Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Morning News Early Edition 20131008

Monterey but thats about it. Santa cruz. Overall sunny and a little cooler, chilly, brisk for some. 62 antioch, 43 santa rosa, much cooler in the city. Sat in the 60s most of the morning and eventually ended up at 76. Sunny today, trying to get more of a westerly breeze. Never kicked in yesterday. San fransisco well drop you down to 68 for a high today and definitely cooler on that low side going down to 53. Sunny and nice today, cold morning for some, not for all. A little cooler on the afternoon highs. Some upper 70s for more than a few low, low 80s but 60s and 70s by the water. Heres sal. Good morning, right now traffic is doing well around the bay area, if you are trying to get to your location, lets take a look at the east shore freeway, 80 westbound from vallejo through richmond to berkeley looks good to oakland and the bay bridge toll plaza. Sansan mateo bridge looks good as well. That traffic is moving well. Weve been looking at the peninsula for you, and the commute on the pension continues to look good. If you are driving, lets, say to the livermore valley, its a nice looking drive and looks good on 682 synura san ramon. Were beginning with developing news from San Fransisco. The suspicious death of a baby is under investigation. Ktvus alex savidge is at San Fransisco General Hospital now to tell us the mystery surrounding this tragedy. Good morning alex. Good morning dave. San fransisco police say early this morning, a woman brought her baby here to San Fransisco General Hospital to get help for that child. Its unclear exactly what was wrong, but this baby was later pronounced dead here at the hospital, and now San Fransisco police are investigating this as a suspicious death, they say. The child arrived here at the hospital just about 12 30 this morning, and shortly after that the medical examiner was called out here to the scene to investigate and deem this death suspicious. Police are only saying this is a 7monthold baby. We dont know if it was a boy or a girl, and of course because it is early on we dont know at this point the cause of death. We did see this morning several San Fransisco Police Detectives who were focused on a white car parked outside the emergency room. Right now detectives are interviewing the babys mother and talking with other family members and, again, this investigation we are told is in its very early stages. Live this morning in San Fransisco, alex savidge ktvu channel 2 news. Happening now in the south bay, police are on a dramatic scene. Ktvus janine de la vega is in san jose where police say a driver fell asleep at the wheel. Reporter yes, thats what Police Officers told us. You can see the pickup truck. Its for drain reutter service. Were told the son of the owner of that company apparently hit this apartment complex building and thats right where pg e gas meters are. Weve just learned from pg e that there is no gas leak. There was fear of that happening. Lets go to some video that we took earlier. Police officers tell us about an hour ago or so that the driver of the pickup truck was apparently driving in the northbound lanes. He told officers that he apparently fell asleep at the wheel and that caused him to slam into three parked cars and then crashed into this building. Now there is no interior damage. Theres no hole into the building. You can just see a big dent in there. Heres what one of the drivers of the parked cars who got hit had to say. It smoked something a little earlier, and then fell asleep, so he said he was real tired. I dont know. Im sick of my cars getting hit ill tell you that, and the police say its just a problem. The owner of the parked car that did receive damage says that theres been Numerous Accidents on Camden Avenue, but again, in this case, the Police Officers are telling us that the driver did fall asleep at the wheel. Now back out here live, you can see here on Camden Avenue, this is in the came brie yan neighborhood. Theres still a lot of shattered glass and debris and some car parts on the road. It also looks like it took down a pole as well as the other speed limit sign there that says 25 miles an hour. That pole is bent as well. The manager of the apartment complex is also out here assessing damage. This accident sure shook up a lot of the people who were sleeping inside, but the good news is is that there are no injuries to report. Reporting live in from san from san jose janine de la vega. Firefighters in Santa Cruz County are still in app pos investigating a destructive fire. It was reported at 1 00 this morning on redwood drive. No reports of injuries but the fire force the evacuation of the neighborhood. So far no word on what caused that fire. Firefighters also working to gain control of the grass fire in fellton. That started at 3 45 this morning. The fire had burned up to 2 acres of grass. Its burning near some buildings and were going to bring you more on this fire as soon as we get more information. Time now 5 05. The b. A. R. T. Countdown clock ticking towards thursday night in that strike deadline. However, theres new hope a strike can be averted and those trains will be running friday morning. Hope for a settlement appears to be growing some as negotiations are set to resume at 9 30 this morning. Todays contract talks come after perhaps the most encouraging sign yet. The two sides may be getting closer to a deal just days before this weeks critical strike deadline. Late yesterday, b. A. R. T. Unions announced they would not issue a 72hour strike notice for friday morning. Both sides vowed theyre going to negotiate right up until the strike deadline. Theres costing issues that need to be looked at, researched on both sides. So thats what well be doing. We do not want a strike. We want that to be made perfectly clear. We understand the disruption. We understand the impact of everybody in the bay area. The 72hour strike notice is not required by law. But Union Workers gave notice before the b. A. R. T. Strike in july and the pending strike in august. The San Fransisco bay ferry is getting ready expand their service if b. A. R. T. Workers do strike friday morning. Later today the Ferry Service will announce its schedule for increased Service Across the bay in the event of a strike. Bay area commuters packed those ferries in july. Theres a report on how many people use b. A. R. T. To get around. B. A. R. T. Says more than 444,000 passengers rode b. A. R. T. Trains friday when there were two big events here in the bay area. That is the fifth highest ridership day ever. B. A. R. T. Attributes the spike to as fans taking bath to take b. A. R. T. To the oakland coliseum. Make sure you stay right here with us at ktvu all morning long for continuing coverage of the b. A. R. T. Contract talks. You can also get updates at any time by going to our channel 2 web site ktvu. Com. A Sanford University student accused of driving drunk and causing a deadly crash on saturday is still in the hospital. The chp says he will be booked as soon as hes released. Investigators say 24yearold zachary katz drove the wrong way on highway 101 and hit a taxicab head on. 62yearold pedro juan solivida or puerto rico died in the crash. He was in the cab on his way to sfo, a second passenger and taxi driver were hurt. 5 08. A bay area law student is facing felony charges in connection with a hit and run crash in oakland. That happened after 12 30 saturday morning by the main library on 14th. Megan zato confronted a group of graffiti taggers and tried to hit them with her car. His friends have started a web site to pay for his medical bills. Zeto was arrested shortly after the crash. She is a student at Hastings College of law in San Fransisco. Time is 5 08. Affordable housing advocates fighting plans for a mass eviction in San Fransisco. The San Fransisco examiner says as many as 300 people on Market Street are facing eviction because their units violate city codes. The city says those units are illegal because the buildings are only zoned for commercial use. Many of the units also dont have windows. If those tenants are forced to move out it would be one of the biggest evictions in San Fransisco since the 1970s. Jerry brown vetoed a bill that would have allowed undo you wanted immigrants undocumented immigrants to be a jury. Critics argue that allowing non citizens on juries would deprive defendants of their right to have their case decided by a jury of their peers. New this morning, the nobel prize for physics has been awarded to Francois Englert of belgium and peter higgs of britain. They are citerd for their discovery on why water has mass. It has been called the greatest scientific discovery in decades. The faa is recalling 800 workers who had been on furlough. The rest keep an eye on production of aircraft and parts that have been labeled most critical. The airlines and aircraft makers inspect their own work, but the federal inspectors provide a fresh pair of eyes. Experts say the potential for safety lapse increases as time passes without the benefit of the extra level of oversight. There are no signs of progress as the Government Shutdown enters its eighth day. Coming up, how white house employees are feeling the effects of the shutdown and why the closure of the government may not be the president s biggest concern. Time now 5 10. If youve been anywhere near san joses airport recently you probably noticed a strange smell. The San Jose Mercury news reports the ammonia like smell is probably jet fuel. The direction of the winds usually changes this time of year causing plane exhaust to be noticeable when you drive on highway 101. Shortterm exposure to that smell probably wont cause any health problems. Time now is 5 11. We have new information about that pg e gas line thats been a source of concern in san carlos. The similarities between the construction of that pipeline and the one that exploded in san bruno. Also targeting an ongoing problem with trash. The reason San Fransisco police are planning to keep a really close eye on those recycling bins. Good morning right now were looking pretty good when it comes to driving. This is a look at the Golden Gate Bridge and traffic is light. Clear skies out there, a little chill for some, not too bad for others. It will be sunny today and cooler. Well have the forecasted highs and talk about a system due tomorrow. I want you to know stuff i want you to be kind. I want you to be smart. Super smart. I want one thing in a doctor. I want you to be handsome. I want you to be awesome. I dont want you to look at the chart before you say hi. David. 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Wade is also accused of stealing celebrity chef guy fieris lamborghini in 2011. San fransisco has a plan to deal with people who come into neighborhoods and take glass and aluminum out of recycling bins. Neighbors have complained that the thieves not only make a lot of noise but they also leave a mess. Theyve provided police with a schedule and map of trash collection locations. Police will monitor the routes. This is day 8 of the partial Government Shutdown. Well also nine days away from reaching the debt ceiling. The senate has a new plan to deal with one of those problems. Kyla campbell joining us live from washington to tell us what the senate wants to do and why the house may not go along. Reporter dave the senate plans to introduce a bill today to raise the debt ceiling. It would includes the governments Borrowing Limit by 1 trillion giving it enough credit until next years congressional elections. It could take one week for the senate to pass the bill giving the house just a day or two to act on it. House Speaker John Boehner says theres not enough support to raise the debt ceiling without concessions from the white house. If republicans and Speaker Boehner are saying theres not enough votes they could prove it. Its not good optics for the president to go around and have a pep rally someplace and beat up on republicans. The republican led house is scheduled to vote today on two bills to Fund Head Start and other education programs. But the democratic led senate is not signing on to this piecemeal approach. A new cnn survey shows that slightly more americans are angry with republicans than with democrats and president obama over the Government Shutdown. Im taking a closer look at those numbers and well breck them down at 6 15. Live in washington, Kyla Campbell channel 2 news. The partial Government Shutdown is taking its toll on the white house. Almost three out of four staffers have been furloughed after being declared nonessential. The white house switchboard is affected. Theres a recorded message telling callers try back when the government has reopened. The Government Shutdown keeping tourists away from marin county, beaches along the post rays National Seashore closed because of the shutdown. That means fewer customers for the businesses around there like drakes bay oyster farm. The pelican inn also seeing a wave of cancellations. Just two of the inns seven rooms were booked last night. Pam microphones a little its okay sal. You just wanted to test me to make sure i was paying attention. Its not clipped to my lapel for some reason. Okay. Can you hear me . Yeah, i can hear you. Lets go out and take a look at what we have now. The traffic is moving along relatively well here on the east shore freeway. We dont have a lot going on. This is a good time for you to go because usually it doesnt stay this light. As a matter of fact traffic is moving along nicely. Also the morning commute is looking food on interstate 880 north and southbound. It has been a very nice drive. Were looking at the peninsula, highway 101 and 280 are still looking very nice in case your trying to catch a flight at sfo it should be a very nice drive for you on the peninsula. 5 18. Lets go to steve. Thank you sal. All righty a very good morning to you all. Clear skies, a little cold for some, not too bad for others. System dropping down. May get partly cloudy later on. Yesterday another very warm day, a little cooler by the coast. San fransisco 76. Today well go 68. Napa in town was 85. Today 70 in livermore. Todays 79 in palo alto. This was closer to stanford at 83. 77. Temperatures coming down. Our system came by yesterday. A beautiful sunset, sent me pictures on twitter. Sp weather, by the way if you want to send me weather information. We have clear skies and for some that cooler air has moved in. San jose will be down 5 for yesterday or 81. Highs 76. A little brisk, downtown 51 but not far away. Its cool, 34 in tahoe. 47 reno. 43 in ukiah. Some 30s in lake county. I havent had any reports yet. 40s for walnut creek, novato, santa rosa, halfmoon bay. Oakland airport 49. Definitely not much of a breeze and under clear skies, trying to get a westerly breeze. Its not there at oakland, not there at napa. Its mainly on the calm conditions, westerly Mountain View and san jose northwest, everythings less than 10 miles per hour. This system low is going to drop down tomorrow. Thats going to give the Sierra Nevada some snow. The breeze will pick up. Temperatures will cool down tomorrow morning. Well be talking about snow in the sierra. Looks like the low is going to be too far to the east. It will set the stage for a much cooler pattern as we go into wednesday and thursday. Sunny and nice, a cold morning for some. A little cooler on the afternoon highs. Not 60s closer to the coast. Very low 70s as well. After today i dont see any 80s here on the high side inland for a while. It looks pretty cool here. By the weekend cold mornings but sunny and nice days. 60s and 70s. Thank you steve. 5 20 is the time right now. All the european markets down this morning. Most asian markets turned their focus from the u. S. Budget stalemate to a new promise on trade. The 21 members of an Asian Pacific Economic Group announced renewed cooperation to boost International Trade and the global economy. Hong kong, japan, south korea and taiwan finished their day with gains. Our day looks like its going to start with a little bit of a gain across the board the futures indicate slightly higher opening that follows big losses across the board. Dow jones down 136 points. Its now back below the 15,000 mark. Tesla may be on the rebound when the video went viral. The risk of a fire is lower in a tesla than a conventional vehicle. She also increased her stock target price to 210 a share. Tesla easton sank 10 in the two days following that video. It opens today at 183. Time now 5 21, the new Government Health alert about chicken. The outbreak link today foster farms chicken that has sickened hundreds of people. Postal worker fired for dumping mail in the trash. The letters he didnt deliver that caused him to lose his job. Welcome back bad weather in the northeast u. S. , heavy winds and rain knocking out power in several state this is morning. In pennsylvania warnings of possible flooding. The weather also causing delays at several east coast airports. New jersey is under a tornado watch. Americans trying to sign up for Health Insurance under the new law, theyre running into more problems again this morning. The online enrollment system was down again early today for upgrades. Technology experts have been called in several times to fix glitches like loud noises. Six the web site debuted experts say theres still time to fix the problems before the coverage begins in january. There is now an investigation into a california mailman who admits to throwing away some mail about the Affordable Care act. A resident of a fresno apartment complex says he could see the mailman acting suspiciously yesterday. Jerry dill says he watched the mail carrier watch over to the garbage dumpster and throw something in. He went to the trash and found mail inside. He gathered it up and took it to the local post office. It was amazing. I mean, i looked down in there and there was a bunch of peoples addresses and names and addresses. And right away i knew that this was absolutely wrong. The Postal Service says the mail carrier was a temporary mail carrier hired in august. He told his supervisor that he dumped the mail because he was running late and wanted to get back to the post office in time. All that mail will be delivered to by a different mail carrier. Time now 5 26. Target in San Fransisco hiring workers for a west city store. Target will hold a job fair tonight at gary and ma sonic. It starts at 6 p. M. And will run through 8 p. M. Targets looking to hieric hire cashiers, stuccoworks stock workers. Also happening now in san jose there was a crash that damaged several cars. What the driver of a pickup truck behind the wheel said may have led to that crash. Good morning right now traffic is doing pretty well around the bay area. Lets take a look at the commute on 101 in San Fransisco. Not too bad. Well tell you more about the morning commute and the bay weather. The weathers doing well although theres a little chill this the morning air for many out there. Not for all. Its going to be okay today. Then we have big cooldown and changes for tomorrow. Welcome back, these are live pictures. San fransisco General Hospital, we are there live after a suspicious death of a baby that was brought to the hospital. Alex savidge is there. Hell tell you more about the investigation as we speak. It is tuesday october 8th im dave. Good morning im pam cook. Lets check in with steve paulson. He says its going to be another nice day today. You havent been listening have you. I have. Its nice. Its going to change tomorrow. I stand corrected. Thank you. We have mainly clear skies, a little fog towards monterey bay, santa cruz. Could be a few clouds later in the day for the not guilty bay which much cooler than many locations. Theres a lot of 50s and 40s some of these 40s will probably continue under clear skies. It will be sunny today and well see a system dropping in for tomorrow that will give us a big change. 68. You were 76 degrees yesterday. It will be sunny. It will be nice today, a cold morning for some. A little cooler on those archies today. And temperatures upper 70s or low 80s and 60s; 70s by the water. Heres sal. Good morning right now. Traffic looks good around the bay area. I would have to say if youre driving on the bay bridge toll plaza approach theres a small delay just enough to pay the money and get on the bridge. Head west into the city. Also the morning commute is moving along nicely on interstate 880 in oakland. Both directions of traffic looking good and if youre driving on the peninsula highway 101 and 92 look good. 5 31. Lets go back to the desk. We are following developing news from San Fransisco this morning, Police Investigating the suspicious death of a 7 monthold baby. Alex savidge joins us from San Fransisco General Hospital with the many questions surrounding this tragedy. Alex. Good morning. And police say this woman showed up here at San Fransiscos General Hospital this morning with her 7 month old baby. Its unclear exactly what was wrong. That baby was later pronounced dead here at the hospital, and San Fransisco police are now calling this a suspicious death investigation. Just a little while ago we watched as a car related to this case was towed from the hospital parking lot with a squad car following blind. This child behind. This child arrived at the hospital around 12 30 this morning and a short time later the medical examiner was called out. Its a 7monthold baby. We dont know if its a boy or a girl, and the cause of death remains unclear. We did see several detectives at the emergency room this morning gathering evidence. In the meantime Police Officers have secured a house on monterey boulevard off 280 in San Fransisco. Crime scene tape was put up across the front entrance. We understand homicide detectives are interviewing the babys mother, and other family members trying to figure out how the child died. Live this morning in San Fransisco, alex savidge ktvu channel 2 news. Also new this morning, people sleeping at a south bay apartment complex got a rude awakening after a truck slammed into their building. The driver was reportedly asleep at the wheel. Janine de la vega is in san jose to show us the damage. Talk about what happened. Reporter the truck was just towed away. It was resting along side this apartment building. What you see is this big dent on the corner of the building here at Camden Avenue and donna in the came brie yan area of san jose. This happened near gas meters. Emergency crews initially thought there was a rupture. Police tell us about 3 40 this morning the driver of a pickup truck was traveling northbound when he crashed into three parked cars and hit the side of the apartment complex. Nobody was injured inside the apartment but the owners of the parked cars werent happy to find the damage. The driver of the truck who caused the damage told them that he fell asleep at the wheel. He was not arrested. People who live in the complex describe all the commotion after they heard the crash. The corner of the bathroom damaged, yeah, and Fire Department they do inspection they smell gas leak and they say, okay, just pull my kid out. Reporter pg e crews came out to inspect the gas line and determined there was no leak in the building. Back out here live you can see there is still some debris and shattered glass and damage. You can see this pole, im not sure what was on the top of it, but you know, the truck definitely came around this corner and ended up denting it and putting it down. Theres still some cleanup to be done here as well as inside one of the residents said a lot of things got knocked off his wall inside. The good news is is that nobody was injured in this accident. Reporting live from san jose, janine de la vega ktvu channel news. Happening now a group of Homeless People and their advocates are camped out in albany after being told theyre about to be evicted from a waterfront park. A couple dozens people set up an overnight camp. Theyre fighting the decision by the city to start enforcing no camping laws later this month at a park known as the albany bub. If they want to kick out their Homeless People from where theyve told their Homeless People they could live for years they should have somewhere else to put their Homeless People instead of sidewalks or other towns. This is an ongoing situation that were trying to find caring and Compassionate Solutions for. City Officials Say theyre working to relocate the homeless through a partnership with the Nonprofit Group berkeley food and housing project. In San Fransisco a controversial plan to close city parks during certain hours is a step closer to happening. Yesterday a board of Supervisors Committee approved a plan. Now it moves to the full board for a vote later this month. If its approved all San Fransisco city parks would be closed between the hours of midnight and 5 a. M. Supporters say it will keep the Homeless People from living in the parks and also reduce crime. But critics say it criminalizes the homeless. A man in walnut creek is going to be tried on animal cruelty charges for the killing of his familys 10monthold German Shepherd dog last year. 37yearold todd powers says he stabbed the dog because it had been nipping at his children and also killed some backyard chickens. The deputy da argued that because the dog had suffered pain, powers should face felony charges. But yesterday that charge was reduced to a misdemeanor. Later today San Carlos City leaders will go before the California Public Utilities Commission Utilities Commission. The mayor and others will express concerns over a natural gas pipeline that runs across the city. Friday they declared a state of emergency and got a court order ordering pg e to shut down the pipeline and if thats what they did, thats great, but i think the community and the city, Everybody Needs more information than just saying, oh, we relieved the pressure and thats fine. You know, its tough to live with that. Reporter today the city will insist that the pipeline remain shut down until pg e can guarantee no one is in danger. San carlos sought the court order after receiving a copy of an internal pg e email. An engineer expressed concern that the pipeline could cause an explosion. There is a clear connection between the pipeline that exploded in san bruno and the pipeline in san carlos. The San Fransisco chronicle uncovered pg e documents. They show in both the peninsula cities, pg e relied on used pipe when making repairs in the 1950s. The company resorted your time now 5 38. The Agriculture Department says raw chicken processed at three foster farms plants in Central California is the likely source of a salmonella outbreak. 278 illnesses have been reported since last march. The outbreak has spread now to 18 states but most of them are in california. The foster farms says its products are safe to eat if you handle it properly and fully cook them. Those people at higher risk, the elderly, kids or people who have compromised immunes those people can get sick. The affected packages of chicken contain the marks p6137, p6137a, and p7632. The foster farms released a statement that said in part we take food safety very seriously. When the incidence of the illnesses linked to salmonella increased we wanted to know why and we worked quickly to identify and were implement additional controls the oakland as will battle against the tigers in game 4 of the American League division series. The as claimed another victory yesterday morning and that means if they win todays game they will move on to the next round. If they lose they will head back to oakland on thursday for game 5. Either way its exciting times for as fans who are snatching in green and gold gear. Im confident that they might not bring it back to finish it off. Well move on to the next. At toast restaurant a bartender has created a cocktail celebrating the athletics, with bourbon, green syria truce and honey. It is named the good old green and gold. There were tense moments during yesterdays game. Victor martinez and Grant Balfour got into it, exchanged words. The home plate umpire got between them and the benches cleared. Sports reporter fred inglis is in detroit covering the series. Hes going to give us a live report with a preview of todays game and complete coverage of the as playoffs throughout the day on ktvu. Time now 5 40. The b. A. R. T. Strike deadline now just two days away. Coming up for you at 6 00, find out why theres new hope a deal may be reached. And unusual protests in belgium as firefighters setting fires. The message theyre trying to send. Good morning right now it still looks good for your drive to work on a tuesday. This is a look at highway 4 westbound coming up to the willow pass grade. Looks good. Its a little cold out there for some, not too bad for others. Today well start off sunny. Well get clouds later on in advance of a system due tomorrow. To those whove been waiting welcome to covered california. The place to find quality, affordable coverage, and nobody can be denied because of a preexisting condition. Enroll today at coveredca. Com. A dramatic protest in belgium. Firefighters blocking the streets with their trucks, even setting tires on fire protesting budget cuts and theyre spraying the police with foam. Firefighters say theyre angry about cuts to Insurance Benefits and their staffing. They also want to keep their current retirement age at 58. Un secretary general bonn i did moon outlining his plans to destroy syrias chemical weapons. He says a team of 100 specialists plan to destroy more than a thousand tons of chemical weapons by june. It will be the first time the un has carried out a mission like this during a civil war. The Un Security Council has to approve that plan. In just a few hours, former president jimmy carter will help build some homes in san jose. Yesterday he was in oakland lending a hand to families in need. Its all part of the habitat for humanity program. Carter says if he was still in the white house hed work with lawmakers to secure more federal funding for affordable housing. Theres a very needy place for habitat and others to substitute for them when they dont fill those needs, and to give people inspiration and hope. He also says the income gap in the u. S. Has increased to levels where people in the middle class resemble those who were living in poverty when he was in the white house. In the south bay, detectives showed off Illegal Drugs worth a million and a half dollars they say were seized from a home in east san jose. The santa clara sheriffs Department Says it confiscated 29 pounds of crystal meth, 4 pounds of cocaine and 1 pound of heroin. They also seized 2001s and 825,000 in cash. 22yearold jose jimenez almost was not home when deputies served the search warrant last friday. He was wanted on multiple drug charges. A Hayward Police officer accused of extortion is scheduled to go before a judge. Romeo aberin tried to turn a female forgery suspect into an informant and demanded cash from her in exchange for not arresting her. Sheshes a 6 year veteran of the Hayward Police department. He resigned yesterday after turning himself in at the Hayward Police station. A laptop computer containing personal and medical information on thousands of uc San Fransisco parents was stole patients was stole on out of a workers locked car. The hospital was notifying those patients whose names, birth dates and Social Security numbers are included in the stolen information. Theres no sign anyone has tried to cruise that info. Uc San Fransisco could be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for this latest security breach. Happening today, if you drive through the caldecott tunnel you will notice a change. Caltrans will turn on new traffic lights at about 10 30 this morning in the third bore. They will stay green for the next ten days while crews test ten new inner tunnel traffic signals. Its an added safety feature that will go into Service Later this year. When fully activated the lights will be able to turn yellow or red in response to accidents, stalls or other traffic delays. Ill be looking for it. Yeah. Im looking for sal now. Youre watching the roads. Youre watching 880. Youre watching everything. Im watching my computers. That that too. We just had word of a crash. Im trying to nail it down for you. In the meantime lets take a look at what we have now with interstate 880 westbound. Traffic is moving along relatively well. There are no major problems here as you drive through. The traffic is moving along very nicely. Also we are looking at San Fransisco, northbound 101. That traffic looks good approaching the 80 split. Just got word of an overturned vehicle just outside the caldecott tunnel, westbound 24 near highway 13. Now this is reported as an overturned truck here and traffic is going to be affected by this crash. So please give yourself extra time as you drive out of the caldecott tunnel on to the oakland side. Well let you know more about this as we find out more. 5 47. Lets go to steve. A very good morning, clear skies, maybe a little bit of fog towards monterey bay, cincinnati crudes but thats about it so far. System moving into the northern part of the state, for the Morning Hours clear skies. Yesterday another warm day, warmer if you think anything over 75 is hot. The angle of the sun is getting lower. The days are a lot shorter. Even though it was 87 in livermore, i know thats warm, today they will not be. Theyll be 79. Napa will be 78. 68 in San Fransisco and pa la alto will go 77 today. Theres some cooler readings around. Theres some 40s around and some 30s to the north. We start off mostly clear. Cold to mild, 30s to 40s and 50s. Its all over the place here. Mostly sunny this afternoon, it will be cooler. I say mostly sunny because again i think some of these clouds could pop up in the north bay. 34 up in tahoe, 43 ukiah. I know theres some 30s into lake county. 54 in monterey. Eureka at 48. 40s for napa, novato, santa rosa, Oakland Airport 49. Halfmoon bay was, now theyre at 50 degrees. Clear until that system begins to take dead aim towards the Sierra Nevada. The rain forecast or mixed precipitation forecast shows some snow moving into tahoe tomorrow morning and lingering throughout most of the day. Kind of a rain snow mix. I think you know the drill if youre heading that way. For us it will be a colder breezy to windy pattern. Could be some light rain but i think its going to be that low too far to the east. Today sunny and nice. A cold morning for some. A little cooler on those afternoon highs. Well see more of a westerly or northwesterly breeze. 60s, 70s and very low 80s. I think this is it for the 80s for about a week. I dont see anything on the extended outlook. So 70s and colder and breezy on wednesday. Ill mention ill put in maybe some shower activity. I think all the action will be up in the Sierra Nevada. Breezy and cool on thursday. Cold mornings but sunny and nice days as we go into the weekend. A major step for the Telecommunications Equipment maker, the company has been losing money. It will target its divisions that are losing commercial support. Those include Older Technology including second and Third Generation wireless. One source adds that the company does have plans to add 5,000 new jobs in growth areas including internet routeing. General motors is recalling a small number of its chevrolet sonics because of a fire risk. Gm says the cars are from the 2013 and 2014 model years. A fuel tank strap could let the fuel tank rest on the exhaust pipe. There are no reports of injuries. Most of the affected cars are actually still at the dealerships. And chrysler will have ron burr by dun as its new man. Will ferrell who portrays the anchor wrote and produced 70 ads for chrysler. In one he talks back to the navigation system. In another he thinks mpg is an a word rather than an abbreviation. They will run from now until december when the anchorman movie sequel comes out. Too funny. Too funny. Time now 5 51. A little creature causing a big controversy at san jose state. Why the site of a rodent running across the stage during a speech has a lot of people wondering if that pest problem is out of control. Plus how the Washington Redskins name change controversy has now drawn in president obama. What he said he would do if he could. Welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news. She made history swimming from cuba to florida without a shark cage. Now diana nyad is taking on new yorks famed Herald Square in a 48 hour swim to raise money for those recovering from hurricane sandy. She will be joined by ryan lochte among other guests when she kicks off her swim today. San Jose State University is looking into a possible rat problem on campus. It comes after a rat ran right across stage during a speech by von walker. Students and Staff Members say theyve noticed a lot of rats in areas surrounded by construction on campus. A lot of my classes there has been rodents and stuff. I just want the construction to finish up quickly because its kind of annoying. The school is now look into whether they have a bigger problem that could impact Students Health and safety. Time now 5 55. Today engineers from all over california will be in los angeles calling for safer buildings that wont fall down during a major earthquake. Los angeles city leaders say little has been done to upgrade socalled soft story buildings ever since the deadly north ridge quake in 1994. San fransisco recently required owners of soft story apartments to make them safer. Now los angeles is taking steps to do the same. Students in pleasanton will walk to school today. Its part of walk to school week all over the bay area. Hundreds of schools are taking part. Tomorrow the city of San Fransiscos expecting a Record Number of students. More than 12,000 Elementary School kids and 76 Public Schools are Holding Events tomorrow. Thats about a 38 increase over last year. Now in april, mayor ed lee launched a campaign to improve safety around five schools every year. Today marks the 80th 80th anniversary of a San Fransisco landmark. Coit tower was officially opened on this date in 1933. It was built with a generous donation from Lily Hitchcock coit. Members of her family and relatives of some of the mural artists will gather at 10 00 this morning for a celebration including a giant birthday cake. It wraps up with events in north beach tonight. Thats history. Yeah. Dozens of people getting kicked out of their lofts. Why some are calling this San Fransiscos biggest mass evictions in 40 years. And more b. A. R. T. Contract talks today. What the unions say they will not do for the public this time as we get closer to a deadline. Right now traffic is doing well. We have a problem on highway 24 on the oakland side that could make this commute very slow. Clear skies right now, but its a little cold for some, not too bad for others. However theres a change brewing upstream. Well talk about that and see how it impacts your weather today and tomorrow. Developing news, Police Investigate the suspicious death of baby brought to San Fransisco General Hospital. The many questions that surround this tragedy. Were live at the richmond b. A. R. T. Station where passengers are waiting to hear if theyll be able to take the train come friday. Well tell you the latest on labor negotiations and a union announcement. And were live in albany where about two dozen people have camped out overnight to protest the citys plan about a homeless camp nearby. Well tell you both sides of the story. Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now. This is ktvu channel 2 morning news. Welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news. We are looking at right now were back in albany again. Yeah, where there is a controversy over people doing exactly this. Camping out. And these are some of the people protesting a move that could happen shortly. Well have more on that in just a moment. Welcome back its tuesday october 8th. Im pam cook. Good morning im dave. Lets check your weather and traffic. Steve one more nice day you think . Pretty nice day. Looks good know. Changes tomorrow. A system just beginning to move in in the northern part of the state. We have clear skies here, a little chill in that morning air, a little bite for some. Temperatures in the 30s and 40s. Mainly in the 50s though for some but 30s, 40s to 50, clear skies, mostly sunny, a