Transcripts For KTVU Mornings On 2 20140108

And a congresswoman gravely injured in a mass shooting in arizona. The daring activity Gabby Giffords is doing today to mark the anniversary. Another bay area death blamed on the flu. Why Health Officials say theres still time to protect yourself against this possibly deadly virus. Mornings on 2 begins right now good morning, welcome to mornings on 2. Another pedestrian hit and killed in San Francisco. Coming up, the jump in these deadly crashes and what city leaders are planning to do about it. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steve knows everything you need to know about the forecast. I hope so. A lot of low clouds, fog, drizzle. Janice tweeted me and said its nice to hear that on of roof. Just drizzle . Just drizzle. Well take what we can can. Partly cloudy. Clouds on saturday. One more system clearing. Next week says sunny and warmer weather returns, maybe warm weather with 60s and 70s. Well see. The system is moving to the north. A lot of low clouds in place. Some of it very, very light drizzle popping up. A fa locations few locations. A lot in santa cruz. Los gatos has drizzle. We have precip. 40s or 50s. Very, very mild tom in blossom him says 50. Whoa. 50, thats right. 51 in san jose. Mostly cloudy morning. We give way to partly sunny partly cloudy afternoon. Some rain in crescent city. Partly sunny partly cloudy, fog, drizzle in the morning. A lot of upper 50s, very low 60s. Heres sal. Good morning. Were lookingat kind of a rough commute. This is a look at the commute on highway 4. Its the second straight day of bad traffic although its not as bad as it was yesterday. Weve had some slow traffic coming in from antioch and getting up to the baypoint area. If you are driving all to the hercules area on highway 4, well talk about a problem in just a moment. But first, i want to check out the bay bridge toll plaza. And that traffic is not all that bad. A little bit of slowing on the righthand side. About a tenminute delay. Highway 80, crash. No major injuries. But traffic 80 will be slow as you drive through the area. Public transportation, good so far. Bat, caltrain and muni reporting no delays. Lets go back to the desk. All right. Thank you, sal. San Francisco Police are investigating another pedestrian death. An unidentified 38yearold yearold was 38yearold was hit on va necessary. Minutes before the van ness minutes before, the victim got into an argument. He then ran off before he was hit by a female driver of a honda. This is the third pedestrian death in the city since december 31st. Ktvus alex savidge is getting reaction from city officials right now and will have a live report coming up. Happening today three years ago today in tucson, arizona an unforgettable mass shooting left six people dead, 13 wounded including former congresswoman gabby give forward. Today in tucson bells will ring, flags will be raised. That shooting ram pamg outside of a supermarket where give forward was holding a meet and greet with constituents. Ron barber who was elected to take over her seat will speak on the floor. The house will observe a moment of silence after barbers remarks. Barber was an aide to gifford when the shooting happened. He was also wounded in the attack. And Gabby Giffords is marking the day by by writing dash this horrified assassination attempt has given her a clear goal for the rest of her life. Shes vowing to push for new gun control laws in the u. S. Shes doing a pretty daring anniversary, planning to go sky diving later today. Incredible. The weathermen are calling it the polar vortex. Were talking about the dense, frigid air system thats gripping most of the country. Ktvus brian flores in our warm newsroom right now. Talk about that heavy toll thats caused by this frigid weather. Brian . No question about that, dave. Its been incredible to see the snow, the cold temperatures and wind gusts that have made it simply unbearable and, quite frankly, dangerous for so many people in the midwest and east coast. Wanted to get to buffalo, new york, where they remain in a deep freeze. Fears of flooding are growing up in the upper Niagara River there after large chunks of ice have been spotted in the river. Blizzard conditions are expected to last through this morning. Temperatures are expected to reach 20 degrees today but after bottoming out at minus 5 degrees yesterday, which tied a record set back in tied a record set back in 1942. Weve seen several injuries and deaths as a result of this polar vortex. A homeless man died monday night in an empty lot in georgia. And another man was found dead after he slept underneath a freeway overpass in texas. There have been a few miracles, like a woman forced to deliver her baby in her home. She couldnt go anywhere because of the bad weather. I think she wanted to see the blizzard. She didnt want to miss out. The freezing weather is still disrupting travel plans. Flight aware. Com says more than 600 flights have been canceled. The airports effected the affected the most are chicago, cleveland, and buffalo. Sfo reporting several cancellations including flights to chicago, cleanland and Baltimore Cleveland and balt moral. While some say the freeze will ease up, some say it cant happen soon enough. Since sunday, 21 people have died from the cold weather nationwide. Brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you, brian. The first person to die from the flu in Contra Costa County this season is a 48year old woman. Some drugstores are offering store discounts to shopper who get flu slots in pharmacies. Public Health Officials say the flu can be deadly. That latest victim is the third bay area death from the flu since last month. In Contra Costa County, 18 flu victims have ended up in intensive care units. It could be that theres more people that have been hospitalized but this is what we have so far. Reports of hospitalizations and deaths from the flu are completely voluntary and patients 65 years and older are excluded from the official count. Health Officials Say the flu season is start later this year so theres still some to get a flu shot to protect yourself. Almost 400 hospital jobs are being cut by Sutter Health at its three alta bates campuses. A hospital Spokesman Says by this friday, 175 fulltime and 183 parttime jobs will be eliminated in berkeley and in oakland. The hospital will also close down its Skilled Nursing facility at the oakland hospital. Nurses say they are already understaffed at alta bates. So to have the layoffs or to say you are going to layoffs is outrageous because you cant even staff with the nurses you have to provide adequate care now. The hospital says not all of the johns eliminated will be nursing jobs jobs eliminated will be nursing jobs. It says it may be forced to cut more jobs if finances dont get better. Crimes inside a locker room are raising concerns about gym security in one bay area city. This morning ktvus Tara Moriarty found out this case is getting the direct attention of the mayor and tara joins us live from daly city. Reporter good morning. When you are hitting the stair master or the weight, someone may be hitting up your gym locker. Thats what police say happened here at 24hour fitness. Were near serramonte mall. This is where police say a man seen in this surveillance used a oneday workout pass to angak sense to the locker room. Police believe he broke into two lockers on december 13th and stole cash and jewelly. We ran into the mayor on his way to work out and he says that its a must to lock your lockers. With technology nowadays, theres video surveillance. Committing a crime is tough to do. If you are out there, well make sure we catch you. Thats for sure. Reporter now, again, the suspect is described as possibly a Pacific Islander or latino, 62, tattoos on the back of his neck. Detectives believe he could be responsible for other breakin as well. A frightening attack, a woman assaulted in a parking lot in los gatos. Why this case may be part of a national trend. Caught on tape, a fiery crash at a massachusetts gas station. The driver explains how he ended up hitting a worker and sparking a raging fire. Good morning. We still have a lot of slow Traffic Building around the bay area. As we get to the peak of the commute and some drizzle may make it slower on some commutes. A lot of reports on drizzle. Livermore, pacifica. Its starting to pick up a little bit. Well see if this can lead to good oldfashioned rain and not just drizzle. Safer. Smarter. Tyco. Anncr at jennieo we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride 10 miles for tacos. We thought wed show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco made with jennieo ground turkey cooked thoroughly to 165. I feed my kids turkey tacos over regular tacos any day. I think they are light and they are just fresh tasting. Yeah. When i eat well, i feel well. Anncr its time for a better taco. The tacos tonight were pretty much perfect. Make the switch. Look for jennieo ground turkey in a store near you. Welcome back. 7 13. Terrifying video from minnesota. A truck flies off an overpass and lands in a pond. And believe it or not, the driver survived and is just fine. The truck went over that guardrail, twisted in the midair, and landed 40 feet down into the water, barely missed getting hit bite oncoming traffic by oncoming traffic. The driver is in the hospital recovering. Police think black ice may have caused the crash. One person is dead, three others hurt after an avalanche in the back country of the vail city resort. A man who was killed, anthony sibert, hes the grandson of the founder of the ski resort. Its not clear what he and the others were doing in that back area outside of the normal ski country bounds. But the eagle county coroner says the avalanche was probably caused by the people who were caught in it. Three other peoples are expected to survive people are expected to survive. A fiery crash at a gas station was caught on surveillance camera in massachusetts. A driver says he accidentally stepped on the gas monday morning and lost control. His car. He ended up hitting a gas attendant and causing the pump to burst into flames. Pulled in to get gas. There was a car ahead of me. He pulled up. Went ahead. Tried to stop. My foot hit the gas pedal. The gas station attendant was hospitalized with bumps and bruises. The driver was not hurt. Hes not been charged but police did impound his car. A Santa Clara County judge made his final decision on a lawsuit about leadbased paint. The judge ordered sherwin williams, National Lead and conagra to pay 1. 1 billion into a fund dedicated to removing lead paint. That money will be used here in the bay area in San Francisco, in oakland, and in the counties of santa clara, san mateo, alameda, and solano. Legal experts say this is the biggest public nuisance award in california history. San francisco supervisors say enforcing the citys building codes are a top priority this new year. A committee will soon look into whether the city is doing enough to make sure that rundown buildings in San Francisco are safe. They will look at Safety Measures for buildings under construction. Some of the supervisors feel the recent budget cuts at city hall is coming at the expense of building safety. All right. 7 15. We want to check in with sal right now see whats happening on the roads. Roads were a little damp as i was heading to work this morning. Kind of surprised to see that. It is surprising. Might cause some problems. Westbound, bay bridge traffic is okay. Westbound 24, we dont see the drizzle here. Its nice and dry. But we do see a lot of slow traffic if you drive this way every day, you will notice its busier than it normally is. Usually the whole drive takes about ten minutes. Its been taking more like 12, 15. This morning, more people on the road for sure. Also looking at the bay bridge, thats slighter. Thats backed up for about an eightminute drive time before you actually make it onto the bridge. I want to look at the commutes here, put some speeds up there. 580, the speed is down to 37 miles an hour as you come into livermore. If you go back to the altamont pass, we have some deep, dark stopandgo traffic clear as you come over the here as you come over the hill. 25 miles an hour. And southbound 880 as you drive down to the stevenson exit about 28 miles an hour. A couple of fenderbenders along the way. Along the peninsula, it looks good. I can still see a lot of green on the maps and speeds doing pretty well. Lets go back to steve. A lot of low clouds in place. A few breaks. But the big news, a lot of reports of drizzle coming in. When you say drizzle in january, you are getting excited. Morning, fog, drizzle. A lot of reports around San Francisco. Not officially at mint hill which means no rain for january. Not officially yet. Well see if that clicks over. San jose, los gatos, san carlos hills, san bruno, even out to livermore reports of drizzle. Partly sunny partly cloudy. Clouds saturday. Possibility of rain to the north. After that clearing, early next week looking sunny and warmer. Weak system to the north, Ronald Thompson in crescent city,. 30 in the last 24 hours. At least somebody is getting some rain. If they only get that in crescent city, thats not much. This system is enhancing our fog deck squeezing out the drizzle. Drizzle, partly sunny, partly cloudy skies. Mostly cloudy by this evening. I think drizzle falling along the north. For us, kind of a cool, mild pattern. We have the low cloud deck in place. Almost everybody is saying cloudy, mostly cloudy. Temperatures, they are up 50s. Upper 40s, 50. A couple of 30s. Mountain view, san jose, 51. Livermore, 52. Lakeeffect snow continues. The brutally cold temperatures are starting to moderate. This lakeeffect snow continues. That can snack up feetwise. For us, cloud cover. 30s, 40s to 50s. 50s down in monterey. The system will continue to stay scott north. Partly sunny, mostly cloudy. Fog, drizzle giving way to partly sunny, partly cloudy skies. More to the north. 50s and 60s on the temperatures. Everyone really close here. Walnut creek, 59. Novato 59. Livermore, 59. Castro valley is in there as well. Los gat tease, sara los gatos, saratoga, newark, el granada, Half Moon Bay, glen park in San Francisco. San mateo, 58. Redd wood city 59 redwood city, 59. Offandon cloud cover saturday. After that, we clear it out and sunshine and warmer temperatures return. All right, steven. 7 19. Keeping track of predators out in the ocean. Theres a new app created right here in the bay area. It will let you follow great white sharks. Why marin county leaders want to limit the number of tourists who can visit one of their landmark parks. Nearly 1 Million People visit muir woods each year. That includes a record 6,000 who pack the park on who packed the park on the 5th of july. There were complaints of traffic jams and damage to the local part. Governor brown may declare a drought in california next month. Californias drought manager expects an official declaration right after the february 1st snow survey. Now, the announcement would clear up red tape. It would let the state set up a water bank and help local districts with water transfers. Hetch hetchy and Crystal Springs, they make up San Franciscos water supply. While its holding up right now, the city may consider rationing and omother on huns options. We are looking at different scenarios. Were looking at a multiple drought. Were looking at improving ways to make sure that the supply lasts. Now, a drought emergency would divert more water to Southern California but allow reservoirs to release less water to the delta. That concerns environmentalists who are already worried that fisheries are not getting enough water. If San Francisco doesnt get more rain, the city could eventually issue voluntary or mandatory water conservations. Mendocino county just declared a local state of emergency because of really dry conditions. The county board of supervisors says wells and springs, theyve dried up. Many streams have stopped flowing. A couple of towns in Mendocino County are using up their emergency reserves of Drinking Water and they are worried they could possibly run out in a couple of weeks. 7 23. There will not be a change at the top of the oakland raiders. Mark davis says dennis allen will return for at least one more year. The two men met yesterday to discuss the future of allen, his Coaching Staff and the meeting went well and allen will remain. His record for the first two seasons is 8 wins an 24 losses. Later this morning, well learn the first class of inductees into mlbs hall of fame. Greg maddox and tom glavine are the favorites. Tony larussa has where been selected for induction by the expansion era committee. Jeff kent is on the ballot for the first time. Alltime home run leader barry bonds is on the ballot for the second time. He received 36. 2 of the vote last year. A player needs 75 to get in in cooperstown, new york. New information about San Franciscos battle over deadly pedestrian crashes. This is in the wake of yet another deadly crash last night. Ktvus alex savidge is live and just smoke with a supervisor about a plan to prevent more deadly accidents. Reporter good morning. I just finished talking with scott wiener. He says it will take more Police Officers and more awareness by pedestrians and drivers here in San Francisco to curb what has become a troubling trend in this city. 2013 saw a surge in pedestrian deaths in San Francisco, a surge in crashes as well. 20 people were hit and killed by cars across the city last year. And just since new years eve, there have been three pedestrians who have been hit and killed. The latest crash on van ness near grove street last night. At the meeting last night, city leaders said improving Pedestrian Safety needs to be a top priority. And scott wiener is calling for stepped up Traffic Enforcement, coupled with design changes to city streets. We also need to aggressively make the physical improvements to our streets that weve been trying to make for years and that are starting to move forward. More pedestrian moveouts, shorter crossing distances and safer streets in general. Reporter the latest pedestrian crash in San Francisco was last night at around 6 00. Thats where police say a 38 yearold man ran out into traffic on van ness right near city hall. He was struck and killed by a honda sedan. The woman driving that car did stop after the impact and cooperated with investigators and police dont believe the driver in this case did anything wrong. Next week the issue of Pedestrian Safety, front and center because the board will be holding a joint hearing with the Police Commission to figure out the best ways to make pedestrians improve Pedestrian Safety here in the city. Live in San Francisco, alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you, alex. 7 26. New questions about the death of a missing patient at San Francisco general hospital. When they find her dead, they are laughing about it. Its outrageous. The documents ktvu has obtained that are angering Lynne Spaldings family. Reporter its called Operation Safe net. Well tell you about a new crimefighter in vallejo. And why police say its already proven to be effective. An injury crash in San Francisco and now a sigalert son eastbound 80 near 7th an overturned car and the Fire Department and medics are on the scene. Traffic is a ples. Both directions of 80 in San Francisco. Well tell you how to avoid this problem. Were seeing a june pattern here in january. A lot of reports low clouds, fog and even drizzle but can we get some measurable rain . Thats the key issue here. Good morning. Not good sight here, though. Breaking traffic snooze in San Francisco. A crash with injuries on interstate 80. Traffic is just slipping by there. Very backed up, actually, in both directions. Sal castanedo will have details. Again, this is San Francisco interstate 80. Good morning. Welcome, one again, to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Dwrism dave clark. Im dave clark. Steve, its dark outside. A lot of low clouds. There are some sunbreaks in here. We have a summertime pattern here. A weak front coming in which is enhancing some of the low cloud deck. We have reports of drizzle. From the coast all the way out to the parts of the east bay. Maybe where you are. Up above that, theres not much, unless you are Mendocino County, lake county. Much warmer, milder lows due to the low cloud deck. Partly cloudy, partly sunny, kind of a mix of sun and clouds after the fog and drizzle. By 9 00 it usually starts to wind down. Upper 50s for many, low 60s. Highs in the 50s. Heres sal. All right, steve. We have a problem in San Francisco. We just showed it to you. Eastbound 80 near 7th street. Its an overturned car thats blocking almost the entire freeway here. Some cars are getting through. Some people are taking the exit at 7th. But 101 is a huge mess. This is an overturned vehicle. It happened about 20 minutes ago. The Fire Department and the medics had to come in going the wrong way and they had to temporarily shut down the freeway and northbound 101 is just a mess. Its backed up like a bad afternoon commute trying to get out of San Francisco. If you live in San Francisco and you are trying to get to oakland to the east bay. It is going to be a tough one for you. My suggestion is to go down south of market and get on the freeway at the last onramps here exessex, first essex, first street and take the 280 extension. Go up second street. Make a right on bryant. You can do that as well and get on the freeway that way. Otherwise, you will be stuck in a lot of slow traffic here. Westbound highway 4 as you come up to the highway 4 exit with 80. That lane is blocked that ramp is blocked because of an earlier accident. Big time traffic delays. And 7 32. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you. Police in los gatos want to know if a violent attack on a woman may be part of a disturbing trend thats sweeping the country. She was randomly punched in the face. Ktvus janine de la vega is live in los gatos now to tell us what the police are saying and also how the community is reacting. Good morning, janine. Reporter good morning, dave. Well, people who live and work here are horrified that a woman was attacked for no apparent reason. Police say it is unusual for an assault like this to happen in los gatos because its considered a safe community. The woman was taken down right in front of this dance studio here during the daytime hours. Now, police say that on monday afternoon, the woman was in the strip mall on blossom hill road near harwood when a man approached her and sucker punched her in the face. She fell to the ground and witnesses reported seeing the suspect running away towards harwood. Investigators say the assault was unprovoked and appeared to be random. Police know the incident sounds similar to a criminal phenomenon happening across the country, where assailants try to punch unsuspecting people hoping to knock them out, purely for amusement. People we spoke to are wondering if thats the case here and if he are shocked. Hit me in the gut and i got a chill. Reporter had you heard of this if he none none . Police phenomenon . Police are not sure if its related . No. Itch dont know if i dont know if its something that has come up online or if its gang related. Its disgusting. Reporter police are investigating. Theyve not ruled out this part of the knockout game but dont have enough information to substantiate. Theyve increased patrols in the area. They are describing the suspect as an africanamerican man in his early to mid20s, 59 to 6 feet taught with a slender build. He has short brown hair and was wearing a white tshirt, plu jeans and a basketball cap backwards. They are asking the public if anyone has video of this incident or has information on it to give them a call. They need some leads on this case. Recording live from los gatos, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. 7 34. This morning, the alliance eamed school will hold a memorial for Lee Weathersbee. He was shot and killed after going to oaklands boys and girls club on new years eve. Witnesses say he was walking home with two other boys when a dark fourdoor car pulled up. Two men got out and opened fire. Police are surging for suspects and a motive. This morning, police will release important new information about the killing of a young emeryville man last summer. The 22yearold was driving home from a pickup basketball game when he was involved in a minor accident in north oakland. Police say the crash led to an argument and one man in the other car shot and killed him. Today, police will release a photo of the car hoping that will lead to an arrest. Its not clear how police obtained that picture. 7 35. The new year means Vallejo Police are changing the way they fight crime. That includes making police more visible as part of Operation Safe net. Ktvus Claudine Wong is in vallejo. You just talked with police and also with a crime victim. Reporter thats right. Weve been talking to residents and police, and they both agree crime is a problem and its getting worse. In fact, statistics back that up. But now vallejo are trying Operation Safe net. And they already say they are seeing results. This morning, though, let me introduce you to one of the faces behind the statistics. This is jim cox, the latest victim. Hes lived in the sit for ten years city for ten years and came down here before the sun came up to report a crime. I park my pickup truck about 7 00. I live in glen cove. I got up to go to work and the pickup was gone. Reporter broken glass or no, just gone. Reporter how does Operation Safe net help him . It increases the number of officers rn on the street. Officers that can saturate the street and help regular officers do their job. At this point, the surge in crime was such an unacceptable level that we had to do something in the meantime during the process of hiring more officers. Reporter is it just people stepping up to work overtime . Yes, at this point, its been on a voluntary basis. Weve been hearing anywhere from 8 to 12 officers and all they do is go out and respond to Violent Crimes and beproactive. Reporter is it working . Yes. The first night we had this done, january 2nd, it was very successful. In a span of 18 hours, ten officers that were working netted 32 arrests, about 99 citations and dozens and dozens of contacts. Reporter 12 of those arrests were made at hogan junior my where Police Responded to a burglary call and ended up arresting those people who they say they were stealing radios and other equipment from the school. All of those items were recovered. How long will Operation Safe net last . At part of this part of this program is unpredictable about when the saturation efforts will happen and where. Also unpredictable is how long the program can keep going. We talked to police about that and also how the overtime is being paid for and well have the answers for you coming up on mornings on 2. Live in vallejo, Claudine Wong, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. P 7 38. Documents obtained by ktvu news are raising disturbing new questions about the death of patient Lynne Spalding at San Francisco general last fall. Her body was found in a hospital stairwell 17 days after she disappeared. Hospital and Sheriffs Office records show delays and confusion in this tragic case from the very store. One note we obtained from the Sheriffs Department indicates concerns about overtime may have directly affected the search. They literally didnt continue the search because they werent gonna get paid. How disrespectful is that . To the best of my knowledge, that was not related to the overtime issue. Other records show authorities describing the missing woman as both African American and asian during the search. Lynn spauding was as a 57year old was a 57yearold white woman. A man accused of kidnapping a 7yearold girl friday night is due in court today. Charges are expected to be filed today against david douglas. He was interviewed by ktvu in a 15minute jailhouse interview and admitted kipping her after kidnapping her after following her family home from a walmart store. He called the abduction a cry for help as his life was spiraling out of control. He shared the emotions with the girl. We were both shaking. She said im scared. I looked at her and said im scared. We kind of laugh cried. Reporter did you hurt the little girl . I did not know. Douglas insists he did not Sexual Assault the girl as Police Suspect he did. Douglas said he spent the four hours after the abduction trying to calm her and bought her food from mcdonalds. A bail hearing is set for the man accused of setting fire to the chinese consulate in San Francisco. A judge appointed a public defender to represent yan feng. Investigators say feng told him he set gas containers on fire outside of the consulate on new years day because all of the voices he had been voyeuring in his head were hearing in his head were in chinese. The parents of 13yearold andy lopez making some new accusations now against the sheriffs deputy who shot and killed their son. Yesterday, they amended their federal lawsuit adding allegations that Deputy Gelhaus has a history of using excessive force. The lawsuit cites one incident when the sheriff allegedly pulled his gun on a driver during a routine traffic stop. Another where he allegedly pointed his gun at a woman and her child during a neighborhood argument. Gelhaus shot and killed lopez last october in santa rosa saying he believed the bb gun the boy was carrying was a real ak47. Meantime, the lawyer for jahi mcmaths family says hes been getting Death Threats since he took a lead role in this controversy case. Christopher dolan has been representing the family since the 13yearold girl was declared brain dead at Childrens Hospital in oakland last month. Other lawyers have accused him of exploiting a familys grief. Dolan says hes willing to take the heat. Hes very proud he helped get jahi mcmath out of Childrens Hospital. Today is the deadline for opponents of californias new gender identity law to turn in signatures to put the issue back on the ballot in november. If another ballot signatures are collected, the law could be suspended. The law allows transgender students to decide if they want to use the boys or girls bathrooms and play on male or female sports teams. Tomorrow, debra bowen will determine if the signatures collected are valid. 7 42. She was the target of a would be assassin three years ago. Coming up, the daring way former congresswoman Gabby Giffords is marking this anniversary. And the white house responds to a new book by ex defense secretary, robert gates, which includes Harsh Criticism of president obama and Vice President biden. We have slow traffic in San Francisco because of the crash on 80 at 7th. Its still there. Traffic on 101 is a mess. Well give you alternate routes. Numerous reports of drizzle this morning. Well get some sunbreaks. The question can we get drizzle to turn into rain . Safeway presents real big deals of the week. Or how to get great deals the easy way. You do enough flying around. Thats why we give you real big club card deals. This week, honey nut cheerios are just 1. 88. Thats a sweet deal. Brew up a great cup for less. Starbucks is just 6. 99. And lean cuisine entrees are just 2 dollars each. 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A new book out by robert gates has pretty tough criticism of president obama. Ktvus pam cook is in our newsroom with more about comments and the reaction to it. The book is full of judgments about president obamas leadership and his commitment to the Afghanistan War in particular. Former defense secretary robert gates writes by early 2010, the president didnt believe in his own strategy and didnt consider the war to be his. He says for him it was all about getting out. Now, gates also says he never doubted support for the troops in afghanistan, only support for their mission. John mccain of arizona agrees with gatess assessment. Did you ever hear the president talk about afghanistan without talking about that we were leaving . Look whats happening in iraq, a place where we lost 95 killed and 600 wounded and fallujah is now black flags of al qaeda that are flying. Now, gates also attacks hillary clinton. He relates a conversation where clinton once said her opposition to the troop surge in iraq was politically motivated in the days leading up to the announcement of her president ial bid. Now, gates does praise the president s decision to launch the raid that killed osama bin laden, calling it one of the most courageous decisions that he had ever witnessed in the white house. In our next hour of mornings on 2, comments from the house about gates and his new book. Reporting live in the newsroom, pam cook, ktvu channel 2 news. All right, pam. 7 48. Would you like to track great white sharks . Well, theres an app for that createssed by researchers. The shark net app uses buoys positioned between the islands and big sur. They listen for special tagged great white sharks. App users you can get specific information about individual great white sharks including their names, even the identifying marks. That app by the way is available only for iphones and ipads. 7 49. Want to check in with sal get an update on the situation in San Francisco. If you are trying to get out to oakland, you should get on the freeway right at the very last exits to San Francisco. They are clearing a crash east 80 at 7th. It looks like there they have they may have cleared the whole thing. Northbound 101 is a big mess. This is because of an accident near 7th. It looks like theyve just cleared and almost all the lanes are open here on northbound 101 to east 80. Give yourself plenty of time. I want want to mention that highway 4 and 80, there was a crash that had the ramp closed from 4 to 80. Traffic is very slow from the carquinez bridge as you drive from pinole and hercules. The bay bridge is backed up for about a five, tenminute delay if you lead the metering lights. No problems on the upper deck getting into the city. Lets go to steve. All right, sal. A lot of low clouds in place. There are breaks in there. Weve had a lot of reports of drizzle as tori said to me. Steve, thats an angry sky. Yes. Not something weve said very much. We have a little bit in the way of rain. San francisco rain for january. We should pick up 4. 25. The driest january ever was 1921 when only. 026 fell. Weve never had a january without any rain. So far, we have zero. So far. Theres after saturday, thatss really not theres really not much. Ive seen out in the 24th and 25th, large and charge high pressure. We had one february without any rain. I think that was 1864. Well see how things pop up. So far, it doesnt look good. We have a lot of cloe low clouds in place. About. 10. A lot of reports of drizzle here. Most of those have been a trace or. 01. Big news continues temperatures are up because of the low cloud deck. A lot more 40s or 50s. 52 in san jose. 52 in livermore. Also along the coast, el granada, Half Moon Bay in San Francisco. But not officially yet, i dont think i know theres been some in the city. A lot of low clouds in place. Partly sunny, partly cloudy. Theres already some breaks in the clouds. Fog, drizzle, hazy skies more of a westerly breeze. We have two more shots here to get some precip in here. I dont think much will happen if you are up unless you are up north. 56 covers it. North bay, east bay, south bay, coast, bay, doesnt matter. Everyone will be close on the temperatures. Were starting ofl in the 50s. Well end up with 50s on the high side. Another system will move in on thursday. That doesnt look like it will do much. I dont think much will happen here. Sunday, we clear it out. It looks like sunny and warmer. The final verdict on lead paint, its in now. The record settlement and how several companies are being forced to help with cleaning up the toxic substance. No way for us to recover from this loss. A carjacking ends with a killing of a former ms. Venezuela and her husband. The latest on the arrest and how the couples young child is doing. Welcome back. 7 54. The bodies of four american soldiers killed in a Helicopter Crash in england are being recovered. The air force Helicopter Crashed yesterday during a training mission. Reportedly, the helicopter was flying very fast and very low at the time of the crash. This particular helicopter is a highly modified pergs of the blackhawk. Its used in search and rescue operations. Officials say the investigation into the cause of the crash may take several days or even weeks. People in venezuela are reacting to the killing of ms. Venezuela and her husband. The two were shot late monday night in what police are calling an attempted carjacking. The couple stea 5yearold daughter was shot in the leg. Police the couples 5year old daughter was shot in the leg. Police have arrested five suspects. Some of them are under the age of 18. She was a very sweet girl. She was very, very smart. And as a mother she cares a lot about her daughter. The family lives here in the u. S. They are working to bring her body to florida. Time now, 7 55. Dennis rodman, in the news again for his latest controversial trip to north korea and what he calls basketball diplomacy happy birthday to you happy birthday to you thats video of Dennis Rodman singing happy birthday to kim jung un at an exhibition game today. Now, dennis is there with several other former nba stars. Earlier, during an interview on cnn, rodman slashed out when asked about the detention of kenneth bay, a u. S. Citizen imprisoned in north korea. If you understand what kenneth bay did, do you understand what he did . What did he do . Tell me. No, no. You tell me. You tell me why is he held captive . They havent released any charges. We were shocked and just outraged. We couldnt believe our ears. You know, he was in a position to do some good and to help advocate for kenneth. He refused to do so. Kenneth bay was detained while leading a tour 14 months ago. He was convicted of hostile acts and sentenced to 15 years hard labor. It is 7 57. Barnes noble is making a change at the top. The bookstore chain is promoting the head of its e reader business to chief expect disk of the entire country. Michael will take over immediately. The position has been open since june when William Lynch left barnes noble. The bookstore is struggling to turn over as the book market shifts to more digital books. 7 57. Hundreds of bay area people are about to lose their jobs at local hospitals. Why nurses say these cuts come at an especially bad time for patients. Reporter and several people have been injured an killed because of the polar vortex to just moved to the midwest, east coast and south. When the rest of the company will thaw out from record breaking lows. Northbound 101 traffic in San Francisco is recovering after an earlier crash. It looks like the fog is moving in, though. The traffic is really messing approaching the lower deck. Theres something on our camera lens i havent seen in about a year. Im not sure what that is towards san jose. Well try to figure it out when we come back. Before you settle for another ordinary mattress, isnt it time you discovered the sleep number bed . The only bed clinically proven to relieve back pain and improve sleep quality. And right now, its our lowest prices of the season. Save 300 to 800 on our newest innovations. Plus, 18month special financing on all sleep number beds. Only at a sleep number store, where queen mattresses start at just 699. 99. Sleep number. Comfort individualized. Good morning. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Were live in San Francisco. Last night, there was another pedestrian death on the streets of San Francisco. City officials city officials want to make changes. Stay tuned. Well have the details coming up in just a minute. Its wednesday, january 8th. Im dave clark. A quick look at weather and traffic now. Steve, were not calling it rain but a little precipitation. A little drizzle, tori, yeah. Theres drops there. A little bit of trace amounts here and there been more than drizzle. Hardly any up there as well. The system coming in giving us more of a june look with a lot of low clouds. Theres definitely breaks in that. Up above, sunny, unless you are points north. More 40s and 50s than anything else. Much warmer on the lows due to the low cloud deck. The system sweeping in will give us partly cloudy skies. A mixed bag of low clouds, sun and high clouds. Fog, drizzle. Should end here soon. By 9 00 usually its done. Upper 50s, low 50s. Heres sal. Good morning, steve. We do have a look at the commute now and San Francisco traffic is still recovering. Now, getting into San Francisco at the bay bridge, the traffic is light. No problems there. But San Francisco itself northbound 101, we cant even see it now the fog has moved in. There was an earlier crash near 7th. Thats been cleared. Lets move along to some of the maps. 680 southbound as you drive toward alamo, southbound 680 near stone valley road there is word of a crash there. 80 is recovering arer afterrer yb problems after earlier problems. San Francisco Police busy investigating a deadly accident. Alex savidge is at the scene to tell us what city leaders plan to do to make pedestrians safer. Reporter i talked with supervisor scott wiener. He says a recent surge in pedestrian deaths in this city is unacceptable. San francisco saw a Record Number of deaths or i should say a sixyear high in terms of pedestrian deaths in 2013. It was a deadly year on the streets of San Francisco. 20 people last year were hit and killed by cars in this city. Just since new years eve alone, three pedestrians were hit and killed. The latest crash last night near city hall. At last nights board of supervisors meeting, city leaders said improving Pedestrian Safety has become a top priority. Supervisor scott wiener is calling for stepped up Traffic Enforcement coupled with design changes to city streets that can create shorter crossing distances for pedestrians. Im hoping that with the increase in the number of pedestrians being injured and killed that well see even more pressure to get those improvements done because its been harder than it should be to make these improvements. This is a matter of life and death. The latest pedestrian crash in San Francisco was last night at around 6 00. Thats when police say a 38 yearold man ran into traffic on van ness near city hall. He was struck by a honda sedan and killed. The woman who was driving that car stopped after the impact and is cooperating with police. Investigators dont believe the driver in this case did anything wrong. Next week, city leaders will, once again, look at solutions to this troubling trend of pedestrian deaths as the supervisors on thursday will hold a joint hearing with the Police Commission to look at how to make it as safe as possible to walk the streets of San Francisco. Live in San Francisco, alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. Happening today it was three years ago in tucson, arizona when an unforgettable mass shooting left six people dead and 13 wounded, including former congresswoman Gabby Giffords. Today in tucson, bells will rang and flags will be raised as part of several ceremonies. The shooting happened outside a sure market where giffords was holding a meet and greet. Ron barber who was elected to take over giffordss seat in congress will speak. And then. House will observe a moment of silence following barbers remarks. Barber was an aide to gifford when the shooting happened and was also injured in the attack. Well, Gabby Giffords wrote a very emegsal article in why the the New York Times to mark in the New York Times to mark this day. She vows to continue to push for new gun control laws and is doing something very daring on this anniversary. She plans to go sky diving later today. Its coming up on 8 0 a. Forecasters are 8 05. Forecasters are calling it the polar vortex, this system is being blamed for nearly two dozen deaths. Brian flores is in the newsroom with the heavy toll caused by this arctic blast. I have a friend who actually lives in nashville, tennessee. He said it was 2 degrees yesterday. He grew up in Southern California. You can imagine the shock he felt. The snow is one thing, but the cold temperatures, wind gusts make it feel colder and thats when it becomes dangerous and deadly. I want to take you out to buffalo, new york, where it remains in a deep freeze. Fears of flooding are growing up in the upper Niagara River after large chunks of ice have been spotted there. Blizzard conditions are expected to last through this morning. In minnesota, take a look at this, black ice causes a car to fly into a pond about 40 feet below. Luckily the driver is going to be okay. In north carolina, a pipe burst at a condo complex causing a frozen cascade. Its. Had like you could ice climb up the side of the building. I woke up to a sixf story manmade water fall. The weather has proved deadly. 21 people have died, including five people who collapsed and died while shoveling snow. Many were homeless, that was the case in georgia where a man died in an empty lot sleeping and another man in san antonio, texas died after sleeping under a freeway overpass there. Flightaware. Com says more than a thousand flights have canceled including six at sfo. Check your airline especially if you are headed to chicago, cleveland or baltimore. Back to you. Thank you. Not only is the cold weather grounding flights. It triggered an emergency on a plane 30,000 feet up in the air. An American Airlines jet flying from dallas to baltimore had to make an Emergency Landing yesterday in littlerock. Fligeid temperatures causes a lavatory pipe to burst which sent water into the cabin. No one was hurt. Passengers were taken off the plane for a couple of hours as mechanics repaired the damage. There was a similar problem at Ronald Reagan airport. A pipe burst in the baggage claim area for American Airlines and united airlines. Crews had to cut off the water and mop up the area. Despite the damage, the leak did not disrupt operations at the airport. An amtrak train that left emeryville several days ago, finally arrived in chicago. The train and the 500 passengers became strapped and tranded in the trapped and stranded in the snow in illinois. Yesterday, frustrated and very tired passengers finally arrived in chicago by bus. I cant feel my butt because its not there anymore. Just sitting for literally 26 hours is awful. Oh, boy. Amtrak, by the way, canceled almost two dozen trains in illinois yesterday because of that bad weather. It is 8 08. A 48yearold woman is the first person to die from the flu this season in Contra Costa County. Health officials are not releasing her name or where she lives but they are urging people to get flu shots. Some drugstores are even offering store discounts to shoppers who get vaccinated in the pharmacies. Public Health Officials say the flu can be deadly. The latest victim is the third bay area death from the flu since last month. In Contra Costa County, 18 flu victims have ended up in icu units. It could be theres more people that have been hospitalized. This is what we have so far. Health Officials Say the flu season is starting later this year so theres still time to get a flu shot to protect yourself. Alta bates in oakland and berkeley will be playing off laying off 350 workers by friday. The job cuts affect both full time and parttime jobs. The cuts are needed to return alba beats to financial health. Some of the nurses say eliminating jobs right now doesnt make sense. As we have more patients coming in because of the Affordable Care act, we have an increase of patients at the same time, they are trying to lay off nurses, it makes no sense. Now, not all of the jobs being cut are nursing jobs but alta beats is not releasing alta bates is not releasing deal tails on which jobs are being eliminated. The red hot warriors are in their longest winning streak since december of 1975. Curry down the lane. Put it in. Just got in. The warriors have won ten in a row after defeating milwaukee last night. 10180. David lee had 22 points. Curry and tomorrowson each thompson each had 15. They face brick lynn tonight brooklyn tonight. The warriors are hot. Yes, they are. Theres a new way to fight crime in vallejo. The new program addressing big concerns. Coming up in our next half hour, how Operation Safe net is doing in its first week. Many baby boomers in the bay area will always remember something and theres an etch art to save a piece of history. Were doing some well in some areas. Slow traffic in parts of San Francisco. As you look at the east bay, the traffic looks good. Well tell you where the slow spots are in the east bay. Well, a lot of low clouds in place. No, its not a summer pattern. Almost. Will the drizzle give us any wayne . Lets hope so any rain . Lets hope so. Well find out in a couple of minutes. Police are looking for the thief who broke into lockers at one gym in daly city. Ktvus Tara Moriarty joins us live to explain why this case is getting the direct attention of the mayor of daly city. Good morning. Reporter well, good morning. Thats because he happens to work out here. Just to give you a little clue. But you know, basically the message that Daly City Police want to get out is that somebody is target, the loggers here at the 24hour fitness near the ceremony mall. So while you are sitting the treadmill, somebody could be hitting up your gym locker. This is where police say that a man seen in surveillance used a oneday workout pass to gain access to the locker room. Daly city police say he broke into two lockers on december 13th and stole cash and giulianiry and jewelry. We ran into the mayor and he says he usually doesnt brick much with him to the gym for that very reason. Please, folks, when you go to your gym, make sure that your belongings are safe, whether its having, you know, a lock on your locker or keeping that at home. And to those who sort of commit these crimes of opportunity, i say shame on you. Reporter again, the suspect is described as possibly a Pacific Islander or latino descent. 62, muscular build, tattoos on his right biseptember an possibly on the back bicep and possibly on the back of his neck. Tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. A Santa Clara County judge ordered three paint manufacturer res to pay a manufacturers to pay a record settlement because of lead pant, more than a billion dollars to pay for cleanup. Several cities and counties filed a lawsuit, they will share the cleanup fund. They include, alameda, solano along with oakland and San Francisco. San francisco supervisors are enforcing the city builds, making that a top enforcing the City Building codes, they are making that a top priority. The panel may look at Safety Measures for buildings under construction. Some feel the recent budget cuts are coming at the extension of building safety. Its coming up on 8 16. They are local icons that bring back memories of the bay area during the ate 40s 50s and 60s. Theres a new effort to save some fiberglass dogheads that were once a fixture outside of doggie diners. Recently the heads have been kept in trailers and off show up at community and charity events. Now is a campaign is underway to raise money to find homes for them and to even give them a facelift. Brings back a lot of memories for the for at lot of people for a lot of people in the bay area. Lets check in with sal. The traffic in San Francisco is really terrible. I want to show you what happened. This is a picture from one of our photographers who happened on driving by the scene. This car was rolled over qor quite sometime on 80 near 7. That crash is gone. I want to show you how long the backup is here. Northbound 101 is backed up from nearly Candlestick Park all the way up to the downtown area. What you want to do is use 280 extension to get yourself down. Even thats getting more crowded. If you are woenderring why wondering why San Francisco is a terrible, miserable mess trafficwise. Thats whats going on. We have a new crash, Park Presidio reported at geary, a new crack reported there. Give yourself plenty of extra time. 280 is the best way. Moving along and taking a look at the peninsula traffic, southbound 101 traffic slow at 92. Some live pictures. Westbound bay bridge backed up for a fiveminute delay. No trouble on the bridge itself and this morning if you are dripping on the 880 driving on the 880 freeway, that traffic is looking good. A lot of low clouds in place here. No, its not june. Not july. Almost looks and feels like it. Lows are way up there with the 50s. A little system coming into the north has given some very light rain from fort bragg up to eureka and crescent city. Crescent city has only had. 03. Weve had some around here. A lot of reports of drizzle. Low clouds. There are some breaks in the clouds. Morning fog, drizzle. Partly sunny skies. Definitely some sunbreaks. Clouds saturday. Clearing sunday and then next week early next week looks sunny and warmer after saturday. Rainfall for San Francisco for january so far, a whopping zero has fallen. There was a. 01 in the city. But officially at mint hill, nothing weve never had a dry in San Francisco. The driest was. 026 back in 1921. I will tell you the extended outlook does not look promising, we should get over 4 inches of rain, 4 plus in january. February has had one dry month. That was 1864. Theres never been a dry march. Theres still hope. But i will tell you, we need more than hope. We need a pipeline of moisture to come in here. A lot of low clouds in place. The system, weak system is giving us a lot of low clouds. Temperatures starting off much warmer. Mostly cloudy. Drizzle. Continuing farther to the north. The lows thats the bigger story. A lot of 50s instead of the usual 30s that weve seen for the longest time. This system wont do much. Thursday, one more saturday. I just think its a continue of what were getting which is a lot of clouds and not much else. Hazy skies out there. 50s for some. Even some reports of drizzle up to clearlake and san jose and points in between. Up to livermore. A lot of reports at least some precip there but the temperatures today not going very far. 50s or low 60s. Slightly below average to near average weve been above for a long, long time. We get a little break tomorrow. Mostly cloudy into friday or i should say friday we get a break. Friday one more system. Back that dry and warmer after that. Coming up on 8 20. Five south bay banks held up in less than five months. The genderbending confusion thats complicating the search. And the cold weather is keeping people indoors. Wait until you hear about the pregnant woman whose water broke while she was home alone. Tomato florentine soup, it took a little time to get it just right. [ ding ] but finally, it happened. Perfection. At progresso, weve got a passion for quality, because youve got a passion for taste. [ male announcer ] you say tomato. Old el paso says diced tomato stand n stuff chicken tacos. You say whats for dinner . Old el paso says start somewhere fresh. Welcome back. 8 23. A man on a hang glider really glad to be back on the ground this morning after being stuck 50 feet off the ground in a eucalyptus tree. The 63yearold pilot crashed yesterday into the tree at ed lavin county park. Rescuers had to use a helicopter to lower someone down to the helicopter. They secured him on a line and were able to pull him down to safety. Marin county supervisors want the National Park service to limit the amount of tourists allowed into muir woods. Now, almost a Million People visit muir woods every year. That includes a record 6,000 who pack the park in july of last year. Marin residents are complaining about traffic jams and also damage in the park. Marin Officials Say attendants should be capped on a daily, weekly and yearly basis. 8 23. Governor jerry brown could declare a state drought next month. Californias drought manager expects an official declaration after the february 1st snow survey. The announcement would clear some red tape and allow california to set up a water bank and help local districts with water transfers. Hetch hetchy and local reservoirs such as Crystal Springs make up San Franciscos water supply. While it is currently holding up the city may consider steps such as rationing. We are looking at different scenarios because were looking for not only a oneyear drought, were looking at improving ways to make sure that our supply lasts. A drought emergency would divert more water to Southern California but it would allow reservoirs to release less water to the delta. This concerns environmentalists who are worried that fisheries are receiving enough water. If San Francisco does not receive more rain, the city could issue voluntary or mandatory water conservation. Mendocino county has declared a state of emergency because of bonedry conditions. The county board of supervisors says wells and streams have dried up while many streams have stopped flowing. A few downs are using their emergency towns are using their emergency reserves of Drinking Water and they worry they will run out in a matter of weeks. The weekend cold weather in indiana forced a pregnant woman to dliv her own baby. Mariah said she was home alone sunday night during a snowstorm when her contraction, started. Her contractions started. Her water broke. She contacted midlives and her mother, the weather was so bad, nobody could get to her. Shes always planned on having her baby at home, she said. But never thought she would be doing it all by herself. Her due date was not until the 21st. I think she wanted to see the blizzard. She didnt want to miss out. Yeah. A beautiful, healthy baby girl, weighed in at 7 1 2 pounds. Both woman and the new baby are doing fine. Another wild weather story look at this one. Freezing temperatures caused a water main break in a womans driveway. It was so cold her car froze to the ground. Temperatures are below zero. I expect it to get warmer in the area today maybe all the way up to 14 degrees. Maybe then she will be habl to dig her car out. 8 26. Some new developments in the case of a young man killed last summer after a minor Traffic Accident in oakland. What will happen today that may lead to a break in the case. Reporter were live in los gatos where a violent attack  that happened here has people wondering if its part of a criminal trend thats occurring across the nation. Well tell you what police are saying about that and how they are responding. Good morning. Northbound 280 in san jose at the 880 interchange. We still have a little bit of slow traffic but things are improving in san jose, well tell you where the slow traffic is in the bay area. Well, that the driz well, the drizzle we had, unfortunately, its just drizzle. Well see if theres any more systems poised to move in this week. Good morning. 78 29 8 29. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Making Crime Fighting changes in one bay area city. Were live in vallejo. Well tell you what police are doing in hopes of reducing crime which they say is just at an unacceptable level. Stay tuned. Well have a live report. Its wednesday morning, january 8th. Im dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. Steve has his hands full with whats going on. I have this clicker here. We have a lot of reports of drizzle. Should be ending in the next halfhour. A lot of low clouds in place. This is not a january pattern. San francisco rainfall should see over 4 inches for january. The driest january was 1921 when only. 026 fell. So far, not anything. Not hope for much. Hopefully we will get a little bit. This system moving into the north isive going us partly cloudy skies, partly sunny skies. Temperatures in the 50s for many. Theres a few 40s. Theres a lot more 50s. Look for a mix of low clouds, high clouds and some sun. Partly sunny, partly cloudy. That fog giving way starting to burn off. Drizzle will end here pretty soon. Probably be back for some. 50s for most on the highs today. Heres sal. Weve had kind of a touch andgo morning. We had an earlier problem in San Francisco that has made things a little bit slow there. Lets start off and take a look at 880 northbound. Were seeing some slow traffic there now, as you can tell. Traffic is gonna be slow approaching the hide street exit and heading up north. A little bit of mist and drizzle around the bay area commute. Moving along and taking a look at the san mateo bridge. That looks good. The bay bridge traffic is light. San jose and the south bay, weve had a couple of fender benders on 85, 101 and 280 are clear of that. But weve had slow traffic there. Back to the desk. 8 31. A woman minding her own business randomly successor punched in sucker punched in the face. Police are searching for whoever did it and they are wondering if this is called the knockout game, a nationwide phenomenon. Janine de la vega is joining us live from los gatos with more on what police are saying and the reaction in the community. Reporter good morning, dave. Well, police are looking for leads in this case to help them track down the man responsible for what happened in the strip mall. Im told it gets very busy in the afternoon. As you can see, thats a walgreens, pizza parlor, hair salon. This it happened in tront of this happened in front of the dance studio. Police say at 4 30 monday afternoon, a woman was walking near harwood when a man approached her and punched her in the face. She fell to the ground and witnesses reported seeing the suspect running away towards harwood. Investigators say the assault was unprovoked and appeared to be random. Police know the incident sounds similar to around the nation where assailants punch unsuspecting people. Sometimes its videotaped. People are wonder if thats the case here and are disgusted. People who are desperate commit crimes. But this isnt in the category this is someone who is trying to earn points or the whole aspect of people videoing people hurting people doesnt seem to be any morality or regret or its very upsetting. Reporter police are investigating they have not ruled out that this is part of the knockout game but at this point, they just dont have enough information to substantiate it. They have increased patrols in the area. They describe the suspect as an africanamerican man in his early to mid20s, 59 to 6 feet tall with a slender build, short brown hair and was wearing a white tshirt, blue jeans and a white basketball cap backwards at the time. Police are asking anyone who has video or information on this case to give them a call. Reporting live from los gat aptos from los gatos, janine de la vega janine de la vega. There will be a campus memorial for Lee Weathersbee he was shot and killed new years eve after leaving the oakland boys and girls club. Witnesses say he was walking home with two other boys when a dark car pulled up, two men got out and started to shoot. Police are searching for suspects. They are still trying to figure out a possible motive. Also this morning, police will give us new information about the killing last summer of a young man from emeryville. 22yearold iya was driving home from a pickup basketball game when he was involved in a minor car crash in north oakland. Police say the crash led to an argument and one man in the other car shot and killed him. Today Police Released a photo of the car hoping it may lead to an arrest. Still not clear how police obtained the photo. In the last year, the number of homicides in vallejo jumped from 16 to 25. So the new year means new ways that the citys Police Department will try to fight crime. Ktvus Claudine Wong is live in vallejo with the new initiative to address this disturbing trend. Good morning, claudine. Reporter good morning, tori. Weve been at the Police Department this morning talking to them about Operation Safe net. Its a new program Vallejo Police say crime in this city is at an unacceptable level. Its not hard to find residents who agree with the statement. One man told us this morning that he thinks it will get worse before it gets better. So this new program is underway. Its called Operation Safe net. Its about getting more officers on the street. Officers sign up to work before their shift, after their shift and on their days off to staff neighborhoods at unpredictable times of the day. We decided at this point, the surge in crime was at an unacceptable level, we had to do something during the process of hiring more officers. Reporter the program started on january 2nd in an 18 hour period, police say 32 suspects were arrested and 99 citations were hished. 12 of those suspects were arrested at hogan junior high after officers responded to a burglary call. All officers are on overtime which leads to the question how is the department paying for this. Currently, we have salary savings because we are slotted for 110 officers. But with our current staffing ofle 3, there are of 83, theres salary savings and i believe were using some of that money to help offset the costs. Reporter the unknown is how long this operation is going to last. The Department Says despite the positive response that it is seemingly getting from the community and the positive effect that seem to be happening, they say the money at some point will run out and then Operation Safe net will come to an end. Reporting live in vallejo, Claudine Wong, ktvu channel 2 news. New documents obtained by ktvu news raising disturbing new questions about the death of a hospital patient, Lynne Spalding at San Francisco general last fall. Her body was found in a hospital stairwell thats rarely used 17 days after she disappeared. Records by the hospital and the Sheriffs Department show delays and confusion in this tragic case from the very beginning. One note we obtained from the Sheriffs Department indicates concerns about overtime may have directly affected the search. They didnt continue the search because they werent gonna get paid. How disrespectful is that . To the best of my knowledge, that was not related to the overtime issue. Other records show authorities twice describe the missing woman as an African American woman, one time described her as an asian female. Lynne spalding was a 57year old white female. It is 8 37. An antioch man accused of kidnapping a 7yearold girl on friday night is due in court today. Prosecutors are expected to file formal charges against 43 yearold david douglas. Yesterday, ktvu news conducted a 15minute jailhouse interview with the kidnapping suspect. Douglas admitted kidnapping the child outside her home after following her family back from a walmart store. But he called the abduction a cry for help after his life swirled out of control. Douglas says he even shared the same emotions with the little girl. We were both shaking. I mean, i was shaking in fright. She was shaking in fright. She looked at me and said im scared. I look the at her i looked at her and we kind of laugh cried. Did you hurt her . No. Douglas insists he it not Sexual Assault the girl as Police Suspect. Douglas said he spent the four hours after the abduction trying to calm her buying her food from mostly cloudy mostly from buying her food from mcdonalds. A law that allows transgender students to use boys or girls bathrooms and play on male or female sports teams, and tomorrow debra bowen will determine if those signatures collected on this are valid. The Obama Administration is issuing new recommendations about classroom discipline. This is part of an effort to address parent disparities and how students of different races are treated. Recommendations encourage School Personnel to make sure they are trained in classroom management, conflict res kution and also reducing resolution and also reducing classroom resolutions. The Sonoma County supervisors has approved funds to help the home also. Some of the money will help pay for shelter beds. Others will help a charity buy tent, heaters and other tents, heaters and other supplies. Theres also a grant to move them into permanent housing. The white house is saying First Lady Michelle Obama will be coming here to the bay area at the end of the month. Mrs. Obama will attend a womens lunch at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco with nancy pelosi. Its a fundraiser for the Democratic Party on january 31st. Now, the first lady had originally planned to visit last october but she cancelled because canceled because of the partial government shut down. The white house responds to a new book by exdefense secretary robert gates. It includes some pretty strong criticism of president obama and Vice President biden. Reporter city leaders here in San Francisco are trying to deal with the recent increase in pedestrian deaths. The latest was last night against city hall. How one city supervisor is planning to improve safety. Right now were looking at a commute thats Getting Better but still has some slow spots. Well tell you where they are straight ahead. Plenty of low clouds in place, even finally some precip. I know its only drizzle but maybe it will lead to Something Else in the form of rain. Well see. And the speed readings are off the chart Paradise Found luscious locks. Great glittering galaxies. The happiest place on earth keeps getting happier explore more, and save up to 25 on select nights at a Disneyland Resort hotel. Theres no end in sight. Im going to need more time. 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However, at least 21 deaths are blamed on the frigid weather and buffalo mark, there, blizzard conditions are expected to last through the morning. Some of the areas there received 14 inches of snow yesterday. Back here at home, another pedestrian was hit and killed last night in San Francisco. It p happened on it happened on van ness near grove street. Alex savidge is in San Francisco now. Youve been out there all morning. Whats the latest on what happened out there and also the efforts to keep pedestrians safe. Reporter well, beerming to you good morning to you. 2013 was a deadly year for pedestrians in San Francisco with a surge in crashes and city leaders are trying to look at ways to curb whats become a truckling trend. Last year, 20 people were hit and killed by cars. Thats a sixyear high in San Francisco. And just since new year tea eve, in fact, three pedestrians have been killed. The latest crash was last night when a man was killed near city hall. Supervisor scott wiener spoke to us this morning and said this recent surge in pedestrian deaths is unacceptable. There was a board of supervisors meting last night, city leaders meeting last night, and city leaders made it clear improving Pedestrian Safety is priority. Wiener is calling for designing city streets to create shorter crossing distances for pedestrians and he says drivers need to do their part. Drivers, since you are driving something that can kill someone, have to be extremely conscious of everything thats around us. Pedestrians that may be crossing the street, bikes that may be coming up from behind. We need to be very careful and very conscious all of the time. Reporter last nights deadly pedestrian accident happened on van ness close to city hall. Police say a 38yearold man ran into traffic and was struck by a honda sedan and killed. The woman was driving that car stopped after the impact and did cooperate with investigators and police dont believe the driver in that case did anything wrong. Next week, the issue of Pedestrian Safety, once again, will be front and center. The board of supervisors is planning to hold a joint hearing with the Police Commission on that very issue. Were live this morning in San Francisco, alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. 8 46. Harsh criticism about president obama from a crucial former member of his administration. Ktvus pam cook is in our newsroom with the new book that attacks the motive behind some of the president s actions. Panel pam . The book is full of judgments about president obamas leadership and his commitment to the war in afghanistan. Now, gates writes the fundamental problem in afghanistan was that his political and philosophic preferences for winding down the u. S. Role conflicted with his own prowar public rhetoric, suggesting that the president s decision makes was often politically motivated by rather than believing in the strategy. The political journalists who have received a copy of the book, say that gates is highly critical of many people, including joe biden, Obamas National Security staff, members of congress, hillary clinton, and president george w. Bush who first appointed gates at secretary back in 2006. His book contains praise for all of these officials as well as some selfcriticism. Now, this morning National Security Council Spokeswoman heyland said as has always been the case, the president welcomes differents of view among his National Security team which broadens options andence hanses and enhances. Pam cook, ktvu channel 2 news. Lets check in with sal. You havent said much about the toll plaza throughout the morning. Yeah, thats good news, dave. I havent mentioned it because it has not been a thing. The bay bridge toll plaza, its been light as you can see. Traffic is moving along pretty well. If you are driving westbound coming up to the pay gates. No major problems on the bridge. Interstate 880 is slow as you drive past the coliseum. It does get better after you pass through 23rd avenue. And this morning if you are driving on southboundle 80 were southbound 880 were back to the normal traffic. Southbound 880 at 84 there is a crash. Theres been some action there. For the most part a touch lighter. Thank you, sal. A lot of low clouds in there. The big news was, a little bit of drizzle. Precip from the north bay down to san jose. Plenty of reports down along san jose, along the coast and maybe where you live as well. On the peninsula, san carlos, san bruno had some. Its a weak system coming in enhancing the low cloud deck. Theres not much left of the system. Theres been heavier drizzle on the north coast. Mainly 50s on the lows. 51 seems popular. Most of it should be ending, the low cloud deck should start to lift around 9 00. 9 30. The system continuing to keep a lot of cloud cover in here. A partly sunny, partly cloudy day. More of a westerly breeze in place. Thats allowed temperatures to cool down. A lot of 50s. Mid to upper, to very low 60s. There will not be much of a spread between the temperatures. Maybe warmer Santa Clara Valley but 59 Half Moon Bay, 59 redwood city, everyone is in there. Menlo park as well. Not much change. A couple of more systems thursday and again saturday. Saturdays system could give us light rain to the north. I think probably what we see is what weve been getting for the longest time. Clearing out at getting warmer sunday monday. All right. Thank you, steve. Ten minutes before 9 00, the quest for a sixth super bowl ring. Fans cross their fingers for a final 49er game at Candlestick Park. 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Investigators say feng told him he set gas containers on fire outside of the consulate new years day because the voices he had been hearing in his head were in chinese. 8 53. The parents of 13yearold andy lopez are making new accusations against the sheriffs deputy who shot and killed their son. Yesterday, they amended their federal lawsuit adding allegations that Deputy Eric Gelhaus has a had i had history of has a history of excessive force, citing pulling a gun on a driver during a routine traffic stop and another in which he allegedly pointed a gun at a woman and her child during a neighborhood argument. Gelhaus shot and killed lopez saying he believed the bb gun he believed the boy was carrying was a real ak47. The Obama Administration has decided to run Television Ads in some cities during the Winter Olympics pushing healthcare coverage under the Affordable Care act. The department of health and Human Services says the adds will run in the markets with the highest rate of uninsured people with the focus on young adults. An 11,000 reward is offered to catch a serial bank robber in the south bay. The suspect since november hit two banks in san jose, three banks in milpitas including the most recent heist on monday. Investigators say the suspect is getting bolder showing a gun more often and now threatening bank tellers. Its scary so i will be scared coming here late in the morning because thats when i come to the atm. Also complicating the search, investigators are not sure if the person is a man or a woman. The person is described as africanamerican between 54 and 57, 110 pounds, and speaks with a feminine voice. We still dont know if the San Francisco 49ers will play another game at candlestick but fans are being given the chance to get an upclose look at the stadium. For 20 less than the cost of a game ticket, fans can tour the stick, go behind the scenes and walk on the field. People we spoke to say they are taking the opportunity to do this just in case the team does not come back for another game. Diehard 9er family, die hard 9er family, just coming here and saying goodbye to something thats been part of our lives since ever since i ever since i can remember. If the 9ers win and the seahawks lose, the game will be at the stick. Other 9er fans paid a few wux to see bowman in burlingame. About 200 fans turned out to get a picture and autograph. This sunday, the 9ers will take on the carolina panthers. You can watch the game right here on ktvu. Our pregame show road trip to a championship airs at 8 30 followed by fox Sports Coverage. Kickoff is at 10 00. The point after airs following the game. A lot to photographer. Sal, you are a photographer. Have you a lot to look forward to. Sal, you are a photographer, have you been down there . Over the years, the answer is yes. Lets take a look at the commute. The traffic is going to be a little bit slow on 880 northbound as you pass the coliseum. Its still very, very slow as you head up towards 880. If you are driving on westbound 92, the traffic is moderate and a little bit wet as steve has been mentioning. In San Francisco, still recovering after some bad problems earlier on the skyway. All lanes open. But traffic is still slow. Now, lets go to steve. A lot of low clouds in plate. Had some drizzle. Looks in place. Had some triz drizzle. Look like that is over. Another system thursday. One more saturday. After that, more clouds, more back than bite more bark than bite. Were watching here. All we did do. Thats ure our report. We thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. And watch the noon news. Oakland police are about to release more information about a killing. Progressoh oh oh oh oh what do you know . Oh bacon . 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