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The same person was likely responsible and how the schools are stepping up security. And a lawsuit against a Bay Area Police department. Why the mother of a man who drowned says its the Police Departments fault. Mornings on 2 starts right now. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. You are looking live at San Franciscos Mission bay neighborhood where fire crews are still dumping water on a charred apartment brg putting out the hot building putting out the hot spots from a fire that started over 14 hours ago. Well carry live a press conference for an update on the fire when the press conference starts in a few minutes. Tara moriarty has been there for much of the morning and will tell us the problems firefighters are tealing with right now and the traffic issues in just moments. Im tori campbell. Im brian flores in for dave clark. Lets get your day started with weather and traffic. Still windy out there . For some. No doubt about it. Wind advisory for another hour. Gusts 42, 45 Miles Per Hour. Getting reports around american canyon, crockett, brentwood. 25, 35mileperhour gusts. If this north wind continues they are sitting at 60 degrees, 72 may be underdone. It will be sunny, mild and warm for everybody, bayside and along the coast. Santa rosa is 60 already and redwood city is also 60. That means they have a north wind. 17 northeast at santa rosa, 25 fairfield. 21 oakland. It will be about 76 in downtown oakland today. East at livermore, northeast hayward, Northeast Mountain view. Sfo has had gusts to 40. There have been a few reports around san bruno. San bruno stronger than that. Windy and warm. Crystal clear today. Highs, 70s for many, low 80s. Heres sal. All right. Right now, traffic right now, traffic is going to be busy. We do have word from the Fire Department that were just about to go to, i want to mention quickly, highway 4 is slow coming up to the willow pass grade. Were looking at the bay bridge toll plaza, a 30minute delay getting into San Francisco. And this morning, 580 is better than it was yesterday. 680 is slow out of pleasanton. Back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Happening now a Live Press Conference on the Apartment Building fire in San Francisco. Lets listen in. A plan needs to be worked out with these occupant in this building and street is deemed safe, they wont be able to enter or exit out here. Hopefully theres other access to get in and out of. How long is it closed . Until its safe. How is the firefighter . He was released last night. He had burns on his face, mostly on his fans. [the question is inaudible] i dont know. I dont know what stage it was in when i got here. I know sometimes when they do construction, they do do sprinklers on the way up. This one, i dont know. They had pipes in there for us. They were gonna try to hook up a sand pipe for the guys up top. It was too dangerous at that time to stay inside. Whats your [inaudible] as the chief said earlier to me today, this could have been bigger than a fifth alarm, obviously. My concern yesterday was getting out of the danger zone of 4th street and longview was this building. But my i thought this building for sure was gonna go up and then we wouldnt be able to stop this either. We were lucky theres a park there. The fifth alarm, thats about half of the firefighters on staff that day. Another challenge was the coverage of the city. Another division handled that adequately. Firefighters are in the building now. What are they doing . I dont know if they are in that building. Thats my big construction crews. The construction crews have been told not to go down this street, longview. Any idea how long the evacuation is for . As i said, when this is deemed safe, we can replace some of the exterior sprinklers that went off so we can put the Fire Protection back in service and we can let the people back in. Your name again . Mark gonzales. Thank you. Youve been listening live was a member of the Fire Department, Mark Gonzales, giving a very brief News Conference there, a small section we got. He was saying that 4th street is still closed and will remain closed until it is deemed safe by officials. He did update the firefighter who was injured. One firefighter injured during this firefight with first and seconddegree burns mainly to his hands. He was released last night. He did say that they were really concerned about the neighboring buildings there, especially with the wind. So were extremely fortunate to be able to get this fire limited basically just to that one Apartment Building that was under construction. They also talked about the struggles when it went to a fifth alarm fire that half of the fire force went to the building. Definitely a lot of challenges yesterday but they are doing a good job. The fire crews are still pouring water on this fire. It started about 14 hours ago near at t park. The flames gutted a large Apartment Building under construction on 4th street. This morning high winds are creating new problems for firefighters. Tara moriarty joins us live from the scene. Youve been out there for several hours and tara, its been windy the whole time. Reporter very windy and extremely dry not the most favorable conditions. I just spoke to the manager of the Apartment Building that was evacuated. There are two. One is called strata. The other one is venue, the white one is strata. There are 200 units there. What she had told me, they werent being allowed back in yet. She was going to get an update from firefighters in about 15 minutes. She said even if they were given the clear, that they would literally have to go through every single Apartment Building to make sure that it was safe before they would let people back in. Now, venue, which is next door, is only at 40 capacity. So what that means is that if some of those Apartment Buildings in strata are not looking good or deemed safe, folks from there will be able to go to venue and stay there until they can get, you know, somewhere else to be relocated or until they can get the apartments back in shape. The crews were just contending with a hot spot that re ignited. Not going anywhere any time soon. There are massive hoses in the street as firefighters continue to pour water on the building from at least five trucks. This was one of the biggest fires that San Francisco has seen in years, according to the fire chief. It was compared to a volcano. Parts of 4th street near china basin have collapsed. Theres a safety issue. Phillip lumber did not have a fire sprinkler alarm in. All allowed the fire to build and spread. The people who live next door in the nearly 200unit Apartment Building were evacuated when the fire broke out yesterday at 5 00. Well, the whole structure is gone now. There was a fird floor all the way third floor all the way down when i first got here. Its all gone. The Main Objective contain the fire to the building itself. Very challenging. There was no Fire Protection since it is under construction. We were able to put up a water curtain. Reporter at some point, arson and perhaps atf will be out here because of the size of this fire to investigate what started it. 150 firefighters tackled flames at one point. That one firefighter you heard received first and Second Degree burns. People are waiting to hear when they can get back in the building. That may take time. Most spent the night at hotels or family and friends. I will keep you posted on what officials have to say. Were live in San Francisco, im Tara Moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. All right. Thank you. This video was shot by a woman who lives right across the street from the fire. She was home in her 7th floor apartment when the fire broke out. You can see those flames right there. Those flames almost seen leaping into the screen. Viewers have been spending us pictures of the smoke. A man took this picture around 7 00 last night from a plane. There was a picture taken by another viewer as he crossed the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday. You can see that right there as well. You can see most of those pictures in our slide show online. Weve posted a time lapse. Its all on the front page at ktvu. Com. An important meeting will be held today for parents at an Oakland Elementary School following a Sexual Assault on campus last week. Ktvus alex savidge is live to explain how this case could be connected to another assault at a neighboring school. Good morning, alex. Reporter good morning to you, tori. Two girls groped at two neighboring schools here in oakland in this particular neighborhood and the the latest Sexual Assault was just last week. It was here at the World Academy in oakland where we are this morning. It was a girl who was assaulted by a man who snuck onto campus. In response administrators have taken steps to improve security here at the school. Later today, there will be a meeting for parents to find out more about the security changes. It was last friday when Oakland Police rushed to this school on 28th avenue near international boulevard after a strange man came onto campus and inappropriately touched a 7 yearold girl. That man managed to get away before officers could get here. Now police are saying they believe the man involved in last weeks assault could be the same person who attacked a 6yearold girl at the think college now Elementary School, a few blocks away. That crime happened back in january inside a gym bathroom. He walked on, he identified himself to the students as somebody who tutored. He asked one of the girls to sit on his lap. She did. She felt uncomfortable and ran off. Reporter heres a description of the man Oakland Police are now searching for who could be responsible for both of these Sexual Assaults at two different schools hes described as a white man, about6 feet tall, 180 to 200 pounds. He has black hair and a mustache. Its possible Oakland Police may be releasing a sketch of this monsoon. Well let you monsoon. Well let you know. There will be a meeting at 5 00 inside the cafeteria here on campus today. Alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. All right. Thank you for the update. Coming up a San Jose Police officer arrested and accused of rape. What fellow officers are telling ktvu about the impact the scandal is having on morale. The heat is turning up on malaysian authorities for the search for a missing jetliner. The reason the countries helping in the investigation are now pulling out. If you are driving in san jose, northbound 280 is beginning to slow down a little bit here at the 880 interchange as you can see getting into cupertino. Well give you more about the south bay and the east bay coming up. Wind advisory is out and for good reason. Most locations have a good breeze. Gusts to 40 plus in parts of San Francisco. Well see how the wind advisory pans out and how the impact is on temperatures. Get your taste of the season, at raleys, bel air, and nob hill. [ ] confusion continues this morning over exactly where the Malaysia Airlines jet was when it disappeared with 239 people on board. The flight took off from kuala lumpur Early Saturday Morning heading north to beijing. But there are conflicting reports from the malaysian military that the flight may have veered off course and suddenly headed southwest making the investigation more difficult. The planes transponders used to track the flight were turned off. You have to have a very deliberative process to turn the transponder off. If someone did that in the cockpit, they were doing it to disguise the route of the plane. Vietnam today announced it is suspending the search and rescue activities until malaysian authorities can clarify what they know about the last known location of the flight. At a News Conference this morning, malaysian authorities said they are asking u. S. Experts at the ntsb and the faa for help in the investigation. A new safeway supermarket is already under construction in oaklands rockridge neighborhood. Safeway is building a new store on College Avenue replacing the one it tore down but the news of the 9 billion merger with albertsons has many asking whats going to happen to this new grocery store. One neighborhood activist is confident it will be exactly what the community specified. This project is so far underway that you have to be crazy to do anything other than let it go to completion. They have contracts. They are already underway. It would simply be too costly to stop at this point. Safeway issued the following statement we are continuing with our new store and remodel plans. We have not suspended remodel or expansion projects. People in vallejo could hear gunshots and see smoke rising from six flags discovery kingdom. Its part of a s. W. A. T. Training exercise by vallejo police. It begins in 45 minutes. S. W. A. T. Teams from all over Solano County are participating and members of the parks security staff will also be there. Some frightening moments for facebook employees after a threatening phone call led to a lockdown at the menlo park campus. Police swarmed facebooks campus around 7 00 last night. San Francisco Police received the initial phone call and then passed the information along to the Menlo Park Police department. Officers searched the campus but did not find anything suspicious. Employees were able to leave after an hour. Police could not provide specific details about the nature of the threat. The mother of a 23yearold novato man who drowned after running from police has filed a lawsuit against the ross police department. Anthony donaldson junior ran from police after he was stopped on suspicion of drunk driving back on december 24ths of 201. He jumped into the corte madera creek. His body was found three weeks later floating in the vehicle. The Coroners Office determined his blood alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit for driving. Now, in the lawsuit, his father says the officers negligently permitted her son to leave the scene of the dui testing and created a dangerous situation that led to his death. Want to check in with sal. On the Richmond Bridge approach, were still looking pretty good. We have a camera there at the toll plaza. This, as you know, sometimes fetes crowded. This morning its not all that bad. You can see theres the watchful eye of chp there waiting for you. Westbound traffic does look pretty good. On the span, not a bad drive into marin county. Lets go to the bay bridge which is slightly different. 35minute drive into San Francisco. A lot of that time is waiting at the toll plaza. Although it seems better than yesterday when some of the traffic was not moving quite so well but the better part of an hour for the entire trip. If you are looking at San Francisco northbound 101 that traffic looks good. As you look at the maps for our area here, 580 is still slow off the altamont pass. That crash has been pulled to the crash. 238 at 880 still slow after an earlier crash. 7 19. Lets go to steve. All right, sal. Thank you. Excuse me. Pretty good breeze for some. Not for all. Patrick redwood shores. I think were in the harbor. My friends beat is in there. Dirk, your boat is in there. 37 degrees redwood shores. San case carlos, no wind. San bruno, sfo, 40 plus. Its kind of a blanket coverage on wind advisories. Some areas in San Francisco, 40 to 45 Miles Per Hour. Other areas no breeze at all. Some of the Higher Elevations have been gusting about 50 plus Miles Per Hour. 76 our forecast high in oakland today. Definitely no doubt about it offshore breeze. Crystal clear, not a cloud in the sky unless you are down south. 40s, 50s to near 60. Some of the breeze san jose had a pretty good breeze. Today not that bad which has allowed the temperatures to dip to 51. Other areas are close to 60. Santa rosa being one. Thats because they have a northeast breeze. 17 Miles Per Hour north at napa. North at fairfield. Northeast novato. 21 oakland. Concord due east. I know out towards brentwood and antioch, pittsburg had reports of wind. Crockett, american canyon, theres sfos 31. Yet san jose, has a south at 3. For some very windy. For others not that baddal at all. Very quiet on the west coast. There is a big system going through the great lakes, the northeast and the south. There will be Severe Weather ahead of that. Wrapping around the great lakes, more snow. You can see the big difference in the temperatures. I think they had 70 in denver a couple of days ago. Now they have no. 36 in reno. 39 in ukiah. The breeze has tailed off. Thats allowed the temperature to cool off. For us, High Pressure is not going anywhere any time soon. It will be here for a while. Maybe changes next week. Well see. The low sets up to the south. High pressure to the north. Sunny, warm. Breezy of the wind will be tailing off throughout the day. There will be gusts, 40, 50 Higher Elevations. Tomorrow looks a little bit less on the breeze department. 60s, 70s to low 80s. Novato is in there, santa rosa. As long as the breeze holds. Gilroy, a lot of 70s in between. Temperatures way above average here. Well see a decrease in the breeze over thursday and then the lows will cool down. The air mass is very, very dry. The pollen count is through the roof. So there is a double whampy for some. Warm again on the weekend. Thank you. 7 22. Coming up, hacking accusations against the cia. The war of words between california senator Dianne Feinstein and the director of the cia. And regular folks shooting guns alongside police officers. The reason this exercise could make one east Bay Department even stronger. Hey, i remember you. Ttle debbie . You should. Im you. Except i always had a nutty bar with my lunch. Ooooh. Little debbie nutty bars. So delicious. You know theyve got them down the street. Your love for little debbie is something you never outgrow. Dont you have a meeting or something . Yes. Yes, i do. 7 24. State lawmakers had an upclose encounter with a driverless car in sacramento. One of googles cars pulled right up to the capitol. The department of Motor Vehicles is asking the public for ideas that will help regulate the selfdriving cars. That includes how to handle Car Insurance for these vehicles. The state Legislature Must have rules in place by the end of the year. Almost two dozen people in alameda are learning what it is like to be a police officer. Its a lot harder than it looks. They signed up for the class of alameda citizens academy. So far, recruits have visited the dispatch center where 911 calls come in. They met a k9 unit and to the a chance to got a chance to fire a gun. I thought it would be fun to go to the shooting range, just see what i could do. Many citizens, Academy Graduates go on to volunteer with the police department. This years class is scheduled to graduate in about 11 weeks. Former miami player Jonathan Martin is joining the San Francisco 49ers. He left the dolphins last year after saying he was bullied by Richie Incognito. Stanford recruited martin when jim harbaugh was the schools coach. Harbaugh is now the 49ers coach. The raiders signed Darren Mcfadden to a oneyear contract. And ronald a to fiveyear to a fiveyear contract. Lamarr houston and Jared Veldheer and rashad jennings, they are leaving. A San Jose Police officer arrested accused of rape, how fellow officers are reacting. Good morning. Right now, were still looking at drive times that are increasing around the bay as we look at the san mateo bridge. This drive time is okay. You can see its windy by looking at the white caps on the way. Well run it down for you straight ahead. Some areas in on the bridge. Others are not. Temperatures will start to warm up here. In fact, we could see some near 80 degrees. Well have those coming up. [son] she has no idea. [man] no one told her,right . [son]hi [mom screams] safeway presents real big deals of the week. Or how to find big savings on the things you need. Just make a Straight Line to safeway. Your club card gets you deals you cant find anywhere else. Right now, fresh driscolls strawberries are just 1. 99. Make it an extra scoop. Breyers ice cream is only 2. 88. And arrowhead water is just 3. 29 a case. Real big deals this week and every week. Only at safeway. Ingredients for life. Good morning. Take a look at this. Another live look at firefighters at the scene of that huge Apartment Building fire in San Franciscos Mission bay district. You can see theres still water pouring in from every direction. They are dousing the structure and putting out some hot spots. We saw a few flames an hour ago. This is still an active scene here. We just heard from a division chief that its not clear when People Living in buildings nearby will be allowed to return. Ktvus Tara Moriarty still on the scene and shell have more on why this fire was especially difficult to get under control. Good morning, im tori campbell. Im brian flores in for dave clark. Lets get a quick look at weather and traffic. Steve paulson and this wind. For some. Yeah. Wind advisory for another half hour or so. It looks like things are tailing off. It will be clear, sunny, nice, warm. Some areas could get 25, 35, maybe gusts over 40. Its still going to be this Beautiful Day on the coast and for much of the day. 72 in San Francisco today. Had gusts to 42 miles an hour in San Francisco. Two reports of that and also one to 45 on the Golden Gate Bridge. Clear skies. Cant find a cloud. A little bit cooler for some. Santa rosa, 60. Is san jose is a 1. Fairfield, 49 is 51. Fairfield, 49. What could be 49 theres a pretty good breeze across the board. Windy and warm here. Decreasing. Breezy for a lot. A lot of 70s. Clear skies, sunshine. Temperatures, 70s to near 80 degrees. Heres sal. We do have a lot of slow traffic out there. We want to start off with the slowest traffic and that would be the bay bridge toll plaza it is backed up for at least im sore rethe eastshore freeway leading to the toll plaza. When you get to the toll plaza, its backed up. I want to look at the east shore here. Steve was talking about the wind. Its not windy everywhere. Its windy in enough places ive received tweets about it saying its windy out there. At least some of you who have tweeted me are experiencing the wind. Its backed up for a 45, 50 minute drive here. Total time getting into San Francisco. This is 580 coming over the altamont pass. You can see the road sensors are showing a lot of slow traffic. We want to look at the south bay. 85 backed up from 87 all the way to saratoga. 280 is backed up through 17. We wont get a break in the south bay today. These are some. Traffic times. 37 minutes grant line to 680 on 580. Were also looking at highway 680, 242 to 24, under 15 minutes. Not all that bad out there. 101 northbound 280 to vermont, only about four minutes and Public Transit is on time. Lets go back to the desk. All right. Thank you, sal. New this morning San Francisco firefighters are just wrapped up a News Conference on that huge fire that started more than 14 hours ago near at t park. Newschopper2 was over the scene just moments after the fire broke out just before 5 00 yesterday afternoon. The fastmoving flames gutted a large Apartment Building under construction on Fourth Street near china basin street. Just a short time ago, deputy fire chief Mark Gonzales said crews are still pouring water on the flames and watching out for hot spots. This is considered a fire watch and putting out the hot spots. Like i said, theres a lot of parts of the building that are big. Were just trying to keep it confined to that inner area and whatever we can see. One firefighter suffered first and seconddegree burns, battling the big flames but has been released from the hospital. Investigators will be on the scene all day watching the hot spots and also still looking for the cause. Ktvus Tara Moriarty will have more from the fire scene at the top of the hour. An ember from the massive fire sparked another fire one block away yesterday and that small fire broke out on a terrace rooftop at ucsf smiths Cardiovascular Research building at mission bay and 4th street. Firefighters were able to put it out within minutes before the flames could spread. Our coverage. Massive fire continues online. We have a viewer time lapse video as well as pictures. Its on the front page of ktvu. Com. Shocking allegations of a San Jose Police officers arrest have rocked the department. He stands accused of raping a woman he was supposed to be protecting. Janine de la vega joins us live from san jose with the effect this is having on other officers and how pem perceive police. Good morning, janine. Reporter good morning, tori. Ive spoken with several women about the officers arrest this morning. They tell me that it does make them a little more hesitant to trust police. But for the most part, they say they would still call an officer for help and they feel its an isolated incident. 38yearold jeff graves posted 100,000 bail to get out of jail. The sixyear veteran faces one count of forcible rape. In court documents, it shows that graves responded to a call where a husband and a wife were arguing, the woman, a former hotel maid, decided to spend the night at that hotel and graves took her there where she went to sleep in her room. But the criminal complaint says that 15 minutes later, graves knocked on her door, entered the room and pushed her onto the bed. It then says he raped her. People we spoke to say if thats true, its a sad abuse of power. It would be really horrible he was doing it on the clock and on the job. You are in uniform and you are supposed to be protecting us and if you are going and doing Something Like this any time is bad, but especially when you are supposed to be working and protecting and then abusing that power to potentially go and rape someone, totally horrible. Reporter sources tell ktvu some of the physical evidence in the case was found on graves bulletproof vest which he was wearing during the alleged rape. This is the first major scandal the police chief has had to deal with. Its a blow to the department. Officers have been fighting for better wages and benefits. That and low morale has led to many retiring and going to work for other cities. Graves is on paid leave. He appears in court to face this charge later this month. Reporting live in san jose, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. Police are now confirming troubling details about the richmond schoolteacher accused of child sex abuse. Police arrested Ronald Guinto last week while teaching his students at mira vista school. Authorities confirm three former students vandal investigators he sexually assaulted them in 2012 and 2013. Guinto founded camp epic in 2013. He was fired from the school in november. In january, he was hired by mira vista. Guinto pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual abuse and kidnapping following his arrest last week. Police are urging anyone else who believes they were a victim to come forward. 7 37. A 10,000 reward is being offered to help find a driver who hit a mother. The woman was killed. Her husband and another man were injured. Police say the driver may have been drag racing and ran a red light before the crash. 7 38. San Francisco Police are warning drivers to slow down after several accidents involving people walking and cyclists. Police say daylights savings time could be a factor with the later sunrise impacting the vision of drivers. There were four separate accidents in a 24hour period at the start of the week. A plan in a crosswalk was hit yesterday morning in the financial district. A driver also struck a 5year old boy and his babysitter monday night at 37th avenue and fulton street. All of the people who were hit on monday and tuesday are expected to survive. Five people, though, have been killed this year in San Francisco while crossing streets. Three of those accidents were on van ness avenue. The chp is asking anyone who witnessed a rollover crash on interstate 880 come forward of the it happened around 11 20 yesterday morning near the davis street exit in san leandro. The chp says the driver of an suv was trying to avoid a silver car that had cut him off when he lost control and hit a guardrail. The suv flipped and the driver suffered major injuries. The chp says the driver of the silver car did not stop and they are trying to now locate that driver. A special joint task force is investigating new leads in the 1976 killings of five bay area women. Police say the case is being reopened because dna from an unknown male found on a 1976 murder suspect from reno matches dna on the bay area victims. Over a fourmonth period, five women were stabbed and raped. Their bodies were found in south San Francisco, daly city and millbrae. And two in pacifica. Were gonna hit the neighborhoods where the young girls grew up, see if there are still neighbors there at the time, areas where the bodies were found. Investigators are asking anyone with information about the case to call the San Francisco branch of the fbi. They also plan to contact Old Neighborhood friends of the victims. Well, there is a heated debate over rent control in oakland. Dozens of people wanted their opinions to be heard at the meeting last night. Landlords say they need to raise rents to continue to upgrade their properties and meet safety standards. But renters say Property Owners are using a loophole in the law to boost prices out of reach for lowincome tenants. Let us freeze things the way they are while you reresolve it as you often do with other issues. The committee decided not to make any decision, instead it passed the entire issue to the full city council. The council will hear more of the debate next tuesday night. Well, muni is moving ahead with plans to buy 60 new electronic trolley buses. This is the wrong video. But muni says these vehicles will replace buses more than 20 years old and cause 40 of systemwide delays. The first new buses could hit the road next year. Muni plans to replace more than 300 buses over the next several years. Happening now a Live Press Conference on that at building fire in San Francisco. Fire officials and mayor ed lee are there. Lets listen in. The footage that i watched intensely, in fact, i was able to text the chief during the fire as i saw some embers jump literally a block away over to ucsf structure on top where there was some landscaping and testing here in an effort to perhaps stop another fire literally a block away. She got it. She responded. Building maintenance crews got up there within minutes and stopped that as well. I think that was critical because this fire could have jumped across to this development that were in front of, which is a development by some very Reputable Developers for mercy housing. I know them very well because they are helping me with the Housing Units we need to build. The actual fire happened with the developer called bre. The contractor is suffolk. I know them well because their new boss had known to me in my dpw days. Im sorry the fire occurred there. It appears the fire started above ground. They were doing some welding. We dont know what occurred there. I will be very patient to wait until the investigation is concluded in detail by the Fire Department and by the contractors themselves. It is somewhat of about 180 units that most most of which was destroyed in this fire and they are gonna have to make somes sesments some assessments. I think were very lucky that the fire didnt jump anymore. Im down here today, my primary concern, for the actual residents that were affected across the street. We have some 30 units that had to be evacuated, both for the residents and for their animal friends. I am thankful to human services, to the red cross, to animal care control, to our apartment association, part of our Good Samaritan program and to some hotels in and around the city that would have taken on a responsibility to help with these residents who suddenly found themselves not being able to occupy their units. About 30 units on literally the frontage across this fire had their windows broken out. In fact, the building across i dont know the exact address but not only were the units vacated, many of the windows were cracked open and this morning, the emergency fire sprinklers are still on and therefore the water is still coming out of those units and they were not occupiable and i my biggest concern was those residents had to be taken care of. So focused on that, well continue to make sure our departments and their agencies are helping these residents out as much as we can. Well go through the roster of individuals to make sure they are taken care of. The other part of this was that this is the part of mission bay. When i was the director, we focused on the infrastructure knowing we wanted to invite residents and businesses and uc medical Research Facilities to come down here. Part of that infrastructure was the High Pressure water system that we made sure had to be built here so that we could support the residents and the businesses and the Research Campus that we wanted to have. Simply, the structure that we built worked. And i confirmed with all of the Fire Department heads that but for that High Pressure water system this fire would have been perhaps very hard to contain and that water pressure allowed for so many of the 150 firefighters to have the apparatus. To have the system work in their favor to contain this as fast as it did. We are and i have to say this were continuing to improve that auxiliary High Pressure water system even as we look to the month of june for the bond that we have in front of the voters. And i will say that infrastructure is important because it worked in this case along with the Quick Response from the firefighters themselves and the attention that it gave. Clearly the big concern was that if this fire and with the heat, if the building and the structure collapsed externally away from the center, we would have had a tough time. If the winds blew in a different way, we would would be seeing more than one of those embers hit other buildings. If the water pressure wasnt there. We could see the worse fear, which was that the fire would jump, perhaps over to this particular building were in front of which is hundred of units being developed by mercy housing. All of this, i think were fortunate. We did not have any of the apparatus up with the development, the bre development, because they were installing the fire sprinkler as the fire occurred. I think were very fortunate. We want to Pay Attention to the residents impacted. Thats my concern for them, for their animals as well and to make sure that we can get them back quickly and to work with their Property Owners. A lot is still being worked on as you can see, there are still burning embers and so were gonna continue to make sure that this fire is suppressed and in control. Want to thank the chief for her personal attention. All of the firefighters deserve a little break because theyve been doing this on a 24 7 basis and i want to say my gratitude to them as we take care of the residents down here. With that, i want to say the chief, i want to make a presentation about the details then we can answer questions. Good morning. Thanks for being out here. I would like to acknowledge the mayor. He has great instincts. Hes absolutely right. He did text me last night. We had a battle going on here. , with tis his a with his attention to detail, he told me about the burning ember. I want to say a personal thank you to mayor lee. He might have a career in firefighting some day. So thank you. Also the men and women of the San Francisco police department, it was a phenomenal display of team work last night. We had a lot going on. We got this call last night around 5 00 p. M. It looked tok manageable but was declared to be a working fire. Because it was a construction site. Had unique challenges, no Fire Protection systems in the building. A lot of fuels to the fire, wood frame and so it got going very rapidly. It went to a second, third, floor and then eventually a fifthalarm fire. We had about half of our firefighters on duty battling this fire. Were still here. Weve not put the fire under control but our objective was to obtain the fire to the building of origin. Theres a lot of other properties around. Were very fortunate that it wasnt as windy last night as were experiencing this morning. It that might have made a difference. It was the aggressive action last night that was able to contain the fire to the building of origin. Crews did a phenomenal job. Were convinced that although people are inconvenienced and displaced, were really grateful theres no major injury or loss of life. We had a firefighter that early on when he was up on the ladder did sustain burns to his face. I saw him continuing to batting the fire. It wasnt until later that he indicated that he had some minor injuries. He was treated and released. Hes gonna be fine. And then during the night because weve been here all night, we have a fire watch. Not just watching the fire but actively applying water into the structure. We did have a battalion chief who sustained minor injury. She was transported and treated and released with an ankle injury. Youve been listening live to joanne hayeswhite, also mayor lee giving us an update on the situation on this massive fire that started almost 15 hours, just before 5 00 yesterday evening. Mayor lee did say some new information, the fire did start above ground and there was some welding in the area at that time, though at this point thats not the official cause. But something they will be keeping an eye on. 180 units destroyed. They believe there was 360 being built. The Apartment Building was supposed to open in june possibly and they both emphasized how lucky everyone is that this fire did not spread. The fire chief said it was an aggressive attack that was able to contain it to the building of origin. The mayor talking about this High Pressure water system which he credits for the fire not spreading. A couple of things to note, this was a fifthalarm fire, the fire chief and the mayor talked about the lee sources used to resources used to fight the fire. Luckily, there were no more fires around the city. There was concern about the other People Living nearby. Theres about 30 units right across that are unlivable. We want to head to sal castanedo. Theres traffic implications. Theres parts of the city just around the building area where its still an active fire scene. Muni has told us that the third street line is running as normal. Thats a good thing for muni. But its a good area to avoid because many streets are still closed. Lets go and take a look at the approach to the bay bridge. 30 to 45minute delay at the toll plaza unless you are using carpool lane. Also looking at the san mateo bridge. That traffic is improved a little bit. Theres a little bit of a slowdown when you get to the peninsula. Highway 4 still very slow unfortunately. And so is highway 80 as you drive out towards the richmond area from hercules and pinole. Heres steve. Hold on there, sal. Beautiful day yesterday. Yes, it was. It was a forejis day gorgeous day. Yes. Some areas hardly any around san jose. Had very few reports of breeze. Yesterday was up there. One of the leaders of the pack. Windy conditions. Things are calming down it looks like a little bit. It will be another Beautiful Day around here. Wind advisory for another eight minutes or so. 25, 35. There were gusts of 42 in San Francisco. 45 on the Golden Gate Bridge. Noe valley had a gust of 49. Thats what i had reported to me. 42 from a couple locations. We could still get gusts in the higher locations. 76 today in downtown oakland for forecasted high. As long as the offshore breeze holds. A few clouds down towards the san joaquin valley. That will do it. 50s, 60s and upper 40s. Santa rosa at 60 degrees. 60 in San Francisco. I did see a 59. North at 25. Fairfield, east at concord, nornlt at napa, northeast santa rosa. Northeast oakland, 21 Miles Per Hour. That will hopefully warm things up. South at san jose. Just a puff of a south. Northeast mountain view, you had san carlos. Redwood shores. Temperatures 40s or very low 50s. 39 ukiah. Its chilly for some. It will be sunny today. It will be mild to warm. High pressure here look for 60s and also 70s. The breeze will probably tail off by late tonight into tomorrow. A lot of 70s here. On the geg bridge, there were gusts to 45. Maybe a few popping up here. 60s, 70s, low 80s. Santa rosa is in there. Gilroy, it will be a great day on the coast. Maybe get that midweek. Decreased wind but warmer again by the weekend. Thank you, steve. Well, Tara Moriarty will have full coverage from the scene of that massive fire in San Francisco that broke out about 15 hours ago. Thats coming up at the top of the hour. Also, a close call with disaster. The woman who said she was supposed to be on the malaysian plane thats now missing. He spent 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. How a louisiana yan inmate finally won his freedom. 7 56. A louisiana inmate has been freed after spending 30 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. A judge dismissed glen fords firstdegree murder conviction after prosecutors said new information came to light that cleared him. Prosecutors have not released the new evidence saying it could affect the search for the for the real killer. 30 years of my life, if not all of it. I cant go back and do anything i should have been doing when i was 35, 38, 40. Stuff like that. My son when i left was a baby. Grown man now. Ford had been on death row since 1984 after being convicted by an allwhite jury in the murder of a shreveport jeweler. Attorneys for ford say his courtappointed lawyer at the time had never tried a murder case and evidence was suppressed during his trial. Coming up in our 8 00 hour, a 7yearold girl assaulted at school. How security is being stepped up at an open school in the wake of that assault. Reporter were live in San Francisco, where a building that caught fire yesterday is now in danger of collapsing. Well tell you what the apartment manager wants folks to know who have been evacuated. S. This is San Franciscos Mission bay neighborhood. Fire crews still dumping water on a charred Apartment Building putting out the hot spots. Weve seen many hot spots during the morning news as well. We understand welding happened around the time of the fire and that it started above ground. Thats the latest information we got from a press conference about five, ten minutes ago. 180 units destroyed. Some apartments across the street had windows blown out as a result of the fire. Tara moriarty will have more on evacuation orders. Good morning. Im brian flores in for dave clark. Im tori campbell. A busy morning. We want to have a quick look at weather and traffic with steve. So the wind advisory, technically over . Thats correct. We do have clear skies. Still some gusts. The gusts in San Francisco, at 42 Miles Per Hour were the strongest since april of last year when they had 44. Things were really ripping around for oakland, San Francisco this morning. 50s on the temperatures or near 60 for some. 59 up in santa rosa and for good reason. They still have a north wind at 14 miles an hour. Some areas have gone calm, calmed down a lot. There will still be an easterly or northeasterly component. Breezy, windy warm. 60s, 70s to near 80 degrees. Heres sal. Good morning. We are looking at the commute in san jose. I want to take a look at northbound 280 right through downtown. Usually when you see slow traffic here, it means the traffic is very slow all over the south bay but today it looks good. I want to show you the map here. We are just showing you 280 in the area thats empty and the traffic is this is the area thats empty that i was showing you here. You can see how the green is. Up the road, we have slow traffic in the valley. If you are driving on 101, it slows from the capitol expressway all the way into sunnyvale. On the peninsula, the traffic is moderately avenue. Sunnyvale traffic obviously at this time is going to be slow getting into the valley. Not only here but also on highway 85. Lets get to some live pictures. Westbound bay bridge, 25, 30 minute drive time into San Francisco with most of that time being at the toll plaza. It takes about ten minutes to get across the bridge. And this morning if you are driving on the east shore or on 24, those freeways dont look all that bad. Lets go back to the desk. Happening now moments ago, in fact, San Franciscos mayor and fire chief wrapped up a News Conference on that huge fire that started more than 15 hours ago near at t park. Newschopper2 was over the scene just moments after the fire broke out just before 5 00 yesterday afternoon. The fastmoving flames gutted a large Apartment Building under construction on Fourth Street. Minutes ago, mayor ed lee says this investigation is still in its very early stages. It appears that the fire started above ground. They were doing some welding. We dont know what occurred there. I will be very patient to wait until the investigation is concluded in detail by our Fire Department and by the contractors themselves. One firefighter who suffered first and seconddegree burns was released from the hospital. We just learned a battalion chief hurt her ankle overnight. Many people in a neighboring Apartment Building are displaced after the fire damaged their apartments. Ktvus Tara Moriarty just talked with the manager of that property with the challenges those people now face. Tara . Reporter well, fire Officials Say that the building behind me is in danger of collapsing. No one is allowed in that building. The cream color building is call st called strata. I spoke to the at building manager. She is supposed to get an update at 10 00 this morning. The wind is blowing strong. Weve noticed some flareups. Unfavorable conditions. This is one of the biggest fires the city has had in recent years. It happened at a building under construction in mission bay at Fourth Street near china basin. A large cloud of black could be seen for miles. People who live nearby in strata which has 200 units had to be evacuated. Some of the wdz at str windows at strata blew out. Theres water damage, smoke damage on the west side of the building. Reporter all right. So those people wont be able to get back inside any time soon . Correct. Reporter it looks like about 30 units received the brunt of the damage. Even if they get the clearance, inspectors will have to go through each apartment to make sure its safe. There was no damage to the sister building next door called venue. They still had to evacuate because of a safety issue. That building is new. Residents are going to be allowed to stay there if strata is not considered safe. We expect an update at 10 00. In mayor lees press conference, he stated that workers were doing welding at the building that caught fire yesterday around 5 00. Now arson and possibly atf will come in and try to figure out exactly if that is the reason behind this fire. Were live in San Francisco, im Tara Moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. That huge fire created a terrifying scene for many People Living dangerously close to the burning building near at t park. They watched the Apartment Building under construction slowly going up. Yesterday, they watched the same building go up in flames. The big fire shattered their wtds set off windows. It didnt seem to be getting under control. Its very scary. You can see right through it. The building destroyed in the fire was called the mb 360 project. The building was set to open in may or june. This video was shot right across the street from the fire by a woman who was home in her 7th floor apartment. Bill was on a plane flying into the Oakland Airport when he took this picture around 7 00 last night. This picture was taken by another viewer as he crossed the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday evening. You can see more of our pictures online. Weve also posted a time lapse video of the fire yesterday. Thats on the front page of ktvu. Com. 8 06. An important meeting will be held today for parents at an Oakland Elementary School following a Sexual Assault on campus last week. Ktvus alex savidge is live with how this case could be connected to another assault at a nearby school. Good morning, alex. Reporter parents out here are nervous. Police say two young girls have been groped by a stranger at neighboring schools. The latest assault was last week. Late last week at the World Academy in oakland and in response to that case, administrators steer have stepped up security, they have put up a sign on the front door that is letting everybody know they need to check in before entering the campus. And admin slatters will be holding a meeting for administrators will be hoe holding a will be holding a meeting. A strange man came onto campus and inappropriately touched a 7 yearold girl. That man managed to get away before officers could get here. Police are saying the man involved in last weeks assault may be the same person who attacked the 6yearold girl at the think college now Elementary School which is just about two blocks away from here. That crime happened back in january inside a gym bathroom. Parents are concerned about two assaults that appear to be connected. Its surprising but its not because the predator is gonna prey wherever they want to prey and if they are not getting what they want here, they are gonna go somewhere else. Reporter and this is a description of the man Oakland Police are now looking for who could be behind these two Sexual Assaults at two schools hes a white man, 6 feet tall, between 180 and 200 pounds. He has black hair and a mustache. Police, were told, are working on a etch ask. Ive reached out to the on a sketch. Ive reached out to the police department. Well let you know if we hear back about the sketch and when it could be released. The parent meeting is here at 5 00 this afternoon in the cafeteria. Administrators will be letting parents know about all of the security changes put in place after last weeks assault on campus. Were live in oakland, alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. Its 8 09. This afternoon the man connected toot shooting of a San Francisco to the shooting of a San Francisco police is due in court. Were hearing the shooting may have been the result of friendly fire. This is Surveillance Video of Jeffrey Ruano being arrested early sunday morning at a san jose gas station. His arrest followed a ninehour manhunt that started when officer adam shaw and his partner pulled ruano over in the mission district. Police say during the traffic stop, ruano started to back up towards the officers. Thats when officer shaws partner fired a shot at the car. That bum has not been recover bullet has not been recovered and police say it may be the one that hit officer shaw and both officers say they did not see a gun. Based on that, it appears that it is possible he may have been struck by friendly fire. Officer shaw was hit in the shoulder. Hes recovering in the hospital. Frightening moments for facebook employees after a threatening phone call led to the lockdown of the menlo park campus. Police swarmed the campus around 7 00 last night. San Francisco Police received the initial phone call and passed the info along to the Menlo Park Police department. Officers searched the campus but didnt find anything suspicious. Employees were able to leave after about an hour. Police could not specific details about the nature of the threat. The mother of a 23yearold novato man who drowned after running from police has filed a lawsuit against the ross police department. Anthony donaldson, junior ran from police after he was stopped on suspicion of drunk driving on december 24th, 2012. He jumped into corte madera creek. His body was found three weeks later floating in the creek. The Coroners Office determined his blood alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit for driving. In her lawsuit, donald sons mother says the officers negligently permitted her son to leave the scene of the dui testing and created a dangerous scene that led to his death. Increasing criticism over the search for a missing jetliner. Why one of the countries involved in the search is pulling out. We have slow traffic. 280 still slow getting into the cupertino area. Sunshine, not a problem. The breeze has been. Well see if that continues and if theres any more advisories. Temperatures will be warming up today. Confusion over exactly where the malaysian jet was when it disappeared with 239 people on board. The flight took off from kuala lumpur Early Saturday Morning leading north to beijing. Yesterday, the malaysian military said radar showed the flight veered off course heading west. But a News Conference in malaysia this morning, there was some doubt about that report leading to this test yit exchange Testy Exchange between a reporter and the ma Malaysian Defense minister. You are searching and you dont seem to know i dont think thats true. This is utter confusion now. I dont think so. I think its far from it. Its only confusion if you want it to be confusion. Vietnam announced today its suspends its search and rescue activities until a Malaysian Authority can clarify what they know about the last known location of the flight. A woman in australian said two years ago she met one of the copilots on the missing flight. She said these photos show her and a friend after the copilot invited them into the cockpit during a flight from thailand to malaysia. Its illegal for u. S. Airlines to allow passengers into the cockpit. But its not always banned on international airlines. 78 15. And a 8 15. A woman in illinois said she escaped a close call because she was supposed to be on the plane thats now missing. Something like this makes you stop and say, okay, you need to be grateful. You need to slow down. You need to appreciate that every time that you separate from your family, you need to make sure they know how much you love them. Its not clear why she decided not to take the flight. But she says she wants people to Pay Attention to the story because its important for friends and family to find out what happened to the 239 people that were on board. Well, its tax season with the april 15th deadline weeks away and the irs is warning the public about a tax scam targeting People Living on the peninsula. Phoney irs agents call people telling them they owe a large amount of money in back taxes. Victims are sold they could be arrested if they dont make a payment use. Irs agentents dont ever ask for private financial information. Vallejo police are leading a s. W. A. T. Training exercise at six flax discovery kingdom. They say people in the area should not be alarmed if they hear gunshots or see smoke coming from the park. The Training Exercise began about 15 minutes ago. S. W. A. T. Teams were all over so lea now county are participating. Police have not said what type of emergency they are practicing. Also happening today, the San Jose Rotary Club is expected to hold a News Conference to announce the return of 4th of july fireworks. The club will help raise donations for the event to celebrate its 100th anniversary. San jose has canceled its Fireworks Show since 2009 due to budget cuts. We want to check in with sal to see whats happening on the roads. It will be slow out there, as a matter of fact. We still have improving conditions at highway 4 but you look at this picture, you know, it doesnt look too improved to me. Whats happened, the commute has shifted over to the baypoint area out of pittsburg and antioch. The drive time is the same but its just a little bit farther west approaching 680. We also want to show you that the bay bridge toll plaza is backed up for about a 25 to 30 minute delay. Its still better than it was yesterday. But it doesnt look that much better does . 85 is the slowest freeway as we look at the freeway here. If you are trying to make a choice, 280 is still pretty good. 85 is slow from 87 up to saratoga and 101 is slow all the way into sunnyvale. Were still grinding this week. 8 18. Lets go to steve. Thank you, sir. Clear skies. Breezy. It looks like its tailing off for most. Theres still reports of a wind tunnel. I believe that. Oakland berkeley hills. 58 to start. 76 will be the high temp today. Temperatures warming up. Breezy conditions. The advisory ended at 8 00. Clear here. 50s to near 60s. Half moon bay, San Francisco, 59, 60. San jose, 51 for the wind. Gone. Pretty good breeze for many. Fairfield still a north wind. Northeast napa. A little bit of a northwest novato. North at 21 oakland. A little more easterly. They had that for a while. Sfo did have gusts to 40. Very windy around san bruno. Another big system moving to the great lakes and the northeast. You have snow on the back side. Blizzard warnings are out to the north. Update new york. Thats a line of Severe Weather forming there. Very active pattern possibility of travel delays if you are heading there. Surge of cold air coming up from the deep south. 31 in tahoe. 37 in reno. 39 in ukiah. Willits around 30 degrees. If you lose the air breeze, the air mass is dry. Temperatures will drop like a rock. That might happen tonight for us theres hardly any humidity. Its really, really dry with this wind. This low is on its way to southern california. Sunny, warm, breezy to windy. It looks like thats tailing off. A lot of 70s. Clear skies. Temperatures on their way up. 60s to mid to upper 70s to near 80 degrees. Novato, santa rosa, 81. 77 brentwood, oakley, fairfield, also towards morgan hill, gilroy. Redwood city, 76. Mountain view, 74. The breezy will tail off. Might be a little bit on thursday. Friday the lows will be cold. Even warmer it looks like on saturday. 80 degrees havent said that for a long time. Coming up, president obama pushes for more overtime pay for workers but not all workers. The new plan that would put more money in the pockets of some bosses. A Police Academy for ordinary citizens. What the new recruits are learning that could help alameda police. Get your taste of the season, at raleys, bel air, and nob hill. Told ya you could do it. dad vo i want her to be safe. So, i taught her what i could and got her a subaru. girl piece of cake. announcer love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Welcome back to mornings on 2. You will want to Pay Attention to this. Californias drought will soon start to affect the prices you pay at the grocery store. Economists predict well be paying 5 to 10 every time we go to the supermarket before the end of the year. Thats because farmers are planting fewer crops because of the water shortage and less foods means prices will be going up. New this morning, Oakland Police are asking for the publics help finding two suspects accused of following a victim off a bus and then robbing him at gunpoint. The first suspect is african american, about 16, 17 years old. 511 and weighs 145 pound. They have released this picture, 16, 17 years old, white, 62, weighs 125 pounds. Anyone with information is asked to call police. Almost two dozen people in alameda are learning what it is like to be a police officer. Its a lot harder than it looks. They signed up for the 28th class of alamedas citizens academy. So far, recruits have visited the dispatch center where 911 calls come in, met a k9 unit and even had a chance to fire a gun. I just thought it would be kind of fun to go to the shooting range and just see what i could do. Meam Academy Graduates go on to volunteer with the police department. This years class is scheduled to graduate in 11 weeks. 8 24. And former stanford player Jonathan Martin coming home to the bay area. You will recall martin is the player who accused Miami Dolphins teammate Richie Incognito of bullying him. Now the dolphins have traded him for a draft pick. He was recruited by jim harbaugh by stan fard, who is now the head coach of the 9ers. The raiders, keeping one of their own. Darren mcfadden has a new one year deal worth about 4 million. He has missed 19 of the last 41 games because of injuries. Happening today a groundbreaking ceremony will be hold on renovations to the bayview operahouse in San Francisco. Nancy pelosi and San Francisco mayor ed lee are expected to attend. Work over the next year will improve landscaping, design and even provide handicapped access. The ceremony is scheduled to get underway at 9 30 this morning. Well, coming up, firefighters still on the scene of that massive fire at an Apartment Building in San Francisco. San franciscos fire chief even smoke about it at a News Conference that just wrapped up moments ago. The factors she says is making it difficult to bring the fire under control this morning. A San Jose Police officers arrest is a blow to the department which is already suffering from a low moral. Well tell you what police morale. Clear skies but rather windy for some. Not for all. Been gusts to 42 miles an hour in San Francisco. Well see how this takes temperatures up into the 70s. Good morning. Welcome back to mornings on 2. These are live pictures from San Francisco where the firefight on a massive apartment complex is entering its 16th hour. Crews still spriing the structure with spraying the structure with water as small hot spots continue to burn this morning. Mayor ed lee and Joanne Hayes White just wrapped up a press conference in the last 20 minutes. Why they are saying the area is still not safe coming up. Im brian flores. Lets get your day started with weather and traffic. And steve, theres sunshine. Thats correct. We have a lot of sunshine. Any clouds, down to the sanwa kiel valley. Not affecting us. Wind vig end end at 8 00 this morning wind advisory ended at 8 00 this morning. 72 beautiful degrees. 50s on the temps. Had a couple of upert 40s. 30s upper 40s. 30s to the north. The breeze is out of the north and northeast for some. There will be upper 70s and low very low 80s. It looks like this is tailing off a little bit. A lot of 70s, clear skies. 60s, 70s, santa rosa 81. A lot of the traffic some of the traffic in areas has improved because its shifted to other spots. Lets take a look at the san mateo bridge which seems to be slowing down now heading out to the high rise. It continues to slow all the way over to the peninsula. The bay bridge has not improved. Its backed umed for a 30, 45 minute delay up for a 30, 45 minute delay. At the bay bridge toll plaza, it looks okay. But just up the road at the Richmond San Rafael there is a backup. As you approach 238 theres more slow traffic at the Castro Valley y. Back to the desk. We have new information on the fire weve been following since just about 5 00 yesterday afternoon. The flames gutted a large Apartment Building under construction on Fourth Street near at t park. San francisco firefighters are now calling it the citys biggest fire in years. The fire crews spent all night watching for hot spots at the scene near at t park. Crews are still pouring water on the fire. Weve been showing you this all morning long. Just a short time ago, we actually heard from fire chief joe an hayeswhite. The fire is not jet under control. The winds are exasperating the situation a little bit. Well be out here as long as it takes to get the fire under droel control. When the time is right and when we can put it under control, well have heavy equipment come out and begin to dismantle the structure behind us so its safe. One firefighter who suffered first and seconddegree burns battling the flames was released from the hospital last night. We just learned that another battalion chief hurt her ankle fighting the fire overnight. Tara moriarty will have more about how the fire is impacting people who live in a neighboring apartment complex. Our coverage of the massive fire continues online. We have a viewer time lapse video as well as plenty of pictures as well. Its all on the front page of ktvu. Com. 8 32. The San Jose Police department is still reeling over news that one of its own officers has been arrested for rape. Janine de la vega joins us live. Shes been talking with fellow officers who say its disturbing because they want the public to know what they can be trusted. Reporter this is really a black eye for the department where morale is already low. Yif been speaking with officers and they say if this is true they cant believe what a bad judgment call officer jeff graves made. People ive been speaking to this morning say what particularly bothers them is this alleged incident happened while he was on duty. 38yearold jeff graves has been with the department for six years and worked the overnight patrol shift. Hes bailed out of jail. In court documents, it shows that graves responded to a call where a husband and wife were arguing. The woman, who is a former hotel maid, decided to spend the night at that hotel and graves took her there in his patrol car. When she was there. She checked into a room, fell asleep but the criminal complaint says 15 minutes later, graves knocked on her door entered the room and pushed her on the bed. It then says he raped her. This morning, we asked people if this made him question his trust in officers. I have a lot of friends who are police officers. I trust them. But it will make me question them. If its true, it will be horrible, basically. Its you know, when you are in trouble, you call who do you call . You call police. You dont expect to be treated like that. Reporter sources tell ktvu some of the physical evidence in the case was found on graves bulletproof vest which he was wearg during the wearing during the alleged incident. This is the first scandal the chief has had to deal with since hes been the chief. He did not comment on camera. Instead a Department Spokesperson did. Many will be catching this case. Graves is on paid leave. He will appear in court on march 24th to face this charge. Reporting live from san jose, janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. The balboa b. A. R. T. Station in San Francisco is back open after a deadly incident on the tracks. Police shut down the station for more than two hours during last nights commute after a man reportedly jumped in front of a b. A. R. T. Train. B. A. R. T. Began single tracking trains shortly after the incident was first reported about 4 30 p. M. That led to long delays for thousands of b. A. R. T. Riders during the peak of the evening commute. The chp is asking anyone who witnessed a rollover crash on interstate 880 to come forward. It happened around 11 30 near the davis street exit in san leandro. The driver of an suv was trying to avoid a silver car that cut him off when he lost control and hit a guardrail. The suv flipped and the driver suffered major injuries. The chp says the driver of the silver car did not stop and they are trying to locate that driver this morning. San Francisco Police are warning drivers to slow down hafer several accidents after several accidents involving people walking and cyclists. The police say daylight savings time could be a factor with the later sunrise or sunset impacting driver vision. A man in a crosswalk was hit yesterday morning in the financial district. A driver also struck a 5year old boy and his babysitter monday evening at 37th avenue and fulton street. All of the people who were hit on monday and tuesday are expected to survive. Five people have been killed this year in San Francisco while crossing streets. Three of those accidents were on van ness avenue. Thieves have been targeting empty Vacation Rental homes in Sonoma County. The Sonoma County Sheriffs Office says its tracked 52 Vacation Home burglaries since september. The largest number of burglaries have happened in guerneville, bodega day and forest bill, cazadero. Flat screen tvs, electronics and furniture have been taken. The Sheriffs Office is asking people to report suspicious activity near Vacation Homes. Knew ammunition is being tested out designed to help police during hostage situations. Right now when they fire through glass to hit a suspect, fragments are injuring nearby hostages. The am knew initial prevents that an munition prevents ammunition prevents that. The testing is currently being done in ohio. San Francisco State will reopen part of its Science Building next month after removing lead, asbestos and mercury. The hazardous chemicals were found during a routine environmental check of the building which is over 50 years old. Office and Research Labs will open first. There is no estimate on when classrooms will reopen. After a broken water main yesterday. Were now hearing it will take 17 years to replace old and vulnerable pipes in San Francisco. Yesterdays break happened at waller. We brought you that coverage here on ktvu. The pipe was 130 years old. Just the latest to break. One of the problems they say is a lack of state and federal funding. It was called a showdown over rent control at Oakland City Hall but it ended in a draw. The meeting of the community and Economic Development committee was packed. More than 30 speakers lined up to give their viewpoints on proposed changes to the rent control law. Tenants say that landlords use a loophole to make improvements and raise rents. Let us freeze things the way they are while you resolve it rather than leaving it open for more and more rent increases and more displacements while we talk about this endlessly. 8 38. Police are now confirming troubling details about the richmond schoolteacher accused of child sex abuse. Police arrested Ronald Guinto last week while teaching his new students at mira vista Elementary School. Authorities now confirm three former students told investigators guinto molested them during camping trips in 2012 and 2013. Guinto founded his own youth group in 2010 while working as a teachers aide at making Waves Academy school. He was fired from that school in noefern and in january, he was hired by mira vista. He pleaded not guilty to charges of sex abus sex abuse. The San Francisco mint is making new kins of coins dash new kinds of coins. The coins have a baseball on one side with a baseball glove on the back and they also curve. They are designed to attract attention from coin collectors. They hope the unusual shape which will bring people back to the hobby which has been lagging. The coin collecting part of it is the one were struggling a little bit with. The coins go on sale on march 27th. They come in halfdollar, one dollar and fivedollar denominations. A louisiana inmate has been freed after thenning 30 years on death spending 30 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. A judge dismissed his first degree murder conviction after prosecutors said new information came to light that cleared him. Prosecutors have not released the new evidence saying it could affect the search for the real killer. 30 years. 30 years of my life, if not all of it, i cant go back and do anything i should have been doing when i was 35, 38, 40 stuff like that. My sons when i left was babies. Now they are grown men with babies. Ford had been on death row since 1984 after being convicted by an allwhite jury in the mushed of a shreveport jeweler. Fords current temperatures say his Court Appointed lawyer at the time of the original trial had never tried a murder case and evidence was suppressed during the trial. Accusations that the cia hacked u. S. Senate computers. The war of words between Dianne Feinstein and the new threat shes making to the director of the cia. Reporter were live in San Francisco where a building that caught fire yesterday is now in danger of collapsing. Well tell you what will happen to residents who were evacuated yesterday and what they can expect today. Were still looking at busy traffic. Now we have a new crash on highway 4 causing a big mess just after the b. A. R. T. Station there. Look at all of that slow traffic. Traffic is delayed all the way to antioch. Thank goodness we had recent rain. The hills are green. Even though we have an yo offshore breeze temperatures will be warming up. The fire danger not that high. It will be blustery and highs 70s. Well take a look at them coming up. They lived. They lived. They lived. dad we lived. Thanks to our subaru. announcer love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Get your taste of the season, at raleys, bel air, and nob hill. Recapping our top story San Francisco firefighters still pouring water on a fire near at t park that started around 5 00 yesterday afternoon. The flames gutted the building that was under construction and two firefighters were hurt battling those huge flames. Tara moriarty joins us live wever just learned that this is now affecting People Living in a neighboring apartment complex. Reporter its more than 15 hours that crews have been battling the fire. If we take live pictures, you can tell that crews are still dousing this building with water. We counted exactly five ladder trucks. We know that no one is being allowed back inside the apartments which are across the street from where the blaze broke out. About 30 units weve learned had windows blown out from the intense heat, the Sprinkler System went on and caused quite a bit of damage and of course theres smoke damage. Weve noticed flareups. The wind is still blowing strong. Its drive, unfavorable conditions for crews. This is one of the biggest fire, the city has had in recent years. It happened at a building under construction at mission bay yesterday at 5 00 p. M. A large cloud of black smoke can be scene for miles. The building is a complete loss. The strata building, those people had to be evacuated. The building that caught fire is still in danger of failing. At this point, they are not letting anybody access the building. Its not safe. The drb building on fire is in jeopardy of collapsing. They have the streets blocked off. They are not letting cars come through or residents go through. Reporter they will go through each apartment to make sure its safe. They may be able to put those displaced into the units next door. The manager expects an update at 10 00 a. M. In mayor lees press conference he stated that workers were doing some welding at building that caught fire yesterday around 5 00. So now arson and possibly atf will come in and try to figure out exactly if that was the reason for the fire. We do want to mention that one firefighter suffered first and seconddegree burns. Another battalion chief sprained her ankle. Tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. Businesses may soon have to pay overtime to workers who are not eligible for it now. President obama is expected to change the rule that gov earns who can earn gorn earns who can governs who can earn overtime pay. Those who earn 24,000 a year dont qualify for overtime but the house is expected to order that limit to be raised later this week. But its still not clear how much higher it could go. Mens warehouse and joseph a. Bank have reached a deal. Mens warehouse, which has offices in fremont will pay 1. 8 billion for joseph a. Bank. The newly combined retailer will have more than 1700 stores in the u. S. 8 48. Sal . Lets take a look at what we have. The road is going to be slow coming out of antioch. Right when you thought it was Getting Better. There is an injury crash. Its partially blocking one of the lanes. Westbound highway 4 just after the baypoint b. A. R. T. Station and traffic is backed up for at least a couple of miles for the late morning commute. Well, if you happen to get on the road after this point, you will see all of a sudden, its much lighter and that might help you out because this crash is metering the traffic there. Lets take a look at the bay bridge. Thats moderately heavy as well. Its about a 25 to 30minute drive time into San Francisco. Still have slow traffic on 580, its Getting Better. 880 inning both directions is Getting Better as well. Lets go to steve. Thank you, sal. A little breezy. Maybe blustery for some. Wind advisory ended at 8 00 but that doesnt well still get gusts to maybe 40 miles an hour. 42 in San Francisco this morning. Strongest gust. That was in the dubose triangle. If you thought it was windy, it was. 76 our forecasted high in oakland today. Pretty good offshore breeze coming right down out of the Oakland Berkeley hills should make for a mild day. Clear skies. Sunshine. 50s on the temperatures to near 60 degrees for some. The wind tailed off. Theres still some pretty good gusts around. Not that bad around san jose. Yesterday the wind was much stronger. Sfo did have gusts to 41 earlier. I know mendocino county, lake county were much colder around here. High pressure to the north until the low moves out which will probably be in 24, 36 hours. We still get breezy conditions. Its sunny. It will be mild to warm. 70s to near 80. Santa rosa and novato went for it there. Upper 60s 70s. San francisco, gilroy. Fremont, mountain view, san jose, 77. Sunny and breeze and then decreasing breeze and that allowed the lows to drop off friday morning. It looks like upper 70s to 8 on on the weekend 80 on the weekend. Solving a string of robberies in oakland with a little bit of help. The tip that police got that led to several arrests. While were looking forward to 80 degrees, heavy snow made a mess of the morning commute in parts of illinois. This is what it looked like six hours ago at the start of the morning commute in chicago. The National Weather service is predicting 8 inches by the end of the day. There is a blizzard warning from the upper midwest. Flight delays two to four hours at chicago ohare and detroits airport. Dianne feinstein is accusing the cia of hacking into the computers of the Senate Intelligence committee. A bit of a bombshell accusation there. Feinstein who is the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Says it happened when the committee was investigating the cheaus detention and Interrogation Program of terrorist suspects during the administration of president george w. Bush. She says the cia suspected members of the committee had obtained an internal cia report. The cia did not ask the committee or its staff if the committee had access to the internal review or how we obtained it instead of cia just went and searched the committees computers. Nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldnt do that. Thats thats just beyond the you know, the scope of reason. The Justice Department is considering whether to launch an investigation into the matter. President obama is meeting with the new u ukrainian Prime Minister at the white house. The ukrainian Prime Minister has asked the u. S. And other western allies to defend ukraine against russia. Police are crediting help from the community in making several arrests in a string of street robberies in north oakland. At least ten search warrants were conducted in oakland, hayward and antioch. The arrests came after leads they got from community meetings. Police seized drugs in the sweep. A couple is facing charges for allegedly stealing suitcases after the asiana airlines. Police say after the crash, the man and his wife were stealing the bags that arrived at sfo after passengers who owned the bags were diverted to other airports. The couple is pleading no contest to the charges. Coming up on 8 56. We want to check in with sal for more on the pretty serious situation. Slow traffic in antioch. Highway 4 near the bay pointe b. A. R. T. Station there is an injury crash there. Its partially blocking that right lane. Theyve done a good job of getting it over toast right hand side but its still pretty slow as you can see coming out of pittsburg and now antic eye okay antioch. If you get out on after the pay point, it will be much baypoint, it will be much better for you. This morning weve been looking at 880, you can see how slow it is. Still very windy. Steve and i have been talking about the wind and some areas are not as windy as others. Right here at the coliseum. Gusty winds. If you are driving a small car, make sure you are not drifting into another persons lane there. Lets go to steve. Still windy for some. Wind advisory ended at 8 00. It will be sunny. Mild to warm. Very warm. Upper 70s to near 80. Decrease of a breeze and then sunny, mild, warm, into the weekend. No rain in sight . Maybe next week. Maybe next week. All right. Thank you. Well, thats our report for this morning. Of course, we always thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. Be sure to watch the noon news for much more on the huge fire thats still burning near at t park. These are live pictures of the scene where you can see some more water thats still being poured onto this fire. Theres still hot spots in there. This fire is not under control. But its contained. We did hear that the mayor, ed lee, did say there was some welding in the area when this fire started. It did start above ground. But still a very intense investigation into how this fire started. One of the most devastating fires in recent San Francisco history. 180 units in that new Apartment Building still under consluction were destroyed construction were destroyed. Much more coming up at noon. Were always here for you at twitter, facebook and ktvu. Com. Thanks for joining us. 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