The coast guard searches for a missing family. Well tell you what authorities said they last told them more than 12 hours ago. Big announcements from the vatican over night as the pep pro pairs to step down pope prepares to step down. Fire races through a vacant home. Well tell you what investigators are saying this morning about the possible cause. The big winners and big losers on oscar night. Well have a live report from hollywood. All ahead on ktvu channel 2 morning news. Good morning, to you. Welcome to a brand new day. New week. Monday, february 25th im dave clark. Good morning im pam cook. Steve is here with the weather. Im the first person to love the sun but we need rain. No rain in sight . March 5th. Maybe. Maybe. Youll like this week though, pam. If you like sunshine and warmer weather. We will have to wait for a couple of days. Today higher clouds and patchy low clouds from a very, very weak system. Highs 50s and 60s. Here is sal. Good morning. Traffic is doing pretty well, steve, here on 880 north and southbound. No major problems driving through. Also the morning commute looks good as you drive through on east and westbound 237. Now back to the desk. We begin with developing news. The u. S. Coast guard is searching for two adults and two children who are missing off the coast of San Mateo County. Tara moriarty joins us from the coast card station. Tara. Reporter its been more than 12 hours since authorities first began this search. And the water where this family disappeared is quite chilly in the low 50s. So obviously hope is fading but the coast guard continues its search. If we can take a look at the map we can show you exactly where authorities believe they went missing. As soon as its light out the coast guard and Air National Guard will deploy helicopters. At last check they were 50 miles southwest of santa cruz. A flee of boats and airplanes are scouring the water. They called in distress around 4 30 last night. Saying their boat was taking on water. They did not have any life rafts or survival suits on board. They were trying to make a raft from a cooler and life preserver ring. That was the last time officials heard from them. Their craft ran into strong winds and rough seas and warnings had been out all weekend. We do not know the identities of those in the lost party where they started their trip or where they were headed. But obviously we will keep you updated on search efforts. We put in a couple calls to the coast guard. Well let you know as soon as we hear back. Im Tara Moriarty ktvu channel 2 news. New this morning, several developments from the vatican just about an hour ago britains most senior catholic announced he is stepping down amid allegations of inappropriate behavior. Minutes later the pope also made a big announcement. Coming up at 5 15 well have a live report on how both of these announcements will effect the process of choosing the next pope. Time is 5 02. Just four days left for congress to deal with looming federal cuts and the lawmakers are coming back from a recess this morning. The massive cuts if they happen will be devastating. They will effect everything from the military to child care. There would even be more Airport Security delays from cut backs. Transportation secretary ray la hood says the cuts are tough but they are necessary. We will look at everything we possibly can to get to where we need to be which is about 600 milliondollars in cuts. Now 2. 1 million federal workers would be cut. It would slash 85 billion from the proposed 2013 federal budget. Back here at home over night news from Sonoma County. A roanoke park home burst into flames. Alex savidge is live in roanoke park now with video of the huge flames you will see right here on ktvu. I talked with roanoke park firefighter just a short time ago. He tells me that this house has been vacant since about thanksgiving. There is no sign that anyone was living here because the place was all locked up. The fire first started in here what was the garage and spread quickly to the house. It broke out just before midnight here at this home on the 7100 block of alma avenue. 15 firefighters were called in. They had these flames knocked down in just about 25 minutes. Now the fire destroyed the garage and did about 50,000 in damage to the home over all. The firefighter i talked with this morning told me the cause of this fire remains under investigation here. There is nothing to indicate at this point the fire was suspicious in any way. As we bring you back out here live. Investigators will coming back out here once the sun comes up to get a better sense of what may have started this fire. Also trying to reach the owner of this home who we are told lives out of town. Live this morning in roanoke park alex savidge. Time now 5 04. Award season came to a big finish with last nights oscars. This morning people are still talking about the show. Reporter paul is in hollywood this morning with more on the nights biggest moments. Good morning, paul. Reporter good morning, pam. I think some people are still partying here in hollywood. You know they have a lot of reason to raise a glass and toast themselves afterall. This is a case where they didnt give a bunch of oscar statues to one movie, they spread the wealth around. On hollywoods biggest night even first time oscar host seth seems a bit star struck. You guys made beautiful inspiring movies. I made ted. Reporter to present the biggest award of the night First Lady Michelle Obama made a live appearance from the white house. And the oscar goes to. Argo. Reporter the film set during the iranian hostage crisis was also recognized for editing and adeptive screen play. I thank everybody who did anything with this movie. I want to thank canada. I want to thank our friends in iran. Lest midst real won too. Adel performed sky fall which won for best song. Life of pi took home four oscars. The most of any film including best director for lee. Daniel day lewis became the first to win three times in the leading actor. Since we got married my wife has lived with very strange men. You guys are just standing up because you feel bad i fell and that is really embarrassing but thank you. Reporter quintins django unchained took home two oscars. Back here live. That is the second time she has won for best supporting actor. Now back to you in the studio. Thank you, paul for that update. Quite a lot of moments. Yeah a lot of moments. Time now 5 07. We have a moment with sal right now. You ready to get the folks where they need to go . If i go too long they might play the jaws theme. I will Start Playing the music. Lets take a look at what we have. We are off to a decent start. We dont have a lot of slow traffic yet. Westbound 80 looks good as you drive through to the mccarthur maze. No major problems as you drive to the bay bridge toll plaza. We are off to a very nice start. Hopefully it will stay this way. Although i dont think it will. As you look at the commute in the south bay. Northbound 280 does look very good getting up to highway 17. Here is steve. Sal, thank you. A very good morning. The forecast headlines dont have much to say. Mostly sunny. A little breezy here. Usually i put in tomorrow. Im putting in this week because its very quiet. Getting warmer after midweek. Next rain because people are asking me. People are emailing me. Maybe march 5th. Somewhere around there. Today is the full moon by the way. 12 26. Mostly sunny on this monday. Its a dry, dry pattern. That is for sure. Everything continues to ride up and over the ridge. And goo the plain and into the plains and great lakes. Maybe some low to mid 70s. 30s and 40s to near 50. 30s to the northeast and south. But closer to the bay and also the coast more into the 40s. A little bit of patchy low clouds has picked up a few low clouds. It will be a little cooler for a few today. Maybe not too much. Its kind of a push here. Over all its mostly sunny. Temperatures will have no problem get into the 60s for many. Unless you are closer to the water. A dry, dry forecast. High pressure seems very content to stick around today. Mostly sunny. High clouds in the morning. A little bit of patchy low clouds. 60s for many. 50s closer to the bay and the coast. But it looks like a quiet pattern into wednesday and sunshine and warmer temps. In fact by thursday into friday low to mid 70s possible. Then we will probably see that carry to the weekend. Slightly cooler sunday. 5 09 is the time. New this morning the horse meat scandal is growing. The retail giant that is stopping sales of a very popular item on the menu. Three new taxes san jose may impose to repair bad roads. Good morning. Southbound 680 traffic looks pretty good head together san jose area. Well tell you more about the morning commute and bay weather. Alright, lets go. Shimmy, shimmy chocolate. Shimmy, shimmy chocolate. We, we chocolate cross over. Yeah, we chocolate cross over. [ male announcer ] introducing fiber one 80 calorie chocolate cereal. Chocolate. The one and only, cheerios time now 5 12. Ma upon airways has canceled all of its flights until the end of may. International regulators have canceled all boeing 787 flights last month. Ikea stopping all sales of meat balls in sweden after traces of horse meat were found during a random check. The furniture retailer says a shipment of the tainted meat balls were sent to stores in the czech republic. The problem was found before any meat balls were sold. It doesnt appear the tainted meat balls were shipped here to the united states. Random checks of meat started across europe after traces of horse meat turned up in frozen burgers and lasagna. It looks like the castro era will end in five years. Raul castro says he plans to step down from power in 2018 and that his top lieutenant will take his place. Castro is 81 years old. He replaced his oler brother fidel castro in 2006. Fidel castro took over in the 1959 resolution. We are following developing news from the vatican this morning. Britains most senior cardinal has been forced to resign. Kyla campbell is in our washington, d. C. Newsroom with more on the resignation and the big announcement from the pope. Kyla. Reporter pam the spokesman this morning at the News Conference from the vatican focused almost solely on the conclave and the election of the next pope. We will take a look at video from that press conference that wrapped up 15 minutes ago. This News Conference again mostly regarding the conclave and electing the next pope is happening as Cardinal Keith obrien has been forced to resign. This is pretty big news. Cardinal obrien is the most senior catholicture rick in britain. He is charged with making homo sexual advances to younger. Now the pope announced his retirement earlier this month siting health issues. That takes effect on thursday. Were also told he is meeting today with the cardinals who filed a report saying there is corruption and homosex corral homo sexuality taking place. Now an English Speaking priest was at the News Conference. He will put out a full summary in english. In the meantime we are talking about whether or not Cardinal Obrien will really be at the conclave. The spokesman at the vatican says the pope can take some steps but he wouldnt want to harm the cardinals dignity. Well talk about this when we see you next hour. Kyla campbell. Time is 5 15. The state department joining a search for a missing couple from oakland who disappeared in south america. They kept in Constant Contact with their family members and friends through a facebook page. But those posts abruptly stopped january 25th when they arrived in lee ma, peru. No one know what is happened to them. However the u. S. Embassy in peru warned americans of a kidnapping threat by an unnamed criminal group. San Leandro Police have security tips for homeowners after a recent string of burglars. Burglars are breaking into empty homes and stealing firearms to prevent this police suggest forming Neighborhood Watch groups. Installing an alarm system. A name change at sfo is a step closer to going to the voters. Supervisor scott weiner says he will support the effort to rename the airport. He joins four other supervisors in backing the name change. They only need one more supervisor to agree top put a measure on the ballot. 5 17. Taxpayers in san jose you may be asked to pay for fixing crumbling roads. They include a quarter cent or half cent sales tax. They may also ask voters to improve a 295 million bond measure that would cost the average homeowner about 100 a year. Yes, that was me sneezing. Oh, i didnt notice that. [ laughter ] sal, i dont have a sneeze button in here. It is kind of strange. Okay. Check this out. You see. I have a button. There you go. Im a vip around here. Lets take a look at what we have now. [ laughter ] i know its monday. That was lame. Sorry. Northbound 101 approaching the 80 split. The traffic does look good. No major problems as you drive through. For a monday if you want to get out there before the rest of the crowd does. Right now it would be a great time to do it. You would have a nice commute into San Francisco. On the peninsula the same thing goes. Pretty light if you trying to catch a flight out of town. The peninsula traffic between 380 and 92 is light. 5 18 lets go to steve. Thank you, sal. Weak system giving us a few high clouds. It will be out of here in the morning. How about rain . Remember october, november, and december were so good. So good. January, february, awful. Now santa rosa which at one time was 170 of normal for the season. I think sometime back in november. Now they are 88. San francisco is 83 . And san jose is falling off the cliff here rainfall wise. Only 74 . This will go down. There is no rain in sight until march 5th. Now temperatures yesterday warmed up. Well cool them down a little bit. Just by the mere fact we are getting a little on shore breeze. San francisco 46. I will go for a high of 58 today. Yesterdays high was 60. You can see the systems. Yeah they look good. By the time they get here they maybe a little bit of cooling. Few high clouds. Extremely dry pal tern. End of the week looks very mild to warm. In fact, think low to mid 70s certainly possible. 30s and 40s to near 50 degrees. San francisco is 46 right now. Where as all the active weather down in deep south. Severe weather there. Also on the backside of that low you can see Severe Weather from dallas to tulsa. Somebody is getting weather. Just not us here. Our weather is very quiet, very tranquil. It will stay that way for awhile. The low that came by on the weekend left behind a little cool air. Today mostly sunny and breezy at times. The end of february extremely quiet and dry. Mostly sunny. A few high clouds. A little bit of patchy and low clouds. 50s low 60s coast and bay. Mid 60s inland. Gilroy 66. By the end of the week it looks very, very quiet. Very mild to warm. In fact with your weekend always in view, it will be in the 70s. Thank you, steve. European markets opening with gains as investors wait for the first results from the italian election. Over night investors in the far east also upbeat japan nikkei index jumped almost 2. 5 . That is because of reports that the about to be named bank of japan chief is in favor of bold measures to end deflation in japan. Checking in on our numbers the futures indicate a good strong opening here as well. And to be honest, im not quite sure why. The Economic News isnt really great. Of course were waiting for congress and the president to try to avoid all of these spending cuts. But you can see the dow jones starts at 14,000. They were all up on friday. Again higher opening expected today. There are also reports barnes and noble may be going private. The ceo is accepting a bid. That would split the business from its nook e reader and tablet business. Barnes and noble has struggled as more people turn to ebooks. Strange story. Why a member of the San Francisco symphony suddenly collapsed on stage during a live performance. Her and more strange animals are showing up at bay area homes. Youll find out why in a ktvu special report. Atever you wa, baby. Hmm. Lets just share a 20 piece. [ internal ] 20 mcnuggets, for only 4. 99 . Oh, man. Shes beautiful smart and sensible. Jackpot. [ crewperson ] anything else . [ male announcer ] mcdonalds crispy, juicy chicken mcnuggets are now part of the extra value menu. So you get the tastes you love at a price youll love even more. Guess whos going to the game . [ internal ] thank you. [ male announcer ] the simple joy of having more to love. Member of the San Francisco symphony in the hospital after having a stroke. Suddenly collapsed during a performance saturday night. A spokesperson for the symphony told the chronicle bennett suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. His condition described this morning as guarded. Pg e will have more Safety Training for its employees following three fatal accidents in three years. An employee was killed in benicia while working on an under ground vault. Two other workers have been killed since then. They found nine violations of safety laws. Some of them major. Since the deaths the company has greatly increased training and has increased its focus on safety. The bay area has become a hot spot for the illegal trade of exotic animals. The kay men known as mr. Teeth recently made headlines when it was found guarding a stash of drugs. But fish and wildlife say there are exotic animals everywhere you look in the bay area. They are finding snakes, hedgehogs, turtles, baby alligators, and plenty of others. Its pretty constant i would say. The demand for you know these kind of animals keep ongoing. People are intrigued by the ill galty of them. The dangerousness. The uniqueness of them. Buyers and sellers of illegal exotic pets can face jail time but most of the time they just get a fine. Time now 5 26. Lets bring sal back and get you to where you need to go. Youre watching the Peninsula Area too. We are watching the peninsula. Right now there are no problems. Hopefully it will stay this way. I have a feeling it will change once we get more cars on the road. Lets start with the south bay. Northbound 280 getting up to highway 880. That looks very nice. No major problems if you are driving on the peninsula getting to san jose it should be nice on 101 on the sunol grade southbound 680 the same thing goes. We are starting off pretty well with the traffic moving pretty well in all those freeways. 5 26 lets go to steve. Sal, thank you. Just a few patches of low clouds or few high clouds. Over all it will be mostly sunny. There is our system. There is not much left to it. A little rain up toward crescent city. Highs today 50s and 60s. Low to mid 60s inland, dave. Time now 5 26. Four missing boaters off the san mateo coast. Two of them are children. What the coast guard is doing this morning. Were live in sunnyvale where people are talking about yahoos controversial new policy. Plus pixar does it again. They take home another oscar for best animated movie. Its the latest in a long list of wins. Welcome back. This is ktvu channel 2 morning news monday, february 25th im dave clark. And im pam cook. Time now is 5 30. Lets check with steve in the weather. It will continue to be nice and warm. Even warmer. Wow. Toward midweek. Today we have a few clouds around. It will still be nice today. Probably a little cooler than sunday. Temperatures near average for this time of year. Here is sal. Traffic is moving along pretty well on the san mateo bridge. No major problems. It looks very nice heading out to the peninsula. Alsos morning commute is looking good on northbound 101 approaching the 80 split. Now lets go back to the desk. Time is 5 30. We begin with developing news 37 the coast guard searching for two adults and two Children First reported missing off the coast of San Mateo County. They abandoned ship after their boat was taking on water. The coast guard got a distress call and then they lost contact with the boat. We are not sure if they have life jackets or not. We were not able to get that information from them. We know they did not have life rafts or survival suits. Now the coast guard search area extends from san mateo to monterey county. Ktvu Tara Moriarty has been on this since 4 30 this morning. She is pulling in new information from the coast guard. Tara will have a live report at 6 00. A fire ripped through a Sonoma County home. Alex savidge is in roanoke park to show us the damage and video of the flames you will only see here on ktvu. Alex. Reporter this morning investigators are trying to reach the owner of this home. This place has been empty for the past three months or so. The fire first broke out here in what was the garage. It spread to the house. But actually most of the house itself was saved. The fire started just before midnight at this on the 7100 block of alma avenue. 15 firefighters were called in from roanoke park, rancho adobe. The fire destroyed the garage and did more than 50,000 in damage all told. In the end no firefighters were injured here. A firefighter we talked with this morning told me the cause remains under investigation. There is nothing to suggest it was suspicious in any way. There was also no signs that anyone was living in this place illegally because the house itself was locked up. As we bring you back out here to a live picture. The police has been taped off with crime scene tape around it. Im told investigators will be coming back out here at sunrise. They will continue to gather evidence. Live this morning in roanoke park alex savidge. Eight families are out of their homes this morning after a fire story Apartment Building caught fire in San Francisco. That happened just before noon yesterday on golden gate annular kin streets. Photos from a ktvu viewer shows smoke coming out of that building. Two Police Officers in the area saw the smoke, they helped people get out of their homes. Turned out that it was grease in the restaurant that extended up the floors. Got into eight apartments. Firefighters say the fire started in a restaurant beneath the apartment. The red cross is now helping those families who are displaced by the fire. Time is 5 33. Hundreds of yahoo employees who have been working from home are now being told they will have to be working back in their offices if they want to keep their jobs. Ktvu janine de la vega is live at yahoo headquarters to tell us more about this. Reporter twitter is buzzing about this yahoo controversial new policy. Some are calling it a step backwards while others call it a lack of Company Trust toward employees. Yahoos Hr Department reportedly sent out a memo to the employees on friday detailing its new no more working from home policy. All Things Digital reported many employees who were impacted were upset because some were initially hired with the understanding they could work from home to be more flexible. Part of that memo which was leaked to all things reportedly states it is critical we are all present in our offices. Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallways and cafeteria discussions. Meeting new people and impromptu team meetings. Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. One person we spoke to this morning agreed. Its nice to work from home if you can. But its true you need that flexibility with your customers. You guys get on face to face with your customers. Reporter there is criticism online of Melissa Meyers ban saying it is a bad move. If employees are not comfortable with it maybe they should look for work elsewhere. This is a controversial issue for some. Working from home is a moderate approach while some say it hurts productivity. Coming up well tell you what the announcement has prompted other Tech Companies to post online. Reporting live from sunnyvale janine de la vega ktvu channel 2 news. Governor brown will be meeting with the president today at the white house. He and other governors across the country are in washington, d. C. For their annual governors meeting. They will discuss federal spending cuts and how it could impact the government workers, schools, and others. When we work together, democrats and republicans, north, south, east, and west we can accomplish so much more than we can on our own. Governor brown also attended the governors dinner at the white house last night. The president urged the leaders to work with him to solve the nations prones. President obama did not mention spending cuts but did say they have a lot of work that still needs to be done. The president has spelled out the type of spending cuts our state would see if they cant agree on how to stop them. The white house detailed the impacts in the letters over the weekend. Time is 5 36. Many bay area car pool lanes will soon be open to all drivers if you want to pay a price. Transit Officials Say by the end of 2015 solo drivers will be able to pay to use car pool lanes on interstate 80, 580, 680, and 880. 90 miles of express lanes will be the first phase to complete a 950mile of car pool lanes. You drivers that car pool will be able to use those lanes for free. 5 36 is the time. And we want to check in with sal. Sal, we should thank everybody for coming out. What a crowd at the new years parade. A lot of people there. That is right. Good time for all of us. You got good shots of the crowds up the streets. I practiced my wave. Ill show you shots later on. Lets take a look at what we have. We dont have big crowds right now add the toll plaza. There is a little bit of a crowd in some of the cash lane there is. Usually by 6 15 we start to get a crowd at the toll plaza. Also were looking at the commute in San Francisco northbound 101 traffic looks good approaching the 80 split. If youre driving on 101 southbound, the traffic there looks good. All the way down to palo alto. Its 5 37 lets go to steve. A very, very quiet end of february. Mostly sunny. Very breezy. Very quiet this week. In fact, getting warmer after we get past wednesday. Next rain around march 5th. I know. Were looking out pretty far here. That is about all we can find. Everything continues to ride up and over the ridge of high pressure. Water temps are very, very cold. And outside the golden gate. 49 degrees. Monterey is 50. Water temps are cold. Fog wouldnt have a hard time forming. Maybe by the end of the week you get warm weather. But San Francisco was 60 yesterday. I backed off two yesterday. Get a little more patchy low clouds. But as far as the jet stream goes its up and dives down into the middle of the country. Northern plains. All the way down to the deep south. Mostly sunny for us and mostly sunny monday. Its a very, very dry pattern. In fact, its kind of grim. Its nice. But we need rain. Were running out of time here. Thursday, friday low to mid 70s are possible. 30s and 40s on the temps to almost 50. 46 in San Francisco. A lot of weather in the deep south. Severe weather down there. And also rain, snow, and Severe Weather right there in oklahoma. For us though expect for the higher clouds it will be a nice day. Slightly cooler compared to sunday. Warmer weather is on the way. One system moves out but another moves in. Dry into the forecast for february. Things look very, very quiet. A lot of sun sheer. A few high clouds. Patchy low clouds. Temperatures a couple degrees cooler than yesterday. Still pretty nice. Near average this time of year. So slightly below for some. Pretty close for others. Everybody looks pretty good here this week. Mostly sunny and warmer weather starts wednesday and really kicks in into the week. Time now 5 39. Major winter storm baring down on the central plains. Expected to drop 15 inches of new snow in parts of texas and kansas. This is what colorado looked like yesterday. The storm forced 200 Flight Cancellations in and out of denver. The weather man says the latest storm could also trigger tornadoes in louisiana, mississippi, and alabama. Our friends at pixar making Oscar History with its seventh win for best animated feature film. They won a golden statue for brave. It features the first pixar lead. Brave also won a golden globe and british film award. They were not gazel baiting in hollywood. One of the biggest oscar parties around was right here in San Francisco. For the 30th year the academy of friends sponsored a local objection car party. It included its own red carpet. Golden statues and a silent auction. Time now 5 40. The intensifying man hunt for suspects in that Las Vegas Strip shootout who police say may be responsible for the gunfire who killed an oakland wrapper. Just how much more drivers are having to pay when they pull up to the pump this week. Good morning. Northbound 280 traffic is moving along pretty well getting up to highway 17. Well tell you more about the morning commute and the bay weather. Good morning. Weak system falling apart over us. It will be mostly sunny today. Just a tiny bit cooler. Welcome back. Good morning, to you. Heres a quick look at some of the top stories were following for you at 5 43. The coast guard is searching for two missing adults and two missing children. First reported missing off the San Mateo County coast. The four family members abandoned ship. Their sailboat started taking on water yesterday evening. Ktvu Tara Moriarty has been on the story since 4 30. Shell have the latest the new information on this at the top of the hour. Britains top catholic lyric Cardinal Keith obrien is stepping down. Hes been accused of misconduct. Obrien says he will no long ergoxin the conclave of cardinals that will be electing the next pope. Also this morning the pope changed the conclave rules allowing the cardinals to move up the date to choose his successor. Back here at home an over night fire this one here caused about 50,000 to a home in roanoke park. It started about 11 30 last night on alma avenue. There is no word of anyone hurt. This fire is under investigation. Investigators are stepping up their search for a suspect in the Las Vegas Shooting that killed an aspiring rapper from oakland. Police identified amare harris this weekend as a suspect in the gunfight this weekend. Authorities believe harris fired several rounds into a mazaradi the rapper was driving. Harris has an extensive criminal history that includes arrest for sexual assault, robbery, and kidnapping. New information on the Oscar Pistorius shooting. The olympian has reported to authorities in south african capitol city. He reportedly met with Correctional Officers under the bail terms in his murder case. He is charged with killing his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. He was released on bail on saturday. Afghan President Hamid karzai say all u. S. Special forces must be out of a key providence within two weeks. They are helping alongside. The u. S. Military rejected any suggestion that its special force special forces carried out special crimes. Time now 5 45. Police in oakland trying to identify a body that was pulled from the oakland estuary. It was spotted floating 20 feet from shore. So far police havent said we do know its a man but we dont know who he is or how he died. Also police in fremont have arrested a man and a woman on suspicion of carjacking. This follows a short chase that ended at the union lapping Shopping Center with several cars hit and one person injured. One of the persons inside one of the cars that was hit was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. Time is 5 46. The Brentwood School board has announced its looking for new leadership. This comes two days after superintendent meryl grant was placed on paid administrative leave. It follows a lot of public outcry where a teacher was convicted of kicking a five yearold ahtistic student in 2010 but was allowed to continue teaching. The school board will make a final decision. At that time, the board will also an spur rim leader. The white house is outlining how the sequester would impact california. The cuts would slash almost 90 million from california teachers and schools. Military funding would shrink by 70 million for air force and army bases in the state. Republicans say the federal spending cuts wont be as bad as the president says. We are talking about less than 3 . We are talking about a federal budget that will still grow. Still the president claims nearly 130,000 fewer jobless californians would get help finding work and 64,000 civilian department of defense employees would be furloughed. Now for the complete list released by the white house just go to our website ktvu. Com and click on the hot tappic hot topics. That is up 20 cents since two weeks ago. The gas prices are even higher in california. Aaa reports San Francisco gas prices have gone up 12 cents in the last week. To 4. 25. In other parts of the bay area the average is around 4. 17 a gallon. That is up about 60 cents in the last month. Im giving up complaining about it. You just try to drive less. If you can. Or try to dry when there is not stop and go traffic. That helps. We do that because we come to work at what 3 00 in the morning . Not a lot of traffic out there. Right now is a good time. I want to show you traffic pictures here. The traffic is doing pretty well as you drive in san jose. No problems as you drive on northbound 280. Lets move along and take a look at commute here on westbound bay bridge. We are seeing a little bit of slow traffic as you drive through. There are no major problems. Also the morning commute on the peninsula is moving along relatively well. Traffic continues to move ray long very good very well down the pints la. Save me steve. Its monday. That was a very good traffic report. Thank you, steve. Good morning. I hope youre doing well. We do have a very weak system. There is not a lot there. The rain there is not a lot there either. The same can be said for san jose. You dont have to go far to find three or four more inches of rain than that. If i was to say everyone is below average. You can see the system tracking across the gulf of alaska. They look good but then they fall apart. They are heading to points to the east and north and to the south. Just not here. 30s and 40s to near 50s. 36 novato. 37 concord. 35 livermore. San jose 36. I know sunnyvale and other areas are in mid 30s. Our system doesnt have much left to it. Mostly sunny. Morning high clouds and a few patches of low clouds. I think that breeze usher in slightly cooler temps today than we saw yesterday. 60s for some. Upper 50s for others. Temperatures very close to seasonal averages. They will stay that way through wednesday. Everyone says sunshine and warmer temperatures. Thursday and friday. Probably low to mid 70s by friday and saturday. Thank you, steve. General motors switching high speed wireless providers. Starting in 2015 at t will do the work now done by verizon. Gm hoping to boost car sales by expanding the service it can provide customers. Today kfc is launching a campaign to rebuild its brand in china. Kfc is trying its biggest fast food change. Kfc sales dropped more than a third. The company says it will stretch strict management and drop any suppliers that does not follow the rules. 15 of the 101 best restaurants is right here. Berkeley comes in at number 15 with cafe in San Francisco. Yountville bistro is a more than San Francisco most aunts. Also making it in the top 30. 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Good morning. Just a really weak system dragging across. It will be mostly sunny today. Slightly cooler than sunday. Time now 5 55. Alex smith may soon be moving to a new team in a new city. Several reports say the 49ers have already agreed to a trade. One report says the deal involves the kansas city chiefs. But there has been no official word from the 49ers. And no deal can be finalized until the nfl season officially starts march 12th. Alex smith lost his starting quarterbackto Collin Kaepernick last season after he had that concussion. The San FranciscoPolice Commission is studying whether officers should be armed with tasers. The Commission Just held three Public Forums to get feedback on the issue. San Francisco Police chief greg suhr allowed the commission to allow officers trained in crisis intervention to carry tasers or stun guns. Opponents say tasers can cause serious injuries or deaths and cost other cities millions of dollars in lawsuits. Thousands of parolees included convicted sex offenders are removing their Court Ordered gps. A growing number of parolees are choosing to cut their tracking devices and often freed within days or hours after being arrested for violating parole. Californians voted in 2006 to require high risk sex offenders be tracked for life with gps monitors. A new cruise ship terminal opens tomorrow. The 90 million terminal will replace the current one at pier 27. It will be used as a viewing area during the americas cup yacht races this year and the next year it will be open for cruise ships. Very nice. Getting closer to 6 00 hour. Sal, commute is off to a good start. Yeah. Were off to a good start. We do have a new accident reported in San Francisco. Okay so they just called for another ambulance in San Francisco. This one just came in. I apologize. . San francisco lake mer said. Clear field. A car ran into a light pole. They just called for another ambulance unit on the scene. Good area to avoid. This is right around the corner from sunset. Just give yourself plenty