorrow we will cloud it up. Ukiah 53, tahoe 53, redding 62 degrees and the wind will be the biggest factor and again this is all together. We have mostly sunny skies and the system is atmospheric refer. It is going to the lowlevel jet and that suggestion it is around 5,000 feet. It will be turbo charged and we have some good rain to the north. Only a little bit of rain and it will not be until we get towards thursday. Late wednesday they will start some rain and rain a lives arrives wednesday to thursday and its really good far less as we go south. Mostly sunny, a few low clouds although 80s and sunshine and these are close for this time of year. Change is in the air and well see rain here and it will be much cooler friday and then the cold air arrives and it will be sunny and nice. Thank you, steve, apple denied a published report to shut down the beats streaming service. Several told crunch apple was taking steps to discontinue the service and they asked not to be identified and asked they should make changes to beats music and it could mean the service continues. Apple Beat Electronics since may. It is called dark barrel latte and its supposed to have a chocolate favor are you sauce and they are trying it out with a few ohio stores. Coming up in 20 minutes, what the police are doing now after seeing this video of the fans beating each other up in the stands. And they are some of the cutest creatures, what concerns they have about sea otter population. Look oh, my gd look at that. It was incredible, a dozen people were credited with saving the three teens. The drive was probably speeding and he lost control landed upside down in a refer. Those three teens are all expected to survive. Back here at home, oaklands contract for Garbage Service is now going to be split up and the city council is reversing about which company will reject the car garbage and green waste. They will have another company do that job but the other company filed a a lawsuit and that set them with a lawsuit. We are still happy with the program. They are putting a down payment on equipment that is necessary which together started july 1st. The california Way Solutions started and he added he is disappointed in losing that contract but they could not get all of the funning they needed to expand. However he will get the entire contract for the citys recycling. Sea otters are making such a slow recovery recover triare you from the recovery from the bring of extension despite effort to help the population grow. Lack of food could be limiting their growth but they pointed out they found 240 dead otters last year many appeared to be victims of great white sharks. And a big change for you commuters in sap fran, what you need to know once you get off the bay bridge. We will more information about the San Francisco Fire Department, stay with us, we will be right back. Reporter Joanne Hayes White under fire. The union says it has lost confidence. Well tell you why and why Firefighters Want the mayor to take action. Commuters heading into San Francisco are dealing with a big change. What they need to know once they exit the bay bridge. The u. S. Senates ai