Transcripts For KTVU Mornings On 2 20140423

Today. Mornings on 2 starts now. We are live in novato at a fire where our top story seems to be getting stranger by the minute. The good news, four people escaped the earlymorning fire. But since then, a fight between neighbors appears to have escalated to the point where one man punched another in the face. Tara moriarty has been on the scene all morning. In two minutes, she will tell us what led up to the confrontation she witnessed. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steve, you can still blow frost out of your mouth this morning. Maybe for a days. No doubt about it. It wont take long to start warming up. Its still pretty cool. A few upper 30s, 40s to 50. A little breeze might hold up some of the temperatures. Mostly sunny, cool, mild. Slightly warmer. San francisco, yesterday, 59. 62 today. A slight warmup. Still 39 napa airport. Santa rosa has been going down because the temperature is going down because the wind has been decreasing as well. 42. Fairfield is 40. Livermore, 42. Not far away from san jose, we had a couple of low 40s as well. Mostly sunny here. Occasionally higher clouds zipping down from the northwest. Plenty of sunshine. Just northwest breeze at times. Not as bad as yesterday and slight warmup. Upper 60s, low 70s. 60s closer to the water. Heres sal. Were looking at a commute where traffic is going to be busier. Were at the peak of the morning commute. Lets go to 880. All of the icons are still there because of earlier crashes on the nimitz freeway. This is because of a crash primarily the first one being 880 southbound as you drive to 92. It was there for a while. Traffic will be slow. Still in the area. Now as as we look at the as we look at the crashes, you can see that traffic is slow heading south. I would give yourself extra time if i were you. Southbound 85 is slowing down and 101. Well show you 280 in a minute. I want to take a quick peek at the bay bridge toll plaza, 35 to 40minute drive time. A little bit busier than normal. You can see the metering lights are on extra slow trying to get to the bottom of that for you. 101 and 85 in the south bay. Theres 280. That still looks good getting up to highway 17. Back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Developing news in novato where a house fire is being investigated as suspicious. It started just before 3 30 in the garage of the home on chase street. Ktvu channel 2 reporter, Tara Moriarty, has been there at the scene since 4 30. Just spoke to a neighbor who got into some type of altercation with the owner of the home. What happened, tara . Reporter well, theres a lot of unanswered questions. But i witnessed a neighbor punch the homeowner right in the face. Basically, you know, nothing was really down. The homeowner didnt want to stress charges or anything like that. It sort of raised a lot of red flags. There was extra security called in. A couple of Police Officers, that sort of thing. We did get a chance to talk to that neighbor. You will hear from him. Behind me, you can see where where the arson investigator is about to go up, hes looking for answers to the fire. Well keep you posted on the investigation. No official cause yet but we know there was previously a marijuana grow operation in the home with pg e meters being bypassed. The man who lives in the house said he went to bed about an hour before. He said he was woken up by popping noises and a yellow light. He looked up and saw his shed was up in flames. This all happened around 3 15 this morning. 40 firefighters were on scene. The chief says that the four people who live in the main house were able to get out safely before they arrived. We were able to speak with a neighbor who says that this was this fire was the last straw. This was the straw that broke the camels back. I walked in front of here in front of chief and i punched my neighbor in the face. Reporter why did do you that . Theres all kinds of illegal activity, drug activity, all kinds of things going on next door. Fed up. Reporter luckily, no one was hurt. Firefighters say this property was once part of a mansion. The area where the fire broke out was servant quarters. It was used as a retreat and the grateful dead leased the property to make music. A fire destroyed it in the 1960s and then the state acquired the land. We know that fire investigators are sifting through the rubble and they will be trying to figure out how this fire started. They are gonna get a much better idea. Well keep you posted as far as the tensions here between the neighbor and the homeowner. Tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. All right, tara. Now to our continuing coverage of the teenager who survived that flight from san jose to maui in the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines jet. There are several new developments. Christien kafton is joining us live from outside of the teenagerrers family home teens family home. Reporter good morning. Were here at the family home. Weve seen some lights on. Were hoping to get insight from them about when the teen will be making his way back from hawaii. Were hoping that family members will let us know if they will be heading to hawaii to bring the boy back home. We learned more about the teen who wedged himself into the wheel well of that mauibound 767 and just how much time he spent upon the runway at mineta airport. Weve now learned that the teen arrived hours before that flight took off, spending as much as six or seven hours on the tarmac. Unnamed sources in howie are saying that maui are saying that hawaii was not the main destination. He was trying to go to somalia to see his mother. The airport in san jose said they will use this as a learning tool to try to prevent this from happening down the road. We learned hes a student at a local high school. Students are happy to hear he survived this flight across the pacific. I was really shocked, you know. Im just glad he made it and hes all right. Worried about his family. Reporter as for how the boy is doing, we have an update from the boy in hawaii. The Hawaii Department of Human Services says hes resting comfortably at honolulu hospital and that Child Welfare officials are arranging his safe return to northern california. At this point, still no word on when that may happen. Were also hearing from Hawaiian Airlines. The airline says its working with authorities, again, with authorities trying to figure out exactly how this incident happened in the first place. Well continue to monitor all of the developments on this story. For now were live in santa clara, christien kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. This could lead to major security changes. The airports director says she wants to make sure no one sneaks on the airfield away. She made her first public statements on this incident, while at the same time strongly defending the Airports Security record. Critics demand to know how the teen grabbed the fence, glot onto the tarmac got onto the tarmac and spent six, seven hours hiding below the plane before it took off for hawaii. The mother of a student who died in the bus crash on interstate 5 earlier this month has filed a lawsuit. Shes seeking 100 million from fedex. The lawsuit alleges that fed uks trucks have a history fedex trucks have a history of catching on fire. Officials say the truck was on fire. The truck was headed to College Bound teens and chap a roens headed to humboldt college. The little girl who died in a crash on a cupertino freeway has been identified. The medical Examiners Office says she was 8yearold megan yang. She was in a minivan, a mazda minivan. Stopped on the side of highway 85 near de anza boulevard on monday. A 6yearold boy and 41year old woman were also inside. The chp says a Jeep Wrangler left the road and hit the van sending it across the freeway where it was hit by an suv. New statistics confirm an increase in whooping cough in Contra Costa County and a 9 yearold girl is the latest case. Health Officials Say the child goes to morelo Park Elementary School in martinez. The county Health Department is taking steps to protect other students. Experts say whooping cough starts like this with cold like symptoms and then it turns into uncontrollable coughing and gagging fits. It can last for weeks. On friday, the principal at the Elementary School notified parents there was a whooping cough case at the school. That student is now at home and is being treated. I just was hoping that the inoculations that my daughters had would be sufficient and i know they get another one before 7th grade hoping that does the trick. There are 19 reported cases of whooping cough in Contra Costa County. Now, the centers for Disease Control says children between the ages of 2 months and 6 years old, they should get whooping cough vaccinations. Vaccinations are also kded for adult recommended for adults who spend a lot of time around young children. Pregnant women are advised to get vaccinated. Before a vaccine was created in the 1940s, whooping cough killed between 5,000 and 10,000 people in the u. S. Every year. Public schoolteachers in San Francisco say the math does not add up. Last night they rallied outside of district headquarters. They say they dont make enough money to live in the city. Teachers are asking for a 21 raise over the next three years. They say the median salary of teachers is less than 60,000 far less then whats needed to buy a home in than whats needed to buy a home in San Francisco. Canada is on top of the u. S. In more than locations. According to the new york times, middle class families in canada are wealthier than middle class families in the u. S. Thats because they are being paid more, receive larger raises and have a lower cost of living. Middle class families in sweden, norway, finland and the netherlands are also making more than u. S. Middle class families. But when this comes to how much money wealthy americans have, the u. S. Still takes the top spot. All right, tori. A warning if you plan to drive in San Francisco today. The police and highway are launching a major crackdown thats getting underway as im speaking to you right now. Well tell you who they are targeting. Protesters clashing with police. The controversial policy behind a violent protest in the philippines days ahead of president obamas visit there. If you plan to drive into San Francisco today with your car here on the bay bridge, it will be a while. You can see all of the slow traffic coming around the macarthur maze and waiting at the bay bridge toll plaza. Well give you the drive time. It wont be something you like. Well give you some alternate routes. A cool and breezy tuesday will give way to warmer weather today. I will show you the forecasted highs and the rain for friday looks to still be on track. Tios that determine how they learn. Think. And grow. In the sky. [ babbles ] talk and read to your children from day one. This is tomato soup. Announcer their brains are actually developing with your every word. Its free, easy, and something you can do anytime. Talk. Read. Sing. Your words have the power to shape their world. Learn more at first5california. Com parents it is coming up on 7 15. New this morning, president obama is now in japan. The first stop on his four country asia visit. This is video of president obama arriving in tokyo just about two hours ago. Among those greeting the president as he stepped off air force one, the u. S. Ambassador to japan. Kind of hard to see there. Thats caroline kennedy. After japan, the president is scheduled to visit south korea, malaysia and the philippines. This is meant to reassure asia about the u. S. Renewed commitment to the region. President obama is not expected to be in the philippines until monday but his visit there is already sparking some violent protests. More than 100 activists clashed with Police Outside of the u. S. Embassy in manila today. One protester punched a Police Officer. Police officers responded by firing Water Cannons at the crowd. U. S. Soldiers on the move this morning, a show of strength by the Obama Administration about the crisis in ukraine. 600 american soldiers are headed to poland, and other Eastern European countries that border or are near ukraine. U. S. Troops are conducting military exercises. Its to demonstrate natos commitment to defending the region and its allies. There are 67,000 american troops in europe. The new York City Police department is defending its effort to get a little more social. Yesterday, the department asked people on twitter to post pictures with its officers using the hashtag mynypd. Soon people were posting pictures with comments that suggested Police Brutality or misconduct. The Department Says this was meant to be an open dialogue, so they expected negative comments. Other people defended the Police Department saying it has a lot of good officers. Golden gate park workers are on the lookout for thieves who are ripping plants right out of the ground, foraging in the park is banned. Park officials fear they may lose rare plants. They are also concerned someone could die from poisoning if they take wild mushrooms or other plants. A man who lives across the street from the park who zd not to be identified said hes confronted four elderly woman about a month ago stealing what appeared to be wild ginger plants. I walked over and i said, what are you doing . And they started to leave the area. San Francisco Police say they are ready to make field trips to city parks to try to catch the plant thieves in the act. One of californias Biggest Industries could be under attack. The enemy is Citrus Greening. Its a disease carried by a bug called the asian citrus. Now, experts say Citrus Greening kills trees. San Luis Obispo County has been put under quarantine after the disease was trapped down there. Want to check in with sal, see whats happening on the roads. A little chilly out there. Some of that might affect the commute. The chp why do i look so short . Let me sit up. Im not short. Westbound bay bridge, big delay. There are high wind signs on the bridge. I keep tok looking to see if theres something causing a delay. There isnt according to the chp. But traffic is slow before the maze. Were looking at a 30, 40 minute drive time unless you are in the carpool lane to get into the city. Thats significant and its the worst would commute weve had all week. 880 northbound and southbound, your drive time to hegenberger is clocking in at five minutes. Not bad. When you drive farther south theres no slow traffic because of earlier problems. Im looking at south bay again. 85 is surprisingly good. Very traffic after 87. Northbound 101 slow and before 880. And 280 slows at the 880 interchange northbound. Sal . Yes. Happy birthday to william shakespeare. How old is he . 450. 450 . Yes. He doesnt look a day over 400. I agree. And i promise my forecast wont vanish into thin air. By the way, we have mostly clear skies. I know its orange but there is a bridge that arcs the bay. Was it cold . It sure was. Tori campbell tweeted out it was 41 in alamo. We had a lot of 30s. Sebastopol, cazadero. A couple in the russian rivers in the 30s. 40 and 50s. If you thought it was cool, it was. Mostly sunny today. A slight warmer. 26 up in tahoe. 40 in ukiah. I know we had 30s into lake county. 41 sacramento. Thats pretty cool for in time of year. Everything is dropping out of the northwest. Thats the direction the wind will be today but its not going to be as strong as yesterday. Mostly sunny. Some clouds. A little bit warmer today. High pressure will build in. But its not going to last very long. Next week it could kick in. Until then, friday looks like a day for clouds and rain. The possibility is much stronger than what we had the other day. Your cloud rain forecast will be mostly clear. Increasing clouds tonight. Tomorrow we cloud it up. Rain will hold off until late. It comes in, Mendocino County north by 8 00 p. M. And then overnight, overnight into early friday morning rain and then again around the noon hour. Possibility of rain. This system, ive seen projections of over an inch in the sierra nevada. For us were looking at. 10 to maybe 4 10. We have a couple of days before everything comes together. Mostly sunny today. A little breezy atd times. Tiny bit warmer. Not a lot. Petaluma, 68. Kept field, 66 kentfield, 66. Low 70s for concord, Pleasant Hill, 64 alameda. Berkeley, 67. Low 70s san jose. Santa clara valley. Santa cruz went 74. Probably not on the wharf but in town. 65 san bruno. 62 in half moon bay. And very low 60s excuse me. Upper 60s, very low 70s on the peninsula. Increasing clouds. Thursday light rain on friday. Kind of a breezy, cool pattern. Sunday is a little better. A man walking across a Railroad Crossing gate barely, yikes, made it across alive. What people who saw this did afterwards that might be even mown surprise more surprising. A palo alto rock climber shares his story of survival and whether he will return to climbing after plunging 30 feet at yosemite. 7 24. Belmont police are searching for two men caught on this Surveillance Video. You can see it stealing an estimated 5700 worth of cigarettes. Police say the men broke into a walgreens store about 4 00 friday morning. Police were alerted by an alarm but say the thieves were only inside for about two minutes. They were gone by the time officers arrived. 7 25. Were hearing from the palo alto rock climber, a man who survived an almost deadly fall at yosemite. Now, on sunday, 26yearold blake parkenson fell off a granite wall in yosemites cathedral range. The crew carried him to safely. Hes in the hospital in modesto. Hes being treated for a broken back. I hit my back on a boulder. I was protruding off the ledge. It was a climb i wanted to do for quite a while. I have to wait to finish it up another time, i guess. Doctors say hes very lucky despite the fall. He can still move his hands and legs. Hes not paralyzed. The stanford Admissions Officers plans to go home after going through a long period of very intensive therapy. Tomorrow, the San Jose Sharks will try to sweep the Los Angeles Kings out of the first round of the stanley cup playoffs. Pavelski. Marleau. He scores the sharks win it. They won game 3, 43 in overtime. Patrick marleau scoring the winning goal. Game 4 is tomorrow night in l. A. If the sharks win, they advance to the next round. If the kings win, the series moves back to san jose for game five on saturday. 7 26. Its a big complaint among people people who ride mass transit in the bay area. How things may soon change for the better for large commuters. Reporter were live where students walked off a middle school to mark the somber death of andy lopez. Coming up, whats expected today and why the students will be accompanied by their parents as well as an attorney. Were still looking at a commute thats going well, its getting worse on highway 24 at the bay bridge. Were here to run it down for you. Mostly sunny out there. But its a cool one. Still a few upper 30s, especially to the north bay. That wont last much longer. Well have warmer forecasted highs. Show you that and talk about the rain coming up on friday. Marks. Go its chaos out there. 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I think im popping up on the camera scene. 30s, 40s 50s. 50, 60s and then 60s mainly and 70s. Slightly warmer inland. Theres a 39 at napa. A couple of locations Still Holding on to chilly temperatures. Fairfield, 40. Livermore, 42. Blossom hill, tom smith, 41 this morning. Cold across the board. Theres a little bit of a breeze. Nothing compared to what we had yesterday but it is kind of showing itself a little here. Not too bad. Half moon bay, 14 Miles Per Hour out of the north. A little offshore, a little northwest. Everything seems to be coming out of the northwest. Mostly sunny, but occasionally some higher clouds or low clouds will clip us. Overall temperatures coming up a tiny bit. Breezy at times. Temperatures, 60s, 70s. But theres rain on the way for friday. I will talk about that coming up in about 12 minutes. 60s, 70s today. Heres sal. Good morning, steven. Were looking at a commute thats busy especially at the bay bridge where its become a 40minute delay, the drive time, i thud say, between oakland and San Francisco. Most of that time waiting at the toll plaza. But then its tough on the bridge. Wind advisories have been up for some of the bay area bridges. Gusty up there as steve and i have mentioned. Also looking at the commute on interstate 880, that traffic is moderately heavy. We dont have any stop and go traffic here in front of the coliseum. If you are driving in san jose, surprising that 85 is not worse. Its actually doing okay. 101 is slow, though, from capitol expressway and pockets to sunnyvale. Back to the desk. Sal, thank you. Happening now in santa rosa students at a middle school are trying to get School Administrators to let them go back into class. Thats after the students walked out yesterday, protesting the shooting death of andy lopez. Ktvus brian flores is out there this morning. The students have a lawyer backing them up. Good morning. Reporter they do, dave. Good morning. Well speak to him in a minute. Its been six months since the tragic shooting death of 13 yearold andy lopez. I want to mention here at Lawrence Cook middle school here in santa rosa that there has been within the past three minutes or so an increased police presence. You see a Police Cruiser there. I have counted at least six police cars that have showed up to the scene knowing there might be interaction between the students that were kicked off campus to mark the tragic death six months ago. Im here with the attorney and activist for andys youth coalition. I just want to hear your take on exactly what happened yesterday. Well, yes, i wasnt here initially but i got a call. I represent a number of the students involved. The students gathered here with some signs to mark the six month anniversary of the loss of their friend, the shooting of andy lopez by deputy gelhaus. It was a way of their expressing their memories, their mourning, their continuing loss of their friend and also their anger that theres been no adjudication by the district attorney. Reporter they were told they wouldnt be allowed back on campus . Thats correct. From what i understand, the principal came out and admonished the students about what they were doing, took their signs from them and then locked the gate there across the street and wouldnt let them in. The students had planned only to express themselves for 10, 15 minutes but they found they couldnt get back in the school. Reporter were the students penalized for this. From what i was told by a number of parents who i also help, the students were told yesterday they were suspended. Were here today to make sure that they are not suspended because it was the principal that locked the students out who were trying to go back into school after their protest. Theres no reason that the students should pay a price for her brashness and overreaction. Reporter thank you, jonathan, for joining us today. Again, about 25 students are expected to be here to return back to school. Its unclear on whether the students were suspended. Well be clear to clarify all of that information. We should mention weve tried numerous times to contact the school, the school correct as well as the Santa Rosa Police on this investigation as well as what happened yesterday. We have not heard back this morning. Were expecting to hear a comment and a statement from the district later on this morning. Were live here in santa rosa, brian flores. Brian flores, 7 35. Police in san jose say a man on a motorcycle is in unstable condition after slamming into a car. It happened about 6 45 last night at the intersection of branham. The motorcyclist, a witness said, ran a red light and hit the side of the car. The motorcyclist was wearing a helmet. But still suffered major head trauma. We do have a witness who was in the intersection at that time, and according to them, and what they saw the motorcyclist did run the red light. The two people in the car were not hurt. They stopped and cooperated with police. Investigators do not believe drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash. San Francisco Police and the chp are patrolling two of the citys hightraffic high accident areas. A new crackdown started just a halfhour ago. Ktvus alex savidge is live in santa rosa with what drivers can expect. Quite a bit of traffic. Good morning, alex. Reporter very busy out here. Good morning to you, tori. Police here in folks are trying to improve safety for those on foot in the city and they launched this crackdown about a halfhour ago. I want to show you, we did see the first ticket that weve seen from our vantage point. You can see that person just up the street here on golden gate near van ness. Its unclear what the violation was. But we did see the motorcycle officer make the traffic stop. This is part of an enforcement operation along van ness between market and geary. Officers on the lookout for speeders and red line runners among other things. So far this year, there have been a total of seven people who have been hit and killed trying to cross streets in San Francisco. Of that total, four victims were struck here along van ness. Thats why the focus is here today. Officers will be focusing on van ness between market and geary. Again, they will be handing out a lot of tickets. They will be giving out a lot of warnings trying to correct bad driving behavior. The crackdown is part of the vision zero plan an effort to reduce traffic deaths in the city to zero in ten years. People we talked to who live nearby say this crossing can be dangerous and are hoping this can make a difference. People stop at the red light and once pedestrians are not crossing, they go. Sometimes that can be problematic. Reporter this mornings Traffic Enforcement operation already underway right now. It got started at 7 00 this morning. It continues until 10 00 along this long stretch of van ness between market and geary. Officers from San Francisco police and the Highway Patrol out here again issuing those tickets and those warnings. They will be out here until 10 00 a. M. They will be out here during the afternoon commute and will be doing similar operations at other locations here in the city on both folsom and essex streets. Alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. Very interesting. 7 38. There is a call for muni and b. A. R. T. To expand their service overnight. Supporters say its a safety and an economic issue. Now, neither b. A. R. T. Normunis rail lines run 24 hours. Tourists and people who work at night say they are left with limited operations at night. Im completely alone on the street and i have no idea whats around the corner. It can be scary. Spbl supporters of the idea supporters of the idea say the nighttime economy generates 50 million in tax revenues. More than 50,000 people are employed at night. Theres a resolution before the San Francisco board of supervisors for a task force to explore transit options. Muni has an owl service. The lines, including the 14, 38 and the 101 Treasure Island, they run between 1 00 and 5 00 a. M. In the morning. Well, during the weekdays, b. A. R. T. s first train starts at 4 00 a. M. With the last train starting around midnight. B. A. R. T. Begins on lating on saturdays operating 0 on saturdays at 6 00 and sundays at 8 00 a. M. Theres no serial attacker on the loose on mount tam, its reported. Theres been speculation about an attacker on mount tam after the separate discoveries of the bodies of two women at panoramic highway about a mile apart and within days of each other. Investigators emphasize theres no prowler out there. The womens bodies showed no signs of assault. And toxicology reports will take several weeks. For some it brought back memories when this was the scene for a lot of murders in the 1980s. David car pept, the trail side killer david carpenter,le trail side killer, is now on death row. This Surveillance Video shows a man walking on the tracks even though the crossing arms were already down and the signal lights were flashing red. Drivers who stopped at the Railroad Crossing and witnessed the near collision drove off. None of them got out of their cars to offer help. The man hurt his leg and he also now faces a hefty fine for ignoring the warning barriers. It is 7 40. An earlymorning fire at a bay area building with a rock and roll history, coming up the violent incident that came hours after the flames. And a new report reveals the irs has handed out bonuses to employees who owed back taxes themselves. Coming up in minutes well talk with jamie dupree about the amount of money involved in this latest government scandal. Were still looking at traffic that is getting busier especially on some of the major commutes now. Santa clara valley, bay bridge, Contra Costa County, well talk about all three of those coming up. Well have plenty of sunshine today. Temperatures will be warmer. But i will tell you, it looks like a huge change for friday. It will be a cold, wet one. Well talk about that and have your warmer forecasted highs today. 7 44. What do you think might happen to irs employees who dont pay their taxes . Rather than punishment, a new report shows the irs is routinely giving such workers huge bonuses. Jamie dupree joins us from washington, d. C. Via skype. Good morning. Reporter this one might make you spit coffee out. A new report from the irs saying that employees at the tax agency who have been found to have committed misconduct in a variety of ways were still given bow knitses, not only money but time off. Not only not paying your federal taxes but also willfully underreporting your income and willfully understating your tax liabilities. Think about this. The people who are here to make sure you pay your federal taxes, they are not paying theirs and they are getting a bonus for it. Its just mind boggling. You have to practice what you preach. My biggest question, how could this happen . Reporter the irs and this is evidently government wide when you are under consideration for performance word, they dont look at whether or not youve had any misconduct allegations leveled against you. People who misuse Government Credit cards or committed a job related miscop duct, that didnt misconduct, that didnt show up to determine whether you should be eligible for the reward. Somebody had been suspended at the irs for ten days in late 2011, they in 201, they got a 1300 bonus. Now, a number of lawmakers chiming in today about this report, some calling it disturbing, total be a abdursurdty. Im sure there will be a lot of talk about this. Reporter the irs is a convenient pinata, you are right. Thank you. You can find a link to jamies washington insider blog on our website. Go to ktvu. Com. Pull down the news menu bar and go to our politics page. All right. So frustrating. Thats wild. Hey, sal, how is the commute going . Going okay. But there is a lot of slow traffic out there, dave and tori. Right now, were looking at 880. One of the bright spots of the morning commute. Doesnt look all that bad here in front of the coliseum complex. By the way, the warriors playoff game is tomorrow night. Tonight you dont have to worry about any of the traffic. Tomorrow night start putting that in the back of your mind. Lets move along and take a look at the bay bridge toll plaza, the traffic here is backed up to the macarthur maze and we have a 30minute drive time into San Francisco. Its been steady and slow. We havent had any major problems on the bridge other than the slow traffic. I do want to mention that highway 4 traffic is slow from pittsburg all the way to concord and then concord 680 slow to walnut creek and down to the alamo area. 80 westbound, its also slow in richmond as you drive through. If i can just push back here, i want to just take a look at the south bay. I would say the slowest freeway right now is 85. 785 is slow from 87 all the way up into cupertino and sunnyvale because of some minor issues on the roads. Now lets go to steve. Thank you, sir. Mostly clear. A few high cloud. Cold this morning. We had a lot of 30s this morning. A lot of upper 30s, 40s. They were there for a while. If you thought it was cold, it was. Waiting for the next system. It will start to roll in tomorrow. We started at 47. Well go 59. As, rain mgers, look for mid to upper 60s. A little breezy. It will be mostly sunny there. Microclimate forecast, upper 50s, low 60s. Coast, bay, in the city. Mid60s. Again, this is close. Its close. It will be warmer than that. Thats about right. Upper 60s to near 70 degrees. I did go for a few low 70s. Again, you know, had about two or three. 30s for kentfield, sebastopol, guerneville, danville at 39. Were starting to see a little bit warmer temperatures even around san jose some low 40s. Theres still a breeze. Its not as strong as yesterday. It seems to be auld over the place all other the place. West for some, north for others. East at hayward, calm, san jose, also out to livermore. Overall, mostly sunny. A few clouds kind of zipping down from the northwest. 26 in tahoe. 35 reno. A little chill there. 30s up north as well. You can see the direction. Weak High Pressure comes in. The system will sweep in. It looks good for rain starting on friday. Well see if it all holds together. Mostly sunny today. A few clouds. Slightly warmer. Get low 70s across from the coast. Ive sign projections of rain about. 25 to maybe. 5. Well see if that continues to stay together. Increasing clouds on friday morning. Well wait for the rain to come in maybe late thursday night to the north. And then after that, the system sweeps by early friday morning. There will be two impulses there. Another one coming in around the noon hour. There could be over an inch of rain and maybe some decent snow totals up to the sierra. I will tackle this on thursday and friday. Projections here of. Mostly sunny. A tiny bit warmer. 60s, and 70s. Yesterday they were 50s and 60s. Well see a few low 70s. I mean right about 70. It may not last too long. In the sun it wont be too warm today. Kind of a slow decrease in the clouds saturday, slightly warmer as we get towards sunday. New this morning People Magazine unveiled its most beautiful person of the year. The title, you guessed it, goes to this actress. She took home the Academy Award for her role in 12 years a slave. And she was raised in kenya and has been outspoken about the lack of africanamerican women in the media. Peoples 50 most beautiful issue hits newsstands on friday. And skechers stock is up over 7 . The shoe Company Reported after the closing bell that the profits were double what wall street expected. That sent stock up 17 in premarket trading. Skechers could get more popular. The winner of bostons marathon was wearing them. That individual is the First American winner of the Boston Marathon in 31 years. Crossing the finish line there. We know the warriors may be ready to leave oakland and move to San Francisco. However, its the big snub from oaklands two other pro sports teams thats making some fans very worried. A possible new clue in the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. The items that washed ashore in australia that is now the focus of investigators. Welcome back. The search teams looking for that missing Malaysia Airlines jet, they found what they are calling an object the interest. Its described as sheet mountainal with ribbettes. It washed ashore in Western Australia near perth. A government commissioner is playing down high hopes saying the more they look at it, the less excited they are. Also today, that underwater drone completed its 10th mission. It is now scanned 80 of the search area and found nothing. This morning, more bodies were found in that sunken ferry boat in south korea. The death toll is now 150 and 150 others are still missing. Rescue crews say theyve checked all of the open areas for victims. Now they are ripping through cabin cabin walls trying to find others. Most of the victims are from a high school near seoul. The ferry boat capsized and sunk a week ago. The captain and some crew members were arrested for abandoning ship during an emergency. One crew member who stayed on board, this one here helping passengers was honored as a hero at her funeral this morning. Witnesses say the 22yearold woman spent the last 22 last minutes of her life helping others escape that sinking ferry boat. She was passing out life jackets as the boat began to go under. When asked why she was not wearing a jacket, she said this crew members would be last and that she had to help other people first. 7 55. Archaeologists say a rare opportunity to study an ancient nativeamerican Burial Ground in larkspur is lost. They tell the chronicle that multimillion dollar homes are being built on the site of a 4500yearold indian Burial Ground located on doherty drive. The developer brought in scientists to study the site under the direction of American Indian monitors. The monitors gave their approval to remove and rebur reyou why the artifacts at the site which has been paved over. Now the archaeologists may more could have been to preserve the site and artie 235bg9s which can no longer be studied. Happening today, Kaiser Mental Health workers in the east bay say they will walk off their jobs for the day in order to protect the people they careful. Employees at oaklands Kaiser Permanente held a similar one day strike in 2012. They accuse the hospital of cutting costs that jeopardizes Mental Health services. They claim its even led to several suicides. This morning, the hospital sent us the response. It reads in part this work stoppage is about labor disputes. We strongly disagree with the unions claims that this is about the quality of Mental Healthcare at Kaiser Permanente. Hundreds of volunteer doctors and dentists will provide free medical care in San Francisco today. Its called bridges to health. Care is offered and first come, first served basis at 14th and mission streets at the army today and arm mowry today and tomorrow from 8 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. They will be at the Oakland Coliseum on friday. There are a lot of questions surrounding the teenagers stowaway from san jose to maui. Reporter were live in novato where a man escapes an earlymorning house fire only to get punched by his neighbor hours later. Well explain next. Northbound 280, traffic is slow into cupertino, i think a lot of people are on 280 instead of 85. Mostly sunny skies. But a cold one. A lot of 30s showing up and 40s. It will be warmer. I will have the warmer forecaster highs and tell you about what looks to be a decent system for rain on friday. At Kaiser Permanente weve reduced serious heart attacks by 62 , which makes days with grandpa jack 100 more possible. Join us at kp. Org and thrive. For what reality teaches you firsthand. In the face of danger, and under the most demanding circumstances. Experience builds character. Experience builds confidence. And experience. Has built this. The 2014 glk. The engineering, and the experience, of mercedesbenz. Starting at 37,480. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Live pictures. Arson investigators just now beginning to look through the charred remains of an Early Morning house fire here in novato. Four people barely escaped the flames. Ktvus Tara Moriarty has been at the scene since 4 30 this morning. Now with some possible clues as to how the fire started, plus reaction from a neighbor who punched the homeowner in the face. A quick look at weather and traffic. A little cool and windy this morning. Not as windy as yesterday. But its cool and chilly out there. Mostly sunny here. Some partly cloudies maybe to the south. Temperatures will warm up slightly today. San francisco only checked in at 59. Today well go 62 degrees. There were a lot of 30s this morning. Napa was 30 last hour. 39. Not 30. Russian river a lot upper 30s. Cold, a had the of people are tweeting saying its cold. It was. We will start to warm up. A little bit of a breeze. Nothing compared to yesterday. We wait for increasing clouds tomorrow and it looks like rain and an even colder system. Even colder coming in on friday which might make for brisk saturday morning lows. Mostly sunny today. 60s for most or very low 70s. Heres sal. Steve, we still have a lot of slow traffic and a lot of it is in the Santa Clara Valley. But first well talk about the bridges because the san mateo bridge, the dumbarton bridge and the bay bridge, some gusty winds there. Steve has mentioned, its not you should be careful if you drive a small car especially. Traffic is slow. 15, 20 minutes across the span here. The bay bridge toll plaza, we have a 25 to 30minute drive time. Its improved a little bit getting into San Francisco. I will show you whats really bad is 85, northbound 85, near 280. We had a crash. Its been cleared out of the lanes. Traffic will be slow all the way up. This commute started okay and earlier we were saying, it looks great. But now, the crash on 85 has put more people on 280. Thats very slow. 101 is always slow. Just please give yourself extra time. 8 02. Back to the desk. Were following developing news in novato where a fire victim became the victim of assault after this garage went up in flames. The fire started around 3 30 this morning on chase street. Ktvu channel 2 reporter Tara Moriarty joins us from the scene where the homeowner escaped the fire only to get punched by his neighbor. Reporter that was definitely something that took us by surprise. I was talking to a firefighter when a neighbor came up out of nowhere and suckerpunched the homeowner. The homeowner refused to press charges. The homeowner in speaking to him, he said he was fed up with that particular homeowner and the illegal activity thats gone on in his home for years. Was anto confirm that was able to confirm that through law enforcement. The man who lives in the house off chase court said he had just gone to bed before he was woken up by popping noises and yellow flash. He saw the shed up in flames. It happened around 3 00 a. M. 40 firefighters tackled the flames. Two people in the main house were able to get out safely before crews arrived. Four other neighbors escaped. We spoke to one of the neighbors who confessed to hitting the homeowner in the face. This was kind of the straw that broke the camels back. I walked down here in front of the novato fire chief and i punched my neighbor in the face. Reporter why did you do that . Because im fed up. Theres been all kinds of illegal activity, drug activity. All kinds of illegal going on next door. Reporter the fire gutted the garage, blew out windows. Luckily, no one was hurt. Firefighters tell us that this property was once a mansion. The area where the fire broke out was servant quarters. Jesuits used it and the grateful dead leased the property to make music. An electrical fire destroyed the manage in 1969. As we come back here live, you can see the arson team is up sifting through the rubble trying to figure out how this fire started. We know that police were called out here before pause of a marijuana growing operation. But so far we have no official cause for the fire. Were live in novato, Tara Moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. 8 04. There are still plenty of questions about the santa clara teenager who snuck on a plane flew from san jose to maui hiding in the wheel well of a jet. Now were getting answers. Christien kafton is live outside of the teens family home in santa clara. Reporter good morning. Were still here at the home of that teen hoping to talk to some family members. This again still the talk of the neighborhood. We just had another neighbor come up and talk to us moments ago asking us questions and trying to just get the latest about this. Again, were hoping that the family will come out at some point in time and give us insight into what happened and find out whether family members will be heading out to hawaii to bring the teen back home. We did knock at the door a little earlier this morning and despite the fact that people are home weve seen lights in the home. Weve Seen Movement in the home. No one answered. Hawaiis department of Human Services says that the boy is resting comfortably at a hospital in hawaii and that Child Welfare officials are arranging for his return to northern california. No word at this point on a time line on when that will be happening. Were learning more about the Security Breach at Mineta San Jose International airport as well. The latest information shows the teen entered the airport, six or seven hours before the maui bound flight took off. Representative eric swaulwell is saying a breech like that could happen again. Hes calling okay the Government Accountability office to look into airport security. The airport, meanwhile, is saying they will use this breach as a learning tool hoping to prevent it from happening again. Its possible to scale an airport perimeter fence line, especially under cover of darkness. Reporter we also have a statement from Hawaiian Airlines about this incident. The airline is saying hawaiian and its contractors responsible for handling our aircraft in san jose will continue to assist Government Agencies in their investigation of this incident. So clearly an active investigation is still underway. Were waiting to hear from the family and waiting to hear when this teen may be heading back here to california. Were live in santa clara, christien kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. A man has been arrested in connection with the beating death of a woman whose body was found near lake merritt. 40yearold prince is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of 23yearold kimberly robertson. Her body was discovered on april 5th near park boulevard and third avenue. Police said robertson had left a bar and was waiting for a bus when the man picked her up in his truck. Investigators dont have any information that the two knew each other before then. Police say robertson had a 3 yearold daughter. A 100 million lawsuit has been filed by the lawyer of a student who died in that bus crash on interstate 5 earlier this month. Her lawsuit is speaking damages from fedex. Now, the lawsuit alleges that fedex trucks have a history of catching fire. Witnesses say the truck was on fire when it crossed the freeway and slammed into a tour bus in orland. That bus was filled with collegebound teen, and chaperones headed to lum bolt state university. Ten people were killed, including the fedex driver. The girl who died in a crash on a cupertino freeway has been identified now. The Santa Clara County medical Examiners Office says she was 8yearold megan yang. She was in a maus za minivan mazda minivan stopped on highway 85 on monday. A 6yearold boy and a 41year old woman were also inside. The chp says the teep wrangler left the Jeep Wrangler left the road and hit the van sending it across the freeway where it was hit by an suv. Investigators are asking for the publics help in finding a homicide suspect. They leased this picture released this picture. Hes accused of shooting and killing 24yearold nicholas callen. Callen was killed on march 31st in tar hills near pinole last week, investigators took another man into custody in connection with the deadly shooting. Hes being held on 2 million bail. A 5yearold oakland girl is in the hospital this morning after being hit in the eye by a paint ball. It happened last night on 9th street. Police say the little girl was riding in a car with her mother when someone in a passing car shot a paint ball through an open window. Shes listed in serious condition. Still being treated for her eye injury. The police are looking for the teenager who witnesses say fired that paint ball. A group of teachers filed for a restraining order against the Antioch School district artheir request to after their request to convert a high school into an independent Charter School was closed down. Dozer libby school is one of the bestperforming schools in antioch. The Teachers Want to make the school an independent Charter School which would leave it outside of the School Districts droel and also a control and also allow for more financial donations. The School District denied that request and converted it into an independent charter which leaves the School District in control. The hearing about the restraining order is set for next week. Hundreds of volunteer doctors and dennists will be providing free medical care in San Francisco. Its called bridges to health. A care is offered on a first come, first served basis at the San Francisco armory at 14th and mission streets today and tomorrow from 8 00 a. M. Until 3 00 p. M. The volunteers will also be at the Oakland Coliseum on friday. 8 10. Food trucks are making their way to Contra Costa County. Off the grid will bring nine food trucks to Pleasant Hill city hall every thursday from 5 00 to 9 00. And they will be in Pleasant Hill from 11 00 to 3 00. Anger keeps mounting in a Santa Rosa Community about the shooting death of a teenaged boy by a sheriffs deputy. The protests that has students pitted against School Administrators this morning. Oakland could soon become a city without a professional sports team. The signs the as could follow. Were still looking at traffic thats getting busier and not lighter. For example, speaking of oakland, you can see its very slow past the coliseum. Well tell you whats coming up to make it so slow. Just steched outside. Its stepped outside. Its chilly out there. It will be sunny and a little bit warmer. It looks like a billion change on friday. I will talk about that and have your forecasted temperatures coming up. 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In a statement, the as say the proposal did not address all of their issues. Now, the coliseum was built in 1966. Its the only multipurpose stadium still being used in major american pro sports. Both the as and the raiders say its showing plenty of wear and tear. As weve been reporting, it has had multiple sewage problem and flooding on the field and in the clubhouse. Fans are not giving up, though. They launched a website yesterday. It features what would a ballpark would look like. So far the group has received a pledge of 5,000 seats and 12 million. The as share the coliseum with the raiders. The raiders missed a deadline to submit a letter of interest of working on a project to transform the current stadium into a coliseum city. City leaders have been hoping to create a sports and entertainment destination that would would be complete with shops, restaurants and a hotel. The raiders have not issued a statement as to why they did not issue that letter but well be following all of the latest developments on the stories. Dave . Thank you. 8 15. The warriors also making plans to move out of oakland to go to San Francisco. The new arena project unveiled this week calls for an 18,000 seat arena near at t park. But oakland is not giving up on keeping the warriors in oakland. They dont have the stadium built yet. They are in our view, theres still many hurdles that need to go through. The Golden State Warriors have been playing here since 1971 but the team never adopted oaklands name. At 5 00 well know when the 49ers will play their first game at levi stadium. Nfl will release the schedule for the 2014 2015 season at 5 00 tonight. Each team already knows which teams it will play throughout the season. For example, we know the 49ers will host the super bowl cham peopleians, the seahawks and alex smith and his chiefs. Tonight well learn the date and time of each dame. Some of the game. All right, tori. 8 17. Happening right now theres a highlevel repair job going on in outer space just outside the International Space station. These are live pictures. Were taking you right there. There are two astronauts. Were looking over their shoulder. They are plea placing a computer on one of the exterior beams. What a view. That computer stopped working about two weeks ago. So a new one is going in to replace it. That computer is used to control the railcar that transports materials along the outside of the space station. So to get to the computer, the crew had to send away a cargo ship that had docked at the space station. That ship is expected to come back on friday. This is a great space view of a spacewalk happening at this very moment. Look. You can see the hands right there. A little break in the signal. Thats a great, great picture. We took you right there live. Really, really cool. 8 18. A little closer to home. Lets see how things are moving on the roads. Busy spots out there. Yes. Back to the more mundane as we come to the commute to work. There will be a lot of slow traffic out there for you. This morning at the toll plaza, its improved a little bit. The drive time is about 30 minutes now. It was worse. Things are getting slightly better. No problems on the lower deck of the bay bridge if you commute, countercommute from San Francisco to oakland. Its about eight minutes. 880 northbound is taking you 10, 15 minutes to drive two, three miles up to the downtown oakland area from the coliseum. Theres no basketball game tonight. Tomorrow night there is a warriors playoff game at the arena. Plan ahead. Plan accordingly. A lot of interest in the game, a lot of traffic, too. Lets take a look at the south bay. I want to pull back a little bit from this if i can. Traffic is going to be slow on 85. If you look at all of the red on the maps, its very slow on 280 and on 101 as well. I would say the worst freeway is 85. 8 19. Lets go to steve. Cold this morning. Mostly clear, mostly sunny right now. We had a lot of 30s this morning. Upper 30s and i think well see some more by saturday, if not saturday, sunday morning. Even colder system, what . Yes. Colder one is tu on friday. Except for a few high clouds. It will be mostly clear. Theres still a little breeze. I would say 60s, were going for 68. Today downtown oakland. It will be close. Maybe light jacket. A little breeze out there. A little chill in the air. 40s and 50s. We had 30s for a while. The nights are short. So getting upper 30s there is pretty impolice ev. I think well see that by the weekend. There is a little hint of a breeze. Novato 8 miles an hour. Ten out of the northwest. Sfo out of the west. Hayward says an easterly breeze here. There might be a component of a northnortheast for some. Mainly northwest. So temperatures rebounding, slightly. 20s up in tahoe and truckee. 44 ukiah. They were down to i think 41. Had some 30s in Mendocino County and lake county. Mostly sunny. Well wait for the system. Its showing every sign of being colder and wetter. Today we get a bump up in the temperatures. Not a lot. Tomorrow well focus our attention on increasing clouds and look what deals and deal with what looks to be rain on friday. Right now the projections look good. A couple of 1 100ths to. 5 for santa rosa. Thats probably overdone for san jose. Well see. We have a couple of more days to see. It looks much stronger than the one on monday. Mostly sunny, breezy at times. 60s and 70s. Some of these will be very, very low 60s. Around the day, mid60s. Walnut creek, 60. Livermore, 70. San leandro, hayward, only 64. 70 san jose, los gatos, sara toe guy, warmest saratoga. San mateo, millbrae, 60s. Palo alto menlo park at 70. Increasing clouds, rain late thursday night maybe. Friday. Clearing slowly on sunday. Hey, drive careful. Drive smart today in San Francisco. A major Police Crackdown is happening right now. Got somebody. In 22 minutes well tell you who they are specifically targeting. An increase in whooping cough cases in one bay area county. The measures Health Officials want you to take to protect yourselves. New statistics confirm an increase in whooping cough in Contra Costa County and a 9 idea girl is the latest case. Health Officials Say the child goes to morello Park Elementary School in martinez. The county Health Department is taking steps to protect the other students. Experts say whooping cough starts with cold like symptoms but turns into uncontrollable coughing and gagging like this. It can last for weeks. On friday. The principal of morello park elementary notified parents there was a bhooping cough whooping cough case. That child is at home and being treated. Public schoolteachers in San Francisco say the math does not add up. Last night those teachers rallied outside of the School District headquarters. They say they dont make enough money to live in the city. Teachers are asking for a 21 pay raise over the next three years. They say the immediate upsalary of teachers is median salary of teachers is less than 60,000. They say thats less than whats needed to buy a house in San Francisco. Were hearing from the palo alto rock climber who survived a dangerous fall at yosemite. On sunday, 26yearold blake parkenson fell from a granite wall in yosemites cathedral range. A rescue helicopter was able to hoist him to safety. Hes currently in a modesto hospital being treated for a broken back. I hit my back on a boulder. I was protudding off the ledge protudding off the protruding off the ledge. It had been a climb i wanted to do for a while. Doctors say hes extremely lucky. Despite the fall, he can still move his hands and leg. Hes not paralyzed. The stanford Admissions Officers plans to return home after some intensive therapy. All right, tori. 8 26. The irs is embroiled in a new scandal for shelling out millions of dollars to employees who were in tax trouble themselves. Coming up in ten minutes, well get you live from washington, d. C. With all of the details and the damage control the irs is doing this morning. Reporter were live in santa rosa, where a group of students who were originally told they were suspended to mark a very somber anniversary are returning to campus accompanied by their parents and an attorney. The interaction that happened a couple of minutes ago coming up. And 280 has turned into one of the worst commutes in the bay area. Why did this happen. I think i know why. I will tell you what to do to tell you what to do to get around this mess. It was cold this morning. We had 30s and 40s. It will be slightly warmer today. I will show you the warmer forecasted temperatures and talk about the rain and colder temperatures coming up on friday. Bulldog [yawning] its finally morning i cant wait to get to mattress discounters because the tempurpedic bonus event ends sunday. Ill have first pick from the huge selection of tempurpedic mattresses. Then, ill get to choose 300 in pillows, sheets, and other free gifts. On top of that, up to 48 months interestfree financing. Hurry mattress discounters tempurpedic bonus event ends sunday. Mmm, some alarm clock you turned out to be. Mattress discounters well, good morning. Welcome back. These are live pictures from santa rosa this morning. A school is facing backlash from parents over a controversial student protest. Ktvus brian flores is out there now. He talked to a lawyer representing those students. This is a middle school. Coming up in a couple of minutes he will explain why the students, the lawyer and some of the parents were walking onto the campus this morning. It is wednesday morning, april 23rd. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather. We do have mostly clear skies. A little chill out there. It was cold this morning. Upper 30s, 40s. Were seeing morgue 40s and 50 more 40s and 50s under mostly sunny skies. San francisco will be 62 today. Mostly sunny. 40s, 50s. 30s poof like that. Disappeared gone. They will be back saturday morning. Another system coming in on friday. A little bit of a breeze, but yesterday cant hold a candle to it. It will still be breezy for some. Its a billion chilly in the sun. Not bad. Temperatures warming unslightly. Inland, 60s and 70s. Focus our attention on this system. Talk about the rainfall and maybe even colder temperatures. Today, mostly sunny, a little breezy at times. 70s inland. 60s coast and bay. Heres sal. Steve, we do have slow traffic all over the place. Its not getting any better any time quickly. Lets take a look at some of the live pictures. 280 is slow this morning as you drive up to highway 17 880 interchange. Its also slow on 85 and 101. The reason its so slow, people were ditching 85 as after it was horrible. They tried 280. If you can, if you hold off on the trip until later on, things will start to clear up. Right now all three freeways in the Santa Clara Valley, all three major ones are in bad shape. Lets take a look at 880 southbound and northbound. From hayward to free mont, 880 at whipple there is a crash there. Up at the bay bridge toll plaza, this is a 30, 35minute delay getting into San Francisco. The traffic is going to be busy. There are no major problems there. One of the things i want to mention is the traffic on the bridge after Treasure Island is better than before. 8 32. Back to the nimitz freeway. Boy, this is bad traffic here. Northbound 880 is slow from the coliseum. Back to the desk. 8 32. The death of 13yearold andy lopez in santa rosa still very emotional. Its hurting many of the classmates and friends who knew him. Many of them walked out of school yesterday protesting his death at the hands of the Sonoma County sheriffs deputy six months ago. Brian flores is there in santa rosa now to tell us why the students were walked back on the campus with the lawyer just about an hour ago. Brian . Reporter thats right. Good morning to you. That did happen about an hour ago. Many there was a small group moments ago. But it looks like they disbanded. Many of the students that were told they were suspended yesterday are back on campus this morning and apparently attending class this morning as well. But as we mentioned about two dozen students here at Cook Middle School were told that they were suspended after they marked the sixmonth anniversary of the tragic death of andy lopez. They were told not to return to class. It looks like this may have been a misunderstanding at least from School Officials. Some pants told their kids to text message them if they were not allowed on campus. The protest began yesterday morning at Lawrence Cookle moo. Students say their intention was to remain peaceful. Protested for about a halfhour and then returned to class to mark the sixmonth anniversary death of andy lopez. The students say they were told by the principal they were not allowed to. The group moved to elsie ail enhool to generate more support. That high school went on lockdown. We talked to a parent who said this all could have been avoided. Many students tell ktvu that a School Administrator at cook made comments about the situation. This morning we continue not to hear back from School Officials about the account on what happened or whether they were actually suspended. It does not appear to be the case this morning. The students ended up near the spot where lopez was shot off moreland avenue. Andy lopez was shot and killed six months ago by eric gelhaus. Meantime, Santa Rosa Police say they will continue to investigate and make any charges, see if they will make charges on the adult that took part in the protest yesterday. Were expecting a response from the santa rosa School District sometime later this morning. Brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you. Police in san jose say a man hon a motorcycle is in on a motorcycle is in unstable condition after slamming into a car. It happened at 6 45 last night at branam and jarvis. A witness said the motorcyclist ran a red light and hit the side of the car. The man was wearing a helmet but suffered major head trauma. We have a witness in the intersection at the time and cording to them and according to them and what they saw, the motorcyclist did run the red light. The two people in the car were not hurt. They stopped and cooperated with police. Investigators do not believe drugs or alcohol were factored in the crash. 8 35. A San Francisco firefighter still recovering from injuries stuffed when hot roofing tar melted onto his hands while fighting a big fire. The 911 call of a fire first came in about 2 00 yesterday afternoon. It was reported on walter street in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood. Minutes later, firefighters arrived and found strong winds had fanned the flames and it spread to the attic and the roof of two nearby buildings. Firefighters say the homes are hold, they are made of wood and because they are so close together, the strong winds made things worse. At times the wind direction shifted. When we got here, it was pushing the fire to the left. About ten minutes into the fire, the wind direction swirled and switched and wound up pushing the fire into the building on the righthand side. Three buildings were damaged. Everyone who lives in the building had to leave for the night. That firefighter who was hurt suffered moderate burns but he will recover. The cause of the fire is under investigation. New surprising developments in the case of a suspected burglar in richmond who was shot and killed by a man defending his business last friday. Contra costa prosecutors have charged two of the burglars accomplices with his murder even though they did not shoot him. The d. A. s office said they can be charged with murder and law that under a law that holds accomplices responsible if they create a deadly situation. 8 37. There is a call for muni and for b. A. R. T. To expand their service overnight. Supporters say its both a safety and economic issue. Now, neither b. A. R. T. Nor munis rail lines run 24 hours. Tourists and people who work the night shift say they have limited Transportation Options late. Im completely alone on the street and i have no idea whats around the corner. It can be scary. Supporters say San Franciscos nighttime economy generates 50 million in tax revenues and that more than 50,000 people work at night. Theres now a resolution before the San Francisco board of supervisors for a task force to look at transit options. Muni, by the way, does have a few lines bus operating what it calls an owl service. The lines include the 14, 38 and the 108 Treasure Island. They run between 1 00 a. M. And 5 00 a. M. On weekdays b. A. R. T. Starts at 4 00 a. M. With the last train starting around midnight. B. A. R. T. Operates on saturdays at 6 00 a. M. And on sundays at 8 00 a. M. Were learning more about a new controversy surrounding the irs. Millions of dollars in bonuses went to employees with disciplinary problems including, believe it or not, not paying their taxes. Ktvus Kyla Campbell is live in washington, d. C. To explain who got paid using your tax payer money. Kyla . The irs is under fire for handing out those bonuses. I obtained this copy of the inspector generals report. It shows the agency paid more than 2. 8 million in bonuses to employees who had disciplinariry issues. That includes 1 million for 1100 workers who did not pay their federal taxes. Those bonuses were handed out from 2010 to 2012. I just sat down with one of the top tax payer watchdogs in washington and he says the roirs bonus policy lacks common sense irs bonus policy lacks common sense. You are probably the most disliked agency in the federal government. Of you have the added burden of you have the added burden of spending that money correctly. Reporter the irs has stopped issuing bonuses to those with disciplinariry problems. Nearly 70 of the irs workers were awarded some type of bonus in 2012. Cash bonuses totaled 86 million year that and workers were awarded 497 hours worst of extra paid time off work worth of extra paid time off work. Kyla campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. I can see peoples faces as they hear that story. A really close call for a man walking across train tracks. Did you see that . This is incredible. But just as surprising, how drivers nearby reacted. Reporter a Police Crackdown on dangerous driving in San Francisco this morning. Part of an effort to cut down on the number of people hit and killed by cars. Well tell you some of the violations people are being ticketed for this morning. Good morning. It is still a little bit slow out there on some of the commutes. Some of them are getting slower later like this one. Well tell you more about the Santa Clara Valley and the east bay commute. A lot of sunshine out there. Just not very warm yet. A little chill this morning. 30s and 40s. I will show you the forecasted high temperatures today which will be warmer. Big changes for friday. Wiretheyre big. Fast. Andome. Dependable. And at net10 wireless, we let you tweet, text, talk and surf. On those amazing nationwide networks. Without getting locked into a pricey phone contract. Americas best 4g lte networks for half the cost. Thats wireless your way. Unlimited talk, text, and data starts at just 40 a month. And now android smartphones start at under 50. Net10 wireless. Also bring you up to date on some of the top stories were following for you. We have new information about the teen who stowed away on the plane and survived hiding in the wheel well of a jet from san jose to maui. He was reportedly unhappy living with his father and stepmother in santa clara and wanted to fly to so mallia to be with his father. The oakland as rejected a deal to play at the coliseum saying the tenyear proposal does not meet all of their requirements and the team cannot accept that offer. Still not clear what happens next in the ballpark battle. Happening right now, reducing the number of collisions in San Francisco. Seven people have been hit and killed this year as they cross streets in San Francisco. This morning, the police and the Highway Patrol are out there taking part in the special Traffic Enforcement. Alex savidge is live in San Francisco and you just talked to a Police Officer about how some of the most dangerous streets are in the city. Reporter good morning. Were on van ness. Police are out here making their presence seen. Quite a few officers. They are patrolling this stretch between market and geary on the lookout for people with would are making who are making dangerous decisions behind the wheel and are trying to make things safer for those out on foot. At 7 00 a. M. , officers launched this operation along the corridor, looking for speeders and red line runners among other things. A little while ago we watched a motorcycle officer pull over thive drooer of a van. He was given a ticket for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Police say this kind of driving puts pedestrians at risk. Thats why this crackdown is so important. I think it makes a major difference because you are providing a highprofile presence on the streets. People are more careful with their driving. But people who get caught with the violation, its also a learning experience for them as far as they become more aware of the law and then they are more aware of the pedestrians. Reporter and police do want this to be a learning experience and thats why in some cases police will be giving out warnings. This is trying to reduce pedestrian deaths to zero in the next ten years. The chp involved in this operation, that goes until 10 00 a. M. This morning, and you in addition, they will be back out and in addition, they will be back out here this evening. Alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you, alex. Lets check in with with sal. Keeping a close eye on the commute. Is it finding down winding down. We have a lot of different spots. Im gonna start off with the bay bridge. So many people want to know about that all of the time 30, 35minute drive time across into San Francisco. Most of that time is waiting at the toll plaza. Some of it on the bridge. 880 is also slower than it was backed up out of san leandro to downtown oakland. We usually have light commute getting to downtown oakland. 680 as we push in on 680, i got a tweet from kenneth rink. I hope i said your name correctly. Thank you for the tweet. He said 680 is a mess out of danville into walnut creek. Traffic will be slow on 880 and in san jose, i would say the slowest freeway slowest freeway is 85 followed by 280 north. Lets go back to steve. Thank you, sal. You are welcome, steve. Good morning. Good morning. Clear skies. Mostly clear. A few high clouds around. There was no doubt about it a chill in the morning air. A lot of 30s. Not just a handful. Not a few. A lot of upper 30s. Didnt last long but they still made it. I think they will make it again. If not saturday, sunday morning. I have another system coming in that looks stronger and colder. Were waiting for the next system. Day baseball for the as and rangers. Take a light jacket. In the sun maybe not too bad. 60s im forecasting for downtown. It will be about 66, 67 for the game today. 40s and 50s now. Again, we had a lot of 30s but the nights are getting shorter. Just to make it that cold was impressive. Theres a preez. Not that bad. Yesterday it was mainly breezy for. Out of the north, out of the west or out of the east. Theres a little breeze predominantly out of the north northwest. A few clouds will come zipping by. Mostly sunny today. 30s up in reno also in tahoe. 44 ukiah. Thats pretty cool. I know sacramento made it down to 41 which was really cool. The next system is taking shape. It will start to sweep in thursday night maybe for rain. Mendocino county. And then another colder little part of that system comes in around the noon hour on friday. Today, mostly sunny. A few high clouds. Friday rain looks likely. I mean, some decent amounts being forecast. We have two days before this all comes together. Seeing about. 10 to maybe over. 5 which would be good for this time of year. Mostly sunny, breezy. Not that bad. Tiny bit warmer. Not a lot. But a little bit inland. Well get 70s. Low 70s. 60s for some. 70s for some. Brentwood, oakley. 73. Danville, pleasanton, 70. 67 for berkeley. Right at 70 for san jose and los gatos, saratoga. 68wood side. San mateo. 60 in daly city and a cool 62 but sunny in San Francisco. Increasing clouds on thursday, maybe late rain thursday night and overnight on friday. Two parts to that system, one in the morning, one around the noon hour. Breezy, cool, slow rebound on the temperatures going into sunday. This has gone viral a video showal man in czech in the czech. Almost gets killed care. The drivers killed there. The drivers there saw everything and they just drove off. None of them got out their cars to help this man. That man described as a retiree. He injured his leg. Now hes gonna get hit with a hefty fine because he ignored the warning for the trains. Wow. All right. Ten minutes before 9 00. Peoples annual most beautiful issue revealed the oscar winner chosen for the cover and what she has to say about the big honor. Female announcer sleep trains interest free for 3 event is ending soon. Get three years interestfree financing on beautyrest black, stearns foster, serta icomfort; even tempurpedic. Plus, get free delivery, free setup and free removal of your old mattress, and sleep trains 100day low price guarantee. But hurry, sleep trains interest free for 3 event, is ending soon. Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep 8 53. President obama is now in japan. The first stop on his four country asia visit. This is video of president obama arriving in tokyo earlier this morning. Among those greeting the president as he stepped off air force one, the u. S. Ambassador to japan caroline kennedy. Kind of hard to see right there. Just gave the president a little peg on the cheek. After japan, the president is scheduled to visit south korea, malaysia and the philippines. The white house says the president s trip is meant to reassure asia about the renewed u. S. Commitment to that region. President obama is not scheduled to be in the philippines until monday but his visit is already sparking some violent protests there. More than 100 activists clashed with Police Outside of the u. S. Embassy in manila today. One protester pub offed a Police Officer punched a Police Officer. Police responded by firing Water Cannons at the crowd. They are protesting allowing more u. S. Troops to be temporarily stationed in the camps there. A show of strength by the Obama Administration to the crisis in ukraine. 600 u. S. Soldiers are heading to Eastern European countries that border or are near ukraine and russia. The u. S. Troops will be conducting military exercises. It is to demonstrate natos commitment to redefending the region and its allies. There are 67,000 troops there. The searchers found sheet metal while searching for the malaysian jet. It washed ashore in Western Australia. The investigators say the more they look at it the less excited they are. Today, an underwater drone wrapped up the 10th search and has found nothing so far. Happening today, some kaiser per ma anyone anyonety permanente workers say they will walk off the jobs today in order to protect the people they care for. At the oakland center, they held a similar oneday strike in 2012. They accuse the hospital of cutting costs, jeopardizing Mental Health services. They claim its lead to several suicides. The hospital denies the charge. They claim todays work stoppage is really about worker pay, not patient care. New this morning, People Magazine just unveiled its most beautiful person of the year. Not a lot of argument here. The title goes to actress lupita nyongo. The 31yearold took home home the Academy Award for her role in 12 years a save. She was recently named the latest case of lancome. She was raised in kenya and has been outspoken about the lack of black women in the media. She said she was happy for all of the girls that would see me and feel more seen. The most beautiful issue hits newsstands on friday. Were getting a fresh look at a ship that sank in San Francisco bay more than a century ago. Scientists found the wreckage of the city of chester. These images were posted on the noaa. The ship sank in 1888, killing 16 people. It was the second deadliest shipwreck in the history of the bay. This morning, noaa unveiled threedimensional images of the wreckage. All right. 8 56. Back to sal. You are watching highway 24. Arent you . Yeah, i am. And it is slow. Its improving. Unfortunately, nearby, 680 is slow coming in from danville up to walnut creek because of a crash in alamo thats been cleared from the lanes. Quickly, lets go to the bay bridge. Its backed up for a 30minute delay. We have very slow traffic on 85 and 280. 101 might be your better option. Lets go to steve. Mostly sunny today. A little breezy but not as bad as yesterday. 60s to near 70 inland and tonight clearing and cold increasing clouds, thursday. Looks like a colder system with more rain on friday. Different. Yeah. All right, steve. Thank you. Thats our report for this morning. We thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. Be sure to watch the news at noon. Well have more on the latest controversy involving student protests of last falls Fatal Shooting of a teenager. Were always here for you on twitter and facebook. Thank you for joining us. Bulldog [yning] i cant wait to get to mattress discounters because the tempurpedic bonus event ends sunday. Choose 300 in free gifts, and, get up to 48 months interestfree financing with any tempurpedic mattress. Mattress discounters hi, everybody. 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